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P arliament on Tuesday com- pleted the formality of pass- ing a resolution scrapping spe- cial status to Jammu & Kashmir under Article 370 of the Constitution and a Bill for splitting the State into two Union Territories. The Lok Sabha adopted the resolutions with 351 members voting in its support and 72 against it, while one member abstained. The resolution and the Bill were approved by the Rajya Sabha on Monday. The Bill to create two UTs — Jammu & Kashmir, and Ladakh — was passed by 370 votes in favour and 70 against. Prime Minister Narendra Modi was present in the House.’ Modi hailed the passage of Bills as a “momentous occa- sion” in parliamentary democ- racy and said a new dawn awaits the State which is now free from the “shackles” of vested interest groups. “Together we are, together we shall rise and together we will fulfil the dreams of 130 crore Indians! A momentous occasion in our Parliamentary democracy, where landmark Bills pertaining to Jammu & Kashmir have been passed with overwhelming support!” he said in a series of tweets soon after the Lok Sabha passed the Bills. Parliament has given its nod to abolish the special sta- tus granted to the State under Article 370 and also to bifurcate it into two Union Territories. “For years, vested interest groups who believed in emo- tional blackmail, never cared for people’s empowerment. J&K is now free from their shackles. A new dawn, better tomorrow awaits!” the Prime Minister said. “Saluting sisters and broth- ers of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh for their courage and resilience,” he said, adding that the Bill will ensure integration and empowerment of these regions. These steps will bring the youth into the mainstream and give them innumerable opportunities to showcase their skills and talents, he said, adding that local infrastructure will significantly improve. Describing article 370 as a cover for the “three families” who alone benefited from its continuation and fuelled ter- rorism and corruption, leaving poor in Jammu & Kashmir high and dry, Union Home Minister Amit Shah declared in the Lok Sabha that the provi- sion was “at the root of sepa- ratism nursed by Pakistan”. Replying to the debate in the Lok Sabha on the Bill Jammu & Kashmir, Shah said Article 370 stood in the way of progress of poor in J&K and blocked Central laws and poli- cies which would have provid- ed them financial, education- al and reservation benefits. He said the provision had forced Kashmiri women marrying outside to forego their rights on property in Kashmir. Shah said Article 370 that stands abro- gated now benefited only “three families” in the State and made Kashmiri villagers “poorer”. Opposition benches sought Home Minister to name the families to which, he said “all know the families” but for the propriety of the House he would not mention the names. He said under Zia-ul Haq’s regime in Pakistan and his “Operation Topac” Articles 370 and 35-A were used to fuel ter- rorism in the Valley and youths were led astray there. The Home Minister said the Article was at the root of sep- aratism in the State and killed 41,000 people since 1989. “Aapko 370 se kya mila, shiksha, arogya, rojgar... kya mila.. 370 ka jhunghuna pakde huye ho…”, said Shah looking at the Congress benches. He said because of Article 370 none unlike all over the coun- try land prices did not increase but now industry, business and individuals go there and “land prices will increase”. “Kashmir prithvi ka swarrg tha, hai aur rahega ”, he said allying Opposition’s apprehension on Government deleting the autonomy provision. Shah said Article 370 has nothing to do with secularism and quoted Samajwadi leader Ram Monohar Lohia saying that “370 separates India from Kashmir and should be abro- gated”. The Home Minster said refugees from Pakistan who went to Kashmir still do not have voting rights. Shah quipped that was good that Manmohan Singh and LK Advani, who became Prime Minister and Deputy-Prime Minister, did not go to Kashmir but to Punjab. S ecurity forces are bracing for action along the Line of Control (LoC) and fear rise in Pakistan-sponsored terror attacks in any part of the coun- try in the aftermath of abroga- tion of Article 370. However, in view of the hardship faced by the common man the network connectivity is likely to be restored in next 48 hours or so within Jammu & Kashmir. The strong security cover provided by more than 45,000 paramilitary personnel, local police, and stand-by Army have ensured that no incident of stone pelting or violence was reported from the State espe- cially in Kashmir. But chances of protests erupting in some pockets in the coming days have not been ruled out. Sources also apprehended that terror strike could take place in any part of the country and attempts will made to radicalise Muslim youths in the coming days. Sharing this assessment here on Tuesday, sources in the security establishment said on a scale of one to hundred they feared that protest could scale up to 90-mark in some areas. As regards the situation on the 750-km long LoC in the backdrop of the Article 370 abrogation, sources said the corps commanders of the Pakistan Army discussed the issue on Tuesday. Faced with domestic pressure, the Pakistan Army is likely to go in for “vis- ible action” on the border in terms of ceasefire violations on the one hand and stoking ter- rorist violence in Jammu & Kashmir on the other. The possibility of such incidents taking place in other parts of the country is not ruled out, they said. Chairing the Corps Commanders meet, Pakistan Army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa said his troops are prepared to “go to any extent” to help Kashmiris. The meet- ing had single point agenda of Kashmir. T he difference of opinion on the Jammu & Kashmir Reorganisation Bill has led to a monumental problem with- in the Congress cadre with a number of party leaders going against the party’s stand in Parliament prompting the lead- ership to convene an urgent Working Committee meeting late on Tuesday evening. On a day when Congress chief Rahul Gandhi alleged that the Government’s move was “short-sighted and foolish” as it would allow terrorists to fill up the leadership vacuum created by the Central Government in J&K, senior Congress leaders Janardan Dwivedi, Anil Shastri, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Deepender Hooda, Aditi Singh extended support to the Modi Government’s abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution and bifurcation of the State. Congress’ chief whip in the Rajya Sabha Bhubaneshwar Kalita on Monday quit his membership to the Upper House of Parliament over the issue after the party asked him to issue a whip to all members to opposing the Bill. Top Congress leadership was also peeved at the comments of the party’s leader in the Lok Sabha, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, for questioning whether Jammu & Kashmir was an internal mat- ter as it was being monitored by the United Nations. “National integration isn’t furthered by unilaterally tear- ing apart J&K, imprisoning elected representatives and vio- lating our Constitution. This nation is made by its people, not plots of land. This abuse of executive power has grave implications for our national security,” Rahul said on Twitter. This was his first comment since the Government revoked the pro- visions of Article 370 on Monday. W hile China on Tuesday objected to the formation of Ladakh as Union Territory by India, evoking a sharp reac- tion from New Delhi, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) backed India on its decision to revoke provisions of Article 370 in Jammu & Kashmir and bifurcate the State into two Union Territories. The US and the UN have said that they are they are fol- lowing Kashmir issue “with concern” and urged India, Pakistan to “exercise restraint”. The UK Government too said that it was monitoring the sit- uation in Kashmir closely and called for calm, British MPs were divided over Article 370 revocation. Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has said that the creation of Ladakh as a Union Territory is an inter- nal matter of India. Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said China has always opposed to India’s inclusion of the Chinese territory in the west- ern sector of the China-India boundary into its administra- tive jurisdiction. Reacting strongly, External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said, “The J-K Reorganisation Bill 2019, intro- duced by the Government in Parliament on August 5, which proposes the formation of a new ‘Union Territory of Ladakh’ is an internal matter concerning the territory of India. India does not comment on the internal affairs of other countries and similarly expects other countries to do likewise.” Meanwhile the UAE’s Ambassador to India, Ahmad Al Banna, said he viewed India’s decisions relating to Jammu & Kashmir as an internal matter of the country. “We expect that the changes would improve social justice and secu- rity and confidence of the peo- ple in the local governance and will encourage further stabili- ty and peace,” he was quoted as saying by the Gulf News. B JP’s young MP from Ladakh Jamyang Tsering Namgyal earned the praise of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah for his fiery speech in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday, supporting the motion to abrogate special status given to Jammu & Kashmir under Article 370. In his 20 minute speech, cheered by senior BJP Ministers and MPs, Namgyal attacked the Congress and the National Conference and the PDP for ignoring Ladakh, highlighting the plight of the hilly terrain by the J&K Governments. From the very start of his speech, the young MP started attacking the Congress saying that “Parliament is today rec- tifying the mistakes of first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.” He said that from 1948 onwards, every leader in Ladakh region was against merger with Kashmir and had been demanding a UT status. “Only two families suffer after the abrogation of Article 370 and rest of the people are beneficiaries,” said the BJP MP, citing series of incidents where Ladakh region was neglected by the NC and PDP leaders. “Look at the Secretariat, how many people from Ladakh region is appointed. You peo- ple collect money for us from the Centre and divert to Kashmir for the past 70 years,” accused Namgyal. P rime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday expressed apprehension that Pulwama- like attacks can follow the revocation of the special status for Jammu and Kashmir, which could trigger a conven- tional war between Pakistan and India. “This will be a war that no one will win and the implications will be global,” he warned while addressing a rare joint sitting of Parliament. F ormer External Affairs Minister and senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj, 67, who was admitted to AIIMS on Tuesday night after a mas- sive heart attack in the evening, passed away late at night, hospital sources said. The senior BJP leader was brought to AIIMS at 10.15 PM and was straight away taken to the emergency ward. She had a kidney trans- plant in 2016 and had opted out of contesting Lok Sabha polls earlier this year on health reasons. A number of senior Ministers rushed to AIIMS after news of her critical health spread. Modi tweeted, “A glorious chapter in Indian politics comes to an end. India grieves the demise of a remarkable leader who devoted her life to public service and bettering lives of the poor. S everal parts of the State recorded rainfall under the impact of a depression formed over the northwest Bay of Bengal off the north Odisha and West Bengal coasts. The Regional Office of the Indian Metrological Department (IMD) here on Tuesday said the depression is likely to intensify further into a deep depression in the next 24 hours. The system is likely to move west, northwestwards across Odisha- West Bengal coast during the next 48 hours. The IMD forecasted that several parts of the State would experience light to moderate and heavy rainfall in the next two days. Squally winds with speed reaching up to 45-55 kmph and gusting up to 65kmph are likely to prevail along and off the West Bengal and Odisha coasts during next 48hours. Strong winds with speed reaching up to 30-40 kmph gusting up to 50 kmph are very likely over interior areas of Odisha on August 7. Fishermen are advised not to venture into the northwest Bay of Bengal along and off the Odisha coasts in the next 48 hours. D irector General of Police (DGP) Dr Rajendra Prasad Sharma is going to be appointed as a Member (Non- Judicial) of the Lokayukta, the anti-corruption watchdog that started functioning in the State from April 8 this year. Governor Prof Ganeshi Lal gave his assent to the propos- al of the State Government in this regard on Tuesday. Earlier, a Lokayukta selection com- mittee headed by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik had recom- mend the DGP’s name for the post. With Dr Sharma’s shift to the Lokayukta, a new DGP will be appointed in the State short- ly. Notably, meanwhile, Sharma had appealed to the State Government for his voluntary retirement. It may be pointed out that Odisha is the first State to pass the Lokayukta Bill on February 14 this year. Now, there are specula- tions as to who will be the new DGP. The State Government has to recommend a list of names of eligible IPS officers to the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC). Continued on page 4 P rime Minister Narendra Modi has given appoint- ment to meet two students of Kendrapada district who cov- ered more than 1,600 km by bicycles to reach New Delhi. Kendrapada BJD MP Anubhav Mohanty mentioned this in the Twitter. “The PM has agreed to meet the two Kendrapada boys who cycled all the way from Odisha to draw his attention towards the Mahanadi issue,” Mohanty tweeted. According to Mohanty, Krishnakant Sarangi, an engi- neering student, and Subhrajit Barik, a Zoology student, recently reached the national capital to meet President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi over Mahanadi river water dis- pute. The students said they wanted to highlight the plight farmers who are suffering due to the construction of bar- rages on the Mahanadi in Chhattisgarh. The construction has reduced the water flow dur- ing the Summer, affecting lakhs of farmers. Mohanty had earlier requested the President and the Prime Minister to meet the two students. I n an effort to maintain trans- parency in implementation of the KALIA scheme, the State Government has decided to drop ineligible beneficiaries. Agriculture Secretary Saurabh Garg said already the names and list of 51 lakh farm- ers, who have received benefits under the scheme, have been uploaded on the website, out of which 37 lakh are small and marginal farmers while the remaining 14 lakh are landless farmers. The list of the beneficiaries has been put up on the walls of each panchayat so as to weed out fake beneficiaries. Those, who voluntarily want to their names to be dropped from the KALIA beneficiary list, can do so by filing up a form. Continued on page 4

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Parliament on Tuesday com-pleted the formality of pass-

ing a resolution scrapping spe-cial status to Jammu & Kashmirunder Article 370 of theConstitution and a Bill forsplitting the State into twoUnion Territories.

The Lok Sabha adopted theresolutions with 351 membersvoting in its support and 72against it, while one memberabstained. The resolution andthe Bill were approved by theRajya Sabha on Monday.

The Bill to create two UTs— Jammu & Kashmir, andLadakh — was passed by 370votes in favour and 70 against.Prime Minister Narendra Modiwas present in the House.’

Modi hailed the passage ofBills as a “momentous occa-sion” in parliamentary democ-racy and said a new dawnawaits the State which is nowfree from the “shackles” ofvested interest groups.

“Together we are, togetherwe shall rise and together wewill fulfil the dreams of 130crore Indians! A momentousoccasion in our Parliamentarydemocracy, where landmarkBills pertaining to Jammu &Kashmir have been passedwith overwhelming support!”he said in a series of tweetssoon after the Lok Sabhapassed the Bills.

Parliament has given itsnod to abolish the special sta-tus granted to the State underArticle 370 and also to bifurcate

it into two Union Territories.“For years, vested interest

groups who believed in emo-tional blackmail, never caredfor people’s empowerment.J&K is now free from theirshackles. A new dawn, bettertomorrow awaits!” the PrimeMinister said.

“Saluting sisters and broth-ers of Jammu, Kashmir andLadakh for their courage andresilience,” he said, adding thatthe Bill will ensure integrationand empowerment of theseregions. These steps will bringthe youth into the mainstream

and give them innumerableopportunities to showcase theirskills and talents, he said,adding that local infrastructurewill significantly improve.

Describing article 370 as acover for the “three families”who alone benefited from itscontinuation and fuelled ter-rorism and corruption, leavingpoor in Jammu & Kashmirhigh and dry, Union HomeMinister Amit Shah declared inthe Lok Sabha that the provi-sion was “at the root of sepa-ratism nursed by Pakistan”.

Replying to the debate in

the Lok Sabha on the BillJammu & Kashmir, Shah saidArticle 370 stood in the way ofprogress of poor in J&K andblocked Central laws and poli-cies which would have provid-ed them financial, education-al and reservation benefits. Hesaid the provision had forcedKashmiri women marryingoutside to forego their rights onproperty in Kashmir. Shah saidArticle 370 that stands abro-gated now benefited only “threefamilies” in the State and madeKashmiri villagers “poorer”.Opposition benches sought

Home Minister to name thefamilies to which, he said “allknow the families” but for thepropriety of the House hewould not mention the names.

