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T he four convicts of Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case will not be hanged on January 22 as one of the con- victs Mukesh Kumar moved the trial court pleading that his mercy petition is pending before the President of India. The Delhi Government and prison authorities on Wednesday told a Bench of Justices Manmohan and Sangita Dhingra Sehgal in the Delhi High Court that under the prison rules, if death sen- tence has been awarded to more than one person in a case and if only one of them moves a mercy plea, the execution of the others too has to be post- poned till the plea is decided. However, in a related but significant development, the High Court (HC) refused to stay the death warrant issued against the convicts Akshaya Thakur, Mukesh Kumar, Vinay Sharma and Pawan Gupta by the trial court on January 7. The Delhi HC came down heavily upon the Delhi Government for sitting over the case for a year and doing noth- ing in issuing notice on the mercy plea of the convicts. The HC also pulled up the Delhi Government and Delhi prison authorities for the delay on their part in informing the con- victs that they can move mercy pleas before the President. The Bench said the notice ought to have been issued after the apex court’s May 5, 2017 judgement, instead it was issued on October 29, 2019 and December 18, 2019. After the HC observation, the Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia sought to clear the air and said, “The Delhi Government has recommended rejecting the mercy plea filed by Mukesh, and forwarded it to the Lieutenant Governor (L-G) at lightning speed”. Incidentally, convicts Vinay and Mukesh have already exhausted curative petition remedy and two others — Pawan and Akshay — are yet to move the Supreme Court (SC) with this plea. The Bench said, “Then your rule is bad if you cannot take action till all the co-con- victs have moved a mercy plea. It seems there has been non- application of mind (while framing the rules). The system is suffering from cancer.” The court declined to interfere with the trial court’s January 7 order as sought by Mukesh, who contended that the order issuing death warrant be set aside as being un-exe- cutable as he has moved a mercy plea before the President. The HC further said there is no error in the trial court’s decision as on that date, none of the convicts had moved a curative petition or a mercy plea. The Bench said if the con- vict wanted the date of execu- tion to be set aside based on a subsequent event — moving of mercy plea — then “he must approach the court that passed the order.” The Bench said it is of the opinion that once the SC dis- missed his criminal appeal, review plea and curative peti- tion and confirmed his death sentence, he cannot challenge the January 7 death warrant before the HC as the order did nothing but carry the apex court’s decision to its logical conclusion. Following the HC’s stand, senior advocate Rebecca John and advocate Vrinda Grover, appearing for Mukesh, said they will withdraw the petition and move the sessions court bringing to its attention the subsequent developments. Granting them the liberty to move the trial court, the bench disposed of the plea. During the hearing, the Bench said challenging the January 7 order before it amounted to playing one court against another. It said the petitioner ought to have brought the subse- quent events to the notice of the trial court or ought to have moved the apex court, which had finally confirmed the death sentence and also dismissed his curative petition. “We feel this is a stratagem devised on how to prolong the matter, since you had time since May 5, 2017, when the apex court dismissed their appeals, to move a mercy plea or file a review or curative peti- tion. Why did you wait till now? What restrained you from doing so? What prevent- ed you?” said the Bench. “The intent of the law is to give you reasonable amount of time to approach the court. Your time started ticking from May 5, 2017. Even after October 29, 2019 (when first notice was sent to the convicts informing them they can move mercy plea), you did nothing. You can- not wait for the co-convicts pleas to be decided, to move the courts,” the bench said. J amia Millia Islamia admin- istration on Wednesday said the institution will move court for registration of First Information Report (FIR) against the Delhi Police crack- down on the campus on December 15. The decision to move court was taken at an Executive Council meeting and as per the official. Jamia Vice Chancellor Najma Akhtar on Tuesday met Delhi Police Commissioner Amulya Patnaik and urged him to lodge an FIR against the Delhi Police. On Monday, after Jamia students gheraoed the V-C office demanding the university to file an FIR against the Delhi Police, Akhtar had said the uni- versity administration will explore the possibility of mov- ing court for an FIR against police “brutality” on the campus. The university has also written letters to Joint CP Southern Range and DCP Crime for the registration of FIR earlier,” said an official. A Delhi court on Wednesday granted bail to Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad who has been accused of incit- ing people during an anti- CAA protest at Jama Masjid here on December 20, while restraining him from visiting Delhi for four weeks. The court further directed him not to hold any dharna in the national Capital till the elec- tions here and said “the nation cannot be exposed to anarchy”. Additional Sessions Judge Kamini Lau granted the relief to Azad on furnishing a bail bond of 25,000 with two sureties of like amount. The court also said that before going to Saharanpur if Azad wants to go anywhere, including Jama Masjid in Delhi in 24 hours, police will escort him there. Special circumstances call for special conditions, the judge said. During the verdict pro- nouncement, the counsel for Azad, advocate Mehmood Pracha, said the Bhim Army chief faces threat in Uttar Pradesh. T he Prime Minister’s resi- dence is expected to shift from 7 Lok Kalyan Marg to South Block, closer to the Prime Minister’s Office and it will come up on 15 acre under the proposed revamp plan of Central Vista in New Delhi. Similarly, the proposed building of new Parliament is to be a triangular design on 9.5 acre, close to the existing Parliament building. The Vice- President’s house and Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) at Man Singh Road is likely to be shifted. The architecture firm HCP Design, which bagged the bid to finalise detailed project report, made a detailed pre- sentation before the Union Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry on Wednesday. In its presentation, it stated the PM’s new residence has been pro- posed on 15 acre land on Dara Shikoh Marg (formerly known as Dalhousie Road) near South Block. Sources said the use of this land has been changed. This would also help in easing traffic in the area as VIP move- ments cause inconvenience to people. Similarly, the proposed building of new Parliament will come up on 9.5 acre. The building would be inside the present Parliament complex. The new Lok Sabha will provide seating space for 900- 1200 members. According to the plan, the seating area of MPs in the proposed building will also be more than the existing place. The existing Parliament building will remain the same, and offices of Ministers and MPs will be in a new building. The Government will construct 10 eight-storey buildings on Rajpath to accommodate offices of various ministries, which would be built after demolish- ing a few major buildings. Sources said plan to shift the IGNCA, however, is yet to be finalised by the Union Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry. The sources said all cul- tural institutions will be relo- cated near Jamnagar House, adding that the Government has also planned to set up a state-of-the art National Centre for Performing Arts there. Under the plan, the pro- posed buildings will not be taller than 42-metre-high India Gate to maintain uniformity of structures. The Vice-President’s residence is set to move next to Rashtrapati Bhavan from the existing location, Maulana Azad Road. Vigyan Bhavan is to be demolished and will make way for a modern con- ference hall. However, no her- itage buildings will be demol- ished. The common Central Secretariat will comprise eight buildings, four on each side of Central Vista. Each building will have eight floors, which will house various Ministries. Under the project, several sub- ways will be constructed to ensure movement of pedestri- ans around common Central Secretariat, which will also be connected through Yellow and Violet line of the Delhi Metro. Union Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh Puri and its Secretary Durga Shankar Mishra were also pre- sent during presentation. The plan involves restruc- turing the Central Vista in a move that will include a com- mon Secretariat, a new Parliament complex, and a redesigned Rajpath, while also razing a dozen Government offices. The plan, which is being handled by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, involves having a new Parliament by India’s 75th Independence Day in 2022, and the entire project is slated to be finished by 2024. The plan, estimated to cost about 12,000 crore, includes razing buildings such as Shastri Bhawan, Udyog Bhawan and Krishi Bhawan that house important Government Ministries to build a common Secretariat for roughly 70,000 Central Government employ- ees who are located in 30 buildings. The Delhi Development Authority (DDA) has recently changed the land use of over 100 acre in Luytens’ Delhi for this purpose. C hina has demanded dis- cussion on Kashmir during a closed-door meeting of the UN Security Council in New York on Wednesday, but the request is likely to be rejected as other member countries of the global organisation are set to oppose it. The current move by China is third such attempt since August when the special status granted to Jammu & Kashmir under Article 370 of the Constitution was scrapped by the Government, and the state was bifurcated into two Union Territories. French diplomatic sources said France has noted the request of a UNSC member to raise the Kashmir issue once again in the powerful body and it is going to oppose it like it did on a previous occasion. The closed-door meeting of the UNSC has been called to discuss an issue relating to Mali, an African country and China has made a request to discuss the Kashmir issue under the agenda of “Any Other Business Points”. Asserting that France’s position has not changed and it is very clear that the Kashmir issue must be settled bilateral- ly (between India and Pakistan), French sources said this has been stated on sever- al occasions, and it will con- tinued to be reiterated to part- ners in the UN Security Council. This is the third time, China, Pakistan’s ‘all-weather ally’, has demanded discussion on the Kashmir issue. In August, China pushed for a UNSC meeting on Kashmir after the government scrapped J&K’s special status. However, the meeting did not yielded desired results for China as the member-states maintained that India’s move was an internal issue. D irector General of Jammu & Kashmir Police Dilbagh Singh on Wednesday said after suspending Deputy Superintendent of Police Davinder Singh, his sacking is also being recommended to the Government for necessary action. Singh was caught red- handed on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway by the police team on Sunday while he was ferrying Hizbul Mujahideen ter- rorists out of the Kashmir Valley. In the same vein, the police chief also clarified that a rec- ommendation has been for- warded to the Government to hand over the probe of the said case to the premier National Investigation Agency (NIA) keeping in the mind the wider scope of investigation. The DGP, however, remained tight- lipped over nature of ongoing interrogation in the case. Addressing a Press confer- ence here at the police control room, the DGP also sent out a stern message to “men in khaki” involved in “unlawful” activities. “We don’t believe in shel- tering people, we don’t believe in protecting people who are on the ‘unlawful’ path. We are tough with them. In the past also we have removed so many people from the service. We have been very ‘ruthless’ and we will be ‘ruthless’ in this case also,” he said. Responding to direct ques- tions whether interrogators have been able to unearth his direct links with dreaded ter- rorists operating in the Kashmir Valley, details of ‘properties’ amassed by him, his role in Parliament attack case, as mentioned in one of the let- ters written by Afzal Guru, DGP Dilbagh Singh said, it is a matter of investigation and let the interrogators handle it. A s many as 26 Ministers of the Narendra Modi Government will visit Jammu & Kashmir between January 18 and 24 and hold a series of meet- ings to create awareness about the Center’s welfare schemes and development plans. Senior Ministers Ravi Shankar Prasad, Piyush Goyal, Smriti Irani, Jitendra Singh, Thawar Chand Gehlot and many Ministers handling infra- structure, education, agricul- ture and animal husbandry, civil aviation, urban develop- ment and power will visit the Union territory and hold as many 51 meeting as part of the Centre’s strategy to usher in an era of peace and development in the region. In Srinagar alone, eight such meetings are planned to engage with public where Union Ministers will explain t Centre’s plans for the Union Territory. Union Ministers Giriraj Sinhg, General VK Singh, Hardeep Singh Puri, Kiren Rijiju, RK Singh, Arjun Muda, Mahendra Nath Pandey, Anurag Thakur, G Kishen Reddy, V Muraleedharan, Pratap Sarangi, Arjun Ram Meghwal, Pralhad Joshi and Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank are part of the list of 36 Union Ministers. Minister of State for Home G Kishen Reddy has written a letter to Jammu & Kashmir Chief Secretary BVR Subrahmanyam, informing about the visit of the Ministers. In his letter, Reddy said Home Minister Shah has desired that all members of the Union Council of Ministers pay a visit to Jammu & Kashmir, with the objective of dissemi- nating information about the importance of the Centre’s policies for the overall devel- opment of the Union Territory and its people along with the steps taken by the Government particularly in the past five months after the abrogation of Article 370 provisions and bifurcation of erstwhile State. The schedule for the visit of the Ministers will also be dis- cussed and finalised at a meet- ing of the Union Council of Ministers on January 17.

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The four convicts ofNirbhaya gangrape and

murder case will not be hangedon January 22 as one of the con-victs Mukesh Kumar moved thetrial court pleading that hismercy petition is pendingbefore the President of India.

The Delhi Governmentand prison authorities onWednesday told a Bench ofJustices Manmohan andSangita Dhingra Sehgal in theDelhi High Court that underthe prison rules, if death sen-tence has been awarded tomore than one person in a caseand if only one of them movesa mercy plea, the execution ofthe others too has to be post-poned till the plea is decided.

However, in a related butsignificant development, theHigh Court (HC) refused tostay the death warrant issuedagainst the convicts AkshayaThakur, Mukesh Kumar, VinaySharma and Pawan Gupta bythe trial court on January 7.

The Delhi HC came downheavily upon the DelhiGovernment for sitting over thecase for a year and doing noth-ing in issuing notice on themercy plea of the convicts. TheHC also pulled up the DelhiGovernment and Delhi prisonauthorities for the delay ontheir part in informing the con-victs that they can move mercypleas before the President.

The Bench said the noticeought to have been issued afterthe apex court’s May 5, 2017judgement, instead it was

issued on October 29, 2019 andDecember 18, 2019.

After the HC observation,the Delhi Deputy ChiefMinister Manish Sisodiasought to clear the air and said,“The Delhi Government hasrecommended rejecting themercy plea filed by Mukesh,and forwarded it to theLieutenant Governor (L-G) atlightning speed”.

Incidentally, convicts Vinayand Mukesh have alreadyexhausted curative petitionremedy and two others —Pawan and Akshay — are yet to

move the Supreme Court (SC)with this plea.

The Bench said, “Thenyour rule is bad if you cannottake action till all the co-con-victs have moved a mercy plea.It seems there has been non-application of mind (whileframing the rules). The systemis suffering from cancer.”

The court declined tointerfere with the trial court’sJanuary 7 order as sought byMukesh, who contended thatthe order issuing death warrantbe set aside as being un-exe-cutable as he has moved a

mercy plea before thePresident.

The HC further said thereis no error in the trial court’sdecision as on that date, noneof the convicts had moved acurative petition or a mercyplea. The Bench said if the con-vict wanted the date of execu-tion to be set aside based on asubsequent event — moving ofmercy plea — then “he mustapproach the court that passedthe order.”

The Bench said it is of theopinion that once the SC dis-missed his criminal appeal,review plea and curative peti-tion and confirmed his deathsentence, he cannot challengethe January 7 death warrantbefore the HC as the order didnothing but carry the apexcourt’s decision to its logical

conclusion.Following the HC’s stand,

senior advocate Rebecca Johnand advocate Vrinda Grover,appearing for Mukesh, saidthey will withdraw the petitionand move the sessions courtbringing to its attention thesubsequent developments.Granting them the liberty tomove the trial court, the benchdisposed of the plea.

During the hearing, theBench said challenging theJanuary 7 order before itamounted to playing one courtagainst another.

It said the petitioner oughtto have brought the subse-quent events to the notice of thetrial court or ought to havemoved the apex court, whichhad finally confirmed the deathsentence and also dismissed his

curative petition.“We feel this is a stratagem

devised on how to prolong thematter, since you had timesince May 5, 2017, when theapex court dismissed theirappeals, to move a mercy pleaor file a review or curative peti-tion. Why did you wait tillnow? What restrained youfrom doing so? What prevent-ed you?” said the Bench.

“The intent of the law is togive you reasonable amount oftime to approach the court.Your time started ticking fromMay 5, 2017. Even after October29, 2019 (when first notice wassent to the convicts informingthem they can move mercyplea), you did nothing. You can-not wait for the co-convictspleas to be decided, to move thecourts,” the bench said.

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Jamia Millia Islamia admin-istration on Wednesday said

the institution will move courtfor registration of FirstInformation Report (FIR)against the Delhi Police crack-down on the campus onDecember 15. The decision tomove court was taken at anExecutive Council meeting andas per the official.

Jamia Vice ChancellorNajma Akhtar on Tuesday metDelhi Police CommissionerAmulya Patnaik and urgedhim to lodge an FIR against theDelhi Police.

On Monday, after Jamiastudents gheraoed the V-Coffice demanding the universityto file an FIR against the DelhiPolice, Akhtar had said the uni-versity administration willexplore the possibility of mov-ing court for an FIR againstpolice “brutality” on the campus.

The university has alsowritten letters to Joint CPSouthern Range and DCPCrime for the registration ofFIR earlier,” said an official.

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ADelhi court on Wednesdaygranted bail to Bhim Army

chief Chandrashekhar Azadwho has been accused of incit-ing people during an anti-CAA protest at Jama Masjidhere on December 20, whilerestraining him from visitingDelhi for four weeks.

The court further directedhim not to hold any dharna inthe national Capital till the elec-tions here and said “the nationcannot be exposed to anarchy”.

Additional Sessions JudgeKamini Lau granted the reliefto Azad on furnishing a bailbond of �25,000 with twosureties of like amount.

The court also said thatbefore going to Saharanpur ifAzad wants to go anywhere,including Jama Masjid in Delhiin 24 hours, police will escorthim there.

Special circumstances callfor special conditions, the judgesaid. During the verdict pro-nouncement, the counsel forAzad, advocate MehmoodPracha, said the Bhim Armychief faces threat in UttarPradesh.

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The Prime Minister’s resi-dence is expected to shift

from 7 Lok Kalyan Marg toSouth Block, closer to thePrime Minister’s Office and itwill come up on 15 acre underthe proposed revamp plan ofCentral Vista in New Delhi.

Similarly, the proposedbuilding of new Parliament isto be a triangular design on 9.5acre, close to the existingParliament building. The Vice-President’s house and IndiraGandhi National Centre for theArts (IGNCA) at Man SinghRoad is likely to be shifted.

The architecture firm HCPDesign, which bagged the bidto finalise detailed projectreport, made a detailed pre-sentation before the UnionHousing and Urban AffairsMinistry on Wednesday. In its

presentation, it stated the PM’snew residence has been pro-posed on 15 acre land on DaraShikoh Marg (formerly knownas Dalhousie Road) near SouthBlock. Sources said the use ofthis land has been changed.This would also help in easingtraffic in the area as VIP move-ments cause inconvenience topeople.

Similarly, the proposedbuilding of new Parliamentwill come up on 9.5 acre. Thebuilding would be inside thepresent Parliament complex.

The new Lok Sabha willprovide seating space for 900-1200 members. According tothe plan, the seating area of MPsin the proposed building willalso be more than the existingplace. The existing Parliamentbuilding will remain the same,and offices of Ministers andMPs will be in a new building.

The Government will construct10 eight-storey buildings onRajpath to accommodate officesof various ministries, whichwould be built after demolish-ing a few major buildings.Sources said plan to shift theIGNCA, however, is yet to befinalised by the Union Housingand Urban Affairs Ministry.

The sources said all cul-tural institutions will be relo-cated near Jamnagar House,adding that the Governmenthas also planned to set up astate-of-the art National Centrefor Performing Arts there.

Under the plan, the pro-posed buildings will not betaller than 42-metre-high IndiaGate to maintain uniformity ofstructures. The Vice-President’sresidence is set to move next toRashtrapati Bhavan from theexisting location, MaulanaAzad Road. Vigyan Bhavan is

to be demolished and willmake way for a modern con-ference hall. However, no her-itage buildings will be demol-ished. The common CentralSecretariat will comprise eightbuildings, four on each side ofCentral Vista. Each buildingwill have eight floors, whichwill house various Ministries.Under the project, several sub-ways will be constructed toensure movement of pedestri-ans around common CentralSecretariat, which will also beconnected through Yellow andViolet line of the Delhi Metro.

Union Housing and UrbanAffairs Minister Hardeep SinghPuri and its Secretary DurgaShankar Mishra were also pre-sent during presentation.

The plan involves restruc-turing the Central Vista in amove that will include a com-mon Secretariat, a new

Parliament complex, and aredesigned Rajpath, while alsorazing a dozen Governmentoffices. The plan, which isbeing handled by the Ministryof Housing and Urban Affairs,involves having a newParliament by India’s 75thIndependence Day in 2022,and the entire project is slatedto be finished by 2024. Theplan, estimated to cost about�12,000 crore, includes razingbuildings such as ShastriBhawan, Udyog Bhawan andKrishi Bhawan that houseimportant GovernmentMinistries to build a commonSecretariat for roughly 70,000Central Government employ-ees who are located in 30buildings. The DelhiDevelopment Authority (DDA)has recently changed the landuse of over 100 acre in Luytens’Delhi for this purpose.

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China has demanded dis-cussion on Kashmir during

a closed-door meeting of theUN Security Council in NewYork on Wednesday, but therequest is likely to be rejectedas other member countries ofthe global organisation are setto oppose it.

The current move byChina is third such attemptsince August when the specialstatus granted to Jammu &Kashmir under Article 370 ofthe Constitution was scrappedby the Government, and thestate was bifurcated into twoUnion Territories.

French diplomatic sourcessaid France has noted therequest of a UNSC member toraise the Kashmir issue onceagain in the powerful body andit is going to oppose it like it didon a previous occasion.

The closed-door meetingof the UNSC has been called todiscuss an issue relating to

Mali, an African country andChina has made a request todiscuss the Kashmir issueunder the agenda of “AnyOther Business Points”.

Asserting that France’sposition has not changed andit is very clear that the Kashmirissue must be settled bilateral-ly (between India andPakistan), French sources saidthis has been stated on sever-al occasions, and it will con-tinued to be reiterated to part-ners in the UN SecurityCouncil.

This is the third time,China, Pakistan’s ‘all-weatherally’, has demanded discussionon the Kashmir issue.

In August, China pushedfor a UNSC meeting onKashmir after the governmentscrapped J&K’s special status.However, the meeting did notyielded desired results forChina as the member-statesmaintained that India’s movewas an internal issue.

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Director General of Jammu &Kashmir Police Dilbagh

Singh on Wednesday said aftersuspending DeputySuperintendent of PoliceDavinder Singh, his sacking isalso being recommended to theGovernment for necessaryaction. Singh was caught red-handed on the Jammu-SrinagarNational Highway by the policeteam on Sunday while he wasferrying Hizbul Mujahideen ter-rorists out of the Kashmir Valley.

In the same vein, the policechief also clarified that a rec-ommendation has been for-warded to the Government tohand over the probe of the saidcase to the premier NationalInvestigation Agency (NIA)keeping in the mind the widerscope of investigation. TheDGP, however, remained tight-lipped over nature of ongoinginterrogation in the case.

Addressing a Press confer-ence here at the police controlroom, the DGP also sent out astern message to “men inkhaki” involved in “unlawful”activities.

“We don’t believe in shel-tering people, we don’t believein protecting people who are onthe ‘unlawful’ path. We aretough with them. In the pastalso we have removed so manypeople from the service. Wehave been very ‘ruthless’ andwe will be ‘ruthless’ in this casealso,” he said.

Responding to direct ques-tions whether interrogatorshave been able to unearth hisdirect links with dreaded ter-rorists operating in theKashmir Valley, details of‘properties’ amassed by him, hisrole in Parliament attack case,as mentioned in one of the let-ters written by Afzal Guru,DGP Dilbagh Singh said, it isa matter of investigation and letthe interrogators handle it.

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As many as 26 Ministers ofthe Narendra Modi

Government will visit Jammu &Kashmir between January 18and 24 and hold a series of meet-ings to create awareness aboutthe Center’s welfare schemesand development plans.

Senior Ministers RaviShankar Prasad, Piyush Goyal,Smriti Irani, Jitendra Singh,Thawar Chand Gehlot andmany Ministers handling infra-structure, education, agricul-ture and animal husbandry,civil aviation, urban develop-ment and power will visit theUnion territory and hold asmany 51 meeting as part of theCentre’s strategy to usher in anera of peace and developmentin the region.

In Srinagar alone, eightsuch meetings are planned toengage with public whereUnion Ministers will explain tCentre’s plans for the UnionTerritory.

Union Ministers GirirajSinhg, General VK Singh,Hardeep Singh Puri, KirenRijiju, RK Singh, Arjun Muda,Mahendra Nath Pandey,Anurag Thakur, G Kishen

Reddy, V Muraleedharan,Pratap Sarangi, Arjun RamMeghwal, Pralhad Joshi andRamesh Pokhriyal Nishankare part of the list of 36 UnionMinisters.

Minister of State for HomeG Kishen Reddy has written aletter to Jammu & KashmirChief Secretary BVRSubrahmanyam, informingabout the visit of the Ministers.

In his letter, Reddy saidHome Minister Shah hasdesired that all members of theUnion Council of Ministers paya visit to Jammu & Kashmir,

with the objective of dissemi-nating information about theimportance of the Centre’spolicies for the overall devel-opment of the Union Territoryand its people along with thesteps taken by the Governmentparticularly in the past fivemonths after the abrogation ofArticle 370 provisions andbifurcation of erstwhile State.

The schedule for the visit ofthe Ministers will also be dis-cussed and finalised at a meet-ing of the Union Council ofMinisters on January 17.

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On a day when theMunicipal Corporation

of Dehradun (MCD) collect-ed a record �1.06 crore inproperty tax, the Dehradunmayor Sunil Uniyal ‘Gama’announced extension of theperiod for rebate on proper-ty tax till February 15.

This period was to end onWednesday but was extendedby the mayor in public inter-est following the demand sub-mitted by the councillors con-sidering the rush of peoplearriving at the MunicipalCorporation of Dehradun(MCD) to pay property tax.

It will be recalled that thecouncillors from BJP andCongress including AmitaSingh, Anita Garg, RohanChandel, Sanjeev Malhotra,Rajpal Payal, Ajay Singhaland others had met the mayoron Monday seeking the exten-sion of the period for rebatein property tax. Though nodecision was taken at thattime, on Wednesday, themayor announced extensionof the rebate period by onemonth. However, it has beenclearly mentioned by themayor that no further exten-sion will be given afterFebruary 15.

The collection of proper-ty tax in the past few days hasbeen quite considerable; �50lakh on Monday, �90 lakh onTuesday and �1.06 crore on

Wednesday break-ing all the pastrecords of prop-erty tax collectionin MCD within asingle day. It ispertinent to men-t ion here thatproperty tax is oneof the majorsources of revenuefor the MCD. Thecorporation hasbeen working forsome t ime toenhance its rev-enue generation inorder to furtherimprove its func-tioning.

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For further popularisinghandloom and handicrafts,

an exhibition has been startedat the Doon Haat by theUttarakhand Handloom andHandicrafts DevelopmentCouncil (UHHDC).

In addition to productsfrom Uttarakhand, items fromWest Bengal, Jammu andKashmir, Himachal Pradesh,Uttar Pradesh and Haryana arealso being showcased in theexhibition.

Speaking on the occasion,the Industries director SudhirChandra Nautiyal said that theDoon Haat was inaugurated byChief Minister Trivendra Singh

Rawat at IT Park duringDecember last year.

The main motive of recon-structing Doon Haat at ITPark was to regenerate thecraze of handmade productsfrom the mountainous regionsand various other states of thecountry among the young peo-ple of the State.

He also said that forencouraging people regardinghandmade products about 25stalls based on handicrafts andhandlooms have been set up aspart of the exhibition.

Various products underthe banner of Himadari, bam-boo board, Khadi and GramUdhyog board, Hilans, silkboard and products made by

inmates of the Dehradun jailare also being exhibited andoffered for sale in the exhibi-tion. According to officials,this exhibition is being carriedout at Doon Haat to promotehandlooms and handicraftsamong tourists and people ofDehradun.

In addition to purchasingvarious handloom and handi-crafts items, the visitors to theexhibition also get a chance totaste various traditional dishesfrom the mountainous regionsof Uttarakhand.

Cultural programmes willalso be performed by folkartists of the state. This exhi-bition is open daily for the pub-lic from 11 AM to 6 PM.

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More than one lakh peopleare estimated to have

taken a ceremonial dip in theGanga river in Haridwar on theoccasion of Makar Sankrantion Wednesday.

The festival was celebratedwith traditional enthusiasm

though due to confusionregarding the date of the festi-val, many took the ceremoni-al dip in the Ganga river inHaridwar on Tuesday too.Thecold winter morning and chillywater of the Ganga did not

deter the enthusiasm of devo-tees who thronged Haridwaron the occasion. The process ofbathing in the Ganga startedearly in the morning. Thepolice had made necessarysecurity arrangements in viewof the crowds expected toarrive here.

In addition to the people,palanquins carrying variousdeities from the mountainousregions also arrived for a cer-emonial dip in the Ganga atHar ki Paidi on the occasion.

A large crowd of devoteesgathered to pay obeisance to

the Dev Doli of goddess DhariDevi which returned after aceremonial dip in the Ganga.

The Makar Sankranti fes-tival was different this year asit was celebrated across twodays- Tuesday and Wednesday.Although the number of pil-grims coming to bathe in theGanga on Tuesday was low, the

number increased consider-ably on Wednesday. The policecircle officer (City) AbhayPratap Singh informed thiscorrespondent that more thanone lakh people arrived inHaridwar to take a holy dip inthe Ganga on Wednesday.

After bathing, the devoteeswent to the temples and paid

obeisance to the deities. Afterthis, many donated money,food and other items to thepoor and Brahmins. Manydevotees were seen donatingsesame seeds, jaggery, khichdiand blankets. Khichdi feastsfree for all were also organisedat various places on the occa-sion.

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The Municipal Corporationof Dehradun (MCD)

announced the names of 56beneficiaries from slums whowere allotted residence inBrahmpuri under the BasicServices to Urban Poor (BSUP)scheme of Jawaharlal NehruNational Urban RenewalMission (JNNURM).

According to the MCDassistant engineer RachnaPayal, “Initially 240 nameswere on the list but not everyslum dweller agreed to theallotment. Last year 60 benefi-

ciaries reapplied for the allot-ment of the residence. Sincejust 56 residences are ready,only 56 people were chosenthrough this lottery draw.” Thenames of the beneficiaries werechosen from the chits contain-ing names of 60 people beforeeveryone in the town hall tomaintain transparency in theprocess.

