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T he protest over Citizen Amendment Act (CAA) on Tuesday moved out of the universities in the national Capital to North East Delhi’s Seelampur area on Tuesday with hundreds of protesters torching several bikes, pelted stones at the Delhi Police and damaged public buses. The Delhi Police used force and fired tear gas shells to dis- perse the protesters. Plumes of smoke billowed from at least two localities in the area as the standoff continued for around one-and-a-half hours on Tuesday afternoon. Police said the situation was brought under control and adequate police force has been deployed to main- tain law and order in the area. Twenty-one people, includ- ing 12 policemen and six civil- ians, were injured in violence, police said. Police said the pro- testers were marching from Seelampur towards adjoining Jafrabad. Clashes erupted between police and protesters at Seelampur Chowk when the security personnel tried to stop them from moving ahead. The fresh clashes erupted two days after violence broke out during a protest in the New Friends’ Colony area in South Delhi near Jamia Millia Islamia. According to Anil Mittal, the Additional Public Relation Officer (APRO), Delhi Police, two First Information Reports (FIRs) has been registered at Jafrabad and Seelampur police station regarding the violence. “Police have detained five people. One police personnel condition is said to be serious. He has been referred to Guru Tej Bahadur (GTB) hospital for the treatment,” said Mittal. Meanwhile, protesters alleged that they were baton charged by police, however, their claims were denied by the police. The protesters did not even spare the ‘school buses’, carrying children in Seelampur area, to vent out their anger as they pelted stones and bricks on the buses. Police on spot somehow managed to evacuate the buses filled with school children. Several video of the violence at Seelampur area were doing rounds on social media. According to police, three bikes of were burnt by the demonstrators, two police booth in the area were van- dalised and CCTV cameras installed there were taken away by the mob. A police officer said the windshields of two buses were damaged by the mob. A Rapid Action Force bus was pelted with stones. “The protest began at around 12 noon. The protest- ers raised slogans against the new law as well as the National Register of Citizens (NRC). There were initially small groups of people who started the protest against the CAA and they went in lanes and bylanes of Seelampur. By the time they came on the Jafrabad main road, there were almost 3,000 people and the police were escorting them,” said a senior police official. “They were moving towards Seelampur T-point where barricades were placed. Several announcements were made requesting them to dis- perse. When they started dis- persing, suddenly stones were hurled. We made several requests to them not to pelt stones, but they did not relent, forcing us to use tear gas to dis- perse them,” he said. Police said they have taken the locals into confidence through respectable people in the area and also through mosques and madrasa there. Gates of seven metro stations were closed in the wake of the protest, and five of them were reopened after some time. Traffic was also diverted from the area. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal appealed to Delhiites to maintain peace, saying violence cannot be tol- erated in a civilised society. The Aam Aadmi Party and its Seelampur MLA Haji Ishraq urged the people to register their protest peacefully after the area witnessed violence. “I am appealing all the people to register protest and convey their message peacefully,” Ishraq said in a video message. O n a day the Opposition, led by Congress president Sonia Gandhi, knocked on the President’s doors seeking his intervention in the issue of violence in Central universities and urging him to advise the Modi Government to with- draw the “unconstitutional and divisive” citizenship amend- ment legislation, the ruling dis- pensation brazened it out with Union Home Minister Amit Shah asserting that there is no question of going back on the CAA’s implementation as “the Government is firm like rock”. “Non-Muslim refugees will get citizenship, come what may,” the Home Minister stressed. He made the asser- tions from several platforms during the course of the day. Prime Minister Narendra Modi also challenged the Congress and its allies to re- introduce Article 370 in the erstwhile State of Jammu & Kashmir and scrap the law against instant triple talaq. The Opposition members sought a judicial inquiry into the police action and Sonia said the BJP Government was shut- ting down people’s voices and bringing legislations which are not acceptable to them. Asserting there was no question of going back on CAA’s implementation, Shah accused the Opposition of engaging in a “false” campaign over the legislation. New Delhi: Protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) transcended Indian cam- puses to reach top educational institutions abroad like Oxford, Harvard, Michigan, Columbia, Yale, Chicago, Boston, Stanford, Cincinnati and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Students and scholars of these institutions staged demon- strations against the police crackdown on students of Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) and Aligarh Muslim University (AMU). Similar protests have been planned in Berlin and Zurich. Back home, the of Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry said, the situation in 42 central universities in the coun- try, except JMI and AMU, is peaceful and examinations are being held as scheduled. PTI A ssam Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday alleged that during the December 11 protests the State Youth Congress chief set ablaze the dais built for Japanese Prime Minister’s visit to Guwahati. Also, the Minister announced an SIT probe into it even as protesters came out in large numbers across Assam on Tuesday demanding repeal of the amended Citizenship Act and condemning Prime Minister Narendra Modi for “ridiculing” the agitators with his comment that protesters could be identified by the clothes they were wearing. There was no violence, never- theless. The Gauhati High Court, in the meantime, directed the Assam Government to con- sider restoration of internet services, both mobile internet and broadband, from 3 pm on Tuesday. Also, in a major relief to hundreds of strand- ed passengers, flight opera- tions and railway services resumed in Guwahati. The SIT will be headed by Deputy Inspector General (CID) Mridulananda Sarmah and the State Government will also urge the Centre to depute an officer either from the CBI or the NIA for six months to help in the investigations, Sarma said. “We have evidence of Assam Youth Congress presi- dent Kamrul Islam Choudhury being involved in the attack at the State Secretariat in Dispur on GS Road,” Sarma said, showing a photograph of the December 11 incident. Choudhury had set ablaze the dais built for Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s visit to Guwahati. Abe’s visit was later cancelled due to the protests, the State Finance and Health Minister alleged. “The attack on the State Secretariat was a big conspira- cy, which we want the CBI to investigate and we will meet Union Home Minister Amit Shah soon regarding this,” he said. M amata Banerjee on Tuesday came down heavily on Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his remarks on anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) agita- tors’ dress saying it is for the first time that she is hearing that a person’s identity can be known from his sartorial appearance. Taking a dig at PM in a gigantic anti-CAA rally for the second day on Tuesday, Banerjee said, “Some people while referring to some inci- dents in Delhi’s Jamia Millia Islamia said they could tell the agitators’ background from their dresses … This is for the first time I am hearing about such extraordinary capacity. I am wearing a sari. Now can anyone tell me about my back- ground? At least I cannot do.” “In a democratic country like India food and dress are one’s personal choice not to be interfered with,” she said blam- ing the BJP-led Government for throwing India into a tur- moil. Condemning the alleged “police excesses” inside Jamia, Banerjee said, “In Bengal too we sometime face such situa- tions where the students do some excess. But we ignore them because they are just our children. They are bacchhas (child)… and deserve some lib- erty. I have never heard of such police brutalities being con- ducted inside a university cam- pus.” Attacking the Centre for bringing the “blackest law of all” in order to divide the country along communal lines “for political gains”, Banerjee reiterated her stance of not allowing CAA or National Register for Citizenship (NRC) in Bengal. “I am ready to fight alone. I have come to this place through street fights and I am still prepared to go down to the streets and start a fresh move- ment but I will never allow CAA or NRC in Bengal,” she said accusing the Centre for victim- izing Bengal for standing unit- ed against the “draconian law.” Asking the people to wear badges marking anti-CAA slo- gans, Banerjee said throughout the State the people will wear such badges from tomorrow. Wondering how the elderly people will manage birth cer- tificates as in those days many people were born at home she said, “Where will we find out certificates? From where will we get land records? Those who don’t have property what will they do?” Accusing the Centre for wrongly discontinuing train services in parts of Bengal, she said, “For a few small incidents here and there they have stopped all the train services in Bengal. Very few trains are ply- ing. Some goons have torched some trains … but it was the duty of the Railways to save its properties. T he Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to set up a committee of a retired apex court judge to enquire into the allegations of police atrocities against students and incidents of violence during protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) at Aligarh and Jamia universities here, and asked the petitioners to approach respective High Courts with their grievances. The apex court said the High Courts, after looking into all the aspects and hearing both sides, may appoint fact finding committees to enquire into the allegations and they would also pass orders with regard to arrest and medical treatment to those injured in the protests. “Having regard to the nature of disputes and the vast area through which these inci- dents are said to have occurred, we find that it would not be fea- sible to appoint a single com- mittee to go into the matters in various States,” said a Bench comprising Chief Justice SA Bobde and Justices BR Gavai and Surya Kant.

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The protest over CitizenAmendment Act (CAA)

on Tuesday moved out of theuniversities in the nationalCapital to North East Delhi’sSeelampur area on Tuesdaywith hundreds of protesters

torching several bikes, peltedstones at the Delhi Police anddamaged public buses.

The Delhi Police used forceand fired tear gas shells to dis-perse the protesters. Plumes ofsmoke billowed from at least twolocalities in the area as thestandoff continued for aroundone-and-a-half hours onTuesday afternoon. Police saidthe situation was brought undercontrol and adequate policeforce has been deployed to main-tain law and order in the area.

Twenty-one people, includ-

ing 12 policemen and six civil-ians, were injured in violence,police said. Police said the pro-testers were marching fromSeelampur towards adjoiningJafrabad. Clashes eruptedbetween police and protestersat Seelampur Chowk whenthe security personnel tried tostop them from moving ahead.The fresh clashes erupted twodays after violence broke outduring a protest in the NewFriends’ Colony area in SouthDelhi near Jamia MilliaIslamia.

According to Anil Mittal,the Additional Public RelationOfficer (APRO), Delhi Police,two First Information Reports(FIRs) has been registered atJafrabad and Seelampur policestation regarding the violence.

“Police have detained fivepeople. One police personnelcondition is said to be serious.He has been referred to GuruTej Bahadur (GTB) hospital forthe treatment,” said Mittal.

Meanwhile, protestersalleged that they were batoncharged by police, however,

their claims were denied by thepolice. The protesters did noteven spare the ‘school buses’,carrying children in Seelampurarea, to vent out their anger asthey pelted stones and brickson the buses. Police on spotsomehow managed to evacuatethe buses filled with schoolchildren. Several video of theviolence at Seelampur areawere doing rounds on socialmedia. According to police,three bikes of were burnt by thedemonstrators, two policebooth in the area were van-

dalised and CCTV camerasinstalled there were taken awayby the mob.

A police officer said thewindshields of two buses weredamaged by the mob. A RapidAction Force bus was peltedwith stones.

“The protest began ataround 12 noon. The protest-ers raised slogans against thenew law as well as the NationalRegister of Citizens (NRC).There were initially smallgroups of people who startedthe protest against the CAAand they went in lanes andbylanes of Seelampur. By thetime they came on the Jafrabadmain road, there were almost3,000 people and the policewere escorting them,” said asenior police official.

“They were movingtowards Seelampur T-pointwhere barricades were placed.Several announcements weremade requesting them to dis-perse. When they started dis-persing, suddenly stones werehurled. We made severalrequests to them not to peltstones, but they did not relent,forcing us to use tear gas to dis-perse them,” he said.

Police said they have takenthe locals into confidencethrough respectable people inthe area and also throughmosques and madrasa there.Gates of seven metro stationswere closed in the wake of theprotest, and five of them werereopened after some time.Traffic was also diverted fromthe area.

Delhi Chief MinisterArvind Kejriwal appealed toDelhiites to maintain peace,saying violence cannot be tol-erated in a civilised society. TheAam Aadmi Party and itsSeelampur MLA Haji Ishraqurged the people to registertheir protest peacefully after thearea witnessed violence. “I amappealing all the people toregister protest and conveytheir message peacefully,”Ishraq said in a video message.

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On a day the Opposition, ledby Congress president

Sonia Gandhi, knocked on thePresident’s doors seeking hisintervention in the issue ofviolence in Central universitiesand urging him to advise theModi Government to with-draw the “unconstitutional anddivisive” citizenship amend-ment legislation, the ruling dis-pensation brazened it out withUnion Home Minister AmitShah asserting that there is noquestion of going back on theCAA’s implementation as “theGovernment is firm like rock”.

“Non-Muslim refugees willget citizenship, come whatmay,” the Home Ministerstressed. He made the asser-

tions from several platformsduring the course of the day.

Prime Minister NarendraModi also challenged theCongress and its allies to re-introduce Article 370 in theerstwhile State of Jammu &Kashmir and scrap the lawagainst instant triple talaq.

The Opposition memberssought a judicial inquiry intothe police action and Sonia saidthe BJP Government was shut-ting down people’s voices andbringing legislations which arenot acceptable to them.

Asserting there was noquestion of going back onCAA’s implementation, Shahaccused the Opposition ofengaging in a “false” campaignover the legislation.

New Delhi: Protests against theCitizenship Amendment Act(CAA) transcended Indian cam-puses to reach top educationalinstitutions abroad like Oxford,Harvard, Michigan, Columbia,Yale, Chicago, Boston, Stanford,Cincinnati and MassachusettsInstitute of Technology (MIT).

Students and scholars ofthese institutions staged demon-strations against the policecrackdown on students of JamiaMillia Islamia (JMI) and AligarhMuslim University (AMU).Similar protests have beenplanned in Berlin and Zurich.Back home, the of HumanResource Development (HRD)Ministry said, the situation in 42central universities in the coun-try, except JMI and AMU, ispeaceful and examinations arebeing held as scheduled. PTI

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Assam Finance MinisterHimanta Biswa Sarma on

Tuesday alleged that during theDecember 11 protests the StateYouth Congress chief set ablazethe dais built for JapanesePrime Minister’s visit toGuwahati.

Also, the Ministerannounced an SIT probe intoit even as protesters came outin large numbers across Assamon Tuesday demanding repealof the amended Citizenship Actand condemning PrimeMinister Narendra Modi for“ridiculing” the agitators withhis comment that protesterscould be identified by theclothes they were wearing.There was no violence, never-theless.

The Gauhati High Court,in the meantime, directed the

Assam Government to con-sider restoration of internetservices, both mobile internetand broadband, from 3 pm onTuesday. Also, in a majorrelief to hundreds of strand-ed passengers, flight opera-

tions and railway servicesresumed in Guwahati. TheSIT will be headed by DeputyInspector General (CID)Mridulananda Sarmah andthe State Government willalso urge the Centre to depute

an officer either from theCBI or the NIA for six monthsto help in the investigations,Sarma said.

“We have evidence ofAssam Youth Congress presi-dent Kamrul Islam Choudhurybeing involved in the attack atthe State Secretariat in Dispuron GS Road,” Sarma said,showing a photograph of theDecember 11 incident.

Choudhury had set ablazethe dais built for JapanesePrime Minister Shinzo Abe’svisit to Guwahati. Abe’s visitwas later cancelled due to theprotests, the State Finance andHealth Minister alleged.

“The attack on the StateSecretariat was a big conspira-cy, which we want the CBI toinvestigate and we will meetUnion Home Minister AmitShah soon regarding this,” he said.

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Mamata Banerjee onTuesday came down

heavily on Prime MinisterNarendra Modi for his remarkson anti-CitizenshipAmendment Act (CAA) agita-tors’ dress saying it is for thefirst time that she is hearingthat a person’s identity can beknown from his sartorialappearance.

Taking a dig at PM in agigantic anti-CAA rally for thesecond day on Tuesday,Banerjee said, “Some peoplewhile referring to some inci-dents in Delhi’s Jamia MilliaIslamia said they could tell theagitators’ background fromtheir dresses … This is for thefirst time I am hearing about

such extraordinary capacity. Iam wearing a sari. Now cananyone tell me about my back-ground? At least I cannot do.”

“In a democratic countrylike India food and dress areone’s personal choice not to beinterfered with,” she said blam-ing the BJP-led Governmentfor throwing India into a tur-moil.

Condemning the alleged“police excesses” inside Jamia,Banerjee said, “In Bengal toowe sometime face such situa-tions where the students dosome excess. But we ignorethem because they are just ourchildren. They are bacchhas(child)… and deserve some lib-erty. I have never heard of suchpolice brutalities being con-ducted inside a university cam-

pus.”Attacking the Centre for

bringing the “blackest law ofall” in order to divide thecountry along communal lines“for political gains”, Banerjeereiterated her stance of notallowing CAA or NationalRegister for Citizenship (NRC)in Bengal.

“I am ready to fight alone.I have come to this placethrough street fights and I amstill prepared to go down to thestreets and start a fresh move-ment but I will never allow CAAor NRC in Bengal,” she saidaccusing the Centre for victim-izing Bengal for standing unit-ed against the “draconian law.”

Asking the people to wearbadges marking anti-CAA slo-gans, Banerjee said throughout

the State the people will wearsuch badges from tomorrow.Wondering how the elderlypeople will manage birth cer-tificates as in those days manypeople were born at home shesaid,

“Where will we find outcertificates? From where willwe get land records? Thosewho don’t have property whatwill they do?”

Accusing the Centre forwrongly discontinuing trainservices in parts of Bengal, shesaid, “For a few small incidentshere and there they havestopped all the train services inBengal. Very few trains are ply-ing. Some goons have torchedsome trains … but it was theduty of the Railways to save itsproperties.

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The Supreme Court onTuesday refused to set up a

committee of a retired apexcourt judge to enquire into theallegations of police atrocitiesagainst students and incidentsof violence during protestsagainst the CitizenshipAmendment Act (CAA) atAligarh and Jamia universitieshere, and asked the petitionersto approach respective HighCourts with their grievances.

The apex court said theHigh Courts, after looking intoall the aspects and hearingboth sides, may appoint factfinding committees to enquireinto the allegations and theywould also pass orders withregard to arrest and medical

treatment to those injured inthe protests.

“Having regard to thenature of disputes and the vastarea through which these inci-dents are said to have occurred,we find that it would not be fea-sible to appoint a single com-mittee to go into the matters invarious States,” said a Benchcomprising Chief Justice SABobde and Justices BR Gavaiand Surya Kant.

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A" mega rally" will be held atthe Ridge in Shimla on

completion of two years of thepresent State Government onDecember 27. Chief MinisterJai Ram Thakur on Tuesdaypresided over a meeting toreview the preparedness.

Thakur said that benefi-ciaries of various welfareschemes of the StateGovernment and general pub-lic would be participating in therally which would be made anhistoric event.

He said that party workersand general public throughoutthe State would be participat-ing in this rally which wouldalso be graced by National BJPleaders, Ministers and otherleaders of the State.

The chief minister saideffective and foolproof securi-

ty arrangements be made dur-ing the visit of the UnionHome Minister and otherVVIPs besides ensuring thatgeneral public do not face anyinconvenience due to trafficregulations.

Thakur said booklet anddevelopmental documentaryfilm highlighting the achieve-ments of the State Governmentduring two years tenure wouldalso be released on the occa-sion.

He said that ground break-ing ceremony of MoUs worthRs. 13790 crore were expectedto be performed during theoccasion in which over 250entrepreneurs are expected.Education Minister SureshBhardwaj, Political Advisor toChief Minister Trilok Jamwal,Chief Secretary Shrikant Baldi,amongst others attended thereview meeting.

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Haryana Chief MinisterManohar Lal Khattar has

accorded approval for the cre-ation of 285 additional posts forthe upgradation of CivilHospital of Ambala Cantt,Rewari and Panipat from 100bedded to 200 bedded.

An official spokesman onTuesday said that the ChiefMinister who also has the port-folio of Finance Department

has given approval in thisregard. He said that the finan-cial implication on account ofthis decision would be Rs4,33,80,760 per month.

Khattar has also approvedthe proposal of opening a newAyurvedic dispensary in villageUnn in district Charkhi Dadriby giving relaxation in policy inpublic interest. He has alsoaccorded approval for the req-uisite staff including oneAyurvedic Medical Officer, oneAyurvedic Dispenser, oneMPHW (Female) and two parttime water carrier and sweep-er. An annual expenditure of Rs27.20 lakh would be incurredon it.

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Haryana Government will upgrade 68 Government PrimarySchool in district Nuh to the level of Government Middle

School. While 34 Schools would be upgraded to GovernmentGirls Middle School after relaxation of Department Rules andshifting of boys to another nearest school, 34 GovernmentPrimary schools would be upgraded to Government MiddleSchool.

An official spokesman on Tuesday said Chief MinisterManohar Lal Khattar has approved a proposal in this regard.

The Chief Minister has also approved an amount of over Rs24 crore to be incurred as salary after creation of 476 new postsafter the upgradtion of these schools.

Meanwhile, Khattar has also accorded approval for the cre-ation of seven posts after the upgradation of Government PrimarySchool Neembehra (Mahendergarh) to Middle level and Rs35,44,056 as salary. Apart from this, he has also accorded approvalfor the creation of seven new posts after the upgradation ofGovernment Primary School Jairpur, Narnaul to Middle level andRs 35,44,056 as salary.

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Himachal Pradesh StateSainik Welfare Board

(HPSSWB) Officers andMembers met GovernorBandaru Dattatraya on Tuesdayand discussed various issuesrelated to Ex-Service men.

The Governor said

Himachal Pradesh is a land ofbraves and the youth of thisState are serving in IndianArmy and Paramilitary forces.He said that the Union andState Government is commit-ted towards welfare of Ex-Army men and their issueswould be looked into sympa-thetically.

Earlier, Chairman HPSS-WB Daulat Singh Chauhanwelcomed the Governor.Deputy Director Sainik WelfareBoard, Bilaspur Colonel P.C.Attri detailed about variousschemes of Himachal PradeshState Sainik Welfare Board.

During the meeting Ex-Service men apprised theGovernor of the issues such ascompletion of Walker Hospitalin Shimla, One-Rank-Onepension, issue of Sainik resthouse at Reckong Peo inDistrict Kinnaur, to increaseincome criteria for old pension,to provide Helicopter service tobring home body of martyredsoldier from any part of thecountry.

Governor said that theissues of the Ex-Army menwould be considered sympa-thetically.

Joint Director SainikWelfare Board and AC to DCShimla Chandan Kapoor,Deputy Director Sainik WelfareBoard Una Major RaghubirSingh, Deputy Director SainikWelfare Board Solan MajorDeepak Dhawan and otherofficers of HPSSWB were alsopresent on this occasion.

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The Haryana Governmenthas found that 102 Sports

nurseries in the State are fake,Sports and Youth AffairsMinister Sandeep Singh said onTuesday. Sports nurseries havebeen set up in the State toimpart training to school-children for different sports likearchery, athletics, boxing, foot-ball, hockey, handball, kabad-di or kho-kho, swimming, vol-leyball, wrestling and othersports so that buddingsportspersons could enhancetheir skills and compete in allnational and internationalsports events.

Talking to The Pioneer, thenew minister, also a formerIndian hockey captain saidthat during review of variousactivities in the Sports depart-ment and inspection reportssubmitted by the departmentofficers, it has been found thatas many as 102 sports nurseriesin the State are fake.

Singh said that the StateGovernment provides severalfacilities for sportsmen in thesenurseries. In course of review,

it was found that in hockey allthe students in the sports nurs-ery were genuine. "Hockeynurseries are being operatedeffectively in the State," hesaid.

"But in some sports nurs-eries like archery, athletics,boxing, football, handball,kabaddi or kho-kho, swim-ming volleyball among others,genuine sportsmen have notbeen enrolled," the SportsMinister said.

He said four or five sports-men have been found to begenuine but remaining arefake. Taking serious note of it,the officers concerned havebeen directed to conduct thor-ough inquiry of these sportsnurseries and submit the reportwithout delay. The officershave also been directed to col-lect all the documents from theoperators of sports nurseriesand review it thoroughly."Appropriate action will betaken against sports nurseryoperators", he added.

Sources in the sportsdepartment said that aroundthree years ago, the governmenthad taken several steps to

improve sports infrastructureand facilitate sportsmen in thestate. As per the plan, 10 sportsnurseries each were setup forboys and girls in every district.One sports nursery was estab-lished in each discipline,including archery, athletics,boxing, football, hockey, hand-ball, hockey, kabaddi or kho-kho, swimming volleyball,wrestling among others.

As per the governmentguidelines for sports nurseries,the institutes allotted sportsnurseries would have to con-

duct Sports and PhysicalExercise Evaluation andDevelopment (SPEED) test forstudents under the supervisionof District Sports and YouthAffairs Officer. Students fromall private and governmentschools are eligible for enroll-ment.

This test would be open toall students aged between eightand 19 years in the district.Authorities will admit 25 stu-dents in each nursery.

