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1 Rlys to charge 6 times penalty for excess baggage in trains, strictly enforce old rules Air Commodore dies in Jaguar jet s crash near Gujarat village PNS n GANDHINAGAR enior officer of the Indian SAir Force (IAF) Air Commodore Sanjay Chauhan died in a Jaguar fighter jet s crash near Mundra town of bordering Kutch district of Gujarat during a routine training session on Tuesday. Commodore Chauhan left early in a Jaguar fighter jet from Jamnagar airbase and flew through Bay of Kutch till the fighter plane crashed at an open grassland of Beraja village near Mundra town around am. A Jaguar aircraft on a routine training mission from Jamnagar crashed. The pilot sustained fatal injuries during the crash. Court of enquiry has been ordered to investigate cause of the incident, said Lt Colonel Manish Ojha, Defence Spokesperson, Gujarat. A few cows grazing in the grassland died in the crash, but there was no other human casualty. Detailed report on P6 STAFF REPORTER n NEW DELHI rouble lies ahead of flam- Congress leader Tboyant Shashi Tharoor as a Delhi court on Tuesday admitted abetment to suicide charges against him in the death of his wife Sunanda Pushkar, saying there are sufficient grounds to proceed against Tharoor. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) of Patiala House courts Samar Vishal took cognisance of the chargesheet submitted by the Delhi Police and asked Tharoor to appear before him on July 7. On May 28, the court had reserved its order on whether to summon Tharoor as an accused in the case. I have heard the prosecutor. I have gone through and perused the chargesheet along with the documents filed. On the basis of police report Follow us on: OPINION 8 A FIGHTING GENERAL, A THINKING MAN Pay hefty fine for extra load on Rail DEEPAK K UPRETI n NEW DELHI JP president Amit Shah is Bset to meet Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray on Wednesday in Mumbai amid worsening relation between the two parties and the Sena s declaration that they would contest the 2019 Lok Sabha polls alone. The meet could have a major bearing on both Maharashtra and national politics. Shah will also travel to Punjab on Thursday to meet SAD leaders. These back-to-back meetings are significant against the backdrop of reports that NDA allies are upset with the BJP due to its big brotherly attitude. The exit of the TDP from the NDA in March and constant friction with the Shiv Sena, the largest NDA ally, and loss of three major Lok Sabha bypolls in UP and one in Maharashtra to the combined Opposition, have set the BJP leadership on the fast track to put the NDA house in order well before 2019 Lok Sabha polls. Nitish Kumar-led the Janata Dal (U) and Ramvilas Paswan-led LJP are also putting Tharoor to be tried for abetment to suicide n a decision that could trig- a major controversy, the Iger Indian Railways has decided to strictly enforce its over threedecade-old luggage allowance rules by slapping up to six-time penalty for carrying excess load in train. According to the prescribed norms, a sleeper class and a second class passenger can carry luggage weighing 40 kg and 35 kg respectively without paying any extra money, and a maximum of 80 kg and 70 kg respectively by paying for the excess luggage at the parcel office. The excess luggage would have to be put in the luggage van. Officials said unlike at airports where the luggage of each passenger is weighed, the Railways will carry out random checks. For example, if a passenger is travelling 500 km with luggage weighing 80 kg in the sleeper class, he can book his excess baggage of 40 kg for `109 in the luggage van. However, if he fails to do so and is caught with the excess luggage, he will end up paying a penalty of `654. Similarly, an AC first class passenger can carry 70 kg of luggage for free and a maximum of 150 kg after paying a fee for the excess 80 kg. An AC two-tier passenger can carry 50 kg of luggage for free and another 50 kg by paying a fee. An AC 3-tier sleeper/ac chair car passenger can carry 40 kg of luggage for free and a maximum of 80 kg after paying a fee for the excess 40 kg. However, it is not clear how the Railways will ensure that passengers who are going to end their journey at a station where the trains have very brief stoppage will be able to collect their luggage from the luggage van. This is bound to create confusion and chaos. The railways will also ensure that trunks, suitcases and boxes adhere to the prescribed measurements of 100cm x 60cm x 25cm (length, breadth, height) for personal luggage to be carried in compartments. If the trunks, suitcases and boxes exceed any one of the dimensions, those would have to be booked and carried in the luggage van. A special drive has been also launched to enforce the rules during this week. A lot of train passengers are not aware of the luggage allowance in compartments. This is why awareness drive has been undertaken and will continue across the country for this month before the penalty provision is applied, said a Ministry official. The rules are already in place, we are just enforcing them strictly now. Passengers are allowed to book and carry excess luggage in the luggage van, up to the maximum limit, on the payment of a fee equivalent to one-and-a-half times In drive to placate BJP partners, Shah to meet Sena chief today SUNANDA S DEATH (chargesheet), I take cognisance of offence of abetment to suicide of late Sunanda Pushkar punishable under Section 306 of the IPC and cruelty under Section 498A IPC upon her by Dr Shashi Tharoor, the judge said. There exist sufficient grounds to proceed against Shashi Tharoor for commission of offence, the ACMM ruled. In a related development, the judge also issued notice to the prosecution for a written reply on BJP MP Subramanian Swamy s application. Continued on Page AVENUES 10 NEET 2018 ALL-INDIA TOPPERS SHARE THEIR SECRET TO SUCCESS efending the Government s Ddecision to open roads for civilians in cantonments all over the country, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said here on Tuesday more than 100 roads were closed for many years without following proper procedures. After the recent order, 80 roads were opened, 15 partially opened, and 24 were yet to be opened, she said, adding the nod was given after due consultations with all the stakeholders, including the Army. Making this clear, the Minister said there are 850 roads in 62 cantonments and 119 roads were shut for long period without following the laid-down norms. Mentioning that she was conscious of the security issue raised by wives of Armymen, the Minister said she had met several of them a few days back. facebook.com/dailypioneer CLASS MAXIMUM IN LUGGAGE VAN LUGGAGE IN TRAIN COMPARTMENT Second 35kg 35kg Sleeper 40kg 40kg AC-3 40kg 40kg AC-2 50kg 50kg AC-1 70kg 80kg Maximum dimension to be allowed in train compartment: 100cmx60cmx25cm pressure on the BJP over seatsharing arrangement. Shah is attempting to re-build confidence among the allies who, for one or other reason, may be upset with the big brother. Shah is scheduled to meet Akali Dal leaders Prakash Singh Badal and his son Sukhbir on Thursday where discussion around sharing of 13 Lok Sabha seats in Punjab may figure in, according to sources. The ouster of the Akali Dal by the Congress in the Assembly polls may set the tone for seatsharing formula. The BJP president will be closeted with the Shiv Sena president at the latter s residence at Mumbai on Wednesday. The meeting is being viewed as significant as it comes days after the two bickering allies contested the Palghar bypolls (which the Sena lost to the BJP) separately. The Shiv Sena had later described the BJP as the biggest political enemy. Amit Shah sought time to meet Uddhavji. Accordingly, an appointment of tomorrow evening has been given to him, was a rather blunt comment of Sena MP Sanjay Raut. He even questioned the need for Shah to meet Thackeray after a gap of four years. Continued on Page 6 Since concerns have been raised about security, the Local Military Authorities will review the situation after a month and get back to the Government to take the final call, Sitharaman said. Any decision thereafter will be announced through the media in English and two local languages, she added. Sitharaman said the decision to open cantonment roads was related to traffic issues and demands made by several MPs cutting across party lines besides elected representatives of cantonment boards. The Minister admitted complaints made by the elected members regarding closure of roads had substance. Pointing out that the decision to throw open the roads was taken on May 24 after several rounds of consultations with all the stakeholders, including Army chief General Bipin Rawat. MPs from all major parties WORLD 13 TIME, VENUE FOR TRUMP, KIM SUMMIT FINALISED LUCKNOW, WEDNESDAY JUNE 6, 2018; PAGES 16 `3 the luggage rate. If a passenger is found travelling with un-booked luggage weighing more than the free allowance, the excess weight will be No blackout of Kaala, K taka HC asks Govt to ensure security PTI n BENGALURU he Karnataka High Court Ton Tuesday directed the State Government to provide necessary security for the peaceful release of superstar Rajinikanth-starrer Kaala, which pro-kannada outfits threatened to stall over the actor s reported remarks on the Cauvery row. Justice G Narendar issued the direction on the basis of a Supreme Court order, which had stayed ban orders imposed on the release of Sanjay Leela Bhansali s film Padmaavat by four States, including Rajasthan, early this year. Following the HC order, Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy said,...as an individual, not a CM, as a Kannaidaga...I request the producer or distributor of the movie, in this kind of atmosphere, it is not good on their part to release the movie. However, he added the Government would follow the High Court order on the issue. Detailed report on P6 including Congress, BJP, TMC, AIADMK, TRS, CPM and Shiv Sena took part in the deliberations, Sitharaman said. Since the cantonments are managed by Local Military Authorities, the Ministry also sought their feedback before giving the final nod, the Defence Minister said. The Defence Minister also clarified that the decision to open roads was only applicable to cantonments where civil and military personnel live and work together. Military stations and bases were not covered in the directive, Sitharaman said. OFF THE BEATEN TRACK charged six times the luggage rate. The move is to ensure passenger convenience and address the issue of cramped compartments, said Ved Prakash, Director, Information and Publicity, Railway Board. SC/ST quota in promotion gets SC s clearance ABRAHAM THOMAS n NEW DELHI t a time when the issue of Areservation for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in promotion is pending before a Constitution Bench, a Vacation Bench on Tuesday gave a major relief to the Centre by allowing it to proceed with such reservation in accordance with law. Additional Solicitor General (ASG) Maninder Singh claimed that all promotions under the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) had stopped after the apex court ordered status quo in a pending appeal filed by the Centre in a matter related to SC/ST reservation in promotion. Though this order was passed on February 3, 2015, subsequently, a two-judge Bench of the apex court in the same case on May 17, 2018, allowed the Centre to proceed with reserved category promotion. The ASG had sought a clarification on whether to follow the first order or the subsequent order. The Vacation Bench of Justices Adarsh K Goel and Ashok Bhushan pointed out that while the Centre is free to proceed with reservation in promotion, this is governed by a Constitution Bench decision of this court in the M Nagaraja vs Union of India decided on Court allows Govt to go ahead with it in accordance with law October 19, This judgment required the State or the Centre to provide quantifiable data on the backwardness, inadequacy of representation in public services and efficiency of administration without extending reservation in promotion to any caste, tribe or community under Article 16(4A) of Constitution. The Bench said, You (Centre) can go ahead with promotion but we will clarify that promotion must be in accordance with law. On what is the law, the Bench said, The order of May 17, 2018 does not stay the judgment in the Nagaraj case. Can there be reservation in promotion without complying with the mandate of Nagaraj. Continued on Page 6 Final call on Cantt roads after local feedback: Min Since concerns have been raised about military families security, local military authorities will review the situation after a month and get back to the Government o o o o Officials said unlike at airports where the luggage of each passenger is weighed, the railways will carry out random checks If a passenger is travelling 500 km with luggage weighing 80 kg in the sleeper class, he can book his excess baggage of 40 kg for `109 in the luggage van. However, if he fails to do so and is caught with the excess luggage, he will end up paying a penalty of `654 It is not clear how the Railways will ensure that passengers who are going to end their journey at a station where the trains have very brief stoppage will be able to collect their luggage from the luggage van. This is bound to create confusion and chaos The move is to ensure passenger convenience and address the issue of cramped compartments, said Ved Prakash, Director, Information and Publicity, Railway Board RNI No.2016/1957, REGD NO. SSP/LW/NP-34/ Established 1864 Published From DELHI LUCKNOW BHOPAL BHUBANESWAR RANCHI RAIPUR CHANDIGARH DEHRADUN Late City Vol. 154 Issue 153 *Air Surcharge Extra if Applicable } BUTTLER CREDITS IPL FOR SUCCESS 14 SPORT File Photo UP govt moots anti-power theft police stations PNS n LUCKNOW ith an aim to stop power Wtheft, the government has proposed setting up of anti-power theft police stations in all 75 districts, comprising five discoms. Besides, the government has also formulated its dairy and pharma policy to boost investment which in turn will create jobs in the state. The decision was taken in the Cabinet meeting held on Tuesday. Government spokesman Srikant Sharma, who is also Power Minister in the government, said that to curb the line loss and power theft, the government would set up antipower theft police stations which would exclusively deal with power theft cases. Each police station will be manned by 28 people including one inspector and five sub-inspectors Ṫhe Cabinet also approved the dairy policy under which government would give subsidy ranging from capital investment to setting up of contraptions for standardisation and testing of the quality of milk. The upper limit of total subsidy will be `2.5 crore. This is first of its kind policy in the state and the total investment in five years is expected to be between `15,000 crore and `20,000 crore which in turn will generate 10 lakh jobs, Sharma said. Similarly, in another decision, the state Cabinet gave its assent to the new pharma policy which, the spokesman said, was in tune with the industrial policy of the state. The new policy will have five components including Pharma package, single unir, Research and Development, Intellectual Property and Aayush, Sharma added. This policy has incorporated the salient features of the poharma policies of Orrisa, Telangana and Gujarat policies, the spokesman said. No liquor zone: After Vrindavan, the state government declared nagar panchayat areas of Barsana, Gokul Govardhan Radhakund and Union Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, along with Minister of State Subhash Bhamre and Defence Secretary Sanjay Mitra, releases an e-book during a Press conference regarding the achievements of her Ministry during four years of the NDA Government in New Delhi on Tuesday PTI } Baldeo in Mathura as no liquor zones. The decision has come into effect from Tuesday. The government has decided to shift 32 shops from this region despite it overnment will suffer a loss of `11.10 crore, the spokesman said. The government has decided to set up cogeneration plant based on bio-waste in three UP cooperative mills of Anupnagar, Qayamganj, and Ghosi. Recruitment: The Cabinet approved that recruitment of male and female officers under the Uttar Pradesh Police Radio Subordinate Services simultaneously. Earlier, the appointments were made separately. Ram Katha Museum: The government decided to construct a gallery of Ram Katha museum in Faizabad at the cost of `25.57 lakh. Handicraft Award: To give a boost to artisans, the government decided to set up Sant Kabir Handloom Award. The awards will have two categories: divisional and state. At Continued on Page 6

2 LUCKNOW WEDNESDAY JUNE 6, 2018 city 02 UP bats for simultaneous poll Seven-member panel submits report to CM oeing the line of Prime TMinister Narendra Modi, a high-powered ministerial committee has recommended unified elections to Lok Sabha, Assembly, panchayat and urban local bodies by 2029 to save money and minimise obstructions in the development work. The seven-member committee, led by Health Minister Siddharthanath Singh, submitted a report to Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath with the recommendation that it be implemented as it is feasible. The committee recommended that there should be unified electoral rolls and the entire process should be completed in two phases. Singh said that to start with the election to Lok Sabha and Legislative Assemblies be held simultaneously and later NOTICE Mr. Alok Awasthi S/o Late Chandra Bhal Awasthi Address 54/18 Veernagar, Chitwapur Bhuiyan, Lucknow was got married on with Manisha Awasthi who is called by the name of Pinki Awasthi at home. Manisha Awasthi & Pinki Awasthi are same person. Alok Awasthi's wife name Manisha Awasthi is registered in all Government Documents. local bodies be incorporated. He felt that the proposal could be made operational by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had set up the committee on a suggestion from the Centre in March and the committee was asked to submit its report in three months. The Election Commission (EC) has also started the process of searching ways to hold Parliament and Assembly elections together. The 23-page report echoes the suggestions of Law Commission and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who had advocated simultaneous elections. If it is accepted by the Centre, it will follow the principle of one nation, one election and common electoral rolls, Singh said. The suggestion for having a unified voters list was raised previously because rolls for Lok Sabha and local bodies elections are separate. In the last urban local bodies elections, voters complained about their names missing from the rolls. They claimed that they had voted in Assembly polls but their names were missing from urban local bodies poll rolls. The committee recommended that Aadhaar numbers be linked with the names of voters to eliminate chances of duplication. Singh said that linking of voters list with Aadhaar would remove anomalies of doubling of names. The report said that holding simultaneous polls would involve synchronising the election cycles of various Legislative Assemblies with Lok Sabha polls and making that a permanent feature. If the term of Assemblies is to coincide with that of Lok Varanasi tragedy: Probe report submitted Bridge Corpn officials blamed for negligence he three-member techni- committee set up by Tcal Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya to probe causes of the girder collapse of a railway overbridge in Varanasi submitted its report citing negligence but stopped short of fixing responsibility on any individual. With Maurya convalescing in a Delhi hospital, the report was submitted to Principal Secretary (PWD) Sanjay Agarwal on Monday night. Further action is likely to be taken after Maurya returns. Sources confirmed that the technical committee, comprising PWD chief engineer JP Gupta, joint managing director, UP Bridge Corporation (UPBC), YK Sharma and chief engineer, Allahabad, cited gross negligence on part of officials of Bridge Corporation leading to the incident. Sources claimed that the team found that the UPBC authorities failed to ensure adequate safety measures during construction which led to the incident and cost human lives. It found that cross-beam THE COMMITTEE FELT THAT SECURITY MEASURES WERE COMPROMISED IN A BID TO COMPLETE THE PROJECT ON TIME DUE TO POLITICAL COMPULSIONS. THEY ALSO HELD THE VARANASI DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION EQUALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MISHAP BUT SHIED AWAY FROM MENTIONING THEM EXPLICITLY IN THE REPORT connectivity was not made to ensure interlocking of the main precast beam in February last. It was also said that heavy storm and continuous vibration due to plying of traffic under the site led to the collapse of girders which did not have cross-beam connectivity. The girders gradually shifted from rubber bearing on which it was placed and finally collapsed on the fateful day. The committee felt that security measures were compromised in a bid to complete the project on time due to political compulsions. They also held the Varanasi district administration equally responsible for the mishap but shied away from mentioning them explicitly in the report. Earlier, a case was registered against Bridge Corporation officials and employees, working on the site, under Section 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder), Section 308 (attempt to commit culpable homicide) of the IPC following a complaint by Roadways police outpost incharge. However no one was named in the FIR. Besides, the project manager and other officials of UPBC were suspended and the government also shifted then managing director of Bridge Corporation Rajan Mittal. Sabha, one will have to curtail the period of some Assemblies and extend that of others, to start with. For this, there has to be a reference date, the report said. It said that the logical date would be midway point between June 4, 2019, and June 3, 2024, which would fall between November- December The committee noted that till 1967, elections to Lok Sabha and state Assemblies were held together. It was only due to contemporary political events that the synchronous poll cycle was broken and as time progressed the conduct of elections became more and more disjointed, it said. Singh said that UP government would forward its report to the Centre as the proposal required amendments to Constitution. No pomp and show on Yogi s b day ith Chief Minister Yogi WAdityanath turning 46 on Tuesday, his birthday was celebrated sans any pomp and show. On his birthday, Yogi, however, stayed away from any celebration and went to Kanpur to review development schemes. Prime Minister Narendra Modi was among the first to wish Yogi on his birthday. In his tweet, the PM said: Warm birthday wishes to Uttar Pradesh s hardworking Chief ji. Yogi ji is unwavering in his effort to transform the state. I wish him a long and healthy life in the service of the people. BJP chief Amit Shah also wished the CM on his birthday. In his tweet, Shah wrote: Heartiest congratulation on the birthday of popular UP CM Yogi Adityanath. Wish him a healthy and long life. Earlier in the morning, senior BJP leaders and Cabinet colleagues went to Yogi s official residence at 5, Kalidas No decision yet on seat-sharing, reveals SP chief amajwadi Party chief SAkhilesh Yadav said that there was no decision on seatsharing with the BSP for 2019 Lok Sabha elections and it would be discussed at an appropriate time. The former UP Chief Minister s remark came amid reports that Mayawati-led BSP was demanding 40 out of the total 80 Lok Sabha seats in the state for the 2019 Parliament elections. Whatever seats are to be given will be decided once the talks proceed. We will discuss at an appropriate time. Whatever is being reported regarding seats is only in newspapers. We have not discussed anything. We Samajwadis have a big heart, said Akhilesh. The SP chief also alleged that the (communal) fire which engulfed Kairana in 2013 was doused by the people there by voting against the BJP. On Assembly polls in other states, Yadav said: The SP will contest all seats in Madhya Pradesh and is also preparing for polls in Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand. Regarding possibilities of a BSP-Congress tie-up for Madhya Pradesh Assembly polls, Akhilesh said: I have no information on this. If they are talking (for an alliance in MP), it s good. We hope for the best and prepare for the worst in politics, Yadav said. Akhilesh said that as far as the SP was concerned, his party had decided to contest all 230 Assembly seats in Madhya Pradesh and preparations were underway. The SP chief also said that his party was prepared for 2019 polls and the process was on for selecting prospective candidates. Attacking the BJP, Akhilesh alleged that the party distracted public attention from core issues before an election. On the success of alliance in Gorakhpur, Phulpur, Kairana Lok Sabha and Noorpur Assembly bypolls, Akhilesh said: The anger of people is visible from these results which indicate that people are looking at an alternative against the BJP, he said. The SP chief termed Prime Minister Narendra Modi s road show on Delhi- Meerut Expressway near Kairana on the eve of the bypoll on May 27, an attempt to influence the election. Despite allout attempts, the BJP failed to succeed in Kairana and Noorpur. People have given a befitting reply to the BJP in bypolls, he added. RLD invites SP, Cong, BSP for roza iftar pposition unity will be on display with Othe Rashtriya Lok Dal planning a gala roza iftar at its state headquarters in Lucknow on Wednesday. While the star attraction of the iftar party is set to be recently-elected Lok Sabha MP from Kairana Tabassum Hasan, senior leaders of different like-minded parties like the Samajwadi Party, Congress and Bahujan Samaj Party are also expected to attend the party. Invitations have been sent to leaders of all political parties and we expect most of them to attend the function in which our sole MP from UP Tabassum Hasan will be present, an RLD office-bearer said. The leader said that it was the fourth important occasion when an iftar was being organised at the RLD state headquarters. On two previous occasions, Chaudhary Ajit Singh attended iftar while once party vice-president Jayant Chaudhary hosted the party, said an RLD sympathiser. The RLD will be celebrating its win in Kairana byelection after a long gap. It is also for the win of first Muslim woman MP from the state since 2014, he said. Party sources said that RLD leaders were unanimous in strengthening it base in west UP and among Muslims. So some decision to address this may be taken in the time to come, the leader said. Sources also said that the RLD had salvaged some of its lost pride by the win in Kairana Lok Sabha bypoll. But this is not sufficient. It will have to be strengthen further for the party to have a say in the united Opposition, he said. State RLD president Masood Ahmad reiterated that farmers issues were of great importance for the RLD. Chaudhary Charan Singh was looked as a messiah of farmers. We won the bypoll as we were more vocal for farmers woes for a long time. The win in Kairana has reinforced our base among farmers. The RLD has always been with secular forces and it will remain so in the future too, he said. About the iftar party, Masood said it was being organised at the instruction of senior RLD leaders. It is not a political event as is being portrayed in the media. It is purely an apolitical event and is being organised as was being done by secular parties, national RLD spokesman Anil Dubey said. BSP leader killed over love affair Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) Aleader in Ambedkarnagar was reportedly killed by a local pradhan and his family members just in the name of saving family honour. The sensational killing took place in the wee hours of Monday. All the three accused were arrested by the police and sent to jail on Tuesday. Reports said that some women, hailing from Katiya Ganjan area of Ambedkarnagar district, found the body of an unknown youth lying in the fields on Monday morning. They immediately informed the incident to Baskhari police station, after which station officer Manbodh Tewari, along with district police chief Santosh Kumar Mishra, rushed to the spot. After some efforts, they identified the victim as Akhilesh Kumar aka Nandan (21), a resident of Katiya Ganjan hamlet of Baskhari in Ambedkarnagar. He was ward secretary of the BSP. Santosh claimed that they sent the body for autopsy after which it was confirmed that someone had strangulated him to death and dumped the body to conceal the crime. He said that during questioning of family members, they learnt that Akhilesh was having an affair with Vinita, residing in the same locality. Vinita s father Bajrangi Mauyra is a sitting pradhan of the area and had political clout. Santosh said that as the mobile record also showed that last call received by the victim was made by Vinita. Suspecting her role in the killing, they brought her, father Bajrangi and husband Pankaj Maurya to the police station. Santosh added that they made the breakthrough when they recovered the mobile phone and purse of the victim from the possession of Vinita s husband. Later during interrogation, all the three confessed of committing the crime. Bajrangi Maurya disclosed that after Akhilesh refused to break his affair with Vinita, he got her married to Pankaj, a resident of Tanda in Gaura Bazar area of Ambedkarnagar. The marriage was solemnised place two months back. However, even then, Akhilesh was trying to continue her relation. To get rid of Akhilesh, the accused hatched a plan. On late Sunday night, Vinita called Akhilesh and invited him to meet her in the house. Later, as Akhilesh reached to meet her, all the three caught hold of him and later strangulated him to death. To conceal the crime, they later dumped the body in the field. Police team also recovered the muffler used to strangulate the victim. Governor Ram Naik giving a bouquet of flowers to Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on the latter s birthday on Tuesday Marg, to wish him long life with bouquets and returned within 10 minutes. The birthdays of CMs in the state used to be gala events. Sugarcane dept to launch Ayush hosps Lucknow (PNS): Sugarcane department is mulling to launch Ayush hospitals in association with Medical Health department and launch them in 109 cane development societies and 24 cooperative sugar mill societies across the state. The Yogi government is presently operating a scheme to provide free medical treatment through Ayush department. Now the Cane department has initiated a move to connect cane farmers and general public with state-funded public welfare schemes, Cane Commissioner Sanjay Bhoosreddy said in Lucknow. Under the plan, cane development societies will provide accommodation and necessary infrastructure for the hospitals, while medical staff, comprising physicians and nurses, will be deployed by Ayush department. Be it Mayawati s birthday or that of Mulayam and Akhilesh, party leaders and government officers used to walk an extra mile to celebrate in style. 