The first few chits werepicked by municipal commis-sioner Vinay Shankar Pandeyfollowed by committee mem-bers and other people presentin the hall. According to thecommittee members, people

who belong to the same fami-ly are allotted residence inclose proximity to avoid theissues of being far from othermembers. In addition, it wasalso advised to the beneficiariesto make residents welfare soci-ety to take care of their new res-idence. While addressing themeeting, SNA Ravindra KumarDayal said, “The four personswho were not selected by lot-tery need not to be scepticaland should apply for residencein Pradhan Mantri AwasYojana (PMAY).” The com-mittee for this project wasformed on August 22, 2019 and

its members include SatishKashyap, Rajeev Pandey,Rachna Payal, Vinay PratapSingh, Prem Kumar Sharma,Rajeev Uniyal and RavindraKumar Dayal who has beenleading the committee too.

After the announcement of56 beneficiaries, it was also stat-ed that to get the final posses-sions of residence, beneficiarieswill have to submit the amountof Rs. 29,577.09 in MCDincluding other relevant docu-ments. According to Dayal, itwill take a few more months forbeneficiaries to get the posses-sion of their residences.

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one of thet w oAnganwadiworkers whobegan a fastunto deaththree days ago was picked by thepolice on Wednesday afternoondue to health issues caused byhigh blood pressure.Subsequently, BhagyashreeUniyal took her place in thestrike, said the State Anganwadiworkers association presidentRekha.

She further added thatpolice were taking ManoramaNautiyal too, but the other pro-testers did not allow that to hap-pen. One of the Anganwadi pro-testors Seema Singh said, “Weare told that our allowance willbe deducted but we do notcare. We’ll consider it as a dona-tion to the government. If wewill get suspended, we’ll be sus-pended together. We have beeninsulted a lot by this governmentwhich does not even knowabout our work. Not a singleAnganwadi worker will return to

work till the government givesus what we women rightfullydeserve for our work.”Meanwhile, considering theaspects of the protest which hasbeen going on for more than amonth, the authorities haveincreased the number of policepersonnel deployed at theprotest site near Parade Ground.

It is worth mentioning thattill now three Anganwadi pro-testors have been admitted to theGovernment Doon MedicalCollege (GDMC) hospital due tothe ongoing fast unto deathstrike and none of them hasbeen discharged from there yet.The workers are demandingpayment at par with Anganwadiworkers of Delhi and Haryanaand benefit of Provident Fund(PF) and medical reimburse-ment as provided to the stategovernment employees.

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The notification for theBharatiya Janata Party state

president’s election to be heldon Thursday was issued onWednesday. The party’s centralobserver also reachedDehradun for this purpose.

However, till Wednesdayevening there was no infor-mation about any contenderprocuring nomination papersfor the election to the post ofthe party’s state president.

The BJP state election offi-cer Balwant Singh Bhauriyalissued the notification for theelection to the post of theparty’s state president. Thismarked the formal start of the

election procedure. The BJPState media in-chargeDevendra Bhasin informedthat the party’s central observ-er for the election, Union min-

ister of State for ParliamentaryAffairs, Arjun Ram Meghwalhad also arrived in Dehradun.The Chief Minister TrivendraSingh Rawat is expected to

return to Dehradun onThursday. Talking to ThePioneer, he said that tillWednesday evening, there wasno information about anynomination papers being pro-cured for the election.

Bhasin further informedthat the procedure for the elec-tion of the next BJP State pres-ident will be conducted at theparty’s state office on Thursday.

A meeting has been calledon the occasion which will beattended by the state officebearers of the party, its districtheads and members of theparty’s state council.

The party’s central observ-er for the election, state electionofficer and co-election officer

will conduct the election pro-cedure. The chief ministerTrivendra Singh Rawat willalso reach the party’s stateoffice after returning fromDelhi in the afternoon, headded. It is pertinent to men-tion here that party leaders arewaiting for the election processto conclude.

However, though the cur-rent party state president AjayBhatt was being stated to belooking forward to being re-elected to the post, he hasrejected such talk. If sources areto be believed, former cabinetminister and currentKaladhungi MLA BanshidharBhagat could be a strong con-tender for the post.

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Uttarakhand would seekan increase of 25 percent

in the budget provided to itunder the National HealthMission (NHM). At present,the state receives a budget ofabout Rs 400 Crores underthe NHM. The secretary (in-charge) medical, health andfamily welfare, Dr PankajKumar Pandey said NHMhas convened a meeting inNew Delhi on January 21and 22.

The Uttarakhand has pre-pared a proposal of about Rs500 Crore for next year’sdemand. The state has so farutilised Rs 200 Crores out ofthe budget provided to itunder the NHM this year.

The NHM has two sub-missions, the National RuralHealth Mission and NationalUrban Health Mission. Itincludes health systemstrengthening, reproductive-maternal- neonatal- child andadolescent health and com-

municable and non commu-nicable diseases. The NHM

envisages achievement of uni-versal access to equitable,

affordable and quality healthcare services to the people.

For the budget, the respectivestates present ProgrammeImplementation Plan (PIP)which is an aggregate of thedistrict health action planand includes the activities tobe carried out at the statelevel.

In another development,the state administration hasdirected the health direc-torate for speedy and properutilisation of the budget. Thedepartment has a budget of Rs1800 Crore for the year 2019-20. The secretary in charge,Dr Pankaj Kumar Pandeysaid that he has convened ameeting of the officials of thedepartment in which the sta-tus of the budget would bediscussed.

He said in the meeting thedepartment officials wouldasked to focus on utilizationof budgetary provisions. Thedepartment is planning toensure that tenders are float-ed in the months of Januaryand February so that the bud-get does not get lapsed.

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The administration of theNational Health Mission

(NHM) has decided to draftHR policy for its contractualemployees. On Wednesday, ameeting of the NHM contrac-tual employee association andthe mission management washeld.

In the meeting detaileddiscussions on the demands ofthe NHM employees was held.The president of the NHMcontractual employee associa-

tion, Sunil Bhandari said in themeeting the AdditionalMission Director NHM, DrAbhishek Tripathi and othersenior officials took part andthey positively responded onthe demand of HR policy andloyalty bonus.

He said that the manage-ment has provided a draft ofthe HR policy and asked forsuggestion on it. Bhandari saidthat the NHM managementmade it clear that the old con-tractual employees would notbe brought under the ambit ofthird party appointmentswhich the department is nowcontemplating.

These contractual appoint-ments were made by the dis-trict and state level committeesand the department is nowplanning to introduce third

party system of appointments.Bhandari added that the man-agement also gave assurance onthe proposed reduction in thenumber of employees in theschool health teams under theRastriya Bal SwasthyaKaryaram (RBSK) that pro-posed cut would be reconsid-ered. The association wasinformed that the employeesbeing removed from schoolhealth teams would be mergedin the NHM.

On the issue of the loyaltybonus it was decided to preparea detailed proposal under theperformance bonus head in thedistrict ProgrammeImplementation Plan (PIP).Bhandari also claimed thatmission management assuredthat the process of salary ratio-nalisation would soon start.

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In view of low student enroll-ment, the technical education

department is contemplating toclose 20 polytechnic colleges inthe state. The students of thesecolleges would be shifted tonearby colleges and the teach-ers deployed there would betransferred in the collegeswhere they are required.

The secretary in charge,higher and technical education,Ashok Kumar told The Pioneerthat the department has iden-tified these colleges. He saidthat in these colleges the num-ber of students is very less andin many cases the students areless than five. Kumar howeveradded that a final decision on

closure of these colleges has notyet been taken.

It is learnt that the techni-cal education department is incontact with the higher educa-tion department to explorepossibility of use of the build-ing and other infrastructure ofthese poly technique collegesby government colleges.

On the question ofdecrease in employability of thestudents of polytechnic collegesas reason of decreasing inter-est of students, Ashok Kumarsaid that the employability per-centage in state is 40 percent.It is pertinent to mention herethat there are 71 polytechniccolleges in Uttarakhand with acapacity of 17220 students.

The technical educationdepartment is under pressureto operate the polytechnic col-leges on the norms prescribedby the All India Council ofTechnical Education (AICTE).

In this endeavour thedepartment is now focusing onclosing the colleges with lessstudents and starting newcourses.

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Maharashtra governorBhagat Singh Koshyari

and Uttarakhand ChiefMinister Trivendra SinghRawat jointly inaugurated thestate guest house and empo-rium Uttarakhand Bhawan atNavi Mumbai on Wednesday.On the occasion, the CMannounced that two rooms inthe building will remainreserved for the relatives ofthose undergoing treatmentin Mumbai for serious ail-ments like cancer.

Addressing the gatheringon the occasion, Koshyarigreeted the people ofUttarakhand on opening ofthe Uttarakhand Bhawan inMumbai. He said that thenation is progressing at aswift pace under the leader-ship of Prime MinisterNarendra Modi.

Similarly, Uttarakhand isprogressing towards becomea self-reliant state under theleadership of chief ministerTrivendra Singh Rawat, heopined. TheMaharashtra gov-ernor further said that all

weather road and develop-ment of air ser vice hasimproved the connectivity inUttarakhand.

He said, “By remainingconnected with our villages,we will also be able to con-ser ve our culture.Uttarakhand is blessed bynature with sacred rivers likeGanga and Yamuna originat-ing in the state.” Koshyari fur-ther remarked that there aresimilarities in Marathi and thelanguage of Uttarakhandwhich make one comprehenda sense of unity.

He expressed hope that inthe future, the people of boththe states will get a chance toknow about each other’s cul-ture from close quarters. Theinauguration of UttarakhandBhawan on the occasion ofMakar Sankranti also marksthe start of a new chapter inthe cultural and economicspheres of Uttarakhand andMaharashtra.

Speaking on the occa-sion, the chief minister saidthat Uttarakhand Bhawan isalso a symbol of the state’shonour. Stating that the doors

of this building will alwaysremain open for people ofUttarakhand and from out-side the state, Rawatannounced that two roomswill remain reserved for rel-atives of those suffering fromserious ailments like cancer.

Designed and construct-ed in a modern manner, theUttarakhand Bhawan inMumbai will provide facilityto people of Uttarakhandwhile also help connect thenon-resident Uttarakhandisto their native state.

He further informed thatvarious products ofUttarakhand will also bemade available here. Officeswill also be established herefor providing assistance totourists and investors.

Built at a cost of Rs 39.73crore, the four-storiedUttarakhand Bhawan has 40rooms. Opening of this facil-ity in the nation’s commercialcapital will also help in com-municat ing investmentpotential in Uttarakhand tointerested investors while alsoboost activities in the tourismand film making spheres.

Stating that Uttarakhand hadrecently received the best filmfriendly state award, he saidthat shooting for more than200 films and serials in vari-ous languages was undertak-en in the state.

The State had alsoreceived 10 awards in thesphere of road connectivity

and village connectivity.While electricity is being sup-plied to ever y home,Uttarakhand is also amongthe first three open defecationfree states in the nation.

The chief minister alsoinformed the gathering aboutthe various initiatives anddevelopments achieved in the

state. State minister RekhaArya, Tehri MLA Dhan SinghNegi, local MLA fromMaharashtra, Ganesh Naik,Uttarakhand’s director generalof information MeharbanSingh Bisht and other officialsfrom Uttarakhand andMaharashtra were also pre-sent on the occasion.

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The State’s Culture andTourism Minister Satpal

Maharaj participated in thehistorical Sanguda Sera GendMela near the Bhuvaneshwaritemple in Pauri district on theoccasion of Makar Sankrantion Wednesday. Speaking on theoccasion, he said that the GendMela was the “grandfather of

rugby”. He said that this ancientritual sport is one of the jew-els of Uttarakhand’s culturalheritage which needs to bepublicised further and pre-served.

The minister also paid hisobeisance to the goddess in theBhuvaneshwari temple on theoccasion. It is pertinent tomention here that since 1750,under the leadership of Kedar

Singh Negi of Sainar village andMadhav Singh Rawat of Kutlivillage, the Gend Mela wasorganised. This historical fairattracts residents of 50 to 60 vil-lages of the Maniyarsyun andLangoor Pattis. During theGend Mela, the special ballbrought for the occasion is usedto play a game by the peoplefrom various villages who con-gregate for the occasion.

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In an incident which raisesquestions at the condition of

law and order in the city, thehome of the Roorkee munic-ipal commissioner NupurVerma was targeted by bur-glars on Wednesday.

Though the burglars areknown to have stolen variousitems, the actual value of theitems stolen will be ascer-tained after thorough investi-gation. The burglar targetedthe home of this ProvincialCivil Services (PCS) officer inbroad daylight.

The residence of theRoorkee municipal commis-sioner is located at Salempurwhich falls under the juris-diction of the GangnaharKotwali. Like every day,Nupur Verma and her hus-band Abhishek Verma lefttheir home at about 10 AM.

They locked the maindoor of their home as they leftfor their respective offices.Late in the evening when

Abhishek Verma returnedhome, he saw that the lock ofthe door was open from the

outside. However, when hetried to ope the door, he foundit was closed from the inside.

Fearing that some intrudermight still be inside, hephoned his wife who in turn

informed the police beforereaching her home.

On being informed aboutthe incident, the police circleofficer Chandan Singh Bishtreached the site along withother police personnel. Theforensic team was also calledto the home. When askedabout the details of the inci-dent, Nupur Verma said thatthe full details of what wasstolen will be ascertained afterthe police complete their pre-liminary investigation of thesite.

She said that a laptop wasmissing and some other valu-ables could also have beenstolen. Meanwhile, the policesaid that the break-in is beinginvestigated. Those behindthe crime will be identifiedand the case will be solvedsoon, said the police.

Meanwhile, the municipalcommissioner’s home beingbroken into by unknown per-sons has raised concernamong the locals regarding thelevel of security in the area.

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The Mahila CongressUttarakand president

Sarita Arya alleged that theState government is workinglike a puppet in the hands ofthe Central Government.Various public interest worksare not being executed in themountain state due to this, sheaverred.

Expressing her views ongovernance here onWednesday, the MahilaCongress state president fur-ther alleged that both theCentral Government and theState Government are ignor-ing the interests of the women.

On the one hand the priceof cooking gas cylinders andother household items is beingraised consistently by theCentral Government, the StateGovernment has merged var-

ious schemes started by theprevious Congress govern-ment for the welfare of thewomen. She further averredthat the Ujjwala scheme of theCentral Government had

completely failed to achieve itsintended aim. Further, shesaid that in order to ensureprotection of the rights of thewomen, the Congress partyhas formed a lawyers cell.

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The director of All IndiaInstitute of Medical

Sciences (AIIMS), Rishikesh,Ravi Kant has said that Canceris fast becoming an epidemic inIndia and combined teamefforts are required to controlthis menace. He was address-ing a workshop on the Oralcancer organised by the Cancersurgery department onWednesday. The Senior CancerSurgeon, Dr Pankaj Garg saidthat the cancer surgery depart-ment performed more than1000 cancer surgeries in lasttwo years and is committed toprovide all types of surgeries tothe cancer patients. The Head

of department (HoD) ofRadiation Oncology, Dr Manoj

Gupta informed that AIIMSRishikesh is trying to establishan exclusive tower for cancerpatients. On the first day of thetwo day workshop onWednesday, the experts gavepresentation to the trainee sur-geons about surgical techniquesand surgery related problemsand how they can be treated.

In the workshop, DrSwagnik Chakraborty of TataMemorial Center, Varanasi andDr Hariram of King GeorgeMedical University KGMULucknow shared their experi-ences with the trainees.Around 30 trainees from var-ious disciplines attended theworkshop.

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The divisional rail managerDinesh Kumar Singh

inspected the Bhojipura,Bahedi and Lalkuan railwaystations here on Wednesday. Healso inspected the automaticaccident relief train fromLalkuan to Izzatnagar. Duringhis inspection at Lalkuan, theDRM checked the railway sta-tion campus, platgorm, ticket

counter, waiting room andother facilities for travelers atthe railway station. He alsoissued necessary directions tothe officials concerned for bet-terment of these facilities.

Checking the developmentworks being undertaken atplatform number three atBhojipura railway station, hedirected that the work be expe-dited. He also sought informa-tion about upgradation of plat-

form number two at Kichharailway station. Visiting theLalkuan railway station, theDRM checked the work under-way at the entrance gate whilealso directing the officials con-cerned to ensure quality andcompletion of the work with-in the set time frame.

Various officials of the rail-ways were also among thosepresent during the inspectionby the DRM.

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The body of an unidentifiedwoman was found in the

SIIDCUL area here onWednesday. The locals spottedthe body in an empty plot inMahadevpuram Phase II ofSIIDCUL and informed thepolice about it. Reaching thesite, the police took the bodyinto possession and sent it tothe district hospital for postmortem examination.

At the site, the police ques-tioned the people around toascertain the identity of thewoman but her identity couldnot be established. The policeare now waiting for the postmortem report to know furtherabout the cause of her death.

Superintendent of police(City) Kamlesh Upadhyay saidthat the deceased woman hadnot been identified yet. Policeare investigating the case andtrying to ascertain the woman’sidentity. As no useful cluescould be found about her afterquestioning the locals, thepolice are waiting for the postmortem report after whichfurther action will be taken.

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Most parts of Uttarakhandare likely to receive light

to moderate rainfall/snowfalltoday with generally cloudy skyacross the state. Heavy rainfalland heavy snowfall are alsoforecast at isolated places in dif-ferent parts of the state today.The state meteorological cen-tre has forecast the possibilityof snowfall at places located at2500 metres altitude and above.The meteorological centre hasalso issued a warning about thelikelihood of hail at isolatedplaces in Dehradun, Haridwar,Udham Singh Nagar, Pauriand Nainital districts onThursday and Friday. Further,heavy rainfall is also likely tooccur at isolated places inTehri, Pauri , Almora, Nainitaland Udham Singh Nagar dis-tricts on Thursday. Heavysnowfall is very likely to occur

at isolated places in higherreaches of Uttarkashi,Rudraprayag, Chamoli andPithoragarh districts situated atan altitude of 3000 metres andabove today.

In Dehradun, the weatheris forecast to be marked bythunderstorm with rain. Themaximum and minimum tem-peratures are likely to bearound 20 degrees Celsius andnine degrees Celsius respec-tively on Thursday.

Meanwhile, the maximumand minimum temperaturesrecorded at various places inthe state were 22.5 degreesCelsius and 8.2 degrees Celsiusrespectively in Dehradun, 21.5degrees Celsius and 7.1 degreesCelsius in Pantnagar, 11degrees Celsius and threedegrees Celsius in Mukteshwarand 10.8 degrees Celsius and4.6 degrees Celsius respective-ly in New Tehri.

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Haryana Chief Minister Manohar LalKhattar is closely monitoring the

Antyodaya Saral project and has issuedstrict directions to every nodal officer totimely deliver the services being givenunder the Project and also ensure timelydisposal of public grievances, ProjectDirector, Chief Minister’s GoodGovernance Associates, Rakesh Guptasaid on Wednesday.

Presiding over a meeting with NodalOfficers of Antyodaya Saral Project here,Gupta directed that the grievances andcomplaints received on Antyodaya Portalshould be solved at the earliest else depart-mental action can be taken against the offi-cials who are negligent in their work.

He said that the Chief Minister willhold a review meeting over the same afterevery three months.

Taking stern action for showing lack-adaisical attitude in the delivery of citizen-centric services at Antyodaya SaralKendras, the Project Director has soughtan explanation from Tehsildar, Aasand,Ramesh Kumar.

Taking cognizance of a complaintrelated to the creation of SC certificate

reported on Antyodaya Saral portal, Guptadirected to inquire about the matter andfix the responsibility of the officer andemployee concerned.

In the meeting, it was also directed toissue show cause notice to the NodalOfficer of Sports and Youth AffairsDepartment for his absenteeism.

Gupta also directed Transport,Women, and Child Development, HaryanaShahari Vikas Pradhikaran, AgricultureDepartment to improve their functioningimmediately.

He also directed the departments to

take prompt action on tickets coming onthe E-ticketing system of the Antyodayaportal.

The official was appraised that till datemore than 78 lakh applications have beenreceived for more than 525 schemes andservices of various departments on theAntyodaya Saral portal.

On average, more than 5 lakh appli-cations are being received in a month.Apart from this, more than 1 lakh 20 thou-sand calls have been received on thehelpline number of the Antyodaya Saralportal.

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The Chairman of CommonMinimum Programme

(CMP) Committee of the BJP-JJP government in Haryana,Anil Vij on Wednesday saidthat the second meeting of theCommittee will be held onJanuary 23.

The announcement comesin the backdrop of the attackmounted by leaders ofOpposition parties, Congressand Indian National Lok Dal onthe failure of the Governmentto come out with its commonminimum programme.

Former chief minister andleader of opposition in theassembly Bhupinder Singh

Hooda alleged that coalitiongovernment in the State is direc-tionless in the absence of com-mon minimum programme.

The first meeting of theCMP was held on November28. After the meeting, Vij hadsaid that the manifestos ofboth parities BJP and JJP werediscussed in the first meeting.Many promises of both the par-ties –BJP and JJP are similar.

Proposals have been sent tothe departments to remove thefinancial and legal hurdles inthe implementation of mani-festos of both the parties.

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The Senior Indian PoliceService (IPS) officer, Alok

Kumar, took charge as the firstCommissioner of Police of thenewly-formed Gautam BuddhNagar commissionerate onWednesday.

The Uttar PradeshGovernment had on Mondayannounced switching to thecommissionerate system ofpolicing for Lucknow andNoida, giving magisterial pow-ers to the top cops in both cities.

"About 1,600 police per-sonnel have been added in thelast two days. Nine IPS officershave joined here to assist mewhereas earlier only one IPSofficer headed the GautamBuddh Nagar police. More per-sonnel could be added as perrequirement," said the newlyappointed police commission-er.

"As for law and order, thefocus will be on improving cit-izen-centric services. NowNoida has got domain expertsto tackle cases," he said. Oncyber crime, the police com-missioner said process is under-way to develop Noida as anInformation Technology hub."It will be a world class facility.Another focus would be on sen-sitizing potential victims ofcyber crime," he added.

"Our primary focus wouldbe working women security,controlling crime, police inter-action with residents, trafficmanagement, organised andsmart policing in the areas,cyber frauds and senior citizenssecurity," said Kumar.

Singh, a 1995-batch IPSofficer, holds the rank of anAdditional Director General(ADG) and was till last weekserving as the InspectorGeneral (IG) of police of

Meerut Range.State capital Lucknow and

UP's economic capital Noidawill now have an ADG-levelofficer as its police commis-sioner, Chief Minister Yogi

Adityanath had told reportersafter chairing the meeting ofthe state Cabinet that took thedecision.

Singh has earlier com-

manded the police force in 11districts of the state includingKaushambi, Baghpat,Sonbhadra, Rae Bareli, Sitapur,Unnao, Bijnor, Kanpur, Meerutand Barabanki.

The 52-year-old officer wasalso awarded with the PresidentGallantry Medal for bustingnaxal network in Sonbhadra,among other honours.

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In view of Assembly electionscheduled to be held on

February 8, the Delhi Police hasincreased its patrolling andchecking on its bordering areasto nab the culprits involved insupply of illicit liquor. ThePolice Control Room (PCR)unit of Delhi Police on Tuesdaylate evening apprehended a23-year-old man from Alipurarea and seized around 2,000quarters of illicit liquor.

The accused has been iden-tified as Kapil, a resident ofSwaroop Nagar area. Accordingto Sharat Kumar Sinha, theDeputy Commissioner ofPolice (DCP), PCR, on Tuesdayat around 6:40 PM, the policeteam on Mobile Patrol Van(MPV) noticed a car

(Chevorlet Aveo) being drivennegligently and rashly.

"The car was coming fromSinghu Border towards Delhi.On suspicion, the police teamsignalled it to stop but the dri-ver accelerated the car andtried to escape. The policeteam chased the suspected carand also flashed a message tonearby MPVs for assistance.The other MPVs joined theoperation and the accused wasapprehended by police team atPalla Traffic signal," said theDCP.

"On checking of the car, 40carton boxes containing 2000quarters of illicit liquor wasrecovered. The bootleggeralong with the recovered illic-it liquor and car were handedover to Alipur police station forfurther investigation," the DCPadded.

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Haryana Chief Minister of Haryana Manohar Lal Khattar willbrainstorm with experts and intellectuals in the pre-bud-

get consultation program of agriculture and auxiliary sectors inHisar on January 16.

He is also expected to inaugurate and lay the foundation stoneof several development projects. Agriculture and FarmersWelfare Minister, Jai Prakash Dalal will also be present on theoccasion.

A government spokesperson on Wednesday said that theChief Minister will reach Haryana Agricultural University in Hisarat 10 am on January 16. He will inaugurate the InternationalHostel, Deendayal Upadhyaya Centre of Excellence for OrganicFarming and participate in the pre-budget consultancy programwith experts in agriculture and allied sectors.

After this, the Chief Minister will inaugurate the expansionof the third phase of the newly constructed Teaching Block-8 andGirls Hostel-4 at Guru Jambheshwar University at 1.30 pm. TheChief Minister will also lay the foundation stone for boys inter-national hostel at Guru Jambheshwar University and 10 E-Typehouses to be built in the GJU campus.

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Iran on Wednesday said that it wasinterested in diplomacy but not in

negotiating with the US and that thekilling of its General Qasem Soleimanishowed ignorance and arrogance ofAmerica. Iran’s Foreign MinisterJavad Zarif also pointed out how 430cities in India witnessed protestsagainst the killing.

Zarif met Prime MinisterNarendra Modi and National SecurityAdvisor(NSA) Ajit Doval besidesRussian Foreign Minister and apprisedthem of the situation in the Gulfregion.

“PM reiterated India’s continuedcommitment to developing strongand friendly relations with Iran. Hethanked Iranian leadership for theprogress in Chabahar project, includ-ing through designating it as SpecialEconomic Zone,” a PMO statementsaid.

“The Foreign Minister shared hisperspectives on the recent develop-ments in the region. The PrimeMinister mentioned India’s stronginterest in peace, security and stabil-ity in the region,” the PMO added.

In a related development, ExternalAffairs Minister S Jaishankar referredhere to tensions between the US andIran and said they are two individu-alistic countries and what finally hap-pens will depend on the playersinvolved. He made this observationwhile addressing the ongoing RaisinaDialogue. Ministers and diplomatsfrom several countries including Iranand Russia are attending the meet ongeo-politics.

Making his country’s positionclear, Zarif said at the event “Iran isinterested in diplomacy. We are notinterested in negotiating with the US.US did not keep its commitmentsunder the nuclear deal. We had a USdeal and US broke it. If we have aTrump deal, how long will it last?”

He also said “We need to createhope in the region. We have to get ridof despair,” adding Iran incurred hun-dreds of billions of dollars in damagesbecause of current tensions.

Pointing out that Soleimani was

the single biggest threat to ISIS and hiskilling was now being celebrated by theterror group and US President DonaldTrump.

He also said India can play a rolein de-escalating tensions in the Gulfregion as New Delhi is an importantplayer. India has so far maintainedthat it would like the situation to de-escalate as soon as possible and thecountry has been in touch with keyplayers, including Iran, United ArabEmirates, Oman and Qatar, as it hasimportant interests in the region.

Signifying New Delhi’s growinginfluence in the region, the Iranianminister also met Doval and gave hima firsthand account of the situationprevailing in the Gulf region, sourcessaid adding the overall security sce-nario figured prominently in the talks,they said.

The deliberations between themcome amid the global focus on Iranand the US over the confrontationbetween the two countries followingthe killing of Soleimani. Meanwhile,Zarif also met his Russian counterpartSergey Lavrov and the two leaders dis-cussed the evolving situation in theGulf. Jaishankar said India’s way is notto be disruptive and it is more of adecider than an abstainer. In remarks

that come at a time several countrieshave called for a greater Indian role inthe Indo-Pacific, the minister also saidit is not the India way to be mercan-tilist.

Discussing ties with China, he saidit is vital for neighbours to reachunderstanding on crucial issues.“Neither India nor China can getIndia-China relations wrong. Ourrelationship is unique. Each countryhas gone up in the world simultane-ously. It is necessary that the twocountries find equilibrium,” Jaishankarsaid. Stating that India is a “prisonerof its past image” and must get over it,the external affairs minister said “it isnot the India way to be disruptive. Itis not the India way to be mercantilist.It is the India way to be more of adecider and not an abstainer. I wouldpick on climate change. India owes itto itself and to the world to be a justpower.”

On India pulling out of RegionalComprehensive Economic Partnership(RCEP), he said the onus was on coun-tries which were part of it. “WhereRCEP is concerned, we have to lookat cost and benefit. We will evaluateRCEP on its economic and trademerit. We have not closed our mindto it,” Jaishankar said.

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In the first such initiative, theGovernment will collect data on

households headed by a transgenderand members living in the family.

Census officers will be seeking spe-cific information based on 31 questionsfrom every household during thehouselisting and housing census exer-cise scheduled from April 1 toSeptember 30, Home Ministry officialssaid on Wednesday.

Under the head “sex of the head ofthe household”, there will be sub-options viz male, female and trans-gender, the officials said.

“It is for the first time that infor-

mation on households headed by atransgender is being collected. In ear-lier census, there used to be a column

for male and female only,” an officersaid.

Besides, there will be collection of

data on “ownership status of the cen-sus house” -- whether it is owned orrented, the officials said.

Information will be sought onbuilding number (municipal or localauthority or census number), censushouse number, predominant materialof the floor, wall and roof of the cen-sus house, use of census house, condi-tion of the census house, householdnumber and total number of personsnormally residing in the household,according to a notification issued by thethe Registrar General and CensusCommissioner.

