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T he Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the Centre to provide in a sealed cover the details of decision- making process, sans pricing and technical information in the Rafale deal, but termed the averments made in the PILs as “grossly inadequate” and clar- ified that it was not issuing any notice to the Centre. A Bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi said it wanted to satisfy itself about legitimacy of the decision- making process even as the Government sought dismissal of the PILs on the issue, terming them “political peti- tions”. The Bench, also compris- ing Justices SK Kaul and KM Joseph, gave the Government time till October 29 to provide the necessary information and fixed the PILs, filed by lawyers Vineet Dhanda and ML Sharma, for hearing two days after that. “We are not on the issue of pricing and suitability of the Rafale jets but only on the deci- sion making process,” the Bench said. When the Bench asked Attorney General KK Venugopal what will be his response if the court asked him to share the details of the deci- sion-making process only to the judges, the AG said it can- not be shown to anyone in the interest of national security and other issues involved in the defence procurement process. However, the Bench said, “What if we ask you to give details without technical details of aircraft?” In the 15-minute-long hearing, the Bench also heard submissions from Sharma and Dhanda, who sought several directions, including court- monitored SIT probe into the deal and submission of details of the agreement in a sealed cover to it. Sharma said that the pric- ing of the Rafale fighter jets have been already disclosed in the French Parliament and the stand of the Centre was unten- able. Sharma said the inter- Government agreement to buy 36 Rafale fighter jets must be quashed. It was an “outcome of corruption” and not ratified by Parliament under Article 253 (Parliament has power to make any law for implementing any inter-Government agreement) of the Constitution, he said. In his plea, Dhanda referred to the recent “contro- versy” over the 58,000 crore deal between India and Dassault Aviation, a French company, for purchasing 36 combat jets and sought judicial intervention to put an end to the raging debate. “In a PIL, my role is to bring an issue to the notice of the court. The court has per- haps also taken note of my plea regarding submission of docu- ments in a sealed cover enve- lope. After the court goes through the documents, I am sure, the truth will come out,” Danda said. On his part, the AG pressed for dismissal of the PILs contending that the peti- tions have not raised any pub- lic interests and rather they are “political interest petitions” and the petitioners have selec- tively quoted the questions which have been answered in Parliament. He also said that a bitter political fight was going on in the country over the Rafale deal in the election year and enter- taining the petitions may be used politically and moreover, such policy decisions cannot be reviewed judicially. “This is a political petition and not a public interest liti- gation and is part of bitter fight going on between ruling and Opposition party. If notice is issued, it will go to the Prime Minister... Please don’t enter- tain such petitions,” Venugopal said. The SC said it was neither going into the averments made in the petitions nor issuing the notice on them and was asking information to satisfy itself. Congress leader and RTI activist Tehseen Poonawala, who had sought a direction against the Centre on why the Union Cabinet’s approval was not sought as part of the Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP) before sign- ing the procurement deal with France on September 23, 2016, however, withdrew his PIL against the fighter jet deal at the start of the hearing. Continued on Page 4 I n a bone chilling incident, a 19-year-old civil engineering student allegedly stabbed his father, mother and younger sister to death in Kishangarh area in Vasant Kunj of South- West Delhi for opposing his lifestyle and forcing him to study, said police, adding that the bodies were found on Wednesday morning. After being put to sus- tained interrogation by police which reached the three-room house at 5.20 am after being informed about the incident by a neighbour, the couple’s son Suraj confessed that he was cross with his overbearing father, possessive mother and younger sister — who report- ed everything to their parents — and hence stabbed them with a kitchen knife. Suarj was arrested and fur- ther investigation is being car- ried out to ascertain whether the accused had administered some sedative to his family members as there was no sign of struggle visible with the victims who were identified as Mithlesh Verma (45), his wife Siya Verma (40) and their daughter Neha (16), said a senior police officer. Earlier in the day when police reached his house to begin probe, Suraj created an alibi saying his house was attacked by robbers who mur- dered his parents and the younger sister and claimed that he had lost consciousness out of fear, police said. Senior police officers, who scanned the murder spot, were not convinced with Suraj’s nar- ration of the incident. The investigating officer said the house was ransacked, but no valuables were found missing and to their shock they found 50,000 and mobile phones of the slain family members near the bodies. Continued on Page 4 C yclone Titli has intensi- fied into a very severe cyclonic storm over the Bay of Bengal on Wednesday and is moving towards the Odisha coast, triggering rainfall in sev- eral parts of the eastern State. Five coastal districts of Odisha have been put on high alert and the Odisha Government has begun evac- uation of about 2 lakh people. Thereafter, it is very likely to move northeast towards Gangetic West Bengal across Odisha before gradually losing strength. All schools, colleges and anganwadi centres in Odisha have been declared closed on Thursday. People living in the low-lying areas and hutments along the coast are being shifted to safer places. Fishers along the Odisha coast, and central and north Bay of Bengal have been advised not to venture into sea till Friday. “Cyclone Titli moved at 14 kmph and intensified into a very severe cyclonic storm and lay centred over the west-cen- tral Bay of Bengal, 320 km south-southeast of Gopalpur in Odisha,” IMD said in a bulletin. Continued on Page 4 A t least seven people were killed and 35 others — including 10 women and six children — sustained serious- ly injuries as the engine and nine coaches of Malada-New Delhi New Farakka Express train derailed at Harchandpur in Rae Bareli in Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday around 6.10am. Four of the seriously injured are being treated at Lucknow’s King George Medical University and two at the city’s Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences. An NDRF team, compris- ing 40 personnel, and senior officials from the State and the Railways, rushed to the spot for rescue. Railway Board Chairman Ashwani Lohani too visited the accident site and said the Railways has initiated a separate enquiry into the accident. The causes of the derailment will be known once the Anti-Terrorism Squad sub- mits its report. A special train, which was arranged for the stranded pas- sengers, left Lucknow for New Delhi with 1,369 passengers on board, railway officials said, adding that they were given food packets to sustain them through the journey. Railways Minister Piyush Goyal announced compensa- tion of 5 lakh for the kin of the dead, 1 lakh for the injured and 50,000 for those with minor injuries. “I offer my deepest condolences to the families of the deceased and those injured in the accident near Rae Bareli. I am in touch with officials for relief work,” Goyal tweeted. The Minister has ordered an enquiry to be conducted by the Commission of Railway Safety, Northern Circle. Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar too expressed grief over the loss of lives caused by derailment of the Farakka Express and announced a com- pensation of 2 lakh each to the next of the kin of the deceased from Bihar, besides 50,000 to each injured person from the State. In a statement, Nitish said as per information received so far among those killed were four residents of Munger dis- trict and another from Kishanganj. UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath too announced 2 lakh compensation each for the kin of the deceased and 50,000 for the seriously injured. The New Farakka Express accident is the second major rail accident this year, which has so far registered the best safety figures in the past five years, as per the Railways. D evotees will not have to rub shoulders with gun- wielding and booted police officials inside the Shree Jagannath Temple in Puri, the Supreme Court ordered on Wednesday after the issue was brought to its notice following the October 3 violence on the temple premises. The SC directive came against the backdrop of the recent violence inside the tem- ple during a protest against the introduction of queue system for devotees at the temple. The policemen had allegedly entered the temple with guns and boots on, a charge refuted by the Odisha Government. A lawyer, representing an organisation which has filed an application for intervention in the matter, alleged in the apex court that during the violence, the policemen had violated the sanctity of the temple by entering it carrying guns and wearing shoes. “Last time, in Golden Temple, the Army had entered. We know that,” the counsel said. To this, the Bench said, “Do not compare it with Golden Temple.” In June 1984, Indian Army had carried out operation Blue Star, ordered by then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, to remove religious extremist leader Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and his armed followers from the Golden Temple complex. The Bench then asked the counsel appearing for the Odisha Government, “Tell us, is it a fact that police has gone there with guns and all?”. The Odisha Government’s counsel termed the allegations as “absolutely false” and said no policeman had entered the temple as the incident had taken place at the office of Shree Jagannath temple admin- istration which is situated around 500 metres from the main temple. He told the Bench that the administration’s office was attacked and ransacked during the violence and 47 persons have been arrested so far. The lawyer representing the temple administration also told the Bench that no policemen had entered the temple and a mob had attacked their office and destroyed several files lying there. The Bench asked the coun- sel appearing for the parties to file their responses to the plea filed by the organisation seek- ing to intervene in the matter. “You file your reply. Please tell the police not to enter there with guns and boots,” the Bench told the State’s counsel. During the hearing, the State Government told the Bench that situation there was under control and no violence had taken place on the temple premises. “We make it clear that no policemen should entre the temple with weapons and shoes,” the Bench noted in its order and posted the matter for hearing on October 31. Nine policemen were injured in the violence that had taken place on October 3 dur- ing a 12-hour bandh called by a socio-cultural organisation protesting the introduction of a queue system for devotees visiting the Jagannath Temple, police had said. The dawn-to-dusk shut- down in the seaside town called by Sri Jagannath Sena had turned violent as a mob barged into the shrine, uprooted bar- ricades erected on Baisi Pahacha and near Singhadwara and ransacked the office of Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA), they had said. A temple official had said that the queue system was introduced on an experimen- tal basis and a review would be done as locals and servitors were opposing it. On July 5, the top court had directed Jagannath Temple management to consider allow- ing every visitor, irrespective of faith, to offer prayers to the deity. It had said however that allowing of every visitor, irre- spective of faith, will be subject to regulatory measures regard- ing dress code and giving an appropriate declaration. D efence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman began her three-day official visit to France on Wednesday night to hold bilateral talks with her French counterpart Florence Parly. During her visit, Sitharaman will also take stock of progress in the supply of the Rafale jets expected to begin next year end. She is also expected to visit Dassault Aviation, which is manufacturing 36 Rafale jets as per Indian specifications under the Government-to- Government deal. The visit comes at a time when political slugfest is on over the 58,000-crore Rafale fighter jet deal with the main Opposition party Congress charging the NDA Government with wrongdoing. Congress president Rahul Gandhi has raised questions on Nirmala Sitharaman’s France visit, alleging that work has begun to justify the Prime Minister’s decision to buy Rafale fighter aircraft. He took to Twitter to say while the Supreme Court has asked for the details of the Rafale decision-making process, the decision to buy the fighter aircraft was taken by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Rahul alleged that process- es to justify Modi’s decision are being invented. “The Supreme Court has asked for the Rafale decision making process. It’s quite sim- ple really... The PM decided. The processes to justify his decision are yet to be invented. But work has begun. Ps. In this connection, Raksha Mantri is leaving for France tonight,” he said. The delivery of the fighter aircraft is expected to begin in 2019 and the IAF hopes to get the full consignment of 36 jets by 2022. S teel Minister Chaudhary Birender Singh visited Bhilai, a day after 12 employ- ees were burnt alive in a dead- ly blast at Bhilai Steel Plant’s Coke Oven unit, and sacked Chief Executive Officer (CEO) as anger against the deadly incident gripped the steel city on Wednesday. Singh along with Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh and Minister of State for Steel Vishnu Deo Sai, reached Sector-9 hospital in a bid to calm down boiling anger among hundreds of workers of public sector steel giant SAIL’s flagship unit. He announced a slew of compensation measures including 30 lakh to each deceased family besides a job. A compensation of 15 lakh would also be given to the seri- ously injured employees and 2 lakh to employees with minor injuries. Steel Minister took stock of the situation at Bhilai in the poll-bound state and sacked Bhilai Steel Plant CEO, M Ravi and suspended T Pandya Raja, general manager (safety) and Naveen Kumar, deputy gener- al manager (energy). The sacking of plant offi- cials came after prima facie it appeared that safety measures were compromised at Coke Oven Battery Complex No 11 during a scheduled mainte- nance job. Chaudhary Birender Singh told media persons at Sector- 9 hospital that apart from the internal enquiry committee constituted by SAIL, another high-level Enquiry Committee comprising of experts from across the country to go into the actual cause of the incident would be constituted by Ministry of Steel. RNI Regn. No. CHHENG/2012/42718, Postal Reg. No. - RYP DN/34/2013-2015

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The Supreme Court onWednesday directed the

Centre to provide in a sealedcover the details of decision-making process, sans pricingand technical information inthe Rafale deal, but termed theaverments made in the PILs as“grossly inadequate” and clar-ified that it was not issuing anynotice to the Centre.

A Bench headed by ChiefJustice Ranjan Gogoi said itwanted to satisfy itself aboutlegitimacy of the decision-making process even as theGovernment sought dismissalof the PILs on the issue,terming them “political peti-tions”.

The Bench, also compris-ing Justices SK Kaul and KMJoseph, gave the Governmenttime till October 29 to providethe necessary information andfixed the PILs, filed by lawyersVineet Dhanda and MLSharma, for hearing two daysafter that.

“We are not on the issue ofpricing and suitability of theRafale jets but only on the deci-sion making process,” theBench said.

When the Bench askedAttorney General KKVenugopal what will be hisresponse if the court asked himto share the details of the deci-sion-making process only tothe judges, the AG said it can-not be shown to anyone in theinterest of national securityand other issues involved in thedefence procurement process.

However, the Bench said,“What if we ask you to givedetails without technical detailsof aircraft?”

In the 15-minute-longhearing, the Bench also heardsubmissions from Sharma andDhanda, who sought severaldirections, including court-monitored SIT probe into thedeal and submission of detailsof the agreement in a sealedcover to it.

Sharma said that the pric-ing of the Rafale fighter jetshave been already disclosed inthe French Parliament and thestand of the Centre was unten-able. Sharma said the inter-Government agreement to buy36 Rafale fighter jets must bequashed. It was an “outcome ofcorruption” and not ratified byParliament under Article 253(Parliament has power to makeany law for implementing anyinter-Government agreement)of the Constitution, he said.

In his plea, Dhandareferred to the recent “contro-versy” over the �58,000 croredeal between India andDassault Aviation, a Frenchcompany, for purchasing 36combat jets and sought judicialintervention to put an end tothe raging debate.

“In a PIL, my role is tobring an issue to the notice ofthe court. The court has per-haps also taken note of my plearegarding submission of docu-ments in a sealed cover enve-lope. After the court goesthrough the documents, I amsure, the truth will come out,”Danda said.

On his part, the AGpressed for dismissal of thePILs contending that the peti-tions have not raised any pub-lic interests and rather they are“political interest petitions”and the petitioners have selec-tively quoted the questionswhich have been answered inParliament.

He also said that a bitterpolitical fight was going on inthe country over the Rafale dealin the election year and enter-taining the petitions may beused politically and moreover,such policy decisions cannot bereviewed judicially.

“This is a political petitionand not a public interest liti-gation and is part of bitter fightgoing on between ruling andOpposition party. If notice is

issued, it will go to the PrimeMinister... Please don’t enter-tain such petitions,” Venugopalsaid.

The SC said it was neithergoing into the averments madein the petitions nor issuing thenotice on them and was askinginformation to satisfy itself.

Congress leader and RTIactivist Tehseen Poonawala,who had sought a directionagainst the Centre on why theUnion Cabinet’s approval wasnot sought as part of theDefence ProcurementProcedure (DPP) before sign-ing the procurement deal withFrance on September 23, 2016,however, withdrew his PILagainst the fighter jet deal at thestart of the hearing.

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In a bone chilling incident, a19-year-old civil engineering

student allegedly stabbed hisfather, mother and youngersister to death in Kishangarharea in Vasant Kunj of South-West Delhi for opposing hislifestyle and forcing him tostudy, said police, adding thatthe bodies were found onWednesday morning.

After being put to sus-tained interrogation by policewhich reached the three-roomhouse at 5.20 am after beinginformed about the incident bya neighbour, the couple’s sonSuraj confessed that he wascross with his overbearingfather, possessive mother andyounger sister — who report-ed everything to their parents— and hence stabbed themwith a kitchen knife.

Suarj was arrested and fur-ther investigation is being car-ried out to ascertain whetherthe accused had administeredsome sedative to his family

members as there was no signof struggle visible with thevictims who were identified asMithlesh Verma (45), his wifeSiya Verma (40) and theirdaughter Neha (16), said asenior police officer.

Earlier in the day whenpolice reached his house tobegin probe, Suraj created analibi saying his house wasattacked by robbers who mur-dered his parents and theyounger sister and claimed

that he had lost consciousnessout of fear, police said.

Senior police officers, whoscanned the murder spot, werenot convinced with Suraj’s nar-ration of the incident.

The investigating officersaid the house was ransacked,but no valuables were foundmissing and to their shockthey found �50,000 and mobilephones of the slain familymembers near the bodies.

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Cyclone Titli has intensi-fied into a very severe

cyclonic storm over the Bay ofBengal on Wednesday and ismoving towards the Odishacoast, triggering rainfall in sev-eral parts of the eastern State.

Five coastal districts ofOdisha have been put on highalert and the OdishaGovernment has begun evac-uation of about 2 lakh people.

Thereafter, it is very likelyto move northeast towardsGangetic West Bengal acrossOdisha before gradually losingstrength. All schools, collegesand anganwadi centres inOdisha have been declaredclosed on Thursday. Peopleliving in the low-lying areas andhutments along the coast arebeing shifted to safer places.Fishers along the Odisha coast,and central and north Bay ofBengal have been advised notto venture into sea till Friday.

“Cyclone Titli moved at 14kmph and intensified into avery severe cyclonic storm andlay centred over the west-cen-tral Bay of Bengal, 320 kmsouth-southeast of Gopalpur inOdisha,” IMD said in a bulletin.

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At least seven people werekilled and 35 others —

including 10 women and sixchildren — sustained serious-ly injuries as the engine andnine coaches of Malada-NewDelhi New Farakka Expresstrain derailed at Harchandpurin Rae Bareli in Uttar Pradeshon Wednesday around 6.10am.

Four of the seriouslyinjured are being treated atLucknow’s King GeorgeMedical University and two atthe city’s Sanjay GandhiPostgraduate Institute ofMedical Sciences.

An NDRF team, compris-ing 40 personnel, and seniorofficials from the State and theRailways, rushed to the spot forrescue. Railway BoardChairman Ashwani Lohani toovisited the accident site andsaid the Railways has initiateda separate enquiry into theaccident. The causes of thederailment will be known oncethe Anti-Terrorism Squad sub-mits its report.

A special train, which wasarranged for the stranded pas-sengers, left Lucknow for NewDelhi with 1,369 passengers onboard, railway officials said,adding that they were givenfood packets to sustain themthrough the journey.

Railways Minister PiyushGoyal announced compensa-tion of �5 lakh for the kin of thedead, �1 lakh for the injuredand �50,000 for those withminor injuries. “I offer mydeepest condolences to thefamilies of the deceased andthose injured in the accidentnear Rae Bareli. I am in touchwith officials for relief work,”Goyal tweeted.

The Minister has orderedan enquiry to be conducted bythe Commission of RailwaySafety, Northern Circle.

Bihar Chief Minister NitishKumar too expressed grief overthe loss of lives caused byderailment of the FarakkaExpress and announced a com-

pensation of �2 lakh each to thenext of the kin of the deceasedfrom Bihar, besides �50,000 toeach injured person from theState. In a statement, Nitish saidas per information received sofar among those killed werefour residents of Munger dis-trict and another fromKishanganj.

UP Chief Minister YogiAdityanath too announced �2lakh compensation each for thekin of the deceased and �50,000for the seriously injured.

The New Farakka Expressaccident is the second majorrail accident this year, whichhas so far registered the bestsafety figures in the past fiveyears, as per the Railways.

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Devotees will not have torub shoulders with gun-

wielding and booted policeofficials inside the ShreeJagannath Temple in Puri, theSupreme Court ordered onWednesday after the issue wasbrought to its notice followingthe October 3 violence on thetemple premises.

The SC directive cameagainst the backdrop of therecent violence inside the tem-ple during a protest against theintroduction of queue systemfor devotees at the temple. Thepolicemen had allegedlyentered the temple with gunsand boots on, a charge refutedby the Odisha Government.

A lawyer, representing anorganisation which has filed anapplication for intervention in

the matter, alleged in the apexcourt that during the violence,the policemen had violatedthe sanctity of the temple byentering it carrying guns andwearing shoes.

“Last time, in GoldenTemple, the Army had entered.We know that,” the counselsaid.

To this, the Bench said,“Do not compare it withGolden Temple.”

