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F aced with squeezing geo- graphical spread and coor- dinated assault by security forces, the Maoists are prepar- ing to unleash deadly attacks to disrupt Assembly elections in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan to boost the dwindling morale of the cadre. According to Intelligence inputs with the Union Home Ministry, the Maoists have opened several training camps to train their cadre in making IEDs and carrying out ambush. One such camp has come up in Rajnandgaon (Chhattisgarh) and another one at Gadchiroli (Maharashtra). The Battalion No 1 of the People’s Liberation Guerilla Army (PLGA) has stationed about 150 trained Maoists in the forest of Chhattisgarh’s South Sukma region, which is a stronghold of the Naxals. Intelligence inputs suggest the CPI(Maoist) has expanded the Madhya Pradesh- Maharashtra-Chhattisgarh tri- junction to target the upcom- ing polls in the three States. The CPI(Maoist) has identified Jharkhand as a base area for training of the cadre to target the elections. Dandakaranya region of Chhattisgarh is already an area of concern for the security forces as the ultras had carried out 47 per cent of the total vio- lent incidents and 84 per cent of the total deaths of security forces in this region in 2017. The Dandakaranya region could also be used to launch attacks in the State besides Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. The outfit plans to target the Assembly elections through spectacular attacks to raise the morale of the cadre in the wake of decreasing area of influence and depleting cadre base. The outfit’s plans also signify that the Maoists’ leadership is emboldened despite major reverses in the recent past, including elimination of top commanders at the hand of security forces. The Maoists are planning the attacks in the backdrop of the fact that for the first time since 1989 the number of vio- lent incidents has come down below the 1000-mark with just 908 incidents being reported in 2017. The security forces achieved kill ratio of over one against the Maoists since 2015 and the trend is continuing. The kill ratio depicts the num- ber Maoists killed for every death of security personnel. Likewise, the number of police stations affected with the Maoist violence has come down from the peak of 465 in 2008 to 291 in 2017. The number of Maoist- affected police stations has also come down from the peak of 2,023 in 2008 to just 563 in 2017. However, the security forces recorded a marginal increase in casualties owing to sustained operations in the core areas of Maoist influence. But sources said there was a reduction in the number of civilians’ death in 2017 in com- parison to 2016. A t least one person died and 26 others injured, some of them grievously, and five oth- ers feared trapped in the debris of the collapsed Kolkata flyover. Popularly known as Majherhat Bridge that flies over a suburban railway track connecting Sealdah to Budge Budge caved in taking along with it a loaded minibus, 5 cars, several two-wheelers and some cycles on Tuesday evening. A tin-shed housing at least 70 labourers working at the- under-construction Joka-BBD Bag Metro Railways, which runs a few feet from the caved bridge, was largely empty with only about 7 night staffers sleeping underneath it, said National Disaster Relief Force jawans, adding, “two persons are responding to our calls from inside the debris. They are referring to two four more people out of which they sus- pect two have already died.” Some injured have been admitted to SSKM Hospital, while others were rushed to CMRI Hospital, sources said. A packed office time sta- tionery local train waiting to depart for Budge Budge from the New Alipore Station just about a hundred yards from the accident site was saved by a whisker, even as Railway authorities immediately sus- pended all trains between New Alipore and Budge Budge, “until inspection of the area and further orders”. I was travelling in a cab at about 4.30 pm when suddenly the vehicle started shaking. Even before I was able to fig- ure out, I found going down along with the car. New Delhi: Rahul Gandhi’s Kailash Mansarovar Yatra visit has courted controversy after reports surfaced in the Nepal media that he had eaten non- vegetarian food en route to the pilgrim site on August 31 when he had stopped over at Kathmandu. A Hindi website quoting a waiter of Vootoo restaurant where Rahul stopped for food said the Congress chief had ordered and liked the dish ‘Chicken Kurkure’. Though the restaurant has denied the report, saying that Rahul had ordered “pure vegetarian food items” from the hotel’s menu, BJP’s information technology initia- tives in-charge Amit Malviya tweeted the report link with a comment, “Gandhi and the Congress are constantly playing with the faith of Hindus”. “There has been plenty of enquiry from the media regarding the food ordered by Rahul, president of Indian National Congress during his visit at Vootoo. We would like to clarify that he ordered pure veg items from the menu. Vootoo has not given any statement to any media regard- ing the food items ordered by him...,” the restaurant said in a Facebook post. This is not for the first time that Rahu’s food habit during religious pilgrimages has come under the BJP’s scanner. Seven months ago, during Karnataka elections, the BJP had not shied away from targeting Rahul for allegedly eating chicken before visiting a temple. Rahul is scheduled to be back in Delhi on September 12 after 12-day pilgrim, party sources said. On August 31 when Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala had announced that Rahul is to take pilgrimage to Kailash Mansarovar, aimed at seeking the blessing of Lord Shiva for prosperity and success of the country, the BJP was quick to react alleging the Congress chief wanted Chinese ambas- sador to give him a ceremoni- al send-off and accused him of holding brief for China every- where like a “Chinese Spokesperson”. BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra sought to know from the Congress as to which politicians and officials Rahul will meet during his visit to China, “his favourite country”. Patra did not comment on Rahul’s pilgrimage, saying it is a personal visit. ‘Kailash Mansarovar’ falls in China. Surjewala had hit back and accused the BJP of trying to create “hurdles” in the yatra, saying by doing so they have invited Lord Shiva’s wrath. PNS with inputs from agencies S tolen decades ago, two Indian sculptures Mahishassurmardini (a sculp- ture of Goddess Durga slaying the buffalo-headed demon Mahishasur) dated 12th Century, and head of a male deity hailing from 5th-6th Century AD — are now final- ly back home. Housed in a New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art for years, the process for their return to India had started last year when the museum author- ities approached the Modi Government, expressing their desire to voluntarily return the duo ancient sculptures. On August 10, John Guy, the Metropolitan museum’s senior curator of South and South East Asian Art, travelled all the way to the Archeological Survey of India (ASI) head- quarters in the national Capital to deliver the antiquities to the agency’s officials. A senior ASI official said the Goddess Durga sculpture was illegally export- ed out from India from Nagarjunakonda, an archaeo- logical site in western Andhra Pradesh. The sculpture of the deity is made of limestone from a temple in Uttarakhand. “We were pleasantly sur- prised when the US museum officials contacted us in the matter. During verification of their antiquities, they had sus- pected the two sculptures to be stolen from here and moved in their collection. “They had sought a detail about the sculptures which we provided immediately. The Durga statue has found mention in our 1969 publication, The Archaeology of Kumann by KP Nautiyal, in which it is described as being housed in the Chakravarteswara Temple at Baijnath, a medieval capital in Uttarakhand. The temple was construct- ed in 1204,” the official added. Talking about the history of the head of the male deity, identified as ‘Bodhisattava’, the official said it was part of the excavated inventory of the Nagarjunakonda site museum. I n yet another incident of lynching, a teenager, who had entered a house to alleged- ly steal valuables, was lynched by locals in northwest Delhi’s Mukundpur in street no-7 in the early hours of Tuesday, fol- lowing which two people have been arrested, police said. PCR received a call about the incident about three hours after the ghastly act. By the time police reached the spot, the 16- year-old boy had succumbed to his injuries, said police, adding that four other accused are absconding. “Around 6.30 am, a PCR call was received about an inci- dent of theft. A team rushed to the spot and found the boy lying dead. The body was shift- ed to Dr Baba Saheb Ambedkar Hospital in Rohini for post mortem,” said Aslam Khan, Deputy Commissioner of Police, North-west district. However, the boy’s family claimed that he was not a thief and there was some other rea- son behind his lynching. “He was missing since Monday night after he had gone for walk. We were informed in the morning around 6 am that my nephew is lying on road near street no-7. I rushed there. I saw him lying motionless on the road with his hands tied injuries all over his body. He had come to study here and had recently started electrician training,” said Ishtiyaq Ahmed, a relative of the deceased, a res- ident of Mukundpur. “The deceased had alleged- ly sneaked into the house around 3.30 am and was caught by the house owner. About six men, including two brothers, beat him in mercilessly with sticks, eventually leading to his death on the spot. A FIR under Section 304 of the IPC has been registered at Bhalaswa Dairy police sta- tion and we are also probing why the PCR was informed three hours after the incident,” said the DCP. “During investigation, six accused people involved in beating the minor boy to death were identified. B haratiya Janata Party national president Amit Shah is arriving on September 5 on a day visit to Chhattisgarh. He would flag off the “Atal Vikas Yatra” led by Chief Minister Dr Raman Singh. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is also going to participate in the Yatra on September 22 at Janjgir Champa and address a public meeting. As per the released sched- ule, Amit Shah would be arriv- ing at Swami Vivekananda Airport Mana at 11.30 am. He along with Chief Minister Dr Raman Singh will proceed to Dongergarh by helicopter after a 10 minutes break. State top leadership of party would accord him warm welcome at the airport. Shah and Chief Minister are expected to reach Rajnandgaon at 12.10 pm where they would then proceed by road to Dongergarh. After reaching Dongergarh, they would offer prayers at Maa Bambleshwari temple, Dongergarh. He would have formal interaction with BJP workers and address the pub- lic meeting at 2.30 pm at Kurubhat Pragyagiri ground. He would also meet few of the beneficiaries under different schemes. Shah would then flag off the ‘Atal Vikas Yatra’. Before proceeding for Raipur, he would take rest at Dongergarh circuit House and is expected to reach Raipur airport at 3.50 pm. Shah would then leave for New Delhi by 4.00 pm. Chhattisgarh Bharatiya Janata Party in a statement said that it would make the yatra successful and worth remem- bering. The importance has been increased as both BJP national president and Prime Minister Narendra Modi are participating. PM would be arriving on September 22 at Janjgir-Champa and be part of Yatra and also address public meeting. As per schedule of Yatra, it would commence from September 5 and concluded on October 5. Chief Minister would cover 6000 kilometres and reach 45 assembly con- stituencies. He would address 42 public meetings. During the period, CM would also par- ticipate in dedication ceremo- ny and lay foundation stone for different works. He would also distribute Rs 700 crore bonus. Chief Minister’s Yatra on day one would reach Takhatpur at 3.40 pm after the flag off where he would address the public meeting and reach Bilha by 5.00 pm. He would then par- ticipate in ‘Teacher’s Day’ cel- ebration. He would then par- ticipate in the road show from Tifra to Bilaspur. He would then meet MISA detainees. BJP state president, Amar Agrawal, incharge Minister Ajay Chandrakar along with party office bearers and work- ers would be present. Meanwhile, PWD Minister Rajesh Munat inspected the Kurubhat meeting venue. U nder Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGA) for dif- ferent sectors, registering excel- lence at three levels, Chhattisgarh would receive six national awards. The award would be given away at the annual award ceremony to be organised by Union Ministry of Rural Development Ministry at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi on September 11. Panchayat and rural devel- opment department officials said that Union Ministry of Rural Development every year under MNREGA for excellent performance in different sec- tors, the States, districts, village panchayat and postal depart- mental officials at national level are awarded. As per the award announced by central Government for this year national award, Chhattisgarh has received six national award in three tiers, two at State level, one at district level and three awards for postal depart- ment employees. As per the circular issued by central Government, Chhattisgarh is jointly declared winner with Mizoram for State level Award on Implementation of Barefoot Technicians Project. The project is to provide tech- nical assistance at ground level for implementation of the con- struction works under the scheme for which rural area youth are trained as barefoot technicians, so the better implementation of scheme takes place. The second award is GeoMGNREGA Award for State level Initiatives in which Chhattisgarh is placed in 2nd position. Under the scheme, the assets geographical status is earmarked through Geo- MGNREGA Application for which the Chhattisgarh is placed in 2nd position. GP level award for effective initiatives by Gram Daak Sevak in M G N R E G A Administration will go to Shiv Kumar Krishe, Gramin Dak Sevak, Naur BO, Pandaria SO, Durg Division, Parmeshwar Singh, Jaisindhu Sub Postmaster, Devbhog SO, Raipur division and Sourabh Kumar Asati, Inspector (Posts), Sub Divisional Inspector (Post), Gariaband sub Division, Gariaband. For effective imple- mentation of MGNREGA by District Team, Jashpur, Chhattisgarh is third in position. The award is for 2016-17 year scheme period. RNI Regn. No. CHHENG/2012/42718, Postal Reg. No. - RYP DN/34/2013-2015

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Faced with squeezing geo-graphical spread and coor-

dinated assault by securityforces, the Maoists are prepar-ing to unleash deadly attacks todisrupt Assembly elections inChhattisgarh, Madhya Pradeshand Rajasthan to boost thedwindling morale of the cadre.

According to Intelligenceinputs with the Union HomeMinistry, the Maoists haveopened several training campsto train their cadre in makingIEDs and carrying out ambush.One such camp has come up inRajnandgaon (Chhattisgarh)and another one at Gadchiroli(Maharashtra). The BattalionNo 1 of the People’s LiberationGuerilla Army (PLGA) hasstationed about 150 trainedMaoists in the forest ofChhattisgarh’s South Sukmaregion, which is a stronghold ofthe Naxals.

Intelligence inputs suggestthe CPI(Maoist) has expandedthe Madhya Pradesh-Maharashtra-Chhattisgarh tri-junction to target the upcom-

ing polls in the three States. TheCPI(Maoist) has identifiedJharkhand as a base area fortraining of the cadre to targetthe elections.

Dandakaranya region ofChhattisgarh is already an areaof concern for the securityforces as the ultras had carriedout 47 per cent of the total vio-lent incidents and 84 per centof the total deaths of securityforces in this region in 2017.The Dandakaranya regioncould also be used to launchattacks in the State besidesMadhya Pradesh andRajasthan.

The outfit plans to targetthe Assembly elections throughspectacular attacks to raise themorale of the cadre in the wakeof decreasing area of influenceand depleting cadre base. Theoutfit’s plans also signify thatthe Maoists’ leadership isemboldened despite majorreverses in the recent past,including elimination of topcommanders at the hand ofsecurity forces.

The Maoists are planningthe attacks in the backdrop of

the fact that for the first timesince 1989 the number of vio-lent incidents has come downbelow the 1000-mark with just908 incidents being reported in2017. The security forcesachieved kill ratio of over oneagainst the Maoists since 2015and the trend is continuing.The kill ratio depicts the num-ber Maoists killed for everydeath of security personnel.

Likewise, the number ofpolice stations affected with theMaoist violence has come

down from the peak of 465 in2008 to 291 in 2017.

The number of Maoist-affected police stations hasalso come down from the peakof 2,023 in 2008 to just 563 in2017. However, the securityforces recorded a marginalincrease in casualties owing tosustained operations in thecore areas of Maoist influence.But sources said there was areduction in the number ofcivilians’ death in 2017 in com-parison to 2016.

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At least one person died and26 others injured, some of

them grievously, and five oth-ers feared trapped in the debrisof the collapsed Kolkata flyover.

Popularly known asMajherhat Bridge that fliesover a suburban railway trackconnecting Sealdah to BudgeBudge caved in taking alongwith it a loaded minibus, 5 cars,several two-wheelers and somecycles on Tuesday evening.

A tin-shed housing at least70 labourers working at the-under-construction Joka-BBDBag Metro Railways, whichruns a few feet from the cavedbridge, was largely empty withonly about 7 night stafferssleeping underneath it, saidNational Disaster Relief Forcejawans, adding, “two personsare responding to our calls

from inside the debris. They arereferring to two four morepeople out of which they sus-pect two have already died.”

Some injured have beenadmitted to SSKM Hospital,while others were rushed toCMRI Hospital, sources said.

A packed office time sta-tionery local train waiting todepart for Budge Budge fromthe New Alipore Station justabout a hundred yards from theaccident site was saved by awhisker, even as Railwayauthorities immediately sus-pended all trains between NewAlipore and Budge Budge,“until inspection of the areaand further orders”.

I was travelling in a cab atabout 4.30 pm when suddenlythe vehicle started shaking.Even before I was able to fig-ure out, I found going downalong with the car.

New Delhi: Rahul Gandhi’sKailash Mansarovar Yatra visithas courted controversy afterreports surfaced in the Nepalmedia that he had eaten non-vegetarian food en route to thepilgrim site on August 31 whenhe had stopped over atKathmandu.

A Hindi website quoting awaiter of Vootoo restaurantwhere Rahul stopped for foodsaid the Congress chief hadordered and liked the dish‘Chicken Kurkure’. Though therestaurant has denied the report,saying that Rahul had ordered“pure vegetarian food items”from the hotel’s menu, BJP’sinformation technology initia-tives in-charge Amit Malviyatweeted the report link with acomment, “Gandhi and theCongress are constantly playingwith the faith of Hindus”.

