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T he arithmetic in Jammu & Kashmir Assembly may not favour formation of any Government in the immediate future, but the legislators and mainstream political leaders are trying to explore the pos- sibility to put in place a new regime. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) maintained silence after three of its legislators, including a former Minister, went public against former Chief Minister Mehbooa Mufti, but the BJP attempted to take advantage of the dissent. Senior BJP leader and former Deputy Chief Minister Kavinder Gupta claimed that “disgruntled leg- islators belonging to different political parties” may join hands together to support a BJP Government in the State. The speculation has put People’s Conference chairman Sajad Lone at the centre stage. Lone’s recent meeting with BJP national general secretary Ram Madhav in Srinagar triggered speculation that a new alliance was in the offing. However, Lone took to twitter to deny that he held any meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi. Sources said that the PDP’s top leadership in the absence of Mehbooba Mufti, who is in New Delhi for the past few days, did not make any attempt to reach out to the disgruntled legislators. Former Minister Imran Reza Ansari and his legislator uncle Abid Ansari launched a salvo against PDP president Mehbooba Mufti accusing that her incompetence led to the debacle of the coalition Government as she was swarmed by her close relatives and coterie. Another legislator Abbas Wani also joined the Ansari duo and hinted at quit- ting the party for alleged mal- treatment by its leadership. “Many people in party are disappointed with the leader- ship. No party leaders approached me to know about my issues,” Wani, who repre- sents Tangmarg constituency, said. The possible revolt in the PDP was published promi- nently in local newspapers and remained a hot topic in public conversation during the day. A senior PDP leader told The Pioneer that after Mehbooba returns to Srinagar, the party would call a meeting to discuss the emerging polit- ical scenario. “The PDP is a strong political entity. There is scope for diverse opinions but it is too far-fetched to conclude that the recent rumblings can tell upon the strength of the party’s edifice,” he said. He said that Ansaris had a deep grudge against a few indi- viduals in the party and after the fall of the Government they have gone public. Meanwhile, the Congress on Tuesday clarified that it has no design to take part in any process aimed at Government formation in J&K. P reventing the States from arbitrarily appointing the heads of State police force, the Supreme Court on Tuesday laid down a set of guidelines that would make it customary for the State Government to seek the nod of the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) before filling up the crucial post. Cracking the whip on the States, the Bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justices AM Khanwilkar and DY Chandrachud felt States have to scrupulously follow its orders by preparing a list of candidates fit for appointment of Director General of Police(DGP)/ Commissioner of Police, three months prior to the retirement of the incum- bent. The States have to select one out of the panel of names suggested by the UPSC, the Bench said, adding that no State shall appoint an acting DGP pending the formal appointment, and make him permanent just towards his superannuation. While directing all States to strictly comply with its order, the court put in “abeyance” all State laws enacted in violation of this order. This is the second time that the apex court has tightened screws on the executive to avoid politicisation of police force at the hands of politicians. Earlier, on September 22, 2006 elaborate orders were passed by the SC to reform police force that included selection of police chief in the States/UTs out of a panel of names suggested by the UPSC. Unfortunately, these reforms were breached by the State Governments. Some of them even passed State legis- lations to override the apex court’s order. Attorney General KK Venugopal informed the court on Tuesday that five out of 29 States alone sent names to the UPSC. These included Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Rajasthan. T he 12 boys and their soccer coach, who disappeared when flooding trapped them in a Thai cave they were explor- ing on June 23 after a soccer game, were found rake thin but alive, huddled on a ledge deep inside a flooded cave late on Monday in the cavern in north- ern Chiang Rai province dur- ing a desperate search. The astonishing rescue sparked jubilation across the country after the country mounted a massive and gruelling opera- tion beset by heavy down- pours and fast-moving flood- waters. The effort even drew international help. However, the focus quick- ly shifted to the tricky task of how to evacuate them safely from the still-flooded caverns. Heavy rain forecast for north- ern Thailand could worsen flooding in a cave where the 12 boys, aged 11-16, and their 25- year-old coach are waiting to be extracted by rescuers, possibly forcing authorities to have them swim out through a nar- row, underwater passage in the cavern, a top official said on Tuesday. Much-needed food and medical supplies -- including high-calorie gels and parac- etamol -- reached them today as rescuers prepared for a pro- longed extraction operation. The Thai military said it is pro- viding months’ worth of food and diving lessons to the boys to help them out of the water- logged Tham Luang network in the country’s monsoon- drenched north. “(We will) prepare to send additional food to be sustained for at least four months and train all 13 to dive while continuing to drain the water,” Navy Captain Anand Surawan said. The 13 have been described as healthy and being looked after by seven members of the Thai Navy SEALs, including medics, who were staying with them inside the cave. While efforts to pump out floodwaters are continuing, it’s clear that some areas of the sprawling cavern cannot be drained, said Interior Minister Anupong Paojinda, a member of Thailand’s ruling military junta. In order to get them out ahead of the bad weather fore- cast for later in the week, they might need to use diving gear while being guided by profes- sional divers, he said. Anupong said the boys would be brought out via the same complicated route through which their rescuers entered, and he conceded that if something went awry, it could be disastrous. “Diving is not easy. For people who have never done it, it will be diffi- cult, unlike diving in a swim- ming pool, because the cave’s features have small channels,” he said. H aving dealt with hardened criminals and their gangs, Delhi Police Crime Branch sleuths are burning midnight oil to understand the com- plexities of human brain. To unravel the mystery behind 11 deaths of Bhatia family in North Delhi’s Burari on Sunday, the sleuths are seeking help of clinical psy- chologists and human behav- iour scientists. “Lalit (42) the main pro- tagonist of the alleged suicide of all the 11 members was suf- fering from shared psychotic behaviour. Investigation carried out so far has indicated that people afflicted with this men- tal syndrome often claim to see and hear imaginary people. The person then wants those close to him feel and hear the same,” a police official said. Psychiatrists consulted by the Crime Branch told officials that the jottings in the registers recovered from the house indi- cate that Lalit was suffering from shared psychotic behav- iour and he was driving force behind making to believe what he uttered and felt. Meanwhile, mental health experts have suggested “psy- chological autopsy” as that would help in understanding the behaviour of all the 11 members of the family. In such cases, it is important to know whether they were read- ing the same book or similar themed books or were part of any cult. A pedestrian portion of a Road Over Bridge (ROB) near the Andheri station came crashing down on the Western Railway tracks on Tuesday around 7.30pm, injuring five persons, dis- rupting train services for most part of the day and in the process preventing lakhs of office-goers from reaching their work stations. While Mumbaikars thanked their lucky stars for sparing their city of a major dis- aster, it was an alert suburban train motorman who saved the lives of hundreds of com- muters travelling by Borivli- Churchgate local by bringing it to a screeching halt, seconds before the collapse. Railway Minister Piyush Goyal, who visited the mishap site in the evening, announced a cash reward of 5 lakh to Sawant, in recognition of his effort to save hundreds of lives. A day after Punjab Government dismissed Ferozepur DSP Daljit Singh Dhillon, the tainted cop was arrested on Tuesday on the charges of forcing a Ludhiana woman into drugs and sexual- ly exploiting her. Dhillon was remanded to the four-day police custody after he was produced in the Mohali court on Tuesday evening. Only a day before, the Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh has issued dismissal orders against Dhillon under provisions of Article 311 of the Constitution. Dhillon was earlier placed under suspension on June 28, following charges of pushing a 28-year-old Ludhiana woman into drugs. His dismissal orders came after legal examination of a fact-finding inquiry con- ducted by IPS officer and Phillaur Punjab Police Academy’s director Anita Punj, and based on the woman’s statement. In the inquiry, the officer was found indulging in “moral- ly corrupt” activities while post- ed at Tarn Taran and “misusing his official position and powers vested in him as a gazetted police officer” by “raping” a girl and “alluring her into drugs”. The probe has further been entrusted to a special investi- gating team (SIT) headed by Arunpal Singh, IGP (crime), Sanmeet Kaur, AIG (investiga- tion), and Rakesh Kaushal, commandant.

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The arithmetic in Jammu &Kashmir Assembly may

not favour formation of anyGovernment in the immediatefuture, but the legislators andmainstream political leadersare trying to explore the pos-sibility to put in place a newregime.

The Peoples DemocraticParty (PDP) maintained silenceafter three of its legislators,including a former Minister,went public against formerChief Minister Mehbooa Mufti,but the BJP attempted to takeadvantage of the dissent. SeniorBJP leader and former DeputyChief Minister Kavinder Guptaclaimed that “disgruntled leg-islators belonging to differentpolitical parties” may joinhands together to support a BJPGovernment in the State.

The speculation has putPeople’s Conference chairmanSajad Lone at the centre stage.Lone’s recent meeting with BJPnational general secretary RamMadhav in Srinagar triggeredspeculation that a new alliancewas in the offing. However,Lone took to twitter to denythat he held any meeting with

Prime Minister Narendra Modiin New Delhi.

Sources said that the PDP’stop leadership in the absence ofMehbooba Mufti, who is inNew Delhi for the past fewdays, did not make any attemptto reach out to the disgruntledlegislators.

Former Minister ImranReza Ansari and his legislatoruncle Abid Ansari launched asalvo against PDP presidentMehbooba Mufti accusing thather incompetence led to thedebacle of the coalitionGovernment as she wasswarmed by her close relatives

and coterie. Another legislatorAbbas Wani also joined theAnsari duo and hinted at quit-ting the party for alleged mal-treatment by its leadership.

“Many people in party aredisappointed with the leader-ship. No party leadersapproached me to know aboutmy issues,” Wani, who repre-sents Tangmarg constituency,said. The possible revolt in thePDP was published promi-nently in local newspapersand remained a hot topic inpublic conversation during theday.

A senior PDP leader toldThe Pioneer that afterMehbooba returns to Srinagar,the party would call a meetingto discuss the emerging polit-ical scenario. “The PDP is astrong political entity. There isscope for diverse opinions butit is too far-fetched to concludethat the recent rumblings cantell upon the strength of theparty’s edifice,” he said.

He said that Ansaris had adeep grudge against a few indi-viduals in the party and afterthe fall of the Governmentthey have gone public.

Meanwhile, the Congresson Tuesday clarified that it hasno design to take part in anyprocess aimed at Governmentformation in J&K.

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Preventing the States fromarbitrarily appointing the

heads of State police force, theSupreme Court on Tuesdaylaid down a set of guidelinesthat would make it customaryfor the State Government toseek the nod of the UnionPublic Service Commission(UPSC) before filling up thecrucial post.

Cracking the whip on theStates, the Bench of ChiefJustice Dipak Misra, JusticesAM Khanwilkar and DYChandrachud felt States haveto scrupulously follow itsorders by preparing a list of

candidates fit for appointmentof Director General ofPolice(DGP)/ Commissionerof Police, three months prior tothe retirement of the incum-bent. The States have to selectone out of the panel of namessuggested by the UPSC, theBench said, adding that noState shall appoint an actingDGP pending the formalappointment, and make himpermanent just towards hissuperannuation.

While directing all States tostrictly comply with its order,

the court put in “abeyance” allState laws enacted in violationof this order.

This is the second time thatthe apex court has tightenedscrews on the executive toavoid politicisation of policeforce at the hands of politicians.Earlier, on September 22, 2006elaborate orders were passed bythe SC to reform police forcethat included selection of policechief in the States/UTs out of apanel of names suggested bythe UPSC.

Unfortunately, thesereforms were breached by theState Governments. Some ofthem even passed State legis-lations to override the apexcourt’s order. Attorney GeneralKK Venugopal informed thecourt on Tuesday that five outof 29 States alone sent names tothe UPSC. These includedTamil Nadu, Karnataka,Andhra Pradesh, Telanganaand Rajasthan.

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The 12 boys and their soccercoach, who disappeared

when flooding trapped them ina Thai cave they were explor-ing on June 23 after a soccergame, were found rake thin butalive, huddled on a ledge deepinside a flooded cave late onMonday in the cavern in north-ern Chiang Rai province dur-ing a desperate search. Theastonishing rescue sparkedjubilation across the countryafter the country mounted amassive and gruelling opera-tion beset by heavy down-pours and fast-moving flood-waters. The effort even drewinternational help.

However, the focus quick-ly shifted to the tricky task ofhow to evacuate them safelyfrom the still-flooded caverns.

Heavy rain forecast for north-ern Thailand could worsenflooding in a cave where the 12boys, aged 11-16, and their 25-year-old coach are waiting to beextracted by rescuers, possiblyforcing authorities to havethem swim out through a nar-row, underwater passage inthe cavern, a top official said onTuesday.

Much-needed food andmedical supplies -- includinghigh-calorie gels and parac-

etamol -- reached them todayas rescuers prepared for a pro-longed extraction operation.The Thai military said it is pro-viding months’ worth of foodand diving lessons to the boysto help them out of the water-logged Tham Luang network inthe country’s monsoon-drenched north. “(We will)prepare to send additional foodto be sustained for at least fourmonths and train all 13 to divewhile continuing to drain the

water,” Navy Captain AnandSurawan said.

The 13 have beendescribed as healthy and beinglooked after by seven membersof the Thai Navy SEALs,including medics, who werestaying with them inside thecave.

While efforts to pump outfloodwaters are continuing, it’sclear that some areas of thesprawling cavern cannot bedrained, said Interior MinisterAnupong Paojinda, a memberof Thailand’s ruling militaryjunta. In order to get them outahead of the bad weather fore-cast for later in the week, theymight need to use diving gearwhile being guided by profes-sional divers, he said.

Anupong said the boyswould be brought out via thesame complicated routethrough which their rescuersentered, and he conceded thatif something went awry, itcould be disastrous. “Diving isnot easy. For people who havenever done it, it will be diffi-cult, unlike diving in a swim-ming pool, because the cave’sfeatures have small channels,”he said.

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Having dealt with hardenedcriminals and their gangs,

Delhi Police Crime Branchsleuths are burning midnightoil to understand the com-plexities of human brain.

To unravel the mysterybehind 11 deaths of Bhatiafamily in North Delhi’s Burarion Sunday, the sleuths areseeking help of clinical psy-chologists and human behav-iour scientists.

“Lalit (42) the main pro-tagonist of the alleged suicideof all the 11 members was suf-

fering from shared psychoticbehaviour. Investigation carriedout so far has indicated thatpeople afflicted with this men-tal syndrome often claim to seeand hear imaginary people.The person then wants thoseclose to him feel and hear thesame,” a police official said.

Psychiatrists consulted bythe Crime Branch told officialsthat the jottings in the registersrecovered from the house indi-cate that Lalit was sufferingfrom shared psychotic behav-iour and he was driving forcebehind making to believe whathe uttered and felt.

Meanwhile, mental healthexperts have suggested “psy-chological autopsy” as thatwould help in understandingthe behaviour of all the 11members of the family. Insuch cases, it is important toknow whether they were read-ing the same book or similarthemed books or were part ofany cult.

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near the Andheri station camecrashing down on theWestern Railway tracks onTuesday around 7.30pm,injuring five persons, dis-rupting train services for mostpart of the day and in theprocess preventing lakhs of

office-goers from reachingtheir work stations.

While Mumbaikarsthanked their lucky stars forsparing their city of a major dis-aster, it was an alert suburbantrain motorman who savedthe lives of hundreds of com-muters travelling by Borivli-Churchgate local by bringing itto a screeching halt, secondsbefore the collapse.

Railway Minister PiyushGoyal, who visited the mishapsite in the evening, announceda cash reward of �5 lakh toSawant, in recognition of hiseffort to save hundreds of lives.

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after he was produced in theMohali court on Tuesdayevening.

Only a day before, theChief Minister Capt AmarinderSingh has issued dismissalorders against Dhillon underprovisions of Article 311 of theConstitution.

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Seeking the Centre's inter-vention in settling electric-

ity arrears with neighbouringPunjab and Haryana pendingfor over half a century in threeBBMB projects in compliancewith a Supreme Court order,Himachal Pradesh ChiefMinister Jai Ram Thakur onTuesday urged the Union gov-ernment to help provide state'sroyalty of Rs 3,266 crore on thewater used for power genera-tion on rivers flowing throughthe state.

Thakur raised the issue ata Conference of Power andNew Renewable EnergyMinisters of the states andunion territories where UnionPower Minister R.K. Singh wasalso present.

Thakur said that majorpower projects such as theBhakra and Pong dams werelocated in the state but it wasunfortunate that it had beendeprived of its legitimate share

from these projects as com-pensation.

He said a large number ofpeople of the state were dis-placed due to these projects andthey were still waiting for reha-bilitation. He said the state hadalso been deprived of its sharefrom Bhakra BeasManagement Board (BBMB)projects.

Thakur sought specialgrants and liberal financialassistance for mini and microhydroelectric projects inremote areas. Of the total27,000 MW power generationpotential, Himachal has tappedonly 10,547 MW till date main-ly due to limited resources, headded.

The Chief Minister urgedthe Union Power Minister tobring all hydroelectric pro-jects under the Akshay Urjascheme and sought exemptionof such projects from wheelingcharges as was done in case ofsolar power.

The Union Minister said

the Centre would provideincentives to the state and itsteam for achieving the targetswithin set time.

He said that the centralgovernment would make nec-essary reforms in the powersector, adding that liberal assis-tance was being provided to the

states for ensuring effectiveimplementation of all centralprogrammes in the power sec-tor.

As for settling HimachalPradesh's 52-year-old powerarrears with Punjab andHaryana, the Minister told themedia later: "This is my per-

sonal opinion that the duesshould be cleared. For this, allthe states should sit down andsettle the issue amicably."

The Supreme Court hadraised Himachal's share to 7.19per cent of the power generat-ed from Bhakra, Beas (Dehar)and Beas (Pong) projects as

against 2.5 per cent earlier.In its order on September

27, 2011, it had upheld the hillsstate's claim and directed com-pensation for denial of thestate's legitimate share fromNovember 1, 1966.

Power Ministers ofseveral states participated in themeeting. This includedArunachal Pradesh's TameoTaga, Haryana's Krishan LalPawar, C.P. Singh fromJharkhand, M.M. Mani fromKerala, Power Minister ofOrissa Sushant Singh, ShobhanDev Chatopadhaya from WestBengal, Delhi's SatyendraKumar Jain, Anil Sharma fromHimachal Pradesh, SecretaryNew and Renewable EnergyGovernment of India AnandKumar, Additional ChiefSecretary-cum PrincipalSecretary to the Chief MinisterShri Kant Baldi, AdditionalChief Secretary Power TarunKapoor and Chief ManagingDirector SJVNL Nand LalSharma.

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Union Home MinisterRajnath Singh on Tuesday

honored seven sportspersons of

Haryana Police with cashreward, who have won 14medals in the 17th WorldPolice and Fire Games.

The sportspersons were

honored at a felicitation func-tion held at Vigyan Bhawan inNew Delhi. Haryana DirectorGeneral of Police, BS Sandhuwas also present on this occa-

sion.These games were held in

Los Angeles, California, USAfrom August 7 to 16, 2017, saida spokesman of Haryana Police.

As many as 106 membersof Indian Police contingenthad participated in these gamesincluding seven from HaryanaPolice who bagged 8 gold, 3 sil-ver and 3 bronze medals inthree events. The felicitationceremony was organized by AllIndia Police Sports ControlBoard (AIPSCB) to honourthe medal winners.

The spokesman said thatDGP BS Sandhu has also con-gratulated these sportspersonssaying that they have broughtlaurels to the Haryana Police inparticular and state in generalby winning 14 medals in wrest-ing, boxing and swimmingevents.

The DGP also encouragedthe police sportspersons todouble the medals tally in theensuing World Police and FireGames to be held in China inyear 2019.

Those who were honoredincluded Inspectors PuneetRana, and Dinesh Kumar, Sub

Inspectors, Niramal Devi andKavita, Head ConstablesPromila Devi, Santosh Kumariand Sandeep. While PuneetRana had won 7 medals includ-ing 2 gold, 3 silver and 2bronze in swimming, 2 medalsincluding one each of goldand bronze were bagged bySantosh Kumari in wrestling.All other Haryana policesportspersons had bagged onegold medal in wresting andboxing events.

The DGPs of differentstates and senior officials ofAIPSCB also attended the felic-itation ceremony.

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Former Minister andShiromani Akali Dal (SAD)

senior vice-president DaljitSingh Cheema on Tuesdayserved a legal notice to AamAadmi Party’s (AAP) Roparlegislator Amarjit Singh Sandoato recant the malicious allega-tions leveled by him on socialmedia within one week or elseface a criminal defamationsuit.

The legal notice was servedon Sandoa by advocatesArshdeep Singh Kler andBhavish G Rauni on the formerSAD minister’s behalf.

“In case, the AAP legisla-tor does not withdraw hisallegations besides tendering apublic apology, criminaldefamation proceedings willbe initiated against him undersection 499, 500, 501 of theIndian Penal Code besidescivil action for torturous lia-bility,” said the partyspokesperson.

Notably, AAP MLA hadleveled false and maliciousallegations against Cheema onsocial media through a videoon June 24.

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Large parts of Punjab,Haryana and Himachal

Pradesh on Tuesday receivedrains, bringing relief to thepeople from sultry weatherconditions.

Chandigarh received lightshowers in the morning andthe mercury dropped by a fewnotches, a Meteorological(Met) Department official said.

In Haryana, Panchkula,Ambala and Yamunanagarwere among other places thatreceived rains.

Mohali, Ropar and Patialain Punjab were also lashed byrains.

The Southwest Monsoonhad advanced into Punjab andHaryana, includingChandigarh, on June 28, a daybefore of its scheduled arrivalin the two states.

The Met department herehas issued heavy rain warningfor isolated places in the twostates until tomorrow.

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Shimla: Himachal Pradeshcapital Shimla on Tuesdayrecorded the highest precipi-tation of 118 mm within 24hours since 2005.

A Met official said thestate capital had recorded 118mm precipitation over the past24 hours till 8.30 a.m which isthe highest even rainfall record-ed within 24 hours in Shimla.The previous best was 108.4mm on April 15, 2005.

During the last 24 hours,southwest monsoon was activein the state. Heavy rainoccurred at isolated places inShimla, Bilaspur, Solan,Sirmaur, and Una districts.Bilaspur and Mandi received 65mm and 45 mm rainfall respec-tively.

A majority of localities inthe state capital had faced asevere water crisis in the sum-mer months, receiving watersupply only once a week. PNS

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After failing to achieve itsambitious target to make

Haryana stray cattle-free lastyear, the Manohar Lal KhattarGovernment has now launched‘Haryana Besahara GauvanshMukt Yojana’ to accomplish thesame target by the end of thismonth.

Known for its love for thecow, the Haryana Governmenthad last year failed thrice tomake the state stray cattle free.The government had failed tomeet its three targets i.e. August15, September 30 and thenOctober 31 last year, to reha-

bilitate the abandoned cattleand put an end to the stray cat-tle menace in Haryana.

Following this, the ChiefMinister Manohar Lal had inNovember last year also writ-ten to his counterparts in theneighboring states of Rajasthan,Punjab, Delhi and UttarPradesh urging them to launchstray cattle-free programme intheir respective states so thatunwanted migration of suchcattle could be prevented inHaryana.

“Large number of straycattle enters in Haryana, whichshares a large part of its bound-ary with these states, fromother side of border and this

had adversely affected the straycattle-free programme of thestate,” Manohar Lal had statedin a demi-official letter writtento the Chief Ministers.

