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NEARBY
No scam in Rafale deal, 79% vote in Tripura where
says Nirmala Sitharaman
Opposition wants to manufacture one: Defence Minister
LF faces challenge from BJP
Polling for 59 seats of the 60member Assembly held peacefully
Four injured in south Mohit M. Rao
Delhi restaurant brawl
NEW DELHI
Bengaluru
Where is the scam in Rafale
Syed Sajjad Ali
Agartala
Meghalaya NCP
Four people were injured
after a ght broke out
procurement when no such
deal was signed in the UPA
Nearly 79% polling was re
ported on Sunday in Tripu
nominee killed
between two groups of era, said Nirmala Sithara ra, where the BJP is trying to Suspected militants
youths at a restaurant in man, Defence Minister, who dislodge the Left Front detonated an improvised
south Delhi’s Mehrauli on
on Sunday sought to tear in which has enjoyed an unbro explosive device, killing a
Saturday night.
to the Opposition’s claims of ken 25 year stint in power. Nationalist Congress Party
The four injured were taken
illegalities in the purchase of The polling for 59 seats of (NCP) candidate in East
to AIIMS Trauma Centre by
locals. The doctors told the
36 ghter jets from the the 60member Assembly Garo Hills district of
police that two were in a French company. was peaceful, barring minor Meghalaya. Unconrmed
critical condition and “I assure you there is no incidents, with thousands of reports said two of his
admitted to the ICU. The controversy. I (as a Defence central paramilitary forces bodyguards were also killed.
other two were reported to Minister who was appointed deployed across the north The attack on Jonathone N
be out of danger. after signing the deal) have eastern State. Sangma happened around
DELHI METRO A PAGE 1 not walked into any contro In defence: Nirmala Sitharaman speaking at The Huddle in Awaiting their turn: Reang tribal women standing in queue 7.50 p.m. A PAGE 11
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Voting delayed to vote in Telaimura district on Sunday. RITU RAJ KONWAR
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After ve years in jail, there... They [the Opposi Polling in at least 20 centres
two acquitted of murder tion] just want to create a dia?” She said that during Rafale emerged as the front continued till late in the p.m., he informed the media ters of IPFT. In the Kadamta In a case of mistaken iden
NEW DELHI scam to equate this scam the three years of negotia runner. But the UPA Defence night as voting was delayed that the turnout was estimat la area of North Tripura dis tity, Biswanath Saha, a can
The Delhi High Court has free government with tions under the UPA govern Minister then took the les due to faults in electronic ed to be 78.56% and this trict, two people sustained didate of the Forward Bloc,
acquitted two persons of theirs,” she said, during the ment, the price quoted for back, when he had no busi voting machines (EVMs). might go up after nal eval injuries when paramilitary was injured when security
murder, ve years after they conversation with N. Ravi, the jets was revised up ness to do so.” Chief Electoral Ocer Sri uation of voting on Monday. troops resorted to baton personnel beat him up.
were arrested, after noting Publisher, The Hindu, on the wards, to up to 300% of the ram Taranikanti said there Two CPI(M) supporters charge to disperse clashing
discrepancies in the report by topic, “In defence of the original price. ‘PM CAN’T BE BLAMED’ A PAGE 12 were 191 replacements of were injured in Golaghat in supporters of the BJP and CPI(M), BJP ‘CONFIDENT’ OF
the investigating ocer. A
realm: How prepared is In “Bids were opened and CHINESE WHISPERS A PAGE 12 EVMs during the day. At 9.15 an alleged attack by suppor the CPI(M). VICTORY IN TRIPURA A PAGE 11
Bench of Justice S.
Muralidhar and Justice I. S.
Mehta pointed out that the
66 ‘killed’ in Iran plane crash
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report paid “extensive
reliance on the eyewitness’s
testimonies and did not pay
Romantic start
attention to the
corroborating evidence”. Rescue teams
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struggle to
40.5 lakh seized in
locate wreckage
pollbound Bijepur Agence France-Presse
BHUBANESWAR
Tehran
The police in Odisha on
All 66 people on an Iranian
Saturday seized 40.5 lakh
that was being transported
passenger plane were feared
by a car in the Bijepur #5 6 7 0 0 1
dead on Sunday after it
Assembly constituency crashed into the country’s
where byelection will be Zagros mountains, with
held on February 24. emergency services strug In shock: Relatives of passengers gather in front of a mosque
EAST A PAGE 3 gling to locate the wreckage near Tehran's Mehrabad airport on Sunday. AFP *
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Aseman Airlines ight years, left the capital around to nd the wreckage. “We
EP3704 disappeared from 8 a.m. (0430 GMT) and was still have no access to the
radar 45 minutes after take heading to Yasuj, some 500 spot of the crash,” Mr. Taba
o from Tehran’s Mehrabad km to the south. tabai told ISNA news agency.
airport, the airline’s public The plane was carrying 60
relations chief Mohammad Conicting reports passengers, including a
Tabatabai told the state After conicting reports on child, and six crew
broadcaster IRIB. fatalities and the location of members.
EDGE A 4 PAGES Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, his wife Sophie Gregoire and children pose for a photograph during their visit to The ATR72 twinengine the crash, ocials said res
DELHI METRO A 4 PAGES the Taj Mahal in Agra on Sunday. Mr. Trudeau’s weeklong tour is aimed at boosting economic ties AFP (REPORT ON PAGE 10) * plane, in service for 25 cue teams were still not able HIT BY SANCTIONS A PAGE 14
Dalit activist’s death sets Rotomac owner ees after 800 cr. bank fraud?
dling 800 crore from public crore from over ve State
o protests in Gujarat Press Trust of India
New Delhi
After billionaire diamond
sector banks such as Allaha
bad Bank, the Bank of India
owned banks. According to
local media reports, the pro
merchant Nirav Modi, and the Union Bank of India, moter said speculation of his
Over 70 people, including Mevani, detained another defaulter Vikram sources said. eeing the country is
Kothari, the promoter of Ro The Kanpurbased com baseless.
Mahesh Langa
Ahmedabad
tomac Pen, has also alleged pany’s owner had taken a
ly gone abroad after swin loan of more than 800 DETAILS ON A PAGE 10
As protests triggered by the
selfimmolation of a Dalit ac
tivist, Bhanu Vankar, 60, in
tensied, the Gujarat police
on Sunday detained Jignesh
Mevani, Dalit activist and In
dependent MLA, and Con
gress legislator Naushad So
lanki while they were on
their way to a protest rally in
Ahmedabad. More than 70 A car set on re in
people were detained ahead Ahmedabad on Sunday in
of the protest rally in the ci protest against Dalit activist
ty. Bhanu Vankar’s death. AP *
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UP Governor appoints four V-Cs Punjab plans to set up cooperative rural hubs
Press Trust of India made the ViceChancellor of Harcourt Butler SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT prots, Additional Chief Secre customhiring basis required by thin prots. So it was the need
Lucknow Technical University, Kanpur. CHANDIGARH tary (Cooperation) D.P. Reddy the farmers to cut their capital of the hour to strengthen these
Uttar Pradesh Governor Ram Naik on Sun Professor Neelima Gupta (head of depart In an attempt to strengthen the has asked the department to set expenditures in purchase of cooperative societies visavis to
day appointed ViceChancellors of four State ment of zoology at Mahatma Jyotibha Phule primary agriculture coopera up rural hubs in selected PACSs costly tools,” he said. turn them into prot earning
universities. Rohilkhand University, Bareilly) was made tive societies (PACS) and boost in a phased manner across the Mr. Reddy directed the oc ventures,” he said, adding that
Professor Kamleshwar Nath Singh (who the ViceChancellor of Chatrapati Shahuji their business, the Punjab go State. ers to draft a roadmap within a in addition to their existing agri
was the head of geology department at Deen Maharaj University, Kanpur. vernment plans to transform period of 15 days for setting up businesses these village level
Dayal University, Gorakhpur) has been Former deputy director general of Indian these societies into ‘cooperative Custom-hiring of rural hubs which could be societies should be empowered
made appointed the ViceChancellor of Ut Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR), New rural hubs’. “Besides this, more ‘agricultu made functional from April this to sell quality products of es
tar Pradesh Rajarshi Tandon Open Universi Delhi, Professor J.S. Sandhu was appointed Pointing out that there was a ral service centres’ should be year. sential commodities, electronic
ty, Allahabad. ,s ViceChancellor of Narendra Dev University need for strengthening these established in the PACSs to pro “Around 30% PACSs were in goods and other items of daily
Professor Narendra Bahadur Singh was of Agriculture and Technolgy, Faizabad. societies in view of their thin vide agriculture implements on loses and others running with needs in rural areas.
Myriad forms of classical dance
in India will be on dispaly at a
festival beginning in Khajuraho
from February 20.
The weeklong Khajuraho
Dance Festival at the temple
town in Chhatarpur district is
being organised by the culture
department of the Madhya Pra
desh government.
The February 2026 festival
will showcase classical dances
including Kathak, Odissi, Bha
ratnatyam, Kuchipudi, Katha
kali and Mohiniattam to name a
few, an ocial said.
Spectacular backdrop
“This festival of classical dances Celebrating culture: Artistes performing during the Khajuraho Dance Festival in Madhya Pradesh.
and other forms of art is held *
FILE PHOTO: A. M. FARUQUI
annually against the spectacu
lar backdrop of the magni Modern Indian contempor cated to the Sun God and the erotic sculptures.
centlylit Khajuraho temples in ary dance forms were added in Vishwanatha Temple dedicated “This year, the Art Mart
Chhatarpur district,” said Ma the festival in the recent times. to Lord Shiva. (which is part of the festival)
noj Shrivastava, Principal Se During the festival, dances The temples at Khajuraho, would showcase paintings of in
cretary, Department of Culture. are performed in an openair built by the Chandela dynasty ternational artists from Germa
This is 45th year of this auditorium, usually in front of between 950 AD and 1050 AD, ny, France and China among
event, he said. the Chitragupta Temple dedi are worldwide known for their other countries,” he added.
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lakh from a car on Saturday
evening. Commission (SEC) about the ruling party for the Bijepur was detained, is an active
Subsequently, two per seizure. byelection,” said Sajjan member of the Vishwa Hin
sons, Om Prakash Agarwal A delegation of BJP on Sharma, State BJP du Parishad,” Mr. Patro
and his son Akash Agarwal Sunday lodged a complaint spokesperson. alleged.
of Padampur area, were de with the SEC, alleging that a Later, a BJD team led by The BJD demanded that
tained. Police sources said sum of 40 lakh, which was Minister Surya Narayan Pa stringent action be taken
the fatherson duo were un seized from one Akash Agar tro also approached the SEC. against the culprit while in
able to give a satisfactory wal, was to be used by the “As ascertained, the mo vestigation by the Enforce
answer about the movement ruling BJD in the Bijepur by ney was to be distributed ment Directorate and the In
of the cash. It was suspected election. “We demand im among the electorates of Bi come Tax should also be
that the cash was meant for mediate arrest of the politi jepur to vote for the BJP, initiated. The VHP, however,
distribution in Bijepur. The cal leader on behalf of which which is a blatant violation said the father and son had
police have already in the businessman was tran of model code of conduct. no association with the or
formed the State Election sporting huge cash for the Om Prakash Agarwal, who ganisation.
Three get 20 years’ jail for gang rape
Staff Reporter Saturday. Kanhar. been gangraped at a desert
BERHAMPUR The court also imposed a According to special pu ed spot near the village for
Three persons involved in ne of 22,000 on each of blic prosecutor, Asim Ku several hours.
the gang rape of a minor girl the convicts. In case they mar Praharaj, the gangrape Later, the victim’s moth
of Class X in 2015 were fail to deposit the ne, they incident took place on June er had led a complaint at
awarded 20 years imprison would have to undergo 12, 2015, night near Khajuri the Khajuripada police sta
ment by a Special Judge, anther four years of impri pada. The three accused tion. Based on testimonies
Protection of Children from sonment. had kidnapped the minor of 10 witnesses, circumstan
Sexual Oences (POCSO) The three convicts are victim while she was return tial evidences and medical
court of Phulbani in Kand Chittaranjan Kanhar, Prab ing home after attending a reports, the court convicted
hamal district in Odisha, on hat Kanhar and Rajiblochan marriage feast. She had all the three accused.
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IN BRIEF
MLA’s son accused of beating Thousands throng
Shravanabelagola
up injured man in Bengaluru Grand anointing ceremony a big hit
One killed, youth injured
Congress expels youth wing leader Mohammed Nalapad Haris for six years
in Kuppam bull race
CHITTOOR
Special Correspondent legedly surrounded Mr. Nawab Fazal Jah Bahadur
A 60yearold man,
Bengaluru Vidvat and punched and
Muneppa, was killed and a The ruling Congress in Kar kicked him repeatedly.
nataka on Sunday expelled According to police oc
youth from Tamil Nadu,
Suresh, critically injured in a Mohammed Nalapad Haris, ers, at least 10 persons, led Seventh
youth wing general secre by Mr. Mohammed, also
bull race organised in
Kuppam on Sunday. The tary in Bengaluru and son of barged into the hospital Nizam’s son
incident took place in MLA N.A. Haris on the where he was admitted.
Chintamakula Palle village of charge of brutally punching passes away
V. Kota mandal. and kicking an injured pa Damage control exercise
tron at a city restaurant. The attack has come just Special Correspondent
As talks fail, Kerala bus As many as ve persons ahead of the Assembly elec HYDERABAD
owners to continue stir have been detained, but Mr. tions and put the ruling
KOZHIKODE
Nawab Fazal Jah Bahadur,
Mohammed is absconding. Mohammed Nalapad Haris Vidvat Congress in an embarrass the last surviving son of the
Private bus operators have Jam-packed: Thousands of people visited
decided to continue their
The incident took a polit ing position. seventh Nizam, the last rul
ical turn with the BJP and evening or face suspension. he had stretched it, to which The party top bosses be Shravanabelagola on Sunday. PRAKASH HASSAN
*
indefinite strike as their er of the erstwhile princely
demand to increase the other parties staging prot However, at the time of go Mr. Mohammed allegedly gan damage control exer state of Hyderabad, Nawab Special Correspondent gathered at the feet of the sta
students’ travel fare was ests on Sunday, demanding ing to press, the police were took objection. According to cise by expelling Mr. Mo Mir Osman Ali Khan Baha Shravanabelagola tue and allowed the water
rejected by the Kerala his arrest and accusing the yet to arrest him. eyewitness accounts, as Mr. hammed from the party for dur, and late Leela Begum The grand anointing cere poured on the statue to fall
government at a discussion Congress of sheltering him. The incident took place Mohammed walked past Mr. six years. Sahiba passed away here mony of Lord Bahubali on them too.
with Transport Minister A.K. Later in the day, Home around 11 p.m. on Saturday Vidvat, he asked him to sit Chief Minister Siddara on Sunday after a brief ill atop the Vindhyagiri hills The hues of the statue
Saseendran here on Sunday. Minister R. Ramalinga Red at a popular restaurant in properly. maiah took to Twitter to tell ness. He was 72. here drew a huge crowd on changed as milk, turmeric
Officebearers of the Private dy visited the victim, Vidvat, UB City Mall, where Mr. Vid After Mr. Vidvat replied the people that the Bengalu He is survived by wife Sunday. Thousands of peo paste, sandalwood paste,
Bus Operators’ Confederation at Mallya Hospital in the ci vat, 24, was having dinner that he was unable to do so ru Police Commissioner Sahabzadi Darwerunnisa ple attended the grand rice our and ‘ashtagandha’
demanded 2 as the ty. Mr. Reddy said he had in with his friend, Praveen. because of his injury, the sit would take action as per the Begum Sahiba and a son. spectacle. were poured.
minimum charge for students’ structed the police to arrest As his leg was cast in plas uation escalated. Mr. Mo law and bring the guilty to According to members The gallery was packed The ceremony ended with
concession tickets. the accused by Sunday ter owing to a recent injury, hammed and his friends al book. of the royal family, Fazal well before the proceedings the oering of owers to Ba
Jah Bahadur spent most of began. The space designat hubali, who renounced his
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provements to the Masjid full as 1,008 ‘kalasas’ were spirituality.
Nod for
Kerala bank A.P. awaiting 167 crore A sports city opens doors
likely soon
N.J. Nair
for MGNREGS wage bill to champions of tomorrow
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM
velopment (NABARD) to from St. Joseph’s College of says Mr. Kumar, “the PPBA
months for the MGNREGS Union Minister for Rural De funds, as per the govern
the RBI for granting in Commerce. We knew each Centre for Sports Excellence and a stateoftheart sports used ve courts between 10
wage bill, according to the velopment Narendra Singh ment.
principle clearance for the other. I wanted both of them (CSE) located north of the ci science centre. and 5 (on its old premises).
Rural Development, Pan Tomar. We are hoping for After the new system of
government’s proposal. to have a special role in this ty, about 20 minutes from The Prakash Padukone I’m sure we could have pro
chayat Raj and Information the best,” Mr. Lokesh said. direct electronic transfer
The NABARD is learnt to [they are now advisers] ,” the airport, boasted a full Badminton Academy (PPBA) duced more champions if we
Technology Minister Nara The State government has from the Centre, the State
have forwarded a positive says Mr. Kumar, who has sized football pitch, a 10lane has moved in, as has Dolphin had the courts from 6 a.m. to
Lokesh. been writing numerous let government has done away
report to the RBI and now promoted the venture. Olympicsized swimming Aquatics, run by veteran 10 p.m.”
ters seeking funds promised with the practice of advance
the report is being pro pool, 16 badminton courts, swimming coach Nihar A threetime State men’s
‘Hoping for the best’ by the Centre as part of the payment. The State machin
cessed for according the 16 badminton courts squash, tennis and basket Ameen. The football eld, badminton champion, Vivek
“It’s about 167 crore which AP Reorganisation Act for ery is now sending reports
approval that will help to When it formally opened in ball courts, a cricket ground, now a year old, is used by cofounded the PPBA nearly
is due to be paid as wages to the Polavaram project, the on the work done and the
expedite the process by December, the 50 crore indoor and outdoor nets, multiple academies and 25 years ago.
the workers. The Chief Mi Central institutions, the Dug wage amount.
this month end. Recom
mendation of NABARD is
the primary level clearance
for merging the 14 district
cooperative banks with the
Kerala State Cooperative
United struggle in A.P. to ‘expose TDP, BJP’ Shah to visit Dakshina Kannada,
Bank, sources said.
Morale booster
Convention of parties resolves to support notrust move against Modi govt. Udupi districts from today
The RBI had approved a si Staff Reporter to join hands with the TDP if
milar merger proposal of VIJAYAWADA
it came forward for it, he
Rahul to come in March for Assembly poll campaign
the Jharkhand State Coop A roundtable organised by said.
erative Bank with the seven Special Correspondent which recently witnessed
the Andhra Pradesh Pratye
district central cooperative MANGALURU sporadic communal distur
ka Hoda Sadhana Samithi on ‘Naidu deceiving people’
banks in its purview last Coastal Karnataka is set to bances.
Sunday resolved to urge all YSR Congress leader and
year. witness highvoltage politi
political parties to extend former Minister Kolusu Par
That decision had come cal activities with Bharatiya Fishermen convention
their support to a nocon thasarathi said TDP national
as a morale booster to the Janata Party president Amit After visiting the family
dence motion against the president and Chief Minister
State government and also Shah visiting Dakshina Kan members of Deepak Rao,
NDA government. N. Chandrababu Naidu was
instilled the condence nada and Udupi districts who was murdered in Su
The MPs would remain deceiving the people saying
that the RBI will not shelve from Monday to Wednesday rathkal on January 3, Mr.
tainted unless they voted injustice was done to AP all
its proposal too. and Congress president Ra Shah will travel to Udupi to
against the government. these years.
