UP presents new green Taj … a whole, and the Taj Trapezium Zone (TTZ), which covers an ... Khan case, but not before maintaining that evidence sug-gested it to be a case of custo-dial

ABRAHAM THOMAS nNEW DELHI

Ban on plastic bags, con-tainers and bottled water in

and around Taj Mahal besidesremoval of polluting industriesfrom Agra are part of thegrand plan laid out by the UttarPradesh Government in itsVision Document for develop-ment of the iconic monumentand its surrounding areas.

The area around Taj Mahalis also intended to be declareda pedestrian zone, walkablewith shaded pedestrian side-walks, controlled traffic (elec-tric public transport) and des-ignated cycling track. Thereport seeks to restrict use ofpolluting private vehicles, twowheelers in the Agra city areasurrounding Taj Mahal.

The first draft of the doc-ument was tabled by the StateGovernment in the SupremeCourt on Tuesday after it lam-basted the Centre and Stateauthorities for doing little topreserve and restore the 17thcentury architectural marvel.

The document, runninginto 250 pages, proposes athree-tier scheme that intendsdevelopment of Taj Mahal andits precincts, the city of Agra asa whole, and the Taj TrapeziumZone (TTZ), which covers anarea of 10400 square kilometersspread across Agra, Mathura,Firozabad, Hatras, Etah andBharatpur in Rajasthan.

The report has focused onenvironmental issues, urbandevelopment and planning,infrastructure assessment, link-

ages and transportation, pre-serving natural heritage —tangible and intangible, creat-ing form, space and image ofurban settlement and providingregional equity.

The Vision Document pre-pared by the School ofPlanning and Architecture,Delhi, is the first draft andwould require further “ironingout” and fund allocation inorder to arrive at the final DraftVision Document, expected tobe out in another two months,said the UP Government in itsaccompanying affidavit pre-sented before a Bench ofJustices Madan B Lokur andDeepak Gupta by state’sAdditional Advocate General(AAG) Aishwarya Bhati.

The document proposes

development of the historicgardens, parks and historicalmonuments situated aroundthe Taj Mahal. The vision planalso envisages development ofYamuna river and its flood-plain, restoration of wetlandsand natural ponds, and seeks tocreate green buffer zones.

About pollution caused byindustries in TTZ, the reportsuggested introduction of inno-vative techniques to tackle thepollution caused to the riverand shifting of polluting indus-tries out of TTZ. Interestingly,the report says that the resi-dential settlement and slums onthe other side of the river fac-ing Taj Mahal should beretained with proper infra-structure and livelihood oppor-tunities for those residing in it.

The report noted that current-ly, the mainstay of personsresiding around the monu-ment is primarily based ontourism. In the name of pro-moting Taj as a global touristdestination, the documentnoted that several traditionalindustries in the informal sec-tor took a hit with the closureof industries and brick kilns inAgra and its vicinity.

While traditional liveli-hood patterns need to be con-served, retail commerce mustbe promoted along with devel-opment of more livelihoodopportunities such as handi-crafts, small-scale cottageindustries, based on a multi-sectoral pattern, said the report.About Agra city, the reportemphasised the need of cover-

ing drains, having a scientificlandfill site outside the city withfacility to convert waste toenergy, and sewage recyclingmechanism and storm waterdrainage system.

PIONEER NEWS SERVICE nNEW DELHI/JAIPUR

Aday after the Centre set upa Group of Ministers

(GoM) and a Home Secretary-headed committee to suggestways and a legal framework toeffectively deal with incidentsof mob violence, Union HomeMinister Rajnath Singh onTuesday told Parliament thatthe Government would enact alaw, if necessary, to curb suchheinous incidents. TheGovernment also issued anadvisory to States asking themto appoint district-wise nodalofficers and task forces to mon-itor and curb the rumour mon-gering that ensues in lynching.

Meanwhile, RajasthanHome Minister Gulab ChandKataria on Tuesday announceda judicial probe into the RakbarKhan case, but not beforemaintaining that evidence sug-gested it to be a case of custo-dial death. Kataria said the StateGovernment has also orderedan initial compensation of Rs1.25 lakh for the family of thedeceased. “We have written tothe additional chief judicialmagistrate to initiate a probe,”Kataria told reporters at a Pressconference.

Chief Justice of IndiaDipak Misra attributed the“recent surge” in mob lynchingto “blatant reliance on socialmedia”. “The blatant reliance onsocial media needs to bechecked by citizens themselvesto ensure peace and order inthe society,” the CJI said at anevent in Delhi.

The Opposition, includ-ing the Congress, theTrinamool Congress and theLeft parties, raised a din overthe spate of mob violence andCongress leader MallikarjunKharge demanded that a sittingSupreme Court judge shouldcarry out an enquiry into suchincidents and action shouldtaken on the report.

The issue was also raised inthe Rajya Sabha. During theZero Hour mention, ShantaChhetri of the TMC citedmedia reports to say, “88 pre-cious lives have been lost (inlynching incidents) since thisGovernment came to power.”She wanted to know the stepsinitiated to check such attacksand the Government action onframing the anti-lynching law.

The Home Ministry advi-sory sent to Chief Secretariesand DGPs of the States andUTs said, “Incidents of violenceand lynching by mobs in someparts of the country fuelled byvarious kinds of rumours andunverified news such as childlifting, theft, cattle smuggling,etc, are a matter of serious con-cern. Such instances of personstaking the law in their ownhands run against the basictenets of the rule of law. AllState Governments, UT admin-istrations and their law enforce-ment agencies are requested toimplement the directions of theSupreme Court in letter andspirit. A detailed report on theaction taken in the matter mayplease be sent to the ministryat the earliest.”

UP presents new green Taj vision Tells SC that complex to be plastic free, polluting units to be shut

STAFF REPORTER n NEW DELHI

The Delhi Police is likely to recommend cap-ping the duration of protest at the Jantar

Mantar at maximum one day and limit thenumber of protesters at 5,000, after theSupreme Court revoked the ban on holding ral-lies and dharnas at the iconic site.

A senior police officer said with the JantarMantar being redesignated as a site for hold-ing protests, their job of containing protests willbecome easier. “After the National GreenTribunal order banning all protests and dhar-nas around Jantar Mantar last year, protesterswanting to get their plea would gather any-where, thereby affecting law and order. But withthe top court lifting the ban on rallies at theJantar Mantar, our job of monitoring the sit-uation would become easier,” he added.

The Jantar Mantar can accommodate amaximum crowd of 5,000, and if the numberexceeds it, traffic comes to a standstill inLutyens’ Delhi.

Before the NGT ban on protest there inOctober last, the Jantar Mantar was like a hometo many protesters.

Jantar Mantar protestto be capped at max1 day, 5k protesters

STAFF REPORTER n BHOPAL

The strike of Junior DoctorsAssociation (JDA) contin-

ued in Madhya Pradesh onTuesday as they resigned enmasse opposing Governmentpressure to return to work.

The resignation by thejunior doctors came a day afterState Government invokedESMA to maintain hospital ser-vices across Madhya Pradesh.The doctors’ agitation in all thehospitals linked to fiveGovernment medical colleges inMadhya Pradesh has adverselyaffected health services.

The JDA announced itsdecision to resign after talks inBhopal with divisional commis-sioner Kavindra Kiyawat failed.

Since, the Government hasalready invoked ESSMA, theagitation of the JDA was con-sidered illegal on Monday.While talking to media per-sons, JDA president Dr SachetSaxena said, "We have been leftwith no option but to resign.Had the Government beenproactive and paid heed to ourdemands, this situation wouldnot have arisen.” Resignation

letters written on plain paperswith a separate page of signa-tures were presented to localdeans on Tuesday afternoon.

Meanwhile, the StateGovernment continued on itsstance. Medical EducationMinister Sharad Jain said that thedemands of JDA would beaddressed only after they returnto work. Sources said that gov-ernment would wait untilWednesday morning, after whicharrests and legal action againstabsentee doctors would be initi-ated. Doctors might also be askedto furnish their Rs 10 lakh bond.Notably, the JDA is demandingincrease in stipend and betterfacilities for junior doctors in

medical colleges and thoseposted in rural outreach hos-pitals. However, the govern-ment’s message to the strikingdoctors was clear- return towork first, then talk overdemands would take place.The members of JDA claimedthat they have been holdingparallel OPD at Hamidia hos-pital for the last week. But thesituation is grim in the State-level Hamidia hospital. Thepatients who have come fromdifferent places are waiting forthe operations for past fourdays.

Besides, the patients admit-ted in the hospital for differentailments remain unattended.

SAPNA SINGH n NEW DELHI

The Delhi Cabinet has approved aproposal to increase the income of

Delhi farmers by three to four times. OnTuesday, Chief Minister ArvindKejriwal announced “MukhyanmantriKisan Aaye Badhotri Solar Yojna” underwhich the surface area of agricultureland will be used to install solar panelswithout disturbing the agriculture activ-ities as the height of solar plates will be3.5 metre.

The solar panel will be installed inone-third area of land. The estimatedannual income of farmers is ̀ 20,000 to30,000 per acre per year and with theintroduction of this scheme theirincome will increase three to fourtimes per acres.

It would be pertinent to mentionhere that the scheme will provide asource of additional earnings to farm-ers starting from `1 lakh per acre withan annual increment at six per cent; thisfurther means farmers will get `4.04lakhs per acre of the land in the 25thyear.

After approving the scheme in theCabinet, Kejriwal said, "While farmersall over India are in distress, the DelhiGovernment is standing with them. Weare launching this scheme which wouldhelp them enhance their earnings man-ifold."

Kejriwal also asked other StateGovernments to implement this model."We want to make this scheme a model

for whole country, it will be of great helpfor the farmers in distress," saidKejriwal.

Significantly, Delhi farmers willalso get 1,000 units free electricity peracre from solar plant per annum. "Total6 acre of land will be required for instal-lation of 1 MW solar plant which couldgenerate approximately 13 lakhs unitsof electricity annually," Kejriwal said.

"This will also provide clean ener-gy to Delhi and help fight the menaceof pollution. The solar power generat-ed would be bought by different depart-ments of the Delhi Government at acheaper rate than on what they buy elec-tricity presently. The Governmentwould also save `300 to `400 croreusing the cheap power from farm solarscheme," the CM added.

"We hope that the farmers wouldstart earning from this scheme in 8 to9 months time and this would becomea model for the country," he added.

Delhi to tap sun to raise farmers’ income

STAFF REPORTER n NEW DELHI

The Delhi High Court onTuesday reiterated its ear-

lier order directing ChiefSecretary Anshu Prakash toappear before the committeesof the Delhi Assembly. Thecourt said Anshu is “adequate-ly protected” against any pun-ishment by the Assembly com-mittee which has sought hispresence and asked him toappear before the panel.

The HC said the July 13order was “expressly clear” thatAnshu has to take part in theproceedings before theAssembly’s Committee ofPrivileges (CoP) and if anypunishment was slapped onhim, it would not be imple-mented till his plea against thepanel’s notice was decided.

The observation came onan application moved by Anshuseeking clarification on theJuly 13 order that asked him toappear before the panel whichissued notice to him on a com-plaint by the Question andReference (Q&R) Committeeof the Assembly.

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HC: CS shieldedagainst action,he must attendHouse panels

SP SINGH n GHAZIABAD

A25-yr-old man accused of “love jehad” wasbeaten by a mob in front of the marriage reg-

istrar office — where he was to marry a Hindugirl — in Ghaziabad on Monday evening.

The trouble began when the couple reachedthe sub-registrar office. When they were fillingup a form, some men in the office noticed thatthe man was a Muslim and the bride a Hindu.

They reportedly began asking the coupleembarrassing questions. When the couple protest-ed, a dozen men started thrashing the man. Policepersonnel stationed there took them in their shel-ter and eventually helped them escape.

Sahil, a native of Bhopal, and Preeti Singh, anative of Bijnore in western UP, work in the com-pany in Noida. “They decided to marry againstthe wishes of their parents. The couple wantedto register their marriage at Ghaziabad court asa friend told them that it is safer,” police said.

After the assault video went viral on socialmedia, police registered a complaint under IPCSections 147, 427 and 323 against Vinod andNavneet along with some unidentified personsin Sihani Gate police station. No arrest has beenmade so far, said Inspector Sihani Gate police sta-tion Sanjay Pandey.

If needed, will enact lawto curb lynching: Rajnath

p The document, running into250 pages, proposes a three-tier scheme that intendsdevelopment of Taj Mahal andits precincts, the city of Agraas a whole, and the TajTrapezium Zone (TTZ)

p The document proposesdevelopment of the historicgardens, parks and historicalmonuments situated aroundthe Taj Mahal

p The residential settlement andslums on the other side of theriver facing Taj Mahal shouldbe retained with properinfrastructure and livelihoodopportunities for thoseresiding there

States asked to appoint nodal officers indists to prevent canards; Rajasthan Govtorders judicial probe in Rakbar Khan case

‘Love jehad’ accused savedfrom lynch mob in Gzb

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh speaks in the Lok Sabha during the Monsoonsession of Parliament in New Delhi on Tuesday PTI

A patient lying on a stretcher unattended outside Government Hamidia hospital onthe second consecutive day of an indefinite strike called by Junior DoctorsAssociation in Bhopal on Tuesday Pioneer photo

Villagers take refuge on a rooftop above floodwaters from a collapsed dam in the Attapeu district of southeastern Laos onTuesday. The official Lao news agency KPL reported on Tuesday that the Xepian-Xe Nam Noy hydropower dam in Attapeuprovince collapsed on Monday evening, releasing large amounts of water that swept away houses and made more than 6,600people homeless (Report oon PP12) AP

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Deputy CM Manish Sisodia and Health Minister Satyendar Jainaddress a Press conference in New Delhi on Tuesday PTI

p Farmers will not have to invest anythingin this scheme for capacity building

p It will be done on Renewable EnergyService Company model

p Solar Power Developer will enter intoPower Purchase Agreement with theDelhi Government Departments forsupply of solar power to GovernmentDepartments who are bulk powerconsumers, for instance — HealthDepartment, PWD, DJB

SCHEME HIGHLIGHTS

Junior doctors in MP resignen masse, strike continues

BHOPAL: Chief MinisterShivraj Singh Chouhan hasannounced that MedicalCollege will be started inVidisha from August, 2018 inVidisha. He made thisannouncement during theKisan Sammelan held atVidisha on Tuesday.

People of Vidisha and itsvicinity will get proper treat-ment comfortably for seriousillnesses. Chouhan transferredan amount of Rs 445 croretowards crop insurance onlinein the bank accounts of 1.33lakh farmers. He also laid foun-dation and dedicated con-struction works worth Rs 170crore of Vidisha district.

Chouhan mentioned thatwheat is being procured fromthe farmers in the current yearat the rate of Rs 2,000 per quin-tal including support price.Apart from this, gram, uradand moong and other crops arealso being procured by thestate government to enablefarmers to get profitable valuefor their agriculture produce.He further mentioned that theState Government intends that

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Chhola Mandir police nabbed a miscreant forselling liquor illegally at Gareeb Nagar and

recovered 350 bottles of country made liquor worthRs 15,000 on Tuesday.

Acting on a tip off regarding a miscreant, a policeteam rushed to the spot and raided a house at GareebNagar and found liquor which was sold illegally. Themiscreant was identified as Naresh Sahu and wasoperating the selling of liquor illegally from his house.The police have registered a case under section 34(2) of the Excise Act and have started further inves-tigation. Police said that the buyers of the liquor pro-vided by the accused would be investigated in thefurther investigation. The action was taken in theongoing drive to curb the increasing number of ille-gal trade of liquor in the city and nearby areas.Meanwhile, Nishatpura police arrested 5 persons onthe charge of gambling and recovered Rs 8000 cash,playing cards and five mobile phones from their pos-session in Murli Nagar on Tuesday.

Police received information that gamblers withbets were gambling and based on the informationthe place was raided where 5 persons were foundgambling. Police said that the in the raid the gam-blers were found gambling in a room and in the raidaround Rs 8000 cash was recovered from their pos-session. The nabbed accused were identified asImitiaz, Anwar, Shamim, Faizan and Kamraan.

The police have registered a case under section13 Gamblers Act and started further investigation.The crime record of the gamblers is yet to bechecked.

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Governor Anandiben Patel hassaid that it is the duty of the

countrymen residing in the bor-dering areas to maintain good rela-tions with the army men deployedon the border and extend supportto them.

There is a very deep relationshipbetween the people residing in thebordering areas and the army mendeployed in the border areas.

Both of them have to face sim-ilar kind of circumstances and dif-ficulties.

She said this during a meetingwith a 34-member team of theTrainee Assistant Commandant ofthe Armed Border Forces here

today.Patel further said that there is a

need to take strict measures to pro-tect the armymen from attacks ofterrorists and Naxalites by the useof modern weapons and methods inthe borders and internal areas.Today, where our armies are gettingexposed to modern weapons andcommunication equipment, terror-ists and Naxalites are also usingmodern methods.

This puts the lives of the armymen engaged in patrolling at risk.The 'Special Service Bureau' has sig-nificant contribution in protectingthe country in the Kargil war andthe subsequent changing circum-stances.

The Governor said that it is due

to the sacrifices, bravery and hardwork of our jawans, be it of Army,BSF or other forces that our coun-try’s defence is establishing its rep-utation among the world's largestarmies.

Throwing light on the activitiesof the Academy, Director ArmedBorder Forces Academy SudhanshuNautiyal gave detailed informationabout Armed Border ForcesAcademy re-established in Bhopalafter being shifted from Srinagar inUttarakhand. Commandant ArmedBorder Forces Academy, DNBhoumbe proposed the vote ofthanks.

The programme was conduct-ed by Trainee Officer PreetiSharma.

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The girls of Madhya PradeshState Boxing Academy

exhibited a brilliant show at the3rd Madhya Pradesh StateLevel Boxing Championship.The players bagged 27 medalsincluding 17 gold medals and10 silver medals.

The players played won-drously in different categoriesincluding women sub-junior,junior, senior boxing champi-onship held at the ShrimantRajmata Vijayaaraje ScindiyaSports Complex, Gwalior.

After a wonderful victory,the medal winners met StateMinister for Sports and YouthWelfare Yashodhara Raje metwith Scindia at TT NagarStadium here on Tuesday.Scindia expressing her con-tentment congratulated themedal winners and appreciat-ed them for their achievement.

The Sports Minister whilecongratulating the medal win-ners said that similar perfor-mances should be showcased innational and internationalcompetitions too. She asked

them to win medals in all thematched and bring laurels tothe State and the country.

On this occasion, ChiefSecretary Sports M. Mohanrao,Director Sports and YouthWelfare S.L. Thoussen andChief Instructor of BoxingAcademy Roshan Lal were pre-sent.

In State level female sub-junior, junior category of junior/ senior boxing championship,Kiran Rikvar B-42 kg, RadhikaTekam B-46 kg, Payal Chasia B-48 kg, Land Singh, C-50 G.,H.H. Singh, C-54 KG, AnkitaVerma A-46 kg, Mahi LamaA60kg, Ruba Khan, A-63 Kgs

won gold medal respectively ineach category.

On the other hand, SwatiyaDhami B-52 kg, NeelamKushwaha B-38 kg, PayalDravid C-50 kg, AyushyAwasthi A-48 kg and RitaDalare A-52 kg won silvermedal respectively inweightlifting. In the junior cat-egory, Gitanjali Negi 60 kg, andArpita Shukla 82 kg won goldmedal in weight lifting. RadhaPatidar 57 kg snd Amaya Yadav64 kg won a silver medal in theweightlifting. In the same cat-egory, Deepika Verma 48 kg,Anjali Sharma 51 kg, DeepaKumari 54 kg, Money SinghGaur 57 kg, Sarita Singh 60 kg,Nancy Piyaasi 69 kg and ShrutiYadav 75 kg won gold medal.

Nandini Kaushal 48 kg,Purnima Rajput 51 kg andNisha Yadav 60 kg won a silvermedal each in weightlifting.Academy players AnkitaVerma in Junior Category andAnjali Sharma in Senior cate-gory won the title of BestBoxer and Shruti Yadav wonthe title of Best PromisingBoxer.

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After a rigorous training theIndian Navy officers are pre-

pared to conduct special operationsand duties to save the country. Thelife of these brave Naval Divers wasshowcased in a film Naval Divers.

Directed by MS Patwari the filmwas screened at Shaurya Smarakhere on Tuesday.

The movie unveils the life, train-ing and other facts about IndianNavy Divers.

These special forces serve themarine boundaries of the country

and participatein differentactivities andwars.

The moviealso disclosesabout what

steps have to be taken to become aNaval Diver.

It is shown in the movie abouttheir training process like beginningfrom the school, to normal training,advanced training and specializedtraining. Notably, each assignmentthey take on is crucial and backedby a steadfast dedication to team-work.

Navy Divers are part of an

extraordinary community. They journey anywhere from

the darkest depths of the world’soceans to freezing arctic-like con-ditions underneath icebergs, accom-plishing a number of tasks only fewcan perform, with no margin forerror.

Their training is done in twocategories Ship Divers and ClearanceDivers.

The Indian Diving School ofIndian Navy is located in Kochi.

The Naval divers have someresponsibilities and duties.

They have to perform a varietyof diving salvage operations and spe-cial diving duties worldwide, takepart in construction and demolitionprojects, execute search and rescuemissions, support military and civil-ian law enforcement agencies, serveas the technical experts for divingevolutions for numerous militarySpecial Operations units, providesecurity, communications and otherlogistics during ExpeditionaryWarfare missions and also carry outroutine ship maintenance, includingrestoration and repair

Training to become a NavyDiver challenges their willpower,intelligence and physical strengthand puts thier desire to the test.

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The 21st chapter of Vihaan 10-day'Theatrics', the drama workshop

'READDING' began in city. This specialworkshop is based on the theme 'What arethe ideal methods of education and howto develop personality in the cause ofhumanity?'

Organised by Vihaan Drama Worksthe theatrics is being held at Arushi thatbegan from Monday. According to SaurabhAnant, Vihaan's Theater Series, workingon the basics in the theater, has a distinc-tive identity in itself. Marking the secondday of the workshop on Tuesday, the ses-sion was held under the guidance of youngdirector and designer Shweta Ketkar. She

conducted a special session on 'Linedrawing and Sketching' for the partici-pants. In this session Shweta talked to theparticipants on the fundamental principlesof 'drawing and sketching' and after that,practical sessions of 'line drawing andsketching' with all the participants was also

conducted. In the practical session all par-ticipants made sketches and drawings byjust drawing line and created an art pieceaccording to their imagination.

In addition, Shweta explained theimportance of 'line drawing and sketching'in drama and shared her experiences. It isnoteworthy that Shweta is a Masters in FineArts, has studied theater from MadhyaPradesh School of Drama (MPSD) and isco-founder of Vihaan.

Besides, it is also to be noted that thischapter of Vihaan Theatrics is a produc-tion based workshop. In this workshop abook by Gijubhai 'Divaswapan' based onchild education will be discussed and a playwill be prepared. The play will be stagedto mark the conclusion of the workshop.

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Designed in different pat-terns and prints, the

Bhopalites are exploring thesplendor of maheshwari mate-rial in an exhibition cum sale‘The Magic of Maheshwari2018’. The exhibition beganfrom Monday at GauharMahal.

An exhibition ‘The Magicof Mahehwari 2018’ is beingorganised in the city byMrignayanee Emporium ofMadhya PradeshHandicrafts and HandloomDevelopment Corporation,Gauhar Mahal.

