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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 `sur- gical precision', the `desired result was obtained', and the `intended message has been conveyed' to Islamabad. Hence, these denial and statements 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 matter how hard one tries to conceal it. "As we all know, it is usual to see Pakistan's reac- tion 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 tran- quility in the region and it can- not allow the terrorists to operate across the LoC with impunity and attack its citi- zens. Swarup said India has managed to isolate Pakistan on the issue of terrorism and it will continue to keep it under pressure. "You have already seen the pressure that we have brought to bear international- ly 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 pros- perity with neighbours is Government's priority but ter- ror can't be the product export- ed," he said. Meanwhile, reacting to Difa-e-Pakistan Council (DPC) announcement to hold rally in Pak to pressurise the PakistanGgovernment 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 assurances that it will deny the use of its territory for such pur- poses," added Swarup. The DPC is a group of jihadi and islamist outfits and involves internationally banned terrorists such as Hafeez Saeed. It has been underground for a while now in Pakistan but has reemerged after India's action along LoC. 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 security 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 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 exploitation 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 carried 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? #SurgicalSelfGoal." "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 another 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 com- ment 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 context 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 former Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda clashed with those of Tanwar. This is the third time that supporters from either side clashed during a public meeting. Hooda escaped unhurt in the incident. Tanwar and others, injured in the clash, were taken to a hospi- tal. Reports suggest that the violence erupted when sup- porters 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 responsi- bility of helping farmers and soldiers. "You should help the farmers of the country. You should provide more money to the Indian Army under the 7th Pay Commission, that is your responsibility. This is why people of India have elected you and this is the truth," he said. The Congress leader also accused Modi of dividing the country on religion and caste lines and not fulfilling his poll promises of providing employment to youth, higher support prices for farm pro- duce among others. He also charged the Prime Minister with helping a select few industrialists while not waiv- ing debts of farmers. "Modiji you promised two crore jobs per year that has not been done... You talked about 'Make in India' that is not hap- pening, you talked about Swachchh Bharat that is also not visible... You only did one thing - that of dividing the country on religion and caste lines," he said. Seeking to counter Modi's attack on Congress for having not done anything for the country in the past 70 years, Rahul said, "We have given them justice". Continued on Page 4 Islamabad: Voices against terror camps and favouring action against terror groups are grow- ing louder in Pakistan-occupied- 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 terror 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 country into diplomatic iso- lation. 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 nur- turing 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 diplomatically isolated because it gives freedom to non-State actors. "The Government has been completely unsuccessful in imposing restrictions on non- State actors according to the National Action Plan (NPA)," the Dawn newspaper quoted Ahsan as saying. He implied that such ele- ments continued to hold protests and rallies and give speeches in places such as Islamabad, Lahore, Faisalabad and Karachi. "I don't want instability in any country, as the blame of that will then fall on us because of these non-state actors," he said. He said the failure to curb terrorists would isolate Pakistan. "Then Bangladesh and Afghanistan will not speak to you, and Bhutan and Nepal will begin supporting India." "You have isolated Pakistan," he said, adding Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was responsible for Pakistan's diplomatic isolation as he was also the Foreign Minister. 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 B haratiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate L Ganesan was on Thursday declared elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha from Madhya Pradesh. CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan con- gratulated him and conveyed his best wishes. Ganesan paid a courtesy visit to the CM at his residence on Thursday. His was the lone nomina- tion for the only vacant Upper House seat from the State. Thursday being the last day for the withdrawal of nomination, Principal Secretary of the Madhya Pradesh Assembly and the returning officer for the Upper House election AP Singh after waiting for scheduled time of nomination withdrawal announced Ganesan elected unopposed and handed over the certificate to him. In the 230-member House, the ruling BJP enjoys majority and accordingly, the BJP won the seat unopposed. Bhopal MP Alok Sanjar and Bhopal Central MLA Surendranath Singh were present on the occa- sion. The seat from the State fell vacant following the resignation of Najma Heptulla after she was made Manipur Governor. Attracted by the RSS ide- ology at a very young age, Ganesan became a full-time Pracharak of the Sangh in 1970. For about 20 years, he had served the RSS in various capacities in Nagercoil, Madurai and other places. In 1991, he joined the BJP and became an organising sec- retary of the State unit. After 10 years, he was elevated as nation- al secretary of the BJP. Ganesan also served as one of the nation- al vice-presidents for two years. Between 2006 and 2009, he was president of the Tamil Nadu BJP. For the past 12 years, Ganesan has been heading 'Potramarai', a literary and cul- tural organization which orga- nizes talks by well-known per- sonalities on literary topics. RNI Regn. No. MPENG/2004/13703, Regd. No. L-2/BPLON/41/2006-2008 C M Y K C M Y K

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In a terse reply to Pakistan fordenying surgical strikes

along the Line of Control(LoC) on September 29,Ministry of External Affairs(MEA) on Thursday said theIndian Army was given a taskthat was carried out with `sur-gical precision', the `desiredresult was obtained', and the`intended message has beenconveyed' to Islamabad. Hence,these denial and statementshave no value, said MEAspokesperson Vikas Swarup.

Responding sharply toPakistan's denial on the recentsurgical strikes, Swarup said onThursday that truth cannotremain hidden for long, nomatter how hard one tries toconceal it. "As we all know, itis usual to see Pakistan's reac-tion of denial of terrorismsponsored from its soil againstits neighbours. Elimination ofOsama bin Laden and MullahMansoor was met with similardenials. But we all know thetruth comes out," said thespokesperson.

He added India's intentionis to maintain peace and tran-quility in the region and it can-not allow the terrorists tooperate across the LoC withimpunity and attack its citi-zens.

Swarup said India hasmanaged to isolate Pakistan onthe issue of terrorism and itwill continue to keep it underpressure. "You have alreadyseen the pressure that we havebrought to bear international-ly on Pakistan to cease supportto cross-border terrorism. Youhave seen the result at theUNGA. You have seen theresult at SAARC. You haveseen the statements by majorcountries like the US andRussia. I do not think I need tosay any more," added Swarup.