Once the RBI grants the hul Gandhi in the rst week address a mega shermen
The conference also Coming together: Leaders of political parties at a roundtable Former Minister and Utta
inprinciple approval on of March. convention the same even
chalked out a series of pro conference in Vijayawada on Sunday. CH.VIJAYA BHASKAR * randhra Charcha Vedika Amit Shah
the basis of the recommen Stakes are high for both ing after visiting Sri Krishna
grammes to mount pressure convener Konatala Ramak
dation of NABARD, it the national parties in the re Mangaluru on Monday even Mutt and Pejawar seers.
on the Central government cluding the CPI, the CPI(M), Srinivas. Pradesh Congress rishna said the agitation
would make the task easy gion as Congress is keen on ing and proceed to Kukke Meanwhile, Mr. Gandhi
on Special Category Status the Congress, the YSR Con Committee president N. should be highspirited and
for the government to form increasing its strength, while Subrahmanya Temple, be will make a whirlwind tour
(SCS). gress, the Samajwadi Party, Raghuveera Reddy stressed compel the Centre to bow
the new bank. It would the BJP is making every ef fore which he will attend a of the coastal districts dur
The roundtable urged the the Lok Satta Party, the Jana on corrective measures in down to public sentiments.
have a twotier system fort to regain lost ground. party workers’ meet at Mala ing March rst week.
political parties to wage a Sena Party, the Aam Aadmi the Budget session that be CPI(M) State secretary P.
comprising about 3,825 The parties appear keen on voor near Mangaluru Inter Roadshows, public meet
united struggle to expose the Party, the Indian Union of gins on March 5. Madhu said Mr. Naidu was al
branches. All assets and lia highlighting who is more national Airport. ings, visiting temples and
‘dramas’ being enacted by Muslim League and the Na Attempts were being so to blame for the injustice.
bilities of the district coop communal keeping aside the On Tuesday, he will be in other religious centres are
the Telugu Desam Party and vataram, took part in the de made to sidetrack the de He readily accepted the spe
erative banks will be trans development agenda. Bantwal, the constituency of scheduled during his visit,
the Bharatiya Janata Party . liberations chaired by Sa mand for the SCS. cial package in lieu of the
ferred to the new bank. Mr. Shah will arrive in Minister B. Ramanath Rai according to party sources.
The political parties, in mithi president Chalasani The Congress was ready SCS.
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Cowherd killed
Chopping down by trap set up Weather Watch
Rainfall, temperature & air quality in select metros yesterday
by poachers
Staff Reporter
BERHAMPUR
Highvoltage electric traps
set by poachers to kill wild
boars and other wild ani
Decision on Ambala MC
retrograde: Cong. mals have become a major
CHANDIGARH
menace in Ganjam district
Haryana Congress Legislature of Odisha.
Party leader Kiran Choudhry A cowherd Gadei Gouda
on Sunday termed (48) was killed on Saturday
“retrograde, regressive and near Matajhari village in the
politically motivated”, the district when he accidental
State government’s decision ly came in contact with one
to abolish the Ambala such trap. The trap was
Municipal Corporation and hooked up to an overhead
form two separate councils. highvoltage power supply
PTI
cables.
Villagers of Matijhari
Two killed, five injured in have demanded compensa
road accident tion from the forest depart Temperature Data: IMD, Pollution Data: CPCB, Map: Skymet (Taken at 17.00 Hrs)
BHAWANIPATNA (ODISHA) ment for family of the de
Two persons were killed and Forecast for Monday: No weather warning.
ceased. Using glass bottles
city rain max min city rain max min
five injured when their vehicle as insulators, poachers pre Agartala.................. -.... 30.0.... 14.0 Kozhikode ................ -.... 33.2.... 25.0
overturned on National pare this lethal trap that Ahmedabad............. -.... 32.8.... 14.4 Kurnool .................... -.... 35.7.... 19.2
Highway-26 near Khairmal consists of a web of naked Aizawl .................... -.... 29.5.... 10.0 Lucknow................... -.... 26.8.... 11.5
village in Kalahandi district, Allahabad ............... -.... 28.7.... 12.8 Madurai.................... -.... 34.4.... 21.2
wires. Bengaluru ............... -.... 31.9.... 17.7 Mangaluru ................ -.... 34.9.... 21.6
the police said on Sunday. The
This trap is illegally con Bhopal.................... -.... 30.2.... 13.8 Mumbai.................... -.... 32.7.... 17.9
duo died on the spot and the Bhubaneswar .......... -.... 33.1.... 16.9 Mysuru..................... -.... 31.7.... 14.4
nected to the overhead 11kV
injured have been to the Chandigarh ............. -.... 24.6...... 9.7 New Delhi ................ -.... 26.3.... 12.7
power supply cables that Chennai .................. -.... 31.0.... 21.8 Patna ....................... -.... 27.2.... 13.0
Bhawanipatna government
hospital, the police said. PTI
pass through the jungles Coimbatore............. -.... 33.5.... 20.1 Port Blair ................. -.... 29.6.... 22.1
Dehradun................ -.... 24.0...... 9.7 Puducherry............... -.... 31.2.... 19.4
Drug bust: Jharkhand police personnel destroying illegal opium cultivation in the dense forests of Khunti district on Sunday. *
PTI and outskirts of villages. Gangtok.................. -.... 13.2...... 8.3 Pune ........................ -.... 33.8.... 13.7
Goa ........................ -.... 32.0.... 20.0 Raipur ...................... -.... 30.9.... 17.7
Four killed, 1 injured after Guwahati ................ -.... 29.6.... 13.6 Ranchi...................... -.... 27.4.... 11.8
Hubballi.................. -.... 32.0.... 19.0 Shillong.................... -.... 18.5...... 5.0
Guards get modern weapons to ght poaching
truck overturns Hyderabad .............. -.... 33.8.... 16.6 Shimla...................... -.... 15.1...... 5.3
SIKAR Imphal.................... -.... 25.7...... 7.8 Srinagar ................... -.... 10.8...... 1.2
Four persons were killed and Jaipur ..................... -.... 29.7.... 13.6 Trivandrum .............. -.... 35.0.... 23.0
another was injured on Sunday Kochi...................... -.... 32.4.... 24.0 Tiruchi ..................... -.... 33.5.... 22.0
Kohima................... -.... 20.0...... 8.4 Vijayawada ............... -.... 32.9.... 20.6
when a boring truck Kolkata................... -.... 29.8.... 18.5 Visakhapatnam .......... -.... 30.0.... 21.8
overturned in Neem Ka Thana, Assam has ve national parks and 19 wildlife sanctuaries and is home to 91% of Indian rhinos Pollutants in the air you are breathing Yesterday
the police said. The driver lost
CITIES SO2 NO2 CO PM2.5 PM10 CODE
balance while trying to avert Ahmedabad ..... ...-205..76 ..318 ......- ....*
an accident with a two- Bengaluru ....... ..4..40..42 ....49 ......- ....*
Press Trust of India est guards were given 954 poachers will go a long way In observations made at
wheeler. The post-mortem Chennai........... ..7..13..42 ....93 ......- ....* 4 p.m., Talcher recorded
Kaziranga SLRs, 272 INSAS ries, 133 ri in protecting wildlife in the Delhi............... 24178104 ..271 .292 ....* an air quality index (AQI)
report is awaited, cops added. score of 350, indicating
PTI es of .12 bore, 20 of 9 MM State,” he said. Hyderabad....... 22..52..33 ..109 .118 ....* high levels of pollutants
Kolkata ........... ...- ....- ....- ...... - ......-......- in the air. In contrast,
In a major initiative for wil pistols and 91 Ghatak ries. Assam has ve national Lucknow ......... ..4..40..42 ....49 ......- ....* Panchkula recorded a relatively
Man held with 5 kg dlife protection, the forest The Chief Minister said ev parks and 19 wildlife sanctu Mumbai........... 25..36..50 ....98 .123 ....* healthy AQI score of 78.
cannabis in Jammu guards in Assam were on er since the BJP came to pow aries. It is home to more than Pune ............... 49..27..51 ....92 .116 ....*
Visakhapatnam 14....1..19 ..125 .108 ....*
JAMMU Sunday given modern wea er in Assam nearly two years 91% of Indian rhinos (2,431
A suspected drug peddler was pons like selfloading ries ago, 197 poachers have been rhinos as per 2015 census). It Air Quality Code: * Poor * Moderate * Good (Readings indicate average AQI)
arrested with 5 kg of cannabis SO2: Sulphur Dioxide. Short-term exposure can harm the respiratory system,
(SLRs) and 9 MM pistols to arrested and eight have been is also home to 167 tigers, making breathing difficult. It can affect visibility by reacting with other air
here, the police said on check poaching of rhinos, killed by security guards, 248 leopards, 1,169 swamp particles to form haze and stain culturally important objects such as statues
Sunday. A police team noticed tigers and other wild while as many as 59 poach deer besides a large number and monuments.
a person moving under NO2: Nitrogen Dioxide. Aggravates respiratory illness, causes haze to form by
animals. Grim statistics: As many as 74 rhinos have been killed by ers have been convicted for of wild bualoes, dierent reacting with other air particles, causes acid rain, pollutes coastal waters.
suspicious circumstances near poachers since 2015. FILE PHOTO RITU RAJ KONWAR
*
crimes against wildlife. varieties of deer and other CO: Carbon monoxide. High concentration in air reduces oxygen supply to
a mall on Saturday evening critical organs like the heart and brain. At very high levels, it can cause
‘First time in country’ Mr. Sonowal said wildlife animals.
and stopped him. During dizziness, confusion, unconsciousness and even death.
Chief Minister Sarbananda er related crimes against modernisation of arms and fasttrack courts have been According to an estimate PM2.5 & PM10: Particulate matter pollution can cause irritation of the eyes,
frisking, 5 kg of ganja was
seized from him, the police
Sonowal said for the rst wild animals. equipment for protection, set up in 10 districts and tabled in the Assembly this nose and throat, coughing, chest tightness and shortness of breath, reduced
time in the country, 10 wil “We have put protection rescue and rehabilitation of such courts have been set up month, altogether 74 rhinos lung function, irregular heartbeat, asthma attacks, heart attacks and
said. He was arrested and a premature death in people with heart or lung disease
case registered against him at dlife fasttrack courts have of wildlife in high priority. rhinos, tigers and other wil for the rst time in the coun have been killed by poachers
Bahu Fort police station. PTI been set up to exclusively Accordingly, we have today dlife,” he said. try. “We hope that speedy since 2015 and 316 poachers
deal with poaching and oth launched a new programme According to the plan, for #5 6 7 0 0 1
trial and conviction of arrested during 201517.
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Myanmar dam on border worries Manipur village
Stokes fears of submergence and water district was submerged by The project sanction by
the Mapithel dam on river the Planning Commission
scarcity; administration orders survey Thoubal. was said to have inherent
10 million now follow Rahul Karmakar 137 km south of Manipur Construction of the Ma aws, as a result of which
Rajnath Singh on Twitter GUWAHATI capital Imphal. pithel dam, initially known the power component of
NEW DELHI A dam being constructed by as Thoubal Multipurpose 1.5MW incorporated in the
Home Minister Rajnath Singh Myanmar across a river close ‘Fears genuine’ Project that aimed to pro initial design was scrapped
has become one of the top to the boundary with India “Local people have sent duce 7.5MW of power, irri despite nearcompletion of a
five politicians in the country has stoked fears of submer photos and raised concern. gate 21,862 hectares of land powerhouse.
whose Twitter followers have gence and water scarcity The dam appears to be a and provide 10 million gal Controversy has also
crossed the 10 million mark. among border villagers in new and small one, but the lons of drinking water, be dogged Tipaimukh, the me
Mr. Singh’s Twitter handle Kengjoi subdivison of Mani fear of the villagers is ge gan in 1989 amid protests ga hydroelectric project pro
@rajnathsingh crossed the 10 pur’s Chandel district. nuine. We are sending a from people downstream. posed on river Barak in Ma
million followers mark on Last week, residents of team next week to survey Elders of Chadong village nipur 35 years ago. Dhaka is
Saturday night, a Home Khangtung village reported the dam construction site had inked an understanding against the project, as Barak
Ministry official said. PTI to district ocials about the and get the coordinates. A with the State government in ows into Bangladesh from
dam being built by Myanmar report will be made this 1996 for an alternative settle Manipur through southern
Job seekers protest at authorities barely 100 week for sending to New ment, but the 800odd vil Assam and feeds the Surma
Bihar railway stations
metres from the zero line Delhi via the State govern lagers stayed put during the and Kushiara rivers in the
PATNA
separating the two coun ment,” Chandel Deputy submergence 19 years later country.
Thousands of youths on
Sunday staged violent
tries. International rules Commissioner K. Krishna as the government had failed At least three antidam or
protests and indulged in warrant border countries to told The Hindu. villages will be submerged if Nongthombam Biren, re nomic impact on the resi to provide a proper reloca ganisations in Manipur and
arson at three railway stations check activities in No Man’s Houkholen Haokip, secre the dam comes up. The vil questing intervention. dents of Khangtung and tion site. downstream Assam have
in Bihar against reducing the Land – a 150metre strip on tary of the Chandel unit of lagers, dependent on the riv “When the dam is com other Indian villages,” TSA The Khuga dam south of been protesting against the
age limit for recruitment in either side of the boundary the Thadou Students’ Asso er, are already facing water pleted, the entire Khangtung secretary general Michael Manipur’s Churachandpur Tipaimukh project to be
the Railways, leading to line. ciation (TSA), did not rule scarcity. Eorts to get in village will be inundated and Lamjathang Haokip said in town has hit turbulence too. built by the National Hydroe
services being disrupted for The dam, called Tuidim out the possibility of China touch with ocials and con the villagers will face untold the letter to Mr. Biren. Taken up in 1980, the pro lectric Power Corporation
some time, the police said. jang, is on the Twigem river assisting Myanmar in build tractors in Myanmar have miseries and require reloca Manipur has had issues ject lay dormant until 2002 Ltd. Apart from largescale
The protests against the age owing into Myanmar from ing the dam. “The topogra been in vain,” he said. tion and rehabilitation. This with internal dams too. In leading to cost escalation submergence, they fear eco
limit reduction for Group D Manipur. Khangtung, inha phy of the area is such that The TSA has written to project will have huge nega June 2015, a tribal village from the initial 15 crore to logical degradation, if the
recruitment and reserving bited by the Thadou tribe, is Khangtung and other Indian Manipur Chief Minister tive social, cultural and eco named Chadong in Ukhrul 381.29 crore in 2009. dam is built.
most of the seats for ITI
holders in the Railways came
two days after hundreds
of unemployed youths
protested at the Ara
train station. IANS
Mother, infant daughter of Are lawyers’ chambers inherited
Parrikar responding well
to treatment: hospital
PANAJI/MUMBAI
scribe murdered in Nagpur property, Bench asks top court
Goa Chief Minister Manohar
Parrikar, who is admitted Monetary daughter were found intact
at the Lilavati Hospital in transaction led with their dead bodies. It ap Petition challenges check whether the child or sional boost for lawyers,
Mumbai, is responding well to pears to be a preplanned spouse is indeed a lawyer or who occupy them, and their
treatment, the hospital said to incident: police murder after the abduc
validity of an not. clientele. The petition con
on Sunday. Mr. Parrikar is tion,” Mr.Kamble added. allotment rule tended that Rule 7B “creates
being treated at the hospital Pavan Dahat ‘Overrides criteria’ a personal heritable right in
since February 15 for a NAGPUR One arrested Krishnadas Rajagopal This practice continues des a public property/good,
pancreatic ailment. The bodies of the mother Meanwhile, the Nagpur city NEW DELHI pite the fact that the Su which leads to the concen
“We reiterate that the Hon and the infant daughter of a police claimed to have A Supreme Court Bench preme Court had issued a tration of material resources
Chief Minister of Goa is journalist were found on the cracked the case by evening. sought a response from the notice on October 30, last to the common detriment.”
being treated and is apex court on a petition ask year, that chamber allot It submitted that Rule 7B
outskirts of Nagpur city on A press statement, issued
responding well to the
Sunday, with the police sus by the Deputy Commission ing whether advocates’ ments would be based on was unconstitutional prima
treatment,” the statement by
pecting murder. er of Police (Crime), in chambers situated in prime the minimum number of ap rily because it was “patently
hospital vice-president
Ravikant Kamble, a jour formed that 26yearold Ga spots within the Supreme pearances of a prospective discriminatory and violative
Ajaykumar Pande said. Prime A Bench led by Justice A.K.
Minister Narendra Modi met nalist working for a web por nesh Sahu had been arrested Court complex and at van allottee, which would be a of Article 14 (fundamental
tal in Nagpur, had informed for the murders. tage positions across the Sikri on February 16 issued reection of his or her vol right to equality) of the Con
Mr. Parrikar at the hospital on notice to the top court.
Sunday. PTI the Nagpur police on Satur Usha Kamble and Rashi. “The accused had a big road from the court building ume of work. The court had stitution as it is violative of
day night that his mother * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT quarrel with Usha Kamble are “heritable property” of also prescribed seniority. the rule of seniority and mi
Usha Kamble, 52, and 18 on Saturday evening over the children of practising la Rule 7B of Supreme Court “Rule 7B overrides both nimum number of appea
CIC defers hearing on
plaint against 6 parties monthold daughter Rashi under a bridge on a stream some monetary transactions #5 6 7 0 0 1
wyers, senior advocates and Lawyers’ Chambers (Allot these criteria and enables a rances that is prescribed for
NEW DELHI
were missing since evening near Bahadura area. Mr. which is why he killed her judges. ment and Occupancy) Rules spouse or daughter/son of an other advocates.”
Chief Information from Pawanputra Nagar area Kamble, a wellknown crime along with her granddaught A Bench led by Justice as amended in 2017. allottee to be entitled to al “It violates the principle
Commissioner R.K. Mathur of Nagpur. reporter in Nagpur, said that er,” the police press note A.K. Sikri on February 16 is As per the provision, in lotment of a chamber (in of level playing eld for pro
has postponed the hearing on “My mother left home at the assassin had slit the claimed. sued notice to the top court case an allottee advocate of a fact, retain the same cham fessional advocates who oth
complaints against six 5.30 pm yesterday. When we throats of the victims. The Nagpur Union of on a writ petition led by Su prized chamber dies, his or ber), irrespective of their se erwise satisfy the relevant
political parties for violating tried to contact her after an “It does not appear to be a Working Journalists con preme Court advocateonre her child or spouse, if an ad niority at the bar or number criteria, thereby violating
the CIC’s 2013 order bringing hour, her phone was case of an attempted theft demned the brutal killings cord Vishnu Shankar Jain, vocate, inherits one half of of appearances,” the writ pe their rights under Article 14
them under the ambit of the switched o,” Mr. Kamble gone wrong or abduction for and demanded that the mys represented by advocate K. the chamber. tition said. and Article 19 (1)(g) of the
RTI Act. The hearing was to told The Hindu. extortion. The gold orna tery behind the case be un Parameshwar, challenging The only criterion is for The location of such Constitution of India,” the
take place on Tuesday. PTI The bodies were found ments of my mother and my ravelled as soon as possible. the constitutional vires of the Allotment Committee to chambers is a natural profes petition said.
