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1 Follow us on: OPINION 8 PREPARE FOR THE WORST, HOPE FOR THE WORLD 11 PUTIN RESPONSIBLE FOR 2016 US POLLS MEDDLING: TRUMP facebook.com/dailypioneer LUCKNOW, FRIDAY JULY 20, 2018; PAGES 16 `3 SPORT 15 HAMILTON RENEWS MERCEDES CONTRACT 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 196 *Air Surcharge Extra if Applicable } AILING IRRFAN PROMOTES KARWAAN 13 VIVACITY BJP wins back sulking ally, fence sitters Sena confirms it will vote against No-Confidence Motion today; ADMK, TRS, BJD likely to abstain from voting } day before the Lok Sabha Atakes up the crucial debate on No-Confidence Motion against the Modi Government, the BJP on Thursday mended its fences with the sulking ally Shiv Sena and reached out to the AIADMK and the TRS to persuade them not to stand with the Opposition against the Centre. In an important development, the Shiv Sena, which has been highly critical of the Modi Government over the last two years, has agreed to oppose the motion, giving a clear signal that its stance of going it alone in Maharashtra in the Lok Sabha polls may also see a shift in the coming days. The BJP leaders are confident that now the two parties will contest the 2019 Lok Sabha polls together. It is near certain that the 20-member Biju Janata Dal (BJD), which is facing fter more than six years of Alitigation, the CBI on Thursday chargesheeted former Finance Minister P Chidambaram, his son Karti, and nephew A Palaniappan in the Aircel-Maxis scam. In its 5,000-page chargesheet, backed by three trunks of documents produced before the 2G Special Court, the CBI accused Chidambaram of abuse of power and criminal conspiracy to benefit Karti s firms. The charges are filed under the provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act and Section 120(B) of the IPC. There are 18 accused, including six companies, in the case. The case relates to blatant violation of Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) rules that allowed Malaysian firm Maxis to take over Chennai-based mobile phone operator Aircel in The other accused are: Former Finance Secretaries Ashok Jha, Ashok Chawla, Maxis owner T Ananda Krishnan and his CEO Ralph Marshall. Kumar Sanjay Krishnan, former Joint Secretary in Finance Ministry, former Deputy Secretary Deepak Kumar Singh and former Under Secretary Ram Saran and Aircel CEO V Sreenivasan and Chidambaram family s Chartered Accountant S Bhaskarraman too have been chargesheeted by the CBI. Karti-controlled firms Advantage Strategic Consulting and Chess Management Services are accused by the CBI of receiving around two million dollars from Maxis and its subsidiaries after father UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, leader of the Congress in Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge, and other Congress members in the the Lower House during the Monsoon Session of Parliament in New Delhi on Thursday PTI Assembly polls next year, will abstain from the voting. The BJD will be pitted against the BJP in the polls and as such it Chidambaram gave illegal and dubious FIPB approval. Maxis Group s four companies Astro All Asia, Maxis Mobile SDM, Bumi Armada Berhad and Bumi Armada Navigationr Berhad too are accused of transferring kickback money and lobbying to get illegal FIPB clearance. Submitting the chargesheet before Judge OP Saini, Senior Public Prosecutor AK Goel and CBI Investigating Officer SK Sinha told the court the agency is awaiting sanction from the Finance Ministry for the prosecution of five former Finance Ministry officials. The prosecutor also said the probe against the Apollo Hospital Group-linked firm Sindya Aircel-Maxis scam: CBI chargesheets PC & son File photo Securities is continuing and a supplementary chargesheet will be filed in this case. After the brief argument, Judge OP Saini fixed the matter to July 31 for consideration of the chargesheet. In the chargesheet, the CBI accused Chidambaram of illegally approving the Maxis request for FIPB approval to take over the Aircel in The Maxis wanted to invest over `3,600 crore whereas then FIPB Chairman Chidambaram had the power to approve FDI of up to `600 crore. Any FDI proposals above `600 crore was required to be submitted to the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA). Continued on Page 6 could not afford to positively respond to BJP s overtures. The TRS (11 MPs) and the AIADMK (37 MPs) have indicated they will not back the notrust motion, though it is not clear if they will oppose it either, keeping open the option he Travancore Devaswom TBoard on Thursday differed with the Kerala Government on the issue of permitting entry of women aged between 10 years and 50 years to the Sabarimala temple. The Board, entrusted with the task of administrating 1,248 temples in the State, said the decision to exclude entry of women in the above age group has to do with the maintenance of purity of the deity Lord Ayyappa, who is a Naishtika Brahmacharya (perennial celibate). Senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi appearing for the Travancore Devaswom Board said women who are menstruating are kept out for this purpose as it is impossible for them to observe abstinence for 41 days before undertaking the pilgrimage. He added this practice is followed not only at Sabarimala shrine but in almost all temples in the country. The Board s submission came in stark contrast to the stand taken by the Kerala Government, which favoured entry of women to the shrine. The submission came a day after a five-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court found no logic behind discriminating women from entering a place of worship of their choice. Questioning the Board over the logic behind keeping such a restriction, the Bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justices RF Nariman, AM Khanwilkar, DY Chandrachud of abstention. TRS MPs met at the residence of floor leader of the party Jitender Reddy after which party MP Vinod Kumar said that the TRS members would highlight the unfulfilled promises made to the Telangana State by the Central Government. However, most likely the TRS members will not take part in the voting on the motion. The efforts to bring more parties to vote for the Government are spearheaded by BJP president Amit Shah, a Rajya Sabha member, who reached out to parties beyond National Democratic Alliance (NDA) fold. In the House of 533 members, the ruling NDA has 313 MPs, including 274 (including the Speaker) of the BJP, 18 of the Shiv Sena, six of the Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) and four of the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), three RLSP, and two Board against Govt stand on women s entry to Sabarimala and Indu Malhottra had said, Suppose a woman stops menstruating at age of 45, why should she be excluded from entering the temple. There is no rational link of age with prohibition. Singhvi explained there was no absolute prohibition based on gender as women below 10 years and above 50 are allowed to enter the temple. Further this practice has been traditionally followed for centuries and has acquired the value of usage and custom practised as part of a denominational religion. The Kerala Government represented by senior advocate Jaideep Gupta found no logic in restricting menstruating women from the Sabarimala temple as he felt that men or women hardly can undertake such an arduous journey at age of 50. Hence such a restriction becomes absolute as women are practically kept out. The SC observed that such a restriction operated indirectly to ensure women do not make it to the temple. Singhvi said there are more than 1,000 temples of Lord Ayyappa across the country where men and women can visit. Why the women should insist on visiting this temple alone, he wondered. The CJI shot back saying, Because they believe in that and explained saying, many Jagannath temples exist in the country but people still flock to Puri temple. It is a matter of choice, the Bench added. The Board s argument remained inconclusive and will resume on July 24. Karwaan guzar gaya, gubaar dekhte rahe... Doyen of Hindi poetry Gopal Das Neeraj passes away K arwaan guzar gaya gubaar dekhte rahe... These words penned by poet Gopal Das Neeraj ring true with the passing away of the last living legend who was one of the most popular poets after Harivansh Rai Bachchan. This haunting melody written by the Neeraj reflected the angst, the pain which connected innumerable people to his songs that are essentially revolutionary in nature. The poet passed away at AIIMS, New Delhi on Thursday night. The 94-yearold Gopal Das Neeraj was born in Ekdil village, six kilometres from Etawah. He got his education from Kanpur and was a lecturer in Hindi at the DAV College in Aligarh. He left teaching to try his luck in films between and gave some of the choicest hits that included songs like Shokhiyon mein ghola jaye... and Dil ek shayar hai. After his return from Mumbai, he participated in kavi sammelans across the country even at this ripe old age. He was close to former Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav. An atheist by nature, Neeraj had begun slurring while speaking since the past few years and would magically develop a clear voice when reciting poetry on the stage. His admires would wait for long hours in the night just to listen to him. The poet was conferred with Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan and several other prominent awards, including Bharat Bharati Samman. He held the post of Chairman of Bhasha Sansthan during the previous regime and was last seen publicly at a press conference in Lucknow a few days back where he appealed for the continuance of the Yash Bharti pension. Neeraj s son Milan Prabhat Gunjan, with whom he stayed at Aligarh, said that he died leaving behind a whole family of grandchildren and great grandchildren. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath expressed his deep condolences and said that Neeraj s death was a great loss to the literary world. The state government also announced the institution of the Gopal Das Neeraj Award of Rs 1 lakh which will be given to five budding Hindi poets of the state. The CM said that the last rites of the poet would be performed with full state honours. The last rites would be performed at Aligarh on Friday. Governor Ram Naik, Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav and SP president Akhilesh Yadav also expressed their condolences on the death of the poet. The Governor in his message said that an era had come to an end with the death of Neeraj. The poems of Neeraj would be remembered forever, making him immortal, the Governor said. SP patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav said that he had lost his good friend. SP president Akhilesh Yadav, who is in Bhopal, also expressed grief over the death of Neeraj. Continued on Page 6 JD(U). The stated strength of the Opposition in the Lower House is 222. The majority mark, however, stands at 267 as 10 seats are vacant. Indicating that his party will not support the no-trust vote, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister E Palaniswami said, The TDP has moved this motion to highlight issues in Andhra Pradesh. No State supported Tamil Nadu when we stalled proceedings in Parliament over Cauvery. The debate in the Lok Sabha will be held on Friday from 11am. Congress chief Rahul Gandhi is scheduled to speak soon after it starts, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who will be present in House, will respond to it shortly before the voting is held after the day-long debate. The BJP will field five speakers to speak against the motion. The BJP has been allotted 3 hours and 33 minutes 14 killed as bus falls into gorge in Uttarakhand PTI n NEW TERHI ourteen people were killed Fand 17 injured when the state-run bus they were travelling in fell into a deep gorge around 15 km from Chamba in Tehri district of Uttarakhand on Thursday. The accident occurred near Kirgani village on Chamba-Uttarkashi highway around 8.20 am. The Haridwar-bound Uttarakhand Roadways bus plunged into a 250-metre deep gorge, killing thirteen people on the spot and leaving eighteen injured, Tehri District Magistrate Sonika said. One of the injured persons died at the hospital during treatment, she said. Eleven seriously injured were flown in choppers to AIIMS, Rishikesh while the rest were undergoing treatment at district hospital Baurari and Masihi hospital Chamba, she said. Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat expressed deep grief at the loss of lives in the accident and announced a compensation of Rs 2 lakh for the next of kin of those killed and Rs 50,000 for those injured. Police and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) teams along with senior officials were rushed to the spot to conduct rescue operations. Cabinet Ministers Yashpal Arya and Subodh Uniyal accompanied by Garhwal Commissioner Shailesh Bagoli and DIG Ajay Rautela also visited the spot. In a similar accident on July 1, 48 people were killed near Dhumakot in Pauri district of the state when the bus they were travelling in fell into a gorge. for the debate, Congress 38 minutes, AIADMK 29 minutes, TMC 27 minutes, BJD 15, Shiv Sena 14, TDP 13, and TRS 9 minutes. As against BJP s determined effort to muster maximum numbers to put across the message that it has much bigger support than the Opposition, former Congress president Sonia Gandhi exuded confidence that the Opposition has enough numbers. Who says we don t have the numbers, she said. The BJP made light of the Congress claim that the Opposition had the numbers to back its No-Confidence Motion against the Government. Asked about Sonia s claim that the Opposition had numbers, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ananth Kumar took a dig at her, saying, Sonia Gandhi s math is weak. Kumar also recalled that n a heart-rending incident, Ithree children sleeping outside their shanty in Gudamba were mowed to death by an overspeeding dumper around 3 am on Thursday. Their mother and other siblings were critically injured in the mishap. The dumper was said to be engaged in land excavation work at some distance from the crime scene and was going to unload the soil to a brick kiln when it overran the family. Police arrested the errant driver and registered a case against him Ṫhe police had to make hectic efforts to contain the ire of people enraged by the incident. The police said that the children Rani (10), Gauri (7), Deepak (4), Santoshi (8), Akash (12) and Vikas (17) lived in a shanty inside the campus of a brick kiln owned by Kanhaiya Lal in Rajauli village under Gudamba police station area. Their parents Santram and Urmila work at the brick kiln as labourers. Some of the children also helped their parents in their work. The family belongs to Barabanki. On the fateful day, Urmila and her five children were sleeping on two cots outside their makeshift house near the brick yard while Santram and Vikas were at another place. Around 3 am on Thursday, the speeding dumper whizzed past the scene and mowed down the family. The errant driver did not apply brakes as a result of which the dumper hit a brick wall. Sonia, as the then Congress chief in 1999, had claimed to have the support of 272 MPs, the majority mark in the Lok Sabha, after the fall of the Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led NDA Government. Going by the estimate of the BJP s floor managers, the Government is likely to get the support of smaller parties such as the PMK and the Raju Shetty-led Swabhimani Paksha. Although the two parties are no longer part of the NDA, the Government believes they would stand by it during the vote on the motion. The LS Speaker announced that the House would take up the debate on the No- Confidence Motion moved by several Opposition parties on issues such as a special category status to Andhra Pradesh, cow vigilantism, lynching, atrocities against women and Dalits, and the alleged dilution of the SC/ST Act on Friday. 3 kids of a family mowed to death by speeding dumper Other labourers and their family members woke up and rushed to the rescue of the victims. Rani, Gauri and Deepak were crushed under the wheels while the condition of Urmila, Santoshi and Akash was also said to be critical. Santram alleged that the dumper was engaged in land excavation work at some distance away from the brick kiln and dumpers would pass via the brick kiln. To avoid public eye, the dumper drivers chose the road via brick kiln. The errant driver killed my children while my wife and other kids are battling for their lives, Santram said while sobbing inconsolably. On getting the information, ASP, trans-gomti, Harendra Singh reached the scene to take stock of the situation. Villagers told him that some persons were involved in illegal land excavation work and they used to ferry the soil by a road passing via the brick kiln. We had complained to the local police about it on a number of occasions but they did not take our complaints seriously as some low-rung cops were hand-in-gloves with people getting the land excavation work done, they alleged. The villagers alleged that the police used to give them lame excuses, saying the place where the land excavation work was being done fell in Barabanki district. The ASP, trans-gomti, assured them proper investigation into the case and a legal action against those carrying out land excavation work.

2 LUCKNOW FRIDAY JULY 20, 2018 city 02 Yogi heads 51-member panel for Pravasi meet T he Uttar Pradesh government has constituted a 51-member high-level committee headed by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath for making preparations for the Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas to be held in Varanasi from January 21 to 23. According to officials of the state NRI department, most of the officials of Varanasi, Allahabad along with the departments concerned have been included in the committee. Along with the Chief Minister, his two deputies, and ministers of Urban Development, Transport, Health, Finance, Industry Development, Culture, Tourism, Information, Power and NRI have been made members with their principal secretaries, the source said. The representative of the Varanasi MP, along with MP of Allahabad, and all the MLAs of Varanasi and Allahabad have been made members of the panel. UP Chief secretary, DGP, DRMs of Varanasi and Allahabad divisions along with IRCTC officials are also part of he Samajwadi Party work- on Thursday inaugurat- Ters ed the Pipraghat bridge near Dilkusha, saying that it was constructed during the party s regime while the present government had stopped funds for the bridge. SP spokesman Rajendra Chowdhary said that on Thursday, people forcefully inaugurated the Pipraghat bridge as its inauguration was pending for some time. The present government had stopped funds for the bridge though the construction was almost over, Chowdhary the high-flying committee. The divisional commissioners of Allahabad and Varanasi have also been included in the committee. The Additional Chief Secretary (NRI and Industrial Development) will be the coordinator of the committee, while the Special Secretary (NRI) will be the nodal officer of the committee, according to the official. Around 5,000 NRIs are expected to participate in the Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas in Varanasi. The meet will be attended by President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The NRIs will also visit Allahabad to witness the Kumbh Mela during their stay in Varanasi. SP workers inaugurate Pipraghat bridge lwpuk lwfpr gks fd esjs Amry Service No X, 11 Kumaon record es a esjh iq=h dk uke Km. Priyanka =qfvo'k ntz gks x;k gs tcfd lgh uke Prnanka Singh D/o Laxman Singh gsa Hkfo"; esa esjh iq=h dks lhkh nlrkostksa esa blh uke ls tkuk o igpkuk tk,a fu0 Goswami Niwas, Durgapuri, Nilmatha Kantt, Lucknow. said in written statement here on Thursday. He said the inauguration of the bridge would save a lot of time of the local people in reaching their destinations. The present Bharatiya Janata Party government is envious of the achievements of the Akhilesh Yadav regime and therefore it is either stalling the projects of the previous government or re-inaugurating its projects claiming them to be their own government s achievements, the SP spokesman said. This is not the first time that the belligerent SP workers Lucknow (PNS): Promotee officers and employees of the Income Tax Department threatened to intensify their ongoing agitation if the senior authorities ignored their demand for improving infrastructure and increasing manpower. Income Tax Employees Federation s UP East Circle general secretary JP Singh said on Thursday that all the promotee officers and employees of the UP East Circle met here to discuss the future course of action against the negative approach of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) in respect to their legitimate demands. He said that during the last fiscal, the direct tax collection had exceeded the figure of Rs 10 lakh crore due to cooperation of the income tax employees. have inaugurated projects before their official inauguration, claiming them to be the achievements of the previous Akhilesh Yadav government. They did so in Noida and Rae Bareli and also objected to the laying of foundation stone of Purvanchal Expressway by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, claiming that the foundation stone of the expressway had been laid in The SP leaders have also objected to inauguration of Agra-Lucknow Expressway and Lucknow Metro Rail by the Bharatiya Janata Party government in Uttar Pradesh. Income tax employees threaten to intensify stir Singh said that to further raise the tax collection, the ITEF (east circle) had been asking the CBDT for the last over a year to look into their demands of improving the basic infrastructure and also meeting out the shortage of manpower. He said that the government this year gave a target of Rs 11 lakh crore collection but this could be met only if their demands were accepted. Singh said that as the CBDT had refused to look into their demands, the ITEF (East Circle) met here on Thursday and decided to intensify their agitation. He said that they again dispatched their memorandum to the CBDT and other senior officials and alerted them to resolve the issue otherwise the employees would not cooperate in achieving the target. UP govt raps Cong over BHU remark he Uttar Pradesh govern- has objected to the Tment reported statement of the Congress over Banaras Hindu University s link to promote Hindutava, saying that it was a shameful act of a party which claimed to be a nationalist outfit. UP government spokesperson and state Health Minister Sidharth Nath Singh said here on Thursday that the achievement of the BHU was outstanding and involving it in any type of politics was deplorable. Congress, which had claimed itself as a party of Muslims is now trying to defame a historical educational institution just for its vested political interests. These Congress leaders have gone politically bankrupt and are now attacking educational institutions, he said. Meanwhile, students of the BHU also objected to Congress statement that BHU has lost credibility as open and plural university, it is now a tool to promote Hindutva. A student leader alleged that a party whose leader had no credibility was raising questions on BHU. It is like spitting on the sun, he added. 38 posts created in UP RERA Lucknow (PNS): The state government has created 38 posts of different categories in the UP Real Estate Regulatory Authority (UP RERA) for executing its works smoothly. Out of these posts, the post of secretary will be filled from IAS cadre and that of chief accounts officer/finance controller from UP Finance and Accounts cadre. The other posts, barring those of Class 4 staff, will be filled on contractual basis or through deputation. The posts of class 4 employees will be filled through outsourcing. According to the order issued in this regard by the Housing and Urban Planning department, one post each has been created of secretary, accounts officer/finance controller, technical advisor, legal advisor, assistant engineer, assistant town planner, assistant director (IT)/system analyst, administrative officer, legal assistant, programmer and junior engineer. Also, three posts each have been created of stenographer grade 1 and stenographer grade 2, and five posts of computer operator, two of accountant and 10 of Class 4 employees. Meanwhile, Deputy Director of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities department, Amit Kumar Singh, has been promoted as joint director. Additional Chief Secretary (Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities) Mahesh Kumar Gupta issued an order in this regard. haratiya Janata Party on BThursday ridiculed the claim of Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav that his party follows the ideology of socialist and freedom fighter Dr Ram Manohar Lohia, saying that the party only believes in parivarvad. Everyone knows how the SP runs on two ideologies of dynasty and caste politics. Their claim that they follow Dr Lohia s policy is just an insult to the great leader, UP government spokesperson and state Health Minister Sidharth Nath Singh said here on Thursday. He was reacting to the statement of Akhilesh Yadav in which the SP chief alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party was Digital vigilantes to keep an eye on social media fter floating a scheme of Aposting four inspectors in all circle police stations of the state to improve law and order, Director General of Police OP Singh has hit upon the idea of having digital volunteers to keep an eye on the social media and create awareness among people not to get carried away by provocations of objectionable posts. Interestingly, former DGP Javeed Ahmed had taken a similar initiative during the Samajwadi Party regime in January However, Singh on Thursday claimed that he had initiated the new measure on the advice of the Central government. Announcing the scheme, Singh said that digital volunteers would check for objectionable posts on social media and create awareness among people not to get carried away by such provocations. These volunteers will play the role of digital vigilantes in checking social media for hate posts designed to disrupt peace in Uttar Pradesh, a communally-sensitive state that has witnessed clashes between religious groups over inflammatory online material in the past, Singh said. The digital volunteers, to be appointed by the state police after inviting applications, will check for objectionable posts on social sites like Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, YouTube, T he two members of Uttar Pradesh Minority Commission, who went to Bareilly to probe the fatwa and other issues relating to triple talaq crusader Nida Khan, have asked the district officials to provide security to her. Official sources said that UP Minority Commission members Kunwar Iqbal Haider and Rummana Siddique, on the directive of Chairman Tanveer Haider Usmani, went to Bareilly and investigated the security threat to Nida Khan following a fatwa against her by a local cleric. The team met the district officials at the Circuit House and Nida Khan at her residence. Talking to media persons, Kunwar Iqbal Haider said security had been provided to the victim and the authorities had been asked to act on the complaint of Nida Khan against the illegal fatwa issued against her. The other women who are victims of halala are free to lodge complaint with the police, indulging in caste politics. Talking to media persons, Singh said when dynasty and caste politics formed the basis of the SP, how could its leader accuse others of doing caste politics. Singh also said that the abusive language used by SP leader Ram Gopal Yadav in New Delhi while talking to an electronic new channel was condemnable. On the upcoming Madhya Pradesh Assembly polls, the BJP leader made it clear that the SP had tried to walk on Congress crutches in the 2017 UP Assembly polls and now it was again searching crutches for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. It is my humble suggestion that the SP should first find its ground in UP and then venture out, he said. Commenting on the claim of the SP president that the Agra- DGP OP Singh addressing media persons in Lucknow on Thursday Pioneer Instagram, Google Plus and other social networking sites of the kind, and make sure people do not get carried away by such provocations. Contradicting hate posts with facts from reports in newspapers, TV and Internet news portals, the digital volunteers will work alongside special police officers and peace committee members to defuse communal flare-ups. Action will be taken against those posting hate messages, Singh added. Singh said that a WhatsApp group comprising 250 digital volunteers will be made in each of the 1,469 police stations of the state. The volunteers will be from different fields journalists, corporators, pradhans, Minority Panel orders security for Nida Khan he said. Last week, a cleric of an influential seminary in Bareilly had issued a fatwa against Nida Khan for raising a voice against triple talaq and nikah halala. No medicines, no prayers, no grave for Nida Khan, the cleric ordered in his fatwa. Fatwa from clerics against Nida Khan came when she went to the police station along with a women to lodge an FIR against halala. Nida Khan received a boost when a local court dismissed the plea of her husband, Sheeran Raza Khan, who challenged the harassment and domestic violence case against him and his family on the ground that he had already given talaq to her. ACJM (First) Siyaram Chourasia in his verdict on Wednesday said that the case against Sheeran Raza Khan and his family members would continue. The court maintained that even after talaq and paying of meher and other money, the case of harassment and domestic violence was maintainable. SP only believes in parivarvad: Minister Lucknow Expressway was his project, the Health Minister said, It was one of the first expressways of India which did not have service lane but the SP is claiming credit for it. He said that the present Yogi Adityanath government had improved the situation to some extent. Talking about the UP government s announcement of zero tolerance to corruption and law and order, Singh said the recovery of huge cash and gold from a trader in Lucknow proved that the government was working on its agenda. When asked about the fatwa against triple talaq crusader Nida Khan by the clerics in Bareilly, the UP minister said, It is unfortunate that the SP, BSP and Congress are quite on the issue. principals, teachers, retired government officials, priests, religious leaders and other prominent persons of the area who are willing to help the police in controlling hate crime and improving policing, the DGP said. He said that these volunteer groups would be connected to another group managed by district police chief and also at the DG office level. It may be mentioned that in January 2016, then DGP Javeed Ahmed had issued a circular to engage digital volunteers. He had said that the idea was to pre-empt a repeat of the communal violence triggered by a hate post in Bareilly, Firozabad and Moradabad districts. A post on WhatsApp had he district magistrate and Tdistrict police chief of Deoria made a surprise inspection of the district jail on Thursday morning after an audio clip of an extortion call, believed to be made from the prison, went viral on the social media. In the audio clip, a caller identifying himself as don-turned-politician Atique Ahmad is heard making the extortion call. The raid yielded results as some SIM cards and digital storage devices along with a knife were recovered by the police. However, it is yet to be confirmed whether any of the recovered SIMs was used to make the extortion call. Superintendent of Police of Deoria, Rohan P Kanay, told media persons soon after completing the raid that during the surprise check of the prison they recovered a mobile phone along with charger, one knife, four pen drives and four SIM cards. also sparked tension in Saharanpur. Likewise, messages on the Dadri incident where a Muslim man was lynched on suspicion of cow slaughter had led to tension in Gautam Buddh Nagar district. Ahmed had then issued directive that other than sensitive posts, the volunteers would look for fundamentalist propaganda pushed by the Islamic State terror group and other jihadi organisations. After the circular, police had reportedly set up two laboratories Social Media Command and Research Centre at the DIG office in Meerut and the STF office in Lucknow to handle such cases. These measures had been taken after considering that many people, even those in rural areas, possessed Internet connections and were active on the social media. Besides, the police technical wing at that time also set up a WhatsApp Surveillance Cell ( ) through which people could inform authorities about provocative posts whenever they came across one. However, the move had failed to make any impact as the then Akhilesh Yadav led government had lost the election. Now a similar move has been made by DGP OP Singh and only time will tell whether the UP Police will get the desired results or this initiative will also meet the same fate as several others. Mobile phone, SIMs recovered from Deoria jail He said stringent actions would be taken against the culprits as well as against jail authorities after finding out who facilitated the prisoners to carry objectionable items. The district police chief said that a probe in this regard had been already ordered. Four pen drives were recovered from the barrack of Atique Ahmad. The IT department will analyse the data stored in them and further action will be taken as per requirement, Kanay added. The SP said that raids were conducted in the jail in the past also but this was the first time when a huge force went there with senior officials. Over 300 policemen along with 15 nodal officers took part in the raid, he pointed out. Earlier, an extortion call was allegedly made by former minister Gayatri Prajapati from Lucknow district jail. The call from Deoria district was made to Asif Siddiqui who owns a big steel industry in Mumbai. 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3 LUCKNOW FRIDAY JULY 20, 2018 city 03 Man found dead with stab wounds PIONEER NEWS SERVICE n LUCKNOW nidentified miscreants Ugoaded a man with some sharp object and dumped his body behind a farmhouse in Nigoha late on Wednesday night. The incident came to light after the body was recovered on Thursday morning. The victim, identified as Ganga Sagar of Sarojini Nagar, left his house on Wednesday night to meet a person named Vineet. Around 9 pm, his wife called him and Ganga Sagar told her that he was in Pipersand and would return a f t e r attending an orchestra programme in the locality, the aggrieved family told the police. They said they again tried to contact Ganga Sagar at 11 pm but his mobile was switched off. On Thursday morning, the family got a call from the police about the murder of Ganga Sagar and they reached the scene. They found that his throat was slit open and there were several injury marks on the body. Surprisingly, the police had no information about the kind of wounds the victim had suffered in the attack. The family alleged that the police were unsympathetic to them and asked them why they did not lodge a case of missing when Ganga Sagar did not return home. The scene at the place where the body was found lying was horrific. There was blood spattered all around. The miscreants probably pinned down the victim and then repeatedly stabbed him until he breathed his last, some villagers told reporters. Investigating officer Ramphal Mishra said the victim was attacked with some sharp object and he had five deep cuts on the throat and several stabbing marks on the chest, the SSI said. Patient has seizures at hosp, kin say wrong injection administered Rumour-mongering resulted in big tamasha: Director PIONEER NEWS SERVICE n LUCKNOW P anic gripped the general ward (II) of Balrampur Hospital as relatives of a patient, who had a seizure after being administered an injection on Thursday. The kin alleged that the condition of the patient deteriorated after he was given a wrong injection. The hospital administration shifted the patient to the ICU where his condition was said to be stable. Mohammad Alam was admitted to the hospital on Tuesday after he complained of hyper pyrexia (high fever). He was reportedly administered an injection as suggested by a doctor but he had a bout of seizures shortly afterwards. Alam s mother Fatima told this reporter that his condition had improved in the last couple of days but once the injection was given to him, his condition started deteriorating. He had seizures and he started Rape accused held after court issues NBW PIONEER NEWS SERVICE n LUCKNOW n an incident exposing insensitivity of the ILucknow police towards crimes against women, the Jankipuram police arrested a man accused of having raped his minor daughter, but only after a non-bailable warrant was issued against him and the cops were asked to produce the accused in court. As per reports, Rinku was accused of raping his daughter one-and-a-half months back by his wife. The woman had alleged that Rinku had sexually assaulted their minor daughter and she had caught him in the act. After the case was registered, Rinku did the vanishing act. Sources said that the police did not show any interest in nabbing the accused after the case was registered. In fact, on the day the case was registered, the police had tried to hush up the case. Taking advantage of police s slackness, the accused continued to remain on the lam, the sources said. However, they said the police submitted the chargesheet in court against the accused. As the courts are serious about such cases, a court in Lucknow issued a NBW against the accused and directed the police to produce the accused. It was only after the court s order that the police intensified search operations and the accused was nabbed on Wednesday night from Muslim Nagar locality, the sources said. Panic prevailed at the hospital after rumours were spread about patients being given wrong injections at Balrampur Hospital Pioneer vomiting. We informed the doctors there but no one listened to us, forcing us to call the police, she said. He is now in the ICU but is stable and doctors are attending to him, she added. Director, Balrampur Hospital, Dr Rajiv Lochan said that the injection given to the patient was prescribed by the doctor attending to him and it was given to patients suffering from hyper pyrexia. He added that the patient s attendants unnecessarily created a scene as he was suffering from hyper pyrexia and such patients could have seizures. Senior doctors such as AP Mishra and PK Mishra were present in the ward but the relatives started shouting and creating a ruckus. Such patients can get fits and this is normal. Since Alam had seizures immediately after he was administered the injection, the patients thought something was wrong, Dr Lochan said, adding: As soon as I reached there, I gave him a cold water treatment and he recovered soon. However, as a precautionary measure, he was shifted to the ICU. I have directed the ICU officials to monitor his fever after every half-an-hour and also keep a tab on his blood pressure. He is responding well to the medication. The incident created panic in the hospital as people gathered around the ward. Some of them spread rumours on WhatsApp that patients were being shifted out of Balrampur Hospital because they were given wrong injections. The family called the police and the cops sought details from the doctors. It was a simple situation which could have been tackled with maturity but rumour-mongering made it into a big tamasha, Dr Lochan said.