He said under Zia-ul Haq’sregime in Pakistan and his“Operation Topac” Articles 370and 35-A were used to fuel ter-rorism in the Valley andyouths were led astray there.The Home Minister said theArticle was at the root of sep-aratism in the State and killed 41,000 people since1989.

“Aapko 370 se kya mila,shiksha, arogya, rojgar... kyamila.. 370 ka jhunghuna pakdehuye ho…”, said Shah lookingat the Congress benches. Hesaid because of Article 370none unlike all over the coun-try land prices did not increase

but now industry, business andindividuals go there and “landprices will increase”. “Kashmirprithvi ka swarrg tha, hai aurrahega”, he said allyingOpposition’s apprehension onGovernment deleting theautonomy provision.

Shah said Article 370 hasnothing to do with secularismand quoted Samajwadi leaderRam Monohar Lohia sayingthat “370 separates India fromKashmir and should be abro-gated”. The Home Minster saidrefugees from Pakistan whowent to Kashmir still do nothave voting rights. Shahquipped that was good thatManmohan Singh and LKAdvani, who became PrimeMinister and Deputy-PrimeMinister, did not go to Kashmirbut to Punjab.

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Security forces are bracing foraction along the Line of

Control (LoC) and fear rise inPakistan-sponsored terrorattacks in any part of the coun-try in the aftermath of abroga-tion of Article 370. However, inview of the hardship faced bythe common man the networkconnectivity is likely to berestored in next 48 hours or sowithin Jammu & Kashmir.

The strong security coverprovided by more than 45,000paramilitary personnel, localpolice, and stand-by Armyhave ensured that no incidentof stone pelting or violence wasreported from the State espe-cially in Kashmir. But chancesof protests erupting in somepockets in the coming dayshave not been ruled out.Sources also apprehended thatterror strike could take place inany part of the country andattempts will made to radicaliseMuslim youths in the comingdays.

Sharing this assessment

here on Tuesday, sources in thesecurity establishment said ona scale of one to hundred theyfeared that protest could scaleup to 90-mark in someareas.

As regards the situation onthe 750-km long LoC in thebackdrop of the Article 370abrogation, sources said thecorps commanders of thePakistan Army discussed theissue on Tuesday. Faced withdomestic pressure, the PakistanArmy is likely to go in for “vis-ible action” on the border interms of ceasefire violations onthe one hand and stoking ter-rorist violence in Jammu &Kashmir on the other. Thepossibility of such incidentstaking place in other parts ofthe country is not ruled out,they said.

Chairing the CorpsCommanders meet, PakistanArmy chief General QamarJaved Bajwa said his troops areprepared to “go to any extent”to help Kashmiris. The meet-ing had single point agenda ofKashmir.

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Reorganisation Bill has led toa monumental problem with-in the Congress cadre with anumber of party leaders goingagainst the party’s stand inParliament prompting the lead-ership to convene an urgentWorking Committee meetinglate on Tuesday evening.

On a day when Congresschief Rahul Gandhi allegedthat the Government’s movewas “short-sighted and foolish”as it would allow terrorists tofill up the leadership vacuumcreated by the CentralGovernment in J&K, seniorCongress leaders JanardanDwivedi, Anil Shastri,Jyotiraditya Scindia,Deepender Hooda, Aditi Singhextended support to the ModiGovernment’s abrogation ofArticle 370 of the Constitution and bifurcation ofthe State.

Congress’ chief whip inthe Rajya Sabha BhubaneshwarKalita on Monday quit his

membership to the UpperHouse of Parliament over theissue after the party asked himto issue a whip to all membersto opposing the Bill. TopCongress leadership was alsopeeved at the comments of theparty’s leader in the Lok Sabha,Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, forquestioning whether Jammu &Kashmir was an internal mat-ter as it was being monitored bythe United Nations.

“National integration isn’t

furthered by unilaterally tear-ing apart J&K, imprisoningelected representatives and vio-lating our Constitution. Thisnation is made by its people,not plots of land.

This abuse of executivepower has grave implicationsfor our national security,” Rahulsaid on Twitter. This was hisfirst comment since theGovernment revoked the pro-visions of Article 370 onMonday.

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While China on Tuesdayobjected to the formation

of Ladakh as Union Territoryby India, evoking a sharp reac-tion from New Delhi, theUnited Arab Emirates (UAE)backed India on its decision torevoke provisions of Article 370in Jammu & Kashmir andbifurcate the State into twoUnion Territories.

The US and the UN havesaid that they are they are fol-lowing Kashmir issue “withconcern” and urged India,Pakistan to “exercise restraint”.The UK Government too saidthat it was monitoring the sit-uation in Kashmir closely andcalled for calm, British MPswere divided over Article 370revocation.

Sri Lankan Prime MinisterRanil Wickremesinghe has saidthat the creation of Ladakh asa Union Territory is an inter-nal matter of India.

Chinese foreign ministryspokesperson Hua Chunyingsaid China has always opposedto India’s inclusion of theChinese territory in the west-ern sector of the China-Indiaboundary into its administra-tive jurisdiction. Reactingstrongly, External AffairsMinistry SpokespersonRaveesh Kumar said, “The J-KReorganisation Bill 2019, intro-duced by the Government inParliament on August 5, whichproposes the formation of anew ‘Union Territory ofLadakh’ is an internal matterconcerning the territory ofIndia. India does not commenton the internal affairs of othercountries and similarlyexpects other countries to do

likewise.”Meanwhile the UAE’s

Ambassador to India, AhmadAl Banna, said he viewed India’sdecisions relating to Jammu &

Kashmir as an internal matterof the country. “We expectthat the changes wouldimprove social justice and secu-rity and confidence of the peo-ple in the local governance andwill encourage further stabili-ty and peace,” he was quoted assaying by the Gulf News.

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BJP’s young MP fromLadakh Jamyang Tsering

Namgyal earned the praise ofPrime Minister Narendra Modiand Home Minister Amit Shahfor his fiery speech in the LokSabha on Tuesday, supportingthe motion to abrogate specialstatus given to Jammu &Kashmir under Article 370. Inhis 20 minute speech, cheeredby senior BJP Ministers andMPs, Namgyal attacked theCongress and the NationalConference and the PDP forignoring Ladakh, highlightingthe plight of the hilly terrain bythe J&K Governments.

From the very start of hisspeech, the young MP startedattacking the Congress sayingthat “Parliament is today rec-tifying the mistakes of firstPrime Minister JawaharlalNehru.” He said that from 1948onwards, every leader inLadakh region was againstmerger with Kashmir and had been demanding a UTstatus.

“Only two families sufferafter the abrogation of Article370 and rest of the people arebeneficiaries,” said the BJP MP,citing series of incidents whereLadakh region was neglectedby the NC and PDP leaders.“Look at the Secretariat, howmany people from Ladakhregion is appointed. You peo-ple collect money for us fromthe Centre and divert toKashmir for the past 70 years,”accused Namgyal.

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Prime Minister Imran Khanon Tuesday expressed

apprehension that Pulwama-like attacks can follow therevocation of the special statusfor Jammu and Kashmir, which could trigger a conven-tional war between Pakistanand India. “This will be a warthat no one will win and theimplications will be global,” hewarned while addressinga rare joint sitting ofParliament.

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Former External AffairsMinister and senior BJP

leader Sushma Swaraj, 67,who was admitted to AIIMSon Tuesday night after a mas-sive heart attack in theevening, passed away late atnight, hospital sources said.

The senior BJP leader wasbrought to AIIMS at 10.15 PMand was straight away taken tothe emergency ward.

She had a kidney trans-plant in 2016 and had optedout of contesting Lok Sabhapolls earlier this year on healthreasons.

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Several parts of the Staterecorded rainfall under the

impact of a depression formedover the northwest Bay ofBengal off the north Odishaand West Bengal coasts.

The Regional Office of theIndian MetrologicalDepartment (IMD) here onTuesday said the depression islikely to intensify further intoa deep depression in the next24 hours.

The system is likely tomove west, northwestwardsacross Odisha- West Bengalcoast during the next 48 hours.

The IMD forecasted thatseveral parts of the State wouldexperience light to moderateand heavy rainfall in the nexttwo days. Squally winds withspeed reaching up to 45-55kmph and gusting up to65kmph are likely to prevailalong and off the West Bengaland Odisha coasts during next48hours.

Strong winds with speedreaching up to 30-40 kmphgusting up to 50 kmph are verylikely over interior areas ofOdisha on August 7. Fishermenare advised not to venture intothe northwest Bay of Bengalalong and off the Odisha coastsin the next 48 hours.

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Director General of Police(DGP) Dr Rajendra

Prasad Sharma is going to beappointed as a Member (Non-Judicial) of the Lokayukta, theanti-corruption watchdog thatstarted functioning in the Statefrom April 8 this year.

Governor Prof Ganeshi Lalgave his assent to the propos-al of the State Government inthis regard on Tuesday. Earlier,a Lokayukta selection com-mittee headed by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik had recom-mend the DGP’s name for thepost.

With Dr Sharma’s shift tothe Lokayukta, a new DGP willbe appointed in the State short-

ly. Notably, meanwhile, Sharmahad appealed to the StateGovernment for his voluntaryretirement.

It may be pointed out thatOdisha is the first State to passthe Lokayukta Bill on February14 this year.

Now, there are specula-tions as to who will be the newDGP. The State Governmenthas to recommend a list ofnames of eligible IPS officers tothe Union Public ServiceCommission (UPSC).

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Prime Minister NarendraModi has given appoint-

ment to meet two students ofKendrapada district who cov-ered more than 1,600 km bybicycles to reach New Delhi.

Kendrapada BJD MPAnubhav Mohanty mentionedthis in the Twitter. “The PM hasagreed to meet the twoKendrapada boys who cycledall the way from Odisha todraw his attention towards theMahanadi issue,” Mohantytweeted.

According to Mohanty,Krishnakant Sarangi, an engi-neering student, and Subhrajit

Barik, a Zoology student,recently reached the nationalcapital to meet President RamNath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modiover Mahanadi river water dis-pute.

The students said theywanted to highlight the plightfarmers who are suffering due

to the construction of bar-rages on the Mahanadi inChhattisgarh. The constructionhas reduced the water flow dur-ing the Summer, affecting lakhsof farmers.

Mohanty had earlierrequested the President and thePrime Minister to meet the twostudents.

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Agriculture SecretarySaurabh Garg said already thenames and list of 51 lakh farm-ers, who have received benefitsunder the scheme, have beenuploaded on the website, out ofwhich 37 lakh are small andmarginal farmers while theremaining 14 lakh are landlessfarmers.

The list of the beneficiarieshas been put up on the walls ofeach panchayat so as to weedout fake beneficiaries. Those,who voluntarily want to theirnames to be dropped from theKALIA beneficiary list, can doso by filing up a form.

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The State needs �29,315crore to recover its total

losses and damages caused bythe Cyclone Fani which is esti-mated to be �24,176 crore,revealed the Damage, Loss andNeeds Assessment (DLNA)report released by ChiefMinister Naveen Patnaik atthe State Secretariat here onTuesday.

The DLSA report was pre-pared by the State Governmentin collaboration with the WorldBank, Asian DevelopmentBank and the United Nations.More than 100 multi-sectoralexperts from the World Bank,ADB and various agencies ofUnited Nations along with

Government officials and localNGOs made the assessmentacross 15 sectors.

Releasing the report, ChiefMinister Naveen Patnaik said,“The damage assessmentreport will provide a way for-ward to recovery of the Statefrom the cyclone as well asdevelop a better preparednessstrategy for the future. Weinvite the international agen-cies, national NGOs, the privatesector and the civil society tocome forward and join in therecovery and reconstructionefforts to rebuild Odisha.”

The report said that infra-structure sectors were the hard-est hit and they constituteabout 42 per cent of the totalneeds and the social sectors

which include housing consti-tute 36 per cent of the totalneeds.

“The DLNA report pro-vides an overview of themacroeconomic and humanimpact of the disaster and is afirst step towards laying recov-ery roadmaps and achieve-ment of a vision for disaster

resilient Odisha. It proposes arecovery strategy built aroundthree pillars; resilient housing,resilient infrastructure andresilient livelihoods,” said theChief Minister.

Patnaik claimed thatOdisha has set global bench-marks in handling disasters byleveraging technology,

strengthening institutionalcapacities and building resilientmeasures that helped it face thiscalamity of national magnitude.He said the State undertookone of the biggest human evac-uations in history with a record1.5 million people being shift-ed in just 24 hours.

Speaking on the occassion,UN Resident Coordinator inIndia Renata Lok-Dessalliensaid, “Reducing economic loss-es due to disasters is critical forreducing the poverty and vul-nerability of the people ofOdisha. A sustained recoveryeffort with strong focus on‘resilient housing’, ‘resilientinfrastructure’ and resilientlivelihoods’ will provide anopportunity for buildingresilience, meeting the sus-tainable development goals andimproving the well-being of thepeople in the State.”

The Cyclone Fani, which

hit the coast of the State on May3, 2019 was one of the rarest ofrare summer cyclones. Itcaused extensive damage andimpacted life and property ofmore than 1.65 crore people in14 districts of Odisha.

This year, which is the20th year since the SuperCyclone, the Governmentwould release a roadmap fordisaster risk resilience to guidethe State to remain preparedand to recover, rehabilitate andreconstruct better than thepre-disaster levels, said theChief Minister.

Among others, ChiefSecretary Aditya Prasad Padhi,Development CommissionerAsit Kumar Tripathy,Agriculture ProductionCommissioner Gagan KumarDhal, Special ReliefCommissioner, BishnupadaSethi and UN representativeswere present.

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Now, all parks in the Statewill remain open from 6

am to 9 pm every day. A noti-fication to this effect has beenissued by the Housing andUrban Development (H&UD)Department.

In view of the busy sched-ules of people and to helpthem relieve from stress, theGovernment has asked directed all corporations,municipalities and private park authorities to equip theparks with modern facilities.

In order to make it more

convenient for people residingin urban areas, the authoritieshave been asked to change thetimings and put up large boards near the park entrancesto inform public about theopening and closing time, andother facilities available at theseplaces, said an official.

To keep people physicallyand mentally healthy, parkauthorities have been asked toset up open gyms, play areas forchildren and proper sittingarrangements in the park.Besides, separate space wouldbe created for yoga, meditationand walk inside the park, hesaid.

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The State-level parade for theIndependence Day would

now be held at the ExhibitionGround here instead of theMahatma Gandhi Marg,informed Commissioner ofPolice Satyajit Mohanty onTuesday.

Earlier this month, threealternative venues, ExhibitionGround, Janata Maidan andKalinga Stadium, had beenproposed for the State-levelparade venue.

So far, the State-levelparades for the IndependenceDay and the Republic Daywere being held at theMahatma Gandhi Marg.

Mohanty told reportersthat four troupes, TerritorialArmy, Telangana Police,Central Armed Police andOdisha Special Armed Police,would participate in the paradethis year.

Elaborate arrangementswould be made for security andsmooth management of trafficto the parade venue.

