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T he Indian Army on Sunday carried out punitive strikes on Pakistani Army posts across the Line of Control (LoC) after two Indian soldiers and a civil- ian were killed in Tangdhar when Pakistan violated cease- fire and tried to push in ter- rorists from across the LoC. At least five to six Pakistani sol- diers were killed in the retalia- tory action. Firing from across the LoC began in early hours when the Pakistan Army tried to push in terrorists into Jammu & Kashmir by giving them cov- ering fire. Two Indian soldiers and a civilian were killed in the Pak firing. The Indian Army then hit terrorist launch pads and Pakistani Army positions, Army officials said later here in the day. They said the Indian Army had to resort to punitive action after Pakistan resorted to heavy “unprovoked firing on civil- ians” on Saturday night. “As a result, calibrated escalation of area weapons was undertaken by the Indian Side in which ter- rorist launch pads, Pakistan army posts giving incidental protection to these launch pads and certain gun positions were hit,” an Army spokesperson said. This action was taken Pakistan Army initiated unpro- voked Cease Fire Violation (CFV) to assist infiltration by terrorists into Indian territories, the spokesperson stated. Army Chief General Bipin Rawat said around six to ten Pakistani soldiers and as many terrorists have been killed in the action. “Last evening an attempt was made in Tangdhar to infil- trate terrorists, we retaliated, Pakistan carried out attack fir- ing at our post in which we did suffer, but before they could attempt the infiltration it was decided that we target that ter- ror camps across,” Rawat said. “In the retaliatory action, we have caused severe damage to terrorist infrastructure. Terrorist camps opposite Tangdhar sector have been destroyed. On the basis of reports that we have been get- ting, six to ten Pakistani soldiers have been killed, three camps have been destroyed. Similar number of terrorists have also been killed…” he added. Pakistan, however, has rejected reports that the Indian Army targeted their terror camps in the POK and said it can arrange a visit of diplomats from P5 nations to the area to expose Indian “falsehood”. Rejecting reports, Foreign Office spokesman Mohammad Faisal said, “Pakistan categor- ically rejects Indian media reports about alleged launch- pads being targeted by India along the LoC.” The Foreign Office said that Pakistan has called upon the P-5 countries (permanent members of the United Nations Security Council) to ask India to provide information about the terror launchpads. It said Pakistan is willing to arrange a visit of the P5 diplomats to those locations to expose “Indian falsehood”. Pakistan Army spokesman Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor also rejected the reports saying the Indian media is “falsely claim- ing” targeting of alleged terror camps. Meanwhile, Pakistan sum- moned Indian envoy Gaurav Ahluwalia to condemn the fir- ing by Indian troops that it said killed five civilians along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jura, Shahkot and Nausehri Sectors. Giving details of the puni- tive action, the Army said one civilian Mohammad Sadiq was killed and three others were injured belonging to Ghundhishat Village of Tangdhar district in “Pakistan army artillery firing.” The spokesperson said Indian Army “retains the right to respond at a time and place of it’s choosing” in case Pakistan Army continues to assist terrorist activities across Indian borders. Defence sources said four launch pads in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK)were targeted after civilians causal- ities in Tangdhar district on the Indian side. “It was a direct assault at the same time using heavy artillery. Atleast six Pakistani soldiers were killed in the firing,” one source said adding each launch pad had over 15-20 terrorists waiting to infiltrate. The launch pads were locat- ed South of Zura in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK)and posts included Athmuqam and Kundalshahi and sources con- firmed that Indian Army has used 155mm heavy artillery guns. Usually during ceasefire violations, small arms are used and as caliber escalation happens heavy mortar is used eventual- ly leading to the use of heavy artillery which has been inter- mittently used by both sides on the LoC in recent times. During the day, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh spoke to Army Chief Rawat who apprised Singh of the develop- ments and the situation along the LoC. Tangdhar is one of the traditional infiltration routes in North Kashmir. The ingress routes there will be closed in the next few weeks after snow- fall and therefore the Pakistan army is desperate to push in as many terrorists possible before it. Moreover, the punitive action on Sunday is one of the biggest since abrogation of Article 370 giving special sta- tus to Jammu & Kashmir on August five. So far, more than 2,300 cease of fire violations have taken place since January this year as compared to 1,600 odd last year. Continued on Page 4 P olling will be held on Monday in all 288 Assembly constituencies of Maharashtra and the 90 Assembly seats of Haryana as the ruling BJP, a good five- months after its win in the Lok Sabha elections, is looking for a second consecutive terms in both the States. While abrogation of Article 370 and anti-Pakistan rant has been the main poll planks of the BJP, the Opposition claimed that economic slow- down, unemployment and gen- eral anti-incumbency could work in their favour. Bypolls will also be held to 51 Assembly seats and two Lok Sabha constituencies spread across 18 States. Eleven of these bypolls would be in Uttar Pradesh where poll results would be seen as a litmus test for the Yogi Adityanath Government which has com- pleted 30 months in office. BJP’s incumbent Chief Minister in Maharashtra Devendra Fadnavis and Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar in Haryana are seeking second term, but the campaign face for the ruling BJP is Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Continued on Page 4 F amily members of the Hindu Samaj Party leader Kamlesh Tiwari, who was killed two days ago, met Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and demanded capital punishment for the killers. Tiwari’s mother, wife and three sons met the Chief Minister at his official residence of 5, Kalidas Marg, and stayed there for over 30 minutes. The Chief Minister assured the family of all help and said police are doing their job and the guilty will not be spared. Officer privy to the meet- ing told this reporter that the CM intently listened to the family members who demand- ed a Government job for Tiwari’s son, security to the family and an arms licence to them for security purpose. They also demanded that Khurshid Bagh should be renamed as Kamlesh Park and a statue should be installed at the park. Speaking to reporters after meeting the CM, the slain leader’s wife Kiran said, “Yogi has assured every possible action in the matter. We feel satisfied after meeting him. Our demand is that the killers should be given capital pun- ishment.” Tiwari’s mother Kusuma Tiwari said, “I told the CM I want justice for my son and strict punishment should be given to the killers. We have been assured by the CM.” However, after reaching Sitapur she changed her state- ment and said she was not happy after meeting Yogi because he did not look serious and concerned about our plight and his reaction was not sym- pathetic towards us. “We were forced to go to Lucknow and meet the CM. The local administration was after us saying the CM wants to meet us. As per Hindu ritual family does not move out of house before tehravi (13-day ritual) still we were forced to go there,” Kusuma told reporters in Sitapur here on Sunday. “I wanted to ask the CM why his security was reduced but was not allowed to ask this question. The response we wanted or we were looking for from CM was not there,” she said. Recently a video has sur- faced where Kamlesh is seen castigating Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Yogi for reducing his security. In that video he was seen saying he would be killed as some Muslim fundamental- ists are after him. Hindu Samaj Party chief Tiwari, 45, earlier associated with a faction of the Hindu Mahasabha, was killed at his home in Khurshid Bagh here on Friday. Continued on Page 4 T he online registration of devotees visiting Kartarpur Guruwara could not start on Sunday as India and Pakistan failed to agree on a number of issues, including Islamabad’s insistence of charging $20 from each pilgrim. Non-completion of infrastructure connecting to India from Pakistan side also is cited as big hurdle in for- malising agreement. India and Pakistan were supposed to sign a pact on Saturday on a few unresolved issues of the pilgrimage, but that did not happen yet. “Since some issues are yet to be resolved, the online reg- istration for the Kartarpur pil- grimage could not be started on Sunday,” an official privy to the development said. Key unre- solved issues include Pakistan’s insistence of charging $20 from each pilgrim and the timing of the pilgrimage every day (first entry and last exit time). India had asked Pakistan to reconsider the decision on charging $20 per pilgrim, allow 10,000 pilgrims on special occasions and an Indian pro- tocol officer to accompany the delegation that visits Kartarpur every day. Pakistan is yet to respond to India’s requests, the official said. On October 16, chairman of the Land Ports Authority of India and Additional Secretary in the Ministry of Home Affairs Govind Mohan had said the online registration for pilgrims visiting Gurdwara Darbar Sahib Kartarpur is expected to commence on October 20, provided a pact is signed on remaining issues. Last month, India and Pakistan agreed on visa-free travel of Indian pilgrims to Gurudwara Darbar Sahib using the Kartarpur corridor. Pilgrims will only have to carry their passports to visit the revered gurdwara in Pakistan. Persons of Indian origin hold- ing OCI (Overseas Citizenship of India) card too can visit the Gurdwara using the Kartarpur corridor. It was also decided that 5,000 pilgrims can visit the shrine everyday and that addi- tional pilgrims will be allowed on special occasions, subject to capacity expansion of facilities by the Pakistan side. Both sides agreed to build a bridge over the Budhi Ravi channel near the border cross- ing point. Pending the con- struction of the bridge on the Pakistan side, both parties agreed to the crossing point coordinates of the temporary service road. India has con- structed a four-lane highway in Dera Baba Nanak in Gurdaspur district in Punjab connecting the ‘zero point’ for onward journey to Pakistan. A state-of-the-art passen- ger terminal with facilitation centre to host government offi- cials responsible for ensuring hassle-free travel of pilgrims, food kiosks, parking areas and security points will also come up by November 8 when Prime Minister Narendra Modi will formally inaugurate the much- awaited Kartarpur corridor. Continued on Page 4 A n Assistant Professor, who taught Philosophy at St Stephen’s College of Delhi University, was found dead under highly mysterious cir- cumstances on Saturday evening. His highly decomposed and decapitated body was found on the railway tracks at Sarai Rohilla Railway Station and his moth- er Lissy (55) was found hanging from a ceiling fan in her house with her mouth stuffed with cloth at their flat in Ashiana Apartment in Pitampura. “Preliminary investigation suggests that the young guest Assistant Professor identified as Allen Stanley (27) first killed his mother and then ended his life by jumping before a running train. It appears to be a case of matricide and suicide as well,” said a senior police officer on Sunday. However, no suicide note was recovered with Stanley’s body, but a note written in Malayalam was found at the flat. Police said they have reg- istered a murder case under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code at the Rani Bagh Police Station after they found his mother’s body in the flat. It has been learnt that the mother-son duo was in depres- sion because of an abetment-to- suicide case pending against them in Kerala, and both were out on anticipatory bail. A few days ago, Stanley — who hailed from Kottayam in Kerala and was also pursuing his PhD from IIT Delhi — had shared about the case with his friends who tried to convince him to not take any extreme step, a police officer said. Stanley was living in Delhi for the last five years and his mother came to stay with him seven months ago. Witness said Stanley was suicidal and they said he had told them five days ago that he had tried to force his mother to commit sui- cide but she refused. Continued on Page 4 A fter a long wait, the Centre has brought Navratangarh, a magnificent 900-year-old dilapidated nine-storey fort located in Jharkhand’s Gumla district under the fold of the Archeological Survey of India (ASI). Situated 80 kms from Ranchi, the seat of Nagvanshi kings who ruled the Chota Nagpur region from the 1st century in Sisai block of the dis- trict has historic significance as the kings there had a link with Mughal emperor Jahangir. An official from the coun- try’s premier conservation Central agency said a notifica- tion to bring the monument under the ASI was issued recently. The ASI tag would ensure much-needed mainte- nance as well as conservation measures to the monument shrouded with mysteries. Navratangarh is also referred to as ‘Doisagarh’ for its location in Doisa, the second capital of the Nagvanshi kings. Though it is visited in big numbers by tourists and his- torians, the heritage site has been in a dire straits. According to Amitabha Gupta, a heritage enthusiast and blogger, the interiors of the palace are in a shambles and it is difficult to say how many rooms there were in each storey. “There is a ruined struc- ture with a small hall flanked by two rooms adjacent to the palace. There is a gate in the middle of this structure which leads to the palace. “The watch tower that was visible from a distance is now within reach. The upper storey of the two-storey tower was once accessed by a staircase. Continued on Page 4 RNI Regn. No. MPENG/2004/13703, Regd. No. L-2/BPLON/41/2006-2008

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The Indian Army on Sundaycarried out punitive strikes

on Pakistani Army posts acrossthe Line of Control (LoC) aftertwo Indian soldiers and a civil-ian were killed in Tangdharwhen Pakistan violated cease-fire and tried to push in ter-rorists from across the LoC. Atleast five to six Pakistani sol-diers were killed in the retalia-tory action.

Firing from across the LoCbegan in early hours when thePakistan Army tried to push interrorists into Jammu &Kashmir by giving them cov-ering fire. Two Indian soldiersand a civilian were killed in thePak firing. The Indian Armythen hit terrorist launch padsand Pakistani Army positions,Army officials said later here inthe day.

They said the Indian Armyhad to resort to punitive actionafter Pakistan resorted to heavy“unprovoked firing on civil-ians” on Saturday night. “As aresult, calibrated escalation ofarea weapons was undertakenby the Indian Side in which ter-rorist launch pads, Pakistanarmy posts giving incidentalprotection to these launch padsand certain gun positions werehit,” an Army spokespersonsaid. This action was takenPakistan Army initiated unpro-voked Cease Fire Violation(CFV) to assist infiltration byterrorists into Indian territories,the spokesperson stated.

Army Chief General BipinRawat said around six to tenPakistani soldiers and as manyterrorists have been killed inthe action.

“Last evening an attemptwas made in Tangdhar to infil-trate terrorists, we retaliated,Pakistan carried out attack fir-ing at our post in which we didsuffer, but before they couldattempt the infiltration it wasdecided that we target that ter-ror camps across,” Rawat said.

“In the retaliatory action,we have caused severe damageto terrorist infrastructure.Terrorist camps oppositeTangdhar sector have beendestroyed. On the basis ofreports that we have been get-ting, six to ten Pakistani soldiershave been killed, three campshave been destroyed. Similarnumber of terrorists have alsobeen killed…” he added.

Pakistan, however, hasrejected reports that the IndianArmy targeted their terrorcamps in the POK and said itcan arrange a visit of diplomatsfrom P5 nations to the area toexpose Indian “falsehood”.

Rejecting reports, ForeignOffice spokesman MohammadFaisal said, “Pakistan categor-ically rejects Indian mediareports about alleged launch-pads being targeted by Indiaalong the LoC.”

The Foreign Office saidthat Pakistan has called uponthe P-5 countries (permanentmembers of the United NationsSecurity Council) to ask India

to provide information aboutthe terror launchpads. It saidPakistan is willing to arrange avisit of the P5 diplomats tothose locations to expose“Indian falsehood”.

Pakistan Army spokesmanMaj Gen Asif Ghafoor alsorejected the reports saying theIndian media is “falsely claim-ing” targeting of alleged terrorcamps.

Meanwhile, Pakistan sum-moned Indian envoy Gaurav

Ahluwalia to condemn the fir-ing by Indian troops that it saidkilled five civilians along theLine of Control (LoC) in Jura,Shahkot and Nausehri Sectors.

Giving details of the puni-tive action, the Army said onecivilian Mohammad Sadiq waskilled and three others wereinjured belonging toGhundhishat Village ofTangdhar district in “Pakistanarmy artillery firing.”

The spokesperson said

Indian Army “retains the rightto respond at a time and placeof it’s choosing” in casePakistan Army continues toassist terrorist activities acrossIndian borders.

Defence sources said fourlaunch pads in PakistanOccupied Kashmir (POK)weretargeted after civilians causal-ities in Tangdhar district on theIndian side. “It was a directassault at the same time usingheavy artillery. Atleast six

Pakistani soldiers were killed inthe firing,” one source saidadding each launch pad hadover 15-20 terrorists waiting toinfiltrate.

The launch pads were locat-ed South of Zura in PakistanOccupied Kashmir (POK)andposts included Athmuqam andKundalshahi and sources con-firmed that Indian Army hasused 155mm heavy artilleryguns. Usually during ceasefireviolations, small arms are usedand as caliber escalation happensheavy mortar is used eventual-ly leading to the use of heavyartillery which has been inter-mittently used by both sides onthe LoC in recent times.

During the day, DefenceMinister Rajnath Singh spoketo Army Chief Rawat whoapprised Singh of the develop-ments and the situation alongthe LoC. Tangdhar is one of thetraditional infiltration routes inNorth Kashmir. The ingressroutes there will be closed inthe next few weeks after snow-fall and therefore the Pakistanarmy is desperate to push in asmany terrorists possible before it.

Moreover, the punitiveaction on Sunday is one of thebiggest since abrogation ofArticle 370 giving special sta-tus to Jammu & Kashmir onAugust five. So far, more than2,300 cease of fire violationshave taken place since Januarythis year as compared to 1,600odd last year.

Continued on Page 4

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Polling will be held onMonday in all 288

Assembly constituencies ofMaharashtra and the 90Assembly seats of Haryana asthe ruling BJP, a good five-months after its win in the LokSabha elections, is looking fora second consecutive terms inboth the States.

While abrogation of Article370 and anti-Pakistan rant has

been the main poll planks ofthe BJP, the Oppositionclaimed that economic slow-down, unemployment and gen-eral anti-incumbency couldwork in their favour.

Bypolls will also be held to51 Assembly seats and two LokSabha constituencies spreadacross 18 States. Eleven ofthese bypolls would be in UttarPradesh where poll resultswould be seen as a litmus testfor the Yogi AdityanathGovernment which has com-pleted 30 months in office.

BJP’s incumbent ChiefMinister in MaharashtraDevendra Fadnavis and ChiefMinister Manohar Lal Khattarin Haryana are seeking secondterm, but the campaign face forthe ruling BJP is PrimeMinister Narendra Modi.

Continued on Page 4

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Family members of theHindu Samaj Party leader

Kamlesh Tiwari, who waskilled two days ago, met ChiefMinister Yogi Adityanath anddemanded capital punishmentfor the killers.

Tiwari’s mother, wife andthree sons met the ChiefMinister at his official residenceof 5, Kalidas Marg, and stayedthere for over 30 minutes.

The Chief Minister assuredthe family of all help and saidpolice are doing their job andthe guilty will not be spared.

Officer privy to the meet-ing told this reporter that theCM intently listened to thefamily members who demand-ed a Government job forTiwari’s son, security to thefamily and an arms licence tothem for security purpose.They also demanded thatKhurshid Bagh should berenamed as Kamlesh Park anda statue should be installed atthe park.

Speaking to reporters aftermeeting the CM, the slainleader’s wife Kiran said, “Yogihas assured every possibleaction in the matter. We feelsatisfied after meeting him.Our demand is that the killersshould be given capital pun-

ishment.”Tiwari’s mother Kusuma

Tiwari said, “I told the CM Iwant justice for my son andstrict punishment should begiven to the killers. We havebeen assured by the CM.”

However, after reachingSitapur she changed her state-ment and said she was nothappy after meeting Yogibecause he did not look seriousand concerned about our plightand his reaction was not sym-pathetic towards us.

“We were forced to go to

Lucknow and meet the CM.The local administration wasafter us saying the CM wants tomeet us. As per Hindu ritualfamily does not move out ofhouse before tehravi (13-dayritual) still we were forced to gothere,” Kusuma told reportersin Sitapur here on Sunday.

“I wanted to ask the CMwhy his security was reducedbut was not allowed to ask thisquestion. The response wewanted or we were looking forfrom CM was not there,” shesaid.

Recently a video has sur-faced where Kamlesh is seencastigating Prime MinisterNarendra Modi and ChiefMinister Yogi for reducing hissecurity. In that video he wasseen saying he would be killedas some Muslim fundamental-ists are after him.

Hindu Samaj Party chiefTiwari, 45, earlier associatedwith a faction of the HinduMahasabha, was killed at hishome in Khurshid Bagh hereon Friday.

Continued on Page 4

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The online registration ofdevotees visiting Kartarpur

Guruwara could not start onSunday as India and Pakistanfailed to agree on a number ofissues, including Islamabad’sinsistence of charging $20 fromeach pilgrim. Non-completionof infrastructure connectingto India from Pakistan side alsois cited as big hurdle in for-malising agreement.

India and Pakistan weresupposed to sign a pact onSaturday on a few unresolvedissues of the pilgrimage, butthat did not happen yet.

“Since some issues are yetto be resolved, the online reg-istration for the Kartarpur pil-grimage could not be started onSunday,” an official privy to thedevelopment said. Key unre-solved issues include Pakistan’sinsistence of charging $20 fromeach pilgrim and the timing ofthe pilgrimage every day (firstentry and last exit time).

India had asked Pakistan to

reconsider the decision oncharging $20 per pilgrim, allow10,000 pilgrims on specialoccasions and an Indian pro-tocol officer to accompany thedelegation that visits Kartarpurevery day. Pakistan is yet torespond to India’s requests, theofficial said.

On October 16, chairmanof the Land Ports Authority ofIndia and Additional Secretaryin the Ministry of Home AffairsGovind Mohan had said theonline registration for pilgrimsvisiting Gurdwara DarbarSahib Kartarpur is expected tocommence on October 20,provided a pact is signed onremaining issues.

Last month, India andPakistan agreed on visa-freetravel of Indian pilgrims toGurudwara Darbar Sahib usingthe Kartarpur corridor.Pilgrims will only have to carrytheir passports to visit therevered gurdwara in Pakistan.

Persons of Indian origin hold-ing OCI (Overseas Citizenshipof India) card too can visit theGurdwara using the Kartarpurcorridor.

It was also decided that5,000 pilgrims can visit theshrine everyday and that addi-tional pilgrims will be allowedon special occasions, subject tocapacity expansion of facilitiesby the Pakistan side.

Both sides agreed to builda bridge over the Budhi Ravichannel near the border cross-ing point. Pending the con-struction of the bridge on thePakistan side, both partiesagreed to the crossing pointcoordinates of the temporaryservice road. India has con-structed a four-lane highway inDera Baba Nanak inGurdaspur district in Punjabconnecting the ‘zero point’ foronward journey to Pakistan.

A state-of-the-art passen-ger terminal with facilitationcentre to host government offi-cials responsible for ensuringhassle-free travel of pilgrims,food kiosks, parking areas andsecurity points will also comeup by November 8 when PrimeMinister Narendra Modi willformally inaugurate the much-awaited Kartarpur corridor.

Continued on Page 4

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An Assistant Professor, whotaught Philosophy at St

Stephen’s College of DelhiUniversity, was found deadunder highly mysterious cir-cumstances on Saturdayevening.

His highly decomposed anddecapitated body was found onthe railway tracks at Sarai RohillaRailway Station and his moth-er Lissy (55) was found hangingfrom a ceiling fan in her housewith her mouth stuffed withcloth at their flat in AshianaApartment in Pitampura.

“Preliminary investigationsuggests that the young guestAssistant Professor identified asAllen Stanley (27) first killed hismother and then ended his lifeby jumping before a running

train. It appears to be a case ofmatricide and suicide as well,”said a senior police officer onSunday. However, no suicidenote was recovered with Stanley’sbody, but a note written inMalayalam was found at the flat.

Police said they have reg-istered a murder case underSection 302 of the Indian PenalCode at the Rani Bagh PoliceStation after they found hismother’s body in the flat.

It has been learnt that themother-son duo was in depres-sion because of an abetment-to-suicide case pending againstthem in Kerala, and both wereout on anticipatory bail. A fewdays ago, Stanley — who hailedfrom Kottayam in Kerala andwas also pursuing his PhDfrom IIT Delhi — had sharedabout the case with his friendswho tried to convince him tonot take any extreme step, apolice officer said.

Stanley was living in Delhifor the last five years and hismother came to stay with himseven months ago. Witnesssaid Stanley was suicidal andthey said he had told them fivedays ago that he had tried toforce his mother to commit sui-cide but she refused.

Continued on Page 4

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After a long wait, the Centrehas brought Navratangarh,

a magnificent 900-year-olddilapidated nine-storey fortlocated in Jharkhand’s Gumladistrict under the fold of theArcheological Survey of India(ASI).

Situated 80 kms fromRanchi, the seat of Nagvanshikings who ruled the ChotaNagpur region from the 1stcentury in Sisai block of the dis-trict has historic significance asthe kings there had a link withMughal emperor Jahangir.

An official from the coun-try’s premier conservationCentral agency said a notifica-tion to bring the monumentunder the ASI was issuedrecently. The ASI tag wouldensure much-needed mainte-nance as well as conservationmeasures to the monument

shrouded with mysteries. Navratangarh is also

referred to as ‘Doisagarh’ for itslocation in Doisa, the secondcapital of the Nagvanshi kings.Though it is visited in bignumbers by tourists and his-torians, the heritage site hasbeen in a dire straits.

According to AmitabhaGupta, a heritage enthusiastand blogger, the interiors of thepalace are in a shambles and itis difficult to say how manyrooms there were in eachstorey. “There is a ruined struc-ture with a small hall flankedby two rooms adjacent to thepalace. There is a gate in themiddle of this structure whichleads to the palace.

“The watch tower that wasvisible from a distance is nowwithin reach. The upper storeyof the two-storey tower wasonce accessed by a staircase.

Continued on Page 4

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Mhow judicial court hasgiven some important

judgments ordered by ADJVikas Chandra Mishra andADJ Sonam Patel.

In the first case Babu sonof Nanuram and Nanuram sonof Chiitarsingh was penalizedunder sections 302 and 34 ofthe IPC for killing a clothmerchant Dharmpal whodeclined them to sell the clothsin Simrole market area.

In the second case Kalu sonof Narsingh Bheel and Rajeshson of Narsingh Bheel weresentenced for life imprison-ment under IPC section 302/34for killing Lakshman at thefields of Harinarayan Patidar invillage Gawli Palasia.

In the third case accusedLucky alias Liyakat son ofShoukat Ali was sentenced for3 years rigorous imprisonmentunder IPC section 8 for harass-ing and eve teasing a minor girl

and hurting her on the chest inkishanganj police station area.

In the fourth case SanjaySharma son of ShrikrishnaSharma was punished underIPC 420 who stole around Rs8 lakh in past 5 years as theaccused was working as thecashier on the petrol pump ofAnil Choudhary in Manpurpolice station area.

In the fifth case ADJSonam Patel punished theaccused Santosh Panchal forlifelong imprisonment undersection IPC 376(2) 376(2)(F)376(2)(K) for raping his minor

step daughter a student of class9 by threatening his stepdaughter that he will kill hismother.

In the 6 case Dinesh son ofGajra Singh was sentencedfor lifelong imprisonmentunder IPC section 302 forkilling his wife in Manpurpolice station area. Duringthe decisions of these cases thestatements of the witnesseswere studied and examined indetail by the judicial court.Assistant District

Prosecution Officer AnandNema argued in all the cases.

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Army colonel RavindraNathan lost his life at the

picnic spot Mehndi Kundafter falling into more than200 feet deep waterfal l .Colonel Ravindra Nathan,age 50 years was posted atMCTE Mhow a permanentstaff officer of MCTE lost hisbalance while crossing a nar-row walking lane submergedin running water flow andwhich was running adjacentto the water fall and lost hisbalance and fell into the waterfall.

According to sourcesColonel Ravindra Nathan wason his routine training pro-gram with his fellow officersand the officer ahead to himhas just crossed the samespot five minutes ago but itwas bad luck for colonelRavindra Nathan as he lost hisbalance. According to sourcesthe Colonel suffered multiple

injuries and fractures in headand other body parts. Theincident took place around 10am on Sunday.

The police and senior offi-cers reached at the spot andrecovered the body from thewater fall. After the postmortem the body has been keptin the military hospital Mhow.The colonel left his wife and ason behind him. The otherfamily members will reach onMonday from Kerala and hislast rites will be performed inMhow with all military hon-ours. Colonel Ravindra Nathanwas a communication engineerby profession and was an offi-cer from core of signals andoutstanding and dynamic offi-cer and always led his teamfrom the front.

Notably, The Pioneer inits October 1, 2018 editionhad highlighted the danger-ous picnic spots of Mhowt e s h i larea.

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The 16th edition of theInternational Dance

Festival, Udbhav GreenwoodDance Festival will be inaugu-rated in Gwalior on October31. The dance festival is orga-nized every year under the aus-pices of Udbhav Cultural andSports Society and GreenwoodPublic School, Gwalior.

While talking to the mediapersons, here on Sunday, DrKeshav Pandey, President andDeepak Tomar, Secretary ofUdbhav Cultural and SportsSociety said that this interna-tional event is an initiative tofoster love and peace in theworld.

They added that the inter-national participants of thisyear’s event will be from Spain,Italy, Israel, Iran, Siberia,Kirgizstan and Sri Lanka.Besides these international par-ticipants, artists from the statesof Assam, West Bengal, Jammu& Kashmir, Karnataka,Maharashtra, Haryana, UttarPradesh, Delhi and MadhyaPradesh will also showcase theirskills during the four day event.

President of the societyDr Keshav Pandey informedthat Gwalior has witnessedmany cultural and historicalevents and that the city takespride in its rich tradition of artand culture. He added that animportant objective of the

international festival is to pre-sent to the international com-munity the rich and vibrantcultural heritage of Gwalior.

