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T he Rafale issue returned to torment the Modi Government on the eve of the first phase of the Lok Sabha polls on Wednesday when the Supreme Court allowed a set of “leaked” documents to be relied upon by petitioners seeking review of its Rafale judgment and dismissed the Government’s objections claim- ing “privilege” over them. The import and timing of the judgment have serious implication for the BJP and the Opposition. The admission of the review petition means that there is no “clean chit to the Government in the purchase of the fighter jets, while the tim- ing offers a “talking point” to the Opposition leaders to place the Prime Minister in the dock. The judgment is also major victory for the journalist com- munity. Mediapersons were up in arms over claims by the Centre that they could be pros- ecuted for publishing classified documents, which had bearing on the national security. The Centre had invoked the Officials Secret Act and submitted that the “classified” documents were “stolen” by the petitioners and used to support their review petitions against the December 14, 2018 judg- ment of the apex court dis- missing all pleas challenging procurement of 36 Rafale fight- er jets from France. “We dismiss the prelimi- nary objection raised by Union of India questioning the main- tainability of the review peti- tion,” a Bench comprising Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justices SK Kaul and KM Joseph said. Dismissing Attorney General KK Venugopal’s argu- ment that the illegally obtained documents and news reports filed on their basis cannot be taken on record in the review petitions, the Bench said, “The right of such publication would seem to be in consonance with the constitutional guarantee of freedom of speech.” Asserting that the publica- tion of the said documents was backed by several decision of the SC since 1950 upholding freedom of the press, the court said there was no legal provi- sion to prevent publication of a document marked as “secret”. “There is no provision in the Official Secrets Act and no such provision in any other statute has been brought to our notice by which Parliament has vested any power in the executive arm of the Government either to restrain publication of documents marked as secret or from plac- ing such documents before a court of law which may have been called upon to adjudicate a legal issue concerning the parties,” the CJI said. Writing a separate but con- curring judgment, Justice KM Joseph backed the freedom of press and said that the press in India has greatly contributed to the strengthening democracy. “It will have a pivotal role to play for the continued exis- tence of a vibrant democracy in the country,” said Justice Joseph, adding a caveat that the stream of information that flows from it, “must remain unpolluted by considerations other than truth”. He said the press must remain fearless and free from biases, for transmitting biased information due to personal, political or financial consider- ations betrays true freedom. Continued on Page 4 T he stage is set for the first phase of the Lok Sabha election on Thursday with 91 constituencies at stake across 20 States, including eight hotly contested seats from the west- ern Uttar Pradesh where SP- BSP-RLD is expected to give a tough challenge to the BJP. A total of about 1,300 can- didates, including Union Ministers Mahesh Sharma, VK Singh, Nitin Gadkari, Kiren Rijiju and former Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harsih Rawat are in the fray in the first phase of the Lok Sabha polls. Uttar Pradesh, which deliv- ered 71 seats to the BJP in 2014 LS polls under the Modi-wave, is starting its seven-phased marathon in the west UP which is proving to a real challenge for the BJP as it is pitted against a formidable SP-BSP-RLD caste combination. In 2014, the BJP won most of the seats in the western UP. In Muzaffarnagar, RLD chief Ajit Singh will take on BJP’s Sanjeev Balyan. Ajit’s son Jayant Chaudhary is fielded against Union Minister Satyapal Singh in Baghpat. VK Singh and Mahesh Sharma are BJP candidates in Ghaziabad and Gautam Budh Nagar, respectively. The first phase will also witness Assembly polls in Andhra Pradesh, Sikkim and Odisha for 175, 32 and 28 seats, respectively. Ruling TDP of Chandrababu Naidu, who broke away from the NDA at the Centre, faces stiff challenge from the YSR Congress. Strong anti-incumbency, caste and corruption are the major fac- tors that could determine the outcome of the elections to the Lok Sabha and the State Assembly as over 3.93 crore voters get to exercise their franchise. This is the first gen- eral election in the State after the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh in 2014. There are 2,118 candidates for Andhra Assembly polls and 319 for the LS elections. Naidu is seeking election from Kuppam, while his son Nara Lokesh is making his electoral debut from Mangalagiri. YSR Congress chief YS Jaganmohan Reddy, an aspirant for the CM’s post, is fighting from his family’s pocket bor- ough Pulivendula. In 2014, the TDP won 101, the YSRC 68, the BJP 4, Navodayam Party one and an Independent one in the Atate polls. In Lok Sabha seats, the TDP bagged 15, YSRC eight and BJP two. Continued on Page 4 T he Election Commission on Wednesday (EC) decid- ed to defer the screening of the biopic on “PM Narendra Modi” till further orders. The order will also apply to NaMo TV, which can’t air the movie. The movie was slated to release on the first phase of poll on April 11. In its detailed directive, the EC said, “Any poster or pub- licity material concerning any such certified content which either depicts a candidate (including prospective) for the furtherance (or purported to further) of electoral prospects, directly or indirectly, shall not be put on display in electron- ic media in the area where MCC is in force.” As far as the telecast of NaMo TV’s itself, the EC is expected to give detailed orders soon as the Information and Broadcasting Ministry termed it as advertorial platform, and Tata Sky described it as “con- tent TV” before the EC. The EC has received some clarification from the Delhi CEO regarding pre-certifica- tion of political advertisement on NaMo TV by Media Certification and Monitoring Committee. On the banning of biopic on Modi, the EC said any such material/ film disturbing the level playing field in favour of any political party or indi- vidual should not be displayed in the electronic media. The poll body has also received complaints about biopic “PM Narendra Modi”, “NTR Laxmi” and “Udyama Simham”. Opposition parties have been calling for a ban on the movie in view of the Model Code of Conduct (MCC). In an order issued on Wednesday, the EC said, “Any biopic material in the nature of biography/hagiography sub- serving the purposes of any political entity or any individ- ual entity connected to it, which is intended to, or which has the potential to disturb the level playing field during the elections, should not be dis- played in electronic media including cinematograph dur- ing the operation of MCC.” The release of the film was deferred last week on grounds of pending certifica- tion clearance from the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC), which it secured on Tuesday. Last week, biopic produc- er Omung Singh had tweeted that movie will be release by next week on April 11. New Delhi: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Wednesday said the SC decision to allow leaked papers to be relied upon by peti- tioners in the Rafale case is “at best procedural”. Jaitley said the CAG has already cleared the deal and a petition seeking review of the earlier judgment of the SC is pending. “All that the court has today said is that even a wrongly pro- cured document can be considered for review. The issue which delights the beleaguered Opposition is at best ‘procedural’, ”Jaitley said. Detailed report on P5 P akistan’s Premier Imran Khan has said he believes there may be a better chance of peace talks with India and set- tle the Kashmir issue if Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party BJP wins the general elections. “Perhaps if the BJP wins, some kind of settlement in Kashmir could be reached,” Khan told a small group of for- eign journalists in an interview. He said other parties would be afraid of right-wing backlash in case of settlement on the Kashmir issue. Khan said Kashmir was the central issue between the two countries. India maintains that the entire state of Jammu & Kashmir is an integral part of the country and Pakistan is in illegal occupation of a part of the State’s territory. Khan has said that Pakistan was taking action against all militants groups, including the JeM. He said that groups like the JeM were being disarmed under a serious drive to elim- inate militancy from Pakistan. “We have taken the reli- gious schools of these groups under state control. It is first serious effort to disarm the mil- itant outfits,” he said. Continued on Page 4 H ailing the Supreme Court order in the Rafale case, the Opposition parties accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of engaging in a “dubious” deal to favour industrialist Anil Ambani and asked for open debate on the issue. Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday launched a stinging attack on the Prime Minister over alleged irregularities in the Rafale deal and public sector banks, and challenged him to a debate on the issue of corruption. He said he will ask Modi three questions on the Rafale deal and industrialist Anil Ambani and the Prime Minister will not be able to show his face to people. “The chowkidar has handed over keys of the banks to thieves. I promise to return these keys to the people of this country,” Rahul said at an election rally in Katihar. “You (Modi) will speak whatever you wish and I will ask just three questions. After 15 minutes, Modi will not be able to show his face to any- body as it would be writ large on his face that chowkidar chor hai.” Continued on Page 4 T he Congress on Wednesday cited a media report to claim that Pakistan has “offi- cially allied” with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and said a vote for him would be a vote for Pakistan. Congress’ chief spokesper- son Randeep Surjewala launched a scathing attack on Modi over the report quoting Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan saying he believes there may be a better chance of peace talks with India if BJP wins the general elections. T he AAP has rejected the Congress’ offer to form an alliance in any State, senior leader Sanjay Singh said on Wednesday. “In Punjab, where we have four MP and 20 MLA, a single seat is not being given to us,” said the AAP leader. “In Chandigarh, where we got 1.30 lakh votes, they are not giving us a single seat. In Goa, where we got six per cent vote, no seats there either. In Delhi, where the Congress has no presence, they want to give us three seats,” Singh said. He said this offer has been rejected by the AAP and hence- forth there would be no talks with the Congress on alliance. T he Election Commission on Wednesday reprimand- ed the Department of Revenue over the tone and tenor of its response to the EC’s April 7 advisory following complaints of “unfair” raids on the aides of the Madhya Pradesh CM. The Department of Revenue’s counter-advisory to the EC advisory have raised eyebrows because its tone and tenor suggests the department did not seem to adequately acknowledge the seriousness of the concerns flagged by a con- stitutional body like the EC. Objecting to the “counter- advisory” to EC’s April 7 advi- sory asking Department of Revenue to keep enforcement actions during polls “neutral, impartial and non-discrimi- natory,” EC said the tone and tenor used to address a consti- tutional authority was totally against established protocol. “The commission has noted with extreme displeasure, the tone and tenor used for addressing a constitutional authority in stark violation of the established protocol. Therefore, the commission rep- rimands the Department of Revenue for making unwar- ranted remarks and expects that the directions issued by the commission in the said advi- sory (dated April 7) are fol- lowed in letter as well as in spir- it,” the commission said in a let- ter to the Revenue Secretary. “Instead of detailing the modalities of implementing the advisory, department inso- lently chose to issue a counter advisory,” noted the poll body. Continued on Page 4

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The Rafale issue returned totorment the Modi

Government on the eve of thefirst phase of the Lok Sabhapolls on Wednesday when theSupreme Court allowed a set of“leaked” documents to be reliedupon by petitioners seekingreview of its Rafale judgmentand dismissed theGovernment’s objections claim-ing “privilege” over them.

The import and timing ofthe judgment have seriousimplication for the BJP and theOpposition. The admission ofthe review petition means thatthere is no “clean chit to theGovernment in the purchase ofthe fighter jets, while the tim-ing offers a “talking point” tothe Opposition leaders to placethe Prime Minister in the dock.

The judgment is also majorvictory for the journalist com-munity. Mediapersons were upin arms over claims by theCentre that they could be pros-ecuted for publishing classifieddocuments, which had bearingon the national security.

The Centre had invokedthe Officials Secret Act andsubmitted that the “classified”documents were “stolen” by thepetitioners and used to supporttheir review petitions againstthe December 14, 2018 judg-ment of the apex court dis-missing all pleas challengingprocurement of 36 Rafale fight-er jets from France.

“We dismiss the prelimi-nary objection raised by Unionof India questioning the main-tainability of the review peti-tion,” a Bench comprising ChiefJustice Ranjan Gogoi andJustices SK Kaul and KMJoseph said.

Dismissing AttorneyGeneral KK Venugopal’s argu-ment that the illegally obtaineddocuments and news reportsfiled on their basis cannot betaken on record in the review

petitions, the Bench said, “Theright of such publication wouldseem to be in consonance withthe constitutional guarantee offreedom of speech.”

Asserting that the publica-tion of the said documents wasbacked by several decision ofthe SC since 1950 upholdingfreedom of the press, the courtsaid there was no legal provi-sion to prevent publication ofa document marked as “secret”.

“There is no provision inthe Official Secrets Act and nosuch provision in any otherstatute has been brought to ournotice by which Parliamenthas vested any power in theexecutive arm of theGovernment either to restrainpublication of documentsmarked as secret or from plac-

ing such documents before acourt of law which may havebeen called upon to adjudicatea legal issue concerning theparties,” the CJI said.

Writing a separate but con-curring judgment, Justice KMJoseph backed the freedom ofpress and said that the press inIndia has greatly contributed tothe strengthening democracy.

“It will have a pivotal roleto play for the continued exis-tence of a vibrant democracy inthe country,” said JusticeJoseph, adding a caveat that thestream of information thatflows from it, “must remainunpolluted by considerationsother than truth”.

He said the press mustremain fearless and free frombiases, for transmitting biasedinformation due to personal,political or financial consider-ations betrays true freedom.

Continued on Page 4

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The stage is set for the firstphase of the Lok Sabha

election on Thursday with 91constituencies at stake across 20States, including eight hotlycontested seats from the west-ern Uttar Pradesh where SP-BSP-RLD is expected to give atough challenge to the BJP.

A total of about 1,300 can-didates, including UnionMinisters Mahesh Sharma, VKSingh, Nitin Gadkari, KirenRijiju and former UttarakhandChief Minister Harsih Rawatare in the fray in the firstphase of the Lok Sabha polls.

Uttar Pradesh, which deliv-ered 71 seats to the BJP in 2014LS polls under the Modi-wave,is starting its seven-phasedmarathon in the west UP whichis proving to a real challenge forthe BJP as it is pitted against aformidable SP-BSP-RLD caste

combination. In 2014, the BJPwon most of the seats in thewestern UP.

In Muzaffarnagar, RLDchief Ajit Singh will take onBJP’s Sanjeev Balyan. Ajit’s sonJayant Chaudhary is fieldedagainst Union MinisterSatyapal Singh in Baghpat. VKSingh and Mahesh Sharma areBJP candidates in Ghaziabadand Gautam Budh Nagar,respectively.

The first phase will alsowitness Assembly polls inAndhra Pradesh, Sikkim andOdisha for 175, 32 and 28 seats,respectively.

Ruling TDP ofChandrababu Naidu, whobroke away from the NDA atthe Centre, faces stiff challengefrom the YSR Congress. Stronganti-incumbency, caste andcorruption are the major fac-tors that could determine theoutcome of the elections to the

Lok Sabha and the StateAssembly as over 3.93 crorevoters get to exercise theirfranchise. This is the first gen-eral election in the State afterthe bifurcation of AndhraPradesh in 2014.

There are 2,118 candidatesfor Andhra Assembly pollsand 319 for the LS elections.

Naidu is seeking electionfrom Kuppam, while his sonNara Lokesh is making hiselectoral debut fromMangalagiri.

YSR Congress chief YSJaganmohan Reddy, an aspirantfor the CM’s post, is fightingfrom his family’s pocket bor-ough Pulivendula. In 2014, theTDP won 101, the YSRC 68,the BJP 4, Navodayam Partyone and an Independent one inthe Atate polls. In Lok Sabhaseats, the TDP bagged 15,YSRC eight and BJP two.

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The Election Commissionon Wednesday (EC) decid-

ed to defer the screening of thebiopic on “PM NarendraModi” till further orders. Theorder will also apply to NaMoTV, which can’t air the movie.The movie was slated to releaseon the first phase of poll onApril 11.

In its detailed directive, theEC said, “Any poster or pub-licity material concerning anysuch certified content whicheither depicts a candidate(including prospective) for thefurtherance (or purported tofurther) of electoral prospects,directly or indirectly, shall notbe put on display in electron-ic media in the area whereMCC is in force.”

As far as the telecast ofNaMo TV’s itself, the EC isexpected to give detailed orderssoon as the Information andBroadcasting Ministry termedit as advertorial platform, andTata Sky described it as “con-tent TV” before the EC.

The EC has received someclarification from the DelhiCEO regarding pre-certifica-tion of political advertisementon NaMo TV by MediaCertification and MonitoringCommittee.

On the banning of biopicon Modi, the EC said anysuch material/ film disturbingthe level playing field in favourof any political party or indi-vidual should not be displayedin the electronic media. Thepoll body has also receivedcomplaints about biopic “PMNarendra Modi”, “NTR Laxmi”and “Udyama Simham”.Opposition parties have beencalling for a ban on the moviein view of the Model Code ofConduct (MCC).

In an order issued onWednesday, the EC said, “Anybiopic material in the nature ofbiography/hagiography sub-serving the purposes of any

political entity or any individ-ual entity connected to it,which is intended to, or whichhas the potential to disturb thelevel playing field during theelections, should not be dis-played in electronic mediaincluding cinematograph dur-ing the operation of MCC.”

The release of the filmwas deferred last week ongrounds of pending certifica-tion clearance from the CentralBoard of Film Certification(CBFC), which it secured onTuesday.

Last week, biopic produc-er Omung Singh had tweetedthat movie will be release bynext week on April 11.

New Delhi: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Wednesday saidthe SC decision to allow leaked papers to be relied upon by peti-tioners in the Rafale case is “at best procedural”. Jaitley said theCAG has already cleared the deal and a petition seeking reviewof the earlier judgment of the SC is pending.

“All that the court has today said is that even a wrongly pro-cured document can be considered for review. The issue whichdelights the beleaguered Opposition is at best ‘procedural’, ”Jaitleysaid. Detailed report on P5

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Pakistan’s Premier ImranKhan has said he believes

there may be a better chance ofpeace talks with India and set-tle the Kashmir issue if PrimeMinister Narendra Modi’s partyBJP wins the general elections.

“Perhaps if the BJP wins,some kind of settlement inKashmir could be reached,”Khan told a small group of for-eign journalists in an interview.

He said other parties wouldbe afraid of right-wing backlashin case of settlement on the

Kashmir issue. Khan said Kashmir was the

central issue between the twocountries. India maintains thatthe entire state of Jammu &

Kashmir is an integral part ofthe country and Pakistan is inillegal occupation of a part ofthe State’s territory.

Khan has said that Pakistanwas taking action against allmilitants groups, including theJeM. He said that groups likethe JeM were being disarmedunder a serious drive to elim-inate militancy from Pakistan.

“We have taken the reli-gious schools of these groupsunder state control. It is firstserious effort to disarm the mil-itant outfits,” he said.

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Hailing the Supreme Courtorder in the Rafale case,

the Opposition parties accusedPrime Minister Narendra Modiof engaging in a “dubious”deal to favour industrialist AnilAmbani and asked for opendebate on the issue.

Congress president RahulGandhi on Wednesdaylaunched a stinging attack onthe Prime Minister over allegedirregularities in the Rafale dealand public sector banks, andchallenged him to a debate onthe issue of corruption.

He said he will ask Modi

three questions on the Rafaledeal and industrialist AnilAmbani and the PrimeMinister will not be able toshow his face to people. “Thechowkidar has handed overkeys of the banks to thieves. Ipromise to return these keys tothe people of this country,”Rahul said at an election rally

in Katihar.“You (Modi) will speak

whatever you wish and I willask just three questions. After15 minutes, Modi will not beable to show his face to any-body as it would be writ largeon his face that chowkidarchor hai.”

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The Congress on Wednesdaycited a media report to

claim that Pakistan has “offi-cially allied” with PrimeMinister Narendra Modi andsaid a vote for him would be avote for Pakistan.

Congress’ chief spokesper-son Randeep Surjewalalaunched a scathing attack onModi over the report quotingPakistani Prime MinisterImran Khan saying he believesthere may be a better chance ofpeace talks with India if BJPwins the general elections.

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The AAP has rejected theCongress’ offer to form an

alliance in any State, seniorleader Sanjay Singh said onWednesday.

“In Punjab, where we havefour MP and 20 MLA, a singleseat is not being given to us,”said the AAP leader.

“In Chandigarh, where wegot 1.30 lakh votes, they are notgiving us a single seat. In Goa,where we got six per cent vote,no seats there either. In Delhi,where the Congress has nopresence, they want to give usthree seats,” Singh said.

He said this offer has beenrejected by the AAP and hence-forth there would be no talkswith the Congress on alliance.

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The Election Commissionon Wednesday reprimand-

ed the Department of Revenueover the tone and tenor of itsresponse to the EC’s April 7advisory following complaintsof “unfair” raids on the aides ofthe Madhya Pradesh CM.

The Department ofRevenue’s counter-advisory tothe EC advisory have raisedeyebrows because its tone andtenor suggests the departmentdid not seem to adequatelyacknowledge the seriousness ofthe concerns flagged by a con-stitutional body like the EC.

Objecting to the “counter-advisory” to EC’s April 7 advi-sory asking Department ofRevenue to keep enforcementactions during polls “neutral,impartial and non-discrimi-natory,” EC said the tone andtenor used to address a consti-tutional authority was totallyagainst established protocol.

“The commission hasnoted with extreme displeasure,the tone and tenor used foraddressing a constitutionalauthority in stark violation ofthe established protocol.Therefore, the commission rep-rimands the Department ofRevenue for making unwar-ranted remarks and expectsthat the directions issued by thecommission in the said advi-sory (dated April 7) are fol-lowed in letter as well as in spir-it,” the commission said in a let-ter to the Revenue Secretary.

“Instead of detailing themodalities of implementingthe advisory, department inso-lently chose to issue a counteradvisory,” noted the poll body.

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Motorists jumpingtraffic signals at

unmanned junctions andthose committing crimescannot go scot-free nowas the Gurugram Trafficpolice are planning todeploy drones in the sky.These drones will notonly send footage on trafficflow but will also keep a closewatch on traffic violators.

The city police will soonstart using drones to keep awatch from the sky on trafficmovement and monitor trafficviolations in real-time. Theauto-pilot drones loaded witha geographic positioning sys-tem (GPS) and a powerfulcamera can provide real-timepictures for better surveillance.

“We wanted to use dronesto keep an eye on traffic move-ment and violators in the city.Now we are in the process tobuy 10 drones especially to beused for traffic affected areas.

We will train our policemen tooperate them. Ten small sizedrones will be procured soon,”Commissioner of Gurugrampolice, Muhammad Akil, said.

The drones, equipped withcameras, will be used in real-time crowd monitoring andsurveillance. They will bedeployed in selected areas fortraffic surveillance, which willbe extended to other parts ofthe city after assessing theresults of the pilot project. Thedrones’ will have night visioncapability.

“Drones have been widelyused for traffic surveillanceand crime investigation by

police departments ofvarious states in India.Besides, it can also bevery effective in the post-incident analysis,” apolice officer, said.

Police believe thatdrones could play amajor role in monitoringtraffic movements, acci-dent-prone areas andmajor traffic junctions.

Besides, the traffic policehad recently inducted 1500more personnel in the depart-ment to manage traffic move-ment in the city. Earlier around300 personnel were available inthe department to resolve thetraffic problems in the entiredistrict.

“We have issued a strictorder to traffic personnel tomanage traffic movement in aproper way. We will soondeploy traffic personnel with amotorbike on the NationalHighway, state highway andmajor city roads to keep an eyeon smooth traffic movements,”the commissioner, said.

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A77-year-old man sufferingfrom diabetes and high

blood Pressure (BP), allegedlycommitted suicide onWednesday by jumping in front of an approaching trainon Blue Line’s Ramesh NagarMetro Station.The man waslater identified as Sita RamArora and was resident ofRamesh Nagar.

According to police, theman was living in a doublestorey building at RameshNagar with his wife and four sons. “At the time of leaving home, he told his family members that he wasgoing to Gurudwara,” said thepolice.

According to a seniorpolice official, the incidentoccurred at around 11.57 amon Wednesday at platform no-1 of Ramesh Nagar MetroStation.

“The man jumped on thetrack and got hit from blue linemetro going towards Vaishali.He suffered serious injuries

and was rushed to nearby hos-pital where doctors declaredhim brought dead,” said thesenior police official.

“During search, no ID wasfound which could identifythe deceased. Efforts are beingmade identify the deceasedand further investigation isgoing on,” the senior police offi-cial added.

The incident comes a dayafter a 46-year-old Delhi PoliceAssistant Sub-Inspector (ASI)allegedly committed suicideby jumping before a train atJahangirpuri metro station onthe busy Yellow Line. Besidesthis, a metro staff has alsorecently committed suicide by

jumping from seventh floor ofMetro Headquarters.

Despite the Delhi MetroRail Corporation (DMRC) tak-ing measures such as the instal-lation of automatic coach-entrydoors at certain platformsacross the network, other sta-tions where these doors are yetto be installed have no measureto prevent cases of commutersjumping on the tracks.

Not only do such inci-dents disrupt the operations ofthe Delhi Metro but also putthe lives of hundreds of com-muters at risk.

On March 8, a manjumped in front of an oncom-ing train at the GTB NagarMetro station. He was rushedto a nearby hospital where hewas treated by doctors. A sim-ilar incident happened onMarch 22 when a womanjumped in front of anapproaching metro train atNoida Sector 16 metro station.The woman’s body was taken away by the CentralIndustrial Security Force(CISF) personnel.

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Beware while sharing yourdebit/credit card numbers

and even one time password(OTP) with unknown personas you might be the next targetof cyber cheats. With the arrestof four cheats, the sleuths ofDelhi Police North districtCyber Cell have busted a rack-et of online cheats who alleged-ly used to withdraw moneyonline after getting debit/ cred-it credentials, including OneTime Password (OTP) fromthe victims.

The accused have beenidentified as Pankaj (29) a res-ident of Mangolpuri, Delhi,Rishabh Saxena (19) a resident

of JJ Colony in Delhi’s UttamNagar East, Sujit (22) andRakesh Kumar, both resi-dents of Loni in Ghaziabad,Uttar Pradesh (UP). Policehave also recovered sevenkeypads with five smartmobile phones, fivedebit/credit cards and 17SIM cards issued on the fakeidentity from the possessionof the accused.

According to NupurPrasad, the DeputyCommissioner of Police(DCP), North district, a com-

plaint was received in whichcomplainant said that hereceived a bogus call from afake official of fake credit cardDivision, Noida.

“The caller told him lastfour digit of his Axis Bank cred-it card and offered to get thereward points 20,000 worth�10,000 redeemed on that day.The caller further informedthat the offer would expire by04.00 pm. Immediately afterthat the caller sent three OTPover the registered mobile num-ber of the victim and request-

ed to share the OTPs. As soonas the victim shared the OTPs, total three fraud trans-actions amounting to �60,000(�20,000 each) were done fromthe Axis Bank credit card,” saidthe DCP.

“On the basis of the com-plaint, a case was registeredunder section 420 of IndianPenal Code was registered atSubzi Mandi police station andinvestigation was taken up bythe local police and Cyber Cellunit,” said the DCP.

“During investigation,

details from Axis Bank wherethe credit card of the com-plainant exists were obtained.After analyzing the data, thetransactions were linked andfound that the accused trans-ferred the money into a virtu-al wallet registered withMobikwik merchant and laterthe amount were cashedthrough a petrol pump,” saidthe DCP.

“The team managed toidentify the real beneficiary ofthe cheated amount and it ledto arrest of the accused Rakeshwho used to encash suchamounts,” said the DCP addingthat on his instance other threeaccused were also arrested bypolice.

“During interrogation, theaccused revealed that Suji andVikas used to make calls to var-ious customers of the bank.Sujit disclosed that the datawere provided to him byRishabh, Pankaj and Pawan. Allthe data, including bankaccount details and contactnumbers of the victims, werearranged by the Pawan whowas earlier worked with back-end Team of Axis Bank CreditCards,” said the DCP.

“Pawan and Vikas are stillat large. Manhunt has been ini-tiated by police to nab theremaining culprits. The cus-tomers’ data recovered from theaccused is being shared to thebank authorities to get themalert,”the DCP added.

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In a bid to convert dull anddreary classrooms learn-

ing into a joyful one and pro-mote active and experientiallearning and to inculcate anappreciation of the vast diver-sity of the Indian art forms, theCentral Board of SecondaryEducation (CBSE), has decidedto integrate art with the teach-ing and learning process of allacademic subjects from classesI to XII.

The CBSE has also asked allthe schools situated across thecountry to implement the samefor all the classes. The newmethod of teaching will beginfrom the upcoming academicsession 2019-20.

As per the circular issuedby the CBSE, Arts educationwill be taught as a mandatorysubject for classes 1 to 12 andfacilities for the same may be

provided in every school. “Every school shall com-

pulsorily reserve a minimum oftwo periods per week, per class,for Art education. All the fourmain streams covered by theterm arts, such as music, dance,visual arts and theatre, shouldbe included. Emphasis shouldbe given to learning ratherthan teaching, and the approachshould be participatory, inter-active, and experiential ratherthan instructive,” said the state-ment issued by CBSE.

The idea behind the newpolicy is derived from theNational Council for EducationResearch and Training(NCERT) position paper whichfocuses on the Arts, Music,Dance and Theatre.

“The curriculum is to pre-sent knowledge as ‘packaged’usually in textbooks, along withassociated rituals of examina-tions to assess, where knowl-edge acquisition and marks

becomes a way of judging com-petence in the subject area,” saida CBSE official.

With making the class-room learning joyful the artintegrated learning will alsohelp to promote our rich artand cultural heritage, said theofficial.

“The Board held discus-sions with several stakeholders,including schools, principals,teachers, NCERT, art profes-sionals and accordingly itemerged that integration ofArt with education will lead tobetterment of learning in theclass rooms,” said the official.

Art Integration is not areplacement for Art education.Integration happens only afterstudents have been directlytaught the Arts. Without thisbackground knowledge, nei-ther the students nor the sub-ject teachers will be able to inte-grate art in education. Forexample, the notes in

Hindustani Classical Music canbe aligned with the teaching ofFractions in Mathematics.However, without the knowl-edge of music notes, it will beimpossible for the students tocomprehend the link betweenthe two, added the official.

As per the CBSE, this formof education is important as itwill a child to apply art-basedenquiry, investigation, explo-ration, critical thinking andcreativity for a deeper under-standing of the concepts/topics.All disciplines being pursued bystudents at all stages require cre-ative thinking and problem-solving abilities.

Secondly, it will alsoenhance experiential learning,by enabling the student toderive meaning and under-standing, directly from thelearning experience.

Besides, this it will help tomake a positive impact on thedevelopment of students certain

life skills such as communica-tion skills, reflection andenquiry, nurturing higher con-fidence levels and self- esteem,appreciation for aesthetics andcreativity, said the official.

“Under this pattern, a stu-dent will learn in a different waysuch as learning the meaningand lines of a difficult poem bybreaking each line into a dia-logue spoken by AmitabhBachchan or James Bond or setto music based on Bollywoodsongs. This will not only makethe children enjoy studying, itwill develop the skills of stu-dents,” said the CBSE.

Besides, the extra-curricu-lar, the students will also beintroduced to culinary artwhere they will learn aboutnutritious food, crops andspices grown in India, abouthow oil is extracted from various seeds, about good agricultural practices, pesti-cides use.

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The Delhi Police has arrest-ed Acharya Ashokananda

Maharaj for allegedly dupingaround 15 people to the tune of�70 lakh in national Capital.The accused was evading arrestsince last year.

According to JasmeetSingh, the DeputyCommissioner of Police (DCP),East district, a First InformationReport (FIR) was registeredagainst the AcharyaAshokananda Maharaj andother associates in November2018 regarding the cheating of�14,30,000.

“The complainant allegedthat accused persons alluredpublic persons specially housewife to invest their money invarious schemes in their com-pany “Mohan Inframart Pvt.Ltd”,” said the DCP

“During investigation various victims also turned upand narrated their ordeal.Notices under section 41A and91 of Code of CriminalProcedure (CrPC) were alsoserved to the accused but he

never turned up to join theinvestigation and approachedDelhi Session Court and HighCourt for seeking anticipatorybail which was dismissed,” saidthe DCP.

