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T he issue of law and order in the national Capital in the wake of nine murders in the last 24 hours has created an atmosphere of unease among Delhiites, particularly senior citizens. The latest being the sensational murder of a septu- agenarian couple and their domestic help in their South Delhi house. The issue reverberated in the Upper House of Parliament after Sanjay Singh of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) raised it. Singh said Delhi is emerging as the “crime capital” of the coun- try and urged the Home Ministry to convene a meeting to discuss the issue. Meanwhile, a day after his party held the BJP responsible for a spurt in crimes in the national Capital, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said, “I will fully cooperate with the Centre to improve the law and order situation in the city.” “The city has reported nine murders since Saturday. We need to work together to improve the law and order sit- uation in Delhi,” Kejriwal said. It may be noted that the AAP Government has started installing CCTV cameras at a large scale. “This will help a lot in controlling crimes in the Capital. We will get the feed of any crime taking place in the city. It will help in taking nec- essary steps immediately,” the Delhi CM said. “All agencies, Governments and residents of Delhi need to work together. We will fully cooperate with the Central Government. Keeping politics aside, we need to work togeth- er to improve the law and order situation in the city,” Kejriwal said. The CM’s remarks came a few days after he assured Prime Minister Narendra Modi of his Government’s cooperation to develop Delhi. At a meeting with the PM recently, he had said he would examine the pos- sibility of integrating the Centre’s Ayushman Bharat pro- gramme with his Government’s health scheme in Delhi. Since the AAP came to power in 2015, the Delhi Government has been at log- gerheads with the Centre over several issues. Kejriwal, his Ministers and party leaders have often accused the Modi Government of creating hur- dles for the city Government. Facing flak for the deteri- orating law and order situation and an increase in crime rate, Delhi Police top brass came claimed the crime situation is well under control in the city. However, the murder of elder- ly couple Vishnu Mathur and his wife Shashi Mathur, along with their domestic help Khushbu Nautiyal in their South Delhi house, has sent shock waves. All the nine murders were committed within of the con- fines of homes and the perpe- trators were either family mem- bers or known to the victims. “The job of police is to inves- tigate and then prevent crime and the force is committed to do so,” said a top police official of the Delhi Police on the con- dition of anonymity. The official said private tutor Upendra Shukla had killed his wife and three chil- dren at their Mehrauli home on Saturday morning. Some wrap- pers of medicines were also recovered from the house and two handwritten notes in Hindi and English in which Shukla confessed to killing his wife and children. He, however, did not give any reason for it, said the police official, adding that Shukla is suspected to be suf- fering from depression. Later on Saturday evening, a 47-year-old woman, along with her husband, was brutal- ly stabbed to death in Dwarka’s Mohan Garden extension. Police said prima facie it appeared that there was a friendly entry at the house and there was no sign of ran- sack in the house. They are sur- vived by two sons. When asked about the sen- sational triple murder in DDA flats of Basant Gaon that was spotted on Sunday morning, a police official privy to the investigation said, “The areas comes under the Delhi Police ‘Neighbourhood Watch Scheme’ and around 30-40 CCTV cameras are installed on the complex where the murder took place but there was no CCTV camera installed on the stairs leading to the house of the victims.” In the Basant Gaon’s sep- tuagenarian couple’ murder, police are questioning their domestic help Khushbu Nautiyal’s boyfriend, her rela- tive and another person. So far police suspect that Khusbhu was in cahoots with the accused and it was she who opened the doors for the accused person(s) to gain entry into the Mathur’s household. Continued on Page 4 B SP president Mayawati on Monday declared her party in the future will contest all elections “small and big” on its own, signalling the end of the Bahujan Samaj Party- Samajwadi Party alliance forged for the Lok Sabha polls. The BSP chief, known to have made and broken many an alliance in her political journey, said her party had adhered to the “gathbandhan” dharma in the interest of the country but was now forced to do a rethink. Hours after Mayawati announced her plans to go solo in future elections in a series of tweets, a senior SP leader made a caustic reference to “malkin” (woman owner) of the alliance and accused her of weakening the fight for social justice. The RLD, a minor partner in the grand alliance, said it had nothing to do with Monday’s developments and its alliance was with the SP, not the BSP. Mayawati’s announcement came a day after she held a meeting with party workers to review the BSP’s performance in the recent Lok Sabha polls. “Everyone is aware that forgetting everything of the past as also the anti-BSP and anti-Dalit decisions like reser- vation in promotions and bad law and order during the SP rule in 2012-17, the BSP adhered to the ‘gathbandhan dharma’ with the Samajwadi Party in the interest of the country,” she tweeted in Hindi. “But the SP’s attitude after the elections has forced the BSP to think, will it be possible to defeat the BJP in the future? This is not possible,” she said. “Therefore, in the interest of the party and the movement, the party will contest all small and big elections on its own strength,” Mayawati added. She did not elaborate on what she meant by the SP’s atti- tude. Soon afterwards, SP national general secretary Ramashankar Vidyarthi told journalists in Balia that Mayawati was speaking against the SP in haste because of the Dalit support to his party and its leader Akhilesh Yadav. “She is weakening the fight for social justice,” he said, adding that Dalit society is get- ting connected with the SP and Akhilesh in a big way. People know about the reality about what the “malkin” of the alliance has done, he said. “Our party has nothing to do with the BSP,” said Uttar Pradesh RLD president Masood Ahmad. He said the RLD was in alliance with the Samajwadi Party and not the BSP. “... And our alliance is intact,” he said. “Today’s development con- cerns the SP and the BSP and they have to decide,” Ahmad said, adding it will not impact RLD’s alliance with the SP. Continued on Page 4 A n special investigation team (SIT) was formed in Jamshedpur on Monday to probe the lynching of a 24- year-old man who was thrashed by a mob for alleged theft and seen in a purported video being forced to chant “Jai Shri Ram” and “Jai Hanuman” in. Police arrested four more accused on Monday. Two policemen — the offi- cers incharge of the local police station and police outpost — have been suspended for not filing a lynching case on June 18. Sub inspector Chandramohan Oraon and assistant sub inspector Bipin Bihari Singh “have been sus- pended for not reporting the seriousness of the issue on June 18 to higher authorities properly and register a case of lynching the very same day,” the district police chief said in a statement. The victim, Tabrez Ansari, a resident of Kharsawan — who was allegedly caught after stealing a motorcycle, a purse, a voter I-card and mobile phone from Dhatkidih along with two of his associates — succumbed to his injuries in hospital on Saturday. Continued on Page 4 V iral Acharya, the RBI Deputy Governor who had in October last year brought to light ten- sions with the Government over independence of the central bank, has resigned six months before the scheduled end of his term in the office. Acharya, 45, who was the only Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank on the six-mem- ber interest rate-setting mon- etary policy committee, resigned from his position “a few weeks” back citing “unavoidable personal cir- cumstances”, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said in a brief statement. In his resignation, he expressed inability to continue beyond July 23, 2019, it said. The RBI, which had previously not disclosed the resig- nation and was forced to do so following a media report, said: “Consequential action arising from his letter is under con- sideration of the Competent Authority”. Continued on Page 4 A Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance on Monday said there are no reli- able estimates of black money generated and held within and outside the country. In its report titled “Status of Unaccounted Income/Wealth Both Inside and Outside the Country A Critical Analysis”, the standing com- mittee cited the studies con- ducted by the three premier institutes — NIPFP, NCAER and NIFM — between 1980 and 2010 — which estimated black money in the range of $216.48 billion to $490 billion. The studies conducted by the three institutes have found that the sectors where unac- counted income is found to be the highest included real estate, mining, pharmaceuticals, pan masala, gutkha, tobacco, bul- lion, commodity, film, and education. According to the report, which was tabled in the Lok Sabha on Monday, there are no reliable estimates of black money generation and accurate methodology for making such estimation. The report said the draft report on demonetisation could not be adopted by the committee due to the lack of consensus among the mem- bers. The committee, headed by M Veerappa Moily, had sub- mitted its report to the Lok Sabha Speaker on March 28, well before the dissolution of the 16th Lok Sabha. The BJP had come to power at the Centre in 2014 on its promises to clean up cor- ruption and get rid of black money. It was also promised that black money stashed abroad would be brought back to the country. In 2016, while announcing the note ban, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had said the one of the key objectives was to flush out black money. The Congress has repeatedly targeted the Government over the issue, accusing it of failing to meet its promises. The committee has asked the Government to continue their efforts “with greater vigour” to unearth and bring to book unaccounted wealth and income both within and out- side the country, including fol- low-up action on the seven reports of the special investi- gation team (SIT) constituted on black money as well as the three study reports on estima- tion of unaccounted money. The UPA Government had in 2011 commissioned the studies by the Delhi-based National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP) and the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) and the National Institute of Financial Management (NIFM) in Faridabad. Continued on Page 4 T he Supreme Court on Monday said the deaths of more than 100 children in Muzaffarpur due to the out- break of acute encephalitis syndrome (AES) is a matter of “grave concern” and directed the Centre and the Bihar Government to file their response on medical care facil- ities there within a week. A Bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and BR Gavai asked the Bihar Government to file an affidavit on the adequacy of medical facilities, nutrition and sanitation and the hygiene conditions in the State. “This public interest liti- gation relates to outbreak of acute encephalitis syndrome virus that has caused deaths of about 150 children in different districts in the State of Bihar. The writ petition raises issues of grave concern and impor- tance relating to public medical care facilities, nutrition and sanitation or hygiene. “The respondents will file their response within seven days specifically dealing with the question of public medical care facilities, nutrition and sanitation or hygiene. List the writ petition after 10 days,” the Bench said. Continued on Page 4 A s the Narendra Modi Government embarks on its ambitious Haldia-Varanasi Inland Waterways Project along the Ganga, researchers from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur and Wildlife Institute of India (WII), among others, have red flagged the project over its adverse impact on the Varanasi Turtle Sanctuary (VTS). The project, National Waterway-1 (NW-1) under the Jal Marg Vikas Project (JMVP), requires dredging of the river, which will severely impact the aquatic life as well as entire bio- diversity of the river, said researchers in a study that appeared in the latest edition of “Current Science.” Notified under the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972, way back in 1989, the VTS — a 7- km long stretch from Ramnagar to Malaviya Bridge in Ganga River — is the world’s only protected area dedicated to freshwater turtles. Gaurav Kailash Sonkar and Kumar Gaurav from Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal, Niladri Dasgupt and Syed Ainul Hussain from Wildlife Institute of India (WII) and Rajiv Sinha from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur examined the eco-geomor- phology of the VTS for its sta- bility using hydraulic geometry of the channels, such as width, depth and discharge acquired from an acoustic doppler cur- rent profiler, and the mapping of planform morphology from remote-sensing images. “The assessment suggests a well-defined, stable cross-sec- tion profile along this stretch of the river. It provides conclusive evidence that the geomor- phology of the Ganga river within the VTS has remained stable for the past 50 years, except for some minor changes in the form of bar growth and erosion both upstream and downstream of the sanctuary,” the report said. However, the researchers warned that any construction activity, which is bound to happen once the National Waterway-1 starts, does not augur well for the tortoise as well as other aquatic animals in the sanctuary. “Construction activities along the bank, movement of large vessels, sand mining in the sanctuary or dredging of the main channel may desta- bilise the river geomorphology that will negatively affect the integrity of the VTS as well as the ghats at Varanasi,” they cau- tioned. Apart from turtles, this stretch of the Ganga is important for other conservation dependent species such as gharials (Gavialis gangeticus), dolphins (Platanista gangetica) and sev- eral island nesting birds. The proposed Jal Marg Vikas Project (JMVP) is aimed at enabling the passage of cargo ships and boats through VTS. After a preliminary analysis of the morphology and hydraulic parameters of the Ganga at VTS, the researchers discuss how the passage of boats and cargo ships through the sanc- tuary may affect the physical habitat by inducing changes in the channel morphology of the river.” This is expected to dis- rupt the morphological and ecological sanctity of VTS. In order to evaluate the impacts of these large-scale interventions, it is important to assess the scale of alteration(s) they may cause to the eco-geomorphic attributes of the river, the researchers concluded. As per the Government plan, NW1 will go from Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh to Haldia in West Bengal along the Ganga and then along its arms — the Bhagirathi and the Hooghly. It will involve the construction of more bar- rages along the river, and heavy dredging of silt, so that a width of 45 metres and a depth of 3 metres can be main- tained throughout. This would enable passage for barges car- rying 1,500-2,000 tonnes of cargo. The 1,620-km long nation- al waterways project will be funded jointly by the Centre and World Bank at an esti- mated cost of 5369.18 crore.

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The issue of law and order inthe national Capital in the

wake of nine murders in thelast 24 hours has created anatmosphere of unease amongDelhiites, particularly seniorcitizens. The latest being thesensational murder of a septu-agenarian couple and theirdomestic help in their SouthDelhi house.

The issue reverberated inthe Upper House of Parliamentafter Sanjay Singh of the AamAadmi Party (AAP) raised it.Singh said Delhi is emerging asthe “crime capital” of the coun-try and urged the HomeMinistry to convene a meetingto discuss the issue.

Meanwhile, a day after hisparty held the BJP responsiblefor a spurt in crimes in thenational Capital, Delhi ChiefMinister Arvind Kejriwal said,“I will fully cooperate with theCentre to improve the law andorder situation in the city.”

“The city has reported ninemurders since Saturday. We

need to work together toimprove the law and order sit-uation in Delhi,” Kejriwal said.

It may be noted that theAAP Government has startedinstalling CCTV cameras at alarge scale. “This will help a lotin controlling crimes in theCapital. We will get the feed ofany crime taking place in thecity. It will help in taking nec-essary steps immediately,” theDelhi CM said.

“All agencies, Governmentsand residents of Delhi need towork together. We will fullycooperate with the CentralGovernment. Keeping politicsaside, we need to work togeth-er to improve the law andorder situation in the city,”Kejriwal said.

The CM’s remarks came afew days after he assured PrimeMinister Narendra Modi ofhis Government’s cooperationto develop Delhi. At a meetingwith the PM recently, he hadsaid he would examine the pos-sibility of integrating theCentre’s Ayushman Bharat pro-gramme with his Government’s

health scheme in Delhi.Since the AAP came to

power in 2015, the DelhiGovernment has been at log-gerheads with the Centre overseveral issues. Kejriwal, hisMinisters and party leadershave often accused the Modi

Government of creating hur-dles for the city Government.

Facing flak for the deteri-orating law and order situationand an increase in crime rate,Delhi Police top brass cameclaimed the crime situation iswell under control in the city.

However, the murder of elder-ly couple Vishnu Mathur andhis wife Shashi Mathur, alongwith their domestic helpKhushbu Nautiyal in theirSouth Delhi house, has sentshock waves.

All the nine murders were

committed within of the con-fines of homes and the perpe-trators were either family mem-bers or known to the victims.“The job of police is to inves-tigate and then prevent crimeand the force is committed todo so,” said a top police officialof the Delhi Police on the con-dition of anonymity.

The official said privatetutor Upendra Shukla hadkilled his wife and three chil-dren at their Mehrauli home onSaturday morning. Some wrap-pers of medicines were alsorecovered from the house andtwo handwritten notes in Hindiand English in which Shuklaconfessed to killing his wife andchildren. He, however, did notgive any reason for it, said thepolice official, adding thatShukla is suspected to be suf-fering from depression.

Later on Saturday evening,a 47-year-old woman, alongwith her husband, was brutal-ly stabbed to death in Dwarka’sMohan Garden extension.Police said prima facie itappeared that there was a

friendly entry at the houseand there was no sign of ran-sack in the house. They are sur-vived by two sons.

When asked about the sen-sational triple murder in DDAflats of Basant Gaon that wasspotted on Sunday morning, apolice official privy to theinvestigation said, “The areascomes under the Delhi Police‘Neighbourhood WatchScheme’ and around 30-40CCTV cameras are installed onthe complex where the murdertook place but there was noCCTV camera installed on thestairs leading to the house ofthe victims.”

In the Basant Gaon’s sep-tuagenarian couple’ murder,police are questioning theirdomestic help KhushbuNautiyal’s boyfriend, her rela-tive and another person. So farpolice suspect that Khusbhuwas in cahoots with theaccused and it was she whoopened the doors for theaccused person(s) to gain entryinto the Mathur’s household.

Continued on Page 4

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BSP president Mayawati onMonday declared her party

in the future will contest allelections “small and big” on itsown, signalling the end of theBahujan Samaj Party-Samajwadi Party allianceforged for the Lok Sabha polls.

The BSP chief, known tohave made and broken manyan alliance in her politicaljourney, said her party hadadhered to the “gathbandhan”dharma in the interest of thecountry but was now forced todo a rethink.

Hours after Mayawatiannounced her plans to go soloin future elections in a series oftweets, a senior SP leader madea caustic reference to “malkin”(woman owner) of the allianceand accused her of weakeningthe fight for social justice.

The RLD, a minor partnerin the grand alliance, said it hadnothing to do with Monday’sdevelopments and its alliancewas with the SP, not the BSP.Mayawati’s announcementcame a day after she held ameeting with party workers toreview the BSP’s performancein the recent Lok Sabha polls.

“Everyone is aware that

forgetting everything of thepast as also the anti-BSP andanti-Dalit decisions like reser-vation in promotions and badlaw and order during the SPrule in 2012-17, the BSPadhered to the ‘gathbandhandharma’ with the SamajwadiParty in the interest of thecountry,” she tweeted in Hindi.

“But the SP’s attitude afterthe elections has forced the BSPto think, will it be possible todefeat the BJP in the future?This is not possible,” she said.

“Therefore, in the interestof the party and the movement,the party will contest all smalland big elections on its ownstrength,” Mayawati added.

She did not elaborate onwhat she meant by the SP’s atti-tude. Soon afterwards, SPnational general secretaryRamashankar Vidyarthi toldjournalists in Balia that

Mayawati was speaking againstthe SP in haste because of theDalit support to his party andits leader Akhilesh Yadav.

“She is weakening the fightfor social justice,” he said,adding that Dalit society is get-ting connected with the SP andAkhilesh in a big way. Peopleknow about the reality aboutwhat the “malkin” of thealliance has done, he said.

“Our party has nothing todo with the BSP,” said UttarPradesh RLD presidentMasood Ahmad.

He said the RLD was inalliance with the SamajwadiParty and not the BSP. “... Andour alliance is intact,” he said.“Today’s development con-cerns the SP and the BSP andthey have to decide,” Ahmadsaid, adding it will not impactRLD’s alliance with the SP.

Continued on Page 4

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An special investigationteam (SIT) was formed in

Jamshedpur on Monday toprobe the lynching of a 24-year-old man who wasthrashed by a mob for allegedtheft and seen in a purportedvideo being forced to chant “JaiShri Ram” and “Jai Hanuman”in. Police arrested four moreaccused on Monday.

Two policemen — the offi-

cers incharge of the local policestation and police outpost —have been suspended for notfiling a lynching case on June18. Sub inspectorChandramohan Oraon and

assistant sub inspector BipinBihari Singh “have been sus-pended for not reporting theseriousness of the issue onJune 18 to higher authoritiesproperly and register a case oflynching the very same day,”the district police chief said ina statement.

The victim, Tabrez Ansari,a resident of Kharsawan —who was allegedly caught afterstealing a motorcycle, a purse,a voter I-card and mobilephone from Dhatkidih alongwith two of his associates —succumbed to his injuries inhospital on Saturday.

Continued on Page 4

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Viral Acharya, the RBIDeputy Governor who had

in October last yearbrought to light ten-sions with theGovernment overindependence of thecentral bank, hasresigned six monthsbefore the scheduledend of his term in theoffice.

Acharya, 45, who was theonly Deputy Governor ofReserve Bank on the six-mem-ber interest rate-setting mon-etary policy committee,resigned from his position “a

few weeks” back citing“unavoidable personal cir-cumstances”, the Reserve Bankof India (RBI) said in a brief

statement.In his resignation,

he expressed inabilityto continue beyondJuly 23, 2019, it said.

The RBI, whichhad previously notdisclosed the resig-nation and was forcedto do so following a

media report, said:“Consequential action arisingfrom his letter is under con-sideration of the CompetentAuthority”.

Continued on Page 4

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AParliamentary StandingCommittee on Finance on

Monday said there are no reli-able estimates of black moneygenerated and held within andoutside the country.

In its report titled “Status ofUnaccounted Income/WealthBoth Inside and Outside theCountry — A CriticalAnalysis”, the standing com-mittee cited the studies con-ducted by the three premier

institutes — NIPFP, NCAERand NIFM — between 1980and 2010 — which estimatedblack money in the range of$216.48 billion to $490 billion.

The studies conducted bythe three institutes have foundthat the sectors where unac-counted income is found to bethe highest included real estate,mining, pharmaceuticals, panmasala, gutkha, tobacco, bul-lion, commodity, film, andeducation.

According to the report,which was tabled in the LokSabha on Monday, there are noreliable estimates of blackmoney generation and accuratemethodology for making suchestimation. The report said the

draft report on demonetisationcould not be adopted by thecommittee due to the lack ofconsensus among the mem-bers.

The committee, headed byM Veerappa Moily, had sub-mitted its report to the LokSabha Speaker on March 28,well before the dissolution ofthe 16th Lok Sabha.

The BJP had come topower at the Centre in 2014 onits promises to clean up cor-ruption and get rid of blackmoney. It was also promisedthat black money stashedabroad would be brought backto the country. In 2016, whileannouncing the note ban,Prime Minister Narendra Modihad said the one of the keyobjectives was to flush outblack money. The Congresshas repeatedly targeted theGovernment over the issue,accusing it of failing to meet itspromises.

The committee has askedthe Government to continuetheir efforts “with greatervigour” to unearth and bring to

book unaccounted wealth andincome both within and out-side the country, including fol-low-up action on the sevenreports of the special investi-gation team (SIT) constitutedon black money as well as thethree study reports on estima-tion of unaccounted money.

The UPA Government hadin 2011 commissioned thestudies by the Delhi-basedNational Institute of PublicFinance and Policy (NIPFP)and the National Council ofApplied Economic Research(NCAER) and the NationalInstitute of FinancialManagement (NIFM) inFaridabad.

Continued on Page 4

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The Supreme Court onMonday said the deaths of

more than 100 children inMuzaffarpur due to the out-break of acute encephalitissyndrome (AES) is a matter of“grave concern” and directedthe Centre and the BiharGovernment to file theirresponse on medical care facil-ities there within a week.

A Bench of Justices SanjivKhanna and BR Gavai askedthe Bihar Government to filean affidavit on the adequacy ofmedical facilities, nutrition andsanitation and the hygieneconditions in the State.

“This public interest liti-gation relates to outbreak ofacute encephalitis syndromevirus that has caused deaths of

about 150 children in differentdistricts in the State of Bihar.The writ petition raises issuesof grave concern and impor-tance relating to public medicalcare facilities, nutrition andsanitation or hygiene.

“The respondents will filetheir response within sevendays specifically dealing withthe question of public medicalcare facilities, nutrition andsanitation or hygiene. List thewrit petition after 10 days,” theBench said.

Continued on Page 4

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As the Narendra ModiGovernment embarks on

its ambitious Haldia-VaranasiInland Waterways Projectalong the Ganga, researchersfrom Indian Institute ofTechnology (IIT) Kanpur andWildlife Institute of India(WII), among others, have redflagged the project over itsadverse impact on the VaranasiTurtle Sanctuary (VTS).

The project, NationalWaterway-1 (NW-1) under theJal Marg Vikas Project (JMVP),requires dredging of the river,which will severely impact theaquatic life as well as entire bio-diversity of the river, saidresearchers in a study thatappeared in the latest edition of“Current Science.”

Notified under the Wildlife(Protection) Act, 1972, wayback in 1989, the VTS — a 7-km long stretch fromRamnagar to Malaviya Bridgein Ganga River — is the world’s

only protected area dedicatedto freshwater turtles.

Gaurav Kailash Sonkar andKumar Gaurav fromDepartment of Earth andEnvironmental Sciences,Indian Institute of ScienceEducation and Research,Bhopal, Niladri Dasgupt andSyed Ainul Hussain fromWildlife Institute of India (WII)and Rajiv Sinha from IndianInstitute of Technology Kanpurexamined the eco-geomor-

phology of the VTS for its sta-bility using hydraulic geometryof the channels, such as width,depth and discharge acquiredfrom an acoustic doppler cur-rent profiler, and the mappingof planform morphology fromremote-sensing images.