Such institutions wouldalso adopt the particular gamefor which the sports nurseryhas been allotted and impartgeneral training in that partic-ular game to all other willingstudents in the institutions.

The SPEED qualifierswould have to attend coachingsessions in respective sportsnurseries for at least 22 daysevery month to be entitled forscholarship, stipend and dietallowance. The Departmentwould provide Rs 1,500 permonth to players aged betweeneight and 14 years and Rs2,000 per month to playersaged between 15 and 19 yearsas scholarship and diet

allowance. Coaches would beprovided contract fee of Rs15,000 per month. TheGovernment would also pro-vide Rs 1.20 lakh for equipmentand consumables among oth-ers. The minister has foundsome irregularities in sportsnurseries.

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The Sports Minister whorecently ordered disciplinaryaction against two coaches oftwo sports nurseries who werefound absent from duty duringinspection in Shahabad,Kurukshetra, said that coach-es should be disciplined andfocused on their work.

“Our objective is to trainthe youth for national andinternational sports. Bestcoaching should be providedthe sportsmen,” Singh said,adding “Being a player I toowas trained under the super-vision of Coaches.”

He said that complaintsregarding indiscipline amongsome players and coaches arebeing received, which was

unacceptable. "A flying squadhad been set up to check atten-dance of trainers at stadiums,sports centres and nurseries,"he said, adding that it would beensured that outsiders were notallowed to disturb the trainingof players. He said some coach-es were running private nurs-eries, which was not acceptable,adding that the district sportsofficer concerned would faceaction if any coach was foundto be running a private nurseryin the district. “Trainers mustkeep their focus on trainingplayers instead of focusing onumpiring,” he added.

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The Sports Minister saidthat no sportsmen should visitgovernment departments toavail facilities and getting ben-efits. “There is no need forsportsmen to expect anythingfrom the government. We arehere to provide them all thebest facilities including trainingand coaching. Sportsmen need

to focus on sports only andbring medals for the State andthe Nation by performing atNational and International levelsports competitions,” he said.

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Singh said that duringreviewing meeting it wasobserved that there are manysportsmen claiming facilities orbenefits though they are nativeof other states. "A list is beingprepared for state sports per-sons so that only they can availfacilities being provided by thestate government, he said,adding “I respect all players butI can only provide facilities tothe players of the State".

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The Minister who is a for-mer Indian Hockey captainsaid that the State would pre-pare world-class players, forwhich a centre of excellence forbetween eight and 10 disci-plines would be set up on thepattern of the NIS in Patiala.“Along with good trainers,

players will get hostels andother facilities. If a player getsan Olympic, Asian orCommonwealth medal, thedistrict sports and youth affairsofficer of the district will behonoured,” he said.

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The sports Minister saidthat emphasis will be on train-ing of players rather than build-ing huge stadiums in the State."In developed countries likeAustralia, New Zealand andother countries, they focus ontraining of players by investingbig amount. As internationallevel tournament is beingorganised once in five years ina big stadium but cost of main-tenance is very huge," he said.Taking note of it, we havedecided to focus on training ofplayers rather than spendingmoney first constructing bigstadium and its maintenancelater on. "We have sufficientnumber of stadiums in theState and we are focusing on itseffective maintenance and uti-lization,” he added.

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Aday after Lok Insaaf Party(LIP) president Simarjit

Singh Bains announced tolaunch ‘Saadi Panchayat, SaadiZameen’ Andolan againstCongress-led PunjabGovernment's decision to handover Panchayat lands forindustrial development, theState Industries MinisterSunder Shyam Arora onTuesday lashed out at him fortrying to spread maliciouspropaganda against theGovernment.

In a scathing attack, Aroralambasted Bains and his LIPfor spreading misinformationover the government’s decisionto amend The Punjab VillageCommon Land (Regulation)Rules, 1964, to create landbanks in rural areas for indus-trial development.

Terming the protestplanned by LIP over the issueas a “political stunt” aimed atwooing the people of Punjab,Arora said: “Bains is indulgingin total falsehood and fabrica-

tions to mislead them. It isnothing but a mischievousattempt by LIP to gain somefoothold in the State’s politicalarena, in which the party hasabsolutely no presence or sup-port.”

Pointing out that thescheme to create rural landbanks was voluntary, and amatter of the Panchayat’schoice, the Minister said thatthe Panchayats would not beforced to sell any land. “If aPanchayat did choose to sellland, it would be fully com-pensated for the same,” headded, trashing Bains’ falseclaims.

“In fact, the scheme wouldbe limited to only a few areas,as there are not more than two-three rural pockets in theentire State which have enoughland to develop proper indus-trial parks,” said Arora, addingthat Bains was either ignorantof even the basic facts aboutPunjab, or was deliberatelyand mischievously choosing toignore them to promote hisvested political interests.

“LIP has no interest in thestate’s development of whichindustrial growth is a criticalcomponent,” said the Minister.

“Punjab needs progress,our youth need jobs. But allthat Bains is interested in, ispromoting his own faggingpolitical career,” said Arora,cautioning the people againstbeing misled by the deceitfulclaims and charges of leaderslike these, who had no interestwhatsoever in nurturing thestate’s growth and develop-ment.

The Minister asserted thatthe Capt Amarinder Singh ledgovernment was committedto bringing the State’s eco-nomic growth back on track,and ensuring the fulfillment ofhis promise of ‘Ghar GharRozgar’, for which industrialdevelopment was a vitalimperative.

Arora warned Bainsagainst continuing to indulgein such malicious propaganda,as the people were no longerready to be taken in by suchpuffery.

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Haryana Transport Minister Mool Chand Sharmaon Tuesday said that officials have been direct-

ed to take immediate action against the plying of ille-gal buses in their respective districts.

He issued the directions to RTA, GeneralManagers and Excise Taxation Department officersafter meeting with representatives of the employeesunion of the department.

To strengthen public transport, Sharma said theprocess of adding 1000 new buses to the fleet of itspublic transport has been implemented. He said 367new buses will be added to the fleet of its public trans-

port by March 31, 2020, and orders for 100 buses havealready been issued, while the remaining buses willalso be included soon.

The Transport Minister said that the employeesof every district were asked to share their feedbackand they were informed that their demands would beconsidered. He said that every day lakhs of commuterstravel in public transport, therefore the departmentwill ensure better transport facilities for each com-muter. Apart from this, 42 categories are already get-ting concessions in the bus fares.

The Transport Minister has directed the RTA,General Manager, and Excise Taxation Departmentofficers working at the district level to take immedi-

ate action against the plying of illegal buses in therespective districts.

Sharma said that it has come to his notice that alarge number of private buses were plying on the roads.He said that the district-wise the number of thesebuses is very high and due to this, the TransportDepartment is losing revenue. The Transport Ministerfurther directed the Transport Department andExcise and Taxation Department officers to take strictsteps to stop such illegal buses and try to prevent rev-enue loss. He said that at present the bus fare inHaryana is less than Punjab and Himachal and theState Government has no plans to increase the busfares.

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To mark the sacrifice of sol-diers during the 1971 Indo-

Pak war at the Fazilka Sector, aspecial event has been organisedon Vijay Diwas at Asafwala WarMemorial in which PunjabHealth & Family WelfareMinister Balbir Singh Sidhupaid homage to the martyrs.

Addressing the gathering,Sidhu said Captain-led-PunjabGovernment would provideevery possible help to build 70feet Vijay Stambh at martyrsmemorial. While providingfinancial assistance of Rs.5000 toeach of 35 family of martyrs fromhis Salary, the Minister said thatwe cannot pay for our martyrswho sacrificed their life for thecountry and the supreme sacri-fice made by our jawans will bea source inspiration for the peo-ple of the country..

The Minister said it isbecause of our forces we areenjoying freedom and sleep inpeace and it is our duty to hon-our our arm forces and theirfamilies on such occasions.

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Snatching would be a non-bailable offence in

Chandigarh with a higherquantum of maximum pun-ishment of ten years of rigorousimprisonment now.

The Union Ministry ofHome Affairs has issued agazette notification datedDecember 16, under Section 87of the Punjab ReorganisationAct, 1966, extending the Codeof Criminal Procedure(Haryana Amendment) Act,2014, to the union territory ofChandigarh.

The neighboring state ofHaryana is the first state tomake a strict law against snatch-ing. The state had added twonew clauses to Section 379,which would not be extendingto Chandigarh.

According to Section – 379A, the quantum of punish-ment for snatching will not beless than five years, which mayextend to ten years of rigorousimprisonment and fine of Rs25,000.

In case of snatching withhurt or wrongful restraint orfear of hurt under Section 379-B, the quantum of punishmentwill not be less than ten yearsand which may extend to 14years, and fine of Rs 25,000.

The offence of snatchingwill be non-bailable and thetrial in these matters will nowbe conducted by a Court ofSession.

Earlier, snatching was pun-ishable with a maximum ofthree-year jail or with fine orwith both. And, the police usedto register cases of snatchingunder Section 379 (theft) of IPCand Section 356 of IPC (use ofcriminal force to commit theft).

The lenient law had failedto deter the snatchers in the city

following which theChandigarh Administrationhad written to the MHA tomake the snatching offencenon-bailable with a rigorousimprisonment of 10 years.

Since the past few years, thegrowing number of cases ofsnatchings have instilled fearamong residents especiallywomen in the city.

Last year, the Punjab andHaryana High Court had evenslammed the ChandigarhAdministration for its non-serious approach on theamendment of IPC provisionsin snatching cases.

Chandigarh based advo-cate Ajay Jagga said that thesnatching offence has beenmade cognizable which meansthe police has to register a casein such incidents now. Besides,the offence has been madenon-bailable now, he said.

I welcome this step and feelthat this would act as a deter-rent and Chandigarh Policewill have to take action in suchcases, he added.

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In line with the PunjabGovernment’s focus on indus-

trial development, the ChiefMinister Capt Amarinder Singhon Tuesday approved amend-ment to the Roopnagar MasterPlan to facilitate the developmentof an industrial zone along theRoopnagar-Chandigarh road.

Capt Amarinder, chairingthe 39th meeting of PunjabRegional and Town PlanningDevelopment Board as its chair-man along with LocalGovernment Minister BrahmMohindra, Housing and UrbanDevelopment MinisterSukhbinder Singh Sarkaria,PWD Minister Vijay InderSingla, gave the go-ahead forissuing a public notice for invit-ing objections and suggestionsfrom the general public in thisregard.

The approval has paved theway for the development of anindustrial zone, comprising BanMajra, Mugal Majri, BhagoMajra, Chatoli, Mathrari,Adhrera and Chargeri villages.

Earlier, in a presentation onthe proposed industrial zonenear Roopnagar, Town andCountry Planning directorKavita Mohan Singh apprisedthe members of the Board thatseveral industrial units alreadyexisted in this region and werefacing issues in further expansionof their units.

The meeting decided to givethe go-ahead for industrial zonein the Master Plan of Banur toenable overall development ofthe industry in the region, dueto its close proximity to theInternational Airport Mohali,said an official spokesperson.

In another decision, CaptAmarinder gave the approval to

amend the Kapurthala MasterPlan for the development of aresidential zone, that accom-modate all the existing residen-tial colonies opposite the RailCoach Factory.

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Chief Minister CaptAmarinder Singh has consti-

tuted a committee comprisingPrincipal Secretary (Housing),Principal Secretary (LocalGovernment), Invest PunjabCEO and Town and CountryPlanning director to look intothe issues related to density andFloor Area Ratio (FAR) afterstudying the existing modelsbeing followed by Maharashtraand Karnataka, in order toensure holistic growth of real

estate sector.The committee would

also examine issues concern-ing the expansion of existingindustrial units, and exploremodalities to provide cheap-er land to the industries inview of the demand raised bycertain industrialists duringthe recent ly concludedProgressive Punjab InvestorsSummit-2019.

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The cold wave continued tosweep parts of Punjab and

Haryana on Tuesday with themaximum temperature settlingremarkably lower than the nor-mal limit in various parts.

Cold-day conditions areexpected to continue over mostparts of Punjab, Haryana andChandigarh for the next twodays, according to the forecastof Chandigarh MeteorologicalDepartment (IMD)

Despite slightly warmer dayon Tuesday as compared to aday before, the people in theregion shivered under low day-time temperatures.

A Met official said that thetemperature levels settled uptoten notches below normal inparts of the region on Tuesday.Also, dense fog enveloped sev-eral parts of the region in themorning.

He said that severe cold dayconditions are expected at a fewplaces on December 17 and 18in Punjab and Haryana. Densefog is also likely to prevail in theregion till December 21, the Metofficial added.

Chandigarh, the joint cap-ital of Punjab and Haryana on

Tuesday recorded minimumtemperature at 9.6 degreeCelsius while maximum settledat 14 degree Celsius, sevennotches below normal.

Bhiwani in Haryana settledat a minimum of 6.4 degreeCelsius, Narnaul recorded alow of 7.4 degrees, Hisar record-ed 8.7 degrees, Karnal 10degrees and Ambala 8.6 degrees.

Punjab’s Amritsar recordeda low of 7.2 degree Celsius.Industrial city-Ludhiana- sawminimum temperature at 10.3degree Celsius while Patialarecorded 10.1 degree Celsius.

Meanwhile, Hisar recordedmaximum temperature of 12.8degree Celsius, ten notchesbelow normal, Ambala record-ed 13.4 degrees, eight degreesbelow norml, Karnal settled at13.6 degrees, eight notches downthe normal level and Narnaulrecorded 15.7 degrees, down byseven degrees from normal.

The maximum tempera-ture recorded in Amritsar was13.5 degree Celsius, sevennotches below normal.Ludhiana and Patiala recordedrespective maximum tempera-ture of 15.7 degrees and 16degrees, both five notches below normal.

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Farm-tourism will be pro-moted in Haryana now so

that farmers can earn extraincome along with their basicwork, Tourism MinisterKanwar Pal said on Tuesday.

"For this purpose, someplaces will be identified wheretourists from India and abroadcan get the information aboutHaryanvi culture such as mak-ing jaggery, cow milking, sow-ing seeds, plucking fruits inorchards, kite flying, bullockcart ride and Wrestlersarena,"the minister said in astatement.

After taking a review meet-ing of Haryana TourismDepartment and HaryanaTourism Corporation here,Kanwar Pal said that HaryanaTourism Department has decid-ed to take this initiative to givethe tourists a taste of the authen-tic Haryanvi lifestyle. He said thatwith this step of the present gov-ernment, the State farmers willbe able to increase their incomeby adopting farm-tourism alongwith their farming.

In the review meeting,Additional Chief Secretary,Haryana Tourism DepartmentVijai Vardhan informed thattill now 17 people have been

given the license for FarmTourism in Gurugram,Faridabad, Jhajjar, Sonipat,and other districts and forthis there is a lot of trendamong tourists. He said theconcept of farm tourism isbecoming popular as a Holidaydestination for corporategroups.

Vardhan said that suchfarm-houses are attracting theBollywood film and TV serialmakers for shooting.

The Tourism Departmentof Haryana is motivating thesefarmers to make material andCD videos related to Haryanviculture so that their farm-houses can be encouragedfrom the point of view oftourism. The officials said thatthrough farm tourism, touristswill be introduced to otherfamous cultures of Haryanaincluding wrestlers' arena,dairy farm, floriculture, emubirds farming. Chairman ofHaryana Tourism CorporationRandhir Golan, DirectorGeneral of TourismDepartment Rajeev Ranjan,Managing Director of HaryanaTourism DevelopmentCorporation Vikas Yadav andGeneral Manager DilawarSingh were present in themeeting.

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Shimla: The highest ice skat-ing artificial rink in HimachalPradesh at an altitude of 3,720metre has been set up in

remote Kaza town in the Spitiarea by the government, offi-cials said on Tuesday.

State Agriculture Minister

Ram Lal Markanda will beinaugurating the rink spreadsover 50 metre by 35 metre onDecember 20.

The aim of setting up therink is to promote ice skatingand hockey among the youth,an official told IANS.

It meets the internationalice hockey standards, he said.

He said a training sessionfor ice hockey would be organ-ised from December 20 to 30in which 45 school studentswould participate.

The rink, some 350 km thestate capital, will be inaugurat-ed by state Agriculture MinisterRam Lal Markanda.

Sub-divisional MagistrateGian Sagar Negi told IANS overphone that tourists can also

enjoy skating on the rink.Locals, mostly youngsters,

are missing no opportunity ingetting their skates on the ice.

"For the past many yearswe had been demanding therink. Now we are really delight-ed to see the rink and appear-ance of a thick sheet of iceeveryday. We are enjoying skat-ing and hoping to see morepeople," skater Ridhma Negitold IANS.

Authorities say caretakers

sprinkle water on the ground ofthe open-air rink which freezesunder natural conditions in thenight.

The nearby hills of theskating rink are currentlywrapped in a thick blanket ofsnow.

Himachal Pradesh alsoboasts of Asia's oldest skatingsurface rink in the state capi-tal Shimla where water on theclay ground of the rink freezesunder natural conditions in the

night.The idea of a natural skat-

ing rink in Shimla was devel-oped by an Irish military offi-cial named Blessington wholived there during the Britishrule.

He had inadvertently kepta bucket of water outside hisresidence and in the morningfound it frozen. That gave himthe idea of a skating rink andhe created a small one of hisown. IANS

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In order to improve adminis-tration, the Haryana

Government on Tuesday issuedappointment orders of 21 HCSofficers who were promotedfrom District Revenue Officer/ Tehsildar with immediateeffect.

Amarinder Singh has beenappointed as City Magistrate ofKarnal while Rajesh Punia asJoint Director (Administration)of Public Works Department(Building and Roads) whileDheeraj Chahal as GeneralManager of HaryanaRoadways, Chandigarh andalso given the additional chargeof Deputy Secretary, HaryanaMonitoring and CoordinationDepartment-2.

Dr. Naresh Kumar hasbeen appointed ManagingDirector of Palwal CooperativeSugar Mill while Dilbag Singhas Joint Commissioner ofPanchkula Municipal

Corporation.Brahma Prakash has been

appointed Joint Director(Administration) of PrimaryEducation and DeputySecretary of School EducationDepartment while HitendraKumar as Joint Director(Administration) and DeputySecretary of Higher EducationDepartment.

Subhash Chandra has beenappointed Managing Directorof Gohana Cooperative SugarMill while Kulbir Singh Dhakaas Chief Executive Officer ofZilla Parishad Gurugram andDRDA, Gurugram. MituDhankhar has been appointedZonal Administrator, HaryanaState Agricultural MarketingBoard, Gurugram while AnilKumar Doon has beenappointed Deputy Secretary,Revenue and DisasterManagement Department.

Rajendra Kumar has beenappointed managing director ofJind Cooperative Sugar Mill

while Manav Malik as manag-ing director of RohtakCooperative Sugar Mill.

Sanjay Bishnoi has beenposted as Sub DivisionalOfficer (Civil) of Fatehabadwhile Praveen Kumar as JointDirector (Administration) ofHealth Services and JagdishChandra as JointCommissioner ofYamunanagar MunicipalCorporation.

Navdeep Singh has beenappointed the Estate Officer ofHaryana Urban DevelopmentAuthority, Rohtak whileDarshan Kumar as DeputySecretary, Revenue andDisaster ManagementDepartment and SanjeevKumar as Sub DivisionalOfficer (Civil) of Bawal.

Dinesh has been appoint-ed general manager of HafedSugar Mill, Assandh whileRajesh Kumar as SubDivisional Officer (Civil) ofBarwala.

In addition, the StateGovernment has appointedPradyuman Singh, DeputySecretary, Haryana PublicService Commission and ZonalAdministrator PradyumanSingh of Haryana StateAgricultural Marketing Board,Karnal as Deputy Secretary,Haryana Public ServiceCommission, ZonalAdministrator of Haryana StateAgricultural Marketing Board,Karnal and Karnal CooperativeSugar Mill. Orders have alsobeen issued for the appoint-ment of the Managing Director.

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The AAP on Tuesday urgedthe Punjab Governor VP

Singh Badnore to revoke theCabinet’s decision to amend‘Punjab Village Common Lands(Regulation) Rules, 1964, clear-ing the legal hitch to transfer the‘shamlat’ land owned by villagepanchayats to the IndustriesDepartment and ExportCorporation which would havedisastrous consequences in thelong run.

The demand was made

AAP delegation, led by theLeader of Opposition in VidhanSabha Harpal Singh Cheema,met the Governor and submit-ted a memorandum.

“The decision, whichseemed to have been taken in atearing hurry, on the pretext ofrural industrial development, isnothing but a mere ploy toappease the ‘patronized’ indus-trial honchos enjoying politicalpatronage as panchayats wouldbe deprived of a sizeable chunkof revenue generated on accountof leasing out a whopping 1 lakh

35 thousand acres of land in anannual bid,” read the memoran-dum. AAP, in the memorandum,stated that under the provision,the panchayats would have tofirst adopt a resolution to selltheir respective village land to thePSIEC and the same would besold out further once the reso-lution gets Government’s nod.“However, the PSIEC would notpay adequate share of the pro-ceeds to the panchayats, whichraised a serious question of pro-priety on the part of the gov-ernment,” it added.

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Aday after the world cele-brates Xmas on December

25, a partial solar eclipse will bevisible in India along with sev-eral other countries.

This will be an annularsolar eclipse in some parts ofIndia and elsewhere whichhappens on December 26, 2019when the Moon covers theSun’s centre, leaving the sun’svisible outer edges to form a"ring of fire" or annulus -around the moon, said theUnion Science and TechnologyMinistry in a statement here.

From India, annular phasewill be visible in the morningafter sunrise from some placeswithin a narrow corridor ofsouthern part of the country(parts of Karnataka, Kerala &Tamil Nadu) and it will be seenas partial solar eclipse from the

rest part of the country.The narrow corridor of

annular phase of the eclipse willpass through the southern partof the country through certainplaces like Cannanore,Coimbatore, Kozhikode,Madurai, Mangalore, Ooty,Tiruchirappalli etc.

"As one moves towards

the north and south of thecountry from the annular path,the duration of the partialeclipse decreases.

"Obscuration of the Sun bythe Moon at the time of great-est phase of partial eclipse willbe around 90 per cent inBangalore, 85 per cent inChennai, 79 per cent in

Mumbai, 45 per cent inKolkata, 45 per cent in Delhi,42 per cent in Patna, 33 percentin Guwahati, 70 percent in PortBlair, 35 per cent in Silchar etc,"said the statement.

Considering the Earth as awhole the partial phase of theeclipse will begin at 8 am. Theannular phase will begin at 9.06minutes.

The next solar eclipse willbe visible from India on June21, 2020. It will be an annularsolar eclipse. A narrow path ofannularity will pass throughnorthern part of India.

A solar eclipse occurs on anew moon day when the Mooncomes in between the Earthand the Sun and when all thethree objects are aligned. Anannular solar eclipse will occurwhen the angular diameter ofthe Moon falls short of that ofthe sun so that it cannot cover

up the latter completely. As aresult a ring of the sun’s diskremains visible around themoon.

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The IAF on Tuesday suc-cessfully fired the BrahMos

air version missile from itsfrontline Su-30 MKI fighter air-craft. The launch from the air-craft was smooth and the mis-sile followed the desired tra-jectory and achieved a direct hiton the sea target, off OdishaCoast line. With this trial, theintegration of the missile, ajoint venture between Indiaand Russia, with the SU-30 iscomplete.

The air launched BrahMosmissile is a 2.5 ton supersonicair to surface cruise missilewith ranges close to 300 km.The IAF became the first AirForce in the world to have suc-cessfully fired an air launched

Trisonic class surface attackmissile of this category on a seatarget on November 22, 2017.

This was followed by asecond live launch over a landtarget on May 22 this year andwith the third such live launchof the weapon and with thislaunch, the integration of themissile on Su-30MKI aircraft,is complete.

The software develop-ment and integration ofweapon of the aircraft wasundertaken by the IAF engi-neers while the HindustanAeronautics Limited(HAL) car-ried out complex mechanicaland electrical modificationson aircraft.

The firing was successful-ly undertaken with dedicatedsupport from Indian Navy.

The BrahMos missile pro-vides IAF a much desired capa-bility to strike form large stand-off ranges on any target at seaor on land with pinpoint accu-racy by day or night and in allweather conditions.

The capability of the mis-sile coupled with the high per-

formance of the Su-30MKIaircraft gives the IAF a strate-gic reach and allows it to dom-inate the battle fields over landand sea.