The numerators will ask whetherthe head of the household belongs toa Scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribe

or ‘Other’ category, it said.Questions related to main source

of lighting, whether the family has“access to latrine”, “type of latrine”,“waste water outlet”, “availability ofbathing facility”, “availability of kitchenand LPG/PNG connection” and “mainfuel used for cooking” will also be askedby the enumerators, the notificationsaid. The 2021 census will be conductedthrough a mobile phone application,moving away from the traditional penand paper.

The census will have its referencedate as March 1, 2021, but for snow-bound Jammu and Kashmir, HimachalPradesh and Uttarakhand it will beOctober 1, 2020.

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The Indian MedicalAssociation (IMA), an apex

body representating over 3.5lakh doctors in the country haswritten to Prime MinisterNarendra Modi seeking clarifi-cation if he in a meeting recent-ly warned the pharma firms ofbribing doctors and breachingethical market practices. TheIndian Pharmaceutical Alliance(IPA) has, however, outrightlyrejected the allegations, statingthat no such matter was dis-cussed in the meeting held onJanuary 1.

Citing media reports thatModi in a recent interactionwith the top pharmaceuticalcompanies had warned themagainst bribing doctors withwomen, foreign trips and gad-gets,” the IMA in its lettertitled ‘Deny or Prove orApologise’, has sought a clari-fication from the “office of thePrime Minister if such a meet-ing ever happened” and that“such a statement was made bythe Prime Minister”.

In response to the IMAallegations, the IPA tweetedthat “There was no discussionon alleged bribes being givenby pharma companies to doc-tors as being reported in media.Meeting was constructive onewhere discussion was limited toinitiatives to boost industry.News reports to contrary arebaseless.”

The Prime Minister hadconvened meeting with health-care industry on January 1. Itwas attended by industry lead-ers including Satish Reddy (DrReddy’s), Ajay Piramal(PiramalGroup), DilipShanghvi (Sun Pharma), DrHabil Khorakiwala(Wockhardt) &others, the IPAtweeted.

On the other hand, theIMA letter read, “IMAdemands to know that if theGovernment had details of thecompanies involved in supply-ing woman to doctors why itchose to invite them for ameeting rather than initiate acriminal proceedings.Moreover, it is imperative onthe PMO now to release thenames of doctors convicted orotherwise as well.”

“The state medical councilsshould initiate appropriateaction if the doctors have been

convicted on moral turpitude.” The letter signed by IMA

President and GeneralSecretary Dr Ranjan Sharmaand Dr RV Asokan respective-ly also demanded “details of thecompanies involved in supply-ing women to doctors” whilenoting that “the governmentwill not be able to prove theseallegations”. In fact, it allegedthat the purpose (of taking upsuch issues) seems to divert theattention from unresolvedissues regarding heal of thepeople and the medical educa-tion in the country.

It enlisted various issuessuch as government’s flagshiphealth scheme AyushmaanBharat, calling it a non-starterin the private hospitals and wasoperating more in the govern-ment hospitals where the treat-ment was anyways free. Also,“there is no investment eitherin infrastructure or humanresources. Violence on doctorshas increased. TheGovernment has failed to pro-vide security thedoctors….hence the IMA hasreasons to believe that suchcrude tactics is to divert theattention of the people from thereal issues in health sector,” saidthe letter.

New Delhi: The Congress-ledChhattisgarh Government movedthe Supreme Court on Wednesdayseeking the UPA-1 era NationalInvestigation Agency (NIA) Act bedeclared unconstitutional and arbi-trary on the ground that it affects theState’s sovereignty and confers unbri-dled power on the Centre.

The then Manmohan SinghGovernment had come out with thelaw in the aftermath of the November26, 2008, Mumbai attack, whenCongress leader P Chidambaram wasthe Union Home Minister.

The legislation provides NIAconcurrent jurisdiction to probe ter-ror attacks in any part of the coun-try without any specific permissionfrom states and in the last onedecade it has been involved in theinvestigation of all such cases.

The Chhattisgarh governmenthas filed the original suit underArticle 131 of the Constitution whichempowers a state to move theSupreme Court directly in matters ofdispute with the Centre or any otherState. It is the first state to challengethe Act.

The move comes a day after theKerala government challenged theCitizenship Amendment Act underthe same Article 131.

The filing of petition assumesimportance as the Bhupesh Baghelled Congress government in the statehas challenged the law on the groundthat it was for the police to investi-gate scheduled offences in the State.

It also assumes significance as thestate government is challenging thelaw passed by Parliament whenCongress led the centralGovernment. PTI

New Delhi: A woman, whohad filed a case against an IPSofficer accusing him of rapingher, on Wednesday tendered anunconditional apology to theSupreme Court for makingthe wrong statement that shewas hit by a car and he wasresponsible for it.

She had alleged that shewas struck by a car on October17, 2019 and clearly expressedher suspicion that the officer, of

West Bengal cadre, was guiltyfor it. The top court had, how-ever, noted that she was not hitby a car but by a ‘thela’ or cartand said it “prima facie meansthat the allegations in hersworn statement before thisCourt were not truthful”.

During Wednesday’s pro-ceedings, the woman appearedbefore a bench of Chief JusticeS A Bobde and Justices B RGavai and Surya Kant.

The court noted her pres-ence and said, “The petition-er...Has appeared before usand tendered an uncondition-al apology. It seems that she hasbeen mentally disturbed andresorted to psychiatric care.

“In the circumstances ofthe case, we accept her uncon-ditional apology and dischargethe notice issued to her videorder dated December 10,2019. The suo motu ContemptPetition stands closed accord-ingly,” the Bench said. PTI

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Army Chief General MMNaravane on Wednesday said

abrogation of Article 370 givingspecial status to Jammu &Kashmir last year was historic andlandmark and said the move hasdisrupted proxy war by “our”western neighbour(Pakistan).

“Repealing of special powersunder Article 370 is a landmarkstep. This is a major step in inte-grating Jammu & Kashmir into therest of the country,” he said whileaddressing the force on the 72ndArmy Day parade at Cariappaparade ground.

Observing that the situationon the Line of Control (LoC) islinked to the situation in Kashmir,he said the move has disrupted theproxy war by ‘our” neighbour.Insisting that the armed forceshave zero tolerance against ter-rorism, the Army Chie also said“we have many options to counterthose who promote terrorism andwe will not hesitate to use them.”

He said the country had toface some security challenges lastyear and said the armed forces notonly countered proxy war butother situations. “Whether it isLoC (Line of Control) or LAC(Line of Actual Control), we haveensured security with activenessand strength,” Naravane said,adding the situation at northern

borders (China border) is rela-tively peaceful.

Mentioning his visit toSiachen last week, the Army Chiefsaid he was extremely happy to see

all the ranks brimming with con-fidence at the post. “In last fewdays, some of our soldiersachieved martyrdom due toavalanche. We will always remem-

ber their sacrifice,” he noted. Dhanush and K-Vajra gun

systems were showcased for thefirst time in the Army parade.Besides Naravane, IAF chief RKSBhadauria, Navy Chief AdmiralKarambir Singh and Chief ofDefence Staff General Bipin Rawatwere present on the occasion.

Army’s Captain Tania Shergil,the first woman Parade Adjutant,led all-men contingents at theCariappa Parade Ground here.She is a fourth generation armyofficer and is serving in the Corpsof Signals after getting commis-sioned in 2017..

Her father was in the 101medium artillery regiment, grand-father was in 14th ArmouredRegiment (Scinde Horse) andgreat grandfather in the SikhRegiment.

The Army Day is celebratedon January 15 every year to markLt General K M Cariappa takingover as commander-in-chief of theIndian Army in 1949 fromGeneral Francis Butcher, the lastBritish commander-in-chief ofIndia.

Prime Minister NarendraModi greeted army personnel onthe Army Day, saying they are thepride of India. “The Indian Armyis the pride of Mother India. Onthe occasion of Army Day, I salutethe indomitable courage, valour ofall the soldiers of the country,” hewrote on Twitter.

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The Congress on Wednesdayalleged that the �45,000-

crore submarine project 75-I isunder a cloud of suspicionowing to allegations offavouritism, crony capitalism,violations of ‘DefenceProcurement Procedure, 2016’and an alleged overruling ofIndian Navy and its‘Empowered Committee’ by

Modi Government. Congress chief spokesper-

son Randeep Singh Surjewalasaid, “The Government is flout-ing norms and the defence pro-curement procedure 2016(DPP-2016) in awarding thecontract to the Adani-HSLjoint venture”.

The party alleged five com-panies - L & T, Reliance Naval& Engineering, theG ove r n m e nt - c ont ro l l e dMazgaon Dock Shipbuilders,

HSL and Adani-HSL JV —replied to the expressions ofinterest (EoIs) invited by theGovernment for building thesubmarines.

“The empowered commit-tee of the Navy, whose head iscontroller of warship acquisi-tion, short-listed L&T andMazgaon Dock Shipbuilders,but the Government is pres-surising it to include the Adani-HSL JV. The meeting for thesame is on Friday,” Surjewala

alleged.Alleging that the Adanis

have zero experience and haveflouted the project norms, theCongress leader said as till thefinal closure of EoIs onSeptember 11, 2019, there wasno official joint venture.

On September 28, thecompanies announced forma-tion of the joint venture, he saidreferring to certain mediareports.

“According to rules, the

joint venture has to get clear-ance from the Ministry ofDefence. But it had not beentaken at the time submittingthe EOI. The “credit rating’’ hasalso been lowered to benefit theAdani JV. The norms say everyentity bidding for a contractabove �1,000 crore should becategorised as “A” but in thiscase it has been diluted to“BBB,” alleged Jaiveer Shergill,Congress spokesperson, citinga HSL Press statement.

New Delhi: In a scathing reporton the way the 1984 anti-Sikhriots cases were handled by thepolice, administration and evenjudiciary, a Supreme Courtappointed SIT has said there wasno intention of punishing theculprits and acquittals were“handed over by judges” to theaccused in a “routine manner”.

The report of the SIT, head-ed by retired Delhi High Courtjudge Justice S N Dhingra, hassaid that “whole efforts” of policeand administration “seem tohave been to hush up the crim-inal cases concerning riots”.

The cases were registered togive “clean chit” to certain per-sons, it said.

The report, which was sub-mitted in the apex court, dealtwith 186 anti-Sikh riots casesreferred to the SIT which was setup by the top court on January11, 2018 to supervise furtherprobe into these cases in which

closure reports were filed earli-er.

It said the basic reason forthese crimes remaining unpun-ished and culprits getting scot-free was lack of interest shownby the police and the authoritiesin handling these cases as per lawor to proceed with the intentionof punishing those involved.

The report is also critical ofthe way these cases were handledby trial courts here and said: “Itis not understood how the courtsproceeded with trial of severalcrimes of rioting, murders, arson,looting having taken place at dif-ferent locations, different timesand even different dates togeth-er.”

The SIT has recommendedexploring possibility of filingappeals, along with applicationfor condonation of delay, againstthe trial court orders of acquit-tals in some of these cases.

“Acquittals were handed

over by judges to accused of 1984riots in a routine manner,” thereport said. “None of the judge-ments on record show that thejudges were alive to the situationof 1984 riots and were alive to thefact that for delay in lodging FIRsand statement of witnesses, thevictims were not responsible”.

It said that due to protract-ed trial in these cases, the victimsand witnesses were so tired ofcoming to the courts time andagain that most of them hadgiven up and those who had notgiven up, the courts refused togive credibility to their testimo-ny on grounds, including delayin lodging of FIR and in record-ing evidence.

The report said the scrutinyof files reveals evidence ofinvolvement of the then inspec-tor Survir Singh Tyagi, thenSHO of Kalyan Puri police sta-tion, in a conspiracy with rioters.

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Rajasthan Governor KalrajMishra on Wednesday said

politics without principles,work without morality and lifewithout character are equiva-lent to sins.

During an event related tothe 150th birth anniversarycelebrations of the Father of theNation, Mishra said MahatmaGandhi had a strong sense ofIndianness and his philosophywas 'Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam'(whole world is one family).

“He was a brave man andnon-violence was his principle.Politics without principles,work without morality, lifewithout character and human-ity without science are equiv-

alent to sins,” Mishra said.Gandhi’s grandson

Rajmohan Gandhi whileaddressing the gathering saidthat Mahatma was fearless. Hewas a priest of non-violence.

He was always ready to goto jail and take a bullet. He saidthat he always spread friend-ship and worked to eliminatehatred.

Mishra also urged the peo-ple to perform their funda-mental duties to play an activerole in the development of thenation.

On this occasion, theGovernor got about 1,000 chil-dren of 30 schools of the city toread the Preamble andFundamental Duties of theConstitution.

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Jammu: The old and naturalcave of Vaishno Devi shrine inTrikuta hills opened fromWednesday for pilgrims to payobeisance, officials said.

The old cave is openedonly during January andFebruary when rush is veryless, while for rest of themonths, the pilgrims had topass through newly-construct-ed caves to reach to the sanc-tum sanctorum.

Every year, the natural caveis opened for pilgrims afterMakar Sankranti, an officialsaid.

“The cave has been openedfor the visiting pilgrims for dar-

shan now,” Shri Mata VaishnoDevi Shrine Board chief exec-utive officer Ramesh Kumarsaid.

To avoid any inconve-nience to the pilgrims, thesub-divisional magistrate hasbeen authorised to regulate

the darshan through old caveafter considering the rush andcongestion, the official said.

The CEO said normallypilgrims are allowed from thenatural cave when the daily pil-grimage comes below the10,000 mark. PTI

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Rajinikanth, the leadingsuper star of Tamil

moviedom, made his first polit-ical statement on Tuesdayevening since he announced hisintention to launch a politicaloutfit on December 31, 2017.

Addressing the readers andstaff of Tuglaq, Tamil’s leadingsocio-political magazinelaunched by late “Cho”Ramaswamy, Rajnikanthdeclared that Tuglaq was themagazine read by the intelli-gentsia in Tamil Nadu. “Thosewho read Murasoli (the mouth-piece of DMK of which lateKarunanidhi was the editor)are known as DMK activistswhile the readers of Tuglaq areknown as the intelligentsia,”said Rajinikanth while deliver-

ing the keynote address in themeeting held in connectionwith the 50th anniversary ofthe magazine.

The Tuglaq annual meetingis considered as the State’smost important cultural eventand sets the political agenda ofTamil Nadu for the next year.Rajinikanth pointed out thateven late Karunanidhi was anardent reader of the magazineTuglaq.

He also said that he wouldnot make any politicalannouncement or observationconsidering the solemnity ofthe occasion. M VenkiahNaidu, vice president was thechief guest and was presentwhen Rajinikanth made theannouncement.

It may be remembered thatRajinikanth was lampoonedby Murasoli daily for his polit-

ical dreams. The DMK mouth-piece had declared in anunsigned article in October2018 that the party does notwelcome Rajnikanth’s inten-tion to launch a political out-fit. But the DMK is yet to tellanything against the othersuper star Kamal Haasan wholaunched his political partyMakkal Neethi Meiam.

Though Rajinikanth hadnot reacted to the article at thattime, he chose the venue ofTuglaq to tell the people of theState that his respect and

regards were with “Cho”, whohas been his close friend formore than three decades. ChoRamaswamy had told his read-ers many time in the past thatRajinikanth is the ideal personto be the Chief Minister ofTamil Nadu.

S Gurumurthy, leadingchartered accountant, who isthe chief editor of Thuglaqsince the passing away of ChoRamaswamy, reiterated hisstance that Rajnikanth’s entryinto political arena would marka tectonic shift in TamilNadu. “The situation is sameas that of 1977 when TamilNadu was fed up with the kindof politics played by the DMKand its first family. It was at thatjuncture that MGRamachandran entered thescene and politics was not thesame afterwards.

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Sagar Island (WB): Over 31 lakhpilgrims from different parts ofthe country, and neighbouring Bangladesh andNepal, on Wednesday took holydip at the confluence of thesacred Ganga and the Bay ofBengal on the occasion of 'MakarSankranti'.

Around 40 lakh people havecongregated here for the pil-grimage, “breaking all previousrecords”, a senior state govern-ment official said.

“Till noon, more than 31 lakhpeople have taken dips in the holywaters. The final count couldeven exceed this figure,” he said.Every year on Makar Sankranti,lakhs of Hindus flock to theSagar Island in West Bengal'sSouth 24 Parganas district to take

the holy dip and offer prayers atthe Kapil Muni temple.

“Last year, we had a recordnumber of 20 lakh pilgrims vis-iting the island.

This year, that record hasbeen broken. It was peaceful andthe pilgrims have also appreciat-ed our arrangements,” the officialsaid.

Security has been beefed up inthe island, around 100 km fromKolkata, and Chief MinisterMamata Banerjee is monitoringthe situation, officials said.

Besides deploying senior offi-cers, around 10,000 police per-sonnel and civic volunteers havebeen posted for the gathering —the Ganga Sagar Mela.

Security officials are alsokeeping a watch on the waters and

patrolling is being done, theysaid. Drones and around 1,000CCTV cameras have been put touse, and several watch towers setup. The West Bengal Government,for the first time this year, is usingan air ambulance at the SagarIsland, officials said. Pilgrims alsotook dips at several ghats in otherparts of West Bengal, including inKolkata and Howrah.

Amid tight security, thou-sands of people participated inthe rituals at Babughat, Doi ghat,Baje Kadamtala ghat, Saradamanighat, Ratanbabur ghat, Bagbazarghat and Kumartuli ghat, all onthe banks of the Hooghly river inKolkata, they said.

In the districts as well, thou-sands of people took dips atsunrise. PTI

Banda: A four-year-old Dalitgirl was allegedly raped byman at a village in UttarPradesh's Banda district, policesaid on Wednesday.

The incident took place onTuesday when the girl wastaken to the secluded place bya man named JagdevKhushwaha (23) and wasraped, they said.

The girl later narrated theincident to her family, wholodged an FIR in this connec-tion.

The accused has beenarrested, the police added. PTI

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Union Defence MinisterRajnath Singh would inau-

gurate the induction ceremonyof SU-30 fighter squadron atthe Air Force Station inThanjavur in Tamil Nadu, AirMarshal Amit Tiwari said onWednesday.

At a press meet here, AirMarshal Tiwari said this wouldbe the second frontline fightersquadron of the Indian AirForce (IAF) to be based inSouth.

The induction ceremonywould take place on January 20and the fighters would have themost potent platform capableof long reach and multi-role

capabilities, he said.The maritime strike

squadron inducted in the IAFis also armed with the indige-nous Brahmos missile, the AirMarshal Tiwari, Air OfficerC o m m a n d i n g - i n - C h i e f ,Southern Air Command, said.

The IAF had earlierannounced the resurrection ofthe 222 SquadronTheTigersharkson January 1 withthe Sukhois.

The squadron was origi-nally raised on September 15,1969 with another Sukhoifighter, the SU-7, and laterwith the MiG-27 ground-attackaircraft.

The newly resurrected 222Squadron would be opera-

tionalised with Brahmos-equipped Sukhoi-30 air supe-riority fighter with twin engine,the officials said.

“The Indian Ocean Region(IOR) which is a central mar-itime spread, bordering threecontinents, has an importantrole to play in regional peace,security and prosperity.

The IAF is an intrinsical-ly strategic force and is set toextend the reach into the vastIOR,” Tiwari said.

The 'Tigersharks', equippedwith formidable, state-of- the-art air superiority fighter air-craft, which are armed with 2.5ton air-launched BrahMos mis-sile of 300 km range, have thecapability to strike from largestand-off ranges on any targetat sea or on land with pin-pointaccuracy by day or night and inall weather conditions.

The capability of the mis-sile, coupled with superlativeperformance of the Su-30 MKI,is set to change the paradigmof maritime surveillance, secu-rity and strike in the region.

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Chitrakoot (UP): A 42-year-old man drowned at Baruadam here when he was allegedly trying to dispose ofthe body of his wife, whom hehad killed, officials said onWednesday.

Bharat Diwakar, a localSamajwadi Party leader, hadkilled his wife on Tuesday night and was takingthe body in a boat which cap-sized in the dam's reservoir,Superintendent of Police AnkitMittal.

A boatman, Ram Sevak,informed police about the inci-dent. Police is trying to recov-er the bodies. PTI

Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanathon Wednesday performed rituals as head priest ofGorakhnath temple in Gorakhpur on the occasion ofMakar Sankranti. The 'Peethadhishwar' offered khichdito Baba Gorakhnath for happiness, prosperity and peacein the country as soon as the temple gates were openedat 3.00 am.

As per the tradition, the khichdi sent by the king ofNepal was offered soon after, the UP Government said ina statement.

After this, the devotees who visited the temple in lakhs,also offered the khichdi (rice-dal) to the Baba Gorakhnath.

The Chief Minister spent his time among devoteesand urged them to take laiya-til as 'prasad,' the release said.

Later in the afternoon, he joined community mealwith thousands of people. The Khichdi Mela that is organ-ised at the temple premises on the occasion of MakarSankranti, continues for about a month and attracts devo-tees from all over north India. The devotees also come fromfar-flung areas of Nepal. PTI

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A'Khairiyat' (welfare) team of theArmy posted in a north Kashmir vil-

lage rescued a woman with pregnancy-related complications by carrying her formany kilometres in waist-deep snow andensured that she reached hospital in timeto give birth to a healthy baby.

The team received a call on Tuesdayfrom a distraught Riyaz Mir, a residentof Dard Pora village near Tangmarg areaof Baramulla in north Kashmir, saying hiswife was in labour and the family wasunable to take her to hospital because ofheavy snowfall, an Army sourcesaid.

The woman, Shamima, had devel-oped severe pregnancy-related compli-cations due to which both her and the

unborn baby's lives were in danger. Following the call, the base com-

mander located at Uplona village lost notime and trekked nearly five kilometresalong with a resident medical officer toreach the family, the source said.

The entire Army unit swung intoaction and three teams wereimmediately formed — one cleared theroad for the pregnant woman's move-ment, the second cleared the snow till thehelipad and the third cleared the road tillKanispora, connecting the area with thedistrict headquarters in Baramulla, thearmy official said.

Over 100 men from the army and 25civilians were engaged in the six-houroperation which involved the foot patroltaking the woman on a stretcher toUplona through waist-deep snow.

Lucknow: Hitting out at BSP chiefMayawati for saying both BJP andCongress are “two sides of the samecoin”, the saffron party on Wednesdaysaid she had supported theManmohan Singh Government atthe Centre.

Mayawati at a press conference onher 64th birthday accused the BJP andthe Congress of playing “dirty politics”and alleged that the BJP-led centralGovernment follows the pattern of theprevious Congress dispensation,which was punished for its wrong-doing.

Terming both parties “two sidesof the same coin”, the Bahujan SamajParty (BSP) chief said the Congressdoes not have the moral right to crit-icise the BJP.

“You (Mayawati) had extendedsupport to the Manmohan SinghGovernment for 10 years. In the

State, you had taken the support of theCongress,” BJP leader and UttarPradesh Minister Shrikant Sharmasaid.

The basic difference between theBJP and the Congress is that “ourGovernment bothers about pro-poorwelfare schemes reaching the poor.The Government of which you hadbeen a part...Instead of reaching thepoor, reached the homes of those inpower, especially the Congress,through the back door”, he said.

Mayawati told reporters thatunder the current regime, poverty,unemployment, anarchy, violence andtension have exceeded that during thetenure of the Congress at theCentre.

She also alleged that the amend-ments to the citizenship law werebrought without taking others intoconfidence. PTI

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Jammu: The RailwayProtection Force (RPF) res-cued 16,457 children fromrailway stations and trainsacross the country during2019, a senior official said onWednesday.

Majority of the rescuedminor boys and girls had runaway from there homeswhile others had been kid-napped, left behind at train sta-tions or were being trafficked.

As many as 446 childrenwere rescued from the clutch-es of 68 human traffickers whowere arrested, the RPF said.

“RPF is committed to servethe nation and humanity insaving lives,” Director Generalof the force, Arun Kumar toldPTI.

Of the total rescued chil-

dren, 13,025 were runaways,1,294 were left behind in trainsor at railway stations, 1,091were missing, 252 were desti-tute children, 133 were streetkids, 108 were mentally chal-lenged, 89 had been kidnappedand 13 had fallen down fromtrains, they said.

The force also saved 495people including 260 malesand 235 females from grave

mishaps last year, they said,adding that several RPF per-sonnel lost their lives in theprocess.

One such instance ofsupreme sacrifice wasreported on April 21 last yearwhen a 50-year-old RPFconstable Jagbir Singh Ranawho was deployed near railtrack between Adarshnagar

and Ajadpur laid down his lifewhile saving a woman andthree children from comingunder the wheels of an oncom-ing train, the force said.

Similarly, in September lastyear, RPF jawan ShivcharanGurjar of Western Railwayswhile on train escort duty, savedthe lives of 9 people trapped infloods without caring for hisown life, they said. PTI

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Ajoint team of securityforces on Wednesday

gunned down a dreadedterrorist of HizbulMujahideen in a fierce gunfight at village Tantna of Gundanatehsil in Doda district.

Sharing details of the oper-ation DGP, Dilbagh Singh, saidthe dreaded terrorist killed inthe operation has been identi-fied as Haroon Abbas aliasMoin-un-Islam S/o Gh. AbbasWani R/o Furqanabad Ghat.

Singh said Haroon wasactive in the area for a longtime and was trying to revivemilitancy in the region with thehelp of Kashmir based terror-

ists. DGP said, Haroon Abbashad joined the HizbulMujahidin outfit in the year2018 and was operating in thearea of Kishtwar/Doda alongwith other terrorists.

He was a part of the groupof terrorists of HizbulMujahideen who were involvedin the killing of PariharBrothers in 2018, weaponsnatching from Daleep KumarPSO, of DC Kishtwar in 2019

and the killing of RSS func-tionary Chanderkant andhis PSO in 2019.

DGP claimed, with thekilling of Haroon andkilling of Osama and hisassociates three monthsback, most of the perpe-trators behind the cases of

terror attacks on innocent civil-ians in Kishtwar and weaponsnatching in that area havebeen eliminated.

A huge quantity of armsand ammunition including 01-AK 47 rifle, 03-Magazines 01-Chinese Grenade, 01- RadioSet and ammunition of AK47was recovered.

The search for another ter-rorist hiding in the area is inprogress, he added.

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Dibrugarh: Assam Chief MinisterSarbananda Sonowal was shown blackflags by All Assam Students' Union(AASU) activists protesting against theCitizenship Amendment Act (CAA) inDibrugarh district on Wednesday.

The Chief Minister had landed atDibrugarh airport and was on the way tohis hometown Chabua in the district tocelebrate 'Bhogali Bihu' harvest festivalwith his family when a group of AASUactivists rushed towards his convoy inMohanbari Tiniali area, waving black flagsand raising slogans against him and theAct. The protesters were heard shouting'Sarbananda, Go Back', 'SonowalMurdabad', 'CAA aami na maanu' (We donot accept CAA) and 'Jai Aai Asom' (Glory

to Mother Assam).Police overpowered the protestors

and prevented them from reaching theconvoy.This is the second incidentin a fortnight of anti-CAA agitators showing black flags to the ChiefMinister.

Activists of the AASU and the AsomJatiyatabadi Yuva Chhatra Parishad(AJYCP) had shown black flags to Sonowalat several places in Nalbari and Barpetadistricts when the Chief Minister was trav-elling by road from Guwahati to theashram of religious preacher Krishnaguruin Barpeta on January 1.

Earlier in the day, AASU activistsburnt a 50-feet tall effigy of Sonowal inDibrugarh town. PTI

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Jallikattu, the annual bulltaming event that is slated to

be held in several parts ofTamil Nadu took off to acolourful start here onWednesday on the occasion ofPongal, in which over 700 bullsand about 750 participantstook part.

As the feisty bulls, oneafter the other started racingtowards the lengthy sportingarena from the entrance,known as 'vadivasal,' youngmen waiting with bated breathstrained every nerve to latch onto the hump of the animals.

"Don't touch the horns,""many men don't chase oneanimal," "allow the bull to go;it has won," were among theinstructions that reverberated

in the arena for the partici-pants.

The Jallikattu atAvaniapuram held here todaymarks the start of the once ayear bull taming sport in manyrural and semi-urban regionsof Tamil Nadu.

Similar events will be heldat Palamedu tomorrow and inAlanganallur on January 17

and these are among the huge-ly popular bull taming contestsin the State.

If the participant manageto hang on over the hump ofthe bull for a determined dis-tance, he is declared a winnerand if not, the animal emergesthe victor.

In each round, about 60 to70 participants with colour

coded T-shirts and shorts tookpart.

Festivity marked the eventand scores of spectators fromthe gallery craned their necksto have a glimpse of deter-mined men trying to get thebetter of the animals in a mat-ter of seconds as soon as theywere released into the arena.

A huge number of specta-tors, including many foreigntourists with cameras, wereglued to the event.

Keenly watching the game,organisers quickly declared -over the public address system-if the animal or the man wasthe winner and the prize.

The sporting arena wasbarricaded from the galleriesand enclosures marked forspectators.

Speaking to PTI, an offi-cial said medical examinationof both the men and animalsdecided their participation.

Some participants found tobe under the influence of alco-hol and restless animals weredisallowed, he said.

The official said over 35men were injured, includingparticipants, spectators, andsome bull owners and a sectionof them were sent to a govern-ment hospital for treatment.

However, no bull wasinjured, he added. Elaboratesecurity arrangements weremade and access to medicalfacilities were on standby.

The event was held underthe supervision of a panel, ledby a retired judge.

