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A s the world gears up to tackle the deadly coron- avirus outbreak, as many as 11 people — seven in Kerala, two in Mumbai and one each Bengaluru in Hyderabad — are under observation in hospitals to check for possible exposure to the deadly virus, which originated in China. The sus- pects are among hundreds of passengers who recently returned from China. Officials in Kerala said another 73 people are being kept under medical surveil- lance at their homes in the State. Over 20,000 passengers returning from mainland China and Hong Kong under- went thermal screenings at the seven international airports of Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Cochin. In Mumbai, two Indian students, who returned from Wuhan, China, has been kept under observation for sus- pected infection of coro- novirus. Also, on the basis of the details provided by the Indian Embassy in China, around 25 students who have returned to India recently from Wuhan are being closely mon- itored, the official said. Their details have been shared with district-level officers and they are being monitored closely for any symptoms. In neighbouring Nepal, a student who came back from the same Chinese city has been found infected with the fast- spreading disease, sending panic across the globe. India is on high alert and sources in the Union Health Ministry said the country may soon start screening all fliers from Nepal and Bhutan and those who travelled by road. In Delhi, AIIMS too has set up an isolation ward and kept beds ready for providing treat- ment to any suspected case of coronavirus infection. AIIMS director Randeep Guleria said, “We have an iso- lation ward and we have beds kept ready for providing care and treatment for suspected coronavirus cases in Delhi or elsewhere in India. All precau- tionary measures — in terms of personal protection equipment for healthcare workers to pre- vent the spread of the disease while treating infected patients — are in place.” Guleria said hospital pre- paredness with regard to man- agement and infection pre- vention control facilities has been also reviewed. “If need be, we have the capacity to increase our isolation ward facilities and provide treatment to such patients,” he added. In Mumbai, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has creat- ed an isolation ward at the Kasturba hospital. “The isola- tion ward has been created for diagnosis and treatment of persons suspected to have the virus infection,” said Dr Padmaja Keskar, executive health officer of the BMC. Keskar said the two per- sons under observation at the hospital have mild cough and exhibited cold-related symp- toms. Doctors at the airport have been asked to send trav- ellers returning from China to the isolation ward if they show any symptoms of the virus. “All private doctors in the city have been asked to alert us if they observe symptoms of coronavirus in any person who has returned from China,” she added. According to Kasturba Hospital sources, they have received detailed instructions from the Maharashtra Government about how to deal with coronavirus infection. As on January, 24, 2020, nearly 20,844 passengers from 96 flights have been screened for the virus symptoms while health advisory has been extended to 12 more airports- Ahmadabad, Amritsar, Coimbatore, Guwahati, Gaya, Jaipur, Bagdogra, Lucknow, Trivandrum, Trichy, Varanasi and Vizag in addition to the current seven, Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Cochin. The World Health Organisation (WHO) had already alerted Nepal about the possible risk of the spread of the virus. “Coronavirus is responsible for the outbreak of pneumonia in Wuhan, so the movement of people between Nepal and China could spread the deadly virus to Nepal,” said the WHO recently. Continued on Page 4 T o give a major fillip to road constructions across the country, the Centre on Friday set a target of building 40 km of national highways (NH) every day under new projects, expansions, doubling and renovations. Taking stock of the ongo- ing 3 lakh crore projects, Road Transport & Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari said he will hold a review meeting on the first and third Mondays of every month to ensure timely completion at various legs. The target for highway building in the current finan- cial year (2019-20) is 12,000 km, which is higher than the 10,800 km achieved in the 2018-19 fiscal. Till December 31, 2019, road construction stood at 24-25 km/day, which came down from 32 km/day because of extended rains. A senior Road Ministry official explained that by the end of this fiscal, construction will cross 35 km/day because the work is at peak from November to mid-June and it dips from June to November because of weather conditions. NH construction averaged about 12km/day in 2014-15 and had a quantum jump to 30km/day in 2018-19. According to the Ministry, as of March 2019, India had about 1,42,126 kilometres of NH. To deal with the timely construction of projects, Gadkari has directed all chief engineers in the Road Ministry and all members of Central road making agency NHAI to organise two “Review Mondays” every month. Technology and video-confer- encing will be the means for review and monitoring. “Delay in completion of projects invariably leads to cost escalation. Hence, we need to focus on review and moni- toring to keep the construction under check in addition to timely delivery of projects,” said Gadkari after the two-day long marathon meeting at Manesar near Gurugram. About 740 national high- way projects of 16 States were reviewed where Gadkari instructed to start performance audit of officers Continued on Page 4 A dvocate AP Singh, appear- ing for the three of the four death-row convicts — Akshay Singh and Pawan Gupta and Vinay Kumar — in the 2012 Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case on Friday moved a Delhi court alleging that the Tihar jail authorities are not handing over documents and this is causing delay in filing their mercy and curative petitions. Singh moved an application alleging that the jail authorities are yet to give the documents which are required to file the mercy petition for Vinay (26) and curative petitions for Akshay (31) and Pawan (25). The plea is likely to be taken up for hearing on Saturday. The apex court recently dismissed the curative petitions of other two convicts — Vinay and Mukesh Singh (32). Mukesh's mercy petition was rejected by the President earlier this month. The hang- ing of all four is to take place on February 1 at 6 am, accord- ing to the fresh death warrant. In his petition, the lawyer said he had expressed "an urgent will to file a mercy petition before the relevant authorities and undertook sev- eral steps to obtain relevant information to file it". He said Vinay wanted to attach his personal diary con- taining 70 pages with the mercy petition and had asked the jail authorities to provide the same. However, the diary is yet to be provided and because of this the plea could not be filed, he said. The counsel said he had also sought some documents of convicts Pawan and Akshay which have not been provided. The petition sought a direction to jail authorities to provide the documents on "an urgent basis". Meanwhile, Delhi's Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia accused AP Singh of making fun of the system by using tac- tics to delay their hanging. Sisodia said. "In the Nirbhaya case, the lawyer is using tactics to delay the execution. In this way, he is making fun of the system. We must work togeth- er to ensure speedy justice so that laws can be amended to remove shortcomings," Sisodia said in a tweet in Hindi. The 23-year-old paramedic student, Nirbhaya, was gan- graped and brutally assaulted on the intervening night of December 16-17, 2012, in a moving bus in South Delhi by six people before she was thrown out on road. She was flown to a hospital in Singapore where she died. T he Supreme Court on Friday said it cannot issue blanket orders restraining authorities from invoking the stringent National Security Act (NSA) against people protest- ing against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) as “properties are being burnt and that may be organised”. A Bench of Justices Arun Mishra and Indira Banerjee said, “We are of the opinion that general writ will not lie in this case. We cannot invoke powers under Article 32. We agree that the NSA should not be misused, but we cannot issue a blanket order. If a gen- eral direction is passed this will create a chaos. You don’t know what is going on in Kolkata, Tripura and Assam. Properties are being burnt and that may be organised,” said the Bench. Petitioner-advocate ML Sharma said that anti-CAA protests are going on peacefully in Shaheen Bagh area of Delhi and other places and persisted with seeking relief by asking a blanket ban on the imposition of the NSA. To this the Bench said, “If a person is involved in violence and involved in say hundred criminal cases. Then what would Government do. Will not the Government act?” Continued on Page 4 T he shortage of fund has put a break on the Centre’s quest for finding a link between the 16th-century Purana Quila here and Indraprastha, the capital of the Pandavas of the Mahabharat era. The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), under the Union Culture Ministry, had to stop the much- ambitious excavation, before it could begin, as the 10 lakh fund allocated for the purpose had to be “urgently” diverted for another work. Purana Quila’s supposed association with the city of Indraprastha has long attract- ed the ASI, though its quest has failed to deliver results for the fifth time in a row. The previous expedition which ended in early 2018 was led by archaeologist Vasant Swarnkar. But it failed to estab- lish the site’s association with the Mahabharat. The approval for the latest excavation to find traces of Indraprastha was given in November last year. The ASI had earmarked around 10 lakh for the job and e-tenders to deploy the labourers have already been floated. But recently, the ASI withdrew the money and diverted it for another “important” job. Now, the fresh fund will come only next fiscal, that too depending on the Budget outlay. VN Prabhakar, the director of ASI’s Institute of Archaeology, Exploration & Excavation, was to oversee the project along with superinten- dent archaeologist BR Singh. When contacted, Prabhakar refused to provide details about the status of the excavation. According to the epic, “Indraprastha” is located inside somewhere Purana Quila. The first attempt to find this assumption was made by ASI in 1955, and then the second one between 1969 and 1972. The third and fourth attempts were made between January 9, 2014, and June 30, 2014, and December 2017 and June 2018, respectively. According to various reports, the digging had unearthed artefacts such as sickles, parers, terracotta toys, kiln-burnt bricks and painted grey bowls and dishes belong- ing to the pre-Mauryan period of the third century BC and are displayed at the Archaeological Museum on the fort complex. Purana Qilla was built by Pashtun ruler Sher Shah Suri and second Mughal emperor Humayun. L aying the foundation of 18 Atal Awasiya Vidyalayas (Atal residential schools) for the children of daily wagers on UP Diwas, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that by pro- viding education and skill to underprivileged children, the government aimed at groom- ing good citizens and ensuring that government schemes reached the last man in society. The schools are being opened in 18 divisions of UP. Emphasising that it was a day of great pride for the state, Yogi said that it provided a chance to assess the journey of UP in the last seventy years. The chief minister was speaking at a function held for the third UP Diwas celebra- tions at Awadh Shilp Gram on Friday. On the occasion, Governor Anandiben Patel and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath also felicitated sports persons and industrialists from UP for mak- ing a mark for the state on the national and global stage. “Industrialists who have been felicitated have invested in Uttar Pradesh and thus changed the perception of the state and also generated employment for the youth. At the same time, the state gov- ernment is committed towards sports persons and plans to give Rs 6 crore to Olympic gold medalists, Rs 4 crore to silver medalists and Rs 2 crore to bronze medalists,” Yogi said. Explaining the concept of Atal Awasiya Vidyalala, the chief minister said, “These schools will be run on the lines of Navodaya Vidyalayas and wards of registered labourers would be provided free educa- tion, fooding and lodging. Good students will be encour- aged for academics while those good at sports will be specifi- cally trained and others will be made self-dependent through skill development,” Yogi said. The chief minister said that these schools would also Continued on Page 4 A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking quashing of notices by district administra- tion sent to alleged protestors for recovering losses caused by damage to public properties during agitations against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act in Uttar Pradesh. The plea has alleged that notices have been sent in Uttar Pradesh in an “arbitrary manner” against a person, who had died six years ago at the age of 94, and also to two others who are aged above 90. The petition was listed for hearing on Friday before a bench comprising Justices DY Chandrachud and Hrishikesh Roy. The matter could not be heard as the bench did not sit. Advocate Parwaiz Arif Titu, petitioner in the case, has sought stay on these notices claiming they have been sent to persons who have not been booked under any penal pro- visions and no details of FIR or any criminal offences have Continued on Page 4

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As the world gears up totackle the deadly coron-

avirus outbreak, as many as 11people — seven in Kerala, twoin Mumbai and one eachBengaluru in Hyderabad — areunder observation in hospitalsto check for possible exposureto the deadly virus, whichoriginated in China. The sus-pects are among hundreds ofpassengers who recentlyreturned from China.

Officials in Kerala saidanother 73 people are beingkept under medical surveil-lance at their homes in theState. Over 20,000 passengersreturning from mainlandChina and Hong Kong under-went thermal screenings at theseven international airports ofDelhi, Mumbai, Kolkata,Chennai, Bengaluru,Hyderabad and Cochin.

In Mumbai, two Indianstudents, who returned fromWuhan, China, has been keptunder observation for sus-pected infection of coro-novirus. Also, on the basis ofthe details provided by theIndian Embassy in China,around 25 students who havereturned to India recently fromWuhan are being closely mon-itored, the official said. Theirdetails have been shared withdistrict-level officers and theyare being monitored closely forany symptoms.

In neighbouring Nepal, astudent who came back fromthe same Chinese city has beenfound infected with the fast-

spreading disease, sendingpanic across the globe.

India is on high alert andsources in the Union HealthMinistry said the country maysoon start screening all fliersfrom Nepal and Bhutan andthose who travelled by road.

In Delhi, AIIMS too has setup an isolation ward and keptbeds ready for providing treat-ment to any suspected case ofcoronavirus infection.

AIIMS director RandeepGuleria said, “We have an iso-

lation ward and we have bedskept ready for providing careand treatment for suspectedcoronavirus cases in Delhi orelsewhere in India. All precau-tionary measures — in terms ofpersonal protection equipmentfor healthcare workers to pre-vent the spread of the diseasewhile treating infected patients— are in place.”

Guleria said hospital pre-paredness with regard to man-agement and infection pre-vention control facilities has

been also reviewed. “If need be,we have the capacity to increaseour isolation ward facilitiesand provide treatment to suchpatients,” he added.

In Mumbai,Brihanmumbai MunicipalCorporation (BMC) has creat-ed an isolation ward at theKasturba hospital. “The isola-tion ward has been created fordiagnosis and treatment ofpersons suspected to have thevirus infection,” said DrPadmaja Keskar, executive

health officer of the BMC.Keskar said the two per-

sons under observation at thehospital have mild cough andexhibited cold-related symp-toms. Doctors at the airporthave been asked to send trav-ellers returning from China tothe isolation ward if they showany symptoms of the virus.

“All private doctors in thecity have been asked to alert usif they observe symptoms ofcoronavirus in any person whohas returned from China,” sheadded. According to KasturbaHospital sources, they havereceived detailed instructionsfrom the MaharashtraGovernment about how to dealwith coronavirus infection.

As on January, 24, 2020,nearly 20,844 passengers from96 flights have been screenedfor the virus symptoms whilehealth advisory has beenextended to 12 more airports-Ahmadabad, Amritsar,Coimbatore, Guwahati, Gaya,Jaipur, Bagdogra, Lucknow,Trivandrum, Trichy, Varanasiand Vizag in addition to thecurrent seven, Delhi, Mumbai,Kolkata, Chennai, Bengaluru,Hyderabad and Cochin.

The World HealthOrganisation (WHO) hadalready alerted Nepal about thepossible risk of the spread ofthe virus. “Coronavirus isresponsible for the outbreak ofpneumonia in Wuhan, so themovement of people betweenNepal and China could spreadthe deadly virus to Nepal,”said the WHO recently.

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To give a major fillip toroad constructions across

the country, the Centre onFriday set a target of building40 km of national highways(NH) every day under newprojects, expansions, doublingand renovations.

Taking stock of the ongo-ing �3 lakh crore projects,Road Transport & HighwaysMinister Nitin Gadkari said hewill hold a review meeting onthe first and third Mondays ofevery month to ensure timelycompletion at various legs.

The target for highwaybuilding in the current finan-cial year (2019-20) is 12,000km, which is higher than the10,800 km achieved in the2018-19 fiscal. Till December31, 2019, road constructionstood at 24-25 km/day, which

came down from 32 km/daybecause of extended rains.

A senior Road Ministryofficial explained that by theend of this fiscal, constructionwill cross 35 km/day becausethe work is at peak fromNovember to mid-June and itdips from June to Novemberbecause of weather conditions.

NH construction averagedabout 12km/day in 2014-15and had a quantum jump to30km/day in 2018-19.According to the Ministry, as ofMarch 2019, India had about1,42,126 kilometres of NH.

To deal with the timelyconstruction of projects,Gadkari has directed all chiefengineers in the Road Ministryand all members of Central

road making agency NHAI toorganise two “ReviewMondays” every month.Technology and video-confer-encing will be the means forreview and monitoring.

“Delay in completion ofprojects invariably leads tocost escalation. Hence, we needto focus on review and moni-toring to keep the constructionunder check in addition totimely delivery of projects,”said Gadkari after the two-daylong marathon meeting atManesar near Gurugram.

About 740 national high-way projects of 16 Stateswere reviewed where Gadkariinstructed to start performance audit of officers

Continued on Page 4

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Advocate AP Singh, appear-ing for the three of the four

death-row convicts — AkshaySingh and Pawan Gupta andVinay Kumar — in the 2012Nirbhaya gangrape and murdercase on Friday moved a Delhicourt alleging that the Tihar jailauthorities are not handingover documents and this iscausing delay in filing theirmercy and curative petitions.

Singh moved an applicationalleging that the jail authoritiesare yet to give the documentswhich are required to file themercy petition for Vinay (26)and curative petitions forAkshay (31) and Pawan (25).The plea is likely to be taken upfor hearing on Saturday. Theapex court recently dismissedthe curative petitions of othertwo convicts — Vinay andMukesh Singh (32).

Mukesh's mercy petitionwas rejected by the Presidentearlier this month. The hang-ing of all four is to take placeon February 1 at 6 am, accord-

ing to the fresh death warrant.In his petition, the lawyer

said he had expressed "anurgent will to file a mercypetition before the relevantauthorities and undertook sev-eral steps to obtain relevantinformation to file it".

He said Vinay wanted toattach his personal diary con-taining 70 pages with the mercypetition and had asked the jailauthorities to provide the same.However, the diary is yet to beprovided and because of thisthe plea could not be filed, hesaid. The counsel said he hadalso sought some documents ofconvicts Pawan and Akshaywhich have not been provided.The petition sought a directionto jail authorities to provide thedocuments on "an urgentbasis".

Meanwhile, Delhi's DeputyChief Minister Manish Sisodiaaccused AP Singh of makingfun of the system by using tac-tics to delay their hanging.Sisodia said. "In the Nirbhayacase, the lawyer is using tacticsto delay the execution. In thisway, he is making fun of thesystem. We must work togeth-er to ensure speedy justice sothat laws can be amended toremove shortcomings," Sisodiasaid in a tweet in Hindi.

The 23-year-old paramedicstudent, Nirbhaya, was gan-graped and brutally assaultedon the intervening night ofDecember 16-17, 2012, in amoving bus in South Delhi bysix people before she wasthrown out on road. She wasflown to a hospital in Singaporewhere she died.

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The Supreme Court onFriday said it cannot issue

blanket orders restrainingauthorities from invoking thestringent National Security Act(NSA) against people protest-ing against the Citizenship(Amendment) Act (CAA) as“properties are being burntand that may be organised”.

A Bench of Justices ArunMishra and Indira Banerjeesaid, “We are of the opinionthat general writ will not lie inthis case. We cannot invokepowers under Article 32. Weagree that the NSA should notbe misused, but we cannotissue a blanket order. If a gen-

eral direction is passed this willcreate a chaos. You don’t knowwhat is going on in Kolkata,Tripura and Assam. Propertiesare being burnt and that maybe organised,” said the Bench.

Petitioner-advocate MLSharma said that anti-CAAprotests are going on peacefullyin Shaheen Bagh area of Delhiand other places and persistedwith seeking relief by asking ablanket ban on the impositionof the NSA.

To this the Bench said, “Ifa person is involved in violenceand involved in say hundredcriminal cases. Then whatwould Government do. Willnot the Government act?”

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The shortage of fund has puta break on the Centre’s

quest for finding a link betweenthe 16th-century Purana Quilahere and Indraprastha, the capital of the Pandavas of theMahabharat era. TheArchaeological Survey of India(ASI), under the Union CultureMinistry, had to stop the much-ambitious excavation, before itcould begin, as the �10 lakhfund allocated for the purposehad to be “urgently” divertedfor another work.

Purana Quila’s supposedassociation with the city ofIndraprastha has long attract-ed the ASI, though its quest hasfailed to deliver results for thefifth time in a row.

The previous expeditionwhich ended in early 2018 wasled by archaeologist Vasant

Swarnkar. But it failed to estab-lish the site’s association withthe Mahabharat.

The approval for the latestexcavation to find traces ofIndraprastha was given inNovember last year. The ASIhad earmarked around �10lakh for the job and e-tendersto deploy the labourers havealready been floated. Butrecently, the ASI withdrew themoney and diverted it foranother “important” job. Now,the fresh fund will come onlynext fiscal, that too dependingon the Budget outlay.

VN Prabhakar, the directorof ASI’s Institute ofArchaeology, Exploration &Excavation, was to oversee theproject along with superinten-dent archaeologist BR Singh.When contacted, Prabhakarrefused to provide details aboutthe status of the excavation.

According to the epic,“Indraprastha” is located insidesomewhere Purana Quila. Thefirst attempt to find thisassumption was made by ASIin 1955, and then the secondone between 1969 and 1972.The third and fourth attemptswere made between January 9,2014, and June 30, 2014, andDecember 2017 and June 2018,respectively.

According to variousreports, the digging hadunearthed artefacts such assickles, parers, terracotta toys,kiln-burnt bricks and paintedgrey bowls and dishes belong-ing to the pre-Mauryan periodof the third century BC and aredisplayed at the ArchaeologicalMuseum on the fort complex.

Purana Qilla was built byPashtun ruler Sher Shah Suriand second Mughal emperorHumayun.

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Laying the foundation of 18Atal Awasiya Vidyalayas

(Atal residential schools) forthe children of daily wagers onUP Diwas, Chief Minister YogiAdityanath said that by pro-viding education and skill tounderprivileged children, thegovernment aimed at groom-ing good citizens and ensuringthat government schemesreached the last man in society.

The schools are beingopened in 18 divisions of UP.

Emphasising that it was aday of great pride for the state,Yogi said that it provided achance to assess the journey ofUP in the last seventy years.

The chief minister wasspeaking at a function held forthe third UP Diwas celebra-tions at Awadh Shilp Gram onFriday.

On the occasion, GovernorAnandiben Patel and ChiefMinister Yogi Adityanath alsofelicitated sports persons andindustrialists from UP for mak-ing a mark for the state on thenational and global stage.

“Industrialists who havebeen felicitated have invested inUttar Pradesh and thuschanged the perception of thestate and also generatedemployment for the youth. Atthe same time, the state gov-ernment is committed towardssports persons and plans to give

Rs 6 crore to Olympic goldmedalists, Rs 4 crore to silvermedalists and Rs 2 crore tobronze medalists,” Yogi said.

Explaining the concept ofAtal Awasiya Vidyalala, thechief minister said, “Theseschools will be run on the linesof Navodaya Vidyalayas andwards of registered labourerswould be provided free educa-tion, fooding and lodging.Good students will be encour-aged for academics while thosegood at sports will be specifi-cally trained and others will bemade self-dependent throughskill development,” Yogi said.

The chief minister saidthat these schools would also

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Apetition has been filed inthe Supreme Courtseeking quashing of

notices by district administra-tion sent to alleged protestorsfor recovering losses caused bydamage to public propertiesduring agitations against theCitizenship (Amendment) Actin Uttar Pradesh. The plea hasalleged that notices have beensent in Uttar Pradesh in an“arbitrary manner” against aperson, who had died six yearsago at the age of 94, and also totwo others who are aged above90. The petition was listed forhearing on Friday before abench comprising Justices DYChandrachud and HrishikeshRoy. The matter could not beheard as the bench did not sit.Advocate Parwaiz Arif Titu,petitioner in the case, hassought stay on these noticesclaiming they have been sent topersons who have not beenbooked under any penal pro-visions and no details of FIR orany criminal offences have

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Continuing with his gov-ernment’s policy of zero

tolerance towards corruption,Chief Minister Yogi Adityanathacted on alleged irregularitiesin Budaun treasury and sus-pended 13 officials on Friday.

He also ordered depart-mental inquiry against the sus-pended officials for non-com-pliance with stamp manualand laxity in work.

Besides, orders were alsoissued against an insurancecompany which was reluctantto pay valid claims of farmers.

The chief minister sus-pended three senior treasurersworking in Budaun treasury forembezzlement of �5 crore andordered an inquiry.

In the same case, 10 offi-cials of tehsildar level were alsosuspended and departmental

inquiry was ordered againstthem.

Taking the complaintagainst an insurance companywhich was denying claims ofMukhyamantri Sarvahit KisanBima Yojana seriously, Yogiordered an inquiry against it.There were several complaintsof the company being reluctantin paying claims to a largenumber of insured farmers inBarabanki.

Meanwhile, the chief min-ister ordered the release of Rs174.97 crore for the construc-tion of access road and protec-tive works on Ganga riverbetween Alipur Barwara andSahaswan (Budaun).

In addition, approval wasgiven to release �6.56 crore forthe revised cost of project at�16 crore for construction ofnon-residential buildings ofBasti collectorate.

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Bahujan Samaj Party andCongress flayed the govern-

ment’s move to introduceCitizen (Amendment) Act incollege syllabus to highlight itspositive aspects.

Besides other law coursesrun by state-run universities,the course on the new citizenlaw is likely to be introduced inpolitical science department ofLucknow University.

BSP chief Mayawati was thefirst who expressed her displea-sure over the planned introduc-tion of the ‘positives’ of theCAA in university curriculumand tweeted on Friday, “TheCAA debate etc. is fine, butdespite proceedings in thecourt, the inclusion of this con-troversial and divisive citizen-

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Uttar Pradesh is set to hostthe biggest ever Defence

Expo 2020, which will be inau-gurated by Prime MinisterNarendra Modi in Lucknow onFebruary 5.

The five-day Defence Expo,to be held for the first time inUP, will deliberate on differentaspects of defence issuesthrough 19 seminars in thefirst three days.

A delegation of Africandefence ministers will also par-ticipate in the Expo and engagein a round table conference withIndian Defence MinisterRajnath Singh on the secondday of the Expo.

During the Expo, specialfocus will be on Indo-Russia,Indo-US, Indo-France, Indo-Israel and Indo-Korea defencemanufacturing exchangesthrough special seminars.

As per the programmereleased by the state governmenton Friday, Prime MinisterNarendra Modi will inauguratethe Defence Expo 2020 atVrindavan Yojana on Rae BareliRoad at 10 am on February 5.

Later, the PM will visitselect pavilions and witness livedemonstrations by land sys-tems/flying display by Aeroplatform/operational system bynaval system at India and UPpavilions.

The PM is expected to stayat the Defence Expo for aboutthree hours and will be accom-panied by Defence MinisterRajnath Singh, GovernorAnandiben Patel and ChiefMinister Yogi Adityanath.

The same night, RajnathSingh and Yogi Adityanath willhold a reception and dinner for

the delegates.On the next two days, the

Expo will witness a series ofseminars and other activities.

On February 6, the RajnathSingh will host a lunch for vis-iting defence ministers fromAfrican countries at Taj hoteland thereafter a round tableconference will be held betweenIndia and African nations at thesame venue.

The same day, the fifthIndia-Russia military industri-al conference will be held at theExpo venue along with a sem-inar on UP Defence Industryand Make in India by USIBC.

On February 7, India willsign several memorandums ofunderstanding (MoUs) ondefence manufacturing withdifferent countries and organi-sations.

During the function, a cer-emony will be held for handingof TOTs, announcing of LUHcertification and handing overof Sharang gun by OrdinanceFactory Board to Indian Army.During the five days of theExpo, several defence compa-nies and Indian Army wouldshowcase performance of their

latest equipment before dele-gates and on the last two days,to the general public.

On February 8 and 9, thegeneral public will be allowed tovisit the Expo.

In the previous DefenceExpo in 2018, as many as 702companies had participated.

‘’The focus of this year’sExpo is digital transformation ofdefence. New technology,including aerospace, will beintroduced in this year’s Expo,’’Rajnath Singh said, adding thatthe highlight of the Expo wouldbe the showcasing of wares atthe UP Pavilion.

Joint Secretary (Defence)Chandrakant Bharti also hadsaid that the Defence Expowould be the biggest in terms ofarea, exhibitors and revenue and65 MoUs were expected to besigned.

The official said that com-panies from US, Russia, France,UK and South Korea would beamong 70 countries that hadconfirmed their participation inthe Expo.

All three wings of IndianArmed Forces would exhibittheir prowess at the Expo.

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Samajwadi Party chiefAkhilesh Yadav lashed out at

the Ganga Yatra organised byUttar Pradesh government,terming it as an “extravaganza”aimed at diverting public atten-tion from pressing issues likeeconomic slowdown, unem-ployment and resentmentamong masses againstCitizenship (Amendment) Act.

“What is the rationale ofGanga Yatra? It’s nothing butwastage of tax payers’ moneyto serve the narrow politicalagenda of the Bharatiya JanataParty,” Akhilesh said whileaddressing party workers onthe occasion of the birthanniversary of former BiharChief Minister KarpooriThakur in Lucknow on Friday.

The Samajwadi Party chiefsaid that the Ganga river couldnever be cleaned unless itstributaries were cleaned.

“Under the Centre’sNamami Gange Project, sever-al thousand crore rupees havebeen spent so far but the resultsare yet to be visible to the mass-es. The project remains adrama being staged for further-ing the narrow political agen-

da of the Bharatiya JanataParty,” he alleged.

Akhilesh also targetedsenior Bharatiya Janata Partyleaders over the new citizenshiplaw issue.

“The language used byBharatiya Janata Party leadershas touched a new low duringpublic discourse. Right fromUnion Home minister AmitShah to Chief Minister YogiAdityanath are vying to speakin intemperate language toprovoke the people. One leadersaid danke ki chot, the chiefminister is talking of takingrevenge from anti-CAA pro-

testers while others havewarned that anti-CAA pro-testers will be buried alive,”Akhilesh said.

The SP chief said that thedecline in language and idiomof public discourse was indeeda matter of deep concern.

Reiterating his demand fora caste-based census, Akhileshsaid, “Even after three decadesof implementation of MandalCommission for the reserva-tion to Other Backward Classes(OBCs) in government jobsand educational institutions,the deprived sections are yet toget their due in power struc-ture.”

“Caste-based census forenumerating the actual share ofthe OBCs in India is the last-ing solution for communalismin Indian politics. This censuswill settle the share of eachcaste in power structure andwill be a lasting solution ofcommunalism,” he opined.

Akhilesh also asked partycadre to hit the ground for 2022UP Assembly elections. Hesaid that the party could bestrengthened only with focusedattention at polling booths toensure the return of SamajwadiParty to power in 2022.

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Afemale MBBS pass outfrom Bihar was charred to

death in the hostel room of aprivate medical institute inBareilly late Thursday night.Another medical intern shar-ing room with her was alsoinjured while trying to rescueher and had to be hospi-talised.

Later, the medical insti-tute authorities said that theincident was caused due to aspark in the room heater thatsparked a fire. A case was reg-istered and the body wassent for autopsy. Police areinvestigating the case.