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8 EDITORIAL NOIDA/DELHI
For India, it should be neighbourhood rst
While other geopolitical issues are important, New Delhi must give South Asia its fullest attention
so separate the technological its cards carefully, calling for present Pakistan hand in the vio
“blush” of Mr. Netanyahu’s visit “homegrown solutions” and lence in Afghanistan, this kind of
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In Sri Lanka’s interest, President Sirisena and estine visit could conclude as ma takes into account India’s geostra state has virtually disintegrated.
PM Wickremesinghe should work together M.K. Narayanan ny as six agreements and express tegic and geopolitical interests in The collapse of the Afghan state
the hope that Palestine would the region. Else, it would have far does have severe consequences
S
ri Lanka is in the throes of a political crisis after
A
s India’s salience in global soon emerge as a sovereign inde reaching consequences as far as for India and nations in the vicini
the two main parties in the ruling coalition suf
matters grows — amply de pendent country in a peaceful India’s quest for regional power ty. As a regional power, India has
fered a dramatic defeat in the recent local govern monstrated recently by the manner without having to speci status is concerned. signicant stakes in Afghanistan.
ment elections. Fissures between the Sri Lanka Free presence of 10 leaders from the As cally refer to a “united” and “via Apart from the human cost and
dom Party, led by President Maithripala Sirisena, and sociation of Southeast Asian Na ble” Palestine. mocratic Party, headed by former Across the border the fact that New Delhi has spent
the United National Party, led by Prime Minister Ranil tions (ASEAN) at India’s Republic With the UAE and Oman, things President Mohamed Nasheed, Two other issues, viz., Pakistan over $2 billion in providing hu
Wickremesinghe, have deepened. The fragile ‘national Day celebrations, the visit of Israe have been easier. With the former, came to power, for the rst time and Afghanistan, similarly de manitarian assistance to Afghanis
unity’ government they run together is beset by insta li Prime Minister Benjamin Neta trade and economic ties as also antiIndian forces within the Mal mand our focussed attention, and tan, India’s true stake lies in sus
nyahu to India, and Prime Minister counterterror aspects have been dives (including radical Islamist that India acts with a sense of res taining the future of the Afghan
bility and uncertainty. The local council polls, won re
Narendra Modi’s latest forays to on a growth curve. With the latter, groups sponsored by Pakistan and ponsibility expected of a regional state. Its “shrivelling” or “demise”
soundingly by the Sri Lanka People’s Front, which has the United Arab Emirates (UAE), an established friend, the option Saudi Arabia) could muster some superpower. and any premature end to the at
the backing of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, Oman and Palestine — its leaders of closer naval cooperation and of support. It was also Mr. Nasheed’s The virtual collapse of a Pakis tempt to restore peace in Afghan
have brought to the fore popular disenchantment with also need to contemplate and re reaching an agreement to give the initial overtures to China that set tan policy seems to aect Pakistan istan will only revive memories of
the ruling parties, particularly over unemployment and ect deeply on what is happening Indian Navy access to Duqm port the stage for MaldivianChina rela less and India more. The latter is the worst days of the Afghan jihad
rural distress caused by drought. Even prior to the elec in India’s immediate neighbour did not prove dicult. tions. Under the current Presi facing a daily haemorrhaging of in the 1980s and 1990s, and India
tions, Mr. Sirisena disagreed often with his Prime Minis hood. It is in South Asia where trou dent, Abdulla Yameen Abdul human lives due to cross border has every reason to feel concerned
bles are mounting, where India Gayoom, antiIndian tendencies ring and terrorist violence from about the fallout. Of no less conse
ter over policy measures. In his campaign, he highlight
In the vicinity cannot succeed without looking at have steadily increased and there Pakistan. In spite of its internal quence is the fact that if Afghanis
ed an inquiry report that indicted some associates of Far more than East, Southeast some hard options. For instance, has been a pronounced tilt in fa political crisis, and U.S. President tan were to cease to exist, its civil
Mr. Wickremesinghe in a mammoth scandal in the sale Asia, or West Asia, it is India’s im how to deal with a new govern vour of China. The free trade Donald Trump’s fusillade threa isational links with India would
of government bonds by Sri Lanka’s central bank. It was mediate neighbourhood that di ment in Nepal (comprising the agreement that the Maldives tening Pakistan with dire conse also evaporate. For a variety of
no surprise when the parties contested separately, but rectly impacts it geopolitically, Left Alliance of the CPNUML led signed recently with China has quences if it failed to amend its reasons, therefore, India cannot
neither of them foresaw the outcome, which could geostrategically and geoeconomi by Oli and the CPNMaoist Centre been the proverbial thin end of the ways, Pakistan shows no sign of al allow Afghanistan to collapse or
mark the return of Mr. Rajapaksa as a major political cally. Whatever be the ambit of In led by Prachanda) with few pre wedge, providing China with an tering its antiIndia trajectory. De cease to exist as a state in the mod
force. After the results were out the alliance came un dia’s reach elsewhere, India’s prin tensions as to where its sympath excellent opportunity to enhance mocratic India can hardly aord to ern sense. This is something that
cipal focus, hence, will need to be ies lie. India also needs to now its inuence and retain de facto remain as blasé and let things demands India’s critical attention,
der stress as Mr. Sirisena wanted the Prime Minister to
on this neighbourhood. contemplate the prospect of pro possession of the Southern Atolls slide, without eectively trying to and specially for a display of its
resign, but the latter has made it clear he will stay on. India can aord to live with de longed unrest and possibly vio in the Maldivian archipelago. nd ways and means to change a leadership skills.
Amidst eorts by each camp to form an alternative re mands such as the one made at the lence, both communal and terror Straddling a strategic part of the situation which is certainly not to For all these reasons, and apart
gime that would exclude the other, Mr. Wickremes recently concluded ASEANIndia related, in neighbouring Bangla Western Indian Ocean, the Mal our advantage. from those currently at the helm
inghe has said the coalition stands. There is talk of a Ca Commemorative Summit, where it desh, prior to scheduled elections dives today occupies a crucial po Equally vital for India is to try of aairs in India, the leaderships
binet reshue as a means of settling their dierences, was urged to play a proactive role in 2019. This follows the convic sition along the main shipping and nd a way out of the Afghan of parties and States across the
but the durability of the alliance remains in doubt. in the AsiaPacic region, without tion by a special court in Dhaka of lanes in the Indian Ocean. The morass. The daily massacre of in spectrum must try and achieve a
needing to take hard decisions. It Bangladesh Nationalist Party lead Southern Maldives has long re nocents, men, women and chil unanimity of purpose in regard to
The coalition rides on the moral strength of the twin
possibly also does not have to er and threetime Prime Minister mained an object of interest to the dren, civilian ocials and military our foreign policy priorities. To
mandate of 2015: Mr. Sirisena’s victory in the presiden answer questions as to whether Khaleda Zia on corruption charg major powers. With the U.S. taking personnel, experts from several day, the focus needs to be on our
tial election over Mr. Rajapaksa, and the alliance’s deci ASEAN nations fully back India’s es. Dealing with both Nepal and a step back, China has begun to countries and diplomats, marks immediate neighbourhood. The
sive win in the parliamentary elections held later. It is membership of the Quadrilateral Bangladesh will need more than display a great deal of interest in the start of the complete collapse outcome of the IsraelPalestine
imperative to Sri Lanka’s interest that the President and (Australia, Japan, the United States ne gestures; they will need far the area; this coincides with its of a system of governance. conict, the turmoil in the East
Prime Minister remain faithful to the original mandate, and India), even as most of them more closer monitoring. current outreach into the Indian Despite periodic optimistic fo and South China Seas, or other
which was for good governance and institutional re back China’s Belt and Road Initia Ocean Region as also its ongoing recasts of the Taliban being in re bigticket issues across the world
tive. India can even aord to skirt Troubled hotspot plans to take control of Gwadar treat, terrorists under check, and are important, but it is South Asia
form. Mr. Wickremesinghe says he is committed to it,
the issue as to whether ASEANIn Another and a more imminent port (Pakistan) and establish a na that the Afghan government is still and the neighbourhood that de
and that he will take “corrective measures” on the eco dia relations are all embracing in challenge for India is to sort out val base in Djibouti in the Horn of in charge, Afghanistan’s position mands our concentrated atten
nomic front. The fact that economic disillusionment nature or limited only to specic the imbroglio in the Maldives Africa. today is the worst ever since the tion. If India is not seen to be ac
had in the past led to social unrest, conict and extreme aspects. which is threatening to spill out of India cannot, hence, aord to 1970s. This January, the capital ci tively involved in ensuring that the
nationalism should not be forgotten. The alliance had In West Asia, India still possess control. No amount of dissimula remain idle and must come up ty of Kabul witnessed one of the region is at peace and functions in
obtained public support for its reform agenda and for es enough leeway to engage in skil tion will help. India cannot aord with an answer soon enough that worst ever incidents of violence conformity with its world view,
showing a path away from authoritarian trends and in ful manoeuvre around conten not to be directly engaged in nd is consistent with its strategic in anywhere, in which over 100 civi any claims to leadership would
tious issues without having to take ing a proper solution. terests. A muscular reaction would lians were killed following a series amount to little more than tread
stitutional decay. It would be unfortunate if partisan in
a stand. India could, thus, success Relations between India and the be illadvised, despite the entrea of terror strikes. This happened ing water.
terests are placed above the people’s aspirations. The fully handle an Israeli Prime Minis Maldives have undergone signi ties of Mr. Nasheed, as the interna despite the presence of foreign
two leaders should seek to sink their dierences and ter’s visit to India just prior to Mr. cant changes since the days of tional community is likely to react troops, elements of the Afghan M.K. Narayanan is a former National
win back popular condence. The coalition should con
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Modi’s visit to Palestine, and yet former President Maumoon Abdul adversely to any military adven military and also of the Afghan Security Adviser and a former Governor
tinue to pursue the process of framing a new and inclu avoid a negative fallout. It could al Gayoom. After the Maldivian De ture. China is, meanwhile, playing police. Notwithstanding the omni of West Bengal
sive constitution. It should full its promises on recon
Doctors for rural India
ciliation to the waraected Tamils, whose backing
proved crucial in their march to power. One electoral
setback should not result in the project of national re
conciliation falling victim to narrow political interests.
Inducting Licentiate Medical Practitioners may be the solution to the chronic shortage of doctors in rural areas
needs of the rural population, lasting pool of dedicated grass ing for more resources to be con
A
dding to the growing body of judicially inspired Soham D. Bhaduri
electoral reforms, the Supreme Court has im broadly termed Licentiate Medical by not letting LMPs replace MBBS taken o an MBBS doctor and
Practitioners (LMPs) — would de doctors but instead work in a sub their skills put to better use. Qual
posed an additional disclosure norm for candi
N
early 600 million people in liver quality services in the rural ordinate capacity. ity emergency and inpatient atten
dates contesting elections. It has asked the Centre to India, mostly in the rural sector until the Bhore Committee A few changes in the public tion can be made available at the
amend the rules as well as the disclosure form led by areas, have little or no ac (1946) recommended abolishing and preference should be given to health system can be envisioned PHClevel. Today, less than a hand
candidates along with their nomination papers, to in cess to health care. A widespread them in the idea that India would applicants from within the com here: LMPs be employed in sub ful of PHCs provide inpatient care
clude the sources of their income, and those of their disregard for norms, a perpetual produce enough MBBS doctors. munity. Further, a provision for centres where they perform both of signicance. Concerns about
spouses and dependants. The court has also asked for failure to reach targets, and an air The committee made certain learning in the vernacular lan clinical and administrative func the clinical and administrative in
the establishment of a permanent mechanism to inves of utter helplessness are what laudable recommendations in guages can be made. tions at the subcentre level. This competence of fresh MBBS grad
mark the state of rural health care connection with the public health would also allow easier access to uates appointed as bonded medi
tigate any unexplained or disproportionate increase in
today. One can add to this another system. Back then, however, no Not quacks primary and emergency care and cal ocers can be put to rest.
the assets of legislators during their tenure. The verdict fact: the country is short of nearly body could have anticipated the Shortterm courses in modern keep the post of medical ocer for LMPs could be allowed to take
of the twojudge Bench on a petition from the NGO, Lok ve lakh doctors. country’s miserable failure in medicine have been consistently MBBS doctors, thereby deterring up a postgraduate course in prim
Prahari, is one more in a long line of signicant verdicts Among the range of measures achieving most of the targets pre equated with producing “cheaply any competition between the two ary care as an option to study
aimed at preserving the purity of the electoral process. that have been suggested in the scribed by the committee, even made, poor quality doctors”. Ho cadres of physicians. further. Those with a postgrad
These include the direction to provide the ‘NOTA’ op past decade is a rather promising years after Independence. While a wever, one begs to dier with this. Medical ocers (MBBS) could uate qualication could choose to
tion in voting machines, and another striking down a proposal which has been side protdriven, private healthcare LMPs cannot be called quacks if be employed in primary health move higher up in the public
lined. If properly implemented, it sector continued to denude the they be adequately trained in their centres (PHC), and new recruits health system, establish their own
clause that saved sitting legislators from immediate dis
may provide rural India with a last public health system of its quali eld (primary care) and have a imparted mandatory further train practice, nd positions in hospi
qualication upon conviction. It has ruled that the act ing pool of primary care ed physicians, its medical educa welldened role in health care. ing of a sucient duration in basic tals, or serve as faculty in medical
of voting is an expression of free speech, and that it is physicians. tion system kept losing touch with The present MBBS curriculum in clinical specialties. Also, inpatient colleges training LMPs.
part of this fundamental right that voters are required the actual health needs of the cludes a good amount of superu facilities at PHCs can be scaled up. Therefore, reviving LMPs can
to be informed of all relevant details about a contestant. The contours country. ous detail, including subjects such PHCs should deal with cases re help address the dearth of trained
This led to the rule that candidates should furnish de A few years ago, the Union Health Starting a shortterm course in as forensic medicine, that is of lit ferred to them by subcentre LMPs primary care physicians in rural
tails of any criminal antecedents, educational qualica Ministry drew ak when it put modern medicine can provide an tle relevance to primary care phys and also supervise their work. India. The logistical entailments of
forth a proposal to train a new opportunity to design a medical icians. Here, we should also note implementing this idea would re
tions and assets. If disclosure of assets is mandatory, it
cadre of health professionals. Un curriculum that is much more re that even though nurse practition Some spinos quire separate deliberation.
is only logical that the sources of income are also re der this plan, these professionals, levant to the nation’s needs. Its en ers and pharmacist medical prac This has many advantages. With
vealed. And as it is often seen that there is a dramatic in after undergoing a short term, 3 try requirements could be based titioners may be capable of serving LMPs working at the grassroot le Soham D. Bhaduri, a medical doctor
crease in the assets of candidates at every election over 3.5 year course in modern medi less on sheer merit and more on the same functions as LMPs, they vel, a single PHC would be able to based in Mumbai, is the Editor-in-Chief of
what was disclosed in previous adavits, it stands to cine, were to serve the health an aptitude for medical service cannot be expected to make up a handle a bigger population, allow ‘The Indian Practitioner’
reason that any rise should be explained or probed.
Few will dispute that lawmakers amassing wealth or
gaining unusual access to public funds and loans are
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tenance including mess food, photocopying services, and of the company. For in ing images came out of Pa narrowly escapes? And that a situation we want?
book purchases? Fourth, stipulated conditions for drawing stance, a new product kistan — of tiny black how do Vikas and Deepa No. That’s why… we’ve de
fellowships do not require compulsory attendance. In this launched to capture mar shoes lying in bloodsplat Khurana cope with the cided to take matters into
regard, the administration’s move stands outside of its own ket share from competi tered classrooms and of loss of their two boys? In our own hands.”
rules. Fifth, almost all courses use other methods to encour tors can deplete the exist mothers wailing as they itially lled with rage, Dee In Russell Banks’ The
age and ascertain that students participate in the process of ing cash reserves of the leaned over small cons. pa is determined to take Sweet Hereafter, in the c
learning, including regular sessional examinations, term company or even increase Last week, in Parkland in revenge. But the case tional town of Sam Dent,
papers, class presentations, and continuous assessment in its debt burden and other Florida, when Fred Gut drags on and she becomes 14 children are killed
the form of class participation. This is a holistic form of as costs without a commen tenberg lost his daughter disheartened when she when a school bus named
sessment, where students learn without regimentation, and surate increase in income. Jamie in the gun attack realises that what for her Shoe goes down a ravine
faculty do not waste time marking attendance sheets. Sixth, It is named after the Greek that killed 16 others, he was a lifechanging event and into a sand pit one
given that this is a research university, students go on eld mythological character simply did not know is nothing but another at winter day. Says the father
trips, attend conferences, go to libraries and archives out Icarus who, in his excite “what to do next”, he told tack, another number, for of one: “It was as if we,
side campus, as required by their research. This makes it ment to y with his new The Washington Post. “My the rest of the world. Vikas too, had died… and now
nearly impossible for them to go to the classroom every day. wings made of wax, ew wife and I are broken.” and Deepa break down in we were lodged tempora
The reason why a university without compulsory atten too close to the sun despite The worst tragedies are turns, struggle to keep rily in a kind of purgatory,
dance has risen to be a premier research institution in the advice to the contrary and arguably those in which their marriage alive, and waiting to be moved to
country is because it follows the best global standards in fell to his death as a result. children die. While news wallow in the guilt of hav wherever the other dead
academic research, is creative in its methods, and, most im reports focus on the im ing let their children go to ones had gone.” Banks
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Minister, Manik Sarkar Small Bombs, Karan Ma ry the burden of the ma ple live as shadows of their
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Jewellery
industry on ED searches 45 locations, seizes 20 cr. assets
tenterhooks On PMO instructions, multiple investigating agencies and the Ministries of Finance and Corporate Aairs are working together on the PNB case
several irregularities in their
Rotomac promoter ees
Staff Reporter Devesh K. Pandey
Kolkata NEW DELHI assessment report, also indi
The gems and jewellery Expanding its money laun cating the role of a number
sector could be severely dering probe into the of shell companies in the
impacted in the coming
months following the mul
ticrore Punjab National
11,500crore Punjab Nation
al Bank scam, the Enforce
ment Directorate (ED) on
movement of funds. More
than 100 accounts have been
identied.
after 800 cr. bank fraud?
Bank scam, say captains of Sunday carried out searches The report was led with
the industry in Kolkata. at 45 places across 11 States the authorities this past Last year, BoB listed Vikram Kothari as a wilful defaulter
At a national conclave and seized more assets week. The accused compa
here, they felt that in the worth 20 crore, taking the nies had registered cash Press Trust of India roda, a consortium partner,
wake of the scam, the lend overall value of seizures to transactions of over 150 New Delhi declared Rotomac Global
ing by banks to the jewel nearly 5,700 crore. crore during the demoneti After billionaire diamond Pvt Ltd a “wilful defaulter.”
lery industry is expected to “The searches were car sation period, which are also merchant Nirav Modi,
“slow down.” “There will ried at 10 locations in Benga under scrutiny. another defaulter Vikram Moves High Court
denitely be some ripple luru, seven in Delhi, ve Following instructions Kothari, the promoter of Ro The company then moved
eects. Banks will be more each in Mumbai and Kolkata, from the Prime Minister’s Of tomac Pen, has also alleged the Allahabad High Court
cautious,” said Prakash and four each in Hyderabad ce, multiple investigating ly gone abroad after swin seeking removal of its name
Chandra Pincha, regional and Chandigarh. Several pre agencies and the ministries dling 800 crore from public from the list of wilful
chairman (eastern region) mises in Patna, Lucknow, of Finance and Corporate Af sector banks such as Allaha defaulters.
of the Gem and Jewellery Chennai and Guwahati were fairs are coordinating with bad Bank, the Bank of India Vikram Kothari A Division Bench com
Export Promotion Council. also searched during the Probe widens: The Central Vigilance Commission is likely to each other on the case. The and the Union Bank of India, prising Chief Justice D.B.