The exhibition showcasesan enormous varieties ofMadhya Pradesh’s one of theoldest fabric materials,Maheshwari. There is a won-derful collection of sarees, suitsand dress materials inMaheshwari, Chanderi and Silkmaterials.

Manager of the emporiumBrijendra Raghuwanshi said,“This is not the first time weare organizing an exhibitioncum sale on a particular mate-rial. Few months before, wehad organized an exhibitioncum sale on Chanderi that

received a huge response andwe hope the same response forthis exhibition as well.”

It is to be noted thatMaheshwari cloth material isalways liked by the people andalso attracts the tourists aswell. More than 60 differentdesigns in Maheshwar mater-ial are displayed in exhibitionfrom Khargone district of theState. There is an array ofvibrant colours like green,ocean green and ocean bluealong with shades of yellow,brown, sky colours and coloursin contrast.

These materials have beendesigned in different patternsand prints. There are printedmaterials beautifully embroi-dered with Batik Print, DabuPrint, Hand-Block Print andone of the most renowned andloved in all seasons, BaghPrint.

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Aformer candidate of one ofthe most known reality

shows, Bigg Boss, said that itwas a huge turning point forher.

“Bigg Boss was a hugeturning point for me,” said thethe Bhojpuri actress Monalisa

Monalisa aka AntaraBiswas was in Bhopal onTuesday to talk about theupcoming show ‘Nazar’. Shewill be seen playing a role of a‘dayaan’ in the show aboutwhich she is really excited.

Nazar is an upcomingshow on Star Plus which isbeing produced by Gul Khan’s4 Lions Film. The productionhouse is famous for producingpopular shows like QuboolHai (Zee TV) and Ishqbaaz(Star Plus).

The show will narrate thestory of Monalisa’s character’sgirl child which is essayed byNiyati Fatnani being taken careof her grandparents along witha flashback story of how

Monalisa’s character turned a‘daayan’. Nazar will thenprogress to showing the jour-ney of Niyati’s character’s draw-backs of being a daayan’s child.

Her character’s name isMohana. Monalisa while shar-ing about her character withthe media persons on Tuesdaysaid, “Mohana as a character ischallenging yet one of theenjoyable roles. When she is inher human form she holds areally different personality, themost glamorous one. But, whenshe is in her dayaan form, sheis entirely opposite. Mohanawill give shivers to the audi-ence. She will have a longbraid, backward facing feetand long nails.”

Elaborating further shesaid, “The role is really excitingfor me to play. I had daily soapsin my to-do list but I really did-n’t know that I will get a grandbreak.”

Apart from Monalisa,Nazar also stars Smita Bansal,Ritu Chaudhary, Harsh Rajputand Niyati Fatnani.

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Aishbagh police busted atwo-member gang engaged

in printing and circulating fakecurrency notes and recovered250 fake currency notes of Rs 50and Rs 500, a colour printer, acomputer system, paper cuttingtools and different colouredinks from their possession.

Acting on a tip off regard-ing a youth with fake currencynotes of Rs 50 which the youthused to circulate near liquorshop and other shops policeswung into action and on thereceipt of the information a

team was rushed to the spot anddetained a youth identified asDeepak Ahirwar on Mondayand recovered 5 currency notesin the denomination of Rs 50which were fake.

The nabbed accused con-fessed that the fake currency notecirculation and printing alongwith Anket Ahirwar of LaxmiMandi area and based on theinformation Anket was nabbed.

The mastermind of thegang Anket told the policethat he used print fake curren-cy notes which could be easilycirculated like Rs 50 and Rs 500and could make fast money.

People do not check Rs 50 cur-rency notes while acceptingdue to which the accused choseto print Rs 50 fake currencynotes and used to print moreRs 50 fake currency notes.

For circulating fake cur-rency Deepak was roped inwho was acquainted with theAnket. Providing details of thetrick Anket told the policethat he used coloured photo-copy machine to produce fakecurrency notes which werecirculated with ease. Police areinvestigating that for how longand how many fake currencynotes have been circulated.

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Chief Minister ShivrajSingh Chouhan said that

camps will be held in Sehore,R aisen andBhopal to makecaste cer t i f i -cates of Beldarc o m m u n i t y .The communi-ty will be givenever y va l idright. Chouhanwas addressingthe MadhyaPradesh Beldarc o m m u n i t yMahasammelanat the CMHouse premis-es . He a lsofelicitated stu-dents Sakshi Kamrai andAnsh Giri of the communi-ty on the occasion. Ministerof State for Genera lAdministrat ion andScheduled Caste Welfare LalSingh Arya was also presenton the occasion.

Chouhan urged the peoplebelonging to the Beldar com-munity to get themselves reg-

istered in the Sambal Yojana.He told them that several pro-visions have been made in thescheme like electricity at Rs200 flat rate and payment offees of the education of chil-

dren by thestate govern-ment so thatpoor familiescan spendtheir livesrespectfully.He said thatc a r e f u lt h o u g h twould begiven to theappl icat ionfor land allo-cation forbuilding forthe Beldarcommunity

as per rules.The Chief Minister said

that women and girls must begiven due respect. No dis-crimination should be madebetween girls and boys andboth should be educated. CMChouhan extended best wish-es for Raksha Bandhan to allthe women present in theMahasammelan in advance.

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As per the directives of GouriSingh, Principal Secretary

of Health department, a strate-gic plan to organise outreachcamps was discussed here onTuesday at Sewa Sadan EyeHospital. In this regard, gov-ernment hospitals, NGO eyecare hospitals, will organizeoutreach free eye camps inforth coming quarter of the year.

In view to achieve the targetof cataract backlog free positionin the state, war footing efforts willbe made by the health officials.On the occasion State pro-gramme officer of Blindnesseradication Dr Hemant Sinha,MT of Sewa Sadan LC Janiyani,Medical Director Dr PrernaUpadhyaya, Glaucoma specialistDr Sapna Prashant, RetinaSpecialist Dr RiddhimaDeshpandey, DPMs, DeputyDPMs and Optometrists werepresent in the meeting.

Dr Sinha informed theHealth officials about the phasewise proposed planning ofimplementing the strategy. Hedirected the officials to achieve

the target within fix time sched-ule. Dr Prerna Upadhyay sug-gested the state medical staff toencourage the society and maketheir mind set for willfully eyedonation. Dr Prerna alsoimparted the training of the staffhow extracted eye balls shouldbe kept and sent safely to basehospitals. She also encouragedthe govt. medical staff to informthose patients who are in needof eye transplantation. In SewaSadan, as many as 1567 eyetransplantation have so far beendone.

Glaucoma specialist DrSapna Prashant told about theseriousness of the glaucomadisease she further told thattimely diagnosis, treatment andperiodic follow up examinationsof diabetic patients can savethem from the big loss of vision.Diabetic Retinopathy specialistDr Riddhima Deshpandey toldthe govt. medical staff themethod of screening of retinapatients. She told the retinapatients should be diagnosedtimely and refer to the super spe-cialty hospitals so as they can getthe timely treatment.

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Leader of Opposition in the Stateassembly Ajay Singh said that

the number of announcementsmade by Shivraj Singh ledGovernment are aimed at garner-ing votes and raised question aswhy they were not provided withthe facilities in past 14 years.

Singh was on Tuesday address-ing at the closing ceremony of hisfifth two-day Nyay Yatra at VijayRaghavgarh. Intensive campaign-ing has been done by Ajay Singh inthe past two days in three con-stituencies in Katni where morethan two dozen public meetingswere addressed. He said today BJPdo not have any ideology and hasturned money minded and followminting of money policy. Pointing Raghavgarh MLA Sanjay Pathak who used to campaign in helicopter against CM

Chouhan in the year 2013 haschanged side in 2014 and sud-denly Chouhan became hero forhim and Messiah of developmentis not change of mind but it is dueto his invested interest of savinghis mines, escaping penalty of Rs150 crores and to save ministeri-al post.

Singh said that during lateArjun Singh led government thehabitats of shanties never asked forfree electricity but within one dayfree connections were provided.Poor were made owners of theirhoused which they used to dwelland Tendu leave workers weremade owner. All the decisionswere in the second and third yearof the regime unlike BJP govern-ment which has taken decisionsbefore six months of the election.

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Journey of thousand milesbegins with one small step

and the aspired hearts over-come the hurdles, has beenproved on the concluding dayof ‘Rahen’ at Sparsh Bhawan,Bhopal. ‘Rahen’ a multi-foldtraining workshop on OraonTribal Painting organised byIndira Gandhi RashtriayaManav Sangrhalaya as part ofits education and outreachactivities at the GovernmentResidential School for physi-cally impaired and special chil-dren from July 19 to 23, 2018.

In form of this five-dayevent ‘Rahen’ covered onephase of unending voyage ofcreativity and understanding ofcultural tradition of the coun-try by humble attempts ofIGRMS and the special andphysically impaired children.

An exhibition of paintingsby children was also mountedon the occasion.

Prof Sarit KumarChaudhuri, Director, IGRMS,Dilip Singh, Joint Director,IGRMS along with Smt. PrabhaSomvanshi, Superintendent,Residential School of Physically

Impaired and Special Childrendistributed certificates to theparticipants.

The workshop witnessedan urge to know many thingsabout a specific aspect of cul-ture, mutual interaction andalso to expose the creativity.On this occasion visuallyimpaired students of Schoolwelcomed the guest with amelodious song and alsorequested to the DirectorIGRMS to organise such activ-ity for them so that they also

can be the part of this ambi-tious mission of bringing cul-tural enthusiast together andwould like to contribute to thesociety in way however theycan.

Speech and hearingimpaired students shared theirviews in sign language andexpressed that the duration ofthe programme was too shortand how this time passed on wecould not get Kalpana, a seniorinstructor proposed the vote ofthanks.

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Minister for Panchayat andRural Development

Gopal Bhargava has said thatthe State Government will givedouble amount from itsaccount for development ofGram Panchayat in accordanceto the amount generated bygram panchayat through taxa-tion. He said this at the work-shop organised for PanchayatRepresentatives on the subjectSelf Taxation and DigitalTransaction at Water and Land

Management Institute.Bhargava mentioned that

the concept of Gram Swarajwill be realized only whengram panchayats will achieveeconomic independence.Therefore, PanchayatRepresentatives must workwith full awareness towardstheir duties also besides theirrights.

He further stated thatPanchayats have been entrust-ed with unlimited powersunder the Panchayat Raj Act,which should be used for over-all development of panchayats.He appealed to the PanchayatRepresentatives to generatefund through self taxation inpeople’s interest.

Besides, Bhargava statedthat decrease has been witnessin the cash transactions in thecountry after the digitilisation,which is need of the hour. Hefurther said that MadhyaPradesh is the first state of thecountry, where gram panchay-ats are implementing cent per-cent digital transactions. Healso heard experiences fromSarpanchs came from otherstates like Punjab, Gujarat andChhattisgarh in the workshopand suggested other to take les-son from them.

Director Panchayat RajShamim Uddin shed light onthe objectives and workingmechanism.

Vote of thanks was pro-posed by the Director ofWALMI Urmila Shukla.

The Subject Experts willimpart information on DigitalTransaction Procedure and itsbenefits besides other subjectsto the PanchayatRepresentatives on the secondday of the workshop.

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The spell of continuous rain-fall continued for consecu-

tive the second day across thestate and state capital. Thisincessant rain has disruptednormal life and Bhopal has lostconnectivity to several places.The continuous rainfall hasincreased the chances of flood-ing at places situated nearwater bodies and as a precau-tionary measure several havemove to safe places.

The state capital recorded2.6 cm of rainfall on Tuesday,rains started early in the morn-ing and continued throughoutthe day. Light and heavy show-ers were witnessed at severalplaces. The Bhopal division islikely to receive rainfall in thenext 24 hours along withChambal, Gwalior, Sagar,Shahdol and Ujjain divisions.

The highest rainfall wasrecorded at 13 cm in Nalkheda,Kolaras recorded 11 cm,Sabalgarh 10cm, Shuivpuri andBiora recorded 8 cm whileseveral regions recorded goodrainfall. After rapidly increas-ing water level of Bargi Dam 7sluice gates of the dam wereopened and the people living atlow lying areas near the damhave been alerted after thewater level increased.

If the level continues toincrease people living nearbanks of rivers of nine districtswould face flood like situations.The regions are Jabalpur, Seoni,Narsinghpur, Hoshangabad,

Raisen, Dewas, Sehore,Khandwa and Khargone

Warning of heavy rains inShaopur, Bhind, Datia, Gwalior,Panna, Dindori, Anuppur,Rewa, Satna, Mandla, Balaghat,Neemuch Mandsaur, Agar,Ujjain and Shajapur has beenissued. Vidisha has recorded

incessant rainfall for 10 hourswhich has worsen the situationand lead to disruption of road

connectivity at different places.The bridge at Bawna River hasbeen submerged.

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Role and contribution of banks in Indianeconomy in the present scenario and future

challenges were discussed by Regional Directorof RBI Bhopal PK Jena at 111th establishmentday of Bank of Baroda here.

For thepast wholeweek varioussocial and cul-tural pro-grammes andevents wereheld to cele-brate 111thestablishmentday of Bank ofBaroda Bhopal.

R a n g o l i ,painting, quizcompetitionsand pro-grammes relat-ed to socialconcern likeblood donationand plantationwere held.

On the eveof the estab-lishment day cultural and musical programmewere organized at Samanvay Bhawan in TTNagar.

In the event executive members of the bank,reserve bank Bhopal, Nabard and managingdirectors of other banks, employees of bank andcustomers of bank were present in the events.

Regional Director of RBI Bhopal PK Jenawas the Chief Guest. Former Chairman and MD

of Syndicate Bank Arun Shrivastava was specialguest in the event. Shrivastava shared his expe-rience with the system during his tenure.

Bhopal Region head Jayesh Mehta provid-ed details of Bhopal region achieved by the bankand encouraged the staff to perform better onall the indicators and achieve the targets

At the start of the programme Jena and othersenior officials lit the lamp and paid flower trib-ute to statue of Founder Maharaja Sayaji RaoGaikwad.

Fancy dress competition for children washeld and music and dance programme wasorganised by staff members and their families.At the occasion staff members completing 25years of service were felicitated.

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The issue of black moneythat dominated the politi-

cal discourse during 2014 LokSabha polls seems to havegained traction in the build-upto the next general elections.

The BJP-led NDAGovernment on Tuesdayasserted in Parliament andoutside that illegal money inthe Swiss banks came down by80 per cent since PrimeMinister Narendra Modi tookcharge, rebutting Congress’charge that it rose by 50 percent despite the tall claims ofthe ruling regime.

Union Finance MinisterPiyush Goyal cited figures inthe Rajya Sabha to affirm thatblack money in Swiss banksreduced by 80 per cent sincePrime Minister Narendra Moditook over in 2014.

Later, talking to media-persons on Parliament premis-

es, he attacked Congress pres-ident Rahul Gandhi for malign-ing the country’s image bymaking false claims on thebasis of baseless reports.

Goyal, who had taken onRahul on the issue of lynchingin Alwar by terming him a‘merchant of hate’, said theCongress president says base-less things without knowing theissue. Rahul had last monthcited media reports to attackthe Government that contraryto their positioning on blackmoney, the amount has, infact, increased by 50 percent.Indian deposits in Swissbanks fell by 34.5 per cent in2017 and by 80 per cent since2014, Finance Minister PiyushGoyal said, citing data from theglobal body of central banks,the Bank for InternationalSettlements (BIS).

He said this counteringreports last month quoting theSwiss National Bank (SNB), thecountry’s central bank, as say-ing in its annual report thatIndian deposits had risen by 50per cent in 2017.

Goyal informed the RajyaSabha during Question Hourthat he discussed the issuewith the Swiss authorities, whotold him in a written reply thatmedia reports “have not taken

account of the way the (SNB)figures have to be interpreted.”

Last month, PTI hadreported SNB data that themoney parked by Indians inSwiss banks rose to CHF 1.01billion (�7,000 crore) in 2017after falling for three consecu-tive years.

“The Swiss Authorities say

that the figures published bythe Swiss National Bank areregularly mentioned by theIndian media as a reliable indi-cator of the amount of assetsheld with Swiss financial insti-tutions in respect of Indian cit-izens. They clarify how this iswrong. They say more oftenthan not, the media reports

have not taken into account theway the figures have to be inter-preted which has resulted inmisleading headlines andanalysis. This is (the Swiss)Government response,” he said.

Goyal said according toSwiss authorities, the morereliable data source for depositsheld in Switzerland is the

Locational Banking Statistics(LBS) of Bank of InternationalSettlements.

LBS measures internation-al banking activity from a res-idence perspective, focusingon the location of bankingoffice and captures around 95per cent of all cross-borderbanking activity.

He said SNB data includesnon-deposit liabilities, busi-ness of Swiss branches locatedin India, inter-bank transac-tions and fiduciary liability.

BIS data show non-bankloans and deposits — whichconstitute the individual andcorporate deposits and excludeinter-bank transactions — havefallen by 34.5 per cent in 2017to $524 million compared to$800 million in 2016, he saidand vowed to continue thecrackdown against blackmoney.

“Further, there has beensignificant reduction in Swissnon-bank loans and deposits ofIndians by 80.2 per centbetween 2013 and 2017,” hesaid, adding the figure in 2013was $2.6 billion which camedown to �2.3 billion in 2014and $1.4 billion 2015.

“Moreover, it is frequentlyassumed that any assets held byIndians are undeclared,” he

said. “So if you want to knowthe deposits of Indian residentsin Switzerland, the correct datasource is called locationalbanking statistics.”

The Minister said theAutomatic Exchange ofInformation based onCommon Reporting Standardhas commenced from 2017with many countries enablingIndia to receive financialaccount information of Indianresidents.

“This will also be useful inbringing the unaccountedincome and assets to tax,” hesaid.

However, Goyal’s reply didnot satisfy Trinamool Congressmembers, who stormed intothe Well of the House demand-ing that black money stashed inSwiss banks be brought back,forcing Chairman M VenkaiahNaidu to adjourn the proceed-ings for about 90 minutes. TheTMC had raised the issue in theHouse.

Interestingly, PTI reportedthat responding to an RTIquery the Finance Ministryhad refused to share copy ofthree reports on the quantumof black money held by Indiansinside the country and abroad,saying its disclosure wouldcause a breach of privilege of

Parliament.Then UPA Government

had in 2011 commissionedthese studies by Delhi-basedNational Institute of PublicFinance and Policy (NIPFP)and National Council ofApplied Economic Research(NCAER) as well as theNational Institute of FinancialManagement (NIFM) inFaridabad.

Replying to an RTI query,it said the study reports of theNIPFP, NCAER and NIFMwere received by theGovernment on December 30,2013, July 18, 2014, and August21, 2014, respectively.

The Ministry said thesereports were submitted to theStanding Committee onFinance on July 21 last year andthe committee is now seized ofthe matter.

“Accordingly, the disclosureof information would cause abreach of privilege ofParliament. Therefore, theinformation sought is exemptfrom disclosure under Section8 (1) (c) of the RTI Act,” it saidin reply to the RTI applicationfiled by this PTI correspondent.The section bars information,the disclosure of which wouldcause a breach of privilege ofParliament.

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Fugitive diamantaire MehulChoksi has moved to

Antigua from the US andtaken the passport of theCaribbean countr y,Government sources said. Inresponse to diffusion noticeissued by Interpol, theEnforcement Directorate hasbeen informed by Antiguanauthorit ies that Choksiarrived there this month andhad taken the passport ofthat country.

Choksi had fled the coun-try in the first week ofJanuary, nearly a fortnightbefore weeks before coun-try's biggest banking fraudsurfaced.

The CBI has bookedChoksi, uncle of his allegedpartner in crime Nirav Modi,in two cases related to thescam and filed charge sheetagainst him. A special courtin Mumbai has issued a Non-Bailable Warrant against him.

Armed with the warrant,the CBI moved the Interpolfor issuance of Red CornerNotice against the Gitanjali

group promoter, who is one ofthe masterminds behind $2billion banking fraud in thePunjab National Bank. Onthis basis, request for RedCorner Notice was moved inJune.

While RCN has beenissued against Nirav Modiand his brother Nishal by theInterpol, the request for sucha notice against Choksi ispending with the Lyon-basedinternational police coopera-tion agency, they said.

The issuance of RCNwould mean that the membercountries of the Lyon-basedinternational police coopera-tion agency can arrest andextradite him.

The CBI, in its chargesheets filed on May 14, hadalleged that Nirav Modi,through his companies,siphoned off funds to thetune of �6,498.20 crore usingfraudulent LoUs issued fromPNB's Brady House branch inMumbai. Choksi allegedlyswindled �7080.86 crore,making it possibly the biggestbanking scam in the country,it had alleged.

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the apprehension that one ofthe members of the CoP wasbiased against him, but thecourt allayed his fears bysaying that the proceedingswould be video recorded.

“The order (of July 13) isexpressly clear that petition-er (Prakash) will participatein the proceedings withoutprejudice and if the com-mittee recommends orimposes any punishment,same will not be imple-mented till final disposal ofthe petition. “The court is ofthe view that the petitioneris adequately protected andno further clarification isrequired,” it said and dis-posed of the application.

S enior advo cateSiddharth Luthra, appear-ing for Prakash, alleged dur-ing the hearing that thechairperson of the CoP was“biased” against and “hos-tile” towards his client.

He said a senior bureau-crat cannot be treated inthis manner.

The court, however, said“no prejudice is being causedto you by appearance (beforethe panel).” “Are you pro-tected, the answer is yes.On your plea, it is beingvideotaped. Court will watchthe recording,” the judgesaid.

On July 13 while askingPrakash and two otherbureaucrats to appear beforethe committee, the courthad warned them that notdoing so would invite con-tempt action.

The direction had comeafter the court was informedthat the three officers wereneither appearing before thepanels, nor giving the infor-mation sought from them.

They were taking advan-tage of the court’s earlierorder restraining the author-ities from taking actionagainst them, the lawyersfor the Assembly and theSpeaker of the House hadalleged. The High Court hadon March 9 asked the panelsnot to take coercive stepsagainst the IAS officers.

From Page 1agriculture must be made a profitable

occupation at any cost.Chouhan informed that over 33,000

crore has been deposited in the bankaccounts of the farmers of the state duringthe last one year under the various schemes.Moreover, he informed that efforts are beingmade to export Madhya Pradesh’s soybeanto China.

Discussions are taking place at highlevel in this connection.

Besides, Chouhan has said that SambalYojana is being implemented to bring hap-piness in life of every poor of the society.Electricity bills worth over Rs 44 crore ofthe registered unorganized labourers andother eligible persons have been waived offunder the scheme.

He informed that arrangements arebeing made for those unorganized labour-ers and other eligible persons, who are notable to get themselves registered under thescheme yet.

Member of Parliament LaxminarayanYadav, Minister for Public Works RampalSingh, Minister of State for HorticultureSuryaprakash Meena, MLAs Kalyan SinghThakur and Veer Singh Pawar, President ofdistrict Panchayat Toran Singh Dangi,President of Nagar Palika Mukesh Tandon,Chairman of Cooperative Bank ShyamSunder Sharma, other public representativesand people of various sections in large num-ber were present in the convention.

The Chief Minister unveiled statue of VeerShromani Maharana Pratap at Vidisha. Thisstatue has been installed by the Municipalityat Durga Nagar Square of the city. MinisterRampal Singh and MP Laxminarayan Yadavwere also present in the programme.

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Haryana Chief MinisterManohar Lal on Tuesday

launched the State-level‘Swachchh SarvekshanGrameen-2018’ under whichswachchhta survey of the vil-lages of the State will be carriedout in August.