Dr Pandey further saidthat the event will mark itsinauguration with a carnival atIIITM on October 31. Thecarnival will pass throughTheme Road and all thenational and internationalartists will participate in it. Healso said that the official inau-guration ceremony will be heldat Jiwaji Club in the evening.

Secretary Deepak Tomarsaid that the festival will be heldat three venues over four days:The IIITM, Govindpuri, JiwajiClub and Greenwood PublicSchool.

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The organic farm fest AnantMandi was organized in

Gandhi Bhavan campus onSunday. This was the 10thchapter Anant Mandi in thisseries to make organic productsaccessible to the general public.

There were 15 stalls in thismandi, in which organic veg-etables, fruits, pulses, spices,herbal medicines, dairy prod-ucts and dishes were availableto give people a taste of organ-ic food, in which hummuswraps, millets, khichdi, curdvadas, panipuri served the peo-ple. Attracted attention.

Pankhuri Aggarwal, whostalls in the mandi with an ade-nium plant, said, "Such aneffort is a good initiative for thecity of Bhopal."

Abhidha Kela, who cameto Anant Mandi for the firsttime, said, 'I took home dairyproducts, fruits, and hummusrolls from here today which isvery tasty and good for health.'

Anant Mandi and Eklavyahave jointly started a new ini-tiative called 'Book of Raila,Kahaani Ka Mela', in which thechildren of Anant Mandi triedto involve children in readingcorners in activities like read-ing books, origami and puzzlesolving.

ANANT, in collaborationwith Go Rurban brings aFarm Fest Ananat Mandi onSunday. It aimed to promotethe practice of organic farmingand kitchen gardening in urbansettings and to enhance therelationship of organic farmerproducers and consumers.

It is a platform being cre-ated for the common urbancrowd to find healthy and sus-tainable alternatives for food, asagainst the unhealthy and inor-ganic food materials that theyconsume regularly.

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A42-year-old woman wasmurdered by her 26-year-

old son-in-law with whom sheused to stay in live-in at AshokVihar colony under AshokaGarden police station area in theearly morning on Sunday.

The deceased Shaheen aliasShaima Bano was murdered byher son-in-law and live-in part-ner Shahrukh Khan by siltingher throat on Sunday.

Police were informed andbased on the receipt of the infor-mation a police team reached thespot and started investigation.The deceased, her daughter andaccused son-in-law were bookedby Ashoka Garden police forassault few days ago. During theinvestigation police found thatthe accused married daughter ofdeceased and later he fell in lovewith her and started to live in a

flat at Ashok Vihar colony withthe deceased leaving his wife.The deceased was involved inflesh trade and used to operate itfrom the house and whenaccused came to know he warnedher to stop the activities afterwhich she failed to follow andcontinued to operate flesh tradeconcealing from the accused. Itwas revealed that the accusedwas frustrated over involvementof deceased’s in illegally oper-ated trade and trised to separatefrom the deceased but she pres-surized her to continue to livewith her.

The deceased was nabbedby crime branch for her involve-ment in flesh trade last year.After the preliminary investi-gation body was sent for thepost mortem. The police haveregistered a case under section302 of the IPC and started fur-ther investigation.

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The two-day seminar,Coalescence 2019 con-

cluded on Sunday at IndianInstitute of Forest Management(IIFM), Bhopal.

The second day ofCoalescence'19 commencedwith a keynote speech by KirtiMishra on SustainableSolutions and their impor-tance in the agricultural con-text, he concluded his speechby urging us all to incorporatethe principle of sustainableconsumption.

The first Panel discussionwhich was themed 'LeveragingTechnology and Analytics forBetter Governance' dealt withhow Technology and Dataanalysis can help revolutionizegovernance in India. Eminentspeakers such as AnuragShrivastava, retired IFS officer;Hemant Khosla, State RuralSanitation Expert; Alok Ranjan,Principal Data scientist andJigyasa Bisaria, faculty IIFM;skimmed through range oftopics related to governance, AIand Data Analytics.

The second Panel session

was held post lunch, themed'Corporate SocialResponsibility Landscape inIndia' dealt with the under-standing of the term CorporateSocial Responsibility acrossthe years especially within theIndian context; Given therecent amendments in the CSRAct the scope and future ofCSR was discussed by eminentspeakers such as Nixon Joseph,President and Chief OperatingOfficer at SBI Foundation;Suresh Reddy, Lead CSR and

Director at SRF Foundation;Parul RishiChairperson, Centrefor CSR, IIFM.

Parallel to the PanelDiscussions, A business plancompetition 'Manthan', underthe theme of 'Waste to Wealth'was being conducted.'Mecardo' a marketing designcompetition was held after thesecond panel discussion.

The day was concludedwith a Valedictory function inwhich the guests and winnerswere facilitated.

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Marking last day of BhopalPhotography Festival on

Sunday, a huge footfall of pho-tography lovers was witnessedat Swaraj Bhawan Art Gallery.

The last day was carriedforward with Picture display bySameer Ashraf (Sony Alpha).He presented a Workshopupon Camera andPhotography skills which last-ed for 2 hours.

The Bhopal CityInformational Portal whichhappens to be Bhopal's largestSocial Media group in associ-ation with the largestPhotography group," BhopalCamera Club" had organisedthis festival in collaborationwith MP Tourism.

Here on Sunday, the win-ners of online photography

competition were awarded withcertificates of merit and theirrespective cash prizes.

First prize was bagged byDebashish Mishra,Shreevardhan Sharma baggedsecond prize, third prize wasbagged by three participantsincluding Neeraj Vishwakarma,Feher Murtaza and SiddhantSoni.

The consolation prize wasbagged by Ankit Tiwari, SachinMatkar, Sandeep Jain, GautamPoddar and Rajendra Malviya.

At the end of the exhibi-tion, Anil Bhati (Exhibitiondirector) appreciated and con-gratulated the participationand support from Club partic-ipants, Volunteers, partners,Media partners, News reportsand the audience making thesuccessful event furtherremarkable.

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The on ongoing traditionaltribal woodcraft and

Dhokra art at Indira GandhiRashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya,Bhopal was concluded today. Inthe fortnight long workshoptitled as ‘Katha-Srishti’ on tra-ditional tribal woodcraft andDhokra metal art. In this work-shop 22 artists fromChattisgarh and MP partici-pated at premises of Tribal

Habitat open air exhibition,IGRMS. Prof Sarit KumarChaudhuri (Director, IGRMS)was distributed certificates tothe participant on the last dayof workshop.

On this occasion, ProfChaudhuri told that, the cre-ation of skilled craftsmen andartisans of the new generationis a very complicated task forpreservation of traditionalinheritance art and craft ofnation. This work are execute

under the special skill devel-opment workshop by themuseum. After certificates dis-tribution, participants sharedtheir experiences and viewsduring the workshop andthanked IGRMS & requested toorganise such enlighteningworkshop in near future.

On this occasion, AssistantProgram Coordinator, SanjaySapre said that, this workshopwas organized by IGRMS withthe aim of the presenting the

dimensions of art and lifethrough crafts. In the 10 daysworkshop, the participantsparticipated enthusiasticallyand they made many types ofcrafts from wood and metalthrough our traditional tech-niques in front of audience.The program was conductedby Rashmi Shukla (AssistantKeeper) and the vote of thankswas presented by P ShankarRao (Assistant Keeper) ofIGRMS.

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It rained for about half anhour in Bhopal on Sunday.

Courtesy low pressure areaover and moisture incursionfrom Arabian Sea has inducedrainfall in the state capital andother parts of the state, saidweathermen.

The weather conditionswould witness change and clearsky conditions would be wit-nessed after 24 hours and thechange would bring the tem-perature down. However, dipwould not be steep and woulddecrease gradually.

For the second consecutiveday cloud cover remainedthroughout the day and onSunday rainfall was witnessedin the state capital. Apart fromstate capital other parts of thestate also witnessed rainfall inthe past 24 hours.

Rewa, Shahdol, Jabalpurand Hoshangabad divisions

recorded rainfall while fewparts of Indore, Sagar andBhopal divisions recorded rain-fall in the past 24 hours.

Hoshangabad regionsrecorded 2.3 cm of rainfallwhile Seoni recorded 5.8 cm ofrainfall in the past 24 hours.After dark cloud cover duringthe day it poured and lightshowers were witnessed forbrief period in the state capital.

Light rainfall late in theafternoon continued till lateevening making the weatherconditions cold.

After good rainfall signif-icant dip in the day tempera-

ture was recorded inHoshangabad division. InRewa, Shahdol, Indore, Sagarand Bhopal divisions recordeddip in the day temperatures.

The highest day tempera-ture was recorded at 32 degreeCelsius in Gwalior while low-est night temperature wasrecorded at 15 degree Celsiusin Betul.

According to the forecastday and night temperaturewould be witnessed around26 and 20 degree Celsiusrespectively on Monday. Theweather conditions wouldremain partially clouded.

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The annual festival of ShardaVihar Mandir was orga-

nized here on Sunday. In theannual festival the students ofthe school presented colorfulpresentations and spontaneousperformances.

On this occasion, parentsof alumni of the school alsoparticipated in it. The programwas conducted by Anarda Sant,managing assistant of ShardaVihar.

The chief guest of the pro-gramme, Ajay Shivhare, man-ager of Sarada Vihar andRajesh Tiwari, Principal ofSharda Vihar lit the lamp andlaunched the program. Thiswas followed with GaneshVandana by students.

At the beginning of the

programme, the students per-formed the play Bachao PedBachao Jeevan, in which thestudents gave a presentation ofthe drama about the changesthat are taking place in our livesdue to the cutting of trees. Afterthis, the students also explainedhow we can keep our healththrough yoga and which yogashould be done.

In the programme themanager of Sharda Vihar AjayShivhare ji said that like everyyear, an annual festival wasorganized in Sharda Vihar thisyear. In which the brother ofthe school demonstrated his artwas amazing to watch. In theprogram, small students madepresentations and their parentscould not stop them from see-ing the presentations made bythem.

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Kolar police have booked aproperty developer for

duping a man to the tune of Rs13.5 lakh by selling same flat atGehunkheda road to two per-sons.

According to the police,Anita Gupta was sold a flat atIcon Meridian colony by theproperty developer and accusedJitendra Mamtani at Rs13.4 lakh in the year 2011 andshe was assured that transfer ofownership would be done with-in a month but it was neverdone. The victim lodged a

complaint with the senior policeofficer and a case was registeredby the police. A complaint wasfiled regarding the fraud andafter completion of the investi-gation the police have registereda case under section 420 of theIPC. The police have startedfurther investigation and haveclaimed that there is a possi-bility that the accused the sell-ing of plots by using wrongmeans to several victims andwould be investigated.

Meanwhile, Kolar policehave booked a fraudster whoduped a person to the tune ofRs 5.5 lakh in the name of sell-

ing a car; victim providedmoney but he was never pro-vided car or refunded money.

According to the police, theaccused Amit Jain collected Rs5.5 lakh from the victim AshishBatham for his Tata Safari SUVon September 30, 2018. Afterthe deal and providing ofmoney accused had not pro-vided car and refused to refundthe money.

After the confirmation thepolice have registered a caseunder section 420 of the IPCand have started further inves-tigation. The offender is still outof police reach.

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The campaigning for theOctober 21 Jhabua

Assembly by-election endedon Saturday, but BJP MLARamesh Mendola was arrestedon the charge of moving in theconstituency on Sunday after-noon. Besides, State vice-pres-ident of BJYM Gaurav has alsobeen nabbed on the similarcharges.

As per the rules of ElectionCommission, no outsider canremain in the constituencyafter the campaigning ends(within 48 hours of thepolling). However, violatingthe rules, Mendola was foundmoving in Antervelia villagearea. The police caught himand took to the police station.

Sources said that the policewere tipped off that some ille-

gal material was in the vehicleof the BJP MLA and the policestopped the vehicle. Mendolahas been arrested on the chargeof violating model Code ofConduct.

Later, Mendola wasreleased on bail and he told thatafter campaigning ended onSaturday, he had gone toDahod of Gujarat and onSunday, he was going to Indorevia Ujjain, when he wasstopped on the way.

Meanwhile, PublicRelations Minister PC Sharmain Bhopal told media personsthat the BJP leaders are alwaysin the habit of violating rulesand regulations. He con-demned the incident anddemanded to cancel the mem-bership of Mendola from theState assembly.

BJP’s Lok Sabha memberGS Damor reached the

Kalyanpur police station andmet Mendola. Mendola wasbeing questioned till lateevening. His vehicle and mobilephone have been seized.Besides Mendola, his driver hasalso been booked.

The polling for the Jhabuaby-election is scheduled onMonday and the countingwould be held on October 24.

The Election Commission,in view of ensuring free and fairelection in Jhabua, hasdeployed four companies ofSpecial Armed Forces (SAF)and 600 policemen from dif-ferent districts of the State.

Jhabua Collector andDistrict Returning OfficerPrabal Sipaha informed that2,77,599 electorates vote in theelection. There are 356 pollingbooths in the constituencyincluding 61 sensitive booths,he added.

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In a joint operation of crimebranch and Lordganj police

station a man carrying firearmsillegally was nabbed fromRanital Chowk and recoveredtwo country-made pistols andtwo live cartridges from hispossession.

Acting on a tip off a mis-creant was nabbed near ChayaBag house and when he wassearched two country madepistol and two live cartridgeswere recovered.

Nabbed accused was iden-tified as Vipnesh Yadav (23) ofDamoh and when he wasquizzed he failed to providelicense of the carrying firearms.

Police said that the accusedwas nabbed while he was try-ing to sell the firearms and wasdiscussing with the locals to sellthe firearms during whichpolice were informed and hewas nabbed.

During the investigationVipnesh confessed that hebought the firearms and cameto sell them but nabbed beforehe could find customers. Thepolice have registered a caseunder section 25 and 27 of theArms Act.

More crimes would be con-fessed in the further investiga-tion and the source and cus-tomers which the accused usedto sell the weapons would besearched.

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More than 200 people ofChandbadi area partici-

pated in awareness programmeby Urgent Relief and JustAction (URJA) WomenHelpdesk on Sunday.

The programme wasorganised with the support ofPiplani police station in whichmore than 200 people includ-ing women, men and childrenfrom the area under Piplanipolice station area participat-ed.

The main objective ofthis program is to reduceincidents of violence andother crime against womanin the society and to makethem aware about speedyjustice.

CSP Kotwali Bittu Sharmadetailed about the women helpdesk. It is a special desk set upfor immediate hearing, assis-tance and action on violenceagainst women and at thesehelp desk most of the in chargeare women police personnel

and issued which requiredhelp apart from police areresolved through referral ser-vice.

In charge of URJA SurekhaArma said that the crimesagainst women have to curband shared details of crimeagainst women in the statewhich would help the womento identify the types of crimesthey could face.

SHO Piplani RakeshShrivastava pacified queriesof the participants and encour-aged the women to ask ques-tioned and share problemswithout any fear.

Director Uday SansthaLizy Thomas said that theintroduction of the organiza-tion and the purpose of theURJA women help Desk is tospread awareness as womenare victims of domestic vio-lence but are afraid of societyand the legal processes. TheURJA women help desk isoperated in 180 police stationsof 12 districts of MadhyaPradesh.

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Uttar Pradesh Deputy ChiefMinister Keshav Prasad

Maurya on Sunday supportedhis State police's findings inHindu Samaj Party (HSP)leader Kamlesh Tiwari's mur-der saying the truth in the caseis "almost out".

He said the allegation lev-elled by deceased Tiwari'smother that a local BJP leaderwas involved in her son's killingover a land dispute must havebeen made in "anguish".

Tiwari, 45, earlier associ-ated with a faction of theHindu Mahasabha, was killedat his home in Lucknow onFriday. Five people weredetained, including three inGujarat's Surat, in connectionwith his murder.

Uttar Pradesh police hadsaid on Saturday that the sus-pects were "radicalised" andappeared to have targeted himfor his inflammatory remarksmade in 2015.

Talking to reporters at theBJP office in Indore, Mauryasaid, "Kamlesh Tiwari murder

case has been cracked. Thetruth of this incident hasalmost come out before thecountry."

Tiwari's mother Kusumahas accused a local BJP leaderof killing her son over a landdispute.

When asked about this,Maurya said, "Tiwari mighthave had enmity with someone.But this is a different side.Tiwari's mother is definitely ingreat anguish. We respect her."

"Tiwari's murder is beinginvestigated very closely. I thinkthe culprits who killed him willbe sent to the gallows. UttarPradesh Police will take all nec-essary steps in this direction,"he said.

On the BJP's Maharashtraelection manifesto raising thedemand for the Bharat Ratnafor Hindutva icon V DSavarkar, he said, "MahatmaGandhi and Savarkar were notopposed to each other. Therewas no difference of opinion onthe issue that the countryshould be freed from theBritish."

To a query on Congressdescribing Savarkar as one ofthe accused in MahatmaGandhi's assassination case,Maurya said, "When Savarkarwas acquitted of all charges inthis case, should you (themedia) ask a question aboutthis? Questions should not beraised about such a personali-ty (Savarkar), who struggled togive us the right to live as citi-zens of an independent coun-try.

"We have honouredBhimrao Ambedkar and SardarPatel. Now we are going to hon-our Savarkar. When the timecomes, we will also honourJyotiba Phule, Savitribai Phuleand other great leaders,"Maurya, who is BJP's co-

incharge for Maharashtra elec-tions, said.

In view of the retaliatoryaction of the Indian Armynear the Line of Control (LoC)in Jammu & Kashmir, the BJPleader accused the Congress ofalways raising questions aboutthe bravery of the country'sArmy.

"Congress should welcomeour Army's success. But they(Congress leaders) ask for acertificate of this success.Whenever the country needs toconvey a message of solidarity,Congress starts using the lan-guage of neighbouring countryto benefit Pakistan," he said.

Congress leader PriyankaGandhi Vadra had on Saturdayhit out at Union MinisterPiyush Goyal over his remarkson Nobel laureate AbhijitBanerjee, saying theGovernment's job is to improvethe "collapsing" economy andnot to run a "comedy circus".

Asked about this, Mauryasaid, "Priyanka should be askedwhy her brother Rahul Gandhilost the Amethi seat in the lastLok Sabha elections."

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New Delhi: A woman and hermale friend were arrested inEast Patel Nagar area forallegedly hatching a conspira-cy to kill her husband and por-tray his death as an accident asthey thought him to be an"obstacle" in their relationship,police said on Sunday.

Anita, 30, and ArjunMandal, 38, were arrestedrecently in connection with thekilling, they said.

The body of 42-year-oldDayaram with grievous injurieson his head and other parts wasfound lying in the shaft of a liftof an under construction build-ing in central Delhi's East PatelNagar area on October 17,police said.

According to police,Mandal and Dayaram, whowere labourers, knew eachother and the duo had workedtogether. He started coming tohis house and eventually devel-oped intimacy with his wifearound three years ago.

"The duo consideredDayaram as an obstacle intheir relationship and plannedhis murder to portray it as anaccidental death," police said.

Police found a bag con-taining tiffin box, muffler anda mobile battery, slippers from

the spot while a bottle ofwhisky, two paper juice glass-es, a plastic polythene, a silverfoil pouch of eatable snacks, apaper plate were found scat-tered on the building's terrace.

A case was registered anda probe initiated, they said.

The identity of the bodywas confirmed by Anita, whoworked as a domestic help, andother relatives.

However, investigationsarose suspicion on Anita as sheattempted to mislead policeand was quite evasive duringthe interrogation. During calldetail record analysis of mobilephones of Dayaram and hiswife, one number was found tobe the common link, saidDeputy Commissioner ofPolice (Central) MandeepSingh Randhawa.

"Dayaram had last calledon the same number and evenhis wife had several calls withthe suspected numberovernight when the body of thedeceased was found at the site.Even the suspected numberand the mobile phones ofDayaram and his wife were atthe same location between 6.30pm to 6.40 pm on October 16,"the officer said.

The user of the suspected

number was identified to be ofMandal, he added.

During interrogation,Anita and Mandal confessed tothe crime after they were con-fronted with evidence and calldetail records.

"It was revealed that Anitahad an extra-marital affair withArjun for the last three years.Both were planning to eliminateDayaram for the past fewmonths. To execute their plan,Mandal called Dayaram at thePatel Nagar Metro Station at theinstance of Anita. He invitedhim for drinks," the DCP said.

Mandal took him to theterrace of an under construc-tion building in East PatelNagar at about 7.00 pm, wherethey drank together. Afterspending almost an hour on

the roof top, he pushedDayaram from the stairs of therooftop in the shaft of an openlift hole, following which hesuccumbed to injuries, he said.

To destroy the evidence,Mandal even took outDayaram's mobile phone fromhis pocket and threw its batteryin the shaft. After that, Arjunwent to Farid Puri and hand-ed over the mobile phone toAnita. Mandal also threw hisblood-stained slippers andclothes in Karol Bagh, the offi-cer said.

Dayaram's mobile phone,blood-stained clothes and slip-pers of Mandal have beenrecovered, police said, addingthat the mobile phones of boththe accused have been seized. PTI

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Manila: The values of India'scivilisation can ensure peaceand friendship among peopleand countries in the times ofstrife and violence, PresidentRam Nath Kovind said onSunday, calling on the Indiancommunity in the Philippinesto promote the country's her-itage.

Speaking at the Indiancommunity reception inManila, Kovind appreciatedthe contribution of the diasporato the economy and society ofthe the Philippines and to theimage of India and Indians.The President is on a five-dayvisit to the Southeast Asiancountry.

"Our community in thePhilippines has been a strongbond of friendship between ourtwo countries for decades. Thesize of the diaspora has grownremarkably over the last fewyears," he said at the event.

"To meet our people in far-away lands is an emotional andspecial experience for me, onethat you have when you meetyour near and dear ones," hesaid.

Appreciating the Indiancommunity for maintainingits culture and traditions in thePhilippines, Kovind said, "you

must do your best to promoteour heritage and knowledge forthe well-being and happiness ofall."

The President said that it isa matter of immense pride forus that wherever our commu-nity goes, it takes with it thevalues of "VasudhaivaKutumbakam" — the wholeworld is one family.

"In these times of strife andviolence, it is these values of ourcivilization that can ensurepeace and friendship amongpeoples and countries," he said.

"You have also done well tokeep our languages alive inyour daily lives, be it Punjabi,Sindhi, Tamil, Malayalam,Hindi or Gujarati. I understandthat yoga is very popular in thePhilippines and ayurveda isalso gaining ground," Kovindsaid while praising the com-munity.

The President also calledon the community to availopportunities that India offersfor innovation, investment,research and education.

The flagship initiativessuch as Make in India, DigitalIndia, Skill India, GangaRejuvenation Project, SwachhBharat Mission, Smart Citiesand Jal Jeevan Mission seek

your partnership, Kovind said.Highlighting that the

India-Philippines trade hasrisen to nearly 2.5 billion USdollars, he said that the eco-nomic engagement betweenthe two countries in terms ofinvestment and presence ofIndian companies in thePhilippines is on the upswing.

He said that the quantumof the bilateral trade is stillmodest and there is muchpotential which needs to betapped.

"I am sure with your ini-tiatives and enterprise; we cando much more to bring pros-perity to the two countries," hesaid.

Kovind retreated India'scommitment to strengthen itsbond with the diaspora andhighlighted the steps taken bythe Indian government in this

direction, including relaxationof rules and regulations forobtaining Overseas Citizenshipof India cards, making consularservice delivery people-sensi-tive and people-friendly andoffering seats in educationalinstitutions in India.He saidthat the Indian Embassy in thePhilippines will soon beginprinting of passports in Manilaand this will drastically reducethe time taken for issuance ofnew passports.

Speaking about the Indianplaces of worship in theSoutheast Asian country,Kovind said that apart fromHindu temples, as many as 26Gurudwaras exist throughoutthe length and breadth of thePhilippines.

He also conveyed goodwishes to the Sikh communityon the 550th birth anniversaryof Guru Nanak Dev.

Highlighting thePhilippines being a hospitableand friendly country forIndians, Kovind stressed thatthe signing of a TourismPromotion Agreement promis-es to bring the people of thetwo countries further close.

"As professionals, as entre-preneurs and as technocratsyou have freely pursued your

vocation and contributed to theprogress and prosperity of thiscountry. The people here havebeen warm and welcoming toyou. And so have they been tothe thousands of students fromIndia studying medicine here,"he said.

Underlining that India-Philippines relations are drivenby shared values such as com-mitment to democracy, secu-larism and pluralism, Kovindsaid that the ties between thetwo nations are both old andnew."We cannot but be proud ofour seafaring forefathers whomore than a millennium backestablished cultural and com-mercial ties between India andthe South East Asia," he said.

"With regard to thePhilippines, these ties are yet tobe fully explored and docu-mented. But we do know thatold artifacts have beenunearthed in the Philippinesthat are distinctly of Indianinfluence," Kovind said.

President Kovind alsorecalled his meeting with hisPhilippines counterpartRodrigo Duterte where thelatter appreciated Indian com-munity's role in the development of the Philippines. PTI

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London: London Mayor SadiqKhan has condemned plans tohold an anti-India march hereon the Kashmir issue on Diwalinext Sunday, saying it woulddeepen divisions in the UKcapital and called on the organ-isers and prospective partici-pants to cancel the protestrally.

According to Met Policedetails on the permissionssought for the proposed march,an estimated 5,000-10,000 pro-testers plan to commence theirmarch from Richmond Terracenear Downing Street and con-verge outside the Indian HighCommission in London.

In response to a letter byIndian-origin LondonAssembly member Navin Shah,Mayor Khan said, "I absolute-ly condemn the plans for aprotest march to take place onthe auspicious day of Diwali, inthe vicinity of the Indian HighCommission in London."

"This march will onlydeepen divisions at a timewhen Londoners need to cometogether. That is why I am call-ing on those organising the

march and all those consider-ing taking part in it to thinkagain and cancel their plans,"said the Pakistan-originLondon Mayor in the letterdated October 18.

He said that his City Halloffice would be working withScotland Yard to ensure a"robust" policing plan was inplace for such a march.

In response to Shah'srequest to consider seekingpermission to ban the protestdue to public disorder fears, headded: "As you know, thepower to ban marches of thisnature lies solely with theHome Secretary, not with meas the Mayor of London. I amcopying this letter to both theHome Secretary, Priti Patel, andthe Metropolitan PoliceCommissioner, Cressida Dick,so they can clearly see theextent of my concerns aboutthis march."

Shah, in his letter, recalledthe violent clashes outside theIndian mission on August 15between diaspora groups mark-ing Independence Day andBritish Pakistani and separatist

groups."I understand why many

British Indians are so deeplyconcerned. Many have feltdeeply threatened and worriedsince the previous protests out-side the Indian HighCommission. I can assure allLondoners that anyone whoacts unlawfully will be account-able to the police," Khanresponded.

The so-called President ofPakistan-occupied Kashmir,Sardar Masood Khan, and PoK"Prime Minister" RajaMuhammad Farooq HaiderKhan are expected to partici-pate in the march dubbed the"Free Kashmir" rally.

The latest letter exchangeover the issue of Kashmir in theUK comes as Labour Partyleader Jeremy Corbyn issuedhis response to another letterissued on behalf of over 100British Indian organisations,condemning the party's stanceon Jammu & Kashmir in thewake of the IndianGovernment's decision torevoke the special status ofJammu & Kashmir. PTI

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Srinagar: Jammu & KashmirChief Secretary BVRSubrahmanyam reviewed onSunday promotional cam-paigns for wooing tourists,days after the state adminis-tration withdrew its August 2security advisory for holiday-makers and Amarnath pil-grims. PTI

From Page1His cremation was delayed

as his family members wereadamant on meeting the ChiefMinister to put forth theirnine demands, including aprobe by the NationalInvestigation Agency, aGovernment job for one of thevictim’s sons and security forthem. The probing team recov-ered blood stained saffronclothes and a blood stainedknife from a hotel inKaiserbagh police station areain the intervening night onSaturday and Sunday. Theteams also got CCTV footageof the suspects donning saffronclothes and carrying a sweetbox in a saffron colour carry

bag.The hotel manager inpolice interrogation told thattwo suspects had checked in ahotel room on October 17 andleft the hotel around 11 am.

Sources in the team prob-ing the case disclosed that themiscreants had fixed a meetingwith the slain leader in themorning on same day. “Theprime accused who was lead-ing the operation had befriend-ed Kamlesh through facebookand posted message whichsuited to the slain leader ide-ology,” they said.

Well placed sources saidthe teams had netted the sus-pects and they were beinginterrogated at some undis-closed location.

On Saturday, police had abreakthrough in the murdercase after three persons includ-ing the mastermind were takeninto custody in Surat city ofGujarat in a joint operation of thepolice forces of the twoStates.Two more arrests weremade in Bijnor district of UPwhere Muslim clericsMohammed Mufti NaeemKazmi and Imam MaulanaAnwarul Haq were held afterbeing named in an FIR lodgedby Tiwari’s wife Kiran.Tiwari wascremated at his native place inMahmoodabad after the districtadministration succeeded inconvincing his family membersthat their demands would befulfilled.