As per reports, Dr SukritiSharma of Patna was anintern at SRMS Institute ofMedical Sciences in Bhojipuraarea of Bareilly. After notic-ing smoke billowing out of ahostel room, the hostelauthorities called the firebrigade.

However, by the time thefire-fighters doused the flame,the entire building was badlyburnt and the charredremains of the doctor werefound in room number 302.While Dr Sharma died in theincident, her room mateRitika suffered serious burnswhile rescuing her.

While the family of thedeceased was intimated about

the tragedy, what caused thefire and the death of DrSharma is yet to be ascer-tained. Preliminary investiga-tion suggested that a spark inthe room heater triggeredthe fire.

Speaking to reporters,SRMS Institute of MedicalSciences’ principal Dr SBGupta said, “There was aroom heater in hostel roomof Sukirti which might havecaused the fire. When smokewas spotted from the room,college authorities wereinformed, who in turninformed fire brigade andpolice. But by the time thefire was doused, the doctorhad died.”

Soon after the incident,senior police officials includ-ing SP (Rural) Dr SansarSingh reached the spot and aforensic team was pressedinto service for investigation.

Meanwhile in Bhadohi,an 18 year-old newly-wedwoman was kept hostage andraped for five days by a neigh-bour, identified as VishalSaroj. Saroj had come to thehouse of the woman’s in-laws’ five days ago and takenher away on the pretext thatthe mother of the newly-wedwas ill. Only on Wednesday,when the in-laws went toenquire about the health ofthe victim’s mother that they

realised that the woman hadnot reached her home. Later,they informed the police afterwhich she was rescued froma room situated in an agricul-tural field owned by Saroj onThursday.

A case was registered,the accused was arrested andthe woman was sent for med-ical examination.

Meanwhile in Jaunpur,three unidentified personswere booked for threateninga foreign couple in Barsathiarea on Thursday.

SP of Jaunpur, AshokKumar, said that Timothyand his wife Dugga had comefrom Germany and were onway to Rishikesh fromVaranasi in a car on January16. As they reachedSaraivikram railway crossingin Suhklalganj, three uniden-tified persons bullied them.Upon resistance, the miscre-ants beat up Timothy andwhen the car driver tried tospeed away, they broke thewindow pane of the car withbricks.

The SP said that the cou-ple somehow managed toescape and complained toMadiyahun police stationafter which a case was regis-tered.

The police are identifyingthe bullies and claimed thatthey would be arrested soon.

Lucknow (PNS): Come RepublicDay, it will be curtains for theBritish-era .303 rifles in UP, whereit has been in use for decades bythe police. The .303 was BritishArmy’s standard rifle from its offi-cial adoption in 1895 until 1957.

“Before the weapons fadeinto history, some of these will beused for training purposes,” saidAdditional Chief Secretary(Home) Awanish Awasthi inLucknow on Friday.

With a view to equip the UPPolice with modern weapons,the state government is in theprocess of providing 63,000INSAS and 23,000 SLR rifles.

“The UP Police will finally beequipped with modern weaponsas .303 rifles are being graduallyreplaced by INSAS (Indian SmallArms System) and SLR (self-loading rifles),” Awasthi said.

The Additional ChiefSecretary (Home) said that the UPPolice was being modernised toensure effective control on lawand order, besides ensuringwomen’s safety and a sense ofsecurity among the commonman. The arrangements for addi-tional weapons have been madekeeping in mind future recruit-ment drives. he added.

In July 2017, it was noted byComptroller and Auditor Generalof India that nearly 48 per cent ofUP Police personnel were stillusing the .303 rifles, declaredobsolete nearly 20 years ago in1995.

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ship law by Lucknow Universityin the syllabus is completelywrong and inappropriate. TheBSP strongly opposes this andwill certainly take it back whenit comes to power in UP.”

Taking on the rulingBharatiya Janata Party regimesat the Centre and in UP,Congress leader in LegislativeCouncil, Deepak Singh,charged that Prime MinisterNarendra Modi and ChiefMinister Yogi Adityanath,besides other BJP CMs, weresaffronising educational institu-tions at the behest of RashtriyaSwayamsewak Sangh.

“After appointing RSS func-tionaries as vice-chancellor oron other key posts of universi-ties, the BJP is introducingcourses either to divide the soci-ety on communal lines or todistort historical facts,” Singhasserted.

The Congress leader saidthat his party would definitelyoppose the introduction of theCAA in the syllabus.

As per reports, LucknowUniversity authorities plan tohold a debate on the new citi-zenship law in February.Following the debate by thepolitical science department, aproposal will be sent for theinclusion of positive aspects ofthe CAA in syllabus.

Head of LU political sci-

ence department Shashi Shuklatried to clarify the issue.

Speaking to a news agency,she reasoned that the move wasneeded to clarify the CAA.

“There is a proposal for apaper under the subject’s con-temporary issue in Indian pol-itics and including the CAA init is under consideration. Wewill include it in the syllabusand put it on the board as a pro-posal. If passed, it will be sentto the academic council andonce cleared, it will be taught inclasses,” she said.

The BJP government hasdrawn flak from citizens acrossIndia against the CAA thatfast-tracks citizenship for non-Muslim immigrants fromneighbouring Pakistan,Afghanistan and Bangladesh.

While the governmentclaimed that the law was nec-essary to provide relief to thou-sands of people fleeing religiouspersecution in those countries,opponents contended that thelaw purposely left out Muslimsand did not provide relief tothose fleeing similar persecu-tion in neighbouring Sri Lankaand Myanmar.

In recent past, there havebeen violent protests against theCAA in several cities of UP andprohibitory orders were put inplace for days to quell protestsin December.

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Vice-president of All-IndiaMuslim Personal Law

Board Dr Kalbe Sadiq joinedthe anti-CAA protest by womenat Clock Tower in Hussainabadon Friday. Hailing women forthe stir, he said: “We need notfear anyone and raise our voice.There have been several storiesof excesses meted out to theprotesters by the police and dis-trict administration. Evenpower supply to the protestvenue was snapped. It is ourright to observe protest in apeaceful way and no law stopsus from doing so.”

Dr Sadiq pointed out thosewho opted for harsh measuresagainst dissent did not remainin power for long. Meanwhile,the women continued withtheir stir on the eighth con-

secutive day. A group of advo-cates also reached the protestsite in support of the women

and chanted slogans like‘Mahilaon tum sangharsh karo,ham tumhare saath hain. The

presence of lawyers made thecops jittery.

Police deployment in thearea was increased in the wakeof Dr Sadiq’s visit. Meanwhile,the Gomti Nagar police start-ed identification of the pro-testers named in the case reg-istered in connection with theprotest in Ujariaon locality onWednesday night. The policesaid they were scanning CCTVfootages and studying localinputs. “We will serve noticesafter verification process iscompleted,” the police said.

The police registered a caseagainst over 100 women onThursday for violating pro-hibitory orders. Some of thewomen against whom the casewas registered were identifiedas Shanno, Asma Siddiqui,Baby, Bushra and Rubina Ayaz(all of Gomti Nagar).

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Aprimary school teacher,who was reported missing,

was abducted from Malihabadafter she was made to smellsome sedatives. The facts sur-faced after the woman returnedhome and narrated her ordealwith her family.

As per reports, the woman,who is a resident of Saadatganj,is presently posted at a schoolin Sandila (Hardoi), is all set toget married next month. OnJanuary 22, she left her housefor the school and later reached

the office of education officernear Sandila railway station toget her leave for marriage sanc-tioned.

While returning home, shetalked to her family and later,her phone was switched offwhen she reached Malihabad.The family tried to contact her,but in vain. Later, they lodgeda case at Malihabad police sta-tion. In initial probe, the policefound as true the claim that herphone was switched off whenshe was in Malihabad.However, they did not work onthe case further.

According to her family,she returned home around1.30 pm on Thursday. As shewas drowsy, she was taken to ahospital where she told us thatshe was abducted by fivetempo-borne men. She saidthey put a handkerchief on herface after which she fell uncon-scious and did not rememberwhat happened next.

She regained conscious-ness on Thursday morningand reached her house. Theysaid the robbers looted her twomobile phones, a gold chainand Rs 20,000 in cash.

Meanwhile, thieves madeoff with a bag containing Rs 3.5lakh and some documentsfrom a wedding venue inGudamba. The images of themiscreants were captured inCCTV cameras and policelaunched a manhunt for them.The complainant, RajnikantTiwari of Ghaziabad, lodged acase in this connection. He saidhe called the police controlroom soon after he found thebag missing. The police said thethieves were seen movingaround the complainant in aCCTV footage.

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An 80-year-old groceryshop-owner was found

murdered inside his housein Saadatganj even as theassailants escaped after lock-ing the doors. The victim wasidentified as Hari Shanker,who was a resident of DargahHazrat Abbas road. The inci-dent came to light when HariShanker’s brother GaneshShanker, lodged a missingreport on Friday and a policeteam reached the house forinvestigation. Ganesh told thepolice that his brother HariShanker was staying in thehouse all alone and also hada shop there. He said he didnot see Hari Shanker sinceJanuary 21 when he went tolatter’s shop to inquire of his well-being and found his house and shoplocked.

Following the complaint,the police reached the sceneand broke open the doors,only to find Hari Shankerlying dead. Prima facie, therewere signs that blood hadoozed out from his mouth.The investigating team foundarticles lying strewn across thefloor and a blood-stainedpiece of cloth close to thebody. The Saadatganj SHOsaid autopsy was yet to be con-ducted and they were workingon the case to unravel the

mystery,” he said.“Deceased’s brother had

lodged a case of missing withthe police on Friday afterwhich a team was sent there tostart a probe into the case.When residents told us thatthey did not see Hari Shankerstep out of the house, wegrew suspicious and brokeopen the doors,” he explained.

Sources said the man was

attacked possibly with someheavy object after his face wascovered with a piece of cloth.“It was the reason why thepiece of cloth recovered fromthe scene had blood stains.The motive for murder is notclear as yet. Hari Shanker’smobile phone is also missing,”the sources pointed out.

Ganesh said he called HariShanker on his phone on

January 21 but the calls wentunanswered. “I thought hewould be busy in some work,but the same happened thenext day too. When I went tohis house, I found it locked,but I thought he must havegone somewhere. However,when we did not find him atany relative’s house, weinformed the police,” heexplained.

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The Arabic department ofLucknow University has

had 11 Presidential awards tillnow given away to its scholars.Those who have received theawards include Prof MustafaHasan Alvi, Shamsher BahadurSamadi, Prof Rizwan Alavi,Prof Yunus Nagrani, and ProfAshfaq Ahmad Nadvi to namea few. Prof Musheer HusainSiddiqui from LU’s Arabicdepartment told this reporterthat the awards were given bythe President to scholars forhaving contributed to Arabicliterature. Other distinguishedscholars from the departmentwho have made a name forthemselves include Shams-ul-

Ulama Maulvi KamaluddinAhmad, Prof Waheed Mirza,Prof Ubaidullah Farahi, ProfShabbir Ahmad Nadwi(President awardee), Prof ShahAbdussalam (UNESCOawardee), Prof Ashfaq Ahmad,Prof KK Rastogi and ProfShams Tabrez Khan.

Prof Musheer HusainSiddiqui said there have beenseveral distinguished alumnifrom the department, includ-ing Prof Ziaul Hasan Nadwi(former dean of Jamia MilliaIslamia), Prof Aslam Islahi(dean, School of Languages,JNU), Prof Shah Abdussalam(former OSD, Raza Library,Rampur), Dr S WaseemAkhtar (Vice-Chancellor,Integral University), Arvind

Singh Gope (former minis-ter), Dr Mohammad AkramNadwi (fellow, Institute ofIslamic Studies, OxfordUniversity), Dr Ammar Rizvi(former minister), andMaulana Khalid RasheedFarangi Mahali.

He said it is one of the old-est departments of LucknowUniversity as it also existed dur-ing the Canning College era.

“It was established alongwith other departments whenthe university was founded in1921. It started working withthe single discipline (ArabicLiterature) but later, ArabCulture and Modern Arabic

were also introduced,” ProfSiddiqui pointed out. He saidthey have over 40 students inthe Masters course with inter-national students also as stu-dents. “The course has greatprofessional scope and there isa requirement across the coun-try for those who knowArabic,” he added.

Arab origin scholar ProfKhalil Arab joined the depart-ment in 1922 and played animportant role in its develop-ment. Prof Waheed Mirza wasa PhD scholar from OxfordUniversity and he became thehead and dean of Arts faculty.Prof Mohammad Rizwan Alavi

is credited with establishingArab Culture as a full-fledgeddiscipline, which was beingrun earlier as a small coursewith the name ‘Islamic Culture’in the department of History,but now a part of almost allassociated colleges. “At histime, there were only 2-3 pro-fessors in the department andhe also launched Proficiency inArabic,” Prof Siddiqui said.

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Vice-Chancellor ofLucknow University AlokKumar Rai will soon be mak-ing an official announcementregarding centennial celebra-tions. The VC will start the cel-

ebrations with an exhaustiveplantation drive. “Plantationwill not only enhance academicenvironment of our institutionsbut also teach a global envi-ronmental awareness of green-er and healthier future of thesociety to live in and toprogress with. It is the Vice-Chancellor’s wish that onRepublic Day, each studentmust learn to be free from allevil, wrong doings, pollution,disharmony and disunity witheach plantation,” LU’s mediaspokesperson said. Dean ofCollege Development CouncilMadhurima Lall said the Vice-Chancellor has a clear andbroad vision of inclusiveness ashe takes all associated collegesas one family.

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Ajoint team of NDRF andSDRF on Friday recov-

ered the body of a student(Mohit Tiwari, 17, ofHusainganj) who had jumpedinto the Gomti river onJanuary 21. Mohit, a class XIstudent of a private college inHusainganj, was reportedmissing on January 21 after hedid not return home. Hismaternal uncle Vishwanathhad lodged a case in this con-nection. Later, followingreports that a boy had jumpedinto the river on January 21evening, police started search-ing for him and pressed divers

into service, but to no avail. Ateam of SDRF was roped inand the members were work-ing on the case ever since.

Around 11.30 am onFriday, the SDRF men fishedout the body of a youth, whowas later identified as Mohit.A police spokesman saidVishwanath identified thebody after which it was sentfor autopsy. He said Mohit wasstaying with his maternaluncle to pursue his studies. “Itis yet to be ascertained why hetook the extreme step as wedid not recover any suicidenote,” he said.

Meanwhile, a 22-year-oldSitapur native was fatally

knocked down by a train neara mosque in Madiaon onFriday. Police said an Aadhaarcard bearing the name of RajKishore was recovered fromthe deceased. The police saidRam Kishor would have vis-ited the city for some workand was crossing the trackswhen tragedy struck. “Wecontacted the family on thebasis of the address men-tioned on the Aadhaar cardand asked them to reachLucknow to identify the body.Other information related tothe case will be available afterthe family reaches the city andidentifies the body,” the police said.

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Rudra Pratap Singh, a sub-inspector posted in the

account cel l of PoliceCommissioner of f ice inDaliganj, was suspended onthe charge of demandingbribe from cops to allow themm a i n t e n a n c e / s e r v i c eallowances for vehicles beingused in 112 services.

“Commissioner of PoliceSujeet Pandey took a strongnote of the incident andissued the suspension order.Singh was not only placedunder suspension, but a casewas a lso registered against him,” a policespokesman said.

He said theCommissioner had issued astern warning to policemennot to indulge in corruptpractices. He said a com-plaint against the S-I wasreceived at the office afterwhich a probe was conduct-

ed secretly. “The S-I wasfound guilty of demandingbribe and action was taken against him,” thespokesman said.

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clashed with each other dur-ing a ‘Tilak’ function inMohanlalganj on Fridayevening. Later, some socialmedia activists posted reportsof revelry firing during whichan advocate was injured. Thismade the Mohanlalganj policewake up from the slumber. Ateam of police reached theplace for an investigation intothe case. Mohanlalganj SHOGD Shukla confirmed theclash between two groupsduring the function but dis-counted the reports of revel-ry firing. “The advocate, whois said to have sufferedinjuries, was neither found atthe scene nor at hospital,” hesaid.

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Two miscreants acted fresh with awoman when she was returning house

in Gomti Nagar from somewhere onThursday night. The victim lodged a casein this connection. A police spokesmansaid the incident was reported onThursday night. “Immediately after thecomplaint was lodged, a case was registeredagainst the accused who are said to beacquainted with the woman,” he said,adding that further investigation was on.

Meanwhile, a shop-owner, identifiedas Anuj Kumar Gupta of Madiaon, accuseda group of youth of ransacking his shopand looting cash from him on Friday. Thecomplainant said he had a verbal spat withone Dabbu two days back. “Dabbu hadthreatened me with dire consequences. He,along with his aides, stormed my shop onFriday evening,” he alleged. Police said theywere investigating the case.

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ment from January 27 onwards. DeputyCommissioner of Police (Traffic) CharuNigam told this reporter that theirmain aim is to remove encroachmentsfrom congestion points and crossings.

She said the drive will be carried outafter discussions with a l l the stakeholders at a 50-metre distancefrom various crossings of the city facing traffic snarls.

“The plan is to hold meetings of allstakeholders at the crossings such asJTRI, Hazratganj which witness a lot ofVIP movement. The volume of traffic isso much at Hazratganj that even if a per-son has to stay for a few seconds on the

crossing, it is termed traffic jam. We willtalk with all stakeholders at this pointto find a solution to the problem,” theofficial said. She further pointed out thatthere is also problem of traffic snarlsnear the DM residence. “We will have totalk to everybody such as those handlingthe parking of Nagar Nigam and others,”she added.

“Now, there are 10 DCPs inLucknow unlike earlier when there wasonly one SSP. Now, there are 10 SP-rankofficers. We will have meetings with traf-fic officials as well as SPs of these zones.Before any coercive action, those caus-ing traffic snarls will be made aware asultimately, traffic is all about people andcivic police will be responsible forensuring that encroachments do notresurface,” she said.

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The newly-constructed building ofAliganj Extension Post Office wasinaugurated by Chief PostmasterGeneral, Uttar Pradesh Circle, KKSinha on Friday. The department ofPosts also launched ‘SukanyaSamriddhi Pakhwada’ on the occasionof ‘National Girl Child Day’. Girls werehonoured with Sukanya account’s pass-books and gifts. Students of KendriyaVidyalaya, Aliganj, also took part in theprogramme. Sinha said that the estab-lishment of post office in the depart-mental building will be convenient forboth staff and public. “The post officehas always been a companion of hap-piness and sorrow. Apart from gener-al postal services, people will also beable to easily get all new facilities likeAadhaar enrolment, updation andIndia Post Payments Bank service,” hesaid. Sinha said that girls are a symbolof power and ‘Sukanya SamriddhiYojana’ will empower them. More than17 lakh Sukanya accounts have beenopened in post offices of Uttar Pradeshtill now. He added that special cam-paigns are being organised so that allthe girls may be benefitted.

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will be conferred on singers SonuNigam and Malini Awasthi at a pro-gramme to be dedicated to the Armyat Surya auditorium on January 30.Convenor of the programme ZafarNabi said they were celebrating 150years of Mahatma Gandhi’s birthanniversary. “We are going to organiseAvadh Festival for our men in uniform

who will be able to see and become apart of this year’s celebrations. Tofacilitate their presence, we will organ-ise this festival at Surya Officers Club,”he said. “So far, we have given NaushadSamman to Sarod maestro UstadAmjad Ali Khan, Hema Malini, Pt ShivKumar Sharma, and Rekha Bhardwaj,”he added.

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assignments and training to its stu-dents, the department of BusinessAdministration, Lucknow University,on Friday invited ICICI Bank forselection of summer interns. As manyas 48 MBA (first year) students hadshown interest out of which 28 wereshortlisted for the main process. Thedrive started with a company presen-tation in which the company officialsinformed the students regarding thevalue to be gained through summerinternship. The doubts and concerns of

the students were addressed. Theprocess comprised aptitude test, group

discussion and personal interviewsafter which nine students were select-ed for summer internship.

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Senior journalist and secretary ofUP Press Club, Jokhu Prasad Tiwari,died after prolonged illness on Fridayevening. He was 72. He will be cremat-ed at Baikunth Dham here at 2 pm onSaturday. Chief Minister YogiAdityanath, IFWJ president K VikramRao, UPWJU president HaseebSiddiqui, UP Press Club presidentRavindra Singh and several journalistsexpressed grief at the death of JPTiwari. The UP Press Club has can-celled the ‘Tehri Bhoj’ organised by iton Saturday.

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the department of GeriatricMental Health, King George’sMedical University, on Friday.These services will run underthe supervision of head of thedepartment Dr ShrikantSrivastava. The services wereinaugurated by Vice-

Chancellor Dr MLB Bhatt in aprogramme organised at thedepartment. Dr Srivastava saidthat for the relief of pain prob-lems in older patients, the painclinic in department is beingstarted under the direction ofDr RS Gangwar. OPD serviceis being started for elderlypatients two days a week(Thursday and Saturday).

“Because elderly patientshave problems coming fromfar-off places, the communitygeriatric mental health clinicwill run under the direction ofDr Bhupendra Singh. The OPDof this clinic will be in collab-oration with the CommunityMedicine department at theSarojininagar communityhealth centre every Friday.Apart from mental illness, var-ious types of physical ailmentsare also present in the patients,so PG teaching programmewill also be conducted once inevery three months at thedepartment,” he added.

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City Montessori School,Aliganj Campus II, organised‘Annual Parents’ Day’ at GomtiNagar Campus II auditoriumon Friday. The students had

their parents amazed with soul-ful presentations. A large gath-ering of parents and grandpar-ents of the students made theevent meaningful and it alsospread the message that chil-dren learn culture and good

character under the protectionand care of their grandparents.Earlier, the programme beganwith all-religion and worldpeace prayers and lighting ofthe lamp, followed by presen-tation of world parliament.

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Poha and Bangladeshis. It isbizarre to see any linkage

between the two, but BJP leaderKailash Vijayvargiya thinksotherwise. He kicked up a rowby claiming some constructionworkers to be Bangladeshisjust because they ate flattenedrice (poha).

When Prime MinisterNarendra Modi made a similarremarks last month by sayingthat people who are setting fire(to property) can be seen onTV and can be identified by theclothes they are wearing, itcaused a countrywide outrage.Vijayvargiya’s claim to identi-fy illegal migrants fromBangladesh by their poha-eat-ing habit triggered both amuse-ment and uproar.

While the BJP tried to playdown Vijayvargiya’s claim, the

Congress cited it as an instanceto caution what the NationalPopulation Register (NPR)exercise will entail.

Vijayvargiya had, at anevent in Indore on Thursday tosupport the Citizenship(Amendment) Act, said that hesuspected that some of theconstruction labourers workingat his house were Bangladeshisby noticing their strange habitof eating only poha.Vijayvarigiya was mocked bythe twitterati.

Poha, a popular breakfastdish, is eaten across northIndia with no particular con-nect with Bangladesh as sus-pected by Vijayvargiya.

BJP leader and UnionMinister Prakash Javadekartermed it as a non-issue. Askedabout Vijayvargiya’s comments,which have drawn flak fromseveral quarters, Javadekar told

reporters here, “I also eat pohaand serve it to you (journalists).So it’s a non-issue”.

Meanwhile, Congressleader Sushmita Dev slammedthe comment stating that theBJP which can judge national-ity by food, will use NPR toprofile people. MumbaiCongress too tweeted, “KandaPOHA is a favorite food ofMumbaikars. We will be morethan happy to hostSh.@KailashOnline over a plateof scrumptious #Poha, when-ever he is in Mumbai.”

In West Bengal the rulingTrinamool Congress andOpposition Congress andCPI(M) in West Bengal onFriday slammed Vijayvargiya.“The statement is not an isolat-ed one but a reflection of the“racist and communal” mind-set of the present BJP dispen-sation, the parties said.

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However, the global health agencyhas decided not to declare the out-break as an international publichealth emergency. The outbreak is “anemergency in China”, WHO directorgeneral Tedros AdhanomGhebreyesus said during a Press con-ference in Geneva. “But it has not yetbecome a global health emergency. Itmay yet become one.”

India on its part is already on highalert and has taken several precaution-ary measures to prevent the possiblerisk of transmission of the virus in thecountry. National Institute ofVirology, Pune is fully geared up totest samples of the virus. Ten otherlaboratories under Indian Council ofMedical Research’s Viral Researchand Diagnostics Laboratories net-work are also equipped to test suchsamples, if a need arises, said a seniorofficial from the Health Ministry.States and hospitals have been askedto set up insolated wards and be readyfor emergency, if any.

Guleria suggested that as a precau-tionary measure, people should main-tain good standards of hand hygiene,avoid travelling in crowded places anduse masks. Any person having slightsymptoms of cough, fever and weak-ness should immediately report to thenearest health facilities, he said.

“ As of now, there is no definitetreatment, antibiotics or vaccinesavailable for combating the particu-lar virus strain and only supportivetreatment for pneumonia is given.One has to follow preventive medica-tion strategies,” he said..

Coronavirus are a broad range ofviruses that can cause infections rang-ing from mild upper-respiratory tractillnesses like common cold to muchmore serious diseases like SARS. Thevirus can spread from human tohuman and from animals to humans.

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“When UP was notified as a state

in 1950, no one would have imaginedthat it would be the largest base ofIndian democracy and give the coun-try the maximum number of primeministers,” the chief minister said.

“The Ganga traverses the maxi-mum distance across UP andPrayagraj has the confluence of Gangaand Yamuna. UP is also the birthplaceof Lord Ram, Lord Krishna, LordBuddha and Tirthankaras,” Yogi said.

Referring to the success of KumbhMela last year, the chief minister saidthat no less than 24 crore people —more than the population of the state— visited the mega event.

“During the three-day UP Diwascelebrations, cultural artistes, artisansof traditional crafts and those con-tributing to Swachhata Mission will befelicitated,” Yogi said.

In her address, GovernorAnandiben Patel said that peoplewould remember the glorious past ofUP — the land of Rama, Krishna andBuddha — during the UP Diwas cel-ebrations.

Deputy Chief Minister DineshSharma said that Chief Minister YogiAdityanath had set a record of sortsby organising Ayodhya Deepotsav,Krishna Janmotsav and through var-ious expressways.

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Minister of State for RoadTransport and Highways General(Retd) VK Singh and officials of theMinistry and stakeholders were pre-sent in the meeting.

“The review was done State-wise.All senior officials of the Ministry,NHAI, State Governments, contrac-tors, concessionaires, and consul-tants attended the meeting. Everyongoing project was reviewed with a360-degree view from all stakehold-ers. The meeting led to identificationof issues and way forward with cleartimelines for most of the delayed pro-jects,” said a NHAI official present inthe meeting.

Delay in land acquisition andimpediment in regulatory clearancessuch as for quarrying, etc, as well aslack of coordination and communica-tion between and within Governmentagencies emerged as main roadblocksin completion of road projects.

Gadkari went into the minutest

detail of every project making sure aclear path forward emerged to speedup projects. Officials and contractorsalso committed themselves to takeevery step to ensure timely completionof projects. The issue of timelyapproval of Extension of Time (EOT)and change of scope (COS) was par-ticularly raised by the Contractors/Concessionaire. As timely approvalswould help in facilitating lending bybanks, an online tool called “GATI”was also launched on the first day ofmeeting on January 23..

Interacting with media after themeeting, the Minister informed 22Greenfield Corridors of 7,500 kms isbeing developed with a total capitalcost of Rs 3 lakh crore.

“Work has started on some whileawarding all other projects are/will becompleted expeditiously. These pro-jects are being pursued vigorously andare being implemented on priority,”said Gadkari.

He added that besides reducinglength and decongesting existingNHs, the projects will work as growthengines as they pass through the lessdeveloped backward/ tribal areas.The development of way-side ameni-ties will result in more opportunitiesfor business and employment.

He also informed that the progressof FASTags was also reviewed. All 537Toll Plazas are now ETC enabled andmore than 1.37 cores FASTags havebeen issued. My FASTag App hascrossed 10 lakh down loads.

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It asked Sharma to file an amend-ed petition showing some specificinstances where NSA has beeninvoked against the ant-CAA protest-ers. The bench told Sharma that hecan also file an intervention applica-tion in the pending cases challengingthe validity of CAA and seek appro-priate relief.

Sharma then sought liberty towithdraw the petition and file anamended petition giving specificdetails of violations of NSA, which wasgranted by the court. Sharma’s pleasaid NSA has been imposed to curband pressure people protesting againstthe CAA, National PopulationRegister (NPR) and National Registerof Indian Citizens (NRIC).

Delhi’s Lieutenant Governor Anil

Baijal on January 10 had extendeddetaining powers to Delhi Policeunder the NSA for a three-monthperiod starting January 19. Thisallows police to detain a person for 12months without a trial.

Sharma had made the Ministry ofHome Affairs and the Governmentsof Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, AndhraPradesh and Manipur parties to theplea.

The plea had termed the notifica-tion, allowing police to invoke NSAto detain persons, as “unconstitution-al” and violative of fundamentalrights guaranteed under Article 19 (1)(freedom of speech and expression)and 21 (right to life) of theConstitution. “The cause of actionsarose on January 10, when respon-dents (States) imposed NSA Act fornext three months with effect fromJanuary 19 in Delhi as well as inAndhra Pradesh by the state govern-ment to arrest and detain...For protestsagainst a person holding office of thePM and ministers in the Central gov-ernment...,” the plea said, seeking adirection to quash the notification.

The plea also sought that it bedeclared that the NSA cannot be usedagainst protesters. Besides, it soughta compensation of �50,00,000 each tothose who have been detained so farunder the NSA for “mental agony,defamation in society and loss of rep-utation”.

Protests are taking place at vari-ous places in the country against theenactment of CAA and exercise ofNational Population Register (NPR).

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The plea, filed through advocateNilofar Khan, said that notices werebased on an Allahabad High Courtverdict delivered in 2010 which “is inviolation of the guidelines” passed bythe apex court in a 2009 judgmentwhich was later re-affirmed in a 2018verdict.

“The contradiction is that whilethe Supreme Court in 2009 put theonus of assessment of damages andrecovery from the accused on highcourts of every state, whereas theAllahabad High Court had issuedguidelines in 2010 judgement that letthe state government to undertakethese processes to recover damages,

which has serious implications,” it said.“The judicial oversight/judicial secu-rity is a sort of safety mechanismagainst arbitrary action. This meansthat there is every chance that the rul-ing party in the state could go after itspolitical opponents or others opposeto it to settle scores,” the plea said. Ithas also sought a direction to the UttarPradesh government to follow the pro-cedure as per the 2009 and 2018guidelines of the apex court whileclaiming damages to recover the loss-es caused to public property duringsuch protests. The plea has sought set-ting up of an independent judicialinquiry to probe into the incidentswhich happened during the protestsagainst the CAA-NRC in UttarPradesh, as has been done by theKarnataka High Court.