“The best performingStates and districts will beawarded on October 2,” said theChief Minister while addressing

Deputy Commissioners andAdditional DeputyCommissioners through videoconferencing here.

He urged them to ensureactive participation of people tomake it a successful socialcampaign. Agriculture andFarmers’ Welfare Minister, OPDhankar was also present onthe occasion.

The ranking of the Statesand districts would be assessedon the basis of qualitative eval-

uation in the villages. The rank-ing would be based on the com-prehensive set of swachchhataparameters, including survey ofpublic places, citizens’ perceptionof swachchhata and their rec-ommendation for the improve-ment of the programme.

Manohar Lal directed tocomplete the work of geo-tag-ging of all toilets in the State atthe earliest. The SwachchhSarvekshan Grameen-2018would be formally launched at

district-level by Ministers andMLAs concerned. A commit-tee under the chairmanship ofChief Secretary would soon beconstituted to review theprogress of swachchhata worksfrom time to time, he said.

The Chief Minister saidalready a lot of attention hadbeen focussed on swachchhataworks and the survey wouldcreate a competition of sortamong villages to perform bet-ter than others. The gram pan-

chayats were well educated nowand quite sensitive towardssocial problems, he added.

He also appealed to involvezila parishads and zila samitiesbesides gram panchayats inthis campaign and allot somevillages to them. The disposalof waste, garbage and cowdung would be properly sys-temised and the potholeswould be filled so as to avoidwater logging during this rainyseason, he added. Manohar

Lal added school studentsshould be involved in all suchvoluntary campaigns to instillin them the sense of cleanlinessfrom the early age. Speaking onthe occasion, OP Dhankar saidState would march towardsbecoming clean and greenthough this campaign. He saidboundary wall would be con-structed around the garbagedisposal areas in the villageswhich would be decorated withbeautiful paintings.

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The Punjab Government isall set to carry out a radi-

cal transformation in the roadsafety measures as per thechanging times equipping theauthorities concerned with thelatest machines tools.

To begin with, the StateTransport Department hasdecided to soon introduce ‘e-challaning machines’ whichwould be connected to theinternet, purchase ‘breath alco-hol analyzers’ to be connectedwith the e-challan application,buy equipment for monitoringspeed on highways, amongother measures.

“Punjab Government iskeeping a specialised focus onthe aspect of carrying out radi-cal transformation in the roadsafety measures as per thechanging times which is theneed of the hour,” said the StateTransport Minister ArunaChaudhary while chairing ameeting of the Punjab StateRoad Safety Council on Tuesday.

She said ‘e-challaningmachines’ will soon be intro-

duced which would use theNational Informatics Centre(NIC) software and would alsobe connected to the internet.This would lead to minimisingthe probability of corruption atthe field staff level, she said.

The Minister said to tack-le the menace of drunken dri-ving which has been causing alarge number of road acci-dents, ‘breath alcohol analyzers’would be purchased and thesewould be independently con-nected with the e-challan appli-cation on the NIC server.

Listing out over-speedingas one of the gravest problems

leading to innumerable acci-dental deaths, Chaudhary elab-orated that the equipment forthe purpose of monitoring thespeed of vehicles, especially onsix-lane National Highways,would also be purchased.

The Minister also said theproposal to install speed mea-surement as well as the displayboards at appropriate loca-tions would be given thought-ful consideration.

Coming to the issue ofoverloading, she said that theautomated weigh in bridgeshaving connectivity with theNIC should be put up at the

important points to checkoverloading, especially nearsand or gravel quarries, and incase of any wrongdoing, theconsignee must also bebooked.

Chaudhary instructed thatthe highway patrol vehicles,police control room (PCR)vehicles must be fully equippedwith the latest paraphernaliaand all information with regardto the area where they aredeputed in order to help out thepeople in distress. Various otherissues discussed in the meetingincluded procurement of bodycameras and accidental cutters.

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“Given the public sentiment inPunjab, where the Congress has won allthe recent elections, including Gurdaspurand Shahkot, with record margins, theparty did not require any alliance for theparliamentary elections next year,” he said.

Pointing out that the Aam AadmiParty (AAP) had lost the people’s supportin Punjab completely, the Chief Ministerclarified that he had not, at any stage,mentioned that he was open to analliance between the Congress and theAAP in Punjab. The fact was that giventhe Congress sweep in the State in allrecent elections, beginning with lastyear’s Assembly polls, the party did notreally need any political coalition for nextyear’s parliamentary polls, he said. TheCM, however, reiterated that the finaldecision on pre-poll alliances rested withthe Congress high command, and its deci-

sion would be accepted and followed byall the State units, be it in Punjab or else-where.

“Alliances are the prerogative of thenational party, and they will take adecision at a suitable time,” he said,adding several factors, includingwinnability, are usually taken intoaccount by the party before going in foran alliance. As far as PPCC is concerned,it will share its views with the party highcommand as and when the latter seeks thesame, Amarinder said.

He said, “As in the past, the nationalleadership will take into account theground situation in every State and theopinion of the State unit before taking afinal decision on any alliance…

PPCC will also be internally dis-cussing the issue as and when required tobuild a consensus on the matter.”

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Chandigarh: Shiromani AkaliDal (SAD) on Tuesday askedPunjab Congress president SunilJakhar to desist from “bogusphoto-ops” to generate cheappublicity and tell Punjabis whythe Congress Government wasnot fulfilling its promise of ‘GharGhar Naukari’ and Rs 2,500 permonth employment allowance toall unemployed youth.

“It is shocking that SunilJakhar was resorting to photo-ops in front of the Parliament todemand jobs for youth insteadof forcing the Punjab govern-ment to fulfill the promisesmade to them,” said seniorSAD leader and MP Prem SinghChandumajra. He said, “PPCCpresident has become fond ofstage managing protests to shiftfocus from his failure to take thePunjab Government to taskand force it to deliver. He did

this on the issue of petrol anddiesel prices after failing to getthe Congress government toreduce taxes on the petro prod-ucts, which are the highest innorth India, by even one paisa.Now, he has again marched toDelhi with a ‘charkha’ todemand jobs not realising it ishis duty also to ensure jobs foryouth of Punjab.”

Chandumajra said in therun up to 2017 Assembly elec-tions, Gurdaspur MP Jakharraised the slogan of ‘Capt nesaunh chukki, har ghar naukaripakki”. “Now, after one and ahalf years, Punjab has only wit-nessed the family of a formerCongress Chief Minister BeantSingh being rewarded with a jobwith the former CM’s over agedgrandson being appointed as aDeputy Superintendent ofPolice (DSP),” he said.

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Centre on Tuesday categor-ically ruled out granting of

special category status toAndhra Pradesh but it assuredof providing more assistancewhich would be more thanwhat the State has beendemanding.

Assuring the Rajya Sabhathat all promises made to thepeople of the State would befulfilled, Home MinisterRajnath Singh said 90 per centof promises made under theAndhra Pradesh Re-organisa-tion Act, which had led to thebifurcation of Andhra Pradeshand Telangana in 2014, havealready been fulfilled.

“The remaining promiseswill also be kept,” he said whilereplying to a short-durationdiscussion in the Rajya Sabhaon the non-implementation ofprovisions of the 2014 Act.

The Home Minister’s state-ment came after former PrimeMinister Manmohan Singhsaid he had expected his suc-cessor Narendra Modi to fulfilthe UPA Government’s com-mitment on special categorystatus to Andhra Pradesh as itwas a promise made after con-sulting the BJP leaders at thattime.

The TDP and other oppo-sition parties also asked theCentre to honour its assurancesin letter and spirit by grantingspecial category status toAndhra Pradesh, even as the

BJP accused the ruling party ofthe state of “misleading” itsown people. Recently, the TDPquit the NDA coalition overthis issue.

“Whatever commitmentswhich have been given, notonly by our Prime Minister buteven the commitments madeby former Prime Minister DrManmohan Singh, ourGovernment will fulfill thosecommitments,” the HomeMinister said, adding that com-mitments made in Parliamentshould be kept and the Centreis doing it.

After his reply, Leader ofOpposition Ghulam Nabi Azadcategorically asked whetherthe Centre would be giving spe-cial category status to AP andsought a reply in “Yes or No”.To this, the Minister won-dered whether it was not clearfrom his reply.

“Why are you just stuck at

special category status. Whydon't you just move on? Theidea behind special categorystatus is that the state should getassistance. We are giving moreassistance than that,” Singhsaid.

“Both the states arebig...Promises made in the Actwill be fulfilled in letter andspirit,” Singh said, whilerequesting that this issueshould not be politicised.

Former PM ManmohanSingh said he had made a“solemn commitment” on thefloor of the House as primeminister of India on February20, 2014. The assurance on spe-cial category status to the “suc-cessor state” of Andhra Pradeshwas given after discussing theissue with Arun Jaitley, thenLeader of Opposition in theUpper House, and other seniorBJP leaders, Singh said.

“Commitments made onthe floor of the House are to behonoured and fulfilled. Theyare in the nature of an assur-ance on behalf of Parliament. Ihad expected my distinguishedsuccessor to fulfil the commit-ment I had made after consul-tation with his own colleagues,”the former Prime Ministersaid.

Initiating the debate, TDPleader YS Chowdary said the“hasty and unscientifically pre-pared and politically motivat-ed decision of the undividedAndhra Pradesh” had causedagony to the people of the State.

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The Congress on Tuesdaymoved gave notices for

breach of privilege againstPrime Minister Narendra Modiand Defence Minister NirmalaSitharaman in Lok Sabha for“misleading” the House on theRafale deal issue. The movecomes after the BJP gave anotice for moving a PrivilegeMotion against Congress chiefRahul Gandhi for misleadingthe house by making “false”allegations against Modi andSitharaman.

The notices were moved byLeader of the Congress in LokSabha Mallikarjun Kharge,Veerappa Moily, KV Thomas,Jyotiraditya Scindia and RajivSatav, AICC sources said. Thenotices were given over thestatements made by Modi andSitharaman in Lok Sabha dur-ing the debate on the no-con-fidence motion on July 20.

Congress also demanded aJPC probe into the deal duringthe debate on Prevention ofCorruption (amendment) Billin the Lok Sabha.

“The prime minister hasalong with the defence minis-ter deliberately mislead theHouse, it is, therefore, request-ed that this notice of breach ofprivilege be accepted andreferred to the privilege com-

mittee for further proceed-ings,” the notice against theprime minister says.

The prime minister in hisspeech endorsed the DefenceMinister’s claims, which con-tradicted the reply of hisMinister of State for Defence inLok Sabha on November 18,2016 and in Rajya Sabha onMarch 19, 2018, the notice says.

The Prime Minister’s claimof transparency in the 2008confidentiality agreement withFrance is factually incorrect,untrue, and deliberately madewith the intention to misleadthe House, according to the

notice. The Prime Ministerand his Cabinet, as per theConstitution, are collectivelyaccountable to Parliament andthrough it to the people of thecountry, it says. The Ministerhad knowingly and intention-ally misled Parliament by with-holding the information thatthe government is obliged toreveal to Parliament, the noticeagainst Sitharaman says.

Earlier on Monday a noticefor a privilege motion wasmoved against Rahul Gandhiby BJP MPs Nishikant Dubey,Anurag Thakur, DushyantSingh and Prahlad Joshi.

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The Supreme Court onTuesday set a tough condi-

tion for the TravancoreDevaswom Board to defend itsage-old practice of banningthe entry of menstruatingwomen at the Sabarimala tem-ple in Kerala. The five-judgeConstitution Bench hearingthe issue said that the Boardmust first prove that it is a reli-gious denomination and thatthis ban is intrinsic to theirbelief and part of custom prac-ticed over a period of time.Once this threshold is crossed,only then can the Board claimprotection of such a ban underthe scheme of the Constitution.

To add to the woes of theBoard, the Bench read out theBoard’s stand before the KeralaHigh Court in 1991 where theBoard stated that it allowedentry of all women for five daysin a month. “Does the deity dis-appear for these five days,”wondered the bench of ChiefJustice Dipak Misra, Justices RFNariman, AM Khanwilkar, DYChandrachud and InduMalhotra.

Appearing for the Board,senior advocate AbhiskekManu Singhvi conceded that

the Board has changed itsstand few times in the past butpointed out that it cannot befaulted on this ground alone aseven the Kerala Governmentdid a complete somersault bytaking a diametrically oppositestand of allowing woman ascompared to its earlier standsupporting the ban.

Stating that the changingstands of the Board was proofof the fact that the decision topermit women was taken bythe Tanthri and where he isunable to decide, reliance isplaced on astrology, the Benchwas critical of the decisionhaving anything to do withmaintaining purity of the deity

and the temple precincts. TheBench said, “The idea behindthe ban seems to be that whenwomen menstruate they getweak and they cannot under-take the arduous journey afterkeeping a 41-day fast.

This ban has nothing to dowith their purity.” The banoperates against women of 10-50 years.

Singhvi said that keepingfast is essential as it is intend-ed to purify both the mind andsoul. He maintained that excep-tions are sometimes made evento the observance of 41-dayfast. The Bench noted thatsuch exemptions are prevalentin all religions as its human ten-

dency to have shortcuts.Singhvi also pointed out prac-tices prevailing among otherreligions of the world wherediscriminatory practicesagainst women persist. He saidthat the court cannot rely on its“willy nilly notions” on suchsubjects as the antiquity of areligious belief or custom hasto be decided in a trial beforea court gives a finding afterexamining evidence, counter-evidence, and cross-examina-tion of witnesses.

The court noted that sev-eral affected women may notcome forward as they havebeen subjugated by men in thesociety over the years. On thatcount, Singhvi argued that sev-eral religious practices of otherreligions and sects withinHindu religion will fail as mostpractices are born out of malechauvinistic traditions. TheBench said, “God does notmake a cult or denomination.You have to show that you area denomination. People acrossthe country visit this temple.All Hindus also visit this tem-ple. This protection that youclaim can only be attached toa religious denomination.” Thehearing of the case will resumeon Wednesday.

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is not spared by monkey men-ace. Making this observationon Tuesday, Rajya SabhaChairman M Venkaiah Naiduurged the Government to finda solution after a MP drew theattention of the House to thematter.

Raising it during ZeroHour, Ram KumarKashyap(INLD) said monkeymenace was causing problemsfor citizens. Citing an instance,he said a MP was delayed for a

committee meeting as he wasattacked by a horde of mon-keys. They also uprooted plantsand carry away clothes dryingon the clothesline.

Naidu then quipped eventhe official residence of the VicePresident of India is facingmonkey menace.

“Hope Maneka Gandhi isnot there,” he remarked in alighter vein referring to animalrights activists and UnionMinister. The Chairman thenasked Minister of State forParliamentary Affairs VijayGoel to urge the government tofind some solution to thismenace.

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Parliament on Tuesdaypassed the Bill to amend the

1988 anti-corruption law byseeking to punish bribe-giversfor the first time along with thebribe takers, as the Lok Sabhagave its nod to it.

Moving the Prevention ofCorruption (Amendment) Billfor passage in the Lower House,Minister of State in the PrimeMinister's Office Jitendra Singhsaid its aim was to enhancetransparency and accountabil-ity of the government and alsoto make the provisions underthe law stringent. The measurereflects the Narendra Modigovernment's zero tolerancetowards corruption, he said.

Replying to the debatebefore the bill was passed by avoice vote, Singh said throughthis measure, it is also beingensured that honest officers arenot harassed. Not only takingbribe, but giving bribe wouldalso be a crime, he said. TheMinister said that now priorapproval for investigation willbe required in cases of all gov-ernment officers. Earlier, it

was restricted to officials abovethe rank of a Joint Secretary.

The bill, which got theRajya Sabha’s nod last weekwith 43 amendments, seeks toset a timeframe within whicha court would decide on cor-ruption issues, he said, addingthat verdicts in such cases hasto be given “ordinarily” in twoyears. He also said that immu-nity from arrest would be avail-able to all levels of officers, asagainst the existing provision ofjoint secretary and above.

The Minister said the billhad many provisions to ensurespeedy trial of corruption cases,besides providing protection tobureaucrats, even after theirretirement, from malicious

complaints. For the bribe tak-ers, the bill proposes to increasethe punishment to a mini-mum of three years of impris-onment, which may extend toseven years, besides fine.

Initiating the debate,Congress leader Adhir RanjanChowdhury said the opposi-tion will support the govern-ment if they fought corruptionin reality rather than makingclaims. “Under your rule, India,which was known as land ofsaints, has turned into land ofscamsters....Vijay Mallya, NiravModi and many others fled thecountry after defaulting onbanks’ money,” he said.

Countering his charges,the BJP MP Prahlad Joshi saidit was during the rule of UPAgovernment, the money wasgiven to all these businessmanwho have now fled.

Joshi attacked the Congresswith detailing the history fromJeep Scam to 2G Scam to Coalscam under the Congressregime. Joshi’s remarks onSonia Gandhi for the AgustaWestland scam created heatedargument for a brief time withCongress and BJP MPs.

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Wednesday to thrash out theissues related to Motor Vehicles(Amendment) Bill stuck up inthe Rajya Sabha. The Bill willagain be brought up onMonday despite being listed onTuesday.

A united Opposition onTuesday decided not to supportthe “anti-federal” motor vehi-cles Bill unless the changes pro-posed by it are incorporated init. According to a senior oppo-sition leader, the decision tooppose the Motor Vehicles(Amendment) Bill was taken ata co-ordination meeting of thenon-NDA parties.

The Opposition parties,including the Congress, hadopposed the proposed amend-ments to the Motor VehiclesAct in the Rajya Sabha onMonday, saying the changeswould help the corporates anddilute the powers of the stategovernments.

It was decided that the Bill

would not be allowed to pass inthe Rajya Sabha until the gov-ernment incorporated all theamendments listed by theopposition parties, the leadersaid, requesting anonymity.The bill, which has alreadybeen passed in the Lok Sabha,was tabled in the Rajya Sabhain April, 2017 and subse-quently, referred to a selectpanel. After taking the panel'srecommendations intoaccount, it was re-introduced inthe Upper House.

Minister of State forParliamentary Affairs VijayGoel said in the House thatthere were different amend-ments on the Motor Bill bymembers and Road Transportand Highways Minister NitinGadkari has agreed to talk tothem. TMC leader Derek OBrien said there are at least 10political parties on this andthere are six-seven amend-ments to this Bill.

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The Supreme Court onTuesday expressed dissat-

isfaction over the failure of aHigh Powered Committeeheaded by Prime Minister andcomprising of Chief Justice ofIndia and Speaker of Lok Sabhafor failing to give any timelineon the appointment of a SearchCommittee that is to shortlistnames for appointment ofLokpal.

Expecting that its earlier“optimism” over an early deci-sion in this regard will berespected at the next meeting,a bench of Justices RanjanGogoi, R Banumathi and NavinSinha directed the Centre tocome back with a better affi-davit in four weeks.

Attorney General KKVenugopal who appeared forCentre presented the Courtwith an affidavit summarisingon what proceeded in themeeting of the SelectionCommittee held on July 19. Hesaid that the meeting discussedthe Court order but could notfinalize names for the SearchCommittee.

Advocate PrashantBhushan, who appeared forNGO Common Cause, espous-ing the cause for setting up theoffice of Lokpal, urged theCourt that already four yearshave been spent by theGovernment without any con-crete step to appoint Lokpal. He

urged the Court to use itsextraordinary powers to makethe Government fall in line.

The Selection Committeecomprises of PM, CJI, LokSabha Speaker and eminentjurist Mukul Rohatgi. Sincethere is no Leader ofOpposition in Lok Sabha, theleader of the largest oppositionparty in Lok Sabha is invited tothe meeting as Special Invitee.The Congress Party has beenboycotting the meeting as thepanel does not recognize thevote of the largest OppositionParty in the Lokpal selectionprocess.

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Elders on Tuesday expressedconcern over incidents of

mob lynching with specificreference to a recent case ofalleged cow vigilantism inRajasthan and girls allegedlysubjected to sexual abuse inshelter home in Bihar. Otherissues to figure prominently inthe Rajya Sabha included plightof students who take loan frombanks and then unable to repayit, floods and drought in someparts of UP and Bihar and agi-tation in Manipur.

Raising the issue in theZero Hour of a man lynched onthe suspicion of cow smugglingin Alwar, the Rajya Sabha,Shanta Chhetri(TMC)alsodemanded a law to prevent vig-ilantism. Citing media reports,she also claimed 88 lives werelost in lynching incidents sincethe NDA Government came topower.

Noting that the SupremeCourt had last week asked fora law banning mob lynching,she sought a reply from thegovernment on the steps takento prevent such incidents.Chhetri also asked the gov-ernment to spell out actiontaken on framing the anti-lynching law. Several MPsfrom opposition parties backedher contention by raising theirhands to associate themselveswith it. Chairman M VenkaiahNaidu hoped the governmentwill take note of the issueraised as it was important.

Expressing anguish overthe alleged rape and murder ofa girl at a Government-fundedshelter home in Muzaffarpur,Bihar, Manoj Kumar Jha(RJD)said violence against womenwas a serious matter and theChair termed the incident seri-ous. Jha alleged the shelter wasbeing run by a person, whilethe contract was in the name ofanother person. Many othergirls in the shelter home werealso sexually abused, Jhaalleged.

On education loan stu-dents, members of arch-rivalsDMK and AIADMK cametogether. The issue was raisedby T Siva (DMK) as hedemanded that the interest onsuch loans should either bywaived off by the banks orborne by the government.

AIADMK members also asso-ciated themselves with theissue.

Rewati Raman Singh (SP)highlighted the problems facedby states like UP and Bihar dueto floods and drought. Heasked the government toexplain about lack of a perma-nent solution to deal withfloods and drought whichaffect various states almostevery year. CPI leader D Rajaraised the issue of the ongoingagitation by the students ofManipur University demand-ing removal of the ViceChancellor.

Among other issues, SanjaySingh (AAP) wanted the gov-ernment to hold talks with 86-year old G D Agarwal, who hasbeen on an indefinite fastdemanding cleaning of theGanga River. Kanimozmi(DMK) raised the issue ofkilling of 13 persons in policefiring while they were demand-ing closure of the SterliteCopper's smelter plant inTuticorin in Tamil Nadu. Shealleged normalcy has notreturned to the city and peoplecontinue to be harassed bymidnight searches by thepolice. Sambhaji Chhatrapati(Nominated) raised the issue ofreservation to Marathas, sayingthe government should holdconsultations with all stake-holders to defuse a situationtrying volatile. SatyanarayanJatiya (BJP)called for setting upmore storage facilities to pre-vent damage to food grain.

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Rajya Sabha Chairman MVenkaiah Naidu on

Tuesday set a “record” of sortsby presiding over the proceed-ings of the House for the wholeday. He conducted the ZeroHour and Question Hour inthe pre lunch session and thensat through the entire secondhalf from 2.00 pm till 6.00 pmwhen the house was adjournedfor the day. It was for the firsttime that the Chairman waspresent in the House through-out the day, Rajya SabhaSecretariat veterans later said.

Incidentally, the Zero Hourmanaged to have 25 mentionsby members of various partieswho raised issues pertaining topublic interest and Naiduthanked all the MPs for theirco-operation in smooth func-tioning.

The Question Hour saw anadjournment for about 30minutes after TMC membersrushed into the well when theywere not satisfied with FinanceMinister Piysuh Goyal's replyon information on blackmoney from Switzerland.

When the house met againafter lunch break at 2.00 pm,Naidu presided over a shortduration discussion on demandfor special category status forAndhra Pradesh.

In the afternoon session, hetook a very brief break forfreshening up.