From Page 1“The bodies have been

sent for post-mortem exami-nation and further investiga-tion was being carried out toascertain facts that could haveled Stanley to take extremestep,” said a police officer taskedwith the probe.

“We learnt about the tragicnews this morning. We are inshock. I had interacted with himwhen we were speaking to teach-ers in the lead up to DelhiUniversity Teachers’ Associationpolls. We do not know whatprompted him to take such a step.He was teaching Philosophy at thecollege,” said professor NanditaNarain, who was Stanley’s col-league at Stephen’s.

From Page 1

Shiv Sena chief UddhavThackeray’s son AadityaThackeray is making his debutin the electoral politics by con-testing Assembly poll fromWorli in Mumbai. The 29-year-old Thackeray is the first in thefamily to take plunge in electoralpolitics.

Counting of votes for boththe Assembly polls and bypollswill be held on October 24.

In Maharashtra, where the‘Mahayuti’ alliance of BJP, ShivSena and smaller parties isagainst the ‘Maha-agadhi’ led bythe Congress and the NCP, atotal of 8,98,39,600 people,including 4,28,43,635 women,are eligible to vote.

As many as 3,237 candi-dates, including 235 women, arecontesting in 288 seats and96,661 polling booths are in

place with 6.5 lakh staff for thevoting exercise.

The ruling BJP is locked ina contest with the oppositionCongress and the fledgling JJPfor the 90 assembly seats inHaryana which has over 1.83crore voters, including 85 lakhwomen and 252 transgenders,while 19,578 polling stationshave been set up.

Polling will be held from 7am to 6 pm. Tight securityarrangements have been madewith deployment of more thanthree lakh personnel from statepolice and central forces inMaharashtra, while over 75,000security personnel have beenmobilised in Haryana.

The high-voltage election-eering by the BJP saw partici-pation of a galaxy of leaders ledModi and his cabinet colleaguesAmit Shah and Rajnath Singh,as it continued to aggressivelyraise the nationalism plank byfocusing on scrapping of Article370 provisions on special statusto Jammu and Kashmir and tar-

geted the opposition on nation-al security and corruption.

The opposition tried to cor-ner the BJP governments at theCentre and in the states on thehandling of the economy withCongress leader Rahul Gandhiblaming the ruling party for theeconomic slowdown and unem-ployment and highlightingissues like “failure” of demon-etisation and GST rollout.

The BJP, which is seekinga second straight term underChief Minister DevendraFadnavis in Maharashtra, iscontesting 164 seats, whichinclude candidates of smallerallies contesting on its lotussymbol, while Sena has fieldedcandidates on 126 seats.

On the other hand, theCongress has fielded 147 can-didates and the ally NCP 121.

Among other parties, theMaharashtra Navnirman Sena(MNS), led by Raj Thackeray,has fielded 101 candidates, theCPI 16, the CPM 8. The BSP hasfielded candidates in 262 con-

stituencies. A total of 1400Independents are also in the pollarena.

The opposition campaignwas, however, lacklusture asboth the Congress and the NCPwere plagued by infighting anddesertions in the run-up to thepolls.

The high-pitch campaign bythe BJP has prompted its taci-turn ally Shiv Sena to ask if ChiefMinister thought there was noopposition in the state poll whyBJP had deployed its all big-wigsin the campaign trail.

The campaign inMaharashtra was marked bypersonal attacks and sharpexchange of barbs between thechief minister and NCP chiefSharad Pawar, who hit the hus-tings at the age of 79 andaddressed a number of rallies.However, the Congress andNCP failed to hold even a sin-gle joint rally.

While Modi addressed ninerallies across the state, RahulGandhi spoke at six public

meetings.The campaign also saw an

undertone of jostling forsupremacy between the BJPand the Sena, which had foughtthe last assembly elections sep-arately, winning 122 and 63seats respectively. The Congresshad bagged 42 and the NCP 41seats.

In the April-May Lok Sabhaelections, the BJP-Sena alliancewon 41 of the 48 Lok Sabha seatsin Maharashtra, while theCongress won one and NCPfour seats.

Prominent candidates inthe fray are Chief MinisterFadnavis and his predecessorsfrom Congress, Ashok Chavan,who is in fray from Bhokar inNanded district, and PrithvirajChavan seeking re-election fromKarad South in Satara district.

In Haryana, the Congressis hoping to make a comebackfollowing a change in guard inthe state, while the BJP led byKhattar has set a target of win-ning 75 seats out of 90 in which

1,169 candidates of variouspolitical outfits are contesting.Currently, the BJP has 48 mem-bers in state assembly.

The Dushyant Chautala-ledJannayak Janta Party (JJP), abreakaway faction of the IndianNational Lok Dal (INLD), is alsohoping for an improvement inits prospects following the LokSabha debacle.

The party had emerged onthe scene following a feud in theChautala clan in Decamber lastyear.

The BSP, AAP, INLD-SADcombine, Swaraj India and theLoktantra Suraksha Party (LSP)have thrown their hat into thering, though none of them isfighting on all 90 seats.

Prominent amongst thosein the contest are Chief MinisterKhattar (Karnal), former chiefminister and CongressLegislative Party leaderBhupinder Singh Hooda (GarhiSampla-Kiloi), Randeep SinghSurjewala (Kaithal), KiranChoudhary (Tosham) and

Kuldeep Bishnoi (Adampur)and JJP’s Dushyant Chautala(Uchana Kalan).

The BJP has fielded threesportspersons -- Babita Phogat(Dadri), Yogeshwar Dutt(Baroda in Sonipat) andSandeep Singh (Pehowa) --besides TikTok star SonaliPhogat (Adampur).

In Haryana, among the fewwomen in the fray LatikaSharma of the BJP is well poisedto retain her seat from Kalka.Latika practiced law inPanchkula courts before shegot into politics and won fromKalka in 2014 assembly polls.She counts of a host of devel-opmental works , especiallyroad and bridge construction,that has help in transforming theface of the small town that isgateway to Himachal Pradesh..

While Prime MinisterModi addressed seven rallies inthe state, Congress leader RahulGandhi addressed two electionmeetings.

From Page1Also, nine Indian soldiers

have died in ceasefire violationsso far since August 5.

Responding to the Army’sstatement, Pakistan accusedIndia of resorting to unpro-voked ceasefire violations tar-geting civilians. Pakistan’sDirector General Inter-ServicesPublic Relations (DG ISPR)said on Twitter that Indianunprovoked firing in Jura,Shahkot and Nousehri sectorsdeliberately targeted civilians.

Stating that they effective-ly responded, DG ISPRclaimed, “Nine Indian soldierskilled, several injured. TwoIndian bunkers destroyed.During exchange of fire onesoldier and three civilians sha-heed, two soldiers and fivecivilians injured.”

However, defence sourcesrejected any fatal casualties onthe Indian Army while observ-ing that if there was one casu-alty “we have to declare” as thesystem is so and there are pro-cedures to follow. “We have noscope to hide causalities,” thesource added.

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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)candidate from AssandhAssembly seat in Haryana overhis purported remark that hehad tampered the electronicvoting machines (EVMs) andevery vote would go to hisparty.

In a video, Bakshish Virkwas heard saying he and hissupporters had tamperedEVMs in a way that every votewould go to the BJP, irrespec-tive of the button the voterspressed.

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Prime Minister NarendraModi on Sunday cautioned

against efforts to “demonise”technology, saying attemptsare being made to create anatmosphere of fear.

Addressing a gathering athis official residence at thelaunch of a book, he said“major effort is being made todemonise technology. Attemptsare being made to create anatmosphere of fear”.

Specially in the context ofIndia, technology is being pre-sented as a challenge to thecountry’s demographic divi-dend, the Prime Minister said.

He said the debate shouldnot be on the dangers of arti-ficial intelligence or when willrobots outsmart humans. “Butthe debate should be on how tocreate a bridge between artifi-cial intelligence and humanintentions.”

The Prime Ministerstressed on the need to under-stand that technology is abridge and not a divider.“Technology builds bridge

between aspirations andachievement, demand anddelivery, government and gov-ernance in order to achieve‘sabka saath, sabka vikas’ (withall, for everyone’s develop-ment),” he said according to a

statement issued by his office.The book ‘Bridgital India’

has been co-authored by NChandrasekaran, the chairmanof Tata Sons, and RoopaPurushothaman, the ChiefEconomist at Tata Sons.

Ratan Tata, ChairmanEmeritus of Tata Sons, was alsopresent on the occasion.

Talking about the need toconvert challenges posed bytechnology into opportunities,the prime minister cited the

example of the creation ofIndia Post Payments Bank.

He said the disruptioncaused by technology to theentire postal organization wasconverted into a technology

intensive banking system, ben-efitting millions through postalbank which transformed“dakiya” (postman) into a“bank babu” (banker), thestatement said.

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who had registered themselvesas voters flew down to India toexercise their franchise in the2019 Lok Sabha polls, according to data released bythe Election Commission.

As many as 99,807 overseasIndians, who are living abroadand have not surrendered theircitizenship, are in the voters’lists of various States.The figureinclude 91,850 men, 7,943women and 14 transgenders.

Out of the 25,606 whovoted in the Parliamentarypolls, 24,458 were men and1,148 women.

In the national capital, 336overseas Indians, including 231men and 105 women, had reg-istered as voters but none cameto cast their votes, according tothe EC data. The UnionTerritory of Puducherry alsorecorded a similar trend withnone of the 272 overseas elec-tors casting their votes in theGeneral Elections this year.

In West Bengal too, where34 overseas Indians were

recorded in the State’s electoralrolls, none voted.

However, the case wasentirely different in Keralawhich has the maximum num-ber of overseas Indians in thevoters’ list as well as highestlevel of participation in thepolls.

Kerala has 85,161 overseasIndians on its electoral rolls and25,091 persons voted in the LokSabha polls earlier this year.

Overseas Indians are free tocast their votes in the con-stituencies they are registered.

According to Ministry ofExternal Affairs estimates, thereare about 3.10 crore NonResident Indians (NRIs) livingin different countries across theworld.

An expert committee of theElection Commission had in2015 forwarded the legal frame-work to the Law Ministry toamend the electoral laws toallow the overseas Indians touse proxy voting.

Not many overseas Indiansturn up to cast their votes as theydo not want to spend foreign cur-rency to come to India for the purpose, officials said.

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AParliamentary panel head-ed by former Union

Minister Jual Oram will assessthe cases of accidents involvingdefence assets and also exam-ine the defence procurementpolicy currently in vogue.

The ParliamentaryStanding Committee onDefence has selected a numberof subjects for examination,which include reviewing theselection procedure of officersin the armed forces, accordingto the Lok Sabha secretariat’sbulletin.

“Accidents involvingdefence assets — a criticalreview, an assessment ofdefence procurement policy”are also among the subjectsselected by the panel for exam-ination, the bulletin said.

The committee had, in itsreport tabled in Parliamentlast year, said accidents had

become a continuous feature inthe Navy.

The Indian Navy witnessed62 accidents between 2007 and2017, and 177 officers werefound guilty during inquiriesordered into such incidents,according to the report.

As many as 44 aircraft andhelicopters — 26 fighter jets,six helicopters, nine trainer

aircraft and three transportplanes — of the Indian AirForce were lost in crashessince 2014-15, in which 46personnel were killed, accord-ing to official data.

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Over 380 police personnelbelonging to Ladakh and

working in different places inKashmir and Jammu regionswill soon be transferred toLadakh and posted under theadministrative control of thenew Union Territory. The newUnion Territory of Ladakh willcome into existence on October31. The Ministry of HomeAffairs has given nod for thetransfer of police personnelworking in different wings ofthe Jammu & Kashmir Police.

“Approval has been givenfor the transfer of about 385Ladakhi-origin police person-nel to Ladakh and they willfunction under the new UTwhich will come into exis-tence on October 31,” aMinistry official said. Thepolice personnel will workwith the Ladakh UT Police,which will be under the directcontrol of the MHA. The policepersonnel — from the rank ofconstable to inspector — willalso get the pay and perks avail-able to police personnel ofother UTs like Chandigarh and

Andaman and Nicobar Islands.According to The Jammu

& Kashmir Re-organisationAct 2019, Ladakh will not havea legislative assembly. The Actsays cadres of IAS and IPS forthe existing state of Jammu &Kashmir, on and from theappointed day (October 31),shall continue to function onexisting cadres. However, infuture, the all India service offi-cers to be posted to UTs ofJammu & Kashmir or Ladakhshall be from the Arunachal,Goa, Mizoram, UnionTerritory cadre, more popularlyknown as UT cadre.

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India has expressed its con-cern on the global emergence

of anti-microbial resistance(AMR) and called upon the relevant United Nations agen-cies to contain this threat topublic health. India has one ofthe highest rates of resistanceto antimicrobial agents usedboth in humans and food ani-mals. The environment, espe-cially the water bodies, has alsoreported the presence of resistant organisms or theirgenes.

While attending the G20Health Ministers’’ meeting heldin Japan’’s Okayama , HealthMinister Harsh Vardhan par-ticipating in the deliberationson health risk and health secu-rity, made an intervention onAMR, seen as a serious emerg-ing threat to global publichealth.

According to an officialstatement, while voicing hisconcern on AMR, he calledupon all relevant UN agenciesto align themselves in theirendeavour to combat antimicrobial resistance.

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New Delhi: A little over 20 percent students in Kashmir and100 per cent in Jammu havestarted attending schools andthere is no restriction on themovement of people anywherein Jammu & Kashmir, officialssaid on Sunday.

While all of the 1,02,069landline phone connectionswere restored till October 18, atotal of 84 per cent mobilephone connections wererestored in 22 districts till lastFriday.

The landline connectionsin Kashmir valley were restoredabout two months ago, post-paid mobile connections wererestored on October 14.

Restrictions on the move-ment of people, vehicles andphone connections wereimposed on August 5 followingthe announcement by the cen-

tral Government the abroga-tion of the special status givento Jammu & Kashmir underArticle 370 and its bifurcationinto two Union Territories.

A total of 20.13 per centstudents are attending schoolsin Kashmir valley, while 100per cent students are attending

in Jammu region, a home min-istry official said, quoting areport from the Jammu &Kashmir administration.

Also, 86.3 per cent teach-ers in Kashmir valley and 100per cent teachers in Jammu areattending schools till Friday.

A total of 21,328 schools in

Jammu and Kashmir havestarted functioning, which is 98per cent of the total schools.

The Jammu & Kashmiradministration last weekannounced the dates for year-end examinations from Class 5-12, apparently to enhance theattendance of students inschools.

There have been no restric-tions in any of the 202 policestations while essential com-modities like food items, babyfood, petroleum products areavailable in adequate num-bers, the official said.

As many as 130 major hos-pitals, 4,359 health centres inJammu & Kashmir are func-tioning normally and on anaverage 600 surgeries are con-ducted and 65,000 people availOPD care every day, anotherofficial said. PTI

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New Delhi: Congress leaderPriyanka Gandhi Vadra onSunday slammed the BJPGovernment in Uttar Pradeshover the state’s law and ordersituation, alleging that it hadfailed to rein in crime.

The Congress general sec-retary also shared a snapshot ofnews headlines of major crimeincidents in the state. Amongthe headlines was a reference tothe killing of Hindu SamajParty chief Kamlesh Tiwari.

The collage of news head-lines had the caption, “Har dinapraadh ke naam, bhajpasarkaar puri nakaam (everydaycriminal incidents, BJPGovernment a complete fail-ure)”.

The Congress on Saturdayhad hit out at the BJPGovernment in Uttar Pradeshover the law and order situationin the state, alleging “jungle raj”was prevailing there.

Reacting to Uttar Pradeshpolice chief ’s comments thatTiwari was killed probablybecause of a controversial state-ment he made in 2015, seniorCongress leader Kapil Sibalhad said, “A State for which theapex court of the country saidthat there is ‘jungle raj’, shouldwe believe the DGP or theSupreme Court?” PTI

New Delhi: A PIL has beenfiled in the Delhi High Courtseeking direction to the Delhigovernment and the DirectorGeneral of Prisons to convenethe meeting of Sentence ReviewBoard (SRB) every threemonths in compliance withthe rules.

The plea said as per theSRB order of July 16, 2004 andDelhi Prison Rules, 2018, theboard shall meet at least oncein a quarter to convene themeeting and pointed out thatbetween October 2018 toOctober 2019, the board hadconvened only once on July 19this year.

A bench of Chief Justice DN Patel and Justice C HariShankar is likely to hear on

Monday the petition filed byadvocate Amit Sahni.

The SRB was constituted toreview the sentence awarded toa prisoner undergoing lifeimprisonment and make rec-ommendations about cases ofpremature release in appropri-ate cases.

“The respondents (Delhigovernment and DirectorGeneral of Prisons) are dutybound to comply with the noti-fication/rules but to the reasonsbest known to the respondents,between October 2018 toOctober 2019 the SRB hadconvened only once, that is, July19, 2019, thereby causing hard-ship to those, who otherwisequalify all parameters for con-sideration but are not consid-

ered since SRB meetings are notconvened in every quarter asenvisaged under the SRB Orderdated July 16, 2004 and DelhiPrison Rules, 2018,” the petitionsaid.According to the SRB orderand the prison rules, it shall beopen to the chairman of theboard to convene the meetingmore frequently as may bedeemed necessary, it added.Thepetitioner said he has made arepresentation to the authoritieson October 4, requesting themto implement the mandate ofthe SRB order and the prisonrules and ensure that the boardmeeting is convened in everyquarter without fail.He saidthe authorities have notresponded to the representationyet. PTI

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Afew days ago, a mass men’s labellaunched the Nehru jacket as anassembly line product, as regu-lar as corporate wear, and not anethnic fancy meant for festive or

ceremonial rituals. This signals a shiftfrom the formal code of the Western suit asthe only boardroom qualifier and legitimis-es the ethnic identity as an equally drivennegotiator. Latest brand campaigns of otherlabels show the young flaunting ethnic wearunabashedly and one significant advertise-ment has designer Manish Malhotra, theman who set the grammar of popular fash-ion through the porous matrix of Hindifilms, advising a young woman on how towash the zari in the traditional silks and saristhat she has proudly stacked up in herwardrobe. The assumption is clearly of thesenot being just occasion wear or a one-timestatement but meant to be worn regularlyand, therefore, frequently washed at home.This attribute of everydayness is freeing upIndian fashion from the dictates that we haveso long assumed as a given.

For long, fashion has been the most vis-ible barometer of anthropological studies.And by that measure, India’s millennial storyis to be found in what we wear, rather howwe live our mindset. One that has come fullcircle after liberalisation and opened us tothe world. Post-WTO, there was a rush toco-opt a Western standard of brand con-sciousness and grammar. And no matterwhat the unease or inhibition, there was awillingness to engage with the currency ofglobalisation, even open acceptance of it.There was a McDonaldisation process aswell that brought us out of our stiffness andmade casual Friday dressing a linking codeof behaviour, both in formal and informalspaces. The open democracy and genderneutrality of the casual wear market had alasting social consequence, that of lookinggood everyday and being comfortable in acrowd. The exposure to refined silhouettesand minimalism of boutique fashion hous-es meant that we could structure ourappearances better. It further meant that wecould define the global Indian by what s/hewore and the accessories s/he carried; thetags could be identified anywhere. It wasalso the time when our designers soughtinternational collaborations, using the lux-urious heritage of our craftsmanship, to lendsome accents to the ramps in New York,Milan and London.

Post-1990s, we were taking strides to beat one with the world. Almost three decadeson, we are a significant player, our new-found politico-economical heft giving us theconfidence to own our cultural identity.That’s why Banaras is not just about saris buthas emerged as a concept and motif of oneof our many identity markers. We have co-opted Western structures and silhouettes tothe extent of blending them with our sen-sibility and becoming the Indian-globalrather than the global Indian. Fashion todayalso has finally broken through the Western

concept of seasonality of spring-summer and fall-winter anddecided its own timeline. Free-flowing drapes are in, khadi isin the middle of an evolution-ary explosion and the kurta-churidaar-wasitcoast ensemblehas become the most androgy-nous and modernist statementthere is. Our designers, too, nowsee a potential in the domesticmarket and instead of interna-tional collaborations, are takingtheir craftsmanship to highstreets in fashion capitals of theworld, choosing to be an ethnicIndian label that is not just aboutidentity but about philosophy, ofhandmade skills and originali-ty, sustainability, vibrancy,colour and people. In the neo-Indian assertion of why theworld ought to be at our feet, weare literally wearing it on oursleeves. And doing so with arefined sense of style that hasfinally taught us how fusionought to be, a cultural memo-ry blended with functionalgrammar, the deep-rootedknowledge of both now defin-ing our body consciousness.

According to a study byTechnopak, India’s ethnic wearindustry is expected to grow to� 1,26,210 crore at the end ofthis fiscal, 83 per cent of it inwomen’s wear. A survey byclothing brand Biba showedthat ethnic wear is a preferred

outfit for women aged between16 to 50 years, particularly inTier II and Tier III cities.

This is significant since itreflects the empowerment ofwomen in the social, econom-ic and political space and theiremergence as a sizeable chunkof the market. It also points totheir greater buying capacity byvirtue of their increased partic-ipation in the workforce.Particularly in the boardroom,where the woman had to beseen mannish in every aspect,be it in approach or powerdressing to break the glass ceil-ing, the rules of appearance havechanged completely. Womenare keeping to their traditionalpreferences and body typeswith different cuts and drapes.The salwars have transformed topalazzos and long-flowingskirts, the embellishment streaksthrough short kurtis, theanarkali is becoming an asym-metrical cape, the kurtas arenow long floor-length dresseswhile saris are being structuredas cocktail gowns. Fusion wear,in fact, is now about day, casu-al and even evening wear. TheIndo-Western genre hasemerged as a good option forthe youth who may still want thecool quotient of the universityjeans and T-shirt routine andwant to look ethnic at the sametime.

A new consciousness aboutwhere we come from has meanta renewed interest in the sari,fabrics and our metals. Onlinesari-wearing challenges havetranslated into a revivalist searchof the diversity of fabric anddesign and a rediscovery of cot-ton. This has helped designersand cooperatives rescue weav-ing clusters and organise thelocal market. India’s metal andmineral wealth has also fuelleda demand for tribal jewellery asstandout avant-garde state-ments. The comfort with drapesand flowing lines has beendirectly proportional to a greaterembrace of “otherness”, be it ofthe LGBTQ community or evenmen themselves, who have beenstrait jacketed so far by colonial-ism but are now at home withcivilisational logic in sartorialchoices, that we need to useorganic and breathable fabricsand feel light and easy in a trop-ical land. Fluidity is in.

Fashion then has becomethe most accurate reflection ofthe empowerment of the mindbeyond causes or politics. Infact, it has become a tapestry ofour neo-consciousness. Onethat is proud of expressing per-sonal experiences and narra-tives, localised contexts, embroi-dery and fabrics (like Bhagalpursilk and Assam muga) and evenarchitectural motifs from our

heritage sites and structures. Of course, in climate chal-

lenged times, matching India’sinitiatives in environment pol-itics, Indian fashion hasemerged as one of the most sus-tainable choices there is as cre-ators reuse, re-engineer andrecycle heirlooms. Be it zero-waste production processes,locally-sourced and woven linenor use of natural dyes, sustain-ability is gradually becoming thewardrobe mainstay. Particularly,fair-trade practices and thedirect sourcing from and ben-efits to weavers’ and craft clus-ters have meant that socialresponsibility is dominatingpopular choice. Designers arenow working independentlywith craft clusters, often pickingout the under-utilised ones,value-adding to their dead stockand joining hands with othersocieties/groups that are knownfor mastering a particular craft.This Gandhian essence of thegrassroots, that mirrors the pri-macy of rural India in the polit-ical space, has made our fash-ion industry truly inclusive in itssense of purpose.

In fact, India’s new fashionmantra is not about ethnocen-trism or muscularity. But yes, itis robust, meaningful and con-fident.

(The writer is AssociateEditor, The Pioneer)

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Officially, the rally inMahendragarh was the only onewhich she was to address. Therecould be two reasons for sched-uling the rally for Sonia by theCongress’ campaign managersdespite knowing about her poorhealth. First, they might havehoped she would be up andabout in time to address therally. Second, since Sonia remainsthe tallest leader in the Congresswith a crowd-pulling potential,party bosses continued bandyingher name about till the lastminute to gain maximum tractionand build up expectations. Ofcourse, it fuelled speculationabout the old vs new war.

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Has the attitude of the Centrechanged towards North-Eastern states. Can you elab-orate on the difference thatyou have witnessed as Chief

Minister?I just wait for the right moment and

then say what I have to as the situation pre-sents itself. But overall, this is somethingthat I have seen happening during the lastone-and-a-half years after taking over asChief Minister. There are many senior peo-ple in my team and they tell me that therewas a time when they went to Delhi butcouldn’t meet the officials, the minister con-cerned or the Prime Minister. But now wedo not face any difficulty and there is acces-sibility in terms of human connectivity.There is a different sense of importancegiven to the North-East. The PrimeMinister himself is very concerned. The lasttime I went and met a Minister to invitehim to Shillong, his response was that,“Even if you don’t call, I will have to go, orelse PM nahin chodenge hamein (the PMwould be displeased with us).” That is thekind of response that we get now, whichindicates the pressure on every Ministrywhen it comes to any issue related to theregion.

I am of the firm belief that you cannotget work done in Shillong while sitting inDelhi. You have to see what is happeningat the grassroot level with your own eyesto understand what is needed. So whenMinisters come here, they understand therequirements. That is what I meant whenI said that there is a change. I am sure thatmore will happen in the coming years dueto the approach of the Government.

❚ The Government has formulated theLook East policy. Is there anything in par-ticular that Meghalaya would like to focuson as part of this initiative?

It has moved ahead and has now beenrenamed as Act East. For Meghalaya, I havebeen very clear even before I became theChief Minister that we need to “LookSouth” and “Act South” which meansBangladesh. I have been a strong advocateof this. Kolkata, the nearest Indian port toexport our products, is 1,200 km away.Before Independence, it was Chittagong inBangladesh which is half that distance at650 km. If this was to open up, theexports from the North-East would go uptremendously. At the moment, the regioncomprises only one per cent of the totalexports from the country.

I have proposed an eight-lane highwayconnecting Guwahati, Shillong, Dauki inIndia and Chittagong in Bangladesh. Ifneeded, the Government should invest andfund this project so that the North-East getsaccessibility. One very important andgood thing that has happened recently isthat Bangladesh has agreed to allow accessof goods from the North-Eastern States toChittagong port which wasn’t there earli-er. This is a big diplomatic achievement forthe Indian Government.

In order to ensure that exports increase,many policy decisions need to be cleared.For instance, there is a rubber plant inBangladesh, which is running at 50 per centdeficiency and sourcing raw material fromMalaysia even though Tripura andMeghalaya, which grow rubber, are veryclose. The current policy means that if Ihave to export rubber to Bangladesh, I haveto go through Kolkata, even though the fac-tory in Bangladesh is 40 km away. A pol-icy decision is needed to get over such hur-dles.

Then there is connectivity in terms oftelephony. If Airtel or Jio go 5 km intoBangladesh, and there is a complaintagainst them, they have to pay a fine of �5lakh every time. So these service providersdo not put up a tower near the Bangladeshborder. As a result everyone, including theBSF personnel, uses the Bangladesh net-work. It is a massive security lapse. Ofcourse there are a lot of challenges, includ-ing illegal infiltration, but we have to tack-le those while looking at the positive sidealso.

I will be visiting Bangladesh along witha big delegation. I have suggested that allthe Chief Ministers of the North-East cango together in a bus. We should drive ratherthan take a flight to focus on connectedcorridors of mutual benefit. Tura, my hometown and constituency, is a four-hour drivefrom Dhaka. To put it in perspective, ittakes equal time to reach Guwahati by road.So for me, the entire “Look and Act East”policy should be focussed on Bangladesh.

❚ One of the important changes that you

have initiated is the Public RedressalMechanism. How does it operate andreach out to people?

There are multiple layers. We realisethat connecting with people is one part andcan be done easily through a WhatsAppComplaint System but the more importantchallenge is how to address the problemsand connecting them to the departmentconcerned. We created a system where acode is generated for every problem andthen a message goes to officials concerned,both at the ground level and the seniorones. If there is no reply, then remindersare given. It is not a very complex systemwhere a lot of money is needed. However,we are trying to understand how to makethe system more efficient, accountable anddeliverable.

Since we started this, approximately500-600 complaints have come to us.There were personal problems as well ascomplaints like a transformer had brokendown and hadn’t been repaired for months.We are trying to segregate the problem intodelivery mechanism problems and thosewhich are more personal in nature anddealing with them accordingly.