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Fraudsters posing as godmenallegedly looted cash and

gold ornament from a businessman at Niladri Viharunder the Chandrasekharpurpolice station in the city onTuesday.

The two accused walkedinto the shop of oneSamarendra Sahu and identified themselves as sadhusfrom Haridwar in UttarPradesh.

They told Sahu that theywere organising a Bhandara(feast). Sahu gave them �500 asdonation following which one of them asked himto consume some white-coloured powdery substancewhich they claimed wasBibhuti.

As per a complaint lodgedby Sahu with theChandrasekharpur police, hebecame unconscious after con-suming it and later realisedafter gaining consciousnessthat the two conmen had fled with his gold ring and�34,000.

The incident was capturedon CCTV camera. Police havestarted investigation into theincident by examining theCCTV footage.

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While replying the mostcrucial debate on the res-

olution of annulment of Article370 in the Rajya Sabha onMonday, Union HomeMinister Amit Shah citedinstances of Odisha severaltimes.

“Will the doctors fromOdisha and Mumbai go toKashmir, if they are not able tobuy house in the valley,” want-ed to know Shah in course ofhis reply.

Shah said this while refer-ring to a ban on outsiders

purchasing lands in Kashmir.The Minister again took

name of Odisha referring ofmarriage of Kashmiri girls. “Ifa Jammu and Kashmir girlmarries in Odisha, will she andher children get rights inKashmir?” He noted this whilejustifying removal of theArticle-370.

While many people won-der as to why Shah frequentlytook name of Odisha, political analysts are of theview that the BJP president isyet to get out of the electionhangover.

Shah had set a 120-plus

mission two win over 120MLA seats in Odisha in the lastelections. But the BJP got only23 out of the 147 seats in theState Assembly.

Though Shah’s target wasmet in almost all States, he lit-erally failed in the face of thepopularity of Odisha ChiefMinister Naveen Patnaik,whose party managed to grab112 seats.

Observers also pointed outthat the BJD’s unconditionalsupport to the NDA in theKashmir issue might have elat-ed Shah to name Odisha sev-eral times.

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The Crime Branch’sEconomic Offences Wing

(EOW) on Tuesday arrested a43-year-old resident of BaghaRagodi village under theKonark police station in Puridistrict, for fraudulently avail-ing loan of �2.02 crorefrom the Odisha Gramya Bank(OGB).

The accused was identifiedas Bijaya Kumar Pradhan.Bijaya along with his close rel-atives availed the loan from the

bank for purchasing two vehi-cles by submitting forged andfabricated documents.

Later, a case was regis-tered against him on the basisof the complaint of OdishaGramya Bank RegionalManager Debadutta Nanda,the EOW said.

During probe by the inves-tigating agency it was revealedthat accused Bijaya along withhis brother Bikram, sister-in-law Rajalaxmi, and her broth-er Madan Mohan Pradhanhatched a criminal conspiracy

with the then Rasulgarh BranchManager Prasanna Kumar Jenato defraud the bank.

While availing the loansthey had submitted forgeddocuments such as RC book

and insurance papers andembezzling the loan amountwithout purchasing the vehi-cles.

Earlier, Prasanna, Bikram,his wife Rajalaxmi and MadanMohan Pradhan were arrestedon November 10, 2018.

Bijaya was forwarded to theSDJM court here on the day.

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APension Adalat for the year 2019 will be heldin the Chief Postmaster General, Odisha

Circle office here on August 23 (Friday) at 10.30am. Such Adalats will also be held on the sameday at Divisional-level in all the divisions ofOdisha Circle.

Members of the public should first presenttheir grievances before the Divisional levelPension Adalat. If, they fail to get any satisfac-tory solution there, they can present their griev-ances before the Circle level Pension Adalataddressed to Assistant Director (Accounts)AK Rath, office of the Chief Postmaster General,Odisha Circle, Bhubaneswar-751001 on orbefore August 14.

It is clarified that grievances related to PostalServices e.g. opening of post office, creation ofnew post, rent of the post office or house rent

etc. are not included in the ambit of thePension Adalat.

So it is advised not to send any grievancesrelating to the above topics. Grievances receivedafter August 14 will not be taken into consid-eration for discussion in the Adalat to be heldon August 23.

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In Lok Sabha onTuesday, Puri BJD MP

Pinaki Misra recalled thegallantry of former ChiefMinister late Biju Patnaikin saving Srinagar andKashmir from hands ofPakistani invaders in 1947.

Misra said the then PrimeMinister Jawaharlal Nehru had soughthelp from Biju Patnaik, who flew mul-tiple sorties and took several batch-es of soldiers to Srinagar on October27, 1947. He urged the Union

Government to hon-our Biju Patnaik withthe Bharat Ratnaaward.

“In the past, wehad urged theGovernment torecognise thetremendous qualities

of Biju Babu by giving him BharatRatna. Unfortunately, it has not hap-pened,” he said.

Misra drew the attention ofDefence Minister and other Ministerspresent in the Lok Sabha in thisregard.

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With special State status to Jammu andKashmir under Article 370 and pro-

visions of 35A done away with, peoplefrom all walks of life, including politicalleaders, celebrated the day as the secondIndependence Day for the country.

“The mistake that we had committed70 years back was mended today,” opinedthe common people.

“It was a necessity. Why should wehave a country (J and K) inside a coun-try,” asked Sushama Sarangi from theGolebazar Chowk.

Sarangi said,“I am the happiest ladytoday with the abolition of Article 370,”

she added.We should support everything that

goes in the interest of the nation, she fur-ther said.

The BJP unit organised a vast con-gregation in the heart of the town to cel-ebrate the occasion and give the party andthe Government at the Centre a moralboost. “The BJP is the only party that canchange the fate of the nation and fulfil theaspirations of its youths,” said spokesper-son of the party Manas Ranjan Baxi. “OurPrime Minister did what he promised tothe nation,” he added.

It is really a memorable incident afterthe momentous August 15, he said fur-ther.

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The Mahanadi CoalfieldsLimited (MCL) on Tuesday

announced a compensation ofRs 30 lakh each to the familiesof the persons who were killedin a mine collapse mishap atthe Bharatpur opencastcoalmines in the TalcherCoalfields. The MCL authori-ties also assured a contractualjob for a member of each fam-ily. The job would be regu-larised in a month, sources said.

A strata collapse at theBharatpur mines on July 23claimed lives of four workers

and left nine persons injured.Locals, who were on a

strike since July 24 demandinga safety inspection of theTalcher Coalfields, a high-levelprobe into the incident andadequate compensation to thefamilies of the deceased, with-drew their stir after a tripartitemeeting with the Angul districtCollector and the MCL author-ities on Tuesday.

The strike had resulted inclosure of several power plantsin Odisha and other Stateswhich are dependent on theTalcher Coalfields for the sup-ply of fuel.

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Members of a lawyers’group collected signa-

tures of Odias residing in fourStates in support for BharatRatna to UtkalgaurabMadhusudan Das posthu-mously.

Members, including BijayaKumar Sahu and Harish Das,led by lawyer Lingaraj Sahoocollected signatures fromMathura in Uttar Pradesh,Amritsar in Punjab andHaridwar in Uttarakhand.

The signature campaign,which started in Kolkata in

2018, has covered Andaman,Chennai, Karnataka andMumbai.

“Many great leaders havebeen honoured with the cov-eted Bharata Ratna since 1954.But no Odia legendary hasbeen given the award. Now itis right time to amend the his-toric injustice done to Odisha,”said Sahoo.

For his unbridled ambition,dedication and action withindomitable courage and intel-ligence, Madhubabu has carveda niche for himself in the heartand minds of millions of Odiapeople. Because of his tireless

support and effort through theUtkal Sammilani, Odisha wasformed with amalgamation ofdifferent Odia-lying tracts ofthe then Madras and BengalPresidencies and CentralProvince. He was called as the

real “Garibaldi” of Odisha. Asa first Odia to be an MA, LLB,member of ProvincialLegislative Council and CentralLegislative Assembly andMinister, he was the first Odiato visit England for the sake ofhis mother land, said the mem-bers.

Besides this, Madhubabuwas a pioneer of industrialisa-tion, cooperative movement,social reformation like femaleeducation and abolition ofcaste in Odisha and evenimpressed Mahatma Gandhiduring his visit to the State,they added.

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Dr Gopabandhu Dash, whowas recently appointed as

Officer on Special Duty ofChief Minister Naveen Patnaik,has been selected to get Doctorof Literature (DLit) from theBrahmapur University.

Dr Dash was doing aresearch on the topic “Indo-African Cooperation in 21 stCentury: A study” under theguidance of the university’s

former Vice-Chancellor ProfJayant Mohapatra.

The thesis was evaluated bythe Jawaharlal University’s ProfSN Malakar and JordanUniversity’s Prof Faizal Alrah.They have even suggested tobring out the book in form ofa book.

Dr Das would be con-ferred with the DLit at the nextconvocation of the university,said a notification of the uni-versity.

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Seven investment proposalsspanning over sectors like

food processing, plastics,tourism, logistics and metalenvisaging an investment of Rs1,036.39 crore and employ-ment opportunities for 2,778persons were approved in aState Level Single WindowClearance Authority (SLSW-CA) meeting held under thechairmanship of ChiefSecretary Aditya Prasad Padhion Tuesday.

Giving in-principleapproval to the projects, ChiefSecretary Padhi directed theconcerned departments tomake a realistic assessment ofthe requirement of land andwater for the industrial units.

The departments were alsoasked to provide proactive andfacilitating support for earlygrounding of the projects.Padhi further directed theDistrict Single WindowClearance Authorities ( DLSW-CA) to meet regularly anddecide on the investment pro-posals received at their endwithin the prescribed timelimit without fail.

The approved projects

include the proposal of M/SSupreme Industries Ltd forsetting up a manufacturingunit in Khordha district forproduction of plastic pipes,PVC water tanks and alliedproducts with investment of Rs151.30 crore and creation ofjob opportunity for 320 per-sons; the proposal of M/SBhagirathi Packaging Pvt Ltd,an associate company of FoglaGroup, to set up polypropylele( PP) woven bags productionunit in Bhadrak district withinvestment of Rs 60.29 croreand employment potential of500 people; the proposal of M/SMayfair Hotels and Resort Ltdto set up a Convention Centerwith 4,000 capacity atBhubaneswar with an invest-ment of Rs 300 crore and

employment potential of 850people.

Apart from this, theSLSWCA also cleared the pro-posal for two food processingunits.

These units were Thailandbased Intecqc Feed Co Ltd forsetting up shrimp feed manu-facturing unit in Khordha dis-trict with investment of Rs107.88 crore and employmentpotential of 205 people; M/SExplore Food Pvt Ltd for man-ufacturing of ready -to -eatsnacks unit in Khordha withinvestment of Rs 51.40 croreand employment potential of194 persons.

Similarly, the other pro-posals approved are fromOdisha based entrepreneurs.These include the proposal ofM/S Chalah Infratech Pvt Ltdto set up a Logistic Park inKhordha district at Rs 99.80crore and job opportunities for234 persons; and proposal ofM/S KAI International Pvt Ltdfor setting up iron ore benefi-ciation and pellet plant inSundargarh district envisag-ing an investment of Rs 265.72crore and creation of jobopportunities for 475 people.

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At a time when the State isboasting of providing free

medical services under oneroof in the Government hos-pitals, the ultrasound machineinstalled in the diagnostic cen-tre of the Baleswar DistrictHeadquarters Hospital (DHH)is lying defunct for over twoweeks.

As a results, the poorpatients are at the receiving endwith they being forced to con-duct the ultrasound test outsideat higher costs.

Most importantly, the ICUpatients whose mobility isrestricted to the DHH also are

deprived of the most emer-gency diagnosis service due toapathy of the authorities whodon’t seem to care two hootsabout repairing the machine. Hospital’s adminis-trative officer B Dash said themachine went out of orderand experts have been asked tofix the glitch.

According to sources, eversince the DHH has beenupgraded to a medical collegeand hospital (MCH), there hasbeen a steep rise in the num-ber of patients to the hospital.Not only the patients of the dis-trict, patients from neighbour-ing districts as well as Statesalso are coming to the hospitalfor treatment. On an averageabout 1,000-1,200 patients arevisiting the hospital daily forvarious ailments.

The hospital is equippedwith all diagnostic facilities,

including ultrasound, MRI andCT scan machines, operatedthrough private agencies.Notably, these services are ren-dered free of cost for thepatients.

The ultrasound tests aremade for about 30-35 patientsa day using the facility in theDHH, while about 70-80patients remain in waiting listfor their turns.

Sources said a patient(except ICU patient) has to waitfor about 45-60 days to gethis/her turn to avail the freefacility in the hospital.

As the machine has goneunserviceable since July 22, insome cases, patients have to fallback on private facilities to getthe tests done. Meanwhile, thedenizens of the district havedemanded immediate repair ofthe machine and resumption ofthe service.

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The denizens of here haveopposed the demolition of

a 134-year-old building of theParalakhemundi Municipality.Instead, they have demandedthat the heritage building berenovated and a museum beestablished there.

Notably, ParalakhemundiMunicipality is the second old-est civic body in the State. Itsoffice was running from thisold building which was con-structed in 1885.

However, after the WorksDepartment declared the build-ing as unsafe, a new officebuilding was constructedbehind the old building and theoffice was shifted to the oldbuilding two months back.

Senior journalist and socialworker Navin Nanda Gantayathad first brought the unsafe

building to the attention of theadministration.

Gantayat had written to theExecutive Officer of the civicbody about the dilapidated

condition of the building.Following this, the administration took swift mea-sures.

Meanwhile, people from all

walks of life, including theintellectuals and senior citizens,have proposed for renovationof the old building and its con-version to a museum.

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Panic gripped patients at theIspat General Hospital

(IGH) here when a fire brokeout in it on Tuesday afternoon.However, there was no casual-ty or injury.

As per reports, the firebroke out in the gynaecologyward of the hospital.

Though the exact causebehind the fire was not yetknown, an electric short circuitin an air-conditioner was suspected to have led to thefire.

Four patients, who wereundergoing treatment in theward, were immediately shift-ed to another ward, sourcessaid. On receiving the infor-mation, a firefighting teamlater reached the spot anddoused the flames.

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Awoman has committed sui-cide after killing her seven-

year-old daughter at Gogua vil-lage under Mahakalpada blockin Kendrapara district.

The bodies of the two iden-tified as Nauli and her daugh-ter Jhuni were recovered fromthe Gobori river at village onTuesday morning.

Though the exact reasonbehind the shocking incidentwas yet to be ascertained, it wassuspected that the woman tookthe extreme step over a familyfeud.

The woman’s husbandJadumani, who also has a 16-

year-old son, said, ”The moth-er and the daughter had goneoutside the house last night. Icame to know about it thismorning only.”

Meanwhile, theMahakalapada police reachedthe village and started an inves-tigation into the incident.

Earlier on August 1, bod-ies of a two-year-old baby girland her mother had beenrecovered from the Luna riverin the district.