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Could India be a ‘Hindu Pakistan’ ora ‘Hindu First’ nation after 2019?This is a futuristic debate political-ly well timed to trigger fear mon-gering ahead of the 2019 General

Election. I have often written that the forth-coming election will be motivated by fear morethan hope, as this prelude suggests, buildingup to a crescendo of what is expected to be oneof the most communally divisive and person-ally vitriolic campaigns in post-IndependentIndia. Let’s put both these labels of a ‘HinduPakistan’ or a ‘Hindu First’ nation down to justa play with words. Words, which politiciansplay with as dog-whistles for their con-stituents, and intellectuals use, but the man onthe street is oblivious of. Because overdoneclichés like ‘secularism’, ‘plurality’ and ‘inclu-sion’ are confined to television debates, full ofsound and fury, signifying little.

So here we go again with Congress’sShashi Tharoor igniting the flames of commu-nal apartheid in what could someday turn intoa self-fulfilling prophecy: “If the BJP is votedback to office, they would change theConstitution to make India a Hindu Pakistan.”And his conjecture is possibly right that onlya lack of two-thirds majority in Rajya Sabhaprevented the party from doing so. Thereafterensued a riveting Twitter-riot in the virtualworld, with Internet Hindu’s fantasising aHindu Rashtra with a ‘Why not?’ attitude.Spearheaded by die-hards, the hashtag trend-ed i#IamHindu, with sentiments like “I amHindu, my temples destroyed, history distort-ed, my Gods defamed, millions brutally killed.Don’t insult my faith. Don’t defame my Gods.”

What is missing in the Congress and thethus far ‘disunited Opposition front’ is their abil-ity to craft precision strikes at their bête noire,Prime Minister Narendra Modi, thereby skirt-ing real issues of voter concern and governancedeficits of the BJP. To challenge Modi throughmanufactured controversies like birthing afuture Hindu Pakistan, is handing over thepolitical narrative on a platter to the RSS andthe BJP as messiahs of the majority communi-ty. That only helps keep the communal caul-dron simmering, allowing religious polarisationto take precedence over economic well-being.In a flourishing economy and a fabled Land of

Plenty, when people flourish, they prioritiseabundance over conjured schisms.

The bottom line is that while Muslims con-stitute 14.2 per cent of the population, it is theHindus who comprise 78.8 per cent of the elec-torate, and who form the core vote-bank of theruling BJP. Clearly, Hindus will be Hindus atheart. And equally, Muslims will remainMuslims at heart, despite the BJP’s fighting forgender-justice for Muslim women, supportingreservations or implementing progressivesocial reform bills. Because, their historic biasagainst kafirs trumps any measures taken toliberate the community from regressive per-sonal laws. This tweet encapsulates myassumption: “Dear PM Modi, please don’t tryto win the support of #Muslim women. Wedon’t need you or your Sangh to rescue us.”

For the beleaguered community to dependonly on the Congress that has flip-flopped backto soft Hindutva to win back Hindu votes theylost since 1986 is a travesty of faith, and leavesthem politically orphaned. Even the SacharCommittee, constituted by former PrimeMinister Manmohan Singh way back in 2005,provided evidence of how Muslims fared poor-ly on all human development indicators, andcontinued to be excluded from mainstreamdevelopment indicators. The community haslong resented being treated as a pliant herdwhich traditionally voted as a monolith, and

subsequently looked for an alternative inregional parties instead of remaining loyal onlyto the Congress.

Coming to the Hindu mindset, unambigu-ously even the most liberal and secularamongst the majority community desires arestoration of cultural supremacy within hisown country. There may be little numerical evi-dence to back this feeling, but there seems tobe a greater acceptability than ever to the ideaof “What is so wrong with a Hindu Rashtra?”as the silence of the passive Hindu grows intoa collective clamour sensed in tweets, Facebookposts, and WhatsApp forwards.

While rebuilding the Ram mandir is asymbolic sentiment of setting right historicinjustices, revision of the constitution is a deepfelt desire of Hindus who regretted the deci-sion of our founding fathers in subjugating therights of the majority community, or placingthe rights of the minority on par with Hindus.While this discourse is unending, and not anew one, it has gained traction for three rea-sons: Hindus were emboldened after Modi’sascension; growing Islamophobia is a globalphenomenon; and the increasing insurgencyin Muslim-majority Kashmir. Echoes ofmajoritarian assertion are reflected across theglobe, with Israel’s Parliament just this weekadopting a law defining the country as thenation state of Jewish people, provoking fears

of discriminilisation against Arab citizens.Hindus resentful of being relegated to sec-

ond class citizens over 60 years of Congress rulefeel their time has finally come, and that thewill of the majority must eventually prevail,even if it means resorting to Constitutionalamendments as mooted by RSS ideologues.

If the BJP-RSS idea of a Hindu Rashtra isto replicate a “mirror image of Pakistan whereminorities are subordinated to the dominantreligion”, I stick my neck on the block that eventhe most fierce antagonist amongst Hindusopposed to Modi will remain loyal to the ideaof a ‘Hindus First’ nation. Because countriesthat are not theocratic states reject the idea ofinvaders, refugees or Islamic minorities domi-ciled in their host countries dictating govern-ment policies within their homeland in pref-erence to a ‘natives first’ policy.

To elucidate this a bit further, whenJinnah succeeded in partitioning India on thepremise that Indian Muslims cannot live insubjugation to the majority Hindu communi-ty, it was logical to assume an en mass migra-tion of the minority community to the newly-formed nation of Pakistan. “The massexchange of population was duly endorsed byindependence activists of that time, while those35 million Muslims voluntarily choosing toreside in India would do so with visas.”

It was Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi

and Rajiv Gandhi who, thereafter, pursued thepolicy of Muslim appeasement by offeringminorities reservations and legislating amisogynist law that went against the SC ver-dict in the Shah Bano case in 1986. That wasone of the biggest historic blunders ofCongress in catering to Islamic orthodoxy andthereby being labelled as a party which waspro- Muslim men only. Today, the reality is thateven moderate Hindus fear the Congress, theSamajwadi Party, the Bahujan Samaj Party, theRashtriya Janata Dal and the TrinamoolCongress precisely because they prioritise‘minorities first’ because they are the biggestbeneficiaries of their votes.

RSS ideologues believe, “We the people ofIndia can change what we gave ourselves in1950,” as so far there have been 101 amend-ments to the Constitution, some of them undervery questionable circumstances, as in the caseof the 42nd amendment Act of 1976, called a“mini-Constitution” or the “Constitution ofIndira”. So, what was man-made, man can cer-tainly change. The Constitution was amend-ed on grounds that it was responsive to the voxpopuli, the aspirations of the people, andreflected the realities of the contemporarytimes. “And those amendments could not bequestioned in any court, and further, that therecould be no limitation on Parliament’s powerto amend the Constitution ‘by way of addition,

variation, or repeal’.”A ‘Hindu First’ nation is an idea long over-

due, and whose time has emotionally arrived.This is no longer a ‘fringe fantasy’, but hasturned a mainstream aspiration today. Sensethe frenzied call to unify in the messaging ofrabid organisations like the Hindu JanajagrutiSamiti: “Oh Devout Hindus! Due to a ‘secu-lar’ democracy, the state of the society, nationand Dharma is on the decline. A Hindu Nationis the need of the hour as the only solution tothe problems of Hindus.”

However, politically the time for a ‘HinduFirst’ nation may just have lapsed and eludedIndia’s destiny, as 2019 is expected to throwup a fractured verdict, despite BJP returningas the single largest party. Modi achieved a his-toric mandate in 2014 because he promised todeliver economic prosperity.

The vital question 10 months before thenext General Election is this: Is the BJP’s corevoter willing to reaffirm his mandate for theBJP in the hope that Modi 2.0 will succeed inbringing India closer to becoming a Hindunation? A mature democracy must judge foritself and give more weightage to a party or apolitical formation which is better placed todeliver long-term economic progress andcorruption-free governance in preference toparochial issues.

(The writer is an author and columnist)

��Sir — This refers to the editorial,“Fight fake news” (July 23). Withgrowing concerns about fake news,perhaps it is time to look at the step-child of fake news — fake advertise-ments and specifically, gambling ads.

Recently, I sat down to watch thehighlights of my team’s win but thereplays kept getting interrupted by adsfor gambling venues and companies. Aswe all know, they mostly do it for spon-sorship and many from the audienceare interested in ‘backing’ their teamalthough a better form of support can

be in the purchase of team merchan-dise. My concern is with the portray-al of people involved in this gambling.It is obvious that these massive com-panies make their money from peoples’loses. In this context, one must realisethat he/she may lose most of the time.

These ads show young and attrac-tive people surrounded by ‘celebrities’and for some reason they always seemto film it when they have a win. Tell thetruth about betting. Don’t make itglamourous when it isn’t. Don’t implythat you’ll always win when you won’t.

Dennis FitzgeraldMelbourne

�� Sir — In India, the tyranny of lynch-ing is increasingly becoming regular,signifying a virtual collapse of the lawand order situation. A mob seeksrefuge in numbers which makes it easyfor even a small collective to get awaywith the horrific crime of lynching.

The recent spurt in hate crimescan be traced to that sense of immu-nity from the law. What’s equallyappalling is the civilised society’sindifference to a growing mob rule.Sadly, no one in the vicinity finds itworthwhile to intervene even when

lives are at stake. The perception of political impuni-

ty among cow protection vigilantes wasfurther strengthened when a UnionMinister felicitated convicted lynchers.Prodded by the Supreme Court, last toenact a special law to deal with mobviolence and lynching, the UnionHome Ministry has announced the set-ting up of two high-level committeesto suggest ways and legal frameworkto effectively deal with incidents ofmob violence and lynching. Hopefully,this send a strong message.

Padmini RaghaevndraSecuderabad

� �� Sir — The reason for widespreadlynching incidents is due to a lack ofsocial coherence. It is also the end resultof the politics of intolerance most of ourpolitical parties subscribe to. It is notthe sense of fear that is to be instilledin people to stop crimes, but a sense ofrespect and fellow feeling towards therest of mankind.

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Stop jumping with joy each time a crimehappens, Rahul. You divide society for

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India is a vast country consist-ing of 29 States and sevenUnion Territories. An esti-mated population of 1.3 bil-lion people constitutes almost

18 per cent of the world’s popula-tion, occupying nearly 2.4 per centof the world’s total land surface area.An immensely diverse countrywhere each State and region is amini cosmos in itself, cooperativefederalism seems to be the key tothe development of New Indiaunder a politically stable leadershipat the Centre. In order to achieveinclusive growth with social justice,all States need to work in conso-nance and also think alike.

Recently, a no-confidencemotion against the UnionGovernment was moved by theTelugu Desam Party (TDP) in theLok Sabha over its unhapiness atAndhra Pradesh not being grantedSpecial Category status. This inci-dent reinstated a debate on the needfor a uniform development of Indiain a non-partisan manner. With the2019 Lok Sabha election on the hori-zon, political parties are already feel-ing the pressure to fasten their seatbelts and prep up to face the poll ina rather democratically fluid envi-ronment. This further gets accentu-ated by the consolidation of region-al parties under the umbrella of aloosely held, fragile and informalmahagathbandhan.

At this point in time, one canonly speculate and try to analyse thegeneral impression and politicalperception prevailing all around.Only time will tell whether thecoming together of regional partiesto form a Government at theCentre under the elected leaderfrom the constituents of the maha-gathbandhan, can provide effectiveleadership to a complex and cultur-ally prolific country like India.

Though the perception infusedin the mind is steered towards a big“no”, the backdrop of this sentimentis the victory of the Janata Party(amalgam of the various politicalparties like Congress (O), BharatiyaJana Sangh and Bharatiya Lok Dal)in 1977. The party had a landslide

victory against the Emergencyimposed by the then CongressGovernment. It signalled the powerof the regional parties against themonolithic power of a nationalparty like the Congress and inject-ed a new political paradigm in thedemocratic character of India.

Unfortunately, the Janata Partydeveloped an intense internal, ide-ological and a political conflict lateron and experienced instability in theGovernment with Prime MinisterMorarji Desai resigning in mid-1979and his successor ChaudharyCharan Singh failing to sustain a par-liamentary majority later on.

This tumultuous political trajec-tory led to the premature dissolutionof Parliament in 1980. Indian poli-ty henceforth remained largely dri-ven by coalition Governments underthe National Democratic Alliance(NDA) and United ProgressiveAlliance (UPA). Needless to say,these new political formations hada number of regional parties play-ing significant roles in survival andfailure of the Governments.

The emergence of regional par-ties as major centres of power inIndia’s political, economic and socialstructure had been one of the mostimportant developments in thecountry’s post-Independent history.Now, as the 2019 General Electionnears, regional parties seem all setto play a pivotal role in influencingthe formation of the next UnionGovernment.

It is even (remotely) possiblethat India’s next General Electionwill produce a “third front” (anti-BJPgrand alliance) Government head-ed by the leader of a regional party.Question arises whether regionalparties can actually offer a compe-tent leadership at the Centre.Sceptics are of the view that theseparties at the State level or even amahagathbandhan lack the charis-ma and a competent leadership totake on the formidable strongholdof Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Contrary to this non-conformistapproach, there is a need to analysethe probable faces of the politicalleadership of these regional partiesin the context of equitable inclusivegrowth of federal india. Irrespectiveof political leanings, it is withoutdoubt that today we need a power-ful leadership at the Centre whilelooking at the geo-political, socialand economic challenges beforeIndia. The critical question here is:Who are these regional political

leaders of our country that we canbank on? How does one spot themamong the opportunists and syco-phants who plague the Indian pol-itics? The litmus test is that theseleaders should have been exposedto pan-India complexities in theirpolitical career.

Here, Prime Minister NarendraModi is an exception, who althoughremaining confined largely to thepolitical and administrative exposurein the State of Gujarat, offeredtremendous pan-India leadership.He achieved unprecedented interna-tional recognition with his larger-than-life image. Modi has evenbeen ranked among the 10 mostinfluential people in the world byForbes.

But do we have a parallel or abetter alternative leadership emanat-ing from the regional parties today?Certainly, political arithmetics andstrategies can determine the leader-ship if an anti-BJP alliance comesinto power in 2019. Who are theseleaders? In the past, we have seenChandrababu Naidu (son-in-law oflate NT Rama Rao) emerging in thesouth. Naidu chaired the National ITpanel under the NDA Governmentand was hailed as one of the “HiddenSeven” working wonders around theworld by Profit (Oracle Corporation’smonthly magazine).

Naveen Patnaik (son of lateBiju Patnaik), the current Chief

Ministers of Odisha and supremo ofBiju Janata Dal (BJD) held the posi-tion of Union Minister of Mines inthe Cabinet of NDA Governmentunder then Prime Minister AtalBihari Vajpayee. He has been theChief Minister for three consecutiveterms and comes from an illustriouspolitical family with good education-al background.

Other names that resonate in themind as State level leaders includeNitish Kumar, leader of Janata Dal(United) (JD(U)) and Chief Ministerof Bihar since 2017 and MamataBanerjee, leader and founder of AllIndia Trinamool Congress (AITMC)and presently the West Bengal ChiefMinister. Nitish Kumar served as theBihar Chief Minister from 2005 to2014 and 2015 to 2017. He was alsothe Union Minister for Railways,Minister for Surface Transport andMinister of agriculture in the NDAGovernment of Vajpayee. He wasadmired for the reforms in Railwaysand is considered to be a competentpolitician.

Mamata Banerjee, the firstwoman Chief Minister of WestBengal, is one of the exceptionalpoliticians in the country who is self-made. She hails from a lower mid-dle-class family and is well-knownfor maintaining a consistently aus-tere lifestyle. She clearly stands on apedestal with her determined andfearless leadership style. High on sec-

ular credentials and a scholar ofIslamic studies, Mamata is instru-mental in the consolidation of theOpposition parties. She served as thefirst female Union Minister ofRailways, Minister of Coal, Ministerof State for HRD, Youth Affairs,Sports, Women and ChildDevelopment in the CentralGovernment.

Mamata, also known as Didi,pulled off a landslide victory, defeat-ing the 34-year-old CommunistParty of India (Marxist) (CPI(Marxist)) led by the Left front. In2012, Time magazine branded her asone of the 100 most influential per-sons in the world. She is dynamicwith proven administrative andpolitical mettle, and resilience towithstand tough times.

Similarly, there are many otherleaders in various States with a Pan-India experience. However, if thereis an emergence of new leadershippost 2019 parliamentary election,Mamata Banerjee seems to be thebest option to lead the nationtowards a positive change. AkhileshYadav, though extremely competentand popular, is not being consideredhere, as comparatively, he has lessexposure than the aforementionedpoliticians. Also, since the discussionis restricted to the regional parties,Congress president Rahul Gandhi isalso not an alternative option.

The country today needs to shiftits focus on a competent leadershipto match the robust captaincy ofNarendra Modi if the NDA is notable to again form the Governmentin 2019 (though chances are remoteas there seems a very high possibil-ity of a second term for the ModiGovernment).

The issue is who can bring aboutinclusive economic, social and polit-ical growth of today’s vision of NewIndia. We need to revisit our percep-tion that regional leadership cannotlead the country effectively. In thepast also, we have seen PrimeMinisters from small parties incomparison to the large national par-ties like the Congress and the BJP.The election of HD Deve Gowda(United Front) and ChaudharyCharan Singh (Janata Dal) are someof the examples that prove thepoint. The biggest challenge is tochoose a leader who can steer Indiato become a mature and transpar-ent democracy based on sustainablepolitical governance.

(The writer is a commentator,Bollywood actor and singer)

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Access to healthcare is a fundamen-tal right guaranteed by theConstitution of India. The

Government must, therefore, take steps toprotect and promote access to qualityhealthcare. The Prime Minister has timeand again reiterated that public interest willbe served by capping prices of medicinesand certain medical devices. The logic was:If medicines and medical devices are avail-able at low prices, they will be affordablefor the masses and, therefore, increaseaccess to quality healthcare. The underly-ing assumption in this logic was that sincethe industry is making excessive profits,there would be no harm if the Governmentmoved ‘a part of the industry’s cheese’.

To be fair to the Government, the costof medicines and medical devices is anobstacle to ensure access to them. Someestimates suggest that the cost of healthcarecan sometimes go up to 40 per cent of afamily’s income. This estimate is significantas roughly 30 per cent of the Indian pop-ulation lives below the poverty line.

These estimates have two shortcomings.First, a big chunk of the cost of healthcareincludes costs paid to the medical practi-tioner and the healthcare service providerie the hospital. Second, the reason whyhealthcare in India is so expensive for thepoor man’s pocket is because theGovernment does not want to foot the billitself. India till date does not have aGovernment health programme that canensure free healthcare to its citizens. SriLanka, on the other hand, has been offer-ing free healthcare in the public sector toall its citizens since its Independence.

Having said that, one must not turn ablind eye to the reality. It is undeniable thatlowering the cost of drugs would improveaccess to affordable healthcare. In fact, eventhe industry is open for non-arbitrary andfair price regulation in accordance with theguidance enshrined in the IndianConstitution. However, in a patient-centricdiscussion, it is easy to ignore the fact thatthe Constitution also protects the rights ofthe industry to carry on its business with-out undue interference.

Let us, therefore, see whether the pricecontrol regime in its present form has doneany good and whether any lessons can belearnt from it. The Government todayimposes two types of controls on the

prices of medicines and medical devicesdepending on whether the product has beenidentified as ‘essential’ or non-essential’.Under the ‘essential category’, theGovernment fixes price based on an aver-age of the maximum retail price of thatproduct sold in the market under differentbrands by various manufacturers. Prices,once fixed cannot be increased except inaccordance with annual inflation or, inexceptional cases, on merit. Under ‘non-essential category’, the Government hascapped the percentage by which prices canbe increased year after year. At present, thepercentage cap is 10 per cent.

One need not look too far to determinewhether price controls improve access tohealthcare. Government data indicatesthat the price control regime has been moreof a failure than a success in improvingaccess to medicine. The NationalPharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA),which is tasked with the administration ofthe price control regime, studied the costof syringes, cannula and catheters after reg-ulating its price and found that “the majorbeneficiaries of profits” in these cases havebeen “hospitals rather than drugs anddevice manufacturers”.

NPPA found that “the charge on con-sumables is one-tenth of the total bills andmore than two times the expenditure onscheduled (essential) drugs”. The cost ofconsumables is not regulated presently bythe Government. However, the differencein the cost of consumables, which are unreg-

ulated, and essential drugs, which are reg-ulated, is alarming. It is high time that theGovernment appreciates that medicines andmedical devices form a part of healthcare,not healthcare itself.

One may think that the simple solu-tion to this problem is further price reg-ulation by regulating the price of the hos-pitals ie healthcare providers. This hasbeen attempted several times before andhas been unsuccessful always, most recent-ly in Karnataka.

One needs to appreciate that health isa state subject as per the Constitution ofIndia, and unlike medicines, falls under theexclusive legislative domain of the States.Therefore, to regulate the price of servicesgiven by healthcare providers, all IndianStates will have to pass their own legislation.In case of Karnataka, such a proposal wasmet with widespread protest and shutdownsby doctors and hospitals and had to berolled back. Similarly, in West Bengal, a sim-ilar proposal has not made any progress formore than a year. In the opinion of the writ-ers, the need of the hour is sensible self-reg-ulation by the industry as well as the ratio-nalisation of trade margins and not heavy-handed price regulation by the Government.

When the NPPA recently warned themanufacturers of syringes and needles aboutexcessive profits being made by its distrib-ution channel, the concerned manufactur-ers acted earnestly and voluntarily decidedto put a cap on the trade margins given toits distribution channel. On the other hand,when NPPA decided to fix price of the coro-nary stent in a heavy-handed manner by rely-ing on grounds such as public interest andextraordinary circumstances, the commonman lost out on high quality and advancedstents because the manufacturers andimporters of these stents found it econom-ically unviable to operate within pricesfixed by the Government.

Withdrawals due to heavy price regula-tion would ultimately cost patients access tohigh-quality products and treatment options.Interestingly, it is reported that NPPA maysoon take away the discretion of non-essen-tial medicine and medical device manufac-turers to increase product prices. Whethersuch a move will improve or harm access tohealthcare, only time will tell.

(The writers are pharma and healthcare professionals)

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Modi v Whom? Debate is onOnly time will tell whether regional parties coming together and forming the Government at the Centre can

provide effective leadership to India. Right now, one can only speculate on prevailing public perception

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HD Kumaraswamy said con-testing for Lok Sabha elec-tions along with their allyCongress will depend on howthe century-old party will treatthem. But he, however, said thepre-poll alliance with theCongress is still on the agenda.Kumaraswamy told thereporters in Bengaluru onTuesday that contesting togeth-er will depend on howCongress treats them.

“That is our agenda, it isthere. Let us see. Congress, howthey are going to treat JD(S),”Kumaraswamy told reportersin response to a question aboutpre-poll alliance with theCongress with which it is run-ning a coalition Government inthe State.

Asked about the “maha-gathbandhan (grand alliance),”he said “it will continue.”The Congress and JD(S), whichformed a coalitionGovernment after the May 12Assembly polls threw up ahung verdict, had announcedduring the power sharing pactthat they would fight the LokSabha polls together.

Kumaraswamy who is alsothe JD(S) State president hasmade this statement whichlooks vague but a clever polit-

ical assertion looking at theovertures of the Congresswhich started its unity move todefeat Prime MinisterNarendra Modi and the BJP.

The Chief Minister’s com-ments gain significance at atime when reports suggest thatthere is growing Oppositionwithin the Congress to thepre-poll alliance with JD(S) forLok Sabha polls.