“The assessment suggests awell-defined, stable cross-sec-tion profile along this stretch ofthe river. It provides conclusiveevidence that the geomor-phology of the Ganga river

within the VTS has remainedstable for the past 50 years,except for some minor changesin the form of bar growth anderosion both upstream anddownstream of the sanctuary,”the report said.

However, the researcherswarned that any constructionactivity, which is bound tohappen once the NationalWaterway-1 starts, does notaugur well for the tortoise aswell as other aquatic animals inthe sanctuary.

“Construction activitiesalong the bank, movement oflarge vessels, sand mining inthe sanctuary or dredging ofthe main channel may desta-bilise the river geomorphologythat will negatively affectthe integrity of the VTSas well as the ghats atVaranasi,” they cau-tioned.

A p a r tfrom turtles,this stretch of theGanga is important for

other conservation dependentspecies such as gharials(Gavialis gangeticus), dolphins(Platanista gangetica) and sev-eral island nesting birds.

The proposed Jal MargVikas Project (JMVP) is aimedat enabling the passage of cargoships and boats through VTS.After a preliminary analysis ofthe morphology and hydraulicparameters of the Ganga atVTS, the researchers discusshow the passage of boats andcargo ships through the sanc-tuary may affect the physicalhabitat by inducing changes inthe channel morphology ofthe river.”

This is expected to dis-

rupt the morphological andecological sanctity of VTS. Inorder to evaluate the impacts ofthese large-scale interventions,it is important to assess thescale of alteration(s) they maycause to the eco-geomorphicattributes of the river, theresearchers concluded.

As per the Governmentplan, NW1 will go fromAllahabad in Uttar Pradesh toHaldia in West Bengal alongthe Ganga and then along itsarms — the Bhagirathi and the

Hooghly. It will involve theconstruction of more bar-rages along the river, and

heavy dredging of silt, so thata width of 45 metres and a

depth of 3 metres can be main-tained throughout. This wouldenable passage for barges car-rying 1,500-2,000 tonnes ofcargo.

The 1,620-km long nation-al waterways project will befunded jointly by the Centreand World Bank at an esti-mated cost of �5369.18 crore.

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The Delhi Police has arrest-ed a 28-year-old man who

had allegedly raped and thenstrangled a seven-year-old todeath in outer Delhi’s Narelaarea. The incident hadoccurred on June 14.

The accused Imran a resi-dent of Swarn Jayanti Vihar,Tikri Khurd, after offering‘frooti’ took the girl to a sewageplant at a park in Tikri Khurdwhere he strangulated theminor girl with bare hands afterraping her. The accused wasarrested on Sunday.

According to GauravSharma, the DeputyCommissioner of Police(DCP), Outer North district,the minor girl was reportedmissing on June 15.

“The next day, the body ofthe girl was found at an aban-doned water sewage plant inSwarn Jayanti Vihar in outer

Delhi’s Narela. The post-mortem report confirmed thatthe girl was raped and thenstrangulated to death,” said theDCP.

“Investigation revealed theinvolvement of the neighbourin connection with the incidentfollowing which he was appre-hended,” said the DCP.

“During interrogation, theaccused told the police that hiswife was not home since cou-ple of days. He was under theinfluence of alcohol. When he

spotted the girl, he offered her‘frooti’ and took her to a watersewage plant and raped her,”said the DCP.

“The families of seven-oldold girl and accused haveknown to each other sincelong as both the families shift-ed from Shahadra (where theywere neighbours) to SwarnJayanti Vihar,” the DCP added.

“The minor girl oftenspoke to accused and calledhim Mama. The accused alsoused to give her toffees and eat-ables. The father of girl was inan illicit relationship with thesister of accused and both werecaught red handed earlier,” theDCP said.

“The accused is a driver byprofession but since the last fewmonths he was working at apickle manufacturing factorywhere he used to cut mangoes.The father of the deceasedsells spices at Seelampur,” theDCP added.

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The Delhi Police has arrest-ed a 26-year-old dentist in

connection with the celebrato-ry firing incident which gotviral on social media. On June22, a video got viral on socialmedia in which some peoplewere seen involved in open fir-ing in the air at MuskanChowk, near Shyam LalCollege in Shahdara area.

According to Ved PrakshSurya, the Additional DeputyCommissioner of Police,Shahdara district, after thevideo got viral, a case was reg-istered at police stationShahdara and a police team wasformed to investigate the inci-dent.

“One of the accused wasidentified as Kamal Deep andhe was arrested on Monday.During interrogation, the

accused revealed that on thenight of June 21, he along withhis friends had gone to attendthe marriage party of theirbest friend in Lotus GreyBanquet Hall, Sahibabad (UttarPradesh),” said Surya.

‘When they were returningin the night, they reached nearMuskan Chowk and stoppedtheir vehicle. Later they openedfire in the air to show up. Hehas disclosed the names ofother accused too. Efforts arebeing made to nab them,” saidthe additional DCP.

“Kamal has worked at agovernment hospital earlierand he has not been workinganywhere for the last twoweeks. We are also checkingwhether the weapon used wasa licensed weapon or not.Further investigation is under-way,” said the additional DCPadded.

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The Delhi Police has arrest-ed a 23-year-old man for

allegedly firing at a nationallevel judo player and gangrival in outer Delhi’s Ranholaarea early this month. Theaccused has been identified asMonu (23), a resident ofVikaspuri. He was active onTiktok.

According to Dr AjitKumar Singla, the AdditionalCommissioner of Police, CrimeBranch, a tip-off was receivedon Friday that Monu wouldcome near Charak Apartment,Budela, Vikaspuri to meet hisaid with illegal weapons.

“Thereafter, a trap was laidand the accused was arrested.During interrogation, it wasrevealed that there was a rival-ry between Jasmit and Surajfighter gang over the suprema-cy in the area. There was dis-

pute over protection moneyfrom illegal satta operators,”said Dr Singla.

“On the intervening nightof June 1 and 2, Monu, alongwith his five associates, firedbullets at Manoj, a nationallevel judo player, and Suraj.Manoj sustained severe bulletinjuries on their head and legs,while Suraj sustained gunshotsin his leg in the incident,” saidthe additional CP.

“Monu and Ashu havebeen arrested and police arelooking to nab Jasmit, the gangleader, and other associateswho are absconding,” the addi-tional CP added.

“Monu had procured the pistol from Sunny, who was already arrested on June15. Police has recovered one country-made pistol andfour live cartridges from his possession,” said the addi-tional CP.

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Seeking action against theillegal placement agencies

operating in the nationalCapital, Delhi Commission forWoman (DCW) on Mondayissued a notice to LabourDepartment on the PlacementAgency Bill. The DCW statedthat the city has become a hubof human trafficking andunregulated private placementagencies functioning in theCapital play a major part intrafficking of young womenespecially minors.

Recently on Sunday, twobrothers were arrested forallegedly raping a woman overa period of four days in Delhi’sAmar Colony on the pretext ofproviding work.

DCW Chairperson Swati

Maliwal issued a notice tolabour department to seek theprogress of the regulation ofprivate placement agency bill inthe Delhi Assembly. She hasalso asked what other steps arebeing taken by the Governmentto regulate the private place-ment agencies.

The Commission has stat-ed that Delhi has become a hubof trafficking and placementagencies are fielding traffickingin the State. They need to be

urgently regu-lated. TheCommissionhas been fol-lowing upwith theL a b o u rDepartmentsince 2015 forthe passage of

the bill to regulate the PrivatePlacement Agencies but thesame has not happened tilldate.

In September 2018, theGovernment of NCT of Delhihad also informed the DelhiHigh Court that a bill for theregulation of private place-ment agencies was under con-sideration and would be intro-duced in the Delhi Assemblyshortly. However, it is observedthat till date the Bill has not

been introduced in theAssembly and there appears tohave been no significantprogress in this matter.

On Sunday police havearrested two brothers forallegedly raping a 22-year-oldwoman over a period of fourdays in Delhi’s Amar Colony. Atea shop owner promised her ajob as domestic help. She alsomade her work at the tea shopfor that day.

In the evening, the teashop owner’s two sons,Shatrunda and Bharat tookthe victim home, and raped herrepeatedly for four days.

One day, when the twobrothers were asleep, the victimescaped the house and reachedout to her neighbors afterwhich case was registered andthey were arrested.

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Delhi Customs Official atIndira Gandhi

International (IGI) airport haveseized gold worth more than �1crore in three separate inci-dents in last four days.

In first incident, customsofficials have seized gold worth�34 lakh from a toilet at Delhiinternational airport. “A clean-er found a packet wrapped withwhite colour doctor tape whilecleaning a toilet near the arrivalgate on Thursday last week. Onunwrapping the packet, threepieces of gold bars weighingone kg and having a marketvalue of around �34 lakh, wereseized,” said a senior Customsofficial.

In second incident, a for-eign origin passenger has been

arrested for allegedly smug-gling nine rectangular goldpieces, weighing around 1421grams and worth �27 lakhs inmarket.

According to a seniorCustoms official, the man wasintercepted after his arrivalfrom Ashgabat to Delhi on June21. “He was stopped by officials

and during his personal andbaggage search resulted inrecovery of nine gold bars.Police has seized the gold andthe passenger has been arrest-ed,” said the senior customsofficial.

In third incident, on June20, two men were arrestedafter Customs officials foundsix gold kada (bangles) andfour gold chains weighingaround 1689.5 gram with totalmarket value around �58 lakh,in their baggage.

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Delhi will witness rain andstrong winds from

Tuesday morning onwards asper the predictions of Indianmeteorological Department(IMD). On Monday, the mer-cury in the national Capitaldropped considerably owing tolight rainfall, easterly winds anda western disturbance.

The city recorded a high of35.4 degrees Celsius, twonotches below normal, and alow of 27.4 degrees Celsius.Humidity levels oscillatedbetween 55 and 78 percent,according to the weather office.The weather stations at LodhiRoad and the Delhi Ridgerecorded traces of rainfall.

Moisture-laden easterlywinds are moving towardsDelhi and a western distur-bance is also affecting weath-er activity in the hills and thenorthern plains, including theDelhi-NCR region, saidKuldeep Shrivastava, a seniorscientist at IndiaMeteorological Department(IMD).

Similar weather conditionswill prevail in the city foranother three to four days, hesaid.

Private forecaster SkymetWeather said a thundercloudover Haryana is movingtowards Delhi and light rain islikely in the next 24 hourswhich will keep the mercury incheck.

Light rain activity will con-tinue in patches for anothertwo-three days. Thereafter, thetemperatures will rise slightly,chief meteorologist at SkymetWeather Mahesh Palwat said.

The weatherman has pre-dicted a generally cloudy sky onTuesday. The city is likely towitness light rain, thunder-storm and winds gusting up to 40 kilometers per hour. The maximum and minimumtemperatures will hover around34 and 26 degrees Celsiusrespectively.

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Three armed miscreantsrobbed 17 lakh from the

staff of a cash managementcompany at gunpoint. Theincident took place in fullview, outside the CromaCentre located at Sector-29on Monday afternoon.

The Radiant Companyworks as cash managementagency for various establish-ments in the city. Theemployees of the companycollect cash from the estab-lishments and deposit themin their accounts in differentbanks and charge fees fromthe establishments in lieu ofthis.

According to the police,the driver Dinesh Bharti toldthe police that he had reachedSector-29 on Monday after-noon collecting cash fromdifferent establishmentsalong with the cashier Gagan.

“We had to collect cash

from the Croma Center. Forthis, I parked the van outsidethe establishment and thecashier went inside the estab-lishment to collect cash. At thesame time three men reachedthe spot in a car and put theircar in front of the van and tookme on gunpoint and looted thecash bag placed inside thevehicle and fled-- the spot,”Dinesh stated to the police.

“The cashier informed thepolice about the incident andthe total money that is missing

is calculated to be around �17lakh 299 rupees which they hadcollected from various estab-lishments,” the police said.

On receiving the informa-tion, the DLF Sector 29 policestation rushed to the spot andstarted investigating the matter.Investigators are also scanningthe CCTV footages to find outif the victims were being fol-lowed along the routes.

The police are now ques-tioning the driver and thecashier of the company. Asenior police officer said thatprima facie they suspect aninsider could be involved as theentire episode appeared to bea well planned one.

“A case under relevant sec-tions of the Indian Penal Code(IPC) has been registeredagainst unknown persons at theSector-29 police station.Further probe into the matteris underway. The accused willbe arrested soon,” SubhashBoken spokespersonGurugram police said.

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The Delhi police has arrest-ed two notorious snatchers

just hours after they snatcheda mobile phone from a personin Delhi’s Safdarjang area onSunday.

Police said that theaccused were also foundinvolved in nine cases ofsnatching and robbery in thearea. Police have also recoveredone country made pistol alongwith a live cartridge from thepossession of the accused.

The accused have beenidentified as Harish Chand(30) and Rohit Singh (25) bothresidents of Malvia Nagar inDelhi.

According to DevendraArya, the DeputyCommissioner of Police(DCP), South-West district,the two snatchers riding ascooty, snatched a mobilephone of the victim Rahul justafter he bought it from a storein Yusuf Sarai market.

“The snatchers eventhreatened the victim with agun, after the victim raised thealarm.

A complaint was regis-tered at Safdarjang Enclavepolice station and all the pick-ets and patrol parties in theneighboring areas were alertedabout the snatchers in an effortto nab them,” said the DCP.

“A similar scooty was spot-ted at the Arjun Nagar picketand were signaled to stop bythe patrolling team. Both therider and the pillion wereapprehended on spot as theytried to flee” said the DCP.

“During checking, onecountry made pistol, a live cartridge and a mobilephone were recovered fromthe possession of the accused

and the scooty they were rid-ing on was also seized,” said theDCP.

“During interrogation, theaccused confessed to thesnatching of the phone fromthe victim and it was learnt thatthe duo are involved in ninecases of snatching and onecase of theft which are beingverified by the police,” said theDCP adding that further inves-tigation is in progress.

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Residents of Amar Colony -Old Double Storey met

Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) general secretary KuljeetSingh Chahal to address theirgrievances pertaining to ongo-ing sealing drive at Pradeshoffice on Monday.

Traders of the area saidEnvironment ProtectionControl Authority (EPCA) issealing the establishments onthe pick and choose basis.”Sealing is a threat to our liveli-hood.. earlier, our shops weresealed and now our houses..Why such treatment withAmar Colony traders,” a trad-

er put his grievance beforeBJP.

Assuring unconditionalsupport to traders, Chahal said,“BJP has always fought againstinjustice and continue to fight.”

“The shops and buildingsin which unauthorized con-structions have been made areprotected from sealing underthe Special Provision Act 2006till December, 2020 and hencethese shops cannot be sealed,”said the BJP leader citingamendments.

“Under the Master Plan1962, constructions in theDouble Storey Building Flatscan be regularized for whichthe notified fee as on

February7, 2007 have been deposited,” he empha-sized.

“BJP had initiated cam-paign against sealing and it isagainst sealing of any kind.Under the leadership ofPradesh president ManojTiwari, we have fought with theresidents of Amar Colony,” headded.

This may be recalled,Tiwari had opened a frontagainst sealing in which hehad exposed the corruption inMonitoring Committee andalso brought in the cognizanceof Supreme Court the issue ofsealing being done on pickand choose.

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Leader of Opposition inDelhi Assembly Vijender

Gupta’s wife Shobha wasrobbed off her belongings atMandi House in Lutyen’s Delhion Monday morning.

Shobha who runs an NGOclaimed that, the incident tookplace at about 10:15 AM whenshe left her Pandara road resi-dence in her car along with herassociate and driver.

“When she reached nearMandi House, unknown bikeborne persons intercepted hercar and later threw some flam-mable substance on their car’sbonnet,” she said.

“When her driver andassociate got out of the car tolook into the matter, taking theadvantage the alleged personsfled away with her handbag,”she said. Later she approachedthe police and reported thematter after which a policecomplaint was lodged at Mandihouse police station.

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Demanding fresh allocationfor Delhi’s water share

fixed in 1996, Chief MinisterArvind Kejriwal on Mondaymet Union Jal Shakti MinisterGajendra Singh Shekhawat andrequested to give quickapproval for Yamuna flood-plains water storage project,also explained that with thisproject Delhi will be able tomeet its water demand for atleast half year with the storageof single day monsoon rain.

Citing the escalated graphof the national Capital in termsof population, Kejriwal said, in1996, the water share was fixedat 875 cusec and remainedstatic since then. The popula-tion of city was 1.25 crore atthat time, which has nowincreased to 2.25 crore, butwater share has not changed.”

During the meeting withUnion Minister Shekhawat,Keriwal appealed to urgentlyaddress the issue of increasingthe water allocation to Delhi.“Today’s water requirement ofDelhi cannot be met with whatwas fixed in 1996, I also appeal

to you to consider the fact thatDelhi is the country’s Capitaland all concerned authoritiesmust ensure that drinkingwater is available to all the res-idents. It must be the primaryresponsibility of all,” Kejriwalsaid.

Mentioning about DelhiDevelopment Authority’s(DDA’s) land pooling policy,according to it, at least 16 lakhnew flats will be constructed inthe city and this will furtherincrease the water demand ina major way, Kejriwal said itwould be difficult to meetwater demands in near future.

Importantly, Shekhawatassured that the Centre willexamine the DelhiGovernment’s proposal andgive its opinion within threedays of receiving it.

Delhi Government is alsoinstalling localised SewageTreatment Plants (STPs) in allDelhi Government schoolbuildings to minimise wastageof water and also working ona project to conserve water inresidential areas, which willbegin with the Group HousingSocieties, where the plan is to

install a double piping systemfor segregating toilet andkitchen/bathroom waste waterfor recycling. “We need drink-ing water,” Kejriwal said duringthe launch of ChandrawalPhase -II treatment plant.

At present, Delhi gets itswater from the Ganga canal,the western Yamuna canal, theBhakra canal and the Yamunariver. Besides, the DJB draws 80million gallons of groundwaterper day.

The Chief Minister alsosaid his Government wouldprovide round-the-clock cleandrinking water supply to theentire city by 2024.

“It is our mission. In thelast four and a half years wehave made a lot of progress. By2024, the Government wouldprovide clean drinking water toevery house through taps,” hesaid. The 105-MGD watertreatment plant (WTP) atChandrawal comes after a gap

of 13 years. It will be con-structed at a cost of �598 croresin three years. “At present, weare supplying 930 million gal-lons of water per day (MGD)against the demand of 1,200MGD,” Kejriwal said.

Chandrawal Phase-II willhave the advanced technologyof ozonisation and activatedcarbon to ensure uninterrupt-ed working of the plant.

It will be able to treat highammonia content up to four

parts per million (PPM) in theraw water. Earlier, the plant hadto be shut down wheneverammonia content increased toone PPM, resulting in disrup-tion in water supply in itsentire command area.

Speaking about the project,he said, “The Government islaunching the construction ofa 47.7 crore litre water treat-ment plant at Chandrawaltoday which will help supplyclean drinking water 24x7 to 22

lakh people living in the com-mand area of this plant, that is,the people of Chandni Chowk,Rajendra Nagar, Civil Lines,Patel Nagar, Karol Bagh, NewDelhi, among others.”

When the Governmentwas elected 4.5 years ago,Delhi’s water supply was woe-fully inadequate and riddenwith irregularities; however,the scenario has changed in thelast four and half years. “In2015, we inherited a 70 year old

system that was completelymismanaged, corrupt andexploitative of people. I amhappy to share that over the lastfour and half years, with theengineers and officials of theDelhi Jal Board we have sig-nificantly improved the man-agement of the system.” TheCM credited the DJB for work-ing with the Governmenttowards fixing the system.

Meanwhile CEO, DJB,Nikhil Kumar said, “We, atDJB, get full support of theChief Minister. The wholeDelhi Jal Board family is work-ing to fulfil the vision of theChief Minister.”

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Rebel Aam Aadmi Party(AAP) legislators Devender

Sehrawat and Anil Bajpai, arefacing charge of defection toBharatiya Janata Party (BJP),presented their written sub-missions to the secretary of theDelhi Assembly on Mondayand sought deferment of per-sonal hearing before theSpeaker on the issue. The hear-ing is scheduled to take placeon Tuesday.

Notices were issued to theduo on a petition of AAPMLA and party spokespersonSaurabh Bhardwaj accusingthem of joining the BJP aheadof recent Lok Sabha polls.

In their replies, Sehrawatand Bajpai said that the news-paper clippings annexed withBhardwaj’s petition were “illeg-ible” and demanded that theybe provided typed and trans-lated copies so that they are able

to submit their response on thecharge of defection.”....I requestyou to defer the hearing onJune 25 and grant me six weekstime from the date of supply ofclear typed and translatedcopies of the petition andannexed documents,” Bajpaisaid in his written submissionto the Delhi Assembly secre-tary.

Citing the same reason,Sehrwat, MLA from BijwasanAssembly constituency, soughtfour weeks time to furnish hisreply over the charge of joiningthe BJP. “The office of theSpeaker acts as a tribunal as perSupreme Court laid guidelines,while deciding cases underanti-defection law and hencethe documents furnishedbefore it should be up to thestandard,” Sehrawat said at apress conference.

Sources, however, said thatboth legislators were giventime of seven days, which is

“sufficient to respond to thenotice of Delhi AssemblySecretariat.”

“There is a hearing on theissue on Tuesday. The Speakerwill go by the laid down rules,”they said. Gandhi Nagar MLA,Bajpai said an ‘office of profitcase’ was pending against himand before applying anti-defec-tion law against him, it need tobe clarified whether he was alegislator or not.

Sehrawat and Bajpai hadjoined the BJP in presence ofsenior party leaders includingUnion minister Vijay Goel, inMay, although both maintainedthat they had not applied formembership of the party.

“Even on the BJP dais, Ihad said that I have not takenthe party membership. KirtiAzad and Shatrughan Sinhashared dias with leaders ofopposition parties and stillcontinued to be Members ofParliament,” Sehrawat said.

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The Delhi High Court hasupheld the dismissal of two

policemen, who allowed VikasYadav, who was sent to jail for25 years for the murder ofNitish Katara, to leave his hos-pital room in AIIMS withoutparole on the night of Diwali in2011, when he was facing trialin the case.

A bench of justices VipinSanghi and Rajnish Bhatnagarrejected the policemen’s appealsagainst the decision of theCentral AdministrativeTribunal (CAT), which hadagreed with the disciplinaryaction taken against them.

“The disciplinary and theappellate authorities have saidenough and the gravity of themisconduct established againstthe petitioners is enough to jus-tify the punishment imposedupon them,” the high courtsaid, while dismissing theappeals of Constable RameshKumar and Head ConstableIshwar Singh.

According to the enquiryreport, the two policemen hadallowed Yadav to leave thehospital on the interveningnight of November 26-27, 2011from 12.45 am to 6.00 am.

The disciplinary authorityhad concurred with the find-ings in the enquiry report andby a common order, had dis-missed both policemen onAugust 14, 2012.

The two policemen, intheir appeal in the high court,had contended that neitherthe disciplinary authority northe appellate authority hadsaid that their misconduct hadmade them unfit for police ser-vice.

Rejecting the argument,the high court, in its 12-pagejudgment, has said, “We do notfind merit in the submis-sion...For the reasons that thedisciplinary authority, whilepassing the order of punish-ment, has clearly recorded thatin view of the grave and seri-ous misconduct found againstthe petitioners, their conduct isintolerable.”

Katara was kidnappedfrom a marriage party on theintervening night of February16-17, 2002, before he waskilled for his alleged affairwith Vikas Yadav’s sister Bharti,the daughter of Uttar Pradeshpolitician D P Yadav.

Katara was killed as VikasYadav and his cousin VishalYadav did not approve of hisaffair with Bharti as theybelonged to different castes.OnAugust 29, 2017, the SupremeCourt had dismissed the pleasof

Vishal and Vikas Yadav,seeking a review of its verdictsending them to prison for 25 years. It had also awarded a20-year jail term to the thirdconvict, Sukhdev Pehalwan, inthe case.

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In keeping pace with techno-logical development and dis-

charging duties more effective-ly and efficiently and further to

control crime, particularly cybercrimes a memorandum ofunderstanding (MoU) has beensigned between IIIT-Delhi andDelhi Police for setting up ofCentre for Technology and

Policing (CTP) at the Okhlacampus of IIIT, Delhi.