The plea claimed that the BJP-ledYogi Adityanath government in UttarPradesh is “moving ahead on the chiefminister’s promise of avenging loss topublic property” by seizing assets ofprotestors in order to “take revenge forpolitical reasons from one communi-ty who is in minority”.

It alleged that around 925 persons,who have been arrested so far in con-nection with the violent protests,may not get bail easily in UttarPradesh till they pay up for the loss-es as they have to be given “condition-al bail” only after they deposit theamount. The plea claimed that evenbefore any demonstrations, the chiefminister of Uttar Pradesh had declaredthat there was no reason for anyoneto protest against the CAA and onDecember 19, 2019 when the protes-tors and policemen first clashed inLucknow, “he angrily denounced theprotestors” and said he would take“revenge”.

“The government of UttarPradesh and its administration andpolice are no longer behaving like thearm of a democratic government as itcracked down on protests against theCitizenship Amendment Act,2019/NRC. The police on the instruc-tions of the Uttar Pradesh administra-tion used disproportionate force anddenied public accountability,” italleged. The plea, while giving detailsof instances in the state during theanti-CAA protests, claimed there is“no rule of law” in Uttar Pradesh andthere is “complete violation” of funda-mental rights guaranteed under theConstitution in order to crack downthe protests against CAA and NRC.

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The Supreme Court hasagreed to hear in open

court former MaharashtraChief Minister DevendraFadnavis’ plea seeking review ofits verdict which said the BJPleader will have to face trial forallegedly failing to furnishdetails of two pending criminalcases in his 2014 poll affidavit.

“Application seeking oralhearing of review petitions inopen court is/are allowed. Listreview petitions before thecourt,” a Bench of JusticesArun Mishra, Deepak Guptaand Aniruddha Bose said in itsThursday’s order.

On Oct 1 2019, the apexcourt had set aside the BombayHigh Court order which hadgiven a clean chit to Fadnavis and had held that hedid not deserve to be tried forthe alleged offences under the Representation of People’s(RP) Act.

The apex court’s verdicthad come on an appeal by oneSatish Ukey, who had chal-

lenged the high court’s order.On July 23, 2019, the top

court, while reserving the ver-dict, had said that the alleged“omission” by Fadnavis of notdisclosing information abouttwo criminal cases in his elec-tion affidavit may be decided inthe trial.

The apex court had saidthat it was concerned with alimited issue whether primafacie Section 125A of the RPAct is attracted or not. The pro-vision deals with the penalty for“filing false affidavit” and saysthat if a candidate or his pro-poser fails to furnish or givesfalse or conceals any informa-tion in his nomination paperon issues like pending criminalcases then the person may beawarded six months jail term orfine or both.

Ukey had contended thatthe chief minister filed a falseaffidavit by not disclosing twocriminal matters and yet thetrial court and the high courtheld that there no prima faciecase was made out for prose-cution of the Chief Minister.

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DMK moved the SupremeCourt on Friday seeking

urgent hearing of its plea fordisqualification of 11 AIADMKMLAs, including Deputy ChiefMinister O Panneerselvam,who voted against Tamil NaduChief Minister Edappadi KPalaniswami in a confidencemotion in 2017.

A Bench headed by ChiefJustice SA Bobde said it willconsider listing the matter forurgent hearing.

Senior advocate KapilSibal, appearing for DMK,sought urgent listing of the pleaand referred to the recent apexcourt verdict in the Manipurminister case in which theSpeaker has been directed todecide on disqualification ofManipur Forest Minister ThShyamkumar in four weeks.

The apex court had onTuesday said Parliament should“rethink” whether the Speakerof a House should continue tohave powers to disqualify law-makers as such a functionary“belongs to a particular polit-ical party”.

During the last hearing inthe AIADMK MLAs’ disqual-ification case however, it won-dered as to why courts shouldventure into the question ofdisqualification of MLAs fordefection when theConstitution has conferred thispower to the Assembly speak-er. The Madras High Court hadin April 2018 dismissed DMK’splea seeking to disqualify theMLAs.

The High Court had reject-ed the petition citing penden-cy of a plea in the apex courton the powers of a court toissue directions to the Speakerof a state Assembly.

The petitioner had soughtdisqualification ofPanneerselvam and ten othersfor having voted against the KPalaniswami Government lastyear when they were in therebel camp.

The petitioner had con-tended in the High Court thatby voting against the trustmotion, these MLAs had vio-lated the whip issued by rulingparty and hence attracted dis-qualification under the anti-defection law.

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Lauding the children whobagged the national awards,

Prime Minister Narendra Modion Friday said he gets inspirationand energy from them, knowingtheir talents. Interacting withchildren who won the PradhanMantri Bal Puraskar at his resi-dence, the Prime Minister saidhe is proud to see the awarenessof their duty towards society andthe nation.

“When I was getting intro-duced to you a while back, Iwas really surprised. The wayyou all have tried in differentfields, the work that has beendone at such a young age isamazing. Whenever I hearabout such courageous work ofall you young comrades, talk toyou, I also get inspiration andenergy,” the PM said.

He told them to enjoydrinking water and juice notmedicine. He also advised themto be physically active. ThePradhan Mantri Bal Puraskar

awards are given to children inthe age group of five to 18 yearsfor their contribution in varioussectors — innovation, socialservice, scholastic, sports, art and

culture, and bravery. It carries amedal, a cash prize of Rs 1 lakh,a certificate and a citation.

The 49 awardees include12-year-old Darsh Malani, who

has performed over 50 magicshows worldwide, and 11-year-old Manoj Kumar Lohar,awarded for his mastery in“tabla vadan”.

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India and Brazil aim to fur-ther expand their strategic

and economic ties as PresidentJair Bolsonaro arrived in NewDelhi on Friday on a four-dayvisit. He will hold wide rang-ing talks with Prime MinisterNarendra Modi and PresidentRam Nath Kovind and will bethe chief guest at the RepublicDay parade.

The two countries are like-ly to ink 15 pacts in the fieldsof social security, cyber secu-rity, health and medicinebesides bio-energy.

The focus of the Brazilianvisit will be to re-energise theties between two countries ina number of key sectors,Secretary (East) in the ExternalAffairs Ministry Vijay ThakurSingh said.

“The visit of President

Bolsonaro is an extremelyimportant visit. It will be anopportunity to re-energise ourstrategic partnership and takeit forward in a focused man-ner,” she had said at a press con-ference on Thursday.

Bolsonaro is accompaniedby eight ministers, four mem-bers of the BrazilianParliament, senior officials anda large business delegation.

It will be the third time thata Brazilian President will be the chief guest at theRepublic Day.

The last time there was aBrazilian president as chiefguest was in 2004 and beforethat in 1996. The lastPresidential visit from Brazilwas by President Michel Temerin October 2016 on the side-lines of the eighth BRICSSummit in Goa. Modi visitedBrazil in November to attend

the XI BRICS Summit.Moreover, Modi met

Bolsonaro on the sidelines ofthe G20 Summit in Osaka inJune last year during whichissues of bilateral importancewere discussed.

Brazilian envoy AndreAranha Correa do Lago toIndia had earlier said over 15agreements will be signed dur-ing the Brazilian president’svisit, including one on theinvestment protection andfacilitation treaty.

Bolsonaro, a former armycaptain, won a landslide victo-ry in Brazil’s presidential elec-tion in October 2018 and tookthe reins of the country inJanuary last year.

Bolsonaro will hold talkswith Modi and PresidentKovind separately on Saturday.Thakur said there would be dis-cussions on cooperation in key

sectors such as defence, ener-gy, trade and agriculture.Giving importance to trade,Bolsonaro will address a groupof Indian and Brazilian busi-ness leaders at the India-BrazilBusiness Forum here onJanuary 27, officials said.

“We have ongoing Defencecooperation as well as spacecooperation and we are looking at how to strengthenthese,” she said.

India-Brazil ties have seenan upward trend in the last fewyears. The volume of bilateraltrade was USD 8.2 billion in2018-19. This included USD3.8 billion worth of Indianexports to Brazil and USD 4.4million as imports by India.Indian investments in Brazilwere around USD 6 billion andBrazilian investments in Indiaare estimated at USD 1 billionin 2018.

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Expressing shock over thestabbing of a 23-year-old

female student in Toronto,Canada, by an unidentifiedassailant, External AffairsMinister S Jaishankar on Fridayasked his Ministry officials toarrange visa for the family ofthe injured.

“Deeply shocked to learn ofthe serious attack on RachelAlbert, an Indian student inToronto, Canada. Am askingMEA officials to help with her family’s visa. Family mem-bers may immediately contactus on +91 9873983884,”Jaishankar tweeted.

The victim, who hails fromTamil Nadu, sustained stabwounds to her neck during the

assault, local media reported.She was subsequently rushed toa trauma centre with life-threatening injuries. Althoughshe underwent surgery, sheremains in hospital in criticalcondition.

The Toronto Police in atweet described the suspect asan Asian male in his mid-20swho is between five-foot-nineand five-foot-eleven. The policeOperations also tweeted phonenumbers to seek any informa-tion about the case.

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Ahead of the Budget Session,Chief Justice of India SA

Bobde on Friday said while taxevasion is a social injustice tothe fellow citizens, arbitrary orexcessive tax is also a socialinjustice by a Government.

Referring to ancient laws inIndia around taxation, theChief Justice said tax should becollected from people likehoney bee draws nectar fromflowers without harming it.

Speaking at the 79th foun-dation day celebrations ofIncome Tax Appellate Tribunal,Bobde emphasised on the useof next generation technologyartificial intelligence to expeditethe process with caution that itshould not replace the humandiscretion required for deliv-ering justice.

“I am firmly of the viewbased on experience of systems

that have used artificial intel-ligence that it is only the repet-itive area or decision makingthat is rates of taxation etc orsomething which is invariablythe same which is in a sensemechanical that must be cov-ered by artificial intelligence. Ido not believe that artificialintelligence should ever beallowed to substitute thehuman discretion which isnecessary for a just decisionmaking,” he said.

The CJI’s suggestion comesagainst the backdrop of thepeople’s expectations of furtherincome tax relaxations being

one of the Budget sops of theModi Government, economicslowdown, high inflation and aweakening rupee..

The CJI also made a casefor speedy resolution of tax dis-putes saying it will act as anincentive for tax payers and freethe funds locked in litigation.

The Chief Justice said taxjudiciary plays a very importantrole in resource mobilisation ofthe country and expressed con-cern over pendency of cases.

“A just and speedy disputeresolution is perceived as a taxincentive by the taxpayer. Tothe tax collector, an efficient tax

judiciary assures that demandsarising out of legitimate assess-ment are not strangled indelayed litigation,” Bobde said.

The pendency of appealcases related to indirect taxes inthe Supreme Court, HighCourt and CESTAT hasreduced 61 per cent to 1.05lakh in almost two years.

According to official data,total pendency of appeals at theSupreme Court, High Courtand CESTAT (Customs Exciseand Service Tax AppellateTribunal) as on June 30, 2017,was 2,73,591, whereas the samesignificantly came down to1,05,756 as on March 31, 2019,a reduction of 61 per cent.

With regard to direct taxes,as many as 3.41 lakh cases werepending before commissioner(appeals), while 92,205 caseswere pending before theIncome Tax Appellate Tribunal(ITAT) as on March 31, 2019.

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Vice President M VenkaiahNaidu on Friday said

Jammu & Kashmir’s accessionto India is “total, final andirrevocable”, and asserted thatArticle 370, which gave theerstwhile State special status,was a temporary provision thathad outlived its purpose a longtime back.

Delivering the Sardar Patellecture on governance, Naiducalled upon all Indians to worktogether to usher in the ‘RamRajya’ envisioned by MahatmaGandhi in which, he said, thereis all-round inclusive growthwithout poverty, discrimina-tion, inequality, illiteracy andhunger, according to an officialstatement.

“Every citizen must striveto protect the unity, safety,security and sovereignty of thecountry,” Naidu said after pay-ing tributes to India’s firsthome minister VallabhbhaiPatel, who is credited with theintegration of hundreds ofregions with the Union.

The accession of Jammu &Kashmir to the Indian Union is“total, final and irrevocable”, thevice president said, adding that“Article 370 was only a tempo-rary provision and it had out-lived its purpose long back”.

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The terrorist, who was killedin a gunfight with security

forces in Pulwama district onWednesday, was identified as aPakistani national affiliatedwith proscribed Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) outfit, asenior police officer said onFriday, adding the ultra oper-ated in militancy-infested southKashmir under code names“Abu Saifullah” and “AbuQasim”.

The officer said the slainterrorist was wanted in connection with the abduc-tion and killing of two civil-ians and threatening specialpolice officers (SPOs) andnon-local labourers to leavethe Valley.

A close associate of JeMself-styled chief commanderQari Yasir of Pakistan, who waskilled in an encounter withsecurity forces in Kupwara dis-trict in July 2013, Abu Saifullahwas trapped along with his

local associate during a searchand cordon operation atZaintrag village in theAwantipora area of Pulwamaon Tuesday morning, he said.

The operation, which waslaunched on a specific infor-mation, turned into a gun-fight when the hiding terror-ists opened fire on the jointsearch parties of police, 50Rashtriya Rifles and 185Battalion of the CRPF, theofficer said.

The heavy firing by theterrorists resulted in grievousbullet injuries to Sepoy RahulRanswal of the Rashtriya Riflesand SPO Shahbaz Ahmad oflocal police, who were evacu-ated to the Army’s 92 BaseHospital in Srinagar but bothsuccumbed to injuries there, hesaid.

During the process ofevacuation of the injuredjawans, the terrorists fled thecordon area, the officer said,adding they were tracked downin the forest area of Nagander

village, which is about oneKilometer away from theencounter site of Zantrag, nextday resulting in a freshencounter. The “most wanted”terrorist, Abu Saifullah, waskilled there.

However, his other asso-ciate managed to escape and ahunt is on to neutralise him, theofficer said.

“Abu Saifullah has beenactive in Tral and the Khrewarea of Awantipora for morethan one-and-a-half years andwas a close associate of slainJeM chief Qari Yasir. He wasinvolved in the abduction andkilling of two civilians – AbdulQadeer Kohli and ManzoorAhmad Kohli – and injuring ashopkeeper, Naseer AhmadGanie, last year,” he said.Saifullah was also wanted in acase related to pasting ofposters wherein the SPOs werethreatened to leave their jobsand non-local labourers wereasked to leave the valley, theofficer said.

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West Bengal CM MamataBanerjee will now take

up the brush on January 28 toprotest against the amendedCitizenship Act and the pro-posed NRC, well knownpainter Shuvaprasanna who isorganising it said on Friday.

The programme will takeplace at the Gandhi statue onMayo Road, where Banerjee, apainter herself, will wield thebrush along with several otherrenowned painters to depict theproblems of the contentiousCAA and NRC, he said.

The theme of the pro-gramme is ‘No CAA-No NRC’.It has been planned byBanerjee, Shuvaprasanna said.

“Around 40 painters alongwith our CM will try to depictthe protests across the country,the pain of the people who arein detention centres in Assamdue to NRC. It will be a differ-ent form of protest,” he told PTI.

According to TMCsources, the paintings will beexhibited in various galleries of

the state and the country.“These paintings will be a

part of our awareness campaignagainst CAA and NRC acrossthe country and state,” a seniorTMC leader said.

The issue of CAA hasemerged as major political flashpoint in West Bengal with theTMC opposing the contentious

legislation tooth and nail, andthe BJP pressing for its imple-mentationBanerjee, as t a u n c hcritic of BJP, has been at theforefront of anti-CAA protest aswell as against the proposedNational Register of Citizensand the NPR.

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Union Minister of State forHome Affairs G Kishan

Reddy on Friday met J&KLieutenant Governor GirishChandra Murmu and dis-cussed the internal securitysituation of the UT.

The MoS and the LtGovernor discussed a range ofissues pertaining to the inter-nal security and law ordermanagement in J&K, an officialspokesperson said.

They also had a discussionon the border management,administration of the UT, man-agement of Central ArmedPolice Forces, disaster man-agement and implementationof several developmental pro-jects and public welfareschemes in the UT.

Reddy also shared hisviews with the Lt Governorabout the current

security and developmen-

tal scenario in the UT.He observed that the devel-

opment of J&K along withrenewed growth prospects forthe people and maintenance ofsecurity, peace and harmony inJ&K is the foremost agenda ofthe Union Govt and all neces-sary steps would be taken inthis regard.

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Bhim Army chiefChandrashekhar Azad on

Friday hit outat the BJP-ledGovernment at

the Centre, accusing it of “ped-dling lies” on the CitizenshipAmendment Act (CAA),National Population Register(NPR) and National Register ofCitizens (NRC).

Azad, addressing a rally inthis north Bihar town, calledupon the people to carry on“sustained and peacefulprotests”, urging them to drawinspiration from the agitationby women at Delhi’s ShaheenBagh.

“I want to tell people acrossthe country that they are notalone in their fight. The BhimArmy is by their side,” he said.

The Bhim Army chiefaccused the Narendra Modi-led Government of “striking atthe country’s unity and integri-ty” by introducing the CAAwhich “discriminates againstcitizens on the basis of reli-gion”.

He said NPR is seen as a

precursor to (nationwide)NRC, which could be “used todisenfranchise people”.

“The government has beenpeddling lies stating that theAct is a benign one, aimed atgiving citizenship and not tak-ing it away, and misleading thenation by claiming that it is notlinked with NRC.

All these measures willharm the common citizens,”Azad said.

The Ambedkarite also paidtributes to socialist leaderKarpoori Thakur on his birthanniversary on Friday.

Sharing an image of a com-memorative stamp issued inthe memory of the formerBihar chief minister, he tweet-ed, “Attended a rally atMuzaffarpur (Bihar) on thebirth anniversary of Jan NayakKarpoori Thakur, the warriorof social justice.”

“Karpoori Thakur had saidthat if the rights of the peopleare trampled upon, they willchallenge the privileges enjoyedby the Parliament. His wordsproved true with people hittingthe streets in protest againstCAA-NRC,” he tweeted.

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The Internet shutdown hascreated an information

black hole in Kashmir by crip-pling the functioning of thelocal press and severely cur-tailing its coverage of how thepeople have been affected,Senior CPI(M) leader MYTarigami said on Friday.

He said Valley based jour-nalists have had to stand inqueues at the ‘MediaFacilitation Centre’ - set up bythe administration in Srinagar- and rely on a dozen comput-ers with internet access to filetheir stories and communi-cate with their editors.

“As Internet shutdown inKashmir for the last nearly sixmonths has virtually stoppedfree flow of information, jour-nalists continue to face severerestrictions in all processes of

news gathering, verificationand dissemination leavingbehind a troubled silence thatbodes ill for freedom ofexpression and media free-dom,” Tarigami said in a state-ment.

“Internet facilities remaininadequate for hundreds ofjournalists and districtreporters who can’t make it tothe centre every day,” he added.

This has virtually madethem dependent on the state,and submission to government-regulated conditions makes amockery of freedom of thepress, the CPI(M) leader said.

“There were no reports onthe effects of the communicationshutdown on everyday lives ofpeople, arrests, crippling ofhealthcare and other emergencyservices. What was not coveredin the local press said a lot aboutthe curtailment of the freedomof the press”, he said.TheConstitution provides the rightof freedom, given in Article 19with the view of guaranteeingindividual rights that were con-sidered vital by the framers ofthe Constitution, he said.

“As we are going to cele-brate 70th Republic Day in twodays time, it is imperative ondemocratic forces including,intelligentsia and the civil soci-ety at large, to put their headstogether, discuss the situationintensively and highlight thesufferings of people of J&K andmake this BJP Governmentaccountable,” he said.

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The CBI has opposed a bailplea filed by Indrani

Mukerjea, a prime accused inthe Sheena Bora murder case,saying that the charges againsther are “serious and grievous innature.”

After failing to secure bailfour times on medical grounds,Mukerjea filed another plea inDecember 2019 in the court ofspecial CBI judge JC Jagdale,seeking bail on the `merits’ ofher case.She was arrested in thecase in 2015.

Opposing her plea, theCentral Bureau of Investigationsaid in its reply two days agothat she was accused of killingher own daughter, and the

charges against her were “seri-ous and grievous” in nature.

Accused-turned-approverShyamvar Rai, Indrani’s formerdriver, has deposed in detailabout how the crime was com-mitted and the evidencedestroyed, the CBI said.

Kajal Agarwal, a witness,stated in her testimony how theconspiracy unfolded and howfake resignation letter, leave andlicense agreement and ID cardwere created in Sheena’s name,the agency said.

Of the 253 witnesses, 60have deposed, the agency said,adding that several key witnessesincluding Rahul, Indrani’s thenhusband Peter Mukerjea’s sonfrom earlier marriage, were yetto be examined.

If released on bail, Indraniwould abscond, or try to influ-ence the witnesses, it said.

According to the CBI,Indrani was opposed to Rahuland Sheena’s relationship. Onthe day Sheena was killed, Rahulhad seen Indrani and her driverwaiting with Indrani’s car whenhe dropped Sheena in Bandra.

Sheena told Rahul that shewill stay with Indrani for thenight and it was the last time hesaw her, the agency said in itsreply. In her bail plea, Indraniclaimed that “there was noevidence in the form of mes-sages, conversations or e-mailsor any communication” toshow that she had hatched aconspiracy to abduct or killSheena.

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Apolitical slugfest broke outin Maharashtra over Home

Minister Anil Deshmukh’s alle-gation that phones ofCongress-NCP leaders weretapped by the previous BJPregime during 2019 Lok Sabhaand Assembly polls as ex-ChiefMinister Devendra Fadnavisstoutly rejected the charge onFriday.

A day after Deshmukhmade the sensational claimand ordered a probe, Fadnavis,the then Chief Minister whoalso held the home portfolio,asserted phone tapping was notthe culture of the state and hisGovernment had not givenany such orders.

Fadnavis pointed out thata Shiv Sena leader was theMinister of State for Home dur-ing his tenure.

The Congress, a key con-stituent of the Maha VikasAghadi (MVA) Government,joined the NCP in attacking theBJP and demanded a high-level

inquiry into the entire episode.“The previous BJP-led

Government had tappedphones of senior NCP andCongress leaders throughGovernment mechanism aheadof the Lok Sabha and Assemblypolls held last year,” Deshmukhalleged.

He said there are also alle-gations that the thenGovernment had sent someofficials to Israel and broughtsoftware to “intercept” phonesof leaders of the Congress andthe NCP, which were then inopposition. Deshmukh did notname the NCP and Congress

leaders whose phones theDevendra Fadnavis-ledGovernment had allegedlytapped. “They had stoopedlow in politics. We have initi-ated probe into it,” the NCPMinister said.

Speaking with the media inBhandara district in Vidarbhaon Friday, Deshmukh reiterat-ed the phone-tapping allega-tions against the BJP-led gov-ernment. “The BJPGovernment, before the polls,tried to gather informationabout what and with whomthese (NCP-Congress) leaderswere talking to,” he said.

Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Rauton Friday said a BJP leader hadinformed him that his phonewas being tapped by theFadnavis Government, inwhich his party was an ally.

“A BJP leader had told methat my phone was beingtapped. I said if anybody wantsto listen to what I am saying Iwelcome it. I am Balasaheb’s‘chela’ (disciple), whatever I do,I do it openly,” Raut told

reporters here.“In spite of the phone-tap-

ping, we formed the govern-ment in Maharashtra,” he said.

The Sena formedGovernment with the Congressand the NCP in November lastyear after snapping its alliancewith the BJP.

On Thursday, Deshmukhhad alleged the Fadnavis dis-pensation misused governmentmachinery to tap the phones ofopposition leaders, especiallyduring the formation of theMVA Government inNovember.

“The cyber cell of theMaharashtra police has beenasked to look into the variouscomplaints of snooping/phonetapping that came in during theprevious government,”Deshmukh had said.

Housing Minister JitendraAwhad, an NCP leader, onFriday said the phone tappingepisode smacks of “sick men-tality” of the BJP and added itshould be probed as to why theprevious government did so.

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The Supreme Court allowedthe Rajasthan State

Election Commission (SEC)on Friday to hold ‘panchayat’polls in the State by April thisyear.

The top court had earlierstayed the Rajasthan HighCourt’s order cancelling the notifications reorganisingcertain ‘gram panchayats’ and ‘panchayat samitis’ in theState after November 15-16,2019.

A bench, comprisingChief Justice SA Bobde andJustices BR Gavai and SuryaKant, was told by the StateGovernment that the high court quashed thedel imitat ion of cer tain ‘panchayats’ and that order was stayed by the topcourt.

Later, the SEC stayed the‘panchayat’ polls which should

be conducted, senior advocateA M Singhvi said.

The bench took note of theplea of the State Governmentand the statement of the Statepoll body on the possibility ofconducting the ‘panchyat’ elec-tions.

“KV Vishwanathan, seniorcounsel appearing for thenewly added respondent –State Election Commission,states that the elections will beheld in accordance with thenotifications.

He further states that theelections will be held accordingto law in the second half ofApril, 2020. Order according-ly,” the bench said in its order.The high court, in Decemberlast year, had nullified ‘pan-chayat’ bodies created afterNovember 15-16.

It had termed the delimi-tation notification of 627 gram‘panchayats’ in Rajasthan as“void”.

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Around 50 women sat on aprotest against the

Citizenship (Amendment) Actand National Register ofCitizens in Uttar Pradesh’sSambhal district on Friday.

The women raised slogansagainst CAA and NRC atPakka Bag Kheda in Nakhasaarea, claiming the two are“undemocratic” and “against

Muslims”.They also raised slogans,

including “hum leke rahengeazadi”, “CAA se azadi”, “RSS seazadi”, “Gandhi wali azadi”.

Samajwadi Party MPShafiqur Rahman Barq visit-ed the protestors and said,“The government wants tomake Muslims secondary cit-izens” and added that hisparty will raise the issue inParliament.

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Former Madhya PradeshMinister and BJP leader

Badrilal Yadav was arrestedon Friday for allegedly makingan objectionable remarkagainst Rajgarh collector NidhiNivedita during a public meet-ing, police said.

However, a JudicialMagistrate First Class (JMFC)court later granted bail toYadav on a personal bond of�20,000, he said.

The former Minister ofState was arrested from his res-idence in Biaora city (inRajgarh district) on Fridayafternoon in the case registeredagainst him under IPC sections294 (obscene act) and 188(disobedience to order dulypromulgated by public ser-vant) on Thursday, RajgarhSuperintendent of Police (SP)Pradeep Sharma said.

“Yadav was produced inthe JMFC court, which grant-ed bail to him on the personalbond of Rs 20,000,” he added.

Biaora City police stationin-charge D P Lohia said thatapart from this, the formerminister was also arrested onFriday in an old case registeredagainst him under IPC section188.

The JMFC granted bail tohim in that case as well on apersonal bond of �20,000.

A case had been registeredagainst Yadav on Thursday formaking an objectionableremark against the woman col-lector, who is accused of slap-ping a BJP worker during a pro-Citizenship (Amendment) Act(CAA) rally held five days ago.

Yadav had made an inde-cent remark against the collec-tor during a protest organisedby the BJP at Biaora in Rajgarhdistrict on Wednesday

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Ten eminent women admin-istrators, artists, scientists

and social reformers, includingHansa Mehta and Devi AhilyaBai Holkar, will have Chairs inuniversities in their names,the Government said on Friday.

The announcement wasmade by the women and childdevelopment Ministry onNational Girl Child Day.

The 10 Chairs will be setup with the University GrantsCommission’s assistance andwith an aim to carry outresearch in different fields,according to a statement.

The initiative is called“establishment of chairs inuniversities in the name ofeminent women administra-tors, artists, scientists andsocial reformers”, it said. Thesewill be established for a peri-od of five years initially, as perguidelines, according to the

statement.The chairs are being

named after Holkar queenDevi Ahilyabai Holkar, littera-teur Mahadevi Verma, freedomfighter from the North EastRani Gaidinliu, physicianAnandibai Gopalrao Joshi,Carnatic singer MSSubbulakshmi, forest conser-vationist Amrita Devi Beniwal,mathematician Lilavati, scien-tist Kamala Sohonie, poet LalDed and educational reformistHansa Mehta.

The financial implicationsof the proposal is �50 lakh perChair for a year and the totalexpenditure for establishingthem will be about �5 crore perannum, the statement said.

“The Chair’s academicfunctions will be to engage inresearch and contribute to theadvancement of knowledge inthe area of the study, strength-en the university’s role and aca-demics in public policy mak-

ing, and to design and executeshort-term capacity-buildingprogrammes for teachers inhigher education focusedtowards the designated disci-pline of the Chair,” it said.

The other academic func-tions will be to provide a forumfor inter-university and inter-collegiate post graduate andresearch level dialogues; dis-cussions; meetings; and semi-nars, the statement said.

Functions will also includesummer and winter schools;and publishing articles,research papers, reports andbooks, it said.

The university will reviewthe progress of its Chair annu-ally and submit a report on theactivities and outcomes to theUGC after the five years.

“However, the UGC mayundertake the exercise ofreviewing the Chair for its con-tinuance, at any stage,” accord-ing to the statement.

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The Congress government inChhattisgarh has scrapped

the pension scheme launched bythe earlier BJP administrationfor those detained under theMaintenance of Internal SecurityAct (MISA) during theEmergency, drawing criticismfrom the main opposition party.According to a gazette notifica-tion issued by the GeneralAdministration Department onThursday, Loknayak JaiprakashNarayan (MISA/Defence ofIndia Rules (DIR) DIRdetainees) Samman Nidhi Rule,2008, has been repealed.

The scheme was meant forpeople jailed under these pro-visions, incuding MISA, duringthe Emergency (which was inforce from June 25, 1975, toMarch 31, 1977), an officialhere said. Under the scheme,people who spent three monthsin jail under MISA during theEmergency were being given Rs10,000 per month. Thoseimprisoned for six months weregetting Rs 15,000 per month andthose jailed for over six monthsRs 25,000, officials said.