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Notorious criminal SheikhMehtab was nabbed fol-

lowing an encounter on theKendrapada-Gandakhia roadin the district on Tuesday.

Mehtab, who sustainedbullet injuries in both his legsduring exchange of fire withpolice, was admitted to a hospital in a critical con-dition.

Acting on a tipoff, a teamof the Sadar Police and specialsquad intercepted Mehtab and

one of his accomplices near theKendrapara-Gandakhia roadbut the criminals open fired atthe cops in a bid to escape.Police personnel retaliated andMehtab was injured and sub-sequently nabbed.

But an accomplice ofMehtab managed to escapefrom the spot.

Later, police seized one 9mm pistol, Rs 2,000 cash anda mobile phone from Mehtab’spossession.

Around 40 cases are pend-ing against Mehtab at differentpolice stations in Kendrapada,Baleswar, Bhadrak, Jajpur andJagasinghpur districts.

Mehtab is the mainaccused in firing at business-man Vivekananda Maharananear Gulnagar bridge in thedistrict in July, police said.

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Despite regular crackdownby the police on the hide-

outs of criminals, Sonepur,which is known as a commer-cial hub of undividedSubarnapur and Boudh dis-tricts, is fast turning into abreeding ground of ganjasmugglers and robbers.

The hemp cultivation isgoing on unabated over largeswathes of land in Boudh andKandhamal.

The demand of ganjagrown in Boudh andKandhamal is learnt to be ofvery high quality and hence, itsdemand is high in the interna-tional market.

Given the lucrative returns,many youths from other Statescollaborate with the localyouths for hemp farming andsmuggling.

The youths here also earnhefty sums of money by work-ing as informers for bigger

contraband racket.Criminals from Bihar,

Delhi, Uttar Pradesh andChhattisgarh, with the help oflocal youths, plan for smug-gling and robbery staying inSonepur town and nearer by.

A few corrupt police offi-cials help the criminals in

expanding their network fortheir vested interest, it is learnt.

It may be recalled thatthree constables of Sonepurpolice station were detained byKudopali villagers and IICSrikanta Kumar Tripathy wasrecently transferred to PTC,Angul, for allegedly having

links with the ganja peddlers.Tripathy repeatedly used asmuggler as police witness inmany seizure cases of the con-traband, proving his nexuswith the criminals.

On the other hand, thelocal youngsters in their maderace to be rich overnight andmaintain a lavish life styledon’t hesitate to commit crimeslike robbery, ATM and bankloots by forming gangs with thehelp of criminals other States.According to statistics availablewith the police, 93 per centaccused held in robbery caseswere found to be ganja smug-glers.

During the last two years,the district police here man-aged to foil several robbery bidsand arrested more than 120people with criminal back-grounds.

Of them more than 50were from other States. Besides,more than 60 quintals of ganjaand more than 30 luxury carswere seized.

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A12-year-old boy who was kidnappedfive years ago and later engaged as a

domestic help and caretaker of a dogbreeding centre in Rourkela was rescued by Sector-3 police on Mondaynight.

Two accused persons were arrested and forwarded to court in thisconnection.

The accused were identified as BadeBhaiya alias Chiranjeeb Chakraborty(34) of West Bengal and Chhote Bhaiyaalias Prabhat Panda (26) of A/275,Koelnagar, Rourkela. Police have recov-ered two cars, two bikes along withsticks and other materials from their pos-session.

Source said on Monday noon thepolice got a reliable information about thedetention of a child labour and illegal

activities in RSP quarter No. B-49, Sector-1 under Sector-3 police station.Accordingly, a police team conducted araid.

After investigation it was under-stood that five years back the boy was kid-napped from the Rourkela railway stationarea and engaged as domestic help and indog breeding centre which is also run inthe same house.

After medical examination and state-ment of the boy in presence of Magistrate,the two accused were arrested by policeunder various Sections of IPC, 14(1) ofChild Labour (Prohibition andRegulation) Act, 1986 and 75 of JuvenileJustice (Care and Protection of Children)Act 2015 on Monday night and forward-ed to court on Tuesday.

Very soon the minor boy will be pro-duced before CWC, Sundargarh, saidpolice. Now he is under custody ofDISHA shelter home at Bisra.

Further sources said whileChalkraborty is an Engineering pass-outstudent, Biswal is a commerce Graduatefrom Ravenshaw College.

Both were running a dog breedingcentre in an RSP house, keeping hugenumbers of dogs of different breeds.

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Locals of Begunia in Khordha district haveexpressed strong resentment over the

delay in installation of streetlights in theirtown due to digging of trenches for expan-sion of National Highway-53.

On Monday, local traders lodged a com-plaint with the district Collector seeking his early intervention to resolve theissue.

“The Begnunia gram panchayat has keptall light equipments and fittings ready forlong. Due to ongoing tardy NH expansionworks, the lights have not been fitted. As aconsequence, accidents are occurring often.The criminals are also taking advantage ofdarkness and committing loots,” allegedlocals.

While Begunia Sarpanch KumudiniSwain said electricity officials have not lis-tened to their requests, the FEDCO SDOsaid the matter would be resolved in twodays’ time.

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The Sri Sri RamalingaChowdeswari Ammavari

Devasthanam celebrated its40th anniversary at MarthapetaStreet, Brahmapur from August1 to 4 with great deal of zest.

As a part of the celebration,“Panchamrutha Abhisekham”was conducted in the earlymorning of Thursday, followedby Nijaroopa darshanam,Mahapuja, Devi Homam,Mahabhogam and SandhyakalaArchana, Arati, Teertha andPrasadam.

Similarly, on the secondday of the anniversary, the“Nitya Puja” was conducted in

the morning, followed byHomam, Sahasrelingaarchanaand SamuhikaKunkumarchanalu.

On the third day onSaturday, 100 devotees per-formed “Rudrabhisekham” and‘Devihomam’ in the morning,followed by ‘Mahabhogam’Prasad Sevanam at noon,Sandhyakala Archana, Arati,Teertha and Prasadam in theevening. The fourth day start-ed with ‘Devi Homam’,

Purnnahuti, Kankana Visarjanaand Asirvachanam in themorning, followed byC h o w d e s w a r iAmmavari Nagar Parikramanand procession as per the estab-lished norms and traditions.

Thousands of devoteesparticipated in theNagarparikraman procession.There was a huge turnout ofmale and female devotees, whomostly hail from

Telugu speaking community.They participated in the fes-tivities to fulfil their wish and get ‘nir-vana.’

Among others, who coor-dinated include president of SriSidheswar Swamy Kalyan

Mandapam T Gopi, chairmanof Puja Committee Dummu Srinivas Rao, president of SriChowdeswari DewangaSangham Kolla Laxman Raoand N Uma Maheswar Sharmaof Devasthana Archakulu.

BARIPADA:A man allegedly burned his wife to deathafter a family dispute at Lakhanasahi village under theKhunta police limits in Mayurbhanj district onMonday night.

According to reports, Dhananjaya Mohantypoured kerosene over his wife Mandakini and set herablaze following a heated exchange of words betweenthe two.

Family members of the deceased woman havelodged a complaint with police alleging that she waskilled by her husband over dowry demand. Police haveregistered a murder case and started investigation.

The body was sent to the Pandit RaghunathMurmu Medical College and Hospital here for post-mortem.

The cops have detained the accused for ques-tioning. PNS

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The State Government hastargeted to provide

deworming tablets to 1.3 crorechildren in the age group of 1-19 years for better health andimproved nutritional status inAugust starting from theupcoming NationalDeworming Day on August 8.

The Health and FamilyWelfare Department and theUnicef informed this onTuesday at a Press meet heldjust ahead of the bi-annualround of National DewormingDay campaign and vitamin Asupplementation programmeon Tuesday.

Participants includedDirectors of Family Welfare,SIHFW, Public Health, andHealth Services.

Regular deworming pre-vents children from intestinalparasitic worms that can leadto anaemia, malnutrition,impaired mental, physical andcognitive development andreduced school participation.

Under the August round of theNational Deworming Day bi-annual campaign, the StateGovernment has targeted toreach about 1.3 crore childrenfrom 1 to 19 years’ age acrossall 30 districts in convergencewith Health and FW, WCD andMS, S and E, Panchayati Rajand DW and ST and SC

Development, Minorities andBackward Classes WelfareDepartments.

The Family WelfareDirector also informed thatchildren who would not be ableto get doses due to sickness orabsenteeism would be admin-istered the tablet on August 16,2019. The bi-annual Vitamin A

supplementation campaignwould also be held in August2019. Under this programmeall children from 9 months to5 years would be administeredage specific vitamin A dose atthe Routine Immunization ses-sion sites, he added.

Public Health Director saidLymphatic Filariasis- Mass

Drug Administration (LF-MDA) door-to-door campaignwould be organised in fivedistricts, Baleswar, Cuttack,Dhenkanal, Khorda andNuapada, where there is aprevalence of LymphaticFilariasis. All eligible popula-tion above two years of agewould be covered.

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Assembly Speaker Dr SNPatro on August 4 kick

-started a plantation pro-gramme under which a targethas been fixed to plant one million fruit trees in theState.

This to compensate themassive tree loss by the Fanicyclone.

About 30,000 jobs creationand 7,000 metric ton of fruitsproduction are aimed underthe project.

JK Paper GM and StateHead CSR Prafulla Dahl and Raj Mohan of SGIamong others spoke on theoccasion.

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The situation remained tenseat the Joda East Iron Mines

under Joda mining circle wherelocals threatened to continuetheir stir as their demand overjobs was not fulfilled during adiscussion with the companyofficials and local administra-tion.

Sources said that the localshad staged demonstration onJuly 4 in demand of services forlocal youths. However, afterassurances of Tehsildar, BarbilKhirod Kumar Behera, thestrike had been called off anddeferred to August 6.

Accordingly, large num-bers of local people, includingwomen, gathered in the gateof mines on Tuesday. Althoughthe Tehsildar was absent, TataJoda chief Rajesh Kumarbesides other officials simplyavoided the core demand forjob and merely agreed to devel-op a burial ground.

With regard to localemployment, they clarified thatit would be done as per the

guidelines of the company,which was rejected by the

locals.Earlier, a widow had held

a long dharna in front of theTata Sponge factory main gate

in demand of permanent jobfor her son.

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From page 1One can download the form from the

official website-www.Kalia.co.in and sub-mit it before the panchayat level nodalofficer between August 6 and August 14.

They also need to apply before con-cerned bank managers to refund the assis-tance which they had received under theKALIA scheme.

Official sources said the left outbeneficiaries, who were not includedunder the KALIA scheme, can nowapply for enrolling themselves under thescheme.

He further informed that at presentthe Government has received nearly onecrore applications while efforts are on toidentify genuine beneficiaries and removefake ones. Moreover, committees havebeen formed at panchayat, block and dis-trict levels for the same, Garg added.

From page 1A selection committee con-

stituted by the UPSC willchoose three names and sendthem to the State Governmentfor the new DGP’s appoint-ment.

Notably, 1985-batchOdisha-cadre IPS officer Abhayis on Central deputation andhis chance of selection as the DGP is likely to beremote.

Then, there are four 1986-batch officers, including DrSharma. Of them, Bijay KumarSharma, who is now Director

General, Fire Services andCommandant General HomeGuards. Pradeep Kapur and MNageswar Rao are on Centraldeputation.

So BK Sharma, who is toretire in October 2022, standsa good chance to be the nextDGP. He had officiated as theDGP recently when RP Sharmawas on leave recently.

1987-batch officers SunilKumar Bansal and SurendraPanwar are also on Centraldeputation and their batch-mate Sunil Roy heads the intel-ligence wing of the State police.

Roy is one of the frontrunnersin the race.

Among the five 1988-batchofficers, Bhubaneswar-CuttackPolice Commissioner SatyajitMohanty, Additional DirectorGeneral of State Armed PoliceManoj Kumar Chhabra,Additional Director General ofState Crime Branch, SantoshKumar Upadhyay, Director,Investigation in Odisha HumanRights CommissionBinayananda Jha are workingin the State. Arun Kumar Rayand M Akhaya are on Centraldeputation.

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Tax regimen in Punjab willsoon be no more taxing for

the Punjab Chief Minister,Cabinet Ministers, and theLeader of Opposition inVidhan Sabha. Soon after theChief Minister Capt AmarinderSingh ended up with a tax lia-bility of Rs 17 lakh over hisannual salary of Rs 13 lakh, thestate lawmakers on Tuesdaycarried out an amendment inthe respective laws.

It was in 2018’s budgetsession that the Vidhan Sabhahad passed amendments intwo legislations making theMinisters and the Leader ofOpposition to pay their ownincome tax, leaving out theMLAs.

The income tax, being paidby the Punjab Government onthis account, stands at Rs 11.08crore, of which the bulk of Rs10.72 crore is for payment ofincome tax of the MLAs.However, Congress MLA KuljitSingh Nagra had offered to payhis own income tax, and isdoing so since then.

Now, more than a yearafter, when the Chief Ministerhad the tax liability of Rs 17lakh more than his annualsalary of Rs 13 lakh, the VidhanSabha carried out an amend-ment to make the ChiefMinister, Ministers, and theLeader of Opposition — allwho have the Cabinet rank —to pay the income tax on theirown on the “perks” they aregetting.

Explaining, FinanceMinister Manpreet Badal saidthat the Government had beenpaying the income tax on thesalaries, allowances and theperks of Cabinet Minister. “TheChief Minister had advisedthat the Ministers pay theirown income tax on salaries andallowances on their own. But,while omitting section 2-C ofthe East Punjab Ministers’Salaries Act, 1947, we, by mis-take, included the perks also,”he said.

He clarified that theMinisters would still be payingtheir income tax bon theirsalary and allowances, “theState Government would paythe tax on their perks whichincludes everything they getlike houses, cars, even fans and

lights”. Tabling the three Billsrelated to the same — The EastPunjab Ministers’ Salaries(Amendment) Bill, 2019, TheSalaries and Allowances ifDeputy Ministers, Punjab(Amendment) Bill, 2019, andThe Salary and Allowances ofLeader of Opposition inLegislative Assembly(Amendment) Bill, 2019 —quipped at Akalis, “those whohave been doing this sincepast 72 years, are now oppos-ing the bill”. All the bills werepassed later on with SADopposing the same.

As per the amendments,Section 2-C has been insertedsince the intent of the amend-ment was that income tax on‘Salaries and Allowances’ shallbe paid by the Ministers and

not on other perks and bene-fits allowed to them. The sec-tion stated, “The free furnishedhouse and other perquisitesadmissible to a Minister underthis Act shall be exclusive ofincome tax, which shall bepayable by the Government.”

SAD MLA Harpal SinghChandumajra opposed the Billsaying that the timing of movingthe Bill, to “bestow largesse” onthe Ministers, is wrong as therewere many other requirementslike the farmers, flood-hit peo-ple, salaries which should be con-sidered first. To this, CabinetMinister Charanjit Singh Channiclarified that the Minister hadalready gave up their income taxon their salaries and allowances,which has been done by any statefor the first time.