Kumaraswamy’s swearing-in as Chief Minister on May 23was attended by a galaxy of topleaders and regional satraps ina rare public show of unity per-ceived as a possible harbingerof a broad-based anti-BJPalliance ahead of the Lok Sabhapolls.

According to JD(S) leaders,the seat sharing with the

Congress for the 2019 LokSabha polls, especially in theold Mysuru region, is seen as atest for the coalition as bothparties are considered archrivals in the region, where theyhad bitterly fought against eachother during the assemblypolls. JD(S) fought vigourslyagainst the Congress in manyplaces and any understandingwould certainly suicidal forthe Congress say many insid-ers of the party. Many Congressleaders who are opposed toKumaraswamy have warnedagainst going with the JD(S).

In another development,the Karnataka Governmentsaid there would be certainrestrictions on the entry of vis-itors, including the media, tothe Vidhana Soudha, the seat of

State legislature and secretari-at here. Chief Minister HDKumaraswamy cited policeinputs regarding security, asalso increase in the number ofpeople visiting it everydaybesides complaints aboutinconvenience caused toMinisters and officials to carryout their work as reasons forthe move. “Some brokersare found moving around thecorridors of Vidhana Soudhaand they have been captured byCCTV also.

“I have asked officials to bealert about those who areinvolved in brokering and aremisleading people. To avoidany unlawful activities, we havesaid there should be certainrestrictions,” he told reporters.To a question about reports on media’s entry to the VidhanaSoudha being barred, he saidthere were no instructions tonot allow the media inside, but

there would be separate enclo-sure or a room provided forthis.

“When you (media) needany information, officials orMinisters will come there andgive you information...if youcome with mikes everywhereindividually and start askingquestions just like that...itshould not happen, thereshould not be any inconve-nience,” he said.

Pointing out that mediapersons come to Ministers,including him, individuallywith mikes to gather informa-tion, Kumaraswamy said“When you come to us inVidhana Soudha, we may be inmeetings or in some othermood, suddenly if you comewith mikes, what to tellyou...we may not have infor-mation.”

With this intention, a sep-arate facility would be provid-ed inside Vidhana Soudha for“media friends” to carry outtheir work, he said, addingthere are also complaints of onlya certain section of the mediagetting access to information.

“To avoid all this, I haveinstructed that there should bea separate enclosure for themedia with all facilities, sothat the media can callwhomever they want there andget information there,” headded.

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Register of Citizens (NRC)coming closer, the AssamGovernment has drawn up anelaborate plan to ensure peaceis not disturbed at any cost andthat the law and order is main-tained across the State.

The historical documentwhich is being updated underthe monitoring of the SupremeCourt is scheduled to be pub-lished on July 30 this year. Thebasic intent behind updation ofthe NRC is to identify the ille-gal foreigners living in theState.

Assam Chief MinisterSarbananda Sonowal onTuesday said that the StateGovernment is duty bound toprovide safety and security toall sections of the people of theState. “The State Governmentwould provide safety and secu-rity to all Indians living inAssam. No one should be wor-ried about the after-effects ofNRC publication as adequatemeasures have already beentaken to bring all Indian citi-zens within the ambit of secu-rity of the State,” Sonowal said.

In Guwahati also, DeputyCommissioner Birendra Mittal

and Guwahati PoliceCommissioner Hiren ChandraNath held series of meetingswith the people in general anddiscussed with them the issueof NRC updation. “We havebeen meeting the people in dif-ferent parts of the city trying toalley fears. There is rumourbeing spread over the NRCupdation.

However, there is nothingto worry about and there willbe opportunity given to every-one if their names do not fig-ure in the NRC,” said Mittalwhile interacting with themedia on Tuesday.

“There is a section ofmiscreants who are spreadingthe rumour against the NRCupdation process. However,we are taking all measures toensure that there is no law andorder problem anywhere afterpublication of the NRC,” said

Guwahati PoliceCommissioner, Hiren ChandraNath.

It may be mentioned herethat the Assam police havealready sought over 150 com-panies of central para militaryforce from the CentralGovernment to assist the Statepolice in the run up to July 30.While some of the companieshave already arrived, some arebeing sent.

On Sunday, Union HomeMinister Rajnath Singh saidthat the historical document tobe published on July 30 is onlya draft and that there will beadequate opportunity for dis-posal of claims and objectionsfor those whose names doesnot figure in the document.

Saying that the NRC exer-cise is being carried out in atotally impartial, transparentand meticulous manner, theHome Minister made it clearthat after draft publication,adequate opportunity forclaims and objections will beavailable.

All claims and objectionswill be duly examined.Adequate opportunity of beingheard will be given before dis-posal of claims and objections.Only thereafter, final NRC willbe published.

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ing number of lynching casesacross the country, BengalChief Minister MamataBanerjee has wondered why thesaffron leadership was onlysticking to ritualistic condem-nation and not taking exem-plary action instead, “so thatthe situation can be arrestedfrom deteriorating further.”

Referring to Union HomeMinister Rajnath Singh’s con-demnation of lynching cases inParliament Banerjee, saidinstead of condemning theseincidents why they are nottrying to control their leaders”down the line, reminding “afterall charity begins at home.”

India is passing through aserious phase, she saiddemanding “strict action”against the perpetrators of thecrimes. “It is a serious phase weare passing through and thereis a need for strict actionagainst those who are involvedin such cases if we really wantto control the situation,”Banerjee said referring to thelynching of Rakbar Khan a res-ident of Alwar in Rajasthan afew days ago. She was speakingto journalists at State adminis-trative headquarters atNabanna.

In a circuitous reference tothe failure of the BJP-ledRajasthan Government to con-

trol such cases, Banerjeereminded that law and orderwas a State subject and it wason the State Governments totake the lead in handling suchcases.

Condemning the “hatecampaign” responsible for therising number of lynching casesBanerjee said, “hate campaignsshould be stopped immediately.” Rumor-monger-ing through social media plat-forms should be stopped inorder to stop lynching shemaintained.

Meanwhile, in a relateddevelopment four women wereallegedly mobbed and beatenup on suspicion of being child-lifter by villagers at Dawkimarivillage in Dhupguri block ofJalpaiguri district in NorthBengal.

The incident took place onMonday noon. One of thewomen had come to visit acooperative bank while anoth-er was looking for her relativessources said adding the four-some were in the age group of25-50 years.

This was the fourth suchincident in Jalpaiguri district

and second in Dhupguri.District Superintendent ofPolice A Maity said that vil-lagers beat the women up onsuspicion of being child-lifter.Two of the victims were alsostripped sources added.

Earlier this month, sever-al people were injured at theKranti area of Mal block in thedistrict in stone-pelting fol-lowing rumours that child-lifters were roaming in thearea. “We are creating aware-ness on this through the socialmedia and public media likeannouncements over mikes.People should contact thepolice on the helpline if theyfind someone suspicious, butnot take law into their own hands,” the senior officer added.

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exploitation of the girls housedin the Government aided BalikaGrih (girls shelter home) run byan NGO at Muzaffarpur hasbeen proved and said the shel-ter home has been closed downand all girls shifted. Making astatement in both the Houses ofBihar legislature on Tuesday, theGovt announced that most ofthe accused persons have beenarrested and strict measureswere being taken so that nosuch incidents take place in thefuture.

Parliamentary AffairsMinister Shrawan Kumar madethe suo motto statement in theAssembly and Council whereOpposition members were notpresent. Hours before theGovernment statement,Director General of Police KSDwivedi told media personsthat there was no need for rec-

ommending CBI probe as hewas satisfied with the course ofinvestigation.

The Government statementon the issue of the sexualexploitation of the girl inmatesat Muzaffarpur care home cameafter the Opposition raked upthe matter in the first half andaccused the Nitish KumarGovernment of protecting theaccused persons.

The couple of MPs fromBihar Rajesh Ranjan aka PappuYadav (Ind) and Ranjit Ranjan(Congress) apart fromJayaprakash Yadav (RJD) raisedthis matter in the Lok Sabha ontwo consecutive days anddemanded CBI probe whichelicited the response of HomeMinister Rajnath Singh whosaid the Centre was ready forprobe if the recommendationcomes from Bihar Government.

Minister Shrawan Kumarsaid medical test of 42 of 44inmates— two are sick— wasconducted and medical reportof 13 girls said “sexual inter-course might have been com-mitted” and about 16 other

girls, it reported that “possibil-ity of sexual contact cannot beruled out.”

Not only that, two of thegirls also made a sensationalrevelation that one girl wasmurdered and buried in thecampus of the shelter home.

The Minister said after thepermission from the court theplace was dug up but no bod-ies or remains were founddespite using sniffer dog.

However, the soil has beensent to forensic laboratory tocheck if any body was buriedthere.

The Minister said therewas also report of the disap-pearance of three girls from theshelter home only a month aftertheir arrival in November 2013.This shelter home was approvedby the Government in October2013. The police was investi-gating into this incident also,Kumar added. He said someofficials of the social welfaredepartment have already beensuspended and departmentalproceeding started againstthem.

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The Central Bureau ofInvestigation and

Enforcement Directorate com-ing out of their alleged hiber-nation launched on Tuesdayfresh spells of investigations intothe multi-crore ponzi fundcases issuing summons to thefirst investigating officer whoprobed the Sharada chit fundcase way back in 2013.

Debarata Bandopadhyay,who was the first IO in theSharada case, has been asked toreport at the CGO complex atSalt Lake, CBI sources saidadding he had been summonedtwice earlier but failed to showup citing various excuses.

The IO is likely to be askedquestions on how the investi-gations proceeded in the initialdays and where the certainseized items that the centralagency was looking for were.

According to sources, theCBI had already brought to thenotice of the Supreme Courtthe alleged non-cooperation bycertain senior IPS officers whowere earlier in charge of thecase.

“The CBI is looking for ared diary, some electronic dataand some vital other evidenceswhich are with the State police,”sources said adding despiterepeated reminders the StatePolice was not sharing theinformation it had in theSharada case. Apart from thesummons issued by the CBI theEnforcement Directorate alsoconducted simultaneous raidsat six specific locations inKolkata and Howrah.

Sources said a team of 40-45 ED officials raided premis-es owned by the Rose Valleyanother ponzi companyallegedly involved in a �28,000crore scam.

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Eying the Prime Minister’schair in case of a hung Par-

liament, Mayawati streamlinedthe cadre to expand the party’sbase in the coming Assemblyelections in Chattisgarh,Madhya Pradesh andRajasthan.

The BSP chief held a meet-ing with senior BSP leaders andpositioned her loyalists on allkey posts in the above States toensure electoral success.

Interestingly, the BSPbesides preparing to contest onall seats, was also talking withthe Congress and other small-er parties for an alliance.However, the Congress doesnot seem to be interested inaligning with the BSP inRajasthan but was ready fornegotiations in the other two

States. Chalking out a strategyto expand the party’s base inother states, Mayawati removedBSP co-ordinator looking afterpoll-bound Madhya Pradesh.Madhya Pradesh in-charge andMLC Atar Singh Rao wasreplaced by Rajya Sabha MP,Dr Ashok Siddharth.

Mayawati has alreadyasked one of her loyalists andBSP national general secretaryRam Achal Rajbhar to keep aclose tab on developments inMadhya Pradesh.

Meanwhile, Dr Siddharthwho was so far looking afterKarnatka (which recently wentto polls and the BSP opened itsaccount) and other southernStates, besides MP andKarnatka, he will also lookafter party affairs in Maharastraand Andman and Nicobar.Atar Singh Rao, who was

removed from MP, will nowlook after party affairs inHaryana and Punjab andworkd as co-ordinator of bothStates.

Recently removed BSPnational general secretary VeerSingh was replaced byMayawati’s close lieutenantRamji Lal Gautam and hewould now co-ordinate theworking in some southernState including Telangana,Kerala, Tamil Nadu andAndhra Pradesh. Rajya Sabhamember Munkad Ali, who tillnow was looking after somezones of UP, has been entrust-ed the responsibility of partyaffairs in Rajasthan.

Similarly, former Ministerand Mayawati confidante LaljiVerma was also given theresponsibility of strengthen-ing the party in Chattisgarh.

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Tamil Nadu got a new Jayain place of the departed for-

mer Chief Minister Jaya. ChiefMinister EdappadyPalaniswamy created a sensa-tion on Tuesday by naming asix-month-old female lion cubas Jaya, as a tribute to his men-tor and icon late J Jayalalithaa.

In a special ceremony heldon Tuesday at Arignar AnnaZoological Park, popularlyknown as Vandalur Zoo, theChief Minister named the cubin a true Tamil style. Hedeclared the name of the cub asJaya three times andannounced that she would beknown in future as Jaya. Itresembled the naming cere-mony of a new born childexcept the fact that the ChiefMinister and officials stayed ata safe distance of five feet fromthe caged lion cub.

“She is shy to come out ofthe cage,” said a senior officialof the zoo. Jaya, the cub wasborn on January 27, 2018 andthe zoo officials were waitingfor the convenience of the CMto make it to the sprawling zoo-logical park for the naming cer-emony. An eighteen month oldlion cub was also named by theCM as Vishnu. He was born tolioness Nila and lion Siva, bothdear to former Chief MinisterJayalalithaa. After the func-tion, the lion cub and all otheranimals were treated withsumptuous meal of fresh beef.

The official spokesman ofthe AAZP told The Pioneer thatthis was the only zoo in the

country where wild animals aregiven names. “This has foundto be helpful while feeding theanimals and also during attend-ing to their medical require-ments. All these animalsrespond to the handlers whenthey call them by their names,”he said.

The spokesman remem-bered with mixed feelings thelove and affection late ChiefMinister J Jayalalithaa had forwild animals. “She used to bea frequent visitor to the zoo,unannounced and sans anypublicity. She used to inquireabout the health and welfare ofall animals, particularly thelions and tigers,” he saidreminding the naming cere-mony of half-a-dozen RoyalBengal Tiger cubs presidedover by her.

The wild ass of AAZP hasbeen named Angel and she hasbeen true to her names till now,said the spokesman. He alsodisclosed that the zoo has ananimal adoption programme inwhich sponsors could adopt theanimals. “The rates vary fromanimals to animals. We have ascheme in which a tiger or lioncould be adopted at the rate of�650 to �1,000 per day. Thesponsorship could be of sixmonths to one year and couldbe extended based on mutual-ly acceptable terms,” said thespokesman.

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Leaving no room for a pos-sible reconciliation with his

party’s senior ally ahead of the2019 Lok Sabha polls, ShivSena president UddhavThackeray on Tuesday spewedmore venom at the BJP, sayingthat “the 2014 poll mandatewas not a mistake on the partof the people but a fraud com-mitted on the voters of thecountry”.

Within days after BJP’snational president Amit Shahexhorted his party workers toprepare themselves to go italone in the 2019 Lok Sabhaand Assembly polls in theState, Thackeray revealed thathis party decided to sharepower with the BJP in theState out of sheer helplessnessand expressed confidence thathis party would come to powerin future on its own strength.

In the second installmentof a three-part interview pub-lished in the Sena’s official

mouth-piece “Saamana”,Thackeray questioned the very2014 Lok Sabha poll mandate,when he said he did not agreethat it was a mistake on the partof the people to have voted BJPto power, but it was a “fraud”on the people in the country.

Asked if the 2014 mandatewas a “mistake”, Thackeraysaid: “No. I do not think so. Itwas in fact a fraud on the peo-ple..... We would have been leftshouting on the road, had wenot shared power with the BJP.Because, the BJP went ontocapture power in State afterState by poaching elected rep-resentatives from other partiesand it would have formed aGovernment in our State on itsown as well by poaching intoparties like the Congress andNCP. I decided to give someexperience to our people inadministration to my people(by joining the Government)”.

Indirectly accusing the BJPof making excessive use ofmoney to win elections and

capture power, Thackeray said:“If we had known, we wouldhave also amassed so much ofmoney. We would like to askthese people as to from wherethey get so much of money (tospend on elections). My fatherand the late Sena chief disap-proved this kind of democra-cy... Hence the democracy thatis bought through money is notdemocracy (lokshahi) but it isthailishahi (democracy ofmoney bags)”.

Reiterating his oppositionto the use of Electronic VotingMachines (EVMs) in polls,Thackeray said: “There is con-tinued suspicion about EVMs.Can the EVMs be managed?Whether EVMs can be man-aged or not, but I had spokenabout it during the recent grad-uates’ election. In that election,ballot papers were used. In theelections held using ballotpapers, we would know atsome stage later that which waya particular vote went. But inan EVM, once the button ispressed, light gets ignited. But,we would not get to know towhom vote got registered.”

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The fire ignited by therevived Maratha reserva-

tion agitation threatened toengulf entire Maharashtra onTuesday, as four more activistsattempted suicide, a police-man died of heart attack dur-ing a bandobast duty, protest-ers either damaged or torcheda dozen vehicles and resortedto road blockades across theState during a day-long bandhcalled by the agitatingMarathas.

A day after 27-year-oldyouth Kakasaheb DattareyaShinde jumped from a bridgeinto Godavari river nearAurangabad as part of a “JalSamadhi” (watery grave) agi-tation undertaken to press forMaratha reservations, thebandh called by Maratha com-munity members turned vio-lent in several parts of the State,a development that put theDevendra FadnavisGovernment on the defensive.

Tuesday’s bandh was restricted to areas outsidethe Mumbai Metropolitan

Region (MMR). With the Maratha Kranti

Morcha (MKM) having calleda similar shutdown in Mumbai,neighbouring Thane, Palgharand Raigad districts onWednesday, the MaharashtraGovernment will have anoth-er trying day.

Talking to media personsafter MKM’s coordinationcommittee meeting, its con-venor for Mumbai VirendraPawar said: “Mumbai, Thane,Navi Mumbai, Palghar andRaigad will observe bandhtomorrow. Tomorrow, schoolsand colleges will remain open.Milk distribution and essentialservices have been exemptedfrom the bandh. I appeal agi-tators to take precautions toensure against any untowardincident during tomorrow’sbandh”.

In a day of multiple devel-opments, the deceased youthShinde’s final rites were per-formed in his native KaigaonToka village near Aurangabadon Tuesday morning. His

younger brother AvinashShinde lit the funeral pyre. TheMaharashtra Governmentannounced an ex-gratia of �10lakh to the bereaved family andoffered a job to Shinde’syounger brother.

A police constable ShyamKatgaonkar, who was on ban-dobast duty at Kaigaon Toka,died of a heart attack, whileShiv Sena’s MP ChandrakantKhaire and Congress MLCSubhash Zambad were man-handled when he came toattend Shinde’s funeral atKaigaon village.

As many as four youthsattempted suicides were report-ed from across the State. Twoyoungsters Jayant Sonavne andJagannath Sonavne tried tocommit suicide by jumpinginto a river and consuming poi-son respectively. Both wereadmitted to the hospital. InBeed, two youths tried to endtheir lives by jumping from theterrace of the Tehsildar's office,but they were prevented fromdoing so by the police.

Near the Kaigaon Tokabridge from where Shinde hadtaken a plunge into theGodavari river during thecourse of an agitation demand-ing reservations for Marathas,the protesters set a fire brigadevehicle on fire.

In continuation of theprotests witnessed after thesuicide by Shinde, the agitatorstook out processions in north,western Maharashtra andMarathwada demanding reser-vations to Maratha communi-ty members in jobs and edu-cation.

As part of Tuesday’sprotests, the activists blockedroads in Aurangabad,Osmanabad and Pune, whilethey damaged a bus, a truck atAurangabad, a police van atHingoli and at least five State-run buses at Kolhapur Theprotesters hurled stones anddamaged several private vehi-cles, while they staged a “railrook” for half an at Parbhanirailway stations.

Road transportation wasbadly affected at several otherplaces across the state. While

the protesters resorted to block-ades along the Mumbai-AgraNational Highway in Nashik,they staged protests in districtsof Akola, Nandurbar, Nanded,Jalgaon, Parbhani, Kolhapur,Osmanabad, Ahmednagar,Jalna, and Yavatmal. They alsoset tyres on fire on roads inNashik, Hingoli.

As a precautionary mea-sure, the state transport author-ities suspended services atAurangabad, Osmanabad andNanded, thus stranding thou-sands of passengers in therural areas. In Nagpur, the agi-tators took out a processionpressing for reservations andother demands.

Not wanting to take anychances, the authorities sus-pended Internet services inAurangabad, while schools andcolleges remained closed inNanded, Osmanabad and cer-tain other places.

Meanwhile, MKM’sMaharashtra convenorRavindra Patil demanded thatShinde be declared as a martyr,his family be paid �50 lakh ascompensation and to stay the

mass government recruitmentdrive that is currently on, pend-ing a ruling by the BombayHigh Court on Maratha reser-vation issue.

In a related development,Maharashtra’s RevenueMinister and senior BJP leaderChandrakant Patil gave a pieceof advice to the Marathas agi-

tating across the State. It is notgoing to help matters if youundertake an agitation forsomething that cannot beachieved through protests.

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The story of a 40-year-oldwoman from southern city

of Mysuru who was found inShimla in Himachal Pradesh isheart-rending. After localpapers reported about her, theGovernment of Karnataka hasdecided to bring her back toMysuru to unite her with herparents.

40-year-old Saraswathiwent missing two years backand landed in Shimla. Shedoesn’t recollect how she wentthere but she was admitted toHimachal Hospital of MentalHealth and Rehabilitation inShimla for treatment in June2016. According to reports,the lady came in search of a jobto Bengaluru but went missingand reached Kangra in HP.Later she was admitted to hos-pital by local population. Fortwo years she was there with-out any connect with her fam-ily as none found out about herbackground as she knew only

Kannada. Local papers wroteabout her and Karnataka ChiefMinister Kumaraswamyresponded immediately askingofficers to bring her back tounite her with her parents.

A communiqué issued byHB Dinesh, media secretary toChief Minister, theGovernment has directed theMysuru DC to make necessaryarrangements to bring her backto Mysuru. "Chief Minister HDKumaraswamy on being alert-ed about the stranded womandirected Mysuru DeputyCommissioner Abhiram GShankar to make necessaryarrangements to bring her backto the state," a statement fromthe Chief Minister's office said.

The local media hadreported that Saraswathi, 40,from Makanahalli village inMysuru district, went missingtwo years ago when she cameto Bengaluru to work in a gar-ment factory. She reportedlyreached Himachal Pradesh'sKangra and was later admittedto the Himachal Hospital ofMental Health andRehabilitation in Shimla fortreatment in June 2016.

"She could not contact herfamily facing language issues inHimachal and was unable torecall how she reached there,"the statement added.

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In connection with a rapecase, former Gujarat BJP

president Jayanti Bhanushaliwas summoned on Tuesday toappear before the police andrecord his statement. The sum-mons to Bhanushali has beenissued under Section 160 of theCrPC filed against him inSarthana police station of Surat.The former BJP legislator fromKutch district is absconding. Aweek ago a 21-year-old womanhad lodged an FIR with Suratpolice against the BJP leaderunder various sections of IPC,including charges of a publicservant committing rape, crim-inal intimidation, cheating,forgery and wrongful confine-ment. Incidentally, some ofthe videos showing Bhanushaliin compromising position wentviral on social media.

After allegations againsthim, Bhanushali had resignedas state BJP vice-president.After tendering resignation tostate BJP president, he said thathe wouldn’t take any positionin the party till he would proveinnocent in the case.Meanwhile, another formerlegislator from Kutch ChhabilPatel’ name has come in thecase. Patel came in saffron foldfrom Congress party ahead ofthe Lok Sabha polls.