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3 LUCKNOW WEDNESDAY JUNE 6, 2018 city 03 BADA MANGAL & WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY When devotion amalgamates with cause! L ucknow Municipal Corporation organised a vriksh bhandara on Tuesday as Bada Mangal coincided with World Environment Day. According to Municipal Commissioner Indu Mani Tripathi, vriksh bhandara and plantation activities were held at Eldeco Green and at LMC office respectively. He said they had plans to do similar activities in the coming days for increased distribution of saplings. We will do this when weather improves. We will distribute saplings which people can plant, take selfies and then share the same in WhatsApp and other social media groups, he said. Tripathi said as Bada Mangal fell on the same day as World Environment Day, they appealed to devotees to shun use of plastic at the bhandaras. Regarding the huge amount of plastic plates and glasses strewn ive persons strangled a class IV Femployee of Sunni Waqf Board when he was returning home on Monday night and dumped his body into a trench in Malihabad over a land dispute. The incident came to the fore after the body was recovered on Tuesday morning and was identified by the family of the deceased. Police registered a case against five persons and started investigations. As per reports, Alauddin (56) of Rahimabad village left for his workplace in the city on Monday morning but did not return home. After waiting for him till 8 pm, his son Shaheed tried his mobile number but it was switched off. Later, Shaheed spoke to As Bada Mangal coincided with World Environment Day, LMC organised vriksh bhandara and distributed saplings among the devotees on the roads, he said a clean-up drive would be conducted for that. I visited a few bhandaras people using pattals but there were plastic glasses. For the remaining Bada Mangals, LMC will be placing garbage bins near the bhandaras so that people do not litter the roads, he said. Regarding the steps being taken to keep the city clean, he admitted that night sweeping was being conducted in a haphazard manner. He added that it would be done in a more organised manner. The Municipal Waqf board worker strangled, body found in trench Alauddin s colleagues and was told that he had left the office at 5 pm on Monday. While Alauddin s family members were searching for him, they were informed about the recovery of a body from a trench in an agricultural farm at Rahimabad village. On reaching the scene, Shaheed was shocked to find out that it was his father lying dead. Shaheed lodged a case against five persons Harinath Pandey, his son Raghvendra Pandey, his kin Onkar Nath Pandey & Kamlesh Nath Pandey, and Aslam of Rahimabad alleging murder. Shaheed suspected an old land-related enmity as the motive for murder. The accused are reported to be absconding. The murder of Sunni Waqf Board employee and involvement of five locals divided the villagers into two groups, triggering possibilities of clash in the communally sensitive village. Commissioner said that proper syncing of the garbage collection with Eco Green would be ensured first in zones 1 & 2 and later in zones 4 & 6. We are facing problems only in garbage collection which needs to be improved because our garbage disposal is fine, he pointed out. Besides, Prithvi Innovations, in collaboration with the LMC and Subhash Chandra Bose Institute of Higher Education, sensitised the organisers of Bada Mangal bhandaras and general public to beat the plastic pollution and switch to traditional way of offering prasad in pattal. The team put up a small musical drama wherein Bal Hanuman and his vaanar sena shared the message of ecofriendly bhandaras. Students from Subhash Chandra Bose Institute of Higher Education also presented an interesting nukkad natak to convey the message of ecofriendly bhandaras. Shooting of documentaries, ad clips banned at JM Park he shooting of advertisements or docu- films will be totally prohibited at Tmentary Janeshwar Mishra Park but the visitors or tourists can carry their cameras there after purchasing a ticket of Rs 250 which is sold at its special counter located at its main gate. The LDA administration said that the park was being misused because several complaints had been lodged with incharge SS Sisodhia. This issue was brought to the notice of LDA Vice-Chairman PN Singh last month and he ordered a probe into the matter. The probe revealed that the park had become the first choice for producers and directors to shoot their advertisements as well as documentary films without seeking permission of the competent authority. Interestingly, the local models preferred the park for their photo sessions. Singh said that the park was not meant for shooting such films and added that efforts would be made to check its misuse. He said that the purpose behind this move was to promote tourism apart from sports and cultural activities. He said that those who were found shooting films or documentaries in its premises would have to pay a penalty of Rs 5,000. Stringent action would be initiated against the private partners who were found engaged in selling the entry tickets for allowing the crew members to enter the park for shooting films or advertisements. It was their duty to stop such elements at the entry point only, he added. Garden incharge SS Sisodhia said that the entire park had been divided into sectors and security guards deployed there to keep a round-the-clock vigil. The incharges had been instructed to monitor the activities of the visitors there and drive away those who were planning to shoot a film or a documentary there. Sources said that such elements come to the park in the guise of visitors with their equipment hidden in their bags and they leave it quietly after completing their work. The Vice-Chairman said that the crew members should be checked at the main gate leaving no scope for them to do any unscrupulous work. Its senior officials were also of view that in case such people were not checked immediately they would vitiate the atmosphere and also embolden the anti-social elements to enter the park and create a nuisance there. (Left to right) Devotees paying obeisance to the deity at Hanuman Setu temple on the occasion of sixth Bada Mangal; people flock to a bhandara for prasad on Ashok Marg; and pattals strewn on roads near a bhandara Pioneer rked over the death of their Ipet, who was under treatment, two youths and their mother attacked a veterinary doctor at government polyclinic in Hasanganj on Tuesday and allegedly attempted to kill him. Police registered a case against the accused following a complaint given by the doctor. As per reports, Shubham Mishra, Shivam and their mother (all of Madiaon) picked a verbal fight with Ashish Singh as they alleged that wrong treatment by him claimed their dog s life at the polyclinic in Badshahbagh Grammy winner stresses on power of music Kakori blast: Body parts to be sent for DNA sampling test he Lucknow police will go Tfor DNA sampling test on the body parts of Naseer, who died in Kakori blast on Monday. Naseer s body parts were recovered on Monday and the body was identified by his son Mushir and other family members. The decision has been taken as the police want to be doubly sure of Naseer s identity, SP (Rural) Gaurav Grover said, adding that the police had preserved the samples of flesh of the deceased. Expressing inability to speak about the quantity of firecrackers stored at the house in Saitha village of Munnu Kheda locality, he said: Forensic scientists can give an estimate of the crackers stored in the one-room godown. Police department sources said the quantity of firecrackers stored in the godown would be high. It was a massive explosion which damaged three houses, including the godown and a semi-built one. It is suspected that Naseer had stored a huge cache of firecrackers used in marriage functions. Some damaged iron/tin boxes were recovered from the site. Such bombs/firecrackers are usually of high intensity, the sources said. SSP, Lucknow, Deepak Kumar said prima facie, the FSL scientists had ruled out the possibility of high-intensity explosives and also did not detect shrapnels or nails. This is the primary report and a more detailed one is awaited, he had said. However, the villagers did not seem convinced with the police claim. It could not be a firecracker explosion. The intensity of the blast could be locality on Monday afternoon. As Singh refused to take the blame and asked them to behave, the accused went berserk and allegedly attacked Singh inside the clinic. They caught hold of me and tried to choke my throat with an intention to kill me. Luckily, some staff members intervened and rescued me, Singh told the police. On the contrary, Shubham and his family told the police that Singh misbehaved with them when they sought to know about the medicines given to the pet. Police spokesman Arun Kumar Singh said a case had gauged from the fact that it blew up the roof of the godown, a factory close to it, walls of the godown and a semi-finished house. Besides, it also caused cracks in the window panes in some houses around 50 metres from the scene, they argued. They said the area was never visited by any of the villagers, so they did not know which kind of firecrackers Naseer used to manufacture and store. They said Naseer and his daughter Nasreen, who also was killed in the incident, were working in the godown at the time of explosion. Besides Naseer and Nasreen, a snacks manufacturing factory s labourer, Ram Pheran of Bahraich, was also killed in the blast. Meanwhile, no police officer visited the site even as the village wore a deserted look on Tuesday. Stray dogs were seen devouring the flesh scattered around the site filled with a putrid smell, some villagers said. They said no drive against firecracker manufacturers was launched on Tuesday. There are several cracker manufacturers in the area. In a village near the site, there are about 51 licence-holders who have firecrackers stored in different houses. The area is fast emerging as a hub of cracker manufacturing units and houses are being used as godowns, some villagers complained. Police spokesman Arun Kumar Singh said no drive against firecracker manufacturer was launched on Tuesday. It is the district administration that carries out such drives. The police are occupied with security arrangements in view of processions and further programmes, he added. Vet attacked after dog dies Lucknow (PNS): A Chhattisgarh native was found dead at her house in Chinhat on Tuesday morning. Police claimed that the woman consumed some poisonous substance to end her life even though the autopsy was yet to be conducted. Some residents of the slum area in Chhota Bharwara locality of Malhaur in Chinhat noticed that their neighbour Parvati Devi s house rammy Award winning music Gcomposer and adjunct professor, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru, Ricky Kej, said here on Tuesday that music was a powerful language not just for communicating a message but for retaining it deep in the consciousness of a listener. Kej said that he believed that music and nature were one and the same thing and that he had dedicated his entire life in creating environmental consciousness and increasing awareness about climate change through his music which was emphasised in his talk, Music for the Planet. CSIR-IITR celebrated World Environment Day on Tuesday with a session with Kej. As a part of the Environment Day celebrations, IITR organised the Dr CR Krishnamurti Memorial Oration in honour of the second director of the institute. This year, the lecture, 22nd in the series, was Ricky Kej and others along with winners of painting competition at IITR delivered by Kej. In his presidential address, he said ny for the entire universe, said Ricky. nature to work towards environment that Indian culture and caring for the Welcoming the gathering, IITR conservation. NASI senior scientist environment were integral to one director Alok Dhawan said that it was and former IITR director PK Seth another. Invoking the five elements indeed a unique opportunity for them presided over the function. Prize winners of a painting competition for of nature is a part of our daily routine to host the Grammy winner who had and no event or occasion is complete brought together artistes from around school children, conducted in the preceding week, were without praying for peace and harmo- the globe to amalgamate music and felicitated. was closed for quite some time. They repeatedly called her but did not get any answer. Later, they entered the shanty and found her lying dead. On being informed, a police team reached the place and sent the body for autopsy. In the evening, Parvati s husband Ved Ram and children returned from Chhattisgarh and got to know about her death. Police spokesman Arun Kumar Singh said the woman been registered against the accused for thrashing the doctor and for attempt to murder and damaging clinic s property. As the opposite party did not give any complaint, no cross-fir was registered in this connection, he said. Sources said the dog was being treated at the polyclinic for a month and its condition was not improving. The doctors who were treating the pet never disclosed what disease it was suffering from which made the owners unhappy. After the pet died, they reached the polyclinic and again sought to know the reason for its death. They met Singh and indulged Woman found dead in Sharda canal committed suicide by consuming some poisonous substance. Meanwhile, the body of an unidentified man was recovered from Sharda Canal in Nagram on Tuesday morning. A police spokesman said some residents spotted the body around 5 am on Tuesday and called the police control room. A police team was sent to the place and the body was sent to morgue, he said.

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At a programme held at King George s Medical University, District Magistrate Kaushal Raj Sharma urged people to keep the surroundings clean and let Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC) workers collect garbage from their homes. He emphasised the need to focus on plantation. KGMU Vice-Chancellor Dr MLB Bhatt pointed out that garbage was being managed in a very proper manner. Regional Science City and UP Environment Directorate jointly celebrated World Environment Day. A science march was taken out in which students, teachers from various schools besides scientists and environment took part in the programe. A quiz contest for students was organised in which about 300 students participated. Besides, various films based on environment were shown to the participants. To spread awareness, a nukkad natak was staged in an interesting way. A popular science lecture on Plastic and Pollution was delivered by senior principal scientist, CSIR-IITR, VP Sharma. We should consider ourselves lucky that we are a part of industrial development, but we have to adopt a recycling policy for the waste disposal of industrialisation so that environment can be sustainable and more secure, he said. Project coordinator, Regional Science City, Raj Adityanath sure of achieving ODF target hief Minister Yogi CAdityanath announced that the state was on the track to achieve Open Defecation Free status by October 2, 2018, a year ahead of the national deadline of October The CM s remark came after reviewing the status of Modi government s flagship Swachh Bharat Abhiyan in Uttar Pradesh, during which he interacted with District Magistrates across the state through video conferencing from Lucknow on Monday evening. Secretary of Union ministry for Drinking Water and Sanitation Uma Bharti was also present along with UP Chief Secretary Rajeev Kumar and other senior officials. Asking DMs to take responsibility and involve all sections of the society in the mission, Yogi directed them to spend at least one hour every day on monitoring the mission s progress. He highlighted the importance of making the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, a people s movement and not just a government programme. Swachh Bharat Abhiyan was launched in 2014 by the Union government which aimed at achieving the target of Open Defecation Free India by October 2, 2019, when India will observe 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. Women s panel to hold public hearings Lucknow (PNS): Uttar Pradesh Women s Commission will hold public hearings to provide speedy justice and curb women exploitation in districts from June 6. Commission sources said that public hearing and review meetings will be held in Gautam Buddhanagar (Noida), Allahabad, Agra and Faizabad around 11 am on June 6. Senior administrative officers nominated by District Magistrates, top police officers and women police station in-charges will be present there to provide swift justice. Women s Welfare Minister Rita Bahuguna Joshi instructed officials concerned to provide relief to victims swiftly and digitise all records as soon as possible. Students of Pioneer Montessori School taking part in an awareness programme on the occasion of World Environment Day Pioneer Lucknow (PNS): Union Minister of State for Energy RK Singh said that UP had made rapid strides in rural electrification in the last one year. He said that his ministry had so far provided Rs 6,946 crore to the UP government for Deen Dayal Gram Jyoti Yojana and Rs 5,320 crore under Integrated Power Development Scheme. The Union minister was reviewing work in rural electrification through video conferencing with officials of several states on Tuesday. Singh said that most villages in the state had been electrified under Deen Dayal scheme but some villages and hamlets were yet to be provided with connections. He said that there was no shortage of Mehrotra shed light on World Environment Day. He advised students to monitor environmental activities. Meanwhile, Isha Foundation and Rally for Rivers volunteers gathered in large numbers at key locations to undertake a clean-up drive and raise awareness for an urgent policy to ban single-use plastics. They also distributed paper bags among people and convinced them to shun the use of polybags. National Botanical Research Institute also celebrated World Patanjali to shift proposed food park out of UP ven as the Union govern- has given a month s Ement time to UP asking why the proposal for mega food park in Greater Noida cannot be rejected, Patanjali has announced to shift the project to some other state. Acharya Balkrishna of Patanjali Ayurved Limited tweeted to declare that Patanjali would shift its planned food park from UP. Earlier, secretary of Food Processing Industry department secretary JP Meena had issued notice to the UP government asking as why the proposal of mega food park in greater Noida could not be rejected. It further said that government was forced to take this decision because the state government had not allotted adequate land for the proposed park. The Akhilesh government had entered an MoU with Patanjali Industries promising around 450 acres of land. In one year, the Yogi government failed to provide the promised land, forcing the Centre to ask why the project should not be called off. Rural electrification: UP s achievements lauded power in any part of the country and PSUs like National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) and National Hydro Power Corporation (NHPC) were generating adequate power. The Union minister said that his ministry was also working on several proposals for setting up solar power plants in UP and had received proposals for solar plants in Jalaun, Allahabad, Mirzapur and Akbarpur in Kanpur Dehat district. Singh said that during four years of NDA regime, fresh power generation capacity of one lakh MW was created and power transmission network was also strengthened with additional one lakh circuit KM being added during this period. Environment Day. Environment activist Anil Prakash Joshi was the chief guest on the occasion. Senior principal scientist, CSIR- NBRI, Vivek Pandey, discussed the importance of World Environment Day and highlighted this year s theme: Beat Plastic Pollution. Awadh Growers Association implemented a green initiative titled Beej to encourage children and adults to plant fruit trees on the occasion. The idea is to eat local fruit, save their seeds of locally grown fruits like mango, litchi and jamun and plant their trees. World Environment Day was also celebrated at Amity University, Lucknow campus and as a call was given for individuals to take charge of their surroundings and realise the severity of plastic use. Turtle Survival Alliance and the Uttar Pradesh Forest department collaborated to conduct an awareness programme in Kukrail Forest Reserve. The aim was to raise awareness about how increasing levels of ticking to his gun that the BJP Scould succeed in 2019 Lok Sabha polls only if the party vigorously pursued the agenda of economic and political empowerment of Most Backward Castes (MBCs), Suheldeo Bharatiya Samaj Party (SBSP) chief Om Prakash Rajbhar on Tuesday said the quota within quota for MBCs would prove to be a brahmastra for the BJP. Rajbhar is also a minister in the Yogi Adityanath Cabinet. Reiterating his stand that the BJP has alienated the MBCs by choosing to select an upper caste Chief Minister, Rajbhar said that the quota within quota was the only hope left for the BJP to woo backwards in the elections. If there is no quota within quota for MBCs and for Dalits, then tough days are ahead for the BJP, felt Rajbhar. He said that the Chief Minister announced implementation of quota within quota in UP Assembly, but nothing had happened so far. Rajbhar said that the ball was expected to be set rolling after National Backward CITYBRIEFS plastic use and pollution continues to wreak havoc on environment and natural resources, eventually jeopardising lives on the planet. Besides, a seminar was organised at the new auditorium of RDSO. Director Margoob Hussain, additional director general HK Singh and others delivered lectures. Two films related to the occasion were also screened. A stall of LED bulbs and tubelights was also set up for sale at governmentapproved rates. Meanwhile, Roti-Kapda Foundation celebrated World Environment Day with underprivileged people in Gomti Nagar Extension and made slumdwellers aware about pollution hazards. Meanwhile, Lucknow Metro gifted saplings to commuters. The drive was held at Transport Nagar, Krishna Nagar, Alambagh bus stand and Charbagh stations. Several varieties of plants were distributed by LMRC officials to the commuters. The campaign, led by LMRC managing director Kumar Keshav, saw several green activities. Rajbhar suggests BJP to woo MBCs for 2019 victory RUP OFFICE-BEARERS MEETING National president of Rashtra Utthan Party (RUP) Laxmi Narain stressed that the problems faced by the common man have not ended and instead they have only transformed with time, rendering the masses vulnerable. Narain was addressing a meeting of party office-bearers and workers at Kamta area of Chinhat in Lucknow on Tuesday evening. The former IG of UP Police highlighted that despite being an independent nation for more than seven decades, the benefits of government schemes were yet to reach the last man. We are still faced with poverty, corruption, unemployment, chaos and most importantly uncertainty.courts take years to dispose of cases and the law and order machinery caters only to the people with right connections. What is more, despite being a strong country, our neighbours keep on needling us due to inappropriate counter measures from the political dispensation, the RUP president said. Narain said that the need of the hour was to empower individuals in the right direction which could ensure comprehensive planning and all round development of the country and its people. Prominent among those who attended the meeting were retired IAS officers PK Singh and AK Damele,retired IPS officer MG Singh, Additional Director - Prosecution Avinash Srivastava and social workers Rahul Dwivedi and Anurag Dube. ENVIRONMENT DAY Commission s report which was due to be released this month. The Rohini-Kulkurni Committee report is slated to be submitted on June 20. This should pave way for the quota within quota for MBCs. Besides, BJP chief Amit Shah also informed me that it would be implemented six months before Lok Sabha polls, he said. The SBSP chief said that OBCs had the highest share in the population of around 56 per cent in UP and their vote share in each of the 80 Lok Sabha seats was around 5-6 lakh. The BJP needs to address aspirations of MBCs, who have been denied the benefit of quota in the last three decades. The only solution to these issues was quota within quota for MBCs. If we work on them, then the BJP would be in very comfortable position in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, Rajbhar commented. There is no rift within the alliance in the state after my open criticism of the BJP and the government. The SBSP is committed to continuing with the BJP till 2024 and there is no question of parting ways, the SBSP chief stressed. World Environment Day was celebrated at Modern Coach Factory on Tuesday. Several functions were organised starting with the plantation of a sapling by general manager Rajesh Agarwal. As many as 2,500 saplings were planted on the occasion. A seminar on environmental issues and challenges was also organised at TTC auditorium. Under corporate social responsibility, PNB Prerna head Banita Jha planted a sapling in regional and circle office premises on the occasion of World Environment Day

5 LUCKNOW WEDNESDAY JUNE 6, 2018 nation 05 Def Min: Will hit back at unprovoked attacks No shortage of funds for modernisation of armed forces, says Nirmala Sitharaman efence Minister Nirmala DSitharaman on Tuesday said the Army will honour the ongoing suspension of antimilitancy operations in Jammu & Kashmir during the holy month of Ramzan, but it has the freedom to hit back in case of unprovoked attack. She also stressed that there is no shortage of funds for the modernisation of armed forces and for ammunition for them. Asserting that terror and talks cannot go on with Pakistan, the Minister said the Army was consulted before the ceasefire was announced on May 17 by the Home Ministry. She revealed Home Minister Rajnath Singh had also talked to her. Addressing a Press conference to highlight the achievements of the Defence Ministry in the last four years of the NDA Government, Sitharaman said the Army was given the right to adequately respond to any cross border attacks or unprovoked attack. Her assurance came against the backdrop of Pakistan continuing to violate ceasefire even after the Directors General of Military Operations (DGMO) of two countries last week agreed to abide by the 2003 ceasefire understanding in letter and spirit. Moreover, at least 12 grenade attacks on security forces and innocent civilians took place in the last one week despite the ongoing halting of operations against terrorists during the Ramzan. RaGa hits out at Govt for making empty slogans New Delhi: Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday used a media report to hit out at the Government for making empty slogans and accused it of asking soldiers to buy their own clothes and shoes. The report, which has, however, been denied officially by the Defence Ministry, claimed the Army is seeking to cut 50 per cent supply from state-run ordnance factories. Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Defence Secretary Sanjay Mitra categorically denied the charge. The media report claimed that the Indian Army has decided to cut down its supplies from state-owned ordnance factories and ensure that the money is instead spent on procuring adequate stock of critical ammunition and spares. MAKE (empty slogans and useless acronyms) IN INDIA... Meanwhile, make our soldiers buy their own clothes and shoes, Rahul said on Twitter. The report further claimed that supplies such as clothing (combat dress, berets, belts, shoes) to soldiers will be hit due to the move and soldiers will have to spend their own money to buy uniforms and other clothes from civilian markets. PNS It is our duty to keep our borders safe. We shall be alert and ensure that no unprovoked attacks go without us responding. It is the duty of the Defence Ministry and the forces to keep India safe, Sitharaman said. Asked if cessation of antiterrorist operations will be extended after Ramzan, she said, It is only announced for Ramzan. Fielding another question whether ongoing ceasefire is successful or not, Sitharaman said the Defence Ministry s role is not to assess it. On the possibility of engaging Pakistan in dialogue, the Minister reiterated External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj s comments that talks and terror cannot go hand-in-hand. As regards reports of shortage of funds impacting modernisation and critical paucity of ammunition to even fight a ten-day intense war, Sitharman stressed there was no such shortage now and adequate funds in capital and revenue outlay were provided during the last four year of the NDA EXTENSIONOFBANONSIMI m Army was consulted before the ceasefire was announced on May 17 by the Home Ministry m It is our duty to keep our borders safe. We shall be alert and ensure that no unprovoked attacks go without us responding. It is the duty of the Defence Ministry and the forces to keep India safe, Nirmala Sitharaman said m The Defence Minister said capital outlay of `90,640 crore for procuring weapons and honour contractual obligations for the financial year was the highest since 2004 m On allegations of corruption in the Rafale fighter deal worth over seven billion Euros, Sitharaman categorically rejected the charge and said there was absolutely no scandal Government. She claimed the shortages were a legacy of the previous regime from 2004 onwards. Backing her assertion with figures, the Defence Minister said capital outlay of `90,640 crore for procuring weapons and honour contractual obligations for the financial year was the highest since The second highest was in The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) and Standing Committee of Parliament in the last few months had flagged concern over critical shortages. On allegations of corruption in the Rafale fighter deal worth over seven billion Euros, Sitharaman categorically rejected the charge and said there was absolutely no scandal. Without naming the Congress, the Minister said false comparisons were made between the price at which India was procuring the jets and the price being negotiated by some other countries adding allegations very clear case of motivated attacks. TRS, TMC s federal front idea is actually plan B of BJP: CPI erming TMC chief Mamata TBanerjee as undemocratic, CPI General Secretary S Sudhakar Reddy on Tuesday said she can t be the part of the Opposition alliance against the CPI General Secretary S Sudhakar Reddy BJP, an assertion indicating the inherent difficulties in the road Lok Sabha polls. The TRS idea ahead for the Opposition to join of a federal front is only a plan hands to take on a common foe. B of the BJP, Reddy said. The He said the TRS and the TMC s Left party also decided to protest plans to float a Federal Front are the recent fuel price hike on actually a plan B of the BJP and June 20. CPI National Council the Opposition needs to forge Secretaries Dr K Narayana and State-based alliances to take on D Raja were also present in the the saffron party in press conference. The party After a two-day meet of the asked all its units to conduct an CPI national executive, Reddy awareness campaign in August expressed satisfaction over the to expose the misdeeds of the party s initiative to unite all secular democratic forces to defeat It also decided to take out Modi Government. the BJP. We were one of the protest marches from four corners of the country with the first parties to say that the need of the hour is to have a Statebased alliance of secular demo- Save the Nation. The marches, slogan Save the Constitution, cratic parties to defeat the BJP. which will begin in September We have been proved right. and culminate in the first week All Opposition parties should of October, will be led by senior chalk out a strategy for the 2019 leaders of the party. ighly polluting industries, Hwith majority of them being in Prime Minister Narendra Modi s home State Gujarat, have been found to be defying green norms blatantly, according to a report released on Tuesday on the World Environment Day on Tuesday. Non-compliance of environment standards by the highly polluting industries has increased by over 100 per cent between 2010 and 2014, said the report State of Environment Report India 2015, which was released by Union Environment Minister Harsh Vardhan at an event here to mark the D-day. Gujarat, at per cent, tops the distribution of hazardous waste in the country, followed by Maharashtra (25.16 per cent), Andhra Pradesh (19.71 per cent) and Chhattisgarh (4.74 per cent), said the report which also raised concerns over land contamination and hazardous waste in India. According to the report, in 2014, the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) identified 3,266 units under 17 categories of Highly Polluting Industries (HPI) out of which 2,328 are compliant, 571 industries are non-compliant and 367 industries have been closed down. The report shows that while there were 253 noncomplying HPI in 2010, it increased to 571 by Comparative analysis of compliance status of 17 categories of highly polluting industries for the period rime Minister Narendra PModi on Tuesday said development can be environment-friendly and may not come at the cost of green assets, while asserting that India s traditions long stressed the importance of living in harmony with nature. Plastic pollution is now entering into our food chain. Per capita plastic consumption in India is much lower than many parts of the developed world. Our national mission on cleanliness and 'Swachchh Bharat Abhiyan' has a special focus on plastic waste management, he said at the plenary session of an event organised at Vigyan Bhavan here on World Environment Day. India is hosting the Centre seeks States opinion ferred, if any, may be provided objectives, then the charge to this Ministry, the letter sheet would have to contain the ith the five-year ban sent by Joint Secretary in the reference to such violation of Wimposed on the terror home ministry SCL Das said. Act. This is important since the outfit Students Islamic Cases registered on or after evidence of such activities in Movement of India (SIMI) under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act coming to an end on January 31, 2019, the February 1, 2014, and their status which can stand judicial scrutiny, any other relevant information concerning SIMI the form of FIRs and charge sheets are required to be produced before the Tribunal, the communication said. Centre has written to State along with the State The SIMI was established Governments seeking an update on the activities of SIMI so that a final call can be taken on the continuation of ban imposed on it beyond January next year. The Centre is expected to demand for extension of ban for another five years. The first ban was imposed on 2001, after the role of SIMI modules and sleeper cells in several bomb blasts and anti-national activities were found. aforesaid organisation is still indulging in unlawful activity and other activities prejudicial to the integrity and internal security of the nation or with a potential to threaten the secular fabric of the country, the relevant material covering cases under the Act registered before February 1, 2014, and their latest Government s assessment and recommendation for a fresh ban may be furnished and a nodal officer may also be nominated for regular interaction and follow up, it said. The Home Ministry said it is essential to watch the activities of SIMI and if its membership continues then ipso facto a case of unlawful activity under the law is made out. If this organisation and its on April 25, 1977, in Uttar Pradesh s Aligarh, and the organisation mooted the agenda of liberating India by converting it into an Islamic country. In most of the cases registered by NIA, many SIMI activists are found as accused and languishing in jails for series of bomb blasts for the past two decades. After the ban many SIMI members have floated many organisations to In case the State status indicating persons members commit offences in evade from the actions of Government finds that the convicted, released, appeal pre- furtherance of their aims and agencies. Industries defying green norms: Report Non-compliance of environment standards by the highly polluting industries increased by over 100% between 2010 and 2014 m Gujarat, at per cent, tops the distribution of hazardous waste in the country, followed by Maharashtra (25.16 per cent), Andhra Pradesh (19.71 per cent) and Chhattisgarh (4.74 per cent) m The report shows that while there were 253 noncomplying Highly Polluting Industries in 2010, it increased to 571 by indicates that 71 per cent of the total industries have adequate pollution control facilities to ensure compliance with regulations, and this trend remains unchanged in the same period. However, the percentage of non-compliance has increased from 10 per cent in 2010 to 17 per cent in 2014, stated the report. It said that non-compliance with regulations mandating pollution technology has been rising in cement, distilleries, iron and steel, power plants and sugar industries. As of 2014, the report says, there are 3,260 highly polluting industries of which only 929 industrial units have installed pollution controlled devices, and 920 industrial units have installed 24X7 real-time monitoring systems. According to experts, compliance with the emission standards had always been at the back-foot in India. In December 2015, the Government issued new emission standards for coal fired power plants, with December 2017 as deadline for compliance. However to the date, not a single of 160 power plant or the around 400 units comply. World Environment Day this year with the theme 'Beat Plastic Pollution.' Our experience shows that development can be environment friendly and it need not come at the cost of our green assets, he pointed out. Noting that India is the fastest growing economy in the world today, he said, We are committed to rising the standards of living of our people and to ensure that we do so in a way that is sustainable and green. The Prime Minister said as part of Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC), India is committed to reducing per cent of emission intensity of its GDP during He said India is also on track to meet the nationally determined contribution and we are fter getting interim pro- from arrest from Atection the 2G Court till July 10, former Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Tuesday appeared before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for more than seven hours of interrogation in the Aircel- Maxis case. It is learnt that Chidambaram told to the investigators that he was not actually aware of the value of Foreign Direct Investment by Maxis and he only approved it after the proposal was vetted by officers in the Finance Ministry. He was evasive on many questions posed by investigators, sources said. After coming out from the ED s office, Chidambaram s countries look for ways Ato tackle the rising plastic menace, a UN environment report has favoured doling out financial incentives to change the habits of consumers, retailers and manufacturers as well as enacting strong policies that push for better design and production of this miracle material that has become huge environmental and health hazards. It is estimated that one1 to 5 trillion plastic bags are consumed worldwide each year five trillion is almost 10 million plastic bags per minute. When discarded in landfills or in the environment, plastic can take up to a thousand years to decompose, said the report Single-use Plastics: A Roadmap for Sustainability released on Tuesday to mark the World Environment Day. It warned that if current consumption patterns and waste management practices continue, then by 2050 there will be around 12 billion tonnes of plastic litter in landfills and the environment. However, the countries are taking steps to tackle the crisis, said the first-of-its-kind accounting which noted that the Governments were increasing the pace of implementation and the scope of action to combat the use of single-use plastics. Among the recommendations were specific actions policy makers can take to improve waste management, promote proud to be the global host of World Environment Day. Our motto is more crop per drop. We are already the 5th largest producer of Solar energy in the World. Not also this we are the 6th largest producer of renewable energy in m As of 2014, the report said there are 3,260 highly polluting industries of which only 929 industrial units have installed pollution controlled devices, and 920 industrial units have installed 24X7 realtime monitoring systems m Compliance with the emission standards had always been at the back-foot in India m In December 2015, the Government issued new emission standards for coal fired power plants, with December 2017 as deadline for compliance. However to the date, not a single of 160 power plant or the around 400 units comply Wholesome policies needed to do away with plastic: UN eco-friendly alternatives, educate consumers, enable voluntary reduction strategies and successfully implement bans or levies on the use and sale of single-use plastics. The assessment shows that action can be painless and profitable - with huge gains for people and the planet that help avert the costly downstream costs of pollution, said Head of UN Environment Erik Solheim in the report s foreword. Plastic isn t the problem. It s what we do with it, he added. Among the key findings, the report states that Government levies and bans - where properly planned and enforced - have been among the most effective strategies to limit overuse of disposable plastic products. The report recognises that single-use plastic waste generation and waste management practices differ across regions. The report also noted that the Governments around the world are increasingly awake to the scale of plastic pollution with more than 60 countries, including India have introduced bans and levies to curb single-use plastic waste. While no single measure against pollution will be equally effective everywhere, the authors outlined ten universal steps such as targeting the most problematic single-use plastics, best actions to tackle the problem, assess the potential social, economic and environmental impacts and engaging key stakeholder groups to ensure broad buy-in among others. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Harsh Vardhan, and Minister of State, MoEF&CC Mahesh Sharma, release stamps at the Plenary Session of World Environment Day, in New Delhi on Tuesday PTI Ex-Finance Minister P Chidambaram arrives at the Enforcement Directorate office, in New Delhi on Tuesday PTI said all answers I gave to ED were already recorded in Government documents related to Aircel-Maxis deal. There is no FIR and no offence is alleged, yet there is a probe, he said. The senior Congress leader arrived at the agency s headquarter annexe office about 11 am and was accompanied by a lawyer. He left around 3 pm for lunch break and joined back with the investigation team after an hour. He left the office by 7 pm. Earlier, Chidambaram s lawyers led by Congress leader Abhishek Singhvi argued for anticipatory bail in the trial court but the ED counsel said that they need time to reply on Chidambaram s petition. Special Judge OP Saini posted the case to July 10, directing that the agency should not opt coercive action till then. On Wednesday, the former Finance Minister is expected to appear before the CBI in connection with INX Media probe. m A UN environment report has favoured doling out financial incentives to change the habits of consumers, retailers and manufacturers m It is estimated that one1 to 5 trillion plastic bags are consumed worldwide each year five trillion is almost 10 million plastic bags per minute. When discarded in landfills or in the environment, plastic can take up to a thousand years to decompose m Governments around the world are increasingly awake to the scale of plastic pollution with more than 60 countries, including India have introduced bans and levies to curb single-use plastic waste. m Authors outlined ten universal steps such as targeting the most problematic single-use plastics, best actions to tackle the problem, assess the potential social, economic and environmental impacts and engaging key stakeholder groups to ensure broad buy-in among others Development can be environment-friendly: PM India s traditions long stressed the importance of living in harmony with nature Chidambaram appears before ED in Aircel-Maxis the World, Modi added. He also pointed out that Our choices today will define our collective future. Let us build strong partnerships, make the right choices and make our future cleaner as well as greener. The quest for material prosperity cant lead to environmental degradation. We must remember that an unclean environment hurts the poor and vulnerable the most. Earlier, executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Erik Solheim who is in India to participate in plastic awareness events organised across the country appreciated the role that India was playing in fighting problems of climate change and environmental degradation. He also lauded the Prime Minister for his willingness to tackle these challenges. He is a global leader in tackling climate change. President Xi of China, President Macron of France and Prime Minister Modi have set up the International Solar Alliance, he said. INSHORT CBI GRILLS JINDAL IN CORRUPTION CASE New Delhi: Industrialist and former Congress MP Naveen Jindal has been questioned by the CBI in connection with a 2014 case registered by probe agency against Jindal Steel and Power Limited among others for alleged cheating and corruption. RAHUL GANDHI TO MEET KINS OF MP FARMERS New Delhi/Mandsaur: Congress president Rahul Gandhi will meet family members of the farmers killed in police firing during an agitation in Mandsaur in Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday and address a farmers' rally. IAF RESCUES THREE ISRAELIS FROM HP New Delhi: Air Force rescued three Israeli nationals after their vehicle fell down a gorge on the way to Rohtang pass in Himachal and one of them later succumbed to injuries.

6 LUCKNOW WEDNESDAY JUNE 6, 2018 nation 06 IAF pilot killed in Guj Jaguar crash PNS n GANDHINAGAR enior pilot of the Indian Air SForce (IAF) Air Commodore Sanjay Chauhan killed in a plane crash near Mundra town of bordering Kutch district of Gujarat during a routine training session on Tuesday morning. Chauhan left early in a Jaguar Fighter Jet from Jamnagar airbase and flew through Bay of Kutch before the site along with their cows the fighter plane crashed at witness the incident. open grassland of Beraja village near Mundra town at around in the morning. Impact of the crashed plane on the ground was so intense that its debris strewn all over the place, said an eye witness. A Jaguar aircraft on a routine training mission from Thousands of people from nearby areas assembled as the news of aircraft crash spread in the area like wildfire. Volunteers of Mahavir Pashu Raksha did commendable work to give primary The commodore expired in a high impact crash, Jamnagar crashed. The pilot sustained fatal injuries during which also killed at least a dozen cows grazing the crash. Court of inquiry has at ground zero and injured several others been ordered to investigate cause of the incident, said Lt Col Manish Ojha, defence spokesperson, Gujarat confirming about the tragedy. Meanwhile local sources in Mundra area informed that at least a dozen cows killed and eight sustained serious injurious as the plane crash at place where cows were grazing. According to volunteers of some NGOs working for animals the death toll of cows might go high as some carcasses charred and it was difficult to count the exact figure. Entire area has been cordoned by IAF personnel. Three helicopters rushed to the site along with IAF staff within few minutes of the incident. Shepherds who were present at treatment to injured cows and they also made arrangement to take some of the seriously injured cows to nearby animal hospitals. It is worth mentioning that important Mundra Port is few kilometres away from the site of the plane crash. Kandla Port, one of the biggest Indian ports is around 70 km. Hectic lobbying on in HDK-led coalition for Cabinet expansion KESTUR VASUKI n BENGALURU he HD Kumaraswamy-led TCongress-JD(S) collation Government is witnessing hectic lobbying ahead of the Cabinet expansion on Wednesday. Many Congress aspirants for the berths are in Delhi waiting for Congress president Rahul Gandhi s U.P. Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Ltd. Obra Tharmal Power Station, OBRA- Sonebhadra, - Notice Inviting e-bid Tender No. SE(MMC- II)/CPD-IV/CH-289/18-19 Online e-bids are invited for the manufacturing and Supply of Synthetic Rubber Hose Pipe for BTPS, OBRA, Sonebhadra (U.P). Last date of online e-bid submission is 28/06/2018 (18:00 Hrs) and Technical Bid (Part-I) will be opened or 30/06/2018 at 16:30 Hrs or later. Estimated Cost or supply is approximately Rs Lac Only. The E.M.D and Tender cost is Rs. 9000/- and Rs.236/- respectively. Detailed specification, terms and condition are as per tender document available on the e- procurement site. Bid shall be accepted online only on website Information related to extension in due dates and corrigendum if any shall be uploaded only on the above website. Bidders are advised to visit the website on regular basis in order to keep the themselves updated.super- INTENDING ENGINEER (MMC-II, BTPS, OBRA) Notice Invitating e-bid Tender No. T-10 /SE-V/AHD-II(02) /BTPS/ Online e-bids are invited for the Works of segregating the ash/clinker from ESP floor & bottom ash hoppers area and, cutting of grasses and bushes, removing of ash/soil from ash disposal line trenches of Ash Handling Division 2x200MW, BTPS Obra. The following detail given as:- S.N. 1. Description E-tender has been uploaded on UP Govt. e-tender portal Date 26/05/2018 Time 09:00 Hrs. S.N. 2. Description Last Date and Time For Submission Of e- Bids (Technical and Financial)at e-procurement website: Date 23/06/2018 Time 18:00 Hrs. S.N. 3. Description Last Date and Time For Submission Of Hardcopy of: Requisite Documents in the Office of Undersigned Date 25/06/2018 Time 17:00 Hrs. S.N. 4. Description Date And Time Of Opening Of e-bids Date Part- I: 26/06/2018 Time 16:00 Hrs. S.N. 5. Description Estimated Cost of work will be approximately Rs.3,55, ( Rs.Three Lakh Fifty Five Thousand Sixty Nine only) S.N. 6. Description Earnest Money Rs (Rs. Seven Thousand only) S.N. 7. Description Bid Document Cost (Tender Cost) (Rs.Two Hundred Ninety Six only including GST) Total stamp for the list of candidates. Meanwhile, lobbying has also reached a peak for plum posts. According to sources in the Congress, Rahul Gandhi has asked senior leaders to work for the party which has sent shock waves and uneasy calm amongst them. It may be recalled that SR Patil, one of the working president of the Quantity of work, tender specification and other terms & condition is as per tender document available on the e-tender portal. It may please be noted that this is online bid and shall be accepted online only on website etender.up.nic.in. Information related to extension in due dates and corrigendum if any shall be uploaded only or the above website. Bidders are advised to visit the website on regular basis in order to keep themselves update. SUPERIN- TENDING ENGINEER, O&MMC-V Notice Invitating e-bid Tender No. T-11 /SE-V/AHD-II(03)/ BTPS/ Online e-bids are invited for the Works for marking and turning of Ash Disposal Pipe Line 12-1 &12-2, from ash disposal pump house to Chakari Village of 2x200MW "B"TPS, Obra. The following detail given as:- S.N. 1. Description E-tender has been uploaded on UP Govt. e- tender portal nic.in Date 26/05/2018 Time 09:00 Hrs. S.N. 2. Description Last Date and Time For Submission Of e-bids (Technical and Financial) at e-procurement website: Date 23/06/2018 Time 18:00 Hrs. S.N. 3. Description Last Date and Time For Submission Of Hardcopy of: Requisite Documents in the Office of Undersigned Date 25/06/2018 Time 17:00 Hrs. S.N. 4. Description Date And Time Of opening Of e-bids Date Part-I: 26/06/2018 Time 16:00 Hrs. S.N. 5. Description Estimated Cost of work will be approximately Rs.5,90, ( Rs. Five Lakh Ninety Thousand Six Hundred Twenty Five only) S.N. 6. Description Earnest Money Rs.11, (Rs. Eleven Thousand Five Hundred only) S.N. 7. Description Bid Document Cost (Tender Cost) Rs ( Rs. Five Hundred Ninety only including GST) Total Quantity of work, tender specification and other terms & condition is as per tender document available on the e-tender portal. It may please be noted that this is online bid and shall be accepted online only on website Information related to extension in due dates and corrigendum if any shall be uploaded only or the above website. Bidders are advised to visit the website on regular basis in order to keep themselves update. SUPERIN- TENDING ENGINEER, Rs O&MMC-V No. 135 Date SAVE ELECTRICITY IN THE INTREST OF NATION KPCC, had resigned owning moral responsibility of the party in the north of Karnataka. However, the source claimed Patil a senior Lingayat leader from North Karnataka was un happy about the decision of the party not to include senior leaders in the ministry. It is learnt that former chief minister Siddaramaiah, senior leader Mallikharjuna Kharge are lobbying for their sons who have won the battle. RV Dehspande and many other leaders are in Delhi lobbying for their inclusion in the ministry. According to sources Congress leadership is also in a fix over including Congress strongman and a vokkaliga leader DK Shivakumar who THAROOR TO BE... It may be noted that on May 14, the Delhi Police had accused the Lok Sabha MP from Thiruvananthapuram of abetting Pushkar s suicide and told a city court that he should be summoned as an accused in the four-and-half year-old case, claiming there was sufficient evidence against him. The Special Investigation Team (SIT) of South district has chargesheeted Tharoor under Sections 306 and 498A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). The charge pertained to abetment to suicide and cruelty to wife, which entails a jail term that could extend up to 10 years. In a nearly 3,000-page chargesheet, police have named Tharoor as the only accused while also alleging that he had subjected his wife to cruelty. It has also urged the court to summon Tharoor as an accused. An FIR was registered by the Delhi Police on January 1, 2015 against unknown persons under IPC Section 302 (murder). According to prosecution sources, the chargesheet mentions that Pushkar was allegedly subjected to mental as well as physical cruelty. Tharoor has not been arrested in the case. Pushkar, 51, was found dead in a hotel suite under highly mysterious circumstances on January 17, 2014, days after she alleged that her husband was having an affair with a Pakistani journalist. The cause of Pushkar s death was poisoning. A total of 27 tablets of Alprax were found in her room but it was not clear how many she had consumed. The couple s domestic servant, Narayan Singh, has been named one of the key witnesses in the case. The Delhi Police on Tuesday said it has professionally investigated the charges against Shashi Tharoor and will defend them in court after the Congress leader was summoned as an accused by a Delhi court in the case related to his wife Sunanda Pushkar s death. Special Commissioner of All eyes on Shah-Uddhav meet today BJP aims to mend fences, renew ties with Sena before 2019 LS polls TN RAGHUNATHA n MUMBAI ithin days after the two Wsaffron alliance partners had a bitter showdown in the Palghar Lok Sabha bypoll, BJP s national president Amit Shah will meet Sena president Uddhav Thackeray here on Wednesday evening, in an apparent effort to mend fences with the long-aggrieved ally and renew the electoral ties between the two parties for the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. Confirming Wednesday s meeting between Shah and Uddhav at the latter s Matoshri residence at Bandra in north-west Mumbai, Sena s spokesperson and MP Sanjay Raut said: Shah sought an appointment for a meeting our party president. Uddhavji has agreed to meet him tomorrow evening Traditionally speaking, visitors are always welcome at Matoshri. Asked as to what is the purpose of Shah s meeting with Uddhav, Raut said: Only the BJP president will be able to tell as to what is the purpose of the meeting. As far as we are concerned, we have no agenda for guarded the MLAs against poaching. The party fears that the IT raids over DK Shivakumar, his brother DK Suresh a Member of Parliament and their associates has put them in a fix over including them in to ministry fearing arrests by the CBI. The party sources claim that associates of Shivakumar and DK Suresh were recently raided in connection with the money exchange racket during demonetisation time in 2017 might lead to his arrest. CBI raided 10 places including in Bengaluru, Kanakapura and in Ramangara on May 31. In a press conference Shivakumar and his brother Suresh directly blamed BJP government at CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Police and chief spokesperson Dependra Pathak, said, We have investigated the case professionally. We will defend the case in the court and do a proper follow-up of the court proceedings. SC/ST QUOTA... The Bench told ASG Singh that the State or the Centre has to present data on the above criteria as laid down under Nagaraj judgment and implement promotion. While passing its order, the Bench further clarified, It is made clear that the Union of India is not debarred from making promotions in accordance with law, subject to further orders, pending further consideration of the matter. The matter is expected to be heard after vacation. The Centre s appeal (Jarnail Singh v Lachmi Narain Gupta) on which the May 17 order was passed is yet to be referred to the Constitution Bench. Interestingly, similar matters about promotion of SC/ST in reservation were referred to a Constitution Bench by a three-judge bench in State of Maharashtra vs Vijay Ghogre on November 15, In granting reservation in promotion to SC/ST, the Nagaraj decision is definitely a stumbling block. Realising this, the Centre had moved the Constitution (117th Amendment) Bill, 2012 that sought to nullify Nagaraj decision and do away with the procedure of quantifying data on backwardness of SC/ST is yet to be passed by Parliament. The Bill was passed by the Rajya Sabha on December 17, 2012 and awaits clearance from the Lok Sabha. Meanwhile, the Constitution Bench that is to reconsider Nagaraj decision has also not been constituted. IN DRIVE TO... However, senior BJP leader Sudhir Mungantiwar said Shah s meet with Thackeray is a part of the party s Sampark for Samarthan (contact for support) nationwide campaign the meeting. Since it is Shah who has sought an appointment, he will have an agenda for the meeting. Incidentally, Uddhav is the first NDA ally that Shah would be meeting after the party failed to form a government in Karnataka, suffered a setback in Kairana and Bhandara- Gondiya Lok Sabha by-polls and pulled off a victory in the Palghar Lok Sabha by-poll against Shiv Sena with a modest margin of 29,572 votes. After meeting with the Sena chief, Shah will head to Chandigarh on Thursday to meet Akali Dal chief Parkash Singh Badal and his son Sukhbir Badal. On his part, Raut reiterated that there was absolutely no change in the Sena s stand that it would go it alone in all the future polls. The Sena s heart is that of a tiger. It does not waver easily. Uddhavji has already taken a decision. We have already made a beginning by contesting independent of the BJP in the Palghar by-poll. Irrespective of tomorrow s meeting between the leaders of the two parties, I do not think there will be any change in the Sena s stand," the Sena spokesperson said. Aditya Thackeray, Sena s youth wing president and son of Uddhav Thackeray, also chose not to attach much of an importance to Wednesday s meeting between Shah and his father. Today is the world environment day. I do not want the centre for misusing the CBI, Enforcement Directorate and the Income Tax to falsely implicate them. Meanwhile, AICC general secretary in charge of party affairs in Karnataka, KC Venugopal, is in New Delhi with a list of names to get clearance from Rahul Gandhi. According a party senior only 14 members will be inducted in the first phase of expansion from its quota of 21 (excluding deputy chief minister G Parameshwara) which leaves 7 berths vacant from the Congress quota. The governor Vajubhai vala has fixed the swearing in at 2.12 PM on Wednesday. However all is not well within JDs and after many and that it has nothing to do with the recent Lok Sabha bypolls in Palghar and Bhandara-Gondiya seats in Maharashtra. Raut said the Sena showed it can go into the poll battle alone by contesting the recent Palghar Lok Sabha bypoll, despite the fact that it was defeated. We showed that we can fight alone when we contested the Palghar bypoll. We may have lost, however, the message has been sent across. We received lakhs of votes (in Palghar) where we had never contested an election, Raut pointed out while talking to reporters in Mumbai. Raut said the NDA allies were one after the other deserting the BJP. There was angst against the BJP, thus the party might have started a reconciliatory measure, he said. Asked if the Sena will continue with its stand of going solo in all the forthcoming elections, Raut said party chief Thackeray had taken a call on not forging an alliance after due considerations. Despite the overt denouncement by its longest ally, party leaders in the BJP assure that the Sena would stick around with the BJP in the LoK Sabha polls. Some fights are signs of a happy and healthy family there is going to be no divorce, quipped a senior BJP MP from Mumbai. UP GOVT MOOTS... division level, the first prize will be of `20,000, second of `15,000 and third of `10,000 while at state level the award will carry a cash prize of `1 lakh followed by `50,000 and `25,000 as second and third prize respectively. Adani Group bags power project: The Adani group gets the tender to lay transmission line for the Ghatampur Thermal Power project as it piped two other bidders, including the Power Grid Corporation of India. The Cabinet gave its approval in its meeting held on Tuesday. Government spokesman Srikant Sharma said that the bid offered by the to bring in political pollution by talking about tomorrow s meeting, Aditya said, when asked to comment on the impending Shah-Uddhav meeting. Shiv Sena MP Arvind Sawant downplayed the import of Wednesday s meeting between Shah and the Sena President. It looks like a belated realisation for the BJP (that it desperately needs the Shiv Sena as an ally to contest the 2019 Lok Sabha polls). Wednesday s meeting will be the second meeting Shah and Uddhav during the last one year. Shah had met Uddhav on June 18 last year and sought the Sena s support for to the NDA nominee for the presidential poll. Interestingly enough, the BJP had at that time not yet announced the candidature of its nominee Ram Nath Kovind for the presidential poll. Given that there is absolute lack of enthusiasm on the part of both the Sena leadership and the party cadres to ally with the BJP for the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, it remains to be seen as to whether Shah will be able to smooth the Sena s ruffled feathers and win back into its good books, at Wednesday s meeting. Speculation is rife in the state political circles that in his bid to placate the miffed Sena, Shah may offer a Cabinet berth in the expansion of the ministry that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will in all likelihood undertake in July, and the nomination of Sena s man as candidate for the deputy rounds of negotiations with JDs supremo HD Devegowda the party has decided to induct only eight to nine MLAs in the first phase of expansion. Chief Minister Kumaraswamy confirmed this and said: "In the first phase of the cabinet expansion eight to nine members will be inducted in to the cabinet. Two to three vacancies will be filled up later. However he ruled out any differences within the party and said party president HD Devegowda has been given total freedom on the next phase of cabinet expansion. "There are no differences at all among our MLAs over cabinet berths and portfolio allocations. Actually they have given total freedom to the Adani group was 36 per cent less than other bidders. The Adani group will lay 3 lines of 765 KVA and one line of 400 KVA. The project will cost Rs 196 crore and will be completed by 2021, spokesman said. The Ghatampur thermal power project is a joint venture between the UP Power Generation Corporation and Neyveli Lignite Corporation and will have three units of 660 MW each. CBI constable among 2 held for smuggling marijuana Gurugram (PNS): A joint team of Haryana and Uttar Pradesh Police arrested two persons, including a woman, and recovered around 280 kg of marijuana on Monday. The Gurugram Police claimed that the arrested man was posted as a constable with the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). The accused is involved in smuggling of contraband from several parts of UP. The accused has been identified as Rajpal Yadav, a resident of Manesar Village. While the woman hails from Mainpuri in Uttar Pradesh. She has been sent to judicial custody. According to the police, several cases of smuggling were registered with the UP Police. A team of UP Police was investigating the matter. During the probe, UP Police teamteam received a tipoff about the accused hideout and informed the Gurugram police. Following secret information, a joint team of both the state police arrested the duo from Binola Village near Manesar area on Monday while they were carrying the banned substance on a mini truck. Around 280 kg of marijuana, stuffed in several separate bags, was recovered from their possession, Assistant Commissioner of Police (Pataudi) Veer Singh said. chairman s election in Rajya Sabha, which is likely to take place in July this year. The Shiv Sena, which despite sharing power with the BJP in the state and at the Centre has been extremely critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP for the past few years, has traversed too far so as to beat a retreat at this stage. Through its continued attacks on the BJP and Modi, the Sena has tried to occupy the Opposition space in the state even while being in alliance with the Shah-led party. Despite provocations from the Opposition Congress and NCP, the Sena has not walked out the ruling saffron alliance government in the state and Modi-led government at the Centre. Available indications that the Sena will enjoy fruits of power till early next before it severe links with the BJP and contests the Lok Sabha polls on its own strength. Uddhav, who had announced in January this year that his party would contest all the future polls on its own strength, had ticked off the BJP by roping in late BJP sitting MP Chintaman Wanga s Shrinivas and fielding him as his party s candidate in the Palghar bypoll. With no let up in the palpably acute strains in the relations between the two saffron parties, Shah will have a tough task on hand to bring back the relationship between the two parties onto the even keel. national president to select the future cabinet," he told reporters. "On Tuesday, we had a meeting with our MLAs. Our national president advised all MLAs to cooperate with the cabinet for developing the state and providing good governance," he said. Congress won 78 seats and JDs won 37 formed the coalition government to keep the BJP away with 104 members in the fractured mandate. As per the agreement with the partners Congress was allocated home, irrigation, health, agriculture and women child welfare ministries, while JD(S) got finance and excise, public works department, education, tourism and transport ministries. Houses for all is linked with dignity of citizens: Modi rime Minister Narendra PModi on Tuesday said the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) is not merely about bricks and mortar, it is about a better quality of life and fulfilling dreams. The Central Government is working to ensure a home for every Indian by The Awas Yojana is not merely about bricks and mortar. This scheme is about a better quality of life and dreams coming true. We are working towards ensuring that every Indian has a home by 2022, when India marks 75 years of Independence, said Modi, while talking to beneficiaries via NaMo app. This is the third in the series of video-conferencing interactions by the PM with various beneficiaries of the Government schemes. Expressing delight at interacting with beneficiaries, he said such interactions help in understanding various aspects of the scheme, including areas that need to be improved. During the interaction, Modi said the PMAY is linked with the dignity of citizens and the focus of the yojana is to ensure more women, divyang sisters and brothers, SC, ST, OBC, and minority communities get access to housing. The PM said that in the four-year tenure of the NDA Government, over one crore houses have been constructed. Earlier, `70-75,000 were given to the people. But now under the PMAY, we have increased the number to `1.30 lakh, he said. The Government has so far given sanctions to build more than 47 lakh houses in urban areas, which is 4 times more than the sanctions given by the previous Government in 10 years. Emphasising on the Notorious auto-lifter shot dead STAFF REPORTER n NEW DELHI notorious auto lifter was Agunned down in an encounter with Shahdara district police in the wee hours of Tuesday. One of his accomplice was nabbed from the spot while the third accomplice managed to flee the spot. Senior police officials said they were in touch with the neighbouring States police to ascertain the involvement of this gang. It all started after a police team challenged the auto-thieves which resulted in an encounter between a police team and auto lifters in the city's Vivek Vihar area in the early hours of Tuesday. The encounter took place when a police team tailing them came under fire. The auto lifters also tried to overrun two constables with a stolen car. In retaliatory fire, Noor Mohammad was killed, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Shahdara district, Nupur Prasad said. One of Mohammad's associates Ravi was caught while another managed to escape, she said. Noor Mohammad was a resident of Jaipur in Rajasthan, DCP added. An alert was sounded on Delhi Police net about the theft of a Fortuner car from outer Delhi's Miyanwali police station on Monday. The vehicle's Global Positioning System (GPS) showed its location at Jhilmil Colony in Vivek Vihar. Following the information, the police located the vehicle and a team, comprising personnel of the Outer district and Vivek Vihar police, laid a trap to apprehend the auto lifters. Around 3.15 am, a Brezza car stopped near the Fortuner and two persons got down from it and tried to drive it away. The team of the cops which was keeping a watch on the gang's activities tried to overpower them, but a person fired on the police personnel from inside the Brezza car and fled away towards the Yamuna Sports Centre, the DCP said. Ravi was caught from the spot and a loaded country-made pistol was seized, she said. Focus of the PMAY is to ensure more women, divyang sisters and brothers, SC, ST, OBC, and minorities get access to housing Prime Minister changes brought by the present Government in the PMAY, the Prime Minister said that the size of houses built have been increased to 25 square metre from 20 square metres. The Prime Minister said that the current Government is working for all and not limited people. During the UPA Government, beneficiaries were selected through BPL (Below Poverty Line) list. We started doing selection through socio-economic-caste census, with the help of which we added those beneficiaries who were left earlier, the PM said. We have been working to free the housing sector from middlemen, corruption and ensuring that the beneficiaries get their own home without hassles, he added, while stressing upon how with the help of the latest technology, the Government is ensuring faster building of houses for the poor in rural and urban areas at affordable cost. While talking to the beneficiaries from Chhattisgarh, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh and Assam, the Prime Minister also requested them to avoid consuming tobacco and alcohol.

