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I n a terse reply to Pakistan for denying surgical strikes along the Line of Control (LoC) on September 29, Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Thursday said the Indian Army was given a task that was carried out with `surgical precision’, the `desired result was obtained’, and the `intended message has been conveyed’ to Islamabad. Hence, these denial and state- ments have no value, said MEA spokesperson Vikas Swarup. Responding sharply to Pakistan’s denial on the recent surgical strikes, Swarup said on Thursday that truth cannot remain hidden for long, no mat- ter how hard one tries to conceal it. “As we all know, it is usual to see Pakistan’s reaction of denial of terrorism sponsored from its soil against its neighbours. Elimination of Osama bin Laden and Mullah Mansoor was met with similar denials. But we all know the truth comes out,” said the spokesperson. He added India’s intention is to maintain peace and tranquil- ity in the region and it cannot allow the terrorists to operate across the LoC with impunity and attack its citizens. Swarup said India has man- aged to isolate Pakistan on the issue of terrorism and it will con- tinue to keep it under pressure. “You have already seen the pres- sure that we have brought to bear internationally on Pakistan to cease support to cross-border terrorism. You have seen the result at the UNGA. You have seen the result at SAARC. You have seen the statements by major countries like the US and Russia. I do not think I need to say any more,” added Swarup. India is also mulling to withdraw Most-Favoured Nation status to Pakistan on the basis that “promoting prosperity with neighbours is Government’s pri- ority but terror can’t be the product exported,” he said. Meanwhile, reacting to Difa-e-Pakistan Council (DPC) announcement to hold rally in Pak to pressurise the Pakistan Government follow- ing the surgical strikes, India said it has always voiced con- cerns at the freedom available to such internationally desig- nated terrorists in Pakistan to conduct and promote anti- India activities openly. “It is up to the Government of Pakistan to abide by its assur- ances that it will deny the use of its territory for such purposes,” added Swarup. The DPC is a group of jihadi and islamist outfits and involves internationally banned terrorists such as Hafeez Saeed. F acing international isola- tion, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in an unprecedented move has warned the powerful military not to shield banned militant groups and directed authorities to conclude the Pathankot terror attack probe and the 2008 Mumbai attack trial soon, a leading Pakistani daily reported on Thursday. Sharif ’s orders came after a series of meetings between military and civilian leaders, Dawn newspaper said. The Government delivered a “blunt, orchestrated and unprecedented warning” to the military leadership and sought consensus on several key actions, including action against banned militant groups, the paper quoted unnamed individuals, who were involved in the meetings. Asked about the Dwan report, Pakistan Foreign Office Spokesman Nafees Zakaria said, “The story you are referring to is purely speculative and as the author himself acknowledged that ‘none of the attributed statements were confirmed by the individuals mentioned’.” “Such speculative stories on matters of national securi- ty are not helpful for national causes,” he said. According to the paper, at least two sets of actions have been agreed as a result of the most recent meeting, an undis- closed one on the day of the All Parties’ Conference, which took place on Monday. ISI Director-General Rizwan Akhtar, accompanied by National Security Adviser Nasser Janjua, will travel to all provinces with a message that military-led Intelligence agen- cies should not interfere if law enforcement agencies act against militant groups that are banned. Sharif directed that fresh attempts be made to conclude the Pathankot investigation and restart the stalled Mumbai attack trial in a Rawalpindi anti-terrorism court. Those decisions, taken after an extraordinary verbal confrontation between Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif and the ISI DG, appear to indicate a high-stakes new approach by the PML-N Government, the paper said. Separately, on Monday Foreign Secretary Aizaz Chaudhry made a separate presentation in the Prime Minister’s Office to a small group of civil and mili- tary officials. Continued on Page 4 T he Supreme Court may force the Board of Control for Cricket in India to deny financial assistance to State cricket association not endors- ing Justice Lodha panel rec- ommendation on administra- tive and organisational reforms in the crick- et body. The court hinted this on Thursday after the BCCI expressed its helplessness in adopting the reforms, saying three-fourth of the member States have opposed the Lodha panel reforms. The Bench headed by Chief Justice TS Thakur said it will pass an order to this effect on Friday as it was fed up with the ways of the BCCI. The Bench, also comprising Justices AM Khanwilkar and DY Chandrachud, felt this was the only way to make the BCCI com- ply with its directions since the Board refused to give an “unconditional undertaking” to adopt path-breaking reforms forming part of the Court’s order of July 18, 2016. The Bench told senior advocate Kapil Sibal, who appeared for the BCCI that it can- not waste time to reform the BCCI. “Here are people who refuse to reform despite our order. If you are willing to give an unconditional undertaking to implement our order and abide by all orders given by Lodha Committee, we are willing to change our mind. If not, then we will pass some interim order. You have dis- bursed to them (States) about 400 crore which is not a small amount. Nobody can say I must get my money but I am not willing to reform.” Sibal submitted that in the Board meet- ing of September 30, the new Memorandum failed to get support from the 30-member associations, who defeated its adoption. “The BCCI has no control over State crick- et associations. We had told them to adopt the new Memorandum. The BCCI does not have a vote as the State associations have a vote. Either they are compelled to fall in line by a judicial order or as the Lodha Committee has suggested, they may be delinked from BCCI by denying them any funds.” Amicus curiae Gopal Subramanium point- ed out that the BCCI disbursed funds to the tune of Rs 400 crore to 25 cricket associations on September 29 with a design to get their vote the next day to reject the memorandum. This payment was made without any resolution by the Board, he added. The court felt that this attitude of the BCCI to defy the court had forced the Lodha Committee to even seek supersession of the Board office-bearers with an independent panel of administrators.” If you are at the forefront of defiance, others will follow suit,” said the Bench, adding, “You have no obligation to pay people who don’t lis- ten to you. If the State associations are so keen to hold matches, they must know matches should be conducted only if they are doing business transparently.” I n yet another snub to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, his uncle and State SP chief Shivpal Yadav announced the merger of don- turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari’s Quami Ekta Dal (QED) with the Samajwadi Party ahead of the State Assembly polls. “Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav has given his nod to the merger. I am making this announcement only after due permission from the SP nation- al president,” said Shivpal Yadav in Lucknow on Thursday. The merger of the QED with the SP three months after Akhilesh had shot down the proposal is expected to inten- sify the ongoing power strug- gle between him and Shivpal. In June, the CM had publicly vented his anger at Shivpal’s earlier move of merging the QED and said any link up with Ansari’s outfit will only sully the image of the party. Akhilesh was the then party’s state president, a post taken away from him recently by his father. But in the changed scenario, the merger of QED with the SP became imminent the day party supre- mo Mulayam Singh Yadav had handed the coveted job to his brother Shivpal. Since then, Ansari had started claiming alliance with the SP. Announcing the merger, Shivpal said that all senior leaders of the party were on the same page on the issue QED’s merger with the SP. When per- sistently asked whether the CM has been informed about the development, Shivpal Yadav said, “Akhilesh Yadav has been informed about this decision.” Continued on Page 4 C ongress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Thursday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of indulging in political exploita- tion of the sacrifices of soldiers after the surgical strikes in PoK. Jo hamare jawan hain jinhone apna khoon diya hai, Jammu and Kashmir mein khoon diya hai, jinhone Hindustan ke liye surgical strike kiye hain, unke khoon ke peeche aap chhupe hain. Unki aap dalali kar rahe ho. Yeh bilkul galat hai. You (Modi) are hiding behind the blood of soldiers in Jammu and Kashmir and those who car- ried out the surgical strikes for India. You are exploiting their sacrifices, which is very wrong,” Rahul said addressing a rally in the national Capital marking the culmination of his month-long ‘Deoria to Delhi Kisan Yatra’ in Uttar Pradesh. Rahul Gandhi’s “khoon ki dalali” comment soon made him butt of ridicule on social sites. Social media mocked Rahul Gandhi over his com- ment on ‘khoon ki dalali. ‘Maut ka saudagar; by Sonia, ‘khoon ki dalali’ by her son. Well played Rahul. U a true inheritor U wl finish Congress soon #SurgicalSelfGoal,” says a twitterati. Meanwhile, another tweet said: “My husband served in IPKF in SL during Op Pawan in which 214 soldiers were killed bcoz of Rajiv Gandhi’s whims. Dalali? #Surgic- alSelfGoal.” “It’s just that the mafia blood is surfacing. 10 years of UPA could have taught him only dalali. So why blame him. #SurgicalSelfGoal,” says anoth- er tweet. “@OfficeOfRG what do u’ve 2 say about the “KHOON KI DALALI” done by ur DAD Rajiv in 1984 in bhopal tragedy & sikh mas- sacre? #SurgicalSelfgoal ,” says another twitterati. Political observers say that Rahul’s irresponsible comment has done his party an immense harm. Sonia Gandhi’s “maut ke saudagar” comment on Narendra Modi during the high voltage 2007 Gujarat assembly elections had boomeranged on the grand old party. Now Congress will have to do a lot to undo the damage that has been caused to the party. “The Indian Army has done its job for the country, you do yours,” the Congress vice-president said, attacking Modi. His attack comes a few days after he had praised Modi for his first Prime Minister-like action in two years in the con- text of surgical strikes. Rahul’s month-long Kisan Yatra from Deoria to Delhi, however, ended amidst vio- lence near Bhairon temple in the national Capital where two groups of Congress sup- porters clashed with each other. Congress leader Ashok Tanwar sustained serious injuries and he rushed to RML hospital. The supporters of for- mer Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda clashed with those of Tanwar. This is the third time that sup- porters from either side clashed during a public meet- ing. Hooda escaped unhurt in the incident. Tanwar and oth- ers, injured in the clash, were taken to a hospital. Reports suggest that the violence erupt- ed when supporters of former Haryana Chief Minister Hooda tore up the posters of Tanwar, who is the president of Haryana Congress. Movement of vehicles and the people who were travelling towards Jantar Mantar led to massive traffic snarls across the city. The cascading impact was felt on the major roads and the arterials as vehicles moved at a snail’s pace. In a well attended rally at Jantar Mantar, Rahul said the people of the country elected Modi as Prime Minister and entrusted with the responsibility of helping farmers and soldiers. Continued on Page 4 Islamabad: Voices against terror camps and favouring action against terror groups are grow- ing louder in Pakistan-occu- pied-Kashmir (PoK) and Pakistan. Residents of PoK on Thursday said their lives have been made a living hell by the presence of terrorist training camps thriving in the area. Residents of Muzaffarabad, Kotli, Chinari, Mirpur, Gilgit, Diamer and Neelum Valley, in PoK staged a protest against the ter- ror training camps there. “Banned organisations, ter- ror camps are provided food and ration here, we condemn it,” a local leader in Muzaffarabad, PoK, told ANI. Meanwhile, rul- ing as well as Opposition law- makers asked the Pakistani Government to stop protecting terrorists like Hafiz Sayeed whose activities have plunged the coun- try into diplomatic isolation. Rana Muhammad Afzal, a ruling Pakistan Muslim League- Nawaz (PML-N) lawmaker, on Thursday questioned the Government’s failure to act against Saeed, the founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and the head of its frontal charity Jamaat-ud- Dawa. “Which eggs is Hafiz Saeed laying for us that we are nurtur- ing him,” Afzal said in a meeting of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, according to the BBC Urdu. Afzal, a member of the par- liamentary panel, questioned the efficacy of Pakistan’s foreign policy and said it had become such that “we have not been able to get rid of Hafiz Saeed so far”. Opposition Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Aitzaz Ahsan told a joint session of Parliament that the country was diplomat- ically isolated because it gives freedom to non-State actors. F our terrorists, including an infiltrator, were killed by security forces in two separate encounters in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district on Thursday. General Officer Commanding in-chief of the northern com- mand Lt Gen DS Hooda took stock of the situation along the Line of Control (LoC) and south Kashmir where normal life is shattered for the past three months due to shutdown and protests. The Army foiled at least three infiltration bids along the LoC exhibiting alert- ness in the area, Defence sources said. They said three terrorists were killed early on Thursday when they attempted to sneak into the highly-fortified bat- talion headquarters of 30 Rashtriya Rifles at Langate area of Kupwara in north Kashmir. Sources said the terrorists were intercepted at the periph- ery of the camp when they attempted to strike at two sep- arate positions in the wee hours. Sensing that they cannot enter into the camp premises, ter- rorists tried to flee the scene but they were chased by the troops. Speaking the media per- sons after the completion of the operation, Commanding Officer Colonel Rajiv Sharang said that the recoveries from the encounter site bore “Pakistani markings”. He said besides the auto- matic weapons, maps, medi- cines and food items were recovered from slain terrorists. “Three terrorists were seen near the perimeter fencing of our camp. Our sentries chal- lenged the terrorists who fired heavily on our sentry posts. We also retaliated and then a quick reaction team was activated so that the terrorists do not flee the area where they were spotted”, Col Sharang said at Langate. Continued on Page 4 I n a development that would provide the much-needed boost to the Congress party and a shocker to the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) ahead high-octane 2017 polls, the rebel and “suspended” Akali MLA Inderbir Singh Bolaria is all set to hold the “hand” by giv- ing up the “scales”. Keeping the plans for his next political step, Bolaria has finally came out in open and will be joining the Congress on the auspicious day of Dussehra, October 11, at Amritsar. Along with Bolaria — the two-time MLA from Amritsar South, SAD’s former district president of Amritsar Upkar Singh Sandhu will also bid adieu to the ruling party and jump of the Congress’ bandwagon. To give the final shape to heir joining, Bolaria and Sandhu on Thursday met Punjab Congress chief Capt Amarinder Singh, All India Congress Committee (AICC) secretary in- charge of State party affairs Asha Kumari and others in New Delhi. Once closed to Ravenue Minister Bikram Singh Majithia, Bolaria raised a banner of revolt against his own party against the decision of setting up a solid- waste-treatment project in his constituency. He was suspended for “anti- party” activities in April this year. He was also removed as the Chief Parliamentary Secretary (education) when he started an agitation against the project. Bolaria won the assembly seat in 2008 (bypoll) and 2012, while his father, Raminder Singh Bolaria, was elected in 2007. In 2012, Bolaria defeated the Congress candidate by more than 15,000 votes in an evidence of his popularity in the segment. However, some Congress leaders of his constituency have objected to his joining the party and even threatened to protest and leave, but, it seems, Capt Amarinder has prevailed upon them. Chandigarh: The Union Territory of Chandigarh was put on alert on Thursday fol- lowing inputs from the Intelligence Bureau (IB) of a pos- sible terrorist strike. Confirming the development, Chandigarh’s Home Secretary Anurag Aggarwal said: “Yes, we have got an alert from IB in this regard (terror strike).” “We have asked the Chandigarh Police to take appropriate measures. We have sought cooperation from city residents to be alert and inform police about anything suspi- cious,” he said. Chandigarh is the joint cap- ital of both Punjab and Haryana. A number of VIPs, includ- ing Governors, Chief Ministers, ministers, legislators and top civil and police officials live in the city. The headquarters of the frontier Western Command are located at Chandimandir, 10 km from here. With a population of 1.1 million, Chandigarh gets a large number of visitors from neigh- bouring Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir. Following last week’s sur- gical strikes by the Indian Army on terrorist launch pads across the Line of Control (LoC), the border states of Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab, Gujarat and Rajasthan have been on high alert. IANS

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In a terse reply to Pakistan fordenying surgical strikes along

the Line of Control (LoC) onSeptember 29, Ministry ofExternal Affairs (MEA) onThursday said the Indian Armywas given a task that was carriedout with ̀ surgical precision’, the`desired result was obtained’,and the `intended message hasbeen conveyed’ to Islamabad.Hence, these denial and state-ments have no value, said MEAspokesperson Vikas Swarup.

Responding sharply toPakistan’s denial on the recentsurgical strikes, Swarup said onThursday that truth cannotremain hidden for long, no mat-ter how hard one tries to concealit. “As we all know, it is usual tosee Pakistan’s reaction of denialof terrorism sponsored from itssoil against its neighbours.Elimination of Osama bin Ladenand Mullah Mansoor was metwith similar denials. But we allknow the truth comes out,” saidthe spokesperson.

He added India’s intention isto maintain peace and tranquil-ity in the region and it cannotallow the terrorists to operateacross the LoC with impunityand attack its citizens.

Swarup said India has man-aged to isolate Pakistan on theissue of terrorism and it will con-tinue to keep it under pressure.“You have already seen the pres-sure that we have brought to bearinternationally on Pakistan tocease support to cross-borderterrorism. You have seen theresult at the UNGA. You haveseen the result at SAARC. Youhave seen the statements bymajor countries like the US andRussia. I do not think I need tosay any more,” added Swarup.

India is also mulling towithdraw Most-Favoured Nationstatus to Pakistan on the basisthat “promoting prosperity withneighbours is Government’s pri-ority but terror can’t be theproduct exported,” he said.

Meanwhile, reacting toDifa-e-Pakistan Council

(DPC) announcement to holdrally in Pak to pressurise thePakistan Government follow-ing the surgical strikes, Indiasaid it has always voiced con-cerns at the freedom availableto such internationally desig-nated terrorists in Pakistan toconduct and promote anti-India activities openly.

“It is up to the Governmentof Pakistan to abide by its assur-ances that it will deny the use ofits territory for such purposes,”added Swarup.

The DPC is a group ofjihadi and islamist outfits andinvolves internationallybanned terrorists such asHafeez Saeed.

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Facing international isola-tion, Prime Minister Nawaz

Sharif in an unprecedentedmove has warned the powerfulmilitary not to shield bannedmilitant groups and directedauthorities to conclude thePathankot terror attack probeand the 2008 Mumbai attacktrial soon, a leading Pakistanidaily reported on Thursday.

Sharif ’s orders came after aseries of meetings betweenmilitary and civilian leaders,Dawn newspaper said.

The Government delivereda “blunt, orchestrated andunprecedented warning” to themilitary leadership and soughtconsensus on several keyactions, including actionagainst banned militant groups,the paper quoted unnamedindividuals, who were involvedin the meetings.

Asked about the Dwanreport, Pakistan Foreign OfficeSpokesman Nafees Zakaria said,“The story you are referring tois purely speculative and as theauthor himself acknowledgedthat ‘none of the attributedstatements were confirmed bythe individuals mentioned’.”

“Such speculative storieson matters of national securi-ty are not helpful for nationalcauses,” he said.

According to the paper, at

least two sets of actions havebeen agreed as a result of themost recent meeting, an undis-closed one on the day of the AllParties’ Conference, which tookplace on Monday.

ISI Director-GeneralRizwan Akhtar, accompaniedby National Security AdviserNasser Janjua, will travel to allprovinces with a message thatmilitary-led Intelligence agen-cies should not interfere if lawenforcement agencies actagainst militant groups that arebanned.

Sharif directed that freshattempts be made to concludethe Pathankot investigation

and restart the stalled Mumbaiattack trial in a Rawalpindianti-terrorism court.

Those decisions, takenafter an extraordinary verbalconfrontation between PunjabChief Minister Shahbaz Sharifand the ISI DG, appear toindicate a high-stakes newapproach by the PML-NGovernment, the paper said.

Separately, on MondayForeign Secretary AizazChaudhry made a separatepresentation in the PrimeMinister’s Office to a small group of civil and mili-tary officials.

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The Supreme Court mayforce the Board of Control

for Cricket in India to denyfinancial assistance to Statecricket association not endors-ing Justice Lodha panel rec-ommendation on administra-tive and organisational reforms in the crick-et body. The court hinted this on Thursdayafter the BCCI expressed its helplessness inadopting the reforms, saying three-fourth of

the member States have opposed the Lodhapanel reforms.

The Bench headed by Chief Justice TSThakur said it will pass an order to this effect

on Friday as it was fed up with the ways of theBCCI. The Bench, also comprising JusticesAM Khanwilkar and DY Chandrachud, feltthis was the only way to make the BCCI com-ply with its directions since the Board refusedto give an “unconditional undertaking” toadopt path-breaking reforms forming part ofthe Court’s order of July 18, 2016.

The Bench told senior advocate KapilSibal, who appeared for the BCCI that it can-not waste time to reform the BCCI. “Here arepeople who refuse to reform despite our order.If you are willing to give an unconditionalundertaking to implement our order and abideby all orders given by Lodha Committee, weare willing to change our mind. If not, thenwe will pass some interim order. You have dis-bursed to them (States) about �400 crorewhich is not a small amount.

Nobody can say I must get my money butI am not willing to reform.”

Sibal submitted that in the Board meet-ing of September 30, the new Memorandumfailed to get support from the 30-memberassociations, who defeated its adoption.

“The BCCI has no control over State crick-

et associations. We had told them to adopt thenew Memorandum. The BCCI does not havea vote as the State associations have a vote.Either they are compelled to fall in line by ajudicial order or as the Lodha Committee hassuggested, they may be delinked from BCCIby denying them any funds.”

Amicus curiae Gopal Subramanium point-ed out that the BCCI disbursed funds to thetune of Rs 400 crore to 25 cricket associationson September 29 with a design to get their votethe next day to reject the memorandum. Thispayment was made without any resolution bythe Board, he added.

The court felt that this attitude of theBCCI to defy the court had forced the LodhaCommittee to even seek supersession of theBoard office-bearers with an independentpanel of administrators.”If you are at the forefront of defiance, otherswill follow suit,” said the Bench, adding, “Youhave no obligation to pay people who don’t lis-ten to you. If the State associations are so keento hold matches, they must know matchesshould be conducted only if they are doingbusiness transparently.”

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In yet another snub to UttarPradesh Chief Minister

Akhilesh Yadav, his uncle andState SP chief Shivpal Yadavannounced the merger of don-turned-politician MukhtarAnsari’s Quami Ekta Dal (QED)with the Samajwadi Party aheadof the State Assembly polls.

“Party chief MulayamSingh Yadav has given his nodto the merger. I am making thisannouncement only after duepermission from the SP nation-al president,” said Shivpal Yadavin Lucknow on Thursday.

The merger of the QEDwith the SP three months afterAkhilesh had shot down theproposal is expected to inten-sify the ongoing power strug-gle between him and Shivpal.In June, the CM had publiclyvented his anger at Shivpal’searlier move of merging theQED and said any link up withAnsari’s outfit will only sullythe image of the party.

Akhilesh was the thenparty’s state president, a posttaken away from him recentlyby his father. But in thechanged scenario, the mergerof QED with the SP became

imminent the day party supre-mo Mulayam Singh Yadav hadhanded the coveted job to hisbrother Shivpal. Since then,Ansari had started claimingalliance with the SP.

Announcing the merger,Shivpal said that all seniorleaders of the party were on thesame page on the issue QED’smerger with the SP. When per-sistently asked whether theCM has been informed aboutthe development, Shivpal Yadavsaid, “Akhilesh Yadav has beeninformed about this decision.”

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Congress vice-presidentRahul Gandhi on

Thursday accused PrimeMinister Narendra Modi ofindulging in political exploita-tion of the sacrifices of soldiersafter the surgical strikes in PoK.

“Jo hamare jawan hainjinhone apna khoon diya hai,Jammu and Kashmir meinkhoon diya hai, jinhoneHindustan ke liye surgicalstrike kiye hain, unke khoon kepeeche aap chhupe hain. Unkiaap dalali kar rahe ho. Yehbilkul galat hai. You (Modi)are hiding behind the blood ofsoldiers in Jammu andKashmir and those who car-ried out the surgical strikes forIndia. You are exploiting theirsacrifices, which is verywrong,” Rahul said addressinga rally in the national Capitalmarking the culmination ofhis month-long ‘Deoria toDelhi Kisan Yatra’ in UttarPradesh. Rahul Gandhi’s“khoon ki dalali” commentsoon made him butt ofridicule on social sites.

