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As the Supreme Court onMonday turned down the
plea for expeditious hearing ofthe Ram Janmabhoomi landdispute case and said the mat-ter will be dealt with by anappropriate Bench in January,the court faced harsh criticismfrom several quarters anddemand for an Ordinance forthe construction of RamTemple grew louder withinthe BJP, RSS and various SanghParivar outfits .The Congressexercised restraint saying thatthe apex court verdict shouldbe awaited and the issue be notlinked with vote-bank poli-tics.
With the country warmingup to the Lok Sabha polls,around six months away, theBJP and the RSS called forbringing a legislation to expe-dite the temple construction atAyodhya apprehending thatthe court proceedings on theissue may not conclude toosoon.
Outlining theGovernment’s stand, UnionLaw Minister Ravi ShankarPrasad, at the same time, saida lot people in the country want
the case to be heard quickly.Addressing a press conferencein poll-bound Chhattisgarh,Prasad said the BJP neverlinked the Ram Mandir issuewith polls.
“The Supreme Court todaysaid the hearing (on theAyodhya land title disputecases) will be held in January.As a Law Minister, I should notsay anything else, as you under-stand that there are certain lim-itations,” Prasad said.
“I would like to humblysay that a lot of people in thecountry want that the hearingon the issue should be com-pleted soon,” he said.
The RSS said the SupremeCourt should make an earlydecision on the RamJanmabhoomi land disputeand the Union Governmentshould bring a legislation toremove hurdles, if any, in theway of the construction of aRam temple at the site.
RSS chief spokespersonArun Kumar said theAllahabad High Court in itsverdict has accepted that thesite is the birthplace of LordRam and a temple existedthere. The HC judgment,delivered in four civil suits,
had said the 2.77-acre land bedivided equally among threeparties — the Sunni WaqfBoard, the Nirmohi Akharaand Ram Lalla.
“The Sangh believes agrand Ram temple should beconstructed soon at the birth-place of Lord Ram. And landshould be allotted at the birth-place for temple construction.With the construction of thetemple, an atmosphere of unityand harmony will be created.With this in view, the Supreme
Court should make an earlydecision and if there are anydifficulties, the Governmentshould make a law to removeall hurdles in the way of giv-ing land for temple at the RamJanmabhoomi site,” Kumarsaid in a statement.
“Ever since this andolanwas started by sants, we havesupported it and will contin-ue to support them in theirdecisions in future,” he said.
BJP leader Vinay Katiyaralleged that the issue was
being delayed “under pressure”from the Congress, whichdenied the charge. “Thedecision is being delayedunder pressure from theCongress. People like KapilSibal and Prashant Bhushanare pressing for delaying theissue. Till when will Rambhakts (devotees) wait? In2019, the Congress will cometo know,” he said.
Former Union Ministerand BJP leader Sanjeev Baliyansaid, “I am surprised at the pri-orities of the court. I am of theview that the Ram Templeshould be constructed. TheGovernment should exploreall possibilities.”
BJP’s ally Shiv Sena leaderSanjay Raut said the Ramtemple is an issue of faith anddemanded that theGovernment comes out withan Ordinance soon. “It is amatter of faith. The court can-not decide on this. TheGovernment should bring anordinance,” he said.
Senior Congress leader PChidambaram, however,maintained that it was a famil-iar story every five years beforethe elections when the BJPtries to polarise the issue.
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The Supreme Court onMonday refused to enter-
tain the Uttar Pradesh plea forearly hearing of the RamJanmabhoomi-Babri Masjidland dispute case, saying it hasdifferent priorities. The courtfixed the case for the firstweek of January before an“appropriate Bench” which willdecide the schedule of hearing.
The court’s decision is abig blow to the temple pro-tagonists who had hoped foran early resolution of the dis-pute and day-to-day hearingof the case that could havepaved the way for building ofthe Ram temple before the2019 Lok Sabha polls.
“We will fix the date ofhearing of the Ayodhya dis-pute case before the appro-priate Bench in January,” saida three-judge Bench, headedby Chief Justice Ranjan
Gogoi, and comprisingJustices SK Kaul and KMJoseph.
Solicitor General TusharMehta and senior advocate CSVaidyanathan, appearing forthe UP Government and deityRamlala respectively, soughtearly listing of the appeals inthe case after referring totheir long pendency. But theBench remained unimpressedand clearly indicated the casewas not a priority for it.
“We have our own prior-ities. Whether the matter willbe heard in January, Februaryor March, the appropriateBench will decide,” the Benchsaid.
Hopes for expeditious set-tlement of the Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid land disputecase were revived after athree-judge Bench, by a 2:1majority last month, refusedto refer to a f ive-judgeConstitution Bench the issueof reconsideration of theobservations in its 1994 judg-ment that a mosque was notintegral to Islam. The matterhad arisen during the hearingof the Ayodhya land dispute.
The majority view byChief Justice of India (CJI)Dipak Misra and JusticeAshok Bhushan ordered thatthe hearing in the mainAyodhya title suit appealsshould resume from October29.
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As the Supreme Court onMonday banned 15-year-
old petrol vehicles and 10-year-old diesel vehicles fromplying in Delhi and NationalCapital Region (NCR), nation-al Capital air quality has beenpredicted to deteriorate “dras-tically” on Tuesday.
The System of Air Qualityand Weather Forecasting AndResearch (SAFAR) on Mondaysaid stubble fire counts hasincreased “tremendously” inpast 24 hours.
The Supreme Court alsoinstructed the transport depart-ment to impound such vehiclesif they are found on the road.“A list of these vehicles shouldbe published on the websites ofthe Central Pollution ControlBoard CPCB) and the trans-port department, and an adver-tisement should be publishedin newspapers,” said the court.
The Supreme Court passedthese directions on a noteplaced before it by advocateAparajita Singh, assisting thecourt as amicus in the air pol-lution matter, seeking urgentdirections to correct the pre-vailing situation of pollution.
The court also directed
the CPCB to immediately cre-ate a social media account onwhich citizens could lodgetheir complaints directly aboutpollution. Appropriate actioncould be taken by the author-ities concerned on the writtencomplaints, the SC added.
The court has posted thematter for hearing onNovember 1.
In 2015, the NationalGreen Tribunal (NGT) hadbanned 15-year-old petrolvehicles and 10-year-old dieselvehicles.
The following year, theNGT directed authorities in theNCR and Delhi to begin dereg-istering all diesel vehicles in thecapital that are more than adecade old.
During the hearing onMonday, the Bench referred tomedia reports that people
should not go on morningwalk due to the high levels ofpollution. “Have you gone toold Delhi railway station? Poorpeople there have to work toearn their livelihood. The kindof exertion they undergo ismuch more than those walkingin the morning at LodhiGardens,” the Bench toldAdditional Solicitor General(ASG) ANS Nadkarni, appear-ing for the Centre.
“They are doing heavyduty manual work. You cannottell them that you stop yourwork because it is unsafe foryou to work in the morning.
This is a very critical situ-ation,” said the Bench, adding,“It is horrible”.
The Bench told Nadkarnithat authorities would have todo their work properly and findout solutions.
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The Indian Army onMonday retaliated “strong-
ly” to Pakistan’s ceasefire vio-lation by carrying out “puni-tive” strikes on Pakistan Army’sbrigade headquarters oppositePoonch sector in general areaof Hajira in Pakistan OccupiedKashmir (POK).
According to groundreports, the Pakistan Armysuffered heavy damages in thearea. But till the time of filingthe report, the exact scale ofdamage was not known.
Local residents of bordervillages reported that theycould see smoke emanatingfrom the Pakistan Army’sadministrative unit headquarters.
The Indian Army sent thestrong signal to Pakistan inresponse to Pak Army’s firingof stray shells on Poonch andJhallas on October 23, 2018.
Poonch-based Brigadeheadquarters of the IndianArmy had come attack for thefirst time on October 23 after1997.
Ministry of Defencespokesman in Jammu hadclaimed, “Pakistan Army hadused recoilless gun (Rcl) witha calibre of 105/106 mm to tar-get the Poonch brigade head-quarters.”
Sources said while givingbefitting reply, the IndianArmy exercised maximumrestraint despite continuousprovocation by the Pakistan
Army.The thickly populated
civilian areas on the other sideof the line of control namelyHajira tehsil, Bandi, Gopalpur,Nikial, Samani and Khuirattawere not targeted in the retal-iatory firing.
A huge population of ex-servicemen of the PakistanArmy and retired Governmentservants are settled in the areaagainst the wishes of the localpopulation.
The Indian Army had ear-lier undertaken “surgicalstrikes” in September 2016 todemolish terrorist launch padsacross LoC in POK in responseto Pakistan-sponsored terror-ist strikes in Uri and Nagrotain Jammu & Kashmir.
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Three men who were sittingon railway track near
Nangloi railway station andconsuming alcohol were runover by Bikaner-Delhi Expresstrain after they failed to moveoff the track despite driverfrenetically hooting the hornon Monday around 7.20am.
According to eyewitnesses,the train driver reportedlysounded the siren but the triodid not move away from thetrack near
The driver could no applybrakes that would have derailedthe train, and the train justsliced them.
Police immediately movedthem to a nearby hospitalwhere they were declaredbrought dead. They were iden-tified as Mukesh Verma (50),Sushil Kumar (25) andPrashant. Their body has beensent for post-mortem exami-nation at Sabzi Mandi Morgue.
Police said people in thevicinity tried to alert the booz-ers but they refused to moveobviously under the influenceof alcohol.
Deputy Commissioner ofPolice (Railway) Dinesh Guptasaid police found two-countrymade liquor bottles from thespot. Eyewitnesses told policethat they were sitting on the
track for quite some time whilethey merrily consumed liquor.
Police said loco pilotRandhir Singh is also beingquestioned. The deceased
Mukesh Verma is a resident ofDharm Enclave, Prem Nagar.Sushil Kumar and Prashantwere reported to be residents ofMangolpuri.
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All 189 passengers, theIndian pilot and crew
aboard a crashed IndonesianLion Air jet were likely killedin the accident, rescue officialssaid on Monday, as theyannounced they had foundhuman remains and wouldcontinue the grim searchthrough the night.
The Boeing-737 MAX,which went into service justmonths ago, vanished fromradar 13 minutes after takingoff from Jakarta SoekarnoHatta International Airport,plunging into the Java Seamoments after it had asked toreturn to Jakarta.
Websites that display f light data showed the plane speeding up as it sud-denly lost altitude before it dis-appeared, with authorities say-ing witnesses saw the jet plunge
into the water.Indian pilot Bhavye Suneja,
31, captained the plane, IndianEmbassy here confirmed.
Some 40 divers are part ofabout 150 personnel at thescene, authorities said, with theplane wreckage some 30 to 40metres deep in the water.
Earlier, video footageapparently filmed at the sceneof the crash showed a slick offuel on the surface of the waterand pictures showed whatappeared to be an emergencyslide and bits of wreckage bear-ing Lion Air’s logo.
The carrier acknowledgedthat the jet had previouslybeen grounded for unspecifiedrepairs. The disaster is a setbackfor Indonesia’s airline industry,which just emerged fromdecadelong bans by theEuropean Union and the USOver safety concerns. PTI
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Media Certification and MonitoringCommittee (MCMC), Raipur
District, has found that Bharatiya JanataParty (BJP) candidates Brijmohan Agrawal,Devji Bhai Patel and Congress candidateVikas Upadhayay have violated electionmodel code of conduct on social media bynot obtaining prior certification before therelease of posts.
The respective Returning Officerswould be issuing show cause notice to thecandidates seeking their reply. The MCMCheaded by Raipur District Electoral Officer(CEO) and Collector Dr Basavaraju Sfound that BJP candidate BrijmohanAgrawal on his twitter account and DevjiBhai Patel on his facebook account hadbeen using 'government scheme mono' forpublicity which has the election symbol ofparty. Similarly, Devji Bhai Patel in nameof Chairman, Chhattisgarh Text Book
Corporation’s facebook account was alsobeing used allegedly for political campaign.The Committee found it as the violationof election model code of conduct. TheCommittee also detected that Congress can-didate Vikas Upadhayay in his sponsoredfacebook page without prior permission andcertification has been using it for allegedpolitical campaign. It has recommended tothe respective Returning Officers to issuenotice to all these candidates.As per thedirection of Election Commission of India(ECI), the social media posted materialswould fall under the election model code
of conduct. Additional to it, all the adver-tisements being released in social mediahave to be pre-certified through MCMC atthe district level. Bulk SMS and voice mes-sage, television, cinema, radio, LED alongwith e-papers before release of any adver-tisement has to be certified by the MCMC.
Raipur City (West) Returning OfficerSandeep Agrawal has issued notice to BJPcandidate Rajesh Munat seeking clarifica-tion for distributing materials for luring theelectors. A complaint was received on theissue. Munat has been asked to submit thereply at earliest.
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BJP’s Central ElectionCommittee on Monday
released the second list of can-didates for Chhattisgarh which goes to polls onNovember 12 and 20 to electthe new 90-member state leg-islative assembly.
With the announcement of
11 more candidates, the BJP has so far declared names for 89 seats but has held up announcementfor just one seat, Raipur(North).
The BJP is in power in themineral-rich state since late2003 and the party is expecting to register the fourthconsecutive victory in 2018.
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New Delhi: The SupremeCourt on Monday stayed theBombay High Court orderrefusing extension of time tothe State police for filing chargesheet in the Koregaon-Bhimaviolence case.
Recently, the Bombay HighCourt had set aside the lowercourt’s order allowing extensionof time to police to file its probereport against the rightsactivists in the violence case.
Taking note of the appealof the MaharashtraGovernment, a bench headedby Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoistayed the High Court orderand issued notice to rightsactivists on the plea.
Earlier, the apex court hadrefused to interfere with thearrest of five rights activists by
the Maharashtra Police in con-nection with the Koregaon-Bhima violence case anddeclined to appoint a SIT forprobe into their arrest.
The Pune Police hadarrested lawyer SurendraGadling, Nagpur Universityprofessor Shoma Sen, Dalitactivist Sudhir Dhawale,activist Mahesh Raut andKerala native Rona Wilson inJune for their alleged linkswith Maoists under theUnlawful Activities(Prevention) Act (UAPA).
The arrests had followedraids at their residences andoffices in connection withthe Elgar Parishad conclaveheld in Pune on December 31last year, which, the policehad claimed, had led to vio-lence at Bhima Koregaon thenext day.
The MaharashtraGovernment had on October25 moved the apex court chal-lenging the Bombay High
Court order by which theextension of time granted tostate police to conclude probein the Koregaon Bhima vio-lence case was set aside.
In the previous hearing, thebench had considered the sub-missions of lawyer NishantKatneshwar, appearing for theMaharashtra Government, thatthe appeal needed to be heardon an urgent basis.
The lawyer had said that ifthe High Court order is notstayed then accused in theviolence case would becomeentitled for grant of statutorybail for want of non-filing ofcharge sheet within the stipu-lated period.
Under the UAPA, a chargesheet must be filed within 90days of arrest. However, theprosecutor can file a reportbefore the trial court, explain-ing the reasons for the delay,and seek more time. If satisfied,the court can extend the timeby 90 days. PTI
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The Congress on Monday hitout at Prime Minister
Narendra Modi over reportsthat US President DonaldTrump has not accepted India’srequest to be the chief guest atthe Republic Day parade nextyear and termed it a “diplo-matic faux pas”.
Former Union MinisterAnand Sharma said Modi’sapproach is “frivolous” and hisconduct of diplomacy lacks
gravitas. He said Modi mustunderstand that engagementwith strategic partners cannotbe transactional or episodic.
“President Trump’s non-acceptance of invitation to bethe chief guest for RepublicDay was an avoidable embar-rassment. Extending theinvite without assured accep-tance was a diplomatic fauxpas.
“Never before this honourhas been declined by a head ofstate... He (PM Modi) mustknow that engagement withstrategic partners can not betransactional or episodic,” hesaid.
Sharma said such a thinghas never happened in the
past.Another Congress leader
Manish Tewari said, “NotSurprising. I was inWashington DC when news ofIndia’s Republic Day invite toDonald Trump broke in July2018. Asked a senior WhiteHouse official would Trumptravel to India, the personsmiled and said-needs to beforward movement on a bunchof issues”.
Trump is unlikely to acceptIndia’s invitation to be thechief guest at the parade,sources said Sunday.
The US is understood tohave conveyed to New Delhithat Trump may not be able tohonour the invitation as he will
have pressing engagements,including his State of TheUnion address, around thetime India will celebrate itsRepublic Day.
This comes at a time whenIndo-US ties have witnessedsome strain after India wentahead and sealed a deal withRussia to procure a batch of S-400 air defence missile systems,notwithstanding US threat ofpunitive action under CAAT-SA (Countering America’sAdversaries Through SanctionsAct).
Sources said India hasshortlisted names of two-threeheads of states for extendinginvitation to be the chief guestat the parade.
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Women and Child DevelopmentMinister Maneka Gandhi on
Monday asked the Mother Teresa-found-ed Missionaries of Charity (MoC) to“come back into” the Government’s systemof adoption services.
The MoC had decided to stop puttingchildren up for adoption under theGovernment’s Central Adoption ResourceAuthority (CARA) system following anideological row with Ministry in 2015 overissues such as the organisation’s denial togive children to separated or divorced par-ents.
Maneka met a MoC delegation led bySister Mary Prema Pierick, who heads theorganisation after Mother Teresa, and
requested them “to come back into” theCARA system of adoption.
The CARA functions as the nodalbody for adoption of children and is man-dated to monitor and regulate in-countryand inter-country adoptions.
The Union minister said the moveaims to bring children living in the 79 MoChomes into family care.
“Prema agreed to my request to workjointly on each of these homes so that thechildren in the MoC homes can be on-board-ed into CARINGS expeditiously,” she tweet-ed. The Women and Child DevelopmentMinistry and the MoC have been involvedin a number of rows in the past.
In July this year, Maneka had orderedall states to get the child-care homes runby the MoC inspected, after cases of alleged
illegal adoptions carried out by the homescame to light. A shelter home run by theMoC in Ranchi has allegedly been involvedin “selling” three children and “givingaway” another one.
Taking cognisance of the cases ofalleged illegal adoptions carried out by theMoC in Jharkhand, Maneka ordered all thestates to get the child-care homes run bythe organisation inspected immediately,the ministry had said in a statement in July.
There was also a conflict in 2015 overthe MoCs not allowing adoption by sep-arated or divorced or single parents.
Maneka had then said the governmentwould have to derecognise the organisationif it continued to defy the revised guidelinesbut the Missionaries of Charity itself decid-ed to stop putting children up for adoption.
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Sugar production is likely to decline by3 per cent to 31.5 million tonnes (MT)
in the current marketing year due tountimely rains and pest attacks that affect-ed the cane crop. Diversion of cane juicefor ethanol is also a reason for decline insugar production.
Sugar production reached at an all-time high of 32.5 million tonnes in the2017-18 marketing year (October-September). The Indian Sugar MillsAssociation (ISMA) in July had projecteda production of 35 MT in the 2018-19 sea-son that started this month, taking intoaccount higher cane acreage and forecastof normal monsoon.
In its forecast issued Monday, theISMA reduced the sugar production esti-mate for the 2018-19 marketing year as thesugarcane crop in the three main growingstates of Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra andKarnataka, which contribute around 80 percent to the total sugar output, have beenimpacted adversely.
“Sugar production in 2018-19 wouldbe around 32 MT. However, this figure maybe lower if we consider the expected diver-sion of sugar to ethanol...The sugar pro-duction estimates for 2018-19, after con-sidering this diversion into ethanol, will be
around 31.5 MT tonnes,” the statementsaid.
The association said that there wouldbe surplus availability of sugar in the coun-try despite estimated fall in productionbecause of huge carry-over stocks from theprevious marketing year. The total avail-ability of sugar would be 42.7 MT during2018-19 as against the annual domesticdemand of 25.5-26 MT. Even if millsexport 4-5 MT of sugar, the closing stockwould be significantly high at 11-13 MT,it added.
According to ISMA, sugar productionin UP was expected to be higher becauseof higher cane area under the high yield-ing variety Co0238. “However, severalareas in UP have had untimely rainfall inSeptember 2018 which has adverselyaffected the growth of the sugarcane atthis very important maturity period.Further, some areas have reported water-logging and in some parts of Western UP,there has been sugarcane lodging also,” itsaid.
As a result, sugarcane yields andsugar recovery would be impacted.Accordingly, ISMA has revised its sugarproduction estimates for UP from 13-13.5MT tonne made in July 2018 to 12.1 MT,which is almost similar to 12.04 MT in2017-18.
In Maharashtra, sugar production isestimated at around 9.5 MT as against10.72 MT in 2017-18. In July, ISMA hadpegged output at 11-11.5 MT. “These esti-mates were made considering a normalrainfall during July — September 2018which has a big influence on the sugarcaneyields and sugar recovery. However, dur-ing the last 2-3 months, the rainfall in mostof the sugarcane areas in Maharashtra hasbeen substantially lower than last yearsame period as well as below normal aver-age of the last three years,” it said.
Moreover, white grub has infested asignificant area in the districts ofAhmednagar, Solapur and Marathwadaand to a lesser extent in Kolhapur, Sangli,Satara and Pune. In some small areas with-in the above districts, the crop has beenso seriously infested that either farmershave uprooted them or the crop has notsurvived.
