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T he Modi Government’s ambitious Smart City Mission is floundering and out of 9,860 crore released to 60 cities under the mission, only seven per cent have been utilised so far. The Prime Minister’s Office is understood to be worried over slow pace of work under the mission, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi has himself decided to review the projects on June 25. “Before the review meeting, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs will organise Smart Cities’ conclave in Bhopal from May 8-9 on best practices adopted by the cities under the Smart City programme. A list of practices would be put up before the Prime Minister during the review meeting,” said the sources. “The review meeting will also help address the bot- tleneck and speed up the pro- jects,” sources added. The cities selected under the Smart City Mission has been asked to prepare a list of best practices/smart practices adopted by them. As per data provided by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs to a Parliamentary panel, so far only 645 crore has been spent on the mission by the States. Of 196 crore released to each of 40 cities, Ahmedabad has spent the max- imum amount of 80.15 crore, followed by Indore (70.69 crore), Surat (43.41 crore) and Bhopal 42.86 crore. On the other hand, the data revealed that of the sanctioned funds, Andaman & Nicobar could utilise just 54 lakh, Ranchi 35 lakh, and Aurangabad 85 lakh. Among the cities, which got around 111 crore each from the Centre, Vodadara has spent 20.62 crore, Namchi in Sikkim spent 6.80 crore, while Salem, Vellore and Thanjavur in Tamil Nadu could utilise only 5 lakh, 6 lakh and 19 lakh, respectively. The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Urban Development has expressed unhappiness over the slow pace of implementation of the mis- sion. The panel has also point- ed out that the “ground reality of work done under Smart Cities Mission is different than claimed by the Government with issues such as shortage of town planners with Urban Local Bodies and complaints about poor work from local MPs putting a question mark on its implementation. It has expressed its concern about the mission achieving its set targets when even after three years since its launch, most of the identified projects are still at the stage of prepara- tion of detailed project report. A Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry official said the Ministry was concerned about the “unsatisfactory” progress of the project in some of the cities. Ninety-nine cities have so far been selected by the Government under the Smart City Mission and each of them will get 500 crore as Central assistance for implementing various projects. Of the 99 cities selected for the Mission that have identified 2.04 lakh crore worth projects, 86 have got Special Purpose Vehicles in place and 64 have Project Monitoring Cells. I n a great relief to former Gujarat Minister Dr Maya Kodnani, the Gujarat High Court on Friday acquitted her in the 2002 Naroda Patiya riot case by overruling judgment of a Special Court in Ahmedabad which convicted Kodnani in August 2012. One of the key accused in the 2002 Naroda Patiya riot case, Kodnani was sentenced to 28 years in jail by the Special Court. She was out of jail on medical ground. The High Court, however, didn’t give much relief to another key accused in the case — Babu Bajrangi who had been sen- tenced for life imprisonment by the lower court. The Gujarat High Court reduced his pun- ishment to 21 years. Government Counsel Prashant Desai said the court considered Bajrangi’s crime similar to others convicted in the case and hence his sentence is fixed for 21 year on parity. The 3000-page judgment was pronounced by a Division Bench of Justice Harsha Devani and Justice AS Supehia on appeals filed by former BJP Minister Maya Kodnani and others against their con- viction in the 2002 Naroda Patiya riot case. The special court had in 2012 convicted 32 people, including Kodnani and Babu Bajrangi. Seven other accused were given enhanced life imprisonment of 21 years, which they were to serve after undergoing 10 years’ impris- onment under IPC section 326 that relates to causing grievous hurt. Remaining accused were given simple life imprison- ment of 14 years. Of the 32 found guilty by the special court, two persons had died during the trial period. Of the remaining 30, the Gujarat High Court on Friday acquitted 18, finding only 12 guilty. Aftermath of the Godhra train carnage in which 59 Kar Sevaks were killed, the Naroda Patiya incident occurred in February 2002 where 97 people were killed. According to Desai, the court found contradictions in the statements of 11 wit- nesses who had said Kodnani was present at Naroda-Patiya area during riots and gave a speech before leaving the area. However, none of police witness mentioned her pres- ence and the court gave promi- nence to police witnesses, he said, adding that moreover Kodnani’s name appeared first time in 2008, six years post the incident and only after the SC appoint Special Investigation Team in the case. In the same case, BJP pres- ident Amit Shah had to appear before the court. Shah stated that Kodnani was with him in the Assembly at 8.30 am and later he had met her at the Civil Hospital at Sola where he was there from 9.30 am to 9.45 am. Continued on Page 4 L ed by the Congress, seven Opposition parties on Friday initiated the process for the impeachment of Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra, accusing him of “mis- behaviour” and “misuse” of authority. Levelling five specific alle- gations against the CJI, leaders of the seven Opposition parties met Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu, who is also the Chairman of the Rajya Sabha, and handed over the notice of impeachment bearing signa- tures of 71 MPs and seven for- mer MPs, who recently retired. Naidu is likely to seek legal opinion before accepting or rejecting it. This is the first time that a notice of impeachment against a sitting CJI has been moved, even though there have been cases of impeachment motions against High Court judges. If the motion is admitted, the law provides for constitu- tion of a three-member com- mittee comprising a Supreme Court judge, Chief Justice of a High Court and a distinguished jurist to look into the complaint. The notice for impeach- ment comes a day after the Supreme Court rejected a bunch of petitions seeking an inde- pendent investigation into the death of Judge BH Loya, who was hearing the Sohrabuddin Sheikh encounter case. Sibal said the allegations against the CJI cannot be ignored and if the notice for the impeachment motion is accept- ed “then as per convention, he has to refrain from discharging his judicial functions”. Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad said, “We have moved a motion for removal of Chief Justice of India under five grounds of misbehaviour. The MPs who signed the notice belong to the Congress, the NCP, the CPI(M), the CPI, the SP, the BSP and the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML). The leaders of these parties ear- lier met in Parliament and gave final shape to the notice for impeachment. The Trinamool Congress and the DMK, besides the RJD and some other parties, have backed out from support- ing the move. The idea for the impeach- ment motion was first pro- posed by the Left parties days after four topmost judges of the Supreme Court went public with the allegation that the Chief Justice was abusing his position as “master of the ros- ter” and sensitive cases were being allocated to junior judges. But the move has divided not just the Opposition ranks but also the Congress. Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is reportedly against the impeachment motion. Singh has not signed the proposal. The Opposition parties at a hurriedly called Press conference announced and cited reasons for the impeachment motion. “We wish this day had never come,” said Congress senior leader Kapil Sibal, reading out the Opposition statement. “When the judges of the Supreme Court themselves believe that the judiciary’s inde- pendence is under threat and democracy is in peril, alluding to the functioning of the office of the Chief Justice of India, should the nation stand still and do nothing?...The choice was not easy because either way, repercussions are seri- ous,” he said. Continued on Page 4 T he Yogi Adityanath Government is contem- plating to include 17 Other Backward Castes in the Schedule Caste list and send its recommendation to the Centre for approval. The power to declare any caste as Scheduled Caste rests with the Centre. Incidentally, the issue has been a major plank for Samajwadi Party as Mulayam Singh Yadav and his son Akhilesh Yadav, as Chief Ministers, had recommended the same to the Centre. The Centre has so far thrice reject- ed this recommendation of various regimes. This will be the fourth time that the State Government would be attempt- ing to include 17 OBCs caste in the SC category. If the UP Government’s recommendation is allowed by the Centre this time, then it would be a master stroke to counter the rallying of OBCs and Dalits with the SP-BSP alliance as both parties are at daggers drawn on the issue. Since 2004, the SP has maintained a consistent cam- paign for inclusion of 17 OBCs in the SC list but the BSP vehe- mently opposed the idea and demanded increase in SC quota from the present 21 per cent in the changed scenario. It also termed the move as a “con- spiracy to dilute the reservation quota for Dalits”. The SP was eager to expand its social base as the common perception about it is that it is a Yadav-centric party. Besides, the SP wanted to eat into the Dalit vote bank of bete noire Bahujan Samaj Party. The 17 OBCs include Kahaar, Kashyap, Kewat, Nishad, Gond, Bhar, Prajapati, Rajbhar, Bind, Batham, Turha, Manjhi, Mallah, Kumhar, Dheevar, Dheemar and Machua. Continued on Page 4 T he Union Cabinet is likely to consider an Ordinance to award the death penalty to those convicted of raping a child up to 12 years of age. The proposal has come in the back- drop of nationwide outrage over the rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Kathua in Jammu & Kashmir, and sexual assault of a teenager in Unnao in Uttar Pradesh. The Madhya Pradesh Government was the first to bring a Bill to award cap- ital punishment to those con- victed of raping girls aged 12 and below last year. The Rajasthan Government was the second State to pass such Bill. Sources in the Women and Child Development Ministry said against the backdrop of outrage over the incidents of rape of minors in Uttar Pradesh’s Unnao and Jammu & Kashmir’s Kathua, the Government plans to bring the Ordinance to amend the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. “An Ordinance is the best way to deal with the issue. An amendment Bill will have to wait (till July) when the Monsoon Session commences,” said officials of WCD Ministry. Under the current law, the maximum punishment for “aggravated assault” is life in jail. The minimum sentence prescribed is seven years in jail. According to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data for 2016, inci- dents of rape of children have increased by over 82 per cent compared to 2015. It is for the first time that such a sharp increase in sexual assaults on children has been registered. The highest rise has been reg- istered in Uttar Pradesh, where figures have trebled. The NCRB data shows that while in 2015, 10,854 cases of rape under Section 376 of the IPC and under Sections 4 and 6 of the Protection of Children against Sexual Offences (POCSO) were registered across the country, 2016 saw 19,765 such cases being registered. Continued on Page 4 New Delhi: On a day when a motion to remove Chief Justice of India was moved in Parliament, the Supreme Court sought the assistance of the Attorney General to frame guidelines on the procedure to be followed by Parliamentarians prior to moving the removal motion under Article 124 of the Constitution. The court was “disturbed” to note how Members of Parliament openly issued state- ments to the Press on the removal motion even before it was moved in the House. Suggesting that this conduct amounted to “intimidation” of judges, a petition filed by NGO “In Pursuit of Justice” urged the court to consider framing guidelines to regulate the pro- cedure to be followed by legis- lators and media prior to ini- tiation of removal motion. The Bench of Justices AK Sikri and Ashok Bhushan agreed with the petitioner’s concern. PNS Detailed report on P2 New Delhi: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, himself an emi- nent lawyer, on Friday slammed the Congress for moving to impeach the Chief Justice of India. Jailtey described the impeachment move as an “intimidatory tac- tic” and “revenge petition” to target the Supreme Court after its verdict in the Judge BH Loya death case exposed a “conspiracy of falsehood”. In a hard-hitting Facebook post titled “Judge Loya Death Case — The One That Almost Created a Judicial Mutiny”, Jaitley said, “My preliminary reaction to the impeachment motion filed today is clear. It is a revenge petition after the falsehood of the Congress party has been established in the Justice Loya death case. It is an attempt to intimidate a Judge and send a message to other Judges that if you don’t agree with us, fifty MPs are enough for a revenge action.” PNS Detailed report on P2 RNI Regn. No. CHHENG/2012/42718, Postal Reg. No. - RYP DN/34/2013-2015 C M Y K C M Y K

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The Modi Government’sambitious Smart City

Mission is floundering andout of �9,860 crore released to60 cities under the mission,only seven per cent have beenutilised so far. The PrimeMinister’s Office is understoodto be worried over slow pace ofwork under the mission, andPrime Minister Narendra Modihas himself decided to reviewthe projects on June 25.

“Before the review meeting,the Ministry of Housing andUrban Affairs will organiseSmart Cities’ conclave in Bhopalfrom May 8-9 on best practicesadopted by the cities under theSmart City programme. A list ofpractices would be put up beforethe Prime Minister during thereview meeting,” said thesources. “The review meetingwill also help address the bot-tleneck and speed up the pro-jects,” sources added.

The cities selected underthe Smart City Mission hasbeen asked to prepare a list ofbest practices/smart practicesadopted by them.

As per data provided by the

Ministry of Housing and UrbanAffairs to a Parliamentarypanel, so far only �645 crore hasbeen spent on the mission bythe States. Of �196 crorereleased to each of 40 cities,Ahmedabad has spent the max-imum amount of �80.15 crore,followed by Indore (�70.69crore), Surat (�43.41 crore)and Bhopal �42.86 crore. On

the other hand, the datarevealed that of the sanctionedfunds, Andaman & Nicobarcould utilise just �54 lakh,Ranchi �35 lakh, andAurangabad �85 lakh.

Among the cities, whichgot around �111 crore eachfrom the Centre, Vodadara hasspent �20.62 crore, Namchi inSikkim spent �6.80 crore, while

Salem, Vellore and Thanjavurin Tamil Nadu could utiliseonly �5 lakh, �6 lakh and �19lakh, respectively.

The ParliamentaryStanding Committee on UrbanDevelopment has expressedunhappiness over the slow paceof implementation of the mis-sion. The panel has also point-ed out that the “ground reality

of work done under SmartCities Mission is different thanclaimed by the Governmentwith issues such as shortage oftown planners with UrbanLocal Bodies and complaintsabout poor work from localMPs putting a question markon its implementation.

It has expressed its concernabout the mission achieving itsset targets when even afterthree years since its launch,most of the identified projectsare still at the stage of prepara-tion of detailed project report.

A Housing and UrbanAffairs Ministry official said theMinistry was concerned about the “unsatisfactory”progress of the project in someof the cities.

Ninety-nine cities have sofar been selected by theGovernment under the SmartCity Mission and each of themwill get �500 crore as Centralassistance for implementingvarious projects. Of the 99cities selected for the Missionthat have identified �2.04 lakhcrore worth projects, 86 havegot Special Purpose Vehicles inplace and 64 have ProjectMonitoring Cells.

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In a great relief to formerGujarat Minister Dr Maya

Kodnani, the Gujarat HighCourt on Friday acquitted herin the 2002 Naroda Patiya riotcase by overruling judgment ofa Special Court in Ahmedabadwhich convicted Kodnani inAugust 2012.

One of the key accused inthe 2002 Naroda Patiya riotcase, Kodnani was sentenced to28 years in jail by the SpecialCourt. She was out of jail onmedical ground. The HighCourt, however, didn’t givemuch relief to another keyaccused in the case — BabuBajrangi who had been sen-tenced for life imprisonment bythe lower court. The GujaratHigh Court reduced his pun-ishment to 21 years.

Government CounselPrashant Desai said the courtconsidered Bajrangi’s crimesimilar to others convicted inthe case and hence his sentenceis fixed for 21 year on parity.

The 3000-page judgmentwas pronounced by a DivisionBench of Justice Harsha Devani

and Justice AS Supehia onappeals filed by former BJPMinister Maya Kodnani and others against their con-viction in the 2002 NarodaPatiya riot case.

The special court had in2012 convicted 32 people,including Kodnani and BabuBajrangi. Seven other accusedwere given enhanced life

imprisonment of 21 years,which they were to serve afterundergoing 10 years’ impris-onment under IPC section 326that relates to causing grievoushurt. Remaining accused weregiven simple life imprison-ment of 14 years. Of the 32found guilty by the specialcourt, two persons had diedduring the trial period. Of the

remaining 30, the Gujarat HighCourt on Friday acquitted 18,finding only 12 guilty.

Aftermath of the Godhratrain carnage in which 59 KarSevaks were killed, the NarodaPatiya incident occurred inFebruary 2002 where 97 peoplewere killed. According to Desai,the court found contradictionsin the statements of 11 wit-nesses who had said Kodnaniwas present at Naroda-Patiyaarea during riots and gave aspeech before leaving the area.

However, none of policewitness mentioned her pres-ence and the court gave promi-nence to police witnesses, hesaid, adding that moreoverKodnani’s name appeared firsttime in 2008, six years post theincident and only after the SCappoint Special InvestigationTeam in the case.

In the same case, BJP pres-ident Amit Shah had to appearbefore the court. Shah statedthat Kodnani was with him inthe Assembly at 8.30 am andlater he had met her at the CivilHospital at Sola where he wasthere from 9.30 am to 9.45 am.

Continued on Page 4

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Led by the Congress, sevenOpposition parties on

Friday initiated the process forthe impeachment of ChiefJustice of India Dipak Misra, accusing him of “mis-behaviour” and “misuse” ofauthority.

Levelling five specific alle-gations against the CJI, leadersof the seven Opposition partiesmet Vice President M VenkaiahNaidu, who is also theChairman of the Rajya Sabha,and handed over the notice ofimpeachment bearing signa-tures of 71 MPs and seven for-mer MPs, who recently retired.Naidu is likely to seek legalopinion before accepting orrejecting it.