The State Government hadlast year declared three districtsnamely Nuh, Yamunanagarand Fatehabad as stray cattle-free and also, decided to getthird party survey conducted inthese districts.

To achieve the target, thegovernment had also decidedto impose a fine of Rs 5100 onthose who carelessly leave theircows and buffaloes to graze onthe streets.

“We have launched‘Haryana Besahara Gauvansh

Mukt Yojana’ to make the statestray-cattle free by the end ofJuly. A meeting in this regardwas held here and district levelcommittees have been consti-tuted to achieve the desired tar-get,” said Bhani Ram Mangla,chairman of Haryana Gau SevaAayog while talking to ThePioneer.

“Additional DeputyCommissioners would be thechairperson of district levelcommittees while memberswould include DSPs, DistrictDevelopment and PanchayatOfficers, representatives fromAnimal Husbandry andDairying Department and zilaparishads among others. The

committee will carry out reg-ular drives to ensure rehabili-tation of stray cattle and sendthe bovine species to gaushalasin Haryana,” he said.

Bhani Ram Mangla alsosaid that budget will be allo-cated to the gaushalas (cowshelters) for taking care ofbovine species

At present, the gaushalas inthe State are facing shortage offunds. Also, many gaushalas inthe state have either filled tocapacity or become over-crowded following the begin-ning of State Government’scampaign to make Haryana,stray-cattle free last year.

On incidents of animal

neglect at cow shelters in thestate due to shortage of funds,Bhani Ram Mangla claimedthat there is no shortage offunds and it will be allocated togaushalas accordingly. The dis-trict level committees consti-tuted will also review the func-tioning of gaushalas and ensuretheir proper functioning, headded.

Earlier this year, severalcows had died due to starva-tion, non-availability of waterand lack of care at a nandisha-la in Jind. Last year also, the BJPGovernment had faced majorembarrassment following thedeath of cattle at a government-run cow shelter at Mathana vil-

lage in Kurukshetra due topoor infrastructure and lack offodder.

There are more than threelakh cattle in around 430gaushalas in the state.

Notably, Haryana wasamong the first states in thecountry to enact the GauvanshSanrakshan andGausamvardhan Act in 2015,imposing a strict ban on cowslaughter apart from curtailingsmuggling of cows outside thestate. It provides for a rigorousimprisonment ranging fromthree years to ten years for cowslaughter and provides for afine from Rs 30,000 to Rs onelakh.

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Aam Aadmi Party on Tuesday metPunjab Chief Minister

Capt Amarinder Singh to demandstringent steps to check the deadlydrug menace in the state besidesbreaking the drug-police nexus tocontrol the menace.

Responding to the concernsexpressed by 12-member AAP delega-tion on the issue of drugs menace par-ticularly in the context of the recentspate of drug-related deaths, the ChiefMinister said that he had sought areport on the allegations of involvementin drugs against the new Moga SSPKamaljit Singh Dhillon.

At the same time, Capt Amarinderruled out an inquiry against the stateDirector General of Police (DGP)Suresh Arora and the DGP(Intelligence) Dinkar Gupta over theallegations of shielding Moga’s formerSSP Raj Jit Singh, while describing thetwo as “upright officers in whose hon-esty I have full faith”.

Sharing the main opposition party’sconcern over the problem, the ChiefMinister said that three big drug deal-ers who had fled India had been iden-tified, and the police and other agencies

were in pursuit of them.Assuring the AAP delegation,

including party’s state unit presidentBhagwant Mann, co-president Dr BalbirSingh, the Leader of Opposition inVidhan Sabha Sukhpal Khaira, and nineMLAs, that no laxity would be tolerat-ed in curbing the drugs menace, he saidthat strict action would be taken againstanyone found involved in the drugstrade.

Capt Amarinder briefed AAP lead-ers about the Special Working Groupformed by the Cabinet to monitor theaction taken against drugs and alsoinformed them about his decision topersonally review the progress everyMonday.

Two CISF companies have beendeployed in jails for frisking and secu-rity duties to check smuggling of drugsand weapons into the prisons, he fur-ther told the delegation.

AAP leaders, who demanded a spe-cial Assembly session to discuss theissue, expressed concern over the easyavailability of drugs in certain areas, aswell as reports of sharing of drugmoney with police.

Describing the drugs menace as asocial challenge, which started a decadeago due to large-scale unemployment

and agrarian crisis, Khaira said thatCapt Amarinder Singh and his gov-ernment were not solely to blame for thesituation.

“No Chief Minister would ever

want drugs becoming an issue for hisregime,” said Khaira, while welcomingthe dismissal of the two police menaccused of dragging women into drugabuse and peddling.

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Punjab Government hasordered to stop all the min-

ing operations on river bedsduring the monsoon season, tillSeptember 30. However, min-ing would continue on siteswhich are aways or out of therivers.

“Orders have been issued toall Deputy Commissioners andSenior Superintendents ofPolice (SSPs) to ensure that nomining operations are carriedout on the river beds in the stateduring monsoon season fromJuly 1 to September 30, 2018,”said the state Mining andGeology Minister SukhbinderSingh Sarkaria on Tuesday.

Ordering strict monitoringof the operation, he directed theofficers to remove all machinesfrom the river bed sites.

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Punjab Government hasdecided to provide crop

residue management machineryto farmers at a substantial sub-sidy to curtail stubble burningacross the State.

Informing this, the stateAdditional Chief Secretary(Development) ViswajeetKhanna said that as a part of thenew scheme for Promotion ofAgricultural Mechanization forIn-Situ Management of CropResidue, Rs 665 crore would bespent in two years on variouscomponents of the scheme.

Under this scheme, a pack-age of agricultural machinery forstubble management would beprovided at 80 percent subsidy tothe Cooperative Societies andother groups, while the samewould be given to the individu-

als at 50 percent subsidy, he said.“In the last couple of years,

various initiatives have beenundertaken to sensitize farmersagainst stubble burning. But dueto non-availability of microbialsolution to decompose the largevolume of paddy straw and lim-ited time gap between harvest-ing of paddy and sowing of othercrops, wheat and vegetables, thefarmers generally resort to cropresidue burning,” said Khanna.

He added that thus, themechanical solutions have beenworked out and to promotethem at a large scale, awarenesscampaign would be kick startedshortly.

“The campaign would focuson dispelling doubts regardingcons of mechanization and edu-cating the farmers to use stubble management machinery,” he said.

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In a bid to give a push to theusage of Hindi language in

judicial work, the ManoharLal Khattar Government inHaryana has decided toapproach President Ram NathKovind.

“Haryana Governmentwould request GovernorKaptan Singh Solanki to senda written communication to thePresident so that the use ofHindi language could be start-ed in the judicial procedure inthe Punjab and Haryana HighCourt,” said Rajiv Jain, mediaadvisor to Chief Minister onTuesday.

He said that concertedefforts were being made tomake the use of Hindi languagemandatory in judicial work inthe High Court.

After getting approval, thehearing of petitions is beingdone in Hindi language infour High Courts of the coun-try at Allahabad (UttarPradesh), Rajasthan, Madhya

Pradesh and Patna (Bihar).After hearing, the judgmentsare also being delivered inHindi language, Jain said.

In view of this, the ChiefMinister Manohar Lal, hasexpressed his interest thatapproval may be given for useof Hindi language in thePunjab and Haryana High Court also so that litigants are able to under-stand the entire proceedingsand are able to present theirviews, he said.

Jain said that out to pro-mote the use of Hindi language,the State Government hadrecently issued directions thatelectricity and water bills areissued in Hindi language alsoin Haryana.

“It has also been decidedthat circulars would be issuedin Hindi language in the state.The Languages Departmentwould ensure that circularsrelated to all departments areissued in simple Hindi so thatgeneral public could be bene-fited,” Jain added.

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Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD)on Tuesday hailed the BJP-

led NDA Government’s decisionto affect a steep increase in min-imum support prices (MSP) forfood grains, pulses, oil seeds andcotton in such a manner thatfarmers were assured a profit ofmore than 50 per cent on allexpenditure done on theircrops, including their ownlabour, while once again claim-ing credit for the move.

“While an �8,000 crorepackage has given a big boostto sugarcane farmers, theCentre’s decision to increase thefair and remunerative price(FRP) of sugarcane would serveas a bonanza to sugarcanefarmers across the country,”said SAD president SukhbirBadal.

Sukhbir thanked the PrimeMinister Narendra Modi aswell as BJP national presidentAmit Shah for the “landmark”decisions, saying that theywould be instrumental in tak-ing agriculture out of its presentday crisis besides giving amuch-needed boost to the

farm economy.“The former Chief

Minister Parkash Singh Badalhad brought the issue of the cri-sis being faced by farmers tothe attention of BJP presidentAmit Shah during his visit toChandigarh last month. Theissue was discussed in depthand Shah was also briefed howPunjab farmers were sufferingdue to the Congress govern-ment’s refusal to implement the�90,000 crore farm loan waiv-er promised to them,” pointedSukhbir.

He said that the sharpincrease in farmer suicides inPunjab, with more than 500farmers taking their own livesin a little more than one year,was also discussed while advo-cating an appropriate increasein MSP for wheat and paddy aswell as other crops.

“The farm crisis issue wasdiscussed again with PrimeMinister Narendra Modi whena SAD delegation called uponhim to thank him for doingaway with GST on langar ingurdwaras as well as all otherreligious and charitable insti-tutions. We are happy that the

NDA government has takenaction on our urgent requestsand is coming out with a com-prehensive increase in MSP ofall major food crops,” said Sukhbir.

He said that this was alsoa victory for Parkash SinghBadal’s advocacy of theSwaminathan report and hisdesire to get it implemented isfinally taking shape with theNDA committing itself to mostof the recommendations madeby the agri-scientist.

At the same time, Sukhbirrequested the Centre to takeinto account the higher costsincurred by farmers of Punjaband Haryana to draw out waterto produce wheat and paddyfor the central pool, adding thatthese costs could be taken intoaccount while calculating thecost of production.

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Aday after Punjab Cabinetresolved to recommend

death penalty to the CentralGovernment for drug smug-glers and peddlers, ChiefMinister Capt AmarinderSingh on Tuesday orderedinvestigation into the recentspate of drug-related deaths fol-lowed by stringent actionagainst those found guilty,without consideration to theirpolitical affiliations.

At the same time, the ChiefMinister has decided to hold ameeting at 3 pm every Mondayto review the progress of thefight against drug menace.

Describing drug abuse as a“disease requiring treatment”,Capt Amarinder stressed onthe need for rehabilitation ofthe victims and for makinganti-drug campaign a people’smovement.

During an interaction witha group of social activists, CaptAmarinder pointed out thatenforcement was different fromcreating awareness and the lat-ter could not be done by a sin-gle agency but had to be a col-lective effort involving the peo-

ple.The activists, including Dr

Bhupinder Singh, HakamSingh, Baltej Pannu andBaljinder Singh (Mintoo) —who is a reformed drug addict,had recently launched ‘BlackWeek against Drugs’ campaignon the social media to createawareness about the problem.

Welcoming the stern stepstaken by the State Government,the activists said that it hadbrought about a perceptiblechange in the public mood andperception about the issue.

The activists squarelyblamed the Akalis, who theysaid did nothing to channelizethe energy of the youth. “Theerstwhile Akali governmenthad pulled money out of sportsand other activities that couldengage youth, thus letting thembe pulled into drugs,” they said.

Capt Amarinder promisedall cooperation to the activistsin creating awareness againstdrugs and suggested that theyorganize rallies and candlemarches in villages, in coordi-nation with Anti-Drug AbusePrevention Officers (DAPO)program, already launched bythe government.

He added that the deputycommissioners (DCs) and theSenior Superintendents ofPolice (SSPs) should also par-ticipate in such events.

The activists also suggest-ed formation of committees,consisting of 10-15 youth eachin villages, to identify drugaddicts. Private hospitalsshould be asked to providetreatment to drug addicts, theysuggested, in response to whichthe Chief Minister asked thestate Health and family WelfareMinister Brahm Mohindra totalk to private hospitals forreservation of some beds foraddicts.

They expressed concernover the ‘deep nexus’ betweendrug dealers and police per-sonnel, especially at the SI andASI levels. People were afraidto identify such cops, theysaid, urging strong steps tobuild confidence among thecitizens.

The activists suggestedsteps to ease out traditionalintoxicants such as “bhukki andafeem”, besides medical exam-ination of all addicts. A helplineshould be introduced for drugaddicts, they added while sug-

gesting that a lady officer bedeputed in the STF to helpweaning women away fromdrugs.

Mintoo, a reformed drugaddict, who said that he had gotinto drugs on his own, revealedthat he had been weaned out ofdrugs with the help of substitutes.

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Issuing a stern warning todrug smugglers and peddlersagainst continuing to destroythe state, Punjab Chief MinisterCapt Amarinder Singh onTuesday asked them to give uptheir activities or face stringentconsequences.

“Our government wouldchange the law to tackle themenace, besides recommend-ing to the Union Governmentdeath penalty for offenders,” theChief Minister said in a videotweeted by him on his officialTwitter handle.

“They have done enoughdamage to Punjab, and I wantto make it clear that we will notallow this to continue,” theChief Minister asserted, addingthat his government would

take the strictest possible actionagainst offenders.

Pointing to the spate ofdrug-related deaths in the state,the Chief Minister said that thelast few days had witnessed alot of furore over drugs and hisgovernment had decided tocome down on drug smugglerswith an iron hand.

Several important deci-sions had been taken by thegovernment in the last coupleof days, he said, adding that aslong as he was there, he wouldensure that the drug problemcomes to an end.

Referring to the victims ofdrug abuse, the Chief Ministersaid that he had directed thestate Health and FamilyWelfare Minister BramMohindra to coordinate withboth public and private hospi-tals to ensure that proper treat-ment is provided to them.

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In a major crackdown onsmuggling of narcotics and

weapons from across the bor-der from Pakistan, PunjabPolice’s Intelligence Wing hasbusted a gang of heroin smug-glers and arrested four per-sons, including an ex-Armyman.

The suspects have namedone BSF constable, posted atthe border, and two otherassociates as being involved inthe smuggling racket.

“BSF authorities havebeen informed about the con-stable’s active collusion andconspiracy in drug smugglingand they have advised to ini-tiate necessary action againsthim,” said the a policespokesperson on Tuesday.

The Police has seized 14.8kgs of heroin, valuing approx-imately Rs 74 crores in theinternational market, alongwith one .30 bore pistol fromthe suspects.

A case (FIR no.17 datedJuly 1, 2018) under sections21, 25, 29 of the NarcoticDrugs and Psychotropic

Substances (NDPS) Act, andsection 25 of the Arms Act hasbeen registered at police sta-tion State Special OperationsCell Amritsar.

The arrests were madeafter the information receivedby the State SpecialOperations Cell (SSOC) thatsome drug smugglers fromAmritsar or Tarn Taran werein contact with Pak-basedsmugglers and were indulgingin heroin smuggling throughthe Ramdas sector of theIndo-Pak border.

The suspects includeAmritsar-resident TarwinderSingh, an ex-serviceman whoserved in the Indian Army (13Sikh) as a sepoy for 16 yearsbefore retiring on pension in2016). Others have been iden-tified as Sukhraj Singh aliasRaja from Amritsar, GurlalSingh from Tarn Taran, andSarabjit Singh from TarnTaran.

During preliminary inves-tigations, the accused dis-closed that they were suc-cessful in bringing drug con-signment from across-the-border in Ramdass sectorduring the intervening nightof June 29-30, 2018.

They revealed that oneBSF constable, ChenthilrajKanagaraj (no 041465015),who was on duty on the bor-der on that night, was part oftheir conspiracy to smuggleheroin from Pakistan to India

and had actively colludedwith them.

They have also disclosedthe names of two other asso-ciates — Bikramjit Singh fromAmritsar, and Gurjant Singhfrom Amritsar — who werealso part of the team that hadretrieved heroin consignmentfrom the border. Efforts areafoot to apprehend these two,the police said.

“Investigations haverevealed that TarwinderSingh, Bikramjit Singh andChenthilraj Kanagaraj (CKRaj) were in touch withPakistan-based smugglers forquite some time. They wereusing different social mediaapps to communicateamongst themselves and withtheir Pakistan based associ-ates,” police spokespersonsaid.

It has been learnt thatBikramjit Singh had been ear-lier arrested in a heroin relat-ed NDPS case in 2017 andhad been in Jail from where hewas bailed out in September2017, the police said.

The BSF authorities havebeen intimated about the roleof the BSF constable,Chenthilraj Kanagaraj (CKRaj) to ensure proceedingunder the BSF Act. He wouldsoon be taken on policeremand and prosecuted bySSOC Amritsar for his activerole in smuggling of heroin,said the spokesperson.

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Punjab Cabinet MinisterNavjot Singh Sidhu on

Tuesday issued orders to makePunjabi language mandatory forthe entire official working of theLocal Government, Tourismand Cultural AffairsDepartments headed by him.

Written instructions havebeen issued to theAdministrative Secretaries ofboth the departments that all theofficial correspondence as well asthe working will be done inPunjabi.

Sidhu’s special initiative topromote mother tongue Punjabicame days after he made anannouncement to this effectduring a ‘Panchayat’, summonedby the Punjabi lovers on Sunday.

“In his written communica-tion to the Principal SecretaryLocal Government and SecretaryTourism and Cultural Affairs,Sidhu emphasized that promot-

ing Punjabi language is the pri-mary as well as the moral dutyof all of us, and in future, it mustbe ensured that the entire work-ing of both the departments bedone in Punjabi,” said a govern-ment spokesperson.

Similarly, the Minister hasalso ordered that Punjabi lan-guage must occupy prominentspace in every signboard con-nected with both the depart-ments.

Furthermore, in his com-munication, the Minister hasinstructed that in case of viola-tion of these orders, depart-mental action must be takenagainst the concerned officer oremployee. Reiterating his com-mitment to go all out for pro-moting Punjabi language, Sidhusaid that Punjabi language is asymbol of the identity and thepride of all Punjabi people andthat makes it all the more nec-essary for pulling out all stops inrestoring its lost glory.

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Adelegation of the Congressparty MLAs on Tuesday

called on Punjab CooperationMinister Sukhjinder SinghRandhawa on the issue of loanwaiver of the landless membersof the agricultural societies.

The delegation membersdemanded that the loan waiv-er be granted to those landlessmembers of the agriculturalsocieties who have availedloans up to Rs 25,000.

The Minister assured thedelegation that the matterwould be thoroughly probedand would be taken up with theChief Minister Capt AmarinderSingh.

The delegation also praisedthe Government’s decision ofwaiving off loans up to Rs twolakh pertaining to the smalland marginal farmers.

Besides, the MLAsdemanded that the loans ofthose members of the agricul-tural societies, who belong tothe landless, SC, ST, or BC cat-egory, be waived off who haveavailed these up to the level ofRs 25,000.

Randhawa gave a verypatient hearing to the delega-tion members and assuredthem that he would look intothe matter from all aspects veryminutely and take up the samewith the Chief Minister for apositive solution.

The delegation includedMLAs Gurkirat Singh Kotli,Navtej Singh Cheema, LakhvirSingh Lakha, Gurpreet SinghGP, Harpratap Singh Ajnala,Sukhpal Singh Bhullar, DalvirSingh Goldy, Harminder SinghGill, Barinderjit Singh Pahra,Dharamvir Agnihotri, amongothers.

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In a major administrativereshuffle, Haryana

Government on Tuesday issuedtransfer and posting orders ofone IAS and 19 HCS officerswith immediate effect.

Pradeep Dahiya, IAS,ADC-cum-CEO, DRDA,Rewari and Secretary, RTA,Rewari has been posted asADC-cum-CEO, DRDA, Nuhand Secretary, RTA, Nuh viceJaibir Singh Arya.

Among HCS officers,Mukul Kumar has been post-ed as Director and SpecialSecretary, Hospitality andDeputy CommissionerPanchkula, Anju Chaudhrygoes as ADC-cum-CEO,DRDA, Rewari and SecretaryRTA, Rewari.

Mandeep Kaur has beenposted as ADC-cum-CEO,DRDA, Sonepat and Secretary,RTA Sonipat, Jagdeep Dhandagoes as ADC-cum-CEO,DRDA Panchkula andSecretary, RTA Panchkula,Mahender Pal, is posted asSecretary, RTA Palwal, SureshKumar Chahal is posted as SubDivisional Officer (Civil)-cum-Additional Collector, Punhana.

Ravinder Yadav, SubDivisional Officer (Civil), Koslihas been posted as JointCommissioner, MunicipalCorporation Gurugram, AnilKumar Yadav goes as SubDivisional Officer (Civil)Ladwa and Thanesar, SonuRaml has been posted as CityMagistrate, Yamunanagar.

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Leader of Opposition inHaryana Assembly and

senior INLD’s senior AbhaySingh Chautala on Tuesdaywarned the State Governmentof intensifying the party’s agi-tation if the construction ofSutlej Yamuna Link (SYL) canaldoes not begin by July 17.

The INLD-BSP combineare currently holding ‘Jail BharoAndalon’ protest across thestate to press for the demand ofconstruction of SYL canal.

Before courting arrest,alongwith other INLD-BSPleaders and workers in Jhajjarduring the ‘Jail Bharo Andolan’,Chautala on Tuesday said that

the party will intensify itsprotest after July 17 if the StateGovernment fails to start con-struction of SYL canal by then.

“The BJP had promised toconstruct SYL canal before2014 polls, but after coming tothe power in the state, the partyis now finding ways to delay itsconstructions,” Chautalaalleged.

The INLD-BSP had joint-ly launched ‘Jail BharoAndalon’ on May 1 in Bhiwanito press for the demand of con-struction of Sutlej YamunaLink (SYL) canal and raise theissues including implementa-tion of Swaminanthan report,construction of Dadupur Nalviirrigation project, loan waiv-er for farmers.

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Former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Tuesdayannounced to start fourth phase of his ‘Jan Kranti Yatra’

on July 22 from Tohana in Fatehabad.A day before, the senior Congress leader had concluded

his third phase of Rath Yatra named ‘Jan Kranti Yatra in Mewat.The former two-time Chief Minister Hooda while talk-

ing to the mediapersons in New Delhi announced that thefourth phase of Jan Kranti Yatra would begin on July 22 inTohana.

“I will be covering various villages of Fatehabad during thethree days yatra,” he added.

At Mewat, Hooda had on Monday announced that the JanKranti Yatra would stop only after the Congress comes to powerin the state in the upcoming assembly elections.

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New Delhi:The Delhi Cabineton Tuesday approved theDepartment of Environment'sproposal for a real-time study ofair pollution in the nationalcapital.

The project, to be complet-ed within a period of 18 monthsfrom the date of award of thestudy, has been granted to theDepartment of Energy,Environmental and ChemicalEngineering, the University ofWashington in the US on nom-ination basis.

The "Real-Time SourceApportionment study for AirPollution in Delhi" will costaround Rs 1.2 crore and the pay-ments will be done from the AirAmbience Fund maintained bythe Delhi Pollution ControlCommittee (DPCC).

A cloud-based platform willbe established for the studywhere the data can be shared andviewed by approved groups dur-ing the course of the project.

"There has been no scientif-ic study on the pollution inDelhi.. "The study will focus onall the pollutants in the air. Afterthe study, the government willhave a data for all the differentreasons of air pollution whichwill help in policy making,"Manish Sisodia told media.