“There has been plenty ofenquiry from the mediaregarding the food ordered byRahul, president of IndianNational Congress during hisvisit at Vootoo. We would liketo clarify that he ordered pureveg items from the menu.Vootoo has not given anystatement to any media regard-ing the food items ordered byhim...,” the restaurant said in a

Facebook post.This is not for the first time

that Rahu’s food habit duringreligious pilgrimages has comeunder the BJP’s scanner. Sevenmonths ago, during Karnatakaelections, the BJP had not shiedaway from targeting Rahul forallegedly eating chicken beforevisiting a temple.

Rahul is scheduled to beback in Delhi on September 12after 12-day pilgrim, partysources said.

On August 31 whenCongress chief spokespersonRandeep Surjewala hadannounced that Rahul is to takepilgrimage to KailashMansarovar, aimed at seekingthe blessing of Lord Shiva forprosperity and success of thecountry, the BJP was quick toreact alleging the Congresschief wanted Chinese ambas-sador to give him a ceremoni-al send-off and accused him ofholding brief for China every-where like a “ChineseSpokesperson”.

BJP spokesperson SambitPatra sought to know from theCongress as to which politiciansand officials Rahul will meetduring his visit to China, “hisfavourite country”. Patra did notcomment on Rahul’s pilgrimage,saying it is a personal visit.‘Kailash Mansarovar’ falls inChina. Surjewala had hit backand accused the BJP of trying tocreate “hurdles” in the yatra,saying by doing so they haveinvited Lord Shiva’s wrath. PNS with inputs from agencies

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Stolen decades ago, twoIndian sculptures —

Mahishassurmardini (a sculp-ture of Goddess Durga slayingthe buffalo-headed demonMahishasur) dated 12thCentury, and head of a maledeity hailing from 5th-6thCentury AD — are now final-ly back home.

Housed in a New York’sMetropolitan Museum of Artfor years, the process for theirreturn to India had started lastyear when the museum author-ities approached the ModiGovernment, expressing theirdesire to voluntarily return theduo ancient sculptures.

On August 10, John Guy,the Metropolitan museum’ssenior curator of South andSouth East Asian Art, travelledall the way to the ArcheologicalSurvey of India (ASI) head-quarters in the national Capitalto deliver the antiquities to theagency’s officials. A senior ASIofficial said the Goddess Durgasculpture was illegally export-ed out from India fromNagarjunakonda, an archaeo-logical site in western AndhraPradesh. The sculpture of thedeity is made of limestonefrom a temple in Uttarakhand.

“We were pleasantly sur-prised when the US museumofficials contacted us in thematter. During verification of

their antiquities, they had sus-pected the two sculptures to bestolen from here and moved intheir collection.

“They had sought a detailabout the sculptures which weprovided immediately.

The Durga statue hasfound mention in our 1969publication, The Archaeologyof Kumann by KP Nautiyal, inwhich it is described as being

housed in theChakravarteswara Temple atBaijnath, a medieval capital inUttarakhand.

The temple was construct-ed in 1204,” the official added.

Talking about the history ofthe head of the male deity,identified as ‘Bodhisattava’, theofficial said it was part of theexcavated inventory of theNagarjunakonda site museum.

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In yet another incident oflynching, a teenager, who

had entered a house to alleged-ly steal valuables, was lynchedby locals in northwest Delhi’sMukundpur in street no-7 inthe early hours of Tuesday, fol-lowing which two people havebeen arrested, police said.

PCR received a call aboutthe incident about three hoursafter the ghastly act. By the timepolice reached the spot, the 16-year-old boy had succumbed tohis injuries, said police, addingthat four other accused areabsconding.

“Around 6.30 am, a PCRcall was received about an inci-dent of theft. A team rushed tothe spot and found the boylying dead. The body was shift-ed to Dr Baba Saheb AmbedkarHospital in Rohini for postmortem,” said Aslam Khan,Deputy Commissioner ofPolice, North-west district.

However, the boy’s familyclaimed that he was not a thiefand there was some other rea-son behind his lynching. “He

was missing since Mondaynight after he had gone forwalk. We were informed in themorning around 6 am that mynephew is lying on road nearstreet no-7. I rushed there. Isaw him lying motionless onthe road with his hands tiedinjuries all over his body. Hehad come to study here andhad recently started electriciantraining,” said Ishtiyaq Ahmed,a relative of the deceased, a res-ident of Mukundpur.

“The deceased had alleged-ly sneaked into the housearound 3.30 am and was caughtby the house owner. About sixmen, including two brothers,beat him in mercilessly withsticks, eventually leading to hisdeath on the spot.

A FIR under Section 304of the IPC has been registeredat Bhalaswa Dairy police sta-tion and we are also probingwhy the PCR was informedthree hours after the incident,”said the DCP.

“During investigation, sixaccused people involved inbeating the minor boy to deathwere identified.

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Bharatiya Janata Partynational president Amit

Shah is arriving on September5 on a day visit to Chhattisgarh.He would flag off the “AtalVikas Yatra” led by ChiefMinister Dr Raman Singh.Prime Minister Narendra Modiis also going to participate inthe Yatra on September 22 atJanjgir Champa and address apublic meeting.

As per the released sched-ule, Amit Shah would be arriv-ing at Swami VivekanandaAirport Mana at 11.30 am. Healong with Chief Minister DrRaman Singh will proceed toDongergarh by helicopter aftera 10 minutes break. State topleadership of party wouldaccord him warm welcome atthe airport.

Shah and Chief Ministerare expected to reachRajnandgaon at 12.10 pmwhere they would then proceedby road to Dongergarh. Afterreaching Dongergarh, they

would offer prayers at MaaBambleshwari temple,Dongergarh. He would haveformal interaction with BJPworkers and address the pub-lic meeting at 2.30 pm atKurubhat Pragyagiri ground.He would also meet few of thebeneficiaries under differentschemes. Shah would then flagoff the ‘Atal Vikas Yatra’. Beforeproceeding for Raipur, hewould take rest at Dongergarhcircuit House and is expectedto reach Raipur airport at 3.50pm. Shah would then leave forNew Delhi by 4.00 pm.

Chhattisgarh BharatiyaJanata Party in a statement saidthat it would make the yatrasuccessful and worth remem-bering. The importance hasbeen increased as both BJPnational president and PrimeMinister Narendra Modi areparticipating. PM would bearriving on September 22 atJanjgir-Champa and be part ofYatra and also address publicmeeting.

As per schedule of Yatra, it

would commence fromSeptember 5 and concluded onOctober 5. Chief Ministerwould cover 6000 kilometresand reach 45 assembly con-stituencies. He would address42 public meetings. Duringthe period, CM would also par-ticipate in dedication ceremo-ny and lay foundation stone fordifferent works. He would alsodistribute Rs 700 crore bonus.

Chief Minister’s Yatra onday one would reach Takhatpurat 3.40 pm after the flag offwhere he would address thepublic meeting and reach Bilhaby 5.00 pm. He would then par-ticipate in ‘Teacher’s Day’ cel-ebration. He would then par-ticipate in the road show fromTifra to Bilaspur. He wouldthen meet MISA detainees.BJP state president, AmarAgrawal, incharge MinisterAjay Chandrakar along withparty office bearers and work-ers would be present.Meanwhile, PWD MinisterRajesh Munat inspected theKurubhat meeting venue.

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Employment GuaranteeScheme (MGNREGA) for dif-ferent sectors, registering excel-lence at three levels,Chhattisgarh would receive sixnational awards. The awardwould be given away at theannual award ceremony to beorganised by Union Ministry ofRural Development Ministry atVigyan Bhawan in New Delhion September 11.

Panchayat and rural devel-opment department officialssaid that Union Ministry ofRural Development every yearunder MNREGA for excellentperformance in different sec-tors, the States, districts, villagepanchayat and postal depart-mental officials at nationallevel are awarded.

As per the awardannounced by central

Government for this yearnational award, Chhattisgarhhas received six national awardin three tiers, two at Statelevel, one at district level andthree awards for postal depart-ment employees.

As per the circular issuedby central Government,Chhattisgarh is jointly declaredwinner with Mizoram for Statelevel Award on Implementationof Barefoot Technicians Project.The project is to provide tech-nical assistance at ground levelfor implementation of the con-struction works under thescheme for which rural areayouth are trained as barefoottechnicians, so the betterimplementation of schemetakes place.

The second award isGeoMGNREGA Award forState level Initiatives in whichChhattisgarh is placed in 2ndposition. Under the scheme,the assets geographical status is

earmarked through Geo-MGNREGA Applicationfor which the Chhattisgarhis placed in 2nd position.

GP level award foreffective initiatives byGram Daak Sevak inM G N R E G AAdministration will go toShiv Kumar Krishe,Gramin Dak Sevak, NaurBO, Pandaria SO, DurgDivision, ParmeshwarSingh, Jaisindhu SubPostmaster, Devbhog SO,Raipur division andSourabh Kumar Asati,Inspector (Posts), SubDivisional Inspector (Post),Gariaband sub Division,Gariaband.

For effective imple-mentation of MGNREGAby District Team, Jashpur, Chhattisgarh isthird in position. Theaward is for 2016-17 yearscheme period.

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Accusing the Congress of“mainstreaming” Maoists,

the BJP on Tuesday quoted aletter purportedly seized inpolice raid alleging that senior Congress leaders werepro-actively funding Maoistactivities.

Addressing a press confer-ence here, BJP spokespersonSambit Patra said a letterexchanged by two Maoists onSeptember 25, 2017, mentioneda telephone number that“belongs to none other thanRahul Gandhi’s mentor andCongress leader DigvijaySingh,” he alleged.

He said the letterexchanged between the twoLeft-wing members details thatthe Congress leaders were “very

much willing to assist” andcontact number given in thecommunication is that ofSingh, Patra alleged.

“A letter b/w 2 comradesSurendra & Prakash ofSeptember 25, 2017, has beenfound in recent raids. A line inletter reads, ‘Congress leadersare very much willing to assistin this process & have alsoagreed to fund further agita-tions whenever such opportu-nities arrive’,” Patra quoted thesaid letter.

“In this regard, you cancontact our friend onthis... .number,” the BJPspokesman further referredthe letter adding “this phonenumber belongs to none otherthan Rahul Gandhi’s mentor &Congress leader Digvijay Singh.Digvijay Singh hasn’t clarified

that it’s not his number &thus, has accepted that it’s his,”the BJP leader added.

Patra said Congress-ledUPA dispensations did every-thing to “mainstream” Maoistsin the Government and gavethem key posts. In this respect,he referred to NationalAdvisory Council (NAC) con-stituted in the first UPA tenure (2004-2009) which hesaid was filled with the left-wing activists.

“There are some who haveromanticised Naxalism withinthe Congress party. The biggestexample of this was the NAC bythe Congress, which was thebrainchild of Sonia Gandhiand closest to her. That body was the ground for sup-porting Naxalism,” the BJPspokesman said.

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In a major technical decisionto deal with punctuality issue

due to deceleration of trainswhile passing railway stationand curves, the Indian Railwayshas decided to opt for worldstandards that allow passengertrains to cross stations, halts,loop lines, turnouts and curva-tures at over 50 kilometre perhour. At present the speed limitin such cases in 15 km per hour.

For instance, a passengertrain starting from New DelhiRailway Station which does nothas a stoppage at HazratNizamuddin Station needs toslow down to 15 kmph whilecrossing the stretch. But afterthe new technicalities approvedby Research Design andStandards Organisation(RDSO) comes in force, thetrain can continue with its topaccelerated speed thus not los-ing time soon after it started itsjourney from New Delhi.

Following the worst everpunctuality figures during thelast several months, RailwayBoard has taken several stepswhich include two significantones related to speed of the

trains. Last month, the Boardallowed train pilots to acceler-ate to the top permissible limitto make up for the loss, if any.The second decision was toseek approval from RDSO tomaximise speed at curves andstation crossings.

RDSO, a CentralGovernment organisation,through a letter August 29,2018, approved the RailwayBoard’s demand for increasing the speed overturnouts and loop lines to 50kmph subjected to certainadditions/modifications andcorrections of the infrastruc-

tures wherever required.“Up-gradation of speed to

50 kmph on turnout and looplines should cover a number ofcontiguous stations at a stretchso as to derive a perceptibleadvantage of the higher speedin train operation,” said RDSO Director General MHussain in his approval sanc-tion to railway board.

However, the RDSO hasinstructed the railways thatbefore the introduction of thenew speed manual, screeningsof thick web curved switchesover pre-stressed concrete(PSC) sleepers, curves with

150mm clean ballast cushion,all rail joints on these turnoutsand other technicalities shouldbe done and duly inspected

Further, it suggested thatlayouts of each and everyturnout and cross-overs wherethe 50 kmph speed is pro-posed, including versines overturn-in curves, has to bechecked for correct laying orgeometrical defects in layoutand be rectified beforeapproaching the Commissionerfor Rail Safety (CRS) who final-ly permits speed.

Last month, the RailwayMinistry directed train dri-vers to hit the top permissiblespeed to make up for the losttravel time. The punctualityperformance of IndianRailways in 2017-18 was worsein comparison to the two finan-cial years before that, withalmost 30 per cent of its trainsrunning late.

The punctuality of mailand express trains during April2017-March 2018 was 71.39per cent as compared to 76.69per cent in the correspondingperiod of 2016-2017, which isa deterioration of 5.30 percent. In 2015-2016, 77.44 percent trains ran on time.

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The Congress on Tuesdaylashed out at the BJP, saying

there was an undeclared emer-gency in the country and tak-ing action against a young girlfor raising slogan, against theBJP Government in a flight wasnot just an assault on the free-dom of speech and expressionbut also on India’s Constitution.

Congress spokespersonManish Tewari said the battle for2019 would be between what hecalled “fascism” represented bythe BJP and democracy repre-sented by the progressive andpluralistic forces in this countryand would be a “battle for thevery soul of India”.

He said the incident involv-ing the young girl in Tamil Naduwas the second one after fiveactivists were arrested from allover the country by the PunePolice. The Congress leaderdubbed the BJP’s Tamil Naduchief ’s defence as “undemocra-tic and uncalled for”, which isalso “completely reprehensible”.

“If this is not undeclaredemergency, then how else wouldyou characterise this situation?What happened in Tamil Naduyesterday on the flight fromChennai to Tuticorin was notonly an assault on the freedomof speech and expression, notonly an assault on our funda-mental rights, it was an assaulton the Constitution of India, itwas an assault on democracy, itwas an assault on the Idea ofIndia. It was fascism playingitself out in its fullest glory,” hetold reporters.

Tewari alleged this was apattern which has been playingitself out repeatedly and sys-tematically since 2014, whenthe BJP-NDA Governmentcame to power.

He said this pattern startedwith the “assault” on students ofFilm Institute in Pune, andincidents like the unfortunatesuicide of Rohith Vemula, dere-cognition of Periyar study cir-cle in IIT-Madras and “vilifica-tion campaign” of Jawaharlal

Nehru University are examplesin this regard.

He said there is a narrativewhich the NDA-BJPGovernment has been consis-tently trying to peddle, whichsays there will be only one voicein this country and that wouldbe of the BJP-RSS.

“If anybody else speaks, hewill be thrown into jail. If youquestion the BJP, you are anti-national. If you question theGovernment, you are a traitor.If you question the establish-ment, you are downright sedi-tious,” he said.

“Is this the India that wewant? And therefore, it isbecoming increasingly clearthat the battle for 2019 is goingto be between fascism repre-sented by the BJP and democ-racy represented by the pro-gressive and pluralistic forces ofthis country.

“This is going to be the bat-tle for 2019. This is not mere-ly the removal of a Governmentand its replacement by anoth-er, 2019 is going to be a battleto be ‘very soul of India’,” hesaid. The Congress leaderalleged “fascism” was on fulldisplay when the young girl inTamil Nadu “hit a raw nerve”when she allegedly raised slo-gans against the BJPGovernment” and alleged that“unbridled arrogance” was ondisplay when the BJP statechief lodged a complaintagainst her and she was sent to15 days of judicial custody.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi onTuesday urged the teachers of the coun-

try to bring out inherent strength and tal-ents from within the students. Modi said thisduring his interaction with the recipients ofNational Teachers’ Awards and on theoccasion he congratulated the nationalawardees for their efforts towards improv-ing the quality of education in the country.

Modi commended their dedicationtowards education and for making it their“life mantra”. He said a teacher remains ateacher throughout his or her life.

During the interaction, Modi urged theawardees to mobilise the community andto make them an integral part of schooldevelopment. He also exhorted the teach-

ers to work towards bringing out the inher-ent strength of students, especially thosefrom poor and rural background.

The Prime Minister said the educatorsshould work towards removing disconnectbetween the teachers and the students, sothat teachers are remembered by the stu-dents throughout their lives. He alsoencouraged the teachers to digitally trans-form their schools and its neighbourhood.

During the interaction with the PrimeMinister, the awardees narrated their sto-ries in transforming their schools into cen-tres of learning and excellence. They alsothanked the Prime Minister for the newonline nomination process and for schemessuch as Digital India, which is bringing abig qualitative change in school educationthroughout the country.