This is the first time that anotice of impeachment againsta sitting CJI has been moved,even though there have beencases of impeachment motionsagainst High Court judges.

If the motion is admitted,the law provides for constitu-tion of a three-member com-mittee comprising a SupremeCourt judge, Chief Justice of aHigh Court and a distinguishedjurist to look into the complaint.

The notice for impeach-ment comes a day after theSupreme Court rejected a bunchof petitions seeking an inde-pendent investigation into thedeath of Judge BH Loya, whowas hearing the SohrabuddinSheikh encounter case.

Sibal said the allegationsagainst the CJI cannot beignored and if the notice for theimpeachment motion is accept-ed “then as per convention, hehas to refrain from discharginghis judicial functions”.

Leader of Opposition inthe Rajya Sabha Ghulam NabiAzad said, “We have moved amotion for removal of ChiefJustice of India under fivegrounds of misbehaviour.

The MPs who signed the

notice belong to the Congress,the NCP, the CPI(M), the CPI,the SP, the BSP and the IndianUnion Muslim League (IUML).The leaders of these parties ear-lier met in Parliament and gavefinal shape to the notice forimpeachment. The TrinamoolCongress and the DMK, besidesthe RJD and some other parties,have backed out from support-ing the move.

The idea for the impeach-ment motion was first pro-posed by the Left parties daysafter four topmost judges of theSupreme Court went publicwith the allegation that theChief Justice was abusing hisposition as “master of the ros-ter” and sensitive cases werebeing allocated to junior judges.

But the move has dividednot just the Opposition ranksbut also the Congress. FormerPrime Minister ManmohanSingh is reportedly against theimpeachment motion. Singhhas not signed the proposal.

The Opposition parties at ahurriedly called Press conferenceannounced and cited reasons forthe impeachment motion. “We

wish this day had never come,”said Congress senior leaderKapil Sibal, reading out theOpposition statement.

“When the judges of theSupreme Court themselvesbelieve that the judiciary’s inde-pendence is under threat anddemocracy is in peril, alludingto the functioning of the officeof the Chief Justice of India,should the nation stand stilland do nothing?...The choicewas not easy because eitherway, repercussions are seri-ous,” he said.

Continued on Page 4

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The Yogi AdityanathGovernment is contem-

plating to include 17 OtherBackward Castes in theSchedule Caste list and send itsrecommendation to the Centre for approval. The powerto declare any caste asScheduled Caste rests with the Centre.

Incidentally, the issue hasbeen a major plank forSamajwadi Party as MulayamSingh Yadav and his son Akhilesh Yadav, as ChiefMinisters, had recommendedthe same to the Centre. TheCentre has so far thrice reject-

ed this recommendation ofvarious regimes. This will bethe fourth time that the StateGovernment would be attempt-ing to include 17 OBCs caste inthe SC category.

If the UP Government’srecommendation is allowed bythe Centre this time, then itwould be a master stroke tocounter the rallying of OBCsand Dalits with the SP-BSPalliance as both parties are atdaggers drawn on the issue.

Since 2004, the SP hasmaintained a consistent cam-paign for inclusion of 17 OBCsin the SC list but the BSP vehe-mently opposed the idea anddemanded increase in SC quota

from the present 21 per cent inthe changed scenario. It alsotermed the move as a “con-spiracy to dilute the reservationquota for Dalits”.

The SP was eager toexpand its social base as thecommon perception about it isthat it is a Yadav-centric party.Besides, the SP wanted to eatinto the Dalit vote bank of betenoire Bahujan Samaj Party.

The 17 OBCs includeKahaar, Kashyap, Kewat,Nishad, Gond, Bhar, Prajapati,Rajbhar, Bind, Batham, Turha, Manjhi, Mallah,Kumhar, Dheevar, Dheemarand Machua.

Continued on Page 4

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The Union Cabinet is likelyto consider an Ordinance to

award the death penalty tothose convicted of raping achild up to 12 years of age. Theproposal has come in the back-drop of nationwide outrageover the rape and murder of aneight-year-old girl in Kathua inJammu & Kashmir, and sexualassault of a teenager in Unnaoin Uttar Pradesh. The MadhyaPradesh Government was thefirst to bring a Bill to award cap-ital punishment to those con-victed of raping girls aged 12and below last year. TheRajasthan Government was thesecond State to pass such Bill.

Sources in the Women andChild Development Ministrysaid against the backdrop ofoutrage over the incidents ofrape of minors in UttarPradesh’s Unnao and Jammu &Kashmir’s Kathua, theGovernment plans to bringthe Ordinance to amend theProtection of Children fromSexual Offences (POCSO) Act.“An Ordinance is the best wayto deal with the issue. Anamendment Bill will have towait (till July) when theMonsoon Session commences,”said officials of WCD Ministry.Under the current law, the

maximum punishment for“aggravated assault” is life injail. The minimum sentenceprescribed is seven years in jail.

According to the NationalCrime Records Bureau(NCRB) data for 2016, inci-dents of rape of children haveincreased by over 82 per centcompared to 2015. It is for thefirst time that such a sharpincrease in sexual assaults onchildren has been registered.

The highest rise has been reg-istered in Uttar Pradesh, wherefigures have trebled. The NCRBdata shows that while in 2015,10,854 cases of rape underSection 376 of the IPC andunder Sections 4 and 6 of theProtection of Children againstSexual Offences (POCSO) wereregistered across the country,2016 saw 19,765 such casesbeing registered.

Continued on Page 4

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New Delhi: On a day when amotion to remove Chief Justiceof India was moved inParliament, the Supreme Courtsought the assistance of theAttorney General to frameguidelines on the procedure tobe followed by Parliamentariansprior to moving the removalmotion under Article 124 of theConstitution.

The court was “disturbed”to note how Members ofParliament openly issued state-ments to the Press on the

removal motion even before itwas moved in the House.Suggesting that this conductamounted to “intimidation” ofjudges, a petition filed by NGO“In Pursuit of Justice” urged thecourt to consider framingguidelines to regulate the pro-cedure to be followed by legis-lators and media prior to ini-tiation of removal motion. TheBench of Justices AK Sikri andAshok Bhushan agreed withthe petitioner’s concern. PNS

Detailed report on P2

New Delhi: Finance MinisterArun Jaitley, himself an emi-nent lawyer, on Fridayslammed the Congress formoving to impeach the ChiefJustice of India. Jailteydescribed the impeachmentmove as an “intimidatory tac-tic” and “revenge petition” totarget the Supreme Court afterits verdict in the Judge BHLoya death case exposed a“conspiracy of falsehood”.

In a hard-hitting Facebookpost titled “Judge Loya Death

Case — The One That AlmostCreated a Judicial Mutiny”,Jaitley said, “My preliminaryreaction to the impeachmentmotion filed today is clear. It isa revenge petition after thefalsehood of the Congress partyhas been established in theJustice Loya death case. It is anattempt to intimidate a Judgeand send a message to otherJudges that if you don’t agreewith us, fifty MPs are enoughfor a revenge action.” PNS

Detailed report on P2

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Yesterday I read the 114-page judgement in the

Judge Loya death case authoredby Justice DY Chandrachud onbehalf of the three Judge Benchof the Supreme Court. A read-ing of the judgement exposesevery fact of the conspiracy togenerate falsehood as propa-ganda in the public and polit-ical space.

Never ever so blatantly inthe past have national politicalparties, a few retired judges andsome senior lawyers so close-ly identified themselves withthe generation of falsehoodthat they almost come out asconspirators. A detailed analy-sis of the facts and the roleplayed by some groups is nec-essary since I suspect suchattempts will also be made inthe future.

Alleged role of Amit Shahin the Sohrabuddin case

Amit Shah had no role inthe Sohrabuddin case. It was analleged encounter executed bysome Central agencies throughthe State Police. I had writtena detailed letter on September27, 2013 to then PrimeMinister Manmohan Singhgiving out all these facts indetail. The primary piece ofevidence sought to be intro-duced to link Amit Shah withthe encounter was that of twopersons — Ramanbhai Pateland Dasrathbhai Patel, bothnoted land grabbers, who hadgiven evidence against AmitShah. Both claimed that theyhad gone to Amit Shah’s officeto meet him to have aPreventive Detention Orderunder PASA passed againstthem, withdrawn. He haddemanded �75 lakhs fromthem, which was paid on cer-tain specific dates through oneAjay Patel in instalments. In thecourse of this meeting, AmitShah had made some casualstatement on why Sohrabuddinhad to be killed.

The alleged evidence wasso false is evident from the factthat the visitors register showedthe two never visited AmitShah ever. Secondly, there was

never a PASA order againsteither of the two Patels. Thirdly,some of the dates on which theinstalments of �75 lakhs wereallegedly paid by Patel weredates on which Ajay Patel’spassport shows that he was notin India. On this flimsy evi-dence any court would havedischarged Amit Shah. Whilegranting him bail, the GujaratHigh Court had commentedthat this was actually a case ofno prosecutable evidence. It didnot matter to Amit Shah as towhich Judge heard this flimsycharge against him. Amit Shah

was discharged in the case.Some individuals challengedthe discharge order before theMumbai High Court and theSupreme Court. The challengewas rejected. Many of thosewho raked up the Judge Loyadeath case were associatedagainst Amit Shah in theSohrabuddin case.

The Caravan magazine’sfake news

Judge Loya, as the SupremeCourt judgement establishes,had a chest pain in the earlyhours of December, 1, 2014 atRavi Bhawan, Nagpur. Twoother District Judges were withhim. They had telephoned twoother colleagues from judicia-ry and thus the four DistrictJudge level officers took JudgeLoya to hospital in their carwhere an ECG was conducted,preliminary treatment wasgiven and the case was referredto a specialised cardiology hos-pital. By the time he reachedthe cardiology hospital, prob-ably the condition worsenedand he passed away. Effortswere made for revival but thesame unfortunately failed.

During the period of hiscardiac problem, only fourDistrict Judges, the doctorsand the medical staff of the twohospitals had access to him.Four High Court Judgesarrived at the second hospital,which recommended a post-mortem which was conductedby a third hospital and the sameindicated a death because ofcardiac issues. His body wasthen accompanied by twoMagistrates to his home town.After perusing the statement ofall concerned persons andJudge Loya's family members,

who accepted the natural caus-es of the death, the SupremeCourt came to a finding thatthis conclusively was a deathbecause of natural reasons andthere was no suspicious cir-cumstance. The Caravan mag-azine stories and investiga-tions are a textbook example offake news. It was not gossip orrumour mongering but a delib-erately generated fake newswhere falsehood was manu-factured to generate a massivepublic controversy.

The “InstitutionDisruptors”

Most courts in India have aset of crusading lawyers whopick-up causes in public inter-est and pursue them. That isperfectly acceptable. But overthe last few years one has wit-nessed the evolution of thesepublic interest crusaders grad-uating into “InstitutionDisruptors”. They pick-up evenfalse causes and pursue thefalsehood with a sense of deepcommitment, indulge in intim-idating advocacy, are shrill withtheir opposing colleagues, arerude and impolite with the

judges. They firmly believe thatevery falsehood that they pro-pound must be accepted as thegospel truth. They have foundtwo strong allies. A section ofthe media gives them publicity.Simultaneously, we have wit-nessed the devolution of theCongress from a mainstreamparty now taking fringe posi-tions. The Party through itslawyers or otherwise, is too will-ing to identify with these“Institution Disruptors” andthus intimidation of courts hasbecome the new form of advo-cacy. A divided court is findingitself helpless to respond tothese intimidatory tactics. Thejudgement indicates that intidi-matory tactics were used as analternative to one sided set offacts in the case. The “InstitutionDisruptors” have now becomespokespersons of the JudgeLoya death case falsehood.

The impeachment weaponThe impeachment of a

Judge of the Supreme Court isto be done only in the case ofeither his “incapacity” or on“proven misconduct”. TheCongress and its friends havestarted using impeachment asa political tool. Impeachment isa process by which you removethe holder of office in order toprotect the dignity of an office.The power of impeachmentunder our Constitution is a partof an inter-institutionalaccountability. Both Houses ofParliament as political houseshave been conferred the judi-cial power of impeachment.Thus a judicial power is exer-cised by a political house. EachMember has to act as a Judge.He has to independently reviewthe facts and the evidence.Decisions cannot be on partylines or dictated by Whip. Thepower is exercised in case of“proven misconduct”.Trivialising the use of thatpower is a dangerous event. Itis not difficult to collect fiftysignatures of Rajya Sabha orhundred signatures of LokSabha members even on friv-olous issues. To use the poweras intimidatory tactics when

neither you have a case of“proven misconduct” or thenumbers on your side, is a seri-ous threat to judicial indepen-dence. My preliminary reactionto the impeachment motionfiled today is clear. It is arevenge petition after the false-hood of the Congress has beenestablished in the Justice Loyadeath case. It is an attempt tointimidate a Judge and send amessage to other Judges, that ifyou don’t agree with us, 50 MPsare enough for a revengeaction. The charges read out areissues those which have beensettled by judicial orders or byprecedent. Some issues arestale, trivial and have nothingto do with judicial functions.

A divided courtIf intimidatory tactics of

“Institution Disruptors” andimpeachment motion arethreats to judicial indepen-dence, the single greatest threatis the divided court itself. Nowthat the conspiracy of falsehoodof the Judge Loya death casestands conclusively established,a few thoughts come to mymind. The four judges of theSupreme Court who held thecontroversial Press Conference,are all experienced judges andin my view men of high integri-ty. Had they checked up thefacts of Judge Loya case beforecommenting on it, even thoughonly on a listing issue? Shouldanyone at all be commentingon a pending case becausemany comments created anenvironment of prejudice andeven added credibility to utterfalsehood as they did in thepresent case? Is the impeach-ment motion filed today adirect result of the press con-ference? Does this impeach-ment set a precedent that polit-ical parties in India will useimpeachment as an instru-ment to intimidate judges hear-ing controversial matters?

What has happened todayis a price the Indian judiciaryhas to pay for misadventures ofmany. There is no better timefor judicial statesmanship andpolitical foresight.

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With viral hepatisisbecoming as serious

health problem as the “bigthree” communicable diseases— HIV/AIDS, malaria andtuberculosis — in the country,the Union Health Ministry isready to roll out a �500 crore-three-year comprehensiveintegrated national action planto check morbidity and mor-tality due to the disease thatinflicts the liver.

Inflammation of liver isusually referred as hepatitis.Viral hepatitis is a widespreadinfectious disease normallycaused by the hepatitis virusesA, B, C, D and E. The condi-tion can progress to liver fibro-sis (scarring), cirrhosis or livercancer. It can be caused byany of the known five hepa-totropic viruses, namely —hepatitis A, B, C, D and Ewhich are highly divergent intheir structure, epidemiology,mode of transmission, incuba-tion period, signs/symptoms,diagnosis, prevention and treat-

ment options.A senior official from the

Health Ministry said that theaction plan has been devel-oped with the key objective toprovide an actionable frame-work of evidence based, pri-ority interventions to sup-port the national responsefor prevention, control and

management of viral hepatitisin the country.

The World HealthOrganisation (WHO) hasalready recognised viral hepati-tis as a serious public healthproblem in India which ishome to over 52 million peo-ple infected with chronichepatitis. This is placing a

huge disease, social and eco-nomic burden on the affectedfamilies as well as the healthsystem, as per the UN agency.

Latest assessment by WHOshows that in 2016, of the 400million people infected by viralhepatitis globally, about 13 percent were Indians

While 40 million peopleare chronically infected withHepatitis B, 6 to 12 millionpeople are chronically infect-ed with Hepatitis C. Besides,Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is themost important cause of epi-demic Hepatitis, whereasHepatitis A virus (HAV) ismore common among chil-dren. Most acute liver failuresdiagnosed are attributable toHEV.

A bigger concern is thatmost people infected with thevirus are unaware and expertspoints out that with chal-lenges such as awareness,accessibility, compliance andaffordability, India can onlyeradicate hepatitis by 2080(as against global goal of 2030)if they start acting now.

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The Allahabad High Courthas rejected a CBI officer’s

plea seeking to quash a pre-liminary enquiry registeredagainst him by the agency ona complaint from an MNC. Thecourt has also imposed costs of�10,000 on him.

The case pertains to a CBIpreliminary enquiry registeredagainst Superintendent ofPolice Sudhanshu KumarKhare, posted in the agency’sSpecial Crime unit in Lucknow,on the complaint of WhirlpoolIndia Ltd in January.