“He was evading arrest andafter receiving specific inputs onWednesday he was apprehend-ed from his native villageBisrakh in Greater Noida. Total15 complaints have beenreceived against the accused tilldate. Total cheated amount is 70lakhs,” said the DCP adding thatfurther investigation is going on.

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Delhi Customs Officialshave arrested a Chinese on

Wednesday for allegedly tryingto smuggle gold valuing about�23 lakh into the country atIndira Gandhi International(IGI) airport.

According to a seniorCustoms official, the accusedwas intercepted upon hisarrival from Hong Kong.

“The man was stopped bysecurity personnel and adetailed personal and baggagesearch of the passenger result-ed in the recovery of one goldchain, gold bar and a goldbracelet, collectively weighing734 grams,” said the senior cus-toms official.

“The market value of thegold that has been seized isassessed to be �23.63 lakh.The man has been arrestedunder provision of section 104of customs act,” the senior cus-tom official added.

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The Delhi Police has arrest-ed four persons for alleged-

ly taking bets on Tuesday’sIndian Premier League (IPL)match between Kolkata KnightRiders and Chennai SuperKings in national Capital. Theaccused were caught red hand-ed from a hotel in Delhi’s PreetVihar area on Tuesday night.

The accused have beenidentified as Harish Arora (31)a resident of Pant Nagar, NavKaran Singh (25) a resident ofLajpat Nagar, Ashish Mangal(21) a resident of Sarai kale Khanand Gurbej Chhabra (36) a res-ident of Faridabad in Haryana.

According to ChinmoyBiswal, the DeputyCommissioner of Police(DCP), South-east district, onApril 9, around 10 PM specif-ic inputs were received regard-ing the betting racket followingwhich a team reached a hotel

in Preet Vihar and raided thepremises.

“During raid, four personswere caught red handed watch-ing the IPL match betweenChennai Super Kings andKolkata Knight Riders on TVand updating the rates, win andloss record through the mobilephones. They were using onephone for obtaining on-linerates and other phones forpassing on information to thepunters and seeking bets,” saidthe DCP adding that they werearrested by the police team.

“During interrogation theaccused disclosed that in orderto earn quick money they allplanned to run a betting rack-et during the IPL. AccusedGurbhej was well-versed withthis system of betting and waspreviously arrested in a gam-bling case in 2007,” said theDCP

Explaining their modusoperandi the DCP said that the

accused persons used to booka hotel room during the IPLmatch and used to operatefrom their only. “These book-ies used to take bets from theirclients and were using ‘bettingassistant I-book software’ ontheir laptops that kept a record of those placing bets andthe financial transactions,” saidthe DCP adding thatInvestigation of the case is inprogress and possibility of theirlinks with betting gang is beingexplored.

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The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)Government on Wednesday

said the pass percentage of Class11 students in DelhiGovernment schools hastouched 80 per cent, the high-est in the last eight years.

In a statement, the govern-ment, sharing the highlights ofthe annual exam results of allclasses (other than class 10 and12) in Delhi governmentschools, said: “In Class 11, therehas been a significant improve-ment over last year’s perfor-mance. “While 71 per cent stu-dents of this class passed theirexam in 2017-18, it hasimproved to 80 per cent in2018-19.”

In Class XI, there has beena significant improvement overlast year’s performance. Theresults of the annual exams of allclasses (other than class 10 and12) in Delhi government schoolsconducted centrally by theDirectorate of Education (DoE)were declared on March 30,2019. The statistics takes intoaccount figures from 2010onwards.

While 71 per cent studentsof class 11 passed their exam in2017-18, it has improved to 80per cent in 2018-19.

From 2015-16 onwards, thepass percentage in this class hasbeen around 72 per cent asopposed to 63 per cent in 2014-15. In 2018-19, it touched 80 percent for the first time, the sta-

tistics revealed.Similarly, in class nine, the

pass percentage has remainedalmost the same as previousyear. While 57.4 per cent stu-dents passed in 2017-18, the passpercentage for 2018-19 is 57.8per cent.

“There has been a slow butconsistent improvement in thepass percentage over the last fouryears in this class due to pro-grammes and initiatives likeChunauti and Mission Buniyaadwhich is strengthening the foun-dational learning skills of stu-dents by the time they reachClass 9,” a Delhi governmentofficial said.

In 2015-16, the pass per-centage in this class was 50.8 percent which improved to 52.3 percent the next year followed by57.4 per cent in 2017-18.

“It is important to note thatthe improvement recorded lastyear and maintained this yearhas been despite the change inthe weightage for external andinternal component.

“While before 2017-18, theweightage for external was of 60per cent, it was increased to 80pc as per CBSE norms,” the offi-cial added.

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The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)on Wednesday launched

“Mega Mass contact campaign”with the focus on one-to-onecommunications in the entireseven Lok Sabha constituenciesin the national Capital.

AAP Delhi convenor GopalRai and Lok Sabha candidatefrom North East Delhi DilipPandey launched its secondphase of poll campaign inBabarpur. The mega public out-reach programme will see partyworkers going from door-to-door urging people to supportthe party’s demand of full state-hood for Delhi.

In order to communicateparty’s vision 13 thousandbooths president and a team of70 thousand ‘vijay pramukh’will have a one-to-one dialoguewith people in all the seven LokSabha constituency.

Rai also visited a number ofhouses and convey the impor-tance of full statehood for Delhito the voters.

The AAP leaders during itscampaign read out the letter

written by party national con-vener Arvind Kejriwal to thepeople of Delhi, in which thebenefits Delhi will get afterattaining full statehood are list-ed.

Addressing media persons,Rai said that in the first phase ofcampaign, the party focused onpublic rallies and gatherings. “Allthe rallies witnessed a heavycrowd but still a large number ofpeople were left out due to theirbusy working schedule. We havedecided now to approach each

and every individual in the cityto explain them about theimportance of having full state-hood to Delhi,” he said.

“Our party workers andrepresentatives will go to peopleon a mass scale. Our aim is toreach out to about 35 lakh vot-ers in the city.”

The party has designed itscampaigning in three parts. AllAAP legislators will hold exten-sive campaigning in their con-stituencies in the second phaseof campaign.

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In its bid to reach out to theelectorate in the national

Capital, Delhi State unit of theBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) onWednesday launched it spe-cially designed ‘Video Raths’.BJP will use this van to projectModi Government’s achieve-ment via online platform.

According to BJP leaders,14 Video Raths have been pre-pared for the publicity and outof this seven video raths are bigones fitted with sound systemsand electronic facilities whileseven are smaller ones. Thesepublicity vans will propagate forBJP in all the seven LoksabhaConstituency and apprise thepeople about the achievementsof Modi Government.

Raising slogans “Fir EkBaar, Modi Sarkar and ModiHai to Mumkin Hai”, Delhi BJPPresident Manoj Tiwari saidthat preparations are completefor the Loksabha Elections2019. “Voters of Delhi have alsotaken necessary steps for votingfor the new Government,” saidTiwari ,adding, “BJP Delhi

Pradesh has also made prepa-rations in this regard and in thisconnection Video Raths arebeing sent in separate areas ofDelhi for the publicity of the allround development of thecountry under the leadership ofPM Narender Modi and thehistorical decisions taken byModi Government in the inter-est of the country.”

Demanding report card ofruling Aam Aadmi Party’ s leg-islators, Delhi BJP unit chiefManoj Tiwari alleged that AAPMLA’s has not spent a singlepaisa from their fund. AccusingAAP National convener ArvindKejriwal, Tiwari said that thereare nine MLAs of his partyunder his Lok SabhaConstituency but none of themhas done anything. “The MLAsget 10 crore rupees annually butthey are not spending a singlepaisa from the fund. If Kejriwalis an honest person then heshould submit the Report Cardof his MLAs,” “Kejriwal hasnothing to show as achievementand hence he is trying to get ridof the problems of Delhi,” saidthe BJP leader.

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Taking a jibe on Aam AadmiParty(AAP) claim providing

best education and health infra-structure in Delhi , Leader ofOpposition in Delhi Assembly,Vijender Gupta said all this is a

false propaganda stuff. He saidthe truth remains that theGovernment has failed to makethe services in the fields ofhealth, education reach at doorsteps of common man. “Despitetall claim of spending half ofbudget in these two sectors, the

Government has failed to makeany appreciable progress. Thereis more propaganda and less realstuff. The so called revolution-ary improvements are onlyadding glory in paper only withno ground work done in thefield,” said Gupta.

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In view of the Lok Sabha elections, the Delhi Police

has intensified patrolling in several intersec-tions across the NationalCapital.

On Tuesday night, theDelhi Police seized �1crore incash from a BMW car in south-west Delhi’s Vasant Vihar area.

“A police team was deputed at picket near a churchon Poorvi Marg in Vasant Nagar area on Tuesday night to check v e h i c l e scarrying cash and o t h e rprohibited articles in view ofthe forthcoming elections,” saidDevendra Arya, the DeputyCommissioner of Police(DCP), South-West district.

“During checking, a BMWcar was stopped and during checking of the car, a cash amounting to �1 crorewas found in car, said theDCP.

“Other agencies including the income taxdepartment have beeninformed about the seizure,”the DCP added.

The Lok Sabha polls, conducted in seven phases, will begin on April 11and continue till May 19.

Delhi will vote on May 12 and the overall results willbe declared on May 23.

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After the Supreme Court onWednesday dismissed the

petition of the Centre objectingto taking the stolen papers per-taining to Rafale deal into con-sideration, Aam Aadmi Party(AAP) national convenerArvind Kejriwal launched afrontal attack on the PrimeMinister Narendra Modi.Kejriwal questioned whetherthe ruling Government atCentre had “secret” agreementwith Pakistan after Pulwamaincident. The AAP leader alsosought a probe into the role ofPakistan in helping the party forwinning the 2019 Lok Sabhapolls.

“Why does Imran Khan

want Modi to become primeminister? Modi jee shouldinform the country what kindof relation he has with Pakistan.Everyone in the country shouldknow that if Modi wins,Pakistan will celebrate his vic-tory,” he tweeted in Hindi.

“Everyone is asking thisquestion today after ImranKhan’s statement,” he tweeted. Inanother tweet, he said “It should

be examined as to how Pakistanis helping the BJP to win theelections,” His statement cameafter Pakistan Prime MinisterImran Khan said he thinksthere may be a better chance ofpeace talks with India if PrimeMinister Narendra Modi’sBharatiya Janata Party (BJP)wins the general election.

“If Modi wins the election,there will be celebration inPakistan. Did Pulwama incidentwas done by Imran Khan toensure Modi’s success in elec-tion?” Even after Pulwama inci-dent, what kind of agreementwas done as Modi congratulat-ed Imran on Pakistan day,”Rajya Sabha MP and AAPsenior leader Sanjay Singh saidin another tweet.

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In an off-centre penalty toalleged contemnors for delay

in filing replies in pendingcases, the Delhi High Court hasasked them to put up footballgoal posts in a Governmentschool here and donate 40footballs to the students,including girls. Justice NajmiWaziri, who has been passingorders in favour of social cause,has also directed the DeputyDirector (South) of Delhi gov-ernment’s Directorate ofEducation and the principal ofChandra Shekhar AzadGovernment School in NewFriends Colony to ensure thatthe football field is properlyprepared and duly marked forthe game.

The court also said in arecent order that to obviate any

injury to the students, it should be ensured that nostones or pebbles are littered inthe field.

While hearing two separatecontempt cases, the courtimposed a cost of Rs 10,000each on the alleged contemnorsfor their delay in filing replies

to the contempt petitions.It granted them one more

opportunity to file replies sub-ject to payments of costs, whichmay be defrayed towards asocial cause and be expendedtowards public purposesincluding for the benefit ofschool going children.

Delhi government addi-tional standing counsel SanjoyGhose assured the court thatdue compliance of the orderwould be done.

Recently, in another con-tempt case, Justice Waziri haddirected a major Indian restau-rant chain to use the Rs 20 lakhcost, imposed on it for violat-ing the trademark of Frenchluxury fashion goods manu-facturer Hermes, to providemid-day meals and sanitarynapkins at several orphanagesand foster care homes in thenational capital.

The court directed thatmid-day meals would be pro-vided at 5 orphanages and 10foster care homes for the nexttwo years and the sanitarynapkins would also be suppliedthere for one year.

In the multi-crore 2G spec-

trum scam case, the samejudge had directed some of theindividuals and companies toplant over 16,000 trees here fortheir failure in filing theresponses on time.

In the present case, thecourt directed one of thealleged contemnors to put uptwo football goal posts withnets at Chandra Shekhar AzadGovernment School here forthe benefit of the childrenstudying there within fourweeks.

Another alleged contem-nor was asked to purchase 40footballs of good quality for thebenefit of the children studyingin the school.

“Twenty footballs eachshall be for the girls and boys,studying in the morning andevening shifts of the aforesaidschool,” it said.

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ADelhi High Court judgeWednesday recused himself

from hearing a plea seeking adirection to the ElectionCommission to bar Jammu &Kashmir politicians FarooqAbdullah, Omar Abdullah andMehbooba Mufti from partici-pating in the Lok Sabha electionas they have allegedly made“seditious” statements.

Justice A J Bhambhani,who was part of the divisionbench headed by Chief JusticeRajendra Menon, recused him-self from hearing the matter.

“List it before a bench inwhich one of us, that is, JusticeBhambhani, is not a member,”the chief justice said. The mat-ter would come up for hearing

before another bench on April12. The petition filed by a lawyeralleged that the “seditious andcommunal statements” givenby the three leaders were againstthe Constitution, adding that thecourt or the EC should bar orimpose conditions on their entryinto the Lok Sabha.

All the three leaders are for-mer chief ministers of Jammuand Kashmir. The petition hasarrayed the EC, the Union ofIndia, the Delhi Police, NationalConference (NC) presidentFarooq Abdullah, his son OmarAbdullah and PeoplesDemocratic Party (PDP) presi-dent Mehbooba Mufti as partiesto the petition.

The plea moved by advo-cate Sanjjiiv Kkumaar has alsosought a direction to book them

under various charges, includingsedition and inciting hatred, ofthe Indian Penal Code and theInformation Technology Act.

“Issue directions to therespondent number 1 (EC) toban the NC and the PDP fromLok Sabha election 2019 asrespondent number 4 and 6 (thethree leaders) are presidents oftheir respective parties and rep-resent their parties and their ide-ologies,” it alleged.

“Will it not be a mockery ofdemocracy to allow those peo-ple and parties to participate inthe Lok Sabha election whenpeople/parties openly call forsedition to divide Mother Indiaon the basis of religion (Muslimmajority) and two prime min-isters (for Jammu and Kashmirand the rest of India),” it said.

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Ending weeks of suspense andspeculations, the Aam Aadmi

Party (AAP) on Wednesday cat-egorically rejected the Congress’soffer to form an alliance in anyState, senior leader Sanjay Singhsaid on Wednesday. Singh, whois also Rajya Sabha member, saidall the routes of an alliance withthe Congress have been closedand the move will benefit the BJP.“In Punjab, where we have fourMP and 20 MLA, a single seat isnot being given to us,” he said.

“In Chandigarh, where wegot 1.30 lakh votes, they are notgiving us a single seat. In Goa,where we got six per cent vote,no seats there either. In Delhi,where the Congress has nopresence, they want to give usthree seats,” Singh said.

He said this offer has beenrejected by the AAP and

henceforth there would be notalks with the Congress onalliance. Earlier in the day seniorCongress leader Ahmed Patelmet party’s Delhi unit presidentSheila Dikshit at her residence onWednesday to discuss the possi-bility of entering into ann alliancewith AAP in Delhi.

According to sources, themeeting that lasted for around40 minutes, the two leaders arebelieved to have discussed thepossibility of a tie-up with theAAP and deliberated aboutprobable candidates to be field-ed from the national Capital,ahead of the party’s CentralElection Committee meetingscheduled on Thursday.

The meeting also assumessignificance as Dikshit has beenan open critic of the tie-up whilePatel is known to be in favourof an alliance.

Patel had earlier held talks

with AAP leader Sanjay Singhto discuss the prospects of analliance between the two partieswhich could hurt BJP’sprospects in the Lok Sabhapolls. While the AAP has beenpressing for a tie-up with theCongress in Delhi and Haryana,the Congress is reluctant to haveany pre-poll arrangementbeyond the national capital.

AAP national convenerArvind Kejriwal has been urg-ing the Congress to forge analliance in Delhi for the Lok

Sabha polls to keep theBharatiya Janta Party (BJP)away from power. Recently, ina meeting with nationalCongress president RahulGandhi, senior Congress lead-ers including its Delhi unitpresident Sheila Dikshit, threeworking presidents DevenderYadav, Rajesh Lilothia, HaroonYusuf, former Delhi Congresspresidents JP Agarwal andTajdar Babar opposed analliance with AAP.

A senior party insider of the

Congress said that the decisionwas taken considering its longterm repercussions in Delhiand adjoining states. “The mainquestion is how the party willface the AAP in Assembly elec-tions after coming together inparliamentary election. Even ifalliance happened the Congresswas not getting much political-ly but it could lose its base dras-tically,” he said. Congress didnot managed to secure any LokSabha seat in the 2014 parlia-mentary elections in Delhi.

The talk of alliance wasfuelled by the fact that theCongress and AAP had jointlypolled more votes than the BJPthat had walked away with allthe seven seats in the nationalCapital. Elections to the sevenLok Sabha seats in Delhi will beheld on May 12. The results willbe declared with the rest of thecountry on May 23.

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From Page 1In Odisha Biju-Janata Dal

of Naveen Patnaik, completingfive-terms in the State, is hope-ful of beating the anti-incum-bency as BJP has fashioneditself as the main challenger tothe BJD in the State, trying topush Congress to the thirdposition.

BJP is also keen to improveits performance in the LokSabha tally in Odisha where ithad won only one seat of JualOram in 2014. All 17 LokSabha seats in Telangana will goto polls in phase-one.

The TRS having swept theDecember Assembly polls ishoping for an encore in thecompany of AIMIM while theOpposition Congress and BJPappear to be focused on win-ning select number of seats.There are 443 candidates in thefray.

The Nizamabad Lok Sabhaconstituency is a special case as185 candidates, including over170 farmers, are in the fray.

Congress leader RenukaChowdary (Khammam),AIMIM president AsaduddinOwaisi (Hyderabad), StateCongress president N UttamKumar Reddy (Nalgonda) anddaughter of TRS president KChandrasekhar Rao, are amongthe prominent candidates.

Seven Lok Sabha seats inMaharashtra will go to polls,with Gadkari locked in a bat-tle with Congress’s Nana Patole,a former BJP MP.Union

Minister and BJP leader,Hansaraj Ahir is seeking afourth term from Chandrapur.

In Bihar, four Lok Sabhaseats will see polling onThursday. LJP leader ChiragPaswan is contesting fromJamui reserved seat. He is thesitting MP and is locked in avirtual straight contest withBhudeo Chaudhary of RLSP.

In the North East, of thetwo seats in Arunachal PradeshRijiju is seeking re-electionfrom Arunachal West.

Four seats in Assam will goto polls, with former CM TarunGogoi’s son Gaurav Gogoi testing poll waters fromKaliabor.

In Chhattisgarh where oneLok Sabha seat, Bastar, is goingto polls, security has beentightened following a naxalattack in the constituency’sDantewada area on Tuesday. ABJP leader and four securitypersonnel were killed.

Voting for 543 Lok Sabhaseats will be held in sevenphases: April 11, April 18,April 23, April 29, May 6, May12 and May 19. Counting willbe done on May 23.

The Lok Sabha con-stituencies going to polls inPhase 1 are Adilabad,Peddapalle, Karimnagar,Nizamabad, Zahirabad, Medak,Malkajgiri, Secunderabad,Hyderabad, Chevella,Mahbubnagar, Nagarkurnool,Nalgonda, Bhongir, Warangal,Mahabubabad, Khammam,

Araku, Srikakulam,Vizianagaram, Visakhapatnam,Anakapalle, Kakinada,Amalapuram, Rajahmundry,Narsapuram, Elluru,Machilipatnam, Vijayawada,Guntur, Narasaraopet, Bapatla,Ongole, Nandyal, Kurnool,Anantapur, Hindupur, Kadapa,Nellore, Tirupati, Rajampet,Chittoor, Arunachal West,Arunachal East, Tezpur,Kaliabor, Jorhat, Dibrugarh,Lakhimpur, Aurangabad, Gaya,Nawada, Jamui, Baramulla,Jammu, Wardha, Ramtek,Nagpur, Bhandara-Gondiya,G a d c h i r o l i - C h i m u r ,Chandrapur, Yavatmal-Washim, Outer Manipur,Shillong, Tura, Mizoram,Nagaland, Kalahandi,Nabarangpur, Berhampur,Koraput, Sikkim, Tripura West,Saharanpur, Kairana,Muzaffarnagar, Bijnor, Meerut,Baghpat, Ghaziabad, GautamBuddh Nagar, Cooch Behar,Alipurduars, Bastar, TehriGarhwal, Garhwal, Almora,Nainital-Udhamsingh Nagar,Hardwar, Lakshadweep andAndaman Nicobar Islands.

Of the States, 20 will votein phase 1: Andhra Pradesh,Arunachal Pradesh, Assam,Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jammu &Kashmir, Maharashtra,Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram,Nagaland, Odisha, Sikkim,Telangana, Tripura, UttarPradesh, Uttarakhand, WestBengal, Andaman & Nicobar,and Lakshadweep.

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From Page 1“The questions would be

whether or not Anil Ambaniaccompanied you on your tourof France. Why did you helpAnil Ambani get a windfallgain of �30,000 crore? Why, asthe French President said, didyou decide to award the con-tract to Anil Ambani instead ofHindustan AeronauticsLimited? You are paying �1,600crore instead of �526 crore forthe aircraft,” Rahul said.

BSP supremo Mayawatiaccused the Prime Minister ofmisleading the country on theRafale deal and demanded anapology from him. In a tweet,Mayawati said, “ModiGovernment’s attempts wereunsuccessful in hiding dis-crepancies/corruption in Rafaledeal in the name of nationalsecurity. The BJP Governmentis trapped in the SC.”

“PM Modi should apolo-gise for repeatedly lying inside

and outside Parliament andmisleading the country and theDefence Minister shouldresign,” she said in the tweet.

Reacting to the develop-ment, CPI(M) general secretarySitaram Yechury alleged thatthe Government has compro-mised on national security.“Modi and his Governmenthave compromised nationalsecurity for corruption andcronyism in an importantdefence deal. They tried toevade accountability, denied aJPC, hid price from CAG, triedto first mislead, then stall anyhearing in Supreme Court.Important that culprits arebooked,” he said on Twitter.

“Modi and his minionshave falsely claimed that theyhave a ‘clean chit’ in the Rafalescam. But the proofs havecome tumbling out one afteranother. It has been the mostcorrupt and most compro-mised Government in India’shistory. Now is the time tothrow it out,” he said.

Former Union MinisterArun Shourie, one of the reviewpetitioners in the Rafale case, saidhe was delighted by the unani-

mous verdict of the SupremeCourt dismissing Centre’s “pecu-liar argument” on admissibilityof privileged documents. “We aredelighted it is an unanimous ver-dict dismissing CentralGovernment’s peculiar argu-ment on admissibility of docu-ments. Centre’s argument meantno wrong can be done in thedefence deal,” he told PTI.

Shourie is one of the reviewpetitioners along with formerUnion Minister Yashwant Sinhaand activist advocate PrashantBhushan. CPI leader D Raja wel-comed the Supreme Court orderallowing leaked documents to berelied upon by petitioners seek-ing review of its Rafale judg-ment, saying the order was a“setback” for the BJP-led NDAGovernment at the Centre.

“It is a setback and a slap inthe face for the Government.The court has rejected theGovernment’s argument. Andnow what is the answer fromMr (Narendra) Modi and MrArun Jaitley who were referringto Supreme Court all the timeon the clean chit,” he told PTI.“The truth has to be found out,”he added.

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From Page 1Khan said action was taken

because it was important forthe future of Pakistan. He alsorejected the impression thatPakistan was compelled by theworld to taken such an action.

Tensions flared up betweenIndia and Pakistan after a sui-cide bomber of Pakistan-basedJaish-e-Muhammed (JeM)killed 40 CRPF personnel inKashmir’s Pulwama district onFebruary 14.

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New Delhi: The SupremeCourt Collegium has recom-mended names of five judgesfor appointment as ChiefJustices in Rajasthan, Kerala,Meghalaya, Andhra Pradeshand Chhattisgarh High Courts.

The five names are —Delhi High Court Judge JusticeS Ravindra Bhat, Kerala High Court Judge Justice PRRamachandra Menon, Punjaband Haryana High Court JudgeJustice A K Mittal, AllahabadHigh Court Judge JusticeVikram Nath and BombayHigh Court Judge Justice AS Oka.

The Collegium recom-mended the appointment ofJustice Bhat after noting thatthe office of the Chief Justice of the Rajasthan HighCourt has fallen vacant afterthe recent transfer of JusticePradeep Nandrajog to BombayHigh Court.

PTI

New Delhi: The SupremeCourt dismissed the bail plea ofRJD supremo Lalu Prasad inmulti-crore fodder scam cases.A Bench headed by ChiefJustice Rajan Gogoi said it isnot inclined to enlarge Yadavon bail in the cases.

The bench rejected Yadav’sarguments that he has been injail for 24 months, saying incomparison to the 14-year sen-tence awarded to him 24 monthswas nothing. Senior advocateKapil Sibal, appearing for Yadav,said there were no recoveriesand no demand and the onlymajor offence under which hewas convicted was conspiracy.

The bench said merits ofcase will be decided by the HC.“At present, we are only hearingthe bail appeal,” it said. The CBIhad yesterday vehementlyopposed in the apex court thebail plea of Yadav, saying the ail-ing leader suddenly claimed tobe “fully fit” to undertake polit-ical activities in the upcomingLok Sabha polls. PTI

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From Page 1“The ability of truth to be

recognised by a discerningpublic in the supposedly freemarket place of ideas formsmuch of the basis for the grantof the unquestionable freedomto the Press, including themedia houses,” said JusticeJoseph.

Cautioning that if free-dom is enjoyed by the Presswithout a deep sense of respon-sibility it can weaken democ-racy, Justice Joseph regrettedthat, “In some sections, thereappears to be a disturbingtrend of bias. Controlling busi-ness interests and political alle-giances appear to erode theduty of dispassionate andimpartial purveying of infor-mation.”

The apex court said it willgo ahead with the hearing onthe review petition on the basisof new documents referred bypetitioners.

The CJI pronounced theverdict on his behalf and forJustice SK Kaul. The secondconcurrent judgment was pro-nounced by Justice KM Joseph,who said he agreed with theconclusion of the judgmentwritten by the CJI. The ChiefJustice said Justice Josephagreed with the judgmentdelivered by him but gave dif-ferent reasoning.

The judgment makes itclear that during the hearing ofthe review petition the Benchwill look into not only the ques-tion of pricing of the jet but alsoselection of Indian offset part-

ner of Dassault which manu-factures Rafale. The apex courtsaid it will fix a date for hear-ing review petitions.

Former Union MinisterArun Shourie, who is one of thereview petitioners, said he wasdelighted by the unanimousverdict. “We are delighted it isan unanimous verdict dis-missing Central Government’speculiar argument on admis-sibility of documents. TheCentre’s argument meant thatno wrong can be done in thedefence deal,” Shourie said.

The other two petitionersare former Union MinisterYashwant Sinha and activistadvocate Prashant Bhushan.

On March 14, the apexcourt had reserved verdict onthe preliminary objectionsraised by the Centre on admis-sibility of privileged docu-ments annexed by Sinha,Shourie and Bhushan in theirreview petition.

Classified documents weresourced by the media over theRafale deal. Citing internalreports of the DefenceMinistry, the Hindu hadreported that the DefenceMinistry had objected to par-allel negotiations by theGovernment.

The Centre had claimedprivilege over documents per-taining to the Rafale fighter jetdeal with France and said thosedocuments cannot be consid-ered in evidence as per Section123 of the Indian Evidence Act.

The Centre had contendedthat no one can produce themin the court without the per-mission of the departmentconcerned as those documentsare also protected under theOfficial Secrets Act and theirdisclosure is exempted underthe Right to Information Act asper Section 8(1)(a).

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From Page 1The chief electoral officer

of Madhya Pradesh had toldEC in his report that he wasapprised of the Bhopal andIndore raids several hours afterthey were conducted.

The Department ofRevenue which falls under theMinistry of Finance had onTuesday responded to EC’s“strong advice” asking it to takeenforcement actions based oninformation and actionableintelligence and keep suchactions “neutral, impartial andnon-discriminatory”, sayingthat it was already followingthese practices as per rule.

At the same time, theRevenue Department remind-ed EC of its responsibility toeliminate use of unaccountedmoney in elections.

“We would also like tourge the EC to advise its fieldofficers involved in enforce-ment of the model code of con-duct to take immediateenforcement action at theirend under the election andother appropriate laws, if theycome across any specific infor-mation about use of illicitmoney in electoral processes.They may also, if deemed fit,pass on the information confi-dentially to income-tax depart-ment for taking further neces-sary action,” it said.

To underline that itsactions were neutral, impartialand non-discriminatory, thedepartment said it was actingas and when information wasavailable against anyone, irre-spective of political affiliation.A day after the revenue depart-ment’s “counter-advisory”, EChad met the revenue secretaryand CBDT chairman and askedthem to inform the state chiefelectoral officer concerned ordirector general in charge ofelection expenditure in EC ofall enforcement actions relatedto poll money, soon after theyget underway.

Meanwhile, the I-T depart-ment is also learnt to haveshared some of its findings onthe alleged model code viola-tion in the MP case with EC.

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Aday after they killed a BJPMLA and four policemen

in an ambush in Dantewadaforests of neighbouringChhattisgarh, Maoists struck in Gatta village atEtapalli in Gadchiroli district ofeastern Maharashtra, by injuring two CentralReserve Police Force (CRPF)personnel in an IED explosionon Wednesday.

The incident came on theeve of the first phase of LokSabha elections in Maharashtra,where seven out of the ten LokSabha constituencies inVidarbha region are going topolls on Thursday.

Incidentally, Gadchiroli-Chimur is one of the sevenpoll-bound constituencies.

Though an ImprovisedExplosive Device (IED) explo-sion, the Maoists ambushed ateam of CRPF personnelaccompanying a polling partyin a convoy that was heading toa polling station.

Official sources identifiedthe injured CRPF personnel asSunilkumar Patel andRajukumar Ranjan, both ofwhom are sub-inspectors.

Both the injured CRPFsub-inspectors were rushed toa hospital in Nagpur, wheretheir condition was describedas “stable”.

The Improvised ExplosiveDevice (IED) blast occurred

around 4 pm.The two injured sub-

inspectors were a part of a teamfrom the CRPF’s 191 Battalionthat has been deployed in nax-alite-infested areas of easternMaharashtra for Thursday’sPhase I Lok Sabha elections inthe state.

The Gadchiroli incidentcame a day after BJP’s lone leg-islator from Bastar regionBhima Mandavi and fourpolicemen were killed in ameticulously planned ambushin thick forested area ofDantewada district inChhatisgarh.

The Maoists blew up thevehicle of the 40-year-oldDantewada MLA with an IEDand opened fire at the occu-pants in Shyamagiri hills whenthe MLA’s convoy was headingtowards Kuwakonda fromBacheli area in Dantewada.

The TV visuals of the blastsite showed the mangledremains of the vehicle and agaping hole on the road onwhich it passed before Naxalsblew it up.