I am not satisfied because the systemhas never been response-oriented. Earlier,there was no concept of addressing com-plaints within a certain time period. I amhoping this will improve from the 50 percent redressal rate that we have managedto achieve till date.

More importantly, I try to make it apoint to connect with my officers all thetime through two programmes. There is adepartmental review that is done at mylevel through video-conferencing or phys-ically when I am present. Another impor-tant programme is a block visit. In two

years, I want to target all 46 blocks. I start-ed this one month ago and have coveredthree blocks. So every month I hope tomeet a similar target. Every time I have ameeting with my deputy commissioners(DCs), I keep telling them that I am nothere to “catch you or find faults with yourworking, rather I want to find faults in thesystem and we will find a solution togeth-er. Let’s work as a team.” People-first is thecrux of my approach.

❚ You have signed MoUs to create smartvillages. How do you intend to undertakethe exercise considering rural people willalways aspire to move to urban centres?

There are multiple objectives of mak-ing smart villages, including the one to stemmigration to towns. People migrate insearch of better facilities for health, edu-cation and employment opportunities.We can actually resolve these problemsthrough technological interventions.

In health, for instance, our focus wason expectant mothers getting access to

institutional delivery. Initially, we were ofthe opinion that they were not open to theidea but we were wrong. We started withone district and used technology to mapevery would-be mother. There were 3,000of them and after the exercise, we knewexactly which village they were from, whichweek the delivery would take place, thenames of Asha volunteers taking care ofthem, the medical officer involved, the con-tacts of husbands and mothers-in-lawand a shortlist of high-risk mothers due toblood pressure problems or diabetes. Ineach area, there is an ambulance driver cov-ering a certain radius, who is connectedwith the expectant mothers and we givetheir phone numbers to him and his num-ber to the next of kin. Additionally, we haveconnected auto-rickshaw drivers to theexpectant mothers as a back-up ambulanceand promised to give them �300 if theyferry mothers to hospitals. This hasimproved the overall institutional deliveryin that district from a mere 40 per cent to90 per cent in six months. That is how I

envision smart villages rather than withhuge towers and buildings. Such basic tech-nological interventions without huge finan-cial inputs have improved health facilities.

Similarly, in education there are nofancy smart classes or thousands of croresof investments. We identified the bottom20 per cent of the schools where the resultswere below a certain benchmark andlaunched a pilot project in one districtwhere students from those schools, whowere doing badly, were brought togetherin clusters. Incentives were given to teach-ers to bring in students and they were pro-vided with additional tuitions on Saturdays.

It is not so difficult to improve thenumbers from 20 to 60 per cent becauseif you are getting a 20 per cent pass per-centage in any school, that means the mod-ules there are simply not working. So justby making simple tweaks, you improve itto 60 per cent. The toughest is reaching thelevel of 80 to 100 per cent. But as of now,we are focussed on reaching 60 per cent andthen we will think about moving ahead.

A third initiative is setting up a Self-Help Group (SHG) network of aboutthree to four lakh women. My target is tohave one woman in each household in anSHG. We use the National Rural LivelihoodMission (NRLM) funding patterns. Somemoney is collected and these SHGs will actas micro financing banks and give loanswithout paperwork. We are not just doingthat but we are motivating women and giv-ing them ideas about the industries thatthey can develop.

We will connect SHGs with peoplefrom Berkeley University to whom wehave given seven challenges, includingfood processing as a part of the MoU. Ihave asked them to study every district ofMeghalaya and zero down on certainproducts from the area and figure outwhich technological intervention at anaffordable cost can be implemented toimprove the livelihood of people and, also,where the products can be sold. A studyof bamboo was undertaken by Berkeleyand it highlighted that it was not the plyor the brush that would give margins. Thehighest profits, of about 25 per cent, wouldcome from bamboo charcoal. The insti-tution connected us to Chinese companieswhich make the machines to create bam-boo charcoal and they gave us the cost andhow much time it would take for theprocess. Berkeley developed an entirebusiness plan and also, an end to end solu-tion.

Besides food, researchers will studymicro-financing, tourism, food process-ing, turmeric and more. We have to focuson our strengths and see what the require-ments are outside and within the coun-try. We need close to 2 lakh MT of milkwhereas we produce 50,000 MT. Welaunched a milk mission at a cost of �250crore. Then there is a huge requirementfor pork not just locally, but also outside.In India, good quality pork is not avail-able and we have to rely on imports. Sowe are seeing these gaps in local consump-tion and exports and plugging those.These are low-hanging fruits as there isan existing demand. We are doing themarket research to figure out the require-ments, giving money to the SHGs andtraining them but we let them do it ontheir own.

The key aspect of the SHG movement,which is so important to understand, iscreating an institutional network. Forinstance, at three, the fertility rate is thehighest in the country where some fam-ilies have as many as seven or eight chil-dren. If we want to address the issue of fer-tility, we will have to talk about contra-ceptives. A lot of rural mothers have nosay in when they wish to get pregnant,which is sad. Once these SHGs have awoman in every house, I can get a con-traceptive network going with their help.The same applies to a nutrition pro-gramme. If we want to provide every childwith one glass of milk, it is not just a doc-tor or a health specialist which can do this.The women in this institution can beroped in. If you pour anything on top ofthis network, it will trickle down. Health,social welfare, education — it will ensureall the benefits reach everywhere.

❚ The first road with plastic waste wasbuilt in Meghalaya. You are also provid-ing plastic to a cement factory. What arethe other ways that you plan to incorpo-rate sustainability in the Government’sfunctioning?There are more initiatives. Of course, plas-tic is an issue and we ensured that the CM

office and the Secretariat were plastic-free.However, it is essential to give people alter-natives, otherwise they will go back totheir old ways. We roped in cement com-panies which are providing people withbottles in place of plastic ones. While wedo not have to spend money, these com-panies can advertise and put their logo onthe bottle.

For all these initiatives, we are ropingin NGOs and media houses as well andat the same time, trying to make it a funactivity. So when people see the Governorcleaning an area or the Chief Ministerdoing so, they are connected with the idea.It is a very powerful way to motivate peo-ple.

Our target is to make all Governmentoffices fully sustainable in water and elec-tricity. My first target is my own office andwe will start it in the Secretariat inNovember. We are creating a rainwaterharvesting system so that when the nextrains come in, the Secretariat doesn’t haveto draw water from the Public HealthEngineering Department (PHE).

In the energy segment, we haveswitched over to LED lights whichreduced the cost by 50 per cent. So somepart of the installation cost is getting cov-ered by these savings.

In the meantime we have also talkedto the Ministry of New and RenewableEnergy (MNRE) and the Centre and theyhave sanctioned some funds for rooftopsolar panels. The good thing about ouroffices is that they do not need a lot of lightduring their diurnal operations. We calledin some experts who told us the numberof panels and batteries to be set up aftera survey of the roof. Even if we meet 50per cent of our demand, it will be good.The programme will be gradually extend-ed to the Secretariat and AdditionalSecretariat by the next financial year aswell as the DC offices gradually.

❚ Meghalaya has a lot of potential intourism. There is history, since it wasinhabited in the Neolithic age, wildlifeand natural beauty. How do you plan tofocus on tourism and at the same timemake it sustainable?

We are looking at developing it in asustainable manner and focussing on thestrengths that we have. We would preferto have a lesser number of tourists, whoare looking at a niche experience.Something like the Bhutan model. Itmight not be as strict but our product linewill move in that direction.

We are selecting areas that everybodyconnects to like Cherrapunji and haveidentified eight tourist spots. We want topull the tourists there while developingthem in an eco-friendly manner. We havebuilt log houses, which give a local and nat-ural feel in place of the cement and brickones. Then there are events like the cher-ry blossom festival which is specific to theregion and has become big over the years.People in the State are also fond of music,so we are building activities around suchpassions too.

Plans are already afoot for a hot air bal-loon experience so that you can seeCherrapunji and even Bangladesh from thesky. We are planning to develop choppertourism, which will be a premium service.Tourists can see the double-decker rootbridge more frequently as the chopper canland right next to it. This will naturallycater to a high-end market.

Then there is history. Geologistsfound a stalagmite in the Mawmluh Cavewhich was classified to be 4,200 years oldand dated to what is called as theMeghalayan Age. Mawmluh is a 28 kmlong sandstone cave which is the longestin the world. There are other caves of vary-ing lengths. We are developing a systemwhere people can actually enter these.Some of the caves are massive and couldhold an amphitheatre inside. You enter oneand find yourself in a huge hall where theceiling is 30-40 feet high. There are caveswith rivers flowing inside them, almost likea swimming pool, and one where theentrance is hidden behind a waterfall andwill remind people who love comics ofPhantom’s cave. To experience somethinglike this, you can travel to Meghalaya orspend a lot of money to go to distant lands.

❚ You love music and also perform...All people in the North-East do. I used

to be in a band in school. I played guitar,my brother was a singer. Earlier we playedthe music. Now, as Chief Minister, I faceit (guffaws).

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Congress Lok Sabha leaderAdhir Chowdhury has

expressed apprehensions abouthis future citizenship statusgoing by the fact that his fam-ily too hails from Bangladeshand considering the “vindictiveapproach” of the CentralGovernment in its plans regard-ing the implementation of theNational Register of Citizens.

Warning that the Hinduswill have to bear the brunt ofNRC more than any othercommunity, the seniorMember of Parliament fromBehrampore on Sunday said atthe end of an anti-NRC rally inKolkata that “no one will bespared. More so the Hindus…The Hindus will be moreaffected by NRC than anyother community,” citing theexample of Assam where morethan 11 lakh Hindu Bengalishad been targeted by the NRC.

Warning the citizensagainst “devastating impact ofthe proposed Citizens (amend-ment) Bill and NRC,” in Bengal,

Chowdhury, a highly vocalpolitician with a long history ofstruggle both against the LeftFront and the TrinamoolCongress, said a whole cross-section of the society will beaffected by the NRC that theBJP was planning to implementin Bengal.

“The NRC (BJ) they areplanning will target every sec-tion of the society be it acelebrity or a common man,” hesaid apprehending the tormenthis own family might have togo through on account of polit-ical victimisation in the nameof NRC as “my family toohails from Bangladesh.”

He said “I openly acknowl-edge that I too am a refugee inthat sense as my father hadmigrated from that side of theborder to India. I am alsoapprehensive of my citizenshipfuture on account of the polit-ical persecution that one isexpected to suffer in the nameof NRC,” he maintained.

“Will they throw me out?Will they throw my family outof India?” he asked saying

however that the BJP will notbe allowed to amend theConstitution the way it likes.“Our Constitution has beendrafted in such a manner thatit cannot be amended the waythe BJP wants it to be,” he saidadding his party would con-tinue to fight against the saffronoutfit’s “nefarious designs.”

Meanwhile, in a separatedevelopment State Congressleader Sanmay Banerjee whowas arrested for allegedly vio-lating Cyber laws was releasedon bail on Sunday.

Banerjee was arrested forallegedly writing “defamatorystatements” against some ofsenior Trinamool Congressleaders. All the opposition par-ties including the Left,Congress and the BJP hadraised their voices againstBanerjee’s arrest.

Accusing the police forarresting Sanmay Banerjee forcirculating posts against TMCleaders, Adhir Chowdhury saidthe Congress leaders arrestwas a classic example of intol-erance of the highest order.

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Kishanganj (Bihar): An FIRhas been lodged against BiharBJP chief Sanjay Jaiswal andSweety Singh, the party's can-didate for Kishanganj Assemblybypoll, for allegedly violatingthe model code of conduct, anofficial said.

The FIR was registered atSadar police station onSaturday evening following awritten complaint byKishanganj Sadar Circle OfficerShafi Ahmad after a video sur-faced on social media pur-portedly showing Jaiswalexhorting businessmen to closetheir establishments on thepolling day, Sub-DivisionalMagistrate (SDM) ShanawazAhmad Niyazi said.

Jaiswal had also allegedlypromised to pay Rs 500 toemployees of business firms forvoting in favour of the BJP.

The state BJP chief alleged-ly made the remarks, in thepresence of the party candidate,during a meeting of local busi-nessmen on Thursday at theresidence of Kishanganj

Municipal Council vice-chair-person Aanchi Devi.

Reacting to the FIR lodgedagainst her and Bihar BJP chiefSanjay Jaiswal, Sweety Singhsaid that the state chief 's state-ment had been "misconstrued".

"Jaiswal had talked aboutgiving money for food andsnacks to party workers but hisstatement has been miscon-strued," the Kishanganj partycandidate said.

Jaiswal, a Lok Sabha mem-ber from West Champaran,could not be contacted for hiscomment.

Bypolls to Kishanganj andfour other Assembly seats inBihar will be held on Monday asthe incumbent MLAs were elect-ed to Parliament in the April-May general election. PTI

Kathua (J&K): Union MinisterJitendra Singh on Sunday thatJammu & Kashmir would get"true" self-rule and autonomyunder the Modi Government,and it would be quite differentto the "frivolous slogans" ofsuch demands raised byKashmir-centric political par-ties.

Addressing a meeting ofBJP candidates contesting theblock development council(BDC) election, Singh said it isimportant for party workers tounderstand and also make oth-ers understand that this is forthe first time afterIndependence the concept ofthree-tier grassroots democra-cy comprising panchayats,BDCs and district councils andis being introduced in the State.

"Jammu & Kashmir will gettrue self rule and true autono-my under the Modi govern-ment, and that will be quite incontrast to the frivolous slogansof self-rule and autonomyraised by Kashmir-centric polit-

ical parties, which have beenbefooling the people of thestate for decades, only to per-petuate their dynasty rule gen-eration after generation," theBJP leader said.

Singh said the question tobe asked to the "champions ofso-called autonomy" is whetherthey have any moral authorityto "fool" the people of Kashmirby making such demands afterthey boycotted the panchayatand BDC elections, which hesaid are meant to confer auton-omy to the representatives elect-ed at the village level.

The "champions" of self-rule, he said, must reply whichself-rule they are talking aboutwhen their own Government"resisted" all efforts to holdpanchayat elections and, whenthe election did happen duringthe Governor's rule, they boy-cotted it.

The Minister of State in thePrime Minister's Office (PMO)said the response to both pan-chayat and BDC elections had

been "enthusiastic" in Kashmir,adding that the highest numberof candidates for the BDC elec-tion were not from any districtin the Jammu region, but fromKupwara and Baramulla dis-tricts in the valley.

According to the minister,the central grant has startedreaching directly to the localbodies for the first time, due towhich many of the panchayatshave already received �20-30lakh in the first phase itself,which is "more than the totalamount" received by them inthe last several decades.

"Will the Congress partyanswer why they were hesitantin introducing this provision inJammu & Kashmir even thoughit was brought in by their ownPrime Minister Rajiv Gandhi,"Singh asked. "And, whether bydoing so, were they not hand inglove with the Kashmir-centricdynasties seeking to appeasecertain section of voters at thecost of the poor man living inrural areas?" PTI

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Patna: Bihar Chief MinisterNitish Kumar on Sunday flaggedoff 'Krishi Jagrukta Mahabhiyanand Beej Vikas Vahan Rath' tocreate awareness among farmersabout Government schemesbeing run for them during theRabi season.

Kumar flagged off 76 rathsfor all the 38 districts — two'raths' each for every district —at a function held in front of CMSecretariat on the occasion of'Krishi Jagrukta Mahabhiyan(Rabi season 2019-20) and BeejVahan Vikas Rath, an officialrelease said.

The 'raths' would travel toblocks, gram panchayats and vil-lages to tell the farmers about theschemes being run by theAgriculture department duringRabi season, it said.

The raths will be move in sixdistricts of Patna division to cre-ate awareness among farmersasking them not to burn stubble(crop residue), go for cropresidue management and aboutbenefits of other schemes beingrun by Agriculture department.Farmers would be made awareby showing them the docu-mentary film, it said. PTI

Patna: Six months after joiningthe Janata Dal (United), formerUnion Minister Nagmaniresigned from Nitish Kumar'sparty on Sunday, giving a call toreplace the Bihar Chief Ministerwith a ‘Koeri’ leader in the nextyear’s Assembly polls.

Nagmani, who had joinedthe JD(U) in April after beingsacked as RLSP national work-ing president in February, alsocharged the chief minister withneglecting the Koeri commu-nity to which he belonged.

"My only objective is toinstall a son of Koeri to the postof chief minister of Bihar afterassembly elections in 2020. I willtake sanyas from politics if I failto do it," he said after announc-ing his resignation from theJD(U) at a meeting attended byhis supporters and communitymembers. Nagmani said he has

dedicated his life for the better-ment of the Koeris andannounced to hold a megameeting of the community inPatna on February 29 next year.

Nagmani said he wouldtake out "Jagdeo Rath" namedafter his father late JagdeoPrasad from December 1 witha slogan "Nitish Bhagao, KoeriLao". The rath would visit everyassembly segment to unite thecommunity members, he said.

Nagmani had won theChatra seat in 1999 on an RJDticket but engineered a split inthe party headed by Lalu Prasadand joined the BJP-led NDA,becoming a minister in theAtal Bihari Vajpayee govern-ment at the Centre. After theNDA lost power at the Centre,he switched over to Ram VilasPaswan's LJP before crossingover to the JD(U). PTI

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Mangaluru: The Congress inKarnataka on Sunday deploredthe BJP's proposal to conferBhara Ratna on Veer Savarkar.

Addressing reporters here,KPCC spokesman IvanD'Souza MLC said the saffronparty's agenda was to scoregains in Maharashtra Assemblyelections by mooting such aproposal.

The BJP was attempting topromote "traitors" as patriotsonly during elections.

The BJP Governmentshould not choose a person likeSavarkar for the nations high-est award, despite the fact thathe was named in the conspir-acy case to eliminate MahatmaGandhi, he said.

The Maharashtra BJP unithad said in its election mani-festo that the party would askthe Centre to confer the BharatRatna on Vinayak DamodarSavarkar, popularly known asVeer Savarkar.

Pointing out that Savarkarhad written six letters to theBritish revealing his wish tosurrender within two weeks oflanding in jail, D'Souza sought

to know how such a personcould be called a freedomfighter.

He wanted the Centre toconsider former State ChiefMinister Siddaramaiah's pro-posal to confer Bharat Ratna onSiddaganga seer ShivakumaraSwami.

The BJP was creatingunnecessary narratives duringpolls just to divert attention ofthe people from the real issues,he alleged.

Former mayor KavithaSanil was also present. PTI

Panaji: Stray cattle in Goa'stourism savvy coastal belt,which includes popular beachvillages like Calangute andCandolim, have "turned non-vegetarian" and only eat scrapsof chicken and fried fish, claimsthe state's GarbageManagement Minister MichaelLobo.

Lobo, who is a BJP MLAfrom Calangute Assembly con-stituency, also said that 76stray cattle from Calangutevillage, impounded and relo-cated to a gaushala, were refus-ing to eat vegetarian food andthat specialist veterinarianshad been roped in to weanthem of their meat fetish.

"We have lifted 76 cattlefrom Calangute and takenthem to the gaushala run by theGomantak Gosevak Mahasang

in Mayem village, where theyare being well looked after. Wealways say cattle are vegetarian.But cattle from Calangute haveturned non-vegetarian and donot eat grass, gram or the spe-cial cattle feed given to them,"Lobo said, on the sidelines ofa village function in Arpora vil-lage in North Goa on Saturday.

"The cattle from Calanguteand Candolim are used to eat-ing non-vegetarian food likeleftover chicken scraps, stalefried fish from restaurants. Dueto consumption of such non-vegetarian food, their systemhas become like that of humans.Earlier they were vegetarian,pure vegetarian. They wouldsmell non-vegetarian food andmove on, but now cattle fromCalangute only eat non-vege-tarian food," he said. IANS

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and civic amenities are deterringtourists from visiting several sig-nificant historical monuments inAgra, the city immortalised bythe Taj Mahal, say a group oflocal industry leaders.

Though the number oftourists at the historical monu-ments in Agra show an encour-aging trend, hoteliers and trav-el agents complain of patheticlack of civic amenities.

"Tourists generally avoidvisiting other monuments in thecity after a 'darshan' (seeing) ofthe Taj Mahal, because they aretoo scared of bumpy roads,"tourist guide Ved Gautam said.

An estimated 35,000 touristsvisited the Taj on Saturday, saiddata on the ASI website.

While Uttar Pradesh ChiefMinister Yogi Adityanath hasdirected the district adminis-tration to complete patch work

and road repairs within a fort-night, the Agra MunicipalCorporation, is still dragging itsfeet.

"To an outsider, Agraappears, as if it's ravaged by a warsince most roads have developedpotholes and cracks after themonsoon rains. The continuousdigging by one governmentdepartment or the other not onlyraises a lot of dust but makesmobility difficult," a local resi-

dent said."The city administration is

yet to wake up to repair andclean up the roads in the citywhich have not only become asafety hazard but also assault theaesthetics," complains hotelierSurendra Sharma.

A new tourist season hasbegun, and the number of vehi-cles bringing in tourists via theYamuna Expressway or theAgra-Lucknow Expressway,

have gone up appreciably due tothe long holiday interval.

The local tourism industryis alarmed at the lack of concernand general apathy towardsstreamlining vital civic ameni-ties.

"When tourists, particular-ly those from the developedworld, arrive in Agra, they areaghast at the dismal conditions.This results in short visits, same-day return by most visitors," saysPresident of the Agra Hotels andRestaurants Association, RakeshChauhan.

The rains have exposed theclaims of the city administrationof having patched up or filled allpotholes and completed repairwork on most roads.

The municipal corporationcommissioner Arun Prakashsays filling of potholes is con-tinuing. Mayor Navin Jain hasassured citizens that prompt

remedial measures would betaken to ensure safe mobility.Even during the festival season,nothing was being done. Manystretches still require patchworktreatment to avoid accidents,"said Pandit Jugal Kishor.

The city police has failed todemolish encroachmentsaround monuments.

"All they do is to sendnotices. For want of police force,no action to evict illegal occu-pants is possible. You also needpolitical will," Goswami NandanShrotriya of Yamuna KinaraRoad said.

The city appears in sham-bles, with heaps of garbagedumped along railway tracks,the dry Yamuna river bed andpollution, but the official agen-cies entrusted with the task oftransforming Agra into a smartcity dry continue to show nourgency . IANS

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AProminent Malayalam daily,Mathrubhumi, has institut-

ed a �5 lakh ''Book Of The Year''award. The first award will bepresented at the MathrubhumiInternational Festival of Letters(MBIFL) in Thiruvanathapuramfrom January 30-February 2,2020, said the newspaper's JointMD Shreyams Kumar.

"The House ofMathrubhumi has been themother lode that has enrichedMalayalam literature since ourinception in 1923. For close toa century, the best of writing inthe world and in Indian lan-guages has been mined by us forthe enrichment of Keralites.Thus was envisaged theMathrubhumi InternationalFestival of Letters. It hosts thebrightest and the best fromacross the world, debating, dis-cussing and dissenting on con-cepts, ideas and thoughts,"Shreyams Kumar explained.

"The Mathrubhumi Book ofthe Year award is a commitmentfrom Mathrubhumi to honourthe best in Indian literatureevery year. We are inspired tohonour and celebrate brilliantworks, and encourage the pub-lishers to look for the best writ-ing by Indian authors,"Shreyams Kumar said.

The award is open to Indianwriters whose works are pub-lished in India. Works in region-al languages should be translat-ed to English to be eligible forthe award. Kerala's prominentnewspaper Mathrubhumi waslaunched in 1923, supporting thefreedom movement in the coun-try. This award is considered asbiggest in the publication sectorin India.

Lucknow: Shortly after UttarPradesh Chief Minister YogiAdityanath on Sunday met thefamily members of the little-known Hindu outfit's chiefKamlesh Tiwari, SamajwadiParty supremo Akhilesh Yadavasked him to meet the kin ofthose killed in the state "due tobad law and order" too.

"The CM's meeting thefamily members of the victimwho was murdered in Lucknowis a welcome step. I hope theCM will visit Allahabad,Kannauj, Jhansi and Meerutalso where family members ofthose killed due to bad law andorder resides."

Separate murder incidentswere reported in Allahabad,Kannauj, Jhansi and Meerut

districts in past few days.Tiwari's family members

had earlier met the chief min-ister at his residence anddemanded capital punishmentfor his killers.

Tiwari's distraught mother,his wife and three sons spentaround 30 minutes with thechief minister.

Sources said the chief min-ister assured all possible help tothe family during the meeting,assuring them that the policeare seriously probing the caseand the guilty persons will notbe spared. The SamajwadiParty had on Saturday target-ed the state government overTiwari's murder in the Statecapital and sought a reply fromthe chief minister on this. PTI

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Tamil Nadu is all set to deteri-orate further with one of theconstituents expressing its dis-pleasure and thinking loudly ofpossible alternatives.

Puthiya Tamilagam, a Dalitoutfit led by Dr K Krishnasamy,which is a prominent partnerof the AIADMK-led NDA inTamil Nadu may quit the fronton its own as the alliance hasfailed to address an importantdemand raised by the party. DrKrishnasamy, a medical doctor-turned-politician wants theCentre and State Governmentsto remove seven sub sects fromthe list of Scheduled Casteand elevate them to the statusof Other BackwardCommunity (OBC). This is thefirst of its kind demand inSouth India where most castes

prefer to be designated as SC orScheduled Tribe to enjoy thebenefits of reservation in edu-cation and employment.

Dr Krishnasamy, whobelongs to the Pallar commu-nity is of the view that his castewas designated as scheduledcaste erroneously by the thenBritish colonial masters, a mis-take which was not rectified bythe post-independence gov-ernments. He says there areseven such sub sects designat-ed as SC by the colonial gov-ernment. “We want to save ourcommunity from this imposedidentity and to reclaim thehistory of the community,” DrKrishnasamy told The Pioneer.

The communities Pallar,Kudumbar, Pannadi, Kaaladi,Kadayar, Devendra Kulatar andVadhiriyar are the communi-ties which were listed asScheduled Caste communities.“All these communities shouldbe integrated as Devendra Kula

Vellalar and re-designated asOBC,” said the doctor.

Quoting from authentichistory books, records andarchive materials, the doctorsays that all these sects and subsects were land-owning com-munities. “Our communitieswere engaged in wet-land farm-ing. The Chola-Chera-Pandyadynasties arose from theDevendra Kulla Vallalar com-munities. But over a period oftime, we came under invasionand all our land were annexedby the aggressors. Thus we lostour position as rulers,”explained Dr Krishnasamy.

He said the communitymembers lost rights to their ownland because of a rule enactedduring the Chola period. “TheKudi Neeki system introducedby the Chola rulers mandatedthat those who could not paytaxes would not have any rightson their lands and they weredenied even citizenship. The

Devendra Kula Vellalar com-munity members who were indire straits following the loss oftheir farm lands couldn’t paytaxes and thus ended up as vic-tims of many atrocities perpe-trated on them. During theBritish rule, we were designat-ed as marginalized and poorsections and listed as ScheduledCaste,” he said.

The then leader of thecommunity, Sreenivasan Pillai,wrote to the British authoritiesin 1927 itself stating that theywere culturally and tradition-ally different from Adi-Dravidar. “The Nadars too hadbeen facing this discrimination.But they took up the matterand travelled to London formeeting the SimonCommission. Since our com-munity had been ruined finan-cially, the leaders could notmobilise money for the Londonmeeting with the SimonCommission,” he said.

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In its bid to recapture powerin Maharashtra, the ruling

BJP-Shiv Sena alliance goesinto Monday’s Assembly pollsas favourites against a dispirit-ed Opposition Congress-NCPalliance that is fighting a des-perate battle for political sur-vival in a State that it ruled for15-long years.

As much as it is for the rul-ing saffron alliance, it is ahigh-stake election for 49-year-old Devendra Fadnavis who, ifthe BJP-Shiv Sena is votedback to power, will re-occupythe saddle as the Chief Ministerfor the second consecutiveterm. Incidentally, he is theonly second Chief Minister ofMaharashtra after late VP Naikto have completed his full five-year term.

Monday’s polls are also alitmus test for the Congress,which ruled the State for fivedecades either as a single partyor in alliance with the NCP butcurrently finds itself in totaldisarray. Going by the fact thatRahul Gandhi addressed justsix public rallies and Congresspresident Sonia Gandhi (asalso Priyanka Gandhi Vadra)stayed from the poll campaign,the Congress appears to havegiven up on Maharashtra evenbefore the polls.

The polls will also test thecontinued acceptability or oth-erwise of 78-year-old SharadPawar, who shouldered theresponsibility of being the solefull-fledged campaigner forthe NCP. Dismissing the rulingBJP’s claim that he would“retired” permanently after the

Assembly polls, Pawar went totown with much-discussedcomment “Abhi tho mainJawan hu... I will pack offeveryone home first then Iwill go..”. As against 24 publicrallies he had addressed in the2014 Assembly polls, Pawaraddressed 65 political rallies–including the one in Sataraamid pouring rain—in the cur-rent polls.