Whirpool India hadalleged that when Khare wasposted at Ranchi during 2013to 2017, he had “generated afalse and anonymous” com-plaint against the company topressure its executives intotaking back his brother intoservice.

The agency had in Januaryregistered a preliminaryenquiry against Khare afterthe CBI Director gave the nod.The case is being probed by an

ASP level officer in Delhi.Khare had moved the

Lucknow Bench of theAllahabad High Court, claim-ing that he had not violated anyprovisions of the CBI (Crime)Manual 2005 and had notcommitted any act of miscon-

duct, either civil or criminal.He said that he had only

gathered information and hisbrother had resigned fromWhirlpool India Ltd. onJanuary 5, 2016. Therefore,there was no question of pur-suing the case of his brother.

He said that unless a fact-finding inquiry in the matter isbrought to its conclusion, a PE

cannot be registered.Khare said he had written

to the CBI Director about thealleged bias against him onthe part of senior officersand had pleaded for not act-ing on their recommenda-tion.The CBI, however, decid-

ed to go ahead with the pre-liminary enquiry.

After hearing the argu-ments of both the sides, aHigh Court Bench noted thatKhare had received informa-tion regarding “fake employ-ment” of one Vinay Kumar,which was entered into thecomplaint register.

The Bench said the CBI

manual states that no actionshould be taken in case ofanonymous complaints, butKhare collected informationand summoned the officers ofWhirlpool India Ltd.

He also sent sub-ordinateofficers to collect informationabout Kumar, which was anaction in respect of a privatecompany for which the peti-tioner was not authorised at all,the Bench said.

It appears that the peti-tioner “misused his officialposition” while entering suchan arena which otherwise is notpermissible under the law.

He tried to misuse hisposition in the office, which isrequired to be ascertainedduring the course of prelimi-nary enquiry against him, theBench said.

The ground on which theregistration of the preliminaryenquiry has been challengedhas “no substance and neitherit is sustainable under the law”,it said. “The registration of thepreliminary enquiry, therefore,is valid,” it said.

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The current situation inJammu & Kashmir espe-

cially radicalisation of youthand strategy to conductcounter-terrorist operations inthe State with minimum col-lateral damage were the focusof the Army CommandersConference. The four-day con-clave which ends on Saturdayalso reviewed the situation onthe Line of Control (LoC) andat the Line of Actual Control(LAC) facing China.

With Pakistan relentlesslyresorting to ceasefire viola-tions on the LoC, the com-manders analysed the opera-tional preparedness to dealwith any challenge, DirectorGeneral Staff Duties Lt GeneralAK Sharma said here on Fridaywhile giving details of theissues figuring the in the bi-annual conference.

The common refrain ofthe meeting was that radi-calised youth in Kashmir mustbe brought into the mainstream by carrying out derad-icalisation and collective

approach that focuses on con-vincing the youth to shun vio-lence and gun culture, he said.

This comes in the back-drop 126 youth including higheducated ones joining terroristorganisations last year. Also,two Army jawans fromShopian jumped the fence andjoined terror ranks in the lastsix to seven months includingan ace Ghatak commando.

The trend of youth picking

up the gun gained momentumfollowing the killing of HizbulMujahideen commanderBurhan Wani in July 2016.Kashmir Valley then witnessedunrest due to mass protests fornearly five months with near-ly 90 youths joining the mili-tant groups.

As regards situation on the750-km long LoC, Sharma saidthe commanders took stock ofthe “adequacy of the response

mechanisms”. More than 650violations by the PakistanArmy had taken place so far inSouth and North of Pir Panjal.While South comprises Poonchand Rajouri, North includesKashmir Valley and its districtson the LoC.

While firing by Pakistan onIndian posts in Poonch andRajhouri was meant to domi-nate the LoC, ceasefire viola-tions in North of Pir Panjal

were done with aim to enableterrorists to infiltrate by givingthem cover fire. In fact, infil-tration bids in North Kashmirwill now pick up as snow hascompletely melted therebyopening up the ingress routesfor the terrorists to sneak in.

As China continues toramp up its infrastructure on itsside of the LAC, the comman-ders deliberated at lengthcapacity building endeavours tomaintain logistical lines forthe troops posted on the front.The top echelon reviewed thestatus of construction of allweather roads and bridges inthe remote regions of Ladakhand Arunachal Pradesh.

Measures to enhance cybersecurity and military estab-lishments also came up for dis-cussion. Terrorists haveattacked Army camps in thelast few years and theGovernment set up a commit-tee two years back to recom-mend steps to plug the loop-holes. The commanders in theongoing meeting reviewedprogress made on this issue,Sharma said.

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The Supreme Court onFriday dismissed a plea by

fugitive don Dawood Ibrahim’smother Amina Bi Kaskar andhis sister Hasina IbrahimParkar challenging the attach-ment of their properties inMumbai by the Centre. Thiswill pave way for theGovernment to auction theirMumbai properties.

A Bench of Justices RKAgrawal and AM Sapre dis-missed the plea saying theproperties belonged to DawoodIbrahim. His mother and sister(since dead) through their legalrepresentatives challenged theattachment order of their res-idential properties in Mumbai.

The litigation concernedseven residential properties intheir names. Of these, twowere in the mother’s nameand five in the sister’s name. Itwas the contention of theGovernment that the proper-

ties were purchased out of thefugitive don’s ill-gotten wealthand were valued at severalcrores of rupees.

The two women hadapproached the apex courtchallenging the order of theDelhi High Court that turneddown their plea against theorder for seizure of their prop-erties in Mumbai under theSmugglers And ForeignExchange ManipulatorsForfeiture Of Property) Act(SAFEMA).

The Act provides for for-feiture of “illegally acquiredproperties” of smugglers andforeign exchange manipula-tors and their relatives. Thepetitioners had pleaded thatthey were not duly served for-feiture notices and so the sub-sequent proceedings to attachtheir properties at Nagpada inSouth Mumbai were illegal.They sought a fresh opportu-nity to challenge the forfeiturenotices which the apex courtdeclined.

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On a day when a motion toremove Chief Justice of

India was moved in Parliament,the Supreme Court sought theassistance of the AttorneyGeneral to frame guidelines onthe procedure to be followed byParliamentarians prior to mov-ing the removal motion underArticle 124 of the Constitution.

The court was “disturbed”to note how Members ofParliament openly issued state-ments to the Press on theremoval motion even before itwas moved in the House.Suggesting that this conductamounted to “intimidation” ofjudges, a petition filed byNGO “In Pursuit of Justice”urged the court to considerframing guidelines to regulatethe procedure to be followedby legislators and media priorto initiation of removalmotion. The Bench of JusticesAK Sikri and Ashok Bhushanagreed with the petitioner’sconcern. It said, “We all arevery disturbed about what ishappening.” The Bench soughtthe assistance of Attorney

General KK Venugopal andposted the matter for furtherhearing on May 7.

The petition argued bysenior advocate MeenakshiArora said that the petitionerNGO representing the con-sumers of justice in this coun-try who feel that such utter-ances by parliamentarians andmedia affects the integrity andindependence of judiciary as itattempts to threaten the judges.

This affects the institution ofpublic trust that is essential forcitizens to approach court inpursuit of justice, Arora added.

The petition stated, “Thereis no law which contemplatesand permits the circulation ofdraft notice of motion to thePress. Any statement on mat-ters of public interest shouldbe first made in the House,while it is in session, beforereleasing them to the Press or

bringing it in the publicdomain, leave alone a matterof such grave and seriousnature as having far reachingramifications including under-mining public confidence inthe integrity and impartialityof the courts.

Arora said that the debateon media channels on politi-cal statements prior to removalmotion being filed dividespeople on “polarised” lines.The Bench said, “This is very

unfortunate what is happen-ing”. However, the courtrefused to bar the media frompublishing or telecasting thesubject of removal of a judgeawaiting response from the A-G. It said, “The law is veryclear. Even the legislatureknows the law. We need todetermine first whether thismatter can be taken up on thejudicial side for which weneed assistance of the A-G.”

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Chief Minister Raman Singhon Friday directed that

each of the Agriculture ScienceCentre in the State shouldadopt 10 villages to providetraining to youths and farmerson agriculture, horticultureand fisheries.

Chairing a meeting of theAgriculture Task ForcePermanent Work Group at hisofficial residence here, theChief Minister said that theAgriculture Science Centresshould provide training tomaximum number of farmersand youth.

He said that 50 lakh smartphones are to be distributedunder SKY scheme to familieswhich should have an applica-tion related to information onagriculture.

An initiative should betaken to get school childrenattracted to agriculture profes-sion by disseminating infor-mation on benefits of agricul-

ture profession, Singh said.The farmers could be edu-

cated on agriculture throughGram Sabhas in Panchayats,hesaid.

Singh said that the educat-ed youth through theAgriculture Science Centrescan be trained to offer themwork under MGNREGS.

On the occasion, Vice-Chairman of State PlanningCommission Sunil Kumar,unofficial member ProfessorDinesh Marothiya, Chairmenof Agriculture Task Force'spermanent groups- SK Patil(Vice-Chancellor IndiraGandhi Agriculture UniversityRaipur, Dr PK Joshi (DirectorSouth Asia International FoodPolicy Research Institute New

Delhi), Professor SukhpalSingh (IIM Ahmedabad), DrVP Singh Senior Advisor ForPolicy and Development (ICRFSouth Asia New Delhi), Dr

Vishwa Vallabh (Professor andCoordinator CRM School ofBusiness and HumanResources XLRI Jamshedpur),Professor Brij GopalCoordinator Centre for InlandWaters in South Asia Jaipur,and Chief Minister's SpecialSecretary Mukesh Bansal were

present.Notably, the Chhattisgarh

Government will establish anIncubator for promotion ofLivelihood activities in

Business Process Outsourcing(BPO), agriculture and alliedsectors with market linkage inRajnandgaon district, officialsinformed.

Notably, Chhattisgarh hasstarted adapting the best pol-icy practices from the fastestgrowing entrepreneurial eco-

systems, like in Singaporeand the Silicon Valley, toaccelerate entrepreneurialgrowth to provide a majorpush to the 'StartupChhattisgarh' programme,officials informed.

It is now aggressivelyinviting new entrepreneurs,investors and startup leadersfrom across the globe tobecome part of the startupecosystem.

The Government also hasplans to establish state-of-the-art innovation/researchinfrastructure at the univer-sities and colleges in emerg-ing fields such as biotechnol-ogy and Internet of Things(IoT), Agriculture and FoodProcessing so that innovatorscan build new products.

It also has plans to estab-lish district specific knowl-edge banks to bring all theentrepreneurial opportuni-ties in food processing, man-ufacturing and value additionetc under one roof.

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Infighting in Chhattisgarhunit of Congress party has

come to fore over addressingpress conferences in CongressBhawan here.

Angry over arranginganother press conference wellbefore them, the two WorkingPresidents of ChhattisgarhPradesh Congress Committee(CGPCC), Shiv Daharia andRamdayal Uikey along withPresident of Tribal WingShishupal Sori refused to holdtheir press conference at theeleventh hour on Friday.

The press conference of

Working Presidents wasalready planned and mediawas informed a day before but

when they reached theCongress Bhawan they sawthat Member of ParliamentChhaya Verma was alreadytaking a press conference wellbefore them. The media wasnot informed about the pressconference of Verma. Thisbecame bone of contentionbetween the leaders andDaharia, Uikey and Sori gotangry.

Angry over the matter,Daharia, Uikey and Sori left theCongress Bhawan informingthe media persons that “nowChairman CommunicationWing Shailesh Nitin Trivediwill brief them what they wantto say”. Trivedi tried his levelbest apologizing before thembut the leaders didn’t listen tohim.

Trivedi later also expressedregret before the media forboycott of the press conferenceand said that there was a kindof misunderstanding betweenhim and the leaders.

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Chhattisgarh State PowerTransmission Company

Ltd (CSPTCL) has sought70.782 hectares of forest landproposed for diversion for 220KV DCDS Jagdalpur - BarsoorTransmission Line, officialsinformed.

The power supply of wholeBastar division comprising ofseven revenue district namelyBastar, Bijapur, Dantewada,Kanker, Kondagaon, Narayapurand Sukma are taken by220/132 KV Barsoor S/SLocated in Dantewada Districtfor which 220KV feeders com-ing from Bhilai, they informed.

Notably, Chhattisgarh isexpected to add 14,140 MW ofadditional power generation

capacity in its thermal plantsbetween November 2015 toMarch 2022, according to theCentral Electricity Authority(CEA) in its perspective trans-mission plan report preparedfor 20 years ( 2014-34).

The objective of the plan isto present broad outlines of therequirement of additionaltransmission system in theIndian grid during the next twodecades.

The National ElectricityPlan is under preparation u/S3(4) of the Electricity Act 2003.This plan would inter-alia givegeneration capacity additionfor period up to 2021-22 basedon integrated resource plan-ning requirements for thecountry.

In the absence of the gen-eration addition programmefor 13th Plan period, an esti-

mate was made considering theongoing and likely capacityaddition for the conventional

generation projects.Major high capacity trans-

mission corridors have already

been planned and which areunder implementation wouldbe sufficient to meet

import/export of power amongvarious regions in the year2021-22.

This is based on theassumptions of load growthand generation capacity addi-tion .

Initially, the High CapacityCorridors from Chhattisgarhand Odisha were planned withreduced reliability due touncertainties in generationaddition by IPPs. The genera-tions which were associatedwith these high capacity corri-dors are coming up in phasedmanner and till now no majorconstraint is being faced.

However, with the comingup of more generations, addi-tional transmission strength-ening may be required to meet

the reliability criteria. Thiswould be taken up with firmstatus of new generation pro-jects.

The State currently also hastotal renewable energy poten-tial of 4,500 MW whichincludes solar (grid connectedand roof top), wind biomassand small hydro.

It has also planned toinstall solar powered pumpsets for agriculture consumerswhich will benefit 16,000 con-sumers.

It may be recalled thatthere are significantly morenumber of villages which are tobe electrified in Chhattisgarhusing the off-grid (solar) modethan the grid-based (conven-tional power supply.

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Seven States includingChhattisgarh with a vision

to rationalising the approvalprocess of technical instituteshave submitted plans to the AllIndia Council for TechnicalEducation (AICTE) whichhas approved preparation ofperspective plan for TechnicalEducation at State level, theCentral Government hasinformed.

The other States are Kerala,Madhya Pradesh, Haryana,Maharashtra, Rajasthan,Telangana which have submit-ted their plans to AICTE.

AICTE doesn’t close downthe Engineering Colleges on itsown. However, some engineer-ing colleges have been grantedapproval for closure by AICTEbased on their request, itinformed.

The actual enrolment in theengineering colleges is based ondemand-supply conditionwhich is attributed to locationof the institute, academic &research infrastructure andplacement prospects.

Notably, it may be recalledthat Chhattisgarh is among 12states including UnionTerritories (UTs) whereMinistry of Human ResourceDevelopment will be deployinghighly qualified and motivatedgraduates recruited from IITsand NITs to teach inEngineering colleges.

To fulfill the vision of PrimeMinister Narendra Modi toprovide thrust to good qualitytechnical and higher educationin the backward areas of thecountry, the Ministry of HumanResource Development hasrecruited more than 1200 high-ly qualified and motivated grad-

uates from including IITs andNITs to teach in EngineeringColleges in States/UTs likeAndaman & Nicobar, Assam,Bihar, Jammu & Kashmir,

Madhya Pradesh, Odisha,Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh,Tripura, Rajasthan, UttarPradesh, Uttarakhand etc.

This is the first time that

such a measure has been takento improve the quality of edu-cation, a Ministry press releaseinformed.

A public appeal was givento the MTech and PhD studentsfrom the premier institutions toexpress interest to work in thesebackward areas and serve thenation. There was an over-whelming response to the call,and more than 5000 highlyqualified persons applied. Theinterviews were conducted in 20NITs by constituting expertteams.

The entire process of givinga call and selection has beencompleted through a competi-tive and rigorous process ofselection done through NITs ina record two-month period.Finally, 1225 candidates wereselected and they have joined 53colleges in these states. The newfaculty will train the youngstersin host of technical institutionsfor the next three years.

Each of the new faculty willbe paid � 70,000 per month andthe Government is planning tospend about Rs 375 crore inthree-year period on this ini-tiative. With this measure, morethan one lakh engineering stu-dents in the most backwardareas would be benefited withbetter quality education.

The reason for backward-ness was essentially because oflack of quality teachers in theseareas.