Social media mockedRahul Gandhi over his com-ment on ‘khoon ki dalali.‘Maut ka saudagar; by Sonia,‘khoon ki dalali’ by her son.Well played Rahul. U a trueinheritor U wl finish Congresssoon #SurgicalSelfGoal,” saysa twitterati.

Meanwhile, another tweetsaid: “My husband served inIPKF in SL during Op Pawanin which 214 soldiers werekilled bcoz of Rajiv Gandhi’swhims. Dalali? #Surgic-alSelfGoal.”

“It’s just that the mafiablood is surfacing. 10 years ofUPA could have taught himonly dalali. So why blame him.#SurgicalSelfGoal,” says anoth-er tweet. “@OfficeOfRG whatdo u’ve 2 say about the“KHOON KI DALALI” doneby ur DAD Rajiv in 1984 inbhopal tragedy & sikh mas-sacre? #SurgicalSelfgoal ,” saysanother twitterati.

Political observers saythat Rahul’s irresponsible

comment has done his partyan immense harm. SoniaGandhi’s “maut ke saudagar”comment on Narendra Modiduring the high voltage 2007Gujarat assembly electionshad boomeranged on thegrand old party. NowCongress will have to do a lotto undo the damage that hasbeen caused to the party.

“The Indian Army hasdone its job for the country,you do yours,” the Congressvice-president said, attackingModi. His attack comes a fewdays after he had praised Modifor his first Prime Minister-likeaction in two years in the con-text of surgical strikes.

Rahul’s month-long KisanYatra from Deoria to Delhi,however, ended amidst vio-lence near Bhairon temple inthe national Capital wheretwo groups of Congress sup-porters clashed with eachother. Congress leader AshokTanwar sustained seriousinjuries and he rushed to RMLhospital. The supporters of for-mer Haryana Chief MinisterBhupinder Singh Hoodaclashed with those of Tanwar.This is the third time that sup-porters from either sideclashed during a public meet-ing. Hooda escaped unhurt inthe incident. Tanwar and oth-ers, injured in the clash, weretaken to a hospital. Reportssuggest that the violence erupt-ed when supporters of formerHaryana Chief MinisterHooda tore up the posters ofTanwar, who is the president ofHaryana Congress.

Movement of vehicles andthe people who were travellingtowards Jantar Mantar led tomassive traffic snarls acrossthe city. The cascading impactwas felt on the major roadsand the arterials as vehiclesmoved at a snail’s pace.

In a well attended rally atJantar Mantar, Rahul saidthe people of the countryelected Modi as PrimeMinister and entrusted withthe responsibility of helpingfarmers and soldiers.

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������������������������� ��������������������Islamabad: Voices against terrorcamps and favouring actionagainst terror groups are grow-ing louder in Pakistan-occu-pied-Kashmir (PoK) andPakistan.

Residents of PoK onThursday said their lives havebeen made a living hell by thepresence of terrorist trainingcamps thriving in the area.Residents of Muzaffarabad, Kotli,Chinari, Mirpur, Gilgit, Diamerand Neelum Valley, in PoKstaged a protest against the ter-ror training camps there.

“Banned organisations, ter-ror camps are provided food andration here, we condemn it,” alocal leader in Muzaffarabad,PoK, told ANI. Meanwhile, rul-ing as well as Opposition law-makers asked the PakistaniGovernment to stop protectingterrorists like Hafiz Sayeed whoseactivities have plunged the coun-try into diplomatic isolation.

Rana Muhammad Afzal, aruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) lawmaker, onThursday questioned theGovernment’s failure to actagainst Saeed, the founder ofLashkar-e-Taiba and the head ofits frontal charity Jamaat-ud-Dawa.

“Which eggs is Hafiz Saeedlaying for us that we are nurtur-ing him,” Afzal said in a meetingof the Standing Committee onForeign Affairs, according tothe BBC Urdu.

Afzal, a member of the par-liamentary panel, questionedthe efficacy of Pakistan’s foreignpolicy and said it had becomesuch that “we have not been ableto get rid of Hafiz Saeed so far”.

Opposition Pakistan PeoplesParty (PPP) leader Aitzaz Ahsantold a joint session of Parliamentthat the country was diplomat-ically isolated because it givesfreedom to non-State actors.

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Four terrorists, including aninfiltrator, were killed by

security forces in two separateencounters in north Kashmir’sKupwara district on Thursday.General Officer Commandingin-chief of the northern com-mand Lt Gen DS Hooda tookstock of the situation along theLine of Control (LoC) andsouth Kashmir where normallife is shattered for the pastthree months due to shutdownand protests. The Army foiledat least three infiltration bidsalong the LoC exhibiting alert-ness in the area, Defencesources said.

They said three terroristswere killed early on Thursdaywhen they attempted to sneakinto the highly-fortified bat-talion headquarters of 30Rashtriya Rifles at Langate areaof Kupwara in north Kashmir.

Sources said the terroristswere intercepted at the periph-

ery of the camp when theyattempted to strike at two sep-arate positions in the wee hours.Sensing that they cannot enterinto the camp premises, ter-rorists tried to flee the scene butthey were chased by the troops.

Speaking the media per-sons after the completion of theoperation, CommandingOfficer Colonel Rajiv Sharangsaid that the recoveries fromthe encounter site bore“Pakistani markings”.

He said besides the auto-matic weapons, maps, medi-cines and food items wererecovered from slain terrorists.

“Three terrorists were seennear the perimeter fencing ofour camp. Our sentries chal-lenged the terrorists who firedheavily on our sentry posts. Wealso retaliated and then a quickreaction team was activated sothat the terrorists do not flee thearea where they were spotted”,Col Sharang said at Langate.

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boost to the Congress party anda shocker to the rulingShiromani Akali Dal (SAD)ahead high-octane 2017 polls,the rebel and “suspended” AkaliMLA Inderbir Singh Bolaria isall set to hold the “hand” by giv-ing up the “scales”.

Keeping the plans for hisnext political step, Bolaria hasfinally came out in open and willbe joining the Congress on theauspicious day of Dussehra,October 11, at Amritsar.

Along with Bolaria — thetwo-time MLA from AmritsarSouth, SAD’s former districtpresident of Amritsar UpkarSingh Sandhu will also bid adieuto the ruling party and jump ofthe Congress’ bandwagon.

To give the final shape toheir joining, Bolaria and Sandhuon Thursday met PunjabCongress chief Capt AmarinderSingh, All India CongressCommittee (AICC) secretary in-

charge of State party affairsAsha Kumari and others inNew Delhi.

Once closed to RavenueMinister Bikram Singh Majithia,Bolaria raised a banner of revoltagainst his own party against thedecision of setting up a solid-waste-treatment project in hisconstituency.

He was suspended for “anti-party” activities in April this year.He was also removed as theChief Parliamentary Secretary(education) when he started anagitation against the project.

Bolaria won the assemblyseat in 2008 (bypoll) and 2012,while his father, Raminder SinghBolaria, was elected in 2007. In2012, Bolaria defeated theCongress candidate by morethan 15,000 votes in an evidenceof his popularity in the segment.

However, some Congressleaders of his constituency haveobjected to his joining the partyand even threatened to protestand leave, but, it seems, CaptAmarinder has prevailed uponthem.

Chandigarh: The UnionTerritory of Chandigarh wasput on alert on Thursday fol-lowing inputs from theIntelligence Bureau (IB) of a pos-sible terrorist strike. Confirmingthe development, Chandigarh’sHome Secretary AnuragAggarwal said: “Yes, we have gotan alert from IB in this regard(terror strike).”

“We have asked theChandigarh Police to takeappropriate measures. We havesought cooperation from cityresidents to be alert and informpolice about anything suspi-cious,” he said.

Chandigarh is the joint cap-ital of both Punjab and Haryana.

A number of VIPs, includ-

ing Governors, Chief Ministers,ministers, legislators and topcivil and police officials live in thecity. The headquarters of thefrontier Western Command arelocated at Chandimandir, 10km from here.

With a population of 1.1million, Chandigarh gets a largenumber of visitors from neigh-bouring Punjab, Haryana,Himachal Pradesh and Jammuand Kashmir.

Following last week’s sur-gical strikes by the IndianArmy on terrorist launch padsacross the Line of Control(LoC), the border states ofJammu & Kashmir, Punjab,Gujarat and Rajasthan havebeen on high alert. IANS

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Himachal Chief MinisterVirbhadra Singh on

Thursday came down heavily onthe students politics inUniversities all over the countrywhere the elections were markedby violence and turmoil.

Interacting with the NationalAssessment and AccreditationCouncil, (NAAC) team whichvisited the Himachal PradeshUniversity for inspection, hesaid that his Government won'ttolerate students indiscipline inthe institutes of higher education.

“I agree that there should berepresentation by student lead-ers, but it should be on merit. Ioppose the stands of students ondirect election, which some-times leads to turmoil and riotsin the campus affecting studiesof students and vitiating theacademic atmosphere”, saidVirbhadra Singh.

He said the selection of stu-dent bodies should be on basis ofmerit. There were some peoplewhose policy was to do mischief,he said adding that they did notenroll themselves for studying

but to enroll their cadre and wanttheir presence to be felt by cre-ating fear in students and politi-cising the academic atmosphere.The growing violence in univer-sities and colleges pose threat tothe education system and shouldbe controlled.

“I being a student of SaintStephen college, Delhi, nevertook part in student politicsthough we had our own studentbody elected on merit," he said.He called for maintaining disci-pline in the campus and theteachers should not try to imposetheir personal ideology upon thestudents when it comes to teach-ing profession. He exhorted thatteachers should not be part ofpolitics though they were free tovote in Assembly or Lok Sabhaelections but they could not be‘preachers of politics’ and couldnot hold any political office ineducational institutions.

The Chief Minister saidthat around 200 bighas of landhad been identified nearGhannahatti for setting upanother campus of University asthere was no scope of expansionat the present site.

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Haryana Finance Minister Capt.Abhimanyu on Thursday said that

the state has moved up in ‘ease of doingbusiness’ index from 15th to thirdrank, after the implementation of newEnterprises Promotion Policy-2015.

As a result of the easing of normsunder this policy, a company has pro-posed to establish a Research andDevelopment unit over an area of 500acres in the state,” said the FinanceMinister.

He said that this company had ear-lier exported footwear worth Rs 1,800crore to countries such as China fol-lowing special concession on tax onshoes with maximum retail price of Rs500 offered by the State Government.

Speaking at the Regional MSMEConclave at CII, the Minister said thatMicro, Small and Medium Enterprises(MSMEs) were the first step for buddingentrepreneurs, who could emerge assuccessful industrialists and contributeto the development of the state and thecountry with the assistance of the gov-ernment.

MSMEs are renowned in smalltowns as brands, however, these entre-preneurs lag behind as they are unableto export their products. Therefore, theymust be provided with global opportu-nities, he said.

He said that the new EnterprisesPromotion Policy-2015 had been for-mulated keeping in view the needs ofsuch entrepreneurs.

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In its ongoing crusade againstfemale foeticide and change

the mindset of the people aboutgirl child, HaryanaGovernment has launched ascheme to gift items of‘Navratri puja’ like coconut,Prasad, Bell and Chunri tofamilies of girls during Navratrifestival.

Navratri is a festival dedi-cated to the worship of theHindu deity Durga and is cel-ebrated all over India.

Haryana Women andChild Development Minister,Kavita Jain on Thursday saidduring Navratri festival, theShri Mata Mansa Devi ShrineBoard would gift items of‘Navratri puja’ to families ofgirls born in district Panchkula.

The Minister after payingobeisance at the Mata MansaDevi Shrine also expressed herconcern over the poor sexratio in rural area of districtPanchkula.

Jain, while talking to themediapersons said that the‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’ cam-paign is aimed at creating pub-lic awareness regarding theneed for protection and wel-fare of the girl child. Therefore,government and the peopleshould work together to makethis campaign a great success,said the Minister.

From distributing free giftvouchers to oath certificates tothe public, HaryanaGovernment has in the pasttwo years adopted several inno-vative campaigns to promotethe cause of the girl child andcombat the gender imbalancein the state.

The State Government haslaunched various initiativesincluding organising cere-monies to celebrate birth of girlchild at health institutions andvillages, unfurling of NationalFlag by educated girls onRepublic day andIndependence day celebrations,honouring parents of girl childat village level celebrations,observing ‘Female FoeticideConservation Day’, signature

campaign and oath ceremoniesagainst female foeticide in edu-cation institutions and gov-ernment offices, cash award forvillages successful in improvingskewed sex ratio, organizingbaby shows, prabhat pheries,celebrating Lohri of girl child,appointing girl ambassadorsand mascots to create aware-ness, to name a few.

Haryana, which had theworst sex ratio among states inthe 2011 census, was chosen byPrime Minister Narendra Modito launch the nationwide ambi-tious ‘Beti Bachao Beti Padhao’in 2015, which is now imple-mented in 20 districts of thestate.

Haryana had the lowestchild sex ratio of 834 comparedto the national average of 919(according to census of India2011). A year later, the state hadrecorded sex ratio at 903 inDecember— the first time in adecade that it had crossed 900in Haryana.

The state is now aiming toachieve the target of more than950 females per 1,000 males inthe sex ratio at birth (SRB) bythe end of this year.

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Taking another farmer-friendly measure, Punjab

Government has enabled thefarmers to directly lodge theircomplaints with the DeputyChief Minister Sukhbir Badalrelated to the paddy procure-ment via toll free no and e-mail.

For the same, the DeputyChief Minister’s helpline —1905 — and e-mail — [email protected] — canbe accessed.

“The farmers of the Statecan now lodge a direct com-plaint with the Deputy ChiefMinister in case of encounter-ing any difficulty in selling theirproduce during the ongoing

paddy season and if the prob-lem is not resolved at the sub-divisional and district level,”said an official spokesperson.

Deputy Chief Minister’shelpline and e-mail can beaccessed for the purpose andthe problems of the farmerswould be redressed on priori-ty basis, the spokesperson said.

Giving detailed informa-tion, spokesperson said that thestate government has alreadyissued directions to all theconcerned officers in grainmarkets (mandis) throughoutPunjab to provide every facil-ity to the farming communityand no stone is being left

unturned to ensure the same. Spokesperson said that in

case a farmer faces any diffi-culty in selling paddy or does-n’t get the full price of the pro-duce, he can lodge a complaintwith the concerned SDM,District Food Supply Officer orthe Deputy Commissioner.

If these officers are unableto redress the problems of thefarmers, they can directly lodgetheir grievance or complaintwith the Deputy ChiefMinister’s toll-free helpline oron the email.

Spokesperson also revealedthat the Deputy Chief Ministerhas strictly instructed the offi-

cers to make sure that thefarmers face no hassle in sell-ing their produce and theyshould be rendered every helpin the mandis.

In a recent meeting with theDeputy Commissioners,Sukhbir had made it absolutelyclear that if any farmer faces anyproblem during the paddy sea-son, the onus would be on theofficial concerned who would bestrictly proceeded against.

Appealing to the farmingcommunity on behalf of thePunjab Government, thespokesperson said that thefarmers should refrain fromharvesting paddy during nighttime as this would lead toincrease of moisture in the

harvested produce resulting inhurdles in getting right price inthe mandis.

Spokesperson also addedthat in order to get adequateprice, the farmers should

bring their produce to themandis after drying which isin accordance with the pro-curement norms or regula-tions of the Food Corporationof India (FCI).

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The Kharga Corps of the Indian Army cel-ebrated its 45th Raising Day on Thursday.

To commemorate the occasion, Corps Com-mander Lt Gen MM Naravane, paid homageat a function in Ambala to the valiant soldierswho were martyred in the service to the nation.

The General Officer then inauguratedthe newly-constructed Kharga SainikInstitute set up for Junior CommissionedOfficers and Other Ranks and their families,a defence release said here.

The Corps was raised in 1971 in WestBengal. Subsequently it shifted to the westerntheatre of the country where it was initiallyheadquartered in Chandimandir near here andlater moved to Ambala, Haryana, in 1985.

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Giving a relief to the farm-ers during current Kharif

procurement season, HaryanaChief Minister Manohar Lalhas ordered that in view of thecomplaints received aboutincreased content of moisturein paddy arriving in theMandis, paddy with upto 22per cent of moisture content beprocured by adjusting theweight in accordance with themoisture content.

An official spokesman saidthat for instance, in case thecontent of moisture is more byone per cent after 17 per cent,the total weight of paddy wouldbe reduced by one per cent.

Similarly, if the moisturecontent is 19 per cent, theweight would be reduced by

two per cent, in case of mois-ture content being 20 per cent,the weight would be reduced bythree per cent and in case of 21per cent, the weight would bereduced by four per cent, saidhe.

He said that similarly, incase of moisture content of 22per cent, the weight would bereduced by five per cent. Thefarmers would be paid as perthe adjustment of the weight.

The spokesman said thatreports were being receivedfrom farmers regarding valuecut by Aartiyas due to moisturecontent in paddy arriving inmandis. Recovery of CMR ricefrom rice millers would bemade as per weighted formu-la according the guidelines ofGovernment of India, headded.

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In an apparent attempt tocash in on the “holy cow”

sentiments of a section of vot-ers, the Punjab Governmenthas decided to act toughagainst those abandoningtheir cattle.

In contrast, the StateGovernment claimed that themove was aimed at control-ling the stray cattle menaceposing a serious threat to thehuman lives and causingmajor damage to crops in theState.

“Stray cattle is a big prob-lem and the Government ismaking efforts to contain it.The process of setting upgaushalas or cattle ponds inall 22 districts is on and willbe completed soon…Besides,we are also mulling over strin-gent action against those whoabandon their cattle,” a seniorPunjab Government officialtold The Pioneer.

The official said that thepeople usually get rid of thecattle when they fail to deliv-er them or the farmers don’tget any more benefit fromthem like they fail to yieldmilk, and this was the mainreason for the ever-increasingmenace.

“Now, the Governmenthas decided that such people would be taken to task,” theofficial added.

The issue of stray cattlemenace was debated many atimes as it not only results inroad accidents, sometimesfatal, but also damages the

standing crops.In all, 472 cow shelters,

including private, are workingin the State housing morethan 2.50 lakh cows. It isbelieved that more than onelakh cows are still strayingacross the State.

Punjab Government, in

its 2015 budget, hadannounced to set up gausha-las in every district of theState to tackle the problem ofstray animals. With this, set-ting up of ‘District AnimalWelfare Society’, under thechairmanship of the Deputy Commissioner, inever y distr ict was a lsoannounced to establish theinfrastructure for gaushalas.

However, theGovernment is yet to con-struct the gaushalas for the

completion of which ChiefMinister Parkash Singh Badalhad, only recently, approvedrelease of �22 crore.

Badal has also askedPunjab Gau SewaCommission chairmanKeemti Bhagat to rope in theNGOs, voluntary and otherreligious organisations to runthese cattle ponds for whichthe State Government wouldalso bear five per cent oftotal expenditure incurred onthe maintenance of these cat-tle ponds including the cost offeeding.

After completion of theseponds, nearly 2000-2500 straycattle would be housed inevery cattle pond.

He said, “Along with theconstruction of the govern-mental cattle ponds, the cesswill be used for the welfare ofcows and the Governmentwill also give 4-5 lakh toeach non-Government cow-shed across the Punjab.”

The State Governmenthas also made levy of cow cessmandatory as per the PunjabProhibition of Cow SlaughterAct. The cow cess was leviedon items including liquor,fuel, vehicles, besides onepaisa per unit of the electric-ity consumed.

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Talking tough, PunjabChief Minister Parkash

Singh Badal on Thursdayasked the politicos to “mindtheir business” and leave secu-rity issues to the securityforces.

Badal virtually blasted theCongress and the Aam AadmiParty (AAP) leaders for “theircrimes against the nation andagainst its brave soldiers.”

Punjab Congress chiefCapt Amarinder Singh andAAP national convenerArvind Kejriwal should realisethat it is not for politicos toadjudicate on strategic secu-rity matters, said Badal,adding, “Capt Amarinder andKejriwal have tried to makethe Indian Army’s capabilitiesand intent look suspect in theeyes of the world at a mostcritical hour.”

“The entire nation isstunned, angered and dis-mayed over their conduct andstatements. It is mysteriouswhy they are trying to hurt theentire nation at this criticalhour,” said Badal.

The country was shockedto see this strange behaviourfrom its senior politicos “at atime when our armed forcesare engaged in a huge effort onthe borders to call the bluff of a hostile Governmentof Pakistan against our coun-try”, he said.

Lashing out against thosewho are criticising the deci-sions taken jointly by theCentral Government and thesecurity forces, Badal saidthat decisions on whether ornot to reveal evidence on sur-gical strikes and when to exe-cute “pre-emptive civilianrelocation” are issues to bedecided on highly profes-sional grounds.

Punjab Government, hecategorically stated, had fullyimplemented the directive ofthe Central Government onthe security-driven issue of“pre-emptive civil ian evacuation and relocation on

border areas.” Badal emphasised that it

was not for the StateGovernments to decide onwhether or not or when to exe-cute pre-emptive relocation.

“This is highly tactical andstrategic decision to be takenby the Government of India onthe advice of the securityforces. That is how it has beendone here too,” he said.

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Meanwhile, Badal haswritten to Union HomeMinister Rajnath Singh afterconcluding his three-day tourof the border areas and closeinterface with people whohave had to be relocated fol-lowing security requirements.

Badal, in his letter,referred to the criticism of thearmed forces’ decision not toreveal evidence on surgicalstrikes. Besides, he also men-tioned that the Congress andAAP have also criticised thedecision on relocation ofcivilian population on theborder as a pre-emptive evacuation.

“This is an unpardonablesin as the Congress and theAAP leaders are treating oursoldiers’ sacred zeal andheroic deeds to mere fodderfor their petty politicking,”said Badal, referring to Capt Amarinder andKejriwal’s “duplicitous anddeliberately mischievousstatements on sensitive issuesborder security”.

Badal said that it wasabsurd and ironical that “onlythree voices in the entire

world have treated the borderevacuation and the surgicalstrikes with suspicion. One ofthese three voices belongedunderstandably to Pakistanand the other two belong toKejriwal and Amarinder”.

He also accused the AAPand the Congress leaders of“trying to create confusion inthe people’s minds about tem-porary civilian relocation inborder areas as well as on thecrucial decision of the armedforces about the release of evi-dence on strikes across theLoC in and Jammu andKashmir. No country can everallow such suicidal state-ments”.

Apparently losing his coolover repeated efforts by theCongress and the AAP to cre-ate controversies about deci-sions which lie essentially inthe domain of the armedforces, Badal maintained thatthe action and statements ofCapt Amarinder and Kejriwalwere not the best way toassure our soldiers of how theentire nation stands unques-tioningly behind them at thiscritical hour.

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Punjab Congress onThursday lashed out at the

Badal Government for closingdown the refugee camps in theborder areas without makingarrangements for the displacedresidents to return to theirhomes.

“The residents, who wereearlier forced to evacuate fromtheir villages, have now beenrendered homeless as a result ofthis. The people are facing aharrowing time,” said PunjabPradesh Congress Committee(PPCC) president CaptAmarinder Singh.

