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N oted film actor of yester- year and former MP Jaya Prada joined the BJP on Tuesday and will take on Samajwadi Party’s Muslim face Azam Khan in Rampur, while Maneka Gandhi and her son, Varun Gandhi, swapped their seats of Pilibhit and Sultanpur as per the ninth list of the BJP released on Tuesday. Union Minister Manoj Sinha has been fielded from Ghazipur, Rita Bahuguna from Allahabad, State BJP president Mahendra Nath Pandey from Chandauli, and Jagdambika Pal from Doomariyaganj. BJP’s ninth list which has 29 candidates from Uttar Pradesh (and 10 from West Bengal) repeats many of the current MPs, including BJP’s Kisan Morcha head Virendra Singh Mast (Ballia), Harish Dwivedi (Basti), Kirtwardhan Singh (Gonda), Pankaj Choudhary (Maharganj), Vijay Dube (Kushinagar), Kamleshwar Paswan (Bansgaon SC), Ravindra Kushwaha (Salempur), Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti (Fatehpur), Lallu Singh (Faizabad), Daddan Mishra (Shawasti), and Brijbhushan Sharan Singh (Kaiserganj). The Rampur contest has the potential to be bitter and intense since both Jaya Prada and Azam Khan arch rivals. Jaya Prada had at one time accused Khan of circulating scurrilous video purportedly featuring her in Rampur. Rampur has the highest concentration of Muslims in entire UP. Muslims are over 50 per cent of the total voters in the constituency. Riding the Modi wave, BJP’s Nepal Singh had won from there in 2014. A two-term Lok Sabha member from the SP, Jaya Prada is a close associate of Rajya Sabha member Amar Singh, who was expelled from the SP and has since come close to the BJP. Lauding Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Jaya Prada described him as a “brave” leader in whose hands the coun- try is “safe”. Noting that she started her political journey with the TDP and was its Rajya Sabha mem- ber before joining the SP and being elected to Lok Sabha from Rampur, Jaya Prada told reporters that joining the BJP is a “significant” moment in her life and she would now work dedicatedly for the saffron party. W ith an attempt to counter the influence of the BJP, the Samajawadi Party on Tuesday inducted three more OBC-dominated political out- fits in the SP-BSP-RLD alliance. The three OBC political parties are Janwadi Party (Socialist), Rashtriya Samanta Dal and the Nishad Party. These small par- ties have pockets of influence among their respective com- munities in eastern UP. “I congratulate the three parties on joining the alliance,” said Akhilesh Yadav at a Press conference here on Tuesday to announce the expansion of the alliance that had started with a tie-up between Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party and later included Ajit Singh’s Rashtriya Lok Dal. Akhilesh’s effort appears to be aimed at stitching a caste arithmetic under the SP-BSP combination — Nishad, Dalit, Muslim, Yadav and non-Yadav backward communities. Headed by Sanjay Singh Chauhan, the Janwadi Party Socialist Party has a strong hold among the Chauhan commu- nity, an extremely backward caste of the OBC category, which has a considerable pres- ence across eastern UP. The Nishad Party had played a key role in the Opposition’s success in the Gorakhpur by-elections in March 2018 which became the template for Opposition unity and eventually persuaded two rivals, Akhilesh Yadav and Mayawati, to team up. Praveen Kumar Nishad, the Opposition candidate who defeated the BJP in Gorakhpur, is the son of Nishad Party chief. I n its bid to have a direct interaction with the voters in national Capital for Lok Sabha polls, Delhi Congress headed by Sheila Dikshit has planned to launch “Aay Pe Charcha” (discussion on income) from April 1 to generate awareness among people about benefits of the “historic” minimum income guarantee scheme’ announced by party president Rahul Gandhi on Monday. Terming the Nyuntam Aay Yojana (Nyay) announcement as an “extraordinary step”, Sheila said this is the biggest scheme announced ever for the poor after the highly successful MGNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act). “This stupendous scheme will benefit the people below the poverty line in the country. It is the first time that such a step has been taken in the world,” said Sheila, adding that it will empower the poorest in the country. Hitting out at the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP), Sheila said it is strange that the BJP Government which has coined “hollow” slogans such as “Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas” and “Achchhe Din” seems to be rattled by the announcement. Sheila said the Congress will implement the scheme for five crore poor families in the country after it forms the next Government in the country. “The formalities (of the scheme) will be worked out after Congress forms the Government and implements it,” she said. Brushing aside accusations of the BJP that the scheme will put a heavy burden on the economy of the country and it would not be practical to implement the scheme, Sheila said, “The party has taken all possibilities into considera- tion for the successful imple- mentation of the scheme, it would be implemented with- out delay”. A s the countdown for 2019 Lok Sabha polls begin, a highly disturbing trend of the use of drugs and narcotics, besides liquor, to woo voters has come to light. The Election Commission (EC) has seized 2,420.15 kg of narcotics worth 133 crore across the country. The EC has seized cash, illegal liquor, drugs, gold and freebies worth about 562.39 crore across the country since the poll schedule was announced a fortnight ago. The biggest haul of the EC’s seizure of drugs and nar- cotics stood at 1,160 kg in Uttar Pradesh, followed by Jharkhand at 657.7 kg, and Madhya Pradesh 282.406 kg. According to EC, it has seized 172 kg of narcotics from Karnataka, 84.30 kg from Punjab, 36.06 kg from Maharashtra, and 21 kg from Nagaland. As per reports, from hero- in, opium, to brown sugar and anti-depressants drugs and nar- cotic substances are being sup- plied to influence voters. During the election to five State Assemblies last year, the EC had seized drugs and nar- cotics worth 17 crore which include brown sugar, smack, opium, ganja, cocaine, denato- nium benzoate, methamphet- amine, heroin, tablets of anti- depressants Alprazolam and Tramadol. As per data updated till March 25, a total of 157.37 crore cash, 93.64 crore worth of liquor, 133.86 crore drugs, gold and other precious metals worth drugs 169.36 crore, and other freebies worth drugs 12.70 crore have been seized. The EC has deployed hun- dreds of general observers, expenditure observers and sta- tic and mobile surveillance teams in the country to keep watch on the flow of black money and other illegal grati- fication so that the level play- ing field of holding fair polls is not disturbed. Tamil Nadu recorded the maximum seizure of these ille- gal inducements, suspected to have been routed and used to bribe voters, worth 107.24 crore, followed by Uttar Pradesh 104.53 crore and Andhra Pradesh 103.4 crore. In Punjab, for instance, during the Assembly polls in 2017, the State had recorded total seizures worth 89.64 crore. Since March 10, when the Model Code of Conduct for Lok Sabha elections kicked in, Punjab has had seizure worth 92.8 crore. Karnataka saw the total seizure of inducements and cash worth 26.53 crore, Maharashtra 19.11 crore and Telangana 8.2 crore. Interestingly, in Gujarat, a dry State, EC has confiscated 1.74 lakh litre of liquor worth 4.77 crore till date. Compare this to Bihar, another State with alcohol prohibition, where liquor worth 20 lakh has been seized. Jharkhand, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Sikkim have recorded lowest seizures (less than 1 crore) till date. In North-East region, the enforcement team has seized more than 1.50 crore in cash on Tuesday. The seven phase polls will begin from April 11 and the counting of votes will take place on May 23. V eteran BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi on Tuesday said he has been asked by the party not to contest the polls. Within hours, BJP nominated Khadi and Gramodyog Minister in Yogi Government Satyadeo Pachauri from Joshi’s Kanpur seat. In a statement, Joshi said the party general secretary (organisation) Ram Lal has asked him not to contest the LS poll. The statement was released for the voters of Kanpur, from where Joshi had won in 2014 by getting 57 per cent of the vote. Joshi heads Parliament’s Estimates Committee and some of its observations, including on jobs, the GDP and non-performing assets, recent- ly embarrassed the Union Government. Earlier, another senior party leader from UP Kalraj Mishra had announced not to contest the elections from his Deoria seat. Later in the day, the BJP released the list declaring Pachauri as party’s candidate from Kanpur Defending the party’s deci- sion of denying ticket to Joshi, UP Minister Sidharthanath Singh said, “He is our founder member and the party respects him in the team of mardarshak mandal. It is an internal mat- ter of the party.” A mid speculations and sev- eral names doing rounds for the names of BJP candidates from Ranchi, Koderma and Chatra the Central BJP Election Committee is yet to release the names for three remaining seats in State. BJP insiders claim that the biggest confusion is in finalising the names from Ranchi and Koderma. Sources said that for Ranchi seat, hectic lobbying is on among BJP state vice pres- ident Aditya Sahu, BJP leader and RSS member Pradeep Verma, State Khadi board chairman Sanjay Seth, JSCA former president Amitabh Choudhary. The BJP Election Committee had already indi- cated that leaders who have crossed 75 years age would not be given ticket and in such sit- uation, Ram Tahal Chaudhary who had represented Ranchi parliamentary constituency for five terms is unlikely to be fielded. A senior BJP leader requesting anonymity said, “Given the situation it is clear that this time the BJP Central election committee is going to deny ticket of Chaudhary from Ranchi parliamentary con- stituency. Today, the BJP Central election committee denied ticket of Kanpur sitting MP and former BJP national president Murli Manohar Joshi. Joshi, an octogenarian is fourth senior BJP leader after LK Advani, Kariya Munda and Kalraj Mishra who have been denied ticket and in such situ- ation it is likely that Ram Tahal Choudhary too would be denied ticket this time.” Joshi has been replaced with local Brahmin face Satyadev Pachauri in Kanpur. However, the BJP leader claimed that if the party wants to replace Chaudhary then it should be any local Kurmi leader like Pachauri in Kanpur otherwise the party will face difficulties in keeping intact its Kurmi vote bank in State cap- ital. The leader’s observation assumes importance as out of six Assembly constituencies falling under Ranchi parlia- mentary segment, in three Assembly segments—Ichagarh, Silli and Khijri, Kurmi vote bank plays a deciding factor. Not only Ranchi, party’s Central election committee is contemplating on candidates for Koderma constituency. After RJD State president Annapurna Devi joined BJP there was speculation that she would be fielded from Koderma, but the party is yet to decide on her candidature. Sources said that Koderma sit- ting MP, Ravindra Rai too is lobbying in Delhi for his re- nomination from Koderma. Also, Pranav Verma son of for- mer BJP MP from Koderma Ritlal Verma is said to be a strong contender from Koderma seat. Meanwhile, Annapurna Devi today returned from Delhi. On Monday Annapurna had gone to Delhi where she after meeting BJP national president Amit Shah, joined Saffron party in presence of Chief Minister Raghubar Das, BJP national general secretary Bhupender Yadav and State party president Laxman Gilua. At Birsa Munda International Airport, Annapurna was given a rous- ing welcome by her supporters and BJP cadres. Talking to media persons, Annapurna said, “I had joined the BJP as I am impressed with the work of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. I have joined the party without any lust for ticket. I will work as a BJP cadre.” Meanwhile, in Chatra the party has decided to field sit- ting MP Sunil Singh for second consecutive time. Sources said that a strong RSS lobby had stand behind Sunil Singh’s can- didature from Chatra.

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Noted film actor of yester-year and former MP Jaya

Prada joined the BJP onTuesday and will take onSamajwadi Party’s Muslim faceAzam Khan in Rampur, whileManeka Gandhi and her son,Varun Gandhi, swapped theirseats of Pilibhit and Sultanpuras per the ninth list of the BJPreleased on Tuesday.

Union Minister ManojSinha has been fielded fromGhazipur, Rita Bahuguna fromAllahabad, State BJP presidentMahendra Nath Pandey fromChandauli, and JagdambikaPal from Doomariyaganj.

BJP’s ninth list which has 29candidates from Uttar Pradesh(and 10 from West Bengal)repeats many of the currentMPs, including BJP’s KisanMorcha head Virendra SinghMast (Ballia), Harish Dwivedi(Basti), Kirtwardhan Singh(Gonda), Pankaj Choudhary(Maharganj), Vijay Dube(Kushinagar), KamleshwarPaswan (Bansgaon SC),Ravindra Kushwaha(Salempur), Sadhvi NiranjanJyoti (Fatehpur), Lallu Singh(Faizabad), Daddan Mishra(Shawasti), and BrijbhushanSharan Singh (Kaiserganj).

The Rampur contest hasthe potential to be bitter andintense since both Jaya Pradaand Azam Khan arch rivals.Jaya Prada had at one timeaccused Khan of circulatingscurrilous video purportedlyfeaturing her in Rampur.

Rampur has the highestconcentration of Muslims inentire UP. Muslims are over 50per cent of the total voters inthe constituency. Riding theModi wave, BJP’s Nepal Singhhad won from there in 2014.

A two-term Lok Sabhamember from the SP, JayaPrada is a close associate of

Rajya Sabha member AmarSingh, who was expelled fromthe SP and has since come closeto the BJP.

Lauding Prime MinisterNarendra Modi, Jaya Pradadescribed him as a “brave”leader in whose hands the coun-try is “safe”.

Noting that she started her

political journey with the TDPand was its Rajya Sabha mem-ber before joining the SP andbeing elected to Lok Sabhafrom Rampur, Jaya Prada toldreporters that joining the BJP isa “significant” moment in herlife and she would now workdedicatedly for the saffronparty.

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With an attempt to counterthe influence of the BJP,

the Samajawadi Party onTuesday inducted three moreOBC-dominated political out-fits in the SP-BSP-RLD alliance.The three OBC political partiesare Janwadi Party (Socialist),Rashtriya Samanta Dal and theNishad Party. These small par-ties have pockets of influenceamong their respective com-munities in eastern UP.

“I congratulate the threeparties on joining the alliance,”said Akhilesh Yadav at a Pressconference here on Tuesday toannounce the expansion of thealliance that had started with atie-up between SamajwadiParty and Bahujan Samaj Partyand later included Ajit Singh’sRashtriya Lok Dal.

Akhilesh’s effort appears tobe aimed at stitching a castearithmetic under the SP-BSPcombination — Nishad, Dalit,Muslim, Yadav and non-Yadav

backward communities. Headed by Sanjay Singh

Chauhan, the Janwadi PartySocialist Party has a strong holdamong the Chauhan commu-nity, an extremely backwardcaste of the OBC category,which has a considerable pres-ence across eastern UP.

The Nishad Party hadplayed a key role in theOpposition’s success in theGorakhpur by-elections inMarch 2018 which became thetemplate for Opposition unityand eventually persuaded tworivals, Akhilesh Yadav andMayawati, to team up. PraveenKumar Nishad, the Oppositioncandidate who defeated theBJP in Gorakhpur, is the son ofNishad Party chief.

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In its bid to have a directinteraction with the voters in

national Capital for Lok Sabhapolls, Delhi Congress headedby Sheila Dikshit has plannedto launch “Aay Pe Charcha”(discussion on income) fromApril 1 to generate awarenessamong people about benefits ofthe “historic” minimumincome guarantee scheme’announced by party presidentRahul Gandhi on Monday.

Terming the Nyuntam AayYojana (Nyay) announcementas an “extraordinary step”, Sheilasaid this is the biggest schemeannounced ever for the poorafter the highly successfulMGNREGA (Mahatma GandhiNational Rural EmploymentGuarantee Act).

“This stupendous schemewill benefit the people belowthe poverty line in the country.It is the first time that such astep has been taken in theworld,” said Sheila, adding thatit will empower the poorest inthe country.

Hitting out at the BharatiyaJanta Party (BJP), Sheila said itis strange that the BJP

Government which has coined“hollow” slogans such as“Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas”and “Achchhe Din” seems to berattled by the announcement.

Sheila said the Congresswill implement the scheme forfive crore poor families in thecountry after it forms the next

Government in the country.“The formalities (of thescheme) will be worked outafter Congress forms theGovernment and implementsit,” she said.

Brushing aside accusationsof the BJP that the scheme willput a heavy burden on the

economy of the country and itwould not be practical toimplement the scheme, Sheilasaid, “The party has taken allpossibilities into considera-tion for the successful imple-mentation of the scheme, itwould be implemented with-out delay”.

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As the countdown for 2019Lok Sabha polls begin, a

highly disturbing trend of theuse of drugs and narcotics,besides liquor, to woo votershas come to light. The ElectionCommission (EC) has seized2,420.15 kg of narcotics worth�133 crore across the country.

The EC has seized cash,illegal liquor, drugs, gold andfreebies worth about �562.39crore across the country sincethe poll schedule wasannounced a fortnight ago.

The biggest haul of theEC’s seizure of drugs and nar-cotics stood at 1,160 kg in UttarPradesh, followed byJharkhand at 657.7 kg, andMadhya Pradesh 282.406 kg.According to EC, it has seized172 kg of narcotics fromKarnataka, 84.30 kg fromPunjab, 36.06 kg fromMaharashtra, and 21 kg from

Nagaland. As per reports, from hero-

in, opium, to brown sugar andanti-depressants drugs and nar-cotic substances are being sup-plied to influence voters.During the election to fiveState Assemblies last year, theEC had seized drugs and nar-cotics worth �17 crore whichinclude brown sugar, smack,opium, ganja, cocaine, denato-nium benzoate, methamphet-amine, heroin, tablets of anti-depressants Alprazolam andTramadol.

As per data updated tillMarch 25, a total of �157.37crore cash, �93.64 crore worthof liquor, �133.86 crore drugs,gold and other precious metalsworth drugs 169.36 crore, andother freebies worth drugs12.70 crore have been seized.

The EC has deployed hun-dreds of general observers,expenditure observers and sta-tic and mobile surveillance

teams in the country to keepwatch on the flow of blackmoney and other illegal grati-fication so that the level play-ing field of holding fair polls isnot disturbed.

Tamil Nadu recorded themaximum seizure of these ille-gal inducements, suspected tohave been routed and used tobribe voters, worth �107.24crore, followed by UttarPradesh �104.53 crore andAndhra Pradesh �103.4 crore.In Punjab, for instance, duringthe Assembly polls in 2017, theState had recorded totalseizures worth �89.64 crore.Since March 10, when theModel Code of Conduct forLok Sabha elections kicked in,Punjab has had seizure worth�92.8 crore.

Karnataka saw the totalseizure of inducements andcash worth �26.53 crore,Maharashtra �19.11 crore andTelangana �8.2 crore.

Interestingly, in Gujarat, adry State, EC has confiscated1.74 lakh litre of liquor worth�4.77 crore till date. Comparethis to Bihar, another Statewith alcohol prohibition, whereliquor worth �20 lakh has beenseized. Jharkhand, Meghalaya,Mizoram and Sikkim have

recorded lowest seizures (lessthan �1 crore) till date. InNorth-East region, theenforcement team has seizedmore than �1.50 crore in cashon Tuesday.

The seven phase polls willbegin from April 11 and thecounting of votes will take

place on May 23.

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Veteran BJP leader MurliManohar Joshi on Tuesday

said he has been asked by theparty not to contest the polls.Within hours, BJP nominatedKhadi and GramodyogMinister in Yogi GovernmentSatyadeo Pachauri from Joshi’sKanpur seat.

In a statement, Joshi saidthe party general secretary(organisation) Ram Lal hasasked him not to contest the LSpoll. The statement wasreleased for the voters ofKanpur, from where Joshi hadwon in 2014 by getting 57 percent of the vote.

Joshi heads Parliament’sEstimates Committee andsome of its observations,including on jobs, the GDP andnon-performing assets, recent-

ly embarrassed the UnionGovernment.

Earlier, another seniorparty leader from UP KalrajMishra had announced not tocontest the elections from hisDeoria seat.

Later in the day, the BJPreleased the list declaringPachauri as party’s candidatefrom Kanpur

Defending the party’s deci-sion of denying ticket to Joshi,UP Minister SidharthanathSingh said, “He is our foundermember and the party respectshim in the team of mardarshakmandal. It is an internal mat-ter of the party.”

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Amid speculations and sev-eral names doing rounds

for the names of BJP candidatesfrom Ranchi, Koderma andChatra the Central BJPElection Committee is yet torelease the names for threeremaining seats in State. BJPinsiders claim that the biggestconfusion is in finalising thenames from Ranchi andKoderma.

Sources said that forRanchi seat, hectic lobbying ison among BJP state vice pres-ident Aditya Sahu, BJP leaderand RSS member PradeepVerma, State Khadi boardchairman Sanjay Seth, JSCAformer president AmitabhChoudhary. The BJP ElectionCommittee had already indi-cated that leaders who havecrossed 75 years age would notbe given ticket and in such sit-uation, Ram Tahal Chaudharywho had represented Ranchiparliamentary constituency for

five terms is unlikely to befielded.

A senior BJP leaderrequesting anonymity said,“Given the situation it is clearthat this time the BJP Centralelection committee is going todeny ticket of Chaudhary fromRanchi parliamentary con-stituency. Today, the BJPCentral election committeedenied ticket of Kanpur sittingMP and former BJP nationalpresident Murli Manohar Joshi.Joshi, an octogenarian is fourthsenior BJP leader after LKAdvani, Kariya Munda andKalraj Mishra who have beendenied ticket and in such situ-ation it is likely that Ram TahalChoudhary too would bedenied ticket this time.” Joshihas been replaced with localBrahmin face SatyadevPachauri in Kanpur.

However, the BJP leaderclaimed that if the party wantsto replace Chaudhary then itshould be any local Kurmileader like Pachauri in Kanpur

otherwise the party will facedifficulties in keeping intact itsKurmi vote bank in State cap-ital. The leader’s observationassumes importance as out ofsix Assembly constituenciesfalling under Ranchi parlia-mentary segment, in threeAssembly segments—Ichagarh,Silli and Khijri, Kurmi votebank plays a deciding factor.

Not only Ranchi, party’sCentral election committee iscontemplating on candidatesfor Koderma constituency.After RJD State presidentAnnapurna Devi joined BJPthere was speculation that shewould be fielded fromKoderma, but the party is yetto decide on her candidature.Sources said that Koderma sit-ting MP, Ravindra Rai too islobbying in Delhi for his re-nomination from Koderma.Also, Pranav Verma son of for-mer BJP MP from KodermaRitlal Verma is said to be astrong contender fromKoderma seat.

Meanwhile, AnnapurnaDevi today returned fromDelhi. On Monday Annapurnahad gone to Delhi where sheafter meeting BJP nationalpresident Amit Shah, joinedSaffron party in presence ofChief Minister Raghubar Das,BJP national general secretaryBhupender Yadav and Stateparty president Laxman Gilua.

At Birsa MundaInternational Airport,Annapurna was given a rous-ing welcome by her supportersand BJP cadres. Talking tomedia persons, Annapurnasaid, “I had joined the BJP as Iam impressed with the work ofPrime Minister NarendraModi. I have joined the partywithout any lust for ticket. I willwork as a BJP cadre.”

Meanwhile, in Chatra theparty has decided to field sit-ting MP Sunil Singh for secondconsecutive time. Sources saidthat a strong RSS lobby hadstand behind Sunil Singh’s can-didature from Chatra.

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Piyush Anand from RajendraVidyalaya, Jamshedpur

emerged as the winner of theonline semi finals of ClassmateSpell Bee Season 11, India’slargest spelling competition.Anand will now be in con-tention to compete in theNational Finals of the compe-tition.

The initial round of thecompetition received an out-standing response. Jamshedpuris one of the 30 cities in whichsuch semi finals were con-ducted. In the initial phase, anon-ground exercise was con-ducted across 16 schools inJamshedpur where childrenwere given spelling tests. Top15 scorers from each schoolthen competed in the city finalsround. The top performersfrom the city finals then com-

peted in the Semi Final stage ofthe competition.

Commenting on the event,

Mr. Shailendra Tyagi, chiefexecutive, ITC’s Education andStationery Products Business

said,"Classmate has alwaysendeavored to recognize, nur-ture & celebrate the uniquenessof every child. Classmate SpellBee Season 11 takesClassmate’s brand thought ofcelebrating uniqueness fur-ther as it gives students yetanother opportunity to identi-fy and showcase their distinc-tive talents and skills on anationwide platform"

Puneet Mehra, head TVProperties, Mirchi Activations,Entertainment Network (India)Limited said, “Spell Bee hasgrown beyond being just acompetition for school childrenand today is proud of celebrat-ing its eleventh season with itsmakers – the children them-selves. We at Radio Mirchifind it heartening to see therage that the property hasbecome amongst India’s youngspellers.”

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East Singhbhum deputycommissioner and district

returning officer for theJamshedpur Parliamentaryconstituency, Amit Kumar hasasked political parties to fileapplications before 48 hoursthrough Suvidha mobile appwith mandatory clearance toget permission for rallies andmeetings.

He asked the parties to useSuvidha App, the single win-dow system for both partycandidates and political partiesto apply for permission beforeconducting meeting, ralliesand nukkad nataks.

Application request willhave to be mandatorily 48hours before the date of pro-gram/rallies as otherwise theapp will not accept the request.This mobile app will be usedalso for seeking permissionfor construction of temporaryparty office, construction ofdais, permission of vehicles tobe used for campaign etc.

The Election Commissionof India (ECI) has launched aset of mobile apps, and other

online initiatives related toelectoral processes which canbe used by candidates andpolitical parties to submitmandatory filings/statementsor request certain permissions.One of the App launched byECI is Suvidha App. It's a sin-gle window system for bothcandidates and political partiesto apply for permissions beforeconducting meetings, rallies,etc. This can also be donethrough the Android app. TheECI has also issued directionsto give permissions within 24hours once candidates/partiesmake a request.

“Candidate or a politicalparty have to upload clearancesfrom concerned governmentdepartment and the concernedpolice station officer for ameeting, rally or any form ofcampaigning in the appinforming about the date andvenue of the program, theassembly constituency and theParliamentary constituency.The application will be auto-matically routed to the assistantreturning officer and permis-sion will be given after scruti-ny of the documents within 24hours of the request,” saidAmit Kumar.

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Steel Authority of IndiaLimited (SAIL) -Durgapur

Steel Plant has supplied the firstconsignment of LinkeHofmann Busch (LHB) wheelsto Indian Railways on March25, stated a communiqué ofSAIL here on Tuesday. WhileIndian Railways are shifting toLHB coaches from the ICFcoaches for improved safetyand higher speed, the wheelsfor LHB coaches are currentlybeing imported. SAIL-DSP hasdeveloped these wheels andsupply of first consignment of30 no. of wheels from SAILcomes as another step towardsimport substitution by SAIL.SAIL was initially given anorder to supply 1000 LHBwheels by Indian Railwayswhose first consignment hasbeen dispatched.

These LHB wheels having

unique web profile with met-allurgical properties are spe-cially designed to befit thehigh speed movement onbroad gauge as per the require-ments of LHB coaches. TheseLHB wheels are developedwith the help from ResearchDesign and StandardOrganization (RDSO) ofIndian Railways and Wheel &Axle Plant of DSP. They haveprovided the knowledge, skilland technical knowhow forproducing the LHB wheels asper stringent quality norms,specifications and standardslaid by Indian Railways. TheLHB wheels have pneumaticdisc brake system for efficientbraking at higher speeds reduc-ing the impact during accidentsor emergency situations.