India is also mulling towithdraw Most-FavouredNation status to Pakistan onthe basis that "promoting pros-perity with neighbours isGovernment's priority but ter-ror can't be the product export-ed," he said.

Meanwhile, reacting toDifa-e-Pakistan Council(DPC) announcement to holdrally in Pak to pressurise thePakistanGgovernment 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 itsassurances that it will deny theuse of its territory for such pur-poses," added Swarup.

The DPC is a group ofjihadi and islamist outfits andinvolves internationallybanned terrorists such asHafeez Saeed. It has beenunderground for a while nowin Pakistan but has reemergedafter India's action along LoC.

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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 aftera series 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 stories onmatters of national securityare 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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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 Mulayam SinghYadav has given his nod to themerger. 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 Prime MinisterNarendra Modi of indulging inpolitical exploitation of thesacrifices of soldiers after thesurgical strikes in PoK.

"Jo hamare jawan hainjinhone apna khoon diya hai,Jammu and Kashmir meinkhoon diya hai, jinhoneHindustan ke liye surgicalstrike kiye hain, unke khoonke peeche aap chhupe hain.Unki aap dalali kar rahe ho.Yeh bilkul galat hai. You(Modi) are hiding behind theblood of soldiers in Jammuand Kashmir and those whocarried out the surgicalstrikes for India. You areexploiting their sacrifices,which is very wrong," Rahulsaid addressing a rally in thenational Capital marking theculmination of his month-long 'Deoria to Delhi KisanYatra' in Uttar Pradesh. RahulGandhi's "khoon ki dalali"comment soon made him buttof ridicule 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?#SurgicalSelfGoal."

"It's just that the mafiablood is surfacing. 10 years ofUPA could have taught himonly dalali. So why blamehim. #SurgicalSelfGoal," saysanother tweet. "@OfficeOfRGwhat do 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 say thatRahul's irresponsible com-ment has done his party animmense 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-

like action in two years in thecontext 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 toRML hospital. The supportersof former Haryana ChiefMinister Bhupinder SinghHooda clashed with those ofTanwar. This is the third timethat supporters from eitherside clashed during a publicmeeting. Hooda escapedunhurt in the incident. Tanwarand others, injured in theclash, were taken to a hospi-tal. Reports suggest that theviolence erupted when sup-porters of former HaryanaChief Minister Hooda tore upthe posters of Tanwar, who isthe president of HaryanaCongress.

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 said thepeople of the country electedModi as Prime Minister andentrusted with the responsi-bility of helping farmers andsoldiers. "You should help thefarmers of the country. Youshould provide more money tothe Indian Army under the 7thPay Commission, that is yourresponsibility. This is whypeople of India have electedyou and this is the truth," hesaid.

The Congress leader alsoaccused Modi of dividing thecountry on religion and castelines and not fulfilling hispoll promises of providingemployment to youth, highersupport prices for farm pro-duce among others. He alsocharged the Prime Ministerwith helping a select fewindustrialists while not waiv-ing debts of farmers.

"Modiji you promised twocrore jobs per year that has notbeen done... You talked about'Make in India' that is not hap-pening, you talked aboutSwachchh Bharat that is alsonot visible... You only did onething - that of dividing thecountry on religion and castelines," he said. Seeking tocounter Modi's attack onCongress for having not doneanything for the country in thepast 70 years, Rahul said, "Wehave given them justice".

Continued on Page 4

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

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,Diamer and Neelum Valley, inPoK staged a protest against theterror 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 Sayeedwhose activities have plungedthe country into diplomatic iso-lation.

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 nur-turing him," Afzal said in ameeting of the StandingCommittee on Foreign Affairs,according to the 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 PakistanPeoples Party (PPP) leaderAitzaz Ahsan told a joint sessionof Parliament that the countrywas diplomatically isolatedbecause it gives freedom tonon-State actors.

"The Government has beencompletely unsuccessful inimposing restrictions on non-State actors according to theNational Action Plan (NPA),"the Dawn newspaper quotedAhsan as saying.

He implied that such ele-ments continued to hold protestsand rallies and give speeches inplaces such as Islamabad,Lahore, Faisalabad and Karachi.

"I don't want instability inany country, as the blame of thatwill then fall on us because ofthese non-state actors," he said.

He said the failure to curbterrorists would isolate Pakistan."Then Bangladesh andAfghanistan will not speak toyou, and Bhutan and Nepal willbegin supporting India."

"You have isolated Pakistan,"he said, adding Prime MinisterNawaz Sharif was responsible forPakistan's diplomatic isolation ashe was also the Foreign Minister.

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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.

Continued on Page 4

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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)candidate L Ganesan was on

Thursday declared electedunopposed to the Rajya Sabhafrom Madhya Pradesh. CMShivraj Singh Chouhan con-gratulated him and conveyedhis best wishes. Ganesan paid acourtesy visit to the CM at hisresidence on Thursday.

His was the lone nomina-tion for the only vacant UpperHouse seat from the State.Thursday being the last day forthe withdrawal of nomination,Principal Secretary of theMadhya Pradesh Assembly andthe returning officer for theUpper House election AP Singhafter waiting for scheduled timeof nomination withdrawalannounced Ganesan electedunopposed and handed overthe certificate to him.

In the 230-member House,the ruling BJP enjoys majorityand accordingly, the BJP won

the seat unopposed. BhopalMP Alok Sanjar and BhopalCentral MLA Surendranath

Singh were present on the occa-sion.

The seat from the State fell

vacant following the resignationof Najma Heptulla after she wasmade Manipur Governor.

Attracted by the RSS ide-ology at a very young age,Ganesan became a full-timePracharak of the Sangh in 1970.For about 20 years, he hadserved the RSS in variouscapacities in Nagercoil, Maduraiand other places.

