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A s the Supreme Court on Monday turned down the plea for expeditious hearing of the Ram Janmabhoomi land dispute case and said the mat- ter will be dealt with by an appropriate Bench in January, the court faced harsh criticism from several quarters and demand for an Ordinance for the construction of Ram Temple grew louder within the BJP, RSS and various Sangh Parivar outfits .The Congress exercised restraint saying that the apex court verdict should be awaited and the issue be not linked with vote-bank poli- tics. With the country warming up to the Lok Sabha polls, around six months away, the BJP and the RSS called for bringing a legislation to expe- dite the temple construction at Ayodhya apprehending that the court proceedings on the issue may not conclude too soon. Outlining the Government’s stand, Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, at the same time, said a lot people in the country want the case to be heard quickly. Addressing a press conference in poll-bound Chhattisgarh, Prasad said the BJP never linked the Ram Mandir issue with polls. “The Supreme Court today said the hearing (on the Ayodhya land title dispute cases) will be held in January. As a Law Minister, I should not say anything else, as you under- stand that there are certain lim- itations,” Prasad said. “I would like to humbly say that a lot of people in the country want that the hearing on the issue should be com- pleted soon,” he said. The RSS said the Supreme Court should make an early decision on the Ram Janmabhoomi land dispute and the Union Government should bring a legislation to remove hurdles, if any, in the way of the construction of a Ram temple at the site. RSS chief spokesperson Arun Kumar said the Allahabad High Court in its verdict has accepted that the site is the birthplace of Lord Ram and a temple existed there. The HC judgment, delivered in four civil suits, had said the 2.77-acre land be divided equally among three parties — the Sunni Waqf Board, the Nirmohi Akhara and Ram Lalla. “The Sangh believes a grand Ram temple should be constructed soon at the birth- place of Lord Ram. And land should be allotted at the birth- place for temple construction. With the construction of the temple, an atmosphere of unity and harmony will be created. With this in view, the Supreme Court should make an early decision and if there are any difficulties, the Government should make a law to remove all hurdles in the way of giv- ing land for temple at the Ram Janmabhoomi site,” Kumar said in a statement. “Ever since this andolan was started by sants, we have supported it and will contin- ue to support them in their decisions in future,” he said. BJP leader Vinay Katiyar alleged that the issue was being delayed “under pressure” from the Congress, which denied the charge. “The decision is being delayed under pressure from the Congress. People like Kapil Sibal and Prashant Bhushan are pressing for delaying the issue. Till when will Ram bhakts (devotees) wait? In 2019, the Congress will come to know,” he said. Former Union Minister and BJP leader Sanjeev Baliyan said, “I am surprised at the pri- orities of the court. I am of the view that the Ram Temple should be constructed. The Government should explore all possibilities.” BJP’s ally Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut said the Ram temple is an issue of faith and demanded that the Government comes out with an Ordinance soon. “It is a matter of faith. The court can- not decide on this. The Government should bring an ordinance,” he said. Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram, however, maintained that it was a famil- iar story every five years before the elections when the BJP tries to polarise the issue. T he Supreme Court on Monday refused to enter- tain the Uttar Pradesh plea for early hearing of the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid land dispute case, saying it has different priorities. The court fixed the case for the first week of January before an “appropriate Bench” which will decide the schedule of hearing. The court’s decision is a big blow to the temple pro- tagonists who had hoped for an early resolution of the dis- pute and day-to-day hearing of the case that could have paved the way for building of the Ram temple before the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. “We will fix the date of hearing of the Ayodhya dis- pute case before the appro- priate Bench in January,” said a three-judge Bench, headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, and comprising Justices SK Kaul and KM Joseph. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta and senior advocate CS Vaidyanathan, appearing for the UP Government and deity Ramlala respectively, sought early listing of the appeals in the case after referring to their long pendency. But the Bench remained unimpressed and clearly indicated the case was not a priority for it. “We have our own prior- ities. Whether the matter will be heard in January, February or March, the appropriate Bench will decide,” the Bench said. Hopes for expeditious set- tlement of the Janmabhoomi- Babri Masjid land dispute case were revived after a three-judge Bench, by a 2:1 majority last month, refused to refer to a five-judge Constitution Bench the issue of reconsideration of the observations in its 1994 judg- ment that a mosque was not integral to Islam. The matter had arisen during the hearing of the Ayodhya land dispute. The majority view by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dipak Misra and Justice Ashok Bhushan ordered that the hearing in the main Ayodhya title suit appeals should resume from October 29. A s the Supreme Court on Monday banned 15-year- old petrol vehicles and 10- year-old diesel vehicles from plying in Delhi and National Capital Region (NCR), nation- al Capital air quality has been predicted to deteriorate “dras- tically” on Tuesday. The System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting And Research (SAFAR) on Monday said stubble fire counts has increased “tremendously” in past 24 hours. The Supreme Court also instructed the transport depart- ment to impound such vehicles if they are found on the road. “A list of these vehicles should be published on the websites of the Central Pollution Control Board CPCB) and the trans- port department, and an adver- tisement should be published in newspapers,” said the court. The Supreme Court passed these directions on a note placed before it by advocate Aparajita Singh, assisting the court as amicus in the air pol- lution matter, seeking urgent directions to correct the pre- vailing situation of pollution. The court also directed the CPCB to immediately cre- ate a social media account on which citizens could lodge their complaints directly about pollution. Appropriate action could be taken by the author- ities concerned on the written complaints, the SC added. The court has posted the matter for hearing on November 1. In 2015, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) had banned 15-year-old petrol vehicles and 10-year-old diesel vehicles. The following year, the NGT directed authorities in the NCR and Delhi to begin dereg- istering all diesel vehicles in the capital that are more than a decade old. During the hearing on Monday, the Bench referred to media reports that people should not go on morning walk due to the high levels of pollution. “Have you gone to old Delhi railway station? Poor people there have to work to earn their livelihood. The kind of exertion they undergo is much more than those walking in the morning at Lodhi Gardens,” the Bench told Additional Solicitor General (ASG) ANS Nadkarni, appear- ing for the Centre. “They are doing heavy duty manual work. You cannot tell them that you stop your work because it is unsafe for you to work in the morning. This is a very critical situ- ation,” said the Bench, adding, “It is horrible”. The Bench told Nadkarni that authorities would have to do their work properly and find out solutions. T he Indian Army on Monday retaliated “strong- ly” to Pakistan’s ceasefire vio- lation by carrying out “puni- tive” strikes on Pakistan Army’s brigade headquarters opposite Poonch sector in general area of Hajira in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK). According to ground reports, the Pakistan Army suffered heavy damages in the area. But till the time of filing the report, the exact scale of damage was not known. Local residents of border villages reported that they could see smoke emanating from the Pakistan Army’s administrative unit headquarters. The Indian Army sent the strong signal to Pakistan in response to Pak Army’s firing of stray shells on Poonch and Jhallas on October 23, 2018. Poonch-based Brigade headquarters of the Indian Army had come attack for the first time on October 23 after 1997. Ministry of Defence spokesman in Jammu had claimed, “Pakistan Army had used recoilless gun (Rcl) with a calibre of 105/106 mm to tar- get the Poonch brigade head- quarters.” Sources said while giving befitting reply, the Indian Army exercised maximum restraint despite continuous provocation by the Pakistan Army. The thickly populated civilian areas on the other side of the line of control namely Hajira tehsil, Bandi, Gopalpur, Nikial, Samani and Khuiratta were not targeted in the retal- iatory firing. A huge population of ex- servicemen of the Pakistan Army and retired Government servants are settled in the area against the wishes of the local population. The Indian Army had ear- lier undertaken “surgical strikes” in September 2016 to demolish terrorist launch pads across LoC in POK in response to Pakistan-sponsored terror- ist strikes in Uri and Nagrota in Jammu & Kashmir. T hree men who were sitting on railway track near Nangloi railway station and consuming alcohol were run over by Bikaner-Delhi Express train after they failed to move off the track despite driver frenetically hooting the horn on Monday around 7.20am. According to eyewitnesses, the train driver reportedly sounded the siren but the trio did not move away from the track near The driver could no apply brakes that would have derailed the train, and the train just sliced them. Police immediately moved them to a nearby hospital where they were declared brought dead. They were iden- tified as Mukesh Verma (50), Sushil Kumar (25) and Prashant. Their body has been sent for post-mortem exami- nation at Sabzi Mandi Morgue. Police said people in the vicinity tried to alert the booz- ers but they refused to move obviously under the influence of alcohol. Deputy Commissioner of Police (Railway) Dinesh Gupta said police found two-country made liquor bottles from the spot. Eyewitnesses told police that they were sitting on the track for quite some time while they merrily consumed liquor. Police said loco pilot Randhir Singh is also being questioned. The deceased Mukesh Verma is a resident of Dharm Enclave, Prem Nagar. Sushil Kumar and Prashant were reported to be residents of Mangolpuri. A ll 189 passengers, the Indian pilot and crew aboard a crashed Indonesian Lion Air jet were likely killed in the accident, rescue officials said on Monday, as they announced they had found human remains and would continue the grim search through the night. The Boeing-737 MAX, which went into service just months ago, vanished from radar 13 minutes after taking off from Jakarta Soekarno Hatta International Airport, plunging into the Java Sea moments after it had asked to return to Jakarta. Websites that display flight data showed the plane speeding up as it sud- denly lost altitude before it dis- appeared, with authorities say- ing witnesses saw the jet plunge into the water. Indian pilot Bhavye Suneja, 31, captained the plane, Indian Embassy here confirmed. Some 40 divers are part of about 150 personnel at the scene, authorities said, with the plane wreckage some 30 to 40 metres deep in the water. Earlier, video footage apparently filmed at the scene of the crash showed a slick of fuel on the surface of the water and pictures showed what appeared to be an emergency slide and bits of wreckage bear- ing Lion Air’s logo. The carrier acknowledged that the jet had previously been grounded for unspecified repairs. The disaster is a setback for Indonesia’s airline industry, which just emerged from decadelong bans by the European Union and the US Over safety concerns. PTI Detailed report on P12 M edia Certification and Monitoring Committee (MCMC), Raipur District, has found that Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidates Brijmohan Agrawal, Devji Bhai Patel and Congress candidate Vikas Upadhayay have violated election model code of conduct on social media by not obtaining prior certification before the release of posts. The respective Returning Officers would be issuing show cause notice to the candidates seeking their reply. The MCMC headed by Raipur District Electoral Officer (CEO) and Collector Dr Basavaraju S found that BJP candidate Brijmohan Agrawal on his twitter account and Devji Bhai Patel on his facebook account had been using 'government scheme mono' for publicity which has the election symbol of party. Similarly, Devji Bhai Patel in name of Chairman, Chhattisgarh Text Book Corporation’s facebook account was also being used allegedly for political campaign. The Committee found it as the violation of election model code of conduct. The Committee also detected that Congress can- didate Vikas Upadhayay in his sponsored facebook page without prior permission and certification has been using it for alleged political campaign. It has recommended to the respective Returning Officers to issue notice to all these candidates.As per the direction of Election Commission of India (ECI), the social media posted materials would fall under the election model code of conduct. Additional to it, all the adver- tisements being released in social media have to be pre-certified through MCMC at the district level. Bulk SMS and voice mes- sage, television, cinema, radio, LED along with e-papers before release of any adver- tisement has to be certified by the MCMC. Raipur City (West) Returning Officer Sandeep Agrawal has issued notice to BJP candidate Rajesh Munat seeking clarifica- tion for distributing materials for luring the electors. A complaint was received on the issue. Munat has been asked to submit the reply at earliest. B JP’s Central Election Committee on Monday released the second list of can- didates for Chhattisgarh which goes to polls on November 12 and 20 to elect the new 90-member state leg- islative assembly. With the announcement of 11 more candidates, the BJP has so far declared names for 89 seats but has held up announcement for just one seat, Raipur (North). The BJP is in power in the mineral-rich state since late 2003 and the party is expecting to register the fourth consecutive victory in 2018. RNI Regn. No. CHHENG/2012/42718, Postal Reg. No. - RYP DN/34/2013-2015

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As the Supreme Court onMonday turned down the

plea for expeditious hearing ofthe Ram Janmabhoomi landdispute case and said the mat-ter will be dealt with by anappropriate Bench in January,the court faced harsh criticismfrom several quarters anddemand for an Ordinance forthe construction of RamTemple grew louder withinthe BJP, RSS and various SanghParivar outfits .The Congressexercised restraint saying thatthe apex court verdict shouldbe awaited and the issue be notlinked with vote-bank poli-tics.

With the country warmingup to the Lok Sabha polls,around six months away, theBJP and the RSS called forbringing a legislation to expe-dite the temple construction atAyodhya apprehending thatthe court proceedings on theissue may not conclude toosoon.

Outlining theGovernment’s stand, UnionLaw Minister Ravi ShankarPrasad, at the same time, saida lot people in the country want

the case to be heard quickly.Addressing a press conferencein poll-bound Chhattisgarh,Prasad said the BJP neverlinked the Ram Mandir issuewith polls.

“The Supreme Court todaysaid the hearing (on theAyodhya land title disputecases) will be held in January.As a Law Minister, I should notsay anything else, as you under-stand that there are certain lim-itations,” Prasad said.

“I would like to humblysay that a lot of people in thecountry want that the hearingon the issue should be com-pleted soon,” he said.

The RSS said the SupremeCourt should make an earlydecision on the RamJanmabhoomi land disputeand the Union Governmentshould bring a legislation toremove hurdles, if any, in theway of the construction of aRam temple at the site.

RSS chief spokespersonArun Kumar said theAllahabad High Court in itsverdict has accepted that thesite is the birthplace of LordRam and a temple existedthere. The HC judgment,delivered in four civil suits,

had said the 2.77-acre land bedivided equally among threeparties — the Sunni WaqfBoard, the Nirmohi Akharaand Ram Lalla.

“The Sangh believes agrand Ram temple should beconstructed soon at the birth-place of Lord Ram. And landshould be allotted at the birth-place for temple construction.With the construction of thetemple, an atmosphere of unityand harmony will be created.With this in view, the Supreme

Court should make an earlydecision and if there are anydifficulties, the Governmentshould make a law to removeall hurdles in the way of giv-ing land for temple at the RamJanmabhoomi site,” Kumarsaid in a statement.

“Ever since this andolanwas started by sants, we havesupported it and will contin-ue to support them in theirdecisions in future,” he said.

BJP leader Vinay Katiyaralleged that the issue was

being delayed “under pressure”from the Congress, whichdenied the charge. “Thedecision is being delayedunder pressure from theCongress. People like KapilSibal and Prashant Bhushanare pressing for delaying theissue. Till when will Rambhakts (devotees) wait? In2019, the Congress will cometo know,” he said.

Former Union Ministerand BJP leader Sanjeev Baliyansaid, “I am surprised at the pri-orities of the court. I am of theview that the Ram Templeshould be constructed. TheGovernment should exploreall possibilities.”

BJP’s ally Shiv Sena leaderSanjay Raut said the Ramtemple is an issue of faith anddemanded that theGovernment comes out withan Ordinance soon. “It is amatter of faith. The court can-not decide on this. TheGovernment should bring anordinance,” he said.

Senior Congress leader PChidambaram, however,maintained that it was a famil-iar story every five years beforethe elections when the BJPtries to polarise the issue.

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The Supreme Court onMonday refused to enter-

tain the Uttar Pradesh plea forearly hearing of the RamJanmabhoomi-Babri Masjidland dispute case, saying it hasdifferent priorities. The courtfixed the case for the firstweek of January before an“appropriate Bench” which willdecide the schedule of hearing.

The court’s decision is abig blow to the temple pro-tagonists who had hoped foran early resolution of the dis-pute and day-to-day hearingof the case that could havepaved the way for building ofthe Ram temple before the2019 Lok Sabha polls.

“We will fix the date ofhearing of the Ayodhya dis-pute case before the appro-priate Bench in January,” saida three-judge Bench, headedby Chief Justice Ranjan

Gogoi, and comprisingJustices SK Kaul and KMJoseph.

Solicitor General TusharMehta and senior advocate CSVaidyanathan, appearing forthe UP Government and deityRamlala respectively, soughtearly listing of the appeals inthe case after referring totheir long pendency. But theBench remained unimpressedand clearly indicated the casewas not a priority for it.

“We have our own prior-ities. Whether the matter willbe heard in January, Februaryor March, the appropriateBench will decide,” the Benchsaid.

Hopes for expeditious set-tlement of the Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid land disputecase were revived after athree-judge Bench, by a 2:1majority last month, refusedto refer to a f ive-judgeConstitution Bench the issueof reconsideration of theobservations in its 1994 judg-ment that a mosque was notintegral to Islam. The matterhad arisen during the hearingof the Ayodhya land dispute.

The majority view byChief Justice of India (CJI)Dipak Misra and JusticeAshok Bhushan ordered thatthe hearing in the mainAyodhya title suit appealsshould resume from October29.

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As the Supreme Court onMonday banned 15-year-

old petrol vehicles and 10-year-old diesel vehicles fromplying in Delhi and NationalCapital Region (NCR), nation-al Capital air quality has beenpredicted to deteriorate “dras-tically” on Tuesday.

The System of Air Qualityand Weather Forecasting AndResearch (SAFAR) on Mondaysaid stubble fire counts hasincreased “tremendously” inpast 24 hours.

The Supreme Court alsoinstructed the transport depart-ment to impound such vehiclesif they are found on the road.“A list of these vehicles shouldbe published on the websites ofthe Central Pollution ControlBoard CPCB) and the trans-port department, and an adver-tisement should be publishedin newspapers,” said the court.

The Supreme Court passedthese directions on a noteplaced before it by advocateAparajita Singh, assisting thecourt as amicus in the air pol-lution matter, seeking urgentdirections to correct the pre-vailing situation of pollution.

The court also directed

the CPCB to immediately cre-ate a social media account onwhich citizens could lodgetheir complaints directly aboutpollution. Appropriate actioncould be taken by the author-ities concerned on the writtencomplaints, the SC added.

The court has posted thematter for hearing onNovember 1.

In 2015, the NationalGreen Tribunal (NGT) hadbanned 15-year-old petrolvehicles and 10-year-old dieselvehicles.

The following year, theNGT directed authorities in theNCR and Delhi to begin dereg-istering all diesel vehicles in thecapital that are more than adecade old.

During the hearing onMonday, the Bench referred tomedia reports that people

should not go on morningwalk due to the high levels ofpollution. “Have you gone toold Delhi railway station? Poorpeople there have to work toearn their livelihood. The kindof exertion they undergo ismuch more than those walkingin the morning at LodhiGardens,” the Bench toldAdditional Solicitor General(ASG) ANS Nadkarni, appear-ing for the Centre.

“They are doing heavyduty manual work. You cannottell them that you stop yourwork because it is unsafe foryou to work in the morning.

This is a very critical situ-ation,” said the Bench, adding,“It is horrible”.

The Bench told Nadkarnithat authorities would have todo their work properly and findout solutions.

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The Indian Army onMonday retaliated “strong-

ly” to Pakistan’s ceasefire vio-lation by carrying out “puni-tive” strikes on Pakistan Army’sbrigade headquarters oppositePoonch sector in general areaof Hajira in Pakistan OccupiedKashmir (POK).

According to groundreports, the Pakistan Armysuffered heavy damages in thearea. But till the time of filingthe report, the exact scale ofdamage was not known.

Local residents of bordervillages reported that theycould see smoke emanatingfrom the Pakistan Army’sadministrative unit headquarters.

The Indian Army sent thestrong signal to Pakistan inresponse to Pak Army’s firingof stray shells on Poonch andJhallas on October 23, 2018.

Poonch-based Brigadeheadquarters of the IndianArmy had come attack for thefirst time on October 23 after1997.

Ministry of Defencespokesman in Jammu hadclaimed, “Pakistan Army hadused recoilless gun (Rcl) witha calibre of 105/106 mm to tar-get the Poonch brigade head-quarters.”

Sources said while givingbefitting reply, the IndianArmy exercised maximumrestraint despite continuousprovocation by the Pakistan

Army.The thickly populated

civilian areas on the other sideof the line of control namelyHajira tehsil, Bandi, Gopalpur,Nikial, Samani and Khuirattawere not targeted in the retal-iatory firing.

A huge population of ex-servicemen of the PakistanArmy and retired Governmentservants are settled in the areaagainst the wishes of the localpopulation.

The Indian Army had ear-lier undertaken “surgicalstrikes” in September 2016 todemolish terrorist launch padsacross LoC in POK in responseto Pakistan-sponsored terror-ist strikes in Uri and Nagrotain Jammu & Kashmir.

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Three men who were sittingon railway track near

Nangloi railway station andconsuming alcohol were runover by Bikaner-Delhi Expresstrain after they failed to moveoff the track despite driverfrenetically hooting the hornon Monday around 7.20am.

According to eyewitnesses,the train driver reportedlysounded the siren but the triodid not move away from thetrack near

The driver could no applybrakes that would have derailedthe train, and the train justsliced them.

Police immediately movedthem to a nearby hospitalwhere they were declaredbrought dead. They were iden-tified as Mukesh Verma (50),Sushil Kumar (25) andPrashant. Their body has beensent for post-mortem exami-nation at Sabzi Mandi Morgue.

Police said people in thevicinity tried to alert the booz-ers but they refused to moveobviously under the influenceof alcohol.

Deputy Commissioner ofPolice (Railway) Dinesh Guptasaid police found two-countrymade liquor bottles from thespot. Eyewitnesses told policethat they were sitting on the

track for quite some time whilethey merrily consumed liquor.

Police said loco pilotRandhir Singh is also beingquestioned. The deceased

Mukesh Verma is a resident ofDharm Enclave, Prem Nagar.Sushil Kumar and Prashantwere reported to be residents ofMangolpuri.

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All 189 passengers, theIndian pilot and crew

aboard a crashed IndonesianLion Air jet were likely killedin the accident, rescue officialssaid on Monday, as theyannounced they had foundhuman remains and wouldcontinue the grim searchthrough the night.

The Boeing-737 MAX,which went into service justmonths ago, vanished fromradar 13 minutes after takingoff from Jakarta SoekarnoHatta International Airport,plunging into the Java Seamoments after it had asked toreturn to Jakarta.

Websites that display f light data showed the plane speeding up as it sud-denly lost altitude before it dis-appeared, with authorities say-ing witnesses saw the jet plunge

into the water.Indian pilot Bhavye Suneja,

31, captained the plane, IndianEmbassy here confirmed.