Three men who success-fully held on to a high numberof animals — between 10 and15 bulls — were awarded thefirst three prizes. Also, otherswho dominated fewer or a sin-gle animal successfully weregiven a variety of prizes includ-ing vessels and silver coins.

Lucknow: BSP chief Mayawation Wednesday urged theCentre to withdraw the amend-ed citizenship law and seekconsensus to bring in a newone.

She accused the BharatiyaJanata Party-led Government atthe Centre of not taking othersinto confidence before bringingin the Citizen Amendment Bill(CAB). “That's why, there is anin outcry the country,"Mayawati told reporters at apress conference here on her64th birthday.

“The BSP had been repeat-edly urging the Centre to firstsend the CAB to the Standing

Committee, so that it becomesan absolutely correct law," shesaid.

Accusing the Centre ofstubbornness, she said theCitizenship Amendment Act(CAA) at first glance appears tobe divisive and unconstitu-tional.

Mayawati accused the BJPand the Opposition Congressof playing “dirty politics”,prompting a strong reactionfrom the ruling party whichreminded her that the BSPhad supported ManmohanSingh's Congress Governmentat the Centre.

"For the past some time,

political parties are accusingeach other of spreading lies andindulging in dirty politics, inwhich the BJP and theCongress are ahead of the oth-ers,” the BSP chief said.

“Our party does notindulge in dirty politics on thebasis of lies. I am saying thistoday as on the foundation dayof the Congress last month, itwas said that barring theCongress, other oppositionparties in UP are not raisingtheir voice against the NRC andthe CAA," she said, also refer-ring to the criticism of theNational Register of Citizens. PTI

Patna: Bihar Chief MinisterNitish Kumar on Wednesdayrefused to comment on the(Amendment) Act urgingjournalists not to ask him questions on the auspiciousMakar Sankranti day on issuesabout which people may have dif-ferent opinions that may lead tosquabbles.

Kumar, who also heads theJanata Dal (United), made thiscomment with a broad smileplaying on his lips and both hishands joined together in responseto frantic queries from scribes ata feast organised to mark theMakar Sankranti festival.

"Do not rake up the issues onan auspicious day, about whichpeople may have different opin-

ions and expression which maylead to squabbles", the ChiefMinister said while he was treat-ing himself to curd, flattened rice,jaggery and 'tilkut' (a sweetmeatmade of sesame).

Requesting the journalists toenjoy the feast and write aboutthe state-wide human chainscheduled on January 19 instead,he said, "I urge you to take partin it as well".

The Chief Minister wasflanked by top leaders of theNDA and seated next to him washis deputy and senior BJP leaderSushil Kumar Modi.

They were at the residence ofstate JD(U) president and RajyaSabha member VashishthaNarayan Singh, whose annual

'dahi-chura' feast has become amuch-anticipated event since ithad provided clues in the past fewyears about dissidents from otherpolitical groups willing to join theruling party.

All eyes were, therefore, onRJD MLA Faraz Fatami when hearrived at Singh's residence.

Fatami said, "I have comehere upon invitation as a matterof courtesy and no politicalmeaning should be attached to it."On the CAA-NRC controversy,he said the Bihar Chief Ministerhas already made things veryclear on the floor of the Assemblyand after that there is no need forstretching things further.

Kumar on Monday had saida country-wide implementation

of National Register of Citizenswas "needless" and had "no jus-tification".

Asked about RJD leaderTejashwi Yadav's Statewide touragainst the contentious measuresfrom Thursday, Fatami said, "Ithink the honourable leader ofthe opposition should do arethink".

Fatami's father Mohd AshrafFatami, a former Union Minister,had snapped his ties with the RJDahead of the Lok Sabha polls lastyear when he took exception toTejashwi Yadav ordering his sus-pension from the party after hefiled his nomination papers fromMadhubani after being deniedticket on his home turf ofDarbhanga. PTI

Panaji: Goa Forward Party (GFP)leader Ashma Sayed said onWednesday that she had resigned asvice-chairman of the State MinoritiesFinance and DevelopmentCorporation to protest against theCitizenship (Amendment) Act(CAA).

The GFP was part of the BJP-ledGoa government till July 2019 whenits ministers were dropped from thePramod Sawant-led cabinet.

The party is still part of theNational Democratic Alliance(NDA). Sayed, who heads the GFP'swomen wing, announced her deci-sion on Twitter.

"I have resigned as vice chair-man, Goa State Minorities Financeand Development Corporation as amark of protest against #CAA," shetweeted. The CAA, which cameinto effect on January 10, grantsIndian citizenship to non-Muslimrefugees who migrated to Indiafrom Afghanistan, Pakistan andBangladesh before 2015 on accountof religious persecution.

Massive protests have eruptedagainst the CAA since its passage byParliament in December last year.

The GFP has been opposed tothe amended Act. PTI

Guwahati: People celebratingharvest festival 'Bhogali Bihu',also called 'Magh Bihu', in Assamon Wednesday burnt copies ofthe Citizenship Amendment Act(CAA) in bonfires of 'Mejis' lit onthe occasion.

Protests against the Act havebeen raging in the state since itwas passed in the Parliament inDecember last year.

The 'Mejis' (structures madeof bamboo, hay and wood) werelit before sunrise and home-made 'larus' (a type of sweet) and'pithas' (rice cakes) offered to thealmighty.

Organisations protesting theCAA such as the All AssamStudents' Union (AASU), AsomJatiyatabadi Yuva ChatraParishad (AJYCP), KrishakMukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS),Assam Nagarik Mancha andcivil society members had givena call to burn the copies of theAct during the festival.

AASU activists burnt copiesof the Act outside their officesacross the state and students ofthe Cotton University, prominentadvocate Arup Borobora andcivil society members AjitBhuyan and Haidar Hussain also

did the same.The Act was also the theme

of several 'Bhelaghars', temporaryhay structures where communi-ty feasts 'Uruka' were held on theeve of the 'Rongali Bihu', onTuesday.

Two such 'Bhelaghars' inNagaon district stood out.A'Bhelaghar' in Kekuragaon inAmsoi area of the district depict-ed a woman holding a contain-er over her head. Organisers saidthe woman was depicted as'Mother Assam' and the con-tainer the "burden" of illegalBangladeshi immigrants. PTI

Mumbai: The Shiv Sena onWednesday questionned its formerally BJP's "separate yardsticks" of"freedom of expression" on the JNUviolence and the controversial bookcomparing Prime Minister NarendraModi with Chhatrapati ShivajiMaharaj.

In an editorial in the party'sMarathi mouthpiece "Saamana", theruling party demanded that UnionHome Ministry issue orders to filecases against those who makederogatory comments on Hindutvaideologue VD Savarkar, anddemanded Bharat Ratna for him.

The book "Aaj Ke Shivaji,Narendra Modi", written by DelhiBJP leader Jay Bhagwan Goyal, hastriggered a political storm inMaharashtra, where the 17thCentury founder of the Maratha

empire is a reverred historical figure."When a hardly known BJP

worker publishes a book, the BJPdefends him on the grounds of free-dom of expression, but it conve-niently forgets the same principle inthe case of students of the JNU whoare fighting for the same," the Senasaid. After the January 5 attack onJNU students, the Sena had said thatwhat Prime Minister Narendra Modiand Union Home Minister AmitShah wanted was happening.

The Sena, which has demandedthat the book be banned, wonderedwhy the BJP has not yet expelledGoyal from the party.

"We want this issue to be settledat once but the author of the bookseems to be firm on rewriting it,which clearly means the issue is stillnot over," the Sena said. PTI

Bengaluru: The much awaitedexpansion of Karnataka Cabinet islikely to get delayed, with ChiefMinister BS Yediyurappa onWednesday stating that it will bedone after BJP national PresidentAmit Shah's visit to the State onJanuary 18.

As the Chief Minister is sched-uled to travel to Davos to attendthe World Economic Forum meet,the very next day- January 19, theMinistry expansion exercise islikely to take place only after hisreturn.

"On January 19, I will have togo to Davos, where I will take partin an investors meet and comeback on January 23," Yediyurappasaid.

Speaking to reporters inShikaripura, he said, "Amit Shahis coming to state on January 18,after discussing with him at the

earliest I will expand the cabinet."Shah will be here to address

a huge rally at Hubballion January18 aspart of the BJP's nationwideoutreach programme to createawareness among the people aboutthe Citizenship Amendment Act.The Chief Minister, who is anxiously waiting for the BJP highcommand's nod to expand hisministry, amid intense lobbying bythe aspirants, had recentlyexpressed his wish to complete theexercise before Davos visit, if hegets clearance from Amit Shah.

Disqualified legislators whogot re-elected during theDecember 5 bypolls on BJP tick-et, and are all set to becomeMinisters too had exerted pressureon Yediyurappa to expand theCabinet before the foreign visit.

According to party sources,

though Yediyurappa had plans tovisit New Delhi to get clearancefrom the high command, he didnot get appointment from theparty leadership for the same.

Yediyurappa along with UnionMinisters Piyush Goyal andMansukh Mandaviya as well aschief ministers — AmarinderSingh (Punjab) and Kamal Nath(Madhya Pradesh) are amongthose expected join over 100Indian CEOs in the Swiss skiresort town of Davos later thismonth for the WEF's 50th annu-al meeting.

As the Chief Minister hasalready made it clear that 11 of thedisqualified JDS-Congress MLAswho got re-elected in the bypollson BJP tickets will be made min-isters, lobbying has been on with-in the party for the remainingministerial berths. PTI

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The Goa Congress on Wednesdaydemanded resignation of Chief

Minister Pramod Sawant, claimingthat he has "failed" to address keyissues like non-resumption of themining industry, unemployment andslowdown in tourism sector in theState.

Talking to reporters here, GoaPradesh Congress Committee chiefGirish Chodankar alleged that theBJP-led State Government was "insen-sitive" towards issues raised by theOpposition due to which there wasdiscontent among people.

Chodankar said his party hasbeen raising various issues, like non-resumption of mining operations,"unprecedented" unemployment Goa,which he claimed was highest in thecountry, slowdown of the tourismindustry and concerns over the state'sfinancial situation.

The State Government has failedto come up with a proper response toall these problems, he said.

"It is unfortunate that the chiefminister and his Government havebecome insensitive. Even if you raisesensitive issues, they are notaddressed. We condemn theGovernment's inaction. People areunhappy with the Government,"Chodankar said.

"If Chief Minister Pramod Sawantcannot handle affairs of the State, thenhe should step down from the postwithout wasting any more time," hesaid.

In a democratic set up,theGovernment is accountable topeople. Hence, the State Governmenthas to respond to issues raised by themain opposition party, Chodankarsaid. The Congress leader furtherclaimed that frustration was mount-ing among the youth, who were tak-ing law and order in their hands. PTI

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No one can stop Dilip Ghosh fromgun down anti-nationals. The

Bengal BJP president has stuck to hisstand.

“Contemptuously” dismissingOpposition queries as to whether“such statements are manifestations ofNazi mindset,” Ghosh on Wednesdayconfirmed: “I had given a well-thoughtout statement the other day,” adding“anti-nationals who destroy publicproperty deserve to be shot like dogs.And I will again say that we will shootat them when we come to power ifthey don’t stop destroying nationalproperty.”

When reminded how the Left,Congress and the Trinamool Congress

have openly criticized him for har-bouring such “Nazi mindset,” Ghoshrecalled how “scores of brilliant stu-dents belonging to naxalite groupswere shot dead by the police during theSiddhartha Shankar Ray Governmentin 1970s… Often these naxal activistswere first released from jails and thenshot dead from behind as they walkedback to freedom… Was it a legal act?”

He then asked “how about thecommunists shooting dead 6 ForwardBloc members and eliminating therefugees in Marich Jhampi Islands?’reminding as well how “MamataBanerjee’s police shot dead 11 Gorkhasin Darjeeling Hills.”

If those acts were legal then “howmy suggestion of shooting like dogsthe anti-national elements — who

destroy and torch public properties asthey did by setting trains afire whileprotesting against the CitizenshipAmendment Act— become illegal,” headded saying, “while the Assam andUttar Pradesh Governments exhibit-ed the right intent by shooting anti-nationals the Trinamool Congressnot even filed an FIR or arrest anyone,or charged lathis, let alone openingfire.

This was done with an eye on thevote-bank politics which they havebeen pursuing since their inception.”

Ghosh had on Sunday told acrowd at Nadia that when the BJPwould come to power it would shootanti-nationals dead like dogs as it didin Assam, Karnataka and UttarPradesh kicking off a storm of criti-

cism and leading his party colleagueand Union Minister Babul Supriyo todisapprove of his statement as a “per-sonal view.”

Ghosh’s reiteration of the sameview on Sunday and sudden silence ofSupriyo clearly indicated on whoseside the BJP high command was, theTMC leadership said. “Without thepermission of the top leadership theydo not speak.

So you have to understand fromwhere Dilip Ghosh is getting hisstrength to speak all that non-sense.”Meanwhile in a related developmentGhosh on Sunday trained his guns atthe Bengal civil society for makingsymnbolic statements: vowing not toshow “documents” apparently for ver-ification on CAA.

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The just-concluded presidential andlegislative elections in Taiwanmight remain a turning point inthe life of not only the island butthe entire region. President Tsai

Ing-wen of the Democratic Progressive Party(DPP) defeated Han Kuo-yu from China-friendly Kuomintang by more than 2.5 mil-lion votes (57.1 per cent for Tsai and 38.6 percent for Han). The former became the first-ever candidate to capture more than eight mil-lion votes. James Soong Chu-yu, chairman ofthe People First Party (PFP) close to Chinaperformed poorly with only 4.2 per cent ofthe votes. More than 14 million (out of 19 mil-lion eligible voters) participated in the vote,which also saw the DPP retain its majority inthe legislature, winning 61 out of 113 seats.

Many observers saw this as a slap in theface of China and its President Xi Jinping. Theproblem for Beijing is that this is a seconddebacle in a row — in November 2019, theHong Kong District Council elections wereheld for 18 seats when a record 71 per centof the electorate had voted. The election wasviewed by many as a referendum on pro-democracy protests that continued for sixmonths. The results came as a jolt forBeijing; the Communist regime had neverexpected a “tsunami” in favour of the pro-democracy movement, which took control of17 of the18 district councils.

At first, it looked as if Beijing did notknow how to react. According to The SouthChina Morning Post: “Xinhua waited [twodays] to release a two-paragraph news reporton the polls. It only stated that the electionstook place and 18 districts produced results.”The next day, the People’s Daily went on talk-ing about the history of US intervention inforeign elections. In the weeks preceding theelections, the Global Times repeatedly claimedthat a “silent majority” in Hong Kong was con-demning the protests.

An important common factor, thecountry’s mobilising youth, has been point-ed out by Juang Wen-jong, professor of pub-lic policy and management at Shih HsinUniversity in The South China Morning Post:“Young people — or those between 20 and39 — were the key to the weekend’s electionsas they made up at least 6.6 million of theeligible voters in Taiwan… They helped bol-ster the turnout rate, which helped increaseboth the vote for Tsai and her party.”

Many considered the Taiwan’s presiden-tial election to be a proxy contest about itsnational identity. This probably explainswhy Beijing was not amused. What has madematters worse for China is that many coun-tries sent congratulatory messages to the newTaiwanese President. “China cried foul,claiming that their actions violated the ‘one-China’ principle,” wrote the Taiwan News.

The Taiwanese Ministry of ForeignAffairs (MoFA) had announced that officialsfrom some 60 countries had greeted Tsai viaphone call and email. It included US Secretaryof State Mike Pompeo and Japanese Foreign

Minister Toshimitsu Motegi. “Ina released statement, Pompeocongratulated Tsai on her well-deserved win and praisedTaiwanese voters for demon-strating the spirit of democracy.”

The word “democracy”makes China see red. China’sForeign Ministry spokespersonGeng Shuang spoke of electionsin “Taiwan region of China” andasserted that it was a “sub-national affair in China.” Headded that Beijing deplores andfirmly opposes “those countries”which violate the “one-Chinaprinciple” by “offering the con-gratulations and lodged solemnrepresentations.”

Geng declared that Beijingopposes any official relationsbetween “the Taiwan region”and countries that have diplomat-ic ties with China. He asked thesecountries to deal with the issue“properly and with caution toavoid sending the wrong messageto Taiwan’s independence forces.”

Beijing’s Taiwan AffairsOffice (TAO) released a commu-niqué asking Taipei to adhere tothe “1992 consensus” betweenChina and Taiwan. MaXiaoguang, the TAO spokesman,said: “Our political policy towardsTaiwan is clear and consistent. Weadhere to the basic principles ofpeaceful reunification; one coun-try, two systems and one China.”We will resolutely safeguardChina’s sovereignty and territo-rial integrity, resolutely opposeany plot or act of “Taiwan inde-pendence” and resolutely pro-

mote the interests and “well-being of Taiwan compatriots.”

At the same time, Xinhuablamed Tsai and the DPP ofusing “dirty tactics such ascheating, repression and intim-idation to get votes.” The officialnews agency claimed that itexposes “their selfish, greedy andevil nature.” In a Chinese lan-guage op-ed, Xinhua evenaccused Tsai of “buying votesand blamed the election resultson external dark forces.”

The “dark forces” are obvi-ously the “West”, which hassinned for “inventing” democra-cy (incidentally, is it the Westwhich “invented” the “evil”democracy? Serious historiansbelieve that elected village coun-cils existed in India centuriesbefore it was introduced inAncient Greece).

The “two slaps” show theweakness of the Chinese regime,which depends too much on“propaganda” and “influence”to bully its neighbours —whether “Chinese ones” likeHong Kong or Taiwan or foreignones such as Australia, Vietnamor the Philippines.

Once again, the billions ofdollars used to change the mindof the voters did not help Beijing.To the contrary, it looks as if it hadthe reverse effect and this maynot change in the near future.Beijing is facing a dead endwithout even realising it.

Chinese leaders are unfortu-nately incapable of changingtheir tactics. Chinese Foreign

Minister Wang Yi, who wasrecently in India to discuss theboundary issue with the NationalSecurity Advisor, went on thesame old track. In Zimbabweduring an African tour, Wangaffirmed that Tsai’s win would notstop Taiwan’s reunification withthe mainland: “A local election onthe Taiwan island will [not]shake [China’s determination]despite erroneous words andactions by some Western politi-cians… The rejuvenation of theChinese nation and the reunifi-cation across the [Taiwan] straitis inevitable. Going against thetrend is bound to reach a deadend. Anyone separating thenation will stink for 10,000 years.”

Well, the human spirit forfreedom and the aspiration tochoose one’s own destiny is alsodifficult to suppress or extinguish.It is true not only for Hong Kongor Taiwan but places like Tibetand Xinjiang, too.

According to the officialTibet Daily, on January 12, thelegislative branch of the TibetanAutonomous Region voted infavour of new regulations to“strengthen ethnic unity” inTibet. Four years ago, similarrules were introduced inXinjiang. It was later used to jus-tify crackdowns on the MuslimUygur minority. But once again,it is not easy to tame the humanspirit and change the hearts ofthe masses. Beijing will have tolearn one day.

(The writer is an expert onIndia-China relations)

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Sir — This refers to the editori-al, “God of carnage” (January 13).In its order, the Supreme Courtreasserted that access to the inter-net is a fundamental right and anindefinite shutdown of the facil-ity is unconstitutional. This mayhave come as a shock to the BJPbut it is a great relief for the peo-ple of Kashmir as well as for allthe peace-loving citizens of India.

The apex court’s observa-tions that the repeated impositionof Section 144 in Kashmir wouldamount to “abuse of power” andthat the right to life should besecured in the best possible man-ner has come at a time when theentire nation is witnessing wide-spread agitations against theCitizenship Amendment Act(CAA) and the implementation ofthe National Register of Citizens(NPR) by civil society. The judg-ment, authored by the judge NVRamana, quoted the openingsentence of Charles Dickens’snovel, A Tale of Two Cities — “Itwas the best of times, it was theworst of times...” — at the begin-ning. This seems to aptly describethe present circumstances inIndia, where in spite of many

obstacles, ordinary citizens arespeaking up.

However, while the court’sruling is heartening, one wishesthat it had not taken five longmonths — since August 2019,when Article 370 was abrogated,

Opposition leaders have beenput in jail, the movement ofcivilians has been restricted andnormal life brought to a grindinghalt — for such a judgment to bepassed. The apex court musthave been aware of the situation

in the Kashmir Valley. If only ithad taken up the matter as a suomotu case, the common manmight have been spared a lot ofundue misery.

Tharcius S FernandoChennai

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Sir — The city of Melbourne,Australia, just recorded the worstair quality in the world.Melbourne has previously beenlisted as the “most liveable city inthe world” on several occasions.This air quality decline is a con-sequence of the fires in EasternVictoria and is obviously a minornuisance compared to the disas-ters of the fires themselves.

This smoke will hopefullyblow away in the next few daysbut the question will remain:What can we do to prevent thisfrom happening again? This issueis not just limited to Melbournebut there are a number of citiesaround the world where breath-ing is a health risk.

As a planet, we need to lookat the legacy we are leavingbehind and find a way to stop andhopefully repair the damage wehave caused. This should startwith looking at climate changeand pollution in general. There isno Planet B.

Dennis FitzgeraldMelbourne

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The curbs imposed in the erstwhile State ofJammu & Kashmir (J&K) after the Centre’sabrogation of provisions of Article 370 of

the Constitution of India were challenged and aplea was filed in the Supreme Court (SC). Theapex court, in a recent judgment held that dis-agreement does not justify destabilisation andpower under Section 144 of the CriminalProcedure Code (CrPC) — restricting five ormore people from gathering at one place — can-not be used to curb legitimate expression ofdemocratic rights.

The apex court also observed that, “Libertyand security are always at loggerheads. It is thecourt’s job to ensure that the citizens are provid-ed all rights and security.” It further held thatSection 144 of the CrPC is a remedial and pre-ventive measure and must be subject to the testof proportionality. Any order must adhere to theprinciple of proportionality and would be sub-ject to judicial review.

Of late, we have witnessed that across thecountry, and not just in Kashmir, Section 144 isbeing invoked indiscriminately to contain legit-imate protests against the National Register ofCitizens (NRC) and the Citizenship AmendmentAct (CAA), by the State police machinery andby the powers that be. Once Section 144 isimposed in any area, all civilians are barred fromcarrying weapons of any kind, including sticks,sharp-edged metallic objects or firearms inpublic places and only the police and other secu-rity personnel are allowed to carry weapons inareas under Section 144. More importantly, vio-lation of Section 144 is liable for punishment ofup to three years in jail.

As prevention of a crime or riot is the dutyof the administration, the power conferredunder Section 144 is absolute in terms of main-taining law and order. In some cases theMagistrate or the officer concerned may perceivea threat based on the material evidence available,which is invariably disclosed in the order.

However, it cannot be presumed that therewould be a breach of peace merely because thereis a protest. Hence, if there is no material evidenceavailable for invocation of Section 144, such anorder is in violation of Article 19 (1) of the coun-try’s Constitution and therefore it would amountto infringement of the basic fundamental rightof freedom of expression. Hence, Section 144 can-not be invoked with an intention to prevent apeaceful demonstration.

Section 144(1) contemplates that in caseswhere — in the opinion of a District Magistrate,a Sub-Divisional Magistrate or any other exec-utive Magistrate specially empowered by the StateGovernment in this behalf — there is a sufficientground for proceeding under the said Section andimmediate prevention or speedy remedy isdesirable, such a Magistrate may, by a writtenorder, stating the material facts of the case andserved in the manner provided under Section 134,direct any person to abstain from a certain Act.

The Magistrate is also empowered to take acertain order with respect to certain property inhis/her possession or under his/her management,if he/she considers that such a direction is like-ly to prevent, or tends to prevent, obstruction,annoyance or injury to any person lawfullyemployed or danger to human life, health or safe-

ty or a disturbance of public tranquil-lity or a riot or an affray.

Sub-Section 2 contemplates that anex-parte order can be passed in case ofemergency and Sub-Section 3 specifiesthat such an order may be directed toa particular individual or to personsresiding in a particular place or area orto the public generally or visiting a par-ticular place.

A reading of the aforesaid ordershows that the Magistrate or any offi-cer passing an order under Section141(1) of the CrPC has to state mater-ial facts and also his consideration thatsuch an order would prevent distur-bance of public tranquility. The empha-sis is on the likelihood of breach of pub-lic peace. Though the Code of CriminalProcedure, 1973 repeals the Code ofCriminal Procedure Code, 1898 (ActNumber V of 1898), Section 144 of theold code was retained in the new code.

Freedom of expression is an indis-pensable component in a democraticsociety. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, in hishistorical resolution containing aimsand objects of the Constitution to beenacted by the Constituent Assembly,said, “The Constitution should guaran-tee and secure to all the people of Indiaamong others, freedom of thought andexpression.”

Article 19(1) of the Constitution isa segment of Part III of the Constitutionwhich pertains to fundamental rightsunder which all citizens shall have aright to freedom of speech and expres-sion, to assemble peacefully and formassociations. Any infringement of sucha right would constitute violation of fun-damental rights available to the citizens.

Article 19 (2) empowers the State tomake any law imposing a reasonablerestriction on the exercise of such aright. When Section 144 is invoked, itmay amount to a reasonable restrictionimposed under Article 19(2) of theConstitution. But if the mandatoryrequirements under Section 144 are notcomplied with i.e., existence of realthreat of breach of tranquility, the veryinvocation of Section 144 is in violationof Article 19(1) of the Constitution.

The Supreme Court, in the MadhuLimaye case, while examining thescope of Section 144 of CrPC of the oldcode vis-à-vis Article 19 of theConstitution, had held that the powerextends to making an order, which iseither prohibitory or mandatory innature and the urgency “is the only cri-teria that can justify the order under thesaid Section.”

The urgency should have a nexuswith the likelihood of breach of tran-quility. The Magistrate has to pass anorder reflecting his objective consider-ation. The apex court also held that thepower under Section 144 is not flow-ing from the administration but is apower to be used in a judicial mannerand it should stand further judicialscrutiny.

The apex court, in the RamlilaMaidan incident, had emphasised thatthe degree of threat involved for invok-ing the provision should be a real threatto public peace and tranquillity. Theprovision cannot be invoked merely onimaginary or mere likely possibility. Thematerial facts that are to be stated in theorder should disclose that there is a realthreat to peace or else the Magistrate or

any officer does not have any power toinvoke the said provision.

Similarly, the court in the State ofKarnataka Vs Gowri Narayana Ambigacase held that the freedom of speech andexpression must be broadly consideredto include the freedom to circulate viewsby word of mouth, in writing or audio,video instrumentalities. This means thata gathering of a group of people rais-ing slogans falls within the ambit ofArticle 19(1) of the Constitution.

In the Baldev Singh Gandhi Vs.State of Punjab case, the top court heldthat situations may arise where respon-sible persons or those who hold elect-ed offices feel that it is their duty to crit-icise the law promulgated as unconsti-tutional and against public interestand invite people to come forward for discussion and the same is protect-ed by Article 19(1) (a) of theConstitution.

While invoking Section 144, theMagistrate or any other officer shouldbe conscious of the fundamental rightof a citizen under Article 19(1) of theConstitution. The Magistrate has torarely invoke such a provision in ademocratic society which always takesinto its fold healthy dissent. It cannotbe invoked arbitrarily only with anintention to prevent a peaceful demon-stration. If so, the same constitutes abuseof power. Therefore, the State policemachinery henceforth has to be con-scious of the aforesaid law laid downand should not indiscriminately invokeSection 144 to prevent a legitimatepeaceful protest.

(The writer is Advocate, High Courtsof Andhra Pradesh and Telangana)

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The impact of climate change isusually seen in relation to theadverse cumulative conse-

quences witnessed around the worldin the form of rising temperatures,extreme weather events and spi-ralling green house gas emissions.But seldom are the consequences ofclimate change whittled down to theindividual level to understand thespecific impact it has on the quality,prosperity and health of the individ-ual. A dynamic per capita climatechange impact index can help nationsnarrow down on particular areaswhere human beings are sufferingthe most due to climate change. Thisanalysis can be taken to more inter-

esting levels when one can dissect theper capita impact of climate changeon the basis of demographics such asgender, occupation, geographicallocation and so on.

The assessment of the cost of cli-mate change is always generalised.However, given the scale climatechange is reaching in these times itis becoming crucial to quantify thesame and understand how eachindividual in the country is dealingwith the effects of climate change. Insimple terms, how many are adapt-ing to it and more importantly howmany are succumbing to it.

Another important aspect is toalso find out who are the highest percapita generators of climate changein the form of nations, who are gen-erating the maximum per capitagreen house gas emissions.

A well-researched study on thesedimensions will yield irrefutableevidence that some people in thisworld are paying the price for thehigh levels of carbon emissionsbeing generated by somebody else.

In fact, given that not all peoplein the world are equally responsible

for climate change, some sections ofenvironmental scientists are alreadyterming this as a climate relatedinequality. This new aspect needsmore research and studies so that theexact responsibility is fixed on thenations and people who emit morecarbon per person but preach to oth-

ers about how to achieve a cleanerenvironment. Global environmentalevents such as the COP25 must focuson subjects of climate-relatedinequality in order to provide somemuch-needed relief and concessionsto those individuals across the worldwho are suffering the most due to cli-mate change and are doing the leastto precipitate it. This will help in pro-viding some much-needed achieve-ment for the event.

For a nation like India, the util-ity of a per capita impact of climatechange index for the populationwill have immeasurable benefits.The wide spectrum of people withvarious levels of economic classstructure continue to suffer due to aplethora of problems, some man-made and some caused by climatechange. The index can help in iden-tifying and segregating those issuesand problems that have been causeddue to environmental degradationand climate change.