He pointed that the Akaliworkers have also been with-drawn from these camps, caus-ing the displaced residents to beleft out in the open, without aroof on their heads. The formerchief minister, reacting strong-ly to the reports about closureof camps and withdrawal of theruling party workers fromthere, said that the move reflect-ed the total apathy of the Badal

government in the state towardsthe people forcibly evacuatedfrom the border villages.

Amarinder said that theextent of the state government’smismanagement of the borderissue was appalling and clearlyshowed that the political dis-pensation in the state was total-ly unconcerned about the plightof the poor people of the state.

“While Badal and his teamare busy in promoting theirvested interests, lakhs of peoplearound the state are being sub-jected to all kinds of hardships,”said the former chief minister.

Residents of the borderareas, in particular, were beingsubjected to all kinds of prob-lems since being displaced fromtheir villages in the midst of thewar hysteria whipped up by theBadal government, said CaptAmarinder.

He added, “From facingloss of their crops ready for har-vesting, to becoming homeless,they are suffering a host ofproblems, all of which are of theBadal government’s making.”

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In the backdrop of the surgicalstrike and rising tension

between India and Pakistan,tourism has been hit in Punjab’sborder district of Amritsar. Theper day pilgrim count at theiconic Golden Temple has seena steep fall by up to 25 per cent.

“On an average, anywherebetween 80,000 to 90,000 pil-grims including foreigners visitSri Darbar Sahib daily.

During the past few days,there has been a decline in thisfigure by almost 25 per cent,” SriDarbar Sahib (Golden Temple),Amritsar’s manager, SulakhanSingh said on Thursday.

Asked to specify the reasonbehind the sudden decline in pil-grims during the past week, hesaid, “The tension on the border(with Pakistan) appears to bemain one.”

He said during festivals likeDiwali, birth anniversaries of theSikh Gurus and other importantevents and holidays, the daily pil-grim count varies between 3 to4 lakh. Singh said though the rea-son for drop in number of pil-

grims was mostly due to esca-lating tensions between the twonations, some people could havestayed away due to the ongoingharvesting season.

The falling pilgrim count hasalso naturally led to a fall in theuse of food material for the lan-gar (community kitchen).

“On daily basis, 60-65 quin-tals of flour is used as against the50 quintals being used now,” hesaid.

With public viewing of theRetreat ceremony at the Attari-Wagah joint check post alsobeing suspended for the timebeing, tourism in Amritsar hasbeen adversely affected.

Punjab shares a 553-kmborder with Paksitan and thereare six districts in the state, inc-luding Amritsar, which lie closeto the International Border (IB).

People in nearly 1,000 vil-lages falling within a 10 km-radius of the IB were asked to beevacuated following an adviso-ry by the Centre, apprehendingretaliation from Pakistan afterIndian Army carried out surgi-cal strikes across the Line ofControl (LoC) recently.

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SAD-BJP led PunjabGovernment’s decision of

pruning mismatch in food grainsstock is growing into a majorcontroversy with the oppositionparties attempting to reap the sit-uation.

While the Congress partyhas decided to move the courtagainst the move, the AamAadmi Party (AAP) has allegedhe “nexus of Centre-State forfoodgrain theft”.

Punjab Government hasreportedly decided to borrow Rs31,000 crore from the banks andrepay the same in 20 years. Themove, also having the approvalof the State Cabinet, was aimedat resolving the controversyraised after the Reserve Bank ofIndia (RBI) had pointed at food-grains stock mismatch.

RBI, in April this year, hadasked the banks to classify Rs12,000 crore given to the State forbuying foodgrains as “bad” loanindicating at the misuse ofmoney. It had also stoppedrelease of Rs 20,000 crore cashcredit limit (CCL) to the State forwheat procurement.

Rejecting the PunjabGovernment’s move to convertan alleged misappropriation ofRs 31,000 crore into a loan,Congress party announced thatit has decided to approach thecourt to scuttle the move.

Reacting to the “admissionmade by the state governmentabout missing food grains to thetune of Rs 31,000 crore”, PunjabCongress vice president andchief spokesperson Sunil Jakharsaid: “You cannot convert a theftinto a loan and put the liabilityon the people of the state foranother 20 years.”

Jakhar, who has been vigor-ously raising the issue of themissing food grains for quitesome time, pointed out that theRBI and the consortium of 33banks had earlier refused toprovide the Cash Credit Limit(CCL) guarantee to Punjab overearlier this year.

“Instead of putting the lia-bility on the people of the state,responsibility must be fixed andthe theft amount recovered fromthe personal properties of thoseresponsible. Why should peopleof the state, who are already bur-dened with over Rs 1.25 lakhcrore debt, bear the liability of thetheft committed by few people inpower?” he asked.

“Come what may, theCongress party will not allow it.You cannot condone a massivescandal of such humongousproportion by an executive order.The Congress party will use allthe legal and constitutional

means to ensure that not only arethe real culprits punished, butalso made to repay the moneythey have defrauded people of,from their personal accounts,” heasserted. Jakhar said that thetruth had finally come out andthe state government had toeventually admit to the frauddespite the BJP-led NDA gov-ernment at the Centre “desper-ately trying” to shield the stategovernment “under the patron-age of Union Finance MinisterArun Jaitley”.

He said that given the natureof irrefutable evidence, corrob-orated by the Comptroller andAuditor General also, whichpointed out to use of “ghosttrucks” bearing registrationnumbers which later turned outto be of the two-wheelers, thestate government had no way butto admit to the fraud.

Badal, who had in June thisyear, refuted allegations regard-ing any misappropriation in theCCL, had earlier also main-tained that all accounts regard-ing it CCL “were crystal clear asstate government merely pur-chased the food grains for theUnion Government. There wereno irregularities in this entireoperation”.

Following the RBI action,Badal had sought Prime MinisterNarendra Modi’s “personal inter-vention” for early resolution ofthe CCL issue. Following this, theRBI had released the CCL.

The gap in the procurementpayment and actual stocks hap-pened mainly during the rule ofthe Akali Dal-BJP alliance gov-ernment, which is in power inPunjab since 2007.

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Congress Legislature Party(CLP) leader Charanjit SinghChanni on Thursday said thatafter confessing food grainsscam, Chief Minister ParkashSingh Badal should also have themoral courage to name the ben-eficiaries, even if they are hisfamily members.

Channi also asked the stateFood and Civil Supplies Minister,also Badal’s son-in-law AdeshPartap Kairon to tender his res-ignation owning moral respon-sibility for the alleged scam.

“Badal has been denying thisbiggest ever scam in Punjabafter it was exposed last year asthe Centre refused to releasemoney for procurement opera-tions. The Centre relented as theissue concerned food security,”said Channi.

Stating that Badal govern-ment has accepted the scandal byopting for marketing borrowingstotalling Rs 31,000 crore to reim-

burse Rs 26,000 crore to theCentre, channi said that it wasthe right of the people to knowas to who are the biggies whohave made such big bucks.

“This money has been trans-ferred by the Centre to Punjabfor foodgrains procurementoperations…Heads must roll asthe culprits involved in thismega-scam can’t be allowed to goscot free. In case Badal shows anylaxity in arresting the culprits, itwould reflect upon him too as hehimself would come under theshadow during his record fifthterm as the Chief Minister,” hesaid.

Channi assured the peoplethat the Congress, after cominginto power during February2017 elections, would mark acomprehensive probe into bla-tant corruption prevailing inthe Badal government and nowno other proof was needed afteradmission of the foodgrainsscam by raising loan to repay theamount to the centre that wasextended to the state as cash-credit limit.

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Terming the offer of softloan to Punjab Government andlatter’s accepting to take loan inlieu of embezzlement of food-grains as “cover up” exercise byboth the Centre and the Stategovernments to hide “loot” byAkalis, the Aam Aadmi Party(AAP) on Thursday said that theCentral Government shouldcome clean on the issue and clar-ify what action it has taken in themulti-crore scam.

AAP’s Punjab ConvenerGurpreet Singh Waraich said thattaking Rs 31,000 crore loan fornext 20 years indicates thatSAD-BJP have already smelledtheir humiliating defeat in theupcoming assembly electionsand were trying to ‘loot’ the stateat the last leg of their tenure bypushing the burden of theirhuge loot” to the state exchequer.

“What action Centre tookagainst the Punjab Governmentfor embezzlement of food stockworth multi-crore? Under whatcondition the CCL was given toPunjab Government for pro-curement? Isn’t offering and ac-cepting the loan request byAkalis to cover-up food scam in-dicates nexus of Centre-State inthe food grain scam”, he quipped.

He said that Badal’s bid totake the loan itself shows that“thief as accepted the theft”and the law enforcementagency (Centre) is giving anoffer to “thief ” to settle thescore by paying equal amountof the theft to get bail.

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The intense infighting inHaryana unit of Congress

reached a new low on Thursdaywhen a scuffle broke outbetween the supporters of partyState chief Ashok Tanwar andformer Chief MinisterBhupinder Singh Hooda result-ing in head injuries to Tanwar.

The clash between the sup-porters of two leaders tookplace during Congress’ vicepresident Rahul Gandhi’s visitto Bhairon temple in New Delhito end his month-long KisanYatra. The two groups havereportedly clashed over areadomination at the venue.

Following the clash,Tanwar sustained head injuries

and was admitted to RamManohar Lohia hospital inNew Delhi. Few party workersalso received minor injuriesduring the scuffle.

Bhupinder Singh Hooda,his son Rohtak MP DeependerHooda, incharge of Haryanaparty affairs Kamal Nath,Haryana CLP leader KiranChaudhry, Congress leader AshaKumari, Kuldeep Bishnoi andother senior party leaders metTanwar at the hospital later.

Even though directionsfrom Central party leadershiphave been given to the Stateparty unit to present a unitedface and end the factionalism totake on BJP-led HaryanaGovernment, no lessons seem tohave been learnt so far.

The scuffle, meanwhile, hasfurther escalated the infightingbetween the Hooda and Tanwarcamp as several supports ofTanwar protested at the Delhioffice of All India Congress

Committee and demandedaction against Hooda and hissupporters.

Tanwar supporters have alsothreatened to register an FIRagainst Hooda supporters if the

party high command fails to takean action in the matter.

Talking to The Pioneer,Kuldeep Soni, Haryana Congressspokesperson alleged that Hoodasupporters had deliberately beat-

en up Tanwar with sticks andstrict action should be takenagainst them.

Soni, who is from Tanwarcamp, said that all leaders ofstate Congress committee arewith Tanwar and would sit ondharna if action is not taken against Hooda and hissupporters.

This is not the first time thatthe supporters of two Congressleaders have clashed. Last yearduring Congress’ KisanMazdoor Samman rally inDelhi’s Ramlila Maidan, a minorscuffle had broken out betweenHooda and Tanwar supporters.Apart from this, Hooda sup-porters had also booed Tanwarat various party events.

While Hooda supportersare seen wearing pink turbans,Tanwar supporters are seen inan attire of different colour atparty’s rallies.

Tanwar and two-timeChief Minister Hooda had

been engaged in a tug-of-warsince 2014 Haryana assemblypolls in which the party wasreduced to a pathetic 15 seats,even losing the status of themain opposition party to theIndian National Lok Dal(INLD) in the State Assembly.

Since then. the Hooda fac-tion has been trying to dislodgeTanwar from his post. In the past,several state MLAs had alsomet Kamal Nath raising theissue of infighting in the stateparty unit and demandingremoval of Tanwar.

While CLP leader Kiranand Capt Yadav are consideredclose to Tanwar, KuldeepSharma, Shadi Lal Batra andPhool Chand Mullana and stateseveral MLAs are known sup-porters of Hooda. RandeepSurjewala, Kumari Selja andKuldeep Bishnoi, however, havenot been seen aligning with anyof the two factions within thestate Congress.

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Foreign Secretar y sum-marised the results of the

recent diplomatic outreachby Pakistan, the crux beingthat Pakistan faces diplomat-ic isolation and that theGovernment’s talking pointshave been met with indiffer-ence in major world capitals,the paper said.

On the US, Chaudhrysaid that relations have dete-riorated and will likely furtherdeteriorate because of theAmerican demand that actionbe taken against the Haqqaninetwork.

On India, Chaudhry saidthat the completion of thePathankot investigation and

some visible action againstJaish-e-Mohammad (JeM),which India says was behindthe January 2 attack, were theprincipal demands.

Chaudhry said whileChina has reiterated its sup-port for Pakistan, it too hasindicated a preference for achange in course by Pakistan.

Specif ical ly, whileChinese authorities have con-veyed their willingness tokeep putting on technicalhold a UN ban on JeM leaderMasood Azhar, they havequestioned the logic of doingso repeatedly, the report said.

From Page 1The SP hopes that the

merger will help tap theMuslim vote bank in easternUttar Pradesh, especially inGhazipur, Mau and Varanasiahead of next year’s assemblyelections. The merger of thetwo parties had earlier sparkedoff a battle between AkhileshYadav and uncle Shivpal.

On a day when his unclehad announced the merger ofthe QED with the SP inLucknow, Akhilesh had said, “If

we can manage booths, we willwin the polls hands down,”

The same night, Akhileshhad removed SecondaryEducation Minister BalramSingh Yadav from the Ministryfor being instrumental in themerger.

Later, the CM had claimedthat there was no dispute with-in the party or the family overthe merger. “Whatever Netaji(Mulayam Singh Yadav) sayswill be acceptable to us,” he hadsaid.

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From Page 1“You should help the farmers of the country. You should

provide more money to the Indian Army under the 7th PayCommission, that is your responsibility. This is why people ofIndia have elected you and this is the truth,” he said.

The Congress leader also accused Modi of dividing thecountry on religion and caste lines and not fulfilling his pollpromises of providing employment to youth, higher supportprices for farm produce among others. He also charged thePrime Minister with helping a select few industrialists whilenot waiving debts of farmers.

“Modiji you promised two crore jobs per year that has notbeen done... You talked about ‘Make in India’ that is not hap-pening, you talked about Swachchh Bharat that is also not vis-ible... You only did one thing - that of dividing the countryon religion and caste lines,” he said. Seeking to counter Modi’sattack on Congress for having not done anything for the coun-try in the past 70 years, Rahul said, “We have given them jus-tice”.

“In my last 30 days experience what I learnt is that - eventhe smallest politicians think they know how this countryshould run. With humility, I want to tell you that in last 30days poor people taught me about India, agriculture... No oneknows better than them,” he said.

Earlier in the day lashing out at the Modi Government ina rally at Meerut, Rahul said only the Prime Minister and hisfriends were “happy” as money has come into the pockets of15 top businessmen and not the farmers, labour and small shop-keepers. “Modiji had said he has a 56-inch chest and will fightout corruption, but he instead brought out a ‘Fair and Lovelyscheme’ for turning the black money of the country’s thievesinto white.

“The money has not come into the pockets of farmers,labour and small shopkeepers, but went into those of 15 topbusinessmen. Only Modiji and his friends are happy,” he said.Training his guns on the family-led Samajwadi PartyGovernment in the State, Rahul said, “Uttar Pradesh will nothave a Government of just 15 persons. The Government herewill be of farmers, labour, small shopkeepers, and of peoplefrom every religion and caste.” The Congress vice-presidentsaid he will force the BJP-led NDA Government at the Centrefor a loan waiver for the distressed farmers.

Rahul also attacked the Modi Government saying it hasfailed to provide jobs to youth in the country.

Gandhi, 45, travelled across 140 of Uttar Pradesh’s 400 con-stituencies. Uttar Pradesh will vote early next year, though thedates have not yet been announced. Rahul led his party’s cam-paign for the national election in 2014; the Congress confrontedits worst-ever result. Since then, the party has floundered inelections in key States like Assam and Kerala, with Gandhiunable to reverse a trend of electoral defeats.

Majority of those who had come to attend the rallybelonged to Rajashan, Punjab, Haryana and Delhi.

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mination rounds to scuttle ter-rorists’ chances to escape tak-ing advantage of darkness inthe area.

He said the medicinerecovered from the terroristshad Pakistani marking. TheArmy has also recovered mapsand matrix sheets.

This is the second timeduring this week that terroristsattempted to strike a RR camp.On Sunday, a Border SecurityForce constable was killedwhen terrorists attempted tostrike into 46 RR camp atJanbazpora in north Kashmir’sBaramulla district. The attack-ers, however, escaped from thearea when they were repulsed.

Meanwhile, the Army foiledthree infiltration bids in sever-al sub-sectors along the LoC.One infiltrator was killed inNowgam sector. Sources saidthe other infiltrators fled back.

Defence spokesman ColRajesh Kalia said that ArmyCommander Lt Gen DS Hoodavisited the frontier area of Uriand reviewed security with thelocal commanders. Accompa-nied by the XV Corps Comm-ander Lt Gen Satish Dua, GenHooda took stock of all measurestaken by the Army to beat backany misadventure from across.During his interaction with offi-cers and men on ground, he con-veyed his compliments for theirhigh levels of operational pre-paredness, vigil and morale andexhorted them to remain alertfor any eventuality.

Later, both the senior offi-cers visited Awantipura basedVictor Force headquarterswhere Gen Hooda was briefedby the Kilo and Victor ForceCommanders on the securitysituation in Kashmir.

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Government to allure children toState-run schools, the students’enrolment continues to decline.

The number of studentsbetween the age group 6-14years, who did not go foradmission, was 1,86,838 during2009-10. It was reduced by19,591 during 2012-13, by 6,001in 2013-14 and 5,152 in 2014-15 while it recorded a rise of9,368 during the year 2015-16.

According to sources, thesituation is worse in minerals-rich Keonjhar district, where3,987 children did not attend aschool during 2015-16. Officialdata reveal that a total 1,521children did not enrol in theprimary schools during 2011-12 in the district while 87 stu-dents stayed away in 2014-15.

Similarly, 1,213 childrendid not go to schools in 2015-16 in tribals-dominatedMayurbhanj district while thenumber was 695 in Koraput,651 in Rayagada and 375 inSundargarh district.

Shockingly, 294 childrenstayed away from the schools in

the relatively developedCuttack district.

While none of the childrenwas found away from theschools in Kendrapada andBhadrak districts, only four didnot come to schools in Jajpurlast year. The number was 30 inJagatsinghpur and 130 in

Khordha district, said officials.Notably, the Government is

providing free admission oppor-tunity, schoolbags, textbooks,uniforms and midday meals toencourage children to getenrolled in the State-run schools.Even, there is provision ofstipend for the ST/SC students.

The Shiksha Sahayaksunder the Sarva ShikshaAbhiyan have been given theresponsibility to persuade thereluctant children to come toschools and convince their par-ents to send them to schools.

The decline in the enrol-ment has also forced theGovernment to close down anumber of schools due to lackof adequate number of students.

However, privately-runschools like Saraswati VidyaMandirs and others have beenwitnessing a steady rise inenrolment even in rural areas.

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The National Green Tribunal(NGT) on Thursday issued

notice to the Odisha,Chhattisgarh and CentralGovernments to keep theirsides on the ongoing row oversharing of Mahanadi waterwithin four weeks.

The NGT’s move came inresponse to a petition filed byan NGO.

Alleging that the construc-tion of barrages and dams bythe Chhattisgarh Government

on the Mahanadi upper catch-ments has seriously affected thewater flow to the downstreamareas causing adverse impact onecology and environment, theNGO has urged the NGT tourgently intervene in the mat-ter.

NGO’s counsel MukeshKumar Singh told the mediathat the NGT has decided totake stern action in the matteras the water blocked by the bar-rages and dams is being givento the industries. “Besides, thewater released by these indus-tries into the river has thor-

oughly polluted the down-stream areas posing a seriousthreat to the biodiversity ofChilika, Satkosia andBhitarkanika.”

Meanwhile, a team ofOdisha Congress MLAs led byLeader of OppositionNarasingha Mishra has decid-ed to take up the matter withthe President at the RashtrapatiBhavan in New Delhi.

Mishra told reporters inBhubaneswar on Thursday,“The Congress will try its bestfor the safety of Mahanadi andto safeguard the interest of the

people of Odisha. For this rea-son, we will meet the Presidentand place our demands andseek his intervention. We hadrequested the President to sparesome of his time for us to whichhe has agreed. As scheduled, theCongress team will meet thePresident in the morning onOctober 13.”

BJD spokesperson PratapDeb said his party is notopposed to the decision of theLeader of Opposition. If thePresident has agreed for a meet-ing with the Congress MLAs, letthem meet him.”

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Encephalitis in Malkangiri dis-trict, Petroleum and Natural GasMinister Dharmendra Pradhanon Thursday requested UnionHealth Minister JP Nadda tosend a high-level fact-findingteam to investigate the causes foroutbreak of the disease and toadvise the State Government forremedial measures.

“The disease has assumedepidemic proportions and

claimed lives of more than 30infants. The National HumanRights Commission has alsoissued notice to public author-ities in Odisha asking them tosubmit a detailed report onsteps being taken by themwithin four weeks. Therefore,it is necessary that theGovernment of India extendsall possible support so that out-break would be checked andnot spread to other districts,”urged Pradhan in a letter.

He too informed thatMalkangiri is an under-devel-

oped district afflicted with LeftWing extremism. The districtfares poorly on all socio-eco-nomic indicators.

Meanwhile, reports saidfour children have died while undergoing treatment atthe Malkangri DistrictHeadquarters Hospital (DHH).With this, the total death tollrose to 38 in just 28 days.

Notably, the StateGovernment had onWednesday said vaccineswould be administered inaffected areas from November.

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Jagatsinghpur district ,Minister Damodar Rout andBJD district president andRajya Sabha member BishnuCharan Das, continuedunabated on Thursday.

After Rout’s outburst overthe suspension of theJagatsinghpur district BJDvice-president Ashwini Dasalias Kuna Silat, Bishnu Das inhis reaction wondered that hedidn’t know why party supre-mo Naveen Patnaik suspend-ed Ashwini Das from theparty.

“Those who have criminalantecedents and Congresslinks are close to Bishnu Das.Ashwini has criminal recordsand is also close to BishnuDas,” said Minister Rout.

On the other hand,Bishnu Das said no caseslodged against Ashwini havebeen proved. Hence, he is nota criminal, said he.

“Party supremo and ChiefMinister Naveen Patnaik didnot consult with me beforesuspending Ashwini,” saidDas.

When asked about Rout’scomment that Bishu Das doesnot know when he became thedistrict president, Das said,“Damababu does not attendor involve him in party func-tions and activities in the dis-trict. He doesn’t seem to bepart of the BJD. So, how canhe know when I became thedistrict president?” Das saidhe would soon meet the ChiefMinister to apprise about thedevelopments involving theparty’s situation inJagatsinghpur and DamodarRout.

Notably, on Wednesday Patnaik suspended AshwiniDas from the party.

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The BJP will go all out tohighlight the ‘message’ of sur-

gical strikes by the Indian Armythrough the platforms of ‘RamLilas’, ‘Jagrans’ and ‘VijayaDashmi’ functions and the festiveseason ahead.

BJP leaders will also honourex-armymen in the electionbound States to celebrate the‘new-found nationalism’.

The surgical strikes orderedby Modi Government onSeptember 29 have made theBJP cadre buoyant. They are nowtasked to spread the message of‘nationalistic unity’ in all States,particularly Uttar Pradesh,Uttarakhand and Punjab. The six‘Parivartan Yatras’ which theparty is to undertake in UttarPradesh would also focus on ‘theconfident India’ , ready to give ‘aresolute and unflinching response

to the aggressor’. “Army’s action would surely

shift fence-sitters in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and to an extent inPunjab, to the BJP. There is nodoubt about it,” according to a topBJP leader. Not only upper castevoters but others would also beinfluenced by the spirit of ‘BharatUday’ under Prime MinisterNarendra Modi, he said.