Notably, the state govern-ment, in January last year, hadsuspended the scheme fromFebruary 2019 stating it will becontinued after physical verifi-cation of the beneficiaries andreassessment of the disburse-ment process. Hailing the deci-sion, state Congress spokesper-son Vikas Tiwari said thescheme was meant to keep BJP-RSS leaders happy and now themoney being paid to its benefi-ciaries will be spent on employ-ment schemes for youths. Tiwariwas the one who had urgedChief Minister Bhupesh Baghelto scrap the scheme after theCongress came to power in thestate in December 2018.

The then Raman Singh gov-ernment (in 2008) had launchedthe scheme to keep the BJP andthe RSS happy in the name ofgiving honour to MISAdetainees. “Now the hugeamount of funds being spent onthis scheme will be utilised foremployment schemes foryouths,” he said. Senior BJPMLA and Leader of OppositionDharamlal Kaushik dubbed theCongress government’s move asanti-people and murder ofdemocracy, and demandedrestoration of the pensionscheme.

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The Jharkhand Vikas Morcha(Prajatantrik) legislative

party is heading for a split withtwo of its MLAs meetingCongress interim presidentSonia Gandhi, amid indicationof their joining the grand oldparty. JVM-P led by formerchief minister Babulal Marandihas three MLAs—Marandi him-self, Bandhu Tirkey and PradipYadav-in the present House.

Tirkey and Yadav met SoniaGandhi and Rahul Gandhi inNew Delhi Thursday eveningwith the AICC in-charge RPNSingh, triggering speculation oftheir joining the party. In a sig-nificant political develop-ment,the JVM-P on Fridayannounced its decision to with-draw support to the HemantSoren-led government in

Jharkhand,accusing the rulingalliance partner Congress ofattempting to poach its MLAs.

The JVM-P had supportedthe opposition coalition ministryfrom outside and its withdraw-al would not have any impact onthe government that has 47MLAs in the 81-member house.“Our party has extended supportto the Hemant Soren govern-ment. But its coalition partner,Congress is attempting to poachour MLAs. In view of that, theparty has decided to withdrawits support, JVM-P GeneralSecretary Saroj Singh toldreporters here.

He said the party has alsodecided to remove Pradip Yadavas the legislature party leader inthe state assembly and sent a let-ter to the Speaker in this con-nection. The letter signed byMarandi and addressed to Soren

said, “Our party JharkhandVikas Morcha (Prajatantrik)had on December 24, 2019,gave a letter of unconditionalsupport to the governmentunder your (Hemant Soren)leadership.But the Congress,which is a part of the UPA, is try-ing to break our MLAs, whichthe newspapers have publishedprominently today.

“In this context, our partyhas reviewed its support anddecided to withdraw support tothe UPA government underyour leadership,” the letter, acopy of which was released tothe media, said. On the twoMLAs meeting Sonia Gandhiand Rahul Gandhi, JPCCspokesman Alok Kumar Dubeytold PTI “The two leaders gotthe blessings of our senior lead-ers. They are welcome to join theparty.”

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Dalit leader PrakashAmbedkar on Friday

demanded that the MaharashtraGovernment arrest the “politi-cal bosses” on whose instruc-tions the police arrested activistsin connection with theKoregaon-Bhima violence.

Ambedkar’s remarks fol-low reports of NCP presidentSharad Pawar writing toMaharashtra Chief MinisterUddhav Thackeray, alleging thatthe violence was the result of aconspiracy hatched by the thenBJP-led Government with thehelp of police, and seeking anSIT probe.NCP sources con-firmed that Pawar had written aletter some ten days ago, but didnot disclose its contents.

Speaking to reporters here,Ambedkar asked Pawar to makepublic the “documents” he hasin his possession.

“Pawar has written to the

government is what I have readin newspapers. My only requestto the Government is it shouldassure the (police) officials whoare involved that it won’t takeaction against them even if they were wrong,” Ambedkarsaid.

“But they should disclosewho were the political bosseswho gave the orders (to arrestactivists) and the Governmentshould act against such politicalbosses,” the leader of the VanchitBahujan Aghadi said.According to Pune police, theElgar Parishad conclave held inPune on December 31, 2017,was supported by Maoists andinflammatory speeches made atthe event led to caste violence atKoregaon-Bhima war memori-al in the district the next day.

The Left-leaning activistsarrested during the probe had

links with Maoists, policeclaimed, booking them underthe Unlawful Activities(Prevention) Act.

Sudhir Dhawale, RonaWilson, Surendra Gadling,Mahesh Raut, Shoma Sen, ArunFerreira, Vernon Gonsalves,Sudha Bharadwaj and VaravaraRao were arrested in the case.

Last month, Pawar hadtermed the arrests as “wrong”and “vengeful” and demandedprobe by a special investigationteam.

Meanwhile, BJP leader andformer minister Vinod Tawdealleged that Pawar wanted toprotect “urban naxals”.

“It is unfortunate that Pawar,who had been a Chief Ministerand (state) Home Minister(should write such a letter.

It is not expected of Pawarsaheb,” he told reporters.

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Rajasthan Governor KalrajMishra on Friday said the

Government is working tobring a legislation on “right tohealth” to provide healthcarefacilities to people of the State.

Delivering his address onthe first day of the Budget ses-sion, which was later boy-cotted by the opposition BJPand RLP MLAs, Mishra saidthe state government haslaunched ‘Nirogi Rajasthan’campaign on December 18last year and was making con-stant efforts to provide health-care facilities to the people.

He said the Governmentwas working on “right tohealth” legislation to make itmandatory to provide health-care facilities to the people.

Mishra said the StateGovernment has so far allo-cated a budget of �47.80 croreas agriculture grant to farmersin six districts - Jalore,Jaisalmer, Barmer, Bikaner, Paliand Jodhpur - where locustattack has damaged crops.

He said the Government

took prompt action and got the‘girdawari’ (assessment report)prepared in the affected areas.

The Governor saidRajasthan became the firstState in the country to make thearrangement of FIR registrationat SP offices in case the FIR isnot registered at police stations.

Due to this historic deci-sion, the number of FIRs willincrease, he said.

“It is the duty of theGovernment which works forpublic welfare to ensure thateveryone is heard and getsjustice,” he said.

Rajasthan was the firststate to pass a bill to curb inci-dents of honour killing and sec-ond state where a bill againstmob lynching was passed, hesaid.

It was expected that thegovernment of India will coop-erate in implementing them.

Mishra said Rajasthan isthe first state to bring an ordi-nance to exempt MSMEs forthree years from gettingapproval and clearances to startoperations. Certificates to 2,811business units have been pro-

vided under this till December31, 2019, he said.

The governor highlightedother achievements of theGovernment during his speech,which was interrupted by theleader of oppositionGulabchand Kataria.

As soon as the Governorbegan the address, Katariaraised objection over the man-ner in which the session washurriedly called and said therules and procedures were notfollowed. “A prior notice has tobe issued before the session iscalled but this was not followed.The notice has to be issued 21days prior to the beginning ofthe session. The session hasbeen called hurriedly and inemergency,” he said.

Kataria said a bill to extendreservation to SC and ST inLok Sabha and StateAssemblies for another 10 yearshas to be ratified by January 25but the Government was care-less about it earlier. The sessionwas hurriedly called when thelast date of ratification wasnear, he said.

When the governor con-

tinued his address, Katariaannounced the decision toboycott the proceedings of thesession. The RashtriyaLoktantrik Party MLAs tooboycotted the proceedingsalong with the BJP MLAs.

After the governor’saddress, other listed business-es was taken up.

The assembly secretarytabled a message from RajyaSabha to the state assemblyregarding the ratification of theConstitution (126th)Amendment Bill to extendreservation to SC and ST inLok Sabha and state assembliesfor another 10 years.

The bill is likely to be rat-ified by the assembly onSaturday.

Meanwhile, in a symbolicprotest, a BJP MLA entered theassembly premises with a bas-ket of locusts and asked thestate government to expeditethe distribution of compensa-tion to farmers who have suf-fered losses in the insect attack.

“The seriousness of thegovernment is not visible inaddressing the issue of locust

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The Maharashtra bandh,called by the Prakash

Ambedkar-led Vanchit BahujanAghadi (VBA) to oppose theCitizenship Amendment Act(CAA) and National Register ofCitizens (NRC) failed to evokedesired response on Friday,even as the protesters van-dalised buses and indulged inviolence at some places acrossthe state.

In all, VBA and 35 otherorganisations had come togeth-er to organise the bandh. In therun up to and during the courseof the bandh, the police haddetained an estimated 3000Dalit activists and othersbelonging to the organisationssupporting the bandh as a pre-cautionary measure.

The detained activists were,however, let off later in the night.VBA’s founder presidentPrakash Ambedkar claimedthat the bandh was a suc-cess.”We have not forced anyoneto join the bandh. Nor haveworkers indulged in violence. Byand large, the bandh was a totalsuccess,” Ambedkar said, whiletalking to media persons in the

evening.There was some impactof bandh in places like Mumbai,Thane, Ulhasnagar, Bhiwandi,Akola, Jalgaon, Baramati, Jalna,Nandurbar, Nashik Hingoli andPune.

Shops and business estab-lishments remained in most ofthese places. There were how-ever, no reports of major dis-ruptions from other parts of thestate. Notwithstanding theclaims to the contrary byAmbedkar, the VBA activistsforced the shop keepers toshut down the shops in placeslike Chembur, Wadala,Mulund, Airoli, Ghatkopar,Govandi, Trombay and Kurla.However, normal life remainedunaffected.

The protesters indulged instone pelting and vandalised aBEST at Chembur in north-cen-

tral Mumbai. The driver, identified as

Vilas B. Dabhade (53), wasinjured in the incident. He wasadmitted to the ShatabdiHospital at Govandi. However,the passengers in the busescaped unhurt.

There were reports of spo-radic incidents of violence fromsome parts of the state. The inci-dents included creating block-ades along the roads and hurling of stones atbuses. In Mumbai, Thane andmost other places across thestate, normal life remainedunaffected. The suburban trains– the life lines of Mumbai andsurrounding satellite townships– ran normally, while the roadtraffic was also not hit by thebandh. In his interaction withthe media, Amedhkar said:

“Since the people are getting toknow more and more about thedangers posed by the CAA,NRC and NPR, we received fair-ly good response for the bandh.

The CAA and NRC will notaffected just Muslims, they willalso affected a sizeable section ofthe Hindus across the country.

The people will find it dif-ficult to prove their citizenship,because of lack of documentswith them”.

Ambedkar said thatFinance Minister NirmalaSitaraman would present adeficit budget in February. “Inthe normal course, theGovernment was to have raiseda revenue of �24 lakh crore dur-ing the financial year 2019-20.But, the revenue collection maynot even �9 lakh crore,”Ambedkar said.

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The BSF said on Friday thatthere has been an increase

in the outflow of illegalBangladeshi migrants to theirhome country over the past onemonth, following the enact-ment of the Citizenship(Amendment) Act or CAA.

A top official of the para-military force said there hasbeen a spike in the number ofillegal settlers apprehendedsince last month.

The outflow has been high-est through the borders in theNorth 24 Parganas district,BSF Inspector General (SouthBengal Frontier) Y B Khuraniasaid. “There has been someincrease in outflow of illegalBangladeshi migrants to thebordering country in last onemonth. In January alone, wehad apprehended 268 illegalBangladeshi migrants, most ofwho were trying to sneak intothe neighbouring country,”Khurania told reporters.

Those leaving were most-ly engaged as masons, maidsand housekeepers in the coun-

try, another Border SecurityForce (BSF) official said.

“The highest outflow isvia North 24 Parganas dis-

trict. They (migrants) weremostly based in Bengaluru andnorth India. Some wereinvolved in paltry jobs such as

masons, maids, housekeepersand sweepers,” he said.

In 2019, the BSF hadapprehended 2,194

Bangladeshis, most of themcaught while trying to illegal-ly sneak into India. But sinceDecember last year, things have

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The National InvestigationAgency on Friday filed a

chargesheet in a court hereagainst two suspectedBangladeshi terrorists, whohad entered India illegally andconcealed their identity byprocuring fake Aadhaar cards.

The charge sheet wasfiled against Mahmud Hassanalias Shariful Islam andMohamad Sa’ad Hussain aliasMohamad Sayad Hussainunder various sections of theIndian Penal Code,Foreigners Act and UnlawfulActivities (Prevention) Act,the agency said in a state-ment.

The two were detained byvillagers in Silsuri when theycould not produce valid doc-

uments and gave unsatisfac-tory replies about theirantecedents and presence inthe area, it said.

“They were later handedover to the BSF personnel ofSilsuri Border Out-Post(BOP), who in turn handedover the two accused to policestation Marpara.

The local police registeredthe case for investigationwhich was later handed over toNIA,” it said.

The agency said its inves-tigation has established thatboth the suspects are membersof Ansar-al-Islam, a bannedterrorist organisation inBangladesh.

“Both the accused crossedthe international border ofIndia and Bangladesh illegal-ly in the state of Tripura in

November 2018. They con-cealed their location and iden-tity based on fake Aadhaarcards,” it said.

These fake Aadhaar cardswere given to them by theirhandlers in Bangladesh. “Investigation furtherrevealed that accusedMahmud Hassan aliasShariful Islam had travelledfrom Agartala to Bangalore inpursuance to conspiracy ofterrorist acts in India andstayed in Bangalore for eightto nine months (November2018 to July 2019),” theagency said.

He recceed public placesin Bangalore, the NIA said.

Investigation has alsorevealed that on instructions ofhis handler, the accused finan-cially assisted another arrest-

ed ABT (Ansarullah BanglaTeam) member lodged inKolkata jail.

ABT is another bannedterrorist organization inBangladesh.

“Both the accused latercriminally conspired, as perdirections of their handlers inBangladesh and tried to pro-cure weapons from variousplaces in the state of Tripuraand Mizoram in pursuance ofthe conspiracy of committingterrorist acts in India,” theagency said.

A large amount of incrim-inating documents were recov-ered from their seized digitaldevices, it said.

Mizoram police registereda case in this regard in July lastyear, which was taken over byNIA in September.

changed, the official said.West Bengal shares about2,216.7-km border withBangladesh, a large part ofwhich is unfenced.

According to BSF sources,troopers were not stopping theimmigrants from crossing overto their home country, exceptin cases when they were foundto be smuggling goods.

“Only when they are con-cealing any contraband or try-ing to smuggle something toBangladesh, we are apprehend-ing them. Otherwise, we are tak-ing a note of their particularsand details and letting them goback,” one of the sources said.

According to the BSF, oneof the biggest achievements ofthe South Bengal Frontier in2019 has been putting a checkon cross-border cattle smug-gling. “In 2018, the number ofcattle seized was around 39,995and in 2019 it had come downto 31,210. This year so far thefigure is just 1,301,” he said.

The CAA seeks to provideIndian citizenship to Hindus,Jains, Christians, Sikhs,Buddhists and Parsis whomoved to India on or beforeDecember 31, 2014, havingfled religious persecution inBangladesh, Pakistan andAfghanistan. The law hasemerged as a major politicalflashpoint in West Bengal, withthe TMC opposing the con-tentious legislation tooth andnail, and the BJP pressing forits implementation.

attack in western Rajasthan,which has damaged crops onlakhs of hectare of land,” Nokha(Bikaner) MLA Bihari Lal toldreporters.

“Instead of taking the issuevery seriously, the governmentis focused against theCitizenship (Amendment) Act.The farmers have sufferedhuge losses due to the locustattack and the governmentshould expedite the compen-sation distribution process,” hesaid.

Noting that it was just asymbolic protest, Lal did notenter the House with the bas-ket.

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Maharashtra MinisterJitendra Ahwad on Friday

said the Koregaon-Bhima vio-lence case, filed during the pre-vious BJP regime, was a “con-spiracy” to malign the image ofactivists sympathetic to Dalitcauses. Addressing a press con-ference here, the NCP leadersaid the case, in which somehuman rights activists havebeen facing charges of Maoistlinks and also booked underthe anti- terror act UAPA,should be investigated again.

“I have said several timesthat the Koregaon-Bhima casewas a conspiracy to malignactivists who are sympathetic toDalit causes,” he said.

“Taking action againstthose who recite poems ofNamdeo Dhasal (a Marathipoet & Dalit activist) andarresting people on allegationsof plotting to kill (PrimeMinister Narendra) Modi is toomuch.

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NEW DELHI (PTI): The Enforcement Directorate (ED) hasissued fresh summons to senior executives of Air Asia air-lines, including CEO Tony Fernandes, for questioning nextmonth in connection with a money laundering case, offi-cials said on Friday. As per sources, the central agency hasasked Fernandes to appear before the investigating officerof the case here on February 5.

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At the time of a drought of goodnews in the country, therecomes one to celebrate. TheExpert Appraisal Committee(EAC) of the Union Ministry of

Environment, Forest and Climate Change(MoEFCC) has halted the construction ofan airport at the site of an abandonedWorld War-II airstrip near Jharkhand’sDhalbhumgarh town. The reason? It woulddisrupt an elephant corridor used by 200pachyderms.

The airport near Dhalbhumgarh was tobe the first of 400-of-its-kind, which theAirport Authority of India proposes to buildthroughout the country. Its halting repre-sents one of the rare occasions when a con-cern for animals has won out against agrandiose plan for so-called development.The disruption of the corridor would haveforced the elephants to look elsewhere forpassage, including urban and semi-urbanareas, thus taking them to new places andcreating new dangers of elephant-humanconflict.

The resultant casualties would have hadan adverse impact on Jharkhand’s elephants,whose numbers have been declining. From772 in 2002, the figure came down to 624 in2007. It increased to 688 in 2012 only to comedown to 679 in 2017, according to the ele-phant census titled, ‘Synchronised elephantpopulation estimation India 2017’, released onAugust 12 (World Elephant Day), that year.

The causes, related to conditions creat-ed by continuing human encroachmentupon and activity in elephant habitats,include habitat loss, electrocution by con-tact with sagging and/or low-hanging highvoltage transmission wires, running over bytrains, conflicts with humans besides poach-ing, poisoning and old-age related medicalproblems. According to a report in May,2017, 32 elephants had been killed by elec-trocution and 22 in train accidents inJharkhand until then.

One hopes that the decision to stop theconstruction of the airport will not bereversed under pressure and will prove to theprecursor of many similar decisions concern-ing all animals. Elephants, doubtless, need par-ticular attention. They have been listed inSchedule One of the Wildlife Protection Actof India, 1972, which gives them the highestlevel of protection. Project Elephant waslaunched in 1992 to protect the Asian elephant(the category to which Indian elephantsbelong), its habitat and corridors and addressthe human-elephant conflict. The elephantwas declared India’s National Heritage Animalon October 22, 2010.

Yet serious challenges remain. Almost allthe factors adversely affecting elephants inJharkhand apply to the species throughoutIndia. The most important of these is habi-tat loss, caused principally by continuinghuman encroachment. This is clear from theElephant Task Force’s report, Gajah: Securingthe Future for Elephants in India, submitted

on August 31, 2010. Dwelling onhow various elements contributeto habitat loss and the latter’simpact, it states, “Large develop-mental and infrastructural pro-jects when not planned or locat-ed with adequate care are frag-menting habitat[s], while otherlocal pressures degrade them.” Itfurther states, “The physicalpresence of the roads and railwaylines in the habitat creates newhabitat edges, alters the hydrolog-ical dynamics and creates a bar-rier to the movement of elephantsand other animals, leads to habi-tat fragmentation and loss, apartfrom death due to train andvehicular hits.”

It adds, “Rail and anincrease in road traffic operatesin a synergetic way across sev-eral landscapes and causes notonly an overall loss and isolationof wildlife habitat but also splitsup the landscape in a literalsense. Various developmentalactivities also come up on eitherside of the highways and rail-roads, thereby further frag-menting the habitat and increas-ing biotic pressures.”

With shrinking habitats, ele-phants searching for food raidcultivated areas, devouring anddestroying crops. Attempts toturn them away constitute animportant cause of human-ele-phant conflict, which is taking agrowing number of lives.Replying to a question, BabulSupriyo, Union Minister of Statefor MoEFFC, told the Lok Sabhaon June 28, 2019, that 2,398 peo-

ple had died since 2014.According to other official statis-tics, a total of 1,465 people werekilled between the years 2013-14and 2016-17. In turn, people kill40 to 50 elephants every year,apart from those slain by poach-ers for the ivory of the tusks.

Habitat loss also forces ele-phants to move into other areas.They are now seen in States likeManipur, Mizoram, Bihar,Madhya Pradesh, Haryana,Himachal Pradesh and the UnionTerritory of Andaman & NicobarIslands, where they had not beenpresent earlier. Other factorshave also contributed. A majordrought in Tamil Nadu hadcaused herds of elephants tocross over to Andhra Pradeshwhere they had no presence forover two centuries. The result isan extension of the area witness-ing human-elephant conflict.

The impact of habitat loss iscompounded by that of elephantcorridors, which account formuch of the rail and road acci-dents. According to the report,Gajah: Securing the Future forElephants in India, train accidentshad killed as many as 150 of thesebehemoths since 1987.According to a Ministry state-ment in the Rajya Sabha, 49 ele-phants were killed in railway acci-dents between 2016 and 2018.

The Elephant Task Force’sreport has recommended sever-al measures to protect habitatsand prevent elephants from beingkilled in road and rail accidents.These include the announcement

of principles of forest area, rail-way track and highway manage-ment, the grant of mininglicences and rules governing thedrawing and maintenance ofpower cables through forestareas.

Besides these, attention hasto be paid to nurturing elephantreserves as the basic managementunit for their conservation in thecountry. At present, there are 32of these across India, coveringover 69,000 sq km. The problemis that more than over 40 per centof these is not under ProtectedArea or Government forest.Hence, the main emphasis has tobe on managing land use patternsin the areas outside the preservesto reduce human-elephant con-flict. Also, the havoc bush firescontinue to play in Australiareminds us of the need to beready to cope with such calami-ties which have been taking asevere toll in Uttarakhand andHimachal Pradesh and mayoccur in other parts of Indiathanks to climate change.

All this will require hugeexpenditure and effort. TheGovernment must not balk fromeither. Besides, it needs to reachout to organisations like WildlifeSOS, TREE Foundation andWildlife Rescue andRehabilitation Centre, whichhave been doing outstandingwork in rescuing and nurturingelephants.

(The writer is ConsultantEditor, The Pioneer, and anauthor)

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Sir — Amid raging controversyover the CitizenshipAmendment Act (CAA), BJPleader Kailash Vijayvargiya, whois known for his controversialstatements, apparently saw con-struction labourers eating pohaand suspected they wereBangladeshis. He chose to burpout his angst about it during ameeting on the CAA and lacedit with references to “strange eat-ing ways” of the workers.

It is unclear whether leadersin the BJP have been given thetask of spearheading the party’snationwide outreach programmein support of the CAA or to cre-ate more controversies by makingsuch outlandish claims.

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Sir — This refers to the editori-al, “Another deadly virus”(January 23). The world is beingstalked by the coronavirus thathas locked down the Chinese cityof Wuhan. Already, train, airline,ferry, subway and bus services

have been suspended over there.More than 600 people have beeninfected and around 17 peoplehave lost lives. With outbreaksbeing reported in Singapore andVietnam, other countries in theregion such as Thailand, Japan,South Korea, Australia and Indiahave been put on high alert.

But is India well prepared todeal with the spread of the infec-tion here? None can forget the

H1N1 swine flu outbreak of2009, which claimed more than1,000 lives. It’s welcome thatpassengers are being screened atmajor airports across the coun-try. However, it will be better ifhospitals, too, are put on highalert. They must be better pre-pared to deal with suspectedisolated cases.

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Sir — The Supreme Court’srefusal to stay the CitizenshipAmendment Act (CAA) came asa surprise. However, one is at aloss to understand why the courttook this long a time to hear thepetitions if it only had to consid-er referring the issue to a largerBench. With the people of the

country, particularly the Muslims,still reeling from the shock of thecourt’s Ayodhya verdict, thecourt’s refusal to stay the CAAeven temporarily has added insultto injury. It is alleged that someBJP-ruled States like UttarPradesh have already started act-ing on the CAA. Giving a verdictafter all the damage has beendone will not be of much use.

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Sir — The Supreme Court hasflagged a vital issue by askingParliament to ponder over hav-ing an independent and perma-nent body to decide disqualifica-tion petitions against MPs andMLAs, instead of the Speakerretaining exclusive powers. Whatpurpose is the anti-defection lawwhen all the drama is beingplayed out blatantly? Parties mustnot deviate from their declaredalliances and ideologies, else theelectorate suffers.

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Each year, as soon as the ceremonial halwa isserved in the North Block and FinanceMinistry officials are locked in, the entire

nation starts asking a question which is embossedon the home page of the Press Information Bureau’s(PIB) website — what’s in it for me? Clicking theyouth icon on the portal leads to a dialogue boxwhich identifies five new initiatives under the hash-tag #BudgetForNewIndia. These include the NewEducation Policy (NEP), National ResearchFoundation (NRF), the ‘Study in India’ programme,Higher Education Commission of India (HECI) andNational Sports Education Board (NSEB) under theKhelo India scheme. The fact that each of these pro-posals can radically transform the education sectormakes the forthcoming Union Budget a particular-ly interesting one. And, for the same reason, thereis anxiety too. Moreover, some of the trends in theprevious Budget outlays have added to apprehen-sions. Between 2017-18 and 2019-20, the share ofIITs declined from �8,337 crore to �6,223 crore. TheUniversity Grants Commission (UGC), IIMs(Indian Institutes of Management) and the All IndiaCouncil for Technical Education (AICTE) have reg-istered funds cuts too. Should we be worried?

Let us begin by acknowledging that the mech-anism through which the Ministry of HumanResource Development (MHRD) arrived at someof these schemes was elaborate, inclusive and cer-tainly not hurried. Before the release of the NEPdraft, the MHRD initiated a nationwide multi-stra-ta debate around 20 themes each for school and high-er education. Moreover, the document is refreshing-ly candid, forthright and does not shy away fromasking provocative questions. For example, in thecontext of State universities, it admits to problemssuch as excessive politicisation and deterioratingresearch standards. Further, a number of recurringfeatures across the NEP draft, themes for policy con-sultation and the NITI Aayog’s Strategy for NewIndia (SNI) suggest clear thinking on the part of theGovernment. Training schools for teachers, recruit-ment and retention of faculty with research aptitude,industry linkage and so on are common to all threedocuments.

Similarly, there is an admission that State spend-ing, both by the Central and State Governments,must be significantly enhanced. The NEP draft pro-poses an incremental increase in public spendingon education at the rate of one per cent per year tillit reaches 20 per cent of the total expenditure. But,in a country where educational infrastructure is yetto stabilise with respect to its demographic size anddiversity, challenges are multi-pronged. Increasingthe Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) in higher edu-cation to 35 per cent by 2022-23; establishing newinstitutes; augmenting existing infrastructure andmaking Indian universities globally competitive aresome of the major concerns. It is perhaps for thesereasons that the Government is mulling public-pri-vate partnership in higher education and loan-basedcredit for expansion of facilities. The establishmentof a Higher Education Financing Agency (HEFA),a joint venture between the MHRD and CanaraBank, is a step in this direction. The HEFA intendsto leverage funds from the market and extend lowinterest loans to universities for R&D.

However, repayment of loans, even if stretchedover a decade and offered interest-free, could provean uphill task for most universities. If initiatives suchas ‘Study in India’ were to succeed and India were

to transform into a knowledge economy,one would expect a substantial rise in rev-enue generation through tuition fee.However, this will entail generous endow-ments for creation of world-class infra-structure and a gestation period of someyears for return on investment. Butaccording to the MHRD’s own documents,it is not fair to expect that higher educa-tion institutions will meet operational coststhrough student fee alone. Global trendssuggest that robust infrastructure devel-ops in countries with healthy state support.Moreover, in these countries, state supportis matched by an equally generous grantfrom non-state stakeholders. Theseinclude corporate philanthropists andalumni. But these are either knowledgeeconomies like Australia and South Africaor societies like the UK, the USA andGermany that take immense pride in theinternational stature of their educationalinstitutions.

It should be registered with a certaindegree of alarm that even though individ-ual philanthropy is on the rise, the over-all figures do not appear very encourag-ing for India. According to Bain and Co’sIndia Philanthropy Report, 2019, contribu-tions of �10 crore and above, which con-stitute nearly 55 per cent of the entire vol-ume of individual philanthropy, have reg-istered a decline of four per cent since2014. This is both surprising and sad asthe number of Ultra-High Net WorthIndividuals (UHNWIs) has grown by 12per cent over the same period. Further, thefact that Azim Premji alone accounts fornearly 80 per cent of the aforementioned55 per cent, goes to show that the idea ofCorporate Social Responsibility (CSR) isyet to take roots in India’s corporate cul-ture. Similarly, alumni support is too var-iegated to be factored in as a stable com-

ponent in financial overhaul. While topprofessional institutions like the IITs andIIMs manage to raise huge funds throughtheir alumni, the same may not be true ofNITs and other management institutes, letalone universities specialising in human-ities and social sciences. The sincerest ofefforts at alumni outreach at India’s top-ranked colleges yield at most an annualalumni meet and an abysmal donationthrough membership subscription. Evenwith proactive placement cells and the bestof faculty, strictly in market terms, a stu-dent with a degree in literature cannot bescaled at par with one with a degree fromIIT. Understandably, their ability to payback to the institution is considerablylower than that of an average IITian. Butthe picture isn’t entirely bleak.Government-aided business incubators,established at degree colleges and univer-sities across India, have been moderatelysuccessful. If properly nourished, success-ful business models can provide the hostinstitution with both direct revenue andpotential alumni-philanthropists. But atthe initial stages this, too, shall entail gen-erous risk-free endowments.

At a time when we speak of unbur-dening our students and allowing them thefreedom to explore a career of their apti-tude, it is not advisable to link every aca-demic activity with industrial output. Toquote Chief Justice of India SA Bobde, uni-versities are not supposed to function likeassembly line manufacturing units. Whilewe need capital to run a country, cultur-al capital is equally important for the well-being of a society. Promotion of scienceand industry might take the centrestagebut endeavours to preserve our history,culture, modern Indian languages andclassical languages shouldn’t lag too farbehind. Global trends suggest that while

departments of Indology are getting pro-gressively replaced by South Asian Studies,China is strengthening its soft power byfinancing departments of Chinese stud-ies. It is now up to the Indian universitiesto open centres of excellence where clas-sical cultures of the country may be taughtand translated. Unless UHNWIs come for-ward and fund a project similar toNarayan Murthy’s Harvard-based MurtyClassical Library, the onus of endowmentswould be on the Government.