In June 1984, Indian Armyhad carried out operation BlueStar, ordered by then PrimeMinister Indira Gandhi, toremove religious extremistleader Jarnail SinghBhindranwale and his armedfollowers from the GoldenTemple complex.

The Bench then asked thecounsel appearing for theOdisha Government, “Tell us,

is it a fact that police has gonethere with guns and all?”.

The Odisha Government’scounsel termed the allegations

as “absolutely false” and said nopoliceman had entered thetemple as the incident hadtaken place at the office of

Shree Jagannath temple admin-istration which is situatedaround 500 metres from themain temple.

He told the Bench that theadministration’s office wasattacked and ransacked duringthe violence and 47 personshave been arrested so far. Thelawyer representing the templeadministration also told theBench that no policemen hadentered the temple and a mobhad attacked their office anddestroyed several files lyingthere.

The Bench asked the coun-sel appearing for the parties tofile their responses to the pleafiled by the organisation seek-ing to intervene in the matter.“You file your reply. Please tellthe police not to enter therewith guns and boots,” theBench told the State’s counsel.

During the hearing, theState Government told theBench that situation there wasunder control and no violencehad taken place on the templepremises.

“We make it clear that nopolicemen should entre thetemple with weapons andshoes,” the Bench noted in itsorder and posted the matter forhearing on October 31.

Nine policemen wereinjured in the violence that hadtaken place on October 3 dur-ing a 12-hour bandh called bya socio-cultural organisationprotesting the introduction ofa queue system for devoteesvisiting the Jagannath Temple,police had said.

The dawn-to-dusk shut-down in the seaside town calledby Sri Jagannath Sena hadturned violent as a mob barged

into the shrine, uprooted bar-ricades erected on BaisiPahacha and near Singhadwaraand ransacked the office ofShree Jagannath TempleAdministration (SJTA), theyhad said.

A temple official had saidthat the queue system wasintroduced on an experimen-tal basis and a review would bedone as locals and servitorswere opposing it.

On July 5, the top courthad directed Jagannath Templemanagement to consider allow-ing every visitor, irrespective offaith, to offer prayers to thedeity.

It had said however thatallowing of every visitor, irre-spective of faith, will be subjectto regulatory measures regard-ing dress code and giving anappropriate declaration.

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Defence Minister NirmalaSitharaman began her

three-day official visit to Franceon Wednesday night to holdbilateral talks with her Frenchcounterpart Florence Parly.During her visit, Sitharamanwill also take stock of progressin the supply of the Rafale jetsexpected to begin next yearend. She is also expected to visitDassault Aviation, which ismanufacturing 36 Rafale jets asper Indian specifications under the Government-to-Government deal.

The visit comes at a timewhen political slugfest is onover the �58,000-crore Rafalefighter jet deal with the main

Opposition party Congresscharging the NDAGovernment with wrongdoing.

Congress president RahulGandhi has raised questions onNirmala Sitharaman’s Francevisit, alleging that work hasbegun to justify the PrimeMinister’s decision to buyRafale fighter aircraft.

He took to Twitter to saywhile the Supreme Court hasasked for the details of theRafale decision-makingprocess, the decision to buy thefighter aircraft was taken byPrime Minister NarendraModi.

Rahul alleged that process-es to justify Modi’s decision arebeing invented.

“The Supreme Court hasasked for the Rafale decisionmaking process. It’s quite sim-ple really... The PM decided.The processes to justify hisdecision are yet to be invented.But work has begun. Ps. In thisconnection, Raksha Mantri isleaving for France tonight,” hesaid.

The delivery of the fighteraircraft is expected to begin in2019 and the IAF hopes to getthe full consignment of 36 jetsby 2022.

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Bhilai, a day after 12 employ-ees were burnt alive in a dead-ly blast at Bhilai Steel Plant’sCoke Oven unit, and sackedChief Executive Officer (CEO)as anger against the deadlyincident gripped the steel cityon Wednesday.

Singh along withChhattisgarh Chief MinisterRaman Singh and Minister ofState for Steel Vishnu Deo Sai,reached Sector-9 hospital in abid to calm down boiling angeramong hundreds of workers ofpublic sector steel giant SAIL’sflagship unit.

He announced a slew ofcompensation measuresincluding �30 lakh to eachdeceased family besides a job.A compensation of �15 lakhwould also be given to the seri-ously injured employees and �2

lakh to employees with minorinjuries.

Steel Minister took stock ofthe situation at Bhilai in thepoll-bound state and sackedBhilai Steel Plant CEO, M Raviand suspended T Pandya Raja,general manager (safety) andNaveen Kumar, deputy gener-al manager (energy).

The sacking of plant offi-cials came after prima facie itappeared that safety measureswere compromised at CokeOven Battery Complex No 11during a scheduled mainte-nance job.

Chaudhary Birender Singhtold media persons at Sector-9 hospital that apart from theinternal enquiry committeeconstituted by SAIL, anotherhigh-level Enquiry Committeecomprising of experts fromacross the country to go intothe actual cause of the incidentwould be constituted byMinistry of Steel.

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Benefitting around 12 lakhRailway employees, the Union

Cabinet on Wednesday approvedpayment of productivity-linkedbonus (PLB) equivalent to 78days' wages to all eligible non-gazetted Railway employees,excluding RPF and RPSF person-nel, for the 2017-18 financial year.The Cabinet also allotted �3074crore for the establishment of twonew permanent campuses of theIndian Institutes of ScienceEducation and Research (IISER) inTirupati and Behrampur.

The productivity-linked bonusto railway employees has been esti-mated at �2,044.31 crore, a state-ment said. The wage calculation

ceiling prescribed for payment ofPLB to eligible non-gazetted rail-way staff is �7,000 per month andthe maximum amount payable pereligible railway employee for 78days is �17,951, itsaid.Productivity-linked bonus ispaid each year before the Dussheraand Puja holidays.

For the year 2017-18 PLBequivalent to 78 days' wages willbe paid, which is expected tomotivate the employees for work-ing towards improving the per-formance of the Railways, thestatement said.

The construction of the twocampuses of IISER shall be com-pleted by December, 2021. Thetotal cost likely to be incurred is�3074.12 crore," an official state-

ment said."The creation of two posts of

Registrar, one in each IISER, hasalso been approved. Both theIISERs will be constructed in areaof 1,17,000 sqm which will havecomplete infrastructural facilitiesfor 1,855 students each," it added.

The IISERs will provide topquality science education at theundergraduate and postgraduatelevel, PHDs and IntegratedPHDs."They will carry outresearch in frontier areas of scienceand will enable India movetowards a knowledge economy byattracting best scientific talent asfaculty and prepare a strong baseof scientific manpower in India,"the statement said.

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Union Minister Nitin Gadkarion Wednesday termed as

"false and baseless" the reportsattributing him to have said theBJP made tall promises in 2014Lok Sabha elections as it wasconfident it would not come topower. He said he never madethe remarks.

Gadkari further said he didnot say anything on PrimeMinister Narendra Modi, theGovernment and depositing of�15 lakh in everyone's account."This is completely baseless news.I want to appeal to all to watchthe actual interview to get thecontext of what we were talkingabout. The programme was inMarathi and I wonder sincewhen has Rahul Gandhi startedunderstanding Marathi," Gadkarisaid on the sidelines of a Pressconference on GangaRejuvenation.

Further hitting out at theCongress president, who tweet-ed the video on Tuesday, theminister asked him to learnMarathi for a better under-standing of his interview's con-tent. "I also want to appeal toRahul Gandhi to learn Marathiand not write anything onTwitter without understandingsomething," he added.

"Seven-eight days back Iwent to the Marathi channel forthe interview. I told them thatduring Maharashtra electionsDevendra Fadnavis andGopinath Munde were dis-

cussing a poll promise about tollplaza. I objected to it by sayingthat it would be very tough toimplement and hence, we shouldnot make such a promise. Imentioned to them that we havemostly been into opposition andhave less experience of being inpower, hence we face some issueswhile making poll promises,"Gadkari said on his clarification.

Several reports claimed thatGadkari, during an interview toa Marathi news channel, said thatModi government came to poweron the basis of unrealisticpromises.

Rahul had shared the videoof the interview on Twitter andsaid, "People also think that theGovernment has made theirdreams and hopes a victim of itsgreed."

Stating that his statementwas twisted and then publishedin an English newspaper,Gadkari said, "An English news-paper based out of Delhi twist-ed my statement. I never namedPrime Minister Modi, or 15 lakhor any such thing."

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Pressure mounted on Union Minister MJ Akbar to resign from the Council of

Ministers with the Congress asking himto either clarify or step down amid freshallegations of sexual harassment againsthim. While Congress demanded anenquiry into Akbar's conduct, Women andChild Development Minister ManekaGandi said the allegations of sexualharassment against anybody, includingMinisters, should be taken seriously aswomen are often scared to speak out andinvestigations has to be done.

"There should be an investigation.Men who are in positions of power oftendo this. And it applies to the media as wellas to politics or senior personnel in com-panies," Maneka told a news channel whenasked to comment on allegations againsta "big" politician.

As the #MeToo campaign gatheredmomentum in India, some women jour-nalists have come out and accused Akbar,a former editor and now the minister ofstate for external affairs, of sexuallyharassing them during his stint as a jour-nalist. Congress spokesperson S JaipalReddy said, "I think M J Akbar must eitheroffer a satisfactory explanation or resignforthwith. How can he be in the ministrywith serious allegations being levelled

against him by responsible journalists whoworked with him. Let there be an inquiryinto it. We demand an inquiry into M JAkbar's conduct," Reddy said at Press con-ference. Reddy also questioned ExternalAffairs Minister Sushma Swaraj's silenceon the issue, saying she is evading respon-sibility and is not prepared to comment onher subordinate.

Several women journalists have comeout and named Akbar for his misde-meanours. On Wednesday, senior jour-nalist Ghazala Wahab was the latest tocome out with her own "MJ story". SabaNaqvi, Shutapa Paul, Sujata Anandanand several other journalists also sharedtheir ordeal or bad experiences duringtheir career.

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In the backdrop of the exodusof Hindi-speaking migrants

from Gujarat, Prime MinisterNarendra Modi on Wednesdayaccused the Congress of divid-ing society for the benefit ofone family and averred that theBJP believed in spreading hap-piness and uniting people.

The workforce from Biharand Uttar Pradesh has beenreturning home following spo-radic attacks against them inparts of Gujarat after an allegedrape of a 14-month-old girl inSabarkantha district onSeptember 28 and the arrest ofa labourer hailing from Bihar.Six districts, most of them innorth Gujarat, have witnessedviolence.

BJP and the Congress havebeen trading charges on the issuewith the former claiming thatCongress leaders were behindfomenting trouble in Gujarat.The incidents of violence andexodus of migrants have erupt-ed as four State Assemblies of —Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan,Chhattisgarh, Mizoram — are togo to polls before the year-end.

Modi claimed that it wasnot a matter of ego for his partyto defeat others but an oppor-

tunity to serve people."When you try and con-

nect everything to elections,like unveiling the statue of SirChhotu Ram or SwachchhBharat Mission, it reduces theimportance of the event," hesaid, adding that the BJP isdoing social service and willcontinue doing it.

The BJP on Tuesdayblamed Congress presidentRahul Gandhi and CongressMLA from Gujarat AlpeshThakor for violence againstHindi-speaking people in theState.

An estimated 50,000Hindi-speaking migrants fromUP and Bihar have fled Gujarat.

BJP spokesman SambitPatra claimed that CongressMLA Alpesh Thakor wasfomenting attacks on migrantsand sought his dismissal fromthe party. Patra said over a peri-od Rahul was creating confu-sion in the country to promotehimself.

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Congress president Rahul Gandhi onWednesday again raised questions on Defence

Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's France visit, alleg-ing that work has begun to justify the PrimeMinister's decision to buy Rafale fighter aircraft.

Incidentally, Rahul will meet the HindustanAeronautics Limited (HAL) employees in Bengaluruon October 13. The Congress chief has been accus-ing the Modi Government of ignoring the HAL tofavour Anil Ambani's Reliance Infrastructure Ltd.

Rahul took to Twitter to say while theSupreme Court has asked for the details of theRafale decision-making process, the decision to buythe fighter aircraft was taken by Prime MinisterNarendra Modi. Gandhi alleged that processes tojustify Modi's decision are being invented.

"The Supreme Court has asked for the RAFALEdecision making process. It's quite simple really...ThePM decided. The processes to justify his decisionare yet to be invented. But work has begun. Ps. Inthis connection, Raksha Mantri is leaving for Francetonight," he said. Defence Minister leaves forFrance tonight on a three-day visit, which comesin the backdrop of a big controversy over the pur-chase of 36 Rafale jets from French aerospace majorDassault Aviation. Sitharaman will hold wide-rang-ing talks with her French counterpart Florence Parlyon ways to deepen strategic cooperation betweenthe two countries and deliberate on regional andglobal issues of mutual interests. Sitharaman will alsohold with Parly the first edition of defence dialogue.

The sources said besides exploring ways toboost bilateral defence cooperation, Sitharamanwill take stock of progress in the supply of 36Rafale jets by Dassault to the Indian Air Forceunder a Rs 58,000-crore deal.

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Intelligence agencies have alertedGovernment Departments

against engaging with Chinese andPakistani girls on social media asmany Twitter handles andFacebook accounts are being usedby foreign agencies as honey-trapsto target officials handling sensitiveinformation relating to nationalsecurity and advanced scientificdata, especially those relating tospace and missile technology.

The move comes in the back-drop of the BrahMos case whereina young scientist Nishant Agrawal,working as a systems engineer forBrahMos unit at Nagpur, wasallegedly targeted by such traps runby Pakistan's ISI. Agrawal wasarrested by the Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorism Squad on Monday oncharges of spying.

The probe so far by the agen-cies has revealed that he was intouch with two women with Indiannames through their pseudoFacebook accounts operated fromBahria Town of Islamabad.

"Aesthetically appealingPakistani and Chinese women arebeing used by the foreign agenciesto trap officers of the defenceestablishments, including scientif-ic institutions of advanced researchin the domains of space and mis-

sile technology. The alert has beenissued to sensitise the officials in theconcerned departments remainaware of the risks posed by thesocial media," a senior IntelligenceBureau official said.

Intelligence agencies from theadversarial countries are usingtrained women to trap officials here.The women are often given lan-guage training in English, Urdu andHindi with Punjabi accent to deceitthe trapped officials. The socialmedia accounts often carry Indiannames and they lure the target offi-cers through sex chats and subse-quently seek their mobile numbers.A number of Chinese-made smartphones often have spywares whichare suspected to transmit data toservers located in China andPakistan, the official said.

Official data suggests 13 serv-ing and retired defence personnel

have been arrested on charges ofespionage for ISI during the lastfour years.

The probe by the agencies herehas revealed that women workingat the behest of the foreign agenciesoften strike friendship throughsocial media platforms likeFacebook. After exchanging num-bers, they extract sensitive infor-mation from the trapped officials inlieu of sex chats on WhatsApp.

The Delhi police had arrestedsenior Indian Air Force officerGroup Captain Arun Marwah, 51,in February this for espionage andofficial secrets Act after beingtrapped by the ISI through a honeytrap module.

Likewise, in December 2015,the Delhi police arrested Ranjith, anIAF official for allegedly sharingsecret documents with ISI opera-tives through social media.

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To mark the centenary yearcelebrations of Rajmata

Vijaya Raje Scindia, BJPwomen's wing will be organis-ing a five-day relay marathonfrom Gwalior to Delhi, startingOctober 12.

"The Women'sEmpowerment Race (MahilaShashaktikaran Daud) will passthrough five States — MadhyaPradesh, Rajasthan, UttarPradesh, Haryana and Delhi. Itwill highlight how NarendraModi Government has empow-ered Indian women through itsvarious path-breaking initia-tives and programmes. Thismega event will be a tribute toRajmata, our first women wingchief, whose 100 birth anniver-sary is being celebrated acrossIndia," said BJP women wingpresident Vijaya Rahatkar.

Sharing details about therelay Marathon, Rahatkar saidit will be flagged off fromGwalior, the home of Rajmata,by Madhya Pradesh ChiefMinister Shivraj SinghChouhan in the presence ofsenior leaders. "It will end inDelhi on October 16 when BJP

President Amit Shah willreceive it at a grand function tobe held at Talkatora stadium,"Rahatkar said.

Apart from 100 BJPwomen wing workers who willtake part in the 375-km-longrelay Marathon, some impor-tant celebrities will take part tohighlight various pro-womeninitiatives taken by ModiGovernment.

Rahatkar further said therace is also women wing's trib-ute to its first chief RajmataVijaya Raje Scindia. "It is for thefirst time such an event isbeing organised by women'swing to honour one of the greatwomen leaders of India," sheadded.

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Gorkhas of Nepal holding valid identity cardsand members of the community who are cit-

izens of India and living in Assam will not be sentto foreigners' tribunals to determine their nation-ality, the Home Ministry said on Wednesday.

In a communication to the AssamGovernment, the Union Home Ministry said onlythose individuals, who have come to Assam fromspecified territories, including Bangladesh, imme-diately before commencement of the Citizenship(Amendment) Act, 1985 and are not Indian citi-zens, can be referred to the foreigners tribunals toidentify whether they are illegal immigrants or not.

The clarification came following a represen-tation to Home Minister Rajnath Singh by the AllAssam Gorkha Students' Union, which citedsome cases of the members of the Gorkha com-munity living in Assam being referred to the for-eigners' tribunals, an official statement said.

In its communication, the home ministry saidthe members of the Gorkha community who wereIndian citizens at the time of commencement ofthe Constitution, or those who are Indian citizensby birth, or those who have acquired Indian citi-zenship by registration or naturalisation in accor-dance with the provisions of The Citizenship Act,1955 are not "foreigners" in terms of section 2 (a)of The Foreigners

Act, 1946 as well as The Registration ofForeigners Act, 1939, therefore, such cases will notbe referred to the foreigners tribunals.

It further emphasised that any member of theGorkha community holding Nepalese nationali-ty and who has arrived in India by land or air overthe Nepal border even without a passport or visaand staying in India for any length of time shallnot be treated as an illegal migrant if he or she isin possession of proper identity documents.

No such document is required for childrenbelow the age group of 10 years as per the provi-sions of the India-Nepal treaty signed in 1950, thestatement said.

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The Election Commission onWednesday wrote to the States

and Union Territories informingthem about the issuance of a newformat of affidavit for contestingcandidates and political parties inpoll-bound States, pertaining todetails of criminal cases or casesof past conviction.

The EC directed the politicalparties to publicise the details ofcontesting candidates on theirwebsites as well as news channelsand newspapers. Both the can-didate and parties have beenmandated to publish this infor-mation in newspapers and TV atleast three times after nominationpapers are filed. The Commissionmade it clear to political partiesthat the publishing should becompleted before the period of48 hours ending with the hourfixed for conclusion of poll for theelection.

The Form 26 will contain atable recording full details ofhis/her criminal antecedents. Thesame table can be reproduced asan insertion in advertisements tobe put out by candidates in printand electronic media at leastthrice after filing of nomina-tions, as ordered by the SupremeCourt on September 25. TheForm 26 will also contain formatC-1 and C-2. The Format C-1 willcontain the name of the candidate;

name of political party; name ofconstituency and number ofpending criminal cases and detailsabout cases of conviction. TheFormat C-2 will contain declara-tion about criminal antecedents ofcandidates set up by the party.

"All such political partiesshall submit a report to the ChiefElectoral Officer of the State con-cerned stating that they have ful-filled the requirements of thesedirections, and enclosing there-with the paper cuttings contain-ing the declarations published bythe party in respect of theState/UT concerned. All elec-tions are required to file affidavitin Form-26, along, with nomina-tion paper, declaring informationabout criminal cases, assets, lia-bilities and educational qualifica-tions," the EC said. TheCommission has asked chief elec-toral officers to provide the newformat ''Form 26' to all politicalparties in their states and unionterritories.

According to EC's directions,contesting candidate who havecriminal cases against them -either pending cases or cases inwhich candidate has been con-victed, shall publish a declarationabout such cases, for wide pub-licity, in newspapers as well as TVchannel and on their websites.This declaration is to be publishedin Format C-l attached hereto, atleast on three different dates from

the day following the last date forwithdrawal of candidatures andup to two days before the date ofpoll and should be placed suitablyin the newspapers so that thedirections for wide publicity arecomplied with in letter and spir-it,' the EC said. "The declarationon TV channels should be onthree different dates," it said.