The Prime Minister himselfwould move to Lucknow on the‘Vijaya Dashmi day’ - October11 - and address party workersand the public there. The lead-ers in the State have been askedto carry the ‘Nationalist cam-paign’ from the State, district,mandal and village levels anduse platforms of ‘Ram Lilas’,‘Jagrans’ and ‘Yatras’ to showcase‘rising India’ under the Modiregime in the backdrop of mil-itary action. Many ‘DussheraPandals’ too will showcase

Army’s action across the border. For his part, RSS chief Mohan

Bhagwat, who would give his tra-ditional ‘Vijaya Dashmi’ addressis expected to laud ‘the newstrategic and national securitydoctrine’ under the Modi dis-pensation. The RSS head’s speechon the day conventionally spellsout Sangh’s official line on allissues.

Uttarakhand, a State whichsends maximum number ofrecruits to the Indian Army,would witness BJP felicitating ex-

servicemen and lauding theircontribution to nation building.

The BJP’s strategists, whohave been trying to focus on‘nationalism’ as the main cam-paign theme that could tide overthe multiple caste calculations inUP and other poll-bound Statesearly next year, are only toohappy with ‘the coincidence’ ofthe army strikes on the terroristlaunch pads in Pakistan, ‘ignitingnational integration’ and shoringBJP’s poll spirits.

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Upset with the second extensiongiven to China to continue with its

technical hold over India’s applicationfor designating Jaish-e-Mohammadchief Masood Azhar as a UnitedNations-proscribed terrorist, India onThursday slammed the functioning ofthe 1267 Sanctions Committee of theUnited Nations Security Council.

Ministry of External Affairsspokesperson Vikas Swarup criticisedthe “non-transparent and anonymous”manner of designating individuals bythe committee and said failing to pro-scribe Azhar as a terrorist will send adangerous message.

“Such a designation would helpsend a strong signal to all terror groupsacross the world that the internationalcommunity is no longer going to pur-sue, or tolerate, selective approaches toterrorism. Distinction between goodand bad terrorists is fallacious and coun-terproductive. Concomitantly, it willalso be sending a dangerous message ifit fails to act upon India’s submission,”

Swarup added.The 1267 Al Qaeeda’s Sanctions

Committee that had banned JeM is yetto sanction the Pakistan-based terror-

ist Azhar after China’s technical hold onthe issue since March 31 this year. Chinais the only member in the 15-nationcommittee to put a hold on India’s appli-cation despite other 14 members sup-porting New Delhi’s attempt to putAzhar on the sanctions list that wouldsubject him to an assets freeze and trav-el ban.

New Zealand, which at present isheading the 1267 committee, has con-veyed its support to India’s request oflisting Azhar. In its capacity as an elect-ed UNSC member, New Zealand saidit has noted the limitations of a con-sensus based approach to decisionmaking in the Sanctions Committeesand talked about providing greaterflexibility or discretion to the chair incase of non-compliance.

“India would welcome any movewhich enables functioning of the UNCommittee in a manner where politi-cal considerations do not hold hostagethe designation of known terrorists andchange the rule of complete non-trans-parency and anonymity of this process,”Swarup said.

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Young IAS recruits of Biharand Jammu & Kashmir

cadre on Thursday had a free-wheeling discussion with theUnion Ministers from theirrespective States. The discus-sions ranged from issues con-cerning the State and theprospect of further developingit in a responsible manner.

The exercise is part of theCentre’s initiative to orientnewly inducted civil servants toState-specific issues through adirect interaction with theCentral Ministers hailing fromStates and UTs. All these offi-cers have completed their train-ing at the Lal Bahadur ShastriAcademy, Mussoorie and theprobation period.

In addition, they have alsoundergone three months’ stintas the newly designatedAssistant Secretaries at theCentre under an arrangementintroduced in 2015 on theadvice of Prime MinisterNarendra Modi, which enablesthe young IAS officers to spenda term with various centralministries before reporting forposting in their respective Statecadres. The interaction with theMinisters started this year.

Union Ministers Ram VilasPaswan, Ravi Shankar Prasad,Radha Mohan Singh, JP Nadda

and Upendra Kushwaha metabout 26 Bihar cadre 2014batch officers, who are cur-rently undergoing training asAssistant Secretaries in Delhi.While Nadda is from HimachalPradesh and represents it in theRajya Sabha, he was born andhas studied in Bihar.

“This is a PMO’s initiative.The idea is that Ministers froma particular State share theirexperience and views withyoung officers as they mayfind it helpful in dischargingtheir duties,” Paswan said.

He told the officers, whohave been serving in thenational Capital as AssistantSecretaries before they areposted in their cadre States, thatpeople’s expectations from theGovernment have increasedand due to connectivity pro-vided by the social media, theywant quick remedy to the issuesraised by them.

“I asked them to develop

rapport with the people theyare serving,” he said, adding headvised them to use “act (law),fact and tact” to help the citi-zens of the State.

Radha Mohan Singh,sources said, told them to focuson implementation of schemesas he noted that some centralschemes were not executedproperly in the State. Sourcessaid similar meetings with offi-cers linked to other States willalso be organised in due course.

During his interactionwith the newly inducted IASofficers, Union MinisterJitendra Singh said they shouldact as ambassadors of the cen-tral Government-run welfareschemes and ensure that thebenefits of these measuresreach every parts of Jammuand Kashmir. The Ministerwas speaking to six IAS offi-cers, allocated Jammu andKashmir cadre, who havecompleted their three-monthtraining here.

He expressed hope thatthese young IAS officers willbecome ambassadors of theincredible new schemes intro-duced by the ModiGovernment and will ensurethat the benefits of theseschemes reach every nookand corner of the threeregions of Jammu, Kashmirand Ladakh.

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As part of the Government’s ‘SwachchhBharat, Swachchh Smarak’ campaign,

Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) pro-tected monuments across the country havebeen declared ‘polythene-free zones’.

The Union Tourism Ministry hasissued advisory to all States to keep mon-uments polythene-free up to 300 metersfrom their protected boundaries, saidUnion Tourism Minister Mahesh Sharmaat a joint Press conference on ‘SwachchhBharat Mission’ along with Union RuralDevelopment Minister Narendra SinghTomar.

On October 2, the Government hadannounced a complete ban on polythenein the radius of 100 metres around over3,680 monuments which are under thejurisdiction of the ASI.

The area between 100 to 300 metresaround the monuments, which is calledregulated zone, falls under the jurisdictionof the State Governments.

He said his ministry also plans to bringin some laws to impose strict implementa-tion of the polythene-free initiative in theareas which are under the jurisdiction of ASI.

An official said the initiative will bereviewed after a month to decide on the needof imposing fines on offenders.

Sharma also announced sanctioning of�350 crore to provide facilities like pro-tected boundaries, toilets and disabledfriendly access in all the ASI monuments.

He said that 75 monuments, includingSafdarjung Tomb and Purana Qila in Delhiand Agra Fort and Akbar’s Tomb in UttarPradesh, have been added to the list of 25monuments under Adarsh Smarak Schemefor upgradation of tourist related amenities.

These monuments are also coveredunder ‘Swachh Paryatan Mobile App’through which general public can com-municate their complaints about anyunclean area or garbage piles in andaround the tourist destination.

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Major manufacturers ofanti-toxins in India are

under fire for sick, malnour-ished and neglected horses. Aseries of inspections carried outin 10 facilities countrywide byveterinarians and experts fromprominent veterinary collegesand non-profit organisationson animal welfare — includingPeople For Ethical TreatmentOf Animals (PETA) — haverevealed widespread abuse andneglect of thousands of equinesin the country and their use as“living factories” to produceantitoxins and antivenins.

The report of the findingswas obtained through RTIfrom the Committee for thePurpose of Control andSupervision of Experimentson Animals (CPCSEA) underthe Ministry of Environment.PETA has appealed to theMinistry to shut down suchequine-abusing facilities.

These inspections wereauthorised by the AnimalWelfare Board of India(AWBI). The facilities inspect-

ed include — Serum Instituteof India, VINS BioProductsLimited, Haffkine Bio-Pharmaceutical CorporationLimited and King Institute ofPreventive Medicine andResearch among others. Allthese institutions, except forSerum Institute of India, werehousing the equines (horses,mules and donkeys) in abjectconditions for extraction oflarge volumes of blood to makeantitoxins or antivenins.

Bleeding records in most of

the inspected facilities indicatethat most of these animals arebled several times a month andhave more blood drawn than ispermissible by CPCSEA, saidDr Dipti Kapoor from PETA.

Inspectors further record-ed numerous violations of lawsand guidelines. Many of thefacilities were not even regis-tered with the CPCSEA to useanimals. Section 4(a) of theBreeding of and Experimentson Animals (Control andSupervision) Rules, 1998, states,

“No establishment shall per-form any experiment on ani-mals unless it is registered.”

“In facilities across India,frightened, lame and mal-nourished equines are left tosuffer without proper veteri-nary care while being used asliving blood bags for antitoxinand antivenin producers”, saysPETA India CEO PoorvaJoshipura.

Inspectors observedequines who cowered orbecame defensive in responseto human contact were other-wise apathetic. They foundthat the animals suffered frompoor nutrition, digestive tractdiseases, painful lesions ontheir legs, severe abnormalitiesand skin diseases such as ring-worm infestation.

Equines were also forced tostand in their own excreta incrowded, dirty and waterloggedsheds. Seriously ill animalswere housed together withhealthy ones, placing the latterat risk of contracting infectiousdiseases such as glanders,equine influenza and equineherpes virus.

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The Supreme Court on Thursday madea departure from the usual practice by

agreeing to hear in open court a set ofreview petitions that questioned settingaside death sentence of a rapist who wasaccused of rape and murder of a 23-yearold girl Soumya in Kerala.

The crime that occurred on February1, 2011 had shocked an entire State as theaccused Govindasamy tried to molest thegirl on a moving local train and laterpushed her out in a bid to ravish her. Asshe lay wreathing in pain, the accusedraped her and even robbed her valuables.The police arrested him later but the girldied three days later due to deep wounds

sustained during the fall. On September 15 came the Supreme

Court verdict holding Govindasamyguilty of rape but not of murder. As aresult, the life sentence awarded to himunder IPC Section 376 (rape) was sus-tained but the punishment of death as aconsequence of his conviction underIPC Section 302 (murder) was set aside.The verdict shocked the victim’s familyand evoked outrage forcing the State tofile a review petition as the Oppositionpiled the blame on the prosecution’sinefficiency to argue the case in court.

On Thursday, Solicitor General RanjitKumar appeared for Kerala and submit-ted that an extraordinary situation hadarisen as successive verdicts of the trial

court and Kerala High Court upholdingthe death sentence of the accused hadbeen set aside by a three-judge bench ofthe apex court. Kumar requested a benchheaded by Justice Ranjan Gogoi to hearthe State’s review plea in open court. Thebench agreed and posted the case for hear-ing on Friday. Even the appeal of the vic-tim’s mother will be heard.

The apex bench of Justices Gogoi, PCPant and UU Lalit, in its order ofSeptember 15 had noted that though rapewas clearly established against the accused,it was difficult to hold him guilty for mur-der as the death of victim took place threedays after the incident. Moreover, therewas no proof to establish that the victimwas pushed from the train by the accused.

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Assuring the countrymenthat the Modi Government

will not compromise on secu-rity of the country, DefenceMinister Manohar Parrikarannounced that any terrorattack would be given a befit-ting reply.

“Terrorists would be neu-tralised at any cost. Security ofthe country is on the top mostagenda of the NDAGovernment. Any future terrorattack would call for severeretaliation by our security per-sonnel,” said Parrikar.

Claiming that the situationin Kashmir valley is improving,Defence Minister disclosedthat the probe has found outmoney was being given to peo-ple to pelt stones and the peo-ple were even threatened to cre-ate disturbances in the Valley.“We respect those who sacrificetheir lives for the country,” hesaid.

Addressing a functionwhere Defence Minister washonoured for carrying out sur-gical strikes in PoK Parrikarsaid the Army has been givena free hand to deal with ter-rorism. Even today three infil-trators were gunned down inKashmir.

He, however, attributed the

success of the surgical strikes tothe Army and appreciated thepolitical will power of PrimeMinister Narendra Modi. “Realhero is Army and I am just itsrepresentative. The politicalunderstanding and leadershipcapability of the PM haschanged the mindset of thepeople,” he said.

Reacting to the Oppositiontirade questioning authentici-ty of the surgical strikesParrikar said: “It was like achild failing every time in theboards and suddenly he pass-es with distinction. I am refer-ring to the past Governmentswhich lacked political will butNarendra Modi came andshowed political statesman-ship that changes global sce-nario,” he said.

Appealing to people forcontinuing their support for theArmy Parrikar said, “This hon-our is only for the jawans pro-tecting our international bor-ders. It is like a fixed depositand I will convey them thiswhen I visit them soon.”

“We have to think ofjawans who are posted in ter-rain like Siachan where thetemperature is minus 60degree. They are living exam-ple of patriotism but they alsoworry for their families stayingin their native places,” he said.

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The condition of Tamil NaduChief Minister J

Jayalalithaa, who is undergoingtreatment at Apollo Hospitalsin Chennai since September 22for fever and dehydration, con-tinues to improve and is mak-ing gradual progress, accordingto a release issued by the hos-pital on late Thursday evening.But the release said that thepanel of experts attending tothe Chief Minister was of theopinion that she would requirea longer stay in the hospital.

“The comprehensive treat-ment plan including appropriateantibiotics, respiratory support

and other allied clinical measuresare being continued. The ChiefMinister is under observation ofa panel of doctors consisting ofintensivists, cardiologists, respi-ratory physicians, infectious dis-ease specialists and diabetolo-gists. Detailed lab and radiologyinvestigations are continuouslycarried out by the panel of doc-tors,” said the release.

It further stated that a teamof experts from All IndiaInstitute of Medical Sciences

consisting of Dr GC Khilnani,professor, pulmonary medi-cine, Dr Anjan Trikha , profes-sor, anaesthesiology, Dr NitishNaik, Department of cardiolo-gy had detailed deliberations onWednesday on the treatmentprotocols provided to the ChiefMinister by the specialists teamat Apollo Hospitals.

Meanwhile the Madras HighCourt on Thursday dismissed aPIL filed by a social activist seek-ing a detailed report from theGovernment of Tamil Naduabout the health of Jayalalithaa.

While dismissing the PILfiled by KR Ramaswamy, popu-larly known as TrafficRamaswamy, the first benchconsisting of Chief Justice Sanjay

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The rape accused MLA fromNawada, Rajballabh Yadav

on Thursday morning had atwo-hour long meeting withRJD supremo Lalu Prasad andlater said he did not seek anyhelp from him. Yadav is accusedof allegedly sexually assaultinga teenaged schoolgirl and cameout of Biharsharif jail onMonday on getting bail from thePatna High Court. The meetingtook place a day before the caseto come up in the SupremeCourt for cancellation of bail.

The Bihar Government haschallenged the bail in theSupreme Court and the matterwill come up on Friday. Yadavwho had surrendered in March,almost a month after commit-ting the crime, and remainedbehind bars for six months.

Yadav, who had been sus-pended from the RJD after hisarrest, went to 10, CircularRoad residence of former CMRabri Devi and came out after

two hours. He said he wants togreet Lalu on Navratra.

The lawmaker said, “I havebeen suspended from the partybut I am still alive. If needed Iwill also meet Chief MinisterNitish Kumar.” He said he didnot blame the CM for appealingagainst his bail in the SC but theGovernment and Governmentworked under system. “There isno serious charge against meand all allegations are baseless,”the rape accused claimed.

Commenting on the meet-ing Lalu’s son and Deputy CMTejashwi Prasad Yadav saidonly the judiciary would decidewho was guilty. “PM NarendraModi and BJP chief Amit Shahwere also released by the court,”he added.

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In the wake of intelligencereport on terror suspects might

have crossed Indian shores, secu-rity along 1,600 km Gujaratcoast has been beefed up, espe-cially at important religiousplaces situated on the sea shores.

As per the IB input, a groupof around 15 terror suspectscould have crossed Gujaratcoast. As a result of it securitywas beefed up at Somnath andDwarka temples on theSaurashtra coast. Gujarat policeand State marine police haveintensified patrolling along thecoastal Gujarat apart from othersecurity agencies like IndianCoast Guard and Indian Navy.

JK Bhatt, JointCommissioner of Police (JCP)said that the police have initi-ated checking at all the placesthat could possibly be used byterrorist having malign inten-tion. The police set up checkposts across temple townsSomnath and Dwarka situatedright on sea shore.

The police have also begunchecking of the vehicles at theentry and exit points of both thepilgrimages. Patrolling at the seaand in the coastal area too hasbeen intensified and police isalso checking up with hotels forany suspected movements. Thepolice in Dwarka also detainedfour persons for not having anyvalid identity cards with them.Nearly 60 jawans of state reservepolice (SRP), two quickresponse teams, Light MobilityVehicle have been stationedoutside the Dwarka temple.

The security agencies havebeen on high alert since Indiacarried out surgical strikeagainst Pakistan in PakOccupied Kashmir, with statepolice, crime branch, ATS,marine police has been jointlyworking with coast guard andBSF to thwart any securitythreat. Gujarat coast is likely tobe used by terror suspectsfrom across the border to sneak

in to Indian Territory. Theterrorists of 26/11 Mumbaiattack had entered India via searoute off Gujarat coast.

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Kishan Kaul and justice RMahadevan warned the peti-tioner for using the court as apolitical forum. “This forumshould not be used for politicalpurposes as we feel this is a pub-licity interest litigation and nota public interest litigation,” saidthe judges.

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Nationalist Congress Party(NCP) in Gujarat, Jayant Patelwas on Thursday arrested bypolice on the charges of riot-ing, assaulting public ser-vants, unlawful Assembly,trespassing and damagingpublic property.

Patel popularly known as

‘Bosky’ was arrested fromUmreth town of Anand dis-trict. His supporters werereported to have createdruckus and assaulted officialand teachers at a science fairnear Anand on Wednesdaymorning. The incident tookplace at a science fair organ-ised by the Gujarat EducationDepartment at Ratanpura vil-lage in Umreth Taluka. Boskyand his supporters wereapparently angered over hisname not being mentioned onthe invitation of this StateGovernment function.

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mitted on energy access toevery single person in thecountry at an affordable price,said Union Minister of State forPower, Coal, Mines andRenewable Energy PiyushGoyal on Thursday.

Speaking at India’s largestexpo for power and electricalsector SWITCH 2016 atVadodara in Gujarat, Goyal saidthat without cheap and afford-able power, industrial develop-ment too was not possible andthe Modi led Government wasworking on providing adequatepower to industry and businessin order to make them globallycompetitive.

Praising Gujarat for pro-viding 24X7 electricity to all18,000 villages across the State,the Minister said that when hetook charge as power Minister,straight away he decided to visitGujarat to understand revolu-

tion in power sector under theleadership of former GujaratChief Minister Narendra Modi.

“We are determined toreplicate Gujarat’s success storyin Centre with an aim to pro-vide electricity to every villageof India. The State has alsoresponded tremendously onCentral Government’s UJALAScheme. In India 16 crore LEDbulbs have been distributed in17 months under the scheme.But alone Gujarat with around5 per cent population of the

country, distributed more than2.48 crore LED bulbs in lessthan 150 days,” said Goyal,adding that more than 80 lakhbulbs were distributed alone inVadodara district.

According to him, theCentral Government was com-mitted to ramp up power gen-eration capacity in renewableenergy sector too and aimingfor 40 per cent power fromrenewable energy sources ofcountry total power generationby 2030.

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As per the apex court direc-tions, a high level Central

technical team will be visitingCauvery basin areas inKarnataka for two days fromFriday. The team headed by GSJha, Chairman Central WaterCommission (CWC) will assessthe entire situation in theCauvery basin and submit itsreport by October 17, beforethe next hearing in the matteron October 18.

The decision to set up thepanel – formed by the Ministryof Water Resources, RiverDevelopment and GangaRejuvenation – follows aSupreme Court order thatasked for a supervisory panel tolead a team to survey the situ-ation in Karnataka and TamilNadu and submit a report by

October 17.The court had also direct-

ed Karnataka to release 2,000cusecs of Cauvery water toTamil Nadu from October 7 to18.

Other team will alsoinclude Central WaterCommission official S MasoodHusain, chief engineer of theKrishna and Godavari BasinOrganisation RK Gupta, chiefsecretaries from both statesand a chief engineer each fromTamil Nadu, Karnataka, Keralaand Puducherry.

The high-level technicalteam will meet in Bengaluru onOctober 7 and visit Karnataka'sfour reservoirs – Hemavathi,Harangi, Krishna Raj Sagarand Kabini – followed by TamilNadu's Mettur and Amaravatireservoirs as well as the lowerBhavani dam.

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The Congress and the BJP inGoa are at loggerheads over

accusations made by the former,that a popular scheme launchedby then Chief MinisterManohar Parrikar to improvesex ratio and female foeticide,was actually driving young,married women to suicide.

The political sparring fol-lows the death of 23-year-oldVanita Gaonkar, fromMalcarnem in South Goa lastmonth, a year after her mar-riage, after her in-laws alleged-ly harassed her to handover the�1 lakh, which is granted towomen in Goa at the time ofmarriage, under the LaaliLaxmi scheme.

“She was harassed and tor-tured, by her husband, motherin-law and tortured only becauseof money she was to avail fromLaadli Laxmi scheme. Thescheme is actually a dowry death

scheme. She consumed phenylbecause of this mental torture,”Congress spokesperson PratimaCoutinho told The Pioneer.

The Laadli Laxmi yojana isone of the flagship schemes ofthe BJP-led coalitionGovernment in Goa, whichgives �1 lakh to women at thetime of marriage.

According to Governmentstatistics tabled in the recentMonsoon Session of the GoaAssembly, the StateGovernment has already dis-bursed �400 crore among40,000 women under the LaadliLaxmi. The scheme waslaunched by then CM ManoharParrikar in July 2012.

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In a startling revelation, theNIA has said that ISIS oper-

ative Subahani Haja Moideen(31), a native of Thodupuzhain Kerala held fromThirunalveli in Tamil Nadu,had fought alongside the ISISin Iraq last year.

The ISIS operative, whoalso used to go by the name ofAbu Meer, was reportedlytaken into custody on Monday,within 24 hours of the arrestof six operatives of the ISISunit in Kerala, AnsarulKhilafa, from Kannur andKozhikode on Sunday.

As per an NIA release,Subahani was arrested onWednesday for joining andsupporting the ISIS, proscribedunder the UAPA. He was pro-duced before the Special NIACourt in Kochi on Thursday.The court left him in the cus-tody of the NIA for nine days.

According to the NIA,Subahani himself had revealedduring questioning that he hadleft the country from Chennaion April 8 last year for joiningthe ISIS and fighting for it aftertelling his wife and parents thathe was going to performUmrah. He was radicalisedand recruited into the outfit byrecruiters active on social

media platforms, the agencysaid in the release.