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The Ministry of Electronicsand Information

Technology (MEITY) haswarned messaging serviceWhatsApp over the abuse of itsplatform and not censoringspread of fake messages andrumours. The Ministry hasalso directed to immediatelystop the spread of “irresponsi-ble and explosive messagesfilled with rumours and provo-cation” through the applicationof appropriate technology.

In a statement, the MEITYsaid on Tuesday that instancesof lynching of innocent peoplehave been noticed recentlybecause of large number ofirresponsible and explosive mes-sages filled with rumours andprovocation are being circulat-ed on WhatsApp. The unfortu-nate killing in many States suchas Assam, Maharashtra,Karnataka, Tripura and westBengals are “deeply painful andregretable.” It added that theMinistry of Electronics andInformation Technology hastaken serious note of these irre-sponsible messages and theircirculation in such platforms.

“While the law and ordermachinery is taking steps toapprehend the culprits, theabuse of platform likeWhatsApp for repeated circu-

lation of such provocative con-tent are equally a matter of deepconcern.”

“Deep disapproval of suchdevelopments has been con-veyed to the senior manage-ment of the WhatsApp andthey have been advised thatnecessary remedial measuresshould be taken to prevent pro-liferation of these fake and attimes motivated/sensationalmessages.” The Governmenthas also directed that spread ofsuch messages should beimmediately contained throughthe application of appropriatetechnology, it added.

The push to put a check onfake news comes after fivepeople of a nomadic commu-nity in Dhule, Maharashtrawere allegedly lynched by amob on the suspicion that theywere members of a gang thatkidnapped children.

In recent months, fakevideos of children being kid-napped, which were circulatedon various social media plat-forms, have caused anxiousvillagers in rural India to set uppatrol groups who lash out atanyone they don’t recognise.Such mobs have alreadyclaimed numerous victims. InMay and June alone, at least sixpeople died in WhatsApp-related mob attacks in easternAssam, western Maharashtra

and southern Tamil Nadu. Asper reports, at least 31 peoplehave been killed over the lastone year in 10 different statesby lynch mobs mobilised byrumours of child lifting spreadover WhatsApp.

The Government letteradded that WhatsApp cannot“evade accountability andresponsibility specially whengood technological inventionsare abused by some miscreantswho resort to provocative mes-sages which lead to spread ofviolence.”

It added that theGovernment has conveyed inno uncertain terms thatWhatsApp must take immedi-ate action to end this menaceand ensure that their platformis not used for such malafideactivities.

WhatsApp had added newfeatures for chat group admin-istrators, giving them morecontrol over the content that isbeing posted.

The new settings allowadmins to restrict who canchange a group’s subject, iconand description. There is also afeature in which only an admin-istrator will be able to send mes-sages to a group. “We’ve intro-duced this new setting soadmins can have better tools forthese use cases,” WhatsApphad said in a blog post.

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India has identified four moreailing wildlife species—

Northern river terrapin(Batagur Baska) CloudedLeopard, Red Panda andArabian Sea Humpback Whale— that need immediate inter-vention for conservation.

Enlisted in Schedule-I ofthe Wild Life (Protection) Act,1972 which accords them thehighest degree of protection,these four endangered specieshave now been brought underthe Centre’ s f lagship‘Integrated Development ofWildlife Habitats’ whereinfocused and holistic measureswill be undertaken to protectand re-populate them.

With this, the list of endan-gered species being conservedunder the programme has

grown to 21. Presently, SnowLeopard, Bustard (includingFloricans), Dolphin, Hangul,Nilgiri Tahr, Marine Turtles,Dugongs, Edible Nest Swiftlet,Asian Wild Buffalo, NicobarMegapode, Manipur Brow-antlered Deer, Vultures, MalabarCivet, Indian Rhinoceros, AsiaticLion, Swamp Deer and Jerdon’sCourser are being recoveredunder the programme.

Sources in the UnionEnvironment Ministry saidthat a decision to include thefour species was taken at ameeting of the National Boardof Wildlife (NBWL) heldrecently following demandfrom the respective States.

For instance, said thesources, the Chief WildlifeWarden, West Bengal had sug-gested for inclusion of BatagurBaska under the list of species

for taking up focused recoveryprogramme.

Batagur Baska orNorthern River Terrapin is aspecies of riverine turtles foundin the rivers of Eastern India.The species is also listed inAppendix I of the CITES. It isone of the world’s most endan-gered turtles - classified ascritically endangered by theInternational Union forConservation of Nature (IUCN) in its Red List of threat-ened species. Earlier, it used tobe found in the river mouths ofOdisha and the Sunderbans.However, now fewer than 50adults remain, in four captivelocations around the worldincluding Sunderbans.

Widely exploited for illegaltrade across the Indian borders,especially for its meat andcarapace, it is facing habitat loss

and degradation due to sandmining, dam construction, andpollution. To date no activenesting locations have beenfound in the wild, but thepresence of the occasional juve-nile in Bangladesh suggeststhat there some breeding stilloccurs in the wild.

Bengal Forest Departmenthas initiated a hatchery andcaptive breeding project atSajnekhali in Sundarbans TigerReserve.

Found in the Himalayanfoothills, Clouded Leopard(Neofelis nebulosa) is a solitaryand nocturnal animal and is los-ing its ground to habitat loss,poaching for their skin and alsofor live pet trade. The IUCN hascategorised the species as‘Vulnerable’ and indicates a‘declining’ trend in its population,as per its Red List assessment of

2016. The Clouded leopard islisted in Schedule-I of the WildLife (Protection) Act, 1972 andin Appendix I of CITES.

Similarly, Red Panda(Ailurus fulgens) which isendemic to forests of Sikkim,West Bengal and ArunachalPradesh is facing threat as it iskilled for its meat, medicine,pelts and pets. The major threatsare habitat loss and fragmenta-tion; habitat degradation; andphysical threats.. The IUCNhas categorised Red Panda as‘Endangered’ and as per theirRed List assessment of 2015, thepopulation trend of the specieshas been indicated a ‘decreasing’.

Another species that hasbeen included in the recoveryprogramme is Arabian SeaHumpback Whale (Megapteranovaeangliae). It is found in themajor oceans. International

studies on the whales haveindicated that the speciesmigrates from the Oman coastthrough the Arabian sea, alongthe Indian coasts till the SriLankan coast. Accidentalentanglements in fishing gears,ship strikes, seismic explo-ration have threatened the exis-tence of this animal.

The Centrally SponsoredScheme — ‘IntegratedDevelopment of WildlifeHabitats’ has three compo-nents namely support to pro-tected areas (national parks,wildlife sanctuaries, conserva-tion reserves and communityreserves), protection of wildlifeoutside the protected areasand recovery programmes forcritically endangered specieswhich is for undertaking therecovery of critically endan-gered species in the country.

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The Supreme Court onTuesday dismissed a PIL

seeking Special InvestigationTeam (SIT) probe against NiravModi and Mehul Choksi in thePNB scam after it took seriousexception to disparaging com-ments made in the petitionagainst the Prime Minister andFinance Minister.

This came as a surprisingturn of events as on the previ-ous date of hearing in the case,the Court had directed Centreto inform about the status ofinvestigation. On Tuesday too,the Centre came armed withdocuments in sealed cover.Attorney General KKVenugopal informed the bench

headed by CJI Dipak Misra thatcharge sheet had been filed inthe case. The bench evendirected the Centre to submitan affidavit in this regard.

It was then that A-G point-ed out to a disturbing portionin the petition where the peti-tioner claimed he had person-al knowledge that the FinanceMinister shielded the accused.He read other portions of thesame petition where similarallegations were leveled againstthe Prime Minister. Disturbedby these comments, the benchsaid, “This is not a PIL any-more. Just to tarnish anyone’sname without any basis, PILcannot be used. Our serioustime gets wasted in dealingwith such matters.”

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The investigations into thecollapse of a road over

bridge (ROB) on the railwaytracks in Mumbai on Tuesdayhas found that it was inspect-ed recently as in November,2017 as part of a routineinspection of the RoBs afterthe Elphinstone Bridge col-lapse.

“The audit was done inNovember, 2017 as a part of theroutine inspection. No struc-tural flaw was found in theaudit,” said a senior RailMinistry official. The structurewas one of the 2,000 bridgesand 550 ROBs that were thor-oughly inspected last year.

All the bridges are inspect-ed at least twice a year — beforethe monsoon and after themonsoon — the official said,adding that some of the struc-tures are inspected more fre-quently, depending on theircondition.

The railways had a total of1,47,523 bridges in the country,including 2,870 ROBs, 3,422FOBs, road underbridges(RUBs) and subways, as ofApril. The railways have set atarget of inspecting 10,000bridges and 2,870 ROBs atleast once over a period fiveyears.

While it is not clear whatled to the incident, theCommissioner Railway Safety(CRS), Western Circle has beenentrusted with carrying out aprobe. The officials said aftera foot overbridge (FOB) col-lapsed at the Elphinstone Roadstation in Mumbai inSeptember last year, killing 23people, all the FOBs in theMumbai suburban area wereinspected by the WesternRailways and the Central

Railways.Railways Minister Piyush

Goyal visited the accident sitein the afternoon and said thathe had ordered an inquiry bythe Commissioner of RailSafety whose report wouldhave to be submitted within 15days. Reportedly the Bridgebelonged to the BrihanmumbaiMunicipal Corporation, butmaintenance was under therailways’ jurisdiction.

Goyal said a joint safetyaudit will be conducted by theRailways, the BrihanmumbaiMunicipal Corporation (BMC)and IIT-Bombay of the 445ROBs, foot overbridges (FOBs)and bridges over the pipelinesin Mumbai as part of efforts toimprove safety of commuters.

“I have spoken to the direc-tor of IIT-Bombay and he hasassured all cooperation. In thenext six months, all the 445ROBs, FOBs and other bridgesgoing above water pipelines willbe inspected and a joint safetyaudit will be carried out inassociation with the BMC aswell,” Goyal said at the site ofthe incident.

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With the objective of nor-malising relations

between the two armies, a highlevel Chinese Army delegationis now visiting in India. Itreached Sukna in EasternCommand on Monday for atwo-day visit. Ties betweenthe two countries were strainedfor last few months in thewake of nearly 70-day longstand-off between the Indianand Chinese Army in Doklam,Sikkim last year. Situationwas defused after interventionat the highest political anddiplomatic levels of twonations.

In consonance with thevision of Prime MinisterNarendra Modi and theChinese President Xi Jinpingduring Wuhan summit, whereboth leaders reaffirmed theneed to strengthen bilateral ties,a high level Chinese Armydelegation led by Lt Gen LiuXiaowu, Deputy Commanderof Western Theatre Commandarrived at Sukna, Indian Army

said here on Tuesday. Interestingly, the 33 Corps

based at Sukna guards Doklam.The face off ensued after theIndian Army stopped aChinese team from construct-ing a road there as it could haveharmed India’s strategic inter-ests. Sukna is near Siliguri,which is also known asChicken’s Neck area, and con-nects the entire North-Eastwith the country. The Chineseroad could have enabled itsArmy to be just 50-dd kmsfrom the critical area.

The first thaw between thetwo armies after the stand-off

at Line of Actual Control(LAC) came when a group ofnearly 20 Chinese officers andsoldiers joined the IndianArmy soldiers in performingyoga asanas in Ladakh on theInternational Yoga Day on June21. Both the countries are alsoset to resume their joint anti-terrorist annual exercise inChina later this year.

Meanwhile, the ongoingvisit is seen as a major initia-tive to strengthen relationshipbetween the militaries of bothnations. The delegation com-prising 10 senior military offi-cials from China will interact

with their military counterpartsat 33 Corps headquarters. Thedelegation before arriving atSukna, visited New Delhi andAgra.

India and China hadendorsed the need to resumemilitary ties when PrimeMinister Narendra Modi metthe Chinese President XiJinping for an informal summitat Wuhan in China in April thisyear. Towards that end, this visitby the military delegation tolocal military headquarters is asignificant step forwardtowards increasing interactionsat military commander’s leveland implementation of variousagreements to maintain peaceand tranquility on the borders.

During their stay at Sukna,the visiting team will hold del-egation level talks, besidesinteraction at various levelsfor better understanding ofeach other and exchange ofideas. The Indian delegationwill be led by Trishakti Corpschief Lt General Pradeep MBali. The Chinese delegationwill depart on July five for theironward visit to Kolkata.

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An empowered committeecomprising senior army

officers is now visiting someforeign countries to identifysuitable manufacturers for sup-plying assault rifles and car-bines. The Defence AcquisitionCouncil(DAC) in January thisyear had given its nod for pro-curement of 72,400 assaultrifles and 93,985 carbines forinfantry soldiers on fast trackbasis. The total cost of the twoprojects is about Rs 3,547crores.

The Army team headed bytwo brigadiers and nine otherofficials is touring Australia,South Korea, UAE, Israel andUSA to identify suitable ven-dor. Once the contract is signedafter identifying the vendor,supplies will start within ayear, officials said here onTuesday. The team left thisweekend.

Giving the specificationsfor short-listing the proposedvendor or vendors, they saidthe Army needs a carbinewhich can hit a target at 200metres and should not weighmore than three kilos. It isessentially a close quarter bat-tle used for anti-terrorist andanti-insurgency operations.

As regards the new assault

rifle which will replace thecurrent standard issue INSASrifle, officials said the rifleshould have an effective rangeof 500 metres and should weighfour kilos. These rifles are usedfor offensive and defensiveoperations. Infantry soldiersguarding the frontiers includ-ing Line of ActualControl(LAC) with China andLine of Control(LoC) inJammu and Kashmir needthese weapons to fight a con-ventional battle at long rangebesides tackling militancy.

For over a decade, theArmy has been urging thegovernment to go in for mod-ernization of small arms or per-sonal weapons of infantrywhich fights the actual battle onground. However, due to vari-ous reasons no decision couldbe taken. Once the new assaultrifles and carbines are induct-ed, they will enhance the fire-power capabilities of theinfantry in modern day battlescenario, they said.

Apart from procurement ofthese select number of assaultrifles and carbines to meet theurgent critical requirement,the DAC in February alsoaccorded approval for pro-curement of 41, 000 LightMachine Guns(LMG) and over3.5 Lakh Carbines under Buyand Make (Indian) category.

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With the objective of reduc-ing risk of mishaps by

stray bullets during practice bythe Army, the Defence Ministryon Tuesday approved con-struction of 17 new baffle fir-ing ranges all over the country.A baffle firing range providesa secure firing range with aperimeter - series of walls - sur-rounding the target area. Thetotal cost of the project is �238crores.

In the recent past severalaccidents of injuries due tostray bullets were reportedfrom the civilian areas adjoin-ing to army training ranges.The baffle reduces the arearequired for practice and oper-ations and considered to be thebest solution for small armtraining for the army.

Out of 17, seven ranges willbe in the jurisdiction of theSouthern Command, three willgo to the Eastern Command,two to the Northern Commandand one each to the SouthWestern and CentralCommands. Similar one atCentral Command is proposedfor the Officers TrainingAcademy(OTA), Gaya.

The ministry officials also

said these 17 will be in additionto the 60 similar firing rangesexisting all over the country.

The proposed baffle shoot-ing ranges can facilitate firingfrom 300 to 500 meters. Bafflefiring ranges are covered shoot-ing practice areas which pre-vent possible accidents due tostray bullet injuries. The pos-sibility of such mishap hasincreased many folds in recenttimes due to growth of civilianpopulation around the can-tonments, officials said whileadding that to prevent suchcasualties without affecting thetraining requirements of thearmed forces, the Ministry hasapproved additional baffleranges.

Availability of land fortraining is a major issue forarmed forces and a baffle fir-ing range provides a solutionto it as it can be built on twohectares of land. Officials saidthe baffle walls of 9-metrehigh and 6.9-metre wide aremade of reinforced cementconcrete (RCC) and twometres of the walls are coveredwith slurry infiltrated fibrousconcrete (SIFCON) in thebottom. A fiber concrete panelof 22 metre is made to trapbullets, which allows six firesat a time.

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Alleging that the increasinginstances of people being

lynched in the country are aresult of the “silence of leader-ship”, senior Congress leaderKapil Sibal asked PrimeMinister Narendra Modi whyhe did not talk about hatecrimes in his ‘Mann Ki Baat’programme.

The Congress has been onthe offensive on the issue andclaims that there have beenalmost 28 cases of people beinglynched every month under theModi government, a first in the70 years of the country’s inde-pendence.

“An environment of hateallows for rumour-mongersinciting mob lynching. This isthe result of silence of leader-ship when crimes are commit-ted with impunity by harbin-gers of hate. Why no Mann KiBaat on hate crimes since2014?,” Sibal asked on socialmedia.

Congress spokesperson

Abhishek Singhvi echoed hisparty colleague and accused theModi Government of “aidingand abetting” incidents oflynching across the country. “...Absolute anarchy, mob frenzyand jungle raaj have becomethe new symbols of Shri Modi’s‘New India’ under which anunprecedented atmosphere ofhate and violence writs large,”Singhvi told reporters at AICCbriefing.

Rumours, State-aidedlicences to kill and the deci-mation of rule of law have ledto a “lynching movement” andshaken our “national con-science”, the Congress leadersaid. “It is high time, the BJPGovernment takes note of thiswidespread mob frenzy andlynching incidents. The BJPwould do better to take note ofthe anger overtaking the citi-zens of India against vigilan-tism by their party men,”Singhvi added.

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The Election Commissionon Tuesday launched an

Android-based mobile appli-cation named ‘cVigil’ for citi-zens to share proof of mal-practices by political parties,their candidates and activistswhen the Model Code ofConduct is in place in therun-up to polls. Now a personcan secretly send to it geo-tagged videos and photos ofillegal money being distributedor a hate speech being madeduring polls. The mobile appli-cation also facilitates sharing ofgeo-tagged photographic andvideo evidence without dis-closing the sender’s identity.

The app will work only duringthe time the model code ofconduct (MCC) is in place ina poll-bound state.

The uploaded informationwill be transmitted to the con-trol room from where the fieldunits or flying squads mappedon a Geographic InformationSystem will be immediatelyalerted for further action.

In case the complainantdoes not opt for anonymity, theperson will also get an action-taken report within about 100minutes. The application,whose Beta version has nowbeen released, will be madeavailable for use during thecoming four State Assemblyelections later this year.

New Delhi: The Supreme Courton Tuesday said no mob lynch-ing or violence in the name ofcow vigilantism can be tolerat-ed while reserving orders on abunch of petitions demandingguidelines for States/UTs tocurb such incidents.

With the Centre claimingsuch incidents to be primarilya law and order situation to bedealt by States, the Court feltthe need to pass elaborateorders fixing responsibility onthe police officials and districtadministration to prevent orpunish perpetrators of suchincidents.

The petitions filed byTehseen Poonawala andMahatma Gandhi’s greatgrandson Tushar Gandhiamong others said that lynch-ing by cow vigilantes is con-tinuing despite the top courtdirecting the states to appointnodal officers in each district.

Senior advocate IndiraJaising who appeared forGandhi said that this was notmerely a law and order prob-lem but the incidents followeda typical pattern and motivewith the targets being of a par-ticular creed.

The bench of Chief JusticeDipak Misra, Justices AMKhanwilkar and DYChandrachud said, “Victim ofany crime is a victim. Moblynching in the name of anyvigilantism is a crime.” PNS

New Delhi: Finding it strange how tens of thousands of seats inthe West Bengal panchayat polls went unopposed, the SupremeCourt on Tuesday observed this was proof to indicate that democ-racy at grass-root level was not working in the state.

The bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra directed theState Election Commission to present the correct figures byWednesday of the number of seats where candidates were declaredelected unopposed giving further breakup of seats falling in GramPanchayat, Zilla Parishad and Panchayat Samiti.

The State Election Commission represented by senioradvocate Amarendra Saran submitted that the Courts need notcontinue with the case as elections are already over. At this, thecounsel representing Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) objectedpointing out that the Court is yet to decide on the seats wherecandidates were elected unopposed. The Court had stayed thestate election body from declaring these results. However, thestate argued that in the past, civic polls witnessed seats whereresults were declared without a contest. The bench found the num-ber of such seats to be over 20000 out of a total of 587692 seats.Although Saran said this constituted merely 34 per cent of totalseats, the bench wondered how the election commission couldmake light of this figure. PNS

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In yet another example of theongoing “politics of physical

elimination,” that had becomethe alleged hallmark of theMamata Banerjee regime, aBJP worker from Murshidabaddistrict was found murdered bysuspected Trinamool Congressworkers, sources said.

The body of DharmorajHazra, a Dalit man in his 50s,who went missing fromSunday was found from a tankat Taldanga village offShaktipur in Murshidabad, atraditional Congress bastionthat had over the past coupleof years witnessed a large-scale migration towardsTrinamool Congress — thanksto ruling outfit’s alleged moneyand muscle power.

The victim’s hands andfeet were tied and his personbore several injury marks, BJPsources said adding he was

under constant threat fromthe TMC workers who hadvainly warned him againstworking for the BJP in therecently held panchayat elec-tions that was any way wonhandsdown by the Bengal rul-ing outfit with stray signs of asaffron victories in pockets.

Soon after the newsbecame public BJP presidentAmit Shah wrote “TMCshames humanity again,”adding “another BJP karyakar-ta killed in the most barbaricmanner. In Mamata’s regimeWest Bengal has become anepitome of violence and bru-tality. Entire BJP stands firm-ly with Dhormo Hazra’s fami-ly in this hour of grief. Mydeepest condolences.”

Hazra a member ofShaktipur mandal committeewas constantly receivingthreats from the TMC goonsas he had refused to heed theirwarning of not working for

the BJP in the rural elections,GS Ghosh district party pres-ident said alleging the TMCgoons killed him and threwhis body in the lake.

Local TMC MLA RabiulAlam however denied thecharges saying “our men arenot involved in it. It could bea family affair and they are try-ing to make it a big issue toreap political harvest. TheTMC does not need to touchthe BJP here because theyhave literally no presence inthe district.”

The Murshidabad murdercomes little more than a monthafter two BJP men were mys-teriously killed by alleged TMCmen in Purulia district wherethe saffron outfit did excep-tionally well in the panchayatelections. BJP’s TrilochanMahato and Dulal Kumar weremurdered in Purulia in themonth of June. The incidentshit national headlines.

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The Yogi AdityanathGovernment decided to

enforce a new dress code for stu-dents studying in Islamic reli-gious schools called ‘madrasas’affiliated to State Madrasa Board.

As part of its efforts tomodernise madrasa education,the Government plans to doaway with the traditional whitekurta-pyjama.

The move comes after theGovernment implementedNCERT books in madrasas inan effort to bring students at parwith their counterparts in otherschools.

Minister of State forMinority Affairs Mohsin Razasaid, “Our aim is to bringmadrasas at par with othereducational institutions. Tillnow, madrasa students worewhite kurta-pyjama, which ismore or less symbolic of a par-

ticular faith. We will soon pro-pose a new dress code forthem. With modern studies,students should also wear mod-ern uniform,” he said.

Though Raza did not clar-ify what the new dress codewould be, experts feel the stu-dents might be expected towear trouser-shirt.