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Congress leaders KailashGadhvi, PK Valera and Dr

Anil Joshiyara made the rep-resentation on party's behalfand submitted a seven-pointagenda.

Congress said Gujarat isbackward compared to otherStates when it comes to back-log of legal cases. Partyspokesperson Kailash Gadhvisaid: "It is a shameful fact thatGujarat will need 287 years toclear the backlog of legal casesat the current rate of disposal.Poor infrastructure, insuffi-cient staff, technologicalimpairment are some of the

main reasons for the sorrystate of affairs. States likeOdisha and Rajasthan, on theother hand, will need only 42and 12 years respectively toclear the backlog of cases. Wehave demanded a special pack-age for Gujarat for the next fiveyears so that justice can bedelivered."

Congress sought higherallocation of central fundstowards education, facility tofarmers for cash crops, envi-ronment, SC-ST upliftment,coastal development and healthinfrastructure. "All these areascan get additional funds withthe Centre agrees to share 52%of tax revenues," Gadhvi said.

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largest carmaker, onWednesday showcased theirnew telematics offering to cus-tomers called ‘Suzuki Connect’which is available to all cus-tomers of vehicles sold throughMSIL’s Nexa channel.

The solution whichinvolves a ‘tamper-proof ’telematics control unit (TCU)inside the vehicle will be avail-able for �9,999, inclusive of allcosts and taxes for three yearsstarting Tuesday. Speaking atthe launch, RS Kalsi, SeniorExecutive Director, Marketingand Sales, MSIL, said that theopportunity for telematics ishuge in India. “Globally, thetelematics industry has been

growing at 18 per cent annuallyand is currently estimated at$55 billion (�38,000 crore) andexpected to grow to $103 bil-lion by 2022. Technology is oneof the pillars on which wehave built our Nexa brand andthis offering reinforces that.”

Explaining how the systemworks, CV Raman, ExecutiveDirector, Engineering, MSILsaid that the TCU will monitorseveral parameters of the carwhich would then be trans-mitted over a ‘secure andencrypted’ system to theowner’s smartphone through a‘Suzuki Connect’ applicationthat is available on both Apple’sAppStore and Google’s PlayStore.

“The owner can establishall sorts of parameters throughhis or her phone and can get

alerts when the car goes outsidea defined area, what we call‘geofencing’ and even over-speed alerts”, Raman said. Userswill also be able to track theircar live, which Maruti officialsargued can be used to monitordrivers when they are taking a

child to school or a seniormember of your family.

The information from thevehicle can be shared on up tofive devices. In case of an acci-dent where the airbags deploy,the app will instantly send analert to all the devices with thelocation of the incident as wellas alert the MSIL Call Centrewhich will contact the nearestMaruti-Suzuki service stationfor assistance.

The ‘Suzuki Connect’ solu-tion will also be useful to mon-itor your driving habits andstyles and will rate every drive.In addition to that, the systemwill also monitor car metrics,giving advance notice of nec-essary services and warning ifany component needs urgentreplacement.

However, Raman clarifiedthat the data is secure and heldwith MSIL on their servers aswell as undergoing intensivetesting as the product wasdeveloped in-house. “We haveintensively tested the productdriving over one million kilo-

metres in 42 cities.”While telematics have

become very popular with largecommercial fleets of trucksand buses, its adoption hasbeen limited in the privatespace. Several automakers havereleased applications with ser-vice reminders and even mapssoftware, however, Maruti isthe first non-luxury manufac-turer to introduce a telematicsoption in India.

Mapping services compa-ny MapMyIndia did launch atelematics solution last yearcalled ‘DriveMate.’ However,adoption of the service hasbeen slow. Kalsi believes thatthe telematics market can growat 25 per cent annually inIndia over the next few yearsand that an affordable servicelike this will help popularise theconcept.

Raman added that as adealer option, fitting the TCUwill take just 30-40 minutes formost Nexa cars and it can beretrofitted on existing vehiclesas well.

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Extending Monday’s rally,the benchmark BSE Sensex

jumped over 150 points torecord a new high of 36,869.34in early trade on Tuesday onstrong Asian cues amid buyingby domestic institutionalinvestors (DIIs).

The market rally was dri-ven by strong activity on themetal, oil and gas, PSU, infra-structure, banking, FMCG andcapital goods counters, risingup to 0.88 per cent.

The 30-share BSE indexspurted by 150.74 points, or0.41 per cent, to hit a new highof 36,869.34, surpassing itsprevious record of 36,749.69clocked on Monday.

The gauge has gained367.37 points in the past twosessions.

The 50-share NSE Niftyalso rose 41.15 points, or 0.37per cent, to 11,125.90.

Major gainers includeMaruti Suzuki, Tata Motors,HUL, M&M, Tata Steel, AdaniPorts, L&T, ICICI Bank, CoalIndia, IndusInd Bank, HDFCBank, Infosys, Power Grid,Kotak Bank, SBI, Asian Paints,HDFC, Axis Bank, Sun Pharmaand ITC, rising up to 1.42 percent.

Foreign portfolio investors(FPIs) bought shares worth anet of �259.37 crore and DIIsbought shares worth a net of�124.82 crore on Monday, pro-

visional data showed. Traderssaid positive cues from otherAsian markets and sustainedforeign capital inflows, influ-enced sentiments here.

Japan’s Nikkei rose 0.60per cent, Shanghai CompositeIndex 1.59 per cent and HongKong’s Hang Seng 1.50 per centin early trade.

The US Dow JonesIndustrial Average ended 0.06per cent lower on Mondayand Nasdaq closed up 0.28 percent.

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The Reserve Bank has “wide-ranging and comprehen-

sive” powers to address varioussituations in banks, theGovernment said on Tuesdayagainst the backdrop of RBIGovernor Urjit Patel seekingmore powers to deal with theproblem of bad loans at publicsector banks.

Listing out RBI’s powers todeal with banks, Minister ofState for Finance Shiv PratapShukla said the central bankcan inspect the lenders, exam-ine on oath any officer, directspecial audit and give direc-tions to banks. Also, whole-time directors of nationalisedbanks and State Bank of Indiaare appointed in consultationwith the RBI, he said in a writ-ten reply in the Rajya Sabha.

“... the powers of RBI arewide-ranging and comprehen-sive to deal with various situ-ations that may emerge in all

banks, including public sectorbanks,” he said.

RBI Governor Urjit Patel inhis presentation before theParliamentary StandingCommittee on Finance hadlast month (rpt) month pitchedfor more powers saying that thecentral bank has “inadequate”control over State-ownedlenders. Replying to anotherquestion on whether lessmoney was being put in ATMsafter the demonetisation,Shukla replied in the negative.

RBI has informed that thetotal amount of Notes inCirculation (NIC) as on July 18,2018 was �19.28 lakh crore ascompared to �17.74 lakh croreas on November 4, 2016, hesaid. “RBI has ensured ade-quate supply of notes to meetthe cash requirement of publicand the currency supply ismonitored continuously toensure distribution of ade-quate currency to various partsof the country,” he said.

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The rupee on Tuesdaydropped by 8 paise to close

at 68.94 against the US cur-rency, extending its fall for asecond straight day due to sus-tained dollar demand fromimporters even as local equitieshit a record high.

The rupee plunged belowthe 69 mark in early session totrade near its all-time low lev-els due to overnight gains in thedollar against global currencies.

However, local unitregained some lost groundtowards the tail-end as overalltrading mode turned little pos-itive after the dollar loststrength against the euro,pound and safe haven Japaneseyen. The dollar index wasdown 0.16 per cent at 94.48against overnight levels of94.84. Domestic forex senti-

ment also remained shaky dueto ongoing tensions betweenthe US and other globaleconomies, a dealer said.

Currency traders alsoreacted negatively to com-ments by President Trump onEU and China for manipulat-ing their currencies and keep-ing interest rates lower, raisingconcerns that the current glob-al trade tensions could be fol-lowed by a currency war.

Most Asian peers were alsotrading weaker against thegreenback. On the energy front,crude prices trade little changedas rising tension between theUS and Iran highlighted risks tosupply. The benchmark Brentwas trading 20 cents up at$73.26 a barrel. The rupeeresumed sharply lower at 68.96compared to 68.86 previously atthe Interbank Foreign Exchangemarket.

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Aparliamentary panel hasasked the Government to

frame strong guidelines forgiving exemptions to estab-lishments for managing prov-ident funds of their employeesthrough trusts with a view tokeeping a check on misuse ofsuch funds.

There were no clear guide-lines for such exempted estab-lishments to keep unclaimeddeposits and some of themcould be using them as theirworking capital, the panel saidin a report that was tabled inParliament on Tuesday.

The 31-member commit-tee headed by Lok Sabha mem-ber Kirit Somaiya found that asmany as 118 establishmentshad total corpus of less than ��crore and the last return filedby them dates back to 2014 and2015.

The committee feels thatthese establishments may nothave taken any steps to bene-fit their subscribers, said the

report. “Strong guidelines forgrant of exemption may bemade which make it mandato-ry to take into account past per-formance, net worth, groupperformance as well as mini-mum strength of workers, col-lections, contributions and cor-pus of the company/establish-ment,” it said.

The committee said therewere hardly any complianceaudit conducted by EPFO tocheck misuse of funds andaudit mechanism gainedmomentum after the panelintervened. “Hence the com-mittee feels that some of theexempted establishments couldbe using the unclaimeddeposits as their working cap-ital.

“They (the committee)therefore desires that such pos-sibilities should be consideredwhile framing the guidelinesand stringent penalty may beprescribed in order to deter theexempted establishment fromcarrying out such illegal activ-ities,” the report said.

In its reply to the panel, theGovernment said legal provi-sions are already present in thelaw which deters organisationsfrom utilising unclaimedamounts of the employees asthe working capital.

No such incident has beenreported from field offices,government said in the reply.

Among others, the panelhas asked the Government torevise the surcharge leviedupon trusts who fail to investthe provident fund as per rulesnotified by the government aswell as to conduct regularinspection.

An organisation is slappedwith such a penalty if it devi-ates from the set investmentpatten three times, and if it isstill found to be indulging insame activities, the exemp-tions from EPFO is cancelled.

“From the list of 317 suchestablishments, on whoseBoard of Trustees

(BoTs) surcharge waslevied, the committee observesthat most of them were closed.

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Ahmedabad: The ongoingnation-wide truckers’ strikehas adversely affected Gujarat’stextiles, pharmaceuticals,chemical and ceramic industry,especially with exporters find-ing it hard to comply withorders, industry representa-tives said. Industry bodies havealso appealed to the Centre toend the strike as local industriesare being affected due to diffi-culty in movement of finishedgoods and raw materials, withmany units stopping produc-tion and laying off workers.

The indefinite strike, calledunder an umbrella body of AllIndia Motor TransportCongress with a slew ofdemands, including reductionof diesel prices, enters its fifthday on Tuesday.

“Movement of raw materi-als and finished goods have gothit. Export orders expiring,which is affecting our prestigein the international markets,”president of Gujarat Chamberof Commerce and Industry,Shailesh Patwari said. PTI

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New Delhi: Embattled liquorbaron Vijay Mallya, the mainaccused in a �9,000 crorealleged bank fraud case, isunderstood to have soundedout to Indian authorities that hewas willing to come back hometo face the law, official sourcessaid today.

Mallya, who is contestingin a London court the Indiangovernment's action for extra-dition, is said to have sent feel-ers to authorities that he would

like to join the legal process inIndia and contest the recentaction against him under theFugitive Economic OffenderOrdinance.

Under this recently pro-mulgated ordinance, the gov-ernment can immediately con-fiscate all linked properties ofMallya in the country andabroad.

However, top sources ininvestigative agencies said thefinal contours of the move are

still not clear as they refused todivulge more details.

A special Prevention ofMoney Laundering Act courtin Mumbai had last monthissued summons to the belea-guered businessman to appearbefore it on August 27 on theEnforcement Directorate's pleaseeking action against himunder the Fugitive EconomicOffenders Ordinance in theover �9,000 crore bank fraudcase. PTI

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number believed dead after apartly-constructed hydropow-er dam in southeast Laos col-lapsed, sending flash floodssurging through six villages,state media reported today.

Communist Laos is tra-versed by a vast network ofrivers and there are severaldams being built or are plannedin the impoverished and land-locked country, which exportsmost of its hydropower energyto neighbouring countries likeThailand.

Laos News Agency saidthe accident happened at ahydropower dam in south-eastern Attapeu province’sSanamxay district late Monday,releasing five billion cubicmetres of water -- more thantwo million Olympic swim-ming pools -- which unleashedflash flooding coursing intonearby villages.

The report added thatthere were “several human livesclaimed, and several hundredsof people missing”.

Images published in thereport showed scores of people,

some clutching young chil-dren, crammed onto low-slungwooden boats and wadingthrough muddy waters.

Several houses in the south-ern part of the district wereswept away following the dam’scollapse around 8pm (1300GMT) on Monday evening,the report said, as officials in theprovince put out a call forrelief aid for flood victims.

“We do not have any for-mal information yet about anycasualties or how many aremissing,” an Attapeu officialtold AFP on condition ofanonymity, adding that was “nophone signal” in the floodedregion.

“We sent rescue teams whowill help them and providebasic assistance first,” the offi-cial added.

The $1.2 billion dam is partof a project by Vientiane-basedXe Pian Xe Namnoy PowerCompany, or PNPC, a jointventure formed in 2012.

Among the companiesinvolved in the project accord-ing to the Laos News Agency areThailand’s Ratchaburi ElectricityGenerating Holding, SouthKorea’s Korea Western Powerand the state-run Lao Holding

State Enterprise. The 410megawatt capacity dam wassupposed to start commercialoperations by 2019, according tothe venture’s website.

The project consists of aseries of dams over the HouayMakchanh, the Xe-Namnoy

and the Xe-Pian rivers inneighbouring ChampasakProvince.

It planned to export 90percent of its electricity toenergy hungry Thailand andthe remaining amount was tobe offered up on the local grid.

Under the terms of con-struction, PNPC said it wouldoperate and manage the powerproject for 27-years after com-mercial operations began.

When contacted by phonein Laos’ capital Vientiane acompany official told AFP:

“We do not have any officialreports about it yet. We aregathering information.”

Dam projects in Laos,mainly providing power toneighbouring countries, havelong been controversial withfears over environmental dam-age and the impact on com-munities who are often dis-placed to make way for theconstruction.

A massive hydroelectricproject at Xayaburi, led byThai group CH Karnchang, isat the heart of Laos’ plan tobecome “the battery ofSoutheast Asia”.

The 1,285 megawatt dam -- which will cost $3.5 billionaccording to state media -- hassharply divided downstreamMekong nations like Vietnamand Cambodia who worry itwill disrupt vital ecosystemsand their own river systems.

Communist authorities inLaos keep tight control infor-mation and is often opaqueabout business deals and devel-opment projects.

The country has around 10dams in operation, 10 to 20under construction, anddozens more in planningstages.

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Israel shot down a Syrianfighter jet with surface-to-air

missiles on Tuesday after theplane infiltrated its airspace, themilitary said, in a rare incidentthat could provoke tensions.

Israel signalled that theplane’s infiltration may havebeen the result of internalfighting in Syria’s civil war, butstressed it will enforce theceasefire lines between the twocountries.

“A short while ago, twoPatriot missiles were launchedat a Syrian Sukhoi fighter jetthat infiltrated into Israeli air-

space,” the Israeli DefenceForces said in a statement.

“The IDF monitored theadvance of the fighter jet,which infiltrated about twokilometres (1.25 miles) intoIsraeli airspace. It was thenintercepted by the Patriot mis-siles.”

A Syrian military sourceconfirmed that Israel had firedat one of its warplanes but saidthe fighter jet had been carry-ing out operations againstjihadists over Syrian territory.

Israel “targeted one of ourwarplanes... In Syrian airspace,”the source said, cited by statenews agency SANA.

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As tensions mountedbetween the US and Iran,

the White House said todaythat President Donald Trumpwanted to ensure that Iran didnot acquire nuclear weapons.

“The President has been, Ithink, pretty strong since dayone in his language towardsIran. He was responding tocomments made by them, andhe’s going to continue to focuson the safety and security ofAmerican people,” White HousePress Secretary Sarah Sanderstold when asked about the lat-est tweet from Trump in whichhe warned Iran of grave conse-quences for threatening the US.

“I’m not going to get intospecifics and certainly not nego-tiate with the press. That wouldbe a determination that thePresident would make...But theultimate goal and the focus of thePresident is making sure we keepnuclear weapons out of their

hands and that we focus on theprotection of America,” she said.

Responding to questions,she said Trump’s number onegoal is to make sure Iran does-n’t get a nuclear weapon.

“We have similar andshared interests with ourEuropean allies, we’re contin-uing to have discussions withthem, and when we havespecifics on that front, we’ll letyou know,” she said.

President Donald Trumpyesterday warned Rouhani thatTehran risked consequences “thelikes of which few throughouthistory have suffered before” if hethreatens the US again, hoursafter Hassan Rouhani cautionedthat America’s hostile threatsagainst his country may trigger“the mother of all wars.” Thetirade at the highest level sig-nalled an immediate escalationof tensions between Washingtonand Tehran, weeks after the USleft a deal signed in 2015 whichcurbed Iran’s nuclear activities inreturn for the lifting of interna-tional sanctions.

Islamabad: Pakistanis will goto the polls tomorrow to electa new prime minister in thesecond democratic transition ofpower in the nation’s 70-yearchequered history amid accu-sations of manipulation by thepowerful army and concernsover the participation of Islamichardliners in large numbers.

According to the ElectionCommission of Pakistan(ECP), 3,459 candidates arecontesting for 272 general seatsof the National Assembly, while8,396 candidates are runningfor 577 general seats of the fourprovincial assemblies - Punjab,Sindh, Balochistan and

Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.There are 105.96 million

registered voters in the coun-try. The voting on more than85,000 polling stations willstart at 8.00 am and will con-tinue till 6.00 pm. The count-ing of votes will be done on thespot soon after polling is con-cluded and results will beannounced within 24 hours.

The run up to the electionshave seen a massive crack-down on the media and alle-gations that the military hassecretly backed the campaign offormer cricketer Imran Khanwhile targeting his politicalopponents. PTI

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The UN human rights chiefhas sharply criticised Israel,

calling recent killings by its sol-diers during Palestiniandemonstrations along the Gazaborder fence “shocking” andsaying living conditions inflict-ed by Israel’s 11-year blockadeof the territory are “grosslyinadequate”.

Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein saidin a video address to the UNCommittee on the Exercise ofthe Inalienable Rights of thePalestinian People that thesituation in Gaza has escalat-ed dramatically in recentmonths with “the potential togenerate threats to peaceacross a far broader region.”

Zeid, who heads the Officeof the UN High Commissionerfor Human Rights, said it isessential for all parties to coop-erate with the independent,international commission ofinquiry into the recent deadlyevents in Gaza that his officeis helping to establish.

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The US will never trustRussia or its President

Vladimir Putin, America’senvoy to the UN Nikki Haleyhas said amidst an uproar overPresident Donald Trump’salleged bonhomie with hisRussian counterpart.

Trump, who met withPutin in Helsinki last week, hasbeen slammed by the USmedia and political opponentsfor failing to defend theAmerican intelligence com-munity during a much-talkedabout Press conference withPutin in Helsinki after theirfirst summit.

The US Ambassador tothe UN told ChristianBroadcasting Network (CBN)News: “We don’t trust Russia,we don’t trust Putin, we neverwill. They’re never going to beour friend. That’s just a fact.”

At the same time, Haleysupported the move to havetalks with the Russians.

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drama over the condition of the pitch and the out-field, both of which apparently left the visitorsunhappy and threw their preparations for the Testseries against England haywire.

However, an Essex county representativemaintained that the Indian team "were happy withpractice facilities", attributing the curtailment onthe hot prevalent conditions owing to the currentheat wave in the United Kingdom.

When asked about the rugged outfield, andwhether that could have been a reason to reducethe game, the representative declined to commentany further.

"Essex Cricket and the England & WalesCricket Board have today agreed, at the requestof the BCCI Management Team, that the sched-uled Tourist match between Essex and India willnow be played over three days," the county saidin a statement.

The Indian team management took this deci-sion during Tuesday afternoon's net practice afterhaving a look at the pitch. Indian coach RaviShastri was seen having an animated discussionwith the local officials after getting a glimpse ofthe grassy pitch and a barren outfield that cancause injury while fielding.

The rest of the Indian support staff, includ-ing assistant coach Sanjay Bangar and bowlingcoach Bharat Arun also took stock of the condi-tions and were seen having discussions with theground staff.

Given that it is not a classified first-class match,it is confirmed that the Indian team will be usingall 18 members of their Test squad.

A senior member of the ground staff said that"all requests of the Indian team management havebeen accepted".

When pressed if that included "shaving off thegrass", he simply said, "We have bent over back-wards to accommodate the Indian team man-agement's demands. It is disappointing thoughbecause we had sold a lot of tickets for the fourthday (Saturday)."

However, Essex made it clear that spectatorswho had purchased tickets for the final day's playon Saturday will be refunded in full.

Another reason for the Indian team man-agement's displeasure was that the two nets' pitch-es were completely bald in comparison to the

match wicket, which had a healthy green top.After speaking with the visiting coaches, the

ground support staff shaved off the heavy grasslayering from one of the adjacent wickets to makeit resemble the match-wicket with an equalamount of surface grass.

This allowed the Indian batsmen to get a feelof match day conditions, and all prominent bats-men took throwdowns at this wicket. Even thetroika of spinners bowled on this green-wicket,in case one of the Test wickets is an exact replicaof the same.

The oval county ground has nearly 25 pitch-es comprising its central square, and all of themhad lush green grass covering. It was a strange sightgiven the heat wave in nearly all of UnitedKingdom at the moment, with temperatures inChelmsford soaring to 27 degrees today.

The appearance of the ground was madestranger by the fact that the outfield looked ruggedand devoid of any grass, with only patches of greento be seen. It reflected the truer affect of unfor-giving sunshine but at the same time, was causefor concern for the Indian team who wouldn'twant any players injured during this game.

India's practice session lasted nearly fourhours, with players arriving here in two batches.Nearly all batsmen and bowlers had rigorousworkouts, with Cheteshwar Pujara, Murali Vijayand Virat Kohli also concentrating on slip field-ing. Even so, the sheen was taken off this prac-tice session as the decision to shorten the gamecame two hours later. As per statement from theIndian team management, the squad will travelto Birmingham on Saturday and start its prepa-rations for the first Test (from August 1) a day early.

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Touted as a potential successor toMahendra Singh Dhoni behindthe stumps, Rishabh Pant says the

former India captain has helped shapequite a few things in his still nascentcareer, ranging from his IPL contract tohand-head coordination while keeping.

"Whenever I needed any supportfrom Mahi bhai, I used to ask him.From my IPL contract to my wicket-keeping, he's advised me on everything,"the 20-year-old Pant told bcci.Tv.

"He's always told me that when itcomes to wicket-keeping, your handsand head coordination is important, thebody balance can come into play later.That (his advice) has helped me a lot,"said the southpaw.

Pant says the positivity in theIndian team's dressing room is alsoquite infectious.

The youngster was not picked forthe limited-overs leg of the England tourdespite a stellar IPL show but earned hismaiden call-up in Tests through his grit-ty performances with the A team.

"Every time I come to the Indiandressing room, there is one thing thathas always stood out for me. It is thepositivity in the dressing room.Everyone is supporting and backingeach other, which is the most importantfactor about this Indian dressing room,"he said.