7 LUCKNOW WEDNESDAY JUNE 6, 2018 nation 07 HC OK s Kaala screening, K taka CM miffed PTI n BENGALURU, In an appeal as a ful to the distributor financially. including Rajasthan, early this decided not to allow screening Board of Film Certification and Why unnecessarily by year. of 'Kaala'. KFCC as respondents. 'Kannadiga', Kumaraswamy hief Minister HD requested the distributor of the releasing the movie this kind of "Freedom of speech and Earlier, Additional During the hearing, CKumaraswamy on Tuesday film not to release it in "this kind controversy they wanted to create. expression, particularly as a Advocate General A G Shivanna Dhanush's counsel Chintan backed deferring the release of Rajinikanth-starrer Kaala in of atmosphere". As the State Government, It is not necessary, he said, adding they can release it after medium of expression in films, cannot be curtailed. The creative said there was no ban imposed on the release of 'Kaala' and the Chinnappa argued that it was the fundamental right of the Karnataka after the High Court I have to implement the directions a solution was reached to the content is am insegregable government is prepared to give petitioners under the directed the State Government to provide necessary security for peaceful screening of the of the High Court. That I will take care of. It is my responsibility also. We will Cauvery water sharing issue. Kumaraswamy said Karnataka Film Chambers of aspect of Article 19(1)(a) of the Constitution," the judge said, citing the Supreme Court verdict security to exhibitors if they furnished details. Justice Narendar, however, observed that he can- Constitution to exhibit the film which has received the censor board certification. movie opposed by pro- have to follow the High Court Commerce and several on the release of not make it mandatory on The KFCC had said it had Kannada outfits. Kumaraswamy, however, said the Government would direction," he told reporters here. But, Kumaraswamy said: "According to my observation Kannada organisations were "very much" opposing the release of the movie" and added, the film 'Padmaavat'. The Supreme Court in January had cleared the release exhibitors to screen the film. The court was hearing a petition by Kaala's producer K neither instructed protesters nor the exhibitors to exhibit the film. "The exhibitors and distributors implement the directions of as an individual, not a Chief "they (distributor) must oblige of 'Padmaavat' and had stayed Dhanush and his wife on their own took the the Karnataka High Court which came on a plea by the producers seeking directions for smooth release of the film. Pro-Kannada outfits have threatened to stall the film, set to hit the screens on June 7, over the actor's reported remarks on Minister, as a Kannaidaga...I request the producer or distributor of the movie, in this kind of atmosphere, it is not good on their part to release the movie, he said. Noting that he himself was a film distributor and producer, the opposition from the film chamber and Kannada organisations." In the high court, Justice G Narendar issued the direction citing a Supreme Court order, which had stayed ban orders imposed on the release of Sanjay ban orders imposed by Rajasthan, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Haryana. Miffed with Rajinikanth's reported comments that whichever government coming to power in Karnataka should implement the Supreme Court Aishwarya, son-in-law and daughter of Rajinikanth, who sought directions to the Karnataka government and the KFCC for smooth release of the film. They had made the state government, home department, decision not to screen and release the film, citing security reasons," KFCC president Sa Ra Govindu had said. Many pro-kannada organisations had threatened to vandalise theatres if they screened the film. Earlier, the the Cauvery row involving the JD(S) leader said releas- Leela Bhansali's film order on Cauvery water sharing state police chief, Bengaluru city distributors association said it Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. ing the film would not be use- 'Padmaavat' by four states, in toto, KFCC had on May 29 police commissioner, Central was against the ban. HDK wants to block release but says will follow HC order PTI n BENGALURU n an appeal as a "Kannadiga", IKarnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy on Tuesday requested the distributor of Rajinikanth-starrer Kaala not to release it in "this kind of atmosphere", but said the Government would follow the High Court order on the issue. As the State Government, I have to implement the directions of the High Court. That I will take care of. It is my responsibility also. We will have to follow the High Court direction, he told reporters here. The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday directed the state government to provide necessary security for peaceful release 'Kaala', which pro-kannada TN RAGHUNATHA n MUMBAI fter having questioned ABollywood actor-producer-director Arbaaz Khan, sleuths of the Anti-Extortion Cell (AEC) of the Thane crime branch police are planning to grill film director-television personality Sajid K Khan in connection with the ongoing investigations into the IPL betting scam. Talking to mediapersons at Thane on Tuesday, yesteryear encounter specialist and current AEC in-charge Pradeep Sharma said that Sajid s name figured during the interrogation of key bookie Sonu Yogendra Jalan, alias Sonu Malad, who was arrested on May 29 on various charges, including providing betting software to five other bookies in the metropolis. Sources said that the investigations had revealed that Sajid, the brother of Bollywood director and choreographer Farah Khan, used to bet on cricket matches. Sajid may be summoned for questioning later this week or early next week, a senior police officer said. Sajid (47) is an actor and has also directed films like Hey Babby, Housefull 1, Housefull 2 and others. He has also hosted several television shows. Apart from Jalan, Arbaaz who was questioned for five hours on Saturday last -- outfits had threatened to stall over the actor's reported remarks on the Cauvery row. But Kumaraswamy added, "according to my observation as an individual, not a chief minister, as a Kannaidaga...I request the producer or distributor of the movie, in this kind of atmosphere, it is not good on their part to release the movie," "Even if they release the movie... I know... I'm an experienced person... Basically I am also a film distributor and producer. It will not be useful to them financially. Why unnecessarily by releasing the movie this kind of controversy they wanted to create. It is not necessary," he said. "After there is a solution Union Tourism Minister KJ Alphons during a meeting in Varanasi on Tuesday revealed the names of some Bollywood personalities who were indulging in betting. Arbaaz, who was let off after questioning, is likely to be made an approver in the case. Meanwhile, the CBI, which has investigated the earlier IPL scam, is keeping a close tab of the ongoing investigations into the IPL betting scam by the Thane AEC. A CBI team has contacted us and asked us if it can question or interrogate some of the persons involved in the late3wst IPL scam. As of now, there is absolutely no proposal to hand over the case to the CBI, a senior police officer said. Arbaaz s name had cropped up during the interrogation of Sonu Jalan (41) who was arrested on Tuesday in connection with a massive betting racket that the Dombivli police busted on May 16. The police had arrested four bookies--gautam Savla, Nitin Punjani, Nikhil Sampat, and Khushal Khimji from a shop at Dombivli. Among other things, Arbaaz had told the investigators on June 2 that even though he had placed bets on cricket matches for the past six years, he himself had not indulged in any financial transaction a claim he made apparently to find an escape route from being nailed under the provisions of Bombay in this (Cauvery) water issue then they can release any time," he said. Kumaraswamy said the Karnataka Film Chambers of Commerce and several Kannada organizations were "very much" opposing the release of the movie" and added, "they (distributor) must oblige the opposition from the film chamber and Kannada organizations." Miffed with Rajinikanth's reported comments that whichever government comes to power in Karnataka should implement the Supreme Court order on Cauvery water sharing in toto,the Karnataka Film Chambers of Commerce on May 29 decided not to allow screening of 'Kaala', due for release on June 7. IPL BETTING Arbaaz grilled, director Sajid Khan next on cops radar Prevention of Gambling Act, Arbaaz had also spoken in detail about his relations with Jalan and the threats that he had been receiving from the latter in recent months on the money to the tune of Rs 3 crore that he purportedly owed to the bookie in connection with the bets that he had placed through him and lost. Jalan, who allegedly has links with Karachi-based don Dawood Ibrahim and is a partner in the betting syndicate run by Jr Kolkata, is linked to 80-odd big bookies operating across the country and he also has several celebrities as his clients. He has clients in countries like Afghanistan. Pakistani, South Africa and Saudi Arabia and his gang members run betting rackets in Delhi, Kolkata, Rajasthan and Haryana. Arbaaz is the second film personality to have been linked to betting on cricket. Earlier Bollywood actor Vindoo Dara Singh had been arrested on May 21, 2013for his alleged links with bookies involved in the IPL spot-fixing scam, involving among others the then BCCI chief N Srinivasan s son-in-law and former team principal of Chennai Super Kings (CSK) Gurunath Meiyappan, Pakistani umpire Asad Rauf, 15 bookies from Pakistan and two Dubai-based bookies. Buses demand fare hike, to go off Kolkata roads indefinitely PIONEER NEWS SERVICE n KOLKATA n the wake of rising fuel Iprice and a hopelessly static transport fare mechanism private buses will go off roads of Kolkata from June 7, demanding immediate rise in bus fares. Tapan Banerjee the general secretary of Joint Council of Bus Syndicate said there has been no increase in bus fare for the past 8-9 years but the fuel prices have skyrocketed. In the given circumstances we have no other way to go for an indefinite strike in favour of a reasonable hike in bus fares. The minimum bus fare in PTI MAYABHUSHAN n PANAJI n a major U-turn, the influ- Catholic Church in Iential Goa first claimed that the Constitution was in danger and that mono-culturalism is destroying the social fabric in the country in an annual pastoral letter issued by the Goa Archbishop and a mere 48 hours later, insisted that peripheral contents of the letter were blown out of proportion. The pastoral letter is an annual communication from the Archbishop Fr. Filipe Neri Ferrão, to the numerous parishes in his jurisdiction lines up subjects of concern, listed by the Church and looks at ways and means of addressing them. The letter for , which appeared to mirror the sentiments raised by Delhi Archbishop Anil Couto recently, had said that the Indian Constitution was in danger and that a new trend of mono-culturalism, which requires individuals to eat, dress, live and worship in a prescribed manner was encroaching on human rights. At the time of elections, the candidates confuse the minds of many people by making false promises. And the people, on their part, often sell their precious vote for selfish, petty gain... In this context, particularly as the general elections are fast approaching, we must strive to know our Constitution better and work harder to protect it," Ferrao's pastoral letter said. Today, our Constitution is Kolkata and adjoining districts is Rs 6 for bigger buses and Rs 7 for the mini buses. The syndicate of bus operators has demanded a minimum fare of Rs 9. Buses and mini buses will not ply on June 7. But if the State does not listen to us then the strike will be extended to the districts, he said adding already 60 percent of buses had suspended services on account of losses they were suffering. We cannot take it anymore. While the taxi operators unions were mulling similar steps, the truckers in the State have also announced an indefinite strike from June 18 in line with their national in danger. It is a reason why most of the people live in insecurity, Ferrao also said. Ferrao's comment is significant as he, as Archbishop of Goa, represents Goa's Catholics who form around 26 per cent of the population of India's smallest State. The pastoral letter also claims that mono-culturalism and development were infringing on human rights. "In recent times, we see a new trend emerging in our country, which demands uniformity in what and how we ear, dress, live and even worship: a kind of mono-culturalism. body s call to protest diesel price hike and to press for other demands related to alleged police excesses and overloading by transport agencies. Reacting sharply to the strike call State Transport Minister Subhendhu Adhikary on Tuesday said that the Government will not take any nonsense during the month of Ramzan and would ensure maximum service of Government buses during these days. Incidentally the Left Front Government which had faced a similar issue in 2009 had instead of increasing fare provided a Rs 2 subsidy to the bus operators. Goa Church makes U-turn on Constitution in danger' remark Archbishop Fr. Filipe Neri Ferrão Archbishop Anil Couto Human rights are under attack and democracy appears to be in peril. The various minorities fear for their safety. In short, respect for law is frankly on the decline in this country," Ferrao said. "People are being uprooted from their land and homes in the name of development. Pope Francis says that 'the first victim of development is the poor person'. It is easier to trample upon the rights of the poor, because those who will raise their voice for them are very few," Ferrao he added. However, less than 48 hours after the release of the pastoral letter and the contents were published in the media, secretary to the Archbishop Fr. Joaquim Loyola Pereira claimed that the reference to danger to the Constitution in the pastoral letter was only a peripheral one and blamed the media for blowing it out of proportion. "It is not one of the main statements. The pastoral letter is about poverty. That statement (reference to Constitution in danger) has come there as a peripheral statement. One or two statements of the Bishop have been taken out and I will say taken out of context and made an issue out of. My thing is this, we do not make any further comments and explanations of the letter," Pereira told reporters. The secretary also tried to distance Ferrao from the letter, insisting that the pastoral letter was a product of multiple minds at work and not the work of the Archbishop alone. Bengal s neat result in NEET angers Mamata Furious Didi plans to raise it in LS SAUGAR SENGUPTA n KOLKATA ith applicants from Bengal Wproducing a below par performance in the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (Medical entrance), an offended Mamata Banerjee Government is thinking in terms of coming out of the NEET scheme of things if gross errors are not rectified with immediate effect. But before that the ruling Trinamool Congress is also planning to raise the issue in Parliament along with other like-minded parties, sources said. The Chief Minister said on Tuesday that we are offended, the way the NEET exams were conducted. There are many flaws in it. She added in the current scheme of things the regional aspirations would be deprived and advantages would go to outsiders and not the bhoomi putras (people of the soil). The language is a big barrier. If things are conducted the way they were this time then local students and will not get chance and medical profession in States will be filled by people who do not belong to the regions concerned. Since language is a big issue in treating patients it is necessary that it is taken care of, Banerjee said. The Chief Minister who had earlier written to Union Minister Prakash Javdekar drawing his attention over inadequate availability of Bengali question papers and also inappropriate translation of English papers in to Bengali, on Tuesday iterated we found translations of various types. In many cases question papers had not come in adequate numbers so as to compel the students write their papers with English or Hindi versions which is as good as disallowing them the advantage of mother language. Sources in the Government also said the ruling party was pondering over whether the State could come out of the NEET scheme of things. The party was also planning to raise the issue in a big way in Parliament and was in touch with other parties like DMK so that a coordinated effort can be made. Regional aspirations cannot be disregarded and ignored in a manner they have done this time. We will want them to rectify the gross errors immediately, sources in the Education Department said. Meanwhile, in a new development the Chief Minister has said that her Government was mulling ways to tax outsiders to fund free medical treatment to the people of the State. She said there were lakhs of people from other States and even abroad who come to Bengal seeking medical services from the Government hospitals. On humanitarian grounds we cannot deny treatment to them but we have every right to charge them so that we can provide relief to our own citizens, Banerjee said. JKPYC holds anti-govt rally in Jammu PTI n JAMMU undreds of activists of HJammu and Kashmir Pradesh Youth Congress (JKPYC) on Tuesday took out a massive rally here accusing the Centre of making border residents sitting ducks in Pakistan firing. Led by JKPYC President Pranav Shagotra, the activists took to streets and held massive demonstrations against BJP led NDA regime for what they said was betraying border inhabitants. Shouting slogans against Central government and BJP, they alleged border inhabitants were being made sitting ducks for petty politics. Youth Congress activists disrupted vehicular movement at Tawi bridge for some time as mark of protest against inhuman approach of Union Government towards border dwellers. BJP and its government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has made the border residents sitting ducks for target practice for Pakistan in its shelling and firing this year, Shagotra told reporters here. He said over 40 people have been killed and over 130 people injured in largest number of the ceasefire violations this year. Killing of civilians on borders, be it International Border (IB) or Line of Control (LOC), has become a routine affair, but those at the helm of the affairs are doing dirty politics on human lives, he said Charging NDA Government at the Centre with being least concerned over lives and property of the people of Jammu region,, he said the coalition government in J&K has already left people of Jammu region at the mercy of Pakistan and other antinational elements. He said during the last four years killings on the borders have increased manifold, With a hope that the selfproclaimed nationalist BJP would solve their problems once for all, border residents had voted in favour of the Saffron Party in 2014 Lok Sabha and Assembly elections but all their hopes were dashed now, Shagotra charged. He demanded martyrs status for those getting killed in the border while undertaking farming with risk to their lives and compensation at par with persons killed and injured due to militancy. Besides seeking bulletproof critical care ambulances in the vulnerable areas, Shagotra said the Public Health Centre, Arnia, needed upgradation with sufficient stock of medicines. The Youth Congress workers also demanded allotment of alternative land at safer places, construction of community and individual bunkers, providing bullet proof vehicles to evacuate villagers at the time of firing, reservation to IB dwellers at par with residents of LOC and special recruitment drive for the unemployed youth of border areas. NDA will have to seek votes on Nitish performance in Bihar PTI n PATNA rime Minister Narendra PModi may be the NDA face in the 2019 general elections, but the alliance will have to seek votes in Bihar on the basis of the Nitish Kumar government s performance, the BJP s state ally JD(U) said on Tuesday. Ahead of a crucial meeting of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) on Thursday, which is expected to discuss seat sharing among coalition partners for 2019 Lok Sabha elections, a raging debate has been triggered after the JD(U) claimed on Sunday that Kumar would be the face of the grouping in Bihar. JD(U) spokesman Ajay Alok said here that a national election obviously has to be fought under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and he is going to be the face of NDA. But, when it comes to seeking votes in Bihar, the performance of Nitish Kumar will play a decisive role in the electoral success of the coalition, he said. The JD(U) leader said the party s only contention is jiskaa kaam uska daam (the one who performs should get his due), indicating his party s demand for a respectable share of seats for the next general elections. Bihar has a total of 40 Lok Sabha seats, though JD(U) could win only two seats in 2014 when it was not part of the alliance. Earlier in the day, another NDA member from the state, LJP s Parliamentary Board chief and MP Chirag Paswan said that there was no confusion in the ruling alliance with regard to who is going to be the face of the coalition and the next Lok Sabha polls will be contested under the leadership of Prime Minister Modi. Paswan, however, added that seat-sharing arrangement is important when a coalition of different parties has to put up a fight and it would be better if a decision in this regard is taken soon. Demands for better coordination with allies have been raised by partners in the BJPled coalition in Bihar in the aftermath of the some alliance partners poor show in a number of recent by-elections. Alok also clarified that when the JD(U) is called the big brother in Bihar, it refers to the fact that the party has larger number of MLAs and that it had won more seats while fighting in alliance with the BJP in the past. After a high-level meeting of the JD(U) on Sunday, the party s national general secretary Pavan Varma had called Nitish Kumar the face of NDA in Bihar, triggering speculations about the future move of the Chief Minister, who has often been viewed by some supporters as a a prime minister material.