Calling upon Muslims toshed their minority mindset, theminister said,” Muslims shouldstop calling themselves asminorities and asked them notto be afraid of Prime MinisterNarendra Modi. Modijee is not

anti-Muslim.” With Lok Sabha elections

around the corner, the BJP wastrying to dent into the Muslimvote bank and was trying its bestto project the PM as a well wish-er of Muslims.

The state government hasmade changes in the syllabus toconnect madarsas with main-stream education system, fol-lowing which NCERT bookswere made mandatory.

The HRD ministry is work-ing on a plan to revampmadarsa education in the coun-try under Scheme to ProvideQuality Education in Madrasas(SPQEM). Under this, institu-tions would have to get affiliat-ed to either Madarsa Boards orState boards to be eligible forCentral government funds.

The government is alsoplanning to map madarsas in thecountry based on their GlobalPositioning System.

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Congress president RahulGandhi on Tuesday led

the Opposition’s charge inslamming the BrihanmumbaiMunicipal Corporation (BMC)and the MaharashtraGovernment for the collapse ofcivic governance in Mumbai.

Hours after the heavy rainravaged the metropolis and aportion of a Road Over Bridge(ROB) near the Andheri sta-tion near Andheri railway sta-tion injuring five persons,Gandhi tweeted: “The streetsare flooded, citizens stranded,bridges collapsing..... Civicgovernance has collapsed. Mythoughts are with the citizensof Mumbai. Stay safe!”.

Maharashtra’s former chiefminister and senior Congressleader Ashok Chavan chargedthat the BJP-led Maharashtragovernment and Shiv Sena-ledBrihanmumbai MunicipalCorporationh (BMC) wereplaying with the lives of thepeople of Mumbai, by blamingeach other.

“It is rather unfortunatethat a pedestrian portion ofROB collapsed on the railwaytracks. Though they aresquarely responsible for theincident, the state government

and BMC are blaming eachother for the mishap. In theprocess, they are playing withthe lives of Mumbaikars,” hesaid.

Chavan said that thoughthe Railway Minister PiyushGoyal had announced after theSeptember 29, 2017 stampedeat Elphinstone Road station inwhich 22 people were killedthat safety audit of all pedes-trian bridge would be carriedout, no such audit of the bridgethat collapsed on Tuesday hadbeen done.

“The Government did notlearn any lessons from theElphinstone Road stationstampede. From today’smishap, it has once again estab-lished that the Government’spriority should be to increasethe safety of Mumbai suburbancommuters and not bullettrain,” Chavan said.

NCP’s Mumbai unit chiefSachin Aher said that theRailways and the BMC shouldshare the responsibility for themishap. “Our demand is thatthe Government institute ahigh-level inquiry into thisman-made disaster. “On onehand, the Narendra Modi gov-ernment talks about Smartcity and bullet train, while onthe other chief minister

Devendra Fadanavis talksabout bringing hyperloop tech-nology to Maharashtra toreduce the time taken for 200km travel between Mumbai toPune to 25 minutes. But theCentre and State governmenthave chosen to neglect theneed to improve Mumbai sub-urban railway network”.

Meanwhile, a blame gamewas witnessed between theRailways and BMC, with eachof the agencies holding theother responsible for themishap.

Mumbai MayorVishwanath Mahadeshwarheld the Railways responsibil-ity for the mishap. “Theresponsibility of maintainingthe Gokhale bridge connectionAndheri (east) and Andheri(west) lies with the Railway. Ihold the Railways squarelyresponsible for the mishap”.

Minutes after the mishap,the Western Railway laid theblame at the BMC’s door whenit issued the first press releaseon the mishap at 9.56 am. “Part of BMC's Road OverBridge, repeat ROB, collapsedon rly tracks near AndheriStation of Western Rly, towardsVile Parle on South end atabout 7.30 am today,” the press

release read.However,

Maharashtrachief ministerD e v e n d r aFadnavis andE d u c a t i o nM i n i s t e rVinod Tawder e f r a i n e df r o mindulging inblame game.

“It is notproper toengage inblame gameWhat hashappened is aserious issue,there are sev-eral agencieswhich areworking forp e o p l e , ”

Fadnavis said said.Education Minister Vinod

Tawde, who is also theGuardian Minister of MumbaiSuburban district, said: “We areelected representatives workingfor people. We have to helppeople and not engage inblame game.”

In a related development,senior RTI activist and socialworker Anil Galgali said thatone of the major problem thatMumbai faced was the multi-plicity of organisations andutility services. “We have tolook at Mumbai and MumbaiMetropolitan Region in total-ity. Within Mumbai and MMRthere are more than 45 to 50different agencies, we need acombined authority to ensurecoordination,” Galgali said.

Meanwhile, Bollywoodpersonalities also took to socialmedia to air their opinion onthe issue. “Andheri bridge col-lapse is yet another reminderof how pathetic Mumbai’sinfrastructure is. For a city thatgives so much to the exche-quer, we deserve better, if notbest. #shame,” Actor-film-maker Farhan Akhtar tweeted.

“Love how flyovers nbridges keep falling in ourcountry..can they stop makingmoney from this n actuallythink of the people who can ndo get hurt?? make a structurestrong enough like you werepaid for..govt needs to stopscrewing lives.. #andherib-ridgecollapse,” actress EshaGupta tweeted

“Matter closed! Get backto work Mumbai, while we getback to not working and fill-ing our pockets with money.And dont you dare talk of cor-ruption or black money. Weare not corrupt. Didn't youhear? Black money is nowdeclared as white money inour great nation! So don'tcomplain! There is no cor-ruption!!!,” senior actress sRenuka Shahane wrote onFacebook.

Actress Shraddha Kapoortook to her Instagram accountand shared a video story of theAndheri bridge collapse site.

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In an attempt to give a fillipto the Defence Corridor pro-

posal, the State Governmentannounced the much-awaitedDefence Manufacturing policygiving sops to entrepreneurs,willing to invest while pro-jecting an investment of Rs50,000 crore in the next fiveyears and generate 2.5 lakhjobs.

The state cabinet that metin Lucknow on Tuesday,approved a new policy called‘UP Defence Aerospace Unitand Employment GeneratingPolicy, 2018’ and said that itwas the best in the country asit had something or the otherfor investors.

Chief Secretary AnupChandra Pandey said that sixdistricts — Aligarh, Agra,Jhansi, Chitrakoot, Kanpurand Lucknow - will be notifiedfor the Defence manufacturinghub, though the focus will beon Bundelkhand region.

“Around 3000 hectares ofland would be acquired bynodal agency UPIEDA andentrepreneurs will be givenland under plug and play for-mula,” he said adding thatentire land would be acquiredby September next.

Without revealing as towho all have evinced interest inthe sector, Pandey said, “Thewho’s who of India have showninterest in investing in UttarPradesh.” Briefing media per-sons, Pandey said that inter-national consultants likePricewater House Cooper hasbeen appointed which willgive its report on Defencemanufacturing potential areasin the state.

He said that there will betwo categories of invest-ment.One, mega anchor pro-ject worth over Rs 1000 crorewhich will include companieswilling to build aircraft, tanks,choppers and two, anchor unitswhich could invest Rs 200crore in Bundelkhand andPoorwanchal areas, Rs 300crore in Madhayanchal and Rs400 crore in western UP.

“Investments below thiswould get all benefits underInvestment and MSME Policyin the state,” he said. The Chiefsecretary said that the govern-ment would provide 25 percent subsidy on circle rate ofland purchased by investorswhile transport subsidy of 50per cent or Rs 2 crore per yearwould be given for importingequipment. “Transport sub-sidy would also be given onfinished goods for exportingwhich will be to the tune of 30per cent or Rs one crore peryear,” he said. The governmentwould provide subsidy on tech-nology transfer, setting up ofeffluent treatment plant, set-ting up labs for quality controland patenting. “The govern-ment will provide 100 per centsubsidy on quality certificationand trade mark. The govern-ment will provide 100 per centsubsidy for stamp duty inBundelkhand andPoorvanchal, 75 per cent inother areas while in GautamBuddha Nagar (Noida) andGhaziabad, it will be 50 percent,” Pandey said adding thatthere would be 70 per centrebate on state governmentSales Tax.

Besides, the governmentwould bear 5 per cent or Rs 20crore per year as interest oncapital loan by companieswhile they would be given 5per cent interest subsidy oninvestment loan and 100 percent subsidy for 10 years onelectricity duty.

The government wouldalso provide 50 per cent sub-sidy on interest for seven yearsto investors, who would set updefence manufacturing parks.

In another decision, thegovernment approved a pro-posal to get bank loan to thetune of Rs 12,000 crore fromPNB for construction ofPurvanchal Expressway.Additional Chief Secretary(Information) AwanishAwasthi said that in the firstphase Rs 7800 crore would begiven by banks at the rate of8.30 per cent interest for 15years.

“The loan would be repaidin 48 instalments with 3 yearsmoratorium and instalmentswould be paid through fundscollected from toll on theExpressway,” he said.

In the other decision, thegovernment gave its nod forconstruction of civil airports atAligarh, Azamgarh,Moradabad and Shravastiunder Regional AirConnectivity policy.

The government alsoapproved asset settlement ofUP Mining DevelopmentCorporation which was woundup while the government gaveapproval to give governmentland for bus depot inAllahabad city.

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Vikramaditya Marg after ordersfrom the Supreme Court,Samajwadi Party chief AkhileshYadav has decided to foray intohospitality industry.

The SP chief has decided toconstruct a heritage hotelnamed ‘Hibiscus’ (a type of aflower). The plot where thehotel is proposed to be con-structed is situated close to hisparty office on VikramadityaMarg and right behind theChief Minister’s official resi-dence on Kalidas Marg.

Akhilesh and his MP wifeDimple Yadav jointly submitteda building plan to LucknowDevelopment Authority (LDA)for approval in June. Alongwith this, they also submittedpapers of ownership of the plot.The address of the proposedhotel in the application sub-mitted with the LDA is 1 A,Vikramaditya Marg.

Executive engineers of LDA

have referred the matter toChief Architect of LucknowMuncipal Corporation. Thecouple has also sought NOCfrom DG (Security), EstateOfficer of UP government andgeneral manager of Lucknow JalSansthan and Nazul LandOfficer of the LDA.

The land where the hotel isto be constructed was jointlypurchased by Akhilesh Yadavand his wife Dimple Yadav forRs 39 lakh in 2005. The cost ofthe property located at the highsecurity zone has now multi-plied to several crore rupees.

LDA sources said that theSP chief has sought approval fora two-storeyed building as con-struction is not permittedbeyond this height in the highsecurity zone.

Samajwadi Party sourcessaid that the idea of construct-ing a hotel on VikramadityaMarg was given by party’s RajyaSabha MP, Sanjay Seth, who ishimself a prominent builder ofLucknow.

Soon after vacating the gov-ernment bungalow in June,Akhilesh had announced thathe would construct his privatehouse on this plot. He hadthen said he and his fatherMulayam Singh never caredfor constructing their homes inLucknow and by askingthem tovacatethe bungalows, the Yogigovernment has forced him toget his own house constructedin Lucknow.

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UP Sugar Mills Association(UPSMA) petitioned the

Yogi Government to decontrolmolasses and allow its export toother States as mills were fac-ing problem in storage due toglut of sugar during the 2017-18 season.

Molasses is a byproduct ofsugar industry and primarilyused for making country liquor,cattle feed and chemical indus-try. Ethanol produced frommolasses is used for blendingwith petrol. The UPSMA urgedthe state government to pro-mote production and usage ofethanol to keep molasses stockunder check. In June, the gov-ernment had raised mandato-ry reservation limit of molassesfor country liquor industryfrom 50 to 60 per cent.

Association representativespointed out that withoutdecontrol, the country’s topsugarcane and sugar producingstate was unlikely to optimal-ly capitalise on ethanol pricehike by the Centre unless thegovernment decontrolled thesale of molasses.

Recently, the Centre hadannounced hike in ex-millprice of ethanol derived out of‘C’ heavy (final) molasses byalmost Rs 3 to Rs 43.70 per litrefor the next contract periodstarting December, 2018.

Besides, for the first time,the Centre had decided toencourage production ofethanol, for blending withpetrol, directly from sugar-cane juice and ‘B’ heavymolasses by fixing a higher

price of almost Rs 4per litreabove the price of ethanolmade from ‘C’ heavy molasses.

As per estimates, with 5 percent mandatory blendingrequiring 1.6 billion litres ofethanol, ethanol manufacturerscould fetch an additional rev-enue of around Rs 4,800 crorein the next crushing season.

However, despite marketglut and record sugar produc-tion translating in recordmolasses production, the sugarindustry was deprived of thebenefits of bumper production.

“Unless the state govern-ments relinquished their con-trol of molasses for productionof ethanol, manufacturers willcontinue to be conservativewhen participating in tendersfloated by public sector oilmarketing companies,’’said aSugar Mill Association mem-ber.

In 2017-18, the total pro-duction of molasses stood at5.32 million tonnes (MT) butonly 2.97 MT was lifted, leav-ing unsold stock of 2.55 MTwith mills.

The UPSMA lamented thatwhile there was ‘sufficient’demand for molasses in otherstates and international market,these options could not befully availed in time due torestrictions imposed on exportoutside UP.

Meanwhile, the state gov-ernment is looking at the newdynamics and a senior Canedepartment official said, “Wewould review the emergingsituation and take a call accord-ingly in the interest all stake-holders in the state.”

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Unfazed by a Supreme Courtnotice on police encoun-

ters, the UP Government onTuesday said that it was readywith the report to be submittedin the apex court. “There isnothing to hide and the YogiGovernment took the rightdecision to control crime in theState,” asserted Governmentspokesperson and EnergyMinister Srikant Sharma.

The Supreme Court onMonday had asked UPGovernment to submit itsreport on police encounterswithin two weeks. Replying toa query in Lucknow on Tuesday,Sharma said that criminals werenow being dealt with iron fistand the Government wouldnot tolerate any criminal activ-ity in the State.

Additional DG (Law andorder) Anand Kumar said onTuesday that the UP Policewould justify its actions in thecourt. He said that from the daythe Yogi Government tookcharge in March 2017 till June15, 2018, there have been 2,174encounters in which 5,222criminals were nabbed. In thecross firing, 59 criminals car-rying cash rewards were killedand 534 injured.

Talking to reporters, theADG said that four policemenwere martyred while 390 suf-fered bullet injuries in theseencounters.

“In the case of killing of 59criminals, 25 magisterialprobes have been completed. In23 cases, the police have filedfinal reports out of which thecourts have accepted 16 casesso far,” he said.

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Gujarat Chief Minister VijayRupani on Tuesday

launched the State-widePrevention of Under-Nutritionand Reduction of NutritionalAnaemia among Adolescents(PURNA) Project under theaegis of the State Women andChild DevelopmentDepartment to control malnu-trition among girl child andadolescents at a workshop atthe Mahatma Mandir inGandhinagar.

He called for making theproject a people’s movement tocreate an asset to pay demo-graphic dividend, necessaryfor the health and fitness of thefuture generation in any stateor nation. It should be a mat-ter of concern for the entiresociety, and not just the

government. The StateGovernment has allocatedRs.270-cr for the project.

Rupani said the govern-ment has launched the DudhSanjivani Yojna for providingmilk to children in Anganwadisin tribal areas. The need is toprovide nutritional food toinfants for 1,000 days frombirth.

About half a dozen districtsin the state are still behind innutrition, demanding specialattention for adolescent girlsand lactating mothers. Dahodand Narmada were ranked 13and 14 respectively among 117aspirational districts declaredby the Centre.

Dahod now ranks NumberOne.

He recalled that PrimeMinister Narendra Modi hadlaunched the nationwide nutri-tion mission from Jhunjhun inRajasthan on March 8 last toachieve this basic need – as sev-eral other projects like JanDhan, Ujjwala, Save Girl,Educate Girl, Ban Foeticide,Gender Equality and Women’sEmpowerment – linked to thenation’s bright future.

Minister of State forWomen’s and ChildDevelopment VibhawaribenDave said that 60-lakh womenparticularly in the 14-18 agegroup would be benefittedunder PURNA through 53,000Anganwadis in the state.

Union Government’sWomen’s and ChildDevelopment Joint Secretary

Rakesh Shrivastava said theWorld Bank advanced Rs.9,046-crore loan for PURNA tocover 718 districts, to beginwith 550 districts, and theremaining 168 districts byJanuary 2019. It will be moni-tored real-time as Anganwadiworkers would get mobilephones.

Gujarat Chief SecretaryJ.N. Singh described the projectas a challenge to fight malnu-trition, need to make theadministration fighting fit. Hesaid the Gujarat Governmentdecided to provide 16,000 met-ric tonnes of nutritious fooditems like double fortifiediodised salt per month to 42-lakh beneficiaries through TakeHome Ration scheme underICDS.

Those present on the occa-sion included Gujarat MahilaAyog Chairperson LilabenAnkolia, Bal Ayog ChairpersonJagritiben Pandya and others.

The workshop on PURNAis being attended by Mayorsand Municipal Commissioners,District Panchayat Presidents,Women’ and Child CommitteeChairpersons, DistrictDevelopment Officers, CDPO,ICDS and NGOs engaged innutrition movement. The inau-gural session was followed byfour technical sessions, e-stockcards and thematic calendars.

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Kuvarji Bavalia, strong Kolileader of Saurashtra region

and sitting MLA from Jasdanconstituency in Rajkot districtbrought political quiver inPrime Minister NarendraModi’s home-State Gujaratahead of the 2019 Lok Sabhapolls by joining BJP afterabandoning Congress onTuesday.

The All-India Koli Samajpresident was inducted assenior minister in Vijay Rupaniled BJP government withinfew hours of his resignation asCongress MLA. Though theministerial office has beenallocated to Bavalia but port-folio would be allocated to himon Wednesday, probably dur-ing weekly cabinet meeting atChief Minister’s office.

Citing reason for resigna-tion the four-time MLA andone-time Member ofParliament as Congress can-didate blamed on All IndiaCongress Committee (AICC)president Rahul Gandhi foradopting caste based politics.“I am in public life for threedecades. As Congress partymember I worked with sin-cerity and honesty. In past fewyears, it has become powergame within the oppositionparty which led to internalconflicts. In such conditionone can’t do work in public

interest,” said the disgruntledsenior Congress leader.

Praising Prime MinisterNarendra Modi, Bavalia saidthat PM was working for theinterest of people and fruit ofdevelopment was reaching tograssroots level. He alsoadmired Vijay Rupani led BJPgovernment in Gujarat. It isworth mentioning that in 2009Lok Sabha polls, Kuvarji wonfrom Rajkot constituencywhich is considered to be BJPbastion. Despite the fact, heneither got ministerial berth inUPA-2 government nor hewas given any important posi-tion in Congress organiza-tion.

Post 2017 assembly polls,Bavalia was ignored byCongress leadership as AmitChavda and Paresh Dhanani –both are much junior to himwere promoted as Leader ofOpposition in the state assem-bly and Gujarat PradeshCongress Committee (GPCC)

respectively. On Tuesday morning

Bavalia who runs several edu-cational institutions in Rajkotdistrict sent an e-mail to theAICC president informinghim about his decision to quitthe Congress and straight awaydrove to the official residenceof the state Assembly speakerRajendra Trivedi in the statecapital Gandhinagar and sub-mitted his resignation asJasdan MLA. After that hewent to state BJP headquarter– Shree Kamalam – situatedon the outskirts ofGandhinagar where GujaratBJP president Jitu Vaghaniand other senior BJP leaderswere waiting to welcome himin saffron fold. In the evening,he took oath at Raj-Bhavan inTerming Bavalia as an asset tosaffron brigade, Vaghani saidthat as part of BJP led gov-ernment, Bavalia would beable to work more efficientlyin public interest. His vast

experience in public life wouldbe beneficial for the rulingparty also, he added. On thecontrary, Congress presidentChavda termed Bavalia’s res-ignation as betrayal to votersas they elected him asCongress candidate for thefive years. In the by-election,

people of Jasdan would givefitting reply to Bavalia byensuring his defeat, he added.

Reacting on the GPCCpresident’s remarks, Bavaliasaid that before leavingCongress he consulted his vot-ers and only after that hedecided to join BJP.

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On a day strong Koli leaderKuvarji Bavalia switched

over from Congress to BJP, for-mer Jasdan MLA BhulabhaiGohil, who had resigned fromthe party before the RajyaSabha elections last year andhad joined the BJP, returned toopposition party by abandon-

ing BJP.Interestingly Gohil, who

also belongs to Koli commu-nity, learnt initial lessons of pol-itics from Bavalia. He woreCongress scarf in presence ofLeader of Opposition PareshDhanani and Gujarat Congresspresident Amit Chavda.

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Hyderabad city police hasarrested Telugu film crit-

ic Kathi Mahesh on thecharges of hurting the religioussentiments by making inap-propriate comments againstHindu religious figures Ramand Sita.

The arrest was made after

the right wing groups VishwaHindu Parishad and BajrangDal held a protest demonstra-tion outside the studios of aTV channel. Mahesh hadallegedly made the remarksduring a panel discussion ofthe TV last week.

Banjara Hills police stationinspector K Srinivas said thatthe film critic was arrested ona complaint against him. Kathi

Mahesh was earlier in the newsfor his controversial remarksagainst film star turned politi-cian Pawan Kalyan and his JanaSena party.

During the questioning bythe police he denied hurtinganybody’s religious feelingsand said that his remarks werebased on authentic books.

Later he was released bythe police on personal sureity.

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As part of its strategy towrest Telangana from

Telangana Rashtra Samiti inthe next elections, the Congressparty has decided to focus itsattention on the crucial Muslimvotes by focusing on the majorissues and demands of theminority community. In a movein this direction the party orga-nized a massive rally inHyderabad to highlight the fail-ure of the K Chandrasekhar Raogovernment in fulfilling thepromise of increasing the reser-vation quota for backwardMuslims to 12%.

To send a message of thecommitment of Congress partyto the welfare of minoritiesalmost entire leadership of theparty including the AICCSecretary R C Khuntia and thestate Congress president NUttam Kumar Reddy led therally from the state party head-quarter to Abids. While theleader of opposition inLegislative Council MohammedAli Shbbir reminded the com-munity that it was Congressgovernment which had extend-ed 4% reservations in educationand jobs benefitting thousands

of youth during last 12 years, NUttam Kumar Reddy said thatthe Chief Minister KCR had liedto the state assembly by makingpromise of increasing the quotato 12%.

On the occasion the partylaunched a post card campaignaddressed to the Chief Ministerdemanding that he should ful-fill the promise.

“What happened to yourpromise of organizing a protestin New Delhi if the Centrerejects the 12% quota bill? Whyare you not taking an all partydelegation to Delhi”? UttamKumar Reddy asked.

To remind the people aboutpromise, the organizers wereplaying a clip of Chief Minister’selection speech of 2014 promis-ing the increase in the quota.

Charging the ChiefMinister with betraying thefaith of Muslims he demandedthat report of probe into thekilling of five Muslim under-trials at Aler be made publicand action should be takenagainst those responsible for theincident.He also questionedthe silence of the state gov-ernment on the acquittal ofthe accused of the MeccaMasjid blast case.