“The northern part of Karnatakabeing contiguous to sugarcane grown insouthern part of Maharashtra, have alsosuffered due to lower rainfall as well assome infestation of white grub. Theimpact is, however, lower thanMaharashtra,” ISMA said.
Sugar production in Karnataka isnow estimated at 4.2 MT from 4.48 MTprojected in July.
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Just as Delhi is gasping forbreath due to increasing air
pollution, a WHO reportreleased on Monday increasedthe concerns as it pointed outthat everyday 98 per cent ofkids globally, under the age of15 years, breathe air that istoxic, putting them to severehealth risk. Alarmingly, 14 outof the 20 most polluted cities inthe world are in India, thereport stated based on its studyin 2016.
Air pollution is fatal too asaround 600,000 children diedfrom acute lower respiratoryinfections caused by dirty airduring the study year, as per thereport titled, “Air pollutionand child health: Prescribingclean air.”
The report examines theheavy toll of both ambient(outside) and household airpollution on the health of the
world’s children, particularly inlow and middle-income coun-tries including India.
The report is beinglaunched on the eve of WHO’sfirst ever Global Conference onAir Pollution and Health at thefirst Global Conference on AirPollution and Health beingheld in Geneva from 29October — 1 November to rallythe world towards major com-mitments to fight this problem.
The conference will raiseawareness of this growing pub-lic health challenge and shareinformation and tools on thehealth risks of air pollution andits interventions.
The WHO report alsotalked about the health hazardsof toxic air on pregnantwomen. They are more likely togive birth prematurely, andhave small, low birth-weightchildren, it said.
“In low- and middle-income countries around theworld, 98% of all childrenunder 5 are exposed to PM2.5levels above WHO air qualityguidelines. In comparison, inhigh-income countries, 52%of children under 5 are exposedto levels above WHO air qual-ity guidelines,” the study says.
“Globally, 93 per cent of theworld’s children under 18 yearsof age are exposed to ambientfine particulate matter (PM2.5)levels above WHO air qualityguidelines, which include the630 million of children under5 years of age, and 1.8 billionof children under 15 years,” thereport said.
The PM2.5 (or particleswith a diameter of less than 2.5micrometres present in theair), also called “fine particu-lates”, can be a matter of moreserious health concern thanPM10 (those with a diameter ofless than 10 micrometres).
PM2.5 poses greater harmas being finer, it can easily beinhaled into the respiratorytract.
The WHO report cited acase study that investigatedwhether exposure to PM2.5during pregnancy was associ-ated with low birth weight inan integrated rural-urban,mother-child cohort in TamilNadu.
“The researchers recruit-ed 1285 women in the firsttrimester of pregnancy in pri-mary health care centres andurban health posts and fol-lowed them until the birth of
their child to collect data onmaternal health, prenatal care,exposure to air pollution dur-ing pregnancy and the birth-weight of the child,” the studysaid.
The findings indicate thatmaternal exposure to PM2.5should be considered withother risk factors for low birth-weight in India.
The report also quoted acase-control study in Indiawhich showed a correlationbetween exposure to HAP fromsolid fuel combustion and therisk of contracting TB in chil-dren less than 5 years of age.
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The CBI has shared all thefiles pertaining to allega-
tions against CBI Director AlokVerma to the CVC that is con-ducting a probe against himeven as the Delhi High Courton Monday asked the agency tomaintain status quo in thebribery case against the CBISpecial Director RakeshAsthana who has soughtquashing of the FIR.
The CVC probe againstVerma is being monitored byretired Supreme Court judgeAK Pattnaik. Earlier, Vermahad stalled CVC probe againsthimself by not sharing thesefiles with the anti-corruptionwatchdog despite repeatedreminders.Verma and Asthanawere divested of their roles inthe CBI.
Citing Verma’s non-coop-eration as “unprecedented”,the CVC had passed orders todivest Verma along withAsthana of the “functions,power, duty and supervisory
role in the cases registered bythe CBI under the Preventionof Corruption Act. The CVChas the authority of superin-tendence over the CBI in casesrelating to PC Act. Verma didnot furnish the files related toAugust 24 complaint byAsthana that is the subjectmatter of the CVC enquirydespite repeated adjourn-ments.
The Government hasappointed CBI Joint DirectorM Nageshwar Rao as the inter-im chief of the agency. CBIsources said the agency hassubmitted a number of files tothe CVC as and when demand-ed by the superintendingauthority. The Delhi HighCourt on Monday directed the
CBI to maintain status quo tillNovember 1 on the criminalproceedings initiated againstAsthana, who has challengedthe FIR lodged against him onbribery allegations.
Justice Najmi Waziri ques-tioned the CBI for not filing itsresponse to the petitions ofAsthana and the agency’sDeputy Superintendent ofPolice Devender Kumar, whohas been in CBI custody sinceOctober 23.
The high court, in lasthearing on October 23, hadasked CBI to file its response byMonday. It had ordered theagency to maintain status quoon the proceedings againstAsthana. When CBI’s SpecialProsecutor K Raghavacharyuluprayed for a “little” more timeto file its reply, the court askedas to why it has not been doneyet. The CBI prosecutor toldthe high court that the delay infiling of reply occurred as thecase files have been sent toCentral Vigilance Commission(CVC).
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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday favoured cancellingthe 2017 SSC examination, whose declaration of results it hadstayed in August, and holding it afresh by the National TestingAgency (NTA) or the CBSE “in the interest of students”.
The top court observed it was difficult to ascertain the realbeneficiaries of the irregularities in the “tainted” examinationand hence it should be scrapped.
It refused to agree with the contention of Centre that theexamination held in February this year got “tainted” due to atechnical snag and a fresh examination of one paper had beenconducted thereafter.
The examination papers of the SSC CGL were allegedlyleaked, leading to huge protests from job seekers for several days.Amid the protests, the SSC had recommended a CBI probe intothe allegations of paper leak following the demands by the protest-ing job aspirants.
A bench of Justices S A Bobde and L Nageswara Rao askedthe Centre to go through the status report and file its reply byNovember 13.
“We had stayed declaration of results for the examinationsas there were prima facie material. It is in the interest of studentsthat whole thing is scrapped and held afresh,” the bench said.
The court said that even after the CBI probe or investiga-tion by any agency, there was no mechanism by which it can bedetermined who all were tainted and who all were innocents.
“Sometimes a hard decision has to be taken to send a mes-sage to those involved that these kind of activities would not ben-efit and every thing can be washed off,” it said. PTI
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Army chief General BipinRawat said here on Monday
the army is verifying reportsthat snipers have enteredKashmir valley to target secu-rity forces. His comments camein the wake of reports that atleast three security men werekilled in sniper attacks by ISItrained Jaish-e-Mohammad(JeM) militantssince mid-September forcingthe security forces to redrawtheir strategy to meet the newchallenge.
Responding to the patternof attacks, the Army chief saidthe Army was studying whetherthe attacks were carried out bysnipers. “Whether these attackshave been done by snipers ornot, this is something we arestill studying. “But to say thatsnipers have infiltrated andthat they have sniperweapons...We have not foundany sniper weapon,” he toldreporters on the sidelines of anevent here.
Rawat also said to saysnipers have come into theValley was “premature.”
Based on intelligence inputs,security agencies believe that atleast two separate ‘buddy’groups of the proscribed JeMcomprising two terrorists eachentered Kashmir Valley in earlySeptember and have entrenchedthemselves in South Kashmir’sPulwama district with the helpof some overground supportersof the outfit.
These terrorists, accordingto the officials, have beentrained by ISI for carrying outsniper attacks in the Valley andhave been armed with M-4carbines, used by the US-ledallied forces in Afghanistan.
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New Delhi: As Delhi continuesto battle alarming pollution lev-els, a new study has found thatthree of the world’s largest nitro-gen dioxide emission hotspotsthat contribute to formation offiner particulate matter causingair pollution are in India, withone in the Delhi-NCR.
The study by Greenpeacecomes as Delhi’s pollution levelclimbed to alarming levels. Airquality continued to remain inthe “very poor” category as athick haze engulfed the cityMonday. NO2 is a dangerouspollutant in itself and also con-tributes to the formation ofPM2.5 and ozone, two of themost dangerous air pollutants.
The largest number ofhotspots, a total of 10, is foundin China, eight in the Arabworld, four in the EU and three
each in India, the US and theDR Congo, according to ananalysis of new satellite datafrom June 1 to August 31.
Delhi-NCR, Sonbhadra inUttar Pradesh and Singrauli inMadhya Pradesh and Talcher-Angul in Odisha are the identi-fied hotspots in India. Sonbhadraand Singrauli are considered aspart of a single hotspot.
“Air pollution is a globalhealth crisis, with up to 95 percent of the world breathingunsafe air. With hotspots acrosssix continents, ranging fromcities to industrial clusters toagricultural areas, this newanalysis shows us more clear-ly than ever before just how biga part of the picture NO2 pol-lution is,” Lauri Myllyvirta,Greenpeace Nordic air pollu-tion campaigner, said. PTI
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Terming the allegations of the Congressparty on Rafale deal as baseless, Union
Minister for Law , Justice, Electronics andInformation Technology Ravi ShankarPrasad on Monday said that the Rafale air-craft had been purchased at 9 per cent less-er price than that of the UPA government’sdeal.
Addressing a press conference here,Prasad said that the Rafale aircraft issuehad cropped up as a friend of RahulGandhi and Robert Vadra did not get anycontract in the deal.
“No contract of Rs 30,000 crore hasbeen given to any private player in theRafale deal and but it is only of Rs 850crore. Based on the deal, the company hav-ing land in Nagpur will establish a man-ufacturing unit for spare parts of Rafale air-craft. The remaining work would beundertaken by another private player”, hesaid. He further said that the UPAGovernment had delayed the deal for adecade. Raising allegations, Prasad saidthat without ‘dakshina’ (dole) , theCongress party and Gandhi family do notwork and Rahul Gandhi is playing with thesecurity of the country, he said.
Prasad said NDA government hasworked to combat Naxalism which was in
150 districts in the country and now get-ting confined to about 70 to 80 districts.
Reacting to the reported statement ofsenior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor onPrime Minister Narendra Modi, Prasadsaid “it is total disrespect shown to theHindu Gods and Goddesses.”
“The attack on Prime MinisterNarendra Modi in the name of ‘Shivling’would not be tolerated. On one hand,
Rahul Gandhi is offering prayers at‘Mahakaal’ temple at Ujjain and on other,one of the Congress leaders is showing dis-regard towards Gods”.
On Ram temple and statements by BJPleaders, he said, issue of Ram Temple con-struction should not be linked with polls.There are many aspirations for it and atpresent the issue is before the SupremeCourt , he said.
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Fearing Maoist attack basedon Intelligence inputs and
citing security reasons, UnionMinister of Law and Justice andElectronics and InformationTechnology Ravi ShankarPrasad cancelled his Kirandultrip on Monday.
He was to address a publicmeeting in the insurgencyinfested district. The Minister’sother programmes wereretained in other parts ofChhattisgarh as per schedulemainly of holding public meet-ings at Mohala Manpur andAmbagarh Chowki. It may berecalled that late on Sundayevening, BJP leader and mem-ber of Zila Panchayat NandlalMudami was attacked byMaoists in Palnar area ofDantewada district inChhattisgarh. He was admittedto the district hospital but
observing his critical condition,he was shifted to Raipur.
After the incident inDantewada, the trip of UnionMinister Ravi Shankar Prasadwas cancelled citing securityreasons.
Putting in place security
arrangements for the upcom-ing polls in three states, theUnion Home Ministry hasordered for the deployment ofabout 25,000 troops for electionduties in Chhattisgarh, MadhyaPradesh and Rajasthan, a direc-tive said.
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With Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) can-didate from Kharsia Assembly con-
stituency Vijay Jaiswal declaring to supportCongress candidate Umesh Patel, theconstituency is going to witness a directcontest between the Congress and theBharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Notably, Bureaucrat turned politicianO.P. Chaudhary is the BJP candidatefrom Kharsia .
Kharsia is a Congress Bastion andnever ever a candidate from any otherparty had recorded victory from there.
Chaudhary, who belongs to the major-ity and influential Agharia community ofthe region, had put a big challenge beforeCongress. A tough contest is expected fromthere and Umesh Patel who belongs to thesame community as O P Chaudhary, is tak-ing the contest seriously and has thrownall his effort to retain the seat.
Meanwhile, the BSP candidate, Vijay
Jaiswal, who was supported by JanataCongress Chhattisgarh (Jogi) (JCC) (J),withdrew his nomination on Monday infavour of Congress candidate UmeshPatel.
The reason Jaiswal cited that anyhowBJP has to be defeated and his candidaturemight hamper the winning chances ofUmesh Patel because of bifurcation of anti-BJP votes.
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During undivided MadhyaPradesh, people of
Chhattisgarh used to face prob-lems even for getting basicamenities. But after BharatiyaJanata Party (BJP) came topower, the entire scenario dras-tically changed, Union Ministerfor Drinking Water andSanitation Uma Bharti said onMonday.
She was addressing a pub-lic meeting at Bazar Atriya atKhairagarh.
Bharti recalled her oldassociation with Chhattisgarh.
Appreciating the workdone by ruling BJP governmentled by Chief Minister RamanSingh in Chhattisgarh, she saidthat now through develop-mental works undertaken, theState had been made prosper-ous.
“The residents have easyaccess to food grains, telecom-munications connectivity, TV,internet, education, healthcarebesides other facilities”, Bhartisaid.
Commenting on Congressparty, she said that theCongress government duringits rule in Chhattisgarh had
looted people. People havefaith in BJP as it stands withpeople during the time of joyand crisis, she said.
Raipur: Janata CongressChhattisgarh (Jogi) (JCC) (J)declared one more candidatefor the Assembly polls onMonday.
The party announced thename of Santram Rathia as anofficial candidate fromDharamjaigarh assembly con-stituency.
Notably, Dharamjaigarh isa Scheduled Tribe (ST) reserveseat and Laljeet Singh Rathia issitting MLA from there.
The Congress party has astrong base in the region andthe JCC (J) had also put a chal-lenge from there by betting onSantram.
Notably, the JCC (J) is inalliance with Bahujan SamajParty (BSP) and CommunistParty of India (CPI).
JCC (J) has got a seat shareof 55 seats for 90 member stateassembly. It is declaring candi-dates in several stages and thiswas the seventh list with thesingle name.
The Bahujan Samaj Partyhas strong base amongScheduled Caste (SC) com-munity and hence most of theseats it has received in seatshare are SC reserved seats.Whereas another alliance part-ner, the Communist Party ofIndia (CPI) has strong hold inSouth Bastar and it has beengiven seat share there. SR
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The Election Commission ofIndia (ECI) has clarified
that political parties or candi-dates if issuing political e-advertisements will have toobtain prior certification from
the Media Certification andMonitoring Committee(MCMC) which is mandatory.
Confusion prevailed earli-er regarding the political adver-tisements being released in thesocial media like websites,Facebook, WhatsApp and
Twitter handle by the politicalparties and candidates as therewas no clear cut guidelines onit.
Even though the ECI hadincluded these in the electron-ic media but there are no spe-cific rules and Acts for it likethe electronic media of televi-sion. MCMC were findingproblems to earmark what willbe the status of such e-adver-tisements.
Clarifying the situation,Dhirendra Ojha, Director (IC,COM, OTD) , ECI , throughvideo-conferencing interacted
with all the MCMC membersbased in Chhattisgarh.
Ojha said that observing
the impact and wide use ofelectronic and social media bypolitical parties and candi-
dates, e-advertisement is beinggiven for voting, political ben-efit or any other party or can-didate, for which now priorcertification is required. Nowthe expenses incurred for itwould be added with politicalparties and candidates’ electionexpenditure.
He clarified that personelaccount of candidate havingpolitical materials posted willnot be part of election expens-es but other platforms, socialsites, e-paper along with anyother electronic medium, ifthe political advertisement is
recreated and processed, thenit would be included as part ofexpense.
Ojha further said thatpolitical parties can certify thee-advertisements at state levelMCMC while candidates cando it through district levelMCMC.
During video conferencingJoint Chief Electoral OfficerSameer Vishnoi and PadminiBhoi Sahu, Deputy CEOShrikant Verma, Assistant CEOSharda Agrawal, State levelMCMC members among oth-ers was present.
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Third gender communityhas claimed their repre-
sentation from Korba assemblyconstituency.
One of its members Malti
Kinnar on Monday took thenomination forms from theDistrict Electoral Office andhad declared of contesting thepolls.
After Madhu Kinnar waselected as Raigarh City Mayor
,the morale of third gendercommunity is high and thistime they have claimed theKorba assembly seat .
Notably, Jaisingh Agrawalfrom Congress and VikasMahto from Bharatiya JanataParty are in the fray fromKorba. Malti had earlier foughtthe urban body elections in2014 in Korba but was defeat-ed. Malti in a statement saidthat till then they were sup-porting Congress but the partyhad neglected them and hadnever given them representa-tion. They are fighting theelections in public interest andnot for personal gain, Maltisaid.
Malti further informed thatapart from third gender fromChhattisgarh, Kinnar commu-nity from Sagar and Bhopal toowould be campaigning for her.
Guru Shabnam Mausi hadsent blessings and had agreedfor campaigning for Malti inthe elections, Malti said.
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Even though the BharatiyaJanata Party (BJP) has
announced that all its candi-dates would be filing the nom-ination papers after taking outmassive rally at the each of 72assembly constituencies onNovember 1, the BJP candi-dates already started filing theirnomination papers fromMonday.
As per informationreceived from different dis-tricts, on Monday in Raipur,Dharsiwa's BJP candidate DevjiBhai Patel has filed the nomi-nation papers.
When contacted, he saidthat the nomination papershave been filed before theReturning Officer formally.
On November 1 also, nom-ination paper would be filed as
per the party directive.As per information Devji
Bhai Patel has filed two set ofnomination papers. BJP can-didate for Raipur (Rural) NandKumar Sahu also filed thenomination papers.
At Bemetara, BJP candi-date Awdhesh Singh Chandelfiled the nomination paperbefore Returning OfficerMahadev Kaware, BJP candi-date for Saja, Labchand Bafnafiled it before Returning OfficerUmashankar Sahu andNavagarh BJP candidateDayaldas Baghel filed it beforeReturning Officer O D S Uike.
Similarly at Khallari, BJPcandidate Monika Sahu filedthe nomination papers onMonday. November 2 is the lastdate for filing of nominationpapers. The deadline for accep-tance of nomination is 3.00 pm.
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In connection with the stingoperation case which has
sparked a major row in theState, the chief executive offi-cer of the news channelSamachar Plus Umesh Sharmahas been sent to 15 days’ judi-cial custody by the court ofadditional chief judicial mag-istrate (ACJM) on Monday.Earlier, he was produced in thecourt of ACJN III Rinki Sinhaamid tight security by police.In the court, Sharma pleadedfor himself and said that he wasbeing falsely implicated in the
case as part of a conspiracy. Healso raised the issue of his secu-rity and claimed that his lifewas under threat. TheGovernment counsel AlpanaThapa refuted his charges anddemanded his remand underjudicial custody. After hearingout both the sides, ACJM IIISinha sent Sharma to judicialcustody till November 8.
Notably, Sharma had beenarrested during a joint opera-tion of the Uttarakhand policeand Uttar Pradesh (UP) policeon Sunday from hisIndirapuram-based residencein Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh.The police team had claimed tohave recovered �39 lakh incash, some foreign currencyand equipment used in stingoperations. Besides, a largenumber of CDs, hard disks andother items had also been con-
fiscated from his house.Speaking of the case, the
Senior Superintendent of Police(SSP) Dehradun, NiveditaKukreti said that FIR has beenlodged against the suspendedregistrar of AyurvedaUniversity Mrityunjay Mishraand three other employees ofthe news channel, nowembroiled in the row. Thepolice are investigating theirrole in the conspiracy, sheadded.
On August 10, Ayush Gaur,the editor investigation of thenews channel Samachar Plus,had filed a complaint againsthis CEO Umesh Sharma,Mrityunjay Mishra and threeothers at Rajpur police stationof Dehradun following whichcases under section 386, 388and 120 B had been registeredagainst them.
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Following the arrest of anews channel owner, the
Bharatiya Janata Party has stat-ed that the conspiracy to desta-bilise the State Government isa serious matter. The investi-gation underway in the casewill expose the whole conspir-acy in this regard. Just likeimpartial investigation isexposing facts in the nationalhighway 74 scam, the reality inthis case will also be exposedsoon.
The BJP state media incharge Devendra Bhasin saidthat a journalist of a newschannel had lodged a reportagainst the CEO of the channelhe worked for, a StateGovernment officer and otherpersons leveling serious alle-gations including conduct of asting operation aimed atorchestrating political insta-bility in the State. The policehave started investigation inthis case and the law is takingits course.
The investigation is beingconducted in an impartialmanner so that the facts are
ascertained and action is takenaccording to the law.
Bhasin further said thatsome people are not liking themanner in which the StateGovernment under the ChiefMinister Trivendra Singh Rawatis pursing a zero-tolerance pol-icy towards corruption. This isthe reason why conspiracieswere hatched against the ChiefMinister in the recent past,though none of these succeed-ed. Just like impartial investi-gation in the national highway74 scam is exposing the truth,the facts in this case too will beascertained, added Bhasin.
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Editor (investigation) ofSamachar Plus Ayush Gaur
alleged during a press confer-ence here on Monday that theintention of the owner of thenews channel Umesh Sharmato blackmail either the ChiefMinister Trivendra SinghRawat or some of his closeassociates through sting oper-ation had not been fulfilled.