Registrar of IIIT-Delhi andAdditional Commissioner ofPolice, Cyber Technology signedthe MOU, in presence of Delhi

Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal,Delhi Police CommissionerAmulya Patnaik and DirectorIIIT-Delhi. The Centre ofTechnology will assist DelhiPolice in identifying appropriate

technology for crime investiga-tions, maintenance of law andorder, traffic management,administration, intelligencegathering and Citizen Services.

It will further provideresearch based inputs to providethe various ways in which thetechnologies can be adoptedand accepted by the variousstake holders and will inductvarious technological solutionsfor capacity building and skillenhancement.

It will also help in framingpolicies and guidelines for use oftechnology in policing. LG AnilBaijal, stated that in the age oftechnology, police should bethoroughly conversant andequipped with technology basedtools for crime control.

The use of engineering andtechnology, artificial intelligenceand augmentation of existingcommunication systems wouldserve as force multipliers inboosting police efficiency and

effectiveness.Delhi Police informed the

LG it is continually modernisingits force to keep pace withadvent of new technology inpolicing and actively exploringthe possibilities of state-of-arttechnology and innovative tech-nological solutions for handlingcrime, cyber crimes particular-ly financial crimes, criminals,law and order management,traffic management, intelligencegathering, combating terroristactivities and delivering citizenservices.

It was also further stated thatto keep pace with technologydevelopment, it has becomenecessary to involve differentstake holders from researchorganisations, Universities andprivate organisations operatingin specialised fields like engi-neering, technology, law andpublic policy to assist Delhipolice in discharging its dutiesmore effectively and efficiently.

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Scores of ultra luxury foreignmade cars like BMW, Audi,

Mercedez, Rolls Royce andJaguar being used for com-mercial use by the elite taxitourist services are not beingallowed to ply on the roads ofthe national Capital by theTransport department of theDelhi Government as thesevehicles are missing the impor-tant transport condition ofhaving ‘Speed Governors’.

Facing huge losses, the rep-resentatives of the Taxi TouristAssociations recently met theDelhi Transport MinisterKailash Gahlot and submitteda memorandum seekingexemption of speed governorsfor such vehicles ( models) forwhich the device is not availablein the market and to allow themto undergo for the fitness testwithout the speed governors.

Following the SupremeCourt order, the CentralGovernment has drafted a pol-icy mandating the fitment of‘Speed Governors’ compulsoryfor certain category of transportvehicles with maximum speed80 kmph and for transportvehicles like dumpers, tankers,school buses, those carryinghazardous goods with maxi-mum speed of 60 kmph. The

policy was implemented from1st April 2018 and it was madecompulsory in Delhi from 16thFebruary 2019.

“Earlier, such cars weregiven exemption for a period ofthree months in Delhi but it hasmade compulsory this Februarybecause of which 32-33 num-bers of taxi model in my ser-vices is stating still in the garageas speed governors for these

vehicles are not available in themarket. It is becoming a majorloss for all the taxi services whohas put such expensive cars intotaxi and tourist services. Wemet the minister and submittedmuch representation requestingexemption from fitment ofspeed governors but nothingconcrete has come out yet,” saidSanjay Samrat, President ofDelhi Taxi, Tourist Transporters

and Tour OperatorsAssociation.

However, as per thesources, the government isactively considering memo-randums submitted by the asso-ciations and is planning toexempt the mandatory guide-lines for the foreign made lux-ury vehicles.

As per the motor vehiclepolicy, any commercial vehicles

playing on the roads must havefitness certificate issued fromthe STA and if it will not that itcannot run into services aswell as will be issued challan ofRs 5000 by the enforcementteam and traffic police.

Transport officials fromSTA and Road Transport Office(RTO) also said that manypeople and owners of suchvehicles are coming with theproblem of speed governors asthe device is not available forthese vehicles because of whichhigh end cars and SUVs are fac-ing problem in getting the fit-ness certificate. Moreover, latefitness fees are also beingimposed on these vehicles for`default.

As per the taxi association,about 10000 such foreign man-ufactured cars are lying idle inDelhi because of not havingmandatory fitness certificatefrom the STA.

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Delhi University hasreceived only one admis-

sion application from a trans-gender candidate. In 2018there were applications fromtransgender aspirants but noneof them enrolled for regularcourses. The varsity had intro-duced the “other” category inits admission forms in 2015 butthere have been no admissionsto the regular courses underthe category.

According to experts, thisdismal number is due to thelack of infrastructure includingabsence of gender neutral toi-lets in the varsity and the stig-ma attached to being identifiedas the third gender.

Rajesh from theDepartment of AdultContinuing Education and

Extension said, “Around 15transgender students had cometo us with queries but they allhad queries about School OfOpen Learning and IndiraGandhi National OpenUniversity (IGNOU).

“They usually prefer toenrol as male or female in reg-ular courses or for distancelearning education. They facethe problem of identity. Afterthey are born, their familieshand them over to ‘gurus’ whoname them and start identify-ing them as a male or a female.They do not have the provisionof changing their name yet asthe Transgender Rights Bill isstill pending,” said Rajesh.

“There is also a lack ofinfrastructure and facilitiesand the fear of stigma.

There is no gender neutraltoilet in the varsity,” Rajeshadded.

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Witnessing the worseningof air quality and fol-

lowing its effects on the Delhitraffic police personnel, theSaroj Super Specialty Hospitalconducted a free health checkup for the police personnels tospread awareness about thenumber of health ailmentstraffic police department issuccumbed to.

The free health check up camp was organized at District Commissioner of Police (DCP) office inRohini where about 100 Policeofficers participated in thehealth check up camp thatincluded medical consulta-

tions, Blood pressure tests, ECG monitoring, blood sugar measurement, pulmonaryfunction tests.

During the check up it hasbeen revealed that 30 per centof the police personnel aresuffering from some kind ofbreathing ailments such asasthma, lung congestion,throat irritation which werecommonly detected.

“We mainly found the patients with high cholesterol problems, hypertension and some ofthem suffered joint pains dueto long standing hours.” saida Doctor of Saroj Super Specialty Hospital, NewDelhi.

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ADelhi court on Mondaydeferred the hearing on a

defamation complaint filed byBJP leader Vijender Guptaagainst Chief Minister ArvindKejriwal and his deputy ManishSisodia for allegedly “maligning”his image by accusing him ofattempting to kill the AAP chief.

The matter was adjournedfor June 26 as the concernedjudge was on leave. In the com-plaint, Gupta, who is the Leaderof Opposition in DelhiAssembly, has sought Rs 1 croreas compensation from Kejriwaland Sisodia, besides litigationcosts. He claimed that due towidespread circulation of tweetsand news reports on the state-ment of the two Aam AadmiParty (AAP) leaders, his repu-tation was harmed for whichthey have not expressed anyremorse or apologised.

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The BJP on Monday namedExternal Affairs Minister S

Jaishankar as its candidate fora Rajya Sabha seat fromGujarat, hours after he joinedthe saffron party in the pres-ence of its working president JPNadda.

Jaishankar, a career diplo-mat and former foreign secre-tary, was inducted by PrimeMinister Narendra Modi inhis government and given thehigh profile ministry in a sur-prise development.

He was sworn in as aCabinet minister along withother members of the govern-ment on May 30.

A minister who is not amember of Parliament has tobe elected as its member with-in six months of his or herswearing in.

His joining the BJP was amere formality after he wasinducted in the government.He became a party member at

a ceremony at its office inParliament.

Bypolls to two Rajya Sabhaseats were necessitated afterBJP president Amit Shah andanother party leader Smriti

Irani were elected to the LokSabha, causing the vacancies.

The BJP is set to win boththe seats. It has named JugaljiMathurji Thakor its candidatefor the second seat.

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Haryana Jails MinisterKrishan Lal Panwar on

Monday said that the matterrelating to giving parole tojailed self-styled GodmanGurmeet Ram Rahim Singh isstill under consideration andthe final call will be taken bydivisional commissioner.

Dera Sacha Sauda chiefRam Rahim, who has soughtparole for over a month forfarming at his fields inHaryana’s Sirsa is currentlylodged at Sunaria jail in Rohtakafter being convicted in twoseparate cases of rape andmurder.

Jails Minister Krishan LalPanwar, while talking to themediapersons in Ambala saidthat Ram Rahim has appliedfor parole, which he is entitledto. There is a procedureinvolved. The Sirsa Police willprepare its report and submitit to the deputy commissioner,

he said.The Jail Superintendent in

his letter has mentioned thatRam Rahim’s conduct in theprison has been good, headded. Following his applica-tion for the parole for 42 days,the jail superintendent hadwritten to the Sirsa districtadministration. In a letter datedJune 18, the official had soughta report on whether releasingGurmeet on parole would befeasible or not.

In the communique, thejail superintendent mentionedthat Ram Rahim’s conduct inthe jail has been good and hehas not violated any rule.

The Sirsa district adminis-tration has been asked to sub-mit a report to the commis-

sioner of Rohtak division witha copy marked to the jail super-intendent.

However, the Sirsa Police isyet to give its report to thedeputy commissioner on theparole application with a seniorpolice officer saying that thereport will be made takinginto account merits and demer-its of the parole, if granted.Each case is different as far asparole applications are con-cerned and report related toRam Rahim’s case will also besubmitted after analyzing themerits and demerits related tohis case, he said.

The officer further saidthat there are apprehensionsthat his parole could create lawand order problem in the stateat the time of his release andsurrender later.

On receiving the letter, theSirsa Police had alsoapproached the RevenueDepartment to ascertain howmuch land the Dera chief owns.

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From Page 1“It seems that she had called the

accused as per their plan. Due to fearof getting arrested by police for theheinous crime, the accused even mur-dered Nautiyal, with the same weapon,”the official said.

Police is scanning CCTV camerasin the area to identify the accused. Policehad earlier even detained a neighbour,who was seen in the CCTV footage ataround 6 am but during questioning itwas revealed that he was going to gymthat time and he had no clue regardingthe incident.

However, Khushbu’s boyfriend,who also hails from Pauri Garwahl, wascaught in a CCTV camera installedopposite Mathurs house. He was seenentering their flat on Saturday night atround 11.30 pm. He was accompaniedby another girl who had covered herface. Khushbu’s boyfriend and theunidentified girl were later seen exitingat 2 am. While her friend had coveredhis face with a helmet, the girl was seencovering her face with a scarf.

Police have found two cups withresidue of tea and there was another

glass with liquor in Khushbu’s room. Itseems that they murdered Mathurs ataround 12 pm and then killed Khushbuto obliterate all the evidences from thespot.

However, the police have not beenable to unravel the ‘motive’ behind thetriple murders as all articles and belong-ings were found to be intact. Twomobile phones belonging to the Mathurcouple and two of their domestic helpwere found missing. All the four phoneswere switched off soon after the mur-der. The boyfriend of Khusbu had mether on a social networking site inDecember last and since then they hadstarted talking to each other overphone. There were 800 calls betweenthem, police said.

They have been detained by policefor questioning but no arrest has beenmade so far, police officials said addingthat the scope of the probe has beenwidened to unmask the killers. “Wehave lifted certain chance prints fromthe spot and motive behind the triplemurders will be clear ones the accusedare interrogated in police custody,” theofficial added.

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From Page 1The BSP-SP-RLD alliance

in Uttar Pradesh for the LokSabha polls failed to make animpact in the politically crucialState. The BSP won 10 seats, abig gain from the zero in 2014,but the SP just managed tomaintain its tally of five seatsthough it faced humiliatingdefeats in Badaun, Kannaujand Firozabad where its sittingMPs and family members. TheRLD drew a blank in all thethree seats it contested.

Commenting on the devel-opment, Congress spokesper-son Dwijendra Tripathi saidcommitment is most importantin politics. “Commitment withthe people as well as amongpolitical parties is very impor-tant... If people feel that politi-cians cannot keep their wordswhile dealing with each other,they will not be able to keeptheir promises made to thepeople,” Tripathi said.

The problem that we areseeing now is an outcome oflack of commitment, heremarked. The BJP was equal-ly scathing. “BSP chiefMayawati had sought votesfrom the Dalits, and had mar-ginalised them. She cannotthink about anyone beyond herfamily. Her history is full ofbetrayals... “Akhilesh shouldhave thought 100 times beforejoining hands with Mayawatifor opportunistic and selfishpolitics,” BJP’s UP spokesper-son Harish Srivastava said in astatement.

An inkling of what was tocome was available immedi-ately after the Lok Sabha pollresults were out on May 23.Mayawati then said her partywould go it alone in theupcoming bypolls to a dozenAssembly seats in UP.

Mayawati, according toparty sources, had said thealliance was useless and Yadavvotes were not transferred tothe BSP. For the record, how-ever, she said at the time thatelectoral ties with the SP wouldcontinue.

In a statement 10 daysafter the defeat of the alliancein the Lok Sabha elections,Mayawati had said she canwork with the SP in future ifYadav is able to “fulfil hisduties”. The often mercurialleader has patchy loyalty recordwith her party known to makeand break alliances with morethan one party.

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From Page 1As per the report, the

NIPFP study said that duringthe period 1997-2009 illicitfinancial flows out of the coun-try have been in the range of0.2 per cent to 7.4 per cent ofGross Domestic Products ofthe country. “NCAER in itsstudy said unaccounted wealthaccumulated outside India isestimated to exist betweenUSD 384 billion and USD 490billion between 1980 and 2010period while the NIFM’s studysaid that results of estimationsuggest that total illicit outflowat the present value (includingopportunity cost) from India inthe reform period (1990-2008)is Rs 94,1837 crore (USD216.48 billion). Importantly,illicit outflows from the coun-try are estimated on average to10 per cent of the estimatedunaccounted income,” thereport says.

“It appears that the reliableestimation of unaccountedincome and wealth inside andoutside the country is a diffi-cult task, this inference is val-idated by the widely varyingestimates of the unaccountedincome arrived at by these

three institutes.“The Chief Economic

Adviser has opined that thereis no scope for arriving at acommon estimate of unac-counted income by combiningestimates from the threereports (studies),” the reportsaid. The committee also notedthat as only a “limited numberof stakeholders” could beexamined by it, owing to thepaucity of time, “this reportmight be considered as a pre-liminary report”, pendingexamination of other witness-es including non-official wit-nesses or experts on the subjectand after evidence replies of theFinance Ministry which areawaited.

The committee, the reportadded, would thus expect morefruitful outcomes on this count,both in terms of much widertax base as well as actual taxyield.

In the context, it alsodesires that the long-delayeddirect tax code should also befinalised at the earliest andreintroduced in Parliamentwith a view to simplify andrationalise the direct tax laws inthe country.

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From Page 1During the hearing, one of

the lawyers informed the courtthat similar deaths hadoccurred earlier in UttarPradesh. The court took noteof it and directed the state gov-ernment to apprise it on theissue.

The matter has been post-ed for hearing after 10 days.

The petition was filed by anadvocate, Manohar Pratap, whosaid he was deeply “pained andsaddened” by the deaths ofmore than 126 children, most-ly in the age group of one to 10years, in the past weeks. Thefigures were rising day by day,the petition stated.

“The deaths of children area direct result of negligence andinaction on the part of therespective state governments ofBihar, Uttar Pradesh and Unionof India in handling the epi-demical situation which arisesevery year due to outbreak of AES also calledJapanese encephalitis,” the pleasaid.

From Page 1Acharya had in a hard-hit-

ting speech in October last yearbrought to light a growing riftbetween the BJP-led govern-ment and the RBI headed by the then GovernorUrjit Patel.

A staunch defender of thecentral bank’s autonomy, hehad made public disputes withthe government over issuesranging from lending curbs,more cash availability to non-banking finance companies(NBFCs), and who controls theRBI’s reserves.

In his speech, he hadwarned that undermining thecentral bank’s independencecould be “potentially cata-strophic”, a possible indica-tion of the RBI being pushed torelax its policies ahead of gen-eral elections.

Patel quit in Decemberlast year, weeks after the gov-ernment used hereto unusedpower to direct the RBIGovernor to discuss con-tentious issues.

The government replacedPatel with former finance min-istry bureaucrat ShaktikantaDas and the RBI has cut inter-est rates by 25 basis points eachin all three monetary policyreviews that have happenedsubsequently. Acharya hadvoted against a rate cut in theFebruary and April review butvoted for the reduction in thismonth review but with “somehesitation”.

He had also raised redflags over the worsening fiscalpicture, according to the min-utes of the June monetary pol-icy committee.

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As many as 334 soldierswere killed from 2016 to

2018 in areas where the ArmedForces Special Powers Act(AFSPA) is in force, Defence Minister RajnathSingh told Parliament onMonday.

In a written response to aquestion in the Rajya Sabha,Singh said 113 soldiers werekilled in 2016, 125 in 2017 and96 in 2018 in areas where theAFSPA is in force.

The AFSPA, which givesspecial powers to the armedforces, is in place in Jammu andKashmir and certain parts ofthe north-east.

Singh said 69 soldiers werekilled in border skirmishesfrom 2016 to 2018.

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Deprived of educationalfacilities for 13 years, stu-

dents in Chhattisgarh’sJagargunda area under thenaxal-affected Sukma district ofBastar region have finally seena ray of hope with commence-ment of a new academic ses-

sion from Monday.Jagargunda was the main

commercial centre of the areabefore 2006, when people lefttheir village and moved torelief camps because of violenceduring the Salwa Judummovement to counter naxal-ism. The village wore a desert-ed and haunted look.

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Hours after Mayawatiannounced her plans of

going solo in all future electionsthus ending the SP-BSPalliance, the BJP took a swipeat Akhilesh Yadav, saying hehas been “punished” by the BSPsupremo as he “betrayed” hisfather and uncle for power.

Uttar Pradesh BJPspokesperson Harish Srivastavasaid the SP-BSP alliance was anopportunistic coming together

of the two parties just for theLok Sabha polls.

“Mayawati sought votesfrom the Dalits and margin-alised them. She cannot thinkabout anyone beyond her fam-ily. Her history is full of betray-als. On the other hand,Akhilesh had termed corrup-tion and nepotism as socialism.He should have thought 100times before joining handswith Mayawati for oppor-tunistic and selfish politics,”Srivastava said in a statement.

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Senior Shiv Sena leaderNeelam Gorhe on Monday

became the first-ever woman tobecome the deputy chairpersonof the Maharashtra LegislativeCouncil, as she was elected tothe post unanimously afterPeople’s Republican Party

(PRP) legislator JogendraKawade withdrew from thefray.

Gorhe, who has becomethe 14th deputy chairperson ofthe upper House, replacesCongress MLC ManikraoThakre. The post had beenlying vacant ever since Thakre’sterm expired on July 17, 2018.

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The Congress on Mondaysaid the comeback of Prime

Minister Narendra Modi topower was the result of his“salesmanship” and asserted itprimary role in the nation-building, even as the BJP insist-ed that it was the ten-year-long“policy paralysis” of theCongress rule which made thecountry realise the importanceof strong leadership.

Initiating the debate on themotion of thanks on President’saddress, Congress leader in theLok Sabha Adhir RanjanChowdhury launched a blister-ing attack on the ModiGovernment as the chairexpunged some of his commentsagainst the ruling dispensation.

Lashing out at the BJP foralleging a scam in the sale of 2Gspectrum, he said if there wasa wrongdoing why are UPchairperson Sonia Gandhi andCongress president RahulGandhi not in jail. “Why arethey still in Parliament,” he saidand challenged the ModiGovernment to walk the talk.

He charged the BJPGovernment has developed“political plagiarism” syndromeand is only a “travesty of truth”,saying it only tries to highlight its achievementsignoring the foundation laiddown by his party.

Recalling former PrimeMinisters Jawaharlal Nehru,Indira Gandhi and RajivGandhi, Chowdhury listed outthe achievements under theCongress Government andaccused the BJP of just renam-ing 19 of the 23 schemes of theCongress party.

“This Government hasdeveloped a new syndromecalled political plagiarism...Congress party has been con-tributing to growth (sinceIndependence), but one morn-ing you suddenly say theCongress has done nothingand you are doing all develop-ment work. It is nothing buttravesty of truth...

“You are a Governmentwhich can be called compli-ment addicted Governmentdriven by manipulation,” saidChowdhury who was the firstspeaker from Opposition to

initiate discussion on theMotion of Thanks.

Congress leader SoniaGandhi continued to promptChowdhury while he wasattacking the BJP in his speech.Prime Minister Narendra Modiand Home Minister Amit Shahwere present in the House.

Stating it was the Congressparty which initiated revolutionlike Green Revolution, WhiteRevolution and TechnologyRevolution in the country, andincreased GDP growth,Chowdhury said it was underthe Congress that host of CPSEslike ONGC, IOC, NTPC, SBIand HAL were set up.

“The Congress is the soulof the nation. The Congress issynonymous with India... Forus, country is ahead of theparty... Although we have 52members in the House, but wewill continue to fight for thecommon man,” he said.

He said the BJP rode-backto power as Modi is a “very bigsalesman” while the Congressfailed to market its product inthe Lok Sabha polls, he said,adding he accepted this fact.

“Our Prime Minister is avery big salesman. We(Congress) have been unable tosell our product, that is why we lost (Lok Sabha elec-tions),” he said.

Taking a dig at UnionMinister Pratap Sarangi, whohad initiated the discussion forthe Government, he saidSarangi crossed limits in hispraise of Modi. This invitedsharp reactions from theTreasury Benches as theyreferred to “India is Indira,Indira is India” remarks madeby Congress leaders whenIndira Gandhi was PrimeMinister.

He said BJP MPs did nottake steps to mitigate miseriesof the people as they think

Modi will do everything.“They think that praising

Modi is sufficient, he will helpthem sail through (Modi babapaar lagayenge),”he said.

Opening the debate forthe Government, Sarangi hitout at what he called theCongress Government of “policy Paralysis”, “acciden-tal Prime Minister” and“Tukde-tukde-gang”.

In his address, which bare-ly touched on the contents ofPresident’s address, Sarangiwas effusive in his praise forModi and his leadership.Sarangi said he is grateful toModi for making a man likehim, who hails from a humblebackground, a Minister.Sarangi’s long speech wasreplete with ‘Sanskrit slokas”and interspersed with Bangala,Odiya, Hindi and Englishquotes.

Sarangi’s jibe at theCongress on its refusal to acceptpeople’s mandate to Modi,made the Prime Minister smile.Taking on the Opposition party,Sarangi said the Congress madethe BJP realise the importanceof strong leadership as policyparalysis was a “new norm”during the ten-year rule of theparty with the “accidentalPrime Minister” at the helm.

“Policy paralysis was a newnorm during those ten years.And it was Congress whichmade us realise the importanceof strong leadership,” he said.

Without naming formerPrime Minister ManmohanSingh, he said even theCongress Prime Minister wasan “accidental Prime Minister.”

Emphasising that bothModi and his Government arecommitted to the welfare of thepoor and downtrodden,Sarangi said by 2022 everypoor person will have a “pucca”house with toilet.

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Leader of Opposition in theRajya Sabha, Ghulam Nabi

Azad, on Monday said the BJPwon the Lok Sabha polls bypracticing divisive policies, butin the process the ‘nation stooddefeated’.

Unleashing a fierce attackon the Government, Azad saidunder the ‘New India’, humansdreaded humans, glorifiers ofkillers of Mahatma Gandhiwere in the ruling party, andincidents of mob lynchingswere rampant.

Speaking on the motion ofthanks to the President’saddress in the Rajya Sabha,Azad said unemployment is atall time high and heinouscrime like rape on minors areabnormally on the rise.

Launching a scathingattack on the Government andits policies, Azad said a partycould win elections on divisivepolicies but the “Nation stooddefeated”.

“Keep your New India toyourself but return our oldIndia where there was a cultureof love and... Where there wasno lynching and nohatred...Where Hindu andMuslims used to feel the painof each other,” he said.

Prime Minister NarendraModi was present in the Houseduring Azad’s address.

Referring to the President’sspeech on Mahatma Gandhi’s150th anniversary celebrations,Azad said unfortunately a can-didate of the ruling party calledthe killer of the Father of theNation a patriot and no actionwas taken and the candidatewas a parliamentarian now.

“My tongue will burn...Icannot repeat the remarks...Ihave a complaint to the PrimeMinister, why didn’t you takeaction. Mahatma Gandhi maybe Congress President but hewas Father of the Nation...Iwould not have mentioned ithere but President’s speechmentions his birth anniversarycelebrations ...BJP should takeaction...It still has time tillOctober...,” Azad said.