8 LUCKNOW WEDNESDAY JUNE 6, 2018 opinion 08 paper with passion Wages of sin Plastic is the original environmental sin and we are paying a heavy price for it I t is not that we do not know what to do with plastic waste that s slowly choking the planet. It is about changing our practices and the habits we spin around them, it is about the willingness to invest some cost, time and effort in turning our lives around and most importantly it is about conviction in some very inconvenient truths. In the toss-up of facts and figures, one comparative that stands out is that we have generated more plastic trash in the last ten years than we have in the 100 preceding them. Such is the volume of trash in our oceans that environmentalists have warned of a floating plastic continent, which is leeching out into virgin water with the sunlight and forming a soup of chemicals that is affecting marine life and biodiversity. The same holds for river and lake water. Worse, if we ingest seafood, river fish or aquatic plants, we are consuming 11,000 pieces of microplastic each year, according to Plastic Planet. May be we should sit up a bit knowing that the rampant use of plastic conveniences and their non-biodegradable nature have meant that they have remained stuck in our surrounds, breaking down incompletely into dangerous subparts, substances which have now been proven to impact our internal health, priming triggers of deadly diseases. Certain policy interventions are needed to make sure that sustainable practices generate a huge demand for the plastic industry to revise its procedures and invest in R&D for an environmental-friendly alternative. For example, the no plastic-across-thecounter and a carbon credit policy at retail chains was implemented and followed aggressively till it was abandoned as consumer behaviour remained stubborn about a right to a single-use carry-bag in return for taxes paid. Once this is a strict no-no, people would willy-nilly begin to carry their own carry bags or opt for cloth and paper variants offered by salesmen at a price. The other challenge is to make sure that all plastic trash is recyclable and while awareness about waste segregation has now percolated to the household level, the sorting and collection of recyclable waste for an easy logistic channel to the plant site needs to be ironed out and if possible subsidised to some extent. Industries that are vastly reliant on recyclable or virgin plastic should also be made to pay for dealing with the waste by an in-built buyback system post sales, enabling a reuse of the same stock. Toy and pharma majors immediately come to mind as potentially having the capacity, given their gains, to adopt this module. Similarly a littering fine could be worked in at the community level to make each individual household a stakeholder in a clean-up mission. A compulsory dumping penalty is much required in our country where, despite swachh campaigns, it is considered socially acceptable to dump anything anywhere, so long as it is not in our immediate environs. For Indians, making alternative lifestyle choices is not that difficult either considering we have it encoded in our origins. All we need is to revisit the basics of a generation ago. Be it paper straws, jute and cloth bags, earthen cups, terracotta ware and roadside snacks consumed from bowls and plates fashioned from leaves, the good old flasks, tiffin cases, glass bottles, metal containers, plant-based tableware and cutlery at community feasts, our herbal cosmetics, everyday life was much dependent on reuse. Vegetable and fruit peels too were composted in the backyard for kitchen gardens. India s challenges for a switchover are many given the primacy of plastic in all spheres of our lives. But without radical choices, our future is at stake. At least we can begin with the three Rs of plastic management recyle, reuse and reduce. That s how we would get the fourth R retract. Shillong strife One of the most pleasant and peaceful cities in India has been caught up in sectarian violence I ndia with her diverse cultures has always been a melting pot of multiple languages, traditions, foods and much else. This is what makes India by far and away the most unique nation-state on the planet; her natural diversity and the fact that for the most part tensions between communities have been kept to a minimum. But, unfortunately they often do tend to flare up. And in Shillong, the capital of Meghalaya, over the past few days the simmering tension between locals and Sikh immigrants from Punjab has boiled over into uncontrolled rioting catching a young and inexperienced Chief Minister unawares and on the back foot. Shillong has for many years been one of India s most serene State capitals although in recent years it also has faced the challenges of modern life, namely traffic and pollution. Yet, the recent violence is not something out of the ordinary. In the past, anti-immigrant violence has been directed at Bengalis and the current violence which might have begun over a parking dispute was one that had been simmering for a while as the local Khasi community blamed outsiders for stealing their jobs and felt they were a cultural risk. Chief Minister Conrad Sangma, educated in New Delhi and very much a modern politician, has rapidly deployed State and Central forces to keep the riots in check after they spiralled in the initial hours. However, more needs to be done to keep matters in control. But this is not a problem that will be restricted to Shillong in the future - - as jobs become difficult to come by, the battle between locals who feel deprived of opportunities and immigrants from other States will become a huge issue across India. Immigrants, even when they are domestic migrants, tend to work harder and in a situation where jobs are difficult to come by will happily move to where the opportunities are. Locals will feel that immigrants will not only steal their jobs but also impose their cultural values. The Shiv Sena in the 1960s introduced this nativist cultural protection' philosophy as agitprop and local politicians across States as diverse as Goa, Karnataka and Jammu and Kashmir have exacerbated the issue over the past decade, often adding a communal tinge to it as well. These challenges will only intensify going forward and a single Chief Minister cannot deal with it. This issue needs a national solution, where we should all be reminded that we are Indians first and foremost. That said, the tendency of communities to ghettoise must be countered because these tend to make matters even worse. There is, however, no quick-fix. An integrationist philosophy coupled with an emphasis on a quantum leap in economic opportunities is the only solution. A fighting General, a thinking man An epitome of courage, Zorawar Chand Bakshi did not know the meaning of fear. As Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw would have said: He was either lying or he was a Gorkha ASHOK K MEHTA The pity is that despite India having fought many wars, skirmishes, counter insurgencies and counter-terrorism operations than any other country, it has not sufficiently recognised and acclaimed some of its greatest war heroes who have faded away unheralded, unglorified and unsung. Rarely do you find a genuine thinking General and even rarer, a fighting General. Locating a thinking and fighting General a strategic practitioner and a warrior falls in the rarest category. One such rarity, a soldiers General, faded away on May 24 quietly when India should have bestowed matching honours. Lt Gen Zorawar Chand Bakshi, honoured with the Param Vishisht Seva Medal (PVSM), Maha Vir Chakra (MVC), Vishisht Seva Medal (VSM), Mention in Dispatches, MacGregor Medal, Dagger DSSC, Imperial War College UK (and these accomplishments could go on) was the only officer who fought in every war in his time World War II, Kashmir 1947, India-Pakistan 1965 and 1971 and was rewarded with a gallantry medal for each. The only war that he missed was the war with China due to the fact that he was on a UN Peace Enforcement Mission in Katanga Congo. Still at his cremation and the prayer meeting that followed there was no one from the Government or from the Army except the Colonel of the 5 Gorkha Rifles (Frontier Force). The BJP is perennially crowing about surgical strikes, Doklam and OROP. But it did not find time to mourn the passing away of Zoru, as he was fondly called in the Army. Prime Minister Narendra Modi did not even tweet his death. This woeful neglect is an omission which deserves high condemnation. But Zoru was very forgiving. Generals of a smaller calibre, more renowned and personal courage and bravery have had a halo put around them because they sacrificed their apolitical disposition for gainful laurels. Zoru took command of 2/5 Gorkha Rifles (Frontier Force) and along with it, its two of three Victoria Cross winners, and took the battalion to Congo. Government orders forbade serving Victoria Cross winners from going into potential areas of combat but Zoru rightly said that Gaje Ghale and Agan Singh Rai would be morale boosters for troops in action. I would frequently translate their fan mail in Nepali. When a helicopter carrying an Indian officer was shot down in enemy territory, Zoru, solo and unarmed, walked into Katangese enemy-held positions to negotiate the officer s release. His personal SOUNDBITE (My) assurance that there has not been any misdoing there. I am assuring in the company of all senior officials of the ministry, there is no scandal in Rafale, we are clear on that. Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman There is an issue of waste management in India and everyone can see that. We went to Agra from Delhi by train. We saw plastic all over the rails. UNEP chief Erik Solheim I take up roles that I feel I would fail in. It becomes a challenge for me to outdo myself. I believe in finding different ways of failing and then emerge victorious. Actor Sushant Singh Rajput It is the industry s responsibility to control water pollution by ensuring that no untreated water or effluent is thrown into the rivers. Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh Tragic end courage and bravery was never in doubt. Even as a Brigade Major in Kashmir he won a Vir Chakra. Earlier disguised as a trader, he travelled 400 miles into Tibet on a secret reconnaissance mission based on which Lt Gen Francis Tucker wrote his famous warning that Indian Army must pre-empt the Chinese occupation of Tibet. Zoru was awarded the MacGregor medal and the Indian Army still faces the music for that political and military omission. In World War II, as a young Captain in the Baloch Regiment he was ordered to block Japanese advances along a forested hill. He ambushed their patrols several times and delayed their build up and advances. For his daring and dextrous pattern of ambushes he was mentioned in Dispatches. He brought to the Military Operations Directorate all his battlefield skills and and soon was a hit with the DGMO who was no other than Brigadier Sam Manekshaw, later to become Field Marshal. Later, Zoru himself was to become a DGMO, the most prestigious staff appointment in the Army. Zoru s superlative grasp of ground and tenacity to surprise the enemy came alive in the storming of the Haji Pir Pass that he led from the front. I was in those days, a young Major commanding 4/5 GR when he came to my post to recce a route to Haji Pir which was actually part of a deception plan. For straightening out the Uri-Poonch bulge he was honoured with an MVC. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Sir It is rather painful to note that a 28-year-old boy, an aspirant for UPSC examination in New Delhi, committed suicide for denial of entry into the examination hall for being late by four minutes. Generally for all examinations, an examinee is allowed to write the exam if he or she comes within first 30 minutes. Since no one is allowed to go out within first 30 minutes, the late comers cannot have access to the question papers. Logic of this rule has substance. It is not understandable if this rule is applicable in the case of UPSC examination as well. It is foolishness on part of the UPSC aspirant to commit suicide. Examination is important but it is not more important than life. In every nook and corner of the country, the administration is paralysed for not following rules. In this case, observance of rules has cost the life of the student. Invigilators should have thought over the pros and cons of their action on the future of the aspirant even though it cannot be conjectured that the boy would commit suicide. KV Seetharamaiah Karnataka No compromise Sir It is reported that some Kashmir youths from Shopian and Pulwama districts joined militant outfits during suspension of antimilitancy operation which is really a worrisome. No doubt some of Years later, he was to tell me that returning Haji Pir Pass to Pakistan was a blunder for which we are paying through the nose to this day. When he went to attend the Imperial Defence College in London he told the British how his Brigade surprised the defenders of the Haji Pir Pass. From head to toe Zoru was immaculate in uniform, especially when it came to his brown Brogue shoes (not Church s but French Shriner, the best in brogues). After the 1965 war and before the 1971 two front war he was promoted to Major General, commanding the Jammu division. With 3/5 Gorkhas from his own regiment under his command, he ran circles around the Pakistanis, cutting off the Chicken s Neck. The 1971 war and the second partition of the subcontinent added insult to an injury that Pakistan is determined to avenge. Pithily Zoru would say, The Pak aided and abetted insurgency in Jammu & Kashmir is revenge for its defeat in the 1971 war. After the capture of Bogra and the surrender of the Pakistani Army in East Pakistan, some officers from Pakistan s 16 Infantry Division commanded by Maj Gen Nazir Hussain Shah were invited to lunch to the Officers Mess of Zoru s own 2/5 GR. Almost every Pakistani officer wrote in the battalion s Visitors Book: Thank you for the excellent lunch. One day we will take our revenge for breaking up Pakistan. Zoru s next assignment was to command the Nagaland Division where counter insurgency operations were in We are in the middle of an ecological catastrophe T his refers to the article, Hot as hell, is it? (June 5) by H S Singh. It is to the credit of the writer that he paints a detailed picture of temperature variations in the Indian and Tibetan region over 10 millennia. The terminology used may be a subject of discussion and fine nuances in temperature variations could be further refined by advanced researchers. One thing, however, is clear that temperatures in these regions are rising beyond our control as no solutions are in sight. The subject of unprecedented population rise and a litany of factors arising out of it are taboo for various reasons. Colonial excesses in deforestation and resource exploitation rendered this country crippled. The dismal situation was given a finishing touch by a relentless development narrative unconcerned about its adverse impacts on the environment. All domains air, water and earth in the subcontinent now seem far beyond redemption. Like New Zealand, which is welcoming refugees from Pacific islands' projected disappearance as a result of sea-level rise, where will billion people migrate to and who will welcome us? While all rich economies that were initially responsible for environmental degradation are taking remedial measures in face of an ecological catastrophe, we decided to wait and watch. People at large are not concerned about what is happening. While the present dispensation appears to be a bit concerned, it has numerous stumbling blocks; an aspiring billion plus citizens, uncooperative Opposition, squabbling politicians, unwilling bureaucracy and unrestrained corruption. Prakash C Dixit Rishikesh full swing. It brought back my days fighting the Japanese in the jungles, he would say. He performed with exemplary courage. Promoted to Lieutenant General, he was given the command of the fire and fury 2 Corps, the largest offensive formation of the time. Command of 2 Corps marked Zoru s zenith. The tyranny of age and the Indian promotion system halted his military career prematurely. But what an innings Zoru fought in war (and UN peace enforcement) in every rank from Captain to Major General. Armed and in most cases with nothing more than his cane and a sharp eye leading from the front. An epitome of courage, Zorawar Chand Bakshi did not know the meaning of fear. As Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw would have said: He was either lying or he was a Gorkha Zoru was a very private person but with a bag of tricks and an infectious laughter. The shabby farewell given to him was blasphemous for those who do not respect and honour their brave are destined to go to hell. No other man in uniform was braver than Zoru and decorated for valour in every battle he fought. The Government should posthumously confer the rank of a four star General on Zorawar Chand Bakshi forthwith. (The writer is a retired Major General of the Indian Army and founder member of the Defence Planning Staff, currently the revamped Integrated Defence Staff) the youths joining militancy are misguided and some are stubbornly extremist with robust anti- Indian feelings and determined to fight against the security force to achieve their desired objective. It is the separatists who are instigating these youths to resort to violent uprising and these Kashmir separatists are agents of Pakistan. They very well know that the Indian Government would initiate discussion and dialogue within the framework of the Indian Constitution which would not yield desired results. It is time Kashmiri separatists be dealt firmly and no facilities and privileges should be extended to them as the are national enemy. National interest and security are beyond any compromise and negotiation. Nimai Charan Swain Bhubaneswar Social code Sir The proposal of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India and the Union Government s nod to introduction of mobile network connectivity and internet services during flights deserve admiration. However, at the same time, there is an urgent need to evolve a social code of behaviour which may prove helpful. In the absence of such guidelines, it is possible that the passengers may misuse the service to talk continuously which would create disturbance for the cabin crew and fellow passengers. Anil R Torne Pune Send your feedback to: letterstopioneer@gmail.com

9 LUCKNOW WEDNESDAY JUNE 6, rdeye 09 Narendra Modi is the Prime Minister, Nitish is the leader in Bihar. Whatever vote we get would be in Modi s name and for Nitish s good work. Bihar Deputy Chief Minister SUSHIL KUMAR MODI India Inc: Full disclosure SANJIB POHIT T he spikes in petrol and diesel prices are the focus of attention these days. The official argument is that the oil companies have no other way but to raise the user price to recover their cost of operation due to a higher import price of crude oil in the global market. The usual argument is that the Government should reduce taxes on these products to give some relief to the consumers. However, the Government is hesitant to do the same for two reasons. Firstly, it would inflate the Budget deficit leading to inflationary impact in the long run. Secondly, the Government will have less money to spend on the social and infrastructural schemes, which does not augur well for the POINTCOUNTERPOINT Government in view of the upcoming General Election in In sum, the argument goes that Indian consumers pay a significantly higher price for petrol/diesel relative to other countries due to in-built taxes. The implicit assumption is that Indian oil companies are efficiently managed and consumer does not bear high prices due to their inefficiency. Or is there fallacy is this argument? Of course, one can argue that Indian oil companies are Maharatna central public sector enterprises (CPSE) which give dividends year after year to the Central Government. So, how one can argue that they are inefficient and badly managed? Alas, oil is such a commodity that all oil companies worldwide make profits. Of course, the monopoly of the public sector oil companies ensures that their profits are guarenteed. Unlike other countries, imports of refined petrol or diesel are not allowed by the third party in India so that Indian oil refineries can operate at a near full capacity. So, there is no way to judge whether a private enterprise can sell Sushil Modi should say there was no mutual understanding when Nitish broke the alliance in These opportunists have ruined the State. RJD leader TEJASHWI PRASAD YADAV With a focus on aligning Indian accounting with global standards, the Government is steadily improving reporting and disclosure norms. In this context, how is India Inc faring? HIMA BINDU KOTA The accounting system in India is undergoing a significant change. With the notification of Companies (Indian Accounting Standards) Rules 2015, the Ministry of Corporate Affairs in India converged the Indian Accounting Standards (Ind-AS) with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) which was applied in a phased manner from April 1, 2016, beginning with large companies whose net worth was equal to or exceeded five billion rupees, followed by its implementation for smaller companies with net worth between 2.5 billion to five billion thereafter. Among other accounting standards, Financial Instruments Standards Ind-AS 32, 109 and 107 that defines, recognises, measures and specifies disclosure norms of financial instruments including financial derivatives were introduced. CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Warren Buffett, very famously called derivatives, financial weapons of mass destruction and giving credence to his views, time and again, financial as well as non-financial firms in India and around the world have sustained losses due to the usage of financial derivatives. Over the years, capital markets have changed and business models have become more challenging with complex sources of risk and uncertainty which have transformed risk management into a sophisticated art. This complex and ever-changing business environment have brought to the fore the necessity and importance of developing reliable and relevant disclosure norms to help protect all stakeholders as derivatives due to their underlying complex nature can be a significant source of systematic risk. Annual reports are an important source of information about derivative activities by any firm. Several users like investors, shareholders, lenders and analysts of financial statements can use derivative disclosures to understand derivatives activities better and, hence, take correct decisions. Academics, accountants and analysts have long debated over how to show complex financial instruments like derivatives in the financial statements. Disclosure failure can misrepresent the risk taken by these firms and expose unaware shareholders and investors to huge losses. This phenomenon has been observed in many firms including Procter & Gamble and Barings Bank. The fact that organisations can display unethical behaviour can be think now Of course I was bullied and of course I was called names my last name is Weir. That's very, very close to weird,' or queer' and any of those words. But I've never been anyone to cry over spilled milk or be upset because kids don't like me, or people don't like me... It makes my skin stronger and thicker. And why cry? Your mascara runs. Johnny Weir American athlete seen by financial scandals of wellknown firms like Enron, Arthur Andersen, WorldCom and that of Satyam in India. These scandals have shaken public confidence in how businesses are managed, creating concern about ethics and corporate governance. With the well-publicised derivative losses sustained by both financial and non-financial firms over the past few years, financial boards across the world have come under the pressure of regulators to create new rules for reliable and relevant disclosures. Additionally, shareholders, investors and external stakeholders have demanded increased financial disclosure. From another view point, understanding the reason for voluntary disclosure by firms is beneficial to both the preparers and users of accounting information as well as to accounting policymakers. To contribute towards better disclosures and transparency, several countries have come up with accounting standards for derivatives. The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) of the US issued FASB 133 and 137 and FAS 161 and Australia issued AASB In addition, FRS 13 in the UK, CICA 3862 in Canada, IAS 32 and 39 in Portugal and MASB ED 24 in Malaysia have been issued to improve the corporate reporting standards in derivatives and hedging instruments. Complete compliance to disclosure norms is not a worldwide phenomenon and compliance to derivative disclosure norms is generally found to be incomplete. However, with the implementation of mandatory standards on financial instruments, in several countries, there had been a marked improvement in the derivative disclosures. Among developed nations, disclosures in British and American firms are higher when compared with countries like the US, UK, France, Japan, Sweden, Netherlands and West Germany. With more focus on aligning Indian accounting with global standards, Indian Government is steadily improving the reporting and disclosure norms. So, in this context, how is India Inc faring? In an independent research conducted, the writer developed an unweighted financial derivative disclosure index, first of its kind in India and measured the disclosure quotient of the companies in Nifty 50. Although the disclosure of financial derivatives activity by any firm in India is desirable, it is voluntary at present. Therefore, firms in India are under no obligation to disclose their financial derivative activities undertaken to manage their risks. Although not mandatory, the study finds that there has been a significant increase of financial derivative disclosures of Indian firms over the years. India is a unique country in its structure of business. In most of the organisations, the promoter or the promoter group is the main decision maker. This is because financial organisations in India are very passive and do not play any major role in decision-making. By this virtue, the promoter and the promoter group become the dominant shareholders and the rest the minority shareholders. The principal-agent problems are virtually non-existent in India and conflicts of interest between the owners and managers are not likely, as the owners are in the helm of their businesses, hiring managers to perform key tasks in their businesses, showing less difference between those who own and those who manage. They are the owner-managers, performing the dual role of managing their businesses and are also the stewards of their businesses and guide their firms to improve their financial derivative disclosures. The study results show that the presence of risk management committees in a firm lead to better financial derivative disclosures. In addition, if a firm is a family business (the promoter or promoter group has a majority share in the firm and are actively involved in managing the business), the financial derivative disclosure is better. In addition, external agencies like institutional shareholders/foreign stakeholders have a monitoring effect on a firm. The higher proportion of institutional shareholders in the ownership pattern leads to better derivative disclosure. In addition, when a firm has higher foreign income (a proxy for foreign operations and foreign stakeholders), again, the financial derivative disclosure is better. This conforms to the monitoring role of stewards, in this case, external agencies, in their role to push firms to improve their derivative disclosure. By far derivatives research has predominately been based on Western developed economies; little has been known about reporting and disclosing of derivatives from developing economies. There has been significant steps by regulatory bodies across the world to increase the effective of governance especially in increasing the transparency of financial reporting. Transparency in financial reporting is imperative as it provides a true picture of an organisation to its stakeholders, in general and to be more specific, transparency in reporting financial derivative holdings of an organisation is essential as the use of financial derivatives has the potential to increase the overall risk of the organisation manifold. Apart from owners steering their companies to align with global standards, the role of institutional investors has become more active since the global financial crises and other controversies like tax avoidance and scarcity of fossil fuels are demanding more accountability and responsibility from the companies in which they hold a stake. They are taking on the role of a monitor by engaging with the management to achieve the organisational objectives to improve operatiional performance and profitability leading to an increase in shareholder value. (The writer is Assistant Professor, Amity University) Who is to blame for oil price surge? petrol/diesel at prices lower than Indian oil companies after paying due taxes on the specified commodities. Like many other countries, India imports crude oil and refines it domestically and sells it to the consumer. The prices paid by the consumer depends on several key factors such as crude oil price, refinery processing, landing cost and other operational costs along with oil marketing companies (OMC) margin, dealer margin, transportation, freight cost and of course the various taxes charged by the Central and State Governments. While some of the Indian refineries are highly efficient and their cost of processing are comparable to the best in the market, there exist refineries which are inefficient and use obsolete technologies. The cost of processing in such refineries is high and they are subsidised by the efficient ones. As a result, Fake news: A social monster The internet and social media created a hyper interconnectedness among people which in turn has fueled a surge in misleading data causing new disruptions O n Monday, the Rajasthan Police Twitter posted a terse tweet we've taken a grim view of the fake video that you shared & labelled it an incident from #RajasthanPolice. You be warned that such malicious acts can get you in the ambit of law and in clutches of #RajasthanPolice. This person had earlier posted a tweet with a gruesome video of a women being brutally killed and labelled it as an incident in Rajasthan. The police was quick to act after verifying that the video was indeed a fake one. The Hoax Slayer is a wonderful initiative and helps people identify such fake videos. While this hoax was blown off, there are many which are not. One such fake news on child lifters who were harvesting organs of kidnapped created so much panic that a mob lynched a man in Chamarajpet in Bengaluru. Earlier a mob of villagers at Athimoor near Polur in Tiruvannamalai district killed a 65-year-old woman Rukmani mistaking her for a child lifter. Two more cases of such mob killings were reported from the nearby Vellore district. All these incidents were reported in May. Many parts of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Telangana were rocked with similar rumors posing a mob crisis for the police. Karnataka Chief Minister took to Twitter to appeal to people not to pay heed to rumours on child kidnappers. Fake news is a new social monster that has posed a unique challenge for the police and society. While we are gearing up to deal with social media terrorists seeding fake news, it is critical that