After reaching Istanbulfrom Chennai on a visit visa,Subahani, along with peoplefrom Pakistan and Afghanistan,crossed over to ISIS-controlledterritories in Iraq. On April 20,2015, he was taken to Mosulwhere he was given detailedlessons in Shari’a and training

in combat, including that inautomatic weapons, accordingto the NIA.

On completion of thecombat training, the ISIS com-manders sent him to the warzone in Mosul on security dutyfor which he was paid a sub-sistence allowance of US$ 100a month and was given com-mon accommodation and

food, the NIA said, addingthat he had performed thesecurity duty for two weeks.

However, Subahani soondecided to leave the terroroutfit as the sights of violenceand war misery disgusted him,especially after two of hisfriends were charred to deathin a shell attack in front of him.When he conveyed his decisionto the organisation, it impris-oned him, reportedly for 55days, and subjected him toextreme torture.

He, along with otherdeserting foreign fighters, wasproduced before an ISIS judgeand was again incarcerated atRaqqa, Syria, the agency said,adding that “for reasons yet tobe ascertained” he was allowedto leave the ISIS-controlled ter-ritory and return to Turkey withfive other foreign nationals.

As per reports, the ISIScommanders had allowedSubahani to leave on the con-

dition that he would work forexpanding the terror outfit’snetwork in India. The releasesaid that he stayed in Istanbulillegally for two weeks beforeapproaching the Indian con-sulate for papers for returningto India.

He contacted his relativeswho sent money to him forbuying air tickets and with thenecessary clearance certificatesobtained reportedly by pre-senting concocted stories helanded in Mumbai onSeptember 22 last year. Afterreturn, he had been staying athis ancestral place inKadayanellur in Thirunalveli,Tamil Nadu till the day he wastaken into custody.

The NIA said that after get-ting settled in India, he had gotin touch with the ISIS handlersthrough internet and plannedto collect explosives and chem-icals from Sivakasi as per theirinstructions.

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If noted ghazal singer GhulamAli visits India and comes to

Bihar he would have no liber-ty to sing this ghazal. ThePakistani artist may not beknowing that consumption ofliquor, even thodi si, is a biggercrime than theft and dacoity.More heinous than rape,abduction and murder.

Some of the provisions ofthe new Prohibition and ExciseAct, 2016, which came intoforce on Sunday last, the GandhiJayanti day, are harsher thanwhat contained in Bihar Excise(Amendment) Act, 2016 whichwas scrapped by the Patna HighCourt on Friday last.

Undeterred by the stingingobservations of the division

bench of the High Court, ChiefMinister Nitish Kumar notonly introduced the new legis-lation as per his plan onOctober 2 but also challengedthe High Court’s order in theSupreme Court. There wererumours that people foundposting on social media insupport of booze would also betaken to task. This was stoutlydenied by Bihar ExciseMinister Abdul Jalil Mastan.

Technically only two days,September 30 and October 1,Bihar was not a dry State fol-lowing the High Court’s order

but peoples’ spirit could not goup as there is absolutely no wineshop in the State after April 5total ban. Practically, only a fewwine lovers were lucky enoughto get a bottle during that briefperiod. A Government officialsaid that his friend who camefrom Delhi that very daybrought a couple of bottles ofIMFL and they savoured it.

But even those who got thewine the enjoyment was shortlived as the new legislationcame into effect from Sundaywhich makes provision ofharsher penal action for con-sumption or keeping a bottleand may lead to the arrest of allthe adult members of the houseincluding females.

The new law has alsoprovided death penalty tothose involved in manufac-ture and sale of hooch.Confiscation of property hasalso been provisioned.

“Liquor consumption is asocial stigma and prohibitionwill improve society,” saidNitish.

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Nationalist Congress Partypresident Sharad Pawar

said on Thursday that thoughthe previous UPA Governmentcarried out four “surgicalstrikes” along the Line ofControl (LoC), it never publi-cised the military action norwas there any trumpeting on itspart as being indulged in by thecurrent NDA Government afterthe military action in Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir (PoK).

Addressing a party workers’rally at Nagpur, Pawar expresseddispleasure over the manner inwhich the BJP leaders weretrying to trumpet the “surgical

strikes” undertaken by theIndian Army on terror bases inPoK. “When Dr ManmohanSingh was the Prime Minister,Praful Patel and I were in hisCabinet. There were four occa-sions when our Army crossedthe LoC and destroyed the ter-ror bases. On one occasion, our

Army even destroyed the basesof Naga rebels. But, we neverpublished the military actionnor did we indulge in trumpet-ing,” Pawar said.

Lamenting that the currentBJP lacked prudence, Pawarsaid: “Some BJP leaders havegone to extent of trying to seekan impression it was they whocarried out surgical strikes”

Alluding to the “surgicalstrikes” undertaken in the after-math of a major terror attack onan attack on an Indian Armybrigade headquarters at Urinear on the LoC in Jammu andKashmir on September 18, theNCP chief said: “The Uri attackcame as a major jolt for all of us.

The attack generated anger inthe country and the peoplerooted for avenging the attack.There was a dire for the Indiangovernment to give a befittingreply to Pakistan. The IndianArmy undertook surgicalstrikes on terror bases in PoK.Keeping aside politics, all of usannounced our support toPrime Minister Narendra Modifor his decision to undertakethe strikes… Russia also sup-ported the military actionundertaken by India. But, whatupsets a person like me thatwhy did the Government pub-licise the surgical strikes. Therewas no need for India to indulgein fanfare or trumpeting.”

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Taking stock of caste equa-tions this election year, State

Samajwadi Party presidentShivpal Singh Yadav announceda 81-member State executivecommittee cold-shoulderingAkhilesh loyalists.

“The new committee wasapproved by SP chief MulayamSingh Yadav and Chief MinisterAkhilesh Yadav,” said ShivpalSingh Yadav while announcingthe names of committee mem-bers in Lucknow on Thursday.

Shivpal Yadav asserted thatleaders have no differencesamong them and the party waswell poised to win the nextAssembly elections.

The committee comprisesvice-president Kiranpal Singh,State Minister Om PrakashSingh as general secretary, RajKumar Mishra as cashier alongwith 22 secretaries. Akhileshloyalist Rajendra Chaudhary,earlier the party spokesman,was accommodated as one of56 executive members.

“Seasoned politicians havebeen given preference over theyoung brigade,” a senior leaderof the party said.

A committee was on thecards since Shivpal Yadav wasmade the state president of the

party replacing Akhilesh Yadavon September 13.

Talking to reporters, Shivpalclarified that the fate of expelledyouth leaders would be decid-ed by Mulayam Singh Yadav asthey were expelled after takingconsent from ‘neta ji’.

When asked about thecandidature of AmanmaniTripathi as party candidate inthe Assembly polls, Shivpalsaid,” I know he has not beenconvicted and until one ischarge-sheeted or convicted, hecannot be termed as criminal.You may be knowing that Icould also be called a criminalas 10 cases were registeredagainst me in the past,” he said.

Yadav said that SeemaSingh, mother of Sara (wife ofdeceased wife of Amanmani)had not met him so far. “If shemeets me and tells me whyAmanmani should not be giventicket, then the party can takea call,” he said

Shivpal asked political par-ties not to indulge in politicsover the surgical strike acrossLine of Control (LoC).

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After Kashmiris celebratedthe festival of Eid-ul-Adha

by remaining locked downinside their houses and couldnot even offer traditionalprayers in mosques, now thefestival of Dussehra-symbolis-ing the victory of good overevil- has become the latestcasualty of ongoing unrest inKashmir valley.

“There will be no formalDussehra celebrations inKashmir valley this year. Wewill not burn effigies of Ravana,Kumbhakarna and Meghnathpresident of Kashmiri PanditsSangarsh Samiti (KPSS) SanjayTickoo told The Pioneer.

“Since 2007 we were cele-brating the festival in theValley but due to ongoingunrest in the Kashmir valleywe are not going to organiseDussehra celebrations thisyear,” Tickoo clarified.

Former Chief MinisterMufti Mohd Sayeed alongwith his political adviserAmitabh Mattoo and senior

Cabinet colleagues hadattended the celebrations inPolo Ground in 2015.

On the other hand thesecurity establishment acrossJammu region is expected toremain on its tenterhooks inthe run up to the Dusshera onOctober 11.

Despite border tensionalong the International Borderand the line of control the pub-lic mood is upbeat. Large num-ber of Ram Leela clubs in theseareas are organising specialRam Leela shows in small playgrounds and are gearing up forthe Dussehra celebrations.

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Lucknow, would be the centre ofattraction when Prime MinisterNarendra Modi participates inthe ‘Ravana Dahan’ at the his-toric Aishbagh Ramleela groundon Dussehra/Vijaydashmi onOctober 11.

The PM, asccompanied bylocal MP and Union HomeMinister Rajnath Singh, willalso watch a part of Ramlilla tobe performed by a troupe fromThailand at the Aishbaghground, which has a seatingcapacity of 25,000 people.

The stage ‘Ram Durbar’where the PM and other dig-nitaries would sit will be ofgolden hue and the PM is like-ly to address the gathering onDussehra. In all probaility,Modi's speech is likely to veeraround terrorism and highlightthe importance of festival witha slogan of ‘win over the evil’.

With UP polls round thecorner, the PM’s brief two-hourvisit has many political con-notations. Political pundits saythat as PM will do arti of LordRama, it could send an indica-tion on the party’s commitmenton constructing a Rama tem-ple at Ayodhya.

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In yet another setback to theruling Congress in

Manipur, veteran Congressleader and party’s vice-presi-dent in the State, N BirenSingh has resigned from theparty as well as from theState legislative Assembly onThursday even as sources saidthat over ten Congress lead-ers in Manipur are likely tofollow the path soon.

Although the seniorCongress leader did not tell

anything about his future move,sources said that he is likely tojoin the BJP shortly. Biren Singh,who was also accommodated inthe Cabinet of Chief MinisterOkram Ibobi Singh, had alleged-ly led a dissidence camp in theparty and tried to topple theGovernment in the past.

“The prevailing situation inManipur is not good. Whateveris happening is a direct impactof mis governance. I am also apart of the Government andhence I have taken the respon-sibility personally and decided

to resign,” Biren Singh told ThePioneer on Thursday.

The senior Congressmanalso expressed his unhappinessover some of the recent hap-penings in the State and saidthat how long the commonpeople have to wait for solvingtheir problems. “The nine bod-ies are still in the morgue forover last one year and theInner Line Permit Bill is yet tobe passed. There have alsobeen move to divide the peo-ple between the hills and val-ley in Manipur,” he said.

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On Mahatma Gandhi’sbirthday this year,India handed over atthe UN headquar-ters in New York, its

instruments of ratification of theParis agreement on climatechange. This was symbolically animportant occasion to acknowl-edge Mahatma Gandhi’s acuteconsciousness on India’s needfor pursuing a pattern of develop-ment totally in harmony withnature. When the Mahatma wasasked whether he would notwant India to reach the same levelof prosperity as Britain, he stat-ed that it took Britain to use halfthe resources of this planet toreach its level of prosperity, andasked, “How many planets woulda country like India require?”

We live today in a world ofover seven billion people, repre-senting unprecedented growth inthe world’s population, which atthe start of the 20th century stoodat a value between 1.56 and 1.71billion, and which is projected toincrease to over 11 billion by 2100.If such a large number of humanbeings were to attain the sameconsumerist standards of living asthe most resource intensive soci-eties on earth, then indeed, wewould need a number of planetsto meet the demand imposed byus on our natural resources.

At the forthcomingConference of the Parties (CoP)to be held in Marrakesh inNovember this year, India plansto display in its pavilion theMahatma’s pattern of simple liv-ing, which is indeed laudable. But,in reality, most Indians who havethe means today — and a largenumber do — are adopting stan-dards of living which deviatesubstantially from Gandhianprinciples and practice.

No one can support lifestyleswhich remain frugal and self-denying in a major part of theworld when in the developedcountries the consumption ofgoods and services continues toincrease at levels without anyrestraint or limit. The term cli-mate justice has been coined andused frequently to highlight theinequity in the current situation,wherein the problem of increasedconcentration of greenhousegases (GHGs) has been causedpredominantly by the industri-alised world, while the worstvictims of the impacts of climatechange live in the poorest nations.

India is particularly vulner-able to the impacts of climatechange, and the recent occur-rence of droughts and floods —

caused by extreme precipita-tion events — are projected toincrease in frequency and inten-sity. The IntergovernmentalPanel on Climate Change(IPCC) in its Fifth AssessmentReport (AR5), clearly pointedout, “Rural areas are expected toexperience major impacts onwater availability and supply,food security, infrastructure andagricultural incomes, includingshifts in the production areas offood and non-food crops aroundthe world.”

While cities and towns inIndia certainly require to put inplace climate resilience measures,particularly in coastal areas whichface the growing threat of sea levelrise, the vast rural population ofthe country remains vulnerablewithout explicit integration ofadaptation measures to counterthe impacts of climate changewith development strategies.India has to take climate changefar more seriously both in itsdomestic policies and actions aswell as in the international sphere,where in the aggregate emissionlevels and pathways being fol-lowed currently will lead to tem-

perature increases that wouldhave frightening consequences.

The National Action Planon Climate Change was devel-oped with considerable thoughtand deliberation by theGovernment of India, and withactive involvement of the StateGovernments. But much of itsoriginal momentum has beendissipated with actions envis-aged collapsing into routinebureaucratic programmes con-fined to Government depart-ments, without adequate partic-ipation by the public.

The AR5 has stated, “Withoutadditional mitigation effortsbeyond those in place today, andeven with adaptation, warming bythe end of the 21st century willlead to high to very high risk ofsevere, widespread and irre-versible impacts globally.”

The Paris agreement on cli-mate change, while a remarkablestep forward, does not provideany assurance that temperatureincrease by the end of this centu-ry relative to pre-industrial levels,can be limited to two degreeCelsius or below. It essentiallyprovides an opportunity for

nations and societies across theglobe to generate the ambition formajor cuts in their own emissionsof greenhouse gases, and thusensure an aggregate responsethat would keep temperatureincrease below two degree Celsiusor even 1.5 degrees, as is nowbeing scientifically assessed.

There are multiple co-bene-fits from reduced emissions ofGHGs, such as lower levels ofenvironmental damage at thelocal level, higher levels of ener-gy security, higher assurance offood security and possibly high-er levels of employment withgreater reliance on decentralisedforms of energy supply fromrenewable resources. For India,the issue of energy security is aparamount consideration indevelopment strategy, since thiscountry is a major importer offossil fuels, a fact which we can-not be oblivious to even with thecurrent lull in global oil prices.

On the issue of lifestylechanges, India has to take the leadin deviating from the consumeristand resource intensive patterns ofmuch of the industrialised world.The externalities that we areimposing on the environmentand the global commons shoulduniversally be reflected in costsand prices of goods and servicesin every country. This should bepursued as an agenda in the fol-lowing CoPs wherein the imple-mentation of the Paris agreementshould now be defined by specif-ic actions and equitable policiessuch as a price on carbon for thosewho are at high levels of carbonintensive economic activities.

Emphasis should also beplaced on sustainable lifestyles,because as the AR5 has stated,“Behaviour, lifestyle and culturehave a considerable influence onenergy use and associated emis-sions, with high mitigationpotential in some sectors, inparticular when complementingtechnological and structuralchange. Emissions can be sub-stantially lowered throughchanges in consumption pat-terns, adoption of energy savingsmeasures, dietary change andreduction in food wastes.”

An appropriate tribute toMahatma Gandhi would lie inour adopting lifestyles and devel-opment patterns which acknowl-edge the reality that we have onlyone planet to live on. This iswhere the youth of India shouldset the pace and take a lead as amodel for the rest of the world.

(The writer is former chair-man, TERI)�

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Sir — This refers to the editor-ial, “Justice system vindicated”(October 5). It was the sheerperseverance and resolve ofNeelam Katara, mother of NitishKatara, that got her justice forher son. What is incredible isthat she fought the battle alone.

Not only did she take on themight of DP Yadav, a powerfulpolitician of Uttar Pradesh, butalso proved at the end of the daythat the common man can winagainst the mighty odds of pow-erful politicians.

However, what is disap-pointing is that it took 14 longyears to bring closure to thiscase, which is a testimony to thefact that justice take a very longtime to be delivered in ourcountry. Not many have thewill and determination shownby Neelam Katara. This judge-ment will go a long way in pre-serving the faith of the people inour justice delivery system.

The need of the hour is tohave a speedy justice deliverysystem. This verdict has set theright example for those whoconsider honour killing to betheir right and not a crime.Honour killings have becomecommon in our countr y.

Hopefully, as Neelam Kataradesires, we will soon have a lawagainst honour killing.

Bal GovindNoida

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Sir — An unseemly domesticbattle has broken out over thesurgical strikes conducted byIndia on the terrorist launchpads in Pakistan-occupiedKashmir. Delhi Chief MinisterArvind Kejriwal and other lead-ers have mischievously asked forproof to convince Pakistan aboutthe strike. According to some ofour own leaders, we are halluci-nating as the Pakistanis are in acomplete state of denial.

That said, very few in Indiadoubt the Army’s version aboutthe surgical strikes. If the videoswere to be released to gain max-imum effect, that moment haspassed. Any attempt to uploaddigital recordings of the surgicalstrikes will make the mending offences more difficult; sceptics willanyway remain unconvincedabout its genuineness.

On the other hand, it may notbe a good idea to rub Pakistan’snose in the dust or make its Armylose face by releasing the raidvideos. Pakistan is neither a fail-

ing state nor a helpless, isolatednation at the mercy of others. ItsGovernment may feel compelledto respond with another misad-venture. It is doubtful if an esca-lation will benefit anyone.

J AkshayHyderabad

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Sir — This refers to the report,“No future for SAARC if cross-border terrorism not wiped out:Lanka” (October 6). Pakistancan never mend its ways.Terrorism is an instrument ofstate policy for Islamabad. Aslong as Kashmir remains anintegral part of India, Pakistanwill continue unleashing terroron Indian soil.

History saw the birth anddemise of many internationalinstitutions from time to time.For example, the League ofNations was dissolved with theestablishment of the UnitedNations. Similarly, time hascome for Saarc to vanish fromthis region, if the issue of terror-ism is not addressed.

S Surya PrakashBhopal

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rorists of Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen,Bangladesh (JMB), Prime MinisterSheikh Hasina and herGovernment have made significantheadway in their fight against ter-ror by eliminating the Canadian-born mastermind TamimChowdhury and six of his trustedlieutenants responsible for themost heinous crime committed inthe name of jihad in Bangladesh’shistory. In four successive raids, hersecurity forces swooped on thesecret hideouts of the jihadis,killing six of them and arrestingseven, including three females.This was a serious blow to the JMBterror group’s plan to execute moreGulshan-like-mayhem.

The purpose of carrying outmass killings similar to that ofGulshan was to create an anarchicsituation which would sap theGovernment’s morale and the peo-ple’s faith in Sheikh Hasina’s abili-ty to govern, triggering popularunrest and lawlessness. In such asituation, it would be easier for theterror groups to make a determinedbid for power.

Sheikh Hasina took the chal-lenge of the JMB and other Islamicterror groups to dislodge herdemocratically electedGovernment from power andworked with single-minded devo-tion for their extermination. Shestrengthened her Government’santi-terror apparatus, especiallythe intelligence wing, to ensure thatanti-terror squads got timely andcorrect information on terror out-fits and their leaders,their hideoutsand their plans and programmes.This strategy paid immediate div-idend with information pouring inon Tamim and his IslamicCanadian and other jihadi con-

nection. The Gulshan killing hadso outraged the Bangladeshi sen-timent that people spontaneouslyprovided tip-offs and informationon the jihadis.

Hailing from a Jamaat familyof Sylhet, Tamim’s grandfather wasa razakar during the liberation war,and chairman of a local peacecommittee whose objective was tofight against the disintegration ofPakistan and the birth of a Bengalination. His father, realising that thebirth of Bangladesh was imminent,migrated to Canada just before lib-eration. Tamim’s family settled inWindsor, which still has a sizeablePakistani population. Quite a fewCanadian Pakistanis of Windsor inrecent years have joined the Islamic

State (IS) and gone to Syria and Iraqto fight for the cause of ‘Khilafat’.Tamim did his chemistry honoursfrom Windsor University in 2011.Thereafter he got radicalised by vis-iting Pakistani mullahs.

Soon he came under the scan-ner of the Royal CanadianMounted Police and left for Syriaen route to Bangladesh.

He was assigned by the IS to goto Dhaka for revamping and reviv-ing the JMB, especially to re-acti-vate its inactive armed cadres. Hewas tasked by the IS to set up jiha-di bases both in Bangladesh and inIndia, especially in West Bengal.The IS made him the ‘Emir ofBangladesh’ and re-christened himas Sheikh Abu Ibrahim al-Hanif.

He recruited youths from richand educated families and alsomid-level retired and cashiered mil-itary officers, to give arms trainingto new recruits. This is borne outby the fact that Tamim’s second-in-command was a Army Majorsacked for an attempted coup.

What kind of goal the IS hadset for Tamim before despatchinghim to Bangladesh gets reflected ina rare interview in which he says,“It is not the methodology of theKhilafat soldiers to send merethreats to enemies of Allah. Rather,we let our action do the talking.Our soldiers are sharpening theirknives to slaughter the atheists andapostates of the region.” Then hecalls upon the men of the country’s

security forces “to quit their jobs”as they should not be the slaves ofnon-believers. Or else, his people“shall slaughter them one by one”.

Tamim castigated the Jamaat-e-Islam for its failure to establish thelaws of Allah. To do that, he says,Bangladesh has to be convertedinto a full-fledged jihadi base fromwhere guerrilla attacks will beconducted deep inside India andMyanmar. It was with this end inview he crossed over to WestBengal’s Murshidabad and Maldadistricts several times in 2014 tocreate a safe haven for the JMBjihadis fleeing from the Bangladeshsecurity forces dragnet.Tamim alsovisited some of West Bengal’s inte-rior districts like Birbhum andBurdwan to create Indian jihadicells. It was after his visit toBurdwan that the Khagragarhblasts took place.

Sheikh Hasina’s anti-jihadoperation has been lauded byalmost all countries includingSaudi Arabia and UAE, but exceptby Pakistan and Turkey. Visiting USSecretary of State John Kerrypraised the Prime Minister’s han-dling of jihadi terror and promisedAmerican help to fight the menace.

It would be naïve to expectthat, with the elimination of topJMB leaders and the hanging ofsenior Jamaat leaders, the days ofjihadi politics in Bangladesh is over.This will not happen until andunless the Jamaat’s sources of fundsis totally blocked. The jihadis arerecruited through the promise ofhuge sums, besides the lure of heav-en with houris. That jihadis stillattract a section of the population,is borne out by the fact that 800jihadis bailed out by courts havegone underground and eightDhaka University students havebeen expelled for their links witha banned militant outfit.

(The writer is a veteranKolkata-based journalist)

Suddenly, everybody wants proofof our successful raid on mili-tants inside Pakistan-occupied

Kashmir. This is ironic since nobodyexpressed any concern when USPresident Barack Obama announcedto the world that dreaded terroristOsama bin Laden had been elimi-nated. We never did see the body norwere videos on display. Yet thePresident’s word was proof enough.Suddenly, following an organised visitto the Line of Control under the aegisof Pakistan Army, respected inter-national media outlets have begunquestioning the authenticity of whatthe Indian Director-General,Military Operations,announced publicly.