In many of these institu-tions have vacancies of teachingfaculty (some of them have40% vacancies), The States haverequested Ministry of HRD tohelp to find teaching support.

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Member of ParliamentChhaya Verma had

charged that women and girlchild are unsafe inChhattisgarh.

The State Government hadfailed to control the crimeagainst them, she said.

Addressing a press confer-ence here at Congress Bhawanon Friday, Verma while citingthe figures of National CrimeRecords Bureau (NCRB) saidsix women are molested in theState every day.

In the past couple of days,girl childern of tender agewere molested and murderedin Kawardha as well as inTakhatpur, andBhopalpattanam, she said.

The State government is amute spectator to the crimesand is not taking any action,

she charged.Raising question on the

rise of crime against women,she termed the state ‘unsafe’ forthem.

Citing rape cases of MinaKhalko and Madkam Hidme,she further charged that thegovernment had not taken anystep to control the crimeagainst women.

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Former Minister and AllIndia Congress Committee

(AICC) member MohammedAkbar has charged the BJPGovernment in the State ofsnatching the rights of tribals.

The auction price of thetendupatta was more and theGovernment had declared toprocure it only at half of theprice received, he said.

Speaking to reporters hereon Friday, Akbar said that thetendupatta of the state is said tobe best of best quality in thecountry and has earned goodresponse in the auction thisyear, he informed that the gov-ernment had declared the sup-port price very less than that ofthe price they get in auction.

He informed that the aver-age rate per standard bag oftendupatta received in the cur-

rent year was �5847. Akbar said the

Government had declared ofprocuring tendupatta standardbag at the rate of �2500 only.

Thus, it is a truth that thegovernment by paying Rs 3347less is taking away the 57% ofthe hard earned money of poortribals, he said.

Citing the figures, Akbarsaid that the governmentthrough auction this year hadearned �994 crore while thedistribution to the tendupattapluckers would be only �425crore.

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NMDC Ltd will soon under-take capacity upgradation

of its downhill conveyors at itsBailadila mines in Bastar regionof Chhattisgarh, officialsinformed.

The company recordedproduction of 23.50 milliontonnes of iron ore (provision-al) from its mines inChhattisgarh as on March 31,2018.

The company is targetting toachieve 10 million tonnes of ironore production per annum fromeach of its mines in Chhattisgarhby 2024-25, official sourcesinformed.

It has also sought 7.116hectares forest land diversion forits iron ore concentrate pipelinein Dantewada district of Bastar,they informed.

Notably, NMDC will also beseeking Right of Use (ROU) /Right of Way (ROW) permis-sion for developing a land cor-ridor for its Slurry Pipeline pro-ject from Bailadila to Nagarnar

in Bastar region of Chhattisgarh,officials informed.

NMDC, which is in theprocess of laying a 15 MillionTonnes Per Annum (MTPA)slurry pipeline is executing theproject in two phases.

The first phase is being

executed from Bacheli toNagarnar in Bastar region ofChhattisgarh at an estimatedoutlay of �4,000 crore; and thesecond phase will be executedfrom Nagarnar to Vizag inAndhra Pradesh at an outlay of�6,000 crore, officials informed.

Notably, to transport pelletfeed concentrate from Bailadilato Vizag via Jagdalpur, the com-pany will have the pipeline laidalong the highways with a pro-vision of partial off-take to feedits proposed 3 MTPA Steelplant coming up at Nagarnar.

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In a bid to curb crimesagainst the women in the

state, the Manohar Lal KhattarGovernment in Haryana onFriday has decided to consti-tute Durga Vahini policesquads.

Apart from this, the gov-ernment will recruit 1000women constables and womenvolunteers in the state.

This was stated by theChief Minister while presidingover a meeting with DeputyCommissioners through videoconferencing here on Friday toreview the progress of variousprojects and developmentworks.

Additional ChiefSecretaries and PrincipalSecretaries of various depart-ments were also present in themeeting. In all, 11 issues were

discussed during the meeting.The Chief Minister said

that women security would betaken up as another reformunder the Ek aur Sudhar pro-gramme of the StateGovernment next month.

The State Government hasdecided to roll out one reformevery month and in the sameseries has so far announcedthree reforms, he added.

Manohar Lal said that incase of any crime againstwomen and children, theDeputy Commissioner (DC)concerned should visit the vic-tim’s family and offer all pos-sible assistance on the behalf ofthe State Government.

The Chief Minister saidthat the DCs should not hesi-tate in accepting the demandof the victims’ family for whichthey are capable for. Theother demands which are of

the level of the StateGovernment would be accept-ed as per the policy of the gov-ernment, he added.

DCs DIRECTED TOEXPEDITE PROCESS OFWHEAT LIFTING

The Chief Minister hasasked DCs to expedite theprocess of lifting of wheatfrom mandis (grain markets)in their respective districts. Healso directed them to keep aneye on the vehicles comingfrom the neighbouring statesso as to check the procurementof wheat from other states. Itshould be ensured that wheatof Haryana farmers is procuredfirst, he added.

Manohar Lal said that allthe DCs would ensure early lift-ing of wheat from the mandis soas to avoid the dumping of food-

grains. They should hire addi-tional trucks for this purpose.As the procurement of wheathas already started, the move-ment of vehicles has increasedfrom the neighbouring states ofUttar Pradesh, Delhi andPunjab, he maintained.

SURVEY TO ENSUREGAS CYLINDER IN EVERYHOUSEHOLD

The DeputyCommissioners have beenasked to get a survey conduct-ed in their respective districtsto ensure that there is nohousehold which do not havea gas cylinder. Manohar Lalsaid that Haryana has alreadybecome a kerosene-free state.While reviewing the GramSwaraj Abhiyan, he directedthe DCs to get a survey con-ducted through the DistrictFood and Supply Controllers

(DFSCs) to ensure that there isno household which do nothave gas cylinder. Gram SwarajAbhiyan is being run in thestate from April 14 to May 5,under which various pro-grammes are being organizedin all villages of the state.

ENSURE WATER ANDELECTRICITY SUPPLY

Manohar Lal also directedthe Public Health EngineeringDepartment and PowerDepartment to make adequatearrangement of drinking waterand electricity during thesummer season.

It was informed duringthe meeting that Public HealthEngineering Department is inconstant touch with theDepartments of Irrigation andPower and is fully geared upfor the summer season.

Last year, the tanker ser-

vice in the water deficientareas had been started fromApril 10, but this year this ser-vice has already been startedfrom April 1. As many as 245water tankers have beenpressed into service in ruralareas and 77 tankers in urbanareas.

The Chief Minister wasalso apprized that 10,000 MWto 10,500 MW electricitywould be available with thePower Department during thepeak season from June 15 toSeptember 15 as against thedemand of 9000 MW to10,000 MW.

500 VYAYAMSHALASTO BE INAUGURATED ONMAY 5

The Chief Minister saidthat a target has been fixed toopen 1000 vyayamshalas ontwo acres of land each in the

villages in the state. Out ofthis, 400 vyayamshalas areready and these would beinaugurated on May 5 simul-taneously in all districts. Onthe occasion of InternationalYoga Day on June 21, the peo-ple of that village would per-form yoga in these vyamshalas.Efforts would be made toensure that maximum peopleof the state perform yoga onthis day, he added.

While reviewing theAntyodya Seva KendraScheme, he directed the DCs toidentify buildings in theirrespective districts for theremaining 15 AntyodyaBhawans which would beopened by July 15 this year. Itwas informed that AntyodyaBhawans have already beenopened in seven districts.

CIVIL SERVICE DAY

ON APRIL 21Civil Service Day would be

organized in the state on April21. The state level functionwould be held at Panchkula.The civil service day wouldalso be organized at districtlevel where seminars would beorganized on Pradhan MantriFasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY),Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojna(PMAY), Pormotion of CashLess Economy and DeendayalUpadhyaya Gramin KaushalYojana, said the ChiefMinister. He said that the StateGovernment has allocated oneblock each to 47 senior officersto work on six to seven para-meters to ensure developmentin these blocks. The DCshould ensure that these para-meters should also be dis-cussed in these seminars so atto achieve the desired objec-tives.

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From Page 1Earlier, the Centre told the

Supreme Court that it hasstarted the process to introducethe death penalty for those con-victed of raping girls below 12years of age. The Governmentsaid it would soon proposesuitable amendments to theProtection of Children fromSexual Offences Act. The WCDMinistry made the remarks inresponse to a petition filed bylawyer Alakh Alok Srivastava,who had sought the deathpenalty for child rapists.

After the Kathua rape inci-dent, WCD Minister ManekaGandhi had said her Ministrywould move a Cabinet note onMonday to amend POCSO Actasking for the death penalty forrape on children below 12 years.

Reacting on the rape inci-

dents in London, PrimeMinister Narendra Modi hadsaid, “We always ask our daugh-ters about what they are doing,where they are going. We mustask our sons too.” The personwho is committing these crimesis also someone’s son, he said,adding that rape of a daughteris a matter of shame for thecountry. Last week, Modi hadstated that no criminal will bespared and daughters will getjustice. He had said such inci-dents shake our sensibilities.

After the Nirbhaya case inDecember 2012, when the crim-inal laws were amended, a provi-sion of death penalty in case thewoman either dies or is left in a“vegetative state” after rape wasintroduced through an Ordinancewhich later became the CriminalLaw Amendment Act.

From Page 1The first attempt was made

by Mulayam Singh Yadav asCM in 2004. The then SPGovernment amended UPPublic Services Act, 1994, toinclude 17 OBCs into SC cat-egory. However, it was chal-lenged in Allahabad HighCourt which later quashed themove declaring it as unconsti-tutional and void since thedecision was beyond constitu-tional jurisdiction of a StateGovernment. Mulayam alsorecommended it to the Centerwhich rejected it.

The second attempt wasmade in 2012. Then Akhileshas CM had set up a high-levelcommittee headed by ChiefSecretary Jawed Usmani, whichsent its recommendation to theCentre only to be rejected.The SP Cabinet again adoptedthe proposal and recommend-ed it to the Centre in December2016 which was rejected.

Meanwhile, official sourcessaid the State Government waspreparing to recommend shiftingof 17 OBC castes in ScheduledCaste list and the Centre this timewas all set to accept it by remov-ing legal irritants.

From Page 1The Congress alleged that

recent communications of twosenior judges to the ChiefJustice reveal that the ChiefJustice has not asserted theindependence of the judiciaryin the face of interference bythe executive.

The grand old party alsoalleged that the CJI’s behaviourin the Prasad Education Trustcase was questionable. Thereare several recorded conversa-tions between middlemenincluding a retired judge of theOrissa HC, wherein referencesto Misra by innuendo are evi-dent, alleged the Congress.

The second charge, relatesto the CJI’s handling of a writpetition which sought an inves-tigation into the matter ofPrasad Education Trust, inwhich he too was likely to beinvestigated. The CJI shouldhave recused himself from thecase, the party said.

The fourth charge relates tothe Chief Justice havingacquired land when he was anadvocate by giving an affidavitwhich was found to be false.

From Page 1The bodies of the Godhra

train victims were brought toSola hospital and Kodnaniwas consoling families of thosekilled in the Godhra attackwhen he reached there.

Talking to media personsthe lawyer of victims SamshadPathan said his clients werenot completely satisfied withthe judgment, especially

acquittal of Kodnani and theywould approach the SupremeCourt against the acquittaland reduction in sentence ofthose who found guilty.

Gujarat BJP president JituVaghani welcomed the verdictgiven by Gujarat High Courtin favour of former MinisterMaya Kodnani. Vaghani saidfinally truth came out. Takinga dig on Congress party, he

said instead of respecting judi-ciary, the Opposition party hasnow started questioning itsfunctioning which onlyshowed Congress’s mentality.When the court gives verdictsas per Congress’s expectation,leaders of Opposition partywould praise judiciary, butthey didn’t digest anythingunsuitable to them, he saidadding that Rahul Gandhi

and other senior Congressleaders should apologise fordisrespecting judiciary sys-tem.

Gujarat’s deputy CM NitinPatel said Kodnani was wrong-ly implicated as part of polit-ical conspiracy. Patel indicat-ed that with her acquittalparty would like to give hersome active role if she wouldbe willing to do so.

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Thousands of Palestiniansjoined the fourth weekly

protest on Gaza’s border withIsrael on Friday, some burningtires or flying kites with flam-ing rags dangling from theirtails. Two Palestinians werekilled by Israeli troops firingfrom across the border fence,health officials said.

Huge black plumes ofsmoke from the blazing tiresengulfed the area, as Israelitroops fired tear gas and live

bullets, witnesses said. Gaza’sHealth Ministry said 40 pro-testers were injured, but did notsay how many of those werewounded by gunfire or over-come by tear gas.

The protests are part ofwhat organisers, led by Gaza’sruling Hamas group, havebilled as an escalating show-down with Israel, to culminatein a mass march on May 15.Organisers have made con-flicting statements aboutwhether they plan an eventualmass border breach.

Beijing: China on Friday defendedPakistan against Indian PrimeMinister Narendra Modi’s remarkthat Islamabad was a “terror export factory”, saying the countrymust be supported in the fightagainst “terrorism”.

Beijing also hinted the issue ofterrorism will be on the agenda of

discussion at the ShanghaiCooperation Organisation (SCO)when the eight-member block,joined by India and Pakistan lastyear, holds its annual meeting atChinese city Qingdao in June.

At an event in London onThursday, Modi said India will nottolerate those who export terror.

“When someone has put a ter-ror export factory in place, attacksmy people, has no power to fight awar so attempts to attack behind theback... in such a case Modi knowsto how to give a reply in the samelanguage,” the Indian leader had saidin an obvious reference to Pakistan.

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Aseries of explosive memosprepared by former FBI

director James Comey detailingUS President Donald Trump’salleged efforts to influence thebureau’s expanding investiga-tion into Russia’s meddling inthe 2016 elections have beensubmitted to Congress.

Trump claimed vindica-tion after the release of memosand said they “’show clearly thatthere was NO COLLUSIONand NO OBSTRUCTION.”“WOW! Will the Witch Huntcontinue?” he asked.

The redacted and declassi-fied memos — running 15pages in total — had previous-ly been provided to specialcounsel Robert Mueller to assisthis investigation into Trump’spossible attempts to obstructthe probe of Russia’s interfer-ence in the 2016 elections.

They give details of thetelephonic conversations andmeetings that Comey has hadwith Trump before he wasfired by the president last May.

They detail the president’salleged demands for loyaltyfrom the former director and

his requests for Comey to shutdown its investigation into for-mer national security adviserMichael Flynn.

Flynn later pleaded guilty tolying to the FBI about his pre-inaugural contacts with Russiaambassador Sergey Kislyak.Flynn is now cooperating withMueller’s investigators.

Among the disclosures inthe memos is a February 8,2017, encounter in whichTrump confronted Comey

about the contents of a dossierprepared by a former Britishintelligence agent purportedlydescribing Trump’s involve-ment with prostitutes during a2013 visit in Moscow.

Trump, according to thememos, repeatedly denied theallegations and proddedComey to help disprove them,while also recalling being toldby Russian President VladimirPutin that Russia has the mostbeautiful prostitutes, it said.

According to The Hill, thememos detail Comey’s accountof several now-famous inci-dents: one in which Trumpallegedly demanded his per-sonal loyalty; one in which heasked him to investigate alle-gations in the dossier that hehad paid Russian prostitutes to

urinate on a hotel bed onceslept in by former PresidentObama; and the request thatComey “let go” of the Flynnprobe. Expressing frustrationover the leaks, in one of thememos Trump is suggestingjailing reporters to find outwhat they know.

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US President Donald Trumphas ordered Government

agencies to expedite andexpand arms sales abroad,including exports of advanceddrones to reinforce alliedarmies, the White House hassaid, a move expected to behelpful to countries like India.

He has also established anew administration policy onthe export of American-manu-factured unmanned aerial sys-tems (UAS), White House PressSecretary Sarah Sanders said.The move is expected to behelpful to countries like India,a Major Defence Partner whichis seeking to purchase largenumber of armed and surveil-lance drones from the US.

President Trump signed aNational Security PresidentialMemorandum approving anew Conventional ArmsTransfer (CAT) policy, Sanderssaid on Thursday. The newCAT policy reflects the prior-ities set out in the President’sNational Security Strategy andprovides a framework underwhich all US Governmentagencies will review and eval-uate proposed arms transfersand approve commercialdefence sales by Americancompanies, she said.

“These updated policiesreflect the President’s commit-ment to peace through strengthby building up our allies andpartners, expanding opportu-nities for American industry,creating American jobs, andadvancing the national securi-ty interests of the UnitedStates,” Sanders said.