In 1991, he joined the BJPand became an organising sec-retary of the State unit. After 10years, he was elevated as nation-al secretary of the BJP. Ganesanalso served as one of the nation-al vice-presidents for two years.Between 2006 and 2009, he waspresident of the Tamil NaduBJP. For the past 12 years,Ganesan has been heading'Potramarai', a literary and cul-tural organization which orga-nizes talks by well-known per-sonalities on literary topics.

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A45-year-old man committedsuicide by hanging from a

tree near BHEL Thrift andCredit Co- Operative Societyunder Piplani police stationarea on Wednesday.

According to the police aman was found hanging with atree near BHEL Thrift andCredit Co-Operative Societyand after spotting the man,locals informed the police. Onthe receipt of the information apolice team rushed to the spotand started further investigation.

In the initial investigationthe deceased was identified asSukhdev Virha of 100 quartersarea. After the preliminaryinvestigation, the body was sentfor the post mortem. The policehave registered a case under sec-tion 174 of the CrPC and havestarted further investigation.

Police said that the deceasedused to work as labour. The fam-ily members have expressedignorance over the reasonbehind the death. The victim leftfor the house on Wednesday andlater he was found dead.

Meanwhile a 28-year-oldwas found dead under suspi-cious circumstances at his resi-dence in Shivnagar under CholaMandir police station area onWednesday. According to thepolice the deceased NaveenLima was found in an uncon-scious state and was rushed to anearby hospital where he died.

Police were informed andbased on the information apolice team reached the spot.

Police said that the reason ofthe death could not be ascer-tained as the post mortem reportis awaited.

The police have registereda case under section 174 of theCrPC and have started furtherinvestigation. Police suspectsthat the deceased died acci-dentally which would be inves-tigated.

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The Central Zone Bench –Bhopal of the National

Green Tribunal (NGT) onThursday directed to maintainstatus quo order in the Mintohall premises, where conventioncentre is being constructed.

The NGT order came afterBhopal Municipal Corporation(BMC) counsel in its replytold the bench that MadhyaPradesh Tourism DevelopmentCorporation (MPTDC) hasnot taken any permission fromthem for building. After NGTpassed the status quo order,construction was stoppedimmediately. However, the nexthearing for the issue has beenscheduled for October 27.

The NGT order camewhile hearing the petition of

Leader of Opposition in BMCMohammad Sagheer whobrought forward that duringthe conversion of Minto hallinto convention centre, theagency hired for developmen-tal work is trying to removeover 40 green trees in thepremises which are about 25feet high. Each tree has beenpierced with over 30 nails onthem with asafetida (heeng) toquicken up the drying process,which are situated around thestatue of Mahatma Gandhiand main building.

During the hearing coun-sel for BMC added that thealleged trees which are report-ed to have been felled have infact not been felled but theywere old dead trees which hadfallen down due to storm andonly they were being removed

by the Municipal Authorities.Unhappy with the short

reply, NGT asked the BMC tofile a detailed reply, whereasMPTDC demanded for moretime to reply. NGT asked boththe agencies to submit cir-cumstances under which thealleged development activityhas been carried out includingalleged felling of the trees in thearea and also bringing of mate-rial for the said purpose on thesite in question.

During the last hearing ofcase on October 4, NGT hasserved notices to state govern-ment agencies including, col-lector Bhopal and commis-sioner, Bhopal MunicipalCorporation for letting palmtrees in the premises of Mintohall dry by piercing nails intheir trunks.

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Three miscreants involved intransporting and selling of

liquor illegally were nabbednear 108 Ambulance office atIdgah Hills were nabbed onWednesday. A car used intransporting liquor was seizedand the police recovered 300bottles of liquor worth Rs15,000.

Acting on a tip off, regard-ing three miscreants involvedin selling of liquor werenabbed near 108 Ambulanceoffice at Idgah Hills and recovered gunny bags carryingliquor and when they were asked they failed to provide doc-uments of the liquor selling. The three miscreants were iden-tified Akash alias Bali, Sanjay and Rishabh, all residents ofVajpayee Nagar.

The Shahjehanabad police said that Akash has beenbooked for serious crimes while the other two accused havealso been booked by Shahjehanabad police for differentcrimes. The three were on their way to supply the liquorwhich would be investigated. It is possible that the threewould board vehicle carrying liquor but vehicle was notfound near the spot.

Nabbed accused confessed that they used to sell the liquorin remote areas. The source and customers would be inves-tigated in the investigation.

The buyers of the liquor provided by the accused wouldbe investigated in the further investigation. The action wastaken in the ongoing drive to curb the increasing number of illegal trade of liquor in the city and nearby areas. In the investigation police found that the nabbed accusedwere involved in the illegal selling of liquor for long and havedeveloped network of selling liquor illegally which would beunearthed.

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The students from primaryand secondary sections of

Campion School Arera ColonyBhopal participated in ‘Schoollevel drawing and paintingcompetition’ held on Thursdayat the assembly hall in schoolpremises. The Theme of thiscompetition was ‘SwacchBharat’, ‘Digital India’ and ‘SaveEnvironment’.

In this competition, inorder to encourage maximumparticipation, the competi-tion was divided into four dif-ferent categories. The stu-dents of Classes KG-1 to 10were divided into four groups.From Class KG-1 to 2– A cat-egory, Class 3 to 5– B catego-ry; Class 6 to 8- C category;and from Class 9 to 10- D cat-

egory. More than 600 studentsfrom class KG-1 to 10th classparticipated in this competi-tion.

The students painted theirperceptions or conveyed theirthoughts and ideas on paperabout ‘Swacch Bharat’, ‘Digital

India’ and ‘Save Environment’through beautiful inscrip-tions brought out on canvasand displayed their artisticskills.

Top three students fromeach category were selected forprizes. All the students thankedtheir Art and Craft seniorteachers Aarti Sharma fromsecondary section and SonamMalhotra from primary sectionunder their guidance they per-formed this level of paintingcreativity.