While attacking BJP fordefending 2008 Malegaon blastaccused Sadhvi PragyaThankur, Azad, however didnot mention her by name andsaid: “How is this possible andhow someone can defend this?Though it doesn’t make any dif-ference to us, this is a blot on

the face of the ruling partywhich cannot be wiped out.”

He also referred to howformer Prime MinisterJawaharlal Nehru on com-plaints about a Congress can-didate in 1952 had insteadurged people to vote for anIndependent candidate whohad a clean impage.

On New India, he said itwas full of hatred where peoplewere afraid of people and notafraid while being in jungle.

“In old India, there was nohatred, anger or lynching. NewIndia is one where humans areenemies of each other. Youwon’t be scared of animals in ajungle but you’ll be scared ofhumans here. Give us Indiawhere Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs and Christians live foreach other.”

Reacting to a recent case oflynching in Jharkhand, hesaid, “Jharkhand has become afactory of lynching and vio-lence. Dalits and Muslims arebeing killed there every week.PM Modi, we are with you inthe fight of ‘Sabka saath sabkavikas’ but it should be there forpeople to see it. We can’t see itanywhere.”

In a recent lynching inci-dent, Tabrez Ansari, 22, died ina Jharkhand hospital on Sunday,days after he was brutallythrashed by a mob at Dhatkidihvillage in Seraikela district onsuspicion of stealing a bike.

“We prefer to remain inopposition for 1,000 years but

cannot adopt your path...Wecannot run governmentthrough TV..We can afford to beout of Parliament...A party canwin on decisive policies but theNation has lost..We want victo-ry of the country,” he said.

He said rapes were at an alltime high including heniouscrimes like rapes on minor andthat “Beti Padhao and BetiBachao” was just plain talks.

Azad said crime againstwomen have risen manifoldand urged government toensure 50 per cent reservationto women in Parliament as itwas having absolute majority.

He said Congress’s attemptswere thwarted last time thoughthe Women’s reservation Billwas passed in Rajya Sabha.Unemployment, he said was atits peak with government try-ing to curb reports by variousagencies and that the youthwho voted for BJP needed jus-tice. He said as per NSSOreport, the unemployment washighest in the last five years.

On triple Talaq legislation,he said, the Opposition wasalso in favour but the govern-ment’s intent should be clean.

He also attacked the BJPsaying if the former PrimeMinisters Jawaharlal Nehru,Indira Gandhi, Lal BahadurShastri and Rajiv Gandhi didnot do anything then who laidthe foundation of power plants,dams and hydro-elctric pro-jects, and cautioned the gov-ernment to not be so callous.

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TMC leader Saugata Roy onMonday demanded avoid-

ing of Electronic VotingMachine (EVM) and bringback the ballot system to ensure“transparency” in electionprocess. BSP leader DanishAli also questioned the relia-bility of EVMs. Both MPs werespeaking on the Motion ofThanks to President’s addressin Lok Sabha.

“EVMs should be jetti-soned. I am opposed to EVMs.Ballot papers should bebrought back,” Roy said in theLok Sabha. He questioned howBJP leadership “knew” inadvance the number of seatsthey were going to win in theLok Sabha elections.

Roy said BJP president, aday before the election resultswere announced, declared thathis party will win 300 seats. Theparty won 303 seats. “How is itpossible?” His speech was inter-rupted by BJP MP NishikantDubey who objected to Royraising the issue of EVMs in theHouse saying that ElectionCommission cannot be ques-tioned. On point of order raisedby Dubey, the Chair said thatwhatever is objectionable wouldbe removed from records.

Danish Ali (BSP) saidPrime Minister Narendra Modishould have convened an all-party meeting on the issue ofEVMs and not simultaneous

polls. He claimed that theEVMs have helped the BJPreturn to power. Several BJPmembers hit back, saying thathe, along with several otheropposition members have alsowon the polls. He also allegedthat the electoral bonds wereused to help parties like BJP getfunds from corporate houses.

Ali said corporate housesdo not fund parties like the BSP,hence the electoral bondscheme was aimed at helpingparties like the BJP.

Saugata Roy also chargedthat BJP is dividing the nationand has created mayhem inWest Bengal. “They are divid-ing the country. We shall resistNRC tooth and nail,” he said,regretting that formerpracharak of RSS outfit, whichwas banned in 1948 for mur-der of Gandhi, has become thePrime Minister. “We will resistwith all our might to save sec-ularism”.

Earlier in the morning,TMC MPs are holding a sit-inin front of Mahatma Gandhi’sstatue on the Parliament’spremises , demanding elec-tion be held by ballot paperinstead of electronic votingmachines (EVMs).

The party, which has beencrying foul over the use ofEVMs in the recently-con-cluded Lok Sabha polls, onMonday said their agenda forthe protest was — “No toEVMs, Yes to paper ballots.”

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The Government onMonday introduced the

Bill to allow voluntary use ofAadhaar as identity proof andreservations in jobs at Jammu& Kashmir to replace theOrdinances. Opposing theAadhaar Bill, RSP MP NKPremchandaran said it was a“grave violation” of theSupreme Court’s judgementon Aaadhar. He argued thatprivate entities can get hold ofAadhaar data and violate fun-damental rights especially theRight of Privacy.

Responding to the RSPMP, Union Information andTechnology Minister RaviShankar Prasad said Aadhaar isa valid law, it is in nationalinterest and doesn’t violate pri-vacy. He said so far more than

60 crore people have takenmobile SIM cards throughAadhaar and now it is notmandatory. Suggesting the Billis in line with the apex courtjudgement, Prasad said peopleof India have accepted Aadhaar.

The Bill proposes to allowvoluntary use of Aadhaar num-ber for authentication and

identity proof in opening ofbank accounts and procuringof mobile phone connections.The Bill also seeks to give achild an option to exit from thebiometric ID programme onattaining 18 years of age, whilestipulating stiff penalties forviolation of norms set for useof Aadhaar and violation of pri-

vacy. The move is aimed atmaking Aadhaar people-friendly. It also paves the wayfor use of alternative virtualidentity number to concealactual Aadhaar number of anindividual, said Prasad.

The Bill also proposes dele-tion of section 57 of theAadhaar Act relating to use ofbiometric identifier by privateentities. This amendment willalso prevent denial of servicesfor refusing to, or being unableto, undergo authentication.

Besides this, the proposedamendments provide for estab-lishment of UniqueIdentification Authority ofIndia Fund, and conferenhanced regulator-like poweron the UIDAI.

The Jammu & KashmirReservation (Amendment) Bill,2019 was introduced byMinister of State for Home GKishan Reddy on behalf ofHome Minister Amit Shahwho was present in the House.People living along theInternational Border (IB) inJammu & Kashmir will getbenefits of reservation in directrecruitment, promotion andadmission in professionalcourses on par with those liv-ing along the Actual Line of Control (ALoC),according to a Bill introducedin the Lok Sabha.

The Bill seeks to providerelief to people living in areasadjoining the InternationalBorder in Jammu & Kashmir.They can now avail benefits ofreservation in direct recruit-ment, promotion and admis-sion in different professionalcourses. People living in areasadjoining the IB in Jammu &Kashmir were not included inthe ambit of the Jammu andKashmir Reservation Act, 2004and Rules, 2005.

Due to continuous cross-border tensions, persons livingalong the IB suffer from socio-economic and educationalbackwardness. Shelling fromacross the border often compelsresidents to move to saferplaces, which adversely impactstheir education as schools andcolleges remain closed for longperiods.

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The Election Commission(EC) has refused to disclose

under the RTI Act the dissentnotes of its CommissionerAshok Lavasa on decisions per-taining to Prime MinisterNarendra Modi’s speecheswhich were alleged to haveviolated model code, saying itwas exempted informationwhich may “endanger the life orphysical safety” of an individ-ual.

The EC was responding toPune-based RTI activist ViharDurve who had demandedLavasa’s dissent notes, pertain-ing to speeches given by Modiin rallies at Wardha on April 1,Latur on April 9, Patan andBarmer on April 21 andVaranasi on April 25.

The poll body cited Section8(1)(g) of the RTI Act exempt-ing the disclosure of informa-tion which would endanger the

life or physical safety of anyperson or identify the source ofinformation or assistance givenin confidence for law enforce-ment or security purposes.

Durve had also soughtinformation about the proce-dure followed and the decisiongiven by the commission withregards to these speeches. Thisinformation was also denied cit-ing the Section 8(1)(g) of the act.

Lavasa had reportedly dis-sented on a series of clean chitsgiven by the commission to thePrime Minister and BJP pres-ident Amit Shah on theirspeeches.

As his demand to recordhis dissent notes in the EC’sorders was not met, Lavasa hadrecused himself from casesrelating to relating to violationof the Model Code of Conduct.

The ‘full commission’ ofthe panel, comprising ChiefElection Commissioner SunilArora and members — Lavasa

and Sushil Chandra — haddeliberated on the contentiousissue, after which the EC saiddissent notes and minorityviews would remain part ofrecords but would not be partof its order.

“In the meeting of theElection Commission held todayregarding the issue of MCC(Model Code of Conduct), itwas, inter alia, decided thatproceedings of the commis-sion’s meetings would be drawn,including the views of all thecommission members,” the EChad said in a statement after themeeting on May 21.

In the meeting, Lavasa islearnt to have stuck to hisground, pressing for hisdemand to include dissentingviews in the orders. Sincecopies of the orders are sent tothe complainant and respon-dents, they become public evenif the commission does notshare it with media.

The EC had maintainedthat the dissent notes cannot bemade part of the order as thepoll code violation cases are notquasi judicial in nature and thatthey are not signed by the chiefelection commissioner (CEC)and fellow commissioners.

“They are like executiveorders. They are summarydecisions where decision istaken by the EC without hear-ing out counsels of the two par-ties. The orders are brief whichare not signed by the threecommissioners,” explained anofficial after meeting.

Such orders are usuallysigned by the principal secre-tary or secretary of the EC con-cerned, the official said.

Lavasa had reportedly dis-sented in as many as 11 ECdecisions involving complaintsagainst Modi and Shah foralleged MCC violation andwhere they were given a clean chit.

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Reaching out to theOpposition parties and seek-

ing their cooperation in smoothconduct of the House, BJPworking president JP Nadda onMonday asked the Oppositionto realise that disruption affect-ed them the most.

Initiating a debate on theMotion of Thanks to thePresident’s address in RajyaSabha, Nadda said, “We shouldagree to disagree in the House.But we should not disagree justfor the sake of disagreement. Iappeal. I need all of yours sup-port. There were many dis-ruption in the House in thepast. This (disruption affects)the opposition the most.”

Outlining the direction ofnewly formed Modi 2.0, hetold the House that thisGovernment would worktoward improving ease of liv-ing in the next five years to fur-ther reach out to the com-moners in the country.

On Prime MinisterNarendra Modi getting sever-al international awards, hesaid: “These are all awards forIndia. Now India is not just aspectator but also a player inthe international scene.”

Seconding the motion, BJPmember Sampatiya Uikeylauded the NDA Governmentfor working for women’sprogress and improving theirlives through various socialsector schemes and policiesduring the past five years.

Speaking on the motion,SR Balasubramoniyan of theAIADMK suggested that elec-tions which stretch too longshould be avoided in thefuture, citing the example ofthe recently concluded gener-al elections spread over sevenphases across the country.

Referring to electronic vot-ing machines (EVMs), he said,of late, there have a number ofdemonstrations by a politicalparty that it can be tamperedwith on a booth level. Manydvanced economies have paperballot system. We must also goback to the paper ballot sys-tem, he said.

On the suggestion of hold-

ing Lok Sabha and State pollssimultaneously, Balasubra-moniyan said he does notknow how feasible such aproposition is as reports so farsuggest it is impractical.

Observing that fundswhich have to be disbursed tostates must be given in time, heclaimed that CentralGovernment owes thousandsof crores to Tamil Nadu whichmust be released at the earliestas otherwise the implementa-tion of schemes would suffer.

Ram Gopal Yadav of theSamajwadi Party said some ofthe schemes cited in thePresident’s address seemunachievable based on theirproposed size and scale.

He alleged that fakeencounters were taking placein the country on a large scaleand FIRs are also not beinglodged in such cases.

“If the country is safe thenwhy our borders are shrink-ing,” Yadav said, asking if it isnot true that China is doingsomething or the other on ourborders regularly.

“You (Government) canalways raise your eyebrowsagainst Pakistan but what hap-pens when it comes to China,”Yadav said.

He claimed that there wasdiscrimination being practicedon the basis of religion andcaste and alleged that someSamajwadi Party workers hadbeen killed in Uttar Pradeshafter the BJP-led Governmentcame to power in the State.

Referring to the situationof jobs in the country, Yadavsaid the youth are disgruntledand disappointed.

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Jaipur/New Delhi :Rajasthan BJP presidentMadan Lal Saini died onMonday while undergo-ing treatment at AIIMSin Delhi, a partyspokesperson said. Saini,also a Rajya Sabha MP, was 75.

He was diagnosed withinfection in lungs and wasadmitted at a private hospital inJaipur. On Saturday, he wasshifted to Delhi owing to hisdeteriorating health and wasbeing treated under theHematology Department atAIIMS. “He was later shifted tothe ICU after his condition fur-ther deteriorated. He passedaway today around 7.09 pm,” asource at AIIMS said.

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of BJP leaders and workersgathered after hearing thenews of Saini’s death.

His body will be kept atthe party office in Jaipur forvisitors on Tuesday morning.

Prime Minister NarendraModi expressed grief and saidSaini’s death was a major loss forthe BJP. “The passing away ofMadanlal Saini Ji is a major lossfor the BJP family. He con-tributed to strengthening theparty in Rajasthan. He waswidely respected for his conge-nial nature and communityservice efforts. My thoughts arewith his family and supporters.Om Shanti,” he tweeted. PTI

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The recent euphoria over a freshdelimitation exercise to restruc-ture the lopsided constituencies inJammu & Kashmir quickly dissi-pated as the Centre denied media

reports that Home Minister Amit Shah isconsidering such a move. Since then,Governor Satya Pal Malik has earned thepublic ire for asserting that the Governmenthas no intention of scrapping Articles 370and 35-A; his recommendation that the timeis ripe for talks with separatist Hurriyat lead-ers has further inflamed some passions.Perhaps these are straws in the wind that sug-gest some changes are in the offing.

In a little-noted development, on June 16,the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Jammu &Kashmir unit passed a resolution seekingfresh delimitation of Assembly constituen-cies and de-freezing of at least eight of the24 seats reserved for Pakistan-occupied ter-ritories. It lamented the “gross injustice doneto Ladakh and Jammu regions” by previousNational Conference (NC) Governments thatgave undue weightage to the Kashmir valleyand proposed that the eight seats be allottedto the Jammu region, for families that fledPakistan-occupied Jammu & Kashmir (PoJK)in 1947-48, currently estimated at 12-13 lakh.

It bears stating that the BJP has tried toensure Indian citizenship to Hindus fleeingreligious persecution in Pakistan. Under thefirst Modi Government, refugees settled inRajasthan were granted citizenship and thetrend continues. On World Refugees Day(June 20), 19 Pakistani migrants in the bor-der district of Barmer received citizenship andanother 10 people in Pali and five in Jalorewere promised citizenship. Reports suggestthat there are thousands of Pakistani Hindusin Rajasthan who are likely to receive citizen-ship soon. It is difficult to believe that theCentre will indefinitely ignore the plight ofWest Pakistan refugees in Jammu & Kashmir.

The BJP State unit also urged politicalreservation for Scheduled Tribes (Gujjars,Bakarwals, Gaddis and Sippis), who weregiven Schedule Tribe (ST) status in 1991, butdenied reserved seats. Further, it objected tothe law requiring Kashmiri Pandit migrantsto fill the “M Form” for voting in the Valley.

The regional angst over Kashmiri dom-ination over the State is valid. After MaharajaHari Singh’s accession to India, the ConstituentAssembly was set up but Sheikh Abdullahused the political weightage gifted to him byformer Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru tounilaterally declare the delimitation: Kashmir(43), Jammu (30) and Ladakh (2). Thisbecame the entrenched orthodoxy that waslater only tinkered with: Kashmir (46),Jammu (37) and Ladakh (4). Abdullahreserved 25 seats for the occupied regions,which was subsequently reduced to 24.

When the delimitation controversy brokeout on June 4, former Chief Minister OmarAbdullah, in a number of tweets, offered the“legal position” on delimitation in Jammu &Kashmir. The freeze, he claimed, was imple-

mented only to bring the State atpar with the rest of the countryafter the Constitution (84thAmendment) Act 2001 frozedelimitation throughout India,until the first census is taken afterthe year 2026. The truth is a lit-tle more complex.

During Emergency, theCongress moved theConstitution (42ndAmendment) Act 1976, to freezefresh delimitation after Census2001, on the plea that changingthe number of seats according topopulation punished States thathad controlled their popula-tion growth. This protected thenumber of seats of southernStates like Tamil Nadu, Keralaand Karnataka in the Lok Sabhaand was generally viewed as fairby the rest of the country. In1977, the Congress fared well inprecisely these States.

A quarter century later, theConstitution (84th Amendment)Act 2001, postponed delimita-tion and prevented reallocationof seats to the States to reflecttheir growing population untilthe Census after 2026, ie, Census2031. However, the 84th amend-ment permitted redrawing ofboundaries of constituencieswithin the States to mitigate largedifferences and enable con-stituencies of more or less equalpopulation strength.

The problem in Jammu &Kashmir begins with the arbi-trary and partisan allocation ofseats on provincial basis by

Sheikh Abdullah, long before thefig-leaf of Article 370 bestoweda special political protection tothe actions of the State leader-ship. In no other Indian State hasthis kind of “political reserva-tion” of seats taken place to pre-serve the ethno-religioussupremacy of one group.

Consider the recently divid-ed Andhra Pradesh — there wasno en bloc reservation of seats forany district or division before orafter the separation of Telangana.Previously, the Atal BihariVajpayee Government dividedthe States of Madhya Pradesh,Bihar and Uttar Pradesh andhere, too, there was never anyrigid and arbitrary allotment ofseats to any region. TakeMaharashtra, where demandfor a separate Vidarbha hasbeen simmering for decades —there is no fixed allocation ofseats for the region.

This astonishing develop-ment is exclusive to Jammu &Kashmir and gave the Muslim-dominated Valley undue powerover the State. Strangely, Jammuactivists, who rail againstKashmiri domination, havenever fought to do away withthis artificial division and to treatthe entire State as a single unit,with delimitation on the basis ofpopulation. Instead, they havevalidated this artifice bydemanding trifurcation (andsometimes quadrification) ofthe State along these lines — acause that does not find much

resonance in the rest of thecountry. Many citizens feel thatonce Article 370 is removed,many sources of discriminationwill simply vanish.

It seems doable to use theleeway granted by the 84thAmendment Act to redraw theconstituencies within Jammu &Kashmir afresh, without a prede-termined weightage to anyprovince, giving due regard topopulation on the basis of Census2011. As the last delimitation ofJammu & Kashmir was in 1995,it would be an abominable injus-tice to wait 60 years till Census2031 for a fresh delimitation.

It is also unconscionable tocontinue to deny reservations tothe STs. Moreover, the sevenSchedule Caste seats have beenstagnant in Jammu Pradesh since1996, viz, Chhamb, Domana, RSPura (Jammu district); Samba,Hiranagar (Kathua district);Chenani (Udhampur district)and Ramban. There is no meritin freezing this rotation until 2031and denying the SC populationin other constituencies (in bothJammu & Kashmir provinces) ofrepresentation in the Assembly.Nor is this system followed in anyother State. Under President’srule, the Governor enjoys all leg-islative authority and can set upa delimitation commission to fixthese glaring anomalies.

(The writer is Senior Fellow,Nehru Memorial Museum andLibrary; the views expressedare personal)

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Sir — This refers to the editor-ial, “Financial pressure” (June24). Pakistan’s bluff has beencalled many a time in the recentpast. So this time, its failure toact against terrorism will notfind any takers on world fora.India has done well to reiterateits position time and again thattalks and terrorism cannot gohand-in-hand. But this alone hasnot pushed Islamabad into tak-ing demonstrable action.

Now, Pakistan has been toldby the Financial Action Task Force

(FATF) to swiftly complete itsaction plan to curb terrorism orelse face consequences. This isn’tthe first time it has received warn-ing from the FATF. It has alreadymissed two deadlines.

But the current warning hasput the rogue nation at thecrossroads. Now is the time forit to decide about its future. Butgoing by history, looks like thecountry will once again dodge

the blacklisting with help fromfriendly countries and buildinga case against India. WhilePakistan must take credible mea-sures against terrorism, countriesmust not compromise on terrorfor political gains. Today, theentire world is suffering from themenace of terrorism. All nationsmust get their act together.

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Sir — India’s thrilling win overAfghanistan at Southampton byjust 11 runs has sent the messageloud and clear — no teamshould be underestimated. Allrounder Mohammed Nabi, whoplayed exceptionally well,deserves compliments for per-forming consistently so far.

Afghanistan’s star leg-spinnerRashid Khan, who conceded110 runs in his nine oversagainst England, also made agood comeback during thematch with India. HadMohammed Shami not accom-plished his hattrick in the finalover, things for both the teamscould have been entirely different.

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The 44th anniversary of the Emergency is anideal occasion to recall what GeorgeSantayana, the Spain-born essayist, poet and

novelist had said: “Those who cannot remember thepast are condemned to repeat it.” Santayana may nothave studied much about Indian politics or democ-racy but what he said is relevant even today. He wasbrought to the Indian narrative by the legendaryNanabhoy Palkhivala. He was the one who gave usback our democracy from the very people whorobbed us of it. The Emergency declared by the thenPrime Minister Indira Gandhi on June 26, 1975,remains a blot on the nation. Fundamental rightswere suspended by Indira Gandhi to safeguard herauthority and power from marauders in theCongress itself for which there was no dearth.

The run-up to the declaration of the Emergencyhad begun immediately after the 1971 general elec-tion, which returned the Congress to power witha record number of 352 seats. Raj Narain, theOpposition candidate who was defeated by IndiraGandhi from Rae Bareli constituency, challengedher victory by filing a complaint in the AllahabadHigh Court. Narain’s contention was that IndiraGandhi had violated all norms mentioned in theRepresentation of the People Act, 1951, and had evenmisused official powers during the election cam-paign. Interestingly, the truth was that she wouldhave won the election even if she had not used herofficial position because the Rae Bareli constituen-cy was the home-turf of the Nehru-Gandhi clan.

Justice Jagmohanlal Sinha, who heard the peti-tion filed by Narain, was convinced that IndiraGandhi had committed Constitutional impropri-ety by misusing the services of her officials as wellas senior pilots of the Indian Air Force, who ferriedher from one place to the other for campaign meet-ings. On June 12, 1975, Justice Sinha, in a landmarkjudgement, set aside the election of Indira Gandhiand disqualified her for six years from contestingelections. Once the court delivered its verdict, a racefor the top post began in the Congress, which threat-ened the Gandhi clan’s hitherto unchallengedsupremacy in the party and in the Government. Itwas to quell this rebellion that Indira declared inter-nal Emergency by subverting the Constitution.

Chroniclers attribute the advice to declareEmergency to Siddhartha Shankar Ray, the thenChief Minister of West Bengal, who was an emi-nent jurist and trouble-shooter for the Congress. Therest is history as the party resorted to blatant mis-use of official machinery and throttled civil rights.The media was subjugated to suit the convenienceof Indira Gandhi and her second son, Sanjay Gandhi,who was in a hurry to occupy the chair of the PrimeMinister. Those, who now cry from the rooftops overthe violation of media freedom, should also focuson historicity and analyse why it is so easy to coercethe media today. Sadly, the Emergency doesn’t havea discernible recall in recent memory simplybecause there was no internet or 24x7 news chan-nels back then.

The official national media, the All India Radio,ended up as All Indira Radio, broadcasting thespeeches made by her and singing paeans in her sup-port. People started whispering that akashvani hasdegenerated into Indirawani! Newspapers andmagazines had to get news reports and featurescleared by the official censor appointed by theGovernment. The management of the anti-estab-lishment Indian Express was usurped by the

Government of the day. But what shookthe conscience of the nation and the worldwas the scant disregard shown by IndiraGandhi towards the titans of India’s free-dom movement.