Some 40 divers are part ofabout 150 personnel at thescene, authorities said, with theplane wreckage some 30 to 40metres deep in the water.

Earlier, video footageapparently filmed at the sceneof the crash showed a slick offuel on the surface of the waterand pictures showed whatappeared to be an emergencyslide and bits of wreckage bear-ing Lion Air’s logo.

The carrier acknowledgedthat the jet had previouslybeen grounded for unspecifiedrepairs. The disaster is a setbackfor Indonesia’s airline industry,which just emerged fromdecadelong bans by theEuropean Union and the USOver safety concerns. PTI

Detailed report on P12

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Media Certification and MonitoringCommittee (MCMC), Raipur

District, has found that Bharatiya JanataParty (BJP) candidates Brijmohan Agrawal,Devji Bhai Patel and Congress candidateVikas Upadhayay have violated electionmodel code of conduct on social media bynot obtaining prior certification before therelease of posts.

The respective Returning Officerswould be issuing show cause notice to thecandidates seeking their reply. The MCMCheaded by Raipur District Electoral Officer(CEO) and Collector Dr Basavaraju Sfound that BJP candidate BrijmohanAgrawal on his twitter account and DevjiBhai Patel on his facebook account hadbeen using 'government scheme mono' forpublicity which has the election symbol ofparty. Similarly, Devji Bhai Patel in nameof Chairman, Chhattisgarh Text Book

Corporation’s facebook account was alsobeing used allegedly for political campaign.The Committee found it as the violationof election model code of conduct. TheCommittee also detected that Congress can-didate Vikas Upadhayay in his sponsoredfacebook page without prior permission andcertification has been using it for allegedpolitical campaign. It has recommended tothe respective Returning Officers to issuenotice to all these candidates.As per thedirection of Election Commission of India(ECI), the social media posted materialswould fall under the election model code

of conduct. Additional to it, all the adver-tisements being released in social mediahave to be pre-certified through MCMC atthe district level. Bulk SMS and voice mes-sage, television, cinema, radio, LED alongwith e-papers before release of any adver-tisement has to be certified by the MCMC.

Raipur City (West) Returning OfficerSandeep Agrawal has issued notice to BJPcandidate Rajesh Munat seeking clarifica-tion for distributing materials for luring theelectors. A complaint was received on theissue. Munat has been asked to submit thereply at earliest.

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BJP’s Central ElectionCommittee on Monday

released the second list of can-didates for Chhattisgarh which goes to polls onNovember 12 and 20 to electthe new 90-member state leg-islative assembly.

With the announcement of

11 more candidates, the BJP has so far declared names for 89 seats but has held up announcementfor just one seat, Raipur(North).

The BJP is in power in themineral-rich state since late2003 and the party is expecting to register the fourthconsecutive victory in 2018.

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New Delhi: The SupremeCourt on Monday stayed theBombay High Court orderrefusing extension of time tothe State police for filing chargesheet in the Koregaon-Bhimaviolence case.

Recently, the Bombay HighCourt had set aside the lowercourt’s order allowing extensionof time to police to file its probereport against the rightsactivists in the violence case.

Taking note of the appealof the MaharashtraGovernment, a bench headedby Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoistayed the High Court orderand issued notice to rightsactivists on the plea.

Earlier, the apex court hadrefused to interfere with thearrest of five rights activists by

the Maharashtra Police in con-nection with the Koregaon-Bhima violence case anddeclined to appoint a SIT forprobe into their arrest.

The Pune Police hadarrested lawyer SurendraGadling, Nagpur Universityprofessor Shoma Sen, Dalitactivist Sudhir Dhawale,activist Mahesh Raut andKerala native Rona Wilson inJune for their alleged linkswith Maoists under theUnlawful Activities(Prevention) Act (UAPA).

The arrests had followedraids at their residences andoffices in connection withthe Elgar Parishad conclaveheld in Pune on December 31last year, which, the policehad claimed, had led to vio-lence at Bhima Koregaon thenext day.

The MaharashtraGovernment had on October25 moved the apex court chal-lenging the Bombay High

Court order by which theextension of time granted tostate police to conclude probein the Koregaon Bhima vio-lence case was set aside.

In the previous hearing, thebench had considered the sub-missions of lawyer NishantKatneshwar, appearing for theMaharashtra Government, thatthe appeal needed to be heardon an urgent basis.

The lawyer had said that ifthe High Court order is notstayed then accused in theviolence case would becomeentitled for grant of statutorybail for want of non-filing ofcharge sheet within the stipu-lated period.

Under the UAPA, a chargesheet must be filed within 90days of arrest. However, theprosecutor can file a reportbefore the trial court, explain-ing the reasons for the delay,and seek more time. If satisfied,the court can extend the timeby 90 days. PTI

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The Congress on Monday hitout at Prime Minister

Narendra Modi over reportsthat US President DonaldTrump has not accepted India’srequest to be the chief guest atthe Republic Day parade nextyear and termed it a “diplo-matic faux pas”.

Former Union MinisterAnand Sharma said Modi’sapproach is “frivolous” and hisconduct of diplomacy lacks

gravitas. He said Modi mustunderstand that engagementwith strategic partners cannotbe transactional or episodic.

“President Trump’s non-acceptance of invitation to bethe chief guest for RepublicDay was an avoidable embar-rassment. Extending theinvite without assured accep-tance was a diplomatic fauxpas.

“Never before this honourhas been declined by a head ofstate... He (PM Modi) mustknow that engagement withstrategic partners can not betransactional or episodic,” hesaid.

Sharma said such a thinghas never happened in the

past.Another Congress leader

Manish Tewari said, “NotSurprising. I was inWashington DC when news ofIndia’s Republic Day invite toDonald Trump broke in July2018. Asked a senior WhiteHouse official would Trumptravel to India, the personsmiled and said-needs to beforward movement on a bunchof issues”.

Trump is unlikely to acceptIndia’s invitation to be thechief guest at the parade,sources said Sunday.

The US is understood tohave conveyed to New Delhithat Trump may not be able tohonour the invitation as he will

have pressing engagements,including his State of TheUnion address, around thetime India will celebrate itsRepublic Day.

This comes at a time whenIndo-US ties have witnessedsome strain after India wentahead and sealed a deal withRussia to procure a batch of S-400 air defence missile systems,notwithstanding US threat ofpunitive action under CAAT-SA (Countering America’sAdversaries Through SanctionsAct).

Sources said India hasshortlisted names of two-threeheads of states for extendinginvitation to be the chief guestat the parade.

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Women and Child DevelopmentMinister Maneka Gandhi on

Monday asked the Mother Teresa-found-ed Missionaries of Charity (MoC) to“come back into” the Government’s systemof adoption services.

The MoC had decided to stop puttingchildren up for adoption under theGovernment’s Central Adoption ResourceAuthority (CARA) system following anideological row with Ministry in 2015 overissues such as the organisation’s denial togive children to separated or divorced par-ents.

Maneka met a MoC delegation led bySister Mary Prema Pierick, who heads theorganisation after Mother Teresa, and

requested them “to come back into” theCARA system of adoption.

The CARA functions as the nodalbody for adoption of children and is man-dated to monitor and regulate in-countryand inter-country adoptions.

The Union minister said the moveaims to bring children living in the 79 MoChomes into family care.

“Prema agreed to my request to workjointly on each of these homes so that thechildren in the MoC homes can be on-board-ed into CARINGS expeditiously,” she tweet-ed. The Women and Child DevelopmentMinistry and the MoC have been involvedin a number of rows in the past.

In July this year, Maneka had orderedall states to get the child-care homes runby the MoC inspected, after cases of alleged

illegal adoptions carried out by the homescame to light. A shelter home run by theMoC in Ranchi has allegedly been involvedin “selling” three children and “givingaway” another one.

Taking cognisance of the cases ofalleged illegal adoptions carried out by theMoC in Jharkhand, Maneka ordered all thestates to get the child-care homes run bythe organisation inspected immediately,the ministry had said in a statement in July.

There was also a conflict in 2015 overthe MoCs not allowing adoption by sep-arated or divorced or single parents.

Maneka had then said the governmentwould have to derecognise the organisationif it continued to defy the revised guidelinesbut the Missionaries of Charity itself decid-ed to stop putting children up for adoption.

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Sugar production is likely to decline by3 per cent to 31.5 million tonnes (MT)

in the current marketing year due tountimely rains and pest attacks that affect-ed the cane crop. Diversion of cane juicefor ethanol is also a reason for decline insugar production.

Sugar production reached at an all-time high of 32.5 million tonnes in the2017-18 marketing year (October-September). The Indian Sugar MillsAssociation (ISMA) in July had projecteda production of 35 MT in the 2018-19 sea-son that started this month, taking intoaccount higher cane acreage and forecastof normal monsoon.

In its forecast issued Monday, theISMA reduced the sugar production esti-mate for the 2018-19 marketing year as thesugarcane crop in the three main growingstates of Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra andKarnataka, which contribute around 80 percent to the total sugar output, have beenimpacted adversely.

“Sugar production in 2018-19 wouldbe around 32 MT. However, this figure maybe lower if we consider the expected diver-sion of sugar to ethanol...The sugar pro-duction estimates for 2018-19, after con-sidering this diversion into ethanol, will be

around 31.5 MT tonnes,” the statementsaid.

The association said that there wouldbe surplus availability of sugar in the coun-try despite estimated fall in productionbecause of huge carry-over stocks from theprevious marketing year. The total avail-ability of sugar would be 42.7 MT during2018-19 as against the annual domesticdemand of 25.5-26 MT. Even if millsexport 4-5 MT of sugar, the closing stockwould be significantly high at 11-13 MT,it added.

According to ISMA, sugar productionin UP was expected to be higher becauseof higher cane area under the high yield-ing variety Co0238. “However, severalareas in UP have had untimely rainfall inSeptember 2018 which has adverselyaffected the growth of the sugarcane atthis very important maturity period.Further, some areas have reported water-logging and in some parts of Western UP,there has been sugarcane lodging also,” itsaid.

As a result, sugarcane yields andsugar recovery would be impacted.Accordingly, ISMA has revised its sugarproduction estimates for UP from 13-13.5MT tonne made in July 2018 to 12.1 MT,which is almost similar to 12.04 MT in2017-18.

In Maharashtra, sugar production isestimated at around 9.5 MT as against10.72 MT in 2017-18. In July, ISMA hadpegged output at 11-11.5 MT. “These esti-mates were made considering a normalrainfall during July — September 2018which has a big influence on the sugarcaneyields and sugar recovery. However, dur-ing the last 2-3 months, the rainfall in mostof the sugarcane areas in Maharashtra hasbeen substantially lower than last yearsame period as well as below normal aver-age of the last three years,” it said.

Moreover, white grub has infested asignificant area in the districts ofAhmednagar, Solapur and Marathwadaand to a lesser extent in Kolhapur, Sangli,Satara and Pune. In some small areas with-in the above districts, the crop has beenso seriously infested that either farmershave uprooted them or the crop has notsurvived.

“The northern part of Karnatakabeing contiguous to sugarcane grown insouthern part of Maharashtra, have alsosuffered due to lower rainfall as well assome infestation of white grub. Theimpact is, however, lower thanMaharashtra,” ISMA said.

Sugar production in Karnataka isnow estimated at 4.2 MT from 4.48 MTprojected in July.

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Just as Delhi is gasping forbreath due to increasing air

pollution, a WHO reportreleased on Monday increasedthe concerns as it pointed outthat everyday 98 per cent ofkids globally, under the age of15 years, breathe air that istoxic, putting them to severehealth risk. Alarmingly, 14 outof the 20 most polluted cities inthe world are in India, thereport stated based on its studyin 2016.

Air pollution is fatal too asaround 600,000 children diedfrom acute lower respiratoryinfections caused by dirty airduring the study year, as per thereport titled, “Air pollutionand child health: Prescribingclean air.”

The report examines theheavy toll of both ambient(outside) and household airpollution on the health of the

world’s children, particularly inlow and middle-income coun-tries including India.

The report is beinglaunched on the eve of WHO’sfirst ever Global Conference onAir Pollution and Health at thefirst Global Conference on AirPollution and Health beingheld in Geneva from 29October — 1 November to rallythe world towards major com-mitments to fight this problem.

The conference will raiseawareness of this growing pub-lic health challenge and shareinformation and tools on thehealth risks of air pollution andits interventions.

The WHO report alsotalked about the health hazardsof toxic air on pregnantwomen. They are more likely togive birth prematurely, andhave small, low birth-weightchildren, it said.

“In low- and middle-income countries around theworld, 98% of all childrenunder 5 are exposed to PM2.5levels above WHO air qualityguidelines. In comparison, inhigh-income countries, 52%of children under 5 are exposedto levels above WHO air qual-ity guidelines,” the study says.

“Globally, 93 per cent of theworld’s children under 18 yearsof age are exposed to ambientfine particulate matter (PM2.5)levels above WHO air qualityguidelines, which include the630 million of children under5 years of age, and 1.8 billionof children under 15 years,” thereport said.

The PM2.5 (or particleswith a diameter of less than 2.5micrometres present in theair), also called “fine particu-lates”, can be a matter of moreserious health concern thanPM10 (those with a diameter ofless than 10 micrometres).

PM2.5 poses greater harmas being finer, it can easily beinhaled into the respiratorytract.

The WHO report cited acase study that investigatedwhether exposure to PM2.5during pregnancy was associ-ated with low birth weight inan integrated rural-urban,mother-child cohort in TamilNadu.

“The researchers recruit-ed 1285 women in the firsttrimester of pregnancy in pri-mary health care centres andurban health posts and fol-lowed them until the birth of

their child to collect data onmaternal health, prenatal care,exposure to air pollution dur-ing pregnancy and the birth-weight of the child,” the studysaid.

The findings indicate thatmaternal exposure to PM2.5should be considered withother risk factors for low birth-weight in India.

The report also quoted acase-control study in Indiawhich showed a correlationbetween exposure to HAP fromsolid fuel combustion and therisk of contracting TB in chil-dren less than 5 years of age.

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The CBI has shared all thefiles pertaining to allega-

tions against CBI Director AlokVerma to the CVC that is con-ducting a probe against himeven as the Delhi High Courton Monday asked the agency tomaintain status quo in thebribery case against the CBISpecial Director RakeshAsthana who has soughtquashing of the FIR.

The CVC probe againstVerma is being monitored byretired Supreme Court judgeAK Pattnaik. Earlier, Vermahad stalled CVC probe againsthimself by not sharing thesefiles with the anti-corruptionwatchdog despite repeatedreminders.Verma and Asthanawere divested of their roles inthe CBI.

Citing Verma’s non-coop-eration as “unprecedented”,the CVC had passed orders todivest Verma along withAsthana of the “functions,power, duty and supervisory

role in the cases registered bythe CBI under the Preventionof Corruption Act. The CVChas the authority of superin-tendence over the CBI in casesrelating to PC Act. Verma didnot furnish the files related toAugust 24 complaint byAsthana that is the subjectmatter of the CVC enquirydespite repeated adjourn-ments.

The Government hasappointed CBI Joint DirectorM Nageshwar Rao as the inter-im chief of the agency. CBIsources said the agency hassubmitted a number of files tothe CVC as and when demand-ed by the superintendingauthority. The Delhi HighCourt on Monday directed the

CBI to maintain status quo tillNovember 1 on the criminalproceedings initiated againstAsthana, who has challengedthe FIR lodged against him onbribery allegations.

Justice Najmi Waziri ques-tioned the CBI for not filing itsresponse to the petitions ofAsthana and the agency’sDeputy Superintendent ofPolice Devender Kumar, whohas been in CBI custody sinceOctober 23.

The high court, in lasthearing on October 23, hadasked CBI to file its response byMonday. It had ordered theagency to maintain status quoon the proceedings againstAsthana. When CBI’s SpecialProsecutor K Raghavacharyuluprayed for a “little” more timeto file its reply, the court askedas to why it has not been doneyet. The CBI prosecutor toldthe high court that the delay infiling of reply occurred as thecase files have been sent toCentral Vigilance Commission(CVC).

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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday favoured cancellingthe 2017 SSC examination, whose declaration of results it hadstayed in August, and holding it afresh by the National TestingAgency (NTA) or the CBSE “in the interest of students”.

The top court observed it was difficult to ascertain the realbeneficiaries of the irregularities in the “tainted” examinationand hence it should be scrapped.

It refused to agree with the contention of Centre that theexamination held in February this year got “tainted” due to atechnical snag and a fresh examination of one paper had beenconducted thereafter.

The examination papers of the SSC CGL were allegedlyleaked, leading to huge protests from job seekers for several days.Amid the protests, the SSC had recommended a CBI probe intothe allegations of paper leak following the demands by the protest-ing job aspirants.

A bench of Justices S A Bobde and L Nageswara Rao askedthe Centre to go through the status report and file its reply byNovember 13.

“We had stayed declaration of results for the examinationsas there were prima facie material. It is in the interest of studentsthat whole thing is scrapped and held afresh,” the bench said.

The court said that even after the CBI probe or investiga-tion by any agency, there was no mechanism by which it can bedetermined who all were tainted and who all were innocents.

“Sometimes a hard decision has to be taken to send a mes-sage to those involved that these kind of activities would not ben-efit and every thing can be washed off,” it said. PTI

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Army chief General BipinRawat said here on Monday

the army is verifying reportsthat snipers have enteredKashmir valley to target secu-rity forces. His comments camein the wake of reports that atleast three security men werekilled in sniper attacks by ISItrained Jaish-e-Mohammad(JeM) militantssince mid-September forcingthe security forces to redrawtheir strategy to meet the newchallenge.

Responding to the patternof attacks, the Army chief saidthe Army was studying whetherthe attacks were carried out bysnipers. “Whether these attackshave been done by snipers ornot, this is something we arestill studying. “But to say thatsnipers have infiltrated andthat they have sniperweapons...We have not foundany sniper weapon,” he toldreporters on the sidelines of anevent here.

Rawat also said to saysnipers have come into theValley was “premature.”

Based on intelligence inputs,security agencies believe that atleast two separate ‘buddy’groups of the proscribed JeMcomprising two terrorists eachentered Kashmir Valley in earlySeptember and have entrenchedthemselves in South Kashmir’sPulwama district with the helpof some overground supportersof the outfit.

These terrorists, accordingto the officials, have beentrained by ISI for carrying outsniper attacks in the Valley andhave been armed with M-4carbines, used by the US-ledallied forces in Afghanistan.

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New Delhi: As Delhi continuesto battle alarming pollution lev-els, a new study has found thatthree of the world’s largest nitro-gen dioxide emission hotspotsthat contribute to formation offiner particulate matter causingair pollution are in India, withone in the Delhi-NCR.

The study by Greenpeacecomes as Delhi’s pollution levelclimbed to alarming levels. Airquality continued to remain inthe “very poor” category as athick haze engulfed the cityMonday. NO2 is a dangerouspollutant in itself and also con-tributes to the formation ofPM2.5 and ozone, two of themost dangerous air pollutants.

The largest number ofhotspots, a total of 10, is foundin China, eight in the Arabworld, four in the EU and three

each in India, the US and theDR Congo, according to ananalysis of new satellite datafrom June 1 to August 31.

Delhi-NCR, Sonbhadra inUttar Pradesh and Singrauli inMadhya Pradesh and Talcher-Angul in Odisha are the identi-fied hotspots in India. Sonbhadraand Singrauli are considered aspart of a single hotspot.

“Air pollution is a globalhealth crisis, with up to 95 percent of the world breathingunsafe air. With hotspots acrosssix continents, ranging fromcities to industrial clusters toagricultural areas, this newanalysis shows us more clear-ly than ever before just how biga part of the picture NO2 pol-lution is,” Lauri Myllyvirta,Greenpeace Nordic air pollu-tion campaigner, said. PTI

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Terming the allegations of the Congressparty on Rafale deal as baseless, Union

Minister for Law , Justice, Electronics andInformation Technology Ravi ShankarPrasad on Monday said that the Rafale air-craft had been purchased at 9 per cent less-er price than that of the UPA government’sdeal.

Addressing a press conference here,Prasad said that the Rafale aircraft issuehad cropped up as a friend of RahulGandhi and Robert Vadra did not get anycontract in the deal.

“No contract of Rs 30,000 crore hasbeen given to any private player in theRafale deal and but it is only of Rs 850crore. Based on the deal, the company hav-ing land in Nagpur will establish a man-ufacturing unit for spare parts of Rafale air-craft. The remaining work would beundertaken by another private player”, hesaid. He further said that the UPAGovernment had delayed the deal for adecade. Raising allegations, Prasad saidthat without ‘dakshina’ (dole) , theCongress party and Gandhi family do notwork and Rahul Gandhi is playing with thesecurity of the country, he said.

Prasad said NDA government hasworked to combat Naxalism which was in

150 districts in the country and now get-ting confined to about 70 to 80 districts.

Reacting to the reported statement ofsenior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor onPrime Minister Narendra Modi, Prasadsaid “it is total disrespect shown to theHindu Gods and Goddesses.”

“The attack on Prime MinisterNarendra Modi in the name of ‘Shivling’would not be tolerated. On one hand,

Rahul Gandhi is offering prayers at‘Mahakaal’ temple at Ujjain and on other,one of the Congress leaders is showing dis-regard towards Gods”.

On Ram temple and statements by BJPleaders, he said, issue of Ram Temple con-struction should not be linked with polls.There are many aspirations for it and atpresent the issue is before the SupremeCourt , he said.

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Fearing Maoist attack basedon Intelligence inputs and

citing security reasons, UnionMinister of Law and Justice andElectronics and InformationTechnology Ravi ShankarPrasad cancelled his Kirandultrip on Monday.

He was to address a publicmeeting in the insurgencyinfested district. The Minister’sother programmes wereretained in other parts ofChhattisgarh as per schedulemainly of holding public meet-ings at Mohala Manpur andAmbagarh Chowki. It may berecalled that late on Sundayevening, BJP leader and mem-ber of Zila Panchayat NandlalMudami was attacked byMaoists in Palnar area ofDantewada district inChhattisgarh. He was admittedto the district hospital but

observing his critical condition,he was shifted to Raipur.

After the incident inDantewada, the trip of UnionMinister Ravi Shankar Prasadwas cancelled citing securityreasons.

Putting in place security

arrangements for the upcom-ing polls in three states, theUnion Home Ministry hasordered for the deployment ofabout 25,000 troops for electionduties in Chhattisgarh, MadhyaPradesh and Rajasthan, a direc-tive said.