Campion school PrincipalFr Athnas Lakra SJ and VicePrincipal Fr Ajay KumarKerketta SJ, CongratulatedAarti Sharma and SonamMalhotra and all the winnerstudents for making Schoolproud and give best wishes fortheir bright future.

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Salmatpur police claimed tohave solved a year-old mur-

der case of a 28-year-oldyouth, who was found mur-dered at Halali Dam;deceased’s uncle had killedhim and disposed of his body.

The deceased DashrathDhanak was killed by hisuncle Jamna Prasad Dhanakafter having a fight in June2015.

Police were able to crackthe case after the accusedwho is deceased’s uncle ini-tially refused to identify thebelongings of the deceased butlater in the investigation thesame were identified by

deceased’s wife and familymember and when theaccused was questioned heconfessed crime.

The deceased was killed inthe month of June and in theinvestigation police found thatmissing complaint of deceased

has been lodged withSalamatpur police. The fami-ly of the deceased lodged acomplaint with theSalamatpur police regardingmissing of deceased.

The accused told thedeceased’s family that he had

spoken over phone with thedeceased two days ago and heis busy in work in Bhopal.

On June 3, 2015 theaccused accompanied thedeceased while he was on hisway to Bhopal and while ontheir way accused offered tohave drink and later duringdrinking alcohol they had afight after accused comment-ed on the character of victim’swife in which the accused hitthe deceased with a stone inhis temple and disposed thebody.

After the accused con-fessed the killing shoes of thedeceased and the spot wherethe deceased was disposedwas identified by the accused.

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Minister for Home andTransport Bhupendra

Singh said that Dial 100 ser-vices have boosted people’strust in police. The Dial 100 isgiving prompt services in theState just like services in theforeign countries. Singh flaggedoff 45 vehicles from the Statelevel control room of Dial 100.He also inspected the controlroom and apprised himself indetail about the services.

Singh said that police sen-sitivity has saved lives of manygirls and women by admittingthem in the hospitals throughDial 100. The Dial 100 has ren-dered services reaching placeswithin a short time in case ofemergencies. Not a single com-plaint has been received thatpolice has reached late at thesite after the information ofaccident or any untoward inci-dent. He further mentionedthat work of dial 100 is praise-worthy. Singh said that it hasaccelerated the pace of the

system and crime rate is ondecline due to police vigilance.

The Minister said that Dial100 is working on advancesystem and the governmentwill provide all help to make itmore advanced. All the neces-sary resources will be madeavailable for Dial 100. He saidthat the State has achieved aleading position in the countryby rendering Dial 100 ser-vices. Director-General ofPolice Rishi Kumar Shukla

said that Dial 100 is a firstunique scheme of the countryand biggest in the world. Dial100 has proved its utility and itwill complete one year onNovember 1.

A total of 960 vehicles arebeing made available for ser-vices after today’s dedicationand efforts are being taken tomake it 1,000 by the end of thismonth. Additional DGP(Telecommunication) AnveshMangalam informed about the

Dial 100. He explained aboutreceiving information at thecontrol room to action at inci-dent’s site and feedback etc.

The presentation on Dial100 was given by PoliceSuperintendent Amit Saxena.He informed that 20,000 to25,000 calls per day are beingreceived. Police officers of morethan half of the States of thecountry have approached themfor information as regard to theservices of Dial 100.

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Availability of land, miner-als and facilities have cre-

ated an investment atmospherein the State. In the last finan-cial year, 48,179 micro, smalland medium enterprises wereregistered in the State. It is twoand a halftime more in com-parison over the previous year.

Principal Secretary MSMEVL Kantarao said that theIndustry Promotion Policy-2014 has been implemented inorder to make the State leadingin the industrial sector, to boostindustrial competition, to main-tain industrial friendly policyand to boost investment ofprivate sector. The MSMEdepartment has been consti-tuted to make micro, smalland medium industries capable.

In order to provide land toset up industry as per thedemand of the investors, landbank of around 25,000 hectareGovernment land in all the dis-tricts of the State has beenmaintained. More than 15thousand hectare land has beendeveloped for micro, small andmedium industries in 250industrial areas/ DevelopmentCentres.

A transparent and simpleonline allotment provision hasbeen made to provide land. Newindustrial areas will be devel-oped in industrial area less dis-tricts. Under this, sanction hasbeen given for the developmentof new industrial areas at AshokNagar, Anuppur and Umaria.

Facility of 100 per centland transfer will be given forrevival/exit to sick and closedunits which have cases pendingin courts since last many years.As per the announcement madeby the Chief Minister ShivrajSingh Chouhan the maximumslab rate of 90 per cent has beenincreased to 95 percent towardsrebate given on area of land to

be allotted and land value.Permission to sale 50 per centland is given to revivesick/closed units. These facilitieswill be applicable for sick/closedunits before April 1, 2015.

For lease holders prior toApril 1, 2015, land lease willremain effective as per thelease regulations. In case oftransfer of unit, new rules willbecome effective. In case ofadvance deposit of leaseamount for 15 years, theremaining fifteen years landlease amount will be exempt-ed for thirty years lease hold-ers. An option of 30 and 99years lease period will be givento the lease holders.

Re-assessment ordersunder diversion will be issuedwithin one month to set upMSME units at their own land.These provisions by bringingunder the public service guar-antee services will facilitateMSME units under the pre-scribed period.

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Chief Secretary AntonyDeSa met people at the

Mantralaya on Thursday andsent applications to the con-cerned departments for redressof grievances. DeSa laudedCollector Dewas AshutoshAwasthi for solving problems ofthe people with promptness.He congratulated CollectorDewas for keeping humanlyapproach towards people’sproblem.

DeSa was requested fortransfer by patwari ShailendraSahu on account of difficultieslast week. Collector DewasAwasthi has solved the problemof Sahu in few hours onhumanitarian grounds takingpositive approach. The ChiefSecretary has considered this

case as a model example forother public servants.