Chairman SAIL praisingthe DSP collective on thisachievement said, “Our entirefocus is to begin the supply ofthis advanced LHB wheels sothat the requirement of IndianRailway can be fulfilled domes-tically. I believe that meetingthe entire requirements of LHBwheels domestically will reducethe imports and also help in

saving foreign exchange.”SAIL-DSP is supplying

wheels and axles to IndianRailways for the last fivedecades and is the only pro-ducer of forged wheels in theCountry. It has also developedLoco wheels as per the require-ments of Indian Railways,which were earlier beingimported. SAIL, the onlyforged wheel producer of Indiahas a capacity to produce morethan 70,000 forged wheels peryear. Along with this wheels indifferent design and dimen-sions are also manufactured asper the demand. Very recent-ly SAIL has also suppliedwheels for Kolkata Metro.

SAIL-DSP fully tests everymanufactured wheel as per thestringent standards of Indianrailwayson various parametersincluding stress bearing capac-ity, Ultrasonic testing, MagneticParticle Inspection and testing

for hardnessetc so that eachand every wheel meets everyquality standard.

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Atwo-day workshop onNational e-Vidhan

Application (NeVA) todaybegan at Jharkhand VidhanSabha in the presence ofAssembly Speaker DineshOraon, who lighted the lamp toinaugurate the session.

The Speaker said on theoccasion that Jharkhand StateAssembly has been using theonline question system since2011 and 85 per cent of theanswers are being receivedonline from different depart-ments. Referring to the impor-tance of working system ofNeVA, Secretary, JharkhandLegislative Assembly said thatthe State Assembly is techni-cally all prepared to adopt e-Vidhan App.

Secretary, Ministry ofParliamentary Affairs,Surendra Nath Tripathi, toldabout NeVA to give true shapeof the phenomena of OneNation One Application. Hesaid that the Ministry ofParliamentary Affairs, theGovernment of India is fullyprepared to cooperate. Tripathisaid that the JharkhandLegislative Assembly has done

commendable work in NeVAwithout any training courseand hopefully after training itwill be on the top spot in thezone.

Joint Secretary,Department of ParliamentaryAffairs, in relation to econom-ic cooperation, said that the

Central government will give60 per cent amount for the pur-pose. Nodal Officer MadhukarBharadwaj delivered the vote ofthanks.

About 70 officers andemployees of Vidhan Sabha,NIC officers and employees,JAP IT, Home and Cabinet

Coordination department offi-cials and staff participated inthe workshop.

In the session, training ontheoretical side of data entryand work module was given.On Wednesday the trainingwill be given on practicalaspects of the application.

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ANational Seminar on“Rural Entrepreneurship

for Inclusive EconomicDevelopment – Opportunitiesand Challenges” was organisedtoday at ICFAI University,Jharkhand, with support fromNABARD. DistinguishedPersons from organisationslike Ramakrishna MissionAshram, Government ofJharkhand, NABARD, XISS,TRIFED, Birsa AgriculturalUniversity and delegates fromacademic, research and gov-ernment organisations partic-ipated in the conference. Atotal of 66 Papers were pub-lished, out of which 28 werecase studies of successful RuralEntrepreneurs. 18 Rural entre-preneurs from 9 districts ofJharkhand showcased theirproducts during the exhibitionand shared their entrepre-neurial journeys.

Swami Antarananda fromRamakrishna Mission Ashramand Sunil Kumar Sinha, JointSecretary, Agriculture,Jharkhand Government andVipul Aggarwal, Manager,NABARD were the guests ofhonour at the inaugural func-tion.

Addressing the parents,Prof ORS Rao, Vice-Chancellor

of the University said, “Evenafter 70 years of independence,over 68 per cent of Indian pop-ulation lives in villages and over50 per cent of them still dependfor their livelihood on agricul-ture, which is not yet remu-nerative, causing rural distress.Accelerated RuralEntrepreneurship could be an

effective solution to addressthis long-standing problem.During today’s conference, allthe stake holders -Academicians, Researchers,Industry Managers ,Government Officials, NGOsand Rural Entrepreneurs – arebrought together , onto a com-mon platform to discuss the

opportunities as well as chal-lenges so that appropriate solu-tions can be worked out.”

Addressing the partici-pants, Swami Antaranandasaid, “In order to grow RuralEntrepreneurship, humanbeings should be developedand energized”. Sunil KumarSinha explained the efforts

being put in by JharkhandGovernment to promote andencourage RuralEntrepreneurship. Dr BMSingh, Registrar gave vote ofthanks.

Pradeep Kumar Hazari,Special Secretary, Agriculturechaired the session on CaseStudies of Rural entrepreneursof Jharkhand , followed by thepanel discussion in which DrHarpeet Ahkuwalia, HOD,entrepreneurial Development,XISS , Siddharth Jaiswal, CEO,Business Development, BAUand Malvika Sharma, Director,Butterfly project participat-ed. Marketing, finance, accept-ability of women as entrepre-neurs, cost-effective tech-nologies were some of theproblems identified duringthe session.

Dr AK Singh, Head, ICARchaired the session on paperpresentations. AD Mishra ,Regional Manager, TRIFEDwas the guest of honour for thevaledictory session, in whichawards of recognition werepresented to the authors of thetop 3 best papers, theEntrepreneur that put up thebest stall and the e studentsthat presented their posterson the theme. Dr Hari Haran,Professor of the Universitygave the concluding remarks.

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Ayouth from Nihan-hut inBokaro thermal who fled

from police custody a day agowas arrested here early onTuesday, Inspector cum Officerin Charge Umesh KumarThakur said.

Police said that the accusedKaran Kumar son of late ArunSingh of Nihan-hut area inBokaro thermal, who hadescaped just after medicalexamination at DVC hospitalwas arrested by police todaymorning.

“Karan was earlier in cus-tody for case FIR no 38/ 2019of Police station Bokaro ther-mal. He is involved in casesincluding 353,224 and 332 ofIPC registered in police sta-tion,” stated a release.

According to reports alocal notorious youth identifiedas Karan Singh who hadassaulted and injured a local

woman in outer BokaroThermal's Nishan hut had beenarrested, police sources said.

According to Officer in-Charge Karan Singh was on therun after escaping from policecustody earlier on Sundayafternoon. He had managed tofree himself from handcuffswhile being escorted to aTenughat jail in Bermo onMarch 25. He had allegedlygone on to commit severalcrimes until he was recapturedby Bokaro thermal police fromNihan-hut area on Sundaynight, said Officer in-ChargeUmesh Kumar Thakur.

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In a tragic incident a youthwas shot in broad day light

near Chota Talab area underHindpiri Police Station inRanchi on Tuesday. 24 year-oldyouth named Sohaib was shotdead by three miscreantsMohammad Mass,Mohammad Asif andMohammad Gugoon in broadday light in one of the mostcrowded areas of the StateCapital.

According to the Hindpiri,Police Station incharge, BrijKumar the three persons, whowere looking for Sohaib forsome time regarding their dif-ferences on money relatedissues, met him on the spot andpumped one bullet in his body.“After firing bullet on him themiscreants ran away from thespot. After getting bullet injuryhe fell on the ground. Whilehearing the sound of bulletpeople gathered at the spot.They rushed Sohaib toRajendra Institute of MedicalSciences for further treatmentbut the Doctors declared himdead,” he added.

Kumar said an FIR wasfiled in the connection with thecase and the police team has

started investigation. Duringthe investigation the policeteam arrested three persons justsome hour later of the incident.All the three arrested personshave accepted their involve-ment in the case. They wereidentified as Mohammad Mass,Mohammad Asif andMohammad Gugoon.

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At least 30, 53,279 voteswere cast during mock

polls at 25,493 polling stationsin Jharkhand on road to the17th General Elections, ChiefElectoral Officer (CEO) LKhiangte said on Tuesday.

Besides, a total of 20,118Chunav Pathshalas were held inthe state till Sunday, he added.Chunav Pathshalas are plat-forms to engage the commu-nity members, mainly in ruralareas, through interesting activ-ities and hands on experiencefor sensitization on electoralrights and the electoral processof registration and voting.

The Chief Electoral Officersaid that his team has takenseveral initiatives to spreadawareness about the polls inJharkhand. Locally preparedjingles, video clips and adver-tisements were being uploadedregularly on the social mediaaccounts of the CEO and all theDistrict Election Officers(DEOs).

Also, total of 1476 mobilevans displaying EVM-VVPATscreens plied across cities sincethe announcement of elec-tions.

Khiangte told the media onTuesday that at least 20 majorcases related to the violation ofModel Code of Conduct werereported from Jharkhand andFirst Information Reports(FIRs) were lodged against 16offenders.

According to figures withthe Election Commission ofIndia (ECI), a majority of caseswere related to playing loud-speakers without permission,posting sensitive content ofsocial media, writing sloganson walls and hoisting partyflags in public places.

“At least 197 complaintswere lodged through the cVigilApp in Jharkhand and 54 of

them were found to be correct,”said Khiangte, adding that ninecVigil complaints could not beaddressed on time.

Khinagte will hold a meet-ing with Deans and Registrarsof all the universities onThursday at his office in a bidto ensure students’ participa-tion in the elections. The CEO’soffice will also hold an orien-tation camp for campus ambas-sadors of all the districts in thefirst week of April.

He said on Tuesday thatout of the 29464 polling sta-tions in Jharkhand, 28345 haveramp facility, 28970 have drink-ing water facility, 28980 havetoilets, 27,641 have sheds and24826 have electricity connec-tion.

Volunteers from NationalCadet Corps, National ServiceScheme and Bharat Scouts andGuides who have not attainedthe age of 18 years will bedeployed at polling stations, sothe ones above the age of 18 canexercise their franchise,Khiangte added.

Jharkhand will vote for the14 Lok Sabha seats here in thefourth phase of elections start-ing April 29. Polling here willconclude on May 19.

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Acouple of days after the‘Grand Alliance’

announced its seat sharing for-mula in the State, discontent isstill prevailing in the alliance asRJD is still demanding theChatra seat apart from its allo-cated Palamu constituency.The Party is still talking for theseat and it is confident thatleaders of the alliance will payheed to their demand.

Just two days earlier, mem-ber parties of the allianceannounced the seat sharingformula for the all 14 parlia-mentary seats of the State. Outof total 14 seats of the State theCongress will contest from 7seats, JMM will contest from 4seats and JVM will contest fromtwo seats, while RJD has beengiven just one seat. Congresswill contest from Ranchi,Khunti, Hazaribagh, Dhanbad,Chaibasa, Lohrdagga andChatra while JMM will contestfrom Dumka, Rajmahal, Giridihand Jamshedpur and JVM (P)will contest from Koderma andGodda. Bone of contention isChatra parliamentary seat

The leaders’ of RJD were notpresent at the time of announce-ment of the seat sharing formulaat the joint press conference of

leaders of the alliance.Speaking on the issue at a

press meet on Tuesday, theparty’s newly appointed Statepresident, Gautam Sagar Ranasaid that RJD is still demandingtwo seats including Palamu andChatra as in this region partyholds a strong base and it will tryto activate it. “The party is try-ing to prevent sharing of anti BJPvotes in ensuing elections. Weare talking to senior Congressleaders in this regard and talksare very positive. We met todayState Congress Chief, AjoyKumar and Congress LegislatureParty Leader Alamgir Alamand put forward our demand.Both the leaders have seriouslyheard our contention,” he added.

When asked what will bethe future strategy of the party

if leaders of the alliance will notfulfill their demand, Rana saidthat there is no question of notfulfilling our demand and we aresure that the party will get theseat. “Talks in this regard aregoing in right direction and infavourable circumstances. Wewould meet other senior leadersof the alliance including JMM,Executive president, HemantSoren and JVM president,Babulal Marandi,” he added.

On the question of formerState RJD president’s joiningBJP, Rana said that it will notimpact on the party and theparty’s State ExecutiveCommittee is still functioning.“She has been in touch withBJP since so many months. Itis called politics of oppor-tunism,” he added.

Ranchi: In a video conferencingwith Deputy Commissionersand District Electoral Officers(DEOs) of North Chottanagpurand South Chottanagpur sub-divisions on Tuesday, ChiefElectoral Officer (CEO) LKhiangte asked to ensure thepresence of concerned BoothLevel Officers (BLOs) in pollingbooths on March 29 for accept-ing Form 6 requisitions.

“The BLOs should alsoprovide information to thevoters about the location oftheir polling booth and voters’list,” Khiangte said.

Khiangte also asked officialsto ensure basic facilities for dif-ferently-abled voters. He askedthe BLOs to ensure available ofvoters’ slip, voters’ guide anddummy ballot sheer in Braille forvisually impaired voters.

The DEOs must meet rep-resentatives of political partiesand provide training on the useof Suvidha software.

At least 15,831 voters’ slips

are being prepared in the Braillescript for visually impaired vot-ers in Jharkhand. Besides,Dummy Ballet Sheet and VotersGuide are also being printed inBraille for visually impaired vot-ers in all the districts.

Moreover, out of the 29,464polling booths in Jharkhand,28,219 will have ramp facilitiesfor differently-abled voters. Atleast two master trainers in eachdistrict will train poll boothworkers in a bid to sensitizethem for ethical treatment ofdifferently-abled voters duringthe polling days in the state.PNS

Ranchi: In a bid to revive thedying ‘Theater culture’, thesixth Chotanagpur NationalTheater Fest will be organisedfrom March 27 at AudreyHouse. The six-day event willshowcase the potential of the-ater artists from across thecountry. The inaugural eventwill be graced by Minister,Department of Art, Cultureand Youth Affairs – AmarKumar Bauri and Chairperson- Jharkhand State KhadiGramodyog Board, Sanjay Seth.

As many as 12 ‘TheatrePlays’ will be performed duringthe event. “On each day twoplays will be performed bydifferent groups. Artists and

theatre groups from HimachalPradesh, Ranchi, UttarPradesh, New Delhi will per-form here in the State Capital.All shows will begin from 6 PMonwards. The programme willend on April 2,” said, president– Yuva Natya SangeetAcademy, Reena Sahay.

“The prime aim of suchevent is to sensitise the public onvarious social issues. Theaterplays ranging from mythology toreal incidents will be shown tothe audiences. The plays titled –Bahane, Kanyadaan, Return ofEklavya, Maharathi including afew others will be showcased,”added Sahay. The entry will befree for the public. PNS

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Being born and brought upin a small village in

Uttarkashi, in the foothills ofHimalayas, hard work runs inher blood. India’s first womanto scale Mt. Everest, BachendriPal was always very fond of theoutdoors, but her life took amajor turn in the early 80’s,when she met a renownedmountaineer ColonelPremchand, who motivatedher to take a mountaineeringcourse at IndianMountaineering Foundation.

“A leader is person whomakes several more leaders. Myfirst guru Colonel Premchandwas one of those leaders whohimself took to adventure toteach students like us lessons ofleadership, teamwork and dis-cipline in life,” says Pal, whowas recently conferred with

Padma Bhushan by theGovernment of India.

“Women were not takenseriously in the field of adven-ture. Even my parents were a bithesitant of the risk and challengeinvolved in mountaineering, butI had made my mind. After mytraining started for Mt. Everest,there was no looking back. I wasfocused and committed to mygoal of reaching the summit ofMt. Everest,” recalled Pal.

Born on 24 May 1954 in avillage in the Himalayas namedNakuri in Uttarkashi, District ofGarhwal, what is nowUttarakhand, a state in thenorthern part of India, Pal wasone of seven children to HansaDevi and Shri Kishan Singh Pal.

“My parents taught me lessonsof good values, hard work andhonesty. These teachings haveplayed important role in my life.Whatever I am today is becauseof these teachings and supportof Tata Steel,” says Pal with asense of pride.

She presently heads theTata Steel AdventureFoundation (TSAF) inJamshedpur. The Arjunaawardee says, “The love forcountry keeps me alive andmotivate me to achieve more.Tata Steel trusted me andhelped me experiment andmake advancement in the fieldof adventure,” noted Pal.

Bachendri Pal continued tobe active after ascending the

highest peak in the world. Shesuccessfully led an Indo-Nepalese Women’s MountEverest Expedition – 1993 teamcomprising only women, whichset benchmarks for Indianmountaineering when 18 peo-ple reached the summit includ-ing seven women.

“Great visionaries of TataSteel like JRD Tata inspired meto experiment. TSAF wasfounded immediately after Ireturned from the successfulEverest climb. Then, we con-ceptualised the whole thing andwanted to make it like an insti-tution. We focus on developingqualities like honesty, tolerance,patience, self-awareness, anddecision making,” she said.

“My advice to the young-sters and the society at large isto be positive and do the best inevery possible way. The samewill return back to you. As longas we are honest and work hard,one must fear none and just fol-low his passion, this will lead tonew heights. It is only when onemeets with challenges and crit-ical situations that one learnslessons of life,” she opines.

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Bihar centric political outfits like RJD, JD (U)and even LJP had eyed Jharkhand to bolster

their political prospects, but their effort is turn-ing out to be damp squib. Not only leaders,MLAs but even party presidents of Biharregional parties are deserting their parent partyin search of greener pastures. The latest leaderto leave Bihar regional party-RJD is State pres-ident of party and four times MLA AnnapurnaDevi. Annapurna considered being close to RJDnational president Lalu Prasad joined BJP onMonday and said to be strong contender fromKoderma parliamentary segment.

Annapurna Devi in 1998 after the death ofher husband Ramesh Prasad Yadav, a ministerin the Rabri Devi government joined RJD andsince then remained as Lalu’s loyalist servingKoderma as RJD MLA for four terms.

RJD State general secretary, Kailash Yadavsaid, “In RJD party is bigger than persons. Therewill be no effect on RJD after Annapurna leav-ing the party. Though Annapurna has left RJDthe party base is intact with the ideology of Laluji which is for scheduled castes, tribal, minori-ties and other weaker section of societies.”

Yadav claimed that party increasing base will

be visible after 2019 general election and year endassembly elections. Though RJD general secretaryis claiming that RJD will emerge as big player inState politics after 2019 assembly elections, onceRJD had a role of king maker in Jharkhand pol-itics as it used to have five to six MLAs and evenhad MPs from Palamu and Chatra respectively.

Earlier, JDU State president Jaleshwar Mahatoleft the JDU to join Congress in December lastyear. Similarly, in the month of October last year,Ram Vilas Paswan party LJP Jharkhand unit pres-ident Baban Gupta too left LJP to join BJP.

Both Annapurna Devi and JaleshwarMahato after bifurcation of State in 2000 asremained as face of RJD and JDU respectively,not only as MLAs but being part of governmentwhen RJD and JDU were part of coalition gov-ernment in State.

Jaleshwar Mahato remained as JDU MLAfrom Baghmara Assembly segment during 2000to 2009 and said to close to Bihar Chief Ministerand JDU national president Nitish Kumar.Sources said that Jaleshwar left the JDU as he wasunable to adjust with State NDA leadership.Sources said that Jaleshwar Mahato was havingdifferences with present BJP MLA from BaghmaraDhullu Mahto and criticised him for the 'mafiaRaj' in Baghmara under the BJP government.

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In an attempt to expunge theprevailing confusion over

the issue of allotment of shopsat the newly constructed AtalSmriti Vendors’ Market, theRanchi Municipal Corporation(RMC) will soon conduct ameeting with the members ofTown Vending Committee(TVC).

Irrespective of severalattempts of the MunicipalCorporation to settle the streetvendors at this dedicated mar-keting complex, the Civic Bodyis facing tremendous protestfrom a few groups over theissue of allocating shops tosome ineligible people there.Earlier, the mega structurewhich is yet to get the habitantswas engulfed in the glitch ofgetting a competent operationand maintenance (O&M)agency for long.

“RMC will take a final callafter consulting the members ofTVC. The allotment processwas done in a transparent waythrough lottery. The Civic Body

has got the proper recordingsof the entire procedure.Unnecessary trouble is beingcreated by a few groups as dur-ing the process of addressingthe claims and objections, sev-eral ineligible vendors’ werescrapped out,” said RMC CityManager (NULM Cell), VikashKumar on Tuesday.

“After getting complaints,over five more people wereblacklisted from the list. Also,no member of TVC has yetcome forward, opposing thedecision of the MunicipalCorporation. In any circum-stance, the civic body is notgoing to conduct the lotteryprocess again,” added Kumar

In the first survey as many

as 660 vendors were registeredin the list. A number of objec-tions were addressed then as itwas found that the actualstrength of street vendors is541, those who have all validdocuments. The resurvey wascompleted on November 1,2018 yet considering the objec-tions; re-verification of docu-ments was carried out inJanuary 2019.

During the inauguration ofthe Vendors’ Market, it wasannounced that 127 street ven-dors will be settled down thereimmediately, however, consid-ering the intervention of themembers TVC, the shiftingprocess was kept on hold for afew months more. The vendors’market has a capacity of accom-modating 472 street vendors’.

As many as 5,901 streetvendors are in Ranchi, as perthe State government’s record.Around16, 141 Identity (ID)cards have been distributedamong the street vendorsacross the State while 238 streetvendors have been linked withdifferent social schemes.

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New Delhi: The SupremeCourt on Tuesday dashed thehopes of a faction led by formerAIADMK leader TTVDhinakaran for getting the‘pressure cooker’ symbol exclu-sively for the upcoming LokSabha and Assembly by-elec-tions, but asked the ElectionCommission to allot a commonfree symbol to it.

The top court said to“ensure a level playing field”among the contesting politicalparties in Lok Sabha polls andby-election in Tamil Nadu andPuducherry, it has directed thepoll panel to allot a commonfree symbol to the group.

A Bench of Chief JusticeRanjan Gogoi and JusticesDeepak Gupta and SanjivKhanna also made it clear thatif candidates fielded byDhinakaran-led group win theelections, “they will be treatedas Independent candidates”.

“The claim of the appellantto the symbol of ‘pressurecooker’ in an exclusive mannercannot be acknowledged inview of the provisions ofSection 29A of theRepresentation of the PeopleAct, 1951 and the guidelines

issued by the ElectionCommission of India thereunder, which the appellant orhis group has concededly notfollowed.

“We are, therefore, notinclined to grant any recogni-tion to the appellant or hisgroup to the symbol of ‘pres-sure cooker’,” the Bench said.

It took on record the list ofnames of 59 candidates,marked as ‘X’, to be fielded byDhinakaran led group in theupcoming Lok Sabha elections

and assembly by-elections inTamil Nadu and Puducherry.

“The EC on due and prop-er satisfaction that the candi-dates named in the documentmarked with the letter ‘X’ (listof names) want to contest theelection under any one com-mon symbol, will make allendeavour to ensure that in theforthcoming elections..., theaforesaid candidates be allottedany one particular free symbol,”the Bench said.

The court, clarified, that itspresent order will not amountto recognition of the group orits any part as a political partywhether “registered” or “unreg-istered” and only electioncommission can take a decisionin that regard as and whenrequired.

It added, “We also make itclear that in the event any of thecandidates mentioned in thelist marked with the letter ‘X’is to be elected, such candidatewill be counted as an indepen-dent candidate and not belong-ing to any political party for allpurposes including for the pur-poses of the Tenth Schedule ofthe Constitution”.

The court’s order came onthe last day of filing of nomi-nation papers for the upcom-ing Lok Sabha elections in 40seats and assembly by-elec-tions on 19 seats in TamilNadu and Puducherry to beheld on April 18. PTI

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Adelegation of the Left par-ties on Tuesday met

Election Commission (EC)officials and demanded thatrelease of the film based on thelife of Prime Minister NarendraModi be deferred, claiming itto be a “propaganda material”.The delegation led by CPInational secretary D Raja andCPI(M) Polit Bureau memberNilotpal Basu, pointed out seri-ous law and order situations inTripura and West Bengal.

“The delegation had adetailed discussion with the ECon the release of the biopic onNarendra Modi. The delegationpointed out that there are well-established precedents on with-holding the release of such pro-paganda materials during thependency of the elections. Thepoll body, however, was non-committal,” a statement fromthe two Left parties said onTuesday.

The delegation also reiter-ated the demand of matchingthe VVPAT records with thoseof the EVM for randomly cho-sen 50 per cent of the booths.The EC pointed out that as perthe Supreme Court direction,the Commission will be sub-mitting an affidavit on March28 on this subject.

“The delegation also point-ed out the serious law andorder situation in Tripura andWest Bengal, where the ruling

party goons are particularly tar-geting the Left Front and itscandidates,” the statement said.

They also raised theKolkata airport incident involv-ing the wife of AbhishekBanerjee, MP and TrinamoolCongress candidate inDiamond Harbour and thenephew of West Bengal ChiefMinister Mamata Banerjee.

The delegation urged thatthere should be a probe by theCommission to ascertain thetruth as this has financial impli-cations and a possible impacton free and fair polls.

The Congress too hadmoved the poll body to get therelease of the biopic, withBollywood actor Vivek Oberoiplaying Modi, deferred till thefinal phase voting in the LokSabha polls on May 19. Earlier,the DMK, NCP and the NDAally RPI(A) have approachedthe poll body seeking defer-ment of the Modi’s biopic tillthe Lok Sabha polls is over.

New Delhi: All eight newlyappointed members of anti-corruption ombudsman Lokpalwill take oath of office onWednesday, officials said onTuesday.

President Ram NathKovind had on Saturdayadministered the oath of officeto Justice Pinaki ChandraGhose as the country’s firstLokpal. Former Chief Justicesof different High Courts —Justices Dilip B Bhosale, Pradip Kumar Mohanty,Abhilasha Kumari — besidessitting Chief Justice ofChhattisgarh High Court AjayKumar Tripathi were appoint-ed as judicial members in the Lokpal.

Former first woman chiefof Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB)Archana Ramasundaram, ex-Maharashtra chief secretaryDinesh Kumar Jain, formerIRS officer Mahender Singhand Gujarat cadre ex-IAS offi-cer Indrajeet Prasad Gautamare the Lokpal’s non-judicialmembers.

All these eight memberswill be administered the oathof office on Wednesday, theofficials said. PTI

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Aday after Congress presi-dent Rahul Gandhi

announced his ambitious min-imum income guaranteescheme, the party on Tuesdaysaid the beneficiary of thescheme’s financial assistancewill directly go to the womanmember of the family.

The party sought to clear“confusion” over the schemewith party chief spokespersonRandeep Surjewala saying thatthe scheme will directly bene-fit 20 per cent beneficiary families and that scheme is“women centric”.

Surjewala said theNyunatam Aay Yojana (Nyay) isnot a “top-up scheme” and is awomen-centric scheme where-by the money will go directlyinto the bank accounts of thewoman member of a family.

At the same time, Congressasked Prime Minister NarendraModi and the BJP to clearlyspell out whether they supportits proposal to give �72,000annually to five crore poor fam-ilies under a minimum incomeguarantee scheme, claimingmany BJP Ministers wereopposing the idea.