Opposition leaders like JayaprakashNarayan, Morarji Desai, Piloo Mody,George Fernandes, Biju Patnaik, CharanSingh and hundreds of leaders like themwere arrested and put behind bars underthe provisions of the dreaded Maintenanceof Internal Security Act. But theCommunist Party of India stood like asolid rock behind Indira’s misadventure.Many activists in Kerala were taken intocustody by the police and subjected tothird degree torturing, which resulted inthem losing their health and source oflivelihood. Members of the Association ofEmergency Victims, who are still aroundin Kerala, recount the police brutalitiesexperienced by them during the dark days.

As she came under international pres-sure, Indira Gandhi was forced to call forthe general election in March 1977. As perthe norms, the general election shouldhave been held in 1976 after the custom-ary five-year tenure. But Indira Gandhihad got the Constitution subverted andmanaged to prolong the tenure of herGovernment. The 1977 election saw theCongress getting decimated by the JanataParty, a hastily formed conglomeration ofOpposition parties, many of whom hatedeach other. The Indian voters gave a befit-ting reply to the high-handed behaviourof the rulers. It was a warning to the dic-tators that howsoever hard they suppressthe people and keep them subjugated, thevoters would repudiate and reject themat the first available opportunity. The 1977results were a reminder that ahimsa wasstill alive. But rulers failed to learn the car-dinal law about democracy that people arethe king-makers.

Though the Janata Party was formedunder the guidance of JayaprakashNarayan, by merging a number of polit-ical outfits, it did not last long because ofa turf war between some prominent lead-

ers and their insatiable thirst for power andwealth. Instead of fighting against anti-democratic forces and those undermin-ing the country from inside, the Janataparivar fought among themselves.“Divided we fought, united we fell” wasthe moral of the Janata story. In the 1980general election, voters were left with noalternative other than Indira Gandhi, whoapproached the voters with slogans like“Government that works” and “Indirabulao, desh bachao.”

She was given a huge mandate with353 seats. It is doubtful whether IndiraGandhi or her party, the Congress (yes,it was Indira’s Congress. DK Barooah, for-mer Congress president had declared thatIndira was India and India was Indira),had learnt anything from the ignominyof the 1977 defeat. For thereafter, corrup-tion reached new levels. When herdetractors cried foul, Indira Gandhiretorted that corruption was a global phe-nomenon and India could not stay insu-lated from its impact.

While a decimated Oppositionlooked on helplessly, Chief Ministers wereousted in quick succession. StateGovernments led by the Janata Party weremade to defect en masse to the Congressand declare support to Indira Gandhi. Thelikes of Bhajan Lal, the then Haryana ChiefMinister, were the ‘mascots’ of Indian pol-itics. The name of Bhajan Lal cropped uprecently when one saw the defection offour Telugu Desam Party MPs to the BJPunder the guise of merger. These were thesame MPs who had stalled the proceed-ings of the Rajya Sabha for days in 2018,demanding special category status toAndhra Pradesh. Isn’t this a repetition ofhistory?

Neither Indira Gandhi nor her sonRajiv Gandhi learnt from past mistakes.To a question from the media whether hewould resort to internal Emergency,Rajiv Gandhi, who succeeded Indiraafter her assassination, replied that hewould declare Emergency if the situationdemanded. The then Prime Minister went

to the extent of describing the Oppositionas limpets and parasites. Victory had goneto Rajiv’s head and there was no returnfrom that “exalted” position.

Successive failures of the Congress area stern reminder to those in power as wellas the Opposition. PoonthanamNambudiri, the great Malayalam poet(1547-1640) wrote in Jnanappana (theSong of Divine Wisdom) that“Maalikamukal Eriya Mannante TholilMaarappu Kettunnathum Bhawan”,meaning: “God can make the King whois sitting in his palace to end up as a beg-gar with a dirty bag hanging from hisshoulders.” Jnanappana, written in chasteMalayalam so that even illiterate massescould understand the follies behind prideand arrogance and the meaninglessnessof wealth, is a mirror where we can seethe reflections of modern-day life.

No, it has nothing to do withHindutva. Secularists, communalistsand rationalists will gain a lot by read-ing this poetry. It is an ideal foundationstone through which one can build a self-less and dedicated career. In moderntimes, dirty bags might have given wayto smart phones as we find any numberof opportunists in Tamil Nadu andKerala operating with connectivity pro-vided by telcos. Jnanappana’s relevanceto modern-day politics increases whenone sees MK Stalin of the DMK callingfor the coronation of Rahul Gandhi asthe Prime Minister of India. It was IndiraGandhi who summarily dismissed thedemocratically elected DMKGovernment headed by M Karunanidhiin 1976 and that too during the days ofinternal Emergency. The English versionof Jnanappana is still available around.People can approach SwamiChidanandapuri of Kulathur Ashram inKerala for a discourse on the same.Listening to Jnanappana is a refreshingexperience and can help us to stay firm-ly with our foot fixed on the ground.

(The writer is Special Correspondent,The Pioneer)

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The Prime Minister’s idea of “onenation, one election” is beingstaunchly opposed by many

political parties, mainly on thegrounds of it being undemocratic andan assault on the federal polity and,hence, unconstitutional. Oppositionparties have argued that in the caseof simultaneous poll to bothParliament and State Assemblies,national issues will dominate overState-specific subjects. This mayyield fortuitous benefit to the dom-inant national party as the voter won’tbe able to clearly articulate his/herchoice while casting the vote to electmembers to the Assembly.

Thus, a national party, which getsa clear majority in the Lok Sabha and

which does not enjoy the confidenceof the State subjects on local issues, willget to rule the States, too. Most par-ties fear that in the pursuit of “one partyrule,” the Modi-Shah duo intends to usethe “one nation, one election” idea toinstall and perpetuate the BJP-ledGovernment across the country.

Frankly, the political apprehensionsneed to be dispelled. One might arguethat while voting at the same time forthe Parliament and the Assembly, thechoice of the voter will get obliterated.Yes the centrist party stands to bene-fit from a nationalist swell, particular-ly if it is in a dominant position in theState. And unless the voter is able tomake educated and informed choiceson local and national issues, thingscould go its way. But we should notunder-estimate the voter as is amplycorroborated by the just-concluded LokSabha polls. Elections to some StateAssemblies, viz Andhra Pradesh andOdisha, were held co-terminus. Despitean overriding national narrative favour-ing Prime Minister Modi, voters inthese States showed clear preference forregional parties, namely the YSRCongress and the Biju Janata Dal, who

got an absolute majority. Just becausethe voters exercised franchise at thesame time for both the Lok Sabha andthe State did not deter them from giv-ing overriding importance to localissues. Nevertheless, one cannot writeoff the possibility that there could beuniformity of narratives.

Critics have also raised doubtsabout uncertainties that could arise ifthe ruling party loses the vote of con-fidence before its mandated term. Butthey need to recognise that these can

at best be a rare situation and not a mat-ter of routine (public gives mandate toa Government to run its full-term andall stakeholders should ensure that thisis honoured). Still, such a scenario(albeit rare) can be addressed by eitherelecting a new leader (who enjoys theconfidence of the House) or holdingfresh election for the “residual” term.

Even so, our forefathers had con-templated simultaneous elections only.Things were on the right track till themid-1960s, when the then ruling dis-

pensation disturbed the applecart by“premature” dissolution of some StateAssemblies (1968/1969) and the LokSabha (1970). With the dismissal ofmany more elected Governments(courtesy, misuse of Article 356 onmost occasions) thereafter, the mis-match got aggravated.

At present, a State Assembly goesto polls almost every other year. Ofcourse, this does jeopardise the conti-nuity and implementation of Centralpolicies in a continuous manner. Thisimposes unprecedented social andeconomic cost on the nation. It is notjust the official expense of conductingelections (in a big state likeMaharashtra, it can go up to �1,000 ofcrores) but also several thousandcrores being spent by political parties.In turn, this gives boost to corruptionand other unethical practices even asparties seek to raise funds to supportthe mammoth expenditure.

The bigger damage, however, aris-es due to distraction from issues of gov-ernance (as parties are in election modeall through) even as the imposition ofthe Model Code of Conduct (MCC) —each time an election exercise is taken

up — leads to stoppage of all major pol-icy decisions which impede develop-ment (a case in point is delay in com-pletion of the‘dedicated freight corri-dor’ project).

Furthermore, with almost everypolitical party prone to promisingmore and more sops/subsidies to winelections, no incumbent Governmenthas the gumption to implement hardreforms, which would entail withdraw-al of certain subsidies like fertilisers andpower among others, not even to thebetter-off sections of the society or notso poor. Forget that, it can’t even takeharsh measures needed to rein in powertheft due to the fear of losing its votebank in jhuggis/slums.

This subsisting chaotic systemneeds attention. Both the Centre andStates should focus on governance fora full five years without any distractionand implement structural reforms forsustainable development besides sav-ing tens of thousands of crores in elec-tion expenses. It would also pave theway for electoral reforms. Of course, theball has just got rolling. Let there be acomprehensive debate.

(The writer is a policy analyst)

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Amidst stiff competitivebidding, Bharat Heavy

Electricals Limited (BHEL)has won an order for emissioncontrol equipment fromNabinagar Power GeneratingCompany Limited (NPGCL)– a subsidiary of NTPC Ltd.Valued at about �840 crore,the order involves supply andinstallation of Flue GasDesulphurization (FGD) sys-tem for control of SOx emis-sions at the 3x660 MWNabinagar project of NPGCLin Aurangabad district ofBihar.

BHEL has been a majorplayer in this area for over adecade and was one of theearliest entrants in the Indianmarket for emission controlequipment, having success-fully executed FGD system atTata Power’s Trombay Unit 8in 2008. With this order,BHEL is presently executingFGD systems for 23 units ofNTPC and its JVs.

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The resolution professionalfor Jet Airways, which was

admitted to the NCLT lastweek for bankruptcy, has invit-ed claims from all creditors tothe grounded airline.

The airline owes over�8,500 crore to a consortiumof 26 banks led by State Bank,and over �13,000 crore to thetens of hundreds of vendorsand around 23,000-oddemployees.

“The creditors of JetAirways are hereby called uponto submit their claims withproof on or before July 4, to theinterim resolution profession-

al. Financial creditors shallsubmit their claims with proofby electronic means only,” res-olution professional AshishChhawchharia of GrantThornton said in a publicnotice.

All other creditors shallsubmit their claims with proofin person, by post or by elec-tronic means, it added.

The lenders, who had beenowning the airline since March25 with 51 percent stake, hadon June 17 decided to take theairline, which stopped flying onApril 17, to the NCLT as theycould not find a buyer.

Even the only preliminarybid from the Etihad-Hinduja

consortium reportedly wantedthe banks to take 90-95 percenthaircut and also exemptionsfrom open offer norms, whichwould not have been possiblefor the lenders to commit.

On June 20, the NationalCompany Law Tribunal admit-ted the insolvency petitionfiled by State Bank of Indiaagainst the airline.

On that day, the tribunalcomprising VP Singh andRavikumar Duraisamy hadgiven a verbal direction to theRP to try and finish the reso-lution process in three monthseven though the law allows sixmonths, as “the matter is ofnational importance.”

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After opening on a weaknote, the rupee recovered

the lost ground and finallysettled 23 paise higher at 69.35to the US dollar amid weaken-ing of the greenback againstmajor currencies.

At the interbank foreignexchange (forex), the domesticcurrency witnessed heavyvolatility. The local unit openedat 69.58 a dollar and touched alow of 69.60 and high of 69.34during the day.

The local unit finally closedat 69.35 against the Americancurrency, registering a rise of 23paise over its previous close.

On Friday, the rupee hadsettled at 69.58 against the USdollar.

“Sustained weakness in theDollar Index could be the primereason for strength in the domes-tic currency,” said V K Sharma,Head PCG & Capital MarketsStrategy, HDFC Securities.

The dollar index, whichgauges the greenback’s strengthagainst a basket of six curren-cies, fell 0.22 per cent to 96.00.

Forex traders said theuptick in the rupee assumes sig-nificance amid brent above $65per barrel, foreign fund outflowsand resignation of RBI DeputyGovernor Viral Acharya.

Brent crude futures, theglobal oil benchmark, fell 0.14per cent to trade at $65.11 perbarrel.

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The Income TaxDepartment has issued

notices in 380 cases involvingundisclosed assets of over�12,260 crore under the for-eign black money act, FinanceMinister Nirmala Sitharamansaid Monday.

In a written reply to aquestion in the Lok Sabha, shesaid prosecution has beenlaunched in 68 cases.

“As an outcome of theactions taken by the I-TDepartment under BlackMoney (Undisclosed ForeignIncome and Assets) andImposition of Tax Act, 2015, as

on April 30, 2019, noticesunder the Act have been issuedin over 380 cases involvingundisclosed foreign assets andincome valued over �12,260crore,” Sitharaman said.

The Department takesactions, like searches, surveys,enquiries, assessment ofincome, levy oftax/interest/penalty andlaunching prosecution, againstthose possessing black money.

As per data, theDepartment has conductedsearches on 983 groups andseized �1,584 crore in 2018-19,up from 582 cases involvingseizure amount of �993 crore in2017-18 fiscal.

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In the Bajaj Allianz LifeIndia’s Life Goals PreparednessSurvey 2019 over 150 life goalswere mapped. What standsout in these goals is how seri-ously Indians are consideringunconventional life goals. PNS

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Thomas Cook (India) Ltd.,an integrated travel and

related financial services com-pany, championing the spirit ofYoga with the introduction of“Travolution”, on the occasionof International Yoga Day.Giving impetus to physical andmental well-being, itsTravolution wellness packages,invite Indians to travel to findinner peace; yoga being an inte-gral component.

Through this initiative, thecompany plans to revolution-ize holidays into transforma-tional travel via its uniqueyoga and wellness experiences.

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Chinese telecom gear makerHuawei Monday said it is

ready to sign “no back door”agreement with the IndianGovernment to discourageespionage, and other compa-nies should also follow suit.

Huawei’s business engage-ment in India is under scruti-ny by the Government after theUS restricted hardware as wellas software supplies to it.

“We are proposing to theIndian government that we areready to sign ’no back door’agreement. We encourage otherOEMs (original equipment man-ufacturers) also to sign this kindof agreement with the govern-ment and telecom operators,”Huawei India Chief ExecutiveOfficer Jay Chen told PTI.

“Back door” in technologyproducts refers to arrangementwith government or with anythird party to share customers’data in an unauthorised man-ner with mala fide intention.

The telecom departmenthad come up with security

guidelines in 2011 that man-dated telecom operators toinstall certified equipment anddevices in their network toensure they are free from mali-cious softwares or bug.

It proposed hefty penaltieson telecom companies for failingto ensure compliance to the law.However, the government is yetto set up labs to examine secu-rity issues in telecom gears andproducts. The US Governmenthas alleged that law in Chinawarrants its companies to sharedata with country’s intelligencefor national security.

Chen said that Huawei hasconducted research on Chineselaw on its own and with thehelp of big legal firms based inthe US, UK and Australia.

“They did some compari-son. The Chinese intelligencelaw says that citizens and com-panies are supposed to coop-erate if there is some nationalsecurity threat but they neverasked to share data or cooper-ate for state spying. Similar lawsexist in the US, UK, Australiaand India too,” Chen said.

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Indian suppliers are an inte-gral part of Boeing’s global

supply chain, a top official ofthe aerospace major said asBoeing and HindustanAeronautics Limited markedan important milestone in theircollaboration.

Hindustan AeronauticsLimited (HAL) celebrated amilestone with Boeing with thedelivery of the 150th gun baydoor for the F/A-18 SuperHornet.

The Boeing F/A-18 SuperHornet is a twin-engine super-sonic all-weather, carrier-capa-ble multi-role combat jet deliv-ering cutting-edge, next-gen-eration multi-role strike fight-er capability.

HAL has been Boeing’s

long-term supplier in Indiafor over 25 years. Boeingawarded HAL the contract tomanufacture gun bay doors forthe Super Hornet in 2007.

“We are proud of our part-nership with HAL. This deliv-ery of the 150th gun bay doorfor the Super Hornet demon-strates that Indian suppliers arean integral part of Boeing’sglobal supply chain,” Salil Gupte,president, Boeing India, wasquoted as saying in a statement.

“This milestone is yetanother endorsement of ourcommitment to India, which iswell recognised today, becausewe’ve been investing and mak-ing in India for several yearsnow,” he said.

“Our investments in Indiaare robust and ongoing, span-ning technology, hi-tech inno-vation, production capacity,establishing a supply chain net-work, and developing skillingcentres for aerospace manufac-turing in India,” Gupte added.

Boeing has offered to builda 21st century aerospace ecosys-tem in India for manufacturingthe F/A-18 Super Hornet withIndian partners, HAL and

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In a note released byPropEquity, a real estate data,

research and analytics firm onMonday, it said DLF Camelliashas emerged as the No 1 pro-ject in the Super luxury seg-ment in India both in terms ofPrice appreciation andAbsorption.

The project has appreciat-ed annually by 15% since itslaunch in 2014 and has appre-ciated by 88% on an absolutebasis. Over 65 percent of theproject has been sold.

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The water crisis plaguingTamil Nadu has turned out

to be a full blown out water warbetween the ruling AIADMKand the Opposition DMK. Aspart of its efforts to unseat theAIADMK Government, theDMK leadership declared onMonday that it would not allow transportation of waterfrom Jolarpettai in Vellore dis-trict to Chennai .

Chief Minister EdappadiPalaniswami had announcedon Friday that a 50 wagon trainwould be pressed into serviceto transport 10 million litreswater per day from Jolarpettaito Chennai. The Governmenthas set apart Rs 65 crore tomeet the cost of transportingthe water and other expenses,Palaniswami told mediaper-sons after a Cabinet meetingwhich was convened to discussthe water shortage in Chennai.

But Durai Murugan, trea-surer, DMK, declared that hisparty would oppose the StateGovernment’s move to transportwater from Jolarpettai toChennai. Murugan who was theMinister for Public WorksDepartment in the previousDMK Government disclosedthat at present the Tamil NaduGovernment was bringing stag-nant and polluted water fromquarries. “I have seen peopledumping carcasses of animals inthese quarries. The AIADMKGovernment is supplying waterthrough tanker lorries so that itcould get commission fromlorry owners,” alleged Mirugan.

The declaration ofMurugan that his party wouldprevent transporting waterfrom Jolarpettai to Chennai hastook the people by surprise.“Till now, the water war wasconfined to States. Theannouncement by DuruaiMurugan would lead to a situation where people in onedistrict fight their counter-parts in neighbouring district,”said Narayanan Thiruppati,BJP leader.

Murugan is reportedly wor-ried over the poll prospectus of

his son Kathir Anand, the DMKcandidate from Vellore LokSabha constutiency. The pollfrom this constituency wasrescinded following large scaleseizure of unaccounted moneyfrom the residence and businesspremise of Durai Murugan.

Meanwhile, the AIADMKis planning to launch a counteragitation blaming the DMK forits efforts to derail the WaterTrain project.

Dr Nanditha Krishna, direc-tor, CPR Environmental Centresaid this was the worst water cri-sis to hit Chennai in the lastthree decades. “Groundwaterhas almost been depleted andthere is no possibility of findingany new water bodies in themetropolis or in surroundingareas,” Dr Krishna said.

This week will see TamilNadu Government launchingthe works of the third desali-nation plant in a Chennai sub-urb which has the capacity tosupply 150 million litres waterper day is expected to be oper-ational in three years. TheAIADMK Government isgoing ahead with plans to setup a fourth desalination plantfor the metropolis.

“This is too late and too lit-tle. The Government shouldhave launched the works ofthree or four desalination plantsat least in 2012. Under the pre-sent conditions, the only option

available before Tamil Nadu isdesalination plants,” said AYDangore, former head of theDesalination Plant Division ofIndira Gandhi Centre for AtomicResearch (IGCAR), Kalpakkam.

Nagpur-born Dangore iscredited with the design andfabrication of a series of desali-nation plants meeting thewater requirements ofKalpakkam Township, theMadras Atomic Power Stationand the IGCAR facility.

According to Dangore, theGovernment should take seri-ous note of the functioning ofdesalination plants in WestAsian countries. “They areworking without any hitch fordecades. Agreed that they arecostly but there is no otheroption for Tamil Nadu whichis a rain starved State,”Dangore added.

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Even in the absence of anyformal invite from the BJP-

led Central Government, peace talks are gradually gain-ing momentum in Jammu & Kashmir.

After Hurriyat leadership,several mainstream politicalparties have welcomed the‘idea’ of resuming talks with inthe ambit of the Indian consti-tution. But it seems the Stateunit of the BJP is still not insync with the ruling dispensa-tion in Delhi.

After several Kashmir-based politicians, includingNational Conference Chief DrFarooq Abdullah and PDPChief Mehbooba Mufti battedfor early resumption of talks,State BJP spokesman onMonday issued a written state-ment claiming, “any talks withthe Joint Resistance leader-ship/Hurriyat at this stage with-out them publicly acceptingpre-conditions will be counter-productive and a retrogradestep”.

On the other hand, BJPnational vice-president and theJ&K affairs in-charge, AvinashRai Khanna, in Srinagar said,“Centre was open for dialoguewith the Hurriyat leaders “butwithin the ambit of Indianconstitution.”

“We are open for talks.Hurriyat leaders are own peo-ple, they are the residents ofJ&K so they are most welcometo talk to us including thePrime Minister Narendra Modibut within the ambit of Indianconstitution,” Khanna toldmediapersons on the side-linesof a party function in Srinagar.

First of all, the ball was setrolling by the J&K GovernorSatya Pal Malik in Srinagar onSaturday where he made a first‘cryptic’ statement saying, “itwas encouraging to seeHurriyat’s readiness for talks”.

Governor Malik had stat-ed that the Hurriyat leaders,who had once shut doors onRam Vilas Paswan, whenapproached for dialogue, were“now ready for talks, which wasan encouraging sign.”

Without wasting any timeHurriyat Conference (M) ledby Mirwaiz Umar Farooq tooreacted positively claiming,“the amalgam has always beenin favour of talks “as the meansof resolution.”

Reacting to the political

development, NationalConference President and sit-ting Member Parliament fromSrinagar Dr Farooq AbdullahMonday said, “The Governorsays Hurriyat has agreed totalks. Then, talks should beheld with them,”

Similarly, former Jammu &Kashmir Chief Minister andPeoples Democratic Party pres-ident on Monday said she wasrelieved that Hurriyat has“finally” softened it stand ontalks with the Centre.

Quoting a famous Persiancouplet, daer ayad durust ayad(Better later than never),Mehbooba said on Twitter,“Dair aye durust aye. Theunderlying purpose of PDP-BJP alliance was to facilitatedialogue between GoI & allstakeholders. Tried my best tomake it happen in my tenure asCM but relieved that Hurriyathas finally softened their stand”.

Meanwhile in Jammu, Statespokesperson of BJP Brig AnilGupta said, “None of theHurriyat leaders have signaledany change in their stance andcontinue to promote sepa-ratism”. “Mere appeals for talkswith the Centre is no indicatorof any change in their mindset”,he added.

BJP spokesman said,“Hurriyat is the perpetrator ofmost of the problems inKashmir. With the inflow ofHawala money controlled, theyare now strapped of cash andthus asking for talks. The JRLshould publically acknowledgethe undisputable status of J&Kand it being an integral part ofIndia. They should also committheir loyalty to Constitution ofIndia and seek talks only underits ambit,” asserted Brig Gupta.

“Any talks with theJRL/Hurriyat at this stage with-out them publicly acceptingthese pre-conditions will becounter-productive and a ret-rograde step. It will also be ahuge set back to the ongoingextremely successful opera-tions against terror and the ter-ror support network, of whichHurriyat is a major culprit”. In2016, “the same leadership hadspurned the offer of talks with-in the ambit of Constitutionbecause at that time theyenjoyed backing and support ofPakistan. The present offer oftalks is a mere ruse and time gaining exercise toregroup and reorganise,”warned Brig Gupta.

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Trinamool Congress suf-fered yet another setback as

BJP on Monday filched a wholedistrict board, an MLA and adistrict Trinamool presidentfrom the Bengal ruling partywhile its senior leader MukulRoy said what the people sawon Monday was only a trailerof the movie that was going tobe enacted in seven stages.