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Since the area is dotted with CCTV cameras, the cops had no problem in getting the footages. The police doubted the claims made by Varun and interrogated him. As the police questioned him sternly, he spilled the beans and said that he had emptied the bag in his office washroom and later threw the bag at a place. The police recovered the cash from the washroom. SSP Kalanidhi As artistes, always been connected with Lucknow PIONEER NEWS SERVICE n LUCKNOW ctors Rakesh Bedi, Avtaar AGill, Kashmira Shah and Delnaaz Irani found Lucknow a beautiful and clean city which reeks of art and culture. They were in the city on Thursday to stage a play Wrong Number by the Felicity Theatre on Friday. In a chat with The Pioneer, the actors said as artistes, they had always been connected with Lucknow. Wrong Number is directed by the highly-acclaimed film, theatre and television director, Raman Kumar, winner of the prestigious Dada Saheb Phalke Award who has made Bollywood films like Sarhad Paar, Saath Saath, Raahee and Raja Bhaiyya to name a few. An ingenious, funny and brilliantly-crafted masterpiece, Wrong Number, juggles with time and space to present the lives and loves, passion and panic of three married couples. The play will be staged on Friday at the Sant Gadge Auditorium. Play director Raman Kumar said there was no person in the industry, whether film or television, who had not shot in Lucknow. There is much that has been written about the sarzami of Lucknow and I feel that many of the artistes have been connected with Lucknow. Actor Rakesh Bedi, well known for his comic roles, said that he was much impressed by Naithani said company s owner Praveen lodged a case after the incident came to light. The police also recovered the empty bag from a place near the company office, he said. The SSP said that initial probe into the case hinted that Varun might have staged the loot, so the police interrogated him. Varun owned up his crime and told the police that since he got Rs 5,000 per month and his expenses were much higher, he planned to stage the loot, the SSP said. He added that further investigations were on. A cash reward of Rs 25,000 was given to the police team for cracking the case within three hours after the incident. Sources said the case gave tense moments to the police and they remained defensive till they got a CCTV footage in which the complainant was seen coming out of his office washroom and injuring himself outside the office. the culture of Lucknow. The audience is Lucknow is well aware and gets the nuances of the actors correct. It is a very evolved audience and has been performing greatly before them. I even had the privilege of doing solo roles before them, he said. Actress Kashmira Shah said that she had both personal and professional reasons to like Lucknow. I have not only performed here several times in the past but this is also my in-laws home where my mother-inlaw resides and she brought me to the city for the first time, she said. Delnaaz on her part said that she finds Lucknow a very beautiful and clean city. Actor Avtar Gill said that he had so many friends in Lucknow that they had been asking him time and again as to when he would be visiting it again. The actors admitted that the presence of SCHOOLSCAN AWARDED Class X students of City Montessori School (Gomti Nagar Campus-I) Adhwant Mishra and Sakshi Sachan won the Best Team and Best Speaker awards in the prestigious Frank Anthony Zonal Debate Competition. The contest was organised under the auspices of Council for the Indian School Certificate Examination, New Delhi. Students of several noted schools participated in the CITYBRIEFS A woman pleading to the cops to spare her after she was stopped for riding a scooty without wearing helmet Pioneer Plastic ban: UPTWA reps meet mayor PIONEER NEWS SERVICE n LUCKNOW he Uttar Pradesh Trade Welfare TAssociation (UPTWA) representatives met mayor Sanyukta Bhatia regarding the problems being faced due to ban on plastic and polythene below 50 microns. The mayor said that the members of the association had met her to discuss their problems. They said that their main problem was that if they purchased machines for producing polythene which was above 50 microns and the state government imposed a ban on plastic which was more than 50 microns, it would create a difficult situation for them. They also said that it would take some time for establishing these machines, said Bhatia. The mayor said that they wanted that their problems should reach the higher echelons in the state government and so she had facilitated a meeting of the Association with Minister for Urban Development Suresh Kumar Khanna. They will be meeting the minister on July 24 and have been given the opportunity to speak about their problems, she said. Meanwhile, Lucknow Municipal celebrities in a play increased its glamour quotient but the element of entertainment had to be there to sustain the audience. They also professed their love for theatre and how it would always be relevant even with the media getting digital. Theatre is over 3000 years old and has always been relevant. It provides a platform to the budding artistes to showcase their talents. I have been doing theatre every month since the time I came in the industry, said actor Rakesh Bedi. Similar views were expressed by Delnaaz Irani, who said that she had been doing theatre since the time she was a little girl. Television of course is my bread, butter and cheese but theatre is my life. I do not do theatre when I do not have work but I do theatre every time I get a chance to do it, she said. contest. The CMS students walked away with the awards after displaying their knowledge, logical abilities and argumentative skills. Sakshi Sachan was declared the best speaker due to her flawless speech. NATIONALISATION OF BANKS Prof Manoj Agrawal of Lucknow University was the chief guest at a function organised by All-India Bank Officers Confederation to commemorate the 50th anniversary of nationalisation of banks on Thursday. He said nationalisation of banks had delivered goods to the general public and contributed to the overall development of the country. He said government schemes for people was effectively implemented due to the nationalisation of banks. Federation s general secretary Dileep Chauhan said that the development process gained momentum after the banks were nationalised and it played a significant role in country s economy. General secretary Pawan Kumar said the decision to nationalise the banks Corporation (LMC) will be targeting the packaging material in plastics in the coming days. Municipal Commissioner Indramani Tripathi said that the shopkeepers had been warned and made aware about this fact. Talking to The Pioneer, he said that since the ban could not be implemented at one go because of the problems it could create for the shopkeepers so they were making them aware about the fact that all kinds of packaging materials which were used in food and other stuffs with a thickness below 50 microns would be banned. On being asked about the big companies which were selling food items, he said that most of them were selling them in packs which were above 50 microns. He said that packaging materials such as those used for food, garments, clothes and shoes would be taken up after August 15. Meanwhile, vice-president of Cantonment Board Pramod Sharma said that teams were carrying out raids for seizing polythene below 50 microns. We had been strict with the ban in the Cantonment area earlier as well, but this time we were enforcing it more strictly, he added. had given a big boost to the economy and helped in making the country self-sufficient. PRADHIKARAN DIWAS There was good response to Pradhikaran Diwas, organised by Lucknow Development Authority (LDA) held at the head office on Thursday. The complainants were given a patient hearing and efforts were made to sort out their issues. LDA Vice-Chairman PN Singh assured the complainants that their problems would be sorted out at the earliest. Several complaints were disposed of while others were referred to officials concerned for necessary action. TABLE TENNIS The 66th all-india table tennis tournament will be organised at the Gomti Indoor Stadium by Modern Coach Factory, Rae Bareli, from July 21 to July 25. Different units of Indian Railway will be taking part in the competition. CRIMELINE MOBILE LOOTED Bike-borne miscreants wearing helmets deprived a woman of her mobile phone in Jankipuram on Thursday evening. The woman works as an X-ray technician at KGMU. The miscreants also tried to loot her purse but the victim offered resistance and forced the miscreants to speed off. As per reports, Richa Bajpai of Jankipuram (sector-i) was returning home while having a conversation in Khardri locality when the miscreants targeted her. The pillion-rider snatched my phone and also attempted to loot the purse. I pulled the purse with force and the pillion-rider let go of it as the bike wobbled, she told the police. ACCUSED A woman accused her neighbor of sexually exploiting her for two years by promising to marry her in Madiaon. She claimed to have lodged a complaint in this connection. The police, however, said they did not get any complaint. The woman alleged that her neighbour coaxed her into dating him. The youth promised to marry her and came close to her in due course of time. However, he gradually started distancing himself from me. As I was nervous, I called him two days back and asked him to make his stand on the marriage proposal clear. But, he blocked my number, she alleged. She further claimed that she sent her family members to him for negotiations but he and his family did not entertain them. Instead, I got a threat call from some persons who asked me not to give hype to the issue and forget him, she alleged. She added that she gave the complaint to the beat incharge and was assured help. Dutt writing his autobiography Lucknow (PNS): Sushant Singh, the host of Savdhaan India, said that women were always soft targets when it came to the use of technology. The actor was in the city for the promotion of the show. In a chat with The Pioneer, he said they were trying to explore the use of technology in crime. Technology has both advantages as well as disadvantages and the main idea is to see how criminal use it for their gains, he said. Singh said the show would pick up popular crime incidents from across the country. Asked if he thought that Lucknow was safe, Singh said that one does not think in terms of whether a city is safe or not when one steps out to work. When one steps out then one does not feel whether a place is safe or not. It is only when a crime takes place that one starts thinking in terms of safety, he said. Singh pointed out that Savdhaan India was back with a new season. The new season which went on air on July 18 focuses on new age crimes and each spellbinding episode exposes the viewers to myriad dangers around them. The new season highlights how criminals are constantly upgrading their modus operandi to commit crimes. Be it falling into a trap for sharing PIONEER NEWS SERVICE n LUCKNOW anjay Dutt is penning a book on his life and Sit will be out by next year. The actor revealed this at a press conference in the city on Thursday. I will write the story of my life right from the childhood. I may take the help of a writer if required, he said. Commenting on his state of mind at this point of time, Dutt said that he was happy and aspired to lead a peaceful life. I have a beautiful wife and children. I hope to direct films sometime in future, he said. On being asked if he was interested in joining politics, Dutt said that it was enough that there was one member who was in the films from his family. The actor said that he was happy with the kind of response that he was getting for his movie Sanju. Actor Ranbir Kapoor has done a great job. There have been a lot of feedbacks from the people. The main aim of making the film was that the message which it carries should go to the people, he said. The actor, who has been shooting in Lucknow for some time, said that it was very difficult to shoot film in temperatures as high as 45 degree Celsius. The city is beautiful and I have several friends here. The food is great and I and a few friends enjoyed some Gilawati kebabs which were so wonderful, he said. The actor said that Lucknow had a great potential for shooting. The people are very helpful and the government is also helpful. We have even applied for subsidy for shooting here, he added. The actor said that he would be back in the city to shoot for a film with Rishi Kapoor on a story that is from Lucknow. About the film Saheb Biwi and Gangster, which he was promoting, he said that it was a film in which he played a different kind of role, of a gangster. Women always soft targets: Sushant your personal details, ingenuously attracting invaders by exposing your private life or becoming a victim of ATM fraud, people have become victims of many new age crimes. He said to keep up the pace with the new ways of crime due to cultural shift and change in lifestyle, they had adopted a new approach to create awareness and alertness.

5 LUCKNOW FRIDAY JULY 20, 2018 nation 05 Pvt parties to run over 1K Rlys goods sheds DEEPAK KUMAR JHA n p Railway officials said that for over decades the good NEW DELHI sheds have been under-used and misused and their n what could be seen as the Ifirst step towards privatisation condition is not good of some sectors of Indian Railways, the Ministry of Railways has decided to outsource over 1,000 of its goods sheds across the country to private parties. The private parties can develop the space and share it with the Railways leading to augmentation of the commercial aspects of the national transporter. While it has also constituted a committee to frame a Goods Shed policy as per PPP (Public Private Partnership) mode, the Railways has decided to handover the huge Ghaziabad shed area to a private party on an experiment basis for six months. This decision comes a month after Railway Minister Piyush Goyal announced that not a single bit of the railway properties would be privatised. Railway officials said that for over decades the good sheds have been under-used and misused and their condition is not good. Operating it through private parties would make it more professional. In the policy, the partner will have to develop the space with fully new infrastructure, modern amenities like waiting rooms for users, operators and good secured godown areas. They will be on BOT model and the users will have to pay a little more to get world class service. There are a total of 1,005 Good Sheds across major railway station of the country, said a senior railway official. Sources said a dedicated committee of Executive Director (ED)-level officers from Railway Board and Zones has already been constituted to frame a policy and execute within six months. It will only add revenues and in no way this related to passenger services. No one will be burdened and a good service would come at a very minimal cost, added the official. Goods sheds area are railways building designed for storing goods before or after carriage in a train. A typical goods shed has a track running through it to allow goods wagons to be unloaded under cover, although sometimes they are built alongside a track with possibly just a canopy over the door. The door is to move goods to or from road wagons and vans. This is sometimes parallel to the rail track, or on the side opposite the rail track. Inside the shed are platforms and sometimes a small crane facility to allow easier loading and unloading of wagons. End to agitation by Maha dairy farmers in sight Mumbai: An end to the fourday agitation by dairy farmers appeared in sight today, with the Maharashtra Government announcing that it had accepted a key demand of the protesters. The Government has decided to give `25 per litre for milk to dairy farmers with effect from July 21, Dairy Development Minister Mahadev Jankar said in the Legislative Assembly this evening. The farmers had been holding protests in parts of the state since Monday, seeking a hike of `5 per litre in the procurement prices. The impact of the protest was felt particularly in Mumbai and Pune where milk supplies were partially affected. Though the protest has not created an acute shortage of milk yet, the agitation has intensified with families of dairy farmers also pitching in. I m ready to withdraw the agitation if the milk-purchase rate is fixed around `25 per litre, Raju Shetti, Swabhimani Paksha MP, who is spearheading the stir, had said. PTI ith an aim to raise aware- about the shrinking Wness space for wild elephants in the country, a four-day Gaj Mahotsav featuring 101 lifesized jumbos art installations among other aspect of the national heritage animal will be held in the national Capital next month. The first edition of the fest will be organised by wildlife conservation NGO, Wildlife Trust of India (WTI), with the Environment Ministry, to be s the Elders expressed con- on Thursday over Acern reducing reserved seats for SC, ST and OBC in teaching positions in universities, the Government assured the Rajya Sabha that it was committed to upholding constitutional right of reservations and has put on hold interviews and recruitment pending a decision on Special Leave Petition (SLP) in the Supreme Court against a court order. Other issues to figure prominently in the Upper House included increasing mob violence, misuse of social media and perceived notion about decreasing population of Hindus in Bangladesh. When the issue of reservation was raised in Zero Hour by Ramgopal Yadav(Samajwadi Party) protesting against a recent University Grants Commission(UGC)notification and Leader of Opposition Ghulam Nabi Azad backing Yadav's contention, Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar said the government was committed to 50 per cent reservation. He also said the government was "not with the Allahabad High Court ruling." Consequently, the UGC and his ministry had filed SLPs and the next hearing was listed on August 13, he informed the agitated members. The Allahabad High Court ruling in last April struck down a circular prescribing institution-wise reservation to fill vacant faculty positions. Javadekar said the High Court order was later upheld by the Supreme Court, forcing UGC to issue the March 5 circular laying down a new mechanism for implementing faculty reservations. It entailed calculating total posts department or subject-wise rather than institution-wise. This meant calculating reservation in teaching posts by department, instead of basing the quota as on the number of posts available at LS passes Fugitive Economic Offenders Bill he Lok Sabha on Thursday Tpassed the Fugitive Economic Offenders Bill aimed at preventing culprits from evading the legal process and fleeing the country. Nevertheless, the Opposition questioned the Government s sincerity in taking any action against such offenders. The House later passed the legislation by a voice vote as Finance Minister Piyush Goyal said the Government had brought an ordinance before introducing the Bill in Parliament which reflected its aggressiveness in acting against black money and such offenders. Goyal also asked why the UPA Government had not brought a legislation like this? He said the Fugitive Economic Offenders Bill 2013 gave power to the agencies to seize properties which are not only in the name of offender, but also the ones that are benami. To Opposition demand to bring the Bill with retrospective effect to book offenders who have already fled, Goyal said it was not possible as the legislation was and the Government knows how to bring the accused to book. During the almost twohour long debate on the Bill, the Opposition questioned the Government s sincerity in acting against economic offenders Agri Ministry seeks higher sops for dairy exports eeping in view the ongoing Kdairy farmers protest in Maharashtra and increasing domestic demand in Karnataka, Bihar and Rajasthan, the Centre has increased import duty on whey milk powder from 30 per cent to 40 per cent. The Agriculture Ministry has also requested the Director General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) to increase export incentive for milk and milk products and casein from 10 percent to 20 per cent to ensure minimum benefit to dairy farmers. A corpus of `300 crore has been created to provide working capital loan to state cooperative federations. Officials of Agriculture Ministry said that domestic powdered and dry whey makers now have higher protection with the Centre hiking the tariff rate on this product to 40 per cent from the existing 30 per cent. It is estimated that every month about 4,500 tonnes of whey milk powder precise from August 12 at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) here. Apart from 101 life sized elephant art pieces representing as many elephant corridors of India, the four-day event will also see dance and music performances by artists such as Mallika Sarabhai and Astad Deboo, films and talks by filmmakers Mike Pandey and Krishnendu Bose, an exhibition of elephant-themed art and photographs curated by Ina Puri and Alka Pande. Vivek Menon, Executive Officials of Agriculture Ministry said that domestic powdered and dry whey makers now have higher protection with the Centre hiking the tariff rate on this product to 40 per cent from the existing 30 per cent Four-day Gaj Mahotsav in national Capital next month Director and CEO-Wildlife Trust of India, called for urgent need to protect "our biggest national treasure". India has a little over 27,000 wild Asian elephants, about 55 per cent of the species' estimated global population. Yet these natural nomads face an increasingly uncertain future in the country due to growing human population and depleting areas available for elephants to roam, said Atul Bagai, Head, UN Environment, India Country office. gets imported in the country. Considering the present scenario, the Department has again requested to increase export incentive for milk and milk products and Casein from 10% to 20% for the benefit of farmers, said officials adding that discussion have already started in the Ministry to fix a minimum support price for milk. To encourage milk consumption, the ministry has been requesting various states since December 2017 to take necessary steps to encourage supply of milk and milk products through Mid-day meal scheme and anganwadi under ICDS scheme for nutritional supports to children. Under the scheme a corpus of `300 crore in perpetuity with National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) is to be kept and used for providing soft loans for working capital. Under the scheme soft loan with simple interest at rate of 5 percent is given to various cooperatives, officials said. Milk production rose from 20 million tonnes (mt) in to 53.9 mt by It has grown even more after liberalisation, reaching mt in Due to the protests, the milk supply is severely hit in major cities of Maharashtra. The farmers are demanding a subsidy of `5 per litre of milk and waiver of goods and services tax (GST) on butter and milk powder. The protesting farmers are also demanding Rs. 5 a litre of subsidy to be deposited directly into their account similar to the practice in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. evelling a string of charges Lagainst the Narendra Modi Government, the Congress on Thursday claimed that the Centre and its agencies had forced Agusta Westland accused Christian Michel to sign a false confession naming UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi in return for complete exoneration. AICC chief spokesman Randeep Surjewala said that the mudslinging, muckraking and hatchet job enacted by the university. Previously, SC, ST and OBC faculty positions were calculated by treating the entire university as a unit. It grouped all posts of a grade, such as assistant profession, in all departments of a university to calculate quota. Under the new formula, where every department will be considered one separate unit, there will be a lower chance of positions being set aside for m Finance Minister Piyush Goyal said the Government had brought an ordinance before introducing the Bill in Parliament which reflected its aggressiveness in acting against black money and such offenders m Opposition questioned the Government s sincerity in acting against economic offenders saying many of them have fled the country during its rule, even as the BJP maintained that the banks were being helped to recover their money m Shashi Tharoor said there was a significant gap between the Govt s rhetoric and action and took a dig, saying that Nirav Modi was photographed with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Davos. The Prime Minister had promised to be a chowkidar, he said referring to a number of economic offenders fleeing the country Union Minister Piyush Goyal speaks in the Lok Sabha during the Monsoon Session on Thursday Parliamentary panel on AThursday dismissed the Government s claim of achieving about 84 per cent of the sanitation coverage in the rural areas under the Swachchh Bharat Mission (SBM) noting that in actual the figure seems to be more on paper while progress at the ground level is very lethargic. In this context, it drew the Government s attention to the huge unspent balance during of `9, crore particularly in big States like Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha and Uttar Pradesh in rural areas under the Mission which was launched on Ocober 2, 2014 with much fanfare by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Headed by Lok Sabha member Dr P Venugopal, the panel took a dig at the Ministry of Water and Sanitation, a nodal agency for implementing the SBM, commenting that at a time, when the major parts of the country are under severe quota as there may be fewer openings. The Opposition flagged the issue of increasing mob violence and lynching and demanded that the House condemn the attack on social activist Swami Agnivesh in Jharkhand and that the culprits be immediately arrested. Raising the issue, R K Rangarajan (CPI-M) alleged that activists of the Janta Yuva Morcha and Bajrang Dal had attacked Agnivesh. Countering perception that the population of Hindus in Bangladesh was declining after Swapan Dasgupta(Nominated) raised it, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj in the Question Hour quoted official records of that country to state that it has instead risen by two saying many of them have fled the country during its rule, even as the BJP maintained that the banks were being helped to recover their money. The attack was launched by RSP member NK Premchandran, followed by several other Opposition MPs, who charged the Government with letting the accused like Vijay Mallya, Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi to flee the country under its rule. Demanding a JPC probe into these incidents to bring out the truth, Premachandran also said the Bill should be sent to the standing committee for evaluation, while maintaining that he was opposed to bringing the ordinance. Initiating the debate on the bill, Nishikant Dubey (BJP) strongly supported the measure saying it will allow the Government to recover its dues from the absconding offenders. He claimed that absconding accused like Mallya, Modi, Choksi were products of the Congress Government, which had also facilitated their scams. He alleged that then Finance Minister P Chidambaram had tweaked rules to help certain firms linked to some of these accused days before the BJP Government took over in `9.93 lakh crore of the `10 water shortage, the idea of attaining Open Defecation Free (ODF) status for 100 per cent sanitation coverage across the nation seems farcical. The Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation (MDWS) has claimed about 84 per cent of sanitation coverage in the rural areas of the Country as on 24th May, However, contrary to the figures being projected by the Ministry, the Committee while examining the subject were of the view that the sanitation coverage figures seemed to be more on Paper but the actual progress at the ground level is very lethargic, said the panel in its Modi Government and its Dirty Tricks Department i.e CBI/ED, to smear the Opposition leaders is out in the open for the nation to see and adjudge. Modi Government has been the protector and benefactor of a company like AgustaWestland, claimed Surjewala. The Congress further said that Indian agencies are merely involved in hatching a conspiracy against the leaders of the Opposition and using Michel as a tool for the purpose. Never before in the history of India has a prime minister been found complicit in gaining false evidence against Opposition leaders to seek revenge, Surjewala said. The Congress spokesperson also said that to protect the national interest, the UPA government had proceeded to encash the securities/bank guarantees (both in India and abroad) and recovered an amount of `2,068 crore against the original payment of `1,620 per cent in In 2011, the Hindu population was 8.4 per cent and it rose to 10.7 per cent in 2017, she said. The minister also allayed apprehensions about security aspects of passport through mobile app and said fake passport through cyber cafes will be rejected automatically by the app. Law and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said he will hold discussion with stakeholders, including political parties, to evolve a policy to deal with the menace of misuse of the social media. He said this in the Rajya Sabha in response to a suggestion in this regard by Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu, after several members expressed concern over the misuse of the social media and the lynching incidents. PTI lakh crore of non-performing assets (NPAs) had originated during the UPA era, he said, adding that countries like the UK, US and China amended their laws to deal with such offences, but the UPA Government never did it. Shashi Tharoor (Cong) said there was a significant gap between the Government s rhetoric and action and took a dig, saying that Nirav Modi was photographed with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Davos. The Prime Minister had promised to be a chowkidar, he said referring to a number of economic offenders fleeing the country. House Panel dismisses Centre s 84% swachchh rural areas claim Modi Govt forced Michel to sign false confession naming Sonia, alleges Cong AGUSTA WESTLAND SCAM Govt committed to upholding constitutional right of reservation The Allahabad High Court ruling in last April struck down a circular prescribing institution-wise reservation to fill vacant faculty positions. Javadekar said the High Court order was later upheld by the Supreme Court, forcing UGC to issue the March 5 circular laying down a new mechanism for implementing faculty reservations The Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation has claimed about 84 per cent of sanitation coverage in the rural areas of the Country as on May 24, 2018 report submitted to Parliament. During interaction with the officials and stakeholders, the Committee found that during the year as on 24 May, there was huge unspent balance of ` crore under SBM(G). The Committee is concerned to note that the problem of unspent balance is more prominent in certain States than others under SBM(G). The Committee also find that States like Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Punjab, Jammu & Kashmir and Uttar Pradesh have large amount of unspent balances. For instance, in Uttar Pradesh ` crore, in Bihar ` crore, in Madhya Pradesh ` crore, in Assam ` crore, in Odisha ` crore, in Andhra Pradesh ` crore are lying unspent, it said. It reminded the Government that even a village with 100 per cent household toilets cannot be declared ODF till all the inhabitants start using them. Modi Government has been the protector and benefactor of a company like AgustaWestland, claimed Surjewala crore. The UPA Government had also confiscated three AgustaWestland helicopters worth ` crore as per the contract value. Thus, the UPA- Congress Government had effectively recovered nearly `3,000 crore, he said. Surjewala also brought up how on August 26, 2014, the Modi government undid the order of blacklisting of Finmeccanica and AgustaWestland and asked the latter to be part of Make in India programme and participate in Aero India Exhibition. INSHORT LYNCHING: CENTRE ASKS STATES TO TAKE ACTION New Delhi: The Centre on Thursday condemned the recent incidents of mob lynching and said it has advised the States to take stringent action against the culprits as also social media service providers to install checks to stop the spread of rumours and fake news. Not satisfied with the response of Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Congress members led by Mallikarjun Kharge staged a walkout expressing dissatisfaction. OVER 51L HOUSES SANCTIONED: PURI New Delhi: The Centre has sanctioned 10,371 projects for construction of around 51.1 lakh houses in the country under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban) in the last three years, Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Thursday while replying to a written question in the Rajya Sabha. Puri said out of 51,10,382 houses sanctioned, 7,76,081 have been completed so far under the PMAY (U). RAJYA SABHA NOW WI-FI ENABLED New Delhi: The Rajya Sabha is now Wi-Fi enabled, offering law makers of the Upper House access to Internet for browsing government and Parliament websites, Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu announced on Thursday. Present rules allow MPs to carry mobile phones, laptops and tabs inside the Rajya Sabha chamber but the devices were not connected to the Parliament Wi-Fi. It was available to members in lobbies and other parts of the Parliament House complex. NEC AND IC TO COME UP SOON IN DELHI New Delhi: A North Eastern Cultural (NEC) and Information Centre (IC), showcasing the vibrant culture of the region, will come up in the national Capital soon. It is being built on 1.32 acre land in Dwarka and will act as a cultural convention and information hub of the region in Delhi. Officials said land has been acquired from DDA. VARSITY TO SCAN THESES TO CHECK PLAGIARISM New Delhi: The Government on Thursday said it is making it mandatory for all universities to scan PhD theses through a strong software to check plagiarism. Disclosing this while replying to supplementaries in the Rajya Sabha, HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar said it is not true that all varsities are getting fake research papers, but efforts are being made to rectify the wrongdoings. OVER 2,400 IAS, IPS POSTS VACANT: GOVT New Delhi: Over 2,400 posts of IAS and IPS officers are lying vacant in the country. As many as 1,449 Indian Administrative Service (IAS) posts or per cent of the sanctioned strength of 6,553 are vacant. There are 970 vacancies in the Indian Police Service (IPS) or per cent of the total 4,940 posts, Minister of State for Personnel Jitendra Singh said in a written reply to the Rajya Sabha. ALLOW BJP MEMBERS TO FUNCTION AS MLAS: SC New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the Puducherry Assembly Speaker to allow the three nominated BJP leaders to function as MLAs and refused to stay the order of the Madras High Court upholding their nomination. Culture cannot be imposed on others, say experts PTI n NEW DELHI inkages spanning over 2,000 Lyears between different countries have been essential for the survival of culture and it cannot be imposed on others, experts said on Thursday. These experts, including eminent historians and academicians, participated in a panel discussion on "Strengthening Socio-Cultural Ties" during the 10th edition of Delhi Dialogue here. "Culture can never be imposed on others. There are three essential things which have helped in survival of culture over the years. These include linkages spanning over 2,000 years," Sabuj Koli Sen, Vice Chancellor Viswa Bharti University, said. Rajesh Purohit, Director, Indian Museum, Kolkata, said, "Reviving literature and epics is very essential to establish relations with our neighbouring countries." The others who participated in the discussion were Nalanda University Vice Chancellor Sunaina Singh, Vinay Sahasrabuddhe, MP and President - ICCR, and Minister of State for External Affairs M J Akbar.