Party general secretaryPriyanka Gandhi took to Twitterto applaud Rahul Gandhi’sannouncement and said thebest aspect of the Nyay is it willprovide women with steadymoney. “What’s making me

most happy is that the NYAYscheme will add �72,000 everyyear in the bank accounts ofwomen,” she tweeted

“The Congress will get thisamount credited to the bankaccounts of the women of ben-eficiary families. This schemewill be implemented withoutany discrimination betweenthe urban and rural areas. Itwill be implemented acrossthe country uniformly,”Surjewala said.

Rahul on Mondayannounced that �72,000 peryear will be given as minimumincome to poor families if hisparty is voted to power in LokSabha polls. Asserting that it willbe the final assault on poverty,he said the scheme would ben-efit around 25 crore people.

Congress also attackedFinance Minister Arun Jaitleyfor dubbing the scheme as a“bluff announcement”, sayingno other political party has“betrayed” India for more thanseven decades in the name ofpoverty. Surjewala also attackedGovernment think tank NITIAayog vice chairman RajivKumar dubbing the body heheaded as “Rajneeti Ayog” andasked him to run the organi-sation from the BJP office andcontest elections instead.

A c t o r - p o l i t i c i a nShatrughan Sinha — who is allset to quit the BJP will join theCongress in Bihar on Thursday,showered praise on RahulGandhi, calling him the “mas-ter of situation” and his pro-posed scheme a “masterstroke”.

New Delhi: The SupremeCourt on Tuesday termed as“very very serious” the revela-tions made by CBI in its statusreport relating to the recentinterrogation of the thenKolkata Police CommissionerRajeev Kumar in connectionwith the Saradha chit fundscam case.

A Bench headed by ChiefJustice Ranjan Gogoi said itcannot “close its eyes” if some“very very serious facts” are dis-closed to it and directed CBI tofile an application seekingappropriate relief againstKumar, who had earlier head-ed the state SIT to probe thechit fund scam.

The Bench, which alsocomprised Justices DeepakGupta and Sanjiv Khanna,granted 10 days to the probeagency for filing the applica-tion. Kumar and others canrespond to the plea seven daysthereafter.

The top court refused todrop the contempt proceedingsagainst the West Bengal DGP,the chief secretary and Kumar.

It was hearing the CBI’scontempt application againstvarious senior officials of theWest Bengal Government onthe ground of non-cooperationin its probe and alleged tam-pering of evidence includingcall data records (CDRs) of keyaccused and Sardha groupCMD Sudipta Sen and DebjaniMukherjee. The court, whichhad earlier directed CBIDirector to file an affidavit giv-ing details about the allegedcontempt committed by WestBengal cops and others in thecase, perused the reply of theCBI chief and the fresh statusreport, pertaining to quizzingof Kumar.

“We have gone throughyour (CBI’s) status report.There are something very veryserious,” the Bench said.

The Bench asked AttorneyGeneral KK Venugopal, repre-senting CBI, to file an appro-priate application as it cannotpass any order on the prayersas they were part of the sealedcover report to which the otherside has no access.

“File an application or anaffidavit, if you want to pressfor your reliefs. We cannot actunilaterally and the other sidehas to be heard,” the bench said.“We are not passing any order.File an application and give theother side an opportunity toreply,” the Bench said. Senioradvocate AM Singhvi, appear-ing for West Bengal officials,opposed the liberty beinggranted to CBI to file an appli-cation against Kumar.

“While considering thecontempt matter, suppose somevery very serious things cometo our notice then, should weclose our eyes to that,” theBench said while asking CBI tofile the fresh plea.

At the outset, Venugopalreferred to the reply of the CBIDirector and alleged that theWest Bengal police has notbeen cooperating with theprobe, providing incompleteand tampered with details tothe probe agency.

He said the CDRs, provid-ed by the state police, of the keyaccused to the CBI werematched with those providedby the mobile service providersand various discrepancies werefound in them.

Solicitor General TusharMehta, also appearing for CBI,said that there has been seriousbreach of the apex court orderasking State police to cooper-ate in the investigation. PTI

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The Ministry of Personnelhas directed the Union

Home and Railway Ministriesto move separate proposals togrant “organised service” statusto the Central paramilitaryforces and Railway ProtectionForces respectively.

The move comes followinga directive from the SupremeCourt for granting organisedservice status to these forces.The organised service statuswill enable the cadre officers tobe eligible for certain servicebenefits like Non-FunctionalUpgradation (financial benefitsafter certain number of years ofservice if promotion to the nextpost is not possible).

Department of Personneland Training (DoPT) under theMinistry of Personnel in a let-ter issued on Monday to theJoint Secretary (Police-I) ofHome Ministry AmitabhKharkwal and Joint Director(Estt/GC), Railway Board,Amitabh Joshi said,“….MHA/Ministry of Railwaysrequested to move a proposalfor grant of organised status forimplementation of the order of

the Supreme Court immedi-ately. The directions of thecourt regarding deputation ofIPS officers to CAPFs and RPFmay also be kept in view whileformulating the proposal.”

The procedure for granti-ng organised status to a serviceis similar to that of a cadrereview. Such a proposal, ini-tially moved by CadreControlling Authority (CCA) isexamined by DoPT andDepartment of Expenditure,and subsequently, their rec-ommendations are placedbefore the Cadre ReviewCommittee chaired by theCabinet Secretary.

The proposal is then sentfor final approval of theCabinet. Necessary notifica-tions in this regard are to beissued by the CCA like MHAfor Central Armed Police Forceand Ministry of Railways forRPF (Railway Protection Force,reads the DoPT order issued byMS Subramanya Rao, Directorof Cadre Review Division.

VPS Panwar, Chairman,National CoordinationCommittee for Ex CPMFsWelfare Associations, said thereis no need at all for a proposal

for granting organised servicestatus to the paramilitary forcesas the Supreme Court had saidthat the forces are already in thecategory and the Governmentwas directed to simply issue anotification to the effect.

Panwar said a contempt

petition is pending before theDelhi High Court and the nextdate of hearing is March 28. Thecontempt petition was movedby the National CoordinationCommittee as the Governmenthas sought proposals for grant-ing organised service status

instead of declaring them asorganised service as directed bythe court.

The grant of organised ser-vice to Group A cadre officerswill entitle them to timely pro-motion and enhanced paypackages. This will also enable

them to form associations onthe lines of the All IndiaServices and represent proper-ly before the Central PayCommission besides givingthem a collective bargainingpower for better service con-ditions, Panwar added.

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Foreign Minister SushmaSwaraj on Tuesday asked

Pakistan to ensure the imme-diate release of the two Hindugirls who were allegedly kid-napped and forcefully con-verted to Islam in Sindhprovince last week.

“Justice demands that boththese girls should be restored totheir family immediately,” shetweeted.

Reena and Raveena, hailingfrom village Hafiz Salman nearthe town of Daharki in Sindh,were allegedly kidnapped andforced to convert fromHinduism to Islam on March20, before being married toMuslim men.

“Forced conversion of

Hindu girls in Pakistan: Theage of the girls is not disputed.Raveena is only 13 and Reena is 15 years old,” theMinister said.

“Even the Prime Ministeron Naya Pakistan will notbelieve that girls of this tenderage can voluntarily decideabout their conversion toanother religion and marriage,”

she said. A Pakistani high court on

Tuesday ordered official pro-tection for the two girls due toconcern about their safety asauthorities widened a probe toascertain if the teenage sisterswere abducted, forcibly con-verted and married.

On Sunday, Swaraj tweet-ed that she asked the Indian

envoy in Islamabad to send areport on the incident.

Hours later, India issued anote verbale to Pakistan on theissue, sharing its concerns overthe incident and called for suit-able remedial action to protectand promote safety, security andwelfare of people from theminority communities.Subsequently, Pakistan PrimeMinister Imran Khan orderedan investigation into the inci-dent. The Islamabad HighCourt issued the order Tuesdayafter the petition was filed by thegirls and their husbands to seekprotection from adverse action.

On March 20, the girls’family lodged a FirstInformation Report againsttheir alleged forced conversionto Islam.

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Bengaluru: Conceding thatthe ruling Congress-JD(S)alliance is facing dissidence insome Lok Sabha constituencies,the Congress' Karnataka uniton Tuesday expressed confi-dence about resolving differ-ences by making both partyworkers understand the need todefeat "communal BJP."

With transfer of votesbetween the Congress and theJD(S) crucial for them to out-perform the BJP, there is worryin both parties that the dissi-dence may hamper theirprospects.

Agreeing that there wasdisgruntlement in two to threeplaces like Mandya, Tumkurand Hassan, coalition coordi-nation chief and Congressleader Siddaramaaih said itwas common in an alliance andwhen there were aspirants fromboth parties.

"There is some amount ofdisgruntlement in Tumkur asthe sitting MP did not get theticket from the Congress,because the seat went to theJD(S)," he said at a twitter inter-

action organised by theKarnataka PCC.

"We are talking to workersthere, also disgruntled leadersthere. I have confidence that wewill be able to pacify them," hesaid.

"Coalition Governmentand alliance was inevitabletoday. We will make workersand leaders of both partiesunderstand about the situationand the need for an alliance todefeat the communal BJP.

I'm confident that they toowill agree and there won't beany problem," he added.

Defying the electoralarrangement under whichTumkur was allotted to theJD(S), sitting Congress MP S PMuddahanumegowda filed hispapers on Monday, even asJD(S) patriarch and formerPrime Minister HD Deve

Gowda filed his nomination asthe joint candidate of the rul-ing alliance.

Another Congress leaderand former MLA, K NRajanna, also filed his nomi-nation on Monday fromTumkur as an independentcandidate, opposing Gowda.

KPCC chief Dinesh GunduRao on Tuesday said he hasspoken to bothMuddahanumegowda andRajanna and the party wouldresolve the issue "amicably."

"We have spoken to him(Muddahanumegowda), wehave spoken to Rajanna...Wewill again speak to them andwill solveit amicably," Rao toldreporters in response to a ques-tion about action on rebel can-didates in Tumkur.

If Muddahanumegowdacontests from Tumkur as a

rebel candidate, it will add tothe Congress-JD(S) coalitionworries as the alliance is facingbacklash at several placesincluding Mandya and Hassan,with party workers unhappywith the seat arrangements.

Both parties that hadfought bitterly against eachother ahead of May 2018Assembly polls joined hands toform an alliance as the electionthrew up a hung verdict.

Though Congress-JD(S)leaders have decided to go topolls together, it is not some-thing that the workers of bothparties at the booth level, whohave been fighting each other,agree with.

Deve Gowda's grandsons,Prajaval Revanna and NikhilKumaraswamy, are the alliancecandidates from Hassan andMandyarespectively.

Responding to a question,Siddaramaiah agreed thatTumkur was conceded to theJD(S) as he was against givingaway Mysore seat to the region-al party, which had asked foroneamong the two seats.

"We had to concedeMandya because sitting MPthere was from JD(S), so nat-urally they asked for theseat.They also asked for a seat-either Mysore or Tumkur, I saidwe cannot concede Mysorebecause there is more oppor-tunity for Congress there." PTI

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Jaipur: Congress presidentRahul Gandhi on Tuesdaytermed his party’s promise ofminimum guaranteed incometo the poorest 20 per centhouseholds a "surgical strikeon poverty" and said nobodyshould be poor in 21st centu-ry India.

Addressing a rally inSuratgarh town of Ganganagardistrict, a day after declaringhis party would roll out thescheme if voted to power,Gandhi alleged that PrimeMinster Narendra Modi gavemoney to the rich and topindustrialists of the country,but the Congress would servethe poor.

He said the promised min-imum income scheme was a"big bang".

"Dhamaka hai ye...Bombfatega (It's a big bang...A bombwill set off ). This is aCongress's surgical strike onpoverty. They (the BJP)worked to eliminate the poorwe will eliminate poverty,"Gandhi said.

On helping the poor, hesaid, "We thought how itshould be done. After discus-sion and brainstorming, wethought that there should be aminimum income line of�12,000 per month. Soon afterformation of the CongressGovernment in 2019, the min-imum income line in India will

be �12,000 per month."The name of the proposed

scheme is 'Nyuntam AayYojana' or Nyay. The word'Nyay' stands for justice inHindi.

He alleged that povertyand unemployment increasedunder the Modi Government.While the Congress-led UPAGovernment lifted 14 crorepeople out of poverty, "Modimade them poor again", heclaimed.

On Monday, Gandhiannounced in New Delhi that�72,000 per year will be givenas minimum income to poorfamilies, benefiting around 25crore people, if his party isvoted to power in Lok Sabhapolls.

"Nobody should be poor in the country in 21st century,"he told the Suratgarh rallyTuesday.

Finance Minister Arun

Jaitley Monday dismissed theCongress promise of mini-mum guaranteed income, say-ing the party has a history of"cheating" the poor and mis-leading the country in thename of removing poverty.

In 1971, Rahul Gandhi'sgrandmother and then PrimeMinister Indira Gandhi hadalso given 'Garibi Hatao, DeshBachao' (remove poverty, savethe nation) slogan during thegeneral election campaign.Years later, PM Modi, during aspeech in 2018, termed the'Garibi Hatao' slogan a "falsepromise".

Rahul Gandhi Tuesdayalso alleged the ModiGovernment weakened theschemes and programmes suchas MGNREGA and food secu-rity introduced by the UPAdispensation.

"Whatever was done underthe MGRENGA, food securi-ty and loan waiver by the UPAGovernment, that all were fin-ished by Narendra Modi.Poverty and unemploymentincreased in his rule," he said.

He said that top industri-alists were helped by theGovernment in "looting" thepublic money and their debt of�3.5 lakh were written off, butfarm loans were not.

The Congress chief con-tinued his "chowkidar" barb atthe PM. PTI

Patna: Bollywoodactor-turned-politician Shatrughan Sinha,who has been associated withBJP for about three decades,will join Congress at New Delhion March 28, a senior partyleader said here on Tuesday.

"Shatrughan Sinha will joinCongress in New Delhi onMarch 28 at 11.30 am ... He willbe our candidate from PatnaSahib", chairman for the stateCongress election campaigncommittee Akhilesh PrasadSingh told newsmen here.

Sinha is a two-term BJPLok Sabha member from PatnaSahib Singh but has beendropped by the saffron partywhich has chosen to field unionminister Ravi Shankar Prasadfrom the seat.

Sinha has been openly crit-ical of Prime Minister NarendraModi and BJP president AmitShah. Speculation had beenrife for some time that hewould join the Congress, whichis an ally of the'Mahagathbandhan' which alsoconsists of the RJD and otherlocal parties.

Asked whether Sinhawould be induced in the partyin the presence of AICC pres-ident Rahul Gandhi, as wasbeing speculated in the media,Singh said Top leaders will bepresent on the occasion". PTI

Patna: The Darbhanga LokSabha seat, represented by for-mer test cricketer Kirti Azad,who recently quit the BJP andjoined the Congress, onTuesday emerged as a newbone of contention in theOpposition Grand Alliance inBihar, with the RJD stating thatit wished to field its veteranleader Abdul Bari Siddiquifrom the seat.

The Lalu Prasad-led partycontended that its candidatehad lost the seat to the BJP bya thin margin in 2014.

"Darbhanga is our tradi-tional seat. We have won itmany times. Even in the 2014polls, which were swept by theBJP-led NDA, our candidatelost the battle by a thin margin.

"We would therefore like tocontest the seat again and fieldAbdul Bari Siddiqui this time.A formal announcement wouldbe made shortly," RJD MLA

and chief state spokesman BhaiVirendra said here.

Notably, senior RJD leaderMohd Ali Ashraf Fatmi wonthe seat in all Lok Sabha pollssince 1991 except on threeoccasions — 1999, 2009 and2014.

The party's decision tofield Siddiqui — a senior leaderwho has formerly been theleader of the Opposition in theAssembly and served as theFinance Minister — is seen asa move to placate the veteran,who is said to have been sulk-ing over being sidelined fol-lowing the entry of LaluPrasad's sons Tejashwi Yadavand Tej Pratap Yadav intoactive politics.

When asked about BhaiVirendra's statement, Siddiquisaid, "I am a disciplined partyworker. If the party asks me tocontest from Darbhanga, I willput my heart, mind and soul

into the fight."Siddiqui had fought the

2014 election from Madhubaniand lost to Hukum DeoNarayan Yadav of the BJP.

State Congress presidentMadan Mohan Jha, whenapproached with queries aboutthe RJD's claim, saidDarbhanga was an "importantseat", but a final call will betaken by the party's high com-mand.

The Congress had last wonthe seat way back in 1980.

Elaborating further on theparty's dilemma, Congressleader Rishi Mishra — whosegrandfather Lalit NarayanMishra was a minister in IndiraGandhi's cabinet and is said tobe the tallest leader in theMithila region whereDarbhanga falls — claimedthat Maithil Brahmins in theconstituency are traditionalsupporters of his party. PTI

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Carrying eleven non-bailablecharges on his head, Nishit

Pramanik, the BJP candidate forthe Coochbehar Lok Sabha seat,seems to have become aheadache for the saffron party.

Trinamool Congress hasalready approached the ElectionCommission of India drawing itsattention towards the affidavitfiled by Pramanik. “The BJP hasfielded a person who has elevennon-bailable charges againsthim to serve the people ofCoochbehar. We have alreadybrought it to the notice of theECI,” North BengalDevelopment MinisterRabindranath Ghosh said onTuesday.

Pramanik has been bookedfor murder, attempt to murder,dacoity, human trafficking,Ghosh said quoting the affidavitfiled by Pramanik before theECI. Out of the eleven non-bail-able cases two have been filed inother States.

“He is charged with lootinga bank and a jewellry shop atAlipurduar,” Ghosh said won-dering “how a party whichclaims to give good governancecan nominate a person who hassuch grievous charges againsthim dismissing the BJP allega-tion that the charges were theresult of the TMC’s vendetta pol-itics against the Oppositionleaders. “If such was the casethen how could he have beenbooked in other States where theTrinamool is not in power,”Ghosh said adding “even theHigh Court has rejected bailapplications filed by him in twocases.”

Yet another political turn-coat to be fielded by the Bengalsaffron outfit, Pramanik had ear-lier left the Trinamool Congressto join the BJP.

His organsational capabili-ties apart, Pramanik’s allegedcriminal records could pose his

party some problem inCoochbehar constituency bor-dering Assam and Bangladesh.This, notwithstanding the factthat the BJP has fast come up togain the second position dis-placing the Left Front in this dis-trict. In the last Assembly elec-tions the BJP had taken a leadover the TMC in the urban areaswhereas the latter had posted alead in the rural belt.Considering the recent elec-toral patterns a slight shift in thevote base could affect either par-ties much, experts said.

Controversies hit the BJP inanother constituency, this timeBasirhat in south Bengal whereparty candidate Sayantan Basuwas reported against by theTMC for telling a crowd that “wewill ask the CRPF through ourcentral leadership not to shootat the legs but directly throughthe chest if the mischief mongerscome to capture booths. Thistime round no Sahjehan orAurangzeb will come to save theTMC’s goon.”

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Moradabad (UP): BJP presi-dent Amit Shah on Tuesdaysaid Narendra Modi was the"only" Prime Minister who hadresponded strongly to terroractivities in Pakistan, likeningthe Centre's response to the USaction against terrorism.

"We attacked on Pakistanwithout any delay after thePulwama attack, while theOpposition leaders were insist-ing for negotiation, Shah saidat a 'Vijay Sankalp' rally in UttarPradesh's Moradabad district.

The Bharatiya Janata Partychief alleged that theOpposition was insulting thesoldiers who died in thePulwama attack by askingquestions on the number ofcasualties in the Balakotairstrike.

"When the country wascelebrating after air strikes atterrorist camp, the Opposition

here was grieving likePakistan," he said in an appar-ent reference to the Balakotairstrike.

He asserted that the BJP-led NDA would win 74 of thestate's 80 Lok Sabha seats. Ithad won 73 in 2014.

Pointing out thatSamajwadi Party chief AkhileshYadav and Bahujan Samaj Partysupremo Mayawati were "ene-mies" earlier, Shah said theyhad come together now due to

"fear" of Modi.He predicted that the SP-

BSP-RLD alliance would failbecause "our Government isvery much popular due to ourpositive works".

Shah hit out at Yadav, alleg-ing that all miscreants werethere in the former ChiefMinister's Government andcrime was on the rise.

But during the present BJPGovernment, he claimed, allmiscreants were either in jail orfled the state.

Shah said communal vio-lence and land-grabbing inci-dents, which he said were nor-mal during the previous dis-pensation, had become a thingof the past and there was peace.

Listing out the Modi dis-pensation's welfare schemes,Shah claimed that for the firsttime since Independence, thefarmers, poor, Dalits and the

deprived sections had beenfeeling that they have their owngovernment at the Centre.

BJP media head AnilBaluni said in a statement thatthe party organised over 250'Vijay Sankalp' (pledge for vic-tory) rallies across the countryon Tuesday with its tops lead-ers addressing them.

While Shah spoke inMoradabad, Union MinistersRajnath Singh, Sushma Swaraj,Nirmala Sitharaman, PiyushGoyal and Uma Bharti spoke inNew Delhi, Ghaziabad, Udupi,Vijaywada and Sonipat respec-tively, he said.

Uttar Pradesh ChiefMinister Yogi Adityanath spokein Varanasi, Gujarat CM VijayRupani in Porbandar, HaryanaCM Manohar Lal Khattar inPanipat and former MadhyaPradesh CM Shivraj SinghChouhan in Puri.

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Varanasi: Hitting out atCongress president RahulGandhi over his minimumincome scheme announcement,Uttar Pradesh Chief MinisterYogi Adityanath on Tuesdayasked why the party didn't doanything to uplift the poor dur-ing the 10 years when it was inpower.

In a big-bang poll promise,Gandhi had on Mondayannounced that �72,000 peryear will be given as minimumincome to poor families, bene-fiting around 25 crore people, ifhis party is voted to power in theLok Sabha polls beginning nextmonth.

Addressing a 'Vijay SankalpSabha' (victory pledge meeting)here, Adityanath asked Gandhiwhy the Congress-led UPA

Government had not done any-thing to bring happiness into thelives of poor people during its10-year term from 2004 to2014.

He also heaped praises onPrime Minister Narendra Modi-led Government at the Centrefor introducing various welfareschemes to benefit the poor.

He claimed that Modi,unlike the Congress, is sensitivetowards the needs of the poor.

Adityanath accusedCongress leaders of siphoningoff Government funds meantfor the poor.

"Your father Rajiv Gandhi'shelplessness was clearly visiblewhen he had said that of �100that his Government sent to thepoor, only �10 reached them,"the Chief Minister said.

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Mumbai: Vice PresidentVenkaiah Naidu on Tuesdaysaid knowledge is going to be thedriver of the Indian economyand will play a vital role inimproving the living conditionsof people.

India must rise to the occa-sion and reorient its highereducation system, in order to beglobally competitive, Naidu said,addressing the 16th convocationceremony of Indira GandhiInstitute of DevelopmentResearch here.

Eight PhD, six M.Phil and29 M.Sc degrees were awardedby the Vice President on theoccasion. "The education systemshould be reoriented by movingaway from the colonial mindset;it must teach history in anobjective manner as it actually

unfolded," he said."Education is not only for

employment. It should empow-er the individual with knowledgeand wisdom to sift the wheatfrom the chaff. Access to qual-ity education for all and at all lev-els is equally essential to ensureinclusive growth and preventany kind of discrimination," hesaid. Time has come for India toonce again emerge as the glob-al knowledge hub, he said. "Forthat to happen, the seats of learn-ing, especially the universities,must reinvent themselves ashubs of vibrant intellectual pur-suit," he said. While it accountsfor less than a fifth of the GDP,agriculture still remains themain source of employment fornearly half of Indias labourforce, he said. PTI

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Bengal Chief MinisterMamata Banerjee on

Tuesday questioned the presentculture inside the BJP whichwas far different from what waspreached by its foundingfathers.

In reference to the waysome of its senior leaders likeLK Advani and MM Joshi wereignored in distribution of tick-ets, Banerjee said “BJP is aparty that does not respect itsveterans,” wondering thosewho did not pay adequaterespect to the veterans werewell bred.

Hitting out at the BJP forignoring Advani who made theBJP what it was today she said“Advani was the actual mentorfor BJP. They have forgotten olddays because of the new cropof leaders. But old is gold. It isan insult to him.”

She remembered how “Ihave worked under Vajpayeeand Advani,” when the formerwas the Prime Minister ofIndia.

She however said that itwas her personal feeling andthat “they may not agree to it.”Neither Advani nor Joshi weregiven nominations by the BJPand it is alleged that they werenot even taken into confidencebefore distributing the tickets.

On whether the partypatriarch should quit the partyBanerjee said, it would not looknice. “He is a leader respectedin the party and has been therefrom the beginning.”

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Chennai: Six people, includingthree of a family, died ofasphyxiation at Sriperumbudurnear here Tuesday while theywere cleaning a septic tank,police said.

Krishnamurthy (53) andhis two sons Kannan (23) andKarthik (21) were cleaning thetank in their apartment whenthe incident occurred, thepolice said.

The other three victims -Paramasivam and Suradhawere living in the same apart-ment while Lakshmikanth wasa member of the public whooffered his help and also lost hislife, police told PTI.

The bodies have beentaken to the general hospital,Sriperumbudur, for an autop-sy, they said.

According to a senior Fireand Rescue Services officialwho was involved in the rescueoperation, Krishnamurthy andhis two sons were cleaning thetank and shortly afterwardsthere was no response fromthem.

Then, Paramasivam,Suradha and Lakshmikanthwent into the tank and they toodied after inhaling the poiso-nous gas, the official said.

A case has been registeredand an investigation on. PTI

Lucknow: Former ChiefMinister of the UP andSamajwadi Party chief,Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesdaysaid he hopes the MinimumIncome Plan by Congress partywon’t be like the ‘�15 lakhpromise’ to the poor by the BJP.

Speaking to the media atthe Samajwadi Party office inLucknow, the party presidentexpressed his doubts overCongress’s scheme for thepoorest 20% people of India.

However, Yadav alsobanked on the opportunity toboast about the pro-poorschemes launched by hisGovernment.

Akhilesh said, “It was ourSamajwadi Party Governmentwhich had for the first timeannounced a package for thepoor people of Bundelkhandwherein they were given grains,milk, oil, etc.”

He added that the SPGovernment used to give theLohia Awas worth �3.05 lakh tothe poor and the Samajwadipension to females of the fam-ily.

“We always lead by exam-ple,” Akhilesh said.

The SP party presidentinformed the media that theirteam will assess the details ofthe scheme and then decide theparty’s stand.

The Congress party chiefRahul Gandhi in an electionsop on Monday announcedthat �72,000 per year will begiven as minimum income topoor families if his party isvoted to power in the LokSabha polls. Asserting that itwill be the final assault onpoverty, he said the schemewould benefit around 25 crorepeople. AGENCIES

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Kolkata: West Bengal ChiefMinister and TMC supremoMamata Banerjee will visitAndhra Pradesh on March 31to campaign for the rulingTelugu Desam Party in theState as a mark of Oppositionunity.