This is crucial, because it is onlywhen the problem and its source isidentified that it can be solved. Suchan index must dwell upon a wide

angle of costs being paid by an indi-vidual and a family. This could besocial costs, health related issues orfinancial costs. Based on the index,the Government can then announcemore meaningful policies andschemes that can alleviate the prob-lems of the affected people.

The Government can then pro-vide them relief and rehabilitationagainst the effects of climate change.This would possibly be the first of itskind initiative in the world where aGovernment provided relief and aidto an individual who suffered due tocarbon emissions and lost his healthor livelihood and became economi-cally-challenged.

The rehabilitation of climatechange-affected people is a veryimportant aspect of adaptation.Though fighting for reduction ofgreen house gas emissions, carbonfootprint and encouraging sustain-able energy development are criticalfor climate change mitigation, allthese measures do little for those whohave already fallen victim to the dev-astating effects of global warmingand environmental degradation. This

negates the humanitarian approach,which mandates that as humans wemust first care for the fallen who wereunable to escape the harmful impactsof climate change and lost every-thing. This approach will bring backhumanity into the fight against cli-mate change.

India — given its tropical loca-tion and not being part of the usualset of nations having a traditionallyhigh level of carbon emissions — isin an ideal position to set the ballrolling and start an exhaustiveresearch-backed national index onthe per capita impact of climatechange. This can encourage othernations in the southern hemisphereto follow suit. Before long, the worldwill have a clear demarcationbetween the emitters of green housegases and those who are paying theprice for it. This will alter the sym-metry in inter-nation climate change-related discussions and give develop-ing nations a much-needed moralhigh ground to put forth their caseconvincingly.

(The writer is an environmentaljournalist)

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Revenue Department usingits data analytics has dis-

covered a fraud in GST refundswith as many as 1,200exporters, who have haveclaimed �350 crore refunds, arenow untraceable.

The department has rea-sons to consider that nefariouselements among the customsbroker community may beconnected with these frauds,involving fictitious entities,existing only in virtual spacethrough identity thefts withfake and morphed documents,according to sources.

The detection of fraud hasresulted in saving the exche-quer over �350 crore ofrefunds, they added.

Central Board of IndirectTaxes and Customs has oblig-ated customs brokers undertheir licensing conditions toindependently verifying theKYC of exporters, the sourcesnoted. However, going by thecases detected in recentmonths, at least 50 customsbrokers have been found tohave dealt by and large withsuch exporter entities which areuntraceable at their registeredaddresses and such custom

brokers are also under thelens, the sources said. As inves-tigators probe deeper, newermodus operandi are surfacing,they said, adding that a com-pany by the name of SSRExport was investigated and ledto discovering a fraudulentrefund claim of �9.88 crore.

As per the investigation,the firm was ostensibly export-ing readymade garments to anspecial economic zone (SEZ).

Now, with newer tech-niques of data analytics-basedrisk management being avail-able to officers, the taxpayerwas selected for physical scruti-ny and found non-existent athis declared address, theynoted.

Using a web of fake invoic-ing of over �847 crore, the firmcreated a fraudulent credit of�195 crore and investigationsled to discovering untraceablesuppliers.

Department of Revenue iscarrying out continuous riskevaluation of exporters with thehelp of predictive modelling,the sources said, adding regu-lar strategy meetings are beingheld at a very high level by theRevenue Secretary himself withdata analytic experts, state andcentre tax investigators.

Over 800 entities have beeninterdicted during the last fivemonths while exporting over-valued merchandise of Rs 1,500crore to claim fake IGSTrefunds have been suspendedin these cases.

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Concerned over rise inimports in the 'others' cat-

egory, Commerce and IndustryMinister Piyush Goyal onWednesday asked thoseimporters to seek HSN or tar-iff code within 30 days from theforeign trade office, failingwhich the government wouldimpose strong restrictions ontheir inbound shipments.

In trade parlance, everyproduct is categorised under anHSN code (HarmonisedSystem of Nomenclature). Ithelps in systematic classifica-tion of goods across the globe.

Goyal said India is facing"big" problem in the country'simports of a category called"others" and in that category, allsorts of stuff is being import-ed into the country .

Citing an analysis, he saidone out of the four productsbeing imported in India isunder this category.

Out of over USD 500 bil-lion worth of imports in 2018-19, the 'others' categoryaccounted for over USD 100billion.

"I will follow the Germanmodel," he said adding he

would wait for response fromimporters for next 30 days andthereafter, "I will restrict theimport of any product whichgoes in the others category".

He said that importers willhave to approach the ministryto take a special licence for thatimport without which "youcannot import any product inthe others category".

He said this at the CII'sNational Standards Conclave.

"Today, I would like togive a final announcement thatI appeal to everybody who isimporting any product or ser-vices into the country, pleasecategorise your product into arespective HSN code underwhich it falls," he said.

Goyal asked the importersto approach their nearestDGFT (Directorate General ofForeign Trade) immediately.

"We will start the process tocreate a separate HSN code ifit is not fitting into any exist-ing code or amend the existingcode...

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In its endeavour to attractIndian tourist inflow,

Singapore's One Faber Grouphas initiated talks with banks,credit card firms and airlines tooffer lucrative deals. The grouphas appointed ISA Tourism asits India market representativetasked with increasing itstourist volume.

One Faber Group seniorexecutive Patrick Lee said thatIndia figures among the topthree markets for Singapore. Hesaid following the shutdown ofJet Airways, traffic on theIndia-Singapore route had seensome impact, but this drop was being fast com-pensated by new flightslaunched by IndiGo, GoAirand Vistara.

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India's exports dropped 1.8per cent to USD 27.36 billion

in December 2019, the fifthstraight month of contraction,on account of a significant fallin shipments of plastic, gemsand jewellery, leather productsand chemicals.

Imports too fell for the sev-enth consecutive months,down 8.83 per cent at USD38.61 billion in December 2019-- helping narrow the tradedeficit to USD 11.25 billion,showed the government datareleased on Wednesday.

Gold imports shrunk byabout 4 per cent to USD 2.46billion during the month underreview.

The trade deficit was USD14.49 billion in December2018.

Of the 30 key sectors, asmany as 18 segments showednegative growth in exportsduring the month.

Shipments of plastic, gemsand jewellery, leather products,chemicals, carpet, petroleumand engineering goods con-tracted by 18.14 per cent, 7.55per cent, 5.26 per cent, 4.5 percent, 4 per cent, 3.6 per cent,0.57 per cent, respectively inDecember 2019.

The country's outboundshipments have remained sub-dued so far this year. It mayhave a bearing on the overalleconomic growth, which fell to

over six-year low of 5 per centin the first quarter of the cur-rent fiscal.

Industrial output declineddue to poor performance bymanufacturing, power genera-tion and mining sectors.

The outbound shipmentscontracted by 0.34 per cent inNovember last year and 1.11per cent in October.

In December last year, oilimports declined by 0.83 percent to USD 10.69, and non-oilimports fell by 11.56 per centto USD 27.92 billion.

Cumulatively, duringApril-December 2019, exportswere down 1.96 per cent toUSD 239.29 billion whileimports contracted by 8.9 percent to USD 357.39 billion.

Trade deficit during theperiod narrowed to USD118.10 billion as against USD148.23 billion in April-December 2018-19.

Meanwhile, an RBI releaseshowed that services export forNovember 2019 stood at aboutUSD 18 billion while importswere at USD 11.5 billion.

Commenting on the fig-ures, Apparel Export

Promotion Council of India(AEPC) Chairman A Sakthivelsaid the government supportwill help the industry to furtherpush the exports.

"Rebate of State andCentral Taxes and LeviesScheme (RoSCTL) andMerchandise Export fromIndia scheme will five a muchneeded support to apparelsand made ups sector," he said.

Federation of IndianExport Organisations (FIEO)President Sharad Kumar Sarafsaid that global and domesticfactors have again led to declinein exports.

The currency volatilitybesides fluctuation in com-modities prices including thatof crude have led to thedecrease in exports of petrole-um, which is a major con-stituent of exports.

"Domestic issues includinguncertainty over MEIS was amajor cause of concern asexporters' claim for over fivemonths are still pending, whichhas completely wiped out theirliquidity and has kept them indoldrums with regard to final-ising new contracts," Saraf said.

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The CompetitionCommission of India has

ordered a probe against AsianPaints for allegedly hinderingthe entry of JSW Paints byvirtue of its dominance in themarket for manufacture andsale of decorative paints.

The order came after JSWPaints filed a complaint alleg-ing that Asian Paints threat-ened various dealers inKarnataka, Telangana andTamil Nadu from dealing withJSW Paints.

"The Commission is of theview that evidence provided byJSW Paints is prima-facie suf-ficient to indicate that AsianPaints has denied access to thedistribution channels in the rel-evant market to JSW Paints bythreatening and coercing suchdealers through variousmeans," the fair trade regulatorsaid.

It added that Asian Paints,"prima-facie", appears to be incontravention of provisions ofthe Competition Act.

Commenting on theCompetition Commission'sorder, Asian Paints in a regu-latory filing to the exchangessaid, "The company is currentlyexamining the order and willtake appropriate legal recourseand will extend full cooperation

to CCI in the matter."JSW Paints, in its com-

plaint, alleged that the dealersfaced punitive action at thehands of Asian Paints if theycontinued to deal with JSWPaints. It was also alleged thatAsian Paints threatened thedealers to discontinue theirsupplies, and disallowed dis-cretionary discounts, amongothers.

These restraints appear tobe in the nature of exclusivesupply agreement and refusal todeal, JSW Paints alleged.

Besides, JSW Paints statedthat Asian Paints has alwaysmaintained the highest marketshare and there have been nonew players in the relevantmarket in the past 10 years.

The regulator noted thatdenial of market access is a"severe form of abuse of dom-inant position".

"In the facts of the presentcase, the Commission notes

that the alleged conduct ofAsian Paints of threateningand pressurising dealers ashighlighted by JSW Paintsprima-facie brings out thatAsian Paints has attempted toprevent JSW Paints in estab-lishing a presence in the rele-vant market," CCI said.

It also said "the allegedrestrictions on dealers not todeal with JSW Paints or anyother company manufacturingpaints can create barriers forsuppliers of paints, who com-pete with these suppliersbesides not allowing the ben-efit of better prices to the con-sumers."

Accordingly, theCompetition Commission ofIndia (CCI) in its order passedon Wednesday directed thedirector general "to completethe investigation and submitthe investigation report with-in a period of 60 days from thereceipt of this order".

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Google has acquiredAppSheet, a no-code appli-

cation development platform,for an undisclosed amount.

With this acquisition, cus-tomers will be able to develop rich-er applications at scale that lever-age not only Google Sheets andForms which are already popular

with customers, but other topGoogle technologies like Android,Maps and Google Analytics,Google said in a blogpost.

"This acquisition helpsenterprises empower millionsof citizen developers to moreeasily create and extend appli-cations without the need forprofessional coding skills," itadded.

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Markets regulator Sebi hasrejected Axis Bank's plea

to allow the lender to invoke thepledge on shares in the KarvyStock Broking Ltd (KSBL) mat-ter. Axis Bank, later in a state-ment, said it has filed an appealbefore the Securities AppellateTribunal (SAT) against theorder passed by Sebi.

"The SAT has today(Wednesday) granted interimrelief to Axis Bank by directingstatus quo to be maintained onthe Sebi order till further hear-ing of the matter," the bank'sspokesperson said.

The Sebi order comes afterthe SAT on December 20 askedSebi to pass an order by January15, 2020 in the case. The tri-bunal had modified its earlierdirective passed on December17, wherein it had asked themarkets watchdog to pass anorder within 15 days in the case.

Axis Bank had moved SATseeking the shares pledged byKSBL to the lender beunfrozen, so that it can invokethe pledges. The move hadcome following a Sebi directiveto the National Securities

Depository Ltd (NSDL) inNovember that prevented AxisBank from accessing the secu-rities pledged with the lenderby KSBL. KSBL owed Rs 81crore to the bank which wasgiven in the form of overdraftagainst shares.

As per the data provided byNSE, securities pledged byKSBL in favour of Axis Bankbelonged to its fully paid as wellas partly or unpaid clients.The value of securities belong-ing to fully paid client is Rs171.74 crore and the value ofsecurities of other than fullypaid clients is Rs 13.69 crore.

Regarding pledging ofsecurities of fully paid clients,Sebi said a stock broker has noauthority to pledge the securi-ties of its fully paid clients. If abroker pledges securities of itsfully paid clients, it amounts tomisappropriation of clients'securities.

"Even if securities belong-ing to fully paid clients arepledged by the stock broker,such pledge does not pass anytitle to the pledgee, as thestock broker in such case him-self/itself does not possess anytitle/right over such securities.

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The world's two dominanteconomic powers, the

United States and China, arepoised to sign a trade truce onWednesday, letting businessesaround the globe breathe a sighof relief. After a nearly two-yearbattle, the signing could giveUS President Donald Trump anelection-year boost as well.Still, tariffs on hundreds of bil-lions of dollars in importsremain in place, leaving manyAmericans to foot the bill.

The "phase one" agree-ment -- which includes pledgesfrom China to beef up pur-chases of American crops andother exports -- also comes justas Trump faces an impeach-ment trial in the US Senate, giv-ing him a victory to trumpet atleast in the short term.

The easing of US-Chinatrade frictions has boosted stockmarkets worldwide in recentweeks, as it takes the threat ofnew tariffs off the table for now.And Treasury Secretary StevenMnuchin said Trump's negoti-ating stance led to a "fullyenforceable deal" which couldbring additional tariffs.

If China fails to abide bythe agreement, "the presidenthas the ability to put on addi-tional tariffs," Mnuchin said onCNBC Wednesday as part of amedia blitz promoting the newpact. However, the most diffi-cult issues remain to be dealtwith in "phase two" negotia-tions, including massive subsi-dies for state industry andforced technology transfer.

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Bharti Airtel has raised USD3 billion through QIP and

FCCB route, completing a mas-sive fund raising exercise forthe firm, which has to pay bil-lions of dollars in statutorydues. Post the $2 billionQualified InstitutionalPlacement (QIP) issue, theholding of promoter and pro-moter group will come down to58.98 per cent as against 62.70per cent, Bharti Airtel said ina statement.

"The company...Will issue32,35,95,505 equity shares offace value of �5 per equity shareat a price of �445 which impliesa discount of 1.57 per cent onthe SEBI (Securities andExchange Board of India) deter-mined floor price of �452.09per equity share," the statementsaid. The offer saw participationby marquee global and Indianinvestors, it added.

The transaction is thelargest ever dual tranche equi-ty and FCCB offering in AsiaPacific, largest QIP ever by aprivate sector issuer in India,and largest FCCB offering froman India issuer in the last 12years, the company added.

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Highways sector allocationis expected to swell by

about �10,000 crore in theBudget for the next fiscal, a source said onWednesday.

India has an ambitioushighways building programmeand under Bharatmala, theRoad Transport and HighwaysMinistry has identified stretch-es for development of about26,200 km length of econom-ic corridors, 8,000 km of intercorridors, 7,500 km of feederroutes, 5,300 km border andinternational connectivityroads, 4,100 km coastal andport connectivity roads and1,900 km expressways in nearfuture.

"We expect the budgetaryallocation for the highwayssector to increase by �8,000-10,000 crore," the source said.

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Wall Street stocks edgedhigher early Wednesday

ahead of the signing of the US-China trade accord and asmarkets digested mixed earn-ings reports.

Investors have welcomedthe trade deal as a sign of mel-lowing tensions between thetwo economic superpowers,but some analysts noteinvestors have largely priced inthe positive news, which couldlimit further gains.

About 15 minutes intotrading, the Dow JonesIndustrial Average was up 0.2per cent at 29,000.03, above itsall-time closing high.

The broad-based S&P 500also added 0.2 per cent to3,289.44, as did the tech-richNasdaq Composite Index,which stood at 9,271.71.

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Amazon.com Inc chief JeffBezos on Wednesday

announced USD 1 billion (over� 7,000 crore) investment inIndia to help bring small andmedium businesses online andcommitted to exporting USD10 billion worth of India-madegoods by 2025.

Before this, the online retailgiant had committed USD 5.5billion investments in India —Amazon’s most important mar-ket outside of the US and a keygrowth driver.

We are committed to beinga long-term partner of India.And actions speak louder thanwords, he said.

“Over the next five years,Amazon will invest an incre-mental USD 1 billion to digi-tise micro and small business-es... across India, helping themreach more customers than

ever before. This initiative willuse Amazon’s global footprintto create USD 10 billion inIndia exports by 2025,” he said.

He added that part of thisgoal is to ensure that more peo-ple can participate in the pros-perity of India. “We are mak-ing this announcement nowbecause it is working... Whensomething works you shoulddouble down on it. And that iswhy we are doing it.”

Amazon hopes that thisinvestment will “bring mil-lions of more people into thefuture prosperity of India andat the same time expose theworld to the ‘Make in India’products that represent India’srich, diverse culture.”

The company had previ-ously said it expected e-com-merce exports from India toreach USD 5 billion by 2023under its global selling pro-gramme.

Bezos, who began a three-day visit to India on Tuesday byvisiting Mahatma Gandhimemorial at Rajghat here, wasspeaking at the SMBhav sum-mit — an Amazon India gath-ering for small and mediumbusinesses.

“The 21st century is goingto be the Indian century,” theAmazon founder said, adding:“This country has somethingspecial: its dynamism. I alsopredict that the most importantalliance in the 21st century willbe between India and theUnited States.”

Bezos is expected to meettop government functionariesand business leaders during thetrip.

His visit has been markedby Competition Commissionof India initiating a formalinvestigation into alleged deepdiscounts, preferential listingand exclusionary tactics adopt-

ed by Amazon and Flipkart,and small store owners demon-strating on the streets againstonline retailers driving themout of business by offeringsharply discounted products.

The Confederation of AllIndia Traders, an association ofabout seven crore brick-and-mortar retailers, has said it willprotest across 300 cities duringhis visit.

Last year, the governmenthad tightened rules for e-com-merce marketplaces with for-eign investment. These rulesbarred such platforms fromoffering products of sellers inwhich they hold a stake andbanned exclusive marketingarrangements among otherclauses. Following this,Amazon restructured its jointventures to ensure compliance.

Bezos is likely to take upthese issues in his variousmeetings with government offi-

cials.Despite huge losses,

Amazon has been pumpingmillions of dollars across var-ious operations like market-place, payments, infrastruc-ture and supply chain man-agement as well as marketingand promotion as it looks tostrengthen its position in thefledgling Indian e-commercemarket.

In December last year,Amazon invested over � 1,700crore into its payments andwholesale business units inIndia, while in October it hadinfused over � 4,400 crore(more than USD 600 million)in its various units in India,including marketplace andfood retail.

Bezos last visited India in2014 when he presentedAmazon’s Indian unit with agiant cheque for USD 2 billion.

Since then, Amazon has

pledged a further USD 3.5 bil-lion to expand in the countryand the USD 1 billion invest-ment announced Wednesdaywould take the total committedinvestment to USD 6.5 billion.

The USD 1 billion invest-ment would be to digitise 10million micro, small, and medi-um enterprises (MSMEs) andtraders across India, includingmanufacturers, resellers, localoffline shops, and brands.

As part of this effort,Amazon will establish 100Digital Haats in cities and vil-lages throughout India.

“Today, there are morethan 5,50,000 sellers on theAmazon India marketplaceand more than 60,000 Indianmanufacturers and brands areexporting their ‘Make in India’products to customers world-wide on Amazon,” as per acompany statement on theevent.

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Benchmark indices Sensexand Nifty took a pause

after a four-session record runon Wednesday, as higher bankNPAs in ongoing quarterlyresults weighed on bankingstocks coupled with a cautionahead of US-China trade deal.

At the closing bell, the BSEgauge Sensex was down 79.90points, or 0.19 per cent, at41,872.73; while the NSEbarometer Nifty was 19 points,or 0.15 per cent, lower at12,343.30.

Both indices — Sensexand Nifty — had closed at theirlife-time high levels for the sec-ond day in a row on Tuesday.

IndusInd Bank was thetop loser in the Sensex pack,dropping 5.44 per cent. Othermajor laggards were Infosys,SBI, PowerGrid, TechMahindra, Bharti Airtel andHDFC Bank.

In contrast, HeroMotoCorp, Titan, Maruti,Asian Paints, M&M, TCS, BajajAuto and Ultratech Cementclosed on the winning side.

Sectorally, BSE bankex,finance, telecom, energy andteck indices fell up to 0.70 percent. On the other hand, con-

sumer durables, realty, auto,utilities, metal and healthcareindices rose up to 1.37 per cent.

In the broader market, BSEmidcap and smallcap indicesoutperformed benchmarks, ral-lying up to 1.04 per cent.

Analysts are of the viewthat overall market sentimentwas also affected by commentsfrom a top US official that thetrade truce with China, set tobe signed on Wednesday, doesnot include a deal to roll backtariffs imposed on mostChinese goods.

Vinod Nair, Head ofResearch, Geojit FinancialServices Ltd, said, “After thesolid pre-budget rally, marketis getting a bit sceptical posthigher than expected NPAnumbers in the recent Q3banks results and very highconsumer inflation which maystay for another month or two.Market would watch the Q3results & actual budget, for fur-ther direction.”

Bourses in Shanghai, HongKong, Tokyo and Seoul endedon a negative note, whileexchanges in Europe were offto a tepid start. On the currencymarket front, the Indian rupeesettled 5 paise higher at 70.82per US dollar.

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Allaying concerns overreports of its weakening

financial health, Yes Bank onWednesday said the lender’scapital adequacy is at a com-fortable level and efforts arebeing made to further strength-en it.

The bank has asked itscustomers not to pay heed torumours about its financial

health.“The bank’s overall Capital

Adequacy Ratio is comfortablyabove regulatory requirementsand all efforts are being madeto financially strengthen thebank even further. Kindly,therefore, pay no heed to theseunfounded reports,” Yes Banksaid in a statement.

The bank plans to convenean extraordinary general meet-ing on February 7 to get share-

holders’ nod for raising �10,000 crore, and to increaseauthorised capital from exist-ing � 800 crore to � 1,100 crore,already cleared by the board.

Last week, Uttam PrakashAgarwal, an independent direc-tor of Yes Bank resigned fromthe board and stepped down ashead of its audit committee cit-ing major corporate gover-nance concerns.

The capital-starved bank

also reported setbacks in itsUSD 2-billion fundraisingplans. Canadian investor ErwinSingh Braich’s USD 1.2 billionoffer will not be pursued fur-ther, the bank had said.

It had further said a USD500-million offer from CitaxHoldings and Citax InvestmentGroup, which was beingfavourably considered, is alsofacing headwinds.

The bank, which was wait-

ing for regulatory approvals asCitax’s offer entailed over 10per cent ownership, has notbeen able to get a clearance yeton the “conditions precedent”.Without specifying timelines, itsaid the Citax offer will betaken up “during the nextround”.

The troubled bank hasbeen forced to shrink its bookdue to capital paucity and washoping to close the fundraising

by December.Need for capital has been

necessitated as under new CEORavneet Gill, the lender has hadto provide for sour loan betstaken under his predecessorRana Kapoor whose term wascut short by the RBI in 2018over concerns on corporategovernance. The central bankhas also appointed formerdeputy governor R Gandhi tothe board.

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JINDALSTEL 173.50 180.65 171.10 180.25MINDTREE 871.00 901.90 848.00 883.30TITAN 1171.55 1191.50 1170.45 1182.10HDFCBANK 1289.45 1289.45 1274.05 1284.05PEL 1455.00 1562.65 1431.30 1536.25IDEA 6.10 6.10 5.87 6.00MGL 1030.00 1109.95 1021.30 1100.85AMBUJACEM 211.10 212.70 206.85 212.30MARUTI 7362.00 7505.90 7352.60 7482.75VMART 1676.25 1745.00 1665.05 1707.00HDFC 2485.00 2495.00 2453.75 2485.90NIITTECH 1805.00 1819.00 1775.60 1797.20INFY 775.00 775.00 762.80 765.95DABUR 481.00 492.00 480.10 489.50CANBK 213.00 219.20 209.10 218.10AXISBANK 747.90 749.00 738.15 746.15BAJFINANCE 4200.00 4218.90 4170.00 4196.50IGL 429.95 455.45 425.40 447.75LTI 1894.00 2002.80 1882.50 1922.90VEDL 165.05 165.40 161.75 164.65TCS 2219.00 2231.55 2195.00 2226.55HINDALCO 209.00 214.90 209.00 213.70AVANTI 655.00 709.95 651.30 697.25INFRATEL 249.00 252.00 245.75 246.80POWERGRID 196.50 196.50 193.00 194.15WABAG 206.95 215.00 204.10 213.70DLF 253.60 258.10 252.35 255.85APOLLOHOSP 1491.00 1528.75 1491.00 1513.30DMART 1939.00 1944.50 1921.10 1933.20WIPRO 253.05 255.30 246.65 248.15JSWSTEEL 280.60 283.25 276.50 282.25TATAELXSI 909.00 962.60 908.15 950.00BANKBARODA 98.00 98.25 96.35 98.05NCC 57.80 60.40 57.50 60.05POLYCAB 1040.00 1108.95 1038.00 1083.05RBLBANK 358.80 358.80 344.70 349.55BANDHANBNK 518.10 525.75 490.85 492.15FRETAIL 352.00 355.00 344.00 345.25HDFCLIFE 614.10 634.00 612.80 616.50RELINFRA 21.50 23.65 21.50 23.55LT 1326.70 1336.00 1319.80 1323.65NMDC 126.75 131.40 125.85 131.10MOTHERSUMI 142.50 142.55 137.85 139.10ZEEL 269.00 274.00 265.40 272.75SAIL 50.50 51.65 49.70 51.45ASIANPAINT 1815.85 1845.90 1810.40 1839.25RPOWER 2.44 2.57 2.37 2.57MFSL 503.55 513.70 493.20 511.05AUROPHARMA 483.90 488.10 477.00 486.00HDFCAMC 3152.00 3209.95 3150.00 3201.65ADANIGAS 171.20 177.50 171.00 174.70NBCC 37.20 39.65 36.95 39.10BHARTIARTL 468.00 471.85 465.00 467.10HINDUNILVR 2013.00 2026.95 1998.20 2020.45BPCL 475.20 475.20 463.50 467.90INDIACEM 87.50 89.80 86.60 88.35CASTROLIND 129.00 133.95 128.00 133.45UPL 583.50 589.65 574.15 585.80BERGEPAINT 534.00 545.70 530.80 544.25ULTRACEMCO 4490.00 4527.40 4410.00 4515.50MASFIN 890.95 892.95 849.00 878.70L&TFH 126.20 128.00 125.10 126.65IBULISL 138.00 140.70 131.30 140.50ASHOKLEY 81.85 82.85 80.60 82.50PNB 62.65 63.60 61.95 63.40BEL 100.45 104.60 99.50 103.80BAJAJ-AUTO 3104.30 3137.90 3093.60 3125.00CHAMBLFERT 157.65 175.50 157.40 172.95BEML 999.95 1028.10 990.00 1020.60TATAMTRDVR 80.85 84.20 80.20 83.50