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The American Federation ofMuslims of Indian origin

(AFMI) will hold its 27th inter-national educational conferencein Patna on December 21-23.AFMI is working for the edu-cational progress in Muslimboys and girls for nearly threedecades. AFMI was establishedin 1989 by some Muslim doctorsin America who originallybelonged to Gujarat. Initially,their activities were only inGujarat but later on it wasextended whole of country.Apart from scholarship, AFMIis working on its 140 schemesincluding a computer centre atBhagalpur besides its schools inKolkata, Mumbai, Gujarat,Ranchi and other places.

AFMI founder and chair-man A R Nakadar said that illit-eracy was the root cause of allthe problems and if this problemus sorted out all other socio, eco-nomic and political problemscould be solved.

Dr Nakadar said AFMI wasestablished in 1989 to start edu-cational campaign for Muslimsas the literacy rate among thecommunity was less than 30percent which has now grown to70 percent as per Governmentof India statistics. The AFMIconferences have been attendedby three Prime Ministers and anumber of Governors, ChiefMinisters and Central Ministers.It's conference in Patna in 1996was attended by then PM HDDeve Gowda.

Giving many examples ofhow poor people gatheredcourage to get their childreneducated and their fortuneschanged. He said, “Illiteracy isbecause of poverty and povertyis because of illiteracy,” butadded that poverty was nothereditary and it could beremoved witheducation.Organising commit-tee chairman of the conferenceDr A A Hai said drop out atschool level by Muslim stu-dents has become a major issuewhich stops their way to high-er education. Organising secre-tary Khurshid Ahmad saidAFMI has become a big name inphilanthropy and charity ineducation and the US senate haspraised its works. At the threeday conference about 200 dele-gates from India and abroad willparticipate.

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The National Human RightsCommission (NHRC) has

asked the Arunachal PradeshGovernment to pay � 5,000each to 88 girl students of aschool, who were forced toremove their clothes as punish-ment by three teachers.

The Commission’s directivecame after the ArunachalPradesh Government confirmedthe incident and informed thatthe act of three teachers had beenfound inhumane and cruel. TheArunachal Pradesh governmentwho had earlier initiated a probeinto the incident observed the‘punishment’ of the 88 girls asagainst the basic human digni-ty and decency.

After the probe by the stategovernment, the ArunachalPradesh Education Departmentplaced one teacher under sus-pension, while the two otherswere removed from the services.The three teachers had alsobeen arrested under differentsection of law but later onreleased on bail. The affected girlstudents had been impartedemotional and psychologicalcounseling.

The Arunachal Pradesh gov-ernment have also show causedthe Chairman, ArunachalFarmers’ Development Society,Sagalee, which is running theKGBV, seeking explanation whythe MoU signed between thesociety with SSA, Rajya Mission,Itanagar, should not be termi-nated. It has also been direct-ed that male Headmasters and

teachers engaged in all KGBVsin the State be replaced imme-diately and it is also proposed toinstall cameras in the girls hos-tel.

It may be mentioned herethat on November last year threeteachers of Kasturba GandhiBalika Vidyalaya at Papum Pareforced 88 minor girls to removetheir cloths in front of the entireschool as punishment, whennone among them confessed forhaving written vulgar wordsagainst the head teacher andanother student on a piece ofpaper on the 23rd November,2017.

The Union Ministry ofHuman Resource andDevelopment has informedabout a series of guidelines havebeen issued to the StateGovernments. These also includeguidelines on the safety andsecurity of girl students in theKasturba Gandhi BalikaVidyalayas.

The Commission hasobserved that the report from theGovernment of ArunachalPradesh indicates that the con-cerned State authorities havefailed in their responsibility toprotect the Right to dignity of the88 girls for which vicariouslythey are liable. The criminal pro-ceedings initiated against theguilty teachers have been notedbut the State Government shouldalso pay a sum of �. 5,000 eachas monetary relief to the 88 girlstudents. It has also asked for acompliance report along withproof of payment within fourweeks.

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With 21 more aspirants tak-ing the examination to

get inducted into Media Cell ofUP Congress, the party brasstried to play down the contro-versy surrounding the processsaying that no one would beselected or rejected and everyone would be given some or theother responsibility after exams.

“We are not conductingexamination to select or rejectany leader. It was an aptitudetest for party leaders willing to

shoulder responsibility to pop-ularize our agenda and tacklenegative campaign launchedagainst us,” AICC Media Wingco-ordinator Rohan Gupta.

Gupta, who was in Lucknow on Tuesday to take theexamination of 21 candidatesincluding Onkar Singh,Zeeshan Haider (formerspokespersons) ZafarAli Naqviand PL Punia’s son, said thatafter the tests in other parts ofUP, the aspirants would begiven some responsibility or theother.

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l to

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l sta

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ents

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resid

ent

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ah fo

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cal s

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rst,

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t tim

e in

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ars t

hat I

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ntro

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ross

ed th

e LoC

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ond,

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gica

l stri

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imes

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late

r D

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elect

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polit

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gain

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larly

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f Prim

e Min

ister

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a Mod

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petit

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then

tic bu

tfo

r a la

yman

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t to

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have

been

take

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ny Sy

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ne m

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bef

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pub

lic, t

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l civ

ility

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form

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mm

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ter t

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st co

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ack

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rror

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as In

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ing

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strik

es a

ltoge

ther

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calle

d th

e vi

deo

clip

‘farc

ical’.

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nate

ly, th

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ted

reta

liatio

n an

d es

calat

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a was

unp

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rest

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lklo

re.

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t tim

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aids

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tly. Y

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irst t

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ence

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ask

ed b

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t to

go p

ublic

for t

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rst t

ime e

ver.

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rdin

g to t

he A

rmy,

the o

pera

tion

was i

n re

t-rib

utio

n fo

r the

terr

orist

atta

ck at

Uri.

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trary

to cl

aims t

hen

that

the s

urgi

cal s

trike

s as a

lso th

ede

mon

etisa

tion

that

fol

low

ed w

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det

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rror

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he sp

in n

owis

that

it w

as p

rimar

ily a

reve

nge

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hat

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ened

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past

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sile

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bod

y par

ts of

mili

tary

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-so

nnel.

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sed

such

mut

ual b

estia

lity

since

1957

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ound

situ

atio

n ch

ange

d sig

nific

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afte

r the

rigg

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1987

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n th

e see

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cy w

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day,

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mm

unity

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ivid-

ed ov

er th

e mer

its of

relea

sing t

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lip. T

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tiplie

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mili

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n pu

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bal

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me

for

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by

prod

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titut

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rac

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ta g

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func

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of p

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not

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ts liv

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apl

anet

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heir

own

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sual

ly in

tota

l disc

onne

ct w

ith th

e av

erag

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and

their

com

mon

issu

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dom

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mm

its, c

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and

conf

eren

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one

is co

n-sid

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an

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rtan

t sa

loon

for

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e un

ique

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/or

path

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ptop

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nade

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the c

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g ep

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whi

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eon

toug

h pr

oble

ms,

recy

cling

jar-

gon

and

reus

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sam

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er b

e go

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out

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s but

it is

har

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t in

prac

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lutio

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mod

els

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still

hard

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actic

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you

thin

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ebat

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out

an e

co-

nom

ic p

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y whi

ch al

so ta

kes c

are

of th

e po

or, f

or e

xam

ple,

is us

ual-

ly to

rtuou

s, lo

ng-w

inde

d an

d in

su-

lar. T

here

is a

tend

ency

to st

ay aw

ayfro

m th

e com

mon

grou

nd fo

r com

-m

on go

als. M

ost p

artic

ipan

ts av

oid

spea

king

the

ir m

ind.

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ir m

ain

conc

ern

is th

eir o

wn

wor

k-lif

e bal

-an

ce. S

peec

hes a

re li

ttere

d w

ith th

esa

me o

ld b

orin

g ep

ithet

s — “l

ong-

term

eco

nom

ic p

lan”

and

the

groa

ns w

hich

acco

mpa

ny it

. Say

ing

we

need

a s

trong

eco

nom

y isn

’ten

ough

, so

the n

ew m

arke

r for

eco-

nom

ic su

cces

s is “

inclu

sive”

grow

th.

Try t

o wo

rk in

clusiv

e, in

clusio

n an

dot

her

varia

tions

of t

he w

ord

into

conv

ersa

tion

to sh

ow th

at yo

u’re i

ntu

ne w

ith th

e zei

tgei

st.Th

e w

ord

deve

lopm

ent i

tself

,G

ilber

t Rist

obs

erve

s, ha

s bec

ome

a “m

oder

n sh

ibbo

leth,

an u

navo

id-

able

pas

swor

d”, w

hich

com

es to

be

used

“to

con

vey

the

idea

tha

tto

mor

row

thin

gs w

ill b

e be

tter,

orth

at m

ore

is ne

cess

arily

bet

ter”.

How

ever

, as h

e goe

s on

to n

ote,

the

very

tak

en-fo

r-gr

ante

d qu

ality

of

“dev

elopm

ent”

and

man

y of

the

wor

ds u

sed

in t

he d

evelo

pmen

t di

scou

rse

leav

es m

uch

of w

hat i

sac

tual

ly

done

in

it

s na

me

unqu

estio

ned.

Pol

icy

mak

ers k

eep

usin

g the

wor

d ‘h

olist

ic’ lib

erall

y the

way e

nviro

nmen

talis

ts us

e the

wor

d‘su

stain

able’

.M

any

wor

ds t

hat

gain

ed t

hest

atus

of b

uzzw

ords

are

wha

t the

philo

soph

er W

B G

alie

ter

med

“ess

entia

lly c

onte

sted

con

cept

s”.Th

ese a

re te

rms t

hat c

ombi

ne ge

n-er

al a

gree

men

t on

the

abs

trac

tno

tion

that

they

repr

esen

t with

end-

less

disa

gree

men

t abo

ut w

hat t

hey

mig

ht m

ean

in p

ract

ice. B

uzzw

ords

norm

ally

gai

n th

eir

purc

hase

and

pow

er t

hrou

gh t

heir

vagu

e an

deu

phem

istic

qua

litie

s, th

eir c

apac

-ity

to em

brac

e a m

ultit

ude o

f pos

-sib

le m

eani

ngs a

nd th

eir n

orm

ativ

ere

sona

nce.

The

wor

k th

at t

hese

wor

ds d

o is

to p

lace

the s

anct

ity o

fa d

iscus

sion

beyo

nd re

proa

ch.In

are

cent

revi

ew o

f CV

s of p

rosp

ectiv

eem

ploy

ees

in t

he U

K,

“spe

cial

-iz

ed” t

ook

the t

op sp

ot in

the l

ist o

fph

rase

s us

ed, m

akin

g an

app

ear-

ance

in n

early

hal

f a m

illio

n bi

o-da

ta, c

lose

ly fo

llow

ed b

y “le

ader

-sh

ip”

and

“exp

erie

nced

”. It

seem

swe

’re al

so ke

en to

show

our

zest

for

our j

obs,

with

wor

ds li

ke “s

ucce

ss-

ful”,

“pas

siona

te”, a

nd “e

nthu

siasti

c”al

l mak

ing

the

top

10.

We u

se co

rpor

ate ‘ji

bber

-jabb

er’

to m

ake s

omet

hing

obv

ious

soun

dm

ore

com

plic

ated

and

sm

arte

rth

an it

reall

y is.

It is

diffi

cult

to co

m-

preh

end

wha

t lur

ks b

enea

th.W

orst

of al

l, m

any u

se p

rete

ntio

us ja

rgon

such

as

attit

udin

al ju

dgm

enta

lity,

dega

sific

atio

n, s

ymbi

otic

lin

kage

and

splin

teris

atio

n. W

e use

them

tom

ake t

he o

bvio

us a

nd st

raig

htfo

r-w

ard

soun

d ce

rebr

al a

nd ex

citin

g.

Mee

tings

hav

e now

deg

ener

at-

ed in

to a

qua

gmire

of n

onse

nsic

alve

rbal

piff

le. P

opul

ar p

hras

es su

chas

“th

ink

outsi

de th

e bo

x”, w

hich

date

s bac

k to

the e

arly

70s o

r “I m

ayha

ve a

win

dow

for

you”

, use

d by

busy

, arr

ogan

t m

anag

ers,

are

the

mos

t wor

n ou

t and

fatig

ued

phra

s-es

. The

y can

at b

est p

rovi

de a

peri-

odic

gus

t of

cor

pora

te h

ot a

ir in

chill

ed b

oard

room

s. Th

e bu

zzw

ord

lexi

con

con-

tain

s a

num

ber

of c

ode

wor

dsw

hich

hav

e an

encu

mbe

red

nuan

cean

d ar

e ba

rely

inte

lligi

ble

to th

ose

beyo

nd th

e bor

ders

of s

ubje

ct sp

e-ci

alist

s. Th

ey c

aptu

re o

ne o

f th

equ

aliti

es o

f buz

zwor

ds: T

o so

und

“inte

llect

ual a

nd sc

ient

ific”,

bey

ond

the u

nder

stand

ing o

f the

layp

erso

n,is

best

left

to ‘e

xper

ts’.

Som

e ha

ve t

heir

mea

ning

str

ansfo

rmed

as t

hey

are p

ut to

the

serv

ice

of d

ialo

gue

and

deba

te.

Am

ong

them

, so

cial

cap

ital

and

gend

er ar

e exa

mpl

es, w

ith ap

plic

a-tio

ns fa

r dist

ant f

rom

the

theo

ret-

ical

deb

ates

with

whi

ch th

ey w

ere

orig

inal

ly a

ssoc

iate

d. S

imila

rly,

empo

wer

men

t is

a te

rm t

hat

has

perh

aps t

he m

ost e

xpan

sive s

eman

-tic

ban

dwid

th.

Very

ofte

n, se

min

ars o

n de

vel-

opm

ent r

eson

ate

with

buz

zwor

dslik

e pa

rtic

ipat

ion,

sus

tain

abili

tyan

d m

argi

nalis

atio

n an

d en

d in

copi

ous

polic

y st

atem

ents.

As

the

popu

larit

y of

som

e of

the

m h

asgr

own,

so h

as c

ritic

ism o

f the

use

of il

l-def

ined

term

inol

ogy i

n a s

ec-

tor t

hat m

akes

tall

claim

s of t

rans

-pa

renc

y an

d ac

coun

tabi

lity.

Dev

elop

men

t co

mm

unic

atio

nsm

ust

purg

e m

eani

ngle

ss j

argo

nus

ed to

glo

ss o

ver,

qual

ify o

r eve

ngl

orify

out

com

es.

Disc

ussio

ns a

nd s

emin

ars

onpo

vert

y, hu

nger

and

starv

atio

n ar

eor

gani

sed

at sw

anky

hot

els. M

uch

diss

ervi

ce h

as b

een

done

to

the

caus

e of

rur

al d

evel

opm

ent

onac

coun

t of

the

ver

bose

fog

tha

ten

velo

pes

such

con

fere

nces

.The

entir

e de

velo

pmen

t se

ctor

nee

ds‘ri

ghtsi

zing

’ so

that

we d

o w

ay w

ithth

ese r

even

ue gu

zzler

s; it

will e

nsur

eth

at p

roje

cts

bec

ome ‘

susta

inab

le’an

d ‘sc

alab

le’ a

nd c

an h

ave

a re

al‘im

pact

’. Th

e lea

st w

e can

do

is ex

amin

eth

e voc

abul

ary

we u

se an

d se

ek to

spea

k pl

ainl

y an

d ho

nest

ly. A

sPr

imo

Levi

rec

kons

in

The

Dro

wne

d an

d th

e Sav

ed: “

With

out

a pro

foun

d sim

plifi

catio

n, th

e wor

ldar

ound

us

wou

ld b

e an

inf

inite

,un

defin

ed ta

ngle

that

wou

ld d

efy

our a

bilit

y to

orie

nt o

urse

lves

and

deci

de u

pon

our a

ctio

ns…

We a

reco

mpe

lled

to re

duce

the k

now

able

to a

sche

ma.”

(The

writ

er i

s th

e au

thor

of

Villa

ge D

iary

of a

Her

etic

Bank

er)

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In ca

lling

for

Mus

lims

to v

ote

for

Mus

lims,

it is

diffi

cult

to a

sses

s w

hat

All

Indi

a Majl

is-e-

Itteh

adul

Mus

limee

nch

ief A

sadu

ddin

Ow

aisi

has i

n m

ind.

Was

it to

boy

cott

othe

r com

mun

ity ca

ndid

ates

or t

o ge

t m

ore

Mus

lims

into

legi

slativ

ech

ambe

rs o

r was

it to

aven

ge th

e tak

eove

rof

Niz

am’s

Stat

e by

New

Del

hi in

194

8?Be

caus

e his

gran

dfat

her,

Abdu

l Ras

hid

was

the

right

-han

d m

an o

f Kas

im R

azvi

who

head

ed t

he N

izam

’s un

offic

ial

roug

h-ne

cks c

alle

d th

e Ra

zaka

rs.

My

earli

er im

pres

sion

was

that

edu

-ca

ted

Mus

lim le

ader

s m

ust t

hink

bef

ore

they

artic

ulat

e in

publ

ic. T

his v

iew

som

e-w

hat f

aded

rec

ently

afte

r I

read

a b

ook,

Path

way

to

Paki

stan

, by

Cha

udhr

yK

haliq

uzza

man

, the

lead

er w

ho su

ccee

d-ed

Muh

amm

ad A

li Jin

nah

as th

e pre

siden

tof

the

Mus

lim L

eagu

e. D

espi

te b

eing

ast

aunc

h fo

llow

er

of

Jinn

ah,

Kha

liquz

zam

an s

taye

d ba

ck in

Ind

ia, t

obe

gin

with

, and

hea

ded

the

Leag

ue.

Kha

liquz

zam

an c

orre

spon

ded

with

Hus

eyn

Shah

eed

Suhr

awar

dy, t

he m

aste

r-m

ind

of t

he G

reat

Cal

cutta

Kill

ing

inAu

gust

194

6. O

n Se

ptem

ber 1

0, 1

947,

he

wro

te to

Kha

liquz

zam

an, s

trat

egisi

ng fo

rM

uslim

s w

ho w

ere

left

beh

ind

inH

indu

stan

. He

reco

mm

ende

d th

at t

hey

shou

ld c

ontin

ue to

hol

d fa

st to

the

two-

natio

n th

eory

but

at t

he s

ame

time

have

cord

ial r

elat

ions

with

the

Hin

dus.

They

sho

uld

form

the

mse

lves

int

ost

rong

poc

kets

or

clus

ters

whi

ch w

ould

enab

le th

em to

surv

ive b

ette

r and

be c

ul-

tura

lly b

enef

ited.

He d

id n

ot fa

vour

pop

-ul

atio

n tr

ansf

er; a

lthou

gh h

e co

nfes

sed

that

he

had

not a

ntic

ipat

ed B

enga

l to

bepa

rtiti

oned

and

be

redu

ced

to M

uslim

sbe

com

ing

a m

inor

ity in

Wes

t Ben

gal.

He s

tron

gly f

elt t

hat t

heir

co-r

elig

ion-

ists

had

been

let h

igh

and

dry

to s

hape

thei

r ow

n de

stin

y w

ithou

t any

hom

elan

d.N

eith

er S

uhra

war

dy n

or K

haliq

uzza

man

betr

ayed

any

ent

husia

sm f

or t

he t

wo-

natio

n th

eory

whi

ch w

as in

jurio

us to

the

left

behi

nd M

uslim

s. Ye

t as L

eagu

ers,

they

had

to sw

ear b

y it.

Nev

erth

eles

s, b

oth

the

lead

ers

appe

ared

earn

est a

nd d

edic

ated

to th

e wel-

fare

of t

he le

ft be

hind

Mus

lims,

and

yet

both

of t

hem

pac

ked

thei

r bag

s lon

g bef

ore

and

land

ed i

n Pa

kist

an: S

uhra

war

dy t

obe

com

e th

e Pr

ime

Min

iste

r an

dK

haliq

uzza

man

to ta

ke o

ver a

s the

succ

es-

sor o

f Jin

nah

as p

arty

pre

siden

t. Si

nce

Ow

aisi

is id

eolo

gica

lly a

bird

of

the

sam

e fe

athe

r, co

uld

he a

lso b

e a

com

-pa

rabl

e acr

obat

? Pol

itica

lly, M

uslim

s vot

e for

Mus

lims m

akes

no

sens

e in

the I

ndia

n ele

c-to

ral s

yste

m ei

ther

at th

e Par

liam

enta

ry o

rth

e Ass

embl

y; le

vel e

xcep

t per

haps

for t

hefa

ct th

at it

wou

ld e

nabl

e hi

s ow

n pa

rty

tofie

ld m

ore c

andi

date

s.Fi

nally

, ha

s O

wai

si co

nsid

ered

the

reac

tion

of n

on-M

uslim

s to

his p

ropo

sal

that

Mus

lims s

houl

d vo

te fo

r Mus

lim ca

n-

dida

tes?

Sho

uld

Hin

dus,

for

exam

ple,

vote

for

onl

y H

indu

can

dida

tes?

Wha

tw

ould

then

be

the

prof

iles o

f the

legi

sla-

ture

s? D

oes h

e no

t kno

w th

at Ji

nnah

and

his c

olle

ague

s had

dem

ande

d an

exch

ange

of p

opul

atio

ns?

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946,

Dr R

ajend

ra P

rasa

d pu

blish

eda

book

, In

dia

Div

ided

, w

here

in h

ere

spon

ded

to Ji

nnah

that

thos

e M

uslim

sw

ho co

uld

not g

o to

Pak

istan

shou

ld re

side

in H

indu

stan

as a

liens

on

the

stre

ngth

of

visa

s and

Jinn

ah h

ad p

rom

ptly

conf

irmed

his

agre

emen

t on

a r

ecip

roca

l ba

sis.

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cept

ed b

y the

Neh

ru G

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nmen

t, w

hat

woul

d ha

ve b

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tatu

s of O

wai

si? W

asno

t th

e Pa

rtiti

on a

fin

al s

ettle

men

t:Pa

kist

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r Mus

lims a

nd H

indu

stan

for

the

rest

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riter

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the domestic crude steel pro-duction to 1.23 million tonnes(MT) for the quarter ended June30. The company had clockedproduction of 0.90 milliontonnes in the year-ago period.

“JSPL also recorded a 46 percent growth in domestic salesduring Q1 of 2018-19 to 1.18million tonnes, up from 0.81million tonne in the first quar-ter of the previous fiscal,” JindalSteel and Power said in a state-ment.In India, the companyhas two integrated steel plantsin Raigarh and Angul. JSPL hadposted quarterly crude steelproduction at 1.26 milliontonnes as of March 31, 2018.

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have put in fresh binding bids forcash-strapped healthcare chain whileMunjal-Burman combine onTuesday backed out from the race. Ina regulatory filing, Fortis Healthcaresaid it has fresh

binding bids without specifyingdetails. IHH Healthcare andManipal-TPG had earlier emerged asthe preferred suitor for FortisHealthcare.

While Malaysia’s IHH Healthcarestated that it has put in binding bid,sources, however, said Manipal-TPGcombine have also put in their bid.“The Munjal-Burman combine has,however, not submitted fresh bind-ing bids on the last day,” it added.

“The Board of Directors of thecompany has received Binding Bidson July 3, 2018,” Fortis Healthcaresaid in a BSE filing on Tuesday,adding that the binding bids will beevaluated by the board in consulta-tion with its advisors.