Several other oppositionleaders will also be going toAndhra Pradesh to campaignfor Andhra Pradesh ChiefMinister N ChandrababuNaidu and the TDP, sourcessaid.

"By the end of this monthshe will visit Andhra Pradesh

for a day or two to campaignfor N Chandrababu Naidu. It ispart of of Opposition unity thatwe all have worked for in thelast few months," said a seniorTMC leader.

Banerjee will be cam-paigning for Naidu in someconstituencies of AndhraPradesh, he said.

Naidu and Banerjee sharea cordial relationship and theAndhra Pradesh Chief Ministerhad taken part in the January19 mega Opposition rally orga-nized by TMC at the Brigadeparade grounds. PTI

Kolkata: Senior West BengalBJP leader Sayantan Basu onTuesday courted controversy byasking party cadres to shootthose who would try to capturebooths during the coming LokSabha polls.

"If you notice goons tryingto capture booths, shoot them.Don't aim at their legs, shootthem in the chest," Basu saidwhile addressing a rally atBasirhat.

Basu, state BJP general sec-retary, is the party candidatefrom Basirhat Lok Sabha con-stituency.

Referring to the violenceduring last year's panchayatpolls in West Bengal, Basusaid the Trinamool Congressshould not think of rigging thepolls, as elections will be heldunder the supervision of theElection Commission with cen-tral forces patrolling the streets.

Reacting to Basu's state-ment, senior TMC leader andminister Jyotipriyo Mullicksaid the party would inform theElection Commission and urgeit to take steps against him.

"The BJP is trying to viti-ate the poll atmosphere bymaking such provocative state-ments. The EC should takeaction against him," Mullicksaid. PTI

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Targetting Prime MinisterNarendra Modi over Rafale

scam, NCP chief Sharad Pawaron Tuesday wondered as to howcould one expect Modi to pro-tect the country when he couldnot keep classified documentsin the Government “safe”.

Addressing an electionrally at Parbhani inMarathwada region, Pawarsaid: “Here’s a Prime Ministerwho cannot keep the classifiedinformation safe in hisGovernment. How can youexpect Modi to defend or pro-tect the country?”.

Pawar was referring to thesubmission about the theft ofclassified documents relating tothe Rafale aircraft purchasemade by Attorney General KKVenugopal before the Supreme

Court during the hearing on areview petition in Rafale air-craft purchase case. (It may berecalled that three days aftermaking submission before theSupreme Court about the theftof Rafale papers, Venugopalhad reneged on his earlierclaim and said that the peti-tioners had used “photocopiesof the original” papers, deemedsecret by the Government).

Pawar also charged PrimeMinister Narendra Modi hadpurchased Rafale aircraft worth�550 each at �1660 crore just tohelp his industrialist friendAnil Ambani. “We have threegovernment companies thatare involved in the aircraftmanufacture. Why did theModi government ensure thatRafale-related contract wasgiven to the Anil Ambani-owned company which has

absolutely no experience inthe manufacture of aircraft?,”the NCP chief asked.

Coming down heavily onthe Modi Government for“politicising” Pulwama terrorattack and subsequent IAF airstrikes on terror camps inPakistan, Pawar said: “All polit-ical parties supported theGovernment over the standtaken by it in the wake ofPulwama terror attack.Following international pres-sure, Pakistan released WingCommander Abhinandan.When India could seek andobtain the release WingCommander Abhinandan, whydid 56-inch chest make a sim-ilar attempt to seek the releaseof Kulbhushan Jadhav?”

Slamming the Modi gov-ernment for its failure on var-ious fronts, Pawar said that

after demonetisation, 15 lakhpeople lost their jobs. “After thedemonetisation, only Modiknows where has the blackmoney gone. We know thatmore than 15 lakh people losttheir jobs. After the introduc-tion of GST, lakhs of traderssuffered. ... The Modi govern-ment promised adequate pricefor agriculture produce.Neither did the Governmentgive increased MSP to farmersnor did it waive the farm loans”

Alluding severe droughtprevailing in the State, Pawarsaid: “There is acute shortageof water in drought-hit areas.There are no fodder sheds forcattle. The farmers have beenneglected totally. We will notallow this government toremain in power. Let’s throwthis BJP government out in theLok Sabha polls”.

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At 83 years of age, NationalConference president and

former Member of Parliament,Dr Farooq Abdullah, is 'appar-ently' taking ElectionCommission of India (ECI) fora ride by repeatedly doing 'cut,copy, paste job and getting awayeasily too while hiding factualdetails of movable/immovableassets of his wife.

On Monday, when DrAbdullah filed his nominationpapers ahead of contestingS r i n a g a r - B u d g a mParliamentary seat, fourth timein a row, he once again declaredin his affidavit, "since my spouseis in London from April 1990,I have no knowledge about herassets in London (U.K).However, she has no property inJ&K (India)".

Dr Abdullah is contesting

from Srinagar Lok Sabha seatsince 2009.

Since it is mandatory forevery contesting candidate todeclare details of movable andimmovable assets and cash inhand against the name of spouseand dependants at the time offiling nomination papers DrAbdullah is also religiously fol-lowing the practice.

In his latest affidavit, DrAbdullah declared, " he ownsmovable assets to the tune of�10.6 crore and total worth ofhis immovable assets is �10.68crore. According to the affidavit,"charges in the case related tocriminal conspiracy for misap-propriation of JKCA funds areyet to be framed".

But close scrutiny of affi-davits submitted by him since2008 clearly reveals he is'apparently' misleading theelection commission of Indiaby giving a standard reply thathis wife is away in Londonfrom April 1990. I have noknowledge about her assets inLondon (U.K).

Panaji: The MaharashtrawadiGomantak Party, support ofwhose three MLAs is crucial forthe stability of BJP-led dispen-sation in Goa, on Tuesday saida "conspiracy" was beinghatched by "our rivals" thatmight force it to move out andalign with the Congress toform a new Government.

The party has three MLAsin the 40-Member GoaAssembly and its senior leaderand Marcaim legislator SudinDhavalikar is the Deputy ChiefMinister in the Pramod SawantGovernment.

Speaking to PTI, MGPpresident Dipak Dhavalikaralleged one of his party's offi-cer-bearers was "made to issuea letter" to the Governor andspeaker declaring authorityover entire legislative affairs ofthe outfit.

Dhavalikar said the MGPcentral committee would meeton Wednesday to chalk out itsfuture course of action, which,he claimed, can decide the fateof the State Government.

"There is a larger conspir-acy under which one of oursenior officer bearers, generalsecretary Lavoo Mamlatdar,was made to issue a letter to theGovernor and speaker, inwhich he stated that he was tak-ing over the entire authority on

legislative affairs of the party,"Dhavalikar said.

He said his party was thestate's oldest regional outfitbut some sections wereopposed to its growth.

Mamlatdar had last weekwritten a letter to the governorand Assembly speaker statinghe was the sole authority in theMGP to communicate partydecisions to them.

Following the letter, theMGP had expelled Mamlatdar.

Talking about Wednesday'sparty meeting to discuss thisissue, Dhavalikar said, "Wemight take certain resolutionsin the central committee meet-ing which can have bearing onthe stability of the Governmentled by Pramod Sawant."

He alleged moves wereafoot by his rivals to wean awayMGP MLAs ManoharAjgaonkar and DipakPawaskar, and in the processisolate Deputy Chief Minister

Sudin Dhavalikar."Any attempt to disturb our

MLAs will be viewed seriouslyand we won't mind pulling outof the Government," he said.

On being queried aboutwhether the option of thealigning with the oppositionCongress was open to theMGP, Dhavalikar replied in theaffirmative.

After the demise ofManohar Parrikar, BJP'sPramod Sawant took over asChief Minister. He heads acoalition Government com-prising the MGP, the GoaForward Party (GFP) and threeIndependent MLAs

Sawant faced vote of con-fidence during which his gov-ernment garnered the supportof 20 MLAs: 11 from the BJP,three each from MGP andGFP, three independents.Fifteen MLAs — 14 from con-gress and one from NCP —voted against his Government.

The support of three MGPMLAs is crucial as withoutthem the strength of the coali-tion government will reduce to17 in the house. The magic fig-ure in the 40-member assem-bly, the strength of which hasbeen reduced to 36 followingresignations of two MLAs anddemise of two includingParrikar, is 18 as of now. PTI

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Purnea (Bihar): A candidatewho appeared to file nomina-tions for Purnea Lok Sabha seaton Tuesday ended up behindbars as he was found to bedrunk, in violation of the ban onsale and consumption of alco-hol in Bihar.

Election Observer MShailendran said Independentcandidate Rajiv Kumar Singh, aresident of Bhagalpur district,stank of liquor when he reachedthe collectorate in this northBihar district for submitting hispapers.

He was made to undergobreath analyzer tests which con-firmed that he had consumed

alcohol and, subsequently, sentto jail after being booked forviolating the prohibition law,Shailendran said.

In April, 2016 the NitishKumar government in Biharhad imposed complete ban onsale and consumption of alco-hol, a move which has met withboth adulation as well as disap-proval from different quarters.

Altogether 17 people havefiled their nominations forPurnea Lok Sabha seat wherevotes will be cast in the secondphase of elections on April 18.

Out of them, 11 had sub-mitted their papers on the lastdate on Tuesday. PTI

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Veteran Congress leader andformer Union Home

Minister Sushil Kumar Shindeon Tuesday created a stir in theMaharashtra political circles, byclaiming that the BJP had triedto “poach” him and his MLA-daughter Praniti Shinde recent-ly.

Interacting with a televi-sion channel, Shinde — whohas been re-nominated by theCongress to contest the LokSabha polls from his home con-stituency of Solapur in western

Maharashtra — said that asenior BJP leader of his staturehad “approached” his daughterPraniti first and later him withan “offer” to join the principalruling party in the State and atthe Centre.

“The BJP leader concernedapproached my daughterPraniti first with an offer to joinhis party. The same leader,who is of my seniority andstature, made a similar offer tome subsequently to join theBJP. But, both of us bluntlyrefused,” Shinde said.

A day after he filed nom-

ination to contest the Lok Sabha polls on a Congressticket, Shinde said: “There is absolutely no question of our leaving the Congress. We will not be swayed by thiskind of allurements of the BJP.We are both committedCongress workers and willcontinue to remain so till ourlast breath".

Seventy-seven-year-oldShinde, however, refused toidentify the BJP leader who had“approached” him and legisla-tor-daughter Praniti to jointhe BJP.

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Mathura: Fighting for theMathura Lok Sabha seat on aBJP ticket, the sitting MP andfilm actor Hema Malini is a bil-lonaire with the value of herassets having increased by awhopping �34.46 crore in thelast five years, discloses anaffidavit filed by her with thepoll panel.

The affidavit shows HemaMalini presently owns totalwealth including bungalows,jewelleries, cash, jewelleries,shares and term deposits worthover �101 crore, while fiveyears ago before the 2014 gen-eral elections, her total assetshad been valued at nearly �66crore.

The value of her actor-hus-band Dharmendra SinghDeol's assets grew to �12.30crore during the correspondingperiod, according to HemaMalini's affidavit, detailing herassets and liabilities along withthose of her spouse.

The affidavit was submit-ted by her to the ElectionCommission of India while

filing her nomination as LokSabha candidate from theMathura parliamentary con-stituency.

The affidavit, accompa-nied by her income tax returnsfor the last five years, revealsthat the couple earned �10crore each during the last fiveyears.

In her IT returns, HemaMalini has shown an income of�15.93 lakh in 2013-14 againstthat of over �1.19 crore in2017-18.

The affidavit shows herincome to be �3.12 crore in2014-15, �1.19 crore in 2015-16 and �4.30 crore in 2016-17.

Thus, as per the affidavit,the yesteryears' 'Dream Girl'earned over �9.87 crore, andher 'he-man' husband nearly�9.73 crore in last five years.

The affidavit disclosed thatHema Malini has two cars,including a Mercedes boughtfor �33.62 lakh in 2011. Theother car is a Toyota that, shesaid, she bought for �4.75 lakhin 2005. PTI

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If the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) returns to power two monthsfrom now, piggybacking the armedforces, one central fact will beeminently clear: The optics of a

powerful military with high moralebelies the ground reality. TheGovernment has misled the country ondefence modernisation and preparednessthrough high-decibel claims and self-praise for its devotion to the soldier.Never before has any Government milkedthe success of military operations forpolitical and electoral gains as the pre-sent one and successfully politicised thearmed forces. The creation by it ofnationalist sentiment and allied jingoismthrough coopting sections of the printand electronic media and their armies ofsupporters and cheerleaders has divert-ed the focus of elections from Achche Dinand Sabka Saath, SabkaVikas to nation-al security and taking the mickey out ofPakistan.

Last Sunday, the BJP launched a blitzof victory rallies in Uttar Pradesh, pitch-ing the forthcoming elections as a meansof rooting out terrorism and defeatingPakistan. Citing Balakot air strikes as theGovernment’s “befitting reply forPulwama”, its leaders said that only aGovernment led by the charismatic anddecisive leader, Narendra Modi, couldguarantee the country’s defence andsecurity. Part II of this self-congratula-tory boast is the caustic criticism ofOpposition parties, mainly the RahulGandhi-led Congress, for questioning theGovernment and the Indian armed forceson their claims of targetting, damageassessment and casualties. Balakot hasbecome the magic wand for winning theLok Sabha polls.

In 2016, following the Uri terroriststrike, modest ground surgical strikeswere magnified to being the silver bul-let for ending cross-border terrorism and,therefore, employed liberally to show-case the Government’s determination toteach Pakistan a lesson. They were citedextravagantly to win the Assembly elec-tions in Uttar Pradesh and Karnataka, toname just a few. Banners and postersusing serving Army officers’ picturesalongside Government leaders politicisedthe military. Surgical strikes were liber-ally replayed to deify the BJP leadership,principally Prime Minister Modi. TheArmy’s resolute stand at Doklam was alsoappropriated by the Government as itsown dogged action of thwarting Chinain its attempt to present Bhutan and Indiawith a fait accompli. In all the three mil-itary operations — Operation SurgicalStrikes, Operation Juniper and OperationBalakot — the Army and IAF came outas winners but it was the Governmentwhich super-imposed the “lotus” onthem.

This is the great irony as the ModiGovernment apparently attaches minus-cule importance to the Defence portfo-lio, posting four Ministers in five years.The last of these, Nirmala Sitharaman, isa first-time MP, who has spent herprime-time defending Modi on Rafale inand outside Parliament, whereas tradi-tionally, the Defence Minister is invari-ably a political heavyweight. UnionFinance Minister Arun Jaitley was twicea part-time Defence Minister and is notknown to be terribly sympathetic towardsthe military. The most effective and com-mitted was the late Manohar Parrikarwhose pledge to appoint the Chief ofDefence Staff (CDS) was unfortunatelykilled by the Prime Minister’s Office. Thiscoupled with the musical chairs in theDefence Ministry allowed NationalSecurity Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval tobecome de facto CDS and also interferein key issues of the Ministry like Rafale.Policeman Doval is the first NSA tobecome directly involved in planning andconduct of operations, notably Pathankot,which is in the remit of a military pro-fessional. His appointment as Chairmanof Defence Planning Committee is anoth-er first and needless padding to planning.The Doval empire is enviable.

Under Jaitley, defence funding etchedan interesting trajectory. After his secondbudget, his reasoning for limited capitalfunding for modernisation was that themilitary is unable to spend even what lit-tle is allotted. The following year, Jaitleychanged tack, saying that actually, he didnot have the money to increase the cap-

ital account. The interim budget present-ed this year by acting Finance MinisterPiyush Goyal earmarked the lowestamount in memory for modernisationwith the staple byline, “more funds willbe provided if required.” At a nationalsecurity conclave last month, Jaitley saidthat hike in modernisation funding willdepend on paying off committed liabil-ities and that any increase would be con-tingent on income from widening the taxnet. This year’s allocation may fall shortof even accounting for committed liabil-ities. Still, BJP president Amit Shahraved about the current defence budgetas a milestone having crossed the �3 lakhcrore mark, more than 70 per cent ofwhich is revenue expenditure.

The true reflection of the state ofdefence funding and operational readi-ness was provided by the BJP’s own chair-man of the parliamentary standing com-mittee on defence, Maj Gen BCKhanduri, who rated defence allocationof 1.5 per cent of GDP as “disabling warpreparedness.” His blunt inference led tohis removal and replacement by partyveteran Kalraj Mishra. Just as well thatBalakot did not escalate into a short andintense conventional war as ammunition,tank, artillery and night-fighting equip-ment inventories are critically hollow, notto mention the plummeting decline in AirForce squadrons from the authorised 42to below 30 squadrons, actually around26 squadrons (Air Chief Marshal AYTipnis at last month’s security conclave).No Service Chief should have to say “wewill fight with what we have” as Air Chief

Marshal BS Dhanoa had to.The armed forces have been succes-

sively short-changed by the once in 10years Pay Commissions. The last SeventhPay Commission was no exception evenas roll-on anomalies have piled up.Service Chiefs were denied a meetingwith Modi on Seventh Pay Commissionand on One Rank One Pension earlier.The then Defence Secretary MohanKumar did not endorse the military’srequest to reconsider their case for NonFunctional Upgrade (NFU), which about60 A group services receive. Now theCentral Government has opposed in theSupreme Court an Armed ForcesTribunal order, asking it to include thearmed forces in NFU. This has seriousimplications for status, parity and paygrade and is one issue hurting the moraleof the military. So much for Balakot’ssurge in nationalism and the Government putting the soldier on apedestal. India’s military is overly obedi-ent with high tolerance threshold in civil-military relations. Service chiefs have nottaken an issue-based stand individuallyor collectively.

A professional, secular and apoliticalmilitary is being progressively politicisedand utilised for advancing electoralprospects of the ruling establishment inthe guise of promoting nationalism.Questioning the military and theGovernment on this is kosher.

(The writer is a retired Major Generalof the Indian Army and founder memberof the Defence Planning Staff, currently therevamped Integrated Defence Staff)

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Sir — This refers to the article,“Flying with a broken wing” (March26) by Kushan Mitra. Undoubtedly,Jet Airways was in a better condi-tion than Air India. While the lat-ter’s net loss stood at �5,765 crorein 2017, the former’s net profit was�438 crore during the same period.Besides, Jet was also ahead of AirIndia in operational indices andcould fly more passengers than thenational carrier despite having asmaller fleet size of 124 aircraft ascompared to 163 of the latter. If theGovernment has been patient withAir India, taking care of the gaps inits operational funding, it can at leastbe pragmatic with other airlines.

Given a nascent market for TierII and III connectivity under Udan,uncertain fuel pricing and unsteadyglobal economy, airlines had to nec-essarily negotiate turbulence, whichought to have been factored inwhile dealing with their loandefaults. Surely, the Government’sintention is not to take the scrapdealer route to the likes of IBC butto facilitate a speedy restoration ofa vital sector poised to be the thirdlargest after the US and China.

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Sir — It is unfortunate that theDravida Munnetra Kazhagam(DMK) is destined to carry theCongress as an albatross aroundits neck every time there is anelection in the State or at theCentre. The Congress demandsseats disproportionate to its eli-gibility in terms of the party’s

vote share or potential to win theseats. It is unfortunate that in theforthcoming crucial electionsto the Lok Sabha, too, the grandold party has taken 10 seats fromthe DMK, representing 25 percent of the total constituencies.

There are reports that thereis a lot of resentment in theselection of Karti Chidambaram,against whom many criminalcases are pending, as the

Congress candidate to contestthe Sivaganga constituency.

Sudarshana Nachiappan,one of the most deserving can-didates who was assured of hiscandidacy by the high com-mand till late last night, hasaccused P Chidambaram forthis last minute change in favourof his son.

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Sir — This refers to the article,“Flying with a broken wing”(March 26) by Kushan Mitra.Lenders don’t seem to havelearnt from the Kingfisher fias-co and infused �1,500 croreinto Jet Airways. Ideally, NareshGoyal should have allowed a bet-ter and financially sound man-agement to run his companyrather than playing with thecareer of the more than 23,000employees.

Lenders seem to believe thatit’s better to explore revival of thecompany than take theInsolvency and BankruptcyCode (IBC) route. Though theIBC may not be the perfect andonly solution, in the current cir-cumstances, it is the best alter-native for the lenders.

The Reserve Bank of India(RBI) has been sensitive in itsapproach to ensure lenders gettheir money back on time andany promoter with bad inten-tions get the stick.

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The ongoing attempt by L& T Infotech, to buya controlling stake in Mindtree, has been metwith stiff resistance by its founders and

employees. L&T has already bought 20.3 per centstake in Mindtree by paying over its long-terminvestor, VG Siddhartha of Café Coffee Day. Asrequired by the SEBI (Substantial Acquisition ofShares and Takeover) Regulations, the infrastruc-ture giant has already announced an open offer tobuy 31 per cent stake, in addition to picking up 15per cent of the shares through an open market pur-chase, making a stake of 66.32 per cent in Mindtree.

A ‘hostile takeover’ is the acquisition of onecompany, known as the target firm, by another,which is called the ‘acquirer’ and the acquisition isaccomplished by going directly to the company’sshareholders or fighting to replace management toget the acquisition approved. This is different froma friendly takeover, which is a proposal where a tar-get company’s management and board of directorsagree to a merger or acquisition by another firm.Since liberalisation, India has seen numerousfriendly takeovers but hostile acquisitions have beenfew and far between.

In the 1980s, London-based NRI, Swaraj Paul,sought to control the management of two Indiancompanies, Escorts Limited and DCM (Delhi ClothMills) Limited, by picking up their shares from thestock market. Though Paul failed to fulfill his dreamof controlling Escorts and DCM, he was success-ful in highlighting how particular families were exer-cising managerial control over large corporate enti-ties despite holding a minuscule proportion of theconcerned company’s shares. Paul finally retractedhis bid. While he was ultimately unsuccessful, Paul’shostile threat sent shockwaves through the other-wise complacent Indian business world.

This was followed by India Cements Limited(ICL) in its hostile bid for Raasi CementsLimited (RCL) in 1988, where ICL made an openoffer for RCL shares at �300 per share at the timewhen the share price on the stock exchange,Mumbai (BSE), was around �100. The Indian FIs,that were protecting the promoters, felt cheatedas they sold their stakes, leaving the FIs high anddry till they were bought out by ICL in an openoffer. The effort by ICL to buy out Raasi was forits crown jewel, Shri Vishnu Cement. Raju, thepromoter of Raasi, transferred 39.5 per cent ofShri Vishnu Cement to a group of nine invest-ment companies, in violation of the takeover codeand the transfer was considered invalid. Finally,ICL sold the shares of Shri Vishnu Cement by theassociate companies of Raju.

In a third example, in October 2000, AbhishekDalmia made an open offer to acquire 45 per centof the share capital in Gesco Corporation at �23 pershare. This transaction entered into a drama of hos-tile takeover until the promoters of Gesco corpo-ration and the Dalmia group announced they hadreached an amicable settlement in the battle forGesco, with the former buying out Dalmias’ 10.5per cent stake at �54 per share for a total consider-ation of �16 crore. The Gesco Corporation takeoverdrama showed that a bidder, with admittedly poorfinancial resources, could talk up a share only to exitlater with a huge profit via a negotiated deal. In 2008,Emami acquired 23.6 per cent stake from Vaidyas,who are the co-founders of Zandu, at �6,900 pershare. The Parikhs, who have been managing the

company’s operations for years, also part-ed with 20 per cent stake after trying tosave the firm for four months. Emami paid�750 crore to acquire 72 per cent stake inthe firm.

There are numerous ways which arefollowed by the acquiring companies fora hostile takeover: Toehold acquisition,which is a purchase of the target’s shareson an open market; tender offer, wherean acquirer offers the target’s sharehold-ers a buyout option at a premium over themarket price; and proxy fight, a solicita-tion of the shareholders’ proxies to votefor insurgent directors. Having decided toacquire a target, the acquire usually dealswith either of the two main corporate con-stituencies of the target: Management orshareholders.A possibility or threat of ahostile takeover causes the target’s boardto adopt and implement anti-takeoverdefences.

Stock re-purchase is a transaction bythe target of its own-issued shares fromits shareholders. This is an effectivedefence strategy that has registers success.

Poison pill is a distribution to the tar-get’s shareholders of the rights to purchaseshares of the target or the mergingacquire at a substantially reduced price.What triggers an execution of theserights is an acquisition by an acquirer ofa certain percentage of the target’s share-holding. If exercised, these rights can con-siderably dilute the acquirer’s sharehold-ing in the target and can thus deter atakeover. The poison pill is one of the mostpowerful defences against hostiletakeovers.

Shark repellents are certain provi-sions in the target’s charter or by-lawsdeterring an acquirer’s desirability of a hos-tile takeover. This defence typicallyinvolves a supermajority vote requirementregarding a merger of the target with itsmajority shareholder. This defence alsoincludes other takeover deterrent provi-

sions in the target’s certificate of incorpo-ration or bylaws.

Golden parachutes are additionalcompensation to the target’s top manage-ment in case of termination of its employ-ment following a successful hostile acqui-sition. Since these reimbursementsdecrease the target’s assets, this defencereduces the amount the acquirer is will-ing to pay for the target’s shares. Thisdefence may thus harm shareholders. It,however, effectively deters hostiletakeovers.

Staggered board is a board in whichonly a certain number of directors, usu-ally one-third, is re-elected annually. It isa powerful anti-takeover defence, whichmight be stronger than is commonlyrecognised. For the reason of being toostrong and reducing returns to the target’sshareholders, the latter happened to resistthis type of defence.

Greenmail is a buyout by the targetof its own shares from the hostile acquirewith a premium over the market price,which results in the acquire's agreementnot to pursue obtaining control of the tar-get in the near future.

Standstill agreement is an undertak-ing by the acquirer not to grab any moreshares of the target within certain periodof time. A standstill agreement is an addi-tional defence that usually accompaniesthe greenmail described above.

Leveraged recapitalisation is a seriesof transactions designed to affect the equi-ty and debt structure of a corporation.Recapitalisation usually involves suchtransactions as sale of assets, issuance ofdebt and distribution of dividends.

Leveraged buyout is a purchase of thetarget by the management with the use ofdebt financing. This defence burdens thetarget with the debt. In such a case, themanagement becomes a bidder and com-petes with a hostile acquire for control overthe target.

Crown jewels are options underwhich a favoured party can buy a key partof the target at a price that may be less thanits market value.

White knight is a strategic mergerthat does not involve a change of controland relieves the target’s management ofthe responsibility to seek best price.

White squire is given by the target toa friendly party of a certain ownership inthe target. This defence is effective againstacquisition by the hostile party of the tar-get by “freezing out” minority sharehold-ers.

Scorched earth is a self-tender offerby the target that burdens the target withdebt.

Lockups are defensive mechanismsin friendly mergers and acquisitionsdesigned to deter hostile bids.

Pacman is a target’s tender offer forthe acquire’s shares.

Change of control provisions is thetarget’s contractual arrangement withthird parties that burden the target in thecase of a change in its control.