Narrating the sequence ofevents which culminated in thedramatic arrest of Sharma onSunday, Ayush said that he hadbeen told in January this yearthat some top politicians andbureaucrats in Uttarakhandbeing corrupt, he must doreality check of them as part ofhis assignment.
He further said thatSharma had asked him to con-tact a friend of his MrityunjayMishra who then was the res-ident commissioner ofUttarakhand in New Delhi.“Our plan was to reach theadditional chief secretary OmPrakash posing as businessmeninterested to set up a hotel inUttarakhand. We were suc-cessful to conduct his sting butnothing objectionable cameout as he had not demandedmoney,” he said.
Ayush added that twomonths after, Sharma hadasked him to contact one RahulBhatia in Dehradun. “In
Dehradun, Bhatia introducedme to one Sanjay Gupta, Kasimbesides brother and nephew ofthe Chief Minister. But none ofthem demanded money,’’ hesaid.
The editor investigation ofthe news channel on whosecomplaint Umesh Sharma hadbeen held said that he hadonce heard Sharma sayingthat once the CM was broughtunder control their workswould run smoothly.“However, by this time, itbecame clear to me that inten-tions of Sharma were notgood,” he said.
Ayush claimed that as partof the mission, he had beenable to enter the residence ofthe Chief Minister with threehidden cameras and a spycamera. “But at the lastmoment, I decided againstdoing what I was told to do.Sharma turned furious whenhe came to know of my failureto sting the CM.
He threatened me. At thispoint of time, I decided toexpose Sharma. Subsequently,I wrote to the Prime Ministerand the Chief Minister ofUttarakhand. But no responsecame.
Finally, I met some seniorpolice officials of Dehradunand narrated to them every-thing. I also lodged a com-plaint on their advice leadingto the arrest of Sharma,” Ayush
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As per Ayush Gaur, the roleof the controversial officer
Mrityunjay Mishra was a vitalcog in the scheme of things.He said that Mishra used todemand money in lieu ofarranging meeting with ACSOm Prakash. “But UmeshSharma insisted that moneyshould be handed over to OmPrakash to put pressure on theChief Minister,” he said. Ayushfurther claimed that he hasevidences of Mishra demand-ing money. “Now the evi-dences are in the possessionof police too,” he added.
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Ayush claimed that theEducation Minister
Arvind Pandey and Ministerof State for higher educationDhan Singh Rawat were alsotargets of the sting operation.“But we failed in the errand,”he said.
According to him, UmeshSharma has a habit of record-ing audio and video clips ofpoliticians and keeping themto blackmail them at appro-priate time.
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Following disclosure byAyush Gaur that he had
successfully conducted stingoperation of some senior StateGovernment officials and hadeven entered the ChiefMinister’s residence, theUttarakhand Government hasstepped up the CM’s security.The principal secretary home,Anand Vardhan said onMonday that the CM’s securityis reviewed from time to timeand changes are made accord-ingly.
He said that the issue ofthe attempted sting opera-tion would be brought to thenotice of the high- poweredcommittee soon. He furthersaid that the legal action onthe alleged mastermind ofthe attempted sting opera-tion is being taken as per the
law.It is pertinent to mention
here that the editor investiga-tion of the Samachar Pluschannel, Ayush Gaur hadclaimed that he had beenforced to conduct sting on theCM and some of his closeassociates.
He said that he had suc-cessfully done the same of anadditional chief secretary rankofficer of Uttarakhand.
He further said that noth-ing objectionable had, how-ever, been picked to framehim in corruption. Ayush saidthat he had entered the resi-dence of the CM with spycamera with an intention ofdoing sting of CM.
The revelation has sentthe state administration intoa tizzy. It is now rethinking thesecurity strategy of the CMand other VVIPs.
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The State Congress demand-ed the State Government to
make public the footages ofSting CDs recovered from pos-session of Umesh Sharma.Speaking of the matter, thestate Congress vice-presidentSurya Kant Dhasmana said thatthe alleged involvement of manyofficers demanding money aresaid to be stored in the CDsrecovered from the possessionof Umesh Sharma. He furthersaid that the whole episode hasexposed the reality behind thezero tolerance rhetoric dishedout by the State Government.
The Congress leaderdemanded that given the seri-ousness of the revelations, theChief Minister should himselfcome forward and give clarifi-cation on the issue. He said that
Congress stands for stringentpunishment for those involvedin the matter. “But how can weforget that the same person whohas been arrested was the mas-termind of the sting done onthen CM Harish Rawat? At thetime, BJP lauded the stingoperation and the person wasprovided with high profile secu-rity by the central forces,” hesaid.
Taking a swipe at the BJP,the state Congress leader saidthat the saffron party champi-oning honesty should not bescared of facing sting.
He also cast question on thelong time the police and theadministration had taken beforeswooping down on the con-spirators. “The complaint waslodged on August 10,” he said.He demanded that all the CDs,pen drives and cameras recov-ered should be made public andaction on those engaged insuch activities should be taken.
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Noted actress Himani BhattShivpuri and BJP state
vice-president and MLAPushkar Singh Dhami havebeen added to the list of starcampaigners for the party cam-paigners in the urban localbody elections.
The BJP state media incharge Devendra Bhasininformed that the BJP hasstepped up campaigning for thelocal body elections in theState.
On the directions of theparty state in charge Ajay Bhatt,the names of noted actressHimani Bhatt Shivpuri andparty state vice president andMLA Pushkar Singh Dhamihave been added to the list ofthe party’s star campaigners.With this, the listed star cam-paigners of the BJP for the
urban local body elections haveincreased to 48. He furtherinformed that the party’s stateelection committee will meeton October 31.
The party’s state generalsecretary Naresh Bansal hasinformed all members of thecommittee about this.
The series of meetings inthe seven municipal corpora-tions in the state by state incharge and national vice pres-ident Shyam Jaju, state presi-dent Ajay Bhatt and State gen-eral secretary (organisation)Sanjay Kumar will be conclud-ed by October 31. These meet-
ings which had started onOctober 28 have been held inRudrapur, Haldwani, Kashipurand Kotdwar so far. OnTuesday, the meetings will beheld in Haridwar and Rishikeshwhile on October 31 a meetingwill be held in the provisionalstate capital regarding themunicipal corporation ofDehradun.
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After a long delay of 18years, the Governments of
Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhandhave arrived at an agreementinvolving their transport cor-porations on Monday. A mem-orandum of understanding (MoU) was signed by UP prin-cipal secretary TransportAradhana Shukla andUttarakhand secretary trans-port Shailesh Bagoli at the res-idence of UP Chief MinisterYogi Adityanath. The CMs ofboth the States were present onthe occasion.
Under the agreementreached, the buses of UPTransport Corporation wouldply on 216 routes covering adistance of 1.39 lakh kilometersin Uttarakhand while the busesof Uttarakhand would run on335 routes covering a distanceof 2.52 lakh kilometers daily inUttar Pradesh.
It is worth mentioning herethat as of now, the operation ofbuses between the two states ineach other’s territory is being
done on temporary permitbasis. After the expiry of thepermit period, the buses of
each other are stopped ran-domly by the authorities, some-thing which results in extremeinconvenience to the passen-gers. After the agreement, thetemporary permit systemwould cease to exist and thebuses would operate on thebasis of agreement reached.
Speaking on the occasion,Uttarakhand CM TrivendraSingh Rawat said that the waitby both the States for the last18 years has come to an endwith the agreement. He saidwith the inking of the agree-ment, the people of both thestates will get better transportfacilities and all pending dis-putes will get solved soon. He
added that the StateGovernments of both the statesare striving to solve the long-standing problems.
UP Chief Minister YogiAdityanath said that with thesigning of transport agree-ment, the bus services betweenthe two states will increase. Hesaid that the people of both thestates share a common heritageand claimed that the relation-ship between the two states willbe further strengthened in thecoming days.
The UP transport MinisterSwatantra Dev Singh and hisUttarakhand counterpartYashpal Arya were also presenton the occasion.
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After hearing a contemptpetition filed regarding
problems faced by farmers inview of farmer suicides in theState, the high court ofUttarakhand issued contemptnotices to chief secretary UtpalKumar Singh and agriculturesecretary D Senthil Pandiyan.The bench of acting chief jus-tice Rajiv Sharma and justiceSharad Kumar Sharma direct-ed the two officials to submittheir reply by November 14.
Congress leader GaneshUpadhyay had filed a con-tempt petition in the highcourt stating that the state gov-ernment was consistentlyignoring the interests of farm-ers. The petitioner said that thegovernment is yet to clear thedues of the sugar cane farmersin Udham Singh Nagar district.He further stated that theorders issued by the high courtin April 2018 had not beenacted upon by the govern-ment. Advocate SandeepTiwari informed that earlier thecourt had ordered the stategovernment to form a statefarmers commission within
three months for the welfare offarmers. Further, the govern-ment was also directed to pro-vide minimum support price tothe farmers in accordance withrecommendations of the MSSwaminathan commission. Thehigh court had also directedthat a policy be framed for pro-vision of insurance to farmersfor crop damage caused byweather related factors. Thestate government had also beendirected the government toprepare a scheme for providingfamily pension to the familiesof farmers who had committedsuicide. The case has been setfor hearing next on November14.
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The number of patientsaffected by dengue in
Uttarakhand has crossed 550mark on Monday as ten newcases of the dreaded vector-borne disease have been report-ed by the state health authori-ties. On the day, all the tenpatients of the disease havebeen reported from Haridwar,taking the count to 551.
Haridwar district with 183cases of the disease so far hasreported the maximum num-ber of dengue patients this yearwhile 173 people in Dehradunhave been affected by the dis-ease. In Tehri district, 108cases of the disease have so farbeen reported while 55 patients
have been found in Nainitaldistrict.
The health authoritiesassure that there is nothing topanic with the rising count. Butthey advise the people to see toit that the breeding groundsinside and in the vicinity oftheir houses are destroyed.They are also asking the peo-ple to wear full-sleeved clothesduring the day time to reduceexposure for the mosquitobite.
Dengue is a viral infectionspread by the mosquito AedesAezypti popularly known asTiger Mosquito. The symp-toms of the disease are persis-tent high fever, rashes,headache and pain in thejoints. In the acute cases theplatelets number decreasedrastically which may provefatal for the patient.
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Bangladesh’s ailing formerPrime Minister Khaleda
Zia suffered a major setback onMonday when a court herejailed her to seven years in asecond corruption case forembezzling millions from acharitable trust in her late hus-band’s name, ahead of generalelections.
Zia, 73, is already behindbars after being handed a five-year term in February in anoth-er case related to embezzlementof funds of an orphanagenamed after her husband latePresident Ziaur Rahman.
The latest sentence, whichcomes ahead of general elec-tions in December, is relatedthe Zia Charitable Trust.
According to the case, Ziaand three others abused theirpower and collected $3,75,000for the trust from unknownsources.
Judge MohammadAkhtaruzzaman announcedthe verdict from the temporarypremises of the court at the oldcentral prison at Dhaka’sNazimuddin Road.
The final trial proceedingsin the case went ahead in the
absence of Zia, the leader of theBangladesh Nationalist Party(BNP), after the prison author-ities repeatedly failed to bringher to the court.
She had recently com-plained to the court that shewas losing feeling in her handand in a leg.
The Zia Charitable Trustgraft case was filed by theAnti-Corruption Commissionin 2011.
Zia’s former political affairssecretary Harris Chowdhury,his former aide and formerBangladesh Inland WaterTransport Authority actingdirector Ziaul Islam Munnaand former Dhaka mayorSadeque Hossain Khoka’s per-sonal secretary Monirul IslamKhan are the three others con-victed in the case.
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All 189 passengers and crewaboard a crashed
Indonesian Lion Air jet werelikely killed in the accident, res-cue officials said Monday, asthey announced they hadfound human remains andwould continue the grim searchthrough the night.
The Boeing-737 MAX,which went into service justmonths ago, vanished fromradar 13 minutes after takingoff from Jakarta, plunging intothe Java Sea moments after ithad asked to return to theIndonesian capital.
Websites that display flightdata showed the plane speed-ing up as it suddenly lost alti-tude in the minutes before itdisappeared, with authoritiessaying witnesses saw the jetplunge into the water.
“My prediction is thatnobody survived because thevictims that we found, theirbodies were no longer intactand it’s been hours so it is like-ly 189 people have died,” search
and rescue agency operationaldirector Bambang Suryo Ajitold reporters.
Some 40 divers are part ofabout 150 personnel at thescene, authorities said, with theplane wreckage some 30 to 40metres deep in the water.
Earlier, video footageapparently filmed at the sceneof the crash showed a slick offuel on the surface of the waterand pictures showed whatappeared to be an emergencyslide and bits of wreckage bear-ing Lion Air’s logo.
The carrier acknowledgedthat the jet had previouslybeen grounded for unspecifiedrepairs.
“It’s a really mystery whatcould have happened,” saidGreg Waldron, Asia managingeditor of industry publicationFlightglobal.
“Hopefully they will beable to locate the (cockpit)voice data recorders.”
The plane had been enroute to Pangkal Pinang city, ajumping off point for beach-and-sun seeking tourists on
nearby Belitung island, when itdropped out of contact around6.30 am (2330 GMT).
One Italian national wasaboard the plane which wasflown by an Indian pilot, thetransportation ministry said.
Images filmed at PangkalPinang’s main airport showed
families of passengers cryingand hugging each other, withsome calling out to god.
“This morning he calledasking about our youngestson,” said a sobbing Ermayati,referring to her 45-year-oldhusband Muhammed Syafii,who was on board.
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Indian pilot Bhavye Sunejadied on Monday after the
Indonesian plane he captainedwith 188 passengers and crewon board the budget carriercrashed in the Java Sea, IndianEmbassy here confirmed.
Suneja, 31, was flying theLion Air flight JT610 which lostcontact with the ground offi-cials 13 minutes after taking offfrom Jakarta Soekarno HattaInternational Airport.
The Boeing 737 MAX 8aircraft en-route to PangkalPinang city crashed nearKerawang, 32 miles east ofJakarta.
“Our deepest condolenceson the tragic loss of lives in theLion Air Plane crash, off thecoast of Jakarta today. Mostunfortunate that Indian PilotBhavye Suneja who was flyingJT610 also lost his life,” IndianEmbassy in Indonesia said in atweet.
“Embassy is in touch withCrisis Center and coordinating
for all assistance,” it said.The flight carried 178
adults, 1 child and 2 infants.The plane also had 3 crewunder training and 1 techni-cian, the statement said.
The aircraft was com-manded by Captain Sunejaand co-pilot Harvino with sixcabin crew members.
Suneja has 6,000 flighthours and the co-pilot morethan 5,000 flight hours, the air-line said in a statement.
Captain Suneja was a res-ident of Jakarta. He is originallyfrom New Delhi and attendedAhlcon Public School in EastDelhi’s Mayur Vihar.
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The US has called on SriLanka President
Maithripala Sirisena to imme-diately reconvene parliament toallow the democratically elect-ed representatives in the coun-try decide who will lead theirGovernment following a polit-ical turmoil sparked by the sud-den sacking of Prime MinisterRanil Wickremesinghe.
Sirisena on Friday sackedWickremesinghe and appoint-ed former strongman MahindaRajapaksa as the new PrimeMinister, triggering politicalchaos in the Indian Oceanisland nation. Next day, hesuspended Parliament afterWickremesinghe, who hadtermed his sacking as illegaland unconstitutional, sought anemergency session to provehis majority.
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Washington: President DonaldTrump on Monday accused themedia of being “the true Enemyof the People” in the wake of amass shooting and a mail bombplot.
Trump tweeted: “There isgreat anger in our Countrycaused in part by inaccurate,and even fraudulent, reportingof the news.”
He added that the media“must stop the open & obvioushostility & report the newsaccurately & fairly.”
The president’s commentsfollow a mass shooting at aPittsburgh synagogue that left11 dead and a mail bomb scaretargeting Democrats and CNN.
The election season vio-lence rattled a deeply dividednation and prompted ques-tions about whether Trump
should tone done his rhetoric.Trump strongly con-
demned the Pittsburgh attackas an act of anti-Semitism andhas denounced political vio-lence and called for unity.
But with eight days to gobefore the midterm elections,he has continued to hold hispolitical rallies, complete withharsh criticism of Democratsand the media.
At a rally Saturday night,Trump was somewhat mutedbut still offered his standardcampaign attack lines, includ-ing citing Hillary Clinton andRep Maxine Waters, both ofwhom were targeted in thebomb plot.
On Twitter on Sunday, hesavaged billionaire business-man Tom Steyer, another tar-get of the mail bombs. AP
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Sao Paulo: In some of his firstwords to the nation as presi-dent-elect, far-right politicianJair Bolsonaro has promised todefend the constitution andunite a bitterly divided popu-lace.
His left-wing rival imme-diately vowed to mount a vig-orous opposition, while rightsgroups warned against a roll-back of civil liberties.
That juxtaposition under-scored that the end of the elec-tion was not the end of acri-mony and that myriad chal-lenges lay ahead for LatinAmerica’s largest nation.
Bolsonaro appeared to tryto allay those concerns Sundaynight, saying he would “pacify”Brazil following a race thatrevealed deep divisions and wasrepeatedly marred by violence.
The candidate himself wasstabbed and almost died whilecampaigning in earlySeptember, and there werenumerous reports of political-ly motivated violence, espe-cially directed at gay people.
“This country belongs toall of us, Brazilians by birth orby heart, a Brazil of diverseopinions, colors and orienta-tions,” he said, reading off asheet of paper in a live televi-sion address. AP
Geneva: Exposure to toxic airboth indoors and out killssome 6,00,000 children underthe age of 15 each year, theWorld Health Organisationwarned on Monday.
Data from the UN healthbody shows that every day, 93percent of children under theage of 15 — a full 1.8 billionyoungsters, including 630 mil-lion under the age of five —breath dangerously pollutedair. This has tragic conse-quences: In 2016 alone, some600,000 children died fromacute lower respiratory infec-
tions caused by polluted air, theWHO report found.
“Polluted air is poisoningmillions of children and ruin-ing their lives,” WHO chiefTedros Adhanom Ghebreyesussaid in a statement.
“This is inexcusable. Everychild should be able to breatheclean air so they can grow andfulfil their full potential.”
According to WHO data,more than nine out of 10 peo-ple on the planet breath dan-gerously toxic air, causing someseven million premature deathseach year. AFP
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Britain’s Treasury chief willsplash out on health ser-
vices in a spending plan to beannounced on Monday, sig-nalling the easing of eight yearsof austerity — Brexit permit-ting.
Philip Hammond is set topledge 2 billion pounds (USD2.5 billion) more for mentalhealth services as he delivers hisfinal budget before the countryleaves the European Union, hisoffice said.
In advance of the presen-tation, he told the BBC he alsointends to increase NationalHealth Service funding by 20billion pounds a year by 2023.
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assumed charge as Sri Lanka’snew Prime Minister even asdefiant Ranil Wickremesingheasserted that he still com-mands the majority in parlia-ment amid warning by theSpeaker that there could be“bloodbath” on the streets if thepolitical crisis is not resolvedimmediately.
Rajapaksa assumed theduties in the prime minister’ssecretariat which was not usedby the ousted Prime MinisterWickremesinghe.
President MaithripalaSirisena’s new Cabinet was alsosworn in and Rajapaksa wasnamed the new minister offinance and economic affairs.
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representing the Tamils ofIndian origin from central teaplantations, has been namedthe minister of Hill CountryDevelopment.
President Sirisena onFriday night sackedWickremesinghe and appoint-ed Rajapaksa as the new primeminister in a surprise move thatis being debated as a constitu-tional coup.
Sirisena also suspendedparliament till November 16after Wickremesinghe soughtan emergency session to provehis majority.
Sri Lankan parliamentSpeaker Karu Jayasuriya haswarned that there could be“bloodbath” as some peoplewere trying to resolve a powerstruggle between the presidentand his ousted premier on thestreets. Addressing reporters inKandy, Jayasuriya said the issueshould be resolved insideParliament.
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e pu
blic
); ba
the
the
deity
with
fore
st ho
ney
(abh
ishek
am);
and
enjo
y pu
ja r
ight
s at
sub
-sh
rines
, like
the K
arim
ala te
mpl
e alo
ng th
e way
.Sa
barim
ala’s
majo
r cus
tom
s, in
cludi
ng 41
-da
y vr
at a
nd re
stric
tion
(not
ban
) on
wom
enin
a sp
ecifi
c age
gro
up, d
eriv
e fro
m tr
ibal
cul-
ture
an
d tr
adit
ions
. T
he
Akh
ilaTh
iruv
itham
koor
Mal
a A
raya
Mah
asab
hapl
ans t
o ap
proa
ch th
e ape
x co
urt t
o pr
otec
t its
age-
old
custo
ms u
nder
the
Fore
st Ri
ghts
Act.
The
com
mun
ity, w
hich
cla
ims t
o ha
ve e
stab
-lis
hed
the s
hrin
e bef
ore i
t cam
e und
er th
e con
-tro
l of t
he P
anda
lam
roya
l fam
ily, a
lso p
lans
tofil
e a re
view
pet
ition
agai
nst t
he ve
rdic
t allo
w-
ing
wom
en o
f all
ages
to e
nter
the
hill
shrin
eaf
ter t
he S
tate
Gov
ernm
ent r
efus
ed to
do
so.