all stakeholders in society come together to tackle the menace and not allow it to spread its insidious tentacles, said Pankaj Kumar Singh, Additional Director General of Police, Rajasthan. Though not a new phenomenon, with the fast and furious nature of the cyber world it has taken epidemic proportions. Sadly in India as many unaware users come online every day we observe many devastating outcomes of fake news, says Amitabh Kumar, founder Twee Surfing, Social Surfing, and serving on the safety advisory board of Twitter and Facebook. True. This is a huge challenge for society at large, not confined to the Indian context only but across the world. Fake news is a new virus that crossed all borders and poses a grave risk for us all, all the time. The social media has acted as a soft conduit for fake news and its perpetrators to flourish, says IPS Officer and SP of Mirzapur (Uttar Pradesh) Ashish Tiwari, who is also an IITian, known for driving technology innovations in policing. Fake news has become a new tool of personal, professional and political vendetta. The internet and social media have created a rare hyper interconnectedness among people which in turn has fueled a surge in unwanted, false and misleading information causing a new disruption. Little surprise, everyone including police organisations is waking up to this menace. Rajasthan Police, according to Singh, decided to be on a lookout for such miscreants 24X7. The Jogulamba Gadwal district police in Telangana initiated a community outreach programme under the supervision of IPS officer and SP Rema Rajeshwari. We have deployed our teams across the district to keep in constant touch with community leaders and people to sensitize them on the need to check facts. Constant dialogue is critical as we brace up to deal with the challenge posed by fake news, she said. We have launched a dedicated Twitter to verify and rebut fake news attributed to Uttar Pradesh police. We have successfully used it in a couple of cases and it has received very good response from people, informs Rahul Srivastava, Addl SP & PRO, Uttar Pradesh police. The Assam police created a Cyberdome, which is an enhanced virtual patrolling to neutralise inflammatory contents, while the Hyderabad police developed an app HawkEye which allows users to lodge a complaint if they come across an objectionable post. While all these measures are good, experts also call for strengthening laws to deal with fake news. West Bengal Cadre IPS officer Hari Kishore Kusumakar says, Fake news isn't accidental but is actually spread intentionally by people with vested interests. A penal section should be inserted in the IT Act for spreading fake photos or videos on social media platforms. There may also be merit in enacting a new Computer Crime Penal Code with a special section on Social Media related crimes. We live in challenging times. In addition to new kinds of threats to society, fake news and social media related crimes are causing enormous strain and we must deal with it effectively. PS: Given the enormity of the subject, the writer wishes to take up the many facets associated with fake news menace and will do so in subsequent editions. (The writer is a strategic communications professional) Public sector oil companies need to be transparent in their price fixation policies. Policymakers also need to question whether our oil companies/refineries are efficient by world standards. Only then, can one identify the ex-post and ex-ante factors behind the high domestic oil price the cost of processing goes up. Recently, oil refineries invested a lot in refineries to produce clean fuel. Are they passing this buck to the consumer under the guise of high import price of crude oil? In the above formula, one thing that is always opaque is how one estimates refinery processing costs. As is well-known, the distillation of crude oil in a refinery produces multiple products grouped into four categories: Light distillates (LPG, petrol, heavy naphtha), middle distillates (kerosene, automotive and railroad diesel fuels, residential heating fuel, other light fuel oils), heavy distillates (heavy fuel oils, wax, lubricating oils, asphalt) and others. Out of these, only a few products such as petrol, diesel, kerosene, aviation fuel are not allowed to be imported directly by third parties and to be sold to the consumers/end users. By contrast, there is no restriction on importing other commodities in these chain to the end user. Incidentally, the market price of other commodities does not rise significantly when crude oil prices rise. Obviously, the channel NAVNEET ANAND of imports implies that oil companies will land up with unsold stock of these by-products if they tend to raise their price. There is no information regarding the refinery processing price of these other by-products. Are they proportional to their volume of production? If the Indian refineries are not cost-efficient, it is most likely that the price of other importable by-products are subsidised from the marketing angle and the subsidy is recovered by fixing a higher refinery price for petrol and diesel. Typically, the byproducts from the distillation process of crude oil amounts to per cent by volume depending on the type of crude oil. Public sector oil companies need to be transparent in their price fixation policies. Policymakers also need to question whether our oil companies/refineries are efficient by world standards. Only then, can one identify the ex-post and ex-ante factors behind high domestic oil price. (The writer is Senior Fellow, National Council of Applied Economic Research)

10 LUCKNOW WEDNESDAY JUNE 6, 2018 avenues 10 QUITE A NEET CUT NEET 2018 Top 3 share their success mantra to crack the entrance & get admission in top-notch medical colleges NAME: ROHAN PUROHIT SCORE: 690/720 RANKING: ALL INDIA 2 STREAM: SCIENCE SCHOOL: SRI CHAITANYA EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS ailing from Kukatpally in Hyderabad, Rohan Purohit Hcame second with the score of 690 out of 720 FUTURE PLAN: His plan is to pursue MBBS from AIIMS, Delhi and become a neurologist. If not doctor, Purohit would have become a writer, like his paternal grandfather Dr Shankar Lal Purohit who won a Sahitya Academy Award in Hindi literature FAMILY: Mother Nirmala is a dermatologist and father Bharat Vijay is a consultant and senior cardiologist at Continental Hospitals. INSPIRATION: Inspired by his father PREPARATION STARTED FROM: Class VIII PASSION: To play keyboard and writing short stories. NAME: KALPANA KUMARI SCORE: 691/720 RANKING: ALL INDIA 1 STREAM: SCIENCE SCHOOL: YKJM COLLEGE, TARIYANI BLOCK, BIHAR S eventeen-year-old topper from Sheohar district in Bihar Kalpana Kumari, a two-year classroom programme student of Aakash Institute, became the All-India topper capturing Rank 1 in NEET 2018 by scoring per cent (691 marks out of 720). She scored 171 out of 180 in Physics, 160 out of 180 in Chemistry, 360 out of 360 in Biology (Biology and Zoology). Giving credit to her institute, aspiring doctor said: Coaching classes proved to be very helpful. I solved a lot of sample tests that were based on the same pattern as that of the actual NEET question paper. This helped me in gaining confidence to a great extent, Kumari said. SECRET TO HER SUCCESS: New syllabus of Bihar board which was updated according to the exam patterns. STUDY TIME: Relentless selfstudy for 13 to 14 hours every day PREPARATION STARTED FROM: Since 2016 after Class X examination STRATEGY: Studied NCERT books thoroughly, concept-wise. Solving a series of mock papers from coaching centre or other platforms online months before the examination. Consulting teachers to clear all the doubts. BOOKS: For Physics HC Verma, DC Pandey, NCERT books; for Chemistry Narendra Awasthi, MS Chauhan, Pradeep, NCERT books and for Biology NCERT books COACHING: Enrolled at Aakash Institute in New Delhi for coaching FUTURE PLAN: To pursue MBBS from AIIMS Delhi or opt for medical course from Maulana Azad Medical College. At present, waiting for AIIMS result. CLASS XII BOARDS SCORE: The Bihar board results for Class XII will be declared on Today, June 6. CLASS X BOARDS: Scored 10 CGPA in 2016 from Navodaya Vidyalaya in Sheohar FAMILY: Father Rakesh Mishra is a lecturer in District Institute of Educational Training in Sitamarhi and mother Mamta Kumari is a teacher in Government Girls Middle School in Sheohar. Elder sister Bharti Kumari has completed her engineering from National Institute of Technology Patna while Kumari s elder brother Pranay Pratap is a BTech fourthyear student at IIT, Guwahati. NAME: HIMANSHU SHARMA SCORE: 690/720 RANKING: ALL INDIA 3 STREAM: SCIENCE SCHOOL: CONVENT OF GAGAN BHARTI, DELHI ighteen-year-old Himanshu Sharma, a resident of EDelhi, ranked third with the score of 690 out of in Physics, 170 in Chemistry and 350 in Biology. FAMILY: Both his parents are teachers. STUDY TIME: Self-study seven-eight hours daily on weekdays and 8-10 hours on weekends. PREPARATION STRATEGY: Focus on understanding the concepts. Attended problem-solving sessions to clear doubts. Solving mock test papers COACHING: Enrolled at Aakash Institute in New Delhi for coaching since 2016 INSPIRATION: APJ Abdul Kalam FUTURE PLAN: His plan is to pursue MBBS from AIIMS. T he wait by the 13 lakh medical aspirants got over with the declaration of the Central Board of Secondary Education s (CBSE) National Eligibility-cum- Entrance Test (NEET) 2018 which was held on May 06, The entrance exam, which serves as a gateway to the top-notch medical colleges in the country offering over 90,000 MBBS and BDS seats, will have 7,14,562 candidates who have been qualified for counselling. Passing the exam in flying colours amongst top 10 All- India toppers of NEET 2018, seven students are from Aakash Institute. Congratulating the toppers on their impressive result, Aakash Chaudhry, director Aakash Educational Services Private Limited, said: We are delighted that 7 students from Aakash have secured ranks within Top 10 Ranks in NEET From our classroom programme, Kalpana Kumari captured Rank 1 with 691 marks in ICSI s Mega placement drive NEET 2018 followed by Himanshu Sharma who captured Rank 3 with 690 marks, Aarosh Dhamija who captured Rank 4 with 686 marks, Madhvan Gupta who captured Rank 9 with 680 marks and Ramneek Kaur Mahal who captured Rank 10 with 680 marks. From our Distance learning programme, Rohan Purohit captured Rank 2 with 690 marks and Varun Muppidi captured Rank 6 with 685 marks. The impressive feat achieved by our students in NEET 2018 is a result of their immense hard work, unwavering determination and willingness to succeed, Chaudhry said. ALLOCATION OF SEATS The allocation of seats will be done on the basis of All India Quota Merit List. Candidates, who have successfully cleared the exam, can seek counselling by Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) to fill 15 per cent All India Quota Seats. he Institute of Company Secretaries of India T(ICSI), a premier professional body set up under Company Secretaries Act, 1980, for the regulation and development Company Secretaries professionals in India, has organised Mega Placement Drive-2018 across all four regions of ICSI Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai on June 11, 12, 19, and 23, 2018, respectively for recruitment of Company Secretaries at a large scale. The institute has over 53,000 members and about three lakh students on its roll. The institute, which functions under the jurisdiction of Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India, focuses on best and top-quality education to students of Company Secretaries course and best quality set standards for CS members. As per Section 203 of Companies Act 2013 and Rule 8 & 8A of the Companies Appointment and Remuneration of Managerial Personnel Rules 2014; the company having paid up capital of more than `5 crore are required to appoint a Company Secretary on regular basis. Apart from the core CS profile, the Banks and Financial Institutions like NBFC are appointing CS for scrutinising the eligibility for loan applications and even as credit analysts. For queries with regard to the placement drive; organisations may contact the institute at placement.ho@icsi.edu or /2124. T H E R O L L C A L L The remaining 85 per cent seats will be filled through state-level counselling on the basis of State Merit List of NEET. INCREASE IN NEET The number of candidates VIT honoured with Green Award n recognition of its immense contri- towards increasing green cover Ibution of Vellore, its efforts to protect and rejuvenate Palar river also to conserve natural resources in Vellore district, India s premier private educational institution Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) has been given the Green Award for the year 2017 by the Tamil Nadu Government. Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami handed over the prestigious award to GV Selvam, VP, VIT at the Secretariat. The coveted award is given each year to district collectors, industrial units Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami handing over Green Award to GV Selvam, VP, VIT and educational institutions by the Tamil Nadu Government. The award is recognition of efforts to conserve and protect nature and natural resources, promote and create the concept of environment protection and also to acknowledge efforts taken to reduce pollution. VIT has been acknowledged as the best educational institution for protecting the environment. It is to be noted that VIT has planted several thousand saplings year after year not just in Vellore town, but also in different places in the rest of the district to reduce the impact of the heat wave in the district. The institution has a VIT Nature Club under the Green Vellore Project and has distributed several thousand saplings to students as part of efforts to imbibe the spirit of environment protection from a very young age. The Green Vellore project, launched in 2008 aims at increasing green cover, water body restoration, and creation of traffic Islands and park in and around Vellore city. Further, VIT also launched the Palar River Clean Up Project and has this reaped rich dividends from all quarters. NCC cadet on new expedition New appointee he National Cadet Corps T(NCC) Boy Cadets Mountaineering Expedition for the year 2018 was flagged off recently for Mt Saifee (6167). Mt Saifee is a magnificent, semi difficult and technical peak to climb and is situated in Garhwal Himalayas of Uttarakhand state. Lieutenant general PP Malhotra, VSM, DGNCC flagged off the expedition by handing over the flag to the expedition leader Colonel Dhirendra Singh and wished good luck to the entire team comprising applying for NEET is increasing every year. A total of lakh candidates had registered for the exam, a per cent increase from last year. However, lakh candidates appeared for the test, of whom 7.14 lakh cleared it. MUSKAAN JAIN n NEW DELHI he 19th edition of Russian TEducation Fair, dedicated to providing subsidised higher education to the Indian students in the medical and technical courses, held recently in the Capital. From on-the-spot admissions given to the eligible aspirants seeking counselling on qualifying tests like IELTS and different CET; which college to study at in Russia and their eligibility criteria, students seek guidance on various queries related to admission in Russian colleges. of Major Neeraj Maan, deputy leader, 17 Junior Commissioned Officers (JCO) and Non- Commissioned Officers (NCO) and 20 NCC Boy cadets. While addressing the gathering, Malhotra said that he is confident that the team will cadets for their motivation and enthusiasm to become part of the mountaineering expedition. The number of candidates registered for NEET is even bigger than that for JEE Main where only 11 lakh filled the form. In 2015, only 6,32,625 candidates applied for the exam. In 2016, NEET was held twice. For Phase I of NEET, 6,67,637 candidates registered, whereas, for Phase II, 4,38,867 applied. LOOKING FORWARD There are talks that from 2019 onwards, NEET might not be held in 11 languages. This year, only 1,19, 260 opted to give the exam in regional languages. Whereas to he Institute of Management Studies (IMS), TGhaziabad, welcomed its new director Prof Ajay K Jain who is a professor of Organisational Design and Behaviour at Management Development Institute (MDI) Gurgaon. A PhD from IIT Kanpur and a Post Doc from ISB Hyderabad, Jain is a visiting professor to several international universities including Aarhus University, Denmark, Lancaster University, the UK, IULM University, Italy, University of Free State, South Africa and IIM Lucknow. He is the proud recipient of Extra ordinary performance Award from Aarhus University Denmark for his research and publications ( ). He has presented more than 70 research articles in peer TOP 10 ALL INDIA TOPPERS Rank Name Scores out of Kalpana Kumari from Bihar Rohan Purohit from Telangana Himanshu Sharma from Delhi Aarosh Dhamija from Delhi Prince Choudhary from Rajasthan Varun Muppidi from Hyderabad Agrawal Krishna Ashish from Maharashtra Ankadala Anirudh Babu from Andhra Pradesh Madhavan Gupta from Punjab Ramneek Kaur Mahal from Punjab 680 Russian education fair WHY IN RUSSIA? The study cost in Russian universities for the medical and technical courses are much less than the private Indian Universities. Moreover, the seats available for medical students in India are much less than those qualifying NEET. Thus, students who could not get admission in Indian Government medical colleges, have better scope for higher education at Russia Universities. Head of the education department of Russian Centres of Science and Cultures in India, Elena Barman said: The standard of higher education in Russia is considered to be one of the most advanced and sophisticated. However, the cost of higher education is relatively cheaper because it is highly subsidised by the Government of the Russian Federation. We are privileged to ensure this initiative of the Russian Government to aspirants in India. ON-THE-SPOT ADMISSION Aspiring students have to fill the registration form and submit all the necessary documents namely copy of the passport, certificate of completion of higher secondary education with transcript. Students are given admission letters on the spot after their selection. ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA All the students, who are above 17 years of age, have 50 per cent aggregate in the Physics, Chemistry and Biology and have passed NEET examination are eligible for admission in MBBS in Russia. For students applying for nonmedical courses, there are no criteria for entrance tests required. write the exam in English language, 10,60,923 candidates opted and for Hindi language was chosen by 1,46,542 candidates. Only 8 per cent candidates took the paper in regional language. So, it is being predicted that there is a high possibility that the exam will be held in lesser languages. SPECIAL FACILITIES Some of the top Russian Universities includes Ural Federal University, Russian Technological University, Orenburg State Medical University and Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology are providing special aids to Indian students like Indian food court, separate hostels for girls and boys and separate hostels for Indian students. Professors are taught English so that they can teach the Indians. Students will also be given English classes. Indian students will be treated the same as Russian students. FEES CHARGED The fee for MBBS course in Russian Universities starts from `12 lakh approximately and others courses also have subsidised fees, though no extra concessions or scholarships are given on admission to anyone. UPCOMING FAIR The second leg of the Russian Education Fair will be from June 8 to 16, 2018 from 10am to 5pm at the Russian Centre for Science and Culture. reviewed journals and conferences; a recipient of the Best Paper Awards from National Academy of Psychology and Emerald and is also serving on editorial board of several International journals. He is a highly effective trainer and consultant to multinational organisations from banking and insurance sector, hospitality industry, oil and energy companies, manufacturing companies, Indian Police and Defense services.

11 LUCKNOW WEDNESDAY JUNE 6, 2018 avenues 11 THE SPORTS ROUTE Students can play their favourite sport competitively at world-class training facilities while gaining a valuable college degree and possible lucrative sports scholarships. SHALINI SAKSENA tells you how M ost students want to pursue higher studies from a foreign university. The reasons are many. But to be able to pursue a degree abroad is not easy. This is because most colleges don t give scholarships to international students when it comes to under graduation studies. In such a scenario not all can afford to send their ward to study abroad. But if you have set your mind on studying abroad, there is a way out. Get admission in the US through sports scholarship in common parlance sports quota. It is a misnomer that only US citizens can avail of the benefit when it comes to sport scholarship. Even Indian students can take benefit. Using the word quota is incorrect. Another point to mention here, Indians have, over the years, combined education with high-level sports and earning a lucrative scholarship. Mahesh Bhupathi went to University of Mississippi, Jeev Milkha Singh went to Abilene Christian University, US, Shiv Kapoor went to Purdue University and played amateur circuit in the US and Somedev Devvarman attended the University of Virginia, says Vikram Anand, CEO of Crayons Academy for Skills Excellence, whose daughter got a $40,000 scholarship at a US university. She played tennis and was captain of school basket ball team in India. The way to get admission is similar to what we have in India where, in order to get admission using the sport route, one should have at least played at the State level. It is the proficiency that a student needs to have in a particular sport rather than having played at the national or State level that counts abroad. There is no dearth of talent in India. In the recent Khelo India, national programme for development of sports, the students showed fantastic calibre at the junior level. The problem arises when they gain admission through the sport window. Sports are not run in an organised manner in any Indian university. Delhi University used to have inter-university championships in the 70s and 80s. Not anymore. Today, people who have scored 40 per cent in Class XII and gained admission via the sport quota will be told to pursue only BA Pass course, Anand says. In the US, when you gain admission through a sport scholarship, you play with eight-10 colleges within the region. The training and the coaching, as also the playing mores, are highly regulated. After winning at the university level, you go to the next level HHM which is the national level, Anand explains and tells you that in the 2014 Olympics, the US won eight Gold medals in swimming and all the participants were from the University of Merlin. This is something Indian universities don t realise that there is so much talent at this level. He also tells you that those wanting to pursue this route need to have two essentials a passion to play a sport and start young Class IX. There is need to set targets and short goals and ensure that these goals are met. But all this US UNIVERSITIES HAVE AN INFRASTRUCTURE THAT MAKE IT POSSIBLE FOR ATHLETES TO NOT ONLY EXCEL IN THE SPORT BUT ALSO IN ACADEMICS is not at the cost of your studies. A student needs to develop his game and become a sportsperson an athlete and gain admission. There are two ways of doing this. One is taking the sport scholarship and the other is academic. There is no dearth of counselors who can help a student when it comes to academics. But there are probably one or two only in India when it comes to counselling for a sport scholarship. A student will be gaining admission in a US university to study, so there is no way that one can drop studies for the next four years since they are very focused on academics as well even if you have gained admission through sport scholarship. My job to students and parents who come to me is to guide them and develop them into players so that they can get admission in an university in the US. I tell them that if they play a certain sport, they have to be at a certain level by a certain age with certain Grades and only then will the student will be suitable for a specific university. So it is a wellthought out and specific plan, says Anand who is a sportsman and played soccer in High School and tennis in college. The student and his coach are guided by Anand on how to go about the whole process to reach a certain level by a certain age so that he can get admission so that by the time the student graduates from school he has a certain fitness and proficiency to be picked up for a team. Once a student gets athletic admission depending on whether it is a public or private, the scholarship is determined. Interestingly, students can get athletic admissions at under graduate level only. Once he has completed his UG, he can no longer play the sport after four years. If I want to join the masters, I can no longer use the athletic admission route to get scholarship, the eligibility expires at UG level. In order to continue playing for the college at the UG level, there is a lot of support because at the end of the day you are there to study and continue to have a spot in the team. So a student gets preference to classes, you get a tutor; the infrastructure there is built in such a way that the sportsperson excels. Though there is a chance that one can lose this athletic scholarship. But given that Indian students are predisposed to hard work, one will have to do something horribly wrong to lose the scholarship, Anand, who charges a fee of `3 lakh, phased in stages, says. His job is to guide the student at every step till he gets admission. However, he can t guarantee a sport scholarship since the leg work has to come from the students themselves. Entrepreneurship education is for all As students have the ability to think out-of-thebox and some have a business of their own, there is need to teach entrepreneural skills in classrooms, says SANDEEP DUTTA Sandeep Dutta, HoD, Business Studies of Tula's International School E ntrepreneurship education is beneficial to all, irrespective of their socioeconomic background. Today students are very dynamic and they have the capability to think outof-the-box. Due to the help of forward thinking of people and organisations, these days, many schools have inculcated the teaching of entrepreneurship in their classrooms. Some students around the world have successfully launched their business and are getting support from venture capitalists and angel investors. Following are the few ways in which entrepreneurship skills can be introduced in schools or classrooms. Business idea class: Once a month, public speaking class can be organized for the students, where they are required to come up with business ideas, along with their project report. While engaging in speaking event, students are required to give each and every detail of the business, such as capital required, raw material and machinery, skilled and unskilled labor.such activities in classrooms can boost the morale of the student and can instill confidence. This entrepreneurship skill is quite imperative for the students, as it teaches the students to critically analyze the solution. Remedial measures:after understanding the problem, all the students of the classroom can give an individual solution to the problem, by writing their names on the paper, along with the solution. This procedure will help the students to think constructively. This will not only enhance their confidence, but will also give them a sense of achievement and will therefore, develop a healthy relationship amongst the students. Competition at the school and inter-school level: Some competition can be organised in the school itself, where the students from different houses can participate and can bring business ideas, with the help of their teachers. If such inter-house programmes get success, then the same can be done at the inter school level, where different schools can participate in the competition and can come up with business ideas. The winner's idea can be partially financed by the sponsors. This will enhance the growth of the students and will prepare them for the future challenges and complex questions. Guide groups: Group of commerce teachers from various schools can take an initiative to form a group on Whatsapp or other social media platforms, in order to discuss the ideas presented by the students and try to find an opportunity for the students. This method will be beneficial for the students and teachers can also contribute to the development of the society, by encouraging the new entrepreneurs in the society, who is a youngster. Introspection: No business or no idea can be successful, until or unless that idea is properly scrutinised. This can be done by the team of experts, who has the experience, and for this, the best choice would be the angel investors or the venture capitalist of the area, city or the state, whichever is available. Nobody can be a better help than the people mentioned above, as they possess the right amount of experience and knowledge. Once they clear the idea, then it can be executed. Business skills or an idea might look very simple, but it requires a huge amount of hard work, dedication and focus. But with a positive mind-set and a few methods and tools, teachers can help the students and can develop entrepreneurship skills. Adhering to the few ways, entrepreneurship skills can be introduced in the school or classrooms as well. Most of what we've come to believe about the relationship between social media and business are wrong. There are many myths that are still making rounds in the industry. The following six myth busters should support businesses to spread their reach on social media and embrace it in the right way. Social Media is Not Measurable: Okay, this has been said many times but nothing is farther from the truth than saying social media performance is not measurable. A simple glance at tracking URLs, visibility into your purchase funnel, unified customer databases can answer many of your questions. You can get answers to 'Are we doing social media the right way?' The bottom line is to make social media measurable through inbuilt tools in different social media channels. It's not as complicated as many believe it to be! Social is for Creating New Customers: Most marketers focus only on gaining new customers. A deeper look discloses more than just 'finding new customers'. In fact, roughly 40% of small and medium-sized companies set generating leads as a social media goal. But there's more to social media than getting new clients. Let's put it in simpler terms. Majority of people on your communication list are your existing customers former or current customers. Of course, this makes social media a loyalty and retention game as well, and not just an acquisition platform. It Doesn't Matter What I Post or How Often: Many marketers are still oblivious to the importance of timing and frequency of the posting process. It's never 'good enough' to post anything randomly, whenever you feel like and how much you're okay with. While I don't recommend hours of activity, you should be consistent with your endeavours on these platforms. Next big burning question is what to post. Don't make it all pitch-pitch which MINDIT means that you're not there only to promote your business. Mix up your posts and share tips, reply to queries, share pictures, memes, puzzles, etc. All Negative Feedback Should be Removed: This is a controversial one. Many of my readers wouldn't agree with me. But nevertheless, the truth is that there is no need to be afraid of confrontation. Accept the mistakes and solve the user's issue. Remember that this is also part of your social media tactics. How to deal with Negative Feedback: Ask him/her to move to a more private conversation mode. Solve the issue and inform through a reply. Social media is for People under 25: Young and old both are bitten by the social media craze. And this provides huge opportunities for businesses in terms of promotion, customer acquisition and brand building. So, don't believe the rumour that majority of social media users are below 25 years. People of all ages are there - posting, sharing and even creating content. In short, social media is open to everyone. And you need to cater to all of them. Social Media Requires Mad Coding Skills: Okay, coding is a science and an art, and not everyone is proficient in it. But don't feel disheartened as social media is a different game altogether. The truth is that social media is for building relationships, either for personal and professional reasons. And you need to have strong social skills to build relations with existing and prospective customers. It's always good to understand the algorithm built into social media networks but it doesn't necessitate the need to write codes. 