GUJGAS 273.00 278.20 266.20 267.35STRTECH 132.00 134.25 129.40 131.25RCF 52.75 59.80 52.40 55.45BIOCON 283.00 284.20 279.75 281.60SRTRANSFIN 1131.00 1131.00 1080.50 1098.55ADANIPOWER 62.55 64.00 61.75 63.30IDFCFIRSTB 44.70 45.50 44.15 45.00GAIL 130.10 132.10 128.75 131.65JINDALSAW 93.00 101.30 92.00 99.75ITC 243.50 243.50 241.10 242.40HCLTECH 595.00 598.30 591.90 595.10INDIGO 1423.00 1452.70 1417.00 1446.55ESCORTS 675.00 679.05 665.30 675.60RNAM 352.45 357.35 349.00 351.15RECLTD 142.15 142.90 138.95 142.40JAICORPLTD 116.10 116.80 113.15 113.20MCX 1359.75 1384.10 1343.20 1376.90M&M 563.00 570.90 556.70 568.30PNBHOUSING 485.00 504.55 472.60 499.95ITDC 293.05 342.00 292.20 330.15SUNPHARMA 447.05 450.80 443.90 448.25EICHERMOT 20447.90 20650.00 20307.15 20627.70GNFC 195.40 211.45 191.40 200.15GRASIM 757.00 767.90 748.00 766.60CGCL 198.00 199.70 197.40 199.10GRAPHITE 300.00 304.45 297.40 300.15SPARC 192.10 192.10 187.10 188.60BHEL 45.95 46.95 45.50 46.85TATACHEM 731.00 737.35 721.35 728.00HEROMOTOCO 2411.00 2480.90 2411.00 2470.95BOMDYEING 89.45 91.65 88.35 88.90RELCAPITAL 11.86 12.07 11.35 12.07DEEPAKFERT 116.00 125.30 111.85 119.40IBREALEST 94.90 99.85 93.60 99.85STAR 393.00 395.50 387.20 388.45MARICO 345.00 346.50 342.45 345.05RAJESHEXPO 703.55 709.40 697.00 706.85GRANULES 131.25 139.75 131.05 137.25NATIONALUM 47.40 48.45 46.75 48.25AMARAJABAT 764.95 776.90 755.60 772.80LTTS 1595.40 1624.00 1583.00 1599.70LUPIN 758.00 758.00 746.95 751.15BALKRISIND 1070.15 1085.00 1064.05 1080.00TECHM 797.00 803.00 789.00 791.95LICHSGFIN 452.25 459.55 448.00 456.80M&MFIN 345.70 355.15 344.00 353.25COLPAL 1503.05 1513.00 1495.15 1507.15NAVINFLUOR 1039.70 1052.00 1028.65 1045.00TATAPOWER 60.50 61.10 59.90 60.95EXIDEIND 191.00 194.50 189.00 193.95FEDERALBNK 91.40 91.60 90.20 90.95PCJEWELLER 22.60 24.40 22.00 23.95PIDILITIND 1425.00 1437.90 1415.15 1432.35BHARATFORG 524.00 530.00 511.00 526.35SUNTV 458.70 467.10 454.00 463.60HINDPETRO 256.25 257.20 252.75 255.95SIEMENS 1511.00 1522.15 1501.70 1507.75JUBLFOOD 1725.00 1759.00 1715.60 1757.85DISHTV 12.51 12.84 12.31 12.69PVR 1885.00 1935.00 1879.05 1929.45ICICIGI 1368.00 1374.95 1348.30 1360.10GPPL 88.10 98.50 88.10 95.95SPICEJET 105.00 105.25 103.55 104.40DRREDDY 2946.25 2946.25 2901.00 2912.50GMRINFRA 23.55 24.20 23.50 23.95ACC 1513.90 1520.80 1488.00 1518.70COALINDIA 213.00 214.50 211.40 212.50BANKINDIA 69.35 69.50 68.50 69.05INFIBEAM 58.65 60.70 56.75 60.05NIACL 155.05 168.10 153.20 165.55ABCAPITAL 110.75 112.75 109.55 110.85TVSMOTOR 469.65 489.30 468.55 489.30CARERATING 594.20 605.00 590.00 598.35IRB 91.25 92.00 89.15 90.40SCI 60.00 61.50 59.70 61.00NTPC 123.95 125.00 122.30 123.80ONGC 125.35 125.45 124.30 124.75VENKYS 1770.00 1805.00 1754.20 1791.40PFC 123.40 125.45 121.20 124.90IOC 127.00 127.00 125.05 125.65ADANIENT 215.15 217.50 212.70 216.55CHOLAFIN 319.80 334.15 317.15 332.30NOCIL 116.00 120.70 114.60 119.85GODREJPROP 976.25 986.00 974.00 975.45EDELWEISS 108.10 109.75 106.70 108.50RAIN 116.00 120.35 113.50 118.10HEG 1067.65 1077.05 1055.70 1067.15CUMMINSIND 594.00 596.35 577.05 580.00JUSTDIAL 575.55 585.00 575.55 580.80JMFINANCIL 100.10 106.90 100.10 105.40GICRE 257.80 266.60 253.50 265.20TRENT 561.95 586.50 556.20 582.50WOCKPHARMA 257.00 262.00 256.70 259.05FORCEMOT 1277.40 1283.35 1240.00 1272.85IPCALAB 1224.90 1254.30 1214.55 1243.40HSCL 69.50 71.95 68.80 70.70BRITANNIA 3120.00 3133.75 3094.85 3109.30ADANIPORTS 388.35 391.45 385.85 391.00WELCORP 171.50 178.55 170.30 177.05GODREJCP 754.00 764.95 750.00 764.25BATAINDIA 1780.00 1792.05 1771.40 1789.00EQUITAS 107.00 107.00 103.60 104.80GSFC 81.05 86.00 80.15 83.60JKLAKSHMI 344.70 347.75 337.20 343.00AMBER 1269.50 1350.00 1269.50 1304.75HFCL 17.75 18.40 17.60 18.00MRF 66700.00 66951.80 65888.00 66122.55LINDEINDIA 684.65 725.00 681.90 707.15

ITI 98.90 100.80 98.70 99.25PETRONET 278.00 280.00 275.30 276.10DCBBANK 192.00 195.75 191.20 194.05GLENMARK 342.85 346.70 337.50 345.75AUBANK 841.00 864.90 841.00 854.90DELTACORP 198.95 202.90 198.00 198.85IRCON 440.95 463.00 435.70 455.50UJJIVAN 335.45 343.15 333.40 341.70RALLIS 188.80 198.80 188.50 196.45OBEROIRLTY 541.80 573.05 540.75 553.55MUTHOOTFIN 774.00 774.00 758.40 760.65NESTLEIND 14868.00 14950.00 14738.40 14867.60TV18BRDCST 29.20 29.70 26.75 27.05TORNTPOWER 300.60 304.00 296.35 303.50RAMCOCEM 828.00 828.75 818.45 823.00CIPLA 485.00 485.80 480.00 483.30BIRLACORPN 743.00 758.00 732.00 758.00CUB 236.60 243.95 234.05 242.40CHENNPETRO 146.80 152.70 145.15 150.55OMAXE 166.00 166.00 155.20 155.60TRIDENT 7.27 7.80 7.26 7.55APOLLOTYRE 174.70 176.65 172.70 175.95CANFINHOME 387.00 387.00 368.25 375.45BALRAMCHIN 189.05 191.25 187.90 188.90SUZLON 2.38 2.47 2.30 2.47MEGH 61.30 63.35 60.30 62.25HINDZINC 215.30 218.75 213.95 216.00CONCOR 565.75 565.75 556.10 557.15PHOENIXLTD 849.70 866.00 833.35 854.40GODFRYPHLP 1421.70 1423.65 1383.70 1392.90PIIND 1479.15 1479.15 1436.75 1453.00SRF 3540.00 3579.00 3522.00 3563.40PGHL 4291.20 4345.20 4250.00 4306.00SBILIFE 989.05 1001.80 981.20 998.45BLISSGVS 146.75 151.60 145.80 148.55INDIANB 98.85 100.70 98.30 99.05SUNTECK 447.00 447.00 426.25 428.30ENGINERSIN 100.00 104.40 99.70 103.80MIDHANI 175.10 176.75 170.45 171.70ADANITRANS 332.40 336.40 330.70 334.00SWANENERGY 120.80 122.50 118.60 120.55JSLHISAR 80.10 84.00 79.55 81.95PRESTIGE 348.30 362.45 347.20 359.25DALBHARAT 836.55 852.00 827.10 833.35JKTYRE 78.50 79.30 76.40 77.85INOXWIND 37.85 44.75 37.70 44.30HEIDELBERG 199.00 199.00 194.20 195.10DIVISLAB 1874.00 1874.00 1852.00 1869.30INDHOTEL 141.00 141.50 137.00 137.65RITES 310.00 313.80 306.55 312.70SUDARSCHEM 444.00 449.50 442.70 446.45SUVEN 314.65 321.85 314.05 316.30RADICO 356.50 356.90 342.85 345.15ABFRL 231.10 236.70 229.35 230.50CADILAHC 257.50 263.75 256.00 262.95IEX 180.50 188.00 176.30 186.00GODREJAGRO 569.00 574.00 560.25 569.30DIXON 4148.50 4157.90 4102.05 4119.95HAL 851.00 863.65 832.05 854.40PHILIPCARB 129.30 130.70 127.85 128.70GRINDWELL 602.00 612.50 599.70 599.70ISEC 436.15 438.00 425.05 428.55COROMANDEL 556.55 579.20 556.55 571.60INTELLECT 154.15 162.00 153.90 159.70ALKEM 2313.35 2404.40 2313.35 2345.55ATUL 4228.00 4349.10 4228.00 4310.70JSL 43.25 45.75 43.10 44.85TIMETECHNO 57.20 63.30 56.45 61.35KEI 509.00 528.70 509.00 526.90VOLTAS 692.35 697.85 684.00 695.70SOUTHBANK 10.35 10.95 10.35 10.95ICICIPRULI 489.05 491.00 486.00 489.85UNIONBANK 52.55 52.85 52.20 52.60MAGMA 65.00 65.15 63.20 65.15VIPIND 457.00 465.00 452.20 455.15MANAPPURAM 175.75 177.30 174.80 176.65BDL 320.00 332.00 317.15 318.75IDBI 36.10 36.10 35.45 35.70TATACOFFEE 101.05 101.55 99.60 99.80HINDCOPPER 47.10 47.50 46.55 46.95UBL 1298.40 1318.00 1297.25 1310.95WHIRLPOOL 2361.95 2411.75 2333.00 2371.90SOBHA 437.00 449.50 433.80 442.90INOXLEISUR 394.70 402.40 390.70 394.00JAMNAAUTO 44.75 45.80 44.55 45.25KTKBANK 77.95 78.45 77.00 77.95NESCO 729.90 729.90 707.20 717.00GREAVESCOT 139.50 144.90 138.80 142.65JUBILANT 562.70 564.50 542.55 546.55TATAMETALI 673.90 677.95 661.00 661.00MINDACORP 108.85 114.55 108.80 110.45RVNL 25.00 25.45 24.75 25.25BBTC 1123.00 1129.70 1110.50 1119.70EIDPARRY 232.50 233.25 230.55 231.35HUDCO 39.90 41.25 39.30 40.40DCAL 79.65 84.75 79.65 84.75CEATLTD 1020.00 1029.30 1010.80 1016.85RESPONIND 90.50 91.50 89.20 91.50PTC 62.95 63.10 62.05 62.75KNRCON 285.00 296.90 281.30 296.00PERSISTENT 688.00 712.00 688.00 706.45DBL 418.70 427.00 417.45 420.00IDFC 38.75 40.25 38.25 40.05CESC 733.45 751.25 733.00 749.15METROPOLIS 1670.00 1717.45 1662.05 1663.50TORNTPHARM 1885.00 1901.60 1870.05 1900.00KEC 330.00 330.00 316.40 324.00DHFL 16.00 17.10 15.70 16.80

DEEPAKNI 388.90 394.75 386.00 389.55BOSCHLTD 15139.00 15139.00 14830.00 14950.00LAXMIMACH 3737.10 3803.00 3701.00 3730.25RELAXO 649.25 654.75 644.80 650.40PRSMJOHNSN 68.05 72.50 67.85 70.75SHREECEM 23600.00 23796.95 23353.00 23740.75GSPL 237.65 239.90 234.35 238.10GESHIP 320.80 338.80 318.30 336.70VBL 735.00 754.00 731.20 737.75ASHOKA 101.00 108.40 101.00 107.05NATCOPHARM 630.00 632.75 620.40 622.00AEGISLOG 207.00 212.70 203.00 210.75BLUESTARCO 836.00 852.00 834.10 849.35GHCL 198.00 198.00 191.05 191.90REDINGTON 125.20 125.90 121.00 121.80JBCHEPHARM 457.95 462.00 456.55 462.00FORTIS 142.50 144.75 142.50 143.55KPITTECH 99.40 105.30 98.15 102.80BAJAJHLDNG 3410.00 3423.25 3361.00 3403.05PFIZER 4100.00 4140.00 4058.00 4066.75DBCORP 142.15 149.40 142.10 143.75ABBOTINDIA 12585.00 12851.65 12541.20 12851.00OIL 157.40 158.75 157.30 158.35MINDAIND 380.50 395.50 380.50 395.50FSL 42.45 43.60 42.00 43.05ORIENTBANK 51.60 52.65 51.20 51.95NILKAMAL 1375.00 1436.30 1355.90 1415.00SHOPERSTOP 396.15 417.05 394.55 404.75LEMONTREE 56.75 56.85 55.60 55.703MINDIA 22222.00 22470.00 22021.00 22105.00MOTILALOFS 877.15 889.20 858.80 870.25RATNAMANI 1186.00 1225.00 1162.00 1225.00JSWENERGY 67.50 68.00 67.15 67.40LALPATHLAB 1612.25 1634.10 1579.20 1619.10MAHSEAMLES 417.60 430.45 412.50 427.05BAJAJELEC 382.00 388.05 378.25 379.85AAVAS 2012.55 2012.65 1984.90 1985.85APLAPOLLO 1954.90 1954.90 1924.65 1926.00FCONSUMER 25.05 25.30 23.90 24.50RAYMOND 665.05 673.70 661.50 662.30VAIBHAVGBL 900.00 926.20 876.60 926.20HATHWAY 20.05 22.15 19.85 21.85GALAXYSURF 1480.00 1480.00 1440.00 1450.00NHPC 24.20 24.65 24.10 24.45TIMKEN 936.50 936.50 899.30 907.00THERMAX 1081.40 1091.40 1081.40 1089.30TNPL 173.50 184.45 173.50 183.80JKCEMENT 1307.00 1315.95 1289.15 1308.85HONAUT 27013.00 27600.00 27013.00 27300.00NH 344.20 351.80 340.65 344.15AJANTPHARM 1085.15 1089.00 1071.60 1082.55MMTC 20.45 21.20 20.25 20.80CYIENT 463.00 463.00 450.00 455.25NETWORK18 29.55 29.60 27.50 29.25VGUARD 224.40 225.30 222.20 223.85GLAXO 1628.95 1647.45 1618.75 1625.40DCMSHRIRAM 413.15 418.00 410.00 411.30QUESS 561.70 561.70 550.05 555.50BALMLAWRIE 126.50 127.00 124.10 125.85KRBL 271.75 275.85 271.25 273.15

TATAINVEST 855.00 871.45 855.00 865.15KANSAINER 522.00 522.00 512.25 520.00VARROC 469.05 490.00 458.75 464.00VINATIORGA 1995.60 1995.85 1982.00 1990.00ALLCARGO 106.65 107.00 104.70 105.85HIMATSEIDE 131.65 136.10 131.65 134.30MOIL 161.90 164.60 161.50 163.50JISLJALEQS 8.34 8.66 8.15 8.65SONATSOFTW 318.60 321.85 317.85 319.40SFL 1336.45 1365.80 1327.00 1339.95WABCOINDIA 6557.55 6557.55 6485.00 6519.95TTKPRESTIG 5822.75 5949.90 5811.90 5939.75ADVENZYMES 181.40 181.45 173.15 175.70ENDURANCE 1040.50 1053.25 1034.70 1042.20MRPL 44.95 45.75 44.70 45.35HEXAWARE 328.00 328.50 326.80 328.50UNITEDBNK 8.74 9.45 8.65 9.16BAJAJCON 239.95 239.95 235.50 237.60PARAGMILK 156.25 159.00 155.00 155.00ERIS 508.30 517.00 499.00 511.45WELSPUNIND 49.20 49.45 48.85 49.05TVTODAY 261.00 261.00 246.60 253.40ASTRAZEN 2521.95 2545.00 2510.00 2537.05NLCINDIA 60.45 60.50 58.90 59.45ADANIGREEN 188.80 188.80 188.80 188.80LAURUSLABS 404.00 414.15 402.80 409.00APLLTD 565.00 576.75 563.65 563.65ORIENTELEC 193.95 205.50 192.50 205.50BAYERCROP 3926.40 4000.00 3926.40 3982.70GUJALKALI 428.65 430.10 420.50 423.55REPCOHOME 324.50 325.85 319.95 324.40

BLUEDART 2610.00 2650.00 2561.00 2621.15KALPATPOWR 428.00 435.55 423.80 432.65GICHSGFIN 158.30 160.50 157.40 158.00FINOLEXIND 589.00 590.00 581.00 585.00ECLERX 686.55 689.05 668.00 669.10TEJASNET 89.95 93.90 89.95 91.75GMDCLTD 66.80 67.75 66.20 66.75LUXIND 1523.00 1523.60 1476.60 1495.75EMAMILTD 313.50 313.60 308.65 309.20ASTRAL 1136.60 1139.10 1124.80 1126.70MPHASIS 904.65 909.95 896.00 901.25HERITGFOOD 372.90 377.00 366.25 367.30CROMPTON 243.15 247.70 242.00 247.10GILLETTE 6510.00 6510.00 6444.30 6458.95TIINDIA 509.45 525.00 508.50 521.65SHANKARA 368.05 386.60 368.05 374.00UCOBANK 16.25 16.30 16.00 16.25SUNDRMFAST 495.40 495.80 476.00 485.20IIFL 149.90 150.70 146.50 147.35IOB 11.38 11.67 11.00 11.44PNCINFRA 193.55 193.55 189.30 193.45SIS 527.00 535.00 481.00 508.00THYROCARE 534.10 544.65 525.10 529.25JYOTHYLAB 156.80 159.75 155.00 159.15CRISIL 1811.35 1847.30 1805.45 1805.50ITDCEM 59.20 61.75 59.05 61.00UFLEX 215.55 217.80 215.15 216.00SJVN 26.15 26.25 25.95 26.10CARBORUNIV 335.00 344.40 333.00 333.95FINEORG 2075.65 2075.65 2040.00 2062.65ALBK 18.35 18.70 18.25 18.55IFCI 6.75 6.80 6.65 6.80MAHINDCIE 167.00 174.00 167.00 172.30SYNDIBANK 27.05 27.70 26.65 27.65CENTRUM 25.10 25.10 24.00 24.45IFBIND 683.00 683.00 661.50 661.50MAHLOG 430.50 436.25 422.85 431.40ARVINDFASN 403.65 417.00 395.00 398.65MAHLIFE 413.25 413.50 407.15 410.50ORIENTCEM 85.85 87.00 85.20 85.85SANOFI 6745.00 6758.75 6707.00 6752.95GODREJIND 445.55 449.75 443.00 448.80ZENSARTECH 190.00 190.00 185.20 185.25SCHNEIDER 84.40 87.00 84.10 84.40AIAENG 1662.85 1662.85 1640.00 1640.00ZYDUSWELL 1470.00 1489.00 1470.00 1487.00SADBHAV 123.85 126.45 122.25 124.20SYNGENE 310.95 312.90 306.90 312.45OFSS 2960.00 2966.25 2933.50 2956.20CENTURYPLY 163.90 164.35 162.45 163.40MAXINDIA 80.00 81.35 78.80 80.80ANDHRABANK 16.70 17.20 16.55 17.10SOMANYCERA 238.20 238.95 230.15 231.85J&KBANK 30.10 30.20 29.90 30.10INDOSTAR 194.00 195.00 192.15 192.85SUPRAJIT 212.00 213.90 211.00 211.00FINCABLES 415.00 419.30 412.40 419.30KAJARIACER 550.00 552.70 547.00 551.45FDC 228.00 230.00 224.00 230.00CREDITACC 755.80 766.00 755.75 763.10COCHINSHIP 405.10 409.00 401.20 404.75PGHH 11221.00 11260.00 11150.00 11222.00VSTIND 4314.50 4343.60 4253.75 4314.55TCIEXP 729.00 737.95 728.25 734.05SOLARINDS 1065.20 1125.00 1065.20 1120.85TAKE 103.10 103.30 101.30 101.90TEAMLEASE 2825.00 2908.00 2755.00 2755.00CAPPL 291.10 297.80 291.00 292.00SHK 118.05 122.60 118.05 121.00BASF 983.00 989.85 980.90 988.05SKFINDIA 2135.50 2163.55 2135.50 2159.00SUPREMEIND 1208.75 1219.30 1208.00 1213.30JAGRAN* 61.95 63.95 61.90 63.30LAKSHVILAS 16.50 17.25 16.40 16.85EIHOTEL 148.95 150.10 148.30 149.25CORPBANK 24.40 24.60 24.10 24.40CENTRALBK 17.95 18.00 17.85 17.95SYMPHONY 1153.15 1178.70 1153.15 1171.75ESSELPRO 177.00 177.75 172.65 173.85GEPIL 697.00 697.00 684.55 688.00KPRMILL 698.65 705.00 696.85 704.40VRLLOG 267.80 277.70 265.90 277.70MHRIL 236.00 236.00 231.00 233.35LAOPALA 168.30 169.65 166.05 168.35GULFOILLUB 805.00 815.00 803.00 805.75CCL 198.20 198.45 194.05 194.75TVSSRICHAK 1671.35 1682.05 1666.05 1667.65VTL 981.50 987.00 980.00 980.00CHOLAHLDNG 554.80 562.05 554.80 559.25NBVENTURES 83.10 83.95 81.70 81.70SCHAEFFLER 4639.00 4639.00 4536.00 4536.00FLFL 416.50 423.00 416.50 421.15GET&D 159.25 160.00 157.40 159.25GAYAPROJ 85.85 87.85 81.25 82.00GDL 127.70 129.00 127.20 128.60MAHABANK 13.45 13.45 13.10 13.23CHALET 344.00 345.00 344.00 345.00WESTLIFE 378.65 384.00 378.10 381.55SHILPAMED 269.00 274.00 269.00 273.95DHANUKA 443.00 456.25 443.00 445.90AKZOINDIA 1983.95 1989.55 1977.00 1981.35JCHAC 1990.00 1996.10 1962.35 1962.35STARCEMENT 93.55 94.25 92.75 93.50GARFIBRES 1287.05 1290.00 1278.20 1290.00MAHSCOOTER 4345.00 4345.00 4322.50 4322.50CERA 2655.00 2660.00 2652.00 2652.00TCNSBRANDS 589.80 596.10 587.55 591.65SHRIRAMCIT 1400.00 1400.00 1395.50 1395.50

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Tehran (Iran): Iran's presidentwarned on Wednesday thatEuropean soldiers in the Mideast"could be in danger" after threenations challenged Tehran overbreaking the limits of its nucleardeal.

Tehran's top diplomatmeanwhile acknowledged thatIranians "were lied to" for daysfollowing the Islamic Republic'saccidental shootdown of aUkrainian jetliner that killed 176people.

President Hassan Rouhani'sremarks in a televised Cabinetmeeting represent the first directthreat he's made to Europe astensions remain high betweenTehran and Washington overPresident Donald Trump with-drawing the US from the deal inMay 2018.

Iranian Foreign MinisterMohammad Javad Zarif 'sadmission, which came at a

summit in New Delhi onWednesday, represents the firsttime an Iranian official referredto earlier claims from Tehranthat a technical malfunctiondowned the UkraineInternational Airlines flight as alie.

The shootdown — and sub-sequent days of denials that amissile had downed it —sparked days of angry protests inthe country.

The current tensionsbetween Iran and the USreached fever-pitch two weeksago with the American dronestrike in Baghdad that killed thepowerful Revolutionary GuardGeneral Qassem Soleimani.

The general had led Iranianproxy forces abroad, includingthose blame for deadly roadsidebomb attacks on US troops inIraq.

Iran retaliated with a ballis-

tic missile strike targeting Iraqimilitary bases housing US forcesearly last Wednesday, just beforean anti-aircraft battery shotdown the Ukrainian airlinertaking off from Tehran's ImamKhomeini International Airport.

Amid all of this, Britain,France and Germanylaunched the so-called "dis-pute mechanism" pertainingto Iran's 2015 nuclear dealwith world powers.

Speaking before his Cabinet,Rouhani showed a rarely seenlevel of anger in his wide-rang-ing remarks Wednesday.

"Today, the American sol-dier is in danger, tomorrow theEuropean soldier could be indanger," Rouhani said.

"We want you to leave thisregion but not with war. Wewant you to go wisely. It is toyour own benefit." Rouhani didnot elaborate. AP

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Tehran: Iran's President onWednesday warning thatEuropean soldiers deployed inthe Mideast “may be in danger”after Britain, France andGermany challenged Tehranover breaking limits of its 2015nuclear deal.

President Hassan Rouhanimade the comment during atelevised Cabinet meeting.

It comes after the nationsstarted a dispute process overIran breaking limits from theaccord.

It marks the first time

Rouhani has threatened Europeamid tensions with the US,which unilaterally withdrewfrom the deal in May 2018under President DonaldTrump. AP

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Rouhani appealed onWednesday for "unity" andflagged the need for radicalchanges to the way Iran is run,after a wave of angry protestsover the accidental downing ofa Ukrainian airliner.

The Kiev-bound Boeing737 was shot down last week ina catastrophic error shortly aftertakeoff from Tehran, killing all176 passengers and crew onboard. Iran had for days deniedclaims based on US intelligencethat the plane had been downedby a missile, triggering fourdays of demonstrations as wellas international calls for a fulland transparent investigation.

One week on from the dis-aster, Rouhani called for "nation-al unity" in an address broadcastlive on state television.

"If there was a delay" by thearmed forces to release infor-mation about the air disaster, "letthem apologise," he said.

Rouhani also called for a fullexplanation of what happened inthe air disaster, which camehours after Iran's military fireda wave of missiles at US troopsstationed in Iraq. The missileattack was launched in retalia-tion for a US drone that killedIran's most prominent general,Qasem Soleimani, who headedthe Revolutionary Guards' for-eign operations arm. AFP

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Kiev: Ukraine has asked Iran tohand over the black box flightrecorders of a Ukrainian pas-senger plane that crashed afterbeing hit by an Iranian missile,prosecutors said onWednesday.

The Office of the GeneralProsecutor said it it wouldtake "all measures" to proper-ly decode the black boxes and"preserve evidence in the inves-tigation of the accident".

The Ukraine InternationalAirlines Boeing 737, whichhad been bound for Kiev,slammed into a field shortlyafter taking off from Tehran lastWednesday, killing all 176 peo-ple on board.

The downing of the planecame hours after Tehran hadlaunched a barrage of missilesat bases housing Americantroops in Iraq, in retaliation forthe killing of commanderQasem Soleimani in a US strike.

Iran initially deniedWestern claims that the airlin-er had been downed by a mis-sile but eventually concededthat the plane had been acci-dentally shot down.

The Ukrainian prosecu-tor's office said the country hadsent "a request for legal assis-tance linked to the handover tothe Ukrainian law enforce-ment agencies of the UkraineInternational Airlines Boeing737 flight recorders". AFP

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Tehran: Iranian state-run media say the Britishambassador to Iran has left the country after beingarrested and briefly detained.

The state-run IRNA news agency saysRobert Macaire left after being given priornotice. The report did not elaborate.

Macaire had been held after attending a can-dlelight vigil Saturday in Tehran over Iran shoot-ing down a Ukrainian jetliner, killing 176 peo-ple.

The vigil quickly turned into an anti-gov-ernment protests and Macaire left shortly after,only to be arrested by police.

Iran's president warned Wednesday thatEuropean soldiers in the Mideast “could be indanger” after three nations challenged Tehran overbreaking the limits of its nuclear deal. AP

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Taipei: China must rethink itshardline stance towards Taiwan,President Tsai Ing-wen said onWednesday, as she warned theisland was already independentand that any invasion would be"very costly" for Beijing.

Tsai won a second term overthe weekend with a record 8.2million votes, an outcome thatwas seen as a forceful rebuke ofChina's ongoing campaign toisolate the self-ruled island.

China's leadership hadmade no secret of its desire to seeTsai turfed out because she andher party refuse to acknowledgetheir view that the island is partof a "one China".

Beijing regards Taiwan as itsterritory and has vowed to oneday seize it, by force if necessary— especially if it declares inde-pendence.

But in her first interviewsince Saturday's re-election, Tsaitold the BBC there was no needto formally announce indepen-

dence because the island alreadyruns itself.

"We don't have a need todeclare ourselves an indepen-dent state," she said in the inter-view, which aired onWednesday.

"We are an independentcountry already and we callourselves the Republic of China,Taiwan." Modern Taiwan hasbeen run separately from themainland for the last 70 years.

For decades, it was a dicta-torship under Chiang Kai-shek'snationalists following their 1949defeat to the communists inChina's civil war.

But since the 1980s, it hasmorphed into one of Asia'smost progressive democracies,although it is only diplomaticallyrecognised by a dwindling hand-ful of countries. Polls showgrowing numbers of Taiwanesereject the idea that the islandshould be part of the Chinesemainland. AFP

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Representatives is expected to trans-mit articles of impeachment againstDonald Trump to the Senate onWednesday, setting the stage for a trialnext week that will decide whether the45th US president is forced fromoffice.

After a weeks-long standoff overrules and witnesses, House SpeakerNancy Pelosi and Senate MajorityLeader Mitch McConnell announcedTuesday that what will be only thethird presidential impeachment trialwas now ready to move forward.

Pelosi is expected to sign the arti-cles of impeachment at around 5:00pm (2200 GMT) before they are thenceremoniously transferred from theHouse and travel through the US capi-tol's main hallways before beingdelivered to the Secretary of theSenate.

That ceremony will follow anannouncement by Pelosi on whichDemocratic lawmakers will lead theprosecution case against Trump in theSenate, expected to begin nextTuesday.

Trump was impeached in

December by the Democrat-con-trolled House on charges of abuse ofpower and obstruction of Congress.

But his conviction in the Senateis highly unlikely as the president'sRepublican Party has a 53-47 major-ity. A two-thirds majority to approvehis guilt is needed if he is to beremoved from office at the end of atrial expected to last two weeks.Although the trial itself is unlikely tostart until next week, Supreme CourtChief Justice John Roberts could besworn in to preside over the processon either Thursday or Friday. AFP

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Washington: US PresidentDonald Trump's formernational security advisorMichael Flynn asked a judge on

Tuesday for permission towithdraw his guilty plea in theRussia election interferenceprobe.

In a big reversal, Flynn'slawyers argued that prosecutorsviolated a plea agreement thathe struck with them becausethey demanded he give falsetestimony.

Flynn, a retired US Armylieutenant general, lasted only22 days in the job in the earlydays of the Trump's adminis-tration.

He was being investigatedfor his contacts with Russianswhen he was removed andeventually pleaded guilty tolying to the FBI. AFP

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a trove of documents they obtained from LevParnas, a close associate of President DonaldTrump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani,including a handwritten note that mentionsasking Ukraine's president to investigate “theBiden case.”

The documents, obtained as part of theimpeachment investigation, show Parnas com-municating with Giuliani before the removalof Marie Yovanovitch, who was the U.S.Ambassador to Ukraine.

A man named Robert F. Hyde disparagedYovanovitch in messages to Parnas and gavehim updates on her location and cell phoneuse, raising questions about possible surveil-lance.