Chief Minister MamataBanerjee’s recent endeavours torevive her party in North Bengalsuffered a major setback as for-mer South Dinajpur districtTMC party president BiplabMitra joined the BJP alongwith local Zilla Parishad presi-dent Lipika Roy who switchedover to the saffron outfit with ateam of 10 ZP members.

A third blow to the TMCcame from Kalchini further deepinside North Bengal’s Dooarsarea from where sitting partyMLA Wilson Champramaryjoined the saffron outfit. WithChampramary’s joining the BJPthe total number of TrinamoolMLAs joining the saffron outfit post general elections wentup to five.

All the TMC leaders joinedthe BJP in Delhi in presence ofKailash Vijabargiya the party’s observer for Bengal andMukul Roy.

With the South Dinajpur10 ZP members joining the BJPthe 18-member district boardwill naturally go into the handsof the saffron outfit. FormerTMC MP and present TMCdistrict president Arpita Ghoshwho replaced Mitra in thewake of the general electionsthat saw South Dinajpur(Balurghat seat) going to theBJP however said at least fourout of the 10 ZP members whohad joined the BJP would sooncome back to the TMC.

“They told me that theywere forcibly taken to Delhiand promised to rejoin theTrinamool after they return toBalurghat,” she said.

In Delhi, Roy toldreporters, “this is only a part ofthe first phase of the sevenstages in which the TMC lead-ers will join the BJP … by theend of the seventh phaseMamata Banerjee Governmentwill fall from power,” remind-ing “yeh to abhi trailer hei, purapicture abhi baki hei (this is

only the trailer and the wholefilm is to come).”

On why he joined the BJPChampramary said “MamataBanerjee has converted TMC aone-man party. She runs itaccording to her own whims andfancies. No one has any voice inthe party as everyone mustcarry out her orders. She sup-presses the voices of the peoplein a manner that today her partyis trying to impose Bengali lan-guage on the people. They aretelling that if anyone has to livein Bengal he has to read Bengali.This is unacceptable.” The turn-coat MLA further said, “TMC ischarting the CPI(M)’s path withmore ferocity.”

Mitra once TMC’s chargede affairs in North Bengal anda powerful organiser tooechoed Champramary’s voicesaying “people have come toknow about Mamata

Banerjee’s dictatorial wayseven as she tries to win all theelections by putting her pho-tograph in display. But peoplelike us do not rely on her pic-ture because we have our ownorgansational support base.We will not submit anymore toher dictation.”

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In what the TrinamoolCongress promptly saw a

“saffron roadmap to paintBengal in blood,” two seniorBJP leaders from the State onMonday said their party wouldchart the Uttar Pradesh modelshould they come to power inorder to teach the TMC’s“Tolabaj” (extortionist) andcriminal brigade a lesson.

The BJP leaders’ statementscame against the backdrop ofone more shootout death atMathurapur in South 24Parganas where a person wasshot dead by alleged TMCgoons and three others werereceived serious bullet injuriesduring a political clash.

Senior State party leaderSayantan Basu said “if the

TMC goons do not chart theright path and come back totheir senses then the police willbe told to either arrest them orshoot them in encounter.”

Most of these “TMC goonshave created havoc in theirregions by extorting moneyfrom the people and spreadingviolence,” he said, adding whenthe BJP would come to powerit would follow the UP model.“I warn you TMC goons we willchart the UP model and ask thepolice either to arrest the goonsor if they try to flee away toBangladesh then simply killthem through encounters beforethey can cross the border.”

Basu who lost from Basirhatparliamentary seat to TMC’sactress-turned-politician NusratJahan was pulled up by theElection Commission when he

appealed to the CRPF to “shootthrough the TMC goons chestsinstead of aiming at their legs.”

Echoing Basu’s statementsanother State party generalsecretary Raju Banerjee warnedthe Trinamool men who wereextorting money from the peo-ple to “watch out and mendyour ways or else when we willcome to power we will not stopthe police from dealing withyou in encounters.”

He said “after BJP comes topower you (TMC goons) willbe seen standing in front ofyour houses with placards ask-ing for pardon and saying‘spare us and we will never doit again’,” Banerjee said adding“we will not intervene if thepolice dealt you in encounters.”

Reacting sharply to the BJPleaders’ statements senior

Trinamool leader Firhad Hakimsaid “what they are telling nowonly speaks of their character …This only speaks about theencounter ideology that theirparty, particularly their formerparty president and presentHome Minister Amit Shah fol-

lows,” reminding, “encounterdeaths of Ishrat Jahan and oth-ers speak volumes about theBJP’s conduct.” The BJP was aparty of killers he maintained.

Jaipur: The RajasthanGovernment has decided toimplement the Centre’s flagshiphealth insurance scheme,Ayushman Bharat, by inte-grating it with the state’s ownBhamashah insurance scheme.

State Health Minister RaghuSharma on Tuesday said theCentre’s scheme will be imple-mented in integration with theState’s Bhamashah insurancescheme. Ayushman Bharat pro-vides for cashless medical treat-ment worth up to Rs 5 lakh tothe beneficiary families per year.

Sharma said the amalga-mation of the two schemes hasbeen completed. Rajasthan iscurrently providing benefitsto 97 Lakh families under theBhamashah scheme and manyof the eligible families underthe Ayushman Bharat schemeare already covered under theBhamasha scheme. PTI

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The Tamil NaduGovernment on Monday

sought the Centre’s ‘urgent’interevention on the Mekedatureservoir issue, sayingKarnataka seeking environ-mental clearance for the projectwas in violation of an award ofthe Cauvery Water disputes tri-bunal and a Supreme Courtjudgment.

In a letter to Prime Minister

Narendra Modi, Chief MinisterK Palaniswami requested him todirect the Ministry ofEnvironment, Forest andClimate Change to “reject out-right” Karnataka’s proposal.

Palaniswami sought Modi’s“urgent personal intervention”to deny permission to the pro-posal of Karnataka’s CauveryNeeravari Nigama Niyamitaseeking environmental clear-ance for the MekedatuBalancing Reservoir and

Drinking water project.The neighbouring State

seeking such clearance was in“utter violation” of the finalorder of the Cauvery water dis-putes tribunal and a judgmentof the apex court in February2018, he said. Palaniswami saidthe Tamil Nadu Governmenthas been conveying its strongobjections and been urging theCentre to reject outright andreturn the Detailed ProjectReport of the Mekedatu project.

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As they say your gender pref-erence does not define you.

Your spirit does. Ajit Arora madehis foray into film productionthrough 377 Ab Normal, whichvividly portrayed the journey ofhardships that members ofLGBTQ community had under-gone. He is all set to bring its sec-ond edition soon. His commit-ment to the cause prompted himto step beyond the horizons andventure into cinema. He saidenthusiastically, “Whenever theinstance on 377 will be recalled,ours will be the first film on it.”

On being questioned aboutcommencing his journey throughthis film, he said, “When theSupreme Court gave the verdictthat they are to decriminalise sec-tion 377, it was one enough rea-son to start with. This film wasjust a portrayal of what peoplehad gone through before theverdict. So many people hadlived their lives the way theyshouldn’t have had.”

This landmark verdict hadput across that this is not acrime and the film portrayed thesame, the real-life captivatingjourney of emotional display ofpeople who suffered and arenow happy about how things arebeing accepted in the country.

Citing his reasons for choos-ing 377 over any other topic, hesaid, “We would have only shownthe cause but not the solution.Here, we got the chance to por-tray the solution as well. Thecourt is coming to take theaction. So the bracket is closed,right?”

On the forthcoming series,he merely hinted, “It is an exten-sion of the first film. I am leav-ing it on the audience to decidewhether it is the same linear storywhich will continue or is it thefuturistic thing?”

Emphasising on the commu-nity further, he said that ashuman beings, they also have theright to move around withouthaving the fear of going behindbars. “I am glad that this person-al choice was respected by thelaw,” said he.

Ajit apprised us that peoplewill evolve with time. As theysay change is the only constantthing in this world. Decades agointer-caste marriages were not

prevalent. If people did, they weredisowned. Eventually, thingschanged with time. They broad-ened their mindsets. This is anemotional change, which is whyit demands time for people toadapt to changes.

Talking about the impact ofthe film, Ajit said, “People wereasking, ‘Acha ye crime tha kya,iske liye jail ho sakti thi kya? (Was

this a crime? Could somebody beimprisoned for this?)’ They werenot aware of the fact that 377 wasa crime and the bearer were thesepeople. They did not know thatit was legalised by the HighCourt earlier and then reversedby the Supreme Court.”

His first film was streamedon ZEE5, an online channel.Hence, talking about the intrica-

cies of the platform, he said thatweb has a longer shelf life as com-pared to cinema. One can watchit even after 10 days. This hastaken the space of TV viewersand given it a big time dent. Indiahas been fortunate enough to bethe youngest populated country.People have evolved, the newgeneration is completely young atheart and mind at the sametime. They are so well aware ofthe happenings in the world. Weare lucky enough that such con-tent is coming to our route. Itoffers the option of watching anygenre and 500-1,000 things at atime.”

He apprised us that powerfulcontent is important, it can notalways be driven by social caus-es but by a regular person’sdream too. Good content has tobe supported by the treatment ofhow you show it on screen.

Ajit layed stress on portray-ing reality. “I can’t fabricate thecontent to make it larger than lifeor blow it out of proportion sothat everyone likes it. It is not theway reality should be shown. Iftomorrow people say that the lawhas put a big embargo on theHaryana panchayat then I will behappy to make a film right thenand there. We should not thinkabout the verdict or the film assupportive of one community.We are supportive of social cause,it is something which was alandmark.”

He is currently working onmany verticals, one of which is acommon person’s journey toachieve a goal. It’s a film whichconveys a social message.Through this, he is trying to por-tray social causes coupled withregular life content. It mightdrown you in a pool of emotionsto ignite some thought.

The television industry in India stillcontinues to score high but can the

same be said for theatre? Instinctively,the comparison feels inapt as they aretwo different worlds. Poles apart.Theatre is very dynamic, spontaneousand transitional. Actress Kamya Panjabi,having worked for more than 15 yearsin the industry, now steps into the worldof theatre with a play titled PajamaParty. She says, “Television is a piece ofcake and anybody can do it whereas onthe other hand, theatre is not every-body’s cup of tea.”

Directed by Atul Satya Kaushik, theplay revolves around four female friends— Darsha, Aisha, Kalyani and Urvi, whoare from Mumbai and each of them isstanding at a crucial juncture of theirlives. They gather for a pajama party atAisha’s place, who lives there with herboyfriend Abhay. The night progresseswith music, fun, jokes and food but whathappens post that changes their livesforever. But instead of succumbing to itthey decide to stand against it and finda maverick way to deal with this sud-den change in their lives.

Recalling how she ended up sayingyes to Atul for the role, Kamya explains,“When this role came to me, I decidedto politely decline the offer by meetingAtul sir in person as I already had a verytight schedule but the way he describedthe plot of the show. I just couldn’t sayno.”

Talking about the character sheplays, the Shakti actress says, “Myfriend Ishan Yadav, who is the co-pro-ducer of the show, told me that Atul sirwas looking for someone like Kamya forthe role. So the character that I have por-trayed completely resembles to my per-sonality and is quite strong and inde-

pendent.”While everybody on the team had

a lot of time for rehearsing for the play,Kamya had to manage the shootingschedule of Shakti and the rehearsal ofthe play. Speaking about what she usedto do to make the most out of the shortpractise sessions, she says, “I made surethat I knew my lines by heart, not justmy lines, infact I knew other actor’s linesas well. By doing this I had the wholeplay in my mind. Now when you havememorised everything then you actu-ally know what is happening in which

scene, like after my dialogue, I knewwho will speak and even what are theygoing to speak. So the whole situationbecame a bit easy.”

Kamya feels that there is a huge riskthat one takes while improvising in the-atre, whether the other actor can han-dle the improvisation or not, that’s achance that one takes. “In television ifI improvised something and if theother actor didn’t understand it, thescene can be cut but in theatre there areno cuts. Even if you have handled thesituation by improvising it and still the

other actor cannot deliver his dia-logues then it’ll still be a big mess,” sheadds while comparing the process ofimprovisation in television to that intheatre.

Further talking about the theme ofthe play, Kamya shares that what doesit mean to be a modern Indian women.“In our society people are really judge-mental and everybody is worried aboutthe fact that what will people think. Thisthought of what would people think orsay is the biggest worry. Sometimes inthe fear of this thought, we don’t shareour views, opinions and our pain withour family also. So, we need to stop thatand stand up to express ourselves. Imean it is literally the high time that westart taking a stand. This is the timewhen kids and women are being abusedboth physically as well as mentally. Thethings that are happening in today’s eramust come to an end and this can onlybe done by taking a firm stand for our-selves. The concept of modern Indianwomen for me is to speak for yourselfand stand up against wrong because ifyou can’t take a stand for yourself thennobody else will.”

Apprising us about her experienceof the time spend in the world of the-atre, the newbie says, “I have realisedthat there’s still a lot to learn and it’s anever-ending process. The world of the-atre has a lot to offer and I am lookingforward to learn new things as well asperforming better. Television and the-atre are like children to me, while oneis of 15 years, the other is a newborn.Although I want to keep on doing tele-vision for the rest of my life but theatrehas got a different kind of high in it.”

(The play will be staged on June 29at Sri Ram Centre for Arts.)

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Discrimination has been aburning topic in the coun-

try. Actor AyushmannKhurrana, who is continuing onthe path of backing ground-breaking content with Article 15,says the film industry is a sec-ular world where no one dis-criminates on the basis of casteor religion.

Ayushmann, whose filmog-raphy is dotted with unconven-tional stories, features as apolice officer in Anubhav Sinha’sArticle 15, a film which empha-sises on prohibition of discrim-ination on grounds of religion,race, caste, sex or place of birth,which finds a mention in theIndian Constitution.

As for the film industry,Ayushmann said, “There is nodiscrimination in the industry.It is purely on the basis ofmerit. Nobody discusses casteand religion in the industry. Ifyou are good, you are applaud-ed and rewarded. The industryis very secular and democratic.”

The actor has a knack forworking on quirky andunconventional storiessuch as Dum Laga KeHaisha, Bareilly Ki Barfi,Shubh Mangal Saavdhanand Badhaai Ho, whichalso give out a social mes-sage.

What attract-ed him to Article15? “I havealways aspired todo somethingdifferent andArticle 15 is afilm which hasnever beentried by film-makers in them a i n s t r e a mspace. I am gladthis is happen-ing right nowas this is thetime where wecan be coura-geous withthe subjects

of our films. This is the erawhere we can do different stuffand still command credibility atthe box office at the same time,”he said.

After Article 15Ayushmann, who will be seen asa gay man in Shubh MangalZyada Saavdhan, says he neverthought about the “box officegame” while shooting Article 15.

“This is something veryclose to my heart and I com-pletely believe in it,” saidAyushmann.

The film, releasing on June28, has earned the ire of theBrahmin community in UttarPradesh over the fact that thestory has been “tweaked”. Withthe intention of portraying theaccused men as Brahmins, theyfeel it will defame the commu-nity. It depicts how caste equa-tions are prevalent in the area.

Ayushmann is sure that thefilm does not take any sides andhas no intention to show anycommunity in a bad light.

“As of now, they are react-ing to the trailer but with the

film we have not offendedanybody. The censor boardhas cleared the film. Theyare the ones who should betaken seriously. Like the

particular community whoare getting offended,

when they will seethe film, they willrealise that what-ever they aredoing is a redun-dant exercise asthere is nothinglike that in thefilm,” he said.

He also saidthe film is notbased on a par-ticular event. “Itis an amalgamof differentevents whichkeep on hap-

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Ruhail Amin’s name had hitthe headlines when SunainaRoshan, Hrithik Roshan’s

sister and his alleged girlfriend,said that her family was notaccepting him for being a Muslim.

Ruhail said in an interviewwith a TV news channel, “Thisincident has once again exposedthe dark underbelly of identitypolitics at play in today’s liberaltimes which are totally uncalledfor.”

Sunaina had earlier calledher life as “hell” and talked abouthow her family has been makingher life unbearable. In an inter-view with an entertainment web-site, she revealed that she hadasked Kangana Ranaut andRangoli Chandel to help her fightfor justice.

Talking about the love jihadangle their story has taken, Ruhail

called it as unfortunate. “Labellingsomeone extremist just becausehe/she belongs to a certain reli-gion is simply outrageous andneeds to be condemned instrongest words,” he said.

Ruhail said that the two hadlost touch for some time while hewas covering entertainment fornews channel, and only recon-nected through social media.

Ruhail said that when he firstspoke to Sunaina’s family, theywere not happy about their bond.He added, “They did not approveof our friendship. I also got toknow that her parents put a secu-rity ring around her post ourfriendship and when she told meabout it, my first reaction was ofdisbelief and later a good laugh.”

In a previous interview,Sunaina had revealed that she fellin love with Ruhail, a journalist,

a year ago. Her father RakeshRoshan, however, slapped herand allegedly called Ruhail a ‘ter-rorist.’

“Calling someone a terroristjust because of his Islamic iden-tity is unjustified. Religions andgeographies should not becomethe cornerstones of definingextremism. We need to movebeyond that mindset. Mostimportantly, we need to stand upagainst ignorant viewpoints, who-ever has them,’ said he.

Ruhail said that he has beenin touch with Sunaina. “She wantsto restart her life on a positive noteand wants her family to supporther decisions,” he said.

When asked why is there aproblem now even though HrithikRoshan was married to Suzanne,a Muslim, Ruhail said, “Everyonecan see the irony here.”

Earlier, actor Hrithik Roshan’sformer wife Sussanne Khan hadcome to his defence amid ongo-ing family tensions regarding hissister Sunaina Roshan, whom shehad called a loving and a warmperson.

Sussanne had written onsocial media, “As a part of myexperiences with all concernedand in my lifespan of being a partof this close knit family, I knowSunaina, to be an extremely lov-ing, warm, caring person, who isin an unfortunate situation.Sunaina’s father is undergoing amajor health crisis. Her mother isherself vulnerable to say the least.Please respect the families toughperiod, each family goes throughsuch times. I needed to say this assomeone who has been a part ofthis family for long.”

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There is a certain energythat invites and engagesall art lovers who walk

into Anu Bajaj’s Art Positivegallery. Nothing like a sum-mer morning when the lanesare empty to walk in andlook at a fresh take on theworld around us by a group ofartists. Critic and curator’sGeorgina Maddox’s MySummer Garden embodies amix of paintings and sculp-tures.

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Right in front and impos-ing as well as elegant in com-position and oxidation, thepatina of green Pichaikannu’stree with Jallikattu bulls is the‘pièce de résistance’ of theshow. Here is a veritable mas-ter as a sculptor. His under-standing and virtuosity ofplaying with form and mould-ing it to an abstracted perfec-tion is indeed something bothvaluable and vintage. Thebeauty of his work brings inthe harmony of different ele-ments of nature as well as theauthority of the tenets of cre-ating forms born of the deep-er rhythms of the earth.

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nayikas go back to nearly 60years. They frolic and endurein the fervour of femininefables. Gogi’s brush strokeshave about them a piquantpanache, rendering them-selves in the depth of thecolourative chasms of tonali-ties. She has always had verveand vivacity in the manner inwhich her nayikas preen, peeror float about in a sea of emo-tions. Gogi’s women are bornof literature, mythology and

remind us of the little kinnarisfrom ancient lore. Her coloursare warm and inviting, havingabout them a certain echo ofthe past and the present.

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Martin’s works light up thegallery for their luminoustints created in his mastery ofminimalist modes to createmaximum impact. They pos-sess an insight when speakingabout life, by reflecting backto his memories, small events

or moments that help inunderstanding or interpretingthe present. Martin insiststhat this is an open-endedeffort and one is totally free tolook at his artworks from dif-ferent or maybe original per-spectives.

He plays with an ensem-ble of images to convey fun-damental ideas, he also invitesviewers to glance,gleam and enjoymultiple reac-tions and inter-p r e t a t i o n sfrom them u l t i p l emappings ofthoughts hepresents uswith. Hisworld is highlyreceptive and res-onant and is anamalgam of his love forfilms, literature and memo-ries.

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recently described his worksas “cathartic cleansing, apower house of positive ener-gy that has culled itself out ofvicissitudes and trying times.”At Art Positive, his circularearth-shaped canvases have acharming energy that recallthe beauty and balance of acosmic dance, in an interplay

of dynamic and spiritual ener-gy flows, reflecting eternal lifeforces. Panda plays with thebrilliance of abstract as well asfigurative forms to createcorollaries in his cosmic oeu-vre.

His circular charcoal greycanvasses echo endless nights,his streaks of red, brown andsilver trace their own path like

a conscious cascadethat breaks the

monotony of thec h a r c o a l .Panda playswith meta-p h y s i c a li m a g e r i e s ,within theprofusion of

d r i p p i n gcolours and the

flight of butter-flies, who symbolise

hope, change and resur-rection in the Christian the-ology. He also gives us anarray of symbolisms that actu-ally are deeply rooted in theentire cosmos of the creativ-ity of man and nature.Impressionable and full of astirring impact are his worksthat make them a perfectchoice by Maddox.

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show belongs to artist SeemaKohli. It reflects the panora-

ma of feminine subjectivi-ties. She alters the concept offeminine sexuality with adeepened tenor of spiritualessence and ethos. She extolsthe balance and beauty ofphysical attributes, with aprofound arc of intellect,thoughts, dreams and realities,all woven into the paradigmsof patterns that are born of thewomb and of the earth.

She engages, studies andrecreates the power and thedeeper intensities of theHiranyagarbha, that hasevolved from one of themantras of the Yajur Veda. Itreflects the quiet and subtlebeauty of constant procre-ation. The feminine spirit andthe form are itself a prayer tothe eternal self — a sojourn ofdeeper tenets of meditation.Her composition echoes thedynamics and design of thespiritual but it is by no meansreligious, and yet it explores apoetically elegant and richlysensual female form.

Kohli’s work is symbolicof the progress and recyclingof thought processes in thehuman mind, portrayed ascalm, evolved and serene,both in palette and poise. Ifthis large canvas is a gestureof the divine, a prayer to theeternal self, then being in theGarden of Flowers itself iselevating.

In a red-bordered white-coloured saree, with a largemaroon bindi adorning his

forehead, Farhad Colabavalaplays a demure ‘Aunty Ji’ for awhile, then switches over tobeing a man, performing ani-mated stunts, flirting with othermales and even faking anorgasm. In the process, the actorchallenges all notions of genderpolitics and cliches and driveshome the point of the satiricalplay, Kasturba Panda ki Pantie.It was the summer of 2012when the idea of presenting asolo show through theatrebirthed in theatre actor anddirector Madhav Mehta’s mind.

As the duo is set to re-pre-sent the play at Akshara Theatre,seven years after its first presen-tation, Madhav tells us why hekept it as a one-man show, whoplays all the six characters in theplot. “I thought it could be a veryfun element to the play. Farhadand I have been working togeth-er since 2007. And it was just onerandom evening when I got thisidea that ‘What if I do the playonly with him in it?’ It was a newidea but this is why we workedhard to make it work out.”

The play, an adaptation ofCarl Sternheim’s 1910 Germansatire Die Hose, revolves aroundthe story of Kasturba, a frustrat-ed wife of a failed businessmanand a compulsive gambler,Ranjan Panda, who has rentedout his Sundar Nagar Apartmentto recover his monetary losses.However, the flat fails to attractprospective tenants. WhenBollywood actor Salman Khanis poised to make an appearanceat Sundar Nagar’s Diwali Mela,Kasturba, a die-hard Sallu fan,rushes to the fair. She becomesthe talk of the town, as shestretches on her tiptoes to catchhis glimpse, when her under-pants accidentally slip off. Chaosfollows. In a matter of minutes,the number of parties ‘interest-ed’ in taking up Ranjan’s rentalapartment offer skyrockets.

The director says that theplot is a farce on chauvinism anda conservative value system thattries to confine women to par-ticular roles in the society. Herhusband, a stereotypical chau-vinist, “is actually surprisedwhen all of a sudden tenantsstart to come on board after theincident.”

Farhad explains that theprotagonist being Kasturba, hewears the saree throughout theplay and enacts six other roles(all of men) in the same attire.“It’s perpetually funny and inter-esting that there are more malesin the play and only one female.Yet the costume remains that ofa woman’s, symbolically high-lighting that she is the first who

questions stereotypes. Enactingall the characters was indeed achallenge but it did turn out tobe a lot of fun.”