Finally, ‘Just say no’ is a simpleapproach that enables the board simplyto reject a proposal of any potential acquir-er who would fail to prove that his acqui-sition strategy matches that of the target.Like all strategies, some defence strategiesare more effective than others and not allare successful all the time. A golden para-chute may decrease the price that theacquirer would be willing to pay for thetarget but it may not necessarily stop thehostile acquisition.

On the other hand, a poison pill caneasily lose its effect if the acquire wins aproxy fight for the target and thenredeems the pill. Therefore, it is prudentthat a company should consider devisingrelevant anti-takeover defences from thevery incorporation of business.

(The writer is Assistant Professor,Amity University)

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With elections round the corner,the Opposition still seems tobe groping for a solid and

cohesive poll narrative against theModi Government, while the rulingBJP has identified terror and national-ism as its main theme. The Oppositionhad been concentrating on a basicplank, essentially on livelihood issues.It was confident of taking on theGovernment with issues like jobs,agrarian crisis and demonetisation —all of which determine the outcome ofthe polls as it affects the common man.

However, this was the scenario tillthe Pulwama and Balakot incidentshappened last month. Also, until then,the Opposition was in an advantageousposition after the BJP lost three States

to the Congress in the Hindi heartland— Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh andChhattisgarh in December last year.Momentum was gradually shiftingfrom the BJP to the Opposition. Anupbeat Congress began its campaignwith high spirit during the New Year.

West Bengal Chief MinisterMamata Banerjee and her Delhi coun-terpart, Arvind Kejriwal, organised twoimpressive rallies to show offOpposition unity in Kolkata and Delhirespectively. The Opposition becameaggressive and the BJP, until six weeksago, seemed to be the only respond-ing to its campaign on Rafale dealrather than setting the agenda. There’sno doubt that last month’s unprece-dented events — Pulwama terrorattack, the retaliatory Balakot airstrikes, the capture and release of WingCommander Abhinandan Varthamanby Pakistan — have made ‘security’ and‘terrorism’ the key poll issues, thusbringing nationalism to the forefront.

The Opposition lost the momen-tum it briefly acquired to put the BJPon the defensive. The saffron partyquickly snatched the advantage andbegan to build its poll campaign on

the twin planks of ‘nationalism’ and‘terrorism’. All earlier issues like thebuilding of the Ram temple inAyodhya and triple talaq were pushedto the backburner.

Obviously, the BJP has regained thepolitical narrative for the electoral bat-tle while the Opposition is still twid-dling its thumbs as to how to bring backthe livelihood issues to the forefront asthey cannot criticise the Governmenton intelligence failure beyond a limit.

The Opposition is also not doinga united campaign at the national level.The BJP is taking full advantage of itsdisunity and appears to have success-

fully projected itself as the party bestsuited to guard the country against ter-rorism, sponsored by Pakistan. On theground, each Opposition party hasbeen doing its own campaign. TheOpposition claims that though there isnot one single narrative at the nation-al level, individual parties will campaignon the common theme that the BJPmust be removed because of its failureon various fronts, including unemploy-ment and farmers’ issues. “Every partyhas to stick to its own platform,”claimed a Left leader.

As for the Congress, the princi-pal Opposition party, its president,

Rahul Gandhi, is running a sustainedcampaign on the Rafale deal for thepast few months but it is not catch-ing up. Also, the Congress fell into theBJP’s trap when it changed the pollnarrative to Pulwama and‘Chowkidar’ baits instead of focus-ing on bringing the real issues back.

The BJP is happy to dwell onthese issues as it diverts attention fromother subjects like jobs and agrariancrisis where the Modi Governmenthas really not lived up to the expec-tations. The BJP is going all out withits latest mass campaign — ‘Main BhiChowkidar’ and ‘Namumkin abMumkin Hai’, slogans showing Modias the supreme leader who can solveIndia’s problems. The BJP hopes towin the elections mainly on theweakness of the Opposition, whosemuch-touted ‘Mahagathbandhan’ atthe national level still remains an ideaand not a reality; although there areState-specific coalitions.

The second is Modi’s presiden-tial style of campaigning. It is Modiversus no Opposition face, which canlimit the Opposition’s chances. Third,it is the failure of the Opposition to

come up with a credible and effec-tive narrative, capitalising on theGovernment’s weaknesses. On theother hand, the BJP has been able todetermine its agenda by gettingaway with its diversionary tactics.Fourth, the BJP has stitched alliancesin various States, even ceding spaceto the allies; whereas the Congress isstill dilly-dallying.

However, the BJP also knowsthat it will be difficult to sustain thePulwama and Balakot themes forthe next two months; though it gota big boost to its campaign in thepast few weeks. As time passes, itwould get further diluted. Therefore,the BJP needs a winning narrative.The Opposition, too, needs an effec-tive counter-narrative. All these inan electoral background where thereis no ‘hawa’ for or against any party,no highly emotional issues, notmuch of anti incumbency againstModi and unlike 2014 no ‘Modiwave’. The results will show who hasthe right narrative this time — theNDA or the UPA.

(The writer is a senior political com-mentator and syndicated columnist)

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Jet Airways’ domestic pilots body, the NationalAviators Guild (NAG), on Tuesday sought a meet-

ing with State Bank chairman Rajnish Kumar overpending salaries, a day after the lenders took over thecarrier founded by Naresh Goyal a quarter of a cen-tury ago.

The guild had last week announced that its over1,100 -odd members would stop flying from April 1of their salaries dues were not cleared and a clarity onthe revival roadmap was not provided by March 31.

After lots of dilly-dallying, founder chairmanNaresh Goyal and his board-member wife Anita, hadMonday decided to step down and also pare their staketo 25.5 percent from 50.1 percent. The changes alsosaw its foreign partner Etihad halving its stake to 12percent and ceding a board position.

Under the new deal, banks, mostly led by state-run lenders, have would infuse �1,500 crore of emer-gency liquidity to the airline and convert total debt ofover 9,700 crore (including the fresh capital infusion)into equity worth 50.1 percent at a price of �1.

With this, the public float in the airline has alsocome down 12.5 percent from 25 percent earlier.

“We humbly request to you to alleviate some ofthe hardships that we and engineers have been facing,by ensuring that the new Jet management does not fur-ther delay our pending salaries dues at the earliest,”NAG general secretary Tej Sood said in an e-mail toKumar.

Thanking SBI for putting Jet on the road to recov-ery, Sood said, “we’d also be grateful if you could spareus some time and meet us to give us an idea of therecovery roadmap,” as this would help us rebuild ourconfidence and reassure us that the uncertainty isbehind us.

The guild represents about 1,100 of the around1,600 pilots of the airline, and many of them havereportedly got offers from rival Indigo and Spicejet.

The guild members have come together and stoodbehind the airline when it was passing through its worstperiod, he claimed adding, “despite the severe finan-cial difficulties and uncertainties over our future thatwe have been facing over the past few months, we havenot wavered.”

Sood also assured the new management of its con-tinued support in reviving the once top airline.

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Shares of Jet Airways continued to risefor the second day on Tuesday and

closed 6.5 per cent higher on the boursesfollowing the exit of Chairman NareshGoyal and his wife Anita Goyal from itsboard.

The stock closed at �271, up 6.48 percent on the BSE. During the day, itzoomed 9.62 per cent to �279.

At the NSE, shares jumped 5.37 percent to close at �267.75.

On the traded volume front, 54.11 lakhshares were traded on the BSE and over 6crore shares on the NSE during the day.

Shares of Jet Airways had zoomed 15.5per cent on Monday.

Naresh Goyal and his wife will resignfrom the board of the airline, according toa regulatory filing Monday.

The decision was taken at the airline’sboard meeting held in Mumbai Monday.

In the filing to the stock exchanges, JetAirways on Monday said Naresh Goyal,Anita Goyal and one nominee of EtihadAirways PJSC would step down from theboard.

Abu Dhabi-based Etihad is a strategicpartner with 24 per cent stake in JetAirways.

Naresh Goyal would also cease to bethe chairman, the filing had said.

Further, an immediate funding of upto �1,500 crore would be provided to thecash-strapped airline by “way of issue ofappropriate debt instrument”, the filingadded.

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Former RBI GovernorRaghuram Rajan on

Tuesday expressed doubtsover Indian economy growingat 7 per cent when not enoughjobs were being created andsaid the current cloud over theGDP numbers must be clearedby appointing an impartialbody to look at the data.

Rajan, who has alsoserved as Chief Economist atthe International MonetaryFund (IMF), said he had noidea what statistics are point-ing at currently and “arevamp” was needed “to real-ly figure out what India’s truegrowth rate is”.

“I know one minister (inthe Narendra ModiGovernment) has said (that)how can we be growing at 7per cent and not have jobs.Well, one possibility is that weare not growing at 7 per cent,”he told CNBC TV18.

He did not name theMinister.

Finance Minister ArunJait ley has been stoutlydefending the growth datasaying an economy cannotbe growing at 7-8 per centwithout creating jobs. He hasalso stated that no majorsocial agitation indicates ithasn’t been jobless growth.

Rajan, who was ReserveBank of India (RBI) Governorbetween September 2013 andSeptember 2016, said astronger broad-based growthis needed that creates morejobs.

On doubts being raised bysome over economic data after

revision in growth rate, he saida clean up act is needed andan impartial body appointedto look at the numbers.

“I just think that we neednow to essentially clean up, findout what in fact is the source ofconfusion with the new GDPnumbers, with the revisions etc.I would say setting up animpartial body to look at it isan important step to resortingconfidence,” he said.

The impartial body maythrowback the same numbersbut “we absolutely need bet-ter confidence in our GDPnumbers now given the backand forth we have had”.

In November 2018, theCentral Statistics Office (CSO)lowered the GDP growth forprevious Congress-led UPA byrecalibrating nationalaccounts. After this, the fouryears of the currentGovernment showed higheraverage growth than thatachieved during the UPA.

Last month, theGovernment revised the eco-nomic growth rate upwards to7.2 per cent for 2017-18 from6.7 per cent estimated earlier.

Questions have beenraised about the Governmentnot making public the NSSOlabour survey that reportedlyput unemployment rate in2017 at a 45-year high.

Earlier this month, agroup of 108 economists andsocial scientists said that late-ly, the Indian statistics and theinstitutions associated with ithave however come under acloud for being influencedand indeed even controlled bypolitical considerations.

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MoMAGIC Technologieson Tuesday released a

report — Disrupting MobileAd Tech in India: deliveringuser experience, in which near-ly 84% respondents stated ajump in their budgets forMobile Ad spends within thespectrum of digital marketing.

“Mobile advertising inIndia is all set to take a quan-tum jump in the next twoyears with more and moreIndians, moving to consumingcontent especially videos ontheir mobile phones. Withmobile data prices in Indiabeing the lowest in the world,advertisers and marketers havechanged their strategy to getquantifiable results with deepuser insight,” Arun Gupta,CEO and Founder MoMAGICTechnologies said.

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The Centre has refused toshare details related to the

appointment of RBI GovernorShaktikanta Das citing a clausein the transparency law whichbars disclosure of information,including “records of delibera-tions of the council of ministers,secretaries and other officers”.

Replying to an RTI query,it declined to share the details,including names of short-list-ed candidates and file notingsrelated to the appointment.

Das was on December 11,2018 named as the ReserveBank of India (RBI) Governorby the AppointmentsCommittee of the Cabinetheaded by Prime MinisterNarendra Modi for three years.

The appointment cameafter Urjit Patel abruptlyresigned amid a face-off withthe Government over issuesrelated to governance andautonomy of the central bank.

The RTI application wasfiled by this correspondent withthe Department of FinancialServices (DFS) seeking detailslike copy of any advertisementor vacancy circular issued by theGovernment on appointment ofRBI Governor, names of allapplicants who had applied forthe post and those short-listedfor the top post.

The DFS was also asked toprovide details on compositionof search committee to short-list candidates and copy ofminutes of meetings held ondeciding the RBI Governor.

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The rupee appreciated by 10paise to end at 68.86 against

the US dollar on Tuesday fol-lowing a robust response toRBI’s maiden rupee-dollarswap auction.

Sustained foreign fundinflows and heavy buying indomestic equities also proppedup the local unit, forex traderssaid.

Under the rupee-dollarswap auction conductedTuesday, the Reserve Bankreceived bids for $16.31 billion,against the notified amount of$5 billion.

At the Interbank ForeignExchange (forex) market, therupee opened strong at 68.88against the greenback but sur-rendered the gains to slip to alow of 68.98.

However, it clawed back

lost ground and finally endedat 68.86, up 10 paise against itsprevious close of 68.96 perdollar.

“The success of India’sUSD 5 billion swap auction willdecide whether it will becomea popular instrument in thecentral bank’s liquidity toolbox,” said V K Sharma, HeadPCG and Capital MarketsStrategy, HDFC Securities.

“The rupee appreciatedfurther as foreign institution-al flows continue to find theirway into Indian markets,” saidSunil Sharma, ChiefInvestment Officer, SanctumWealth Management.

Foreign institutionalinvestors (FIIs) pumped in Rs150.40 crore on a net basisMonday, provisional datashowed.

The dollar index, whichgauges the greenback’s strength

against a basket of six curren-cies, fell 0.07 per cent to 96.50.

Meanwhile, global crudeprices were trading higher andthis restricted the rupee’supmove.

Brent crude futures, theglobal oil benchmark, was trad-ing 0.88 per cent up at $67.80per barrel.

Meanwhile, benchmarkSensex rebounded about 425points, or 1.12 per cent, to endat 38,233.41 Tuesday. Thebroader NSE Nifty climbed129 points, or 1.14 per cent, to11,483.25.

The Financial BenchmarkIndia Private Ltd (FBIL) set thereference rate for therupee/dollar at 68.8469 and forrupee/euro at 77.8663. Thereference rate for rupee/Britishpound was fixed at 90.7737 andfor rupee/100 Japanese yen at62.55.

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New Delhi: The FinanceMinistry has sought theElection Commission’s

approval for announcing theGovernment’s borrowing pro-gramme for the first half of the

next fiscal year beginning April1, an official said.

The Government in theBudget had proposed to bor-row a gross amount of �7.10lakh crore from the marketduring 2019-20, higher than�5.71 lakh crore in the currentfiscal.

Finance Ministry officialsand representatives of theRBI Tuesday finalised theborrowing calendar for theApril-September period ofnext fiscal, but did not makeany announcement as themodel code of conduct for theensuing general elections is inplace.

“We have sought ElectionCommission’s approval andwill announce the borrowingschedule after receiving itsnod,” the official said.

The Government bor-rows money from the marketto meet its fiscal deficit,which is the dif ferencebetween total expenditureand total receipts. PTI

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TV viewers may be able toswitch their DTH or cable

service providers withoutchanging the set top box (STB)by the end of this year, accord-ing to regulator Trai’sChairman R S Sharma.

“Since last two years wehave been trying to make STBsinteroperable. Large part ofproblem has been resolved.There are some business chal-lenges (which) remain... We arelooking at this to happen byend of this year,” Sharma toldreporters at an event hereTuesday.

He added that interoper-ability in a product should notcome as an “after thought” butshould be in place at the prod-uct planning stage itself.

“Open systems are going tobe the future. Entire back-endof Aadhaar has been developed

on open source software exceptbiometric de-duplication sys-tem,” Sharma said.

The Telecom RegulatoryAuthority of India (Trai) chair-man released a study on openecosystem for devices in India,prepared by the Indian Cellularand Electronics Association(ICEA) and consultant firmKPMG, which showed that 89per cent of mobile phones inthe country work on opensource operating systems.

Sharma cited interoper-ability as one of the key factorsbehind the success of theIndian mobile phone industrywhere no subscriber isrequired to buy a new phoneif he wants to change his ser-vice provider.

The report found thatOpen OS mobile operatingsystems have expanded thesmartphone market in India byreducing barriers to entry.

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New Delhi: Oberoi Hotels & Resorts Tuesday unveiled a new brand iden-tity, Oberoi Sun, and added a tag line 'Heart. Felt.'. In a statement, The OberoiGroup said the rebranding was based on extensive research that showed that "sin-cere care and personal attention" set it apart from others. “Oberoi Hotels & Resortshas revisited its identity to ensure that it reflects all its core values and proudlypresents the 'Oberoi Sun'. The 'Oberoi Sun' translates the warmth, energy, andsense of well-being that our guests experience. This is the promise that each oneof us at Oberoi makes to every single guest,” it said. A newly-revamped websitehas also been launched. “The words 'Heart. Felt.' have been added to explain theway guests describe their Oberoi experience and form the central pillar of thebrand strategy and communication programme,” the statement said. The OberoiGroup Executive Chairman P R S Oberoi said: "With a belief and commitmentto our guests, we thought who better to guide us into the future than our guests,initiating an exciting journey of brand re-discovery for Oberoi.” Oberoi Hotels& Resorts operates 22 hotels and resorts in six countries. The Oberoi Marrakechin Morocco, the newest resort in the portfolio, is set to open this year.

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John Players to Reliance Retail for an undisclosed amount. Besides, the Kolkata-based firm has also transferred the trademark as part of the deal. “In line withthis ongoing restructuring, ITC has sold the brand John Players and related trade-marks and intellectual property, and the goodwill related thereto, to Reliance RetailLtd,” a spokesperson of ITC said. He said a restructuring plan is underway aspart of the strategic review of the lifestyle retailing business. According to mediareports, the deal is estimated to be around Rs 150 crore. The deal would strength-en the presence of Reliance Retail and its online platform Ajio.com in the grow-ing lifestyle retail space. Established in 2002, John Players was a youth fashionapparel brand from ITC.

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New Delhi: Shares of Jet Airways continued to rise for the second day Tuesdayand closed 6.5 per cent higher on the bourses following the exit of ChairmanNaresh Goyal and his wife Anita Goyal from its board. The stock closed at �271,up 6.48 per cent on the BSE. During the day, it zoomed 9.62 per cent to �279.At the NSE, shares jumped 5.37 per cent to close at �267.75. On the traded vol-ume front, 54.11 lakh shares were traded on the BSE and over 6 crore shares onthe NSE during the day. Shares of Jet Airways had zoomed 15.5 per cent onMonday. Naresh Goyal and his wife will resign from the board of the airline,according to a regulatory filing Monday. The decision was taken at the airline'sboard meeting held in Mumbai Monday. In the filing to the stock exchanges,Jet Airways Monday said Naresh Goyal, Anita Goyal and one nominee of EtihadAirways PJSC would step down from the board.

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Benchmark Sensex rebound-ed about 425 points to end

well above the 38,000-markTuesday, breaking its two-dayfalling streak on gains in heavy-weights RIL, SBI and ICICIBank amid persistent foreignfund inflows and positive glob-al leads. The broader NSENifty too inched closer to thekey 11,500 mark.

A stronger rupee, whichclimbed 19 paise to 68.77against the US dollar (intra-day), also supported the rally,brokers said.

The 30-share Sensex stayedin the green for the better partof the session and hit the day'shigh of 38,297.70 as buyingpace gathered momentumtowards the fag-end.

It finally ended at38,233.41, up 424.50 points, or1.12 per cent. The gauge hadlost over 575 points in the pre-vious two sessions, tracking asell-off across global markets.

The broader NSE Niftyclimbed 129 points, or 1.14 percent, to close at 11,483.25Intra-day, it shuttled between11,495.90 and 11,352.45.

Oil-to-telecom conglom-erate Reliance Industriesemerged as a prominent gain-er in the Sensex pack, spurtingover 3 per cent.

Foreign institutionalinvestors (FIIs) remained netbuyers, pumping in Rs 150.40crore, while domestic institu-tional investors (DIIs) soldshares worth �12.52 croreMonday, provisional datashowed.

Globally, Asian andEuropean stocks bounced back,reversing part of their recentlosses, as US Treasury yieldsedged higher, easing concernsabout a recession in the world'slargest economy.

“After a subdued opening,market bounced back sharplyand covered yesterday's lossesdue to positive global peers.Global growth outlook stillremains a concern while rise inUS 10-yr bond yield after twodays of fall gave some respite toinvestor sentiment. “Therebound was broad basedexcept IT index due tostrengthening rupee. Gradualfall in FII inflows added somecaution among investors whichmay end up with some con-solidation in the near term,after a sharp rally in the shortterm,” said Vinod Nair, Head ofResearch, Geojit FinancialServices. State-run NTPCtopped the gainers' chart in theSensex pack, rallying 3.28 percent, followed by SBI at 3.23 percent. Other winners wereVedanta 3.18 per cent, ICICI

Bank 2.75 per cent, BajajFinance 2.72 per cent, YesBank 2.71 per cent, KotakBank 2.60 per cent, AsianPaints 2.02 per cent, IndusIndBank 1.84 per cent, Axis Bank1.79 per cent, HCL Tech 1.73per cent and HDFC Bank 1.21per cent.

Sun Pharma, Tata Motors,Maruti Suzuki, M&M, TataSteel, HUL, Hero MotoCorp,PowerGrid, ONGC and BhartiAirtel too ended with gains ofup to 1.11 per cent.

However, Infosys lost 1.23per cent, Bajaj Auto 0.85 percent, ITC Ltd 0.68 per cent,L&T 0.37 per cent, TCS 0.26per cent, Coal India 0.08 percent and HDFC Ltd shed 0.01per cent.

Shares of Jet Airwayssoared for the second dayTuesday, zooming nearly 7 percent following the exit offounder and Chairman NareshGoyal and his wife Anita fromthe board of the ailing airline.

Coming to sectoral indices,bankex gained 2.19 per cent,power 1.70 per cent, PSU 1.31per cent, metal 1.11 per cent,consumer durables 1.08 percent, infrastructure 0.99 percent, oil and gas 0.97 per cent,realty 0.73 per cent, healthcare0.61 per cent, FMCG 0.13 percent and capital goods 0.15 percent.

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Profitability of state-owned refinerssuch as Indian Oil Corp (IOC) may

come under pressure if the governmentasks them to temporarily freeze theprices of petrol, diesel and other fuelsahead of general elections, Moody'sInvestors Service said Tuesday.

Before the Gujarat and Karnatakastate elections, the government hadasked oil companies to temporarily sus-pend the practice of adjusting theprices of petrol and diesel on a dailybasis.

“Given India's upcoming generalelection in April-May, we expect therefiners' profitability may come underpressure if they are asked by the gov-ernment to temporarily freeze theprices of petroleum products,” Moody'ssaid in a report.

The BJP-led NDA, if voted back topower, could allow oil companies torecover their losses post elections as ithas done in previous state-level elec-tions, it said.

“A change in government mayexpose the oil companies to a new setof challenges that are harder to antici-

pate because the oil and gas sector pol-icy of other parties contesting in theelections is not yet clear.”

State-owned IOC, BharatPetroleum Corp Ltd (BPCL) andHindustan Petroleum Corp Ltd (HPCL)had temporarily stopped revising fuelprices first in December 2017, ahead ofassembly elections in Gujarat and thenin April/May 2018 before Karnatakaelections. So far, they have continued tochange prices on a daily basis.

India goes to polls in seven phasesbeginning April 11.

Moody’s expects India’s state-ownedoil companies will continue to pay highdividends in the next fiscal year, whichwill be negative for refiners but the oilproducers will not be as significantlyaffected.

In a report on the country’s state-owned oil and gas companies, Moody’ssaid: “High shareholder returns willincrease the oil companies’ aggregateborrowings and constrain their creditprofiles.” It expected Oil and NaturalGas Corp (ONGC), IOC, Oil India Ltd(OIL) and BPCL to maintain high div-idends payments as well as conductshare buybacks in fiscal 2020.

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market in India is likely to grow at over16 per cent annually to touch USD 17.02billion by 2023, according to a study bybusiness consultancy firm MarketResearch Future.

The study, titled 'Digital PlatformsReign in the Food Ordering Market', said

the growth in online food orderingmarket has been attributed to the risingnumber of women in working popula-tion in most of the metro cities. “TheIndian online food ordering market isslated to grow at a CAGR (compoundannual growth rate) of 16.2 per cent atUSD 17.02 billion by 2023," it said.