Democrats released the files Tuesday asthey prepared to send articles of impeachmentto the Senate for Trump's trial. The documentsadd new context to their charges that Trumppressured Ukraine to investigate Democrats ashe withheld military aid. AP

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Nigel Farage, a prominentBrexiteer and leader of

the Brexit Party, on Wednesdayannounced that his 'LeaveMeans Leave' campaign groupwill host a celebration atParliament Square in Londonto mark Britain's exit from theEuropean Union (EU) onJanuary 31.

Farage said the group is planning a 100,000 poundsparty on Brexit Day and calledon the British public to sign upto be a part of the celebrations.

“Leave Means Leave havebeen given approval to hold anevent in Parliament Square on31st January,” he said in aTwitter statement.

“Great news! It is a bigmoment in the history of thisnation to celebrate. Registernow,” he said.

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Moscow: The Tass news agency reports thatRussian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedevsubmitted his resignation to President VladimirPutin on Wednesday.

Russian news agencies said Putin thankedMedvedev for his service but noted that theprime minister's Cabinet failed to fulfill all theobjectives set for it. Russian media said Putinplans to name Medvedev as deputy of the pres-idential Security Council. Medvedev, a longtimeclose associate of Putin's, has served as Russia'sPM since 2012. He spent four years before thatas president in 2008-2012. Putin asked the mem-ber's of Medvedev's Cabinet to keep workinguntil a new Cabinet is formed. Medvedev's res-ignation followed Putin's annual state of thenation address earlier Wednesday. During hisspeech, the Russian leader proposed amendingthe constitution to increase the powers of PMsand Cabinet members. AP

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Upping its game from 15 last year,Netflix dominated the 2020Oscar nominations by snagging

24 total nods, the most of any other stu-dio. The Irishman led the way with 10nominations, while Marriage Story gotsix.

Then there were others as well TheTwo Popes, the documentary AmericanFactory and the animated series I LostMy Body which ensured that the Netflixjuggernaut beat its closest competitorSony, which earned 20 nominations intotal.

Netflix also beat Disney, whoseblockbuster hit Frozen II was not nom-inated in the animated category, whichshocked fans and critics alike.

The OTT has been upping its gameand spent a record $15 billion on orig-inal film and TV content in 2019. TheIrishman is the platform’s biggest bet,with reported production costs north of$160 million though it scored only onewin at this year’s Golden Globes despite17 nominations.

Another notable trend in the 2020Oscar nomination was the lack of diver-sity. Actor Issa Rae was ready with herquip, as if she had predicted the Oscarnominations. “Congratulations to thosemen,” she said dryly, as the best direc-tor nominees — yes, five men — wereannounced.

Rae’s expertly thrown commentechoed through social media asobservers took stock of what was, yetagain, a pretty bad day for diversity andinclusion in Hollywood. Not only werethere no female nominees in directingfor the 87th time in Oscar history — adirect snub to Greta Gerwig, director ofthe acclaimed Little Women, as well asseveral other worthy candidates. Therewas also only one person of colour,Cynthia Erivo, among the 20 actingnominees.

Those slights overshadowed thehappier news across all categories, arecord 62 women (about a third of nom-inees) made the cut. They also had peo-ple asking: Why is this happening again,when diversity has been on the frontburner for years now, and the academyhas taken steps to overhaul its over-whelmingly white, male membership?And what will it take to accomplish realchange? “So here we are again,” saidStacy L Smith, director of the USCAnnenberg Inclusion Initiative at theUniversity of Southern California, of thenominations. She said the results wereparticularly frustrating because 2019 wasa breakout year for female directors.“They were out in strong numbers. Thiswas the year of the highest percentageof female directors that we’ve seen. Andyet they’re not allowed to be lauded bythese cultural institutions for theirdirecting prowess,” she said.

In terms of race and ethnicity, therewas disappointment that only Erivo’snomination for Harriet prevented anentirely white slate in all four categories— a scenario that first happened in 2015,resulting in the #OscarsSoWhite hash-tag and again in 2016. The Academysought thereafter to diversify ranks.Since 2015, the group’s overall femalemembership has grown from 25 to 32per cent and overall membership of peo-ple of colour has doubled from eight to16 per cent.

Erivo, a double nominee for both,best actress and best original song, saidin an interview from Japan that shehoped this year would be a “steppingstone to opening the doors” to honour-ing the work of a more diverse group ofartists. She paid special tribute to “somuch good work specifically by women”like Gerwig and other female directorswho were overlooked.

Gil Robertson, president of theAfrican American Film CriticsAssociation, said he wished the actingnominations had been more diverse, buthe felt hopeful they were more of a blipthan a slide backwards. “I think we’re

making strides in the right direction,” hesaid.

Among the most glaring snubs wasthat of Jennifer Lopez, who had beenseen as a sure-shot nominee for a sup-porting actress role for playing a strip-per in Hustlers. In the lead actress cat-egory, Awkwafina, who a week ago wona Golden Globe, was denied a nod forher role in The Farewell. She would havebecome just the second Asian Americannominated for best actress (the first,1936 nominee Merle Oberon, hid herSouth Asian heritage). The omission wasa reflection of the difficulty AsianAmericans in Hollywood have longhad in cracking the acting categories inparticular.

“It’s been a long, slow battle,” saidChris Tashima, an actor-director and amember of the Academy Asians ActionCommittee, an informal group of Asianand Pacific Islander members of theAcademy. “We’ve been very muchabsent. We’ve been trying to createopportunities for years. But you can’teven get nominated if you don’t get theroles.” Tashima added, though, thatprogress is happening, albeit slowly —with television leading the way in termsof new opportunities. “It’s night and dayfrom five years ago,” he said.

Smith said: “Research globally sug-gests that when people think “manager,”they think male. We found the exactsame thing with directors...The research

is very clear. Women aren’t being con-sidered for top leadership positions, andwhen they are, they are often criticisedmore sharply. We’re seeing that playingout right now in the awards process.”

Coming to the less controversialones, there is Randy Newman who wontwo Oscars for best original song in thepast — If I Didn’t Have You fromMonsters, Inc and We Belong Togetherfrom Toy Story 3. It is a double nomi-nee this year. He’s up for best originalscore with Marriage Story and best orig-inal song with I Can’t Let You ThrowYourself Away from Toy Story 4, whichis also up for best animated feature film.

Frozen 2 didn’t make it in the ani-mated category, but the Lopez’s songfrom the film, Into the Unknown, is

nominated for best original song. Erivo follows in the footsteps of

Lady Gaga and Mary J Blige — starswho were nominated for both act-

ing and music trophies in the sameyear at the Academy Awards. Erivoshares her best original song nominationfor Stand Up from Harriet with JoshuahBrian Campbell and the bid brings hercloser to EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar,and Tony Awards) status since she’salready won an Emmy, Grammy andTony for her work in Broadway’s TheColor Purple.

However, Beyoncé’s Spirit from TheLion King didn’t roar loud enough. Thesong didn’t earn a nomination for bestoriginal song, though Randy Newman,Elton John and the husband-wife duoKristen Anderson-Lopez and RobertLopez have a shot at winning anotherOscar for songwriting.

The five nominees for best originalsong are Diane Warren, earning her 11thbid with no wins and Cynthia Erivo, whoalso picked up a nomination for bestactress for Harriet.

Warren could finally win an Oscarwith her 11th try: She’s nominated forI’m Standing with You from the Christiandrama Breakthrough. The song is per-formed by the film’s star, This Is Us actorChrissy Metz.

Nominees for best original scoreinclude Alexandre Desplat for LittleWomen, Thomas Newman for 1917,John Williams for Star Wars: The Riseof Skywalker and Hildur Guðnadóttir forJoker. If Guðnadóttir wins, she could thefirst woman to do so since Anne Dudleypicked up best original score for The FullMonty at the 1998 academy awards.

Apart from all this the nominationfor a Brazilian documentary about theimpeachment of then President DilmaRousseff has laid bare the polarisationof Latin America’s largest democracy. InThe Edge of Democracy, 36-year-oldfilmmaker Petra Costa uses her person-al story to argue that Brazil’s democra-cy is at risk after the abrupt end to thegovernment led by the leftist workers’party between 2003 and 2016.

Leftists argue the accusation of fis-cal manipulation of the budget againstDilma Vana Rousseff, the formerBrazilian President, is not a crime andnot an impeachable offense. Right-wingers insist that is the case, and someof them argue there were enough prob-lems in her administration to do awaywith it anyway.

The other films nominated for bestdocumentary are American Factory,The Cave, For Sama and Honeyland.

Here are the reactions from some ofthe nominees for the academy awards:

“Ultimately, I’ve been fortunateenough to get to work with some greatfilmmakers. It has always been the dri-ving force. First, of course, the story andcharacter, from an actor’s perspective. Ifeel like we see films through the eyesof the director. (It is) The director’smedium. I’ve been able to work withsome amazing directors. Quentin(Tarantino) is in the lineage of one of thebest of our times. It’s amazing to be apart of this film that’s a celebration of ouractors and the countless people behindthe scenes,” — Leonardo DiCaprio,nominated for best actor for his role inOnce Upon a Time ... in Hollywood,which was nominated in just about everycategory including best film, directingand supporting actor and screenplay.

“It makes me feel very, very, veryyoung.” — Antonio Banderas, aboutbeing a first-time nominee at the age of59. He earned the best actor nominationfor his role in Pain and Glory.

“I feel a little giddy. It’s so crazy. I wason a plane to Japan, so I found out aftereveryone else did. I was able to log intoWifi and suddenly my phone startedgoing crazy, with all the messages com-ing in. I had to recalibrate my entirebrain...I don’t think I expected any of it.To actually have realised it is just adream. I actually had a dream wherethere were no nominations.” — CynthiaErivo, a double nominee for her actingand singing in Harriet.

Once my uncles came around tothe idea of manufacturing, a

confident, Yeh bhi kar lenge (Wecan do this too), pledge resound-ed around the Munjal residenceand workplace. It was, of course,easier said than done.’ The linesfrom Sunil Kant Munjal’s book TheMaking of HERO: Four Brothers,Two Wheels and a Revolution thatShaped India in more ways thanone sum up the can-do attitude ofthe business family. Unveiledrecently by former Prime MinisterDr Manmohan Singh, it traces thejourney of how Munjal brotherscreated the business empire afterlosing everything amid the brutal-ity of Partition.

The panel discussion organ-ised by the publisher, HarperCollins, had the likes of SanjivGoenka, Venu Srinivasan, Ajay SShriram along with the author andwas moderated by Dr PrannoyRoy. They discussed how familybusinesses sustain, survive andgrow over the passage of years andchange in generations. Munjal,who is the youngest son of Herogroup founder Brijmohan LallMunjal, and chairman of Heroenterprise, said, “The way a fam-ily uses the given resources actu-ally determines the future of itsgrowth. If a child sees his eldersdoing certain things, it becomes anindividual’s second nature, morethan even a habit, especially whenit concerns family businesses.Hence, the tradition continues. Wehave to appreciate every littlething that goes into the makingand growth of family businesses.For instance, I observed how myfather wouldn’t let anybody else

pick up his office bag. He alwaysdid it himself since he felt that itwas his work. So there are these lit-tle things that add up and becomea big idea.”

Talking about how buildingfamily relationships boost busi-nesses, Ajay S Shriram, chairmanand director, DCM Shriram, said,“When it reaches the fifth gener-ation, a lot of it has alreadychanged. So trust and passing onthe legacy the right way is very cru-cial for a family business to grow.There are certain families forwhom money becomes god. Andat that moment, the family needsto stop and think, look after itself

and restructure its plans, otherwiseit will get shattered into pieces. It’snot always possible that businessprofits also lead to personal gains.”

Venu Srinivasan, chairman ofthe TVS Group, added that pass-ing on the right values to futuregenerations is crucial in helpingfamily businesses grow.“Maintaining families and grandbusinesses together isn’t as easy.There are also some families whosend off their children abroad toget the right exposure before theycompletely get into the business.This not only helps them acquirethe right skill set but they are alsoable to pitch modern and innova-

tive business ideas which theseniors might not have thought of.”

Moving further, the panel alsodelved into the long-standingdebate on merit versus inheritance.Munjal pointed out, “Inheritanceis not just limited to businesses orpoliticians. It is there in every pro-fession. Be it lawyers, doctors,actors, engineers, and even jour-nalists, to some extent. And this isbecause the conversation aboutthat particular profession or workgoes on long after one has reachedhome. For instance, parents oftencome home and relate incidentsfrom their workplace to their chil-dren. As I said, the youngsters learn

what they see. Looking at theirelders, the children tend to followthe same track. And many a times,there are cases when the childdoesn’t want to follow the mostcommon family profession or doessomething of his/her own. Butthere’s no hard and fast rule that abusinessman’s son would be abusinessman too or a doctor’sdaughter would be a doctor too.The familial bond often deter-mines the child’s preference but notalways.”

The three business leadersshared personal anecdotes on howtheir fathers and uncles advisedthem to approach work. Shriram

said, “I had a habit of going to myfather’s factories since a very youngage. For my father, work was wor-ship. He always taught me that pro-fessional relationships are verycrucial, be it between the dealerand the customer or the employ-er and the employee. You shouldalways work in a way that youcould create a win-win situation forboth. Otherwise, it wouldn’t work.”

While Srinivasan pointedtowards maintaining trust withemployees, customers and family,Munjal said that one learning hepaid the most attention to has beento never look at anybody as beingsenior or junior since one cannever guess a person’s potential.“Good ideas can come from any-where and at anytime. Just keepthat in mind.”

Discussing about what thethree expected from the UnionBudget 2020, Shriram said,“There needs to be a special lawfor the development of the agri-cultural sector as it is suffering alot. The policies are not movingin terms of governance or interms of coordination with thestates. A GST kind of system isneeded to get all the agri minis-ters involved in its implementa-tion.” Srinivasan said, “One of themost important issues that needattention is job creation. Themost fundamental developmentdrive will come from a goodemployment level.” On the otherhand, Munjal said, “I would liketo see a slippage in the fiscaldeficit and that slippage movingtowards the betterment of theinfrastructure sector in India.”

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Who says there cannot be a hole in the sky, a stonehurts you guys. This phrase is a reflection on a

social worker in Ghaziabad, who has been constantlyworking on grass root level, away from the glare of pub-licity for the last thirty years. We are talking about KKSharma, who after retiring as the vice president of ShriRam Group started social services.

Currently, under his supervision, OPD service isbeing operated in five dispensaries where hundreds ofeconomically backward people are treated on a regu-lar basis. The special thing is that two of these dispen-saries are mobile, this means that they can go to areaswhere there is a lack of health services. Out of these,three dispensaries are running permanently inSanjaynagar Sector 23, Nandagram and Shahpur.Sharma had obtained MBA, LLB and a master’sdegree in social service. There is Polytechnic Centeron Meerut Road for the economically-backward girlstoo, who are not able to pursue higher studies becauseof financial constraints. It has been running for the lastseveral years where 120 daughters are trained and nur-tured every year. Not only this, overwhelmed by theslogan of Modi’s Beti Padhao, Beti Bachao, his team isalso offering martial arts training in many governmentschools of the city. Out of this, some of the girls haveeven won various medals in several state and nation-al level competitions.

Sharma also provides free legal aid. Apart from this,they have also constructed toilets in governmentschools. His next mission is to repair the deteriorat-ing environment of the city, for which he has alreadystarted working.

He is certainly making a difference through freehealthcare, employment generation, education and self-defense training. This will make more and more stu-dents self-reliant.

The last day of the WorldBook Fair saw a huge rush

of young and old crowdthronging the fair grounds tobuy their favourite books asthe 28th edition of this festi-val came to an end. The nine-day fair saw a footfall of morethan ten lakh people in the fairgrounds. Amidst all this rush,many programmes were alsoheld at Pragati Maidan.

On the concluding day, aplay in Maithili language, EkMuthia, written by Dr UshaKiran Khan was performed byPrakash Jha and his group.The play revolves aroundestablishment of GandhiAshram at Darbhanga in 1919.The programme was organ-ised by Maithili MachaanandNational Book Trust, India.

A discussion on the book,Diabetes with Delight,authored by Dr Anoop Mishrawas also organised byBloomsbury Publishing at theauthor’s corner. Moderated byPraveen Mishra, the otherspeakers on the were AlokMehta, Satyadev Pachauri andSuman Kumar. Alok Mehtaremarked that this book is aprimer which contains all theinformation that any patient ofdiabetes will ever need. DrAnoop Mishra said that he hastried to fill the gaps and voidsof the problem of diabetes thatpeople face by providing extrainformation that will help inrarest situations.

A discussion on“Historical and Mythological

Fiction” was organised byReadomania. Moderated byDipankar Mukherjee, theother panelists on the occasionincluded Sutapa Basu andPranab Mullick, well knownauthors of historical andmythological fiction. Talkingabout her book Padmavati,Sutapa said she did extensiveresearch on the queen ofChittorgarh. She further saidthat Padmavati’s thoughts andteachings are immortal.Pranav Mullick focusing onhis book From Kanha toKrishna, said that LordKrishna took a form of ahuman being and destinedhis journey to kill Kansa. Headded that he has beenentrapped by many mytholog-ical loops and queries andlooks forward to writing moreexciting books.

A session on “Women’s

writing” was also organised.The discussion focussed onthe emergence of feminism inIndia. The speakers talkedabout the struggles thatwomen face while makingimportant decisions in theirlives. On this occasion, womenwriters, Dr Harshali Singh,Anupama Jain and TriptiSharan interacted with thevisitors and shared their viewson women writings.

A storytelling session on“The Little Girl” was organisedat the Children’s Pavilion.Vikas Dave and Manjri Shuklainteracted with the childrenand narrated interesting sto-ries. Through them, they triedto highlight the struggles thata girl child often faces.

A skit on “PradushankiSamasya,” was organised byChetna India. The event beganwith Rishabh, a student affil-

iated to Chetna India singinga traditional folk song, whilePulkit Jain narrated a story.The play revolved around theinitiatives that can be taken toreduce pollution, for example,by not burning the materialsthat causes pollution. Yashpalrecited a poem, giving themessage of planting trees.

Props are interesting, soare the stories. Hence NidhiKundra from Jiwan Booksmade both of them cometogether in a storytelling ses-sion at the Children’s Pavilion.She called upon children fromthe audience to play the char-acters of a story. The maskedkids portrayed the characterswell and made the sessionenjoyable for the rest of thekids too.

A young poets’ meet wasorganised by Rajiv GandhiFoundation and Wonderroom.

Pratul Vashist said that chil-dren can express their viewsand thoughts through poems.Young kids expressed them-selves by reading out poemson childhood, stars, natureand other various topics.

A book release pro-gramme was organised byIndian Institute of AdvancedStudies at the Lekhak Manch.Seven books including BanarsiThumri ki Parampara MeinThumri Gaikaon kiChaunotiyan Aur Uplabhdiya,by Jyoti Singh; Approach toConservation and RestorationSpecific Focus on CulturalHeritage of Shimla by SomyaSharma; Al-Kindi and HisCreation by Vijay ShankarSharma, Himalayan Languageby J C Sharma among others,were released on the occasion.The release was followed bydiscussion.

In a clear indication of achievingsignificant progress, Jammu and

Kashmir has shown considerableimprovement in public healthparameters against the correspond-ing national average for the last fewyears.

According to the recentlyreleased state wise fact sheet byNational Health Systems ResourceCentre (NHSRC) on the basis ofNational Sample SurveyOrganization (NSSO) 75th roundreport, J&K has significantlyimproved its performance in out-patient care, in-patient care, childbirth, Antenatal Care (ANC), PostNatal Care (PNC) by utilising itsexisting Public Health Facilities andOut Of Pocket Expenditure(OOPE).

As per the highlights of thereport, all women in Jammu andKashmir are availing AntenatalCare Services (ANC), out of which

80 to 92 per cent services are beingprovided by public health facilities,which is higher than the nationalaverage. The trend of availing PostNatal Care (PNC) has alsoincreased from 81 to 99 per centand there is significant increase inutilisation of public health facilitiesfor availing PNC services from 60to 97 percent since 2014.

Over 96 per cent Inpatient

Department (IPD) care in ruralareas of J&K is provided by publichealth facilities, which is highestagainst the country’s average of 85percent.

In 2016, according to the datareleased by the Registrar Generalof India custodian of census data,Jammu and Kashmir has sur-passed Kerala with the highest lifeexpectancy in India for all ages,

barring life expectancy at birth.Pointing towards good health seek-ing behaviour, J&K has emerged asone of the top performers in termsof the utilisation of the Publichealth facilities, as 80 per cent peo-ple avail OPD services from there,especially in rural areas, showinga 15 to 30 per cent increase in OPDcases in the last few years. “Homedeliveries and private sector deliv-eries have significantly decreasedsince 2014 with only 10 to 15 per-cent taking place in private healthfacilities,” the report stated.

According to the report, theOut Of Pocket Expenditure(OOPE) per OPD patient in pub-lic and private facilities has signif-icantly decreased in both rural andurban areas since 2014, besides thepercentage of diagnostic and drugexpenditure as a proportion ofIPD medical expenditure has alsodecreased.

For tackling the issue ofOOPE and fulfilling the commit-ment to make the healthcare ser-vices cashless in public healthfacilities, J&K government isimplementing various interven-tions in mission mode, likestreamlining the procurement ofdrugs and consumables, imple-mentation of Pradhan Mantri JanArogya Yojana through publicand empanelled private hospitalsfor providing cashless IPD servicesto the golden card holders andoperationalisation of health andwellness centres under AyushmanBharat, free drug and diagnosticinitiatives, Janani Shishu SurakshaKaryakram, Rashtriya BalSwasthya Karyakram, RevisedNational Tuberculosis ControlProgram, Biomedical EquipmentManagement and MaintenanceProgram and National PradhanMantri Dialysis Programme.

Admission in Jawahar NavodayaVidyalayas is done in sixth grade

through selection test every year. Vacantseats in classes IX & XI are filledthrough lateral entry. For admission to48,000 seats in Class VI, 3046506 can-didates, including 46.19 per cent girls,19.05 per cent SC, 29.23 per cent ST and83.91 per cent rural candidates have reg-istered through online mode. Applicantseat ratio for the current session is 63:1.Admission test in respect of summerbound JNVs was conducted in 8,252centres covering 561 districts smooth-ly on Saturday. This is one of thebiggest examinations conducted forthe selection of students, predomi-nantly from rural areas.

As per the admission policy, 75 percent of the seats in a district are filledby candidates selected from rural areasat block level and remaining seats arefilled from open merit of the district.Reservation of seats in favour of childrenbelonging to SC and ST is provided inproportion to their population in the

district concerned, provided that in nodistrict, such reservation will be less thanthe national average (15 per cent for SCand 7.5 per cent for ST) but subject tomaximum of 50 per cent for both thecategories (SC& ST) taken together.Minimum 33 per cent of the total seatsare filled by girls.There is a provision forreservation for Divyang children as perGOI norms.The NVS system has suc-cessfully served the purpose of deprivedsection of the population. At present 40per cent students are girls. In case of SCand ST, it is presently 44 per cent of totalstrength. Last year 93 per cent ofadmitted candidates were rural students.

� How will the MSME DevelopmentPolicy help tourism in the state? Willit encourage homestays which wouldalso increase accommodation facilitiesfor tourists?

In India MSMEs, with a growth of13.9 per cent, were the largest job cre-ators as compared to all the other sec-tors during the last four years. In thissegment, it was the hospitality andtourism sectors which were the high-est contributors. In developing countriestourism is a contributor to small scaleenterprises thus lifting the standards ofliving as well as acting as a catalyst forcommunity development.

Homestays, a concept whichinvolves the local community, aims toencourage households to earn anincome from tourism directly. We haveseen that a majority of local people areusually eager to be involved in activi-ties related to tourism and would liketo take a leading role as entrepreneursand workers at all levels.

Homestays can provide a reliableincome for host families while also sup-porting local accommodation providersby offering extra beds in locations wherehotels may be in short supply. They pro-vide viable alternative livelihood andrepresent a definite link between pro-tecting the local environment and eco-nomic benefits that eco-tourism canbring, helping to pave the way for fur-ther conservation and sustainable man-agement initiatives.�How does ecotourism benefit thestate by protecting forest and support-ing economic growth simultaneous-ly?

Ecotourism is a more sensitiveform of travel which incorporatesecologically sustainable activities, sup-ports conservation measures andinvolves local communities in tourism.It helps in protecting the environment,brings about poverty alleviation andleads to overall socio-economic devel-opment as locals are made aware of theimportance of conservation and pro-tection of environment for their ownbenefit. It can also go a long way insupporting wildlife conservationefforts. In Madhya Pradesh, our focuson eco-tourism is to help provide jobsfor local people (thereby reducingmigration to larger cities) and createa market for locally produced items.

We are making efforts to encour-age cultural sensitivity of visitors byenhancing guest-host interactions.Undoubtedly, eco-tourism can enhancewildlife conservation by involvingtribals and forest-dwellers and encour-aging them to become a part of theindustry. This would bring about amore equitable sharing of benefits

while helping to conserve natural,cultural and built resources which inturn, would maintain the quality of lifein the area. The most important aspectof eco-tourism is that it balances sus-tainable economic development andbiodiversity conservation, thereby pos-itively affecting environmental, socialand economic components of thecommunity.

� What are the new initiatives by thegovernment to create world classinfrastructure to attract high-endtourists?

Madhya Pradesh is already a well-known destination among domestictravellers in India because of thefamous Khajuraho temple complexand the various spiritual destinationsthat are a part of the pilgrimage cir-cuit. Our effort now is to showcase thestate as a treasure trove of wildlife, her-itage, culture and cuisine. With thelargest tiger population in the coun-try, we are promoting jungle safaris notonly in India but also to a very keen

and excited international market. Ourlesser-known but equally breath-tak-ing tourist offerings such as Orchha,Mandu, Maheshwar and Chanderiare being showcased effectively aslocations where one can get a glimpseof the “real India”, the hinterland. Wehave launched several festivals such asJalmahotsav, Namaste Orchha andMandu Utsav which highlight the dif-ferent facets of the destination. At thesame time, we are also keen to depictthe state as a global “Foodie” destina-tion with the exquisite offerings ofBhopali cuisine and Indore’s bustlingstreet food scene. We have seen a greatdeal of interest in the luxury junglelodges which are located inBandhavgarh, Pench and Kanha fromexperienced and well-heeled trav-ellers from India and abroad whofound the jungle safari experience inMadhya Pradesh comparable, if notbetter than those in the Africansafaris. Our effort is to ensure that wecontinue to improve the tourists’experience in every aspect — fromincreased air connectivity to improvedon-ground transport with better way-side amenities, knowledgeable guidesand ensuring greater security andcomfort of tourists visiting the state.

�What are the steps being taken toencourage adventure and culturetourism in the state?

Madhya Pradesh has a hugeuntapped potential for both adventureand culture tourism in addition tobeing a huge attraction for wildlife andheritage lovers. The varied topographyof this huge state includes hills, rivers,large forest areas and lakes whichmakes it an ideal location for under-taking both soft and hard adventureactivities. Trekking can be undertak-en in Kanha, Pachmarhi andAmartantak. The gushing waters of theBetwa river offer a challenge to eventhe most intrepid river-rafter. Rockclimbing is gaining momentum in thePachmarhi range while mountaineer-ing is becoming more popular in theMaikal region with its dense andunexplored jungles.

The culture of the state is ancientand deep-rooted and therefore ourofferings are immense — rangingfrom textile and handicraft to tribal artand music/ dance. Our efforts arefocussed on bringing attention to theage-old handloom weaves of Chanderi

and Maheshwar (fabrics which areglobally popular today), block print-ing techniques such as Bagh andNandna, tribal art such as Gondpaintings, dhokra and jute craft amongmany others. We have several musicand dance festivals which are conduct-ed throughout the year such as theGwalior Samaroh, Hridaya Drishyamand Khajuraho Dance Festival, allaimed at popularising these art formsacross the world.

�What are the opportunities for filmtourism given that there are beauti-ful locations across the state?

The popularity of Madhya Pradeshas a destination for film shooting hasgrown progressively over the years.The backdrop of Khajuraho andSanchi, the jungles of Kanha andBandhavgarh, the forts and monu-ments of Gwalior, Orchha and Mandu,the culture of Bhopal, Indore, Jabalpurand Gwalior offer filmmakers themost diverse filmmaking experiences.Various Bollywood films from DilipKumar’s Aan (1952) to more recentPadman, Stree, Sui Dhaga, were shotat some of the most exquisite locationsin Madhya Pradesh. From 1952 tilldate more than 75 Bollywood movieshave been shot in Madhya Pradesh.

The state is a perfect combinationof natural settings, ancient heritage,huge water bodies and a helpfuladministration which are a filmmak-er’s delight and make it the most pre-ferred destination. A key factor whichhas led many filmmakers and actorsto trust MP for shoots is the supportextended by the local authorities ingranting permissions and access tovarious heritage and protected struc-tures. Besides the scenic locations,filmmakers unanimously agree thatthey are heartened by the supportextended by the locals. As the teamstravel with a lot of equipment fromMumbai and Delhi, they look for sup-port from the local artistes too. SinceBhopal and Indore have a very activetheatre scene, artistes can offer thesupport that filmmakers seek.

The state government also offerscapital investment subsidy for expen-diture on creating infrastructure ofpermanent nature and installation ofequipment for film studio and filmproduction. If the shooting crew optsfor an accommodation at MPSTDChotel, they can avail a discount of upto 40 per cent in lodging tariff.Madhya Pradesh Tourism is the nodalagency to assist the film producers forprocuring various clearances andpermissions extending complete sup-port and encouragement to the filmfraternity.