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The Special NIA Court,Ernakulam on Tuesday

framed charges against sevenout of eight accused persons inthe ISIS Omar Al-Hindi case.With the framing of thecharges, the trial is expected tobegin on September 26.

The case was registeredsuo-motu by NIA on October1, 2016, based on reliable infor-mation regarding the activities

of certain youth, who had theintention of furthering theobjectives of the banned ter-rorist organisation ISIS, insouthern Indian States ofKerala and Tamil Nadu.

These youth had allegedlygot together and formed anISIS terror module namedAnsarul Khilafa-KL over socialmedia platforms and had madepreparations to carry out ter-rorist attacks against prominentpersons, including judges,

police officers and politiciansand also against foreign nation-als and rationalists.

The NIA had arrested sixmembers of the terror moduleon October 2, 2016, a dayafter registering the case whenthey were allegedly holding aconspiracy meeting atKanakamala in Kannur districtof Kerala. Subsequently, anoth-er member of the module wasarrested on February 15, 2017,following his deportation fromthe UAE.

In this case, the NIA hadon October 5, 2016, also arrest-ed an ISIS operative SubahaniHaja Moideen, alias, AbuJasmine who had travelled to

Iraq/Syria during April, 2015,and had fought for the terror-ist organisation in the IslamicCaliphate announced by it.Moideen had returned to Indiaduring September 2015 andcontinued his activities in sup-port of the ISIS in India.

The agency had filed thechargesheet against accusedpersons Manseed Muhmood,

Swalih Mohammed, RashidAli, Ramshad NK, Safvan,Jasim NK and ShajeerMangalassery for criminal con-spiracy and various sections ofthe Unlawful Activities(Prevention) Act.

A supplementarychargesheet was filed againstaccused Moinudheen onAugust 11, 2017.

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As many as nine pilot stud-ies have been rolled out in

11 States to test the effective-ness of modern technologies inassessing the extent of yield lossfor payment of crop insuranceclaims. The pilot studies arebeing carried out in AndhraPradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh,Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh,Maharashtra, Odisha, Punjab,Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu andTelangana.

The pilots are being con-ducted by the National RemoteSensing Centre (NRSC),CGIAR Research Programmeon Climate Change, Agricultureand Food Security (CCAFS),SatSure, Space ApplicationCentre (SAC), Skymet, CropIn,Niruthi, Indian AgriculturalStatistics Research Institute(IASRI) and Weather Risk.

Currently, the crop cuttingexperiment (CCE) — the tra-ditional random surveymethod — is used to estimatecrop yields of a location. Underthe Pradhan Mantri Fasal BimaYojana (PMFBY), States arerequired to carry out at leastfour CCEs in every village

panchayat for each crop andsubmit the yield data to insur-ance companies within onemonth of harvest. It hasbecome a challenge to conductCCEs in a short span consid-ering 2.5 lakh gram panchay-ats in India.

In this backdrop, theAgriculture Ministry wants touse modern technologies to getthe crop yield figures faster andaccurately for payment of crop

insurance claims. A workshopwas also conducted on ninepilot studies here Tuesday.

“The Government of Indiahas rolled out nine pilot studieson optimisation of CCE usingmodern technologies aimingto resolve various challengesfaced by the Scheme,” the min-istry said in a statement.

The nine pilot studies areconducted in 23 districts spreadacross 11 States. The study is

expected to be completed byFebruary 2019, after analysingthe use of technology in par-ticular areas of crops during2018 kharif season and crops inrabi season of 2018-19, it said.

Technologies like scalableyield mapper for integratingremote sensing data in cropgrowth simulation model, cropdetection algorithm, crop healthmonitoring, Integrated SamplingMethodology using remotesensing, deep stratification,index based insurance for flood,intelligent and smart samplingtechnique, among others arebeing piloted in the field.

“The inclusion of suchtechnological interventions isexpected to address the issuesof large number of CCE beingconducted during short har-vesting window with limitedmanpower,” the ministry said.

Such technology-basedsolutions will help in achievingthe objective with limitedresource, more accuracy, result-ing in timely settlement ofclaims and will further facilitateto reduce the unit area ofinsurance to a level lower thanthe present village and pan-chayat level, it added.

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The farmers union on Tuesdaysaid the September 5 protest by

workers and farmers at RamlilaMaidan in Delhi will not be the lastrally and they warned to intensi-fy their struggle against the “anti-people” policies of the Centre.

The farmers and workers, par-ticipating in the rally, want remu-nerative prices for crops as per theSwaminathan Committee recom-mendations, debt waiver of allfarmers and agricultural workers,minimum wage of not less than Rs18,000 per month for workers.

The rally — Mazdoor KisanSangharsh March — is beingorganised jointly by CITU, AIKSand AIAWU, organisations andunions affiliated to the CommunistParty of India (Marxist).

“This is the first time...AfterIndependence that farmers andworkers will jointly participate in arally against the Government,”CITU general secretary Tapan Sentold reporters, adding, “And it willnot be the last one of our efforts.”

“We will announce the secondphase of our struggle and waragainst the Government, whoseanti-people policies are affectingthe poor people of our country.This Government is only makingpolicies keeping in mind the inter-ests of the corporate and the rich,”

Sen said.Last week, the organisers said

they were expecting more thanthree lakh people from across thecountry at the rally. Preparations forthe rally had been under way forseveral days but incessant rainover the last few days threw all thatinto disarray, damaging themakeshift shelters at RamlilaMaidan, the venue for the protest.However, the thousands of partic-ipants who have come from all overthe country appeared confident thatthe rally would be successful inhighlighting their issues of concern.

Punik Narayan Rau, 70, hascome from Nashik. Rau said hewas part of the “Long March” offarmers from Nashik to Mumbaiearlier this year. The march offarmers was led by All India KisanSabha and was, among otherdemands, for proper implementa-tion of Maharashtra Government’sloan waiver scheme.

Rau said he was disappointedwith Maharashtra Government.“The BJP Government inMaharashtra fooled us. I have cometo Delhi to raise my voice againstthe anti-farmer policies of theCentre. I will not stop till I get theright price for my crops,” he said.

Swaroop, 25, from Kerala, saidhe had seen more rain in his homeState Kerala this monsoon. Alongwith his three friends, he coveredthe distance on motorbikes.

“Me and my friends travelledfrom Kerala to Delhi in seven dayscrossing many States likeKarnataka, Tamil Nadu, Telangana,Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra,Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradeshmeeting farmers on our way.

“We realised that the state offarmers is seriously bad. We told them that the time has cometo raise our voice against the Government’s policies,”Swaroop said.

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Restoring the prestige of theUpper House is his “imme-

diate” priority, Vice-Presidentand Rajya Sabha Chairman MVenkaiah Naidu said Tuesday ashe called for reframing rules totake care of “erring members”and suggested stricter provi-sions in the anti-defection law.

In an interview to PTI,Naidu also suggested a host ofreforms such as a decision bypresiding officers within threemonths of receiving a com-plaint against a member forchanging party allegiance, andsetting up special courts dedi-cated to election-related peti-tions for speedy disposal.

Those leaving their partiesmust also quit their Housemembership, Naidu said, elab-orating on his suggestion toreform the anti-defection law for quick action againstparty hoppers.

“This is the minimummoral responsibility. I want tomake it a Constitutionalresponsibility. Morals, somefollow, some don’t,” Naidu,who completed a year in officelast month, said. The currentlaw on defections does notprescribe a deadline for pre-siding officers to dispose ofcomplaints submitted by polit-ical parties against defectors.

According to the law, atleast two-third members of alegislature party have to defectfor escaping punitive measureslike losing membership of theHouse. “The time has comethat rules of Parliament shouldbe reframed to take care of erring members and this is pos-sible if there is a consensus,”Naidu said.

He said a committee

appointed by him to reviseRajya Sabha rules has submit-ted a preliminary report andwill submit the final report bythe end of October.

“My immediate concern isrestoring prestige and decorumof Rajya Sabha...,” he said whenasked about his priorities in hissecond year in office. Expressinghis concern over the delay inpresiding officers deciding oncases, he said there have beeninstances when a decision hastaken five years. “That is wrong...Every party tries to take advan-tage. All these petitions shouldbe disposed of in three months,”Naidu said.

Loopholes in the anti-defection act have to beaddressed by amending thelaw to take care of “grey areas”.Citing his decision on a JanataDal (United) plea for disqual-ification of its Rajya SabhaMP Sharad Yadav, he said hehad shown the way.

Naidu had disqualifiedYadav in December last year

within three months of receiv-ing the complaint against him.“If you (presiding officer) sit onit and delay it, then it meansyou are going against the spir-it of the law,” he said.

Naidu also asked politicalparties to forge consensus on anational policy for LegislativeCouncils in states, saying thereis a feeling among people thatit is for the “rehabilitation” ofpoliticians who are unable toget elected.

But he has not taken astand on the issue, the Vice-President clarified. “I am nottaking a specific position in thisregard. I am more on havinguniformity...There has to be abasis even if you want to havea Legislative Council,” he said,noting that only seven of 29States have Legislative Councils.

Days after Prime MinisterNarendra Modi praised him forbeing a “disciplinarian”, thevice president said no countrycan progress, prosper or bestrong without discipline.

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In a major decision taken infavour of the farmers of

Chhattisgarh, the Cabinet ledby Chief Minister Raman Singhdecided to provide Rs 300 perquintal of bonus on the paddyprocured from the farmers. Itmeans that farmer would getmore than Rs 2000 per quintal.This would benefit around 13lakh farmers of State.

BJP had in its manifestohad promised to give Rs 300per quintal bonus to the farm-ers during last election. Thiskharif year state governmenthas set a target to purchase 75lakh metric tonne of paddyfrom state farmers. The pro-curement for Kharif 2018 is tocommence from November 1.

Cabinet for it has made anadditional Budgetary provi-sion of Rs 2400. Discussion washeld to include the supple-mentary cost, through a sup-plementary budget by calling aspecial two days session ofstate assembly i.e. onSeptember 11-12. Permissionof Governor has been sought tocall the session. As per party

sources, on September 11 thesupplementary budget wouldbe tabled. Before that Housewould pay tributes toChhattisgarh GovernorBalramji Das Tandon and for-mer Prime Minister late AtalBehari Vajpayee. Discussionon budget would be held onSeptember 12 and then passed.

The State Government isalso ensuring that the pro-cured paddy price and bonus isdistributed before theDeepawali festival.

At present the commonpaddy procurement price is Rs1750 while the A-grade is Rs1770 per quintal. State gov-ernment would procure around15 quintal per acre from farm-ers. The amount would bepaid directly to the bankaccount of farmers.

Chief Minister had earlierindicated that farmers wouldget bonus of year 2017 in year2018 during the ‘Atal Vikasyatra’. He said that PrimeMinister Narendra Modi and

BJP national President hascleared the issue, earlier inyear 2013-14, government hasdistributed Rs 2,374 crore asbonus.

In another major decisiontaken at the Cabinet, it decid-ed to withdraw and close19,832crime cases registered underIndian Forest Act 1927 filedupto December 31, 2016. Itwould benefit around 12000,Scheduled Caste and ScheduledTribe residents. It is a majordecision for the tribal areas,

where cases are pending againsttribal residents. It would alsoinclude cases of having fine ofRs 20,000. Now they would nothave to pay the fines.

As similar decision wastaken earlier in year 2004 alsowhere 2,57,226 similar caseswere withdrawn and closed.Around Rs 12.91 crore fineswas pending in the cases wheresome cases were more than 50years old. It benefited around1,06,630 Scheduled Caste andScheduled Tribe of state.

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The Atal NagarDevelopment Authority

will outsource operation andmaintenance work for its 1.2MLD Sewerage TreatmentPlant (STP) based on MBRtechnology at capital complexin the new capital city.

Atal Nagar, the high technew capital city ofChhattisgarh is a ‘zero sewagedischarge city’, is equippedwith decentralized sewagetreatment for better efficiency.

Notably, Atal Nagar beingfirst planned city of 21st cen-tury already has state-of-the-art infrastructure at its dis-posal. The city has wellplanned economic and socialinfrastructure, officialsinformed.

The Atal Nagar Smart CitySystem comprises SmartGovernance, City Surveillance,Intelligent Transport manage-ment System, Electricity andWater supply and CityCommand and Control Centreamong others, officialsinformed.

Notably, Atal Nagar as aSmart City will leverage thecollective intelligence createdby connecting physical, insti-tutional, social and economicinfrastructure to deliver aquantum improvement in the

quality of life of local popula-tion, they informed.

Notably, the new capitalcity of Chhattisgarh is a ‘greenfield’ city and is planned todevelop its infrastructure grad-ually in order to provide worldclass amenities and facilities toits residents and visitors.

The Atal NagarDevelopment Authority hastaken the next step in “SmartCity’ development with plansnow for ‘Information &Communication Technology”(ICT) enablement of infra-structure and citizen services,officials informed

Atal Nagar is alreadyamong five other cities in thecountry chosen as‘Demonstration Cities’ for theCentre’s ambitious SustainableUrban Transport Project(SUTP).

The final five cities partic-ipating as 'DemonstrationCities' under SustainableUrban Transport Project(SUTP) are - Indore (MadhyaPradesh), Mysore (Karnataka),Naya Raipur (Chhattisgarh),Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad(Maharashtra).

Detailed project profileswere prepared by all citieswith the assistance of the SUTPConsultants and then endorsedby the SUTP SteeringCommittee to be included toSUTP as ‘City Demonstration

Projects’, officials stated.It plans of developing a

project comprising IT-enabledsystems to manage a host ofutilities using state-of-art tech-nology.

The design would com-prise IT enabled land man-agement system, city surveil-lance besides a host of othersystems till now popular andbeing used only in the devel-oped countries.

The other city manage-ment systems include intelli-gent lighting systems, pay anduse parking systems, cityguide map available throughweb browser, intelligent trans-port system, city level wi-fitouch screens across the city,display boards across the cityfor providing real-time infor-mation, emergency alert andcrisis response systems, traf-fic re-routing applicationsbased on real time trafficdata.

Atal Nagar DevelopmentAuthority has plans of devel-oping a ‘Transport Hub’ spreadover an area of 161.9 hectaresin the new capital city.

The hub would includesetting up Light Rail TransportSystem (LRTS) stations. Thearea being earmarked for the'Transport Hub' would be 12.55per cent of the total area of thenew capital city, officials stat-ed.

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In tune with the JanataCongress Chhattisgarh (Jogi),

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) hasdeclared its candidates for theState general election 2018. OnTuesday, it declared list of sixcandidates. With it the AAP hasissued total names of 74 candi-dates out of 90 seats. Now, theparty is expected to declare thecandidates of 16 remainingseats soon.

One crucial in the declara-tion is that AAP has changedthe candidate of Vaishali Nagarseat. AAP Chhattisgarhincharge Gopal Rai announcingthe names of candidates said

that the candidate for Kurud isTejendra Kumar, Navagarh isAnjor Das Dhritlahare, Kasdolis Purushottam Sonwani,Pratappur is Chotelal Tireky,Lormi is Mahendra SinghThakur and Vaishali Nagar isAnjula Bharghav.

Rai further said that afterthe total survey reports aretaken into consideration thenno party is having completemajority. He claimed that AAPwould make a tremendous gainby beating BJP. He claimedthat AAP is leading in around35 seats while the second isCongress and in third positionis ruling BJP. He also claimedthat 70 percent of ministers in

cabinet will loose the election.Rai further said that party

from September 15 is con-ducting door to door pro-gramme. As per the pro-gramme, they would take abowl in hand and seeking ‘onevote, one member and onerupee’.

He condemned the state-ment of health minister AjayChandrakar said that it is anirresponsible statement evenafter several deaths due to sus-pected dengue. He could havebeen more sensitive and insteadof pulling the doctors workingon ground, they should begiven backup for better work-ing.

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AMaoist LOS Commanderwas gunned down on

Monday evening in anencounter with district policeunder Mechka Police Stationlimits in Dhamtari district ofChhattisgarh, police said.

Addressing a press con-ference here the InspectorGeneral of Police (IGP)Raipur Range, DeepanshuKabra said that the gun bat-tle took place in the restiveareas in the forest ofMandagiri-TendudongariHillocks under Mechka policestation limits.

A team of the districtpolice was out on an anti-Naxal operation after receiv-ing a tip off that Naxals aretaking a meeting there plan-ning for boycott of theupcoming assembly polls, hesaid.

When the patrolling teamwas advancing through

hil locks of Mandagir i-Tendudongari, an exchange offire broke out between thetwo sides, he said.

After guns fell silent, thebody of a ultra carrying a cashreward on his head identified

as Jaisingh was recoveredfrom the spot, he said, addingone firearm, one 09 mm pis-tol and medicines, Naxal lit-erature - were also found atthe encounter site.

The slain ultra was later

identified to be Jaisingh, aCommander In charge of theLOS (local Organizationsquad) who was active in theGobra region, Kabra said.