State president of the In day,” said a senior ED ocial. hold a meeting with senior PNB executives R.V. MOORTHY *
agencies are sharing deve sources said. speculation of his eeing the Bhosle and Justice Yashwant
dia Bullion and Jewellers lopments with the PMO on a The Kanpurbased com country was baseless. “I am Verma had passed the order
Association Limited Pankaj Auditors under scrutiny ternal auditors of the bank, which is owned by coac daily basis. pany’s owner had taken a a resident of Kanpur and I on a petition led by the
Parekh said banks might ED chief Karnal Singh will be who apparently did not cused Mehul Choksi, the un Earlier on Saturday, a se loan of more than 800 will stay in the city. Howev company, contending that it
now dub the entire indus in Mumbai on Monday to re check the SWIFT messaging cle and mentor of Nirav Mo nior PNB ocial briefed the crore from over ve state er, I do have to travel to fo had been wrongly declared a
try “risky.” view the developments in records during the reconci di. He is currently suspected ED ocials about the modus owned banks. reign countries for business “wilful defaulter” by BoB
“The industry does not the case. The Central Vigi liation of accounts. The to be in the United States. operandi adopted by the ac purposes,” Mr. Kothari said. despite having “oered as
consist of only one person. lance Commission may also SWIFT network is used for Besides him, three of the cused to raise unauthorised Five banks on list Mr. Kothari took a loan of sets worth more than 300
How can the act of a partic hold a meeting with senior quick and secure communi companies have been made Letters of Undertaking and Allahabad Bank, the Bank of 485 crore from the Mum crore to the bank since the
ular individual impact the bank executives to deter cation between banks for in accused in the latest case re Foreign Letters of Credit for India, the Bank of Baroda, baibased Union Bank of In date of default”.
entire industry,” asked mine the nature of lapses, ternational wire transfers. gistered by the Central Bu settling import bills since the Indian Overseas Bank dia and 352 crore from the Rotomac was declared a
Subir Kumar Sen, presi owing to which the fraudu PNB operates 32 SWIFT ac reau of Investigation in con March 2011. and the Union Bank of India Kolkatabased Allahabad wilful defaulter vide an or
dent of the Swarna Shilpa lent transactions remained counts. nection with the PNB fraud. While the CBI has arrested compromised their rules to Bank. A year later, Mr. Koth der dated February 27, 2017
Bachao Committee, the lar undetected for almost seven The Income Tax Depart three key accused in the sanction loans to Rotomac, ari has reportedly not paid passed by an authorised
gest organisation of jewel years. ment will share with the ED Shell companies case, the agency is question the sources said. back either the interest or committee, as per the proce
lery traders and artisans in Among those under scru its appraisal report on the Gi It is learnt that the Income ing more than half a dozen According to local media the loan. dure laid down by the Re
West Bengal. tiny are the internal and ex tanjali group of companies, Tax ocials have detected suspects. reports, the promoter said Last year, the Bank of Ba serve Bank of India.
Mr. Jaitley for their silence, “The list of such frauds the Congress demands a and the BJP had nurtured for
Mr. Gandhi tweeted: “PM keeps growing by the day. White Paper on the health of decades. “India has had a ship and in the form of the racy ows in our veins. In
Modi tells kids how to pass Now, there are reports in the the Indian banking sector,” multiparty system. So, coa NDA, the BJP successfully our thought, behaviour, and
exams for 2 hrs, but won’t public space that a company he said. The party would lition politics was very natu carried out an experiment of tradition, there is democra
speak for 2 mins on the called Rotomac and its own press for it in the second half ral. To come together for taking allies together, chan cy. It is because of this that
22,000Cr banking scam. Mr. er, a gentleman called Mr. of the Budget session start greed is another thing, but it nelising their strengths in we can take everyone along
Jaitley is in hiding. Stop be Kothari, who owe 800 ing on March 5, he said. requires a dierent kind of the politics of coalition, ba to a great extent.”
having as if you’re guilty! crore to a consortium of The Congress demanded practice to keep allies to lancing regional aspirations The coalitions of 1967 Mr.
Speak up. # banks,” he said. that banks immediately dis gether and move forward and sparking a new ray of Modi was referring to were
ModiRobsIndia”. Pointing to the dierence close NPAs as of December democratically,” Mr. Modi hope in the country.” the Sanyukta Vidhayak Dal
between nonperforming as 31, 2017. “This is people’s told a large gathering of BJP He recalled that there had governments — a result of
‘Growing list’ sets (NPAs) and bank frauds, money. They have a right to workers at the inauguration been some experiments of the alliance between social
At a press conference, the Mr. Tewari said: “NPA refers know who owes how much of the new party headquar coalition politics in 1967, but ists and the Jana Sangh to
former Union Minister Man to a default on payment of in which bank. Banks should ters at Deen Dayal Upad the “later successes were keep the Congress out — that
ish Tewari, quoting RBI data, interest on a loan for two also publish the names of hyaya Marg here. phenomenal.” “The core came to power in some
said that in the past ve quarters, but bank fraud is a fraudsters,” he said. “Under Atal ji’s leader reason for this is that democ States.
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IN BRIEF
Foreign Secretary, Army
chief, NSA visited Bhutan
NEW DELHI
Foreign Secretary Vijay
Gokhale, General Bipin Rawat
and National Security Adviser
Ajit Doval visited Bhutan in
the first fortnight of this
month for bilateral
discussions, sources said. The
highlevel meeting, a first
since the Doklam standoff
between India and China last
year, yielded a “positive”
outcome.
Pak. bills 2.86 lakh for
navigation of PM’s flights
NEW DELHI
Pakistan has billed India
2.86 lakh as route
navigation charges for the
Indian Air Force aircraft used
by Prime Minister Narendra Poll exercise: Women from the Reang tribe after voting in Telaimura district of Tripura and, right, people outside a polling station in Agartala on Sunday. *
RITU RAJ KONWAR
Modi during a stopover in
Lahore and visits to Russia,
Afghanistan, Iran and Qatar,
an RTI response shows. The
data was gathered by activist
and Commodore (Retd.)
CPI(M), BJP ‘condent’ of victory in Tripura
Lokesh Batra. PTI
Polling passed o peacefully; snags reported in EVMs attached with VVPATs in around 180 polling stations; Cong., Left criticise ocials
‘Pak. troops back
infiltration in Poonch’
SRINAGAR
The Army foiled the Pakistan
Indo-Asian News Service
Agartala
As Sunday’s voting to elect
that frequent inquiries
about Tripura elections
were received from Con
NCP candidate killed in
Army’s attempt to help
militants infiltrate into the
Poonch sector on Sunday
59 of the 60 members of the
Tripura Assembly passed o
gress president Rahul Gand
hi’s oce in Delhi. pollbound Meghalaya
afternoon. A defence peacefully, the ruling CPI(M) All India Congress Com
spokesman said the Pakistan and the BJP exuded con mittee general secretary C.P. Rahul Karmakar the details about casualty,”
Army initiated “unprovoked dence of an electoral victory Joshi, secretary Bhupen Bo GUWAHATI said DGP S.B. Singh.
and indiscriminate firing from in the northeastern State. ra and other leaders also Suspected militants deto But by 10.30 p.m., Megh
5.15 p.m. along the Line of Except snags reported in talked to Tripura Congress nated an improvised explo alaya Chief Minister Mukul
Control to facilitate an electronic voting machines leaders on the polling, he sive device killing a Nation Sangma tweeted: “Deeply
infiltration attempt”. (EVMs) attached with added. alist Congress Party (NCP) saddened to hear about the
VVPATs (Voter Veriable candidate for the February unexpected loss of Jonath
Army officer injured Paper Audit Trail) in nearly ‘Poor management’ 27 elections in the East Garo one N Sangma. My heartfelt
in Poonch blast 180 booths, the polling was Criticising the Election De Hills district of Meghalaya. condolences to his near and
SRINAGAR Unconrmed reports said dear ones. The blood of in
incidentfree. Over 75% of partment, the Congress
An Army officer was injured in the eligible voters voted till 4 leaders said election author two of his bodyguards were nocents spilled by the ene
a blast in Poonch’s frontier also killed. mies of the State will not dis
p.m., when the ocial voting ities were not impartial and
area on Sunday. A district
hours ended. Crucial vote: Manik Sarkar on his way to cast his vote in Agartala on Sunday * RITU RAJ KONWAR election management was The IED attack on Jonath turb peace in Meghalaya.”
administration official said a
very poor and inecient. one N. Sangma, the NCP Another tweet by him la
Junior Commissioned Officer,
Polling enquiries “People want change. Pe dent” of forming the next other BJP leaders always talk “Despite complaints from candidate for the Williamna ter said: “This desperate act
Om Prakash, of the Army’s 5
Mahar, suffered splinter BJP Tripura unit president ople strongly wish for a BJP State government. He said of Digital India, but in today’s the Congress and Left par gar seat, took place at Sa will not be tolerated. The
injuries in Mendhar area, Biplab Kumar Deb said government in Tripura. It is CPI(M) general secretary Sit (Sunday) elections a large ties, election ocials in manda around 7.50 p.m. perpetrators of the crime
which is close to the Line of Prime Minister Narendra Mo certain that the BJP will form aram Yechury, Polit Bureau number of EVMsVVPATs Tripura did not take action. when he was returning from will be brought to book.”
Control. The injured officer di, party president Amit the next government in Trip members Prakash Karat, malfunctioned to create se But election ocials took campaigning at Sobokgre Posters had appeared in
was shifted to a hospital in Shah, general secretary Ram ura,” Mr. Deb told the media Brinda Karat, Biman Bose #5 6 7 0 0 1
rious doubts about the high prompt action when the BJP and Nabokgre villages. parts of Williamnagar saying
Udhampur. The Army said the Madhav, Assam Minister Hi here. and other central leaders en pitch Digital India cam lodged any complaint,” Mr. The police neither con anyone who voted for the
officer was in stable manta Biswa Sarma and oth CPI(M) Tripura State se quired on phone about the paign,” Mr. Dhar said. Dey added. The counting of rmed nor denied the can NCP candidate would get
condition. The blast was not a er party leaders enquired cretary Bijan Dhar said the polling. Tripura Congress vice votes would be held on didate’s death. “There was a bullets from “AK17 and
“result of Pakistan’s shelling”. about polling in Tripura. Left parties were “overcon “The Prime Minister and president Tapas Dey said March 3. blast but we are yet to get pistol”.
We have pushed infra projects, says PM NPF to exit BJP coalition in Manipur
Staff Reporter land government and the Council to join the BJP. The
IMPHAL Centre. NPF State unit presi NPF leaders took umbrage
Unveils plaque for Navi Mumbai International Airport, in limbo since it was proposed in 1997 The Naga People’s Front, a dent Marung Makunga said, at the remarks, saying Mr.
coalition partner in Mani “The decision will be made Biren had shown disrespect
Special Correspondent 10 lakh crore which were 16,704 crore and is estimat pur, has decided to with public shortly after the Na to the NPF.
Mumbai pending when I took over ed to attract at least 10 mil draw support to the BJPled galand polls.” Some NPF leaders have
Blaming previous govern are now progressing,” Mr. lion passengers per annum, coalition government in Ma At a recent public func alleged that even after com
ments for not pushing infras Modi said, in his address at once its rst phase is opera nipur. tion in Chandel district, pleting one year, the govern
tructure projects, Prime Mi the ground breaking cere tional. The NPF, which has four Chief Minister Biren Singh ment has done nothing for
nister Narendra Modi said on mony of the Navi Mumbai In MLAs in Manipur, is also a had asked the NPF members the hills and that corruption
Sunday that projects worth ternational airport project. Fresh orders ruling partner in the Naga in the Autonomous District is rampant.
10 lakh crore were in a state “The rst promise of this Since Independence, only
of limbo when he took oce airport was made in 1997, 450 airplanes were in the sky
in May 2014 and his govern during the government of including both from govern
ment had broken the im Atal Bihari Vajpayee and ment and private sectors,
passe on such investments since then there were only and now companies have or
during its tenure so far. promises which remained dered 900 planes in just one
On a daylong tour to PM Narendra Modi with Governor Vidyasagar Rao,left, and CM on paper. When I took over, I year, Mr. Modi said, high
Mumbai, Mr. Modi on Sun Devendra Fadnavis in Navi Mumbai on Sunday. VIVEK BENDRE *
went over the papers. I took lighting the growth that has
day afternoon unveiled the a detailed report of it and the taken place under his go
foundation plaque at the ( JNPT) to the nation and in “The previous govern work started. Now people vernment’s watch.
ground breaking ceremony augurated the Magnetic Mah ments had only one policy, will come to claim credit say Earlier governments only
for the Navi Mumbai Interna arashtra investment summit. which was latkana (to stall), ing it was our project, but talked about the 21st centu
tional Airport, dedicated the Late in the evening, he also atkana (to keep it pending) you now know what has hap ry, but never visualised it
fourth container terminal at launched a new centre for ar and patkana (to ground well pened,” said Mr. Modi. and “the project only used to
Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust ticial intelligence. laid plans). Projects worth The airport is likely to cost remain on paper,” he said.
India still hopeful of nuclear
deal with Westinghouse
‘Reactormaker may come out of bankruptcy soon’
Dinakar Peri concerns on the nuclear liability,
New Delhi NPCIL and Westinghouse had
India is condent of concluding the agreed to “work toward nalising
nuclear deal with reactormaker the contractual arrangements by
Westinghouse Electric as it expects June 2017.”
the company to come out of bank However, the process was stalled
ruptcy very soon, said Satish Shar after Toshiba Corp declared bank
ma, Chairman and Managing Direc ruptcy and decided to move out of
tor (CMD) of Nuclear Power reactorbuilding business.
Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL).
“The discussions are happening Second site in A.P.
and they are of a very complex na Meanwhile, the second site for con
ture. Any progress will happen only structing additional Russian reac
after bankruptcy which is likely to tors in Andhra Pradesh is yet to be
happen very soon. That is why we nalised. “The site selection com
are continuing the discussions,” Mr. mittee is evaluating a second site in
Sharma said. Andhra Pradesh other than Kovva
Some ocials said they were da which was initially proposed.
hopeful that Toshiba, which had ac There are DAE guidelines laid down
quired the U.S.based Westinghouse for nalising a site,” an ocial of the
in 2006, was too big to fail and Department of Atomic Energy
would be bankrolled either by the (DAE) told The Hindu.
Japanese government or the Japa Stating that the process is under
nese Development Bank. way, the ocial said that various
Following the IndoU.S. nuclear factors such as land type, earth
deal, India has been in discussion quake potential, availability of wa
with Westinghouse since 2005 to ter should all be factored in. “Given
build six AP1000 nuclear reactors. that it is a coastal site, there are also
After protracted negotiations and other parameters,” he added.
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PM can’t be blamed
for Dassault’s Breaking the Chinese whispers
choice: Nirmala Shivshankar Menon says India should take China’s rise as a given and work its strategy against that backdrop
Mohit M. Rao Mini Kapoor
Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on
I
ndia should take China’s rise
Sunday said at The Huddle that the Inter as a given and work its strate
Government Agreement for the Rafale deal gy against that backdrop, in
did not name HAL or any other company stead of looking at the relation
as partner for Dassault. ship in binaries, Shivshankar
Ms. Sitharaman was in conversation Menon, former National Security
with N. Ravi, Publisher, The Hindu, on the Adviser and old China hand,
topic “In defence of the realm: how pre said.
pared is India?” “The problem is that we treat
“The InterGovernment Agreement IndiaChina relations as a Twen
[between India and France] is like a mem ty20 match,” he added.
orandum of understanding which only In a discussion on “Asian cen
broadly states intention. It does not name tury: does it have to be India ver
anybody, not HAL or any other private sus China?” moderated by Na
company,” she said. rayan Lakshman, Associate
“In the UPA nondeal, HAL had clearly Editor, The Hindu, Mr. Menon
stated manpower which was not accepted was joined by Husain Haqqani,
by Dassault [which manufactures Rafale former Pakistan Ambassador to
ghter jets]. If Dassault does a deal with a the U.S., who is now with a think
private company, it is absolutely nonsense tank in Washington, and Andrew
to say that it was done because the Prime Small, an expert on China’s fo
Minister handpicked the company.” reign policy with the German
She said the Defence Ministry would get Marshall Fund in the U.S.
to know about the Indian partner only Shunning the zerosum game
when it applied for credit after fullling the approach to the rise of India and
oset obligation. China, Mr. Menon instead high
Prices of the aircraft, she said, are lighted the need for the two
bound to go up as India will want to up countries to work out a new mo- Neighbourly ties: Husain Haqqani, former Pakistan Ambassador to the U.S., writer Andrew Small, and Shivshankar Menon, former National
grade the basic, cheaper ghter jet to suit dus vivendi, to address the vacu Security Adviser, in conversation with Narayan Lakshman, Associate Editor, The Hindu, at The Huddle on Sunday. K. MURALI KUMAR *
its terrain and potential use. um left by the breakdown in the
However, is the Centre’s refusal to re modus vivendi worked out with Mr. Small. “The Chinese were ing a future policy of exporting a what the British did with the U.S.
veal details of the deal — as was seen in Par Rajiv Gandhi’s historic visit to <
> The problem is that we
treat India-China ties as embarrassed by what hap way of life. after the Second World War.”
liament recently — a “selfgoal” for the rul China in 1988. That understand pened.” Mr. Haqqani contrasted the ti That is, encourage the other
a Twenty20 match
ing NDA government as the Congress has ing was: keep peace on the bor There was a sense, he added, melines of the two countries. “If country to take more of a lead in
Shivshankar Menon
been claiming, asked N. Ram, Chairman, der, discuss all “our dierences”, Former NSA in China that they were political China has a 100year plan, India certain theatres where it had
The Hindu Group. but don’t let the border issue ly, as opposed to militarily, un needs a 50 or 30year plan.” In been dominant.
In response, Ms. Sitharaman said: “I stop the two countries from recent Doklam stando and its prepared for India’s response. dia has problems of human capi The panel discussed the dy
want to answer, and it would bring satis cooperating where they could. resolution. “Both [India and Chi The stando also played out dur tal and military modernisation, namics of this complicated India
faction to all the people here. But it will al Since then, the denition given na] showed they did not want ing a delicate time for China, in but between the rivals any con China relationship playing out in
so lead to satisfaction for our enemies ... by the two countries to their in the crisis to escalate,” Mr. Menon the runup to the 19th Party frontation won’t be India’s deci the IndoPacic, and the implica
But how many times has the UPA also terests had grown, and “the ef said. It was little acknowledged, Congress. sion, he said. “It is always the to tions and possibilities of a debt
sought protection under national security. fort is worth making” to attempt he said, that the China stretch talitarian state that decides who trap for various stakeholders in
We [BJP, then in the Opposition] did not an upgrade, he said. was India’s most peaceful bor Huge shift is the adversary.” China’s ambitious Belt and Road
express outrage on this.” der. But for the rst time, there In fact, Mr. Menon said, the Par In the region, China is looking Initiative.