As per the fresh criteria that wasput up by the Fortis board on May29, the potential buyer had to makea minimum investment of �1,500

crore into Fortis Healthcare by wayof preferential allotment. Apart fromhaving a plan for funding the acqui-sition of RHT Health Trust (RHT),suitors should also have a plan forproviding exit to private equityinvestors of diagnostic arm SRL.

Among others key criteria, thebids had be unconditional as well asmention about the source of fundsfor the transaction and elaborate onthe plans for retention of currentmanagement and employees. Thebacking out of Munjal-Burman com-bine from the race comes days afterFortis Healthcare announced that ithas initiated legal action to recoverabout �500 crore of funds given asinter-corporate deposits (ICDs) tothe firms contolled by Malvinder andShivinder Singh. The loans weregiven without board approval andenough collaterals.

The company had also stated thatmarket regulator SEBI has alsoordered a forensic probe into thecompany’s matters. The race forFortis has witnessed several twistsand turns over the past few months.The Manipal-TPG combine was thefirst to make an unsolicited non-binding offer for the cash-starppedhealthcare chain on March 23, 2018.

Subsequently, Fortis boardapproved demerger of its hospitalsbusiness to be acquired by ManipalHospitals and TPG Capital, alongwith the sale of 20 per cent stake in

diagnostics chain SRL Ltd in a�3,900-crore deal. Following theannouncement, others suitorsjumped into the fray with Munjal-Burman combine, Malaysia’s IHHHealthcare Berhad and KKR-backedRadiant Life Care also making bind-ing offers.

China’s Fosun Healthcare whichhad also joined the race however didnot make binding bid for the com-pany. The process saw the suitorsrevising their bids.

In April, Manipal-TPG com-bine raised the offer for FortisHealthcare Ltd by valuing the hos-pital business higher at �6,061 crorefrom the earlier equity valuation of�5,003 crore.

The combine finally sweetenedtheir offer with a proposal to investin the company at �180 per share inthe cash-strapped healthcare chainwith a proposal to invest in the com-pany, thereby increasing valuation ofthe company to �9,403 crore. Malaysian firm IHH HealthcareBerhard had also revised its offer todirectly invest in Fortis at �175 pershare on May 1 from an initial non-binding offer to invest in Fortis at�160 per share. KKR-backed RadiantLife Care had also revised bid for Fortis with a binding offer toacquire its Mulund hospital for anenterprise value of �1,200 crore anda proposal to acquire stake in hospitalbusiness.

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Mining mogul Anil Agarwal onTuesday said his plan to delist

his flagship Vedanta Resources Plcfrom London Stock Exchange andtake it private is no way linked tothe Tuticorin incident and is mere-ly an exercise to simplify a sprawl-ing business empire.

Agarwal, who launched a USD1 billion offer to buy the 33.65 percent stake of Vedanta that his fam-ily trust does not own, while on acruise with family in theMediterranean, said the liquidity ofIndian markets now means that theneed for a separate London listingis no longer critical.

The move to delist Vedantacame weeks after killing of 13 pro-testers in police firing at the firm’scopper smelter plant in Tamil Nadulast month that led to politicalopposition to the company in theUK and drop in its share price.There were demands from somequarters that the firm be delistedfrom London Stock Exchange.

Asked if the decision was linkedto the turn of events at Tuticorin,Agarwal said: “No link at all. Thisis driven by the desire to simplifythe corporate structure”.

Vedanta, which owns copper,aluminum, iron ore, oil and steelbusinesses, has been facing envi-ronmental pressure on its opera-tions. Protesters at Tuticorin weredemanding the closure of Vedanta’scopper smelter when they werefired upon by the police.

Agarwal said there will be no

material impact of delisting on thebusinesses.

“The rationale for the move istwo-fold. One, corporate simplifi-cation. We have been simplifyingfor years, through the merger of theIndian companies to create VedantaLimited, and then the merger ofCairn India into Vedanta Limited.This transaction is a logical nextstep in that process.

“Two, increasing maturity ofIndian markets. The liquidity ofIndian markets now means that theneed for a separate London listingis no longer critical,” he told PTI.

Volcan, a holding companyowned by a trust controlled byAgarwal, yesterday announced anintention to make a $1 billionoffer to buy the 33.65 per cent ofVedanta at 825 pence per share.

He said yesterday’s announce-ment was an intention to make anoffer. “It is expected that an offerwill be made in 28 days. That offerwill be open for a certain period oftime governed by UK rules (3-6weeks), following which the processwill be completed.”

Asked how the share purchasewill be funded, he said Volcan has

the financing for the offer lined upand will announce details before theformal offer.

If his offer goes through,Agarwal will be left with just twoMumbai-listed companies --Vedanta Ltd, that produces every-thing from oil and gas to copper,and Hindustan Zinc Ltd.

“Post delisting, there will be twolisted entities: Vedanta Ltd andHZL. Both are listed in India, andVedanta Ltd also has an ADR list-ing on the New York StockExchange,” he said.

Vedanta Resources listed onLondon in December 2003, raisingjust over 500 million pounds froma sale of shares at 390 pence.

Agarwal said there is no plan“at this stage” to further consolidatethe subsidiaries under one umbrel-la.

While its Tuticorin plant has been shut down, Vedanta’siron ore business too has been hitby the Supreme Court, ordering asuspension of mining in Goa,where most of its iron ore mines arelocated.

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Shares of Vedanta fell by nearly4 per cent on Tuesday after pro-

moter Anil Agarwal unveiled hisplan to delist his flagship VedantaResources Plc from the LondonStock Exchange.

The stock went down by 3.25per cent to settle at �230.95 onBSE. During the day, it sank 3.56per cent to �230.20.

At NSE, shares of the compa-ny declined 3.68 per cent to closeat �231.

The company’s market valua-tion slumped �2,880.34 crore to�85,848.66 crore.

The stock was the worst hit

among the blue-chips on both thekey indices in Tuesday’s session.

In terms of equity volume,10.43 lakh shares of the companywere traded on BSE and over 1crore shares changed hands at NSEduring the day.

Mining mogul Anil Agarwalplans to delist his flagship firmVedanta Resources Plc from theLondon Stock Exchange after buy-ing out 33.5 per cent of non-pro-moter shareholders for about USD1 billion.

The company no longer seesthe London listing as necessary toaccess capital and the deal will sim-plify Vedanta’s corporate structure,a company statement said.

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Government is open to discussthe issues that the ReserveBank of India (RBI) had raisedrecently over the lack of pow-ers in regulating State-runlenders.

Amidst criticism that theapex bank had failed in its reg-ulatory oversight over govern-ment-owned banks followingthe �13,500-crore PNB scam,RBI governor Urjit Patel hadrecently blamed it on the lackof powers to control them.

“The Government is opento discuss with the RBI all theissues it has on regulating state-run banks,” Goyal told anindustry event here this

evening. The Minister alsoruled out Government pairingits stake in public sector banks(PSBs), saying there is no pro-posal with the Government tolower its ownership in state-runbanks to under 51 per cent in20 of them. The statementcomes amidst strong opposi-tion from banking and LICunions to the government plansto sell its majority stake in thecrippled IDBI Bank to LIC.

Admitting that the bankingsystem has failed the public inmeeting their high expectations

of them, Goyal said bankershave failed to live up to the highstandards and ethics expectedof them. He also said the gov-ernment will back all the state-run banks with enough capital.

Admitting that PSBs hadfaced political interferences inthe past, Goyal said but underthis Government no minister isinterfering in the operationalmatters of the lenders.

A day after accepting theSunil Mehta panel recommen-dation to set up an asset man-agement company (AMC), thatwill function like a bad bank toresolve smaller loan defaults ofup to �500 crore, Goyal saidliquidation can’t be the panaceafor all NPAs as there are gen-uine business failures whichneed to be resolved.

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merger immediately after theDepartment of Telecom (DoT)completes all statutory formal-ities, Telecom Minister ManojSinha said Tuesday.

“DoT has set rules formerger and acquisition. IdeaVodafone merger will becleared without a single seconddelay once DoT completes allstatutory formalities,” Sinhatold reporters on the sidelinesof the inauguration of Ericsson’s5G test lab at IIT Delhi.

Both Idea and Vodafonewere expecting the merger deal— which will create the India’s

largest telecom company — tobe completed by June 30, 2018.

The deal was expected tobe cleared in mid-June but thetelecom department is consid-ering to raise a fresh demandof around �4,700 crore fromVodafone before granting clear-ance, according to sources.

In 2015, Vodafone hadmerged its four subsidiariesVodafone East, VodafoneSouth, Vodafone Cellular andVodafone Digilink withVodafone Mobile Services,which is now called VodafoneIndia. The DoT at that time hasasked Vodafone to clear OTSCdues worth �6,678 crore but thecompany challenged it in thecourt.

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Mumbai: Markets clockedmodest gains in see-saw tradeTuesday, with institutionalinvestors lending crucial sup-port amid recovery in the rupee.

The BSE Sensex, whichopened in the red, reboundedover 114 points to close at35,378.60. The broader NSE

Nifty climbed 42.60 points tofinish just below the key10,700-mark.

Markets benefited fromvalue-buying in recently bat-tered stocks amid mixed over-seas cues, brokers said.

The rupee recovering fromrecord lows against the US

dollar also bolstered sentiment,they added.

Global markets were large-ly mixed as investors assessedthe trade relations betweenthe US and other majoreconomies. The Sensexshrugged of its weak start andtouched a high of 35,445.21 on

robust buying in pharma andIT stocks. It finally settled at35,378.60, showing a gain of114.19 points, or 0.32 per cent.

The broader NSE Niftyalso went up by 42.60 points or0.40 to end at �10,699.90 aftershuttling between 10,630.25and 10,713.30. PTI

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flooded cave in northernThailand after 10 days aremostly in stable medical con-dition and have received high-protein liquid food, officialssaid Tuesday, though it is notknown when they will be ableto go home.

Video released earlyTuesday by the Thai navyshowed the boys in their soc-cer uniforms sitting on a dryarea inside the cave above thewater as a spotlight, apparent-ly from a rescuer, illuminatedtheir faces. The boys werefound late Monday night dur-ing a desperate search thatdrew international help andcaptivated the nation.

Chiang Rai provincial Gov.Narongsak Osatanakorn saidthe health of the boys andcoach were checked using afield assessment in which redis critical condition, yellow isserious and green is stable.

“We found that most of theboys are in green condition,” hesaid. “Maybe some of the boyshave injuries or light injuriesand would be categorized asyellow condition. But no one isin red condition.”

When the group will be ableto leave the cave isn’t known dueto flooding and other factorsthat could make their extractiondangerous. Experts have said itcould be safer to simply supplythem where they are for now.Thailand’s rainy season typical-ly lasts through October.

Family members of themissing hugged each other andcheered as they heard they hadbeen found.

Aisha Wiboonrungrueng,the mother of 11-year-oldChanin Wiboonrungrueng,smiled and hugged her family asnews of their discovery spread.She said she would cook her sona Thai omelet, his favorite food,

when he returns home.Rescue divers had spent

much of Monday makingpreparations for a final push tolocate the lost soccer players,aged 11 to 16, and their 25-year-old coach. Floodingtrapped them after they enteredthe Tham Luang Nang Noncave in Chiang Rai on June 23.

Divers found the groupabout 300-400 meters (yards)past a section of the cave onhigher ground that was thoughtto be where they might havetaken shelter.

In the 5-minute navyvideo, the boys are quiet asthey sit on their haunches, legsbent in front of them. “You are

very strong,” one of the res-cuers says in English. Someoneasks what day it is, and the res-cuer responds, “Monday.Monday. You have been here -10 days.”

One boy, noticing the cam-era and hearing unfamiliarwords, says in Thai, “Oh, theywant to take a picture; tell himwe’re hungry. I haven’t hadanything to eat.”

Then the boy breaks intosimple English, saying, “Eat,eat, eat,” to which anothervoice responds in Thai that healready told that to the rescuer.

Narongsak said Tuesdaythat the missing were givenhigh-protein liquid food,painkillers and antibiotics. Hesaid doctors had advised givingthe medicine as a preventativemeasure.

Anmar Mirza, a leadingAmerican cave rescue expert,said many challenges remainfor the rescuers. He said theprimary decision is whether totry to evacuate the boys andtheir coach or to supply themin place.

“Supplying them on sitemay face challenges dependingon how difficult the dives are,”Mirza, coordinator of the U.S.National Cave RescueCommission, said in an email.

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several NATO countries,including Germany, Belgium,Norway and Canada, demand-ing that they increase theirdefence spending and warnedthat Washington “is losingpatience with their failure tomeet security obligationsshared by the alliance”.

According to a report inthe New York Times onMonday, the letters were sentin June ahead of a NATOsummit in Brussels next week.

Trump has repeatedlyquestioned the value of thealliance and claimed that itsmembers were taking advan-tage of the US. CNN quoted asource as saying that the letterswere “very tough”.

The President has previ-ously referred to NATO as“obsolete” although he laterreversed that position.

The Times report said thatmany of the letters to the var-ious leaders included similarlanguage, but Trump’s letter toGerman Chancellor AngelaMerkel was particularly criti-cal.

“As we discussed duringyour visit in April, there isgrowing frustration in the USthat some allies have notstepped up as promised,” theletter to Merkel read, accord-ing to the Times, which citeda source who had seen it andsent excepts.

“Continued Germanunderspending on defenceundermines the security ofthe alliance and provides val-idation for other allies that alsodo not plan to meet their mil-itary spending commitments,because others see you as a rolemodel.”

Trump further indicatedthat Washington could alter itsglobal military presence ifNATO allies do not increase

spending on their own defence.“It will, however, become

increasingly difficult to justifyto American citizens why somecountries do not share NATO’scollective security burdenwhile American soldiers con-tinue to sacrifice their livesoverseas or come home grave-ly wounded,” Trump wrote toMerkel, according to theTimes.

It added that Trump toldMerkel and other leaders,including Canadian PrimeMinister Justin Trudeau andNorwegian leader ErnaSolberg, that he was cognizantof domestic political pressuresagainst increased militaryspending but that he used“considerable political capitalto increase our own militaryspending”.

The letters fit a pattern ofthe President’s critiques ofNATO, particularly of defencespending by other members.NATO members committed tospend 2 per cent of their grossdomestic product on nationaldefence at a 2014 summit inWales.

Trump has repeatedlybemoaned that NATO alliesdidn’t fulfil this commitment.

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on Tuesday after a ferry ranaground off the coast ofIndonesia, officials said, as res-cuers raced to save more than125 other passengers thought tobe aboard the vessel.

The deadly incident comesthe same day authorities offi-cially called off the search formore than 160 people still miss-ing after another ferry sank on

a popular tourist lake in Sumatratwo weeks ago.

Images from the latest acci-dent showed passengers clingingto the side of the KM Lestari asit listed in waters off Sulawesiisland, while other passengersfloated in the sea awaiting help.

The ferry ran aground about300 metres (985 feet) from thecoast, Indonesia’s transporta-tion agency said, as wavesswamped trucks and other vehi-cles on the boat’s deck beforethey plunged into the water. “12people have died and we’re still

rescuing victims,” Syamsibar,the head of South Sulawesi’ssearch and rescue agency —who like many Indonesians usesjust one name — told AFP.

Authorities have not yetaccounted for all 139 people list-ed in the ship’s manifest, localpolice spokesman DickySondani told Kompas TV.Indonesia’s disaster agency issearching the area with the helpof fishing boats, but bad weath-er was preventing larger vesselsfrom getting near the location,the transportation Ministry said.

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Aplan by the United Statesto cut Iran’s oil production

to zero is a “fantasy,” IranianPresident Hassan Rouhani saidon Tuesday during hisEuropean tour to rally supportfor the 2015 nuclear deal.

Washington has said itwants to pressure Iran tochange its behaviour by takingaway all revenue Tehran gen-erates from crude sales, partof the confrontationalapproach adopted byPresident Donald Trump,who pulled out of the historicnuclear pact in May.

“These are exaggeratedstatements that can never beimplemented,” Rouhani toldreporters in Bern, after hold-ing talks with Swiss authori-ties on a range of issues,including the nuclear deal.

“Such a scenario wouldmean the US was imposing itsimperialist policy in flagrantviolation of international law,”he said.

“This is really a baselessfantasy,” he added, condemn-ing an “unjust” scenario whereall oil producers are allowedto export crude except Iran.

Washington has said it isconfident the world has

enough spare oil capacity toreplace Iranian crude, andTrump has said that he haspersuaded Saudi Arabia tobalance the market by boost-ing its own production.

The international com-munity still overwhelminglybacks the nuclear deal whichopened new opportunities todeepen economic relationswith Iran.

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Republican US senators metwith Russia’s Foreign

Minister Sergei Lavrov on arare visit to Moscow onTuesday ahead of a summitbetween the countries’ presi-dents Vladimir Putin andDonald Trump.

The US delegation is inRussia until Thursday, ahead ofthe summit planned inHelsinki on July 16, at a timeof high tension between Russiaand the West.

“We recognise that theworld is better off, I believe, if

Russia and the US have fewertensions, get along a little bet-ter, maybe put aside some dif-ferences,” Senator RichardShelby said during today’smeeting with Lavrov at theRussian foreign ministry.

“We are competitors, but wedon’t necessarily need to beadversaries,” said Shelby, aRepublican senator fromAlabama, in televised comments.

“We’re hoping that comingout of the Putin-Trump meet-ing in Helsinki, it will be thebeginning, maybe, of a newday,” Shelby added.

“We will have to wait and

see.” Lavrov, speaking inEnglish, said he hoped that theUS senators’ visit “will sym-bolise the resumption of rela-tions between the (US andRussian) parliaments.”

“I think the resumption ofdialogue is going to be a verytimely event on the eve of theforthcoming meeting betweenthe two presidents,” he added.

Lavrov also congratulatedthe delegation on the forth-coming US Independence Dayand wished them well on host-ing the 2026 FIFA World Cup.Russia is currently hosting thisyear’s tournament.

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Britain is running for a seat ina regional legislature in Russiaon the ticket of a Kremlin-con-trolled party.

Viktoria Skripal is runningfor office in the Yaroslavl regionnorth of Moscow as a candidateof A Just Russia party, accord-ing to party spokeswomanAnastasia Pivovarova.

Sergei Skripal and hisdaughter Yulia survived a poi-

son attack in the English city ofSalisbury in March.

Britain says they were poi-soned by a nerve agent knownas Novichok and that Russiawas behind the attack.

Moscow strongly deniesthe allegation. In appearanceson Russian state-controlled tele-vision Viktoria Skripal has saidshe doesn’t trust Britain tohandle the investigation.

Pivovarova said ViktoriaSkripal has the support of theparty because of her “activecivic position”.

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Colleges, Gurugram, Haryana,invites application for BA,BCom, BSc, BTech, BBA, BCA,BEd, DEd, MTech, MEd anddiploma courses.

Eligibility: Class X pass fordiploma courses, Class XII forbachelors and diploma andgraduates for masters degree.

Deadline: July 15, 2018How to apply: Apply

online by downloading theapplication form from the web-site: www.dpgitm.com andwww.dpgdegreecollege.com

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invites application for admis-sion to its four-year IntegratedMSc Programme in ComputerScience for Biology students. Itoffers specialisations inBioinformatic, ComputationalBiology, Big Data/DataSciences, Cyber Security,Mobile Technologies andApplications and CloudComputing.

The programme for theBiology students provides anoverview of computing, anunderstanding of the concepts,principles and skills in theirapplication, extension and apractical experience in com-puting, as applied to biology.

The programme isdesigned for students who haveopted for Physics, Chemistryand Biology without Maths inClass XI and XII, and who wishto pursue a career in ComputerScience. Those who chooseBiology-related concentrationareas like Bioinformatics andComputational Biology canwork in IT and Biotechnology,Pharma, Healthcare and alliedcompanies in cross-functionalroles such as BioinformaticsAnalyst and ComputationalBiologist.

The NU also offers its stu-dents an opportunity to trans-fer learnings from the class-room to the industry workplacefor six months throughIndustry Practice in the finalsemester of the programme.

MSc students have theopportunity to participate inR&D projects in the sixthsemester as per the curriculum.Those interested can alsoundertake projects under fac-

ulty guidance during the sum-mer breaks. Students are alsoencouraged to publish andpresent research papers atinternational conferences andjournals.

To apply, log on towww.niituniversity.in.

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invites applications for MScStem Cell and RegenerativeMedicine course starting inSeptember 2018.

Eligibility: Overall IELTSgrade of 7.0 with a minimum of6.0 in each component, or equiv-alent. A good upper second class(2:1) honours degree, at least 65per cent, B+ or equivalent, in abiomedical or related subjectsuch as biotechnology, genetics,zoology, cell biology or bio-chemistry.

Applicants with relevantwork experience and good aca-demic potential are also encour-aged to apply.

As such, this uniqueresearch-led course offers high-level employment opportuni-ties but us equally valuable totransition to PhD.

The biggest part of thedegree will be the research pro-ject, which students will be ableto work based in the Centre forStem Cell Biology. Students willbe working alongside profes-sional scientists, and under thesupervision of one academicstaff, either based in BiomedicalScience or in a related depart-ment at the University ofSheffield, depending on the stu-dent’s chosen project.

Assessment is by formalexaminations, courseworkassignments, debates, posterpresentations and a dissertation.

Fee: The annual fee foroverseas students starting in2018 is £23450. For furtherinformation, log on to bmsad-missions@sheff ield.ac.uk;https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/bms/study/masters/stem_cell#tab01

Leave smart-classes behind. Game-based learning is thenew trend that is making waves in education. The glob-al game-based learning market was valued at $3.487 bil-

lion in 2017 and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 19.60 percent to reach a market size of $8.532 billion by 2022.

Academic education, in several aspects, is no longer rel-evant due to the lack of upgradation in the syllabus and teach-ing methodology. Hence, the need of the hour is to adapt inno-vative learning models like game-based learning emphasis-ing on life skills.

Gaming is an active way of learning. With the advancement in technology, it’s able to target all the needsof learning. “The aim is to make learning just as addictiveas gaming. This has the potential to change the landscape ofeducation. Even though it is still under process, it’s a riskworth taking as without risks, one can never learn,” DrAnantha K Duraiappah, director, UNESCO Mahatma GandhiInstitute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development,says.

A way to improve efficiency by millions, gaming as a plat-form for learning teaches more than what can be learnt in aclassroom, to a larger audience at one go. This method willhelp retain the skills being taught.

Education is no more about just learning fractions andthe timelines through history. It is all about moving towardshelping people grow as smarter individuals with better devel-oped soft skills.

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desired knowledge, acquire actionable know-hows, useful softskills and at the same time have fun. It helps provide mean-ing to action. Theories that are taught in the classrooms areunderstood by many until it is applied. With gaming, one canhave a practical approach to the academic theories.

The tasks and missions in the game will help developproblem-solving skills — a method of project-based learn-ing. It also inculcates a difficulty curve for flow that will helpmove forward.

Gaming being an interactive plat-form encourages errors. This will helpthe gamers learn from their mistakes,which they would’ve acquired throughapplication and thus, will be embeddedinto their memory.

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higher brain activity and retentionwhen information is given at intervals.This is known as spaced learning. Withthe help of retrieval, the learner is morelikely to remember and understand incomparison to when the information isgiven in one go.