Another dreaded ultraRamdas however taking

advantage of darkness anddeep forest succeeded to fleefrom the spot, police said.

Superintendent of Police(SP), Dhamtari, RajneshSingh was also present in thepress conference.

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Chief Minister Raman Singh flagged off the“Udaan Express” on Tuesday which would

visit nine districts of State from his official resi-dence.

It would approach children and motivatethem on learning Urdu, modern education andemployment oriented education.

Chief Minister appreciated the initiativetaken by Chhattisgarh Urdu Academy andwished Academy president Akram Qureshialong with office bearers and member success forit. Academy has teamed it with Ratba FoundationPune for it.

CM said that in all the categories and com-munities based in Chhattisgarh, there is cultur-al and communal unity, which is an exemplaryexample for country and world. State government

is making all efforts to provide all public welfareschemes to the people so that everyone is withdevelopment. He said that during the motivationalprogramme if possible the people can be alsolinked with public welfare programmes/schemes.

As per the plan, the vehicle would reachJagdalpur on September 6, Narayanpur on Sept7, Kabirdham on Sept 8, Mungeli on Sept 9,Raigarh and two days at Bilaspur, Raipur on Sept13, Durg on Sept 14 and Rajnandgaon on Sept15. Urdu based programmes would be present-ed in presence of ministers, MPs, MLAs, publicrepresentatives among others. Academy woulddistribute booklet on different schemes.

Vice president duo Shafique Ahmed FuggaBhai and Mrs Nazma Ajeem, members AbdulHafiz, Zaki Ahmed, Usman Ali, Hamid Shah andChhattisgarh State Haj Committee former chair-man Dr Salim Raj among others were present.

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Public Sector Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL)is currently involved in the renovation and

modernisation of Chhattisgarh State PowerGeneration Company Ltd’s (CGPGCL) 4x210 MWKorba (West), Hasdeo Thermal Power Station, offi-cials informed.

As part of the modernisation programme, a largevideo screen system will be established at the plantwhile also bringing the entire plant under CCTV cov-erage among other key projects being undertaken atthe plant.

It may also be recalled that the 500 MW unit-5of the expansion project in the plant produced record4003.139 million units of power in 2017 with 91.4%PLF. This was 799.229 million unit more that of theprevious year.

Officials informed that the unit had produced3203.910 million units of power in the 2016 with72.95% PLF. There are four units of 210 MW and oneof 500 MW in the HTPP, they informed.

Performances of all the units were exemplary,

officials said. Apart from setting record the units alsoperformed well in low consumption of specific oil andspecific coal. The company is striving hard to

increase the production consistently and therefore theproduction capacity of old units along with the newhas increased to 3424.70 MW, officials said.

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Indian sprinter, double silvermedalist in Asian Game 2018

and KIIT student Dutee Chandwas felicitated by Governor ProfGaneshi Lal on behalf of thepeople of the State at a felicita-tion ceremony held here onMonday.

Felicitating Dutee Prof Lalsaid strong will power anddetermination bring success toanybody. Dutee has got the suc-

cess due to her will power,determination and hard labour.He also advised Dutee youshould not be jealous and imi-tate anyone.

Bhubaneswar MP DrPrasanna Kumar Patasani,Olywood actor and MPAnubhav Mohanty,

Bhubaneswar North MLAPriyadarshi Mishra,Bhubaneswar MunicipalCorporation (BMC) MayorAnanta Narayan Jena, OTDCChairman Dilip Tirkey, Sports,Youth Services and TourismDepartment Commissioner-cum-Secretary Vishal Kumar

Dev and KIIT and KISS founderDr Achyuta Samanta also felic-itated Dutee.

In her remarks, Dutee said,“In my life I have seen many upsand downs, but I never gave upmy goal. Dr Samanta has alwaysstood behind me and inspiredme to achieve my goal. He waswith me in most painful periodof my life. At that time, he guid-ed me in every moment not tolose hope and courage.”

She also said, “I am per-sonally very much thankful toour Chief Minister NaveenPatnaik for his support to sportsand sportspersons. Odisha is theonly State to give the highestcash award of Rs three crore toan athlete. I thank all my wellwishers and people of Odisha”.

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Chief Secretary AP Padhi onTuesday directed the dis-

trict Collectors, EnergyDepartment district officersand engineers to finish allpreparatory work by Septemberfor the “Ama Ghare LED” pro-gramme to be launched inOctober.

In a videoconference atthe State Secretariat, EnergyCommissioner-cum-SecretaryHemant Kumar Sharma spokeabout the implementation ofthe programme to the

Collectors.Sharma informed that as

per the decision of the StateGovernment, the Food SecurityAct beneficiary families wouldbe provided four LED bulbsfree of cost through OPTCLwhich would have a three years’warranty. The bulbs would beavailable at the PDS retailshops and the retail shopswould be provided services, headded.

As the programme ismeant for providing electrici-ty to poor households in theState and energy conservation,Development CommissionerR Balakrishnan advised thefield-level officials to completethe process in the stipulatedperiod.

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The Biju Yuva Vahini organ-ised the Mu Hero cam-

paign at the AES College herewith an aim to identify andacknowledge unsung talentsfrom 21 panchayats and theNAC of Tarbha.

Block Chairman SasmitaMalik, NAC ChairmanMonicalal Agrawal, NAC EO KChakraborty, PS IIC SBChatriya, ABDO A Sharma,Prof SB Panda, district youthcoordinator H Khan, ZP SKampa and Prabin Nag attend-ed as guests.

Biju Yuva Vahini coordi-nator Janardan Thanapati said

youths who have influencedpeople in bringing changes in

the different fields andtaken leadership roleduring natural calami-ties, worked towardsbringing social trans-formation would befelicitated during thecampaign.

On the occasion,Bijaya Shankar Ranaand Hemanta Majhiwere felicitated for theirdelicacy.

A bike rally wasalso organised in whicharound 700 bikes par-

ticipated.

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The Women and ChildrenDevelopment and Mission

Shakti Department on Tuesdaylaunched a State-wide awarenesscampaign to promote comple-mentary feeding practices forthe optimal growth of children

between six months and 24months.

Women and ChildrenDevelopment and MissionShakti Prafulla Samal initiatedthe campaign and offered AnnaPrasanna to three six-month-old children. On the occasion,Samal also flagged off a IEC vancarrying the awareness message.

Notably, recognising theimportance of complementaryfoods and feeding practices forthe young children, the depart-ment has extended the cam-paign from 2018 to the end of2019 in collaboration with theHealth and Family WelfareDepartment and the Unicefacross the State.

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Chief Secretary Aditya PrasadPadhi on Tuesday directed

the district Collectors and FoodSupply and Consumers WelfareDepartment officials to expeditethe process of identification ofbeneficiaries under the Statefood security scheme to beimplemented in the State fromOctober 2. Through video con-ferencing from the StateSecretariat, Padhi directed theofficials to speed up the receiptof applications from the benefi-ciaries, field-level inspectionand digitisation process andupload the progress report onthe website on a daily basis. Hefurther directed the officials tocomplete the inspection of appli-cations received till September2 and prepare the ration cards sothat the cards would be distrib-uted to the beneficiaries beforeOctober 2.

He further asked theCollectors to accept the Statefood security applications tillSeptember 10.

Notably, the StateGovernment has launched itsown food security scheme toinclude those left out of theNational Food Security Act dueto various reasons. TheGovernment has decided toinclude about 25 lakh benefi-ciaries under the scheme in thefirst phase and would bear all theexpenses for providing foodgrains to the beneficiaries in sub-sidised rate under the scheme.

As the State food securityscheme is on the top of the pri-ority list of the StateGovernment, DevelopmentCommissioner R Balakrishnanadvised the field-level officials tocomplete the identificationprocess within the stipulatedtimeframe. Food Supplies andConsumers Welfare SecretaryVir Vikram Yadav presentedthe district-wise data for dis-cussion and advised theCollectors on the issue.

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Several Singapore companieshave shown interest in mak-

ing investments in infrastruc-ture, gas, smart cities and otherdevelopment projects in Punjab.

The companies conveyedthis to the Punjab delegationduring the CII North’s first out-of-country event, held onMonday and Tuesday, a state-ment said. Punjab delegation,led by Finance MinisterManpreet Badal, along withPWD and IT Minister VijayInder Singla and Invest Punjabteam had a series of B2G meet-ings with various companiesduring the CII Invest North2018 event.

Spokesperson said that theSummit was held by the IndianHigh Commission in Singapore

in collaboration with theConfederation of IndianIndustry (CII).

Ascendas Singbridg and

Changi have shown keen inter-est in planning and developmentof New Airport at Ludhiana,Aerotropolis — a world class city

development at Ludhiana, andMohali, Convention centresacross the State.

“We have 5,435-acre land

through pooling scheme for thenew township ‘Aerotropolis’ forwhich we are now doing a con-ceptual plan,” said Singla.Expected to cost 2.6 billion dol-lars, a detailed project report isunderway for the MohaliAerotropolis.

Invest North is an annualevent hosted by CII for pro-moting northern states as keyinvestment destinations.

Punjab delegation alsoincluded Additional ChiefSecretary Investment PromotionVini Mahajan, PrincipalSecretary Finance AnirudhTewari and CEO Invest PunjabRajat Aggarwal, industrialistsRajinder Gupta, Kamal Oswal,Sanjiv Arora, RS Sachdeva,Karan Gilhotra, Pankaj Munjal,Upkar Ahuja, Bhavdeep Sardanaamong others.

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Slamming the highest everhike in petrol and diesel

prices due to Centre’s “flawed”policies, Punjab CabinetMinister Tript Rajinder SinghBajwa on Tuesday called uponthe Prime Minister NarendraModi to follow his own advicethat he used to give to his pre-decessor Dr Manmohan Singhof bringing fuel prices underthe GST.

Bajwa, who is the RuralDevelopment and Panchayatsand Housing and UrbanDevelopment Minister,demanded that petrol and diesel be brought under the Goods and Service Taxregime. Alternatively, he said,excise duty and VAT should be

cut to provide immediate relief to the people and theeconomy.“Petrol and dieselprices in the country havetouched a new high, ratherhighest till date. Why is Modinow maintaining silence? Hehad, at one point, told the for-

mer Prime Minister DrManmohan Singh to take thehikes seriously.

I wish that Modi should now implement hisown advice given before 2014to Dr Manmohan Singh,” hesaid.

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Punjab EmploymentGeneration Department has

decided to go in for providingfree training to the state’s youthfor recruitment to 55,000 posts orvacancies of constables in variousCentral Security Forces.

The Central Government’sStaff Selection Board is about tomake recruitments to the differ-ent paramilitary forces — BSF,CISF, CRPF, ITBP, SSB, NIA, SSFand Assam Rifles — and the totalnumber of vacancies are 54,953for which the aspirants can applyonline till September 17, 2018.

Punjab EmploymentGeneration Commissioner RahulTewari said that training centres

have been set up at 25 places inorder to prepare the state’s youthfor both the written as well as thephysical fitness examination.

The centres have been estab-lished at Amritsar, Gurdaspur,Pathankot, Tarn Taran, Batala, Ferozepur, Moga,Faridkot, Fazilka, Bathinda, SriMuktsar Sahib, Mansa, Patiala,Sangrur, Barnala, Hoshiarpur,Kapurthala (Police Lines), PAPHeadquarters Jalandhar,Rupnagar, SBS Nagar, SAS Nagar,Ludhiana, Fatehgarh Sahib,Khanna, and Jagraon.

Tewari said that the inter-ested youth should report onSeptember 5 and 6, 2018, till 11am at the nearest police centre forphysical examination.

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All the massive thermalpower projects were asked

to achieve the target of utilisa-tion of fly-ash generated bythem, and in case if both theGovernment and private sectorpower projects do not comply,stern action would be taken,said Secretary, Housing andEnvironment DepartmentSanjay Shukla.

He was chairing the Fly ashutilisation related state levelmonitoring committee meetingformed under Ministry of envi-ronment, forest and climatechange, Government of Indiawas held at new circuit house,Civil Lines Raipur.

He said that action wouldbe taken against them underrelevant environmental laws.The NGT and Supreme Courtis continuously monitoring thefly ash utility, if the construc-tion agencies are not takingresponsibility, then stern actionwould initiated against them.

The construction agencies havebeen asked for maximum util-isation of fly-ash in their con-struction works for maximumutilisation of fly-ash.

Meeting reviewed the June2, 2017 Raipur Declarationand fly ash utilisation relatedearlier meeting directivesimplementation status.

In the last meeting, all the

industries were instructed toensure cent percent utilisationof fly ash in different modes, forwhich time-bound work planwas to be prepared. The meet-ing reviewed the work plan ofdifferent industries and how itis being implemented alongwith the present status.

CSEB, SECL Surakachar,SECL Manikpur, NTPC Sipat,

NTPC Korba, NationalHighway Authority of Indiarepresentative, Public WorksDepartment, agriculture, min-ing, Jindal Power Limited alongwith thermal power projectrepresentatives were present.

Shukla directed the fly ashproducing industries, to pro-vide fly ash to Maati KalaBoard along with necessaryresources like land, power atlower rates water be madeavailable so that potters can beprovided employment in nextthree months.

He also reviewed the flyash utilisation in Surakacharand Manikpur mines. Themeeting also reviewed the Flyash to sand making pilot pro-ject plant progress and Raipur-Bilaspur National Highway flyash utilisation progress. A pre-sentation of last meeting wasmade. Additional secretaryChhattisgarh EnvironmentConservation Board ArunPrasad and other senior offi-cials were also present.

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Chief Minister RamanSingh on Tuesday

launched a single emergencynumber ‘112’ for the citizenson which they can dial duringemergencies needing policehelp, reporting fire incident orcalling the Ambulance.

State Home MinisterRamsevak Paikra, DirectorGeneral of Police (DGP), ANUpadhyay, Principal Secretary,Home Amitabh Jain andsenior police officials werepresent on the launching pro-gramme.

In his address , the ChiefMinister said the serviceswould be instrumental in con-trolling crime and accidents.

Under the services, 52vehicles and 10 motor bikeswould run in capital city andPolice Control Room has beenmade its ‘Command Centre.’

At present, the facility isbeing launched in 11 of the 27districts of the State and soonwill be extended to other states.

A provision has also beenmade that citizens could alsoregister complaints about theservices through social media

platform, sources informed.Now with only a single

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Jalaluddin Haqqani, whosedeath was announced by the

Afghan Taliban on Tuesday,was the founder of the dread-ed Haqqani Network which isbelieved to be behind a cam-paign of violence throughoutAfghanistan including the 2008bombing of the IndianEmbassy in Kabul that killed 58people.

The Afghan Taliban didnot share the exact date ofdeath or burial of the militantcommander, who had trans-ferred the operational leader-ship of the group to his sonSirajuddin Haqqani after the9/11 attack.

“...Well known Mujahid,famous Islamic scholar,renowned fighter, leader ofMuhajideen, minister of fron-tiers in (Taliban) IslamicEmirates and member ofLeadership (Taliban) Council,al-Hajj Mullah JalaluddinHaqqani has died after long ill-ness,” the Afghan Taliban saidin statement.

He was believed to be ineighties and several times in thepast the news of his death wascirculated but it was not con-firmed by the militant group.

Jalaluddin studied at theDarul Uloom HaqqaniaNowshera in Pakistan’s Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province - anIslamic seminary dubbed as the‘University of Jihad’ as its alum-ni include slain Taliban chiefsMullah Omar and MullahAkhtar Mansoor and Al-Qaeda

in the Indian Subcontinentleader Asim Umar.

He belonged toAfghanistan’s Paktika province,bordering Pakistan, and rose toprominence during the Afghanwar against Soviet forces in1980s. He was appointed asminister in the Taliban gov-ernment that ruledAfghanistan in 1990s.

Jalaluddin, who main-tained his independent positionduring the Taliban regime,enjoyed close ties withPakistan’s spy agency - InterServices Intelligence (ISI).

He also helped Osama binLaden to set up terror trainingcamps in Afghanistan andlaunch his efforts for globaljihad and maintained closelinks with al-Qaeda and otherArab militants.

After the 9/11 attack andtoppling of the Taliban gov-ernment by the US-led forces,Jalaluddin apparently fled to thelawless tribal region of Pakistanand re-organised his fighters.

His group became mostlethal and carried out severaldeadly attacks against US,NATO and Afghan forces.

The Haqqani network,believed to be behind a num-ber of kidnappings and attacksagainst US interests inAfghanistan, was accused ofbombing the Indian mission inKabul in 2008 that killed 58people. The attack was believedto be among the deadliest inKabul since the fall of theTaliban in 2001.

The attack was believed tobe carried out at the behest ofthe ISI.

The group is accused oftargeting the Indian consulatein Jalalabad twice in 2007 andcarrying out an attack on theIndian mission in Kabul in2009 that killed 17 people. Italso carried out several attacksagainst Indian interests inAfghanistan.