6 LUCKNOW FRIDAY JULY 20, 2018 U.P.Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Ltd. Anpara Thermal Power Project, , Extended date of Anpara, E- Tender opening part-i: , Notice 1. E-Tender No: For participation and detailed 408/EPD-I/BTPS/ , information Office: Superintending 9. E- Engineer, MM&MPC-IV, BTPS, Tender No: 01/C&ICD- Anpara, Sonebhadra. Supply: Computer paper for DAS printer type: fan fold, size: 15x11". Earnest Money: Rs (Rs. Five Hundred Only), Tender Cost: Rs GST@18%, Last Date of submission of bid (Technical & Financial) at e-procurement website , date of opening part-i: , For participation 2. E- VI/DTPS/ , Office: Tender No: 432/EPD- I/BTPS/ , Office: MM&MPC-IV, BTPS, Anpara, Sonebhadra. Supply: MS pipes, bends, valves, wear plate & expansion joints etc. Earnest Money: Rs (Rs. Twenty Seven Thousand Only), Tender Cost: Rs GST@18%, Last Date of submission of bid (Technical & Financial) at e- procurement website , date of opening part-i: , For participation 3. E- Tender No: 441/EPD- I/BTPS/ , Office: MM&MPC-IV, BTPS, Anpara, Sonebhadra. Supply: MS Bolt with nut & washer. Earnest Money: Rs (Rs. Two Thousand Only), Tender Cost: Rs GST@18%, Last Date of submission of bid , date of opening part-i: , For participation 4. E- Tender No: 166/EPD-II/ ATPS/ , Office: (O&M)MMC- VII, A TPS, An para, Sonebhadra. Supply: Supply of epoxy resin base support insulator frame for IP bus duct of generator of 200 MVA capacity. Earnest Money: Rs. 24, (Rs. Twenty Four Thousand Only), Tender Cost: Rs GST@18%, Last Date of submission of bid , date of opening part-i: , For participation log in to website 5. E- Tender No: 68/CF-105/EPD- II/DTPS/ , Office: MMC, DTPS, Anpara, Sonebhadra. Supply: Supply of MS pipe of thickness 6.00 mm lined with cast BASALT with min. thickness-20mm for 2x500MW, DTPS, Anpara. Earnest Money: Rs. 24, (Rs. Twenty Four Thousand Only), Tender Cost: Rs GST@18%, Last Date of submission of bid procurement , date of opening part-i: , For participation 6. E- Tender No: 67/CF-478/EPD- II/DTPS/ , Office: MMC, DTPS, Anpara, Sonebhadra. Supply: materials required for generator unit No.6 overhauling of 2x500MW, DTPS, Anpara. Earnest Money: Rs. 2, (Rs. Two Thousand Five Hundred Only), Tender Cost: Rs GST@18%, Last Date of submission of bid , date of opening part-i: , For participation 7. E- 13. E-Tender No: 30/C&IMD- III/BTPS/ , Office: Tender No:162/EPD- II/ATPS/ , Office: O&MC-IlI, 2X500MW, BTPS, O&M] MMC-VII, ATPS, Anpara, Sonebhadra. Supply: Supply of different specification of idlers for CMR system of 3x210MW, Annual running/preventive & breakdown maintenance of air conditioning systems of BTPS Anpara except coal handling ATPS, Anpara. Earnest Money: area. Earnest Money: Rs. 10, (Rs. Ten 16, (Rs. Sixteen Thousand Only), Tender Cost: Thousand Only) (Refundable). Rs GST@18%, Tender Cost: Extended Last Date of submission of bid (Technical & 18%(Non Refundable). Earnest money deposit & tender cost to Financial) at e-procurement be deposited through website , Extended date of opening part-i: , BTPS, Anpara., last date for For participation and detailed submission of e-bid information 8. E- Tender No:161/EPD- II/ATPS/ , Office: O&M] MMC-VII, ATPS, Anpara, Sonebhadra. Supply: Supply of U link chain and chain connector for scrapper conveyer of 3x210MW, ATPS, Anpara. Earnest Money: Rs. 6, (Rs. Six Thousand Only), Tender Cost: Rs GST@18%, Extended Last Date of submission of bid C&lCC, DTPS, Anpara, Sonebhadra. Work: Routine cleaning work of areas under C&ICD-VI division of 2x500MW, DTPP Anpara as per scope of work. Earnest Money: (Rs. Five Thousand Three Hundred Sixty Only) (Refundable). Tender Cost: %(Non Refundable). Earnest money deposit & tender cost to be deposited through DTPS, Anpara., last date for submission of hard copies of supporting documents along with requisite fee (Tender cost & EMD): , E- bid opening date of part-i: , Part-II: Shall be intimated later. Period: One Year. For participation and detailed information E- Tender No: 05/CHD- V/BTPS/ , Office: CHC, BTPS, Anpara, Sonebhadra. Work: Repairing/reconditioning of stone picking chute and its stand and replacement of worn out/damaged deck plates of various conveyor and work of fabrication of steel structure on unit rate basis in CHP BTPS, Anpara. Earnest Money: 20, (Rs. Twenty Thousand Only) (Refundable). Tender Cost: %(Non Refundable). Earnest money deposit & tender cost to be deposited through BTPS, Anpara., last date for submission of hard copies of requisite Documents): , E-bid opening date of part-i: , Part-II: Shall be intimated later. Period: One Year. For participation E- Tender No: 05/MMD- I/ATPS/ , Office: O&MC-I, 3X210MW, ATPS, Preventive/Breakdown and overhauling maintenance of LP piping and associated valves etc of 3x210MW, ATPS, Anpara. Earnest Money: 10, (Rs. Ten Thousand Only) (Refundable). Tender Cost: %(Non Refundable). Earnest money deposit & tender cost to be deposited through ATPS, Anpara., last date for submission of e-bid (Technical & Financial) at E , opening date of part-i: , Part-II: Shall be intimated later. Period: One , opening date of , opening date of Year. For participation and tender bid part-i: , part-i: , For participation detailed information Jog in to Part-II: Shall be intimated later. and detailed informa- website Period: One Year. For participation tion 12. E-Tender No: 06/MMD- and detailed informa E- I/ATPS/ , Office: tion log into website Tender No: 38/CF-279(A)/EPDwebsite E- I/DTPS/ , Office: Tender No: 16/E&MCD- II/DTPS/ , Office: O&MC-I, 3X210MW, ATPS, House up keeping, cleaning & cutting uprooting of grass/bushes/shrubs etc at different sites of the division. Earnest Money: 6, (Rs. Six Thousand Only) (Refundable). Tender Cost: %(Non Refundable). Earnest money deposit & tender cost to be deposited through NEFT/RTGS or direct in the account of DY.C.A.O., CFA&BO, ATPS, Anpara., last date for submission of e-bid (Technical & Financial) at e-procurement website , opening date of part-i: , Part-II: Shall be intimated later. Period: One Year. For participation and detailed information log in to website , opening date of part-i: , Part-II: Shall be intimated later. Period: One Year. For participation and detailed information log in to website E-Tender No: 08/OG&ChD/ATPS/ , Office: Superintending Engineer, O&MC-I, ATPS, Breakdown/preventive maintenance of cation, anion, mixed beds, pressure filters and other associated work, epoxy coalting of vessels of filter and mastic lining etc, and ebonite rubber lining of diaphragm valves, reruber lining of pipes, bends, Tee, tanks of D.M. Plant, ATPS, Anpara. Earnest Money: 20, (Rs. Twenty Thousand Only) (Refundable). Tender Cost: %(Non Refundable). Earnest money deposit & tender cost to be deposited through account of DY.C.A.O., CF A&BO, ATPS, Anpara., last date for su bmission of e-bid , opening date of tender bid part-i: , Part-II: Shall be intimated later. Period: One Year. For participation E- Tender No: 03/C&IMD- I/ATPS/ , O&MC-IlI, 3 X210MW, ATPS, Annual contract for round the clock operation & maintenance of permanent station lighting system of 3x210MW, ATPS, Anpara Sonebhadra including trimming of tree branches and cutting/cleaning of bush around the lighting installations. Earnest Money: 20, (Rs. Twenty Thousand Only) (Refundable). Tender Cost: %(Non Refundable). Earnest money deposit & tender cost to be deposited through NEFT/RTGS or direct in the account of DY.C.A.O., CFA&BO, ATPS, Anpara., Extended last date for submission of e-bid , Extended opening date of tender bid part-i: , Part-II: Shall be intimated later. Period: One Year. For participation and detailed information E- Tender No: 15/E&MCD- II/DTPS/ , Office: O&MCC-I, 2X500MW, DTPS, Routine maintenance & operation of 02 Nos AHU, 02 Nos Chillers, 10 Nos caste split AC are installed in water system package, 34 Split AC) 02 nos window AC, 01 nos tower AC installed at different.mcc & 04 chillers unit installed in SW AS room of 2x500MW, DTPS, Anpara. Earnest Money: 11, (Rs. Eleven Thousand Only) (Refundable). Tender Cost: %(Non Refundable). Earnest money deposit & tender cost to be deposited through DTPS, Anpara., last date for submission of e-bid O&MCC-I, 2X500MW, DTPS, Routine maintenance of sewage treatment plant with all lifting station of 2x500MW DTPS, Anapra.. Earnest Money: 3, (Rs. Three Thousand Three Hundred Only) (Refundable). Tender Cost: %(Non Refundable). Earnest money deposit & tender cost to be deposited through DTPS, Anpara., last date for submission of e-bid procurement , opening date of tender bid part-i: , Part-II: Shall be intimated later. Period: One Year. For participation E- Tender No: 03/C&IMD- II/BTPS/ , Office: O&MC-III, BTPS, Anpara, Sonebhadra. Work: Engagement of maintenance Tender No: 40/CF-274/EPDsupport services on control I/DTPS/ , Office: panel equipments of various C&I systems (APC, BMS, BSQ) MMC, DTPS, Anpara, Sonebhadra. installed on boiler side, ash handling Supply: procurement of system, ash water pump Hydrazine Hydrate Earnest house of 2x500MW, BTPS, Money: 13, (Rs. Thirteen Anapra.. Earnest Money: Thousand Only). Tender Cost: 14, (Rs. Fourteen Thousand Only) (Refundable) %. Extended last date for submission of e-bid Tender Cost: (Technical & Financial) at E- 18%(Non Refundable). Earnest money deposit & tender cost to be deposited through , Extended opening date of part-i: , For participation and detailed BTPS, Anpara., last date for information submission of e- bid Executive Engineer (W) for website Chief procurement , opening date of tender bid part-i: , Part-II: Shall be intimated later. Period: One Year. For participation E- Tender No: 32/C&IMDlII/BTPS/ , Office: O&MC-III, 2X500MW, BTPS, up keeping of control room, control equipment room, DAS room, PPTS, Boiler and turbine side field equipments (Including CPP, Mix bed WTP, Regeneration room of CPP) of unit 4&5, BTPS, Anpara Earnest Money: 12, (Rs. Twelve Thousand Only) (Refundable). Tender Cost: %(Non Refundable). Earnest money deposit & tender cost to be deposited through BTPS, Anpara., last date for submission: , opening date of part-i: , Part-II: Shall be intimated later. Period: One Year. For participation Office: E- Tender No: 06/BMD- II/BTPS/ , Office: O&MC-II, 2X500MW, BTPS, Routine maintenance work of milling system of unit 4&5 fo 2x500MW, BTPS, Anpara Earnest Money: 30, (Rs. Thirty Thousand Only) (Refundable). Tender Cost: %(Non Refundable). Earnest money deposit & tender cost to be deposited through BTPS, Anpara., last date for submission of e-bid (Technical & Financial) at E , opening date of part-i: , Part-II: Shall be intimated later. Period: One Year. For participation and detailed information log in to website E-Tender No: 50/CF- 291/EPD-I/DTPS/ , Office: Superintending Engineer,,MMC, DTPS, Anpara, Sonebhadra. Supply: procurement of spares of dry fog dust suppression system for CHP. Earnest Money: 13, (Rs. Thirteen Thousand Only). Tender Cost: %. last date for submission of e- bid (Technical & Financial) at E , opening date of part-i: , For participation E- Tender No: 51/CF-299/EPD- I/DTPS/ , Office: MMC, DTPS, Anpara, Sonebhadra. Supply: procurement of SS cleated belt with SS fasteners. Earnest Money: 7, (Rs. Seven Thousand Only). Tender Cost: %. last date for submission of e-bid MMC, DTPS, Anpara, Sonebhadra. Supply: procurement of MS ERW pipe. Earnest Money: 13, (Rs. Thirteen Thousand Only). Tender Cost: %. Extended last date for submission of e-bid (Technical & Financial) at E , Extended opening date of part-i: , For participation and detailed information E- Tender No: 39/CF-279(A)/EPD- I/DTPS/ , Office: MMC, DTPS, Anpara, Sonebhadra. website Supply: procurement of Chemicals. Earnest Money: 18, (Rs. Eighteen Thousand Only). Tender Cost: %. Extended last date for submission of e-bid (Technical & Financial) at E , Extended opening date of part-i: , For participation and detailed information 25.E- Engineer Anpara Thermal Project Anpara, Sonebhadra (U.P) No. 187 Date "SAVE ELEC- TRICITY ENHANCE NATIONAL PRODUCTIVITY" 17-yr-old boy lynched by students in school STAFF REPORTER n NEW DELHI Class X student of a Delhi AGovernment school was allegedly murdered by a group of students on the school premises in Jyoti Nagar area of Northeast Delhi on Wednesday. Initial probe has revealed that the 17-year old boy was beaten to death over personal enmity, police said on Thursday. A scuffle between the victim and a group of students at Jyoti Nagar s SKV School ensued into the horrific incident leading to fatal injuries to the boy. When policemen reached the spot, they found him lying badly injured, said a police officer. His brother Gobinda brought him to GTB Hospital, where he was declared brought dead, a police official said. He was staying with his parents in Babarpur. He had gone to meet his class teacher, the officer added. A murder case has been registered. Some students are being questioned. The cause of death will be ascertained after autopsy, the police officer said. The boy had gone to school with his mother and cousin to collect his Transfer Certificate. However, his mother who was not feeling good returned home midway. The victim and his cousin Hairaj did not receive the certificate after which Hairaj went to drink water inside the school building while the victim was waiting for Hairaj at the school gate. Suddenly a group of students came to argue with the boy. The altercation deteriorated into fisticuffs. But KUMAR CHELLAPPAN n CHENNAI ven as Chief Minister EEdappadi Palaniswamy opened the Mettur Dam on Thursday morning to facilitate the farming operations in the districts of Thanjavur, Thiruvarur, Tiruchirappalli, Cuddalore and Nagapattinam, farmers in Tamil Nadu have come out with a demand that Karnataka release more Cauvery water to the State as well as the water unutilised by Kerala. The new claims by the farmers have the potential to generate another controversy and law and order issue between Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. The month May saw the DMK and other fringe elements waving black flags at the Prime Minister when he came to Chennai to inaugurate the Defence Expo. They had even flown black balloons as the Prime Minister heli hopped from Chennai airport to the venue of the Defence Expo. the group of students overpowered the victim and beat him black and blue, said sources. Nearly boys took him to the nearby park by holding his neck and brutally hitting him on his chest and stomach. Two of the guys pressed his neck and mouth so that he could not breath. Others thrashed him brutally. I had just returned from work when I got a call from my brother s number, said Gobinda. Following the call, Gobinda rushed to the school and took his brother to nearby GTB Hospital but to no avail. Gobinda said most of the accused were drug addicts and they had fought with his younger brother earlier also. He said he didn t ever think that the students would be harbouring revenge on his brother for so long. Last to last Sunday, he told me that he had a scuffle with some boys of the school. I asked him not to get involved with them. After that I met two of my brother s friends and asked them to reach a compromise and become friends. But I never thought that they will kill my brother one day, Gobinda said. My brother was a very calm and hard-working boy. He wanted to become a Government officer, the victim s brother said. My brother was kindhearted. He used to do part time job in a bangle-making shop to help the family. They have shattered our dream and taken away the happiness of our family by killing my brother. Humari maa is haadse ki baat se sadme mai chali gayi hain (My mother is in deep agony after hearing the tragedy). We seek death penalty for the accused as this is a planned murder, said Gobinda. nation 06 Akhilesh parries poser on SP s support to Rahul as PM PTI n BHOPAL amajwadi Party chief SAkhilesh Yadav on Thursday avoided a direct reply when asked whether his party would support Rahul Gandhi as Prime Minister. The country wants to see a new government at the Centre. People want to see a new prime minister. You will see a new prime minister after the elections, he said when asked whether he saw himself or the Congress president as the next Prime Minister. Asked specifically if his party would support Rahul Gandhi for the PM s post if a non-bjp coalition gets the chance to form a government after the 2019 elections Yadav, speaking at a press conference here, repeated his reply. He, however, noted that during the recent bye-elections in Kairana and elsewhere in Uttar Pradesh, the Congress supported the SP and the Bahujan Samaj Party. Whenever the Congress people talk, they talk very sweetly, he quipped. On the possibility of an SP-BSP alliance for next year s general election, Yadav said, You will soon learn about a (new) coalition. The BJP has formed a coalition with 47 political parties at the Centre. We are also in favour of a coalition, he said. The BJP won the last assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, in which his government was ousted, by dividing society on the basis of caste and religion, he alleged. He enjoyed good relations with BSP supremo Mayawati, Yadav said, adding that the SP was with all the forces which are fighting for social justice. Farmers in TN demand more Cauvery water Flood water only being released by Karnataka, say farmers The farming community and the entire Opposition parties in the State which have been agitating against the Centre demanding the constitution of the Cauvery Management Authority for the judicious allocation of the Cauvery water between the stakeholders (Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry) as per the directive of the Supreme Court in February 2018, were silent during the last fortnight as the South West Monsoon brought bountiful rainfall and Karnataka started releasing water to Tamil Nadu. The Mettur Dam got filled Four women among 8 Maoists gunned down IANS n RAIPUR ight Maoists, including Efour women, were gunned down in a gun battle with security forces in Chhattisgarh s Bijapur district early on Thursday, police said. The incident took place around 6.30 am in a forest near Timenar village along the border of Bijapur and Dantewada districts when a joint team of the District Reserve Guard and Special Task Force were engaged in an anti-maoist operation. The area is located around 450 km from the state capital Raipur and is known as one of the hotbeds of the insurgency. Confirming the incident, Inspector General of Police (Bastar Range) Vivekanand Sinha said that patrolling and search operations in the area had been intensified ahead of the President's visit to Dantewada on July 25. "The joint team had launched the search operation near Timenar village forest on a tip off when the exchange of fire broke out," said the official. Additional police forces were rushed to the spot after the incident and eight bodies of Maoists were recovered. "Four Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami opens the sluice gate of Mettur dam to release disputed-river Cauvery water in Salem on Thursday PTI of the dead Maoists are women." Eight high-tech weapons, including two INSAS rifles, two.303 rifles, two.315 rifles, a pen gun and a 12-bore gun were recovered from their possession. Police said the firing lasted two hours and that an unknown number of fighters managed to flee from the spot. In April, eight Maoists -- six of them women -- were also killed in a joint operation by Chhattisgarh and Telangana security personnel near the inter-state boundary in Bijapur. The Centre has deployed thousands of federal and regional police forces in the region to fight armed groups who have been locked in a decades-old conflict that has cost tens of thousands of lives. Hundreds of Maoists tend to dominate vast swathes of mineral-rich areas in the country's east and centre, claiming to speak for the local tribes. According to a government data, over 120 people have been killed in the last six months in Maoist violence and operations conducted against the rebels. Last week, two paramilitary soldiers were killed by the rebels in the same region. by Thursday because of the water gushing down from Cauvery as Karnataka opened the Krishna Raja Sagar Dam. Whatever Cauvery water is being released by Karnataka now does not belong to the quantity stipulated by the Cauvery Water Dispute Tribunal of the Supreme Court. This is the flood waters being released by Karnataka to save itself from the fury of flood, said Arupathy P Kalyanam, general secretary, Federation of Farmers Associations, Tamil Nadu. The FFA, in a memorandum to the Tamil Nadu government on Thursday pointed CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 out that Karnataka was releasing only the surplus flows and it should not be taken into account of monthly releases as stipulated by the Cauvery River Water Tribunal and the Supreme Court. They said that whatever water being released by Karnataka now was not part of the quantity of water allocated by the tribunal or the Supreme Court. Quoting statistics from the last fifty years of legal battle with Karnataka, the Tamil Nadu farmers stated: The Cauvery Delta People of Tamil Nadu had lost most of their traditional rights in the legal battle which was dragged on for 50 years, said the memorandum. Tamil Nadu Government must make strong representation with the Cauvery Management Board that the unutilized water from Kerala should be released to Tamil Nadu in addition to the allocated share of the State as directed by the Cauvery Tribunal in its final order in 2007, said the FFA memorandum to the Tamil Nadu Government. The Farmers association has included the relevant portions of the verdict delivered by CWT to strengthen their demand. AIRCEL-MAXIS... Incidentally, during that period maximum foreign investment allowed in telecom sector was 74 per cent, but Maxis was allowed to illegally acquire 99.3 per cent shares in Aircel. The CBI has charged Karti and his firms with accepting around Rs 1.16 core (two million dollars) from Maxis when the files for FIPB approval were pending with father Chidambaram. `26 lakh was received by Advanatage and balance of the amount was received through Chess Management Services. In May 2012, BJP leader Subramanian Swamy approached Supreme Court s 2G Bench and accused the CBI of not probing Chidambaram s role in the FIPB approval. In March 2018, the Supreme Court directed the CBI and the ED to finish the probe within six months. The Enforcement Directorate has already attached Karti s bank accounts for the `1.16 crore-kickbacks under money laundering in October 2017 and filed chargesheet in the 2G Court. The ED is also expected to file chargesheet against Chidambaram soon. DOYEN OF HINDI POETRY... I have no words to express my condolences on the death of such a great poet and a well-wisher of the Samajwadi Party, he said. Former chairperson Hindi Sansthan, Udai Pratap Singh, who was the closest to Neeraj, said that there had been great poets but no one could match the way Neeraj made Hindi popular among the people. He had this unique style of writing wherein the style changed with the subject. He wrote bhajans in a different style, his film songs and his pattis were different. He was excellent in English and he translated Aurbindo Ghosh s work from English into Hindi. He also stayed for some time with Osho and wrote on his philosophy, he said. Singh said that the poet had immense pulling power amongst the readers. Great Urdu poet Munnawar Rana said that he could not express his grief in words. He was the bridge between Urdu and Hindi language and was the true essence of Ganga Jamunavi tehzeeb. His work was one that touched the heart of the people. He treated young poets like me as his equal giving them all respect, he said. Hindi Sansthan Chairman SP Gupta said that it was the biggest loss to the world of Hindi literature. His work reflected the traditional feel and his songs were full of pain, sadness and were in general about humanity, he said.