The EC said in the case ofcandidates with criminal cases setup by political parties, whetherrccognised parties or registeredun-recognised parties, such can-didates are required to declarebefore the Returning Officer con-cerned that they have informedtheir political party about thecriminal cases against themProvision for such declaration hasbeen made in Form 26 in thenewly inserted Item (6A).

The Supreme Court had ear-lier expressed its inability to makea law to check "creeping" crimi-nalisation of the polity, insistingParliament must respond to pub-lic sentiment and frame a law toensure that those charge-sheetedcannot contest. The SupremeCourt had stated that nothingstood in the way of the elector'sright to know, and ordered can-didates to declare their criminalrecords to the ElectionCommission in bold. Politicalparties were charged with the taskof making this information pub-lic on their websites.

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New Delhi: India and Japanhave held the second meetingof their Act East Forum, dur-ing which they agreed to boostcooperation on connectivityprojects in the northeast, aJapanese Embassy statementsaid.

The meeting of 'Japan-India Act East Forum' washeld on October 8 under theco-chairmanship of Japan'sAmbassador Kenji Hiramatsuand Foreign Secretary VijayGokhale.

Ambassador Hiramatsuemphasised on cooperation inthe northeast region, rangingfrom connectivity to people-to-people exchanges and the needto come up with concrete pro-jects, the statement said.

The forum witnessed live-ly discussions, in which therepresentatives from relevantMinistries and States of theNER shared their views, thestatement said.

"As a result of the meeting,future orientation of coopera-tion in northeast was con-firmed, ranging from the roadand bridge connectivity pro-jects; forest management pro-jects in states of Tripura andMeghalaya; a new initiative toutilise bamboo which is abun-dant in the region; and toenhance people-to-peopleexchanges," it said.

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Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) onWednesday surprised

many in Chhattisgarh as itdeclared a complete unknownpolitical person as its candidatefor the chief minister post ifparty wins assembly polls nextmonth.

Chhattisgarh goes to pollsfor the 90-member state leg-islative assembly in two phas-es on November 12 andNovember 20. The results willbe declared on December 11.

AAP said that a tribal per-son Komal Upendi will be theCM face of the party in themineral-rich state where trib-als make up roughly 30 percentof state’s 2.55 crore population.Party has fielded Upendi fromhis home constituencyBhanupratappur in Kanker dis-trict.

Gopal Rai, minister inArvind Kejriwal-led Delhi gov-ernment, announced the nameof party’s CM candidate at apress conference in Raipur.

He admitted that severalkey names were discussed for

the CM candidate includingSoni Sori, noted activist frominsurgency-riddled Bastarregion, but finally the partydecided to pick Upendi as theconsensus candidate.

AAP also released a list of

four more candidates, SiyaramThakur for Bindranavagarhseat, Indranath Sai for Kunkuriseat, Raja Thakur for Rajim seatand Jitendra Chandravanshifor Pandaria seat

Rai, who is also the party

in-charge for Chhattisgarh,announced a new candidateVarun Tiwari in stead ofSaurabh Nirvani forRajnandgaon seat from whereChief Minister Raman Singhwould be the BJP candidate.

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Indications are coming tofore that Congress will try its

level best and will left no stoneunturned to gain power in theassembly polls slated to beheld next month. In the samebid, it would be gambling uponthe senior party leaders ofnational stature including sit-ting Members of Parliament.

Former Union Minister ofstate and senior Congressleader Charandas Mahant andMember of Parliament LokSabha from Durg, Tamradhwaj

Sahu had already shown theirwillingness to contest theassembly polls. Same is the casewith Rajya Sabha MemberChhaya Verma, former unionminister Arvind Netam andformer MP from tribal regionof Bastar, Sohan Potai. “Theorganization is planning tofield them all in order to gainmajority in 90 member stateassembly”, a senior leader said.

With former ChiefMinister Ajit Jogi floating hisown outfit Janata CongressChhattisgarh (JCC)(J) a couple

of years ago, a triangular con-test with nail biting finish isbeing predicted by the politicalobservers.

Keeping in view a toughcontest between the two mainpolitical parties BharatiyaJanata Party (BJP) andCongress with the fear that JCC(J) going to play spoilsport,having already entered intoalliance with Bahujan SamajParty, Congress will throw allits full energy to restrict BJPretaining the power for thefourth consecutive time, thesenior party leader said.

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For smooth, peaceful andfair conduct of Assembly

Election 2018 in Chhattisgarhand Telangana State, seniorpolice officials of Chhattisgarhand Telangana organised ajoint meeting at Police Officer’sMess in the state capital onWednesday to discuss onundertaking joint operations.

Director General of PoliceTelangana, Mahendra Reddy,Inspector General of Police(IGP) Grey Hound AndhraPradesh and Telangana, JointDirector Intelligence Bureau ofTelangana were present in themeeting along withSuperintendent of Police (SPs)of Maoist affected regions ofTelangana and Chhattisgarh.

Special Director General ofPolice (Naxal Operations),Chhattisgarh, DM Awasthilater informed that the meetingdiscussed on executing jointNaxal operations in wake ofassembly elections in both thestates. “How the menace couldbe tackled during the upcom-ing polls was discussed in themeeting”, he said.

“The key issues came upfor discussion was exchangeand sharing of intelligenceinformation regarding Naxalmovements in bordering areasof both the states. The day-longmeeting also discussed on strat-egy for averting untoward inci-dents during elections bydeploying Jawans at differentsensitive points”, the officialinformed.

Notable, Assembly elec-tions in Chhattisgarh is goingto be held in two phases onNovember 12 and 20.Telangana would witness singlephase election for their 119member State Assembly onDecember 7.

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Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)will concentrate on 52

winnable constituencies in thestate general election 2018.This assessment has come afterthe public meetings and inter-actions with people of state in45 Assembly constituencies ofChhattisgarh by party leaders,said Chhattisgarh In charge andcabinet minister of Delhi gov-ernment Gopal Rai whileaddressing the media onWednesday.

The people of Chhattisgarhwants a change, as when theywere told about the lack of gov-ernance, scams and corruptionof the present ruling govern-ment and the Congress unableto raise the public related issueseven after remaining in

Opposition, said Rai. He addedthat due to which the peopleare angry and wants a change,so AAP has emerged as analternative for it.

He added that all the pre-dictions were done in Delhielection regarding AAP butemerged out from the ashesand same would be repeatedcausing miscalculations for allin Chhattisgarh also.

Terming the coalition ofJanata Congress Chhattisgarh(Jogi) and Bahujan Samaj Party(BSP), Rai said that it is sink-ing ship.

Chhattisgarh is facingproblem of unemployment andissues of farmers. AAP wouldpurchase the paddy at Rs 2600per quintal as per the promis-es made. The affidavit is to ful-fill the promises, said Sanjay

Singh, Rajya Sabha MP.Singh said that AAP plans

for modernization of govern-ment schools in lines of Delhi,Mohalla health clinics as inDelhi, establish small scaleindustries to process the forestproduce so to generate employ-ment at local level, Paddy basedbyproducts small scale indus-tries, and mineral based indus-tries where 70% employment forlocal youths would be ensured.

On query of removal ofearlier candidates, Rai said thatAAP is the only party whichtakes decision to terminate theleaders if any criminal chargesis proved or performance is notup to mark. Sanjay Singhalleged that AAP leaders arealso being targeted as out of 25MLAs brought under criminalcharges 19 have been acquitted.

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At present is doing model-ling but has a dream to

become an actress like a nor-mal person. But now is con-centrating on the InternationalTrans-Gender Beauty Pageant,said Veena Sendre, the India’sfirst ‘Miss India Trans Queen’from Chhattisgarh. She hailsfrom a village in MandirHasaud.

She was interacting withmedia persons on her maidenvisit to capital city after win-ning the title crown.

She said with the crown shehas responsibility and has tocarry its value and respect. Shethanked all the persons havingstood behind her for support-

ing her and building confi-dence while going through amost difficult patch in the life.It was the period when shestarted to speak about her toher parents about her prefer-

ence. Later on the parentsbacked her and now are happythat her family is with her.

The first platform was the‘Miss Chhattisgarh’ title atRaipur after which underwent

rigours training to groom forthe national competition andnow would go for internation-al event, she said. She haddefeated Namita Ammu ofTamil Nadu in the last phase.She said people of Chhattisgarhvoted for her which helped towin the title.

On education, she said,left the education in class 5 laterstudied through open school toclear 12th. Has been trained inbeautician and now trains oth-ers. Veena said that it hasopened new avenues for trans-genders after tough time whenno one accepted them butChhattisgarh is positivetowards community. Even gov-ernment is supporting thecommunity.

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With commencement of‘Navaratri’, almost all the

senior leaders of state Congresswere on Wednesday atDantewada to seek blessingsfrom Goddess Danteshwari.They sought blessings to over-throw ruling Bharatiya JanataParty from power in the stateand to form the next govern-ment after the elections to beheld next month.

The leaders who paid visitto the temple include formerUnion Minister CharandasMahant, Leader of Opposition,T.S. Singhdeo, WorkingPresidents of Chhattisgarh

Pradesh Congress Committee(CGPCC), Shiv KumarDaharia and Ramdayal Uikey,former Leader of Opposition,Ravindra Chaubey and for-

mer CGPCC Chief DhanendraSahu.

Notable, CGPCC ChiefBhupesh Baghel didn’t accom-pany them because he has to

leave for national capital, NewDelhi in the afternoon. ExceptBaghel almost all the seniorleaders of the organizationwere present. All the leaders,earlier had jointly left forDantewada through helicopteron Wednesday morning.

The joint visit of seniorleaders to the temple is beingseen as an effect of admonishof High Command overreported factionalism in theparty. However, the leader dis-played that they are united andare going to fight the electionswithout any Chief Ministerialface. They have a firm standingagainst the ruling BJP to stopthem forming government forfourth consecutive time.

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Giving a task to all, PrimeMinister Narendra Modi

directed each party worker toensure that maximum five per-sons download NaMo App ontheir mobile phone. They canthen provide the feedback24x7. He said feedback on ofschemes, state, assembly con-stituencies, even MPs andMLAs can be given.

Prime Minister was inter-acting with the booth levelworkers through NaMo Appunder ‘Mera Booth SabseMazboot’ programme fromdifferent states on Wednesday.

Answering to query of

feedback of Gajju Sahu ofRaipur, he said that lakhs ofground level party workers arethe source to get the feedbackfrom the public. They are thereal strength of party and partyis proud of them. They shouldknow what are the existingaspirations, hopes and senti-ments of people and then basedon the feedback; the govern-ment can work in a directionaccording to it.

Prime Minister said thatBJP is a cadre based party, sothe cadre has to give the feed-back of the government. Hasthe schemes being implement-ed by the governments reach-ing the people or not, after they

derive benefit it is beneficial ornot, did it reach the poor, allthese has to be alerted to thegovernment. So there should bea balance of organization withthe government. For whichthe party activist has to remainalert and also alert the gov-ernment.

Citing example, he saidthe changes in Goods andServices Tax after its imple-mentation could be possibleonly after possible suggestionsfrom the ground level.

Prime Minister said thatNaMo App can be the bestmedium for interaction andalso effective. It can be dailyused for interaction withinparty from ground to top leveland government level.

The blessings and love of130 crore citizens of countryincluding the blessings of sis-ters provide the energy andvitality to work. On occasion ofNavaratri, let Goddess givepower to all to work as per thehopes and aspirations of peo-ple of country, said PrimeMinister Narendra Modi whileanswering to a query raised byAditi Badhmar of Raipur.

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Returning Officer Raipur-Rural, Rajat Bansal on

Wednesday inspected thepolling centres in many parts ofthe capital city, Raipur.

During the inspection, hedirected to make the SecondarySchool Mana as a ‘Pink PollingBooth’ and Mintu PublicSchool as Model polling centre.He instructed his team to close-ly keep a watch and make sure

that every voter get facilitieslike potable water, electricity,cleanliness and sitting facilitiesfor elderly persons and personswith disabilities.

During his visit in the con-cerned areas, he was assisted byAssistant Returning OfficerSheetal Bansal, BhupendraAgrawal, Rajesh Sharma and allthe deployed officials for theelectoral work in the upcomingpolls. He directed the flyingsquads to report any suspicious

activity through videography tothe Election Commission ofIndia. On Thursday, Bansalshall be examining pollingbooths of Birgaon, AvantiVihar and Labhandi.

Earlier, the other dayBansal also took a meeting ofall the printing press owners ofthe city and directed all of themto abide by the rules and reg-ulations of the code of conductenforced for state assemblyelection 2018.

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In one of the first case regard-ing the social media, District

Electoral Officer (DEO) andCollector, Dr Priyanka Shuklahad issued show cause notice toDistrict President of JanataCongress Chhattisgarh (JCC)(J), Shashi Kumar Bhagat, forviolating Modal Code ofConduct (MCC) by uploadingobjectionable social media sta-tus which could incite hatredamong caste and community.

Finding his social mediastatus of October 9, a violationof MCC, the DEO, Shukla haddemanded explanation fromhim within three days. In thenotice Shukla had charged thatthe leader through his status insocial media was trying to cre-ate a rift between differentgroups of religion, caste andcommunity and which canincite hatred among them.

The act was a violation ofsection 153 (a) and 505 (2) ofIndian Penal Code and viola-tion of Section 125 PublicRepresentatives Act 1951, shesaid.

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The first phase of nomina-tion would be filed from

October 16 and the ‘cVIGIL’app will be operation from thatday where the complainantcan upload the images andvideo from the incident spotdirectly, said ChhattisgarhChief Electoral Officer SubratoSahoo while briefing media onWednesday.

He said that the applicationis supported in all androidphones having camera, 3G or4G internet connections andhaving GPS access. The Appcan be operated only inAndroid Jellybean OperatingSystem or higher version of

operating system.Sahoo said that to operate

the Mobile App, the locationservice (GPS) has to be kept onif not then the App would auto-matically makes the GPS facil-ity on.

The complaints related toillegal sale or distribution ofliquor, fire arms, intimidation,

hate comments or speech,paid news, transportation ofelectors, wooing electorswith gifts and other mate-rials, property defacement,cash distribution amongothers.

The Voter list related orEPIC card related com-plaints would not be accept-ed as it would be automat-ically cancelled.

To access the App, anOTP would be generated toavoid frivolous complaints.

The complaint shouldhave brief of the incident.

The total time foraction is 100 minutes butwhen the complaint is ofserious types and further

probe is required, then thestatus would be provided to thecomplainant with updates. Butif the complainant wants toremain anonymous then feed-back would not be provided.

CEO said that once com-plaint is lodged then field ver-ification unit, flying squad orstatic surveillance team wouldact on it.

The complaint would go tothe Returning Officer. All theteams would have a differentversion of the App so that theycan respond it accordingly. Iflarge number of complaints isbeing received from same area,then first-come-first basiswould be followed to attend thecomplaints.

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As the Navratri-the festivalof nine holy nights, has

started, there is festivity in theair of the holy city onWednesday, the first of theauspicious days. Earlier, thetemples were cleaned, deco-rated and illuminated. In tunewith the tradition, red-coloured frills and stoles wereplaced at the entrances of thetemples in the city. While theperiod of Amavasya ended onTuesday afternoon, theMangal Kalash (sacred pot)was set up and consecrated bydevotees in their homes onWednesday. The fasting ofnine days has also started onthe day.

Aptly decorated for theoccasion, the shops in the cityare now engaged in selling thefestival articles while the ven-dors are being seen lining upthe major temple complexes.The fabled temples like MansaDevi and Chandi Devi are see-ing throngs of devotees queu-ing up to tie the holy threadof wish fulfilment.

Chanting of mantras arenow reverberating in the airat Har Ki Paidi where thepeople are flocking to takethe holy dip to mark thegreat occasion.

Speaking to The Pioneer,astrologer Prateek Mishrapurisaid, “Since Amavasya endedon Tuesday noon the firstNavratri has started from

Wednesday and fasting hasalso begun on the day.”

A devotee Shweta Vermaof Jwalapur said, “We cleanedour home altar and set up achowki (wooden platform).Barley seeds are placed in abowl with earth and waterand each day the sproutsgrow.” Explaining the signif-icance of the ritual, PrateekMishrapuri said, “It isbelieved that the creation ofthe world strated with the firstcrop of barley seeds. Also thegrowth of barley seedlingsindicates prosperity in thehouse. The more they growthe more wealth it signifies.”

“Nine days of Navratriare devoted to the nine formsof the Goddess, thePrimordial Energ y, theMother Force, the Shaktiwhich is the creator of thecosmic creation. The LordShiva is like a shav (corpse)without the energy of theMother Force whom we wor-ship on the nine auspiciousnights in nine dif ferentforms,” said BrahmchariKailashanand of Kali templenear Chandi Ghat.

Notably, the nine-dayfestival of Navratri in Hindureligion is dedicated to thenine manifestations ofGoddess Durga which areShailputri, Brahmcharini,Chandraghanta, Kushmanda,Skandmata, Katyayani, kalra-tri , Mahagauri andSiddhiratri.

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The mellow month ofOctober is indeed very spe-

cial in the history of the IndianMilitary Academy (IMA) whichis not just the pride of the Doonvalley but of the entire nation.It is, in fact, the “cradle of theIndian Army”.

The IMA saga which beganin the Doon valley on October1, 1932 (when the academybecame functioning) at a pic-turesque location in the Doonvalley, has moved through sev-eral dramatic twists and turns,touching many landmarks overthe last eight and a half decades(86 years). It is being carriedforward proudly by brightyoung Gentlemen Cadets (GCs) who enter the hallowed por-tals of the academy every yearand pass out as officers of thegreat Indian army, one of thebest in the world.

All of the first batch(“Pioneers”) of GCs, SamManekshaw among them,reported for duty on September30, 1932 .The seniormost cadetwas G S Isaac whose numberwas 1 and the last was ShingarSingh, No. 40. TheCommandant’s “Special Orderof the Day” was published onOctober 1 and it said, “TheIndian Military Academy openswith effect from today. The firstCommandant, Brig L P Collins,on the occasion of the openingof the Indian Military Academy,wishes to place on record hisdeep sense of appreciation ofthe labours of his staff in thepreliminary work of theAcademy. He is confident that

on this foundation and with theloyal co-operation of theGentlemen Cadets who havejoined in the first term thefoundations of the name andthe traditions of the Academywill be firmly established.”

The founding of this pres-tigious academy in 1932 was aculmination of a long drawnbattle fought in such for a as thecentral legislative assembly andthe Round Table Conference bystalwarts like Sir SivaswamyAiyar, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, Pandit Motilal Nehru and LalaLajpat Rai. The history of theIMA from 1932 to 1947 iscommon to India and Pakistan.

According to legend, DehraDun was the site of the acade-my of the great warriorDronacharya where thePandavas, Kauravas and otherprinces had been trained. TheChetwode Committee had rec-ommended three places–Satara, Mhow and Dehra Dunwith the accent falling on DehraDun. And Dehra Dun wasselected by the Government.

The Railway Staff Collegehad been opened in Doon in1930 next to the ForestResearch Institute but had to beclosed down owing to a finan-cial crisis. It had an imposing

central build-ing (the pre-sent Chetwodebuilding ofIMA), a num-ber of staffquarters, anda block ofbuilding forr a i l w a ytrainees to live

in. The Army acquired thebuildings and campus of thestaff college, spread over an areaof 155.53 acres of land for aprice of �21, 17,597. The cam-pus was taken over on April 1,1932.

There were no playingfields, no drill square and nobuilding for setting up a mess.It was indeed a challenging taskto lay the foundations and toshape a permanent militaryacademy, India’s Sandhurst.However, under the leadershipof Brig. Collins, the institutionbecame functional by October1, 1932. The first course had onits rolls Sam Manekshaw, SmithDun and Mohd Musa.

All of them later becamethe chiefs of the armies of theirrespective countries; namelyIndia, Burma and Pakistan.

The course was christened“PIONEERS'. The IMA wasinaugurated formally by FieldMarshal Sir Philip Chetwode onDecember 10, 1932 after whomis named the “ChetwodeBuilding” of the IMA, which isthe academy’s heart and soul.

The inaugural address byChetwode was stirring andacquired immortality as a pas-sage from his address has beenadopted as the Credo of the

Academy-"The safety, honourand welfare of your countrycome first, always and everytime. The honour, welfare andcomfort of the men you com-mand come next. Your ownease, comfort and safety comelast, always and every time."