Script Open High Low LTPSUZLON 6.51 6.90 6.40 6.64JETAIRWAYS 265.25 279.00 262.30 271.00SPICEJET 96.00 96.70 91.10 92.75RELCAPITAL 186.35 205.55 186.00 199.85JPASSOCIAT 5.56 5.74 5.48 5.62RELIANCE 1330.00 1369.95 1330.00 1367.15DLF 191.35 205.00 189.00 196.60RECLTD 157.00 159.30 150.35 151.40RPOWER 10.45 10.98 10.41 10.70YESBANK 248.10 254.90 247.50 253.70RELINFRA 129.00 136.70 128.60 133.20BHEL 69.85 72.70 69.75 71.10MARUTI 6569.00 6600.00 6483.55 6578.80SBIN 294.05 305.95 294.05 303.30INFY* 736.00 736.00 719.60 726.75PNB 90.70 93.00 90.70 92.30JUBILANT 723.95 726.00 673.30 686.00DHFL 130.50 136.70 129.60 135.35IOC 165.00 169.50 161.10 162.30TCS 1985.00 1994.00 1959.00 1981.80PFC 119.65 122.50 117.00 118.05ASHOKLEY 88.20 88.20 85.40 86.30GMRINFRA 17.10 19.75 17.10 19.45IDEA 30.45 30.45 29.35 29.60ICICIPRULI 311.60 328.00 311.60 320.15MINDTREE 948.85 961.95 936.65 950.55INDIGO 1378.00 1430.20 1352.35 1425.70IBULHSGFIN 720.00 734.80 716.25 730.35IDBI 42.00 42.90 41.60 42.40NCC 109.50 112.00 109.10 111.60TECHM 790.05 790.05 769.50 772.10ICICIBANK 384.25 395.15 383.65 394.05JUSTDIAL 607.90 621.10 601.10 605.00ZEEL 418.00 427.05 416.65 422.30ONGC 159.10 163.00 158.15 159.25EDELWEISS 189.00 190.45 184.00 186.25BAJFINANCE 2856.30 2939.00 2856.30 2930.40TATAMOTORS 171.70 173.60 171.70 173.10DBL 613.25 652.20 611.90 647.50LT 1378.50 1389.00 1366.70 1372.10INDUSINDBK 1682.00 1724.50 1672.00 1715.45IBREALEST 87.80 90.85 86.30 89.15COALINDIA 236.10 242.30 234.80 236.60HINDPETRO 276.00 279.95 272.40 276.70HDFCBANK 2281.90 2315.00 2272.65 2310.20BOMDYEING 137.00 139.70 134.70 135.90AXISBANK 749.60 761.70 742.00 757.20NTPC 136.50 141.25 136.35 140.10HINDUNILVR 1682.00 1689.90 1674.50 1683.70KOTAKBANK 1319.75 1349.90 1311.95 1342.85BALKRISIND 934.55 970.80 928.00 953.60JSWENERGY 64.80 66.00 64.10 65.60UNIONBANK 87.65 92.00 87.50 91.55MOTHERSUMI 145.00 148.80 144.50 145.40PIDILITIND 1178.25 1238.50 1178.00 1226.85HDFCLIFE 361.95 370.00 361.00 369.05MEGH 63.40 64.35 59.00 59.65SUNPHARMA 465.20 470.95 462.40 469.35VEDL 169.60 174.40 169.00 173.60TAKE 126.00 137.90 125.75 136.40GRAPHITE 422.00 431.80 417.70 422.90UPL 912.00 915.50 892.50 904.20FEDERALBNK 89.00 91.30 88.95 90.80CANFINHOME 331.90 337.00 330.40 334.95WELCORP 120.00 128.00 119.00 125.50HDFC 1948.00 1958.60 1931.00 1945.65TV18BRDCST 34.85 35.20 34.50 34.90CANBK 271.30 284.00 270.45 281.45TATASTEEL 515.70 520.50 514.30 519.35ABCAPITAL 99.50 102.90 99.50 101.75RAIN 97.45 99.75 95.20 96.05JUBLFOOD 1467.50 1467.50 1443.30 1463.35ASIANPAINT 1465.95 1491.25 1458.00 1484.45ESCORTS 792.00 809.85 781.15 805.20ICICIGI 1000.00 1033.90 988.50 1014.65IDFCFIRSTB 52.00 52.75 51.90 52.45JINDALSTEL 162.85 164.50 160.85 163.35BANKBARODA 119.80 122.40 118.75 121.10TITAN 1107.85 1122.30 1089.60 1116.25NMDC 104.75 106.20 103.35 104.60BPCL 385.00 389.05 376.80 383.35M&M 665.90 672.80 661.50 669.20ITC 295.00 296.30 291.20 293.20BANKINDIA 98.55 102.60 98.55 101.85WIPRO 257.00 258.30 253.40 254.95NATIONALUM 54.10 54.15 53.35 53.60FRETAIL 442.35 463.05 442.35 456.90NBCC 64.05 65.45 64.05 64.45IGL 308.45 313.55 305.45 307.65SUNTECK 472.20 475.25 456.15 462.35BHARTIARTL 328.00 331.10 326.50 328.20HEROMOTOCO 2610.00 2610.00 2552.00 2579.70BEML 973.90 989.90 972.80 977.50L&TFH 144.65 148.45 144.50 147.60VIPIND 451.15 472.50 451.15 467.75MGL 978.95 1008.65 978.95 997.60HEG 2002.20 2045.00 2000.00 2013.35GNFC 291.05 303.40 291.05 300.75JSWSTEEL 277.30 282.45 276.55 281.30HEXAWARE 333.25 333.25 325.05 328.15JAICORPLTD 107.55 111.60 107.50 110.50M&MFIN 414.00 414.55 405.60 411.65DABUR 422.25 431.40 420.75 424.55BEL 91.90 93.25 91.80 92.35JMFINANCIL 86.75 89.20 86.30 87.85PCJEWELLER 79.10 80.65 78.75 79.95ADANIPOWER 48.60 48.75 47.50 47.80STRTECH 220.85 222.75 218.55 219.25

IBVENTURES 275.60 279.50 272.00 272.65WESTLIFE 427.00 450.00 418.05 431.05NOCIL 138.70 142.60 138.70 142.10NLCINDIA 73.10 73.25 70.45 70.80RBLBANK 636.75 657.00 636.30 653.50ALBK 52.60 53.65 50.70 51.00ENGINERSIN 113.10 115.05 113.00 113.95INDIACEM 96.90 100.75 96.75 99.55PEL 2585.00 2650.00 2560.65 2636.35FORCEMOT 1659.00 1697.00 1646.60 1656.30SAIL 50.40 50.95 50.15 50.70KANSAINER 440.00 457.00 440.00 453.70LUPIN 735.00 738.50 731.75 734.65AARTIIND 1455.05 1542.00 1454.05 1518.55DEEPAKNI 264.00 273.00 263.10 271.30SYNDIBANK 38.55 40.65 38.55 40.20WOCKPHARMA 424.00 425.00 417.75 422.05LAURUSLABS 377.15 396.70 374.00 391.45AVANTI 402.95 404.25 388.10 391.20HCLTECH 1017.00 1041.00 1011.75 1033.80BLISSGVS 167.50 172.60 164.50 165.65REPCOHOME 439.60 464.00 439.60 459.90AUROPHARMA 775.50 784.00 771.00 782.35VENKYS 2248.70 2288.00 2229.30 2273.30DELTACORP 241.70 247.50 239.85 246.45BERGEPAINT 313.80 323.40 311.75 321.05MAXINDIA 69.00 69.95 67.60 68.55GODREJPROP 836.90 843.65 804.15 814.50HINDALCO 206.00 208.90 204.80 208.00HAVELLS 741.95 762.20 741.30 758.45UBL 1327.45 1351.00 1293.00 1347.90DISHTV 34.80 36.05 34.65 35.70ULTRACEMCO 3870.10 3938.40 3833.50 3920.05TATAELXSI 956.00 961.95 945.00 957.80DMART 1470.00 1487.00 1469.75 1477.35

ORIENTBANK 106.00 108.95 106.00 108.25ADANIPORTS 361.00 369.65 361.00 368.70PHILIPCARB 171.90 172.80 169.00 169.50INFIBEAM 41.55 42.50 41.25 41.95KTKBANK 125.00 131.00 124.75 130.05LTI 1670.00 1679.95 1648.85 1672.55RNAM 188.50 196.00 187.00 189.15RAYMOND 790.00 806.00 789.00 804.30GAIL 351.25 360.50 351.25 358.60CHOLAFIN 1337.40 1393.40 1331.60 1379.75KEC 294.75 298.30 283.80 295.60APOLLOTYRE 213.60 214.90 210.30 213.95DRREDDY 2794.00 2795.35 2763.40 2776.45TATAPOWER 72.90 72.95 70.70 71.25AMARAJABAT 708.00 720.35 704.00 709.45IDFC 43.05 44.90 43.00 44.75JISLJALEQS 57.95 59.35 57.65 58.20MAGMA 108.60 108.65 101.95 106.20FSL 46.25 46.90 45.80 46.35PVR 1579.25 1594.15 1554.50 1568.90RCOM 4.81 4.81 4.81 4.81EXIDEIND 219.00 225.50 217.65 224.05SIEMENS 1048.05 1064.80 1044.40 1056.60SBILIFE 613.00 617.80 600.55 605.20CIPLA 527.95 532.00 525.95 529.20RCF 57.75 58.25 57.15 57.90DCMSHRIRAM 403.95 422.95 402.00 416.95SPARC 188.40 189.90 185.35 186.35SUNTV 585.00 590.00 581.80 584.95NAUKRI 1903.05 1911.35 1880.00 1889.85UJJIVAN 321.10 329.80 320.55 327.80GRASIM 820.00 839.00 817.40 837.15BAJAJELEC 530.80 543.00 527.00 530.75LICHSGFIN 522.20 534.00 522.20 530.10POWERGRID 202.00 204.00 199.55 202.75CENTURYTEX 891.85 919.00 889.15 915.05BIOCON 613.00 616.20 610.00 611.55TATAMTRDVR 87.95 87.95 85.20 86.15IRB 140.00 143.30 140.00 142.20GRUH 259.10 263.00 258.00 261.90PETRONET 239.60 241.10 237.00 237.95NAVKARCORP 39.90 41.00 38.80 39.50CASTROLIND 161.00 164.15 160.75 163.55SRF 2440.00 2476.15 2406.00 2463.00CHENNPETRO 256.65 266.60 256.25 264.30SOBHA 452.55 468.25 447.70 457.60STAR 438.05 446.90 437.45 445.10BATAINDIA 1338.35 1357.00 1334.80 1353.50TORNTPOWER 254.95 256.80 251.10 254.05OBEROIRLTY 513.30 523.45 513.30 520.00ABFRL 219.65 222.40 216.00 217.70MPHASIS 958.30 961.30 940.30 951.15

PNBHOUSING 826.90 832.50 815.00 819.25PRESTIGE 265.00 268.40 257.20 258.25ACC 1575.10 1587.55 1555.75 1568.30MCX 793.00 797.00 774.35 783.35TRENT 361.05 382.00 361.05 377.25TVSMOTOR 464.35 466.25 458.15 460.50CGPOWER 44.00 44.75 43.65 43.80TATAGLOBAL 198.95 198.95 194.35 196.00BAJAJFINSV 6969.00 7038.90 6920.55 6983.75NESTLEIND 10550.00 10769.00 10533.00 10694.65TRIDENT 67.00 68.75 66.00 67.00INDIANB 253.80 262.50 253.55 261.75RADICO 398.55 399.75 393.00 395.00JKTYRE 90.30 90.95 89.10 90.35EICHERMOT 21249.95 21433.95 21021.00 21358.20GODREJIND 532.00 544.00 530.75 540.70AUBANK 550.00 558.95 542.75 555.60MUTHOOTFIN 592.65 601.80 592.60 597.15TATACHEM 584.00 585.50 573.00 581.55SCI 35.60 37.45 35.50 37.15AMBUJACEM 228.00 232.25 228.00 231.40VOLTAS 604.30 615.00 603.75 613.20PAGEIND 23900.00 25149.95 23671.25 24766.85OIL 176.50 179.70 176.50 177.35MMTC 28.05 28.65 27.70 27.90CHAMBLFERT 161.10 165.35 160.60 164.25DIVISLAB 1710.00 1767.10 1687.90 1705.20BRITANNIA 3097.25 3130.00 3063.00 3097.50KEI 408.05 410.80 403.00 409.00COCHINSHIP 385.00 393.00 378.85 388.80CROMPTON 216.95 216.95 212.70 214.25EQUITAS 130.00 132.25 129.55 131.65JINDALSAW 85.45 87.25 85.40 86.15SUVEN 261.25 268.65 261.25 264.55NIITTECH 1316.85 1318.55 1295.70 1306.80ITI 92.45 94.70 92.30 93.10HFCL 21.80 22.25 21.70 22.00SRTRANSFIN 1208.90 1213.75 1191.75 1204.20SOUTHBANK 15.70 15.89 15.65 15.82MINDACORP 132.45 137.15 132.45 135.90AJANTPHARM 1001.05 1020.00 1001.05 1009.30IFCI 13.24 13.40 13.20 13.31BHARATFORG 489.90 494.20 484.60 491.00HINDCOPPER 48.00 49.35 47.60 48.30COROMANDEL 483.65 484.00 469.00 479.65JSLHISAR 88.90 91.00 84.80 90.05BAJAJ-AUTO 2960.00 2964.65 2933.00 2951.30COLPAL 1241.45 1260.00 1233.35 1256.90BBTC 1250.05 1265.90 1240.20 1257.65MANPASAND 112.00 116.20 112.00 113.95MARICO 332.00 339.50 331.40 338.40MANAPPURAM 119.15 120.15 118.80 119.55CEATLTD 1084.00 1105.00 1081.70 1097.20INFRATEL 306.85 314.50 306.30 313.00APOLLOHOSP 1165.70 1165.70 1141.25 1156.35PIIND 1017.75 1030.00 1003.35 1029.95HAL 717.00 726.15 712.95 722.55NHPC 24.40 25.10 24.40 24.85GLENMARK 643.90 651.00 637.00 648.55OMAXE 206.75 208.05 205.75 207.65HSCL 115.30 117.10 114.60 115.15ADANITRANS 216.95 222.15 214.10 216.45KRBL 354.30 354.90 332.00 340.45TIINDIA 362.35 382.00 362.30 375.30MFSL 446.90 447.90 434.00 437.45ASTRAL 1118.60 1121.00 1068.05 1108.95GODREJCP 695.95 695.95 683.20 691.50JAMNAAUTO 58.15 59.20 57.80 58.80PARAGMILK 252.05 259.00 252.05 256.80WABAG 325.00 330.65 322.00 324.55ECLERX 1166.90 1166.90 1136.00 1138.75SHANKARA 417.80 418.00 405.00 408.15TEJASNET 151.50 179.00 151.50 168.55GRANULES 109.00 113.35 109.00 111.50GODREJAGRO 481.50 491.90 481.50 486.40IPCALAB 921.15 932.00 914.40 921.85BANDHANBNK 494.00 494.00 487.00 488.40TORNTPHARM 1872.00 1899.55 1872.00 1883.65WELSPUNIND 58.95 59.80 58.40 58.75NIACL 180.20 187.10 178.20 184.95LAKSHVILAS 63.65 64.70 63.20 64.05MOIL 154.85 158.00 154.00 155.15ISGEC 5598.80 5645.00 5480.10 5522.95CUB 201.80 202.30 199.75 200.55CUMMINSIND 720.10 730.90 717.80 729.00SYMPHONY 1363.50 1367.95 1338.05 1347.65KALPATPOWR 446.00 452.90 440.20 443.05ISEC 247.00 248.80 240.60 244.90GODFRYPHLP 1123.00 1128.75 1101.65 1121.50MRPL 74.00 75.35 73.35 74.40TTKPRESTIG 8251.10 8430.00 8251.10 8318.45HUDCO 44.50 44.85 43.75 43.95COFFEEDAY 278.55 301.00 277.15 284.95KSCL 454.30 455.90 448.75 451.00IBULISL 275.00 293.60 275.00 279.95VGUARD 216.00 217.95 214.45 217.20CORPBANK 27.90 28.70 27.05 27.80KAJARIACER 553.00 563.80 549.30 562.00RAJESHEXPO 654.50 659.40 652.50 655.55DCBBANK 196.00 200.00 195.40 199.15CCL 289.55 294.00 279.75 293.20DEEPAKFERT 134.05 135.15 130.10 132.25RAMCOCEM 710.55 713.60 702.05 709.90CYIENT* 674.95 674.95 660.00 660.25BALMLAWRIE 188.00 189.00 182.50 184.35THOMASCOOK 232.20 239.75 225.40 237.05RELAXO 752.10 763.00 747.10 758.95TATACOFFEE 88.35 91.30 88.35 89.90OFSS 3349.00 3395.00 3328.05 3361.20

INOXLEISUR 300.55 302.60 293.50 294.90SREINFRA 28.25 29.00 27.90 28.00HEIDELBERG 179.50 179.50 175.35 176.00INDHOTEL 147.20 151.50 147.00 150.95CARBORUNIV 377.60 380.65 367.65 376.55MOTILALOFS 605.00 608.10 595.10 598.80LUXIND 1310.30 1360.00 1305.25 1336.50GSFC 100.65 101.50 100.00 100.70ADANIGREEN 35.40 36.25 34.90 35.85SUPRAJIT 235.05 241.10 234.00 239.50ADVENZYMES 170.05 175.70 168.00 172.65INTELLECT 201.45 201.45 196.50 198.50LTTS 1450.00 1467.00 1440.00 1464.10GICRE 244.00 250.00 239.05 242.40GPPL 98.00 101.65 95.85 100.05SADBHAV 263.90 263.90 240.65 247.60CADILAHC 334.90 336.95 330.00 335.45MINDAIND 347.55 352.40 340.00 341.40GDL 127.90 131.90 125.65 127.75GUJFLUORO 1068.85 1070.05 1050.00 1053.55GSPL 178.10 179.35 174.35 178.30CENTURYPLY 197.30 200.00 196.20 198.25LINDEINDIA 478.25 488.95 475.00 479.20BOSCHLTD 18255.00 18255.00 18065.75 18170.15VINATIORGA 1589.70 1624.95 1569.50 1619.85SWANENERGY 104.85 105.45 103.40 105.10ALKEM 1760.00 1777.20 1719.80 1772.25MHRIL 229.35 241.50 229.35 238.50GLAXO 1299.45 1300.20 1281.00 1290.50NAVINFLUOR 710.70 717.00 705.00 708.80EMAMILTD 394.65 395.90 391.25 393.30INOXWIND 68.05 68.25 65.20 66.65MAHINDCIE 228.60 233.60 225.25 232.10SHK 153.20 154.05 149.70 151.30TATAMETALI 626.00 638.20 624.00 631.00LEMONTREE 79.20 79.75 77.80 78.35EIDPARRY 204.90 206.05 200.25 201.05PERSISTENT* 636.00 648.95 630.00 635.65ASHOKA 125.60 126.00 125.10 125.45ITDC 275.80 286.45 275.75 277.50GREAVESCOT 135.85 138.80 135.80 137.15NATCOPHARM* 572.90 575.85 563.00 565.70GREENPLY 154.80 155.50 151.45 153.40HIMATSEIDE 202.80 204.60 199.00 200.90HERITGFOOD 523.50 527.10 513.95 526.20MERCK 3320.00 3390.00 3310.00 3375.70EVEREADY 194.45 198.40 192.70 195.40J&KBANK 48.70 49.55 48.60 49.25TATACOMM 593.05 602.95 590.70 598.75GICHSGFIN 250.95 254.00 250.70 252.25BAJAJCON 322.05 322.10 317.00 318.40LALPATHLAB 1080.00 1096.50 1068.00 1079.55GHCL 232.35 234.00 230.00 232.10AEGISLOG 202.35 204.35 198.50 200.10BASF 1443.05 1478.00 1443.05 1463.15SHILPAMED 354.00 363.00 336.90 342.80BDL 279.00 285.00 278.75 282.30FCONSUMER 44.90 44.95 44.30 44.70PTC 74.70 75.45 74.25 74.50KNRCON 251.00 264.00 251.00 261.80GUJALKALI 484.10 493.00 482.55 485.15THYROCARE 540.05 540.05 522.00 525.65THERMAX 986.75 1000.00 976.75 991.80JYOTHYLAB 186.00 186.25 183.35 184.20INDOSTAR 350.00 355.00 346.30 353.60PFIZER 3158.25 3270.00 3149.00 3220.45SHOPERSTOP 460.70 476.00 456.55 468.60ALLCARGO 112.95 113.20 110.15 111.80BAYERCROP 4292.60 4375.00 4279.75 4341.15SCHNEIDER 103.00 104.00 101.85 103.05FLFL 483.00 483.00 469.30 475.15QUESS 795.65 799.85 782.95 785.80HINDZINC 272.40 273.65 270.05 273.00TIMKEN 564.85 567.00 560.00 564.75UFLEX 212.50 218.00 211.40 214.90ENDURANCE 1149.50 1150.00 1141.00 1145.00HSIL 255.00 258.50 249.10 252.25ANDHRABANK 25.45 25.80 25.30 25.65GUJGAS 149.40 150.50 145.60 147.25BHARATFIN 1075.85 1095.55 1063.50 1089.20GRINDWELL 573.20 573.20 559.75 569.70UCOBANK 18.25 18.50 18.25 18.35FINCABLES 482.75 485.50 474.05 481.15PRSMJOHNSN 86.90 89.80 86.85 88.40PGHH 10390.35 10506.00 10330.00 10346.45CRISIL 1473.00 1484.95 1469.65 1478.40SJVN 24.25 24.25 24.00 24.10VBL 809.75 822.15 809.75 813.50CENTRALBK 32.25 32.90 32.25 32.55PHOENIXLTD 670.40 673.70 643.00 648.65MRF 56330.35 56368.75 55945.10 56233.80FORBESCO 2270.00 2334.00 2180.00 2210.40BIRLACORPN 525.00 525.00 506.30 515.35SUPREMEIND 1065.00 1078.70 1052.40 1065.80LAXMIMACH 6185.00 6185.00 6025.60 6067.20ASTRAZEN 1971.25 1999.80 1961.20 1969.10GMDCLTD 82.05 82.15 80.55 80.80JSL 38.50 40.60 38.50 39.60JAGRAN 112.65 115.40 111.75 114.25SIS 890.00 890.00 853.00 860.75DCAL 204.00 207.55 203.00 205.15SHREECEM 17900.00 18334.00 17830.55 18056.95APLAPOLLO 1413.80 1429.70 1390.00 1424.40WHIRLPOOL 1512.70 1532.80 1503.00 1527.75SONATSOFTW 326.75 333.40 326.70 330.00BAJAJHLDNG 3268.00 3274.95 3210.30 3249.65GSKCONS 6942.60 6990.00 6928.00 6969.30ATUL 3336.05 3399.00 3336.05 3388.80ABB 1336.65 1340.85 1322.60 1333.30

KPRMILL 552.10 552.10 544.25 547.10MAHLIFE 356.65 365.00 356.10 358.65PNCINFRA 153.50 155.70 145.00 152.55FORTIS 137.00 137.45 136.00 136.20GESHIP 283.25 285.00 279.00 280.40NILKAMAL 1385.00 1417.85 1384.15 1411.30ZENSARTECH 229.20 231.00 228.90 230.05FDC 174.10 174.60 167.85 168.70EIHOTEL 188.60 195.00 185.15 191.65TNPL 206.75 209.15 204.05 206.30JKCEMENT 810.75 831.95 805.00 823.30IFBIND 929.55 949.15 922.45 936.65JBCHEPHARM 340.00 344.00 335.90 342.45VTL 1081.10 1094.95 1061.70 1077.05LAOPALA 206.00 209.00 200.20 207.70SOMANYCERA 390.00 400.00 390.00 397.75SHARDACROP 364.65 369.10 360.00 368.20FINOLEXIND 494.50 499.80 490.00 497.30NH 216.10 218.50 208.75 215.30IOB 13.54 13.75 13.54 13.61JKLAKSHMI 347.35 347.35 340.00 342.80CENTRUM 32.20 32.25 31.70 31.85ERIS 634.40 640.10 624.80 635.15SUNDRMFAST 554.55 558.75 549.00 551.70UNITEDBNK 10.68 10.80 10.65 10.70CAPPL 408.00 411.95 401.25 402.20SUDARSCHEM 326.95 329.25 325.60 328.90IEX 160.55 161.85 158.85 159.35MONSANTO 2610.00 2610.00 2571.00 2585.25NETWORK18 34.30 34.30 33.55 33.85SANOFI 5584.00 5767.80 5570.00 5718.55NESCO 463.00 463.00 449.00 458.75BLUESTARCO 670.00 670.50 661.00 662.55CERA 2654.55 2658.00 2626.60 2650.00ASTERDM 158.70 159.90 155.15 155.80CONCOR 508.65 508.65 503.80 504.50NBVENTURES 103.25 103.30 101.05 101.95TATAINVEST 834.00 834.00 828.00 828.35TVSSRICHAK 2181.00 2250.00 2170.00 2200.80GAYAPROJ 151.30 154.80 146.75 150.85MAHABANK 13.14 13.50 13.13 13.32NAVNETEDUL 107.65 109.00 107.50 108.20REDINGTON 98.00 98.20 96.25 96.80GALAXYSURF 1100.55 1108.85 1070.00 1076.60WABCOINDIA 6203.00 6247.90 6190.00 6212.45ESSELPRO 115.05 115.05 111.30 114.00ZYDUSWELL 1312.95 1315.35 1292.40 1299.853MINDIA 24049.00 24368.40 23835.00 23964.70RALLIS 160.80 161.60 160.50 160.75DBCORP 188.75 190.00 186.35 188.85VMART 2585.75 2656.00 2585.75 2627.35SKFINDIA 1931.45 1931.45 1898.45 1900.60KIOCL 144.60 144.60 137.05 141.40SYNGENE 566.75 575.00 566.25 573.55TVTODAY 320.00 320.00 316.10 318.90AIAENG 1725.00 1727.00 1679.30 1699.70GULFOILLUB 828.65 830.85 817.85 821.45GET&D 276.20 276.20 270.00 272.50ABBOTINDIA 7306.25 7400.20 7306.25 7355.15MAHLOG 489.95 495.00 486.05 494.70APLLTD 535.00 535.00 527.10 529.55ITDCEM 135.00 135.00 127.65 129.15TIMETECHNO 102.05 102.05 99.75 99.90DHANUKA 415.00 415.40 405.00 408.15HATSUN 706.90 717.00 705.80 716.85AKZOINDIA 1763.15 1787.00 1763.15 1778.60ORIENTCEM 86.10 87.00 84.10 84.85STARCEMENT 98.80 98.90 97.00 97.55BLUEDART 3415.00 3455.00 3415.00 3447.60CARERATING 993.60 993.95 981.05 988.40SUPPETRO 221.90 223.50 216.00 222.80TRITURBINE 105.05 108.00 105.05 106.20GILLETTE 6560.15 6584.50 6440.00 6532.75ASAHIINDIA 260.65 261.80 258.00 258.55TEAMLEASE 3000.00 3006.00 2955.10 2971.60APARINDS 660.35 666.00 660.35 663.00RATNAMANI 892.75 904.95 867.95 874.15TIFHL 480.00 480.00 455.65 462.60SUNCLAYLTD 2835.05 2954.95 2815.00 2858.20GEPIL 812.30 813.00 803.05 812.95ELGIEQUIP 240.00 242.50 237.00 240.50SHRIRAMCIT 1798.60 1818.25 1782.00 1784.95SOLARINDS 1043.75 1043.75 1018.50 1019.80JCHAC 1890.00 1921.00 1875.10 1888.35SCHAEFFLER 5442.75 5455.00 5351.05 5450.85HONAUT 21925.00 22100.00 21900.05 22014.50SFL 1307.00 1328.00 1290.00 1290.00MAHSCOOTER 3358.55 3368.05 3352.00 3366.35

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Prime Minister Theresa May,after voting to temporarily seizecontrol of the Brexit process,allowing back-benchers to holda series of votes on alternativesto her deal.

An amendment tabled byformer Conservative MinisterOliver Letwin was passed by329 votes to 302 on Monday asMPs expressed exasperationat the government’s failure toset out a fresh approach for theUK to exit the European Union(EU), reports the Guardian.

After the amendment, thegovernment in a statementwarned that it “upends thebalance between our democ-ratic institutions and sets a dan-gerous, unpredictable prece-dent for the future”.

Three ministers -- ForeignAffairs Minister Alistair Burt,Health Minister Steve Brineand Business Minister RichardHarrington -- resigned to backthe Letwin amendment. ThirtyConservative MPs rebelled tovote for the amendment.

Harrington accused the

government of “playing roulettewith the lives and livelihoods ofthe vast majority of people inthis country” in his resignationletter.

In a series of so-calledindicative votes, MPs will beable to vote on a number ofoptions -- likely to include a“softer Brexit”, a Customs unionwith the EU and another ref-erendum -- designed to test thewill of Parliament to see what,if anything, commands amajority, the BBC said.

But the precise format ofvotes and how they will workwas not set out in the amend-ment.

Parliament is also expect-ed to pass a law this week post-poning the Brexit date fromMarch 29.

Speaking after Monday’svotes, opposition Labour Partyleader Jeremy Corbyn con-gratulated Parliament for “tak-ing control” of the Brexitprocess, CNN reported. “Thegovernment’s approach hasbeen an abject failure and thisHouse must now find a solu-tion,” Corbyn said.

May, still hoping of gettingher twice-rejected Brexit dealpassed, told the House ofCommons earlier in the daythere was not enough supportfor her deal to bring it back fora third meaningful vote.

The Prime Minister alsosaid she could not “commit thegovernment to delivering theoutcome of any votes held bythis House. But I do commit toengaging constructively withthis process”.