7 LUCKNOW FRIDAY JULY 20, 2018 nation 07 Did Cardinal lie to protect Bishop? VR JAYARAJ n KOCHI NUN RAPE CASE ticity but it was quick to claim promise to her about taking that the audio was being propagated to spread misinformaed queries. care of them despite her repeat- id Cardinal Mar George DAlencherry, head of the tion for defaming Mar A complaint is pending mighty Kerala-based Syro- Malabar Catholic Church, violate the Commandment, thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour, in order to protect Bishop Franco Mulakkal of the Latin Catholic Diocese of Jalandhar who has been accused of raping a senior nun several times in two years? An audio clip containing a recorded phone conversation between the victim and the Cardinal suggests that Mar Alencherry might have not spoken the truth to the people Alencherry and the Church. The nun had not mentioned the rape complaint anywhere in her conversation, it claimed. What is more appalling about the Cardinal s advice to the nun, according to a section of the laity, is his refusal as is apparent in the audio clip to help her get an appointment with the Apostolic Nuncio, The Vatican s representative in India, or the president of the Latin Catholic Episcopal body, Conference of Catholic Bishops in India, to bring her plight to with the Kochi police seeking legal action against the Cardinal, who is already facing allegations of involvement in a mega land scam in his Church s Ernakulam Angamaly Archdiocese of which he is the Major Archbishop, for not informing the authorities about an extremely serious offence like the nun-rape incident even after coming to know of it. The Cardinal has committed violation of the Commandment, Thou shalt not bear false witness, said an of the State and the Kerala he had said. ed to her convent in their notice. office-bearer of the Police when he told them that he had not received any complaint containing rape charge against the Bishop from the nun and that was why he had not alerted the police about it. You may go to the police or the court as you like. But never tell anyone that you are In her statements to the police and before a court, the nun, now 48, had said that Bishop Franco Mulakkal had sexually abused her using threats 13 times in two years. According to her, the Bishop had first raped her on May 5, 2014 at a guest house affiliat- Kuravilangad in Kottayam district during his visit to Kerala for attending a Church function. Immediately after the audio clip of the Cardinal-nun phone conversation came out in the media, the Syro-Malabar Church confirmed its authen- In the phone conversation, Mar Alencherry is heard offering to help her if she and the other nuns who have similar complaints if they come back to the Syro-Malabar Rite of the Catholic Church from the Latin Catholic Church. Even then, he is not making any concrete Archdiocesan Movement for Transparency. As per the audio-clip, he had adopted a very clever approach to the issue. His idea must have been to get the nun out of her church cleverly and thus protect the Jalandhar Bishop, he said. doing it on my advice If the police ask me about this I will tell them I don t know anything, the Cardinal is heard Court denies bail to rapist Kerala priests telling the nun over the phone in the audio-clip in response to VR JAYARAJ n KOCHI erupted last month after an her statement that she was ORTHODOX CHURCH SEX SCANDAL audio clip containing a purported conversation between planning to petition the police Kerala court on Thursday V Mathew by observing that Fr Johnson V Mathew of and the court against Bishop Adenied bail to two priests of the charges against them were the Thumpamon diocese of the woman s husband and a Mulakkal. If you have been subjected to persecution (by the Bishop), it is not at all proper Those who have wronged should learn lessons. If (the Bishop) has committed wrong, he must learn a lesson. But you don t have any evidence to show that he has wronged, do you? he is heard asking the nun in the phone talk. Yes, there is evidence, the nun replies to him over the phone. the influential Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church who were arrested last week for allegedly exploiting a young woman sexually by blackmailing her using her confession secret. The priests, who are currently in remand in judicial custody, said they would approach the High Court for bail. A total of four Orthodox Church priests are accused in the case and the remaining two are still in hiding. The Supreme of extremely serious nature and that the case against them was maintainable. Stating that there were evidences prima facie against the accused priests, the court said granting them bail at this stage would send out a wrong message to society. It also said that there was every possibility that the priests would try to influence the witnesses and that they might go into hiding if released on bail. the Church was arrested from his house in Kozhanchery, Pathanamthitta on July 13. The other two priests involved in the case are first accused Fr Abraham Varghese (Sony) of the Niranam Diocese and fourth accused Fr Jaise K George, Assistant Vicar at the Janakpuri parish church under the Delhi Diocese. While the first, second and fourth accused have been charged with rape and outraging Church official in which the former alleged sexual abuse of his wife by the priests came out through social media. He said the priests had sexually abused his wife by blackmailing her with her confession secret. According to the woman s own statements to the Crime Branch and before the court, Fr Abraham Varghese, who was her neighbour then, had sexually exploited her first in 1999 when she was only 17 and On Wednesday, the Court on Thursday deferred The Kerala Police s Crime modesty of woman, unmarried by promising to Cardinal had told the police team which questioned him in connection with the nun rape case that she had met him but had not given any complaint about her alleged rape by the Jalandhar Bishop. Instead, what she had spoken to him was about some problems she was facing in her convent associated with the Jalandhar Diocese, their anticipatory bail applications for orders with the stipulation that the police should not arrest them till it pronounced its decision. The Judicial First Class Magistrate Court in Thiruvalla, Pathanamthitta district rejected the bail applications of second accused Fr Job Mathew and third accused Fr Johnson Branch probing the case recorded the arrest of Fr Job Mathew from the Niranam Diocese of the Orthodox Church on July 12 after the High Court rejected his anticipatory bail plea the previous day. All the four priests accused of sexually abusing the woman from Thiruvalla had gone into hiding after the Crime Branch booked them. the third accused has been charged with outraging modesty of woman only. According to the victim s statements to the police and before a magistrate under Section 164 of the CrPC, she had been undergoing sexual exploitation by the priests since The sex scandal rocking the Orthodox Syrian Church marry her and he had continued to exploit her even after her marriage by threatening to disclose the matter to her husband. The woman had revealed this in her Confession to Fr Job Mathew, her parish priest then, after her marriage but he used this secret to rape her by threatening to disclose it to her husband. TMC scoffs at Rajnath lynching speech Maintaining law & order is State s duty: Home Minister Earlier, Mamata Banerjee said that she was backing the no-confidence motion in the greater interest of the Opposition unity SAUGAR SENGUPTA n KOLKATA ours after Union Minister HRajnath Singh reminded that law and order was a State subject while giving his speech on increased cases of lynching in various States, Trinamool Congress came out with a mordant reply that it took so many years for the BJP Government to understand that law and order was in fact a State subject. It is good that finally they have realised that law and order is a State subject and not a Central domain as appeared from their conduct these many years. We are happy that finally they have understood our point and reconciled with what we have been telling, TMC general secretary Partho Chatterjee said on Thursday. Chatterjee whose statement came hours before the TMC was to vote in favour of a noconfidence motion against the BJP Government also reminded how such law and order problems like lynching are taking place in the BJP-ruled States only showing that law and order conditions in those States are so poor. Earlier Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said that she ANUP SHARMA n GUWAHATI oint General Secretary of JViswa Hindu Parishad (VHP) Surendra Kumar Jain on Thursday demanded that the churches, the Christian missionary run institutions and Islamic madrassas across the country should be investigated properly. Referring to the recent incident at Nirmal Hriday Missionary of Charity, Jain said that there is no two opinion that the institution like Nirmal Hriday has been involved in trafficking of children. The senior VHP leader also slammed the Christian Missionaries and churches and said that wherever the churches have gone there is no development in that area. The churches here are basically for conversion of religion. They have used money, lies and force to convert the people in different parts of the country including in India s northeast, he said adding that the churches have also encouraged secessionist thoughts in India s northeast. On the illegal infiltration in Assam and the ongoing process of updation of the National Register of Citizens (NRC), Jain said that while the country must consider humanitarian aspect, the security of the country cannot compromised. Assam and northeast cannot accept a single Bangladeshi citizens after the updation of the NRC, he said while referring to the recent crackdown of Saudi Arabia on illegal Bangladeshis living in the was backing the no-confidence motion in the greater interest of the Opposition unity. She said not only the Opposition parties but through them the people at large would also express their angst and views against the Narendra Modi Government. Banerjee earlier issued a whip to the Trinamool Congress MPs to remain present and vote for the no-confidence motion likely to be brought against the BJP Government on Friday. We are supporting the motion in the greater interest and in the interest of the Opposition unity, Banerjee said, adding the BJP may have the numbers in the House but they do not have support outside. VHP seeks probe into churches, madrassas CHILD TRAFFICKING The Churches here are basically for conversion of religion. They have used money, lies and force to convert the people in different parts of the country including in India s northeast country. He also advocated clearing the lands of Vaishnavite Satras in Assam from encroachment and said that these Satras are the souls of Assam. He said that the Satra lands should be evicted from encroachment immediately. Asked if the BJP led NDA Government s has adopted a u turn to the commitment on Ram temple, the senior VHP leader said that Ram temple is the commitment of the BJP Government and that the VHP is not going to compromise on the issue. It was a commitment of the BJP before the polls. We believe that the BJP will fulfill its commitment. We are waiting for judgment over the issue, he said adding that BJP president Amit Shah has recently said that there will be Ram temple before the 2019 polls and that it is a BJP commitment. So we have to wait for sometime for having the Ram temple but we are committed for it, he said. RBI to soon issue new ` 100 note PTI n NEW DELHI he Reserve Bank on TThursday said it will soon issue new Rs 100 notes in lavender colour having motif of Rani ki vav a stepwell located on the banks of Saraswati river in Gujarat s Patan. All Rs 100 banknotes issued earlier will also continue to be legal tender, the central bank said while announcing the issue of the new Rs 100 notes. The base colour of the note is Lavender. The note has other designs, geometric patterns aligning with the overall colour scheme, both at the obverse and reverse. Dimension of the banknote will be 66 mm x 142 mm, making it smaller than the current Rs 100 notes. The size of current Rs 100 notes is 157 mm x 73 mm As is normal, when a new design of banknote is introduced, printing and supply of these notes for distribution to public through the banking channel will gradually increase, said the RBI, which issues currency in the country. PTI n NAGPUR T he Maharashtra Government would allot 16 per cent of the 72,000 posts it is going to fill with the candidates of the Maratha community in the form of backlog if the Bombay High Court allows quota for the community, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis announced in the Assembly on Thursday. He made this announcement in response to an allegation by the Opposition members that the Government was dragging its feet on fulfilling the assurances towards allotting quota to the Maratha community. Fadnavis also urged members of the Maratha and Dhangar communities to not stage protests in Pandharpur on the day of "Ashadhi Ekadashi" to avoid inconvenience to the Warkaris or devotees who throng the temple of Lord Vitthal. Ashadhi Ekadashi falls on July 23 this year. Maratha leaders had recently announced to stage a protest in Pandharpur against the State government's "failure" to award quota to Marathas in jobs and education institutions. The Chief Minister said the Hardly anything done to clean Ganga: NGT New Delhi (PTI): The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Thursday expressed dissatisfaction over the cleaning up of Ganga and said the situation was extraordinarily bad and hardly anything effective has been done to clean the river. A bench headed by NGT chairperson Justice A K Goel said that despite claims by the authorities, the work done on the ground for Ganga rejuvenation was not adequate and regular monitoring was required to improve the situation. The Green panel ordered survey to seek views of common man about what he feels on ground about the pollution in Ganga and said the feedback could be given through of the authorities concerned. It is the most prestigious river in the country which 100 crore people respect but we are unable to protect it.let us try to make the mechanism as strong and effective as possible, the bench, also comprising Justices Jawad Rahim and R S Rathore, said. The NGT had earlier rapped the National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) for not filing a compliance report on the steps taken by the Centre and the UP and Uttarakhand governments to clean the river Ganga in the stretch between Gomukh and Unnao. The green panel, in a detailed judgement, had passed a slew of directions to rejuvenate Ganga, declaring as No Development Zone an area of 100 metres from the edge of the river between Haridwar and Unnao and prohibiting dumping of waste within 500 metres from the river. State rushes 290 teams for rescue, preventing outbreak of epidemic PNS n GANDHINAGAR ith the intensity of rain Whaving reduced in the flood-affected areas of Gujarat, 290 teams would be active from Friday with necessary medicines, chlorine, lime powder and drugs related to malaria prevention, said Chief Minister Vijay Rupani. Addressing a Press conference on Thursday evening, Rupani said that though first priority of the State administration would be rescuing people but at the same time the Government was alert to prevent possibility of epidemic. The district administrations in the flood affected areas has been asked to carry out cleanliness drive to prevent epidemic like situation, he said. As many as 22 NDRF teams are working round the clock in the flood affected areas of Saurashtra and South Gujarat regions. Till Thursday evening, more than 700 people rescued. Very soon survey on damage to properties and agriculture land will be conducted. On the basis of outcome of the survey financial relief would be distributed. Already 161 teams have been formed for the purpose, said the Chief Minister. As many as 32 persons lost their lives due to heavy rains, confirmed CM Rupani adding that of them 14 died due to drowning and others due to lightening, wall collapse, electric shock and other reasons related to rains. According to him, 160 domestic animals were killed due to nature s fury. Total 111 roads washed away that include six State highways. Road and Building department has been asked to prepare temporary access in the GUJARAT FLOODS A view of an overflowing Droneshwar dam after heavy rainfall in Gir-Somnath district on Wednesday PTI affected areas. 27,000 food packets have been distributed and more numbers of food packets is given in critically affected areas, he added. Talking about the positive side of the rain, Rupani said that due to rain, drinking water problem in the State has solved as already 14 dams were overflowing and others have been filled more than 50 per cent. Moreover dams are continuously receiving fresh water, he says adding that the rains would be beneficial for agriculture too. Documentary filmmaker Anand Patwardhan with other activists raise slogans to condemn mob lynching in Mumbai 16% seats will be filled by Marathas: Fadnavis matter is currently pending before the Bombay High Court and suggested against politicising the quota issues. The Government had recently announced that it would fill the 72,000 posts across its various departments. The posts would be filled in two batches of 36,000 over a year. Advertisements for recruiting the first batch of 36,000 posts are expected to be issued at the end of this month. "Some people are saying that the posts won t be available for the Marathas in case the high court announces reservation for them if we went ahead with the mega recruitment. I would like to assure that we have more posts available than this," Fadnavis told the Assembly. He said, "Even if we fill the 72,000 posts, 16 per cent posts would be filled as a backlog as and when reservation is granted to Marathas. Therefore, there would be no injustice meted out to the community". About the demand for reservation for the Dhangar (the Shepherd) community, the CM said the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), entrusted to conduct study of backwardness of the community, is likely to submit its SAUGAR SENGUPTA n KOLKATA ontinuing with her smart, Cupdated politics that has sustained her the most during times of trouble winning hearts and weaning away supporters from the once formidable Left camp, Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday dropped in at the Midnapore Medical College and Hospital to enquire after the health of the BJP supporters who had met with an accident during Prime Minister Narendra Modi s rally on Monday. Not only did she visit the injured but the Chief Minister also announced `one lakh each for three persons injured seriously in the accident. The Chief Minister who report to the Government "any time". "Based on that report, we would make a recommendation to the Centre," Fadnavis said. Members of the Dhangar community have been demanding reservation under the Scheduled Tribe (ST) category. Marathas, a politically influential community in the state, have been demanding quota in Government jobs and education under the Other Backward Classes (OBC) category. Various Maratha organisations had held massive 'silent marches' across the state last year for various demands, including reservation. Leader of the Opposition in the Assembly Radhakrishna Vikhe-Patil alleged that the Government was not implementing five per cent reservation for the Muslims despite there being a high court order in this connection. In his reply, Fadnavis said the Government had sought the opinion of the court in connection with the matter, which is still pending. The Bombay High Court had in 2014 stayed implementation of the erstwhile Congress-NCP Government's was in Kharagpur to attend a convocation programme of the Indian Institute of Technology, went to the MMCH a few miles away and announced her decision to remain by the side of the victims though they had come to attend the meeting of a different party. She said, Many people were injured when the scaffolding collapsed at the meeting venue on Monday. Most of them belong to the lower income group. They told me that they were not getting promised support from the quarters concerned. So I decided to help them with Rs 1 lakh each for three such injured victims. The victims will be paid from the Chief Minister s Relief Fund PTI decision to provide reservation to Marathas. The HC had also stayed the the Government's decision to provide five per cent reservation to the Muslims in Government service but allowed quotas for them in educational institutions. "Even if we would have given reservation to the Muslims, how many seats would have been kept aside for the community students? 1000 seats? Not even that. Hence, the Government gave 50 per cent concession in fees to the minority community students in higher education," Fadnavis said. Earlier, the opposition members, including Vikhe- Patil and NCP leader Ajit Pawar, charged the Government with dillydallying in taking steps towards fulfilling the Maratha quota demand. Some of the members also claimed there was dissent among the Maratha community members over the alleged delay which could result into a law and order issue. BJP MLA Ashish Shelar hit back at the Congress-NCP combine, alleging that no due process was followed by the previous Government, resulting in the delay in giving quota. Mamata announces `1 lakh each for 3 Modi rally victims tomorrow. Others who were also injured and need help may come to us and we will do the needful after proper inquiry. One of the victims Sumitra Mahato who was still lying on the hospital bed with a broken leg said, She was so affectionate in asking me about my family and my economic status. When I told that we are daily wagers and would find it difficult to carry on like this she said she would do the needful. More than a hundred people were injured when a giant tent collapsed at the rally site in Midnapore town when the Prime Minister was delivering her speech in Monday s farmers rally.