In 2012, the US designatedthe Haqqani network as a ter-rorist organisation. Three yearslater, Pakistan also banned theHaqqani network as part of itsNational Action Plan.

The group is the bone ofcontention between Pakistanand the US as the latter accusethat Haqqani militants werestill using Pakistani soil tolaunch attacks - a charge deniedby Pakistan.

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Dr Arif Alvi, a close ally ofPrime Minister Imran

Khan and one of the foundingmembers of the PakistanTehreek-e-Insaf party, waselected as the new President ofPakistan Tuesday, as the crick-eter-turned-politician consol-idated his grip on power.

The 69-year-old formerdentist defeated PakistanPeoples Party candidate AitzazAhsan and the PakistanMuslim League-N nomineeMaulana Fazl ur Rehman in athree-way contest to becomethe 13th President.

Of the 430 votes cast via asecret ballot in the NationalAssembly and Senate, Alvireceived 212 votes, Rehmanbagged 131 and Ahsan gar-nered 81; six votes were reject-ed, DawnNews reported, citingunofficial results.

Alvi secured 45 of the 60votes cast by the Balochistan’snewly elected lawmakers, it said.

In the PPP-dominatedSindh Assembly, Ahsan got100 votes, while Alvi bagged 56.Just a solitary vote was cast inthe favour of Rehman.

In Khyber PakhtunkhwaAssembly, Alvi received 78 ofthe total 109 votes, whileRehman and Ahsan got 26and five votes respectively.

In Punjab Assembly, Alvisecured 186 votes, whereasRehman and Ahsan received141 and 6 votes respectively; 18votes were rejected.

In his victory speech, Alvithanked Prime Minister Khanfor nominating “me for such abig responsibility.”

Alvi said that “from todayI am not just president that wasnominated by the PTI but I amthe president of the entirenation and all parties. Eachparty has an equal right on me”.

The newly elected presi-dent will take oath of the officeon September 9. OutgoingPresident Mamnoon Hussain’sfive-year tenure ends onSeptember 8.Alvi said he willinvite everyone, including theopposition, for the oath-takingceremony.

“My political struggle datesback to 1967, since the time ofAyub Khan. However, I believethat this nation has gainedmuch awareness since. Thepresident also promises what-ever is promised in theConstitution,” he said.

Alvi is one of the foundingmembers of PTI. He served asthe party’s secretary generalfrom 2006 to 2013.

He won the NationalAssembly elections from NA-247 (Karachi) during the July 25polls. He was also elected mem-ber of the National Assembly inthe 2013 general election.

In Pakistan, the Presidentis considered as a symbol of thefederation and head of thestate and exercises all powerson the recommendations of thePrime Minister.

YangonA global outcry overthe jailing of two Reuters jour-nalists in Myanmar has beengreeted with silence by civilianleader Aung San Suu Kyi, astony response that an officialdefended Tuesday as a reluc-tance to criticise the judiciary.

Journalists Wa Lone, 32,and Kyaw Soe Oo, 28, werearrested while reporting onatrocities committed duringthe violent expulsion by themilitary of some 700,000Rohingya Muslims last year.

A Yangon court onMonday found them guiltyunder the Official Secrets Actand handed them each sevenyears in prison, sparking out-rage from the UN, EU and US-- all of whom supportedMyanmar’s emergence fromdecades of junta rule -- as wellas media and rights groups.

Suu Kyi, who was herselfsubjected to house arrest forsome 15 years, relying on foreignmedia to highlight her plight,has been widely-condemnedfor her silence on the case andverdict, which has posed thesternest test in recent years tofree speech in the country.

Aung Hla Tun, a former

Reuters journalist who nowworks for the government asdeputy Minister ofInformation, defended theNobel Laureate’s reticence.

“Criticising the judicial sys-tem would be tantamount tocontempt of court,” he told AFP,explaining her silence so far. “Idon’t think she will do it.”Lawyers for the pair will appealthe verdict while ultimately thecountry’s president, a close allyof Suu Kyi, can pardon prison-ers.In April the president grant-ed 8,500 jailed people anamnesty, including 36 deemedpolitical prisoners.

But there were still some200 others, including the twoReuters journalists, facing trialslinked to political activities, theAssistance Association forPolitical Prisoners said at thetime.Erstwhile Suu Kyi advo-cates overseas have been left dis-mayed by her attitude to theircase so far.Her one public ref-erence to the Reuters journalistsduring the court case -- tellingJapanese broadcaster NHK thatthe pair had broken the officialsecrets act -- was criticised byrights groups for potentiallyprejudicing the verdict. AFP

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Damascus: Iran’s foreign min-ister said at the start of a visitto Damascus on Monday that“terrorists must be purged”from Syria’s Idlib and the entirenorthwestern province returnedto government control.

Mohammad Javad Zarif ’scomments in Damascus werereported by Iran’s semi-officialFars news agency and came asSyrian forces and their allies arepreparing for an assault onIdlib, the last oppositionstronghold in the country.

“Syria’s territorial integrityshould be safeguarded and alltribes and groups, as one soci-ety, should start the recon-struction process, and therefugees should return to theirhomes,” Zarif said.

He met with SyrianPresident Bashar Assad and hisForeign Minister Walid al-Moallem, who is just backfrom a visit to Moscow. Thevisit comes days before theleaders of Iran, Turkey, andRussia are expected to meet inIran to discuss the situation inIdlib.

President Donald Trumpon Monday sent a tweet warn-ing Assad and his allies againsta “reckless attack” on Idlibprovince. “The Russians andIranians would be making agrave humanitarian mistaketo take part in this potentialhuman tragedy. Hundreds ofthousands of people could bekilled. Don’t let that happen!”Trump said.

During their meetingAssad and Zarif discussed theagenda of the summit in Iran.

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US President Donald Trumpon Monday warned Syria

against launching an attack onthe country’s last rebel strong-hold with the help of Russiaand Iran, saying the offensivecould trigger a “humantragedy.”

“President Bashar al-Assad of Syria must not reck-lessly attack Idlib Province.The Russians and Iranianswould be making a gravehumanitarian mistake to takepart in this potential humantragedy,” Trump tweeted.

“Hundreds of thousands ofpeople could be killed. Don’t letthat happen!” The UnitedNations and aid groups havewarned that a full assault onIdlib could spark a humanitar-ian catastrophe on a scale notyet seen in Syria’s seven-year-old conflict.

Syrian government forcesare now massing around thenorthwestern province ofIdlib, which is held by a com-plex array of rebels and vio-lent extremist fighters, manyof whom have been blacklist-ed as “terrorists” by worldpowers.

Russia and Iran haveinsisted that extremist groupsin Idlib must

be defeated and are expect-ed to back regime forces in anyassault.

Since early 2017, Iran,fellow regime ally Russia andrebel backer Turkey havesponsored a negotiationstrack based in the Kazakhcapital to tamp down hostil-ities in Syria.

Last year, they had desig-nated Idlib as a “de-escala-tion” zone where violencewould halt in preparation for acountrywide ceasefire.

All the while seeking topressure Turkey into reining injihadists in Idlib, Damascus’smain sponsor Russia has beensounding the war drums inrecent days.

Tehran and Moscow pro-vided steady political, financialand military backing to Assadthroughout the war, which hasleft over 350,000 people deadsince it broke out in 2011.

The International CrisisGroup, a Brussels-based thinktank, said an all-out assault onIdlib and its catastrophic con-sequences could still be avoid-ed.

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Several Opposition leaders have objectedto resorting to Parliament if the courts areunable to decide soon on the RamJanmabhoomi issue. Muslim leaders areunfortunately not magnanimous enough

not to quibble about the site as a land issue despiteknowing that it is a much greater issue of ‘faith’— most Hindus solemnly believe that Lord Ramwas born there. Fair enough. So, as a believer innational amity, this writer will attempt to look foran alternative solution to the issue of symbols ofthe Hindu faith being accorded their place in ournational life. Neither the Krishna Janmabhoomiin Mathura nor the Gyanvapi mosque next to theKashi Vishwanath temple in Benaras suffers fromany such issue of ‘land dispute’.

The Idgah built adjacent to the KrishnaJanmabhoomi site is an ordinary structure whichcame into being during Aurangzeb’s reign andis used by a few namazis on Fridays. Underneath

the mound, whereupon existed the KrishnaMandir, is now the Janmabhoomi dera, whichis as modest a structure as a garage. In his book,Mathura: A District Memoir, FS Growse of theBengal Civil Service has recorded his exhaustivesurvey and research about Braj Bhoomi. He wasoverwhelmed by the vandalism that inflicted thearea repeatedly and wrote in a heartfelt manneralthough he was far from his home in England.To quote him: “Thanks to Muhammadan intol-erance, there is not a single building of any antiq-uity, either in the city or its environs. Its mostfamous temple, that dedicated to Kesava Deva,was destroyed in 1669, the eleventh year of thereign of the iconoclast Aurangzeb. The Idgaherected on its ruins is a building of little archi-tectural value.” Mahmud of Ghazni was, how-ever, the first iconoclast to vandalise Mathura.That was in 1017 AD, about which Growsewrote: “If anyone wished to construct a build-ing equal to it, he would not be able to do so with-out expending a hundred million dinars, and thework would occupy 200 years, even though theablest and experienced workmen were employed.Orders were given that all the temples should beburnt with naphtha and fire and levelled. Thecity was given up to plunder for 20 days. Amongthe spoils are said to have been five great idolsof pure gold with eyes of rubies and adornmentsof other precious stones, together with a vastnumber of smaller silver images, which whenbroken up, formed a load for more than 100

camels. The total value of the spoils had beenestimated at three million rupees; while the num-ber of Hindus carried away into captivityexceeded 5,000.”

To go back to Aurangzeb, over two centuriesafter the desecration, Growse felt that of all thesacred places in India, none enjoys a greater pop-ularity than the capital of Braj, the holy city ofMathura. For over nine months, festival followsupon a festival in rapid succession and the ghatsand temples are daily thronged with new troopsof way-worn pilgrims. So great is the sanctity ofthe spot that its panegyrists do not hesitate todeclare that a single day spent at Mathura is moremeritorious than a lifetime passed in Benares. Allthis celebration is due to the fact of its being thebirthplace of demi-God Krishna.

Today, Balkrishna is worshiped in a little roomwhich appears like a servant quarter attached tothe back of the Idgah. Pathos can be experiencedby any visitor, whether a devotee or otherwise. Toparaphrase William Shakespeare, not all thescents of Arabia would suffice to wash away thesins of Ghazni and Alamgir at Mathura. And sinceit is not possible to claim back what was destroyedlong ago, the return of the Idgah and the shud-dhi of Krishna Janmabhoomi or the birthplace ofKrishna, is the only viable alternative.

Coming to Benaras and the KashiBisheshwar temple, for the sake of impartiali-ty, it is best to again rely on an Englishman,Reverend Matthew Atmore Sherring of the

London Missionary Society, who resided main-ly in the holy city between 1852 and 1880. Hetoured the whole area repeatedly and surveyedthe scene from a religious point of view. In hisbook, Benares: The Sacred City of the Hindus,Sherring referred to Al-Beruni, who is one ofthe important sources of medieval Indian his-tory. He came to India with Mahmud Ghazniwho reached as far as Benaras during his ninthincursion into India. Some decades later,Muhammad Ghori, after defeating theKannaujian monarch Jaichand, marched toBenaras where he was reported to havedestroyed many Hindu temples. Thereaftercame Aurangzeb, who changed the name of thecity to Muhammadabad. The temple ofBisheshwar was systematically demolished byhim. The large collection of deities, stored ona platform called the court of Mahadev on thenorthern side of the temple, were found fromthe debris. As recorded by Sherring, extensiveremains of this ancient temple were still visi-ble and they formed a large portion of the west-ern wall of the mosque which was built uponits site by the bigoted oppressor. Evidently, theformer temple was much larger than the pre-sent one, which is really small for a shrine asimportant as this one.The new temple was builtat the behest of Rani Ahilyabai Holkar long afterAurangzeb’s desecration.

Sherring explained that the demolition oftemples was not inspired merely by hatred for

idolatry or by greed for loot. It was also drivenby a desire to humiliate the Hindu community.How does one explain the fact that the masjidbuilt by Aurangzeb just had to be bang next tothe Gyanvapi or the well of knowledge? Themosque, built by Aurungzeb on the foundationsof the old or original Bisheshwar temple, is ofinterest not for its own sake — notwithstandingits lofty appearance, it is a structure without anystriking architectural beauty in its own right —but on account of the ancient remains with whichit is associated and from the materials used inits construction.The mosque is altogether com-posed of the remains of an ancient temple of largedimensions and elaborate workmanship. Thehigh pillars, moreover, on its northern face, havebeen transferred from the same spacious build-ing. These remains are Hindu and it is unques-tionable that the edifice, which was destroyed inorder to make way for the mosque, was an oldtemple of Bisheshwar. An excellent ground-planof this temple, prepared from a minute exami-nation of the extant remains, was drawn by JamesPrinsep and published by him in his Views ofBenares. There is no doubt that the Bisheshwartemple stood on this site and was destroyed byMuslim rulers who transferred its stones intotheir own mosque. The neighbouring templebearing this name the Hindus built was for thepurpose of perpetuating the worship ofBisheshwar. Between the mosque and the tem-ple of Bisheshwar is the famous Gyanvapi or

Gyan Kup, well of knowledge in which, asHindus believe, Shiva resides.

What greater evidence is necessary for theGovernment to exercise its sovereignty and takeover these edifices which were part of theinvaders’ loot and once India’s pride? Not doingso would be tantamount to an act of omissioncommitted by a semi-sovereign power. It is clearthat in terms of statesmanship, leaders of theMuslim community would endear themselves toall Indians if as a grand gesture they give up thespace occupied in Mathura and Benaras for thetemples their to be restored. The Government,for its part, should receive such an offer with openarms. There’s no land dispute here.

As an aside, an interesting reverse exampleof wise politics was displayed by then PunjabPremier Sir Sikandar Hayat Khan in Lahore in1938. The High Court gave a verdict that theShaheedgunge Gurdwara should remain with theSikhs although it had once been a mosque. TheMuslim League wanted the Hayat KhanGovernment to appeal to the Privy Council. Buthe rejected the idea on the ground that by thesame logic, Muslims would have to give up hun-dreds of mosques and dargahs, including AjmerSharif. So it was best to let the principle of adversepossession prevail. Regrettably, after the Partitionthere was no such wisdom and the Gurdwarawas violently taken over by Muslims.

(The writer is a well-known columnist and an author)

�������������Sir — Gone are the days when Hindifilms celebrated their silver and gold-en jubilee of release with packed the-aters announcing their stupendoussuccess at the box-office.

Compared to the trend back in theera where the number of weeks a filmspent at the box-office was the biggestparameter to judge a star, today theopening weekend collection is perhapsthe primary tool to gauge an actor’sstardom. Nowadays, breaking into the‘100-crore’ club is the initial achieve-ment that decides the fate of the films.

In the bargain, some films just take acursory bow and vanish without anyfurther trace.

Considered to be a culture econo-my of urban leisure, India’s multiplexbandwagon has gone beyond the met-ros to redefine entertainment in therural sector as well. However, emptytheatres and the disastrous perfor-mances of even the multi-starrers at thebox-office portend a worrisome futurefor cinema in India. Technology hasonly succeeded in driving audiences outof the theaters. If movies are to beenjoyed on mobile-sets and the cozyconfines of one’s drawing room, how

has the technological advancementaided the cause of new-age cinema.

The huge success of Netflix hasmade it more than evident that whenit comes to entertainment, screen sizedoesn’t really matter. With changingbusiness trends, it is necessary that thecineplexes attempt ways to enhance thetheatre experience. Already in the redwith contentions of film piracy andother illegalities denting the profits ofthe film industry, it is a precarious sit-uation the film exhibitors find them-selves in.

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����� �������Sir — Teachers play a major role inshaping a child’s life. Since childrenspend a lot of time in school in theirformative and impressionable years,teachers wield a great influence onthem.

In India, Teachers’ Day is celebrat-ed on September 5 every year to com-memorate the birthday of SarvepalliRadhakrishnan, the second Presidentof India. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnanwas a thinker, philosopher, academi-cian, diplomat and above all, a greatteacher.

Teachers’ Day celebrations aremeant to convey the message that wecare for our teachers, just as they carefor us. On this day, students oftendress up like their teachers and teachtheir juniors. Sometimes, teachers alsosit in classrooms and act like students,reliving the time when they were stu-dents themselves. This creates a bondof understanding between teachersand students.