The electoral battle is alsosignificant from the Shiv Sena’spoint of view. The 53-year-oldShiv Sena launched AdityaThackeray into electoral poli-tics. Incidentally, 29-year-oldAditya is the first Thackeray infour generations of Thackeraysto be contesting an election. Ifthe saffron alliance returns topower in the State, Aditya –who is contesting from Worliconstituency in south-centralMumbai – will be part of thenew government. It remains tobe seen if he will land thedeputy chief minister's post.

The election will also makeor mar the Raj Thackeray-ledMaharashtra Navnirman Sena(MNS), which had skipped the

2019 Lok Sabha polls but iscontesting 101 seats in theAssembly election. The MNS,which had made an impressivedebut in the 2009 Assembly bywinning 13 seats, put up apathetic performance in the2014 Assembly polls, by win-ning a mere one seat out oftotal 219 seats it had contested.

An estimated 8.98 crorevoters, who are eligible to exer-cise their franchise inMonday’s, will decide the fateof 3,237 candidates includingscores of political bigwigs, per-haps the only chief ministeri-al aspirant, scores of minister-ial aspirants and Gen-nextpoliticians, in Monday's polls.

With dice loaded heavily inits favour, the ruling saffronalliance is going all out not onlyto post a highest winning tally,but also to decimate theCongress and NCP which hadcollectively won just 83 seatsout of the total 288 seats in the2014 State Assembly polls andtogether established leads inmere 45 Assembly segments inthe 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

While the BJP-Shiv Sena

alliance has a lot to look for-ward to — even in the face ofa threat posed by 50-odd rebelsin the fray, the Congress-NCPalliance hopes against hope toput up a respectable perfor-mance that will help the twoparties to set their respectivehouses in order and stage acomeback at a later stage.

In the current polls, theBJP is contesting as many as164 seats, while the Shiv Senahas fielded candidates in theremaining 124 constituencies.The break-up of seats contest-ed by other political parties isas follows: Congress- 147,NCP-121, MNS- 101, BSP-262, Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi(VBA)- 288, CPI-16 andCPI(M)- 8. There are 604 can-didates from other registeredparties, while the remaining1,400 candidates areIndependents.

In the 2014 polls whichthe saffron alliance partnershad contested on their respec-

tive strengths, the BJP hadwon an all-time high of 122seats as against 260 out of thetotal 288 seats it had contest-ed. The Shiv Sena had walkedaway with 63 seats out of 282seats it had contested. On theother hand, the Congressbagged 42 seats out of 287seats it had contested, whilethe NCP emerged fourth bywinning 41 out of 278 it hadcontested.

More than Prime MinisterNarendra Modi and BJP pres-ident Amit Shah, the focus inthe Assembly polls has been onFadnavis, who led the BJP-ShivSena alliance’s campaign. Hehad hit the campaign trail asearly as August 1, seven weeksbefore the ElectionCommission declared the datefor the Assembly polls. In all,he covered 220 Assembly con-stituencies during his cam-paigning.

Fadnavis is contesting fromthe prestigious Nagpur South-

West seat. His main rival isCongress' Ashish Deshmukh.There are also 18 contendersincluding seven independents,in the fray.

Two former ChiefMinisters Prithiviraj Chavanand Ashok Chavan are twoother key candidates. WhilePrithviraj is taking on BJP’sAtulbaba Suresh Bhosale inhis home constituency of Karadsouth in Satara district, AshokChavan is contesting againstthe BJP's Shrinivas aliasBapusaheb DeshmukhGorthekar in Bhokar con-stituency of Nanded.

Two former Deputy ChiefMinisters —Ajit Pawar andChhagan Bhujbal — are in thefray. While Ajitdada — as AjitPawar is known in theMaharashtra politics — islocked in a contest with BJP'sGopichand Kundlik Padalkarin his home constituency ofBaramati, Bhujbal is seeking re-election from his strongholdYevla against Shiv Sena'sSambhaji Sahebrao Pawar andsix others including three inde-pendents.

Maharashtra BJP presidentChandrakant Patil is contestingpolls from Kothrud in Pune,while his Congress counterpartBabasaheb Thorat and StateNCP chief Jayant Patil are con-testing from Sangamner inAhmednagar and Islampur inSangli in western Maharashtra,respectively.

Late Gopinath Munde'sdaughter and State ministerPankaja Munde and hisnephew and leader of theOpposition in the StateLegislative Council are locked

in a fierce contest in Parli con-stituency of Beed district inMarathawada region.

From among the Gen-nextpoliticians, veteran Congressleader Sushilkumar Shinde'sdaughter Praniti Shinde is seek-ing re-election from SolapurSouth Central in westernMaharashtra, while formerChief Minister ShivajiraoNilangekar's son Ashok PatilNilangekar is contesting fromNilanga constituency.FormerChief Minister Narayan Rane’sNitesh Rane is contesting as aBJP candidate against NarayanRane’s former aide SatishSawant of the Shiv Sena.

Similarly, late VilasraoDeshmukh's son elder Amit isseeking re-election from LaturCity seat, while his younger sonDhiraj is contesting from LaturRural. Sharad Pawar’s grand-nephew Rohit Pawar is makingelectoral debut from Karjat-Jamkhed in Ahmednagar dis-trict.

Prominent candidates inMumbai are BJP’s city presidentMangalprabhat Lodha, who iscontesting from upmarketMalabar Hill constituencyagainst Congress' Hira NavajiDevasi and eight others andNCP’s city president NawabMalik, who is taking on Sena'sTukaram Ramkrushna Kateand 13 others from AnushaktiNagar.

Mumbai MayorVishwanath PandurangMahadeshwar of the Shiv Senais battling it out against Sena’srebel and sitting party MLATrupti Prakash Sawant, whowas expelled recently by theSena, and the Congress’

Zeeshan Baba Siddique. In Nala Sopara, former

encounter specialist and Senacandidate Pradeep Sharma ispitted against Bahujan VikasAghadi's sitting MLA KshitijHitendra Thakur.

Excepting in constituencieswhere there are strong candi-dates of the MNS or thePrakash Ambedkar-led VBA,there are straight contests allover state.

On its part, the BJP is tak-ing on the NCP candidates in60 constituencies, while it is pit-ted against the Congress can-didates in 94 constituencies.The BJP is engaged in contestswith other parties in 10 remain-ing seats.

The Shiv Sena is locked ina straight contest with the NCPin 57 seats, while it slugging itout against the Congress in 52seats. The Sena is fightingother parties in the remaining15 seats.

The MNS may cut into theShiv Sena and BJP vote banksin a dozen of the 101 seats it iscontests. Interesting, the ShivSena is covertly supportingthe MNS in several of the con-stituencies where the BJP hasput up its candidates.

There are nearly 50 rebelsbelonging to the BJP and ShivSena in the fray. At least 30 to35 of them may votes of eitherBJP or the Shiv Sena.

The VBA, which damagedthe chances of the Congressand NCP in Lok Sabha polls, iscontesting 270-odd seats. But,its presence in the Assemblypolls may not do much ofharm to any of the parties inthe State Assembly polls.

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Lucknow: The BJP's SwatantraDev Singh and the Congress'Ajay Kumar Lallu are keen to hita victory note as their party'sUttar Pradesh unit chiefs in thebypolls to 11 Assembly seats onMonday to boost morale of theirworkers before the 2022 stateelections.

Of the 11 seats going to thebypolls, eight were held by theBJP and the Pratapgarh seat washeld by its ally Apna Dal(Sonelal). The BJP, BSP, SP andthe Congress have fielded theircandidates on all the seats.

The saffron party is hopingto increase its tally in theLegislative Assembly by regis-tering a win in Rampur, held bythe Samajwadi Party, and in

Jalalpur, held by the BahujanSamaj Party.

On the other hand, theopposition parties are expectingto repeat the success they tast-ed in the bypolls to Gorakhpur,Phulpur and Kairana Lok Sabhaseats, and in Noorpur assemblyconstituency last year.

The Congress, in particular,hopes to show signs of revivalin UP after its battering in theLok Sabha polls in when it wonjust one seat, party chief SoniaGandhi's Rae Bareli con-stituency. In contrast, the BJPwon 62 of the 80 parliamentaryseats in the state and an allybagged two more. The BSPand the SP, which were in analliance in the general elec-

tions, ended their tie-up afterthe polls. The BSP-SP combinewon 15 seats. In the 2017Assembly polls, the SP had a tie-up with the Congress.

Campaigning for thebypolls saw Chief Minister YogiAdityanath targeting theCongress on the issue of abro-gation of Article 370 provi-sions. He also hit out the SP andBSP over corruption.

Both Swatantra Dev Singhand Ajay Kumar Lallu exudedconfidence that their parties willemerge victorious in the bypolls.While, Singh claimed that thebypolls will be "one-sided" forthe BJP, Lallu said there are"indication of good results forthe party". PTI

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Mumbai: The Shiv Sena onSunday sought to know why topBJP leaders held so many ral-lies for the MaharashtraAssembly polls, when ChiefMinister Devendra Fadnavisfeels there is no Opposition leftin the fray to challenge hisparty-led alliance.

In a column in Shiv Senamouthpiece 'Saamana', party'sRajya Sabha member SanjayRaut also claimed that the pollplunge of Sena chief UddhavThackeray's son AadityaThackeray will change thestate's "political dynamics" incoming years.

Hinting at the waningstrength of the Opposition par-ties, Fadnavis recently said

there was no "wrestler" left inthe fray who can challenge theBJP-led alliance.

"The chief minister hasbeen asserting that the opposi-tion 'does not exist' any more inthe poll campaign. The ques-tion then arises about themotive behind some 10 ralliesof (Prime Minister) Modi, 30 of(Union Home Minister) AmitShah, and Fadnavis himselfholding 100 rallies acrossMaharashtra," Raut said.

The same question is beingraised by NCP chief SharadPawar as well, which is notwrong, he said.

"Though Fadnavis said heis not facing any oppositionchallenge, in reality there is elec-

toral challenge, which forcedthe BJP leaders to hold somany rallies," Raut, the Marathidaily's executive editor, claimedin his column 'RokhThok'.

He further said thatAaditya Thackeray's foray intoelections was going to changethe "political dynamics" of thestate in coming years.

"He is contesting electionsnot to just sit in the Assembly,but the new generation wantshim to lead the state," heclaimed.

Aaditya Thackeray, the firstmember from his family toenter the electoral battle, iscontesting the polls fromMumbai's Worli Assembly con-stituency. PTI

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Thiruvananthapuram: Withall ready for Monday's bypollsto five Kerala assembly con-stituencies — Vatiyoorkavu,Aroor, Konni, Ernakulam andManjeswaram, what remains tobe seen is - would the rain godplay spoilsport?

The IMD weather forecastfor Monday is a yellow alertindicating more than moder-ate rains and if it turns out tobe true, then barringManjeswaram in Kasargodedistrict, all the remaining fourconstituencies are located inyellow alert areas, and couldsee rains, which in turn couldlead to a not so enthusiasticturnout.

Barring Aroor, the other

four seats are held by theCongress-led UnitedDemocratic Front (UDF) atpresent. Historically, the gen-eral perception in the state isif there is low voter turnout,the beneficiary is the CPI-Mled LDF and affects theCongress-led UDF, as theirnot so die-hard voters prefer toremain indoors. With a yellowalert already in force forSunday and raining hard, can-didates of the three politicalfronts were seen engaged inlast minute hectic campaign-ing by visiting Churches,meeting voters individually attheir homes and making a beeline to wedding halls and thehomes of death. IANS

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T h i r u v a n a n t h a p u r a m :Veteran CPI(M) leader andformer Kerala Chief Minister VS Achuthanandan turned 96 onSunday and celebrated theoccasion by cutting a cake.

In the persence of closefamily members and well wish-ers, Achutanandan cut a cakeand his wife gave him a smallpiece to mark the occasion.

As leaders from variouspolitical parties, friends, wellwishers and media personnelturned up to wishhim,Achutanandan thankedeveryone.

Kerala Governor ArifMohammed Khan was among

those who extended birthdaywishes to the senior leader.

"Conveyed my heartiestwishes to Shri VSAchutanandan, former ChiefMinister and senior leader onhis 96th birthday.

Shri VS Achutanandan isone of the most respectedpolitical figures of Kerala,"Khan tweeted. The Governorwould be visitingAchutanandan tomorrow towish him personally. CPI(M)state secretary, KodiyeriBalakrishnan, Senior Congressleader AK Antony, telephoni-cally wished Achutanandan onhis birthday. PTI

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Srinagar: With the abrogationof article 370, Jammu andKashmir is treading on the pathof peace and development andanyone who tries to create hur-dles in the way will be dealt withsternly, BJP national generalsecretary Ram Madhav saidhere on Sunday.

"Till now everything used tobe done for a few families or afew leaders in Kashmir, butnow whatever is happening, ishappening for lakhs of familiesof this state... For the commonKashmiri," Madhav said.

"There will now be only twopaths for J&K-- peace and devel-opment and whosoever comesin between will be dealt withsternly. There are many jails inIndia for those," he added.

The BJP leader was address-ing a convention of the party'syouth wing at Tagore Hall herewhich was the first political

event in Kashmir after the abro-gation of article 370 and bifur-cation of the state into twoUnion territories.

Asking politicians not totreat the people of Jammu andKashmir as fodder for theirpolitics, Madhav who visited thevalley for the first time since theabrogation of article 370 said if200-300 people are to be keptinside jails to achieve the pathto peace and development,"then we will keep them".

"You can do your politicswithout disturbing the peace.Some leaders are sending mes-sages while sitting inside jailsthat people will take to gun andsacrifice themselves. I want totell those leaders to come for-ward first and sacrifice them-selves," he said. "Politicians herewere making common peoplea fodder for their politics andthe general public was being

used. But, we will not allow suchpolitics now. We want politics ofdevelopment and corruptionswill be eradicated fully fromhere," he added. Wanting toassure the people of Kashmir onthe apprehensions about losingjobs or land, the BJP nationalgeneral secretary said no step

would be taken against theinterests of the people. "Somepeople are talking nonsenseabout job losses and losing landwith the abrogation of article370. No step will be takenagainst your interests. Each jobin the state will be provided tothe youth of the State." PTI

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Kolkata: West Bengal BJP chiefDilip Ghosh on Sunday said hewas hopeful that Nobel laureateAbhijit Banerjee, who hasdrawn criticism from a sectionof saffron party leaders, will givevaluable suggestions for over-coming the economic crisis.

Distancing himself fromthe unpleasant remarks madeagainst Banerjee by some BJPleaders, Ghosh said people mayhave divergent views about theacclaimed economist.

"He is a big personality andhas made a huge achievement;many people are expressingtheir views, they are all entitledto their opinion," he said.

Union Commerce MinisterPiyush Goyal, at a media brief-ing in Pune, recently describedBanerjee as a "Left- leaning" per-son. Goyal on Friday also saidBanerjee's suggestion of a min-imum income scheme has beenrejected by Indian voters and

there was no need to "acceptwhat he thinks". Echoing simi-lar sentiments, Rahul Sinha, anational secretary of the BJP,also claimed that Banerjee'seconomic theories have notbeen proved on the ground inIndia. Ghosh, also a Lok SabhaMP from Medinipur, assertedthat that he was among the firstto congratulate the Indian- bornAmerican economist after theannouncement.

"I am sure he will give goodsuggestions for overcoming theeconomic crisis that the coun-try as well as the entire world isgoing through," Ghosh said.Leading a 'Gandhi Sankalp Yatra'at Kamarhati on the northernoutskirts of the city, in whichcentral Minister Nityanand Raialso participated, Ghosh saidapart from a social message, thesaffron party is also "giving a callfor a change" in the Statethrough this programme. PTI

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Kolkata: Freedom to expressviews is a golden gift of theConstitution and intolerancefor it in any form can destroythe democratic fabric of thecountry, West BengalGovernor Jagdeep Dhankarsaid on Sunday.

Dhankar's comments cameclose on the heels of WestBengal Congress spokesmanSanmoy Bandopadhyay's arrestover alleged criticism of theTMC government and ChiefMinister Mamata Banerjee onsocial media.

"Expressions of your viewpoint is a golden gift of theConstitution and its intoler-ance in any form is destructiveof democracy. Let's learndecent ways to disagree oneanother. Intolerance by struc-tured mechanism is painfullyworrying (sic)," he said in atweet without naming any-

one.The governor has been on

a collision course with theTrinamool Congress govern-ment in the state since he 'res-cued' Union minister BabulSupriyo who was mobbed byangry students at the JadavpurUniversity here on September19. Reacting to this, theTrinamool Congress said therewas no need to give reply toeach and every utterance ofDhankhar, while the opposi-tion BJP and the Congressblamed the ruling party to havefailed to give due respect to thepost of the governor.

TMC secretary generaland state minister ParthaChatterjee said, "There is noneed to respond to every sin-gle utterance of the governor.We don't have the will to hognewspaper headlines everyday." PTI

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Nearly a month after the RBIclamped down on the

operations of scam-hit PMCBank, the depositors say theirwoes have only worsened, withsome unable to pay schoolfees of their wards, while oth-ers finding it difficult to meetmedical expenses.

Many fear that they mightlose their lifetime earningsdeposited in savings accounts,or in the form of fixed deposits.

Businessmen like MAChaudhary complained thatthey were unable to either paysalaries to their workers, norpay taxes or even the electric-ity bills after the cheques issuedby the PMC Bank bounced.

So far, three depositorshave lost their lives, apparent-ly due to the crisis.

Established in 1984 in Sionin central Mumbai, the banknow has branches in six Statesbut most of them are concen-trated in the metropolises ofMumbai and Delhi.

On September 24, thebank’s Managing Director JoyThomas sent an SMS to its

depositors about the ReserveBank of India imposing regu-latory restrictions, capping thewithdrawals up to �1,000 forsix months.

Since then, he has beenarrested, along with the pro-moters of HousingDevelopment InfrastructureLimited (HDIL) Rakesh andSarang Wadhawan, in analleged fraud case.

After protests from accountholders, the RBI raised theamount to �10,000 and then to�40,000 earlier this month.

However, the depositors,who have deposited lakhs andin some cases even crores in thebank, said the amount is tooless even to meet the monthlyexpenses, .

Tek Chand (71), a retiredGovernment servant and a res-ident of Janakpuri in westDelhi, said his family has over�18 lakh deposited in the TilakNagar branch of the bank.

His wife has to undergodialysis which costs him�10,000 per month and half hismonthly pension goes into it.

There are many like Chandwhose source of sustenance is

the interest they get from theirfixed deposits.

Anuradha Sen (61), a res-ident of Malviya Nagar insouth Delhi, said she deposit-ed �15 lakh in the bank.

“My livelihood is depen-dent on the interest from it,” shesaid.

Sen said she was also upsetwith the government for notdoing enough to help theaccount holders get back theirhard earned money.

“I am annoyed. We gavethem a thumping majority notto put us in this crisis. If thiscontinues, I am surely not

going to vote in their favournext election,” she said.

Malviya Nagar residentRavindra Kumar Jha (40), aninterior designer by profes-sion, said he was struggling topay the school fees of his twochildren and manage thehousehold expenses.

He said he has �32 lakhdeposits in his PMC Bankaccount but cannot accessthem.

Jha also complained ofblood pressure after the irreg-ularities in the bank surfaced.

“I have two school goingkids. I need to manage theirfees and household expenses.Recently, I met with an accidentand I have not recovered yet. Inever had a blood pressureproblem, and now with eachpassing day, it is becoming dif-ficult to survive in Delhi.Sometimes I feel like commit-ting suicide.

“I had planned to start anew business this Navratri.Unfortunately, I deposited thesurplus cash of �4 lakh that Ihad kept for emergency. NowI feel so helpless. It is my hard-earned money,” he said.

MA Chaudhary, anotherbusinessman, said he hasdeposits of �35 lakh in savingsaccount and �16 lakh in hiscurrent account but he is notable to access his money.

“A PMC Bank chequeissued to pay electricity billsbounced because no one wouldprocess it. I do not have moneyeven to pay my quarterly GST,”Chaudhary said.

For several depositors, thePMC Bank scam has shatteredtheir trust in the banking sys-tem. Gurjyot Singh Keer (25)was eight when he first opened

an account in the bank’sMulund west branch in north-west Mumbai under the ‘BaalBachat Yojana’.

The lender has been centralto the Keers, residents ofMulund west, and the familymembers have a deposit of over�3 crore.

“I was in awe of the banksince my childhood. Our fam-ily always believed in cash andI fought with them sayingdepositing money in banks isgood. Today, I am fighting forthe same money stuck in thebank,” 25-year-old Keer, who

runs a coaching institute, said.There has been a domino

effect of the crisis, where thewhole “circle of money” hasstopped, he said.

Students hailing from theMulund area, a lot of whosefamilies have accounts in thebank, are unable to pay theirfees, Keer said, adding he is alsonot able to pay his teachers whoare paid on a weekly basis asthe money is stuck.

Twenty-four year-oldManali Narkar, a resident ofKanjurmarg in northwestMumbai, said her family hasbeen banking with the PMCsince last 27 years.

The biology teacher andher family have over �28 lakhin accounts with the bank. Itwas the good service that madeNarkar and her family contin-ue with the bank, she said.

“I am losing my patienceand money with every passingday. I have put all my hardearned money in the bank andthis is what I get in the end.What wrong did I do that I ambeing made to beg for my ownmoney?” 71-year-old Chandasked.

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Top leaders and corporateexecutives from India and

the US will gather in New Delhion October 21 for a day-longbrain storming session on tradeand geopolitics.

To be hosted by US IndiaStrategic and PartnershipForum (USISPF) with thetheme “Partners of Growth”, thesecond annual IndiaLeadership Summit would alsobe attended by former USSecretary of State and states-man Henry Kessinger,Condoleezza Rice, India’sExternal Affairs Minister SJaishankar among others.

“The relationship betweenIndia and the US is not justabout trade. It’s not just aboutgeopolitical. Now it has gonebeyond that. It is about learn-ing how you build research-leduniversities, learning on man-aging waste, learning on qual-ity of air exchange of scientists,”USISPF president MukeshAghi told PTI in an interview.

“What I’m saying is thatthere has to be a platformwhich encourages, supportsand propagates these discus-sions,” Aghi added.

Over 300 influential andpowerful people from Indiaand the US are joining thesummit which aims to focus onthe immense potential that theUS-India relationship has in

areas beyond trade includingsustainability, security, energyaccess and innovation.

“The whole objective is tokeep the momentum going inthis relationship and come upwith some plus factors, someaction items so we can moveforward next 12 months thisrelationship,” Aghi said.

“Because we don’t have thebureaucratic limitation, we arenimble, run and build busi-nesses, we can react, movethings much faster,” he added.

Aghi said the objective isbasically to enhance the rela-tionship between the twonations.

“We have no politicalagenda. Our objective is toenhance this relationship,” hesaid.

He said that for the topAmerican CEOs to fly only for

this conference and spend a fewdays in India is a reflection oftheir commitment to India.

“If you would want to callit India’s Davos, start of that..That’s what I see it,” he said.

“Our theme is partners inprogress, what is a win win forboth countries. That’s whatwe’re going to focus on. Forexample, India is energy deficitand US is energy surplus. Howdo you basically collaborate notjust purely from procuring oiland LNG, but more research inthis area?” he said.

“Does India need to followthe same economic growthmodel what the western devel-opment took place. Is it possi-ble to explore our different togrowth agenda for India?” heasked, referring to some of thethought provoking issues forthe brain storing sessions.

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Finance Minister NirmalaSitharaman has said she

will prepare a blueprint forinternational companies thatare looking beyond China tomake India as their preferredinvestment destination.

She said industry leaderswho are contemplating get-ting their businesses out ofChina are “definitely consider-ing India as the pitch”.

Therefore, she said, itmight be important for the gov-ernment to now see and meetup with a lot of industry lead-ers and invite them to India.

“I’d certainly be doingthat…I go back and design insome way whereby I will iden-tify those multinational cor-porations, all American busi-nesses or any other countryEuropean or a British originwho are moving out of Chinaor who probably are even con-templating,” she said.

“I will make a blueprintwith which I will approachthem and put forward to themas to why India is a far morepreferable destination,”Sitharaman told a group ofIndian reporters on Saturday atthe conclusion of her interac-tions at the annual meeting ofthe International MonetaryFund and the World Bankhere.

That could also be in spe-

cific areas in which India hascommon capacity ecosystembuilding, whether it’s electron-ics, lithium ion battery or anyother semiconductors, sheadded.

However, Sitharaman saidthe government’s decision isnot just going to be purely onthe basis of what is happeningpresently between the UnitedStates and China.

“That could either aggra-vate the situation or probablyjust influence at some level. Butthe fact remains that there arecompanies which are looking atrelocating for various otherreasons also,” she said.

“That is why I gave that lit-tle fine line that I’m drawingabout companies which wouldwant to locate elsewhere out-side of China. Even as I saidthat, I said that not every com-pany wants to lock, stock andbarrel get out of China, thereare companies which willremain there to service theChinese market.

“After all little China as avery big domestic market andthe their purchasing power,consumption style may be verydifferent from what it is inIndia, but I’m making thatmargin already that companieswill probably be there to servicethe Chinese market tension ornot tension,” the Union minis-ter said.

She said India wants to cre-ate an ecosystem to invite thecompanies to tap the country’smarket.

“I’m allowing that marginalready. Over in about that forthose companies, even if theycontinue to be in China but stillwould want to produce fromelsewhere either to export or tocapture a new hub, domesticmarket like India,” Sitharamansaid.

“There was one thing veryclear that India is still for them(companies), one of the biggestoptions to consider,” she added.

The minister said it is per-ceived that the opportunities inVietnam are not that muchattractive.

“In fact, today, one of theconversations that I was havingwith some of the bank and thegovernment representativeswas that even Vietnam nowprobably is getting saturated.They don’t have enough man-power to address expansionaryprogrammes of investment,”she said.

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Finance Minister NirmalaSitharaman has said the

negotiations between India andthe US on a trade deal are goingin “full speed” and expressedhope that an agreement will bestructured soon.

The ongoing trade dealnegotiations briefly came up fordiscussion during a pull asidebetween Sitharaman and USTreasury Secretary StevenMnuchin at the IMF head-quarters. Mnuchin is scheduledto visit India early next month.

“In fact, I broadly men-tioned it to Secretary Mnuchin,but that is something on whichthe Commerce minister andMr (Robert) Lighthizer (USTrade Representatives) areworking. My inputs are that thenegotiations are going in fullspeed and there’s a great inten-sity with which both sides areengaging and hopefully thedeal will be structured soon,”Sitharaman said on Saturday.

India is demanding exemp-tion from high duties imposedby the US on certain steel andaluminium products, resump-tion of export benefits to cer-tain domestic products undertheir Generalised System ofPreferences (GSP), greater mar-ket access for its products fromsectors, including agriculture,

automobile, auto componentsand engineering.

On the other hand, the USwants greater market access forits farm and manufacturingproducts, dairy items and med-ical devices, and cut on importduties on some ICT products.The US has also raised concernsover high trade deficit withIndia. In 2018-19, India’s exportsto the US stood at $52.4 billion,while imports were $35.5 billion.Trade deficit dipped from $21.3billion in 2017-18 to $16.9 bil-lion in 2018-19.

Responding to a question,Sitharaman said a totalisationagreement with the US hasalways been on the cards.

Totalisation agreementseeks to eliminate dual taxationwith regards to social securityand medicare taxes in theUnited States.

“One of the reasons whythat was never responded towas that India did not have asocial welfare net or socialinsurance cover for Indians inIndia. And therefore, if theyhad to give it, they wouldn’t begiven in the sense where wouldit be used?” she said.

“Today, I think most pri-vate insurances or for many ofthe families which are belowthe certain level of income,Ayushman Bharat is a fantas-tic big coverage.

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New Delhi: After repeatedcomplaints by theConfederation of All IndiaTraders (CAIT) over allegedviolation of FDI norms by e-commerce majors, theDepartment for Promotion ofIndustry and Internal Trade(DPIIT) has sent a question-naire to Amazon and Flipkartover their adherence to thenorms for Foreign DirectInvestment (FDI).

The questions are con-cerned with their fund flow,business model and inventorymanagement, people in theknow of things said, adding thatit also asks the names of theirrespective top five sellers andprice list of vendors on theseplatforms. Official sources saidthat the department wouldlook into their replies and thendecide whether more clarifica-tion is required or any actionneeds to be taken.

“It is basically related to thecomplaints of small retailers,and a series of questions havebeen sent to them which arerelevant to understand the alle-gations which small retailersmake about these online plat-forms which are under FDI,” asource told IANS.

Questions sent to Amazonand Flipkart by IANS, howev-er, were not immediatelyreplied. Traders’ body CAIT

has time and again approachedthe government for its inter-vention regarding the “deep”discounts offered by these plat-forms during festival sales.CAIT recently sought an inde-pendent audit of the businessmodels of both Amazon andFlipkart on the charges ofpredatory pricing and deepdiscounting, among others.