The
Com
mun
ist r
egim
e’s e
ager
ness
to
faci
litat
e en
try
of w
omen
fro
m t
he h
ither
toba
rred
age g
roup
, eve
n as
revi
ew p
etiti
ons a
repe
ndin
g bef
ore t
he Su
prem
e Cou
rt, w
as in
tend
-ed
to h
umili
ate t
he fa
ithfu
l. A
s gen
uine
dev
o-te
es ga
ther
ed fo
r the
pilg
rimag
e whe
n th
e shr
ine
open
ed o
n O
ctob
er 1
7, t
hey
enco
unte
red
unse
emly
atte
mpt
s by i
nelig
ible
pers
ons t
o ga
te-
cras
h th
e tem
ple.
Mer
cifu
lly, t
he te
mpl
e clo
sed
with
out v
iola
tion
five d
ays l
ater
.In
a m
ajor
pro
voca
tion
on O
ctob
er 1
9, a
team
lea
d by
a t
earf
ul i
nspe
ctor
-gen
eral
SSr
eejit
h es
corte
d Re
hana
Fat
ima (
of K
iss of
Lov
eca
mpa
ign
fam
e), a
nd K
avith
a Jak
kal, a
repo
rter
from
Moj
o T
V, H
yder
abad
, to
the s
hrin
e gat
es.
They
wer
e fo
rced
to re
turn
afte
r bei
ng re
cog-
nise
d by
dev
otee
s, de
spite
wea
ring b
ulle
tpro
ofja
cket
s and
hel
met
s giv
en b
y the
pol
ice (
a pos
-sib
le v
iolat
ion
of th
e Po
lice
Act).
Lat
er, M
ary
Swee
ty al
so re
turn
ed m
idw
ay af
ter b
eing
chal
-le
nged
by
vigi
lant
bha
ktas
.
Real
ising
that
the
Stat
e G
over
nmen
t may
have
bitt
en o
ff m
ore
than
it
can
chew
,D
evas
wom
Min
ister
Kad
akam
pally
Sure
ndra
nur
ged
activ
ists n
ot to
mak
e the
hol
y pr
ecin
cts
a pl
ace
to p
rove
thei
r stre
ngth
and
lam
baste
dth
e pol
ice fo
r esc
ortin
g the
wom
en w
ithou
t ver
-ify
ing t
heir
cred
entia
ls. Sa
barim
ala is
a hu
ge re
v-en
ue e
arne
r and
the
Stat
e co
uld
lose
cro
res i
fTa
ntri
Kan
dara
ru R
ajee
varu
, ba
cked
by
Pand
alam
pal
ace,
clos
es t
he s
anct
um f
orpu
rific
atio
n if
the
tem
ple
is de
filed
. Jus
t fiv
ede
cade
s ago
, bar
ely 5,
000 p
ilgrim
s man
aged
the
ardu
ous
61-k
m tr
ek to
the
tem
ple;
now
four
cror
e com
e in
the w
inte
r sea
son
alon
e as n
ewro
ads h
ave s
hort
ened
the r
oute
.A
n id
eal s
olut
ion
wou
ld b
e to
clo
se t
hesh
rine f
or a
deca
de an
d al
low
pas
sions
to co
oldo
wn.
Sim
ulta
neou
sly, t
he d
egra
ded
ecol
ogy o
fth
e Wes
tern
Gha
ts co
uld
reco
ver,
espe
cially
afte
rth
e rec
ent f
lood
s, th
e wor
st Ke
rala
has
face
d in
deca
des.
The 7
77 sq
km
Per
iyar
Tig
er R
eser
ve,
whe
re th
e shr
ine i
s loc
ated
, hos
ts 20
tige
rs, e
le-ph
ants,
and
othe
r wild
life.
Even
afte
r the
floo
dsre
cede
d, t
here
wer
e to
rren
tial
rain
s in
Saba
rimal
a, an
d no
one
has
take
n sto
ck o
f how
the
wild
life
fare
d.Th
e Nat
iona
l Tig
er C
onse
rvat
ion
Auth
ority
is co
ncer
ned
that
the r
ising
num
bers
of d
evo-
tees
dist
urb
the a
rea’s
frag
ile ec
olog
y. Vi
rtua
llyno
thin
g ha
s be
en d
one
to i
mpl
emen
t th
eSa
barim
ala
Mas
ter P
lan
of 2
007.
A re
view
by
the K
eral
a Gov
ernm
ent a
nd D
evas
wom
Boa
rd
on O
ctob
er 9
, 201
8, fo
und
evid
ence
of d
efor
-es
tatio
n an
d m
ajor
dev
iatio
ns fr
om th
e pl
an.
At N
ilakk
al b
ase c
amp,
tree
s wer
e cut
to m
ake
park
ing
area
s, w
hile
driv
er sh
elter
s, do
rmito
-rie
s an
d ho
tels
have
bee
n bu
ilt, d
isreg
ardi
ngm
aste
r pla
n sp
ecifi
catio
ns.
At th
e nex
t sto
p alo
ng th
e sac
red
Pam
ba, s
ev-
eral
build
ings
hav
e bee
n co
nstru
cted
with
in 50
-m
etre r
adiu
s of t
he ri
ver, i
nclu
ding
a G
over
nmen
tho
spita
l. The
gree
n zo
ne in
fron
t of t
he h
ospi
tal
has b
ecom
e a pa
rkin
g lot
. The
bio-
toile
ts ar
e ina
d-eq
uate;
sewa
ge tr
eatm
ent p
lant d
ysfu
nctio
nal, a
ndun
treat
ed fa
ecal
waste
is b
eing d
umpe
d in
to th
eriv
er. T
he tr
ee co
ver a
t San
nidh
anam
is le
ss th
an20
per
cen
t, as
opp
osed
to 5
0 pe
r cen
t rec
om-
men
ded
in th
e mas
ter p
lan.
A st
udy
by tw
o ex
pert
team
s has
war
ned
of la
ndsli
ps an
d tre
mor
s at t
he h
oly h
illoc
k du
eto
ext
ensi
ve c
oncr
ete
floo
ring
at
the
Sann
idha
nam
, but
the D
evas
wom
Boa
rd is
con-
tinui
ng c
onstr
uctio
n w
orks
at
Pam
ba a
ndSa
barim
ala.
Whi
le o
rdin
ary
devo
tees
mer
elyde
sire c
lean
and
hyg
ieni
c lod
ging
s, a
holy
dip
in a
cle
an r
iver
, the
Gov
ernm
ent a
nd B
oard
inva
riabl
y st
art
prep
arat
ions
at
the
elev
enth
hour
and
fail
to se
rve t
he p
ilgrim
s.Sh
ops a
re au
ctio
ned
at h
igh
rate
s at P
amba
,Sa
nnid
hana
m an
d alo
ng th
e rou
te, a
nd p
ilgrim
sar
e fle
eced
by
trad
ers e
ven
thou
gh m
any
vol-
unta
ry an
d re
ligio
us b
odie
s are
will
ing t
o pr
o-vi
de f
ree
food
and
bev
erag
es t
o de
vote
es.
Expe
rts s
ay p
ilgrim
s do
not n
eed
mul
ti-sto
rey
com
plex
es, t
hey
need
tem
pora
ry sh
elter
s with
prop
er sa
nita
tion
and
drin
king
wat
er, w
hich
do
not d
istur
b th
e eco
logy
of t
he sa
cred
grov
e. Th
eSt
ate
Gov
ernm
ent i
s res
pons
ible
for
pres
erv-
ing w
ildlif
e and
pro
tect
ing r
iver
s fro
m en
viro
n-m
enta
l deg
rada
tion
unde
r Art
icle
48A
of t
heC
onst
itutio
n. U
nder
the
Wat
er A
ct 1
974
(Sec
tion
24, 2
5), p
ollu
ting r
iver
wat
er is
a pu
n-ish
able
offe
nce.
But P
amba
is b
eing
con
tam
i-na
ted
unde
r the
aegi
s of G
over
nmen
t age
ncies
,w
ith im
puni
ty.
In 2
005,
tha
nks
to t
he i
nter
vent
ion
ofin
fluen
tial p
erso
ns su
ch as
TKA
Nai
r, pr
incip
alse
cret
ary t
o th
e Prim
e Min
ister
, the
Min
istry
ofEn
viro
nmen
t an
d Fo
rests
tra
nsfe
rred
12.
65he
ctar
es of
rese
rve l
and
for S
abar
imala
’s �1,
000-
cror
e dev
elopm
ent p
lan, w
hich
was
appr
oved
byth
e Su
prem
e Co
urt.
Envi
ronm
enta
lists
lamen
tth
at th
e Dev
aswo
m B
oard
has
mad
e Sab
arim
alaa c
oncr
ete ju
ngle
and
com
mer
cial t
owns
hip.
Less
than
12
per c
ent o
f shr
ine l
and
is us
ed fo
r pub
-lic
purp
oses
; the r
est c
ompr
ises h
otels
, sho
ps an
dgu
esth
ouse
s. Th
e shr
ine s
tand
s in
the l
ow a
lti-
tude
eve
rgre
en s
tretc
h w
hich
is t
he W
este
rnG
hats’
biod
iver
sity h
otsp
ot. Y
et ov
er 20
per
cent
of fo
rest
cove
r has
disa
ppea
red
in th
e pas
t two
deca
des.
The S
upre
me C
ourt
shou
ld sc
rutin
iseth
is ec
olog
ical d
esec
ratio
n ra
ther
than
Ayy
appa
Swam
i’s ri
tes o
f pilg
rimag
e.(T
he
wri
ter
is
Sen
ior
Fell
ow,
Neh
ruM
emor
ial
Mu
seum
an
d Li
brar
y;
the
view
sex
pres
sed
are
pers
onal
)
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Si
r —
Thi
s re
fers
to
the
edito
rial,
“Str
ongm
an’s
retu
rn”
(Oct
ober
29)
.W
hat h
as h
it th
e nei
ghbo
urin
g co
un-
try,
Sri L
anka
, is a
lmos
t the
pol
itica
lve
rsio
n of
an ea
rthq
uake
. The
sudd
enpo
litic
al d
evel
opm
ent
ends
an
over
thre
e-ye
ar-o
ld co
aliti
on G
over
nmen
tth
at w
as f
orm
ed b
y Sr
i La
nkan
Pres
iden
t Mait
hrip
ala S
irise
na an
d fo
r-m
er
Prim
e M
inis
ter
Ran
ilW
ickr
emes
ingh
e on
a p
rom
ise
toco
mba
t cor
rupt
ion
and
finan
cial i
rreg
-ul
ariti
es.
Siri
sena
, w
ho w
as R
ajap
aksa
’s
Min
ister
of H
ealth
, bro
ke a
way
from
him
to c
onte
st th
e pr
esid
entia
l ele
c-tio
ns. N
ow S
irise
na h
as m
ade
a dr
a-m
atic
vol
te-fa
ce. H
e ha
s pr
oved
that
ther
e ar
e ne
ither
per
man
ent f
riend
sno
r per
man
ent e
nem
ies i
n po
litic
s.
Alth
ough
ther
e w
ere
spec
ulat
ion
but n
obod
y tho
ught
that
Siri
sena
and
Raja
paks
a wou
ld cl
ose r
anks
so so
on.
The
whe
el h
as n
ow tu
rned
a fu
ll ci
r-cl
e an
d a
Pres
iden
t, w
ho u
ncon
stitu
-tio
nally
said
that
he
wou
ld n
ot m
ake
Mah
inda
Raj
apak
sa t
he P
rim
eM
inist
er e
ven
if he
had
the
num
bers
in A
ugus
t 201
5, h
as n
ow m
ade
him
Prim
e M
inist
er w
ith n
o ha
rd in
dica
-
tion
of w
heth
er t
he n
umbe
rs h
ave
turn
ed ag
ains
t Ran
il W
ickr
emes
ingh
eor
not
. Bu
t th
at is
the
gam
e of
pol
itics
.In
dia
can
onl
y ho
pe th
at o
rder
will
emer
ge o
ut o
f cha
os a
nd th
e co
untr
yw
ill n
ot b
e pl
unge
d in
to a
narc
hy.
J A
ksh
ay
Beng
alur
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r —
Thi
s re
fers
to
the
edito
rial,
“Str
ongm
an’s
retu
rn”
(Oct
ober
29)
.Th
e dev
elopm
ents
in th
e isla
nd n
atio
nap
pear
to b
e unc
onsti
tutio
nal a
nd h
ave
stru
ck a
blo
w o
n de
moc
racy
. Th
e
retu
rn o
f Mah
inda
Raj
apak
sa c
asts
ash
adow
on
Sri L
anka
n po
litic
s. Th
ede
volu
tion
of p
ower
s to
the
Tam
ilssh
ould
not
be f
orgo
tten
in th
e pro
cess
.Ra
japa
ksa
is kn
own
to le
an to
war
dsC
hina
. Ind
ia sh
ould
be e
xtra
vig
ilant
.N
R R
amac
han
dra
n
Chen
nai
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Sir —
In h
is M
ann
Ki B
aat p
rogr
amm
ePr
ime M
inist
er N
aren
dra M
odi s
poke
abou
t Sar
dar P
atel’
s birt
h an
nive
rsar
y(O
ctob
er 3
1), w
hich
is o
bser
ved
as th
eN
atio
nal U
nity
Day
. Pa
trio
tic sp
irit a
nd n
atio
nal i
nte-
grat
ion
are
the
need
of
hour
for
ast
rong
and
uni
ted
Indi
a, w
hich
will
prom
ote
unity
and
har
mon
y de
spite
cultu
ral,
soci
al an
d ec
onom
ic d
iver
si-tie
s an
d pr
ovid
e pe
ace,
prog
ress
and
pros
perit
y in
the
coun
try.
So, l
et u
s sal
ute
this
grea
t visi
on-
ary’s
effo
rts t
o un
ite In
dia a
nd b
e uni
t-ed
in sp
irit a
nd ce
lebr
ate o
ur d
iver
si-ty
. W
e m
ust
rem
embe
r th
at I
ndia’
sun
ique
iden
tity
is un
ity in
div
ersit
y.T
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Mod
i is lik
e a sc
orpio
n sitti
ng on
a Sh
ivling
.Yo
u can
’t re
move
him
with
your
hand
and
you c
an’t
hit it
with
a cha
ppal
eithe
r.—
Cong
ress
MP
SHAS
HI TH
AROO
R
The C
ongr
ess h
as be
en ba
d-mou
thing
Lord
Shiva
, and
Rah
ul Ga
ndhi
shou
ld re
move
Shas
hi Th
aroo
r fro
m pa
rty ra
nks s
oon.
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okes
pers
onSA
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PATR
A
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The b
ig c
ats
— li
on, t
iger
and l
eopa
rd —
are s
usce
p-tib
le to
dise
ases
as
they
large
ly pr
ey u
pon
dom
es-
tic an
imals
, inclu
ding
dogs
and
pigs
, wh
ich a
re a
car
rier
ofpa
thog
ens.
Dom
estic
lives
tock
cons
ti-tu
te o
ver 4
0 pe
r cen
t of t
he fo
od fo
rlio
ns a
nd a
bout
60
per c
ent f
or th
eleo
pard
s. D
epen
denc
y of t
he ti
ger o
ndo
mes
tic li
vesto
ck is
also
hig
h bu
tles
ser
than
the
oth
er t
wo b
ig c
ats.
Dog
s are
the
main
sour
ce o
f rab
iesde
aths
, con
tribu
ting t
o ab
out 9
9 pe
rce
nt o
f all
rab
ies t
rans
miss
ions
to
hum
ans.
Case
s of le
opar
d dea
ths d
ueto
rab
ies w
ere
repo
rted
durin
g th
eBr
itish
perio
d. In
abse
nce o
f ade
quate
repo
rt, it
is d
ifficu
lt to
ass
ess d
eath
sof
tige
rs, l
ions
and
leop
ards
due
tora
bies
but
hig
her p
ossib
ilitie
s exi
st.
The c
arca
ss of
ever
y rab
ies in
fect-
ed do
g or l
ivesto
ck is
eaten
by th
e car
-ni
vore
s, pr
imar
ily bi
g and
small
cats,
hyen
a, jac
kal, w
olf,
foxe
s, an
d ho
ney
badg
er. A
few
deat
hs o
f lio
ns a
ndtig
ers t
oo w
ere s
uspe
cted d
ue to
rabi
esatt
ack i
n th
e pas
t. Vac
cinati
ng do
gs is
the m
ost c
ost-e
ffecti
ve st
rateg
y to p
re-
vent
rabi
es in
hum
ans a
nd ca
rnivo
res.
The
first
fatal
attac
k of
Can
ine
Dist
empe
r Viru
s (CD
V) an
d Bab
esia
Prot
ozoa
was
con
firm
ed in
the
Gir
lions
whe
n 23
out
of t
he 2
6 kn
own
infec
ted
lions
died
in a
shor
t per
iod
in S
epte
mbe
r th
is ye
ar. T
iger
s an
dleo
pard
s are
solit
ary a
nim
als an
d the
irso
cial l
ife is
diff
eren
t fro
m th
e lio
ns.
Exce
pt fe
male
s wi
th c
ubs,
none
of
thes
e two
big c
ats liv
e in
grou
ps. T
hus,
the d
eath
of ea
ch on
e of t
hem
due
tosu
ch d
iseas
e is u
suall
y no
t det
ecte
d,an
d are
repo
rted a
s natu
ral d
eath
s. In
the c
ase o
f dea
th o
f a n
omad
lion
or
a sm
all gr
oup o
f lion
s, by
viru
s or p
ro-
tozo
ans,
incid
ence
wou
ld h
ave b
een
igno
red
even
with
tho
roug
h hi
gh-
level
inve
stiga
tion
of th
e dise
ase.
But
it ca
nnot
be i
gnor
ed w
hen
the n
um-
ber o
f dea
ths e
xcee
d ha
lf a d
ozen
ina s
hort
perio
d of
just
two w
eeks
. The
pres
ence
of
viru
s or
pro
tozo
ans
amon
g the
big
cat i
s not
rare
but
has
neve
r bee
n re
porte
d be
caus
e the
sci-
ence
of vi
rolo
gy ha
s not
been
integ
rat-
ed w
ith w
ildlif
e man
agem
ent.
In a
majo
rity
of p
laces
, the
y do
not d
ie du
e to t
heir
imm
unity
syste
m.
Whe
n im
mun
ity is
lowe
red
again
stth
e atta
ck o
f any
viru
s, th
e atta
ck o
fCD
V a
nd B
abes
iatu
rns f
atal
to th
e
anim
al. P
erha
ps th
is wa
s the
case
for
large
-sca
le de
aths
of G
ir lio
ns.
Two
scien
tific
insti
tute
s for
the
first
time r
epor
ted
in 20
11 ab
out t
helio
n de
ath
in G
ir du
e to h
ighl
y inf
ec-
tious
Pes
tedes
pet
its ru
min
ants
viru
s(P
PRV
). Ac
tive v
iral s
urve
illan
ce in
neig
hbou
ring
Gir
villa
ges f
or P
PRV,
simila
r to C
DV, w
as al
so re
com
men
d-ed
by
an in
stitu
te. S
ubse
quen
tly, i
tap
pear
ed i
n ne
wspa
pers
tha
t th
efo
ur G
ir lio
ns se
nt to
Eta
wah,
Utta
rPr
ades
h, d
ied o
f CD
V d
urin
g 20
14-
16. T
his c
alled
for v
accin
ation
of do
gsan
d oth
er su
ch an
imals
again
st CD
V.H
owev
er, a
ctio
n co
uld
not b
e put
inpl
ace d
ue to
som
e rea
sons
.As
iatic
lions
face
serio
us th
reat
sto
their
futu
re as
abou
t half
of t
hem
live o
utsid
e the
core
habi
tat of
the G
irfo
rests
and h
unt d
omes
tic liv
esto
cks,
along
with
live
stock
and
blu
e bu
ll.Li
ons i
n th
e per
iphe
ral z
one a
lso hu
ntdo
mes
tic li
vesto
ck in
the v
illag
es o
rm
aldha
ri ne
sses
. A la
rge n
umbe
r of
leopa
rds h
unt d
ogs a
long
with
oth
erpr
eys a
nd so
met
imes
their
kill
s are
appr
opria
ted by
the l
ions
. Pro
babi
lity
of tr
ansm
issio
n of
viru
s, ba
cteria
and
othe
r suc
h di
seas
e is v
ery h
igh
in th
eAs
iatic
lions
. Epi
dem
ic di
seas
e risk
sfo
r lio
ns in
frag
men
ted
small
pop
u-lat
ions
beco
me s
ignifi
cant
ly hi
gher
asco
ntac
t with
dom
estic
anim
al po
pu-
latio
ns, in
cludi
ng do
gs, b
ecom
e mor
efre
quen
t as a
resu
lt of
alte
ratio
ns in
micr
oclim
ate an
d lan
dsca
pe ec
olog
y. Th
e too
ls to
pred
ict, p
reve
nt, a
ndre
spon
d to
thes
e ris
ks a
re n
ot w
elles
tabl
ished
in co
nser
vatio
n m
anag
e-m
ent.
But d
eath
s of G
ir lio
ns d
ue to
the f
atal
dise
ase i
s exp
ecte
d to
ope
na
new
chap
ter
in w
ildlif
e m
anag
e-m
ent.