But this, he says, did notonly involve acting skills but a lotmore other things. “There isvoice modulation as I have tokeep changing my voice withevery character. I remember, inmy school, at inter-school dramacompetitions, I used to engagein acts where I had to portraymore than one character andchange my voices. So it was likerevisiting the old days. We alsohad to keep a check on the bodylanguage, which again changeswith the characters. It’s differentfor a man and a woman.”

Talking about the focus, inboth the title and the plot, on theparticular garment — under-pants — how did they make itappear to be satirical and funnyand not awkward or vulgar forthe audience? Madhav says, “Hewas a man at the end of the day.Even though the audience looksat him as a woman in the playand not think about the truth inhis real life, it still is just a storywith an aim. And this aspect thathe plays all the six characters byhimself is the very reason whythe play has so many layers to iteven when it has only one manon the stage.”

Farhad, on the other hand,says, “This very part of the playis its funniest aspect. And wehave worked hard to make it notlook weird to the audience. Thestory was originally inspired bythe German and European cul-ture. But here, in India, we con-textualised the Indian societyand how a woman operateswhen surrounded by a group ofover- and ever-dominating con-servative males.”

(The play will staged onJune 26 to 29 and July 3 to 7 at7:30 pm at Akshara Theatre.)

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Sri Lanka’s most seniordefence official on Monday

became the latest governmentfigure to face possible criminalcharges over “major lapses”linked to the Easter Sundaybombings that killed 258 peo-ple.

Hemasiri Fernando, whowas defence secretary beforethe April 21 bombing of threechurches and three hotels,should be investigated for hisfailure to prevent or minimisethe attacks, Attorney GeneralDappula de Livera said.

The attorney general saidin a letter to Sri Lanka’s actingpolice chief that a presidentialcommission of inquiry hadfound “major lapses” byFernando, who has sinceresigned from his top job.

While Fernando is themost senior defence official toface action, PresidentMaithripala Sirisena also sus-pended police chief PujithJayasundara after he refused tostep down over the handling ofthe attacks.

Jayasundara and Fernandohave testified before aParliamentary inquiry andaccused Sirisena of failing tofollow established protocols inassessing threats to nationalsecurity.

Last week, the attorneygeneral ordered investigationsagainst nine police officers forfailing to act on warningsahead of the bombings, carriedout by Islamic State-backedlocal jihadists.

All nine were senior offi-

cers in the districts where theattacks were carried out andhave now been transferredfrom their posts pending dis-ciplinary action and criminalinvestigations.

Authorities have admittedthat warnings sent by India ofan impending attack by a local group, the NationalThowheeth Jama’ath (NTJ),were ignored.

Some 45 foreign nationalswere among the dead and 500people were injured in theattacks. The tourist hotspothas been under a state of emer-gency since.

Sri Lanka’s StateIntelligence Service (SIS) hasalso been criticised for failingto act on the Indian warnings,but no-one from the state spyservice has been put underinvestigation.

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US Secretary of State MikePompeo held talks on

Monday with the Saudi king andcrown prince after days ofmounting tensions followingthe downing of a US drone lastweek and after President DonaldTrump pulled back from thebrink of retaliatory militarystrikes on Iran. Iran’s navalcommander, meanwhile,warned that Iranian forceswould not hesitate to act againand shoot down more US sur-veillance drones that violateIranian airspace.

The US denies the drone,valued at more than $100 mil-lion, violated Iranian airspace.Trump said he backed awayfrom planned strikes after learn-ing that 150 people would bekilled but that military actionremained an option.

On Monday, Pompeo heldseparate talks with King Salmanand Crown Prince Mohammed

bin Salman in the Saudi port cityof Jiddah to discuss the escala-tion with Iran.

Pompeo wrote on Twitterthat he had a “productive meet-ing” with King Salman and dis-cussed “heightened tensions inthe region and the need to pro-mote maritime security” in theStrait of Hormuz near thePersian Gulf, through whichroughly a fifth of the world’straded oil passes.

From the kingdom, Pompeo

will travel to neighbouringUnited Arab Emirates, anotherclose US ally.

The regional stops, made onhis way to India, may be aimedat reassuring Washington’s SunniGulf Arab allies that the WhiteHouse remains committed tomaintaining pressure on ShiiteIran following Trump’s last-minute about face, which likelyraised questions about US will-ingness to use force against theIslamic Republic.

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brated a landmark win Sundayin a closely watched repeat elec-tion that ended weeks of polit-ical tension and broke the longhold President Recep TayyipErdogan’s party had on leadingTurkey’s largest city.

“Thank you, Istanbul,”Ekrem Imamoglu, 49, said tothe tens of thousands of peoplewho gathered to mark his vic-tory after unofficial resultsshowed he won a clear major-ity of the vote.

The governing party’s can-didate, former Turkish PrimeMinister Binali Yildirim, con-ceded moments after returnsshowed him trailing wellbehind Imamoglu, 54% to 45%.Imamoglu increased his leadfrom a March mayoral electionby hundreds of thousands ofvotes.

Erdogan congratulatedImamoglu in a tweet. Analystsnoted the president, who isgrappling with an economicdownturn and several interna-tional crises, could limit themayor’s power or undermine

Imamoglu’s authority in otherways.

Imamoglu narrowly wonan earlier mayoral election onMarch 31, but Erdogan’s Justiceand Development Party, AKP,challenged the vote over allegedirregularities. He spent 18 daysin office before Turkey’s elec-toral board annulled the results after weeks of partialrecounts.

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trol systems failed to cause anyproblems for Tehran, a Ministersaid in a tweet on Monday.

“They (the American) tryhard, but they haven’’t yet car-ried out a successful attack,”Iran’’s Minister of Informationand CommunicationsTechnology Mohammad JavadAzari Jahromi tweeted.

According to media reports on Saturday, the Pentagon launched a cyberattack on Iranian rocket launch systems whichdisabled the military machin-ery, reports Xinhua newsagency.

On Monday, the Iranianminister decried Americancyberattacks on Iran over thepast years, saying that “wehave been facing cyber-terror-ism for a long time”.

“Last year, we neutralized33 million attacks with the(national) firewall,” Jahromiadded.

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as Washington was expected totighten punitive measures onTehran in a standoff sparked bythe US withdrawal from anuclear deal.

Tensions have flared afterIranian forces shot down a USdrone Thursday, the latest in aseries of incidents includingattacks on tankers in sensitiveGulf waters that have raisedfears of an unintended slidetowards conflict.

Both the US and Iran haverepeatedly said they want toavoid going to war, but the spi-ralling tensions saw USSecretary of State Mike Pompeotravel Monday to meet withSaudi leaders to build a “globalcoalition” against the Islamicrepublic. Tehran says the droneviolated Iranian airspace andForeign Minister MohammadJavad Zarif has backed theclaim with maps and coordi-nates -- allegations dismissed byWashington.

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President Donald Trumpbrushed aside the grisly

killing of Washington Postcolumnist Jamal Khashoggi,saying his death has already beeninvestigated and a Saudi pledgeto spend billions of dollars onU.S. military equipment “meanssomething to me.”

He spoke just days after anindependent U.N. reportrevealed new details of the Saudijournalist’s death and apparentdismemberment at the hands ofSaudi agents. It said there was“credible evidence” that war-

ranted further investigation intothe possible involvement ofSaudi Crown PrinceMohammed bin Salman andcalled for an FBI investigation.

Trump, in an interview onNBC’s “Meet the Press,” said thesubject of Khashoggi “didn’tcome up” when he and Salmanspoke on Thursday, the dayafter the report was released.

The president said theMiddle East is a “vicious, hostileplace” and that Iran and othercountries in the region are alsoguilty of the type of behaviorSaudi Arabia has been accusedof engaging in.

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ABangladeshi known asthe “Tree Man”

because of bark-likegrowths on his body saidMonday he wanted hishands amputated to relievehim of unbearable pain.

Abul Bajandar has had25 operations since 2016 toremove growths from hishands and feet caused by arare syndrome.

Doctors had believedthey had beaten the diseasebut Bajandar fled a Dhakaclinic in May last year fol-lowing a relapse.

The 28-year-old fatherof one was readmitted tohospital in January becausethe condition worsened,with some growths sever-al inches long.

“I cannot bear the painanymore. I can’t sleep atnight. I asked the doctorsto cut off my hands so I canat least get some relief,” hetold AFP.

His mother AminaBibi supported the plea. “Atleast he will be free of pain.It’s a hellish condition,”she told AFP.

Bajander suffers fromepidermodysplasia verru-ciformis, a rare geneticcondition also known as“tree man syndrome”.

Bajandar said he want-ed to go abroad for bettertreatment, but he does nothave the money to coverthe expenses.

Samanta Lal Sen, thechief plastic surgeon atDhaka Medical CollegeHospital, said a board ofseven doctors will discussBajandar’s condition onTuesday.

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China said on Monday itwould not allow the G-20

nations to discuss the massprotests in Hong Kong duringtheir summit this week, as USPresident Donald Trump plansto raise the issue during hismeeting with President XiJinping in Japan.

Hong Kong has beenrocked by major protests overa bill that would allow peopleto be extradited to the main-land to face trial in courts con-trolled by the Communistparty.

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autonomy blocked access to agovernment office building fornearly two hours Monday andplan more demonstrations todraw the attention of leadersattending the G-20 summitthis week.

About 100 demonstratorsjammed the entryway and lobby of the InlandRevenue Tower, a skyscraper inthe Wan Chai district in the citycenter.

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tic chance of winning theWorld Cup but a “freak” calledDavid Warner might justretain it for Australia, feels2015 World Cup-winning cap-tain Michael Clarke.

Former Aussie skipperClarke explained why Indiaand Australia are top threecontenders while making itclear that the coveted Cupmay not “come home” for thehosts contrary to what thelikes of Kevin Pietersen andMichael Vaughan are wishing.

One of the most delightfulbatsmen to have played thegame, Clarke is in awe of thelegend of Bumrah which hasbeen on the upswing for twoyears now.

“I think there is nothingthat he (Bumrah) doesn’t have.He is fit and healthy. I hope hestays that way as he would playa big part in India’s success inthis World Cup,” Clarkeobserved.

But Bumrah will face quitea challenge from Australia,especially Warner, who hasalready scored 447 runs in sixgames with two hundreds.

“I did expect an excep-tional performance fromDavid because he is an excep-tional player. He is a freak. Heis the X-factor in this team. IfAustralia go on to win theWorld Cup, David Warnerwill be the highest run-getterin my opinion,” opined Clarkeand then went on to separate-ly analyse what made the twoindividuals special.

Questioned as to whatmakes Bumrah such a difficultproposition for batsmen,Clarke elaborated, “With thebrand new ball, he can swingand seam it. When the ball isdoing nothing in the middleovers, he has the extra pace totrouble batsmen.”

“He can bowl close to 150clicks and then at the death, hebowls those yorkers as good asanyone else. And if there isreverse swing, he is a genius,”the former Australian cap-

tain summed up the Indianpace spearhead in a nutshell.

Virat Kohli or for thatmatter no captain could haveasked for a better ‘Go To’option than Bumrah, accord-ing to Clarke.

“As a captain, probably,you need someone like him tothrow the ball to when youneed wickets. He can open thebowling, bowl that 35th overwhen nothing is happening orbowl those last four overs atthe death, which can winIndia a World Cup final,” said

the veteran of 115 Tests and245 ODIs.

Would Bumrah been asgood as Wasim Akram hadthere been just one new ballinstead of two?

“I think he would have. Heis that good that he wouldhave found out ways to adapt,”the former Australian skippersaid.

Nothing makes Clarkemore happier than to seeWarner in prime form puttingall the controversies behindhim.

Warner was roundly crit-icised for his slow battingagainst India but that is theapproach which is now givingAustralia a real chance againsta lot of other teams.

“ODI is different fromT20s and it has taken him a bitof time to get back into ODIformat. He has been patient atthe start of his innings.

“People are saying DavidWarner is not at his best. Buthe has had two scores of 150.That shows how good a play-er he is and he is now a lead-

ing run-scorer in the tourna-ment,” Clarke looked excitedand happy speaking about hisformer teammate.

“David has probablyplayed a little bit differently towhat everybody expected atthe start of the World Cup. Buthe has played smart. He hasbatted for a period of time.Remember before he got backinto ODI cricket, he was backin T20 cricket after a 12-month lay-off.”

As far as captaincy is con-cerned, Aaron Finch’s leader-ship has been “impressive”according to Clarke, wholauded Kohli for using twowrist spinners, which hetermed both “positive andaggressive”.

“India is a very skilfulteam and I think they havemade the right decision ingoing in with two wrist spin-ners. That’s the aggressiveapproach and that probablymade the difference with two-wicket taking bowlers in thosemiddle overs.

“Virat’s captaincy has beenvery good so far in the tourna-ment. They are playing unbe-l ievable cr icket at themoment,” said Clarke, whohas always rated the Indiancaptain highly.

The Australian humourcomes out when asked if he,like the England fans, thoughtthat the “Cup is coming home”.

“Well, I am not sure ifeveryone was thinking that. Iknow Kevin Pietersen andMichael Vaughan were think-ing that. I wonder if they willchange their mind now. It’s stilla long way to go,” he grinned.

“We will find out howgood an ODI team Englandare now because they willprobably need to win 2 out ofthe next 3 games and they havegot Australia, India and NewZealand to play.

“If they do it and go on towin the World Cup, it will bea fantastic achievement. Iwould be commentating onthe June 25th game (Englandvs Australia) at Lord’s. I can’twait for that game to begin,” hesaid.

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West Indies were dealt a severeblow ahead of their crucial

match against India after all-rounderAndre Russell was on Monday ruledout of the remainder of the WorldCup with a knee injury.

Russell, who had a terrific IPLprior to the mega-event, has beenreplaced by Sunil Ambris for theremaining three matches of WestIndies.

“The International CricketCouncil has confirmed that the EventTechnical Committee of the ICCWorld Cup 2019 has approved SunilAmbris as a replacement player forAndre Russell in the West Indies

squad for the remainder of the tour-nament,” the ICC said in a statement.

“All-rounder Russell has beenruled out of further participation inthe event due to an injury to his leftknee. The 26-year-old Ambris, atop-order batsman, has played sixTests and six ODIs for the WestIndies,” it added.

The replacement of a playerrequires the approval of the EventTechnical Committee before thereplacement player can be officiallyadded to the squad.

Much was expected from Russell

in the World Cup, especially after hisstupendous show in this year’s IPL,but Russell was far from his best inthe quadrennial event while strug-gling with chronic knee issues.

In the four matches out of six heplayed in the World Cup, Russellmanaged just 36 runs at an averageof 12.

With the ball in hand, he hadpicked up five wickets at an econo-my rate of 5.31.

West Indies are all but out of theWorld Cup as they are languishing atthe eighth spot in the 10-team com-petition with just three points fromsix games.

West Indies take on favouritesIndia on Thursday.

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I’m hoping that after his hundredagainst New Zealand, Carlos

Brathwaite realises that he can be as goodas any all-rounder in the world.

He hits the ball so well and is a top-class cricketer; he's not a T20 playeralone, as his performance at Old Trafforddemonstrated.

There’s no doubt in my mind thatCarlos can make big scores and wingames for the West Indies, but now heneeds to turn his potential into reality.

West Indies could be one of the bestteams around - they have the talent. Hadthe West Indies batsmen turned some ofthose 50s 60s & 70s 80s into hundredsthey would have been in a better posi-tion in the points standing. As for thebowlers with a better understanding ofthe English conditions and better home-work done on the opposing players theycould have performed much better.

A team with Darren Bravo sat on thebench is a team with some talentedcricketers. They weren’t outplayed in atleast three of their games that they lost(New Zealand, Australia, Bangladesh) it'sjust that they're not putting the clinicalfinishing touches necessary to wingames.

Against New Zealand, they were wellaware of the asking rate; all they had todo was knock it around. It wasn’t aboutplaying big shots.

It’s just reading the game properly,however it was a great team effortwhen you think about it they can beproud of some of their performances.

I just hope that they've learnedfrom their mistakes and that they canrectify them because they are talentedCricketers. Ultimately, the difference hasbeen that the West Indies just aren't set-tling in and making big scores.

Everyone in this tournament ismaking hundreds, but it says a lot that

Carlos is the only West Indies player sofar to do so. We have the talent it's justa case of pushing on and batting long.

In that regard, they need to look atthe example set by Kane Williamson.The New Zealand captain didn't breaksweat at all, and just knocked it aroundon his way to a match-winning 148.There hasn't been much balance in thechoosing of the squad in this competi-tion, either.

Sheldon Cottrell wants to bowl fast,

but he’s a swing bowler — and when heswings the ball he takes wickets.

In previous games, West Indiestried to bounce people out. This was animprovement, but only time will tell ifthey have learned those lessons.

There’s also no spin option therewhen the rest of the sides have two orthree. Now, they have to try to producea spinner capable of playing in the ODIformat and in Test matches.

Roston Chase could play the samerole as Moeen Ali does with England,and they also need someone who canhold the fort in the way KaneWilliamson is doing for New Zealand.

West Indies have a lot of good strik-ers of the ball, but they don't have a play-er like Larry Gomes to stick around orRoyston Chase who can also do that job.

Shai Hope is the type of player theyneed to produce more of. If he hadn’tmade the 96 against Bangladesh, theWest Indies wouldn't have made runs.

For all the criticism over his strikerate, if someone had stuck around withhim against Bangladesh, Jason Holder'sside would have made 360 or above.

With three games left, the WestIndies now have to focus on leaving herewith some sort of pride, because theystarted well enough.

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Former Pakistan speedsterShoaib Akhtar Monday said

Virat Kohli fan Babar Azamshould learn to play like his“idol” and convert good startsinto big knocks by adapting tomatch situations the way theIndian captain does.

Akhtar said while Azamhas been scoring some crucialruns for Pakistan, he fails to gothe full distance.

“I would like to tell BabarAzam that when you considerVirat Kohli your idol then youshould also learn to play likehim. Virat has scored runs invery difficult situations. Babar

should learn to take singles likeVirat, learn to improvise likehim,” Akhtar said in a videoposted on his YouTube channel.

“If you look at players likeVirat, Rohit Sharma, KaneWilliamson...All these guysaccelerate their scoring afterreaching fifty. Babar shouldlearn from them. He should

have more range of shots,” headded.

Akhtar, however, showeredpraise on Haris Sohail, whoscored a 59-ball 89 duringPakistan’s convincing 49-runwin over South Africa in theircrucial World Cup fixture hereon Sunday. Babar chipped inwith 69 off 80 deliveries.

“I was constantly sayingthat Haris Sohail should beincluded in the playing XIbecause he is a very compactplayer. Against South Africa, heshowed how to score runs. Infact he looked better than BabarAzam.

“Haris provided the thrustand helped Pakistan get a totalin excess of 300. Haris Sohail wasa great addition and ShoaibMalik was dropped which wasa fair call,” said Akhtar.

The ‘Rawalpindi Express’hoped that Pakistan wil contin-ue to play fearless cricket in theremaining games of the WorldCup and somehow sneak intothe semi-finals.

“I recommend Pakistan tohold their ground, play pressure-free cricket, play according to thebest of their abilities and displaytheir talent.

“Pakistan have a goodchance of making it to the semi-finals. They need to play fearlesscricket without any pressure. IfEngland lose their three match-es against Australia, India andNew Zealand, Pakistan cancome through,” said Akhtar.

With five points from sixgames, Pakistan still have an out-side chance of making the lastfour stage. They will next beplaying New Zealand, followedby Afghanistan and Bangladesh.

If Pakistan manage to winall three of their remainingmatches and results of otherteams go in their favour, theycould make the cut.

The 43-year-old applaudedPakistan’s bowling against SouthAfrica, saying the attacks man-aged to get the ball to reverseswing.

“Pakistan’s bowling was verygood. (Mohammad) Amirpicked up wickets upfront andthat was crucial. Pakistan haveraised alarming bells for otherteams as their bowlers — WahabRiaz and Amir — have been ableto get the ball reverse swing.”

Akhtar, however, was criti-cal of Pakistan’s fielding.

“They dropped as many asseven catches. They droppedfairly easy catches and thatneeds to be rectified. The field-ing needs to be improved,” heinsisted.

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It was all about the positiveintent for Pakistan against SouthAfrica.Today, they played fearless

cricket and weren’t really worriedabout losing the match, which inturn gave them the freedom to paytheir natural game.

Coming after the disappoint-ment of Old Trafford, Pakistanbadly needed such a win.

They have been criticised a lotand the last week has been hard onthem, so coming out of that andproducing such a performance wasparticularly pleasing.

Haris Sohail, in particular, wasa breath of fresh air. He playedmagnificently well, and ultimately,his innings of 89 off just 59 ballswas the difference.

Others got runs but his knockwas the icing on the cake becausePakistan have needed someone tocome in at five or six and up theante.

He really batted well, and it’sprobably a different Haris Sohail tothe one I’ve seen before.

Haris has always been a veryconservative and technically soundbatsman but against South Africa,he took the mantle and played in avery different fashion.

For me, he’s my No 4 batsmanin the team because he’s technical-ly sound and you can give himmore overs to build that innings.

He and Babar Azam could

really complement each other. Theyboth have a habit of making hun-dreds and could push the run ratealso.

Haris is one for the future, forsure. We’ve also started to get the

old Mohammad Amir back, wherehe’s got that mojo of swinging theball back into the right-hander.

It’s not swinging massively, butthe line is right and that’s hisstrength.

Amir is picking up wickets ona regular basis now and that real-ly gives him that confidence to goout and be himself.

Whenever Pakistan get earlywickets, Wahab Riaz and the rest

will follow up. In the middle overs,when the ball is reversing, that’swhere Wahab comes into his own.

It’s about bowling as a unit,which Pakistan did at Lord’s, butthe ones I actually enjoyed watch-ing the most were Shadab Khanand Imad Wasim as they con-trolled the middle overs while alsopicking up wickets.

They never allowed the SouthAfrican batsmen to settle, and as aresult the Proteas were alwaysunder pressure.

Qualification is still up in theair, but I’d really like to see themplay the same way in the comingmatches.

There’s not much time betweennow and the next game againstNew Zealand, but I think they’llstick to the same team unlessthere’s a real difference in thepitch.

If Pakistan keep playing withthat freedom, you never knowwhat can happen.

Before going to Birmingham, Ithink Pakistan will be closelywatching England against Australiaon Tuesday.

That will be crucial, particular-ly if Australia beat England.

Pakistan will be hoping andpraying for an Australia win as thatwould be best for their own qual-ification hopes.

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South Africa’s premier leg-spinner divedlow to his right and plucked the ball just

millimetres from the ground.It was as athletic a caught & bowled as

you’ll see this tournament and sent a dis-believing Imam-ul-Haq back to the hutchfor 44.

Immediately after the catch, for a SouthAfrican record 39th time in a World Cupmatch, the Tahir train left the station andchugged excitedly around the Lord’s infield.

At 40 years of age, Imran Tahir is theoldest player at this World Cup. For context,the competition’s youngest cricketer — 18-year-old Mujeeb Ur Rahman of Afghanistan— was born more than four years after Tahirmade his first-class debut.

So, it’s almost poetic that he celebrateswickets with more unadulterated, childlikeglee than every one of his younger contem-poraries.

The enthusiastic manner in which hewheels away and sprints, endearingly aim-lessly but with arms spread wide, furtherthan most quick bowlers’ run-ups, is infec-tious.

Just ask Babar Azam — who couldn’thelp but smile from the non-striker’s end athis opponent’s jubilation.

But even by Tahir’s standards, this cel-ebration seemed to contain more vim andvigour than normal.

Perhaps it was because he had justpulled off a reaction catch with a high degreeof difficulty that most 20 or 30-year-olds, letalone 40-year-olds, would struggle to make.

Perhaps it was because the wicketcame against Pakistan — the country of hisbirth and team for which he played Under-19 and A-grade cricket in a previous cen-tury.

Perhaps it was because, havingannounced his retirement from ODI crick-et at the end of this World Cup, he knows

there won’t be many more moments like thison the grandest stage.

Or perhaps it was because he had justsurpassed the great Allan Donald’s tobecome the leading South African wicket-taker of all-time at World Cups with 39.