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With Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) can-didate from Kharsia Assembly con-

stituency Vijay Jaiswal declaring to supportCongress candidate Umesh Patel, theconstituency is going to witness a directcontest between the Congress and theBharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

Notably, Bureaucrat turned politicianO.P. Chaudhary is the BJP candidatefrom Kharsia .

Kharsia is a Congress Bastion andnever ever a candidate from any otherparty had recorded victory from there.

Chaudhary, who belongs to the major-ity and influential Agharia community ofthe region, had put a big challenge beforeCongress. A tough contest is expected fromthere and Umesh Patel who belongs to thesame community as O P Chaudhary, is tak-ing the contest seriously and has thrownall his effort to retain the seat.

Meanwhile, the BSP candidate, Vijay

Jaiswal, who was supported by JanataCongress Chhattisgarh (Jogi) (JCC) (J),withdrew his nomination on Monday infavour of Congress candidate UmeshPatel.

The reason Jaiswal cited that anyhowBJP has to be defeated and his candidaturemight hamper the winning chances ofUmesh Patel because of bifurcation of anti-BJP votes.

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During undivided MadhyaPradesh, people of

Chhattisgarh used to face prob-lems even for getting basicamenities. But after BharatiyaJanata Party (BJP) came topower, the entire scenario dras-tically changed, Union Ministerfor Drinking Water andSanitation Uma Bharti said onMonday.

She was addressing a pub-lic meeting at Bazar Atriya atKhairagarh.

Bharti recalled her oldassociation with Chhattisgarh.

Appreciating the workdone by ruling BJP governmentled by Chief Minister RamanSingh in Chhattisgarh, she saidthat now through develop-mental works undertaken, theState had been made prosper-ous.

“The residents have easyaccess to food grains, telecom-munications connectivity, TV,internet, education, healthcarebesides other facilities”, Bhartisaid.

Commenting on Congressparty, she said that theCongress government duringits rule in Chhattisgarh had

looted people. People havefaith in BJP as it stands withpeople during the time of joyand crisis, she said.

Raipur: Janata CongressChhattisgarh (Jogi) (JCC) (J)declared one more candidatefor the Assembly polls onMonday.

The party announced thename of Santram Rathia as anofficial candidate fromDharamjaigarh assembly con-stituency.

Notably, Dharamjaigarh isa Scheduled Tribe (ST) reserveseat and Laljeet Singh Rathia issitting MLA from there.

The Congress party has astrong base in the region andthe JCC (J) had also put a chal-lenge from there by betting onSantram.

Notably, the JCC (J) is inalliance with Bahujan SamajParty (BSP) and CommunistParty of India (CPI).

JCC (J) has got a seat shareof 55 seats for 90 member stateassembly. It is declaring candi-dates in several stages and thiswas the seventh list with thesingle name.

The Bahujan Samaj Partyhas strong base amongScheduled Caste (SC) com-munity and hence most of theseats it has received in seatshare are SC reserved seats.Whereas another alliance part-ner, the Communist Party ofIndia (CPI) has strong hold inSouth Bastar and it has beengiven seat share there. SR

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The Election Commission ofIndia (ECI) has clarified

that political parties or candi-dates if issuing political e-advertisements will have toobtain prior certification from

the Media Certification andMonitoring Committee(MCMC) which is mandatory.

Confusion prevailed earli-er regarding the political adver-tisements being released in thesocial media like websites,Facebook, WhatsApp and

Twitter handle by the politicalparties and candidates as therewas no clear cut guidelines onit.

Even though the ECI hadincluded these in the electron-ic media but there are no spe-cific rules and Acts for it likethe electronic media of televi-sion. MCMC were findingproblems to earmark what willbe the status of such e-adver-tisements.

Clarifying the situation,Dhirendra Ojha, Director (IC,COM, OTD) , ECI , throughvideo-conferencing interacted

with all the MCMC membersbased in Chhattisgarh.

Ojha said that observing

the impact and wide use ofelectronic and social media bypolitical parties and candi-

dates, e-advertisement is beinggiven for voting, political ben-efit or any other party or can-didate, for which now priorcertification is required. Nowthe expenses incurred for itwould be added with politicalparties and candidates’ electionexpenditure.

He clarified that personelaccount of candidate havingpolitical materials posted willnot be part of election expens-es but other platforms, socialsites, e-paper along with anyother electronic medium, ifthe political advertisement is

recreated and processed, thenit would be included as part ofexpense.

Ojha further said thatpolitical parties can certify thee-advertisements at state levelMCMC while candidates cando it through district levelMCMC.

During video conferencingJoint Chief Electoral OfficerSameer Vishnoi and PadminiBhoi Sahu, Deputy CEOShrikant Verma, Assistant CEOSharda Agrawal, State levelMCMC members among oth-ers was present.

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Third gender communityhas claimed their repre-

sentation from Korba assemblyconstituency.

One of its members Malti

Kinnar on Monday took thenomination forms from theDistrict Electoral Office andhad declared of contesting thepolls.

After Madhu Kinnar waselected as Raigarh City Mayor

,the morale of third gendercommunity is high and thistime they have claimed theKorba assembly seat .

Notably, Jaisingh Agrawalfrom Congress and VikasMahto from Bharatiya JanataParty are in the fray fromKorba. Malti had earlier foughtthe urban body elections in2014 in Korba but was defeat-ed. Malti in a statement saidthat till then they were sup-porting Congress but the partyhad neglected them and hadnever given them representa-tion. They are fighting theelections in public interest andnot for personal gain, Maltisaid.

Malti further informed thatapart from third gender fromChhattisgarh, Kinnar commu-nity from Sagar and Bhopal toowould be campaigning for her.

Guru Shabnam Mausi hadsent blessings and had agreedfor campaigning for Malti inthe elections, Malti said.

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Even though the BharatiyaJanata Party (BJP) has

announced that all its candi-dates would be filing the nom-ination papers after taking outmassive rally at the each of 72assembly constituencies onNovember 1, the BJP candi-dates already started filing theirnomination papers fromMonday.

As per informationreceived from different dis-tricts, on Monday in Raipur,Dharsiwa's BJP candidate DevjiBhai Patel has filed the nomi-nation papers.

When contacted, he saidthat the nomination papershave been filed before theReturning Officer formally.

On November 1 also, nom-ination paper would be filed as

per the party directive.As per information Devji

Bhai Patel has filed two set ofnomination papers. BJP can-didate for Raipur (Rural) NandKumar Sahu also filed thenomination papers.

At Bemetara, BJP candi-date Awdhesh Singh Chandelfiled the nomination paperbefore Returning OfficerMahadev Kaware, BJP candi-date for Saja, Labchand Bafnafiled it before Returning OfficerUmashankar Sahu andNavagarh BJP candidateDayaldas Baghel filed it beforeReturning Officer O D S Uike.

Similarly at Khallari, BJPcandidate Monika Sahu filedthe nomination papers onMonday. November 2 is the lastdate for filing of nominationpapers. The deadline for accep-tance of nomination is 3.00 pm.

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In connection with the stingoperation case which has

sparked a major row in theState, the chief executive offi-cer of the news channelSamachar Plus Umesh Sharmahas been sent to 15 days’ judi-cial custody by the court ofadditional chief judicial mag-istrate (ACJM) on Monday.Earlier, he was produced in thecourt of ACJN III Rinki Sinhaamid tight security by police.In the court, Sharma pleadedfor himself and said that he wasbeing falsely implicated in the

case as part of a conspiracy. Healso raised the issue of his secu-rity and claimed that his lifewas under threat. TheGovernment counsel AlpanaThapa refuted his charges anddemanded his remand underjudicial custody. After hearingout both the sides, ACJM IIISinha sent Sharma to judicialcustody till November 8.

Notably, Sharma had beenarrested during a joint opera-tion of the Uttarakhand policeand Uttar Pradesh (UP) policeon Sunday from hisIndirapuram-based residencein Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh.The police team had claimed tohave recovered �39 lakh incash, some foreign currencyand equipment used in stingoperations. Besides, a largenumber of CDs, hard disks andother items had also been con-

fiscated from his house.Speaking of the case, the

Senior Superintendent of Police(SSP) Dehradun, NiveditaKukreti said that FIR has beenlodged against the suspendedregistrar of AyurvedaUniversity Mrityunjay Mishraand three other employees ofthe news channel, nowembroiled in the row. Thepolice are investigating theirrole in the conspiracy, sheadded.

On August 10, Ayush Gaur,the editor investigation of thenews channel Samachar Plus,had filed a complaint againsthis CEO Umesh Sharma,Mrityunjay Mishra and threeothers at Rajpur police stationof Dehradun following whichcases under section 386, 388and 120 B had been registeredagainst them.

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Following the arrest of anews channel owner, the

Bharatiya Janata Party has stat-ed that the conspiracy to desta-bilise the State Government isa serious matter. The investi-gation underway in the casewill expose the whole conspir-acy in this regard. Just likeimpartial investigation isexposing facts in the nationalhighway 74 scam, the reality inthis case will also be exposedsoon.

The BJP state media incharge Devendra Bhasin saidthat a journalist of a newschannel had lodged a reportagainst the CEO of the channelhe worked for, a StateGovernment officer and otherpersons leveling serious alle-gations including conduct of asting operation aimed atorchestrating political insta-bility in the State. The policehave started investigation inthis case and the law is takingits course.

The investigation is beingconducted in an impartialmanner so that the facts are

ascertained and action is takenaccording to the law.

Bhasin further said thatsome people are not liking themanner in which the StateGovernment under the ChiefMinister Trivendra Singh Rawatis pursing a zero-tolerance pol-icy towards corruption. This isthe reason why conspiracieswere hatched against the ChiefMinister in the recent past,though none of these succeed-ed. Just like impartial investi-gation in the national highway74 scam is exposing the truth,the facts in this case too will beascertained, added Bhasin.

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Editor (investigation) ofSamachar Plus Ayush Gaur

alleged during a press confer-ence here on Monday that theintention of the owner of thenews channel Umesh Sharmato blackmail either the ChiefMinister Trivendra SinghRawat or some of his closeassociates through sting oper-ation had not been fulfilled.

Narrating the sequence ofevents which culminated in thedramatic arrest of Sharma onSunday, Ayush said that he hadbeen told in January this yearthat some top politicians andbureaucrats in Uttarakhandbeing corrupt, he must doreality check of them as part ofhis assignment.

He further said thatSharma had asked him to con-tact a friend of his MrityunjayMishra who then was the res-ident commissioner ofUttarakhand in New Delhi.“Our plan was to reach theadditional chief secretary OmPrakash posing as businessmeninterested to set up a hotel inUttarakhand. We were suc-cessful to conduct his sting butnothing objectionable cameout as he had not demandedmoney,” he said.

Ayush added that twomonths after, Sharma hadasked him to contact one RahulBhatia in Dehradun. “In

Dehradun, Bhatia introducedme to one Sanjay Gupta, Kasimbesides brother and nephew ofthe Chief Minister. But none ofthem demanded money,’’ hesaid.

The editor investigation ofthe news channel on whosecomplaint Umesh Sharma hadbeen held said that he hadonce heard Sharma sayingthat once the CM was broughtunder control their workswould run smoothly.“However, by this time, itbecame clear to me that inten-tions of Sharma were notgood,” he said.

Ayush claimed that as partof the mission, he had beenable to enter the residence ofthe Chief Minister with threehidden cameras and a spycamera. “But at the lastmoment, I decided againstdoing what I was told to do.Sharma turned furious whenhe came to know of my failureto sting the CM.

He threatened me. At thispoint of time, I decided toexpose Sharma. Subsequently,I wrote to the Prime Ministerand the Chief Minister ofUttarakhand. But no responsecame.

Finally, I met some seniorpolice officials of Dehradunand narrated to them every-thing. I also lodged a com-plaint on their advice leadingto the arrest of Sharma,” Ayush

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As per Ayush Gaur, the roleof the controversial officer

Mrityunjay Mishra was a vitalcog in the scheme of things.He said that Mishra used todemand money in lieu ofarranging meeting with ACSOm Prakash. “But UmeshSharma insisted that moneyshould be handed over to OmPrakash to put pressure on theChief Minister,” he said. Ayushfurther claimed that he hasevidences of Mishra demand-ing money. “Now the evi-dences are in the possessionof police too,” he added.

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Ayush claimed that theEducation Minister

Arvind Pandey and Ministerof State for higher educationDhan Singh Rawat were alsotargets of the sting operation.“But we failed in the errand,”he said.

According to him, UmeshSharma has a habit of record-ing audio and video clips ofpoliticians and keeping themto blackmail them at appro-priate time.

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Following disclosure byAyush Gaur that he had

successfully conducted stingoperation of some senior StateGovernment officials and hadeven entered the ChiefMinister’s residence, theUttarakhand Government hasstepped up the CM’s security.The principal secretary home,Anand Vardhan said onMonday that the CM’s securityis reviewed from time to timeand changes are made accord-ingly.

He said that the issue ofthe attempted sting opera-tion would be brought to thenotice of the high- poweredcommittee soon. He furthersaid that the legal action onthe alleged mastermind ofthe attempted sting opera-tion is being taken as per the

law.It is pertinent to mention

here that the editor investiga-tion of the Samachar Pluschannel, Ayush Gaur hadclaimed that he had beenforced to conduct sting on theCM and some of his closeassociates.

He said that he had suc-cessfully done the same of anadditional chief secretary rankofficer of Uttarakhand.

He further said that noth-ing objectionable had, how-ever, been picked to framehim in corruption. Ayush saidthat he had entered the resi-dence of the CM with spycamera with an intention ofdoing sting of CM.

The revelation has sentthe state administration intoa tizzy. It is now rethinking thesecurity strategy of the CMand other VVIPs.

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The State Congress demand-ed the State Government to

make public the footages ofSting CDs recovered from pos-session of Umesh Sharma.Speaking of the matter, thestate Congress vice-presidentSurya Kant Dhasmana said thatthe alleged involvement of manyofficers demanding money aresaid to be stored in the CDsrecovered from the possessionof Umesh Sharma. He furthersaid that the whole episode hasexposed the reality behind thezero tolerance rhetoric dishedout by the State Government.

The Congress leaderdemanded that given the seri-ousness of the revelations, theChief Minister should himselfcome forward and give clarifi-cation on the issue. He said that

Congress stands for stringentpunishment for those involvedin the matter. “But how can weforget that the same person whohas been arrested was the mas-termind of the sting done onthen CM Harish Rawat? At thetime, BJP lauded the stingoperation and the person wasprovided with high profile secu-rity by the central forces,” hesaid.

Taking a swipe at the BJP,the state Congress leader saidthat the saffron party champi-oning honesty should not bescared of facing sting.

He also cast question on thelong time the police and theadministration had taken beforeswooping down on the con-spirators. “The complaint waslodged on August 10,” he said.He demanded that all the CDs,pen drives and cameras recov-ered should be made public andaction on those engaged insuch activities should be taken.

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Noted actress Himani BhattShivpuri and BJP state

vice-president and MLAPushkar Singh Dhami havebeen added to the list of starcampaigners for the party cam-paigners in the urban localbody elections.

The BJP state media incharge Devendra Bhasininformed that the BJP hasstepped up campaigning for thelocal body elections in theState.

On the directions of theparty state in charge Ajay Bhatt,the names of noted actressHimani Bhatt Shivpuri andparty state vice president andMLA Pushkar Singh Dhamihave been added to the list ofthe party’s star campaigners.With this, the listed star cam-paigners of the BJP for the

urban local body elections haveincreased to 48. He furtherinformed that the party’s stateelection committee will meeton October 31.

The party’s state generalsecretary Naresh Bansal hasinformed all members of thecommittee about this.

The series of meetings inthe seven municipal corpora-tions in the state by state incharge and national vice pres-ident Shyam Jaju, state presi-dent Ajay Bhatt and State gen-eral secretary (organisation)Sanjay Kumar will be conclud-ed by October 31. These meet-

ings which had started onOctober 28 have been held inRudrapur, Haldwani, Kashipurand Kotdwar so far. OnTuesday, the meetings will beheld in Haridwar and Rishikeshwhile on October 31 a meetingwill be held in the provisionalstate capital regarding themunicipal corporation ofDehradun.

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After a long delay of 18years, the Governments of

Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhandhave arrived at an agreementinvolving their transport cor-porations on Monday. A mem-orandum of understanding (MoU) was signed by UP prin-cipal secretary TransportAradhana Shukla andUttarakhand secretary trans-port Shailesh Bagoli at the res-idence of UP Chief MinisterYogi Adityanath. The CMs ofboth the States were present onthe occasion.

Under the agreementreached, the buses of UPTransport Corporation wouldply on 216 routes covering adistance of 1.39 lakh kilometersin Uttarakhand while the busesof Uttarakhand would run on335 routes covering a distanceof 2.52 lakh kilometers daily inUttar Pradesh.

It is worth mentioning herethat as of now, the operation ofbuses between the two states ineach other’s territory is being

done on temporary permitbasis. After the expiry of thepermit period, the buses of

each other are stopped ran-domly by the authorities, some-thing which results in extremeinconvenience to the passen-gers. After the agreement, thetemporary permit systemwould cease to exist and thebuses would operate on thebasis of agreement reached.

Speaking on the occasion,Uttarakhand CM TrivendraSingh Rawat said that the waitby both the States for the last18 years has come to an endwith the agreement. He saidwith the inking of the agree-ment, the people of both thestates will get better transportfacilities and all pending dis-putes will get solved soon. He

added that the StateGovernments of both the statesare striving to solve the long-standing problems.

UP Chief Minister YogiAdityanath said that with thesigning of transport agree-ment, the bus services betweenthe two states will increase. Hesaid that the people of both thestates share a common heritageand claimed that the relation-ship between the two states willbe further strengthened in thecoming days.

The UP transport MinisterSwatantra Dev Singh and hisUttarakhand counterpartYashpal Arya were also presenton the occasion.

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After hearing a contemptpetition filed regarding

problems faced by farmers inview of farmer suicides in theState, the high court ofUttarakhand issued contemptnotices to chief secretary UtpalKumar Singh and agriculturesecretary D Senthil Pandiyan.The bench of acting chief jus-tice Rajiv Sharma and justiceSharad Kumar Sharma direct-ed the two officials to submittheir reply by November 14.

Congress leader GaneshUpadhyay had filed a con-tempt petition in the highcourt stating that the state gov-ernment was consistentlyignoring the interests of farm-ers. The petitioner said that thegovernment is yet to clear thedues of the sugar cane farmersin Udham Singh Nagar district.He further stated that theorders issued by the high courtin April 2018 had not beenacted upon by the govern-ment. Advocate SandeepTiwari informed that earlier thecourt had ordered the stategovernment to form a statefarmers commission within

three months for the welfare offarmers. Further, the govern-ment was also directed to pro-vide minimum support price tothe farmers in accordance withrecommendations of the MSSwaminathan commission. Thehigh court had also directedthat a policy be framed for pro-vision of insurance to farmersfor crop damage caused byweather related factors. Thestate government had also beendirected the government toprepare a scheme for providingfamily pension to the familiesof farmers who had committedsuicide. The case has been setfor hearing next on November14.

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The number of patientsaffected by dengue in

Uttarakhand has crossed 550mark on Monday as ten newcases of the dreaded vector-borne disease have been report-ed by the state health authori-ties. On the day, all the tenpatients of the disease havebeen reported from Haridwar,taking the count to 551.

Haridwar district with 183cases of the disease so far hasreported the maximum num-ber of dengue patients this yearwhile 173 people in Dehradunhave been affected by the dis-ease. In Tehri district, 108cases of the disease have so farbeen reported while 55 patients

have been found in Nainitaldistrict.

The health authoritiesassure that there is nothing topanic with the rising count. Butthey advise the people to see toit that the breeding groundsinside and in the vicinity oftheir houses are destroyed.They are also asking the peo-ple to wear full-sleeved clothesduring the day time to reduceexposure for the mosquitobite.

Dengue is a viral infectionspread by the mosquito AedesAezypti popularly known asTiger Mosquito. The symp-toms of the disease are persis-tent high fever, rashes,headache and pain in thejoints. In the acute cases theplatelets number decreasedrastically which may provefatal for the patient.

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Zia suffered a major setback onMonday when a court herejailed her to seven years in asecond corruption case forembezzling millions from acharitable trust in her late hus-band’s name, ahead of generalelections.

Zia, 73, is already behindbars after being handed a five-year term in February in anoth-er case related to embezzlementof funds of an orphanagenamed after her husband latePresident Ziaur Rahman.

The latest sentence, whichcomes ahead of general elec-tions in December, is relatedthe Zia Charitable Trust.

According to the case, Ziaand three others abused theirpower and collected $3,75,000for the trust from unknownsources.

Judge MohammadAkhtaruzzaman announcedthe verdict from the temporarypremises of the court at the oldcentral prison at Dhaka’sNazimuddin Road.

The final trial proceedingsin the case went ahead in the

absence of Zia, the leader of theBangladesh Nationalist Party(BNP), after the prison author-ities repeatedly failed to bringher to the court.

She had recently com-plained to the court that shewas losing feeling in her handand in a leg.

The Zia Charitable Trustgraft case was filed by theAnti-Corruption Commissionin 2011.

Zia’s former political affairssecretary Harris Chowdhury,his former aide and formerBangladesh Inland WaterTransport Authority actingdirector Ziaul Islam Munnaand former Dhaka mayorSadeque Hossain Khoka’s per-sonal secretary Monirul IslamKhan are the three others con-victed in the case.

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All 189 passengers and crewaboard a crashed

Indonesian Lion Air jet werelikely killed in the accident, res-cue officials said Monday, asthey announced they hadfound human remains andwould continue the grim searchthrough the night.

The Boeing-737 MAX,which went into service justmonths ago, vanished fromradar 13 minutes after takingoff from Jakarta, plunging intothe Java Sea moments after ithad asked to return to theIndonesian capital.

Websites that display flightdata showed the plane speed-ing up as it suddenly lost alti-tude in the minutes before itdisappeared, with authoritiessaying witnesses saw the jetplunge into the water.

“My prediction is thatnobody survived because thevictims that we found, theirbodies were no longer intactand it’s been hours so it is like-ly 189 people have died,” search

and rescue agency operationaldirector Bambang Suryo Ajitold reporters.

Some 40 divers are part ofabout 150 personnel at thescene, authorities said, with theplane wreckage some 30 to 40metres deep in the water.