The television channelsflashed grisly images of bodyparts strewn along a roadbisecting a forest and a vehiclereduced to a heap of metal. Thepowerful blast left a big craterin the middle of the road.

The attack was describedby the Chhattisgarah policeofficials as a classic case of acomplete intelligence failure.

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The mortal remains of RSSleader, Chandrakant

Sharma, and his Personal secu-rity Officer (PSO), RajinderKumar, killed in a terroristattack inside district hospital onTuesday, were consigned toflames at a historic Chouganparade ground in Kishtwareven as curfew restrictionscontinued for the second con-secutive day on Wednesday.

Situation in the arearemained volatile despite heavypresence of security forces,including army personnel onground zero.

A group of agitated localresidents pelted stones on theoffice of Superintendent ofPolice near Chougan paradeground during the funeral pro-cession. Police had to resort touse of tear smoke shells to dis-perse the crowd.

Deputy Commissioner,Kishtwar Angrez Singh Ranasaid, “the last rites of RSSleader and his body guardwere performed as tension pre-vailed in the area”.

He said the situation wasbrought under control as someprotesters pelted stones afterthe cremation ceremony wasover. He said the army columnsremained deployed in the areaand no major incident of vio-lence was reported in the area.

Earlier, district authoritiesprevented large gathering ofmourners in the area anticipating violence duringthe last rites.

State BJP Chief RavidnerRaina, former deputy Chief

Minister DR Nirmal Singh,senior RSS leaders attended thelast rites and met family mem-bers of RSS leader.

Several senior BJP leadersand local residents were notallowed to proceed towardsChougan by the local authori-ties in the wake of curfewrestrictions.

EX-BJP MLA ShaktiParihar along with his sup-porters was not allowed toproceed towards Kishtwar fromDoda by the district authoritiesand prevented from travellingon the highway. Similarly,Chairman of the DograSwabhimaan Sangathan partyLal Singh was taken in to pre-ventive custody while he toowas moving towards Kishtwarto attend funeral procession ofRSS leader.

Speaking to The Pioneer,state BJP Chief Ravinder Raina

said, “the RSS leader was killeddue to gaping holes in the secu-rity grid in the area”. He saidsecurity lapses lead to the daylight killing of RSS leader insidedistrict hospital premises.

He demanded immediatereview of the security details ofprominent leaders in the regionand appealed to the state gov-ernment to provide elaboratesecurity to the political workers who are on the hit listof terrorists.

Raina said, “For last oneyear it was in the knowledge ofall the security agencies anddistrict administration that ter-rorists from South Kashmirhad infiltrated inside Kishtwarand pictures of 6-7 terroristswere made public recently. Yetthe concerned authorities failedto take corrective steps to pre-vent a daring attack on a RSSleader,” he added.

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Punjab Chief Minister CaptAmarinder Singh on

Wednesday wrote to theElection Commission, seek-ing action against the Prime Minister for “violating the model code ofconduct (MCC)”.

Terming Modi’s speech inMaharashtra, which has beenwidely reported in the media,as “shockingly disgraceful”, theChief Minister said it is “a clearcase of violation of the code ofconduct” and the failure tocheck such instances suggest-ed a bias on the part of the EC.In his letter to CEC SunilArora, Amarinder protestedagainst the PM using the suc-cess of the Balakot air strikes bythe IAF and the sacrifice of themartyrs of the Pulwama attacksto woo first-time voters.

“That a person of the PM’sstature should indulge in suchshameful acts makes a mock-ery of the democratic processand undermines the indepen-dence of the ElectionCommission as well as thearmed forces,” the CM wrote.

In another letter, thePunjab CM urged the CEC toreview the ElectionCommission order relievingIGP Kunwar Vijay Pratap Singhas member of the SIT probingthe Bagari firing incident.

The Chief Minister said theSIT, including Vijay Pratap,was carrying out its legal man-date of fair and transparentinvestigation, which was anongoing statutory processunder the Code of Criminal

Procedure (CrPC) and wasnot affected by the Model Codeof Conduct.

The EC order of April 5,transferring the IG out of theSIT, constituted an interferencein the ongoing investigation asalso an implied conflict withthe findings of the judgment ofthe High Court dated January25, 2019, which had rejectedthe political allegations againstthe SIT’s composition and itsmanner of investigation. TheIG’s interview in question,when viewed in the right per-spective, was clearly not inbreach of the Model Code ofConduct, not politically moti-vated and made no politicalcomment, he wrote in his let-ter. “Rather, despite pointedpolitical questions, Kuwar VijayPratap has in fact, specificallydeclined from answering suchquestions,” he added.

New Delhi: Defending themove to impose restrictions onthe national highway connect-ing Kashmir Valley with therest of the country, the UnionHome Ministry on Wednesdaysaid that the step has beentaken to ensure safe movementof forces and it will be contin-ued only till May 31.

In a statement, the ministrysaid a “deliberate and mischie-vous disinformation” beingspread about the recentlyimposed traffic restrictions onthe national highway connectingJammu with the Kashmir Valley.

“The State Government ofJammu & Kashmir has alreadyclarified in unambiguousterms, that out of seven days ina week, only reasonable restric-tions have been imposed, thattoo for 12 hours, two days in aweek. This has been done toensure safe movement of forcesand at the same time min-imising the inconvenience topublic,” it stated.

The total duration of pro-hibition is for 24 hours out of168 hours in a week, whichamounts to only 15 per cent ofthe time, it added.

“While regulations formovement of civilian trafficwere already in place duringconvoy movement, the StateGovernment has now come outwith a planned movement ofsecurity forces on the nationalhighway for a short duration —up to May 31, 2019,” the state-ment read. PNS

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The Congress on Wednesdaylost no time in hitting out

at Prime Minister NarendraModi following the SupremeCourt’s interim order on theRafale matter saying it hasblown the lid off his “lies”. Italso termed it as the first steptowards justice with the lastbeing a Joint ParliamentaryCommittee probe.

Congress chief spokesper-son Randeep Surjewala said thelayers of corruption in theRafale fighter aircraft deal arenow out in the open and thatjustice will be done as thePrime Minister can no longerhide behind the veil of “officialsecrets act”.

The SC allowed “leaked”documents to be relied upon bypetitioners seeking review of itsRafale judgement and dis-missed the government’s pre-liminary objections claiming“privilege” over them.

“The layers of corruptionin the Rafale scam are now outin the open. The entire struc-ture of lies built by PM is in tat-ters. Prime Minister Modi usedto hide behind a self-pro-nounced clean chit by theSupreme Court. But, today theSupreme Court has demol-ished that lie of clean chit of the

prime minister also. To hide thelies of Rafale, Modi-ji spoke ahundred lies, but, truth hasfinally caught up with himand the truth is that ‘chowkidarchor hai’,” he told reporters.

Addressing a Press confer-ence, he said the source of thedocument will not be seenand the evidentiary value of thedocument will be seen.

“The evidentiary value ofthe document is that there isblatant theft, blatant violationof procedure, blatant corrup-tion and compromising nation-al interest in the entire Rafaledeal, something that the PrimeMinister sought to hide andnow that clean chit has beenblown away.

“The Supreme Court hastaken the first step. First step inthe justice towards Rafale anda Joint ParliamentaryCommittee would be the finalstep. It is now clear that the firststep of justice has been takenand now justice will be done,”he said.

He said these documentsprove corruption, violation ofprocedures and that Modihimself was negotiating thedeal which compromisednational security and causedloss to exchequer. “ I thinkthat’s a great victory as a firststep to justice,” Surjewala said.

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The Election Commission(EC) has issued a show

cause notice to Telangana ChiefMinister K ChandrashekharRao, finding him prima facieguilty of allegedly passingderogatory remarks againstHindus while addressing anelection rally in Karimnagarlast month.

Now, he has been asked tofurnish his reply by April 12evening, failing which theCommission will take a deci-sion “without any further ref-erence to you”. TheCommission said VHP statepresident M Rama Raju had

filed a complaint whichclaimed that the TelanganaRashtra Samithi chief “tried tosecure votes by passing deroga-tory remarks against Hinduswhile addressing an electionrally at Karimnagar on March17”.

The Commission has pro-duced his remarks in Telugubut did not give English trans-lation of the same. “... TheCommission is, prima facie, ofthe opinion that by making theaforesaid statement which hasthe potential of disturbing har-mony and aggravating existingdifferences between social andreligious communities, andappealing to communal feel-

ings, you have violated the ...The Model Code of Conduct,”the notice served Tuesday said.

The poll panel remindedRao of the provision of the pollcode which states that no partyor candidate shall indulge inany activity which may aggra-vate existing differences or cre-ate mutual hatred or causetension between different castesand communities, religious orlinguistic; and prohibits appealto communal feelings for secur-ing votes.

The model code came intoforce on March 10 when theschedule for the seven-phasedLok Sabha elections wasannounced.

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The Trinamool Congress onWednesday accused the

Election Commission of biasand dubbed it a “nikammaCommission” even as it sub-mitted a memorandum to thepoll body against transfers oftop police officers in WestBengal just before the firstphase of voting in the LokSabha elections.

Party leaders Derek

O’Brien, Sukhendu Sekhar Rayand Dr Chandan Mitra sub-mitted a nine-point memo-randum protesting what theycalled was “EC bias”. In thememorandum, the TMC saidthe removal of Kolkata PoliceCommissioner Anuj Sharmaalong with those of BidhanNagar Police CommissionerGyanwant Singh, Birbhum SPShyam Singh, DiamondHarbour SP S Selvamuruganand Airport Division DCPAvaru Rabindranath, have beeneffected “without followingproper procedure”.

“People are sayingNirvachan Commission has

become ‘nikammaCommission’. Enough isenough.

Transfers of good, honestsenior police officers of Bengalare being decided by a traitorwho now works out of the BJPCentral office in Kolkata,” saidDerek, indicating the hand offormer TMC MP Mukul Roy,who is now in the BJP, in theremoval of the Cooch BeharSuperintendent of PoliceAbhishek Gupta by the pollbody on April 9.

“In this case, we haveobserved that the transferswere made soon after com-plaints were made and instruc-

tions issued by BJP leaders whopublicly claimed” that suchactions were taken by the ECI at the initiative of theirparty, the memorandumalleged.

Earlier, in a letter to thechief election commissioneron Tuesday, the TMC hadalleged that Gupta’s transfer was“arbitrary, motivated andbiased” and claimed the pollbody was taking instructionsfrom BJP leaders. West BengalChief Minister MamataBanerjee had alleged that theelectoral body was working atthe behest of the ruling partyat the Centre.

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Hailing the SupremeCourt’s order in the

Rafale case, the Left parties onWednesday said the ModiGovernment faced a big set-back and “truth is slowly com-ing out” in the dubious deal tofavour “discredited” industri-alist Anil Ambani. Hittingout at the NDA Government,CPI(M) general secretarySitaram Yechury claimed itwas clear that the Governmenthad concealed many truths asfar as the deal was concerned.

“This (apex court order)the Government of India, theModi Government, hopedwill not happen, “ Yechurytold reporters at Coimbatore.Quoting Modi’s words thatresults of Balakot air strikecould have been different ifthe Indian Air Force had theRafale fighter jets, Yechuryasked what was the reason forit, “because you (Modi) rene-gotiated the deal, by overrid-

ing officials and multi-min-isterial committees”.

“There is a very, very bigscam involved in the deal.Why did you renegotiate thedeal Mr Modi, because therewas a massive degree of cor-ruption in this deal,” he said.

CPI leader D Raja wel-comed the Supreme Courtorder allowing leaked docu-ments to be relied upon bypetitioners seeking review ofits Rafale judgment, saying theorder was a “setback” for theBJP-led NDA Government atthe Centre. The CPI nationalsecretary said the “truth has tobe found out now”.

“It is a setback and a slapin the face for theGovernment. The court hasrejected the Government’sargument. And now what isthe answer from Mr(Narendra) Modi and MrArun Jaitley who were refer-ring to Supreme Court all thetime on the clean chit,” hesaid.

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Adopting an aggressivestance, Defence Minister

Nirmala Sitharaman hit out atCongress chief Rahul Gandhifor comments hailing theSupreme Court order on theRafale deal case on Wednesdayand said his remarks amount-ed to contempt of court as hehad misquoted the apex court.Reacting to the top court’sorder, the defence ministrysaid petitioners in the Rafalecase are using certain docu-ments with the intention topresent a “selective and incom-plete picture” of internal secretdeliberations relating to nation-al security.

Maintaining that theSupreme Court order was lim-ited to whether it should con-sider the documents the gov-ernment said were illegallyobtained by petitioners, thedefence minister said “RahulGandhi has completely showedhis frustration by saying whatthe court had not said.”

Her sharp comments camewhen Rahul Gandhi said afterthe Supreme Court order “the

entire country is saying thatChowkidar has committedtheft. It is a day of celebrationthat the Supreme Court hastalked about justice.” His partytook a dig that that an investi-gation is going to take placenow, whether Prime MinisterNarendra Modi “likes it or not.”

Rejecting his contention,Sitharaman also said “theCongress president probablydoesn’t read even half a para-graph of the court’s order, buthere, saying the court has said‘chowkidaar chor hai’ it is verg-ing on contempt of court... Hemay be brazen enough to claimwhat he claims without anyproof, but today what he said

was gross contempt of court.” Meanwhile, the defence

ministry in a statement said, “Itis reiterated that the petition-ers are using documents withthe intention to present a selec-tive and incomplete picture ofinternal secret deliberationson a matter relating to nation-al security and defence.”

The statement also said thedocuments presented by thepetitioners are failing to bringout how the issues wereaddressed and resolved andnecessary approvals of thecompetent authorities taken.

“These are selective andincomplete presentation of thefacts and records by the peti-tioners,” the ministry said.

The defence ministry fur-ther said the government pro-vided the requisite informationas desired by the SupremeCourt and also to the peti-tioners as per directions of thecourt. “The government alsoprovided all records and files asrequired by CAG. The mainconcern of the government isrelating to availability of sen-sitive and classified informa-tion concerning national secu-

rity in public domain,” it added.The Supreme Court by a well-reasoned judgement and orderdated December 14, 2018 hadalready dismissed the WritPetitions, the statement said.

This reaction by the gov-ernment came in the backdropof classified documentssourced by the media regard-ing the Rs 59,000 crore deal for36 Rafale fighter jets to bebrought from France througha government to governmentdeal.

Citing internal reports ofthe Defence Ministry, TheHindu daily had come outwith a series of stories includ-ing one on how the DefenceMinistry had objected to par-allel negotiations carried out bythe Prime Minister’s Office.Referring to these sensitivedocuments, the petitioners inthe case had sought a review ofthe Supreme Court’s December14 order in the case. TheCentre had claimed privilegeover the documents pertainingto the deal and said thosedocuments cannot be consid-ered in evidence as per Section123 of the Indian Evidence Act.

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The Supreme Court onWednesday held that the

publication of three docu-ments by ‘The Hindu’ on theRafale jet deal, on which theCentre had raised preliminaryobjections claiming “privilege”over them, were in conso-nance with the constitutionalguarantee of freedom ofspeech.

The SC further said that thepublication of the documents inthe newspaper reminded it of itsvarious judgments upholdingthe freedom of the press whichhave also been echoed by theUS Supreme Court from timeto time.

In the famous case of NewYork Times Company vs UnitedStates relating to the publicationof the “Pentagon Papers”, whichcontained information aboutthe political and militaryinvolvement of the federal gov-ernment in the Vietnam War,

the US Supreme Court hadrefused to recognise a right inthe executive government toseek a restraint order or publi-cation of the papers.

The judgment penned byChief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, onbehalf of himself and Justice SK Kaul who were part of thethree judge-bench deliveringthe verdict, said the apex courtof the United States hadrefused to recognise the rightof the Government to restrainpublication primarily on theground that the FirstAmendment guaranteed free-dom of the press and the USCode did not contemplate anyrestriction on publication ofitems or material specified inthe Code.

“By a majority of 6:3, theUS Supreme Court haddeclined to pass prohibitoryorders on publication of the“Pentagon Papers” on theground that the Congress itselfnot having vested any such

power in the executive, whichit could have so done, thecourts cannot carve out such ajurisdiction as the same mayamount to unauthorized judi-cial law making thereby vio-lating the sacred doctrine ofseparation of powers,” the CJIsaid.

The top court said theprinciple of law depicted in the“Pentagon Papers” case wouldapply to the facts of the Rafalecase.

“There is no provision inthe Official Secrets Act and nosuch provision in any otherstatute has been brought to ournotice by which Parliament hasvested any power in the exec-utive arm of the governmenteither to restrain publication ofdocuments marked as secret orfrom placing such documentsbefore a court of law whichmay have been called upon toadjudicate a legal issue con-cerning the parties,” the CJIsaid.

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Finance Minister Arun Jaitleyon Wednesday said the

Supreme Court’s decision toallow leaked documents to berelied upon by petitioners inthe Rafale case is “at best pro-cedural”.

In a series of tweets, Jaitleysaid the Comptroller andAuditor General (CAG) hasalready cleared the deal and apetition seeking review of theearlier judgement of theSupreme Court is pending.

“All that the court hastoday said is that even a wrong-ly procured document can beconsidered for review. Theissue which delights the belea-guered opposition is at best‘procedural’,” Jaitley said.

The Supreme CourtWednesday allowed leakeddocuments to be relied upon bypetitioners seeking review of itsRafale judgement and dis-

missed the Government’s pre-liminary objections claiming“privilege” over them.

The Centre had submittedthat privileged documents wereprocured by petitioners in anillegal way and used to supporttheir review petitions againstthe December 14, 2018 judge-ment of the apex court dis-missing all pleas challengingprocurement of 36 Rafale fight-er jets from France.

Commenting on theSupreme Court order, Congresssaid the it has blown the lid offthe “lies” of Prime Minister

Narendra Modi on the Rafaledeal, and termed it as the firststep towards justice.

Earlier in December, athree-judge bench of theSupreme Court had dismissedall Public Interest Litigations(PILs) against the deal betweenIndia and France for procure-ment of 36 Rafale fighter jets,saying there was no occasion to“really doubt the decision mak-ing process” warranting settingaside of the contract.

The top court Wednesdaysaid that review petitionsagainst its December 14 verdictdismissing all petitions againstprocurement of Rafale jets willbe decided on merit. The courtsaid it will fix a date for hear-ing review petitions.

The Rafale fighter is atwin-engine Medium MultiRole Combat Aircraft(MMRCA) manufactured byFrench aerospace companyDassault Aviation.

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Former Union Minister ArunShourie, one of the review

petitioners in the Rafale case,Wednesday said he was delight-ed by the unanimous verdict ofthe Supreme Court dismissingCentre’s “peculiar argument”on admissibility of privilegeddocuments.

The apex court onWednesday dismissed prelim-inary objections raised by theCentre that documents onwhich claimed”privilege” can-not be relied upon to re-exam-ine the verdict in the Rafalefighter jet deal with France.

“We are delighted it is anunanimous verdict dismissingCentral Government’s peculiarargument on admissibility ofdocuments. Centre’s argumentmeant no wrong can be donein the defence deal,” he toldPTI. Shourie is one of thereview petitioners along withformer Union MinisterYashwant Sinha and activistadvocate Prashant Bhushan.

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The Election Commission(EC) on Wednesday direct-

ed Doordarshan to “desist”from extending any preferen-tial or disproportionate airtimecoverage in favour of any party.In a strongly-worded letter toSecretary, Information andBroadcasting Ministry, the ECsaid, “Would like you (secy) todirect the DD news channel todesist from extending any pref-erential or disproportionateairtime coverage in favour ofany party and extend com-mensurate and balanced cov-erage of the activities of allrecognised political parties...”

The EC had recently issueda show cause notice to DDnews for showing PrimeMinister Narendra Modi’s‘Main Bhi Chowkidar’ pro-gramme for nearly one hourafter opposition parties com-plained that the nationalbroadcaster was being biased.

In its reply, DD news hadreportedly said the BJP getsmaximum time on its newsslot, followed by the Congresssince the Lok Sabha polls wereannounced.

“It was noted from thereport that the airtime cover-age given to various politicalparties is disproportionateand not balanced, which is notin accordance with the princi-ple of maintaining neutralityand a level playing field, espe-cially in the context of the pro-visions of MCC,” the EC said.

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5�������������$������ $�� ��)���New Delhi: The Centre and theEC took contrary stands in theSupreme Court on Wednesdayover political funding with thegovernment wanting to maintainanonymity of the donors of elec-toral bonds and the poll panelbatting for revealing the namesof donors for transparency.

The top court was hearingthe plea of NGO, Associationof Democratic Reforms (ADR)’,which has sought interimreliefs that either the issuanceof electoral bonds be stayed orthe names of the donors bemade public to ensure trans-parency in the poll process.

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The Opposition onWednesday latched on to

Pakistan Prime Minister ImranKhan’s remarks that there maybe a better chance of Indo-Pakpeace talks and settling of theKashmir issue if the BJP isvoted back to power to targetPrime Minister NarendraModi. It said a vote for Modi isa vote for Pakistan.

In a scathing attack, theCongress said Khan’s remarksreflect that Pakistan has “offi-cially allied” with Modi. Duringan interaction with a smallgroup of foreign journalists inIslamabad, Khan had said hebelieves there may be a betterchance of peace talks withIndia and settling the Kashmirissue if Modi’s party BJP winsthe general elections. Khansaid other parties would beafraid of right-wing backlash incase of a settlement on theKashmir issue. Congress’s chief

spokesperson RandeepSurjewala launched a blisteringattack on Modi over Khan’scomments.

“Pak has officially alliedwith Modi! A vote for Modi isa vote for Pakistan!” Surjewalatweeted. “Modi ji, first therewas love for Nawaz Sharif andnow Imran Khan is your dearfriend,” he added in a tweet inHindi.

The truth is out in theopen, Surjewala claimed.

Prime Minister Modi hasbeen accusing the Congress ofbeing supportive of Pakistan’snarrative following the Balakotair strikes. He has alsoslammed opposition leadersfor asking questions on thestrike, saying such statementswere helping Pakistan.

For his part, CPI(M)General Secretary SitaramYechury said now it was knownwho Pakistan wants as PM.

“Pakistan has been the onlyissue of Modi’s election cam-

paign, where he has scur-rilously tried to link it to oppo-sition. Now we know whoPakistan actually wants as PM,the only Indian PM to haveinvited ISI to a military base,and the only one who went toPakistan uninvited,” he said.

“We have serious concernsabout foreign governmentsinfluencing our democraticelection process. Last year, itwas reported that ISI wantsModi as PM. Now PakistaniPM says it,” Yechury said.

Aam Aadmi Party con-venor and Delhi Chief MinisterArvind Kejriwal also seized onKhan’s remarks, saying if Modiwins in the general election,crackers will be burst inPakistan.

“Why does Pakistan wantModi ji to win. Modi ji shouldtell the country how deep arehis relations with Pakistan. AllIndians should know that ifModi wins, crackers will beburst in Pakistan,” he said.

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The National InvestigationAgency (NIA) on

Wednesday arrested YasinMalik, chief of banned terrorgroup Jammu & KashmirLiberation Front (JKLF), inconnection with the J&K terrorfunding case.

Malik was on Tuesdaynight brought on a productionwarrant from Kot Bhalwal Jail,Jammu, where he has beendetained under Public SafetyAct, and produced before theNIA Special Court here. TheNIA court has granted 13-dayNIA custody of Malik.

JKLF is also a constituentof All Party HurriyatConference (APHC) whoseleaders are also under probe inthe terror funding case. He willnow be produced before theNIA Special Court, PatialaHouse Court, here on April 22.

The NIA special courtgranted Malik’s custody afterthe agency sought his custodi-al interrogation for 15 days inconnection with a case relatedto funding of separatists andterror groups in Jammu and

Kashmir. Malik was producedbefore special judge RakeshSyal where the NIA arrestedhim inside the courtroom andthe proceedings in the casewere heard in-camera.

During the custodial inter-rogation, Malik will be facingquestions from the NIA relat-ed to funding of his organisa-tion. The Jammu & KashmirHigh Court has reserved itsjudgment on a plea of the CBIfor reopening three-decade-old cases in which Malik wasan accused.

Malik is facing charges ofabduction and murder forbeing allegedly involved inabducting Rubaiya Sayeed,daughter of then Union HomeMinister Mufti MohammadSayeed in 1989, and killing offour Indian Air Force person-nel in the early part of 1990.

NIA had approached aspecial court in Jammu, seek-ing Malik’s remand for custo-dial interrogation in the terror-funding case. The NIA probeseeks to identify the chain ofplayers including the layers offinancing and their connectionwith terrorist activities, pelting

of stones on security forces,burning down of schools anddamaging of governmentestablishments in J&K.

The terror funding case hasalso named Lashkar-e-Tayyabachief Hafiz Saeed who alleged-ly funded the separatists in theKashmir Valley through hisfrontal organization Jamaat-ud-Dawah.

The NIA has also namedorganisations like HurriyatConference factions led bySyed Ali Shah Geelani andMirwaiz Umar Farooq, anoth-er Pakistan-based terror groupHizbul Mujahideen and theDukhtaran-e-Millat led byAsiya Andrabi.

The case was registeredon May 30, 2017 for raising,receiving and collecting fundsthrough various illegal means,including hawala transactions,for funding separatist and ter-rorist activities in Jammu &Kashmir and for causing dis-ruption in the Valley by way ofpelting stones on the securityforces, burning down schools,damaging public property andwaging war against India,according to the NIA FIR.

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PNS n LUCKNOW

Prestige of three Union min-isters will be at stake in the

first phase election to eight par-liamentary constituencies inwestern UP that go to polls onApril 11, as caste arithmetic isin favour of the SP-BSP-RLDalliance which is ready to upsetthe applecart of the ruling BJPin Uttar Pradesh.

The three Union Ministersin the fray are General(Retired) VK Singh(Ghaziabad), Mahesh Sharma(Gautam Buddha Nagar) andSatyapal Singh (Baghpat).

RLD chief Ajit Singh andhis son Jayant Chaudhary arealso fighting to sustain thelegacy of late Prime MinisterChaudhary Charan Singh andboth are in direct contest withthe BJP, with a Jat versus Jatfight in their constituencies.

Congress, which is con-testing six seats in this region,has not fielded candidatesagainst Ajit Singh inMuzaffarnagar and JayantChaudhary in Baghpat.

The BJP is banking on theloyalty of the upper caste vot-ers, who have traditionallysupported it. The party hasfielded four upper caste candi-dates in this phase — VKSingh, Mahesh Sharma, RaghavLakhanpal (Saharanpur) andRajendra Agarwal (Meerut).

The non-upper casteHindus are the most sought

after vote bank for both the BJPand the Opposition alliance. Inthe 2014 Lok Sabha electionand the 2017 UP Assemblypoll, a large section of this basehad shifted to the BJP. Jats andGujjars make up most of theOBC population in these con-stituencies — on an average,over 20 per cent.

According to data, theGujjars and Jats constitute 38per cent of the population inBaghpat, with the latter mak-ing up 23.8 per cent of it. Jatsalso make up 12 per cent of thepopulation in Muzaffarnagarand 10.8 per cent in Bijnor.

While the Jats are concen-trated in a few constituencies inthis region, the Gujjar popula-tion is evenly scattered —around seven per cent inKairana, 6.5 per cent inGautam Buddha Nagar, 5.5per cent each in Meerut,Saharanpur and Ghaziabad,and six per cent in Bijnor.

The Muslim vote bank,around 38 per cent inSaharanpur, stands a chance ofgetting divided betweenCongress’ Imran Masood andalliance candidate Hazi FazlurRehman, fighting on a BSPticket. Masood was runner-upin the 2014 Lok Sabha election.

Muslims make up 32 percent of the vote bank in Bijnor,31 per cent each in Meerut andMuzaffarnagar, 26 per cent inKairana, 20 per cent inBaghpat, 18.5 per cent in

Ghaziabad, and roughly 14per cent in GB Nagar.

The Scheduled Castes in theregion comprise Chamar orJatav community. They rangefrom nine per cent in Kairanato nearly 17 per cent of the total20 per cent Dalits in Saharanpur.

Traditionally, this sectionhas voted for the BSP. But, theBJP has made a big dent in thissegment in the 2014 parliamen-tary and 2017 assembly polls.

In Baghpat andMuzaffarnagar, the Jat-OBCfactor will be the most decisiveone. Ajit Singh, a Jat by caste,is the alliance candidate fromMuzaffarnagar and will be upagainst BJP MP SanjeevBaliyan, who is a prominent Jatleader. Jayant Chaudhary isthe alliance candidate fromBaghpat and will fight againstanother Jat, Union MinisterSatyapal Singh.

In Meerut, the oppositionalliance has fielded Haji YakoobQureshi. While the sitting BJPMP can expect 25 per cent ofthe upper caste votes, the win-ning candidate will have to geta bigger chunk of OBC andDalit votes (14 per cent-plusChamar vote in this segment).

In GB Nagar andGhaziabad, the OBC-Dalitcombination will play a decisiverole as well. Although thealliance has not fielded well-known faces from these seats,the caste and political equationwill matter the most.

S U S N UP n KOLKATA

Considering the experienceof a bloody past an edgy

lull descended over the two dis-tricts of — Alipurduar andCooch Behar — even as thesetwo North Bengal constituen-cies go to the first phase of pollson Thursday.

Notwithstanding, theElection Commission made aheavy security bandobastdeploying about 83 compa-nies of Central forces to man2010 booths in Cooch Beharand 1,834 polling stations inAlipurduar seat.

Much to the chagrin of theOpposition Left, BJP and theCongress the Commission hadearmarked 1253 booths ofCooch Behar as sensitive post-ing CAPF in these areas. Theremaining 757 booths will bemanned by armed State police.Incidentally controversy haderupted after the ruling TMCregistered a strong protest at theECI office in Delhi after theCommission changed local SPA Gupta 48 hours before thepolls were to start replacinghim by AK Gupta a 2019 batchIPS officer.

For Alipurduar the ECIhas marked 544 booths as sen-sitive where CAPF will beposted while polls will be con-ducted in the remaining 1290booths with the help of Statearmed police, sources said.

Both the constituencies arewitnessing a four corneredcontest between the TMC, BJP,Left and the Congress.

“A total of 83 companies ofCAPF will be deployed in thetwo seats for the first phase ofpolling. State police force willalso be deployed in adequatenumbers,” ECI police observ-er Vivek Dubey said. Dubeyhad earlier decided to conductthe polls from Kolkata but onWednesday he decided to con-duct the polls from CoochBehar, sources said.

“We are trying to accom-modate the central forces in asmany booths as possible,” hesaid adding about 45 companiesof CAPF personnel will bedeployed in the sensitive boothsof Cooch Behar. One companywill be in the district strongroom and another will be withthe Quick Response Team.

Dubey said 36 companieswould be deployed inAlipurduar, a relatively peace-ful constituency. Meanwhile,election officials continued toprotest throughout the Statedemanding deployment ofCRPF in all the booths toavoid violent situations as in therecent past.