Asserting that Americanindustry produces the mostsophisticated and effectivedefence systems in the world,Sanders said “the announce-ments are key first steps in aseries of government-wide ini-tiatives to strengthen our allies,support the manufacturing anddefence industrial base, anddrive American job creationand innovation”.

By expanding internation-al sales opportunities, USindustry will be further incen-tivised to do what they do best:invest and innovate.

This will keep US Defenceindustrial base in the van-guard of emerging defencetechnologies while creatingthousands of additional jobswith good wages and generat-ing substantial export rev-enues, he said. “The US aero-space and defence industriescontribute almost a trilliondollars annually to our econo-my and support about 2.5 mil-lion jobs while maintaining a

significant global trade surplus.“As President Trump works

to balance our trade with therest of the world, furtherstrengthening a critical part ofour export economy anddefence industrial base is a log-ical and critical step,” Navarrosaid. He said although the USleads the way in UAS technol-ogy, overly restrictive policiesenacted by the previous admin-istration have accelerated anundesirable outcome. Strategiccompetitors like China areaggressively marketing.

The international marketsis forecast to be worth morethan $50 billion a year withinthe next decade. “Already, weare seeing Chinese replicas ofAmerican UAS technologydeployed on the runways in theMiddle East. In June at the ParisAir Show, China’s ChengduAircraft Group featured itsWing Loong II medium-alti-tude, long-endurance UAS, aclear knockoff of GeneralAtomics Reaper,” he said.

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The two Koreas opened ahotline between their lead-

ers on Friday, Seoul’s presi-dential office said, a weekbefore a summit betweenNorth Korea’s Kim Jong Unand the South’s President MoonJae-in in the DemilitarisedZone.

The line links the presi-dential Blue House in Seoulwith the Pyongyang office ofthe nuclear-armed North’s StateAffairs Commission, whichKim chairs — one of his mostimportant titles.

“The historic connection ofthe hotline between the leadersof the two Koreas has justbeen established,” said senior

Blue House official Youn Kun-young, adding that a test con-versation between officials last-ed 4 minutes and 19 seconds.

It is the latest step in awhirlwind of diplomacy onand around the Korean penin-sula, triggered by the Winter

Olympics in the South. Moonand Kim are due to meet onFriday on the southern side ofthe DMZ, in what will be onlythe third inter-Korean summitsince the 1950-53 Korean Warended with an armistice ratherthan a peace treaty, leavingthem technically still in a stateof conflict.

Seoul is pushing for a dec-laration that the war is over asa prelude to the signed of atreaty, with Moon declaring onThursday it was a goal that“must be pursued”.

US President DonaldTrump, who is expected to holdhis own much-anticipated sum-mit with Kim later, previouslyoffered his “blessing” for the twoKoreas to discuss a treaty.

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Russian president VladimirPutin is “ready for a meet-

ing” with his US counterpartDonald Trump, ForeignMinister Sergei Lavrov saidon Friday.

Moscow’s chief diplomatadded such a summit was notcurrently being discussed butthe Kremlin hopes that a meet-ing at the White House wouldmaterialise.

“President Putin is readyfor such a meeting,” Lavrov saidin an interview with state newsagency RIA Novosti.

“We are proceeding fromthe fact that the US presidentin a telephone conversation —that was made public, there isno secret about this — sentsuch an invitation and said thathe would be happy to see(Putin) in the White House andthen to meet him during a rec-iprocal visit.” “Since Trumpsuggested this, we proceedfrom the fact that he will makethis concrete,” he added.

Trump proposed a WhiteHouse summit when he called

Putin last month, prior to themass expulsion of Russiandiplomats from the US. Theproposal has not moved for-ward since relations betweenthe US and Russia deteriorat-ed further over an allegedchemical attack in Syria.

During the interview,Lavrov also said Moscow wel-comed an expected summitbetween Trump and Kim JongUn, the leader of nuclear-armed North Korea.

“We cannot wish this meet-ing failure,” Lavrov said. “Thiswould be a step away from theprospect of a military crisis anda military solution to the prob-lem that is the Korean penin-sula,” he added.

“We very much hope thathe (Trump) starts the processof de-escalating tensions.” Theodds of the Trump-Kim sum-mit taking place were boostedby the shock news earlier thisweek that CIA chief MikePompeo had gone toPyongyang to meet Kim for themost significant US-NorthKorea contact in almost twodecades.

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Adults in India consume on an aver-age about half the amount of calci-

um than required for healthy bones,according to a global map of dietary cal-cium intake launched on Friday.

Calcium is a major component ofbone, accounting for between 30-35 percent of its mass and much of its strength.Low calcium intake has been linked tolower bone-mineral density, whichincreases the risk of osteoporosis andbroken bones.

In India, the average calcium intakeis only 429 mg per day against therequirement of 800-1000 mg per day,according to the map launched by theInternational Osteoporosis Foundation(IOF), a nongovernmental organisation.

Across the 74 countries included inthe map, the estimate of average dietarycalcium intake among adults varieswidely, from a low of 175 mg/day inNepal to a high of 1233 mg/day inIceland, according to the findings pre-sented at a symposium held in Krakow,Poland.

Countries in Asia, Africa and SouthAmerica mostly have low calciumintakes, ranging between about 400 and700 mg/day, showed the map.

The map reflects the findings of arecent study published in the journalOsteoporosis International.

“The Map reveals that in many partsof Asia and Southeast Asia the popula-tion has extremely low intakes of calci-um in the diet, with levels often less than400 to 500 mg a day,” said AmbrishMithal, co-author of the study and IOFboard member from India.

“In China and India, the world’smost populous countries, the averageintake is shown to be only 338 mg/dayand 429 mg/day respectively,” Mithaladded.

The amount of calcium neededvaries at different stages of life. Calciumrequirements are especially high in theteenage years due to the rapid growth ofthe skeleton, and at older age, when thebody’s ability to absorb calcium declines.

In older adults, bone loss occurs ata rate of about one per cent per year,resulting in calcium loss of approxi-mately 15 g per year.

The recommendations for dailycalcium intake vary by country, however800-1000 mg/day is generally recom-mended for healthy adults, with higheramounts recommended for teenagers,postmenopausal women, the elderly, andpeople with osteoporosis.

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The fiery US Ambassador to theUnited Nations Nikki Haley,seems to have crossed swordswith her boss in the WhiteHouse. US President Donald

Trump is said to have taken to shouting atthe television whenever he sees her making statements.

Last weekend, the spat flew spectac-ularly into the open when Trump under-cut Haley over her claims that the WhiteHouse was about to impose new sanctionson Russia. Trump’s blood pressure report-edly surged with rage at her apparent uppi-tyness to make up policy on the hoof.

Next day, the Trump Administrationpointedly announced it was holding off onnew sanctions against Moscow. Haley wasembarrassingly left hanging out to dry. Asenior Trump aide told the US media thatthe UN Ambassador had gotten ‘confused’.Haley then hit back at the slight, saying she“doesn’t get confused”.

There seems little doubt that the for-mer South Carolina Governor, who wasonce such a rising star in Team Trump, hasnow fallen out of favour with the President.

Such rapid reversal in fortune is par forthe course for those who work for Trump.Rex Tillerson, HR McMaster, and manyother senior members of hisAdministration have all been ditched bythe President at a moment’s notice, usu-ally via his Twitter feed. Haley would like-wise be advised to watch her back. Any day,she might find herself out of a job.

Ever since she was appointed as Envoyto the UN, 46-year-old Haley has gainedan unenviable reputation of being some-thing of firebrand. She has delighted thehawkish wing on Capitol Hill with her bel-ligerent tirades against Iran, North Koreaand Russia. For a while too, Trumpseemed to think she was doing ‘a great job’.

But lately, her bravura performancesat the UN Security Council have apparently rankled Trump for displayinga little too much self-importance and ambi-tion. The word is that the President — aperson with excessive egotism — viewsHaley as being a little too big for her boots,who harbours secret plans to one day occupy the White House.

The New York Times this week report-ed on growing jealousies and insecuritiesbetween the President and his UNAmbassador. Trump is wary that Haley’sgrandstanding at the UN is more aboutadvancing her political reputation amongthe Republican Party with a view tolaunch a run for the presidency in 2020.

There is even talk of Haley teamingup with the current US Vice PresidentMike Pence for the presidential ticket.Trump has his eye on being re-elected,and not too pleased with the conjectureabout Haley striving to become the first

female President.Apart from grubby political jealousies

and infighting could there be anythingmore significant in the dimming star ofNikki Haley?

Trump’s abrupt intervention to scotchthe latest round of sanctions againstRussia may indicate a pragmatic realisa-tion that relations between Washingtonand Moscow are sliding much too danger-ously. Russian Foreign Minister SergeiLavrov recently warned of dire deterioration in bilateral relations to theworst years of the old Cold War.

Russia’s Envoy to the UN, VassilyNebenzia— Haley’s counterpart — has alsodeplored that the way things are unravel-ing, a war between the US and Russia can-not be ruled out. The worst flashpointseems to be in Syria where Russian troopsare based, especially after Trump ordereda barrage of the country with over 100 missiles last weekend.

That barrage was on the back of adubious chemical weapons incident whichthe President blamed on the SyrianGovernment forces and their Russianally. Syria and Russia have dismissed theclaims, saying the incident was a premed-itated provocation carried out by Western-backed militants and their media associ-ates in the so-called White Helmets.

Moscow has reportedly expressedgrave concerns to the TrumpAdministration that the situation in Syriais at risk of escalating into a full-blown warbetween the US and Russia. It seems seniorofficials within the Trump Administration

are also acutely aware of the risk. USSecretary of Defence James Mattis report-edly cautioned Trump to limit the airstrikes and to avoid Syrian and Russiancasualties.

Perhaps too, Trump has been givenpause for thought over the initial allegations of Syrian and Russian complicity in the chemical weapon inci-dent in Douma on April 7.

A growing number of Western journal-ists and politicians are questioning theauthenticity of claims of an atrocity, and areopenly saying that it was a “false flag” aimedat provoking the US, British and Frenchmilitary strikes. This is exactly what Russiahad been warning of in the lead up to thestrikes on April 14.

Russian President Vladimir Putin isreportedly still willing to give Trump achance to try to normalise relationsbetween Washington and Moscow.

That could be why Trump is increas-ingly exasperated by Nikki Haley. Her bel-licose diatribes at the UN have plunged US-Russian relations into a bottomless pit.

While Trump has expressed, at times,a desire to improve relations with Putin,Haley has sounded the diametric oppositewith her relentless hostility towards Russia.Evidently, Haley cannot think beyond aprism of Russophobia, which is not a con-structive position for White House poli-cy. She, after all, is supposed to be an Envoyfor the President, not his policymaker.

Only days after being collared byTrump over Russian sanctions, Haley thisweek showed a marked change in tone at

the UN concerning Russia. As 21stCentury Wire reported, Haley appeared tobe backtracking from her previous intran-sigent stance for blaming Russia over theSkripal poisoning affair in England.

No longer is Haley categoricallyclaiming a Russian state assassination plot.She is now leaving open the possibilitythat Russia may have lost control of itsnerve agents which got into wrong hands.It’s still a load of codswallop, but as 21stCentury Wire points out, Haley is “hedg-ing” her position and weakening her accu-sations against Russia.

Now, the question is: Has PresidentTrump concluded that Nikki Haley is a lia-bility, not an asset? Her Russophobia andpolitical ambition seem to have overtak-en her judgrment, and are precluding anychance of a normal relation between theUS and Russia. In short, she is part of theproblem, not part of the solution.

Relations between the US and Russiahave sunk to treacherous levels. Trumpseems to have enough savvy to know thatthe downward dynamic has to stop beforerock-bottom catastrophe hits.

Admittedly, US presidents are onlyfigureheads when up against the deepState and long-term strategic planning.So, Trump may not be able to divert theunderlying dangerous direction of rela-tions that Washington seems hellbent ontowards Russia. But if Trump stands tohave any go at all at alleviating tensionswith Russia, one thing is sure: NikkiHaley has to go.

(Courtesy: Sputnik International)

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Sir — This refers to the article, “DearFriends, Be Alert”, by AnirbanGanguly (April 19). The writer’s‘Open Letter’ is a rejoinder to a sim-ilar letter written by BJP leaderYashwant Sinha in another nation-al daily. In the published letter, Sinhaurged BJP MPs to revolt against theparty’s leadership “to save democ-racy and the country”. Sinha, a mem-ber of the Atal Bihari VajpayeeCabinet, was not included in theNarendra Modi Cabinet. Instead, hisson Jayant Sinha became a CabinetMinister in the 2014 NDA regime.Sinha’s grouse against the partyseemed to have surfaced since then.

The writer has rightly coun-tered Sinha’s cacophony of multiple‘failures’ of the Modi Governmentwith facts and figures: Forex reserveshave hit a record high of $424.86 bil-lion, India’s growth for 2018-19stands at 7.3-7.7 per cent, industri-al output is rising, investment cli-mate has improved, women,minorities, and weaker sections —SC/STs, are being empowered. Thisleads to a few questions: If Sinha isa member of the BJP, why is he hell-bent on maligning the party? If hehates the BJP so much, why does-n’t he quit the party? Is it not hyp-ocritical?

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Sir — This refers to the editorial,“Justice partially served” (April 18).The acquittal of all five accused inthe 2007 Mecca Masjid blast case bythe National Investigation Agency(NIA) special court in Hyderabad is

proving to be controversial. The acquittal led the All India

Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen chiefAsaduddin Owaisi to accuse theNIA of being malicious and biased.Others of his ilk spoke of a patternsince the advent of the NarendraModi Government, alleging that theinvestigating agencies and the policedeliberately suppressed evidence toensure acquittal of the accused in ca-ses where the Muslims were victims.

It is significant that despiteserious security and political impli-cations of the Mecca Masjid blastcase, it took 11 years for the verdictto come. When one considers theshoddiness of the investigationsand prosecutions, say, in the JessicaLal or the Aarushi Talwar murdercases, one will realise that sloppinesshas become a way of life for prose-cutors and investigators. So, oneshould not rush to ascribe politicalmotives if the accused in the MeccaMasjid blast case have walked free.We are like that only.

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Sir — This refers to the editorial, “Acashless society” (April 19). ATMsrunning dry in many parts of thecountry are a proof that India is farfrom being a cashless economy.Post-demonetisation, there was aspurt in digital transactions, but therecent crisis stands to proof that wehave failed to change consumerpreference for cash. People must becompelled to change habits.

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Big data is a buzzword. Technicallydefining, it can be considered as

a collection of sets of data originat-ing from multiple sources. Thesources could be anything from web world, social media or the data collected from sensors of thesmart world.

The world of IoT (Internet ofThings) has given rise to smartmeters, smart cities, smart cars,smart and safe homes, smart waterpurifiers, smart gadgets, basically asmarter lifestyle. Such smartnesscomes through sensors that cansense temperature, pressure, speed,water impurities, electric current andalmost everything. The data thatthese sensors release is sent back tothe originating device accumulatingto the big data.

In this dynamic world, more thethings transform, more it contributesto this sensation called big data.Scalability of the big data surges byday thus making volume, velocity,variance and variety major charac-teristics of it. (Veracity and value arestill in the race).

This data comes handy whenused for extracting statistical data or indispensably in case of perceiving the personal choices ofthe individuals.

According to Forbes, this data isgrowing faster than ever before andby the year 2020, about 1.7megabytes of new information willbe created every second for everyhuman being on the planet.

So the big data is already here.But where are the bigger concerns?

The answer to this question liesin the answer to another question,which is, what do we do with thismonstrous quantity of data?

The data from social mediawebsites and other web portals iscomposed together in the real timebased on user activities using his/herown personal account. Anythingthat a user surfs, searches, shares, orpublishes is on record with theowners of the website and con-tributes to big data. For example, on

any online shopping portal, if welook for a product, immediately westart receiving the suggestions to buyit or similar products.

This is possible because the userhas accepted the terms and condi-tions of the service while creating theaccount. But at the same time, userdoes not have a choice whethershe/he wants to share a particularpiece of his search.

The fresh case of CambridgeAnalytica is the best suited illustra-tion here.

In the wake of this, not so oldspectacle, the first fact that comes under scrutiny is the “Rightto Privacy”.