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With reports of illegal cul-tivation of unapproved

variety of herbicide tolerant Bt(HTBt) cotton coming in fromMaharashtra, Telangana andGujarat and BT Brinjal inHaryana, the Bharatiya KisanUnion (BKU) on Tuesdaydemanded strict action againstcompanies responsible for sup-ply of seeds to the farmers.BKU has urged Prime MinisterNarendra Modi to intervene inthis matter. Farmers haveplanned dharna and protests atblock level across the countryon August 9.

“The farmers are plantingHerbicide-Tolerant (HT) cot-tonseed combined with a traitobtained from a Bt soil bac-terium which is toxic to dead-ly American, pink and spottedbollworms. There is no legiti-mate version of HTBt cottonavailable in the market. Nor isthere any application forapproval pending before theGenetic Engineering Appraisal

Committee (GEAC), the apexregulator for genetically-mod-ified crops. The question is whois giving farmers access toHTBt cottonseed,” the BKUsaid.

The issue of plantingunapproved herbicide tolerantBt (HTBt) cotton has split cot-ton farmers into two groups.While those favouring sowingof HTBt have approached thegovernment for lifting the banon the variety, the opposinggroup has urged the govern-ment to take strict actionagainst farmers propagatingthe banned variety.

BKU has earlier written tothe chairperson of GeneticEngineering AppraisalCommittee (GEAC), an envi-ronment ministry body, whichappraises proposals relating torelease of GE organisms andproducts into the environmentincluding experimental fieldtrials and demanded actionagainst those .

According to report, afarmer in Haryana’s Fatehabaddistrict was allegedly found tobe growing a transgenic brin-jal variety, which is not yetapproved for cultivation in thecountry.

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India’s overall monsoondeficit has narrowed down to

7 per cent and rainfall is like-ly to improve further followingthe formation of a fresh lowpressure area over north-eastBay of Bengal. The weatherforecast from IndiaMeteorological Department(IMD) on Tuesday said heavyto extremely heavy rainfall waslikely at isolated places overcentral India including MadhyaPradesh and Maharashtra aslow pressure area over Bay ofBengal intensified into adepression (one level below acyclone).

As per National DisasterResponse Force, landslides trig-gered by incessant rains in thehills of Uttarakhand on Tuesdayblocked many road routes,including Rishikesh-Badrinathhighway at Lambagad. Acloudburst at Gairsain inChamoli district in the earlyhours on Tuesday also damagedbridges, a school building andcowsheds. Meanwhile, the floodsituation in Nashik inMaharashtra eased as waterlevel in the Godavari river,which was flowing above thedanger mark, started receding.

According to IMD, the lowpressure system is an outcomeof the merger of two weatherphenomena. One is the rem-nants of storm Wipha acrossVietnam, Burma and anotherone is the Cyclonic Circulationthat had formed in the Bay ofBengal. “The depressionadjoining coastal Bangladeshand West Bengal lay centredaround 160 km southeast ofOdisha’s Balasore and about

130 km south-southeast ofWest Bengal’s Digha and thiswill bring heavy rain acrosseastern, central and westernIndia from Thursday,” it said.

There is also a forecast ofrainfall across northern Indiaat isolated places over Odisha,South Chattisgarh, MadhyaPradesh, Gangetic West Bengaland Jharkhand. The unstableweather arising from thedepression is already being felton the East Coast.

The IMD issued “redwarning” for Malkangiri,Koraput, Ganjam, Kandhamal,Kalahandi and Puri districts inOdisha till Wednesday, pre-dicting heavy to very heavy rainin a few places and extremelyheavy downpour in other areasof the six districts.

According to weatherchannel, the depression couldbring over 125 mm rainfall inChhattisgarh and adjoiningareas over the next two days.South Odisha could get 200mm rain during the same peri-od.

Many districts of Gangetic

West Bengal, includingHowrah, Hooghly and Kolkatacould also receive heavy rain-fall during the same period. Upto 200 mm rainfall is alsoexpected in Dantewada, Sukmaand Bijapur districts ofChhattisgarh till Wednesday.

Eastern India has not hada good southwest monsoonseason so far. Most districts inWest Bengal face rainfall defi-ciency ranging from 20-59%,and Howrah is worst-affected,with 80% shortfall. Odisha alsohas received 24% deficientmonsoon rain while Jharkhandis in the red by 40%. The situ-ation in Chhattisgarh is slight-ly better, with 11% shortfall.Residents and the respectivestate administrations will,therefore, be hoping that thewet weather to come over thenext few days will right someof this imbalance.

The Met department hasadvised fishermen not to ven-ture into northwest Bay ofBengal and the coastal areas ofOdisha and West Bengal tillAugust 10.

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AHindu body on Tuesdaystrongly pitched in the

Supreme Court for control andmanagement of the entire dis-puted 2.77 acre land in thepolitically and religiously sen-sitive case of RamJanmabhoomi-Babri Masjidtitle dispute at Ayodhya.

Nirmohi Aakhara, one ofthe leading parties in the case,asserted its claim over the dis-puted site where the medievalstructure was demolished onDecember 6, 1992, and said thatMuslims have not been allowedto enter the place since 1934.

The Hindu body said it wasclaiming ownership and pos-session of the “main temple” asalso to be the manager of thebirth place of Lord Rama.

The top court, which com-menced the day-to-day hearingTuesday following the failure ofthe mediation proceedings toresolve the dispute amicably,was told by the Hindu bodythat since time immemorial“Janma Asthan now common-ly known as Janam Bhumi, thebirth place of Lord RamChandra was belonging to and

in possession of the Akhara”.Nirmohi Akahara submit-

ted before a five-judgeConstitution bench headed byChief Justice Ranjan Gogoithat it was also acting as “its(property) Manager” throughits ‘Mahant’ and ‘Sarbrahkar’who had been managing andreceiving offerings made thereat in the form of money.

The bench, also compris-ing Justices SA Bobde, DYChandrachud, Ashok Bhushanand SA Nazeer, was told bysenior advocate Sushil Jainappearing for the Akahara,that under the Muslim law noone can construct a mosqueover the land which belongedto others.

Referring to the records, hesaid, “No Mohammedan couldor ever did enter the templebuilding. It was specificallystated that no Mohammedanhas even attempted to enter itat least since 1934” and hencethe claim of Akharara over theland was legal and should behonoured.

The senior advocate sub-mitted that from 1934 toDecember 16, 1949, the site wasin the exclusive possession of

the Hindu body and theMuslims were not offeringtheir daily ‘five-time prayers’;they were only offering Friday‘namaz’ that too under policeprotection.

Citing another evidence, hesaid that absence of provisionfor ‘wuzu’, by which Muslimswash hands and body partsbefore Namaz, at the disputedsite, was interpreted by the highcourt to arrive at the conclusionthat prayers were not beingoffered there since long andthus it had ceased to be amosque.

It was on the interveningnight of December 16, 1949,the idols of lord ‘Ram Lalla’ andother deities were placed insidethe structure, Jain said.

While claiming manage-ment and possession of theentire land, Akahara said it wasin possession of the outer court-yard and Ram Janmasthan forhundreds of years.

“We were in possession ofouter courtyard and RamJanmasthan for hundreds ofyears. Outer courtyard having

‘Sita Rasoi’, ‘Chabutra’, ‘BhandarGrih’ were in our possessionand it was never a part of dis-pute in any case,” the seniorcounsel told the bench.

The outer portion of thecourtyard was “not attachedunder the judicial order ofDecember 29, 1959 and con-tinued to be in possession ofthe Akhara, he said.

He said the litigation per-tains only to the constructedportion that is only to “themain temple” also describedgenerally as the “InnerCourtyard”.

Further, the Akahara sub-mitted that till filing of the lawsuit in 1989 by the SunniCentral Board of Waqfs, therewas no dispute raised by anyparty relating to the outercourtyard.

“In the Outer Courtyard,there were undisputed struc-tures of the plaintiff (Akahara)including the Sita Rasoi,Bhandar Griha as well as theChabutra...”, it said, adding thatthe other case was filed in 1989by Gopal Singh Visharad, and

that too concerned with theinner courtyard only.

While Jain was making hissubmissions, the bench referredto the 2010 judgement of theHigh Court and said, “In anycase, you have been given one-third of disputed area in pre-liminary decree by the HighCourt.”

He was also asked torestrict his arguments to thecivil case filed by the Hindubody.

The Hindu body said theaccess of the “main temple orthe Inner Courtyard” wasthrough the outer courtyardonly on which it had the rightand the possession.

“There is no separate accessto the Main Temple Area whichis claimed by the Muslim Partiesas the ‘Babri Masjid’. It wasspecifically pleaded...That noMohammedan could or everdid enter the temple building.

“It was specifically statedthat no Mohammedan haseven attempted to enter it atleast since 1934,” Jain submit-ted, adding that “Akhara pos-sessed the temple and noneothers but Hindus were allowedto enter and worship therein.”

“After the demolition of thestructure, the petition wasamended and it was assertedthat the main temple and othertemples of Nirmohi Akharhawere demolished by some mis-creants, who had no religion,caste or creed,” the Akaharasubmitted. It contended that itwas due to the wrongfulattachment, the Hindu bodyhad been wrongly deprived ofthe management and charge ofthe temple.

“Nirmohi Akhara was notonly claiming ownership andpossession of the property thatis the Main Temple or theInner Courtyard but was alsoclaiming to be the manager of‘Janma Asthan’ as well as theidols of Lord Ram Chandra,Laxmanji, Hanumanji andSaligramji,” the senior advocatesaid.

The court is hearing 14appeals filed against the 2010Allahabad High Court judg-ment, delivered in four civilsuits, that the 2.77-acre land inAyodhya be partitioned equal-ly among the three parties --the Sunni Waqf Board, theNirmohi Akhara and RamLalla.

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Congress leader in LokSabha Adhir Ranjan

Chowdhury on Tuesday stokeda controversy as he sought toknow from the Governmentwhether Jammu & Kashmirwas an internal matter or abilateral issue, saying theUnited Nations was monitoringthe situation there since 1948.

Chowdhury’s remarksdrew sharp reactions from thetreasury benches, with HomeMinister Amit Shah askingwhether this was the officialstand of the Congress.

“I have a doubt becauseyou say it is an internal matter.You bifurcated a State but mypoint is, how can this be aninternal matter when theUnited Nations is monitoringit since 1948?

“When we signed the SimlaAgreement and LahoreDeclaration, was it an internalmatter or a bilateral issue? Fewdays ago, (External AffairsMinister) S Jaishankar told (USSecretary of State Mike(Pompeo) that this (Kashmir) isa bilateral issue and you don’t

interfere in the matter, then howcan Jammu and Kashmir be ourinternal matter?” he asked.

Chowdhury also said,“You have to tell whether thisissue is bilateral or an interna-tional one.”

While he was speaking,Congress Parliamentary Partyleader Sonia Gandhi lookedtowards other party MPs,including Rahul Gandhi, ges-

turing her surprise. OnChowdhury’ remarks, Womenand Child Welfare MinisterSmriti Irani said, “You are anIndian. Speak in favour of India.”

Law Minister Ravi ShankarPrasad too jumped in and asked,“Adhir ji, what are you saying?”

Chowdhury said he mere-ly needed clarification on theissue. Later, the Congress leader,outside the House, said he was

misinterpreted on the issue.Sources said Chowdhury’s

clarification came after the topparty leadership reportedlyexpressed unhappiness withhis remarks.

Reacting to Chowdhury’sremarks, Union ministerMukhtar Abbas Naqvi laterhit out at the Congress, sayinga “headless Congress” has nowalso become “brainless”.

“How can you say thatKashmir is not our integral partand it is not our internal issue.Frustrated with losses, theCongress has become mental-ly bankrupt. Sonia Gandhi wasthere in Parliament, RahulGandhi was there, but no onepulled him up for these com-ments,” he said.

“Headless Congress has alsobecome brainless,” Naqvi said.

He said the Congress hada chance to correct its mistakescommitted in the past, but itonly ended up “darkening thestains of its mistakes”.

“The Congress has becomeheadless, but also mindless. Ibelieve that until the strategistsof the Congress party will notbe aligned with nationalthought process, then Congresswill continue the way it isgoing,” he said.

BJP spokesperson SambitPatra also lashed out overChowdhury’s remarks, saying itthat seemed like Pakistan hassent its representative to IndianParliament.

“Adhir Ranjan Chaudharydemanding a clarification fromthe BJP government as to howKashmir is an internal matter ofIndia ..Saying Kashmir matteris pending in the UN ...It seemsPakistan send their representa-tive to the Indian Parliament,”Patra said on Twitter.

The Government onMonday revoked some provi-sions of the Article 370 to takeaway Jammu and Kashmir’sspecial status, and proposedbifurcation of the state into twounion territories, Jammu andKashmir, and Ladakh, a boldand far-reaching decision thatseeks to redraw the map andfuture of a region at the centreof a protracted militancy move-ment.

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process is considered to betime-consuming, the OrganicField Effect Transistor (OFET)-based bacterial diagnosticdevice will enable rapid detec-tion of bacteria, which isimportant not only in health-care, but also in anti-bioter-rorism measures and environ-mental monitoring applica-tions, said the researchers

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has developed this bio-com-patible sensor that can detectbacteria almost instantaneous-ly without the need for cell cul-ture and microbiological assays.

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Dutta (all three former PhDscholars from Center forNanotechnology, IITG).

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On Wednesday, Delhijoined 23 States in the

country to include the rotavirusvaccine in its routine immuni-sation programme. Therotavirus vaccine is an oral vac-cine to prevent diarrhoeadeaths in children. It will benow available free of cost in allcentral and Delhi governmenthospitals and dispensaries cov-ering 360,000 babies borneach year in the capital.

Five drops of the vaccinewill be administered to infantsat 6, 10 and 14 weeks alongwith other vaccines as due forthe age. Infants due for 1st doseof Pentavalent Vaccine on andafter 7th August 2019 will beeligible for receiving the Rota-Virus Vaccine.

"The vaccine will now beavailable at about 650 coldchain points - all governmenthospitals and dispensaries - runby Delhi government, centralgovernment, the civic bodies,the railways, the Central

Government Health Scheme,and the Employees StateInsurance. Apart from that, itwill also be available in theAnganwadis on rotation as perthe schedule under our out-reach," said Dr Suresh Seth,Delhi's State Programme offi-cer for Immunisation.

"This is the twelfth vaccineto be introduced in Delhi. Thisis a good step; the next step hasto be to ensure 100% immuni-sation," said Delhi's HealthMinister Satyendara Jain.Diarrhoea is one of the leadingcauses of under-ve mortality,accounting for about 9.3% ofthese deaths. And, rotavirusleads to 80,000 to 100,000deaths in children every year.

Dr Pradeep Haldar, DeputyCommissioner, Immunisation,Union Health Ministry said that"the rest of the States will also beable to start vaccinating againstrotavirus by September thisyear. The vaccine was first intro-duced in India in 2016 after anindigenous manufacturer start-ed making it," said Dr Haldar.