Scientists also successfullyvalidation trial of the land ver-sion of the supersonic missileon Tuesday, officials said here.

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In the backdrop of a heateddebate in the Lok Sabha over

former Congress PresidentRahul Gandhi’s "rape-in-India"remark and BJP’s demand foran apology from him, CongressMP Manickam Tagore has sub-mitted a privilege notice againstUnion minister Smriti Irani for"misleading" the House onRahul Gandhi’s barb in a pub-lic rally on December 13.

Tagore met Lok SabhaSecretary General SnehlataShrivastava and moved theprivilege notice against theUnion Minister who had inLok Sabha lashed out at theCongress leader for allegedlyinsulting women of India,according to sources.

Tagore said the notice hasbeen received by the secretarygeneral and will be taken upfurther.

"Under Rule 222 of therules of Procedure andConduct of Business in LokSabha, I hereby give a notice of

a privilege motion againstMinister of Textiles, Womenand Child Development SmritiIrani on the statement made byher during the intervention inthe in Lok Sabha on 13thDecember, 2019," he said in hispetition.

Tagore said the Minister’sassertions on the floor of thehouse are "absolutely false".

"The honourable memberhas willfully misled not onlymembers of the house, butalso the entire nation. TheMinister had claimed thatRahul Gandhi has given a clar-ion call to rape women inIndia in his speech during anelection rally on December 12.The Minister has knowinglyand intentionally misledParliament by falsely attribut-ing a statement to RahulGandhi," he said.

The Congress MP, who rep-resents Virudhunagar in TamilNadu, claimed that as a respon-sible opposition leader he waspointing out at the increasingviolence against women in the

country and the failure of theGovernment to prevent it.

"Misleading the house, thehonourable Minister also saidfor the first time a politicalleader is making such a state-ment. The Minister was know-ingly and intentionally mis-leading Parliament. PrimeMinister Narendra Modi inhis election campaign beforethe 2014 general electiondescribed Delhi as the ‘rapecapital’ in a similar tone ofprotest," Tagore said.

He also attached the videoclips of the speeches made byCongress leader Rahul Gandhion December 12 and that ofPrime Minister Narendra Modion 2014.

"It is respectfully submittedthat in view of the above stat-ed facts, the notice be accept-ed and the matter referred tothe privileges committee tostart the proceedings againstminister of Textiles, Womenand Child Development SmritiIrani for misleading the house,"he said.

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At least two Pakistanicommandoes were

killed when the IndianArmy foiled a Border ActionTeam(BAT) raid in Akhnoorsector in Jammu region onMonday. One Indian soldierwas also killed when thePakistanis f ired rocketlaunchers and missiles. Hewas identif ied asSukhwinder Singh.

Giving details of thethwarted BAT action com-prising Pakistan SpecialServices Group(SSG)com-mandoes and terrorists,sources said here onTuesday the BAT team triedto ambush an Indian armypatrol in Nathu Tibba inSunderbani area of Akhnoor

at about 2.30 pm onMonday.

The Pakistanis firedrocket launchers and anti-tank guided missiles at theIndian post.

Singh was killed in adirect hit by either a rocketor missile. Heavy firingfrom both sides ensued andtwo Pakistani commandoswere killed, they said addingthis input came via techni-cal intelligence inputs.

The fire-fight took placein an area dotted withforests where the Indianposition is surrounded onthree sides by PakistanArmy posts.

The area has often seenfiring by Pakistanis in aneffort to dominate that sec-tor of Line OfControl(LOC), officials said.

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With security tightenedalong the Indo-Pak front

following abrogation of Article370 provisions, an increasingnumber of people with "ulteri-or motives" from countrieslike Pakistan, Bangladesh andChina are trying to sneak intoIndia through the open Nepalborder.

The Sashastra Seema Bal(SSB), which guards the Indo-Nepal frontier, caught 59 suchpersons this year, which isover a 100 per cent jump com-pared to 2018 when 28 peoplewere apprehended by the bor-der guarding force. SSB is alsothe Lead Intelligence Agencyfor the 1,751-km Nepal border.

SSB Director General(DG) Kumar Rajesh Chandrasaid there have been 59 suchcases this year as compared to28 in 2018 where the Centralparamilitary force caught "thirdparty nationals" on the Nepalfrontier.

These apprehended thirdparty nationals were fromcountries like Pakistan,Bangladesh, China and theUnited States. , the DG toldmediapersons during the annu-

al press conference of the Force. Asked further about the

identities of these people andtheir motives, the DG saidthey were "a mix of both inad-vertent crossers and suspects".

"Whether they were ter-rorists or fake Indian currencynote (FICN) operatives orsmugglers. We have got ourlimitations to know that as wecatch them and hand over tolocal police or other probeand intelligence agencies," hesaid, adding their numbershave definitely increased.

The feedback (from sistersecurity agencies likeIntelligence Bureau andResearch and Analysis Wing)that they got on these cases isthat "most of the cases are in

progress. But mainly peoplewho have come were withsome ulterior motives".

In the case of the two USnationals it looked to be a caseof ignorance of law and theycould be inadvertent crossersand similar could be the case ofa Chinese group who were ona tourist sojourn along theNepal border area.

The DG said as its "sisterforce BSF has enhanced vigil onthe India-Pakistan border,these elements could have usedthe open Nepal border as analternative route".

The Border Security Force(BSF) had conducted two spe-cial operations, code named‘Sudarshan’, to fortify itsdefences and plug gaps along

the Pak border after the Centreended the special status cate-gorisation of the former Stateof J&K by abrogating provi-sions of Article 370 on August5 and bifurcating it into UnionTerritories of J&K, and Ladakh.

"I can also tell you that theattempts made of this (thirdparty nationals) kind on thisborder (Indo-Nepal) have beenhigher this year as compared tothe last year and the one pre-vious to it (2017)," the DG said.

Chandra added that inorder to fortify security mea-sures along the Nepal border, hisforce has undertaken a "surveyand a vulnerability and gapanalysis of each and every inch"of this front and subsequentlyhave effectively deployed itstroops to plug gaps and checkillegal crossings into India.

He said the force is takingthe help of satellite imagery andADRIN (Advanced DataProcessing Research Institute),under the Department ofSpace, enabled software topatrol the border.

As part of a pilot project,the SSB has also deployed ‘laserfences’ at two points on theIndo-Nepal border to checkillegal crossers, officials added.

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Chief Justice SA Bobderecused himself on

Tuesday from hearing the pleaof convict Akshay Kumar Singhseeking review of the 2017apex court judgment uphold-ing his death penalty in theNirbhaya gang rape-and-mur-der case.

At the outset a specialbench comprising the CJI andJustices R Banumathi andAshok Bhushan made it clearthat the review plea has to beheard by another appropriatebench.

The CJI said one of his rel-atives had earlier appeared onbehalf of the victim’s mother inthe case and observed that itwould be appropriate that someother bench hears the reviewplea at 10:30 am tomorrow.

Advocate AP Singh,appearing for Akshay, startedhis submission saying that the

case in hand has suffered polit-ical and media pressure andgrave injustice has been doneto the convict.

Akshay had soughtclemency arguing life in Delhiis anyway becoming short dueto rising air and water pollu-tion.

On July 9 last year, the apexcourt had dismissed the reviewpleas filed by the other threeconvicts - Mukesh (30), PawanGupta (23) and Vinay Sharma(24) - in the case, saying nogrounds have been made outby them for review of the 2017verdict.

The 23-year-old paramedicstudent was gang raped andbrutally assaulted on the inter-vening night of December 16-17, 2012 inside a moving bus insouth Delhi by six personsbefore being thrown out on theroad.

She died on December 29,2012 at Mount ElizabethHospital in Singapore.

One of the six accused inthe case, Ram Singh, allegedlycommitted suicide in the TiharJail here.

A juvenile, who was amongthe accused, was convicted bya juvenile justice board and wasreleased from a reformationhome after serving a three-yearterm.

The top court in its 2017verdict had upheld the capitalpunishment awarded to themby the Delhi High Court andthe trial court in the case.

"The State must not simplyexecute people to prove that itis attacking terror or violenceagainst women. It must persis-tently work towards systemat-ic reforms to bring aboutchange. Executions only kill thecriminal, not the crime," saidAkshay in the review plea,filed through advocate Singh.

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The Supreme Court onTuesday dismissed a peti-

tion challenging the validity ofthe Centre’s 26-year-old noti-fication according minoritystatus to five communities -Muslims, Christians, Sikhs,Buddhists and Parsis, sayingreligion must be consideredpan-India.

A bench headed by ChiefJustice SA Bobde refused toentertain the PIL filed by BJPleader and lawyer AshwiniKumar Upadhyay seeking layingof guidelines to accord minori-ty status based on State-wisepopulation of a community.

"Religion must be consid-ered pan-India. What is theproblem if Muslims are major-ity in Kashmir and minorityelsewhere in the country," thebench which also comprisedJustice B R Gavai and Surya

Kant said while dismissing thePIL.

Upadhyay, in his PIL, hadsought framing of guidelines togrant minority status to a reli-gious community based ontheir population in a particu-lar State and claimed thatHindus which are in minorityin eight States, are deprived ofminority benefits.

"Languages are restrictedState wise. Religions don’t haveState borders. We have to takea pan India approach. InLakshadweep, the Muslims fol-low the Hindu law," the benchsaid.

It took note of submissionsof Attorney General K KVenugopal, who was asked toassist the court, that there havebeen judgments of the apexcourt which say that minoritycan be decided based on allIndia population of a religiousgroup.

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Home Minister Amit Shahon Tuesday charged Delhi

Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwaland the Aam Aadmi Party(AAP) with delay in givingproperty ownership rights to res-idents of unauthorised coloniesin Delhi in its five-years’ rule.

Laying foundation stoneof the Bharat Vandana Park inDwarka area by the DDA,Shah also challenged Kejriwalto have a debate with WestDelhi BJP MP Parvesh SahibSingh Verma on the issue ofunauthorised colonies.

"I want to tell the residentsof 1,731 unauthorised coloniesthat your ownership rights weredelayed by five years due to the

Delhi Chief Minister and hisAam Aadmi Party. It wasobstructed under a conspiracy toshift blame on the Centre," Shah,who is the BJP president, said.

He said that the ModiGovernment, showing politicalresolve, came out with a legis-

lation for finding an adminis-trative way to provide owner-ship rights on properties inthese colonies by dealing with30 existing laws.

He alleged that the rulingAAP and Kejriwal were tryingto mislead people over the

issue of unauthorised colonies."I want to tell Arvind

Kejriwal he cannot misleadpeople in unauthorisedcolonies through misinforma-tion. Let Kejriwal fix a date,Parvesh Verma here is ready tohave a debate to expose him,"Shah said.

Shah said that BharatVandana Park, being devel-oped by Delhi DevelopmentAuthority (DDA), will be alandmark in the national cap-ital and he congratulated UnionHousing and Urban AffairsMinister Hardeep Singh Purifor conceiving the project.

He said that the park willemerge as a major tourist cen-tre on the map of India and novisitor will city will skip it.

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Bihar Chief Minister NitishKumar on Tuesday under-

scored impact of climatechange causing eratic rainfall inthe State and stressed on waterconservation and afforestationto deal with the situation.

He was addressing a pub-lic meeting at RangmanchMaidan near Mundeshwaritemple in Kaimur district.

The CM inaugurated andlaid foundation stone of 606various development schemesworth �668.97 crore during the"Jagrukta Sammelan" under"Jal-Jiwan-Hariyali" drive inorder to create awareness aboutwater conservation andafforestation.

"The State used to receivean average annual rainfall of1200-1500 mm. It has reached

to 1027 mm in past 30 yearsand if we study the rainfall ofpast 13 years, the average rain-fall has been reported at 901mm. "Sometimes we witnessuntimely rain, sometimes highamount of rainfall while some-times there is a drought like sit-uation," an official release saidquoting Kumar.

Stating that the State’s greencoverage was left at nine percent after its bifurcation (lead-ing to creation of JharkhandState in 2000), Kumar said thishas increased to 15 per cent fol-lowing Hariyali Mission pro-gramme under which 19 croresaplings have been planted inthe State.

Kumar said theGovernment has set a target ofplanting eight crore addition-al saplings in the next threeyears in order to further

increase the State’s green cov-erage area.

Some crops have beendamaged, including that inKaimur, following rainfall inthe State witnessed two-threedays back, the CM said.

Stating that StateGovernment will give all pos-sible help to those who sufferedlosses due to crop damage,Kumar said Patna divisionalCommissioner Sanjay KumarAgarwal, who is also the OSDof Disaster ManagementDepartment, has been asked toprepare loss to the crops on thisaccount. Kaimur district comesunder Patna division.

"We believe that victims ofdisasters have the first rightover the State’s exchequer," hesaid while explaining as howhis Government helped peopleduring floods or drought or in

the event of any disasters.The Jal-Jiwan-Hariyali

drive, which was envisaged inthe backdrop of climate changewill be undertaken across thestate.

A sum of �24,500 crorewould be spent in the nextthree years to undertake vari-ous schemes and programmesto improve the climate changesituation, the CM said addingit would be carried out in a"mission mode".

CM exhorted people espe-cially women to show theircommitment by participatingin a "human chain" which willbe formed on January 19, 2020across the state in support ofprohibition and on climatechange issue. The programmeis also against the practise ofdowry and child marriage.

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Against the backdrop of violentprotests witnessed recently at

Aligarh Muslim University and JamiaMillia Islamia over the Citizenship(Amendment) Act, President Ram NathKovind on Tuesday said that universi-ties should play a leading role inaddressing specific challenges faced bythe nation and higher educational insti-tutes should emerge as spaces that nur-ture free expression and ideas.

Addressing the closing session ofthe meet of vice-chancellors and direc-tors of central universities, IndianInstitutes of Science Education andResearch (IISERs) and Indian Instituteof Science, Bengaluru, Kovind said uni-versities and higher educational insti-tutions should play a leading role inaddressing the specific challenges facedby our nation and the society. Kovindsaid universities should become the lab-oratories for exposing students to theproblems that need to be addressed inthe cause of nation-building.

“Many of these challenges requirecreative and innovative solutions. It isyour paramount duty to ensure thatyour campuses emerge as spaces thatnurture free expression and ideas,

where experimentation is encouragedand failure is not ridiculed but is seenas a learning,” he said.

Kovind said universities shouldbecome the laboratories for exposingstudents to the problems that need tobe addressed in the cause of nation-building.

He said students should be encour-aged to take up academic and extra-cur-ricular work with a distinct communi-ty orientation. The president said sim-ple steps like strictly adhering to acad-emic calendar for admissions, conductof classes, examinations, declaration ofresults and awarding of degrees at con-vocations and so on, can be the start-

ing point on the journey towards excel-lence.

“Similarly, there are some steps thatyou can take to address the shortage offaculty in your universities. For instance,you can develop a robust visiting fac-ulty program or use online teachingtools,” he said.

In another function on the occasionof presentation of the '5th Visitor'sAwards' at Rashtrapati Bhavan, he saiddeveloping meaningful linkagesbetween the academic community andlocal industry should be a top priorityfor the universities. “Students must beencouraged to emerge as job-creatorsrather than job-seekers,” Kovind said.

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New Delhi: Protests against theCitizenship Amendment Act(CAA) transcended Indian cam-puses to reach top educational insti-tutions abroad like Oxford,Harvard, Michigan, Columbia,Yale, Chicago, Boston, Stanford,Cincinnati and MassachusettsInstitute of Technology (MIT),where students and scholars stageddemonstrations against the policecrackdown on students of JamiaMillia Islamia (JMI) and AligarhMuslim University (AMU). Similarprotests have been planned inBerlin and Zurich.

Back home, the of HumanResource Development Ministrysaid, the situation in 42 central uni-versities in the country, except JMIand AMU, is peaceful and exami-nations are being held as scheduled.

According to HRD Ministryofficials, the ministry received areport from JMI about the incidentthat took place on December 15where they mentioned about theresolution taken by the ExecutiveCommittee of the university seek-ing a high-level inquiry. However,no formal request in this regard

came so far. Over 400 studentsfrom different US universities haveissued a joint statement expressingsolidarity with Jamia and AMUstudents in their standoff againstthe CAA.

While terming the Act as“unconstitutional” and “discrimi-natory” and while also condemn-ing the use of police violenceagainst students on December 15,2019, the Universities have decid-ed to hold a student-led protest atHarvard University on December17, 2019. The students and schol-ars at Oxford University staged aprotest march to India House inLondon against the CAA and thepolice action on students.

In the statement, scholars fromuniversities, including Harvard,Yale, Columbia, Stanford and Tuftssaid they condemn the “brutalpolice violence unleashed againststudents at Jamia and AMU as agross violation of human rightsunder the Constitution of India andinternational human rights law”.

The protests at various uni-versities abroad are mostly beingled by Indians studying there. The

statement signed by students andalumni of around 20 US universi-ties perceive the incident as agross violation of human rights,both under Indian Constitution aswell as the International HumanRights Law. The Universities havecondemned such state-sponsoredactions and have demanded com-plete withdrawal of police forcesfrom the university premises. Theyalso seek an immediate, indepen-dent, and robust investigation intothe abuse of power by the DelhiPolice, Uttar Pradesh Police, andthe Central Reserve Police Force.

“We condemn the violenceunleashed on students in Jamiaand AMU among other Indianinstitutions. The use of force exer-cising their fundamental right toprotests and elsewhere is directattack on foundations of a demo-cratic society,” according to a jointstatement issued by students,scholars and alumni of Universityof Oxford. “We also lend our voic-es in support of the fight againstthis immoral and unconstitution-al law and call for its immediatewithdrawal,” it added. PNS

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Vice President M VenkaiahNaidu on Tuesday sought

to allay fears over the amend-ed citizenship law as he told agroup of trainee diplomatsfrom Bangladesh that the Actis meant to give citizenship toreligiously persecuted refugeesand not to take away the citi-zenship of Indians of any reli-gion. He also extended India'sfull support towards their bilat-eral efforts with Myanmar inthe repatriation of displacedRohingyas back to Myanmar.

The Vice President, whowas addressing trainee diplo-mats from Bangladesh, saidIndia is aware of the heavy bur-den on Bangladesh as a resultof the influx of lakhs of dis-placed persons from theRakhine State of Myanmar andthat it appreciates Dhaka for itshumanitarian gesture towardsthese displaced persons.

He said that Bangladeshcould count on India's fullsupport towards their bilater-

al efforts with Myanmar in therepatriation of displacedRohingyas back to Myanmar, astatement from the VicePresident's Secretariat said.

Naidu's remarks on theCitizenship (Amendment) Actcome days after BangladeshForeign Minister AK AbdulMomen and Home MinisterAsaduzzaman Khan cancelledtheir visits to India amidprotests against the legislationin the northeast.

Japanese Prime MinisterPrime Minister Shinzo Abealso cancelled his trip to Indiascheduled to begin on lastSunday. Shinzo Abe was tomeet Prime Minister NarendraModi in Guwahati for a sum-mit on December 15.

Naidu emphasised thatIndia wants peace and stabili-ty in the neighbourhood and

friendly relations with all itsneighbours. Without namingPakistan, he said Kashmir wasa settled issue and deplored theattempts by a neighbouringcountry to aid, abet, fund andtrain terror outfits to promotecross border terrorism.

The Vice President soughtBangladesh's support inrestructuring and reformingmultilateral organisations suchas the United Nations, so thatpolicies that affect the entireworld were not decided by afew.

Observing that Indiaattaches the highest impor-tance to Bangladesh, he said“Bangladesh is special for us.Therefore, your visit to India isalso special for us.”

The Vice President saidthat India always believed thata strong, stable and prosperousBangladesh was in India's inter-est and “we would like to part-ner in your journey of progressto become a developed coun-try by 2041,” the statement saidquoting him.

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India on Tuesday rejected aresolution adopted by

Pakistan National Assemblyon the Citizenship AmendmentAct on Monday and said it is apoorly disguised effort to divertattention from Islamabad's“appalling treatment” and “per-secution” of its religiousminorities .

Strongly asserting thisposition, the Ministry ofExternal Affairs in a statementsaid the resolution was a thin-ly-veiled attempt by Pakistan tofurther its false narrative on theissue of Jammu & Kashmir andLadakh.

“It seeks to provide justifi-cation for Pakistan's unrelent-

ing support for cross-borderterrorist activities in India. Weare confident that suchattempts will fail,” it said.

Pakistan's Parliament onMonday unanimously passed aresolution terming India's cit-izenship amendment lawagainst the bilateral agreementsand asked New Delhi to revokethe “discriminatory” clausesin it.

The resolution — moved inPakistan National Assemblyby Education Minister ShafqatMahmood — said theCitizenship Act was “againstinternational norms of equal-ity and non-discriminationand International HumanRights Law”.

The External Affairs

Ministry statement said thePakistani Resolution is a poor-ly disguised effort to divertattention from Pakistan'sappalling treatment and per-secution of its own religiousminorities. The demographicsof these minorities, whetherHindu, Christian, Sikh or otherfaiths, in Pakistan speak forthemselves, it said.

The Resolution intention-ally mischaracterizes the objectives of the CitizenshipAmendment Act 2019. ThisAct gives citizenship to for-eigners from selected countrieswho are persecuted religiousminorities. It does not takeaway the citizenship of anyIndian irrespective of her or hisfaith.

The statement further saidit is laughable that the NationalAssembly of Pakistan that hasitself passed discriminatorylegislation against religiousminorities, should point fingersat others. We call uponPakistan to engage in seriousself-introspection rather thanto falsely accuse others of whatthey themselves are guilty of.

Pakistan would do well toremember that India is theworld's largest democracy, thatall its Governments have beenfreely and fairly elected throughuniversal adult franchise, andthat all Indians irrespective offaith enjoy equal rights underthe Constitution. We urgePakistan to similarly aspire tothese ideals, the statement said.

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The Statewide demonstra-tion by the DMK against

the Citizenship AmendmentAct 2019 turned out to be asuccess as thousands joined the partyleaders in all district head-quarters in Tamil Nadu raisingslogans and expressing theirdissent over the legislation.

But the protest demonstrations also broughtout the brewing groupism anddissensions haunting the DMKever since the death of MKarunanidhi, former partychief.

MK Stalin, DMK presidentand the Chief Minister-in-waiting lambasted the rulingAIADMK in the State andchief minister EdappadiPalaniswami for the smoothsailing of the Bill in the RajyaSabha last week. “Had theAIADMK voted against the

Bill, it would have been defeat-ed in the Rajya Sabha.

But the AIADMK chose tovote with the BJP in enactingthe Bill much to the shock ofthe people in Tamil Nadu.The AIADMK alone is respon-sible for this legislation,” saidStalin while addressing theparty cadre at

Kancheepuram on Tuesdaymorning.

Though Kanimozhi, theparty’s women wing head andMP was the lead speaker in thepublic rally at Chennai, thecynosure of all eyes was Salma,the beautiful poetess and nov-elist. Kanimozhi too camedown heavily on the AIADMKand Dr Anbumani RamdossMP (PMK) for the controver-sial Bill’s passage in RajyaSabha. The meeting at Chennaisaw the participation hun-dreds of women because ofSalma’s presence.

Though the party cadrewere expecting a speech by the

poetess, she did not get anychance to address the gather-ing.

“It was Salma who madethe difference in the Chennaimeeting of the DMK,”, saidSripriya Iyer, Tamil writer andcommentator. Another speak-er who stole the limelight wasparty MP ThamizachiThangapandian who gave aninspiring speech about MotherTamil Nadu, home to refugeesfrom all over the globe.

The decision of Stalin tofield Salma is being seen as partof the move to contain thegrowth of Kanimozhi as an alternative centre of power in the party.Kanimozhi, Karunanidhi’s daughter by his third wifeRajathi is yet to get her due inthe party hierarchy as Stalinhas made T R Balu MP, theDelhi face of the DMK muchto the anguish of the former.

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Guwahati: Peasants' leaderAkhil Gogoi, arrested underthe stringent UAPA amidprotests over the citizenshiplaw, was sent to 10-day NIAcustody on Tuesday by a spe-cial court here.

Gogoi was arrested onDecember 12 in Jorhat underthe Unlawful Activities(Prevention) Act or UAPAamid widespread violentprotests in the State and waslater handed over to theNational Investigation Agency(NIA).