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the Government’s demonetisation drive.—NITI Aayog Vice Chairman

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Teacher’s day is a day tohonour the teacherswho contribute themaximum to the stu-dents’ overall develop-

ment. Every year, we celebrateTeachers’ Day on September 5,which is marked by the birthanniversary of Dr SarvepalliRadhakrishnan, who was a teacherpar excellence. When he becamethe President of India in 1962, hewas requested by his studentsand friends that they get his per-mission to celebrate his birthdayon September 5. After hearing therequest, he politely replied,“Instead of celebrating my person-al birthday, it would be better if itis dedicated to the entire teachingprofession.”

The teaching profession has agreat impact on the overallgrowth, development and well-being of the students, society andthe country. A teacher is a beaconin the darkness and a hope thatgives the students courage andstrength to lead their life. Studentscan never repay the valuable con-tribution of their teachers whoarouse their hearts with the lightof knowledge by removing allsorts of ignorance.

Keeping the importance ofteacher-student relationship inmind, Professor Tariq Mansoor, ateacher and the Vice Chancellor ofthe Aligarh Muslim University hadsaid: “Teachers are the backboneof any academic institution andalways play a big role in shapingthe life and career of students”.

A teacher is strict with his/herstudents at times but that does notmean that s/he dislikes them.S/he rebukes his/her students toprepare them for greater chal-lenges and to nurture their learn-ing skill to build a strong founda-tion for the next phase of their life.Under the guidance and supervi-sion of a teacher, students attainedan impressive milestone in theirlife with integrity and honesty.

One of the research scholars,Mohammad Tahir, with Languageof Advertising, Media and Market

(LAMM) at the Aligarh MuslimUniversity said: “Whatsoever Ihave learned in my life, I havelearned it from my teachers. Myteachers are more like friendsand mentors who provided mewith life-changing advice whichhelps me grow a bit every day.”

Teachers’ Day must be cele-brated with lots of excitement, joyand happiness and students musttell their teachers how and why arethey special to them. This is theday when students should recog-nise and honour their teacherswho have given impeccable con-tribution in shaping their future.Teachers are not only the back-bone of our society but also act asa change agent — they shape anddevelop a student’s personalityand make him/her an ideal citizen

of the country and a responsiblemember of society.

Another student, FirdausQamar, wearing a scarf on herhead, expressed her feeling by say-ing that it was her teachers whoguided, helped and imbibed strong

values in her to make her what shewas at present. They had not onlyhelped in increasing her knowl-edge but also helped her under-stand the core values of human-ism.

As we know teaching is a

noble profession and teachers arethe source of knowledge and wis-dom. There is a saying that teach-ers are greater than the parents.Parents give birth to a child where-as teachers mould that child’spersonality and provide a brighterfuture. Apart from academics,teachers always stand by their stu-dents at every step to guide, moti-vate and inspire them to becomea better person in society and alsosucceed in their career.

On the importance of this day,Syed Talha Ali, who recently grad-uated from the Aligarh MuslimUniversity said: “My teachers havehelped me in boosting my spiritswhen I was dejected anddepressed. I thank all my teacherswho have taught me to strive forexcellence and become a better

version of myself.”Teachers act as role models

and always play a prominent rolein influencing and inspiring theirstudents. In our society, parentsare responsible for giving theirchildren quality care, however,teachers are responsible for mak-ing their future bright and success-ful. Teachers are the source ofinspiration to the students whichhelp them to go ahead and be suc-cessful. Teachers make studentsvery strong and prepare them toface the many challenges they canface in their life with confidenceand commitment.

Habibur Rahman, a studentpursuing his PhD in theDepartment of Linguistics atAligarh Muslim Universityexpressed his feeling with muchexcitement. He said, “They havealways shown me the right way todeal with situations and over-come my shortcomings. It isbecause of the advice of my teach-ers that I am able to concentrateon myself and am constantly try-ing to follow the path of goodnessand righteousness.”

Nothing could be learnedwithout the help of a teacher — beit painting, lab experiments orlearning a new language, it is ateacher who guides a student onhow to acquire particular traits toexcel in any specialised or techni-cal field.

Teachers’ Day is a wonderfulopportunity for all students toappreciate the hard work andefforts of the teachers in groom-ing and shaping the lives of his/herstudents in a meaningful way.The most difficult and challeng-ing part for a teacher is to balancethe class where students comefrom different economic, social,religious, linguistic and culturalbackground.

On this very special day, tohonour the teachers, studentsshould and must offer flowers,greeting cards and gifts to expresstheir affection, love and respecttowards them. Celebration ofTeachers’ Day is a wonderfulopportunity for all of us to recallour childhood days and cherishthose school or college memories,crushed under our daily chores.

(The writer is a well-known lin-guist, author and columnist andteaches at the Department ofLinguistics at the Aligarh MuslimUniversity)

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Not all investors look for safe-haven.Some have a penchant for taking risksfor potentially higher returns.

Investment in small and mid-cap mutualfunds can provide just that, albeit at a high-er risk. As the name suggests, small and mid-cap funds invest in companies with lowermarket capitalisation than large companies;and the proportion of investments betweenmid-cap and small-cap may vary from fundto fund. A mid-cap company’s market capi-talisation would range anywhere between twobillion dollar to $10 billion; whereas a small-cap is a company of market capitalisationbetween $300 million and two billion dollar.

In a typical growth curve of companies,large companies are at the top end of thecurve; whereas mid-cap companies are in themiddle, and small-cap at the beginning. Still,in the growth phase, mid-cap companies areexpected to have higher growth and increasetheir profits, market share and productivity.They are riskier than large companies but lessrisky than small-cap companies. On the otherhand, small-cap companies offer investorsmore room for growth but also confergreater risk and volatility than both mid-capand large-cap companies.

Although the Nifty and Sensex are on arise for a major part of the year now, the smalland mid-cap index has underperformed inboth the indices. However, if an investor takesa long-term view of 10 years, historically,small and mid-cap funds have outperformedthe large-cap funds — the latest examplebeing a whopping 55 per cent return in 2017.

However, volatility is the middle namefor small and mid-cap funds. Althoughannualised returns for the last five years havebeen very high, one can also witness hugedownsides for a brief period of time. Forinstance, the first half of 2018 had seen atough phase for small and mid-cap mutu-al funds and these schemes were badly hit.Mid-cap category gave an average return of-5.63 per cent and small-cap schemes gen-erated -7.75 per cent in the six-month peri-

od. Reasons for this lacklustre and almostfrightening performance are many.

After the re-categorisation of mutualfund schemes by SEBI, several AssetManagement Companies (AMC) sold offtheir small and mid-cap holdings along withmany large institutions, which moved theirinvestments to large caps. These sell-offs,along with other macroeconomic factors,like rising crude oil prices, falling rupee,falling interest rates, political uncertainty andFII sell-offs, are putting the burden on mutu-al funds. The downside is small and mid-cap will continue as they are overvalued andfurther corrections are expected, therebyprolonging the pain in small and mid-capsector for some more months to come. Thisis the reason why investments in small andmid-cap funds are not for everybody — itis only for investors who have the stomachto digest the volatility.

Investors should examine certain para-meters while investing in small and mid-capfunds. The first criteria is the construction ofa portfolio with quality stocks and lowerturnover ratio. Past performance of any fund,both in bull and bear runs, is also importantto find a mutual fund with consistent returns.A small and mid-cap fund with a price-earn-ings ratio of less than 30 is acceptable. Any

value higher is considered risky. Quality of the asset management com-

pany and its investment process is also cru-cial for any investor. An investor’s ability toswitch between small, mid and large-capcompanies, depending on the market condi-tions or to hold cash, also makes for a goodmutual fund. As investing in small and mid-cap requires experience, and above all, pre-cise qualitative analysis, the advice of an expe-rienced and a prudent fund manager goes along way in selecting a fund.

Aggressive investors should focus onmutual funds that have invested in growth-oriented small and mid-cap companies thathave delivered consistent returns in thelong-term, with an investment horizon ofnot less than five years. Small and mid-capfunds should be chosen for long-terminstead of short-term expectations. Thestructural reforms should auger well for themid-cap funds to give good returns. Themarkets are expected to be choppy beforethe elections, and investors should take theopportunity to buy on dips.

Investors, who are less aggressive andwanting the best of both worlds might con-sider investing in small and mid-cap mutu-al funds with a higher proportion of invest-ment in mid-cap companies, which have mar-ket capitalisations between two billion dol-lar and $10 billion. Historically, these com-panies have offered more stability thansmall-cap companies. Yet they confer moregrowth potential than large-cap companies.

As many small and mid-cap mutualfunds are opening doors to investors againlike, L&T Emerging Businesses Fund andDSP Small Cap Fund, it is a good opportu-nity for aggressive investors to considerinvesting from now to December in goodmid-cap funds using the systematic trans-fer plan route. However, the investment hori-zon must be for a minimum of five years.For investors with a one-time investment,this could stagger their investments over aperiod of one year, buying on downswings.

However, small and mid-cap funds arestill overvalued. Hence, investors need totread carefully and analyse the scheme’strack record across the market cycles anddecide on the suitable mutual fund scheme,depending on how much diversification isnecessary for the portfolio.

(The writer is Assistant Professor, AmityUniversity)

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A tribute to our teachersSeptember 5, Teacher’s Day, is an important day to pay tribute to our teachers who nurtured us to face

the many challenges in life with confidence and commitment. We must thank them for what we are

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Asex scandal has beenerupted in Kerala’s ruling

CPI(M) with a woman leaderof its youth wing, DYFI, hasaccused PK Sasi, party MLAfrom Shoranur of trying to sex-ually abuse her. She has lodgeda complaint with the partyleadership.

State CPI(M) secretaryKodiyeri Balakrishnan saidthat the party had alreadystarted looking into a com-plaint the young woman, amember of the DYFI’sPalakkad district committee,

had lodged with him threeweeks ago but the Oppositionparties demanded the MLA’sresignation and police actionagainst him and those who hadfailed to report the matter tothe police.

Asked about the woman’scomplaint against Sasi, CPI(M)general secretary SitaramYechury said in New Delhi, “Ithas been sent there (to theparty’s Kerala leadership). Theywill be looking into it.” Thewoman leader had e-mailedher complaint to Yechury theother day after other centralleaders and the Kerala leader-

ship had failed to respond toher complaint.

“I had received the com-plaint three weeks ago. We havebegun taking action on it,” saidKodiyeri inThiruvananthapuram onTuesday. Asked whether thecomplaint would be forward-ed to the police, “The party istaking action on the basis of acomplaint it has received. If itwas a complaint for the police,(the woman) would havelodged it with them.”

The CPI(M)’s State com-mittee has reportedly consti-tuted a two-member commit-

tee of the secretariat to lookinto the young woman’s com-plaint. The members of thepanel are central committeemembers PK Sreemathy MPand State Culture Minister AKBalan. The committee has beeninstructed to file its report ina month’s time.

In her complaint, the DYFIleader had accused Sasi, also amember of the CPI(M)’s dis-trict committee and districtsecretariat in Palakkad, of try-ing to abuse her sexually at theparty’s Mannarkad area com-mittee office. She also chargedhim with continuing theharassment for over a yearand with making lewd remarksto her over the phone.

The young woman hadlodged her complaint first onAugust 14 with party

Politbureau member BrindaKarat, State secretary Kodiyeriand some prominent leaders inthe party’s State secretariat.However, no action was takenon the complaint and thereforeshe e-mailed her complaint tothe party’s general secretary.

As per reports, there hadbeen efforts to hush up theissue. The woman was report-edly offered �1 crore and a topposition in the DYFI to with-draw her complaint.

Also, the woman hadattached the voice records ofthe phone conversations ofSasi with her, in which he hadallegedly made immoralremarks and of the other offersmade to her for hushing up theissue.

Rejecting the chargeagainst him totally, Sasi said inPalakkad on Tuesday, “I haveno knowledge about such acomplaint. I came to know ofit from the media. I have donenothing wrong. There aremany people who want todestroy me politically. Thesepeople might be adopting cer-

tain vicious ways to defeat me.There is a well-planned con-spiracy behind it.”

CPI(M)’s Palakkad districtsecretary CK Rajendran said,“he had not come across anysuch complaint against Sasi butsources said that the issue hadbecome a huge embarrass-ment for the district leadership.However, instead of ensuringjustice to the victim of thealleged sexual harassment, thedistrict leadership had report-edly been trying to settle theissue.”

Sasi is perhaps the thirdsenior CPI(M) leader to facecharges of sexual harassmentand immoral conduct. P Sasi,former Kannur district secre-tary and one of its most pow-erful leaders at that time, on thecharge of sexually harassing awoman employee of the partyorgan, Deshabhimani, aMalayalam daily.

However, he returned tothe party last June after a courtgave him clean chit.

On August 1, 2011, theCPI(M) had removed senior

leader Gopi Kottamurikkal asits Ernakulam district secretaryfollowing a scandal relating tothe allegation that he had usedthe party’s office premises forimmoral acts.

Meanwhile, the MLA andthe CPI(M) came under severecriticisms from Oppositionparties. The State BJP presidentPS Sreedharan Pillai said, “legalaction under the CriminalProcedure Code should be ini-tiated against the CPI(M) lead-ers including Brinda Karatwho had allegedly tried to set-tle the issue instead of handingover the woman’s complaint tothe police.”

“It is not up to the CPI(M)to take decision on sex abusecases. If the party takes action,it is its internal matter. Thecomplaint should have beenhanded over to the police,” saidState BJP general secretary KSurendran. While the StateWoman’s Congress presidentLathika Subhash demandedthe MLA’s resignation, YouthCongress leader DeanKuriakose sought Sasi’s arrest.

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The Kerala Government onTuesday issued an order

cancelling all celebrations heldat official level using publicfunds for a year, in the contextof the disaster brought about bythe unprecedented flood andthe ongoing relief and rehabil-itation efforts but variousdepartments expressed sur-prise and disappointment at thedecision.

As per the order, issued onTuesday by the GeneralAdministration Department(GAD), festivals that uses pub-lic funds and are organisedunder the Government, like theInternational Film Festival ofKerala (IFFK) and the State

schools art festival, would notbe held for the next one year.The festivals of the Departmentof Tourism also would be can-celled as per the order.

The departments in chargeof holding such festivals havebeen asked to divert the moneyearmarked for the purpose tothe Disaster Relief Fund. TheGovernment had earlier can-celled the week-long officialOnam celebrations due to theflood. The schools art festivalof this academic year wasscheduled to be held inAlappuzha, one of the worst-hitdistricts.

The decision to abandonfestivals and celebrations wasconveyed to the GeneralAdministration Department

before Chief Minister PinarayiVijayan left for the US onSeptember 2 for treatment foran as-yet-undisclosed ailmentat Mayo Clinic at Rochester inMinnesota. No other depart-ment had any knowledge of thedecision till the order wasissued on Tuesday.

“There is need for clarity inthe matter,” said CulturalAffairs Minister AK Balan,who expressed surprise at the

order. “In my personal view, itwould have been more appro-priate if the festivals are cele-brated by avoiding extrava-gance and over-expenditure,”Balan said. The Department ofCulture wrote a letter to theState Chief Secretary seekingclarity in the matter.

Balan had come to knowabout the order after he hadreached Thiruvananthapuramon Tuesday morning for dis-cussions on the film festival tobe held in December. Theorder had come at a time whenthe Kerala State ChalachithraAcademy, which is in charge ofthe film festival, was thinkingof ways to generate additionalrevenue to aid flood reliefoperations.

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Ahouse wife facing sexualharassment from a rowdy

committed suicide by settingherself ablaze in front of apolice station in Hyderabad.

The incident occurred out-side Boenpally police station onTuesday morning. 25-year-oldSabita was shifted to Gandhihospital in a serious conditionwhere she was succumbed inthe evening, police inspectorVijay Kumar said.

Family members of Sabitaalleged that she was facingsexual harassment by a rowdyVenkatesh. He had allegedlyshot her video when she wastaking bath at her home inAnnanagar and was trying toblackmail her.

Despite her complaintspolice did not act against hertormentor and she took theextreme step.

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Air travel in India is facing a new crisis whichhas been named as Thoothukudi Syndrome

by the aviation experts. The phenomenon madeits first appearance Chennai-Thoothukudi flightof the Indigo Air on Monday when an unrulyfemale traveler shouted anti-BJP slogans duringthe flight which upset many passengers and thecrew members.

“Down with the fascist BJP, Down withTamilissai Sounderarajan,” shouted Lois Sofia, a28-year-old woman from Thoothukudi through-out the flight. She was annoyed because of thepresence of Dr Tamilissai Sounderarajan, TamilNadu president of the BJP among the passengers.Sounderarajan who was sitting in one of the frontrows kept her cool throughout the 60 minutesjourney. Sofia continued her tirade against theHindu party even as Dounderarajan was gettingdown from the aircraft. At the Thoothukudi air-port lounge, she asked Sofia why she was rais-ing slogans inside the aircraft while there wasenough space outside the aircraft as well as theairport. The Thoothukudi woman was still in her

fighting spirits and shouted back that she hadevery right to dissent. The BJP leader filed a com-plaint with the airport police and Sofia wasbooked under various sections of the Indian PenalCode and Tamil Nadu City Police Act. “I wasbothered about the safety of the passengers andcrew and that’s why I maintained silencethroughout the journey. I know well that one can-not shout inside the aircraft,” Dr sounderarajantold The Pioneer over phone from Thoothukudi.