Earlier, video footageapparently filmed at the sceneof the crash showed a slick offuel on the surface of the waterand pictures showed whatappeared to be an emergencyslide and bits of wreckage bear-ing Lion Air’s logo.

The carrier acknowledgedthat the jet had previouslybeen grounded for unspecifiedrepairs.

“It’s a really mystery whatcould have happened,” saidGreg Waldron, Asia managingeditor of industry publicationFlightglobal.

“Hopefully they will beable to locate the (cockpit)voice data recorders.”

The plane had been enroute to Pangkal Pinang city, ajumping off point for beach-and-sun seeking tourists on

nearby Belitung island, when itdropped out of contact around6.30 am (2330 GMT).

One Italian national wasaboard the plane which wasflown by an Indian pilot, thetransportation ministry said.

Images filmed at PangkalPinang’s main airport showed

families of passengers cryingand hugging each other, withsome calling out to god.

“This morning he calledasking about our youngestson,” said a sobbing Ermayati,referring to her 45-year-oldhusband Muhammed Syafii,who was on board.

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Indonesian plane he captainedwith 188 passengers and crewon board the budget carriercrashed in the Java Sea, IndianEmbassy here confirmed.

Suneja, 31, was flying theLion Air flight JT610 which lostcontact with the ground offi-cials 13 minutes after taking offfrom Jakarta Soekarno HattaInternational Airport.

The Boeing 737 MAX 8aircraft en-route to PangkalPinang city crashed nearKerawang, 32 miles east ofJakarta.

“Our deepest condolenceson the tragic loss of lives in theLion Air Plane crash, off thecoast of Jakarta today. Mostunfortunate that Indian PilotBhavye Suneja who was flyingJT610 also lost his life,” IndianEmbassy in Indonesia said in atweet.

“Embassy is in touch withCrisis Center and coordinating

for all assistance,” it said.The flight carried 178

adults, 1 child and 2 infants.The plane also had 3 crewunder training and 1 techni-cian, the statement said.

The aircraft was com-manded by Captain Sunejaand co-pilot Harvino with sixcabin crew members.

Suneja has 6,000 flighthours and the co-pilot morethan 5,000 flight hours, the air-line said in a statement.

Captain Suneja was a res-ident of Jakarta. He is originallyfrom New Delhi and attendedAhlcon Public School in EastDelhi’s Mayur Vihar.

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Maithripala Sirisena to imme-diately reconvene parliament toallow the democratically elect-ed representatives in the coun-try decide who will lead theirGovernment following a polit-ical turmoil sparked by the sud-den sacking of Prime MinisterRanil Wickremesinghe.

Sirisena on Friday sackedWickremesinghe and appoint-ed former strongman MahindaRajapaksa as the new PrimeMinister, triggering politicalchaos in the Indian Oceanisland nation. Next day, hesuspended Parliament afterWickremesinghe, who hadtermed his sacking as illegaland unconstitutional, sought anemergency session to provehis majority.

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Washington: President DonaldTrump on Monday accused themedia of being “the true Enemyof the People” in the wake of amass shooting and a mail bombplot.

Trump tweeted: “There isgreat anger in our Countrycaused in part by inaccurate,and even fraudulent, reportingof the news.”

He added that the media“must stop the open & obvioushostility & report the newsaccurately & fairly.”

The president’s commentsfollow a mass shooting at aPittsburgh synagogue that left11 dead and a mail bomb scaretargeting Democrats and CNN.

The election season vio-lence rattled a deeply dividednation and prompted ques-tions about whether Trump

should tone done his rhetoric.Trump strongly con-

demned the Pittsburgh attackas an act of anti-Semitism andhas denounced political vio-lence and called for unity.

But with eight days to gobefore the midterm elections,he has continued to hold hispolitical rallies, complete withharsh criticism of Democratsand the media.

At a rally Saturday night,Trump was somewhat mutedbut still offered his standardcampaign attack lines, includ-ing citing Hillary Clinton andRep Maxine Waters, both ofwhom were targeted in thebomb plot.

On Twitter on Sunday, hesavaged billionaire business-man Tom Steyer, another tar-get of the mail bombs. AP

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Sao Paulo: In some of his firstwords to the nation as presi-dent-elect, far-right politicianJair Bolsonaro has promised todefend the constitution andunite a bitterly divided popu-lace.

His left-wing rival imme-diately vowed to mount a vig-orous opposition, while rightsgroups warned against a roll-back of civil liberties.

That juxtaposition under-scored that the end of the elec-tion was not the end of acri-mony and that myriad chal-lenges lay ahead for LatinAmerica’s largest nation.

Bolsonaro appeared to tryto allay those concerns Sundaynight, saying he would “pacify”Brazil following a race thatrevealed deep divisions and wasrepeatedly marred by violence.

The candidate himself wasstabbed and almost died whilecampaigning in earlySeptember, and there werenumerous reports of political-ly motivated violence, espe-cially directed at gay people.

“This country belongs toall of us, Brazilians by birth orby heart, a Brazil of diverseopinions, colors and orienta-tions,” he said, reading off asheet of paper in a live televi-sion address. AP

Geneva: Exposure to toxic airboth indoors and out killssome 6,00,000 children underthe age of 15 each year, theWorld Health Organisationwarned on Monday.

Data from the UN healthbody shows that every day, 93percent of children under theage of 15 — a full 1.8 billionyoungsters, including 630 mil-lion under the age of five —breath dangerously pollutedair. This has tragic conse-quences: In 2016 alone, some600,000 children died fromacute lower respiratory infec-

tions caused by polluted air, theWHO report found.

“Polluted air is poisoningmillions of children and ruin-ing their lives,” WHO chiefTedros Adhanom Ghebreyesussaid in a statement.

“This is inexcusable. Everychild should be able to breatheclean air so they can grow andfulfil their full potential.”

According to WHO data,more than nine out of 10 peo-ple on the planet breath dan-gerously toxic air, causing someseven million premature deathseach year. AFP

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vices in a spending plan to beannounced on Monday, sig-nalling the easing of eight yearsof austerity — Brexit permit-ting.

Philip Hammond is set topledge 2 billion pounds (USD2.5 billion) more for mentalhealth services as he delivers hisfinal budget before the countryleaves the European Union, hisoffice said.

In advance of the presen-tation, he told the BBC he alsointends to increase NationalHealth Service funding by 20billion pounds a year by 2023.

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assumed charge as Sri Lanka’snew Prime Minister even asdefiant Ranil Wickremesingheasserted that he still com-mands the majority in parlia-ment amid warning by theSpeaker that there could be“bloodbath” on the streets if thepolitical crisis is not resolvedimmediately.

Rajapaksa assumed theduties in the prime minister’ssecretariat which was not usedby the ousted Prime MinisterWickremesinghe.

President MaithripalaSirisena’s new Cabinet was alsosworn in and Rajapaksa wasnamed the new minister offinance and economic affairs.

The new Cabinet was lim-ited to just 12 ministers, oneminister of state and onedeputy minister. Among the

new ministers, three belongedto the ousted Wickremesinghe’sUnited National Party (UNP)who have defected.

The rest of the ministersare from Sirisena’s previousCabinet with Wickremesinghewho have been given sameportfolios which they had han-dled under the unity govern-ment.

One new addition is fromthe northern district of Jaffna,Douglas Devananda, a Tamilwho has been named theMinister of Resettlement,Rehabilitation, NorthernDevelopment and HinduReligious Affairs.

Devananda while in oppo-sition had backedWickremesinghe during theno trust motion in April whichWickremesinghe won to retainhis premiership with supportcoming from Tamil andMuslim minority parties.

Arumugam Thondaman,

representing the Tamils ofIndian origin from central teaplantations, has been namedthe minister of Hill CountryDevelopment.

President Sirisena onFriday night sackedWickremesinghe and appoint-ed Rajapaksa as the new primeminister in a surprise move thatis being debated as a constitu-tional coup.

Sirisena also suspendedparliament till November 16after Wickremesinghe soughtan emergency session to provehis majority.

Sri Lankan parliamentSpeaker Karu Jayasuriya haswarned that there could be“bloodbath” as some peoplewere trying to resolve a powerstruggle between the presidentand his ousted premier on thestreets. Addressing reporters inKandy, Jayasuriya said the issueshould be resolved insideParliament.

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rted

atte

mpt

s by

misc

hiev

ous

non-

belie

vers

to

de

file

th

eSa

barim

ala

prec

inct

s an

d un

der-

min

e its

hal

low

ed tr

aditi

ons h

igh-

light

the u

rgen

t nec

essit

y to

reco

v-er

Hin

du te

mpl

es fr

om G

over

nmen

t con

trol

and

upho

ld d

harm

a as

und

ersto

od a

nd p

rac-

tised

by

belie

vers

. With

eac

h pa

ssin

g da

y, it

isbe

com

ing

obvi

ous t

hat t

he m

ajor

ity d

ecisi

onof

the S

upre

me C

ourt,

whi

le it

has t

o be

resp

ect-

ed, d

oes n

ot d

o ju

stice

to th

e fa

ithfu

l. Ju

stice

can

be d

one

only

by

reco

gnisi

ng th

e Ay

yapp

aSw

ami p

anth

as a

relig

ious

den

omin

atio

n, o

rSe

ctio

n th

ereo

f, un

der

Art

icle

26

of t

heC

onsti

tutio

n. T

he sh

rine

can

then

man

age

itsaf

fairs

in p

eace

.Th

e St

ate-

run

Trav

anco

re D

evas

wom

Boar

d ha

s den

ied

the M

ala A

raya

trib

e its

tra-

ditio

nal

right

s at

Sab

arim

ala,

whi

ch w

ere

alw

ays r

espe

cted

by

the

Pand

alam

roya

ls an

dTh

azha

mon

Tha

ntri

fam

ily. T

hese

inclu

de th

e

right

to li

ght t

he M

akar

avila

kku

(per

form

art

iat

a te

mpl

e in

Pon

nam

bala

med

u, n

ot o

pen

toth

e pu

blic

); ba

the

the

deity

with

fore

st ho

ney

(abh

ishek

am);

and

enjo

y pu

ja r

ight

s at

sub

-sh

rines

, like

the K

arim

ala te

mpl

e alo

ng th

e way

.Sa

barim

ala’s

majo

r cus

tom

s, in

cludi

ng 41

-da

y vr

at a

nd re

stric

tion

(not

ban

) on

wom

enin

a sp

ecifi

c age

gro

up, d

eriv

e fro

m tr

ibal

cul-

ture

an

d tr

adit

ions

. T

he

Akh

ilaTh

iruv

itham

koor

Mal

a A

raya

Mah

asab

hapl

ans t

o ap

proa

ch th

e ape

x co

urt t

o pr

otec

t its

age-

old

custo

ms u

nder

the

Fore

st Ri

ghts

Act.

The

com

mun

ity, w

hich

cla

ims t

o ha

ve e

stab

-lis

hed

the s

hrin

e bef

ore i

t cam

e und

er th

e con

-tro

l of t

he P

anda

lam

roya

l fam

ily, a

lso p

lans

tofil

e a re

view

pet

ition

agai

nst t

he ve

rdic

t allo

w-

ing

wom

en o

f all

ages

to e

nter

the

hill

shrin

eaf

ter t

he S

tate

Gov

ernm

ent r

efus

ed to

do

so.

The

Com

mun

ist r

egim

e’s e

ager

ness

to

faci

litat

e en

try

of w

omen

fro

m t

he h

ither

toba

rred

age g

roup

, eve

n as

revi

ew p

etiti

ons a

repe

ndin

g bef

ore t

he Su

prem

e Cou

rt, w

as in

tend

-ed

to h

umili

ate t

he fa

ithfu

l. A

s gen

uine

dev

o-te

es ga

ther

ed fo

r the

pilg

rimag

e whe

n th

e shr

ine

open

ed o

n O

ctob

er 1

7, t

hey

enco

unte

red

unse

emly

atte

mpt

s by i

nelig

ible

pers

ons t

o ga

te-

cras

h th

e tem

ple.

Mer

cifu

lly, t

he te

mpl

e clo

sed

with

out v

iola

tion

five d

ays l

ater

.In

a m

ajor

pro

voca

tion

on O

ctob

er 1

9, a

team

lea

d by

a t

earf

ul i

nspe

ctor

-gen

eral

SSr

eejit

h es

corte

d Re

hana

Fat

ima (

of K

iss of

Lov

eca

mpa

ign

fam

e), a

nd K

avith

a Jak

kal, a

repo

rter

from

Moj

o T

V, H

yder

abad

, to

the s

hrin

e gat

es.

They

wer

e fo

rced

to re

turn

afte

r bei

ng re

cog-

nise

d by

dev

otee

s, de

spite

wea

ring b

ulle

tpro

ofja

cket

s and

hel

met

s giv

en b

y the

pol

ice (

a pos

-sib

le v

iolat

ion

of th

e Po

lice

Act).

Lat

er, M

ary

Swee

ty al

so re

turn

ed m

idw

ay af

ter b

eing

chal

-le

nged

by

vigi

lant

bha

ktas

.

Real

ising

that

the

Stat

e G

over

nmen

t may

have

bitt

en o

ff m

ore

than

it

can

chew

,D

evas

wom

Min

ister

Kad

akam

pally

Sure

ndra

nur

ged

activ

ists n

ot to

mak

e the

hol

y pr

ecin

cts

a pl

ace

to p

rove

thei

r stre

ngth

and

lam

baste

dth

e pol

ice fo

r esc

ortin

g the

wom

en w

ithou

t ver

-ify

ing t

heir

cred

entia

ls. Sa

barim

ala is

a hu

ge re

v-en

ue e

arne

r and

the

Stat

e co

uld

lose

cro

res i

fTa

ntri

Kan

dara

ru R

ajee

varu

, ba

cked

by

Pand

alam

pal

ace,

clos

es t

he s

anct

um f

orpu

rific

atio

n if

the

tem

ple

is de

filed

. Jus

t fiv

ede

cade

s ago

, bar

ely 5,

000 p

ilgrim

s man

aged

the

ardu

ous

61-k

m tr

ek to

the

tem

ple;

now

four

cror

e com

e in

the w

inte

r sea

son

alon

e as n

ewro

ads h

ave s

hort

ened

the r

oute

.A

n id

eal s

olut

ion

wou

ld b

e to

clo

se t

hesh

rine f

or a

deca

de an

d al

low

pas

sions

to co

oldo

wn.

Sim

ulta

neou

sly, t

he d

egra

ded

ecol

ogy o

fth

e Wes

tern

Gha

ts co

uld

reco

ver,

espe

cially

afte

rth

e rec

ent f

lood

s, th

e wor

st Ke

rala

has

face

d in

deca

des.

The 7

77 sq

km

Per

iyar

Tig

er R

eser

ve,

whe

re th

e shr

ine i

s loc

ated

, hos

ts 20

tige

rs, e

le-ph

ants,

and

othe

r wild

life.

Even

afte

r the

floo

dsre

cede

d, t

here

wer

e to

rren

tial

rain

s in

Saba

rimal

a, an

d no

one

has

take

n sto

ck o

f how

the

wild

life

fare

d.Th

e Nat

iona

l Tig

er C

onse

rvat

ion

Auth

ority

is co

ncer

ned

that

the r

ising

num

bers

of d

evo-

tees

dist

urb

the a

rea’s

frag

ile ec

olog

y. Vi

rtua

llyno

thin

g ha

s be

en d

one

to i

mpl

emen

t th

eSa

barim

ala

Mas

ter P

lan

of 2

007.

A re

view

by

the K

eral

a Gov

ernm

ent a

nd D

evas

wom

Boa

rd

on O

ctob

er 9

, 201

8, fo

und

evid

ence

of d

efor

-es

tatio

n an

d m

ajor

dev

iatio

ns fr

om th

e pl

an.

At N

ilakk

al b

ase c

amp,

tree

s wer

e cut

to m

ake

park

ing

area

s, w

hile

driv

er sh

elter

s, do

rmito

-rie

s an

d ho

tels

have

bee

n bu

ilt, d

isreg

ardi

ngm

aste

r pla

n sp

ecifi

catio

ns.

At th

e nex

t sto

p alo

ng th

e sac

red

Pam

ba, s

ev-

eral

build

ings

hav

e bee

n co

nstru

cted

with

in 50

-m

etre r

adiu

s of t

he ri

ver, i

nclu

ding

a G

over

nmen

tho

spita

l. The

gree

n zo

ne in

fron

t of t

he h

ospi

tal

has b

ecom

e a pa

rkin

g lot

. The

bio-

toile

ts ar

e ina

d-eq

uate;

sewa

ge tr

eatm

ent p

lant d

ysfu

nctio

nal, a

ndun

treat

ed fa

ecal

waste

is b

eing d

umpe

d in

to th

eriv

er. T

he tr

ee co

ver a

t San

nidh

anam

is le

ss th

an20

per

cen

t, as

opp

osed

to 5

0 pe

r cen

t rec

om-

men

ded

in th

e mas

ter p

lan.

A st

udy

by tw

o ex

pert

team

s has

war

ned

of la

ndsli

ps an

d tre

mor

s at t

he h

oly h

illoc

k du

eto

ext

ensi

ve c

oncr

ete

floo

ring

at

the

Sann

idha

nam

, but

the D

evas

wom

Boa

rd is

con-

tinui

ng c

onstr

uctio

n w

orks

at

Pam

ba a

ndSa

barim

ala.

Whi

le o

rdin

ary

devo

tees

mer

elyde

sire c

lean

and

hyg

ieni

c lod

ging

s, a

holy

dip

in a

cle

an r

iver

, the

Gov

ernm

ent a

nd B

oard

inva

riabl

y st

art

prep

arat

ions

at

the

elev

enth

hour

and

fail

to se

rve t

he p

ilgrim

s.Sh

ops a

re au

ctio

ned

at h

igh

rate

s at P

amba

,Sa

nnid

hana

m an

d alo

ng th

e rou

te, a

nd p

ilgrim

sar

e fle

eced

by

trad

ers e

ven

thou

gh m

any

vol-

unta

ry an

d re

ligio

us b

odie

s are

will

ing t

o pr

o-vi

de f

ree

food

and

bev

erag

es t

o de

vote

es.

Expe

rts s

ay p

ilgrim

s do

not n

eed

mul

ti-sto

rey

com

plex

es, t

hey

need

tem

pora

ry sh

elter

s with

prop

er sa

nita

tion

and

drin

king

wat

er, w

hich

do

not d

istur

b th

e eco

logy

of t

he sa

cred

grov

e. Th

eSt

ate

Gov

ernm

ent i

s res

pons

ible

for

pres

erv-

ing w

ildlif

e and

pro

tect

ing r

iver

s fro

m en

viro

n-m

enta

l deg

rada

tion

unde

r Art

icle

48A

of t

heC

onst

itutio

n. U

nder

the

Wat

er A

ct 1

974

(Sec

tion

24, 2

5), p

ollu

ting r

iver

wat

er is

a pu

n-ish

able

offe

nce.

But P

amba

is b

eing

con

tam

i-na

ted

unde

r the

aegi

s of G

over

nmen

t age

ncies

,w

ith im

puni

ty.

In 2

005,

tha

nks

to t

he i

nter

vent

ion

ofin

fluen

tial p

erso

ns su

ch as

TKA

Nai

r, pr

incip

alse

cret

ary t

o th

e Prim

e Min

ister

, the

Min

istry

ofEn

viro

nmen

t an

d Fo

rests

tra

nsfe

rred

12.

65he

ctar

es of

rese

rve l

and

for S

abar

imala

’s �1,

000-

cror

e dev

elopm

ent p

lan, w

hich

was

appr

oved

byth

e Su

prem

e Co

urt.

Envi

ronm

enta

lists

lamen

tth

at th

e Dev

aswo

m B

oard

has

mad

e Sab

arim

alaa c

oncr

ete ju

ngle

and

com

mer

cial t

owns

hip.

Less

than

12

per c

ent o

f shr

ine l

and

is us

ed fo

r pub

-lic

purp

oses

; the r

est c

ompr

ises h

otels

, sho

ps an

dgu

esth

ouse

s. Th

e shr

ine s

tand

s in

the l

ow a

lti-

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29)

.W

hat h

as h

it th

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lmos

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thre

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ariti

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sena

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ho w

as R

ajap

aksa

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Min

ister

of H

ealth

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ke a

way

from

him

to c

onte

st th

e pr

esid

entia

l ele

c-tio

ns. N

ow S

irise

na h

as m

ade

a dr

a-m

atic

vol

te-fa

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e ha

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oved

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ther

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ither

per

man

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riend

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man

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ther

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ere

spec

ulat

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ught

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whe

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rned

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ll ci

r-cl

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iden

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nally

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he

wou

ld n

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ake

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inda

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rim

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num

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dica

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er t

he n

umbe

rs h

ave

turn

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ains

t Ran

il W

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eor

not

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t th

at is

the

gam

e of

pol

itics

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dia

can

onl

y ho

pe th

at o

rder

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emer

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e dev

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atio

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pear

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onsti

tutio

nal a

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stru

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blo

w o

n de

moc

racy

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e

retu

rn o

f Mah

inda

Raj

apak

sa c

asts

ash

adow

on

Sri L

anka

n po

litic

s. Th

ede

volu

tion

of p

ower

s to

the

Tam

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ould

not

be f

orgo

tten

in th

e pro

cess

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japa

ksa

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to le

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pros

perit

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try.

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this

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on-

ary’s

effo

rts t

o un

ite In

dia a

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e uni

t-ed

in sp

irit a

nd ce

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ate o

ur d

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si-ty

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ust

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The b

ig c

ats

— li

on, t

iger

and l

eopa

rd —

are s

usce

p-tib

le to

dise

ases

as

they

large

ly pr

ey u

pon

dom

es-

tic an

imals

, inclu

ding

dogs

and

pigs

, wh

ich a

re a

car

rier

ofpa

thog

ens.

Dom

estic

lives

tock

cons

ti-tu

te o

ver 4

0 pe

r cen

t of t

he fo

od fo

rlio

ns a

nd a

bout

60

per c

ent f

or th

eleo

pard

s. D

epen

denc

y of t

he ti

ger o

ndo

mes

tic li

vesto

ck is

also

hig

h bu

tles

ser

than

the

oth

er t

wo b

ig c

ats.

Dog

s are

the

main

sour

ce o

f rab

iesde

aths

, con

tribu

ting t

o ab

out 9

9 pe

rce

nt o

f all

rab

ies t

rans

miss

ions

to

hum

ans.