The move by DPIIT comesafter Commerce MinisterPiyush Goyal last week warnedof strict action against e-com-merce companies if they werefound violating India’s e-com-merce policy.

In a related development,CAIT on Sunday alleged thatnot only the e-commerce com-panies, but even large numberof brands in mobile, FMCG,electronics, electrical appli-ances, footwear, garments, giftarticles, watches and other seg-ments as well as several banksare also responsible for distor-tion of prices of different prod-ucts on online portals.

“It is apparent that thesebrand-owning companies arealso exploiting the offline mar-ket being hand in glove with e-commerce companies havingseparate price policy for bothonline and offline marketswhich is a clear violation of theCompetition Act,” CAIT said ina statement. IANS

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Mukesh Ambani-ledReliance Jio has alleged

that review of call connectcharges by Trai “sabotages” thePrime Minister’s vision forDigital India, and will hit notonly the regulator’s credibilitybut also investor confidence asthe move protects vested inter-ests of some old operators.

Continuing its relentlessattack on the regulator and oldoperators over the contentiousIUC (interconnect usagecharge) issue that has polarisedthe industry, Jio alleged thatTrai’s move is arbitrary, bad inlaw, unwarranted, and anti-poor. Any change in imple-mentation of original timelineof January 1, 2020 will end thefree voice regime and is likelyto increase tariffs which isagainst consumer interest, Jioclaimed.

Typically, a telecom oper-ator pays for completing callsmade by its subscribers to arival network. This is done bypaying the rival network aninterconnect usage charge,which currently is 6 paise perminute.

Trai’s move to reopen thedeadline for ending charges forterminating calls on rival net-works beyond January 2020had forced Jio to levy a 6 paisaper minute charge on its usersrecently, effectively ending itsfree call regime.

Submitting its officialresponse to the TelecomRegulatory Authority of India(Trai) on the IUC matter, Jioalleged that “certain incumbenttelcos” want their large body of2G customers to forever remaindigitally disempowered anddeprived of the fruits of the dig-ital revolution. Trai’s consulta-tion paper “protects and per-petuates the vested interests” ofsuch players, it added.

Jio accused certain oldoperators of exploiting their 2Gcustomers by charging “extor-tionist rates” for voice calls,which are offered free to all Jio’s4G-only customers.

“The ConsultationPaper...Undermines and sabo-tages Prime Minister’s DigitalIndia vision and mission,” Jiosaid in its comment to Trai’sconsultation paper.

It is unfortunate thatinstead of profiting the poorand marginalised sections ofIndian society, the consultationpaper has chosen to help prof-iteers in the telecom business,Jio alleged.

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Paddy acreages in the currentfiscal have grown by 6.5 per

cent and basmati acreages haveincreased by a whopping 36 percent in comparison to kharif2018 but the increased culti-vation may turn out to be achallenge due to growth con-cerns at the global level andwithin India.

National CollateralManagement Services con-ducted a field-based crop sur-vey for assessment of acreage,crop health and production ofbasmati rice during kharif2019. The survey was com-

missioned by the BasmatiExport DevelopmentFoundation, founded by theAgricultural and ProcessedFood Products Export

Development Authority.As per the latest kharif

sowing report released by theAgriculture Ministry onSeptember 27, all India paddyacreages are reported at 382lakh hectares which are 1 percent lower than 2018 paddyacreages of 387 lakh hectares.

This survey is at variancewith the government reportand paddy cultivation is high-er as per the NCML surveywith total paddy acreages dur-ing kharif 2019 estimated at6,204,000 hectares which are6.5 per cent higher than lastyear’s acreage of 5,825,000hectares.

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SpiceJet plans to induct wide-body planes early next year

and is looking at variousoptions as the budget airlinesteers ahead with its ambitiousexpansion plans, according toa senior official.

The low-cost carrier is look-ing at options from Boeing andAirbus. An industry source saidthat SpiceJet might bid for AirIndia’s wide-body operationsin case the government puts updomestic and internationaloperations for sale separately.

Currently, SpiceJet operatesonly Boeing and Bombardierplanes.

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Two-wheeler exports roseby over 4 per cent in the

April-September period of thecurrent fiscal, with Bajaj Autoleading the segment by ship-ping over 9 lakh units to vari-ous markets, including Africaand Latin America, as per latest data by industrybody SIAM.

Two-wheeler dispatches,including motorcycles, scootersand mopeds, stood at 17,93,957units in the first half of the cur-rent fiscal, as compared to17,23,280 units in the sameperiod of 2018-19.

Scooter exports during theperiod under review stood at

2,01,277 units, down 10.87 percent from 2,25,821 units in theApril-September period of2018-19.

Motorcycle shipments,however, rose by 6.81 per centduring the period at 15,85,338units as against 14,84,252 unitsearlier. On the other hand,exports of mopeds were downby a massive 44.41 per cent at7,342 units as compared to13,207 units in April-September period last year.

Pune-based Bajaj Auto ledthe segment with shipments of9,34,581 units, up 7.5 per centfrom same period last fiscal, thedata by the Society of IndianAutomobile Manufacturers(SIAM) showed. It was fol-

lowed by TVS Motor Companyand Honda Motorcycle &Scooter India (HMSI) whichexported 3,43,337 and 1,74,469units, respectively, during theperiod under review.

Bajaj exports its bikes toover 70 countries and last yeardispatched around 40 per centof its total production to Africa,Latin America and MiddleEast markets. The companyexported around 20 lakh unitslast fiscal.

Similarly, TVS MotorCompany exported 3,43,337units in the April-Septemberperiod this fiscal, up 6.24 percent from same period last fis-cal. On the other hand, HMSI’soverseas dispatches were 23.09

per cent lower than the April-September period of last finan-cial year. India Yamaha Motorexported 1,56,058 units, up21.38 per cent from last fiscal.It was followed by domesticmarket leader Hero MotoCorpat 92,823 units. The company’soverseas shipments were 12 percent down this fiscal as com-pared with the same period of2018-19.

Suzuki Motorcycle India’sforeign dispatches stood at54,372 units, up 35.61 per cent.

Other notable exportingcompanies during the periodincluded Royal Enfield (22,956units), Piaggio Vehicles(14,050) and Mahindra TwoWheelers (297).

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British Prime Minister BorisJohnson was on Sunday

branded a “spoilt brat” by theOpposition after he sent anunsigned letter seeking a three-month extension to the October31 deadline from the EuropeanUnion (EU).

The UK PM was bound bylaw to issue a letter seeking adelay to Brexit after MPs votedin a historic Super SaturdayParliament session to delay vot-ing on his motion on a newBrexit deal.

Johnson has previously saidhe would rather be “dead in aditch” than miss the October 31deadline and had triggered spec-ulation soon after the House ofCommons vote by declaringthat he would not negotiate anextension.

However, given the BennAct passed by MPs last monthto avert a no-deal crash-out fromthe economic bloc meant that hewas obliged to send an extensionletter by the end of October 19

unless a new Brexit deal hadbeen passed through by theCommons.

"The United Kingdom pro-poses that this (extension) peri-od should end at 11.00pm GMTon 31 January 2020. If the par-ties are able to ratify before thisdate, the government proposesthat the period should be ter-minated early,” reads theunsigned letter sent to EuropeanCouncil President Donald Tuskon Saturday night.

While the Downing Streetstance is that the UK PM hascomplied with the Benn Act bysending the Parliament's letter,there is some speculation if itopens up the prospect of legalaction by it being an unsignedrequest.

In an accompanied signedletter to Tusk, Johnson repeatedhis pledge of leaving the EUwithin the October 31 deadlineby pressing ahead with the req-uisite legislation next week toseek Parliament's ratification

for his withdrawal agreement."I have made clear since

becoming Prime Minister, andmade clear to Parliament againtoday, my view, and the gov-ernment's position, that a furtherextension would damage theinterests of the UK and our EUpartners, and the relationshipbetween us," he states, insistingthat the prolonged Brexit processmust be brought to a conclusionto prevent a “corrosive impact”from further delays.

Tusk took to Twitter to saythe UK's extension request hasbeen received and that he wouldconsult with EU leaders on“how to react”.

Meanwhile, the OppositionLabour Party warned thatJohnson could be in contempt ofParliament and possibly even thecourts with his latest actions.

Labour's shadow Chancellorsaid: "He may well be in contempt of Parliament or the courts themselves because he's clearly trying toundermine the first letter andnot signing the letter.

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Hillary Clinton has gonecrazy, US President Donald

Trump has said as he slammedthe former secretary of state forcalling Democratic presidentialaspirant Tulsi Gabbard and for-mer Green Party candidate JillStein as Russian assets.

During a Thursday podcastinterview, Clinton said Russiahad groomed Stein to be aspoiler third-party candidatein 2016 and implied that theKremlin is doing the same withGabbard in order to take votesaway from the 2020 Democraticticket and secure Trump'sreelection.

"Hillary's gone Crazy!”Trump said in a tweet onSaturday night.

"So now Crooked Hillary isat it again! She is callingCongresswoman Tulsi Gabbard'a Russian favorite', and JillStein 'a Russian asset'. As youmay have heard, I was called abig Russia lover also (actually, Ido like Russian people. I like allpeople!),” Trump said.

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European Union officialscalled Sunday for a ceasefire

in Afghanistan, saying thebreakdown in talks between theUS and the Taliban presentedan opportunity to push anewfor a truce.

US President DonaldTrump last month declaredtalks with the insurgents"dead", citing a Taliban attackthat killed a US soldier.

Negotiations had been inthe final stages for a deal thatwould have seen the US pulltroops from Afghanistan after18 years in return for variousTaliban guarantees.

But to the dismay of manyAfghans and internationalobservers, the deal included noimmediate, comprehensiveceasefire, rather it would supposedly have paved the wayfor a reduction in violenceand later talks between theTaliban and the AfghanGovernment.

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Kurdish-led fighters andTurkish-backed forces

clashed sporadically on Sundayin northeastern Syria amidefforts to work out a Kurdishevacuation from a besiegedborder town, the first pull-backunder the terms of a US-bro-kered cease-fire.

Turkey said one of its sol-diers was killed in the day's vio-lence.

The planned evacuationof Kurdish fighters and civiliansfrom the town of Ras al-Aynwould open the way to a pull-out of the fighters from abroader swathe of territoryalong the border, a senior offi-cial in the Kurdish-led forcestold the Associated Press Theofficial, Redur Khalil, saidSaturday evening that the evac-uation could take place Sundayif there were no new problems.

Both sides accuse eachother of repeatedly violating thethree-day old cease-fire.

Turkey's Defense Ministrysaid the soldier was killed in aKurdish attack with anti-tankweapons and small arms firenear the border town of TalAbyad.

That brought the Turkishmilitary's death toll to seven

soldiers since it launched itsoffensive against Kurdish-ledfighters in northeast Syria onOctober 9.

The Kurdish-led SyrianDemocratic Forces said Turkishtroops and their allied Syrianfighters have continued theiroffensives the past 24 hours,forcing its fighters to retalia-tion.

It said 16 SDF fighters hadbeen killed and three wound-ed in Turkish attacks around

the border town of Ras al-Aynand nearby villages.

Ras al-Ayn, under siege byTurkish-backed fighters, hasbeen the scene of continualfighting since the cease-firecame into place on Thursdaynight.

Khalil told the AP that theforce had reached understand-ings with the Americans toevacuate its fighters from thetown from the start of thecease-fire but the siege had

delayed the plans.Turkish officials have

denied they were preventingthe withdrawal of any fighters.

On Saturday, medical con-voys were able to enter for thefirst time into neighbourhoodsstill in the hands of the Kurdishfighters, delivering medicalsupplies and bringing out 30wounded and four dead.

Khalil said the full evacu-ation could follow the next dayunless there were new delays.

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Responding to stinging crit-icism, President Donald

Trump has abruptly reversedhis plan to hold the next Groupof Seven world leaders' meetingat his Doral, Florida, golf resortnext year.

Trump announced a rarebacktrack Saturday night afterfacing accusations that he wasusing the presidency to enrichhimself by hosting the interna-tional summit at a private resortowned by his family.

"Based on both Media &Democrat Crazed andIrrational Hostility, we will nolonger consider TrumpNational Doral, Miami, as theHost Site for the G-7 in 2020,"Trump tweeted. He said hisadministration "will begin thesearch for another site, includ-ing the possibility of CampDavid, immediately."

The striking reversal raisesfurther doubts about the posi-tion of the president's acting

chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney,who held a press conferenceThursday announcing thechoice of Doral for the summit.He insisted his staff had con-cluded it was "far and away thebest physical facility."

Mulvaney said the WhiteHouse reached that determi-nation after visiting 10 sitesacross the country.

In the same press confer-ence, Mulvaney acknowledgeda quid pro quo was at workwhen Trump held up U.S. Aidto Ukraine in exchange forUkraine's investigation ofDemocrats and the 2016 elec-tions. Mulvaney later claimedhis comments had been mis-construed, but not before draw-ing the ire of the president andfrustration from other senioraides.

Trump had been the firstadministration official to pub-licly float the selection of hisproperty to host the summitwhen in August he mentionedit was on the short-list and

praised its facilities and prox-imity to Miami's internationalairport. His comments, morethan a month before the officialannouncement, drew instantcriticism from good gover-nance groups and Democrats,who said it raised concerns thatTrump was using the WhiteHouse to boost his personalfinances The vociferous criti-cism did not die down, even asTrump insisted he would hostthe summit at cost, though herefused to disclose financialdetails. The annual heads-of-state gathering would at mini-mum have provided good-willvalue to his property.

Noah Bookbinder, execu-tive director of Citizens forResponsibility and Ethics inWashington, said Trump'sreversal Saturday "is a bow toreality, but does not change howastonishing it was that aPresident ever thought this was appropriate, or that it was something he could getaway with."

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Large crowds of HongKongers defied a police ban

and held an illegal march onSunday, their numbers swollenby anger over the recent stab-bing and beating of two pro-democracy protesters.

Authorities had forbiddenthe march in Tsim Sha Tsui, adensely packed shopping districtfilled with luxury boutiquesand hotels, citing public safetyand previous violence fromhardcore protesters.

But tens of thousands joinedthe unsanctioned rally regard-less as the movement tries tokeep up pressure on the city'spro-Beijing leaders after nearlyfive months of protests andpolitical unrest.

Tensions were running highafter the leader of the grouporganising the weekend rally,Jimmy Sham, was hospitalisedby men wielding hammers ear-lier in the week. Then onSaturday night a man handingout pro-democracy flyers wasstabbed in the neck and stom-ach.

A sea of protesters shuffled

through the streets under acanopy of umbrellas to protectfrom the bright sunshine onSunday. Many said they wantedto show they were unbowed bythe attacks and authoritiesincreasingly banning marches.

"The more they suppress,the more we resist," a 69-year-old protester, who gave her sur-name Yeung, told AFP. "Canpolice arrest us all, tens of thou-sands of people?" Philip Tsoi, aself-described frontline protest-

er, said they needed to keep get-ting numbers out even thoughmany more hardcore activistslike him had been "arrested orwounded" in recent weeks.

"What I want is a trulydemocratic government whoseleader is elected by Hong Kongpeople instead of selected by aCommunist regime," he toldAFP.

In a now familiar pattern,the large march remained peace-ful, but smaller groups of black-

clad protesters vandalised somesubway station entrances andmainland Chinese banks alongthe route.

Police fired tear gas volleysat crowds of hardcore activistsoutside Tsim Sha Tsui police sta-tion.

Vigilante violence hasmounted on both sides of theideological divide. In recentweeks pro-democracy support-ers have badly beaten peoplewho vocally disagree with them-- although those fights tend tobe spontaneous outbursts ofmob anger during protests.

In contrast, pro-democracyfigures have been attacked in anoticeably more targeted way,with at least eight prominentgovernment critics, includingpoliticians, beaten by unknownassailants since mid-August.

Protesters have labelled theattacks "white terror" andaccused the city's shadowyorganised crime groups of form-ing an alliance with Beijingsupporters. Beijing hasdenounced the protests as a for-eign-backed plot and con-demned attacks on those voic-ing support for China.

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An 8,000-year-old pearl thatarchaeologists say is the

world's oldest will be displayedin Abu Dhabi, according toauthorities who said Sunday itis proof the objects have beentraded since Neolithic times.

The natural pearl wasfound in the floor of a roomdiscovered during excavationsat Marawah Island, off thecapital of the United ArabEmirates, which revealed theearliest architecture found inthe country.

"The layers from whichthe pearl came have been carbon dated to 5800-5600BC, during the Neolithic period," Abu Dhabi'sDepartment of Culture andTourism said.

"The discovery of the old-est pearl in the world in AbuDhabi makes it clear that somuch of our recent economicand cultural history has deeproots that stretch back to the

dawn of prehistory," said itschairman Mohamed Al-Muabarak.

The excavation of theMarawah site, which is madeup of numerous collapsedNeolithic stone structures, hasalso yielded ceramics, beadsmade from shell and stone, andflint arrowheads.

The "Abu Dhabi Pearl" willbe shown for the first time inthe exhibition "10,000 years ofLuxury" which is opening onOctober 30 at the Louvre AbuDhabi -- the outpost of thefamous Paris museum.

Emirati experts believe thatthe pearls were traded withMesopotamia -- ancient Iraq -- in exchange for ceramics andother goods. They were alsolikely worn as jewellery.

"The Venetian jewel mer-chant Gasparo Balbi, who trav-elled through the region, men-tions the islands off the coast ofAbu Dhabi as a source of pearlsin the 16th century," the culturedepartment said.

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The Pakistan Governmentwill achieve all targets sets

by the Financial Action TaskForce in time to get the coun-try out of the anti-money laun-dering watchdog's grey list,Foreign Minister ShahMehmood Qureshi has said ashe accused India of trying toblacklist it.

Qureshi's remarks cameafter the Paris-based FATF putPakistan on notice on Friday,warning that it will be black-listed if it does not control ter-ror funding by February.

The FATF plenary notedthat Pakistan addressed onlyfive out of the 27 tasks given toit in controlling funding to ter-ror groups like the Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammad andHizbul Mujahideen, responsi-ble for a series of attacks inIndia.

"India has failed to getPakistan included in the FATFblacklist. The country has beengiven various tasks untilFebruary 2020,” Qureshi said,adding the government wouldachieve all targets in time andbring the country out of thegrey list.

He said the FATF hasrecognised the steps taken bythe Government to controlmoney laundering and terrorfinancing.

The FATF is an inter-Governmental bodyestablished in 1989 to combatmoney laundering, terrorist financing and otherrelated threats to the integrityof the international financialsystem.

During the FATF meeting,several countries voiced con-cern on Pakistan's failure to doenough to contain terror fund-ing on its soil.

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Police in northern Nigeriahave rescued 147 people

from an Islamic boarding schoolwhere the students were beingabused, the fourth such raid ina month, a local official told AFP.

Armed officers found theinmates when they raided aschool in the Rigasa district ofKaduna, said Hafsat Baba,Kaduna state women affairscommissioner.

"All the inmates were foundin chains and said they werebeaten. There are 22 womenamong them and some of themcomplained of being sexuallyabused," she added.

Two Cameroonians and two

people from Niger were amongthose rescued, she said. Therewere also four children at theschool. The inmates had beentaken there by family membersfor "petty theft, delinquencyand drug addiction," Babaadded. "Some of them havepsychological problems and arementally unstable."

Last month police rescuedmore than 300 male studentsfrom a similar boarding schoolin the same neighbourhood.They too said they had been tor-tured and sexually abused.

That led to police raids ontwo other boarding schools innearby Katsina state this week,where officers said they rescuedmore than 400 male students.

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Preliminary results expectedSaturday after last month's

presidential election inAfghanistan have been delayed,the election commission said.

Officials had previouslyindicated that results wouldlikely be pushed back.

But in her announcement,Awa Alam Nuristani, who headsthe Independent ElectionCommission (IEC), did not sayhow long the vote count will bedelayed.

"Unfortunately, because ofsome technical issues and fortransparency, we could notannounce the results based onthe election timetable," she said,apologising at a press confer-ence.

The IEC previously saidthat less than one-third, orabout 2.7 million ofAfghanistan's 9.6 million regis-tered voters, cast ballots in theSeptember 28 first-round poll.

With fears of fraud andthreats of deadly Taliban vio-lence, it was a record lowturnout.

The contest featured 18candidates but President AshrafGhani, seeking a second five-year term, and Afghanistan'sChief Executive AbdullahAbdullah, are the favourites.

Just two days after the elec-tion and before all votes hadeven arrived in Kabul for count-ing, Abdullah claimed victory ina move that international andlocal observers panned as pre-mature.

On October 12, his runningmate Asadullah Saadati com-plained of "systemic fraud"organised by "circles within theelection commission and thepalace".

Voting this year was sup-posed to be more secure thanever, with each voter verifiedthrough biometric machines toensure no one could cast mul-tiple ballots.

Saadati claimed the IECwas counting "fraudulent" andnon-biometric votes.

The IEC has repeatedly saidit would not count votes unlessthey had been verified biomet-rically.

But use of biometric read-

ers to prevent repeat votingcomplicated the process, partlybecause communication break-downs prevented data fromnumerous readers being trans-mitted to the IEC on voting day.

Instead, the machines had tobe taken to the commission inKabul to extract the data.

Highlighting the challengesit faces, the commission has saidunidentified hackers unsuc-cessfully attempted to breakinto its computer servers.

After a recent visit to theIEC, Canada's ambassador toAfghanistan Dave Metcalfe saidhe was "impressed" by the com-mission's attempts to fight voterfraud. Election officials havecalled on candidates to showrestraint and wait for the pre-liminary results in a bid toavoid a repeat of 2014.

That year's election wasmarred by duelling claims of vic-tory and fraud by Abdullahand Ghani. The IEC's initialtimetable called for final resultson November 7, after which asecond electoral round would beheld within two weeks if neces-sary.

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Tens of thousands ofLebanese people took to the

streets Saturday for a third dayof protests against tax increasesand alleged official corruptiondespite several arrests by secu-rity forces.

They streamed into thestreets around the country'sparliament in Beirut, as well aselsewhere across the country,AFP journalists said, despitecalls for calm from politiciansand dozens of arrests on Friday.

The number of protestersgrew steadily throughout theday, with major demonstrationsin second city Tripoli, in thenorth, and other locations.

Many waved billowingLebanese flags and insisted theprotests should remain peacefuland non-sectarian.

The demonstrators aredemanding a sweeping overhaulof Lebanon's political system, cit-ing grievances ranging fromausterity measures to poor infra-

structure.They have crippled main

roads and threatened to topplethe country's fragile coalitionGovernment.

Most Lebanese politicianshave uncharacteristically admit-ted the demonstrations arespontaneous, rather than blam-ing outside influence.

In Tripoli demonstratorHoda Sayyur was unimpressedby the contrition some leadersdisplayed on television andechoed a widely-held hope thatthe entire political class bereplaced.

"They took all our funda-mental rights... We are dying athospital gates," the woman in herfifties said.

"I will stay in the street...Since I was born, we've beenspectators to their quarrels andcorruption," she said.

The army on Saturday calledon protesters to "express them-selves peacefully without harm-ing public and private property".

Saturday evening thousands

were again packed into theRiyadh al-Solh Square in centralBeirut, despite security forcesusing tear gas and water cannonsto disperse similar crowds a daybefore.

The Internal Security Forcessaid 70 arrests were made Fridayon accusations of theft andarson.

But all of those held at themain police barracks werereleased Saturday, the NationalNews Agency (NNA) said.

It said that the father of oneman detained tried to set him-self on fire in front of a policestation.

The demonstrations firsterupted on Thursday, sparked bya proposed 20 cent tax on callsvia messaging apps such asWhatsApp.

Such calls are the mainmethod of communication formany Lebanese and, despite theGovernment's swift abandon-ment of the tax, the demon-strations quickly swelled into thelargest in years.

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Cristiano Ronaldo andMiralem Pjanic sealed a 2-1 win for Juventus over

Bologna to consolidate top spot inSerie A.

Ronaldo was presented witha special jersey before kick-off tomark his 700th career goal scoredplaying for Portugal during theweek.

The 34-year-old hit his 701stafter 19 minutes, with Pjanicadding a second eight minutesafter the break following a blun-der by Brazilian defender Danilo,who had earlier pulled Bolognalevel.

The defending championsare now four points clear of sec-ond-placed Inter Milan, whotravel to Sassuolo on Sunday.

Atalanta stay third afterthrowing away a three-goal leadto draw 3-3 with Lazio, withfourth-placed Napoli closing thegap to just one point afterArkadiusz Milik’s double saw offVerona.

“The road is the right one, butwe need to work on some details.It was a good match blighted bythree or four errors,” said Juventuscoach Maurizio Sarri whose sidehost Lokomotiv Moscow inChampions League action onTuesday.

Bologna coach SinisaMihajlovic returned to the benchin Turin after his second courseof chemotherapy as he battles can-cer.

And the visitors were givenreason to hope of snatching a rarepoint against the Turin giantswhen Danilo responded toRonaldo’s opener with a 29th-minute volley.

But Pjanic sealed victorywith his third goal in four gamesin the 54th minute amid chaos infront of the Bologna goal.

Bologna keeper LukaszSkorupski denied Ronaldo andin-form Gonzalo Higuain latebefore both the crossbar and

Gianluigi Buffon frustratedFederico Santander’s push for alast-gasp equaliser for the visitorswho slip to 12th place.

“We watched the Santandergoal again, it was offside so VARwould have ruled it out,” saidSarri.

“But I told the lads we must-n't sit back on a lead, we shouldattack, otherwise we leave our-selves in these risky situations tothe very end.”

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Immobile’s late brace of penaltieshelped Lazio wipe out a three-goaldeficit in a thrilling 3-3 drawwith Atalanta.

Atalanta, who travel toManchester City in the ChampionsLeague on Tuesday, had led 3-0with 21 minutes to go at theStadio Olimpico.

But Immobile scored from thespot on 69 minutes and less than60 seconds later set up JoaquinCorrea for the second, before cap-ping the comeback two minutesinto injury time with his ninth goalin eight league games this term.

“With penalties, nobody can

understand a thing nowadays,”blasted Atalanta coach Gian PieroGasperini.

“Immobile went for a walk, feltsomeone touch him slightly anddived.

“Even more, on the secondpenalty, Immobile put his foot infront of De Roon.”

Colombian Luis Muriel scoreda first-half double for the Bergamoside as compatriot and star strik-er Duvan Zapata was sidelinedinjured.

Alejandro Gomez got thethird eight minutes before thebreak in a rematch of last season’s

Italian Cup final which theRomans won.

But the visitors lost momen-tum after the hour mark.

Immobile got one back fromthe spot after being brought downby Jose Luis Palomino and thencombined with Correa for theirsecond.

Immobile earned a late penal-ty after a Marten de Roon foul, cel-ebrating wildly after converting tograb a dramatic point beforeLazio’s Europa League trip toCeltic next week.

“I’m losing years of my lifekicking penalties in the 90th

minute,” said 29-year-oldImmobile, after scoring his thirdleague goal from the spot this sea-son.

Polish striker Milik scored ineither half as Napoli got back to win-ning ways at the Stadio San Paolo,after a goalless draw at Torinobefore the international break,before their Champions Leaguetrip to Salzburg.

“I started the season with fitnessproblems so I’m hungry now forgoals,” said Milik, who also scoredas Poland qualified for Euro 2020during the week.

Verona drop to 13th place.

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Borussia Dortmund beat top-of-the-table BorussiaMoenchengladbach 1-0 to jump to fourth in the

Bundesliga, level with Bayern Munich who earlierdropped points in a 2-2 draw at Augsburg.

The top of the Bundesliga grew even more con-gested with the top nine separated by just two points.Of the eight who have played so far this weekend,only Eintracht Frankfurt and Dortmund have won.

Gladbach remained top, ahead of Wolfsburg,who drew 1-1 at RB Leipzig, on goal difference. Bothhave 16 points from eight games.

Bayern, Dortmund and Leipzig are all one pointbehind.

Then come four teams on 14 points, includingFreiburg, who could have gone top but lost 2-0 atUnion Berlin, and Bayer Leverkusen, who could alsohave taken over first, but lost at Frankfurt on Friday.

Schalke have a chance to seize top spot when theyvisit Hoffenheim on Sunday.

In Dortmund, Thorgan Hazard’s first-half strikefor the home team against his former club was ruledout by VAR for a tight offside call.

Hazard then found a sprinting Marco Reus witha perfect through ball in the 58th minute. Reus slot-ted home for the only goal of the game.

Even though another Dortmund strike waserased by VAR in the 85th minute, the home teamfinished the game hanging on, adopting a back-fiveand even a back-six in added time to end a run ofthree successive draws.

“We are very, very happy that our efforts wererewarded with victory today. You could see that thegame could have turned in the other direction,” saidReus.

Coach Lucien Favre didn’t hide his annoyancewith the two tight VAR decisions that went againsthis side.