DeSa gave instructions toCollector Narsinghpur onapplication of Prabhavati ofNarsinghpur. Applicant hadcomplained about unautho-rized possession of her ownhouse by some people.Rajendra Singh of Narsinghpurdistrict informed about loss toproperty due to heavy rains.

This case has been sent also toCollector Narsingpur forredressal.

Moreover, instructionswere given to the micro, smalland medium industry depart-ment for redress against com-plaint of Suresh Sonwane fornot receiving the grant underthe Rani Durgavati Yojna.

NP Singh and VinodDewda of water resources

department informed for notgetting reinstated after thedepartmental inquiry and fornot receiving allowances asper the eligibility.

DeSa gave directives toPrincipal Secretary waterresources department to initi-ate action in this matter. CLVishwakarma for not gettingpension as per the eligibility,Rahman Khan for not gettingpermanent appointment afterthe contract service as per therules, Shakuntala Pandeyarrears payable after retire-ment, gratuity etc. informed theChief Secretary.

All the three applicationshave been sent to Technicaleducation and skill develop-ment department, tribal welfareand Gramudhyog departmentsrespectively.

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The Madhya PradeshHuman Rights

Commission (MPHRC) hastaken cognizance of two issueson Thursday. In the first case isthe incident of murder of ateacher while the other is theissue of beating of a 14-year oldstudent by his teacher.

About the shooting of the teacher in a land dispute in Guna, theSuperintendent of Police wastold to submit a report.

Murarilal Gupta, theteacher, was shot dead for notdoing compromise in a landdispute on Wednesday.

The accused was threaten-ing the teacher since last sevenmonths. Two days before themurder Gupta on getting freshthreat from the accused fearinghis life lodged a complaint inthe Cant police station statingthat his life is in danger andshould be provided security.On the next day of submittinghis complaint in the policestation he was shot dead.

The Commission has askedthe SP to tell that whether the

teacher lodged complaintagainst the accused and if the complaint was madethan what action was taken bythe police over it.

Besides, the Commissionhas sought report from theDistrict Education OfficerBhopal in the case of beating ofa fourteen year old studentFardeen in GovernmentMiddle School HabibgunjBhopal. Fardeen got seriousinjuries in his ear after he wasbeaten by the teacher in school.

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The Bhopal MunicipalCorporation Council gave

nod to five proposals present-ed in the general council meet-ing held in the auditorium ofthe Corporation Council nearKhushbhau Thakre Inter StateBus Terminus (ISBT) onThursday.

Under the chairmanship ofCorporation Surjeet SinghChouhan the general councilmeeting was held in whichBMC-owned shops in theshopping complex at SantHirdaram Nagar, MP NagarMultilevel parking, multilevelparking at Sant HirdaramNagar were allotted to highestbidders and renewal of rentedspace to the SBI for next five years at shoppingcomplex at Sant HirdaramNagar and renewal of lease fornext 30 years for CentralWarehousing Corporation atChhola was given.

During the meeting MayorAlok Sharma took actionagainst city engineer KB Sharmaand moved him to his parentdepartment and sub engineerPawan Mehra was suspendedwith immediate effect.

Mayor Sharma said thatmeetings have been held with

officials of different depart-ments to make outline for therepairing of the roads whichhave been damaged during themonsoon and soon laying oftarmac would be done.

Corporators raised issue ofdisrupted power supply in theirareas. Corporator of Ward 47

Rajesh Khatik said that streetlights are yet to be installedwith proper light.

Corporator of Ward 57Rashmi Dwivedi provided theproblem of faulty street light dueto which residents are facingissues during the festive season.Bhopal Municipal Corporation(BMC) has banned Chineseitems including crackers in city.Congress corporator MonuSaxena had tabled the propos-al during BMC Council meet-ing at ISBT on Thursday andHouse accepted it.

Proposal to ban Chinesecrackers and other items wasproposed by Corporator ofWard 27 Monu Saxena. In sup-port of the proposal MayorAlok Sharma said that in hisopinion Chinese items shouldbe banned while ChairmanChauhan was of the view thatthe Chinese items should bebanned in the market and hewant ban on crackers with pic-tures of god and goddess.

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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 organisationalreforms in the cricket body.The court hinted this onThursday after the BCCIexpressed its helplessness inadopting the reforms, sayingthree-fourth of the memberStates have opposed the Lodhapanel reforms.

The Bench headed by ChiefJustice TS Thakur said it willpass an order to this effect onFriday as it was fed up with theways of the BCCI. The Bench,also comprising Justices AMKhanwilkar and DYChandrachud, felt this was theonly way to make the BCCIcomply with its directions sincethe Board refused to give an"unconditional undertaking" toadopt path-breaking reformsforming part of the Court'sorder of July 18, 2016.

The Bench told senioradvocate Kapil Sibal, whoappeared for the BCCI that itcannot waste time to reformthe BCCI. "Here are peoplewho refuse to reform despiteour order. If you are willing togive an unconditional under-taking to implement our orderand abide by all orders given byLodha Committee, we are will-ing to change our mind. If not,then we will pass some inter-im order. You have disbursedto them (States) about �400crore which is not a small

amount. Nobody can say I must get

my money but I am not will-ing to reform."Sibal submittedthat in the Board meeting ofSeptember 30, the newMemorandum failed to getsupport from the 30-memberassociations, who defeated itsadoption.

"The BCCI has no controlover State cricket associations.We had told them to adopt thenew Memorandum. The BCCIdoes not have a vote as the Stateassociations have a vote. Either

they are compelled to fall inline by a judicial order or as theLodha Committee has sug-gested, they may be delinkedfrom BCCI by denying themany funds."

Amicus curiae GopalSubramanium pointed out thatthe BCCI disbursed funds tothe tune of Rs 400 crore to 25cricket associations onSeptember 29 with a design toget their vote the next day toreject the memorandum. Thispayment was made without anyresolution by the Board, headded.