Asked about the challenge ofswitching formats from IPL to the ODIand four-day games in England, Pantsaid he does not stress over that.

"I reckon there isn't too much dif-ference, but it has got more to do withshot selection. In red ball cricket, withthe field placements, you can lookaround; take your time, because youhave five days to play. Whereas in lim-ited overs cricket you have limited num-ber of balls to play and score.

"I have so far enjoyed my prepara-tion with red ball cricket. The duke ballswings a lot when you're here inEngland and initially when I startedplaying here with India A, I realised thatthe swing will come a lot into play inthese conditions."

He also received praise from IndiaA coach Rahul Dravid for his perfor-mance in England.

"The only thing he tells me is thatyou need to be patient about everything,be it on the field or off it. Also, how I

need to work harder onmy game when it comesto red ball cricket sinceI'm a positive batsman,but at times you need toplay to the situation. Seethe pace of the game andchange your gameaccordingly."

The fact that he hasbeen playing in Englandfor a while has preparedhim well for the Testseries. Dinesh Karthik isthe first-choice keeperin the absence ofWriddhiman Saha, so it remains to beseen if Pant will get his big break.

Former India wicket-keeper Kiran

More recently went to theextent of saying that Pantcould be the next AdamGilchrist.

"I always see everythingas an opportunity comingmy way. Especially as a wick-et-keeper batsman in India,wherein, there aren't toomany options for the spot.Therefore, whatever oppor-tunity I get, I try and opti-mise it.

"Adam Gilchrist hasbeen my idol when it comes

to keeping wickets and I used towatch him all the time as a youngster.But, at this moment, I'm learning a lotfrom people around me like Rahul

Dravid Sir, Ajinkya Rahane, ViratKohli and I try and improve my gameevery day," he said.

How did he react when he foundout about his Test selection, especial-ly after the disappointment of not mak-ing the one-day team?

"I always wanted to be a part of theIndian Test squad and it was more likea dream come true for me. It was anamazing feeling, not only for me butalso for my family and my coach TarekSinha sir, who helped me understandthe game very early in my life.

"He has always wanted me to playTest cricket for India and when I gotthe call, he was very happy and proudand I enjoyed that moment," hesummed up.

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Boosted by a strong comebackin the three-match series

against New Zealand last week,ace drag-flicker Rupinder PalSingh says the Indian hockeyteam is eager to carry forwardthe momentum into the upcom-ing Asian Games and win theGold medal.

"Personally for me, playingagainst a quality team like NewZealand who won the Silvermedal at the CommonwealthGames was very important.Since I had missed out all theaction during the ChampionsTrophy, I had to find my rhythmahead of the Asian Games inJakarta," Rupinder said.

The Commonwealth Gamesin April was Rupinder's lastappearance for the Indian teamat a major International event. Ahamstring injury during thequadrennial event meant that hehad to be rested for theChampions Trophy where theteam finished runners up.

While the team was upagainst top teams in the world,Rupinder had to remain in thenational camp and work on hisfitness.

"It is frustrating for anyplayer to be watching the teamplay on TV but it was critical forme to undergo rehab in order tobe match-fit and available for theAsian Games selections,"Rupinder expressed after the 3-0 series win against NewZealand.

In order to gain momentumagain, Rupinder appeared infour practice matches againstBangladesh early this monthwhere he scored 10 goalsthrough penalty corners andplayed two practice matchesagainst South Korea where hescored one goal.

"I think having Bangladesh,South Korea and New Zealandvisit us ahead of major tourna-ments was a blessing in disguise.The team tried out differentcombinations and tested differ-ent variations in converting PC.We also tried new methods ofcreating PCs where I think theteam did well. Our main criteriawas to improve goal scoring,"said the 27-year-old from

Punjab.After a successful series

against New Zealand, the Indianteam has returned home for aweek-long break and will re-jointhe National Camp on August 1.At the Asian Games, IndianMen's Team is grouped in PoolA with Korea, Japan, Sri Lanka,Indonesia and Hong KongChina.

In the camp before the teamleaves for Jakarta, Rupinder saidthe team will further work on thespecific areas to ensure theyhave left no stone unturned intheir preparations for the AsianGames.

"The one-week break willhelp us rejuvenate as some of ushave been in the National Campcontinuously since April 28.When we return to camp, theteam will sit together, watchvideos from our matches againstNew Zealand and try and findout ways to improve further. Weare eager to defend the GoldMedal at Asian Games inJakarta," he concluded.

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India's spin duo of Ravindra Jadejaand Ravichandran Ashwin held on

to the third and fifth position respec-tively in the latest ICC Test rankingsfor bowlers, which was headed byEngland pacer James Andersonahead of the five-match Test seriesstarting in Birmingham on August 1.

Jadeja and Ashwin have 866 and811 points respectively, while SouthAfrican duo of Kagiso Rabada (882)and Vernon Philander (826) areplaced in the second and fourth spotrespectively.

Anderson, who claimed ninewickets in England's drawn two-Testseries at home against Pakistan ear-lier this summer, has 892 points,while Rabada slipped to seconddespite claiming eight wickets duringthe two Tests in the Proteas' 2-0 seriesdefeat in Sri Lanka.

In the ICC Test ranking for bats-men, Virat Kohli was at the secondposition, while Cheteshwar Pujarawas placed at the sixth spot.

Joe Root was the only Englandbatsman in the top 10 which is stillbeing headed by Steve Smith, who is

currently serving a 12 month ban dueto his involvement in ball tampering.

Two Indian and as many Englishplayers found a place in the top 10 ofICC ranking for all-rounders withJadeja and Ashwin at the second andfourth place and Ben Stokes andMoeen Ali grabbing the sixth andseventh spot respectively.

Despite the Proteas’ below-parseries, spinner Keshav Maharaj, whotook a 12-wicket haul in the secondTest, has gained five places to findhimself ranked at No 18.

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Sri Lanka's suspended openingbatsman Danushka Gunathilaka

was left out Tuesday from the 15-man squad to play the five-matchone-day international series againstthe touring South African side.

Gunathilaka, 27, was sus-pended on Sunday by Sri LankaCricket over a "misconduct" chargeafter a close associate of his wasarrested for allegedly raping aNorwegian woman in the teamhotel in Colombo.

The Sri Lanka board had saidGunathilaka, who was allegedly inthe room at the same time but wasnot arrested, will remain suspend-ed pending a disciplinary inquiry.It was unclear, however, when theinquiry will begin.

His suspension is a blow to SriLanka as Gunathilaka was theside's second-highest-scoring bats-man in the 2-0 Test series white-wash completed on Monday.

The ODI series begins onSunday at Dambulla and ends onAugust 12 in Colombo. A one-offTwenty20 is due to be played in

Colombo on August 14.All-rounder Shehan Jayasuriya,

26, is expected to replaceGunathilaka, while uncappedPrabath Jayasuriya was brought into the squad.

Sri Lanka ODI squad: AngeloMathews (Captain), DasunShanaka, Kusal Perera, Dhananjayade Silva, Upul Tharanga, KusalMendis, Thisara Perera, NiroshanDickwella, Suranga Lakmal, LahiruKumara, Kasun Rajitha, AkilaDananjaya, Prabath Jayasuriya,Lakshan Sandakan, and ShehanJayasuriya.

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The Ashes remains the pinnacle of Testcricket for James Anderson "like any

Englishman" but the showdowns againstIndia also rank pretty high as the world No1 side brings out the absolute best in him- the 2012 away series being a case in point.

"We have played against South Africawhen they were number one in the worldand that was a good test, and India is exact-ly the same for me," Anderson said in aninterview ahead of the five-match Testseries starting August 1 in Birmingham.

"2012 was one of the best series I haveever played in, for me, in India. As a seambowler, you go to India and everyone saysthat the spinners will take wickets so youwant to prove to people that you can suc-ceed in those conditions," he said.

"So for me that was a really proudseries of my career. You always want to playagainst the best and do well against thebest. That always inspires me to try andpush myself and play as well as you can,"he added.

Anderson had played a starring role inEngland's 2-1 series win in India back in2012, with 12 scalps in four matches. Thepacer, who boasts of 540 wickets in 138Tests, said that victory was on par withmany of his Ashes performances.

"I think there has always been a goodhealthy rivalry between India and England.

Every series I have played in, whether itwas one-day or Test cricket, it has alwaysbeen really competitive and a really highstandard of cricket," he said.

"For me, for an Englishman, theAshes, it is the pinnacle. If you ask theAustralians, they will probably say thesame (laughs). It is the biggest series inTest cricket, the one that you look forwardto the most and the one that you want towin at any cost. But for me, playing againstthe best teams is also what you want to do,"

he added.Anderson said he is looking forward

to challenging himself against India andthe onus would be on England's seniorplayers to perform.

"This summer we have felt that wehave a bigger responsibility to the team inputting in good performances. We are thesenior players. I have a good partnershipwith Stuart Broad and we need to showthat in our responsibilities because we arethe senior players," he asserted.

"So that's exactly how we will preparefor this series. We want to go into thisseries in as good a form as possible andbe as fit as possible, because we know thatif we play well, we have a good chance ofwinning," Anderson said.

"Even at home, the conditions aregoing to be different in every game youplay. So you have to adapt to those con-ditions as quickly as possible. We haveseen with Kuldeep Yadav that there is stillan element of surprise, at least in whiteball cricket."

Anderson said patience would be thekey to deal with Yadav's guile.

"It is not all about watching footage.It is also about who adapts to those con-ditions the best, who is the most patientin Test cricket, who is the most skilful.And generally, people who are morepatient and skilful are on top in the end,"he said.

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Traffic Education (IRTE),College of Traffic Management,Faridabad, Haryana, invitesapplication for its newlylaunched course Master ofScience (MSc) in TrafficManagement. This is Asia’s firsttwo-year course in traffic man-agement to equip students withskills to manage and design thetraffic and transportation man-agement systems.

The course deals with trans-port and traffic engineering,driver training and fleet man-agement, road safety audits,road crash investigations, trafficengineering, forensic engineer-ing, road asset financing andpost-crash management.

The first global Masters ofScience in Traffic Managementhas been given approval by theGovernment of Haryana andMaharshi Dayanand Universityto be conducted at IRTE’sCollege of Traffic Managementfrom August 2018. Maximum of30 seats are being offered toinclude in-service participantsand students from South EastAsia.

Graduates from the pro-gram typically will be able towork as senior professionals inlocal, state and federalGovernment agencies such asroad and transport authorities,public and private sector trans-port operators and local andinternational consulting organ-isations.

The aim of unveiling thiscourse is to promote such pro-grammes in other institutesacross South East Asia as a partof the MOU between IRTE andUnited Nations EconomicCommission for Europe .Thecourse is open to all the gradu-ates. For more information, logon to www.irte.com.

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Pharmaceutical Sciences atApeejay Stya University,Gurugram has announcedadmissions for Bachelor ofPharmacy (B Pharm, a four-yearindustry-oriented programmeendorsed by reputed industrialhouses pertaining to thedomains of pharmaceutical sci-

ences and relat-ed fields.

The School ofPharmaceutical Sciences alsooffers MPharm inPharmaceuticals (two years),MPharm plus MBA (three-years integrated course) andPhD in Pharmaceuticals, amongother programmes.

The programmes have beenapproved by the PharmacyCouncil of India (PCI). It hasbeen designed in collaborationwith pharmaceutical organisa-tions of repute. The newlylaunched R&D centre for phar-maceutical research will furtherensure a holistic and experien-tial learning for the students whowill be familiarised with theknowledge of formulation devel-opment from basic drug design-ing to the final stages of clinicaltrials.

The School ofPharmaceutical Sciences alsohas two centres of excellence—Centre for Novel Drug DeliverySystem and Centre forFormulation Development toboost high-quality teaching-learning culture.

The university also pro-vides scholarships to meritori-ous students. The previousbatches have obtained 100 per-cent placement. Students canalso be absorbed in the pharma-ceutical business of the ApeejayStya & Svran Group, apart fromopportunities in various MNCsand other leading companies.

Minimum 50 per centaggregate marks in Class XIIwith Physics, Chemistry,Mathematics or Physics,Chemistry, Biology from anyrecognised board.

All eligible applicants shallbe shortlisted on the basis oftheir academic performancesand aptitude followed by a mocktest.

Last date to apply is beforeJuly 31, 2018. For more infor-mation, log on to www.univer-sity.apeejay.edu.

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The final years in school cancome with quite a lot of pres-

sure. With the preparation foryour examinations being a pri-ority, you often don’t have timeto finalise what you want to doin college. Talking to careercounsellors and taking aptitudetests can help, but they will onlybe able to tell you what theythink is your best bet.

Finding what you’re pas-sionate about, what are thethings that you want to learn toland your dream job and evenif you can adapt to the 9 to 5lifestyle, are all aspects you wantto start considering right fromhigh school.

To make this processsmoother and give you first-hand experience, doing intern-ships in your preferred area ofinterest can help you realise whatyou want to do.

Shiv Nadar School campus-es in Noida and Gurugramhave made summer internshipsa compulsory part of the course.They send out all students for10-day internships in companiesthey think they would gainpositive experience. This processis complex and counsellors care-fully curate an experience foreach student.

Observing the environmentand learning the way certainjobs work are all things that astudent should take back fromthese internships so they have abetter idea of where they areheaded. You start exploringcareer choices, what’s out therefor you. According to your apti-tude and area of interest, youmove onto studying them.

Nitina Dua, programmeleader at Shiv Nadar School,says: “Everyone is a stakehold-er in this process, including theparents, teachers, school and thestudent. Finding the rightcourse, right college, making thebest of your ability and time areaspects we feel responsible for.”

A little hand-holding inHigh School can go a long way

for students when it comes tocollege applications. Polishingtheir soft skills, teaching themhow to write CVs, making for-mal presentations are all part ofthe process of making these stu-dents ready for future. At thesame time, this is a great time forstudents to enter zones of dis-comfort and challenges.

There will be times whenafter one internship, you maynot have the required clarity onyour career choices. In this case,don’t hesitate and try out otherinternships till you get an ideaof what you want. There is noharm in this, you will meet morepeople, gain more experienceand have a better idea of whatyou want to do later in life.

Trishan Dollny, who

interned with shiksha.com, says:“I got to experience severalaspects of the job and my men-tor really helped me through outand gave me great advice. Hetold me to focus on what I wantto do at the end of the day.”

A Class XI student of ShivNadar School, Vyom Upreti,who interned at Ernest andYoung, says: “I got to work in thetax department where I got toshadow my mentor. I got greatexposure to the professionalworld which helped me realisethe kind of job I want to do later.”

Anannya Meghani internedat Huawei in the HR depart-ment, she wants to study law butgot to experience the manage-ment side which she reallyfound interesting.

Rinsangi Tochhawng, whointerned at HCL in the CSRdepartment, says that it helpedher connect with the emotion-al aspect of the job. “I realisedhow much support is neededaround us and we often let itslip,” she says.

All students come out ofthese internships with clarity fortheir future and if not, they learnsomething that will help themgrow as individuals and come inhandy later in life.

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�How has Career Launcher(CL) evolved over the years?

Our core purpose has beento enable the youth to realisetheir potential and make theirdreams come true. Research,ownership, openness, honestyand innovation (ROOHI) areour core values. We are the onlyones in India who do every sin-gle test preps and give coachingfor every exam. We want to berelevant for the five to 55 agegroups as far as individual aspi-rations are concerned. �What was it like when youstarted CL?

I had only �5000 when Istarted CL. I would work in themorning in a company and getto CL work after 7 pm. In CL’sfirst year, I had only 64 studentswho would pay a fee of �1000each for a year. So, my revenuefor the year was �64,000.Through word of mouth, theenrollment increased from 64 to800 students and since thenthere was no looking back. �What is the basic coachingmodule of your programme?

There are five elements thatcomprise coaching for any pro-gramme — classroom element,study material, test series, onlinecomponent and personalitydevelopment. Career Junctionwas formed to provide the stu-

dent and their parents with rel-evant information about theindustry.�How are mock tests done?

There is a team of seniormembers to design the tests.They take the test themselves.Whenever there is any change inthe pattern of entrance tests, itgets reflected in our mocks thevery next day.�How should someone decidebetween a coaching and self-study?

Most questions come froma person’s self-awareness.However, we have a couple offree tools online that tells you onthe basis of your marks whichcolleges is the best and howmany marks will be required.According to that, you candecide whether you need to takecoaching or self-study. It’s a mixof subjective judgement andobjective analysis based on data. �When is the ideal time forstudents to join coaching?

Somebody starts a year inadvance, others do so six monthsor two months before. Butwhenever you decide, give it agood shot. If you are half heart-ed in your approach, don’t try. �Many prefer to take a breakof a year to prepare forentrance exams?

There is no hurry to appear

for the entrance exam. In manycountries, it is common for stu-dents to take a gap and do otherthings. One can take time todecide. We have created quite anartificial sense of urgency. �How should students copewith the change in exam pat-terns?

If changes are not drastic,not to worry. Patterns changebecause they reflect the chang-ing world realities. If I am aschool teacher, I am trying toprepare the student for thereal world. Everybody is a vic-tim of the next link in thevalue chain. �What is the right approachfor a student to make a careerchoice?

Ask yourself: ‘Will I do this,even if I’m not paid to do this?’That is the litmus test. If theanswer is yes, you are on theright path. If no, try somethingelse. �Any plans of expansion?

We have 200 plus centresacross India. We focus on prod-uct, geographical and channelexpansions. The millennials aregoing digital and learning fromtheir mobile apps. So, the pur-suit is to stay technologicallyahead so as to match up with thebehaviour and needs of the mil-lennials.

In a world dominated by modernmedicine, medical practitionerscommonly prescribe physiothera-

py to patients for curing various ail-ments along with modern medicine.Not only has physiotherapy helpedpeople get relief from complex ail-ments globally, it has only become big-ger and a crucial element for treat-ment of various ailments.

Making a career in physiothera-py holds great prospects for the pre-sent and the future and widens upoptions in the sector from setting upone’s own physiotherapy clinic or tak-ing up a job as a physiotherapist at anyhospital or clinic, MNCs and evenschools as a consultant physiothera-pist.

Physiotherapy has now become acompletely independent subject with-in the health sector, primarily direct-ed towards the prevention or allevia-tion of movement dysfunction inpeople. This involves assessment,diagnosis and treatment of disease,remedy to impairment and helpsmobility.

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physiotherapy will globally grow at aCompound Annual Growth Rate(CAGR) of 6.78 per cent during theperiod 2018 to 2022.

A career in physiotherapy makesit a promising, interesting and chal-lenging job in the health care system.Physiotherapists specialise in paedi-atrics, geriatrics, neurology, cardio-respiratory, orthopaedics and evensports besides other areas of modernstream of medicine.

Today, with growing medicalfacilities, opportunities for para-medics like physiotherapists havegrown multi-fold at hospitals, nursinghomes, rehabilitation centres and atresidences, private practitioners’ clin-ics.

A degree or a certificate course inphysiotherapy offers you variousother openings at out-patient clinics,community health care centres orPrimary Healthcare centres, fitness

centres or health clubs, occupationalhealth centres, special schools and oldage homes.

Physiotherapists also get to workat sports centres besides teaching orworking in foreign countries with cor-porates, NGO’s and other industrialand educational institutions.

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cine, physiotherapists too have to keepthemselves abreast with newer tech-nologies and developments takingplace in physiotherapy. This will helpthem administer the right kind oftreatment besides further developingtheir assessment and treatment skills.

Here are some common areaswhere physiotherapists can pursuespecialised post-graduate courses.These include:�Orthopaedic Physiotherapy: Anarea of physiotherapy which dealswith conditions related to post-surgi-cal patients, arthritis, tendonitis, frac-ture rehabilitation, muscle sprains andstrains, neck and back pain, hip andknee problems, shoulder, elbow and

wrist conditions.�Sports Physiotherapy: Specialistswho assist with recovery after injuryor surgery and are majorly responsi-ble for retraining an athlete.�Women’s Health: Another crucialtherapist known for administeringphysiotherapy treatment to womenduring pregnancy or with specificwomen related conditions.�Paediatric Physiotherapy:Paediatric therapists help to rehabil-itate children and assist them for suf-ferings like cerebral palsy, develop-mental disorders, skeletal, neurolog-ical disorders or orthopaedic ail-ments.�Cardiovascular and pulmonaryphysiotherapy: Physiotherapists, spe-cialising in this domain, work withpatients who have ailments like heartattacks, bypass surgeries or haveundergone angioplasty, have breath-ing problems, emphysema, and otherheart or lung related conditions.�Neurological Physiotherapy: Oneof the most crucial part of the phys-iotherapy which includes treatingconditions related to disorders like

walking, inability to get in and out ofbed or chairs (transfer training),moving in bed (bed mobility), wheel-chair use and requires functionalretraining besides retraining patientsto use their shoulders, arms, andhands, which may involve neurolog-ical disorders like spinal cord injury,traumatic brain injury.

�� p��A professional physiotherapist

comes across many patients, who maybe suffering from common or seriousailments. More than how profession-ally one administers his physiother-apy skills, he or she has to be equal-ly empathetic and kind to the patient.Pleasing personality, well mannered,and caring attitude, excellent commu-nications skills, analytical thinkingand ability to connect with people areimportant skills required to be a suc-cessful physiotherapist.

How and when to use electro-physical modalities which includeUltrasound, Interferential Current,Transcutaneous Electrical NerveStimulation (TENS), Shockwave

Therapy and other phys-ical approaches in com-plex care practices.

And above all, aphysiotherapist has to

be fit and energetic, as hisjob requires exhaustive

exercising and demorequired for patients.

� �� Bachelor in Physiotherapy:Pass in 10+2 examination orequivalent examination withat least 50 per cent marks inaggregate in English,Physics, Chemistry and

Biology and one subject withthe highest score out of the

remaining subjects.�Master in Physiotherapy: 50 per

cent marks in aggregate in Bachelorof Physiotherapy from a recogniseduniversity.�Entrance exam: Candidates canapply for entrance to Physiotherapycourses through NEET Exam, andother Entrance Examinations con-ducted by different colleges offeringthe BPT course.

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a Master’s degree can attract a betterpay. But it could defer depending onindividual’s expertise and how goodone is at work.

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Aquarius is one the most tol-erant zodiac sign. He is willingto help others. Aquarius prefersgoing their way as their ideasabout life are often different.Water bearer Aquarius is anintelligent person. He is charis-matic therefore he can easilybecome a leader.

The negative aspect of hischaracter is, he rarely admitshis fault. He makes plan butseldom carries out. He is inde-pendent in his actions. Heenjoys conventional and non-conventional ideas.

Politics: As an Air sign, heis a bit of a dreamer and lovesto engage people in his visionto create an ideal society. As athinker, he is logical. His argu-ments are compelling andbelievable. Combined withhumanitarian zeal, this makeshim a popular choice forpolitical or social leadership

Teacher: Aquarians loveto learn. So teaching is a greatoption for him. He will get tolearn more about specific top-ics and impart that knowledgein students.

Researcher: He can workindividually or in a team to

identify thegoals andobjectives ofthe researchbeing conducted.They then devise a plan,secure money to fund theresearch, and put their skillsto work to draw conclusions.Being an inquisitive Aquarius,he will enjoy this.

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Project manager: He candefine project objectives,develop and administer thebudget, and delegate tasks tocomplete the project efficient-ly. Thus he can make a stableand successful career in anycompany as a project manager

Data analyst: They usedata that their company hascollected to guide decision-making and as an aquarian,his knack for critical thinkingis highly valuable in this role.The analysts often work inoffice environments, so hemay need to ask about work-ing remotely or traveling todifferent company branches toremain engaged.