In all honesty, it really isquite irrelevant whether theinternational media or any-body else disbelieves our mil-itary, for even if they did knowthe truth, how would it actu-ally make a difference? Thoseat the receiving end, thePakistan Army and the jihadigroups, are quite conversantwith what really happened, andthat is the only thing whichmatters. The proof of the pud-ding is in the eating, as they say,and the recipients have beenfed adequate quantities at thistime. As for our politicians whodecided to jump on to this band-wagon, Napoleon Bonaparte may justas well have been talking aboutthem when he said, “In politics, stu-pidity is not a handicap.” Thereshould be little doubt that theGovernment must not succumb toany kind of pressure and releasefootage of the raid that, as is clear, willassist the Pakistan military in future.

While on the subject of politi-cians, let us also be clear that neitherthe Congress nor the BJP carried outthe surgical strikes, either recently orin the past, as they so glibly claim. Itwas our Armed Forces that did soand at great risk to themselves,

receiving little credit for their acts. Itis unlikely politicians would haveaccepted responsibility for theirdirections if any of these operationshad gone wrong. Politicians beingpoliticians, regardless of ideology orparty affiliation, they will alwaysattempt to steal the thunder in thevain hope that it may win a few seatsand help them hang on to their chairsfor a few more years.

As for the military, it is well awareof the duplicity of politicians — theOne Rank One Pension and the 7thCentral Pay Commission (CPC) arejust the latest examples.

While in this particular instance,given the circumstances, theGovernment did well to publiclyaccept responsibility of having con-ducted these raids, it would do wellto follow earlier precedent and keepsuch actions in future under wraps.We would also do well to rememberthat old adage that ‘a single swallowdoes not a summer make’. Mostwould agree that it would be foolishto conclude that an odd cross-bor-der operation will in any way changethe manner in which Pakistan fuelsthe terror modules in Kashmir, how-ever well- coordinated and synchro-nous it may have been. It will cer-

tainly require sustained and focussedeffort to defeat Pakistan in this sub-conventional conflict, given theextent of its experience in the fieldand the success it has achieved.

If one important lesson can bedrawn from this operation, it wouldbe the manner in which our NationalTechnical Research Organisation(NTRO) played a pivotal part in pro-viding real-time intelligence to ourspecial operatives. It may be worthrecalling that the NTRO was estab-lished after the Kargil conflict and isone of the few lessons of that war thathas been successfully implemented.

The Government must nowimplement the other impor-tant lessons that emergedfrom that conflict as well.

The important lessonsthat need implementation onpriority are the establishmentof a Chief of Defence Staffwith the requisite authorityneeded to implement tri-Service plans; the establish-ment of tri-services theatrecommands; the setting up ofother specialised commandssuch as for SpecialOperations and Cyber. TheGovernment must also re-look at the downgradation ofour forces that has beenaffected with the imple-

mentation of the 7th CPC and takeurgent action to resolve the anomaliesthat have been raised by the ServiceChiefs, in a just manner.

At the end of the day, the lat-est cross-border operation hasonce again clearly demonstratedthe importance of a robust deter-rence that a well-trained and moti-vated military provides. One is fair-ly certain that, despite their reluc-tance to trust our military, everypolitician worth his salt under-stands that truism.

(The writer is a military veteranand consultant with the ObserverResearch Foundation)

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Prime Minister NarendraModi’s vision for India isof rapid transformation

and not of gradual evolution.Modi has repeatedly men-tioned this in his publicspeeches, during the inaugu-ration of Niti Aayog’s annuallecture series, in hisIndependence Day speech,in his Mann ki Baat radio pro-gramme, and in his review ofthe vision document NitiAayog presented. What doeshe really mean by the term,‘rapid transformation’?

By rapid transformation,the Prime Minister indicates itisn’t ‘business as usual’. Nordoes he mean more of the sameat a higher pace. In matters ofgrowth and development, hewants to break free from thepast. He is seeking new ways ofdoing things and exploringfresh avenues for developmentthat will result in not just high-er growth but acceleratedgrowth. India may be the fastestgrowing major economy in theworld. But that’s not enough.Modi would like to see Indiaperform at its potential, whichcalls for an accelerated growth.

But how does the PrimeMinister plans to achieve it?Development is all about paceand direction. Pace of devel-opment is at the heart of Modi’svision. This is so very evidentfrom the ambitious develop-ment targets he has set, acrossthe spectrum, for his TeamIndia: Doubling the income offarmers by 2022, electrifying all18,500 un-electrified villages byMay 2018, building 20 millionhouses for the urban poor by2022 under the PradhanMantri Awas Yojana, providing50 million new LPG connec-tions to the poor free of costover the next three years under

the Pradhan Mantri UjjwalaYojana, getting highways con-structed at the rate of 30km/day— and many more.

Prime Minister Modirecognises that development isa function of the country’sinternal conditions as well asexternal factors. Given thepotential size of India’s internalmarket, the nation is capable ofperforming well if the internalpotential is harnessed, whichcan happen with all-rounddevelopment. External factorshave to do not only with theflow of goods and services butalso of capital, labour and tech-nology. Modi is moving speed-ily on both these fronts.

On the internal front, heis upping the game by (a)harnessing the potential oftechnology (b) bringing allround development, and (c)exploring newer avenues of development.

Harnessing the potentialof technology: The ModiGovernment has big plansunder the Digital IndiaMission, of connecting everyIndian digitally, improving gov-ernance and service deliveryusing digital technology andempowering citizens throughdigital literacy. Similarly, fornurturing innovations andstart-ups in the country, it hascome up with the ‘Start UpIndia Stand Up India’ pro-gramme, and more.

Bringing all round devel-opment: The Governmentrecognises that, for generatingeconomic momentum havinga multiplier effect, it is neces-sary to bring about all-rounddevelopment, for which TeamIndia is firing on all cylinders:Agriculture, energy, infra-structure, textiles, aviation,electronics, defence and so

forth. Further, to reap synergiesacross Government pro-grammes/initiatives, it isimportant to respect inter-linkages within and across sec-tors. For agriculture promotion,for example, the ModiGovernment has taken sever-al initiatives such as providingsoil health cards to farmers,promoting micro-irrigation,solar pumps and use of newseed varieties, augmenting sup-ply of fertilisers, offering cropinsurance, creating additionalwarehousing capacity for grainsstorage, improving public sys-tem of procurement of agri-cultural produce etc. All-rounddevelopment will also ensurethat its fruits are distributedwidely among the population.

Exploring newer avenuesof development: The ModiGovernment has been pro-moting areas like handicraft(including khadi), domestictourism, inland waterways,India’s coastal economy, andother areas that have eitherbeen neglected in the past orhave not been pursued vigor-ously despite the promise of ahuge upside.

Indian Railways is a goodembodiment of Modi’s notionof rapid transformation. Whilethe modernisation of railwaysis an important incrementalplay, he is also the driving forcebehind the idea of India goingfor high-speed trains, which isa transformative solution.Similarly, the ModiGovernment’s target of gener-ating 100 GW power fromsolar, is a transformative play.

The Prime Minister doeshave a vision for India. Buttranslating this vision into real-ity is where the challenge lies.

(The writer is a develop-ment economist)

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SIAM representing vehicleand vehicle engine manufac-

turers in the country onThursday said no automotiveproduct should be clubbedwith goods that are healthhazard, like cigarettes, panmasala, liquor, etc while fram-ing GST rate and standard ratesmust apply on small cars, two-wheelers, three-wheelers andcommercial vehicles, while big-ger cars should attract 8 per centmore than the standard rate.

While seeking doing awayof the current multiple tax slabsin the auto industry, SIAM alsosaid for electric vehicles, hybridvehicles and other alternativefuel vehicles, the rate must be atleast 8 per cent less than the stan-dard rate.

“While for a long time therewere only two rates of exciseduties on passenger cars, inrecent years, the bigger car rateshave fragmented and today wehave four rates for passenger carsexcluding electric vehicles andhybrid electric for which lowerrates are applicable.

In view of the current sce-nario, there is a need to look atGST rate for automobiles sensi-tively,” SIAM said in a statement.

There should be only tworates for conventional vehicles.Standard GST rate should beapplicable on small cars,

MUVs, two-wheelers, three-wheelers and commercial vehi-cles. Cars other than small carsshould attract a GST ratewhich is 8 per cent more thanthe standard rate, it added.

It further said there must“also a lower GST rate for elec-tric vehicles, hybrid electricvehicles and other alternativefuel vehicles, which should beat least 8 per cent less than thestandard rate.”

Stating that theAutomobile industry operates‘at the frontier of technology’improving the overall level oftechnology of a nation leadingto better job opportunities,SIAM said its “members havecommitted to building thenation responsibly and as suchno automotive product shouldbe clubbed with goods that arehealth hazard, like cigarettes,pan masala, liquor, etc.

Commenting implicationsof GST on incentives given tocompanies to set up units,SIAM said many of its mem-bers have made huge invest-ments in locations fallingunder Area Based Exemptionscheme in places likeUttarakhand and Himachaland the period of the schemeis still not over and “as suchthere is a need to protect thebenefits to those units underGST regime till the end of thescheme”.

��(�����India’s biggest auc-tion of telecom spectrum endedon a whimper on Thursdaywith just �65,789 crore of bidscoming in over five days againstan expectation of �5.6 lakhcrore, leaving nearly 60 per centof airwaves, including premium4G bands, unsold.

UK-based Vodafone’s Indiaunit was the most aggressive,taking home �20,000 croreworth of spectrum. Bharti Airtel,the nation’s biggest telecomcompany, bought �14,244 croreworth of spectrum, while IdeaCellular put in �12,798 crore ofbids.

Newcomer Reliance Jio hasspent �13,672 (rpt) 13,672 croreon spectrum buying.

Telecom Minister ManojSinha said bids were received for964.80 MHz of spectrum out of2,354.55 MHz across sevenbands put on offer.

“The total upfront paymentto the Government is about�32,000 crore which is the high-est in the last five years.Wherever operators wanted toimprove their data services, theyparticipated. Total, we couldsell 964.80 MHz of spectrum,”Telecom Minister Manoj Sinhatold reporters here

Asked if he was disappoint-ed with the muted response,Sinha said he was happy withfact that the Government will getthe highest upfront payment

received in the last five years.Premium 700 MHz and

900 MHz spectrum found notakers, mainly because of highreserve or auction start price setby the Government.

While Airtel acquired 173.8Mhz spectrum across1800/2100/2300 MHz bands,Idea Cellular won 2100 Mhzband spectrum in Mumbai cir-cle.

"Airtel now has a solidspectrum portfolio that willenable it to continue leadingIndia's data revolution. We willcontinue to invest towards mak-ing world-class and affordabledata services available to cus-tomers in every corner of thecountry," Bharti Airtel MD andCEO (India and South Asia)Gopal Vittal said.

Reliance Jio official did notdisclose the amount the com-pany put in the auction and onlysaid “the Government process isnot yet complete.”

Reliance Jio said it hasacquired 269.2 MHz spectru-macross all 22 circles.

"We have expanded ourspectrum footprint thereby sig-nificantly enhancing capacity ofour all-IP data strong networkand ensuring world class ser-vices for all Indians. Jio is com-mitted to taking India to glob-al digital leadership by bringingthe power of data to all Indians,"Reliance Industries ChairmanMukesh Ambani said.

Idea said it has procured349.2 MHz of spectrum for Rs12,798 crore securing addition-al airwaves in 1800 MHz, 2100

MHz, 2300 MHz and 2500MHz bands.

According to sources, TataTeleservices shelled out Rs 4,500crore for securing spectrum. Ithas also managed to retain spec-trum in Mumbai, where itslicence is set to expire nextSeptember.

Spectrum in 1800 Mhz canbe used for 2G/4G services,while 2100 Mhz band supports3G/4G services. The 2500 Mhzis a 4G band, 2300 Mhz (4G)and 800 Mhz (2G/4G).

Telecom operators were inthe race to arm themselves withspectrum to maintain compet-itive edge in providing qualityand next generation mobile ser-vices to consumers in the world'ssecond largest telecom market.

The auction, which com-menced on October 1, wasspread over five days and 31rounds.

"The issue of quality of ser-vice, spectrum scarcity in Indiais history with this auction.Government has not done anyprofiteering, this auction wasabout putting spectrum in thehands of the industry. Theappetite of the industry hasbeen satiated," TelecomSecretary JS Deepak said.

The Government sold theentire available spectrum in the2300MHz band, while 700MHzand 900MHz remaineduntouched. ��

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Mahindra is looking at multi-fold jump in revenue to $1 bil-lion (about �6,700 crore) fromagriculture business within 5-6years and expects e-commerceto play a major role in thegrowth.

M&M’s agriculture busi-ness, excluding tractors andmechanicals currently stands ataround �1,000 crore.

“Sky is the limit. It dependshow well we do. We are rightnow targeting $1 billion in thenext 5-6 years and I am notcounting tractors and mechan-icals,” M&M Executive DirectorPawan Goenka told the newsagency on the sidelines of IndiaEconomic Summit here.

On the importance of e-commerce in the agriculturesector, he said it will remove theintermediates thereby enhanc-ing the earnings of a farmer.

He added: “I personallybelieve we are sitting at inflec-tion point in agriculture becausethere are several things whichhave started to happen. We areunderestimating what e-com-merce will do to Indian agri-culture.

“It will remove the inter-mediates and will be almostfrom farm to the dinner tableand therefore revenue won’t bedistributed in different bas-kets.”

When asked if this is thereason why Mahindra got intoe-commerce for rural markets,Goenka said: “Yes, certainly.”

Mahindra currently is hav-ing three e-commerce busi-nesses to cater to agriculture sec-tor.

It has forayed into the agri-cultural equipment rental ser-vices with the launch of Trringowhich uses a proprietary digitalplatform as an enabler to processorders and pass them on to thenearest franchisee through loca-tion based mapping.

Franchisee also tie-up withtractor owners in the vicinityenabling them to rent out equip-ment to farmers on a commis-sion basis.

Large farmers who ownexpensive, high-end equipmentcan rent out their assets there-by optimising utilisation basedon seasonality, cutting acrossgeographies.

“The fact that India has 139million farmers and out of that85 per cent, which is about 100million, have less than 2hectares, means they cannotafford a tractor. So if these 100million start renting tractors,that means 20 million tractorsare deployed in custom hiring.That is 10 times the tractorpark right now, that’s the kindof potential it has,” Goenkasaid.

The company runs e-com-merce based start-up,MeraKisan, which buys fromfarmers on order from the cus-tomer and supplies directly to thecustomer. It also has ‘My AgriGuru’, portal on disseminatingknowledge to farmers. ��

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India strongly supports thecapital increase in the World

Bank, Finance Minister ArunJaitley has said and expressed thecountry’s readiness to take a larg-er share in the global lender thanthe dynamic formula.

In his meeting with WorldBank President Jim Yong Kim,Jaitley acknowledged the long-standing and mutually benefi-cial relationship between theWorld Bank Group and Indiasince its inception and called onthe Bank to work together withthe member countries toexplore innovative financingsolutions.

Jaitley arrived here fromCanada to attend the annualmeeting of the International

Monetary Fund and the WorldBank.

He also appreciated thesupport of the World Bank tothe many significant achieve-ments of India in its develop-ment process, especially in thesix priority areas identified bythe Prime Minster forMultilateral DevelopmentBanks’ assistance, a statementreleased by the Indian Embassyhere said.

“While discussing the pol-icy issues related to the WorldBank Group, he indicated India’sstrong support for the capitalincrease and its readiness to takea larger share than the dynam-ic formula,” it said.

The World Bank uses adynamic formula, using eco-nomic weight (based on GDP)

and development impact, todetermine countries’ share-holding and thus voting powerin the Bank.

Jaitley also emphasised thatthe World Bank Group shouldwork together with the membercountries to explore innovativefinancing solutions, the mediarelease said.

The CommonwealthSecretary General PatriciaScotland also met the FinanceMinister.

Later in the evening, heinteracted with several US StateDepartment officials during areception hosted in his honour.

Separately, EconomicAffairs Secretary ShaktikantaDas held a bilateral meetingwith US Treasury Under-Secretary Nathan Sheets.

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biggest oil company, has receivedGovernment approval to set uppetrol pumps to retail petrol anddiesel in India.

BP will be the tenth player toenter the lucrative fuel retailingbusiness that is seeing double digitgrowth, not seen anywhere in theworld.

The UK-based firm, as alsoHaldia Petrochemicals Ltd, wasgiven approval by the Oil Ministryto retail petrol and diesel just a fewdays back, sources said.

When contacted, a BP Indiaspokesperson said: “BP sees astrong future for transportationfuels in India. We are keen to beinvolved in this market and con-tribute to its development.”

The company had in Januarythis year won in-principle approvalto retail aviation turbine fuel (ATF)to airlines in India. A few months

later, it got full approval for that.Now, the company has also got

permission for retailing petrol anddiesel.

“We can confirm we havebeen granted approval for mar-keting for ATF and have addi-tionally applied for an authorisa-tion to market MS (petrol) and

HSD (diesel),” the BP spokesper-son said.

For a licence to retail auto fuelspetrol, diesel and ATF, a companyshould have invested a minimumof �2,000 crore in exploration orproduction of oil and gas, oilrefining, gas or product pipeline orterminals leading to additionality

to the existing assets or creation ofnew assets in the eligible activities.

BP, which had in 2011 bought30 per cent interest in 21 explo-ration blocks of Reliance Industriesfor $7.2 billion, had cited invest-ment of nearly $500 million in oiland gas exploration and produc-tion for gaining the licence.

India currently has about56,190 petrol pumps, with publicsector firms operating a majorityof them.

Private sector operators arelimited to Essar Oil and RelianceIndustries, which between themhave some 3,500 petrol pumps.Royal Dutch Shell operates 82petrol stations.

Numaligarh Refineries Ltd(NRL) and Mangalore Refineriesand Petrochemicals Ltd (MRPL)are late entrants and have six out-lets between them.

State-owned Indian Oil Corp

(IOC) owns 25,363 petrol pumps,Hindustan Petroleum Corp Ltd(HPCL) 13,802 stations andBharat Petroleum Corp Ltd(BPCL) 13,439 outlets.

Kolkata-based HaldiaPetrochemicals Ltd (HPL) wasthe latest company to get fuelretailing rights and BP now is the10th player in the arena.

In ATF or jet fuel retailing,there are 205 aviation fuel stations,100 of which are owned by IOC,40 by BPCL and 37 by HPCL. RILhas 27 aviation fuel stations at air-ports while joint venture of Shelland MRPL owns one.

India is currently the ninthlargest aviation market in theworld. Its jet fuel market iscirca 5.9 million tonnes perannum and is expected to con-tinue to grow significantly tosupport the growth of theIndian economy. ��

��(�����Over 90 per centof foreign direct investment inthe country is coming throughautomatic route and the com-merce ministry is furtherrelaxing the FDI regime, a topGovernment official said onThursday.

Department of IndustrialPolicy and Promotion (DIPP)Secretary Ramesh Abhisheksaid huge potential exists inIndia to attract FDI.

The Government is imple-menting a series of transfor-mative actions and policieswhich are required to realisethis potential, he said at theIndia Economic Summit here.

“For example our FDIpolicies, they were restric-tive. Now we have made Indiaone of the most openeconomies. Even in very sen-sitive sectors, we have allowed100 per cent FDI and underautomatic route in most cases.92 per cent of FDI comesunder automatic route nowand we are further relaxing theFDI regime,” he said.

In June, FDI policy in asmany as nine sectors wererelaxed and that includedefence, aviation and foodprocessing.

In November last yearalso, Government had openedup 15 sectors including realestate, defence, civil aviationand news broadcasting in abid to push up reforms. ��

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oping ultra high-speed trains inthe country, Railway MinisterSuresh Prabhu said here onThursday. “Using technology is.The next big thing, which isgoing to happen in the trans-portation sector. We just had ameeting in Delhi on September2. We got six top global compa-nies to come and talk about tech-nological transportation tech-nology that we will develop, co-develop, manufacture and use inIndia and then maybe, use out-side the country,” Prabhu saidwhile addressing the IndiaEconomic Summit here.

He spoke of the challenges ofthe ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’,for which the need of the hour is‘local solution with a globalapproach’. Technology, Prabhusaid, is something which is goingto ‘revolutionise the entire stream’Indian Railways had floatedexpression of interest for devel-

oping ultra high-speed trains inthe country in which top globalcompanies have shown interest.Now, the Railways is finalising anaction plan to develop a short-track for testing these ultra high-speed trains which are expectedto travel at a speed of more than400 km per hour.

However, the Railways isgoing ahead with its plan forintroducing bullet train thatwill run at 300 km per hourbetween Mumbai andAhmedabad, for which Japanhas placed loans as well as tech-nology. “Our imagination is the

only limit for technologicaldevelopment. We need localsolutions as well as a globalapproach to the challenges ofthe Fourth IndustrialRevolution,” he said.

Stressing on the need forsolutions to mitigate the adverseimpact on environment andsociety, Prabhu said: “We musthave space to find out how thesetwo fundamental issues would becompatible.” He maintained thatIndia has always been open tonew technology and ‘that is howIndia was the largest economy inthe world some centuries ago’.

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MUMBAI: Taking carrier rivalryto a new level, the owner of GoAirairlines moved the Bombay HighCourt seeking direction to rivalInterglobe Aviation Ltd toremove the prefix ‘Go’ fromtheir airline’s web address ‘goindi-go.In’ but the hearing also sawsome lighter moments.

Justice Gautam Patel was leftflummoxed on why Google IndiaLtd was also made a defendantparty in the suit by Go HoldingsPrivate Ltd and quipped tongue-in-cheek that it was good that thepetitioner was not seeking that theonline giant also change its nameto ‘ogle’. “For reasons hat arepresently unclear so far, GoogleIndia Ltd, the 2nd Defendant, isalso said to be liable. AdvocateAmit Jamsandekar for the plain-

tiff grants that this is not becausethe word ‘Go’ is also part ofGoogle’s corporate and domainname. “That is all to the good, forthe alternative is unthinkable wemight otherwise be forced to oglethe Web,” Justice Patel quipped.

The court directed thedefendants to file their replyaffidavits and the plaintiff to fileits rejoinder to the affidavits byJanuary 31 next year. The Wadiagroup-led GoAir challengedthe use of the word ‘Go’ in thedomain name goindigo.In. “Thesuit has not challenged the useof the word ‘Go’ in the trailing;a small mercy as it happens, forthat might be a demand thatIndiGo should be rechristened‘Indi’,” Justice Patel noted in hisorder on October 3. PTI

NEW DELHI: India cannotstop the use of fossil fuels com-pletely from its energy basket asit has development imperativesin the near future, PowerMinister Piyush Goyal has said.He was of the view that it isimportant to strike a balancebetween the conventional andrenewable sources of energyand rapid societal developmentand environmental concerns.

Goyal made these commentsin his address to ‘EnergyConclave, 2016–Securing India’sGreen Future’, organised here onWednesday, according to a PowerMinistry press release. He notedthat it is of prime importance toachieve the goal of ‘One Nation,One Grid, One Price’ at the ear-liest and to create a robust trans-mission grid network whereaffordable power is seamlesslyavailable to the common manthroughout the nation, at one

price. The Government has raisedthe solar power target five timesto 100 GW by 2022, he said,adding that the prices of solarenergy have come down by 40 percent in just 18 months.