As per reports compiled by NASS-COM and PurpleLeap, both of which arecited in the MHRD document, only 25 percent of India’s engineering graduates areemployable. Even interventional trainingfails to brighten their prospects. Openingmore technical institutions withoutemphasis on quality would only create anational backlog of technocrats with asense of entitlement and huge educationloans to pay forward. As is promised inthe NEP draft and SNI, serious effortsmust be made to improve teaching stan-dards in India. This alone will solve manyof the problems that afflict the educationsector as only inspired teachers can churnout a globally-competitive workforce.Teachers should be encouraged andempowered to undertake research andwritings. At the same time, NRF shouldnot end as another bureaucratic super-structure with every power to stall projectsand no resource to leverage.

Undoubtedly, the Finance Ministerwill tread a tightrope, juggling betweeninclusivity and resource augmentation.Hopefully, some day, we would deliver onour national commitment of devoting sixper cent of the GDP to education, firstenvisaged in 1968.

(The writer teaches English at theUniversity of Delhi)

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The Forest Survey of India (FSI)had recently released its bien-nial State of Forest Report,

2019 and civil society is busy inanalysing it. The FSI’s reports areeagerly awaited by the Centre as theyapprise the Union Government of theimpact of its policies and an increasein forest and tree cover is a huge polit-ical gain. However, more often thannot, the political masters are unwill-ing to acknowledge adverse impacts.Thankfully, the current assessmenthas shown an increase of 5,188 sq kmof forest and tree cover (3,976 sq kmof forest and 1,212 sq km of tree coveroutside recorded forests). The totalforest and tree cover in the countryis 80.7 million ha (Mha) which cor-

responds to 24.56 per cent of thecountry’s geographic area. The carbonstock is assessed at 7,124.6 milliontonnes, an increase of 42.6 milliontonnes compared to the 2017 assess-ment. For accuracy, the growingstock assessment was done with high-er sampling intensity and uniformly-spread sample plots.

For the first time since 1985, thisyear’s FSI report has providedenhanced information by addingmore parameters. As around 32 Mhaof forests are intimately linked to thelivelihood of people living in 170,000forest fringe villages, the FSI had cal-culated the dependency of people ineach State for fuel wood, fodder, bam-boo and small timber. The reportgives State-wise details of removal ofthese items and per capita consump-tion. This is pertinent information forassessing the contribution of foreststo the Gross Domestic Product (GDP)and also for infusion of financial andtechnical resources for the manage-ment of forests, as a big chunk are notin a good shape. The ground-levelinformation on changes in biodiver-sity and hydrology is key to combat-

ting climate change and in this year’sreport the biodiversity and wetlandsin 16 forest types have been assessed,which will assist foresters in planningmanagement strategies.

The report provides details of fiveNon-Timber Forest Products(NTFPs) for each State, which reflectsthe contribution of this segment in thelivelihood of rural and tribal belts.Most of the NTFP-producing treesand shrubs are under threat of over-exploitation and poor regeneration.The planners, forest, tribal and ruraldevelopment ministries must have alook at these statistics and plan theirregeneration and efficient manage-ment accordingly.

The study also highlights forestsoccurring in different slopes, whichare an indicator of the stability of theforest ecosystem. The report alsoreveals the threat of invasive speciesdue to anthropological and climaticreasons, in each State.

It is well-known that around 28per cent of the recorded forests (76.74Mha) are without trees and comprisesnow-covered mountains, glaciers,desert and inaccessible treeless rocky

areas above the tree line. These areasare critical for our ecological and eco-nomical lifeline and are a continuoussource of water for our rivers, agricul-ture and forest biodiversity. They mustbe integrated within the overall for-est ecosystems though they may nottechnically qualify as forests. If we addthis 21 Mha to the 80 Mha forest andtree cover, then the ecological life-sus-taining system comes to around 101Mha. Planners, therefore, need tospend at least a certain per cent of ourGDP on this land’s stability.

The 71.22 Mha of forest coverincludes around 20 Mha of thetree/forests having areas over morethan one ha outside recorded forestareas. The areas less than one ha(around 9.5 mha) outside recordedforests are clubbed separately, whichbrings us to the figure of 80.7 Mha oftotal tree and forest cover and thus24.56 per cent of the land mass.

The report, however, gives a dis-mal picture of forests in tribal districts,showing a decrease of forest cover tothe tune of 741 sq km. The livelihoodof tribals is dependent on forests andadequate steps must be taken for the

productive management of land vest-ed under the Forest Rights Act. Eitherthe areas have been cleared of treegrowth due to encroachments or theland use has changed in these forests.Another area of concern is that a largechunk of forests (30 Mha) are in theopen category.

The report also gives a scary pic-ture of the growing stock whichshows extremely poor count of maturetrees. Yet another worrying feature isthat 36 per cent of the forests area isfire-prone. The North-east, centralIndia and Himalayan forests are los-ing rich bio-diversity due to forestfires, which must be curbed.

While the mandarins at the pol-icy-making level have much to rejoiceas the report vindicates the hard workput in by foresters in States, the newparameters in the report are food forthought for foresters and plannersalike to use the information for fine-tuning forest governance.

The report highlights that all isnot well scientifically with our forestecosystems and needs infusion of pol-icy, institutional and technologicalinputs with a pragmatic forward-look-

ing approach to forest management.The State Governments must see thetables for their areas and draw strate-gies for sustainable management ofthe forests. Unless this is done, theeuphoria of increase in forest coverwill be over in a few years.

The FSI had done a commend-able job and the way this organisation’sresponsibilities are increasing, it needssubstantial enhancement in man-power and technology so that itmeets its ever-increasing mandate —like the recent Supreme Court orderon survey of illegal occupation of for-est land. It is time its functioning isreviewed and the post of DG FSI andits regional centres need to be upgrad-ed to attract and retain highly quali-fied professionals.

The organisation should beupgraded to the level of an attachedoffice under the Ministry so that it cangive executive directions requiredfor better coordination with States inthe implementation of the policies laiddown by the Ministry. We owe this toour forests.

(The author is a retired civil servant)

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Market benchmark indexBSE Sensex rose by 227

points on Friday, extendinggains for a second day after arally in banking and cementstocks on hopes of a good bud-get and financial results.

After opening on a weaknote, the 30-share BSE indexsettled higher by 226.79 pointsor 0.55 per cent at 41,613.19. Ithit an intra-day high of41,697.03 and a low of41,275.60.

The broader NSE Niftyclosed 67.90 points, or 0.56 percent, up at 12,248.25.

Ultratech Cement was thetop gainer in the Sensex pack,advancing 2.47 per cent after itposted 80 per cent jump inOctober-December net profitto �712 crore.

Banking stocks gainedahead of the Union budget for2020-21. Axis Bank rose by2.01 per cent, Kotak Bank by1.98 per cent, ICICI Bank by1.18 per cent while State Bankof India advanced 0.25 percent.

HDFC rose by 1.02 percent while Bajaj Finance gained1.56 per cent. Larsen & Toubrogained 2.03 per cent, Titan by1.91 per cent andHeroMotoCorp by 1.53 percent. IT stocks Tech Mahindraand HCL Tech advanced 2.43

per cent and 1.57 per cent,respectively.

Vinod Nair, Head ofResearch AT Geojit FinancialServices said, “In anticipationof a good budget and Q3 result,the pre-budget rally has beensolid. For this rally to maintaina lot will depend on the actu-al outcome of Budget & finalQ3 earnings trajectory, marketis turning a bit cautious beforethe big event.”

Recovery in global marketsafter the World HealthOrganisation designated coro-navirus infection an emer-gency for China, but not yet forthe rest of the world, alsobuoyed benchmarks.

Hemang Kapasi, portfoliomanager (equity investmentproducts) at Sanctum WealthManagement said, “Market iswholeheartedly rewarding thestocks with stellar earningsgrowth. Further, the senti-ments are positive as the mar-ket is expecting measures likereduction in personal & capi-tal gains tax in upcoming bud-get.”

Among losers, PowerGridfell the most by 2.14 per cent,followed by IndusInd Bankwhich dropped 1.21 per cent.

Infosys also edged lower by0.20 per cent after SEBI said itwould seek a forensic audit ofthe books of Infosys amidwhistle-blower allegations of

alleged financial irregularitiesat the company.

Sun Pharma, RIL, HDFCBank, TCS and Maruti wereamong the losers.

Among sectoral indices,BSE capital goods, consumerdurables, basic materials,metal, industrials, bankex andfinance indices rallied up to1.50 per cent, while energy andoil and gas indices ended in thered.

Broader BSE midcap andsmallcap indices jumped up to0.77 per cent.

During the week, Sensexshed 332.18 points or 0.79 percent, and Nifty gave up 104.10points or 0.84 per cent.

“It has been a consolidat-ed week for heavyweights dueto marginally lower thanexpected result for IT, Banksand Infra sector, while Mid &Small caps are continuing itspositivity in expectation ofrevival in growth & liquidityfrom institutional investors,”Nair commented.

Bourses in Hong Kong andJapan ended on a positive note,while markets in China, Taiwanand South Korea were closedfor a holiday on Friday.

European markets werealso trading higher in theirearly sessions.

Brent crude oil futures rose0.15 per cent to USD 62.13 perbarrel.

��������������D�����The rupee depreciated by 7

paise to close at 71.33 against theUS dollar on Friday due to dol-lar demand from importers amida correction in crude oil prices fol-lowing outbreak of coronavirus inChina. Gains in the US dollaragainst the world currencies alsoweighed on the rupee sentiment.

At the Interbank foreignexchange market, the domesticcurrency opened weak at 71.34against the previous close of71.26. The unit recovered to ahigh of 71.22 later after a rally indomestic stocks, but it erasedgains due to dollar demand fromimporters. The Indian currencyfinally settled at 71.33, registeringa loss of 7 paise over the previousclose.

“USD/INR has been tradingin a very border range for 71.00- 71.50 this entire week. Loweroil prices has offset month-enddollar demand which has keptUSDINR in tight range. Goingforward, next week FOMCmeeting and India’s union bud-get will keep rupee on an edge.Also a major development onChina coronavirus can be aspoilsport. Overall for nextweek, USD/INR is expected totrade in a range which crucialsupports placed at 71.05 and71.60 can act as a major resis-tances,” Rahul Gupta, head ofresearch (currency), EmkayGlobal Financial Services said.

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The country’s foreignexchange reserves rose

USD 943 million to touch alife-time high of USD 462.16billion in the week endedJanuary 17, according to the lat-est data from the RBI. In theprevious week, the reserveshad increased by USD 58 mil-lion to USD 461.21 billion.

In the reporting week, therise in reserves was mainly onaccount of an increase in for-eign currency assets, a majorcomponent of the overallreserves, which rose by USD867 million to USD 428.45 bil-lion, the data released by theReserve Bank of India (RBI) onFriday showed.

Expressed in dollar terms,the foreign currency assetsinclude the effect of apprecia-tion or depreciation of non-USunits like the euro, pound andyen held in the foreignexchange reserves.

In the reporting week, goldreserves increased USD 70 mil-lion to USD 28.56 billion.

The special drawing rightswith the InternationalMonetary Fund (IMF) were upby USD 3 million to USD 1.45billion. The country’s reserveposition with the IMF rose byUSD 3 million to USD 3.70 bil-lion, the data showed.

��������������� ���������E7������������� �����//��������./D������New Delhi: JSW Steel on Friday posted an 88.33per cent decline in its consolidated net profit to�187 crore for the December 2019 quarter. Thecompany had posted a consolidated net profitof �1,603 crore in the year-ago period, JSW Steelsaid in a filing to the BSE. “The net profit aftertax for the quarter was �187 crore, after incor-porating the financials of subsidiaries and jointventures,” the company said in a statement.

Its consolidated income during the October-December 2019 period was �18,182 crore, reg-istering a fall of 10.6 per cent over the year-agoperiod, the filing said. The company’s crude steelproduction during the October-December 2019period stood at 4.02 million tonne (MT), up fiveper cent quarter-on-quarter. After a weakmomentum during the first half of the year, thecurrent quarter witnessed a turnaround in busi-ness sentiment and better liquidity conditions, dri-ving an overall improvement in steel demand andpricing from November onwards, the statementsaid. On the outlook, the company said thedomestic steel sector was expected to grow sig-nificantly on the back of various initiatives of thegovernment pertaining to the domestic infra-structure and supportive monetary policies.

��������E7������� � ���03�������31D������New Delhi: State-owned Indian Bank on Fridayreported 62.3 per cent jump in net profit at�247.16 crore for December quarter 2019-20,mainly due to reduction in bad loans. The bank’sprofit in the year-ago period stood at �152.26crore. Total income during the quarter underreview was �6,505.62 crore, up from �5,269.10crore in the same period a year ago, Indian Banksaid in a BSE filing.

The bank’s net non-performing assets(NPAs) as a percentage of assets reduced to 3.5per cent during October-December 2019-20from 4.42 per cent in the year-ago period.Similarly, the percentage of gross NPA was lower

at 7.2 per cent as against 7.46 per cent. Inabsolute terms, net NPAs stood at �6,487.58crore. This compares with �7,571.07 crore in thethird quarter of the last financial year. The bankfurther said it had made provisioning of�1,529.26 crore towards bad loans and contin-gencies. During October-December 2018-19, theprovisioning stood at �923.67 crore.

The bank has provided �1,004 crore fordivergence in provisioning and also re-classifiedthree standard accounts amounting to �184 croreas fresh NPA, the filing added.

������������������/5��������D.3���������;���Mumbai: Largest cement maker Ultratech onFriday reported a consolidated net income of�712 crore for the October-December quarter,up 80 per cent from �396 crore in the year-agoperiod. Consolidated revenue of the BirlaGroup flagship firm slipped to �10,176 crorefrom �10,294 crore, the company said in a state-ment. However, the management did not offerany reason for the fall in top line or what pushedup the bottom line.

On a standalone basis, net income stood at�643 crore, up from �433 crore in the year agoperiod, the company said in a statement.

The company said it has made a provisionof �133 crore under the legacy dispute resolu-tion scheme 2019, announced by the govern-ment as part of other expenditure, against var-ious disputed and contingent liabilities and thathad it not been for this the net income wouldhave been higher by this amount. Since somesigns of revival have been visible in some mar-kets during the latter part of the reporting quar-ter, this, together with the government com-mitment to revive the economy and the thruston infrastructure spending, augur well forgrowth revival, it said as part of its business out-look. During the quarter Ultratech acquiredgroup company Century’s cement businessafter the scheme of demerger became effectiveOctober 1. PTI

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Script Open High Low LTPYESBANK 41.10 45.00 41.10 42.75AAVAS 1997.25 2044.95 1892.05 1951.00INFY 776.00 786.20 773.80 782.95APLLTD 594.45 600.55 587.70 590.20RELIANCE 1528.00 1536.45 1518.65 1521.70LTI 1933.00 1974.40 1922.80 1956.65FRETAIL 345.00 345.00 323.25 334.10IBULHSGFIN 321.50 326.35 316.40 322.70HDFCBANK 1247.70 1254.00 1239.50 1244.15ESCORTS 713.30 728.80 710.80 724.10ICICIBANK 528.05 537.10 527.20 533.95AUBANK 987.00 1097.70 970.95 1073.20TATASTEEL 480.35 484.90 476.60 483.25ULTRACEMCO 4541.00 4679.85 4452.15 4641.05AXISBANK 725.00 741.80 721.00 737.30SBIN 323.25 327.30 321.25 324.05MOTHERSUMI 140.60 147.65 140.30 144.85LT 1333.00 1368.00 1331.55 1359.80JINDALSTEL 178.15 189.70 178.00 188.95ADANIGAS 157.00 177.50 148.00 175.30BHARTIARTL 520.10 527.20 514.20 524.05AMBUJACEM 213.60 216.90 212.75 215.85PEL 1687.55 1725.00 1662.60 1676.55IDEA 6.02 6.10 5.78 6.05TCS 2193.45 2193.45 2170.60 2184.60TATAMOTORS 188.40 190.95 185.15 186.45TITAN 1211.00 1230.35 1206.15 1227.05MUTHOOTFIN 761.55 766.75 750.50 752.15BAJFINANCE 4130.00 4205.00 4112.20 4192.95KOTAKBANK 1607.00 1647.00 1587.80 1643.95DISHTV 13.90 14.68 13.80 14.28UPL 544.00 564.30 542.00 543.25PNBHOUSING 505.00 508.85 476.80 482.55ATUL 4396.85 4612.00 4396.85 4599.60DLF 262.50 265.75 261.15 262.80INDUSINDBK 1330.30 1345.00 1309.00 1316.00MARUTI 7150.00 7209.95 7115.15 7127.00ZEEL 282.00 285.60 279.10 280.80HDFC 2427.95 2458.95 2413.10 2450.90MGL 1186.45 1198.40 1176.00 1181.00HINDUNILVR 2060.00 2079.00 2052.00 2073.05RBLBANK 339.00 339.80 327.50 329.45BATAINDIA 1802.00 1850.20 1802.00 1847.30

ADANIENT 226.20 232.00 219.05 229.75BIOCON 289.00 296.15 282.55 294.45FDC 232.00 241.05 227.15 229.75JUSTDIAL 619.00 623.65 604.15 607.50IOC 121.10 121.70 119.00 119.45L&TFH 119.10 122.00 118.50 119.90NAM-INDIA 348.80 362.30 348.75 359.75COLPAL 1494.90 1520.00 1491.05 1513.95PAGEIND 25819.15 26891.00 25802.45 26170.85SIEMENS 1583.35 1628.00 1582.00 1624.50ASIANPAINT 1777.00 1800.00 1777.00 1786.10INDIGO 1466.00 1513.20 1462.00 1500.95PVR 1895.00 1973.30 1876.10 1958.15BANKBARODA 95.20 96.55 94.85 95.60MCX 1380.00 1409.00 1361.00 1365.25RAMCOCEM 860.80 871.65 855.85 868.30AUROPHARMA 492.25 504.00 491.70 501.05RPOWER 2.24 2.27 2.07 2.07TATAGLOBAL 393.10 394.80 383.85 384.60NIITTECH 1986.00 1986.00 1901.70 1932.45INDIANB 105.10 110.25 86.00 105.30COALINDIA 193.90 196.25 192.25 193.95ISEC 443.00 483.80 440.55 472.40HINDPETRO 248.90 249.10 244.00 244.70ITC 237.90 239.10 237.05 238.10WOCKPHARMA 281.70 302.90 280.00 299.05JSWSTEEL 266.00 273.65 265.50 271.95SUNPHARMA 450.70 452.90 446.65 447.70GAYAPROJ 73.30 73.30 69.65 69.65HDFCLIFE 610.00 611.00 603.00 607.00SPICEJET 100.90 101.60 98.40 98.75GODREJPROP 1025.35 1060.00 1013.15 1056.10GNFC 205.50 214.95 202.00 208.05PFC 115.10 118.30 114.30 116.55DABUR 494.40 502.00 491.55 500.30POWERGRID 195.60 198.20 194.35 196.95SBILIFE 981.00 1019.65 977.45 999.70UJJIVAN 345.90 366.05 342.75 363.30MFSL 520.90 533.85 519.35 526.70CANBK 222.40 224.00 217.45 218.60BHEL 43.65 45.20 43.40 45.00JAICORPLTD 116.45 118.25 115.00 115.65PIDILITIND 1444.60 1462.70 1438.90 1457.25

MRF 69719.95 70877.05 69501.50 70516.25GRAPHITE 324.00 327.35 317.00 317.95ADANIGREEN 190.00 194.90 182.75 190.00SAIL 50.30 51.50 50.10 51.05FEDERALBNK 92.75 96.95 92.75 96.00WESTLIFE 423.00 452.40 416.80 441.20EQUITAS 105.50 111.15 105.15 110.45M&M 565.35 572.00 564.75 567.80CIPLA 465.80 467.80 456.60 458.10LICHSGFIN 476.00 476.00 459.00 461.40BPCL 469.00 473.40 465.00 466.35ONGC 118.95 119.80 117.35 118.35DMART 1930.00 1960.00 1920.00 1949.75CGCL 194.00 196.30 187.00 190.30NAUKRI 2601.50 2755.00 2601.50 2705.45ICICIPRULI 506.00 521.80 505.00 519.75NMDC 128.50 131.15 126.75 128.75RADICO 356.00 382.20 351.50 380.35SUNTV 496.00 510.40 491.95 496.80TECHM 767.00 788.85 763.75 787.35PNB 61.80 62.80 61.70 62.35BEL 102.20 103.55 101.35 101.80HDFCAMC 3231.95 3244.00 3195.00 3207.95ASHOKLEY 86.60 87.50 86.20 86.50APOLLOHOSP 1690.10 1690.10 1650.00 1669.15ALLCARGO 106.40 117.05 106.20 112.25CANFINHOME 479.00 484.35 471.00 473.10GRASIM 810.00 824.45 804.00 822.10HEROMOTOCO 2434.00 2473.90 2428.40 2468.90NBCC 36.50 38.05 36.15 37.45HCLTECH 600.00 609.25 596.20 607.70JUBLFOOD 1770.00 1818.60 1770.00 1810.35VOLTAS 704.80 731.05 704.80 723.80VEDL 154.20 157.00 153.80 155.80AVANTI 725.00 725.00 709.45 714.50OMAXE 158.80 158.80 155.20 155.40HAVELLS 621.35 627.65 614.55 622.85NATIONALUM 46.10 47.05 45.65 46.50EXIDEIND 199.90 206.10 199.55 204.35BAJAJFINSV 9511.00 9648.75 9485.00 9634.15BRITANNIA 3118.65 3211.60 3118.65 3191.55MANAPPURAM 184.75 188.95 183.50 187.95GAIL 131.70 131.70 129.10 129.50RAJESHEXPO 719.90 724.00 713.00 715.50HINDALCO 204.65 207.65 202.35 205.35BANDHANBNK 479.70 484.70 472.00 481.50INFRATEL 242.15 245.75 238.50 244.25GUJGAS 291.55 298.00 290.85 294.70EICHERMOT 20965.45 21150.00 20800.00 20898.35NTPC 113.80 116.30 113.60 114.75STAR 415.25 422.90 410.10 414.75MARICO 334.00 341.15 333.50 340.40BOMDYEING 86.80 89.60 86.80 89.10RELCAPITAL 10.20 10.21 9.79 9.81GICRE 256.75 273.90 253.05 265.95SRF 3631.70 3721.55 3631.70 3663.35GSFC 90.65 95.50 88.85 94.35IGL 490.90 499.00 489.00 496.25CUMMINSIND 573.35 606.45 571.55 595.35DIXON 4200.00 4250.00 4081.00 4197.05NCC 58.75 59.80 58.05 59.00NESTLEIND 15533.00 15855.00 15519.00 15750.40BERGEPAINT 555.00 567.35 555.00 559.70M&MFIN 366.00 371.20 363.00 368.75HEG 1140.00 1140.00 1118.00 1121.70POLYCAB 1013.00 1024.00 1004.00 1019.45TATAMTRDVR 79.10 80.45 78.60 78.85RCF 54.00 56.50 53.55 56.25ACC 1550.10 1570.90 1543.00 1565.00GRANULES 160.00 160.00 153.55 154.55NHPC 26.30 28.30 26.25 27.45TATAPOWER 60.15 61.95 59.70 61.15BBTC 1140.00 1213.80 1133.80 1198.10RAIN 122.80 126.80 121.90 122.55IBREALEST 101.10 102.80 99.00 100.95GHCL 194.50 194.60 191.40 192.15EDELWEISS 98.30 98.30 92.00 92.35RVNL 26.70 27.00 26.15 26.35MEGH 63.75 66.30 62.80 65.20CHOLAFIN 331.05 331.05 320.65 323.95RELINFRA 22.25 22.50 21.65 21.95FORCEMOT 1470.00 1472.00 1414.60 1430.50TVSMOTOR 466.00 474.00 462.80 468.80ADANIPOWER 63.35 64.40 62.60 63.50IDFCFIRSTB 43.60 44.25 43.50 43.95VINATIORGA 2189.00 2250.00 2180.00 2232.15KEI 532.70 551.00 531.50 548.50AMBER 1365.80 1378.25 1353.00 1367.60FORTIS 154.50 155.15 151.75 153.85ESSELPRO 178.00 197.00 177.90 184.70IRB 115.00 115.85 113.25 114.70JINDALSAW 99.60 101.30 96.80 97.10RECLTD 138.70 142.45 138.50 141.45ADANIPORTS 384.60 387.20 380.50 384.75TORNTPHARM 2025.00 2061.05 2025.00 2036.90JKCEMENT 1305.85 1390.00 1305.85 1379.75CONCOR 553.10 562.90 553.10 561.15QUESS 584.15 627.00 583.25 619.85DIVISLAB 1888.00 1915.35 1886.30 1912.10BEML 1000.00 1009.40 991.50 996.95CARERATING 674.60 674.60 642.90 659.45SPARC 185.65 188.00 183.85 185.85JMFINANCIL 107.85 110.00 105.80 108.75TATAELXSI 966.45 973.80 959.35 962.55ICICIGI 1333.00 1355.00 1324.00 1349.40WIPRO 249.85 249.85 246.35 247.55DCAL 83.40 85.80 80.25 81.85PRESTIGE 404.00 405.20 376.00 381.25

ABCAPITAL 106.00 107.75 105.00 105.40WELCORP 170.80 173.60 169.90 170.65AMARAJABAT 793.95 811.25 793.45 806.05VIPIND 456.00 474.80 451.30 461.55OIL 140.00 143.35 139.75 142.20DELTACORP 194.10 197.95 194.10 195.10GLENMARK 350.00 355.85 349.75 350.80ASHOKA 115.00 121.40 114.10 118.75LTTS 1727.00 1739.90 1695.80 1734.05LALPATHLAB 1642.05 1720.05 1642.05 1701.45SRTRANSFIN 1095.00 1097.80 1081.80 1083.20NOCIL 121.00 121.45 119.00 119.45CREDITACC 812.30 849.50 800.00 838.85TORNTPOWER 320.00 324.70 319.20 322.25PIIND 1493.70 1502.00 1480.00 1498.75ITI 91.30 92.30 90.00 91.05GMRINFRA 24.00 24.35 23.75 24.20TIMKEN 970.00 996.40 948.00 987.30CASTROLIND 132.00 132.50 128.50 129.55LUPIN 737.00 744.35 735.90 740.10DRREDDY 3042.00 3046.70 3025.45 3028.05NIACL 163.70 169.00 162.00 166.00GSPL 252.85 257.25 252.40 253.15SUDARSCHEM 478.00 493.00 475.65 477.90PETRONET 279.95 279.95 275.55 276.70TATACHEM 758.90 761.80 753.10 755.35WELSPUNIND 50.35 50.35 47.65 47.95INDIACEM 86.95 88.45 86.50 86.80ZENSARTECH 188.00 188.00 172.00 174.30DCBBANK 184.00 184.30 180.50 181.85SONATSOFTW 332.50 347.40 332.50 341.75BHARATFORG 517.30 524.60 512.10 521.75TRENT 594.00 594.55 576.25 583.35JKLAKSHMI 345.00 369.50 344.95 366.80ENDURANCE 1125.00 1181.00 1125.00 1173.65MINDTREE 901.65 901.65 889.25 892.45JSLHISAR 79.70 82.40 79.50 81.25VBL 839.95 853.90 839.95 849.70APOLLOTYRE 175.80 178.75 174.65 177.45RAYMOND 678.00 685.95 671.45 674.75STRTECH 133.00 133.60 130.55 131.65BALKRISIND 1114.30 1122.00 1099.55 1105.05PHILIPCARB 142.20 142.35 138.30 138.60DEEPAKFERT 111.10 115.50 111.00 114.70COCHINSHIP 400.00 404.00 390.30 396.85INOXLEISUR 404.70 415.00 398.00 409.80TATAINVEST 892.20 933.90 892.20 907.65SOUTHBANK 11.15 11.25 11.03 11.19BALRAMCHIN 183.00 183.65 175.80 177.40PCJEWELLER 22.85 23.70 22.75 22.95UBL 1265.00 1280.15 1261.50 1275.65BAJAJ-AUTO 3087.00 3092.00 3068.85 3073.55KTKBANK 74.00 75.90 74.00 75.65DEEPAKNI 406.40 406.40 395.05 399.05JUBILANT 636.65 636.65 618.80 621.25SUNTECK 395.15 403.40 393.60 397.60MINDAIND 405.65 424.20 405.65 419.95IIFL 171.95 172.30 167.65 169.00SHREECEM 22950.00 23317.90 22895.80 23148.35HINDCOPPER 45.00 47.30 44.90 46.65NESCO 778.00 778.00 754.00 756.75WHIRLPOOL 2449.95 2474.70 2383.00 2435.65SUPREMEIND 1340.00 1340.00 1297.35 1321.35GODREJCP 740.00 750.95 737.10 748.55INFIBEAM 58.90 59.65 58.25 58.40RALLIS 231.30 232.00 227.15 227.80JCHAC 2398.00 2458.00 2340.00 2412.50PHOENIXLTD 872.85 872.85 840.10 852.20SUZLON 2.54 2.54 2.46 2.48HSCL 69.45 70.75 68.55 69.70SCHNEIDER 82.60 88.40 82.60 86.05IPCALAB 1228.15 1235.00 1216.10 1223.35KEC 335.00 342.00 333.25 335.20CADILAHC 267.15 274.20 267.15 271.95GODFRYPHLP 1394.60 1407.10 1373.65 1379.25INDOSTAR 240.00 265.95 240.00 260.45NAVINFLUOR 1071.50 1098.90 1065.85 1084.65JSWENERGY 67.00 68.85 66.75 67.35IDFC 37.10 37.30 36.70 37.05ITDC 309.25 317.40 306.60 308.40MOTILALOFS 844.30 852.40 821.15 830.20TV18BRDCST 26.25 27.60 26.25 26.70CHAMBLFERT 171.70 174.25 169.50 170.10CHENNPETRO 144.10 147.05 143.35 145.10PFIZER 4070.00 4219.05 4070.00 4165.75HUDCO 42.35 43.30 41.90 42.85VENKYS 1776.10 1786.45 1760.30 1763.30HINDZINC 209.15 209.55 207.30 207.75COROMANDEL 615.00 617.90 594.85 605.80MRPL 45.10 47.30 45.10 47.00BOSCHLTD 15059.65 15222.00 14934.00 15019.50TATACOFFEE 104.00 105.40 102.60 103.35FSL 43.95 44.40 43.40 43.60LEMONTREE 50.80 53.90 50.35 52.50SCI 61.45 61.75 61.00 61.10RITES 317.05 318.85 315.00 316.25VAIBHAVGBL 933.85 980.00 928.00 973.45ALKEM 2333.00 2353.05 2323.00 2351.55METROPOLIS 1655.95 1706.20 1646.65 1677.90PGHL 4460.00 4473.00 4386.35 4411.20APLAPOLLO 2015.00 2070.00 2010.35 2031.20JKTYRE 81.70 82.65 81.10 81.50CEATLTD 1014.10 1022.20 1000.35 1004.20IEX 177.40 180.65 174.75 177.75HEXAWARE 349.90 349.90 339.00 343.15OBEROIRLTY 558.00 569.80 553.75 565.10GARFIBRES 1407.00 1540.80 1407.00 1516.80PTC 61.30 61.85 60.55 60.95