8 T raveling is often fun, thanks to the training one received, as a journalist and a research scholar at New Delhi s Jawaharlal Nehru University, most often, professional trips turn into an exercise in reallife and academic explorations. On a pleasant early morning drive from Sundargarh, Odisha to Ranchi, Jharkhand early last week, I requested my driver to pull up at two places. The first halt was on the picturesque Kutra road. While clicking some pictures, we also got an opportunity to spend a few minutes with a group of women who claimed to be from Bhogra village and were out on daily errands. Always curious to explore, we asked them if they knew Prime Minister Narendra Modi and their faces lit with a smile. They blurted out their praise for the Pradhan Mantri, who they said was doing baro baro kaam (big work). A little further in Simdega, Jharkhand, we halted at a roadside dhaba for our morning tea. During a casual conversation with the owner of the shop, we enquired about the pace of vikas and changes witnessed since Prime Minister Modi took over. A socially conscious Balram Singh acknowledged a distinct change in the mood and approach and said some of the programmes like Ujjwala and Mudra were truly remarkable and that he knew of women who have benefited from the Ujjwala scheme. Everywhere we went, from Rourkela to Sundargarh and then to Ranchi, we never came across pot-holed roads. There we no snake-charmers either. A slew of roadside eateries, many with flashy boards, honking trucks, speeding Innovas and over-crowded Boleros conveyed a picture of India that was changing. I truly wish James Crabtree of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore travelled with us to see how his idea of India becoming the most unequal society was pregnant with flaws and may have been a victim of tyranny of scepticism perpetuated by a few in the country. Or who knows this could be influenced by narratives of India s poverty industry, to borrow a phrase from one of India s most competent, charming and articulate economists, Surjit S Bhalla. Crabtree must have heard a recent address by Prime Minister Modi to a group of youngsters where he gave hard data for sceptics like him: Three crore children vaccinated; 1.75 lakh kilometres of rural roads built in the last four years; electricity reaching every single village; 85 lakh homes electrified since October 2017; 4.65 crore gas connections reaching the poor; and more than one crore homes built for the poor in the last four years. If Crabtree doesn t believe these data, he should perhaps take a leaf out of recent credible reports to review his hypothesis. A Brookings report said, every minute an estimated 44 Indians are being pulled out of poverty, this being one of the fastest rates of poverty reduction even though Bhalla terms it overly pessimistic and estimates that the real number could be 100 per minute. The 44 figure, claims Bhalla, is based on National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) data of and is, therefore, problematic. Crabtree should meet Homi Kharas, Kristofer Hamel and Martin Hofer of Brookings who published a well-articulated study, The start of a new poverty narrative last month. Referring to a fascinating World Poverty Clock (worldpoverty.io) data, they say that there are two new storylines about what is happening to global poverty. The first is that extreme poverty in today s world is largely about Africa. Fourteen of the 18 African nations are seeing a rise in poverty. The second is that it is becoming increasingly difficult to achieve SDG 1 goal of ending poverty. It will require little imagination to derive the fact that impressive reductions in poverty, socially conscious and informed communities, and rapid spread of welfare programmes cannot be concomitant with rise in inequality, unless of, course, some adamant economist comes out with a bizarre model for the same. Crabtree can also refer to a June edition of the World Bank s report, Global Economic Prospects: Turning of the Tide? which said that India is one among the emerging economies in South Asia where strong per capita growth rates are expected to bring down poverty (read inequality). Bhalla, who has a Master degree in data and analytics, opined that when the findings of the NSSO Consumer Expenditure (NSSO-CE) survey for July 2017 to June 2018 will be released, most likely it will see India from an absolutely poverty obsessed poor country towards a middle-class, middle-income country. He was confident that this analysis would reveal that absolute poverty in India, according to the official Tendulkar poverty line, is in the low single digits. Data and facts on the ground do seem to suggest the flaws in arguments of those who continue to paint a grim picture about India s poverty records. Across the length and breadth of the country, irrespective of which party governs, India has made steady progress and the theory of the country being the most unequal is biased and distorted at best. (The writer is a strategic communications professional) K arnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy, he of tragedy king fame, has just about managed to dry the copious tears he shed a few days ago where he told Janata Dal Secular (JDS) party activists my family that he feels deep pain in and is miserable as Chief Minister of a rump party propped up by the Congress in the southern State where the BJP emerged as the single largest party after the Assembly poll. Having copped a lot of criticism for whining instead of governing, as it were, Kumaraswamy then spoke of how he was not complaining against the Congress or media friends who are being unfair to me but was just unburdening his heart to those closest to him. Fair enough. But what explains his sudden enthusiasm for Rahul Gandhi as the Opposition s Prime Ministerial candidate? At his swearing-in ceremony as Chief Minister, attended by the who s of who of Opposition leaders, he was rooting for Mayawati as Prime Minister. What s changed? The short answer to that question is that Kumaraswamy, and there will be others from the Opposition camp who may also speak up in the weeks and months ahead, realises that despite the fact regional parties pushing the federal front idea such as the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) and Trinamool Congress (TMC) are expected to win a sizeable number of Lok Sabha seats, expecting 1990s-style outside support from the Congress as was extended to his father and former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda may be hoping for too much this time around. The penny also seems to have dropped that these parties do not need the Congress to achieve their electoral goals come The same is not true of, say, a TRS, BJD or TDP as the Congress still has a significant share of the popular vote in the States of Telangana, Orissa and Andhra Pradesh. Indeed, even the Samajwadi Party-BSP alliance in Uttar Pradesh will need the Congress on board not just because of its albeit now quite tiny support base but also for the optics. The JDS too falls squarely in the category of Congress-aided regional parties for the 2019 General Election and that is the primary cause of the tears that flowed. Interesting times ahead, therefore, as despite the losses the BJP is expected to suffer the Congress cannot hope to get anywhere near the halfway mark, the independent-of- Congress regional parties are going to be distinctly uncomfortable with Rahul as their leader and the Congress remains wary of an independent regional leader being projected as the Opposition s candidate for the top job. D evotion and faith have no gender and the seeker has the divine right to seek solace in a shrine without fear. In questioning the ban on women of a certain age entering the Sabarimala temple, the Supreme Court has pointed to both the fundamental rights of a citizen as well as our civilisational pride. One where Prakriti and Purush, the polarities and equal manifestations of creation, are equal and are meant to be treated so. The servitors of the Sabarimala temple trust had reduced the life-giving potential of the woman as a vice rather than virtue, the ban on 10 to 50-year-olds implying that menstruation was unclean and desecrating rather than joyous and renewing. This at a time when menstrual health has been prioritised for the first time as part of a national health policy by the Centre and is breaking societal taboos. The Court also aptly observed that a temple, by its very nature, is all-embracing and cannot be treated like a private trust, a very crucial observation considering that many servitors and patrons shrines, not just of dharmic faiths but also religions in the Abrahamic sense, have kept rules that are toxically self-serving and monopolising, intended to keep devotees in awe. Most importantly, the Court could serve to iterate the worth of Hinduism as a dynamic religion that sustains through time and reminds us of a 5,000 year-old living tradition and philosophy that has always given women the right of way. Its pantheon has always prided the sacredness of both the masculine and feminine as essential attributes of spiritual enlightenment as evidenced by the presence of Radha-Krishna, Sita-Rama, Parvathi-Shiva and Lakshmi-Narayana, where the sacred feminine is prefixed to the muscularity of the male divinity. The early Vedic texts are replete with references to women scholars, sages and priests. The corporatisation of priestly and temple duties came much much later as societies coagulated around male domination, in no small part aided by invaders and their impositions. Even today women priests, who have emerged out of familial roles, are conducting some rituals and rites. Pune is the hub with some women priest training centres. No intermediary can, therefore, reinterpret what has been encoded in a nation s, nay a civilisation s DNA and there simply can be no trust-deficit when it comes to women participating in temple duties. Having said that, is it not time that our civilisational strengths are played up more than ever? Shouldn t the courts extend equal rights of prayer to Muslim women who are kept out of a public place of worship and gatherings? Secluded at public shrines and kept behind screens or worse, confined to the privacy of their homes, these women are likely to feel more humiliated than elevated about their physical reality. The medieval idea of women as pollutants and distracting celibate keepers of faith is disfranchising to say the least. Our courts have by and large been reluctant to interfere in religion, particularly over Muslim rights issues, amid fears of a backlash and propaganda that majoritarianism was targeting minorityism. But in the end, a secular state of an Indic tradition has to enforce constitutional values of gender equality over faith affiliations. Keeping the faith Supreme Court has upheld gender equality by questioning the ban on women of a certain age entering the Sabarimala temple Tears for fears What HD Kumaraswamy s sudden pitch for Rahul as Prime Ministerial candidate instead of Mayawati tells us Prepare for the worst, hope for the best PAPER WITH PASSION A solution to India s water crisis can be found by allowing professionals to tackle the threat instead of expecting our elected representatives to be the panacea for our water troubles Apopular Hollywood film, Mad Max: Fury Road, is based in a post-apocalyptic world where there is a dictatorial, brutal leader who reigns over his subjects with an iron grip. This leader called Immortan Joe exercises control over his subjects by establishing a grip over the water supply. This post apocalyptic world is a product of water wars where brutalities are suffered and inflicted over water. While this may seem to be a world relegated to the realm of fantasy and fiction, the fact is that India is dealing with an acute shortage of water which could make reality much closer to fiction than we fear. To better understand the water crisis, we must first accept that we are facing a crisis. The fact that we are surrounded by water may give an impression that all the talk of a crisis is just a paranoia, but we couldn t be more mistaken. Humans primarily rely on fresh water for their survival. In terms of numbers, only 2.5 per cent of the earth s water is fresh water and out of this 2.5per cent, two per cent is water that has been locked in polar ice caps and glaciers. That leaves all the people on the earth with about 0.5 per cent of fresh water. We use this water for drinking (about 10 per cent), for industries (about 20 per cent) and for agriculture/production of food (around 70 per cent). Eighty per cent of the water, therefore, is effectively used for drinking or putting food on our table. Current state of affairs: It is shameful that this year, there is not a single Indian city that is capable of providing potable water from its tap. This is why close to 163 million Indians have no access to clean drinking water and India finds itself at the top of the list of countries with the worst access to clean water. As per NITI Aayog s report, India is placed at 120th amongst 122 countries in the water quality index. Frighteningly, approximately 600 million Indians face high to extreme water stress and close to two lakh people die due to inadequate access to safe water every year. Further, the report stated that in 12 years, 40 per cent of the population will have no access to drinking water and by 2020, 21 cities, including New Delhi, Bengaluru and Hyderabad, will run out of ground water. Groundwater is the primary source of water in most cities and the looming crisis, which is less than two years away, will affect close to 100 million people. Therefore, the talk of a looming crisis is reckless because the fact is that we are in the midst of a water crisis, as we speak. The way States are equipped to deal with this crisis does not inspire much confidence either. The NITI Aayog has ranked all States in India on 28 different indicators which covered various aspects, including groundwater, restoration of water bodies, irrigation etc. On the basis of these rankings, my home State, Jharkhand, disappointingly languishes at the bottom. The BJP Government in the State and Chief Minister Raghubar Das, however, do not consider this ranking as an insult. The situation is bound to get worse if we do not act with alacrity because India s population will continue to grow and our farmers will not have the requisite resources to produce anywhere close to the amount of food required by our burgeoning population. Reasons behind the crisis: The problem essentially is of demand and supply. There is a massive demand for water. And by 2030, it is estimated that the demand for water will be twice the available supply, which could result in a loss of six per cent to the GDP. What does not help matters is unrestricted pollution that has affected our water sources. Even the Ganga, which has immense religious and sentimental value, is so polluted that a task force has been set up to clean it. To make matters worse, if factors such as a growing population and reduced rainfall are added to the mix, it begins to increasingly look the perfect recipe for a disaster. Way forward: There is a growing recognition that a crisis is in the offing which has prompted steps such as armed guards being stationed at reservoirs or trains being used to transport water to drought-affected areas. These actions, however, are reactionary in nature and serve as palliative measures. What is needed instead is a more coherent and professional approach. Unfortunately, I believe, the Government and the bureaucracy may not have the requisite expertise or bandwidth to tackle this crisis. Therefore, I submit that we would be better served by allowing experts, professionals to tackle the threat of a dry, thirsty country instead of expecting our elected representatives and bureaucrats to be the panacea to our water troubles. Of course, any course of action that expects to be effective, requires the support and backing of the Government but that does not necessarily mean that the initiative should be led by individuals who do not have the requisite information or expertise to deal with the crisis. There are examples from our past that lend support to such an approach. India s world renowned nuclear programme, for example, was largely born out of the genius, craft and dedication of Homi Bhabha, the father of India s nuclear programme. It was Bhabha who while working at the India Institute of Science convinced Pandit Nehru of the importance of starting a nuclear programme and wrote to Nehru saying: The development of atomic energy should be entrusted to a very small and high powered body composed of say, three people with executive power and answerable directly to the Prime Minister without any intervening link. This proposal was accepted by Nehru and led to the establishment of the Atomic Energy Commission with Bhabha as its first director. Another example where India has benefitted from the expertise and intellectual capital of its citizens rather than purely relying on State actors is the White Revolution whereby dairy farming became India s largest self-sustaining industry under the leadership of Verghese Kurien. Of course, I am not suggesting that the Government and the bureaucracy should abdicate responsibility from tackling the impending water crisis. Instead, the best way forward is for the Government to enable an independent body comprising of experts in the field of water conservation and policy to be allowed to do what they are good at without any fear of interference or red-tape. All these efforts must be supplanted by efforts of the Government and the citizens of the country. Let s not forget that each and every one of us has a role to play in restricting the impact of this impending crisis by being responsible with our use of water. If we do not act with the swiftness that this situation demands, I fear that the Hollywood description of the water wars will be looked back upon as far too timid. (The writer is Jharkhand PCC president, former MP and IPS officer. Views are personal) ABOUT TIME Sir This refers to the editorial, Antilynching law (July 19). On a batch of petitions, seeking a crack-down against lynching in the name of cow protection, the Supreme Court has reminded not just the Government, but also the nation that there cannot be any investigation, trial or administering of punishment on the street. The Court has rightly asked the Parliament to enact a new law to sternly deal with mob lynching and cow vigilantism, warning that such incidents may become a typhon-like monster. It has been often argued that lynchings are a result of the present Government s attempts to instill a set of values, replacing those that had prevailed since Independence or even before that. Even this veneer of justification does not hide the ugliness where men are beaten to death by enraged mobs on mere suspicion of indulging in an act that went against their beliefs. It also does not camouflage the ugly truth that each of these actions are illegal and the law on its part has been slow to apprehend the culprits. JS Acharya Hyderabad NO MORE Sir This refers to the editorial, Antilynching law (July 19). The Supreme Court has done the nation a service by drawing the attention to the co-relation between a rise in instances of lynching and intolerance, and growing polarization, asserting that democracy cannot be allowed to be replaced with mobocracy. It is significant that most victims of mob violence are members of the weak and vulnerable communities. Lynching is not a mere social malaise but a heinous crime, showing man s inhumanity to a man at its worst. It is a primitive and barbaric method of punishing a person, mostly for a perceived wrong, the occurrence of which is a national disgrace. It is an irony that self-styled desh bhakts resort to lynching, something that cannot be validated as a part of the Indian culture. It is relevant to ask whether anyone would dare take the law in his/her hands and raise his/her hand against any compatriot without the fear of law. Convicts in lynching cases don t deserve to be garlanded. G David Milton Maruthancode LAW WON T HELP Sir This refers to the editorial, Antilynching law (July 19). It is unlikely that a new law on lynching will yield desired results. Existing laws are adequate but must be enforced effectively. In an existing environment where elements are emboldened by a sense of immunity, no amount of law can be preventive enough. Suresh Via Send your feedback to: letterstopioneer@gmail.com Slowly but steadily India is winning the battle against extreme poverty. Theories and data arguing otherwise seem biased Who says we don t have the numbers? The Opposition will win the no-trust vote in the Lok Sabha. UPA chairperson SONIA GANDHI Sonia ji s maths is weak. BJP holds a majority both inside and outside Parliament. NDA will vote against no-confidence motion. Union Minister ANANTH KUMAR POINTCOUNTERPOINT W ell, the Football World Cup has come to an end, and what a game it was: Full of excitement, surprises and some great football it between. It was also an amazing advertisement for Vladimir Putin s Russia and for the Russian President himself. Having travelled to Russia for an early group game between Germany and Mexico in Moscow, I can safely say that the image of the sour Russian was well and truly demolished. And while South American countries flattered to deceive at the World Cup, their fans arrived in Moscow and other host cities in thousands. There were more Latin fans walking through Alexandrovsky Garden than there were Russians. The tournament had the world hooked. Even in the United States, which isn t a traditional soccer nation, bars were opening doors at 8am for the early kick-offs, the joy of time-zones, and guess what, they were packed. Not just by the immigrants that Donald Trump wants to keep out but even in the deepest, whitest parts of America, bars were full of folks, cheering for Iran against Portugal. Yep, I saw that with my own eyes. But what lessons can be drawn from the World Cup? I m no football analyst, but I thought there were some important life lessons to be drawn. It s about the team, stupid! Make no mistakes, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are the two greatest players of their generation. And both of them scored some utterly brilliant goals. Messi s goal against Nigeria was sheer class and no one can forget Ronaldo s freekick against Spain that gave the man his hattrick. But in the end, all four semi-finalists were teams which prioritised the team and teamwork over the individual. Players, who have in the past acted like divas, notably Paul Pogba of the Manchester United and Eden Hazard of Chelsea put in everything once they put on their national colours. Was this because of a sense of patriotism that one does not have when playing professionally or because of the better manmanagement of their coaches? The one man who acted like a diva during the World Cup, Nikola Kalinic, who refused to come on a substitute in a game Croatia played against Nigeria, was sent home by his coach. Of course, we all know what Croatia s 22-man squad went on to do. But more importantly, and emphasising on the team in important and making players like Pogba adapt their game to the team instead of the team revolving around them also possibly helped the young player of the tournament, Kylian Mbappe, shine. The fact is that the pressure of performing can easily get to a 19-year-old and the support of the team made a player already a superstar as one of the globe s most recognisable faces. Liberté, égalité, fraternité (+Unite) France s unity and team-ethics over individual flair makes many of the comments about France s inclusive team a bit strange. France is a violently secular state. Sure, their notion of secularism is more of a Christian notion of secularism, but no country practices the separation of church and state as much as the French. We have pointed out that the individual flair of French players was subjugated by the system practiced by French coach Didier Deschamps, the French played just as much as they needed to. Think of them as a 600-horsepower V8 supercar pottering around town, using less power than produced by two cylinders. France has been welcoming immigrants to a degree but insists that they become French. The football they learn at the French academy at Clairefontaine is the French way. Not necessarily exciting but effective. And that is what Deschamps did with his team as well. It has not always worked very well in the country; France has been the victim of some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the Western world recently because forced cultural assimilation does not always work. Even with the football team, France s best striker, the Real Madrid player Karim Benzema, refused to bow to Deschamps system. But at the end of the day, nobody is arguing with the second star on Les Bleus jersey. France is a multi-ethnic country and while immigrants from North Africa and West Africa have brought their culture, that has become French; listen to French rap nowadays to get an idea. So is France truly a multicultural country? No. And attempts by Twitter trolls to paint it as an African success was quickly shot down by the likes of French defender Benjamin Mendy. There is nowhere to hide, hello VAR The first World Cup broadcast in India was in 1986 though we consider anything in standard-definition fuzzy today. That the World Cup is remembered for two goals by Diego Maradona, one of a brilliant move through almost the entire English team and the second one which will go down in infamy as The Hand of God. Well, 32 years later Diego is his usual self; i.e. being a totally self-obsessed man-child, crude and racist. He made a slant eyed gesture at the Koreans and put his middle fingers to great use. In 2018, the controversial goal of 86 would never have stood, thanks to VAR. We live in an age of the camera. Everyone has one. There were an estimated 33 television feed cameras being used for every match at the World Cup, possibly more for the knock-outs. Eight of these cameras were super slow-motion and four were ultra slow-motion and all of them recorded in 4K definition. There was no angle that could possibly be missed and nowhere to hide for any player. Kind of like real life nowadays. Look at it this way: We all celebrated Maradona s cheating antics and even forgave him his cocaine habit but Neymar s flopping made him the butt of jokes across the world and seriously tarnished his reputation as a global superstar. And there is VAR inside the penalty box now. So no more defenders channeling their inner Hulk Hogan can get away with it. We saw that as the tournament progressed, defenders, who were initially aggressive inside the box, suddenly began to behave themselves. While, as with most things, a happy middle will likely be found, the moment you start getting judged for your actions post-facto suddenly make everyone more responsible. Now, how will VAR play out during the club season remains to be seen. Europe in the ascendancy In a post-brexit and post- Trump world, the European Union might feel a little small but other than Europe s powerhouse Germany failing at the first hurdle and another power Italy not even making the show, this World Cup highlighted the dominance of the European game. Partially because virtually all of the world s best players play for Europe s top clubs with their world-class coaches, training and medical facilities as well as level of play it allows even smaller European nations to rise to the top. Croatia is a case in point, so what if the country only has four million people but their top players are in Europe s top clubs. This also means that playing international games, which are usually continental games is easier for them, whereas Argentinian and Uruguayan stars have to take hour flights each way to and from South America. This makes it easier for them to play for their countries during week-long international breaks but many top clubs don t even let their South American players leave to play games for their country. While FIFA has pointedly placed the next World Cup in winter, slap-bang in the middle of the European season, it is almost certain that the 2022 World Cup will see a fifth European team win the trophy in a row. (The writer is Managing Editor, Special Projects, The Pioneer) KUSHAN MITRA NAVNEET ANAND AJOY KUMAR I n a particularly bad week for wrecking behaviour, US President Donald Trump trashed the NATO summit, declared the European Union a foe, undermined Prime Minister Theresa May s attempts to get a soft Brexit for Britain, sucked up to the Russians and betrayed his own intelligence services. But his actions made it clear that the NATO alliance is of limited relevance and that a new military confrontation with the Russians would be pointless folly. He didn t actually say either of those things last week (although he has said them both in the past). But despite the usual blizzard of off-the-cuff, contradictory Trumpian statements, a couple of truths did become obvious. One is that Trump is Russia s man in the White House. It is not clear what kind of hold Moscow has on him, but it clearly has one. The other is that there is almost no military dimension to the Russian threat in Europe, so NATO does not need to spend more money. Trump likes to sound tough. Get ready, Russia, because (American missiles) will be coming, nice and new and smart! he tweeted over a transient crisis in Syria three months ago. After last week s NATO summit, he claimed to have bullied the Europeans into spending much more on defence (against the Russian threat, of course). But he never fired those missiles although the Russians didn t back down. He didn t really get any new promises from the Europeans last week to spend more money on NATO. And when he went to Moscow on Sunday, he declared that America was to blame for the poor state of US-Russian relations. Our relationship with Russia has never been worse thanks to many years of US foolishness and stupidity and now, the Rigged Witch Hunt! Trump tweeted. Three hours later the Russian Foreign Ministry replied: We agree. And it s true, apart from the bit about the witch hunt. After a two-hour meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin with only translators present, Trump announced that he accepted Putin s denials about Russian attempts to use social media to influence the 2016 US election. They (the US intelligence services) think it s Russia, Trump said. President Putin just said it s not Russia. I don t see any reason why it would be. Well, Putin himself mentioned one plausible reason for Russia to interfere in the US election at the very same Press conference: He wanted Trump to win the election. But there was a great outcry in every part of the United States about how Trump had thrown America under the bus, as one Fox News reporter put it. Now, let s pick this all apart and try to make sense of it. Trump s betrayal of the American intelligence services was a natural and necessary part of his campaign to discredit them, because he fears that they have or will discover evidence that links him to the Russian intervention in the US election. There was a huge backlash in the US because even Trump s own supporters were dismayed to see him value the Russian dictator s words more highly than those of American intelligence professionals. Within a day he had been forced to admit, for the first time, that there had indeed been Russian meddling in the US election process in He also had to backtrack on his claim that the United States was to blame for the heightened tension with Russia, tweeting that We re all to blame and that he held both countries responsible. But actually, he was right about that the first time. If the United States had treated the badly wounded post-soviet Russia less brutally in the 1990s, nurturing the fragile new Russian democracy instead of taking all the Eastern European countries into NATO and pushing the alliance s military frontier right up to the former Soviet border, there might never have been support in Russia for an aggrieved nationalist like Putin. It s too late to fix that now, but Russia is still not a major military threat. It has lots of modern tanks and missiles, because that s what nationalist leaders do, but its economy is only the size of Italy s and it could not sustain a prolonged military confrontation with NATO. That s why Putin concentrates on non-military initiatives like his interference in the 2016 US election (and apparently in Britain s 2017 Brexit referendum as well). So it makes perfectly good sense for NATO s European members to spend 2% or less of their resources on defence. NATO is really about defending Europe, and Europe doesn t need much defending. It s true, as Trump regularly points out, that the United States spends four per cent of its GDP on defence, but that s because it has military commitments all over the world. In fact, it s unlikely that even two per cent of US resources is spent on forces, weapons and tasks that are specifically related to NATO. The good news is that though the populists and ultra-nationalists are on the rise in the West (including Russia), raw military power still plays a minor role in the relations of the great powers. Hacking and the other digital dark arts are playing a much bigger role, and it is proving hard to get them under control. But which would you prefer? (The writer is an independent journalist) It s not (quite) as bad as it seems THE WAY FORWARD IS FOR THE GOVERNMENT TO ENABLE AN INDEPENDENT BODY COMPRISING EXPERTS IN THE FIELD OF WATER CONSERVATION AND POLICY TO BE ALLOWED TO DO WHAT THEY ARE GOOD AT WITHOUT ANY FEAR From Russia, with learnings Sport has often been compared to war, minus the weapons. But there are lessons from the World Cup that are applicable to all facets of life LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Rule of law is a must to prevent mob justice T his refers to the editorial, Anti-lynching law (July 19). The menace of mobocracy blatantly reveals how law and order has almost ceased to exist in the country. It seems that no one is fearful of the consequences of his/her act. However, the audacity of the brutes is bound to increase because of the extremely low conviction rates. Apart from the law and order factor, the degradation of Indian mindset has also contributed towards increased mob justice. Perhaps due to rampant corruption, unemployment, domestic problems and fierce competition in educational institutions, offices and other sectors; common people have become a frustrated lot. They do not possess the moral courage or unity to protest against the evil forces. So whenever a soft target emerges, pent-up frustrations are let out on that individual who is often found to be innocent. The situation has come to such a pass that it has almost become a sin to be weak and vulnerable. By drawing inspiration from the adage of might is right, the public shamelessly takes the side of those who wield muscle power. In this dismal scenario where might of law does not evoke fear, the vulnerable lot are treated with contempt and public prefer to look the other way instead of protesting against tortures. Unless the rule of law is practically restored, the situation will become much more dreadful in the coming days. Kajal Chatterjee Kolkata AND THERE IS VAR INSIDE THE PENALTY BOX NOW. SO NO MORE DEFENDERS CHANNELING THEIR INNER HULK HOGAN CAN GET AWAY WITH IT. WE SAW THAT AS THE TOURNAMENT PROGRESSED THE PIONEER 8 LUCKNOW FRIDAY JULY 20, 2018 Sometimes, when you least expect it, life throws you a curveball. That s how it all started with former actor Sonali Bendre when she was diagnosed with cancer. Yes, she is blessed that she has access to the best medical treatment but her spirit, like that of millions of survivors, shines through. The support of family and close friends keeps her fighting. As it does all cancer survivors. THE PIONEER LUCKNOW FRIDAY JULY 20, WORDEDIT COMMENT & ANALYSIS Bravehearts GWYNNE DYER If the US had treated post-soviet Russia less brutally in the 1990s, there might never have been support in Russia for an aggrieved nationalist like Putin Myths and realities around inequality