Gaming also makes use of a modelcalled Interleaved learning where studentsmix multiple subjects or topics while theystudy in order to improve their learning.Thus, not only can they relate better but canalso handle complexity with ease. With this,there is a combination of retrieval and rep-etition in gaming which results in consol-idation, making gaming an effective way oflearning.

The process of learnification ingaming revolves around using the gamemechanism in which the pedagogicalcontent is injected.

With gaming, one also gets imme-diate feedback which increases effec-tiveness as the value of that informationremains.

The four pillars of education in orderto grow holistically are mindfulness, crit-ical inquiry, empathy and compassion.These go beyond classroom learning andare all concepts that need to be taughtthrough gaming.

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education, will not be able to replacewhat schools are teaching. However, itwill catalyse the process of learning andwill make it fun so the addiction of gam-ing gets transferred into learning as well.The idea is to be part of the curriculumand not about replacing the currentmethods. The games are going to bedesigned to help teach concepts.

In a long run, it’ll be great to havegames which teachers can inculcate in theirteaching methodology and use them intheir classrooms. The learning outcomes areto be achieved ultimately, gaming will justbe a catalyst in the process.

According to UNESCO, assess-ments can also happen through gamesin the future. Each level can be an examof sorts that shows the advancement inlearning and each child can move attheir own pace. It can also be a poten-tial solution to exam stress as well.

Teachers can never be replaced, they domore than just provide information in lec-tures. They act as guides in a students’ lifeand will continue to do so. It will be the roleof schools to introduce technology to thestudents as one can’t avoid it anymore.

But there are some health concernsrelated to gaming. The drawbacks canbe from staring at the screens.Therefore, the important thing is tomaintain an overall balance and mon-itoring a child’s activity. Spending timeoutside is equally important and willprobably be more so since we’re takingto technology faster than before.

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The National Institute forRural Development and

Panchayati Raj (NIRD& PR) isset to host the second edition ofRural Innovators StartupConclave (RISC) on August 30and 31, 2018 at NIRD&PR,Rajendra Nagar, Hyderabad. Theconclave will be inaugurated byvice-president M VenkaiahNaidu.

The themes of the conclaveare Agriculture & AlliedActivities, Green Energy, Wasteto Wealth, Sustainable Housing,Health & Elderly Care, DrinkingWater & Sanitation, andSustainable Livelihood. The

conclave aims to identify ruralinnovations and startups, creat-ing a platform for their exposure,education, capacity building,mentoring and incubation toconnect national and interna-tional networks.

It will witness the participa-tion of rural innovators, startupsand funding agencies, youngschool and college students, giv-ing them the opportunity toleverage each others’ strengths forbringing into the fray, sustainablesolutions for rural development.

Winning participants willbe provided with awards and fel-

lowships which will give valuableimpetus for them to go into com-munities, identify problems andcome up with ideas anchored ininnovative and pioneering tech-nologies. Through RISC, theinstitute intends to offer techni-cal support through optimisationof the rudimentary designs cre-ated by select participants, andcash rewards for exceptionalinnovative solutions.

A fellowship of �1.2 lakhand �2.4 lakh will be provided toinnovators and start-ups respec-tively. NIRD&PR will award a‘Best Innovator’ award and a ‘Best

Startup’ award under each ofthese categories, and invitesapplications from Indian andinternational residents, and fromstartups no older than five yearswith an annual turnover notexceeding �50 lakh.

A new platform called ‘RuralInnovation and Design (RIDe)’Challenge will be organised forschool children, college studentsand the general public, with anaim of finding potential solutionsto critical problems of the ruralcommunity. These solutions willbe represented through posterdisplays at the conclave.

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The National Programme on TechnologyEnhanced Learning (NPTEL), one of

the MOOCs platforms for Engineeringcourses, has joined hands with NationalInstitute of Research in Tuberculosis(NIRT) to offer an online certificationcourse for doctors — Manage Tuberculosis.

This eight-week long course has beenprepared in consultation with experts in thefield of TB management and covered theepidemiology, diagnosis, treatment, pre-vention and control of TB as a public healthproblem. It consists of video lectures, casediscussion scenarios and video demon-

strations of laboratory procedures. TheNPTEL has provided the support forrecording and hosting on the portal, alongwith coordination to conduct final exams.

Speaking about the importance of thiscourse, Prof Andrew Thangaraj, NPTELcoordinator at IIT Madras, said: “This isthe first course of this nature addressing aspecific disease of public health importancein India. We hope that it will benefit doc-tors treating TB patients and help them tooffer care of a higher order to theirpatients. There is a vast potential to devel-op online courses in a range of subjects andthe NPTEL would welcome new propos-als and coordinate the offering of the same.”

The course was developed by IndianCouncil of Medical Research (ICMR)—NIRT in collaboration with the NPTEL. Itis an initiative to address this felt need ofsensitising doctors both in the public andprivate sector to the standards of care andthe new guidelines and developments in themodern management of TB.

The online courses cover all disci-plines of Engineering such as biotech-nology, ocean engineering and metal-lurgical sciences apart from the popu-lar courses such as computer scienceengineering or electrical engineering.For more details, log on to onlinecours-es.nptel.ac.in

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There’s talenthidden in

towns and vil-lages of India, butit often goesunnoticed due tothe lack ofresources. Withthe launch ofedutainment magazine Nanhe Sapne —Fun with Learning for Kid, these talentsfrom tier-II cities can be brought to fore.

This innovative concept will help thechildren learn during their foundationyears and move past the traditional styleof rote learning.

Sonali Gurung, CEO, Graso Globalalong with other members of her team,have come together to bring innovationin education with Nanhe Sapne. Theyhave partnered with several schools inDelhi, Mumbai, UP and Goa to providea platform for the children to show andamplify their talents. The magazine’s tar-get readers are four to six-year-old. Thegood part is that this magazine reach-es the remotest parts of the country soevery child can be a storehouse ofknowledge.

These magazines have interactivegames in bore Hindi and English. It alsogives parents and professionals a platformto talk about issues and give opinions.

“Our aim is to bring about a changein the education system in the long-termso the children can learn through mod-ern ways of teaching and their thinkingisn’t limited in any way,” Gurung says.

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The Central Board ofSecondary Education (CBSE)invites online application fromprincipals and teachers for CBSEAwards 2017-2018. In a signif-icant departure from the earli-er practice, which was manualand conducted at the regionallevel, the new online applicationsystem is aimed at bringingtransparency and objectivity inthe entire assessment process.

The number of awards thisyear has increased from 34 to 48.There are five awards for prin-cipals and the rest for varioussubject teachers to motivatedeserving primary secondaryand senior secondary teachers.For the first time, 10 awards outof 48 have been earmarked forperforming arts, special educa-tors, school counselors, voca-tional subjects, physical educa-tion and IT teachers also.

The principals and teachersare chosen through rigorousprocesses based on the signifi-cant contributions, academicinterest, reputation of a teacherin the community and com-mitment towards education.The Board has formed theNational Level ScreeningCommittee at the CBSE head-quarter instead of Regionalcommittee constituted earlier.This committee will select the

principals and teachers on thebasis of:�General criteria for all cate-gories of awards, such as acad-emic qualifications, scholarlycontributions, functionalresearch, curriculum, commu-nity and student developmentachievements, awards and hon-ours.� Specific criteria, which willcover effectiveness as a teacher,remedial teaching, contributionof the teacher thereof and,� Face to face interaction.

The principals and teacherswill be required to attach a self-appraisal, statement of teachingphilosophy along with recom-mendation letter by the schoolprincipal in case of teachers andletter from the chairman/man-ager of the school managingcommittee in case of principal.

The selection will be basedon two videos graphed lessonsof 30 minutes each of actualclassroom teaching with lessonplans. Top six awardees of CBSEwill be recommended by theNational Level ScreeningCommittee for the NationalTeacher Awards, given by theMHRD. The last date to apply isJuly 13, 2018.

The shortlisted candidateswill be intimated on July 14,2018, for uploading supportingdocuments. For more details, logon to cbse.nic.in.

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The fashion industry is not just about thestyle quotient. It has taken a big leap

with new technological expansions, open-ing up various doors for the designers toinnovate. The budding designers are taughtnew softwares to aid their ideas, use eco-friendly fabrics and incorporating milk andeven pineapple.

Fashion is more than what the bigbrands make it. If we combine the immenseamounts of creativity and technology avail-able today, sky is the limit. The JD Instituteof Fashion Technology (JDIFT)’s fashionawards themed ‘Change’ is a great exam-ple of that. Students were encouraged tothink about the future, not only in termsof sustainability but in terms of inclusive-ness as well. Right from the making of thefabric, to the selling of the garment, thedesigners are now looking to do things andbring about change.

“The theme was on how sustainabili-ty works. It is an attempt to make moreresponsible designers and think aboutmore than just the fabric and the stitch,”Akshara Dala, director academics, JDInstitute of Fashion Technology, says.

From a corporate line for the visuallychallenged that has QR code tags to readthe description out loud to special athleisurewear in support of the LGBT communityand a new collection for people withDown Syndrome, the students took up var-ious issues into consideration that they seearound and come up with a solution withtheir clothing line.

The collection ensures that it is com-fortable with special care taken whilechoosing a fabric. The theme was also agreat way to educate people and help them

open up to ideas that they are otherwiseunaware of.

Rudrani Chettri, India’s first a trans-gender who founded India’s first LGBTmodelling agency, says: “People are a littleintimidated but they know fashion is allabout experimenting. The idea of a trans-gender is rather ugly to the people but withthe help of fashion, this misconception canchange. Fashion is now in the hands of theyouth and they’re taking this opportunityto do more for the community than just set-ting trends. Fashion is about what you wantto be and with the right kind of groomingand education, this is now a very realisticpossibility.

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President Ram Nath Kovind recently felicitated studentsfrom underprivileged sections of the society who cleared

the IIT JEE Advance 2018 exam after intensive coaching underGAIL (India) Limited’s Corporate Social Responsibility ini-tiative ‘GAIL Utkarsh’.

The felicitation programme was held at the Indian Instituteof Technology (IIT) campus in the Capital. Also present onthe occasion were GAIL officiating chairman and managingdirector Dr Ashutosh Karnatak, and Center for SocialResponsibility and Leadership (CSRL) director SK Shahi.

The students, who are from the ninth batch of GAILUtkarsh, were provided one-year of free residential coach-ing under this CSR project. GAIL was the first PSU to startthe coaching centre at Kanpur for talented but underprivi-leged students in 2009-10.

Conducted in partnership with CSRL, GAIL Utkarshstarted with just 23 students, which expanded to 100 studentsfrom 2011-12. Since its inception, 679 students were enrolledin the initiative, out of which 591 secured admission inIITs/NITs and other reputed engineering colleges. The suc-cess rate of the project is 87 per cent. This year, 99 out of 100students qualified in JEE Main, out of which 52 students qual-ified in IIT JEE Advance, including six girls.

The students are selected for this initiative on the basisof written test, interview and strict economic criteria. Mostof them come from the rural background and their parentshave small sources of income. They can’t afford to pay cost-ly fees of private institutes. So far, more than 150 students havegot job placements in reputed companies.

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The Akshaya PatraFoundation is offering fel-lowship programme toencourage young leaders andfuture social entrepreneurs toparticipate in the organisa-tion's initiatives. The fellow-ship will be an eight-monthprogramme across locationswhere the foundation isimplementing the mid-daymeal programme.

The objective of this pro-gramme is to train aspirantsand successfully implementour initiatives in the areas ofeducation, hygiene and sani-tation, soft-skill training andhealth and nutrition. Thefoundation will award fellow-ships to 12 selected aspirants.

Through the programme,the fellows will also get theopportunity to hone theirskills in leadership, people-management, public-speak-ing, conflict resolution, rela-tionship building, time man-agement and problem solv-ing.

For more details aboutthe fellowship, log on tohttps://www.akshayapatra.org/fellowship-program or sendexpression of interest [email protected]

Application deadline:The last date for sendingapplications is July 31, 2018.

The University of SydneyPostdoctoral Research

Fellowships is nowavailable for Australian

and Overseas students.Eligibility: Applicants

must have a PhD awarddated no earlier than January1, 2013 and no later thanAugust 19, 2018. Must obtainthe endorsement of a pro-posed supervisor beforeapplying. Applicants with aPhD awarded by theUniversity of Sydney mayonly apply if they have held apaid position with anotherorganisation subsequent tothe award of their PhD.English language require-ment: Applicants whose firstlanguage is not English arerequired to provide evidenceof their English proficiency.In such cases, applicantsshould provide the results ofa recognised English lan-guage proficiency test con-ducted within the last twoyears.

How to apply: Downloadthe relevant templates fromthe application link —https://sydney.edu.au/research/research-funding/research-fel-lowships/university-of-sydney-fellowship-scheme.html. Finda University of Sydney acade-mic supervisor. CV; Evidenceof a PhD award. The two-page proposed research;signed letter of endorsementfrom your proposed academ-ic supervisor; career inter-ruption details and support-ing evidence if relevant. Onereferee report. A nominatedsupervisor can’t be a referee.

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QUERY: My son Aahan’sdate of birth is October 11,2002. He is an average studenttherefore I am very worriedabout his career. Please tell meabout his future and career?

BHATT: He is born underthe Sun sign Libra and elementassociated with Libra is Air. Hisintellectual level is high thus

responds intellectu-ally rather than byphysical action. Hewill be a good orator.

Librans arecharming and goodat convincing others.They are good nego-

tiators as well.His planetary chart shows

that he is intelligent and bril-liant. He is good at planning,making strategies and execu-tion. But at times he can besuperficial and can easily getcarried away by outer beauty.Though mostly energetic, hecan sometimes be lazy. It is notphysical laziness, but because hewants to avoid any kind of stressor emotional upheaval.

Counsellor/Psychologist:Counselling, psychology andpsychiatry come naturally tohim. Thus he can make a suc-cessful career in this field.

Project manager: If a vastproject needs to be done fromthe scratch, Librans are mostideal to do this. There is a downside too. They do not likerepetitive work and get boredeasily. They carry good pre-sentation skills and are invalu-able for their employers whenit comes to making presenta-tions.

Business: In business, Libracould be fairly successful as they

possess thevision. Theyare good atplanning andexecution. Thus hecan start his business with asmall budget and use boot-strapping. This will help him tobe a successful businessman.

Administration and orMarketing: Librans believe ina proper working environment.If this is not the case, they willcreate the environment in theworkplace.

They work in a true pro-fessional manner and makethose around do the same.Besides this, they are trulytrustworthy people includingfor financial concern. Thismakes them grow in the field ofadministration, marketing,management and finance.

Law: The legal field isanother area where your soncan succeed. He can be suc-cessful in everything from beinga judge, a lawyer, a legal assis-tant to a court reporter and abailiff. Law enforcement, policeor detective work is also goodas it requires the Libran to judgea character and situations.

He is advised to keep inmind that his kindness can betaken for granted. He can alsobe taken for a ride and hence bewary of the same. When facedwith a choice, it is tough for himto select what is best for him,which can become a big hurdlein his career. He should seekhelp from elders or other reli-able person in such a situation.

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The NEET and JEE Main aretwo of the toughest exams inIndia. They are the gateways

to top Indian medical and engi-neering colleges. These exams areregarded as the toughest for threereasons. First, the scope of syllabifor these exams is very vast.Second, the ques-tions asked arecomplex andtricky. Third, thesheer number ofstudents appear-ing for theseexams as com-pared to thenumber of seatsthat are availableis high. Over 10lakh appeared forthe NEET examthis year, but thenumber of seatsare only 60,000.

For JEEagain, over 10lakh studentsappeared for theexam this year.Of these, close to2.25 lakh quali-fied for JEEAdvanced, tofight it out for7,000 seats at var-ious IITs.

These exams are usually con-ducted once a year, in the monthsof April and May. For a long time,this was inconvenient for manystudents due to lack of time. Theywould appear for these exams justafter their Class XII Board. Due tothis, they had to focus on theirBoards and these exams simultane-ously. Students who were not apart of the CBSE Board found ittough. The NEET and JEE examsfollow the CBSE syllabus. Even stu-dents who were familiar with theCBSE Board found it tough topractice two different styles ofexams at the same time. Moreover,the questions asked are more com-plex than those asked in the Class

XII Board exams. These studentsneeded more time to prepare fortheir exams to reduce their stresslevels and score better in both —the Boards as well as competitiveexams.

In a welcome move, theGovernment recognised this prob-

lem and is nowaiming to con-duct theseexams twice ayear.

TheNational TestAgency (NTA)— is anautonomousbody dedicatedto conductingentrance exams.It will hold thesecond round ofthese exams inDecember 2018for the firsttime. However,these exams willonly be held inthe onlinemode.

This is help-ful to studentswho have notscored well thisyear and need a

second chance.This move will also ensure that

students don’t end up wasting ayear before they can appear again.In the coming years, students willhave enough time after theirBoards to prepare for JEE andNEET, if they choose to appear inDecember. It will add to their con-venience and help them relax. Infact, with more than one chance ina single year, students can improvetheir score in the next occurrenceif they are not satisfied with theirfirst attempt.

Now that JEE counselling ses-sions are over, students can make awell-informed decision betweenpursuing engineering this year, orgiving it a shot again in December.

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Can learning agility improveover time? The answer tothis question is — yes.

Today, the success of businessesdepends on leaders who are agilewhen it comes to learning. Theones who can perceive problems,resolve the most complex chal-lenges and effortlessly thrive in aconstantly changing and volatileenvironment are truly the kind ofleaders that all organisations needtoday.

What some companies do notrealise is that such people mayalready be working with themand hence their potential may beunderutilised or even ignored.Studies show that in companiestoday at least 15 per cent employ-ees have the learning agility. It is thecompany’s job to identify anddevelop this critical-to-successattribute. Tools like these can helpyou with seeing and building thisattribute within the company.

Despite the importance of andthe easily recognisable qualitiesassociated with learning agility,companies favour and recogniseattributes and talents that are eas-ier to measure and account for. Inother words, abilities that enable acompany to track the developmentof an employee in a steady mannerand through a well-defined busi-ness structure.

The reasons for ignoring thisattribute, up till now are that it isdifficult to classify, describe, andtough to measure. Learning agili-ty is on the same path as emotionalintelligence. Everyone knows it isimportant but very few cultivate itor value it as much as they should.Most leaders and managers preferto go through their work fightingbattles and putting out fires, with-out giving much thought on howthey can keep crisis from happen-ing and if they do occur, how theycan use them as opportunities togrow and develop. The idea is tobring such attributes to the fore andhelp companies and leaders recog-nise and nurture learning agilitythat may exist across the workforce.

Since people with high learn-ing agility are better at recognisingand managing their own emotionsand perspectives, they have an

enhanced ability to empathise withthe thoughts and perspectives ofothers. They are also betterequipped to, therefore, understandthe emotions of others, andrespond in an appropriate manner.

Linking these attributes canhelp companies work better andfocus on improving learning agili-ty in their personnel. The idea isto enable learning agility andremove any factors that may inter-fere with its sustenance andgrowth. Building and improvinglearning agility is possible andextremely beneficial. Ensuring itsgrowth rides on several factors like:

Innovating and transforming:This is about challenging andquestioning traditional beliefs,assumptions, perspectives and thestatus quo, with a clear vision of

finding better and unique ways ofapproaching situations and people.People with high learning agilitynot only seek new ideas, but areable to generate them too, sincethey have the ability to view thingsfrom myriad angles and growthperspective.

Better performance levels:When people challenge them-selves and their shortcomings,their abilities and knowledge arestrengthened. They handle con-flicts, stress and difficult situationsbetter, thereby allowing them tolearn faster, pick up new skills andhave better performance levelswhen compared with their co-workers.

Seeking feedback and learn-ing from it: People with highlearning agility actively seek feed-

back and learn from it. They usefeedback to understand their ownbehaviour, and others better. As aresult, they become more insight-ful, empathetic and knowledgeableabout others and their problems.Strong self and environmentalawareness are among the top cat-alysts for success.

Risk taking: High learningagility prods people to seek chal-lenges and venture into unknownareas, putting themselves in themidst of unfamiliar situations.They do this to learn somethingnew and grab exciting opportuni-ties, not just for the thrill of it. Theyconsistently move out of theircomfort zone, learning, buildingconfidence and developing mentalstrength and ability.

Helping others build learning

agility: With so much instabilityand volatility in the business worldtoday, a handful of people withgumption would not be enough totide over challenges. Hence, peo-ple with high learning agility notonly utilise their abilities to helpthemselves and the company, theyalso help their co-workers discov-er their strengths and utilise themto the fullest.

They help others see the poten-tial of learning agility thereby,encouraging them to build, grow,and use it to their advantage andfor business success.

Do not place blame orbecome defensive: People withhigh learning agility grow thisskill by remaining answerable ifsomething were to go amiss. Theyare willing to accept their failure orfault in case of a blunder, and thenuse their mistakes to become bet-ter next time.

Intuition to be trusted: Oneof the best ways to build learningagility is to trust one’s intuition.This means recalling and thinkingthrough the similarities and dif-ferences in situations and projects,rather than behaving aggressivelyor reacting without thinking.

Reflect and explore:Enhancing learning agility is com-pletely about learning, and learn-ing only happens when peoplereflect on what may have happenedand explore better ways of man-aging similar and new circum-stances. Their mind is always open— that they learn from anyone andany situation. They are mindfulabout reflecting consistently ontheir behavior and attitude.

Experimentation: The under-lying premise of learning agility isconstant learning and growth.People high on this ability, maketime to experiment. Searching fornew ways to address a problem ordemolish a challenge.

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With a spirited home crowdcheering on, Russia made a

memorable contribution to theWorld Cup's history of upsets.

The Russians beat Spain onpenalty kicks in the round of 16 onSunday, eliminating the 2010 cham-pions and overcoming seeminglynonstop possession by the Spaniards.Russia is No 70 in the FIFA rankingand Spain is No 10, and the Spanishwere considered serious contendersto win the tournament.

The FIFA ranking may haveunderrated Russia because as the hostcountry, it didn't have to play anyqualifiers. Still, this upset was a sig-nificant one, especially since itoccurred in the knockout phase andput the Russians through to the quar-terfinals.

Here's a look back throughWorld Cup history at some of theevent's other famous upsets:

�������H�����F2332GFrance was the defending World

Cup and European champion whenit was eliminated in the group stagein a dismal showing in 2002. TheFrench never recovered from their 1-0 loss to Senegal in the tournamentopener in Seoul. This was a wildWorld Cup in which South Koreaand Turkey both reached the semi-finals. The United States made it tothe quarterfinals - and Senegal didas well, beating Sweden 2-1 in the

round of 16 on a goal by HenriCamara.

�������� ������F&II0�C�I.GArguably the most consistent

contender in World Cup history,Germany dropped a pair of quar-terfinals against unheraldedEuropean challengers. Bulgariaknocked the Germans out 2-1 in1994 in New Jersey. Four years laterin France, the Germans lost 3-0 toCroatia .

����������� ��F&II3GDefending champion Argentina

rarely looked impressive in Italy in1990, but Diego Maradona's teammanaged a runner-up showinganyway. Cameroon shockedArgentina 1-0 in the opener despitetwo red cards, but from that pointon, the Argentinians kept advanc-ing - barely - even when up againstseemingly superior opponents.They beat Brazil 1-0 in the roundof 16 and edged host Italy in thesemifinals on penalties.

The Italians hadn't allowed agoal all tournament beforeArgentina's Claudio Caniggiascored in the second half of thesemifinal.