In her opening remarks, the Defence Mi Change in pattern was heightened rhetoric on the ty Congress marked a huge shift to encircle others, he said, and But the resounding call was
nister said indigenous defence procure One lens to see the change that Chinese side. “This is a change in in China’s overseas approach. make it dicult for them to en for pragmatism as the economic
ment was being emphasised, with 120 out had come, while appreciating a the Chinese pattern of beha President Xi Jinping started talk circle it. Pakistan has completely and political interests of both
of 170 defence contracts being with Indian mutual understanding to keep viour,” he said. ing about other countries follow cast its lot with China, he said. countries become increasingly,
companies. “Until recently, 60% of com tensions under control, was the “Bluster did not work,” agreed ing the Chinese model, indicat “The U.S. is doing with India and variously, more global.
ponents were imported. Now, it is 35%,”
she said.
However, responding to a question on
the issues of procurement of the HALde
veloped Tejas light combat aircraft, Ms.
Sitharaman said that while 40 had been
Make space, Bollywood
procured by the Air Force, processes were A heady discussion on Indian cinema, with the focus
being completed to order another 83.
“There has to be serious improvement beyond Mumbai and on niche, independent art
in scaling up of production by HAL, either #5 6 7 0 0 1
“I
belong to a time when we talked
about great art and culture when we
From the wings spoke about India,” Ratna Pathak
Shah, theatre, lm and television actor,
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said regretting the fact that suddenly all
that seems to represent the nation, espe
cially outside of our own shores, seems to
be Bollywood.
“It’s like saying that all of American civil
isation is Hollywood,” she said. For her,
Bollywood is not India. “It’s a vulgar, sim
plistic, childish idea of India. It has been
promoting hypocrisy beyond belief,” she
said, setting o a blistering start to the ses
sion titled “Coming of age: the main
streaming of parallel cinema”. She felt Bol
lywood was “overly representative” of
Talking politics: Nistula Hebbar, Political Editor, The Hindu, in conversation with Karnataka Minister Krishna Indian cinema when a lot of experimenta
Byre Gowda at The Huddle. SAMPATH KUMAR G.P.
* tion is happening in cinema in all languag
With a lake on fire es across India. Suhasini Maniratnam at The Huddle. *
Party up to speed
Bellandur lake. State Agriculture Minister
bangg. She felt that the lm sent out scary, promoting hypocrisy
Krishne Byre Gowda had to field multiple objectionable messages about women. “It
Ratna Pathak Shah
questions on the city’s infrastructure, which he does not talk well about our civilisation,” actor
agreed needed much attention. But the she said.
discussion on the revival of the city’s lakes Ms. Shah diered, hoping that actors
went on for so long that the moderator Krishna Byre Gowda says Congress is developing local leadership Varied pursuits would be cast for their suitability than
quipped that probably the formula for the Actordirector Suhasini Maniratnam com their stardom. She spoke about the young
revival of the Congress in the country was in Aditya Bharadwaj nues to talk of only 60 years va, with the temple visits of Ra pared watching a lm with reading a book. lmmakers of the 1970s who gravitated to
reviving the city’s lakes. past”. “The focus is on building a hul Gandhi during the recent You see a lm at a go, can’t stop midway, wards stars. They depleted the directors
I
n an intense personality con longterm trustworthy relation Gujarat and the ongoing Karnata nor put it down like a book and come back rather than feed them. “Even a wellmean
test, with Prime Minister Na ship, promising what we can do,” ka campaigns? to it later. But if, with digitisation, you can ing star brings a certain amount of bag
rendra Modi on one side, who he said. The Minister said the temple watch the lm at your convenience, then gage,” she said.
is a match to him in the Mr. Gowda pitched an empo visits were nothing new, but the the divide between commercial and paral In response to that, Mr. Masurkar spoke
Congress? wering strong local leadership as perception was new as the lens lel cinema will be wiped o, she said, car about working with younger actors like
Chief Minister Siddaramaiah is one of the paths for the revival of had changed. rying the debate forward. She went back to Rajkummar Rao, who do not come from
“more than a match” to Mr. Modi the Congress. Asked what had the roots of art house cinema — how it lm families. “They realise that they will
in Karnataka, and in every State, changed with Mr. Gandhi as the Temple visits emerged as an act of rebellion against op have to work hard to go ahead,” he said.
the party is going to come up new leader of the party, he said a “The BJP, to cover up its failures pression. “All art cinema is not great; some He spoke of himself as the rst genera
with voices and leaders who will in livelihood and real issues, has of the lms can put you to sleep,” she said. tion of lmmakers who did not just discov
counter the Prime Minister, Kar
nataka Agriculture Minister
<
> reliability
I think believability and
is how ‘Brand
been pushing issues of faith and
identity to the fore. Goalposts are
But she felt that there was a growing breed
of lmmakers now who were not using ci
er lms online but even picked up his lm
making skills from the Internet.
Krishna Byre Gowda said. Rahul’ will shape changing too. So the way a visit to nema to make a statement or to get But can that equal being in a lm school
He was quick to add that it subtle change had been that Mr. a temple is being perceived has noticed. with passionate mentors and peers for
Claims vs facts
would be “Rahul Gandhiplus”, Gandhi had empowered the local changed,” he said, pointing out One of them, Amit Masurkar, the direc company and constant conversations on
This is an age when a lot of unverified
with a team of leaders with him. leadership to take decisions and that Mr. Gandhi visited temples tor of the critically acclaimed Newton, cinema?
information passes off as facts. Karnataka
Agriculture Minister Krishna Byre Gowda must Mr. Gowda, a young face of the lead their States. even during his 2008 election spoke about how people wondered why he Ms. Suhasini evocatively spoke about
have had that mind while answering some Congress, was in conversation “Where there is strong local campaign in Karnataka. was making a lm on politics. They had being the only woman among 120 men in
pointed questions on the state of lakes in with Nistula Hebbar, Political Ed leadership, central leadership is “The Congress represents all this perception that the youth were not in the lm school. Even that did not prepare
Bengaluru. When a member of the audience itor, The Hindu, on “Winning: giving more space. While he has walks of life and the visits to plac terested in politics, while he believed polit her for her tryst with international cinema.
referred to the fire in Bellandur lake and the can the Congress turn the tide?” allowed Siddaramaiah to develop es of worship is only a reection ics was another form of entertainment for She broke down on watching Bicycle
pollution in many other lakes, the Minister a Karnataka Model of Develop of that. For instance, Rahul the people. For an independentminded Thieves.
mentioned specific details regarding the Fading brand ment, Rajasthan also has a young Gandhi visited a Su shrine, two lmmaker like him, the struggle was not It made her realise what cinema could
number of lakes that had been cleaned and The Minister said “Brand Modi” team being given space,” he said. Lingayat places of worship and about getting a lm made or selling and ex do, what her future in lmmaking was go
rejuvenated, and the amount of money spent. was already fading, opening up that of a subaltern goddess,” he hibiting it. “The struggle is in getting the ing to be like. “In 1979, at the age of 16, it
He did not forget to add, “These are not mere the space for Mr. Gandhi to con Karnataka model said. right ideas,” he said. could only happen at a lm institute,” she
claims, you can check them.” nect better, allowing people to The Minister spoke of a “Karnata “In the south, we have a far When quizzed about the role of actors in said.
look at him afresh. ka model of development”, and more diverse understanding of bridging the gap between mainstream and Mr. Masurkar disagreed vehemently
“One word that resonated dur pitched it as an alternative to that Hinduism itself. I come from a commercial cinema, Ms. Suhasini said that that independent lms like his were still
YES Bank is the title sponsor of The Huddle. ing the feedback I got from a of the BJP. “We have achieved Sudra community, and we have it was the audience that was the key in ll conned to a small urban niche. Newton
SRM University, Amaravati, is the Poweredby large cross section after Rahul high growth, amid prudent scal many religious festivities revolv ing up the divide. “[But] If an actor decides was released in Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand
sponsor, NDTV the television partner, Air India Gandhi’s recent tour of the State practices and achieved inclusive ing around nonvegetarianism. to support a good lm, nothing like it,” she and Gorakhpur. It ran for four weeks in
the airline partner, Prestige Group the [Karnataka] was believability. I growth implementing path We have many gods and goddess said. In Tamil cinema, Sivaji Ganesan expe Dalli Rajhara.
supporting partner, SAIL the session sponsor, think believability and reliability breaking welfare schemes. This es in the south who are nonvege rimented with small, new lms, followed Ms. Shah said the audience had changed
Da Milano the bespoke partner, Parker the is how ‘Brand Rahul’ will shape,” is the model that we oer,” he tarian. It is for the BJP to say by Kamal Haasan and Rajinikanth in the radically. In two generations, there would
writing instrument partner, and Wizrcraft the he said, juxtaposing it with what said. whether their Hindutva includes beginning; Aamir Khan, Shah Rukh Khan be a much more literate audience. In a nut
event partner. Zebronics and Anand Prakash he termed “hollow promises of But has the Congress been these gods too,” Mr. Gowda ex and Akshay Kumar had been trying it in shell, a fertile ground and time to take ci
are the gift partners. Modi who after four years conti treading the path of softHindut plained. Bollywood. nema to its next level forward.
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2018
NOIDA/DELHI
THE HUDDLE 13
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Two former RBI Governors and a former Plan panel chief weigh in on growth, ination and investment
Thomas K. Thomas
W
hile monetary and s
cal policy makers grap
ple with the “growth
versus ination” debate to deter
mine India’s economic future,
they should give top priority to Nirmala meets Nasheed
nding a way out of the current In the first official meeting between the
mess in the banking system and government and the Maldivian Opposition
improve the private investment since the declaration of emergency in the
cycle. island nation, Defence Minister Nirmala
Sitharaman met former President Mohamed
This was the key message that
Nasheed on the sidelines of The Huddle in
came out of a panel discussion
Bengaluru on Sunday. Neither Mr. Nasheed’s
with the former Governors of the
office nor the Defence Ministry divulged
Reserve Bank of India C. Ranga contents of their conversation, but Mr.
rajan and D. Subbarao and the Nasheed tweeted he was pleased to “meet
former Deputy Chairman of the and brief Ms. Sitharaman on the situation”.
Planning Commission Montek The meeting was significant as India had
Singh Ahluwalia. earlier rejected a visit by President Abdulla
“The most important thing Yameen’s envoy, though the Indian
that we need to do is to get in Ambassador in Male met the Maldivian
vestments. Monetary policy Foreign Secretary last week. The meeting
alone cannot bring growth. In comes ahead of Tuesday, when the emergency
vestment rate is falling. So we should be lifted going by the order issued by
need to do a whole lot of things President Yameen.
to bring investments,” Dr. Subba
rao said during the panel discus
sion moderated by R. Srinivasan,
Editor, BusinessLine.
Banking mess
Mr. Ahluwalia said that in addi
tion to improving the investment It’s the economy: C. Rangarajan, former RBI Governor, and Montek Singh Ahluwalia, former Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission, at
cycle, the banking system need The Huddle. Vinita Bali, former MD, Britannia, and R. Srinivasan, Editor, BusinessLine, are seen. SAMPATH KUMAR G.P. *
ed to be xed.
“There should be high priori to do,” he said. tion can be better protected by ral prices are low,” he said.
ty in resolving the banking mess <
> ination at 78% and
You cannot have
Dr. Subbarao said the ongoing having a more realistic exchange The former Deputy Chairman
Economy and environment
that has been created over the then say growth is ination targeting framework rate rather than increasing the of the Planning Commission said
During the session on “Balancing Growth and
past three or four years. The had worked well so far, but had import duties. It is a very regret there was excessive focus on mo
important Inflation”, a member of the audience stood up
banks should get back to lend not been tested. table step,” he said. netary policy to drive growth.
C. Rangarajan to ask a question on the need to factor in
ing. This is not a monetary policy Former RBI Governor “The test will come when the Dr. Rangarajan said that while “We are upset that the RBI is environment and ecology in economic
issue. Clearly, the RBI and the go growth is low and ination is growth was important, it had to following the rule, but we don’t policies. After former Deputy Chairman of the
vernment have a role since 70% banks are in a position to pass it high. It has worked reasonably be consistent with some level of seem to mind that the scal de Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia
of the banks are still public sec on. They have other problems well so far, but it has not been stability to make the growth sus cit has been departing from the replied to the question, former RBI Governor
tor banks,” Mr. Ahluwalia said. like NPAs [nonperforming as tested. Test will also come when tainable. “You cannot have ina rule. If you ask which part of the D. Subbarao said it was heartening to see that
Asked what should be done by sets]. The government also can there is capital inows, when tion at 78% and then say growth economy is not following the the first question of the session was linked to
policy makers going forward, Dr. not raise the public investment there is pressure on the ex is important,” he said. rule set a few years ago, then it is a subject like environment.
Rangarajan prescribed consulta by more than a few decimal change rate. What will the RBI do Mr. Ahluwalia said that policy clearly the scal decit. We keep
tion with the industry to see how points,” Dr. Rangarajan said. then? Will it control the ination makers were always in a dilem postponing the deadline to meet
the investments could be “The private investment rate or will it manage the exchange ma. “In reality, politicians have a the scal decit targets. It is di
brought in. has fallen from 3334% of the rate? These are the questions for tough job because they are inter cult to understand why it would
“It is obvious that the econo GDP to something like 27%. Go which one cannot lay down the ested not just in keeping ination depart from the rule next year if
my is performing below poten vernment should call the indus rules and one needs to play it by low, but they are interested in GDP is growing at 7.5% and the
tial. The economy can grow at try and nd out what is really the ball as per the situation,” he lower ination in every com tax structure has stabilised. So
89%. Monetary policy will not coming in the way of higher in said. modity. The Finance Minister the destabilising inuences are
be able to do much here to stim vestments. More focussed atten Mr. Ahluwalia criticised the will be terried of a news item not just on the monetary side but
ulate growth. Even if interest rate tion to individual sectors of the Centre’s move to increase cus that says prices of onions have also on the scal side,” Mr. Ahlu
is lowered, I am not sure if the industry would be a good thing toms duties. “Domestic produc shot up, even if other agricultu walia said.
C
an the goofylooking, corrupt, un
ethical, ctional “Humble Politi
cian” Nograj make a dierence in
real life? If you ask the brains behind the
character, the answer is, perhaps “Yes, he
can”.
Comedian and actor Danish Sait, who
presented the talk on “Comedy is change”
at The Huddle said that though his famous
prank calls — made with comical accents to
unwitting recipients — started as “stupid
fun”, they became a platform for social Sharp wit: Comedian and actor Danish Sait
commentary. speaks at The Huddle. K. MURALI KUMAR *
Staying grounded after
monetisation, politicians threatening vio follow a comedian, it doesn’t mean the co and when she did, she was made to run around
lence, destruction of the environment. Pe median should not have an opinion,” he the premises five times. She could sense the
ople saw through politicians like Nograj. It said. anticipation and wonder about her mystery
became a household name, at least among Did he run into controversy for his Kan favourite actor. “I will not name the actor. I
top ights at court
the 1824 year olds who are important vo nada lm that largely poked fun at politi already have 12 criminal cases, and freedom of
ters,” he said during the presentation, pep cians and the political system? “Politicians expression is not easy,” she said.
pered with ribtickling punchlines. are smart. No politician is going to say that
Over 15 million views, 53,000 com he has a problem because we showed their
ments and 2,22,000 likes later, the series scam on lm. In fact, when we showed the Tweets
The 22yearold star shuttler says she wants to win more this year of Internet videos became a protable lm to over 180 local politicians, I could DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
lm. “If people laugh, they open their see many nudging their neighbours and
Shreedutta Chidananda 2018. “There is a lot to do this ed the gathering, still only 22. mouths. If they open their mouths, they saying the character was like one corpora
year. I want to win more — there “I don’t take it as a burden. open their eyes. And with the opening of tor,” Mr. Sait said. However, a politician did
N
othing in Indian badmin is the Commonwealth Games, Age is not a matter to think eyes, they open their minds,” said Mr. Sait. ask him if there was a sequel and whether
ton’s recent history has the Asian Games, the Worlds and about. I don’t feel I’m only 22 be While imitations of personalities kept it would show the political system in a bet
quite had a nation on ten the All England Championships. cause if you think that and think the audience in splits, the comedian did ter light. “There will be a sequel as long as
terhooks as two of P.V. Sindhu’s I’m aiming higher,” she said. there’s a long way to go, you nev take a serious moment to express his con politicians don’t change. Once it changes, I
matches over the past 18 months. There has been much opposi er know where you will be,” she cerns when asked about controversies and will gladly go out of the job knowing the
The rst was her nal at the tion to the Badminton World Fed said. court cases against comedians who speak system is cleansed,” he said.
Olympics in Rio, where she lost eration’s freshly introduced regu Life had changed immeasura
to Carolina Marin of Spain. The lations, which make it bly after the Olympics, Ms. Sind CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC
second was her gruelling, ma mandatory for the top 15 players hu admitted. “I’m very happy; af
rathon battle with Nozomi Okuh ter the Olympics my life has Tea talk
ara of Japan for the World Cham
pionship in Glasgow. The rst <
> I’m very happy; after the
Olympics my life has
changed a lot. Having this fan fol
lowing, this limelight, I’m really
catapulted her to stardom; the changed a lot. enjoying it. My father has always
second only reinforced her status P.V. Sindhu told me one thing: no matter how
as one of India’s nest athletes. Badminton player high you go, you always have to
In the year between the two be grounded. I really follow that.
events, Ms. Sindhu evolved great to play a minimum of 12 tourna Even when you’re on top of the
ly as a player. “I had to work on ments on the new World Tour, world, you should remember
each and every stroke after Rio,” but Ms. Sindhu is not particularly where you’ve come from.”
she told journalist Prem Panicker concerned. She had not forgotten the sa
at The Huddle here on Sunday. “After the calendar is out, you crices of her parents, she said.
“I kept on learning. Strategy can’t do anything about it,” she “My mother had to retire from
plays a very important role. Caro said. “You should know which the Railways. My parents have sa
lina is an aggressive player; tournaments to play and which criced a lot more than I have.
Okuhara is a rally player. Wo not to; you have to discuss that Some of their colleagues and
men’s badminton has changed a with your coach and decide for neighbours felt I would succeed
lot. Now games are extending to yourself.” at neither badminton nor aca
an hourandahalf or two hours; demics. But my parents believed
endurance is very important.” Managing time in me.”
Last year was a good one for Given her unforgiving calendar It is worth considering that
Ms. Sindhu — two Super Series [she trains seven hours a day, Ms. Sindhu’s best could yet lie
titles and a World Championship and then there are the tourna ahead. “It’s not that I won a me
silver, not to forget her reaching ments], did Ms. Sindhu nd time dal at the Olympics and I am Sharing ideas: Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in conversation with N. Ravi,
two other major nals — but she for a personal life, Mr. Panicker done. There are many more me Publisher, The Hindu, and Mukund Padmanabhan, Editor, The Hindu, at The Huddle in
has her sights set on a lot more in wondered. She was, he remind dals I have to get,” she said. Bengaluru on Sunday. SAMPATH KUMAR G.P. *
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A teenager accused of fatally
shooting 17 people at a Flori
ment. Days after the killings,
a sombre series of vigils and
funerals were being held in
nald Trump criticised the
Federal Bureau of Investiga
tion (FBI) for its handling of
tells President Trump
da high school was investi and around Parkland, a Fort the case. Agence France-Presse rearm despite a history of
gated by police and state o Lauderdale suburb of about “Very sad that the FBI mis
Fort Lauderdale troubling behaviour.
cials as far back as 2016 after 32,000 people. sed all of the many signals A survivor of the Parkland “The question on wheth
slashing his arm in a social The South Florida Sun sent out by the Florida school shooting called out er or not people should be
media video, and saying he Sentinel rst reported that a school shooter. This is not ac U.S. President Donald allowed to own an automatic
wanted to buy a gun, but video of Cruz cutting his arm ceptable,” Mr. Trump wrote Trump on Saturday over his weapon is not a political
authorities determined he posted to the social media on Twitter. ties to the powerful National one. It is question of life or
was receiving sucient sup network Snapchat in Sep He accused the FBI of Rie Association, as several death and it needs to stop
port, newspapers said on tember 2016 raised concerns “spending too much time thousand rallied in Florida being a question of politics,”
Saturday. among law enforcement and
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National Lead for Counter ags of cash delivered to carried out such election in ited States and 36 by the So tion. U.S. fears that Boris don’t have a way out. The
Terrorism Mark Rowley a Rome hotel for fa uence operations histori viet Union or Russia between Yeltsin would be defeated for kids need someone to lead
resigns next month, The voured Italian candi cally, he said. 1946 and 2000, though the reelection as President in them out of the situation
Sunday Times reported. Mr. dates. Scandalous stories Loch K. Johnson, the dean Russian count is undoubted 1996 by an oldfashioned that they are in,” he said.