P isthe third biggestphase in termsof Lok Sabhaseats

Phase Thereare 1,70,000polling booths in20 States andUnion Territories

Phase 14crore 20 lakhand 54 thousandpeople would becasting votes

Phase In Nizamabad, over 170 farmers want K Kavitha defeated. With the constituency having185 candidates in the fray, the ElectionCommission had to make special arrangementsfor EVMs that can carry 185 candidates

Phase I There are close to three lakh Dalits, sixlakh Muslims in Saharanpur Constituency. Theresult will depend on the division of Muslimvotes. Both Yogi and mahagathbandhan startedcampaign from Sahranpur

In a first The Electronic Voting Machines(EVM) and postal ballot papers would forthe first time carry the photograph of allthe candidates to help voters identify thepolitical leaders in the fray

In the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, Voter-verified Paper Audit Trails (VVPATs)were used in eight constituencies.This time, VVPATs will be used in allthe constituencies

Prestige of 3 Ministers AT STAKE IN UP

Agrarian crisis, farmers’ suicide to affect BJP-Sena

TN A UNAT A n MUMBAI

Union Road Transport andShipping Minister and

senior BJP leader Nitin Gadkariis sitting pretty in the orangecity of Nagpur, as seven LokSabha constituencies inVidarbha region — a majorityof them falling in the farmers’suicide belt of easternMaharashtra — go to polls onThursday.

Unlike in the 2014 LokSabha polls when he was fight-ing his first direct electionafter a gap of 29 years (he hadbeen defeated by the Congress’Gev M Awari of the Congressby a margin of 21,552 votesfrom Nagpur (west) con-stituency in the 1985Maharashtra Assembly polls),Gadkari is quite relaxed as he

seeks re-election from NagpurLok Sabha constituency.

Riding as he is on the backof the considerable goodwillthat the newly inauguratedfirst phase of the Nagpur Metroand other development worksthat have fetched him in hishome city, sixty-one-year-oldGadkari takes on former BJPMP from Bhandara-Gondiyaconstituency Nana Patole.

A bitter Narendra Modicritic, Patole had quit the prin-cipal ruling party at the Centrein December 2017 and joinedthe Congress in January lastyear. A name to reckon with inhis own right, Patole is con-sidered an outsider in Nagpur.

Though Congress presi-dent Rahul Gandhi drew ahuge crowd at his public rallyin Nagpur on April 4, Gadkarihas a distinct edge over Patoleof the Congress. Patole, it maybe recalled, had contested the2014 Lok Sabha polls on a BJPticket and trounced then UnionMinister Praful Patel by149,254 votes.

Gadkari is extremely pop-ular among various sections ofpeople in Nagpur. A Brahminby caste, Gadkari has followingamong various strata of thesociety, including sections ofMuslims and Dalits.

Apart from Gadkari beingthe BJP’s former national pres-ident, what has turned thespotlight on Nagpur is the factthat the orange city houses theheadquarters of RSS, withwhich he is closely associated,and the possibility that hemight emerge as a consensualPrime Ministerial candidatein the event of the 2019 polls

throwing up a hung house andthe BJP emerging as the singlelargest party in Lok Sabha.

Gadkari had won theNagpur Lok Sabha seat in the2014 polls by an impressivemargin of 2,84,848 votes againstVilas Muttemwar of theCongress. The BJP captured allthe six seats coming under theNagpur Lok Sabha constituency,in the 2014 MaharashtraAssembly polls. Interestingly,Maharashtra chief ministerDevendra Fadnavis is a four-timeMLA from Nagpur. (He had rep-resented Nagpur west con-stituency in the State Assemblyfrom 1999 to 2009 and was elect-ed from Nagpur south-west con-stituency in the 2009 and 2014Assembly elections).

Interestingly, Gadkari hasgone on record saying that hehas been getting phone callsfrom workers and leaders ofnon-leaders pledging supportto him.

Apart from Gadkari,Thursday’s polls will decide thefate of Union Minister of State

Hansraj Ahir (Chandrapur),former State unit Congresspresident Manikrao Thakare(Yavatmal-Washim) and ShivSena’s four-term MP BhavnaGavali (Yavatmal-Washim).

PNS n NAGPUR

The agrarian distress,unabated suicides and mas-

sive unemployment is likely toaffect the electoral prospects ofthe ruling BJP-Shiv Senaalliance in at least seven out ofthe ten Lok Sabha constituen-cies in Vidarbha region.

Similarly, the issue relatingto the State Government’s fail-ure to waive farm loans of evenhalf the affected farmers — willmatters difficult for the BJP-Shiv Sena Government in allrural areas of the State.

Seven out of the ten LokSabha constituencies inVidarbha — Wardha, Ramtek(SC), Nagpur, Bhandara-Gondiya, Gadchiroli-Chimur(ST), Chandrapur andYavatmal-Washim — are goingto polls in the first phase inMaharashtra on Thursday. Thethree remaining constituen-cies — Buldhana, Akola andAmravati — will go to polls onApril 18.

The severity of the agrari-an crisis in Vidarbha and neigh-

bouring Marathwada regionshould be seen in the context ofthe unabated farmers’ suicidesand poor implementation of thefarm loan waiver schemeannounced by the BJP-led saf-fron alliance Government in thestate. The available official sta-tistics revealed that the fouryears from 6268 in 2015 to11,995 in 2018.

The reply obtained by RTIactivist Jeetendra Ghadgerevealed recently that Amravati

revenue division — comprisingdistricts of Akola, Amravati,Buldhana, Washim andYavatmal in eastern Maharashtra— accounted for a maximum of4,383 out of the total 5,727farmers’ suicides reported fromacross the State between 2014and 2018.

In the first three months of2019, as many as 35o farmershave committed suicides in var-ious parts of the state. “Unlikein the past when Yavatmal used

to be the epi-centre of farmers’suicides, there is a shift in thescenario. It is the neighbouringAkola district that has account-ed for a maximum 102 farmers’suicides during the last threemonths. Suicides by the dis-tressed farmers have also beenreported from districts likeAmravati, Yavatmal in Vidarbhaand most parts of the neigh-bouring Marathwada region,”leading farm activist andVasantrao Naik ShetiSwavlamban Mission (VNSSM)chairman Kishor Tiwari says.

Another major issue that isbound to go against the BJP-ledsaffron alliance governmentin Maharashtra is the patheti-cally poor implementation ofthe Rs 34,022 crore loan waiv-er scheme “Chhatrapati ShivajiMaharaj Krishi SammanYojana” which it announced onJune 4 2017.

Under the waiver scheme,the Maharashtra governmentwas to waive the apiculturalloans 89 lakh farmers. Of them,early 40 lakh farmers wereexpected to become totally debt-

free, a situation that wouldhave facilitated them to takefresh loans from banks. Of thetotal beneficiaries under thescheme, a total 36.10 lakh farm-ers were eligible for a financialassistance of Rs 1.50 lakh eachto clear their piled up loans.

Known once as a pocket-borough of the Congress,Vidarbha region has in the lastdecade or so become volatile interms of mood swings of the vot-ers towards political partis andtheir candidates. If the 1998 LokSabha polls — held a year priorto the split of the Congress andformation of the NCP — saw theSonia Gandhi-led party sweepthe Vidarbha region by baggingall the eleven seats, the 1999 pollsproduced mixed results, with theSena-BJP alliance winning sixout 11 seats and the Congress—contesting in alliance withPrakash Ambaedkar-led BBM—securing the remaining fiveseats. The then fledgling NCP,which made an electoral debutand contested the 1999 polls onits own strength, drew a blankin Vidarbha region.

GADKARI sitting pretty in NAGPUR

Polling to be held amid tight bandobast,apprehension in WB

In a first: Candidates with criminalantecedents will have to publishinformation in this regard in newspapersand through TV channels on 3 occasions

during the campaign period

IMPORTANT CANDIDATESYDERABAD:

AsaduddinOwaisi, AIMIMvs PustheSrikanth, TRS

K AMMAM: NamaNageswara Rao,TDP vs RenukaChowdary,Congress

ARUNAC ALWEST: KirenRijiju, BJP vsNabam Tuki,Congress

NI AMABAD:K Kavitha, TRSvs MadhuYakshi Gowd,Congress

SA ARANPUR: ImranMasood, Congress vsFazlur Rahman, SP-BSPvs Raghav Lakhanpal, BJP

KAIRANA:TabassumHasan, SP vsPradipChaudhary, BJP

BAGHPAT:JayantChaudhary, RLDvs SatyapalSingh, BJP

JAMUI: ChiragPaswan, LJSP vsUpendra Ravidas, BSP

NAINITAL-UDHAMSINGHNAGAR: Harish Rawat,Congress vs Ajay Bhatt, BJP

GARHWAL: ManishKhanduri, Congress vsTirath Singh Rawat, BJP

GAUTAM BUDDHANAGAR: MaheshSharma, BJP vsArvindKumar Singh, Congressvs Satveer, BSP

NAGPUR:Nitin Gadkari,BJP vs NanaPatole,Congress

CHANDRAPUR:Ahir Hansraj, BJPvs SureshNarayan,Congress

ALMORA: AjayTamta, BJP vsPradip Tamta,Congress

MU AFARNAGAR:Ajit Singh, RLD vsSanjeev Balyan, BJP

GHA IABAD: GenVK Singh, BJP vsDolly Sharma,Congress vsSuresh Bansal, SP

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In a setback to the Congressin Gujarat days before the

Lok Sabha elections, OBCleader Alpesh Thakor onWednesday quit the party.

Thakor, appointed nation-al secretary after joining theparty in 2017, said in a letter toGujarat Congress chief AmitChavda that he was resigningfrom all the posts in the partydue to insults and betrayal.

“I should not stay in aparty where I am being insult-ed, ignored and betrayed,” hesaid. “Poor youth of my com-munity were angry and upset asthey were ignored and insulted.For me, Thakor Sena issupreme....My Sena had askedme to leave a party if we areignored, insulted and cheatedthere,” he added in the letter.

Amit Chavda said he willspeak with Thakor before say-ing anything to the media.Addressing a Press conferencelater, Thakor said he was notjoining the ruling BJP.

“Thakor Sena helpedCongress win almost 43 seatsduring the 2017 Assembly polls.But our youth were sidelinedand even humiliated after theelections got over. I had repeat-

edly asked the party leaders togive suitable posts to our youthin their organisation,” he said.

At the Press conference,Thakor was accompanied bytwo Congress legislators fromthe Thakor community —Bayad MLA Dhavalsinh Zalaand Bechraji MLA BharatThakor. Zala and BharatThakor said they were notresigning from the party or asMLAs, but supported AlpeshThakor. “I am not joining theBJP. I am not resigning as anMLA. I am not going to do pollcampaigning for or against anyLok Sabha candidate (ofCongress or BJP). I will cam-paign for Thakor Sena candi-dates who are contesting fromBanaskantha Lok Sabha seatand Unjha Assembly seat (by-poll),” Alepsh said.

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After filing his nominationpapers from Wayanad in

Kerala on April 4, Congresspresident Rahul Gandhi onWednesday filed his nomina-tion papers from Amethi, in thepresence of his family members.

Rahul Gandhi, along withhis family members —Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, herhusband Robert Vadra andtheir children Raihan andMiraya — joined a 40-minutelong roadshow atop a bus,before reaching the AmethiCollectorate in Gauriganj to filethe nomination papers.

Notably, Gandhi filed hisnominations on the openingday of the nomination processand this was the fourth time hewould be contesting fromAmethi. UPA chairperson SoniaGandhi, who did not join theroadshow due to health reasons,came early to the Collectorate tobe along with her son in thenomination process.

In the nomination process,Rahul Gandhi was accompa-nied by Sonia Gandhi, PriyankaGandha, Robert Vadra and alawyer to file their papersbefore the district returningofficer Ram Manohar Mishra.

Congress president, for thefirst time is contesting fromtwo seats Amethi and Wayanadin Kerala. After filing his nom-inations, Rahul Gandhi rushedto Fursatganj airport to boarda special aircraft for cam-paigning in Bihar and WestBengal while rest of the fami-ly members returned back to aguest house in Rae Bareli. OnThursday, the entire familywill again join Sonia Gandhi in

Rae Bareli during filing of hernomination papers.

Earlier the Gandhi-Vadrafamily joined Congress presi-dent Rahul Gandhi in a grandroadshow in Amethi before theleader filed his nominationsfrom the constituency.

However, this was the firsttime that entire Vadra familyhad joined the political expo-sure together. Earlier, RobertVadra used to campaign alonein support of his brother-in-law.

The Congress chief and hisfamily were greeted by partyworkers, who gathered in thecity, despite hot weather con-ditions, to get a glimpse of theirleaders.

On his way, crowds onboth sides of the road showeredrose petals and marigold flow-ers on him and cheered for theCongress chief, who wavedback at them. Surging crowdsof Congress supporters walkedalong Rahul’s vehicle as it madeits way to the Collectoratethrough areas in Munshiganj,Darpipur and Gauriganj.

Since morning, Congresssupporters, wearing tricolourcaps and scarves, were out onthe streets holding placardsand posters in preparation fortheir party president’s visit.

They raised slogans andoften broke into impromptudance at the beat drums. Thestreets were lined withCongress flags, and hoardingsand posters with pictures ofRahul and Priyanka Gandhi.

Some banners read ‘Vikaski andhi, Priyanka Gandhi’and ‘Amethi ka sansad, desh kaPM’. Enthusiastic youngsters onmotorcycles moved aroundmaking videos of the event on

their mobile phones. UPCongress leaders, includingPramod Tiwari, Deepak Singhwere in the crowd during theroad show.

In Amethi, Rahul is pittedagainst his arch rival and UnionTextile Minister Smriti Irani,whom he had defeated in 2014elections by a margin of overone lakh votes.

However in Rae Bareli,BJP has fielded an oldCongressman and MLCDinesh Pratap Singh againstSonia Gandhi making the con-test interesting. In 2014 polls,Sonia Gandhi had defeatedBJP candidate Ajay Agarwal byover four lakh votes. Thepolling in both Amethi and RaeBareli seats would be held inthe fifth phase on May 6.

The nominations in thisphase commences fromWednesday. The UPA presidentwould be filing her nomina-tions for the fifth time fromRae Bareli seat.

She had been winningfrom the seat since 2004 afterbeing migrated from Amethi, which was left to herson Rahul.

A Nehru-Gandhi familyborough, Rae Bareli has beenrepresented by Sonia’s mother-in-law Indira Gandhi repre-sented this seat in the fourthand fifth Lok Sabha.

Similarly, Amethi too is theNehru-Gandhi family con-stituency, and Rahul Gandhihas been representing the con-stituency since 2004. Rahul’sfather Rajiv Gandhi was elect-ed from the seat for a decadefrom 1981 to 1991. SoniaGandhi too was elected fromAmethi in 1999.

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After a long interval RahulGandhi took on Mamata

Banerjee likening her toNarendra Modi for her volleysof failed promises.

The Congress president’sdiatribe came soon after theBengal Chief Minister con-demned the State Congressleaders for contesting electionswith the help of the RSS and theBJP. “It is for all to see. Whowas the person to be a part ofthe first NDA Government forso many years? Who has beenraising the Rafale deal? Whohas proved that the chowkidar(watchman) — read Modi — isa thief? It is not MamataBanerjee but the Congress

Party,” Rahul said reminding“only the Congress has beenfighting against the BJP forthese many years. We nevertied up with them unlike yourChief Minister.”

Mamata had hours agotold a TMC rally atBehrampore that both AdhirChowdhury and AbhijitMukherjee — Congress candi-dates from Behrampore andJangipur — were fighting withthe help of RSS. “The Congresscandidate from Behramporeand the one from Jangipurwho is the son of PranabMukherjee are contesting withthe help of the RSS. They aredummy candidates of the BJPhere,” she said almost prompt-ly inviting a scornful replyfrom Rahul from Raiganj.

Rahul was addressing arally in favour of party candidateDeepa Dasmunshi at KaranDighi in Raiganj constituency.Dasmunshi is pitted against

TMC’s Kanhaialal Agarwal andCPI(M)’s Md Salim.

Attacking Mamata fordelivering false promises, Rahulsaid “like the Prime Ministeryour Chief Minister too is amaster of false promises. Likehe offered 2 crore yearly jobs,she also promised jobs butfailed to implement them.”

Taking the Prime Ministeron for his failure to bring Rs 15lakh to every account theCongress president said, “Modihad promised you an amount.But he failed to implement it.Instead of implementing hispromises he filled the coffers ofthe rich people like AnilAmbani. He filled his pocketwith Rs 30,000 crore of the taxpayers’ money. But I won’t dothat I will do the opposite. Afterconsulting with the Congressthink-tank we have decidedthat the Congress will give anyearly allowance of Rs 72,000to 20 per cent of the poor peo-

ple of the country.”If Modi had looted the

common man to pay the cor-rupt rich “I will loot the corruptrich and fill the pockets of thecommon man,” he said.

Incidentally, the Congresschief had no words of criticismfor the Left which stillconsti-tutes a substantial section of theState electorate.

Attacking the PM for “trem-bling in fear” after the apex courtallegedly smelt a rat in the Rafaledeal he said “even the SupremeCourt has now accepted thatthere could be some problem inthe Rafale deal and that neededto be probed,” adding “after theSupreme Court order Modi’s facehas blackened in fear because heknows that we will not spare himor the corrupt businessmen likethe other Modis and AnilAmbani if we come to power.Every one along with the PPMwill be proceeded against andthey will go to jail.”

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Prime Minister NarendraModi on Wednesday

trained guns at Congress pres-ident Rahul Gandhi, saying hewas “burdened” with “Boforssins” of his late father andtherefore wrongly accusingothers of corruption.

Launching a blisteringattack on Congress, he accusedthe country’s oldest politicalparty of “playing games” indefence deals when in power.Addressing a poll rally here,Modi, without naming Rahul,equated him to a cunning“pickpocket”, who himselfscreams “chor, chor” and joinsthe crowd after getting caughtin the act to confuse others.

The Prime Minister recalledhow the Congress in the past tar-geted former defence ministersGeorge Fernandes and ManoharParrikar. Referring to theVajpayee Government’s deci-sion to buy coffins to carry mor-tal remains of martyrs, Modisaid Congress had unnecessar-ily targeted honest people likeVajpayee and Fernandes over theissue and not allowed Parliamentto function for weeks.

“Atalji’s Government hadallowed to bring bodies ofmartyrs to their homes incoffins to give opportunity tothe people to honour thosewho give up their lives (on bor-ders). “Caskets were purchasedunder George Fernandes’watch for the martyrs. But theCongress did not spare evenhonest individuals like Ataljiand Fernandes. Kept speakinglies. Boycotted Fernandes inParliament. Humiliated him. Itis their old habit. The samething they tried with Parrikar,”he said.

Modi referred to Rahul’svisit in January this year to thenailing Goa Chief MinisterManohar Parrikar, who was theDefence Minister when theRafale jet deal was signed withFrance in 2016. After the meet-ing, Rahul claimed Parrikar hadspoken about the Rafale deal, aclaim rejected by the late CM.

“The entire country saw,Naamdar (dynast) went toenquire about well-being ofParrikar, but spoke such a liethat none could imagine.

“When Manohar ji was bat-tling for life, in such a situation,he had to come out to clarify tothose who were lying. A big liewas caught, but there was notrace of remorse on their face.And because of such a lie, peo-ple do not trust them,” the PMsaid. The PM then referred to thecontroversial Bofors deal of mid-1980s to target the Congresspresident, who has repeatedlyalleged corruption in the Rs58,000-crore Rafale deal signedby the NDA Government.

“I wonder why they speakso many lies. Perhaps he is bur-dened with his father’s (lateRajiv Gandhi) sins of Bofors.And to wash it off, committingthe sin of imposing sins on oth-ers. “You may get reins of partyin legacy, but from where willyou create credibility in thehearts of 125 crore country-men? Congress can stoop to anylevel for power,” Modi alleged.

The Bofors deal wasbelieved to be one of primaryreasons for the Rajiv Gandhi-led Congress’s defeat in the1989 Lok Sabha polls.

Modi said every defencedeal signed by the Congress

Government was suspicious.“The Congress played such

games in defence deals...(that)there was no defence deal dur-ing Congress’s regime whichwas not suspicious. “They took‘dalali’ (commission) in Bofors.Agent Quattrocchi ‘mama’ wasallowed to escape. As a result,our Army could not get a sin-gle (Howitzer) gun. Because noone wanted to be partner inCongress’s sins,” he said.

The PM accused theCongress of delaying the Rafaledeal, which was finalised afterthe BJP-led government cameto power at the Centre in May2014. “When the force pro-posed to purchase Rafale jets,it saw some progress duringAtalji’s tenure. The close agentsof Naamdar family of Congressgot involved in it later.

“The result was that the dealgot stuck for years and thestrength of forces reduced.Before 2014, amid atmospherefilled with scams, Congressclosed the box of Rafale deal (putit in the cold storage),” he said.Modi said the Congress had noclue that wrongdoings in defencedeals signed under its watch willcome out when a “chowkidar”(watchman) takes charge.

“There was graft in theVVIP chopper deal too. Sametrick was used as in Bofors.Agents like Michelle mama wereallowed to escape. “They thoughtthis matter too would get undercarpet like it happened afterQuattrocchi was allowed to run.They had no clue that a chowki-dar will come and bring back theagents they allowed to run away,even from ‘paatal’ (under-ground),” Modi said.

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Nadu suffered a jolt onWednesday as the president ofthe Pradesh CongressCommittee announced thatRahul Gandhi, the lead star ofthe Opposition alliance, willcampaign from four places inthe State on April 12.

“Rahul Gandhi will addressfour massive election rallies atKrishnapuri,Theni, Salem andVurudhunagar. MK Stalin,president of the DMK is join-ing Rahul Gandhi in theseelection rallies,” said KSAzhagiri, TNCC President.Speaking to reporters atChennai, the TNCC President

disclosed that the DMK-ledSPA (Secular ProgressiveAlliance) was far ahead in thecampaign and the arrival ofRahul Gandhi would obliteratethe AIADMK-led front.

As the day for election inTamil Nadu is fast approaching(April 18) , campaign in theState has touched a feverishpitch with both the main frontsexceeding all the limits pre-scribed by the ElectionCommission of India for a fairgame. An evangelist, known forhis pro-DMK stance said in hisprayer meeting that the coun-try would get the right PrimeMinister, the right Ministersand the right Parliament afterthe elections.

“After these elections, Godwill intervene in the hearts of the

members of parliament. Godwill intervene in the hearts of theleaders of the Government andthey will listen to the God’svoice. I believe with Govern-ment’s order, God’s churches willbe built across the nation. It iscoming mow after these elec-tion,” said Paul Dhinakaran,head of the Jesus Calls Ministriesin a widely circulated video.

What add to the woes ofthe DMK is the speeches deliv-ered by DK leader KVeeramani, a close acolyte oflate M Karunanidhi who isStalin’s political ideologue.

Veeramani ridiculing theHindu gods have gone viral inthe social media promptingHindu activists assembling intemples across the State to takea vow that they would not vote

for parties entertaining peoplewho insults Gods andGoddesses. These incidentshave taken the sheen off thecontest across the State vitiat-ing the atmosphere.

The DMK is yet to make itsplans known to the voters.Stalin’s campaign speeches cen-tre around the need to throwout the Narendra ModiGovernment at the Centre andthe Edappadi PalaniswamyGovernment at Chennai.

“The EdappadyPalaniswamy Governmentwould be thrown out withinhours of a change ofGovernment at the Centre”declared Stalin at Thoothukudiwhile campaigning forKanimozhi (Karunanidh’sdaughter by his third wife

Rajathi) who is the DMK can-didate for the Lok Sabha con-stituency. But his bête noirPalaniswamy is focussing hiscampaign e on promises andassurances instead of attackingthe DMK or Stalin.

He limits criticism to theminimum and declares aboutschemes like linking of rivers,building check dams and cre-ation of jobs.

There is a general feelingamong the commentators thatthe DMK is being profligate inits attack on his rivals.

“This phase of the elec-tioneering is crucial and Stalinshould be careful in choosingthe words as he is in focus inTamil Nadu,” said a scribe who is a veteran of many cam-paign trails.

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Bengaluru: In a bid to woovoters, Karnataka HousingMinister MTB Nagaraj dancedto a popular tune from theHindi movie ‘Nagin’ much tothe amusement of people atHoskote, near here, and thevideo has gone viral.

Nagaraj, whose namemeans King Cobra, had gonewith his supporters toKatigenahalli village in HoskoteTuesday evening seeking votesfor Congress candidate andformer Union MinisterVeerappa Moily who is con-testing from theChikkaballapura Lok Sabhaconstituency.

A music band that fol-lowed the Minister’s convoystarted playing the famous‘Nagin’ tune to captivate acobra from the 1954 Hindimovie. The tune was part of thesong ‘Man Dole Mera TanDole’ and it charmed Nagarajtoo and the 67-year-old con-gress leader started to gyrate.

Soon his supporters toobegan dancing with him andthe performance went on forabout 10 minutes. The dancevideo has gone viral.

Those accompanyingNagaraj finally asked him toslow down in view of his age.This is not the first time thatthe Minister has exhibited his-dance skills in public. He haddone it earlier too during reli-gious events in Hoskote.

Minister, popularly knownas MTB by his supporters,wasranked the richest MLA inthe country by the Associationfor Democratic Reforms, anNGO, last year which said hisassets were valued at over Rs1,000 crore. PTI

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“It is Narendra ModiGovernment which has freedMuslim women from age-old illof triple talaq. India may have gotfreedom in 1947 but our Muslimsisters got freedom only recent-ly because of Prime Minister,”Yogi said while addressing ralliesin Aonla, Budaun and FatehpurSikri (Agra).

He said this measure was agame changer because it freedMuslim women from hun-dreds of years of abuse and cap-tivity they were subjected to.“The wicked practice of tripletalaq was being used as aweapon to exploit women. Byabolishing instant talak, wehave brought back their digni-ty and respect,” he said. PNS

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For the past several weeks, theChinese propaganda machine hasbeen running full-steam. The focusof the information warfare’s exerciseis on the events of March 1959,

which ended in a bloodbath in Lhasa, butwhich is today being promoted as the“Emancipation of the Serfs” and the“Introduction of the Democratic Reforms” bythe communist regime in Beijing. One couldask: Where is democracy in China today?

Just take a look at the list of party sec-retaries in Tibet — since August 16, 2016,the Communist Party of China’s boss on theRoof of the World is Wu Jingjie. He is the15th Han to hold the post since the People’sLiberation Army (PLA) entered Tibet in1950. Can you imagine Tamil Nadu havingnon-Tamil Chief Ministers for more than 60years or any other Indian State for the mat-ter? The fact is that despite the propagandathat the Tibetans took “their destiny in theirown hands” in 1959, Beijing still does nottrust the local cadres.

The Serfs’ Emancipation is an even big-ger lie. In fact, it was a massacre that saw thou-sands of ordinary Tibetans losing their livesin Lhasa. We have several genuine accountsof what happened at that time.

From the Chinese sources, it is worthmentioning a Kindle book, The 1959 TibetanUprising Documents: The Chinese ArmyDocuments (China Secrets), published last yearwhich provides documents from the PLA’smilitary intelligence on the bloody events of1959. Another account of the events is givenby Jianglin Li in her book, Tibet in Agony. Thepreface of the book of the Chinese scholaraffirms, “The first clear historical account ofthe Chinese crackdown on Lhasa in 1959.Sifting facts from the distortions of propagan-da and partisan politics, she reconstructs achronology...”

China celebrates March 28 as the Serfs’Emancipation Day, the day “reforms” couldfinally be implemented on the Roof of theWorld; the Tibetan Government had beendeclared “illegal” by Mao and the so-calledTibetan serfs had been liberated from feudal-ism and theocracy by PLA guns.

Then, there is the report of the IndianConsul-General in Lhasa (Maj SL Chibber)to the Ministry of External Affairs in Delhi.Maj Chibber, an Indian Army officer from theJat Regiment, had already spent nine years inTibet. Chhiber, a reliable eye-witness (he evenheard a few bullets passing overhead duringthe uprising), wrote: “In the history of move-ment for a free Tibet, the month of March1959 will be most historic as during thismonth Tibetans, high and low, in Lhasa,Capital of Tibet, openly challenged theChinese rule in Tibet. They set up an organ-isation called the Tibetan Peoples’Independent Organisation …staged demon-strations to give vent to their anti-Chinese feel-ings and demanded withdrawal of theChinese from Tibet. But this challenge,before the might of the Chinese PLA — who

on March 20, started an all-outoffensive against the ill-organised,ill-equipped, untrained-Tibetanswith artillery, mortars, machineguns and all types of automaticweapons — was short-lived.”

He further explained theDalai Lama’s flight: “Smellingdanger, he left Lhasa secretly onthe night of March 17, 1959,…for Lhoka area (south ofLhasa), where at that timeKhampas had full sway.” TheDalai Lama ultimately tookrefuge in India on March 31.

Matthew Akester studiedthe findings of Jianglin Li:“Satisfactory confirmation ofdetail for this period of Tibet’shistory is notoriously difficult dueto official secrecy and the virtu-al non-existence of reliable non-official documentation. The fig-ures assessed, though incomplete,provide crucial indicators of thescale of the PLA’s engagement inTibet at that time.”

After assessing a larger num-ber of official Chinese docu-ments, Li noted: “Although glob-al estimates remain elusive, thestudy shows from official figuresthat something in the order of 10per cent of the total Tibetan pop-ulation was involved — killed,wounded and captured — in mil-itary operations during theseyears [1957-59].”

Using reliable Chinesesources, Li calculated that eightInfantry divisions (about 100,000soldiers), three Air force divisions

and two independent regimentswere involved. To this should beadded three Cavalry divisionsand “special units”, ie, chemicalwarfare, motorcycle and demo-lition or signals. Also wereinvolved some logistic units suchas four truck transportation reg-iments, engineer corps, fieldhospitals, Army stations, supplystations and animal hospitals orgas stations. Li estimated thatsome 1,50,000 military person-nel participated in the “emanci-pation” of a couple of millionrecalcitrant Tibetans.

Li wrote that besides PLAunits, a large number of localmilitia supported the operation:“The numbers of militia I wasable to find in Sichuan, Gansu,Yunnan and Qinghai add up toover 71,000 people.” Civilianswere also drafted for various taskssuch as transport, evacuation ofwounded soldiers, handling packanimals; no less than 143,000civilian laborers.

The number of casualtieswas estimated at 10,934 (4,748dead and 5,223 wounded) on thePLA side, without taking intoaccount Lhasa and Central Tibet(for which figures are unknown).The Tibetan casualties were2,55,600 for Qinghai, Gansu,Sichuan and Yunnan only for theyears 1957-59.

In January 1957, while on avisit to India, Zhou Enlai, theChinese Premier, had long dis-cussions with the then Prime

Minister Jawaharlal Nehru on theintroduction of the so-calledreforms. Beijing had decided topostpone them by at least for sixor seven years. In the course ofthe conversation, Zhou pointeda finger at non-existing foreign-ers in Lhasa: “Those bent ontrouble are preparing for anincident in Lhasa. These peoplehave some armed forces. Somethree temples in Lhasa have alsoarmed forces and they want tocreate an incident there. If it hap-pened, then there would bebloodshed.”

Although there was no “for-eigner” in Lhasa, except for theIndian staff of the ConsulateGeneral, but the bloodshedindeed took place in March1959; it helped Mao to firmlyconsolidate the position of theCommunist regime. In January1959, Mao and the CentralCommittee realised that “thePLA had to be used to controlthe rebellion.” China was facinga revolt of the “serfs.” On January22, 1959, Mao wrote: “It is good,since there is a possibility for usto solve the [Tibet] problemmilitarily.” The Chinese are fondof announcing “don’t hurt theChinese sentiments.” One couldask, what about the Tibetan sen-timents? Will the compassionateDalai Lama ask for an apology forwhat the Chinese did in Tibet inthe 1950s? He should.