9 LUCKNOW FRIDAY JULY 20, 2018 India to remain fastest growing economy: ADB PTI n NEW DELHI I ndia will continue to be the fastest growing major economy, ahead of China, with 7.3% growth rate in and 7.6% in , the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said on Thursday. The growth in India will be driven by increased public spending, higher capacity utilisation rate and uptick in private investment, said the ADB supplement to the Asian Development Outlook (ADO). While retaining India s growth rate for current fiscal and the next, ADO said economic growth in China would decelerate to 6.6% in 2018 and further to 6.4% in China s growth rate was 6.9% in On India, it said: In sum, the GDP growth forecast for FY2018 (ending March 2019) is maintained at 7.3%. Growth in FY2019 is expected to rise to 7.6% as measures taken to strengthen the banking system bolster private investment and as benefits kick in from the goods and services tax. Any further increase in oil prices poses a downside risk to growth. The ADB said India was the dominant economy in the South Asia sub-region with its growth gaining momentum at 7.7% in the last quarter ended March of , the highest rate of growth since first quarter of This pushed full-year growth to 6.7% ( ), a tad higher than estimated in ADO 2018, largely driven by government spending for both consumption and public administration. In the first half of , the growth rate is expected to benefit from a low base. Other key drivers of growth include an uptick in public consumption, which is typical before elections, and a recovery in exports following shortages of working capital related to a new goods and services tax, said the ADO supplement. In India, the private consumption is expected to grow at a healthy rate as disruption caused by demonetisation in 2016 fades. Capacity utilisation rates are at their highest in four years and should provide incentives to firms to invest. Growth in Asia and the Pacific s developing economies for 2018 and 2019 will remain solid as it continues apace across the region, despite rising tensions between the US and its trading partners. South Asia, meanwhile, continues to be the fastest growing sub-region, led by India, whose economy is on track to meet fiscal year 2018 projected growth of 7.3% and further accelerating to 7.6% in 2019, as measures taken to strengthen the banking system and tax reform boost investment, it said further. Developing Asia is largely on track to meet growth expectations as set out in April in Asian Development Outlook 2018 (ADO 2018), said the report. The regional gross domestic product (GDP) is forecast to expand by 6% in 2018 and 5.9% in 2019, the rate envisaged in April, ADO supplement said. In April, ADO had said that India s economic growth would rise to 7.3% this fiscal and further to 7.6% in the next financial year, retaining the fastest-growing Asian economy tag, on back of GST and banking reforms. Although rising trade tensions remain a concern for the region, protectionist trade measures implemented so far in 2018 have not significantly dented buoyant trade flows to and from developing Asia, said ADB chief economist Yasuyuki Sawada. Prudent macroeconomic and fiscal policy-making will help economies across the region prepare to respond to external shocks, ensuring that growth in the region remains robust, he added. Stocks end subdued in cautious trade PTI n MUMBAI enchmarks retreated for Bthe second day on Thursday as investors stayed on the sidelines ahead of voting on a no-trust motion against the NDA government. Fresh weakness in the rupee, which again breached the 69- mark against the dollar in intraday trade, too weighed on sentiment amid a lack of definite buying triggers, brokers said. Erasing early gains, the Sensex ended lower by points at 36,351.23, while the NSE Nifty shed points to 10, Small- and midcap stocks continued facing selling pressure due to stretched valuations. The Sensex opened higher and advanced to hit a high of 36,515.58, but turned lower in afternoon trade and slipped to 36, It finally settled at 36,351.23, down points, or 0.06 per cent. The 50-share NSE Nifty ended points, or 0.21% lower at 10, Intra-day, it shuttled between 11, and 10, Meanwhile, domestic institutional investors (DIIs) bought shares worth a net of ` crore, while foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) bought shares worth `95.68 crore on Wednesday, provisional data released by stock exchanges showed. Shares of IT firm Mindtree plunged 8.67 per cent after the company reported a 13% decline in net profit on sequential basis. In the Sensex kitty, Kotak Mahindra Bank suffered the most by falling 3.69% post lower-than-expected results. Other laggards were L&T 2.61%, Hero MotoCorp 1.22%, Tata Steel 0.98%, Coal India 0.95%, HDFC Ltd 0.91%, Sun Pharma 0.81%, TCS 0.79%, Power Grid 0.73%, ICICI Bank 0.53%, Infosys 0.44% and NTPC 0.39%. Bucking the trend, ONGC gained 0.69% after the Cabinet on Wednesday tweaked pre oil and gas contracts to provide for proportionate sharing of statutory levies. The winners list included Vedanta, which rose 2.21%, Yes Bank 1.93%, ITC 1.71%, Bharti Airtel 1.69%, Adani Ports 1.39%, RIL 1.22%, Axis Bank 0.59% and Asian Paints 0.58%, among others. In sectoral terms, the BSE capital index fell 1.80%, followed by healthcare 1.25%, IT 0.79%, teck 0.62%, power 0.58%, metal 0.52%, bank 0.38%, infrastructure 0.28%, realty 0.17%, PSU 0.12% and auto 0.12%. Consumer durables, energy, FMCG and oil and gas ended in the green, rising up to 0.99%. In the broader markets, the BSE mid-cap index lost 0.63%, while the small-cap-gauge shed 1%. PTI n NEW DELHI uzuki Motorcycle India aims Sto invest `600 crore in the first phase of its second plant, which it plans to set up in the country, a top company official said on Thursday. The company is in the process of finalising the location of the plant which would have an installed capacity of 3-5 lakh units per annum to start with and may go up to 10 lakh units as per the market demand. The initial investment for the plant would be in the range of `600 crore, Suzuki Motorcycle India managing director Satoshi Uchida told PTI. Elaborating further, Suzuki Motorcycle India executive vice-president Sajeev New Delhi (PTI): Kotak Mahindra Bank today reported per cent rise in standalone net profit at `1, crore for April-June, The bank s net profit stood at ` crore in the corresponding period of Total income during the quarter stood at `6, crore, up per cent from the yearago period, Kotak Mahindra Bank said in a regulatory filing. Gross non-performing assets (NPAs) reduced to 2.17 per cent of gross advances as of June quarter from 2.58 per cent in the same period last year. Net NPAs Rajasekharan said, search for the location for the plant had already started. In a couple of months we will finalise it and then this particular facility should be ready in 1.5 to 2 years from the time it is finalised, he added. The installed capacity of the first phase of the new plant would be 3-5 lakh units per annum and would go up to one million, Uchida said. Although, the company is yet to finalise the location, sources said it could come up at Punjab, Uttar Pradesh or Haryana. The company s existing facility at Gurgaon can produce up to 1 million units per annum. Meanwhile, Suzuki Motorcycle India is looking to sell 7 lakh units in the country money 10 Suzuki Motorcycle lines up `600 cr for second plant in the current fiscal, a growth of 40 per cent over 5 lakh units it sold during The company, which on Thursday launched a new 125- cc scooter Burgman Street priced at `68,000 (ex-showroom), also plans to expand its sales network by around 200 touch points this fiscal as part of its mid term goal of achieving 10 lakh unit sales by The company currently has over 1,000 sales touchpoints across the country. We are aiming to sell 1 million units by Last year we sold 5 lakh units and this fiscal we aim to sell 7 lakh units, Uchida said. In order to achieve the 2020 sales target, the company plans to introduce new products as well as expand sales network, he added. Kotak Mahindra Bank Q1 net up 12% also came down to 0.86 per cent of net advances from 1.25 per cent in the year-ago period. The bank said slippages were at `321 crore as against `594 crore in April-June, Provisions for bad loans and contingencies were at ` crore for June quarter in comparison to ` crore in the same period a year ago. Net Interest Income (NII) for the reported quarter rose to `2,583 crore from `2,246 crore earlier. Net Interest Margin (NIM) for the quarter under review was at 4.3 per cent. 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10 LUCKNOW FRIDAY JULY 20, 2018 world 11 Putin responsible for US election meddling PTI n WASHINGTON S President Donald UTrump on Thursday said he holds his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin personally responsible for the alleged meddling into the 2016 general elections, as he went into damage-control mode to douse a flurry of criticism over his recent comments about Russia.Trump has been on the defensive for the past two days after failing to defend the American intelligence community during a much-talked about press conference with Putin in Helsinki on Monday after their first summit. The US President seemed to lend credence to his Russian counterpart s insistence that his government was not involved in the effort to influence the 2016 election campaign. Trump, a Republican, defeated his Democratic party rival Hillary Clinton in the election. Trump s comments sparked a barrage of criticism from the media and lawmakers across the political spectrum, with many calling on him to correct himself. Speaking to CBS News, Trump said he would consider Putin culpable because he was Russia s leader. I would because he s in charge of the country just like I consider myself to be responsible for things that happen in this country, Trump said. So certainly as the leader of the country you Colombo (PTI): Sri Lanka has asked the Airport Authority of India to submit its business plan for operating the country s loss-making Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport in southern Hambantota, Civil Aviation Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva told parliament on Thursday. The minister s remarks came in response to the Opposition s question asking would have to hold him responsible, he said. Facing huge criticism, Trump quickly took a U-turn and attributed his comments at the joint press conference with Putin to a simple mistake. In a key sentence in my remarks I said the word would instead of wouldn t, Trump said on Tuesday. He explained he had reviewed a transcript and video of his remarks. The sentence should have been: I don t see any reason why it wouldn t be Russia, he said. Sort of a double negative. Meanwhile, the White House was once again sent into clean-up mode when Trump said no when a reporter asked him if Russia was still targeting the United States. White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders later claimed Trump was saying no to answering questions, not to whether the Russians are targeting the US. The president and his administration are working very hard to make sure that Russia is unable to meddle in our elections as they have done in the past, Sanders said at a news briefing yesterday. When pressed in his CBS interview on whether his acceptance of the US intelligence analysis meant that he thought Putin lied when denying any Russian involvement, Trump said he didn t want to get into whether or not he s lying. I can only say that I do have confidence in our intelligence agencies as currently constituted, Trump said. He said the government to disclose the details of the deal. The USD 210 million facility, 241-km his message to Putin warning against future interference was very strong during their meeting on Monday. I let him know we can t have this. We re not going to have it. And that s the way it s going to be, Trump said. Trump also said once again that he wants to sit down for an interview with special counsel Robert Mueller. Mueller is leading the investigation into Russian interference in the election and Russians ties to the Trump campaign. I ve always wanted to do an interview, because look, there s been no collusion, Trump said. On Thursday, the US President said that he believes in the assessment of his intelligence agencies that Russia interfered in American elections in 2016 and his remarks contrary to this a day earlier in Helsinki was a case of misspeaking. In the interview, Trump also expressed confidence in Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, whose dire warnings about US hacking vulnerabilities he had questioned in a previous interview. Well, I accept. I mean, he s an expert, Trump said. This is what he does. He s been doing a very good job. I have tremendous faith in Dan Coats, and if he says that, I would accept that. I will tell you though, it better not be. It better not be, he said. Trump said he also accepts Coats assessment that the threat from Russia is ongoing. But he declined to say whether his faith in the intelligence community leads him to the conclusion that Putin s denials are untrue. Putin slams US forces ready to sacrifice Russia-US ties AFP n MOSCOW ussian President Vladimir RPutin on Monday slammed forces in the US who were willing to sacrifice Russian-US ties, two days after a summit with his US counterpart Donald Trump who has since faced a storm of criticism. We see that there are forces in the US that are easily ready to sacrifice Russian- American relations for their own ambitions, Putin said in a speech to Russian ambassadors gathered in Moscow. We see that there are forces in the US that put their narrow party interests higher AFP n JERUSALEM srael s parliament on IThursday adopted a law defining the country as the nation state of the Jewish people, provoking fears it could lead to blatant discrimination against Arab citizens. Arab lawmakers and Palestinians called the law racist and said it legalised apartheid following a tumultuous debate in parliament. Others said it neglects to specify equality and Israel s democratic character, implying that the country s Jewish nature comes first. The legislation, adopted by 62 votes to 55, makes Hebrew the country s national language and defines the establishment of Jewish communities as being in the national interest. Arabic, previously considered an official language, was granted only special status. The law, passed in the early hours of today, speaks of Israel as the historic homeland of the Jews and says they have a unique right to self-determination there, according to copies of the final text quoted by Israeli media. However, a deeply controversial clause that had been seen as more specifically legalising the establishment of Jewishonly communities was changed after it drew criticism, including from Israeli President Reuven Rivlin. The legislation becomes part of the country s basic laws, which serve as a de facto constitution. It is our state, the Jewish state, but in than national ones, Putin went on to say. He added that Russia is nevertheless open to developing contacts with the US on the basis of equality. We need a new positive agenda, aimed at working together and finding common ground, he said. We talked about this of course while meeting President Trump. The US leader s embrace of Putin this week drew derision and outrage across the US political spectrum. On Monday, Trump appeared to accept Putin s denial of Russian interference in the US 2016 presidential election at their joint press recent years some have tried to question that as well as the principles of our existence and our rights, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said after the vote on the legislation, backed by his rightwing government. He called its approval a decisive moment in Israeli history. A range of opposition politicians denounced the vote. The head of the mainly Arab Joint List alliance Ayman Odeh called it the death of our democracy. Arab parliament members who called the legislation racist ripped up copies of the bill in the chamber of the Knesset, Israel s parliament, after it was passed. This is a law that encourages not only discrimination, but racism as well, lawmaker Yousef Jabareen said. Arab citizens account for some 17.5 per cent of Israel s more than eight million population. They have long complained of discrimination. Saeb Erekat, secretary-general of the Palestine Liberation Organisation, called the legislation a dangerous and racist law that officially legalises apartheid and legally defines Israel as an apartheid system. The sponsor of the law, Avi Dichter from Netanyahu s Likud party, has said it aims to defend Israel s status as a Jewish and democratic state. But others pointed out that references conference in Helsinki, sparking uproar in Washington. The US leader later said he misspoke when he appeared to take Putin s denial of interference at face value and said he accepted the US intelligence community s view that Moscow sought to influence the 2016 vote. I thought it would be obvious but I would like to clarify just in case it wasn t. In a key sentence in my remarks I said the word would instead of wouldn t, Trump said in an extraordinary postscript to the Helsinki conference on Tuesday. The sentence should have been, I don t see any reason why I wouldn t, or why it wouldn t be Russia. Today, the FBI director Christopher Wray said the US intelligence community stands by its view that Russia meddled in the 2016 US election, despite Putin s denial. The two major American political parties appear largely united in their desire to keep the Kremlin in check. While Trump s position on Russian interference has shifted repeatedly in recent days, some in Trump s party signalled they had had enough of his wrecking ball diplomacy and sought to take steps to box him in. Israel adopts Jewish nation-state law Knesset member Oren Hazan takes a selfie with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, and MP David Bitan, right of Netanyahu, after a Knesset session that passed of a contentious bill, in Jerusalem on Thursday. AP south-east of Colombo, is dubbed the world s emptiest airport. The airport was officially opened in March The only international flight operating from there was halted in May due to recurrent losses and flight safety issues. Airport Authority of India (AAI) and Sri Lanka s Civil Aviation Authority will enter into a joint venture agreement to operate the airport, named after former President Mahinda Rajapaksa in his home district. The Mattala Airport was built with high interest commercial loans from China. We asked for proposals to operate this loss making airport, de Silva said when the AAI came forward with a per basis joint venture. They have to give us the business plan, how many flights they would bring in, which Indian airlines would service this airport, he said. Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa led Joint Opposition has dubbed the proposed deal as a to Jewish and democratic in earlier versions of the law had been removed and that the law lacked references to equality as specified in the country s 1948 declaration of independence. Shuki Friedman of the respected Israel Democracy Institute think tank said much of the law is symbolic, but it would force the courts to consider the country s Jewish nature and lead to a more narrow interpretation of Arabs rights.by emphasising Israel s Jewish nature, it is reducing, not directly but indirectly, its democratic nature, Friedman told AFP. Various versions of the legislation have been debated for years.netanyahu s government, seen as the most right-wing in the country s history, had pushed for the law s approval before the parliament s summer session ends. The legislation passed after the changing of a clause that would have allowed the state to authorise a community composed of people having the same faith and nationality to maintain the exclusive character of that community. Rivlin, whose role as president is mainly symbolic, had made a rare intervention in politics earlier this month to raise alarm over the clause. The legislation could harm the Jewish people worldwide and in Israel, and could even be used as a weapon by our enemies, he wrote in an open letter. Do we want to support the discrimination and exclusion of men and women based on their ethnic origin? Sri Lanka asks AAI to submit business plan on Mattala airport operation World s beaches eroding in protected marine areas Washington (PTI): The world s sandy shorelines are declining in protected marine areas which could threaten plant and animal species and cultural heritage sites, a global survey of beaches with satellite data from NASA and the US Geological Survey shows. Worldwide, the study found that 24 per cent of Earth s sandy beaches are eroding, a coastline distance of almost 50,000 miles, NASA said in a statement. The view from space provided a team of scientists and engineers from the Netherlands with a more accurate picture of just how much of Earth s shorelines are beaches. They found that about a third (31 per cent) of all icefree shorelines are sandy or gravelly. Africa has the highest proportion of sandy beaches (66 per cent) and Europe has the lowest (22 per cent). The team used machine learning to teach its classification software to accurately identify sandy beaches from images taken by Landsat satellites from NASA and the US Geological Survey. This allowed them to quickly and automatically examine 30 years of data and determine how many of Earth s beaches are sandy instead of rocky or icy, and how those sandy beaches are changing with time. It only took about two months calculation time to generate this data set of annual shorelines between 1984 and 2016 for the entire world, said Arjen Luijendijk, a coastal development expert at Deltares, an independent research institute in the Netherlands. The alternative of taking aerial images, placing the images in world coordinates, and sometimes manually detecting shorelines, takes weeks or months to capture a coast longer than 50 miles, Luijendijk said. Taking this kind of global snapshot gives scientists a clearer idea of what large scale processes govern the growth and retreat of beaches around the world, Luijendijk said. The team found that many of the world s non-protected beaches are undergoing change too, but not uniformly. About 24 per cent of sandy beaches worldwide are eroding, while 27 per cent are growing. Additionally, about 16 per cent of all beaches are eroding at rates designated intense or extreme, and 18 per cent are growing at the same rates. Facebook to take down fake news, misinformation from its platform PTI n NEW YORK acebook has said it will Fstart removing fake news and misinformation after mounting criticism that the flow of rumours on its platform has sparked violence and led to physical harm to people in countries around the world, including in India, according to media reports. Presently, Facebook bans content that directly calls for violence but the new policy will cover fake news that has the potential to stir up physical harm which includes both written posts and manipulated images, CNET reported. Facebook has been accused of helping to spur violence in Myanmar, Sri Lanka and India. The social network also has drawn intense criticism for its policies surrounding misinformation in general. The social network said last week that it would not ban InfoWars, a right-wing website known for pushing conspiracy theories, the report said. In India, Facebook-owned messaging service WhatsApp is facing the flak for allowing the circulation of large number of irresponsible messages filled with rumours and provocation that has led to growing instances of lynching of innocent people. The company will work with local organisations to help judge which posts fall under that category. If Facebook can t make a definitive call working with one organisation, it might bring in other organizations to help, the report said. There are certain forms of misinformation that have contributed to physical harm, and we are making a policy change which will enable us to take that type of content down, a Facebook spokeswoman was quoted as saying. We will be begin implementing the policy during the coming months. Yesterday, in trying to explain Facebook s stances on fake news, CEO Mark Zuckerberg sparked outrage by saying the company would not ban content from Holocaust deniers from the platform, because, I don t think that they re intentionally getting it wrong, he said. Hours later, he tried to clarify his comments by saying he finds Holocaust denial deeply offensive, and Facebook would suppress content like that by making sure fewer people see it on their news feeds. Facebook has been accused of not doing enough to remove anti-muslim posts and fake news that is been linked to violence against the minority Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. Such fake news and hate online hate have also added to sectarian violence in Sri Lanka. As for the new policy on removing misinformation that could lead to violence, Facebook said it has already begun trying it out. Last month, the company removed content that alleged Muslims are poisoning food that is given and sold to Buddhists in Sri Lanka. Facebook worked with a local group that said the post could contribute to potential violence, and removed the post. sell out. Early this month, de Silva while speaking at the adjournment motion moved by the Opposition had said, We need to revive this dying airport which caused a massive loss of rupees 20 billion. The final terms of the agreement with India, however, remains to be worked out, the minister had said. The airport has the capacity to handle one million passengers a year and is expected to handle five million passengers, 50,000 tonnes of cargo and 6,250 air traffic operations per annum by The government in 2017 invited investors to turn the airport into a profit-sharing joint venture. However no proposals were received to operate, manage and mainta The seaport built in Hambantota, another Rajapaksa pet project, has been leased to China to set off Chinese loans as equity. US authorities probe mid-air crash that killed trainee pilot Washington (PTI): Police and aviation authorities in Florida s Miami-Dade are scouring a swampy grassland for clues to help explain what caused the midair collision between two small aircraft in which an Indian woman trainee pilot and three others were killed. The body of the fourth victim of the midair collision between the two small aircraft of a Miami flight school over a swampy grassland was retrieved yesterday, ending the mission to look for survivors, the Miami Herald reported. But searchers continued to scour the razor-like sawgrass in hopes of finding clues to help explain what caused the accident, the daily said. The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board will take over the investigation about the causes of the crash and how it happened, said Miami-Dade Detective and spokesman Alvaro Zabaleta. On Tuesday, two aircraft, Piper PA-34 and Cessna 172, belonging to Dean International Flight School based at Miami Executive Airport, smashed into each other in the sky and plummeted to the ground, 14 kms west from where they took off. After a frantic search, police and fire rescue staff recovered the bodies of 19-year-old Indian woman Nisha Sejwal, Jorge Sanchez, 22, and Ralph Knight, 72. Police later pulled the body of another 22-year-old trainee pilot Carlos Alfredo Zanetti Scarpati from the swampy grassland, according to Zabaleta. Police believe that Scarpati was flying with Sanchez and that Knight and Sejwal were in the other plane together. Zabaleta said Sejwal, who hailed from New Delhi, was on a routine flight check to maintain her certification. According to her social media profile, she was an alumnus of DAV Model School, Yusuf Sarai, and Amity International School, Saket. Sejwal had enrolled in Dean International Flight School in September The flight school has a history of more than two dozen incidents and accidents in the decade between 2007 and According to the FAA, there was no flight plan filed for either plane. It was not clear if the pilots were conducting flying lessons or conducting some type of flight check. According to the FAA, the planes were flying under visual flight rules, meaning the pilots are flying in clear weather and can see where they re going, rather than relying on instruments.the planes were flying over air space known as an alert area, a practice area where checks are done or inexperienced pilots learn to fly. The Miami-Dade police spokesman said the swampy grassland tract where the planes crashed made it particularly difficult for rescuers to search for the victims. GLOBE TROTTING Kim Kardashian s company sued for alleged theft of logo for new fragrance Los Angeles: KKW Beauty, Kim Kardashian West s new perfume brand, has been sued by a marketing company for plagiarising their logo for its new fragrance Vibes. Vibes Media, a Chicago-based marketing firm, has filed a lawsuit against the company for copying its speech bubble-like logo for a new Kimoji perfume. According to The Blast, the company claimed they had trademarked the logo in Kardashian West has been marketing, promoting, and is now selling a Vibes perfume. The Vibes perfume comes in a bottle that is a close facsimile of the registered Vibes logo, the company said. Vibes Media s complaint is only against Vibes due to the similarity of the shape of the bottle to the logo in their office.the company wants the popular selling perfume to be destroyed and has also claimed damages. Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio had refused Brokeback Mountain : Gus Van Sant Los Angeles: Director Gus Van Sant has revealed that he was keen to make Brokeback Mountain with Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio but they did not want to be a part of the project. In an interview with IndieWire, Van Sant said before Ang Lee, he was attached to the film as a director and had approached all the usual suspects in Hollywood to play the lead roles but they all declined. Nobody wanted to do it. I was working on it, and I felt like we needed a really strong cast, like a famous cast. That wasn t working out. I asked the usual suspects: Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Ryan Phillippe. They all said no, Van Sant said. The film, which was ultimately directed by Lee, featured Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal as the gay romantic leads. It received widespread acclaim upon its release and was nominated for eight Academy Awards, winning three best director, best adapted screenplay, and best original score.