Basu is currently serving as leaked to foreign newspap of U.S. intelligence scholars, ly incomplete. Communist led to an overt He recalled his tough
deputy to Mr. Rowley. PTI ers to swing an election in who began his career in the The precedent was esta and covert eort to help him, childhood circumstances
Nicaragua. Millions of pam 1970s investigating the CIA as blished in Italy with assis urged on by President Bill to reiterate his point. He
Opening a business made phlets, posters and stickers a sta member of the Se tance to nonCommunist Clinton. added that professional
easier for Saudi women printed to defeat an incum nate’s Church Committee, candidates from the late What the CIA may have athletes feel strongly about
RIYADH
bent in Serbia. The long arm says Russia’s 2016 operation 1940s to the 1960s. Covert done in recent years to steer social issues, much like
Women in Saudi Arabia can
of Vladimir Putin? No, just a was simply the cyberage ver propaganda has also been a foreign elections is still se anyone else in the country.
open their own businesses
small sample of the U.S.'s his sion of standard U.S. practice mainstay. Richard M. Bissell cret and may not be known Fellow AllStar Stephen
without the consent of a
tory of intervention in fo 22 years ago: The U.S. fears that Russia’s Boris Yeltsin would for decades. This broader Jr., who ran the agency’s op for decades. It may be mod Curry lent his support to
husband or male relative. The
reign elections. be defeated in 1996 led to eorts to help him, urged on by history of election meddling erations in the late 1950s and est. But some oldtimers James. “...Lebron, Durant,
policy change marks a major
President Bill Clinton. AP *
has largely been missing early 1960s, wrote in his au aren’t so sure. “I assume and every single NBA ath
step away from the
guardianship system. Rules broken? from the ood of reporting tobiography of “exercising they’re doing a lot of the old lete is much more than just
“Women can now launch their Most Americans are under have studied covert opera mething bizarre, the answer on the Russian intervention. control over a newspaper or stu, because, you know, it basketball players. These
own businesses... without standably shocked by what tions, have a dierent, and is no, not at all”, said Steven A Carnegie Mellon scho broadcasting station, or of never changes,” said William guys raise resources,
having to prove consent from they view as an unprecedent quite revealing, view. L. Hall, who retired in 2015 lar, Dov H. Levin, has securing the desired out J. Daugherty, who worked for funds, and awareness in
a guardian,” the Ministry of ed attack on the U.S.’s politi “If you ask an intelligence after 30 years at the CIA, scoured the historical record come in an election.” the CIA from 197996. “The their communities, trying
Commerce and Investment cal system. But intelligence ocer, did the Russians where he was the chief of for both overt and covert At least once the hand of technology may change, but to make the world a better
said on its website. AFP veterans, and scholars who break the rules or do so Russian operations. The Un election inuence opera the United States reached the objectives don’t.” NY TIMES place,” Mr. Curry said.
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Banks to knock at RBI’s door on PNB impasse PNB: wilful
default sum
‘Loan impairment may cross 20,000 cr. if PNB fails to pay on time, adding to huge nonperforming assets of the lenders’ rises 23%
Special Correspondent Association (IBA). Last week, dustry sources said. “Bank is PNB as being the main rea PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
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Slowly, but surely, AI use
Centre would have banned cryptocurrencies by now if that was its aim, say industry players
TCA Sharad Raghavan
NEW DELHI
of ] details and they sent not
ices to all of them. We gave
is rising across industries
Despite repeated cautions by them a much larger number.
the Reserve Bank of India One lakh is a small percen But posthaste, we need data analysts in huge numbers
and the Finance Ministry tage of that.”
about the risks associated “Suppose somebody has Prakash Mallya
with investing in cryptocur sold bitcoins after April 2017,
rencies and their illegality not even one nancial year Articial Intelligence (AI)
when used as actual curren has gone, so it couldn’t possi has been subject to a fair
cy, the cryptoindustry is still bly have reached their in share of debates including
pretty enthusiastic about In come tax returns,” Mr. Khu concerns around machines
dia and maintains that even rana added. “The maximum overtaking, or even replac
the government’s negative that could have happened is ing, the human workforce.
stance has been that they could have report However, ground realities
exaggerated. ed any gains they made in suggest the main concern
The RBI has issued three their advance tax. The re should be the acute shortage
warnings about cryptocur turns are only going to go in of skills.
rencies since 2013, and the July 2018.”
Finance Ministry in Decem “Suppose I am a low in Need for talent
ber issued a stronglyworded come earner who les a re One of the biggest road
notice likening crytocurren turn of say, 2 lakh a year,” blocks in the active adoption
cies to Ponzi schemes and Mr. Agarwal added. “Now, of AI is the sheer scarcity of
emphasised that buyers and suppose I have taken a loan skilled professionals. There I know what you want: Better tracking of customer behaviour
investors were risking their Select focus: The 1 lakh people, to whom the I-T department sent notices, are only a section of and invested in bitcoin and are simply not enough data leads to meaningful recommendations. GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCK *
money by investing in these the number of records we shared with the agency, says Ajit Khurana. GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCK * have turned 3 lakh into 30 scientists to interpret mas
products. This culminated in lakh. That, of course, will not sive amounts of data that are AI to netune the accuracy to help accelerate customer
Finance Minister Arun Jait regulation. “In a separate pa tioning members of the pu nion that if the government match my past returns, generated every day, a ser of medical predictions, and purchases. As chatbot tech
ley’s Budget speech on Fe nel discussion, Economic Af blic regarding the potential wished to act decisively right? Most of the investors vice that cognitive comput accordingly choose a tting nology becomes more ad
bruary 1, when he again reit fairs Secretary Subhash economic, nancial, opera against cryptocurrencies, it made their gains in 201718, ing can oer. Further, since line of treatment. vanced, virtual agents will
erated the government’s Chandra Garg said that they tional, legal, customer pro would have already done so. so the deadline for their de the skillset of a data scientist Retail is another, and enhance a more personal re
position that cryptocurren were looking at a regulatory tection, and securityrelated “If the government had to clarations is yet to come.” needs to constantly evolve more obvious industry, lationship with each custom
cies were not legal tender framework before the end of risks” associated with deal completely ban these cryp along with technology, the where AI has found a strong er. While they do so, they
and the government would the nancial year, and said ing in them. tocurrencies, then they KYC compliant demandsupply gap is only foothold. Ecommerce rms can also track customer pur
look to curb any illegal tran the government was not The central bank’s view, would have do so already,” Another argument being growing further. depend on AI tools to detect chases, behaviour and prefe
sactions and nancing using comfortable with the words however, doesn’t seem as Ashish Agarwal, founder of made is that the reason the In countries such as India, malpractices, improve con rences. This data can then
these digital currencies. ‘coin’ or ‘currency’ because cutanddry as made out to Bitsachs said. “I think they IT department found it so AI adoption is driven by the version ratios and foresee be integrated into a conver
these are not legal tender, be. On February 8, the RBI want to understand whether easy to track down investors evolution of the IT infras consumer buying patterns. sation to recommend pro
Legal or not? and so instead wanted to call came out with a report on calling it illegal would result in cryptocurrencies was be tructure. According to the In fact, Indian etailers are ducts or services.
While several commentators them ‘cryptoassets’.” the ntech sector, in which it in serious harm, or whether cause the exchanges ad IDC Cognitive User Adoption increasingly using AI for per
took this to mean that the go Likewise, the industry bo dedicated a section to digital simply declaring it illegal will hered to the same KYC rules Survey (2017), an over sonalised recommendations Rising budgets
vernment had declared dy representing most of the currencies (DCs). It went into stop the system or force peo as those followed by banks. whelming majority of Indian and better optimisation of Successful companies regu
cryptocurrencies illegal, in blockchain and crytocurren the modalities of such cur ple into buying these digital “From our perspective, organisations (nearly 70%) — their supply chain networks. larly process high volumes
dustry players in contrast cy companies in India agrees rencies and also their future currencies using cash.” we do the complete KYC re have either adopted or have For instance, Tata Cliq, of data to extract meaningful
took a lot of heart from Mr. with this assessment. potential, an indication that The Income Tax Depart quirements that are the same plans to leverage cognitive and The Label Life are work insights. Particularly in re
Jaitley’s statement, saying “There is a lot of negativi ment this year sent one lakh for most banks, which is PAN capabilities in the next 18 ing with Mad Street Den that tail, businesses are deploy
that instead of suggesting a
ban, the government looked
ty... arising out of repeated
caution by the government <
> Every payment
made to us has to
notices to people who invest
ed in cryptocurrencies and
card, Aadhaar number, bank
account details; every single
months. This includes a
combination of pilot and en
oers visual search technol
ogy, product recommenda
ing AI analytics to make sure
the right product is in the
like it was considering regu and RBI that people are in come through your whose investments didn’t payment that comes to us terprisewide deployments. tions and personalised ho right place at the right time.
lation of the industry. vesting in cryptocurrencies bank account match their income prole. has to come through your Currently, one in ve organi mepages based on the tastes Using AI, retailers are ex
“When Mr. Jaitley said it at their own risk, which we Nischint Sanghvi This too was widely seen own bank account,” Nischint sations has already deployed of individual shoppers. This panding their boundaries to
was not legal tender, this is agree with, and second, that Head of Exchange, Zebpay as an anticryptocurrency Sanghvi, head of exchange at cognitive systems, pointing helps improve customer ex capture, manage, assess,
the stand the RBI has always it’s not legal tender, and move, but industry players Zebpay said. “You cannot to higher maturity levels as perience considerably and and derive value out of the
maintained,” said Rahul Raj, third, some bank or the oth the RBI was not totally downplayed its signicance trade in your name and have compared with AsiaPacic leads to greater conversions. data residing in their sys
cofounder and CEO, Koinex, er says that you cannot use closed to the applications of saying the number of notices somebody else send the counterparts (where one in Since the CEO of a con tems. Adopting AI helps or
one of India’s rapidly grow credit or debit cards to pur digital currencies. sent was too small and that funds.” 10 has achieved the same le sumer company has to look ganisations present actiona
ing digital assets exchanges. chase cryptocurrencies,” Ajit “The implications of DCs they didn’t have much “Every single transaction vel of implementation). after thousands of markets ble insights, drive revenues,
“Even foreign currencies Khurana, head of the Block for nancial rms, markets weight given that the current can be traced,” Mr. Sanghvi In India, the telecom, and stores, Manthan Analyt boost eciencies, help think
in the country are commodi chain and Cryptocurrency and system will depend on nancial year is yet to end. added. “For certain highend technology and banking in ics, based in Bengaluru, is through complex problem
ties and not legal tender. He Committee of the Internet & the extent of their accepta “The Income Tax Depart users trading above a certain dustries are frontrunners in constructing a $100million, areas and transform custom
also mentioned that they are Mobile Association of India bility among users,” the re ment came to all players and value, we even ask for in
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adoption. State Bank of In voicebased AI platform er experiences.
looking to curb the illicit said. “But none of this goes port said. “If use of DCs were said: ‘give us the records [of come tax documents, a CA dia recently announced called Maya. With Maya, a Overall, industries are ex
nancial of illegal activities. If to the existence or legality of to become widespread, it investors]’,” Mr. Khurana certicate, and networth plans to leverage AI for its in CEO gets access to statistics pected to experience more
they are talking about illicit cryptocurrencies.” would likely have material said. documents. tegrated platform, YONO on a specic market at any AI use cases in the near fu
use, it seems to suggest a reg Earlier this month, Citi implications for the business “Now, of the number of “Today, when somebody (You Only Need One). This time and can deduce the res ture — from digital shopping
ulatory environment rather bank banned the use of its models of nancial institu records that were given to buys a car or jewellery, even digital banking platform ponse of sales, daywise. The assistants in retail to careful
than destroying the entire credit and debit cards for the tions. DCs could potentially them, the proportion of peo that can be declared or, need gives users access to banking system not only records so ly curated teams in sports,
industry.” purchase of cryptocurren lead to a disintermediation ple to whom the notices not be. All the car company as well as a host of lifestyle cial feeds but also tallies it and factory automation sys
In one of the Finance Mi cies in India “given con of some existing payment went is a small fraction. can ensure is that the person services through a single with market performance. tems in manufacturing.
nister’s media interviews, cerns, both globally and lo services infrastructure.” While one lakh seems like a is paying through the right signon. Companies such as Star (The writer is MD, sales
Mr. Raj added, “it came out cally, including from the Some cyrptocurrency large number, it’s not as if we channels, the car is in their Then there is the health bucks and Pizza Hut are and marketing group, Intel
very clearly that he meant Reserve Bank of India, cau players are also of the opi gave them one lakh [worth name, and the like.” care industry that relies on working to execute chatbots India)
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The lefthander sets it up with a 72 before the seamer seals it with a ve for 24
INDIA IN SA
Reuters, AFP
JOHANNESBURG
de Villiers out of T20I series
Press Trust of India suered a blow to his left ahead of the fth ODI, and
Seamer Bhuvneshwar Kumar Johannesburg knee a day before the fth although he passed a
took careerbest gures of South Africa’s injury woes ODI. Though the former tness test on Friday, the
ve for 24 to help India ease continued with its star skipper featured in the last injury worsened
to a 28run victory over batsman AB de Villiers two games, he was absent signicantly throughout
South Africa in the opening being ruled out of the when the Proteas trained the match,” Mohammed
Twenty20 International of threematch T20I series on Saturday. Moosajee, South Africa’s
their threegame series at the due to a knee injury here “He suered a blow to team manager, was quoted
Wanderers on Sunday. on Sunday. de Villiers had the knee while batting as saying.
ti 82); Genoa 2 (Ranocchia 45
start of the week was to For the most part of the scoring the only goal for Ju
as the third minute; Jaime the right position to make ventus in the 33rd minute og, Pandev 59) bt Inter Milan
make it to the seminals. second period, the home
Gavilan Martinez shot wide a meaningful impact. 0.
This is absolutely amazing, team kept the game in the and Allan putting Napoli
freekick from short distance In the 95th, Chennaiyin La Liga: Sunday: Real Sociedad
I’m really pleased. opposition’s half. Finally ahead after just six minutes. 3 (Prieto 10pen, Juanmi 38,
substitute Mohammed Ra — didn’t really show enough could have scored the win On Saturday, one of the
“It’s unbelievable to be urgency in the rst half, sat
Canales 55) bt Levante 0; At
headed in a corner from ner when Mihelic sent in a most bizarre own goals of letico Madrid 2 (Gameiro 67,
number one again after all back and let the game
Rene Mihelic, who too had perfect freekick but skipper the Serie A season set Inter Costa 80) bt Athletic Bilbao 0.
these (six) years — this is one meander.
not started the game. Sereno Fonseca Henrique
of the best weeks of my life.” It allowed the opposition
Jamshedpur’s strength failed to get a proper touch.
Federer, the record 20 to press forward and JFC’s
has been solid defence with However, coach John Gre
time Grand Slam winner, will best chance came in the 25th
its coach Steve Coppell un gory was a delighted and re
ocially reclaim the No. 1 minute when Jerry Mawih
apologetic about his side’s lieved man. “To be honest,
ranking he last held in Oc mingthanga sent in an invit
style of play. after the secondhalf perfor
tober 2012 when the new list ing cross into the sixyard
The team continued with mance we deserved all three
is published on Monday. Thank you, folks! Roger Federer acknowledges the crowd’s box, only for Farukh Choud
its tight game and did not al points. That is our fourth
He has played two tourna support after winning the Rotterdam Open. REUTERS *
hary to miss a simple header.
low Chennaiyin to build a game in 12 days and we had
ments this year and won Towards the end of the
rhythm to press forward. to travel as well. The way we
both — the other being the able to manage my nerves derer. It was his third title in rst half, Chennaiyin made
In the 32nd minute, the dominated the second half
Australian Open which he and the expectations.” Rotterdam following tri some threatening runs but
visitors scored with a mo showed what we are made
won for the sixth time. umphs in 2005 and 2012. the nal shots were weak
ment of brilliance against the of,” said Gregory.
“I saved the best for the 100 rst Federer will decide within and lacked conviction. Ra
run of play. Andre Bikey’s The results:
last,” added Federer, who As for chasing Connors’ re a few days whether or not to phael Augusto produced
freekick into the box was At Chennai: Chennaiyin FC 1
has a 120 record this season. cord, Federer said his rst travel to Dubai for the ATP some good runs throughout (Mohammed Ra 89) drew with
“I had a great rst match and objective was to get to 100. cleared by Inigo Calderon
event starting on Feb. 26. the game. Jamshedpur FC 1 (Wellington
a great last match. In bet “97 is not 100 yet, you’ve got but it found Wellington Prio
The results: Final: Roger Feder The Brazilian, however, Priori 32).
ween it was a battle, it was to stay healthy if you want to ri who volleyed it in.
er bt Grigor Dimitrov 62, 62; was also guilty of pulling the At Kolkata: ATK 1 (Bipin Singh On the ball: Alex Sandro gave Juventus its ninth consecutive
nervewracking getting back get close to nals. Things can Seminal: Federer bt Andreas
Chennaiyin — despite get 47) lost to Mumbai FC 2 (Marcio league victory, scoring the winner against Torino.
ting an opportunity as early trigger early and not being in
to number one. But I was evaporate quickly,” said Fe Seppi 63, 76(3). Rozario 32, Rafa Jorda 53). *
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ILeague: Star Sports (SD &
HD), 8 p.m.
Bangalore
varsity No catching Dream Catcher in feature event Madagascar claims
in nal
HYDERABAD: Dream Catcher (Ak
shay Kumar astride) continued his
winning streak by claiming the
Kasu Brahmananda Reddy Me
Srinivas.
31 in the other seminal.
The Punjab side took
Delhi Race Club Cup (1,200m),
the feature event of the races to
Noble Profession (10) B.R. Kumar
53.5, 12. Royal Faith (8) Parmar
Columbus (4) Dileep 60, 2. Highly
Acclaimed (6) Nakhat 59.5, 3. Star
1. DREAM GIRL, 2. MAGNA CARTA,
3. ROYAL DYNAMITE. Princess (5) Sai Kiran 50.5.
48 and 20 (p). SHP: 185, FP: 1,248,
Q: 281, Tanala: 4,270 and 1,830. 7 FEDORA PLATE (1,000m), Cl.