The inauguration had to bedelayed by more than twomonths. Chetwode said in hisspeech at the inauguration, "Iwish I could have welcomed theGentlemen Cadets of the newIndian Military Academy onthe day they first made theirappearance here, for it was amemorable day in the Historyof Indian Army.

I could not do so becauseit was pointed out to me thatthey had not yet received theiruniform, nor were they suffi-ciently drilled to make aninspection on parade possi-ble.” The Pioneer, dated July30,1931, under the caption"Notes from Dehra Dun"wrote, “His Excellency theCommander-in-Chief was herefor a few days last week, fromJuly 14 to 17.He was probablyhere in connection with theIndian Military Academy,which has only a couple ofmonths ahead of it now beforeopening."

The integral relationship ofthe IMA with the Doon valleyis phenomenal. It is, in a sense,the proud heart of the valleyand along with it beats the heartof the citizens of the city ofDehra Dun.

Its dignified and pic-turesque presence gives a spe-cial dimension to the historyand ambience of the valley.

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districts, as well asVishakhapatnam andVizianagaram in AndhraPradesh, and Gajapati andNayagarh in Odisha, the IMDsaid.

The Odisha Governmenthas also issued a warning forpossible floods in view of theapproaching cyclone. It hasissued a high alert in all dis-tricts especially those located inthe coastal region, and set a tar-get of “zero casualties”. CabinetSecretary PK Sinha also chaireda meeting of the National CrisisManagement Committee(NCMC) to take stock ofpreparatory measures in thewake of Titli.

The weather office saidthe cyclonic storm is likely tomake a landfall betweenGopalpur in Odisha andKalingapatanam in AndhraPradesh early on Thursdaymorning at a wind speed gust-ing up to 165 kilometres perhour. According to the IMD,this would come under cate-gory II of cyclone which lead tosome roof and structural dam-age, some caravans destroyed,power failure likely.

The speed of cyclonedecides its gravity and destruc-tion. Meanwhile, as many as 10teams of the National DisasterResponse Force (NDRF) and 8of Orissa Disaster Rapid ActionForce (ODRAF) have also beenpositioned at different placesfor rescue operations. The threearmed forces have also beenput on alert. The Joint TyphoonWarning Centre of the US

navy also said the cyclone con-tinued to rapidly consolidateand indications of a nascent eyebeginning to form.

According to the IndiaMeteorological Department(IMD) Titli intensified furtherinto a very severe cyclonicstorm during at 11.30 am onWednesday and may lead towaves rising up to 1 metre onthe coast. Under its impact,heavy rains have already start-ed in Ganjam, Gajapati, Puri,Balasore and Kendrapara dis-tricts.

The IMD has also pre-dicted the cyclonic wind tochew away a large part ofAndhra Pradesh districts likeVisakhapatnam, Vizianagaramand Srikakulam and Odishadistricts of Gajapati, Ganjam,Puri and Kendrapara.

As per the IMD forecast,“heavy to very heavy rainfall”at several places and “extreme-ly heavy rainfall” at isolatedareas is expected till Thursday.Districts like Ganjam, Gajapati,Puri, Jagatsinghpur,Kendrapara, Khurda,Nayagarh, Cuttack, Jajpur,Bhadrak and Balasore are like-ly to be lashed by heavy to veryheavy rainfall till Thursday.Heavy to very heavy rainfall isalso forecast for Kandhamal,Boudh and Dhenkanal districtfrom Thursday.

The Meteorological CentreBhubaneswar has also issued aheavy rainfall warning for thenext three days.

Official sources said9,83,642 people were evacuat-ed when Cyclone Philin hit theState in 2013 and 2,55,042people were shifted to multi-purpose shelter centres duringCyclone Hudhud in 2014.

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ate a false narrative to misleadpolice. He, however, could notexplain as why he was notattacked, as his finger was onlyinjured. There was enough evi-dence to suggest that it wasSuraj who was behind thekilling. He was put to sustainedinterrogation and blurted outthe sequence of events,” saidAjay Chaudhry, the JointCommissioner of Police (NewDelhi Range). According to oneneighbour Ishwar Lal, ataround 4:45am, a neighbourYogender Pintu, who was com-ing back home from the hos-pital saw Suraj shouting forhelp saying that his parentswere killed. “The neighbourjumped into the house andcalled police. Yogender wentinside and found the threevictims with stab wounds andhe saw Suraj weeping.

However, the door was lockedfrom inside so Yogenderunlocked the door. Suraj had aninjury on his finger. We did nothear any scream or any sort ofnoise,” Ishwar said. “The mur-der weapon used in the triplemurder has been recovered,”said a senior police official. Thevictim Mithilesh’s elder broth-er Chandrabhan told ThePioneer that he heard about theincident at around 5:30 am.“My younger brother and Iwork in the interior business,Neha was in Class IX,” he said,emphasising that it was anoutsider’s job. However, hedidn’t want to comment onwhether the victim had anypersonal enmity with anyone.

Earlier in 2013, neighboursstated that Suraj was allegedlykidnapped when he went to themarket to buy books. Surajclaimed to have been droppedoff at Modinagar because of acurfew after which he called hisfather.

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Paddy growers of Punjaband Haryana have become

"soft targets" as they are oftenblamed for causing air pollu-tion in the NCR region due tostubble burning, farm expertssaid Wednesday, as theypitched for incentivising grow-ers for the management ofcrop residue.

The experts said penalisingfarmers without addressingtheir issues should not beencouraged.

Steps like crop diversifica-tion and investments in pro-ducing bio energy with paddystraw can help tide over theissue, they suggested.

A dialogue between farm-ers, policy makers and farmexperts on farm-related issues,including stubble burning, washeld here.

"Farmers have become easytargets as they are blamed forcausing air pollution in NCRregion including Delhi," agri-culture policy expert DevinderSharma said.

He said holding only farm-ers responsible for pollutionwas "biased thinking". "InDelhi, urban class will alwaysblame the rural people. Peoplein Delhi do not want to reducepollution as they want to usecars and do not want to changetheir lifestyle," Sharma said,adding use of thermal plantswas also one of the major rea-sons of pollution in the nation-al capital.

Echoing the expert's views,

Punjab Chief PrincipalSecretary Suresh Kumar saidthere were diverse reasonsbehind Delhi's air pollution."Delhi's traffic is a major rea-son of air pollution. Paddyharvesting is just for threeweeks.

Therefore, it will be diffi-cult to accept that pollution isonly caused by paddy growersof Punjab," he said.

Punjab and Haryana areoften blamed for rising airpollution and smog, caused bycrop residue burning by grow-ers. Punjab alone generates 20to 22 million tonnes of paddystubble annually.

Sharma was of the opinionthat farm mechanisation wasnot a solution to the problemof stubble burning.

"The solution is not mech-anisation. The use of machines(like happy seeder technique)could address just a minusculescale of the (stubble burning)problem," he said.

"If we can give Rs 40,000crore for paddy procurement,

why can't the Centre give Rs200 per quintal as bonus togrowers for managing cropresidue?” Sharma said, addingMahatma Gandhi NationalRural Employment GuaranteeAct(MNREGA) funds can alsobe used in dealing with thestubble burning problem.

The experts also blamedthe government policies ofpushing paddy cultivation inPunjab which was initially amaize growing state.

"In a short period, farmerswant to sow wheat after har-vesting paddy so that the cropyield does not dip. If yielddrops, subsequently his incomewill also drop and he does notwant to let this happen. If wecannot improve his livelihood,then we must sustain his stan-dard of living," the Punjabchief principal secretary said.

Bharatiya Kisan Union(BKU) chief Balbir SinghRajewal alleged farmers werebeing bullied to shift fromtheir traditional way of cropmanagement.

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Adding fuel to fire over thesimmering discontentment

on the issue of comparativelyhigher petrol and diesel pricesin Punjab than neighbouringStates, the farmers, transportersand petrol pump dealers havehopped on the protest wagonbefore setting a month’s dead-line for the PunjabGovernment to bring down theVAT rates — highest in thispart of the country.

The ultimatum, accompa-nied by massive protest warn-ing, came as the state continuedto apply brakes on any move tobring down the prices. On theother hand, the PunjabGovernment is yet to arrive atany decision regarding bring-ing down the fuel prices afterthe Centre reduced Rs 2.50 onboth petrol and diesel, andappealed the states to follow itsfootsteps. Chief Minister CaptAmarinder Singh was earlierscheduled to meet the Financeand Excise-TaxationDepartments to decide uponbringing down the fuel prices,its ramifications and otheraspects has been deferred twicein two days. The next date ofmeeting is yet to be decided.

Coming together on acommon platform, the repre-sentatives of state’s petrol pumpdealers, farmers and trans-porters held a meeting on theissue of rising prices of petroland diesel in Punjab, asking theState Government to bring

down VAT rates at par with theneighbouring states.

As per Tuesday’s prices,petrol is Rs 10.63 per litre andRs 7.79 per litre expensive inPunjab at Rs 88.35 as comparedto Chandigarh and Haryanarespectively. As far as diesel isconcerned, it is Rs 3.96 per litreand Rs 1.87 per litre costly inPunjab at Rs 74.75 as comparedto Chandigarh and Haryanarespectively.

In Punjab, the current rateof VAT on diesel is 17.25 per-cent, and 36.85 percent onpetrol — highest among thenorthern states.

Only recently, the CentralGovernment had reduced fuelprices by Rs 2.50 per litre, fol-lowed by similar reduction inVAT by several states, includ-ing Haryana, Himachal,Jammu and Kashmir,Chandigarh, Rajasthan — allsharing borders with Punjab.

Setting the deadline, BhartiKisan Union (BKU) presidentBalbir Singh Rajewal pointedthat maximum 35 percent oftotal consumption of diesel isdone by the farmers for farm-ing or irrigation purposes,transportation of produce fromvillages to cities, generation ofpower, harvesting of produce,among other things.

“And now with theNational Green Tribunal’sorders against burning thepaddy stubble, the cost of pro-duction per acre would go upby Rs 3,000 due to extra con-sumption of diesel,” he said.

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Himachal chief minister JaiRam Thakur on

Wednesday said theGovernment has decided toprovide �1 lakh each to 500meritorious students of theState for preparing for variouscompetitive examinations likeIIT, NEET, IIIT, IIM, JEE, IAS,

HAS etc. under the new SchemeMedha Protsahan Yojana.

Presiding over a functionhere for felicitation of dignitarieswho have studied from theschools of the State and werenow holding high positions incorporate world under the‘Akhand Shiksha Jyoti-MereSchool Se Nikle Moti’ pro-gramme organised by the State

Higher Education Department,Thakur said the entrepreneurswould also provide informationand support to the youthregarding meaningful jobopportunities in corporateworld. He said they would alsohelp in career profiling of theseyouth through Centre ofExcellence-cum-IncubationCentres established in ten select-

ed colleges of the State to tack-le problem of growing unem-ployment in the State. Theywould also act as friends of thecollege students and guide andhelp in mentoring them for jobin today’s dynamic job markets,he added. "The old studentswho have passed out from theschools of the state and nowholding top positions in various

establishments in corporateworld should act as role mod-els, motivators and guide for thestudents to enable them to excelin their lives," he added.

He said these dignitariesshould also visit educationalinstitutions of the State and helpthe students in career coun-selling and sharing success sto-ries as an inspiration.

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Maldives strongmanPresident Abdulla

Yameen’s party Wednesdayfiled a legal petition challeng-ing his landslide election defeatlast month despite major inter-national pressure for him tostep down.

Lawyers for Yameen’sProgressive Party of Maldives(PPM) told reporters that they

are alleging that the September23 vote was rigged by the inde-pendent election commission.

It was however unclearwhether the Supreme Courtwould agree to consider thechallenge.

The election in the IndianOcean archipelago, which hasseen a tussle for influencebetween India and China, waswon by Ibrahim Mohamed Solihwith 58.4 per cent of the vote.

Beijing: Chinese authoritieshave launched a campaignagainst halal products in thename of fighting extremism inthe capital of Xinjiang, thefractious northwest regionwhere Muslims are facing a raftof religious restrictions.

Beijing has in recent yearslaunched a security crackdownin Xinjiang against what it callsseparatist elements, and a UN

report has cited estimates that upto one million ethnic Uighursand other Muslim minorities areheld in extra-judicial, politicalre-education camps. Halal --Arabic for “permissible” -- refersto a set of rules guiding Muslimson what is allowed according tothe religion. It is frequentlyapplied to food and drinks butalso includes other personalhygiene products. AFP

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The US has made a “realprogress” with North Korea

toward the denuclearisation ofthe Korean peninsula but stillthere is a long way to go,Secretary of State MikePompeo said on Tuesday.

Pompeo, who met NorthKorean leader Kim Jong Un onMonday in Pyongyang to dis-cuss a future summit, toldreporters that the two countriesare back on a path towarddenuclearisation.

“While there’s still a longway to go and much work todo, we can now see a path towhere we’ll achieve the ultimategoal, which is the full andfinal verified denuclearisationof North Korea,” Pompeo toldreporters at the White Houseafter a lunch with PresidentDonald Trump.

Pompeo returned from aAsia trip Monday night, duringwhich travelled to Japan, South

Korea, North Korea and China.Pompeo’s trip was intend-

ed to set the table for a secondsummit between Trump andKim, who held an historicsummit in Singapore on June12.

On Indian-AmericanNikki Haley resigning as theUS Ambassador to the UN,Pompeo said she was his “greatpartner.

“I want to thank AmbHaley for the good work thatshe has done. She has been a

great partner of mine for thefive months that she and I havebeen working together,”Pompeo said.

“I want to wish her verywell whatever comes next forher,” Pompeo said.

In a surprise move, Haleyon Tuesday resigned as the USAmbassador to the UnitedNations, becoming the latestcasualty in the dysfunctionalTrump administration justweeks before the crucial mid-term elections.

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Lt Gen Asim Munir, whopreviously served as the

head of the MilitaryIntelligence (MI), will be thenew chief of Pakistan’s power-ful spy agency ISI, the PakistanArmy announced Wednesday.

M u n i rwas recentlypromoted tothe rank ofLieutenantGeneral bythe ArmyPromotionBoard headed by Chief ofArmy Staff Gen Qamar JavedBajwa.

He replaces Lt Gen NaveedMukhtar and will assumecharge on October 25.

Mukhtar assumed theoffice of the Inter-ServicesIntelligence director generalin December, 2016.

Munir has also served asthe commander of the ForceCommand Northern Areas.He was conferred Hilal-i-Imtiaz, the second highest civil-ian award, in March 2018.

The Army also announcedseveral key top level transfersafter army chief promoted fivemajor generals to the nextrank last month.

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German historians onWednesday accused far-

right leader Alexander Gaulandof paraphrasing Adolf Hitler ina newspaper column takingaim at a “globalised class” thathe claimed threatens all that isgood in his “homeland”.

The co-leader of the far-right AfD rejected allegationsof parallels with a 1933 speechby Hitler, but the latest episodeis yet another controversy rais-ing questions over his anti-migrant party’s views on theNazi-era.

In a guest commentary forSaturday’s FrankfurterAllgemeine Zeitung (FAZ),Gauland wrote that the “glob-alised class” occupies positionsin mainstream organisationsfrom international corpora-tions to the media to universi-ties, and are also in key politi-cal parties.Echoing

“Their members livealmost exclusively in big cities,speak fluent English, and whenthey move from Berlin toLondon or Singapore for jobs,they find similar apartments,houses, restaurants, shops andprivate schools everywhere.

“This group socialisesamong itself but is culturally‘diverse’,” he wrote, adding that

they have no attachments totheir homeland.

He argued that the AfDstands against this group whichif left unchecked, would threat-en “what makes our country andour continent worth living in”.

Historian Wolfgang Benz,a prominent researcher on theNazi era, noted however thatGauland’s commentary wasstrikingly similar to a speechmade by Hitler in 1933.

“It’s a paraphrase that lookslike the AfD chief had theFuehrer’s speech from 1933 onhis desk when he was writinghis column for the FAZ,” wroteBenz in Tagesspiegel daily.

Gauland had simply mod-ernised the criticism, addedBenz.

Addressing workers at theSiemens Dynamo Works inBerlin in November 1933,Hitler railed against a “small,rootless, international clique”.

They are “the people whoare at home both nowhere andeverywhere, who do not haveanywhere a soil on which theyhave grown up, but who live inBerlin today, in Brussels tomor-row, Paris the day after that,and then again in Prague orVienna or London, and whofeel at home everywhere,” hesaid, as a man in the audienceshouts “the Jews!”.

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US President Donald Trumphas said that planning for

his next summit with NorthKorean leader Kim Jong Un isadvanced and that “three orfour locations” have beenshort-listed.

Trump said on Tuesday atthe White House that the meet-ing would “probably” not be inSingapore, where their historicfirst talks took place in June.

The pair discussed endingthe reclusive state’s nuclearweapons program and hostili-ties between Washington andPyongyang.

Trump said that in terms oftiming, the summit “won’t betoo far away,” later tellingreporters it would take placeafter the November 6 midtermelections.

He also said that therecould “eventually” be a meet-ing on US soil. “On their soilalso,” Trump added.

US Secretary of State MikePompeo met with Kim onMonday in Pyongyang to dis-cuss the next summit.

London: A gold-thread-embroidered, velvet-cladleather bow and arrow holdermade for Maharaja RanjitSingh leads a set of Indian trea-sures to go under the hammerin London later this month.

The exquisite quiver,believed to have been made forceremonial purposes ratherthan to be used in battle by theSikh emperor – known as theLion of Punjab – is estimatedto fetch between 80,000 poundsand 120,000 pounds when itcomes up for auction at theBonhams Islamic and IndianArt sale on October 23.

“This is a wonderful piecefrom the fabled Treasury ofLahore, and all the circum-stantial evidence points to itbeing the one made in 1838 forRanjit Singh, Lion of thePunjab – the state’s greatest andmost famous leader,” saidOliver White, Bonhams Headof Indian and Islamic Art.

“The quiver was madepurely for ceremonial purpos-es, and appears to have beenrarely worn. As a result, it is inexcellent condition,” he notes.

According to Bonhams his-torians, archery played animportant role in Sikh militaryculture. Long after bows andarrows were superseded by moremodern weaponry, they retaineda ceremonial and symbolic sig-nificance, especially among the

nobility who would appear inpublic wearing an embroideredquiver at their side.

It is believed that theMaharaja commissioned aquiver in 1838 to wear at thewedding of his eldest son andheir, Kharak, and he appears tobe wearing the one in the sale– or one extremely similar to it– in a painting of the same yearby the French artist Alfred deDreaux, now in the LouvreMuseum in Paris, the auctionhouse said.

Ranjit Singh died in 1839,plunging the Punjab into insta-bility which prompted the EastIndia Company to invade andannex the state.

At the conclusion of theFirst Anglo- Sikh war in 1846,the victorious Companyacquired the Royal Treasury inLahore, including the famedKoh-i-Noor diamond and theTimur Ruby, which were sentback to London as many of thegifts for Queen Victoria inEngland. According to histor-ical records, at some point, thequiver passed into the hands ofthe First Marquess ofDalhousie, Governor Generalof India 1847-54.

“The Treasury also servedas a workshop making luxuryitems for the court and it seemscertain that the quiver for salewas produced there,” aBonhams statement notes.PTI

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US President Donald Trumpsaid he is certain that his

daughter Ivanka would be“dynamite” as the US ambas-sador to the UN, but concededthat he would be “accused ofnepotism” if he selected her toreplace Indian-American NikkiHaley.

Haley, 46, announcedTuesday she would resign fromher post as the US ambassadorto the UN effective at the endof 2018.

As President Trumpheaped praise on Haley’s per-formance during her tenure asthe the envoy to the worldbody, he said many peoplewould like to replace her.

Trump said that he expectsto name a replacement forHaley in the next “two to threeweeks,” and said that he wouldbe talking about candidateswith the former South Carolinagovernor and others.

Trump told reporters at theWhite House that his daughterIvanka would make an “incred-ible” ambassador to the UN.

“The people that know --it’s nothing to do with nepo-tism. But I want tell you: Thepeople that know, know thatIvanka would be dynamite.

But, you know, I’d then beaccused of nepotism, if you canbelieve it,” he said.