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12 LUCKNOW WEDNESDAY JUNE 6, 2018 Sebi to soon take action in WhatsApp leak case Mkt operators, senior staff members of listed blue-chip firms to face the heat PTI n NEW DELHI ebi will soon take action Sagainst some market operators and senior staff members of about a dozen listed bluechip firms for their alleged involvement in leak of pricesensitive information through WhatsApp. The companies may also face censure action by the market watchdog for alleged lapses in safeguard mechanism to check leak of unpublished price sensitive information (UPSI), including financial results before they were made public for all investors, regulatory sources said. The regulator is close to completing its probe into the matter, including for suspected unlawful gains through insider trading on the basis of leaked information, and is collating the details it had sought from all concerned companies, the officials said. Almost all the companies have replied to Sebi s queries in this regard. According to top officials, the regulator is taking a tough stand on the companies that fail to fix individual responsibility for any leak of price-sensitive information. Besides, the market operators, including staff members of some brokerage firms, are also under the scanner for colluding with the company executives in the case, which came to light late last year. Among various companies from which Sebi had sought details through its interim orders, HDFC Bank last week disclosed in a regulatory filing that it has submitted the requisite information to the regulator. Referring to Sebi s February 23 directions, HDFC Bank said: In this regard, and keeping with its commitment to the highest standards of corporate governance and the integrity of its systems, controls and processes, the Bank has submitted the requisite information and reports to Sebi in compliance with the Sebi directions and within the timelines prescribed therein. Sebi had asked the bank to conduct internal investigations to identify those guilty of the leak and take steps to check any recurrence, and also provide necessary information to the regulator within three months. Apart from HDFC Bank, the regulator has already passed preliminary orders against Tata Motors, Axis Bank and Bata India in this high-profile case, wherein they were asked to conduct internal probes and report back to the regulator. The probe concerns about a dozen listed firms. Soon after the preliminary orders were passed by Sebi, the four companies had said that they would comply with the directions from the regulator. The preliminary probe by Sebi found that the firms quarterly financial results were matching with the figures that were in circulation on WhatsApp groups prior to the official announcement. Sebi began a probe in November 2017 after a media report surfaced with respect to circulation of unpublished price sensitive information in various private WhatsApp groups about certain companies before their official announcements. The regulator had also conducted search and seizure operations in this regard at various places, including on the premises of various market entities. Those being probed by Sebi include auditors, brokers, analysts and investment advisors, besides the company executives, with whom the financial information was shared before being made public through regulatory disclosure on stock exchanges. money 12 Top firms pledge to cut plastics use PTI n NEW DELHI ajor companies across Msectors, including RB, PepsiCo, Nestle and Hyundai, have pledged to reduce usage of plastics in their businesses and enhance recycling on the World Environment Day. FMCG major RB has committed to make 100 per cent of its plastic packaging to be recyclable or reusable by Similarly, food and beverages major PepsiCo India said it would explore ways to scale up recovery and recycling, equivalent to 100 per cent of its post-consumer plastic waste in the next few years. PepsiCo will also pilot firstever plant-based, 100 per cent compostable packaging for Lay s and Kurkure snacks products in India. The responsible use of plastic for packaging is our overriding aim and we have organised our efforts using the 4R approach reduce, reuse, replace, and recycle. We are committed to removing or reducing plastic packaging...and investing in research into alternative materials, RB said in a statement. PepsiCo India President and CEO Ahmed ElSheikh said the company has been working to reduce the impact of its packaging on the environment. We are committed to working with partners to leverage new technologies and developing sustainable, environmentally friendly packaging solutions, he said. ElSheikh further said,...india will be among the first countries to pilot this new, sustainable packaging solution developed by PepsiCo. We plan to launch this pilot in the fourth quarter of Nestle India also said it will continue with its efforts to reduce, recycle and recover towards protecting the environment. In 2017, the company said it reduced packaging material weight by approximately 1,532 tonnes by ensuring eco designing of packaging in a sustainable way. US emerges as top export destination for India New Delhi: The US has emerged as the top export destination for India, with USD 47.9 billion worth of shipments last fiscal, followed by UAE and Hong Kong, as per the commerce ministry data. USA was India s top export market during April- March 2018 with exports reaching USD 47.9 billion, followed by UAE (USD 28.1 billion) and Hong Kong (USD 14.7 billion), the department of commerce said in a series of tweets. In , the country s shipments to America stood at USD 42.2 billion. The other key destinations include China, Singapore, UK, Germany, Bangladesh, Vietnam and Nepal. The top ten exporting products last fiscal included petroleum; pearls, precious, semiprecious stones; pharmaceuticals; engineering goods; chemicals; textiles and rice. According to trade experts, the US would always be the main export destination for domestic exporters as it accounts for about 16 per cent of India s total merchandise shipments. It is a very big market for us as the US is largest economy in the world. We need to give special focus on this market as it is going to be an important destination for our exports, Professor at Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) Rakesh Mohan Joshi said. Federation of Indian Export Organisations (FIEO) Direct General Ajay Sahai said that the US, being the biggest consumer, is extremely important for sectors such as apparels and made ups, leather footwear, pharma and engineering. We have initiated projects on waste management by engaging with relevant stakeholders, Nestle said, adding it also supported initiatives to recycle or recover energy from used plastic. Auto major Hyundai Motor India also announced plans to reduce the usage of plastics across all its offices, dealers and service networks. Commenting on the initiatives, HMIL Director - Sales and Marketing Rakesh Srivastava said: This year s theme is Beating Plastic Pollution, for which we are exploring green alternatives to reduce the usage of plastics across all our offices, dealers and service networks. Hyundai said its initiatives will focus on reducing the usage of plastics at its manufacturing plant in Sriperumbudur near Chennai and across all its 493 Hyundai Dealerships and 1,309 Service Workshops. The company, along with its vendor partners, will also opt for alternative packaging material for spare parts and usage of water-borne paints. Similarly, as part of the World Environment Day initiative Volkswagen asked its customers to book appointments for water-less car wash, a special service initiative from the brand to assist in water conservation and get saplings for plantation. Nikon to contribute 5% of global sales New Delhi: Japanese imaging product major Nikon expects India to contribute around 5 per cent of its global sales in next two financial years mainly on the back of growing sales of DSLR cameras, according to a top company official. Nikon India, the company s wholly-owned arm which today announced top management changes with the appointment of Sajjan Kumar as its new Managing Director, is targeting a turnover of `1,200 crore in the current fiscal. Kumar is the first Indian to lead Nikon s operations here. He takes over from Kazuo Ninomiya, who is moving back to Japan for a new role in Nikon Corporation after completing his three years tenure. India is an emerging market for Nikon and has good potential. We almost contribute 3 per cent to Nikon (sales) globally. We are aiming, at least in next two fiscals, to contribute close to 5 per cent, Nikon India Managing Director Sajjan Kumar told PTI. For the financial year , Nikon India reported a turnover of `1,150 crore, posting a growth of 5 per cent. 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13 LUCKNOW WEDNESDAY JUNE 6, 2018 world 13 Trump-Kim summit to take place at 9 am on June 12 PTI n WASHINGTON he preparations for the Tsummit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jongun next Tuesday in Singapore are going well with significant progress made, the White House said today, painting an upbeat picture of the unprecedented meeting. White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said the two leaders would first meet at 9:00 am local time (6:30 am IST) and that President Trump was receiving daily briefings from his national security team. With just one week to go to the summit, hosted by Singapore, very few details have been publicly confirmed. It remains unclear exactly where in the city state the two leaders will meet. But Washington has made it clear that sanctions would not be lifted against North Korea unless it gave up its nuclear weapons. Commenting on the upcoming summit, Sanders said, I can tell you the president has been receiving daily briefings on North Korea from Indian-origin legal eagle to be Malaysia s new Attorney General Kuala Lumpur: Tommy Thomas, a top ethnic Indian lawyer was today appointed Malaysia s new Attorney General by the king, who appealed to Malaysians to not to create religious or racial conflict over the decision, amid protests from Islamic groups against his nomination. A palace statement said Sultan Muhammad V has approved terminating the current Attorney General Mohamad Apandi Ali and replacing him with Thomas, the first from the minority community to hold the post in 55 years in the Muslim-majority nation. Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad had recently proposed to nominate Thomas, 66, as the Attorney-General, the official Bernama news agency reported. The king called on all Malaysians to accept that the appointment of the Attorney- General should not create religious or racial conflict as every Malaysian should be fairly treated regardless of race and religion. The appointment of Thomas as the top legal officer would not affect the special rights and privileges of the Malays and Bumiputeras, as well as the status of Islam as the the federal religion, the agency said.the king also expressed his disappointment and worry about inaccurate and negative media reports of late which could threaten peace and harmony in the country, it said. London (PTI): An 18-year-old woman has become the UK s youngest convicted female Islamic State terrorist after a court found her guilty of plotting a terror attack on the British Museum here with the country s first all-woman cell. Safaa Boular was accused of planning to travel to Syria to join IS militants and later preparing to carry out a terrorist attack in London after her fiance, an Islamic State fighter, died. A jury at the Old Bailey yesterday found her guilty of two offences of preparation of terrorism acts, the BBC reported.she was also found guilty over an earlier attempt to travel to Syria for terrorism. Her 22-year-old sister Rizlaine has already admitted planning a knife attack on his national security team, and I can also tell you the schedule tentatively, for that first meeting will be on June 12 at 9:00 AM Singapore time, and take place June 11, 9:00 PM East Coast time. The Trump administration, she said, is actively preparing for the summit between the US President and the North Korean leader. There was initially much uncertainty over whether the summit would go ahead at all, and it was briefly called off last month by Trump after a dispute with the North Koreans. The advance team in Singapore is finalising logistical preparations and will remain in place until the summit begins. In the Demilitarised Zone, the US Ambassador s delegation continues diplomatic negotiations with the North Korean delegation. Discussions have been very positive, and significant progress has been made, Sanders said. Last week, Trump met with a top North Korean official at the White House to plan for the summit. Kim Yong Chol, a top aide of Kim handed over to Trump a letter from the North Korean leader. I am not going to get into the specifics of the letter, but as the president said, they were interesting, and we feel like things are continuing to move forward, and good progress has been made, and we re continuing to prepare for the president s summit, Sanders said. When asked whether Trump supports a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Kim, she said the focus of the administration right now was the President s meeting with the North Korean leader. And the President will make his views known directly to him when we re in Singapore, and our focus will continue to be on denuclearisation, Sanders said. Responding to a question on maximum pressure policy on North Korea, the press secretary said the US policy towards Pyongyang has not changed. Trump has credited his maximum pressure policy with bringing North Korea to the negotiating table. Our policy hasn t changed. And as the president stated, we have sanctions on. They re very powerful, and we would not take those sanctions off unless North Korea denuclearises, she said. Pak caretaker govt takes charge till polls on July 25 PTI n ISLAMABAD six-member caretaker fed- Cabinet on Tuesday Aeral took oath to run the Pakistan government under interim Prime Minister Nasirul Mulk till the general election on July 25. President Mamnoon Hussain administered the oath of office to the members of the Cabinet at the President House which was attended among others, by caretaker prime minister and retired Supreme Court judge Mulk. m President Hussain had administered the oath to 67-year-old Mulk, who was unanimously nominated for the post by both the government and opposition, on June 1. Those who took oath on Tuesday include Shamshad Akhtar, Roshan Khurshid, Ali Zafar, Abdullah Hussain Haroon, Azam Khan and Muhammad Yousaf Sheikh. The Prime Minister s Office said that Haroon was appointed as the foreign minister and he will have additional charge of the ministries of defence and defence production. Haroon belongs to a leading business family of Karachi and has served as Guatemala volcano death toll up to 69 El Rodeo (AP): Rescuers pulled survivors and bodies from the charred aftermath of the powerful eruption of Guatemala s Volcano of Fire, as the death toll rose to 69 today and was expected to go higher from a disaster that caught residents of remote mountain hamlets off guard, with little or no time to flee to safety. Using shovels and backhoes, emergency workers dug through the debris and mud, perilous labour on smoldering terrain still hot enough to melt shoe soles a day after the volcano exploded in a hail of ash, smoke and molten rock. Bodies were so thickly coated with ash that they looked like statues, and rescuers were forced to use sledgehammers to break through the roofs of houses buried in debris up to their rooflines to try to see if anyone was trapped inside. Fanuel Garcia, director of the National Institute of Forensic Sciences, said 69 bodies had been recovered and 17 of those had been identified. It is very difficult for us to identify them because some of the dead lost their features or their fingerprints from the red-hot flows, Garcia said. We are going to have to resort to other methods... and if possible take DNA samples to identify them. Hilda Lopez said her mother and sister were still missing after the slurry of hot gas, ash and rock roared into her village of San Miguel Los Lotes, just below the mountain s flanks. We were at a party, celebrating the birth of a baby, when one of the neighbors shouted at us to come out and see the lava that was coming, the distraught woman said. We didn t believe it, and when we went out the hot mud was already coming down the street. My mother was stuck there, she couldn t get out, said Lopez, weeping and holding her face in her hands.her husband, Joel Gonzalez, said his father had also been unable to escape and was believed to be buried back there, at the house. Guatemalan authorities say they had been closely monitoring the Volcano of Fire, one PTI n LONDON lobal warming can be limit- to 1.5 degrees Celsius by Ged improving the energy efficiency of our everyday activities such as travel, indoor heating and device use, according to a study. Published in the journal Nature Energy, the study shows that dramatic improvements in the energy efficiency of everyday activities can raise living standards in the global South to meet UN Sustainable Development Goals while also remaining within the 1.5 degrees Celsius target set by the 2015 Paris Agreement. Improved living standards for all need not come with a large increase in energy demand at the expense of the global environment, said researchers from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria. The study is also the first Relatives cry over the coffin of Nery Otoniel Gomez Rivas, 17, whose body was pulled from the volcanic ash during the eruption of the Volcan de Fuego, which in Spanish means Volcano of Fire, during his wake at the main park of the town San Juan Alotenango, Guatemala on Monday. AP of Central America s most active, after activity picked up around 6 am Sunday. The volcano has registered a number of minor eruptions over the years, and no evacuations were ordered as scientific experts reported the activity was decreasing.guatemala s disaster agency, Conred, issued a number of standard precautions, advising people to wear protective face masks, clean Trump has not done anything wrong, so no need for pardon PTI n WASHINGTON onald Trump has not done Danything wrong and therefore there would be no need for a pardon, the White House has said, sidestepping questions about the US president s remarks that he has the absolute right to pardon himself. Trump on Monday said that he has absolute right to pardon himself as he slammed the opposition Democratic party for witch-hunt against him alleging that the appointment of a special counsel is unconstitutional. Former FBI Director Robert Mueller is the Special Counsel appointed by the Department of Justice to investigate into the allegation of London teen becomes UK s youngest convicted female IS terrorist London and their mother Mina Dich, 44, has pleaded guilty to assisting her. Boular will be sentenced in around six weeks time, the report said. During her trial, the court heard how Boular - then 17 - plotted a gun and grenade attack at the British Museum. The sisters and Dich discussed their plans using Alice in Wonderland coded language, with Rizlaine as the Mad Hatter. Russian interference in the 2016 presidential elections in Trump s favour. Thankfully, the President has not done anything wrong and wouldn t have any need for a pardon, White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders told reporters. Sanders, at her daily news conference, was flooded with questions on President Trump pardoning himself, after he twitted that he had an absolute right to pardon himself. Certainly, the Constitution very clearly lays out the law. And, once again, the President hasn t done anything wrong, and we feel very comfortable in that front, she said. Certainly no one is above the law, she added. The assumption that president has done anything wrong is incorrect, she asserted in response to another question. It seems like it would be a completely wrong assumption. The president has not done anything wrong, she said. Earlier, Trump tweeted, As has been stated by numerous legal scholars, I have the absolute right to PARDON myself, but why would I do that when I have done nothing wrong? The appointment of the Special Counsel is totally UNCONSTITUTIONAL! Despite that, we play the game because I, unlike the Democrats, have done nothing wrong! he added in a second tweet. ever to show how the 1.5 degrees Celsius target can be reached without relying on unproven technologies such as bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (CCS) which remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and bury it. Our analysis shows how a range of new social, behavioral and technological innovations, combined with strong policy support for energy efficiency and low-carbon development, their rooftops of ash once the eruption was over and cover any food and water intended for human consumption. It also said to heed any recommendations from authorities. Guatemala City s international airport was closed due to the danger to planes. Conred spokesman David de Leon said that around 2 p.m. the volcano registered a new, more powerful explosion. Israel calls for military coalition if Iran boosts enrichment Jerusalem (AFP): Israel s intelligence minister on Monday called for a military coalition against Iran if the Islamic Republic were to defy world powers by enriching military-grade uranium. Yisrael Katz s remarks came as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu began visiting European leaders to discuss Iran s regional involvement and nuclear programme, both seen by the Jewish state as grave threats. European powers have been scrambling to preserve a landmark deal over Tehran s nuclear programme since US President Donald Trump announced Washington s withdrawal from the treaty in May. can help reverse the historical trajectory of ever-rising energy demand, said Arnulf Grubler, lead author of the study. A rapid downsizing of the global energy system between now and 2050 makes it much more feasible to transition away from fossil fuels and towards renewables and electricity to provide for development needs while limiting the impacts of climate change, said Charlie Wilson from IIASA and also the University of East Anglia in the UK. The team examined a wide range of innovations Pakistan s ambassador at the UN. Azam Khan, former chief secretary of Khyber- Pakhtunkhwa province, was appointed as the interior minister. Former governor of the State Bank of Pakistan, Akhtar was appointed as finance minister. She had made history after becoming the first female governor of the central bank ( ). Zafar, a renowned legal expert, was given charge of the law ministry. After the oath taking ceremony, the caretaker prime minister and his Cabinet members also held a meeting with President Hussain. AP n WASHINGTON ormer Trump campaign Fchairman Paul Manafort made several attempts to tamper with witnesses in his ongoing criminal cases, prosecutors said today as they asked a federal judge to consider jailing him while he awaits trial. In a court filing, prosecutors working for special counsel Robert Mueller wrote that Manafort and one of his associates repeatedly contacted two witnesses in an effort to influence their testimony. The contacts occurred earlier this year, shortly after a grand jury returned a new indictment against Manafort and while he was confined to his home. The filing marks the second time that Mueller s team has accused Manafort of violating a judge s order in the case. Late last year, federal agents discovered that Manafort was attempting to ghostwrite an opinion piece in Ukraine even though he was under a gag order in the case. In the latest court documents, prosecutors say that while he was under house arrest, Manafort and his associate attempted to get two witnesses to lie about the nature of lobbying and public relations work they carried out at Manafort s direction on behalf of Ukraine. The court documents do not name Manafort s associate, but they refer to him as Person A and note the pseudonym is consistent with previous filings in the case. In earlier filings, Person A has referred to Konstantin Kilimnik, a longtime Manafort associate who prosecutors have said has ties to Russian intelligence. Kilimnik, who has denied having connections to Russian intelligence agencies, was also involved in the ghostwritten op-ed matter. Reached Monday evening, Manafort spokesman Jason Maloni said his client and his Warming can be limited to 1.5 C by improving everyday activities: Study The president expressed the confidence that the caretaker set up will fulfil its responsibilities regarding conduct of free, fair and transparent elections in the country scheduled on July 25. He said it is a matter of satisfaction that a democratically elected government completed its tenure for the second time. Interim Prime Minister Mulk has said that he will serve the nation in accordance with the powers bestowed on him for the next two months. He added that the country should be run according to the Constitution of Pakistan. Iran tells UN it will hike uranium enrichment capacity Tehran (AFP): Iran has notified the International Atomic Energy Agency that it has launched a plan to increase its uranium enrichment capacity, nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi said on Tuesday. If conditions allow, maybe tomorrow night at Natanz, we can announce the opening of the centre for production of new centrifuges for uranium enrichment, said Salehi, a vice president and head of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organisation, according to conservative news agency Fars. What we are doing does not violate the (2015 nuclear) agreement, he said, adding that a letter was submitted to the IAEA yesterday regarding the start of certain activities. He specified that this was just the start of the production process and does not mean that we will start assembling the centrifuges. Under the 2015 agreement, Iran can build parts for the centrifuges as long as it does not put them into operation within the first decade. Salehi also emphasised that these moves do not mean the negotiations (with Europe) have failed. Mueller s team accuses Paul Manafort of witness tampering at the fringes of current markets that could help reduce emissions if they became mainstream. Drawing on detailed studies of energy used in transport, in homes and offices, and in the manufacture of consumer goods, they found evidence of two- to four-fold reductions in the amount of energy required to move people and goods around, to provide comfort in buildings, and to meet the material needs of growing populations, particularly in the global South. They identified a number of key innovations, for example, shared and on-demand fleets of more energy efficient electric vehicles with increased occupancy can reduce global energy demand for transport by 60 per cent by 2050 while reducing the number of vehicles on the road. attorneys were reviewing the filing.the two witnesses were also not named in court filings. But prosecutors say they were principals in a public relations firm that worked with Manafort in organizing a group of former European officials, known as the Hapsburg group, who promoted Ukrainian interests in Europe as well as the US. The group s work factors into an indictment against Manafort that accuses him of acting as an unregistered foreign agent by lobbying in the U.S. on behalf of Ukrainian interests. Prosecutors say Manafort directed the group s work and secretly funneled about $2 million to it to take positions favorable to Ukraine including by lobbying in the US. Manafort has denied any wrongdoing and pleaded not guilty. Several members of the Hapsburg group have previously denied the allegations. According to the court filing, Manafort began messaging and calling one of the witnesses in February shortly the unsealing of the indictment that included the allegations of unregistered lobbying related to the Hapsburg group. Around that same time, Manafort s co-defendant and longtime business associate, Rick Gates, pleaded guilty and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors. The day after Gates plea, Manafort messaged and called one of the witnesses and continued reaching out over the next several days, according to a sworn affidavit filed by an FBI agent in the case. In one call, the agent wrote, Manafort said he wanted to give the witness a heads-up about Hapsburg. The individual immediately ended the call because he was concerned about the outreach, according to the affidavit. On February 26, Manafort sent the person a series of messages through an encrypted application, including a link to a Business Insider story with the headline: Former European leaders struggle to explain themselves after Mueller claims Paul Manafort paid them to lobby for Ukraine. Another message said, We should talk. I have made clear that they worked in Europe. The witness told investigators that he interpreted Manafort s efforts to reach him as a way to influence his potential statements. The person believed from his experience that the Hapsburg group lobbied in the United States and knew that Manafort knew that as well, the agent wrote. Court papers also accuse Person A of making several attempts to influence the witnesses testimony in February and later in April. That month, Person A wrote to one of the witnesses, My friend P is looking for ways to connect to you to pass you several messages. He then asked if that could be arranged. Miss America dropping swimsuit competition Atlantic City (AP): The Miss America Organization is dropping the swimsuit competition from its nationally televised broadcast, saying it will no longer judge contestants on their appearance. Gretchen Carlson, a former Miss America who is head of the organization s board of trustees, made the announcement today on Good Morning America. She also says the group will make changes to the evening wear portion of the competition, adding it will not judge women on their chosen attire. The changes follow an scandal in December in which former leaders denigrated the intelligence and personal lives of former Miss Americas.That led to a shakeup at the top, and the group s top three leadership posts are now held by women.the changes will start with this year s broadcast on September 9.