Cruc
ially,
res
cue
oper
atio
nan
d wi
ldlif
e hea
lth m
anag
emen
t are
the
best
in li
on c
onse
rvat
ion
land-
scap
e in
our c
ount
ry bu
t not
enou
ghto
addr
ess t
he ch
allen
ges e
ffect
ively.
In
Ser
enge
ti, th
e lio
ns ar
e pro
neto
sim
ulta
neou
s ou
tbre
aks
of C
DV
and B
abes
ia P
roto
zoa.
Cani
ne di
stem
-pe
r is a
viru
s tha
t affe
cts d
og’s
gas-
troin
testi
nal, r
espi
rato
ry an
d ce
ntra
lne
rvou
s sys
tem
s as w
ell a
s the
con
-ju
nctiv
al m
embr
anes
of
the
eyes
.C
DV,
a d
isea
se t
hat
resu
lts i
nen
ceph
alitis
and p
neum
onia,
is tr
ans-
mitt
ed b
y dom
estic
dog
s; Ba
besio
sisis
carr
ied b
y a ti
ck-b
orne
blo
od p
ar-
asite
calle
d Bab
esia
. Sym
ptom
s of t
heCD
V at
tack
inclu
de fe
ver,
eye i
nfla-
tion,
disc
harg
e fro
m e
yes a
nd n
ose.
CDV
or B
abes
iosis
alo
ne a
ren’t
the
thre
ats
to li
ons
in S
eren
geti.
It is
aco
mbin
ation
of C
DV w
ith a
high
-leve
lof
expo
sure
to B
abes
iath
at ki
lled
the
lions
in A
frica
in 1
994
and
2001
. Co
-infec
tion
by m
ore
than
one
path
ogen
can
acc
elera
te e
xpec
ted
trans
miss
ion
rate
s and
viru
lence
of a
dise
ase.
Envi
ronm
enta
l pe
rturb
a-tio
ns ca
n als
o ch
ange
the h
ost p
ara-
site’s
relat
ions
hip.
In a
majo
rity o
f the
case
s, lio
n po
pulat
ions
are
infec
ted
with
at le
ast o
ne, a
nd m
ost w
ith m
ul-
tiple
path
ogen
s, of
ten
with
mul
tiple
strain
s of p
atho
gens
.Sc
ientis
ts su
spec
ted
that
the d
is-ea
se —
iden
tified
from
bloo
d and
tis-
sue
sam
ples
as C
DV
— c
ame
from
dom
estic
dog
s in
the v
illag
es ar
ound
the S
eren
geti
perim
eter
. Blo
od sa
m-
ples
from
the d
ogs s
howe
d th
e pre
s-en
ce o
f CD
V. In
the
villa
ges w
here
lions
hunt
lives
tock
, dom
estic
dogs
are
very
com
mon
. Ca
nine
dist
empe
rsp
read
s mos
tly v
ia sn
eezin
g. It
was
likely
that
the v
irus t
rave
lled
dire
ct-
ly to
the G
ir lio
ns fr
om th
e dom
estic
dogs
or it
was m
ore p
lausib
le th
at th
elio
ns ca
ught
the v
irus f
rom
othe
r car
-ni
vore
s — hy
enas
, jack
als, o
r leo
pard
s. H
yena
s an
d jac
kals
are
scav
-en
gers
that
frequ
ent v
illage
s, an
d leo
p-ar
ds h
unt d
omes
tic d
ogs o
r eat
car-
cass
es. L
ions
wou
ld co
me i
nto
con-
tact w
ith th
ese i
nfec
ted sp
ecies
at ki
lls.
In a
nd a
roun
d G
ir fo
rests
, ove
r 625
leopa
rds h
unt d
omes
tic an
imals
, pri-
mar
ily do
gs. T
he po
ssibi
lity o
f app
ro-
priat
ing
thes
e kill
s by
the l
ion
is no
tru
led ou
t. A m
ad le
opar
d, in
fected
byra
bies
, can
chall
enge
lion
and
what
alio
n ca
n do
to su
ch le
opar
d is
well
know
n. Li
ons a
re sc
aven
gers
and t
hey
feed o
n de
ad an
imals
. The
se an
imals
,in
cludi
ng n
atura
lly de
ad do
gs, c
an be
a sou
rce o
f tra
nsm
issio
n to
the l
ion.
Alth
ough
two d
ozen
lions
died
offat
al di
seas
es, s
imila
r inc
iden
ces m
aybe
occu
rrin
g in
othe
r car
nivo
res t
oo.
Why
is it
that
the
wild
dog
pop
ula-
tion
sudd
enly
drop
ped
in p
rote
cted
area
s in
cent
ral a
nd so
uth
Indi
a, an
dth
en r
ecov
ered
in
two-
thre
e ye
ars
befo
re th
e nex
t dro
p? W
hy is
it th
atth
e num
ber o
f jac
kals
is re
giste
ring a
down
fall?
Perh
aps,
a sol
utio
n to
their
prob
lem l
ies i
n sc
ientif
ic wi
ldlif
ehe
alth
man
agem
ent.
Also
, the
fata
latt
ack o
f CD
V an
d de
aths
of lio
ns in
a lar
ge nu
mbe
r can
be a
lesso
n to
use
the
scien
ce o
f wi
ldlif
e di
seas
es i
nwi
ldlif
e man
agem
ent.
Alt
ern
ativ
e h
ome
for
Asi
atic
Lio
ns:
The
Spec
ies
Surv
ival
Com
miss
ion
of t
he I
nter
natio
nal
Unio
n fo
r Co
nser
vatio
n of
Natu
repu
blish
ed g
uide
lines
on
strat
egic
plan
ning
for
spe
cies
cons
erva
tion,
which
hav
e sin
gle p
opul
atio
n in
one
geog
raph
ic re
gion
. The
Asia
tic lio
n is
one o
f the
m w
hich
has
the o
nly w
ildpo
pulat
ion
in th
e wo
rld in
the
Gir
fore
sts. A
grou
p of le
adin
g con
serv
a-tio
nists
decla
red t
hat a
n ext
incti
on cr
i-sis
is fa
cing t
he w
orld
’s lar
gest
carn
i-vo
res, i
nclu
ding
the b
ig ca
ts. T
he su
per
cats
— li
ons a
nd ti
gers
— n
eed
very
large
area
as th
ey n
eed
huge
trac
ts of
natu
ral h
abita
t to s
urviv
e. D
ue to
their
large
size
and
thre
ats,
they
are
less
resil
ient t
han
man
y sm
aller
spec
iesan
d les
s abl
e to
hand
le th
e thr
eat.
Big c
arni
vore
popu
latio
n, re
strict
-ed
to a
sing
le sit
e, fa
ce a
var
iety
of
extin
ctio
n th
reat
s fro
m p
oach
ing,
inte
ntio
nal k
illin
g and
envi
ronm
en-
tal f
acto
rs. C
atas
troph
es, s
uch
as a
nep
idem
ic or
fata
l dise
ase,
rem
ain th
em
ain f
acto
rs f
or l
oss
of s
pecie
s.Re
intro
duct
ion
of th
e las
t fre
e-ra
ng-
ing
popu
latio
n of
Asia
tic li
ons t
o an
alter
nativ
e site
to en
sure
their
long
-ter
m vi
abilit
y bec
ame a
majo
r con
ser-
vatio
n ag
enda
. Con
sider
ing t
his,
the
first
trial
to in
trodu
ce A
siatic
lion
inC
hand
ra P
rabh
a Sa
nctu
ary
inVa
rana
si wa
s don
e in
1959
by tr
anslo
-ca
ting
few li
ons b
ut th
e ex
perim
ent
faile
d af
ter i
nitia
l suc
cess
. Su
bseq
uent
ly, th
e G
ujar
at S
tate
Gov
ernm
ent
orde
red
the
Bard
aW
ildlif
e San
ctua
ry in
197
9 to
esta
b-lis
h an
alter
nativ
e for
the A
siatic
lion,
but t
he de
cisio
n rem
ains o
n pap
er du
eto
lac
k of
a b
old
decis
ion
by t
heau
thor
ity. S
ubse
quen
tly, a
fter a
long
exer
cise,
Kuno
Wild
life
Sanc
tuar
y(K
uno W
LS) i
n M
adhy
a Pra
desh
has
been
iden
tified
as an
alte
rnat
ive si
te.A
fter
a lo
ng l
egal
bat
tle i
n th
eSu
prem
e Co
urt,
decis
ion
went
in
favou
r of K
uno W
ildlife
Sanc
tuar
y, bu
tev
en fiv
e yea
rs aft
er th
e dec
ision
, it ha
sno
t bee
n im
plem
enta
ted.
Th
e clim
ate of
the a
ltern
ative
site
is a m
ajor i
ssue
whi
ch n
eeds
exam
i-na
tion
befo
re th
e tra
nslo
catio
n of
the
anim
als th
ere.
The l
ion
evol
ved
and
flour
ished
in te
mpe
rate
and s
ub-tr
op-
ical
envi
ronm
ent,
and
the
clim
atech
ange
s, es
pecia
lly te
mpe
ratu
re va
ri-ati
ons,
impa
cted i
ts m
igrati
on, d
isper
-sio
n an
d dist
ribut
ion
in E
urop
e, As
ia
and
Afric
a sin
ce it
evol
utio
n.
Revie
w of
clim
atic p
aram
eters
ofpa
st an
d pre
sent
lion
area
s acr
oss t
heth
ree c
ontin
ents
indi
cate
that
the l
ion
perh
aps n
ever
flour
ished
in ho
t tro
p-ica
l env
ironm
ent,
and
lion
habi
tats
may
have
a hi
gh ri
sk of
extre
me t
em-
pera
ture
in th
e hot
sum
mer
. At p
re-
sent
, majo
r pop
ulat
ions
cont
inue
tosu
rvive
in su
b-tro
pica
l env
ironm
ent
in o
ver t
wo d
ozen
coun
tries
, and
insm
all p
opul
atio
ns in
tem
pera
te a
ndm
oder
ate tr
opica
l clim
ate in
Afri
ca.
In I
ndia
, te
mpe
ratu
re o
f th
eAs
iatic
lion
distr
ibut
ion
rang
e in
tropi
cal c
limate
is ar
ound
the G
ir fo
r-es
t. Th
e she
lter o
f eve
rgre
en ri
verin
eve
geta
tion
along
the s
even
per
enni
-al
or
sem
i-per
enni
al r
iver
s an
dPr
osop
is co
ver a
long
Sha
trunj
i rive
ror
alon
g the
coas
t pro
vide
cool
envi
-ro
nmen
t for
the l
ions
. Alte
rnati
ve si
tefo
r lio
n in v
ery h
ot en
viron
men
t of t
heKu
no W
S in
the V
indh
yaya
n re
gion
is de
bata
ble.
The l
ogic
of th
e sur
vival
of th
e lio
n in
the n
orth
-wes
t Ind
ia 15
0ag
o in
Min
i Ice A
ge (1
300 A
D to
1850
AD) d
oes n
ot h
old
grou
nd.
Disa
ppea
ranc
e of t
he lio
n ou
tside
Guj
arat
coin
cide w
ith th
e end
of t
heM
ini-I
ce A
ge w
hen
aver
age t
empe
r-atu
re in
nor
th In
dia w
as lo
wer t
han
the p
rese
nt te
mpe
ratu
re. I
n fa
ct, c
li-m
ate th
en in
the n
orth
Indi
a was
nea
rsu
btro
pica
l. Th
e di
strib
utio
n of
the
Asiat
ic lio
n sin
ce it
s ent
ry in
Indi
a to
the
pres
ent n
eed
exam
inat
ion
with
resp
ect t
o th
e clim
ate.
In b
ackg
roun
d of
thes
e fa
cts,
the
Gov
ernm
ent
has
few
opt
ions
whi
ch s
houl
d be
und
erta
ken
tom
inim
ise th
reat
fact
ors w
hich
can
caus
e th
e ex
tinct
ion
of t
he s
ub-
spec
ies.
Firs
t, th
e sci
ence
of g
enet
-ics
, for
ensic
and
viro
logy
shou
ld b
eus
ed in
tens
ively
for l
ong-
term
con-
serv
atio
n of
the l
ion.
Seco
nd, s
atel-
lite a
reas
shou
ld b
e man
aged
in li
neof
Gir
prot
ecte
d ar
ea b
y enh
anci
ngad
min
istra
tive
staf
f and
res
torin
gha
bita
ts. T
hird
, an
alte
rnat
ive
site
for
the
lions
shou
ld b
e de
velo
ped
with
out d
elay
. Bar
da S
anct
uary
ison
e of t
he g
ood
optio
n. S
ucce
ss in
this
case
is
high
bec
ause
sim
ilar
type
of
adm
inist
ratio
n, w
ith a
llfa
cilit
ies
and
know
-how
, ca
n be
trans
plan
ted
ther
e. If
it is
not d
one
shor
tly o
r not
pos
sible
due t
o so
me
reas
on, t
he G
over
nmen
t sho
uld
not
hesit
ate
to d
evelo
p an
alte
rnat
ive
site f
ar aw
ay fr
om th
e Gir
fore
st.
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s is
the
sec
ond
arti
cle
in a
two-
part
seri
es o
n A
siat
ic L
ions
. The
firs
t par
t app
eare
d in
thes
e co
lum
ns
on M
onda
y, O
ctob
er 2
9. T
he w
rite
ris
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embe
r,
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ion
al
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rd
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ose
who
are
exc
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get
imm
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lised
. SD
Bur
man
, dad
a, as
he is
refe
red
to, b
elon
ged
to th
e lat
ter c
at-
egor
y. It
is no
w m
ore t
han
four
dec
ades
that
we l
ost h
im b
ut h
is m
usic
of t
he fi
fties
and
sixtie
s stil
l app
ears
to h
ave a
flav
our o
f effe
r-ve
scen
t you
thfu
l bou
nce.
It w
as th
e gen
ius
in h
im th
at d
espi
te th
e obv
ious
gene
ratio
nal
gap,
his
mus
ical s
core
s hav
e ret
ained
an el
e-m
ent o
f con
tem
pora
ry fr
eshn
ess.
Com
para
tive
ly a
lat
e co
mer
to
Mum
bai,
as h
e was
alre
ady i
n hi
s lat
e thi
r-tie
s, hi
s kn
owle
dge
of B
angl
a fo
lk a
ndRa
bind
ra S
ange
et, c
oupl
ed w
ith h
is fle
x-ib
ility
and
inn
ovat
iven
ess,
help
ed h
imes
tabl
ish h
imse
lf. V
ery s
oon,
he w
as b
eing
coun
ted
in t
he f
ront
ran
ks a
long
side
Nau
shad
, G
hula
m M
oham
mad
and
Khe
mch
and
Prak
ash.
Not
aver
se to
taki
ngris
ks, d
ada
as h
e was
affe
ctio
nate
ly ca
lled,
was
look
ing f
or a
new
voice
and
foun
d on
e,by
cha
nce,
in h
is ne
ighb
ourh
ood.
G
eeta
Gho
sh R
oy C
haud
hary
(la
ter
Gee
ta D
utt)
, who
m h
e had
seen
in a
cho-
rus s
ong,
was
giv
en a
brea
k in
194
7 w
here
she s
ang
for K
amin
i Kau
shal
on
scre
en fo
rD
o B
hai.
The s
ong
mer
a su
nda
r sa
pna
beet
gaya
was
an in
stan
t rag
e and
from
then
on
ther
e was
no
look
ing b
ack.
Lat
er, d
ada
was
to m
ake
ampl
e us
e of
the
husk
y vo
ice
ofG
eeta
Roy
to g
ive m
any
mor
e mem
orab
lem
elod
ies .
A
lway
s ye
arni
ng fo
r so
met
hing
new
and
expe
rimen
tal,
dada
was
look
ing
for a
lyric
ist f
or N
auja
wan
in 1
950,
whe
n he
foun
d Sa
hir w
ho w
as ye
t to
esta
blish
him
-se
lf in
Mum
bai.
Sere
ndip
itiou
sly , a
fter h
erde
but
in M
ahal
in 1
949
and
late
r on
Bar
sat,
Lata
Man
gesh
kar
was
tak
en o
nbo
ard
for N
auja
wan
. Th
is co
mbi
natio
n of
thre
e gen
iuse
s —da
da,
Sahi
r an
d La
ta —
pro
duce
d an
imm
orta
l co
mpo
sitio
n th
andi
haw
ayei
n.
The m
usic
of t
his s
ong
is su
ch th
at it
lend
sto
the l
yric
s an
atm
osph
ere o
f bre
ezin
ess.
Till
date
, it r
emai
ns o
ne o
f the
bes
t and
favo
urite
s of
Lat
a. I
n fa
ct, l
ater
, sev
eral
com
pose
rs t
ook
up a
nd a
dopt
ed t
hesh
ades
of t
his v
ery
popu
lar t
une
in th
eir
own
com
posit
ions
.Th
e su
cces
sful
ass
ocia
tion
of S
ahir
with
dad
a, w
hich
beg
an w
ith N
auja
wan
,co
ntin
ued
for
17 m
ore
film
s, gi
ving
one
hit a
fter a
noth
er, l
ike
Jaal
, Baa
zi, D
evda
s,Ta
xi D
rive
r, M
unim
ji, H
ouse
No
44, P
yasa
,am
ong
othe
rs. B
ut w
ith tw
o te
mpe
ram
en-
tal a
nd se
nsiti
ve a
rtist
es, w
ho c
onsid
ered
them
selv
es th
e mas
ters
of t
heir
craf
t, co
m-
ing
toge
ther
, som
e sp
arks
wer
e bo
und
tofly
. For
Baa
zi,
tadb
eer
se b
igdi
hu
iw
asw
ritte
n by
Sah
ir in
a m
ujr
a —
gha
zal s
tyle
— b
ut d
ada
had
othe
r ide
as. H
e com
pose
dth
is in
to a
very
pep
py tu
ne w
ith W
este
rn-
styl
e bea
ts. S
ahir
prot
este
d an
d w
ante
d to
quit
but a
com
prom
ise w
as b
roke
red
byG
uru
Dut
t. U
ltim
atel
y, Sa
hir
rele
nted
and
ackn
owle
dged
the
gen
ius
of d
ada
whe
n th
is so
ng b
ecam
e a
hit a
nd v
irtu
al-
ly to
ok B
aazi
to g
lorio
us h
eigh
ts.
Sahi
r w
as v
ery
pass
iona
te a
bout
his
poet
ry a
nd fo
r Pya
sa in
195
7, h
e w
ante
dda
da
to c
ompo
se m
usic
to
his
lyric
s.Be
sides
this,
he
wan
ted
to b
e pa
id m
ore
than
the
mus
ic D
irect
or, t
houg
h us
ually
,it
is th
e ot
her
way
aro
und.
Eve
n th
ough
initi
ally
adam
ant,
dada
rele
nted
to S
ahir’
s
term
s bu
t the
reaf
ter,
neve
r w
orke
d w
ithhi
m a
gain
. Thi
s le
d to
a c
risis
and
Gur
uD
utt f
or K
agaz
ke
phoo
lhad
to gi
ve a
brea
kto
Kai
fi A
zmi w
hile
reta
inin
g da
da.
Scio
n of
a p
rince
ly s
tate
, dad
a w
asal
way
s ve
ry c
hoos
y, te
mpe
ram
enta
l and
unco
mpr
omisi
ng. T
his
ofte
n le
d to
tiff
sw
ith o
ther
art
istes
, in
clud
ing
Lata
. A
min
or m
isund
ersta
ndin
g ove
r a re
-rec
ord-
ing l
ed to
thei
r par
ting o
f way
s for
six y
ears
till s
he ca
me b
ack
with
him
in 1
963
to si
ngfo
r Ban
dini
, whi
ch w
as al
so th
e deb
ut ve
hi-
cle
for G
ulza
r as a
lyric
ist.
Even
Kish
ore
Kum
ar c
onsid
ered
his
succ
ess
larg
ely
to t
he m
ento
ring
and
patr
onag
e of
dad
a w
ho p
roje
cted
him
as
the v
oice
of D
ev A
nand
in th
e fift
ies w
hen
Kish
ore
was
abs
olut
ely
raw.
H
is de
ep u
nder
stan
ding
of t
he m
usi-
cal n
otes
gav
e him
the f
lexi
bilit
y to
adop
tW
este
rn-s
tyle
as ea
rly 1
954
in T
axi D
rive
r,w
here
he m
ade g
ood
use i
nstr
umen
ts, l
ike
the
trum
pet a
nd th
e bo
ngos
. O
n th
e oth
er h
and,
his
use o
f the
tabl
apl
ayed
by P
andi
t San
ta P
rasa
d in
nac
he m
anm
ora
mag
anfro
m m
eri s
oora
t ter
i an
khen
,is
one o
f the
bes
t exp
ositi
ons o
f Ind
ian
clas-
sical
mus
ic in
Bol
lyw
ood.
Dad
a’s so
noro
usvo
ice
with
a h
igh
into
ne w
as p
erha
ps id
e-al
ly s
uite
d on
ly f
or a
bac
kgro
und
scor
ew
here
he m
ade f
ull u
se o
f Rab
indr
a san
gert
and
gave
us s
ome c
lass
ic co
mpo
sitio
ns. H
ispo
wer
was
such
that
whe
n on
e list
ened
tohi
s co
mpo
sitio
ns w
ith e
yes
clos
ed o
new
ould
act
ually
be l
ivin
g th
e mom
ent w
ithth
em. W
ho ca
n fo
rget
not
bei
ng o
n a r
iver
bank
stee
ring a
boa
t whi
le lis
teni
ng to
mer
esa
jan
hai
n u
s pa
ar, m
ein
is
paar
….