“I think Ivanka would beincredible. That doesn’t meanI’d pick her, because you’d beaccused of nepotism, eventhough I’m not sure there’s any-body more competent in theworld. But that’s okay,” Trumpsaid in response to a question.

Soon after the President’s

remarks, Ivanka Trump took toTwitter to rule herself out of therunning for ambassadorship.

“It is an honor to serve in theWhite House alongside so manygreat colleagues and I know thatthe President will nominate aformidable replacement forAmbassador Haley. Thatreplacement will not be me.”

Speculation that Ivankawould take on the post mount-ed after Haley praised her andher husband, Jared Kushner, indiscussing her resignation inthe Oval Office.

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One of the biggest failures of thepresent Government has been itsignorance of the importance ofpost-Independence history. Fouryears after it was elected to bring

about some transparency, hardly anything haschanged in this field. Take for example the VKKrishna Menon Papers, held at the NehruMemorial Museum & Library (NMML); theyare still kept under wraps and remain inac-cessible to researchers and scholars.

The situation is so ridiculous that whenthe Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru pub-lished a large corpus of historical documents(more than 300 pages) related to Zhou Enlai’svisit in India in April 1960, the crucial meet-ings with Menon were unavailable. Whyshould the fact that Menon often humiliatedcompetent Armed Forces’ officers, in somecases with the backing of the Prime Minister,

be kept secret?In many ways, Menon with his well-

known arrogance and brashness was respon-sible for the debacle against China in 1962,but nothing has been done to unearth the‘truth’. Why has the Government not botheredto open the Krishna Menon Papers? The real-ity is that very few politicians or bureaucratsare interested in modern history (it has sadlybeen true for all Governments sinceIndependence); the distant past of theMahabharata is perhaps too attractive.

More than four months after the CentralInformation Commission (CIC) directed thePrime Minister’s Office (PMO) to makepublic the records of the Raj NarainCommittee — constituted in 1977 to look intothe mysterious death of former PrimeMinister Lal Bahadur Shastri in 1966 inTashkent — nothing has happened.

We are facing two issues here: One, nointerest of the Government (this includes theMinistry of External Affairs) about modernhistory; two, very few scholars have the nec-essary knowledge to go through the files todecide if there is anything which can jeopar-dise India’s ‘security’ or ‘national interests’. Inmy experience of years of working in thearchives, particularly with the JawaharlalNehru Collection (known as Nehru Papersand available at the NMML), very few docu-

ments (perhaps one out of tens of thousands)would need to remain ‘classified’. Anotherirony, the famous Henderson-Brooks report,which for years has been circulating freelyfrom the Internet, is still classified. What doesit mean? Nobody in the Government hastaken the time to go through it. Why?Because it is so much faster and easier to puta blanket ‘classified’ tag on everything thanto make the effort to look into, keeping inmind the ‘national interests’ and blackened a

few sentences, if necessary. In fact, it would be in the ‘national inter-

ests’, if most of these so-called secret papers,including the Krishna Menon Papers, were putin the public domain or at least opened to gen-uine researchers. Interestingly, the CIC recent-ly held that the “people’s right to know the truth…cannot be brushed aside”. In its September24 order, the Commission said that “in viewof the startling incidents that followed(Shastri’s) mysterious death, such as killing ofhis personal doctor and assistant in two sep-arate ‘accidents’, disappearance of records of theRajya Sabha committee’s probe, and various sig-nificant points raised by journalists…andShastri’s wife Lalitha Shastri and other familymembers, the Union Government has a dutyto explain to the nation why and how LalBahadur Shastri died in Tashkent”.

The same ‘right to know’ should apply toall papers more than 25-years-old. It is not thatIndia has no law; the Public Records Actexists, but laws seem to have been made morefor the ‘common man’, than for Governmentoffices. In the Shastri case, the Governmentwas ordered “to place all the so-called ‘clas-sified papers’ before the Prime Minister andthe Home Minister and recommended thatthey “consider the fundamental right toknow and demand of the people, (and) todeclassify (them), either through an expert

committee or by any other process, to get themystery probed and resolved”.

Probably nothing will happen, like in thecase of the Sikkim Papers, where the entirerecord of the Political Officer in Sikkimbetween 1895 and 1975 had ‘disappeared’.While India has reached a great maturity inmany fields, the fact that the Governmentcontinues to confiscate the history of mod-ern India not only demonstrates immaturitybut also shows lack of self-confidence. I per-sonally believe that the study of history of thesubcontinent could be one of the keys to dis-entangle difficult problems such as theKashmir issue and the border row withChina. Unfortunately, it is practically impos-sible to access genuine historical records.

Without rewriting history, it is importantto learn from past successes, victories, as wellas defeats. In fact, there is certainly more tolearn from blunders than success. A case worthciting is Lt Gen SPP Thorat’s report about the‘Chinese threat’ on India’s borders. On October8, 1959, Thorat, then responsible for theEastern Command, sent a paper on thedefence of the North-East Frontier Agency(NEFA) to the Army Chief who forwarded itto the Minister. Thorat’s findings were out-rightly rejected by Menon, and worse, Thoratwas accused of being an ‘alarmist and a war-monger’. Maj Gen VK Singh, who wrote

Thorat’s biography, noted that the latter hadprovided a time-table showing “how thedefences would fall day by day in case theChinese attacked”. He had also advocated theuse of the Air Force to counter China.

Sometimes, one is lucky. I recently cameacross a file of the visit of Kushok BakulaRinpoche to Tibet in 1956; his secretary DDKhosla brought to the notice of theGovernment, the existence of the Aksai Chinroad: “The Chinese Government have secret-ly circulated a new map of Tibet among theirofficial organisations and the pro-ChineseInstitutions — in which they have shown thewhole of Aksai Chin (Soda Plains) hump asa part of Tibet.” The information was dis-missed by the Indian Embassy in Beijing, butthe point is that it was known to the NehruGovernment that China had built road on theIndian territory several years before theissue came to Parliament.

Why is the present Government protect-ing the Congress for blunders committedmore than 60 years ago? This, I am unable tounderstand. The only solution would be tocreate under the PMO, an office of the his-torian, which would make sure that the Indianlaws pertaining to records are scrupulouslyrespected. Just a Dream!

(The writer is an expert on India-Chinarelations and an author)

����������������� Sir — It is a depressing that despite theGovernment’s ban on stubble burning,farmers in States of Punjab, Haryana,Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh havebeen burning paddy to get rid of theresidue before they sow the wintercrop. It is a matter of fact that for theFarmers in our country, stubble burn-ing is the quickest and easiest optionto make their fields ready for the nextcrop. The problem, however, is thatthe smog generated from the burningis an environmental hazard. High pol-lution levels in Delhi and NCR make

the air highly toxic. Inferior air qual-ity not only impacts the lives ofhuman beings, but also affects ourcrops and forests.

As it is Delhi has a higher pollu-tion level due to high vehicular den-sity on its roads. And now since thenew crop season is about to begin,burning of crop stubble will onlyaggravate the problem. TheGovernment, the law enforcementagencies and concerned authoritiesmust enforce stringent measures so asto put an end to this exercise.

Devendra KhuranaBhopal

��������������Sir — This refers to the editorial,“Divided they stand” (October 10).Notwithstanding the Supreme Court’sorder on Sabarimala, one is sanguinethat not many women would make itto the temple. This not because of fearbut for some other reason.

One must understand that visit toany temple is dictated by the divine call.Unless one gets the signal, it is impos-sible for him/her to make the visit. Takefor example, How often does one visita temple nearby one’s home? May bea few times, but definitely not on a reg-

ular basis. And if one does visit thetemple regularly, it can be construedthat he/she is a blessed soul.

In the case of women, those whoare blessed to visit Sabarimala, will trekthe hill temple without any doubt.There is no point in precipitating theissue further. One should leave the mat-ter to the presiding deity of Sabarimalato adjudicate. He is the best judge. Sincethe matter has come to such a pass, letlord Ayyappa decide. After all we arehis devotees and our own entry intoSabarimala must be decided by him.

VS JayaramanChennai

����������� ������Sir — This refers to the editorial,“Divided they stand” (October 10).Restricting the entry of women of a cer-tain age into the Sabarimala in the nameof tradition shows our patriarchal mind-set. When sati, child marriages and othersuch practices were criminalised, its timethat this tradition too undergoes changesfor the greater good.

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Srinagar is getting a new Mayor who is aforeign-educated person and if this leaderemerges, it will send jitters to NC and PDP.

—Jammu & Kashmir GovernorSATYA PAUL MALIK

These type of remarks are mainly responsiblefor alienation of the people. It doesn’t behove

a Governor to say such things.—PDP chief spokesperson

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In one of his interviews,Congress president RahulGandhi, while talking about

the selection criteria of vice-chan-cellors during the Bharatiya JanataParty Government, made a remarkthat “the sole qualification of vicechancellor after vice-chancellorchosen to lead India’s top univer-sities is that they belong to theRSS.” Nothing could be moredamaging to the Indian educationsystem than his remark and thattoo when he considers himself tobe the future Prime Minister of thecountry.

Through one statement, RahulGandhi has denigrated the entirehigher education system andexposed his lack of understandingof the selection process of vice-chancellors to the universitiesunder the Union Government. Indoing so, the Congress presidenthas not only damaged the reputa-tion of the office of the vice-chan-cellor but also of the search-cum-selection committee that is consti-tuted to shortlist the most deserv-ing academics to the higher educa-tion which sends them to thePresident for consideration.

The search-cum-selectioncommittee members, one of which(chairperson) is nominated by thePresident, happens to be the visi-tor of the universities under theUnion Government. The rest twoare identified through a time-test-ed nomination process. The finaldecision of selecting the vice-chan-cellor, however, rests with thePresident. Hence, Rahul Gandhihas also brought disrepute to theoffice of the visitor.

The vice-chancellor of anyuniversity is looked upon withrespect — he is the representativeand the leader of the academiccommunity. The Congress chiefhas, therefore, maligned all thevice-chancellors appointed sinceMay 2014. This writer made anattempt to find out as to how manyof the serving vice-chancellors hadalso been vice-chancellors before2014. Data revealed that most ofthose who are vice-chancellorshave been doing so before 2014.

Those who were not had occupiedimportant positions in universitiesduring 2014 when the Congress-ledUPA was in power.

What was the criteria for selec-tion of vice-chancellors during theCongress rule? Incidentally, a glar-ing case of a vice-chancellor cameto my mind who was a Muslimfrom Jammu & Kashmir and wasappointed for the post soon after aKashmiri was hanged for anti-national activities. This, peoplethought then, and it appears truenow that it was an act to appeasethe Muslims in Jammu & Kashmir.The vice-chancellor was latersent/went on leave for whateverreasons and he appealed to thecourt against his ‘removal’. Two for-mer Union Cabinet Ministers werehelping him in the court of law todefend his case.

Before 2014, most people feltthat 10 Janpath and Ahmed Patel,a close confidant of the UPAChairperson Sonia Gandhi, influ-enced the selection process ofvice-chancellors. In retrospect, itappears true. The Gandhi familywhen in power influenced theselection process of vice-chancel-lors, Rahul Gandhi believes it con-tinues even now. He should haverefrained from making such aremark and waited till he came topower and change the process ofselection of vice-chancellors if hefelt so strongly about it.

Rahul Gandhi also expressedhis concern that the Vidya Bharatischools, that are run by the RSS hadbeen teaching content not in thenational interest. He questionedtheir funding as well. He has againerred in his understanding. TheVidya Bharati schools are the suc-cessors, in the true sense, of thenational schools set up by Gandhijiduring the freedom struggle. Again,he is not aware that the schools arerun by the funds collected throughfees and contributions of a largenumber of people. Why has henever asked similar questions toother chain of schools establishedwith religious objectives? He is sim-ply exposing himself by venturinginto such areas.

Rahul Gandhi also lamentedthat the present Government hasnot set up any institution worthyof reference as his Government haddone by establishing the IITs andthe IIMs. This is no achievementto be counted in the history of 70years of Independent India. IITsdeserve to be praised but not the

decision of the then Government,as this was done at the cost of thosemillions of children who remainedout of school because the majorportion of the education Budgetwas spent on creating such eliteinstitutions.

The money should have beenideally spent on schools especial-ly primary schools. Rahul Gandhiis blissfully ignorant of the silentrevolution taking place in educa-tion. Among the major paradigmshifts in education is the use ofinformation and communicationtechnology in education.

The creation of the Study Websof Active–Learning for YoungAspiring Minds (SWAYAM), mas-sive open online course (MOOC)platform and development of the(Indian) content on it for educationis a landmark development. Thereare more than three million learn-ers using this platform which is farahead of the other platforms fromother developed nations.

The Congress presidentshould be advised to catch up. Thebeneficiaries of this and similarother digital initiatives are learn-ers who could not be provided theluxury of sitting in Nehru/Gandhiinstitutions created in towns and

cities established over 70 years.Learners are now able to accessbooks and documents fromremote locations which they couldnot do otherwise. Rahul Gandhi isstill thinking in terms of brick andmortar institutions.

In his very first address toParliament, Prime MinisterNarendra Modi had revealed hisvision of education for India andthe sub-continent. He had said thatIndia would launch a satellite foreducation which will reach educa-tion not only to all parts of thecountry, but to the neighbouringSouth Asian countries as well. TheMinistry of Human ResourceDevelopment launched a bouquetof 32 direct-to-home (DTH) edu-cational television channels onJuly 7, 2017.

There are more than 30 million(three crore) views of video lecturesbroadcast through these channels.Education is being made availableat much lower cost to the less priv-ileged and the marginalisedthrough digital initiatives nowthan ever before.

It is important to remind thatsimilar planning was done by theNational Democratic Alliance(NDA) Government during 1999-

2004. A satellite dedicated to edu-cation was planned and launchedin 2004 immediately after theNDA went out of office. Thecapabil it ies of the EduSatremained unutilised and the satel-lite was burnt out in 2011.Education could have reached themasses at a minimal cost but thisdid not suit the decision makersbecause they were interested increating more buildings and buy-ing more computers.

Research by educationistProfessor Pawan Sharma carriedout on 10 districts on eastern UttarPradesh reveals that the state ofprimary education is the worst inAmethi. Does Gandhi still wantthe education Budget to go intothe hands of builders and mafia sothat the children remain illiterate?The initiatives taken in the lastfour years have benefited morelearners than the initiatives in thelast 50 years. To prove the pointfurther one needs to look at thetraining of teachers.

The Right to Education Actwas passed during the UPA II in2009 and the Governmentpromised to train all primaryteachers within five years, as thiswas a mandatory condition. TheGovernment could not make pro-vision for training of more than afew lakh teachers up to the dead-line of March 31, 2015. The pre-sent Government decided to pro-vide training to nearly 15 lakhteachers through the digital initia-tives and they have all successful-ly completed two-third of theirstudies and by the end of March2019 they will all be provided therequired training as per the Rightto Education (RTE) Act.

To call academics RSS orCongress is an insult. Academicsat best can have ideological standbased on their understanding butthey not be called RSS or Congressmen. Gandhi and the like in pol-itics should not make such loosecomments about academics andacademia.

If India has not fared well inProgram for International StudentAssessment (PISA) as well as TimesHigher Education World UniversityRankings, it is because RahulGandhi and the like keep makingsuch remarks, lowering the imageand morale of academia.

(The writer is Professor ofEducation at Indira GandhiNational Open University, NewDelhi. Views are personal)

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They still haven’t dropped the othershoe. The ‘Special Report on GlobalWarming of 1.5C’ contains terrify-

ing forecasts about what will happenwhen we reach an average global temper-ature one-and-a-half degrees Celsius high-er than the pre-industrial average. (We arenow at +1oC.) But it still shies away fromtalking about the feedback, the refugees,and mass death.

The Intergovernmental Panel onClimate Change (IPCC) ordered this spe-cial report in 2015, after the Paris climateagreement effectively admitted that the tra-ditional target — stopping the warmingbefore it reaches two degrees Celsiushigher — had been set too high. By then,bad things will already be happening.

So all the countries that want to stopthe warming before it goes runaway(everybody except the United States) for-mally kept the ‘never exceed’ target of+2oC, but said that Governments should‘aspire’ to stop the warming earlier, at+1.5oC. And they asked the IPCC to fig-ure out how hard that would be.

The answer, revealed at a meeting inSouth Korea on October 7, is: Very hard.We have effectively wasted the past 30years since the climate change threat firstbecame known and there is now very lit-tle time left. In order to skid to a halt,before we hit +1.5oC, we will have to cutour greenhouse gas emissions by almosthalf (45 per cent) in the next 12 years.

To cut emissions that fast by 2030, wewould have to decide to close down all theremaining coal-fired power plants within the next two years. It would takethe next decade to get that done and getthe same energy from expanded renewablesources (water, wind and solar), leaving usjust on track to reach zero emissions by 2050.

Climate scientist John Skea, whoworked on the report, summed it up:“Limiting warming to 1.5oC is possible

within the laws of chemistry and physics,but doing so would require unprecedent-ed changes.” Changes of a scale that peo-ple would readily accept if they faced animminent invasion by Nazis or Martians— but that they are less willing to makewhen their whole environment is at risk.Humans are funny that way.

The report is a bracing dose of real-ism in many ways. It effectively says thatwe can’t afford to go anywhere near+2oC. It talks bluntly about the need toend all fossil fuel use, reforest vast tractsof marginal land, and cut down on meat-eating. It even admits that we will proba-bly have to resort to geo-engineering —‘solar radiation management’, in the jargon.

“If mitigation efforts do not keep glob-al mean temperature below 1.5oC,” saysthe report, “solar radiation modificationcan potentially reduce the climate impactsof a temporary temperature overshoot, inparticular extreme temperatures, rate ofsea-level rise, and intensity of tropicalcyclones.” Pumping sulphur dioxide intothe stratosphere is a scary stuff, but so isrunaway warming.

So far, so good. At least it’s being hon-

est about the problem — but only up to apoint. ‘Not in front of the children’ is stillthe rule for Governments when it comesto talking about the mass movements ofrefugees and the civil and internationalwars that will erupt when the warmingcuts into the food supply. And they stilldon’t want to talk openly about the feed-back.

People forget that this is a governmen-tal project run through the United Nations— the Intergovernmental Panel on ClimateChange — not just a scientific one.Scientists write the body of the report, butthe executive summary (the only part thatmost policy-makers and journalists willever read), is negotiated between the sci-entists and the Governments.

The Governments take climate changevery seriously these days, but they worrythat too much frankness about the cost inlives of going past 1.5oC will create irre-sistible pressure on them to take radicalaction now. In the ensuing strugglebetween the scientists and the politicians,the executive summary always gets toneddown.

What got removed from the summa-ry this time was any mention of “signifi-cant population displacement concen-trated in the tropics” at +2oC (ie massmigrations away from stricken regions,smashing up against borders elsewherethat are slammed shut against therefugees).

Even worse, ‘tipping points’ are bare-ly mentioned in the report. These are thedreaded feedback — loss of Arctic sea ice,melting of the permafrost, carbon dioxideand methane release from the oceans —that would trigger unstoppable, runawaywarming.

They are called ‘feedback’ because theyare self-reinforcing processes that areunleashed by the warming we have alreadycaused, and which we cannot shut off evenif we end all of our own emissions.

If you don’t go into the feedback, thenyou can’t talk about runaway warming, andgoing to four, five or six degrees Celsiushigher average global temperature, andhundreds of millions or billions of deaths.And if you don’t acknowledge that, thenyou will not treat this as the emergency itreally is.

(The writer is an independent journalist)

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Aeronautics Limited (HAL)which is in news for the pasttwo months are worried overthe impact of Rafale defencedeal and its consequences on itsexistence. The present disposi-tion and the Defence Ministeralong with the Indian Air Forceare blaming HAL’s capability asthe reason for the failure of2007 Rafale deal.

A HAL senior executivetold The Pioneer on the con-dition anonymity that theyhave roped in the uniformedofficers of IAF to clarify andjustify the deal blaming theHAL for delays.

He said “ It is understoodthat the serving officers canreveal what is permitted (approved under an internalnote-on-file cleared bySecretary of the Ministry ofDefence and the Defenceminister), while the generalpublic, the parliament andmedia is not privy to pricedata of the Rafale deal.

A selective release of datais carried out on Rafale dealand a well-orchestrateddefamation campaign againstHAL is under way simulta-neously”.