Sofia who was arrested by the police andremanded last evening was let out on bail onTuesday morning. But the entire political force inTamil Nadu barring the BJP and the AIADMKcame out in the open supporting Sofia. M K Stalin,the DMK president, lambasted the BJP for throt-tling the right to dissent and reiterated his stancethat the Hindu party was Fascist by all means.

While most of the leaders of the Tamil chau-vinistic outfits jumped into the fray supportingSofia’s actions, M R Shivaraman, veteran bureau-crat, who was also the director general of civil avi-ation, told this newspaper that shouting insidethe aircraft was illegal and an offence punishablewith imprisonment and fine.

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tified militants attacked CRPFpatrolling party by hurling ahand grenade towards them atSangrama Chowk in northKashmir's Baramulla districton Tuesday morning.

Security sources said thatone personnel sustained griev-

ous injuries and was shifted tohospital for specialized treat-ment. Other three receivednon fatal grenade splinterinjuries.

A manhunt was launchedto nab the attackers.

No militant outfit hasclaimed responsibility for theattack.

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Almost eleven years after twin blastsrocked the city of Hyderabad claim-

ing 44 lives and injuring 68 others, a localcourt found two of the five accused guilty.

Second Additional MetropolitanSessions Judge T Srinivas Rao, who pro-nounced the verdict in make shift court inCharalapally Central Prison convictedtwo accused Anique Shafeeq Sayeed andAkbar Ismail Choudhary and acquittedFarooq Sharfuddin Tarkash and Sadiq IsrarShaikh

However the fate of Tariq Anjum, whowas charged with giving shelter to the otheraccused will be known on Monday. Judgesaid that the quantum of punishment ofthe two convicts will also be announcedon the same day.

Two improvised explosive deviceshad exploded in crowded Lumbini Parknear the state secretariat and Gokul ChatBhandar in Kothi on the evening ofAugust 25, 2007 killing 44 people andinjuring 68 others. Another IED wasfound in time and defused under the overbridge at Dilsukhnagar bus stop.

Counter Intelligence Cell ofHyderabad police had investigated the

case. The accused, allegedly belonging toIndian Mujahideen were arrested with thehelp of Maharashtra police in 2009 and thecharge sheet was filed in 2013 against fiveaccused charging them with murder andviolation of explosives substances act. Theprosecution named two other accusedRiyaz Bhatkal and Iqbal Bhatkal whoremain absconding.

During the nearly five year long trial160 witnesses were examined in the court.Defence Counsel M A Azeem said that theevidence produced against Sadiq andFarooq was circumstantial and the wit-nesses were found by the investigators oneyear after the incident.

However the two acquitted personswere unlikely to be released from their nineyear long imprisonment as jail authoritiessay they will have to send them to Mumbaiwhere they were accused in other bombblast cases.

Prosecution alleged that the operativesof Indian Mujahideen had carried out theblasts to avenge the bomb blast in MeccaMasjid on May 18, 2007 killing six wor-shippers.

Prosecution claimed that AniqueShafeeq Sayeed had planted the bomb atLumbini Park under a seat before the Laser

show and Riyaz Bhatkal was responsiblefor planting the bomb at Gokul ChatBhandar, a crowded eatery. The third bombwhich failed to explode was left behind byIsmail Choudhary. While 12 people diedand 21 were injured in the blast atLumbini Park, 32 people died and 47 wereinjured in the second blast at Gokul Chat.The bombs were timed to go one after theother at a short duration.

Prosecution said that a criminal con-spiracy hatched by Riyaz, Iqbal, Aniqueand Amir Raza Khan to carry out the blastas they believed that Mecca Masjid blastwas carried out by the Hindutva groups.

Most part of the trial was conductedby judge S Radhakrishna Murthy. After hewas arrested by the anti corruption bureau, Srinivas Rao took the charge of the courtand continued the hearing.

The incident had plunged the city intofear and shock as the city had already seenanother blast at crowded Mecca Masjidduring Friday congregation only threemonths earlier.

CBI and NIA who had probed theMecca Masjid blast had arrested membersof right Hindu groups but the NIA courtin Hyderabad acquitted them in April2018.

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Amid the continuing specu-lation about early elec-

tions to the State Assembly,there was a flurry of activity inofficial and political circles inHyderabad.

While the Chief Minister KChandrasekhar Rao has movedto his farmhouse at Erravellivillage in Medak district forholding consultations andchalking out his strategy, offi-cials were conducting a seriesof high level meetings in thecity.

The State Chief SecretarySK Joshi was in the thick of thethings as he met the State gov-ernor ESL Narasimhan andthe Chief Electoral OfficerRajath Kumar. It was believedthat possibility of early pollsfigured in both the meetings.

In his meeting with thegovernor Joshi was accompa-nied by the chief advisor to thegovernment Rajeev Sharmaand other senior officials.

After attending a trainingprogram for the officialsregarding the new software toupdate the electoral rolls in thestate, Rajath Kumar told themedia that the decision regard-

ing the dates of the electionswill be decided by the electioncommissioner. He said thatthe new software will make iteasy for the officials to removethe fake voters from the elec-toral lists as they can verify thedetails along with the photo ofany voter.

Meanwhile after Sunday’sshow of strength of the rulingTelangana Rashtra Samiti ChiefMinister K Chandrasekhar Raowas now confined to his farmehouse where he was meetingthe senior party leaders andweighing various optionsincluding the dissolving of theState Assembly and going foran early elections.

All eyes were on the nextcabinet meeting scheduled forThursday where a clear picturewas likely to emerge.

As part of its preparationsthe TRS has decided to conduct100 public meetings in next 50days and take its campaign tothe rural areas of the State.Senior Minister T Harish Raoafter a meeting with the min-isters and leaders of Siddipetdistrict told the media that firstsuch meeting “People’sBlessing” will be held atHusnabad on September 7.

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Rebel BJP leader and formerUnion Minister in Vajpayee

led NDA GovernmentShatrugan Sinha said thatHardik Patel’s ongoing fast agi-tation was inspired by all par-ties (except BJP) as 25-year-oldpro-quota leader has raisedissues of farmers.

The 72-year-old actorturned politician on Tuesdayreached at Hardik’s residencealong with another BJP rebelleader and former FinanceMinister Yashwant Sinha tomeet the convener of PatidarAnamat Andolan Samiti(PAAS).

“Hardik is youngster andfuture of the nation. Hisdemand for waiver in farmers’debt is appropriate. It is verysad that neither central norstate government representativevisited him. Party is bigger thanan individual and the nation iseven bigger than party,” saidSinha while talking to mediapersons.

He went on to say thatmuch talked about GujaratModel is already failed. If BJPruled Governments in otherstate could waive farmers’ debt,why Gujarat’s farmers shouldbe left behind, added the sittingMember of Parliament fromPatana Sahib Lok Sabha con-

stituency.Former Finance Minister

Yashwant Sinha said that theagitation initiated by Hardik,especially raising the issues of

farmers, would be taken toevery corner of the country.Leaders from different politicalparties were prepared to standwith him, he said adding,

“Strong Maharashtra leaderNana Patole tried to raise issuesrelated to farmers before PrimeMinister Narendra Modi, butPM kept on ignoring him.

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Jammu & Kashmir Police onTuesday arrested a woman

and her son for plotting mur-der and gangrape of her 9-year-old stepdaughter in Uri pock-et of North Kashmir'sBaramulla district.

Girl's father MushtaqAhmad Ganai, a resident ofLari, Trikanjan village had fileda missing report last monthsuspecting she might have beenabducted. Her mutilated body

smeared with acid was found ina forested area on September 2.

During the course of inves-tigation, police found thatGanai was married to twowomen, the younger one hail-ing from Jharkhand who wasthe murdered girl's motherwhile his first wife was fromthe same village.

Police found that his localwife suspected that he wasbiased against her and spentmore time with his non localwife and daughter.

After the recovery of girl's

body, police set up a specialinvestigation team (SIT) only tounearth a bone chilling andhorrible account of murderand rape of the child.

Police said the investigationrevealed that said step motherFahmeeda had been nourishinga long standing grudge againstthe non local wife of her hus-band and her children as shehad the perception that herhusband was more inclinedand affectionate towards hissecond wife (Khushboo) andher children.

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AJD(U) MLA allegedlyshared some vulgar posts

on his Facebook accountapparently being misled thatthe girls shown in the video willput off their clothes. SonbarsaMLA Ratnesh Sada howeverclaimed he had no knowledgeabout it.

Sada, a scheduled caste,who also happens to be whip ofthe ruling party pleaded that hewas under treatment for his eyeoperation alleged it was polit-ical conspiracy against him. “Idon’t have much idea abouthow the posts are shared,” hesaid.

Some people in hisreserved constituency com-plained to the police aftergoing through his Facebookpage where at least two vulgarvideos had been posted one onFebruary and another on July26. These posts claimed thatthose sharing it on social mediacould ultimately see the girlsnaked.

The people in his con-stituency in Saharsa districtwere shocked to see such postson the account of Sada who isotherwise known as a gentle-man and serious legislator. Theposts have now been deletedonly after the matter reached tothe police.

A case was registered withBangaon police station andsome political opponentsburned the MLA’s effigy.Saharsa DIG SureshChoudhary said police wouldinquire into the matter.

“I think someone hashacked my Facebook accountand posted objectionablethings. It’s fine that the policeis investigating the matter,”said Sada who is in his early six-ties.

He also alleged that thecomplainant had once threat-ened him to kill and was arrest-ed and remained in jail for acouple of months.

He alleged it was either thatperson or someone else hackedand shared it.

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The Bombay High Courtsaid on Tuesday that the

special National InvestigationAgency (NIA) court “is boundto consider” the SupremeCourt’s order relating to Lt ColPrasad Shrikant Purohit’sobjection to the applicability ofUnlawful Activities(Prevention) Act (UAPA)against him, before framing thecharges against him in the2008 Malegaon blasts case.

While refusing to stay theframing of charges againstPurohit in the 2008 Malegaonblasts case, a HC bench ofJustices Mridula Bhatkar andSandeep Shinde ordered thatbefore framing of chargesagainst him in the case, the spe-cial NIA court consider anddecide on Purohit’s objection tothe sanction granted by theMaharashtra government forhis prosecution under section45 (2) of UAPA.

“Since the Supreme Courthas directed to expedite thetrial before the Special Court,it may not be appropriate to

stay the trial. However, beforeframing the charge, the SpecialCourt is bound to consider theorder passed by the SupremeCourt on 20/04/2018 and toconsider and decide the objec-tion to sanction under Section45 (2) of the UnlawfulActivities (Prevention) Act,1967 taken by the defence afteraffording a reasonable oppor-tunity of hearing to the partiesand then proceed further,” theHC bench ruled.

The high court was hearingan application filed by Purohitseeking quashing of the orderpassed by Judge VinodPadalkar of the special NIACourt rejecting his applica-tion for framing of chargesagainst him in the 2008Malegaon blasts case.

During the course of thehearing, Purohit’s lawyerShrikant Shivade drew theattention of the HC bench tothe order passed recently by theSupreme Court in a specialpetition filed by his clientagainst the Maharashtra gov-ernment which asked the highcourt and trial court to con-

sider its order on Purohit’sbail application.

The apex court’s order hadread thus: “Mr. Harish Salve,learned senior counsel appear-ing on behalf of the petitionersubmitted that the observationsmade by this Court in theorder deciding the bail appli-cation shall not be totallybrushed aside but shall be con-sidered during framing ofcharges and the trial and theHigh Court shall decide thesame on its own merits with-out being influenced by obser-

vations in respect of sanctionsin para 19 of the order dated21.8.2017. We order accord-ingly”.

After considering the apexcourt’s order, the HC benchgave some relief to Purohit andasked the trial court to considerdecide on the applicability ofUAPA in his case, before fram-ing the charges against him.

The special NIA is slated toframe the charges againstPurohit and other accused inthe 2008 Malegaon blasts caseon Wednesday.

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The equity benchmarkSensex extended its fall for

a fifth straight session onTuesday, making it the longestlosing spree in over threemonths as concerns persist onmultiple fronts in the form ofrising crude prices, tumblingrupee and ongoing global tradetiff.

The 30-share BSE indexalso logged its weakest closingin over two weeks by falling 155points to 38,157.92, followinga widespread selling mainly insectors like consumer durables,financials and banks.

The broader Nifty too fellfor the second straight sessionand closed with a loss of over62 points, or 0.54 per cent, at11,520.30, after hoveringbetween 11,496.85 and11,602.55.

Investors remained con-

cerned over sustained for-eign fund outf lows andwidening current accountdeficit as a result of soaringcrude oil prices, leading to acontinuous fall in the domes-tic currency.

Meanwhile, the Indianrupee crashed to a fresh recordlow of 71.57 against the US dol-lar in intra-day movement,weighing on investors senti-ment.

Besides, the ongoing tradewar rhetorics between the twolargest economies, the US andChina, further hit market sen-timents globally.

"Continued weakness incurrency and surge in oil pricedragged the indices to a con-solidation. Additionally, con-cerns on widening deficit andinflation trajectory led domes-tic bond yield to break 8 percent mark. Weak global marketon account of trade tensions

further steered the investor'ssentiment," Vinod Nair, Headof Research, Geojit FinancialServices Ltd, said.

Domestic bourses saw ahectic selling in almost all sec-tors — consumer durables,PSUs, infrastructure, realty,FMCG, telecom, utilities,power, metal, auto, healthcare,banking, oil and gas, capitalgoods and finance.

The BSE Sensex soared206.04 points to hit a high of38,518.56 in early trade butgave up its gains following awidespread sell-off, whichdragged it down to 38,098.60.The benchmark equity gaugerecorded its longest string oflosses since May 21.

It finally ended at an overtwo-week low of 38,157.92,down 154.60 points, or 0.40 percent. The Sensex had lost584.11 points in the previousfour sessions.

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Po v e r t yand ill-

health are,indeed two

sides of the same coin. It’s avicious cycle where in order toalleviate poverty, effectivehealthcare system has to beprovided to the poor families. Infact, if we consider multiplestudies conducted in the past,they all reveal that when fami-lies from the 'vulnerable sectionsof the society' struggle to pay fortheir illness and healthcare, theyare likely to fall into the never-ending trap of poverty. Thiscoupled with the lack of basichealth infrastructure in rural andremote areas aggravate thehealth conditions of the poor,leaving them in a perpetualstate of poverty.

Over the years, the micro-finance industry in India hasproven to be one of the fewpoverty alleviation strategiesthat has helped poor individu-als improve their household

economic situation by allowingthem to save and borrowspecifically for health careneeds because right from car-diovascular diseases to cancerand diabetes, the poorest pop-ulations are affected by chron-ic health ailments too.

According to the EconomicTimes Report on August 30,2018, MBFC microfinance insti-tutions posted more than 50 per-cent growth in gross loan port-folio at �51,878 crore in the firstquarter of FY19 in India com-pared to the same period of lastyear. In terms of geographic cat-egorization, 66 percent of theportfolio for NBFC-MFIs is ruraland 34 percent is urban. Thesenumbers demonstrate the fun-damental strength of the indus-try and its untapped potential.

And, now with more com-mercial banks turning receptiveto the needs of the medium andsmall MFIs which is also backedby a strong regulatory framework,the once unorganised MFI sectoris now expected to contributelargely for the health of poor.

Born out of the simplenotion that the poor can save and

are bankable, microfinance isbasically the distribution of smallloans to help the impoverishedwho otherwise do not haveaccess to loans, to engage in avariety of economic activities.And, if we go by previous trackrecords, microfinance to someextent has been successful inreaching the economically poorstrata and helping them fighttheir healthcare woes includingfinancing their medicine in fewcases and protecting them fromthe risk of healthcare shocks.

Banking on its success,scores of microfinance institu-tions (MFIs), and self-help pro-moting institutions (SHPIs) pro-moted by the state governments,non-governmental organisations(NGOs) and a few RegionalRural Banks are coming forwardto educate their clients andmembers on a wide range ofhealth topics, from child andmaternal health to preventionand management of diseasessuch as malaria, HIV/ AIDS anddiabetes. Intention should be tospread awareness about healthand nutrition because fundingalone is not the solution.

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If you take a flight nowadaysyou will likely notice that most

planes are full, airports are socrowded that security can takequite a while, with first-time fly-ers travelling in numbers. Andthe average Airbus A320 oper-ating for the low-cost carriersgenuinely feels like an ‘Air Bus’.Yet, a cursory look at airlineindustry results right now havesent shivers through the spinesof investors, with Jet Airways andSpiceJet declaring losses andIndiGo’s profits collapsing 97 per

cent to just 28 crore, the Indianaviation sector is bleeding.Which logically makes no sensewhatsoever to the average flyertoday, but India’s airlines areexpected to post losses of around�15,000 crore this year accord-ing to a report by the Centre forAsia-Pacific Aviation (CAPA).