(The writer is an expert onIndia-China relations)

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Sir — This refers to the editori-al, “Muscular pledge” (April 10).The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)manifesto is definitely aimed atpolarising the electorate, the ref-erences to abrogating Article 370,annulling Article 35A of theConstitution and a determinationto build a Ram temple being casesin point. These steps will vitiatethe atmosphere but party leadersseem unmindful as their sole aimis to return to power at any cost.

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Sir — This refers to the editor-ial, “Alliance fears in UP” (April9). The Samajwadi Party-Bahujan Samaj Party-RashtriyaLok Dal combine, which wasuntil now confident of sweepingthe polls in Uttar Pradesh, sud-denly appeared to be jitterywhen Priyanka Vadra joinedpolitics as the Congress’ gener-al secretary for eastern UttarPradesh. Certainly, her entrycan complicate electoral calcu-lations in this State.

The next jolt came when thegrand old party announced itsdecision to contest all 80 seatsfrom this State on its own. Thismove is bound to divide votes.

It is a fact that voters in UttarPradesh always exercise theirfranchise on caste and religiouslines. The two regional parties,SP and BSP, have so far emergedvictorious due to caste/religiousequations rather than develop-

ment. Both parties are now con-scious that recovering the sup-port of their larger social con-stituencies is of utmost impor-tance. This is why, despite differ-ences, they now emphasise thatthey are on the same page. Theircore votebanks have driftedtowards the BJP in the past fiveyears.

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Sir — This refers to the editori-al, “Muscular pledge” (April 10).After having failed to fulfill thetall promises made in 2014, theBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) hascome up with another documentthat is full of lies. Where is the so-called achche din?

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a new vision document, the partyshould have come up with areport card on its performance inthe last five years. Further, it hard-ly offers anything new from theprevious manifesto. Seminalissues like the construction of aRam Temple at Ayodhya havebeen put forth once again. Byannouncing the Nyuntam AayYojna (NYAY) scheme, theCongress has raised the pitch.This election will be a fightbetween NYAY and nationalism.

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Sir — This refers to the editori-al, “Muscular pledge” (April 10).In its election manifesto, theBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) haspromised to remove Article 370of the Constitution. But in reali-ty, the issue is far too complex andfraught with implications foranyone to tinker with it. Its deci-sion to annul Article 35(A) is wel-come if it does not impair locals.

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The over-riding discussion duringthis electoral season in India is obvi-ously focussed on who will occupy7, Lok Kalyan Marg in the capitaland the treasur y benches in

Parliament after May 23, and what factors willdetermine this outcome. But little attention isbeing paid to one of the most critical pre-elec-tion issues — the unexplained absence of mil-lions of eligible women voters from electoralrolls in many parts of the country resulting inan alarming gender gap in voter registration.

The subject of “missing women voters” hasbeen underscored by veteran psephologistsPrannoy Roy and Dorab Sopariwala in theirrecently released book on Indian elections, TheVerdict. Based on the 2011 population census,they estimate that the proportion of womenentitled to vote in 2019 should be 97.2 per centof their male counterparts. However, as perElection Commission data, the correspondingratio is only 92.7 per cent. This shortfall of 4.5per cent in the female voting population mayseem insignificant per se but in absolute terms,it translates into a whopping 21 million dis-enfranchised women, which is equivalent toabout 38,000 women voters per constituencyacross the country. Such an exclusion is noth-ing short of a demographic disaster in an “aliveand kicking” democracy and cannot be mere-ly dismissed as an inadvertent enumerationerror. The numbers are even more alarmingwhen seen in the context of the consistent non-registration of women of voting age over thelast 25 years, going up from an average of threemillion in the early 1990s to six million dur-ing the 1997-2002 period to 19 millionbetween 2002 and 2014.

These figures also conflict with the trendof a progressive rise in electoral turnouts ofwomen since the 1967 Lok Sabha elections,when the male turnout was 11.25 percentagepoints higher than that of women, the high-est gender difference in voting recorded tilldate for any general election. Coming downto 8.36 per cent in 2004 and 4.42 per cent in2009, the gender gap in actual voting stood atmerely 1.79 per cent in 2014, while in 2019,the number of voting women is expected toovertake that of men in several constituencies.Calling this a startling transformation in thehistory of Indian elections, Roy argues that theIndian woman voter, especially in rural areas,now clearly knows her mind and is determinedto exercise her right without being swayed byher male kin.

What then would be the impact of leav-ing such a large number of women out of theelectoral process? Could this represent adeliberate attempt to keep away a specific sec-tion of women from polling booths because oftheir preferences for or against any politicalparty? Most pollsters agree that women’sincreasing turnout and political assertivenesscould be a major swing factor in these elec-tions. Unfortunately, however, the decisivefemale influence could be diluted by a genderbias, mirrored in the Sex Ratio of Voters (SRV),or the number of female voters per 1,000 malevoters.

Sociologists and demographers claim thatthe distorted SRV is a manifestation of theskewed population sex ratios in certain States,especially Uttar Pradesh (912), Rajasthan(928), and Maharashtra (929). Significantly,these States also account for the largest num-ber of unregistered women in electoral rolls— Uttar Pradesh (6.8 million), Maharashtra(2.3 million) and Rajasthan (1.2 million). Theenormity of the exclusion is evident from thefact that on an average, 85,000 eligible womenwill not be able to vote in every single con-stituency in a key State like Uttar Pradesh. Incontrast, women voters are likely to outnum-ber men in States like Kerala, Andhra Pradeshand Goa, which have healthy sex ratios of 1084,993 and 973, respectively.

The issue of “missing women” and imbal-anced sex ratios in India, stemming from gen-der discrimination, was first flagged byrenowned economist and Nobel laureateAmartya Sen. Similar findings have also beenexpounded in the India Human DevelopmentSurvey (IHDS), a nationally representative sur-vey of about 42,000 households conductedjointly by the National Council of AppliedEconomic Research (NCAER) and theUniversity of Maryland, in two waves, in 2003-04 and 2011-12. The IHDS shows that despiterapid economic growth spanning this period,India cannot claim to have a robust genderscorecard. The only bright spot has been a risein women’s enrollment in education over thelast two decades, which could, perhaps,account for greater awareness among them andconsequently their increased participation inelections.

The IHDS has an interesting moduleadministered to 30,422 married women in theage group of 15-49 years. With a response rate

as high as 92 per cent and the use of femaleinterviewers to conduct studies in various locallanguages, IHDS offers a host of intuitiveresults. Among these is a dichotomy in thesocial and political behaviours of women fromdifferent religions, which perhaps also affirmsincreasing polarisation of the nation’s politi-cal space from a gendered perspective. Thereis thus clear evidence that gender is emergingas a fundamental axis of Indian democracy,alongside caste, class and religion.

The linkage between “missing women” inthe population and “missing women” in theelectorate has also been emphasised byProfessors Mudit Kapoor and Shamika Ravi,affiliated with the Indian School of Businessand Brookings Institution, respectively. Theyassert that in the last 50 years, the absolutenumber of missing women in India hasincreased four-fold from 15 million to 68 mil-lion, while the concomitant figure of missingwomen in the electorate has risen from 13 percent to 20 per cent.

With such multitudes of women beingdeprived of their entitlement to vote, politi-cal decisions based on election outcomes willinevitably under-represent female priorities,they conclude.

What use is India’s track record of hold-ing regular elections and consistently institut-ing a democratic Government if the votingrights of half its population are compromisedat the altar of an inefficient registration sys-tem? In many ways, therefore, underminingwomen’s suffrage in India’s elections is akin tothe market failure of its democracy in econom-ic terms.

(The writer is Editor at the NationalCouncil of Applied Economic Research. Viewsexpressed here are personal)

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The “rise and fall” of powerful fam-ilies in democracies around theworld is a known phenomenon.

From the Roosevelts and Clintons ofthe US to the Shinawatras of Thailand— most democracies are characterisedby the presence of prominent politicalfamilies. They seek to perpetuate andconsolidate their control across all pil-lars of power — legislative, executive,judiciary and the media. Donn M Kurtzhas aptly elucidated how democraticpolitics becomes “something of a fam-ily business.” Not surprising then, thatin a recent statement, PC Chacko, aCongress leader, went on to say, “…thefirst family of India is truly the first fam-ily. India is obliged to them…”.

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of familial political power in post-20thcentury democracies emulates theintent and ambitions of monarchies,autocracies and the so-called proletar-ian dictatorships that preceded them.But seldom do powerful families inmodern democracies succeed inextending the longevity of short-termacquisition of power into dynastiesspanning several generations. The rea-son behind this inability, despitefocussed and powerful efforts, is thefundamental transience of power. Theentropy of this transience is exponen-tially heightened in democracies byevery single vote cast by individual vot-ers. Global democratic experienceindicates that conscious and informedindividual action is the antidote to thetyranny of dynastic politics.

Somehow political parties in Indiahave succeeded in overcoming thistransience of power and neutralisingthe will of the voter. This was madepossible by the evident paradox thatis the Indian representative democra-cy — over a billion people enjoy somesemblance of political equalitybestowed upon them by the foundingfathers, yet the higher echelons of

power have forever been beyond theirreach. Those at the top project amirage of democracy marked bypolitical freedom for all. But to the lessfortunate at the bottom, it is nothingmore than an oligarchy with noavenues of access to the towering insti-tutions of power.

It is astounding how a few fami-lies carried out a silent coup and placedthemselves at the focus of politicalpower for over half a century. It isequally unfortunate that as a nation,we have silently accepted this politi-cal enslavement, which has held ouraspirations hostage. The explicit expec-tation of Chacko that a nation of 1.3billion people should be “obliged” toa “family” reeks of vain arrogance andworse, a sense of dynastic entitlement.Our forefathers won this country itsfreedom from the most powerfulempire in the pre-WWII era throughunimaginable courage and sacrifice. Sowhy did the deceitful and clandestinereplacement of the ‘British Raj’ by‘Parivar Raj’ go unopposed?

This is a question that warrantsboth a sincere personal contemplationand a vocal political conversation.

Were we as a nation so trusting andnaïve that we let a few naamdaar fam-ilies pull the wool over our eyes? Is ita consequence of systematic and thor-ough indoctrination into politicalfatalism that we have been deceivedinto believing that nothing will changeand so nothing is worth aspiring for?More importantly, it must be debat-ed how we can overcome these ideo-logical shackles.

Thankfully, such debates are hap-pening, and with an increasing frequen-cy. The entire conversation revolvingaround the naamdaar-kaamdardichotomy did hammer home validand necessary questions of individualmerit of a political leader — as a partyworker, a statesman and a visionary.More recently, the dynasty-mukt Bharatcampaign struck a chord with the cit-izens and was trending on Twitter.

Although it is not the first timethat dynastic politics has been ques-tioned, there are some stark qualita-tive differences that make recentopposition to familial domination ofpower more potent. The JP Movementwas arguably the first mass movementthat opposed dynastic politics. But

many stalwarts of the JP movementcreated their own political dynastiesat the sub-national level such as theRashtriya Janata Dal in Bihar. Further,when aspirations were sacrificed at thealtar of family politics, leaders optedto break away from the parent partyand form splinter groups. TheTrinamool Congress formed byMamata Banerjee in the late 1990s isan example. These leaders chose notto stay within the parent politicalorganisation and fight for its democ-ratic functioning. Perhaps they soughtto create their own hereditary politi-cal fiefdoms, replicating the dynasticprinciple of the parent organisation inthe splinter party.

Since these influential “victims” ofdynastic politics did not agitate to cre-ate greater awareness and mobilisepeople against it, a movement againstthe undemocratic idea of “first fami-ly” did not gain momentum. What’sworse is that it normalised the prac-tice, making it acceptable to the soci-etal value structure. Indian society hadonly recently unburdened itself fromthe despotism of countless princelyStates and was still struggling to bal-

ance the rigidity of the hierarchies ofcaste and religion with the new-found avenues of individual mobility.An implicit yet clear message bymost political outfits that hereditarypower succession is acceptable in ademocratic nation presented an insur-mountable ideological challenge.

Thankfully, things are changing.After being denied the opportunity todemocratically challenge the ascensionof Rahul Gandhi as the president of theCongress, Shehzad Poonawalla did nottake the conventional routes availableto him — launch his own party, join apolitical opponent, or play the card ofminority victimisation. Instead, helaunched a fierce attack on dynastic pol-itics itself, spearheading the dynasty-mukt Bharat campaign. But for suchcampaigns to transform into popularmovements, it is vital that the despot-ic notion of “first family” is counteredwith democratic ideals. There shouldalso be no room for personal attack onpolitical leaders, for it is the undemo-cratic idea of “family first” that is to befought, not its instantiations that per-vade the political spectrum.

(The writer is a researcher)

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Lenders of Jet Airways on Wednesday extended thedeadline for submission of initial bids for stake pur-

chase in the ailing airline to April 12.Cash-strapped Jet Airways has delayed salaries to

pilots, defaulted on loan repayments as well as paymentsto aircraft lessors.

SBI Capital Markets, which issued Expression ofInterest (EoI) document on April 8, has extended thedeadline for submission of initial bids to April 12.Potential bidders can send their queries till April 11.

The deadline for submission of bids was to end onWednesday.

“The qualified bidders will be expected to submittheir respective binding bid(s) latest by April 30, 2019subject to the terms set out under the bid document,”SBI Capital Markets said in a notice posted on its web-site.

The SBI-led consortium of domestic lenders areimplementing a debt resolution plan for Jet Airways,whose board approved the plan last month.

“While all soft copies of the EoIs are required to sub-mitted by the EoI due date, the hard copies may be sub-mitted by April 16, 2019,” the notice said.

Earlier in the day, SBI Capital Markets issued a setof clarifications related to the EoI document, includ-ing that bidders in a consortium need to furnish sol-vency certificates individually.

“Bidders are required to provide the solvency cer-tificate ... On their letterhead and certified by manag-ing director/ full time director / CEO of the bidder ora person holding an equivalent position in the bidder,”SBI Capital Markets said in a separate notice.

In the case of consortium, each member has to sub-mit solvency certificate, which is a proof of an entity’sfinancial stability.

As part of the debt resolution plan for the full ser-vice carrier, the lenders are looking to restructure “exist-ing facilities and infusion of funds by way of loans oracquisition/ subscription of up to 75 per cent of equi-ty share capital of the company”.

Shares of Jet Airways declined 1.59 per cent to closeat �263.40 apiece on the BSE.

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For the third time in aweek, national oil mar-

keter IndianOilWednesday RPT onWednesday stopped fuelSupply to cash-starved JetAirways for non-paymentof dues.

The airline also facedthe ignominy of losingone of its planes to a European cargoagent who seized one of its wide-body planes at the Amsterdam air-port for payment related issues, asource said.

This is the third time that thepublic sector oil marketing compa-ny has cut fuel supply to the airlinein the past eight days, which is strug-gling to keep afloat amid acute liq-uidity crisis.

“IndianOil has stopped fuelsupplies to Jet Airways in Mumbai,New Delhi and Hyderabad airportsfor its failure to clear dues,” thesource said. Mumbai is the largestbase for the airline and it operatesmaximum flights from the city.

On March 4 and 5 also the oilcompany had cut supplies to Jet andrestored only after getting an assur-ance from the airline management.

Earlier in the day, a Europeancargo services provider seized oneof its Boeing 777-300ER planes atthe Amsterdam airport for non-pay-ment of dues.

“The cargo agent seized Boeing

777-300 ER (VT-JEW) of JetAirways at the Amsterdam airportas the airline could not clear hisdues,” the airline source told PTI.

The aircraft was to operate aflight (9W 321) to Mumbai fromAmsterdam Wednesday RPTWednesday.

Jet Airways, however, said theflight was delayed due to “opera-tional reasons.”

In a statement, the airline saidflight 9W 231 from Amsterdam toMumbai scheduled for April 10, hasbeen delayed due to operational rea-sons.

Jet has been operating around100 flights only with 26 planes asmost of the fleet is grounded dueto non-payment of lessors’ rentals.

Due to cash crunch, the airlinehas been paying only part salaries toits over 16,000 employees whichforced a section of its pilots onTuesday sending a legal notice to themanagement which is currentlybeing headed by the lenders led byState Bank.

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Some reforms in India haveshown the benefits of dig-

italisation which has alsoreduced the opportunities fordiscretion and fraud, the IMFsaid in its latest report onWednesday.

The introduction of e-procurement in India andIndonesia has also increasedcompetition and led to betterquality of construction, theInternational Monetary Fund(IMF) said in its latest editionof the fiscal monitor reportreleased ahead of the its annu-al spring meeting with theWorld Bank.

“Some reforms in Indiashow the benefits of digitali-sation and reducing opportu-nities for discretion andfraud,” the InternationalMonetary Fund (IMF) said inits latest edition of the fiscalmonitor report released aheadof the its annual spring meet-ing with the World Bank.

“For example, the adop-tion of an electronic platformfor managing a social assis-tance programme in Indiaresulted in a 17 per centdecline in spending with nocorresponding decline in ben-efits,” it said.

Similarly in AndhraPradesh, the use of smart IDcards that are used to identi-fy beneficiaries of specificprogrammes and improvebeneficiaries’ access to infor-

mation helped reduce leakageby 41 per cent relative to thecontrol group, it said.

According to the FiscalMonitor report, studies onpublic procurement show thatthe design of procedures canhave a significant impact onthe prices and quality of prod-ucts.

The introduction of e-procurement in India andIndonesia also increased com-petition and led to betterquality of construction, itsaid.

External scrutiny bySupreme Audit Institutions(SAIs), parliaments and civilsociety helps safeguard theintegrity of public financesand hold civil servants andelected officials accountable,the IMF said, adding thatfocused audits can help fightcorruption by identifyingwaste and miss-management.

“For example, socialaudits have been in place inIndia since 2005 to overseethe implementation of a largejob guarantee programme andto fight corruption in theprogramme,” it said.

These audits wereendorsed and supported bythe Indian SAI and relied onthe strong and direct partic-ipation of citizens, the IMFsaid, adding that SAIs alsohelp promote integrity byreviewing the reliability of theinternal control and auditframework.

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The country’sexports of agricul-

tural and processedfood products havedipped by 2.27 per centto $16.27 billion duringthe April-Februaryperiod of 2018-19, onaccount of contractionin shipments of buffalo meat,wheat and non-basmati rice,according to data from APEDA.

The Agricultural andProcessed Food ProductsExport Development Authority(APEDA) was established bythe government under a law.

During the correspondingperiod of 2017-18, exports ofthese items stood at $16.65 bil-lion.

Buffalo meat, wheat andnon-basmati rice exportsdipped by 11.32 per cent, 48.79per cent and 19.33 per cent,respectively, during the 11-

month period of 2018-19.The other products that

recorded negative growthinclude fresh fruits and veg-etables, processed fruits andjuices, sheep and goat meat,ground nuts, cereal prepara-tions, and alcoholic beverages.

However, f loriculture,fruits and vegetables seeds,pulses, processed vegetables,processed meat, dairy products,guargum and basmati ricerecorded positive growth.

Pulses exports grew 28.46per cent to $235 million dur-ing the period under review.

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We always focus on mak-ing ideas as economically viableas possible, says PrasannaGanesh, Program Director,Toyota Mobility Foundationto The Pioneer’s Vikas Kumar.

Here are excerpts of hisconversation

What is the object ofstamp? What is the role ofToyota Mobility Foundationin that?

It is an independent foun-dation aimed at coming up withmobility solutions for all. Wefocus on two areas demand andsupply and issues related topersonal mobility. We deal withcongestion problems, safetyproblems or pollution prob-lems. We deal with issues relat-ed to personal mobility likepeople who don’t have access tomobility — old people, handi-capped peopleand people withdisabilities. We provide Mobilitysolutions for these people.

TMF works with socialcause related to all kinds ofmobility. Now in India we are

trying to find ways to serve theissue of congestion.

You are providing last mileconnectivity solutions. Whatabout the affordability of suchservices? Can a common manafford them?

We always focus on makingthese ideas as economically viableas possible. If one chooses to takea scooter its 1/3 the price of anauto. But I will definitely say thatthe scooter rental services are notfor everyone. It’s a good solutionwhen one is going alone to aworkplace but when travelingwith wife and children to schoolor when it rains it’s not a con-siderable solution.

Please throw some lighton how stamp is adopting evi-dence based approach.

We at TMF start with factsnot solutions. The biggest prob-lem which we see with manyentrepreneurs is that they havean idea and they think to bringthat idea and put it anywhere asfast as possible. One station is

residential, other could bearound schools we need to getfacts, demography of the group,how many people are getting on,how much they are willing topay. What is most imp for you?You come up with a solution.But a bike is not a solution foreverything. One needs to under-stand the station, right pricing,TMF gives guidance to makethat business a sustainable one.

What kind of entries haveyou received?

In Bangalore andHyderabad we focused on multimodel mobility. We received lotof solutions mostly hardwaresolutions. In terms of smarthardware, electric scooter orrickshaw which one can book onapp,before leaving the houseyou can book on destination.Other ideas were carpooling,parking, how to get work com-mute vehicles, we also got ideasbased on fair integration. Ideasrelated to seamless payments,creating a payment card frombus agency to metro agency etc.

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The Government hasretained the interest rate for

General Provident Fund (GPF)and other related schemes at 8per cent for the April-Junequarter.

The rate is in line withthat of Public Provident Fund.The interest rate on GPF wasat 8 per cent in the January-March quarter of 2018-19.

“It is announced for gen-eral information that duringthe year 2019-20, accumula-tions at the credit of sub-scribers to the GPF and othersimilar funds shall carry inter-est at the rate of 8 per centwith effect from April 1 toJune 30, 2019,” a Departmentof Economic Affairs notifica-tion said.

The interest rate will beapplicable on provident fundsof central Governmentemployees, railways anddefence forces.

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The commerce ministry hasasked the three agencies,

which have been tasked toprepare a report on proposedmega trade agreement RCEP, toget into greater details of issuesinvolved in the pact and holdindustry specific consultations,an official said.

Indian Institute ofManagement-Bangalore, IndianCouncil for Research onInternational EconomicRelations (ICRIER) and theCentre for Regional Trade, anautonomous think-tank underthe Department of Commercehave been tasked for the exercise.

It was suggested during apresentation made by theseagencies to Commerce andIndustry Minister SureshPrabhu yesterday.

“The minister asked them tomake their study more granularand also hold industry specificconsultations to understand theirissues and concerns. They have tosee whether the industry is pre-pare to export to RCEP memberslike China or not,” the official said.

Regional ComprehensiveEconomic Partnership (RCEP)is a proposed mega free tradeagreement being negotiated by16 countries.

RCEP bloc includes 10countries of ASEAN (Brunei,Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos,

Malaysia, Myanmar, thePhilippines, Singapore,Thailand, and Vietnam) andtheir six free trade pact partnersnamely Australia, China, India,Japan, Korea and New Zealand.

It aims to cover among theissues related to goods, services,investments, economic andtechnical cooperation, com-petition and intellectual prop-erty rights.

These agencies are beinginvolved as serious concernswere raised by certain sectionof industry and governmentdepartments on the pact.

Presence of China, withwhich India has a huge tradedeficit, in the bloc is a majorconcern to domestic players.Time and again, domesticindustry players have said thatgiving duty free access to Chinawill led to flooding of Chinesegoods in Indian market.

The negotiations have enteredthe sixth year. During the last fiveyears, over 20 rounds of negotia-tions at the expert level were held.Besides, seven ministerial meet-ings and seven inter-sessionalmeetings have been held so far.

RCEP members want Indiato eliminate or significantlyreduce customs duties on max-imum number of goods it trad-ed with them. India’s hugedomestic market providesimmense opportunity ofexports for RCEP countries.

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Rising for the second straightsession, the rupee advanced

19 paise on Wednesday toclose at 69.11 against the USdollar on strong foreign fundinflows amid the greenback’sweakness against key rivalsoverseas.

At the Interbank ForeignExchange, the domestic unitopened at 69.26 and advancedto a high of 69.09. It finally set-tled at 69.11, showing a gain of19 paise over its previous close.

The rupee had strength-

ened by 37 paise Tuesday toclose at 69.30 against the USdollar.

Forex dealers said selling ofthe American currency byexporters supported the rupee.Moreover, IMF’s bullish growthoutlook for the Indian econo-my added strength to the localcurrency.

According to theInternational Monetary Fund(IMF), India is projected togrow at 7.3 per cent in 2019 and7.5 per cent in 2020, support-ed by the continued recovery ofinvestment and robust con-

sumption, thus remaining thefastest growing major economyof the world.

“Rupee bulls are havingupper hand over Americandollar amid expectation ofinflows through Vodafone-Idearight issue ($4 billion), Baring’sinvestment in NIIT ($400 mil-lion) and Essar Steel acquisition($7 billion),” said V K Sharma,Head PCG and Capital MarketsStrategy, HDFC Securities.

Meanwhile, brent crude,the global oil benchmark, wastrading at $70.92 per barrel,higher by 0.44 per cent.

The dollar index, whichgauges the greenback’s strengthagainst a basket of six curren-cies, slipped 0.07 per cent to96.93.

Foreign investors remainednet buyers in the capital mar-kets, putting in �1,429.92 croreWednesday, provisionalexchange data showed.

Market benchmark BSESensex, however, lost 353.87points, or 0.91 per cent, to closeat 38,585.35, while the broad-er NSE Nifty dropped 87.65points, or 0.75 per cent, to11,584.30.

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PharmEasy, an online health platformhas partnered with Purple Quarter,

a tech head search firm to find a CTO forthe organization.

Purple Quarter facilitated AbhinavYajurvedi, an alumnus of the Universityof Delhi and IIT-Roorkee, Ex Senior VicePresident from Myntra, as a CTO forPharmEasy. Abhinav holds exposurewithin the Supply Chain and CRM techbusiness whilst his stint with Myntra. Hisprevious experiences with Amazon andTrilogy builds a strong foundation for thegrowth phase at PharmEasy.

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The head of the EuropeanCentral Bank warned that

global friction over trade -such as U.S. Threats to imposemore tariffs — is holding backthe economy and underlinedthe bank’s readiness to deploymore stimulus if needed.

Mario Draghi saidWednesday that an improvingjobs market and rising wageswere helping the economy inthe 19 countries that use theeuro but uncertainties liketrade disputes and Brexit arehurting it.

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New Delhi: German luxury carmaker BMW Wednesday said it has launched anew diesel variant of 6 Series Gran Turismo sedan in India, priced at �63.9 lakh (ex-showroom). Locally produced at the company’s plant in Chennai, the BMW 620d GranTurismo diversifies the model’s diesel portfolio. The company is already selling twodiesel variants and one petrol trim of the model. “With the launch of the first-everBMW 6 Series Gran Turismo, we created a new segment in the Indian luxury car mar-ket,” BMW Group India President Hans-Christian Baertels said in a statement. Thevariant features an exceptionally efficient entry-level diesel engine which further strength-ens the portfolio of the model, he added. The vehicle comes with a two-litre four-cylin-der diesel engine that enables it to accelerate from 0-100 km/hr in just 7.9 seconds.

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including that of Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) vehicles, at 1,45,459 units in March. Thecompany had sold 1,53,156 units in March 2018, Tata Motors said in a statement. Inthe passenger vehicle category, global sales stood at 88,296 units last month as against96,757 units in March 2018, down 9 per cent. The company’s sales of commercial vehi-cles in March stood at 57,163 units, up 1 per cent from 56,399 units a year ago.Sales of luxury brand JLR declined 8 per cent to 70,171 units last month as comparedto 76,221 units in March 2018.

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senger vehicles (PV) in March declined by 10 per cent to 2,42,708 units as com-pared to the same period last year. According to Federation of Automobile DealersAssociations (FADA), PV sales stood at 2,69,176 units in March 2018. Two-wheel-er sales declined by 7 per cent to 13,24,823 units last month as compared with14,25,356 units in the year-ago period. Commercial vehicle sales declined by 12per cent to 61,896 units as compared to 70,203 units in March last year. Three-wheel-er sales saw a dip of 6 per cent to 53,229 units last month. Total sales across cate-gories declined by 8 per cent to 16,82,656 units in March, as against 18,21,538 unitsin the same month last year. “...there was de-growth (March 2019) in all the cate-gories as March 2018 was one of the biggest months for retails last fiscal,” FADApresident Ashish Harsharaj Kale said. The industry, however, showed positive signson a monthly basis as compared to February 2019, he added. Appreciating autofirms for taking production in order to adjust to the current demand, Kale said theinventory reduction in March, with further reduction expected in April, will helpget the dealers to normal inventory levels of 30 days. He added that the dealers havefaced one of the toughest times in terms of liquidity and adequate working capi-tal in the past six months. “FADA will engage with the newly elected policy mak-ers of our nation, post the elections and will be advocating a separate working cap-ital policy for auto retail, which will aid in its continued sustainable growth,” Kalesaid.

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The BSE benchmark Sensexcracked about 354 points

Wednesday, pressured by asudden sell-off in HDFC andHDFC Bank amid grim glob-al cues.

The 30-share Sensex lost353.87 points, or 0.91 per cent,to close at 38,585.35, while thebroader NSE Nifty dropped87.65 points, or 0.75 per cent,to 11,584.30.

HDFC Bank slumped 2.07per cent, while HDFC lost1.96 per cent. The HDFC duocollectively accounted foralmost half of the Sensex’s354-point loss.

Traders said the HDFCduo succumbed to a late-ses-sion sell-off following reportsof PE giant KKR offloadingsome stake in the two compa-nies. Market sentiment wasalso hit by the IMF down-grading the global growth fore-cast to 3.3 per cent for 2019,they added. Globally, stockswobbled after US PresidentDonald Trump threatened toslap tariffs on goods importedfrom the EU, ratcheting upglobal trade tensions.

Other top losers in theSensex pack included BhartiAirtel, Asian Paints, TCS, HCLTech, Tata Steel, SBI, IndusIndBank and Hero MotoCorp,

declining up to 3.28 per cent.While Tata Motors, HUL,

Kotak Bank, Coal India, SunPharma, M&M, Bajaj Autoand ONGC were the gainers,spurting up to 4.68 per cent.

“Sentiments were affectedon the news that IMF had low-ered global economic growthoutlook and fresh trade ten-sions have erupted between USand EU. Investors also seemedto be cautious awaiting Q4March 2019 earnings begin-ning later this week,” saidDeepak Jasani, Head- RetailResearch, HDFC Securities.

The IMF’s WorldEconomic Outlook (WEO)“projects a slowdown in growthin 2019 for 70 per cent of theworld economy,” IMF chiefeconomist Gita Gopinath saidin a statement.

India is projected to growat 7.3 per cent in 2019 and 7.5per cent in 2020, reflecting therecent revision to the nationalaccount statistics that indicat-ed somewhat softer underlyingmomentum, the report said.

Meanwhile, foreign insti-tutional investors (FIIs) netpurchased equity worth Rs1,212.35 crore Tuesday, whiledomestic institutional investors(DIIs) sold shares to the tuneof Rs 688.65 crore, provision-al data available with stockexchanges showed.

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Hospitality f irm OYO onWednesday said it has creat-

ed over a lakh direct and indirectjobs in India and is aiming to dou-ble the number by 2020.

The company is helpingempower multiple ancillary indus-tries in the hospitality ecosystemby leveraging scale to make bulkprocurement that supports localbusinesses, OYO said in a state-ment.

“We are focused on enablingeconomic opportunities at every

level and are committed towardsgenerating gainful employmentand entrepreneurship through ourgrowing network of OYO Hotelsand Homes in India,” OYO Indiaand South Asia Chief ExecutiveOfficer Aditya Ghosh said.