“Four operations aresimultaneously underway interms of Rafale deal,“Operation Clarification”,“Operation Justification”,“Operation Diversion of thesubject” and “Operation smearcampaign against HAL. At theoutset let it be known thatRafale is a good aircraft andthere is no doubt about that. Itis conceded again, at the out-set, that current senior officers

of IAF were in no way con-nected to the deal, neitherthey participated in the nego-tiations and at best they haveinherited the deal and asked todo ‘Operation Justification”, headded.

Air Marshal RaghunathNambiar, Deputy Chief AirStaff (Plans), in an interviewto the press recently hasclarified the misinformationbeing spread about the size ofoffset business. Air MarshallNambiar said that IAF hasbeen part of the commercialnegotiation for the purchaseof MMRCAs. He clarifies thatRafale deal is around �58,000crore and hence the offsetobligation should ideally be�29,000 crore (correspond-ing to 50% offset). And no sin-gle party is getting business ofthat much amount, not evenDassault. However, thedeputy chief says that thedeal with Dassault is worth�13,000 Crore and the offsetobligations of Dassault is�6,500 crore only.

The executive said. IAFalso clarified that DRDO getsa major portion of the offsets.In order to understand thispuzzle, it is clarified that air-crafts are not bought as onepiece like a car, but the majorcomponents are bought sep-arately from respective man-ufacturers which are fittedinto the plane by the manu-facturer of the plane. In thecase of fighter jets, the num-ber of components and theirsupplier is much more, andbuyers deal directly withthem.

Apart from the main air-frame, a fighter plane has anengine, weapon systems, mis-siles, radar systems, elec-tronic warfare systems, eva-sion systems, ejection seatsetc, all of which are made bydifferent companies.

He said “In case of theRafale deal, there are fourmain suppliers, Dassault,Safran which makes theengine, Thales which makesseveral electrical, electronicsystems and sensors, andMBDA which will supply mis-

siles. What is not understoodis how IAF now understandsand sermonises about the needfor separate contracts. But in2007, MMRCA RFP, IAFincluded a clause that a singlecontract to be signed by theOEM and guarantees to begiven by OEM , even for HALmanufactured aircrafts”.

“It is sad that If IAF insistson guarantees by the OEM, forthe machines produced bylicenced manufactured byIndian firm, that will sounddeath knell for the ToT andlicence manufacturing inIndia”, he added.

Amid political slugfestbetween BJP and Congress,the cause of self-reliance hasbeen side lined. When it is tobe manufactured in India, dri-ving factor for making deci-sions should not be cost alone,it should be coupled withstrategic consideration andself-reliance, he insists.

Another officer privy to theentire episode said “In DefenceProcurement Procedure doc-ument (DPP), the preamblestates “Self-reliance is a majorcorner-stone on which the mil-itary capability of any nationmust rest. There is alsoimmense potential to leveragethe manpower and engineeringcapability within the countryfor attaining self-reliance indesign, development and man-ufacturing in defence sector. Itis therefore of utmost impor-tance that the concept of ‘Makein India’ remains the focalpoint of the defence acquisitionpolicy/procedure “.

“ It does not make senseto go into the details of costsinvolved, since the actual num-bers are not available, exceptstating that, to the price quot-ed in 2007, it is a standardnorm to add escalation (3% orless or as per quoted formula,which depends on LIBORindices etc.) and catering toExchange rate variation(ERV)”, he added.

It is debatable whether theDPP 2013, Fast TrackProcedure (Chapter IV, page338-351) is followed for 36Rafale Contract. The procedure

demands an Acceptance ofNecessity (AoN) clearance andwithin seven days a specialDAC (Defence AcquisitionCouncil) meeting headed byDefence Minister. It is onlyafter the approval of specialDAC, further steps are per-mitted. DAC should approve asper para 6b, an “option ofprocuring from friendly coun-tries ex-stock or through lease,”he quotes.

“ Alternatively, “AdditionalProvisions”, permit (as perparas 22-24, page 344, ChapterIV of DPP 2016,) forGovernment-to GovernmentAgreements at Appropriate lev-els. A preliminary readingindicates that the priorapproval of DAC is mandato-ry in the Fast Track procedure,before any Government-toGovernment Agreements aretaken up.

A retired head of a divi-sion at HAL on the conditionof anonymity says there is nopoint in going into offsetsand offset partners, sinceHAL has nothing to do withoffsets. “In the current mood,HAL would not have recruit-ed more man power, insteadwould have gone in for sub-stantial subcontracting of theassemblies to Indian vendors.Let us not forget that HAL isthe only company in Indiacapable of absorbing Transferof Technologies,” he justifieshis stand.

If This argument is accept-ed this deal would have creat-ed a vibrant eco system of sup-pliers, which would have even-tually led to creation of strongprivate players in the field.

The make in India of 108Aircrafts would have generatedhuge employment. That wouldbe a better option, instead ofgiving into penchant of IAF tohave “Imported toys’ and lis-tening to their favourite pastimeof blaming HAL.

As Prime MinisterNarendra Modi said It is hightime India moves towardsthe doctrine “Defend thenation with indigenousmachines” and the “doctrineof self reliance”.

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Tuesdays arrest of RR Gopal,editor of Nakkheeran, a

Tamil weekly, by ChennaiPolice under Section 124 of theIPC and his subsequent releaseby a city court judge was a con-troversy which could beenavoided by the powers thatcomplained against the former.The complaint against Gopalwas filed by T Sengottaiyan,Deputy Secretary of GovernorBanwarilal Purohit, invokingSection 124 of the IPC.

The section states that“whoever, with the intention ofinducing or compelling thePresident of India, or Governorof any State, to exercise orrefrain from exercising in anymanner any of the lawful pow-ers of such President orGovernor, assaults or wrong-fully restrains, or attemptswrongfully to restrain, or over-awes, by means of criminalforce or the show of criminalforce, or attempts so to over-awe, such President orGovernor, shall be punishedwith imprisonment of eitherdescription for a term whichmay extend to seven years, andshall also be liable to fine.”

But a lawyer in MadrasHigh Court said that other thanpublishing reports linking theRaj Bhavan staff with an asso-ciate professor Nirmala Deviwho is known to have enticedgirl students in her college to

offer sexual favours to thehigher ups, neither Gopal norhis team of journalists havedone anything to invoke sec-tion 124 of the IPC.

Nakheeran is known as apublication “specialising” inspicy and steamy reports whichare not taken seriously by anysection of Tamil society. NRam, proprietor of a pro-LeftEnglish daily, who was con-sulted by the XIII MetropolitanMagistrate S Gopinathan, toldthe latter that he would notprint in his newspaper thekind of reports and articlespublished by Gopal and thatsums up the quality ofNakheeran. “I practice a dif-ferent kind of journalism,”Ram told the Magistrate.

Lawyers on Madras HighCourt told The Pioneer on con-dition of anonymity that theGovernor could have ignoredNakheeran. “There was a steamyreport in a prominent Tamilmagazine on the relationbetween a former Chief Ministerof the State and a lead star of

Tamil movies. It was also men-tioned that the former ChiefMinister, a much married man,may tie the nupital ties with thestart. But the politician chose toignore the report and the mat-ter ended there,” said a lawyer.

Banwarilal, who has beenfollowing a pro-active style asthe Governor is seen by theopposition DMK, theCongress, the Lefts and Tamilchauvinist outfits as the agentof the BJP which is trying to geta foothold in Tamil Nadu. Allactions by the Governor arecoming under attack irrespec-tive of their merit.

The Raj Bhavan staff too isadding to the woes of theGovernor by deleting portionsof the speeches he delivers atpublic meetings. On Saturdaywhile addressing a seminar onquality education, Purohit haddisclosed how people had toldhim that crores of rupees wereexchanged in the appointmentof vice chancellors in TamilNadu universities and how hewas struggling to cleanse thesystem. This portion of thespeech was deleted by the RajBhavan from the copies dis-tributed to the media and theGovernor had to make themissue another release incorpo-rating the deleted portion.Chennai Raj Bhavan is wit-nessing a war of nervesbetween the Governor and thestaff appointed by theAIADMK and the DMKGovernments.

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Beti parhao is a national slo-gan and a mission but how

the girls should go to school ifthey are eve-teased, harassed andmolested by the village ruffians?

This is what happening inBihar. First there was reportabout boys physically attackingand beating the girls by storm-ing in their campus and hos-tel of Kasturba Gandhi resi-dential school in a village inSupaul district a few days backand now equally serious inci-dent of attack on girls, follow-ing attempts to sexually harassthem, going to high school.

As a result the girls ofEkparha village under SimriBakhtiarpur police station inSaharsa, the district neigh-bouring Supaul, have droppedout of school. After an incidenton last Thursday, the guardiansof the girls, who are studentsof class X and XII, decided thatthey should not go to school.The helpless girls, numberingabout 38, have urged ChiefMinister Nitish Kumar tointervene and help them out.

On that day when the girlsin group on bicycle were goingto upgraded high school, 7 kmaway from their village, some

miscreants stopped them inbid to sexually harass them.When this was happening,two boys of the same village,one of them younger brotherof one of the victims, saw andresisted the ruffians whoattacked the two and left oneof them with fractured arm.

An indifferent local admin-istration showed little interestwhen the parents of the girlswent to file case. The adminis-tration swung into action whensome TV channels crew reachedthe village and inquired aboutthe incident.

The sub-divisional policeofficer of Simri BakhtiarpurMridula Kumari said an FIRhas been registered and policeteam was conducting raids tonab the culprits. But on theother hand the guardians ofthe accused youths resisted thepolice action. Kumari saidpolice would be deployed onthe route to the inter collegesituated in another village.There is no high school inEkparha village and the girlskeen to continue their higherstudies pedal to a high schoolin neighbouring village whichis 7 km away from their village.

The girls told some visitingreporters that they were being

harassed for over one year butthey did not tell their guardiansfearing they would be notallowed to continue their edu-cation. But when they found itwas enough and when the ruf-fians started attacking theirbrothers the incident wasknown to all.

One of the girls was quot-ed as saying that they wereundergoing this ordeal for along time. “They would hurlabuses, pass on lewd commentsand sing obscene Bhojpurisongs when we pass through theway. It was very depressing,” shesaid. Mother of one of the girlssaid, “We have stopped thegirls from going to school. Noone stops the miscreants. Whatwe will do if something worsehappens to our daughters.”

Saharsa SP Rakesh Kumarsaid the accused have beenidentified and the police haveintensified efforts to arrest allthe accused.

Meanwhile, the NationalHuman Right Commissionissued a notice to the BiharGovernment over beating of 34girl students of Kasturba GandhiBalika Vidyalaya by the miscre-ants in Supaul. The Commissiontook suo motto cognisance of themedia reports.

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Bengal Chief Minister MamataBanerjee has launched a

veiled attack on Prime MinisterNarendra Modi for introducinga brand of politics that is devoidof courtesy. Writing in theTrinamool Congress mouth-piece Jaago Bangla, Mamata hascompared Modi’s team with thatof late Prime Minister Atal BihariVajpayee saying the earlierregime was far more politicallycourteous and culturallyadorable than the one led byModi today.

Modi’s team was politicallyuneducated and lacked courtesy,Mamata has said. “How will theybe able to run the country whenit can be clearly seen that they(present regime) have no basicpolitical education?” Mamatahas said adding the leaders inModi Government “should takelessons of political courtesyfrom Atalaji.”

The Trinamool Congresshad earlier severely condemnedBengal BJP chief Dilip Ghosh forfoul-mouthing the ruling outfitsaying when the BJP will cometo power “we will peel their(TMC workers) skin off, rub saltin it and make them run for theirlives.” Referring to the late PrimeMinister she has written how sheenjoyed an excellent rapportwith him. “We often interacted,

shared our political views butnever attacked each other likethis in the public,” Mamata saysinsisting, today leaders threatenothers and conduct themselvesas gang lords.

Mamata who has for thepast a few days been on an inau-gural spree unveiling Kolkata’stop Durga Pujas mostly organ-ised by top Trinamool leadersincluding Ministers and MLAswas also happy about theWednesday’s Calcutta HighCourt order refusing to inter-fere with the Government deci-sion to grant �10,000 each tothe 28,000 clubs organisingDurga Pujas all across the State.

The Division Bench of ActingChief Justice Debashis Kar Guptaand Justice Shampa Sarkar onWednesday vacated the earlierinterim stay on �28 croreGovernmental grant to the Pujaorganisers saying prima faciethere was no need for the HighCourt to interfere with a decisionwhich should otherwise be eval-uated by the Legislature.

Senior State Minister FirhadHakiim who himself organisesthe Chetla Agragami DurgaPuja welcomed the Court ordersaying the political opposition inBengal had become profession-al litigants who find pleasure inchallenging Government deci-sions in court. “I welcome thecourt order,” he added.

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The Reang migrants fromMizoram, who have been

sheltered in six relief camps inTripura for over two decadesand who were on the verge ofrepatriation, have urged theCentre to resume relief thathas been stopped for the past10 days, an official said onWednesday.

With the repatriation of32,876 refugees from Tripurato Mizoram still hanging inthe balance, the governmenthad stopped providing themrelief from October 1.

It was aimed at com-pelling them to return totheir villages in the neigh-bouring state from wherethey had fled 21 years back.

The Reang refugees, com-prising 5,407 families, havebeen staying in Tripura'sKanchanpur and Panisagarsince October 1997 followingethnic tension after a Mizoforest official was killed.

"The refugee leaders underthe banner of Mizoram BruDisplaced People's Forum(MBDPF) in a letter to PrimeMinister Narendra Modi andUnion Home Minister RajnathSingh have urged the Centre torestart the supply of relief," theNorth Tripura DistrictAdministration official said.

The five-page letter signedby 14 refugee leaders, wassent to Modi and Singhthrough North TripuraDistrict Magistrate RavalHamendra Kumar.

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In connection with attacks onmigrant workers in Gujarat

over the issue of rape on 14-months-old girl, the StateHuman Rights Commissionhas issued notices to the ChiefSecretary JN Singh as well asthe Director General of Police(DGP) Shivanand Jha onWednesday.

The chairperson of theCommission Justice (retired)Abhilasha Kumari has askedboth the top officials to submita detailed report on the attacksand exodus of labourers, pre-dominantly belonging to Hindibelt States in the next 20 days.

According to her Gujarat’sChief Secretary Singh and DGPJha would have to mention onwhat kind of measures they hadtaken to ensure safety of migrantworkers to maintain peace andharmony in the State.

Following the alleged rapeon a toddler and the arrest ofa labourer identified asRavindra Sahu on September28, 2018, attacks on migrantworkers initiated, especiallyon those labourers who belong

to Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.Sahu, who is working in a localceramic factory in Sabarkanthadistrict in North Gujarat,belongs to Bihar.

In a bid to take politicaladvantage of the situation polit-ical leaders too jumped andtried to provoke locals againstthe Hindi-speaking workers. Asa result of it, the violenceagainst the migrant workersspread in six districts includingMehsana, Gandhinagar,Ahmedabad, Surendranagar,Banaskantha and Sabarkantha.Out of fear, especially due tothreatening social media mes-sages, thousands of Hindi-speaking labourers fled to theirrespective States well ahead ofDiwali festival by takingextended vacation.

Congress MLA fromRadhanpur constituencyAlpesh Thakor’s allegedprovocative speeches inspiredKshtriya Thakor Sena to attackon migrant labourers. Thesocial organisation of OBCThakor community is headedby non-other than Alpesh, whois also AICC nominated secre-tary for Bihar State.

Considering the serious-ness of the situation, GujaratChief Minister Vijay Rupanicame into action and gaveassurance to take stern actionagainst those elements whowere responsible for spreadinghatred in the name of regions.Gujarat’s Minister of State forHome Pradipsinh Jadeja saidthat 533 people including someCongress leaders were arrestedin connection with attacks onmigrant labourers.

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Tohid Aalam Khan, vice-pres-ident of Vadodara YouthCongress for threateningGujarati Samaj on socialmedia over the issue of attackson Hindi-speaking migrantlabourers. Khan has doneMBA from famous MaharajaSayajirao University ofVadodara and he is residing atGorava area of the city knownas cultural capital of Gujarat.

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Mumbai: The Bombay HighCourt on Wednesday quashedthe much-discussed molestationand harassment case filed by thecity police based on a complaintby actress Preity Zinta in 2014against her ex-boyfriend andindustrialist Ness Wadia.

A HC division bench ofjustices Ranjit More and BhartiDangre quashed the case reg-istered by the Marine Drivepolice in June 2014, after bothZinta and Wadia along withtheir lawyers appeared beforethe judges in their chamber.

Confirming that the caseagainst his client had beenquashed, Wadia’s lawyer AabadPonda said: "The case againstNess has been quashed. Wehave been told by the court not

to divulge anything more".Zinta's lawyers also refused tospell out details.

At the previous hearingheld on October 1, the courthad suggested that Wadia andZinta settle the issue amicably.Zinta's lawyer had said she waswilling to settle the matter ifWadia was ready to apologise.Advocate Ponda had then saidthat his client was ready tobury the hatchet, but he wouldnot apologise.

The alleged incident hadtaken place at the Wankhedestadium on the evening ofMay 30, 2014 during an IndianPremier League (IPL) match.

In a formal complaintlodged with the Marine Drivepolice on June 12, 2014, Zinta

had alleged that Wadiagrabbed her hand and abusedher in full public view at theWankhede stadium. Later onJune 24, the police had record-ed the actress’ supplementarystatement and through her,recreated the sequence ofevents involving run-inbetween her and Ness thattook place on May 30.

Zinta and Wadia are co-owners of the IPL team Kings XIPunjab. Among other things,Zinta had alleged that Wadia wasabusing the team staff over tick-et distribution when she askedhim to calm down as their teamwas winning. Wadia, however,allegedly abused and molestedher by grabbing her arm.

Based on Zinta’s com-

plaint, the Marine Drivepolice had registered a caseagainst Wadia under IPC sec-tions 354 (assault or criminalforce to woman with intent tooutrage her modesty), 504(intentional insult), 506(criminal intimidation) and509 (using word, gesture oract intended to insult themodesty of a woman).

In February this year, theMumbai Police had filed acharge-sheet in the case againstWadia. Subsequently, Wadiamoved the high court seeking toquash the proceedings againsthim. In his petition, Wadiaclaimed the case arose out of"personal vengeance" and theincident was merely a "misun-derstanding". TN Raghunatha

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Court for setting up a fasttrack court for speedy trial inthe rape case of 14-months-oldgirl, who was allegedly raped bya worker belonging to Bihar.The incident ignited angeramong the locals which result-ed into attack on innocentHindi-speaking labourers in sixdistricts of the State. Sourcesclose to development said thatthe State Government wouldappoint special public prose-cutor for the trial of the case ina fast track court on a day-to-day basis and complete theentire process up to convictionwithin a month.

Sources said that similarcourts would also be set up forother incidents of attacks onthe minors and complete thehearings within a month on thelines of the steps taken by theMadhya Pradesh Governmenton such issues.

Meanwhile, the Stateadministration on Wednesdayhanded over a cheque for �4.50lakhs as compensation to thefamily of victim as decided bythe State legal aid committee.

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Low to moderate turnoutwas recorded in the second

of the four-phased municipalbody elections in Jammu &Kashmir on Wednesday withonly 3.4 per cent voters turningto polling booths in Kashmirvalley while Jammu region wit-nessing enthusiastic 78.6 percent turnout. The overall per-centage stayed at 31.3 per cent,less than the 56.7 per centturnout in the inaugural phaseof the polls held on October 8.

The voting was held amidboycott call by the separatistsand decision of two mainstreamparties—National Conference(NC) and Peoples DemocraticParty (PDP) to stay away fromthe process. The polling beganat 6 am, minutes before the sun-rise. The timing had beenrevised without giving any rea-son but some leaders said thetiming was adjusted to broad-en room for manipulation.

“Overall 30 per cent polling

was witnessed in the Phase-IIof Municipal Polls-2018 acrossJ&K. In Jammu division, 76 percent polling was witnessed in214 wards while Kashmir divi-sion witnessed average 3 percent polling in 49 wards withBandipora recording the high-est of 35.6 per cent voting,” anofficial spokesman quotingChief Electoral Officer ShaleenKabra said.

The highest polling per-centage of 84.8 per cent wasrecorded in Reasi , the CEO said.