“That the two goals were not given is not goodfor football,” lamented the Swiss coach.

Dortmund started without 19-year-old attack-er Jadon Sancho who was dropped for "disciplinaryreasons”.

“Jadon is a great kid, but he is still very young,”Dortmund director of football Michael Zorc toldGerman television before kick-off.

“The decision was not easy, but there was noother choice. The suspension is only active for today.”

German media reported Sancho had returnedlate from England duty.

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up for the second league match in succession, hav-ing lost 2-1 at home to Hoffenheim before the inter-national break.

Augsburg grabbed a rapid lead — just as theyhad in the corresponding fixture last year — whenMarco Richter found the net with a sweetly-struckvolley just 30 seconds after kick-off, the fastest goalof the season so far.

Bayern replied as Robert Lewandowski stretchedhis scoring streak to eight games in the 14th minutefrom a Serge Gnabry cross.

After a host of missed chances, former Arsenalwinger Gnabry then put Bayern 2-1 ahead after 49minutes.

But a strong run in injury time by SergioCordova set up Alfred Finnbogason, who finishedpast Manuel Neuer to earn a point for Augsburg, andput another early dent in Bayern’s title defence.

Thomas Mueller missed two chances aftercoming on as a late substitute after a week of con-troversy over the fact he has not started a game sinceSeptember.

Timo Werner scored his first goal in five gamesfor Leipzig in a tight tussle against Wolfsburg at theRed Bull Arena.

It was not enough. Wolfsburg scored a lateequaliser when Dutch striker Wout Weghorst fin-ished a William cross to keep the race at the top close.

Wolfsburg are the only unbeaten team in thedivision.

At the Weserstadion, Werder Bremen opened thescoring at home against Hertha Berlin as Josh Sargen’sstrike took a deflection on its way into the net in theseventh minute.

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Barcelona sailed back to the top ofthe table and trouble returned to

Real Madrid after they endured theirfirst La Liga defeat of the season atnewly-promoted Real Mallorca.

Zinedine Zidane, David Beckhamand Robinho were in the last Madridteam to lose a league game at SanMoix in 2006 and 13 years later,Mallorca repeated the trick thanks toa scintillating strike by Junior Lago inthe first half on Saturday.

Alvaro Odriozola allowed Lagotoo much room to cut inside and wasthen sent off late on, even if Madrid’sattempts at a comeback lookeddoomed well before they werereduced to 1-0.

“The problem is we have to showevery three days that we are good,”Real coach Zidane said.

“That is what we don't do. Wehave to be consistent. We have to putmore life into our game if we want toachieve anything this year.”

The 1-0 defeat halts the resur-gence of Zidane's side just asBarcelona’s appears to be gatheringpace, a 3-0 win away at Eibar givingthe Catalans their fifth consecutivevictory in all competitions. LionelMessi, Luis Suarez and AntoineGriezmann scored the goals.

In between, Atletico Madrid werepegged back by Valencia as a brilliantDani Parejo free-kick earned thevisitors a hard-earned 1-1 draw at theWanda Metropolitano.

It means Barca will finish theweekend top of the table for the firsttime this season as the defendingchampions continue to leave theirstumbling start further behind them.

For Real, five games unbeatenand three of them victories had noterased the doubts, but at least seemedto offer evidence Zidane’s team wereturning a corner.

But Mallorca, who climb to 14th,deserved their triumph in what istheir first season back in the top flight

since relegation ended a run of 16consecutive years there in 2013.

Lago collected the ball on the leftin the seventh minute, drove at theretreating Odriozola before cuttinginside and unleashing a shot into thefar corner.

Madrid lacked purpose and cut-ting edge, with their hopes all butdashed when Odriozola capped amiserable night by flying in late onLago in the 74th minute and collect-ing a second yellow card.

Zidane will hope to have at leastone of the injured Luke Modric,Gareth Bale and Toni Kroos back fortheir crucial Champions Leaguegroup match away at Galatasaray onTuesday.

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is over and their ‘MSG’ attack is final-ly clicking into gear as Messi, Suarezand Griezmann all scored in a ruth-less win over Eibar.

Griezmann’s place in the newly-formed attacking trident has notbeen secure but the Frenchmanopened the scoring at Ipurua before

teeing up Messi and then playing thecrucial pass for Suarez to make itthree.

“There will be good and bad daysbut we are getting to know each otherand bit by bit we will do even better,”said Griezmann.

Victory also dismissed sugges-tions their players might be affectedby Friday’s postponement of nextSaturday's Clasico due to protests inCatalonia. Barcelona’s fans chanted insupport of the nine Catalan leadersimprisoned last week for a failed inde-pendence bid in 2017.

The match against Real Madridis now expected to go ahead inDecember.

“It is fashionable not to agree onpolitical issues but at least let's agreeon the date of the Clasico,” Barcacoach Ernesto Valverde said after-wards.

“It doesn’t seem to me that diffi-cult.”

The only blot on the result was aninjury to Sergi Roberto, who will bea doubt for the Champions Leaguegame at Slavia Prague on Wednesdayafter hurting his left knee.

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Ethiopia’s defending championTsehay Gemechu retained her

Airtel Delhi Half Marathon title onSunday by smashing the courserecord she had set 12 months agoin the national capital when sheran 66:00.

21-years old, Gemechu took 50seconds less then the time she ranin 2018 to win the $27,000 firstprize at the IAAF Gold Label roadrace and also pocketed a courserecord bonus of $10,000.

The women’s race came downto a thrilling head-to-head duelover the final five kilometresbetween the defending championand her compatriot YelamzerfYehualaw and when it brieflylooked like African Games halfmarathon champion Yehualaw is

going to cause an upset with thefinish line approaching, Gemechudug deep and managed to claw herway past her rival to also notch upa personal best while becomingjust the second woman to defendhere.

“I was tired after Doha (whereshe finished fourth in the worldchampionships 5000m two weeksago) but I wanted to come here andfight for the course record. I knewI was mentally strong,” reflectedGemechu.

Yehualaw, even younger than

the winner having just turned 20in August, took more than threeminutes off her previous best forthe distance when finishing justone second behind Gemechu in66:01.

It was yet another double forEthiopian racers as the men's win-ner Andamlak Belihu also retainedhis title.

Belihu finished just underseven minutes earlier after improv-ing his personal best by eight sec-onds from his winning time of 12months ago, stopping the clock on

this occasion at 59:10.However, in sharp contrast to

Gemechu, he had the frustration ofonce again just missing out onbeating the men's course record of59:06, held since 2014 by yetanother Ethiopian Guye Adola.

“At about 18km I started tosuffer some back pain, that possi-bly cost me the course record. I’ma bit disappointed that I missed outon the course record again but I gota personal best so I cannot com-plain too much,” commentedBelihu, who immediately declared

his long-term intention to comeback to Delhi in 2020 with the aimof attacking the course recordagain and trying to become thefirst man or woman to win a hat-trick of ADHM title.

“I have been mainly focusingon the track season in my traininguntil recently but I always knew Iwas going to come here and so Ihad that in mind. I am always verypleased to come to Indian racesand especially Delhi as it was herethat I had my first successes, andthis changed my life.

“This race has put the frustra-tion of finishing fifth at the worldchampionships (in the 10,000m inDoha two weeks ago) behind me,”he added.

Meanwhile, 20-years oldBerihu posted one of the fastesthalf marathon debuts ever when hecame home second in 59:17 whileKandie hung on for third in 59:33.

As for the domestic stalwarts,Srinu Bugatha continues adddedanother laurel in his kitty as hebacked up his Tata Mumbai halfmarathon win with a victory here

with a timing of 1:04:33. SureshPatel clinched Sliver after finishingthe race in 1:04:57 and halfmarathon debutant HarshadMhatre (1:05:12) won the Bronzemedal in the Indian elite men's cat-egory.

“I tried very hard to beat mybest timing, but unfortunately Icouldn't. Because I broke awayfrom the rest of the runners andtook a lead early on in the race, Icouldn’t record a better timing. Ididn’t have anyone who couldpace me throughout the race,”said Srinu Bugatha.

In the Indian elite women’s cat-egory, Loganathan Suriya, theAirtel Delhi Half Marathon courserecord holder, emerged first(1:12:49), followed by ParulChaudhary (1:13:55) and ChintaYadav (1:15:28).

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World champion Marc Marquez of RepsolHonda Team rode a brilliant race to

claim his 10th title of the season at the MotulGrand Prix of Japan at the Twin Ring Motegicircuit here on Sunday.

Starting from the pole position for the firsttime in MotoGP at Motegi, the 26-year-oldHonda rider clinched the title with a timingof 42:42.492 seconds.

Yamaha SRT's Fabio Qartararo, whostarted third from the grid, finished second,0.870 seconds behind Marquez while Ducati’sAndrea Dovizioso (42:48.817 seconds)climbed up four places to take the third spotin the 24-lap race.

Marquez’s win also clinched theConstructor's title for Repsol Honda with threeraces still remaining in the season.

Sunday’s win also gave Marquez his thirdJapan Moto GP title after having clinched thecrown in 2016 and last year, while finishingsecond in 2013, 2014 and 2017.

Before coming here, Marquez had alreadysecured his fourth consecutive world cham-pionship title at the last race in Thailand.

In total, the 26-year-old Spaniard has eightworld championship titles, including six in thepremier class MotoGP. Marquez’s other crownscame in the 125cc World Championship in2010 and Moto2 World Championship in2012.

Already assured of the world champi-onship title, Marquez meant business from theword go and held off an early challenge from'Rookie of the Year’ Quartararo.

It was immaculate riding from Marquezin dry conditions on a circuit, which has alwaysbeen tricky for him.

Marquez took an early lead and main-tained that till the end. His strategy was sim-ple — take the lead and increase the gap —and he executed that with perfection.

Marquez was leading the pack with near-ly a lead of 2.2 seconds early on, but Quartararopushed hard and gave him a tough fighttowards the end to close the gap by 0.870 sec-onds.

“I was pushing from the beginning

because the strategy was clear. I tried to opena gap from the beginning but honestly speak-ing I started to play a lot with the switches(gears),” Marquez said after registering hisfourth consecutive win of the season.

“It wasn’t easy because you need to thinkabout a lot of things while riding but I was ableto manage in a good way to finish the race.Congratulations to the team. They did a verygood job. They tried to find the best packagefor me,” he added.

Second place holder Quartararo of Francewas made to sweat in the final stages byDovizioso, who claimed his 100th Grand Prixpodium.

But it turned out to be a pretty disappoint-ing outing for another Yamaha SRT riderFranco Morbidelli as he finished fifth afterstarting second from the grid.

Maverick Vinales of Monster EnergyYamaha MotoGP finished fourth after start-ing from the same spot, while Cal Crutchlowof LCR Honda Castrol took the fifth place.

The final race witnessed two non-finish-ers in Aprilla Racing Team Gresini’s AndreaIanone and the legendary Valentino Rossi ofYamaha, who crashed out in the 20th lap.

Marquez’s teammate Jorge Lorenzo fin-ished 17th after starting from the 19th posi-tion.

Earlier in the day, starting from the poleposition, Luca Marini of Sky Racing TeamVR46 claimed the Moto2 title ahead ofThomas Luthi of Dynavolt Intact GP and RedBull KTM Ajo’s Jorge Martini.

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Children are curious theyexplore, question, and won-der, and by doing so, learn.From the moment of birth,likely even before, humans are

drawn to new things. When we are curi-ous about something new, we want toexplore it. And while exploring we dis-cover. By turning the light switch on andoff over and over again, the toddler islearning about cause and effect.

If you are a parent, you know thatbabies are born with limitless curiosity.Just think about all of the things your lit-tle ones touch, grab, climb on, stare at,put in their mouths, etc. But for manykids, as they grow their curiosity is dulledand by the time they reach adulthood,they are merely going through themotions necessary to make it througheach day instead of actively trying tounderstand and shape the world aroundthem.

If a child stays curious, he will con-tinue to explore and discover. The 5-year-old finds tadpoles in a tiny pool of mudon the playground. This discovery giveshim pleasure. When he experiences thejoy of discovery, he will want to repeathis exploration of the pond.

It is a high complement to the hardskill set. In today’s hyper-competitive aca-demic environment, parents tend to bezoom-focused on their kids’ “hard” skillsets: reading, writing, Arithmetic, etc.What they often don’t realize is that “soft”skills like curiosity and creativity are whatgive academic knowledge its power andusefulness in the real world. The truth is,curiosity and creativity are some of themost valuable skills young people canhave as they prepare to enter the globaleconomy.

It cultivates an active mind. Whileyou might sometimes fear that you’llexplode if your child asks you “why?” onemore time, overall, those questions area good thing. They’re a sign of an activemind that’s constantly analyzing theworld and trying to figure it out. Admitit you would be concerned if your childaccepted everything around her withnary a protest or murmur.

All parents want to raise childrenwho can take care of themselves in a vari-ety of situations, and who don’t constant-ly rely on others to bail them out. Onceagain, curiosity is a big part of how par-ents can make this desire a reality. Formany of the same reasons why curiosi-ty sparks creativity, it also encourages kidsto be self-sufficient. The progression goeslike this: Child has a problem or ques-tion. Curiosity prompts child to ask “Howcan I solve this?” or “Why?” Child actson the answer she comes up with insteadof waiting for an adult to “take care of it.”

By being curious you will be able tosee new worlds and possibilities whichare normally not visible. They are hid-den behind the surface of normal life, andit takes a curious mind to look beneaththe surface and discover these newworlds and possibilities.

For too many children, curiosityfades. Curiosity dimmed is a futuredenied. Our potential emotional, social,and cognitive is expressed through thequantity and quality of our experiencesand the less-curious child will make fewer

new friends, join fewer social groups,read fewer books, and take fewer hikes.The less-curious child is harder to teachbecause he is harder to inspire, enthuse,and motivate.

Recognize individual differences inchildren’s styles of curiosity. Some wantto explore with only their minds, othersin more physical ways — touching,smelling, tasting, and climbing. To somedegree these differences are related totemperamental differences in theexploratory drive. Some children aremore timid; others are more comfortablewith novelty and physical exploration. Yeteven the timid child will be very curious;he may require more encouragement andreinforcement to leave safe and familiarsituations.

Try to redefine "failure." In truth,curiosity often leads to more mess thanmastery, but it is how we handle the messthat helps encourage further explo-ration, and thereby, development.Redefine failure. When the 5-year-old islearning to jump rope and he trips athousand times, this is not a thousand

failures — it is determination.Use your attention and approval to

reinforce the exploring child. Whenexploration in the classroom is disrup-tive or inappropriate, contain it by teach-ing the child when and where to do thatkind of exploration.

Actively trying to keep your child’scuriosity alive is an excellent idea.Curious children tend to be more moti-vated at school, achieve better grades, andhave a wider circle of friends. They willalso derive pleasure from a lifetimehabit of curiosity.

Give your child too much informa-tion and you risk depleting their curios-ity. In other words, if you tell them allthere is to know on any particular topicwithout encouraging them to do someresearch for themselves, why should theycontinue to be curious? When your childasks you a question, help them discoverthe answer independently rather thansimply delivering the informationupfront. Yes, it may take longer whenthey are the ones taking responsibility fortheir own learning, but the payoff in

retaining their curiosity will be worth it.At the other end of the scale, don’t

hold back when your child asks you formore information. If you fail to respondwith a suitable level of enthusiasm to theirquestions, you risk teaching them thattheir curiosity will go unsatisfied andeven that they are being a nuisance topeople by asking questions. Take the timeto praise them for thinking about issueson their own, and give them enoughinformation to send them on their ownquest for more knowledge.

If in doubt, just consider what yourchild is most interested in and use thisas a springboard from which you canencourage their curiosity. For instance,if they are interested in pets and domes-ticated animals, see whether you canpique their interest in biology andexpand their horizons even further.

Encourage your child to think abouta range of ideas and issues by asking themhypothetical and factual questions. Itdoesn’t matter if they know the answeror not; the idea is to get them into thehabit of curiosity.

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Every year, with Diwali round thecorner, there is a place where allthe Dilliwallas make a beeline to.

Yes, you’ve guessed it at the first go,Blind School Diwali Mela it is. The fan-ciest of candles, the latest in-homeaccessories, traditional crafts, gift items,gardening material and the last word inethnic fashion for which you do nothave to necessarily break your bank iswhat you have on offer.

A walk around the mela puts you inthe midst of a festive vibe that is evidentall around. There is everything whichcan cater to every whim — from a fash-ionista who wants to be impeccablyturned out during the festival to thehomemaker looking to buy utensils forDhanteras. There are traditional arte-facts from different states exhibitingtheir history which made people fromall walks of life delve into the arts andculture of the various states.

However, it is a stall selling Japaneseflowers with huge multicolour petalsthat is in for a lot of attention. Made ofsilk and leather, the flowers have nylonnetting stretched over them. The cher-ry blossom flowers especially are indeeda replica of natural ones. The leaves aredyed with organic colours and thepetals are shaped into natural roundedforms with the help of goffering irons.Then there are camelias, bonsais, small-er flowers and more. And the colours —a burst of purple, pink, bright red, peachwhich can liven up any room.

There are 270 stalls, each peddlingwares with a personal, innovative touch.The ones drawing the crowds havehandmade colourful candles, diyas,paper products including bags,envelopes, papier-mache plates, cupsand cloth products made by visually-impaired trainees.

However, even here, innovation isthe key to make the customers keepcoming back year after year. SwapnaMerlin, one of the members of the BlindRelief Association, which organises themela says, “This year, we have addedmore variety in our existing products,in terms of the designs and colours aswell. There are 75 varieties now. Knitteditems, like sling bags, which were notthere until last year are also on sale thistime.”

There are a queue of stalls and anattractive kids carnival store whichdraws attention because of its brightdresses but it is the yellow ones thatoverpower all other colours. The ownerSonali Singh said, “Earlier we only hadsweatshirts. But now we have printed

theme-based clothes in organic fabric.”The clothes have figures of LordGanesha, Krishna, Hanuman, GoddessLaxmi, Durga and other deities. Sonalisays that the idea is to initiate a conver-sation with the children about mythol-ogy and religion. “When they weardresses with Goddess Laxmi or LordHanuman, it makes them curious. Thiswill not only help them know about ourrich cultural history but also strength-en their bond with parents or grandpar-ents when they want to know more,” sheadded.

The fair also provides a platform tothe NGOs to showcase the productsmade by differently-abled persons andget exposure to a world of opportuni-ties. Aanchal, an NGO owner has onoffer handmade bags made of recycledpaper to carry gifts in. These are paint-

ed with beautiful floral designs by thementally-challenged kids of her NGO.She says, “I’ve come here for the firsttime here. Through this I am able topromote what my kids have made.When I tell my children about the scaleof the market, it gives them a sense ofempowerment.”

Adjacent to her stall is that ofGoonj, a development organisationknown for recycling products andbridging the gap between urban surplusand rural poverty. They have jute totebags with cotton tapes and blue colourjute wallets which are perfectly stitchedby rural women and ensure sustainabil-ity and durability.

Next in line is a stall decorated witha creative cluster of wine bottles andfairy lights with messages such as ‘cre-ate your own vibe’, ‘own it all’ and more.

Each bottle has a rope tied around itsneck so that one can hang it anywhere.The stall also has Portuguese chande-liers in gold and a teepee (in the shapeof a tent) light in black. Its vendor, RuchiMalik says, “This is the time wheneveryone wants to revamp their homeseconomically. So, I have used wine bot-tles to create an aesthetic look. Insteadof painting their homes people can usedesigner fairylights and bottles to accen-tuate the some corners.”

A collection of multicolour knittedbags and mufflers made of jute, cotton,paper and textile waste are kept belowa banner which says ‘A story of hardwork, passion and skill’ attracts peoplein droves. The stall has macrame bag ofdifferent sizes, cotton pouches, crossknit small bags, crochet bags, flowerbasket bags, mountain knit tote, moon-

doggie bags and others. A NIFT grad-uate, the owner Vrinda Khemka saysthat this initiative aims to improve theknitting and stitching skills of womenof surrounding villages to make themfinancially independent through craft.

Additionally there are cotton andwoolen quilts in pastel shades, Lucknawichikankari, clay products, food stalls —more of what we have been seeing foryears at the mela, though the charmnever wears off.

The executive secretary of the asso-ciation, Kailash Chandra Pandey saysthat this year they have started a cam-paign of no plastic. So, all the productsare covered by white Braille sheets. “Wealso have storytelling sessions on RajaKe Sau Chere, Sheikh Chilli Ke KhayaliPulao and many others,” he adds.

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If there was one thing that Karl Lagerfeld desiredto have invented in fashion, it’s the white shirt.

For him, it was the basis of everything. Rest comesafter. Known worldwide for his aspirational, rel-evant and cutting-edge approach to style, he wasa force of nature, coupled with an enigmatic per-sona and an original perspective on fashion andpop culture. And such a design philosophy hasfinally made its way to the Indian fashion scene.In collaboration with homegrown Indian fash-ion retail label, Cover Story, Maison KarlLagerfeld has presented its timeless, signaturestyles across ready-to-wear and accessories forFall-Winter 2019, created in London.

So is there an Indianness to the Lagerfelddesign philosophy? Manjula Tiwari, CEO ofCover Story, describes that the designs have beencreated keeping in mind the Indian body-types,seasonal and cultural preferences. “The day-wearcaptures Lagerfeld’s crisp, minimalist aesthetic,fashioned in a monochrome palette. The play ofathleisure with casual-chic makes for elegant sil-houettes that can be worn to the board-room oreven at brunch. Key looks are crafted in black-and-white with highlights of red. A snow-leop-ard mono-print and bold houndstooth design,along with boucle fabrics, brings texture anddimension to the range,” she says.

Must-haves for the day include — the icon-ic, fitted white blouse with a black-tie, oversizedas well as peplumed white shirts, the poplin shirt-dress, elegantly cinched at the waist with a logobelt and a fit-and-flair dress in houndstooth.

“The evening wear celebrates the glamour ofParis at night. From sequins ad bodycon silhou-ettes to tux detailing, chains and studs, the rangepays a fashionable tribute to rock-chic,” she adds.

Must-haves for festive evenings include — ablack sequined wide-leg jumpsuit, an androgy-nous tuxedo suit, a tuxedo-dress juxtaposed witha georgette sleeve and a deep red halter-neckknitted dress worn with a studded leather jack-et.

Manjula feels that during his lifetime,Lagerfeld has influenced multiple generationsof women with his inimitable design philoso-phy. “A mix of Parisian chic with a touch of theavant-garde — this ethos is reflected in the col-lection and is deeply inspired by every-woman.We have always believed in the substance ofstyle,” she says.

There have been numerous collaborationsbetween Indian and international brands suchas Coach, Burberry, H&M and Tiffany. Similarly,this will also certainly broaden the horizons ofboth the fashion houses, believes Manjula. “Weaim to celebrate the individual spirit thatshapes a woman’s sense of style. When itcomes to fashion, the Indian woman and her sar-torial preferences are truly unique,” she says.

However, the question that arises here is howdid the collaboration happened? Manjula tellsus that Lagerfeld approached her while she wasin London. It has been in process from the lastyear. “We wanted to bring the best of interna-tional fashion to India but made exclusively asper the needs as well as requirements of theIndian consumers and what could be moregrand than Karl Lagerfeld?” she adds.

The collection included a comfortablerange of trench-coats, leather jackets and logosweatshirts, which not only make for ideal trav-el companions but can also be used to layer day-looks this winter.

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I had participated in an internation-al forum in January 2015 when one

of the speakers put up a presentationfeaturing all the countries that had sig-nificantly contributed to the world ofdesign and luxury. As I went throughthe slides, I confronted a reality —despite an array of timeless arts andcrafts, India had no mention in theglobal world of luxury and design.

‘That can’t be true!’ I thought tomyself. India has had an age-old tra-dition of royalty and richness in pre-cious jewels and luxury textiles. Andthe magnificence of its heritage sites isincomparable. I realised that an appro-priate branding of India and its “lux-ury” was what was required. It wasthen that I decided to take it uponmyself and launched The LuxuryLeague (TLL) in October 2015.

However, little did I know theheadwinds I would face. In a countrywith low GDP like India, where manypeople struggle for subsistence, theword luxury was synonymous withdecadence and expensiveness.Everyone shied away from associatingwith TLL. Government officials, whosesupport was important for the successof this venture, refused to support TLLand its initiatives. I knew that I had tochange perceptions and mindsets. Irecognised very early that the reasonIndian arts and craft haven’t foundglobal recognition because of the waythey were packaged, marketed andbranded.

In a conversation with PatrickThomas, CEO of world’s premier lux-ury brand Hermes, I realised that peo-ple considered the quality of Indianproducts shabby due to the packaging.Patrick told me about his fascinationwith the incense sticks sold by Indianvendors in Paris. However, it wasshocking for him to see that such a lux-urious product was sold for only �2. “IfHermes was selling it, we would pack-age it as a luxury product and sell it for�100”, he said.

I instantly recognised the problemand the opportunity that it presented.I developed a forum where the top lux-ury brands of the world could interactwith decision-makers, artisans, crafts-men, corporate global brands, con-sumers as well as the Indian govern-ment to reimagine the connotations ofluxury in an Indian context. The TLLwas formed as a not-for-profit founda-tion with the mission to create an envi-

ronment of conducive and creativethinking through dialogue andexchange of ideas. I felt that theessence of Indian luxury lies in our her-itage and there was no better way toappreciate our country than by cele-brating its rich cultural legacy.

We, hence, aimed to enhance theluxury of Brand India globally throughits arts and craft and by reflecting allthat is distinctly Indian and authenti-cally unique. The board of variousdecision-makers and luxury creatorslisted the objectives are as following:� Promote collaborations betweenIndian and global art forms and cre-ate mutually beneficial opportunitiesand joint ventures.

� Foster, strengthen cultural rela-tions through mutual understandingbetween India and Italy thus expand-ing India’s cultural space, globally. � Recognise opportunities for emerg-ing Indian talent by developing busi-ness opportunities and partnershipsthrough networking and create invest-ment interests in sustainable Indianproducts.� Help evolve a greater sense ofappreciation for Indian quality, skilland creativity among world players.� Bring greater recognition to Indianhandicrafts and cultural art formsand generate employment opportuni-ties for the unorganised sector.� Promote India as a preferred invest-

ment destination for textiles, jew-ellery and rich craftsmanship via part-nering programmes and kick-startcommunications, traffic through glob-al networking.� Formulate ideas to utilise ourresources in the best way possible andcreate opportunities for global startups.� Create employment and entrepre-neurship opportunities for the Indiantalent through strategic positioningand digital marketing.� Create forums to support govern-ment’s skill development initiatives forthe unorganised sector and developtheir skills as well as knowledge.

Today, it’s been four years since Ilaunched the initiative. Ever since, ithas grown manifold. It has madetremendous progress towards its objec-tive of promoting the luxury of BrandIndia. Initially, there were huge debateson the concept of luxury and itsapplicability to India. The debate isnow over. It is time for everyone toembrace its true vision. It has alsomade remarkable progress in provid-ing a forum for Indian companies tointeract with foreign brands. Withinjust four years, we have managed tobring over 60 Indian and internation-al companies to exchange ideas on howIndia can be promoted as a globalbrand. There is now a growing under-standing among people about how theuniqueness of India’s art can be usedto brand Indian products.

Established with the purpose ofpromoting the the richness of our her-itage, design, arts and crafts, we havebeen able to convince the global con-sumer. In the past editions, with coun-try partners like France and Italy, aglobal forum has been created whereideas have evolved and developed todirectly benefit artisans and craftsmen.

(TLL begins today. The author is afashion designer, an advisor to Khadi &Village Industries Commission,Government of India and the Cultural& Tourism Ambassador of Uzbekistanin India by the Ministry of Tourism inUzbekistan.)

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Deepawali – the festival of lights is widely cele-brated across the globe by Hindus to commem-

orate the triumph of good over evil, knowledge overignorance and hope over despair.

The festival falls on a day before the new moonin the month of Ashwin as per Hindu calendar.There are a number of rituals associated with thisfestival. One should know the spiritual and philo-sophical aspect of them and why people celebratethis occasion with such great festivity.

During Diwali, peo-ple lit oil lamps and keepthem at the entrance oftheir homes, along withcolourful strings of elec-tric lights. But what is thespiritual significancebehind lighting thelamps? In Hindu culture,l ight is a powerfulmetaphor for knowledgeand consciousness. Thus,it is a reminder of theimportance of educationand self-inquiry, whichbrings harmony to the individual, community andbetween communities. This promotes respect andacceptance of others.

Lighting lamps reminds us to walk on the rightpath, to dispel darkness from our hearts and minds,and to embrace knowledge and goodness.