He added that over half of the1 lakh jobs created by it were insmaller towns and cities of India.

“As we grow at scale, so doesthe possibility of an entrepre-neurial ecosystem of direct andindirect employment. We, there-fore, aim to double economicopportunities created by 2020,”

Ghosh said.Every month, OYO is utilising

over 40 lakh toiletry kits across the1,73,000 exclusive rooms that arepart of its chain while procuring40,000 units of linen, the statementsaid.In addition, the company hasset up 22 OYO Skill Institutes inthe country for training frontlinestaff in every aspect of hotel man-agement in India, it added.

OYO has footprint in over500 cities across 10 countries -India, China, Malaysia, Nepal, theUK, the UAE, Indonesia, SaudiArabia, the Philippines and Japan.

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Insurance companies will have toinform about claim settlement

status to policyholders at variousstages of processing from July,Irdai said Wednesday.

Insurers need to adopt a clearand transparent communicationpolicy to protect the interest of pol-icyholders, it said in a circular.

When it comes to claims, thereis a need to make available atracking mechanism for policy-holders so as to enable them to

know the status of their claims, itadded.

“In order to ensure fair andtransparent claim settlement pro-cedures, all insurers shall notifyabout the status of the claim at var-ious stages of its processing.

“In case of health insurance,where third party administrators(TPAs) are engaged for renderingclaims services, it is the responsi-bility of insurers to ensure that sta-tus of claim shall be notified to theclaimant at every stage of claim,”the Insurance Regulatory and

Development Authority of India(Irdai) said.

Clear and transparent com-munication play a vital role in ser-vicing of insurance policies and inensuring that the benefits of insur-ance policies flow to the benefi-ciaries in a timely manner, itadded.

Irdai also asked insurers — life,health and general — to send allcommunication about issuanceand servicing of policies throughletter, e-mail, SMS or any otherelectronic form approved by it.

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UNIONBANK 94.80 95.75 93.10 93.50BEL 96.00 96.85 95.00 95.55GNFC 324.25 333.70 323.50 330.65NBCC 61.45 62.00 60.75 60.90GSFC 103.50 106.50 103.30 104.60PERSISTENT* 626.00 634.90 623.50 625.85DELTACORP 261.50 262.00 256.00 256.95DABUR 403.70 408.80 401.90 403.00HCLTECH 1117.00 1124.00 1095.00 1098.05SRTRANSFIN 1229.95 1236.00 1185.45 1196.55SUNTV 618.50 618.50 596.00 598.60BAJAJ-AUTO 2920.00 2945.10 2910.85 2935.10PNBHOUSING 892.50 893.00 862.20 866.70ESCORTS 770.00 785.00 769.60 776.30HEROMOTOCO 2625.00 2625.00 2593.00 2599.40CENTURYPLY 198.95 198.95 193.20 193.90BEML 966.00 981.35 962.90 972.30RCF 59.95 62.15 59.15 60.90SPARC 182.60 188.70 182.50 185.60HINDPETRO 256.90 259.75 255.00 255.75RADICO 381.05 388.60 380.25 381.20IRB 141.00 143.55 137.50 137.85IDFCFIRSTB 54.45 55.05 54.10 54.50MANAPPURAM 119.55 123.05 119.00 120.20SCI 35.20 36.25 35.00 35.15MARICO 359.00 362.90 356.70 359.00NTPC 135.90 136.95 134.10 134.50HSCL 117.70 121.95 116.75 118.15ADANIPORTS 379.85 385.30 375.75 383.65INDIACEM 108.65 110.15 107.00 107.40LICHSGFIN 541.00 549.50 528.00 529.75ADANIPOWER 50.10 50.50 48.85 49.05ABFRL 221.10 224.10 219.65 222.10AMARAJABAT 675.00 688.85 667.35 684.35SBILIFE 620.80 623.80 618.00 622.70UPL 946.00 946.00 923.25 925.75ABCAPITAL 97.75 98.30 96.35 96.60PEL 2626.00 2692.00 2624.65 2680.75CENTURYTEX 884.80 903.80 881.30 898.80IBULISL 348.00 368.85 344.40 361.40GRASIM 840.75 852.80 838.85 845.35GODFRYPHLP 1104.20 1164.15 1100.85 1158.70

FORCEMOT 1800.00 1818.00 1787.70 1796.15PFC 120.05 120.95 118.50 119.90PETRONET 240.00 244.00 235.00 235.95GREAVESCOT 147.80 153.85 147.35 150.85GAIL 341.70 344.40 335.80 337.50JUBILANT 680.00 695.00 680.00 686.85CEATLTD 1131.00 1132.50 1085.00 1101.05CANFINHOME 353.65 359.85 345.95 347.35EDELWEISS 186.65 190.35 186.00 188.00TATAELXSI 970.00 976.25 960.00 967.05RECLTD 153.35 153.50 149.80 150.55GMRINFRA 18.80 18.90 18.20 18.45GODREJCP 667.55 667.85 660.35 664.60EICHERMOT 20865.95 21070.00 20636.45 20971.30JUBLFOOD 1427.00 1427.00 1406.15 1409.40TATACHEM 603.75 614.45 602.00 610.75CROMPTON 223.85 229.45 223.00 227.05M&MFIN 414.00 417.40 410.20 411.75BHARATFORG 505.80 508.10 497.50 499.30MEGH 61.00 61.50 60.30 60.70IGL 310.25 313.40 307.70 310.45ITI 102.20 102.90 100.60 101.00OMAXE 212.95 212.95 211.15 211.60MCX 765.35 783.75 763.65 768.75NAUKRI 1900.00 1940.00 1870.00 1919.45BRITANNIA 2973.85 2993.95 2952.00 2958.60VIPIND 465.00 480.00 465.00 472.55KPRMILL 572.00 574.50 558.00 561.80COLPAL 1234.80 1236.85 1210.05 1216.85DIVISLAB 1715.00 1732.45 1708.80 1720.00DBL 602.20 636.05 602.20 621.30RAYMOND 781.25 791.65 775.00 778.40BERGEPAINT 326.50 326.65 318.00 321.10CUMMINSIND 732.00 748.90 727.00 744.50NMDC 104.15 105.80 104.00 104.25PIDILITIND 1271.90 1284.70 1271.85 1281.80MERCK 3960.00 3980.35 3855.80 3863.70KEC 286.30 288.90 283.85 286.45BAJAJFINSV 7351.00 7440.00 7344.15 7430.50VENKYS 2148.30 2190.00 2130.00 2137.10IEX 159.00 159.90 155.50 157.60COROMANDEL 440.00 442.00 419.75 427.80MFSL 421.80 425.40 412.20 416.05BLISSGVS 176.90 178.85 174.60 175.75INDIANB 270.95 277.30 270.10 271.45NIITTECH 1276.00 1309.55 1276.00 1296.70CGPOWER 39.00 39.45 38.35 38.50LINDEINDIA 509.00 526.00 505.00 512.75BALKRISIND 980.00 982.70 965.05 968.40AMBUJACEM 226.80 227.50 223.20 223.85

TAKE 145.15 146.85 141.50 142.40GLENMARK 640.95 654.45 637.30 650.55TRENT 346.95 352.75 344.15 345.25CASTROLIND 166.65 167.55 165.00 165.45INTELLECT 227.00 230.20 223.40 225.90POWERGRID 198.00 199.60 197.40 198.10VOLTAS 610.75 616.35 607.00 609.55HINDCOPPER 49.10 50.80 49.10 49.65WESTLIFE 415.35 426.40 406.60 413.60ULTRACEMCO 4159.95 4164.65 4118.35 4126.60EQUITAS 131.00 135.20 130.75 134.10ENGINERSIN 117.80 118.85 115.85 116.30RAJESHEXPO 670.50 673.10 651.10 656.65RNAM 197.50 202.70 195.65 196.60UFLEX 239.10 248.60 239.10 245.70ALBK 53.30 53.90 52.85 53.20ORIENTBANK 109.65 112.40 109.35 110.90SIEMENS 1147.20 1169.90 1145.95 1165.65SUVEN 268.60 271.50 266.10 267.30BIRLACORPN 502.15 509.00 497.85 502.20TVSMOTOR 481.90 488.55 479.45 482.30BANDHANBNK 553.10 554.95 543.00 548.05GUJGAS 159.40 159.40 152.00 153.05PAGEIND 24600.00 24600.00 23739.95 23839.75INDHOTEL 154.65 156.20 152.30 152.70CADILAHC 341.00 349.00 339.25 343.40JMFINANCIL 90.90 90.90 87.10 87.70GHCL 240.85 242.80 237.40 238.85NATCOPHARM* 565.00 566.00 554.40 562.60NOCIL 142.00 143.50 141.30 142.05AVANTI 395.00 398.00 391.25 392.30FINCABLES 488.00 488.75 480.00 480.25LTTS 1593.00 1610.00 1585.05 1599.75APOLLOHOSP 1262.00 1269.00 1243.30 1248.35THERMAX 971.15 980.90 971.15 979.50BAJAJELEC 546.00 554.05 543.60 548.00IDFC 47.40 47.70 46.40 46.60FCONSUMER 44.50 44.95 43.00 43.30SYNDIBANK 42.95 43.05 41.60 41.90ACC 1644.45 1654.25 1630.00 1633.75MGL 1011.50 1014.80 997.95 999.65GRUH 283.65 286.10 278.70 280.25ALLCARGO 112.75 115.30 112.00 114.50TV18BRDCST 35.65 36.30 35.00 35.20INDOSTAR 397.55 413.00 382.00 404.15ISEC 227.00 229.85 219.50 222.75CHOLAFIN 1481.60 1503.50 1471.00 1474.30IFCI 13.04 13.07 12.75 12.84IPCALAB 936.30 957.80 933.15 942.60HSIL 272.00 277.90 271.00 272.15OIL 177.95 180.20 177.60 178.40SHANKARA 495.95 495.95 478.25 481.75TEJASNET 170.05 184.90 169.00 182.55SUDARSCHEM 366.85 370.00 355.00 356.75NESTLEIND 10800.75 10842.20 10730.15 10808.40INFRATEL 310.10 318.10 310.10 314.65AARTIIND 1652.70 1675.00 1620.50 1631.60MOIL 160.90 162.00 159.20 161.35CONCOR 522.00 524.95 516.60 519.70RALLIS 158.45 161.00 157.50 160.00KANSAINER 452.00 474.70 448.30 455.20SOBHA 502.00 505.40 493.50 495.45TORNTPHARM 1854.00 1871.00 1839.40 1859.25MAHINDCIE 227.85 230.50 221.00 222.05DEEPAKFERT 133.30 135.95 133.00 134.60GSPL 178.00 182.80 178.00 182.00MUTHOOTFIN 617.75 618.00 607.20 608.70JKTYRE 92.80 93.10 91.10 92.35ALKEM 1743.30 1756.75 1734.25 1749.45JSWENERGY 71.75 73.40 71.60 72.50HINDZINC 283.80 286.15 281.80 282.30BATAINDIA 1403.70 1406.05 1388.30 1392.10JSL 40.45 41.75 39.10 40.35SWANENERGY 108.85 111.70 108.15 110.85PRESTIGE 268.00 270.80 263.55 267.35JINDALSAW 82.40 84.00 82.40 82.80KRBL 325.95 327.90 320.00 320.80MANPASAND 112.85 115.55 112.85 114.20SUNDRMFAST 568.50 580.00 568.50 572.20NAVINFLUOR 718.95 723.75 712.00 713.75BAJAJCON 320.00 323.00 311.15 318.20MMTC 27.70 28.40 27.70 28.00COCHINSHIP 402.05 404.45 388.00 396.25BLUESTARCO 689.10 691.15 684.00 685.00PFIZER 3217.05 3295.35 3217.05 3248.70DEEPAKNI 269.40 273.75 268.75 270.00TATAGLOBAL 212.00 212.00 207.00 208.40WELCORP 139.15 140.65 136.30 138.20ADANIGREEN 37.90 38.10 36.60 36.90PTC 74.40 74.40 73.55 73.80SHOPERSTOP 450.00 455.85 440.00 446.30JKLAKSHMI 349.10 357.40 346.00 354.85GESHIP 300.40 307.00 293.90 302.55FRETAIL 434.00 434.00 425.05 426.20SKFINDIA 2088.30 2132.00 2057.40 2122.30AJANTPHARM 1015.00 1022.35 1008.65 1012.90KEI 405.00 408.00 396.25 400.00TRIDENT 67.05 67.90 66.75 67.05TATAMETALI 661.10 673.45 660.00 663.15ADVENZYMES 192.55 194.75 187.50 188.05CHENNPETRO 253.90 257.80 252.05 253.90PARAGMILK 250.15 251.65 247.50 248.60DCBBANK 197.35 199.65 196.05 196.80WABAG 311.65 317.25 309.15 310.95AUBANK 585.05 592.40 580.00 584.55ADANITRANS 222.85 222.90 216.00 216.65RAMCOCEM 754.25 761.15 750.00 758.00NESCO 471.05 474.45 467.75 469.55BHARATFIN 1107.90 1117.50 1100.00 1103.70

GODREJAGRO 505.15 514.00 505.15 507.35SRF 2450.00 2485.00 2445.00 2452.95BBTC 1279.00 1294.95 1277.00 1283.65MOTILALOFS 679.80 679.80 663.55 667.15LEMONTREE 79.05 80.00 79.00 79.40TORNTPOWER 258.40 258.40 254.10 254.90VGUARD 218.25 222.15 217.40 220.80KSCL 471.15 477.75 467.40 472.10ZENSARTECH 230.15 235.00 230.00 231.15ABB 1392.50 1405.25 1370.20 1379.05CHAMBLFERT 161.15 166.40 161.15 164.80ASHOKA 131.20 132.65 128.55 129.20NHPC 24.20 24.30 24.00 24.10ISGEC 550.00 566.00 547.05 553.80WELSPUNIND 57.50 58.00 57.00 57.30UBL 1433.00 1433.00 1399.70 1404.05DCAL 228.75 240.00 228.75 234.55EVEREADY 186.00 189.75 185.65 187.65VINATIORGA 1734.00 1745.00 1708.00 1719.10GRANULES 113.80 113.80 111.30 112.65HUDCO 44.50 45.15 44.50 44.65MRPL 69.55 70.90 69.40 70.35GMDCLTD 78.50 79.50 78.50 78.70GRINDWELL 577.45 605.25 575.00 585.85HEIDELBERG 176.55 179.90 176.55 178.00EIHOTEL 197.35 197.60 191.00 192.45GODREJIND 530.00 534.75 525.35 527.50MRF 57900.00 58450.00 57400.05 57668.85VMART 2526.10 2573.20 2526.10 2557.05MAGMA 120.70 122.65 119.15 121.40REDINGTON 97.00 97.20 95.75 96.10HERITGFOOD 527.25 527.25 502.20 504.75PIIND 1010.00 1027.00 1005.00 1012.95PRSMJOHNSN 93.45 94.15 92.60 93.35CYIENT* 604.90 604.90 591.20 593.20SHK 161.00 161.50 155.60 156.40REPCOHOME 455.80 457.90 445.00 447.30JSLHISAR 88.60 91.00 88.55 89.55GICHSGFIN 266.00 267.75 264.00 265.80OFSS 3574.35 3615.45 3554.00 3562.55KAJARIACER 605.85 612.00 602.00 604.65EMAMILTD 402.45 407.00 402.45 404.80GPPL 98.50 98.50 96.00 96.25JBCHEPHARM 350.95 351.50 346.60 349.50QUESS 719.55 721.00 710.75 716.00VBL 881.60 881.60 858.55 861.15JYOTHYLAB 187.00 190.30 186.00 186.80GEPIL 853.70 884.90 845.00 870.60THOMASCOOK 249.30 250.55 248.30 249.95SUPRAJIT 233.50 235.50 228.00 228.30GREENPLY 170.75 171.25 167.80 168.40VTL 1087.05 1142.65 1087.05 1126.85JAMNAAUTO 59.70 60.35 59.20 59.40ANDHRABANK 29.25 29.70 29.10 29.20GUJALKALI 482.00 485.00 481.65 482.85TIINDIA 375.85 382.85 375.85 379.60LALPATHLAB 1017.90 1040.05 1016.50 1024.85EIDPARRY 206.10 207.60 204.45 205.70GICRE 252.00 253.00 247.90 248.90APLAPOLLO 1488.60 1506.55 1470.30 1484.75WHIRLPOOL 1442.00 1470.05 1429.00 1451.453MINDIA 23450.00 24525.00 23450.00 24260.15ASTRAZEN 1952.60 2015.00 1905.00 2011.70CENTRALBK 34.05 35.05 34.05 34.55ATUL 3490.00 3550.95 3483.25 3546.25AIAENG 1757.85 1800.00 1752.50 1792.20TATACOFFEE 91.55 92.00 91.05 91.35CENTRUM 34.40 35.00 33.75 33.95CARBORUNIV 380.40 381.00 375.40 379.20SYNGENE 572.15 579.40 571.80 574.25COFFEEDAY 274.00 277.05 273.15 274.05SONATSOFTW 339.10 342.00 335.60 338.40BALMLAWRIE 182.10 184.10 181.75 181.90SREINFRA 28.95 29.35 28.55 28.75ENDURANCE 1161.80 1171.05 1161.00 1165.55BAJAJHLDNG 3275.00 3343.05 3240.90 3306.95GALAXYSURF 990.00 1022.00 985.70 989.90SUPREMEIND 1140.00 1140.00 1122.00 1128.05HIMATSEIDE 219.40 219.40 213.00 214.80WABCOINDIA 6318.05 6359.00 6289.00 6348.30TATACOMM 580.40 587.90 578.05 580.40MINDAIND 349.05 349.05 339.00 341.65SCHNEIDER 104.40 105.45 103.20 103.65NIACL 189.10 192.20 186.95 187.60CRISIL 1456.80 1492.50 1456.80 1485.85GUJFLUORO 1070.00 1079.35 1064.40 1068.85GDL 139.00 139.00 134.70 135.90HAL 707.05 715.60 705.00 710.85PNCINFRA 149.60 152.50 149.40 151.00BOSCHLTD 17876.95 17876.95 17770.10 17840.05ITDC 279.50 282.70 278.10 278.70UCOBANK 18.90 19.00 18.60 18.70MAHABANK 14.20 14.41 14.06 14.28RELAXO 843.00 849.00 835.10 838.75AEGISLOG 211.05 212.00 208.00 209.70NBVENTURES 102.80 104.05 102.05 102.65DBCORP 195.00 197.50 194.15 195.35ESSELPRO 118.00 119.35 116.45 116.65GAYAPROJ 169.10 173.25 168.85 171.05HONAUT 23192.05 24199.95 23192.05 24018.00TIMETECHNO 95.90 96.40 95.05 95.25BDL 297.95 297.95 291.00 292.75KNRCON 246.00 250.90 244.15 247.40FLFL 476.60 484.30 471.50 481.75MAHLOG 522.00 525.00 515.00 520.80KALPATPOWR 474.20 479.00 472.60 477.15CORPBANK 28.00 28.40 28.00 28.15DCMSHRIRAM 403.05 407.30 402.00 403.45SHREECEM 19005.00 19038.90 18815.45 18961.30

NILKAMAL 1390.05 1409.00 1387.15 1389.25TEAMLEASE 2971.75 2980.00 2932.25 2946.40GET&D 277.50 279.15 274.50 275.80FORBESCO 2410.05 2448.00 2365.20 2403.70NETWORK18 35.20 35.50 34.55 34.90CAPPL 386.90 388.00 378.30 380.90TIMKEN 591.00 591.00 580.00 587.80MAXINDIA 70.10 71.45 69.00 69.50CERA 2893.30 2893.55 2750.00 2837.30FORTIS 136.30 136.30 135.30 135.60SUPPETRO 220.05 220.05 217.75 218.15BAYERCROP 4270.00 4300.00 4225.00 4235.15THYROCARE 520.20 528.00 520.20 520.70IFBIND 886.45 898.20 869.85 877.45MINDACORP 131.85 135.00 130.00 131.40SJVN 24.20 24.20 24.05 24.10LUXIND 1328.40 1345.00 1310.00 1323.80FINOLEXIND 483.00 492.00 482.10 487.35ASTERDM 152.25 155.90 152.20 154.50CCL 280.10 282.30 275.65 277.45AKZOINDIA 1787.85 1791.55 1760.00 1772.95TNPL 213.85 213.85 209.60 210.30TTKPRESTIG 8450.00 8500.00 8415.30 8448.95MHRIL 238.00 240.70 235.15 237.45PGHH 10889.00 10889.15 10695.20 10729.55MAHLIFE 378.75 380.00 370.95 371.60LAURUSLABS 395.00 405.00 395.00 403.70ECLERX 1131.00 1131.00 1125.05 1126.75SHRIRAMCIT 1768.75 1780.45 1700.00 1722.85GSKCONS 7072.00 7137.90 7048.35 7093.60SANOFI 5838.00 5838.00 5750.20 5786.95SOMANYCERA 442.70 442.70 430.05 434.85GLAXO 1297.45 1300.00 1291.25 1294.55UNITEDBNK 11.21 11.21 10.96 11.02CUB 200.00 201.50 199.00 199.85JKCEMENT 853.00 870.00 848.85 867.95NAVNETEDUL 110.50 111.15 110.15 110.45IOB 14.96 14.97 14.76 14.84APLLTD 539.95 542.60 534.60 537.50SOLARINDS 1065.00 1090.00 1065.00 1082.15NLCINDIA 68.05 68.35 67.75 68.05FDC 167.20 169.85 163.80 164.85LAXMIMACH 6170.00 6170.00 6059.00 6075.50ORIENTCEM 95.00 95.40 93.00 93.45ABBOTINDIA 7286.05 7390.20 7280.00 7341.00ASTRAL 1200.70 1201.00 1188.00 1190.25SYMPHONY 1348.15 1364.15 1343.75 1349.95BASF 1395.00 1411.85 1395.00 1397.60SUNCLAYLTD 2764.00 2848.00 2680.00 2798.30JCHAC 2038.95 2055.00 2000.05 2014.20PHOENIXLTD 656.75 659.00 649.95 650.80GILLETTE 6990.90 6990.90 6914.20 6938.20MAHSCOOTER 3639.95 3642.20 3609.50 3630.70ZYDUSWELL 1313.10 1320.00 1306.10 1306.40TVSSRICHAK 2205.00 2219.45 2180.10 2192.90JAGRAN 118.30 119.80 118.00 118.20DHANUKA 388.45 394.95 388.00 391.60SHARDACROP 389.00 397.55 389.00 394.10TATAINVEST 865.55 865.55 858.00 860.85SCHAEFFLER 5415.00 5551.90 5415.00 5456.85SHILPAMED 334.90 338.30 334.90 338.25ASAHIINDIA 251.60 251.60 247.00 250.15ITDCEM 124.20 125.20 122.70 123.65CHOLAHLDNG 495.00 495.00 480.00 482.70MONSANTO 2577.15 2578.45 2543.80 2550.35CARERATING 993.70 993.85 989.85 992.45TVTODAY 311.15 311.15 308.00 308.90STARCEMENT 99.75 99.90 98.85 99.10SADBHAV 245.00 247.40 244.00 246.65TRITURBINE 110.80 111.00 108.00 108.25KIOCL 142.20 142.20 139.55 141.25NH 218.85 219.65 216.00 217.00LAOPALA 207.20 207.60 204.30 205.00BLUEDART 3287.70 3300.00 3275.45 3282.80ERIS 630.00 638.75 625.75 631.85INOXWIND 68.00 68.95 68.00 68.25APARINDS 679.55 685.00 675.00 684.85SIS 846.25 851.35 846.00 847.00ELGIEQUIP 245.65 249.85 245.60 247.65GULFOILLUB 870.15 875.00 870.15 873.55SFL 1346.55 1360.00 1346.55 1355.00RATNAMANI 891.40 891.40 890.00 890.00HATSUN 760.00 760.00 760.00 760.00

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SCRIP OPEN HIgh LOW LTP CHANGENIFTY 50 11646.85 11680.05 11571.75 11584.30 -87.65TATAMOTORS 206.00 217.40 205.60 215.80 9.90WIPRO 278.00 281.80 275.00 281.25 7.45CIPLA 531.55 551.75 530.80 546.45 14.45ADANIPORTS 378.40 385.40 375.20 385.00 4.30HINDUNILVR 1684.70 1704.65 1675.00 1699.00 18.50BPCL 356.00 360.00 353.10 359.00 2.70IOC 154.75 158.35 153.45 156.55 1.15COALINDIA 238.90 242.90 238.40 240.00 1.60KOTAKBANK 1338.05 1367.95 1338.05 1350.00 8.55BAJAJFINSV 7373.90 7445.00 7345.00 7423.00 43.80BAJAJ-AUTO 2917.95 2952.00 2910.35 2941.25 16.45ZEEL 411.55 416.65 406.05 412.30 1.60SUNPHARMA 468.00 479.90 467.35 472.50 1.55M&M 672.60 675.00 663.10 669.95 2.10ONGC 156.95 159.95 156.80 158.00 0.45DRREDDY 2752.15 2835.90 2746.10 2761.05 7.75TITAN 1099.40 1105.00 1083.50 1100.80 2.25INFRATEL 315.10 318.20 313.65 315.75 0.55POWERGRID 197.75 199.65 197.75 198.50 0.15TECHM 786.05 798.95 786.00 790.05 0.55BRITANNIA 2969.90 2995.00 2951.30 2964.00 1.10GRASIM 839.00 853.75 838.25 845.65 -0.35EICHERMOT 20840.00 21080.00 20650.00 20925.25 -21.85RELIANCE 1337.95 1348.00 1326.50 1331.00 -3.45LT 1370.00 1382.00 1365.00 1371.05 -4.15BAJFINANCE 3011.10 3037.00 2986.00 2997.45 -11.25AXISBANK 761.25 767.90 758.00 760.50 -2.90VEDL 188.90 191.75 185.55 189.00 -1.00MARUTI 7218.95 7218.95 7144.60 7176.50 -40.05ITC 296.05 296.55 293.50 294.30 -2.00ULTRACEMCO 4167.90 4169.95 4120.00 4135.00 -28.20YESBANK 272.00 275.45 267.50 268.55 -2.05IBULHSGFIN 831.00 849.40 820.00 824.70 -7.05ICICIBANK 395.55 398.80 392.70 393.50 -3.65INDUSINDBK 1766.05 1778.95 1742.20 1749.05 -18.05INFY 764.00 766.70 751.30 752.85 -7.75NTPC 136.25 137.00 134.30 134.45 -1.45HEROMOTOCO 2619.00 2619.00 2586.80 2591.95 -31.70JSWSTEEL 290.20 293.75 287.30 288.00 -3.55SBIN 314.85 317.05 310.00 310.70 -4.05TATASTEEL 551.65 559.40 541.70 544.10 -8.95HCLTECH 1120.00 1125.30 1096.20 1098.75 -19.40GAIL 343.00 344.35 337.05 337.50 -6.00HDFC 2067.50 2068.00 2025.10 2029.95 -39.20HDFCBANK 2250.00 2284.00 2231.00 2236.90 -50.35UPL 938.00 945.50 923.40 923.70 -20.95TCS 2083.00 2085.50 2036.00 2043.65 -47.85ASIANPAINT 1449.80 1451.00 1405.35 1409.70 -35.15HINDALCO 214.50 216.75 209.65 211.60 -5.55BHARTIARTL 350.80 354.40 338.00 338.45 -13.15

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Theresa May on Wednesdaydescribed the Jallianwala

Bagh massacre in Amritsar asa "shameful scar" on BritishIndian history but stoppedshort of a formal apologysought by a cross-section ofParliament in previous debates.

In a statement, marking the100th anniversary of the mas-sacre, at the start of her week-ly Prime Minister's Questions inthe House of Commons, shereiterated the "regret" alreadyexpressed by the BritishGovernment.

The massacre took place inJallianwala Bagh in Amritsar onBaisakhi in April 1919 when theBritish Indian Army troops,under the command of ColonelReginald Dyer, fired machineguns at a crowd of people hold-ing a pro-independencedemonstration.

According to the Britishgovernment records, 379 peo-ple, including men, women andchildren were killed and around1200 injured in the firing.

"The tragedy of JallianwalaBagh of 1919 is a shameful scaron British Indian history. AsHer Majesty the Queen(Elizabeth II) said before visit-ing Jallianwala Bagh in 1997, itis a distressing example of ourpast history with India," she saidin her statement.

"We deeply regret whathappened and the sufferingcaused. I am pleased that today

the UK-India relationship isone of collaboration, partner-ship, prosperity and security.Indian diaspora make an enor-mous contribution to Britishsociety and I am sure the wholeHouse wishes to see the UK'srelationship with India contin-ue to flourish," she said.

In response, OppositionLabour Party Leader JeremyCorbyn demanded that thosewho lost their lives in the mas-sacre deserve a "full, clear andunequivocal apology for whattook place".

May's statement comes aday after British MPs atWestminster Hall of theParliament complex debatedthe issue of a formal apology forthe April 13, 1919 massacre tomark its centenary thisSaturday.

Foreign Office MinisterMark Field had told MPs thathe had been "compelled" by thearguments to raise the issue ofgoing further than the "deepestregret" expressed over thekillings during the British Raj.

"I feel that we perhaps needto go further... I have nowbeen persuaded - not just bythis debate - to take a differentapproach," the minister said,adding that the governmenthad to also consider the "finan-cial implications" of any apol-ogy for events of the past.

"These issues are an important way of trying todraw a line under the past.Therefore, this is work inprogress and I cannot make anypromises," he said, holding outsome hope of a formal apolo-gy over the incident.

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In an "innovative outreach",an imposing mural on the

premises of India's PermanentMission to the UN depicts amulti-pronged theme of envi-ronmentally sustainable greenjobs, Mahatma Gandhi's 150thbirth anniversary, theInternational LabourOrganisation's centenary cele-bration and India leading theglobal greening effort as doc-umented recently by NASA.

The mural, on the sidewallof the Permanent Mission ofIndia to the UN here, was cre-ated by French artist, original-ly from Portugal, Victor Ash tocommemorate the centenarycelebrations of theInternational LabourOrganization (ILO) as well asGandhi's 150th birth anniver-sary.

The mural, an innovativecollaboration with the ILO andnon-profit organization ‘StreetArt for Mankind', was inaugu-rated Tuesday.

The imposing white, black,grey and green mural depicts agigantic weightless astronaut,floating in space, a green lndiavisible in the astronaut's helmetvisor. Gandhi's portrait and thenumber ‘150' are on the astro-naut's spacesuit's left arm whilea patch with the ILO logo andthe numeric '100' is on the rightarm.

India's PermanentRepresentative to the UN

Ambassador Syed Akbaruddinsaid the ILO worked with theIndia's Permanent Mission topromote a global concern -environmentally sustainablegreen jobs. He said the mural'stheme also has other elementsof India - green jobs, the NASAreport and Gandhi's 150thbirth anniversary.

"Rare is an occasion thatyou can get so many themestogether," Akbaruddin said asthe mural was inaugurated inthe presence of ILO Director-General Guy Ryder as well astop UN diplomats.

"We hope that this innov-ative outreach, which goesbeyond diplomatic outreach,reaches out to people on thestreet in a form that is com-prehensible to them."

"We diplomats work onresolutions, outcomes, docu-ments but this is our combinedeffort to promote green jobs ina much more sustainable man-ner," he said.

Looking down on Earth,the astronaut in the mural sees that the world is a green-er place than it was 20 yearsago. India is amongst thosecontributing in significant mea-sure to this increase in thegreening on Earth and thesame was corroborated by therecent data from the NASAsatellites.