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DG K Natarajan, PTM, TM,Director General, Indian

Coast Guard, is hosting a sevenmember delegation of theJapan Coast Guard led byAdmiral Takahiro Okushima,Commandant, Japan CoastGuard in India till January 17.

A High Level Meeting(HLM) between the two coastguards was held at theirHeadquarters on Tuesdayunder the provisions of theMemorandum of Cooperation(MoC) signed between thetwo agencies in 2006. TheHLM focussed on augmentingthe operational level interac-tion and capacity building inareas of Search and Rescue,Pollution Response andMaritime Law Enforcement.Newer areas of cooperation,

HNS, chemical spills responseand training on specialisedfield of ICG operation werediscussed.

Relations between the twocoast guards go back a longway with ICG ships calling onports in Japan for profession-al interactions since 2000. Thismeeting and visit is in contin-uation of the efforts by the gov-ernments of the two countriesto enhance cooperation in thefield of combating transnation-al maritime crime enhancingnational security.

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the MoC. Sharing of best man-agement practices and contin-uation of personnel exchangewere also agreed upon.

Japan Coast Guard ShipEchigo arrived Chennai onMonday to participate in thejoint exercise that is scheduledtoday. Director General IndianCoast Guard and theCommandant Japan CoastGuard will be travelling toChennai to oversee the jointexercise.

The meeting was signifi-cant in providing added impe-tus to the already existingprofessional relationshipbetween the Coast Guards ofthe countries.

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World champion P V Sindhuadvanced to the second round

of the Indonesia Master with a hard-earned victory over Japan’s Aya Ohoribut defending champion SainaNehwal suffered a shock exit from theSuper 500 tournament, here onWednesday.

It was also curtains for worldchampionships Bronze medallist BSai Praneeth, Kidambi Srikanth andSourabh Verma.

The fifth seed Sindhu clawedback from a game down to notch upa 14-21, 21-15, 21-11 victory overOhori.

Sindhu has never lost to theworld No.20 Japanese in their 10meetings so far. Ohori had lost to theIndian last week in the second roundof the Malaysia Masters.

The 24-year-old will take onJapan’s Sayaka Takahashi, who defeat-ed Saina, in the second round.

Saina, who won this tournamentlast year before going through a leanpatch, lost 21-19, 13-21, 5-21 toTakahashi in a gruelling 50-minutecontest.

The London Olympics Bronzemedallist had reached the quarterfi-nals of the Malaysia Masters last week.

World No.12 Srikanth went downto local favourite Shesar HirenRhustavito 21-18, 12-21, 14-21 in amatch that lasted one hour and threeminutes.

This was Srikanth’s second con-secutive opening-round defeat thisseason. He had earlier also made afirst-round exit from the Malaysia

Masters.Praneeth, who like Srikanth had

also been ousted in the openinground of the Malaysia Masters, lostto the eighth seeded Chinese Shi YuQi 21-16, 18-21, 10-21. Sourabh lost21-17, 15-21, 10-21 to China’s Lu

Guang Zu.In the mixed doubles, Pranaav

Jerry Chopra and Sikki Reddy wentdown in straight games to the SouthKorean combination of Ko SungHyun and Eom Hye Won 8-21, 14-21.

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Badminton world number one KentoMomota arrived in Japan on

Wednesday after being released froma Malaysian hospital following a carcrash that killed his driver and left himwith minor injuries.

The 25-year-old Japanese, whowalked past waiting journalists with-out making a statement, faces twomonths out after suffering cuts to hisface and multiple bruises when thevehicle carrying him to Kuala LumpurInternational Airport crashed in theearly hours of Monday.

Earlier in the day, he was dis-charged from hospital in Malaysia, andboarded a plane wearing a dark cap andface mask.

An assistant coach, physiotherapist,and badminton official also sufferedminor injuries in the highway crash,seen as a blow to Momota’s prepara-tions for this year’s Tokyo Olympicswhere he will attempt to win gold onhome soil to complete a full set of majortitles.

The accident occurred just hoursafter he began his 2020 season in styleon Sunday with victory over Denmark'sViktor Axelsen in Kuala Lumpur.Momota had been in Putrajaya publichospital outside the capital KualaLumpur since Monday.

He will now aim to return to actionat the All England Championships onMarch 11, the secretary general ofJapan’s Badminton Association KinjiZeniya told AFP on Tuesday.

Momota, who won a record 11titles last year, had “extraordinaryenthusiasm towards the Olympics”this year in Tokyo, added Zeniya, buturged the gold medal favourite to taketime to recuperate fully.

“I hope he will do his best with-out pushing and rushing himself toohard and without being impatient,”said Zeniya.

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Quique Setien is chargedwith leading Barcelona to

glory on three fronts this seasonafter being appointed as ErnestoValverde’s successor.

Barca are top of La Liga andinto the Champions League last16, while they begin their tilt atthe Copa del Rey against Ibizanext week.

However, club presidentJosep Maria Bartomeu said onTuesday that Setien had beenbrought in to give the team amid-season boost and there areseveral improvements to bemade.

Here, AFP Sport looks atsome of the challenges facing thenew Camp Nou coach.

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ceded 23 league goals, which isthe same record as RealValladolid in 14th and almosttwice as many as both Real andAtletico Madrid.

Their problem has beenless about individual mis-takes—although therehave been a few of those —as a vulnerability to paceon the counter-attack.

Teams have had successhitting Barca on the breakand Sergio Busquets has toooften been exposed in frontof the back four.

With Gerard Pique turn-ing 33 next month and SamuelUmtiti still struggling for fitness,there may be a need for signingsin the summer.

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After joining for 120 million

euros ($135 million) fromAtletico Madrid last summer,expectations for Griezmannwere high, especially after thefailed pursuit of Neymar.

But the Frenchman hasshown only glimpses of his bestso far in a Barca shirt, in partbecause he is yet to be playedconsistently in his favouriteposition.

To fit Lionel Messi and LuisSuarez into the front three,Valverde deployed Griezmannon the left and in that way, Setienmay have had the problemsolved for him.

Suarez’s four-month absencewith a knee injury could meanGriezmann finally gets his wishto play down the middle.

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Valverde and his teamnever seemed fully to recoverfrom dramatic ChampionsLeague collapses against Romaand Liverpool in the last twoseasons.

At Anfield, Barcelona’splayers looked paralysed by thefear of a repeat of what hadhappened the year before andPique admitted the memoriesquickly came rushing back.

Those weaknesses, includ-ing a susceptibility to conced-ing in streaks and a vulnerabil-ity under pressure, have oftenresurfaced this season.

In November, Barcashipped three goals in sevensecond-half minutes to lose toLevante while the two lategoals conceded against Atleticolast Thursday proved the finalstraw for Valverde.

Setien will have to finallycure his players of their men-

tal block.

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Setien is a purist and hisappointment should come as arelief to those fans, and perhapsplayers, who had grown tired ofstodgy performances underValverde.

Nostalgia for the free-flow-ing football played by PepGuardiola’s crop weighs heavy.

Yet the likes of Messi,Griezmann, OusmaneDembele, Frenkie de Jong,Arthur Melo and Jordi Albamean there is still no shortageof creative talent in the squadand Setien should enjoy match-ing them with his own attack-ing beliefs.

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Setien has a reputation forgiving youngsters an opportu-nity and he will be reunitedwith Junior Firpo, whom Barcabought after Setien helped himflourish at Betis.

But Firpo struggled foropportunities under Valverde,who seemed reluctant to givesome of La Masia’s talents anyconsistent minutes in the firstteam.

Ansu Fati has faded fromview after exploding onto thescene at the start of the seasonwhile Riqui Puig’s progress hasstalled and Carles Alena andJuan Miranda have been sentout on loan.

Making the first team atBarcelona is a formidable taskbut the potential would appearto be there in the academy, ifSetien is brave enough to findit.

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Romelu Lukaku scored afterjust 21 seconds as he

bagged a brace in a 4-1 thump-ing of Cagliari that fired InterMilan into the last eight of theItalian Cup, while Lazio andNapoli are set for a quarter-final clash after easing past sec-ond-tier opposition.

Belgian Lukaku has lookeda player reborn since moving toItaly and his double took hishot streak to six goals in his lastfour appearances in all compe-titions, with his Serie A tallystanding at 14 in 19 games.

The 26-year-old lashedhome his opener with thematch barely underway andthen, after Borja Valero hadmade it 2-0 in the 22 minute,headed home his side's thirdfrom Nicolo Barella’s cornerjust three minutes after thebreak as Antonio Conte's sideran riot at the San Siro.

Their were nerves amongthe home fans when ChristianOliva pulled one back for theSardinians in the 73rd minutewith a fierce drive, but AndreaRanocchia headed in CristianoBiraghi’s corner to seal thewin.

The victory helped Interbounce back after lettingJuventus take top spot in SerieA with a 1-1 home draw withAtalanta at the weekend, andthe return of Alexis Sanchezafter an injury lay-off will alsoboost coach Conte.

Inter will face eitherAtalanta or Fiorentina, whoface off on Wednesday after-noon, in the next round.

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quarters by Lazio and Napoli,who both cruised through withcomfortable wins over second-tier sides Cremonese andPerugia to set up a mouth-watering last eight tie witheach other.

Holders Lazio, who are ona club-record run of 10 straight

wins in Serie A and well in thetitle discussion, made shortwork of Cremonese in theireasy 4-0 victory in Rome.

The hosts were ahead inless than 10 minutes in front ofa sparse crowd at the StadioOlimpico thanks to Patric, whotapped home the opener afterCremonese stopper MichaelAgazzi palmed the ball to himin the box, and the tie was doneand dusted 16 minutes laterwhen Marco Parolo bundledhome the second from a Jonycross.

Simone Inzaghi made eightchanges from the side thatbeat Napoli 1-0 at the weekendbut kept Saturday's goalscorerCiro Immobile, who took histally to 23 in all competitionsfrom the penalty spot 12 min-utes after the break.

The impressive Jony turnedprovider again for the goalthat rounded off the scoring,his fizzing cross from a set-piece being met with Bastos'bullet header in the finalminute.

Troubled Napoli mean-while are languishing in 11th inSerie A after winning just oneleague game since mid-October but eased into thequarters with a 2-0 win overPerugia thanks to two LorenzoInsigne penalties.

Insigne struck the openinggoal from the spot on 26 min-utes after Mexico's HirvingLozano went down inside thearea under a challenge fromMardochee Nzita.

The Italy internationaladded a second when PietroIemmello handled at a corner,with a penalty awarded follow-ing a VAR review.

Napoli goalkeeper DavidOspina, whose blunder provedcostly in their league loss atLazio, then saved an Iemmellopenalty before half-time follow-ing another VAR intervention.

Juventus host Udinese andAC Milan take on SPAL onWednesday, and Roma travel toParma on Thursday.

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Feliciano Lopez, playing his second match ofthe day, knocked top seed and world num-

ber 12 Fabio Fognini out of the ATP AucklandClassic on Wednesday to advance to the quar-ter-finals.

Third-seed Karen Khachanov was also elim-inated, losing to Australian John Millmanwhile the second and fourth seeds, DenisShapovalov and John Isner, went through to thefinal eight.

The 38-year-old Lopez, the oldest player inthe tournament and one of several players forcedto double up following the rain disruption theprevious day, played three sets in each match andspent four hours 25 minutes on court.

He began the day beating Pablo Andujar 3-

6, 7-6 (7/4), 6-4 and after a three-hour rest, hecame from behind to beat Fognini 3-6, 6-4, 6-3.

The 61st ranked Lopez believes the raindelay did him a favour.

Lopez will face Poland’s Hubert Hurkacz inthe quarter-finals after the sixth-seed put awayMikael Ymer of Sweden 6-2, 7-6 (7/2).

While Lopez found two matches beneficial,two other players required to play twice lost inthe second round.

Italian Marco Cecchinato, who won athree-hour marathon against Leonardo Mayerin which the second set tie-break went to 20-18, was then beaten by Frenchman UgoHumbert 6-1, 6-4 Andreas Seppi of Italy beatseventh seed Adrian Mannarino (FRA x7) inthree sets before going down to Kyle Edmund6-3, 7-6 (7/4).

Edmund will play two-time Aucklandchampion Isner in the quarter-finals afterIsner, who had a first-round bye, opened hiscampaign with a three-set win over defendingtitleholder Tennys Sandgren.

Tournament fourth-seed Isner won 7-6(7/3), 6-7 (1/7), 6-3, pulling away in the decid-ing set with the first service break of the matchwhen Sandgren faltered at 2-2.

Until then, the pair had only been separat-ed by tie breaks with Isner taking their previ-ous encounter in Stockholm two years ago inthree tie-break sets.

In an all-Canada affair, Shapovalov beatVasek Pospisil 6-4, 7-6 (7/2) while Millmandropped the first set against Khachanov beforerecovering to win 4-6, 6-3, 6-3.

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Angelique Kerber’s prepara-tions for the opening Grand

Slam of the year were dealt ablow Wednesday when she wasforced to retire from theAdelaide International with backpain.

The German, a formerworld number one who won theAustralian Open in 2016, pulledout when behind 6-3, 2-0 in hersecond-round clash withUkraine’s Dayana Yastremska.

The ninth seed began show-ing serious signs of the backproblem early in the second setthen stopped after two points inthe third game on her own serve,

calling for the trainer.A medical evaluation on

court ended with the 31-year-oldworld number 18 calling it quitsagainst her teenaged opponent.

Yastremska kept calm dur-ing the delay, reading what shecalled “secret” notes.

“I didn’t want to lose focus,”said the world number 24, whohas won three titles over the pasttwo seasons.

On other courts, CroatDonna Vekic rallied past MariaSakkari of Greece 2-6, 7-5, 6-1,winning in two hours and over-coming six aces while breakingfour times. She moved into aquarter-final against Yastremska.

In the men’s draw, RussianAndrey Rublev, who the QatarOpen at the weekend, began hisAustralian adventure by beatingAmerican Sam Querrey 6-3, 6-3 to move into a last eight clashagainst Britain’s Dan Evans.

Rublev, who missed sixweeks in 2019 with a wristinjury, improved to a perfect 5-0 for the season.

The Russian did not let adelayed flight from Doha disrupthis on-site training in Adelaide,with the third seed ready to goagainst Querrey.

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Divij Sharan and his partnerArtem Sitak shocked top

seeds John Peers and MichaelVenus in two close sets to moveto the quarterfinals of the ATPASB Classic, here onWednesday.

The Indo-Kiwi pair edgedout the Australian-Kiwi pair 7-6 (4) 7-6(3) in the openinground of the USD 610,010 hardcourt tournament, the last inrun up to the Australian Open,season’s first Grand Slam.

Left-handed Sharan andSitak next face Sander Gilleand Joran Vliegen, who got awalk over from Leonardo Mayerand Joao Sousa.

Also moving to the last-eight stage were third seedsRohan Bopanna from India andFinland's Henri Kontinen, whobeat wild card entrantsCameron Norrie and RhettPurcell 6-4, 6-2.

They are now up againstLuke Bambridge and BenMcLachlan.

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Tottenham edged into the FACup fourth round as

Giovani Lo Celso bagged a raregoal in their 2-1 win overMiddlesbrough, while much-maligned Newcastle strikerJoelinton scored for the firsttime since August in a victoryagainst Rochdale on Tuesday.

Jose Mourinho’s side almostkilled off second-tierMiddlesbrough within the first15 minutes of the third roundreplay at the TottenhamHotspur Stadium.

Lo Celso, on loan from RealBetis, got Tottenham up andrunning with only his secondgoal of the season and his firstsince a Champions Leaguestrike against Red Star Belgradein November.

It was an encouragingmoment for the Argentine mid-fielder, who has endured a dif-ficult season in north London.

Tottenham needed a LucasMoura equaliser at theRiverside Stadium to avoid a

shock exit in the 1-1 draw atMiddlesbrough earlier thismonth.

But Mourinho still madefive changes from last weekend’sdefeat against Liverpool, withChristian Eriksen, linked witha January move to Inter Milan,starting despite the Dane’s formbeing affected by the transfertalk.

A gift from Middlesbroughkeeper Tomas Mejias helpedTottenham open the scoring inthe second minute.

Mejias tried to play a quickball out and ended up passingstraight to Lo Celso, who ranacross the area before firing intothe bottom corner.

Tottenham’s second camewhen Argentina winger ErikLamela sliced through theMiddlesbrough defence beforeslotting home in the 15thminute.

Saville got one back forMiddlesbrough in the 83rdminute as Tottenham surviveda tense finale to earn a trip toSouthampton.

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India’s swashbuckling openerRohit Sharma was on Wednesdaynamed the ICC’s ‘2019 ODI

Cricketer of the Year’ for his incred-ible run of form, while English all-rounder Ben Stokes walked awaywith the overall honours.

Indian skipper Virat Kohli wasnamed captain of both the ICC’s Testand ODI teams of the year besideswinning the ‘Spirit of Cricket’ awardfor his gesture of trying to stop thefans from booing Steve Smith dur-ing a World Cup match. Smith wasreturning to international cricketfrom a one-year suspension for ball-tampering at that time.

England’s World Cup-winningall-rounder Stokes got the biggestprize — the ‘Sir Garfield SobersTrophy’ for Player of the Year, whileAustralia fast bowler Pat Cumminswas named the Test Player of theYear.

India seamer Deepak Chaharwon the T20 InternationalPerformance of the Year, Australia’sMarnus Labuschagne was named asEmerging Cricketer of the Year,while Scotland’s Kyle Coetzer wasdeclared the Associate Cricketer ofthe Year.

The 32-year-old Rohit hit a pur-ple patch in the World Cup amass-ing 648 runs in nine games at an aver-age of 81.00 with five hundreds anda half-century. In the UnitedKingdom, he became the first bats-man in World Cup history to scorefive centuries in a single edition.

Rohit looked forward to carryinghis form in the coming year, after anaggregate of 1409 runs from 28matches with seven hundreds in theODI format.

“It is great to be recognised in thisfashion. We are very happy with theway we performed as a team in 2019.We could have done better but wehave a lot of positives and a lot to lookforward to in 2020,” Rohit said.

India captain Kohli was sur-prised to win the Spirit of CricketAward and explained his reasons forbacking Smith the way he did.

“It is part of camaraderie thatsportsmen must have with eachother,” Kohli said.

“That moment was purelyunderstanding an individual’s situ-

ation. I don’t think a guy who is com-ing out of a situation like that needsto be taken advantage of,” he recalled.

“You can sledge, can have havebanter on the field, you say things tothe opposition in wanting to beatthem. But booing someone is not inthe spirit of any sport, I don’tendorse it.”

Chahar said his haul of six forseven against Bangladesh in Nagpur,which included a hat-trick, wouldalways be cherished by him.

“Taking six wickets concedingonly seven runs was a dream perfor-mance for me and will alwaysremain close to my heart,” Chaharsaid.

Cummins grabbed 59 wickets in12 Test matches during the periodand finished the year as the top-ranked bowler in the Test rankings.

“It’s a tremendous honour to beconsidered the best player of last year

and one which was certainly unex-pected. I owe much to my team,team-mates and all those involved inAustralian cricket for what was areally successful year for the team,”he said.

Stokes was rewarded after afabulous 12 months that saw himplay a decisive role in England’s dra-matic victory at the World Cup finalalong with a host of other memo-rable performances, including anepic Ashes hundred.

“This award is testament to myteammates and the support staff thathave been there every step of the way.Fundamentally, without the supportof these individuals, we would neverachieved our objective of lifting amajor trophy,” he said.

Labuschagne was an easy win-ner of the Emerging Player awardafter scoring 1,104 runs in 11 Tests,which saw him zoom in the ICCTest Player Rankings from 110 at thestart of the year to fourth by the endof the year.

England umpire RichardIllingworth became the seventhperson to win the David ShepherdTrophy for Umpire of the Year.

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Best Cricketer of the Year - BenStokes (England)

Test Cricketer of the Year - PatCummins (Australia)

ODI Cricketer of the Year -Rohit Sharma (India)

T20I Performance of the Year -Deepak Chahar (India, 6-7 vBangladesh)

Emerging Cricketer of the Year- Marnus Labuschagne (Australia)

Associate Cricketer of the Year- Kyle Coetzer (Scotland)

Spirit of Cricket Award - ViratKohli stopping the fans booingSteve Smith at the Oval

David Shepherd Trophy forUmpire of the Year - RichardIllingworth.

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India skipper and batting mainstay Virat Kohli wason Wednesday named captain of the International

Cricket Council’s ODI and Test teams of the year,capping off a memorable season for the world No.1.

Apart from Kohli, there were four otherIndians who were picked in the ICC’s Test and ODITeams of the Year.

While the Test team featured double-centuri-on Mayank Agarwal, opener Rohit Sharma, speed-ster Mohammed Shami and left-arm spinnerKuldeep Yadav found a place in the ODI side.

Kohli enjoyed a tremendous run in both theformats in 2019. The 31-year-old hit his seventh Testdouble hundred on the way to a career-best unbeat-en 254 against South Africa in October last year.

It was a breakthrough year for opener Agarwal,who smashed two double tons, one century andwent beyond the fifty-run mark twice. He hit acareer-best score of 243 against Bangladesh inNovember.

Limited overs vice-captain Rohit had a splen-did ODI World Cup campaign, slamming a recordfive hundreds and a half century in the UnitedKingdom.

Kuldeep, too, enjoyed a memorable year as hejoined the golden list of bowlers with two hat-tricks.The chinaman claimed his second ODI hat-trickof his career against the West Indies last month.

In the absence of Indian pace spearheadJasprit Bumrah, Shami rose to the occasion mak-ing the best in the business hop, skip and jump withhis pace, swing and bounce through the season. Hescalped 42 wickets in 21 ODIs over the last 12months.

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Sharma, Shai Hope, Virat Kohli (captain), BabarAzam, Kane Williamson, Ben Stokes, Jos Buttler(wicketkeeper), Mitchell Starc, Trent Boult,Mohammed Shami, Kuldeep Yadav

Test Team of the Year (in battingorder): Mayank Agarwal, Tom Latham,Marnus Labuschagne, Virat Kohli (cap-tain), Steve Smith, Ben Stokes, BJWatling (wicketkeeper), Pat Cummins,Mitchell Starc, Neil Wagner, NathanLyon.

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Swashbuckling Australianopener David Warner says

he was surprised by the york-ers and bouncers of India'space spearhead Jasprit Bumrahin the ODI series-opener here.

Warner, who remainedunbeaten on 128 in his team’s10-wicket win against India atthe Wankhede Stadium, negat-ed Bumrah’s challenge well onTuesday.

Asked how he prepares forbowlers like Bumrah and chi-naman Kuldeep Yadav, Warner,one of the best left-handers in

the world, said it was all aboutkeeping still.

“It’s about being nice andstill. I can’t imagine someonelike Brett Lee running in fromalmost the boundary and justsort of staggering in there andall of a sudden bowl 150kmph,it takes a while to get used toand that’s great skill fromBumrah.

“His (Bumrah’s) bouncerssurprise you, his yorkers sur-prise you and then when hebowls the change-up it’s very,very difficult, it’s like whenLasith Malinga at his prime, hebowled 140kmph and swung

them.“... But you knew you were

going to get a yorker or abouncer but it was how are yougoing to play that and that’swhat’s so unique,” addedWarner.

Saying that he findsKuldeep’s bowling a fractionslower, he admitted that pick-ing chinaman bowlers was dif-ficult.

“And with Kuldeep (Yadav),he’s got great change-ups aswell. I find that he’s bowling afraction slower these days, quitedifferent to Rashid Khan whobowls at 100kmph, under lightsI think left-arm chinamans arevery difficult to pick,” he added.

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Regular India openerShikhar Dhawan says

he is ready to bat anywhereafter skipper Virat Kohli’smove to drop himselfdown at No. 4 to accom-modate him and K LRahul backfired in thefirst ODI against Australia.

The visitors crushedIndia by 10 wickets in thefirst of the three-matchseries, chasing down a256-run target with plen-ty to spare here onTuesday.

“If they ask me to batat No.3, of course I’ll do it.Anything for my country,for sure,” Dhawan saidafter the game in which KL Rahul came in at thecritical position.

“You have to be men-tally strong, all the boys arementally strong, that’s whythey’ve been playing inter-

national cricket and it’spart of the journey, some-times you’ve to switchnumbers as well.”

The senior player saidit was completely the cap-tain’s decision to drophimself down at No.4 fromhis usual No.3 slot.

“See that is a captain’schoice, KL is batting well,he did well in the last seriesand he played really well.

“I feel it is the captain’schoice where he wants toplay and he has doneamazing at No. 3, maybeI feel, he will think aboutit to go at number threeagain,” he said.

After the game, Kohlisaid he might have torethink his plans goinginto the second and thirdODIs.

Dhawan blamed theloss of four wickets in themiddle overs for the maul-ing.

David Warner andAaron Finch slammedunbeaten tons to powerthe visitors to a convinc-ing win at the WankhedeStadium.

“We handled thosefirst 10-15 overs very nice-ly. We lost four wickets ina go, that is where thegame changed for us, thenwe were behind and thenwe were trying to cover it,so that is where we wentwrong,” said Dhawan,who made 74 off 91 balls,said.

Australia pulledthings back to bowl India

out for 255 and Warner(128 not out) and Finch(110) then did the rest.

India lost five quickwickets after Dhawan andK L Rahul (47) added 121for the second wicket.

“K L (Rahul) got out.That time we planned toaccelerate and those fourwickets we lost, that’swhere we lost the momen-tum. We were targeting300 runs but we ended upscoring less runs. In bowl-ing, we could not takeearly wickets. They out-played us,” admittedDhawan.

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Young opener PrithviShaw will join the

India A squad in NewZealand in the next 48hours, having recoveredfrom the shoulder injuryhe sustained during aRanji Trophy game lastweek.

Unlike recent times,Prithvi’s rehabilitationprogramme was han-dled by the NationalCricket Academy (NCA)which has cleared hisreturn to competitivecricket.

“Prithvi Shaw willleave for New Zealandeither on Thursday orlatest by Friday. He hasbeen declared fully fit,” asenior BCCI source toldPTI on Wednesday.

The 20-year-old

return to competitivefold will give the nation-al selectors an opportu-nity to consider him forthe two Tests againstNew Zealand.

A source said bothPrithviu and ShubhmanGill will now competefor the slot of reserveopener in Indian Testteam.

“Shubman becamethe reserve openerbecause Prithvi was serv-ing doping ban. He wasahead of Shubman if wego by pecking order. Hewas not out of the teambecause of poor form butdue to injuries and someoff-field reasons. Now healong with Shubman willbe fighting for thereserve opener’s slot,” asource privy to selec-tion matters said.

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Rival captains Faf du Plessisand Joe Root were united

in their praise of World Playerof the Year Ben Stokes aheadof the third Test betweenSouth Africa and Englandstarting at St George's Park onThursday.

Stokes, man of the matchwhen England levelled thefour-match series with a 189-run win in the second Test in

Cape Town, was namedthe world’s best player bythe International CricketCouncil on Tuesday. Heis likely to be a keyplayer in a pivotalmatch in the series.

“It was very well-deserved,” said SouthAfrican captain DuPlessis. “He’s had afantastic seasonwhere he played big

moments really well.That’s when you really want tojudge cricketers, when it real-

ly matters, and that’s why hehas been so successful overthe last year. He’s single-hand-edly won so many games forEngland.”

Du Plessis said Stokeshad already made a mark onthe current series. “He playsa big role, whether his teamdoes well or not. For us, he isguy that we need to keep quietbecause he’s that sort of play-er that takes the game awayfrom you when he gets in,similar to what Quinton deKock does for us.”

Unlike wicketkeeper DeKock, Stokes offers a strongbowling option. “He’s got a bigtank,” said Du Plessis.

“England captain JoeRoot added: “It’s hard to sayany more superlatives. It’s theright decision, obviously. Itcouldn't really be anyone elsethe way he’s performed allyear, across the formats.

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Mumbai: Rishabh Pantwas on Wednesday ruledout of India’s second ODIagainst Australia onFriday as the young wick-et-keeper batsman hasnot yet recovered fromthe concussion he suf-fered during the series-opener.

While team reachedRajkot on Wednesday,Pant is set to travel toBengaluru for rehabilita-tion following the stan-dard concussion proto-cols.

Pant is the first inter-national from the coun-try, who has been ruled

out after ICC put the con-cussion protocols inplace.

“He (Pant) is ruledout of the 2nd ODI. Hisavailability for the finalODI will be based onhow he responds duringthe rehabilitation proto-col,” BCCI said in a state-ment.

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Both captains saidthey were debating thefinal make-up of theirteams.

Du Plessis said fastbowler Dane Patersoncould make his debut ona pitch where reverseswing could be a factor.He said Paterson’s style ofbowling could make himdangerous in the expect-ed conditions - butadded that it was a diffi-cult choice, which wouldmean leaving out an all-rounder, probablyDwaine Pretorius, or left-arm spinner KeshavMaharaj.

He said weather con-ditions could play a rolein the final decision. “It’sbeen hot the last fewdays. You need hot and

dry weather for reverseswing but there’s talk ofsome rain on days threeand four so that couldaffect it.”

Root said JofraArcher and Mark Woodwould be assessed afterWednesday’s final prac-tice.

Unlike Du Plessis,Root said he was notcontemplating going intothe match without a spinbowler. “I’m pretty happywith the balance of ourteam,” he said.

That would leaveroom for only one ofArcher and Wood toreplace the injured JamesAnderson - or the steadyChris Woakes if therewere doubts about boththe speedsters. “We needto use today’s session tomake sure going into afive-day game that theycan stand up to it,” saidRoot.,���������!' ������� �������������� �� ������

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