Moreover, he said, concen-trating on other sources of renew-able energy, this year has beendedicated to hydro and windenergy and talks with interna-tional gas suppliers are on. Citingexample of large hydro powerprojects like Teesta and Subansiri,Goyal expressed concern thatthese projects have been experi-encing severe time and cost overruns in the past due to variousissues. The Government, he said,is taking all the required steps tofast-track the operationalising ofthese projects at the earliest so thatinvestors, both global and domes-tic, do not get a negative signal onthe prospects of investing in thehydro power sector. PTI

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Japanese auto major NissanMotor Co will launch eight

new products in India over thenext five years, enhancing itspresence across the country.The company, which is aimingat 5 per cent market share inIndia by 2020 will launch thenew products under its Nissanand Datsun brands.

“India is a very importantmarket for Nissan globally. TheIndian market has all the atten-tion of the top management. Wewill be launching eight newproducts by 2021,” Nissan MotorCo Senior Vice President,Management Committee,Chairman of Africa, MiddleEast and India Region ChristianMadrus told PTI. These newproducts will be equally distrib-uted across Nissan and Datsun

brands, he added. “This will helpus position as one of the topbrands in the country. We havealready stated that we are look-ing for 5 per cent market sharein India by 2020,” Madrus said.

Nissan currently has around2 per cent share in the Indian carmarket. While he declined toshare more details of the plannednew products, he said: “In recentyears we have launched moreDatsun products so the firstone to be launched from the new

ones will be a Nissan product.”Nissan India Operations

President Guillaume Sicard saidthe company will launch thehybrid version of its top end SUVXtrail within this fiscal. Onfuture products, Sicard said thecompany will focus on segmentswhere there is latent demand.

“In India there is appetite forlarge hatchback and also forsedans with big loading capaci-ty,” he said, adding crossover SUVis also on the cards. “ConsideringNissan's DNA, SUV is a given butit won't be the only one,” Sicardadded. Apart from the Indianmarket, Madrus said Nissan isalso making India an exporthub for Africa and the MiddleEast. “The products we havedeveloped in India are alsosuitable for these regions. Wewant India to be the base forexport to these markets,” he said.

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Washington: The US militarysaid it is sending helicopters, anaircraft carrier, troops andother equipment to Haiti toprovide humanitarian assis-tance after the impoverishedCaribbean nation was lashed byHurricane Matthew.

Nine Army and MarineCorps choppers were expectedto arrive in Haiti on Thursday,and will conduct surveys to fig-ure out which areas are hard-est hit before delivering aid, themilitary's head of its SouthernCommand, Admiral Kurt Tidd,told reporters.

“We have reports indicat-ing that roads and communi-cations infrastructure along

the southern coastline areimpassable,” Kurt said yester-day.

Between 150-200 UStroops will be on the ground inHaiti, and operations in thecountry will be directed froma center at Port-au-Prince air-port.

Additionally, the USSGeorge Washington aircraftcarrier, the USS Comfort hos-pital ship and the USS MesaVerde amphibious transportship were all en route to theseas around Haiti.

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London: Adolf Hitler was agibbering “super- junkie”whose veins were all butdestroyed by thousands of opi-ate injections and the Nazidictator's heavy reliance ondrugs was behind his “increas-ingly erratic” decision-mak-ing in later stages of World WarII, a new book has claimed.

According to NormanOhler, an award-winningGerman author, the Fuhrerbecame addicted to a heroin-like substance called Eukodelwhich was prescribed followinga nervous breakdown in 1944.

Ohler's book 'Blitzed:Drugs in Nazi Germany', whichBritish historians have praisedas a “remarkable” work of

r e s e a r c h ,argues thatthe heroin-like opiatewas largelyto blame forH i t l e r ' serratic andp a r a n o i dbehaviourtowards the end of his life, TheTelegraph reported.

It brings to light extractsfrom the journal of Dr TheoMorell, Hitler's personal physi-cian, who once complained hecould no longer inject the drugas nearly all of his patient'sveins had collapsed.

“I cancelled injectionstoday, to give the previous

puncture holes a chance toheal,” one entry reads.

“Left inside elbow good,right still has red dots (but notpustules), where injectionswere given,” it says.

Ohler said Hitler began thedrugs regime after narrowlysurviving the 1944 assassina-tion attempt known as'Operation Valkyrie', in whichthe German resistance planteda bomb in a briefcase under hisdesk.

The explosion shatteredboth of Hitler's eardrums, rid-dled his body with splintersfrom a wooden table thatshielded him from the blast andturned him into a nervouswreck. PTI

Karachi: A judicial commis-sion constituted by a Pakistanianti-terrorism court todayexamined a boat used by 10LeT terrorists to reach India forcarrying out the 2008 Mumbaiattack and recorded the state-ment of an investigator.

“A Pakistani commission,comprising prosecution anddefense lawyers, on Thursdayinspected Al-Fauz boat (usedby Mumbai attack terrorists) inport city of Karachi in the pres-ence of a trial court judge,” anofficial said.

He said the commissionalso recorded the statement ofan official of the FederalInvestigation Agency (FIA)who had collected evidenceabout Al-Fauz.

Lahore: Two members of theISIS who were plotting attackson Pakistan Army's buildingsand other security installa-tions have been arrested fromthe Punjab here. The CounterTerrorism Department (CTD)of Punjab Police arrested the ISmembers yesterday from theLahore Cantonment area wherethey were planning to targetsome army buildings, a CTDspokesman said. PTI

Washington: Welcoming thenews that the Paris agreementon climate change will enterinto force in 30 days, USPresident Barack Obama hastermed it as a “turning point”for protecting the planet forfuture generations by avoidingsome of the worst consequencesof global warming.

“Today is a historic day inthe fight to protect our planet forfuture generations...Today, theworld has officially crossed thethreshold for the ParisAgreement to take effect. Today,the world meets the moment.And if we follow through on thecommitments that this agree-ment embodies, history maywell judge it as a turning pointfor our planet,” Obama said inhis remarks at the Rose Gardenof the White House yesterday.

At the same time, Obamasaid Paris Agreement alone willnot solve the climate crisis.

“Even if we meet every tar-get embodied in the agreement,

we'll only get to part of where weneed to go. But make no mis-take, this agreement \will helpdelay or avoid some of theworst consequences of climatechange,” he argued.

“It will help other nationsratchet down their dangerouscarbon emissions over time,and set bolder targets as tech-nology advances, all under astrong system of transparencythat allows each nation to eval-uate the progress of all othernations,” he added.

“And by sending a signalthat this is going to be our future— a clean energy future — it

opens up the floodgates forbusinesses, and scientists, andengineers to unleash high-tech,low-carbon investment andinnovation at a scale that we’venever seen before,” Obamaasserted.

In a statement, the USSecretary of State John Kerrysaid enough countries — repre-senting enough of the world’sgreenhouse gas emissions —have submitted their instru-ments to formally join theagreement.

The Paris Agreement willenter into force in 30 days, hesaid. “For many years, scientistshave been warning us that cli-mate change is real, it is hap-pening now, and, barring glob-al action to change the courseour planet is on, it will have dev-astating impacts in nearly everycorner of the world,” he said.

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After the fiasco in his firstdebate with Hillary Clinton

last week, Donald Trump isnow bracing for what punditsregard as a “must-win” encounterin St. Louis, Missouri on Sunday.

And this time round, theRepublican nominee is leavingnothing to chance as reports saythat he is preparing thoroughlyfor the encounter, complete witha rehearsal of sorts at a town hallevent since the debate this timewill follow the town hall format,with half the number of ques-tions coming from uncommittedvoters. With his running mateMike Pence’s strong performancein the vice-presidential debate onTuesday night, analysts believethat Trump will have to prepareand deliver in order to build ona new momentum of sortsthought to have been generatedby the Indiana Governor.

Clinton herself, having wonthe first debate with days ofintensive preparation and a mock

debate with an aide playingTrump’s part, has let it be knownthat she will not be resting on herlaurels. She has broken awayfrom the campaign trail to sitwith her aides for a new roundof prepping.

Since each of the three pres-idential debates is estimated to beviewed by upwards of 80 millionAmericans, the candidates willhave their work cut out. In pop-ular imagination, advantage indebates continues to rest withClinton, given her long experi-ence as a public speaker.

“She is very used to the(town hall) format. She likes it.She likes answering questionsfrom individual citizens. Shelistens hard, she relates to peo-

ple,” Clinton’s campaign chair-man John Podesta said, adding:“And that is a format that DonaldTrump isn’t as used to. And sowe will see. I think it is a natur-al format for her. She likesengaging with people.”

Trump’s campaign manag-er Kellyanne Conway is not oneto agree with that contention.While asserting that Trump is“preparing constantly”, she toldMSNBC: “He has gotten veryexcited about the format. Thetown hall format is really asweet spot for him.”

The Trump camp, mean-while, is going to town with BillClinton’s gaffe, callingObamacare “the craziest thing inthe world” because of severalproblems it has run into, notablyrising premiums and an adverseimpact on small businesses.

Speaking at a Democraticrally in Michigan on Monday, theformer president had com-mented: “So you’ve got thiscrazy system where all of a sud-den 25 million more peoplehave health care and then the

people who are out there bust-ing it, sometimes 60 hours aweek, wind up with their pre-miums doubled and their cov-erage cut in half. It’s the craziestthing in the world.”

Clinton has had to urgentlyand repeatedly clarify hisremarks, given the fact that it willnot go down well with the vastnumber of Obama supporterswho are otherwise solidly behindHillary Clinton. In his clarifica-tion, he said, saying Obamacarehas done “a world of good” forthose without health insurance.“We, for the first time in our his-tory, at least are providing insur-ance to more than 90% of ourpeople.”

Regardless of the clarifica-tion, Trump has sought to praiseClinton’s original comments fortheir “candour” about the state ofObamacare. And his runningmate, Pence, told Fox News onThursday: “Well, sometimeswith the Clintons, even the truthhappens, and Bill Clinton saidwhat millions of Americans haveknown for years.”

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“(The) US is no longer aworld power. It is a decliningpower. Forget about it,” SpecialKashmir Envoy of Sharif,Mushahid Hussain Syed was

heard as saying yesterday afterthe conclusion of an interactionat the Atlantic Council, one ofthe top American think-tanks.

Syed and Shazra Mansab,another Kashmir Envoy, are inthe US as part of the Pakistanieffort to apprise the globalcommunity of the current sit-uation in Kashmir and allega-tions of human rights violationsin the Valley.

Syed has gone to the extent

to warn US that Pakistan wouldmove towards China andRussia if its views on Kashmirand India are not considered.

He was apparentlyresponding to a question froma member in the audience afterthe conclusion of the 90-minute interaction duringwhich he expressed his frus-tration over the lack ofresponse to his point of view onKashmir and India. PTI

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Turkey's state-run Anatolianews agency confirmed a dead-

ly explosion had hit Atme,adding that it took place dur-ing a “change of guard” amongSyrian rebels in the area.

The IS-linked Amaq newsagency also reported the blast,saying it was a car bomb, with-out carrying any formal claimof responsibility.

Rebel fighters have beentargeted at the crossing before.The Islamic State groupclaimed responsibility for amid-August suicide attackthere that killed at least 32. AFP

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Kabul: Afghan civilians wereincreasingly leaving the northerncity of Kunduz on Thursday toescape fighting betweenGovernment forces and theTaliban, a battle now in itsfourth day, officials said.

The fighting in Kunduz,located on a key national cross-roads, has raised concerns of arepeat scenario as last year, whenit briefly fell to the Taliban.Insurgents at the time heldKunduz for three days, thenresisted Afghan and US forces foralmost three weeks before thecity was brought fully backunder Government control. AP

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Geneva: The UN's Syria envoyon Thursday made an impas-sioned appeal to save easternAleppo, warning the city facedtotal destruction and urgingIslamist fighters to leave socivilians can get aid.

“In maximum two months,two and half months the city ofeastern Aleppo may be totallydestroyed”, Staffan de Misturatold reporters in Geneva.

The rebel-held eastern partof Aleppo has been hammeredby a Russian-backedGovernment offensive, includ-ing multiple attacks on hospitals. AFP

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But why the rush now,after so many years of a NorthKorean weapons program thatprogressed relatively slowly?

It's all about November 8,and the US presidential elec-tions, according to a growingnumber of experts who studyNorth Korea.

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This is a weird slowseason in the automo-tive industry, although

you will not get that feeling ifyou walk into a car showroomright now. The festive seasonthis year coincides perfectly

with the month of October, anda whole bunch of cars launched inthe past few months - the Audi A4,Hyundai Elantra, Toyota InnovaCrysta, Mercedes-Benz GLC andmany more are awaiting bumpersales. There will be a few morelaunches in between Dussheraand Diwali, chief among them willbe the new Jaguar F-Pace, the leap-ing cat’s first foray into the worldof SUV’s as well as the new VolvoS90, the Swedish company’sassault on the likes of theMercedes S-Class and BMW 7-series.

Yet, when you bought yourlast car did you really considersafety or the safety features of thecar at the top of your mind? Whenyou buy any major luxury brandyou expect the car to have all sorts

of safety features from airbags tobody stabilisation and what not?But do you know how Anti-LockBrakes work? Most likely nounless you are an auto-geek likeme, you know the guys who meetup at a Diwali cards party and justtalk about the latest cars.

Those of you with children,how many of you have child seatsfor your kids? Or do you let yourkids sit on the front seat, or evenon your lap? Do you even realisethat god forbid, the airbag went offyour child your break his or herneck? Are you like those two setsof unfortunate parents who gavein to their child’s demands and letthem poke their heads out of thesunroof? We know how tragical-ly both those cases ended.

This is the festive season andyou might be buying a car. Yet, doyou know how safe your car is?Are you aware that some cars havefailed structural integrity testsduring head-on collisions con-ducted by the Global NCAP? I’msure some of you have googled

about the fuel economy of your carand the discounts that you mightget, but ask yourself is savingmoney today more importantthan saving your life tomorrow?

At least the tests shamedsome manufacturers intoinstalling airbags as standard fit-

ment and those manufacturersdeserve our praise. But there areother global manufacturers whoget away saying that their cars‘adhere to Indian standards’. Askyourself whether your life, yourfamily’s life and your child’s life areso cheap that you do not give a

damn about safety on the road?Over 150,000 Indians died lastyear in road accidents. Thinkabout that for a second, that is amultiple of the number of peoplewho have died during the ongo-ing Syrian Civil war and we knowhow horrific that conflict is. A mil-

lion plus people have died over thepast decade, some could be yourfriends or even your family.

So, when you do buy a carnext, ask about its safety features.Because fuel economy won’t saveyour life in an accident. ShubhoBijoya!

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It is said that God (in this case goddess)lies in details which can be found in thelandscapes of the city right now. With

Durga Puja just around the corner, one caneasily sense the festive mood growing inthe city. The country is all geared up to cel-ebrate in the grand sized, elaborately lit andlavishly decorated pandals and the rush hasalready begun. Chitranjan Park is nowready for nights of revelry for the muchawaited final days of Durga Puja, artisansare busy giving the final touches to the dec-orations.

But before that, we wanted to seewhere these idols are made. And hence,we went to Chandralok Cinema, walkingdown the dark lanes, the fragrance of wet

clay wafts past. Now this is the time oflast touch up of Durga. Bappa, an artistwho came here four months ago from

Kolkata giving his last touch to GoddessDurga said, “In the past four months wehave made more than 50 idols. Some ofthe orders were theme based while somepeople still follow the old-school style ofidol making, although ‘theme artists’ arein great demand too, when it comes tomaking unique idols. But this time wemade traditional ek-chala (single frame)Dashabhuja Durga is seen with her fourchildren Kartikeya, Ganesa, Laxmi andSaraswati along with the carrier lion andthe asura Mahisasura”.

The beauty of the idols might leave youspellbound but it is not easy to get to thatlevel of perfection. They are made of sun-dried clay used over the bamboo and hayframework, which gives it the initialshape. The entire process is a great exam-ple of what team work can achieve. Theartisans work for hours and days toensure that the final shape is perfectly ren-dered. It doesn’t end there. Once it’s done,painters give life to the idol by drawingthose beautiful eyes as the dressmakersweaves some stunning colorful sari alongwith some embellishments and decora-tions. Bappa even told us they purchaseDurga maa’s jewellry, sari and otheraccessories according to the customers’choices and needs from Kolkata.

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One of the prominent Durgastab inDelhi is organised at Minto Road by MintoRoad Puja Samiti. Ornamented withwhites and navy blues, the pandal here isfully lit up and all set to fascinate the devo-tees.Talking to us, SS Basak of the MintoRoad Puja Samiti said, “This is the 77thyear our committee is organising the puja.Every year we come up with differentthemes. This year we zeroed in on ‘cleanand green’. We have used eco-friendly mur-tis of Durga, Saraswati, Lakshmi, Ganeshand Kartikeya. Material used for pandalsis also eco-friendly. Sufficient lightingarrangement has been done here to woothe devotees. We have taken utmost careto not use any plastic materials. Everythingused is biodegradable”.

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Samiti came up with recycled and eco-friendly puja. Sorba Bhattacharya who isthe member of puja samiti said, “Everyyear we make a theme which changes witheach year. This is our 41st year for whichwe chose Akaal Bodhon theme. The outerstructure will represent the sacred lotus.Basically the lotus is the foremost symbolof sacrifice, beauty, prosperity and fertil-ity. According to Hinduism, within eachhuman being lies the spirit of the sacredlotus. It represents eternity, purity, divin-ity and is widely used as a symbol of life,fertility and ever-renewing youth. Also,Bhattacharya said, “In Akaal Bodhan themain subject is lotus. Durga Puja was tra-ditionally performed in spring but LordRama decided to invoke the goddess, inautumn, to seek her blessing in defeat-ing Ravana. As part of the rituals forDurga Puja,108 blue lotuses, are

required to be offered to the goddess.These were rare and were known to beavailable only in the lake of Debidaha. LordRama sent his loyal follower Hanuman tofetch them after which the rituals ofDurga puja began”. The Inner panels arecreated bearing the story of AkaalBodhan with recycled products. Apartfrom various recycled and eco-friend-ly products that the samiti has beenusing in the past, this year main eco sub-stance is madur (mat) made from themadur kathi reed (Cyperustegetum andC Pangorie). Bhattacharya added,“These reeds grow exclusively in theswampy land around the coastal areasof West Bengal.”

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Durga Puja and are in 41st year. Thisyear the pandal is based on a naturaltheme. They are using bamboo, jute,mat, ropes made of hay and hand-madepanels. The pandal entry boasts of twohuge conch shells and a nagada, invit-ing the devotees to come and worshipDurga. Inside, they were depicting ascene of shondha aaroti with dhaak,dhunuchi and poncho predeep.

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popular and attracts enormous crowdsevery year. The rituals are observed withgreat fidelity; barrels of bengal-specif-ic flowers are flown in fresh for the pujaevery day. For procuring sufficientquantities of blue lotus, needed for sand-hi puja, entire ponds from Bengal arebooked well in advance. SameerBanerjee, president of E-block of thepuja samiti said, “This year we are fol-lowing old styled theme. Our goddessidol is a traditional one used 400 yearsback. For the inner pandal we used ther-mocol giving a look of old palace.”

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Samiti was set up in the year 1992 by hand-ful of people to retain the rich socio-cul-tural and religious events of Bengal,standing as the undisputed foremostorganisation of all the Bengali communi-ties in Noida. “We are working on themeGram Bangla. Our committee has tried tobring a trenchant chapter of Indian histo-ry and culture through its intrinsicallydesigned pandals, interior works andbeautiful idol of Goddess Durga and otherdeities sculpted distinctly,” said the organ-iser.

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The hot and muggy evening wasrolled around with premiumwines doing the rounds covering

more ground than the upbeat party ani-mals. And the bacchanal did cut themustard for the roisterers befitting thefestive mood of the month. Talk aboutfestive carousal already? Sula vineyardshosted worth a shindig in its first everroadshow pertinently called ‘Globe ina Glass’ with all the imported winesunder Sula Selections to sample. It wasa tough call with around 40 wines and20 spirits to choose from but the pro-ducers and ambassadors made a breezeof it.The three-city tour kicked off inDelhi on October 3 with much gusto,had a stop-over in Bangalore, and willhave its grand finale today in Mumbai. “We are really excited about the veryfirst edition and plan to turn it into anannual affair. It’s a fun way to bringtogether sommeliers, ambassadors,oenophiles and people who want tolearn more about these finest producesfrom across the world,” said CeciliaOldne, Vice President and GlobalBrand Ambassador, Sula Vineyards.The interactive, informative and educa-tive sampling session had people ask-ing for more, and why not, it wasn’t aformal sit-down after all. “We basical-ly wanted to do away with the snobappeal attached to wine and call on peo-ple from all walks of life. Almost any-body to everybody who loves wine!And did we expect such a turn out,” anexcited Cecilia told us.Some of the spirits presented were MudHouse from New Zealand, Hardys fromAustralia, Trapiche from Argentina,Cono Sur from Chile, Ruffino fromItaly and Le Grand Noir from Franceto name a few along with their repre-sentatives enlightening the ones presentwith their great insights. “Most Suladrinkers and appreciators don’t knowmuch about our imports and thisevent was put together for them. A greatopportunity to indulge in stimulatingconversations,” commented she.Making one such interesting observa-

tion was Robert Joseph of award win-ning Le Grand Noir who opined howpairing a particular cuisine with a spe-cific wine is over hyped and totallyunneeded. “I don’t see a point on peo-ple being so finicky about food pairing.If people enjoy wine as it is, on its own,without any tidbits, then they can enjoyany wine with food. Also, it doesn’t real-ly matter which wine you are havingwith what cuisine,” he said adding thatit’s women who will drive a change in

the wine consumption. “I see morewomen enjoying a glass or more ofwine now than ever.” Speaking of trends and growth of pre-mium labels and brands in the coun-try, Cecilia mentioned that there’s def-initely a huge demand for importedlabels as Indian consumers are far more

discerning now, well travelled andknow what they want. It’s the availabil-ity of wines that have been coming tothe country from around the world thathas made all the change. “People aremoving from the ‘value wines’ to thepremiums as they are more aware ofdifferent varietals and styles of wines.And that’s one of the reasons why wehave added more labels to our premi-um segment.”But that doesn’t mean the Indian pro-

duces lag behind or are seen any less.“I would say we have some really amaz-ing produces which we import as well.I see a trend where our customers arebuying more of our premiums than ourimports.” she added. Lately domesticwineries have been vying with inter-national labels by selling at a higher

price. “The cost of production is veryhigh in India than other parts of theworld, the grapes in India are costlierthan the ones found in France andthat’s why maybe a few wineries areincreasing their prices. And that isactually the cost of producing wine. Ifyou are putting all the quality then whynot,” she pointed.“Sula has been going strength tostrength about the quality of theirwines. If you can’t buy a particular winefrom abroad then we give it to you withthe same quality and assurance that itwill taste the same or in some caseseven better. Sula sells fresh vintage andthat’s how we maintain the consisten-cy in our wines.”Talking about her preference, “WhenI came to India a decade back the qual-ity was not up to my standard and I pre-ferred drinking imported wines. Buttoday Sula wines have upped their ante.But then again I like variety in life andsometimes I like to have differentstyles of wines. And that’s the belief wefollow with Sula Selections as well.” sherounded off.