Case

s of le

opar

d dea

ths d

ueto

rab

ies w

ere

repo

rted

durin

g th

eBr

itish

perio

d. In

abse

nce o

f ade

quate

repo

rt, it

is d

ifficu

lt to

ass

ess d

eath

sof

tige

rs, l

ions

and

leop

ards

due

tora

bies

but

hig

her p

ossib

ilitie

s exi

st.

The c

arca

ss of

ever

y rab

ies in

fect-

ed do

g or l

ivesto

ck is

eaten

by th

e car

-ni

vore

s, pr

imar

ily bi

g and

small

cats,

hyen

a, jac

kal, w

olf,

foxe

s, an

d ho

ney

badg

er. A

few

deat

hs o

f lio

ns a

ndtig

ers t

oo w

ere s

uspe

cted d

ue to

rabi

esatt

ack i

n th

e pas

t. Vac

cinati

ng do

gs is

the m

ost c

ost-e

ffecti

ve st

rateg

y to p

re-

vent

rabi

es in

hum

ans a

nd ca

rnivo

res.

The

first

fatal

attac

k of

Can

ine

Dist

empe

r Viru

s (CD

V) an

d Bab

esia

Prot

ozoa

was

con

firm

ed in

the

Gir

lions

whe

n 23

out

of t

he 2

6 kn

own

infec

ted

lions

died

in a

shor

t per

iod

in S

epte

mbe

r th

is ye

ar. T

iger

s an

dleo

pard

s are

solit

ary a

nim

als an

d the

irso

cial l

ife is

diff

eren

t fro

m th

e lio

ns.

Exce

pt fe

male

s wi

th c

ubs,

none

of

thes

e two

big c

ats liv

e in

grou

ps. T

hus,

the d

eath

of ea

ch on

e of t

hem

due

tosu

ch d

iseas

e is u

suall

y no

t det

ecte

d,an

d are

repo

rted a

s natu

ral d

eath

s. In

the c

ase o

f dea

th o

f a n

omad

lion

or

a sm

all gr

oup o

f lion

s, by

viru

s or p

ro-

tozo

ans,

incid

ence

wou

ld h

ave b

een

igno

red

even

with

tho

roug

h hi

gh-

level

inve

stiga

tion

of th

e dise

ase.

But

it ca

nnot

be i

gnor

ed w

hen

the n

um-

ber o

f dea

ths e

xcee

d ha

lf a d

ozen

ina s

hort

perio

d of

just

two w

eeks

. The

pres

ence

of

viru

s or

pro

tozo

ans

amon

g the

big

cat i

s not

rare

but

has

neve

r bee

n re

porte

d be

caus

e the

sci-

ence

of vi

rolo

gy ha

s not

been

integ

rat-

ed w

ith w

ildlif

e man

agem

ent.

In a

majo

rity

of p

laces

, the

y do

not d

ie du

e to t

heir

imm

unity

syste

m.

Whe

n im

mun

ity is

lowe

red

again

stth

e atta

ck o

f any

viru

s, th

e atta

ck o

fCD

V a

nd B

abes

iatu

rns f

atal

to th

e

anim

al. P

erha

ps th

is wa

s the

case

for

large

-sca

le de

aths

of G

ir lio

ns.

Two

scien

tific

insti

tute

s for

the

first

time r

epor

ted

in 20

11 ab

out t

helio

n de

ath

in G

ir du

e to h

ighl

y inf

ec-

tious

Pes

tedes

pet

its ru

min

ants

viru

s(P

PRV

). Ac

tive v

iral s

urve

illan

ce in

neig

hbou

ring

Gir

villa

ges f

or P

PRV,

simila

r to C

DV, w

as al

so re

com

men

d-ed

by

an in

stitu

te. S

ubse

quen

tly, i

tap

pear

ed i

n ne

wspa

pers

tha

t th

efo

ur G

ir lio

ns se

nt to

Eta

wah,

Utta

rPr

ades

h, d

ied o

f CD

V d

urin

g 20

14-

16. T

his c

alled

for v

accin

ation

of do

gsan

d oth

er su

ch an

imals

again

st CD

V.H

owev

er, a

ctio

n co

uld

not b

e put

inpl

ace d

ue to

som

e rea

sons

.As

iatic

lions

face

serio

us th

reat

sto

their

futu

re as

abou

t half

of t

hem

live o

utsid

e the

core

habi

tat of

the G

irfo

rests

and h

unt d

omes

tic liv

esto

cks,

along

with

live

stock

and

blu

e bu

ll.Li

ons i

n th

e per

iphe

ral z

one a

lso hu

ntdo

mes

tic li

vesto

ck in

the v

illag

es o

rm

aldha

ri ne

sses

. A la

rge n

umbe

r of

leopa

rds h

unt d

ogs a

long

with

oth

erpr

eys a

nd so

met

imes

their

kill

s are

appr

opria

ted by

the l

ions

. Pro

babi

lity

of tr

ansm

issio

n of

viru

s, ba

cteria

and

othe

r suc

h di

seas

e is v

ery h

igh

in th

eAs

iatic

lions

. Epi

dem

ic di

seas

e risk

sfo

r lio

ns in

frag

men

ted

small

pop

u-lat

ions

beco

me s

ignifi

cant

ly hi

gher

asco

ntac

t with

dom

estic

anim

al po

pu-

latio

ns, in

cludi

ng do

gs, b

ecom

e mor

efre

quen

t as a

resu

lt of

alte

ratio

ns in

micr

oclim

ate an

d lan

dsca

pe ec

olog

y. Th

e too

ls to

pred

ict, p

reve

nt, a

ndre

spon

d to

thes

e ris

ks a

re n

ot w

elles

tabl

ished

in co

nser

vatio

n m

anag

e-m

ent.

But d

eath

s of G

ir lio

ns d

ue to

the f

atal

dise

ase i

s exp

ecte

d to

ope

na

new

chap

ter

in w

ildlif

e m

anag

e-m

ent.

Cruc

ially,

res

cue

oper

atio

nan

d wi

ldlif

e hea

lth m

anag

emen

t are

the

best

in li

on c

onse

rvat

ion

land-

scap

e in

our c

ount

ry bu

t not

enou

ghto

addr

ess t

he ch

allen

ges e

ffect

ively.

In

Ser

enge

ti, th

e lio

ns ar

e pro

neto

sim

ulta

neou

s ou

tbre

aks

of C

DV

and B

abes

ia P

roto

zoa.

Cani

ne di

stem

-pe

r is a

viru

s tha

t affe

cts d

og’s

gas-

troin

testi

nal, r

espi

rato

ry an

d ce

ntra

lne

rvou

s sys

tem

s as w

ell a

s the

con

-ju

nctiv

al m

embr

anes

of

the

eyes

.C

DV,

a d

isea

se t

hat

resu

lts i

nen

ceph

alitis

and p

neum

onia,

is tr

ans-

mitt

ed b

y dom

estic

dog

s; Ba

besio

sisis

carr

ied b

y a ti

ck-b

orne

blo

od p

ar-

asite

calle

d Bab

esia

. Sym

ptom

s of t

heCD

V at

tack

inclu

de fe

ver,

eye i

nfla-

tion,

disc

harg

e fro

m e

yes a

nd n

ose.

CDV

or B

abes

iosis

alo

ne a

ren’t

the

thre

ats

to li

ons

in S

eren

geti.

It is

aco

mbin

ation

of C

DV w

ith a

high

-leve

lof

expo

sure

to B

abes

iath

at ki

lled

the

lions

in A

frica

in 1

994

and

2001

. Co

-infec

tion

by m

ore

than

one

path

ogen

can

acc

elera

te e

xpec

ted

trans

miss

ion

rate

s and

viru

lence

of a

dise

ase.

Envi

ronm

enta

l pe

rturb

a-tio

ns ca

n als

o ch

ange

the h

ost p

ara-

site’s

relat

ions

hip.

In a

majo

rity o

f the

case

s, lio

n po

pulat

ions

are

infec

ted

with

at le

ast o

ne, a

nd m

ost w

ith m

ul-

tiple

path

ogen

s, of

ten

with

mul

tiple

strain

s of p

atho

gens

.Sc

ientis

ts su

spec

ted

that

the d

is-ea

se —

iden

tified

from

bloo

d and

tis-

sue

sam

ples

as C

DV

— c

ame

from

dom

estic

dog

s in

the v

illag

es ar

ound

the S

eren

geti

perim

eter

. Blo

od sa

m-

ples

from

the d

ogs s

howe

d th

e pre

s-en

ce o

f CD

V. In

the

villa

ges w

here

lions

hunt

lives

tock

, dom

estic

dogs

are

very

com

mon

. Ca

nine

dist

empe

rsp

read

s mos

tly v

ia sn

eezin

g. It

was

likely

that

the v

irus t

rave

lled

dire

ct-

ly to

the G

ir lio

ns fr

om th

e dom

estic

dogs

or it

was m

ore p

lausib

le th

at th

elio

ns ca

ught

the v

irus f

rom

othe

r car

-ni

vore

s — hy

enas

, jack

als, o

r leo

pard

s. H

yena

s an

d jac

kals

are

scav

-en

gers

that

frequ

ent v

illage

s, an

d leo

p-ar

ds h

unt d

omes

tic d

ogs o

r eat

car-

cass

es. L

ions

wou

ld co

me i

nto

con-

tact w

ith th

ese i

nfec

ted sp

ecies

at ki

lls.

In a

nd a

roun

d G

ir fo

rests

, ove

r 625

leopa

rds h

unt d

omes

tic an

imals

, pri-

mar

ily do

gs. T

he po

ssibi

lity o

f app

ro-

priat

ing

thes

e kill

s by

the l

ion

is no

tru

led ou

t. A m

ad le

opar

d, in

fected

byra

bies

, can

chall

enge

lion

and

what

alio

n ca

n do

to su

ch le

opar

d is

well

know

n. Li

ons a

re sc

aven

gers

and t

hey

feed o

n de

ad an

imals

. The

se an

imals

,in

cludi

ng n

atura

lly de

ad do

gs, c

an be

a sou

rce o

f tra

nsm

issio

n to

the l

ion.

Alth

ough

two d

ozen

lions

died

offat

al di

seas

es, s

imila

r inc

iden

ces m

aybe

occu

rrin

g in

othe

r car

nivo

res t

oo.

Why

is it

that

the

wild

dog

pop

ula-

tion

sudd

enly

drop

ped

in p

rote

cted

area

s in

cent

ral a

nd so

uth

Indi

a, an

dth

en r

ecov

ered

in

two-

thre

e ye

ars

befo

re th

e nex

t dro

p? W

hy is

it th

atth

e num

ber o

f jac

kals

is re

giste

ring a

down

fall?

Perh

aps,

a sol

utio

n to

their

prob

lem l

ies i

n sc

ientif

ic wi

ldlif

ehe

alth

man

agem

ent.

Also

, the

fata

latt

ack o

f CD

V an

d de

aths

of lio

ns in

a lar

ge nu

mbe

r can

be a

lesso

n to

use

the

scien

ce o

f wi

ldlif

e di

seas

es i

nwi

ldlif

e man

agem

ent.

Alt

ern

ativ

e h

ome

for

Asi

atic

Lio

ns:

The

Spec

ies

Surv

ival

Com

miss

ion

of t

he I

nter

natio

nal

Unio

n fo

r Co

nser

vatio

n of

Natu

repu

blish

ed g

uide

lines

on

strat

egic

plan

ning

for

spe

cies

cons

erva

tion,

which

hav

e sin

gle p

opul

atio

n in

one

geog

raph

ic re

gion

. The

Asia

tic lio

n is

one o

f the

m w

hich

has

the o

nly w

ildpo

pulat

ion

in th

e wo

rld in

the

Gir

fore

sts. A

grou

p of le

adin

g con

serv

a-tio

nists

decla

red t

hat a

n ext

incti

on cr

i-sis

is fa

cing t

he w

orld

’s lar

gest

carn

i-vo

res, i

nclu

ding

the b

ig ca

ts. T

he su

per

cats

— li

ons a

nd ti

gers

— n

eed

very

large

area

as th

ey n

eed

huge

trac

ts of

natu

ral h

abita

t to s

urviv

e. D

ue to

their

large

size

and

thre

ats,

they

are

less

resil

ient t

han

man

y sm

aller

spec

iesan

d les

s abl

e to

hand

le th

e thr

eat.

Big c

arni

vore

popu

latio

n, re

strict

-ed

to a

sing

le sit

e, fa

ce a

var

iety

of

extin

ctio

n th

reat

s fro

m p

oach

ing,

inte

ntio

nal k

illin

g and

envi

ronm

en-

tal f

acto

rs. C

atas

troph

es, s

uch

as a

nep

idem

ic or

fata

l dise

ase,

rem

ain th

em

ain f

acto

rs f

or l

oss

of s

pecie

s.Re

intro

duct

ion

of th

e las

t fre

e-ra

ng-

ing

popu

latio

n of

Asia

tic li

ons t

o an

alter

nativ

e site

to en

sure

their

long

-ter

m vi

abilit

y bec

ame a

majo

r con

ser-

vatio

n ag

enda

. Con

sider

ing t

his,

the

first

trial

to in

trodu

ce A

siatic

lion

inC

hand

ra P

rabh

a Sa

nctu

ary

inVa

rana

si wa

s don

e in

1959

by tr

anslo

-ca

ting

few li

ons b

ut th

e ex

perim

ent

faile

d af

ter i

nitia

l suc

cess

. Su

bseq

uent

ly, th

e G

ujar

at S

tate

Gov

ernm

ent

orde

red

the

Bard

aW

ildlif

e San

ctua

ry in

197

9 to

esta

b-lis

h an

alter

nativ

e for

the A

siatic

lion,

but t

he de

cisio

n rem

ains o

n pap

er du

eto

lac

k of

a b

old

decis

ion

by t

heau

thor

ity. S

ubse

quen

tly, a

fter a

long

exer

cise,

Kuno

Wild

life

Sanc

tuar

y(K

uno W

LS) i

n M

adhy

a Pra

desh

has

been

iden

tified

as an

alte

rnat

ive si

te.A

fter

a lo

ng l

egal

bat

tle i

n th

eSu

prem

e Co

urt,

decis

ion

went

in

favou

r of K

uno W

ildlife

Sanc

tuar

y, bu

tev

en fiv

e yea

rs aft

er th

e dec

ision

, it ha

sno

t bee

n im

plem

enta

ted.

Th

e clim

ate of

the a

ltern

ative

site

is a m

ajor i

ssue

whi

ch n

eeds

exam

i-na

tion

befo

re th

e tra

nslo

catio

n of

the

anim

als th

ere.

The l

ion

evol

ved

and

flour

ished

in te

mpe

rate

and s

ub-tr

op-

ical

envi

ronm

ent,

and

the

clim

atech

ange

s, es

pecia

lly te

mpe

ratu

re va

ri-ati

ons,

impa

cted i

ts m

igrati

on, d

isper

-sio

n an

d dist

ribut

ion

in E

urop

e, As

ia

and

Afric

a sin

ce it

evol

utio

n.

Revie

w of

clim

atic p

aram

eters

ofpa

st an

d pre

sent

lion

area

s acr

oss t

heth

ree c

ontin

ents

indi

cate

that

the l

ion

perh

aps n

ever

flour

ished

in ho

t tro

p-ica

l env

ironm

ent,

and

lion

habi

tats

may

have

a hi

gh ri

sk of

extre

me t

em-

pera

ture

in th

e hot

sum

mer

. At p

re-

sent

, majo

r pop

ulat

ions

cont

inue

tosu

rvive

in su

b-tro

pica

l env

ironm

ent

in o

ver t

wo d

ozen

coun

tries

, and

insm

all p

opul

atio

ns in

tem

pera

te a

ndm

oder

ate tr

opica

l clim

ate in

Afri

ca.

In I

ndia

, te

mpe

ratu

re o

f th

eAs

iatic

lion

distr

ibut

ion

rang

e in

tropi

cal c

limate

is ar

ound

the G

ir fo

r-es

t. Th

e she

lter o

f eve

rgre

en ri

verin

eve

geta

tion

along

the s

even

per

enni

-al

or

sem

i-per

enni

al r

iver

s an

dPr

osop

is co

ver a

long

Sha

trunj

i rive

ror

alon

g the

coas

t pro

vide

cool

envi

-ro

nmen

t for

the l

ions

. Alte

rnati

ve si

tefo

r lio

n in v

ery h

ot en

viron

men

t of t

heKu

no W

S in

the V

indh

yaya

n re

gion

is de

bata

ble.

The l

ogic

of th

e sur

vival

of th

e lio

n in

the n

orth

-wes

t Ind

ia 15

0ag

o in

Min

i Ice A

ge (1

300 A

D to

1850

AD) d

oes n

ot h

old

grou

nd.

Disa

ppea

ranc

e of t

he lio

n ou

tside

Guj

arat

coin

cide w

ith th

e end

of t

heM

ini-I

ce A

ge w

hen

aver

age t

empe

r-atu

re in

nor

th In

dia w

as lo

wer t

han

the p

rese

nt te

mpe

ratu

re. I

n fa

ct, c

li-m

ate th

en in

the n

orth

Indi

a was

nea

rsu

btro

pica

l. Th

e di

strib

utio

n of

the

Asiat

ic lio

n sin

ce it

s ent

ry in

Indi

a to

the

pres

ent n

eed

exam

inat

ion

with

resp

ect t

o th

e clim

ate.

In b

ackg

roun

d of

thes

e fa

cts,

the

Gov

ernm

ent

has

few

opt

ions

whi

ch s

houl

d be

und

erta

ken

tom

inim

ise th

reat

fact

ors w

hich

can

caus

e th

e ex

tinct

ion

of t

he s

ub-

spec

ies.

Firs

t, th

e sci

ence

of g

enet

-ics

, for

ensic

and

viro

logy

shou

ld b

eus

ed in

tens

ively

for l

ong-

term

con-

serv

atio

n of

the l

ion.

Seco

nd, s

atel-

lite a

reas

shou

ld b

e man

aged

in li

neof

Gir

prot

ecte

d ar

ea b

y enh

anci

ngad

min

istra

tive

staf

f and

res

torin

gha

bita

ts. T

hird

, an

alte

rnat

ive

site

for

the

lions

shou

ld b

e de

velo

ped

with

out d

elay

. Bar

da S

anct

uary

ison

e of t

he g

ood

optio

n. S

ucce

ss in

this

case

is

high

bec

ause

sim

ilar

type

of

adm

inist

ratio

n, w

ith a

llfa

cilit

ies

and

know

-how

, ca

n be

trans

plan

ted

ther

e. If

it is

not d

one

shor

tly o

r not

pos

sible

due t

o so

me

reas

on, t

he G

over

nmen

t sho

uld

not

hesit

ate

to d

evelo

p an

alte

rnat

ive

site f

ar aw

ay fr

om th

e Gir

fore

st.

(Thi

s is

the

sec

ond

arti

cle

in a

two-

part

seri

es o

n A

siat

ic L

ions

. The

firs

t par

t app

eare

d in

thes

e co

lum

ns

on M

onda

y, O

ctob

er 2

9. T

he w

rite

ris

M

embe

r,

Nat

ion

al

Boa

rd

for

Wild

life)

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An

artis

te li

ves t

hrou

gh h

is cr

eatio

nsan

d th

ose

who

are

exc

eptio

nal,

get

imm

orta

lised

. SD

Bur

man

, dad

a, as

he is

refe

red

to, b

elon

ged

to th

e lat

ter c

at-

egor

y. It

is no

w m

ore t

han

four

dec

ades

that

we l

ost h

im b

ut h

is m

usic

of t

he fi

fties

and

sixtie

s stil

l app

ears

to h

ave a

flav

our o

f effe

r-ve

scen

t you

thfu

l bou

nce.

It w

as th

e gen

ius

in h

im th

at d

espi

te th

e obv

ious

gene

ratio

nal

gap,

his

mus

ical s

core

s hav

e ret

ained

an el

e-m

ent o

f con

tem

pora

ry fr

eshn

ess.

Com

para

tive

ly a

lat

e co

mer

to

Mum

bai,

as h

e was

alre

ady i

n hi

s lat

e thi

r-tie

s, hi

s kn

owle

dge

of B

angl

a fo

lk a

ndRa

bind

ra S

ange

et, c

oupl

ed w

ith h

is fle

x-ib

ility

and

inn

ovat

iven

ess,

help

ed h

imes

tabl

ish h

imse

lf. V

ery s

oon,

he w

as b

eing

coun

ted

in t

he f

ront

ran

ks a

long

side

Nau

shad

, G

hula

m M

oham

mad

and

Khe

mch

and

Prak

ash.

Not

aver

se to

taki

ngris

ks, d

ada

as h

e was

affe

ctio

nate

ly ca

lled,

was

look

ing f

or a

new

voice

and

foun

d on

e,by

cha

nce,

in h

is ne

ighb

ourh

ood.

G

eeta

Gho

sh R

oy C

haud

hary

(la

ter

Gee

ta D

utt)

, who

m h

e had

seen

in a

cho-

rus s

ong,

was

giv

en a

brea

k in

194

7 w

here

she s

ang

for K

amin

i Kau

shal

on

scre

en fo

rD

o B

hai.

The s

ong

mer

a su

nda

r sa

pna

beet

gaya

was

an in

stan

t rag

e and

from

then

on

ther

e was

no

look

ing b

ack.

Lat

er, d

ada

was

to m

ake

ampl

e us

e of

the

husk

y vo

ice

ofG

eeta

Roy

to g

ive m

any

mor

e mem

orab

lem

elod

ies .

A

lway

s ye

arni

ng fo

r so

met

hing

new

and

expe

rimen

tal,

dada

was

look

ing

for a

lyric

ist f

or N

auja

wan

in 1

950,

whe

n he

foun

d Sa

hir w

ho w

as ye

t to

esta

blish

him

-se

lf in

Mum

bai.

Sere

ndip

itiou

sly , a

fter h

erde

but

in M

ahal

in 1

949

and

late

r on

Bar

sat,

Lata

Man

gesh

kar

was

tak

en o

nbo

ard

for N

auja

wan

. Th

is co

mbi

natio

n of

thre

e gen

iuse

s —da

da,

Sahi

r an

d La

ta —

pro

duce

d an

imm

orta

l co

mpo

sitio

n th

andi

haw

ayei

n.

The m

usic

of t

his s

ong

is su

ch th

at it

lend

sto

the l

yric

s an

atm

osph

ere o

f bre

ezin

ess.