Reco
gnisi
ng h
is im
men
se co
ntrib
utio
nto
the
field
of m
usic
and
cin
ema,
he
was
conf
erre
d w
ith th
e Pa
dma
Shri
and
late
ron
a p
osta
ge st
amp
and
a fir
st d
ay c
over
was
also
bro
ught
out
in h
is ho
nour
. Sad
ly,lik
e man
y oth
er d
ada
too
beca
me a
vic
timof
Bol
lyw
ood
polit
ics
and
got
only
tw
oFi
lmfa
re a
war
ds —
firs
t in
1954
for
Taxi
Dri
ver
and
then
in 1
973
for A
bhim
aan
. His
com
posit
ions
of
Gu
ide,
Ara
dhan
a an
dJe
wel
T
hief
, be
sides
num
erou
s ot
hers
,w
ere a
ll ov
erlo
oked
. Per
haps
a tr
ue ge
nius
like
him
nev
er n
eede
d an
y aw
ards
. For
him
, the
mos
t im
port
ant
thin
g w
as t
head
ulat
ion
and
affe
ctio
n of
the
pub
licw
hich
he
got i
n am
ple
mea
sure
.(T
he w
rite
r is
a r
etir
ed D
elhi
Pol
ice
Com
mis
sion
er
and
fo
rmer
U
ttar
akha
nd
Gov
ern
or)
Rem
embe
ring
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man
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Tamil Nadu polit icsplunged into another cri-
sis on Monday as the SupremeCourt refused to adjourn thehearing of a petition filed bythe DMK seeking disqualifi-cation of 11 AIADMK MLAs,including O Panneerselvam,the Deputy Chief Minister, fordefying a party whip and vot-ing against the EdappadiPalaniswami-led Governmentin the trust motion onFebruary 18, 2017.
The Madras High Courthad dismissed the DMK petitionin April this year ruling that theCourt does not have the juris-diction over the powers of theSpeaker. The DMK laterapproached the apex court witha petition challenging theMadras High Court verdict.Since the court has paved theway for the hearing the appeal,the AIADMK Governmentwould be on tenterhooks as anyadverse verdict from the apexcourt means the loss of 11 MLAsfor the ruling dispensation whichis surviving only because of theproverbial ‘wafer thin majority’.
The AIADMK has 115members (including theSpeaker) in the House with atotal strength of 234. TheOpposition has 98 memberswhich include TTVDhinakaran, the lone memberof the AMMK. Chances arethat five members are all set to
cross over to the Dhinakarancamp which means theAIADMK would be left with99 members making thePalaniswami Government alame duck.
The day began with M KStalin, the DMK president,declaring at a marriage cere-mony that his party had col-lected all documentary evi-dence of ‘big-time’ corruptioncommitted by the EdappadiPalaniswamy Governmentover the last two years. “Wehave concrete proof of the cor-rupt practices of the chiefminister, his deputy and othermembers in the council ofMinisters. The day thisGovernment falls and ourGovernment takes over theadministration, all these cor-rupt ministers includingEdappadi Palaniswami,Panneerselvam and otherMinisters would end up injail,” declared Stalin.
He accused thePalaniswami Government of
running away from the elec-torate without holding eventhe local body elections. “ThisGovernment is unlikely tohold even the 20 by-pollsnecessitated by the disquali-fication of the 18 MLAs andthe demise of two MLAs,”charged Stalin.
Earlier in the day, theAIADMK leadership includ-ing Palaniswami,Panneerselvam and seniorleaders and Ministers wentinto a huddle following theSupreme Court’s refusal toadjourn the hearing of thepetition filed by the DMKseeking disqualification ofPanneerselvam and ten partyMLAs. Despite the MadrasHigh Court’s verdict uphold-ing the Speaker’s order dis-qualifying the 18 MLAs owingallegiance to VK Sasikala andDhinakaran, the Palaniswami-Panneerselvam camp extend-ed olive branch to the rebelMLAs as well as party func-tionaries with a request toreturn to the mother party.
The rebel camp is yet todecide on the future course ofaction. Though TTVDhinakaran told reporters atSivaganga on Saturday that thedisqualified MLAs would seekre-election as and when the by-polls are held, his party was yetto decide whether they shouldfile an appeal in the SupremeCourt challenging last week’sMadras High Court order.
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A‘Light & Sound Show’ onSardar Vallabbhai Patel, a
part of the Statue of Unity pro-ject, would be inaugurated byPrime Minister Narendra Modion Wednesday after he woulddedicate the world’s tallest stat-ue of Sardar Patel at Kevadiya.
The Light & Sound Showwill be shown in the exhibitionhall built at the pedestal of182-metre tall Statue of Unitybeing unveiled downstreamthe Sardar Sarovar Project(SSP) dam on River Narmadaon the occasion of the birthanniversary of the Sardar onOctober 31, 2018.
The show will depictSardar Patel’s fight against theBritish rule with reference to
partition of India, unifica-tion, the support of tribalpeople, construction of thedam and related issue.
A short video on theprocess and stages of con-structing the Statue of Unity,billed as the world’s talleststatue, will also be screened onthe wall from an audio-videokiosk for the visitors.
It took the time and toil ofpeople, besides collecting soiland iron for the statue, fromall over India.
The 73 feet high exhibi-tion hall spread on 4,637square metres will also screen16 films shot by famous direc-tors on the life and times ofSardar Patel with footagesfrom the history during amal-gamation of princely statewith Union of India duringIndependence.
The hall will also have alibrary of books on SardarPatel published over a periodof time.
An 18-foot tall bronzestatue of Sardar has also beeninstalled at the exhibition hallas centre of attraction.
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Chandrashekhar Verma,the absconding husband
of former Social WelfareMinister Manju Verma, sur-rendered in the court onMonday and was sent to judi-cial remand. After this it isstrongly believed that she toocould surrender very soon asa warrant against her is withthe police.
Verma was wanted inconnection with the infa-mous sexual harassment ofminor girls at a Government run shelter home inMuzaffarpur and had goneunderground for over threemonths when his name sur-faced in this case with his calldetailed record showed hewas in constant touch withthe main accused Brajesh Thakur.
He was also accused ofvisiting the shelter home allalone and spending good timebehind closed door.
His wife Manju Verma,who was then Social WelfareMinister in Nitish Kumarcabinet had to quit after hishusband’s name figured inthis case and many victim
girls alleged about the visit ofa “pot-bellied uncle” and sex-ual assault by him.
This reference was sup-posed to be about Vermawho came on the radar on theinvestigating agency CBI.
After the Patna high courtrejected his anticipatory bailpetitions and Supreme Courtexpressed displeasure overpolice inaction in arrestinghim, Verma had little optionleft but to surrender inManjhaul sub-divisionalcourt.
Warrant was issuedagainst the former Ministerthis month after her antici-
patory bail plea was rejectedby the high court.
The police had filed a casagainst her under Arms Actafter the recovery of 50 car-tridges of different bores,some of them banned forpublic use, from her home inher constituency CheriaBeriarpur during a searchoperation.
Manju Verma is alsoabsconding after submittingher resignation to the CM in August. A warrant was issued afterBegusarai police filed FIRagainst her in September andthe high court turned downher anticipatory bail petition.
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Monday said that the Governmentof Assam has decided to bring themaster roll and casual workersemployed by the StateGovernment under pay-scaleswhich will ensure increased finan-cial benefit to them. The Ministersaid this while addressing a pressconference at Dispur and addedthat the decision will benefit13,860 master roll and casualworkers working under 52departments of the State.
"The average wage of thesemaster role workers used to bebetween �3000 to �6.000 permonth. However after they werebrought to the pay scale system,their average monthly salary willbe �18,000 approximately," saidthe Minister. Sarma said that themove will cost the State exchequerwith an additional expenditure ofclose to �177 crore per year. Hesaid that the Government willissue the notification in this regardsoon and will be executed fromMonday itself.
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The �100-crore indigenous-ly developed high-tech,
energy-efficient, self-propelledor engineless train was flaggedoff by Railway Board ChairmanAshwani Lohani here onMonday.
Soon after Lohani waved thegreen flag, the white-colouredtrain with a dash of blue moveda few yards in the IntegralCoach Factory (ICF) amid thebeating of drums in celebration.
Officials said India's firsttrainset — Train 18 — will bea game-changer for the IndianRailways.
The train was developedat nearly half the cost that isnormally incurred for suchdevelopment.
Speaking to IANS earlier, S.Mani, General Manager, ICF,said the train with a capacity totouch speed of 160 kmph willreplace the Shatabdi Express.
"With 16 coaches, the trainwill have the same passengercarrying capacity. There arenow separate power cars. But itis about 15-20 per cent energyefficient and leaves less carbonfootprint," Mani said.
Officials said the trainsetwas conceived, designed anddeveloped in about 18 months'time as against the industry
norm of about 3-4 years.The trainset has aerody-
namically designed driver cab-ins at both ends for quickerturnaround at destinations.
According to an ICF offi-cial, every alternative coach ismotorised, to ensure even dis-tribution of motive power andfaster acceleration/ deceleration.
The train sports advancedregenerative braking systemwhich saves power.
Mani also said the fully air-conditioned train offers betterpassenger comfort and safety, asall equipment are fixed under
the carriage/ coach, so thatmore space is available on board.
In the Executive Class, theseats are rotatable to match thetrain direction.
Train 18 will have modernlook with continuous windowson the exterior and the totalseating capacity will be 1,128.
On safety front, TrainManagement System in thedriver's cab will ensure precisebrake control and automateddoors control.
The coach doors will openonly when the train toucheszero kmph and the train will
start only when all the coachdoors are properly closed.
The train will have auto-mated sliding steps uptil theplatform avoiding the risk of apassenger falling. The drivercan also monitor the move-ment of passengers on theplatform via closed circuit tele-visions (CCTVs) in his cabinbefore closing the door.
There are emergency talk-back units (through which pas-sengers can talk to crew in caseof emergency) and CCTVs areprovided in all coaches for safeand secure travel, officials hadsaid earlier. CCTV cameras onboth sides of driving cab wouldhelp the driver monitor themovement of passengers on theplatform before closing thedoors and starting off.
ICF would roll out six suchtrainsets.
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At least three personnel ofthe Border Security Force
(BSF) were injured when ter-rorists attacked their vehicle atPantha Chowk on Srinagar-Jammu National Highway onthe outskirts of Srinagar city onMonday evening.
Security sources said theterrorists fired upon theBorder Security Force (BSF)vehicle at Zewan Crossing leav-ing at least three personnelinjured. They said the injuredhave been shifted to nearbyhospital for treatment.
In another incident, thesecurity forces arrested threesuspected Over GroundWorkers (OGWs) on SrinagarBaramulla highway in the out-skirts of Srinagar city.
Sources said suspected ter-rorists travelling in a vehiclejumped over a police check-point (Naka) while opening firetowards security guard per-sonnel near Shalteng inSrinagar outskirts.
The security forces alsoretaliated and one among threesuspects on board the vehiclewas injured in the brief
shootout.Later, two suspected mili-
tants or Over Ground Workerswere intercepted in the fleeingvehicle and overpowered nearNarbal. They were taken intocustody for questioning.
The injured militant hasbeen taken to nearby JVCHospital for treatment.
Arms and ammunitionwere also recovered from thearrested trio.
Reports said the trio wastraveling from Pulwama insouth Kashmir and belonged tothe same area. However, Policehave not revealed identity ofthe arrested persons.
“A vehicle-borne terroristwas intercepted by a naka partyat Narbal leading to a brief
exchange of fire in which oneterrorist sustained injury whiletwo others were apprehended.The injured has been evacuat-ed to hospital for medicalattention. Their identity isbeing ascertained,” a policespokesman said.
“Incriminating materialincluding a huge quantity ofarms and ammunition wererecovered from the spot,” he said.
A case has been registeredand the investigation has beeninitiated, the spokesman said.
Meanwhile, terroristsattacked residence of a formerlegislator in south Kashmir’sShopian district.
Reports said that unknownmen hurled a grenade towardsthe residence of a former MLAof Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) Abdul Razaq Zawoora,in Zawoora Shopian.
However, the grenadeexploded outside the boundarywall of his residence and therewas no damage reported fromthe site.
Security forces have cor-doned off the area and man-hunt has been launched to nabthe assailants, reports said.
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The Reang tribals, shelteredin Tripura for over 20 years,
have demanded the setting upof polling stations in refugeecamps to cast their votes for theNovember 28 MizoramAssembly polls, a refugee leadersaid on Monday.
ver 35,000 Reang tribalrefugees, comprising 5,907families, fled from Mizoramand have been staying inTripura's Kanchanpur andPanisagar sub-divisions sinceOctober 1997 following ethnictension after a Mizo forestofficial was killed in the neigh-bouring state.
Among the refugees, onlya little over 11,000 immigrantsare eligible to vote in nextmonth's elections to constitutea new Assembly in theCongress-ruled Mizoram.
"Though the names of lit-tle over 11,000 refugees areenrolled in the electoral lists ofMizoram, but there are over5,000 more people among theimmigrants who have the eli-gibility to become voters butdue to the negligence of theMizoram administrations,their names are yet to beenrolled in the electoral lists,"refugee leader Bruno Mshatold IANS over phone fromKanchanpur.
Msha, who is the GeneralSecretary of the refugees' apexbody Mizoram Bru DisplacedPeople's Forum (MBDPF), saidthat the Election Commissionand the Mizoram ElectionDepartment were yet torespond to their demand forsetting up the polling stations.
A senior official of theMizoram election departmentsaid that the issue of setting upthe polling stations was dis-cussed when the full ElectionCommission headed by ChiefElection Commissioner OmPrakash Rawat visited the stateon October 16.
"However, the Commissionhas not yet communicated itsdecision to us in this regard,"the official said.
Meanwhile, leaders of var-ious political parties includingthe Congress and the BharatiyaJanata Party (BJP) are visitingthe seven refugee camps as partof their election campaign.
The BJP-led alliance gov-ernment on October 22resumed the supply of food andrelief material to the refugeesafter the relief was stoppedfrom October 1.
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The verbal duel betweenShiv Sena and NCP,
sparked by Sena presidentUddhav Thackeray's Ram tem-ple construction pitch, hasintensified with a close relativeof NCP chief Sharad Pawarassailing the Sena leader.
Rohit Pawar, son of SharadPawar's nephew Rajendra, hitback at Thackeray over hiscriticism of formerMaharashtra Deputy ChiefMinister Ajit Pawar over the
temple issue.Addressing a rally in Jalna
last week, Ajit Pawar, nephewof the NCP chief, said UddhavThackeray had failed to con-struct a memorial in the nameof his father, Bal Thackeray, butwas "harping" on constructionof Ram temple in Ayodhya.
The Sena had hit back,with an editorial in partymouthpiece Saamana callingAjit Pawar a "gutter insect" ofPune politics who lives off hisuncle Sharad Pawars fortune ashe was left with no importance
in Maharashtra politics.In a counter attack, Rohit,
in a Facebook post Sunday,said, "During his last day,Balasaheb had appealed peopleto look after Uddhav. Yesterday,we learnt what he meant whenhe made the appeal. His wordsmeant his son was gullible andtherefore should be taken careof," Rohit said.
The late Sena founder wasa clever and big leader who hadcommand over language andwould attack political oppo-nents through the weekly mag-azine Marmik and Saamanabut those who engage in poli-tics using Bal Thackeray's namehave insulted his pen bylaunching tirade against AjitPawar, Rohit said.
"Uddhav Thackeray nei-ther got elected through pub-lic, nor has he toiled to seeMaharashtra by stepping out ofMatoshree (the Thackeray fam-ily residence in Mumbai).While Maharashtra is on fire,this man is hoodwinking peo-ple by sharing power (withBJP)," Rohit said.
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Chief Minister YogiAdityanath said that saf-
fron was the colour of Sikhismand it was adopted byBharatiya Janata Party as Sikhsare an integral part ofHinduism and the BJP prop-agates this philosophy withoutany hesitation.
“It is only the BJP which hasadopted Sikh’s saffron colour.Those organisations which haveused Muslims as vote bankdesist from using saffron in theircolours. This is really a bigmockery of the political system,”Yogi said while addressing aSikh Sammelan in Lucknow onMonday to commemorate the550th birth anniversary of GuruNanak Dev.
The Chief Minister saidthat there was no differencebetween Hindu and Sikh fam-ilies. “But attempts are beingmade to divide them byspreading canards. Peoplewho are doing this do notknow the history of Khalsa.They were born to protect
Hindus. Sikhs and Hindushave always lived in harmonyand will continue to do so infuture also,” he said.
Yogi declared that out ofthe eight medical colleges com-ing up in Uttar Pradesh, onewill be named after GuruNanak Dev.
“Some institutions will also
be named after Guru GobindSingh and Guru Teg Bahadur,”he added.
Deputy Chief MinisterKeshav Prasad Maurya saidthat Sikhs had played a stellarrole in making Narendra Modithe Prime Minister of India.
“They (Sikhs) played thesame role in Uttar Pradesh by
ensuring a resounding victoryof the BJP, paving the way formaking Yogiji the ChiefMinister of the State,” he said.
Deputy Chief MinisterDinesh Sharma said that theparty which was instrumentalin killing Sikhs in the 1984 riotshad no right to seek vote andsupport of the community.
“Opposition parties likeCongress, Samajwadi Partyand Bahujan Samaj Party arein the ICU and their revival isnext to impossible,” he commented.
President of LucknowGurudwara PrabandhakCommittee, Rajendra SinghBagga, demanded that BaldevSingh Aulakh be made a CabinetMinister in the YogiGovernment.
Aulakh is junior ministerin the Minority Welfare depart-ment. In his address, Aulakhsaid that the Yogi governmentwas working for the welfare ofthe people. He strongly advo-cated the construction of Ramtemple at Ram Janmabhoomicomplex at Ayodhya.
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Lucknow: Chief Minister YogiAdityanath will preside overRail Investors’ Summit inLucknow on Tuesday.
The summit is a follow-upof the announcement for set-ting up a rail ancillary park inUttar Pradesh.
The announcement wasmade by Railway MinisterPiyush Goyal during the UPInvestors’ Summit held inLucknow in February this year.
Chief Secretary AnupChandra Pandey said here onMonday that the rail park wasbeing developed on 254 acreland in Fatehpur district.
“The rail park will augmentproduction capacity of existingModern Coach Factory at RaeBareli. The rail park will bedeveloped by ABA InfratechPvt. Ltd., Lucknow,” he said.
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Market benchmark Sensex on Monday rallied by718 points to end above the 34,000-level buoyed
by heavy buying mainly in financials like ICICI Bankand SBI coupled with revived optimism relating toRBI's move to ease liquidity crunch.
The broader 50-share Nifty too rose over 220points to close above 10,250. Among the Sensex con-stituents, ICICI Bank was the biggest gainer with 11per cent jump, followed by State Bank of India, whichrose 8.04 per cent. The index heavyweight ICICI Bankcontributed over 200 points to the Sensex gains. Thecountry's top private sector lender ICICI Bankswung into profit in the second quarter of this ongo-ing fiscal. The bank had reported a net loss of �119.55crore in the first quarter of the current fiscal.
On year-on-year basis, ICICI Bank, however,reported a 42 per cent drop in its consolidated netprofit to �1,204.62 crore in the September 2018 quar-ter. Other top Sensex gainers were Adani Ports, L&T,Axis Bank, Reliance Industries, Tata Steel and TCS,rising up to 7.33 per cent.
Market sentiments were further revived by theReserve Bank's decision to pump in �40,000 crore intothe system in November through purchase of gov-ernment securities, with an aim to tackle liquiditycrunch. "Markets bounced out of extremely poor sen-timent and oversold conditions. A good sign shortterm as we may have started a short-covering rally in
equities," said Rohit Srivastava, Fund Manager - PMS,Sharekhan by BNP Paribas.
"The rise was broad-based which is a good signand weak sectors like PSU banks were strong per-formers. Given the double bottom in the bank nifty,it appears the trend may continue in the near term,"he added. Snapping its two-day losing streak, the 30-share index ended 718.09 points, or 2.15 per cent,higher at 34,067.40. It had opened 173.33 points, or0.52 per cent, higher at 33,522.64.
The NSE Nifty too surged 220.85 points, or 2.20per cent, to reclaim the 10,250 mark. It had opened44.25 points, or 0.44 per cent, higher at 10,074.25.
Bucking the uptrend in a majority of Sensex con-stituents, IndusInd Bank, HDFC Bank, Kotak Bankand Bharti Airtel fell up to 2.26 per cent.
Meanwhile, the rupee was trading flat at 73.43against the US currency.
According to Friday's provisional data, foreignfunds sold shares worth a net of �1,356.66, whiledomestic institutional investors bought shares to thetune of �1,875.89 crore.
Dr Reddy's too surged 5.29 per cent to �2,531.65on the NSE after the company reported a 77 per centjump in profit-after-tax for the quarter endedSeptember 30 at �504 crore against �387.6 crore inthe second quarter of FY18.
Oil prices fell on Monday. Brent crude oil futureswere down 31 cents at USD 77.31 a barrel, while WTIFutures fell by 28 cents to USD 67.31.