Justice Sanjay Kaul (one of thejudges of the 9-judge Bench of the

Supreme Court adjudged the citizen’sRight to Privacy) stated that“Technology has made it possible toenter a citizen’s house without knock-ing at his/her door and this is equal-ly possible both by the State and non-State actors. It is an individual’schoice as to who enters his house,how he lives and in what relation-ship”, he definitely pointed towardsthe exponential rate at which data isamassed and then used as per theneed by the owner organisations.

The steps taken by these organ-isations to curb privacy infringementare by using the techniques likeanonymisation and pseudonymisa-tion. But these techniques are notfree from flaws in totality. There havebeen incidents when anonymised

data has been re-identified when cor-related with other databases. Thereis a well-known case where healthrecord of one of the governors of theUS State was procured by correlat-ing it with other databases withcommon fields.

Another concern which requiresimmediate attention is the lack of cat-egorisation of data. It is time that wemust identify the data sets whichhave a confidential value and shouldnot be shared freely over the inter-net and others which we can sharethe same without any restrictions.

Speaking in Indian context,recently a committee was formed bythe Ministry of Electronics andInformation Technology to formu-late the regulations for protecting

data. Also, there is a pressing needto inform and educate our citizens.The citizens of any nation should bevigilant about the policies and lawsmeant for them.

Other nations and groupingssuch as Singapore, the US, SouthAfrica, Australia and EuropeanUnion, all have websites citing poli-cies and laws pertaining to data pro-tection in their countries and havethe alternative of web chat andhelpline numbers.

This is an additional but signif-icant concern that needs to be taken care of.

According to NASSCOM vice-president KS Visvanathan, “The bigdata sector is expected to grow at acompound annual growth rate of 26

per cent over the next five years,expected to reach a value of $16 bil-lion by 2025, and by 2025, India willhave a 32 per cent share in the glob-al market.”

Unquestionably, big data hasgiven birth to a revolution in themarket, where sellers can directlydecipher end users’ choices andopinions. Predictive analysis aids inbetter planning and strategy design-ing, thus, impacting the marketforces positively. If only the privacyof users’ data is accommodated, itwill turn out to be a boon for the bet-terment of our economy. No progresscan be amused at the expense of ourcitizens’ rights. Going by the statis-tics stated above, it is necessary torealise that protection of data is alsoa crucial right of citizens of anynation. Well-proportioned laws andequally enlightened and vigilant cit-izens form the backbone of a pros-pering homeland. As it is rightly saidhuman rights must work to uplifthuman dignity.

Succinctly, revolution in infor-mation and communication tech-nology has moved humanity to entire-ly a new age. Increased mobility ofman, material, machines and moreparticularly the ideas have made ourworld much flatter unlike the yester-years. Global has fast become localand the local has travelled to the glob-al stage at an unprecedented speed.This is where we all have becomeunsecured as there is no place to hideany more. All of us are under globalsurveillance. Henceforth, the big datamachines such as Facebook, Google,Twitter should be too careful aboutthe safety, security, dignity and privacyof their users. It is time now to urgeand demand for a set of more strin-gent jus cogens from the global gov-ernance system so as to make all ofus safer.

(The author is currently workingas a software engineer in JindalInitiative on Research in IP andCompetition (JIRICO) at OP JindalGlobal University, Sonepat, Haryana)

In an ostentatious outrage, USPresident Donald Trump

has bombarded Damascus and nearby regions with tetchyTomahawk missiles.

The political context model asdepicted by Gadi Wolfsfeld sustainsthe numerous uncertainties and theturpitude of West Asia. It is always thegargantuan State actor which ismuch well resourced pitted againstthe weakling non-state actor in a bat-tle royal of gladiatorial proportions,while the Fourth Estate takes a backseat but is the actual organiser of theentire war affront such as in Syria.The spectacle of war returned to theWest Asia in 1991 and 2003 as flareslighted the dark skies atop Baghdadand Basra which is akin to the illu-mined skyline of the besieged city ofDamascus and Homs in Syria.

The war in Syria has claimedaround six million lives withimmense vestiges of collateral dam-age with perils of aerial bombard-ment being the mainstay of action inSyria. The early days of a liberalSyrian nation can be characterised byvisualisations out of a pool party,wherein, the myriad men andwomen belonging to Syria and othernations’ consulates stop their pastimedin under the threat of explosionsheard in the far away taverns livedin by normal mortals. Suddenly, thegentry begins chatting about ways toquit the capital if the violence andinstability comes to a passé. Thedrummer in the band continues hisdin and act while the spiral ofsplashes in the pool dwindles to asmaller number.

In another take on the societalhealth of Damascus, Bashar-Al-Assad’s secret service rounds uprebels who are aimed against the gov-erning regime in Damascus. A girlis literally lifted out of her house, andsued for writing pamphlets for therebels, later populated by the AlAnsar, ISIS and the Al-Qaeda. She ismade to stay in a six feet long andfour feet broad casket of a cage,where, she has to stay curled up forall 24 hours in a timeless and end-less day. Then when she is releasedafter a year or so by the secret ser-vice, she can hardly talk and is afraidof light and people. President Trumpwent in air blaming the vagaries asperpetrated by the Syrian dictator ina time zone of six years which hashad enormous cost for the denizensof Syria. Both President Trump andUK Prime Minister Theresa Maylikened the Assad Government to adangerous monster. President Trumptweeted that it is the barbaric and the

brutal nature of the regime in Syriawhich needs to be targeted. And bylaunching a volley of missiles, Trumpis confident, the dictator has beenmuzzled and “The mission has beenaccomplished”. The same interna-tional criticism followed theAmerican and allied bombing of thecity of Baghdad in 2003.

Syrian airstrikes are not a novaeattempt at capitulating an adversar-ial and dictatorial regime. Whatpeople might ask is that North Koreagot the American reprieve even dur-ing the Persian Gulf wars then whyonly Iraq and Syria have been tar-geted. This might not lead to a mas-sive or a major escalation betweenTrump and Putin as both Russia andIran are sensible global players in thelarger international system. The neocold war which took off after Russianincursions into Crimea and Ukrainemight see a revert back with theAmericans and the British rainingmissiles on Damascus which theyterm as an astute humanitarianresponse after a slew of bio-chemi-cal attacks by the Assad regime overrebel-held territory. So much so forthe Geneva conventions!!!

The Americans, too, do nothave much of an option as theRussians and Iranians have erecteda federation with Shia and Alawitefront. The Washington Post report-ed, “French, British and Americanforces launched a salvo of more than100 missiles against three Syrianregime targets, and US officialsclaimed the attack significantlydegraded the regime’s chemical-weapons programme. Despite rum-blings of a more sustained air cam-paign against the regime of SyrianPresident Bashar al-Assad, the strikeechoed the one-off bombardmentTrump ordered one year ago. Thatattack also followed an alleged chem-ical-weapons attack, but what wasmeant to chasten the Assad regimeand its allies at the time did nothingof the sort.”

The attack is reminiscent of thepast year’s attack but now theAmericans can stay calm about themissile spree as the idiom of the newcold war is passé to a certain extent.Kremlin might hate to taint the mat-ter and keep the pot boiling after thespy showdown with Britain, andPresident Trump might utilise theSyrian action with Russia being onthe opposite as a quaint policy todelink his electoral act as candidateTrump with the Russian espionage.Trump made his military intentclear with the tweet that, “TheSyrian raid was so perfectly carried

out, with such precision, that the onlyway the Fake News Media coulddemean was by my use of the term‘Mission Accomplished.’ I knew theywould seize on this but felt it is sucha great military term, it should bebrought back. Use often!”

The Forbes maintains Assad asbeing among the ten worst dictatorsin the larger international polity.Thus, it might be militarism onSyria but what Assad has perpetrat-ed is immense penury and misery forhis own innocent citizens and one ofthe largest exodus to Eastern Europewhich has already aggravated as agrave humanitarian crisis. Whatevermight have been the earlier equationwith the rest of the world, Assad hascontinued with the violent instru-ments of terror. He is a sophisticat-ed ophthalmologist and is uniquelydifferent from the gun toting and uni-

form sporting, Saddam and Gaddafibut when one delves inside the polit-ical behaviour of the Syrian leader, aconcurrence with Iraq and Libya sur-faces. In the international context, thewar might take away chances of a rap-prochement with Iran forWashington. The talk of a American-Russian cold war is all mumbojumbo and arcane as Putin realisesthe idiom of American power andRussian dependence on the Europeanbackyard which has more than work-able partnerships with a Europe fac-ing dissensions over the Union. ForWashington and Moscow, it is a reval-idation of the nationalistic fervourwhich binds the twin leaders and maylimit their instincts.

(The writer teaches InternationalRelations at Indian Institute of PublicAdministration, Delhi)

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Amid the tug of war betweenthe two groups, the 22nd

Congress of CPI (Marxist)continued the debate on vari-ous amendments to the draftpolitical resolution for the thirdday on Friday and was expect-ed to conclude the deliberationsand finalise its political line andstrategy by Saturday.

Prakash Karat, who hadmoved the draft resolution inthe party conferene two daysago told the media that theparty constitution does notallow secret ballot and therewill be only open voting on theamendments. “There will be anopen and transparent discus-sion on any view. There is noth-ing secret about it”, he said dis-missing the speculation aboutthe differences in the party asa myth.

While Prakash Karat andhis supporters, notably fromKerala and Tripura were advo-cating an independent stand ofthe party in the coming elec-tions, the party general secretarySitaram Yechuri supported bythe West Bengal unit was infavor of party having an under-standing with the Congressparty to defeat the BJP.

“Any member can demandvoting but once vote is doneand a decision is reached every-body will abide by it”, Karatsaid. “There is no question ofmajority and minority view”.

He hoped that the politicaldraft will be finalized bytonight. He said that the partyCongress was bigger than theCentral Committee and herethe final decision will be taken.

The party Congress todaypassed resolutions on Terms ofReference of the 15th FinanceCommission and in support ofthe Mazdoor Kisan SangharshRally of September 5 this year.

The party expressed itsdeep concern about the antifederal and anti democraticunderpinnings of the Terms ofReference of the 15ht FinanceCommission and demandedthe review of the same. “Theyare intended to reduce theshare of the States in overall taxdevaluation, squeeze the fiscalspace available to the states,impose unacceptable condi-tionality and privilege central-ly sponsored programs over

State programs”, the resolu-tion said.

Proposed change in thepopulation base year, the TORthreaten also to seriouslyimpair the finances of the stategovernments that have per-formed well with respect to thepopulation control.

In another resolutionpassed by the CPIM partyCongress, the party noted thegrowing discontent among theworking class and other sec-tions of the toiling peopleincluding the peasants andagriculture worker against thepolicies of the BJP led govern-ment at the center. It wel-comed the decision of theworking class, peasants andagriculture workers to organizea rally on September 5 andasked its members and cadresto support it in all possibleways.

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The NIA court judge whohad acquitted the five

accused belonging to the rightwing Hindu groups in MeccaMasjid blast case has nowapplied for voluntary retire-ment from service.

K Ravinder Reddy, the4the additional MetropolitanSessions Judge and the judgeof NIA had created a stir inlegal circles by submittinghis resignation within hoursof delivering his judgementon April 16 but acting ChiefJustice of Hyderabad HighCourt rejected the resigna-tion. As his leave applicationwas also rejected he resumedhis duties yesterday. But soonafterwards he applied forVRS.

But according to thesources in High Court registryhis VRS application has alsobeen returned as it was not inproper format. The judge isdue to retire in two months.

Sources said his VRSapplication was also returnedas he was facing probe by vig-ilance wing of the High Courtinto corruption charges.

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Former Jammu and KashmirChief Minister Omar

Abdullah was confronted by agroup of Kashmiri Americansin University of Barkley after hedelivered a lecture, mediareports said. Abdullahdescribed the confrontation as‘tamasha’ by ‘four hecklers’.The video of the verbal dual inwhich Abdullah is shoutedupon and accused of being ‘warcriminal and Indian agent’went viral through internet.

The session was likely to bedisturbed as a group ofKashmiri-origin scholars andworkers in the US hadlaunched an online campaignto hold a protest demonstrationagainst the event. They crowdfunded to ensure enough con-vergence of protesters at thevenue. An online petition wasgenerated to pressurise theUniversity authorities to stopAbdullah’s arrival.

Two video clips were in cir-culation showing Abdullahbeing confronted inside a halland shouted upon walking ona pavement outside aUniversity building.

“I had a great session at@UCBerkeley & don’t let any-one tell you otherwise. FOURhecklers (in an audience of

150+) who waited till the eventconcluded to make YouTubevideos of themselves can’t takeaway from an excellent Q&Asession there,” Omar wrote onTwitter. “I’m looking forward tothe organisers putting the videoof the entire session online sothat the people who’ve seen theshort tamasha can see howmuch substantial stuff hap-pened before that.”

Omar further said: “Andlastly I’ve never claimed to beuniversally loved or even likedso if 4 people in such a largeaudience make their dislikeknown it’s really not such a bigdeal at all. At least no one threweggs or a shaving foam pie atme.”

In one video Abdullahquestioned a protester’santecedents and he identifiedhimself as a resident of down-town Srinagar. “I am fromGojwara area of downtownSrinagar. I am living here for 25years,” he told Abdullah. WhenOmar asked him as to why hehad run away from Kashmir, hefumbled but quickly respond-ed, “You guys threw us out.”

A lady protester who waslater identified as Huma Darwaylaid Abdullah and told himthat she wanted him to betaken to the international crim-inal court.

“Stop trading Kashmirilives. Stop dirty politics andbeing an Indian agent,” anoth-

er protester is heard as saying.Abdullah had been invited

by the University of Californiafor a conversation over thetopic — The path forward inKashmir.

“Charismatic, articulateand an ardent fan of technol-ogy, Omar Abdullah is anIndian politician and the scionof one of the most prominentpolitical families of Jammuand Kashmir, the Abdullahfamily,” the Universityannounced on its website. “Heserved as the youngest ChiefMinister of the State of Jammuand Kashmir from 2009-2014.He is currently the Leader ofopposition in J&K legislative

Assembly.”“As a former Chief Minister

and one of the most prominentpoliticians of Jammu andKashmir, Omar Abdullah willtalk about his vision for thepath forward in the regionand share his perspective onpossible solutions,” THEUniversity said.

“Did a performance pieceoutside the Faculty Club, wherethe mass murderer was invitedto talk,” Dar, later wrote on herFacebook wall. “Tried to con-duct a civilian’s arrest of the warcriminal,” she wrote.

The online petition haddemanded that the Universitycalled off the event becauseOmar was not the real repre-sentative of Kashmiri people.

“Berkeley is willfully pro-viding a platform to Mr OmarAbdullah and allowing him tomasquerade as the representa-tive of the people of the occu-pied Kashmir, which he isclearly not,” the petition thatwas circulating on Facebookread.

“We expect Berkeley to dotheir due diligence in the futureand consider the repercussionsof allowing client politicianssuch as Omar Abdullah theprivilege of speaking on behalfof the people whom he doesnot represent.”

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Within a fortnight aftertwo Shiv Sena activists

were shot dead in Ahmednagardistrict, another Sena officebearer was on Friday foundbrutally murdered in a junglenear the powerloom town ofBhiwandi in Thane district ofMaharashtra’s coastal Konkanregion.

The Bhiwandi Policerecovered the body of 45-year-old Shailesh Nimase, deputychief of Shiv Sena’s Shahapurtaluka unit, in a burnt condi-tion, in a jungle near Devacholvillage in Bhiwandi town, in thesmall hours of Friday.

Nimase’s burnt body hasbeen sent to the State-run JJHospital in Mumbai for a postmortem.

Police suspected that aftermurdering Nimase, theassailants had set his body onfire so as to ensure that thebody did not get recognisedduring the investigations.

Preliminary investigationshave revealed that Nimase had

received a call from an uniden-tified person shortly beforeThursday midnight.

“After he received the call,Nimase stepped out of hishouse and drove out some-where in his Hyundai Sonata.On early Friday, Nimase’s bodywas found in a burnt conditionin a jungle located in the vicin-ity of Devachol village. His carwas located at 5 km distance ofthe crime site,” a senior policeofficer said.

Till Friday evening, policehad not made any arrests inconnection with Nimase’s mur-der.

Condemning the incident,Shiv Sena’s Thane district(rural) chief Prakash Patil said:“Nimase’s is a premeditatedmurder. We demand that theculprits behind the murder bebrought to book immediately”.

It may be recalled that onApril 7, two Sena activistsSanjay Kotkar (35) and VasantThube (40) were shot dead by

a two motor-bike ridingassailants at Shahunagar local-ity of Kedgaon nearAhmednagar towns, hoursafter the result of a civic AMCby-poll result was announced.