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Taken aback by the angerand anguish of the fans of

Ranjikanth, the Tamil superstar,who has been portrayed as a buf-foon in the movie Comali (Tamil for Joker) , the producershave decided to remove theoffensive portions from the filmto be released shortly. Themovie’s teaser which was releasedlast Saturday had earned thewrath of the fans of the superstarwho had announced his politi-cal ambitions during his inter-actions with them late 2017.

The movie has a scene inwhich the protagonist played byJayam Ravi, an actor known forhis Dravidian leanings, lam-

pooning Rajinikanth byannouncing his political dreamsand going into a coma. What hasupset the fans is the discrimina-tion shown against Rajinikanthby regional political outfits ,which had accorded support toother stars who not commandthe same kind of popularityenjoyed by the former.

In a release on Tuesday,actor Jayam Ravi said there wasno deliberate attempt or intentto mock Rajnikanth. “We allgrew up watching his movies.His action and style hadmandatorily become an inher-ent part of our nature andthere is no way that we wouldshow disrespect to him in anyway ,” said Ravi in the release.

By Sunday morning the

trending in the social media#BoycottComali found unprece-dented success among film goerswho asked for the deletion of theoffensive scenes. It is said that themovie makers got wind of thehurt sentiments of the superstarand decided to play it safe. Tamilmovies, from the days of M GRamachandran and SivajiGanesan has always portrayedthe heroes as the embodimentof all that is good. No moviemakers of that era have dared tomake a movie in which the herodies or gets defeated. The climaxof the 1972 movie VasanthaMaalikai (Palace of Spring) star-ring Sivaji Ganesan had to beshot again as the fans of the herocould not stand the scene inwhich he dies.

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AState Government counselwas shot dead in her offi-

cial residence opposite policelines here in yet another fatalattack on women lawyers inUttar Pradesh.

Etah Superintendent ofPolice of Sanjay Kumar saidGovernment counsel NutanYadav was shot dead in her res-idence on the night interven-ing Monday and Tuesday.

“Yadav, 35, was living in theGovernment quarters in Etahopposite police lines. She wasunmarried and was livingalone,” said Kumar.

“A couple of people used tocome from her village and stayat her residence. She was foundshot dead,” Kumar told PTI.

The deceased is a native ofa village in Agra district.“Prima facie those visiting herhouse are under suspicion. Herfamily members also suspectthe role of these persons,” theofficer added.

Etah SeniorSuperintendent of PoliceSwapnil Mamgain, meanwhile,told reporters that the crimehas been committed by someclose acquaintance of the family.

“The culprit will be bookedand action will be initiated,” hesaid.

Speaking to reporters inLucknow, Inspector Generalof Police (Law & Order)Praveen Kumar said, “An FIRhas been registered against twoneighbouring villagers of thevictim on a complaint by herparents.”

Around two months back,Uttar Pradesh Bar Councilpresident Darvesh Yadav wasallegedly shot dead in the Agracourt premises.

Yadav, 38, the first womanpresident of the UP BarCouncil was shot dead on June12 by a fellow advocate, whoshot dead himslef too aftergunning her down.

Thiruvananthapuram: Due todelayed police action, IAS offi-cer Sreeram Venkitaraman,arrested for causing death to ajournalist in a road accidentand charged under non-bail-able sections, was granted bail,here on Tuesday.

When the bail plea came upbefore the Thiruvananthapuramchief judicial magistrate court,it asked for proof that the offi-cer was drunk and told thepolice to produce the case diaryand also the test report. Policeproduced the required docu-ments and demanded Venki-taraman’s custody for furtherprobe, the court disallowed itand granted him bail. IANS

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The Indian space agency onTuesday successfully raised

Chandrayaan-2’s orbit for fifthtime at 3.04 pm.

According to Indian SpaceResearch Organisation (ISRO),the orbit of Chandrayaan-2 wasraised to an orbit of 276x142,975km by firing the spacecraft’s onboard motors for

1,041 seconds.All spacecraft parameters

were normal. The next manoeu-ver is Trans Lunar Insertion (TLI),which is scheduled on August 14,2019, between 3-4 a.m.

On July 22, the Chandrayaan-2 was injected into an ellipticalorbit of 170x45,475 km by India’s heavy lift rocketGeosynchronous Satellite LaunchVehicle-Mark III (GSLV Mk III)

in a text book style.The spacecraft comprises

three segments — the Orbiter(weighing 2,379 kg, eight pay-loads), the lander ‘Vikram’ (1,471kg, four payloads) and rover‘Pragyan’ (27 kg, two payloads).

The Indian space agency saidthe major activities include Earth-bound manoeuvres, the trans-lunar insertion, lunar-boundmanoeuvres, Vikram’s separation

from Chandrayaan-2 and touchdown on the Moon’s South Pole.

The ISRO said the trans-lunar insertion of Chandrayaan-2, which will send it to the moon,is scheduled on August 14.

After that, the Chandrayaan-2 is scheduled to reach the Moonby August 20 and the landerVikram will land on the Earth’ssole satellite on September 7.

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The Bombay High Court onTuesday Restrained the

Brihanmumbai MunicipalCorporation from grantingpermission for slaughter ofanimals this Bakr eid inside res-idential flats.

A Bench of justices SCDharmadhikari and GS Patelsaid it could not completelyprohibit such slaughters with-in the compounds or groundsof housing societies.

However, the housing soci-eties located within one km ofreligious plots and communi-ty halls, which could be used asalternate sites, must be direct-ed by the BMC to carry out theslaughter there, instead of with-in their society premises, it said.

The Bench said such restric-tions were essential to “maintainbasic standards of hygiene.” “Itis impossible to maintainhygiene and sanitary condi-tions if slaughter of animals ispermitted within individualflats. Therefore, no permission

can be granted for such slaugh-ters within individual residentialflats,” the Bench said.

The Bench was hearingtwo petitions filed by localNGOs Jiv Maitri Trust andViniyog Parivar, challengingthe civic body’s decision togrant temporary no-objectioncertificates to several housingsocieties for the slaughter ofgoats and sheep on Bakr eid.

The petitioners argued thatthe civic body’s policy violatedthe environmental and animalwelfare laws. BMC’s counselAnil Sakhre, however, told thecourt that such slaughters werepermitted as per its rules, andit was regulated by a very spe-cific policy that imposed con-ditions on the area for suchslaughters, compulsory enclo-sure of such space, mainte-nance of hygiene, and law andorder. Sakhre said it was a reli-gious matter and the BMCcould not accept the petition-ers’ argument that such slaugh-ter be restricted to the abattoirlocated in Deonar area here.

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On a day when teams ofNational Disaster

Response Force (NDRF) shift-ed 6,000 flood-hit familiesfrom Kolhapur and Sangli dis-tricts to safer places, ChiefMinister Devendra Fadnavisreached out to Union HomeMinister Rajnath Singh andKarnataka chief minister BSYediyurppa for help in dealingwith the worsening flood situ-ation in western Maharashtra.

While the Chief Ministerrequested the Union HomeMinister for help and support inexpediting the flood rescue andrelief efforts in Kolhapur andSangli districts, Fadnavis urgedhis Karnataka counterpartYediyurappa to order dischargeof water from the Almatti Damto ease the grim flood situationin western Maharashtra.

In his message sent to Singhon Tuesday, Fadnavis askedthe Ministry of Home Affairs(MoH) to coordinate withNDRF, Indian Air Force (IAF),Indian Coast Guard and theArmy for expediting the rescueand relief efforts in the twoWestern Maharashtra districts.

Responding to a requestfrom Fadnavis, Yediyurappaagreed to discharge water fromthe Almatti dam in Karnatakato reduce alarmingly highinundation in Kolhapur andSangli districts.

Meanwhile, NDRF and dis-aster management teams thathave rushed to the flood-hitwestern Maharashtra shifted6,000 marooned families —4,000 from Sangli and 2,000 fromKolhapur — to safer places.

With many rivers, rivulets

and lakes in spare, the rain-rav-aged Kolhapur and Sangli dis-tricts have been witnessingfloods for the past few days.Several bridges and roads arelying under thick sheets ofwater, isolating hundreds of vil-lages. The authorities are find-ing it difficult to reach out topeople in marooned villages.

Fadnavis, who is currentlyon a state-wide ‘MahajanadeshYatra’ ahead of the October 2019State Assembly polls, reviewedthe flood situation in westernMaharashtra and other parts ofthe state from Yavatmal. He helddetailed discussion with ChiefSecretary Ajoy Mehta and col-lectors in various districts.

Later in the evening,Fadnavis announced that hewould take a break from his

Yatra for a day to return toMumbai and monitor the floodsituation in the state.

Meanwhile, the StateGovernment is rushing sixteams with Navy boats toKolhapur by air, while fourFRP boats of NDRF are beingsent to Sangli from Pune.

The Chief Minister’s meet-ing at Yavatmal to review floodsituation in WesternMaharashtra came a day after theOpposition Congress hit out atFadnavis for continuing withpolitical Yatra across the statedespite the flood situation insome parts of the State.Congress’ state campaign man-agement committee chairmanNana Patole charged that theChief Minister was busy usingtax payers’ money for his “five-

star” political campaign, at a timewhen the latter should be con-centrating on flood-relief work.

Meanwhile, the disastermanagement teams have shift-ed 10,000 people to safer loca-tions from Pune and Satarawhere the evacuation opera-tions are in progress.

An estimated 50,000 havebeen directly or indirectly hitby the floods in urban andrural centres in these districtsas rains continued to batter theregion since the past few days.

In a related development,the busy Pune-BengaluruHighway has been closed fortraffic as a precautionary mea-sure in view of the torrentialrain and incidents of landslideand boulder crashes reportedfrom areas en route.

Jaipur: Rajasthan ChiefMinister Ashok Gehlot andDeputy Chief Minister SachinPilot have condemned thearrest of former Jammu &Kashmir Chief MinistersMehbooba Mufti and OmarAbdullah.

“The arrest of two formerCMs of Jammu & Kashmir,Omar Abdullah and MehboobaMufti is condemnable and itcould have been avoided.Government should have taken J&K leaders intoconfidence instead they havebeen arrested,” Gehlot tweetedon Monday night.

“For us to be a progressive,vibrant democracy-all politicalparties and local representativesneeded to be involved inJammu and Kashmir,” Pilotposted on Twitter on Monday.

PTI

Pune: Senior NCP leader Ajit Pawaron Tuesday praised the Centre forabolishing Article 370 in Jammu andKashmir, and asked it to now worktowards reclaiming Pakistan-occu-pied Kashmir (PoK).

He said its revocation would helpintegrate the country better.

“Yesterday the Centre scrapped

Article 370. A good decision wastaken. Neither my party nor I believein opposition for the sake of oppo-sition. If something is good, it has tobe called good,” the former deputychief minister said here.

He was addressing a gatheringduring the party’s ‘Shiv SwarajyaYatra’, a mass outreach campaign

ahead of upcoming Assembly pollsin Maharashtra.

He said the decision to abolishArticle 370 was necessary to keep thecountry intact and create communalharmony. “Now that it has been done,don’t stop. Go and acquire Pakistan-occupied Kashmir as it is the wish ofevery Indian,” he said. PTI

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Unable to contact their fam-ily members living in the

Valley, a sense of panic and anx-iety has gripped the Kashmiritraders and shop owners inKolkata in the wake of the latestpolitical developments in Jammu& Kashmir over the scrapping ofArticle 370 of the Constitutionand a total shutdown of com-munication channels.

While many are eager toget back home to see for them-selves that their near and dearones are safe, some have beenforced to cancel the plans ofreturning home this Eid as thesituation in the Valley contin-ues to be volatile and curfewhas also been imposed.

In a big triumph for theGovernment, both the Housesof the Parliament have passedthe Jammu and Kashmir

Reorganisation Bill 2019 andadopted the resolution to scrapArticle 370 of the Constitutionwhich granted special status toJ&K, paving way for bifurcationof the state into two UnionTerritories (UTs) — Jammu &Kashmir with an Assemblyand Ladakh sans one.

Since Sunday night, allcommunication channels,including mobile networks,internet, broadband and land-lines, have been blocked inmost parts of J&K.

Ahmed Butt, who works asa manager at the sprawling‘Kashmiri Emporium’ inKolkata’s New Market, saidthat he was really concernedabout his parents, wife and twochildren living in the Valley. Hehas not been able to contactthem since Sunday night andhas advanced his plan to headback home.

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Bengal Chief MinisterMamata Banerjee has

demanded immediate release-of senior Kashmir leaders likeFarookh Abdullah, OmarAbdullah and Mehbooba Muftiwho had been kept underhouse arrest post abrogationofArticle 370 and 35A of theConstitution saying the peopleof the Stateshould have beenconsulted and taken into con-fidence before taking such ahuge step.

Banerjee who on Tuesdayleft for Chennai where shewould unveil the statue of lateDMK patriarch M Karunanidhitold reporters at Kolkata’s NetajiSubhas Chandra BoseInternational Airport that “theway the issue was handled wasdeplorable” and the people andpolitical parties of Jammu &Kashmir should have been,consulted and taken into con-fidence before such decision.”This decision was not democ-ratic and “procedural, and tech-nical issues were involved in it,”she said.

Saying that her party wouldnever accept the Jammu &Kashmir Reorganisation Billproposing to bifurcate the Stateinto two Union Territories,Banerjee said, “We will neversupport this bill and oppose ittooth and nail,” Banerjee saidadding, “actually, legally anddemocratically it was not apraiseworthy step.”

On shutting Kashmir outfrom the whole world Banerjeesaid “I have no first handinformation on the issue andwhatever I came to know isfrom the media reports,”adding “the people of Kashmirare also our brothers and sis-ters, our own citizens … theyshould have been dealt withdelicately.”

A day after Union HomeMinister Amit Shah moved aresolution in the Lok Sabha forbringing a bill to reorganise theState of Jammu & Kashmir intotwo Union Territories —Jammu & Kashmir, andLadakhBanerjee on Tuesdaybroke her studied silence say-ing her party had staged awalk-out from the Rajya Sabhaduring the voting to mean that“we are not supporting the bill.This does not mean that wehave supported the bill.”

Lambasting the Centre forputting senior politicians of theValley under house arrestBanerjee said she had no ideaof their whereabouts.

“I have no informationregarding senior leaders of var-ious political parties includingformer Chief Ministers likeFarookh Abdullah ji… I haveonly seen in the televisionreports that Mehbooba (Mufti), Omar Abdullah areunder house arrest,” Banerjeesaid wondering whetherputting senior leaders in jailwas a healthy sign in a democracy.

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The petition was filed bylawyer Sudhir Kumar Ojhabefore the chief judicial mag-istrate’s court.

The petitioner has namedShyam Rajak, a senior JD(U)leader and a member of theNitish Kumar cabinet in Bihar,former Jammu and KashmirCMs Omar Abdullah andMehbooba Mufti among othersin his petition.