The Krishak MuktiSangram Samiti (KMSS) leaderwas brought to the city fromJorhat amid tight security and

was produced at the court,which remanded him to 10-dayNIA custody.

The court also directedthe NIA to ensure regular med-ical checkup of Gogoi, andallow his family members andlawyers to meet.

As the firebrand leaderwas being taken to the court, heshouted at waiting journaliststhat he has been subjected to“prochondo atyachar (extremetorture)”.

“The agitation must notstop. I appeal to people tocontinue the protests till the lawis repealed,” he continued assecurity personnel rushed himto the courtroom. PTI

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Jammu: ImamKhomeini MemorialTrust (IKMT), a socio-religious organisation,on Tuesday staged apeaceful protest againstthe amended citizen-ship law in Kargil dis-trict of Ladakh, offi-cials said.

The protesters werecarrying a black banner which read “shahri tarmeemibill wapas lo (take back the Citizenship (Amendment)Bill,” they said.

The officials said the rally started from Baroo underthe leadership of IKMT chairman and prominent reli-gious leader Sheikh Sadiq Rajai.

It went round the town before concluding peacefully,they said. The protestors were demanding the withdrawalof the amended citizenship law, the officials said.

They said the protesters also condemned the policeaction on the students during anti-CAA protests in Delhiand other places.

The marchers also shouted slogans in support of thedemand for restoration of internet services in the dis-trict, which remained suspended since August 5 — theday when Centre abrogated Article 370 provisions grant-ing special status to Jammu & Kashmir, they said. PTI

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Likening the police action onthe Jamia Millia Islamia cam-

pus to the Jallianwala Bagh mas-sacre, Shiv Sena president UddhavThackeray on Tuesday chargedthat a deliberate attempt wasbeing made to disturb peace andcreate an atmosphere in the coun-try.

Condemning the violenceunleashed against Jamia MilliaIslamia students on their campus,Uddhav said, “I am saying this fullresponsibility. A deliberateattempt is being made to disturbpeace and create an atmospherein the country.

The manner in which thepolice stormed the universitycampus and opened fire on stu-dents brought back the memoriesof Jallianwala Bagh massacre.The students and people areapprehending as if the similaratmosphere of fear and unrestprevalent in the country after theJallianwala Bagh massacreis being created across the coun-try”.

Talking to media personsoutside the Vidhan Bhavan inNagpur where the Winter Session

of the Maharashtra Legislature iscurrently on, Uddhav said, “Ifeel no country can remain stablewhere youth are disturbed. Iwould like to ask the Union gov-ernment not to destabilise theyouth of this country.

The youngsters are the coun-try's future and they have a lot ofpotential. The youth are like abomb. My request to the Centreis not to disturb them and ignitethe fire in them”. During hisinteraction with the media,Uddhav also hit out at theOpposition BJP for creating aruckus in the State Assemblyover the issue of extending reliefto the unseasonal rains-hit farm-ers in the State.

Singling out former ChiefMinister Devendra Fadnavis fora vicious attack, Uddhav said,“The previous BJP-ledGovernment had written to theCentre seeking �15,500 crore tocompensate the farmers affectedunseasonal rains and floods.

But, we have not receivedeven a single paisa. I would liketo those who are trying to createan issue over assistance to farm-ers should realise that their gov-ernment is in power. Instead of

raising voice in the StateAssembly, they should focustowards the Centre and hit out attheir leaders (for the delay inextending farm relief toMaharashtra”.

Earlier in the day, theMaharashtra Assembly witnessedan ugly scene after OppositionBJP MLAs rushed to the well ofthe House and raised slogans infront of Speaker Nana Patole,when leader of the OppositionDevendra Fadnavis raised thefarmers’ issue and demanded�25,000 per acre compensation torains-hit farmers. At one stage, theSpeaker objected to BJP MLAAbhimanyu Pawar waving a ban-ner demanding compensation tothe farmers.

Without heeding to the objec-tion raised by the chair, Pawarrushed near the Chief Ministerand waved in his face. Agitated byPawar’s conduct, Shiv Sena MLASanjay Gaikwad rushed towardsthe BJP MLA.

Both the BJP MLA Pawar andShiv Sena legislator Gaikwadpushed each other and indulgedin a minor scuffle, prompting theSpeaker to adjourn the House forhalf an hour initially.

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The Assam Government willconstitute an SIT to probe

incidents of violence at theState secretariat area andSrimanta SankardevaKalakshetra, in which YouthCongress president and anNSUI activist were allegedlyinvolved, State MinisterHimanta Biswa Sarma said onTuesday.

The SIT will be headed by deputy inspector general (CID)Mridulananda Sarmah and thestate government will also urgethe Centre to depute an officereither from the CBI or the NIAfor six months to help in the investigations, hesaid.

“We have evidence ofAssam Youth Congress presi-dent Qamrul Islam Choudhurybeing involved in the attack atthe state secretariat in Dispuron GS Road,” Sarma said,showing a photograph of theincident that happened onDecember 11.

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Amaravati: Strongly advocat-ing for a decentralised devel-opment Andhra Pradesh ChiefMinister YS Jagan MohanReddy hinted that the prioritiesof the State should be in tunewith the aspirations of thepeople and the option of mul-tiple capitals could be consid-ered.

A Committee has beenformed to decide on the capi-tal area region which will sub-mit its report in a couple ofdays and we have to discuss inthe direction of developing allthe regions and the concept ofmultiple capitals too could beconsidered.

‘We can think in terms ofhaving three capitals, one beingthe legislative capital and theother two being executive cap-ital and a judicial capital. Areputed Consultancy firm willalso give its report and a deci-

sion would be taken after dis-cussing the details and logistics,’he said.

Viskahaptnam which hasinfrastructure can be consid-ered for being the ExecutiveCapital without much invest-ment, while the presentAmaravati can be retained asthe legislative capital andKurnool can be considered asthe Judiciary capital which willgive a balanced development,’he said.

Making a statement duringthe discussion on Amaravaticapital city, he said the previ-ous government had brought ina grand design of a capital citydeveloping 53,000 acres with acost of ��1.09 lakh crores andthere were many irregularitieswhich the House has discussedearlier.

But as and when I have thatkind of amount of � 1.09 lakh

crores, the priorities of ourGovernment would be differ-ent as we think in terms of pro-viding water to the aridRayalaseema region. We need� 60,000 crores for that asthere was no water inRayalaseema region despitethe heavy rains and floods. Weneed � 16,000 cores for takingPolavaram water to northAndhra and for drinking watergrid we need ��40,000 crores.

For the Nadu Nedu pro-gramme, we need � 29,000cores for the schools and hos-pital put together and since ourpriorities are so different andaimed at welfare, we have toconsider if spending � 1.09 lakhcores is necessary for the cap-ital formation.

In this backdrop, we haveto see if the option of havingmultiple capitals would better,he said. PNS

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Taking a leaf from the agita-tion undertaken by stu-

dents of the Jawaharlal NehruUniversity, four leaders fromthe Pune-based Film andTelevision Institute of IndiaStudents’ Association (FTI-ISA) have gone on an indefinitefast in protest against the 10 percent yearly fee hike and theexorbitant Joint Entrance Test(JET) application fees.

The hunger strike resortedto by FTII student leadersAadhith V Sathwin (President,FTIISA), Rajarshi Mujumdar(Gen Secretary), PRManikandan (CulturalSecretary) and Vivek Allaka onthe Institute premises, enteredthe second day on Tuesday.

Talking to media personsin Pune in the evening, FTIISApresident Aadhith V Sathwinsaid: “We will continue our fasttill our two demands are met”

The FTIIS’ two demandsare: revocation of the continu-ous 10 per cent hike in overallfee every academic year andreduce it and deferment ofJET 2020 until there is reduction in the entrance examfees.

“There has been a 10%hike in academic fees year onyear since the batch of 2013.From the annual fee of ��55,380from the 2013 batch the fees forthe upcoming 2020 batch hasreached to � 1,18,323,” Sathwinsaid.

“In addition, there hasbeen an exorbitant rise in theJET (Joint Entrance Test forboth FTII and SRFTI) applica-tion fee. From � 1500 in 2015,the entrance exam fee has goneup to a maximum of � 10,000for JET 2020. As such theinstitute is making itself com-pletely inaccessible to a largesection of our population,”fasting FTIISA president said.

Meanwhile, FTII’s directorBhupendra Kainthola hasrequested the four studentswho have gone on a hungerstrike to break their fast, pend-ing a decision at an emergencymeeting of Governing Councilof FTII convened on December27.

“Mr. Kainthola has told usthat the Governing Council ofFTII is convening an emer-gency session on the 27thDecember, 10 days from now.He has requested the four stu-dents on hunger strike to break

their fast. However, it is theirconviction to continue thestrike until the GoverningCouncil decides to stop the feehike and drastically reduce theJET Admission fee,” Sathwinsaid.

“We strongly feel that themembers of FTII GoverningCouncil should have takeninto account the worseninghealth conditions of these fourfasting students while fixing thedate of the emergency meeting.

Under these circumstances, wewould urge them to advancethe meeting,” FTIISA presidentsaid.

This is the second timeafter 2015 when the students ofFTII have gone on a strike on

the institute premises. Earlier,the students had resorted to amajor agitation in 2015 againstthe controversial appointmentof appoint actor and BJP mem-ber Gajendra Chauhan as theGoverning council chairman.The agitation over Chauhan’sappointment as the FTII headhad gone on for 139-long days.

Incidentally, actor AnupamKher, who incidentally suc-ceeded Chauhan as the chair-man of the Pune-based Filmand Television Institute of India(FTII), was among the promi-nent film personalities whohad come out in support ofFTII students’ agitation then.

The others who had sup-ported the students’ agitationthen included Rishi Kapoor,son Ranbir Kapoor,Nawazuddin Siddiqui, film-makers Kundan Shah, AzizMirza, Adoor Gopalakrishnan,Kiran Rao, Rajkummar Rao,Sudhir Mishra, Sayeed Mirza,Resul Pookutty, Amol Palekarand Piyush Mishra.

The FTII has producedmost talented actors andartistes like Naseeruddin Shah,Jaya Bachchan, Shabana Azmi,Om Puri, Smita Patil and ResulPookutty.

Unnao (UP): Mother of theUnnao rape survivor on Tuesdayexpressed unhappiness over theacquittal of Shashi Singh— a co-accused along with expelled BJPMLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar inthe 2017 Unnao rape case.

A Delhi court convictedSengar on Monday for raping awoman in Unnao in 2017 sayingthe victim's testimony was “truth-ful and unblemished” against a“powerful person”. Singh, co-accused in the case was acquittedof all charges.

Reacting to the judgement bya Delhi court, the mother of therape survivor (from Delhi) said,“Why Shashi Singh has beenacquitted. She was the one, whohad duped my daughter and hadtaken her to Kuldeep Sengar onthe pretext of giving her a job.”

She said the uncle of the rapesurvivor is still in jail. “Until hecomes out of the jail, I will not get

justice,” she said.“I have been able to emerge

victorious in this battle with thehelp of the media. I am still feel-ing afraid and there is threat vis-a-vis the Rae Bareli accident.When he (Sengar) can get anaccident done despite staying injail, he can do anything,” she said.

She was referring to her alle-gation that Sengar was behind anaccident in which the rape sur-

vivor wasinjured and twoof her auntswere killed.

S h edemanded cap-ital punishmentfor Sengar.M e a n w h i l e ,Naveen Singh,son of ShashiS i n g hexpressed hap-piness over his

mother's acquittal.A Delhi court on Tuesday

adjourned till December 20 thehearing on order for quantum ofsentence against Sengar. DistrictJudge Dharmesh Sharmaadjourned hearing in the case tillFriday.

The CBI sought maximumpunishment for Sengar, saying itwas a fight for justice of an indi-vidual against the system. PTI

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Two men were arrested forharassing girls and tearing

the clothes of one of them - aminor, when the girl's fathertried to intervene in UttarPradesh's Gorakhpur district, police said on Tuesday.

The other girl is the sister-in-law of the 17-year-old girl.

According to police, theincident happened on Sundaywhen the 17-year-old alongwith her father and sister-in-law were going to ChauriChaura police station to regis-ter a complaint against twobrothers, who had harassedthem.

Aurangabad: No trees will befelled for the memorials pro-posed for Shiv Sena supremolate Bal Thackeray and BJPleader Gopinath Munde inAurangabad, MayorNandkumar Ghodele has said.

Addressing reporters lateon Monday, the mayor clarifiedthat no trees will be axed for thememorials and that “justicewould be same in both thecases”.

While a memorial is beingplanned for Bal Thackeray atPriyadarshini Garden in Cidcoarea, that of Munde's is pro-posed at Jalna Road on the landbelonging to the state govern-ment's milk scheme depart-ment. The issue came to forewhen reports emerged that atleast 1,000 trees would have tobe axed for Thackeray's memo-

rial. Earlier, Shiv Sena leaderand former MP fromAurangabad ChandrakantKhaire had said Chief Ministerand party president UddhavThackeray had given “oralorders” against felling of treesfor the proposed memorial ofhis late father.

The Public WorksDepartment (PWD) hadreportedly sought a permissionfrom the local civic body lastweek for felling 110 trees forconstruction of late Munde'smemorial. PTI

Nagpur: In unprecedentedscenes, two MLAs of the rulingShiv Sena and Opposition BJPheld each other by the collarover the issue of assistance tofarmers.

Soon after proceedingsbegan, BJP MLA AbhimanyuPawar tried to display a bannerin front of Chief MinisterUddhav Thackeray.

The banner carried areport published in the Senamouthpiece 'Saamana', aboutThackeray demanding Rs25,000 per hectare for farmershit by untimely rains.

The BJP MLAs sought toremind Thackeray of thisdemand made by him before hebecame the CM of providingassistance to affected farmers.

The BJP members rushed

to the well of the House andshouted slogans, seekingimplementation of Thackeray'sprevious demand.

Sena MLA Sanjay Gaikwadtried to snatch the bannerfrom Pawar and the two brieflyheld each other by the collarbefore senior Ministers and for-mer ministers pulled themapart.

Speaker Nana Patoleappealed to BJP members toreturn to their seats and allowthe House proceedings to con-tinue. However, some SenaMLAs also tried to snatch theflex boards from BJP members,leading to ruckus.

As the BJP membersrefused to return to their seats,the Speaker adjourned theHouse for 30 minutes. PTI

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Jammu: Night temperatures inmost parts of Jammu &Kashmir and Ladakh contin-ued its downward spiral afterthe recent snowfall even as traf-fic on the Jammu-Srinagarnational highway was disrupt-ed for several hours due to mul-tiple landslides on Tuesday,officials said.

The icy winds from thesnow capped mountains sweptboth the Union Territories butthe early morning sun provid-ed some sort of relief to thepeople form the frigid condi-

tions in the valley. Pahalgam hill resort in

south Kashmir, which serves asthe base camp for the pilgrimsduring the annual Amarnathyatra, was the coldest record-ed place in the region with alow of minus 12.2 degreesCelsius, an official of the mete-orological department said.

He said the famous skiresort of Gulmarg in northKashmir was freezing at a lowof minus 11.0 degrees Celsius,while the minimum tempera-ture fell by over two notches in

Srinagar to settle at minus 3.7degrees Celsius.

An early morning sun,however, came as a big relief tothe people in Srinagar, whichwitnessed its third snowfall ofthe season on Friday last.

Leh in Ladakh was thecoldest recorded place in theregion with a night temperatureof minus 12.0 degrees Celsius,the official said.

Though the minimumtemperature marked a slightimprovement in Jammu to set-tle at 7.2 degrees Celsius, the icy

winds coupled with heavycloud cover forced people tostay indoors in the morning toescape the chilly conditions.

Bhaderwah in Doda dis-trict of Jammu region was thecoldest recorded place with alow of minus 3.3 degreesCelsius, while the Katra town,the base camp for the pilgrimsvisiting Mata Vaishno DeviShrine in Reasi district, record-ed a low of 5.1 degrees Celsiusagainst the previous night's6.0 degrees Celsius, the officialsaid. PTI

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party lines, Uttar PradeshMLAs on Tuesday forcedthe adjournment of theassembly for the day whenthe Speaker refused to let aBJP legislator discuss thealleged high-handedness ofan official.

“Vidhayak EktaZindabad,” (Long live MLAs'unity), legislators chantedwhen the House reassembledafter a brief adjournmentover the same issue duringZero Hour.

Amid the din, SpeakerHriday Narayan Dixit thenannounced the adjournmentof the House for the entireday.

There had been threebrief adjournments earlier asLoni MLA Nand Kishor

Gurjar tried to raise the“high-handedness” of aGhaziabad

food inspector withwhom his representativeshad reportedly quarrelledon November 27.

Parliamentary AffairsMinister Suresh Khanna andothers were seen trying tocalm down Gurjar during the periods ofadjournment.

Earlier, the Speakerobserved that he was tryingto understand the issue andsaid it would be resolved.

Senior membersRaghuraj Pratap Singh(Independent), AradhanaMisra alias Mona (Congress)and Lalji Verma (BSP) said itwas perhaps for the firsttime that the House hadbeen adjourned for the daybecause of a ruling party

MLA.Even after the Speaker

called it a day, some mem-bers from both sides keptoccupying their seats.

Earlier this month,Gurjar's representative wasarrested in Ghaziabad forallegedly manhandling thefood inspector at the MLA'soffice.

Gurjar levelled allega-tions of corruption againstthe food inspector after thearrest.

The Loni MLA is also anaccused in the case and beenserved a show cause noticeby the party over it.

“A lobby of the BJP isactive against me and theyare hatching a conspiracy totarnish my reputation. Theyprovoked the food inspectorinto lodging an FIR againstme,” the MLA had thenalleged.

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Even as the thunderous reverbera-tions of the 16-year-old environ-mental activist, Greta Thunberg, atthe UN, just three months ago, areyet to die down, to our utter sur-

prise, the Madrid climate talks under the aegisof COP25 ended in a failure. This is not thefirst time that such discordance amongmember nations has been witnessed. The pre-sent talks failed despite the fact that whileinaugurating this conference, UN SecretaryGeneral António Guterres had issued a verystern warning. “I call on anyone who is stilllobbying their Governments for a slow tran-sition or even no transition, to end those activ-ities now. The world is watching,” he empha-sised. Today, the world community appearsto be focussed more on the protection of theirown domestic agenda rather than payingheed to the impending disaster.

The first decade after the Rio de JaneiroEarth Summit of 1992 saw a rare buildingup of consensus on almost all issues.Perhaps it was the decade after the Cold Warand the first Gulf War when the world com-munity saw immense merit in consensus-building. The same was also manifest dur-ing the signing of the WTO Agreement atMarrakesh, Morocco, in 1994. But in thevery next decade, one saw the appearanceof discordant notes, particularly as formerUS President George W Bush virtuallyrefused to follow the Kyoto Protocol evenas America was the largest polluter in theworld. This trend was further aggravatedwhen President Donald Trump followed thesame route as charted earlier by Bush.

Unfortunately, despite the bleak scenario,the voice of a number of smaller and less pol-luting nations, prominently Tuvalu, Maldives,Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan among oth-ers, who are already facing the brunt of theclimate change, seems to have been lost. Onthe other hand, high polluting nations suchas China, India and the European Unioncould not account for their efforts at reduc-ing global warming. They were unable toquantify in specific terms the targets achievedas was laid down under the Paris Agreement.But the prime reason for the failure of theMadrid Summit, which was participated by197 countries across the world, was a lack ofconsensus on development of a marketmechanism to limit carbon emissions.

The concept of trading in carbon mar-kets as a response to climate change was animportant outcome of the Kyoto Protocol. Theprimary purpose of the Protocol was to makethe developed countries pay for their emis-sions while at the same time, monetarilyreward those nations with good record in thisregard. The underlying philosophy was thatsince the developing countries could start withcleaner technologies, they would be reward-ed by those who were stuck with old and pol-luting technologies. In a way, this translatedinto wealthier countries purchasing theextent of reduction in carbon levels achievedby the developing countries.

In this manner, the devel-oped and wealthier nationswould not only be able to selltheir technology to the develop-ing countries but could alsogather carbon credits to meet therequirements of Kyoto Protocolwithout any reduction in theiremission levels. The failure of theMadrid summit, to achieve anyresults in this direction, may havealso disappointed those whoencouraged carbon tradingmechanism like the oil majorRoyal Dutch Shell Plc and theSpanish utility Iberdrola SA.

Such a market mechanismwas also considered important byheavy industrialised countries,who are economically dependenton oil and gas production. In thenormal course, large-scale de-car-bonisation would take muchlonger than as prescribed underthe Paris targets. Besides, itwould also ensure that the richand already developed coun-tries could continue to pollute onthe strength of carbon credit pur-chased by them, while theoptions of developing and rela-tively poor countries would becurtailed. It can, thus, be inferredthat the summit spent moretime in ensuring that the inter-ests of the developed countriesare well protected through thecarbon trading mechanism.

In fact, the scheme of carboncredits is some kind of a smoke-screen which enables the devel-

oped and richer countries toexploit those still developing.Those already developed, thus,escape the limits while the lessindustrialised and less pollutingare loaded with the burden of fur-ther reductions. This may ulti-mately impact and retard theirprogress in the long-run.

In this context, let us take theexample of the GFL gas projectin Gujarat. GFL is one of thelargest producers of carbon off-set credits in the world, sellingthem to many of the biggest pol-luters in the EU. Europe’s pol-luters have had a cheap way tooffset their climate responsibili-ties without actually greeningeven a small patch of the land. EUClimate Action CommissionerConnie Hedegaard admitted thatsuch projects have a “total lack ofenvironmental integrity.”

At the summit, not muchtime was spent on determiningthe targets to be achieved by eachcountry so as to keep the emis-sions of greenhouse gases with-in the overall objective of theglobal warming being limited tothe extent of 1.5 degrees between2018 and 2100. For this tobecome a reality by 2050, weshould be a net-zero emitter. Sofar only about 20 countries,including the UK, France, NewZealand, Norway, Finland,Switzerland, Denmark andSweden, figure in the list ofthose who are expected to meet

this target. India, China and theUS still have a long way to go.

In India, with a perceiveddifficulty in cutting emissionsin order to meet the targets, anambitious plan for harnessingsolar energy has been formulat-ed. We are lucky that sunlightis available in abundance butthe challenge lies in the pro-curement of solar Photo Voltaic(PV) cells, which is one of themajor constraining factors inour efforts to realise the fullpotential. According to a reportsubmitted by the parliamentarystanding committee, in order toachieve the target of 100 GW ofsolar electricity capacity by2022, India should have had aninstalled capacity of 32,000MW by 2017-18. But as ofJanuary 31, 2018, the countryonly had a capacity of 18,455MW in just four years — thisis over 20,000 MW a year andappears difficult to achieve.

Irrespective of the disap-pointing outcome of the Madridsummit, as a responsible nationwith high prestige in the interna-tional arena, India does not havethe luxury of a half-heartedapproach towards this vital area.The phenomenon of globalwarming has to be seen as a glob-al warning.

(The author is a formerGovernor and a Senior Adviser atthe Pranab MukherjeeFoundation)

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Sir — This refers to the editori-al, “Take the lead” (December 16).It’s incomprehensible as to howthe police could forcibly enter aneducational institution withoutany permission. According toJamia Millia Islamia ChiefProctor, Waseem Ahmed Khan,Delhi Police personnel enteredthe university by force withoutany permission and beat up staffmembers and students who wereforced to leave the campus.Photos of injured students speakfor police brutality inside thecampus. Now the question is:Who issued the order, asking thepolice to forcibly enter the univer-sity and resort to violence? Thisshameful act must be condemnedby everyone who believes indemocratic values.

The BJP has alleged that somepolitical parties are spreadingrumours and inciting violence topromote their political interestsand the students are falling into thetrap. Even if this was the case, therecan be no justification to brutalpolice action. The police cannottrample their right to protest.

Sujit DeKolkata

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Sir — BJP general secretary RamMadhav said recently that hisGovernment would soon allowdetained political leaders inJammu & Kashmir to come out

in the open and resume politicalactivity. The State has been undera lockdown since August, whenthe Government withdrew thelimited autonomy granted to itunder Article 370 and fully inte-grated it with India. As against theGovernment’s claim that nor-

malcy has returned to the State,the fact is that extreme restric-tions are still in place. Top localpolitical leaders are still in deten-tion, internet services are yet tobe restored and not all commu-nication lines are functional.