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Like any other industry, a job in thepublishing industry involves a fairamount of competition and gruntwork and requires bright go-getterswho are not afraid of hard work.

Work in the publishing industry isfast-paced and often requires the abil-ity to manage expectations from vari-ous stakeholders like editors, authors,and publicists with ease and efficiency.There is much more to working in theindustry than being an editor. There aredifferent roles in the industry that callsfor varying skill sets.

Aligning with personal interestand strengths plays a critical role ingaining job satisfaction and hence inbuilding a successful career. An editor,for instance, is in the business of find-ing budding talents, editing and mold-ing a written work into the final prod-uct that is ready for the shelves.Similarly, illustrators are responsible fordesigning accompany graphics andillustrations were required to make thefinal product informative as well as welldesigned to attract readers.

The role of marketers and distrib-utors is to highlight the salient pointsof the published work and publicity ofthe work to gain maximum traction insales.

While publishing has been tradi-tionally associated with printed booksand materials, the advent of the digitalera meant that a lot is happening inthe digital realm. From e-books toself-publishing over the Internet,there has been a continuous onslaughton the publishing industry. Whilesceptics have been proved wrongregarding the impending demise ofthe industry, the digital era has pre-sented the industry with new avenuesfor growth opportunities.

Digital marketing, blogs, socialmedia, podcasts and audio books aresome examples of the new growthopportunities for the industry cour-tesy of the digital age.

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published, distributed, sold and even-tually consumed by the readers haveundergone massive changes. Self-pub-lishing, on-demand printing and e-books, are some of the mainstays ofthe industry today. A positive devel-opment out of all these is that produc-ing creative contents has become fareasier with minimal cost and digitallydistributing contents is cheap andreaches a wider audience as well.

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First, more studies is betterbut remember that studyingmore will help provided you areable to concentrate and learn. Ifyou find it difficult, it is time totake a break. Most of can studysix-eight hours a day.

Studying different areas in aday helps in better concentration.For example, if you plan to studyeight hours a day in chunks oftwo hours, you may do Quant,Reading Comprehension (RC),Data Interpretation (DI) andLogical Reasoning (LR) for twohours each with about 10-15minutes break between everytwo sessions. However, pleaseensure that you should cover allareas every week. Further, weak-er areas should be allotted moretime. The general rule is that theweaker you are in an area, themore time you allocate for thesection. This will help you withthe sectional cutoffs, which arepresent for the IIMs and othergood management institutes.

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taking around two-three, full-length tests in a week will be suf-ficient followed by analysis.When analysing, look at whatyou solved but took too muchtime, look at what you solved butgot wrong and look at what youleft but could have been solvedeasily(i.e. in less time). This willgive you targets to work on forstudy.

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various types of problems in theexam beforehand, you are morelikely to do well on the test. Yourmock tests can serve as an excel-lent source of a large number ofsets which are the level of theexamination.

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New Delhi: Chinese telecom firm Huawei’s sub-brand Honor said today that itis looking to garnet 10 per cent market share in India within three years to be amongthe top three players in the country. As per Counterpoint Research, Honor had 3.4per cent market share in the March quarter this year, up from 1.4 per cent in the year-ago period, putting it among the top five in the Indian smartphone market. “We expectthere will be at least 300 million smartphones that will be sold in the country in next3 years. For being among top three, we will need to have 10 per cent of this marketpotential,” Huawei India-Consumer Business Group, vice-president, Sales, P Sanjeev.He said that Honor has recorded over three-fold jump in sales during the first half ofthis year compared to the entire year’s sales in 2017. “Our (Honor) sales have grownby about 330 per cent in first half of this year compared to our sales for full year in2017,” Sanjeev said after launching Honor 9N series smartphones. He said that salesof company has accelerated after it looked at need of consumers at various price points.“80 per cent consumers buy phone below �15,000 price range. Of this, 55 per cent con-sumers buy smartphones priced below �10,000 and 15 per cent in the range of �8,000-10,000 a unit. With Honor 7A, Honor 7C (priced at �8,999, �9,999) and Honor 9Nwe are reaching out to addressable market,” Sanjeev said. The company unveiled threevariants of Honor 9N ranging from �11,999 to �17,999. “We sold 1 million units ofHonor Lite in 90 days. For Honor 9N we expect to sell at least 1.5 times more thanHonor 9 Lite. In online segment market share is 26 per cent and overall we must havearound 5 per cent,” Sanjeev said. He further said: “Now we have over all infrastruc-ture to be among top three players. Honor 9N is our first device which has been madefrom CKD (completely knocked down) level. We will be able to scale our operationto meet market demand.”

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launch a new platform for refurbished goods as it attempts to tap into a large marketsegment that is predominantly unorganised. Last year, Flipkart had raised USD 1.4 bil-lion from global technology majors eBay, Tencent and Microsoft. In exchange of an equi-ty stake in Flipkart, eBay had made a cash investment of USD 500 million and sold eBay.in(India business) to Flipkart. “Based on our learnings at eBay.in, we have built a brandnew value platform launching with refurbished goods - a large market which is pre-dominantly unorganised... As part of this launch, we will be stopping all customer trans-actions on eBay.in on 14th August, 2018 and transitioning to the new platform,” FlipkartCEO Kalyan Krishnamurthy said in an email to employees. He added that key barri-ers to refurbished goods — trust and convenience — can be solved at scale with Flipkart’scustomer base, and F1 Info solutions and services. “We will keep evolving and bring-ing newer formats, categories and features which cater to the needs of our value-con-scious middle India,” Krishnamurthy said, adding all eBay.in sellers and customers willbe migrated to the new platform. “The new platform has a different value propositioncompared to Flipkart, and will cater to a different target audience. We are committedto investing in this independent brand,” he pointed out. In May this year, eBay had saidit was ending its strategic partnership with Flipkart and will relaunch eBay India witha differentiated offering to focus on cross-border trade.

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Cost of travelling is likely torise sharply in 2019 global-

ly, with hotel prices expected togo up by 3.7 per cent and airfaresby 2.6 per cent, driven by grow-ing economy and rising oilprices, a report said on Tuesday.

“Prices are expected to spikein many global markets even asinflation remains subdued,” saidKurt Ekert, president and chiefexecutive officer, CarlsonWagonlit Travel (CWT). Thefifth annual global travel fore-cast, published by CWT andGlobal Business TravelAssociation, with the support ofthe Carlson Family Foundation,said airfares are likely to becomemore costly due to rising oilprices, the competitive pressurefrom the shortage of pilots,potential trade wars, andincreasing fare segmentation toimprove yield.

The projections in thereport are based on transactiondata from CWT’s global clientportfolio, including anonymisedclient travel patterns, over thepast seven years. It also includeskey macroeconomic and per-country indicators, such as cur-rent and expected GDP growth,the consumer price index,unemployment rates and crudeoil prices. Airfares are likely torise by 3.2 per cent in AsiaPacific next year, including 3.9per cent in China, 7.5 per cent

in New Zealand and 7.3 per centin India, it said. “We expectrobust private consumption tocontinue to drive strong growthin India, despite the impact ofdemonetisation and the imple-mentation of the goods and ser-vices tax beginning to fade,” thereport said. The only exceptionin this region according to thereport is Japan, where prices arelikely drop 3.9 per cent due tothe country’s added capacity inpreparation for the OlympicGames in 2020. In westernEurope, the airfares are likely torise by 4.8 per cent, with theincrease pronounced in coun-tries like Norway (11.5 percent), Germany (7.3 per cent),France (6.9 per cent) and Spain(6.7 per cent). Eastern Europeand the Middle East and Africancountries, on the other hand, willexperience a decline of 2.3 percent and 2 per cent, respective-ly. Meanwhile, the hotel outlookfor the next year is driven by the

overall increase in air travel,which will fuel demand forrooms. In Asia Pacific, hotelprices are likely to rise by 5.1 percent, with New Zealand clock-ing a 11.8 per cent rise.

However, in Japan, pricesare expected to fall by 3.2 percent in 2019. For ground trans-portation, including on-demand, shared, electric, andconnected cars, rates are likelyto stay flat in the Asia Pacific.

New Zealand is expected towhiteness a 4 per centrise, whilein India, the rates will go up by2.7 per cent and Australia by 2.4per cent. Prices in Europe, theMiddle East and Africa are alsoexpected to remain flat overall.

However, countries likeFinland, France, Germany, Italyand Spain are expected to seeover 4 per cent rise in cost ofground transportation, whileDenmark and the UK may wit-ness 3 per cent and 2 per centrise, respectively.

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Country’s largest carmaker MarutiSuzuki India (MSI) is on track

to meet BS VI emission norms,which will come into effect fromApril 2020, a top company executivesaid on Tuesday.

MSI, which on Tuesdaylaunched telematics solution ‘SuzukiConnect’ for its Nexa customers,said its engineers are ‘workinground the clock to make its modelsconform’ to the new emissionnorms. Also, the models are beingupgraded to meet new safety regu-lations that will kick in from nextyear. “On BS VI emission norms weare on track. We will definitelyhave vehicles as per the schedule ofApril 2020. Time is limited but weare making all efforts to meet BS VIemission norms. Our people arealmost working round the clock,”MSI senior executive director(Engineering) CV Raman told PTI.

On company’s strategy regard-ing the upcoming safety rules, hesaid already MSI’s nine models con-form to offset and side impactmandate as well as pedestrian pro-tection, which are yet to be notified.

“So, we are already on course.We will meet all the norms for all themodels before the deadline,” Ramansaid. New safety regulations forexisting models will kick in fromOctober 2019. When asked aboutthe company’s investments on R&Dcentre at Rohtak, Haryana, Ramansaid out of the total outlay of �4,000crore, �2,300 crore has been invest-

ed at the facility. Commenting onSuzuki Connect, he said the servicewould be available as an option thatcan be installed by customers intheir cars across Nexa premiumretail network in the country.

The solution offers features likeemergency alerts, vehicle tracking,driving behaviour analysis, amongothers. “A nationwide extensivestudy was conducted to understandthe challenges that Indian car own-ers face daily and their expectationsfrom these solutions,” MSI SeniorExecutive Director Marketing andSales RS Kalsi said.

Raman said the telematics solu-tion has been developed by Suzukiand Maruti specifically for Indianmarket and can be fitted in existingNexa cars as well. By end of this year,the company would also start offer-ing the solution to vehicles that aresold under Arena network.

Nexa customers would have toshell out an extra �9,999 for three-year subscription to avail the service.MSI sells models like S-Cross,Baleno, Ignis and Ciaz from Nexaretail channel while Dzire, Swift,Brezza and the rest from the Arenanetwork.

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World Cup stars KylianMbappe and Luka

Modric will lead the challengeagainst a decade-long domi-nance of FIFA's best playeraward by Cristiano Ronaldoand Lionel Messi.

Mbappe, the teenage starof France's World Cup-win-ning team, and Modric, theCroatia captain who wasnamed the tournament's bestplayer, joined five-time win-ners Ronaldo and Messiamong 10 candidatesannounced by FIFA onTuesday.

For the first time, FIFAhas opened voting within daysof the World Cup, whereRonaldo and Messi both exit-ed in the round of 16.

France also has AntoineGriezmann and RaphaelVarane, who won a thirdstraight Champions Leaguetitle alongside Modric andRonaldo with Real Madrid, onthe FIFA list.

Varane is the only defend-er selected by a FIFA expertpanel which did not pickBrazil star Neymar. The 13-man panel included threeBrazilians - former FIFAaward winners Ronaldo andKaka, and 1994 World Cup-winning coach Carlos AlbertoParreira.

Belgium, which lost toFrance in the semifinals, hasKevin De Bruyne and EdenHazard on the shortlist.

It is completed by WorldCup golden boot winnerHarry Kane of England andMohamed Salah, the Egyptforward who was inspirational

in Liverpool's run to theChampions League final.

The winners announcedin London on Sept 24 arevoted by national coaches andcaptains, plus media fromFIFA's 211 member coun-tries, and fans voting online.Three f inalists wil l beannounced before the cere-mony.

France could sweep themain awards with DidierDeschamps and ZinedineZidane heading 11 candidatesfor the best men's coach.

Deschamps led France tothe World Cup title, and his1998 World Cup-winningteammate Zidane completedhis Champions League hattrick with Madrid. Zidane,who has since left the club,won the FIFA award last year.

The FIFA men's panelpicked five World Cup coach-es among the contenders: Allfour semif inalists -Deschamps, Zlatko Dalic ofCroatia, Roberto Martinez ofBelgium, and GarethSouthgate of England - plusRussia's Stanislav Cherchesov.

Pep Guardiola is nomi-nated for leading ManchesterCity to a runaway EnglishPremier League title win.Guardiola won the 2011 FIFAaward when coachingBarcelona.

The other nominees are:Massimiliano Allegri(Juventus), Juergen Klopp(Liverpool), Diego Simeone(Atletico Madrid), ErnestoValverde (Barcelona).

At the ceremony, FIFAwill make awards to the bestgoalkeeper, the best goal, anda fan award.

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Bengaluru FC skipper SunilChhetri put pen to paper on a

fresh one-year deal at the IndianSuper League (ISL) club, the Bluesannounced on Tuesday.

The deal, which adds to his cur-rent contract at the club, will see theAIFF 'Player of the Year' be a partof the JSW Group-owned side untilthe end of the 2020-2021 season.

The 33-year-old Chhetri hadearlier signed a three-year dealwith the Blues ahead of their moveto the ISL last season. Chhetri, whois the longest serving player at theclub, spoke of his delight at the

extension."I have always said that this club

and these fans have been the mostfantastic experience of my life andsigning a new deal here is only a wayof giving back to a club that hasgiven so much to me. I've madesome fantastic memories here andI believe there are many more tomake," he said.

Having won the club's 'TopScorer of the Year' award for fiveconsecutive seasons, Chhetri isBengaluru's highest goal scorer,with 71 goals in 144 appearances.

"It's special to have SunilChhetri play for us. He is, by far, thefittest player around and he has

proven so many times that age is justa number," said Parth Jindal, CEOof Bengaluru FC.

"We are excited to have Sunilthe player, more excited to haveSunil the leader and most excited tohave Sunil the enigma. His hunger,desire and passion is immense andhe is the torchbearer of Indian foot-ball. For us, the club was builtaround Sunil and continues to doso. We hope he stays for as long aspossible at BFC in the capacity of aplayer and beyond," he added.

The Blues' first competitivematch of the season kicks off in lessthan a month, when they take onAltyn Asyr FK in semis of AFC Cup.

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Five Indian shuttlers, includ-ing Ajay Jayaram, progressed

to the men's singles secondround of the $75,000 RussiaOpen BWF Tour Super 100here on Tuesday.

Jayaram, who finished run-ners-up at the White NightsInternational Challenge earlierthis month, brushed asideCanada's Xiaodong Sheng 21-14, 21-8 in the opening roundmatch to set up a clash withcompatriot Subhankar Dey, whogot a bye in the first round.

Pratul Joshi dumpedCanada's Jeffrey Lam 21-11,21-8 and will take on Israel'sMisha Zilberman at the SportHall Olympic on Wednesday.

Among others, MithunManjunath, Siddharth PratapSingh and Rahul YadavChittaboina also reached thesecond round.

Mithun defeated Belgium'sElias Bracke 21-14, 21-13,Siddharth beat Malaysia's Jia WeiTan 21-17, 21-16, while Rahulstreamrolled Russia's MaksimMakalov 21-11, 21-10.

While Rahul will face eighthseeded compatriot SourabhVerma, Siddharth meets fellow

Indian Bodhit Joshi.Parupalli Kashyap and

RMV Gurusaidutt, who gotbyes in the first round, will faceJapan's Ryotaro Maruo andRussia's Vladimir Malkovrespectively. Chirag Sen, whowas also handed a bye in the firstround, will take on Pabo Abian.

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Indian paddlers' historic perfor-mance at the 2018 Commonwealth

Games has provided a brilliant plat-form to further grow the sport in thecountry, feels International TableTennis Federation (ITTF) CEO SteveDainton.

India delivered its best perfor-mance in TT at the CWG, bagginga record haul of eight medals, includ-ing an unprecedented Gold in thewomen's team and singles event. Thestar of the stellar campaign wasManika Batra, who ended with fourmedals including two Gold.

"India has the 2nd largest pop-ulation in the World, and TT is a rel-

atively popular sport here. If the mar-ket is to grow in India, then we needmore top-class players playing at thehighest level," Steve said in an inter-view.

"Winning three Gold medals atthe CWG is a good start, it has real-ly taken the imagination of thesport to the people and now we haveto take the next step."

Paired with the the CWG per-formance, the advent of a profes-sional league, Ultimate Table Tennis(UTT), provides the players with the"much needed exposure" and Stevefeels Indians have emerged as thedark horses.

"With Ultimate Table Tennisproviding the exposure to the play-

ers, clubbed with high-performanceprograms with international coach-es, the Indians have been on a roll."

"I really hope that UTT grows.However, UTT is still two years old,a baby, and to be able to execute anevent of such a magnitude is a trulycommendable feat. The level of play-ers who are coming in is prettygood."

Steve also lavished praise onIndia chief national coach MassimoCostantini and expressed his desireto work with the Italian.

"I really like the head coach fromItaly, I hope we can work with himalso in the future. He could maybealso help us with our future projectsbecause there aren't a lot of people

that have been able to go outsidetheir country and bring differentstyles and that's really a successfulstory," he said.

Although India's confidence hasalso been boosted by the new rank-ing, under which as many as six pad-dlers had recently featured in the top100, the ITTF has received a lot offlak from traditional powerhouseslike China. Defending the decision,Steve says it was a commercial move.

"The broadcasters want the bestplayers, the sponsors want the bestplayers and the new world rankingencourages the best to play at topevents. It's quite simple, you needranking that supports your products,which are our major events.

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Barcelona will host RealMadrid in the first clasico of

the Spanish league, in the sea-son calendar announced onTuesday.

B a r c e l o n awill play Madridat Camp Nouduring Round 10on the weekendof Oct 27-28.

Madrid will host their sec-ond meeting during Round 26on the weekend of March 2-3.

The Madrid capital derbieswill be at Real's SantiagoBernabeu on the weekend ofSept 29-30 and at AtleticoMadrid's Wanda Metropolitanoover Feb 9-10.

The season opens on theweekend of Aug 18-19, andends on May 18-19.

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Eight-time Wimbledon cham-pion Roger Federer has

pulled out of next month's ATPRogers Cup tournament inToronto due to scheduling con-cerns.

The 36-year-old Federersaid he needs to be prudentabout how many tournamentshe plays in a season.

"I'm so disappointed not toplay at the Rogers Cup this sum-mer," said world number twoFederer.

"I had a fantastic time inMontreal last year and alwaysenjoy playing in front of theCanadian fans.

"But unfortunately withscheduling being the key to mylongevity moving forward, Ihave regrettably decided to with-draw from Toronto this year."

Jeremy Chardy of Francewill take Federer's place in themain draw.

Organizers said the event,which takes place August 4-12at Toronto's York University,will feature 19 of the top 20 play-ers in the world including reign-ing Wimbledon championNovak Djokovic and worldnumber one Rafael Nadal.

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Leroy Sane has thanked Manchester Citymanager Pep Guardiola for helping

him overcome his World Cup heartbreak.The City forward, who was a key

member of Guardiola's Premier Leaguetitle-winning side last season, was leftstunned by Germany coach JoachimLow's decision to omit him from thesquad for the tournament in Russia.

It was a move which backfired forLow after his side failed to exit the groupstages, leaving many to question thewisdom of leaving out a player who scored10 goals and provided 15 assists in acampaign which ended with himbeing named as the FootballAssociation young player of theyear.

Yet with the Euro 2020qualifiers on the horizon,Sane, who refused to com-ment on the Mezut Ozilracism scandal which hasengulfed German football,believes he will have a chanceto resurrect his internationalcareer under Guardiola's guid-ance.

"Yes, Pep had a chat with meafter it happened," said Sane, whenasked about his shock omission fromGermany's squad.

"We talked about everything and how mymind was and now we are just looking forward."

"I was disappointed but from that moment andnow I'm just looking forward. I'm just preparingto be ready for the start of the new season. It givesyou motivation. It would be a dream to play in theWorld Cup.

"When I watched the World Cup I had the feel-ing that I wanted to be there. But I'm 22 and I stillhave a lot of years to prepare.

"I was disappointed at the time - it was real-ly hard for the first week. It's just made me wantto come back really strong.

"It was a surprise because I thought I'd played

quite a good season. I'm still feeling it (the dis-appointment) a bit but it's another season for meand I'm looking forward to it." Sane took no joy

in seeing his country suffer, despiteexperiencing such a difficult per-sonal setback.

"I was disappointed for themtoo because some of them are myfriends and I've played with thembefore, " he added.

"They are all good guys - andthat's why I was disappointed forthem. The World Cup has specialgames and losing them hurts morethan the other ones."

With Sane fresh after a sum-mer break and one of the few

first team regulars on dutyfor City's pre-season tour

of the United States,Guardiola will at leasthave the German readyfor the Premier Leagueseason opener atArsenal on August12th.

Together with newsigning Riyad Mahrez,

both will look to feature inthe International

Champions Cup match withLiverpool in New Jersey on

Wednesday and hand their managera glimpse of what the future holds.

"A lot of the players went really far in theWorld Cup. I was really happy for them - espe-cially Ben (Mendy) because he won it," said Sane.

"Of course they now need a break to recoverand be fresh for the new season." "I'm happy Riyadis here. Every time we played Leicester and he hadthe ball, I was like 'ok please don't do anything cre-ative'.

"I'm really happy that he's now with us as he'sa really good football player. You can see it already.He's a really good player and a really good per-son."

"Have I told him that? I can't tell him that, thenhe'll be stronger and take my place!"

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Manchester United head coach Jose Mourinhofeels the World Cup was the perfect stage for

France's midfielder Paul Pogba to shine as the envi-ronment is suited for him to concentrate rather thanwhile playing for the English football club.

Pogba had an average season with United butplayed a key role in France's World Cup win, scor-ing in the 4-2 final victory against Croatia.

His form during the tournament was in contrastto his displays for United since his big money movefrom Juventus in 2016.

"I don't think it's about us getting the best outof him, it's about him giving the best he has to give,"Mourinho was quoted saying by ESPN FC.

Mourinho said it is down to the 25-year old, cur-rently on a holiday in Los Angeles, to bring his bestout more than we motivating him.

"I think the World Cup is the perfect habitat fora player like him to give (his) best. Why? Because it'sclosed for a month, where he can only think aboutfootball. Where he's with his team on the trainingcamp, completely isolated from the external world,where they focus just on football, where the dimen-sions of the game can only motivate," he said.

"During a season, you can have a big match thena smaller match, then one even smaller, then you canlose your focus, you can lose your concentration, thencomes a big match again. In the World Cup, the direc-tion of the emotion, of the responsibility, of the bigdecisions is always growing up," the Portuguese tac-tician added.

"You are in the group phase, you go to the last16, to the quarter-finals, to the semi-finals, to the final.This feeds the motivation. This feeds the concen-tration of a player. So I think it was the perfect envi-ronment for him."

Mourinho said Pogba showed "extra commit-ment" while playing for France at the World Cup andshould do the same when he dons the United shirtthis season.

"I think players in the World Cup, they really feelthat extra commitment with a country, with the peo-ple, that extra responsibility that makes them - by theemotional point of view - to be sometimes even over-committed," he said.

"So they play for the team, and the team is themost important thing, and they do everything to tryto succeed. So I think it's the perfect environmentfor a talented player like him to focus on the job."

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