GICHSGFIN 157.60 165.00 156.50 157.15UNIONBANK 52.45 53.00 52.25 52.35GLAXO 1633.95 1664.85 1630.15 1638.35ORIENTBANK 54.45 55.35 54.05 54.40ADANITRANS 328.30 334.90 326.80 333.30SWANENERGY 118.25 119.00 117.00 118.05NATCOPHARM 654.15 664.70 652.50 660.10SJVN 25.75 26.30 25.60 25.85KAJARIACER 572.00 577.90 567.80 574.05

MIDHANI 165.90 169.70 165.90 168.05EIDPARRY 228.25 233.00 227.75 231.40RELAXO 678.00 696.00 677.50 691.75BIRLACORPN 762.00 771.10 747.55 763.40RESPONIND 93.05 93.75 91.35 91.50HEIDELBERG 204.95 204.95 201.30 202.40DBL 430.00 430.00 416.35 417.60BDL 305.50 307.20 302.00 303.40ENGINERSIN 100.45 101.50 99.80 100.10KANSAINER 518.40 523.80 516.50 521.95BANKINDIA 67.55 68.30 67.40 67.70SHANKARA 417.45 428.90 397.10 402.35WABAG 223.40 225.40 216.50 218.35JSL 44.30 45.55 44.15 45.30BAJAJHLDNG 3446.00 3446.00 3326.45 3339.45EMAMILTD 334.75 340.00 333.25 336.60CENTRUM 23.45 23.60 22.65 22.80MMTC 22.30 23.15 22.00 22.20FINEORG 2223.50 2270.00 2194.00 2235.00ITDCEM 66.40 66.45 63.30 63.80DHANUKA 455.50 469.20 447.65 467.00BLUESTARCO 838.00 860.60 837.65 840.95CESC 742.40 757.60 740.70 752.85ABFRL 233.90 237.10 231.60 234.75TRIDENT 7.19 7.27 7.15 7.17IDBI 35.40 35.75 35.20 35.45CENTURYPLY 172.00 172.95 170.65 171.95PARAGMILK 151.00 151.00 147.50 148.50GILLETTE 6370.00 6370.00 6275.00 6297.35ERIS 507.00 516.00 506.80 509.30DALBHARAT 858.55 871.95 848.00 865.65NLCINDIA 55.70 58.70 55.50 57.80CCL 197.30 199.00 194.55 195.203MINDIA 22532.15 22532.15 22246.95 22318.95INDHOTEL 144.90 145.55 143.80 144.95THERMAX 1068.00 1089.45 1067.05 1084.00INTELLECT 170.10 172.65 169.75 170.75ALBK 18.80 19.30 18.65 18.80SOBHA 445.90 446.95 437.70 439.35CROMPTON 260.50 263.00 259.85 262.00GMDCLTD 67.40 69.65 65.05 65.80NH 358.00 361.00 353.65 356.70IFCI 6.55 6.56 6.44 6.51VMART 1934.35 1984.70 1904.30 1969.05BLISSGVS 146.60 146.90 143.10 144.10PGHH 11287.75 11342.30 11240.00 11298.60REPCOHOME 337.40 338.00 328.00 331.70BAJAJELEC 383.40 386.70 380.00 381.00BAJAJCON 235.10 235.10 231.60 232.25HFCL 17.25 17.30 17.05 17.10ADVENZYMES 182.75 186.50 177.50 182.55MAHINDCIE 173.40 178.50 171.30 176.00JYOTHYLAB 157.00 164.90 156.80 162.25MOIL 158.60 158.95 153.80 154.45AEGISLOG 211.35 212.80 208.20 209.95FINOLEXIND 545.00 565.90 541.70 558.95JAMNAAUTO 44.70 45.40 44.70 44.95CYIENT 489.90 496.00 487.30 491.50MPHASIS 912.40 921.80 902.25 907.90LAXMIMACH 3668.15 3677.80 3622.05 3629.95ABBOTINDIA 12655.85 12745.00 12551.20 12601.50GODREJAGRO 556.00 563.00 554.60 557.05PRSMJOHNSN 72.25 73.90 71.30 72.85KRBL 284.10 284.60 277.95 280.15DHFL 16.10 16.20 15.95 16.05MAXINDIA 90.45 91.00 87.65 88.85ASTERDM 164.45 168.60 163.00 163.95IBULISL 126.35 128.00 121.90 123.55JBCHEPHARM 495.55 503.50 493.00 497.40BASF 1020.30 1035.45 1001.05 1008.75SYMPHONY 1262.00 1286.20 1249.95 1276.25GUJALKALI 426.40 432.85 422.00 424.60FCONSUMER 25.00 25.15 24.50 24.55CUB 240.00 240.00 236.15 237.85IRCON 438.00 439.00 433.80 434.80UFLEX 222.40 222.95 220.40 221.40DBCORP 148.50 149.25 139.35 142.00LUXIND 1525.00 1535.00 1490.20 1497.70PERSISTENT 734.00 736.60 723.50 726.30SYNGENE 306.85 311.40 304.00 307.90TCIEXP 769.00 795.00 769.00 789.30VGUARD 229.50 230.30 226.05 228.25

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Lead House impeachmentmanager Adam Schiff called

dramatically for the Senate toremove President DonaldTrump from office Thursday,saying the US leader cannot betrusted to put the country’sinterests ahead of his own.

“The American peopledeserve a president they cancount on, to put their interestfirst,” said Schiff.

His impassioned wordscapped a long day in whichDemocrats detailed Trump’sillicit scheme to pressureUkraine to help his 2020 reelec-tion campaign.

“You know, you can’t trustthis president to do what is

right for this country. You cantrust he will do what’s right forDonald Trump,” Schiff added.

“He’ll do it now. He’s doneit before. He’ll do it for the nextseveral months. He’ll do it inthe election if he’s allowed to.This is why, if you find himguilty, you must find that heshould be removed.” “Becauseright matters. And truth mat-ters. Otherwise we are lost.”

As the 100 senators sat asjurors and millions ofAmericans watched on televi-sion, House impeachmentmanagers mustered scores ofvideos, internal documentsand extensive witness testimo-ny to lay out a strong case thatthe US leader abused his pow-ers.

Schiff ’s prosecution teamdetailed how Trump flagrant-ly undertook last year to forceKiev to help him tarnish hispossible 2020 reelection rival,former vice president JoeBiden.

“President Trump used thepowers of his office to solicit aforeign nation to interfere inour elections for his own per-sonal benefit,” House JudiciaryCommittee Chair Jerry Nadlertold the chamber.

“Since President GeorgeWashington took office in1789, no president has abusedhis power in this way,” Nadlersaid.

“The president has repeat-edly, flagrantly, violated hisoath... The president’s conduct

is wrong. It is illegal. And it isdangerous.”

Over nine hours theDemocrats methodically dis-mantled Republican claimsthat Trump did nothing wrong.

They left few doubts thatTrump’s sole motivation insecretly freezing aid to Ukrainelast July was to force UkrainePresident Volodymyr Zelenskyto announce one investigationinto Biden and a second into anunsupported story that Kievhelped Democrats in the 2016election.

To puncture a key WhiteHouse argument that the USconstitution requires a specif-ic crime to remove a president,they played old videos in whichtwo of Trump’s closest defend-

ers, Republican SenatorLindsey Graham and storiedcriminal defense attorney AlanDershowitz, said that abuse ofpower itself is a clear impeach-able offense.

And they detailed theextensive role of Trump’s per-sonal lawyer Rudy Giuliani inthe scheme to pressureZelensky, even while US intel-ligence and diplomatic chiefsdisagreed with it.

“Donald Trump choseRudy Giuliani over his ownintelligence agencies. He choseRudy Giuliani over his ownnational security advisors...That makes him dangerous toour country,” said Schiff, wholeads the House IntelligenceCommittee.

Yet, three days into argu-ments into the historic trial,there were few signs that any ofthe Republican majority thatTrump commands in theSenate would buy into the evi-dence and turn against him.

“What we heard from themanagers yesterday, the daybefore, it is the same thing, dayafter day after day,” saidRepublican Senator JohnBarrasso.

“We’re hearing the samethings over and over,” saidTrump attorney Jay Sekulow.“We will be putting on vigor-ous defense of both facts andrebutting what they’ve said.”

At the White House,Trump unleashed a barrage oftweets attacking the process as

“loaded with lies and misrep-resentations.” “Most unfair &corrupt hearing inCongressional history!” hetweeted Democratic prosecu-tors will complete their argu-ments Friday with a focus onthe second impeachmentcharge, obstruction ofCongress, before Trump’s legalteam holds the floor in hisdefense for three days.

Democrats are hoping theirarguments will at least persuadesome Republicans, who hold a53-47 majority in the Senate, tosupport their call to issue sub-poenas next week for four topcurrent and former Trumpaides to testify, and for internalWhite House records about theUkraine affair.

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Nepal has invited PrimeMinister Narendra Modi

to attend the first SagarmathaSambaad forum to be heldhere in April to deliberate onthe most prominent issues ofglobal, regional and nationalsignificance, Foreign MinisterPradeep Kumar Gyawali saidon Friday.

The first edition of the‘Sagarmatha Sambaad’ is sched-uled to be held from April 2 to4 on the theme “ClimateChange, Mountains and theFuture of Humanity,” he told agroup of visiting Indianreporters.

“We have invited PrimeMinister Narendra Modi andare awaiting the confirmation,”Gyawali said.

He said leaders of allSAARC countries, includingPakistan Prime Minister ImranKhan, have been invited andNepal would be happy to hostall the regional leaders so thatthey can have discussionsamongst themselves on thechallenges facing the region.

The Sambaad (dialogue) isnamed after the world’s tallestmountain Sagarmatha (Mt.Everest) which is also a symbolof friendship, Gyawali said.

Gyawali said the mainobjectives of the first edition ofthe Sambad are to forge acommon consensus among

countries on the impending cli-mate crisis and encouragepolitical leaders to mobilisetheir political willpower totackle its menace.

It also hopes to createawareness among participantsand the world about the direct

relation that exists betweenthe climate change and moun-tain ecology. Nepal has the icypeaks of some of the world’shighest mountains.

The dialogue would makean effort to promote anddemonstrate its resolve to make

it a welcoming ground for allstakeholders for impartial,transparent, open discussionand free flow of thoughts andideas, officials said.

To be held every biennial-ly, the Sambaad hopes to drawglobal leaders, including heads

of state/government, parlia-mentarians, policy makers,leaders from the inter-govern-mental organisations, the pri-vate sector, the civil society,think tanks, women and themedia to discuss on the ways ofcooperation, exchange of ideasand sharing of experiences onprominent global issues.

The member states ofSAARC are Afghanistan,Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, theMaldives, Nepal, Pakistan andSri Lanka.

In the last three years,India has been distancing itselffrom the SAARC, citing secu-rity challenge facing the regionfrom terror networks based inPakistan, which is also a mem-ber of the grouping.

The last SAARC Summitin 2014 was held inKathmandu. The 2016 SAARCsummit was to be held inIslamabad. But after the ter-rorist attack on an Indian Armycamp in Uri in Jammu andKashmir on September 18 thatyear, India expressed its inabil-ity to participate in the summitdue to “prevailing circum-stances”. The summit was calledoff after Bangladesh, Bhutanand Afghanistan also declinedto participate in the Islamabadmeet.

SAARC summits are usu-ally held biennially and hostedby member states in alphabet-ical order.

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If India can resolve its landboundary issue with

Bangladesh then why not withNepal, Foreign MinisterPradeep Kumar Gyawali saidon Friday, referring to the lin-gering territorial differencesbetween the two neighbours.

India in Novemberreleased fresh maps of thenewly-created union territoriesof Jammu and Kashmir, andLadakh. In the maps, Pakistan-occupied Kashmir is part ofJammu and Kashmir, whileGilgit-Baltistan is in Ladakh.

Nepal claimed thatLimpiyadhura, Lipulek andKalapani areas were shownunder India’s territory eventhough they lie within theNepalese territory.

India has said the newmap accurately depicts its sov-ereign territory and it has in no

manner revised its boundarywith Nepal.

“If India can resolve landboundary issue withBangaldesh, why not Nepal?”Foreign Minister Gyawali askedduring an interaction with agroup of visiting Indian jour-nalists at a briefing on‘Sagarmatha Sambaad’ at theNepalese Foreign Ministryhere.

No “unresolved baggage”should be carried forward sincethere is an increased level ofunderstanding between thetwo countries and their leaders,he added.

His remarks came daysafter Prime Minister KPSharma Oli said that the timehas come to resolve all pend-ing issues through dialogue inthe lasting interest of the twocountries.

“The time has come toresolve all pending issues

through dialogue in the lastinginterest of our two countries.

A stable and majority gov-ernment in both countries is anopportune moment and mygovernment remains commit-ted to working closely with the Government of India towards this end,” Oli had said over a video-linkbefore the joint inauguration ofthe Rs 140 crore Jogbani-Biratnagar Integrated CheckPost with an aim to improvebilateral trade and people-to-people contact.

India and Bangladesh in2015 resolved their boundaryissues by swapping enclaves fol-lowing a historic deal signedbetween the two countries’prime ministers, giving thou-sands of people in statelesslimbo for almost 70 years anoption to chose the nationali-ty of either Bangladesh orIndia.

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Nepal, which is holding on tothe Chairmanship of the

SAARC grouping since 2014, is“ready and eager to” handover theposition to Pakistan, ForeignMinister Pradeep KumarGyawali said on Friday, hopingthat New Delhi and Islamabadcan sort out their differencesthrough negotiations, keeping inmind the challenges facing theregion. The minister also assuredIndia that Nepal will not allow itssoil to be used against any of itsneighbours and the Himalayancountry will not participate in anygreat games.

“Nepal is ready and eager tohandover” the SAARCChairmanship to Pakistan,Gyawali told a group of visitingIndian journalists at a briefing on‘Sagarmatha Sambaad’ at theNepalese Foreign Ministry here.

He said that India andPakistan can sort out their dif-ferences through negotiations,keeping in mind the challengesfacing the region.

In the last three years, Indiahas been distancing itself fromthe SAARC, citing security chal-lenge facing the region from ter-ror networks based in Pakistan,which is also a member of thegrouping. Gyawali said the lead-ers of all SAARC countries,including Prime Minister

Narendra Modi and his Pakistanicounterpart Imran Khan, havebeen invited and Nepal would behappy to host all the regionalleaders so that they can have dis-cussions amongst themselves onthe challenges facing the region.

“It will be a fantastic idea” forall SAARC leaders to be presentat the Saagarmatha,” he said.

The Sambaad (dialogue) isnamed after the world’s tallestmountain Sagarmatha (Mt.Everest) which is also a symbolof friendship, he added.

The last SAARC Summit in2014 was held in Kathmandu,which was attended by PrimeMinister Modi.

The 2016 SAARC summitwas to be held in Islamabad. Butafter the terrorist attack on anIndian Army camp in Uri inJammu and Kashmir onSeptember 18 that year, Indiaexpressed its inability to partici-pate in the summit due to “pre-vailing circumstances”.

The summit was called offafter Bangladesh, Bhutan andAfghanistan also declined toparticipate in the Islamabadmeet. In December last, PrimeMinister Modi said that India’sefforts for greater collaborationamong the SAARC countrieshave repeatedly been challengedwith threats and acts of terrorism,in an oblique reference toPakistan.

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At his nearly century-olddiner in the western Ohio

town of Defiance, third-gener-ation owner Karl Kissner hasturned on Fox News for livecoverage of President DonaldTrump’s impeachment trial.

For his many customerswho aren’t interested, the otherTV sets at Kissner’s are on TheWeather Channel and the FoodNetwork.

A Trump supporter whosays he doesn’t push his politicson patrons, Kissner says hehears “snide” comments aboutimpeachment — but, usually,nothing at all.

“The majority of what I’mseeing here is that people areignoring it. Or they’re lookingup at it, saying, ‘Oh, that’s onagain,’ and moving on withtheir conversations,” he said.

As the US election seasonopens, a team of AFP journal-ists is taking the political pulseof the country by driving fromWashington to Iowa, whichon February 3 holds the nation’sfirst contest to select presiden-tial nominees.

From a cluttered barbershop in Pennsylvania steelcountry to a cozy winery offLake Erie, television sets arebringing the impeachment sagalive — but, much like inWashington, few mindsappeared to change.

Democrats applauded law-makers’ determination to pun-ish Trump for pressing Ukraineto dig up dirt on his domesticrival Joe Biden, whileRepublicans, like Trump,accused Democrats of sub-verting voters’ will and spoke attimes in conspiratorial tones.

A CNN poll publishedMonday found that 51 percentof Americans wanted theSenate to remove Trump fromoffice. But separate polling hasshown more lukewarm viewsin critical swing states — andmany people did not seem tobe paying attention.

“The impeachment processis above my head. There are somany different steps,” auto-body shop owner Alvin Rosssaid at a diner in Charleroi,Pennsylvania, a jigsaw puzzle ofElvis framed on the wall.

But Ross said he was opento learning more aboutimpeachment and is personal-ly repelled by Trump.

An African American,Ross says that Trump’s rhetorichas worsened racial tensions.

“This is the guy who sayshe knows more than the gen-erals,” he said. “I can go toMcDonald’s and apply for a joband they’ll ask, do you have anyexperience? He can run thewhole United States with noexperience.”

Sitting a table away, 72-year-old Tim Bailey sees darkforces behind impeachment. A retired steel mill worker, theonetime Democrat said he leftthe party when it electedBarack Obama president, citingthe party’s support for “social-ism” and comparatively openborders.

An avid viewer of FoxNews, a favorite amongRepublicans, Bailey com-plained that other sources didnot give the full picture.

House Speaker “NancyPelosi held everything up forthree weeks. I think it’s becausethey want to keep theDemocrat candidates awayfrom Iowa so they can putBiden in,” he said, referring tothe four Democratic con-tenders who as senators muststay in Washington for thetrial.

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US financier and philan-thropist George Soros on

Thursday pledged one billiondollars for a new university net-work project to battle the ero-sion of civil society in a worldincreasingly ruled by “would-be and actual dictators” andbeset by climate change.

Speaking at the WorldEconomic Forum in Davos,Soros said humanity was at aturning point and the comingyears would determine the fateof rulers like President DonaldTrump and China’s Xi Jinpingas well as the world itself.

“We live at a transforma-tional moment in history. Thesurvival of open societies isendangered and we face aneven greater crisis: climatechange,” said the Hungarian-born billionaire.

He described the plan ofthe Open Society UniversityNetwork (OSUN) as “the mostimportant project of my life”and would be an internationalplatform for teaching andresearch that existing univer-

sities all over the world wouldbe able to join.

It would seek to reach outto “places in need of highquality education and in serv-ing neglected populations”such as refugees, prisoners,the Roma and other displacedpeoples like the RohingyaMuslim minority in Myanmar,he said.

“To demonstrate our com-mitment to OSUN, we arecontributing one billion dollarsto it,” said Soros in his tradi-tional annual Davos address.

Soros, whose CentralEuropean University (CEU)was forced to leave Hungaryafter pressure from the gov-ernment of Prime MinisterViktor Orban, said the projectwas needed at a time whenopen society was at more riskthan ever.

He expressed grief that theworld’s strongest powers —the United States, China andRussia under PresidentVladimir Putin — were “in thehands of would-be or actualdictators and the ranks ofauthoritarian rulers continued

to grow.” With nationalism making

further headway around theworld, Soros said that the“biggest and most frighteningsetback” was in India, accusingPrime Minister Narendra Modiof “creating a Hindu national-ist state.” He again slammedTrump, describing the USleader as a “conman and theultimate narcissist” but said thecurrent surge in economicstrength for the United Statesmay have come too soon forthe US leader as he faces re-election later this year.

“Trump... has managed tooverheat an already buoyanteconomy. An overheated econ-omy can’t be kept at the boil-ing point for too long,” warnedSoros, credited with correctlypredicting major marketswings in his career as aninvestor.

“If all this happened closeto the election it would haveassured his election. His prob-lem is that the election is still10 months away and, in a rev-olutionary situation, that’s alifetime.”

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Supporters of volatile Iraqicleric Moqtada Sadr pre-

pared on Friday for a “million-strong” march in Baghdad todemand the ouster of UStroops, putting the protest-hitcapital on edge.

The march has rattled theseparate, months-old protestmovement that has rocked thecapital and Shiite-majoritysouth, where young Iraqis havedemanded a government over-haul, early parliamentary elec-tions and more accountability.

After defying violence thathas left 470 people dead as wellas a spree of kidnappings andintimidations, those protestersfear their cause could be

eclipsed by Sadr’s powerplay.“Sadr doesn’t represent us,”

one teenager said defiantly lateThursday on a blocked-offthoroughfare in Baghdad.

America’s military pres-ence in Iraq has become a hot-button issue in the countrysince a US drone strike killedIranian general QasemSoleimani and Iraqi comman-der Abu Mahdi al-Muhandison January 3 outside Baghdad’sinternational airport.

Two days later, parliamentvoted for all foreign troops —including some 5,200 US forces— to leave their country.

Sadr, long opposed to UStroops being in Iraq, decided totake that momentum to thestreet and called for “a million-

strong, peaceful, unifieddemonstration to condemn theAmerican presence and its vio-lations”.

Several pro-Iran factionsfrom the Hashed al-Shaabimilitary force, usually rivals ofSadr, have backed his call andpledged to take part on Friday.

By late Thursday after-noon, new checkpointscropped up across Baghdadaimed at securing the protestarea.

In the shrine city ofKarbala, south of Baghdad,large buses were seen pickingup Sadr supporters to bringthem to the capital for the rally.

To head off the anti-USgathering and ramp up pres-sure on authorities to enact

reforms, young anti-govern-ment demonstrators shut downstreets in Baghdad and acrossthe south this week with burn-ing tyres and metal barricades.

Protester Mariam saidFriday’s rally would be “politi-cised by certain factions orsides”.

“We’re protesting in thepeople’s name. We’re free. Wecan’t demonstrate in the nameof a particular party or sect,”she said.

When Sadr announcedplans for the rally last week,many feared he would hold itnear Tahrir Square — the beat-ing heart of the anti-govern-ment protests in Baghdad.

But his spokesman Salehal-Obeidy said late Wednesday

that they had chosen the neigh-bourhood of Jadiriyah, nearBaghdad University, as thegathering place.

That, in turn, has sparkedworry that angry crowds couldattack the presidential palace orthe high-security Green Zone,which houses the US embassy.

The move would not bewithout precedent for Sadr,who urged followers to stormthe Green Zone in 2016 in achallenge to the governmentover undelivered reforms.

Sadr battled US forces withhis Mehdi Army after theAmerican-led invasion thattoppled Saddam Hussein in2003.

He later branded himself areformist and backed the recent

anti-government protests whenthey erupted in October.

At the same time he con-trols the largest bloc in parlia-ment and his followers hold topministerial positions.

The 46-year-old is a noto-riously fickle politician, knownfor switching alliances quickly.

“Some sides representingthe October revolutionariesthink Iran is solely responsiblefor Iraq’s ruin and others rep-resented by the Hashed or itssupporters say America is thesource of ruin,” Obeidy saidWednesday.

“We believe that both arebehind this ruin, and Sadr istrying to balance between thetwo.”

It remained unclear even

until early Friday how manypeople would turn out for therally and where they wouldmarch.

Harith Hasan, an expert atthe Carnegie Middle EastCenter, told AFP Sadr was try-ing to sustain his “multipleidentities” by backing variousprotests.

“On the one hand, (heseeks to) position himself as theleader of a reform movement,as a populist, as anti-establish-ment,” Hasan said.

“On the other hand, he alsowants to sustain his image asthe leader of the resistance tothe ‘American occupation’,”partly to win favour with Iran,he added.

Tehran has insisted all

American troops must leavethe Middle East amid the sky-rocketing tensions withWashington over recent weeks.

But Sadr may also havedomestic motivations, Hasansaid.

“This protest will showSadr is still the one able tomobilise large groups of peoplein the streets — but it’s alsopossible he wants other groupsto respond by giving him morespace to choose the primeminister.” Premier Adel AbdelMahdi resigned in Decemberunder pressure from protestsand Iraq’s Shiite religiousauthority, but he remains care-taker prime minister, as polit-ical parties have failed to namea successor.

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IMF chief KristalinaGeorgieva on Friday said

growth slowdown in Indiaappears to be temporary andshe expects the momentum toimprove going ahead.

Speaking here at the WEF2020, she also said the worldappears a better place inJanuary 2020 compared towhat it was when IMFannounced its WorldEconomic Outlook in October

2019.She said the factors driving

this positive momentuminclude receding trade tensionafter the US-China first phasetrade deal and synchronised taxcuts, among others.

She, however, said agrowth rate of 3.3 per cent isnot fantastic for the worldeconomy.

“It is still sluggish growth.We want fiscal policies to bemore aggressive and we wantstructural reforms and more

dynamism,” the managingdirector of the InternationalMonetary Fund (IMF) said.

On emerging markets, shesaid they are also moving for-ward.

“We had a downgrade inone large market India but webelieve that’s temporary. Weexpect momentum to improvefurther going ahead. There arealso some bright spots likeIndonesia and Vietnam,” shenoted.

She further said a number

of African countries are doingvery well, but some othernations like Mexico are not.

On risks ahead for theglobal economy, the IMFchief listed factors like weak-ness in long-term produc-tivity growth and low infla-tion.

“We are living in a morerisk-prone world. It is onlyJanuary and there have beenevents that are sparking risksfor the global economy,” sheadded.

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Brussels’ two top officials,the presidents of the

European Commission andthe European Council, signedoff on Britain’s EU divorceagreement Friday.

With Ursula von der Leyenand Charles Michel’s formalendorsement, the text will nowgo to the European Parliamenton January 29 for ratification.

Then, on Thursday nextweek, diplomats from the EUmember states will approvethe deal in writing, ensuringBritain’s orderly departure atmidnight on January 31.

“Charles Michel and I havejust signed the Agreement onthe Withdrawal of the UKfrom the EU, opening the wayfor its ratification by theEuropean Parliament,”Commission chief Ursula vonder Leyen tweeted.

In a separate tweet, Michelsaid: “Things will inevitablychange but our friendship willremain. We start a new chap-ter as partners and allies.”

And he added, in French:

“I’m keen to write this newpage together.” Official pho-tographs of the official signing

ceremony, conducted beforedawn in the EuropeanCouncil’s headquarters in

Brussels, showed chief EUBrexit negotiator MichelBarnier looking on.

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North Korea has named asharp-tongued former

army officer with little foreignpolicy experience as its topdiplomat, in a possible indica-tion it will take a harder linewith Washington in stallednuclear negotiations.

Ri Son Gwon’s new title asforeign minister was disclosedFriday in a Korean CentralNews Agency dispatch thatsaid he attended a reception forforeign diplomats inPyongyang the previous day.

South Korean and otheroutside media outlets haverecently reported NorthKorea informed foreigndiplomats in Pyongyang ofRi’s job last week.

In his speech at the ban-quet, “Comrade Ri Son Gwonsaid that the Korean peoplehave turned out in the generaloffensive to break throughhead-on the barriers to theadvance of socialist construc-tion by dint of self-reliance ...and made public the foreignpolicy stand of the (NorthKorean) government,” KCNAsaid.

Ri, an outspoken retiredarmy colonel who previouslyheaded a government bodyresponsible for relations withSouth Korea, has taken part in

numerous inter-Korean mili-tary talks over the past 15years. But Ri, who is also analternate member of the rulingWorkers’ Party CentralCommittee, lacks experience innegotiations with the UnitedStates and other countries.

In South Korea, he is mostknown for what were seen asrude remarks to South Koreanbusinessmen visitingPyongyang in September 2018.While they were eatingnaengmyeon, Korean tradi-tional cold noodles, Ri askedthem: “Are naengmyeon goingdown your throats?” in appar-ent dissatisfaction with a lackof progress in efforts to pro-mote inter-Korean economicprojects, according to SouthKorean officials and lawmak-ers. Many conservatives inSouth Korea strongly criticizedhim.

Ri replaced Ri Yong Ho, acareer diplomat with broadexperiences who had takenpart in nuclear negotiationswith the United States sinceearly 2018. It wasn’t immedi-ately known what happened toRi Yong Ho, whose name waslast mentioned in KCNA lastAugust.

Analyst Cheong Seong-Chang at South Korea’s privateSejong Institute said Ri SonGwon’s appointment signaled

North Korea would furtherharden its stance toward the USand bolster a push to cement itsposition as a nuclear state.

“From now on, it’s difficultto expect meaningful progressin North Korea-US diplomacy,”Cheong said.

Nuclear talks between theUS and North Korea have pro-gressed little since the break-down of the second summitbetween President DonaldTrump and North Koreanleader Kim Jong Un in Vietnamin February 2019. Kim recent-ly said North Korea wouldstrengthen its nuclear arsenaland unveil a new “strategicweapon” after the US failed tomeet a year-end deadline set byhim to make concessions.

A senior State Departmentofficial told reportersWednesday that Washingtonwas aware of Ri Son Gwon’sreported appointment andhopes North Korea will under-stand the importance of resum-ing diplomacy.

“There’s nothing to begained by not talking. It’s onlyto their benefit, so we encour-age them to talk,” the officialsaid on condition of anonymi-ty because he wasn’t authorizedto speak publicly to the matter.“It is slow, patient, steady diplo-macy. We’re going to stick withthat plan.”