Meanwhile, concern over China's slowing econ-omy kept Asian stocks subdued. Shanghai Compositeended 2.2 per cent lower, while Hang Seng Index rose0.4 per cent. Japan's Nikkei closed 0.2 per cent down.
European shares climbed on strong earnings DAXwas up 0.7 per cent while STOXX50E rose 0.5 per cent.
Meanwhile, investor wealth soared over Rs 3 lakhcrore Monday driven by a rally in the broader mar-ket where the BSE benchmark index zoomed 718points.
Sharp gain in stocks, send the market capitalisa-tion of the BSE-listed companies higher by Rs3,11,665.6 crore to Rs 1,36,43,642.98 crore.
Snapping its two-day losing streak, the 30-shareBSE index ended 718.09 points, or 2.15 per cent, high-er at 34,067.40. "The equity markets remained buoy-ant throughout the trading session with impressivebuying across sectors including PSU banks, power andtech. The market assumed an upward push with manyof the factors of the past two weeks probably brushedaside for the time being," said Joseph Thomas, HeadResearch, Emkay Wealth Management.
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The rupee ended almost flat at 73.45 againstthe US dollar Monday after its initial gains
were erased by a late dollar demand fromimporters despite strong equity markets and theRBI's move to ease liquidity crunch.
Despite the initial bounce, the home unitappeared to struggle, as the dollar remainedbroadly firm.
Foreign investors also pulled out �2,230.79crore from capital markets Monday amid thedollar hovering near 10-week high and hitting96.66 against the basket of six global currencies.
The rupee opened higher at 73.33 amidsharp gains in local stock markets.
The local currency, however, gave up initialgains due to capital outflows and a firming dol-lar to hit a session low of 73.53.
The rupee made a comeback in the closinghour to settle at 73.45, showing gains of just 2paise over the previous close.
Brent crude oil futures were down 31 centsat USD 77.31 a barrel, while WTI Futures fellby 28 cents to USD 67.31.
Meanwhile, market benchmark Sensex ral-lied over 718 points to end above the 34,000-level, while the broader 50-share Nifty rose over220 points to close above 10,250.
At the same time, the Reserve Bank's deci-
sion to pump in �40,000 crore into the systemin November through purchase of governmentsecurities, with an aim to tackle liquiditycrunch, failed to bring cheer to the forex mar-ket, but arrested any significant fall in the rupee.
In an another development, India andJapan Monday concluded a USD 75 billion bilat-eral currency swap agreement, a move that willhelp in bringing greater stability in foreignexchange and capital markets in the country.
"India and Japan has signed currency swapagreement worth $75 billion – a step will go longway in soothing frayed nerves of Rupee bulls,"said V K Sharma, Head PCG & Capital MarketsGroup, HDFC Securities.
The Financial Benchmark India Private Ltd(FBIL) set the reference rate for the rupee/dol-lar at 73.4181 and for rupee/euro at 83.6942. Thereference rate for rupee/British pound was fixedat 94.2644 and for rupee/100 Japanese yen at65.62.
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New Delhi: Tata Sons, the promoter ofmajor operating Tata group companies,has severed ties with celebrity consultantSuhel Seth, following allegations of sex-ual misconduct by several women,according to a company official.
Ever since several women, includingmodel Diandra Soares, filmmakerNatasha Rathore and writer Ira Trivedi,accused Seth of sexual misconduct,
Tata Sons stopped dealing withCounselage, a brand consultancy firmowned by Seth. When asked to confirmif Tata Sons has severed ties with Sethafter allegations of sexual misconduct in#MeToo campaign in India, a companyofficial said "Yes". "Post the allegations,Tata Sons has not engaged withCounselage," a source said. When con-tacted, a Tata sons spokesperson said,"Counselage's contract with Tata Sonswill end on November 30, 2018."
Although the company did not elab-orate on the future of its contract withCounselage, the source, however, saidconsidering the backdrop it would not berenewed. Comments could not be imme-diately obtained from Seth, who isamong the leading brand consultants inthe country.
He played a key role in rebuilding theTata brand after crisis hit one of the mosttrusted corporate brands in India in thewake of abrupt sacking of then Tata Sonschairman Cyrus Mistry in 2016. PTI
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India and Japan on Monday con-cluded one of the largest bilateral cur-
rency swap agreements at USD 75 bil-lion that will help in bringing greaterstability in foreign exchange and cap-ital markets in the country.
The agreement will furtherstrengthen and widen the depth anddiversity of economic cooperationbetween the two nations.
"With a view to enhancing finan-cial and economic cooperation, gov-ernments of Japan and India wel-comed the agreement to conclude aBilateral Swap Arrangement (BSA) ofUSD 75 billion," said India-JapanVision Statement.
The statement was released afterIndia-Japan Annual Summit betweenPrime Minister Narendra Modi and hisJapanese counterpart Shinzo Abe inTokyo.
Commenting on the development,Economic Affairs Secretary S C Gargsaid in a tweet: "Bilateral swap arrange-ment with Japan for USD 75 billion isone of the largest swap arrangementsin the world.
"Accepting Japanese request, Indiaagreed to do away with requirement of
mandatory hedging for infrastructureECBs of 5 years or more minimumaverage maturity".
The finance ministry said the cur-rency swap agreement should "aid inbringing greater stability to foreignexchange and capital markets inIndia...This facility will enable theagreed amount of foreign capital beingavailable to India for use as and whenneed arises".
The facility will also help in bring-ing down the cost of capital for Indianentities while accessing foreign capitalmarket, it added.
Recognising the unparalleledpotential for development of relationsbetween the two countries, Modi andAbe reviewed the significant mile-stones achieved over the last four yearsand outlined a shared vision for thefuture of India-Japan relations.
The two leaders remain committedto synergising India's demographicdividend and Japan's capital and tech-nology to realise the true potential ofthe India-Japan economic partnershipfor a prosperous future.
"In this regard, India welcomedJapan's strong support for key trans-formational initiatives such as Make inIndia, Skill India and Clean India
Mission, through sharing of resourcesand advanced technologies, and activemobilisation of Japanese public and pri-vate sector investments," said the visiondocument.
The two leaders "reviewed with sat-isfaction" the progress made, includingthe signing of the Exchange of Notes foryen loan, on the Mumbai-Ahmedabadhigh speed rail project, which is animportant symbol of India-Japan col-laboration.
They also welcomed the continuedcooperation on metro projects whichsupport smarter development of Indiancities.
"India further appreciated Japan'srole in promoting connectivity throughquality infrastructure projects such asthe Western Dedicated FreightCorridor and the Delhi-MumbaiIndustrial Corridor," said the visiondocument.
Modi and Abe welcomed theexpansion of Japan's FDI in Indiaunder the "India-Japan InvestmentPromotion Partnership”, the progressmade in Japan Industrial Townships(JIT) and other initiatives included inthe Japan-India Roadmap forInvestment Promotion. Both leaderswelcomed the launching of a compre-
hensive India-Japan DigitalPartnership with a vision todevelop IoT and AI solutions forsocietal benefits and explorecollaboration in emerging tech-nologies by utilising 'Japan-IndiaStartUp Hub' in Bengaluru andNASSCOM's IT corridor projectin Hiroshima Prefecture.
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Bengaluru has witnessed thehighest decline in unsold
housing stock among sevenmajor cities in the last one yearat 25 per cent on the back ofbetter sales, according to prop-erty consultant Anarock.
The unsold housing stockin Bengaluru stood at 76,500units at the end of July-September quarter (Q3 of 2018calendar year), down 25 percent from 1,02,740 units in theyear-ago period.
Pune reported a 10 percent fall in unsold inventoriesto 90,610 units in Q3 2018 asagainst 1,01,020 units in Q32017.
The Delhi-NCR marketalso saw 9 per cent decline inunsold stocks to 1,90,650 unitsfrom 2,09,430 units.
There were marginal drop
of 1-2 per cent in unsold stockin Mumbai MetropolitanRegion (MMR) andHyderabad, while there wereincrease in Chennai andKolkata by 7 per cent and 1per cent, respectively.
"Bengaluru's real estatemarket has out-performed allother cities in terms of shed-ding unsold housing invento-ry. Bengaluru saw a remark-able decline of 25 per cent inthe total unsold stock acrossthe top cities," Anarock said inits report, which was releasedat ACETCH 2018 inBengaluru last week.
The report trackedBengaluru's residential realestate trends since 2013, fac-toring in the city's evolution interms of infrastructure devel-opment, transport and con-nectivity.
"Burgeoning commercial
activity, a cutting-edge start-up culture and realistic prop-erty prices dictated by end-user demand have keptBengaluru's real estate marketvibrant, and generally moreresilient than in other cities,"said Anuj Puri, Chairman -Anarock PropertyConsultants.
IT/ITeS sector continuesto drive most of the city's res-idential demand and supply,and housing sales haveremained healthy despite allmacroeconomic headwinds,he added.
Bengaluru's housing salesincreased by 26 per cent in Q32018 over the same period lastyear, the highest amongst allcities. Overall unsold stockdeclined by 32 per cent andstood at 76,550 units in Q32018 in contrast to 1,12,995units in Q3 2015.
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Russia has expressed interestin investing in projects like
Delhi-Mumbai IndustrialCorridor (DMIC) and smartcities besides railways, andpublic transport, Commerceand Industry Minister SureshPrabhu has said.
The minister also said thatin the November 23 trilateralmeeting on International NorthSouth Corridor (INSTC), allissues are expected to beresolved in order to opera-tionalise the route as early aspossible.
INSTC is an initiativetaken by India, Russia andIran to promote transportationcooperation and to enhanceconnectivity with central Asiancountries.
It is the shortest multi-modal transportation routelinking the Indian Ocean andPersian Gulf via Iran to Russiaand North Europe.
The estimated capacity ofthe corridor is 20-30 milliontonne of goods per year andwill reduce time and cost by 30-40 per cent. These issues werediscussed during the meetingof Prabhu and Russian businessdelegation on Saturday here.
"There is a possibility forRussian investments in DMIC,smart cities, railways, publictransport, sanitation and lowcost housing," the ministrysaid in a statement quotingPrabhu.
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Lewis Hamilton claimed hisfifth drivers' world champi-onship to draw level with
Juan Manuel Fangio in theFormula One record books whenhe finished fourth behind a vic-torious Max Verstappen in theMexican Grand Prix.
Lewis Hamilton claimed hisfifth drivers' world championshipto draw level with Juan ManuelFangio in the Formula One recordbooks when he finished fourthbehind a victorious MaxVerstappen in the Mexican GrandPrix.
Hamilton's success - the thirdtime he has taken the title with-out finishing on the race podium- elevated him to a supreme clubalongside Fangio with only seven-time champion MichaelSchumacher ahead of him.
He was adding the 2018crown to his championship winsin 2008, 2014, 2015 and 2017.
The 33-year-old Briton's onlyremaining championship rivalSebastian Vettel of Ferrari, whoneeded a victory, with Hamiltonoutside the top seven, to keep hishopes alive, finished second onSunday.
He celebrated by executing'doughnut' wheel spins for thecheering crowd before leap-ing out of his car and intothe arms of his team.
After being congratu-lated by Vettel,Hamilton said: "It's avery strange feelingright now."
After survivingwhat turned into abattle of attrition atthe AutodromoHermanos Rodriguezhe added: "It was a hor-rible race... I really don'tknow what happened.
"We were strugglingboth Valtteri (Bottas) and Iand we had to just hang onand bring the car home.
C�#�����D"I've been with Mercedes
since I was 13 and to completethis, when Fangio had done itwith Mercedes, is an incredi-ble feeling and it is very surreal tome at the moment.
"I just feel very very humble,of course I dreamed about this butI never thought I'd be standinghere as a five-time champion."
Four-time champion Vettelheaped praise on his rival.
"It is not easy today but welldeserved for him and I want tocongratulate Lewis. They did asuperb job all year. We need tostand there, accept that and sendcongratulations. We would haveliked to have hung in there longer,but it was not to be."
Reflecting on his seasonHamilton added: "It has been thetoughest year physically, mental-ly and personally with everything
I'm committed to, but I haveamazing support.
"Mercedes and my team havejust been the most incredibleunit and worked to raise the bar.In my mind it is just another dayof fighting and I have more racesto win, it is not over.
"In my mind I have to work,go to the brief andtry to win in Brazil.
Hamilton, whostarted third on the
grid, struggled withchronic tyre-wear
after making a strongstart in his Mercedes
and settled for a cautiouscruise to the title without
a podium finish.Max, upstaged by his
Red Bull team-mate DanielRicciardo in qualifying onSaturday, came home 17.108seconds ahead of Vettelafter the luckless Australianpole-sitter retired with ninelaps remaining.
"I didn't sleep verywell last night," saidVerstappen.
"I was very determinedto win and we've done that- we had the right tyres andthe car was working verywell... "It was a shame tolose Daniel. We wantedtwo of us on the podium.
A puff of smoke sig-nalled an engine failure
and his eighth 'Did Not Finish'(DNF) of the season while his 21-year-old Dutch tyro team-matesecured a repeat of his 2017 tri-umph, his second win this seasonand the fifth of his career.
Vettel's Ferrari team-mateKimi Raikkonen came homethird ahead of Hamilton and hisMercedes team-mate ValtteriBottas. Nico Hulkenberg wassixth for Renault ahead of CharlesLeclerc of Sauber, StoffelVandoorne of McLaren, MarcusEricsson in the second Sauber andPierre Gasly of Toro Rosso.
For Ferrari, it was a firstdouble podium success in Mexicosince 1990 with Alain Prost andNigel Mansell.
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Novak Djokovic can completea stunning return to world
number one at the Paris Mastersthis week as Rafael Nadal hits thecomeback trail for the first timesince limping out of the USOpen.
Roger Federer could alsoresurface in the French capitalafter a three-year absence,although the 20-time Grand Slamchampion said a decision on hisparticipation will be made onTuesday.
The Swiss star won his 99thcareer title in Basel over theweekend but hasn't played inParis since 2015 due to a combi-nation of injury and selectivescheduling.
Djokovic also missed lastyear's event as he dropped out-side the top 10 for the first timein over a decade, but the Serb,who was lingering down at aranking of 22nd as recently asJune, arrives having won 27 of hislast 28 matches.
"In both the US Open andShanghai, I've played as good asever," said Djokovic, who claimedhis 14th major championship inNew York.
"So I really enjoy tennis at themoment and enjoy competing,because obviously when you'rewinning that many matches youhave a lot of confidence."
However, it was just monthsago that doubts were raised overhis future following a dramaticdecline as he battled to recoverfrom a nagging elbow injury. Heunderwent surgery after a fourth-round loss at this year'sAustralian Open but admittedlyrushed his return and suffered aseries of early exits that knockedhis confidence.
The 31-year-oldthough outlastedNadal in an epicWimbledon semi-final before sweepingKevin Andersonaside to claim his first GrandSlam since the 2016 FrenchOpen.
He then completed a sweepof Masters victories by downingFederer to claim an elusiveCincinnati title.
"We are very, very pleasedwith what was achieved in the lastfour, five months," said Djokovic.
"And with Rafa's injury andhim not playing China and soforth, it put me in a position tobe very close to him in rankingsand to fight for a year-end No 1.
"So of course right now I'maware of it and I'm going to givemy very best to try to achieve it."
"I do think that I'm playingat my best at the moment and Ialways feel like I can improve, butI feel like this is a very high level,"he added.
��������"�������Incumbent world number
one Nadal has not played since aknee injury led to him retiringfrom his US Open semi-final
against Juan Martin del Potro.The Spaniard, for all his successat Roland Garros, has never lift-ed the trophy at the Paris Masters- his best showing came when helost the 2007 final to DavidNalbandian.
Nadal withdrew before hisquarter-final last year, and hemust match Djokovic's perfor-mance to retain top spot goinginto the season-ending TourFinals in London.
"I stop for a while after theUS Open so then I started topractice slow step by step. Andthat's it. Here I am. Happy to behere," said Nadal.
"It's nothing new for me.Something that happened in mycareer a couple of times. Somore or less we know the process
and we know the thing thatworks well for us, the things thatdon't work well.
"I am not thinking about bigimprovements or big things. I amjust thinking about smallimprovements, and that's thegoal."
"This city so special for me.So that's little bit more motiva-tion to be here," he added.
Marin Cilic and DominicThiem are in position to claimthe remaining two Londonberths, with Kei Nishikori and2016 Paris runner-up John Isnerstill with an outside chance ofqualifying.
With 1,000 points to defendthis week and 400 to drop offfrom London, defending cham-pion Jack Sock faces crashing outof the top 100 if he loses in hisopening match.
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maintained the No 1 spot in theWomen's Tennis Associationrankings released on Mondaywith 6,921 Points, ahead ofGermany's Angelique Kerber.
Elina Svitolina of Ukraineclimbed three spots after pre-vailing over Sloane Stephens ofthe United States 3-6, 6-2, 6-2 onSunday, becoming the firstUkrainian player to win the sea-son-ending WTA Finals title.
Japan's Naomi Osaka fell onespot down to the fifth, whilePetra Kvitova of the CzechRepublic dropped two places toworld No 7.
Further down the ranking,Viktorija Golubic of Switzerlandjumped 16 positions up to worldNo. 91, following her triumph atITF France 20A on Sunday overRussian Natalia Vikhlyantseva3-6, 6-1, 7-5.
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Divij Sharan on Monday became India's new number one dou-bles player, overtaking veteran Rohan Bopanna by moving to
38 in the latest ATP rankings.The left-handed Sharan, who has been one of the most con-
sistent players on the doubles circuit with partner Artem Sitak, hasheld the numero uno position in the country for the first time inhis career.
Bopanna dropped nine places to 39 while Leander Paes gainedtwo places to be 60 in the world now.
Another consistent player Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan touched acareer-high rank of 72 with a jump of three places.
"It feels pretty amazing to have become the highest ranked play-er in India today. It's not easy by any means with Mahesh, Leanderand Rohan having dominated the doubles circuit for the last cou-ple of decades but they have carved thepath and set the trend for the rest of us,"the 32-year-old Sharan said.
"We have had as many as seven play-ers from India ranked in the top 100 thisyear which is impressive. Personally it'sbeen another positive year for me whereI was able to achieve my best ranking of36 and win a Gold medal for India at theAsian Games," he said.
Sharan has won only one Challengerthis season but reaching the Wimbledonquarterfinals was the highlight of the 2018season for him. He also reached semifinal stage of various ATP 250tournaments this year.
In the singles, Yuki Bhambri dropped a place to 108 and wasfollowed by Ramkumar Ramanathan (121, +3), PrajneshGunneswaran (142, +4) and Sumit Nagal (311, +1).
In the WTA charts, Ankita Raina remains India's lone singlesplayer in the top-200 at number 197. Karman Kaur Thandi, whoended runner-up at Nanning on Sunday, was static at 215. Her pointsfrom Nanning will be added next week.
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Kylian Mbappe responded tobeing dropped by coming off
the bench and scoring the open-er as Paris Saint-Germain won 2-0 at Marseille on Sunday to makeit 11 wins out of 11 in Ligue 1 thisseason and match a long-standingEuropean record.
Mbappe was a shock omissionfrom the PSG starting line-up bycoach Thomas Tuchel, withbroadcaster Canal Plus reportingthe move was a punishment afterthe teenage World Cup winnershowed up late for the pre-matchteam talk.
But he was sent on in the62nd minute of 'Le Classique' forEric-Maxim Choupo-Moting andscored the breakthrough goal justthree minutes later, being releasedby Angel di Maria and racing clearto finish past Steve Mandanda.
It was Mbappe's 10th Ligue 1goal this season, and JulianDraxler then wrapped up thevictory in stoppage time.
An 11th win on the bouncefrom the start of the campaign for
PSG means they have equalledTottenham Hotspur's record fromthe 1960-61 season, the best in anyof Europe's big five leagues.
"It was what the team needed,"Mbappe told Canal Plus of hiscameo off the bench.
"A great team relies on itsleaders and they need to be able
to make the difference in keymoments. I can take on that roleand I did it today."
The win record is a superbachievement for Tuchel, even if itis marred somewhat by PSG'spatchy performances in theChampions League, including afortunate 2-2 draw at home toNapoli in midweek.
But the German admittedthat the result had been over-shadowed by the decision to dropMbappe, which he intimated wasa necessary measure.
"I don't like to play withoutKylian. I hate playing without himin a match like this," he said.
In Ligue 1, PSG are eightpoints clear of second-placedLille, who beat Caen 1-0 onSaturday and visit the Parc desPrinces next Friday. Marseille,meanwhile, are fifth, already 14points behind the league leaders.
OM have now failed to beattheir greatest rivals in 18 meetingsin all competitions going backseven years, although theymatched the reigning championsfor long spells of this game.
While Neymar started, Tuchelleft both Mbappe and AdrienRabiot on the bench at kick-off.
Edinson Cavani missed thegame due to injury, so Cameroonstriker Choupo-Moting made hisfirst start since his surprise arrivallate in the summer transfer win-dow.
Dimitri Payet played the fur-thest forward in a Marseille sidelacking a proper striker, and thebest chance in the first half camein stoppage time as KevinStrootman cleared off the linefrom Di Maria.
Payet forced Alphonse Areolainto a good stop from his free-kickjust before the hour mark, butMbappe then made his entranceand needed little time to put thevisitors in front.
Jordan Amavi hit the postwith a long-range pile-driver butMarseille could not find anequaliser and Paris wrapped upthe victory with the last kick of thegame.