IV, rated 20 to 46: LOCARNO
(Zeeshan) 1, El Tycoon (Mer
1. ROYAL GIFT, 2. HEAVEN CAN Favourite: Diwali Lights. Owner:
lead with a penalty corner
be held here on Monday (Feb. 19). 53.5, 13. Secretary (14) Naresh 53.5
and 14. Soul Empress (6) Tograllu
light (8) Naresh 58.5, 4. Creator (2)
Rawal 57, 5. Phenomenal Cruise 6 DELHI RACE CLUB PLATE (Div.
II), (1,200m), 4yo & over, WAIT, 3. ARC OF HISTORY. Mr. Rajesh Monga. Trainer: S.K.
Sunderji.
chant) 2, Gloriana (Trevor) 3 and
Royal Mews (Nazil) 4. 11/4, 3/4
in the very rst minute but
1 DELHI RACE CLUB PLATE (Div.
I), (1,200m), 4yo & over, rated 53.5. (10) Sweeney 57, 6. Texas Rodeo rated 58 to 78 (Cat. II), 410: 1.
Green Image (1) Kuldeep 60, 2.
8 GOLCONDA PLATE (1,100m), 5 and 1/2. 59.11s. 71 (w), 21, 14 and
the joy didn't last long as
VBPS equalled in the 13th.
58 to 78 (Cat. II), 1.35 p.m.: 1.
Baashagar (7) B. R. Kumar 60, 2.
1. RAPID FIRE, 2. RIKKI TIKKI
TAVI, 3. SECRETARY.
(3) B. R. Kumar 56, 7. Turf Legend
(9) Ajit 56, 8. City Of Sails (7) Suraj
Narredu 55.5, 9. Scooby Dooby
Handy Man (9) C.P. Bopanna 59,
3. Asteria (2) Arshad 58.5, 4. Nu
yo & over, rated upto 30 (Cat.
III), 515: 1. Dublin (4) Rawal 62, 2. 3 DR. GOVIND R. GURBAXANI
MEMORIAL TROPHY (1,600m),
Cl. III, rated 40 to 66: BRAIN-
14 (p). SHP: 53, FP: 534, Q: 100,
Tanala: 619 and 271. Favourite:
Gloriana. Owner: Mr. Aziz Jaffer.
Moondancer (4) Suraj Narredu 59, minous (3) Rohit 58.5, 5. Rubyon Patron Saint (13) C.P. Bopanna 62, STORM (Probert) 1, Brabourne
Two goals by Dipak Doo (5) Akshay 55.5, 10. News O' 3. Ultimate Risk (12) Vikrant 62, 4. Trainer: Mansoor Shah.
3. Poll Promise (10) Dileep 58, 4.
Singh in the last seven mi Celtic Queen (8) Kunal 57.5, 5. Pal
isades Park (2) Arshad 57, 6. Big
3 PERCEIVED VALUE PLATE (Div.
II), (1,100m), maiden 3yo
only (Cat. II), (Terms), 2.35: 1. City
Star (11) Kuldeep 54.5 and 11.
Moon Walker (1) C. P. Bopanna
rails (8) Vikrant 58.5, 6. Seven Col
ours (5) Kiran Naidu 57, 7. Kalinda
(7) Deepak 56.5, 8. Astra (6) Gad
Wonder Star (8) Kuldeep 62, 5. Di
vine Heights (7) Kunal 61, 6. Great
(Trevor) 2, Zanzibaar (Chouhan) 3
and Grande Vitesse (Nazil) 4. 11/4,
5 and Sh. 1m, 37.80s. 12 (w), 10 8 SECRET HALO PLATE DIV. I
(1,400m), Cl. V, rated 1 to 26:
nutes, including one se Heart (6) Deepak 56.5, 7. Vallee Of Ayaansh (9) Parmar 55, 2. Ex
52.5.
dam 56, 9. Commanding Boy (4) Glory (11) Akshay 61, 7. Romantic TILL END OF TIME (T.S. Jodha) 1,
and 21 (p). SHP: 24, FP: 36, Q: 30,
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Soumya walks to new National mark
Top three nishers in both sections meet the CWG qualifying mark
Uthra Ganesan
NEW DELHI
B. Soumya set a new Nation
al record, beat the favourite
and booked herself a ticket
to the Gold Coast with a blis
tering nish in the nal lap
of the 20km category at the
5th National race walking
championships here on
Sunday.
Soumya, who belongs to
Kerala but has represented
Delhi in the event since be
ing posted here with the
CRPF, crossed the nish line
in 1:31:28.72 seconds, almost
10 minutes faster than her
previous personal best and
more than 11 seconds quick Terric trio: B. Soumya, who set a new National mark on her way to the top spot, anked by
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Attempting previous
With the Board exams and JEE years’ test papers of both
Main almost here, it is time for exams will help you hone
you to get your preparation your skills and concepts
aligned with your schedule, so that you are not
that your scores reect your ef condent about.
forts. This is the phase when
you must not only focus on
scoring well, but also perfect
the art of simultaneous prepa JEE Advanced exam which
ration for both major exams. some tend to ignore during
Improve or shut down While such an exam prepara preparation. For example, in
tion is daunting , with almost physics, the chapters on elec
The Mozambican government warned that sub- all exams having a cuto based tronic devices and communi
standard higher education institutions will be on your Class XII percentage, it cations systems are part of JEE
forced to close down if they do not improve their
is certain that Boards cannot Main and the Board exam, but
performance by October. Out of the 52 private
be taken lightly, and thus, both not part of the JEE Advanced
institutions, more than half are under threat. The
warning came from Jorge Nhambiu, Minister of these exams need to be dealt Exam. Carefully study these
Science, Technology and Higher Education. with equal zeal. chapters along with the ques
However, the challenge here tions from the sample papers
is about where to focus and so that you can comfortably
how to go about both exams. handle descriptive questions
Here are some tips to master from these chapters. Take a
ISTOCK
the simultaneous preparation: look at the archive of JEE Main/
Draft a solid plan: Have AIEEE questions of the pre
the right preparation strategy Strategise right: Draft a prep plan well in advance. vious years for JEE Main, along
and follow it strictly. Make the with sample papers for board.
The twin
most of the preparation time Prepare to dwell in the
for board exams to optimise examination tempera-
your JEE Main preparation. ment: For the JEE Examina
Plan out a wellstructured stra tion, what matters is not how
For climate change action tegy that caters to the require much we know, but how much
Thirteen universities across North America have
ment of both exams. are we able to deliver in the
Divide prep time: Spend threehour examination. Many
challenge
launched the ‘University Climate Change
Coalition’ (UC3) to leverage their research and equal time to revise each sec students make the mistake of
resources to spur local climate action. It was tion and on the following day, attempting the questions se
announced by Janet Napolitano, president, attempt the sample papers of quentially and nd that there
University of California. Some of the universities respective subjects. Prepara is not enough time left to at
are Arizona State University, California Institute of tion should be a mixed basket tempt questions that they
Technology, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Ohio State of revision of the syllabus and would otherwise know. Re
University, and University of British Columbia. sample papers. This way, you member that in JEE, scoring as
will be able to revise the sylla Preparing for the Board exams and the JEE Main simultaneously? low as 60% marks will get a
bus while attempting sample Here is what you ought to know to ace both student a decent rank and
papers . fetch him or her a good branch
Pick the right textbooks: that are challenging. Chemis the JEE pattern. shortcomings. In case you are small breaks to relax and stay in a reputed college. Rather
When you are ooded with re try, and numerical questions Previous years’ papers: appearing for JEE Main online, stressfree in order to deliver than aiming to solve all ques
ference books from dierent are easy. Hence, choose them Attempting previous years’ online mock tests will be your optimum on the exam tions, attempt all those you are
publishing houses, it is vital to over theory to score more test papers of both exams will helpful. day. condent of doing correctly.
follow the right book without marks. help you hone your skills and Stay healthy: Preparation Focus on exclusive The best way to do this is to
losing track. NCERT textbooks Get the formats right: concepts that you are not con for such exams require dedica Board questions: There are quickly scan the question pap
serve the best purpose for se Preparing for two exams si dent about. tion, but at the same time, you certain subtopics in various er and solve the easy questions
rious students. multaneously needs to be Mock tests: It is not too late have to ensure the state of your subjects which generally get rst before attempting the
Get your basic concepts done cautiously especially to nd out your weak areas health is in perfect condition. more weightage in the Boards moderate ones, and nally, the
Empowering special students clear: Physics comprises when it is about getting used to and work accordingly to The mental and emotional because the questions are sub tough ones without losing
According to department spokeswoman Liz Hill, three major sections — mod the exam pattern. Be aware of bridge that gap. Attempting strain of long nights of hard jective type. There are also time.
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Education Secretary DeVos will donate nearly ern, optics and electricity. the dierences between the mock tests will acquaint you work can take a toll on your some topics which are part of
$200,000 of her salary to four charities focusing Spend more time on sections board exam paper pattern and with your preparedness and body. Thus, eat healthy, take JEE Main but not part of the The writer is FIITJEE Expert.
on education and special needs. One of the
groups, Dreams Soar, works to encourage girls to
pursue careers in science, engineering and
Value ADD) VIEWS)
mathematics. Kids Hope USA helps at-risk
children. Vision to Learn provides eyeglasses to
low-income children, and Special Olympics helps
physically-challenged children and adults.
Enjoy your exams A digital impetus
What do the stakeholders in the education
The night before
sector think about Budget 2018?
save the date) • Do a complete revision b Neha Rupeja
gy across the country,” says Raghav
and close the books and get
With over half the population in the Gupta, India Country Director of
some rest.
b NEET UG 2018 subject in Plus Two will It’s time to country under the age of 25, educa Coursera, an educationfocused
not be eligible.
• Ensure your uniform, tion plays a signicant role. Consi tech company. “With a strong focus
shoes, socks and exam bag
Objective: The National Application Fee: General / pull up are set well in advance.
dering it is not only critical to per on quality education and emerging
Eligibility cum Entrance
Test will be conducted by
OBC candidates – ₹1,400;
SC/ST/PH candidates –
your socks • Keep everything ready — sonal development, but more so to
the eective growth and develop
technologies like Articial Intelli
gence, Machine Learning And In
and be exam pad, stationery pouch,
CBSE for admission to ₹750. ment of the nation, it is heartening ternet of Things (IoT), online learn
extra pens, hall ticket, and a
MBBS/BDS courses.
Based on the exam rank/
Application Mode: Online
Deadline: March 9
prepared bottle of water.
to see this year’s budget address the
issue of lack of quality education
ing platforms will gain importance
as the providers of standardised,
merit, seat allotment will Deadline for fee payment: for the Morning of the exam
• Have a good night’s rest. and infrastructure in the country. world class content.”
be provided under All In
dia Quota seats, State go
March 10
Results: June 5
Boards • Wake up early. “We are glad that the 2018 Bud
get has a forwardlooking vision
However, Dr. Rupamanjari
Ghosh, vicechancellor, Shiv Nadar
vernment quota seats, www.cbseneet.nic.in
• Do a quick revision of your with benets for those sectors University, commented that tech
notes and mind maps.
Central Institutions/ un b Agricultural Research:
which especially need them. As an nology alone will not enable this
iversities / deemed un
• Eat a good breakfast. nounced, specically for the educa goal, as there are serious social
ARS and NET • Leave your books and
FREEPIK
timestealer.
2018 can also apply. Application Mode: Online tever you enjoy and makes you hap
Those who have passed open now Dos and Don’ts py like swimming, running, walking,
• Regret is a wasted emo
tion and just makes you feel
Plus Two from Open Deadline: March 2 Plan: Set a realistic timetable that yoga, or meditation. This will help
bad.
School or as private can www.asrb.org.in you plan to accomplish everyday you centre yourself, destress your
didates and those who that is doable by you across sub mind and keep you active and agile.
• Eat, relax and start study
Compiled by
ing for the next exam.
study Biology / Biotech jects. Stick to it! Build it into your timetable.
nology as an additional Gopakumar Karakonam New focus: On technology in education.
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pile up like tsundoku. about two seconds more; apparently enough for play-
larger scales to include power ryam is excited about CMOS ers. What change did Microsoft introduce?
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The author is a science writer one could be productive and engaged being alone reading
and managing tasks be how do we prioritise? If The author is a writer and and co-founder of the Life of
literary journalist. She
a book, painting a picture or working out. “It’s about
comes relevant. As I there are multiple tasks Science project. To know more finding a balance; making sure you are awake, alive and
have mentioned in a pre which demand our atten also heads Corporate about women scientists of India living life in the moment, instead of living life through a
vious column, we are tion, how do we know Communications at UST and their research, visit screen.”
mostly incapable of mul which is the one to be Global. @anupamaraju www.thelifeofscience.com.
Maryam and team: Where the magic happens. The video which has attracted over 500 million views
worldwide launched Turk to global fame.
Remember, after you look this video up online, go
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comes, nothing is worse than regret.”
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stupid scheme. Our pol “Good humour? Do you humour.” nodding o to sleep.” team as being a single unit, EAR SHOT
know your english) iticians often come up mean to say that your boss “My cousin Nagesh has “The songs in my favourite then you use a singular verb. ASHOK RAJAGOPALAN
with birdbrained cracked a lot of jokes and been in good humour ever hero’s latest lm were deli For example, Arsenal hasn’t
S. UPENDRAN schemes.” kept people entertained?” since he got engaged to cious. How does that sound?” been doing well this season.”
“How about this example? Remya.” “Sounds great! Someone “But I can also say, Arsenal
“You’re late! You should have The Minister’s birdbrained In good humour “There’s a delicious bit of said that the movie was a del haven’t played to their poten
been here half an hour ago. answers left the audience “The expression ‘in good hu gossip going around about icious comedy about the tial this year.”
What happened?” wondering how the man mour’ has nothing to do with that. Apparently...” world of football.” “You certainly can. India
“Sorry about that! I ran in managed to get elected.” one’s sense of humour. When “Delicious bit of gossip? “Talking about sports, tell have/has a good chance of
to an old friend of mine at the “That’s a good example. you say that Revathi was in Don’t we normally use the me, which is correct? Is it ‘In sweeping the one day series.”
supermarket. Manjunath.” The word ‘birdbrain’ is fre good humour, you mean that word ‘delicious’ with things dia win’ or ‘India wins’ the “Every time you say so
“Manjunath! Now, that’s a quently used in informal con she was in a cheerful mood.” that we can taste or smell? We rst one day international? In mething like that, we always
name I haven’t heard in a texts with people as well. My “In other words, you’re can talk about a delicious some newspapers, it’s ‘wins’, end up losing the next
while. Isn’t he the chap who former boss was a real talking about the mood of the cake, but can we...” and in others ‘win’. I’m a bit match.”
used to come up with bird birdbrain.” person and not whether he’s “That’s true, but the word confused.” * * * * *
brained schemes to get rich “Meaning that he was stu capable of being humourous ‘delicious’ can also be used to “Actually, both are correct. Sports are the reason I am
quickly?” pid. Like your boss, my next or not. talk about something that It all depends on how you out of shape. I watch them all
“Birdbrained schemes? door neighbour is a birdbrain Jayanth is always in good gives you a lot of pleasure.” view the team. If you think of on TV. — Thomas Sowell
Does it mean crazy too. Was your boss grumpy humour. I’ve never seen him “In other words, someth the team as consisting of sev
schemes?” like my neighbour?” get upset about anything.” ing that is pleasing or enjoya eral individuals, then you The author teaches at the
“When you say that so “Grumpy? Denitely not! If “Unlike his sister, whenev ble can be called delicious.” normally use a plural verb — English and Foreign Languages
mething is a ‘birdbrained you ask me, he was always in er Kailash’s friends tease him, “That’s right! The baby are, have, were, etc. If, on the University, Hyderabad.
scheme’, you mean that it’s a good humour.” he takes it all in good gave a delicious smile before other hand, you think of the upendrankye@gmail.com
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Cultural immersion
b Aswin V.N. before making a decision.
Industry insights
As I researched more about this
course, I discovered that it allows
The university prides itself on
being a place of practical learn
ing, and rightfully so. We are
taught not just engineering but
also how to work and grow along
with people on campus as well as
those in restaurants and shops on
a daily basis.
I am honoured to have re
ceived the Biomedical Celebra
be critical
college. Einstein and John Nash. scientists from a range of elds to with one’s peers. Personally, I tion Award for India certicate of
During my time, computer take up engineering. Within the was excited to be part of a cultu £6000 as aid. I am happy to have
science was new to India and Education here rst term, students from nonen rally diverse class, learning about the opportunity to study in this
I’ve always been curious about The issue here is that we fo gineering backgrounds are their varied views of the world. university, supported by such a
new things. So, choosing it was a cus on knowledge dumping and equipped with a basic under Also looking at engineering from generous scholarship. I hope to
standing of engineering such that their perspectives has been an in use this degree to further re
spur of the moment decision
and I had a wonderful time
Pro-vice chancellor of Ashoka University exams. What we need to do is
make the system more liberal they can go on to specialise dur credible and irreplaceable expe search and aid in the develop
learning it. For instance, Thiru Sankar Krishnan shares his views on and let the students explore be ing the second term. rience. ment of technologies in the elds
vananthapuram hosted the Na college, management studies and the need fore they choose something to As part of the course, we get to The multicultural experience of audiology and speech therapy.
tional Games for the rst time in excel in. That is what we are try learn from practising profession expands outside the classroom as
1987 when I was in my second for a liberal approach ing to do at Ashoka. The stu als who give insights into the well. From atmates to people of Pushkar Deshpande is pursuing
year and some of us students dents are free to explore die workplace, nding jobs after the city of Glasgow, I nd myself Master’s in Biomedical Engineering
were fortunate enough to take rent subjects in the rst year and graduating, and how the eld is immersed in a culture based on at the University of Strathclyde,
part in the backend operation that there could be more than only in the second year they growing. From these profession hospitality and kindness. The un Glasgow, U.K.