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The United States has rejeteda request by the UK govern-

ment to extradite the wife of adiplomat who was involved in acar accident that killed a teenag-er, the British government saidFriday. The case of AnnaSacoolas, 42, has been a thorn inLondon’s close relations withWashington, stirring up debatesover the limits of diplomaticimmunity in cases unrelated tonational security.

“We are disappointed in thisdecision, which appears to be adenial of justice,” a spokeswomanfor the Home Office said. “We areurgently considering ouroptions.” Briton Harry Dunndied in August when his motor-bike collided with a car drivingon the wrong side of the roadnear an airbase inNorthamptonshire, centralEngland, which is used by the USmilitary as a communicationshub. Sacoolas admitted inOctober to being the driver, buthas cited immunity while refus-ing to return to Britain to face jus-tice, as Dunn’s parents demand.The parents of the 19-year-oldwere informed of Mike Pompeo’sdecision in a phone call with theirMP on Thursday, a familyspokesman said.

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Philippine President RodrigoDuterte has threatened to

end a pact key to annual wargames with American troops ifthe US does not restore thetravel visa of an official whooversaw his drug war.

It is the latest in a long lineof Duterte’s threats to shrink orsever ties with historical allyWashington, which have peri-odically followed criticism ofhis deadly narcotics crack-down.

Duterte spoke after RonaldDela Rosa, the former nation-al police chief who is now asenator, said the US had can-celled his visa but did not tellhim why.

Dela Rosa was the firstenforcer of Duterte’s interna-

tionally condemned campaign,in which police say they havekilled just over 5,500 allegeddealers and users.

Human rights advocatessay the true toll is four timeshigher, and could amount tocrimes against humanity.

The US State Departmentand the embassy in Manilahave not responded to requestsfor comment about Dela Rosa’svisa.

Duterte went on the attackin a speech late Thursday.

“Now, they won’t let Batogo to America”, he said, usingDela Rosa’s nickname.

“If you do not make a cor-rection there, one, I will ter-minate the bases — VisitingForces Agreement,” Duterteadded. “I’m giving... theAmerican government one

month from now.”The Visiting Forces

Agreement (VFA) outlines therules governing conduct of UStroops participating in jointmilitary exercises in thePhilippines.

The pact gave legal coverfor the resumption of large-scale war games between thetwo allies after the US militaryclosed its Philippine bases inthe 1990s amid rising anti-USsentiment.

Duterte also threatened in2016 to cancel the agreement,but has generally attacked tieswith the US, including anannounced “separation” fromits former colonial master.

Until now the president hasnot made good on thosethreats, some of which cameafter then US president Barack

Obama was critical of Duterte’scrackdown in 2016.

Relations betweenWashington and Manila underPresident Donald Trump, whohas voiced support for Duterte,are on a stronger footing.

However, recent criticismfrom US lawmakers has intro-duced new tensions.

The Philippines inDecember barred US senatorsRichard Durbin and PatrickLeahy, who were behind ameasure to prevent officialsinvolved in the incarceration ofSenator Leila de Lima fromentering the US.

De Lima, one of the high-est-profile critics of Duterte’snarcotics crackdown, has beenheld since February 2017 overa drug charge that she claimswas fabricated to silence her.

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It was just four years ago thata political committee sup-

porting one of Donald Trump’sRepublican rivals unveiled an adslamming his views on abortion,complete with footage from a1999 interview in which hedeclared, “I am pro-choice inevery respect.”

Now, as he heads into the2020 election, Trump willbecome the first sitting presi-dent to address the March forLife, taking the stage Friday atthe annual anti-abortion gath-ering that is one of the move-ment’s highest profile and mostsymbolic events.

It’s Trump’s latest nod to thewhite evangelical voters whohave proven to be among hismost loyal backers. And itmakes clear that, as he tries tostitch together a winning coali-tion for reelection, Trump iscounting on the support of his

base of conservative activists tohelp bring him across the finishline. “I think it’s a brilliantmove,” said Ralph Reed, chair ofthe Faith and FreedomCoalition and one of Trump’smost prominent evangelicalsupporters.

Reed said the president’sappearance would “energizeand remind pro-life voters whata great friend this president andadministration has been.” Italso shows how much timeshave changed.

Past presidents whoopposed abortion, includingRonald Reagan and George WBush, steered clear of personal-ly attending the march to avoidbeing too closely associatedwith demonstrators eager tooutlaw the procedure.

They sent remarks for oth-ers to deliver, spoke via tele-phone hookup or invited orga-nizers to visit the White House.

Over the last 10 years, how-

ever, the Republican Party hasundergone a “revolution,” dis-playing a new willingness to“embrace the issue as not onlybeing morally right but politi-cally smart,” said MalloryQuigley, a spokeswoman for theSusan B. Anthony List andWomen Speak Out PAC.

The group is planning tospend $52 million this cycle tohelp elect candidates opposed toabortion rights. Its president,Marjorie Dannenfelser, willserve as national co-chair of anew campaign coalition, “Pro-life Voices for Trump.”

Indeed, among bothRepublicans and Democrats,there is a greater appetite forhard-line positions for andagainst abortion rights.

“There used to be a middlein this country and candidateswould not want to alienate themiddle,” said Ari Fleischer, whoserved as White House presssecretary under President

George W Bush.“And it just seems that that

is over and that both parties playto their bases to get maximumturnout from their base.” Inaddition, Flesicher said, Trumpis far less tethered to traditionthan past presidents and “happyto go where his predecessorshaven’t.”

During his first three yearsin office, Trump has embracedsocially conservative policies,particularly on the issue ofabortion. He’s appointing judgeswho oppose abortion, cuttingtaxpayer funding for abortionservices and paintingDemocrats who support abor-tion rights as extreme in theirviews. “President Trump hasdone more for the pro-life com-munity than any other presi-dent, so it is fitting that he wouldbe the first president in historyto attend the March for Life onthe National Mall,” said WhiteHouse spokesman Judd Deere.

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Authorities in Texas areinvestigating a second sus-

pected case on US soil of adeadly Chinese virus, namely acollege student who had recent-ly returned from the city at theheart of the outbreak, officialssaid Thursday.

Brazos County, just north-west of Houston, “is investi-gating a suspected case of the2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV),” its health authoritywrote in a statement onFacebook.

“The patient traveled fromWuhan, China, where the coro-navirus originated,” it added.

The patient’s age is some-where between 20 and 30 andthey returned to the UnitedStates, where they are attend-

ing Texas A&M University,days before health screeningsbegan at airports on January 15,local health official Eric Wilketold reporters.

“The person presented toan area emergency departmentyesterday mostly out of con-cern, not out of symptoms,”said Wilke, adding that theywere now being kept isolated athome while testing was per-formed, with the result likely toarrive over the next day.

The patient had “mildupper respiratory symptoms”including cough and conges-tion and appeared to beimproving. Such symptoms arecommon in the middle of win-ter flu season, but the patientwas being screened further onthe basis of their travel histo-ry.

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Public Health England, theexecutive arm of the govern-ment’s Department for Health,said on Thursday night that fivepeople had tested negative for thevirus and nine others await theirresults.

Downing Street said the testswere “purely precautionary”.

The virus originated in theWuhan province of China lastmonth and four of the five test-

ed in Scotland are believed to beChinese.

“The chief medical officerhas revised the risk to the UKpopulation from very low to low,and has concluded that whilethere is an increased likelihoodthat cases may arise in this coun-try, we are well prepared and wellequipped to deal with them,” UKhealth secretary Matt Hancocksaid in a statement to Parliamenton Thursday. “The public can beassured that the whole of the UKis always well prepared for thesetype of outbreaks and we willremain vigilant and keep ourresponse under constant reviewin light of emerging scientific evi-dence,” he said.

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President Donald Trumpopened a new front in his

battle against immigrationon Thursday, barring theissuing of visas to pregnantwomen seeking to enter theUnited States for so-called“birth tourism.”

In announcing the move,which takes effect Friday, theWhite House said foreignerswere using the visas “tosecure automatic and per-manent American citizen-ship for their children bygiving birth on Americansoil.”

“ The integr ity ofAmerican citizenship must beprotected,” White Housespokeswoman StephanieGrisham said in a statement.

Temporary B-1 and B-2visitor visas would no longerbe issued to “aliens seeking toenter the United States for‘birth tourism,’” the White

House said.Calling the practice “a

glaring immigration loop-hole,” it argued that the crack-down on “birth tourism” wasfor public safety and nation-al security as well as to main-tain the “integrity of ourimmigration system.”

“The birth tourism indus-try threatens to overburdenvaluable hospital resourcesand is rife with criminalactivity, as reflected in feder-al prosecutions,” it said.

“Closing this glaringimmigration loophole willcombat these endemic abus-es and ultimately protect theUnited States f rom thenational security risks creat-ed by this practice,” the WhiteHouse said.

“It wi l l a lso defendAmerican taxpayers fromhaving their hard-earned dol-lars siphoned away to financethe direct and downstreamcosts associated with birth

tourism,” it said.The US Constitution

guarantees automaticAmerican citizenship to any-one born on US soil.

Trump has made restrict-ing illegal immigration a toppriority of his administration,and has threatened in the pastto abolish birthright citizen-ship.

Under the new rule, a USconsular officer “shall deny aB nonimmigrant visa to analien who he or she has rea-son to believe intends to trav-el” to the United States for thepurpose of giving birth in thecountry.

Enforcing the new rulemay prove problematic.

A State Department offi-cial told reporters that “con-sular officers have beendirected not to ask all femaleapplicants if they are preg-nant or intend to becomepregnant.”

“Officers will not be

allowed to require any sort ofpregnancy test,” the officialadded.

The official said it wasestimated that thousands ofchildren were born in theUnited States each year towomen who arrived in thecountry using B visas and thenumber was rising.

According to the Centerfor Immigration Studies,there were 33,000 babies bornfrom “birth tourism” betweenmid-2016 and mid-2017. Thetotal number of annual birthsin the United States is around3.8 million.

A year ago, law enforce-ment authorities announcedthat they had broken up threenetworks which offered thepossibility to Chinese nation-als to give birth in California.

According to the StateDepartment, some “birthtourism” operators charge upto $100,000 to women seek-ing to have a baby on US soil.

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One day after a vigilantegroup revealed that it was

using children as young as 8 as“recruits” for armed defensepatrols, Mexico’s president saidThursday that drug cartels tooare recruiting every-youngerkids.

The whole issue hassparked a debate in Mexicoover the use of children inarmed confrontations, withrights groups saying the prac-tice threatens not only kids’safety, but their mental health.

President Andrés ManuelLópez Obrador said thatbecause social programs aregiving more youths opportu-nities to study or work, drugcartels are having trouble find-ing gunmen, leading them torecruit children.

“The gangs are havingtrouble getting hit men, sothey are recruiting more chil-

dren and young people,because there is competition,”López Obrador said. “Thething is, the social programs aregiving youths more options,and that is leading them(gangs) to get desperate, andthey are looking to reinforcethemselves with kids”.

López Obrador said “thekey is to attack the root caus-es, to stop the breakdown offamilies, to strengthen valuesand material welfare, to giveattention to young people” toavoid them being recruited.

The issue came to a headWednesday, when a vigilantegroup in southern Mexico pub-licly displayed a troop of 19armed, masked children whohad been recruited to act as“community police”.

The children appeared torange in age from about 8 to 15,and they carried shotguns andrif les. Some of the veryyoungest carried sticks instead

of guns.They performed rifle drills

on a road in the township ofAlcozacán in southernGuerrero state. In a nearbytown, a local drug gang hadkilled 10 men and burnedmost of their bodies, and vig-ilante organizers said the kidswere needed to guard their vil-lages against the drug gang.

The head of the Guerrerostate human rights office force-fully condemned the vigilantes,saying they were exposing thechildren to danger.

“We categorically reject theinvolvement of minors in secu-rity roles that put their physi-cal safety, their lives and theirdevelopment at risk,”the officesaid in a statement.

But the prison and youthadvocacy group Reinserta UnMexicano A.C. said theGuerrero state government’sposition is irresponsiblebecause authorities there “have

been systematically negligent inguaranteeing minimal condi-tions of welfare for these com-munities and in defending therights of children” in the con-flict-torn area.

Drug gang violence hasbeen so bad in Guerrero thatthousands of residents have fledremote communities acrossthe state and now live as inter-nally displaced persons.

For example, the vigilantessaid many of the children whohave been recruited can’t con-tinue their education beyondgrade school because they areafraid to leave their towns totravel to the nearest middleschool. The vigilantes belong tothe Regional Council ofCommunity Authorities, asplit-off from a decades-oldforce known as the CRAC.Since the 1990s, the groupshave mostly policed remoteindigenous hamlets where reg-ular police seldom venture.

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� What or who were yourearly influencers?

I can still recall the daywhen in my childhood I heardthe magic sounds of saxo-phone. It was a performance byCharlie Parker. He was a high-ly influential jazz soloist andthe leading figure in the devel-opment of bebop, a form of jazzcharacterised by fast tempos,virtuosic technique andadvanced harmonies. His tunesprompted me to learn saxo-phone and take it up as acareer. He was one of the mostimportant figures in the devel-opment of jazz and in partic-ular bop, a dance on pop music.I wanted to master the musicinstrument exactly like Parker.

� What has been your cre-ative process as a saxophoneplayer?

I started my career at theage of 15 with a brass band inmy hometown. It was a friend-ly group of enthusiasts. Later,when I learned the basics andmusic at Nizhny NovgorodCollege, studied improvisationcourses in Moscow withadvanced musicians, I got toknow that it is very importantto find a great teacher, who caninspire you. Inspiration is oneof the most important gifts ateacher can provide to his/her-students. S/he is a role model,an influence that goes farbeyond academic achievement.

� How do you see the rela-tionship between sound,space and performance?

I have been exploring howsound or music can be mademore dynamic in certain spacesnot only because of differentacoustics but also because ofthe social or cultural aspects ofa space. I feel it is important towork closely with a soundengineer. Good sound from thestage has many technical para-meters that are always adjust-ed before the show. The musi-cian should be comfortable tohear himself and the playback,only then s/he will be able tobring his/her music perfectly tothe listeners. However, thislargely depends on the soundengineer.

� How is playing a saxo-phone solo different fromplaying it in a group?

Music is of great impor-tance to me as an expression ofmy thoughts and feelings.When I play solo, it is a mono-logue of my soul and whenplaying with friends it turnsinto a dialogue or communica-tion.

� Do you think the charm ofthe instrument is still intact?How has it changed overtime?

The sound of the saxo-phone fascinates everyone as it

is so similar to the human voiceand this is what makes itunique. Typically, pop music isassociated with instrumentssuch as guitar, bass, drumsand keyboard. However, thesaxophone definitely has itsplace in the pop scene. Today,saxophone has become animportant part of almost everygenre of popular music — jazz,funk, blues, rock and pop.Music can move us in ways noother medium can, and with-out the aid of any complexwords. Instrumental music canappeal across traditionalboundaries of gender, country,race, religion, language, in away that lyrics simply cannot.And with the sheer variety ofinstruments, styles, arrange-ments, tempos, audio effects

and sound generators availableto the modern musician, there’sno end to the aural possibilities.I believe that saxophone ishere to stay.

� What are your main artis-tic challenges?

Every artist has his or herown struggles. I try to do thebest of my powers to bring joy,happiness and love in thehearts of my listeners. I justwant that my music shouldconnect the listeners with me.

� With the current rap cul-ture ruling the global musicscene, do you think classicalmusic is losing its charm?

I think classical music isliving its next revival. Therhythm of life is accelerated

with a variety of sounds aroundus. I feel classical music is anabsolute expression of the seren-ity. Every music is a roller coast-er of emotions. The harmony ora melody in a symphony canmake you happy or sad depend-ing on the mood of the piece.This is one of the biggest reasonswhy classical music is immortal.Not only there are a lot ofpieces in this genre but theinterpretation of every singleone is different for differentmusicians. It would be wrong tosay that classical music is losingits charm.

(She performed with anational award-winning artist, AVishwam, as part of DLF Mall ofIndia’s on-going art exhibition,Arth — Tribute to Shades ofIndia.)

The normally private Taylor Swift pre-miered an intimate documentary at the

Sundance Film Festival in which the pop stardiscloses a past eating disorder, chroniclesher inner battle over speaking forthrightlyabout politics and says her victorious 2017sexual assault court case was a dramatic turn-ing point in her life.

Miss Americana, a Netflix documentarydirected by Lana Wilson, was one the mostfeverishly awaited films in this year’sSundance programme, and the premiere atthe Eccles Center in Park City on the festi-val’s opening day was a predictably frenziedscene. Outside the theatre, dozens ofSwift fans sang in unison.

The film, which will release onJanuary 31 on Netflix, plays like a com-ing-of-age drama for a performerwho — despite finding mega-fame asa teenager — took some time totruly find her voice. In the film,she says she always strove tobe “a good girl” and neededapproving “pats on the head”for any sense of gratifica-tion. But Miss Americanacaptures an evolution inSwift. “It’s time to take themasking tape off mymouth, like, forever,” shesays in the documen-tary.

Swift entered thetheatre after the lightswent down to watch thefilm and appearedafterward on stage in abrief Q&A with Wilson.While Swift said she was abig fan of films and docu-mentaries, this was a newexperience for her. After astanding ovation, Swiftturned to Wilson andsaid, “So I’ve never donethis before. What do wedo?”

One of the film’smost dramatic scenesshows Swift, eager to speakout against the 2018 Senatecampaign of TennesseeRepublican Marsha Blackburn,meeting with her family to dis-cuss it. Her father warns againstit, citing the potential economicimpact. Her publicist later advis-es President Donald Trump mightcome after her. Indeed, whenSwift posted on Instagram against

Blackburn and urged young voters to regis-ter, Trump said he liked Swift’s music about25 per cent less — a response Swift mocksin the film.

On the Eccles stage, Swift said she grewmore political after after she countersued,and won, against a Denver radio DJ whomshe said groped her during a meet-and-greetbefore a concert.

“It was a really horrible experience tohave,” Swift said. “I had all the privilege inthe world, financial support and the abilityto pay for a brilliant lawyer. I won that trial

but without all that, I don’t know whatwould have happened. It taught me so

much.”Swift also talks in the film

about coming to terms with bodyimage issues that grew out ofscanning the countless imagesthat are shot of her, and the com-

ments posted on socialmedia. Swift says she wouldsometimes go into “a hatespiral” and starve herselfafter seeing photos thatshe felt she looked over-weight in.

Miss Americanaincludes plenty of inti-mate scenes of Swift athome or at work. Shedrinks white wine withice cubes and didn’t trya burrito until a fewyears ago, we learn.But a continuousthread through thedocumentary is ofSwift, who last month

turned 30, crafting music.In scenes by the piano orin the studio, Wilson cap-tures Swift writing lyricsand honing melodies witha relentless passion.

Swift said she was mostnervous about sharing herwriting process withWilson. But the filmmak-

er earned her trust. “For somuch of my life in the pub-

lic eye when I get sad or upset orhumiliated or angry or gothrough a really horrible time, Ifeel like people lean in with, like,this hunger. And you never didthat to me,” Swift told Wilson.“That was what made me feel OKabout feeling sadness, humiliation

and anger around you.” ?�#

� What attracted you to the role?Emma Thompson: I was absolutely

thrilled to play this part as it was perfectto make an impact. It’s so well written. It’slike an ideal cameo. I consider myselfextremely fortunate.

��What would you like to say about theplot of the film?

Emma: The premise now is thatGreat Britain is in serious trouble. A cyber-hacker has infiltrated Britain’s super-secret web network of spies, revealing theidentities of all Britain’s agents in the field,to the dismay of the agent on duty – aregrettably small role for Kevin Eldon. It’sthe last straw for a prime minister who isa pompous and embattled figure, alreadysuffering a complete meltdown of politi-cal unpopularity. My intelligence advisersinform me that as every single active spyhas been compromised. Now, I have tobring someone out of retirement. And thatmeans bumbling Johnny English himself,now employed as a schoolmaster in someposh establishment, but giving off-the-record lessons in how to be an undercov-er operative: some nice gags here, asEnglish offers a School of Rock-typeacademy of spying.

��What do you think Johnny is morecomfortable with — analogue or digital?

Emma: Being presented with a devicethat does everything doesn’t really seem tobe a good idea for Johnny. He is used tothe 007 (James Bond’s) era and its upset-ting for him. He is just terribly disappoint-ed with technology.

�� How would you explain Rowan’sapproach to physical comedy?

Emma: Rowan is very precise abouteverything which is why his physicalcomedy is so remarkable. It’s not extem-porised. He prefers following even the

minutest detail. He is obsessive about it andthat’s what makes him special.

��Introduce your character and tell ushow exciting it was to be a part of it?

Olga Kurylenko: Ophelia is a myste-rious character because she comes off asa very glamorous girl hanging around andhaving a holiday on a yacht. Johnny hasno idea what he is dealing with. Later, werealise that she is actually a spy just like himbut a Russian one. She does it with a lot

of glamour.

� You have done a spy film in the past.How would you compare it with this one?

Olga: Johnny English Strikes Again(which recently premiered on Sony PIX) hasa very nice plot. It talks about the danger thatthe world is facing and there are a lot ofstunts and action moments in the film. Theonly difference between that it is just full ofhumour. Johnny English is as clumsy as everand also does things really wrong which

makes us crack up. So it has it everything athriller does, including glamour. It’s just veryfunny.

� What did you think of Rowan?Olga: I thought that he’s a very funny

and goofy guy. But he is the total oppositeof what his characters have been. He is a veryserious and concentrated person. He is veryintelligent and works really hard at what hedoes. You don’t actually expect it but that’show he is. It was lovely to be around such

a gentleman who is very polite and well-spo-ken.

� Is it difficult to just not laugh aroundhim?

Olga: Don’t even ask me that. (Laughs)There are moments when you obviously findhim funny and there were moments whereI wanted to laugh but I managed not tobecause I have to do what I had to. Therewere moments when they say cut and weall just crack up because we thought, Oh my

god, that was funny! The most rewardingthing is when the whole crew laughs whenthey cut the scene and if everybody laughsthen you know you have done it right andit’s very gratifying. And of course, on the setit’s good atmosphere because apart from itbeing very serious, everybody is focussed atthe same time. It was a good atmosphere tobe in. I miss it.

� It is a very different kind of comedyfilm. So did this help you to discover yourown abilities?

Olga: Surprisingly, I feel like a fish inthe water when I am doing comedy. I justlove it. I have no problem in making fun ofmyself and that has never been an issue. Iliterally do not care but the thing is thatnobody lets me, even though I’m involvedin comedy. But then, there are scenes like,in this film, I have to be cold, so even if Itry, I just have to tell myself that you haveto be cold. And I think if I can be goofy. Butthere are moments where you can just letit go and enjoy. For instance, the dancingscene in the film, which was quite funny forme. It’s so short and yet one of my favouritescenes. Rowan is hilarious, his dance is price-less, he is like an inspiration and he loveswhat he does, which is why people love him.

� What would you like to say on Rowan’scomedy?

Olga: Rowan’s comedy is physical andmore expressive that’s why he doesn’t real-ly need to speak. It’s not even about the writ-ing. It could be funny or not funny but evenif it is a super serious scene that he’s doing,by just looking at his face, the way he is goingto move, his facial expression... everythingprobably makes people crack up because it’shis ability. His physicality and the facialexpressions are just universal. People reactto an image and he is probably the best. Noone can give as amazing expressions asRowan can.

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����������14� �������It’s very evident that your art has beeninspired by everyday things and especial-ly the life of hawkers. What inspired youto paint them?

Life does not hand out benefits even-ly and there are people who are less for-tunate. My case was similar. My family’sfinancial conditions were not good andcompleting my education became a chal-lenge for us. Though I managed to com-plete it through my savings, my mind wasalways in a chaos due to financial hardshipswhich always bothered me and prevent-ed me from being at peace. Duringmy graduation in HistoryHonours, I also worked as apart-time drawing teacher in aschool. I had to take a break fortwo to three months from myjob to prepare for myfinal year exams. Postexams, the schoolrefused to re-hireme. Working, forme, was essential asI did not have astrong financial back-ground. I wanted to pur-sue Fine Arts so I appeared foran exam and wasselected atShantiniketan. I trav-elled for three hoursevery day fromKolkata. Later, Imoved to Delhi forMasters in Fine Artsfrom Delhi Collegeof Arts. But I faced alot of difficulties asthe curriculum, cul-ture and way of teach-ing was very differentfrom that ofShantiniketan.This held meback fromfocussingon mystudies.

OftenI observed roadside hawkers who, despitetheir troubled lives, have managed thechaos and continued with their work. Thisspirit inspired me. Their mantra of balanc-ing work and life drew me towards them.I started talking to them and understand-ing their state of mind. I began to sketchthem.

��Is there a particular thing about hawk-ers that you want to highlight throughyour art?

Yes, of course. All these hawkers sell-ing their wares on the streets have manydomestic problems and yet they manageto remain calm. When I began talking tothem, I realised that the common notionabout hawkers is that they are extremelypoor and hence, we purchase somethingfrom them so that we can help them.However, this is not true for everyone. One

might be surprised to knowthat these people make around �35-40,000 per month. While returning fromwork, I observed that they took reservedrickshaws, while I travelled by a bus. Allthese details excited me and drew metowards understanding their mindset. Istarted observing their gestures and man-ners through which they executed theirwork irrespective of all that surroundedthem. With no financial or political bur-den, they are content and happy. I havehighlighted the same in my art.

��How do you explore the relationshipbetween body and object in an urban set-ting through your work?

The hawkers sell their objects assalesman, as there is a significant differ-ence in the price of objects in stores andwhat they sell. There are quite a few medi-ums of making objects , one of them being

plastic. For me, both object and figure areimportant, but I have highlighted both sep-arately in my work. I have used pen andink to outline the objects. This describesthe relationship between body and object

while distinguishing them from eachother.

��Since you communicated with hawk-ers for your art, can you share some of

the anecdotes or stories that you cameacross?

I have spoken to a few hawkers, out ofwhich two of them were elderly and havebeen working for almost 20-25 years. Oneof them told me the story of his two sonswho are working in the government sec-tor. Their daily schedule bored them sothey came to street to sell objects to breakthe monotony of their lives. Anotherhawker told me about an incident 20 oddyears back which I remember only faint-ly. He saw someone place a bomb insidea dustbin near India Gate. During thosedays, there wasn’t any security in that area.The hawker I spoke to was the first per-son to notify the police of this incident. So,yes, one comes across many such storieswhile talking to these hawkers as they arethe eyes and ears in a busy working streeteven as we don’t pay attention.

�� You were honoured with the‘Emerging Artist of the Year’ award in2018. How do you think such awardshelp artists get the recognition theydeserve?

Glenfiddich’s Artists inResidence programme is agreat platform for emergingIndian artists as it providesinspiration and guidance togrow one’s artistic vision.Being selected as theGlenfiddich ‘Emerging Artistof the Year’ and to represent thecountry on a global platformgave a tremendous boost tomy confidence. The jury thatjudges the works includesleading artists, gallery owners,art critics and art collectors

During the three-monthresidency at the Glenfiddichdistillery, I got the opportuni-ty to engage with artists fromdifferent countries and cultures,which opened an all new world forme. We were closely mentored bythe Global Curator of the pro-gramme, Andy Fairgrieve.

��How have you showcased thedifference between hawkers inScotland and India in yourwork?

There is a huge difference in

their work styles in terms of discipline. InScotland, the workers in the distilleryorganise themselves according to time.Each process is timed including thebreaks, whereas in India the hawkers workaccording to their state of mind, mood andavailability of objects. Sometimes a hawk-er is replaced by another family memberor friend, depending on their availabilityduring the day. They even work shift wisewhere one family member takes after theother in the latter part of the day. They takebreaks according to their mood and situ-ations surrounding them. Hence, disciplineis the major difference I spotted during mytime in Scotland.

�� What is your take on Glenfiddich’sArtists in Residence Programme?

It is a great platform for emergingIndian artists as it provides the inspirationand guidance to grow one’s artistic vision.The experience was nothing short of life-changing. It helped me to learn andexplore the culture from Scotland anddraw inspiration from it to curate my work.Additionally, the showcasing of one’swork at this level opens up a plethora ofopportunities for an artist which, other-wise, could have been a major challengefor someone coming from a backgroundlike me. The jury involved in the judgmentprocess is of international standards,which lifts one’s confidence to a higherlevel and being recognised by them is noth-ing less than a lifetime achievement.

(The exhibition is on till February 9 atArt District XIII.)

Known for portraying ordinarymen, often flawed and insecure,

with almost no one character beingsimilar to the other, actor AyushmannKhurrana says novelty of any kindinspires him.

“Novelty inspires me, any kind,any shape or form. It could be the firstattempt in Hindi cinema. Even thatinspires me. Any person living amundane life, having a 9-5 job, andstill motivated to live, that inspires me,because as an artist you have a veryvibrant life. You live a different char-acter each day,” he said.

Khurrana, whose next film ShubhMangal Zyada Saavdhan based onhomosexuality is slated to hit the the-atres on February 21, said he has pre-pared for each of his vastly diverseroles by being with the milieu andalso banked on his exposure toHindi theatre and convent education.

“The idea is to be one with themilieu, get grasp of the colloquial jar-gons and twangs, and India is a coun-try where every 10 kilometres, thedialect changes. I am glad that I havedone Hindi theatre and public speak-ing, though I received convent edu-cation. So that made me quite a lin-guist. That exposure was quite earlyin life,” he said.

From essaying the role a spermdonor in his debut film Vicky Donor,to depicting a man with erectile dys-function in Shubh Mangal Saavdhan,or a blind pianist in Andhadhun,

Khurrana has been hailed as having“cornered the market when it comesto playing flawed, insecure men withconfidence issues.”

His films generally set in smalltowns in middle class environs havetime and again dealt with taboo sub-jects and are sprinkled with liberaldoses of wit, humour and comic sit-uations.

“By default, these characters areset in small towns. That’s where theconflict is there. In urban centres, likeDelhi, Mumbai or Kolkata, they arereceptive to taboo subjects. So whereis the conflict then? In the middleclass society, we’re like the flag bear-ers of morality. That’s where thehumour emanates, when you arestuck in that conventional dogma.And even though the situation isfunny, for the male lead or the mainlead, it is tragic,” he said.

As for his forthcoming film,Khurrana says he knows many whoare a part of LGBTQ (lesbians, gays,bisexuals, transgenders and queers)community. “And it’s a journey. I amlearning every minute,” he said.