Mbappe found Neymar, andhis shot was going wide of the farpost before Draxler turned it in.
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Dries Mertens grabbed a lateequaliser to snatch Napoli a 1-
1 draw with Roma on Sunday whichsaw Carlo Ancelotti's men cutJuventus' lead at the top of Serie Ato six points.
After seeing Paris Saint-Germain steal a last-gasp 2-2 in theirmidweek Champions League clashat the Parc des Princes, this time itwas Napoli's turn to salvage a pointat the death.
Stephan El Shaawary's earlyopener for Roma looked to havewon the game for the visitors, butBelgian international Mertenspounced in the 90th minute to limitthe damage for Napoli.
Reigning champions Juventusremain well clear after CristianoRonaldo scored a double, includinga thunderous 25-yard winner, in a2-1 win at Empoli on Saturday.
But last year's runners-upNapoli are now unbeaten in their lastfive games in all competitions sincea 3-1 loss at Juve in September.
Just seconds after Edin Dzekohad seen a long-range shot fly nar-rowly wide, El Shaarawy gave Romaa 14th-minute lead with his thirdgoal of the season.
Dzeko failed to get a touch onTurkish winger Cengiz Under's lowcross, but the 26-year-old El
Shaarawy was on hand to slotthe ball in off the post, despitethe best efforts of KalidouKoulibaly on the line.
The hosts quickly went insearch of an equaliser, but Romagoalkeeper Robin Olsen didwell to deny both Arkadiusz Milikand Marek Hamsik in quick suc-cession.
Napoli dominated possession inthe second half, but struggled to cre-ate many clear-cut chances, withMertens seeing two late effortsruled out for offside.
But the 31-year-old wingerlatched onto a miskick from JoseCallejon to smash into the roof ofthe net and score his fifth goal of the
campaign.
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Higuain hit a crucial equaliser andSuso fired a second-half winner asAC Milan got back on track in SerieA with a 3-2 win over Sampdoria.
Coach Gennaro Gattuso wasunder intense pressure after a last-gasp derby loss to Inter last week wascompounded by a 2-1 defeat by RealBetis in the Europa League onThursday.
But the former Rangers andMilan midfielder has won respite,for the moment at least, after afourth league win in nine outings left
Milan fifth, albeit 13 pointsadrift of leaders and champi-ons Juventus.
Milan looked to be underthe cosh when Sampdoriatook a 2-1 lead through FabioQuagliarella on 31 minutes
after Riccardo Saponara had levelledPatrick Cutrone's 17th-minuteopener for the San Siro giants.
But Higuain responded on 36minutes and, amid a second half thatsaw few real chances, Spanish for-ward Suso provided an impressivewinner. "I have to thank my playersfor a performance of character andquality," added Gattuso. "We've gotto keep working, getting better andenjoying each others' company."
������ #��India advanced into the semi-finalsof the SAFF U-15 Championship when theyblanked Bhutan 4-0 in their last group league matchhere on Monday.
Shubho Paul scored a brace while SubbaKushang and Xalxo Aman struck one apiece. Indialed 1-0 at half time.
The Indians were off to a great start with thefirst goal coming as early as the 4th minute whenShubho converted from the spot - placing it to theright of rival goalkeeper Gyeltshen Dorji.
The Indian boys stayed patient while the rivalsmanaged to sneak into the visiting box on a cou-ple of occasions, especially immediately afterresumption.
Their perseverance soon paid dividends as thesecond goal came in the 66th minute, thanks to ashow of individual brilliance.
Receiving a loose ball in his own half, the irre-pressible Subba ran past the entire rival defence,dribbled past three, entered the box and placed intothe far corner.
The third goal came in the 83rd minute asShubho completed his brace. It was a build-upwhich started in India's half and after some casu-al exchanges, Shubho followed up a vicious longball, sped past all and put it in.
Aman completed the rout in the 89th minutewhen he tapped into an empty net after the rivalgoalkeeper had misread a Harsh Patre free-kick.
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Cristiano Ronaldo has said hedecided to leave Real Madrid for
Juventus after sensing that the Spanishclub's president, Florentino Perez, nolonger saw him as being "indispens-able".
"I felt within the club, especiallyfrom the president, that I was nolonger considered in the same way asI was at the beginning," Ronaldo saidin an interview with France Footballmagazine.
"For the first four or five years, Ifelt like Cristiano Ronaldo. Less soafter.
"The president looked at me in away that suggested I was no longerindispensable, if you know what Imean. That is what made me thinkabout leaving."
The 33-year-old Portuguese super-star joined Juventus in a 100 million-euro ($115 million) deal in July, end-ing a glorious nine-year associationwith Real.
His last act with the Spanish clubwas to participate in them winning theChampions League for a third con-secutive season by beating Liverpoolin the final in May.
But Zinedine Zidane departed ascoach in the wake of that game,
something which Ronaldo admitsconfirmed to him that it might be timeto move on.
"My decision to leave was notbased on him going. That said, it wasone of the little details that con-firmed to me what I had been think-ing about the situation at the club,"Ronaldo said.
He added that he would "deserve"to win the Ballon d'Or this year, andin doing so would pass Lionel Messiby taking the award for a sixth time.
The winner of the prize, awardedby France Football, will be announcedin early December.
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Lewis Hamilton on Monday deflected all sug-gestions that he might be the greatest Formula
One driver of all time, saying that seven-timechampion Michael Schumacher remains the manwho most deserves that label.
The 33-year-old Briton, who on Sundayclinched his fifth drivers' title when he finishedfourth for Mercedes in the Mexican Grand Prix,rejected consideration of him-self as the greatest in history,citing his father Anthony'smantra to "do your talking onthe track."
Hamilton's achievementdrew him level with the sport's 'godfather' JuanManuel Fangio on five titles with only GermanSchumacher ahead on seven. Schumacher, with91, also has more race victories, another targetfor Hamilton during the two remaining years ofhis current Mercedes contract.
But the Englishman put such statisticalambitions into a distant perspective when headopted a modest role on his own triumphantcareer.
"Firstly, I could never personally classifymyself as the best," said Hamilton.
"Obviously, within myself, I know my abili-ties and where I stand, but ultimately, as my dadalways told me since I was eight years old -- hesaid 'do your talking on the track'.
"So I just try to let my results and the resultsfrom the things that I do outside of my sport,hopefully, also contribute to that. So people canhopefully create a decent opinion.
"But Michael's still quite far ahead in racewins so you have to say he is still the GOAT(greatest of all time)."
Canadian Jacques Villeneuve, the 1997champion, said that he felt the way in whichHamilton had succeeded throughout his careerput him way "miles" clear of Schumacher in theevaluation of the greats.
Villeneuve said that Schumacher's career hadbeen accompanied by "too many negative stories- too many question marks on how some racesor championships were won. And being a greatchampion is about more than just winning races."
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India embarrassed the WestIndies by 224 runs in the fourthOne-day International here
Monday for one of their biggest winsand a 2-1 lead in the five-matchseries.
Rohit Sharma (162) and AmbatiRayudu (100) struck belligerentcenturies to guide India to animposing 377 for five after thehosts opted to bat.
The duo took centre stage aftera rare failure by skipper Virat Kohli.
Rohit's 21st century came off137 balls with the help of 20 foursand four hits over the fence, whileRayudu decorated his 100-runknock with eight boundaries andfour sixes.
Chasing 378, West Indies sim-ply caved in against India's clinicalbowling attack on what was a bat-ting-friendly wicket to be bundledout for a paltry 153 in 36.2 overs.
Young pacer Khaleel Ahmed(3/13) impressed upfront beforechinaman Kuldeep Yadav (3/42))ran through the West Indies' tail.
The Indians dished out animpressive effort on the field, inflict-ing two run outs besides Rohit hold-ing onto three fine catches in theslips.
This is India's third biggest winin the format. Their biggest-ever winin ODI remains the 257-run demo-lition of Bermuda in the 2007 ICC
World Cup.West Indies' chase never really
got going as they lost half of theirside inside the 50-run mark withKhaleel doing the bulk of the dam-age.
Except for skipper Jason Holder(54 not out), no other West Indianbatsmen could withstand the Indianattack, as the visitors lost wickets atregular intervals and were neverreally in the hunt.
West Indies lost two wickets —Chandrapul Hemraj (14) and Shai
Hope (0) — in the fifth over. WhileHemraj gave a sitter to Rayadu offBhuvaneshwar Kumar, Hope wasrun out courtesy a stunning directhit by Kuldeep from mid-on.
Matters became worse for thevisitors after Kieran Powell (4) was
run-out in the very next over byKohli.
Wickets kept tumbling and thenext to be dismissed was ShimronHetymar (13), who was trapped infront by Ahmed in the 10th over,even though the batsman went foran unsuccessful review.
The 20-year-old Ahmed was onfire as he picked up two more wick-ets in quick succession. He firstcleaned up Rovman Powell (1) andthen accounted for Samuels, whoedged one to Rohit in the first slip.
Batting first, India made a quickstart with Rohit and Shikhar
Dhawan (38) and added a run-a-ball71 for the opening stand before thelatter pulled a Keemo Paul shortdelivery straight to Powell at themidwicket boundary.
Kohli, who hit three consecutivetons before Monday's match, playedaggressively for his 16 before edginga Kemar Roach delivery to Hopebehind the stumps.
Rohit and Rayudu held fort andcontinued to play aggressive brandof cricket.
The duo continued theonslaught and made the West Indiesattack look ordinary, picking up
boundaries and sixes at will.After Kohli's dismissal, Rohit,
who had scored a match-winningunbeaten 152 in the lung-opener atGuhawati, and Rayudu built theinnings and in the process shared abreezy 211-run stand for the thirdwicket, which came off just 163deliveries.
Rohit didn't spare a single WestIndian bowler and made his inten-tions clear when he opened theaccount with a boundary over point.
The Mumbaikar initially playedsecond fiddle to Dhawan but afterhis half century, that came off 60balls, he upped the ante.
Rohit displayed all the shots inthe book — the drives, pulls, flicksand cuts — before he departed in the44th over.
Rayadu, on the other hand,took time to settle down, but thenhammered the bowlers with hisexquisite stroke-play — first inRohit's company and then alongsideveteran Mahendra Singh Dhoni(23).
Kedar Jadhav (16) and RavindraJadeja (7) remained unbeaten as thehosts amassed 116 runs in the last10 overs.
India won the first ODI by eightwickets before the second gameended in a tie. West Indies bouncedback to win the third ODI by 43runs. The final match of the serieswill be played inThiruvananthapuram on Thursday.
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Cricket Australia will notreconsider reducing the
ban on Steve Smith, DavidWarner and CameronBancroft in the ball-tam-pering case despite a seriesagainst a full-strength Indiaawaiting them next month.
Skipper Smith and hisdeputy Warner wereslapped with a one-yearinternational ban whilerookie Cameron Bancroftwas suspended for ninemonths by Cricket Australiain March this year for theirrole in the ball-tamperingscandal in South Africa.
The AustralianCricketers' Association(ACA) termed the punish-ment on the trio "harsh"and called for a reconsid-eration but CA chairmanDavid Peever remained
adamant and turned downthe plea.
"Sanctions were carriedout and imposed by theboard after a very full andthoughtful process. So thesanctions stand," saidPeever.
"As chairman of theboard of CA, I acceptresponsibility for what hap-pened in South Africa, butI'm also very confident thatwe're positioned to moveforward from here.
"We've learned manylessons and of course therehas been a lot going onsince then. Both within theplaying group and withinthe organisation itself tomove things forward."
Bans imposed onWarner, Smith and Bancroftfor their role in theNewlands ball-tamperingscandal should be re-exam-
ined in light of systemicfailings raised by the inde-pendent reviews into CA,the players union presidentGreg Dyer said.
The scandal involvedthe three players conspiringto use sandpaper to illegal-ly alter the shape of the ballin the third Test againstSouth Africa in Cape Town.
Calls have been grow-ing for Smith and Warnerto return to the interna-tional fold after a string ofpoor performances by thenational team.
The series against Indiawill get underway fromNovember 21, comprisingthree T20Is, four Tests andthree ODIs. The series willend on January 21. Thebans on Smith and Warnerwill be in effect till April2019, while Bancroft's sus-pension ends in January.
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India captain Virat Kohliagain backed Ambati Rayudu
for the critical number four slotafter the "intelligent" batsmanreposed his skipper's faith witha less-than-a-run-a-ball centu-ry in the fourth ODI against theWest Indies here on Monday.
India recorded one of theirbiggest wins in the 50-overcricket with a 224-demolitionof the visitors, following blaz-ing hundreds by Rayudu andRohit Sharma.
"Rayudu has taken hischance with both hands. Weneed to back him till the 2019World Cup. He reads the gamewell, so we are happy thatsomeone intelligent is battingat number four," Kohli said atthe post-match presentationceremony.
India were ruthless, barelytwo days after the shockingdefeat in Pune, to take a 2-1lead in the five-match series.
"Yes, (we) ticked all theboxes. We were clinical in alldepartments. We got intorhythm. We are known tobounce back and it was anoth-er example. Khaleel (Ahmed)was good with pitching it in theright areas, making the balltalk, and swinging it both
ways," the skipper said.Defending 377, young
pacer Khaleel (3/13) impressedupfront before chinamanKuldeep Yadav (3/42)) ranthrough the West Indies' tail tobowl them out for 153 in 36.2overs.
This was Rohit's 21st ODIcentury and seventh 150-plusscore, having notched up onein the series opener.
"Very clinical right fromthe start. After losing two wick-ets, I had mentioned this ear-lier about having a big part-nership and that was a game-changing partnership," saidRohit, who as declared as theman-of-the-match.
He added, "Once you are
set, you got to make it countand that is what me andRayudu did in the middle. Wecarried for as long as we did.
"Heartening to see the waywe bowled as bowling unit. Itwas a long time coming, thiskind of performance from thebowlers."
The Mumbaikar alsopicked up three catches inwhat was an all-round displayby him and his team.
"I've been doing some slip-catching for a while. I canhear Virat laugh there.
"Especially if you're fieldingin the slips for Kuldeep, it isn'teasy to read his hands. Whenyou play him in the nets, it iseasy to understand when he is
going to bowl that googly andI got to be ready for it," Rohitsaid.
The West Indies chasenever really got going as theylost half of their side inside the50-run mark with Khaleeldoing the bulk of the damage.
"We didn't play wellenough. We allowed them toscore too many runs. We nevergot going with the bat and theapplication definitely was notthere. Lost wickets up front anddidn't get enough momen-tum," West Indies captain JasonHolder said.
The Indians dished out animpressive effort on the field,inflicting two run outs besidesRohit's three fine catches in theslips.
Holder said, "Run-outs aresomething that you don't wantin One day or in any limitedovers cricket. Two of our bet-ter players as well and it reallyset us back up front. It was a lotto do to rebuild to get up to 370odd.
"Obviously I have beenhearing that (batting up theorder) for a long while. Thestructure of the team probablyneeds to be looked at andobviously I want to get up theorder as well. Probably, nextgame you could see that."
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India's Akashdeep Singh wasadjudged player of the tourna-
ment but the team had to share theAsian Champions Trophy withPakistan after the much-anticipat-ed summit clash was abandoned dueto heavy downpour here.
Heavy rain delayed the start ofthe final on late Sunday night andeven though the skies relented later,the damage had already been doneby then.
The turf was completely water-logged because of thunderstorm andheavy showers and after discussionwith both the coaches of India andPakistan, the tournament directordecided to call off the match anddeclare both the teams as jointwinners.
India won the toss of coin andearned the right to take home thetrophy of the biennial tournamentfor the first year. It will be given toPakistan for the next year.
Since the Indians took home thetrophy, the tournament gold medalswere presented to the Pakistaniplayers. Asian Hockey FederationChief Executive Dato Tayyab Ikramsaid gold medals will soon be sentfor the Indian players.
Akashdeep was adjudged Playerof the Tournament while P RSreejesh was declared best goal-keeper. Pakistan's Abu BakkarMahmood was named EmergingPlayer of the Tournament whileMalaysia's Faisal Saari emergedhighest scorer.
India remained unbeaten inthe tournament having topped the
round robin stages with 13 points,courtesy four wins and a draw outof their five games. Pakistan endedthe round robin stages on the sec-ond spot with 10 points.
India had earlier defeatedPakistan 3-1 in the round robinstage.
Malaysia claimed the bronzemedal by prevailing 3-2 in thepenalty shootout against Japan afterthe two teams were tied 2-2 in reg-ulation period.
It was both India and Pakistan'slast international outing before theseason-ending FIH men's WorldCup to be held in Bhubaneswarfrom November 28 to December 16.
India and Pakistan had won thetitle twice each before the currentedition. India came into the tour-nament this year as defendingchampions having won the last edi-tion in 2016 after their title triumphin the inaugural edition in 2011.
Pakistan won the title twice in2012 and 2013 besides finishingrunners-up in 2011 and 2016. Indiatoo have finished runners-up oncein 2012.
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Opener Babar Azam struck a half-cen-tury and leg-spinner Shadab Khanclaimed three wickets as Pakistan
secured a 3-0 T20 series whitewash overAustralia with a 33-run victory in Dubai.
Azam's 40-ball 50 lifted Pakistan toanother challenging total of 150-5 beforeShadab's 3-19 helped bowl Australia out for117 in 19.1 overs on Sunday.
It is Pakistan's first-ever whitewashagainst Australia in a limited-over series andtheir 10th series win under Sarfraz Ahmedsince he took over as captain in September2016.
Pakistan justified their world-number-one ranking in the shortest format of thegame, following a 66-run thrashing in AbuDhabi with an 11-run win in Dubai.
Australia's batting line-up never recov-ered from being bowled out for 89 in thefirst game.
Only Mitchell Marsh (21), BenMcDermott (21) and Alex Carey (20)looked like getting big scores on Sundayagainst a varied Pakistan attack.
Carey, promoted to open the innings,smashed two fours and two sixes in ImadWasim's first over of the innings but theylost wickets at regular intervals.
Skipper Aaron Finch failed yet again,scoring only one while Chris Lynn (15) andGlenn Maxwell (four) also inflicted littledamage as seamer Hasan Ali finished with2-14.
Sarfraz said the series win was "a rewardfor hard work".
"I would say that all the boys haveworked hard in all facets, the result is justthe reward," said Sarfraz.
"Whoever has got an opportunity hasdone well. We wanted to carry forward themomentum to the New Zealand series, theway we bowled and took our catches wassuperb tonight."
C6���� ��#���������DFinch admitted it was disappointing
to come up so short when chasing 151 to
win."We had our chances in all three
games," said Finch. "You back yourselfwhile chasing under 150, you back yourbatsmen to get the side over the line butit didn't happen.
"Our bowling was very impressive allseries, keeping them to below 150 wasgreat. We're looking forward to a toughseries against South Africa (at home)."
Earlier, Azam scored his second fiftyof the series after the hosts had won thetoss and batted.
Azam and Sahibzada Farhan gavePakistan an excellent start — their open-ing stand of 99 their highest againstAustralia in T20 internationals — in12.5 overs, but Pakistan could not capi-talise on that start.
Farhan, dismissed for a first-ballduck in his only previous match againstAustralia in Harare in July, hit a 38-ball39.
But after the openers, onlyMohammad Hafeez managed to scorefreely during his 20-ball 32 not out.
Shoaib Malik scored 18 and becamethe second-highest run-scorer in T20international history, passing NewZealand's Brendon McCullum.
Another New Zealander MartinGuptill is at the top of the charts with 2,271runs in 75 matches — 118 more thanMalik.
Pakistan next play New Zealand inthree Twenty20 internationals, three ODIsand three Tests, starting with the firstTwenty20 in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday.
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Pakistan's selectors on Monday kept thesame winning combination against
New Zealand for the three-matchTwenty20 series which whitewashedAustralia in United Arab Emirates.
Pakistan beat Australia by 33 runs inthe third Twenty20 international onSunday to clinch the series 3-0 — their firstwhitewash against Australia in a limitedover series — prompting selectors not tomake any changes.
Pakistan face New Zealand in thethree-match series with the first in AbuDhabi on Wednesday, followed by the lasttwo in Dubai on Friday and Sunday.
No change means experienced pacespearheads Mohammad Amir and WahabRiaz continued to be left out, while fastbowler Rumman Raees is still not fit aftersuffering a knee injury.
Meanwhile, New Zealand have addedsecond specialist spinner to their Twenty20squad, with left-armer Ajaz Patel drafted
in from New Zealand A side.New Zealand's new coach Gary Stead
said Patel was on form and would offer thenecessary balance to the side consideringthe conditions in the UAE.
"It's no secret that spin is crucial in thispart of the world and with the wickets onthe slower side, we've taken the option ofa second spinner to bring our squad up to14-players," said Stead.
�5#� �Pakistan: Sarfraz Ahmed, FakharZaman, Mohammad Hafeez, SahibzadaFarhan, Babar Azam, Shoaib Malik, AsifAli, Hussain Talat, Shadab Khan,Shaheen Shah Afridi, Usman KhanShanwari, Hasan Ali, Imad Wasim,Waqas Maqsood, Faheem Ashraf New Zealand: Kane Williamson, CoreyAnderson, Mark Chapman, LockieFerguson, Colin de Grandhomme,Adam Milne, Colin Munro, Ajaz Patel,Glenn Phillips, Seth Rance, Tim Seifert,Ish Sodhi, Tim Southee, Ross Taylor.
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