Britain is scheduled tocrash out of the EU on April 12if May’s withdrawal deal is notpassed and the UK governmentfails to provide new proposalsfor a way out of the impasse.

In response to the devel-opment, the EuropeanCommission said it has pre-pared for an “increasingly like-ly” no-deal scenario.

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Chinese President Xi Jinpingsaid on Tuesday that China

and Europe were “advancingtogether” but that the two trad-ing blocs needed to overcome“suspicions”.

“Of course there are differ-ences and competition, but it’spositive competition,” Xi told apress conference in Paris withthe leaders of France, Germanyand the European Commission.

“We are advancing togeth-er. We shouldn’t let suspicionslead us to be constantly lookingbackwards.”

Xi was speaking on thethird day of a France visit dom-inated by concerns over China’smassive investments on thecontinent, which are being builtup through a series of bilateraldeals.

French PresidentEmmanuel Macron urged hisChinese counterpart to “respectthe unity of the EuropeanUnion” and called for an “exem-plary relationship” betweenEurope and China during thejoint press conference.

“No one is naive but we

respect China,” Macron said,while adding that EU leaders“naturally expect our majorpartners to respect the unity ofthe European Union and thevalues that it has and carries inthe world.”

Macron, GermanChancellor Angela Merkel andEU Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker all labelledChina a “rival”, and Merkel andJuncker urged the Asian giant togive the EU the same marketaccess as it afforded Chinesecompanies.

Referring to China’s vast“New Silk Road” infrastruc-ture project connecting thecountry with Europe, which hassparked unease in the EU,Merkel said: “We Europeanswant to play a role.”

But, she added, “there has tobe a bit of reciprocity on eitherside and we have a bit of diffi-culty in finding it.” Juncker saidthat labelling China a rival wasmeant as a “compliment” to thecountry.

Speaking ahead of a EU-China summit on April 12, healso called for a more balancedrelationship.

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APakistani court on Tuesdayordered the Government

to remove Pakistan MuslimLeague-Nawaz chief ShehbazSharif ’s name from the no-flylist.

Shehbaz, who is also the Leader of the Opposition inthe National Assembly, hadfiled a petition in the LahoreHigh Court last month to havehis name removed from theExit Control List, Geo TVreported.

The 67-year-old leader hasbeen indicted along with nineothers in the Ashiana IqbalHousing scam case.

His name was placed onthe travel blacklist on February22 for allegedly possessingassets beyond his declaredsources of income.

His counsel earlier toldthe court that the PML-Nleader had been appearingbefore the NationalAccountability Bureau (NAB)in every inquiry and cooperat-ing with the anti-corruptionwatchdog in every way.

Sharif was arrested by the

NAB in the probe on October5, 2018. He was released on bailon February 14.

He had approached theLahore High Court seekingdeclaration of theGovernment’s decision to placehis name on the no-fly list asnull and void.

In his petition, he had con-tended that as the leader of theOpposition as well as of one ofthe country’s largest politicalparties, his name should not beon the ECL.

Sharif served as the chiefminister of the politically cru-cial Punjab province from 2013to 2018. He became PML-Npresident after his elder broth-er Nawaz Sharif was barredfrom holding the top partyposition and public posts.

Federal InformationMinister Fawad ChaurdhyTuesday said that theGovernment would be chal-lenging the Lahore HighCourt’s decision in the SupremeCourt.

“There is a record of Shariffamily members leaving thecountry and not coming back,”said Chaudhry.

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Prime Minister Imran Khanhas said Indo-Pak relations

would remain tense till the gen-eral elections in India are over,adding he feared “another mis-adventure” by Pakistan’s easternneighbour.

Tensions between Indiaand Pakistan escalated after theFebruary 14 attack by Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed inPulwama.

Amid mounting outrage,the Indian Air Force carriedout a counter-terror opera-

tion, hitting what it said was aJeM training camp in Balakot,deep inside Pakistan onFebruary 26.

The next day, Pakistan AirForce retaliated and downed aMiG-21 in an aerial combatand captured an Indian pilot,who was handed over to Indialater.

Khan said shadows of warwere still hovering overPakistan and India as PrimeMinister Narendra Modi’sadministration could go for“another misadventure” beforethe general elections.

“The danger is not over.The situation will remain tensetill forthcoming general elec-tions in India. We are alreadyprepared to avert any aggres-sion from India,” Dawn quot-ed Khan as saying.

Khan also claimed that hecancelled his scheduled meet-ing with the Taliban inIslamabad due to “concerns”expressed by the Afghan gov-ernment. The Taliban lastmonth said that its representa-tives would visit Islamabad tomeet Prime Minister Khan onFebruary 18.

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Iranian President HassanRouhani on Tuesday accused

his US counterpart DonaldTrump of “colonialism” forrecognising Israeli sovereigntyover the disputed Golan Heights,a border area seized by Israelfrom Syria in 1967. “In a pointof time when colonialism ruled,some colonialist powers didsuch things and bestowed partsof one country to another, butthis is unprecedented in the pre-sent century,” Rouhani said,according to the official gov-ernment website.

“Nobody could have

believed that a man would comein America and unilaterally andagainst all international laws andregulations give away a landbelonging to one country to anaggressor,” Rouhani said in ameeting with advisors and min-isters. Trump on Monday signeda proclamation recognisingIsraeli sovereignty over theGolan Heights, which Syriadenounced as a blatant attack onits sovereignty. US recognitionfor Israeli control over the ter-ritory breaks with decades ofinternational consensus and hasbeen criticised by most Islamicnations, and other countriessuch as Russia.

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with 263 passengers on boardTuesday received a bombthreat, prompting SingaporeAir Force to send two F-16s toescort the aircraft.

The flight landed safely atSingapore’s ChangiInternational Airport onTuesday around 8 am (localtime), the airline added.

“Singapore Airlines con-firms there was a bomb threatconcerning SQ423 operatingfrom Mumbai to Singapore.

The aircraft arrived in Singapore on March 26,2019, at about 0800hrs (localtime).

“There were 263 passen-gers on board. We are assistingthe authorities with their inves-tigations and regret that we areunable to provide furtherdetails,” a statement issued bythe airline said.

The Republic of SingaporeAir Force said two F16C/Dsescorted the SIA aeroplane.

The RSAF said in aFacebook post that two F-16C/Ds were scrambled tointercept the SIA flight.

“Our fighters escorted theairliner till it landed safely atChangi Airport,” it said.

All passengers, except for awoman and a child, disem-barked safely and had to under-go screening.

The woman and the childwere held back for questioningby the police, who are investi-gating the incident.

Preliminary checks showedthat the airline received a callafter the plane left Mumbai’sairport on Monday at about11.35pm local time. The callerclaimed that there was a bombon the plane.

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China has destroyed 30,000world maps printed in the

country for export for notmentioning Arunachal Pradeshand Taiwan as part of Chineseterritory, the officla mediareported on Tuesday.

China claims the north-eastern Indian state of

Arunachal Pradesh as part ofSouth Tibet. China routinelyobjects to Indian leaders visit-ing Arunachal Pradesh to high-light its stand.

India says the State ofArunachal Pradesh is its inte-gral and inalienable part andIndian leaders visit ArunachalPradesh from time to time, asthey visit other parts of thecountry.

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The Islamic State group onTuesday claimed an attack

on US-backed forces in thenorthern Syrian city of Manbij,days after their “caliphate” wasdeclared defeated.

Manbij is a former ISstronghold that is now ruled bya military council affiliatedwith the Syrian DemocraticForces (SDF), the US-backedKurdish-led alliance thatdeclared victory over IS in itslast redoubt in eastern Syria onSaturday.

At around midnight (2200GMT) on Monday, gunmenopened fire at fighters manninga checkpoint at the entrance tothe city, killing seven, the coun-cil said. IS claimed responsi-bility for the attack in a state-ment published on its socialmedia channels on Tuesday.

“The caliphate’s soldiersattacked a checkpoint... West ofManbij city last night,” it said.

A spokesman for theManbij Military Council,Sherfan Darwish, said it couldbe a revenge attack.

“After the victory over IS,we have entered the phase ofsleeper cells,” Darwish toldAFP.

“These sleeper cells arebeing activated and carryingout attacks but we will foil theiroperations.” The SyrianObservatory for HumanRights, a Britain-based moni-tor of the war, said it is “the firstattack of its kind” since the SDFdeclared the defeat of the“caliphate” last week.

Observatory head RamiAbdel Rahman said it was alsothe bloodiest attack in Manbijsince January 16, when 19people -- including four USservice personnel -- were killedin a suicide bombing claimedby IS.

IS has vowed to carry out revenge attacks against the SDF over the six-monthoffensive against it that culminated in the jihadists’defeat in the village of Baghouz,close to the Iraqi border, onSaturday.

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In its early days agriculture wasregarded as just cultivating andgrowing crops. Fertile land had one

purpose only — the yield it could pro-duce for consumption. Over time theapproach towards agriculture pro-gressively shifted to a business-ori-ented one, making it one of thebiggest and busiest commercialecosystems in all of the world.

Agriculture plays an instrumen-tal role in the economic developmentof a country. Advanced countriesattribute a notable portion of theirprogress to this sector. In developingcountries like India, the role of agri-culture is even more critical. Alliedsectors such as fisheries and forestryare also major contributors to thecountry’s GDP. According to theIndia Brand Equity Foundation(IBEF) report.

We are a country of farmers. Theeconomic and societal value of agri-culture in our country is unparalleled.The sector employs about 65 per centof the workforce of our nation, and yetthe contribution to GDP is a disap-pointing 17.5 per cent.

Such a complex situation hasgiven rise to the need for a strategicapproach to managing agriculturalresources. Thus, an aspect of man-

agement specific to agricultural wasdesigned, bringing about programslike MBA in agribusiness manage-ment. At its essence, agribusinesscan be described as the followingstatement — the farmer works the soil,the manager works the produce.

With the Indian terrain hosting allkinds of climates and geographies, thesame type of crops display differingprincipal characteristics. This makesagribusiness a highly diversified busi-ness sector as per the website YourStory. It revolves around stages suchas input, production, processing,manufacturing, transport, and mar-keting. It has a tremendous influenceon other big industries. The serviceand manufacturing sectors haveincreasingly contributed to the growthof the economy.

The mass diversity in agricultur-al productivity across the countrydepends on a number of disparate fac-tors. This requires managers who arecapable of analysing the challenges ofthis sector and have an insight intostrategic solutions. Financial aspectssuch as access to agricultural creditand crop insurance, assurance ofremunerative prices for agriculturalproduce, and storage and marketinginfrastructure also factor into decision

making in this sector.The study of agribusiness man-

agement equips incumbents to focuson bettering areas of agriculturalinput supply, agricultural produc-tion, commodity assembly and pro-cessing, and agricultural marketingorganisations. Management and mar-keting of agricultural products likecrops and livestock are vital for sus-tainable development of our economy.With resource management, conser-vation of crops, and commercialisa-tion of agriculture, agribusiness boostsproductivity, and profits.

Agribusiness managers are skilledwith managing and organising theentire process of getting food itemsfrom the farm, to food processors, tobranded companies and packaging, tofood retailers, and ultimately to theend consumer according to websiteMBA central.

This path from farm to table isanalysed through multiple lenses suchas consumer trends, public policy, andlegislation, technological innovations,and food safety. Agribusiness man-agers help optimise our food distrib-ution system which has a significantimpact on the livelihoods and healthof people nationwide. Their skill andeducation empowers them to have a

tangible effect on the food productionand distribution systems of our econ-omy.

Today the management of agri-culture addresses the need for sus-tainable growth. According to UCDavis, this integrates three mainobjectives: maintaining a healthyenvironment, achieving economicprofitability, and social, economicequity. The food system involvesmany stakeholders right from farm-ers, food processors, distributors,retailers, and consumers. All of themplay an essential role in the system.

Farmers employ many methods topromote soil health, minimise wateruse, and lower pollution levels.Consumers and retailers focussed onsustainability look for value-basedfoods that are farmer and environ-ment-friendly, and contribute to theeconomy.

Agribusiness managers areresponsible for bringing all this togeth-er as well as participating in negotia-tions to balance competing interestsof farmers and people of the com-munity to solve complex agricultureproblems about how we grow our foodand fiber.

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The Admission toCompany Secretaries

(CS) FoundationProgramme is on.Candidate seeking admis-sion till March 31, 2019will be eligible for exami-nations in December 2019.

Students can registeronline by selecting onlineservices option available atwww.icsi.edu.

All fees and other duespayable to ICSI is to beremitted through paymentgateway at Online Servicesoption.

With the aim to provide bet-ter facilities to the stu-

dents, The Institute of CompanySecretaries of India opened its100th Study Centre at SanskritiCollege, Tonk, Rajasthan onMarch 25, 2019. The study cen-tre will facilitate and benefit stu-dents from the remote villagesand small towns of the area. TheICSI study centres will help inreaching out to the unreached.

CS (Dr) Shyam Agrawal,Past President, the Institute ofCompany Secretaries of Indiainaugurated the study centre atTonk. Speaking on the occasion,

CS (Dr) Shyam Agrawal said,“Opening of Study Centre in citieswhere ICSI do not have officeswill help students in resolvingqueries, obtain information aboutexams, registration, Class roomteaching etc.”

“To further strengthen theService - Delivery Mechanism,The ICSI is in the process ofestablishing more such StudyCentres across India,” Dr. Agrawalfurther added.

Thanking ICSI for openingthe study centre, Mr. MahavirPrasad Sharma, Chairman,Sanskriti College said that this

step will open the door to pro-fessional education in Tonk andsurrounding areas.

CS Rahul Sharma, Chairman,Jaipur chapter of The Institute ofCompany Secretaries of India,

gave detailed information to thestudents and their parents aboutthe Company Secretary Course,profession and career opportu-nities available.

The ICSI is a premier pro-

fessional body set up under anAct of Parliament, i.e., CompanySecretaries Act, 1980, for theregulation and development ofthe profession of CompanySecretaries in India. It functionsunder the jurisdiction of Ministryof Corporate Affairs,Government of India. TheInstitute, being a pro-active body,focuses on best and top-qualityeducation to students ofCompany Secretaries Course andbest quality set standards for CSmembers. The institute has over56,000 members and about 3.5lakh students on its roll.

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The International SchoolOf Design — INSD

offered a one-of-its-kindopportunity for all aspiringinterior and fashion designers.The premier college of IndiaINSD conducted a two daysfree workshop for studentswho were interested in know-ing more about interior andfashion designing courses attheir Main campusGujranwala Town part 1.

The purpose of the eventwas also to announce thenewly launched Study tour to

Paris, programme whereINSD students will go to parisfor various projects and learnthe intricacies of globaldesigning and european artand culture experience to cre-ate and spread awarenessabout the careers in designindustry for the wave of aspir-ing students looking forwardto step in the design industry,

The open house sessionalso provided informationrelated to latest developmentsin block printing, screenprinting, tie and dye printing,fabric painting, and embroi-dery.

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Strathclyde, Glasgow invitesapplications for MScAdvanced Manufacture:Technology & Systems coursestarting in September 2019.

This course is ideal forgraduates wishing to transfersmoothly and effective0ly to acareer in the manufacturingsector of industry establishedmanufacturing engineers,designers and managers work-ing in the industry who arefacing new challenges andincreased areas of responsi-bility.

Eligibility: Candidateshaving first or second classHonours degree, or equiva-lent, in a relevant engineering,technology or science disci-pline.

Fee: £20,050 for interna-tional students

How to apply: Log on todmem-pg t@strath .ac .uk ;https://www.strath.ac.uk/courses/postgraduatetaught/advancedmanufacturetechnologysys-tems/.

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of Design invites applicationfor Bachelors, Masters &Diploma Programmes inFashion Design.

Eligibility: Class X passfor diploma, class XII forbachelors & diploma andgraduates for masters degreeor diploma(any stream).

Last date to apply: April15, 2019.

How to Apply: log on tohttp://www.insd.edu.in/apply-online.html.

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(MRU) is inviting applica-tions for its Law Programmes.

Eligibility: For LLB pro-grammes, candidates havingpassed Class XII with 50 percent or more marks in aggre-gate. Should have qualifiedEnglish as a subject. For LLMprogramme, candidates hav-ing passed LLB or five year sIntegrated Law course with 50per cent or more marks inaggregate.

How to apply: Log on to

manavrachna.edu.in.Last Date to Apply: April

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International Institute ofResearch and Studies is invit-ing applications for MassCommunication programmefor the session 2019-20.

The different programmesoffered are Journalism & MassCommunication MRIIRS,MA Journalism & MassCommunication MRIIRS, PGDiploma in Advertising &Public Relation MRIIRS andPhD in Media Studies.

Eligibility: For BA, 50per cent marks in aggregate ofbest five subjects in class XIIin any stream with pass inEnglish. For MA, 50 per centmarks in any stream at grad-uation level with pass inEnglish in class XII. For PGDiploma, 50 per cent marks inany stream at graduation levelfrom a recognised universitywith pass in English in classXII.

How to apply: Log on tomanavrachna.edu.in.

Last Date to Apply: April17, 2019.

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Paramedical Sciences invitesapplications for its one yearfull time certificate course inMedical Lab Technology.

The program aims to pro-vide efficient and balancedtraining in laboratory medi-cine. This course offers chal-lenging career in a hospital,minor emergency centers, pri-vate laboratory, blood donorcenters, doctor's office or clin-ics.

Eligibility: Class XII passfrom any recognised board.

Last date to apply: April15, 2019.

The field of robotics is rife withopportunity as it makes headway

right into the heart of India. Slowlybut surely, it’s gaining traction asrobotics becomes an integral part ofour lives. Look around and you’llrealise that robots are making humanlives easier and much simpler. Fromrestaurants to operation theatres,from nursing homes to classrooms,to our homes; robots are slowly butsurely transforming our way of life. �How the face of robotics willchange in the next five years?

Robotics is a trendsetting indus-try with constant advancementsbeing made year on year. New andimproved techniques are beinginvented, assimilated and applied aswe speak with a view to revolutionisethe way we live, work or entertainourselves. Recently, a cafe in Tokyolaunched service rendered by robotwaiters. The four feet tall MinatoWard robots are being remotelycontrolled by people with physicaldisabilities such as amyotrophic lat-eral sclerosis (ALS — a form ofmotor neuron disease), enablingthem to perform a job they would-n’t be able to otherwise. Robots areproving to be a gamechanger in anumber of fields — be it at home,public security, education, surveil-lance, defense or entertainment.

Think of robots cooking com-plex meals on demand. Too out-landish? Well, you’d be surprised to

know that Spyce, a restaurant basedin Boston, Massachusetts is a robot-ic-powered restaurant which pre-pares meals in under three minutes.Some restaurants are using self-ordering tablets for taking customerorders. Hospitals are increasinglymaking use of surgical robots to per-form surgeries with precision, small-er incisions, decreased blood loss,less pain, and quicker healing timefor patients. And you may not evenrealise but a majority of us areusing robots at our homes too.

In case you fear that more robotsmean fewer jobs for humans, thinkagain. In fact, in a recent study con-ducted by Indeed (an Indian job por-tal) revealed a hike of 186 per cent

amongst job seekers looking foropportunities in the robotics sectorin India between May 2015 and May2018. And during the same periodof time, job postings in the sector sawa growth of 191 per cent.

Robotics is a fast-growing sectorin India with sectors such as manu-facturing, healthcare and construc-tion leading the demand for robot-ics talent. And there’s a huge scopefor its application in other sectors tooas access to Internet connectivity andopen source applications becomemore widespread in the countrywhich will prove conducive to thesector’s growth. Even though peoplehave a fear of automation takingaway jobs from us humans, in fact,

more job opportunities are being cre-ated for skilled personnel.Maharashtra is creating the mostrobotic jobs in India followed close-ly by Karnataka and Telangana.

So, all you parents out there cantake heart from the fact that this isa viable industry which is going fromstrength to strength. And this is theopportune time to get your kidsinvolved in robotics. Inculcate a lovefor making in them as that will helpthem explore and search withinthemselves whether they’re trulypassionate about robotics or not.When children get introduced torobotics at an early age, they candevelop and hone skills like creativethinking, collaboration, program-ming and coding and have good ol'fun while doing it.

Avishkaar is one such entitywhich is working towards this visionwith a fervour. With an emphasis onpromoting the culture of makingamongst children and adults alike,through its range of DIY roboticskits.

To sum up, robotics has a brightfuture ahead in India with careeropportunities in diverse fields likeaerospace, defense, manufacturing,healthcare and medical research,entertainment, construction andmore. As they say, the proof is in thepudding, and boy this pudding isdefinitely worth a try.

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Entrepreneurship plays a vitalrole in the economic growth and

standard of living in the country. Asa start-up founder or small businessowner, you may think that you areworking hard to build your ownbusiness and provide for yourselfand your family. But you’re doing anentire heap a lot of for your localpeople, state, region, and also thecountry as an entire.

Start-up entrepre-neurship is crucial as aresult of it brings inno-vations, new jobs, andcompetitive dynamicsinto the business set-ting. �Wealth creation andsharing: By establishingthe business entity, entre-preneurs invest their ownresources and attract capital (inthe shape of debt, equity andothers) from investors, lenders andalso the public. This mobilises pub-lic wealth and allows people to ben-efit from the success of entrepre-neurs and growing businesses. �Create jobs: Entrepreneurs are bynature and definition job creators,as opposed to job seekers. The sim-ple translation is that once you

become an entrepreneur, there’sone less job seeker within the econ-omy, and then you provide employ-ment for multiple other job seekers.This kind of job creation by new andexisting businesses is one in all theessential goals of economic devel-opment. �Balanced regional development:

Entrepreneurs setting up newbusinesses and industrial

units facilitate regionaldevelopment by locatingin less developed and

backward areas. Thegrowth of industriesand business in these

areas ends up in infra-structure enhance-

ment prefer bet-ter roads and

rail links, airports, stableelectricity and installation, schools,

hospitals, malls, and different pub-lic and private services that will notsomewhat be out there. Every newbusiness that locates in an exceed-ingly less developed space can pro-duce each direct and indirect job,serving to elevate regionaleconomies in many alternativeways. The combined disbursementby all the new workers of the new

businesses and therefore the sup-porting jobs in different business-es adds to the native and regionaleconomic output. �GDP and per Capita income:India’s MSME sector, comprised ofthirty-six million units that giveemployment for more than eightymillion folks, currently accounts forover thirty-seventh of the country'sGDP. Each new addition to thosethirty-six million units makes use ofeven additional resources like land,labour, and capital to develop prod-uct and services that augment thenational income, national productand per capita financial gain of thecountry. This growth in GDP andper capita financial gain is oncemore one among the essential goalsof economic development.

So, there’s a very importantrole for entrepreneurs to spark eco-nomic development by startingnew businesses, making jobs, andconducive to improvement innumerous key goals like grossdomestic product, exports, the stan-dard of living, skills developmentand community development.

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The Faculty of Scienceat the University ofStrathclyde, Glasgow isoffering £2000 scholarshipstowards course tuition fees ineach year of study of a full-time undergraduate pro-gramme.

Eligible students musthave excellent grades fromHigh School and strongEnglish test results.

Value — £2000 per yearEligibility: To apply for a

Science Elite scholarship,candidates must: Be availableto commence their academicstudies in the UK by the startof the academic year inSeptember/October 2019.

Hold an offer of study onan Undergraduate course inthe Faculty of Science,University of Strathclyde.

Be paying full interna-tional fees.

Subjects: Chemistry,Computer and InformationSciences, Mathematics andStatistics, Pharmacy andBiomedical Sciences, Physics,Forensic Science.

For more information:[email protected]

Application deadline:The last date to apply isSeptember 16, 2019

The University CollegeCork has announced 11excellence scholarships for

International PhDStudents at UCC in

Ireland, 2019.These scholarships are

awarded every year to appli-cants who intend to start aPhD, PhD Track or MPhildegree in the College of Arts,Celtic Studies and SocialSciences in September 2019or January 2020.

Eligibility: EU and non-EU students have at leastSecond Class Honours(Grade 1) or equivalent intheir undergraduate or post-graduate degree and musthave already applied for theirchosen postgraduate courseare eligible to apply.

AdmissionRequirements: Before apply-ing for the scholarship, appli-cants must apply in the uni-versity for their chosenPostgraduate Course.

Language Requirement:English language require-ments for candidates who donot speak English as theirfirst language.

How to apply: To partic-ipate in this scholarship,applicants must downloadthe application form andemail the completed applica-tion form (one Word or PDFdocument) plus an academictranscript (one pdf docu-ment) to [email protected].

Supporting documents:As a part of the applicationapplicants must submit anacademic transcript.

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If we consider today’s children the flag-bearers of tomorrow, one of the bestmeasures of our progress as a nation

can be the quality of life that we have tooffer them. It is therefore imperative thatwe nurture them in their developmen-tal years through a combination of care-fully considered nutritional and educa-tional interventions.

It is evident from the success of themid-say meal programme that anutri-tious meal can go a long way in sup-porting the health and education of chil-dren. In bringing 94 million children toschool, the programme ensures thatthey are not deprived of their right toeducation and right to aspire or the rightto a bright future.

The programme serves as an incen-tive for children to come to school. Moreimportantly, it provides parents an incen-tive to send their children to school. Theresultant boost in enrolment, atten-dance, and retention rates in schools, theperformance of children, and theimprovementin their nutritional profilebode well for the socioeconomic progressof the nation.

When children sit together to havetheir mid-day meal, it eradicates the bar-riers of caste, religion, and economic sta-tus, and fosters the sense of socialisation,thus contributing towards the develop-ment of community and the nation.

Considering that one of the prima-ry objectives is to improve the nutritionalstatus of children, the integration of mil-lets in mid-day meals through a collab-oration between the Centre and State'sMDM and agriculture departments canbe a massive step towards child welfare.The inclusion of these high-fibre, proteinand micronutrient-rich smartfoods of the21st Century can add to the nutritionalvalue of mid-day meals, thus contribut-ing towards the enhanced nutritional sta-tus and health of the beneficiaries.In fact,finger millet (ragi), with thrice theamount of calcium compared to milk,and pearl millet (bajra) with their richiron and zinc content are considered per-fect health foods for children and deserv-ing constituents of their regular diet.

Going beyond ‘food for education’ to

‘smart food for education’ is in the bestinterest of the children. In the long run,nutrition combined with a conduciveenvironment for learning in schools canenhance the physical and psychologicaldevelopment of children, thus fuellingtheir aspirations and putting them on apath to a bright future.

In incentivising education and bring-ing more children to schools, the pro-gramme has created a large pool of tal-ent that needs to be harnessed and nur-tured. It is important to assure childrenat a young age that their dreams are valid.Furthermore, we ought to support thesedreams by promoting and supportingthem because if their talent is not har-nessed in early life, it is most likely to gountapped.

In developing countries, when thetalent pool is large, it may remain unde-veloped due to lack of resources. Whilethe Government's efforts to bring chil-dren to school by incentivising educationis commendable, these efforts need to besupported. If corporates and non-profitorganisations can contribute towardssuch initiatives in the form of infra-structure, expertise, and resources, it canbe a massive step towards providing chil-dren a better future by encouraging themto explore their passion.