The court felt that thisattitude of the BCCI to defy thecourt had forced the LodhaCommittee to even seek super-session of the Board office-bearers with an independentpanel of administrators."If youare at the forefront of defiance,others will follow suit," said theBench, adding, "You have noobligation to pay people whodon't listen to you. If the Stateassociations are so keen tohold matches, they must knowmatches should be conductedonly if they are doing businesstransparently."

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Gold and silver jewelleryworth �50000 and �1 lakh

in cash were burgled fromward no 5 of Berasia onWednesday, a case of burglarywas registered by Berasiapolice.

According to the policethe victim Johar Ali along withhis family had gone to Bhopalto observe Muharram and onWednesday morning his neigh-bor informed him that thelocks of his doors were broken.On the receipt he returned andfound that cash and jewelrywere missing.

In his complaint the victimstated that Rs 1 lakh cash andjewelry worth Rs 50000. Twogold ear rings, one gold pen-dant, two silver necklace andtwo silver bangles were burgledalong with the cash. The victimworks at a ration shop inBerasia area.

Meanwhile valuables worthRs 50000 and Rs 41500 cashwere burgled from Malipuraunder Talaiya police stationarea on Wednesday. Accordingto the police the victimBurhanuddin along with hisfamily had gone for prayers andwhen he returned the housewas found ransacked.

A complaint was lodgedwith the Talaiya police and inhis complaint the victim stat-ed that he along with his fam-ily had gone for prayers andwhen they returned the housewas found ransacked. Onentering the house gold and sil-ver jewelry and cash was foundbugled. The total loss in theburglary was around Rs 91500claimed the victim who worksas agent for Sahara group.Based on the complaint afterthe preliminary investigationthe police have registered a caseunder section 454 and 380 ofthe IPC and have started inves-tigation.

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India Test cricket team cap-tain Virat Kohli who so far

has not been in good nick ofbatting during the currentIndia-New Zealand test series,may regain his batting form inthe last match against NewZealand scheduled to begin inIndore from October 8 thismonth, hopes Indian Testcricket team batting coachSanjay Bangar while talking tothe mediapersons here at theHolkar stadium during themorning practice session. Hesaid the Indian team is hard-ly perturbed with current bat-ting form of Virat. Runs arenot always parameter for agood form. Virat had got agood start in the secondinning in the previous matchagainst New Zealand inKolkata but he was not able toconvert it into a big score,Bangar said adding that it justrequires an inning for Virat toregain his form.

Talking about GautamGambhir who had beenincluded in the Indian Cricketteam in it's second matchagainst New Zealand inKolkata, the Indian battingcoach said Gambhir is cur-rently in a great batting formand given a chance, he wouldcertainly give his best.

Meanwhile, according tosources, ahead of third testagainst New Zealand inIndore, Indian team hadreceived a setback with theteam's star bowlerBhuvneshwar Kumar wouldreportedly would not be ableto make it to the Indian teambecause of some strain in hisback and there is all possibil-ity of Shardul Kumar replac-ing Bhuvneshwar in the thirdtest. On the other hand, NewZealand team despite suffer-ing from two consecutivedefeats at the hands of Indiain the current series, appeardetermined to bounce back inthe last match of the current

series against India andaccordingly chalking plans tocontain Indian all-rounderRavindra Jadeja. Talking tomedia persons here informal-ly on the sidelines of it's prac-tice session, New Zealandbowling coach ShenZergenson while describingRavindra Jadeza as a danger-ous player, said that they aremaking plans to trap him ashe is proving to be a greatthreat to New Zealand bothin the batting as well as bowl-ing. Shen said that his teammight have suffered two con-secutive defeats against Indiabut their team's morale isquite high, he added.

Both Indian and NewZealand teams arrived here onWednesday to a rousing wel-come with the enthusiasticsupporters of both the teamsthronging all along the routesfrom the airport to the hotelswhere both the teams arestaying, to have a glimpse oftheir favorite players.

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The special Judge fort CBICases - Indore pronounced

judgment against RavindraPandit on Thursday and con-victed him with three years RIand fine of Rs 4,00,000 indefault of payment of fine fur-ther RI of 06 Month under sec-tion 420 IPC and 01 years RIand fine of Rs 50000 in defaultof payment of fine further RIof 03 Month under section 120-B IPC, both sentences shall runconcurrently.

Notably, CBI BhopalBranch had registered the CaseNo RC0081991A0002, U/s

120-B, 420, 467, 468, 471 IPC& 13(2) r/w 13(1)(d) of PCAct, 1988 on July 18 - 1991, onthe basis of a source informa-tion against the then Branchmanager - Bank of India,Rambag, Indore Arun Khare,Directors of Ahilya FertilizersPvt. Ltd, Indore Tilak Chitteand SM Karnik and partnerof LV Rao Graphic System -Indore Ravindra Pandit.

It was alleged in the FIRthat during February 1988 toJuly 1990 Khare while func-tioning as Branch Manager,Bank of India, Rambag Branch,Indore entered into a criminalconspiracy with the partners,

Proprietors and Associates ofAhilya Fertilizers Pvt. Ltd,Indore, and LV Rao GraphicSystem, Indore and in further-ance of the said criminal con-spiracy he fraudulently anddishonestly purchased a largenumber of bogus cheques in anunauthorised manner floutinghis delegated financial author-ity, which resulted in paymentof heavy overdraft and thebank was exposed to a loss ofabout Rs. 50 lakh and corre-sponding gain to themselves.

After completion of inves-tigation, a charge sheet U/s120-B, 420, 467, 468, 471 IPC& 13(2) r/w 13(1)(d) of PC

Act, 1988 was filed against theaccused persons on December29, 1994 in the Court of SpecialJudge for CBI Cases, Indore.

After concluding the trial,vide his order dated September28, 2005, the Special Judge, CBICases, Indore convicted the allpersons except Ravindra Panditas he was absconded. Further,after painstaking efforts andcontinuous special drives,Pandit was traced out, arrest-ed and produced before theCourt on March 12, 2015.Today, Special Judge, CBICases, Indore pronounced hisjudgment and convictedPandit.