The 35-year-old actor gave cred-it to the audience for receiving wellhis films themed on progressive sub-jects. “The choices I am making aregoing down well with the audience.People are also evolving and receiv-ing well these subjects which are pro-gressive. Earlier, these used to be forarthouse cinema. But now thesehave become mainstream too, where-in there is a great collaboration of con-tent and commerce. It is evoking goodresponses,” he added.

Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhanwould be another case study, the actorsaid and called it the first film deal-ing with homosexuality in the realmof the commercial Hindi cinema.

“In parallel or arthouse cinema,we have seen films dealing withhomosexuality. But those were thefilms catering to the converted. Theaudience watching these films arewithin the LGBTQ communityalready. We want to reach out to peo-ple, who are averse to homosexuali-ty. This is the first Hindi mainstreamcommercial film in India based on thesubject. We hope it will at leastusher in the conversation and have adiscussion on the LGBTQ,” Khurrana said. ?��!*

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Liverpool manager JurgenKlopp hailed another

moment of magic fromRoberto Firmino as theBrazilian’s late winner openedup a 16-point lead at the top ofthe Premier League with a 2-1 victory at Wolves onThursday.

The European champi-ons’ now 14-game winningstreak in the league seemed setto end as Raul Jimenez can-celled out Jordan Henderson’searly opener.

Liverpool were even grate-ful to goalkeeper AlissonBecker for not falling behindin the second half.

However, like crucial vic-tories against Leicester, AstonVilla and Crystal Palace earli-er in the campaign, Liverpoolleft it late to snatch anoth-er vital three points in theirquest to end a 30-year waitto win the title as Firminosmashed home six minutesfrom time.

“You just have to find away to win and have someonewho makes the perfect deci-

sion and that was Bobbyagain,” said Klopp.

“A worldie I would sayfrom Bobby, a super goal.”

Liverpool, who nowhave 22 wins in 23league games this sea-son, also have a game inhand over second-placed Manchester City

to come.However, victory could

still come at a cost as Mane

hobbled off with a hamstringinjury in the first half.

“We don’t know exactly(the severity of the injury). Hefelt something in the ham-string,” added Klopp, whoseside are also still in the hunt forthe FA Cup and ChampionsLeague.

Defeat leaves Wolves stillsix points off the top four inseventh, but Nuno EspiritoSanto’s side showed why theyare on form the most likelychallengers to fourth-placedChelsea for a place in next sea-son’s Champions League.

“It was a fantastic game offootball,” said Nuno. “We haveto keep going and keep gettingstronger.”

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Atletico Madrid were knocked out ofthe Copa del Rey on Thursday,

defeated 2-1 in extra-time bythird division Cultural Leonesa.

Atletico, who are third in LaLiga and are looking forward toa Champions League clash nextmonth against Liverpool, wereone of four top-flight sidesdumped out of the tourna-ment on Thursday at the last 32 stage.

Argentine striker Angel Correa putthem in front in the 62 minutes beforeLeonesa levelled seven minutes fromthe end through Julen Castaeda.

Sergio Benito then delieveredthe winner for the hosts in the sec-ond period of extra-time.

Defeat completes amiserable January forDiego Simeone’s Atleticowho were defeated inthe Spanish Super Cup byReal Madrid and 2-0 atEibar in La Liga last week-end.

“The responsibility ismine alone,” admittedSimeone.

“Cultural deserved thevictory, we had no forceful-ness.”

Also exiting the Copa

del Rey on Thursday were Eibar, RealBetis and Celta Vigo.

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Friday drawn away to six-time winners Zaragoza whileBarcelona take on La Ligarivals Leganes in the last 16of the Copa del Rey.

Looking to win the Cupfor the first time since 2014,

Madrid will travel to La Romaredanext week to face Zaragoza, who were

relegated from the top flight in2013 and have not been backbut did beat Mallorca in thelast 32.

The Catalans, who havewon the Copa del Rey more

times than any other cluband reached the last sixfinals, will entertain aLeganes side sitting in therelegation zone in La Liga.

Meanwhile, third-tierCultural Leonesa’s rewardis a home tie against theholders, Valencia.

Real Sociedad andOsasuna will meet inthe only other tiebetween two top-flightteams.

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Serena Williams crashed out, 15-year-old Coco Gauff stunnedNaomi Osaka and Roger Federer

survived a five-set thriller as the formbook went flying out of the window atthe Australian Open on Friday.

Men’s title-holder Novak Djokoviceased into the last 16 but elsewherethere were surprises all over MelbournePark with Williams the biggest victimand Federer fighting back from 4-8down in a fifth-set tie-break with JohnMillman.

Williams’ bid for a record-equalling24th Grand Slam was shattered by theunlikely figure of China’s Wang Qiang,who triumphed in three tough sets —after winning just one game when theyplayed at the US Open in September.

Gauff then stepped up her giant-killing Melbourne debut as sheousted Japanese defendingchampion Osaka, 22, in dismis-sive style, winning 6-3, 6-4 injust 67 minutes to reach roundfour.

“Oh my gosh. Two years ago I lostfirst round in the juniors and now I’mhere — this is crazy,” said the teenag-er, who shocked Venus Williams in thefirst round.

Federer came within a whisker ofrepeating his 2018 US Open upset byMillman as he was taken to five pun-ishing sets by the tough Australian.

The 20-time Grand Slam champi-on was facing defeat in the super tie-breaker but he clawed back from 4-8down to clinch his 100th win at theAustralian Open.

“Oh God, it was tough,” saidFederer. “Thank God it was a super tie-breaker (10 points), otherwise I wouldhave lost this one.

“It came down to the wire in theend.”

��� ��������������With Williams now 38, 23 years

older than Gauff, the two players are atopposite ends of their careers.

And with Williams’ close friendCaroline Wozniacki retiring on Friday,after defeat to Ons Jabeur, it looked likea changing of the guard in women’s ten-nis.

But Williams, who has now hadeight winless Grand Slams since return-ing from childbirth, said she hadn’tgiven up hope of matching MargaretCourt’s 47-year-old record for GrandSlam titles.

“I definitely do believe (I can equalit) or I wouldn’t be on tour,” saidWilliams.

Williams was the bookies’ favouriteto lift the trophy for the eighth time butshe came unstuck againsta determined Wang, whowon 6-4, 6/7 (2/7), 7-5.

Her defeat came justminutes after Denmark’s Wozniackiwas knocked out by Tunisia’s Jabeur,bringing a tearful end to the formerworld number one’s final tournamentbefore retiring.

“I had a dream when I was a kid. Iwanted to win a Grand Slam. I want-ed to be number one in the world,” saidWozniacki, the Melbourne winner in2018.

“People thought that I was crazybeing from a small country. But I madeit happen.”

�������������Williams’ exit removes a major hur-

dle for Australia’s world number oneAshleigh Barty, 23, who had been on

course to meet her in the semi-finals.Barty, bidding to become the first

Australian champion since 1978, hitform in a 6-3, 6-2 demolition of ElenaRybakina, saying she had played herbest tennis so far this year.

Gauff, who trained with SerenaWilliams in the off-season, hadpromised she would be less nervous thanin her last meeting with Osaka, when shewas thrashed in round three of last year’sUS Open.

And so it proved as the teenagerbroke once in the first set and twice inthe second to floor a rattled Osaka andramp up a rivalry that could run and

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Romelu Lukaku believes hemade the right decision to

leave Manchester United for anew challenge at Inter Milan,saying he had to “re-find” him-self after a difficult time at OldTrafford.

The Belgium striker joinedUnited from Everton for £75million ($98 million) in July2017, scoring 42 goals in his twoseasons at the club before mov-ing to Inter in August last year.

He has been in superb formfor Antonio Conte’s side, scor-ing 18 goals to help the club sus-tain a challenge for the Serie Atitle.

Those performances, andUnited’s reported interest insigning a striker this month afterMarcus Rashford’s back injury,have raised questions as to thewisdom of allowing Lukaku toleave Old Trafford.

But, in an interview with SkySports News, the 26-year-oldsaid the decision was his and ithad worked out well for Unitedas well.

“I think I had to re-findmyself,” he said. “Last year wasdifficult for me on the profes-

sional side because stuff was notgoing how I wanted and I wasnot performing as well... and Ijust came to the conclusion thatit was time for me to changeenvironment.

“I made my decision aroundMarch, and I went to the man-ager’s office (Ole GunnarSolskjaer) and I told him it wastime for me to find somethingelse.”

“I think I made the rightdecision and I think ManchesterUnited now has made space for

the younger players to comethrough so I think it was a bit ofa win-win situation for both ofus,” he added.

The Belgian was signed forUnited by Jose Mourinho andhad an excellent first season,scoring 27 goals as United fin-ished second in the PremierLeague.

But Mourinho was sackedin December 2018 after a disap-pointing start to the season, withLukaku also unable to discoverhis best form.

Former Chelsea managerConte has managed to bring thebest out of Lukaku this season,pairing him with Argentine for-ward Lautaro Martinez to lethaleffect.

Lukaku said the Italianknew how to extract the mostfrom his whole squad butrevealed he was not afraid to gettough with the players.

“The manager, he tells itstraight to your face if you’redoing well or wrong,” he said.

“You work hard, you trainhard and you play,” he added. “Ifyou don’t do what he says, youdon’t play. You know where youstand — and that’s what I respectabout him.”

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Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is convincedManchester United will give him the time

and backing to turn the stumbling giantsaround.

Back-to-back Premier League defeats byLiverpool and Burnley have been compoundedby a toxic atmosphere around the club, with fansvoicing their anger at United’s owners the Glazerfamily and executive vice-chairman EdWoodward.

Pressure is also ratcheting up on Unitedmanager Solskjaer but the 1999 treble hero isunderstood to retain the belief and confidenceof the Old Trafford hierarchy.

United head to Tranmere in the FA Cupfourth round tomorrow in desperateneed of a victory but the Norwegianremains confident they are on theright track.

“When you start on some-thing, you stick to that plan,”Solskjaer told reporters on Friday.

“For me, anyway. I’m notgoing to change six or eight ornine or 10 months after I gotthe job and start believing in adifferent way of doing things.

“I’m going to stick to whatI’ve been trusted to do by theclub and hopefully that’ll begood enough, and they can seewhat we’re doing is right.

“It’s one of these jobs — we knowhow football is nowadays — but allmy conversations with the club havebeen positive.”

United have lost more Premier

League matches than they have won sinceSolskjaer’s permanent appointment in March buthe said it was important for the club not to “reactto all the noise outside”.

“Of course there’s always going to be criticism— you’ve got to take the criticism at this club.You’ve got to be stronger mentally, probably,than anywhere else in the world,” he said.

“I feel I am, the club is strong. The staffI’ve got with me, they’re very strong men-tally so we’re sticking to what we believein and I’ve got full faith in what we're

doing.”United are looking to make at

least one signing before the Januarytransfer window shuts but

Solskjaer knows it will takemuch longer to turn things

around.“For me, we do have a

way of doing things,” hesaid.

“Of course you cansee other teams havedone well. Jurgen(Klopp) spent fouryears building his teamand they’re doing wellnow, so of course — I’ve

said so many times — it’snot going to be a quick fix.

“And it’s not going to belike eight players in or 10 play-

ers in one transfer window.“We’ve had one proper trans-

fer window in the summerbecause the Januarys are difficult,but we are trying to do some-thing now.”

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Eric Dier has dismissedrumours that

Tottenham’s players arealready growing tired oflife under Jose Mourinhojust two months into hisreign.

Reports haveemerged that Spurs play-ers believe they areregressing under thePortuguese while defend-er Danny Rose is said tohave clashed with himafter being left out of thematchday squad.

But England mid-fielder Dier has deniedthe claims and says anyunhappiness only stemsfrom frustrating resultson the pitch.

“Any club, whenresults aren’t going well,is not a happy atmos-phere,” he said. “But itdefinitely isn’t a negativeatmosphere.

“I don’t feel anythingalong those lines person-ally and I think every-body has been training

very well, training hard,enjoying themselves inthe same way as always.”

When asked aboutthe training methods,which were described inWednesday’s article inthe Sun newspaper as“like lower-league ses-sions”, Dier was quick todefend Mourinho andhis staff.

“Who is saying that?Maybe you lads know —I don’t,” he said. “Butpersonally I have enjoyedit. I enjoy doing newthings.”

Club captain HugoLloris also dismissed suchclaims, insisting every-thing was “positive”.

The Frenchman, whomade his first appear-ance under Mourinho inthe 2-1 win over Norwichfollowing a three-monthinjury lay-off, said: "I cantell you that it’s com-pletely wrong.

“The atmosphere isgreat, we can feel all theplayers involved andready to fight for theclub, the new managerand his staff.”

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champion Djokovic thrashedJapan’s Yoshihito Nishioka 6-3, 6-2, 6-2 to reach the roundof 16 at a canter.

But Greek sixth seedStefanos Tsitsipas was also onthe receiving end of an upsetas he went down in straightsets to Canada’s Milos Raonic,the world number 35.

Former US Open champi-on Marin Cilic, 31, outlastedRobert Bautista Agut in fivetough sets and TennysSandgren, under fire during hislast deep run in Melbourneover links to right-wingactivists, beat fellow AmericanSam Querrey in straight sets.

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Sharan and Sitak lost to theBrazilian-Croat pair 6-7, 3-6 in a sec-ond round match that lasted one hourand 17 minutes.

With Sharan’s loss, India’s cam-paign in the men’s doubles ended asRohan Bopanna had made a first-round exit on Wednesday.

But he is the only Indian left in themixed doubles fray now. The 39-year-old will partner Ukraine’s NadiiaKichenok in the mixed doubles event.

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National Vovinam Championship, to be held atGujarat from January 27, has been annnouncedon Friday. Internatinal referree Pramod Tiwarihas been appointed the coach of the 55-mem-ber team..The Team: Khamendra Pratap, Kishan Singh,Ashutosh Malviya, Vineet Singh, MManishGupta, Abhijeet Singh, Rishabh Kumar,Priyanshi Dixit, Shivam Dixit, Surya Pratap,Sunny Rawat, Kamlesh Kumar, Aryan Srivastava,Akhil Kartikey, Gulshan Raj, Kushagra Mishra,Prince Srivastava, Ishan Agarwal, Krish Kartikey,Krisha Tiwari, Nitik Naveen, Rajvi Singh,Kushboo Sahu, Ragini Gautam, Yashti Verma,Annany Shukla, Mansi Jaiswal, Anuj Sharma,Sharmishta Mishra, Adarsh Prajapati, UtkarshVerma, Abhyansh Nigam, Anant Tiwari, Sumit,Akshat, Gyanesh, Sushil, Harsh, Ravindra,Abhay, Uphar, Vaibhav Yadav, Ashwini, Rudra

Pratap, Vishal, Gaurav, Aman, Mehul, Balwant,Himanshu, Officials:, RC Srivastava, Ayush,Mukesh, Sachin, Naresh, Chandra Lal, Naveen,Ruchi.

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Singh baggedwomen’s doublesand mixed dou-bles titles in theUttar PradeshMaster VeteranB a d m i n t o nChampionshipheld atG h a z i a b a d .Kalpana and Ravindra defaeted Neeraj Aroraand Archana 21-10, 21-12 in the mixed doublesevent while she paired up with Sushma to liftthe women’s doubles trophy.

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Former India pacer AjitAgarkar on Friday entered

the race for the national selec-tor’s job and is a frontrunner forthe chairman’s post.

Agarkar confirmed that hehas applied for the nationalselector’s position.

Agarkar, who is a formerchairman of Mumbai seniorselection committee, is in con-tention for the chairman’s postas the new constitution doesn’thave provisions for zonal system.

It can also be confirmed thatformer India medium pacerand junior chairman of selectorsVenkatesh Prasad has once againapplied for senior selector’s post

although he has only around oneand half years of his cumulativeterm left. With BCCI settingJanuary 24 as the deadline forsending applications, the 42-year-old Agarkar is certainly themost high-profile name with 26Tests, 191 ODIs and 3 T20Internationals, picking 349 wick-ets across formats.

“Ajit entering the fray is aninteresting development. He issomeone who would have put ina lot of thought before applying.If anyone thought that Siva’snomination as a chairman ofselectors is a given, will nowthink again. It will be every inter-esting to see who all are short-listed,” a senior BCCI officialsaid.

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India A’s top-order bats-men failed to convert

their starts into big scoresas New Zealand A won thesecond unofficial ODI by29 runs and restored pari-ty in the three-match serieson Friday.

The home team reliedon opener George Worker’s135 and Cole McConchie’sbrisk 56 to post 295 forseven in the stipulated 50overs after being sent intobat at the Hagley Oval.

In reply, the visitingteam was stopped at 266 fornine.

Opting to bowl afterwinning the toss, India Atasted early success when

Mohammed Siraj dis-missed Rachin Ravindrafor a nought.

Left-arm spinner AxarPatel accounted for GlennPhillips as New Zealand Afound the going tough inthe middle.

Ishan Porel picked upa couple of wickets by thetime the innings enteredthe middle overs, leavingthe visitors struggling at 96for four in the 22nd over.Krunal Pandya made itworse by removing MarkChapman.

At 109 for five in the25th over, the hosts badlyneeded someone to steadythe ship, and Worker,Jimmy Neesham (33) andMcConchie came to their

rescue. During his 144-ball knock, Workersmashed six sixes and 12boundaries. McConchiethen scored some quickruns, hitting eights fours inhis 54-ball knock.

India A’s reply was notgood as they lost their in-form opener Prithvi Shaw(2) in the first over.

Leading the team inthe absence of ShubmanGill, Mayank Agarwalmade 37 off 42 balls, whileIshan Kishan scored 44 off55 deliveries.

All-rounder VijayShankar contributed 41 off53 balls and Krunal, com-ing in to bat at numberseven, top-scored with a48-ball 51.

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The immensely talented ShreyasIyer enhanced his reputation asa finisher with a scintillating

29-ball-58 in India’s six-wicket vic-tory over New Zealand in a high-scoring first T20 International atEden Park on Friday.

Iyer built on KL Rahul’s (56 off27 balls) blazing start and ViratKohli’s useful 45 off 32 balls as Indiamade short work of a 204-run target,knocking it off with an over to spare.

Credit should be given to Indianbowlers for restricting New Zealandtowards the end considering thedimensions of the ground.

Earlier, Colin Munro and KaneWilliamson had smashed quick-firehalf-centuries as New Zealand scored203-5.

In pursuit of 204, India lost RohitSharma (7) early in the second overas he played one too many shots ina bid to go after spinner MitchellSantner (1-50).

Rahul and Kohli then tookcharge of the innings with an 99-runpartnership coming off only 50 balls.The duo launched a good array ofstrokes with seven fours and foursixes between them as New Zealandstruggled to contain the runs.

Continuing his fine form, Rahulnotched up his half-century off 23balls while Kohli fell short of his land-mark by just five runs. Together, theyprovided the base for India’s middleorder to finish the chase.

The Black Caps roared back intocontention with a double blow. First,Rahul was out caught off Sodhi in the10th over and then seven balls later,Martin Guptill pulled off a scream-er at deep mid wicket to send backKohli.

India lost their set batsmen forsix runs and their ploy to sendShivam Dube (13) up the order onlyhad limited success. Dube and Iyeradded 21 runs to provide someacceleration, before the all-rounderwas Sodhi’s second dismissal of thenight.

Iyer then took charge of proceed-ings as he smacked five fours andthree sixes to propel India to victo-

ry. He added 50 off 29 balls withManish Pandey, who hit 14 not outoff 12 balls with a six.

It was an immaculate display bythe young batsman who showed thebenefits of reaping experience batting

in the middle order and perhapsanswering India’s questions regard-ing the number four situation.

This was after Munro,Williamson and Ross Taylor (54 notout off 27 balls) made the Indian

bowlers suffer. Jasprit Bumrah (1-31)put in a good shift with cleverchange of pace and control.

Also Yuzvendra Chahal (1/32 in4 overs) and Ravindra Jadeja (1/18in 2 overs) kept a check on the run-

flow during the back-end.Munro scored 59 off 42 balls,

including six fours and two sixes,while Williamson hit four fours andfour sixes in his 26-ball 51-runinnings as the Black Caps’ made gooduse of the peculiar Eden Park shapeto pile on the runs.

Shardul Thakur (1-44) andMohammed Shami (0-53) proved tobe expensive in their opening spellsbefore Dube (1-24) got the break-through with Rohit Sharma catchingsmartly to dismiss Guptill. It broughtWilliamson to the crease and theonslaught continued as he put on 36off 24 balls with Munro.

The latter reached his half-cen-tury off 36 balls before holing out offThakur. India quickly got a secondwicket in the space of four balls withRavindra Jadeja (1-18) dismissingColin de Grandhomme (0).

New Zealand, at 117-3 in the13th over, were placed awkwardly butWilliamson and Taylor put on 61 off28 balls to completely decimate theIndian bowling in the second half oftheir innings.

Taylor smashed three fours andthree sixes, taking 22 runs off Shamiin the 16th over, as he raced to a 25-ball half-century. It was his first T20Ihalf-century in six years. Williamsontoo completed his half-century off 25balls.

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Recalled Shoaib Malik smashed a solid half-century to anchor Pakistan’s five-wicket

win over Bangladesh in first Twenty20I onFriday.

Malik’s 45-ball 58 not out for his eighthTwenty20 fifty as Pakistan overhauled amodest 142-run target in 19.3 over to take a1-0 lead in the three-match series.

Bangladesh had managed 141-5 in their20 overs with openers Mohammad Naimscoring 41-ball 43 and Tamim Iqbal hit 34-ball 39 as Pakistan’s three-man pace attackkept them in check on a flat Gadaffi stadiumpitch.

The win further consolidated Pakistan’schances of hanging on to their world num-ber one ranking in the shortest format. If theylose any of the remaining matches — on todayand on Monday, also in Lahore, Australia willreplace them at the top.

Malik, playing his first match sinceFebruary last year, was in sublime form as hehit five boundaries and added 46 for the thirdwicket with debutant Ahsan Ali who made 32-ball 36 with four boundaries.

Malik, fourth leading run-getter inTwenty20 internationals with 2321 in arecord 112 matches, credited bowlers for thewin.

“Congratulations to the whole Pakistanfor this win and for hosting another match,”said Malik.

“It wasn’t an easy pitch and our bowlersrestricted them to a gettable total.

“It’s tough to be in and out of the teambut I have been playing leagues and domes-tic cricket and that helped me stage a come-back in this match.

“I am happy to help achieve this win ina chase.”

Earlier, Bangladesh, who won the toss andopted to bat, were off to a good start as Iqbaland Naim put on 70 for the opening wicket.

Iqbal was run out in the 11th over whileNaim holed out off spinner Shadab Khan inthe 15th.

Skipper Mahmudullah hit two boundariesin his 14-ball 19 not out.

&���� �� Indian men and women failed todeliver when it mattered most, losing to Sloveniaand Romania respectively in the pre-quarterfinalsof the Olympic qualifying team event to signifi-cantly reduce their chances qualifying for the 2020Summer Games in Tokyo.

While the 17th seeded women played theirhearts before losing to fifth seeds Romania 2-3,the men disappointed with their 1-3 defeat againstSlovenia. The fifth seeded men’s team compris-ing G Sathiyan (world rank 30) and veteranSharath Kamal (WR 33) was expected to get thebetter of 11th seeded Slovenia.

After winning the opening doubles, Sathiyan,Harmeet Desai and Sharath came a cropper in thesingles, severely denting the chances of team qual-ification at the Olympics.

A quarterfinal finish would have guaranteedan Olympic berth but now, both the men andwomen’s squad have to win the plate division toqualify. All losers in the round of 16 will take partin the knock-out plate event.

The Indian women’s team played really wellto take Romania to the distance before runningout of steam.

After Ayhika Mukhejee and SutirthaMukherjee lost the opening doubles, India num-ber one and 61st ranked Manika Batra levelledthe tie with a fine win over world number 19Bernadette Szocs. However, Romania regained thelead in the match after Elizabeta Samara steam-rolled Ayhika 10-12, 11-5, 2-11, 7-11.

The Indian women looked down and outbefore Sutirtha, ranked 157, gave a new lease oflife to her team with a fighting win over Szocs,an opponent ranked more than 100 places high-er than her. In probably her biggest win till date,Sutirtha edged Szocs 8-11, 11-7, 11-9, 3-11, 11-4. The match was levelled at 2-2.

Manika was expected to win against 134ranked Daniela Monteiro in the fifth and decid-ing rubber but went down 8-11, 4-11, 11-3, 2-11,much to her and her team’s disappointment.

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BLOEMFONTEIN: Left-arm spinner Atharva Ankolekarshowed big heart while leg-spinner Ravi Bishnoi was all guilein India’s 44-run win against New Zealand as they set-up a quar-ter-final date with Australia in the ICC U-19 World Cup onFriday.

During a rain-hit final group A league encounter reducedto 23-overs per-side, India scored 115 for no loss in 23 overswith openers Yashasvi Jaiswal (57 not out off 72 balls) andDivyansh Saxena (52 no off 62 balls) hitting half-centuries.

New Zealand needed 193 as per DLS method calculationsbut managed only 147 in 21 overs as India emerged group top-pers with six points. Left-arm orthodox Ankolekar, who playedthrough pain with a fractured finger on his right hand, had fig-ures of 3 for 28 in five overs with some accurate wicket-to-wick-et bowling. This was after New Zealand No 3 Fergus Lellmanhit him for two sixes off his first two deliveries.

Bishnoi, a ` 2 crore buy for Kings XI Punjab, is fast turn-ing out to be the biggest star in the junior line-up with his vari-ation and control. He bowled googlies, sliders and top-spin-ners to end with 4 for 30 from five overs as vice-captain DhruvJurel was fantastic behind the stumps with some neat glove-work. India will now meet Australia in the Super League quar-ters at Potchfestroom on January 28.

Put into bat, both Yashasvi and Divyansh were watchfulbut didn’t wait to punish the loose deliveries. Yashasvi, who willbe playing for Rajasthan Royals in the 2020 IPL, again heldanchor hitting four boundaries and two sixes.

His opening partner Divyansh was a bit more aggressiveas he hit six boundaries in his half-century. Just when they hadcompleted a century stand, the heavens opened up to play spoil-sport. Skipper Priyam Garg was happy that they had a toughgame against New Zealand before facing the Aussies in the semi-final.

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India’s KL Rahul on Friday said “heis loving” the additional responsi-bility as it is bringing the best outof him.

Rahul, who scored 56 runs of27 balls in the first game kept full-time first during three-match ODIseries against Australia last week.Following his good work with bothbat and behind the stumps, Kohlihad said he will continue with hisdual role “for a while” as it lendsmassive balance to the team.

“I’m quite honestly loving it. Atthe international stage, it mightseem very new and it might seemlike I’ve never kept. (But) I’ve keptfor my IPL franchise for the last 3-4 years, and I’ve kept for my first-

class team as and when there is anopening. I’ve still stayed in touchwith wicket keeping.

“I enjoy staying behind thestumps and it also gives me a greatidea about how the pitch is playing,and I can pass on that message tothe bowlers and the captains withfield-sets and everything. As akeeper, that’s also your responsibil-ity to stay active and pass the mes-sage on to your captain as to whatlengths are better and what I feel wecan do better.”

It is extra work but stayingbehind the stumps also helps bat-ting, feels Rahul.

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The experienced mid-dle-order batsman saidthat the hosts were prob-ably 10-15 runs short ona batting beauty at EdenPark, but failed with extrasand lack of pressure on theIndian middle order.

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Eden Park. Inthe last threeovers Indiabowled well andwe didn’t get abig over. We stilldid get 100 in thelast 10 overs to putpressure on thembut it’s always hard togauge,” Taylor said. “Webowled well but some-times have to give cred-it to how batsmen are. InT20s you have to learnquick and we have to

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“A lot of times whenyou play at Eden Parkwind is a factor and youare able to attack fromboth ends. It was hard toknow what a good total is.They won with an over tospare so we were definite-ly 10-15 runs short.” PTI

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LUCKNOW: After pulling off astunning 4-3 win over the NorthEastern Warriors AwadheWarriors will be high on confi-dence and look to continue theirwinning run as the Lucknow-legof Premier Badminton Leaguebegins on Saturday.

Awadhe’s World No. 46Subhankar Dey was the star of theshow against the Guwahati-basedfranchise yesterday, who baggedthe win for his team after the twosides were locked at 3-3 on com-pletion of the first four matches.

Looking pretty robust as ateam, the blue brigade will aim tocontinue their winning streakagainst former championsHyderabad Hunters on January 26and Mumbai Rockets on January28 in front of a roaring homecrowd.

Meanwhile, India’s ChiragShetty and experienced HendraSetiawan of Indonesia will lead thecharge as Pune 7Aces begin theirPremier Badminton League (PBL)campaign with a clash againstMumbai Rockets at the Babu

Banarasi Das badminton academyhere on Saturday.

The team which is co-ownedby Bollywood superstar-TaapseePannu and Kri Entertainmentwill be seen competing in theirsecond season after entering thetournament in 2018.

Pune 7Aces is led by doublesstar Chris Adcock and consists ofplayers like Indian men’s doublessensation Chirag, who alongwith Satwiksairaj Rankireddy arecurrently ranked 10th in theworld.

The Indian duo had won theThailand Open Super 500 and fin-ished runners-up at the FrenchOpen Super 750 last year.

Chirag’s pairing with BeijingOlympic gold medallist Setiawanwill be one of interest for bad-minton fans across India.

The men’s singles departmentfor the team will be led bySingapore’s Loh Kean Yew, who iscurrently ranked 36th in theworld. The 22-year-old rose tofame when he won ThailandMasters in 2019, defeating two-

time Olympic Champion Lin Danin the final.

He will be accompanied by the29-year-old Kazumasa Sakai ofJapan, who was a silver medallistwith the Japan team at the 2018Thomas and Uber Cup.

The mixed doubles categorywill see the experienced andfamous Adcock pairing takingcentre stage.

The English pairing of Chrisand Gabrielle are two-timeCommonwealth Games goldmedallist and are currently ranked

12th in the world.The women’s singles category

will feature two Indian shuttlers inthe form of Mugdha Agrey andRituparna Das.

It will be a chance for both notonly to learn but also to show theworld what they can do whengiven a chance.

In addition, in men’s singlesand mixed doubles categories,will also feature Indian youngsterslike the 21-year-old MithunManjunath and 22-year-old MRArjun respectively.

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