Becoming a manager
helping Keltron make a software one way to answer something need to choose a major.
for games management. I had great teachers at both and usually the correct one was Courses take an interconnect
Similarly, management was CET and IIM. But the system of not something precise but a ed and interdisciplinary ap scholarships)
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and editing digital videos and short
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and that they have some good alumni
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Want to champion the rights of the NANDINI RAMAN course and curriculum choices in detail
consumer? Here’s a rewarding With low graduation scores, I haven’t got to ensure that you resonate with the
subjects and this is what you want to do
profession any placement. I searched for a job and
found one but turns out it is a BPO, in the full programme. You can follow
though they keep telling me it's not a BPO this up with an internship at a produc
Consumer rights advisors in the ecommerce sector; a tion house / director / editor / scriptwri
help consumers in safe segment which is superu job. I tend to think a lot but not act. I
want to pursue a government job but feel ter closer to completion of your course
guarding their interests and ously covered in the existing work. Wishing you the very best!
protecting their rights. In consumer protection law. it's a huge risk and involves a lot of com
this premise, they render ev Career opportunities in petition. I am desperate to start a new
life. Please help. Aakash Upadhyay I am sharing with you a link. Do you
ery bit of service required to this rapidly growing sector think I can become an actor? I am now
achieve the objective, from are increasing exponentially Dear Aakash, preparing for competitive examinations
raising a complaint to get after recent reforms in the You obliviously seem frustrated with (Bank and SSC). I have done theatre for
ting the due compensation. scal and industrial policies, your current job and life. I sense huge about six months and completed gradua
To take on these challenges and the introduction of GST. complacency creeping in as well and tion in BSc Hons. Biochemistry from DU.
with upright positivity one Now, openings for consumer you are not happy. The time is NOW! Lakshay Nagpal
needs to be smart and caring rights advisors are not res Make the most of your life right now Dear Lakshay,
while writing, interrogating tricted to public depart when you are young and you can set the Thank you for sharing the video clip. It
the minute details of the ments, trading standards de foundation of what you would want to was brilliant, to say the least. Very well
case and sharing them pre partments, accreditation reap in the future. Set a goal and an done indeed. I have no doubt that you
cisely and accurately with agencies, government achievable target for yourself to start cannot become a successful actor, ho
seniors, lawyerincharge, watchdog organisations. Es anew, afresh and take up the govern wever, you need to be practical and not
governing councils and me tablishment of many con ment job exams with new zest and mo only romantic about this dream. There
dia professionals. Even the sumer grievances forums tivation. The choice is always yours! are millions who nurture fondest
slightest error can change and consumer rights plat “Past is Past, you cannot change it, you dreams of becoming blockbuster heroes
the orientation of the forms in the private sector is can only look forward to the future”! in Bollywood but then there is only one
course. This means, a con creating enormous oppor Good Luck! SRK, Salman and Varun. I feel you must
sumer right adviser must be tunities to young aspirants. give your competitive entrance exams
attentive and focused on Various largesized business I am completing class XI. I like to click your very best right now and see what
performing his/her duties or houses which have dedicat pictures, take videos, combine them doors can open for you. It will get you a
responsibilities. ed consumer complaint de through video editing software, and pre foothold to stay condent, economical
Although a career as con partments seek smart and sent them as a short documentary. This is ly stable and boost your selfesteem. Ho
MOHAMMED YOUSUF
sumer rights advisor/consul qualied professionals to my interest, hobby and passion. I can’t wever, do not give up on your acting
tant is a hot profession in the save their brand image live in peace without doing any of these and theatre classes. Continue doing
developed countries of Eu through zero dissonance tasks. I would like to take up a multime what helps you express yourself – be
rope and Americas for de policy. dia course after class XII, as an obeat who you are – in fact, get a portfolio
cades, it is still considered a path. But I am confused whether it is clicked and send it to modelling agen
rare career choice in India. Responsibilities right to do so. Please advise. Kushal cies, casting oces – take part in audi
There is vast scope in this With the changing dynamics Safeguarding interests: Role of a consumer advisor. Dasgupta tions, contests and shows that can help
eld as the demand for qual in economic and legal fra showcase your good work to the right
ied professionals is excep meworks, the roles and res dialogues with oppositions, matters a lot. One should be are more soughtafter than Dear Kushal, people and agents in Bollywood. I am
tionally larger than their ponsibilities of consumer and liaising with other rele good at communication, con candidates from other What a wonderful email I am so hap sure one day, not so far away, you will be
availability. Moreover, with rights advisers and consul vant organisations are some dent in expressing views/ streams. But, doors are open py that you are so aware of what you able to showcase your talent to the
the high penetration of tants are also changing. Reg of the core responsibilities of opinions, bold in sharing the to anyone who has good in love and are passionate about. God world. All the best!
smartphones and a revolu ularly interacting with cus consumer rights advisers in facts, and intelligent in mak terpersonal skills besides bless! There is huge scope with your
tion in exchanging informa tomers through phones or a modern setup. ing negotiations with the se substantial knowledge of con passion and interests post your class Disclaimer: This column is not a sub
tion through social media personal visits, reporting cond party. Although educa sumer protection law. Also, XII. There are many good institutes and stitute for longterm therapy. It is
channels and Whatsapp, and assessing their pro Qualications tional qualications are prior experience in a similar colleges in India and overseas that oer merely a guiding voice. Some issues
consumers are empowered blems, maintaining data/re As one has to interact with a important, they play the se capacity always gives an extra an array of interesting courses – certi may need medical intervention.
to raise their issues. Subse cords, compiling statistics, large number of people from cond lead in this industry. edge. cations, diplomas and degrees that you
quently, numbers of com studying the cases and ex diverse backgrounds and ex Preferably, law graduates and could consider for your undergradua The author is a practising counsellor and a
plaints are also increasing changing accurate informa perience, the personality of candidates from psychology, The author is CEO, Consumer
tion videography training for multime trainer. She has worked extensively with
rapidly with a sudden spurt tion with lawyers, making a consumer right advisor public administration, etc., Sathi, an aordable Legal help students and young adults across a range of
dia, animation, photography, videogra
for Indian Consumers. issues. She will answer questions sent to
phy, art of telling a story – via script,
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Moot winners
School of Law, SASTRA Deemed
University, Tamil Nadu, won the 14th KK
Luthra International Moot beating
University of Lucknow in the finals. The
winning team comprised thirdyear
students Vishvas Bharadwaj, Lakshmi
Narayana, and Sankarshanan. They
received a trophy and were awarded a
cash prize of 25,000. A total of 78
teams registered for the moot, including
several international teams. The prize
distribution ceremony was presided over
by Supreme Court Justice Nageswara
Rao.
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IN BRIEF
Four injured in brawl in After ve years in jail,
south Delhi restaurant two acquitted of murder
HC notices discrepancies in report by investigating ocer
Sheila, Maken kick o
Two youths in ICU after they were attacked with sharpedged weapons
Staff Reporter pened to the investigating
‘campaign’in Jangpura STAFF REPORTER restaurant and attacked the New Delhi ocer.
NEW DELHI
New Delhi four youths. After stabbing The Delhi High Court has ac
Anticipating byelections to
20 Delhi Assembly Four people were injured af the victims, they ed from quitted two persons of mur Witness account suspect
constituencies that recently ter a ght broke out between the spot,” said Vijayanta der, ve years after they The High Court, however,
had their MLAs disqualied, two groups of youths at a res Arya, ADCP (South). were arrested, after noting pointed out that she had in
the Congress on Sunday held taurant in south Delhi’s Meh A case of attempt to mur discrepancies in the report her statement before the
a convention for workers in rauli on Saturday night. der has been registered. The by the investigating ocer. magistrate claimed to have
Jangpura, one of the seats The police said that a call police said that all the youths A Bench of Justice S. Mu gone to the police station
likely to go to the polls. was received at 9.20 p.m. involved in the incident be ralidhar and Justice I. S. with other people from the
CITY A PAGE 2 about a scue at a restau long to Mehrauli Ward No. 2 Mehta pointed out that the locality and lodged a report.
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rant in Mehrauli’s Ward No. and are known to each other. report paid “extensive re Noting that a woman of
1. When a police team “We are examining CCTV liance on the eyewitness’s Ghorewala Mandir to Cha her age could not possibly
Man arrested for raping
reached the spot, they were The police said the scue broke out at a restaurant in footage to identify if there testimonies and did not pay meli Park. When she follow a rickshaw on foot,
undergraduate student
told that four youths: Akash, Mehrauli’s Ward No. 1. SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT *
were more people involved attention to the corroborat reached the park, she saw the court said: “It would be
GHAZIABAD
A man was arrested here for
Praveen, DK and Vikas, were in the scue. We have ing evidence”. the accused beating the vic safe to conclude that these
allegedly raping an under sitting in the restaurant the ICU. The other two were sapt following which Shikari formed a team to arrest the The case relates to a mur tim with a big stone and a inconsistencies and contrad
graduate student and making when they were attacked by reported to be out of danger. had damaged Vikas’s new accused,” said Ms. Arya. der of a man at Chameli wooden stick. ictions were material
a video of the act with the members of a rival gang with motorbike. On December 31 last year, Park, near Raghubir Nagar, enough to discredit her
help of his accomplice, police sharpedged weapons. An old issue “Vikas along with his a 30yearold man was shot on November 19, 2013. The Beaten with stone testimony”.
said on Sunday. The victim The four injured were ta The police said that the scuf three other friends was sit at following an argument at a head of the victim was found A blow from the stone The court also raised
lodged a complaint on Friday ken to AIIMS Trauma Centre e broke out over an old is ting in a restaurant when New Year’s Eve party inside partially crushed. crushed the victim’s head questions on the way the
after which Mehtab was by locals. The doctors told sue between Vikas and a riv around 9 p.m., an enraged a bar in south Delhi’s Greater The main witness in the and blood spurted onto the two accused were arrested
arrested. She has also named the police that Akash and al gang member Shikari. Shikari along with four oth Kailash. The bar was illegally case was the grandmother of accused. The grandmother on the same day. “Why they
three other persons in the Parveen were in a critical On Friday, Vikas and Shi ers: Deepak, Manish, Mohit operating till after permissi the deceased, who at the said she screamed and the would continue wearing
complaint. PTI condition and admitted to kari had engaged in a verbal and Roshan, barged into the ble time limit. time of her deposition was accused ed. She said that those trousers and be wait
about 75 years of age. she then ran back home. ing around to be arrested
She had stated that on the The woman had said that from an open parking space
help them with the burglar
ies,” added the DCP.
thrashed by six men
23yearold was returning to her hostel in Mukherjee Nagar
1 held for snatchings, Delhi Police take 60 senior Staff Reporter
New Delhi
While narrating the inci
dent to the police, she said
ed in her complaint that the
act agitated her and she
‘Top people in Centre
behind Nirav Modi case’
Staff Reporter Kejriwal.
NEW DELHI The Aam Aadmi Party
Hitting out against the BJP (AAP) convenor added that
ruled Centre, Chief Minister people were worried wheth
Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday er their money was safe in
said the fact that business banks and some had ap
men Nirav Modi and Vijay proached him with such
Mallya left the country with concerns.
huge debts owed to banks
pointed to the involvement ‘No scam stopped’
of those “at the top of the “The BJP is saying that this
Central government”. started in 2011 and the Con
“It is not a coincidence gress is saying it started la
that Nirav Modi ran away ter. But, it was going on till
with ₹11,000 crore and Vijay now. We are saying that the
Mallya with ₹9,000 crore in scams that started in the
debts. Many agencies are in time of the Congress are still
volved. It is not possible on today. Not one scam has
without a green ag from stopped. First the Congress
the top. The people at the used to make money, now
top of the Central govern the BJP does,” said Mr.
ment are involved,” said Mr. Kejriwal.
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DELHI TODAY
Talk: International Seminar: India and
Sheila, Maken kick o ‘campaign’ ‘Mobility card integrated with feeder buses’
Indonesia: Exploring Cultural, Reli
gious and Linguistic Pluralities and In
clusive Identities. Inauguration by N. N.
Vohra, President, India International
in anticipation of byelections Delhi Metro Rail Corporation says move will ensure last-mile connectivity
Centre. Introduction to the seminar by
Ambassador S. T. Devare, former Indian Staff Reporter said that the move was in across dierent lines of the device that is used to read
Ambassador to Indonesia. Address by Organise workers’ convention in Jangpura New Delhi itiated to expand the utility Delhi Metro network. the card and deduct the
H.E. Mr. Sidharto Reza Suryodipuro, In To ensure last mile connec of the card which will also The card can now also amount, in feeder buses.
donesian Ambassador to India, Address
by Dr. Lokesh Chandra, eminent scholar Staff Reporter tivity for metro commu ensure the last mile be used at parking lots of 13 “The new software will
and author at Seminar Rooms – II & III, NEW DELHI ters, the Delhi Metro Rail connectivity. stations for paying parking simplify the ticketing pro
Kamaladevi Complex, India Interna
tional Centre (IIC), 10:30 a.m. Anticipating byelections to Corporation (DMRC) on “The smart card users, charges—Vishwavidyalaya, cess in the feeder buses
Talk: "Civil Society and Nuclear Dis 20 Delhi Assembly consti Sunday announced that who are using feeder bus Saket, Karkarduma, Dil and will also save time in
armament: Why 2017’s Nobel Prize is tuencies that recently had they have integrated the es, can now use it for mak shad Garden, Akshardham, the ticketing transaction.
Yours!" Speaker: Dr. Vidya Shankar their MLAs disqualied, the Common Mobility Card in ing payment for travel in Patel Chowk, Kashmere The minimum and maxi
Aiyar, Nuclear Disarmament activist.
Chair: Mani Shankar Aiyar at Confer Congress on Sunday carried its feeder buses and a few these buses,” a statement Gate, Rohini sectors 18 and mum fare of the feeder bus
ence Room II, Main Building, India In out campaign preparations of the parking lots in the issued by the DMRC read. 19, Shastri Park, NHPC es is 5 and 15 respective
ternational Centre (IIC), 6:30 p.m.
with a convention for work network. Chowk, Mewala Maharaj ly,” the statement read.
Dance and Music: Kathak recital by Pt
Deepak Maharaj followed by tabla solo
ers in Jangpura, one of the Delhi Chief Minister Ar 200 feeder buses pur, Old Faridabad, and Around two lakh people
recital By Pranshu Chatur Lal at C.D. seats likely to go to the polls. vind Kejriwal in January The Delhi Metro is current Sector 28 Faridabad. are currently availing the
Deshmukh Auditorium, Main Building, Though the 20 Aam Aad Sheila Diskshit with Ajay Maken (centre) and P.C. Chacko at had launched the Common ly running a eet of more DMRC has also updated Metro feeder bus services
India International Centre (IIC), 6 p.m.
mi Party (AAP) MLAs who Jangpura on Sunday. R.V. MOORTHY*
Mobility Card in the city. than 200 feeder buses co the software in the Hand on a daily basis, the DMRC
Dance and Music: Tarana Art & Music
Sangeet Utsav 2018. Kuchipudi dance were disqualied in January The DMRC on Sunday vering over 40 routes Held Terminal (HHT), the said.
performance by Mautushi Mazumdar for holding oce of prot the two leaders had led to the government. The Con
and group. Followed by Mohan Veena & have moved court and the friction during the 2015 As gress government under
Satvik Veena Jugalbandi by Pt. Vishwa
Mohan Bhatt and Pt. Salil Bhatt. Ab
hishek Mishra on tabla at The Stein
Auditorium, India Habitat Centre (IHC),
hearing is on, the Congress
has started preparations for
potential bypolls.
sembly elections.
Addressing a press confe
rence together last week, Mr.
Sheila Dikshit had made Del
hi into a beautiful city. But
now Delhi is once again a gas
Awareness campaign about EMF emissions
7 p.m.
Exhibition: "Madhyama" a group The convention on Sun Maken said he took the chamber,” he said. Staff Reporter Delivering the technical Quality of Service (QoS). ken adequate steps to en
show of young artists from Madhya day was the third to be held blame for not reaching out GURUGRAM address, Arjun Singh, DDG He further added that sure that telecommunica
Pradesh curated by Akhilesh at Shrid after Laxmi Nagar and Wa earlier. ‘World-class city’ Under a nationwide public (Technology), said that Dig the department was fully tions service providers
harani Gallery, Triveni Kala Sangam,
205, Tansen Marg, Mandi House, 11 zirpur. On Sunday, the Congress Ms. Dikshit said that in her outreach campaign to dis ital India initiative was committed to protect the strictly adhere to these
a.m. – 7 p.m. All 20 constituencies will leaders addressed party 15year tenure, from 1998 to pel myths about Electro aimed at providing univer health of our citizens and norms,” he said.
Exhibition: "Silent Expressions” hold such conventions, the workers and planned a se 2013, the Congress govern magnetic Field (EMF) Emis sal access to mobile con accordingly the standards Gaurav Antil, Joint Com
group show of paintings, ceramics and
photography fusing together 21 artists
Congress had said. ries of boothwise meetings. ment had turned Delhi into a sions, an awareness nectivity and Internet to all for Electromagnetic Radia missioner of the MCG, stat
at All India Fine Arts & Craft Society , 1 For the second time in less Mr. Maken said that Delhi worldclass city. “You will programme was organised corners of India. tion limit that DoT have ed that the civic body
Ra Marg, 11 a.m. – 7 p.m than a week, former Chief ites were remembering the not benet from us talking. by the Department of Tele prescribed for emission aimed to drive economic
Exhibition: "Beyond Transnational Minister Sheila Dikshit and tenure of the Congress after You will benet the day you communications (DoT), in Health of citizens from mobile towers were growth and improve the
ism: The Legacies of Post Independent
Art from South Asia" group show cur Delhi Congress president three years of the AAP go overturn the government association with Municipal He stressed upon the need ten times stricter than the quality of life of people in
ated by Arshiya Lokhandwala at All In Ajay Maken presented a unit vernment. and return to the era when Corporation of Gurugram for installation of the re international standards re Gurugram by promoting
dia Fine Arts & Craft Society (AIFACS), ed front as they addressed “The people of Delhi have Delhi went forward… The (MCG), on EMF emissions quired number of towers in commended by the World technology that can lay the
1 Ra Marg, 11 a.m. – 7 p.m.
(Mail your listings for this column at the crowd at Jangpura. Re realised that the Congress is Congress does what it pro and mobile towers in Sector various localities for best Health Organisation. foundation for Smart
cityeditordelhi@thehindu.co.in) ported dierences between the only party that can run mises,” she said. 10A on Sunday. wireless connectivity and “The government has ta Gurugram.
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‘Cinema speaks the
language of emotions’
Karan Johar says
we don’t need to
to tweak our
cinematic syntax
to reach out to
the world
Anuj Kumar
Giving a push to Indian cine
ma’s global ambitions, the
Ministry of Information &
Broadcasting, in partnership Sharp cut: Karan Johar in Berlin * PTI
Man’s best friend: Isle of Dogs nds its genesis in Anderson’s desire to tell a simple story about abandoned animals with the Confederation of In
dian Industry (CII), partici and it got a resounding re nema speaks its own lan
pated in the European Film ception when the lm guage, a universal language
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When fun turns addictive and other video game genre.
Having said that, the role of ex
interferes with life isting friends cannot be denied.
“Peer pressure is an important
Biggame
factor,” says Dr Sharma. Someth
ing we see in Badiger’s case. “All
my friends were gamers, so to
play or not wasn’t really a ques
tion, to start with,” he tells us.
hunting
“And then I was also very good at
it, which made it even harder to
resist.” “Sometimes, in the case of
older men, it starts as a mode to
wind down and relax, after a long
day at work,” explains Dr Sharma.
Somewhere down the line, the
thrill of it all just takes over.
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........................................................... subject is still limited, there is a tions,” he explains. “The ICD 11 she had anxiety issues. One of the technology with other activities.
tendency to overreach and attach doesn’t yet, but will soon include factors that pushes the addiction “Like playing while at the dining
Gaming addiction should labels at the slightest instance. In gaming addiction as a separate ca is the need to nd their own kind, table,” he elaborates. Keeping it
be dened by how much stead, if you suspect that a loved tegory — that’s how big a problem who will not reject them.” Per separate from your everyday
the game negatively one may be an addict, seek a con it is turning into.” haps why, as revealed by a 2010 tasks will keep you from falling
sultation.” There are numerous study in Addiction Research & down the abyss. “But most of all,
impacts other areas of
gaming addiction scales available Who’s at risk? Theory, multiplayer roleplaying bear in mind: This is a real pro
life, not by how much online, but it is better to get a pro “While we don’t have any empiri games were associated with gam blem and help is available,” says
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dierent ways.
J Jasjyot Singh Hans
(@jasjyotjasjyot) An illustrator based
in Baltimore, he does art around the
Coee for the soul
#BigIsBeautiful theme. His nudes are
women with bodies that have variations
from what is considered beautiful.
J Raikchak Reang (@raichu.copper)
A graphic designer based in Bengaluru,
who drew Wonder Woman with body
hair. More recently, he illustrated cancer
patients undergoing chemo as
superheroes who need to build their own
superpowers.
J Thasveer Muhammed (@thasvy) A
model and stylist based in Kochi, he is an
amputee who suered a great deal after
a bike accident. He leaves bodypositive
messages on almost all his pictures.