“The cumulative pollingpercentage in both phases is47.2 per cent with 67.7 per centvoting recorded in Jammu divi-sion and 8.3 per cent inKashmir division,” he said.

In the absence of NC andPDP, the contest is mainlybetween Congress and BJPcandidates in Kashmir valley.The BJP has fielded severalKashmiri Hindu candidateswho are living outside Kashmirsince 1989.

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To deter human-wildlifeconflict and to save sea-

sonal crops, the wild elephantshave been collared inChhattisgarh forest range byforest department with theassistance of wildlife NGO.Interestingly with this Radiocollared movement of elephantherd will be tracked and thiswill help in saving the crops,especially during nights.

Incidentally, nearly 20 liveshave been lost in Chhattisgarhwhere a herd of 19 elephantscame come into conflict withhuman beings after their habi-tat was disturbed and theywere displaced from the forestsof neighbouring Odisha State.

Dr Arun Sha, Director-Research and VeterinaryOperations, Wildlife SOS said,"The radio collaring operationwas very challenging and quiterisky. We darted the female ele-phant after tracking her fornearly six kilometres in deepforests and induced partialsedation with a tranquilizer. Ina procedure called standingsedation, which was carried outwith exceptional care and pre-cision, we radio collared thefemale elephant who is also thematriarch of the herd. This willnow enable us to track themovements of the herd and seewhat ranging patterns emerge.Next we hope to radio collartwo bull elephants also fromthe same herd."

Interestingly, Matriarch -older female elephant lead thegroup of 19 member strongherd and used to venture outto agricultural farms that bor-der the forest areas inMahasamund district. "Theherd goes in field to eat cropsat night as the forest could notserve them sufficient nutri-tion food for them, however,when villagers try to drivethem away to protect theircrops, the elephants panicand run helter-skelter causingdamage to crops, propertyand also human live," saidWildlife SoS official.

The official further saidthat to address the rapidlygrowing Human Elephant

Conflict, (HEC) launched theradio collar movement hasbeen started this will not onlyhelp track their movement butalso create an early earningalert system to help savehuman lives too.

Under Human - ElephantConflict Mitigation program inthis area - After working close-ly with Chhattisgarh Forest

Department to also collate dataon the extent of crop damage ,and other possible cause of theconflict, to come up with a sus-tainable solution to the con-flict, to come up with a sus-tainable solution to the prob-lem," the Wildlife SOS (WSOS)official explained.

"Real Challenge before uswas locating and radio collar-

ing the elephants, and this wasnot easy task," adding, "Theherd of elephants moved con-stantly, often at night. The for-est cover was dense and it wasnot possible to sight the ele-phants easily. Wildlife SOS andthe Chhattisgarh ForestDepartmentdeployed a team ofelephant trackers who trackedthe elephant herd every singleday for several months tounderstand their movementpatterns," the official added.

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Saudi Arabia, the world’sbiggest oil exporter, will

supply Indian buyers with anadditional 4 million barrels ofcrude oil in November, sever-al sources familiar with thematter said on Wednesday.

The extra cargoes indicatea willingness by Saudi Arabiato increase crude supply tomake up the shortfall oncesanctions by the United Stateson oil exports from Iran, thethird-largest producer in theOrganisation of the PetroleumExporting Countries (OPEC),start up on Nov. 4.

India is Iran’s top oil clientafter China, though severalrefiners have indicated they willstop taking Iranian barrelsbecause of the sanctions.

Reliance Industries Ltd,Hindustan Petroleum Corp,Bharat Petroleum Corp and

Mangalore RefineryPetrochemicals Ltd are seekingan additional 1 million barrelseach in November from SaudiArabia, the sources said.

Three of the companies didnot immediately reply to anemail from Reuters seekingcomment. MRPL replied “nocomments” when contacted byemail. State-owned oil pro-ducer Saudi Aramco was notimmediately available for com-ment.

Given their dependenceon Iranian oil supplies, theIndian refiners are concernedabout the loss of Iranian crudeonce the sanctions start and areseeking exemptions. Refiners inthe country have placed ordersto buy 9 million barrels fromIran in November.

One of the reasons for theadditional demand for Saudi oilis that the crude arbitrage fromthe United States is shut so theIndian buyers have to turn to

Middle Easternbarrels, said one ofthe sources.

India, theworld’s thirdbiggest oilimporter, is grap-pling with a com-bination of risingoil prices andfalling local cur-rency, which

makes imports of dollar-denominated oil more expen-sive. Retail prices for gasolineand diesel fuel in India are atrecord highs and the govern-ment has cut its excise tax onfuel to ease some of the pain forconsumers.

Indian Oil MinisterDharmendra Pradhan said onMonday that he spoke withSaudi Energy Minister Khalidal-Falih last week and remind-ed him that OPEC and othermajor oil producers hadpromised to raise their outputat a meeting in June.

India imports an average of25 million barrels per monthfrom Saudi Arabia.

Reuters last week reportedthat Russia and Saudi Arabia,the world’s two biggest oil pro-ducers, struck a private deal inSeptember to raise output tocool rising prices and hadinformed the United Statesabout the decision.

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The rupee snapped its six-session losing streak to end

18 paise higher at 74.21 againstthe US dollar on Wednesdayafter the American currencyweakened overseas.

At the Interbank ForeignExchange (Forex), the domes-tic unit opened higher at 74.18and advanced to 74.05 on freshdollar selling by exporters amidweakness in the greenbackagainst some currencies over-seas.

However, the rupee erasedsome gains and finally settledfor the day at 74.21 — up by 18paise, registering its first riseafter sixth straight sessions oflosses.

On Tuesday, the rupeetumbled 33 paise to finish at afresh lifetime low of 74.39against the US dollar.

Traders said a relief rally indomestic equity markets alsoboosted sentiment.

The BSE SensexWednesday settled for the dayat 34,760.89, higher by 461.42points, or 1.35 per cent. Thebroader Nifty too reclaimed thekey 10,400 mark. It finished at10,460.10, showing a significantgain of 1.54 per cent.

Traders said RBI’s deci-sion to inject �12,000 crore liq-uidity into the system through

purchase of Government bondson October 11 to meet the fes-tival season demand for fundssupported the recovery inrupee.

Sentiment also got a liftafter the SBI, coming to therescue of cash-strappedNBFCs, Tuesday decided tobuy their assets to the tune of�45,000 crore, a move thatwill provide liquidity sup-port to non-banking financ-ing companies (NBFCs) fac-ing headwinds after a series ofloan defaults by IL&FS groupfirms.

Meanwhile, domestic insti-tutional investors (DIIs) boughtshares worth �1,526 crore,while foreign institutionalinvestors (FIIs) pulled out a net�1,242 crore Tuesday, as perprovisional stock exchangedata.

The FBIL set the referencerate for the dollar at 74.1316per dollar. The reference ratefor euro was fixed at 85.2637and for the British pound at97.6284. The reference ratefor 100 Japanese yen was65.60.

In the broader marketspace, the S&P BSE midcapindex gained 4.23 per cent andsmallcap 3.67 per cent.

At BSE, 2,058 stocksadvanced, while 611 declinedand 131 remained unchanged.

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Investor wealth soared over �3lakh crore Wednesday as the

stock market made a strongrecovery, with the BSE bench-mark index surging 461.42points.

The Sensex jumped 461.42points or 1.35 per cent to endat 34,760.89. Led by the sharprally in stocks, the market cap-italisation of BSE-listed com-panies zoomed �3,08,467.04crore to �1,38,39,750.40 crore.

The Sensex had lost near-ly 175 points Tuesday.

“Market turned positivefrom over sold region led byfinancial stocks and marginalgain in the rupee,” said VinodNair, Head of Research, GeojitFinancial Services.

Rupee recovery fromrecord lows also boosted mar-ket sentiment. The rupeerecovered by 34 paise to 74.05(intra-day) against the dollarat the forex marketWednesday.

From the 30-share pack, 25scrips advanced, while 5 endedwith losses. Axis Bank andSBI led the gainers pack surg-ing up to 6.6 per cent.

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Tata Motors PassengerVehicles division have gone

from a laughing stock after thefailure of the Nano to a prop-er contender in the Indianmarket right now. And con-tinuing on that path, theyunveiled the refresh of theirTigor compact sedan here onWednesday. The carmaker thathas been the fastest growingcarmaker in a generally mori-bund car market is now confi-dent that it can challenge themarket leaders Maruti-Suzukiand Hyundai. Speaking to themedia, Guenther Butschek saidthat keeping the ‘turnaround’culture going at Tata Motorswas important. “We shall gofrom being a lightweight chal-lenger to a strong contender inthe Indian market and we shallalso think beyond India.”

The company also show-

cased the latest iteration of theircompact sedan, the Tigorwhich featured updated interi-ors, safety features and ‘a lot ofchrome’ in the exterior. TataMotors which effectivelyinvented the ‘Compact Sedan’segment of cars when theylaunched the Indigo CS over adecade ago to take advantage ofIndia’s lower taxes on carsbelow four meters in length hasseen that segment dominatedby Maruti-Suzuki’s Dzire.However, as highlighted byMayank Pareek, President,Passenger Vehicles, TataMotors, market dynamics havechanged in India with 63 percent of new car buyers consid-ering buying cars in the com-pact sedan segment. At thesame time, with car penetrationin India still at a very low 29cars per thousand population,Pareek said that the currentsubdued demand for carsshould not be seen as a per-manent issue.

The Tigor will also be aprice-conscious competitor,much like the refresh of anoth-er contender in this segment theFord Aspire just last week. Pricesfor the petrol variant rangebetween �5.2 lakhs and �6.65lakh for the top-end version witha clutchless AMT. Prices for theDiesel variant range from �6.09lakh to �7.38 lakh.

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Bureau of Indian Standardscertified Uttar Pradesh

Government with first IS/ISO9001 certification for its EtawahDistrict Swachh Bharat Missionon October 8, 2018 inLucknow.

The certificate was pre-sented by Chief Minister ofUttar Pradesh, YogiAdityanath to J SelvaKumari,District Magistrate, Etawah

on Wednesday at Lucknow.During the presentation, ACPandey, Chief Secretary, UP,RK Bajaj, Dy. Director General(Stds), NK Kansara, Dy.Director General (NorthernRegion) and MAJ Vinod,Head, Lucknow Branch Office,BIS were also present.

Chief Minister of UP saidthat other Districts of UttarPradesh should also follow theEtawah Model and seek BIScertification.

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Godrej Interio onWednesday launched

Posture Support Mattress,which promises to give undis-turbed sleep and various healthand productivity benefits thatoccur due to sleep disorder.

International footballerAditi Chauhan, who is also astrong advocate of a disci-plined sleep routine, launchedthe mattress and spoke aboutthe role that a good sleep rou-tine has played in her successas an athlete.

Godrej Interio has createda very strong footprint in thecategory of healthcare mat-tresses owing to a slew of sci-entifically and ergonomicallydeveloped mattresses. ThePosture Support Mattress isdesigned to support the bodyposture while sleeping and Itcomes in three variants suitedfor different body types – Lean(40-60kg), Medium (50-90kg)and High Built (80-100kg).Through #SleepAt10 initiative,Godrej Interio aims to createawareness amongst the peopleabout how important sleep is tonot just one’s physical wellbe-ing but also ones mental health.The mattress brand also bringsforth the negligence that lies inidentifying a mattress and howthis is impacting the socio-eco-nomic fabric of the nation.

Adequate and quality sleepis essential towards leading ahealthy lifestyle and ensuringone’s wellbeing.

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President R am NathKovind on Wednesday

called upon official auditorCAG to move towards out-come based auditing and pro-vide ‘insight and foresight’ forimproving Government pro-grammes.

Inaugurating the 29thAccountants GeneralConference here, Kovind alsoappreciated the Comptrollerand Auditor General (CAG) asan institution for graduatingfrom promoting accountabili-ty to ensuring that right thingsare done in the right and leastexpensive way.

“Through your financial,compliance and performanceaudits, you have been provid-ing valuable oversight on oper-ations and giving recommen-dations for improvement. It isthe time, the institution thinksof giving insight and foresightas well,” he told theAccountants General.

Stating that audit is not anend in itself, but a means tomake governments work bet-ter, Kovind said there was aneed to emphasise that out-come is a more meaningfulmeasure of programme valuethan output.

“You may deliberate onhow would you as an organi-

sation identify, understand andmeasure outcome to study theimpact of programmes.Youmay have to realign strategy ina manner that it measures out-come,” the President said.

Observing that aGovernment department is an‘organic entity’, Kovind said anybreakdown or deficiency inservice reflects vulnerabilityin the system.

“As conscience keepers,please ask yourselves whetherit would help to report on suchsoft spots and weaknesses inthe system - or only on thesymptoms manifesting in smalldeviations. Good systems out-last bad men and women. Thisis where you can contribute,” hesaid.

Audit provides an uniqueopportunity to theGovernment to see where thethings are going wrong andwhy, he said, adding that CAGshould share the good practicesfollowed elsewhere for the ben-efit of executive.

“With the tools appropriatefor managing and examiningthe expanding data in a digitaleconomy, you are rightly posi-tioned to anticipate long termtrends and emerging issuesrelated to the economy, educa-tion, health, environment ,national security, among oth-ers,” he said.

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India’s debt is lower than thebest or emerging market

economies in the world, a topIMF official has said as he cau-tioned that the global debt hasreached a new record high of$182 trillion in 2017.

Vitor Gasper, InternationalMonetary Fund (IMF) Directorof Fiscal Affairs Department,said India’s debt was substan-tially less than the global debtas percentage of world GrossDomestic Product (GDP).

In India, private debt in2017 was 54.5 per cent of theGDP and the general govern-ment debt was 70.4 per cent ofthe GDP, a total debt of about125 of the GDP, according tothe latest IMF figures. In com-parison, debt of China was 247per cent of the GDP.

“So, it (India’s debt) is sub-stantially less than the globaldebt as percentage of worldGDP,” Gasper said.

India’s debt is below theaverage of advanced economiesand below the average ofemerging market economies,he said.

“There is a positive relationbetween the debt to GDP ratioand the level of GDP per capi-ta. If you compare around theworld with the best economiesor emerging market economies,the level of debt in India islower,” the top IMF official said.

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Massimo Varese,Internationally renowned

Helmet Designer with over 25years of work experience inProduction has joined SteelbirdGroup India. Previously hehas been associated with Italianbrands such as Dainese SPA asR&D Director; Mavet SRL asCEO. Keeping in mind the richexperience of Massimo Varesewith global helmets brand, he willspearhead the Steelbird HelmetProduction in India.

Commenting on the devel-opment, Rajeev Kapur, MD,Steelbird Group said, “I amdelighted to welcome MassimoVarese in Steelbird Family. Theappointment of MassimoVarese who comes with such arich experience will be respon-sible for expansion of Steelbirdhelmet’s portfolio includingdesign, development and pro-duction for domestic as well asglobal market.

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for the ailing Air India in amonth, a top official of theCivil Aviation Ministry saidon Tuesday assuring “need-based” support to the debt-laden carrier.

Civil Aviation Secretary,RN Choubey also said thesafety audit that the DirectorGeneral of Civil Aviationordered on domestic airlines“did not find any backlog of anysafety steps that they shouldhave taken.”

“Whenever there is aneed for financial support toAir India, it will be examinedon need basis and such finan-cial support on need basiswill be provided. I only wishto tell you that all support willbe provided.

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West Indies skipper Jason Holderon Wednesday took a dig at histeam's critics, pointing out that

even a far superior Caribbean outfit of the90's, including the legendary Brian Lara,couldn't win a Test series in India.

West Indies last drew an away Testseries against India way back in 1994when Lara scored 91 at Mohali. However,that was the only Test series that Laraplayed in India.

When asked about critics lashing outat their horrendous show in the first Testagainst India in Rajkot, Holder said: "Weare playing the No.1 team, India, in theirbackyard. And history would show wehaven't won a Test match here since 1994and if you look at the players who camethrough West Indies cricket - I thinkBrian Lara and these greats have beenplaying all that time."

Recently, former West Indies captainCarl Hooper was critical of youngsters inthe island nations being only interestedin T20 contracts but without takingnames, the current skipper presented acontrarian view.

"Again, everyone is entitled to theiropinion. I just focus primarily on what Ihave to do and what the team has to do.There's no point worrying about whatpeople have to say because people willalways have to say (something or theother).

"The only way wecan silence the critics- or try to silence thembecause I don't think they'llever shut up - is by playing crick-et."

The all-rounder, who isyet to get fully fit for the sec-ond Test, looked clearlyunhappy with all the barbsthrown at his inexperi-enced side.

"A lot has beensaid about this Testteam in particular;things that I amnot in agreementwith. Because wehave beaten top sidesin the last two-threeseries we've played.We probably haven'twon as many series aswe'd like. Within thelast year, I thinkwe've won two out

of four or five series we've played. SoI don't understand why peoplewould be this harsh towards us."

He also didn't agree with thetheory that West Indies can go theBangladesh way by concentrating

on one format - may be ODI or T20."I think I would disagree with

that. If you look at our history in the lastthree-four-five years, our suited formatshas ideally been T20 cricket and secondbehind would be Test cricket. We are real-ly struggling in ODI cricket for the last10 years, if you go back that far.

"We've obviously had one or twobright spots - our notable performance

in ICC 50-over cricket would be theChampions Trophy that we won in2004. You can see we tend to struggle inODI cricket. I think the bright spots inthe last two-three years have been in Testcricket."

Holder believes that efforts shouldbe made to popularise Test cricket

among youngsters."If you ask any great player in the

world, they say 'if you want to learn toplay the game, play Test cricket, playlonger format cricket'. So I thinkthat's something we urge a little moreto the players in the Caribbean tounderstand."

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Mahendra Singh Dhoni's poor batting form mightforce selectors to include the flamboyant Rishabh

Pant when they pick the ODI squad for the limited-oversleg of the ongoing home series against the West Indies,here on Thursday.

It is still not clear whether the squad will beannounced for the first three games or the entire series,which comprises five ODIs and three T20 Internationalsand starts on October 21.

Skipper Virat Kohli's presence may be another keyissue even though it's unlikely that he will be inclinedto rest for the entire series.

However, the primarybone of contention will bewhether the selectors andthe team management willat least agree on having acover batsman for Dhoni,whose wicketkeepingremains sharp but battingform has been on the slide.

"We all know thatDhoni will play till theWorld Cup but there is noharm in grooming Pant,who could be a terrific No.6or 7 batsman, who has theability to finish games," asenior BCCI official privy toselection matters said onWednesday.

Since his debut Testhundred at the Oval fol-lowed by a stroke-filled 92 in Rajkot, calls for the 20-year-old's inclusion have only grown louder.

While Dinesh Karthik is already there, his consis-tency and inability to finish matches at crucial junctureswill keep the team management worried.

There are a few other permutations that the selec-tors might consider.

Kedar Jadhav's dodgy hamstring will rule him outof the limited-overs leg which opens up one potentialmiddle-order batting slot.

Ambati Rayudu, after a good Asia Cup performance,will retain his place even if Kohli decides to play.

Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Jasprit Bumrah are set tocome back after a much-needed break during the ongo-ing Test series.

Ravindra Jadeja is also expected to make it after hislion-hearted show as Axar Patel's replacement.

The axe might just fall on Manish Pandey, who hashad a poor run of late since getting a chance againstAfghanistan.

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Leg-spinner Imran Tahir bowledSouth Africa to a 34-run win in the

first Twenty20 international againstZimbabwe at Buffalo Park on Tuesday.

Tahir took five for 23 as SouthAfrica, defending a modest total of 160for six, bowled out the tourists for 126.

The damage was done in the firstfour overs as Tahir, sharing the newball, took the first three wickets.

"I've been practising with thenew ball to see if I can get more accu-rate (in case) I get a chance to bowlwith it," he said after claiming his bestfigures in 20-over internationals.

He came back later to take twowickets off successive balls to reduceZimbabwe to 65 for six.

Peter Moor hit four successivesixes off left-arm spinner TabraizShamsi as he and Brandon Mavutabriefly raised Zimbabwean hopeswith an eighth wicket stand of 53 off19 balls. Moor made 44 off 21 balls andMavuta hit 28 off 14 balls.

New cap Rassie van der Dussensteadied South Africa's innings, scor-ing 56 after coming in with his teamstruggling on 11 for two in the secondover.