Such moves have only creat-

ed more hardships for the locals.The basic premise of the lifting ofArticle 370 was to usher in devel-opment. The Government needsto accelerate its developmentpitch and allay the fears andanxieties of the Kashmiris.

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Sir — This refers to the editorial,“Climate breakdown” (December17). It is disappointing that theUN climate talks ended withoutmaking any significant progress.It could not even frame rules fora new global carbon trading andpostponed them until next year.This will only make the target setby the Paris accord harder torealise. Clearly, it’s not the lack oftechnology but political will thatwill make it difficult for us to tack-le global warming. None candeny that regulated carbon mar-kets can make technologies acces-sible and affordable without hurt-ing the economy.

Sweta SankrityanVia email

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The world cannot survive unless drastic stepsare taken. The member states of the UnitedNations (UN) in 2015 adopted the 2030 agen-

da for Sustainable Development with 17 Goals atits heart. This is a universal call to end poverty, pro-tect the planet and ensure that all people live a pro-ductive, vibrant life and enjoy peace and prosper-ity by 2030. Since 2020 is round the corner and weare just a decade away from 2030, we must analysethe sufficiency of the actions taken by governments,businesses, developmental organisations, scientif-ic community and civil society to make achievementof Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) a real-ity. Since these require substantial changes in allaspects, the limited effectiveness of governments maynot be sufficient, unless businesses and civil soci-ety play their part.

The UN’s SDG Report, 2019, is helpful in mea-suring headways made in several critical areas andindicates some positive developments like substan-tial decline in extreme poverty, 49 per cent fall inthe under-five mortality rate since 2000 and accessto electricity to a large chunk of the world’s popu-lation. Marine life has also been safeguarded andprotected areas have multiplied since 2010. Issuesregarding illegal fishing are also being smoothened.The Paris Agreement on climate change has beensigned by 186 parties. Rapid urbanisation has alsobeen addressed worldwide with 150 countries fram-ing policies at the national-level aiming to solve theproblems arising from it. Over 300 policies andinstruments have been developed by several coun-tries, including the EU, to encourage sustainabili-ty in production and consumption. These improve-ments could not have been possible without thewidespread support of all stakeholders and this all-pervasive participation creates considerable opti-mism and promise for a secure future.

However, unified and concentrated action is stillrequired in many areas. Environment protection andaction to reduce climate change are the top prior-ity as it is predicted that global warming will riseto 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels in years to comeif greenhouse emissions are not checked. This, cou-pled with increasing sea levels because of it, will havecumulative effects that will be irreversible and dis-astrous. Add to this an increasing ocean acidifica-tion, coastal erosion, extreme weather conditions,the frequency and severity of natural disasters, con-tinuing land degradation, risk of loss of one millionplant and animal species and we have a perfect recipefor the ecosystem’s collapse.

Human suffering is closely linked to this envi-ronmental degradation as it has the capability tomake many parts of the planet derelict. Given theloss of vital plant and animal species and globalwarming — with the last four years being thewarmest on record — food production will be atrisk, leading to large-scale food shortage and increas-ing global hunger. This can potentially displace upto 140 million people by 2050, unless strong anddecisive action on climate change is taken by theentire world.

The goal to end extreme poverty by 2030 alsolooks unattainable as violent disturbances, conflictsand displacements are adding to the exposure to nat-ural disasters, leading to deep-rooted deprivation.At least half of the world’s population lacks essen-tial health services, more than half of the world’s chil-dren do not meet educational standards andwomen in all parts of the world continue to face dis-

advantages and discrimination. Since achieving SDGs is not easy or

possible alone, all stakeholders shouldpartner for the cause. As resources are lim-ited, be it financial, natural or human, soci-ety must make optimum use of the same.By way of partnership, we have the abil-ity to bring together diverse and scarceresources to deliver a higher impact,greater sustainability and increased valueto all. According to the UN, “Partnershipsfor sustainable development are multi-stakeholder initiatives voluntarily under-taken by Governments, inter-govern-mental organisations, major groups andother stakeholders, whose efforts arecontributing to the implementation ofinter-governmentally agreed develop-ment goals and commitments.”

Through this the UN has recognisedthe importance of partnerships by busi-nesses and all leading institutions asimperative in international relations andglobal development. This fundamentalshift in its thinking and approach isexpressed in its clear acceptance of theinterrelations and interdependence ofthriving business, prosperous societyand a healthy environment as a whole. Allsocietal sectors without exception havebeen named as key development actorsand an unprecedented level of coopera-tion and collaboration is the need of thehour for achievement of SDGs.

Since the launch of SDGs, severalwide-ranging development partnershipshave seen the light of the day, both at glob-al and local levels; from international net-works to bilateral arrangements; frommulti-sector, multi-issue platforms, to sin-gle-sector, single-issue interest groups. Tobring some standardisation into the mul-titude of collaborative arrangements withquite different qualities, three basic typesof partnerships can be identified, whichcan be distinguished in terms of the mainobjectives of the partnership and thenature of the relationship between the

partners.The first category,

“Leverage/Exchange” involves partner-ships that are complementary to eachother and are a one-way transfer or rec-iprocal exchange of resources like knowl-edge, services, skills and funding, that theorganisations need to employ towardstheir own strategic goals. It is applicablewhen each partner has something that ismore valuable to the other than to them-selves, resulting in net gain on exchange.For example, the relationship between anaid agency and a university research insti-tute can constitute a partnership of mutu-al benefit where the agency accessesresearch outputs and expertise from theinstitute while providing research fund-ing or sources of data and case studies tothe institute. An example of this type ofpartnership is Coca-Cola and the GlobalFund Project Last Mile, which leveragesCoca-Cola’s logistic, supply chain, distri-bution and marketing expertise to buildAfrican Governments’ capabilities toensure communities have better access tolife-sustaining and life-enhancing medi-cines. Coca-Cola gains by demonstratingits commitment to a better planet as wellas providing employee engagementopportunities.

The second category,“Combine/Integrate”, identifies a cross-sec-tor partnership, which is essentially a part-nership between two or more organisa-tions where complementary resources arepooled to identify solutions to a commonproblem and in the process accomplisha shared strategic goal. Innovativeapproaches, which are developed by all thepartners involved through brainstormingand consistent dialogue and mutualaccountability, are the hallmarks of thistype of partnership. The core belief hereis that one can achieve more by workingtogether and combining the resourcesthan individually. An example in this cat-egory can be seen in Bangladesh between

a social enterprise and a major supplierof renewable energy, SOLshare, andGrameen Shakti, which is being support-ed and enabled by UN DESA. GrameenShakti brings access to its massive exist-ing customer base and network of solarhomes, as well as its knowledge of thecommunities, and SOLshare brings cut-ting-edge, innovative technology with thepotential to transform the supply ofaffordable energy to low-income house-holds in Bangladesh.

The final partnership type“Transform”, is more ambitious andfocusses on the final goal of tackling adevelopment challenge in an innovativeand multi-faceted way where the problemdefinition may be unclear, and partnersbring differing world views and perspec-tives to the issue. For example, Scaling upNutrition is a global, country-led andmulti-sectoral movement to combatundernutrition and catalyse support forcountries with a focus on a set of evidence-based direct nutrition interventions. Herea partnership is developed to facilitate asystem change with the involvement ofvarious actors like countries, variousGovernment ministries (e.g. ministries ofeducation, health and agriculture) aswell as other change agents like business-es, civil society and the UN.

We are at a time where interventionsto save the planet have to be colossal andno country or individual can contributein isolation. The challenges are global andrequire global solutions. The SDGs havebrought countries and communitiestogether to work for a better life and a sus-tainable planet. It is the duty of all stake-holders to develop and to further strength-en international cooperation on climatechange, migration, technology, trade andpartnerships. Let us take the advantage ofmany synergies that we have and worktogether to achieve the 2030 Agenda.

(The writer is an Associate Professor,Amity University)

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Nostradamus, the world’s mostfamous seer, had predictedthat the year 2020 would

mark the beginning of a new era,accompanied by bloodshed andsuffering, but that it would alsobring new hopes. So, as we stand atthe cusp of the new year, one won-ders what 2020 will bring for India?

Politically, the country will bestable, given the massive mandatewon by Prime Minister NarendraModi just six months ago. The BJPis sure to begin the year with a senseof triumph as the Modi Governmenthas achieved most of the party’s coreagenda during its second term,including the abrogation of Article370, a favourable judgment in the

Ayodhya issue, dealing with theissue of illegal immigrants throughthe Citizenship Amendment Act,2019 (CAA) and the NationalRegister of Citizens (NRC) and soon. However, there is a need toarrest the widespread unrest creat-ed due to the CAA and the NRC asit is not doing the Government anygood.

Going forward, in 2020, theGovernment is likely to form a trustand begin the Ram temple’s con-struction in a grand manner inAyodhya. The Uniform Civil Code(UCC) is the only remaining part ofthe core BJP-RSS agenda and a Billto regulate the population is also onthe anvil.

Though the BJP will not achievemajority in the Rajya Sabha, Modiand his deputy Amit Shah haveshown how Bills could be pushedthrough with the support of someneutral parties like the Biju JanataDal (BJD).

However, the economy is goingto be the biggest challenge for theModi Government. A plunge indomestic consumption, manufac-

turing, construction, real estate,weakening of industrial production,slump in exports and imports anda mess in the banking and financialsectors need urgent attention.

The Organisation for EconomicCooperation and Development(OECD) recently marginally cut itsgrowth forecast for 2019 to 5.8 percent but said it will pick up to 6.2per cent in 2020 and further to 6.4per cent in 2021. The global brokingfirm Goldman Sachs has forecast amild recovery of the Indian econo-my by March 2020.

Politically there could be somerealignments. The Opposition maycontinue to be scattered and weak.The Congress’ prospects are look-ing up a bit. However, it is yet toemerge as an alternative. Both theCongress and the BJP might havenew presidents. While RahulGandhi is expected to return as theparty chief, the BJP might choosethe present working president JPNadda to lead it from now on.

The BJP ended the year byemerging as the single-largest partyin Haryana and Maharashtra. While

the party formed the Governmentin Haryana, the Shiv Sena-Congress-Nationalist CongressParty combine formed theGovernment in Maharashtra,upstaging the BJP there.

With the parting of ways withthe Shiv Sena, the BJP might haveto look for new friends in the com-ing year. As it is, the NDA hasshrunk with the Telugu DesamParty leaving in March 2019 and theSena in December 2019. The JD(U)and the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD)are the only two big allies left withthe saffron party.

Bihar and Delhi will go forAssembly polls in 2020. Both areimportant for the BJP as it is part ofthe ruling coalition in Bihar and hasbeen trying to get Delhi back as itwas strong in the Capital in the past.The “Modi magic” did not work inboth the States in 2015 as the AamAadmi Party (AAP) won with amassive majority in Delhi and themahagathbandhan, comprising theCongress, JD(U), the RJD andsmaller parties, won in Bihar. Themahagathbandhan has broken up

since then and Nitish Kumar is backas an NDA Chief Minister. Bihar has243 seats and Nitish will lead theBJP-JD(U) combine in the Biharpolls.

As for Delhi, the ruling AAP isgoing strong despite all odds. Thefight there will be three-corneredwith the AAP, the Congress and theBJP fighting for the 70 seats. TheCongress and the BJP have no localleaders to match the stature ofDelhi Chief Minister ArvindKejriwal. However, the BJP’s starcampaigner Modi is planning tokick off the poll campaign onDecember 22 with a huge rally at theRamlila Maidan.

Modi has struck up a friendshipwith US President Donald Trump.It is to be seen who wins the crucial2020 US presidential elections. Inany case, India has the support ofboth Democrats and Republicans inthe US and the victory of BorisJohnson in the United Kingdom(UK) might cement the Indo-UKrelationship further, too, makingthings right for the country as far asthe West is concerned. However,

India has to sort out its differencesin the neighbourhood, particularlywith Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

The Tokyo Olympics in 2020 isan important event as in the 100thyear of India’s participation, theIndian Olympic Association, withthe JSW Group, will showcase thenation’s heritage and economicmight through an India House. Itseems strange that a country of morethan 1.3 billion people can only col-lect an average of less than onemedal per games. Maybe the newyear will see the nation shore up itswinnings as more and more peopletake to sports and training takes cen-tre stage.

India will be hosting the next‘No Money for Terror’ MinisterialConference in 2020. Restrictingfunding is the key to stopping ter-ror in its tracks, as money is thebackbone for training, attacks andother terror infrastructure.

Though the year 2020 is notpacked with events, nevertheless, itis only the beginning and eventsmight overtake any prediction.

(The writer is a senior journalist)

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Telecom operators will con-tinue to pay 6 paise per

minute for every outgoing callmade to their competitors’network till December 31, 2020following sector regulator Trai’sdecision announced onTuesday.

These charges were pro-posed to become zero fromJanuary 1, 2021. Telecomindustry body COAI sees it asa relief for the debt ridden sec-tor and expects that continuingwith six paise mobile call ter-mination charge will not haveany impact on consumers asoperators have alreadyabsorbed this charge in theirrecently increased mobile calland data rates.

“For wireless to wireless

domestic calls, terminationcharge would continue toremain as Re 0.06 (paise sixonly) per minute up toDecember 31, 2020,” TheTelecom Regulatory Authorityof India (Trai) said.

The rate were reduced to 6paise with effect from October1, 2017 from 14 paise chargedearlier and it was to become nilfrom January 1, 2020. “FromJanuary 1, 2021 onwards thetermination charge for wireless(mobile) to wireless (mobile)domestic calls shall be zero,” theregulator added.

According to estimates,industry players lost Rs 11,000crore when interconnect usagecharge for mobile calls wasreduced to 6 paise from 14paise. Further, removal of themobile call termination charges

from January 1, 2020 wouldhave impacted the sector by approximately Rs3,672 crore.

“Keeping in view theabove, along with the interestsof consumers, and to ensureorderly and sustainable growthof telecom sector, the Authorityis of the considered view thatthe date for implementation ofBAK (bill and keep- where nooperators bills to competitor forIUC) be deferred by 12 monthsto make it applicable fromJanuary 1, 2021,” Trai said.

Levy of mobile call termi-nation implies operator pro-viding free call will have bearthe burden of 6 paise perminute for every outgoing callmade outside the network andwill therefore need to makeprovision within mobile call

plans to recover these charges.“The incumbent operators

have perhaps requested longerperiod because IUC (inter-connection usage charges) isheld for about 3 years. This extension lends somesense of predictability, stabili-ty and transparency forinvestors. It is definitely a movein the right direction,” COAIDirector General Rajan SMathews said.

Reliance Jio had startedlevying 6 paise extra per minutefor calls made outside its net-work, while Trai was workingon reviewing the IUC fees. Thecompany rolled out new plansfrom December 6 in which itclaims to have made five timeshigher provision for free out-going calls compared to normalusage of subscribers.

New Delhi: The 5G trials areexpected to begin in the lastquarter of the current fiscal,and the Government has nei-ther approved nor rejected anyapplicant so far, a senior tele-com department official saidon Tuesday.

Asked if the Governmenthas taken a decision onHuawei’s participation, the offi-cial said that 12 applicationshave been received for 5G tri-als and that it has not rejectedor approved any proposal sofar. “The 5G trials will start inthe last quarter of the currentfinancial year,” the official said.

Another seniorGovernment functionary saidthat any proposal on 5G mustaddress twin considerations -first adoption of new technol-ogy, and imperatives of nation-al security. The official said 5Gshould not be linked to gener-al spectrum auctions — whichis expected to take place inMarch-April next year. PTI

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Market gauges Sensex andNifty hit new milestones

on Tuesday as investors cheeredeasing trade war tensions andsustained foreign fund inflows.

After touching an all-timeintra-day high of 41,401.65, the30-share BSE Sensex settled413.45 points, or 1.01 per cent,higher 41,352.17 — its freshclosing peak. Similarly, thebroader 50-scrip NSE Niftysoared to its new intra-day highof 12,182.75 before ending111.05 points, or 0.92 per cent,up at 12,165 — a record clos-ing level. On the Sensex, metalstocks drove the rally riding onUS-China trade deal optimism.

Telecom, financial and ITstocks too boosted the indexgain. Tata Steel was the top gain-er in the Sensex pack, surging

4.38 per cent, followed by BhartiAirtel 4.37 per cent, Vedanta3.50 per cent, Tata Motors 3.03per cent, HDFC 2.46 per centand Bajaj Finance 2.39 per cent.

On the other hand, SunPharma fell 1.37 per cent,M&M 0.63 per cent, Bajaj Auto0.56 per cent and HUL 0.48 percent. Sectorally, BSE telecom,metal, teck, basic materials,IT and finance rallied up to3.28 per cent. While BSE con-sumer durables, healthcare,realty and energy indices fell upto 0.68 per cent. Broader BSEmidcap and smallcap indicessurged up to 0.66 per cent.“Positive global sentimentsbuoyed by easing trade war ten-sions between the US andChina continue to pump mar-ket,” Vinod Nair, Head ofResearch at Geojit FinancialServices, said.

Mumbai: The InternationalMonetary Fund is set to joinother downbeat analysts andcut the growth estimate forIndia “significantly”, its India-born chief economist GitaGopinath said on Tuesday.

The Washington-basedinstitution had come out withan estimate in October and willbe reviewing the same nextmonth in January, she said atthe India Economic Conclaveorganised by Times Network.

A fall in consumption, lackof private investments andsluggish exports are beingblamed for a slower GDPgrowth which slid to a six-yearlow of 4.5 per cent inSeptember. The RBI and otherwatchers have done downwardreviews of their growth forecastfor India for FY2020.

Gopinath said India is theonly emerging market whichhas thrown a surprise of thiskind. “If you look at recentincoming data, we would berevising our numbers andcome up with numbers inJanuary, and it is likely to be asignificant downward revisionfor India,” she said, refusing to share a number oreven mention if it would beunder 5 per cent.

The IMF in its Octoberforecast had projected 6.1 percent growth for India in 2019and the same to go up to 7 percent in 2020. She also sound-ed doubtful about the countryachieving USD 5 trillion

GDP target by FY2025,and chose to present her casearithematically.

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The Government on Tuesdaypromised broadband access

in all villages by 2022, as itlaunched the ambitiousNational Broadband Missionentailing stakeholder invest-ment of Rs 7 lakh crore in thecoming years.

The mission will facilitateuniversal and equitable accessto broadband services acrossthe country, especially in ruraland remote areas. It alsoinvolves laying of incremental30 lakh route km of OpticalFiber Cable and increase intower density from 0.42 to 1tower per thousand of popula-tion by 2024.

The mission — unveiled byCommunications MinisterRavi Shankar Prasad — willalso aim at significantly

improving quality of servicesfor mobile and internet.

“By 2022, we will takebroadband to all the villages ofIndia...The number of towers inthe country which is about 5.65lakh will be increased to 10lakh,” Prasad said.

The mission also envisagesincreasing fiberisation of tow-ers to 70 per cent from 30 percent at present, he added.

The mission will enablestrengthening of technologicalinfrastructure for education,health, entrepreneurship anddevelopment, he said. “We willalso take the speeds up to 50Mbps is a phased manner,”Prasad promised.

He urged the States toextend full support to the mis-sion, to take benefits of tech-nology (fuelled by high speedconnectivity) to people.

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State-owned NBCC onTuesday won approval of

financial creditors to takeoverdebt-laden Jaypee InfratechLtd, rekindling hopes of home-buyers finally getting theirpromised flats over the nextfour years.

A week-long voting on thetakeover proposals submittedby NBCC and Mumbai-basedreal estate firm Suraksha Realtyended close to midnight, withresults going in favour of thestate-owned firm with a over-whelming majority of 97.36 percent favouring it.

This is the third round ofbidding process to find a buyerfor Jaypee Infratech, whichwent into Corporate InsolvencyResolution Process (CIRP) inAugust 2017.

The successful resolutionwill provide a big relief to over20,000 homebuyers across var-ious housing projects launchedby Jaypee Infratech in Noida andGreater Noida (Uttar Pradesh).As many as 13 banks and over21,000 homebuyers have votingrights in the Committee ofCreditors (CoC). Buyers have57.66 per cent voting rights,fixed deposit holders 0.13 percent and lenders 42.21 per cent.For a bid to be approved, 66 percent votes are required.

In a filing to the BSE,Jaypee Infratech’s InterimResolution Professional (IRP)Anuj Jain informed that NBCCgot 57.66 per cent vote ofhomebuyers and 0.13 per centof fixed deposit holders. Thepublic sector firm got 39.57 percent votes of lenders out of total42.21 per cent votes.

IFCI, which has votingrights of 1.21 per cent,

abstained from voting process,while ICICI Bank (1.31 percent) and SREI EquipmentFinance Ltd (0.12 per cent)voted against NBCC’s bid.

Suraksha managed to get2.12 per cent votes as only fixeddeposit holders and two lenders— Axis Bank and The Jammuand Kashmir Bank Ltd —favoured it. Out of 21,781 home-buyers that are part of the CoC,as many as 12,147 flat ownersvoted on NBCC’s resolutionplan, of which 97.02 per centwere in favour. After the CoCapproval, NBCC’s bid has to beapproved by the NationalCompany Law Tribunal (NCLT).

On December 7, the CoCdecided to put on vote simul-taneously the bids of NBCC(India) Ltd and Suraksha Realtyto acquire the bankrupt realtyfirm. The voting process start-ed on December 10 and endedon December 16.

In its bid, NBCC has pro-posed to complete over 20,000pending flats in the next three-and-a-half years. Homebuyers’claim amounting to Rs 13,364crore and lenders’ claim worthRs 9,783 crore have beenadmitted. In its latest bids,NBCC offered 1,526 acres ofland to lenders under a land-debt swap deal. On YamunaExpressway, NBCC has pro-posed to transfer the road assetto lenders but before that itwould take a loan of around Rs2,500 crore against toll revenueto fund construction spend.

Jaypee Infratech, a sub-sidiary of crisis-hit JaiprakashAssociates, went into insol-vency process in August 2017after the National CompanyLaw Tribunal (NCLT) admittedan application by an IDBIBank-led consortium.

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The Securities AppellateTribunal (SAT) on Tuesday

asked Sebi to pass an orderwithin 15 days in KarvyBroking matter on Axis Bank’splea, which said the regulator’sruling is preventing the lenderfrom accessing securitiespledged by the broking firmthrough another account.

The order comes followinga Sebi directive to the NationalSecurities Depository Ltd(NSDL) in November that pre-vented Axis Bank from access-ing the securities pledged withthe lender by Karvy StockBroking Limited (KSBL). The

case pertains to the securitiesheld by KSBL, which wereused by the brokerage for bor-rowing, courtesy the power ofattorneys (PoA) that they held.

The securities held by over83,000 clients were given backto them after Sebi asked NSDLto do so, forcing lenders —Bajaj Finance, ICICI Bank,HDFC Bank and IndusIndBank — to move SAT andsecure an interim relief onfurther transfers.

However, SAT refused anyimmediate relief to top lenders. NSDL’s move helped90 per cent of KSBL’s demataccount holders get back theirsecurities.

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The revised corporate taxrates are competitive and its

impact will be visible in thenext two years, industry bodyCII’s President VikramKirloskar said on Tuesday as heemphasised that the govern-ment listened to the industry“word by word” on loweringrates. He said the industrypushed the government a lotfor reducing the rates.

“For me, it was a surprise(when the Government inSeptember announced the sig-nificant cut in tax). I felt real-ly good. I felt that they have lis-tened to us. Very frankly andthey listened ‘word to word’,”Kirloskar said.

He spoke to PTI after a pre-Budget meeting with FinanceMinister Nirmala Sitharamanthat was attended by him andrepresentatives of other indus-try organisations.

New York: Defence MinisterRajnath Singh has said thatIndia is impacted to someextent by the global economicslowdown but expressed con-fidence that the country willcome out of the difficult situ-ation within a short time.

Singh, who arrived in theUS on Monday for the secondtwo-plus-two dialogue betweenIndia and the US inWashington DC on December18, addressed members of theIndian community at educa-tional organisation Asia Societyhere at an event organised bythe Consulate General of India.