Most likely, it was a combination of allthese and as he prepares to ride off into thesunset, it’s worth reflecting on just howremarkable it is that Tahir became a SouthAfrican record-breaker.

Some players are earmarked for great-ness from an early age but the leg-spinnerdidn’t make his ODI debut until February2011 — just a month before his 32nd birth-day. It’s fair to say he swiftly made up for losttime. He was the quickest South African

bowler to reach 100 ODI wickets, taking just58 matches, and is still the only spinner todo so.

He became his country’s first player totake a seven-for in a one-day internationalwhen he ended with 7/45 against WestIndies in 2016 and perhaps his finestmoment in a Proteas jersey was the man-of-the-match-winning 4/26 in the ICCMen’s Cricket World Cup 2015 quarter-finalwith Sri Lanka.

In England this summer, he has contin-ued to rack up the milestones: the oldestSouth African to appear in a World Cupmatch, playing his 100th ODI againstBangladesh, the first spinner — of anynationality — to bowl the first over of a

World Cup match, and now leapfroggingevery one of his countrymen atop the WorldCup wickets ranking.

At Lord’s, in addition to his athleticexploits to remove Imam, Tahir also hadPakistan’s other opener, Fakhar Zaman,caught at first slip attempting an ill-advisedramp shot to end with figures of 2/41.

His ninth and tenth victims of the com-petition mean he currently has the mostwickets of any wrist-spinner at the event -just another record to add to his CV.

His efforts ultimately weren’t enough tostop Pakistan racking up an intimidatingtotal of 308/7 that South Africa wereunable to chase down — and defeat meanstheir chances of reaching the knockoutstages are now over.

As a result, the Tahir train will only havetwo final chances to get up to speed, so makesure you catch it while you still can.

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South Africa great JacquesKallis has urged the Proteas

to learn lessons from England’sone-day international revivalfollowing the team’s miserableearly exit from the World Cup.

A 49-run defeat by Pakistanat Lord’s on Sunday ensuredthat, with two games in the 10-team round-robin phase still toplay, there is no way SouthAfrica can qualify for the semi-finals.

Faf du Plessis, the SouthAfrica captain, did not pull anypunches, labelling his side’s 259-9 in response to Pakistan’s 308-7 as “borderline embarrassing”.

But Kallis, the outstandingall-rounder of his generation,said South Africa should takeheart from the way Englandrecovered after suffering anequally woeful first-round exitat the 2015 World Cup

Eoin Morgan’s side havesince risen to the top of the ODIrankings and are among theleading contenders to lift the tro-phy this year.

“England used the disap-

pointment of their performancesin 2015 to rebuild their team andtotally change their mentalityand approach to one-day crick-et,” wrote Kallis in anInternational Cricket Councilcolumn.

“England now play withoutfear and aren’t afraid to makemistakes. For me, South Africa

have approached things toodefensively at this tournamentand they need to attack eachmatch with much more positiv-ity going forward.”

Kallis said altering theirapproach did not mean theProteas had to start from scratchwith a new squad.

“You don’t need to makewholesale changes, England arestill captained by Eoin Morgan,as they were four years ago,” hesaid.

“A total clean-out is just notthe way ahead. We need to bemore considered and thought-ful.

“South Africa have somegreat young players in their 20s(Kagiso Rabada, 24, LungiNgidi, 23, AndilePhehlukwayo,23, and AidenMarkram, 24) and they can bethe foundation for the future.”

Kallis added: “The firstthing that needs to be looked atis the brand of cricket SouthAfrica are playing.

“England are proof howquickly things can change infour years, so long as you havethe right approach.”

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Are England just a bunch of “flat-track bullies”? That’s the uncom-fortable question facing Eoin

Morgan’s side as they look to get theirWorld Cup campaign back on trackagainst arch-rivals Australia.

Today’s match at Lord’s was alwaysgoing to be a showpiece occasion, but ithas been given added spice by England’s20-run loss to Sri Lanka.

Faced with a relatively modest targetof 233 on a tricky Headingley pitch,England slumped to 212 all out.

Despite their second defeat of the poolphase following an earlier loss to Pakistan,the tournament hosts remained in the topfour and on course for a semi-final spot.

But England, bidding to win theWorld Cup for the first time, cannot affordmany more slip-ups in their remainingpool fixtures against fellow title contendersAustralia, India and New Zealand —teams they have not defeated at a WorldCup since 1992.

England’s rise to the top of the one-day international rankings since their woe-ful first-round exit at the 2015 World Cuphas been based on aggressive batting.

They have twice posted a worldrecord score at this level in the interven-ing four years, including the current markof 481-6 against Australia at Trent Bridgejust over 12 months ago.

Doubts, however, persist aboutEngland’s ability to bat in less than idealconditions for shot-making.

Their problems were summed upagainst Sri Lanka when Moeen Alimarked his 100th ODI by hitting a six,only to try to repeat the shot next ball andhole out to leave England 170-6.

Former England captain MichaelVaughan was unimpressed, writing inBritain’s Daily Telegraph: “He (Moeen) wasthere to win the game but it was dumbcricket taking on the man at long off hav-ing just hit the ball for six.”

According to research by cricket sta-tisticians CricViz, on the 11 toughest one-day pitches for batting England haveplayed on since losing to Pakistan in the

2017 semi-finals of the ChampionsTrophy on a slow Cardiff surface, theyhave lost five. By contrast, on the 11 bestpitches for batting they have played onsince then, Morgan’s men have wonnine.

England’s problems have been com-pounded by the absence of Jason Roy fromtheir past two matches, with a torn ham-string threatening to sideline the in-formopener from the Australia clash as well.

Yet while former players such asVaughan bemoaned England’s lack ofnous against Sri Lanka, Jos Buttler said theproblem was they were not aggressiveenough. “I think we were a little bit pas-sive as a group,” said the usually big-hit-ting Buttler, who made just 10 beforebecoming the last of four wickets for vet-eran paceman Lasith Malinga.

“That doesn’t just mean hitting foursand sixes, that means showing intensityand trying to put pressure back on thebowlers,” he said.

By contrast, Australia have beenbuoyed by the productive opening part-nership between captain Aaron Finch andDavid Warner and are second in the tableafter five wins from six matches.

Mitchell Starc is the joint-leadingwicket-taker at the World Cup — his tallyof 15 putting him level with fellow pace-men Jofra Archer (England) andMohammad Amir (Pakistan) — butAustralia’s bowling in support of the left-armer has looked vulnerable.

Allan Border, Australia’s captain whenthey beat England in the 1987 World Cupfinal in Kolkata, believes it will be the

bowlers who are decisive. “The game willbe won and lost in the bowling,” he wrotein an ICC column.

“If Australia can hold their groundagainst the onslaught and put pressureback on England, that’ll be key.”

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Let’s just see how it goes. He’s Jason Roy.Of course he’s a big loss. He’s an outstand-ing performer before us. Epitomises the waywe play as a group. � Concerns that Vince hasn’t gone on yet.

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No, it’s not must-win yet. We don’t needto win every game to get to the semis. It’sanother game where we try and produce aperformance that’s worthy.� Is confidence affected by defeats?

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No. We’ve done that throughout theWC already. Guys have performed underpressure for a very long time. They haveperformed under pressure of beingfavourites for the last two years in series thatwe’ve gone in, both away from home andat home, and have no question mark aboutproducing under pressure.�Will the pitch make you to play the extraseamer?

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It’s a good match-up for both teams. It’snormally a really good game. The gameswe’ve played against them in the last twoyears, probably the score line hasn’t been asfair as both sides have played. I think theway that both sides play lends itself to agood game of cricket, as well. So it will bea challenge for both sides I think.�How much of a difference does it maketo have Jofra this time?

Like Mark Wood, very similar roles.Both give you flexibility, with the new ballor first change, and at the end and in themiddle, give you options to change the paceof the game. Similar to the way Australiause theirs, use them as wicket-takingoptions and I think we look to do the same.We have done throughout the tournamentso far.�You told the players to embrace whenthings are different. Will it be the sameagainst Australia?

Playing against Australia is different, butthe feeling of playing against Australia isnullified because we played them so often.If guys had not of played against them a lotover the last, say, three years or four years,it would feel different, and it would feel, youknow, a little bit unknown.

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Australia coach Justin Langer saysEngland are still the team to beat at the

World Cup despite their surprise loss to SriLanka.

England’s seemingly assured path to thesemi-finals now looks a lot less smooth aftera 20-run reverse at Headingley followed anearlier group-stage defeat by Pakistan.

They next face arch-rivals Australia atLord’s, with the reigning champions in fineform after winning five of their six poolgames so far — the only blot on their recorda defeat by title rivals India.

But Langer said England fully deservedtheir place at the top of the one-day inter-national rankings, having climbed to thesummit from the ruins of a woeful first-round exit at the 2015 World Cup.

“They are the best team in the world.Just look at their team... Nothing haschanged in a week,” Langer said on Sunday.

“I can’t wait for Tuesday (today) —England at Lord’s, World Cup. That is whatwe are thinking about,” added the formerAustralia opening batsman.

Langer had a stint in the Englishdomestic game with southwest sideSomerset, where he first encountered ayoung Jos Buttler.

The England vice-captain is nowregarded as one of the quickest-scoring andmost innovative batsmen in the gametoday, with Langer nominating the wicket-keeper-batsman as the natural successor toveteran India great MS Dhoni.

“Jos is an unbelievable player. I lovewatching him bat. He is the new Dhoni ofworld cricket,” said Langer.

“I hope he gets a duck in this (Tuesday's)

game obviously, but I saw him at Somersetand he is an unbelievable athlete and anincredible finisher.

“They (England) have a very strong bat-ting unit and we will have to be right on it.”

But Australia have several in-form bats-men of their own, notably opener DavidWarner, who is the tournament's currentleading run-scorer with 447 from sixinnings. Both Warner and former captainSteve Smith are making their comebacksfrom year-long ball-tampering bans, withthe pair roundly booed when they facedEngland in a World Cup warm-up matchin Southampton.

Langer, asked if he expected more of thesame even from the traditionally polite spec-tators at Lord’s, replied: “Yes, probably butthat is okay. “There is nothing we can doabout the crowds or the opposition. We willjust go about our business.

“I did not know Davey that well(before being appointed as Australia coach)but he is good company.

“His runs speak for themselves. He issmiling a lot. He is hungry. He is playingwell. He loves his family.

“Like Steve, the return has been seam-less and they are playing well too, which ispleasing,” Langer added.

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England fast bowler JofraArcher has told his

Australian Indian PremierLeague teammate Steve Smiththere will be “nothing friendly”when the teams meet in theWorld Cup today.

Archer, together withEngland colleagues Jos Buttlerand Ben Stokes, played in thesame Rajasthan Royals side asSmith during this year’s IPL.

But the England trio andSmith will be on opposite sidesfor the rest of the season, start-ing at Lord’s this week — a fix-ture that takes place ahead of anAshes series.

Tuesday’s game has addedsignificance for England after asurprise loss to Sri Lanka leftthem with little wiggle room intheir quest to reach the semi-finals.

Asked if he thought ofSmith as a friend, Archer saidSunday: “Yes, and I’d like tothink he considers me the sameway as well.

“He’s a really good guy. Butcricket is cricket and I guess it’stime to be friends after. Until thegame is over, there will be noth-ing friendly about it.”

Smith and fellow Australiabatsman David Warner havealready received plenty of pre-dictable crowd taunts followingtheir returns from year-longball-tampering bans.

But they have shrugged offthe jeers, with Warner in partic-ular finding his best form, with

two centuries so far.Archer hopes his rapid pace

and some inside knowledgecould prove useful at Lord’s, eventhough he playfully suggestedSmith had not been keen to facehim in the nets during their timeat Rajasthan.

“To be honest, I didn’t bowlat him much,” said Archer.

“A lot of the guys probablydon’t want to face me or (WestIndies quick) Oshane Thomas in

the nets. They like the side-armand the throw downs.

“But when you play withthem you pick up on things youwon’t normally notice whenyou’re just playing against them.”

“So hopefully me and Bencan get together, I think wemight bowl together at somepoint as well. We probably knowwhat to do when he’s in.”

Barbados-born Archer onlyqualified for England in March,

meaning Tuesday will be the firsttime he has played againstAustralia in a competitive inter-national.

“Just from watching theAshes and stuff I know it is apretty intense game betweenthem,” he said.

“I’m not too sure if it willaffect me coming in withouthaving experienced it before. Itcould be an advantage, me notbeing part of what happenedbefore.”

Opening batsman JasonRoy was absent from training onSunday, suggesting he may notrecover in time from a tornhamstring to play againstAustralia but paceman LiamPlunkett did take part after arecent virus.

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Bangladesh boosted their bid toreach the World Cup semi-finals asShakib Al Hasan’s superb all-round

display inspired a 62-run win overAfghanistan on Monday.

Shakib’s 51 laid the foundations forBangladesh to score 262-7 and made himthe leading run-scorer in this year’sWorld Cup.

The 32-year-old then ripped throughthe Afghan batting line-up with hiscareer-best ODI figures of 5-29 from 10overs.

Shakib is only the second player inWorld Cup history to take five wicketsand hit a 50 in the same match afterIndia’s Yuvraj Singh against Ireland in2011.

Bangladesh, winners against SouthAfrica and the West Indies earlier in thetournament, are up to fifth place in the10-team group stage.

They sit one point behind fourth-placed England, who face Australia onTuesday, in the race to seal a semi-finalberth via a top-four finish.

Mashrafe Mortaza’s side play Indiaand Pakistan in their final two groupmatches.

Afghanistan became the first team tobe eliminated after an agonising 11-runloss against India on Saturday, whenMohammed Shami's final-over hat-trickdenied them a famous upset.

Gulbadin Naib’s team have lost allseven of their matches, leaving with twogames to avoid finishing the tournamentwithout a single point.

Rahmat Shah and Gulbadin put on49 for the first wicket, giving Afghanistanhope of a surprise win.

But Shakib’s introduction brought thebreakthrough as the spinner weaved hismagic.

Rahmat carelessly flicked a flatterdelivery to Tamim Iqbal at mid-on and

departed for 24.Just 10 runs came from the next five

overs and Hashmatullah Shahidi perishedwhen he tried to accelerate, stumped byMushfiqur Rahim off Mosaddek Hossain

for 11.Bangladesh had victory in their

sights after Shakib took two wickets inthe space of four balls.

Gulbadin was removed for 47 after

driving low to Liton Das at short extracover before Mohammad Nabi wasbowled through the gate for a duck.

Shakib became the first Bangladeshplayer to take five wickets in the WorldCup when he had Najibullah Zadranstumped.

Earlier, Shakib became the leadingrun scorer in this year's World Cup so faras his side posted a solid score after beingput into bat.

Shakib’s 51 took him to 476 runs inthe tournament, while Mushfiqur top-scored with 83 from 87 balls.

Liton was promoted ahead of SoumyaSarkar to open along with Tamim forBangladesh, with the pair managing a

brisk 23 from the first four overs.But Liton fell for 16 in the next over

after being fooled into a miscued driveby spinner Mujeeb Ur Rahman, who fin-ished with 3-39.

That brought Shakib to the creaseand he upped the tempo even furtherwith some aggressive hitting that main-tained his fine World Cup form.

When Shakib, who has two centuriesalready in the tournament, pulled Naibto the boundary, it moved him aboveAustralia’s David Warner’s 447 runs.

Tamim and Shakib put on theirfourth successive fifty partnership in one-day internationals.

Shakib went on to become only thesecond player to hit six consecutive 40-plus scores in a World Cup.

Not long after that milestone, Shakibbrought up his half-century in 66 balls— his fifth score of 50 or more in thistournament — to huge cheers from theBangladesh fans who made up the major-ity of the crowd.

Shakib was unable to turn his solidstart into another century, but he wouldcontribute more than enough with theball to seal the victory.

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Aguero’s late second gaveArgentina a 2-0 win over Qataron Sunday that qualified themfor the Copa America quarter-finals.

A l r e a d y - q u a l i f i e dColombia beat Paraguay 1-0 inthe other Group B match tosecure a place in the last eightfor both Peru, who finishedthird in Group A, and Uruguay,currently second in Group C.

Argentina, who finish sec-ond in Group B behindColombia, will play Venezuelaat Rio de Janeiro’s iconicMaracana stadium in the quar-ter-finals, while tournamentdebutants and guests Qatar areout.

Paraguay, on two points,must wait and see what happensin Monday’s Group C clashbetween Japan and Ecuadorbefore finding out if they qual-ify as one of the two best third-place finishers.

Peru, with four points, aresure of that while only a drawbetween Japan and Ecuadorwould see Paraguay progress.

Argentina coach LionelScaloni recalled ManchesterCity forward Aguero for thecrunch tie while Martinez kepthis place at the expense ofAngel Di Maria.

Asian champions Qatarmade a calamitous start whena weak headed clearance fromTarek Salman fell to Martinez12 yards out, but the InterMilan forward sent his volley

over the top.He didn’t have to wait long

for another chance though asBassam Hisham played a ballacross his box and straight tothe feet of the Argentina for-ward, who scuffed a shot intothe bottom corner after justfour minutes.

With the weight was liftedfrom Argentina’s shoulders,they played with a freedomexpected of a side boastingtalents such as Aguero andfive-time Ballon d’Or winnerLionel Messi.

Qatar played with limitedambition but their talented for-wards looked dangerous whenthey did venture into the finalthird.

Hasan Khalid Al Haydosgot in behind the Argentinabackline and tried to chipFranco Armani but the goal-keeper got a touch to divert theball behind, although the lines-man’s flag was up and it would-n’t have counted.

Messi burst into life with anacceleration towards Qatar’sarea before slipping a pass toAguero, who dragged his left-footed shot wide under pres-sure.

Qatar were sporadicallydangerous on the break andPortuguese-born Ro-Ro stole inat the back post to meet aKarim Boudiaf cross but could-n’t direct his volley on target.

Up the other end, NicolasOtamendi headed over fromclose range when it lookedeasier to score.

Argentina almost scored asecond after Qatar goalkeeper

Saad Al-Sheeb spilled a head-er by Martinez causing a scram-ble in the box, but neitherAguero nor Martinez couldpoke the ball home.

Iraq-born Hisham almostmade amends for his earliergaffe with a free-kick at the endof the half but his shot, whichpassed through the Argentinawall, cliped the outside of theupright.

Another direct Messi runset up Aguero but his shot wasdeflected over by Algeria-bornBoualem Khoukhi.

Aguero then drew a savefrom Al-Sheeb with a shotfrom outside the area.

Qatar made few chancesbut when they did, Akram Afifsnatched at his effort from dis-tance when a smarter movewould have been to play in arunner from midfield.

Aguero finally scored thegoal his industry deserved witha purposeful run past twodefenders before sending across-shot into the far bottomcorner eight minutes from time.

Already guaranteed of win-ning the group, Colombia’sPortuguese coach CarlosQueiroz made 10 changes to hisline-up, with only Juventus for-ward Juan Cuadrado retaininghis place.

They took the lead just afterthe half-hour mark whenGustavo Cuellar scored throughgoalkeeper Roberto Fernandez’slegs from a tight angle.

In the second halfColombia had a goal and apenalty award chalked off byVAR.

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Lewis Hamilton andMercedes moved within

reach of an overhaul of some ofFormula One’s most notablerecords with his flawlessunchallenged triumph inSunday’s French Grand Prix.

But his extraordinary suc-cess — his victory was his sixthin eight races this year —prompted a negative reaction insome quarters from critics whofind Mercedes’ domination“boring” and the races lackingin suspense and thrills.

Hamilton, who admits hissuccess feels “unreal”, said onSunday he understood if spec-tators, or the global broadcastaudience, lost interest but urgedthem to blame the sport’s rules,not the drivers.

“We need to see a dramat-ic overhaul,” he said, addingthat the structure of the sport’smanagement was also in needof change.

He added: “It’s reallyimportant that people realise it’snot the drivers fault — this is

a constant cycle of F1 for yearsand years. And before I got toF1. It’s because the way Bernie(Ecclestone) had it set up andthe decisions they made then.

“Until that structurechanges, it will be the same inmy opinion.”

As Hamilton and Mercedescontinue their relentlessdestruction of the records, it isunreasonable to ask his team toslow down, as the president ofthe sport’s ruling body, theInternational MotoringFederation (FIA) Jean Todt,once the boss of the all-con-quering team that poweredMichael Schumacher to five ofhis seven titles, has pointed out.

“It is beautiful to see 20 carsat a marvellous circuit, trulymodern, a real motor racingcircuit, with the best teams andthe best drivers in the world,”he said.

“Then, if one team is bet-ter, and you see this in all

sports, it is because it is thestrongest.”

He suggested there are notthe same complaints at seeingtennis star Rafael Nadal dom-inate at Roland Garros and saidthat Mercedes rivals shouldwork harder to overhaul them.

Hamilton, meanwhile, willhave to ignore the noise andcarry on winning as he closesin on Schumacher's record of91 wins — his victory onSunday was his 79th — and apotential sixth world title.

"I definitely didn't expect tohave six wins at this point andit doesn't feel real," he admit-ted after his pole-to-flag win,his second in succession at LeCastellet.

It also brought Mercedestheir 10th consecutive victoryand brought into prospect an11th at this weekend's AustrianGrand Prix, a total that wouldbe a record in the sport's mod-ern era.

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Former world number one AndyMurray says he could resurrect

his singles career at thisyear's US Open follow-ing a remarkablereturn to tenniswith victory inthe men's dou-bles at theQueen's Clubtournament onSunday.

The 32-year-oldScotsman teamed upwith Spanish partnerFeliciano Lopez totake a 7-6 (8/6), 5-7,10-5 win overBritain's JoeSalisbury andRajeev Ram ofthe UnitedStates.

The three-time GrandSlam champi-on's triumphcomes afterwhat hedescribed as"life-changing" hipsurgery earlier thisyear.

Murray saidthat while he hadnot made up hismind about a

return to singles, the US Openwould be the tournament whereit could happen.

If so, it would be a remark-able turnaround for a man who

was tearfully pondering retire-ment in January and has seen

his singles ranking tumbleto 215 in the world.

"I mean, potentially,yeah," he said whenpressed as to whether theUS Open — where he wonhis first Grand Slam title in2012 — could be the placeto resume his singlescareer.

"But I don't care, real-ly, either way. Like, itwould be nice to play atthe US Open, but if I don't

-- look, I got somuch enjoy-

ment andhappiness

after win-ning a firstround doublesmatch here that, you know, that'senough.

"I don't have to be getting tothe US Open this year and be real-ly competitive and have to win the

tournament for me to enjoy it."Murray, also a two-time

Olympic singles champion, said hehad to be mindful about his hip,although he came through the weekat Queen's pain free.

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Rafael Benitez's three-year reign as

Newcastle manager willcome to an end nextweek after failing to agreeterms on a new contract,the club confirmed onMonday.

Benitez was a hugelypopular figure amongthe Newcastle supportafter stabilising theMagpies in the PremierLeague and the news islikely to spark moreprotests aimed at theclub's owner MikeAshley.

"It is with disappoint-

ment that we announcemanager Rafael Benitezwill leave NewcastleUnited upon the expiryof his contract on 30thJune 2019," Newcastlesaid in a statement.

"We have workedhard to extend Rafa'scontract over a signifi-cant period of time, how-ever it has not been - andwill not be - possible toreach an agreement withRafa and his representa-tives."

Despite failing tokeep Newcastle in thetop flight shortly aftertaking over in March2016, Benitez earned hero

status on Tyneside as heled Newcastle back to thePremier League at thefirst time of asking. Hethen comfortably securedsurvival by finishing 10thand 13th in the last twoseasons. However, theSpaniard did not hide hisdispleasure at the lack ofbacking he was affordedby Ashley and wasbelieved to be seekingassurances over the bud-get he would have towork with before com-mitting his future to theclub.

"I have been trying towin titles everywhere, indifferent countries, andwe have to have a teamthat can compete," theformer Liverpool, InterMilan and Real Madridmanager told Sky Sports inApril.

"The city, the club,everyone in Newcastle issupporting the team so it'smassive. I'm not saying£200m but doing a littlebit more, doing the rightthings, we can competeagainst the teams that arenow maybe between sev-enth and 12th. But wehave to do things right."

Benitez, who won theChampions League whenin charge of Liverpool in2005, has been reported-ly offered a contract worth£12 million-a-year atChinese club DalianYifang.

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