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From Page 1The presentation by the

Foreign Secretary summarisedthe results of the recent diplo-matic outreach by Pakistan, thecrux being that Pakistan facesdiplomatic isolation and thatthe Government's talkingpoints have been met withindifference in major worldcapitals, the paper said.

On the US, Chaudhry saidthat relations have deteriorat-ed and will likely further dete-riorate because of theAmerican demand that actionbe taken against the Haqqaninetwork. On India, Chaudhrysaid that the completion of the

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

Chaudhry said whileChina has reiterated its supportfor Pakistan, it too has indi-cated a preference for a changein course by Pakistan.

Specifically, while Chineseauthorities have conveyed theirwillingness to keep putting ontechnical hold a UN ban onJeM leader Masood Azhar,they have questioned the logicof doing so repeatedly, thereport 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 assem-bly elections.

The merger of the twoparties had earlier sparkedoff a battle between AkhileshYadav and uncle Shivpal.

On a day when his unclehad announced the mergerof the QED with the SP inLucknow, Akhilesh had said,"If we can manage booths,

we will win the polls handsdown,"

The s ame n ig ht ,Ak hi lesh had remove dS e condar y Educat ionMinis ter B a l ram S ing hYadav from the Ministry forbeing instrumental in themerger.

L ater, t he CM hadclaimed that there was nodispute within the party orthe family over the merger."Whatever Netaji (MulayamSingh Yadav) says will beacceptable to us," he hadsaid.

From Page 1"In my last 30 days expe-

rience what I learnt is that -even the smallest politiciansthink they know how thiscountry should run. Withhumility, I want to tell you thatin last 30 days poor peopletaught me about India, agri-culture... No one knows betterthan them," he said.

Earlier in the day lashingout at the Modi Governmentin a rally at Meerut, Rahul saidonly the Prime Minister andhis friends were "happy" asmoney has come into thepockets of 15 top businessmenand not the farmers, labourand small shopkeepers."Modiji had said he has a 56-

inch chest and will fight outcorruption, but he insteadbrought out a 'Fair and Lovelyscheme' for turning the blackmoney of the country's thievesinto white.

"The money has not comeinto the pockets of farmers,labour and small shopkeepers,but went into those of 15 topbusinessmen. Only Modiji andhis friends are happy," he said.Training his guns on the fam-ily-led Samajwadi PartyGovernment in the State,Rahul said, "Uttar Pradeshwill not have a Government ofjust 15 persons. TheGovernment here will be offarmers, labour, small shop-keepers, and of people fromevery religion and caste." TheCongress vice-president saidhe will force the BJP-led NDAGovernment at the Centre for

a loan waiver for the dis-tressed farmers.

Rahul also attacked theModi Government saying ithas failed to provide jobs toyouth in the country.

Gandhi, 45, travelledacross 140 of Uttar Pradesh's400 constituencies. UttarPradesh will vote early nextyear, though the dates have notyet been announced. Rahul ledhis party's campaign for thenational election in 2014; theCongress confronted its worst-ever result. Since then, theparty has floundered in elec-tions in key States like Assamand Kerala, with Gandhiunable to reverse a trend ofelectoral defeats.

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

From Page 1He said the Army used

illumination rounds to scut-tle terrorists' chances toescape taking advantage ofdarkness in the area.

He said the medicinerecovered from the terroristshad Pakistani marking. TheArmy has also recoveredmaps and matrix sheets.

This is the second timeduring this week that terror-ists attempted to strike a RRcamp. On Sunday, a BorderSecurity Force constable waski l led when terror istsattempted to strike into 46 RRcamp at Janbazpora in northKashmir's Baramulla district.The attackers , however,escaped from the area whenthey were repulsed.

Meanwhile, the Armyfoiled three infiltration bidsin several sub-sectors alongthe LoC. One infiltrator waskilled in Nowgam sector.Sources said the other infil-trators fled back.

Defence spokesman ColRajesh Kalia said that ArmyCommander Lt Gen DSHooda visited the frontierarea of Uri and reviewedsecurity with the local com-manders. Accompanied bythe XV Corps Commander LtGen Satish Dua, Gen Hoodatook stock of all measurestaken by the Army to beatback any misadventure fromacross. During his interactionwith officers and men onground, he conveyed hiscompliments for their highlevels of operational pre-paredness, vigil and moraleand exhorted them to remainalert for any eventuality.

Later, both the seniorofficers visited Awantipurabased Victor Force head-quarters where Gen Hoodawas briefed by the Kilo andVictor Force Commanderson the security situation inKashmir.

The south Kashmirregion witnessed maximumunrest during the past threemonths. The unrest beganafter the killing of HizbulMujahideen terrorist BurhanWani on July 8. Around 90civilians and two policemenhave been killed during theunrest while thousands ofpeople were injured, mostlyhit with pellets, which werefired to control the streetprotests.

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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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In the backdrop of the surgi-cal strike and rising tension

between India and Pakistan,tourism has been hit in Punjab’sborder district of Amritsar.The per day pilgrim count atthe iconic Golden Temple hasseen a steep fall by up to 25 percent. “On an average, anywherebetween 80,000 to 90,000 pil-grims including foreigners visit

Sri 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 inpilgrims during the past week,he said, “The tension on theborder (with Pakistan) appearsto be main one.”

He said during festivalslike Diwali, birth anniversariesof the Sikh Gurus and otherimportant events and holidays,the daily pilgrim count variesbetween 3 to 4 lakh. Singh saidthough the reason for drop innumber of pilgrims was most-ly due to escalating tensionsbetween the two nations, somepeople could have stayed awaydue to the ongoing harvestingseason.

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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 from

them 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 thestanding crops.

In all, 472 cow shelters,including private, are workingin the State housing more

than 2.50 lakh cows. It isbelieved that more than onelakh cows are still strayingacross the State.