Following the murder, thepolice arrested NCP MLASangram Jagtap (33), BalasahebKotkar (59), Sandeep Gunjal(28), and Bhanudas Kotkar(44) for the murder of two localSena leaders.

In a fallout of NCP MLA’smurder, ruling BJP MLAShivaji Kardile had — alongwith former MLA DadabhaiKalamkar and former MayorAbhishek Kalamkar — led agroup of “250 to 300” politicalactivists to the office ofAhmednagar district policesuperintendent’s office and ran-sacked the place.

Kardile is the father-in-lawof NCP MLA Jagtap who isamong four persons booked forthe murder of the two ShivSena functionaries.

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Andhra Pradesh ChiefMinister Chandrababu

Naidu has requested the Nationto support the cause and strug-gle of the 5 crore people of theState. “It is the responsibility ofthe nation to support AP tocorrect injustice done”, herequested. “Are we not payingtaxes? Are we not part ofGovernment of India? You areriding on our taxes. You wantonly political power, but don’timplement promises made atthe time of bifurcation. Don’tyou have responsibility to sup-port Amaravati? Even if youdon’t support, we will constructour Capital and will show youthe power of Andhra people”,he warned.

He exhorted voters to givehim support so that TDP couldbecome kingmaker. “Give me25 MPs. TDP will decide thePrime Minister,” said Naidu.

“I bowed my head beforePrime Minister Narendra Modiwhen he came to ground break-ing ceremony of Amaravati.Because, I thought, he will sup-port AP. But, they cheated us andhad secret understanding withcorrupt persons to ditch theState”, he said. “We will not beg.We are bonded labour to CentralGovernment. It’s our right. It’sour money. We will fight to anyextent to get our rightful sharein the funds”, he told. “You can’tdivide Andhra People with yourback stabbing politics. We knowhow to teach lessons to the

cheaters”, he warned.Indicating future struggle

and mass movement againstBJP, Chandra Babu Naidu, the67 years old, has pledged anddedicated his life for the devel-opment of Andhra Pradeshon his birthday. “I will fight tilljustice is done to people of theState as promised in theParliament”, and he declared, “Iwill not tolerate any injustice toAP. I will go to any extent forjustice to the State”. “AfterKarnataka elections, BJP eldersmay target us. There are strongrumours about their actions. Idon’t afraid about their counteractions once I decided. It is notpossible with Telugu Peoplewith back door strategies”, hechallenged.

After his completion of 12

hours long hunger strike,Naidu addressed the the pub-lic and thanked them for thesupport given to his “DharmaPorata” against the injusticedone by NDA Government. “It’s a “Foundation to long strug-gle... I never thought of abouthunger strike on my birthdayin my 40 years of politicallife..”, he said and slammed theNDA Government, particu-larly, the Prime MinisterNarendra Modi who greetedNaidu on his birthday throughtweet. Naidu said the TDP willplay a crucial role at the Centrein the coming days. The TDPchief had also said that therehas been an unprecedenteddevelopment in the state in thelast four years but they couldnot proportionately register it

among the public. “DharmaPorata Deeksha is for seekingSCS and fulfillment of promis-es made during state bifurca-tion. There is no sign of coop-eration from the CentralGovernment on this issue,’’Naidu said.

TDP leaders say this is thefirst time in the country's his-tory that chief minister of astate is observing fast on hisbirthday. Coinciding with hisbirthday, the Dharma PorataDeeksha (Struggle for Justice)against the alleged injusticemeted out to the state by theNDA government at the Centrestarted at 7 am and ended at 7pm. Sharp at 7 am, Naidubegan his day long fast onFriday in Vijayawada on theoccasion of his birthday toprotest the Centre's non-coop-eration with the state. Naidugarlanded statues of MahatmaGandhi, BR Ambedkar,Jyotirao Phule and NT RamaRao before reaching the stadi-um. The TDP chief was blessedby Hindu, Muslim andChristian religious leadersbefore he began the fast.Thousands of people across allages have drove continuously tothe Diksha Shibira from morn-ing to evening and expressedtheir solidarit and stood in sup-port of him till he concludedthe hunger strike. Naidu said hewould not celebrate his birth-day on Friday to protest thebetrayal of faith by the PrimeMinister and demand theimplementation of the promis-

es made in the APReorganisation Act.

State ministers Kala VenkatRao, D Umamaheswara Rao,Nara Lokesh, Kollu Ravindra,MPs and state legislators andleaders of Telugu Desam Party(TDP) joined the CM in the fastat the massive programmeorganised by the state govern-ment. Many social organisa-tions, State Governmentemployee associations, differentreligious leaders. AAP leaderscame to the stage and expressedsolidarity to Naidu protest. AsNaidu began his protest in thecapacity of Chief Minister,Many IAS Officers along withthe Chief Secretary DineshKumar came to the protestplace and greeted Naidu for hisconcern towards the State.

Andhra Pradesh FilmIndustry came forward offi-cially and announced its sup-port to the 5 crore people ofAndhra Pradesh. Across theState, in 175 AssemblyConstituencies, Ministers, MPs,MLAs and TDP leaders con-ducted hunger strikes in sup-port of Naidu’s fight.

Setting aside doctors'advice for 15-day bed rest,Assembly Speaker Dr KodelaSivaprasada Rao left hospital tosit on hunger strike. Dr Kodelais suffering from fever for thepast several days. He alsoreceived minor injuries duringthe cycle rally. Kodela shiftedthe fast camp to Narasaraopetfrom Sattenapalle due to badhealth.

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With the UP Police brassengrossed in cosmetic

changes than basic policing toharness crime, the attack onmembers of fairer sex contin-ued unabated across the State.

In the last 24 hours, twogirls were raped and murderedin Etah and Hathras respec-tively, two six-year-old girlswere raped and killed inKannauj and Philibhit respec-tivelly and lastly, a teenaged girlwas shot in Shahjahenpur lead-ing to communal tension.

Surprisingly, the UP Policebrass ignored Chief MinisterYogi Adityanath’s directives ofintensifying foot patrolling.Instead, officers were moreresponsive to complaints onTwitter and other social mediasites leaving girls from poorand downtrodden strata toprovidencial help.

In Etah, a nine-year-old girlwas raped and murdered whileshe was attending on Thursdaynight. Three days back, a minorwas similarly raped and killedwhen she went to attend a func-tion in the district.

The girl had gone to attendthe wedding of her uncle inKeltha locality of Aliganj policestation

when a driver Pintudragged her to a isolated spotand raped the girl before kil-liong her. A case was registered

against the accused who wasarrested.

In Kannauj, a six-year-oldgirl accompanied her parents toa ‘Tilak ’ ceremony inRanveerpur hamlet ofChibramau on Thursday night.Later the girl disappeared afterwhich her family launched ahunt. In the process, they heardthe shrieks of the girl and asthey rushed to a narrow lane,they saw a local identified asPintu fleeing the spot. Theyfound the girl in injured stateand rushed her to hospitalwhere she succumbed. A casewas registered and Pintu, whowas engaged for preparingsweets in the function, wasnabbed.

In a similar incident inPilibhit, a six-year-old girl ofKalinagar area disappearedfrom her house a week backafter which her family lodgeda case of kidnapping. OnThursday evening, her muti-lated body was found lying inthe fields. The body had severalinjuries and was beyond recog-nition. Circumstantial evi-dences suggested that the girlwas killed after raped or some-one sacrifice her to appeasesome deity. SP Philibhit,Kalanidhi said that they wouldconduct a DNA test to confirmher identity. A case was regis-tered and efforts were on toidentify the killers.

In Shahjahenpur, a girl wasshot dead by a jilted lover onFriday morning. The girl wasgoing with her sister whenArshad intercepted and shother from point blank range asthe victim opposed theaccused’ lewd overtures. Seniorofficers rushed to the spot anddeployed police force to avertany communal clash.

Lastly at Hathras, a 14-year-old girl was gang-raped ofSikandra Rao area. The victimhad gone to a field near herhouse when the miscreantsoverpowered and raped her inthe wee hours of Thursday.Two persons were named inthe FIR filed by the victim’sfather and the girl was sent formedical examination.

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Aplea moved by seniorCongress leader Ahmed

Patel seeking dismissal of peti-tion filed by Congress turncoatBalwantsinh Rajput challengingelections of Patel to RajyaSabha was rejected on Fridayby Gujarat High Court.

As BJP candidate Rajputlost by half vote against Patel inthe Rajya Sabha elections heldon August 8, 2017. Two rebelsCongress MLAs Raghavji Pateland Bholabhai Gohel show theirballots to polling agents of BJP,instead of showing it to just theirparty’s polling agents as speci-fied in polling procedures. Themove of legislators was object-ed in Election Commission byCongress party and demandedrejection of their votes. As theEC gave its verdict in favour ofCongress, Patel went on to winthe Rajya Sabha election withnarrowest possible margin.

Patel sought dismissal ofthis petition, stating that itlacked merit, clarity, was vagueand did not follow the provi-sions of Civil Procedure Code.In the elections of three RajyaSabha seats candidates in thefray required 45 votes to win.

However, with invalida-tion of two votes, equationchanged and requirement towin the election reduced to 44first preference votes. BJP pres-ident Amit Shah got 46, SmritiIrani 45, Ahmed Patel 44 andRajput ended up at fourth.

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In a major setback to rulingTrinamool Congress, the

Calcutta High Court on Fridaydelivered a historic orderwhich would effectively pushback the poll dates by weeks ifnot challenged in a superiorcourt.

Throwing out theTrinamool Congress’ con-tention questioning the pro-priety of judicial interventiononce the election process hadstarted the Bench of Justice STaluqdar extended the dead-line for submission of nomi-nations.

The Judge quashed an SECorder which had on April 10recalled its own April 9 circu-lar extending the date of filingnomination by a day evident-ly after getting a SupremeCourt rap on its knuckles.

The Opposition partieshad earlier knocked the ApexCourt doors following rampantviolence at nomination stage.The top Court, apart from

redirecting the matter to HighCourt also asked the parties toregister their complaints withthe poll panel following whichthe SEC extended the deadlineby a day.

In its Friday order, theHigh Court said the SEC inconsultation with the StateGovernment would nowdecide the new extended datefor nomination.

The order when compliedwould push back the dates toApril 13 or beyond frustratingChief Minister MamataBanerjee’s declared plans to getthe poll process over before thecommencement of Ramzan.

“It’s a historic verdict. Thecourt has come forward to help

the democratic process that isin peril in Bengal.

It is a victory for the peo-ple who did not get any helpfrom the police to file nomi-nation,” said Pratap Banerjee,general secretary of the Bengalunit of BJP.

CPI(M)’s Rabin Deb saidhis party was satisfied with theorder but wondered whetherviolence could be curbedunder present circumstances.“There can be no proper elec-tion conducted under thisGovernment.”

Congress MP and PCCpresident Adhir Chowdhuryalso feared large-scale vio-lence on the extended date ofnomination filing. “Like they

did earlier, they would unleashtheir armed goons and thepolice on the Opposition can-didates to stop them from fil-ing nominations,” he saidadding his petition seekingcentral forces would be heardtwo weeks later.

At least 10 people werekilled and scores other includ-ing two former MPs — of thestatus of nine-time CPI(M)parliamentarian BasudebAcharya and Dr. RC Dom, BJPState secretary Raju Banerjee— and two Congress MLAswere grievously injured whenattacked by armed TMCgoons.

The SEC forward roll on

April 10 — recalling its orderextending deadline for nomi-nation — was allegedly extract-ed by a group of three seniorTrinamool Ministers whobroke all traditions to descendat SEC AK Singh’s residence inearly morning and literallycoerced him into recalling hisorder passed the earlierevening, poll panel sourceslater said.

The flip-flop forced theOpposition BJP, Left and theCongress to move the Courtseeking among other thingsextension of deadline for nom-ination.

Rural Bengal was set tovote for the three-tier electionsfor Gram Panchayat,Panchayat Samiti and ZillaParishad on May 1, 3 and 5.Results were to be declared byMay 8.

The term of the outgoingPanchayat boards end in themonth of August making theopposition wonder, why theChief Minister manipulatedthe Commission to bring for-ward the dates by nearly threemonths.

About 5.08 crore people or74 per cent of the electors willvote in the polls to be stagedacross 78,000 booths andmanned by about 46,000armed policemen.

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In a major breakthrough, theGujarat Police on Friday

arrested main accused in therape and murder case of 12-year-old girl whose body wasfound near bushes in the dia-mond city Surat nearly a fort-night ago.

The mystery of the girl’smurder after she was brutallyraped for at least a week unfold-ed only after the State Policedeployed more than 400 copsunder the direct supervision ofstate DGP Shivanand Jha.

Divulging details about thearrest, Gujarat’s Minister ofState for Home PradeepsinhJadeja said police arrested thekey perpetrator of the seriouscrime from a village inGanganagar of neighbouringRajasthan. The accused iden-tified as Harshvardhan Suraiand police would bring him inGujarat by Saturday earlymorning, said the Minister.

The dead body of victimfound in bushes in Pandesaraarea of Surat on April 6, 2018.During the autopsy it wasrevealed that the victim hadmore than 80 injury marksincluding private parts. Thedoctor said that she could havebeen killed after a week’s sex-ual harassment.

The incident resulted intopublic hullabaloo in social plat-form which put Gujarat Policeunder severe pressure. Manycompared the incident withinfamous Nirbhaya episodethat occurred in the nation’scapital New Delhi.

According to Jadeja over400 police personnel from thestate police including person-nel of Ahmedabad CrimeBranch had worked together tosolve this complicated case.The police carried out techni-cal analysis of mobile data andCCTV footage collected from3-km radius of the place fromwhere the victim’s dead body

found, he said adding that ulti-mately with the help of CCTVfootage a clue related to the casefound as the investigation offi-cer noticed a black car movingaround suspiciously in the area.

“Instantly the police inves-tigated about registration of car.In fact the first owner had soldthe car to the accused’s broth-er. The accused is workingwith his brother in the businessof tile fitting,” said Jadeja.

On April 9 another deadbody of a woman was alsofound in the same area.According to police, thewoman could be the mother oflittle girl.

The police are in theprocess to match DNA reportof both the dead bodies. Thepolice believe that the accusedhad illicit relationship with thewoman whom he might havekilled for some or other reasonand later on he took the girl tohis house but when his wifeand other family membersopposed presence of girl in thehouse, he might have killed the

girl also.Three days ago a person

from Andhra Pradesh claimedthat the victim was his daugh-ter, but that claim turned out tobe false. The police even carriedout a DNA test to verify hisclaims. During the initial phaseof investigation the policebelieved that the girl might beeither from Bengal or Odisha.

Jadeja said that the policehave already registered a caseof rape and murder against theunidentified accused underthe Protection of Childrenfrom Sexual Offences Act(Pocso Act). According to himthe state government has decid-ed to appoint a special prose-cutor to fight the case.

Earlier during the day, chiefminister Vijay Rupani said thatSurat Police had arrested threepersons in connection withthe case. “We will request thehonourable court to arrangehearing for the case in fastrackcourt to speed up justice to thevictim’s family members,” saidthe Minister.

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and sexual harassment towomen in Assam, formerUnion Minister and sittingLok Sabha MP from GuwahatiLok Sabha constituency, BijoyaChakraborty on Friday sug-gested capital punishment forthose involved in rape.

Chakraborty said thiswhile interacting with news-men at the BJP headquarters inGuwahati on Friday and addedthat while earlier there was noreports of any rape incidents inAssam, the incidents of rapeand sexual harassment towomen has been increasing inpast few years.

Chakraborty alsoexpressed concern over thefact that certain political par-ties in the country has been try-ing to politicise the heinouscrime like rape and slammedthe Congress party who hadrecently organised a candlelight protest in New Delhiprotesting against rape.

“There is a spate in inci-dents of rape in Assam in pastfew years and if you see, you’llnotice that majority of thoseinvolved in rape belong to aparticular religious commu-

nity. I feel that we must take adecision either shot them(rapists) dead or hang them tilldeath after found in guilty intrial,” she said.

“Otherwise it will be diffi-cult to save our daughters anddaughter in laws even two yearold girls and minors from therapists,” Chakraborty saidadding that there are loopholesin the system and that rapistsoften evade punishments dueto these loopholes and rapeagain after six months.

The veteran BJP leaderalso appealed the people of thesociety to be aware about these

kinds of crimes against womenand said that they must joinhands in preventing suchcrimes.