Till

date

, it r

emai

ns o

ne o

f the

bes

t and

favo

urite

s of

Lat

a. I

n fa

ct, l

ater

, sev

eral

com

pose

rs t

ook

up a

nd a

dopt

ed t

hesh

ades

of t

his v

ery

popu

lar t

une

in th

eir

own

com

posit

ions

.Th

e su

cces

sful

ass

ocia

tion

of S

ahir

with

dad

a, w

hich

beg

an w

ith N

auja

wan

,co

ntin

ued

for

17 m

ore

film

s, gi

ving

one

hit a

fter a

noth

er, l

ike

Jaal

, Baa

zi, D

evda

s,Ta

xi D

rive

r, M

unim

ji, H

ouse

No

44, P

yasa

,am

ong

othe

rs. B

ut w

ith tw

o te

mpe

ram

en-

tal a

nd se

nsiti

ve a

rtist

es, w

ho c

onsid

ered

them

selv

es th

e mas

ters

of t

heir

craf

t, co

m-

ing

toge

ther

, som

e sp

arks

wer

e bo

und

tofly

. For

Baa

zi,

tadb

eer

se b

igdi

hu

iw

asw

ritte

n by

Sah

ir in

a m

ujr

a —

gha

zal s

tyle

— b

ut d

ada

had

othe

r ide

as. H

e com

pose

dth

is in

to a

very

pep

py tu

ne w

ith W

este

rn-

styl

e bea

ts. S

ahir

prot

este

d an

d w

ante

d to

quit

but a

com

prom

ise w

as b

roke

red

byG

uru

Dut

t. U

ltim

atel

y, Sa

hir

rele

nted

and

ackn

owle

dged

the

gen

ius

of d

ada

whe

n th

is so

ng b

ecam

e a

hit a

nd v

irtu

al-

ly to

ok B

aazi

to g

lorio

us h

eigh

ts.

Sahi

r w

as v

ery

pass

iona

te a

bout

his

poet

ry a

nd fo

r Pya

sa in

195

7, h

e w

ante

dda

da

to c

ompo

se m

usic

to

his

lyric

s.Be

sides

this,

he

wan

ted

to b

e pa

id m

ore

than

the

mus

ic D

irect

or, t

houg

h us

ually

,it

is th

e ot

her

way

aro

und.

Eve

n th

ough

initi

ally

adam

ant,

dada

rele

nted

to S

ahir’

s

term

s bu

t the

reaf

ter,

neve

r w

orke

d w

ithhi

m a

gain

. Thi

s le

d to

a c

risis

and

Gur

uD

utt f

or K

agaz

ke

phoo

lhad

to gi

ve a

brea

kto

Kai

fi A

zmi w

hile

reta

inin

g da

da.

Scio

n of

a p

rince

ly s

tate

, dad

a w

asal

way

s ve

ry c

hoos

y, te

mpe

ram

enta

l and

unco

mpr

omisi

ng. T

his

ofte

n le

d to

tiff

sw

ith o

ther

art

istes

, in

clud

ing

Lata

. A

min

or m

isund

ersta

ndin

g ove

r a re

-rec

ord-

ing l

ed to

thei

r par

ting o

f way

s for

six y

ears

till s

he ca

me b

ack

with

him

in 1

963

to si

ngfo

r Ban

dini

, whi

ch w

as al

so th

e deb

ut ve

hi-

cle

for G

ulza

r as a

lyric

ist.

Even

Kish

ore

Kum

ar c

onsid

ered

his

succ

ess

larg

ely

to t

he m

ento

ring

and

patr

onag

e of

dad

a w

ho p

roje

cted

him

as

the v

oice

of D

ev A

nand

in th

e fift

ies w

hen

Kish

ore

was

abs

olut

ely

raw.

H

is de

ep u

nder

stan

ding

of t

he m

usi-

cal n

otes

gav

e him

the f

lexi

bilit

y to

adop

tW

este

rn-s

tyle

as ea

rly 1

954

in T

axi D

rive

r,w

here

he m

ade g

ood

use i

nstr

umen

ts, l

ike

the

trum

pet a

nd th

e bo

ngos

. O

n th

e oth

er h

and,

his

use o

f the

tabl

apl

ayed

by P

andi

t San

ta P

rasa

d in

nac

he m

anm

ora

mag

anfro

m m

eri s

oora

t ter

i an

khen

,is

one o

f the

bes

t exp

ositi

ons o

f Ind

ian

clas-

sical

mus

ic in

Bol

lyw

ood.

Dad

a’s so

noro

usvo

ice

with

a h

igh

into

ne w

as p

erha

ps id

e-al

ly s

uite

d on

ly f

or a

bac

kgro

und

scor

ew

here

he m

ade f

ull u

se o

f Rab

indr

a san

gert

and

gave

us s

ome c

lass

ic co

mpo

sitio

ns. H

ispo

wer

was

such

that

whe

n on

e list

ened

tohi

s co

mpo

sitio

ns w

ith e

yes

clos

ed o

new

ould

act

ually

be l

ivin

g th

e mom

ent w

ithth

em. W

ho ca

n fo

rget

not

bei

ng o

n a r

iver

bank

stee

ring a

boa

t whi

le lis

teni

ng to

mer

esa

jan

hai

n u

s pa

ar, m

ein

is

paar

….

Reco

gnisi

ng h

is im

men

se co

ntrib

utio

nto

the

field

of m

usic

and

cin

ema,

he

was

conf

erre

d w

ith th

e Pa

dma

Shri

and

late

ron

a p

osta

ge st

amp

and

a fir

st d

ay c

over

was

also

bro

ught

out

in h

is ho

nour

. Sad

ly,lik

e man

y oth

er d

ada

too

beca

me a

vic

timof

Bol

lyw

ood

polit

ics

and

got

only

tw

oFi

lmfa

re a

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Tamil Nadu polit icsplunged into another cri-

sis on Monday as the SupremeCourt refused to adjourn thehearing of a petition filed bythe DMK seeking disqualifi-cation of 11 AIADMK MLAs,including O Panneerselvam,the Deputy Chief Minister, fordefying a party whip and vot-ing against the EdappadiPalaniswami-led Governmentin the trust motion onFebruary 18, 2017.

The Madras High Courthad dismissed the DMK petitionin April this year ruling that theCourt does not have the juris-diction over the powers of theSpeaker. The DMK laterapproached the apex court witha petition challenging theMadras High Court verdict.Since the court has paved theway for the hearing the appeal,the AIADMK Governmentwould be on tenterhooks as anyadverse verdict from the apexcourt means the loss of 11 MLAsfor the ruling dispensation whichis surviving only because of theproverbial ‘wafer thin majority’.

The AIADMK has 115members (including theSpeaker) in the House with atotal strength of 234. TheOpposition has 98 memberswhich include TTVDhinakaran, the lone memberof the AMMK. Chances arethat five members are all set to

cross over to the Dhinakarancamp which means theAIADMK would be left with99 members making thePalaniswami Government alame duck.

The day began with M KStalin, the DMK president,declaring at a marriage cere-mony that his party had col-lected all documentary evi-dence of ‘big-time’ corruptioncommitted by the EdappadiPalaniswamy Governmentover the last two years. “Wehave concrete proof of the cor-rupt practices of the chiefminister, his deputy and othermembers in the council ofMinisters. The day thisGovernment falls and ourGovernment takes over theadministration, all these cor-rupt ministers includingEdappadi Palaniswami,Panneerselvam and otherMinisters would end up injail,” declared Stalin.

He accused thePalaniswami Government of

running away from the elec-torate without holding eventhe local body elections. “ThisGovernment is unlikely tohold even the 20 by-pollsnecessitated by the disquali-fication of the 18 MLAs andthe demise of two MLAs,”charged Stalin.

Earlier in the day, theAIADMK leadership includ-ing Palaniswami,Panneerselvam and seniorleaders and Ministers wentinto a huddle following theSupreme Court’s refusal toadjourn the hearing of thepetition filed by the DMKseeking disqualification ofPanneerselvam and ten partyMLAs. Despite the MadrasHigh Court’s verdict uphold-ing the Speaker’s order dis-qualifying the 18 MLAs owingallegiance to VK Sasikala andDhinakaran, the Palaniswami-Panneerselvam camp extend-ed olive branch to the rebelMLAs as well as party func-tionaries with a request toreturn to the mother party.

The rebel camp is yet todecide on the future course ofaction. Though TTVDhinakaran told reporters atSivaganga on Saturday that thedisqualified MLAs would seekre-election as and when the by-polls are held, his party was yetto decide whether they shouldfile an appeal in the SupremeCourt challenging last week’sMadras High Court order.

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A‘Light & Sound Show’ onSardar Vallabbhai Patel, a

part of the Statue of Unity pro-ject, would be inaugurated byPrime Minister Narendra Modion Wednesday after he woulddedicate the world’s tallest stat-ue of Sardar Patel at Kevadiya.

The Light & Sound Showwill be shown in the exhibitionhall built at the pedestal of182-metre tall Statue of Unitybeing unveiled downstreamthe Sardar Sarovar Project(SSP) dam on River Narmadaon the occasion of the birthanniversary of the Sardar onOctober 31, 2018.

The show will depictSardar Patel’s fight against theBritish rule with reference to

partition of India, unifica-tion, the support of tribalpeople, construction of thedam and related issue.

A short video on theprocess and stages of con-structing the Statue of Unity,billed as the world’s talleststatue, will also be screened onthe wall from an audio-videokiosk for the visitors.

It took the time and toil ofpeople, besides collecting soiland iron for the statue, fromall over India.

The 73 feet high exhibi-tion hall spread on 4,637square metres will also screen16 films shot by famous direc-tors on the life and times ofSardar Patel with footagesfrom the history during amal-gamation of princely statewith Union of India duringIndependence.

The hall will also have alibrary of books on SardarPatel published over a periodof time.

An 18-foot tall bronzestatue of Sardar has also beeninstalled at the exhibition hallas centre of attraction.

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Chandrashekhar Verma,the absconding husband

of former Social WelfareMinister Manju Verma, sur-rendered in the court onMonday and was sent to judi-cial remand. After this it isstrongly believed that she toocould surrender very soon asa warrant against her is withthe police.

Verma was wanted inconnection with the infa-mous sexual harassment ofminor girls at a Government run shelter home inMuzaffarpur and had goneunderground for over threemonths when his name sur-faced in this case with his calldetailed record showed hewas in constant touch withthe main accused Brajesh Thakur.

He was also accused ofvisiting the shelter home allalone and spending good timebehind closed door.

His wife Manju Verma,who was then Social WelfareMinister in Nitish Kumarcabinet had to quit after hishusband’s name figured inthis case and many victim

girls alleged about the visit ofa “pot-bellied uncle” and sex-ual assault by him.

This reference was sup-posed to be about Vermawho came on the radar on theinvestigating agency CBI.

After the Patna high courtrejected his anticipatory bailpetitions and Supreme Courtexpressed displeasure overpolice inaction in arrestinghim, Verma had little optionleft but to surrender inManjhaul sub-divisionalcourt.

Warrant was issuedagainst the former Ministerthis month after her antici-

patory bail plea was rejectedby the high court.

The police had filed a casagainst her under Arms Actafter the recovery of 50 car-tridges of different bores,some of them banned forpublic use, from her home inher constituency CheriaBeriarpur during a searchoperation.

Manju Verma is alsoabsconding after submittingher resignation to the CM in August. A warrant was issued afterBegusarai police filed FIRagainst her in September andthe high court turned downher anticipatory bail petition.

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Monday said that the Governmentof Assam has decided to bring themaster roll and casual workersemployed by the StateGovernment under pay-scaleswhich will ensure increased finan-cial benefit to them. The Ministersaid this while addressing a pressconference at Dispur and addedthat the decision will benefit13,860 master roll and casualworkers working under 52departments of the State.

"The average wage of thesemaster role workers used to bebetween �3000 to �6.000 permonth. However after they werebrought to the pay scale system,their average monthly salary willbe �18,000 approximately," saidthe Minister. Sarma said that themove will cost the State exchequerwith an additional expenditure ofclose to �177 crore per year. Hesaid that the Government willissue the notification in this regardsoon and will be executed fromMonday itself.

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energy-efficient, self-propelledor engineless train was flaggedoff by Railway Board ChairmanAshwani Lohani here onMonday.

Soon after Lohani waved thegreen flag, the white-colouredtrain with a dash of blue moveda few yards in the IntegralCoach Factory (ICF) amid thebeating of drums in celebration.

Officials said India's firsttrainset — Train 18 — will bea game-changer for the IndianRailways.

The train was developedat nearly half the cost that isnormally incurred for suchdevelopment.

Speaking to IANS earlier, S.Mani, General Manager, ICF,said the train with a capacity totouch speed of 160 kmph willreplace the Shatabdi Express.

"With 16 coaches, the trainwill have the same passengercarrying capacity. There arenow separate power cars. But itis about 15-20 per cent energyefficient and leaves less carbonfootprint," Mani said.

Officials said the trainsetwas conceived, designed anddeveloped in about 18 months'time as against the industry

norm of about 3-4 years.The trainset has aerody-

namically designed driver cab-ins at both ends for quickerturnaround at destinations.

According to an ICF offi-cial, every alternative coach ismotorised, to ensure even dis-tribution of motive power andfaster acceleration/ deceleration.

The train sports advancedregenerative braking systemwhich saves power.

Mani also said the fully air-conditioned train offers betterpassenger comfort and safety, asall equipment are fixed under

the carriage/ coach, so thatmore space is available on board.

In the Executive Class, theseats are rotatable to match thetrain direction.

Train 18 will have modernlook with continuous windowson the exterior and the totalseating capacity will be 1,128.

On safety front, TrainManagement System in thedriver's cab will ensure precisebrake control and automateddoors control.

The coach doors will openonly when the train toucheszero kmph and the train will

start only when all the coachdoors are properly closed.

The train will have auto-mated sliding steps uptil theplatform avoiding the risk of apassenger falling. The drivercan also monitor the move-ment of passengers on theplatform via closed circuit tele-visions (CCTVs) in his cabinbefore closing the door.

There are emergency talk-back units (through which pas-sengers can talk to crew in caseof emergency) and CCTVs areprovided in all coaches for safeand secure travel, officials hadsaid earlier. CCTV cameras onboth sides of driving cab wouldhelp the driver monitor themovement of passengers on theplatform before closing thedoors and starting off.

ICF would roll out six suchtrainsets.

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At least three personnel ofthe Border Security Force

(BSF) were injured when ter-rorists attacked their vehicle atPantha Chowk on Srinagar-Jammu National Highway onthe outskirts of Srinagar city onMonday evening.

Security sources said theterrorists fired upon theBorder Security Force (BSF)vehicle at Zewan Crossing leav-ing at least three personnelinjured. They said the injuredhave been shifted to nearbyhospital for treatment.

In another incident, thesecurity forces arrested threesuspected Over GroundWorkers (OGWs) on SrinagarBaramulla highway in the out-skirts of Srinagar city.

Sources said suspected ter-rorists travelling in a vehiclejumped over a police check-point (Naka) while opening firetowards security guard per-sonnel near Shalteng inSrinagar outskirts.

The security forces alsoretaliated and one among threesuspects on board the vehiclewas injured in the brief

shootout.Later, two suspected mili-

tants or Over Ground Workerswere intercepted in the fleeingvehicle and overpowered nearNarbal. They were taken intocustody for questioning.

The injured militant hasbeen taken to nearby JVCHospital for treatment.

Arms and ammunitionwere also recovered from thearrested trio.

Reports said the trio wastraveling from Pulwama insouth Kashmir and belonged tothe same area. However, Policehave not revealed identity ofthe arrested persons.

“A vehicle-borne terroristwas intercepted by a naka partyat Narbal leading to a brief

exchange of fire in which oneterrorist sustained injury whiletwo others were apprehended.The injured has been evacuat-ed to hospital for medicalattention. Their identity isbeing ascertained,” a policespokesman said.

“Incriminating materialincluding a huge quantity ofarms and ammunition wererecovered from the spot,” he said.

A case has been registeredand the investigation has beeninitiated, the spokesman said.

Meanwhile, terroristsattacked residence of a formerlegislator in south Kashmir’sShopian district.

Reports said that unknownmen hurled a grenade towardsthe residence of a former MLAof Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) Abdul Razaq Zawoora,in Zawoora Shopian.

However, the grenadeexploded outside the boundarywall of his residence and therewas no damage reported fromthe site.

Security forces have cor-doned off the area and man-hunt has been launched to nabthe assailants, reports said.

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have demanded the setting upof polling stations in refugeecamps to cast their votes for theNovember 28 MizoramAssembly polls, a refugee leadersaid on Monday.

ver 35,000 Reang tribalrefugees, comprising 5,907families, fled from Mizoramand have been staying inTripura's Kanchanpur andPanisagar sub-divisions sinceOctober 1997 following ethnictension after a Mizo forestofficial was killed in the neigh-bouring state.

Among the refugees, onlya little over 11,000 immigrantsare eligible to vote in nextmonth's elections to constitutea new Assembly in theCongress-ruled Mizoram.

"Though the names of lit-tle over 11,000 refugees areenrolled in the electoral lists ofMizoram, but there are over5,000 more people among theimmigrants who have the eli-gibility to become voters butdue to the negligence of theMizoram administrations,their names are yet to beenrolled in the electoral lists,"refugee leader Bruno Mshatold IANS over phone fromKanchanpur.

Msha, who is the GeneralSecretary of the refugees' apexbody Mizoram Bru DisplacedPeople's Forum (MBDPF), saidthat the Election Commissionand the Mizoram ElectionDepartment were yet torespond to their demand forsetting up the polling stations.

A senior official of theMizoram election departmentsaid that the issue of setting upthe polling stations was dis-cussed when the full ElectionCommission headed by ChiefElection Commissioner OmPrakash Rawat visited the stateon October 16.

"However, the Commissionhas not yet communicated itsdecision to us in this regard,"the official said.

Meanwhile, leaders of var-ious political parties includingthe Congress and the BharatiyaJanata Party (BJP) are visitingthe seven refugee camps as partof their election campaign.

The BJP-led alliance gov-ernment on October 22resumed the supply of food andrelief material to the refugeesafter the relief was stoppedfrom October 1.

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The verbal duel betweenShiv Sena and NCP,

sparked by Sena presidentUddhav Thackeray's Ram tem-ple construction pitch, hasintensified with a close relativeof NCP chief Sharad Pawarassailing the Sena leader.

Rohit Pawar, son of SharadPawar's nephew Rajendra, hitback at Thackeray over hiscriticism of formerMaharashtra Deputy ChiefMinister Ajit Pawar over the

temple issue.Addressing a rally in Jalna

last week, Ajit Pawar, nephewof the NCP chief, said UddhavThackeray had failed to con-struct a memorial in the nameof his father, Bal Thackeray, butwas "harping" on constructionof Ram temple in Ayodhya.

The Sena had hit back,with an editorial in partymouthpiece Saamana callingAjit Pawar a "gutter insect" ofPune politics who lives off hisuncle Sharad Pawars fortune ashe was left with no importance

in Maharashtra politics.In a counter attack, Rohit,

in a Facebook post Sunday,said, "During his last day,Balasaheb had appealed peopleto look after Uddhav. Yesterday,we learnt what he meant whenhe made the appeal. His wordsmeant his son was gullible andtherefore should be taken careof," Rohit said.

The late Sena founder wasa clever and big leader who hadcommand over language andwould attack political oppo-nents through the weekly mag-azine Marmik and Saamanabut those who engage in poli-tics using Bal Thackeray's namehave insulted his pen bylaunching tirade against AjitPawar, Rohit said.

"Uddhav Thackeray nei-ther got elected through pub-lic, nor has he toiled to seeMaharashtra by stepping out ofMatoshree (the Thackeray fam-ily residence in Mumbai).While Maharashtra is on fire,this man is hoodwinking peo-ple by sharing power (withBJP)," Rohit said.

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Chief Minister YogiAdityanath said that saf-

fron was the colour of Sikhismand it was adopted byBharatiya Janata Party as Sikhsare an integral part ofHinduism and the BJP prop-agates this philosophy withoutany hesitation.

“It is only the BJP which hasadopted Sikh’s saffron colour.Those organisations which haveused Muslims as vote bankdesist from using saffron in theircolours. This is really a bigmockery of the political system,”Yogi said while addressing aSikh Sammelan in Lucknow onMonday to commemorate the550th birth anniversary of GuruNanak Dev.

The Chief Minister saidthat there was no differencebetween Hindu and Sikh fam-ilies. “But attempts are beingmade to divide them byspreading canards. Peoplewho are doing this do notknow the history of Khalsa.They were born to protect

Hindus. Sikhs and Hindushave always lived in harmonyand will continue to do so infuture also,” he said.

Yogi declared that out ofthe eight medical colleges com-ing up in Uttar Pradesh, onewill be named after GuruNanak Dev.

“Some institutions will also

be named after Guru GobindSingh and Guru Teg Bahadur,”he added.

Deputy Chief MinisterKeshav Prasad Maurya saidthat Sikhs had played a stellarrole in making Narendra Modithe Prime Minister of India.

“They (Sikhs) played thesame role in Uttar Pradesh by

ensuring a resounding victoryof the BJP, paving the way formaking Yogiji the ChiefMinister of the State,” he said.

Deputy Chief MinisterDinesh Sharma said that theparty which was instrumentalin killing Sikhs in the 1984 riotshad no right to seek vote andsupport of the community.

“Opposition parties likeCongress, Samajwadi Partyand Bahujan Samaj Party arein the ICU and their revival isnext to impossible,” he commented.

President of LucknowGurudwara PrabandhakCommittee, Rajendra SinghBagga, demanded that BaldevSingh Aulakh be made a CabinetMinister in the YogiGovernment.

Aulakh is junior ministerin the Minority Welfare depart-ment. In his address, Aulakhsaid that the Yogi governmentwas working for the welfare ofthe people. He strongly advo-cated the construction of Ramtemple at Ram Janmabhoomicomplex at Ayodhya.

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Lucknow: Chief Minister YogiAdityanath will preside overRail Investors’ Summit inLucknow on Tuesday.

The summit is a follow-upof the announcement for set-ting up a rail ancillary park inUttar Pradesh.

The announcement wasmade by Railway MinisterPiyush Goyal during the UPInvestors’ Summit held inLucknow in February this year.

Chief Secretary AnupChandra Pandey said here onMonday that the rail park wasbeing developed on 254 acreland in Fatehpur district.