He said currently worldover, there is talk of global eco-nomic slowdown. “I also acceptthere is global economic slow-down and India is also impact-ed by it to some extent. But I cansay with confidence that Indiawill come out of this difficult sit-uation in only few months’ time,”Singh said. PTI

New Delhi: The GST Councilwill meet on Wednesday toreview the taxation structure forshoring up the revenue as lower-than-expected collections hasled to a delay in compensationpayment to States.

Some States like West Bengalhave opposed any hike in cessrates or rate calibration amid aslowdown in economy, statingthat consumers as well as theindustry are passing through adistressing time. With revenueshortfall looming large, therehave been suggestions for raisingGST rate and cess to meet thegap. The GST Council headed byFinance Minister NirmalaSitharaman had sought sugges-tions from States on review ofGST and compensation cessrates on various items, rate cal-ibrations for addressing theinverted duty structure, compli-ance measures other than thosecurrently under implementa-tion to augment revenue. PTI

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Amid concerns that the govern-ment may fall short of tax col-

lection target in a slowing economy,the Centre has set an ambitious Rs1.1 lakh crore monthly GST targetfor the remaining four months ofthe current fiscal and asked taxmento step up efforts to achievethe goal. RevenueSecretary Ajay BhushanPandey held a video con-ference meeting with toptax officials of depart-ments looking after bothincome tax and indirecttaxes such as GST and asked themto step up efforts to achieve tax tar-gets, finance ministry sources said.

While taxmen have been askedto plug evasions, Pandey impressedupon them to achieve targets with-out harassing honest taxpayers.Taxmen were told in no uncertainterms that both the GST as well asthe Rs 13.35 lakh crore target fordirect taxes for 2019-20 will have tobe achieved.

In the meeting, the GST targetwas set at Rs 1.10 lakh crore everymonth between December 2019and March 2020. Of these fourmonths, Rs 1.25 lakh collections hasto be achieved in at least onemonth, the sources said. GrossGST collections, which include theshare of both Centre and the states,crossed Rs 1 lakh crore mark in fourout of the eights months of the cur-

rent fiscal and only once was aboveRs 1.1 lakh crore. At the currenttrend, the GST tax collection targetis likely to be missed by at least Rs1 lakh crore.

Out of the Rs 13.35 lakh croredirect tax collection target, about Rs6 lakh crore or 45 per cent of theannual target, has been collected tillOctober (first seven months). For2019-20, the Union government istargeting Rs 6.63 lakh crore from itsshare of GST revenues. GST sub-

sumed 17 centre and state levies andthe two equally split the revenues.The sources said the revenue depart-ment in the finance ministry is tak-ing concerted measures to augmentcollections in the next four collec-tion months and has exhorted itssenior officers, including Membersof Central Board of Indirect Taxesand Customs (CBIC) and CentralBoard of Direct Taxes (CBDT), aswell as other top officials to achievetax targets both for direct and indi-rect taxes. Officers have been par-ticularly urged to ensure that dur-ing such field enforcement drive andvisits, no taxpayer is overreached ortroubled, they said. Also, it was clar-ified to the officers that the corpo-rate tax relief worth Rs 1.45 lakhcrore by way of a cut in rates, shouldnot be taken as an excuse for less-er direct tax collection.

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Script Open High Low LTPFRETAIL 330.20 345.00 329.10 335.50HDFC 2365.00 2435.00 2360.00 2430.80TATASTEEL 423.95 441.75 423.30 439.50TVSMOTOR 448.50 456.60 448.00 451.30IBULHSGFIN 313.30 314.50 303.40 304.95AXISBANK 747.10 756.40 741.60 745.55RELIANCE 1569.80 1579.50 1555.60 1562.15BBTC 1025.00 1054.55 1025.00 1036.70TCS 2130.00 2169.00 2119.25 2165.65JINDALSTEL 137.85 147.80 137.05 145.70TATAMOTORS 176.10 181.20 175.40 180.20SUNPHARMA 435.70 437.45 426.50 429.05INFY 717.55 731.50 715.30 729.30YESBANK 47.25 48.15 46.80 47.60SBIN 333.50 335.65 330.75 332.85MARUTI 7210.00 7274.95 7168.05 7196.85FINEORG 1803.20 1803.60 1782.00 1785.00BHARTIARTL 424.05 441.30 417.90 439.95LT 1310.70 1324.90 1303.90 1317.70DMART 1779.00 1910.00 1774.75 1882.55NIITTECH 1485.00 1642.05 1485.00 1606.20MARICO 330.00 331.90 327.90 329.55IDEA 6.59 6.99 6.36 6.90RBLBANK 338.00 342.80 336.65 340.60HDFCBANK 1261.00 1275.00 1255.75 1272.25JSWSTEEL 254.75 261.60 254.20 258.85VEDL 148.30 154.20 148.00 152.35MRF 64120.00 64969.95 63900.00 64654.35BAJFINANCE 4044.00 4155.70 4044.00 4135.20ZEEL 278.20 286.55 278.20 279.70BPCL 495.00 503.50 491.20 496.00INDUSINDBK 1505.00 1508.65 1486.55 1492.40OBEROIRLTY 524.70 527.05 512.50 514.35ITC 238.00 241.65 237.15 241.10SAIL 39.75 41.45 39.35 40.85BANKBARODA 101.30 103.45 101.30 102.25ICICIBANK 539.60 543.15 538.90 541.15HDFCAMC 3164.90 3165.75 3097.00 3153.00DLF 230.65 231.40 228.45 229.95BAJAJFINSV 9300.00 9392.75 9270.10 9367.35ADANIENT 211.00 213.05 210.00 211.10HINDALCO 208.70 214.70 207.00 213.70PNB 63.95 65.60 63.70 64.70POWERGRID 186.95 188.80 185.70 188.20JUBLFOOD 1604.00 1616.70 1576.40 1583.75JUSTDIAL 575.00 597.90 570.00 591.25LICHSGFIN 431.75 445.70 427.85 443.05HINDUNILVR 1974.75 1994.80 1950.30 1964.45BATAINDIA 1699.25 1699.30 1676.40 1683.10L&TFH 116.00 119.20 115.15 118.30MFSL 502.30 517.75 501.35 510.25KOTAKBANK 1715.00 1720.35 1709.00 1713.05SIEMENS 1499.00 1503.90 1481.00 1495.15SBILIFE 969.00 978.65 967.45 973.00COLPAL 1467.40 1478.40 1461.80 1466.45PVR 1760.00 1799.95 1754.90 1793.05M&MFIN 329.50 329.50 320.25 321.65BANDHANBNK 497.00 497.00 478.65 480.00BEML 986.15 1001.00 985.35 987.00SUNTV 457.95 464.70 454.20 456.70TECHM 779.95 782.00 773.00 777.20PIDILITIND 1319.75 1331.15 1309.00 1327.60APOLLOHOSP 1372.00 1372.00 1342.00 1363.45SRF 3286.75 3286.75 3226.65 3240.70DABUR 458.05 462.30 456.60 460.50GODREJPROP 935.00 948.35 919.50 922.75BHARATFORG 477.75 489.00 471.15 485.95SRTRANSFIN 1082.00 1108.10 1069.00 1093.60MOTHERSUMI 141.35 142.55 140.70 142.00PAGEIND 22647.30 22647.30 21968.65 22205.65TIINDIA 477.05 483.00 476.30 478.00AUROPHARMA 459.95 459.95 445.80 448.60M&M 513.00 513.00 505.00 505.85TATAELXSI 845.15 870.25 845.15 856.05LTTS 1521.15 1521.15 1486.00 1498.85HDFCLIFE 594.75 599.60 586.40 595.45ESCORTS 616.00 624.00 613.80 615.60JAICORPLTD 90.60 99.60 89.85 96.35CANBK 227.00 231.95 227.00 229.05INFRATEL 249.25 251.30 244.90 248.20HINDPETRO 263.30 268.60 263.30 264.85TATAGLOBAL 326.90 329.80 322.60 325.25BALKRISIND 946.90 955.60 944.00 948.95MGL 1039.35 1082.30 1035.00 1071.80EQUITAS 107.00 107.15 102.60 104.80BEL 100.25 101.40 100.00 100.15EIHOTEL 142.70 144.10 141.00 142.25DISHTV 13.04 13.50 12.91 13.27NATIONALUM 42.35 43.50 42.15 42.50MUTHOOTFIN 723.45 723.45 715.00 717.20IGL 424.00 435.00 420.00 432.60ULTRACEMCO 4120.00 4145.00 4057.50 4119.65UJJIVAN 330.00 331.00 324.65 329.20EICHERMOT 21765.00 21910.55 21640.80 21695.85ICICIGI 1352.65 1361.05 1341.00 1347.35TATAMTRDVR 73.80 75.80 72.85 75.45INDIGO 1303.05 1319.75 1296.10 1315.35UNIONBANK 58.00 59.10 57.85 58.20ASHOKLEY 79.10 80.80 79.10 80.45COALINDIA 192.70 196.50 192.10 196.20LINDEINDIA 636.00 697.95 614.00 669.65HEXAWARE 342.90 342.90 337.50 338.05ONGC 125.60 125.90 124.35 125.45GRASIM 766.75 772.95 757.35 768.85PEL 1657.80 1680.30 1653.95 1660.45TITAN 1170.00 1170.00 1152.50 1158.25PETRONET 274.95 280.40 274.95 278.10

NCC 53.00 53.85 52.80 53.35IOC 125.90 126.70 125.00 125.75GRAPHITE 306.70 310.90 305.45 307.05GAIL 120.80 120.80 118.35 119.75SCI 61.60 65.10 61.60 63.80HEROMOTOCO 2315.00 2328.75 2299.00 2302.95FEDERALBNK 86.30 87.20 85.65 85.95JUBILANT 555.00 559.80 542.10 546.70ADANIPOWER 61.80 62.35 60.95 61.85BHEL 45.65 46.40 45.60 45.90CEATLTD 985.00 994.50 985.00 990.40RAJESHEXPO 689.00 696.00 685.20 691.55CIPLA 463.70 466.00 460.55 463.85HEG 1111.10 1131.70 1105.60 1115.35ABFRL 229.80 242.00 229.10 233.95MINDTREE 761.35 779.00 759.00 772.75RELINFRA 23.30 23.30 22.15 23.30WIPRO 246.80 246.80 243.60 244.75WHIRLPOOL 2254.00 2254.00 2122.25 2159.65GMRINFRA 21.25 22.00 21.00 21.85DRREDDY 2830.00 2844.15 2812.15 2827.45ACC 1441.05 1465.20 1439.25 1462.35TATAPOWER 55.35 56.20 54.75 56.05GLENMARK 345.60 349.65 344.25 346.15LUPIN 745.30 756.25 745.30 754.00INDIANB 116.45 116.90 108.95 110.15VOLTAS 678.70 680.75 666.65 669.10BIOCON 295.50 295.95 288.50 290.80DELTACORP 218.90 222.10 213.65 217.20PCJEWELLER 27.50 27.50 24.90 25.90TRIDENT 8.25 8.25 6.90 7.20ICICIPRULI 497.00 502.00 492.10 494.90BRITANNIA 3055.70 3075.60 3048.05 3071.35STRTECH 114.80 117.10 112.85 113.65ASIANPAINT 1740.00 1749.00 1731.65 1745.30SPICEJET 103.25 104.00 101.55 102.05PIIND 1489.90 1505.00 1483.00 1500.45NMDC 115.25 117.60 114.35 117.15STAR 374.00 376.60 372.15 373.55AMARAJABAT 725.00 754.00 725.00 749.85HCLTECH 554.00 559.25 553.05 557.50ADANIPORTS 369.40 373.15 367.85 371.15BAJAJ-AUTO 3226.50 3226.50 3194.35 3199.55RAYMOND 685.50 689.90 676.40 679.10UPL 562.50 567.50 556.20 564.15RNAM 345.80 346.50 340.35 343.25BOMDYEING 74.00 77.30 74.00 76.95ENDURANCE 1048.35 1067.85 1030.00 1058.60GAYAPROJ 80.90 84.50 80.90 82.00CASTROLIND 131.30 136.20 130.70 131.90DIVISLAB 1859.00 1866.85 1834.25 1846.30NBCC 35.15 35.90 34.75 35.25NTPC 115.05 115.90 113.70 115.55ITI 90.55 93.30 90.55 91.80PNBHOUSING 444.80 448.65 435.75 446.00PFC 114.50 115.20 113.20 114.70BERGEPAINT 498.90 498.90 491.05 492.95IRB 72.00 72.55 70.15 70.45HAVELLS 647.00 647.35 639.90 642.30GUJGAS 230.95 233.95 227.10 228.45AMBUJACEM 194.50 199.25 194.40 198.50NESTLEIND 14150.60 14232.60 14088.00 14144.50ADANITRANS 333.70 337.50 329.60 333.95OMAXE 154.05 155.80 145.05 154.45IDFCFIRSTB 43.40 43.40 42.70 42.80GODFRYPHLP 1227.00 1285.05 1221.55 1254.20CUMMINSIND 545.80 564.50 543.00 562.00ADANIGREEN 136.80 136.90 134.50 135.45MCX 1133.00 1149.10 1133.00 1146.80TORNTPOWER 271.95 275.85 270.60 273.05BALRAMCHIN 170.00 172.70 168.05 170.10RECLTD 136.05 138.45 135.20 138.00NAUKRI 2564.00 2675.05 2563.90 2606.10INDIACEM 72.15 72.85 71.40 71.65GSKCONS 8500.00 8550.00 8356.00 8377.45IBVENTURES 165.20 168.65 159.95 161.85CESC 731.70 745.55 726.90 742.40BLISSGVS 151.00 151.00 148.75 150.10DALBHARAT 804.75 832.00 801.00 825.75SUZLON 2.02 2.05 1.92 2.01CONCOR 577.25 580.25 572.55 575.65BANKINDIA 71.55 72.20 70.90 71.25GODREJCP 675.00 686.85 669.00 677.75PRESTIGE 317.00 337.65 317.00 327.95VIPIND 428.70 432.60 424.15 424.65WOCKPHARMA 246.65 246.95 243.35 244.35IDBI 38.10 38.10 37.30 37.45

MANAPPURAM 173.00 173.00 169.70 171.90CHAMBLFERT 146.40 150.80 145.85 149.85ABCAPITAL 100.20 100.75 98.50 98.95ADANIGAS 152.30 152.50 150.35 150.55POLYCAB 971.15 989.80 967.70 975.05SUNTECK 410.00 410.70 395.25 404.70PFIZER 4404.80 4442.00 4361.10 4381.25APOLLOTYRE 166.00 167.50 165.05 165.50TRENT 520.00 526.50 502.15 515.00AVANTI 536.50 543.90 532.00 540.25RPOWER 3.45 3.53 3.45 3.53TATACHEM 656.00 663.00 653.15 654.10PERSISTENT 671.45 675.05 671.45 672.95SUVEN 286.00 292.85 284.85 290.40ASTRAZEN 2890.00 2927.25 2839.20 2854.20NOCIL 97.35 101.60 96.85 100.25BOSCHLTD 15300.00 15330.00 15104.20 15148.50PGHL 4050.00 4053.00 3951.10 3966.35GRANULES 130.50 130.55 125.25 126.25TORNTPHARM 1835.55 1869.55 1831.50 1833.70INOXLEISUR 371.70 382.20 369.80 370.45ABB 1480.55 1494.00 1467.50 1473.60RAMCOCEM 774.00 777.90 768.00 772.75SPARC 164.95 165.10 163.00 164.00KEC 296.95 300.20 295.05 298.85JMFINANCIL 96.80 98.00 93.60 96.20RCF 45.65 46.15 45.40 45.90INDHOTEL 146.05 150.00 145.10 149.30KEI 437.00 452.50 436.00 443.50ERIS 478.90 490.00 478.90 485.10TIMETECHNO 47.90 53.85 47.75 52.70LALPATHLAB 1462.80 1481.30 1452.70 1463.10CADILAHC 261.20 262.50 258.20 259.25SWANENERGY 101.65 103.55 101.50 102.50OIL 151.85 153.55 149.75 151.85TATACOFFEE 93.00 97.60 93.00 95.30RELCAPITAL 11.90 11.90 11.70 11.90QUESS 482.40 500.25 481.85 492.85DCBBANK 172.90 173.00 169.80 171.60SHREECEM 20370.80 20692.60 20230.25 20605.00REPCOHOME 327.00 340.25 318.95 322.10DEEPAKNI 358.00 364.70 354.45 361.85CANFINHOME 416.00 422.85 414.80 419.20PHILIPCARB 112.15 113.60 110.60 111.00IPCALAB 1132.25 1153.70 1114.60 1148.90IBREALEST 62.50 62.75 60.60 61.30SYNGENE 298.00 307.90 291.25 300.20FORCEMOT 996.60 1012.90 986.00 992.40RAIN 95.45 96.85 94.85 95.45VENKYS 1714.30 1732.55 1695.30 1702.60AJANTPHARM 978.75 981.50 973.25 976.35ABBOTINDIA 13288.55 13450.05 13250.00 13349.85ITDC 330.00 338.70 327.40 331.05ORIENTBANK 55.00 55.35 53.45 53.90EXIDEIND 185.00 186.15 183.55 184.60HINDCOPPER 37.80 39.45 37.75 38.35RITES 276.00 280.50 275.25 278.85CHOLAFIN 306.00 312.10 306.00 310.65HINDZINC 207.50 208.50 206.95 208.20CUB 227.45 234.70 227.30 229.95INFIBEAM 47.70 48.10 46.50 47.25MMTC 18.70 19.80 18.70 19.50BAJAJCON 222.05 224.70 220.15 223.90GSPL 218.00 221.75 216.05 216.60HFCL 17.20 17.30 17.10 17.15COFFEEDAY 44.85 45.35 42.00 45.35KAJARIACER 532.00 532.00 516.75 519.65GODREJIND 428.45 436.25 425.05 434.75DCMSHRIRAM 340.35 357.20 340.00 354.50EIDPARRY 202.65 206.00 200.65 201.20FCONSUMER 24.30 24.30 23.80 23.95EDELWEISS 119.15 119.50 116.00 116.80FSL 39.00 40.65 38.85 40.15GICRE 233.00 237.15 231.60 232.45TATAMETALI 582.00 598.15 582.00 590.40PTC 53.20 54.50 53.10 54.35JKTYRE 71.55 72.50 71.20 71.75KTKBANK 71.00 71.85 70.80 71.55MOTILALOFS 772.00 778.00 761.25 763.25BAJAJELEC 332.00 344.40 332.00 341.60WELCORP 139.85 140.00 136.50 137.10ECLERX 525.15 541.60 525.15 538.10CRISIL 1725.00 1795.65 1724.95 1775.15LTI 1642.25 1654.90 1640.55 1646.25UBL 1230.00 1230.00 1204.75 1209.80GODREJAGRO 500.95 501.20 497.50 500.55IDFC 33.20 33.20 32.45 32.55HONAUT 27208.40 27740.00 27208.40 27571.05RADICO 300.65 302.95 297.70 298.00COROMANDEL 511.45 512.00 503.00 508.90ATUL 4024.65 4047.00 4000.00 4002.35TIMKEN 861.60 900.90 853.95 897.70JINDALSAW 73.80 76.30 73.80 75.95MAHLIFE 388.70 405.75 377.80 401.25GNFC 172.00 174.20 171.60 173.15HUDCO 36.45 37.25 36.20 36.60ZENSARTECH 178.00 178.00 167.70 170.80DBL 402.95 403.20 393.35 394.25MINDAIND 343.35 344.95 335.80 340.85WABAG 175.25 176.65 172.10 173.00JAMNAAUTO 40.00 41.00 39.45 39.80GLAXO 1658.80 1658.80 1635.20 1646.75MAHINDCIE 158.60 160.85 155.35 160.40NHPC 23.95 24.05 23.85 23.95MEGH 49.40 50.05 49.15 49.35CROMPTON 244.10 244.10 241.00 242.70GILLETTE 6597.95 6639.65 6535.00 6571.30RELAXO 611.90 611.90 605.45 606.50

JPASSOCIAT 2.36 2.40 2.27 2.38JSWENERGY 71.00 71.75 70.20 71.05LAXMIMACH 3229.45 3265.00 3225.00 3230.70CORPBANK 26.80 26.80 24.75 24.95TNPL 182.50 182.50 171.20 172.40ENGINERSIN 104.30 104.60 102.25 103.15JBCHEPHARM 424.60 427.15 422.75 424.40MPHASIS 863.50 873.85 857.40 870.40TV18BRDCST 21.55 22.50 21.35 22.05NIACL 133.80 136.50 132.70 133.55VINATIORGA 1954.40 1992.90 1953.40 1980.10SUDARSCHEM 400.00 400.50 394.90 395.35J&KBANK 29.95 30.30 29.80 29.95ASTERDM 156.70 160.75 155.90 156.20KANSAINER 547.00 549.50 537.00 543.60AUBANK 797.00 800.05 790.60 797.40KALPATPOWR 409.00 421.00 408.20 418.90SOUTHBANK 10.52 10.54 10.45 10.47MRPL 43.85 43.95 42.60 42.70FORTIS 134.80 137.40 134.40 135.05RVNL 23.45 23.45 23.20 23.25THERMAX 1020.00 1037.20 1014.35 1033.45IIFL 160.00 160.00 151.60 155.15UFLEX 195.60 196.05 193.10 193.75INTELLECT 149.10 152.45 149.10 151.00GHCL 198.25 198.25 194.20 194.90PARAGMILK 139.90 140.35 138.15 138.80IFBIND 612.70 639.50 610.00 623.35NATCOPHARM 582.55 583.20 578.25 582.25SYNDIBANK 28.70 29.05 28.20 28.50PGHH 11351.60 11395.55 11270.00 11309.65AAVAS 1911.35 1915.00 1877.10 1898.65ADVENZYMES 162.00 166.80 161.00 165.85HSCL 56.55 57.10 56.00 56.35BDL 290.30 290.30 283.35 284.85BAJAJHLDNG 3298.55 3310.00 3279.05 3290.30IRCON 394.55 395.00 386.00 387.80ASHOKA 92.50 93.50 92.25 92.90RALLIS 169.45 172.20 166.70 167.25GESHIP 294.00 301.45 293.20 297.55AEGISLOG 183.00 186.50 182.20 184.15IFCI 6.55 6.74 6.51 6.56NAVINFLUOR 933.90 949.00 933.90 945.00ALBK 19.25 19.35 19.10 19.15SOBHA 390.70 401.80 390.70 397.40TTKPRESTIG 5802.00 5852.05 5695.45 5780.80ITDCEM 51.70 51.70 48.20 50.85CENTRALBK 19.00 19.15 18.85 18.90CHENNPETRO 118.80 119.55 114.60 115.75KRBL 219.00 223.95 217.05 221.45ISEC 350.00 353.80 345.00 346.10GALAXYSURF 1435.20 1477.90 1435.20 1471.20CENTURYPLY 163.95 164.10 160.50 162.35EMAMILTD 305.25 309.00 303.40 305.40VGUARD 219.15 219.15 215.90 216.35UCOBANK 16.80 16.80 16.50 16.65ASTRAL 1140.00 1153.35 1131.30 1144.95SUNDRMFAST 435.00 440.30 430.35 433.40CYIENT 388.00 397.20 386.50 393.75JKLAKSHMI 271.10 275.90 263.00 274.00GUJALKALI 385.10 401.80 385.10 395.00REDINGTON 112.65 118.00 112.60 116.95BALMLAWRIE 189.70 190.40 187.10 187.90JISLJALEQS 7.74 7.88 7.53 7.88CCL 190.40 203.30 187.90 196.90ESSELPRO 153.85 153.85 150.00 151.75HAL 741.00 761.15 735.50 746.20DCAL 126.95 127.30 122.50 123.05RCOM 0.85 0.85 0.80 0.85CAPPL 314.90 315.00 305.85 309.10PRSMJOHNSN 62.60 62.60 61.00 61.20BIRLACORPN 629.75 632.50 612.40 620.05MAGMA 56.00 56.00 53.25 53.30CGPOWER 12.42 12.42 11.60 11.64NESCO 650.10 656.00 631.10 633.30SADBHAV 118.50 119.05 117.95 118.35GSFC 68.00 69.35 68.00 68.70HEIDELBERG 174.85 180.50 174.60 177.65CREDITACC 804.70 804.70 793.60 794.45SUPREMEIND 1121.75 1135.00 1121.50 1132.75NH 310.00 310.15 305.55 306.80GEPIL 708.45 729.00 686.00 724.65APLLTD 548.00 555.00 546.40 552.25LAKSHVILAS 19.10 19.10 18.50 18.65FINCABLES 356.10 373.40 355.40 370.50SONATSOFTW 300.95 303.50 295.00 301.35VBL 706.00 715.50 706.00 713.10BLUEDART 2167.30 2237.00 2152.95 2209.70APLAPOLLO 1660.15 1663.00 1622.00 1638.70MAHLOG 378.00 378.00 370.00 371.85LUXIND 1425.00 1428.30 1386.05 1411.453MINDIA 20860.15 21085.00 20737.55 20971.35BAYERCROP 3510.00 3621.00 3510.00 3595.80MHRIL 215.00 216.85 213.30 214.15TEJASNET 81.70 81.70 79.70 80.25PNCINFRA 194.20 198.85 192.70 197.30INOXWIND 34.25 36.20 34.25 34.95ORIENTELEC 184.15 188.50 183.50 184.75MOIL 137.55 139.25 137.25 137.45NLCINDIA 54.15 54.50 54.10 54.25BASF 959.05 962.00 945.00 948.25SJVN 24.70 25.05 24.70 24.95ANDHRABANK 17.50 17.85 17.40 17.45WELSPUNIND 48.90 50.15 48.90 49.40LAURUSLABS 350.00 351.75 347.05 347.85CHOLAHLDNG 496.60 500.50 489.50 495.10GREAVESCOT 125.90 127.00 124.60 126.30AIAENG 1645.15 1645.15 1628.35 1631.40