14 It's great to reach the semi-finals for a third year but it's time to take another step and I will do everything for that Dominic Thiem after win in quarters LUCKNOW WEDNESDAY JUNE 6, AFP n PARIS D ominic Thiem reached his third successive French Open semifinal on Tuesday with a 6-4, 6-2, 6-1 demolition of a hobbled and exhausted Alexander Zverev. Thiem, the Austrian seventh seed, goes on to face either 2016 champion and 12-time major winner Novak Djokovic or Italy's world number 72 Marco Cecchinato for a place in Sunday's final. German second seed Zverev simply ran out of gas, paying a heavy price for needing three successive five-set matches to reach his first Grand Slam quarter-final. His Roland Garros marathon also left him physically drained - he needed his left thigh strapped in the second set. "He is one of the fittest guys on the tour so it was difficult for him on Tuesday," said Thiem, the only man to have defeated 10-time French Open champion Rafael Nadal on clay this year. THE SEVENTH-SEEDED THIEM IS THE ONLY PLAYER TO HAVE DEFEATED RAFAEL NADAL ON CLAY THIS SEASON "I hope we have many more matches at the Grand Slams but when we are 100 percent. "It's great to reach the semi-finals for a third year but it's time to take another step and I will do everything for that." The statistics made bleak reading for Zverev - he finished with 42 unforced errors and just 19 winners. In a tight first set of a match played in overcast, heavy conditions, Thiem converted the only break point off a backhand winner in the seventh game before securing the opener with an ace. Zverev, who had spent more than two and a half hours than his Austrian opponent getting to this stage, hit 13 unforced errors to Thiem's miserly eight. A double break took the 24-year- Austria's Dominic Thiem celebrates after winning his quarterfinal match against Alexander Zverev AP old Austrian to 4-1 in the second set before Zverev needed a medical timeout for a leg injury. With his left thigh heavily strapped, the 21-year-old German was soon two sets down and looking at having to become the first player to win four consecutive five-setters if he was to make the semi-finals. Zverev managed just four winners in the second set. There was no coming back for the big-hearted German who was quickly down 4-0 in the third before Thiem wrapped up the affair. CILIC COMPLETES Q/F LINEUP Earlier on Monday night, Juan Martin del Potro and Marin Cilic, both former US Open champions, completed the quarterfinal lineup with wins. Cilic, runner-up at the Australian Open in January, was up two sets and seemingly cruising against Fabio Fognini before the hard-to-dislodge Italian took the next two sets, saving a match point along the way. The thirdseeded Cilic ultimately prevailed 6-4, 6-1, 3-6, 6-7 (4), 6-3. "Just a crazy match," the thirdseeded Cilic said. Fognini saved match point at 4-5 in the fourth set before forcing the tiebreaker. Cilic made no mistake when the second match point finally came in the fifth set. "It was just hanging by a thread," the Croatian said. "A couple of points decided it." While, Argentina's Del Potro, Cilic's next opponent, had a more straightforward 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 win against big-serving John Isner, who served 12 aces but fell short of becoming the first American man to reach the quarterfinals since Andre Agassi in 2003, despite hopeful chants of "U-S- A!, U-S-A!" from the crowd. "I was outplayed by a large margin," Isner said. "I would have liked to maybe put up a better fight." Isner served 12 aces but fell short of becoming the first American man to reach the quarterfinals since Andre Agassi in The fifth-seeded del Potro reached the semifinals in 2009, the same year he also won the US Open. THIEM ROUTS WEARY ZVEREV Seventh-seed Austrian reaches 3rd successive French Open semis with staright sets victory Keys, Stephens to renew rivalry AP n PARIS ver Lenglen, meanwhile, OMadison Keys reached her first French Open semifinal by defeating unseeded Yulia Putintseva 7-6 (5), 6-4. Although not known as a clay-court specialist, the 13thseeded Keys has not lost a set at Roland Garros. "Today is a perfect example of what I have been trying to do, and I think it showed today," Keys said. "Because there were times when I had to go back and hit a higher ball, where maybe before I would have tried to hit a line-drive winner." While Putintseva regularly lost her composure, Keys stayed calm throughout and the bighitting American secured victory on her first match point with a powerful serve which clipped Putintseva's racket and flew into the crowd. Her box, including threetime major winner Lindsay Davenport, rose to acclaim Keys, who lost last year's U.S. Open final to friend and countrywoman Sloane Stephens. They will meet again in the semifinals after the 10th-seeded Stephens easily beat 14th-seeded Daria Kasatkina 6-3, 6-1 on Court Philippe Chatrier. She clinched the victory on her first match point with a forehand winner to reach the last four at Roland Garros for the first time. The 98th-ranked Putintseva was trying to become the first player from Kazakhstan to advance to a Grand Slam semifinal anywhere. She had her chances against Keys, troubling her with deft drop shots and spinning, looping forehands, but could not hold her nerve. After losing the first-set tiebreaker, she started ranting at her box and struck the ground Madison Keys celebrates after winning her quarterfinal match against Kazakhstan's Yulia Putintseva at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris on Tuesday AP with her racket in frustration. Known for her short fuse, she lived up to it, regularly spinning around to glare at her box with looks of incomprehension and hand-flapping gestures; or at other times mumbling to herself in frustration. In the second game of the second set, she was convinced an incorrect call went in favor of Keys and asked the chair umpire to come down and check it. "My God," Putintseva said as she walked away. "I can't believe... unbelievable." She spoke ironically about it after the match. "He (the umpire) decided that the mark from the tennis ball should be, like, from basketball or something," Putintseva said. "So I don't know where he was completing and what he was completing, because I think if we watch on the Hawk-Eye, the ball is totally out." S I N G L E S INDIA EVES EYEING TO EXTEND DOMINANCE KUALA LAMPUR: Comfortably placed atop the table with a couple of convincing victories, a confident India will eye to extend their supremacy in the Women's T20 Asia Cup when they take on Bangladesh in their third outing at the Kinrara Academy Oval here on Wednesday. All the Indian batswomen are in fine form. They will aim to repeat the show against Bangladesh to retain the top spot in the table. The Bangladesh women sit at the fourth place with one win from two games. They came back strongly in hammering Pakistan by seven wickets after loss against Lanka in tournament opener. ZIMBABWE PLAYERS THREATEN T20 BOYCOTT HARARE: Zimbabwe players have threatened to boycott the upcoming T20I triseries against Pakistan and Australia from July 1 if their outstanding salaries and match fees were not cleared by June 25. According to a report, the Zimbabweans are owed three months' salary and match fees from their tour of Sri Lanka last July and have already opted not to train ahead of the tri-series as a first sign of protest. A Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) spokesperson, however, appeared optimistic that a solution to this situation is nearly at hand. "Due to a very difficult financial situation, ZC has been unable to meet paying player and staff salaries in time. However, because this is a matter of top priority, ZC has been working round the clock to address the challenge and, as promised to the players, ZC expects to start processing payments this week," he said. WINLESS ANAND TO FACE LAGRAVE STAVANGER: Five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand would be desperate to secure his first victory when he meets Maxime Vachier-Lagrave of France after the second and final rest day of the Altibox Norwway chess tournament here. With three rounds still to come in what is known as the strongest tournament of the year, Anand has 2.5 points in his kitty coming from all draws. The Indian ace still has to play Fabiano Caruana of United States and ultra-solid Sergey Karjakin of Ukraine in the remaining rounds. SHUBHANKAR QUALIFIES FOR US OPEN COLUMBUS: Shubhankar Sharma's magnificent year continued as the Indian grabbed a spot in next week's US Open Golf Championships with a solid display of in the qualifiers here. The prestigious tournament will be held at the the Shinnecock Hills. In the qualifiers held at Brookside GCC and Lakes Golf and Country Club, the 21-year-old was tied fifth. Two other Indians Shiv Kapur and Arjun Atwal failed to earn a spot. Sharma has already played the Masters this year on a special invite and has now qualified for the US Open. Agencies IANS n TRINIDAD Lanka will aim to register their first ever Test Sseries win in the West Indies when they take on take on the hosts in the first of the three-test rubber at the Queen's Park Oval here from Wednesday. Both teams will meet in the longest format of the game after a gap of more than West Indies vs Sri Lanka Live from 7:30pm IST SONY SIX NETWORK two years, having last faced off during Windies' tour of Sri Lanka in October Going by current form, Sri Lanka hold the upper hand to re-write the record books, having won two of their last five Tests and drawing three. On the other hand, this will be the first Test of the year for the Jason Holder-led side, who last played a five-day match against New Zealand in December PTI n NEW DELHI ierce rivals on court, badminton Fstars Saina Nehwal and P V Sindhu are training at separate academies of national coach Pullela Gopichand ever since their epic Commonwealth Games summit clash in Gold Coast, eager to ensure that neither of them gets a whiff of the other's strategies and improvisations. Both are still under the aegis of national coach Pullela Gopichand, who is dividing his time at two of his academies to train his most famous proteges. The development is a direct fallout of the CWG singles showdown in which Saina got the better of Sindhu in a gruelling contest. "Sindhu was not comfortable training at the new academy. Since it is an individual sport, there will always be competition, so to hold on to her own tactics, she decided to train at the old academy after the Commonwealth Games," Sindhu's father PV Ramana said. "If they train together, both will be able to gauge each other's weaknesses and also how fit the other is, what each is working on, what difficulties they are facing. "It is similar to how Saina had O T H E R S P O R T SL eye Test series win in Caribbean Sri Lankan players during training session Indian shuttlers Saina Nehwal (L) and PV Sindhu in a file picture left the academy and trained under Vimal Kumar and then she again came back to the Gopichand academy after three years," he added. Gopichand's second training centre is about half a kilometre away from the old one. The players have been training at the new academy since it became operational a few years ago. Asked about Sindhu's training schedule and how she is managing AFP her sparring partners, Ramana said: "Gopi trains her in morning from 7 to 8:30 and then two Indonesian coaches make her play. Then there are junior boys and doubles players. So I don't think sparring is a problem. "As a sportsperson, you know what you want after a certain level. They are all mature players now, they know their mistakes and evolve their strategies." Going into the first Test, the hosts will be relying on their senior pros to shoulder the responsibilities and take an early lead into the series. The batting responsibilities will rest on Kraigg Brathwaite's shoulders, who will be assisted by Shai Hope, Roston Chase, the recalled Devon Smith and Kieran Powell. Shanon Gabriel is expected to lead the bowling attack, to be helped by the experienced Kemar Roach, Miguel Cummins, Holder and leg-spinner Devendra Bishoo. Sri Lanka, who won 1-0 in the two-test series against Bangladesh in February, had some injury concerns with their first-choice squad. But they have three batsmen who have enjoyed good recent form - Roshen Silva, Kusal Mendis and Dhananjaya de Silva, who joined the squad late after the untimely death of his father. The Islanders can also boast of the experienced hands of captain Dinesh Chandimal, who warmed up with a century against West Indies President's XI in a practice game, Kushal Perera, Niroshan Dickwella and veteran all-rounder Angelo Mathews. Suranga Lakmal will spearhead the bowling attack with assistance from fellow quicks Lahiru Gamage and Lahiru Kumara as well as spinner Akila Dananjaya. The experienced Rangana Herath, as always, will be a threat. Sindhu, Saina train separately ahead of busy schedule AFP The Gold Coast loss was Sindhu's third successive against the Saina, following defeats at the 2017 National championship final and 2018 Indonesia Open quarterfinal. Rio Olympic Games Silvermedallist Sindhu had to skip the mixed team event due to an ankle strain suffered ahead of the Commonwealth Games and played only the individual event at Gold Coast. Asked if she was 100 percent in the final, Ramana said: "If you are on court, you are 100 percent. There will always be problems but you can't give any excuses. Sindhu knows that win or loss is not permanent. It is a part and parcel of life and so one shouldn't boast or give excuses." "She is fully fit now. We are taking care of her fitness. Sindhu's physio Gayatri Shetty is also working with her. So her training is going on well. "She will play the Malaysian Open this month and then Indonesia and Thailand but will skip the Singapore Open to train for World Championship in China before heading to the Asian Games," added the Arjuna Awardee, who was part of the Indian volleyball team which won a Bronze medal at the 1986 Asian Games. IPL gave me huge confidence: Buttler PTI n LONDON ngland's Jos Buttler has Eattributed his success on Test recall to a stint in the Indian Premier League, saying the confidence gained from there aided his uncomplicated approach and resulted in runs here. Buttler, who followed his 67 in the first Test against Pakistan at Lord's with an unbeaten 80 in Leeds, was a surprise selection for the series against Pakistan, having not made a first-class century since January "Those couple of weeks in the IPL gave me huge amounts of confidence," Buttler said. "To be in those pressure situations in India, playing in front of crowds, the pressure of being an overseas player. That showed me a lot about where I was at and where I can get to, so that gave me a lot of confidence. "For me, not trying to worry about the colour of the ball definitely helps. Having put in good performances elsewhere and not putting as much pressure on myself." With 20 Tests under his belt, the 27-year-old believes he is in a better place mentally to cope with the demands of five-days cricket. "Now my mentality is quite similar to my first few Tests. I'm not worrying about external factors. I'm just trying to play the game and trusting myself. "In T20 there's generally another game soon after, so you know you've got another opportunity coming up. You probably just move on if you fail. But in Test cricket, if you get out early, you have a long time to think about it." Being dropped from the squad, he felt, was a blessing in disguise. "I started to think too much about how to not get out, as opposed to how to score runs. I got in a really bad rut that I just couldn't get out of. The only real way to get out of it was to be Jos Buttler celebrates after scoring fifty against Pakistan at Leeds AP dropped. And actually, being dropped released a lot of pressure. "It wasn't very long after that that I made an ODI hundred in Dubai, which was a turnaround for me after a long and hard six months." ENGLAND RECALL BALL England called up Nottinghamshire seamer Jake Ball as cover for the injured Chris Woakes in their squad to face Australia in a five-match one-day series this month. Woakes joined Ben Stokes on the sidelines through injury. Both will be unavailable to take on Scotland in Sunday's one-off one-day international and for the "first part" of the series against Australia. Ball played the last of his 17 ODIs to date at Perth in January in the 4-1 series victory over Australia. He has taken 21 wickets, with a best of five for 51, but averages "Nottinghamshire seamer Jake Ball has been drafted into England's ODI squad for the Royal London series against Australia as cover for all-rounder Chris Woakes," the England and Wales Cricket Board said in a statement.

15 LUCKNOW WEDNESDAY JUNE 6, 2018 sport 15 NO MORE PLEAS TO SWELL RANKS Coach Constantine feels India deserves unbelievable turnout without begging as tributes flow in for Chhetri IANS n KOLKATA C oach Stephen Constantine says the Indian football team has done enough in the last few years to merit a decent crowd turnout, and begging for support was one thing it did not deserve. Constantine was asked about skipper Sunil Chhetri's impassioned plea urging people to come and cheer the team in the ongoing Intercontinental Cup here. Chhetri's video post struck a chord with the Mumbaikars, who turned up in droves for the second game against Kenya, two days after giving the tournament opener a miss. It was Chhetri's 100th international game and he made it memorable by scoring a brace and guiding India into the final following a 3-0 win. As the discussion turned to crowd at the post-match press conference, Constantine said, "Look, I have said it before and I don't feel that we should be begging people to come and watch the national team. "The response today was unbelievable, what I expect from the Blue Pilgrims and the rest of the people, it's not only the Blue Pilgrims. "... But the national team is playing in the manner, we've been playing for last three and half years, and the things that we have achieved in three and half years, (and) we still feel disappointed to see such a crowd in the last game. He added, "On Monday I thank every single one of them and I expect them to be here for the following two games." From 2000 for the game against Chinese Taipei, the number of fans swelled to almost 9000 for Monday night's match, pretty impressive for a stadium that can accommodate around people. Courtesy the win, India are in the final of the competition, to be played on June 10, and before that they take on New Zealand on Thursday. Constantine said that he was delighted over this win and for Chhetri. "I was thinking before this game, who is going to spoil this day for him (Chhetri) and for us. I am delighted that IANS n GRAZ, AUSTRIA erbia lost to Chile in the first of their S2018 World Cup warm-up matches, conceding a late goal to Guillermo Maripan. The centre-back headed in from close range two minutes from time to earn a deserved win for Reinaldo Rueda's side on Monday. Former Manchester United and Wigan striker Angelo Henriquez missed an open goal from three yards out. At the other end Newcastle United's Aleksandar Mitrovic was denied a penalty after Erick Pulgar's challenge. The South American squad, which failed to qualify for the World Cup, dominated the first half on the efforts of Junior Fernandes and Angelo Sagal. It had rested stars Alexis Sanchez and Arturo Vidal for the friendly, opting for a younger side. Serbia chose to leave Manchester United midfielder Nemanja Matic and Lazio's Sergej Milinkovic-Savic on the bench, instead starting Liverpool's Marko Grujic. Looking sluggish and sloppy, the Serbs created only one serious chance before the break, a strike by Aleksandar Kolarov in the 40th minute that tested Chile goalkeeper Gabriel Arias. he got a couple of goals and obviously delighted that we won. So, I don't think that he is going to forget it for some time," the coach stated. Constantine said that the aim was to make the final of the four-nation tournament. "Firstly I am going to congratulate the boys for a hard-fought win. Difficult conditions obviously because with the rain, we couldn't play particularly well in the first half, gave them too much space, difficult to play in those conditions. "By the way another clean-sheet, thank you (pointing towards Sandesh Jhinghan). It takes us into the final of this tournament, which is what we wanted to achieve from the beginning. (Focus on) next game (now)," noted Constantine. The gaffer highlighted the work rate of the players in the comprehensive victory and also pointed out that the performance in the second half was far better than the first. " But in the second half, we did the job that we were supposed to do. As we did in the previous game, won most of the second balls in the second half, controlled the tempo, controlled the pace. Kenya, they are always going to be a difficult side, whichever team they bring. I am very pleased at winning," he added. "The second half, we were much much better and that is the reason we won the game," Constantine noted. The head coach also said that at the lemon break, players were showed clippings of how the proceedings went in the first half. He thanked the staff at the Andheri Sports Complex for the work they put in, despite heavy rain lashing in the first half. He also requested the government to send a team to the Asian Games in Indonesia. Meanwhile, central defender Sandesh Jhinghan opined that there was no added pressure for the game. "There is never any pressure to play in front of such a full crowd. It was extra motivation from the moment we entered the stadium. We knew we had to deliver and we did," Jhinghan said. INDIA SHOULD DO WELL IN ASIAN CUP KOLKATA: Heaping praise on his former teammate and skipper Sunil Chhetri, veteran India defender Gouramangi Singh on Tuesday backed the Indian team to deliver in the Asian Cup next year owing to their recent performances. India rode Chhetri's second half double on his 100th game for the country to blank Kenya 3-0 in the Intercontinental Serbia lose, Morocco impress in pre-wc friendlies Preparations in the city of Bhubaneswar are in full swing ahead of the much anticipated Hockey Men's World Cup which is scheduled from 28 November - 16 December this year at the Kalinga Hockey Stadium. The Odisha state government and the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) have been chalking out massive plans to give a facelift to the host city and state as measures are being taken to improve infrastructure, transportation and ambience for the competition. After the successful organisation of the Men's Hockey World League final last year, which saw Bhubaneswar play hosts to eight participating nations including India, the city will soon be hosting the Men's World Cup. With less than six months to go for the 16- team competition, the local civic body will be executing three main projects which will help in building the core infrastructure within the city. First of the these few measures will be to provide mechanical sweeping to an 80-kilometres stretch of main road which will include areas around the Kalinga Hockey Stadium. "We are taking several measures to ensure that the World Cup is a grand success, said sports secretary Vishal Dev. The city of Bhubaneswar is going through a massive overhaul which will make it a favourable destination for all hockey enthusiasts from across the globe. Through the collaboration between Bhubaneswar Development Authority, Odisha Tourism and multiple other state departments, we are working towards elevating the holistic experience for the visiting fans Morocco s Ayoub El Kaabi celebrates against Slovakia DUTCH DRAW ITALY 1-1 TURIN: The Netherlands scored late to hold 10-man Italy to 1-1 in a friendly in Turin on Monday with Nathan Ake headed in two minutes from time to cancel out Simone Zaza's opener. Italy played the final 21 minutes a man down after defender Domenico Criscito was harshly sent off for a poor last-man tackle. Both teams, which used to be powerhouses of football, failed to qualify for the World Cup and it was not hard to see why. Although Italy created the better of the chances they floundered in front of goal, while the Netherlands struggled to muster a shot on target until late in the match. AP Sunil Chhetri greets the audience at the Andheri Sports Complex in Mumbai during Monday s Intercontinental Cup match against Kenya Serbia continue their tournament preparation with a friendly against Bolivia on Saturday before their opening Group E match against Costa Rica on June 17. Five-time champions Brazil, Costa Rica and Switzerland are the other teams in Group E. MOROCCO BEAT SLOVAKIA GENEVA: Morocco impressed again in their World Cup preparation, beating Slovakia 2-1 in a warmup game on Monday. After trailing to Slovakia's only shot on target, Morocco got goals midway through the second half from Ayoud Al Kaabi and Younes Belhanda. Al Kaabi stooped in the goalmouth to guide a 63rd-minute header into the net after a corner was deflected to the far post. The corner was earned from goalkeeper Michael Sulla's excellent save to push away a header by little midfielder Mbark Boussoufa. The winning goal in the 74th was a low bouncing shot struck by Younes Belhanda from the edge of the penalty area. Slovakia led in the 57th when midfielder Jan Gregus scored with a low shot. Morocco returned to Stade de Geneve from their Swiss Alps training camp four days after drawing with Ukraine 0-0 and showcasing their neat passing style. and the people of Odisha. We want the fans to walk away having witnessed top quality hockey action intertwined with the rich cultural heritage that Odisha offers, Dev added. An official press release also revealed that around 100 e-toilets will be set-up in the city during the tournament to make sure that the sanitation situation is taken care of and tourists from all parts of the world can enjoy a clean and green environment. These e-toilets will be made of stainless steel and might have auto cleaning facility. A better drainage system will also be put in place to deal with the monsoons. The Works Department has devised a plan to have a proposed drainage system which shall help in ending the logging plights, as the sides of all major roads will be constructed to make them free of any water logging. Secondary and tertiary drains across the city are also being cleaned by the local body to give the city an improved look. The beautification of the city will see a similar ploy as was used during the Asian Athletics Championships 2017 as wall-paintings will be Cup and storm into the final. Jeje Lalpekhlua also got on the scoresheet with a delectable pile driver off a rebound as India made it two out of two wins. They had thrashed Chinese Taipei 5-0 in the tournament opener thanks to a Chhetri hattrick. Under coach Stephen Constantine, India have won 13 of their last 16 games and with this meet being taken as a preparation to the 2019 AFC Asian Cup, Gouramangi said the team is just on the right track. "Like they say winning is a habit, every win gives the team a moral high. Sunil is the leader and gives the final touch but since football is a team game, we cannot overlook or deny the excellence of each member in the team," Gouramangi said. Gouramangi was part of India's last Asian Cup campaign in 2011 where they lost all three group games. "I feel India will do very well in the Asian Cup next year. The rest of the team (barring Chhetri), Jeje, Sandesh also Udanta (Singh), Pritam (Kotal), Anas (Edathodika), Gurpreet (Singh Sandhu) are the ones who lead up to the wins," said the veteran centre-back who was an integral part in India's 2008 AFC Challenge Cup win where Chhetri scored a treble in the final. In next year's Asian Cup, India have been clubbed with Bahrain, Thailand and United Arab Emirates in Group A. On Chhetri, Gouramangi jogged back time to the days when they shared the dressing room, stating that the iconic striker deserves all the accolades on completing a century of caps for the national team. "He deserves every bit of the milestone. We all work hard but he has done it for so long and with such consistency. It's no cakewalk. "We had some memorable years together with the national team which we all will cherish for life," Gouramangi said. Chhetri now has 61 goals for the country, just behind superstars Lionel Messi (64) and Cristiano Ronaldo (81). India take on higher-ranked New Zealand on Thursday. The final is on Sunday. TRIBUTES FLOW IN FOR CHHETRI NEW DELHI: The Indian sporting fraternity, led by sports minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore and cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar, on Tuesday hailed the national football team skipper Sunil Chhetri for his "super achievement" of playing 100 matches for the country. Chhetri became only the second Indian footballer after former captain Falcao, James lead Colombia WC squad IANS n BOGOTA olombia football coach Jose CPekerman included Cristian Zapata and Abel Aguilar in his final 23-man World Cup squad despite injury concerns. AC Milan center-back Zapata has not played since suffering a hamstring tear in late April while Deportivo Cali midfielder Aguilar is also recovering form a leg muscle problem. In a statement on Monday, the Colombian football federation said both players had stepped up their recovery after missing the team's 0-0 draw with Egypt in Italy on Friday. As expected, Colombia will be led by French Ligue 1 club Monaco s striker Radamel Falcao and Bayern Munich midfielder James Rodriguez. Falcao will be making his first World Cup appearance. The 32-year old suffered a serious knee injury before the 2014 tournament in Brazil which ruled him out of the big competition that year. As for the cuts, there was no place in Pekerman's World Cup plans for playmaker Edwin Cardona, who plays for Boca Juniors, while Santa Fe youngster William Tesillo and veteran forward Teofilo Gutierrez also missed out. Colombia will begin their campaign in Russia against Japan on June 19 in Group H. They then go head to head against Poland and Senegal. Bhubaneswar gears up to host Hockey Men s WC A mural adorns a wall in Bhubaneswar, the city preparing for this year s Men s Hockey World Cup Colombia coach Jose Pekerman in a file picture themed after the sport of hockey and it's players. The civic body has commissioned artists from all over the state to paint the city with their creative exemplifications on hockey, with a number of walls throughout the city being their canvas. A major chunk of the problem during big tournaments lies in the transportation facilities in the host cities, therefore the BMC is making sure that the number of city buses and nonmotorised alternatives are in place to accommodate a large number of tourists who will be coming to witness the tournament. As many as 200 new buses in two phases will be deployed in the city by the Capital Region Urban Transport, and the 110 old buses will also be used, making sure that a comprehensive 319 buses will be serving the public during the tournament. These buses will be available for the passengers to board from more than 200 bus stops, providing transportation facility to all parts of the city. The renovation work of the Kalinga Hockey Stadium has also entered its final phase with the capacity being increased to by extending the stands and building two new galleries. A 24x7 helpline has also been introduced by Odisha Tourism to serve the tourists who visit the city during the quadrennial event. A unique Public Bicycle Sharing System under the Bhubaneswar Smart City Limited (BSCL) will see 1500 modern bicycles being provided at docking stations across the city. These Mobikes will promote a healthy lifestyle within the city's population and will be available for issue using mobile apps and QR codes, helping in reducing the air pollution level as well throughout the city. Bhaichung Bhutia to feature in 100 matches for the country. The landmark game was the one against Kenya in the Intercontinental Cup in Mumbai last night. It was a memorable match for Chhetri, who turns 34 in August, as he scored twice in India's 3-0 win over the African side in front of a packed crowd at the Mumbai Football Arena. "A special victory indeed. Well done, #TeamIndia! Super on your 100th appearance and the 2 goals," Tendulkar said on his Twitter handle. Rathore tweeted, "A superb and well deserved win by team. Congratulations to the team for the 3-0 win against Kenya lead from the front and scored 2 goals in his 100th match!" Bhutia, who has played for the country 104 times, described Chhetri as a "genuius player". for the 100th match for #India. It has been a great pleasure to see you reach here. Great achievement from a genius player! #captain," Bhutia tweeted. Head coach Stephen Constantine understandably gave a cautious reaction on Chhetri's milestone as he would not want to single out any of his players in the team. "He is a great servant of Indian football," he said before the match when asked about Chhetri. Former India cricketers V V S Laxman and Virender Sehwag also congratulated Chhetri on achieving the feat. "Congratulations India on beating Kenya 3-0 in #IntercontinentalCup2018; was brilliant leading from the front, scoring twice in his 100th match. Fantastic performance," Laxman said. "What a fantastic victory. on your 100th international match and for making it extra special with the two goals and a fantastic victory in front of a packed stadium. Great news Sehwag tweeted. Jeje Lalpekhlua, who also scored against Kenya last night, tweeted: "Captain, Leader, Legend". Salah's absence won't change Uruguay's plans: Tabarez IANS n MONTEVIDEO ruguay have not changed their preparations for the Uteam's opening FIFA World Cup match against Egypt despite the likely absence of Mohamed Salah, the former champions' coach Oscar Tabarez said. Salah has been given little chance of playing in the June 15 fixture in Yekaterinburg, Russia's fourth largest city, as he recovers from a shoulder injury. "Because of his characteristics, you need to take care about how you occupy spaces," Tabarez told reporters on Monday. "But I think that changing all of our preparations for that reason (Salah's probable absence) is over the top. We don't even know for sure if he is going to play or not. If he plays, we will have to take precautions because of his very high level." Salah was one of the most prolific forwards in Europe last season, scoring 44 goals and laying off 16 assists for Liverpool across all competitions. Last October, the 25-year-old became a national hero by converting a 95th-minute penalty to send Egypt to the World Cup for the first time since But his availability for the tournament was plunged into doubt when he was forced off during Real Madrid's 3-1 defeat of Liverpool in the Champions League final on May 26. Egypt's national team medical staff subsequently said the forward's absence "would not exceed three weeks". USE INIESTA WISELY KOLKATA: For Spain to fire on all cylinders at this summer's FIFA World Cup in Russia, ageless midfield maestro Andres Iniesta will have to be used properly so that he can remain at the peak of his powers throughout the competition, feels Spanish football tactician Antonio Habas. Iniesta, 34, is likely to retire from international football after Spain play at Uruguay coach Oscar Tabarez in a file photo the World Cup in few days' time. The legendary midfielder, who left FC Barcelona last month after spending 16 seasons with the Catalan club, told mediapersons in May that "if nothing strange happens, this World Cup will be my last participation with the Spanish national team." Habas, who was once assistant to former Real Madrid and Liverpool head coach Rafael Benitez at Valencia in 2005, feels Spain head coach Julen Lopetegui should make sure Iniesta is not overworked during the course of the competition. "He has played many games this year," Habas said over phone from his hometown in Madrid on Tuesday. "Lopetegui should be careful in using him. He has to sufficiently rested so that his performance is balanced until the end of the championship," said Habas, who guided ATK to the semi-finals of Indian Super League (ISL) second season besides winning the competition in its inaugural season. Iniesta will be expected to pull the strings for contenders Spain who also have the likes of veteran defensive midfielder Sergio Busquets, the gifted Saul Niguez, Koke, Thiago Alcantara and the industrious David Silva.

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