A recent NASA study hadsaid India and China are lead-ing the global greening effort.The NASA study, which

observed that the world is agreener place than it was 20years ago, was based on datareceived and analysed from itssatellite. The greening in Indiais mostly from croplands (82per cent) with minor contri-bution from forests (4.4 percent), the NASA study, pub-lished on February 11, said.

Akbaruddin voiced appre-ciation for Ash for being ableto "artistically depict the mul-tiple themes in a way that all ofus can comprehend."

Ash said he was honouredto participate in the project,which gives a message that it'simportant for nations to worktogether for a greener future.

"I painted the astronautbecause astronauts are alsoworkers, they carry all themachines and tools when theygo up in space. I think thefuture of workers will also bespace," he told PTI.

He added that astronautsoften say that when they are inspace, they don't see borderswhen they look down at Earth.“There are no borders, it's onlyin our minds.”

Ash, who has been doingstreet art and murals since the1980s, finished the mural inone week.

"Big murals like this are agood way to give messages.Very often art is not under-stood by most people. I usevery simple message in what Ido so people can understandvery easily," he said.

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Benjamin Netanyahuappeared to be headed

toward a historic fifth term asIsrael's Prime Minister onWednesday, with close-to-com-plete unofficial election resultsgiving his right-wing Likud andother nationalist and religiousparties a solid majority in par-liament. The outcome affirmedIsrael's continued tilt to theright and further dimmed hopesof a negotiated solution to theIsraeli-Palestinian conflict. Re-election will also giveNetanyahu an important boostas he braces for the likelihoodof criminal charges in a series ofcorruption scandals.

With 97.4 per cent of thevote counted, Likud and its tra-

ditional political allies were incommand of a 65-55 majorityin parliament. A couple ofsmall parties were still teeter-ing along the electoral thresh-old and fighting for their sur-vival, so the final makeup of thenext parliament has yet to bedecided. Final results wereexpected Thursday.

Two of his potential allies,hawkish former DefenseMinister Avigdor Liebermanand economic-centric FinanceMinister Moshe Kahlon, have yet to formally confirmthey would sit with Netanyahuand could emerge as wild-cards. In any case, the countrynow faces what could be weeksof political negotiations overthe composition of a rulingcoalition.

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President Donald Trump onWednesday said he had yet

to see the full report drawn upby special prosecutor RobertMueller into his election cam-paign's allegedly suspicious linksto Russia.

"I have not seen the Muellerreport, I have not read theMueller report," he said at theWhite House. "As far as I'm con-cerned I don't care about theMueller report. I've been total-ly exonerated," Trump said.

The two-year probe intoTrump and his team's interac-tions with Russians caused hugecontroversy. According to abrief summary released byTrump's attorney general, BillBarr, Mueller found no evi-

dence of deliberate collusionbetween Trump and Russia.

However, Mueller did notcome down on whether Trumpobstructed justice during hiscontinuous and fierce oppositionto the probe. Barr said that in hisjudgement there was no obstruc-tion — a finding that oppositionDemocrats quickly questioned.

The full report -- barring sec-tions blacked out for legal orsecurity reasons -- is expected tobe released within days, promis-ing to fuel intense political bat-tles ahead of the 2020 presiden-tial election. Trump is attempt-ing to divert attention from anypotentially embarrassing revela-tions about his own activities toa full-frontal attack on what hesays was the illegal launching ofthe probe in the first place.

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The Austrian city ofKlagenfurt indefinitely sus-

pended its bus servicesWednesday after a case ofmeasles was detected in one ofthe drivers.

"All bus traffic is suspend-ed until further notice in orderto prevent infection," the city'sKMG public transport opera-tor announced.

The company runs all pub-lic transport in the southerncity of 100,000 inhabitants,which is also the state capital ofCarinthia.

It took the unusual mea-sure after it was revealed thatone driver had been diagnosedwith measles on 3 April.

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Russian investigators haveasked a Moscow court to

move US investor MichaelCalvey, who is accused of fraud,from pre-trial jail to housearrest.

The surprise motion comestwo months after Calvey, headof a multi-billion dollar equi-ty firm that has invested insome of Russia's biggest com-panies, was detained in a casehe says is driven by a rivalshareholder out to discredithim.

Basmanny District Courtspokeswoman Yunona Tsarevasaid the court will consider thepetition by the InvestigativeCommittee on Thursday.

A similar petition was filedfor one of the other suspects,

Alexei Kordichev.Calvey asked several times

to be released from behind barsto be with his family, includingin a letter to President VladimirPutin.

The court had previouslydenied his request. A bail hear-ing was initially scheduled forthe end of this week.

Calvey's lawyer DmitryKletochkin told AFP that hehad no information on the sur-prise development.

"I have not seen themotion," he said, adding thathouse arrest is "much betterthan to be detained."

Calvey's Baring Vostok pri-vate equity fund — which hasbeen working in Russia sincethe 1990s — said it "hopes thecourt will give due considera-tion" to the request.

It added it hopes four oth-ers detained would also bereleased. The lawyer forFrench national PhilippeDelpal who was denied bail asrecently as Tuesday evening,said he was perplexed as "thecrime they were accused of isthe same."

Calvey was arrested inFebruary with five other indi-viduals, and accused ofdefrauding Vostochny Bank of2.5 billion rubles (USD 37.7million).

The arrest shockedWestern business circles, whowarned it could further dis-courage the foreign investmentRussia's economy badly needs.

Calvey and his firm main-tain that the case is fabricatedand related to a shareholderdispute.

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Japan partially lifted an evac-uation order in one of the

two hometowns of the tsuna-mi-wrecked Fukushimanuclear plant on Wednesdayfor the first time since the2011 disaster.

Decontamination effortshave lowered radiation levelssignificantly in the area about7 kilometers (4 miles) south-west of the plant where threereactors had meltdowns dueto the damage caused by theMarch 2011 earthquake andtsunami.

The action allows peopleto return to about 40 percentof Okuma. The other home-town, Futaba, remains off-limits, as are several othertowns nearby.

Many former residents

are reluctant to return as thecomplicated process to safelydecommission the plant con-tinues. Opponents of liftingthe evacuation orders in long-abandoned communities saythe government is promotingresidents' return to showcasesafety ahead of the TokyoOlympics next summer.

The government haspushed for an aggressivedecontamination program byremoving topsoil, choppingtrees and washing down hous-es and roads in contaminatedareas, though experts say theeffort only caused the conta-mination to move from oneplace to another, creating mas-sive amounts of radioactivewaste and the need for itslong-term storage.

The meltdowns at three ofFukushima Dai-ichi's six reac-

tors caused massive radiationleaks that contaminated theplant's surroundings, forcingat its peak some 160,000 people to evacuate theirhomes for areas elsewhere inFukushima or outside the pre-fecture.

Evacuation orders in mostof the initial no-go zones havebeen lifted, but restrictions arestill in place in several townsclosest to the plant and to itsnorthwest, which were cont-aminated by radioactiveplumes from the plant soonafter its meltdowns. Morethan 40,000 people were stillunable to return home as ofMarch, including Okuma'spopulation of 10,000. Townofficials say the lifting of theevacuation order in the twodistricts would encourage thearea's recovery.

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Egyptian security officials saytwo separate attacks

overnight have killed threepolice conscripts and an officerin the restive northern SinaiPeninsula.

The officials saidWednesday that the first attacktook place in the city of el-Arishwhen an explosive device tar-geted an armored vehicle, killinga police officer and two con-scripts. Another explosive devicehit an armored vehicle in thetown of Rafah, killing a conscriptand wounding four others.

The officials spoke on con-dition of anonymity becausethey were not authorised tobrief the media.

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The nominations for thefirst-ever Critics’ ChoiceFilm Awards, an initia-

tive by the Film Critics Guildand Motion Content Group,were announced by actorVidya Balan and filmmakerZoya Akhtar.

A pan-India platform, theawards aim to recognise andhonour the best of Indian cin-ema across eight languagesincluding Hindi, Tamil, Telegu,Malayalam, Kannada, Marathi,Gujarati, and Bengali for theyear 2018.

Hailing the credibility andintegrity of the awards, Zoyareminisced about the timewhen her debut film Luck ByChance had lucked out at thebox office, but how she sur-vived that difficult period dueto the support she receivedfrom the critics. Vidya addedthat while her own film’s crit-icism may not be music to herears, she always listens andtakes all the feedback from thecritics very seriously.

Andhadhun is leading inthe race of nominations withseven nominations whileTumbbad and Badhaai Hohave six nominations each inthe production design, cine-matography, editing, back-ground score, songs and writercategories. The awards are thefirst body to acknowledge thebest song as opposed to thebest album.

Announcing the regionalnominations, Vidya andBhawana Somaaya presentedthe Marathi films as Naal,Lathe Joshi, Redu, Gujaratifilms included Dhh, Reva,Ventilator. Bengali nomina-tions included Ekje Chilo Raja,Upa, Rainbow Jelly, and Telugufilms consisted of KerafKnacharapalem, Mahanati,and Rangasthalam.

Nominations for best film

Kannada included AmmachiYemba Nenapu, Nathicharami,Ondalla Eradalla, Tamil filmsnominated are MerkuThodarchi Malai, PariyerumPerumal, Vada Chennai,Malayalam films are Ee MaYau, Eeda, Sudani fromNigeria.

Zoya and Vidyaannounced the main cate-gories of awards together start-ing with supporting cast femalewhich included Gitanjali Raofor October, Rasika Duggalfor Manto, Surekha Sikhri forBadhaai Ho, Swara Bhasker forVeere Di Wedding, and YaminiDas for Sui Dhaaga. The bestsupporting actor male nomi-nations are AbhishekBachchan for Manmarziyaan,Jaideep Alhawat for Raazi,Manoj Pahwa for Mulk, PankajTripathi for Stree and VickyKaushal for Sanju.

The awards for best actorfemale won nominations toAlia Bhatt for Raazi, AnushkaSharma for Pari, Neena Guptafor Badhaai Ho, Taapsee Pannufor Manmarziyaan and Tabufor Andhadhun.

Male best actors includedAyushmann Khurrana forAndhadhun, Gajaraj Rao forBadhaai Ho, Ranbir Kapoor forSanju, Ranveer Singh forPadmaavat, and Vineet Singhfor Mukkabaaz.

Nominations for the bestdirector are Amit Sharma forBadhaai Ho, Meghna Gulzarfor Raazi, Aadesh Prasad andRahi Anil Barve, Shoojit Sircarfor October, and SriramRaghavan for Andhadhun.

The most awaited andanticipated award nomina-tions for the best film includ-ed Andhadhun, Raazi, BadhaaiHo, October, and Tumbbad.

(The ceremony will takeplace in Mumbai on

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To help the environment bycutting down on non-com-postable plastics, many peo-

ple have begun saying no to plas-tic straws and are bringing reusablebags to the grocery store instead ofaccepting new plastic ones. Butmany more small steps like thosecan be taken.

“There are so many simplechanges you can make at home,”says Melissa Ozawa, features andgardening editor at Martha StewartLiving magazine. “You can use awooden comb, a bamboo tooth-brush, silk dental floss and metalrefillable safety razors.” And that’sjust a start.

“A good way to begin is witha waste audit, taking notes on whatyou throw away, whether it’s adryer sheet or an old toothbrush.You’d be surprised by how muchtrash you’re generating, and it’llgive you clues about what you cando differently,” says Anna Maltby,deputy editor of Real Simple. Ahandful of easy, no-plastic hacksfor a greener home:

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realised we were using a lot of plas-tic wrap. So I switched to usingcontainers we already had andinvested in a set of silicon lids thatfit onto bowls in an array of sizes,”Maltby says.

Other substitutes for clingwrap include cloth coverings,like Bee’s Wrap and Abeego,that seal tight. Paper sand-wich bags and reusable zip-shut silicon baggies are alsopopular choices to replacetraditional single-use plas-

tic baggies.

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dry detergent can be found inrefillable containers and beansand nuts can be found in bulk,so you can sidestep plastic orclamshell containers, Ozawasays. Carry purchases home inglass jars, paper bags or othercontainers you already have.Farmer’s markets are anothergreat source of package-free

foods, she adds.

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reusable bags for garments, includ-ing folded shirts. Just as the milk-

man used to bring milk in return-able bottles, dry cleaning can bedelivered and dropped off inreusable bags.

“The industry has made greatstrides,” says Jennie Nigrosh,founder and CEO of The GreenGarmento, which sells reusabledry-cleaning garment bags, shirtbox bags and other sustainableproducts.

“My husband and I started thecompany after we started freakingout because we couldn’t find any-thing in our closet, it was so full ofplastic-wrapped clothes. We weredrowning in plastic,” she says.

The idea seems to be catchingon. And like a growing number ofcompanies, The Green Garmento

has a take-back program to recy-cle or up-cycle the worn-out bags.

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that some reusable items may beharder on the environment thanthe plastics you’re trying to avoid,unless you use them a lot,” pointsout Maltby, of Real Simple.“Switching to reusables is a goodgoal, but you have to be willing tocommit long-term to ensure thatshift is doing more good thanharm.” For example, it could takeas many as 1,000 uses of a travelmug to make it a total win for theenvironment, she says, citing anestimate by the InternationalReference Centre for the Life Cycleof Products, Processes and Services(CIRAIG), in Quebec.

“The message really is thatwhen you buy a reusable product,use the heck out of it and don’tkeep buying new ones,” saysMaltby.

(+��+���+�#��'��,���)"+!“Using reusable products you

already own or that are handeddown, that’s a real win for the ecol-ogy,” says Maltby. “You don’t needto buy a new set of Mason jars,because chances are your sister ora thrift shop may have perfectlygood Mason jars you can use.”

".�'�/ $!,)����“Think carefully about what

you’re buying. At the grocery storeor mall, people are often on autopi-lot. Just make avoiding plastic apart of your mindset,” says Ozawa.

“As a consumer, you have a lotof power, and you can use it toreward the companies that aredoing a good job with their pack-aging.”

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changes on the home front, “polit-ical action is the most importantthing you can do for the environ-ment. Contact your representativeand ask them to make changes,”Ozawa says.

Urge friends and family to joinyou in your efforts, post somethingon social media and write compa-nies to request that they make envi-ronmental friendly changes, saysOzawa. “Make your voice heard,”she says.

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Art paves the way for a waveof creativity, imaginationand a change in society,believes actor and directorNandita Das. It is because of

its change-making capacity that goodfilms and books are always banned, shefeels. “It’s because art emerges from thesociety itself and its power is strong. Ifit wasn’t, why would people want to cen-sor a film or ban a book? It’s becauseeven the conservatives and the ortho-dox realise its power. It has the capac-ity to woo your subconscious withouteven your realisation. If you keep show-ing the image of women as regressive,at a subliminal level, society will startto think that they are meant to be likethis. They will start the game of stereo-typing. Art highly informs as well asimpacts the society’s perception,” shesays. An impactful art, she feels, canactually “trigger conversations, raiseimportant questions, and challengeprejudices. In a way, not to create a rev-olution, but it does build that public dis-course around things that we need tohave.”

Her forthcoming film, Albert Pintoko Gussa Kyun Aata Hai?, directed bySoumitra Ranade, is a reflection of thejourney of the common man in thecountry and his helplessness within theunjust system of the society.

It’s the angst, an emotion thatresults from a sense of loss, suffering andpain, that Albert is feeling. She says,“The film questions, usey gussa kyunaata hai? (Why does he get angry?)Then there is the factor of hopelessnessand helplessness — what can we do?”Well, now with the elections round thecorner, Das says that this is one timewhen people actually feel empowered.She believes that it’s a very good timeto release the film since there are somany people who will vote for the firsttime. “I urge, especially the young peo-ple, who are voting for the first time, toplease do so mindfully after a properresearch as it’s a huge responsibility.”

Stella, played by Das, is Albert’s

lover, the same character which wasplayed by actress Shabana Azmi in the1980s’ eponymous film, who is madlyin love with him and “just like a usualmiddle class Indian woman,” she alsowants to have a happy family andsecure life. She explains, “But Albert,who is so full of anger because of theprevailing inequality, consumerism,corruption and unemployment, kind ofmoves away from Stella. And she’s real-ly troubled by that fact. Soumitra hasgiven an interesting turn to this in thefilm where every woman thatAlbert encounters, even if in aflash, is an image of Stella. It’s avery different kind of an interpre-tation.”

A woman of vigour, Das hasalways presented the kind of filmsthat never really worked on thecommercial front but havedone wonders if we talkabout their content. Be itFire, Before the Rains,Azhagi, Firaaq,Sandstorm, RamchandPakistani, Manto, andmany more that shehas acted in anddirected. She tells ushow her choices offilms have never paidher but it has neverbeen about the mon-etary aspect, justabout simple livingand working forsomething that shefeels is r ight.Explains she, “I con-stantly get offers forribbon-cutting andother celebrations,it’s because whenyou reach a cer-tain stature, itbecomes easy toearn money.However, it’s avery slipperyslope. At that

position, why won’t you continue doingit? Once you start spending money andliving an actor’s life, you have to main-tain it. You have to earn more. But thereisn’t much good work that would cometo me because of the choices that I make.So, I believe in living simply and notspending too much. Money has neverbeen the motivation to work, even forthis film.”

Well, there have been numerousexamples lately that show how the dis-

course for women has evolved andchanged in the Indian film indus-

try over the time. Talking aboutthe change, Das exclaims,“Film industry is not anoth-er planet! It also comesfrom the society. Whateverchanges happen in societywill reflect in films as well.Look at how the media haschanged. There are a lot

more younger womenjournalists who aretaking up all kinds ofbeats like finance,defence and every-thing else that theyt r a d i t i o n a l l yweren’t ‘supposed’to do or wouldn’tdo becausenobody openedthose doors.”

She adds,“ S i m i l a r l y ,women charac-ters in the filmindustr y arebecoming morelayered. Evenearlier, therewere interest-ing films thatdidn’t stereo-type the roles

of women. Butthey never had

this kind of expo-sure.”

She feels that

it’s all about people’s consciousnessthat allows them to accept the changes.“People would only support the#DarkIsBeautiful campaign if their con-science allows them to. It’s justified. Ibelieve that if I do what I feel is right,for others too, it’s important to decidefor themselves. And as a society, weshould collectively feel that.”

Giving the example of Manto, shesays that there is no need for female pro-tagonists being the Jhansi ki Rani andshow it in the face. It could be shownsubtly as well as through a male protag-onist. “Even a woman-centric filmcould be regressive. Manto is a male pro-tagonist but he is talking so much aboutwomen and things which make senseeven today,” she says.

Moving back to the film and howshe feels about anger as an emotion,which has also become the core senti-ment of the country, she says, “The waythat I have grown up in the last 10 years,I feel that I am definitely less angry thanI used to be. At that time, I justified myanger because it was against injustice.However, it can never be really construc-tive. With the amount of violence allaround, be it road rage, hate mongering,mob lynchings, and even the verballynching on social media, it highlyaffects the collective psychologicalbehaviour. I get trolled on social mediaall the time. But I just feel that anger isnot an emotion that I want to enhancein myself. However, the reality is thatpeople do feel it. It’s always a knee-jerkreaction. If somebody did bad to you,you want to hurt them as well.”

Das, who is personally not so fondof this emotion, says, that the world cur-rently needs more compassion, empa-thy and peace, which “actually requiresmore effort than anything else. Angeris a very destructive emotion.”

However, this, she believes, will hap-pen only if people would really want it.“It has to be your choice because beingangry is an involuntary reaction.Whenever I am in a bad temper, I thinkof ways in which I could give back to the

situation without being angry. Here, Iam not judging anyone’s rage but say-ing that I do not want to contribute tothe violence or take any step towards it,”she says.

She feels that this might make peo-ple question the purpose of doing thisfilm. It is because she realises that,“maybe I would have answered differ-ently 10 years ago due to my feelings. Iunderstand why people get angry andcan empathise with them. I can see whatAlbert’s frustration is all about.”

For Das, external influences shapedifferent people’s perspectives distinc-tively even if they look at similar things.Here, the journey of Albert is tragic, shesays, but what is it that you or she willtake away? “I feel that even a tragedy canmotivate you to change things as well asyour approach. Maybe it makes you feelthat ‘I don’t want to be like Albert or beangry like him;’ ‘I don’t want the jour-ney that Albert took;’ ‘I could find waysto fight a cause without that emotion,’”she says.

Just like actor Manav Kaul (whoplays Albert) had earlier said that withthis film, ‘all my anger has gone,’ Daslaughs, “Indeed, it maybe cathartic forhim. Similarly, when somebody hadasked Soumitra that ‘are you feeling anx-ious about the release of the film?’ Hesaid, ‘I have actually ‘released’ thisfilm.’”

The actor says that she had felt thesame at the time of Manto. “I felt thatthe baby is out. As a director, you feelthat it’s something you have given yourendless efforts, days and nights to andit has to be out. I have never read anyof my interviews or any reviews in thepast 18 years. There could be all kindsof things written about me — good orbad, praises or criticism. Because peo-ple can interpret a thing in multipleways as they are different individualsand their perspectives are based on theirpersonal experiences,” she says.

(The film is slated to release on April 12.)

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The Rail Vikas NigamLimited (RVNL), aMiniratna (category 1)

Central Public SectorEnterprise (CPSE), under theMinistry of Railways, celebrat-ed its 16th Annual Day at theAir Force Auditorium, in NewDelhi, recently. The UnionMinister of Railways and theMinister of Coal, PiyushGoyal, graced the occasion asthe chief guest while the chair-man of the Railway Board,Vinod Kumar Yadav, presidedover the celebrations. Otherdignitaries present on theoccasion included the chair-man and the managing direc-tor of RVNL, PradeepGaur,among other seniorofficials from RVNL, Railwaysand other CPSEs.

During the event, severalshields and awards were givento the deserving individualemployees and their teams.Three teams and 26 individu-als were recognised at the eventthrough cash awards and cita-tions. Amidst the frivolities, anaudio-visual cultural pro-gramm was hosted, tracing

the history of Hindi cinema.Created in 2003, RVNL, as

it is popularly called, has grownfrom strength to strength. Itundertakes rail infrastructureprojects of all types from con-cept to commissioning, raisingnon-budgetary resources byforming project specific SpecialPurpose Vehicles (SPVs). Inthe period of its existence, thecompany has achieved severalmile stones, which includescompletion of many projectswhich a total of 8,838 km tilldate. These include new lines,doubling, gauge conversionand electrification. In addition,RVNL also builds workshops,bridges, institutional buildingsand metro lines.

In its rating with respect toother CPSEs, the RVNL hasbeen ranked first amongst theRailway CPSEs for the lastfour years in a row in terms ofperformance. It has earned acent percent score by theDepartment of PublicEnterprises (DPE) for the sec-ond year in a row, rated as‘excellent’ for eight consecutiveyears by the DPE.

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The Steel Authority of IndiaLimited (SAIL) has suppliedsteel for India’s first indigenous

and biggest artillery gun — ‘Dhanush’,which has been inducted into theIndian Army recently. With this,SAIL has once again established itscommitment to fulfill the country’severy requirement to strengthenIndia’s defence systems.

SAIL’s special alloy steel, pro-duced by SAIL-Alloy Steels Plantbased at Durgapur, has been used formaking this artillery gun. ‘Dhanush’has been indigenously designed anddeveloped by the Gun Factory inJabalpur where it was handed over tothe Indian Army.

The organisation, which is in its60th year of production, has con-tributed in creating a strong founda-tion for modern India and at the sametime meeting every requirement ofspecial quality steel for Indiandefence. SAIL steel has been used inthe country’s various defence pro-grams including the INS Vikrant, INSKiltan, INS Kamorta, MBT Arju andso on.

The company’s Rourkela SteelPlant has also been supplying specialgrade steel to Jabalpur’s Gun Factoryto meet its various technical require-ments related to development andrepair.

SAIL chairman, Anil KumarChaudhary said, “It is matter ofgreat pride for us that SAIL steel isbeing used in India’s various defenceprograms along with being used for

building the country’s infrastruc-ture. The company is ready to meetand supply special grade steels fortechnical requirement of the country’sdefence programs.”

In the financial year 2018-19,SAIL produced 16.3 Million Tonnes(MT) crude steel in FY19, registeringa growth of eight per cent over the cor-responding period last year and clock-ing the best ever saleable steel produc-tion during the year. The productionfrom new mills of the company’s plantsrecorded a marked improvement inFY19, giving an enriched product bas-ket. The total steel despatch from SAILwas the highest ever at 14.86 MT dur-ing FY19 due to a dedicated logistics

setup created by the organisation.It is important to note that the

FY19 ended with a robust perfor-mance during Q4 with a growth of 10per cent, 8 per cent, 14 per cent and13 per cent in respect of productionof hot metal, crude steel, saleable steeland sales respectively. Also, SAIL hadthe highest ever production of 9.85

lakh tonnes of UTS 90 Rail. The pro-duction of Rails got momentum in thesecond half of FY19 with around 5.66lakh tonnes of production and 35 percent higher than the H1 figure. In linewith this improved performance, thecompany has managed to improve itsturnover by 16 per cent which nowstands at �66,100 crore.

However, he feels that the chal-lenge for the next year is much high-er with a plan of 21 per cent increasein production of crude steel and sim-ilar growth in sales to catch on withthe fast growing domestic steel con-sumption backed by an increaseddemand from infrastructure and con-struction segments.

At a recent ceremony organised at the GunCarriage Factory, Jabalpur, the first six

‘Dhanush’ guns have been handed over to theIndian Army. The guns were flagged off bySaurabh Kumar, the director general of theOrdnance Factories and the chairman of theOrdnance Factory Board (OFB). Dr AjayKumar, the secretary of Defence Production tothe Government of India was the chief guest,while Lt General PK Srivastava, PVSM, AVSM,VSM, the director general of Artillery, was theguest of honour. The ceremony also saw LtGeneral RS Salaria, VSM, Commandant Schoolof Artillery, Major General Manmeet Singh, MGArtillery HQ Western Command ChandiMandir, among others.

The ‘Dhanush’ 155mm x 45 calibre modernartillery gun system, developed jointly with theIndian Army and manufactured by theOrdnance Factories, received bulk productionclearance in February and the initial order of 114Guns was placed on the OFB. Significant con-

tributions have also been made by the DRDO,public sector units such as SAIL and BEL andseveral private sector firms.

‘Dhanush’ incorporates the latest featuressuch as an inertial navigation system, an on-board ballistic computer, direct day and nightfiring system, a modern target acquisition sys-tem and a communication system that makesthe weapon compatible with the Army’s pro-ject—‘Shakti’.

Weighing less than 13 tonnes, with a highground clearance of 400 mm, a range of eleva-tion from -3? to 70 ? and an arc of traverse of60?, ‘Dhanush’ is the most maneuverableartillery system and can be deployed in any ter-rain.

The gun has evolved as the most moderngun system in its own right, independent of itslineage. The gun weighs 700 kg more than the155mm/39 calibre Bofors and has an 877mmlonger barrel. It has a larger chamber volume of23 liters as compared to 19 liters of the Bofors.

At a glittering awards cere-mony held recently, the

Indian Oil CorporationLimited has bagged the ‘AIMAManaging India Award 2019’for ‘Outstanding PSU of theYear’. The award was present-ed by the former President ofIndia Pranab Mukherjee, tothe chairman of IndianOil,Sanjiv Singh.

The All India ManagementAssociation (AIMA) awardsdeclared under 11 categorieswere headed by Sanjiv Goenka,the chairman of the RP-SanjivGoenka Group, and shortlist-ed 11 eminent enterprises andpersonalities of the country fortheir contribution to nation-building. The jury acknowl-edged IndianOil’s contribu-tion in empowering the citizensof the country not onlythrough its products, but alsothrough various other initia-tives beyond business indomains like health, education,environment, skill develop-

ment and so on. TheCorporation’s futuristicapproach with an aim to con-solidate India’s position on theglobal arena, under the ableleadership of its chairman,received AIMA’s appreciation.

IndianOil’s chairmanthanked the eminent jury anddedicated the award to the‘IOCians’ across the nation aswell as to the IndianOil’s chan-nel partners, stakeholders,whose dedicated efforts haveenabled IndianOil to maintainits leadership position and itsbrand value over the decades.

AIMA, the apex body ofmanagement professionals inthe country, is committed toenhancing business excellencethrough its multifaceted activ-ities. Instituted in 2010, AIMAManaging India Awards recog-nise excellence in manage-ment, entrepreneurship andleadership, and have becomeone of the most coveted lead-ership honours in the country.

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Vyas Muni states that in the absence ofknowledge of how God created the uni-

verse, nobody can be considered a learned.From the knowledge of creation only, onebecomes able to learn about each non-alivematter of the universe, its best utilisation andmake our lives comfortable, long and happy.This is called materialism or the knowledgeof the worldly matters. The second part of cre-ation to be known is spiritualism whichdestroys illusion, enables us to control oursenses and thus prevents us from committingany sins. So, when human beings get progressin both the matters simultaneously, thenonly peace is maintained on earth or else, rav-ages of hatred, tradition of blind faith, violenceand several types of sins are committed in thesociety.Therefore, the learned of the Vedas inAtharvaved ask the human beings, ‘whetherone has tried to attain spiritual knowledgeabout God or oversighting spiritualism, or ifone is only after the materialistic articles ofthe world. It asks, if one has tried to learn andobtain all the materialistic articles of the worldto get merriment and this regard, if the saidwealth/materialistic articles have ever beenpleasurable or have only increased one’swishes. Similarly, in the matter of food,Vedas ask whether one has eaten food or hasthe food eaten you.

The Vedas emphasise that only one sidedknowledge/progress either in materialism orspiritualism, is always harmful as in theabsence of materialistic articles nobody cansurvive whereas in the absence of knowledgeof spiritualism, human beings indulge in illu-sion and are prone to corruption.

When the question to get progress in boththe above said knowledge simultaneously aris-es then, Yajurved preaches to attain the eter-nal, vedic knowledge traditionally wherein itis preached that alive (eternal form of spiri-tualism) and non-alive (materialistic articles)matters are required to be learned. TheRigved states that God has created this landto provide us with all pleasures, comforts anda long and a happy life but the land wouldnever give us pleasure until we worship God.

Our ancient saints in their vedic scriptures

like the Mahabharat and the Valmiki Ramayanhave advised humans to worship God, basi-cally keeping in view the three subjects i.e., oneshould pray to God (prarthna), should listenand chant ved mantras which describe Hisdivine qualities (stuti) and must worship Himby listening to Vedas, performing Yajyen andpractice the Ashtang Yog philosophy while per-forming all moral duties (upasana).

The Vedic spiritualism enables a personto have a good character by controlling all hissenses and organs keeping himself away fromsins. In a nutshell, the Vedas preach that byall means everyone must try his best to makecontact with a learned acharya of Vedas andYog philosophy to listen and follow eternalvedic knowledge for the welfare of nation andall mankind.

Thus, the study of the Vedas is mainly tobe carried out to realise God for destroyingsorrows and achieving peace while taking thehelp of all materialistic articles. That is whyone needs to make progress in both materi-alism and spiritualism. However, it unfortu-nate that at present, most people are after thematerialistic articles while others are after self-made paths, which is against the Vedas.

When we set our eyes on the world, wefind that the progress in materialism—science,education, atomic and nuclear energy, agricul-ture, medical science, space, animal hus-bandry, entertainment and so on, has beenachieved and in still ongoing. On the otherhand, progress in the matter of faith—eternalspiritualism briefed in Vedas which unites themankind, spreads international brotherhoodand condemns blind faith, is observed to benegligible. In fact, our eternal vedic philoso-phy emphasise that to maintain peace on theearth and to get the best use of materialisticarticles, attention will have to be paid to getmore progress in vedic spiritualism.