SANOFI 6965.00 6982.80 6840.00 6869.05DHANUKA 344.15 350.95 340.30 341.70GICHSGFIN 150.85 153.90 150.85 151.95METROPOLIS 1276.50 1295.00 1276.00 1290.05IOB 10.20 10.31 10.09 10.14MAHSEAMLES 369.00 372.00 368.00 371.45MASFIN 822.00 822.00 806.15 808.85ALLCARGO 93.50 93.70 92.50 92.75JYOTHYLAB 149.00 149.75 148.00 148.40LAOPALA 141.95 145.50 138.60 144.40NILKAMAL 1276.50 1282.80 1270.80 1273.05JSLHISAR 65.35 68.25 65.30 67.45JAGRAN* 58.00 59.30 57.85 58.75SHANKARA 295.00 296.30 289.40 292.15GET&D 151.30 160.15 151.30 154.35DHFL 16.15 16.15 16.15 16.15GMDCLTD 57.90 58.85 57.75 57.90MAHSCOOTER 4400.40 4455.50 4380.40 4449.30SREINFRA 8.34 8.48 8.15 8.17KNRCON 241.55 242.50 236.40 238.85AKZOINDIA 1935.00 1970.00 1932.25 1961.95TVSSRICHAK 1620.00 1651.00 1595.15 1631.30FDC 201.50 203.05 198.35 201.75SYMPHONY 1143.75 1159.50 1142.00 1149.95IBULISL 75.15 76.80 75.15 76.15WABCOINDIA 6280.00 6365.20 6273.90 6352.65OFSS 2905.00 2966.30 2905.00 2949.00FINOLEXIND 558.00 558.00 548.60 549.95JSL 37.85 38.65 37.80 38.25INDOSTAR 170.20 174.40 168.05 168.70IEX 140.05 142.55 140.00 141.85MINDACORP 92.35 92.55 90.45 90.75PHOENIXLTD 761.20 778.75 761.20 773.75ALKEM 2088.00 2088.00 2061.90 2066.80NETWORK18 26.40 27.00 26.20 26.80BLUESTARCO 795.55 800.00 790.65 794.95MAXINDIA 76.15 79.00 75.95 76.05TAKE 93.80 94.95 93.75 94.10CERA 2544.20 2578.00 2544.20 2551.70

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What are the objectives of Ship VVRecycling Bill 2019? The Recyclingof Ships Bill, 2019, was enacted by

the Government of India to regulate the recy-cling of ships by complying with internationalstandards and laying down the statutorymechanism for enforcement of such standards.Till now, only the guidelines of the SupremeCourt passed in 2013, (as Code) on hazardouswaste management were being followed.Those guidelines have been dovetailed withThe Hong Kong Convention 2009. It will nowensure Green Recycling of Ships and provideadequate safety measures to the yard workersin India. This bill will specifically lay down themeasures as well as legal boundaries for theviolations that would be clearly demarcated inthe provisions of this bill That is why it hasalso been decided to accede to the Hong KongInternational Convention and enact this billfor safe and environmentally sound recyclingof ships.How is Ship Recycling Bill interrelat- ed withHong Kong Convention 2009 to complianceof International stan- dards in Indian ship-yards?

The use of hazardous materials for shipsbeing recycled in Indian yards was alreadybanned vide Supreme Court guidelines passedin 2013. However there was no inbuilt statu-tory mecha- nism for enforcement of theguidelines The Hong Kong Convention laysdown the measures as well as legal boundariesfor enforcement of Green Ship Recycling. Shiprecycling plan and authorisation of the yardsis also being done as per the standards thathave been laid down. The provisions of the2013 Supreme Court guidelines (Code) havebeen conjoined with the Hong KongConvention 2009 in the Ship Recycling Bill2019.You are from Bhavnagar. So how will thedevelopment of Alang, the world's biggestShip Recycling Yard benefit the minister'shome town? Was this the reason to push theBill in the Parliament or is it in the inter-ests of the entire country?

The Ship Recycling Bill 2019 is going topave way for global ships to enter the Indianshipyards for recycling. Countries like Norwayand Japan and many other EU countries areeagerly looking forward to dispatch their ships.As the Bill is going to ensure Green ShipRecycling as well as adequate safety of the yardworkers, it is going to increase the marketvalue as well as business opportunities at

Alang. The safety concerns of the workers aswell as risk involved in the removal of haz-ardous materials in the procedure involvedhave been fully addressed through this bill.Thus implementation of this bill will increasethe employment opportu- nities as well as con-tribute to the busi- ness growth. This will over-all contribute to the country's GDP.

The instrument of India's Accession tothe Hong Kong Convention 2009 was hand-ed over on November 28 this year at therecently concluded 31st IMO session at IMOLondon, and was highly appreciated by theorganisa tion's Secretary General. What isthe importance of India's accession to HKC?And how it is going to impact globally andspecifically to India?

India is one of the world's five major shiprecycling countries. Let me tell you that India'simage is one of the responsible maritimenations in the International community. Indiahas rat- ified all major safety, environmentalpollution and labour conventions. In the sameway India's accessions to the Hong KongConvention also has been given in the recent31st session of IMO. It will provide a boost tothe ship recy- cling industry in India. By thisacces- sion, we bring in environment friendly procedure or green recycling as well as safe-ty measures for the yard work. ers as per

International standards. This will also prohibitthe entry of ships with unlisted hazardousmaterials. The yards will be certified and recy-cling will ng will be carried as per approvedShipSouth Recycling Plan (SRP). MoreoverIndia's recycling volume being a significantpart of the global recycling volume, it is goingto help Hong Kong Convention becomeapplicable the world over. Therefore, it is alandmark movement for the world maritimeindustry.

During the discussions of the bill in theParliament, many members expressed theirconcerns that India would now become adumping ground for old ships. What areyour views on it?

During ships recycling 90-95 per cent ofthe material and its parts/acces sories are recy-cled, retreated and reused. Steel extracted isalso utilised and converted to various by-prod-ucts. The balance material is disposed off inaccordance with planned and laid down sci-entific methods. So rather than leaving anyscrap or junk post recycling, ship recycling willnot only generate more employment but alsopromote downstream industries. I assurethat with the coming in of more ships only theunemployment will be dumped and not anyscrap. Moreover as per the Bill provisions,green recycling will ensure environmentally

safe and sound recy- cling.How will the Bill and HKC eventual- ly

lead to Green Recycling in the world as wellas in India?

As per the Bill's provisions ships recyclingplan and ready for recycling certificaterequires to be issued prior to recycling. Inaddition, inventory of hazardous materials listalso needs to be kept on-board at all times. Theyard facilities also need to be authorised/cer-tified to ensure compli- ance of rules and reg-ulations of the bill. Over and above, punitiveactions for the violations have been laid down.A two-layer regulatory author- ity viz aNational authority and com- petent authori-ty will be monitoring the implementation ofthe provi- sions. Moreover, accession to theHKC, ie compliance of the interna- tionalstandards will add another layer to ensureGreen Recycling. For the HKC to come intoforce, accession by India brings it much clos-er and helps it to meet the most critical, thatis third pre-condition of it coming into force.That is why it is very important for the worldalso.

How is Ship Recycling bill 2019 goingto give an edge to India on going to give anedge to India on ShipSouth Asian countriesregarding business growth?

The maximum recycling yards (by vol-ume) of the world are located in South EastAsia (India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and China).With India becoming the first among thesecoun- tries it is going to give an edge to theship yards on other countries. After India'saccession to the HKC in the recently con-cluded 31st IMO session and subsequent pass-ing of the Ships recycling Bill 2019 by theGovernment of India. Countries like Japan andNorway and many other EU states are eager-ly waiting to dispatch their ships to India. Itis going to give an edge to India over othercountries.

Safe working conditions of the yardworkers is one of the most importantaspects of this bill. What is the safe- ty rulesincorporated in this bill for that very pur-pose?

Certification of yard, carriage of inven-tory of hazardous materials and ready for recy-cling certificate automat- ically will ensuregreen recycling as well as labour safety.Moreover, provisions of the factory Act 1948,and Environmental Protection Act is also partof it. Till now, there was no act and regulato-ry authorities which had pro- visions for puni-

tive actions for the vio- lations. However, pass-ing of this act will ensure safety and safe work-ing of all yard workers.

What are the additional guidelinesand safety measures laid down in the Bill forthe incoming vessels as well as the yards?

Certification of yard, carriage of inven-tory of hazardous materials and ready for recy-cling certificate automatically will ensureGreen recycling as well as labour safety.Moreover, provisions of the Factory Act 1948,and Environmental Protection Act are also apart of it. Till now, there was no act and reg-ulatory authorities which had provisions forpunitive actions for the violations. However,passing of this act will ensure safety and safeworking of all yard workers.

In Gujarat, media have raised concernsover ships Recycling Bill and inflow of moreold vessels that may cause oil spillage lead-ing to heavy marine pollution, which willnot only have adverse marine and envi-ronmental impacts but also force closureof the yard itself. What are your views onthis?

the vessels movement from one regionto another in the International waters is asper the Basel Convention. The older vesselscoming to India for recycling have to be inseaworthy conditions (as per flag state reg-ulations). Before entering into our territo-rial waters, they are thoroughly inspectednot only for sea worthiness but also for anyleakages and or carriage of hazardousmaterials other than mentioned in theinventory. Such ships are supposed to carryminimum oil and fuels for the voyage toreach up to the designated shipyards. Withyard facilities being certified/authorised puni-tive actions are laid down in the provisions ofthe bill for the recycler. These things will actas deterrence for any marine pollution.However in case, of any such eventuality recy-cler is responsible to clear and take the cor-rective measures. State Maritime Boards andregulatory authorities will also keep a closewatch to avoid such situations.

What are the timelines for the ShipRecycling Bill 2019 going to come into force?

The enforcement of this bill in India willhappen after the notification is issued by Govt.of India. If Govt. of India desires to enforcethe bill in one go itself, it will be implement-ed accordingly. Otherwise, the enforcementwill be done in a gradual and step by step man-ner.

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Pakistan’s former dictator General PervezMusharraf was on Tuesday sentenced to

death in absentia in the high treason case forsubverting the Constitution in 2007, becomingthe first military ruler to receive the capital pun-ishment in the country’s history.

A three-member bench of the special court,headed by Peshawar High Court Chief Justice

Waqar Ahmad Seth, pronounced the verdict inthe landmark case launched in 2013 against theformer Pakistan Army chief by the previous gov-ernment of former prime minister NawazSharif. The court found the ailing 76-year-oldex-president, now living in Dubai on self-exile,guilty of high treason by abrogating the

Constitution and imposing extra-constitu-tional emergency in Pakistan in November 2007and handed him the death sentence.

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Prime Minister BorisJohnson plans to pass a law

guaranteeing Britain’s Brexittransition period cannot runbeyond the end of 2020, asource in his office said onTuesday.

Johnson won a big major-ity in last week’s election on apromise to take Britain out ofthe EU by the end of January,followed by a transition periodwhen London and Brusselsnegotiate a trade agreement.European leaders have said theDecember 2020 deadline wouldbe too tight to complete a com-prehensive deal.

“Last week the public votedfor a Government that wouldget Brexit done and move thiscountry forward — and that’sexactly what we intend to do,starting this week,” a DowningStreet source said.

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Britain’s new political land-scape began to take shape

on Monday as triumphantPrime Minister Boris Johnsontalked trade with PresidentDonald Trump and readied apep talk for his newConservative Party lawmakers.

The incoming class of newConservative legislators wasso big — 109 lawmakers — thatorganizers had to procure anextra 50 bottles of wine for theevening event, British tabloidssaid. Lawmakers from all par-ties will be sworn in onTuesday, the first day of thenew session in Parliament.

Johnson’s Conservativesreceived a larger-than-expect-ed majority in last week’snational election, galvanizinghis efforts to secure parlia-mentary approval for his Brexitdivorce deal with the European

Union. Many of them are com-ing from parts of the countrythat for decades were strong-holds of the opposition LabourParty.

Overall, the Conservativesnow have 365 of the House ofCommons’ 650 seats. Buoyedby the decisive win, Johnsonplans to move fast on his cam-paign mantra to “get Brexitdone.”

That means ensuring aBrexit withdrawal agreementbill is passed in time for the UKto complete its historic depar-ture from the European Unionby the Jan 31 deadline.

Johnson spokesman JamesSlack said the government willintroduce the EU withdrawalbill on Friday. It will be up tothe speaker of the House ofCommons to determine ifParliament holds its first major

vote on the bill that sameday or waits until early January

after the Christmas recess.The Brexit divorce bill is

expected to receive strong sup-port in Parliament due to theConservatives’ new strongmajority.

Johnson’s Downing Streetoffice said Trump, a Brexitsupporter who has praisedJohnson in the past, congratu-lated Johnson again when theyspoke Monday. It said the twoleaders look forward to “con-tinued cooperation on issuessuch as security and trade,including the negotiation of anambitious free trade agree-ment.”

If the Brexit bill passes andBritain leaves the EU on time,the country will enter a transi-tion period when EU rules andregulations would still apply inthe country and people andgoods would still be able to passfreely between the U.K. Andthe 27 remaining EU members.

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Strong economic figures havehelped US President Donald

Trump to his highest approvalratings ever, despite impeach-ment, a new poll found onMonday. Although theQuinnipiac University surveysaid Trump has a high of 43 percent for his job approval, thatis still far below nearly all pre-vious presidents in moderntimes at the same point in theiradministration.

According to the poll, car-ried out December 11-15, 52per cent of Americans stilldisapprove of Trump’s job per-formance.

Trump has been mired inthose unusually low ratingsfor nearly his entire presiden-cy. But the latest figures showa progression, indicating sup-port growing for Trump,despite the impeachmentprocess threatening his presi-dency. The House ofRepresentatives could vote toimpeach for abuse of office andobstruction of Congress asearly as this Wednesday.

A Quinnipiac poll earlier inDecember had 41 per centapproval and 55 per cent dis-

approval, while an Octoberpoll, done before impeach-ment hearings began, put thosefigures at 38 and 58 per cent.

Much of the support forTrump appears to be linked topositive feelings about theeconomy, which is in a periodof strong growth, with recordlow unemployment.

Nearly three quarters, 73per cent, saw the economy asgood or excellent, the pollfound. “That view of a strongeconomy seems to be helpingPresident Trump

match his highest jobapproval rating since being

elected, despite facing becom-ing the third president in UShistory to be impeached,” saidQuinnipiac polling analystMary Snow.

The poll found littlechanged figures on impeach-ment, with 45 per cent backingTrump’s impeachment andremoval from office and 51 percent opposing. Support forimpeachment and removalback in October was at 45-48per cent.

Not surprisingly, the polllooks radically different when the answers are dividedby party.

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Boeing said on Monday itwould temporarily suspend

production of its globallygrounded 737 MAX jets nextmonth as safety regulators delaythe aircraft’s return to the skiesafter two crashes.

The decision confirmedinvestor fears that the company’srecovery from the crisis is drag-ging on longer and creatingmore uncertainty for Boeingthan executives anticipated.

Boeing’s travails since Marchhave weighed on the US econo-my, holding down US manufac-turing output, trade and sales ofdurable goods while damagingthe company’s performance onWall Street’s benchmark DowJones Industrial Average.

In a statement, the compa-ny said it would continue to payits workers despite the temporaryproduction stoppage, but the

decision immediately raisedquestions for the future of partssuppliers which contribute to thejets’ manufacture.

“We have previously statedthat we would continually eval-uate our production plans shouldthe MAX grounding continuelonger than we expected,” thecompany said in a statement.

“As a result of this ongoingevaluation, we have decided toprioritise the delivery of storedaircraft and temporarily sus-pend production on the 737 pro-gram beginning next month.”

The company said it wouldfocus on delivering 400 jets it haskept in storage. Though the jetshave been grounded worldwidesince March following deadlycrashes in Indonesia andEthiopia, which left 346 peopledead, Boeing had continued toproduce 40 of the planes permonth at a Renton, Washingtonfacility.

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US President Donald Trumpsaid Monday he’d be “dis-

appointed” if North Korea hadsomething “in the works” as ayear-end ultimatum fromPyongyang about the fate of theirnuclear talks approaches.

The nuclear-armed Northhas issued increasingly stridentdeclarations in recent weeks,even promising an ominous“Christmas gift” if Washingtondoes not come up with someconcessions. The top US envoyto the negotiations with NorthKorea, Stephen Biegun, said inSeoul on Monday thatPyongyang’s rumblings were“hostile and negative” — andTrump said he was watching.“We’ll see. I’d be disappointed ifsomething would be in theworks. And if it is, we’ll take careof it,” Trump said at the WHwhen asked about the situation.“We’re watching it very closely.”

The negotiations betweenWashington and Pyongyanghave been largely stalled since thecollapse of a February summit inHanoi between Trump andNorth Korean leader Kim JongUn. The North has said that ifWashington fails to make it anacceptable offer, it will adopt a sofar unspecified “new way.” It hascarried out a series of tests at itsSohae rocket facility this month,after a number of weaponslaunches in recent weeks.

“It’s a concern — theirrhetoric,” US Defense SecretaryMark Esper told reporters, say-ing a new missile test by NorthKorea is “probable” as long as itremains unhappy with the stateof negotiations.

Tests “will be likely if theydon’t get satisfied,” Esper saidJapan and others have said recentlaunches involved ballistic mis-siles, which Pyongyang isbanned from testing under UNsanctions.

Seoul: South Korean PresidentMoon Jae-in appointed an ano-dyne former parliamentaryspeaker known as “Mr Smile” asPrime Minister on Tuesday,after a previous cabinet appoint-ment triggered a corruptionscandal and mass protests.

Chung Sye-kyun — a six-term lawmaker and formercommerce minister — earnedthe soubriquet for his milddemeanour, and local reportssay he has six times been votedthe “most gentlemanly law-maker” by reporters coveringthe National Assembly.

“He has always persuedpolitics that listen, by valuingdialogue and compromise withhis gentle personality,” Moonsaid. AFP

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Greater Noida’s JP International hasbeen ranked No 1 in India’s TopCBSE Schools in the category of

Infrastructure Provisions by the Education-Today India School Merit Awards inBangalore on December 13, 2019 at HotelChancery Pavilion.

The annual Education-Today IndiaSchool Merit Awards, which rates India'spremier schools in 10 parameters, i.e., aca-demic reputation, individual attention,infrastructure provision, innovative teach-ing, safety & hygiene, sports education, valuefor money, holistic development, leadershipmanagement quality and co-curricularactivities is regarded as one of the world's

most comprehensive, in-depth and exten-sive school-evaluation surveys which isbased on based on jury rating, parent’s votes(88,910 votes) & Education Today teamanalysis.

“We have always tried to give the bestto our students at both macro and microlevel and the great initiatives of our schoolhas helped to achieve this millstone” notedby visibly happy, Sr HM Upma Singh.

Amit Saxena, Vice President of SparshGroup and JP international School said:“Our student faculty ratio, Global outlook,Networking, teaching mechanism, andintellectual inputs have helped us to achieveoverall development of children and we shallcontinue to strive hard to realise the visionof our school.”

In an exhibition cum industry-academia meet on WasteManagement and Social

Entrepreneurship that was heldat SRM Institute of Science andTechnology, Kattankulathur,Santha Sheela Nair, formerSecretary to Government said:“Nearly one lakh tons of waste isgenerated in a day and 62 milliontons per annum. Of which only20 percent is recycled and the restgoes as landfills.”

This exhibition cum indus-try-academia meet was organ-ised as part of introducing MBAcourse on Waste Management

and Social Entrepreneurship atSRMIST in association withMahatma Gandhi NationalCouncil of Rural Education(MGNCRE), a unit of MHRD.

SRMIST is the first among 15institutions in India to introducethis course. A handout of theexhibition was also released onthe occasion.

Previously, FounderChancellor of SRMIST, Dr T RPaarivendhar, MP, released bookson Waste Management andSocial Entrepreneurship dulyedited by a panel of membersfrom MGNCRE. The books con-sisting of six parts, are a compi-lation of various waste manage-ment programs done by severalsocial activists and entrepre-neurs.

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The University Schoolof Information,Communication &

Technology (USIC & T), IPUniversity organised prize dis-tribution ceremony for theinter-college BTech MajorProject Competition 2019 atthe universitiy’s Dwarka cam-pus.

The students of all theaffiliated engineering collegesof the university participatedin the competition.

Prof RK Khandal,President — India GlycalsLimited was the chief guest of

the occasion. The Vice-chan-cellor of the University ProfMahesh Verma also graced theoccasion.

According to the Dean -USIC&T of the UniversityProf Arvinder Kaur, the majorproject was conducted underthe supervision of experts whowere called from reputed insti-tutes and organisations likeDRDO, CSIR and Ministry ofRailways and others.

Projects were evaluatedand best three projects select-ed for award in various disci-plines.

�'�#'#��'�����The Indian Institute of Art

and Design (IIAD) in collabo-ration with Kingston School ofArt, London invites applica-tions for admissions to itsundergraduate programmes inFashion Design, FashionBusiness Management,Communication Design andInterior Architecture & Design.It also offers postgraduate pro-grammes in Fashion Design andFashion Business Management.

Exam date: December 21and December 22, 2019.

How to apply: Log on towww.iiad.edu.in.

�� ���������'�JK Lakshmipat University

invites applications for admis-sions to its Bachelor of Designprogramme for the year 2020-2021.

The programme is designedby experts from higher educa-tion, management studies, busi-ness and industry with an aimto bring about a fresh, newapproach to Design education,that is collaborative in natureand integrative in process. It isboth unique and relevant for theneo-designer, somebody who isat-ease working in the studios,experimenting at the labs and inpresenting at board room.

Duration: Four yearsEligibility: Minimum 50

per cent aggregate marks (45per cent for SC/ST Candidates),with minimum 50 per centmarks from a recognised cen-tral/State board/universityexamination in India or in anyforeign country recognised asequivalent to Class XII systemby the Association of IndianUniversities (AIU).

Students appearing in thefinal examination of Class XIImay also apply.

The applicants are requiredto appear in one of the nation-al level design admission tests,such as UCEED or NID DATheld in 2019. In case the candi-date has not appeared for anynational level design tests, theywill have to appear in the JKLUDesign Entrance Test (DET) toqualify for the programme.

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UK invites applications foradmissions to its BSc ArtificialIntelligence and ComputerScience with a year in Industrycourse starting in September2020.

The course is about bio-logically inspired algorithms,their relationship to living bio-logical intelligence and thenature of consciousness itself.Some modules overlap withthe main Computer Sciencedegree offered by the universi-ty, so students get the same solidgrounding in the fundamentals.

Duration: Four yearsEligibility: Candidates

must have 85 per cent in stan-dard 12 including Maths. IELTSgrade of 6.5 with a minimum of6.0 in each component; or analternative acceptable Englishlanguage qualification.