During the festival, utmost importance is givento Lakshmi Pujan, which means worshipping god-dess of wealth — Laxmi. The word Lakshmi isderived from Lakshya or Lakshma, which means,goal. So, by semantic implication, Goddess Lakshmirepresents ‘the final goal’ of life. The symbols asso-ciated with her and the rituals followed on the dayof Deepawali imply that she stands for the higheststage of perfection and development which ahuman soul can reach. Her hands signify Dharma,Artha, Kama and Mukti, which represents the stageof fruition or beatitude. Her abhaya mudra showsthe pose of assurance and safety. The 100 petal lotusflower on which she sits is symbolic of purity anddetachment. There are many other lotus flowers too,which float in the ocean of milk which are symbol-ic of purity, peace and prosperity. Gold coins con-tinually coming from her left hand signify unend-ing material prosperity. An interesting feature of herportraits is the four elephants which pour water onher. They are symbolic of the four directions —East,West, North and South. Moreover, elephant isan emblem of strength, wisdom and faithfulness tothe master. It is a sign of grace, majesty and the faith-fulness of all her subjects and constant affluence.It also shows that she had her sovereignty on thewhole world.

Invoking the goddess on a dark night by light-ing lamps and candles is thus symbolic of enlight-enment of the souls to attain the stage of perfec-tion. Cleaning of houses and offices in advance isindicative of the observance of complete purity. Theuse of four elephants is symbolic of victory over theself to attain world sovereignty or chakravarti rajyain the golden age.

The door (of knowledge) is kept open all nightto achieve knowledge, virtue and fulfillment of goal.But its sad to note that people only remember NagadNarayana which means cash, worship mammon andforget the Almighty or the goal of life. Hence, theneed of hour is to keep the lamp of knowledge light-ed within us. We must try to enlighten everyonearound us so that each one of us become helpinghands in the process of world transformation by thesupreme. So let’s celebrate this Diwali by focussingon our destiny and helping others too to make theirlife resolute.

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Until a year ago, no one hadheard of Greta Thunberg.Today, the 16-year-old

Swedish environmental activisthas taken the world by storm.Speaking at world’s biggest plat-forms on issues around climatechange, she has inspired peopleacross generations. Millions ofpeople from across the globe havejoined her protest against worldleaders urging them to startworking to end the climate crisis.While Greta is busy challengingthe global leaders, a young socialentrepreneur in India is trying toconvince people to do their bit bytaking the responsibility at avery small level, albeit, for a larg-er good. Twenty-four-year-oldHarshit Baveja’s idea is simple —gift a plant, gift a life.

In 2016, the state of pollutionin Delhi-NCR had alarmed notonly its residents but every con-cerned citizen of the country. Itwas reported that air pollutionhad reduced life expectancy ofDelhiites by 10 years. With theintention of finding a cure tocombat air pollution, Harshit,along with his friend, startedlooking for most effective, envi-ronment-friendly and sustainableoptions to address the same.They talked to experts, looked forsolutions online and researchedat various levels. And finallythey came across the NASAClean Air Study. It was a projectled by the National Aeronauticsand Space Administration(NASA) to research ways to cleanthe air in space stations. Itsresults suggested that in additionto absorbing carbon dioxide andreleasing oxygen through photo-synthesis, certain commonindoor plants may also provide anatural way of removing toxicagents such as benzene,formaldehyde and trichloroeth-

ylene from the air.Taking a cue from this report,

Harshit decided to gift indoorplants to his family, friends andneighbours. “Besides helpingthem to stay healthy during thosedays when air pollution was real-ly high, we wanted to understandthe acceptability of the conceptamong common people. To oursurprise, we received quite apositive response,” says Harshit.

The acceptance of plants bypeople around him encouragedHarshit to explore this idea at abigger platform. He registered acompany, Gift a Life, with theintention of selling the air-clean-ing indoor plants. However, it wasnot just the simple task of sellingindoor plants, it involved a cer-tain procedure for the installation.“We understand every space dif-fers and has different needs.Taking this into consideration, wesuggest plants which are suitablefor the location. We invented theidea of ‘Plant Doctors’ who wouldvisit the concerned spaces anddetermine crucial factors likearea, number of peopleoccupying the spaceand surroundings,”says Harshit explain-ing the steps involved.Once the data is col-lected from the site,it is analysed andmajor sources ofpollutions andthe types of pol-lutants present inthat particularspace are deter-mined. A final‘site report’ is pre-pared along witha custom plan totackle the prob-lems. After this in-depth analysis, theair cleaning planters

are installed.The idea, however, did not

take off as expected. The compa-ny did not receive any order forthe first three months and theuncertainties had taken over thepeople involved. “We had becomereally frustrated. We did not

know what to do next to ensurethat ‘Gift a Life’ creates a space ofits own. We had started losinghope,” says Harshit, who was stillin college at that time.

One day when he entered hisfriend’s hostel room, the lattersaid, “Look Baveja, I have put aplant in my room.” In thatmoment, Harshit knew that hisidea was here to stay. He says, “Itwas quite a small impact that ouridea had on my friend who madethe effort of installing and takingcare of a plant. But for me, it wasbig enough to help me continuemotivating people to do theirbits.”

The company started con-tacting various other organisa-tions to pitch the idea of installingthe air-purifying plants. Manyrejected it straight away whilesome at least listened. Sharing onesuch incident, Harshit says, “I canrecall approaching a client. Theywere loud and clear that they donot want indoor plants in theiroffice. We shared the benefits andinstalled some at no cost just togive a demo. It was for them tosee the difference a small changecould bring into their office life.”

After three months, Harshitmet the client who was immense-ly happy with the changes.Positivity, productivity and atten-dance had improved in thosethree months. Today, the compa-ny is taking care of six branchesof the office. In the last threeyears, they have installed thesebeneficial plants in over 50 com-panies in Delhi-NCR.

Not just in numbers but theyhave also evolved in terms ofideas and sustainability in thesethree years. On Diwali, they tryand launch a new product. Theyhave come up with the conceptof ‘Eco-Glass Planters’. Its madeusing easily recyclable products.

The plants for this product areselected on the basis of threeparameters — it should be an airpurifier, available in personalisedsizes and should be mainte-nance-friendly. These are grownin glass-jars. Initially, to make itcost effective, they used picklebottles and jam jars. But later, tomaintain uniformity, these jarswere procured from localvenders.

They have collaborated witha school being run at a local park.It has around 150 students thatattend evening tuition in variousclasses. Teachers, volunteers andsenior students finance the schoolby using the craft as a skill. Forthis project, a few teachers andstudents (all above the age of 15years) were trained and given nec-essary skills required to preparethese plant-jars. Each personearns approximately seven to 15per cent of the total cost per bot-tle depending on the size, ofcourse. A percentage of this earn-ing is reinvested in the school anda part of it goes to the makers.

Not just this, a certain per-centage of the profits goes intoplantation drives. “Plants needcare. A few simple but dedicatedsteps are required to ensurehealthy growth of plants,” saysMehak Baveja, consultant, busi-ness development at the compa-ny and sister of Harshit Baveja.

In the next two years, theyplan to plant around two lakhtrees in Delhi-NCR. “We knowour effort is small but this willsurely make a difference in thelong run. We want people tobecome more responsible towardsnature. Adopting new eco-friend-ly ways of celebrating and giftingon festivals is one easy way of tak-ing care of our environment,”shares Harshit.

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As per the Oxford dictionary, adultingmeans the practice of behaving in a

way a responsible adult does, especiallythe accomplishment of mundane but nec-essary tasks.

After gaining popularity among mil-lennials, the term has been looked at asderisive in the media. And there is a rea-son for it as adulting indicates a feelingof accomplishment which young peopleoften boast about after doing certainresponsible tasks like paying bills, rent,taking care of their cars, which they aresupposed to do as an adult anyway.

However, I disagree. There’s more toits meaning. As a millennial, I argue thatthe term captures the essence of what alot of young people feel while coming togrips with the world. Unless we’re verylucky to have grown up in a bubble oftuition classes or headed to university forgraduation and masters. The formativeyears, which our parents, the babyboomers or the gen X, have had in theirgrowing up days is something we expe-rience only when we enter our first jobs.For me, this is adulting.

Indeed, we get more exposure todayand have many options to explore. We geta disposable income right from ourschool for canteen or through pocketmoney to college trips. But we thinkthrough Twitter, talk on Whatsapp, partyon Instagram, look for jobs on Linkedinand watch TV on Netflix. Every thing iscreated well and intuitively but the col-lateral damage is that we have no time tothink amid all this. We don’t really knowwho we are. In such a scenario, how willwe have a deep conversation about ourlives, goals and career with other peoplewhen we ourselves have no time to intro-spect? Our bodies are conditioned tocomputers, postures are hunched andthumbs unconsciously scrolling throughInstagram feeds every few minutes. Thelist doesn’t stop here. Soon you will losethe ability to sit through your favourite

Marvel film. It is an art to sit still and youwill have to work for it. This is adulting.

However, one can attribute all this tothe ease that mobile phones provide. It hasapps which could solve almost everyproblem, be it getting married, sellingyour furniture, buying groceries or start-ing a SIP. But is making decisions froma screen healthy?

If we spend time comparing whichapp will help us solve a problem or taketime to evaluate all possible options, arewe not losing all our time and possibili-ties? If we spend a day evaluating all theinformation that we have, indecision willhit us hard. Now wonder, is this adulting?

The older generations utilised India’seconomic policies that helped manybusinesses evolve. We, the gen Y, hold the

golden key to the kingdom of content.Let’s not drown ourselves in an Tsunamiof technology. We should use it well anddivide our time efficiently. It is high timewe pause and think about how socialmedia is paving its way into our sched-ules and consuming most of our time.

There is a lot of creativity in terms ofbusiness, job options, recreational activ-ities and travel experiences. The qualityof life, adventure and interesting oppor-tunities that we want to do are out there,we just need to recognise it. Creating valu-able space in our lives for things that canmake a difference should be the focus. Itis important for us to excel in content-cre-ation but we also need to engage physi-cally with the world around us.

My book Adulting (published byHarper Collins India) has three smartalbeit fictional individuals who havebeen used as case studies. The protago-nist Aisha Oberoi played the socialmedia game and rose to the top. She hadthe talent (and the looks) but does she hasthe strength to live a successful adult life?It’s a whole new ball game and she does-

n’t know the rules. Aisha does not get thepsychology behind social media and howsociety’s tacit acceptance of it doesn’tchange the fact that it can take over one’speace of mind and affect lifestyle. It is easyto get addicted to social media to the pointof no-conversation or worse and lack ofattention span. All of this signals towardsthe question, is social media the newsmoking trend?

The other thing I’m advocating isdepth. We all share posts on socialmedia. But if someone leaves a lengthycomment, people ignore, they eitherscroll up or swipe left. We are so used toscrolling the feed, that we don’t have timeto pause and read. I recall having in-depthconversations years ago at the fag-end ofparties when most people have gonehome. But that is not the case now. I mightlook like a cynical millennial when I saythis, but now meeting people is some-times cursory and just a status update inreal life with no depth.

Tejas Sahni, my second protagonistdemonstrates this well. He is a writingrockstar, who gets it right the first time

with his first novel but cannot seem tomake it work for the next. When he’s astay-at-home writer and can Netflix andchill all day, why will he spend time writ-ing a book or reading one? One would saythat he should pause and ask himself whyhe wants to write but between Tinder andwhiskey, where’s the time? He doesn’tunderstand the importance of a deepexploration into what makes him go fora craft.

Ruhi Singh, the third protagonist isthe managing editor of a publishinghouse. She is in a tumultuous relation-ship that is tough on her but she likes itbecause it fulfills her desires. If she wouldhave time to converse with herself andask about the kind of person she is with,she will save herself a lot of time and tears.But she can’t because of her hustlemindset and work responsibilities. She isguilty of not being at a successful levelin her life.

While my characters may seemkooky and lost (they are) they find theirNorth star eventually. I firmly think, thiscoming back to the path is adulting.

Whether you are one or not, whetheryou like it or not, you are living in a mil-lennial world where we have commonproblems. I want my readers to take awalk and think, how can we do more ofwhat makes us happy? Can we be braveand ask ourselves what we really wantright now? We should make a five or 10year logical plan which will help us dis-cover ourselves more.

Let’s grab this raging fast and under-stand how we need to supplement ourhigh-flying lifestyle with slow hoursthat would initiate deep thoughts. Whileyou read all this, even now your mindand body longs for the next episode ofFamily Man (an online series). But stopand think once again, do you want towatch his family or invest time in yours.

(The writer is a writer, poet, yogi andmartial arts practitioner.)

GREEN OUTSIDE, GREENER INSIDE

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Rohit Sharma once again providedunbridled joy with his maidenTest double hundred before India’s

pacers dented an already scarred SouthAfrica top-order to gain complete con-trol in the third and final match here onSunday.

Revelling in his new avatar, the styl-ish Mumbaikar smashed his way to 212off 258 balls in the company of vice-cap-tain Ajinkya Rahane (115), as Indiadeclared their first innings at 497 fornine.

Before bad light stopped play on thesecond day, South Africa were reducedto nine for two in five overs. MohammedShami and Umesh Yadav removed DeanElgar (0) and Quinton de Kock (4)respectively in their single over bursts,creating all sorts of discomfort.

The second day again belonged toRohit, who scored his first double cen-tury in the longest format, having scored176 and 127 in his ‘debut’ as Test open-er in Visakhapatnam.

His innings had 28 boundaries andsix sixes but, more importantly, it was thelanguid grace that stood out. The extrasecond to play those square cuts and thepull shots were exactly what a sparseSunday crowd needed to rejuvenatethemselves.

Batting on 199, the effortlessness withwhich he dispatched an express deliveryfrom Lungi Ngidi into the mid-wicketstands with a front-foot pull, was wortha million dollars. His double hundredcompleted, Rohit, as if to taunt thepacer, repeated the shot and the resultwas same.

Rahane, who has been back in formsince the tour of the West Indies, alsolooked solid during his 11th Test hundredand the first in India in three years — thelast coming against New Zealand (October,2016) in Indore.

The duo added 267 runs for thefourth wicket to set a solid platformbefore Ravindra Jadeja (51 off 119 balls)and Umesh Yadav (31 off 10 balls with fivesixes) provided the final impetus.

Rohit, who has already broken theworld record for most number of sixes ina series, has so far amassed 529 runs tobecome only the fifth Indian opener toscore 500-plus runs in a bilateral face-off.

Gavaskar had achieved it five times inhis Test career and Sehwag was the lastIndian to achieve the feat, having scored544 runs against Pakistan in a three-Testseries at home in 2004-05.

Rohit also joined Sachin Tendulkar,Virender Sehwag and Chris Gayle tonotch 200-plus scores in both ODI and Testformats.

The lack of penetration in the Proteas

attack, save Kagiso Rabada (3/85 in 23overs), has been the real problem for thevisitors.

In the three Tests so far, India have hadthree double centurions —MayankAgarwal, skipper Virat Kohli and nowRohit — which tells the tale.

While debutant left-arm spinnerGeorge Linde (4/133 in 31 overs) was themost successful bowler, Yadav took him tothe cleaners, scoring all his sixes off hisbowling.

When South Africa batted under fad-ing light, the Indian pacers were too hot tohandle.

Shami looked ominous, extractingextra bounce as he struck off the secondball. Elgar tried to remove his bat but theball kissed the gloves en route toWriddhiman Saha’s waiting hands.

De Kock was done in by a brilliantbouncer, failing miserably in his attempt toevade as Saha timed his jump to perfection.

Faf du Plessis and Zubayr Hamza sur-vived the remaining three overs as debu-tant Shahbaz Nadeem bowled two tidymaidens under floodlights.

With light deteriorating quickly in thispart of the world, the Indian bowling attackwould like to take advantage of the pitchon which cracks are beginning to open up,and the uneven bounce could only makelife more difficult for the beleagueredSouth African batting line-up.

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Rohit Sharma always knew that he hadto make best use of the opportuni-

ties in his new role as a Test opener orelse “a lot could have happened” as faras his stint in the longest format is con-cerned.

“Kafi kuch hone wala thaa naahintoh kaafi kuch aap likh dete mere bareinmein (A lot could have happened had Inot performed and you guys (media)would have written a lot about me,” a sat-isfied Sharma said at the day end pressconference.

“So it was about making most of theopportunities I got. I knew I had to makefull use of it, otherwise media would havewritten against me. Now I know every-one will write good things about me,” headded.

Rohit has amassed 529 runs fromfour innings thus becoming the only fifthIndian opener to score 500-plus runs ina Test series.

“It was a good opportunity for me toopen the batting. As I said during theVizag Test, the communication betweenme and my team management was hap-pening for a long time about opening thebatting. So mentally, I was ready for it. Iknew it could come at anytime.”

His double century came after Indiawere left reeling at 39/3 in the first morn-ing as he along with Ajinkya Rahane(115) staged a remarkable turnaroundwith a mammoth 267-run fourth wick-ekt partnership, the highest versus SouthAfrica.

“Speaking of this particular knock,I would say it was most challenging. Ihave not played much. I played only 30

Tests. In terms of what was thrown at me,I would definitely say it was probably themost challenging one,” the talentedMumbaikar said.

While he has had a blockbuster startto his career as a Test opener, Rohit him-self acknowledged that he has a long wayto go.

“In Tests, it has it’s challenges.Having played only three Tests as anopener, I know I have long way to go. Iam not reading too much into these threeTests. Of course, I will take a lot of pos-itives but I am not reading too much intoit.”

Talking about the challenge of open-ing the batting, he said, “Opening the bat-ting is a different challenge to batting atNos 6-7. It’s just about how you prepareyourself, what you talk to yourself in yourmind about what do you want to go out

there and achieve.“Playing the first ball of the match,

compared to facing a delivery after 30-40 overs is a different ball game altogeth-er. There's nothing in particular that I'vedone in terms of technique.”

The 32-year-old is now eyeing toreplicate the success overseas when thetour New Zealand next year.

“Wherever you play the new ball, youhave to have some understanding of thebasics of the game. Which ball you haveto play and leave. In certain aspects of thegame you have to be mindful of.

“I was allowing myself to take timerather than going after the ball straight-way. It’s not a good idea with a new ball.You got to play with a little lower back-lift. In overseas, of course, it’s a differentball game. That’s a challenge and I amawaiting.”

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Pakistan’s former stalwarts on Sunday lashed outat the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) for act-

ing in haste in removing Sarfaraz Ahmed as cap-tain in all three formats of the game.

Most of the former captains and playerstermed the removal of Sarfaraz on Friday asunjust. Not surprisingly the head coach and chiefselector Misbah-ul-Haq and bowling coachWaqar Younis were also targeted and blamed forengineering the ouster of Sarfaraz.

The wicketkeeper-batsman is also unlikely tobe part of the touring Pakistan T20 or Test squadto Australia later this month.

Batting great Javed Miandad said sinceSarfaraz had gained considerable experience asa captain in the last two years, he should have beengiven time to regain his form instead of just sack-ing him.

“Azhar’s appointment as Test captain is okaybut if the Board wanted to appoint Babar as white-ball captain, they should have first groomed himas I fear the burden of T20 captaincy will affecthis batting,” Miandad said.

Former Test batsman and ex-head coach andchief selector Mohsin Khan said, “He (Sarfaraz)took Pakistan to number one in T20 cricket andhe is a fighter. This is a decision taken in hasteand it could also affect the career of Babar.”

Former captain Rashid Latif minced nowords in stating that the Board had erred by mak-ing Babar captain of the T20 side.

“He is a selfish player and we have seen thisin international cricket and now in the nationalT20 championship. Sarfaraz is not a selfish cap-tain and sacrificed his position many times for theteam. He did not deserve this treatment,” he said.

Former skipper Moin Khan said he wasshocked at the way the Board had treatedSarfaraz.

“He (Sarfaraz) has shown himself to be a finecaptain and yes he was struggling a bit for formbut when a senior player is under pressure youhave to encourage and back him, not dump himlike this,” Moin said.

He noted that Misbah and Waqar had neverbeen fond of Sarfaraz and with them in charge,this sacking was expected.

Former Test pacer Aaqib Javed also criticisedthe Board for taking a strange decision.

“Idon’t know from where these decisions arecoming but they make no sense at all to me.Sarfaraz should have been relieved as Test cap-tain but the Board should have given him sometime as captain of white-ball cricket.”

Another former captain Ramiz Raja, howev-er, felt that the Board had taken a brave decisionto appoint Babar Azam as T20 captain and saidpeople defending Sarfaraz should accept his poorform in recent months as skipper.

“We were struggling in Test cricket, we didnot reach semifinals of the World Cup. We lostto a Sri Lankan ‘B’ team in T20 cricket and hisown form is on a decline. I think the Board actedproperly by investing in a young player in thewhite-ball formats. If Babar develops into a goodleader he can also become Test captain," he said.

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Opener KL Rahul continued his good formas his stroke-filled 90 guided Karnataka

to the semi-finals even as another out-of-favour opener Shikhar Dhawan’s failureproved costly with Delhi exiting from anoth-er quarter-finals of the Vijay Hazare Trophyhere on Sunday.

While Karnataka cruised to an eight-wicket victory over Puducherry in one of thequarter-finals, Delhi lost by six wickets toGujarat via VJD Method in another last eightclash.

Put into bat, Puducherry crawled to 207for 9 with Vikneshwaran MM Marimuthu topscoring with an unbeaten 58.

The Karnataka bowlers led by the vastlyexperienced Abhimanyu Mithun (2-35) ranthrough the Pondicherry top and middleorder before Mariumuthu and Sagar Trivedi(54) tried to rally their innings.

Pondicherry were reeling at 41 for 6 at onestage before Mariumuthu and Trivedi pulledthem out of trouble and gave the score somesemblance of respectability.

The Karnataka bowlers kept striking atregular intervals to ensure that their oppo-nents were restricted to a sub-par total. Leg-spinner Pravin Dubey (3-44) and seamerVasuki Koushik (2-33) also shared the spoils.

In the second quarterfinal, Gujarat defeat-ed Delhi by 6 wickets via the VJD method.

Put into bat at the Just Cricket ground,Gujarat dismissed Delhi for 223 in 49 oversas no Delhi batsman barring skipper DhruvShorey (91) showed any fight.

India player Shikhar Dhawan's horren-dous form continued as he fell for a zero.

IPL specialist Nitish Rana (33) andyoung Himmat Singh (26) failed to converttheir starts.

For Gujarat, pacers Chintan Gaja (3-27)and left armer Arzan Nagaswalla (3-75) wereamong the wickets.

While chasing, skipper Parthiv Patel(76) and his opening partner Priyank Panchal(80) put on 150 runs for the first wicket totake game away from Delhi.

Delhi did try to make a comeback but itwas too little too late as Gujarat overhauledthe target In the 37th over.

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India’s second Grandmasterand Arjuna awardee Dibyendu

Barua plans to bring a contemptof court plea against All IndiaChess Federation after a three-members AICF committee gaveclean chit to the Federation jointsecretary and Bengal chessAssociation suspended secretaryAtanu Lahiri on a plethora ofcharges when the matter wassub-judice.

“This is clear case of contemptof court. The court is seized withthe matter and had rejected Lahiriprayer against his removal as BCAsecretary by the working commit-tee of the BCA,” Barua told ThePioneer.

On October 15, late at nightthe AICF issued a report in whichthe three-member committee hadgiven clean a chit to Lahiri.

Barua had accused Lahiri ofrouting huge amount of fundreceived from the state govern-ment to his own chess promotioncompany in a clear case of conflictof interest. Barua produced doc-uments to show that Rs 23 lakh incash was withdrawn from LahIri’s

company--Global Chess- inaround 53 weeks.

Interestingly, the committeehas dismissed this charge sayingthe routing of fund to a personalcompany didn't not amount tomisappropriation of fund andrefused to to treat it as a case ofconflict of interest. “ Since the funddoes not relate to either the BCAor AICF, the question of any mis-appropriation of chess associationfund does not Arise,” it said in itsreport.

This is a clear case of tryingto deflect attention from the cru-cial charge that Lahiri used hisposition as the BCA secretary todivert fund to his company GlobalChess— a clear case of conflict ofinterest.

And that is how it should havebeen treated by the committeeinstead of making an attempt toobfuscate the issue by talkingabout “misappropriation of funds.”

Barua also accused Lahiri ofnot allowing him to hold a youthtournament and banning two ofIndia top players, GrandmasterSurya Sekhar Ganguly and DeepSen Gupta, from taking part inBengal Chess events. Lahiri also

barred under-9 national girls'champion Sneha Haldar fromplaying in a tournament on dis-ciplinary grounds.

Obviously, the committee hadno intention to reach to the bot-tom of truth. Its members just metin Chennai without caring tovisit West Bengal and meet thecomplainants and other stakehold-ers . The members did not care tomeet the minister or secretary ofthe trial development departmentof West Bengal . The ministry hadtaken cognizance of Barua's com-plaint and terminated its agree-ment with Global Chess of Lahiri.

When a similar case of con-flict of interest rocked the Indiancricket, there was so many hue andcries than an expert committee

consisting of people from outsidethe BCCI were roped into probethe matter. But in the case of AICF,the task was given to a chosen fewwho were colleague of Lahiri him-self.

To begin with the composi-tion of the committee itself lookedsuspect since the AICF secretarywas kept out of it. As per AICFconstitution any such committeemust include the AICF secretary.This makes the committee itselfillegal.

Secondly, Barua had also writ-ten to the AICF President PRVenketrama Raja expressing hisreservation about the committee. The AICF President should haverealized that Barua is not woodpusher but a chess player of reputewho had brought much laurels tothe country and played a stellarrole in popularizing chess. If aplayer of his stature makes someplea, it must be taken seriously.Alas, Barua was treated withsheer contempt and nothing else.His letter to the AICF Presidenthad no impact and the commit-tee remained unchanged.

The committee’s finding fliesin the face of the Court's proceed-

ings.The Court’s order clearly

states the presence of a “primafacie” case even as it directed theAICF not to issue any direction tothe BCA to hold election or takeany other decision regarding thedispute.

The most intriguing thingsabout the AICF clean chit toLahiri on October 15 is that itcame on the day when AICF cen-tral council met to discuss amongothers, the West Bengal affairs.The issue was foremost on theagenda, but AICF secretary BharatSingh Chauhan announced that itwould not be taken up becausethe matter was sub-judice. Only afew hours later, the AICF came outwith the clean chit to Lahiri.

Why was not the reportplaced before the council? This isthe question which has baffled theBarua camp.

“I never expected this com-mittee o do any justice. I've neverheard of such a farce. They con-fined themselves to Chennai anddidn't even summon me to deposebefore them. Why didn’t theysummon Surya Sekhar Gangulyand other chess players, who were

banned by Lahiri? ““ I’m going to fight till the bit-

ter end. We can't allow a handfulof self seeking officials to destroythe dignity of this game,” he said.

Of later, the India chess hasbeen in the news for all the wrongreasons. Charges of high-hand-ness, illegal dismissal of stateassociations, threats and abuses byofficials against players and juniors, and allegation of sleaze havedestroyed the image of a gamewhich was once linked with” gen-tlemen”.

“ The situation has become sogrim that the day is not far whenwe will have some scandalousviedo involving some top officialsout in open. That day we will haveto hang our head in shame,” saida senior player.

“ I don't blame the AICFpresident. He is gentleman. Sincehe is a top businessman of thecountry , I don’t expect him to beinvolved in day to day affair ofchess. Some people around himare taking advantage of the sit-uation and trying to create acoterie. I hope the president willsee through their design and dojustice,”

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Former world number one AndyMurray reached his first final in

more than two and a half years andadmitted it was a “big surprise”.

Murray, steadily rebuilding his sin-gles game after career-saving hipsurgery in January, defeated France’sUgo Humbert 3-6, 7-5, 6-2 to make thechampionship match at the EuropeanOpen.

“It’s been a big surprise to me. I’mhappy to be into the final,” he toldAmazon Prime.

“It’s been a long road to get backto this point. I certainly didn’t expectit to come so soon since I started play-ing again.” On Sunday, the 32-year-oldBriton will tackle fellow three-timeGrand Slam title winner StanWawrinka in the final.

Murray, now ranked a lowly 243,last reached a final in Dubai in March2017 where he won the most recent ofhis 45 career titles.

He is now playing for the fourthsuccessive week on tour having onlyreturned to singles at Cincinnati inAugust.

Murray leads Wawrinka 11-8 in

head-to-head meetings.“I think it will be a nice match to

play,” added the Briton of Sunday'sduel.

“Me and Stan have played a lotagainst each other. It is nice that we areboth able to be back playing againsteach other in a final."

Wawrinka earlier ended Italianteenager Jannik Sinner’s fine run inBelgium, the Swiss veteran defeatingthe 18-year-old 6-3, 6-2 to reach his30th career final.

Sinner was the youngest player tomake the semi-finals of an ATP tour-nament since 17-year-old Borna Coricin 2014.

But he met his match in 18th-ranked Wawrinka, with the 34-year-old taking one hour and 59 minutes toedge closer to a first title since winningthe Geneva Open in May 2017.

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