Open the door to Jamie’s Italian and you’re greeted bythe machines which make fresh pasta and pizza bread

every day. The place with worn out doors gives an oldworld charm to the bistro. It is upbeat with red seatingand dull yellow lights. Special menu for the day finds itselfmarked on a chalkboard hung on the walls. Look closerand you will see tiny cans of olives, relishes and other prod-ucts on display with an open kitchen.

The menu takes you beyond the normal pastas andpizzas commonly associated withItalian food into clever culi-nary avatars and playful

flavoured combi-nations.

We start offwith theau t h e nt i cworld’s bestolives on ice,ser ved in aglass full of icefused witholives around.To t ingle thetaste buds, theflavour of achhar andpapad is added with olives.Next up is penne arrabbiata; a bowl of pasta swimmingin a pool of creams and sauces, topped with grated cheeselending an artistic finish. We sprinkle chilli flakes on thepasta, and enjoy the crisp result, enhanced by the accom-panying focaccia bread. Also, the chicken in the pasta issoft and melty, and sweet corn adds to the flavour--a plateenough for two persons. A delicious mix of sweet and sourflavours transport us to Italy. Moreover, a live pasta counterdishes out homemade pastas including linguini (noodle-like), pappardelle, and tagliati which are ribbon-shapedpastas.

In between, raspberry mule, a concoction of vodkafused with fresh raspberry, lime and ginger that is servedin a high ball glass. It is a drink for someone who enjoysvodka with a sweet taste. The chef also sends up a roast-ed pepper calzone, filled with creamy tomato sauce, roast-ed red peppers, red onions and mature cheddar. This istopped with crushed tomatoes, mutton meatballs, moz-zarella and chilli. The thin crust bread in the pizza couldhave been a bit softer. And the wild mushroom crostiniis made with a creamy mushroom sauce, rocket leaves,chilli, parsley and wild mushrooms. The food is distinct-ly Italian, but new techniques are skillfully used to givediners a touch of the unexpected even within the famil-iar.

The dessert section has been designed in a way tobreak even a dieter’s will power. How does one refuse anultimate dessert plank featuring tiramisu with orange mas-carpone and chocolate, seasonal pavlova with chantillycream and seasonal fruit compote, baked cheesecake withcandied citrus fruits and lemon, plum-almond tart withwhipped cream, honey and fresh mint and epic browniewith warm fudgy brownie topped with ice cream andcaramelised popcorn? Epic brownie is a win-win of all.

Situated at the nip of Cyber city, Twist is a new entrant to thehub. It stands for providing authentic Chinese and Asian din-

ing experience in a light and spirited way. As we entered, wesaw two huge wine bottles standing tall and people posingaround them. Interesting! Decked in the colours of white, green,blue and shades of grey, the place is adorned with low lights,huge chandeliers, mirrors and a special mention to the paint-ing on the ceiling. It also has a balcony dining which gives youthe sense of being in some luxury garden.

With trippy music playing in the background, we ordereda glass of Margarita and chicken wings tossed in spicy plumsand shallots. It had us asking for more. Next on ourplatter was Jade Fish, pan fried Basa tossed withfresh thyme and coriander. This one had all thedelicious flavours in it. We would highly recom-mend this. Following it was Dragon Roll, vegetableand glass noodles roll served with the flavoursomemango hoisin sauce. We then tried wonton and sweetcorn soup. Both the broths were scrumptious. Wontonwas a clear broth with steamed chicken and vegetabledumpling whereas the sweet corn was traditionallystyled with cream style corn and egg drops.

Onto the mains, we ordered Devil’s chickenangry sauce. Grilled chicken served with a ‘twist’ sauce,which won us over. With the right amount of tang,the chicken was perfectly cooked and had a slightsmokiness to it too. With a glass of wine came prawns,cooked in spicy chilli sauce and spring onions. Theprawns were succulent and crunchy. Totally wortha munch. We then tried Citrus yu fish, steamed basa,flavoured with preserved chilli and vinegar. Well-thought and spicy.

Looking through the menu, we saw ‘Pokemonchase’, we ordered it and it turned out to be a total

bland dish. Stir fried bokchoy with shitake mushroomcouldn’t sway us. As to why it is called that, the staff hadno answer. Grabbing eyeballs for nothing? We next foundourselves digging in coconut green and jasmine rice.Vegetable curry simmered in coconut with Thai herbflavours. We have grown up loving Thai curry and thisone was a ten on ten. With apt coconut and butterflavour, we fell in love with it. Highly recommended.

For the last course, we had Twist snicker bar. Aneveryday snicker bar with chocolate layering, but stillit was the same ‘regular snicker’. We then had CrèmeBrulee, a trio of chocolate, vanilla and coffee crèmebrulee. Delightfully spongy and soft, it was deliciousand fragrant. We enjoyed it. Overall, Twist is a restau-rant with a chic décor and an unlimited cocktailmenu. It’s a perfect place for a fun party night out, with some resounding solid food and pleasantservice.

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Brazilian winger MarceloPereira struck twice asDelhi Dynamos notched

up a facile 3-1 win overdefending championsChennaiyin FC at JawaharlalNehru Stadium here onThursday.

Playing their first matchthis season, Delhi Dynamosturned on the magic withMarcelo, better known asMarcelinho, scoring two goalsfor his side in the first sessionafter Dudu Omagbemi hadbriefly cancelled his 26thminute goal. Badara Badji putthe match beyond ChennaiyinFC's reach with the third goalin the 86th minute.

Chennaiyin FC are with-out a win from their first twomatches after draw-ing the openingmatch againstAtletico de Kolkata.

Playing at homefor the first time, thedefending champions startedwith a flurry but could notbreak the deadlock. In theeighth minute, RaphaelAugusto spotted Mohanraj'srun from the left who crossedfor Dudu but the Nigerianstriker's header sailed justwide.

Bernard Mendy then wentclose in the next minute withanother header and JejeLalpekhlua had his chance todraw first blood but could notbeat Delhi goalkeeper ToniDoblas from close range.

Delhi soon recoveredfrom the initial ChennaiyinFC push and moved ahead inthe 26th minute after MilanSingh won a penalty. Milanspotted a long cross fromSouvik Chakraborty and wasmaking his run when he wasbrought down by ChennaiyinFC goalkeeper Duwayne Kerr.Marcelinho stepped up totake the penalty and sent the

goalkeeper the wrong way.Chennaiyin FC, however,

did not take too long to drawlevel. Dudu was affordedspace by the Delhi defenceand he made them pay by

latching on to a through ballfrom Jeje and slamming it pasta diving Delhi goalkeeper inthe 32nd minute.

Chennaiyin FC were nowback in the game but Delhi

took they by surprise againtwo minutes later asMarcelinho hoodwinked therival defence and gave Kerr nochance with a first-timeattempt.

Had Delhi converted thechances that came their wayafter being 2-1 ahead, thematch would have been killedat the half-time whistle itself.Kean Lewis missed a goldenchance with only the goal-keeper at his mercy as he shotwide and then Marcelinhotook one touch too many,allowing Chennaiyin FC goal-keeper to grab the ball andkeep his team in the hunt.

In the second session,Delhi Dynamos were com-fortable with the ball andrarely looked threatened.

Chennaiyin FC, on theother hand, tried to find a waypast the rival defence withoutmuch success. Sensing that heneeds to do something differ-ent, manager Marco Materazziopted to field three strikers forthe last 20 minutes of play butinstead it were DelhiDynamos who tasted success.

Delhi made it 3-1 with sixminutes left on the clockwhen a Kean Lewis cross fromthe left was finished with athumping header by substituteBadara Badji.

��������� � ��MUMBAI: High on confi-dence after back-to-back vic-tories in their first two match-es, NorthEast United FCwould look to maintain themomentum when they takeon Mumbai City FC in anIndian Super League footballfixture here on Friday.

NorthEast United are on ahigh after registering two vic-tories from their first twomatches. They defeated KeralaBlasters 1-0 in the openinggame and then put it acrossFC Goa 2-0 in the secondgame to pocket six pointsfrom the first two matches.

Mumbai City FC are alsoupbeat after their openingmatch victory against FCPune City, a rare away win forthem in the ISL.

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The Kabaddi World Cup isall set to begin here on

Friday, with organisers andplayers of competing coun-tries today expressing confi-dence of taking the game tonew heights of popularityacross the globe.

Addressing the media at apre-event press conference,International KabaddiFederation chief DeorajChaturvedi said that 12 out of32 Kabaddi playing countrieswill participate in the fort-night-long tournament, whichwill be concluding on October22. The game, which begins onFriday at a new multi-purposestadium, TransStadia, built hereunder a public private part-nership.

"Twelve wonderful teamsfrom five Olympic geographies

will clash with each other.Another big milestone is thatit will be played at a World Cupfacilitated stadium TransStadiahere, which has come up herein such a short time," he said.

"Kabaddi is our (India's)own game and I take thattoday it is played in 32 coun-tries, out of which 12 countriesare participating," he said.

The 12 participating teamsare India, USA (rpt USA),England, Australia, Iran,Poland, Thailand, Bangladesh,South Korea, Japan, Argentina,and Kenya.

The tournament, beingorganised by the InternationalKabaddi Federation, will bebroadcast live in 120-oddcountries by Star Sports,which will be a first for akabaddi tournament,Chaturvedi said.

"It is for the first time that

kabaddi will be showcased andexposed to the world, and I amsure this World Cup will cre-ate a history and will help uspromoting the game through-out the world," he said.

Twelve teams have beendivided into two pools of sixteams each with inauguralmatches being played on Fridaybetween India and SouthKorea, and United States andIran.

Speaking about the tour-nament, India team captainAnup Kumar accepted thatthere is pressure due to thepresence of world's best teams.

"It is a big tournament andall teams are very good, someteams are new and playingwith them will be a new expe-rience, and I believe there ispressure. Our only target is tokeep the trophy in the country,"he said.

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Star goalkeeper P.R. Sreejesh was on Thursdayretained as captain of the Indian men's hock-

ey team for the fourth edition of the AsianChampions Trophy, to be held at Kuantan inMalaysia from October 20.

Mid-fielder Manpreet Singh was namedSreejesh's deputy in the 18-member squadannounced by Hockey India (HI).

The squad is a mix of young and experi-enced players. Star drag flicker V.R. Raghunathhas been rested along with the forwardline duoof Akashdeep Singh and Ramandeep Singhwhile seasoned defender Birendra Lakra makesa come-back after an injury lay-off.

Lakra, who recently showed his prowess inthe recently held Obaidullah Khan Heritage

Hockey Cup in Bhopal and the MCC-Murugappa Cup in Chennai, will form India'sdefence along with the experienced Rupinder PalSingh, Kothajit Singh, Surender Kumar andPardeep Mor. While the midfield line-up remainsunchanged, the forwardline will see TalwinderSingh and Lalit Kumar Upadhyay. Defender JasjitSingh Kular will be expected to double-up as dragflicker in the absence of Raghunath.

Scheduled two months after the OlympicGames, the men's Asian Champions Trophy willsee India, Korea, Japan, China and hosts Malaysiachallenge defending champions Pakistan.

"The Asian Champions Trophy is an impor-tant tournament for us and going by the worldrankings, India will go in as favourites to winthe title," said Roelant Oltmans, chief coach andDirector High Performance.

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The return of big-hitting SureshRaina along with RavichandranAshwin being rested for the first

three ODI's against New Zealand, start-ing on October 16 in Dharamsala, werethe main focus of India's team selection.

Apart from Ashwin, the newly-appointed selection committee of theBoard of Control for Cricket in India(BCCI) headed by MSK Prasad alsodecided to rest all-rounder RavindraJadeja — who along with Ashwin were thekey components of India's first two Testmatch victories against the Kiwis. PacerMohammed Shami is also rested.

The selection committee chief Prasadsaid that the trio of Ashwin, Shami andJadeja was rested keeping in mind the longhome season that awaits India, which willsee the current No 1 side play 13 Testmatches. Among which two matches arealready over and India won bothhandsomely.

Resting Ashwin comes as a surpriseafter the spinner grabbed 14 wickets in thetwo Test matches so far against Kiwis,including 10 wickets in the first Test.

Raina, who had been rested from theODI series against Zimbabwe in June,returns while, seven players who rep-resented India under Dhoni's leader-ship against Zimbabwe — MandeepSingh, Jasprit Bumrah, Kedar Jadhav,Dawal Kulkarni, Manish Pandey,Axar Patel and Jayant Yadav — wereretained for the first three ODI's.

Mandeep in particularenjoyed a good time with India Aduring its recent tour ofAustralia, scoring 198 runs insix matches, including twosuccessive fifties.

Haryana offspin-ner, Jayant, playedthe two unoffi-cial Tests onthat tour, tak-ing seven wick-ets. Pandya,who has been aregular for Indiain the shortest for-mat, is yet to feature inthe 50-overs side yet.

Paceman Umesh Yadav was broughtback into the team after missing theZimbabwe tour.

Raina, who was left out of India's ODIsquads for the tours of Australia(December-January) and Zimbabwe, alsomissed the two T20Is against West Indiesin the USA recently.

However, the injuries to ShikharDhawan and KL Rahul helped theleft-hander place a comeback tothick of things. Also, the 29-year-oldabilities to be a part-time spinbowler might come in handy for theteam.

Meanwhile, the spin departmentwill be headed by senior leg-spinner

Amit Mishra in the company of left-armer Patel and offie Jayant.

Yadav, who has played atotal of 42 first-class

matches, has 117 wick-ets to his credit at anaverage of 29.70.

The biggeststrength for the teamlies in the battingdepartment with no lessthan seven specialistbatsmen are present inthe star-studded line-up. The prominentnames include ViratKohli, Rohit Sharma,Ajinkya Rahane andDhoni among others.

However, the teamhad no place for left-hand-ed opener GautamGambhir, who had forcedhis way back into the Testteam after some impressingin the domestic circuit late-ly.

Prasad said Gambhir'sname was discussed but"we needed continuity and

we groomed Mandeep as anopener. He did extremelywell against Australia ADown Under."

Moreover, captainDhoni is the lone wicket-

keeper in the side and lendsstrength to the batting down

the order.The first match of the series

will be held at Dharamsala(October 16), followed by games

in Delhi (October 20), Mohali(October 23), Ranchi (October

26), and Visakhapatnam (October29).

SQUADMahendra Singh Dhoni(Capt),

Rohit Sharma, Ajinkya Rahane, ViratKohli, Manish Pandey, Suresh Raina,Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, JayantYadav, Amit Mishra, Jasprit Bumrah,

Dhawal Kulkarni, Umesh Yadav,Mandeep Singh, Kedar Jadhav.

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Virat Kohli boasts of an impressive record as cap-tain since taking over the reigns of Indian Test team

two years ago and the right-hander feels the essenceof being a leader lies in taking bold decisions and back-ing it to the hilt without thinking about consequences.

Under Kohli's leadership, India has won nine Testsout of 16 matches and lost only two with other five end-ing in draws. As a skipper, the aggressive Delhi bats-man is yet to lose a Test at home.

By his own admission, Kohli has been an admir-er of his predecessor Mahendra Singh Dhoni's lead-ership abilities.

"Decision making is very hard at times and it takesa lot of courage to do that. I learnt a lot from Dhoniseeing the way he made decisions. They might havebeen right or wrong but to convince yourself to makeone decision and go forward with it; I think that is theessence of being a captain," Kohli told BCCI.TV.

Kohli takes pride in donning the whites and feelsthat the leadership responsibility has made him a muchbetter cricketer.

"It is an honour to be leading the Test team for thecountry. It is something that I take a lot of pride in.To be a Test cricketer for starters and then to lead aTest side; for me it is paramount," he said.

"That extra responsibility helped me play even bet-ter than I probably would have been.

"For me it is an honour to be able to wear whitesand step on to that field for India. The way Test crick-et tests you, nothing else can," Kohli said.

At 27, Kohli captained India to the numero unoposition in Test cricket and his hunger for success canbe gauged from the fact that he and his team matesshare a common goal — sustained excellence.

"We want to be a world class team and there is nodoubt about it in anyone's head. You don't think aboutbeing number one when you begin as captain but youobviously want to be on top in whatever format youplay and that is all that we strive for.

"To become a great player, you need to play greatas a team and then your performances count. That isour aim. Obviously there will be ups and downs andyou will feel the heat and take criticism and negativethings along the way. But that is what it is all about,that builds character," he added.

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Injuries to KL Rahul and Shikhar Dhawanhave brought Gautam Gambhir back into

the picture and batting coach Sanjay Bangarsays the Delhi batsman will be a vital cog inthe Indian Test team in long home season.

Gambhir returned to the Indian Testsquad after more than two years afterRahul suffered a hamstring injury. He didnot play in the Kolkata Test but Dhawan sus-tained a finger injury in that game and nowthe team has little choice but to field him inthe third Test.

"Gautam Gambhir is a quality player.What he has done really well for the timehe was out of the team was that he kept onperforming for his (IPL) franchise and thestate side. And when he got his opportuni-ty in the Duleep Trophy, he was among thetop run scorers and that too against the pinkball which certain batsmen found difficultto pick. He has ticked all the boxes," saidBangar. "I think the untimely injury to KLRahul and Shikhar Dhawan makes it surethere is a place for him. He has a proven

record against spin bowling. And the num-ber of Test matches we are going to play inIndia, he becomes a very important playerat the top of the order," said Bangar.

India play against England, Bangladesh(one off game) and Australia after the ongo-ing three-match Test series against .

Bangar also brushed aside the per-ceived lack of big runs from captain ViratKohli in the two games against the Kiwis so

far."He had a tremendous tour of the West

Indies where he hit a double hundred. Evenin Jamaica he was batting well and theTrinidad game was rained off. If you lookat it, his innings (of 45) at Kolkata was matchdefining. India were tottering at 45 for 4 (inthe second innings) when he and Rohit(Sharma) got together and stitched a bril-liant rearguard partnership."

"Obviously, at times, the volume of runsdon't come, but even smaller contributionscan help. That's been something he has beendoing. I am pretty sure he will also be eagerto convert those into bigger ones. He hasbeen making substantial contributions,"Bangar said.

The coach also emphasised on self-con-fidence with which the team face the diffi-cult situations.

"The current group which has been play-ing Test series together over the last 12-15months have a great belief in their abilities.We never think losing from any situation.That's something which has transformedinto on field performances."

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New Zealand bowling coachShane Jurgensen on

Thursday hinted that skipperand prolific batsman KaneWillamson will play the thirdTest, which they need to win tosalvage some pride.

Williamson did well in theKanpur Test with scores of 75and 25 but he missed the secondTest in Kolkata due to illness.

"It's looking positive. Finalconfirmation on that will prob-ably be tomorrow. We trainedtoday and he did some battingand had a decent hit and a run-around. We will have anotherlook at him tomorrow but itlooks positive," Jurgensen said ata press conference.

Jugensen was also opti-mistic about Jimmy Neesham,

who missed the first two Testsdue to rib injury. "His ribs havesettled down nicely. He has gotthrough quite a few overs in thelast week and had an extrabowl the day after the game andanother bowl today. He gotthrough five or six overs todayno problems," he said.

Jurgensen also said theyare keeping a close watch on thestrip for the match. The coachnoted that Indian bowlers havebeen improving consistently.

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Delhi pacers dished out a disciplinedbowling performance to leave Assam

tottering at 132-6 on a rain-hit opening dayof the Ranji Trophy Group B match at theReliance Stadium here on Thursday.

After the morning session was washedout due to rain, Delhi bowlers came out witha determined and disciplined approach andmade life difficult for the Assam batsmen.

RG Hazarika (37) and Tarjinder Singh(31 not out) were the major contributors forAssam even as Delhi bowlers Navdeep Saini(2/31), Manan Sharma (2/34) and VarunSood (2/29) tormented the batsmen withtheir line and length.

At the draw of stumps, Tarjinder and SPurkayastha (8) were at the crease.

Electing to bowl first, Delhi madegood use of the possible playing time as only62 overs could be bowled on the openingday due to rain.

Pallavkumar Das (15) and RahulHazarika (37) batted for 13.5 overs scoring29 runs when the former was dismissed byManan. Gokul Sharma (9) and Hazarikahelped Assam cross the 50-mark before theskipper was cleaned up by Sood in the 35thover.

Soon Hazarika and Amit Verma (2)were removed in quick succession by Saini

as Assam slipped to 65-4 in 39.4 overs.Sood came back to dismiss KB Arun

Karthik (9) and then Manan got rid of J SyedMohammad (13) as Assam were lookingdown the barrel at 113-6 in 55.1 overs.

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Tushar Deshpande wrecked havoc by grab-bing four wickets apiece as Mumbai putthemselves in the drivers seat by dismiss-ing Tamil Nadu for a paltry 87 on the open-ing day in their Ranji Trophy Group Amatch here today.

Mumbai skipper Aditya Tare's decision

to insert opposition in proved right asKulkarni and Deshpande ripped through theTamil Nadu batting line-up at the Bansi lalCricket Stadium here.

Only three Tamil Nadu batsmen couldreach to double digit scores with BabaIndrajith being the highest scorer with 28not out.

Kulkarni, who scalped Tamil Nadu's topthree batsmen, returned with figures of fourfor 31 while Deshpande gave away 25 runsfor his four wickets. Another mediumpacer Balwinder Sandhu got two wickets for14 runs to rout Tamil Nadu who were dis-missed in 45.3 overs.

In reply, Mumbai also struggled but notto the extent Tamil Nadu had done. Mumbaiwere 85 for 4 in 32 overs at stumps to trailby 2 runs with six first innings wickets stillin hand.

One-drop Kaustubh Pawar was battingon 28, in company with captain Tare (22 bat-ting). Jay Bista (7) was the first Mumbaibatsman to fall at the team score of 22 beforehis opening partner Akhil Herwadkar (17)followed him at 45 for 2. Soon, Mumbaislumped to 45 for 3 and then 53 for 4 beforePawar and Tare shared 32 runs for theunbroken fifth wicket stand.

For Tamil Nadu, KrishnamoorthyVignesh grabbed two wickets while AswinCrist and J Kousik got one each.

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The BCCI may discontinueIndia's premier domestic

tournament Ranji Trophy fromSaturday, the third day of the firstround, as current set of officialsmay be superseded as per LodhaCommittee's recommendations.

There are 18 state units whohave already expressed their"inability to conduct domesticmatches" in absence of funds, apoint that was put forward in theSupreme Court by BCCI seniorcounsel Kapil Sibal.

Since the verdict of the apexcourt will be delivered tomorrow,according to well-informedsources there are chances that the83rd edition of Ranji Trophy— theSenior National Cricket tourna-ment may get adversely affected.

"There is every possibilitythat Ranji Trophy may bestopped from the third day itself.If the board is not there, how canthe matches be organised insuch scenario. And it's not onlyRanji Trophy which is blue

riband tournament. It also con-sists of Senior and JuniorWomen's championship, our U-23, U-19 and U-16 champi-onships. You need funds to carryout these BCCI matches smooth-ly," a well-informed source toldPTI today. "If Lodha Committee,which is headed by former CJI,can't force the members to acceptthe recommendations, do youthink it is possible for the BCCIpresident to forcefully makethem implement the resolutions.Yes, the Ranji Trophy is in alimbo," the source added.

BCCI president AnuragThakur was not available forcomments on Thursday'sSupreme Court proceedings butsources close to the president saidthat he is "not at all hurt" that hiscricketing credentials have comeunder scanner. There are 12Ranji Trophy matches being heldacross the country with 28 teamsvying for the top honours. RanjiTrophy is mandatory for all first-class cricketers who are aspiringto play for the national team.

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