Punjab Government, inits 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.

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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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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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Ever since the massacre of22 people, 17 of themnon-Muslim foreigners,at the Gulshan café byhome-grown Islamic ter-

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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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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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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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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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”.

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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. ��

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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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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.

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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.

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A Navy official said theships were yet to receive formalrequests for help from 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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Washington: America is “nolonger a world power” andPakistan would move towardsChina and Russia if its views onKashmir and India are notconsidered, Prime MinisterNawaz Sharif 's envoys havesaid here.

“(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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Beirut: At least 29 Syrian rebelswere killed in a blast at a bordercrossing with Turkey onThursday, the SyrianObservatory for Human Rightssaid. The Britain-based moni-toring group said it was unclearwhat caused the blast at theAtme crossing between Turkeyand the northern Syrianprovince of Idlib, adding thataround 20 people had alsobeen wounded.

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.

“It's clearly targeted towardthe next administration+ , andwanting to demonstrate theyare a nuclear weapons state tothe new president,” said VictorCha, the head of Asian affairsat the National SecurityCouncil during the George WBush administration, and nowa professor at GeorgetownUniversity. AP

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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.

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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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up call" and manage to quit on theirown, and can even go back to moder-ation.

The other side of this is some peo-ple can't do this, and no one knows why.It's likely genetic, since we see addic-tions run in families. For these peoplethey cannot become "unaddicted", butthey can receive treatment to get theiraddiction to go into remission, but theymight not ever be completely free of it.

In the process of dealing with anaddiction to alcohol, tobacco, sex,drugs, lying or gambling, admitting thatyou have a problem is always the firststep to overcoming it, and it is not easy.Now it's time to make a plan for quit-ting, seek help, and prepare yourself forobstacles you'll surely encounter. If youwant to learn how to kick that habit andstart living life to the fullest again, keepreading.

It is true that you might not feelgood to acknowledge all the ways inwhich your addiction is harming you,but seeing the list on paper will help youresolve to stop as soon as possible. Takeout a pen and a piece of paper andbrainstorm a list that includes all thenegative effects you've experienced

since your addiction started.Think about how your addiction

has affected your physical health. Areyou at greater risk for getting cancer,heart disease, or another illness as aresult of your addiction? Maybe theaddiction has already taken a noticeablephysical toll. List the ways in which ithas hurt you mentally.

You may be embarrassed aboutyour addiction. In many cases addic-tions lead to shame and embarrassment,as well as depression, anxiety, andother mental and emotional issues.

How has your addiction affectedyour relationships with other people?Does it prevent you from spending timewith people you love, or having enoughtime to pursue new relationships?

Some addictions take a big finan-cial toll. List the amount of money youhave to spend feeding your addictionevery day, week and month. Determinewhether your addiction has affectedyour job.

What daily annoyances are causedby your addiction? For example, ifyou're a smoker, maybe you're tired ofhaving to leave your office every timeyou need to light up.

Make a list of positive changes youwant in your life. Now that you'vedetailed all the negative effects of your

addiction, think about how much yourlife will improve once you've kicked thehabit. Create a picture of your life post-addiction.

Maybe you will feel a sense of free-dom you haven't had in years. You willhave more time to spend on people,hobbies, and other pleasures. You willbe able to save money again. You knowyou're doing everything you can to stayhealthy. You will feel immediate phys-ical improvements. You will feel proudand confident again.

You should have a list of solid rea-sons to quit. It will help you stick to

your plan in the long run. Your reasonsfor quitting must be more important toyou than continuing your addictivebehavior. This mental hurdle is tough,but it's a necessary first step to quittingany addiction.

No one can make you quit but your-self. Write down the true, solid reasonsyou're stopping this habit. Only youknow what they are.

Decide you're quitting because youwant to have energy to live life to thefullest again. Decide you're quittingbecause you're running out of money tosupport your habit. Decide you're quit-

ting because you want to be a betterpartner to your spouse. Decide you'requitting because you're determined tomeet your grandchildren one day.

Do not set it for tomorrow, unlessyou're pretty sure quitting cold turkeywill work for you. Don't set it for morethan a month from now, because youmight lose your resolve by then. Aim fora date in the next couple of weeks. Thiswill give you enough time to becomementally and physically prepared.

Mark the day on your calendar andannounce it to those close to you. Buildit up so that you won't be likely to backdown when the day arrives. Make a firmcommitment to yourself that you'regoing to quit by that date.

It might not seem like it now, butyou're going to need all the support youcan get during your journey to over-come addiction.

Because so many people battleaddictions, there are many wonderfulinstitutions in place that serve as sup-port systems, helping you stay motivat-ed, providing tips for success, andencouraging you to try again if you havea false start.

Everyone has a certain set of trig-gers that make them automaticallywant to indulge in their habits. Forexample, if you're struggling with an

alcohol addiction, you might find it dif-ficult to attend a certain restaurantwithout feeling a strong urge to drink.If you're addicted to gambling, passinga casino on the way home from workmight make you feel compelled tostop. Knowing your triggers will helpyou face them down when the timecomes to quit and would affect silent-ly upon your behaviors and do awaywith negative ones which might haveunknowingly driven you towards addic-tion.

If you need distractions, try exer-cising, taking up a new hobby, cooking,or hanging out with friends. Joining anew club, sports team, or other kind ofcommunity group will help you makenew friends and start a new chapter ofyour life in which addiction is not apart.

Positive social interactions canstimulate the release of neurochemicalswhich elicit feelings of happiness andsatisfaction without the need for drugs.

Have it instilled in your brain thatthe addiction is all in your head. It isn'tquite as good as you have built it up tobe. Tell yourself this until you believeit. As soon as you can mentally disso-ciate it with the pleasure it gives you,the more physical restraint you have inindulging yourself.

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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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taken up the task to keep harmful forceslike plastic materials, synthetic paintsand anything that is not biodegradable atbay.

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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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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