Therefore, all human beings, as those inthe previous yugas, will have to pay attentiontowards eternal Vedic knowledge to getprogress in spiritualism as well as in materi-alism simultaneously.

(The author is Swami Ram SwarupYogacharya, the chief editor of Ved Ishvareeyavani, a bi-annual magazine)

Apurva Thakur from Mumbai emerged as the third runnerup and bagged the title of ‘Miss Best Hair’ at this year’s Miss

Teen Universe 2019 in Panama. This was the eighth edition ofthe teen pageant. The contest aims at testing the contestants onthe parameters of not just their physical beauty but also theirpersonality, talent and intelligence. This year’s pageant had con-testants from 28 different countries including Argentina, Brazil,USA, Mexico and Colombia. The event was organised by thenational director of the Miss Teen India Organisation, JasmeetKaur at Noida’s Film City.a. The winner of this year’s pageantwas Brazil’s Eduarda Zanella. The first runner up was IngridMouthon from Colombia, followed by Miss Mexico, MelissaQuintero, as the second runner up.

Located at the crossroads ofthe West and East that

provides a great opportunityfor travellers to experienceFinland en route to or fromEurope, VisitFinland is posi-tioning the country as an ulti-mate destination for theIndian travellers.

The Ambasador ofFinland to India, NinaVaskunlahti, said, “Finlandhas reinvented itself in just oneshort century—from a large-ly agrarian society into a high-tech country. Our nationalcharacter and northern her-itage have boosted us to thetop of many kinds of countryrankings from quality of life toclean air. Finland is one of theworld’s most sparsely populat-ed countries where almost 80per cent of the land is coveredby forest and 10 per cent bywater. So it’s no wonder thattourists are blown away by thesheer beauty of the Finnishlandscape.”

The landscape of Finlandis a pristine paradise for nature

lovers. Design, architecture,culture and shopping are allgreat exploration angles withstunning national parks,forests, lakes, and the coastlinewith numerous islands. Thehead of PR and media for Asiaand Australia fromVisitFinland, Sari Hey, shared,“With 40 national parks,188,000 lakes and over twomillion saunas, Finland offerssome of the world’s uniqueexperiences of staying in glassigloos and snow hotels, unique

nature activities such as berrypicking and seven UNESCOWorld Heritage Sites such asthe Fortress of Suomenlinna inHelsinki. Aurora Borealis canappear on 200 nights a year inFinnish Lapland and SantaClaus—the one and only—comes from Finland.”

Having witnessed a robustgrowth in tourist arrivals andovernights from the Indianmarket, Visit Finland reinstat-ed their focus in the Indianmarket. The country head forIndia from VisitFinland, SaraSodhi Juneja, further added,“Finland received a very warmwelcome in the Indian marketwith the arrivals growing by 15per cent in 2018. We arefocusing on developingFinland as an all year destina-tion for Indians with the fourunique seasons. With mid-night sun in the summer andthe ephemeral allure of theNorthern Lights in the winter,Finland possesses a wealth ofrare beauty, and a truly distinc-tive ambience”.

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Range: New barrel designand modified double bafflemuzzle brake (MDBMB) sys-tem for an enhancement ofrange from 27 km to 38 km.The MDBMB limits the stresson the structure to 155/39 lev-els.Charge: Modification in theloading trough and loadingtray enables ‘Dhanush’ toaccommodate the largediameter of the bi-modularcharge system (BMCS).Laying: An auto laying sys-tem based on the Fire ControlComputer System as com-pared to the manual system ofthe Bofors gun.

Sighting System: Equippedwith Advanced Gun SightingSystem with a day camera(CCD), a night camera, a laserrange finder (LRF) andNFOV and WFOV as com-pared to the optical day andnight sight of Bofors.Ballistic Calculation: It hasan on-board AdvancedTactical Computer as distinctfrom Bofors where the ballis-tic calculations were done atthe command post.Gun Recording: An InertialNavigation System (INS) anda GPS as against the theodo-lite based system of theBofors.

Gun Positioning: AnAdvanced Gun Alignmentand Positioning System(AGAPS) which relies on theINS, GPS, CPU and odome-ter.Muzzle Velocity Recording :It has an on-board muzzlevelocity recorder (MVR) as dis-tinct from the off-board systemof the Bofors.Back-up Sight: ‘Dhanush’ hasa direct and indirect sightingsystem based on a day andnight sight (RS 420) and anindirect sight 104A, devel-oped by the Ordnance FactoryDehradun, in addition to theElectronic Sighting System.

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Liverpool closed in on a semi-final meeting with Barcelonaor Manchester United after sweeping aside Porto 2-0 in

the first leg of their quarter-final tie at Anfield.Far from the late drama that has accompanied the Red's

Premier League title bid of late, Naby Keita and RobertoFirmino struck inside the first 26 minutes to put the hostsin command.

Liverpool's only regret may be not building a moreemphatic lead to take to Portugal for next week's second leg.

However, a fourth clean sheet in five home ChampionsLeague games this season means an away goal at the Estadiodo Dragao on April 17th will leave Porto needing four toprogress.

Liverpool thrashed the Portuguese giants 5-0 in the firstleg of their last-16 tie last season and the scoreline could havebeen just as embarrassing for Sergio Conceicao's men hadthe hosts been more accurate in front of goal.

It took the hosts just five minutes to open the scoringas Keita got his second goal in as many games having wait-

ed nine months to openhis Liverpool account.

The Guinean got thebenefit of a big deflec-tion off Oliver Torres ashis strike from the edgeof the area left veterangoalkeeper Iker Casillashelpless.

Mohamed Salahended his eight-gamegoal drought asLiverpool returned tothe top of the PremierLeague table with a 3-1win at Southampton onFriday, but the Egyptiangot his angles wrongwhen he failed to doublethe hosts' lead with justCasillas to beat momentslater.

�������������Conceicao was visibly furious with his side's slack defend-

ing, but Porto could easily have got back into the tie whenAlisson Becker saved well with his feet from Moussa Marega.

Liverpool then had to survive a VAR review for a poten-tial handball against Trent Alexander-Arnold as Alissonpalmed the ball into his full-back.

Soon, though, Alexander-Arnold was helping twist theknife into Porto at the other end with his eighth assist of theseason.

Jordan Henderson, playing in a more advanced midfieldposition than normal, cut the visitors' defence open for theEngland international to square for Firmino to tap into anempty net.

Only a matter of centimetres denied Liverpool a thirdearly in the second half when another excellent Hendersonallowed Sadio Mane to volley home, but the Senegalese wasflagged offside.

The fine balance Liverpool must strike in maintainingtheir quest for European glory while also trying to end a 29-year wait for a league title was in evidence as Klopp with-drew Mane and Firmino in the final quarter with one eyeon Sunday's Premier League visit of Chelsea.

However, that proved a luxury that Liverpool could affordto take as they look set for a second Champions League semi-final in as many years.

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Mauricio Pochettino chal-lenged "spirited" Tottenhamto finish the job after their 1-

0 win over Manchester City in theChampions League quarter-finals wasmarred by Harry Kane's potentiallyseason-ending injury.

Pochettino's side earned a slenderfirst-leg advantage thanks to a clini-cal strike from South Korea forwardSon Heung-min late in the secondhalf at the Tottenham HotspurStadium on Tuesday.

Much-maligned Tottenham keep-er Hugo Lloris also enjoyed a sweetmoment of redemption in a troubledcampaign when he saved SergioAguero's first-half spot-kick.

Pochettino was delighted withTottenham's display against thePremier League champions, but heinsisted the tie is still delicatelypoised.

"We showed great quality. Wewere all excited and motivated to playthis type of game," he said.

"The energy was good, fantastic,and the penalty save gave us a big lift.

"There are still 90 minutes to playand it's Manchester City. But with thespirit we play, anything is possible."

Tottenham's victory was an unex-pected twist after Kane injured his leftankle in a tackle on Fabian Delphearly in the second half.

Kane will have tests on the injuryon Wednesday, but Tottenham bossPochettino fears his star striker couldmiss the rest of the campaign.

City had only themselves to blamefor failing to earn an advantage for thesecond leg in Manchester on April 17.

City's first defeat since a January29 setback at Newcastle is not fatal totheir European ambitions, but theywill have to improve on this tiredeffort to stop Tottenham reachingtheir first European semi-final since1984.

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subduing Tottenham and the boister-ous crowd in their new stadium, hisside were handed a golden opportuni-ty in the 12th minute.

Raheem Sterling cut in from theleft and left three Tottenham defend-ers in his wake before unleashing a shotthat struck Danny Rose's raised arm asthe Tottenham left-back slid in toblock.

There were no penalty appealsfrom City, but after consulting VAR,Dutch referee Bjorn Kuipers awardedthe spot-kick.

However, Lloris plunged to his leftto keep out Aguero's penalty with asuperb save.

Kane was embroiled in a physicalbattle with City defence's but hisattempt to fight fire with fire provedhis downfall in the 55th minute.

Crunching into a late challenge on

Delph on the touchline, Kane appearedto twist his ankle before immediatelysignalling he would have to come off.

The sight of the England captain,who has scored 24 times this season,limping badly down the tunnel couldhave been fatal for Tottenham.

Yet they thrived in Kane's absencefor seven matches with left ankle lig-ament damage earlier this season.

And once again they rose to thechallenge to snatch the lead in the 78th

minute.When Son beat the City offside

trap, it appeared his touch was tooheavy to take advantage.

But he alertly kept the ball in play,taking advantage of Delph's pause toprotest the decision by slamming a lowdrive under Ederson from close range.

Guardiola once infuriatedPochettino by calling Tottenham 'theHarry Kane team' — now Son has pro-vided the perfect riposte to that jibe.

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Star Indian shuttlers P VSindhu, Saina Nehwal and

Kidambi Srikanth eased into thesecond round of the $ 355,000Singapore Open with straight-game wins over their respectiverivals in the singles event hereon Wednesday.

Taking the court first,Sindhu, seeded fourth, tookjust 27 minutes to get the bet-ter of Indonesia's LyannyAlessandra Mainaky 21-9, 21-7in a one-sided match.

The Rio Olympics Silver-medallist will next play MiaBlichfeldt of Denmark.

Later, sixth seed Saina tootamed another Indonesian inYulia Yosephin Susanto 21-16,21-11, to book her place in thenext round.

Saina will next look toavenge her first-round loss atMalaysia Open to Thailand'sPornpawee Chochuwong whenshe faces her in the secondround.

Chochuwong beat youngIndian Mugdha Agrey 21-6,21-8 in another match.

Sixth seed KidambiSrikanth, who had reached thefinals at India Open, defeatedThailand's SitthikomThammasin 21-17, 21-18 in a41-minute match. He will nextlock horns with Denmark'sHans-Kristian SolbergVittinghus.

2014 CommonwealthGames champion ParupalliKashyap also continued hisgood run with a 21-19, 21-14

win over world number 28Rasmus Gemke of Denmark toset up a clash with Olympicchampion Chen Long of China.

Sameer Verma defeatedThailand's SuppanyuAvihingsanon 21-14, 21-6 tosquare up against China's LuGuangzu.

HS Prannoy eked out a 11-21, 21-16 21-18 win overFrance's Brice Leverdez. TheIndian will meet top seed andworld No 1 Kento Momota ofJapan next.

Momota survived a scareagainst 2017 champion B SaiPraneeth, who put up a stiffresistance before going down21-19, 14-21, 20-22 to the reign-ing Japanese World champion.

Pranaav Jerry Chopra and NSikki Reddy also progressed tothe mixed doubles second

round event after beating ArjunM R and K Maneesha 21-18, 21-7 in an all-Indian contest.

However, it was curtains forIndia in the opening round ofthe men's doubles competition.

The pair of Manu Attri andB Sumeeth Reddy lost to qual-ifiers Danny Bawa Chrisnantaand Kean Hean Loh ofSingapore 13-21, 17-21.

The mixed doubles pair ofSaurabh Sharma and AnoushkaParikh too exited in the open-ing round after a 12-21, 12-21defeat at the hands of third-seeded Thai pair of DechapolPuavaranukroh and SapsireeTaerattanachai.

The Chinese Taipei pair ofLu Ching Yao and Lee ChiaHsin ended the campaign ofVenkat Gaurav Prasad and JuhiDewangan 21-12, 21-15.

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Ferrari's Charles Leclerc isgunning for his first win

this week in China after cru-elly missing out in Bahrain asFormula One's 1,000th racecoincides with the emergenceof a bright new star.

The supremely talented21-year-old upstaged five-time world champion LewisHamilton in Bahrain but ulti-mately limped home thirdwhen his Ferrari lost powerwith 10 laps left.

The Chinese Grand Prixis replete with sub-plots: canHamilton win the race for asixth time? Can SebastianVettel silence the doubters?How much faster are Ferrari?

But the focus in Shanghaiwill be on Leclerc, the Ferrarirookie from Monaco whofully deserved victory twoweeks ago but had to settle forthe first podium of his career.

In just his second seasonin F1, it is widely assumed thatit is just a matter of time untilLeclerc tastes victory.

"Usually the Chinese raceis good fun because theweather can be unpredictableand rain can arrive when youleast expect it," said Leclerc.

"It's the 1,000th race in the

history of Formula One and Ihope the car will be as goodas it was in Bahrain (until lateon) so that I can continue togo for the results we deserve."

Shanghai has one of thelongest straights in the 21-racechampionship and should beperfect for Ferrari's searingpace, with reliability the main

concern for the Italian mar-que.

While there has been ful-some praise of Leclerc, partic-ularly the mature way he han-dled the Bahrain disappoint-ment, his Ferrari team-mateVettel is facing criticism.

It seems absurd for a four-time world champion to haveto defend his ability and tem-perament, but the German ishaving to do just that after aseries of unforced errorsstretching back to last season.

Vettel finished fifth andwas comfortably eclipsed byLeclerc, who is a decadeyounger.

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Ferrari, it is easy to forget thatMercedes won the openingtwo races.

Valtteri Bottas claimed adominant victory in the sea-son-opening Australian

Grand Prix with world cham-pion Hamilton second.

It was the other wayround in Bahrain, leaving theFinn a point ahead of theBriton in the early drivers'standings after picking upthe fastest-lap bonus point inMelbourne.

However, Mercedes teamprincipal Toto Wolff is underno illusions about the chal-lenge posed by Ferrari.

"The truth is that weweren't as quick as our directcompetitors throughout qual-ifying and the race inBahrain," he said.

"The Ferrari was consid-erably faster on the straightsand this added up to severaltenths around one lap.

"Nevertheless, the sayinggoes that 'in order to finishfirst, first you have to finish'...

"The challenge we are fac-ing doesn't daunt us, it'suplifting," he added.

������ �������The Indianwomen's hockey team onWednesday struck a late goalthrough youngsterLalremsiami to beat hostsMalaysia and take an unassail-able lead in the five-matchbilateral series here.

India won the first twomatches 3-0 and 5-0 followedby a 4-4 draw in their previ-

ous game.Lalremsiami's sensation-

al 55th-minute goal ensuredthe team secured a narrowwin in a hard-fought contestthat saw Malaysia give their allto put up a defensive game.

Though it was Malaysiawho made a strong start withan early penalty corner in thefirst minute of the game, a

very alert India goalkeeperSavita made a good save.

India too earned a PC inthe following minute but didnot succeed. With India's acedragflicker Gurjit Kaur miss-ing the tour due to an injury,they lost out on five penaltycorner opportunities in thisgame.

But the team did well to

sustain pressure with tightmarking inside the circle giv-ing Malaysia no real chance totake a shot on goal.

Having missed out onPCs, India looked for a poten-tial opportunity, and NavneetKaur set up a splendid goalfor Lalremsiami who made adiving effort to help Indiawin. PTI

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back "stronger than ever" after hislatest ankle injury cast a cloud overhis side's victory againstManchester City.

Kane limped off the pitchafter a challenge with Englandteammate Fabian Delph duringTuesday's 1-0 quarter-final first-legwin.

It immediately looked seriousas Kane was unable to put anyweight on his left foot and washelped down the tunnel, laterleaving the ground on crutches andwith the joint in a brace.

The club's medical staff willallow any swelling around thejoint to subside before a scan toreveal how bad the injury is,expected to be on Thursday.

"Gutted to go off injured butevery setback is a chance to comeback stronger than ever," Kanetweeted.

"Big finish from the boys to goon and win!"

Spurs boss MauricioPochettino admitted the injurycould end the England captain'sseason, which would be a hugeblow to the club's hopes ofChampions League progressionand also qualification for next year,with Tottenham still locked in atop-four battle.

"It's very, very sad. It's going tobe tough and we're going to misshim — maybe for the rest of theseason," Tottenham's Argentinecoach told BT Sport.

England boss GarethSouthgate will also be concerned,with the Nations League Finalslooming in June.

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Astruggling Rajasthan Royalswill desperately seek to

revive their campaign whenthey host formidable ChennaiSuper Kings in an IndianPremier League encounter hereon Thursday.

Rajasthan are currentlylying in the penultimate spot inthe eight-team standings withjust one win out of five games.

Rajasthan's sole win cameagainst laggards RoyalChallengers Bangalore at theSawai Man Singh Stadium andthey would be banking onhome comfort to upset defend-ing champions CSK.

In contrast, CSK are com-ing off a clinical seven-wicketthrashing of Kolkata KnightRiders and are sitting pretty atthe top of the table with five vic-tories from six games.

Under the astute captaincyof Mahendra Singh Dhoni,CSK boasts of a perfectly bal-anced squad to excel on anysurface and all conditions.

The Royals, on the otherhand, are still struggling tofind their bearings. After losingtheir last match, they findthemselves in a precarious posi-tion, and have to win almost alltheir remaining games to keeptheir play-off chances alive.

Rajasthan have failed toseize opportunities in their ear-lier matches and in the previousouting against KKR, they weretotally outplayed on home turf.

Sanju Samson, who hadcracked the first ton of this IPL,is still recovering from an injuryand after a bright start to theseason, Jos Butler too has failedin the last couple of innings.

The biggest positive forRajasthan will be the return toform of former Australian cap-tain Steve Smith. Smith scored38 against RCB before anchor-ing his team to 139 with anunbeaten 73 against KKR.

Skipper Ajinkya Rahane,Rahul Tripathi and Ben Stokestoo have been below par withthe bat. To add to their woes,Rajasthan don't have the depthand bench strength to over-come the tough situation.

Rajasthan's bowling tooappears to be lacking in ideasand the likes of Stokes, JofraArcher, Jaidev Unadkat, andDhawal Kulkarni will have to

pull up their socks against anin-form CSK.

CSK, on the other hand,will be brimming with confi-dence having defeated theRoyals earlier in the season,when Dhoni smashed anunbeaten 75 to clinch an eight-run victory.

Their batting looks solid

with Shane Watson and Fau DuPlessis at the top while the mid-dle-order consists of SureshRaina, Ambati Rayudu, KedarJhadav and Dhoni.

CSK's bowing unit, whichhas an impressive mix of paceand spin, will look to exploit theSawai Man Singh wicket, whichhas been playing slow and low.

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are yet to sizzle this IPL butRajasthan Royals batting coachAmol Mazumdar onWednesday reposed faith ontheir abilities and backed theduo to come good in the nextmatch against Chennai SuperKings.

"I feel we are one of thestrongest squad and Steve Smithis a proven customer all over theworld," Amol said on the eve ofRajasthan Royals' match againstChennai Super Kings.

"Just before what happened,he was best batsman in theworld. He has spent just a littleof time in the middle. I am surefrom what we saw against KKRwas good enough to indicatewhat is going to come fromhim.

"Ben Stokes is a fine all-rounder and has performed allover the world so I am sure herealizes it and I am sure hewould come to terms with itand would perform his best forus. That what we hope, nodoubts about his abilities," hesaid.

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Kolkata Knight Riders skipper DineshKarthik said in-form Andre Russell batted

with a "lot of maturity" after the all-rounderanchored his side in a losing cause againstChennai Super Kings.

KKR were under pressure from the wordgo on Tuesday and by the 11th over CSK hadthe visiting team reeling at 47 for 6 when Russellwalked in.

The Jamaican, who has stolen the limelightthis season so far with his hard-hitting abilities,took it upon himself to post a decent 108 whenother batsman gave away their wickets cheap-ly.

Russell refused to take singles to keep thetail-enders at the non-strikers' end. He finishedthe innings unbeaten on 50 with five fours andthree sixes.

"Credit to Russell, he showed a lot of matu-rity and I am pleased with the way he's shap-ing up. I like the way we tried defending a smalltotal, especially the spinners with the wet ball,"

Karthik said after the seven-wicket loss.Karthik admitted that the team failed to put

up enough runs on the board."Definitely, not enough runs on the board.

These are tricky games and you don't know howmany runs to set with the dew and everything,but when the game finishes you feel you shouldgave got 20 more runs, so it's always a catch-22 situation," he said.

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Chennai Super Kings' medi-um pacer Deepak Chahar

has become the bowler withthe most number of dot ballsin an innings in the history ofthe Indian Premier League(IPL).

The underrated Chaharreturned impressive figures ofthree for 20 from four oversagainst Kolkata Knight Riders,bowling a staggering 20 dotballs.

Chahar broke the record of18 dot balls in an innings

jointly held by SunrisersHyderabad spinner RashidKhan and Kings XI Punjabmedium pacer Ankit Rajpoot.

The 26-year-old flum-moxed the KKR top-orderwith early strikes. He trappedbig-hitting Chris Lynn legbefore in the first over. He thenclaimed the wickets of NitishRana and Robin Uthappa andin the third and fifth oversrespectively.

In the penultimate over,Chahar bowled five dot ballswith the in-form Andre Russellon strike.

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Harbhajan Singh and ImranTahir have proved that

age is just a number, feelsChennai Super Kings captainMahendra Singh Dhoni, equat-ing the spinners with fine winefor the way they have matured.

The inspirational CSKskipper, himself 37, was effu-sive in his praise for the duoafter CSK's seven-wicket winover Kolkata Knight Riderson Tuesday. The 38-year-oldHarbhajan (2/15) and the 40-year-old Tahir (2/21) were thekey performers for the hometeam.

"Age is on their side(Harbhajan and Tahir). Theyare like old wine and they arematuring," Dhoni said after thewin over KKR.

"Bhajji (Harbhajan) hasdone well in whatever games he

has played. I have fallen backon Imran (Tahir) wheneverneeded and he has come upwith very good performances.

"Overall, the bowling unit

looks good. But once we playon better and flatter wicketswith smaller boundaries, wewill have to see what is the bestcombination to play with," headded.

Dhoni picked Tahir forspecial praise, saying the SouthAfrican is someone on whomhe can depend no matter whatthe situation.

"I have fallen back onTahir and he has done the job.He has confidence in me. Hehas got a very good flipper," hesaid.

"He (Tahir) is someonewho if you tell that this is theright pace to bowl on, he doesit most of the times. He is some-one who deceives the batsmanquite a few times.

"Not only a good leggie andgoogly, he has got a very goodflipper. Overall he is a goodpackage," Dhoni added.

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Chennai Super Kings pacerDeepak Chahar has agreed

with his captain MahendraSingh Dhoni that the teamneeds a better pitch at homedespite winning all their gameshere so far.

CSK captain Dhoni hascriticised the Chepauk pitchafter registering a seven-wick-et win over Kolkata, terming itas "low scoring".

And Chahar, who returnedwith impressive figures of 3 for20 against KKR, blamed thenature of the wicket on hot andhumid weather conditions.

"I'm happy I performedwell, but obviously we're look-ing for a better wicket," Chahartold reporters at the post-match press conference.

"Nobody wants this typeof a wicket. It is because of thesoil and heat. It's too hot hereand the pitch curators aredoing their best job to give usa good track. But, at the end ofthe day you can't help it," headded.

Dhoni, while speaking atthe presentation ceremonyhad earlier said "we don't wantplay on wickets like these" afterCSK won another low-scoringgame at Chepauk.

KKR leg-spinner PiyushChawla, who took a wicket

and two catches including arunning one to dismiss SureshRaina, said the visitors didn'tmisread the wicket.

He said the batsmenplayed too many shots at thestart, which hurt them badly.

"It's not that we misreadthe wicket but yes, we playedtoo many shots at the start. Welost three extra wickets in thepowerplay. That's how it goesin the shorter format. It hap-pens. Sometimes, the shot thatwent straight to the fielderwould have gone in the gap,"Chawla said in defence of theteam's batsmen.

He felt that a total of 135-140 or more would have beenideal.

"A total of 135-140 wouldhave been ideal on this wick-et," he added.

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Kings XI Punjab pacerHardus Viljoen cannot play

for South Africa as had accept-ed the Kolpak deal, but he feelsplaying in the Indian PremierLeague (IPL) comes closest tofulfilling his dream of playing inthe coveted World Cup.

The Kolpak deal allows cit-izens of around 100 nations toplay cricket in any EU nationwithout being considered anoverseas player. Hardus haddonned the national jersey oncein a Test against England and is

now a freelance cricketer.Hardus believes IPL is betterthan many other T20 leagues inthe world.

Hardus said the level ofcompetition makes the cash-rich Indian league stand out."IPL is closest to the World Cupas you get to play against thebest. It is an unbelievable expe-rience for players as it adds aninternational flavour," he said.

Hardus signed the Kolpakdeal with English countyDerbyshire before ending it inJanuary 2019. Asked about hismove to play in the English

County, Hardus said, ''Every boydreams to play for his country,but this is all about opportuni-ties. You were dropped just

after the one Test. You could notget the chance to show yourskills and what are you capableof. For me, to take this decisionafter getting dropped was diffi-cult. But everything happens fora reason. At the end of the dayyou need security in life andfood on your table for your fam-ily. Kolpak improved me as aplayer also.''

Playing for KXIP, Hardusfeels (Ravichandran) Ashwinunderstands his players. "I haveplayed with a lot of captains. Iwould say Darren Sammy wasprobably the best captain I

played under. Ashwin falls in thesame category. He knows whatto expect from me and I exact-ly know what I need to do in dif-ferent situations and this makesit easier. When your captainbelieves in you and trusts you,it makes your job easier," hesaid.

A well-known name in T20cricket, the bowler feels the for-mat is tailor-made for batsmen."In T20 cricket, public wants tosee runs and we as bowlers needto restrict the batsmen. I thinkfocusing on the basics makesthe job easier," he said.

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Stand-in captain Kieron Pollard'ssensational 83-run knock put KLRahul's maiden IPL hundred in

the shade as Mumbai Indians pulledoff a thrilling last-ball three-wicketwin over Kings XI Punjab, here onWednesday.

Rahul and Chris Gayle, whostruck a 36-ball 63 powered Kings XIPunjab to an imposing 197 for fourafter being asked to bat.

Pollard single handedly broughthis side back in the game with his 31-ball knock punishing the Punjabbowlers with 10 sixes and three fours.

The burly West Indian was dis-missed in the second ball of the lastover with four needed for victory fromfinal five balls.

Alzarri Joseph (15 not out), whoadded a crucial 54 runs in 23 balls withPollard for the seventh wicket, andRahul Chahar (1) managed to holdtheir nerves to take side past the fin-ish line.

The victory was the third in a rowfor MI and took their tally to eightfrom six games while Kings XI suf-fered their third defeat in sevengames.

Pollard's pyrotechnics stole thethunder from Kings XI openers K LRahul who had carried his bat throughwith an unbeaten 100 in 64 balls withthe help of six fours and as many sixesand his opening partner Chris Gaylewho smashed 63 in 36 balls with seven

sixes and three fours.Pollard, standing in for Rohit

Sharma, who missed out on the gamedue to leg spasm injury promoted himup in the order.

After 10 overs, MI needed 133 in60 balls, still fancying their chanceswith the big-hitting Pollard at thecrease and another fine finisherHardik Pandya to follow.

Shami got rid of the other Hardikand Krunal Pandya in span of four

balls.The equation whittled down to 63

from 30 balls and then 15 off the lastsix balls after Pollard smacked Curranfor two sixes and a four in the penul-timate over before he was caught offRajpoot in the last over.

Earlier, Gayle, who smashed seventowering sixes and also hit threefours, laid the platform for the big totalwith his opening partner Rahul.

The duo's 116-run stand in 77

balls took MI by storm. Gayle's dis-missal in the 13th over slowed downthe innings but Rahul punishedHardik Pandya by hitting three sixesand a four in the 19th, which yieldedthem 25 runs.

Thirteen came off the final over toboost the total.

The flamboyant Gayle, who wascircumspect initially, struck Australianpacer Jason Behrendorff for three hugesixes and one four to cream off 23 runsto begin the punishing act.

In the ninth over, Gayle struck twofours and another massive leg-side sixas 17 came off Hardik Pandya's overto take Punjab to 86 without loss.

The left-hander also hit leggieRahul Chahar, and the Pandya broth-ers Krunal and Hardik for a six each.He reached his 50 in 31 balls and theteam's 100 was raised in 10.2 overs.

Gayle's mayhem ended when hewas caught at deep mid-wicket offBehrendorff to nip his opening part-nership with Rahul.

The left-handed Gayle's departureslowed down the run-rate with Hardiksending back David Miller and KarunNair cheaply and Bumrah accountingfor Sam Curran between the 15th and18th overs.

Rahul went on the offensive in thelast two and in the process complet-ed his century.

MI were without captain RohitSharma, who was rested as a precau-tionary measure due to muscle spasmin his right leg.

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It was double delight forIndia as it swept the Wisden

Cricketers' Almanack onWednesday with Virat Kohliand Smriti Mandhana clinch-ing the 'Leading Cricketer ofYear' honours, continuingtheir award-winning spree.

Kohli and Mandhana hadwon big in the last ICCAwards night too. Mandhanawas adjudged 'Women'sCricketer of the Year' as wellas the 'Women's ODI Player ofthe Year' by the ICC inDecember, while the talis-manic Kohli won the Cricketerof the Year award besides fin-ishing as the top batsman inTests.

Indian captain Kohli wasnamed the Wisden LeadingCricketer of the year for thethird successive time, havingamassed 2735 runs across thethree formats in 2018.

The Indian talisman waspicked as one of the fiveWisden Cricketers of the year,along with England's TammyBeaumont, Jos Buttler, SamCurran and Rory Burns.

The India skipper is onlythe third cricketer ever tohave won the award morethan three times after DonBradman (10 times) and JackHobbs (8 times).

Kohli had notched up 593runs in five Tests at an averageof 59.3 during India's 1-4 lossto England and ended the yearwith five hundreds to hisname.

Mandhana was rewardedfor scoring 669 and 662 runsin ODIs and T20Is last year.She also amassed 421 runs atan astounding strike rate of174.68 in the women's SuperLeague.

The Indian men's team

captain was named as theLeading Cricketer in theWorld for an unprecedentedthird year in a row by the 2019edition of Wisden Cricketers'Almanack while thisMandhana's first award.

Afghanistan spinnerRashid Khan was named theLeading T20 Cricketer of theYear for the second year in arow, following his superb per-formance last year. He took 22wickets at an average of 8.68for Afghanistan in T20Is,besides scalping 21 wickets inthe Indian Premier League2018.

The Five Cricketers of theYear are chosen by LawrenceBooth, the editor of theWisden Cricketers' Almanack,with the 2019 version servingas the 156th edition.

Wisden has been listingout Cricketers of the Yearsince 1889 and it is consideredas one of the more prestigiousaward in the sport.

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