11 LUCKNOW FRIDAY JULY 20, 2018 world 12 Pak army has no direct role in July 25 polls PTI n ISLAMABAD he Pakistan Army will not Thave any direct role in the conduct of polls on July 25 for which it would deploy a total of 371,000 military personnel at the polling stations across the country, a top military official said on Thursday. Briefing the special session of the Senate Standing Committee on Interior, Director General of Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Major General Asif Ghafoor also said that the army would work in aid of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP). Three hundred and seventy one thousand army soldiers will be deployed at the countrywide polling stations. The army is also performing its duty at the printing press (for ballots), he said. He said that the ECP has a code of conduct for the army personnel and they will follow the commission s instructions. The Army spokesperson termed as completely baseless the rumours that military personnel had been issued different orders. We do not have any link with the elections; we are only working on the election commission s directives to maintain the law and order situation. We do not have a direct role in polls, Maj Gen Ghafoor said. The Pakistan Army, which enjoys considerable influence over policy decisions in Pakistan, has ruled the country for much of its life since it gained independence 70 years ago. He also refused to share the details of deployment of troops, saying, the Army had done it, keeping in view the security situation of each province. The said that the army would guard the polling process but it was not responsible for the security of politician as the security of candidates was responsibility of the government. ECP Secretary Babar Yaqoob, while briefing the Senate panel, said that a total of 800,000 security officials including the army, the police and the paramilitary personnel would be deployed. Yaqoob also said that 700,000 polling staff will perform election duties.he also refuted rumours that army would have any role on the day of election other than providing security. Meanwhile, the Army, in a statement, cautioned people against fake threat alerts being circulated for various cities on social media quoting the ISPR. No such alerts are issued by the ISPR. Such propaganda is an attempt to create confusion and harassment. Citizens to watch out on this and any other such attempt through fake calls, it said, asking people to consult the official website of ISPR to verify any such news. Refrain from using foul language Islamabad (PTI): Pakistan s Election Commission today warned Tehreek-i-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan against using inappropriate language for his political rivals, days after he kicked up a political storm following his donkey remark for the supporters of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. On July 12, on the eve of Sharif and his daughter Maryam Nawaz s return to Pakistan to surrender themselves to the authorities, the cricketerturned-politician had said that whoever goes to receive the Sharifs at the airport must be a donkey. The remarks did not go down well with the PML-N cadre and even polarised the next Senate session, where barbs were exchanged between the two parties members. The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) barred Khan from using unseemly language for his political rivals during election campaigning, Dawn News reported. The ECP had taken notice of Khan s incendiary choice of words and directed him to appear before the commission on ay. Khan did not appear before the ECP but his lawyer and PTI leader Babar Awan was at the hearing on his behalf. When major leaders use such language, it doesn t send a good impression [of Pakistan] to the world, the four-member commission, led by the ECP s Sindh member Abdul Ghaffar Soomro, told Awan. Awan initially seemed to defend the practice but eventually relented, assuring the poll body that his client would abide by its instructions. Thousands evacuate pro-regime Syria towns Al-Eis(Syria): Several thousand residents evacuated two pro-regime towns in northern Syria today, putting an end to one of the longest sieges of the country s seven-year civil war. Fuaa and Kafraya in Idlib province were the last remaining areas under blockade in Syria and a rare example of progovernment towns surrounded by rebel forces. The Shiite-majority towns were besieged for three years by rebels and Hayat Tahrir al- Sham (HTS), a jihadist alliance led by Syria s former Al-Qaeda affiliate. Surrounded and bombed by hostile factions, the towns had become a rallying cry for the government and its ally Iran. A deal was reached Tuesday between regimebacker Russia and rebel-ally Turkey to see the residents taken to government-held territory in exchange for the release of prisoners from regime jails. On Wednesday barricades on the road leading into the towns were removed to let dozens of buses in, AFP s correspondent there said. Just after midnight, the buses drove out of Fuaa and Kafraya and this morning were at the village of Al-Eis, crossing from rebelcontrolled territory into regime-held areas in Aleppo province. Armed HTS fighters stood on the roadside as the convoy of evacuees inched past, with pro-government militiamen and regular civilians sitting solemnly on board and staring ahead. Some 6,900 civilians and fighters were evacuated and the two towns were now entirely empty of residents, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitoring group, said this morning. As the buses entered regime-held areas, the regime started releasing detainees, as per the deal, Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman said. According to HTS sources, the evacuation had been agreed in exchange for the release of 1,500 people from government-run jails. An HTS source said the group s fighters had entered the towns after the evacuation was complete. Fuaa and Kafraya came under siege in 2015 as rebels and jihadists overran the surrounding province of Idlib, cutting off access to food and medicine. Those forces had allowed the United Nations and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent to deliver aid to the towns in exchange for similar deliveries to two governmentbesieged towns near Damascus. The four towns also saw coordinated evacuation deals. In April 2017, thousands were bussed out of Fuaa and Kafraya in exchange for parallel evacuations from the towns of Zabadani and Madaya. But a blast targeting a convoy of evacuees from Fuaa and Kafraya left 150 people dead, most of them civilians and including 72 children. Some reports have suggested Tuesday s deal also involves an agreement to spare Idlib a military offensive by the regime. The province borders Turkey to the northwest but is otherwise almost completely surrounded by regime-held territory. It is home to more than two million people, including Syrian civilians and rebels moved out of other oppositionheld territory in surrender deals. Syria s conflict erupted in March 2011 with protests against President Bashar al- Assad that escalated into a devastating, complex war. After losing swathes of territory to rebels in the early years of the conflict, Assad s forces have managed to regain much of the country since Russian forces intervened in the regime s favour in The retaking of second city Aleppo last year marked a major turning point and earlier this year the government retook Eastern Ghouta, the last rebel-held area near the capital Damascus. Both victories followed crushing regime sieges and heavy bombardment. This photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows Syrians being evacuated in buses from the two progovernment villages of Foua and Kfarya, at Tel el-eis, the crossing between Aleppo and Idlib provinces, Syria on Thursday. AP Supporters of Pakistan's jailed ex-prime Minister Nawaz Sharif gather outside the Adiala jail where he is being held, in Rawalpindi, Pakistan on Thursday. AP Meeting with Sharifs unilaterally cancelled by jail authorities Islamabad: Pakistan s Adiala Jail authorities today unilaterally cancelled a meeting between former premier Nawaz Sharif, his daughter Maryam and son-in-law Capt (retd) Muhammad Safdar, and their lawyers, according to a media report. The legal team, which includes Khwaja Harris, Saad Hashmi, Zafir Khan and Amjad Pervaiz, was trying to meet the Sharif family detained at Adiala Jail following their conviction in the Avenfield properties case on July 6. Harris told the accountability judge that jail authorities were not giving him access to his client - Nawaz Sharif, Dawn reported. After court proceedings, as per the legal London (AFP): Police believe they have identified suspects who carried out the Novichok attack on a former Russian double agent and his daughter in the English city of Salisbury, the Press Association reported on Thursday. Investigators believe they have identified the suspected perpetrators of the Novichok attack through CCTV and have cross-checked this with records of people who entered the country around that time, a source told the Press Association news agency. They (investigators) are sure they (suspects) are Russian, the source added Scotland Yard refused to comment on the report when contacted by AFP. Ex-Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia collapsed in Salisbury on March 4 after being exposed to the nerve agent Novichok. Both have since recovered. Britain blamed Russia for the poisoning of Skripal, a former colonel in military intelligence who was jailed for betraying Russian agents to Britain s MI6 security service. He left Russia for England in a 2010 spy swap. Russia has strongly denied involvement in the Skripal attack, sparking a diplomatic row that has led to tit-for-tat diplomatic expulsions between Britain and its allies and Russia. Two Britons fell ill in June after being exposed to Novichok in the team of Sharif family, the jail superintendent called Harris and permitted the legal team to meet with its clients, the paper said. The jail authorities then, with the consent of the lawyers, fixed their meeting for 11 am on Thursday. When the legal team reached Adiala Jail at 11 am, they were informed by the jail superintendent that the meeting had been cancelled. Subsequently, they returned without meeting their clients, the paper reported. Citing Haris, the paper said that the legal team had been requesting jail authorities since the day before to allow us to meet our clients in jail so that we can confer with them same region of southwest England, but police have not been able to establish whether the toxin was from the same batch used against the Skripals. Charlie Rowley, 45, and his partner Dawn Sturgess, 44, collapsed at his Amesbury house within hours of each other on June 30. Sturgess died July 8, while Rowley has regained consciousness and is in stable condition. Inquest opens into British woman poisoned by nerve agent: A coroner has opened an inquest into the poisoning death of a British woman who was exposed to the nerve agent Novichok. Senior coroner David Ridley opened the inquest today, but said the cause of Dawn Sturgess death won t be given until further tests are completed. He adjourned the proceedings until January. Sturgess, 44, and partner Charlie Rowley, 45, were sickened on June 30 in southwestern England near where a Russian ex-spy and his daughter were poisoned with Novichok in March. Sturgess died July 8. Rowley and the Skripals survived. Responding to a report from Britain s Press Association that police have identified several Russians as suspects in the March attack, the Russian ambassador to Lo Alexander Yakovenko, said: We work after all with official data, not with press reports. regarding their future strategy. We requested the jail authorities to allow us to meet yesterday but we were not allowed (to meet them), Harris said. Eventually we were asked to come today at 11am to meet Mian Sahib etc. at Adiala Jail. While we were on our way and had almost reached, we received a call from the jail superintendent and were asked not to come today as our meeting had been unilaterally cancelled, he added. Haris said an Adiala Jail assistant superintendent had explained that the lawyers meeting had been cancelled since Thursday is for visiting family members and others. PTI Sharif, Maryam to be shifted from Adiala to Sihala jail Lahore (PTI): Jailed former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam may be shifted from the high-security Adiala jail to Sihala Rest House, which has been converted into a sub-jail in the suburbs of Islamabad after some prisoners started chanting slogans against him this morning, prison authorities said. Sharif, 68, and his daughter Maryam, 44, were arrested in Lahore on July 13 on their arrival from London after an accountability court found them guilty over his family s ownership of four luxury flats in London. They were later taken to Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi. Both Sharif and Maryam have been sentenced by the accountability court to 10 and 7 years in prison respectively for corruption charges linked to Panama Papers scandal. Adiala jail authorities have limited the movement of Sharif after some prisoners started chanting slogans against him as he was out for a stroll in the courtyard of his barrack this morning, Dawn News reported. He will now also not be allowed to pray in the mosque, it said. According to sources, the jail authorities are considering moving Sharif and his daughter Maryam Nawaz to Safwat Lodge, commonly referred to as Sihala Rest House, located on the premises of Sihala Police College, the report said. A bomb disposal squad visited Sihala Police College last last night to comb the premises to ensure there are no explosives in case the former premier and his daughter are moved to Sihala, a senior security official was quoted as saying by the report. The rest house has already been declared as a sub-jail and security at Sihala has also been beefed up by the authorities. It may be unsafe for the threetime prime minister to remain in the jail due to the presence of high profile prisoners convicted in terrorism cases, even though security for him and his daughter has been beefed up, the official said. A senior police official said security outside Adiala jail has also been tightened due to the large number of people coming to meet their loved ones in jail and the gathering of PML-N workers and leaders attempting to meet Sharif and Maryam.Safwat Lodge has been cleaned and decorated with flowers, paintings and photographs. A double bed, two chairs and a table will also be provided to the prisoners. This is the same lodge where former president and PPP co-chairperson Asif Ali Zardari had been detained when his party s government was dismissed in Other political leaders have also been detained in the rest house in the past. On July 13, the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) administration had already declared the rest house a sub-jail for detaining the Sharifs who were arrested by the National Accountability Bureau when they reached Lahore. However, they were taken to Adiala jail instead. After the notification was issued by the ICT administration, the rest house on Friday, the rest house was cleaned and prepared for the former prime minister, the report said. British police identify Novichok suspects: Report Police conduct fingertip searches of Queen Elizabeth Gardens, in Salisbury, which British woman Dawn Sturgess visited before she fell ill after being exposed to nerve agent Novichok, Thursday, July 19, Senior coroner David Ridley opened an inquest into the poisoning death of Sturgess Thursday, but said the cause of Sturgess' death won't be given until further tests are completed. AP Therapy dogs may help treat ADHD symptoms: Study Los Angeles: Therapy dogs may be effective in reducing the symptoms of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children, a first-ofits-kind study has found. The study, published in the journal Human-Animal Interaction Bulletin (HAIB), involved children aged 7 to 9 who had been diagnosed with ADHD and who had never taken medicines for their condition. Researchers at the University of California, Irvine in the US randomised participants to compare benefits from evidenced-based, best practice psychosocial interventions with the same intervention augmented by the assistance of certified therapy dogs. A therapy dog is trained to provide affection, comfort and love to people in hospitals, retirement homes, nursing homes, and schools. The research indicates children with ADHD who received canine assisted intervention (CAI) experienced a reduction in inattention and an improvement in social skills. Our finding that dogs can hasten the treatment response is very meaningful, said Sabrina Schuck, an assistant professor at the University of California, Irvine. In addition, the fact that parents of the children who were in the CAI group reported significantly fewer problem behaviours over time than those treated without therapy dogs is further evidence of the importance of this research, Schuck said. Both CAI and non-cai interventions were ultimately found to be effective for reducing overall ADHD symptom severity after 12 weeks. The group assisted by therapy dogs fared significantly better with improved attention and social skills at only eight weeks and demonstrated fewer behavioural problems. No significant group differences, however, were reported for hyperactivity and impulsivity. Patients who receive psychosocial therapy prior to medications have shown to fare better. Additionally, many families prefer not to use medications in young children. The take away from this is that families now have a viable option when seeking alternative or adjunct therapies to medication treatments for ADHD, especially when it comes to impaired attention, said Schuck. Inattention is perhaps the most salient problem experienced across the life span for individuals with this disorder, she said.

12 LUCKNOW FRIDAY JULY 20, 2018 vivacity 13 Ailing Irrfan promotes film Karwaan Producer PRITI RATHI GUPTA says ailing actor IRRFAN KHAN, despite his illness, is quite actively promoting the film on social media and his loyal fans are waiting for the movie to be released. Irrfan, who is undergoing treatment in London for a tumour, is unable to be physically present for promotions. Irrfan is actively supporting and promoting the film. I know he is going through a journey and we miss him around. But social media helps in this case, said Priti. Karwaan releases on August 3. The biggest dilemma was what and how to tell him (son) about my cancer. But he took the news so maturely and instantly became my source of strength. I believe that it is imperative to keep kids involved in such a situation. They are a lot more resilient than we give them credit for. Sonali Bendre Actress MONA SINGH wants to try everything in her life, she said, I want to start a cafe of my own. I want to try everything in one life. Whatever works, good and whatever doesn't work, I will learn. Nowadays everybody is getting health-conscious. I am not talking about that, but something which is organic. I enjoy creating stuff in my kitchen, so it won't be that tough. Her to-do list also includes donning the producer's hat. She said, I want to produce something on the digital platform. Maybe, I will start with a short story and try a series. I haven't given it a solid thought. I have an idea, which I would love to do. Mona is currently seen in series titled Yeh Meri Family, streamed on TVF Play app. Ryan s movie to open film festival Oscar-winning director DAMIEN CHAZELLE s space race drama First Man, starring actor RYAN GOSLING, will open the 75th annual Venice International Film Festival on August 29. This will be the second time that his movie will open at the VIFF. His film, La La Land, kicked off the fest in 2016 before cruising into the awards season and tying the alltime Oscar nominations record. The movie stars Gosling as astronaut Neil Armstrong in the years leading up to the Apollo 11 moon-landing mission of The film also stars Claire Foy as Armstrong s wife, Janet Shearon, Kyle Chandler, Jason Clarke, Corey Stoll and Ciaran Hinds among others. The film festival will end on September 8. O ften parents are heard warning their children about external threats Play safe, or you ll get hurt, Do not play in the mud, or you ll get germs, Avoid strangers, they could harm you, It s dark, mosquitoes will bite you, Stay indoors, play with your toys, it s raining outside, Do not touch dirty things, you ll get sick. However, seldom do they stop to think about the toxicity that toys they pick up with love and affection could pose. A survey released by US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) revealed that in 2016, there were an estimated 2.4 million toy-related injuries treated in US hospital emergency departments, 39 per cent of which were classified as lacerations, contusions, or abrasions, whereas, 45 per cent of them were on the head and face area, the most commonly affected area of the body. According to the survey, for children younger than five years, riding toys, with 17,100 estimated injuries (20 per cent), were associated with more injuries than any other specified category of toys in There is undoubtedly a need for a market for safe toys. However, parents also need to be aware of what their younger ones are playing with. Vivek Jhangiani, director of the All India Toy Manufacturers Association, TAITMA, chairman of Toy Committee, FICCI, and director of the International Council Of Toy Industries (ICTI), says, We work to spread awareness among parents, especially about all the products that are safe for children. We are insisting that all packaging mention the chemicals and plastics used in the product and detail the design and quality of toys. We are also educating retailers about safe toys and safety guards that they should pass on to the customer. Jhangiani believes that cheap toys are usually unsafe whereas those with a steeper price tag are safer long-term. Says he, Unfortunately, not every Indian can afford an expensive toy. Which is why we are aggressively educating retailers about helping consumers make graded choices, helping them decide whether to buy a car for `10 or `100. KUSHAN MITRA ver the past 12 months, I have experienced Othe future of driving and well, it is not the future anymore, it is the present. This is the automation on cars, cars where the car does the driving, thanks to an array of cameras and radar assistance. Even in India, I ve driven cars with assistance systems from Mercedes-Benz and Volvo. So, therefore, it was a surprise for me recently to drive the India specification of a car I d driven abroad which had the assistance features but the Indian model did not. And there are many cars like that from manufacturers where the Indian models will not come with these features. This is not an issue of price. There are reasons that these features are disabled, including the fact that more expensive models don t have them. These features don t always gel well in Indian traffic conditions. One of the first cars with a automated safety feature that I drove was the Volvo S60. While this model is going to be changed soon, based on Volvo s new architecture it had features like lane assist and automatic braking. Both were toned down from the features in modern Volvos the lane-assist was nothing more than a steering shaker and the autobrake only activated in an emergency situation. But the first time I drove it, I wasn t prepared for both features and they both surprised me. The autobrake came on and I wasn t expecting it, the first time when a motorcycle cut me off, as is the norm, the car braked very hard by itself. And when you re expecting that, it really does shock you. Since then, I ve driven several other cars with automated driving features. I ve also been in a fully autonomous car in the United States. And I ve become used to them to be very honest. Driving down a highway in Europe or in the United States, I have often just driven controlling the car with my left thumb. You can activate the cruise control, something that has been around forever and then set-up the remaining features. First is lane assist and then the distance control. Altogether, with everything working the car pretty much drives itself. And on the highway and with little traffic all you need to do is keep your left foot primed at all times. If you want to change lanes, you give the turn indicator and the latest cars will switch lanes themselves. It waits if there is a car Are your child's toys safe? A balloon would fly in the air, leaving its dirt on your younger one who is busy enjoying it as it goes. Who would imagine that even a toy can harm a child? CHAHAK MITTAL explores how the Indian toy industry is working to spread awareness among parents and making toys more child-friendly and safer CHEMICALS IN TOYS lcobalt in plastic building blocks, baby bibs lethylene glycol in dolls lmethyl ethyl ketone in clothing lantimony in booster seats lparabens in baby wipes ld4 in baby creams lpolybrominated diethyl ethers (PBDEs) in all plastic, foam and stuffed toys, and a third of soft rubber toys. The car is a robot There is no reason why car makers, who offer driver assistance systems in their models abroad, should trim them in India coming from behind even if it is your visual blind spot. Technically this doesn t allow you to cut anyone off, it is actually safer than most drivers. The car does warn you if your touch on the steering gets too soft, and there is a loud aural warning if you take your hands off the wheel for an extended period of time before disengaging. This is more for reasons of liability rather than anything else. Which is why I feel many manufacturers are still hesitating on installing this on the cars. The fact is that traffic on highways in most other countries are far more regulated than in India. In cities, nothing on earth prepares you for the chaos of Noida. Traffic is crazy across but still has some semblance of order. The only major city in India where traffic has some idea of regulation in my opinion is Chandigarh. So would these safety features make any sense in India at all? Yes they do, I think they make great sense in newer highways with good road marking. Modern cars also have varying degrees of automatic braking allowing you to tune it down. Unlike the West though, road markings and road signs are pretty poor in India. How many of you know that double white solid lines on the middle of a road mean No Overtaking under any circumstances? Exactly. And all over south Delhi small locality roads have double white lines instead of dashed lines and that is ridiculous with turn-offs every few hundred metres. But the cars do allow you to override the computer. Indeed, most cities should disable the systems until local traffic police cracks down on that worst of Indian habits, wrong-side driving. But most modern Indian highways, while requiring an enhanced sense of concentration, can be driven with such features assisting you. And that is my key point, these are driver assistance systems and there is no reason why if a car offers them abroad, they should not be offered in India. And they should also come down the value chain soon enough. Volvo s XC40 at `40 lakh is currently the cheapest car offering such features but by 2020 I m sure these features will be available in cars costing half as much or less. And eventually, I do believe traffic inside core metropolitan areas will become more orderly and one would be able to use such features inside cities. At the end of the day these robotic cars, and they are robotic cars for all intents and purposes, would make the lives of authorities easier as well. There is a fear that maybe in the future the authorities will try and control your cars remotely, but that is another story for another time. e-commerce revolution and Tthe upsurge in digital technologies are fundamentally transforming shoppers expectations. This transformation also has a major bearing on the function of brick-and-mortar stores, which now need to render more useful and entertaining customer experiences. As trends advance globally, mall operators are forced to rethink and re-strategize as to how they must design, enable and operate their physical stores. THE ADVENT OF SMART STORES Physical stores are getting smarter by using technologies like robotic intelligence, analytical data and consumer-centric platforms such as Augmented Reality (AR) or Virtual Reality (VR) to attract customers and give them an impactful experience. By uniting conventional methods with key success elements of the digital ethos, brick-and-mortar retailers, in fact, have an advantage over e-commerce, as they can offer mall visitors an experience that vastly surpasses that of online shopping. Information technology can be effectively used to tap into techsavvy consumers predilections with appropriate tech-enabled in-shop responses. Numbers suggest that consumer expenditure in India will rise to US$ 3,600 billion by 2020 from US$ 1,595 billion in If mall operators and the retailer tenants get their strategy right, they are definitely poised for retaining and adding customers. Today, a tech-enabled retail environment equals repeat visits, increased footfalls and higher sales. TECH ADOPTION DONE RIGHT A classic example of creating a differentiated experience for consumers is seen in Kochi s Lulu International mall, which numbers among the largest malls in India. This mall uses advanced technologies Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR), geo-fencing and digital beacon technology to engage with mall visitors and inform them of the latest promotional activities and deals available in the mall. Decathlon stores have been using a Virtual Reality (VR) system which lets customers experience living in different types of camping tents before they make the purchase. The French brand also allows customers to look through its app for the exact location of a product in the physical store. Consumer-centric tech platforms like AI (artificial intelligence), AR (augmented reality) and VR help in building malls connection with consumers via product visualization, behaviour analyses, communication with customers, creating realtime merchandising, marketing, advertising, and promotional opportunities. Increasing demand for experiential retail coupled with the stores ability to be different is, in a way, fueling demand for new technologies. In fact, we may soon start seeing holograms being used in malls, in place of the traditional promotional standees and flex boards. With the right kind of technology, holograms can even go from being mere static visuals to interactive ones. RETAIL ON THE INFORMATION HIGHWAY Already, we have at our disposal varied digital communication tools, from bots like Kik Bot Shop However, the problems lie not only in the pricing. Kids tend to put whatever they find in their mouths, which eventually leads to infections. Sometimes they could even choke on smaller toys. Shouldn t there be more taste-friendly toys for kids then? Jhangiani is considering this along with new standards for mini cars and bikes. These should strictly be limited to certain age-groups and tagged as being good enough to use only under adult supervision, says he. The emphasis on safety, he feels, will also boost the indigenous toy industry, which tends to use more natural fibres and safer ingredients than the cheaper Chinese variants. Almost 90 per cent of toys in India are imported. Only 10 per cent are locally made. Which is why we cannot compete with pricing because we prize our safety inputs, says Jhangiani. Which is why the industry is trying to create a platform for home-grown products. At the annual toy fair, we, as exhibitors, are committed to bringing only safe toys. We are well aware of the responsibility of hosting a million products and 100,000 novelties every year. We see ourselves as an information platform and a multiplier for the toy industry, he adds. But above all, there is a need for a regulatory policy. It is the concentrated task of manufacturers, trade associations, buyers and the respective government to set standards that will be globally valid. Regulations on toy safety are constantly being amended and material and standard values are continuously being adapted to the latest conditions. The industry needs to be made aware at an early stage. We keep our visitors constantly updated. For example, at the Nuremberg toy fair, we kept a separate forum for discussion. Besides this, a number of associations and test institutes are also present at the fair and through them the industry receives a lot of useful and new information, says Ernst Kick, CEO, Spielwarenmesse eg. He adds, It is the concentrated task of manufacturers, trade associations, buyers and the respective government to set standards that would be globally valid. Everyone should do their part to make the world safer for our children, regardless of their origin. Toys must be high-quality, safe and affordable and, of course, have a high value of play. Of course, the experts warn of the innocent balloons and their destructive potential. Though these do not come under the toy industry, rubber and nitrogen gasfilled ones are highly risky. It is time to clean up the home. Malls get smart to woo customers From virtual reality to augmented reality systems, malls leave nothing behind to stop customers from going towards e-commerce. By ANUJ KEJRIWAL Ambassador of France to India Alexandre Ziegler, his wife, designer Rohit Bal, President of FDCI Sunil Sethi, designers Manish Arora with friend and Nainika Karan at the French embassy. and WeChat to voice-activated AI agents like Google Now and Amazon s Alexa. Mall operators and tenants need to leverage these personalized digital ecologies when shoppers are either in or away from their centres. For instance, DLF Cyber Hub offers a unique AI-based Phygital experience with Huber, a virtual concierge. Shoppers can talk to Huber to find out about the next event, navigate through physical space while adding to the discoverability of available brands and experiences, reserve a table, check out menus, etc. During the conversation, it gets to know about the customer and can make personalised recommendations. Also, with shoppers mobile devices connecting to the mall s Wi- Fi network, a new channel of communication has opened between the mall operator, retailer and customers. This avenue gives shoppers relevant information right from where to park the car to various offers and enticements like discounts. This makes the shopping experience more personal, convenient and enjoyable. Interestingly, today s tech-savvy consumers are now open to sharing some personal data via digital interaction. According to Accenture, more than 50 per cent of consumers are willing to divulge personal information in return for more customized offers. The retail world today is nothing short of an ongoing war of sorts the war to win customers over from the competition and to retain them. As can be expected in any war, there will be victors and losers; and in the case of technology adoption, it is no longer about the in-store use of innovative technologies. While the dominance of technology is explicitly seen across modern brickand-mortar stores, the winners will be those who can strike a balance across multiple platforms and create an omni-channel for tech-savvy consumers. (The writer is a retail expert.)