Van der Dussen and David Miller(39) put on 87 off 66 balls for the

fourth wicket but South Africa wereunable to dominate against a disci-plined Zimbabwe bowling attack ona slow pitch.

Kyle Jarvis took three for 37 andChris Mpofu took two for 24. Bothclaimed early wickets and bowled wellin the death overs, with South Africaable to score only 36 runs while los-ing three wickets in the last four overs.

Leg-spinner Mavuta, 21, a formerZimbabwe under-19 captain, showedoutstanding control, taking one for 19in four overs. He dismissed SouthAfrican captain Faf du Plessis for ahard-hit 34 off 20 balls.

"We thought 155 was par," said DuPlessis. "It was a nice challenge for usbecause there was quite a bit of dewout there."

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Hard-working fast bowlerMohammad Abbas took three wick-

ets in seven balls to bring Pakistan clos-er to victory in the first Test againstAustralia in Dubai on Wednesday.

The right-arm medium pacer dis-missed Aaron Finch (49) and the Marshbrothers -- Shaun and Mitchell - forducks as Australia slumped from 87 with-out loss to finish the fourth day at 136-3.

At stumps opener Usman Khawajawas batting on a fighting 50 and TravisHead on 34 as the pair had added aninvaluable 49 for the unbroken fourthwicket stand to prolong Australia's resis-tance on a weary and spinning Dubai sta-dium pitch.

Pakistan will need seven more wick-ets while Australia require another 326runs for an improbable victory to take a1-0 lead in the two-match series, with thesecond Test starting in Abu Dhabi fromOctober 16.

Abbas said he was "happy to beamong the wickets".

"I used the crease to bring the ball inand got wickets from those deliveries,"he said.

"We need seven more wickets so,God willing, we will get them and get thiswin for which we have worked very hardand it will be good to take a lead in theseries."

�������#����"��*�It was an action replay of the first

innings as Australian openers put on 87—they made 142 in their total of 202 onTuesday — as Finch was trapped leg-before soon after tea with a sharpincoming delivery from Abbas.

Finch, who took an unsuccessfulreview, hit five boundaries in his knock.

Two balls later Abbas had the elderMarsh caught behind and in his next overtrapped Mitchell right in front of the

stumps only to get the decision on review.But it was Finch and Khawaja in the

afternoon session who batted withresolve.

Pakistan-born Khawaja, who topscored for Australia with 85 in the firstinnings, held one end intact with resolutebatting, having so far hit six boundaries.

Abbas has figures of 3-26 to add tohis four wickets in the first innings, butleg-spinner Yasir Shah was still wicket-less in the match.

If Australia still wish to win thismatch they will have to rewrite the his-tory books as the highest chase in all Testcricket is West Indies's 418-7, madeagainst Australia at Antigua in 2003.

Pakistan, who were 45 for threeovernight, declared 7.5 overs after lunchon 181-6 at the fall of Asad Shafiq's wick-et for 41.

Pakistan made 482 in their firstinnings while in reply Australia were dis-missed for 202.

Jon Holland, who took the key wick-et of Azhar Ali for four on Tuesday, dis-missed opener Imam-ul-Haq for 48,caught and bowled off a flighted delivery.

Debutant Marnus Labuschagne thenhad Haris Sohail caught close to the slipsfor 39, leaving Pakistan at 110-4. Sohailand Imam had added 65 runs for thefourth wicket.

Holland had figures of 3-83 from 20overs while off-spinner Nathan Lyon took2-58.

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The Asiad disappointment still"haunts" and Indian hockey cap-

tain Manpreet Singh Wednesday saidthey will have to approach and playeach and every game cautiously in theAsian Champions Trophy.

The disappointment of losing toMalaysia in the semifinals of the 18thAsian Games in Indonesia still lingers.

"It was a tournament we shouldhave won and the disappointment oflosing to Malaysia in the semifinal stillhaunts us," stated the midfielder,who was named the captain for thetournament here.

Over the past three weeks, theIndian men's hockey team has beenput through the grind at the KalingaStadium - the venue for the presti-gious men's World Cup inBhubaneswar.

Doing well at the AsianChampions Trophy will be integral intheir preparations for the mega event

on home soil later this year.Manpreet said, "At the 18th Asian

Games Jakarta-Palembang, I think wewere slightly overconfident that we areAsia's No.1 team and this compla-cency is what we need to avoid dur-ing the Hero Asian ChampionsTrophy Muscat 2018 if we want toretain the title.

Post the semifinal loss, the teamhad several meetings to understandwhere we went wrong and watchedthe videos from that match numeroustimes.

When we regrouped for theNational Camp, we told ourselves it'stime to move on and we cannot let thepast affect our chances at the upcom-ing two big tournaments."

The defending champions willtake on hosts Oman in their openingmatch on October 18 and play arch-rivals and previous edition's runners-up Pakistan in their second roundrobin match on October 20.

The captain stated that the chal-

lenging weather conditions in Omanwill help them acclimatise to thehumid playing conditions inBhubaneswar.

"The playing conditions in Omanwill be similar to Bhubaneswar and weare training hard, sometimes train till

late in the night as some of our match-es start late in the Hero AsianChampions Trophy Muscat 2018.

"Our aim going into the tourna-ment is simple. We play to our poten-tial against every team without tak-ing anyone including Oman lightly.

"There won't be any room forcomplacency. We have watched videosof how each of these teams play andwe are prepared for the challenge," hesaid.

Speaking of his own role in themidfield, in the absence of stalwartSardar Singh who announced hisretirement last month, Manpreet said:"I always aim to do my best for theteam and what is expected from meby the team.

"We have youngsters l ikeNilakanta Sharma who plays besideme and defender Hardik Singh whois making his debut, the seniors con-stantly talk and communicate onfield to help the youngsters andensure everyone understands eachother's game well.

"Everyone is putting their besteffort in our preparations and we havepaid a lot of attention to on-fieldcommunication apart from otheraspects of the game," Manpreet con-cluded.

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Roger Federer was given a huge scarebefore finally seeing off Russia'sDaniil Medvedev 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 to

open his Shanghai Masters defence inunconvincing fashion on Wednesday.

The 37-year-old Swiss top seed facesSpain's unseeded Roberto Bautista Aguton Thursday in the last 16.

The 20-time Grand Slam championinitially wasted little time stamping hismark on the tournament, breaking the22nd-ranked Medvedev in the first game.

But Medvedev, fresh from winningthe Japan Open, broke back and enjoyedeven more luck on Federer's service in thesecond set.

Federer's large cheering squad —decked out in matching red T-shirts —looked on in disbelief as Medvedevgrabbed the second set.

The 22-year-old then put the Swissunder immediate pressure on his servein the deciding set, only for an unchar-acteristically flustered Federer to hold.

In what was the first meeting betweenthe pair, Federer broke in the ninth gameto finally destroy Medvedev's resolve injust under two hours.

With the exception of injured worldnumber one Rafael Nadal, Federer'schief rivals are all still in the mix.

Juan Martin del Potro and AlexanderZverev both defied illness to join Federer

and Novak Djokovic in the next round.Del Potro, the third seed, said that he

is suffering from a virus and reviewing

his health "hour by hour", after labour-ing past France's Richard Gasquet.

The Argentine lost Sunday's final of

the China Open in Beijing to unseededNikoloz Basilashvili and afterwardsrevealed that he had been unwell.

Three days on and the 30-year-oldcontinues to be under the weather, butjust about did enough to see off Gasquet

7-5, 7-6 (9/7).Between coughs at his post-match

press conference, Del Potro said: "It was-n't easy to play for me today, I did whatI can. I didn't run too much.

"But I'm going like hour by hour andsee how I'm feeling," added Del Potro,who plays 13th seed Borna Coric ofCroatia next in Shanghai.

"I got lucky that I won, but tomorrowwill be a different day.

"If I have a good night today and Ihave a good recovery tomorrow morn-ing, maybe I will feel a little bit better fortomorrow night and play better thantoday."

The 21-year-old Zverev fought off acold — he has had a sore throat andblocked nose for a few days — and theraw power of Basilashvili, winning 7-5,6-4.

The fourth seed will play Australia'sworld-ranked 33 Alex de Minaur.

Zverev said that Basilashvili, who isup to a career-high ranking of 23,"knows how to play, definitely".

"Probably the hardest-hitting playerI have ever played against," said Zverev.

Number two seed Djokovic nailedhis place in the last 16 on Tuesday witha convincing victory over Jeremy Chardy.

The Serb, who is in sparkling formhaving won Wimbledon and the USOpen this summer, plays the 16th seedMarco Cecchinato of Italy on Thursday.

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Divij Sharan's maiden appearance at an ATPMasters tournament ended with a second round

defeat as he and his partner Artem Sitak lost in straightsets to third seeds Marcelo Melo and Luksz Kubot inShanghai on Wednesday.

Sharan and his Kiwi partner lost 3-6 4-6 to theBrazilian-Polish combination, ranked sixth in theworld.

With this defeat,no Indian is left in thedoubles draw asRohan Bopanna hadcrashed in the firstround with his Frenchpartner EdouardRoger-Vasselin.

They had lost 6-7(3) 4-6 to BenMclachlan and Jan-Lennard Struff.

"We lost serve once in the first set. Lost serve twicein the second, both on deuce. Broke them once in thesecond on deuce and they held another game on deuce.So it was a close match. Would have liked to convertsome of those points and the result could have beendifferent. Still happy to get a chance to play in my firstATP 1000," said Sharan, who will be playing inAntwerp next.

Meanwhile, at the Tashkent Challenger inUzbekistan, the top seeded Indian pair of VishnuVardhan and N Sriram Balaji suffered a shock defeatagainst local wild card pair of Sanjar Fayziev andJurabek Karimov in the quarterfinals.

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Harvinder Singh notched upIndia's maiden archery Gold in

the Asian Para Games by finishing ontop in the men's individual recurveevent, while the country also pickedup three Silver and four Bronzemedals on day 5 of the competitionshere.

Harvinder defeated China's ZhaoLixue 6-0 in the W2/ST category finalto claim the top honours and takeIndia's gold tally to seven.

The W2 category of impair-ment covers athletes with paraplegia,diplegia or double leg amputationbelow the knee, requiring wheelchair.

The ST category is for archerswith limited impairment and whomay take aim without having to needa wheelchair.

Para-athletics, chess table tennisgave India three Silver medals onWednesday, while the Bronze medalscame from para-powerlifting, besidespara-athletics.

It started with Monu Ghangasclaiming the Silver in the men's dis-cus throw F11 category before VijayKumar claimed the second spot inthe men's long jump T42/T61/T63category.

Mohammed Yasser then fetched

a Bronze in the men's shot put F46category.

In table tennis, the women'sdoubles combination of BhavinabenPatel and Sonalben Patel lost the finalto Indonesia's A Dararat andPaattarvadee Wararidamrongkul 4-11 12-14 to settle for a Silver medalin the TT 3-5 category.

The chess board delivered aSilver and two Bronze medals.

A Bronze trickled in from para-powerlifting where Sudhir finishedthird in the upto 80kg category witha lift of 192kg. India were 9th on theoverall tally with 7 Gold, 13 Silver and17 Bronze for a total of 37 medals.

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Jaspal Rana feels the AsianGames heartbreak was a

blessing in disguise for ManuBhaker, who went there as theone who could do no wrong,only to fall and rise again in amatter of weeks.

The moment of glory atthe Youth Olympics, accordingto the acclaimed shooter-turned-coach, makes her astrong Olympic medal hope,alongside a few of her con-temporaries.

Delighted as much as hewas after the 16-year-oldBhaker rediscovered her formwith a first-ever gold medal forIndia in shooting at the YouthOlympics on Tuesday, Ranaadmitted that not being able to

continue her medal-winningrun in Indonesia may haveproved to be a boon, as shelearns to not only take failuresin her stride, but also overcomethem.

A multiple Asian Gamesand Commonwealth Gamesgold medallist and now thejunior national coach, Ranaput in a lot of emphasis whilecalling the likes of Bhaker

clear "Olympic materials"."These shooters are clear-

ly Olympic materials and weshould be careful in preparingthem for glory in the world'sbiggest sporting event. I amreally happy with the way ourshooters have performed here(Buenos Aires). We alreadyhave three medals and couldhave actually had two gold,"Rana told PTI.

The 42-year-old was refer-ring to rifle shooter MehuliGhosh's medal, the colour ofwhich could have been yellowinstead of white, if she hadscored better than 9.1 in her24th and final shot.

"She may not win every-day, but the experience willhelp her become a bettershooter," Rana said.

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Sprint superstar Usain Boltlooks set to make his first

start as a professional footballeron Friday, a challenge he saidcould determine if he has afuture in the sport of his boy-hood dreams.

Bolt said the coach of hisCentral Coast Mariners, MikeMulvey, had indicated he wouldbe in the starting line-up in afriendly against MacarthurSouth West United in Sydney.

"For me, that's always agood step, when the coach issatisfied with your fitness to put

you in the starting line up --that's always a big step," Bolttold Mariners' club media onWednesday.

"I am just happy to get thechance and go out there and

start, and do my best becausethat is the key thing."

The eight-time Olympicchampion made his footballingdebut in late August in a 20-minute cameo as a substitute onthe left wing, nearly scoring buttiring quickly. Bolt said he hadimproved his fitness since, andexpected to spend more timeup front.

"My movement and mytouch is much better now," hesaid. "I've learnt how to set mybody and where to place theball." The A-League has beenstruggling in recent years withfewer fans and dwindling TV

ratings, with football chiefshoping the arrival of big nameslike Bolt will boost local inter-est.

The 100m world recordholder said he expected somenerves when out on the pitch,but was excited by the oppor-tunity to prove his worth as afootballer.

"This will be a big game. Ithink it will determine if theclub makes up its mind on whatto do with my career. So for meit's a very important game," hesaid.

"I'm looking forward toprove myself."

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The Indian junior men's hockey teamrecorded its fourth successive victory

at the Sultan of Johor Cup with a 5-4 winover defending champions Australia,assuring a semifinal spot.

The win has also helped India top thepool.

India made a dominating start to thegame. Though their initial chance ofscoring from a PC went amiss, GursahibjitSingh scored a fine field goal to give India1-0 lead in the 5th minute.

The team built on a good start to scorethree more back-to-back goals in the 11th,14th and 15th minute through HaspreetSingh, Mandeep Mor and VishnukantSingh respectively. The 4-0 lead at the endof the first quarter was a major setback forthe defending champions.

However, India faltered in theirdefence in the second quarter only to giveaway an easy goal through a penalty strokein the 18th minute. Damon Steffens, whoscored the first goal for Australia, endedup scoring the second goal too when an

Indian infringement inside the circle sawthem concede a PC in the 35th minute,narrowing the goal deficit to 4-2.

Though Shilanand Lakra scored in the43rd minute to take India's lead to 5-3,Australia put India through some tensemoments as they appeared to make a laterecovery, by stretching India's defence.

In the 59th minute, the pressure todefend the scoreline saw India colts giveaway another penalty stroke which waseasily converted by Steffans, taking the goaldifference to just one. But India held theirnerves to finish the match in their favour.

India will next take on Britain in theirfifth match on October 12.

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Pulling the trigger to the best of his abil-ity, Saurabh Chaudhary gunned down

the men's 10m air pistol gold, capping offthe Indian shooting team's campaign at theYouth Olympics here Wednesday in themanner that befits its best-ever showing.

The 16-year-old Chaudhary dominat-ed the final, shooting 244.2 to finish on topof the podium ahead of South Korea's SungYunho (236.7).

Switzerland's Solari Jason bagged thebronze with 215.6 at the ParquePolideportivo Roca shooting range.

The Indian had a staggering 18 scoresof 10 and above in the eight-man finals.

Chaudhary, an Asian Games and JuniorISSF World Championship gold medallist,also topped the qualifying with 580.

Hailing from Kalina village near Meerut,Chaudhary led from start to finish toemerge winner, a day after another 16-year-old, Manu Bhaker, won the women's pistolevent.

Despite four scores of under 10 to startwith, Chaudhary managed to stay ahead andthen extended his domination with scoresof 10.7 10.4 10.4 and 10.0.

He continued to lead the pack as thefinals entered the elimination stage.

Chaudhary led at the end of stage 1despite shooting under 10 in four attempts.While a high 10.8 was his best in the firstseries, in the second series of first stage hehad four scores of 10 and above, includinga 10.7, which placed him way ahead of therest of the pack.

This despite an equally impressiveseries of 10.0 10.7 10.2 and 10.1 bySwitzerland's Solari Jason.

An 8.5 saw the Swiss being pipped byKorea's Sung Yunho, even as the Indian con-tinued to produce excellent scores.

Saurabh had two slow starts in the day,the first in qualifying when he was brieflyplaced 11th in the 20-man field beforestamping his class with a solid 580 over 60shots to top the standings.

Then he began slowly in the finals, butthen literally decimated the field, openingup leads of 0.8 after five shots, 2.9 after 10shots, a full five points after the 18th shotand eventually finished with 244.2, a full 7.5points clear of silver winning Korean SungYunho, who finished with 236.7.

This was India's fourth podium fromshooting in four days, as the four individ-ual shooters at the Games - Shahu Mane,Mehuli Ghosh, Many Bhaker andChaudhary -- won two gold and two silvermedals between them.

Chaudhary topped the qualifying with580 ahead of Iran's Salavati Erfan and CzechRepublic's Schejbal Pavel. The India'ssequence of scores included 97, 96, 95, 100,95, 97.

The teen sensation entered the event on

the back of a blazing run.The Asiad gold medallist created a new

junior world record to clinch the air pistoljunior men gold in the 52nd ISSF ShootingWorld Championship in Changwon lastmonth.

Before his exploits in Korea, Chaudharybecame only the fifth Indian shooter to claima gold in the Asian Games history, beatinga field of multiple world and Olympic cham-pions in the 10m air pistol finals.

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team hammered Vanuatu 16-0 in its thirdmatch of the five-a-side competition in theYouth Olympic Games here.

Forward Mumtaz Khan (8th, 11th,12th, 15th) scored four times and Chetnascored thrice (6th, 14th, 17th) to help Indiaachieve the dominating win on Mondaynight.

In-form striker Lalremsiami openedIndia's account scoring in the secondminute. Thirty seconds later, Reet scoredIndia's second and a minute later skipperSalima Tete joined the party to make it 3-0in just four minutes of the first period.

Baljeet Kaur then put her name on thescore-sheet twice in the fifth minute mak-ing it 5-0. Chetna scored first of her threegoals in the sixth minute as Reet doubledher tally in the same minute to take Indiato 7-0.

Mumtaz (8th) and Lalremsiami (10th)also scored before the first period ended at9-0 in India's favour.

The second period was no different asIndia continued to add to Vanuatu's miseryby scoring goals at will.

The island nation, which conceded 32goals in its last two outings, hardly had anyshots on India's goal.

The Indians took as many as 40 shots

in total during the match compared to justfive from their opponents.

India scored a goal a minute in the firstfive minutes of the second half throughMumtaz (11th, 12th, 15th), Salima (13th)and Chetna (14th).

India's 15th and Chetna's third came inthe 17th minute. Ishika Chaudhary scoredIndia's last goal in the final minute ensur-ing all players except the goalkeeper enteredthe scoresheet.

������������������#���%Archana Kamath's stunning run in the

table tennis competition of the YouthOlympics ended with a loss in the semifi-nals here on Wednesday.

She lost 1-4 after valiantly trying tounravel the second seed from China,Yingsha Sun, in a tense encounter. Archanais still in the running for the bronze medalthough, when she takes on Romania'sAndreea Dragoman later in the evening,early morning in India.

The 18-year-old from Karnataka hadcreated history in the morning, becomingthe first Indian ever to enter the semifinalsof the Youth Olympics. She defeatedAzerbaijan's Ning Jing 4-3 to achieve thisamazing feat.

Archana had her opportunity in thefourth game, when she raced away to 5-0lead and literally toyed with Yingsha to winit 11-1. But her loss in the first three gamesat 3, 7 and 6 had left her a mountain toclimb.

She fought valiantly in the fifth game,which proved to be the decider, but Yingshahad recovered her poise to unleash a seriesof winners.

Earlier, Archana had to use all her skills,energy and nerves to overcome Jing 4-3.

She pulled off a 13-11, 8-11, 6-11, 11-3, 6-11, 12-10, 11-7 win in the quarterfinals.

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