One crucial reason for thelosses is of course the rising priceof Aviation Turbine Fuel (ATF),and even if a SpiceJetBombardier Q400 recently flewfrom Dehradun to Delhi onjathropa-derived biofuel, don’texpect ‘green’ fuel to make a hugedent in fuel costs for anotherdecade or two. And with crudeprices shooting up coupled withthe fact that the US Dollar has

strengthened against the rupee,airlines are having to pay a lotmore for aircraft leases and ser-vicing, since the entire industryruns on the greenback.

Usually when costs go up,prices usually follow, but the air-lines are finding themselvesforced to offer more and moreseats on discount sales, withIndiGo starting yet another ‘mil-lion seats’ for �999 sale recently.Airlines measure their perfor-mance on two key metrics, Costsper Average Seat Kilometer(CASK) and Revenue perAverage Seat Kilometer (RASK);and while costs have gone upthanks to fuel prices, the fallingrupee and rising wages, revenueshave not kept pace at all. Indeed,

leading airlines have actuallyseen yields from passengers dropaccording to their results. Thisclearly means that Indians wantto fly, but they don’t want to paymore to fly.

This brings in the concept ofprice elasticity, with more Indiansflying and with more flyingoptions, they can look at multi-ple destinations at the sametime on multiple airlines and ifthe fares do not suit them theycan easily cancel their travelplans. The Government and theregulator, the DirectorateGeneral of Civil Aviation(DGCA) have also made it dif-ficult for the airlines to makeancillary revenues with passen-gers calling for caps on cancel-lation charges and calls for capson excess baggage and othercharges. Airlines will soon bepermitted to offer onboard WiFi,

but with costs of installing suchsystems up to a million dollarsper aircraft, can they afford to doso, given that some airlines arebelieved to have less than amonth of cash in hand.

One major reason for loweryields, other than during peakfestive season is one of overca-pacity despite planes being fullleaving the airlines no choice butto offer bargain basement faresto get ‘bums on seats’, the costsof flying an empty seat beingmore than carrying someonewho has paid for a super-cheapfare. India’s busiest sector, andone of the busiest in the world,Delhi-Mumbai has over 60 daily,non-stop services. Another sec-tor, to Goa’s Dabolim airportfrom Delhi, a sector that hadaround five non-stop flights aday five years ago, today has over15 non-stop flights. Some sus-

pect that airlines are offering somany flights just to lock up valu-able slots in airports like Delhiand Mumbai, where despiteexpensive renovation and con-struction over the past decade,almost no slots are available.Delhi’s Indira GandhiInternational Airport, whoseredesign was supposed to be suf-ficient till 2030, has already hitpeak capacity of 60 million pas-sengers and even with threerunways has massive congestionproblems, with aircraft holdingin the air for upwards of an hour.A Delhi-Mumbai flight whichused to take just one hour andforty-five minutes from gate togate a decade ago, can now taketwo hours fifteen minutes whencounting the amount of timeplanes have to wait on theground and in the air.

A combination of too many

flights, too many airlines and thesubsidised Air India adding tothe overall woes of the privateairlines, things are not lookinggood for the airlines. The fact isthat Air India’s privatisationmight now be impossible giventhe overall state of the aviationsector in India, things will takea negative turn before theyimprove. Airlines had a disas-trous first quarter, but the secondquarter could well be worse andairline stocks which gave hugereturns in 2017, will almost cer-tainly be the worst sectoral per-formers in the stock indices in2018. Jet Airways stock has col-lapsed from �870 in earlyJanuary to �282 on August 31,Spicejet from �148 in earlyFebruary to �79 and sectoral dar-ling Interglobe from �1498 inApril to �944 today.

What is the solution? Theobvious one is that theGovernment cuts taxes on fuel,but a crippling fiscal deficit andthe need to promote socialspending ahead of an electionyear will make the Governmenttone-deaf to this, although theneed to cut fuel taxes is also oneof political expediency for theNarendra Modi Government.The second factor could be oneof consolidation, the Tata Groupfind themselves supporting twoairlines right now, Air Asiawhich has a muddled directionand Vistara which is apparentlyfar from profitable. Jet Airwaysincreasingly looks like it mighthave a change of managementand of strategic direction, espe-cially given that its saviour in itslast time of crisis, the Abu Dhabibased Etihad Airlines is itself

bleeding and some of the otherairline groups could pitch in forJet, especially Air France - KLMGroup are also deep in trouble.

The low-cost carriers have tofigure out ways to increase ancil-lary revenues, for European low-cost giants RyanAir and EasyJetthese additional revenues arewhat drive profitability. But forthe likes of GoAir, the possibil-ity of foreign flights could bringin more revenues. Also, the pos-sibility of a couple of industryconsolidation exists, if two play-ers came together they couldimmediately rationalise theirroute structure, cutting Delhi-Mumbai services for example,adding more international routesand routes on underserved legs.But India’s aviation infrastructurewill have to keep up, it isn’t justDelhi and Mumbai that arebarely keeping up, Bengaluru,Hyderabad, Goa and Chennaiairports are all bursting at theseams, and while at Bengaluruwork on the new runway is onand Goa will soon have a newairport despite protest, Indianeeds many more runways.

The fact is that India has lit-tle or no choice but to grow theaviation sector. We once said theIndian railways connected thecountry and they still do whenit comes to freight, but for agrowing number of travellers airtravel is the only option, becausetime is money and India’s eco-nomic progress in the comingdecades depends on aviation.Hopefully the Governmentrealises this and does the rightthings to ensure sectoral growthcontinues apace so that India’sairlines can thrive going forward.

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In a major first step to breakthe language barrier for

Indian customers, AmazonIndia announces the launch ofamazon.in in Hindi. Thelaunch now enables shoppers inIndia to enjoy the ease and con-venience of Amazon’s shoppingexperience in Hindi.

Customers can now readdetailed product information,find deals & discounts, placethe orders, pay for their orders,manage their account infor-mation, track their orders andview order history conve-niently in Hindi. At launch, theHindi experience is availableon the Amazon mobile App onAndroid & mobile website.

Talking about the launch,Manish Tiwary, Vice President,Category Management, AmazonIndia said, “Our aim is to ensureany customer can find anythingthey want on Amazon.in, any-time and anywhere, irrespectiveof the language they speak orwhere they come from.”

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The Government will notcut excise duty on petrol

and diesel to cushion spirallingprices, which touched freshhighs Tuesday, as it has limitedfiscal space available to take anydent in revenue collections, atop official said.

With imports becomingcostlier because of a free-fall inrupee, the government believesthe current account deficit willovershoot the target and it can-not "disturb fiscal maths by cut-ting excise duty on petrol anddiesel," the official, who wishednot to be identified, said.

Petrol and diesel pricesTuesday touched fresh highs asrupee hit record low of 71.54,making imports costlier.

Petrol price in Delhi rose toa record �79.31 a litre anddiesel climbed to an all-timehigh of �71.34, renewing callsfor a cut in excise duty to cush-ion the spike.

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NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETINGNotice is hereby given that the 35thAnnual General Meeting (AGM) of the shareholders ofthe Company will be held at Hotel 'The Cameron', Plot No. 92, Pocket-1, KalindiKunj, NoidaRoad, JasolaVihar, New Delhi- 110025 on Friday 28th September, 2018 at 12.00 P.M. totransact the businesses mentioned in the Notice of Annual General Meeting.The notice of AGM along with Annual Report, Proxy Form and Attendance Slip have beensent in electronic form to those shareholders whose email address are registered with theCompany's Registrar and Share Transfer Agent/Depository Participants, unless the Membershave requested for hard copy of the same. Physical copy have been dispatched through per-mitted mode to all other members. The Company has completed all dispatches through e-mail and other permitted modes on Monday 3rd September, 2018.

Members may note that the Annual Report, AGM Notice inter alia indicating the processand manner of e-voting process, Proxy Form and Attendance Slip are available on Company'swebsite www.nktil.com and can also be obtained from registered office of the Company.

In compliance with the provisions of Section 108 of the Companies Act, 2013 read withthe Companies (Management and Administration) Amendments Rules, 2015 and Regulation44 of the SEBI (Listing Obligation and Disclosure Requirement) Regulation, 2015, the Companyis pleased to provide its member the facility to exercise their right to vote by electronic meansand business may be transacted through remote e-voting facility provided by National SecuritiesDepository Limited (NSDL).The remote e-voting period commences from Tuesday 25thSeptember, 2018 at 9.00 a.m and ends on Thursday 27th September, 2018 at 5.00 p.m. Theremote e-voting shall be disabled thereafter and no e-voting will be allowed thereafter.TheBoard has appointed Mr. SurrinderKishore Kapahi, Proprietor Kapahi and Associates, CompanySecretaries as Scrutinizer for conducting the e-voting process in accordance with the law andin a fair and transparent manner.The voting rights of members shall be in proportion to their share in the paid up equity sharecapital of the Company as on the cut-off date of 21st September, 2018. Members holdingshares either in physical or in dematerialized form, on the said cut-off date, are eligible to availthe facility of remote e-voting .Any person, who acquires shares of the Company after dis-patch of AGM Notice and holds such shares as of the cut-off date i.e, 21st September, 2018,may obtain the login ID and password by sending a request at [email protected] the AGM, facility for voting through ballot paper shall be made available and only the Membersas on the "cut-off date" i.e, 21st September, 2018, who have not cast their votes by remotee-voting , shall be entitled to exercise their rights to vote at the AGM through ballot paper.The members who have cast their votes through electronic means prior to the AGM may stillattend the AGM but shall not be entitled to cast their votes again.The notice of AGM containing, inter-alia, the procedure of e-voting is available on the Company'swebsite www.nktil.com and on NSDL's website https://www.evoting.nsdl.com.In case of any queries, Members may refer to the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQS) ande-voting user manual available at the Downloads sections of https://www.evoting.nsdl.comor contact NSDL at the toll free no. :1800-222-990 or or write a mail to [email protected] is also hereby given that that pursuant to section 91 of the Companies Act, 2013 readwith Rule 10 of the Companies (Management and Administration) Rules, 2014 and Regulation42 of SEBI (Listing Obligation and Disclosure Requirement) Regulation, 2015, the Registerof Members and Share Transfer books of the Company will remain closed from Saturday, 22ndSeptember, 2018 to Friday 28th September, 2018 (both days inclusive) for the purpose oftaking record of the Shareholders at the Annual General Meeting.

Thanking YouFor N K Textile Industries Limited

Sd/-Balbir Singh

Date: 04.09.2018 DirectorPlace: New Delhi DIN:00027438

N K Textile Industries LimitedRegistered office- A-1, Maharani Bagh, New Delhi-110065

CIN: L17299DL1983PLC163230, Tel: 011 26830014Email Id: [email protected], website: www.nktil.com

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● This is the diamond jubilee yearof NMDC. What have been theachievements so far?The performance of NMDC lastyear has been the best since theinception of the company. The com-pany is committed to do well andwith little motivation from themanagement in the right direction,we have performed the best so far.During 2017-18, the companyrecorded a turnover of �11,615crore as against �8830 crore in theprevious year, registering a growthof 32 per cent. We achieved a prof-it before tax (PBT) from continuingoperations of �6,180 crore and theprofit after tax (PAT) stood at�3,806 crore. We achieved the high-est ever record production of 355.76LT and sales of 360.75 LT since theinception of the company. The networth of the company stood at�24,354 crore as on March 31,which was 8.15 per cent higher thanthe previous financial year.

● What are some of the new pro-jects being undertaken by NMDC?NMDC has made a comprehensiveplan to enhance iron ore productioncapacity to 67 MTPA by FY-22 tomeet the growing requirements ofiron ore of the Indian steel sector.The strategy focuses on growthlargely through brown-field expan-sion of existing mines and improv-ing evacuation. The development ofa green-field mine (Deposit 13) hasbeen planned through a joint venturewith the Chhattisgarh State MiningDevelopment Corporation. NMDCis also in the process of setting up aslurry pipeline in phases for evacu-

ation of iron ore at economical costto such locations from where the pel-lets/ore are made available to theindustry. This is the first time thatNMDC is going to undertake goldmining in India. We are the highestbidder in the e-auction for the goldmine located in Andhra Pradesh.

Efforts to increase evacuationcapacity through doubling ofKirandul-Kothavalasa (KK) line isalso in full swing. NMDC is devel-oping iron ore stockyards inChhattisgarh for uninterrupted sup-plies. Besides, as a part of its diver-sification and forward integrationplan, the company is setting up a 3MTPA green-field steel plant atNagarnar in Chhattisgarh. We havealso forayed in pellet-making with a1.2 MTPA pellet plant at Donimalai.Another 2 MTPA pellet plant is inthe works at Nagarnar. NMDC ispromoting Steel SPVs for setting upof new steel plants in the state ofKarnataka and Jharkhand. This ini-tiative is under a collaborativeapproach of the Ministry of Steel andthe respective state governments. TheSteel SPVs shall acquire land, seekwater and power allocation and ironore linkage to set up the steel plantand then invite a strategic partner todevelop and construct it.

● What are some of the overseasprojects of NMDC?We have a majority stake (78.56 percent) in the Australian company—Legacy Iron Ore, which is carryingout exploration in its 19 explorationtenements in Western Australia iniron ore, gold and base metals.Legacy also applied for allocation of

tenements for tungsten in WesternAustralia. International CoalVentures Pvt. Ltd. acquired a cok-ing/thermal coal mine inMozambique in 2014 and operationof the same was taken over by ICVL.It undertook strategic review ofBenga operations and re-started themining operations with new con-tracts from November 2017. Bengamine is presently operational withapproximately 100 per cent capaci-

ty utilisation. We are also workingtowards setting up of a pilot-scaleprocessing plant for gold in our min-ing lease in Tanzania. Tungstenmetal is of strategic importance dueto its essential requirement in defenseand aerospace sector and currentlyIndia meets its entire requirementthrough imports. NMDC has enteredinto MoUs with both the MID-HANI and DMRL to explore tung-sten investment opportunities in

India and abroad. ● How is NMDC supporting thenew Corporate Sports Policy forCPSEs?Till now we have been using our CSRfunds to develop and promote sportsfacilities. Now, with the CorporateSports Policy for CPSEs under theMinistry of Steel, we will earmark acertain amount according to variouscategories as mentioned in the pol-icy. We are giving �1 crore to the

Apex Sports Body (ASB) and thesmaller companies will give �60lakh which the ASB will then use forvarious purposes like sponsoringsportspersons for internationalevents, registration, affiliation and soon. The sports categories listed in thepolicy are indicative. If anyone wantsto open an academy for a differentsport after fulfilling the pre-requi-sites, then we will support them aswell. For example, the tribal areashave talented archers and shootersand we will try to promote thesesports through dedicated academiesfor the tribal communities.

● NMDC has been undertakingmany CSR activities. Please elabo-rate on some initiativesWe have been getting the best CSRaward from all over the world.NMDC is the model PSE in the fieldof CSR and its model of stakehold-er consultation mechanism forimplementation has been recom-mended by theDepartment of PublicEnterprises, Government of India,for emulation by all other CPSEs.We have been spending around��50-190 crore on CSR projects. Wehave done outstanding work in theeducation sector in Dantewada,which the Prime Minster NarendraModi visited himself. We spendalmost 2.5 per cent of our profits onCSR especially on education andhealth.

NMDC has been investing sub-stantially in developing social infra-structure such as educational insti-tutes, sanitation, healthcare, drink-ing water, infrastructure develop-ment and employable skill develop-

ment, integrated village develop-ment, and so on, primarily in theperipheral areas of its operations.

● How is NMDC fostering researchand development in the mining sec-tor?Research and development has beena key focus of NMDC and we havebeen spending a fair share on devel-oping new technologies. NMDCoperates a state-of-the-art researchand development centre atHyderabad, which has been declaredas a “Centre of Excellence” by theUNIDO. The R&D departmentundertakes various projects relatedto the operational problems of theunits of NMDC and provides solu-tions to improve the system or sug-gest changes in technology to bet-ter its processes and operations. TheR&D centre also provides solutionsto the external agencies. For exam-ple, a pilot plant for iron-making byadoption of MATMOR technologyis envisaged in research collabora-tion mode between NMDC, NLCand ECT. The MATMOR technol-ogy is a unique alternate iron-making method for producing high-quality iron from inexpensive, abun-dant Lignite (brown coal) and highor low grade iron ore/mill scale etc.The technology patent is owned byECT, Australia. NMDC's GlobalExploration Centre at Raipur iscontinuously doing explorations inthe mines of NMDC and addingnew reserves every year. The com-pany has offered the state govern-ments to undertake free explo-ration to quantify mineral resourcesin the respective states.

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