Fee: £ 23, 750Last date to apply: June 30,

2020How to apply: Log on to

https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/prospectus/courseDetails.do?id=GG752020.

���#��'����Manav Rachna

International Institute ofResearch and Studies invitesapplications for admissions to itsBBA programmnes.

Duration: Three yearsEligibility: For BBA gen-

eral; pass in Class XII exami-nation /equivalent examinationwith at least 50 per cent marksin aggregate in five subjectsincluding English as compul-sory subject along with foursubjects with the highest scoreout of the remaining subjects.

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

What is EmergencyMedicine (EM)? Many

people we come across look atus quizzically when they are toldwhat we do. This is the medicalspecialty dedicated to the diag-nosis and treatment of unfore-seen illness or injury. The prac-tice of emergency medicineincludes the initial evaluation,diagnosis, treatment, coordi-nation of care among multipleproviders, and disposition ofany patient requiring expedi-tious medical, surgical or psy-chiatric care.

In a country with a popu-lation of 133.92 crores, the needfor emergency medicine inIndia is immense,particularly inconsideration of the changingburden of disease. We do nothave the necessary manpower toprovide quality emergencymedical care to patients, thekeyword being quality. Right toemergency medical care andRight to life are fundamentalrights. But we believe Right toQuality emergency medical careshould be the fundamentalright. Emergency medicinetraining is still in its nascentstages in our country but efforts

of the Society for EmergencyMedicine, India and joint col-laborations with the leaders inEM from the United States ofAmerica, United Kingdom andAustralia, has focused on struc-tured training in this field ofEmergency Medicine. This hasproduced many quality emer-gency medicine caregivers. Butdue to lack of recognition, mosthave migrated abroad to UKand Middle East.

It is of utmost importance

to understand that Emergencymedicine does not begin at thedoorsteps of an emergencydepartment. It begins at yourhomes, on the roads, at the air-ports and when you’re out for ahike. Basic life support andbasic emergency care if taughtduring medical school will helpin a big way to tackle the initialminutes of an emergency. Thereare many organisations that gofrom schools to corporateoffices to government bodies,

teaching basic life support andfirst aids. Initial response fromthe society can help trainedemergency medicine physiciansin providing better outcomes forpatients who have received ini-tial help at the point of emer-gency.

Emergency departments ofGovernment hospitals acrossIndia are still manned by doc-tors who are fresh out of med-ical school and has been taskedto manage sick and acutely ill

patients. Having a subject onbasic emergency medical care atthe MBBS level will go a longway in providing initial qualityemergency care to millions ofpatients who throng the emer-gency departments. EmergencyMedicine was recognised as apost graduate specialty byMedical Council of India (MCI)in 2009 and by National Boardof Examinations (NBE) in 2013.Though both courses are run-ning across the country thenumber needed to serve theentire nation is much morethan the existing emergencyphysicians. Government ofIndia has now made it manda-tory to have an EmergencyDepartment in all medical col-leges by 2022.

The future of emergencymedicine in India is bright, butwe need to embrace the physi-cians who are practicing it andhelp the field to grow and caterto our huge population.

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Experiential learning or learningthrough experience requires aseries of experiences in the real-

world setup. The experiences involvedin this type of hands on learning stayswith the students for a longer time,unlike rote learning or curriculumlearning.

In today’s day and age law schoolsneed to shed the conventional methodof imparting legal education to matchup to our changing and dynamic soci-ety. Law is a multi-disciplinary subjectand it is the duty of a lawyer to be wellacquainted with the multifarious prob-lems of our society and have real worldsolutions to these complicacies.Therefore a law graduate who has onlybeen exposed to the vast syllabus thatwe have our law schools and havegained their knowledge through thehumongous law books will not be wellequipped to give a well-rounded andreasonable solution to any real worldproblem. Many lawyers and some lawprofessors have long believed that legaleducation placed too much emphasison theoretical learning and not enoughon practical learning. The charge wasmade that we were graduating studentswho could think like a lawyer, but wereunprepared to act like a lawyer.

Being aware of the legal theoriesis no doubt the primary task of alawyer but an appreciation of the othervariety of factors in the society is theneed of the hour. Lawyers are gener-ally termed as the problem solvers ofthe society and recent law graduates

can only carry out this task if they aresufficiently exposed to different kindsof experiences outside the four wallsof their classroom.

Now mentioned below are six rea-sons why experiential learning is sovital in a law school:

�In the growing Indian economy,there’s a need of lawyers who can offerindustry focused or business friend-ly solutions. A lawyer working in acorporate house should not only befamiliar with the corporate laws of thecountry but should understand howthe business works in real life. Theability to understand the differentaspirations of different businessesand the way business is being con-ducted is necessary for a corporatelegal counsel. In their law schools astudent of law can only learn aboutthis through internships. Throughinternships in a corporate house, thecomplexities of running a businessand its day to day activities can beappreciated. Generally in Indian lawschools only a month is dedicatedtowards internships. But the authorsbelieve that in order to truly appreci-ate the way a business activity is con-ducted, at least three months isrequired in a year.

�Legal aid societies in law schoolsfocus on a range of public interest legalissues, from the struggles adoles-cents face as they age out of foster careto the promotion of human rights, thepursuit of economic justice and envi-ronmental protection. The problem

with legal education is that studentshave little or no experience of prac-tice before they graduate. Actually,representing a real client while in lawschool is an invaluable learning expe-rience. The work includes impact lit-igation, direct-services representa-tion, collaborative investigations, pol-icy initiatives, and grassroots advo-cacy. Students learn the practical artof lawyering by assuming increasinglevels of responsibility for cases andmatters involving real individuals,communities, and organisations thatotherwise might be unable to secureassistance.

�The students are provided anoption to choose an activity that theyare passionate about, thus increasingtheir engagement and commitment.As the student, who for example isenthusiastic about protecting ourenvironment, is directly involved inthe problem-solving activity, the levelof commitment is high. The need forlawyers to genuinely empathise withthe modern-day problems becomingessential if we are looking for a viablesolution to mitigate the problems. Thisalso develops leadership skills in anindividual.

�Law schools should encouragethe students towards entrepreneurshipventures in legal and non-legal sectors.Entrepreneurship is not confined toany particular stream of knowledge,but an attitude should be developedby students during their law schooldays. Law schools must create train-

ing and live projects for students inthis direction.

�As experiential learning is basedon trial by error, from law schoolsitself a student should be encouragedto come up with innovative solutions.In this stage of their lives they canmake mistakes without impunity. Butthe ability to think out of the box andgive creative and reasonable solutions,a law student can hone this skill in lawschool itself through real life simula-tions or mock trials/moot courts.

�A lot of technologies are beingintroduced in the legal sector, such assoftwares backed by artificial intelli-gence and blockchain which stillremains a mystery to law students. Thefuture of legal sector will be highlydominated by technologies and dur-ing the law school days a student mustbe exposed to existing and emergingtechnologies to make them a betterlawyer in our society.

In our law schools we definitelyhave a fair share of experiential learn-ing activities like moot courts orinternships, but proper multi-disci-plinary, social, technological, industryand entrepreneurship focused empha-sis on such activities is lacking. Passingan examination and mugging up the-ories before the said exam is a preva-lent vice that needs to be addressed ifwe want to churn out law graduateswho are trained to serve the dynam-ic needs of the society.������� ������(��!�'#��������H�!�F�� ������

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The comfort with a life partner will dependupon the vibrational frequencies of the num-

bers of their name & date of birth. For remain-ing comfortable, the name numbers of the life part-ners should vibrate with similar frequencies. If theydo not have similar frequencies then there will bemismatch between them. In order to make har-mony between the names, either they shouldchange the name or change the spelling of thename, so as to bring harmony between the namenumbers.

According to Chaldean system of nomen-clature, even alphabets are assigned a particularnumber, which vibrate with some definite fre-quencies.

Besides name number, their psychic numbersand destiny numbers should also match & musthave similar frequencies. Psychic number ismore important because it deals with day to daylife and daily affairs, thus it should match. If des-tiny numbers also matches, it will be very fine.

Let us assume a person named Rahul Khanna,born on May 17, 1994. His date of birth is 17 i.e.1+7 =8. The date of birth is called as Psychic num-ber. All numbers of birth date after 9 are reducedto single number. If we add the number of Date,month and year i.e. 1+7+5+1+9+9+4 = 36 = 9, itis called as destiny number of the person. So, DOBof a person in numerology will be represented as8/9.

Since date of birth can’t be changed, thereforewe should try to look more for the harmonybetween the name of life partners with psychic anddestiny numbers. If harmony between name num-ber with either psychic number or destiny num-ber or with both is missing then the name num-

ber can be changed to match harmony with psy-chic and destiny numbers.

Also, the vibration of house number shouldmatch with destiny number of the partners. If thenumber of house vibrates anti to destiny numberof partners, there will be loss of comfort in theirlife.

The date of marriage is also important for har-mony between the life partner. If, the date of mar-riage vibrates harmoniously with destiny numbersof the partners, then their life will be very com-fortable.

We have also to see, what is the relationshipbetween psychic and destiny numbers of a per-son. If they are in harmony, then a person is saidto be lucky & will get more returns in life thanthe inputs he has made and if they vibrate withdifferent frequencies and anti then the person willbe struggling in life, will have anything in life afterlot of struggle. Table below show the relationshipbetween numbers, friendly or unfriendly.

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The UK-basedUniversity of Dundee hasannounced Jainti DassSaggar MemorialScholarship for Excellenceworth £5,000, to be award-ed to one Indian under-graduate student. Thescholarship is available for24 subjects.

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options for those who have a flairfor creativity, style, and original-ity. However, designing hasbecome highly competitive today.As technology continuouslymoves forward at breakneckspeed, the world becomes moretech-savvy and the demand fordesigners is on the rise.

Design is more importantthan before as it collaborateswith Artificial Intelligence,Architecture, Engineering,Business, and Pure Sciences toboost the economy and to raisemore opportunities for job-seek-ers.

The design has various con-notations in different fields. Insome cases, the direct construc-tion or manufacture of an object(like in architecture, engineering,apparel or 3D printing) is con-sidered design, while in others itis representational or digital (likegraphic design and UX/UI).

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segments of the entertainmentindustry and is considered alucrative profession and ademanding career today.Designers work on the conceptand storyline of games, designingvarious levels, reward systems,

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in demand. Clothing is an essen-tial part of human life and it is alifelong necessity as well.Changing lifestyles and trendslead to a fast pace of change indesigns and styles. Emergingareas include affordable fashion,personal styling, designing witheco-friendly materials like artifi-cial leather and lightweight high-performance fabric.

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neers or architects with designtraining, who work on productsthat required heavy machinery for

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materials to sculpt and design inthree dimensions creating furni-ture, cutlery, toys, jewelry, bottles,and other objects of everyday use.They use techniques such asmolding, welding, grinding,machining and 3D printing tocreate useful stuff out of differentmaterials such as metal, cloth,ball-bearings, or any other mate-rial one can imagine. With everybusiness releasing new modelsand improved designs every sixmonths, product designers are inhigh demand.

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of specialisation for electronicengineers with designers cus-tomising look, structure and fea-tures of robots to suit clients,countries and cultures.

Robotics is the dynamic fieldthat involves designing, mainte-nance, functional and program-ming (Software and Hardware).Technical graduates from the

field of mechanical, electrical,medical get trained in Design andare involved in making robots.

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upcoming field with the hope ofspace travel looming on the hori-zon. The next decade is lookingat significant revolutions com-bining automobile and aeronau-tical engineering with designprinciples to produce intelligenttransport using levitation tech-nology, in-city planes, and touristspacecraft.

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����:��#������ Jasprit Bumrah showedno signs of rustiness as he went full tiltat Rishabh Pant but the resurgentPrithvi Shaw looked far from beingfit for international cricket duringhis session with trainer NickWebb at India’s optional prac-tice on Tuesday.

Bumrah has been out witha stress fracture of the back andis expected to be available forthe New Zealand tour next yearwhile Shaw, after serving hiseight-month doping ban, hasalready made a successful come-back for Mumbai in domesticcricket.

The Indian team manage-ment, as part of its policy, want-ed to have “a word” with both play-ers while checking their fitness lev-els.A peek into the training sessionwas an indicator that re-inductionof a proven match-winner likeBumrah is just a matter of time.

He was given the Indian team’straining Jersey as he bowled for closeto an hour to Pant, Manish Pandeyand Mayank Agarwal at the nets.

There was no Virat Kohli, RohitSharma and KL Rahul during theoptional training session.

With coach Ravi Shastri andnational selector Devang Gandhikeeping a close eye, Bumrah didn’tshow any visible discomfort as heworked up brisk pace to trouble Pantand Agarwal.

However, Shaw, wearing a plain T-shirt, had a chat with trainer Webb ashe did the routine obstacle stuff. Afterthat, he was asked to take some highcatches given by fielding coach RSridhar.

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India will have to get theirbowling combinationright after failing to stop

the West Indies from execut-ing a perfect chase in Chennaiwhen they take on the buoyantvisitors in the second ODI hereon today, aiming to keep thethree-match series alive.

A series win here would cer-tainly raise Kieron Pollard’s pro-file from a T20 freelancer to anable leader but a blinder fromRohit Sharma or another hun-dred from skipper Virat Kohli ona batting belter can’t be ruled out.

It wasn’t a nightmarishbowling performance in

Chennai by any stretch ofimagination but not beingable to defend 287 on a

slow track left the teammanagement with a fewpoints to ponder.

With the par-score at the ACA-

VDCA stadiumhere set to be in the320-plus range, afifth specialist

bowling option

could be mulled upon consider-ing the plight the hosts faced inthe last game with ShimronHetmyer andShai Hope beau-tifully planningthe chase withtheir respectivehundreds.

The biggest reason for thesetback in Chennai was spinnersRavindra Jadeja (0/58 in 10overs) and Kuldeep Yadav (0/45in 10 overs) being renderedineffective.

Hope and Hetmyer didn’tmurder the attack but didenough during the middle oversto ensure 103 runs came with-out taking any adventurousroute.

They chose their bowlersperfectly and as a result, debu-tant Shivam Dube leaked 68runs in 7.5 overs, indicating thathe is certainly a “work inprogress” as far as his bowling isconcerned.

However, it’s a tricky pathfor India to tweak their playingXI considering what exactlythey have in their reserves.

They have Mayank Agarwal,

the reserve opener, who isunlikely to get a chance as RohitSharma and KL Rahul are set at

the top.T h e n

they haveM a n i s hPandey, ther e s e r v e

middle-order batsman, who canonly be replaced at No 6 in placeof Jadhav.

And Jadhav did nothingwrong in Chennai, scoring 40 off33 balls with his typical ‘chip andcharge’ game.

The questions that peopleare raising is about Jadhav notbeing given another go after hewas hit for 11 in his solitary over.

On a Chennai track, if hecouldn’t be risked for a secondover, what will happen on a bat-ting friendly Visakhapatnampitch where he could be hitthrough the line easily.

So will Pandey, with a bet-ter range of strokes, be an optioninstead of Jadhav? If that’s thecase then they will have to go fora specialist fifth bowler — eitherseamer Shardul Thakur or leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal.

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West Indies opener ShaiHope is quite “sure”

that some of his teammateswill have tomorrow’s IPLauction on their minds dur-ing the second ODI but forhim it will be “secondary” tobeating Virat Kohli andRohit Sharma in the 2019 toprun-getters’ list.

Hope, a chip of the oldbloc, carried his bat throughwith a century in the firstgame but one number nuggetthat could interest the unini-tiated is the runs he scored inODIs this year.

Talk about whether IPLauction will be on his mind,Hope sounded dismissive.

“I am sure it would bebut I am sure that’s sec-ondary. We came here to playa series against India sowhatever comes secondary is

secondary,” Hope said onthe eve of the second game.

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Zinedine Zidane and ErnestoValverde might have been fear-ing for their jobs if they had lost

a Clasico back in October but its post-ponement means that today they canface each other feeling more secure.

Stalling in the autumn, RealMadrid and Barcelona have rolledthrough the gears in the lead-up toChristmas, meaning the winner oftoday’s crunch meeting at Camp Nouwill move seven points clear of thirdplace.

More importantly, in whatincreasingly looks like a two-prongedtitle chase, the winner will pull threeahead of the loser, with one roundLiga matches left before the two-weekwinter break.

Yet even for the loser, providingdefeat is not a humiliation, the con-sequences will not be so grave.

The gap in the table will be smalland considering where both theseteams were only a few weeks ago,when every week brought a newname linked with coaching jobs andevery goal conceded planted anoth-er seed of doubt.

For Real Madrid, Jose Mourinhowas out of work and in the public eye,his increasingly frequent media show-ings even appearing to irk the usual-ly immoveable Zidane.

For Barcelona, Ronald Koemanhad surged into view after the DutchFederation confirmed a clause in hiscontract that allows him to joinBarca after Euro 2020 next summer.

But if the rumours were an irri-tation, form on the pitch was a realconcern.

Barcelona’s malaise was short-

lived. They won only two of theiropening five games. Results improvedbut performances were ponderousand the weaknesses all-too familiar,

the kind that had also gone unfixedbefore, only to prove costly later in theseason.

In that sense, Valverde was car-

rying the weight ofprevious disappoint-ments and he wasblamed for a leakydefence, lack of style

and failure to get the best out ofAntoine Griezmann.

Zidane also shouldered burdensfrom last season. Even if it was not histeam that limped its way through thefinal months, he was in charge andsome wondered why nothing hadchanged.

Suspicions grew when Madriddrew two of their first four leaguegames and were thrashed away atParis Saint-Germain.

When they lost away at newly-promoted Mallorca, a week before theClasico was meant to be played, it feltlike results might unravel.

“We must have consistency,” saidZidane. “We have to have more lifein our game.”

Madrid did that as Zidane founda more settled side including thedynamic midfielder he has long-wanted in Fede Valverde as well as an18-year-old gem in Rodrygo andarguably the world’s most in-form striker in KarimBenzema.

Eden Hazard got fit tooand sparkled in spells beforeinjuring his ankle earlier thismonth, which will rule himout until the new year.

As Madrid hit theirstride, Barcelona accelerat-ed to keep up and the uncer-tainty around Valverde,although not gone, has, for now atleast, faded.

Their improvement cannot beentirely credited to the return ofLionel Messi, but his eight goals,including two hat-tricks, and fourassists in six games have certainlyhelped. Griezmann is finding his feettoo, with three goals in his last five.Judgement on Zidane’s second com-ing will be guided by Madrid’s stay-ing power in the league while forValverde, success will hinge on

Europe, where recapturing the trophyafter four barren seasons seems nowto be the minimum for Barcelona.

Storms may lie ahead but as LaLiga approaches its halfway point,Zidane and Valverde are still intact.This Clasico is a battle of leaders, butsurvivors too.

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Manchester Unitedmanager Ole Gunnar

Solskjaer has a fresh PaulPogba headache, revealingillness has delayed the mid-fielder’s return from injuryahead of today’s LeagueCup quarterfinal againstgiant-killers Colchester.

The France World Cupwinner has been sidelinedfor most of the season withan ankle injury, playingjust six times for Unitedafter a summer ofspeculation follow-ing his statementthat it could be timefor a “new chal-lenge”.

But after theUnited managerspoke, videos appearedon social media of Pogbadancing and showing fewill effects at his brotherFlorentin’s wedding.

Pogba, 26, had beendue to resume first-teamtraining this week butSolskjaer said: “Of all thingshe’s struck down ill now.”

“He’s been off for twoor three days, three daysprobably, so that’s not ben-eficial. That’s probably sethim back quite a bit,” theNorwegian boss said, look-ing ahead to the meetingwith fourth-tier Colchester.

“As I’ve said so manytimes, Paul’s a top, topplayer that we want to seeplaying his best football atMan United,” Solskjaersaid.

“We just need to gethim fit and match fit. Itmight be half anhour, 45, 60, 90— who knows,the first game.We’re workinghard to gethim backbut now he’sill.”

Pogbareportedlyhad per-m i s s i o nfrom the club toattend his brother’swedding over theweekend, withUnited drawing 1-1with Everton in hisabsence.

“We can talkabout Paul all day

long and it’s games like thisfor example when you’relacking that one creativepass or ideas maybe,” saidSolskjaer

“He has that qualitythat not many midfieldersin the world have so to gethim back would be great.”

While Pogba will besidelined, Diogo Dalotcould make his first appear-ance in 10 weeks.

Solskjaer said winningthe League Cup or reach-ing the final would be a

boost for his players.“We showed that

by the team we putout against Chelsea(in the previousround), that we takethis seriously,” he said.

“Even though we werein a difficult spell in the

league it was still importantfor us to create thatmomentum and belief inthe players.”

Solskjaer plans to makechanges against Colchester,who beat Tottenham onpenalties earlier in thecompetition, but pledgedthe side would be strongenough to win the game.

He said teenagerMason Greenwood was“making it hard for me toleave him out” after threegoals in his past twoappearances.

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Jurgen Klopp insists Liverpool arefully focused on winnning this

week’s Club World Cup ahead of theirsemi-final against Monterrey ofMexico but hit out at the timing of thecompetition and questioned FIFA’splans to expand the tournament infuture.

“We are here now and we are com-pletely focused on it, but if you hadasked me beforehand if I think thatthere should be a Club World Cup inthe middle of our season, I would sayno, in my honest opinion,” Klopp toldjournalists at the Khalifa InternationalStadium, where Liverpool faceMonterrey today.

The Anfield club have had to taketime out from their seemingly relent-less march towards the Premier Leaguetitle to travel to Qatar for the tourna-ment, in which they are Europe’s rep-resentatives thanks to their ChampionsLeague triumph last season.

If Liverpool win against theMexicans, they will advance to a finalon Saturday against either Flamengoof Brazil or Saudi side Al Hilal, whileeven if they lose their semi-final theywill remain in Qatar for a third-placeplay-off at the weekend.

After the competition concludes,they will rush back home to preparefor a trip to Leicester City — their clos-est title challengers — next Thursday.

FIFA recently confirmed plans toexpand the current seven-team ClubWorld Cup played in December to a24-team competition which will startin China in 2021 and will be played inJune and July — that means a clashwith the next Africa Cup of Nations,to be held at the same time.

The existing format is particular-ly unloved in Europe, even if Europeanclubs have won the last six editions.

Klopp added: “Can it be an evenbigger tournament in the future? Idon’t know. We have to make sure thatwe have great competitions, but not atthe same time, that’s all.

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Zinedine Zidane has said he isnot worried about today’s

Clasico between Real Madrid andBarcelona being overshadowed byCatalan independence protests.

The fixture was originallyscheduled for October 26 but hadto be postponed and there arerenewed fears of unrest at CampNou, where Madrid and Barca willbe playing for first place in La Liga.

“I am not worried about any-thing,” said Zidane in a press con-ference on Tuesday.

“I am happy we are about toplay a Clasico. It was the samewhen I was a player, these are thematches you live for, and you are

focused only on what hap-pens on the field.”

Democratic Tsunami,the protest group infavour of Catalan inde-pendence, has calledpublicly for its support-ers to gather at the stadi-um four hours beforekick off at 19:00 GMT.

A large-scale safetyoperation will be

deployed around the match involv-ing 3,000 security personnel whileboth teams have been instructed totravel to the stadium from thesame hotel.

“It’s something different butthe rules are the rules,” said Zidane.“They said we have to leave togeth-er so we’re leaving together.”

Zidane added: “We neverthought this game would not goahead. What we have to do is put

all our energy into the matchbecause the rest, we could spenda week talking about it.”

Barcelona and Real Madrid sitfirst and second in La Liga andlevel on points, with Barca onlyahead on goal difference.

Both teams have found formin recent weeks, in part due to theexcellent form of their strikers.Madrid’s Karim Benzema hasnine goals in his last eight gameswhile Lionel Messi has scored 14in 12.

“We know we are facing a verygood team, we know the playerthey have in Messi, but we alsohave our weapons,” Zidane said.

Eden Hazard, Marcelo, JamesRodriguez, Lucas Vazquez andMarco Asensio will all miss thematch through injury. GarethBale is fit again but has not start-ed since Madrid’s win over Alaveson November 30.

“Bale is with us, he is trainingwell,” Zidane said. “He is animportant player and tomorrow,he will be prepared like everyoneelse.”

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