“I believe capital punish-ment is the best to deter peo-ple from rape. There has to befast trial for rape cases andrapists should be awarded cap-ital punishments immediatelyafter the trial,” she said addingthat the Assam Governmentled by Chief MinisterSarbananda Sonowal hasalready taken some steps tomake a strong act to stop themenace of rape.

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tary of the BJP, in his socialmedia site has not only creat-ed a furore in Tamil Nadu’spolitical circles but also broughtout the simmering factionalfight in the DMK out in theopen.

Reacting to the recent con-troversy over GovernorBanwarilal Purohit patting onthe cheek of a lady journalistwho threw some questions athim during a televised Pressbriefing on Tuesday, Raja hadsaid in his posting: “Whetherjournalists who asked manyquestions at the Press meetaddressed by the Governorwould be bold enough to posesuch questions to a leader whohad nominated his illegitimatechild to Rajya Sabha? They willnot. The memories ofChidambaram Udayakumar,Annanagar Ramesh andPerambalur Sathik Batchawould terrorise them.”

Except for Udayakumar,Ramesh and Batcha, the BJPleader had not mentioned any-body’s name. These three werepersons who had close businessrelations with the Karunanidhifamily and were found deadunder mysterious conditions.

By Thursday evening, asection of the DMK leaders andcadre were out in the street allover Tamil Nadu burning theeffigies of Raja and beating hisposters with foot wears. InRamanathapuram, Diwakaran,the DMK district secretarywent on record and threatened

that he would cut off Raja’stongue for the “insultingremarks”.

A senior political observerin the State remarked thatDMK working president MKStalin seems to have killed twobirds with just one stone andestablished his control overthe party. “It is an open secretthat there is a serious fightgoing on in the DMK betweenthe factions headed by Stalinand Kanimozhi. The protestswhich we see are a manifesta-tion of this strong turf warbetween the two,” said theobserver who did not want hisname to be quoted for obviousreasons.

He pointed out thatKanimozhi was born toKarunanidhi in RajathiAmmal, his “unofficial” thirdwife. “Karunanidhi had mar-ried Padmavathi and after heruntimely demise, he marriedDayalu Ammal. Alagiri, Stalin,Tamil Arasu and Selvi are thechildren born to Karunanidhiin Dayalu Ammal. Around1966 the DMK leader hadbegun courting Rajathi Ammalwho became pregnant anddelivered Kanimozhi,” said theobserver. As per Indian laws,Karunanidh could not have

two wives at a time but theDMK patriarch was the “hero”of many real love dramas inTamil Nadu.

When an MLA had askedKarunanidhi in the legislativeassembly what was the kind ofrelation between the latter andRajathi Ammal, he hadreplied:”Rajathi is the motherof my daughter Kanimozhi.”After getting acquitted in the2G Spectrum Case, Kanimozhihas started staking her claimsfor the party leadership. Stalinthrough his reactions to Raja’scomment has succeeded insending home the fact that heis the real leader of the DMKwhile Kanimozhi is an illegit-imate child. Rajathi Ammal toohad demanded that her daugh-ter should be given an impor-tant post in the party.

While Kanimozhi chosenot to react to Raja’s comment,it may be noted that it was closeassociates of Stalin who led thetirade against the BJP leader.Stalin described Raja as a meanminded person. Former unionminister P Chidambaram whois close to Karunanidhi saidthat there was no such thing asillegitimate child. “All childrenare perfectly legitimate,” saidthe Congress strongman fromTamil Nadu.

Raja has emerged as anenfant terrible for the DMKand the Lefts in the State withhis razor sharp reactions onvarious issues and this has putthe BJP leadership in the defen-sive. But this time, he had thelast laugh as the DMK wasforced to reveal the chinks inits armour.

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extending the police custodyremand of rape accused BJPMLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar bya week, the State Governmentfinally decided to withdraw ‘Y’category security cover pro-vided to the legislator fromimmediate effect on Friday.

As per reports, the custodyremand of Sengar was expiringon Saturday morning andhence the CBI probe teammoved an application beforeAdditional District Judge(POCSO Court) Ashutosh inUnnao on Friday afternoon,seeking extension of theremand period.

Sources said that after lis-tening to the CBI counsel, theCourt allowed the probeagency to quiz the MLA intheir custody for one moreweek till April 27.

However, since Sengar’sweek-long custody remandsanctioned by Chief JudicialMagistrate, Sunil Kumar,Lucknow last Saturday, expir-ing the court directed the CBIto produce the accused beforethe court on Saturday morning.The CBI also put the MLA’sreported accomplice ShashiSingh in jail after her two-daycustody remand expired onThursday. Shashi is also anaccused in the rape case.

Meanwhile, the BJPGovernment withdrew the Y-category security cover earlierprovided to the rape accusedBJP MLA on Friday. PrincipalSecretary (Home) ArvindKumar said that Sengar’s Y-cat-egory security was revokedsoon after an FIR of rape andkidnapping against him wasregistered on April 12. PNS

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Table-toppers Kolkata Knight Riders and a transformed KingsXI Punjab cross swords in an Indian Premier League contest

in which two big-hitting Jamaicans - Andre Russell and Chris Gayle- will be up against each other here on Saturday.

Gayle was at his best on Thursday when he smashed this sea-son's first century -- a 63-ball 104 not out -- at the expense of oneof the best bowling outfits, Sunrisers Hyderabad.

Gayle smashed 11 sixes, seven of them coming against theworld's top ranked T20 international bowler Rashid Khan, and gavea fitting response to his critics after the humiliation he had facedat the last IPL auctions where he went unsold.

The battle at the Eden Gardens will see Gayle facing the spinchallenge of KKR with West Indies teammate Sunil Narine and Indiasensation Kuldeep Yadav leading the attack that also has PiyushChawla and part-timer Nitish Rana.

Kings XI Punjab look a transformed unit under India discardRavichandran Ashwin. Theynow seem to be on a missionwith a top-heavy batting com-prising KL Rahul and Gaylefollowed by the flair ofMayank Agarwal and KarunNair.

Russell, another explo-sive Jamaican, singled-hand-edly decimated DelhiDaredevils in his 12-ball 41 intheir last match at the Eden.

The biggest gain for the home side has been that of MumbaiIndians recruit Rana who got back-to-back Man of the Match awardsin their wins over Delhi Daredevils and Rajasthan Royals.

The left-hander has showed fine temperament, forming thebackbone of their batting, which wore an unsettled look at the start.

Rana's part time off-spin has also given the team some cru-cial breakthroughs -- his wickets of Virat Kohli (Royal ChallengersBangalore) and Ajinkya Rahane (Rajasthan Royals) bear testimo-ny to that.

Their spinners bowlers 14 overs in Jaipur, accounting for fivewickets to stall Rajasthan Royals to 160/8 en route to their five-wicket win.

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RCB and Daredevils findthemselves at bottom of thepoints table with just a win eachfrom four matches.

Both RCB and Daredevilsgo into the crucial tie onSaturday after losing to MumbaiIndians and Kolkata KnightRiders, respectively.

The Virat Kohli-led sidestarted its campaign on a losingnote against KKR, but bouncedback in the next match againstKings XI Punjab at home, beforelosing the next two matchesagainst Rajasthan Royals andMumbai Indians.

RCB must tighten-up theirbowling having conceded 200plus runs in the previous twogames at home. The spin duo ofYuzuvendra Chahal andWashington Sundar have gonefor runs and would be itching toput up a better show onSaturday.

It will be a challenge forthem against Delhi who boastworld-class batsmen includingJason Roy, Gautam Gambhir,Rishabh Pant, Shreyas Iyer andGlenn Maxwell.

On the brighter side, Kohli'sreturn to form with a quickfire57 and unbeaten 92 againstRoyals and Mumbai has boost-ed RCB's confidence.

Kohli, who had openedinnings against Mumbai,slammed four sixes and sevenfours in his unbeaten knock, but

none of his batting colleaguesgave him support.

South African AB deVilliers, who has scored 122 runsso far, would like to get a bigknock under his belt.

Brendon McCullum, whojust managed 47 runs in threematches, might lose his place toreputed English batsman MoeenAli, who can bolster the bowl-ing attack with his off-spin.

On the other hand,Gambhir-led Delhi would like toforget their previous defeat atKKR's hands. Delhi had lost toPunjab in their opener andthen lost to Royals in a rain-hitmatch, but they bounced backin style against Mumbai withRoy smashing an unbeaten 91.

India speedster MohammedShami is all set to join the teamafter Kolkata Police allowedhim to do so following a three-hour interrogation. The speed-ster is accused of infidelity anddomestic violence, by his wife.

Delhi's batsmen also havenot come out all guns blazing.Pant has been the highest run-getter for Delhi by scoring 138with 47 being his highest.Maxwell, who scored 47 in thelast match, would also like tocontinue with his form.

Roy would like to show hisprowess against RCB too as theEnglishman had smashed acareer best 91 to pull off a trickylast ball victory against Mumbai.

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Seasoned all-rounder ShaneWatson slammed his third IPLcentury as Chennai Super Kings

moved to their new 'home' by post-ing a challenging 204 for five againstRajasthan Royals, here on Friday.

Playing first match at their newhome venue, CSK were shepherdedby the 36-year-old Australian, whohammered 106 from 57 balls, mak-ing full use of a dropped chance inthe very first over on a flat track.

Watson shared a 50-run standwith fellow opener Ambati Rayudu(12) and then raised a 81-run part-nership for the second wicket withcomeback-man Suresh Raina, whohit a fiery 46 off 29 balls with nineshots to the fence.

Watson was in regal touch as theAustralian pummelled Royalsbowlers after being dropped in theopening over, bowled by StuartBinny. With no assistance on offer,the bowlers needed to be disciplinedwith their line and length but theywere guilty of bowling either too fullor short.

Watson swung his arms when theball was pitched outside off andpositioned himself nicely againstshort and straight deliveries to findboundary after boundary. He hitnine fours and six sixes in his enter-taining knock.

If CSK could not post a moredaunting total on board, it wasbecause of Royals' leg-spinner ShreyasGopal, who stopped the run flow ifnot choked the CSK line-up, byaccounting for three batsmen, includ-ing MS Dhoni in quick succession.

Gopal conceded just 20 runs inhis four-over quota.

Royals' captain Ajinkya Rahaneused five different bowlers in first fivebowlers and it was Australian BenLaughlin who got the first success ashe removed Rayudu in the fifth.However already 50 runs were on theboard and it was Watson who was thedanger man.

In came Raina and the left-han-der creamed off four boundaries offBen Stokes' over. The job only gottougher for Royals bowlers. At half-way mark, CSK were 107 for one.

In no time, Watson wasapproaching his hundred and Raina,a half-century, but Gopal brought

relief for Royals by getting the lattercaught in deep by Gowtham.

There was no stopping Watsonfrom the other end. He not only hitpowerful shots but also used his wristsnicely for some delicate boundaries.

Gopal though was doing a greatjob for his side as he stopped run flow

by dismissing CSK captain MS Dhoni(5), who had enthralled his fans witha blistering fifty in the last match, andSam Billings (3) in his successiveovers.

Watson completed his century inthe 18th over and was out on penul-timate ball of the innings.

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Kings XI Punjab speedster Andrew Tyeheaped praise on his side's explosive open-

er Chris Gayle, saying the West Indian playedto perfection during his unbeaten knock of 104against Sunrisers Hyderabad in their IPL matchhere.

Gayle's 63-ball unbeaten innings, whichincluded 11 sixes, helped KXIP post a total of193/3. In reply, the Sunrisers fell short by 15runs.

"Gayle played to perfection. He made surethat he stayed there till the end. You don't oftensee (spinner Rashid) Khan get hit for more than25 in one over. To make Rashid concede thatmany runs (55 in four overs) was awesome," Tyesaid at the post-match news conference onThursday.

Tye said Gayle's shot selection and execu-tion was spot-on.

"I think he went about it very well. He knewthat once he got through the powerplay, the spinwould come on and then he got into the rhythmagainst the spin. I think he was very smart aboutit not to take too many risks against the pacers

(early on)," he said.Asked what would have been his plans if you

he was bowling to Gayle, Tye said that there isnot much a bowler could do in such a situationand only hope that the batsman makes somemistake.

"I guess you could try and get him off strike,

but at the same time as pace bowlers you wantto get him out because you know you have spinto come and he is lining up to attack them. Itis different for every pitch you play on, tonightmight have been the case of going short at himor could have been the case of just try him playsome big shots and make him miss one," saidthe Australian.

Tye, who claimed two wickets including thecrucial wicket of Sunrisers skipper KaneWilliamson when he was going great guns, saidKXIP have got a good variety in their bowlingattack.

He said apart from Mohit Sharma, BarinderSran, skipper Ravichandran Ashwin, Mujeeb-ur-Rahman and he himself, there are couple of oth-ers too who can bowl as well which makes theside a balanced unit. He said KXIP bowlers ontheir day can bowl a team out for less than 100.

Tye said there can be "few selectionheadaches" for his team when Axar Patel is fitand available for selection.

On the knuckle ball he used, Tye said thathe used it quite often in Thursday's match.

"I try and figure out what is working for meon the day. Today was knuckle ball and I stuck

with that. Sometimes it works, sometimes youget hit into the crowd and you look like an idiot,but that's alright," he said.

Meanwhile, Sunrisers bowler SiddharthKaul too praised Gayle on the way he played.

Asked what was the mindset of a bowlerwhen a player like Gayle was in a destructiveform, Kaul said, "The mindset is to get your exe-cution right and bowl in the right areas. We wereplanning it that way only, but tough luck that hisexecution was better than ours and every shothe played was getting connected."

"Gayle was executing smartly and he waschallenging our main bowlers and he played real-ly well," Kaul said.

Kaul also said that losing opener ShikharDhawan, who had to retire hurt after taking ablow on elbow while batting, was a setback. Yethe felt that Sunrisers have batting depth and therewere batsmen to make up for his loss.

"In the end, we did our best and came closeto the target losing by only 15 runs," he said.

He said Sunrisers, who had won all their ear-lier three games, will bounce back afterThursday's defeat. "We will stay positive and tryto do better in upcoming games," he said.

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Be it Chris Gayle or Andre Russell, the WestIndian cricketers have been in big demand in

Twenty20 leagues across the world and formerZimbabwe captain Heath Streak says it could bebecause perhaps the 'powerful' Caribbeans get'bored' playing Test cricket.

Gayle smashed 104 not out from 63 ballsagainst one of the best bowling attacks of the tour-nament to fashion Kings XI 15-run victory.

Gayle who holds the record for the fastest T20century and also the leading run-getter was backin his elements, days after his Jamaican fellow mateAndre Russell's 12-ball 41 helped KKR return towinning ways with a 71-run victory over Delhi.

It's not just about Gayle and Russell alone butthere's Sunil Narine who has been credited forKKR's success story in winning titles in 2012 and2014. Also the likes of Dwayne Bravo (ChennaiSuper Kings), Kieron Pollard and Evin Lewis (bothMumbai Indians) form the core of their respec-tive franchises in the IPL.

"Firstly, they enjoy it I think. They get boredby playing the long format of the game. A lot ofthem are playing all the leagues around the world,If you look at guys like Andre and Sunil from ourteam and others in the tournament like Pollard,"Streak said.

"You are getting to a stage where guys are mak-ing a career solely out of playing T20 cricket.They've got physical attributes, the power.The guyslike Pollard, Russell are physically strong guys, eventheir mis-hits go over the boundary."

But the KKR bowling coach hoped they havegot enough variations in their armoury to stopGayle early before he gets into his zone.

"Lot of people always ask us bowling coach-es 'what's the plan'. It is very difficult for us to saybecause then he'll find out. So we can't really tellyou the exact plan. He is a dangerous player. Howyou start to him is very important early on. If you

allow someone like Chris to get into rhythm andconfidence, he is a very dangerous player. He isso powerful and backs his ability when the ballis in his zone to clear the boundary."

Streak further said variation of slow balls havebecome the flavour of this IPL. In a format dom-inated by batsmen, it's the bowlers who havebecome intelligent and smart - be it the pacers whocleverly use their slower ones to great effect or thedemand of the wily wrist spinners.

"Players have developed the ramp shots andstuff like reverse ramp. It has challenged the

bowlers. You have seen that the different varietiesof slow balls have become the flavour of the tour-nament," Streak said at the pre-match news con-ference.

Streak also hailed the U-19 World Cup win-ning duo of Shivam Mavi and Shubman Gill..

"They definitely are right from the Virat Kohlischool of fielding... Last year's KKR, I think thefielding wasn't one of their strengths. I think weare definitely one of the top fielding sides with theyoungsters coming in. That's also a welcome aspectof KKR's game that these guys have brought."

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