Ojha has also named for-mer attorney general SoliSorabjee, besides two MPs ofthe Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) headed by Mufti asrespondents in his petition.

He has alleged that therespondents opposed theCentre’s move at the behest offoreign powers and contendedthat they should be booked fortreason.

Ojha has invoked sections124(A) (sedition) and 120(B)(criminal conspiracy) of theIndian Penal Code (IPC) in hispetition, which has been post-ed for hearing on August 17.

Rajak had said abrogationof the provisions of Article 370in Jammu and Kashmir mightbe part of the BJP’s electionmanifesto but not that of theNational Democratic Alliance(NDA). PTI

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Jaipur: Now that the specialstatus for Jammu & Kashmirunder Article 370 has beenrevoked, a Rajasthan BJP leadercan sleep easy — literally.

Nearly 30 years back,Madan Dilawar took a vow thathe would not sleep in a “com-fortable bed” till the Article isrevoked, he told PTI.

The five-time MLA andtwice Minister in the Rajasthan

Government, Dilawar stoppedusing a mattress at home, hesaid on Tuesday.

The MLA, who representsthe Ramganj Mandi con-stituency in Kota district, car-ried a mat and a bed sheetalong when he travelled. “I tookthe pledge in February 1990that I will not sleep on a com-fortable bed till Article 370 sta-tus was abrogated for Jammu &

Kashmir,” he said.“Since then, I carry a mat

and a bed sheet whenever I amon tour. I sleep on it when I amat my home and even when Istay at a circuit house,” Dilawarsaid. The 60-year-old politiciansaid from his childhood he hasbeen hearing the slogan, “Jahanhue balidaan Mukherjee, woKashmir hamara hai”, referringto the death of Bharatiya Jana

Sangh founder Syama PrasadMookerjee in Kashmir.

The Centre on Mondayrevoked the special status forJammu & Kashmir underArticle 370.

Dilawar said the dreamhas come true. “The local peo-ple have organised variousevents on August 8, after which I will sleep in a bed,” headded. PTI

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With the withdrawal of thespecial status of Jammu

& Kashmir, the MaharashtraGovernment wants to set up atourist resort in Ladakh.

Tourism DevelopmentMinister Jaykumar Rawal saidthe official decision regardingthis will be taken soon.

With the revocation ofsome provisions of the Article370 of the Constitution, the baron outsiders from buying landin Jammu & Kashmir is expect-ed to cease to exist.

The Centre has also pro-posed to turn Ladakh into aUnion Territory.

“We would like to purchaseland and set up an MTDC(Maharashtra TourismDevelopment Corporation)resort in Ladakh. Sizable num-ber of tourists visit Ladakh andJammu & Kashmir every yearand with abrogation of Article370, I think we can officially setup a resort,” Rawal said.

“The resort will be as mod-ern as those developed byMTDC in Maharashtra.Official decision will be takensoon,” Rawal said.

He was speaking toreporters after launchingMTDC’s booking facility atthe Mantralaya, the stateGovernment’s headquartershere. The facility will offerdiscounts to Government offi-cials, he said.

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This is the best gift given bythe Central Government to

the people of Ladakh, whoalways had to take the burdenof Kashmir’s hegemony,” saidMember of Parliament fromLadakh Jamyang TseringNamgyal amid a huge applausein the Lok Sabha on Tuesday.

Celebrations and congrat-ulatory messages started inLadakh on Monday right afterUnion Home Minister AmitShah declared the removal ofArticle 370 and announcedthe region was being reclassi-fied as a Union Territory (UT). The jubilation continuedon Tuesday.

The BJP had promised theresidents of Ladakh the UT sta-tus ahead of the parliamentarypolls back in 2014. Eventhough nothing came out of it,the Ladakhis trusted the BJPagain in 2019 and finally, gotwhat they were promised.

In 2018, former BJP MPfrom Ladakh Thupstan

Chhewang had resigned fromthe Lok Sabha on the groundsthat the UT status was thedemand of the people and theparty was not able to meet it.The issue created an uproar inthe region, with people vowingto teach the BJP a lesson in2019. However, it was only afterthe local and national BJPleadership intervened that theBJP candidate Jamyang TseringNamgyal won the 2019 polls by

a huge margin.Apart from the UT status,

the Ladakhis were also over-joyed by revoking of Article370, which was considered dis-criminatory by the residents ofJammu and Ladakh. MPNamgyal said Ladakh wantedseparation from Kashmir formore than 30 years due to thediscrimination the locals faced.

In February, Ladakh wasgranted divisional status with a

separate divisional commis-sioner, Inspector General ofPolice and division-leveloffices. However, Ladakhis hadintensified the agitation andstarted demonstrations,demanding the UT status.

In 2016, at least 40 delega-tions, including representa-tives of political, religious andsocial organisations, had metwith the then Union HomeMinister Rajnath Singh during

his visit to Leh.Tashi Wangail, a travel

agent in Leh district, saidKashmir-based political parties,including Jammu and KashmirPeoples Democratic Party andNational Conference, hadalways given step-motherlytreatment to Ladakh when itcame to development and jobs.

“With our own UT andpower in our hands, we will notbe required to look at others forfinancial assistance. Ladakh isalready a popular tourist placeand it will become an exoticdestination for tourists fromaround the world as we are nota part of the violent Kashmiranymore,” he said.

The Ladakh BuddhistAssociation, a major religiousbody, had been spearheadingthe demand for a UT status forLadakh. The association had inpast also organised manyprotests and peace marches toraise the issue.

Rinchen Angmo, a Leh-based journalist, said whilepeople were content with the

decision of the central govern-ment, there was a mixed feel-ing as they have not beengranted a legislature. “Althougha long-pending demand ofLadakhis has been fulfilled bythe government, there is stillsome confusion as a legislaturehas not been granted to the UTof Ladakh.”

Meanwhile, some proteststook place in Kargil with callsfor shutdown by a section of

politicians.Haji Asgar Ali Karbalai,

senior Congress leader inKargil, said Kargil did notwant alteration in the structureof Jammu & Kashmir.

“BJP gave a UT status toLadakh and altered the struc-ture of the state. It is unconsti-tutional. Now, we do not havea right to vote as there is noAssembly for the UT ofLadakh,” he said.

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Refugees from WestPakistan, who migrated to

Jammu region during Partitionand settled here, were ecstaticas the Government scrappedprovisions of Article 370, say-ing the decision would endtheir long “slavery”.

The refugees, who were sofar denied the Jammu &Kashmir citizenship, laudedPrime Minister Narendra Modifor the historic decision andsaid August 5, the day when thegovernment revoked provi-sions of the Article 370, will bewritten in “golden words”.

“The announcement hassparked celebrations in thehouses of 25,000 families whichhad migrated from Pakistanduring Partition of the countryin 1947. We have been strug-gling for our rights especiallythe citizenship of Jammu &Kashmir over the past 71 years,”Labha Ram Gandhi, presidentof West Pakistan RefugeeAction Committee, told PTI.

Gandhi said the commu-nity was thankful to the primeminister for this “bold and his-toric” decision, which “freed usfrom the chains of slavery”.

Gandhi said their ancestorscame here from Sialkote andother nearby areas as Jammu &Kashmir was the nearest placefor them to get to after thePartition. “While Pakistanirefugees in other parts of thecountry enjoyed their freedomsoon after their migration andrestarted their lives, we werecaught in a vicious conspiracyand were denied citizenshiprights under the garb of Article370 and Article 35A,” he said.

Gandhi said he is pained

when someone addresses him asPakistani refugee. Refugeesfrom West Pakistan, which wasrenamed Pakistan in 1970, weredenied basic citizenship right ofJammu & Kashmir, right to votein Assembly elections, right toown property, right to educationin professional colleges andright to Government employ-ment in the State.

He said the refugees weregiven Indian citizenship aftertheir migration and the right tovote in Parliament elections butdenial of citizenship rights leftthe community virtually begfor their survival over the years.

“All rights including thevote to elect our representativein the Assembly was denied tous, our educated youths arejobless,” he said and lauded theBJP for ending “injustice with

the community”.He said the State constitu-

tion came into existence in1957, which was 10 years afterthe settlement of Pakistanirefugees in the State.

“Article 370 came into exis-tence in 1950 and we migrat-ed in 1947, while Article 35Awas enforced in 1953, fouryears before Jammu & Kashmirconstitution came into effect.The one who have written theconstitution of the State kepthimself blind folded and failedto notice our presence in thestate. It was deliberate under awell planned conspiracy, whichended yesterday,” he said.

“It is nothing short of a fes-tival for us,” he added. Bansi Lal(70), a deputy Sarpanch ofKarpalpur panchayat, said thelocals were very happy as “the

refugees who are spread in var-ious villages of Mundal blockwere facing tremendous prob-lems due to denial of citizen-ship rights by the Jammu &Kashmir Government”.

Over 20,000 Pakistanirefugees are living in 60 villagesfalling under 10 panchayats ofMundal block, he said addingthat “we know their struggleand the problems they werefacing and the Government hasmade a right move to abrogateArticle 360 which was dis-criminatory in nature”.

“They are our neighboursfor last many decades. Weshare sorrow and grief and havemarried in each other families.The youth of the communitywere facing lot of problems ingetting Government jobs orjoining forces,” he said.

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National Security Advisor(NSA) Ajit Doval Tuesday

met Governor Satya Pal Malikin Srinagar and discussed aboutthe prevailing external andinternal security situation inthe State in the aftermath ofdevelopments in theParliament relating to Jammu& Kashmir.

“Both of them stressed theneed for ensuring safety ofgeneral public and emphasisedconstant alertness, prepared-ness and synergy among vari-ous departments to meet anyunforeseen situation” RajBhawan spokesman said in aPress statement.

In another related devel-opment, the General OfficerCommanding in Chief,Northern Command, Lt GenRanbir Singh chaired a meet-ing of the Core Group ofIntelligence and Security agen-cies at Srinagar to review theoperational readiness to meetany contingency that couldadversely impact the securitysituation in J&K. He stated thatnecessary security arrange-ments had been put in place forensuring peace and security.

The Army Commanderhighlighted that during thepast few days, Pakistan hadintensified its efforts at increas-ing strength of terrorists inlaunch pads along the Line of

Control (LoC), initiatingCeasefire Violations, pushinginfiltrators across the LoC, cal-ibrating terrorist actions in thehinterland as also exploiting thesocial media to launch disin-formation campaign in J&K.

Lt Gen Singh said, “IndianArmy has given a befittingresponse, thwarting their nefar-ious designs of causing distur-bances in our country”.

He urged the people not tofall prey to the enemy’s evildesigns to poison their mindswith incessant propaganda andexhorted them not to proliferaterumours as well as dissuadetheir near and dear ones fromindulging in rumour mongering.

He warned that if PakistanArmy continued with a dis-ruptive course, the IndianArmy would respond with

resolve and that the cost wouldbe prohibitive for them.

Giving details of security ofthe hinterland, it was high-lighted that counter terrorismand law & order grids had beenstrengthened. The securityforces are suitably deployed toguard important VulnerablePoints/ Areas, prepared forcrowd control, emerging law &order situations, as also toconduct effective counter ter-rorist operations.

The Army Commanderstated that security forces weremaintaining a high state ofalertness and readiness tocounter any inimical designs.Serving a note of caution tothose who harbour plans to dis-rupt peace and harmony with-in, GOC-in-C stated that theywould be dealt with firmly.

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Thane: A video showing aneight-year-old girl jumpinginto the Ulhas river from abridge to ‘celebrate’ revocationof the Article 370 and pay trib-ute to martyred jawans hasgone viral on social media.

The text accompanying thevideo identified her as SaiAshish Patil, a resident ofBalkum area in Thane city, andclaimed that she had set a“record” by jumping 50 feetdown from Kasheli Bridge.

Patil, clad in a swimmingsuit, is seen saying that it wasa historic day as the Article 370of the Constitution had been“removed”. As a tribute to thesoldiers killed in the Pulwamaterror attack in February, shewas going to jump off thebridge, she said, signing offwith “Jai Hind”.

Video then shows a childjumping off the bridge into thewaters, and then moving towardsanother swimmer. PTI

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The UK has been quite unique asa developed nation, having enact-ed the country’s Climate ChangeAct in 2008. According to theCommittee on Climate Change,

a statutory independent body, by 2017 itsgreenhouse emissions were 43 per cent below1990 levels while the economy grew by two-thirds over the same period. The Act callsfor the UK to reduce these emissions by atleast 80 per cent by 2050, compared to 1990levels. The remarkable aspect of this Act isthat it cuts across party lines and binds thecountry to a set of measures enacted byParliament. But, of course, much more needsto be done now to ensure that human soci-ety does not allow the earth’s temperaturesto exceed 1.5°C by the end of this century.

Meanwhile, according to meteorologi-cal information, the year 2019 has alreadycrossed previous limits and is headingtowards becoming the hottest year onrecord. At the same time, all across the world,there are extreme events ranging from heatwaves to extreme precipitation events,which have increased in frequency and inten-sity. This year there were also reports that awidespread area in the Arctic had raging firesright from Siberia to Alaska.

The Arctic region, according to theFourth Assessment Report by theIntergovernmental Panel on Climate Change(IPCC) published in 2007, estimated that theArctic region was warming at twice the rateof the rest of the globe. The extreme heat thisyear and in earlier periods is also melting theGreenland ice sheet at a rapid rate, whichwould enhance sea level rise dangerously.Drastic measures are required to curbgreenhouse gas emissions and these includelifestyle changes as well.

It is questionable whether the newPrime Minister of Britain, Boris Johnson, istruly committed to action on climate changeand certainly, he is not likely to make anylifestyle changes himself or motivate othersin the UK to do so. This writer hadaddressed a gathering of professionals inLondon in 2008, where he clearly highlight-ed the need for reducing meat consumption,based on his plea, “Please eat less meat,because you would be healthier and so wouldthe planet.” The UK beef industry, of course,was very critical of this appeal but surpris-ingly, so was the current Prime Minister ofBritain, who was then the Mayor of London.He wrote an op-ed piece in the DailyTelegraph on September 9, 2008, which whileridiculing advice to cut down on meat con-sumption, wrote the following.

“No, Dr Rajendra Pachauri, distin-guished chairman of the panel, I am notgoing to have one meat-free day per week.No, I am not going to become a gradualvegetarian. In fact, the whole propositionis so irritating that I am almost minded toeat more meat in response.

Every weekend, rain or shine, I suggestthat we flaunt our defiance of UN dietary

recommendations with a seriesof vast Homeric barbecues.”

Johnson ignores the factthat the IPCC makes no recom-mendations. Its assessments arepolicy-relevant but not policyprescriptive. He states further,“We are going to have carnivo-rous festivals of chops andsausages and burgers and chit-terlings and chine and offal, andthe fat will run down our chins,and the dripping will blaze onthe charcoal, and the smokyvapours will rise to the heavens.

We will call these meatfeasts Pachauri days, in satiricalhomage to the tofu-chompingUN man who told the humanrace to go veggie.”