“The rail park will augmentproduction capacity of existingModern Coach Factory at RaeBareli. The rail park will bedeveloped by ABA InfratechPvt. Ltd., Lucknow,” he said.

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Market benchmark Sensex on Monday rallied by718 points to end above the 34,000-level buoyed

by heavy buying mainly in financials like ICICI Bankand SBI coupled with revived optimism relating toRBI's move to ease liquidity crunch.

The broader 50-share Nifty too rose over 220points to close above 10,250. Among the Sensex con-stituents, ICICI Bank was the biggest gainer with 11per cent jump, followed by State Bank of India, whichrose 8.04 per cent. The index heavyweight ICICI Bankcontributed over 200 points to the Sensex gains. Thecountry's top private sector lender ICICI Bankswung into profit in the second quarter of this ongo-ing fiscal. The bank had reported a net loss of �119.55crore in the first quarter of the current fiscal.

On year-on-year basis, ICICI Bank, however,reported a 42 per cent drop in its consolidated netprofit to �1,204.62 crore in the September 2018 quar-ter. Other top Sensex gainers were Adani Ports, L&T,Axis Bank, Reliance Industries, Tata Steel and TCS,rising up to 7.33 per cent.

Market sentiments were further revived by theReserve Bank's decision to pump in �40,000 crore intothe system in November through purchase of gov-ernment securities, with an aim to tackle liquiditycrunch. "Markets bounced out of extremely poor sen-timent and oversold conditions. A good sign shortterm as we may have started a short-covering rally in

equities," said Rohit Srivastava, Fund Manager - PMS,Sharekhan by BNP Paribas.

"The rise was broad-based which is a good signand weak sectors like PSU banks were strong per-formers. Given the double bottom in the bank nifty,it appears the trend may continue in the near term,"he added. Snapping its two-day losing streak, the 30-share index ended 718.09 points, or 2.15 per cent,higher at 34,067.40. It had opened 173.33 points, or0.52 per cent, higher at 33,522.64.

The NSE Nifty too surged 220.85 points, or 2.20per cent, to reclaim the 10,250 mark. It had opened44.25 points, or 0.44 per cent, higher at 10,074.25.

Bucking the uptrend in a majority of Sensex con-stituents, IndusInd Bank, HDFC Bank, Kotak Bankand Bharti Airtel fell up to 2.26 per cent.

Meanwhile, the rupee was trading flat at 73.43against the US currency.

According to Friday's provisional data, foreignfunds sold shares worth a net of �1,356.66, whiledomestic institutional investors bought shares to thetune of �1,875.89 crore.

Dr Reddy's too surged 5.29 per cent to �2,531.65on the NSE after the company reported a 77 per centjump in profit-after-tax for the quarter endedSeptember 30 at �504 crore against �387.6 crore inthe second quarter of FY18.

Oil prices fell on Monday. Brent crude oil futureswere down 31 cents at USD 77.31 a barrel, while WTIFutures fell by 28 cents to USD 67.31.

Meanwhile, concern over China's slowing econ-omy kept Asian stocks subdued. Shanghai Compositeended 2.2 per cent lower, while Hang Seng Index rose0.4 per cent. Japan's Nikkei closed 0.2 per cent down.

European shares climbed on strong earnings DAXwas up 0.7 per cent while STOXX50E rose 0.5 per cent.

Meanwhile, investor wealth soared over Rs 3 lakhcrore Monday driven by a rally in the broader mar-ket where the BSE benchmark index zoomed 718points.

Sharp gain in stocks, send the market capitalisa-tion of the BSE-listed companies higher by Rs3,11,665.6 crore to Rs 1,36,43,642.98 crore.

Snapping its two-day losing streak, the 30-shareBSE index ended 718.09 points, or 2.15 per cent, high-er at 34,067.40. "The equity markets remained buoy-ant throughout the trading session with impressivebuying across sectors including PSU banks, power andtech. The market assumed an upward push with manyof the factors of the past two weeks probably brushedaside for the time being," said Joseph Thomas, HeadResearch, Emkay Wealth Management.

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The rupee ended almost flat at 73.45 againstthe US dollar Monday after its initial gains

were erased by a late dollar demand fromimporters despite strong equity markets and theRBI's move to ease liquidity crunch.

Despite the initial bounce, the home unitappeared to struggle, as the dollar remainedbroadly firm.

Foreign investors also pulled out �2,230.79crore from capital markets Monday amid thedollar hovering near 10-week high and hitting96.66 against the basket of six global currencies.

The rupee opened higher at 73.33 amidsharp gains in local stock markets.

The local currency, however, gave up initialgains due to capital outflows and a firming dol-lar to hit a session low of 73.53.

The rupee made a comeback in the closinghour to settle at 73.45, showing gains of just 2paise over the previous close.

Brent crude oil futures were down 31 centsat USD 77.31 a barrel, while WTI Futures fellby 28 cents to USD 67.31.

Meanwhile, market benchmark Sensex ral-lied over 718 points to end above the 34,000-level, while the broader 50-share Nifty rose over220 points to close above 10,250.

At the same time, the Reserve Bank's deci-

sion to pump in �40,000 crore into the systemin November through purchase of governmentsecurities, with an aim to tackle liquiditycrunch, failed to bring cheer to the forex mar-ket, but arrested any significant fall in the rupee.

In an another development, India andJapan Monday concluded a USD 75 billion bilat-eral currency swap agreement, a move that willhelp in bringing greater stability in foreignexchange and capital markets in the country.

"India and Japan has signed currency swapagreement worth $75 billion – a step will go longway in soothing frayed nerves of Rupee bulls,"said V K Sharma, Head PCG & Capital MarketsGroup, HDFC Securities.

The Financial Benchmark India Private Ltd(FBIL) set the reference rate for the rupee/dol-lar at 73.4181 and for rupee/euro at 83.6942. Thereference rate for rupee/British pound was fixedat 94.2644 and for rupee/100 Japanese yen at65.62.

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New Delhi: Tata Sons, the promoter ofmajor operating Tata group companies,has severed ties with celebrity consultantSuhel Seth, following allegations of sex-ual misconduct by several women,according to a company official.

Ever since several women, includingmodel Diandra Soares, filmmakerNatasha Rathore and writer Ira Trivedi,accused Seth of sexual misconduct,

Tata Sons stopped dealing withCounselage, a brand consultancy firmowned by Seth. When asked to confirmif Tata Sons has severed ties with Sethafter allegations of sexual misconduct in#MeToo campaign in India, a companyofficial said "Yes". "Post the allegations,Tata Sons has not engaged withCounselage," a source said. When con-tacted, a Tata sons spokesperson said,"Counselage's contract with Tata Sonswill end on November 30, 2018."

Although the company did not elab-orate on the future of its contract withCounselage, the source, however, saidconsidering the backdrop it would not berenewed. Comments could not be imme-diately obtained from Seth, who isamong the leading brand consultants inthe country.

He played a key role in rebuilding theTata brand after crisis hit one of the mosttrusted corporate brands in India in thewake of abrupt sacking of then Tata Sonschairman Cyrus Mistry in 2016. PTI

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India and Japan on Monday con-cluded one of the largest bilateral cur-

rency swap agreements at USD 75 bil-lion that will help in bringing greaterstability in foreign exchange and cap-ital markets in the country.

The agreement will furtherstrengthen and widen the depth anddiversity of economic cooperationbetween the two nations.

"With a view to enhancing finan-cial and economic cooperation, gov-ernments of Japan and India wel-comed the agreement to conclude aBilateral Swap Arrangement (BSA) ofUSD 75 billion," said India-JapanVision Statement.

The statement was released afterIndia-Japan Annual Summit betweenPrime Minister Narendra Modi and hisJapanese counterpart Shinzo Abe inTokyo.

Commenting on the development,Economic Affairs Secretary S C Gargsaid in a tweet: "Bilateral swap arrange-ment with Japan for USD 75 billion isone of the largest swap arrangementsin the world.

"Accepting Japanese request, Indiaagreed to do away with requirement of

mandatory hedging for infrastructureECBs of 5 years or more minimumaverage maturity".

The finance ministry said the cur-rency swap agreement should "aid inbringing greater stability to foreignexchange and capital markets inIndia...This facility will enable theagreed amount of foreign capital beingavailable to India for use as and whenneed arises".

The facility will also help in bring-ing down the cost of capital for Indianentities while accessing foreign capitalmarket, it added.

Recognising the unparalleledpotential for development of relationsbetween the two countries, Modi andAbe reviewed the significant mile-stones achieved over the last four yearsand outlined a shared vision for thefuture of India-Japan relations.

The two leaders remain committedto synergising India's demographicdividend and Japan's capital and tech-nology to realise the true potential ofthe India-Japan economic partnershipfor a prosperous future.

"In this regard, India welcomedJapan's strong support for key trans-formational initiatives such as Make inIndia, Skill India and Clean India

Mission, through sharing of resourcesand advanced technologies, and activemobilisation of Japanese public and pri-vate sector investments," said the visiondocument.

The two leaders "reviewed with sat-isfaction" the progress made, includingthe signing of the Exchange of Notes foryen loan, on the Mumbai-Ahmedabadhigh speed rail project, which is animportant symbol of India-Japan col-laboration.

They also welcomed the continuedcooperation on metro projects whichsupport smarter development of Indiancities.

"India further appreciated Japan'srole in promoting connectivity throughquality infrastructure projects such asthe Western Dedicated FreightCorridor and the Delhi-MumbaiIndustrial Corridor," said the visiondocument.

Modi and Abe welcomed theexpansion of Japan's FDI in Indiaunder the "India-Japan InvestmentPromotion Partnership”, the progressmade in Japan Industrial Townships(JIT) and other initiatives included inthe Japan-India Roadmap forInvestment Promotion. Both leaderswelcomed the launching of a compre-

hensive India-Japan DigitalPartnership with a vision todevelop IoT and AI solutions forsocietal benefits and explorecollaboration in emerging tech-nologies by utilising 'Japan-IndiaStartUp Hub' in Bengaluru andNASSCOM's IT corridor projectin Hiroshima Prefecture.

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Bengaluru has witnessed thehighest decline in unsold

housing stock among sevenmajor cities in the last one yearat 25 per cent on the back ofbetter sales, according to prop-erty consultant Anarock.

The unsold housing stockin Bengaluru stood at 76,500units at the end of July-September quarter (Q3 of 2018calendar year), down 25 percent from 1,02,740 units in theyear-ago period.

Pune reported a 10 percent fall in unsold inventoriesto 90,610 units in Q3 2018 asagainst 1,01,020 units in Q32017.

The Delhi-NCR marketalso saw 9 per cent decline inunsold stocks to 1,90,650 unitsfrom 2,09,430 units.

There were marginal drop

of 1-2 per cent in unsold stockin Mumbai MetropolitanRegion (MMR) andHyderabad, while there wereincrease in Chennai andKolkata by 7 per cent and 1per cent, respectively.

"Bengaluru's real estatemarket has out-performed allother cities in terms of shed-ding unsold housing invento-ry. Bengaluru saw a remark-able decline of 25 per cent inthe total unsold stock acrossthe top cities," Anarock said inits report, which was releasedat ACETCH 2018 inBengaluru last week.

The report trackedBengaluru's residential realestate trends since 2013, fac-toring in the city's evolution interms of infrastructure devel-opment, transport and con-nectivity.

"Burgeoning commercial

activity, a cutting-edge start-up culture and realistic prop-erty prices dictated by end-user demand have keptBengaluru's real estate marketvibrant, and generally moreresilient than in other cities,"said Anuj Puri, Chairman -Anarock PropertyConsultants.

IT/ITeS sector continuesto drive most of the city's res-idential demand and supply,and housing sales haveremained healthy despite allmacroeconomic headwinds,he added.

Bengaluru's housing salesincreased by 26 per cent in Q32018 over the same period lastyear, the highest amongst allcities. Overall unsold stockdeclined by 32 per cent andstood at 76,550 units in Q32018 in contrast to 1,12,995units in Q3 2015.

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Russia has expressed interestin investing in projects like

Delhi-Mumbai IndustrialCorridor (DMIC) and smartcities besides railways, andpublic transport, Commerceand Industry Minister SureshPrabhu has said.

The minister also said thatin the November 23 trilateralmeeting on International NorthSouth Corridor (INSTC), allissues are expected to beresolved in order to opera-tionalise the route as early aspossible.

INSTC is an initiativetaken by India, Russia andIran to promote transportationcooperation and to enhanceconnectivity with central Asiancountries.

It is the shortest multi-modal transportation routelinking the Indian Ocean andPersian Gulf via Iran to Russiaand North Europe.

The estimated capacity ofthe corridor is 20-30 milliontonne of goods per year andwill reduce time and cost by 30-40 per cent. These issues werediscussed during the meetingof Prabhu and Russian businessdelegation on Saturday here.

"There is a possibility forRussian investments in DMIC,smart cities, railways, publictransport, sanitation and lowcost housing," the ministrysaid in a statement quotingPrabhu.

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Lewis Hamilton claimed hisfifth drivers' world champi-onship to draw level with

Juan Manuel Fangio in theFormula One record books whenhe finished fourth behind a vic-torious Max Verstappen in theMexican Grand Prix.

Lewis Hamilton claimed hisfifth drivers' world championshipto draw level with Juan ManuelFangio in the Formula One recordbooks when he finished fourthbehind a victorious MaxVerstappen in the Mexican GrandPrix.

Hamilton's success - the thirdtime he has taken the title with-out finishing on the race podium- elevated him to a supreme clubalongside Fangio with only seven-time champion MichaelSchumacher ahead of him.

He was adding the 2018crown to his championship winsin 2008, 2014, 2015 and 2017.

The 33-year-old Briton's onlyremaining championship rivalSebastian Vettel of Ferrari, whoneeded a victory, with Hamiltonoutside the top seven, to keep hishopes alive, finished second onSunday.

He celebrated by executing'doughnut' wheel spins for thecheering crowd before leap-ing out of his car and intothe arms of his team.

After being congratu-lated by Vettel,Hamilton said: "It's avery strange feelingright now."

After survivingwhat turned into abattle of attrition atthe AutodromoHermanos Rodriguezhe added: "It was a hor-rible race... I really don'tknow what happened.

"We were strugglingboth Valtteri (Bottas) and Iand we had to just hang onand bring the car home.

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since I was 13 and to completethis, when Fangio had done itwith Mercedes, is an incredi-ble feeling and it is very surreal tome at the moment.

"I just feel very very humble,of course I dreamed about this butI never thought I'd be standinghere as a five-time champion."

Four-time champion Vettelheaped praise on his rival.

"It is not easy today but welldeserved for him and I want tocongratulate Lewis. They did asuperb job all year. We need tostand there, accept that and sendcongratulations. We would haveliked to have hung in there longer,but it was not to be."

Reflecting on his seasonHamilton added: "It has been thetoughest year physically, mental-ly and personally with everything

I'm committed to, but I haveamazing support.

"Mercedes and my team havejust been the most incredibleunit and worked to raise the bar.In my mind it is just another dayof fighting and I have more racesto win, it is not over.

"In my mind I have to work,go to the brief andtry to win in Brazil.

Hamilton, whostarted third on the

grid, struggled withchronic tyre-wear

after making a strongstart in his Mercedes

and settled for a cautiouscruise to the title without

a podium finish.Max, upstaged by his

Red Bull team-mate DanielRicciardo in qualifying onSaturday, came home 17.108seconds ahead of Vettelafter the luckless Australianpole-sitter retired with ninelaps remaining.

"I didn't sleep verywell last night," saidVerstappen.

"I was very determinedto win and we've done that- we had the right tyres andthe car was working verywell... "It was a shame tolose Daniel. We wantedtwo of us on the podium.

A puff of smoke sig-nalled an engine failure

and his eighth 'Did Not Finish'(DNF) of the season while his 21-year-old Dutch tyro team-matesecured a repeat of his 2017 tri-umph, his second win this seasonand the fifth of his career.

Vettel's Ferrari team-mateKimi Raikkonen came homethird ahead of Hamilton and hisMercedes team-mate ValtteriBottas. Nico Hulkenberg wassixth for Renault ahead of CharlesLeclerc of Sauber, StoffelVandoorne of McLaren, MarcusEricsson in the second Sauber andPierre Gasly of Toro Rosso.

For Ferrari, it was a firstdouble podium success in Mexicosince 1990 with Alain Prost andNigel Mansell.

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Novak Djokovic can completea stunning return to world

number one at the Paris Mastersthis week as Rafael Nadal hits thecomeback trail for the first timesince limping out of the USOpen.

Roger Federer could alsoresurface in the French capitalafter a three-year absence,although the 20-time Grand Slamchampion said a decision on hisparticipation will be made onTuesday.

The Swiss star won his 99thcareer title in Basel over theweekend but hasn't played inParis since 2015 due to a combi-nation of injury and selectivescheduling.

Djokovic also missed lastyear's event as he dropped out-side the top 10 for the first timein over a decade, but the Serb,who was lingering down at aranking of 22nd as recently asJune, arrives having won 27 of hislast 28 matches.

"In both the US Open andShanghai, I've played as good asever," said Djokovic, who claimedhis 14th major championship inNew York.

"So I really enjoy tennis at themoment and enjoy competing,because obviously when you'rewinning that many matches youhave a lot of confidence."

However, it was just monthsago that doubts were raised overhis future following a dramaticdecline as he battled to recoverfrom a nagging elbow injury. Heunderwent surgery after a fourth-round loss at this year'sAustralian Open but admittedlyrushed his return and suffered aseries of early exits that knockedhis confidence.

The 31-year-oldthough outlastedNadal in an epicWimbledon semi-final before sweepingKevin Andersonaside to claim his first GrandSlam since the 2016 FrenchOpen.

He then completed a sweepof Masters victories by downingFederer to claim an elusiveCincinnati title.

"We are very, very pleasedwith what was achieved in the lastfour, five months," said Djokovic.

"And with Rafa's injury andhim not playing China and soforth, it put me in a position tobe very close to him in rankingsand to fight for a year-end No 1.

"So of course right now I'maware of it and I'm going to givemy very best to try to achieve it."

"I do think that I'm playingat my best at the moment and Ialways feel like I can improve, butI feel like this is a very high level,"he added.

��������"�������Incumbent world number

one Nadal has not played since aknee injury led to him retiringfrom his US Open semi-final

against Juan Martin del Potro.The Spaniard, for all his successat Roland Garros, has never lift-ed the trophy at the Paris Masters- his best showing came when helost the 2007 final to DavidNalbandian.

Nadal withdrew before hisquarter-final last year, and hemust match Djokovic's perfor-mance to retain top spot goinginto the season-ending TourFinals in London.

"I stop for a while after theUS Open so then I started topractice slow step by step. Andthat's it. Here I am. Happy to behere," said Nadal.

"It's nothing new for me.Something that happened in mycareer a couple of times. Somore or less we know the process

and we know the thing thatworks well for us, the things thatdon't work well.

"I am not thinking about bigimprovements or big things. I amjust thinking about smallimprovements, and that's thegoal."

"This city so special for me.So that's little bit more motiva-tion to be here," he added.

Marin Cilic and DominicThiem are in position to claimthe remaining two Londonberths, with Kei Nishikori and2016 Paris runner-up John Isnerstill with an outside chance ofqualifying.

With 1,000 points to defendthis week and 400 to drop offfrom London, defending cham-pion Jack Sock faces crashing outof the top 100 if he loses in hisopening match.

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maintained the No 1 spot in theWomen's Tennis Associationrankings released on Mondaywith 6,921 Points, ahead ofGermany's Angelique Kerber.

Elina Svitolina of Ukraineclimbed three spots after pre-vailing over Sloane Stephens ofthe United States 3-6, 6-2, 6-2 onSunday, becoming the firstUkrainian player to win the sea-son-ending WTA Finals title.

Japan's Naomi Osaka fell onespot down to the fifth, whilePetra Kvitova of the CzechRepublic dropped two places toworld No 7.

Further down the ranking,Viktorija Golubic of Switzerlandjumped 16 positions up to worldNo. 91, following her triumph atITF France 20A on Sunday overRussian Natalia Vikhlyantseva3-6, 6-1, 7-5.

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Divij Sharan on Monday became India's new number one dou-bles player, overtaking veteran Rohan Bopanna by moving to

38 in the latest ATP rankings.The left-handed Sharan, who has been one of the most con-

sistent players on the doubles circuit with partner Artem Sitak, hasheld the numero uno position in the country for the first time inhis career.

Bopanna dropped nine places to 39 while Leander Paes gainedtwo places to be 60 in the world now.

Another consistent player Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan touched acareer-high rank of 72 with a jump of three places.

"It feels pretty amazing to have become the highest ranked play-er in India today. It's not easy by any means with Mahesh, Leanderand Rohan having dominated the doubles circuit for the last cou-ple of decades but they have carved thepath and set the trend for the rest of us,"the 32-year-old Sharan said.

"We have had as many as seven play-ers from India ranked in the top 100 thisyear which is impressive. Personally it'sbeen another positive year for me whereI was able to achieve my best ranking of36 and win a Gold medal for India at theAsian Games," he said.

Sharan has won only one Challengerthis season but reaching the Wimbledonquarterfinals was the highlight of the 2018season for him. He also reached semifinal stage of various ATP 250tournaments this year.

In the singles, Yuki Bhambri dropped a place to 108 and wasfollowed by Ramkumar Ramanathan (121, +3), PrajneshGunneswaran (142, +4) and Sumit Nagal (311, +1).

In the WTA charts, Ankita Raina remains India's lone singlesplayer in the top-200 at number 197. Karman Kaur Thandi, whoended runner-up at Nanning on Sunday, was static at 215. Her pointsfrom Nanning will be added next week.

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Kylian Mbappe responded tobeing dropped by coming off

the bench and scoring the open-er as Paris Saint-Germain won 2-0 at Marseille on Sunday to makeit 11 wins out of 11 in Ligue 1 thisseason and match a long-standingEuropean record.

Mbappe was a shock omissionfrom the PSG starting line-up bycoach Thomas Tuchel, withbroadcaster Canal Plus reportingthe move was a punishment afterthe teenage World Cup winnershowed up late for the pre-matchteam talk.

But he was sent on in the62nd minute of 'Le Classique' forEric-Maxim Choupo-Moting andscored the breakthrough goal justthree minutes later, being releasedby Angel di Maria and racing clearto finish past Steve Mandanda.

It was Mbappe's 10th Ligue 1goal this season, and JulianDraxler then wrapped up thevictory in stoppage time.