13 LUCKNOW FRIDAY JULY 20, 2018 sport 14 KULDEEP SHOULD PLAY IN TESTS Phil Tufnell praises selectors decision of picking rare talent in the five-day squad PTI n LONDON E ngland may have cracked the Kuldeep Yadav code, but former leftarm spinner Phil Tufnell says India will be better off playing him in the Test series as well, having done the good thing by picking the "rare" talent in the five-day squad. Tufnell was full of praise for Yadav, marking him as a rarity. "You don't come across too many leftarm wrist spinners. There are a few leg spinners around across all formats. Kuldeep is a rare bowler. When you come across his type of bowling, you need to really work it out because it is something you haven't seen before. It is a special thing, and a rarity really," said Tufnell. When asked if Yadav should be in the playing eleven for the first Test starting in Birmingham on August 1, he replied, "I would definitely play him." "It's a good thing India haven't sent Kuldeep home. Just look at the weather we have had. I think it is set to be similarly fair for the next month or so. So you never know India might even play three spinners depending on pitches and their combinations. "India have three world class spinners in their Test squad, but I would definitely think of Kuldeep. I would want him hanging close around the English batsmen," he added. Tufnell has said that the hosts won the ODI series because their spinners Adil Rashid and Moeen Ali outperformed Indian spinners. Kuldeep Yadav took 6-25 in the first ODI at Nottingham, but then returned 3/68 and 0/55 in the next two matches at Lord's and Leeds. Yuzvendra Chahal managed only 2/135 across the three games. In comparison, Adil Rashid and Moeen Ali shared eight wickets between them to bowl England to victory. Rashid, Kusal Mendis right, and coach Chandika Hathurusingha attend a training session SL expect to win Test series AFP n COLOMBO angana Herath warned South Africa Thursday to expect Ryet more spin in the second Test after the visitors were skittled for their lowest total since the Proteas' readmission to international cricket. Sri Lanka are chasing their first Test series win against the Proteas since 2006 and need just a draw to clinch the honours against the world's second ranked Test side. South Africa lost the opening Test in Galle inside three days after being dispatched for 126 in the first innings and 73 in the second. Herath said pitch conditions were ripe for a repeat of last week's drubbing, in which the left-arm spinner took five wickets and off-spinner Dilruwan Perera returned overall match figures of "If you see the surface, it's dry. It will be more of a spin friendly surface," the 40-year-old veteran spinner said ahead of the final Test starting Friday in Colombo. "We have Dilruwan (Perera) and if we require we also have Dhananjaya (de Silva). He couldn't bowl in Galle, but he is certainly ready to bowl during games," Herath told reporters. Proteas skipper Faf du Plessis top-scored with a gritty 49 while paceman Kagiso Rabada impressed with four wickets in Sri Lanka's first innings. Rabada, who returned figures of 4-50, was ably supported by Dale Steyn and Vernon Philander in their first innings to bowl out the hosts for 287 runs, more than half of which were notched up by Sri Lankan opener Dimuth Karnaratne. Du Plessis said his team will rely on their pace bowlers to come back hard at the hosts. "If it doesn't rain, then we will have a dangerous weapon in our fast bowlers. Once again we have to make a call as to whether we are playing three seamers or two spinners," Du Plessis said. Du Plessis added that South Africa was aiming to conquer local conditions in their bid to overtake India -- about to embark on a five-test series in England -- and become the number one side. "It is never easy winning away from home. When you are coming to the sub-continent, drawing a series is as good as winning a series," he said. "It's tough and that's what the best teams do. We need to get to that number one position in Test cricket." The next visitors to Sri Lanka will be England in October. Kuldeep Yadav celebrates after dismissing English batsman Jonny Bairstow during the second ODI between England and India at Lord's on Saturday; (Right)England's Adil Rashid celebrates after taking wicket in particular, was quite impressive with hauls of 2-38 and 3-49 in the last two games where the Indian batting faltered. He bowled a ripper to Indian skipper Virat Kohli at Headingley, who was bowled Sri Lanka vs South Africa Live from 10:00am IST SONY TEN NETWORK AP and left stunned as the ball turned sharply from leg to take the off stump. That dismissal changed the course of the third ODI as India went on to lose the series 2-1. "Indian batsmen are very adept at playing spin bowling and have done so all their lives. (But) Rashid and Ali have a very good partnership going at the moment. They are very experienced in one-day cricket and were top of their game with some really dry IANS n SYDNEY head of India's tour Down Under later this Ayear, Australian quick Pat Cummins has praised skipper Virat Kohli as a "really passionate" player while conceding that his bowling attack will target the "prized" wicket of the right-hander. Cummins recently found himself in the middle of a storm when he was widely quoted as saying: "My brave, bold prediction; I'd say I think Virat Kohli is not going to get a hundred and we're going to knock them off over here". Clarifying his comments, the pacer said his comments were misunderstood as he just wished that the Indian did not score a century during India's tour, that comprises three Twenty20 Internationals, four Tests and three One-day Internationals, starting with the first T20I on November 21. "I was almost trying to do the opposite to the way they were perceived. I was trying to pay him a huge compliment and say that my big wish list for the summer was he doesn't score a hundred," Cummins told cricket.com.au. "He's obviously so important to the team and is such a gun batsman, so him not scoring runs would go a long way to helping us win. But I certainly didn't mean to say he's no good because I couldn't hold him in higher regard," he added. Cummins stressed that his team will give its cent percent to stop the Indian captain from registering three-figure mark. "The chances are he's going to score a hundred against us again sometime and we'll be doing everything in our power to try and stop that. "It was just off the cuff. It was a pretty relaxed interview to say I'd love for him not to score runs, like I'd love any international player to not score runs against us," he clarified. Cummins further went on to compare the 29-year-old Kohli with banned former Aussie skipper Steve Smith, saying: "Kohli is a really passionate player and I'm sure he doesn't need any extra motivation to go out there and put everything into what he does." "He's similar to Steve Smith for us, he really gets himself into the contest and tries to find a way to fire up the bowlers. They seem to use that as a way to get the best out of themselves and I think that feeds off into the other players in the team as well. "The captain and the best batsman is always the prized wicket and I'm sure it won't be any different this summer," he added ASHES SERIES FROM AUG 1 The next Ashes Test cricket series between weather here," Tufnell said. "Plus, the pitches have been turning. If the pitches are turning, you have always got a chance as a spin bowler and it doesn't matter who you are playing against." Rajeev Shukla s aide resigns following bribery scandal PTI n NEW DELHI member of IPL Chairman Rajeev AShukla s personal staff was on Thursday forced to resign after he was suspended by the BCCI due to a sting operation, which alleged that he sought bribes to facilitate selection of players in the Uttar Pradesh team. A Hindi news channel telecast an alleged phone conversation between Akram Saifi, an executive assistant of Shukla, and cricketer Rahul Sharma in which Saifi is heard seeking favours in cash and kind to ensure Sharma s selection in the state team. Shukla is currently a Director in the Uttar Pradesh Cricket Association (UPCA). Saifi has tendered his resignation. When Mr Shukla s view was sought on this, he said that it should be accepted with immediate effect, a top BCCI official told PTI. The development came after the BCCI decided to investigate the matter as per its established regulations....pending the appointment of a Commissioner under Rule 32 of the rules and regulations of BCCI, we are seeking an explanation from Mr. Akram Saifi regarding the allegations made against him, an internal communication of the BCCI, which is in possession of the PTI, stated. Mr. Saifi s reply shall be examined by the Commissioner once appointed, it added. Regarding any issue pertaining to the UPCA, the UPCA would have to deal with the matter under their rules. The Rule 32 of the BCCI regulations states that any complaints of misconduct are to be decided by a commissioner, who will be appointed by Board President C K Khanna in this case. The commissioner is mandated to submit his findings within 15 days, which will then be passed on to the BCCI s disciplinary committee. The Board s Anti-Corruption Unit chief Ajit Singh said the audio tapes are being sought from the Australia and England will be held from August 1 to September 16, 2019 in the UK, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) announced on Thursday. The summer's five-match series assumes more significance as for the first time an Ashes rubber will be part of World Test Championship. While the first Test begins in Edgbasaton, the second Test will run from August at the Lord's. Leeds' Headingley ground will host the third Test between August 22 and 26, while the the fourth Test will be held between September 4 and 8 at Manchester's Old Trafford. The fifth and final Test will take place at the Oval, London from September 12 to 16. "There is nothing more important to England cricket fans than an Ashes Series. With the added element of being England's first Test series in the new World Test Championship, it's a hugely exciting prospect and we anticipate unprecedented demand for tickets," ECB CEO AP Saha to undergo shoulder surgery KOLKATA: Believed to be a minor thumb injury till now, Indian wicketkeeper-batsman Wriddhiman Saha is actually nursing a career-threatening shoulder problem caused by a "bungled" rehabilitation programme at the National Cricket Academy, a top BCCI official claimed. It is learnt that Saha will have to undergo a surgery in the UK next month and that might rule him out of the tour of Australia later this year. "Wriddhiman's rehabilitation has been a complete goof up. The NCA physio has bungled it big time. Now only a surgery can put him back on track. Once he is done with surgery, he will not touch the bat for at least two months and then rehab will start," a senior BCCI official said on Thursday. Saha has been out of action, citing a thumb injury sustained during this year's IPL, but it has now come to light that the problem is much bigger than what was initially assessed. He was not picked for the upcoming Test series against England but the Board did not reveal the full extent of his fitness problems. A shoulder surgery would effectively mean that he will also miss India's tour of Australia. Cummins finding ways to stop Kohli's tons Australian pacer Patt Cummins channel and will be examined. We have taken note of the sting and will examine the entire matter. Until we speak to the people involved, it is difficult to say anything as of now, he said. The player in question, Rahul Sharma, has never represented India and has not been a part of the state team either. He has alleged that Saifi sought bribes and other favours to ensure his selection in the team. He has also accused Saifi of issuing fake age certificates. Saifi has denied all the charges. We are open to any inquiry. We follow a very transparent selection process at the UPCA. I can t comment on the conversation between the two as it is their personal matter, said UPCA Secretary Yudhveer Singh, dismissing the charges of corruption in selection. I have checked about Rahul Sharma and found out that he has never even been a part of the state probables. He has no credibility, he added. ICC Shukla has not yet reacted to the allegations. Earlier, the BCCI had sought to steer clear of any association with Saifi even though it admitted that his salary was being paid from the Board s funds. The BCCI only allocates funds for its office-bearers personal staff. They are free to appoint people of their choice as executive assistants and their salaries come from this fund. However, the Board has got nothing to do with these staffers, a top Board official said. Former India player and UP captain Mohammad Kaif said the allegations have stunned him and demanded a probe into the matter. Shocked to hear about the extent of corruption in UP Cricket. Young talent being curbed by corrupt agents asking for favours. ji ensures a fair investigation and justice to the young talent & helps restore UP Cricket. I stand by all those who have been exploited, he tweeted. Lord's to host England's Test with Ireland AFP n LONDON ngland's historic first Test match against EIreland will be played at Lord's next July. Ireland made their Test debut against Pakistan at Malahide in May and in 2019 they will head to London for a four-day match against England at the home of cricket from July It will be the first ever meeting between the two local rivals in the game's longest format Ṫhe clash is the precursor to next year's Ashes series between England and Australia, which begins at Edgbaston on August 1. ECB chief executive Tom Harrison said: "We fully supported the ICC's decision to award full membership to Cricket Ireland and we expect next summer's inaugural Test match at Lord's against our neighbours to be ENGLAND LIONS HAMMER INDIA A BY 254 RUNS WORCESTER: India A batsmen's vulnerability against the red ball in foreign conditions was exposed as England Lions handed the visitors a 254-run defeat in the oneoff Unofficial Test on day four here on Thursday. India A, who were reeling at 11 for three at stumps on day three while chasing an improbable 421-run target, did not put up much of a fight even in the second innings, folding up for 167 in 44 overs. They had struggled to 197 all out in 66.5 overs in the first essay after Lions made 423. The sole silver lining for India A was that Ajinkya Rahane and rookie Risabh Pant got to spend some valuable time in the middle ahead of the five-test series against England, beginning in Birmingham on August 1. Pant, who has earned his maiden Test callup, struck a second successive half-century century to give the Indian team management a selection headache ahead of the first match. The A game served as warmup game for the likes of India vice-captain Rahane, opener Murali Vijay, Karun Nair and Pant, who are all part of the Test squad announced on Wednesday. Pant made a mark against a potent pace attack comprising four Test players, with a 58 and 61, while Rahane too got to spend some time at the crease, having scored 49 and 48 in the two innings. Nair and Vijay, however, failed in both the innings. Only a miracle could have saved India A, but that did not happen, as the batting let the team down for the second time in the match. The writing was on the wall when India A reached 115 for six at lunch. The innings did not last long following the break and the moment Pant perished after a quickfire knock, it was all over for India A. PTI Ireland players in action during against Pakistan ICC an historic celebration for all Irish cricket fans. "It will also provide excellent Ashes preparation for England against an Irish team whose impressive performance against Pakistan earlier this year showed they can compete strongly in this form of the game." Tom Harrison said in a statement. "We would love to see fans from all over the world getting to experience the unique atmosphere of an Ashes Test match after the ICC Cricket World Cup." However, the 2019 English summer begins with an one-off T20I against Pakistan on May 5 in Cardiff before the two sides engage in five One-Day Internationals (ODIs) which end on May 19. Then England will meet Test debutants Ireland in an one-off contest between July 24 and 27. "We fully supported the ICC's decision to award Full Membership to Cricket Ireland and we expect next summer's inaugural Test match at Lord's against our neighbours to be an historic celebration for all Irish cricket fans," Harrison said. "It will also provide excellent Ashes preparation for England against an Irish team whose impressive performance against Pakistan earlier this year showed they can compete strongly in this form of the game."

14 LUCKNOW FRIDAY JULY 20, 2018 sport 15 India outplay Kiwis in series opener Goals from Rupinder, Mandeep & Harmanpreet help India kick off 3-match series with win IOA to discuss Ministry's Asiad selection criteria PTI n BENGALURU T he Indian men's hockey team pulled off a sensational 4-2 win over New Zealand in the first Test of the three-match series at the Sports Authority of India's Bengaluru Campus here on Thursday. Rupinder Pal Singh (2', 34'), Mandeep Singh (15') and Harmanpreet Singh (38') scored for India while Stephen Jenness (26', 55') scored a brace for the visitors. The forwards won India their first penalty corner of the match in the opening minute. Rupinder Pal, making a comeback into the squad after the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games, was splendid as he fired the ball low to beat New Zealand Goalkeeper Richard Joyce in the second minute. Though the visitors had an opportunity to equalise in the seventh minute, Indian goalkeeper Krishan Pathak was attentive at the goalpost. In the 15th minute, India doubled their lead when Manpreet Singh's cross was brilliantly picked up by forward Mandeep Singh, who swiftly deflected it into goal. The second quarter saw New Zealand shake off the starting jitters and showed a tighter defence. Though India won the second penalty corner of the match in the 22nd minute, a poor execution dented the home team's chance of taking the score to 3-0. In the 26th minute, New Zealand finally made a breakthrough with Stephen Jenness scoring a perfect field goal that narrowed the lead to 1-2. After the half time break, India came back with a stronger attack. Forward SV Sunil, created India's third penalty corner and drag-flicker Rupinder Pal Singh was brilliant yet again as he flicked towards top right of the net taking India's lead to a comfortable 3-1 in the 34th minute. In the 38th minute, SV Sunil created yet another opportunity for S I N G L E S EAST BENGAL WIN 29TH SHIELD TITLE BARASAT (WB): East Bengal showed a lot of character in tough conditions and bounced back from a goal down to pip arch-rivals Mohun Bagan on penalties and annexe the U-19 IFA Shield here on Thursday. Sourav Das put Mohun Bagan ahead in the 47th minute while Dip Saha levelled in the 84th minute and the stalemate prevailed in the extra time before East Bengal sealed the issue 4-2 in the penalty shootout to annexe their 29th Shield. It was an unusual matron's weather with scorching heat and the 2.30pm kick-off at the Barasat Stadium artificial turf added to the misery, and the referee had to give four drinks breaks during the regulation time. MEDALS FOR INDIA AT JR ASIAN WRESTLING NEW DELHI: Gold Coast CWG Bronze medallist Divya Kakran had to settle for a Silver medal after being too defensive in the final against nemesis Meerim Zhumanazarova while Karuna and Reena returned with Bronze medals at the Junior Asian Wrestling Championship here on Thursday. All five Indian girls in action reached the final round but Sangeet Phogat (59kg) and Shivani Pawar (50kg) lost their bronze-medal bouts. Sangeeta suffered a minor right knee injury during the morning session and it did affect her performance in the Bronze-medal bout. Divya was outplayed by the defending champion, losing her final in the 68kg category on technical superiority (0-11). The Indian girl, who had lost to the same Kyrgyzstan rival at this year's senior Asian Championship, remained defensive, conceding point after point. She hardly attacked Meerim. DESCHAMPS STAYS AS FRANCE COACH UNTIL 2020 PARIS: The French Football Federation on Thursday confirmed that Didier Deschamps would continue as the coach of the national team until 2020, when his contract expires. "Yes, he'll still be there for the first match in Germany," said FFF President Noel Le Graet, referring to the UEFA Euro 2020 Championship, after being asked if Deschamps would stay on after the team's World Cup victory in Russia. "We had a contract until even when things were going less well -- I said that he would be in his position until that date. Now, he has won, and what a way to do it!" he added. "He really is someone who works enormously hard, because without hard work we would have nothing. The work done by Didier and his team is significant," Le Graet said. The federation president did not confirm if former star player Zinedine Zidane would be eventually joining the team as coach, saying that Zidane had not yet expressed any interest in the position. 7 MEDAL EVENTS ADDED TO 2022 WINTER GAMES LAUSANNE: Planning for its next three Olympic Games on Wednesday, the IOC added seven medal events to the 2022 Beijing Winter Games, published a 2020 Tokyo Olympics schedule with no agreement on when to race swimming finals, and set a timetable to add new sports to the 2024 Paris Olympics. The next Winter Olympics will now include: women's monobob, Big Air freestyle skiing for men and women, plus mixed team events in short track speed skating, ski jumping, ski aerials and snowboardcross. The addition of Gold medals to a 109-event program was combined with a reduction in how many athletes will compete. In an attempt to cut organizing costs, amid recent failures of potential bidders in Europe for the 2026 Winter Games, there should be no additional venues required and 41 fewer athletes in Beijing than the 2,933 competitors at the Pyeongchang Olympics last February. Agencies Indian players (in blue) celebrate after scoring against New Zealand during the first match of the ongoing three-match series between India and New Zealand in Bengaluru on Thursday AFP n LONDON iverpool boss Jurgen Klopp fears Lthe gruelling demands of international football are putting players at such risk that "we have to collect their bones" during the coming season. Klopp is preparing for the start of the new Premier League campaign without a number of Liverpool stars who are on holiday following international duty at the World Cup. But there is little time for players who featured in Russia to rest and then get back to peak fitness because the Premier League kicks off on August 10. Adding to the problem is the presence of UEFA's new Nations League, which replaces the usual rounds of international friendlies and begins on September 6. Klopp feels Liverpool, and every other club with a host of internationals, are in danger of paying a heavy price for the demands placed on their stars, with injuries certain to be caused by the lack of quality recovery time. "I don't want to get too football political but if they don't stop with these games they are now making it the Nations Cup to make it more important then all these players who played at the World Cup have to go there again," Klopp said. "We had four players in the (World Cup) semis, which is OK, we can deal with that. Tottenham had nine players in the semis. I have no clue how they will do it. That's a big RUPINDER PAL SINGH (2', 34'), MANDEEP SINGH (15') AND HARMANPREET SINGH (38') SCORED FOR INDIA WHILE STEPHEN JENNESS (26', 55') SCORED A BRACE FOR THE VISITORS challenge. It's a really tough thing to deal with and in the future we have to change it. They play the World Cup, then the Nations Cup, next summer Klopp fears post-wcup injury is the final of the Nations Cup, which is really crazy. Everything is now so important in football and we have to collect their bones afterwards, more or less." HARD FIGHT Klopp expects to be without Croatia defender Dejan Lovren, who made the World Cup final, and England midfielder Jordan Henderson, who played in the semifinals in Russia, for Liverpool's opening game of the season against West Ham. "It was a hard fight to convince him that he needed a holiday. I knew it would happen. On the phone I said 'crazy'. Jordan needs a holiday so that means August 5 he will be back. Dejan had a party in Croatia and played a day later, so he will be back on August 6," he said. "That would mean five days training after three weeks' holiday. I hope we are in a situation where we don't need to think about using these two." Trent Alexander-Arnold could be involved, though, with the 19-yearold full-back appearing in only one of England's games. "With Trent I have a special agreement. He wanted to be in earlier as well. As he's very young I said 'OK, have two weeks' holiday and then we'll speak and see'," Klopp said. "If you asked Trent he would be good to join us in Evian for training. But I'm not sure I will do that. I want to have them desperately but the season is really long." record holder with 76 pole positions. His number of wins is second only to seven-time F1 champion Michael Schumacher's tally of 91. "I'm very confident that Mercedes is the right place to be over the coming years," Hamilton said. "Although we have enjoyed so much success together since 2013, Mercedes is hungrier than ever. The competitive passion that burns bright inside me is shared by every single member of this group." Hamilton joined Mercedes in 2013, after six seasons with McLaren. The British driver won his first F1 title with McLaren, in 2008, at the age of 23. Hockey India/Twitter India to score as he won another penalty corner. Harmanpreet Singh was spot-on as he improvised the injection to powerfully convert India's fourth goal. The final quarter saw New Zealand test Indian defenders as they made strong forays into the striking circle. Their efforts paid off with Stephen Jenness converting his second goal of the match as his shot bounced off Indian goalkeeper Suraj Karkera's pad into the back of the net. With score-line reading 4-2, New Zealand won a crucial penalty corner with four minutes remaining on the clock. But Nic Woods' dragflick was way off the target. The visitors earned yet another penalty corner with a little over a minute remaining for the final hooter. And this time, Woods' powerful flick was well defended by Karkera. New Zealand won two more back-to-back penalty corners with 50 seconds on the clock but Karkera kept the visitors at bay. The second Test will be played on Saturday. Hamilton renews contract with Mercedes AP n HOCKENHEIM, GERMANY ormula One champion Lewis FHamilton has ended months of stalling and deliberation by finally signing a new contract with Mercedes. The four-time world champion penned a new deal with Mercedes until 2020, when the current set of F1 regulations end. No figures were given in a Mercedes statement on Thursday, but it is reportedly estimated at 40 million pounds ($52 million) per year. "It's good to put pen to paper, announce it, and then get on with business as usual," Hamilton said. "We are on the same wavelength Lewis Hamilton in a file picture AP both on and off track, and I am looking forward to winning more." Mercedes has won the past four drivers' and constructors' championships with Hamilton clinching three of them but this season is testing the Silver Arrows team. Hamilton trails Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel by eight points, and Mercedes is 20 points behind Ferrari in the constructors' championship. The 33-year-old Hamilton has won 65 races 44 with Mercedes and secured 124 career podiums. He is the F1 STATS Races 218 World titles 4 Wins 65 Poles 76 Podiums 124 Indians bow out of Singapore Open PRESSURE FROM VETTEL ap n HOCKENHEIM, Germany Sebastian Vettel needs to keep the pressure firmly on Lewis Hamilton at this weekend's German Grand Prix. At the midway point of the Formula One season the 11th race out of 21 Vettel holds only an eight-point lead over rival Lewis Hamilton in an intriguing title contest. Vettel started strongly, then Hamilton took over, and now Vettel appears to be in the ascendancy again. While he leads Hamilton only 4-3 in wins this season, Vettel's most recent victory was particularly poignant seeing it was at Hamilton's home track at Silverstone where Hamilton has enjoyed huge success. Vettel's win there heaped more misery on the British driver, considering he'd experienced a rare retirement at the Austrian GP one week earlier. IOA President Narinder Batra in a file picture PTI n NEW DELHI he Indian Olympic TAssociation (IOA) has called a meeting of its Core and Legal Committees on Friday to decide its future course of action after the Sports Ministry asked it to relax the Asian Games selection norms for better medal prospects. The sports ministry on Wednesday urged the IOA to relax selection norms in specific cases "in the larger interest of the sports and sportspersons" after concerns were raised by various athletes and teams that have missed the cut. The ministry said the Olympic body in consultation with particular federations may reassess the earlier decision on sending entries if those ineligible disciplines have performed consistently for six months but not made it due to lack of exposure and at the same time have strong chance of finishing in the top four. The recent circular has put the IOA in a dilemma and the Olympic body has decided to discuss the matter with its Core and Legal Committee before responding to the sports ministry. "We have called a meeting of our Core Committee and Legal Committee tomorrow (Friday) morning at 11 am to discuss the matter and see how to take forward the Ministry's proposal," IOA secretary general Rajeev Mehta said. "The meeting will also be attended by IOA president (Narinder Batra) and chairman of PTI n SINGAPORE he Indian badminton team, including its best Tbet Sourabh Verma, bowed out of the Singapore Open after a dismal outing here on Thursday. Verma lost to Vietnam's Tien Minh Nguyen 21-18, 15-21, in 56 minutes in a men's singles match. Rituparna Das was show the exit door by Yulia Yosephin Susanto of Indonesia 21-15, 13-21, in a women's singles second round match. The mixed doubles pair of India Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Ashwini Ponappa lost 21-14, 16-21, to Honng Kong's seventh seeded Lee Chun Hei Reginald and Chau Hoi Wah. Ruthvika Shivani succumbed 8-21, to Japanese fifth seed Sayaka Takahashi in another women's singles second round match. Subhankar Dey, too, lost in straight games to Chinese Taipei's top seed Tien Chen Chou 13-21, The men's doubles duo of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty, seeded second, lost to China's Ou Xuanyi and Xiangyu Ren 17-21, AP n NEW YORK wo-time US Open runner-up TVictoria Azarenka is ranked just below the cutoff for direct entry into the year's last Grand Slam tournament. Azarenka, a former No 1 and twice the champion at the Australian Open, is No 108 this week, seven spots outside of an automatic spot in the main draw. The US Tennis Association announced Wednesday that defending champion and topranked Rafael Nadal is one of six past male singles champions in the US Open field, along with Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray, Juan Martin del Potro and Marin Cilic. Another past title winner at Flushing Meadows, Stan Wawrinka, is ranked 199th this week. The women's winners with direct entry based on this week's rankings are six-time champion Preparation Panel (Lalit Bhanot). We will have to discuss the matter extensively and see what can be done." The IOA official, however, admitted that it would be tough to convince the Asian Games orgainsers for late inclusions as the last date of entries by name was June 30. "We will have to take a decision on the Ministry's proposal. But it has come too late. If we decide on sending more athletes, whether to accept our request or not, rests on the Asian Games Orgainsing Committee," he said. To make matters worse for the IOA, the draws of some sports, including football, have already been announced and it is highly unlikely that the Indian contingent will be accepted at this juncture. The IOA had named a 524- member contingent earlier this month leading to a massive controversy as they left out football for low rankings and the entire four-member triathlon team for furnishing "misleading information". The IOA then dropped 20 athletes from the Pencak Silat team, alleging fake credentials, prompting the national federation to threaten legal action. The men's handball team was cleared at the expense of Pencak Silat athletes after the federation knocked the doors of Allahabad High Court. In the original squad announced by IOA, six Sambo athletes two male and four female were included but the number was later cut to just one. LOCAL EVENTS Azarenka misses direct entry for US Open PTI ASCA ENTER FINAL ASCA beat Yorker Cricket Club by 28 runs to enter the final of the 2nd Shivpal Sawariya T20 Cricket Tournament at RB Tiwari Stadium on Thursday. BRIEF SCORES: ASCA: 148 (Vipul 59, Sunil 30, Sumit 28, Vishal 19; Abhishek 4/1) YCC: 120 (Bhupendra 37, Aseem 18, Aditya 18; Shubham 22/3, Sandeep 18/2, Dheeraj 20/2) LUCKNOW BEAT AGRA Lucknow Region continued its winning run in Under-16 Sub-Junior State Football Championship, beating Agra Region 2-1, at Bareilly. Atul Chauhan and Ajanish Rai scored for Lucknow team in the 10th and the 65th minmute while Shahdab netted one for Agra. ALIGANJ WARRIOR WIN Aliganj Warrior outplayed UFC Aliganj 3-1 in a District Football League match at Chowk Stadium on Thursday. Rohit, Amrish and Riyaz were the goal scorers for the winning team. In the second match of the day, Chowk Sporting blanked RA Boys 2-0. RAILWAY FOOTBALL Taxan Tigers edged past Mechanical Superstars 2-1 to win the INter-Office Football Tournament, organised by NER< Lucknow Division at Aishbagh Stadium on Thursday. DRM (NER) Vijaylaxmi Kaushik gave away the trophy to the winning team. BOXING TRIALS Regional Sports Office is organising district-level sub-junior girl s boxing trials at KD Singh Babu Stadium on August 4. Interested may reach the venue along with their ageproofs at 2 pm. Belarusian Victoria Azarenka has finished runner-up at the US Open on two occasions (2012 & 13) and is also a former World No 1 Serena Williams, two-time champ Venus Williams, defending champ Sloane Stephens, Maria Sharapova and Samantha Stosur.

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