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If a student is dreaming tosecure a seat in one of the IITsit is mandatory to crack both

JEE Main and Advanced. TheNational Testing Agency is organ-ising JEE Main twice in 2019. TheJEE Main 2019 (January session)has been conducted. The Aprilsession will be conducted fromApril 7, 2019 onwards. Paper-1(BE/BTech)— April 8, 9, 10 and12, 2019 and Paper-II (BArch/BPlanning) — April 7, 2019.

The best of the two scores ineither of the January-April ses-sions will be considered. This timeboth the sessions are ComputerBased Tests. The students whoclear the cut off in JEE Main 2019would be able to appear for JEEAdvanced on May 19, 2019.

The previous cut offs of JEEMain will draw the attention ofthe students as they aspire to crackone of the most coveted exams ofthe country. Getting familiar withthe past year paper trends will behandy and useful for the students.The result of JEE Main 2019April will be announced on April30 (Paper-I) and May 15 (Paper-II).

The questions that may trou-ble are:

As the competition level willbe high? Will I able to make it?

The competition level will be

stiff for everybody.Whether you can make it or

not will depend upon the actualperformance on the exam day.Putin your sincere efforts, practisinggood number of JEE Main levelquestions. Focus on speed andaccuracy. Believe in yourself, youwill surely crack JEE Main 2019.

I left couple of topics. ShouldI start them now?

Don’t start any fresh topic thatyou haven’t read in the last oneyear or recent months. Just reviseformulas and practice as manyquestions as you can from alreadystudied topics.

What if the paper difficultylevel increases this year?

You should ponder too muchabout the difficulty level of theexam. If it increases, it will be forevery aspirant. At your end, Youmust prepared as per the syllabiof JEE Main and also solved ade-quate number of questions of JEEMain level. With sincere and bestefforts, you can secure a seat inany branch of National Instituteof Technology (NIT)and qualifyfor JEE Advanced.

Where do I stand as myfriend’s preparation is far betterthan me?

Selection in any competitiveexam is based on one’sPreparation level, Comprehensive

and Analytical skills, TimeManagement and most importantthe actual performance on theexam day. You cannot controlyour friend’s performance, butyou can certainly control yourself.If you give the best result, thenthere will not be any need forcomparison.

Are there any portals formock test?

Yes, there are portals whichconduct mock tests for JEE Main2019. The most famous web por-tal for mock test is www.mypat.in.This will help the students to befamiliar with their strong andweak areas. Stay fit and healthy forthe exam as it enhances your per-formance in the exam.

THINGS TO KEEP IN MIND�Do remember to carry your

JEE Main 2019 admit card. Readfor instructions on the admitcard as you will not be allowed tocarry any stationery like pens,erasers writing Boards, etc.

�Don’t stay awake late in thenight. Be in bed by 10 or 10:30 pmand this should be added to yourdaily routine one month beforethe exam.

�Focus on your health, eathealthy and home-made food.

�Stay away from the studentswho revise topics a few minutes

before the exam at the examina-tion venue.

�Just go and do your best inthe exam

�Don’t discuss your prepa-ration with your friends

�Remember to read all theinstructions carefully mentionedin the question paper.

�Be Mentally and physicallyprepared for everything. Take allthe Precautionary movements.Most importantly believe in your-self.

PREPARATION TIPSMathematics: Keeping in pre-

vious year trends, Co-ordinateGeometry, algebra, and Calculusare the topics which need to begiven more attention. Topics likemathematical reasoning, statisticsand determinants can be helpfulin increasing the score. Refer toprevious year question papersfor better understanding of whatto expect.

Physics: Kinematics andParticle Dynamics are two topicswhich are asked most in theexam. As per the trends,Mechanics, Electricity andMagnetism are the topics fromwhich questions are always asked.Thermodynamics is the mostimportant chapter both in Physicsand Chemistry. Wave Optics is

much smaller as compared to RayOptics to cover. Vectors need tobe studied properly, as it troublesmost of the students. ModernPhysics is theoretical, yet somescoring questions are frequentlyasked.

Chemistry: Conceptual clar-ity, application skills and aware-ness should be of focus inChemistry.

Special attention should begiven to topics like Mole Concept,Chemical Equilibrium andElectrochemistry.

As far as Inorganic chemistryis concerned, the major topicssuch as chemical bonding, struc-tures, processes, applications andCoordination Chemistry shouldbe given special attention.

The students are advised tofirst attempt theoretical ques-tions than the ones which requirecalculation.

PREP CHECKS�Thorough with exam pat-

tern and syllabus�Self -confidence is the key

to achieve success in the exam�Speed and accuracy when

attempting the questions�No one is perfect. Stay calm

and give your best performanceon the day of the exam.

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Shikhar Dhawan scored apainstaking half-century inDelhi Capitals' sub-par 147

for 6 against Chennai Super Kingson a lifeless Kotla track in an IPLencounter here on Tuesday.

The senior opener once againplayed the role of sheet anchor inhis 51 off 47 balls that had sevenboundaries but unfortunatelyfailed to accelerate during thefinal overs. This left the hometeam at least 30 runs short of afighting score.

From a comfortable 120 for 2

with the dangerous Rishabh Pantat the crease, CSK seized themomentum, effecting a middle-order collapse. Capitals lost fourwickets for seven runs in just 1.5overs. From 118 for 2 after 15overs, the last five overs yieldedonly 29 runs.

With the ball stopping andcoming, Capitals batsmen foundDwayne Bravo's (3/33 in 4 overs)variations difficult to handle.Ravindra Jadeja (1/23 in 4 overs)also made life difficult for theCapitals in the middle overs andHarbhajan Singh (0/30 in 4 overs)also bowled as many as 10 dot

balls.Dhawan, however, contin-

ued to hold one end up and hitthe occasional boundary inbetween, even as stroke makingbecame increasingly difficult.

Pant (25 off 12 balls), duringhis 41-run stand with Dhawan,tried to negate the pitch factorbut did not last till the deathovers.

He did reach out to a shortball from Harbhajan, dispatchingit over long off for a six. In thenext over, his short arm pull offDwayne Bravo was taken byShardul Thakur at deep square

leg boundary.With Colin Ingram (2) and

Keemo Paul (0) also being dis-missed cheaply, followed byDhawan, the expectations of a175-plus total withered away.

During the start of the sec-ond innings Chennai were at 51for the loss of one wicket.

Ambati Rayadu was bowledout for just five runs.

Shane Watson was batting at28 runs in 19 balls which includ-ed four 4s and one 6s. WhileSuresh Raina was batting at 14runs in six balls which includedthree 4s.

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Skipper R Ashwin is in the eye of astorm after 'Mankading' a rival

player but a winning start will keepKings XI Punjab upbeat when they facehome favourites Kolkata Knight Ridersin an IPL fixture here on Wednesday.

It was Ashwin's mankading of JosButtler that had triggered a dramaticcollapse with Kings XI Punjab restrict-ing Rajasthan Royals to 170 for nine tonotch up a 14-run win.

Buttler was looking in imperioustouch with 69 from 43 balls andRajasthan well on course to overhaulthe target of 185 but following the dis-missal they went on to lose eight wick-ets for 62 runs to hand Kings XI Punjabtheir maiden win in Jaipur.

Though the dismissal was withinthe rules of the game, it sparked a hugefurore with spin legend and RajasthanRoyals brand ambassador Shane Warnelabelling it as "disgraceful" and againstthe spirt of the game.

With a debate raging over therunout, it remains to be seen howAshwin and Co. Start afresh in whatwill be their first away match of the sea-son.

Kings XI's biggest star Chris Gaylescored a 47-ball 79 and his Jamaicanrivalry with fellow mate Andre Russell,who also looked in blistering touch forKKR, will be one of the sub plots of theclash here.

The Universe Boss, who will retirefrom ODIs after the 2019 World Cup,has been in sensational form, smash-ing 39 sixes in the five-match ODIseries against England and set therecord for most sixes by a batsman in

international cricket.A typical slow starter, Gayle was 14

off 18 balls but the opener hit top gearin the 12th over hammering JaydevUnadkat for four successive boundaries.

A former KKR player, Gayle knowsEden Gardens like the back of his handas he would look to continue hisassault on the spin-oriented KKRattack.

Russell will be KKR's answer toGayle as the KKR star also fashioneda sensational win, smashing an unbeat-en 49 from 19 balls in their opening fix-ture against Sunrisers Hyderabad heretwo days ago.

The win saw their star spinner andexplosive opener, Sunil Narine, hurt hisfinger and KKR would hope he is fit intime.

KKR will embark on a crucial four-match away sojourn after this and theywould look to keep their momentumintact before they return home to faceDelhi Capitals on April 12.

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Rajasthan Royals opener Jos Buttleron Monday became the first victim

of 'Mankading' in the history of theIndian Premier League when a desper-ate Kings XI Punjab skipperRavichandran Ashwin dismissed thebatsman in the controversial mannerduring their IPL match.

With Buttler going strong at 69 off43 balls while chasing 185 runs, Ashwinmankaded the Rajasthan Royals open-er without giving him any warning.

As per the laws of the game, thethird umpire declared Buttler out butsuch a dismissal had always raised eye-brows as it is considered against thespirit of the game.

As expected Buttler seemed furi-ous and had a heated exchange withAshwin before leaving the field.

The dismissal is sure to create a bigcontroversy going into the 12th editionof the IPL.

Rajasthan were 108 for one in 12.4overs at that stage.

Among Indians, it was Kapil Devwho had mankaded Peter Kirsten ofSouth Africa during the 1992-93 seriesand in Indian domestic cricketRailways' spinner Murali Karthik hadmankaded Sandipan Das of Bengalduring a Ranji Trophy match.

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Unapologetic about'Mankading' Jos Buttler in an

IPL match here, senior Indian off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwinsaid his decision was "instinctive"and cricket laws should be recon-sidered if what he did was againstthe 'spirit of the game'.

Kings Xi Punjab captainAshwin, in a match againstRajasthan Royals on Monday,'Mankaded' rival batsman JosButtler, triggering a debate on'spirit of the game'.

In a first in 12 editions of theIPL, Ashwin ran out a rampagingButtler, who was at the non-strikers' end, on his delivery stride

in the 13th over, an action popu-larly known as 'Mankading'. TVreplays showed that Ashwin hadwaited for Buttler to move out ofthe crease before removing thebails.

"Look it was very instinctive.It wasn't planned or anythinglike that. It's there within the rulesof the game. I don't know fromwhere the understanding of theSpirit of the Game comes,"Ashwin said at the post-matchpress conference.

The mode of dismissal is per-missible as per ICC Rule 41.16 ofplaying conditions, according towhich there is no need to warn thebatsman as was the case in earli-er times.

"Naturally if it's there in therules, it's there. Probably, we needto go back to the rules," India'spremier Test spinner said.

When probed further onwhether it affects the 'spirit of thegame', the irritation was palpableon his face.

"I don't understand the pointbecause it's rules. What applies forone man doesn't apply for every-one else?" he asked.

There has been a debatewhether Ashwin deliberatelydelayed while loading up on hisdelivery stride having apprehend-ed that Buttler backs up too far.

"I didn't even load and he leftthe crease. It's always been mytake on the crease, because it's my

half of the crease," he said.The Kings XI skipper lauded

his bowlers for bringing the teamback into the contest.

"We all know that after sixovers it is going to slow down.Credit to bowlers on how theybowled. I have been working ona lot of variations, pretty happythat it came out," he said.

"Sam (Curran) had a bad daywith the ball, but he came backwell. Everybody ticked theirboxes. We do have a few optionsamongst us, but if we can havegood five overs, there is nothinglike it."

Man-of-the-match ChrisGayle, who hit 79 off 47 balls, washappy with his form.

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Impressed with his composure andcontrol Over his swing, former India

batsman Yuvraj Singh said J&K youngfast bowler Rasikh Salam is going toemerge as a special player in the nexttwo to three years.

"Rasikh swung the ball in thenets, that is why the boys wanted toplay him. He got hit for a six and fourin the last two balls. Other than that,he bowled well," Yuvraj, who scored ahalf-century on his debut match for theMumbai Indians against Delhi Capitals,said.

"I think he did fantastic for his firstmatch in terms of handling the pres-sure. Pretty much like an internation-al game. I feel he is going to be specialin the next 2-3 years," he said in aninterview with MITV.

Salam started off with a no-ballagainst Delhi Captains but respondedwith a brave bouncer on the free-hitthat was pulled towards deep midwick-et straight into the palms of a fielder.

On another day, he would have had awicket on his debut.

Mumbai Indians bowling coachShane Bond also praised Salam, sayinghe was one of better bowlers for theteam during its IPL opener againstDelhi.

"It was a challenging start but as Isaid in the pre-camp, things are goingto go wrong at times. You are going tobowl a no-ball but the easy thing forRasikh to do would have been to go topieces but he certainly didn't. I thoughthe showed great composure and wasone of our better bowlers," said thecoach.

Bond also said Salam has thehunger to learn.

Zaheer Khan, who is Mumbai'sDirector of Cricket Operations, saidSalam is an exciting young prospectwho has great temperament.

"Even Rohit Sharma is impressedwith Rasikh. He was thinking of giv-ing him an opportunity as early in theseason as possible, so exciting timesahead," said Zaheer.

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Watching teammate Andre Russell bulldoz-ing Sunrisers Hyderabad bowlers was a

breathtaking experience for KKR pace spearheadLockie Ferguson, who is happy that he does nothave to bowl to the West Indian this IPL.

The Jamaican single-handedly won thematch for Kolkata Knight Riderswith his unbeaten 49 off 19 ballsin their opening match.

"It's one of those I've neverseen anything like that person-ally. That was unbelievable. I'mpretty excited he's not on myside, I don't have to bowl tohim," the New Zealand quicktold reporters on the eve of theirmatch against Kings XI Punjab.

The Punjab outfit hasexplosive Chris Gayle in itsranks but Ferguson said they areprepared to tackle the Jamaican.

"Chris (Gayle) is in some pretty fine touchat the moment. He really batted well last night.It's nice to watch him. Perhaps there are someareas we can look at attacking him," he said ofGayle who starred with a 47-ball 79 to fashionKings XI Punjab's 14-run win against Rajasthan

Royals."It's important to stick to your plan and back

yourself because in T20, if you keep working onyour strengths then definitely it will come offbetter."

KKR have the reputation of being a spin-oriented attack as Ferguson said it's exciting timeto be part of the bowling unit.

"To have the spin attack wehave, and with PK (PrasidhKrishna) swinging the ball andbeing very good at the death, soby no means I think I'm lead-ing. We all do our part. AndreRussell also got the wickets."

Having added some morepace to his bowling, Ferguson ishoping to make the most of theIPL experience, ahead of theWorld Cup.

"It's high pressure in IPL. It'sone of the biggest competitions

in the world, playing in front of big crowds,against the best players in the world. Of courseall these experiences you're gaining, playing inthe IPL is going to help you going forward.

“Obviously there's a big World Cup in a fewmonths but at this stage, I'm focusing on KKRand trying to assist them, get some more wins.”

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Roger Federer admits hefaces a real battle to land the

101st title of his career with thein-form Daniel Medvedev nextup after Serbian Filip Krajinovicwas dispatched 7-5, 6-3 onMonday at the ATP and WTAMiami Open.

The Swiss superstar pro-duced an excellent all-roundperformance despite being test-ed by the world number 103who belied his lowly ranking byproducing some excellent ten-nis during an exciting first set.

Federer, however, stylishlyweathered the storm to seal thewin — the 52nd of his career inMiami — and set up an intrigu-ing last eight match with thehighly-rated Medvedev.

The Russian, who is at acareer high ranking of 15, sawoff American Reilly Opelka 7-6 (7/5), 6-7 (5/7), 7-6 (7/0), andhas won four ATP hard-courttitles, including three since lastAugust.

Federer beat him twicelast year but is already a fan.

"He's clever how he playsthe court because he can playit up and down, and he'sunusual when he plays fromback," said the Swiss, who hit14 aces and won an impressive74% of points on his firstserve.

"It's a bit of a differentapproach.Thankfully I playedhim last year twice in Basel andShanghai and I'm veryimpressed about his progress.I must say the last year hasbeen unbelievable for him."

Krajinovic struggled withinjury last year as problems

with his ankle, left foot andhand restricted him to justseven tournaments in the firstseven months of 2018.

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seed Grigor Dimitrov wasbeaten by world number 77

Jordan Thompson in straightsets ensuring the Australianwill meet 2018 Wimbledonfinalist Kevin Anderson whobeat Portugal's Joao Sousa 6-4, 7-6 (8/6).

Simona Halep, meanwhile,got the better of VenusWilliams once again as the

Romanian made light work ofthe 38-year-old American tobook a place in the quarter-finals with a 6-3, 6-3 win.

"I was pretty strong withmy serve and knew where tobother her," said the reigningFrench Open champion whowill meet China's Wang Qiangin the last eight.

"When I saw I can wineasy games with my serve, itgave me great confidence,"she added.

Bianca Andreescu, the 18-year-old Canadian sensationwho won the title in IndianWells, was forced to withdrawin the second set of her fourthround match with AnettKontaveit.

Andreescu was 1-6, 0-2down before a shoulder injuryruined her chances of anoth-er run to the finals.

The Estonian will meetTaiwan's Hsieh Su-Wei whocontinued her excellent formwith a 6-3, 6-7 (0/7), 6-2 winover Caroline Wozniacki.

Petra Kvitova, the worldnumber 3, booked her place inthe last eight, beating CarolineGarcia 6-3, 6-3 in a matchwhich was held up for onehour and 40 minutes becauseof rain in South Florida.Kvitova plays AustralianAshleigh Barty for a place inthe semi-finals.

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Raheem Sterling believes UEFAshould punish alleged racistchanting aimed at England play-

ers in Monday's 5-1 win overMontenegro in Podgorica with a stadi-um closure.

Manchester City's Sterling celebrat-ed the visitors' fifth goal by cupping hisears towards the home fans on a nightwhen another impressive performanceto start Euro 2020 qualifying by theThree Lions was overshadowed.

"I just want to show them you needmore than that to upset us and stop us,"Sterling told Sky Sports.

"It's 2019 now, I keep saying it. It'sa shame to see this going on and we canonly bring awareness to the situation.

"It's now time for the people incharge to put a real stamp on it becauseyou can fine someone, but what is thatgoing to do?

"You've got to make it a bit harder,punish fans that can't come to games.

Do something that's going to makethem think twice. If their team can't playwith fans, it's going to be difficult."

Sterling also tweeted a photo of hiscelebration with the message:"Best way to silence the haters(and yeah I mean racists)."

England managerGareth Southgate said heheard racist chants aimedat Danny Rose andpromised to report the issueto UEFA.

"There is no doubt inmy mind it happened.We will make sure that isreported to UEFA becauseit's not acceptable," said Southgate."We've got to make sure we support ourplayers."

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finalists showed why they are amongthe favourites to be European champi-ons next year.

Southgate's trust in youth wasagain rewarded as 18-year-old CallumHudson-Odoi, who is yet to start aPremier League game for Chelsea,

shone on his full internationaldebut, while Declan Rice, 20,was also handed his firstEngland start.

"Fabulous performance,"said Southgate on Hudson-Odoi. "With young players itis always up to them. You can

see the talent, his applica-tion has been excellent.He's got to continue that."

England are not usedto falling behind these days,

but showed a resilience to bounce backafter Marko Vesovic turned insideMichael Keane and curled past JordanPickford on 17 minutes.

Keane made amends for his earli-er error with a commanding headerfrom Ross Barkley's free-kick on thehalf hour mark to settle England'snerves.

Nine minutes later, Barkley appliedthe finishing touch after Hudson-Odoi's positive run into the box andshot which his club teammate turnedin from close range.

Further goals from Barkley, HarryKane and Sterling rounded off anexcellent start to qualifying for Englandafter a 5-0 thrashing of Czech Republicon Friday.

Sterling scored a hat-trick againstthe Czechs at Wembley, but also playedprovider here as his cut-back broke per-fectly for Barkley to coolly side-foothome.

The Manchester City winger thenled a rapid counter-attack with onlyKane for company and squared for theEngland captain to tap home his 22ndinternational goal.

And after scoring just twice in hisfirst 45 caps, Sterling now has six goalsin his last four England games as heraced onto Jordan Henderson's throughball before slotting low past the goal-keeper.

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Captain CristianoRonaldo left the field

with a thigh injury asPortugal drew 1-1 againstSerbia in an Euro 2020qualifier on Monday.

Ronaldo was replacedafter 30 minutes in Lisbonas Fernando Santos' reign-ing European championsdrew for a second time intheir opening two gamesof the campaign after theywere held by Ukraine onFriday.

There was no wordwhether the five-timeBallon d'Or winner wouldbe fit for to play for hisclub Juventus in the firstleg of their ChampionsLeague quarter-final atAjax on April 10.

William Carvalhowasted the best of theearly chances at Benfica'stwo-thirds empty Estadioda Luz.

Serbia failed to clearthe ball in the box beforeit fell to the unmarkedReal Betis midfielderwho's side-footed shotglanced past the post afterfive minutes.

Ajax playmaker Tadicopened the scoring fromthe penalty spot two min-utes later. Wolves goal-keeper Rui Patricio collid-ed with an advancingMijat Gacinovic in thebox and Tadic tucked thespot kick away with ease

to take a shock lead overthe Euro 2016 winners.

Ronaldo was deniedan equaliser two minuteslater as his effort was verywell saved MarkoDmitrovic.

The 156-time interna-tional left the field on thehalf hour mark after hepulled up chasing a ball onthe left wing.

He received quicktreatment from membersof the medical team beforereturning to action butwas replaced by Pizzi min-utes later as Pepe tookover the skipper's arm-band.

The visitors were levelwith three minutes of thefirst half to play. Porto'sDanilo Pereira hammeredhis shot from outside thebox into the top cornerpast a helpless Dmitrovic.

Carvalho should haveput his side into the lead25 minutes into the sec-ond half. Guerreirochipped a cross to theback post, Bernardo Silvathen played it into themiddle of the box butCarvalho couldn't make asolid enough contact withthe ball to challengeDmitrovic.

Fernando Santos' out-fit were denied a secondpenalty on 73 minutesafter the linesman over-ruled referee SzymonMarciniak's original deci-sion for off-side.

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Kylian Mbappe scored oneand set up two more as

France routed Iceland 4-0 at theStade de France on Mondaynight to move to the top ofGroup H in Euro 2020 qualify-ing.

The result gives France sixpoints from their first twomatches and puts them aheadTurkey, who also won 4-0 onMonday, on goal difference.

"It was our objective to takesix points but the manner wasgood as well," France managerDidier Deschamps told thepost-match press conference.

Deschamps praised histeam's "offensive efficiency"against a "dense" Icelandicdefence.

"When the opponent playsvery defensively it can be verydifficult to find a way throughso that was a good sign," saidDeschamps, although heacknowledged that Icelandicfatigue near the end played arole.

He added that he waspleased that all three strikers —Mbappe, Antoine Griezmannand Oivier Giroud — scored.

"They are the champions ofthe world and you saw thattoday," acknowledged Iceland

manager Erik Hamren."Five shots on goal and they

scored four. That's top class"From the start Mbappe's

movement mesmerised theIcelanders, though his contribu-tion to the opening goal after 11minutes was straightforward.

The visitors cleared a cor-ner only as far as BenjaminPavard. The right back switchedthe ball to Mbappe, alone onthe left. The young star hadtime to aim his cross whichSamuel Umititi met at the nearpost with a header that glancedoff the inside of the far post andinto the goal.

Four minutes later, Giroudalmost headed another, from across by Pavard, but HannesHalldorsson leapt and stretchedto palm the ball over.

For the next 45 minutes,France, who have never lost toIceland, gave the impressionthat they had slipped down acouple of gears and were con-tent to take the long-rangeshooting opportunities thepacked Iceland defence wasallowing.

Iceland meanwhile workedcourageously and managed toforce the occasional smallthreat.

After 68 minutes, Icelandwere again punished for failing

to put distance on a clearance.France moved the ball to

Pavard who swerved a cross infrom the right that luredHalldorsson into a desperatedive for a ball he could notreach.

Giroud kneed the ball intothe empty net for his 35thFrance goal. That moved himinto third on the all-time list ofFrance scorers, breaking a tiewith David Trezeguet. TheChelsea striker trails onlyMichel Platini, on 41, andThierry Henry, the all-timeleader on 51.

Mbappe added a third after78 minutes. Griezmann slippeda pass between two defendersto the advancing Mbappe whoshrugged off a timid challengeand slid the ball pastHalldorson.

Six minutes later, Mbappereturned the assist with a neatbackheel that sent Griezmannscampering through the frozenIcelandic backline to poke theball into the corner of the goal.

"We've started well withtwo nice team performances"Paul Pogba told French broad-cster M6.

"We knew what we were upagainst. They are a team thatdoesn't let in a lot of goals buttoday we did our job."

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India struck four times after agoal-less first quarter to tame

hosts Malaysia 4-2, climbing tothe second spot in the SultanAzlan Shah Cup hockey tourna-ment, here Tuesday.

Sumit Kumar (17th min),Sumit Kumar junior (27th min),drag flicker Varun Kumar andMandeep Singh (58th min)found the net for India.

Razie Rahim (27th min)and Firhan Ashari (57th min)scored for the hosts.

With two wins and a draw,India moved up to the secondposition in the table with sevenpoints behind Korea (7).

India had beaten Japan 2-0in the first match before playing

a 1-1 draw against Korea.Five minutes into the game,

Malaysia won their first penal-ty corner but Krishan B Pathak,guarding India's post brilliant-ly saved it.

Varun Kumar's pass into the

top of the circle saw HardikSingh work in tandem withMandeep Singh to set up a shoton goal.

It was eventually Sumit whogot the right deflection helpingIndia take an important 1-0 lead

in the 17th minute. Later,Mandeep helped India win theirfirst PC but after several re-takesIndia could not extend theirlead.

Soon Malaysia won theirsecond PC of the match andRazie Rahim did not disappointthe home crowd as he struck lowto give Malaysia an equaliser inthe 21st minute.

The third quarter wasintense with both teams rallyingon counter attacks but Indiaremained determined. Theychallenged the Malaysiandefence with solid circle entries.Mandeep Singh worked hismagic yet again winning Indiaanother important PC.

Taken by dragflicker VarunKumar, he scored on a re-take

with a powerful flick, keepingthe ball low to the left. The 3-1lead put pressure on the hosts.

The fourth quarter, thoughsaw Malaysia score a field goalthrough Firhan Ashari in the57th minute who did well to beatSreejesh at post after he hadmade two great saves earlier inthe quarter.

In the 58th minute, a bril-liant circle entry and assist bySumit Kumar Jr to MandeepSingh helped him score India'sfourth goal ending the match on4-2.

India's defence did notmake any last-minute minute totake home three points. BirendraLakra was named the man-of-the-match for his efforts inhelping India defend their lead.

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