����#������� �F&I.2GAlgeria shook up the 1982

World Cup in Spain with a 2-1 vic-tory over West Germany at the startof the initial group stage. TheGermans advanced anyway under

controversial circumstances.Heading into the group's finalmatch between West Germany andAustria, a 1-0 win by the Germanswould allow both those teams toadvance at Algeria's expense. That'sexactly what happened in a timid

match that became known as the"Disgrace of Gijon."

� ��#���������F&I//GFor a brief moment in England

in 1966, it appeared North Korea -yes, North Korea - might reach the

semifinals of the World Cup. TheNorth Koreans had already beatenItaly 1-0 in the group stage. Thenthey raced out to a 3-0 lead overPortugal in the quarterfinals beforeeventually falling 5-3.

������ ��� ������F&IJ0GThe biggest upset in a World

Cup final may have been WestGermany's "Miracle of Bern" in1954. Hungary had run roughshodthrough this tournament inSwitzerland, scoring 25 goals infour matches before the final -

including an 8-3 win over theGermans in group play. FerencPuskas and the Hungarians led 2-0early in the final before WestGermany rallied for a 3-2 victory .

��������K��F&IJ3GThere was no winner-take all

final in 1950, only a final group stage,but the climactic match betweenBrazil and Uruguay decided the title.The host Brazilians had won theirprevious two games by a combined13-2 and needed only a draw againstUruguay to win the World Cup. But

the visitors rallied in the second halffor a 2-1 victory at the Maracana inRio de Janeiro. The match is knownas the "Maracanazo."

���������K�� ��F&IJ3GEarlier in that 1950 tourna-

ment, England endured its ownmassive upset, losing 1-0 to the U.S.in Belo Horizonte. A goal by JoeGaetjens in the first half held up untilthe end. Neither team made it out ofthat group. The US would not winanother World Cup match until1994.

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Nacer Chadli scored a stunninginjury-time winnner as Belgiumfought back from 2-0 down to

defeat Japan 3-2 and advance to a WorldCup quarter-final showdown with Brazilhere.

Chadli's superbly worked goal in thefourth minute of stoppage time onMonday was the final act of an epic last-16 battle that saw Belgium become thefirst team in 48 years to successfully over-turn a 2-0 deficit in a World Cup knock-out game.

The Red Devils will face five-timechampions Brazil in Kazan on Fridayafter scoring three second-half goalswithout reply to break Japan's doggedresistance.

Goals by Genki Haraguchi andTakashi Inui in four devastating minuteshad put Japan 2-0 up early in the secondhalf to leave Belgium reeling.

However, the Red Devils respondedwith quick goals of their own as JanVertonghen, at fault for Haraguchi'sgoal, and Marouane Fellaini both scoredheaders before Chadli's dramatic winnerin Rostov.

Relieved Belgium manager RobertoMartinez saluted his side's resolve. "Nonegatives today, it was about gettingthrough," Martinez said. "It is a day to bevery proud of these players.

"Keep believing in Belgium. In theWorld Cup you want to be perfect but it'sabout getting through, it's about winning."Having also exited the last 16 in both 2002and 2010, Japan suffered knock-out stageheartbreak for the third time.

From the start, the Blue Samurai's tac-tics were clear - harass and hurry theiropponents every time they were on theball, while living off scraps.

It almost paid off.A long-range shot from Eden Hazard

was Belgium's brightest chance in the first

45 minutes as Japan kept close tabs onBelgium striker Romelu Lukaku.

After a goalless first-half, the gameexploded into life after the break.

Japan took the lead when they wonpossession deep in their own half.

The ball was moved downfield quick-ly and when Vertonghen failed to inter-cept the final pass, Haraguchi sprintedclear.

He placed his shot just pastThibaut Courtois' despairing gloveand inside the far post on 48 min-utes to delight Japanese fans.

Japan doubled their lead on52 minutes when Inuiunleashed a thunderbolt shotoff his right boot which flew pastthe despairing Courtois.

Desperate for a goal to get them backin the game, Lukaku headed wide with anhour approaching.

Confidence grew in the Japaneseranks with attacking midfielder Kagawacalling the shots.

With 25 minutes left, Martinezswapped Fellaini and Chadli for DriesMertens and Yannick Carrasco, whichsparked the Belgium response.

Vertonghen made amends for hismistake in the build-up to Japan's open-ing goal when his speculative header fromout wide looped over Eiji Kawashima'sgrasp on 69 minutes.

Then Belgium drew level whenHazard's pin-point ball found Fellaini inthe middle and the Manchester Unitedmidfielder unleashed an unstoppableheader on 74 minutes.

It was end-to-end stuff for the finalquarter of an hour.

As his defence started to tire, goal-keeper Kawashima kept Japan in the gamehis side with two saves in quick succes-sion to deny Chadli and Lukaku.

At the other end, Courtois savedKeisuke Honda's wickedly curling freeshot which led to the winning goal.

The Belgium goalkeeper cleared theball, Kevin de Bruyne spotted ThomasMeunier unmarked out wide and theParis Saint-Germain winger whipped ina superb cross.

Lukaku, who was marked, left it forChadli to tap home and cap Belgium'sstunning win right before the final whis-tle.

Belgium, which narrowly avoidedjoining Germany, Argentina, Spain andPortugal as big-name eliminations, wonall three of its group matches and scoreda tournament-leading nine goals at thatstage.

Japan narrowly scraped through,advancing ahead of Senegal because it hadfewer yellow cards.

The Japanese have now lost in theround of 16 three times without everreaching the quarterfinals.

"It wasn't the players," Japanese coachNishino said. "Maybe it was me who lostcontrol of the game."

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Two-time champion RafaelNadal moved into the second

round of Wimbledon with a 6-3, 6-3, 6-2 win over Dudi Sela of Israel.

The second-seeded Nadal had-n't played a match since claiminghis 11th French Open title lastmonth, but showed little sign ofrust as he cruised to victory againstSela.

Nadal is seeking a f irstWimbledon title since 2010, whichwould also make him just the sec-ond man to do the French Open-Wimbledon double three times.

He will next face Vasek Popisilof Canada or Mikhail Kukushkinof Kazakhstan.

���K� �������������Wimbledon t it le-holder

Garbine Mugurza advanced to thesecond round with a 6-2, 7-5 vic-tory over British wild card NaomiBroady.

The No 3-seeded Spaniardovercame a partisan crowd as shefulfilled the reigning women'schampion's honor of opening pro-ceedings on Centre Court.

Muguruza faced only onebreak point in the match, but herfailure to convert the regular

chances she created on Broady'sdelivery made for a competitivesecond set.

However, the two-time GrandSlam champion maintained herfocus to close out the match and setup a second-round meeting withAlison Van Uytvanck of Belgiumor Polona Hercog of Slovenia.

������ �����������Juan Martin del Potro main-

tained his record of never losing inthe first round at Wimbledon.

The fifth-seeded Argentinebeat Peter Gojowczyk of Germany6-3, 6-4, 6-3 on Tuesday to set upa second-round meeting withFeliciano Lopez. It was del Potro'sfirst grass-court match of the sea-son after withdrawing fromQueen's with a groin injury, but theformer US Open champion usedhis big serve to dominate thematch — hitting 22 aces and sav-ing all four break points he faced.

Del Potro has reached at leastthe second round in all nine of hisWimbledon appearances andreached the semifinals in 2013.

Lopez beat Federico Delbonisof Argentina 6-3, 6-4, 6-2.

����K����������������As he began his Wimbledon

campaign early on Day 2, FelicianoLopez made history just by takingto the court.

The 36-year-old Spaniardbroke Roger Federer's record by

appearing in a 66th consecutiveGrand Slam singles tournament,continuing a run that started at the2002 French Open.

Lopez, who has reached theWimbledon quarterfinals on threeoccasions, took the first set 6-3against Federico Delbonis ofArgentina on Court 7.

�����������������2Kei Nishikori is into the second

round at Wimbledon after beatingAmerican qualifier ChristianHarrison 6-2, 4-6, 7-6 (3), 6-2.

The 24th-seeded Nishikori sawoff Harrison's attempt at a come-back by claiming a tight third set,before cruising to victory in thefourth.

Nishikori, the top-rankedJapanese player at the tourna-ment, will next face anotherAustralian, Bernard Tomic, whomade the first-round draw as alucky loser and took full advantageby defeating Hubert Hurkacz ofPoland 6-4, 6-2, 7-6 (2).

������� �����Angelique Kerber won a first-

round meeting of formerWimbledon runner-ups, beatingVera Zvonareva 7-5, 6-3.

Kerber lost the 2016 final to

Serena Williams — who also beatZvonareva in the 2010 title match— and reached the second roundfor the seventh straight year.

Zvonareva was playing in herfirst Grand Slam tournament inthree years after a hiatus to getmarried and have a child.

She came through threerounds of qualifying to make themain draw at the All England Club.

��� ����������Last year 's semif inalist ,

Johanna Konta, is through to thesecond round after beating NataliaVikhlyantseva of Russia 7-5, 7-6(7).

A year ago, Konta became thefirst British woman to reach thelast four since 1978, before losingto Venus Williams.

After struggling through thefirst half of 2018, Konta has begunto show signs of the form thathelped her reach a career-high No.4 ranking following last year'sWimbledon.

The 22nd-seeded Konta savedtwo set points at 4-5 in the secondagainst Vikhlyantseva before clos-ing out the match.

She now has a second-roundmeeting with Dominika Cibulkovaof Slovakia.

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The heir to ZlatanIbrahimovic finallydelivered for Sweden at

the World Cup.Emil Forsberg scored a

deflected goal in the 66thminute to give the Swedes a1-0 victory over Switzerlandon Tuesday and a place in theWorld Cup quarterfinals forthe first time in 24 years.

Shy and understated, the26-year-old Forsberg could-n't be more different than thelarger-than-life Ibrahimovic,who ruled the Sweden teamfor more than a decade andwas the greatest player thecountry ever produced.

But Forsberg arrived inRussia shouldering the cre-ative burden left byIbrahimovic following hisretirement two years ago,and the attacking midfielder'sskills and slick movementstood out at St. PetersburgStadium.

Forsberg's scruffy shotfrom the edge of the area waslikely heading straight forSwitzerland goalkeeper Yann

Sommer, but it took a deflec-tion off the boot of centerback Manuel Akanji andlanded in the net.

In stoppage t ime,Michael Lang was sent offfor Switzerland for a profes-sional foul on Sweden sub-stitute Martin Olsson. The

referee initially awarded apenalty kick but later gave afree kick after a video review.

Sweden became the fifthEuropean team to reach thequarterfinals and will playeither England or Colombiaon Saturday in Samara.

The last time Sweden

made it this far at the WorldCup was in 1994, when theteam reached the semifi-nals.

�������������� ���Switzerland's dismal

record in the knockoutstages of major tournaments

continued with a 1-0 defeatby Sweden.

The Swiss have notreached the World Cupquarterfinals since 1954 andthey played Tuesday in St.Petersburg weighed downby that history.

Switzerland, ranked No.6 in the world and favoritegoing into Tuesday's roundof 16 match, was eliminatedby a deflected shot fromEmil Forsberg, but it wasalso a victim of its ownovercautious play.

Switzerland had con-ceded first in both of its firsttwo matches in Russia butmanaged to draw 1-1 withBrazil and beat Serbia 2-1. Itdrew 2-2 with Costa Rica inthe group finale after twicetaking the lead.

Against the well-drilledSweden defense, there wasno coming back.

The Switzerland teamwas made up largely of thesame players who lost in theround of 16 to Argentina atthe 2014 World Cup, and toPoland in the same stage atthe 2016 EuropeanChampionship.

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Aslew of records tumbled asAustralia destroyed Zimbabwe by100 runs in the Twenty20 tri-

series at Harare Sports Club on Tuesday.Australian captain Aaron Finch pow-

ered his way to 172, a new world recordhigh score in T20 internationals, and hisopening partnership with D'Arcy Shortput up 223, another world record.

Australia reached 229 for 2, the high-est total ever scored against Zimbabwe ina T20I.

Finch cracked his first six in thefourth over of the morning, and with histhird he brought up a 22-ball half centu-ry.

That was his fastest in Twenty20internationals.

Australia took 75 from the Powerplay,with Finch doing the bulk of the scoringwhile Short was content to turn the strikeover to his big-hitting partner.

When the team hundred came uphalfway through the 10th over, Finch had74 runs to his name, while Short hadmanaged just 19 from the 24 balls he hadfaced.

Short soon began to find the middleof his own bat, though, and took a braceof sixes off Ryan Burl's legspin to take hisstrike rate to over a run a ball. Finch,meanwhile, brought up his second T20Ihundred at the end of the 14th over, tak-ing just 50 deliveries.

Four overs later, his 15th four tookAustralia's score to 200, and Finch thenmoved beyond 150 with a swipe to deepmidwicket.

He then surpassed his own worldrecord high score of 156 with his ninthsix.

Short eventually fell swinging acrossthe line at fast bowler BlessingMuzarabani to be caught for 46, whileFinch fell in bizarre circumstances in thefinal over.

Stretching out to hit a full deliveryfrom Muzarabani, he over-balanced andkicked his own stumps to be out hit wick-et.

While Muzarabani finished with twowickets to his name, left-arm spinnerTendai Chisoro was the only bowler to

escape severe punishment.It appeared Zimbabwe might make a

fist of their huge chase when openersSolomon Mire and Chamu Chibhabharushed past 40 in the fourth over, but oncethey were dismissed regular wicketsquickly stalled the innings.

Left-arm spinner Ashton Agar racedthrough four overs conceding just 16,while Andrew Tye's seamers were evenmore effective.

Tye took 3 for 12 as Australia inflict-ed one last record against the hostZimbabwe, who slumped to their largest-ever defeat in T20Is.

Zimbabwe will take on Pakistan onWednesday in the tri-series' next match.

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elusive for Steve Smith and David Warneras the former Australian captain and vice-captain played on opposing sides Mondayin Canada's Global Twenty20 cricket tour-nament.

Warner faced two balls for one run ashis lean return to cricket continued for the

Winnipeg Hawks who beat Smith's TorontoNationals by 56 runs in the seventh matchof the star-studded league.

Smith fared only a little better, scoringthree runs from 10 balls as the Nationalswere bowled out for 108 in reply toWinnepeg's 164-6. He also conceded 34runs from two overs in an unproductivecontribution with the ball.

Warner and Smith are serving a 12-month bans handed down by CricketAustralia for their roles in the ball-tam-pering incident during the third testagainst South Africa in Cape Town inMarch. But both are free to play in theCanadian tournament which is not coveredby their bans.

Warner has struggled for runs on hisreturn to cricket, making scores of 1, 4 and1 in his three innings to date for the Hawks.Smith made 61 in his first outing for theNationals but has since had scores of 10 andthree and has no wicket for 41 runs fromthree overs.

After Warner's failure with the bat onSunday, the West Indies' Lendl Simmonsmade 44 from 34 balls and captain DwayneBravo made 41 from 31 balls to guideWinnipeg to 164 as it batted first.

Tion Webster took 4-22 from 2.2overs and Bravo and Fidel Edwards con-tributed two wickets each as Toronto wasbowled out for 108 in 17.2 overs. NewZealand's Anton Devcich top-scored with34 from 19 balls and Kieron Pollard made25 from 34 deliveries.

In the later match Sunday, theVancouver Knights beat the MontrealTigers by 18 runs. South Africa's Rassie vander Dussen made an unbeaten 83 from 56balls with six fours and five sixes inVancouver's 166-6. Lasith Malinga took 3-41 as the best of the Montreal bowlers.

The Tigers were bowled out for 148 in19.4 overs after looking strongly placed at98-3. New Zealander George Workermade 43 from 33 balls and Australia MoisesHenriques made 40 but Montreal's middleand late order failed to fire. New Zealand'sTim Southee took 3-20 from his four oversand left-arm spinner Saad Bin Zafar took3-21.

Winnipeg and West Indies B lead theleague with two wins apiece, thoughWinnipeg has play one game more.

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India A completed their dominationin the 50-over tri-series with a five-

wicket thumping of England Lions inthe final at the Kennington Oval here.

It was yet another complete per-formance from the Indians, whorestricted the Lions to 264 for ninebefore breezing to the target in 48.2overs courtesy Rishabh Pant (64 not outoff 62 balls), Mayank Agarwal (40 off41) and captain Shreyas Iyer (44 off 44).

The pace trio of Shardul Thakur(2/42), Deepak Chahar (3/58) andKhaleel Ahmed (3/48) had broughtback India A in the game after Lionswere comfortably placed at 185 for twoin the 34th over.

Sam Hain's 108 off 122 balls wentin vain and so did the effort of LiamLivingstone (83 off 82).

India A never looked back after los-ing the tri-series opener to Lions, beat-ing the hosts and the West Indies Atwice to lift the trophy.

While Pant starred in the all-important final, the undisputed starbatsman of the series was Agarwalwhom the national selectors will finddifficult to ignore following his threehundreds on the tour.

"It was a good test for me as well asthe team. Both teams fought hardthrough the series," said Pant, who willbe staying back for the three unofficialTests against England Lions and West

Indies A."The boys have been practising real-

ly hard and eventually we got the resultwe wanted. Everyone wants to play thecountry and if you do well, you will getthe chance," added Pant, who wasignored for the ongoing limited oversseries between India and England.

Chahar and Krunal Pandya are thetwo players from the squad who have

been called up for India's three-matchT20 series against England.

Chahar was rewarded for his per-formance on the A tour where he haspicked 16 wickets so far including 10 intri-series. U-19 stars Prithvi Shaw andShubman Gill too gave a good accountof themselves. Shaw struck a 102against the West Indies A while Gillscored a couple of half centuries.

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HS Prannoy stunned the legendary Lin Dan ofChina before Saina Nehwal cruised into the

second round with an easy win against local play-er Dinar Dyah Ayustine at the Indonesia Openbadminton tournament, here on Tuesday.

World No 13 Prannoy took exactly one hourto prevail over the Chinese stalwart 21-15, 9-21,21-14 in the first round of the men's singles in theWorld Tour Super 1000 event.

Prannoy started off well against eighth-ranked Lin Dan, winning the first game 21-15.However, the Chinese shuttler came back strongto level the match. Prannoy then dug deep intohis reservoir to see off the iconic shuttler in thethird game at the $ 1,250,000 event. Prannoy hadalso got the better of Lin Dan at the 2015 FrenchOpen.

"I am really happy, I had a couple of monthsoff. Getting back to tournament was really great.Having such a big win against Lin Dan, that tooin such tough conditions, especially the drifts, isgreat," Prannoy said after the match.

"The way I played the first game was very goodfrom my side, especially the crucial juncture inthe third game around after the 11 was really cru-cial to get that big win. Looking forward to thesecond round matches."

In the second round, Prannoy plays ChineseTaipei's Wang Tzu Wei who defeated India's SaiPraneeth 21-10, 21-13 in another men's singlesfirst round match.

Saina, on the other hand, needed 35 minutesto notch up a straight set (21-12, 21-12) win overher Indonesian opponent. In the first game, theOlympic medallist Indian led from the start to end.

She opened up a 7-2 lead before Ayustine closedthe gap at 6-7. That was the closest the Indonesiancould go as Saina won her points in quick time.Saina zoomed to 17-9 and then grabbed the firstgame without any difficulty.

The second game was also a cakewalk forSaina as she won nine points on the trot after boththe players were tied 1-1. Ayustine recovered somelost ground but Saina ensured that the matchended in two games.

In other matches, Sameer Verma pippedRasmus Gemke of Denmark 21-9, 12-21, 22-20to advance to the men's singles second round whilethe women's doubles pair of Jakkampudi Meghanaand Poorvisha S Ram crashes out.

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The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) onTuesday announced a 524-member con-

tingent of athletes for the August 18-September 2 Asian Games in Indonesia wherethey will vie for medals in 36 disciplines.

The contingent comprises 277 men and247 women athletes. In the 2014 IncheonAsian Games, the Indian contingent featured541 athletes across 28 disciplines.

Eight new sportsdisciplines have beenadded where thecountry has shownpromise. They areKarate, Kurash,Pencak Silat, RollerSkating, Sambo,S e p a k t a k r a w ,Triathlon and Soft Tennis.

The other disciplines where India willtake part in are Archery, Athletics,Badminton, Basketball, Boxing, Bowling,Canoe-Kayak (Sprint), Canoe-Kayak(Slalom), Cycling, Equestrian, Fencing,Gymnastics, Golf, Handball, Hockey, Judo,Kabaddi, Karate, Kurash, Pencak Silat, RollerSkating, Rowing, Sailing, Sambo,Sepaktakraw, Shooting, Squash, Aquatics -

Swimming, Aquatics - Diving, Tennis,Taekwondo, Triathlon, Soft Tennis, TableTennis, Volleyball, Weightlifting, Wrestlingand Wushu.

Athletics will have the highest number ofrepresentation with 52 eyeing for medals.

In June, the IOA had submitted a provi-sional list to the Sports Ministry which hadthe names of 2370 athletes and officials. Thefinal list has now been pruned down furtherto 524 athletes who have attained the quali-

fication criteria in theirrespective disciplines.

"The contingent hasbeen selected keeping inmind the IndianOlympic Association'slong term vision ofpreparing and encour-aging the most deserv-

ing athletes for the 2020 Tokyo Olympicsbased on them attaining qualification crite-ria," said IOA secretary general RajeevMehta.

The IOA has decided against sending themen and women football teams this time asthey are ineligible under the existing crite-ria set by the Olympic body. The decision hasled to a controversy with All India FootballFederation calling IOA's decision "myopic."

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Disappointed he may be for not win-ning the Gold at the Champions

Trophy but India hockey captain P RSreejesh insisted that the players took thegame to the next level in Breda and it willhelp them do well at the Asian Games andthe World Cup at home.

India were beaten 1-3 by Australia inthe shootout after score remained 1-1 atthe end of regulation time. It was secondconsecutive Silver medal for India in thetournament. Sreejesh, who stood outunder the bar throughout the tournament,said the Indian players had it in them toprevail over Australia.

"I was disappointed for not winningthe Gold in the Champions Trophybecause we anticipated meeting Australiain finals. We did meet them, but could notdo well in shootout. We believed we couldbeat Australia and played with that spir-it," Sreejesh said after his arrival fromNetherlands here.

"We did extremely well, especially afterthe team lost striker Ramandeep Singh,who sustained an injury. Boys took theperformance to next level and definitelythis will help us to do well in Asian Gamesand World Cup," Sreejesh added.

Looking ahead, Sreejesh said after thefive-day break, the team will assemble andchart out strategies and plans for the AsianGames.

Talking about his own performancein the tournament, Sreejesh said, it was achallenge to recover from injury and per-form. "I worked really very hard tobecome match fit and worked on certainaspects of the game. All these could nothave happened without team support. I amhappy to win the award and I think, ourdefence really stood out," he said.

Replying to a query, Sreejesh saidcoach Harendra Singh has been great forthe team because he is good at motivat-

ing the players."Harendra knows the boys really

well, for all of us have worked with himat junior level. One of the best parts of himis, he really motivates and pumps up play-ers. He is gifted with using right words justbefore players walk onto the field."

The players also are immensely happyto give Harendra his first Silver as thecoach, for he had never played as a play-er for the country in Champions Trophy,Sreejesh added.

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