An 11th win on the bouncefrom the start of the campaign for

PSG means they have equalledTottenham Hotspur's record fromthe 1960-61 season, the best in anyof Europe's big five leagues.

"It was what the team needed,"Mbappe told Canal Plus of hiscameo off the bench.

"A great team relies on itsleaders and they need to be able

to make the difference in keymoments. I can take on that roleand I did it today."

The win record is a superbachievement for Tuchel, even if itis marred somewhat by PSG'spatchy performances in theChampions League, including afortunate 2-2 draw at home toNapoli in midweek.

But the German admittedthat the result had been over-shadowed by the decision to dropMbappe, which he intimated wasa necessary measure.

"I don't like to play withoutKylian. I hate playing without himin a match like this," he said.

In Ligue 1, PSG are eightpoints clear of second-placedLille, who beat Caen 1-0 onSaturday and visit the Parc desPrinces next Friday. Marseille,meanwhile, are fifth, already 14points behind the league leaders.

OM have now failed to beattheir greatest rivals in 18 meetingsin all competitions going backseven years, although theymatched the reigning championsfor long spells of this game.

While Neymar started, Tuchelleft both Mbappe and AdrienRabiot on the bench at kick-off.

Edinson Cavani missed thegame due to injury, so Cameroonstriker Choupo-Moting made hisfirst start since his surprise arrivallate in the summer transfer win-dow.

Dimitri Payet played the fur-thest forward in a Marseille sidelacking a proper striker, and thebest chance in the first half camein stoppage time as KevinStrootman cleared off the linefrom Di Maria.

Payet forced Alphonse Areolainto a good stop from his free-kickjust before the hour mark, butMbappe then made his entranceand needed little time to put thevisitors in front.

Jordan Amavi hit the postwith a long-range pile-driver butMarseille could not find anequaliser and Paris wrapped upthe victory with the last kick of thegame.

Mbappe found Neymar, andhis shot was going wide of the farpost before Draxler turned it in.

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Dries Mertens grabbed a lateequaliser to snatch Napoli a 1-

1 draw with Roma on Sunday whichsaw Carlo Ancelotti's men cutJuventus' lead at the top of Serie Ato six points.

After seeing Paris Saint-Germain steal a last-gasp 2-2 in theirmidweek Champions League clashat the Parc des Princes, this time itwas Napoli's turn to salvage a pointat the death.

Stephan El Shaawary's earlyopener for Roma looked to havewon the game for the visitors, butBelgian international Mertenspounced in the 90th minute to limitthe damage for Napoli.

Reigning champions Juventusremain well clear after CristianoRonaldo scored a double, includinga thunderous 25-yard winner, in a2-1 win at Empoli on Saturday.

But last year's runners-upNapoli are now unbeaten in their lastfive games in all competitions sincea 3-1 loss at Juve in September.

Just seconds after Edin Dzekohad seen a long-range shot fly nar-rowly wide, El Shaarawy gave Romaa 14th-minute lead with his thirdgoal of the season.

Dzeko failed to get a touch onTurkish winger Cengiz Under's lowcross, but the 26-year-old El

Shaarawy was on hand to slotthe ball in off the post, despitethe best efforts of KalidouKoulibaly on the line.

The hosts quickly went insearch of an equaliser, but Romagoalkeeper Robin Olsen didwell to deny both Arkadiusz Milikand Marek Hamsik in quick suc-cession.

Napoli dominated possession inthe second half, but struggled to cre-ate many clear-cut chances, withMertens seeing two late effortsruled out for offside.

But the 31-year-old wingerlatched onto a miskick from JoseCallejon to smash into the roof ofthe net and score his fifth goal of the

campaign.

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Higuain hit a crucial equaliser andSuso fired a second-half winner asAC Milan got back on track in SerieA with a 3-2 win over Sampdoria.

Coach Gennaro Gattuso wasunder intense pressure after a last-gasp derby loss to Inter last week wascompounded by a 2-1 defeat by RealBetis in the Europa League onThursday.

But the former Rangers andMilan midfielder has won respite,for the moment at least, after afourth league win in nine outings left

Milan fifth, albeit 13 pointsadrift of leaders and champi-ons Juventus.

Milan looked to be underthe cosh when Sampdoriatook a 2-1 lead through FabioQuagliarella on 31 minutes

after Riccardo Saponara had levelledPatrick Cutrone's 17th-minuteopener for the San Siro giants.

But Higuain responded on 36minutes and, amid a second half thatsaw few real chances, Spanish for-ward Suso provided an impressivewinner. "I have to thank my playersfor a performance of character andquality," added Gattuso. "We've gotto keep working, getting better andenjoying each others' company."

������ #��India advanced into the semi-finalsof the SAFF U-15 Championship when theyblanked Bhutan 4-0 in their last group league matchhere on Monday.

Shubho Paul scored a brace while SubbaKushang and Xalxo Aman struck one apiece. Indialed 1-0 at half time.

The Indians were off to a great start with thefirst goal coming as early as the 4th minute whenShubho converted from the spot - placing it to theright of rival goalkeeper Gyeltshen Dorji.

The Indian boys stayed patient while the rivalsmanaged to sneak into the visiting box on a cou-ple of occasions, especially immediately afterresumption.

Their perseverance soon paid dividends as thesecond goal came in the 66th minute, thanks to ashow of individual brilliance.

Receiving a loose ball in his own half, the irre-pressible Subba ran past the entire rival defence,dribbled past three, entered the box and placed intothe far corner.

The third goal came in the 83rd minute asShubho completed his brace. It was a build-upwhich started in India's half and after some casu-al exchanges, Shubho followed up a vicious longball, sped past all and put it in.

Aman completed the rout in the 89th minutewhen he tapped into an empty net after the rivalgoalkeeper had misread a Harsh Patre free-kick.

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Cristiano Ronaldo has said hedecided to leave Real Madrid for

Juventus after sensing that the Spanishclub's president, Florentino Perez, nolonger saw him as being "indispens-able".

"I felt within the club, especiallyfrom the president, that I was nolonger considered in the same way asI was at the beginning," Ronaldo saidin an interview with France Footballmagazine.

"For the first four or five years, Ifelt like Cristiano Ronaldo. Less soafter.

"The president looked at me in away that suggested I was no longerindispensable, if you know what Imean. That is what made me thinkabout leaving."

The 33-year-old Portuguese super-star joined Juventus in a 100 million-euro ($115 million) deal in July, end-ing a glorious nine-year associationwith Real.

His last act with the Spanish clubwas to participate in them winning theChampions League for a third con-secutive season by beating Liverpoolin the final in May.

But Zinedine Zidane departed ascoach in the wake of that game,

something which Ronaldo admitsconfirmed to him that it might be timeto move on.

"My decision to leave was notbased on him going. That said, it wasone of the little details that con-firmed to me what I had been think-ing about the situation at the club,"Ronaldo said.

He added that he would "deserve"to win the Ballon d'Or this year, andin doing so would pass Lionel Messiby taking the award for a sixth time.

The winner of the prize, awardedby France Football, will be announcedin early December.

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Lewis Hamilton on Monday deflected all sug-gestions that he might be the greatest Formula

One driver of all time, saying that seven-timechampion Michael Schumacher remains the manwho most deserves that label.

The 33-year-old Briton, who on Sundayclinched his fifth drivers' title when he finishedfourth for Mercedes in the Mexican Grand Prix,rejected consideration of him-self as the greatest in history,citing his father Anthony'smantra to "do your talking onthe track."

Hamilton's achievementdrew him level with the sport's 'godfather' JuanManuel Fangio on five titles with only GermanSchumacher ahead on seven. Schumacher, with91, also has more race victories, another targetfor Hamilton during the two remaining years ofhis current Mercedes contract.

But the Englishman put such statisticalambitions into a distant perspective when headopted a modest role on his own triumphantcareer.

"Firstly, I could never personally classifymyself as the best," said Hamilton.

"Obviously, within myself, I know my abili-ties and where I stand, but ultimately, as my dadalways told me since I was eight years old -- hesaid 'do your talking on the track'.

"So I just try to let my results and the resultsfrom the things that I do outside of my sport,hopefully, also contribute to that. So people canhopefully create a decent opinion.

"But Michael's still quite far ahead in racewins so you have to say he is still the GOAT(greatest of all time)."

Canadian Jacques Villeneuve, the 1997champion, said that he felt the way in whichHamilton had succeeded throughout his careerput him way "miles" clear of Schumacher in theevaluation of the greats.

Villeneuve said that Schumacher's career hadbeen accompanied by "too many negative stories- too many question marks on how some racesor championships were won. And being a greatchampion is about more than just winning races."

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India embarrassed the WestIndies by 224 runs in the fourthOne-day International here

Monday for one of their biggest winsand a 2-1 lead in the five-matchseries.

Rohit Sharma (162) and AmbatiRayudu (100) struck belligerentcenturies to guide India to animposing 377 for five after thehosts opted to bat.

The duo took centre stage aftera rare failure by skipper Virat Kohli.

Rohit's 21st century came off137 balls with the help of 20 foursand four hits over the fence, whileRayudu decorated his 100-runknock with eight boundaries andfour sixes.

Chasing 378, West Indies sim-ply caved in against India's clinicalbowling attack on what was a bat-ting-friendly wicket to be bundledout for a paltry 153 in 36.2 overs.

Young pacer Khaleel Ahmed(3/13) impressed upfront beforechinaman Kuldeep Yadav (3/42))ran through the West Indies' tail.

The Indians dished out animpressive effort on the field, inflict-ing two run outs besides Rohit hold-ing onto three fine catches in theslips.

This is India's third biggest winin the format. Their biggest-ever winin ODI remains the 257-run demo-lition of Bermuda in the 2007 ICC

World Cup.West Indies' chase never really

got going as they lost half of theirside inside the 50-run mark withKhaleel doing the bulk of the dam-age.

Except for skipper Jason Holder(54 not out), no other West Indianbatsmen could withstand the Indianattack, as the visitors lost wickets atregular intervals and were neverreally in the hunt.

West Indies lost two wickets —Chandrapul Hemraj (14) and Shai

Hope (0) — in the fifth over. WhileHemraj gave a sitter to Rayadu offBhuvaneshwar Kumar, Hope wasrun out courtesy a stunning directhit by Kuldeep from mid-on.

Matters became worse for thevisitors after Kieran Powell (4) was

run-out in the very next over byKohli.

Wickets kept tumbling and thenext to be dismissed was ShimronHetymar (13), who was trapped infront by Ahmed in the 10th over,even though the batsman went foran unsuccessful review.

The 20-year-old Ahmed was onfire as he picked up two more wick-ets in quick succession. He firstcleaned up Rovman Powell (1) andthen accounted for Samuels, whoedged one to Rohit in the first slip.

Batting first, India made a quickstart with Rohit and Shikhar

Dhawan (38) and added a run-a-ball71 for the opening stand before thelatter pulled a Keemo Paul shortdelivery straight to Powell at themidwicket boundary.

Kohli, who hit three consecutivetons before Monday's match, playedaggressively for his 16 before edginga Kemar Roach delivery to Hopebehind the stumps.

Rohit and Rayudu held fort andcontinued to play aggressive brandof cricket.

The duo continued theonslaught and made the West Indiesattack look ordinary, picking up

boundaries and sixes at will.After Kohli's dismissal, Rohit,

who had scored a match-winningunbeaten 152 in the lung-opener atGuhawati, and Rayudu built theinnings and in the process shared abreezy 211-run stand for the thirdwicket, which came off just 163deliveries.

Rohit didn't spare a single WestIndian bowler and made his inten-tions clear when he opened theaccount with a boundary over point.

The Mumbaikar initially playedsecond fiddle to Dhawan but afterhis half century, that came off 60balls, he upped the ante.

Rohit displayed all the shots inthe book — the drives, pulls, flicksand cuts — before he departed in the44th over.

Rayadu, on the other hand,took time to settle down, but thenhammered the bowlers with hisexquisite stroke-play — first inRohit's company and then alongsideveteran Mahendra Singh Dhoni(23).

Kedar Jadhav (16) and RavindraJadeja (7) remained unbeaten as thehosts amassed 116 runs in the last10 overs.

India won the first ODI by eightwickets before the second gameended in a tie. West Indies bouncedback to win the third ODI by 43runs. The final match of the serieswill be played inThiruvananthapuram on Thursday.

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Cricket Australia will notreconsider reducing the

ban on Steve Smith, DavidWarner and CameronBancroft in the ball-tam-pering case despite a seriesagainst a full-strength Indiaawaiting them next month.

Skipper Smith and hisdeputy Warner wereslapped with a one-yearinternational ban whilerookie Cameron Bancroftwas suspended for ninemonths by Cricket Australiain March this year for theirrole in the ball-tamperingscandal in South Africa.

The AustralianCricketers' Association(ACA) termed the punish-ment on the trio "harsh"and called for a reconsid-eration but CA chairmanDavid Peever remained

adamant and turned downthe plea.

"Sanctions were carriedout and imposed by theboard after a very full andthoughtful process. So thesanctions stand," saidPeever.

"As chairman of theboard of CA, I acceptresponsibility for what hap-pened in South Africa, butI'm also very confident thatwe're positioned to moveforward from here.

"We've learned manylessons and of course therehas been a lot going onsince then. Both within theplaying group and withinthe organisation itself tomove things forward."

Bans imposed onWarner, Smith and Bancroftfor their role in theNewlands ball-tamperingscandal should be re-exam-

ined in light of systemicfailings raised by the inde-pendent reviews into CA,the players union presidentGreg Dyer said.

The scandal involvedthe three players conspiringto use sandpaper to illegal-ly alter the shape of the ballin the third Test againstSouth Africa in Cape Town.

Calls have been grow-ing for Smith and Warnerto return to the interna-tional fold after a string ofpoor performances by thenational team.

The series against Indiawill get underway fromNovember 21, comprisingthree T20Is, four Tests andthree ODIs. The series willend on January 21. Thebans on Smith and Warnerwill be in effect till April2019, while Bancroft's sus-pension ends in January.

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India captain Virat Kohliagain backed Ambati Rayudu

for the critical number four slotafter the "intelligent" batsmanreposed his skipper's faith witha less-than-a-run-a-ball centu-ry in the fourth ODI against theWest Indies here on Monday.

India recorded one of theirbiggest wins in the 50-overcricket with a 224-demolitionof the visitors, following blaz-ing hundreds by Rayudu andRohit Sharma.

"Rayudu has taken hischance with both hands. Weneed to back him till the 2019World Cup. He reads the gamewell, so we are happy thatsomeone intelligent is battingat number four," Kohli said atthe post-match presentationceremony.

India were ruthless, barelytwo days after the shockingdefeat in Pune, to take a 2-1lead in the five-match series.

"Yes, (we) ticked all theboxes. We were clinical in alldepartments. We got intorhythm. We are known tobounce back and it was anoth-er example. Khaleel (Ahmed)was good with pitching it in theright areas, making the balltalk, and swinging it both

ways," the skipper said.Defending 377, young

pacer Khaleel (3/13) impressedupfront before chinamanKuldeep Yadav (3/42)) ranthrough the West Indies' tail tobowl them out for 153 in 36.2overs.

This was Rohit's 21st ODIcentury and seventh 150-plusscore, having notched up onein the series opener.

"Very clinical right fromthe start. After losing two wick-ets, I had mentioned this ear-lier about having a big part-nership and that was a game-changing partnership," saidRohit, who as declared as theman-of-the-match.

He added, "Once you are

set, you got to make it countand that is what me andRayudu did in the middle. Wecarried for as long as we did.

"Heartening to see the waywe bowled as bowling unit. Itwas a long time coming, thiskind of performance from thebowlers."

The Mumbaikar alsopicked up three catches inwhat was an all-round displayby him and his team.

"I've been doing some slip-catching for a while. I canhear Virat laugh there.

"Especially if you're fieldingin the slips for Kuldeep, it isn'teasy to read his hands. Whenyou play him in the nets, it iseasy to understand when he is

going to bowl that googly andI got to be ready for it," Rohitsaid.

The West Indies chasenever really got going as theylost half of their side inside the50-run mark with Khaleeldoing the bulk of the damage.

"We didn't play wellenough. We allowed them toscore too many runs. We nevergot going with the bat and theapplication definitely was notthere. Lost wickets up front anddidn't get enough momen-tum," West Indies captain JasonHolder said.

The Indians dished out animpressive effort on the field,inflicting two run outs besidesRohit's three fine catches in theslips.

Holder said, "Run-outs aresomething that you don't wantin One day or in any limitedovers cricket. Two of our bet-ter players as well and it reallyset us back up front. It was a lotto do to rebuild to get up to 370odd.

"Obviously I have beenhearing that (batting up theorder) for a long while. Thestructure of the team probablyneeds to be looked at andobviously I want to get up theorder as well. Probably, nextgame you could see that."

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India's Akashdeep Singh wasadjudged player of the tourna-

ment but the team had to share theAsian Champions Trophy withPakistan after the much-anticipat-ed summit clash was abandoned dueto heavy downpour here.

Heavy rain delayed the start ofthe final on late Sunday night andeven though the skies relented later,the damage had already been doneby then.

The turf was completely water-logged because of thunderstorm andheavy showers and after discussionwith both the coaches of India andPakistan, the tournament directordecided to call off the match anddeclare both the teams as jointwinners.

India won the toss of coin andearned the right to take home thetrophy of the biennial tournamentfor the first year. It will be given toPakistan for the next year.

Since the Indians took home thetrophy, the tournament gold medalswere presented to the Pakistaniplayers. Asian Hockey FederationChief Executive Dato Tayyab Ikramsaid gold medals will soon be sentfor the Indian players.

Akashdeep was adjudged Playerof the Tournament while P RSreejesh was declared best goal-keeper. Pakistan's Abu BakkarMahmood was named EmergingPlayer of the Tournament whileMalaysia's Faisal Saari emergedhighest scorer.

India remained unbeaten inthe tournament having topped the

round robin stages with 13 points,courtesy four wins and a draw outof their five games. Pakistan endedthe round robin stages on the sec-ond spot with 10 points.

India had earlier defeatedPakistan 3-1 in the round robinstage.

Malaysia claimed the bronzemedal by prevailing 3-2 in thepenalty shootout against Japan afterthe two teams were tied 2-2 in reg-ulation period.

It was both India and Pakistan'slast international outing before theseason-ending FIH men's WorldCup to be held in Bhubaneswarfrom November 28 to December 16.

India and Pakistan had won thetitle twice each before the currentedition. India came into the tour-nament this year as defendingchampions having won the last edi-tion in 2016 after their title triumphin the inaugural edition in 2011.

Pakistan won the title twice in2012 and 2013 besides finishingrunners-up in 2011 and 2016. Indiatoo have finished runners-up oncein 2012.

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Opener Babar Azam struck a half-cen-tury and leg-spinner Shadab Khanclaimed three wickets as Pakistan

secured a 3-0 T20 series whitewash overAustralia with a 33-run victory in Dubai.

Azam's 40-ball 50 lifted Pakistan toanother challenging total of 150-5 beforeShadab's 3-19 helped bowl Australia out for117 in 19.1 overs on Sunday.

It is Pakistan's first-ever whitewashagainst Australia in a limited-over series andtheir 10th series win under Sarfraz Ahmedsince he took over as captain in September2016.

Pakistan justified their world-number-one ranking in the shortest format of thegame, following a 66-run thrashing in AbuDhabi with an 11-run win in Dubai.

Australia's batting line-up never recov-ered from being bowled out for 89 in thefirst game.

Only Mitchell Marsh (21), BenMcDermott (21) and Alex Carey (20)looked like getting big scores on Sundayagainst a varied Pakistan attack.

Carey, promoted to open the innings,smashed two fours and two sixes in ImadWasim's first over of the innings but theylost wickets at regular intervals.

Skipper Aaron Finch failed yet again,scoring only one while Chris Lynn (15) andGlenn Maxwell (four) also inflicted littledamage as seamer Hasan Ali finished with2-14.

Sarfraz said the series win was "a rewardfor hard work".

"I would say that all the boys haveworked hard in all facets, the result is justthe reward," said Sarfraz.

"Whoever has got an opportunity hasdone well. We wanted to carry forward themomentum to the New Zealand series, theway we bowled and took our catches wassuperb tonight."

C6���� ��#���������DFinch admitted it was disappointing

to come up so short when chasing 151 to

win."We had our chances in all three

games," said Finch. "You back yourselfwhile chasing under 150, you back yourbatsmen to get the side over the line butit didn't happen.

"Our bowling was very impressive allseries, keeping them to below 150 wasgreat. We're looking forward to a toughseries against South Africa (at home)."

Earlier, Azam scored his second fiftyof the series after the hosts had won thetoss and batted.

Azam and Sahibzada Farhan gavePakistan an excellent start — their open-ing stand of 99 their highest againstAustralia in T20 internationals — in12.5 overs, but Pakistan could not capi-talise on that start.

Farhan, dismissed for a first-ballduck in his only previous match againstAustralia in Harare in July, hit a 38-ball39.

But after the openers, onlyMohammad Hafeez managed to scorefreely during his 20-ball 32 not out.

Shoaib Malik scored 18 and becamethe second-highest run-scorer in T20international history, passing NewZealand's Brendon McCullum.

Another New Zealander MartinGuptill is at the top of the charts with 2,271runs in 75 matches — 118 more thanMalik.

Pakistan next play New Zealand inthree Twenty20 internationals, three ODIsand three Tests, starting with the firstTwenty20 in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday.

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Pakistan's selectors on Monday kept thesame winning combination against

New Zealand for the three-matchTwenty20 series which whitewashedAustralia in United Arab Emirates.

Pakistan beat Australia by 33 runs inthe third Twenty20 international onSunday to clinch the series 3-0 — their firstwhitewash against Australia in a limitedover series — prompting selectors not tomake any changes.

Pakistan face New Zealand in thethree-match series with the first in AbuDhabi on Wednesday, followed by the lasttwo in Dubai on Friday and Sunday.

No change means experienced pacespearheads Mohammad Amir and WahabRiaz continued to be left out, while fastbowler Rumman Raees is still not fit aftersuffering a knee injury.

Meanwhile, New Zealand have addedsecond specialist spinner to their Twenty20squad, with left-armer Ajaz Patel drafted

in from New Zealand A side.New Zealand's new coach Gary Stead

said Patel was on form and would offer thenecessary balance to the side consideringthe conditions in the UAE.

"It's no secret that spin is crucial in thispart of the world and with the wickets onthe slower side, we've taken the option ofa second spinner to bring our squad up to14-players," said Stead.

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