There is considerable spec-ulation in the British media onwhether Johnson’s live-in part-ner Carrie Symonds might actu-ally be able to influence his posi-tion on climate change, perhapswith some changes in lifestyle aswell and possibly have himforego the excessive craving formeat feasts, which he hadreferred to as Pachauri days.

While one can be amusedwith Johnson’s humour, it wouldbe unfortunate if the PrimeMinister of a country as impor-tant as the UK, and which hashad the vision of enacting its cli-mate change law, sticks to his oldposition. Who knows, perhapshe has actually reduced his meatconsumption because he cer-

tainly seems trimmer than wasthe case when he was the Mayorof London. It may be thatSymonds will be a productiveinfluence on the man who isnow the British Prime Ministerand, thus, send a message to thepublic in that nation.

Johnson in his article alsostated, “Man is an omnivore, cul-turally and probably biological-ly programmed to take proteinfrom meat; and those meat ani-mals must be farmed.” The meatindustry undoubtedly wasthrilled with this view. Sadly,Johnson obviously has notrealised that the entire globalmeat cycle is very intensive inthe use of energy, right up to thestage where households storemeat in their refrigerators.

Added to that is the clearingof forests as pastureland, such aswith the Amazon rainforest,and providing CO2 intensivefeed material produced in larg-er and larger quantities for live-stock. An IPCC report justreleased provides a stark warn-ing of land just not being avail-able on planet earth if we con-sume meat at current levels. Thisreport establishes the escalatingconflict between meat produc-tion and other more essentialuses of land.

Sadly, the current Presidentof Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, whosubscribes to US PresidentDonald Trump’s and Johnson’s

views, has recently sacked thehead of the National Institute forSpace Research, which has beenmonitoring deforestation in theAmazon region. AfterBolsonaro’s assumption of office,deforestation in June was esti-mated by this organisation as 88per cent higher than the sameperiod last year.

It is unfortunate that leadersof major countries choose toignore the truth or deliberatelyserve the interests of lobbies, whojust want to maximise theirprofits without regard to thefuture impacts of climate change.

This mental inertia has to beovercome through public con-sciousness and grassroots action,as has been the case in severalcountries of the world. It is theyouth of the world who nowneed to take the lead and imple-ment actions to reduce theemissions of greenhouse gases,which are responsible forhuman-induced climate change.

Fortunately, this is nowgaining momentum with theefforts of Greta Thunberg, the16-year-old Swedish activist,and the Protect Our Planet(POP) movement being imple-mented in several countries.But when do we get leaders witha conscience and those who careabout our future?

(The writer is former chair-man, Intergovernmental Panel onClimate Change, 2002-15)

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Sir — This refers to the editorial,“Excellence or not” (August 5).Whether an institution is giventhe tag of an “institute of emi-nence” or not, as long as it doesnot deliver “intelligent and emi-nent students”, which is what isexpected of it, notwithstandingthe different mental make-up ofthe students, the tag is of no value.That many students face difficul-ties in finding a job speak volumesabout the poor standards of edu-cation. The tag alone cannot leadto academic excellence. Affordableeducation with high-quality stan-dards from the primary levelshould be the aim.

VS JayaramanChennai

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Sir — This refers to the editorial,“Toying with fire” (August 6).With a parliamentary majority onits side, the Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) has implemented a key itemon the core agenda of its parentorganisation RashtriyaSwayamsevak Sangh (RSS) —abrogation of Article 370. The

Muslim-majority State’s accessionto India was premised on its spe-cial status. Hence, it is a validapprehension that the BJPGovernment’s unilateral move,done without consulting the stake-holders in the State, may weaken,if not break, the bond betweenKashmir and the rest of India andalso alter the State’s present demo-graphic profile. The saddest partis that the Central Government

has given the impression that theValley’s people are less importantthan its territory.

G David MiltonMaruthancode

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Sir — The Trumpian style ofwhimsical intervention in interna-tional politics, this time in

Kashmir, has abruptly brought apresidential Ordinance on Article35A. Other than sending a subtlemessage to the US, to desist, thepresent step cannot be expectedto find quick solutions. There willbe reactions. But right now, theIndian Tricolour will be hoisted inSrinagar with far greater assertive-ness and Central authority.

R NarayananNavi Mumbai

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Sir — This refers to the editori-al, “Toying with fire” (August 6).Successive Governments at theCentre were scared of burningtheir fingers by touching the spe-cial status granted to the State ofJammu & Kashmir in the form ofArticle 370 and 35A. They pam-pered the Kashmiri separatists aswell as leaders of the State, whoalways threatened New Delhiwith dire consequences if theytouched these provisions.

This situation in Jammu &Kashmir was unacceptable tomost Indians. After the sepa-ratists, the divisive politicians ofKashmir, too, have been showntheir place. Not only Articles370 and 35A have been abrogat-ed but the status and geographyof the erstwhile Jammu &Kashmir State have been changedby splitting it into two Union ter-ritories. This is a bold decision,which has opened a new door fordevelopment and prosperity ofthe Kashmiris.

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Think Kashmir without the families of RajaHari Singh, Sheikh Abdullah, MuftiMohammad Sayeed in today’s context and

delete Jawaharlal Nehru and MA Jinnah’s person-al love for the place; surely, the political landscapeof the State would have been completely different.It is axiomatic that Jammu & Kashmir became inde-pendent as soon as it was released from its allegianceto the British crown under the Indian IndependenceAct. The Maharaja of Jammu & Kashmir becamethe repository of all power under this Act, whichcreated the two dominions of India and Pakistan.He was free to decide whether he would accede toany one of the two dominions.

Meanwhile, Jinnah visualised Kashmir aspart of Pakistan and dreamt of bracing its climateand Mughal Gardens as the Governor-Generalof Pakistan. He thought it was almost in his pock-et: Whether it came to him willingly or was takenby force was immaterial. The British hadpromised it to him: It was a majority Muslim areaand it had no approach to India except throughPakistan. Being sure of his ground, Jinnah firstmade an approach to the Maharaja for accessionof the State to Pakistan in a very persuasive andfriendly manner. In fact, he lured the then PrimeMinister of Kashmir, Ram Chandra Kak, to bringKashmir to Pakistan. But the Maharaja remainedfirm on the ground that either the State wouldenjoy independent status or it would emerge withthe Indian dominion.

As far as India was concerned, it was indiffer-ent on the subject, though it would have been happyif Kashmir had acceded to India. MahatmaGandhi visited Kashmir before August 15, 1947,to persuade the Maharaja to accede to India buthe remained non-committal. If the Maharaja haddecided to accede to India or to Pakistan beforeAugust 15, 1947, much of the trouble and bitter-ness may well have been avoided. But he was toy-ing with the idea of independence and was rely-ing on his Dogra forces to achieve this end.However, he was completely averse to the idea ofacceding to Pakistan as it would have involved thecomplete destruction of the Hindu population ofthe State and seizure of all that they had, includ-ing abduction of women. Meanwhile, SheikhAbdullah along with his deputy, Bakshi, took overthe leadership of the National Conference (NC) asit was the only political party of the State. NC lead-ers were favorable to the State’s accession to India.The Maharaja felt that there was no option for himbut to accede to India. However, India continuedmaintaining an indifferent approach towardsKashmir. Mahatma Gandhi and Sardar Patel pre-ferred the situation where Kashmir accession mustcome voluntarily to India. Being a liberal democ-rat, Pandit Nehru was keen on the Maharaja hand-ing over the power to Sheikh Abdullah than aboutaccession. In his view, once the State administra-tion had gone to popular hands, the question ofaccession could be appropriately discussed with thepopular Government.

The biggest hurdle to resolving the Kashmirissue has been the business of “plebiscite”, whichPakistan as well as other India-baiters, includingthe so-called liberals, has often raised. The originof that apprehension can be traced to the letter ofOctober 27, 1947, which Lord Mountbatten wroteto Maharaja Hari Singh after the latter had signedhis acceptance on the Instrument of Accession on

October 26, 1947. That letter of Mountbatten waspersonal and it was in reply to the Maharaja’s let-ter of October 26, stating that “'a grave emergency”had arisen in his State and acknowledging that theIndian dominion “cannot send the help asked for”without his State acceding to India. Accordingly,on October 26, the Maharaja attached theInstrument of Accession for acceptance. In his let-ter, Mountbatten wrote, “...my Government hasdecided to accept the accession of Kashmir Stateto the dominion of India. In consistence with theirpolicy that in the case of any State, where the issueof accession has been the subject of dispute, thequestion of accession should be decided in accor-dance with the wishes of the people of the State. Itis my Government’s wish that as soon as law andorder have been restored in Kashmir and its soilcleared of the invader, the question of the State’saccession should be settled by a reference to the peo-ple.” This statement of Mountbatten was to evokean almost violent reaction from MC Mahajan, whowas the then Prime minister of Kashmir and laterbecame the Chief Justice of India.

In his Accession of Kashmir to India (The InsideStory), the learned judge wrote: “The IndianIndependence Act did not envisage conditionalaccession. It could not envisage such a situation asit would be outside the Parliament’s policy. It want-ed to keep no Indian State in a state of suspense.It conferred on the rulers of the Indian Statesabsolute power in their discretion to accede to eitherof the two dominions. The dominion’s GovernorGeneral had the power to accept the accession orreject the offer, but he had no power to keep thequestion open or attach conditions to it.” What isalso not in dispute is the Himalayan bungle creat-ed by Nehru’s Government of the time. OnJanuary 27, 1948, India and Pakistan submitted adraft proposal to the president of the United NationsSecurity Council on the appropriate methods ofsolving the Kashmir dispute. According to theSecurity Council verbatim reports cited by JusticeAnand, the Indian representative on the floor ofthe Security Council made it appear that the finalstatus of Kashmir was to be determined by

plebiscite although the legal nature of Kashmir’saccession was the foundation of India’s case.

Years later, the problem in Kashmir is often rep-resented primarily as a matter between India andPakistan and framed around the issues of the legit-imacy of Kashmir’s accession to India during inde-pendence. But this is not the problem today as cir-cumstances since the accession have changed suchthat insurgency is now largely fuelled by an increas-ingly hardliner Pakistan state. The ethnic and reli-gious diversity in Jammu & Kashmir, which is divid-ed into three regions, has contributed to the com-plexity of the Kashmir problem.

The current violence cycle of the insurgencywas started in late 1980s — it began as an ethnicissue. However, over the years, insurgency has beencarefully and deliberately cultivated into a religiousone. This created an environment of intolerance,intimidation and ultimately, violence throughoutthe Valley that only exasperated other existing ten-sions: A situation that led to the exodus of theKashmiri Hindu pandits from the region. WithPrime Minister Narendra Modi securing a major-ity in the second term and Union Home MinisterAmit Shah at the helm of affairs, the CentralGovernment will now take on the Kashmir issuemuch more assertively than it did in its first term.

One of the key shifts in the new Government’sapproach to Kashmir is that while prior to May2019, the focus was on dealing with the separatistswith an iron hand, the focus now is to make theKashmiri separatist and dynast leaders irrelevantaltogether. National Security Advisor Ajit Dovalhas pushed for a muscular policy in dealing withthe present crisis in the Valley with fair success butIndia was missing a bold Home Minister in Modi1.0 to translate Doval’s initiative at the legislativeplatform. Shah has bridged this gap with Modi 2.0leading to appropriate legislation in the Parliamentto address the Kashmir issue, seeking permanentsolution from an Indian perspective.

On the domestic front, the first part of thepolicy involves scaling up military action againstterrorists in Kashmir. The second part of this pol-icy involves the relentless pursuit of individuals

and outfits, who claim to be self-styled represen-tatives of the Kashmiri Muslims and support rad-icalism — directly or indirectly. No one will bespared, no matter how much influential. TheNational Investigation Agency has already seizedassets worth �1,400 crore and has launched aninvestigation in 21 cases. The Central Board ofDirect Taxes and the Enforcement Directorate areworking overtime in the State, identifying, track-ing and shutting down all means to fund terror-ist activities. A massive crackdown on theJamaat-e-Islami has begun. The outfit has a stronginfluence in south Kashmir and is largely heldresponsible for turning the four districts in theregion into a hub for terrorism. This crackdownis going to get stronger in the days to come untilthe outfit is made completely redundant. Similarly,tougher action is being taken against separatists,not just cosmetic ones. Many leaders have beenshifted to prisons outside Srinagar so that theValley does not come under their influence.

The writing on the wall is clear: NarendraModi and Shah are discarding the old guard inthe State and building a new leadership from thegrassroot. The abrogation of Article 370 and 35Ashall facilitate larger integration of Jammu &Kashmir with the rest of the country. As India ismarching ahead towards becoming a $5 trillioneconomy, policy-makers must not excludeJammu & Kashmir State from the fruits of devel-opment just to please a few feudal families threat-ening the State of India of false repercussions.Jammu & Kashmir has been a victim of protect-ing the rights of a few political families rather thanthe people and then one of the tallest Indian leaderSyama Prasad Mukherjee has correctly predict-ed in 1952 that the Indian State must abandonPrince and Czars of Kashmir to let it freely inte-grate with the Union of India to blossom in a pros-perous integrated society. The historic decisionto abrogate Article 370 and re-organisation of theState by the Modi Government shall facilitatefaster development of the State with the nation.

(The writer is a regular columnist with ThePioneer and Editor-in-chief of Opinion Express)

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August 5, 2019, will remain ahistoric day for the country.On this day, the Modi

Government scrapped Article 370and Article 35A pertaining toJammu & Kashmir in one stroke.Prime Minister Narendra Modihas resolved a complex issue, whichmany Prime Ministers had beengrappling with unsuccessfully forthe past 70 years, boldly within thefirst 100 days of his second term.

As a bureaucrat fr iendremarked, with half a pagePresidential order and four hours ofdebate and discussion in the RajyaSabha, Jammu & Kashmir as a Statedisappeared and in its placeemerged two Union Territories —

Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh.The political reason for clubbingJammu & Kashmir might be tomake the State Hindu majority gradually.

Politically, Modi has emergedmuch stronger. The Prime Ministerand Union Home Minister AmitShah get kudos for the bloodlesscoup. “We reiterate our positionsince the time of the Jan Sangh tothe abrogation of Article 370," readthe BJP’s ‘Sankalp Patra’ for the LokSabha election of 2019. Articles 35Aand Article 370, among other issues,including national security, nation-alism and terrorism, had becamemajor election issues.

Interestingly, the Congress hadpromised in its manifesto that noth-ing will be done or allowed tochange the Constitutional positionon Kashmir. Now that the BharatiyaJanata Party (BJP) is heading thestrongest Government at the Centrein 30 years after having secured amassive majority of its own in the2019 Lok Sabha elections, there waspressure from the RashtriyaSwayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the

Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) toact on its promises.

Article 370 of the Constitutiongrants special status to Jammu &Kashmir, while Article 35A empow-ers the Legislature to define theState’s “permanent residents” andtheir special rights and privileges.It also bars a Kashmiri woman fromgetting any property rights if shemarries a person outside the State.

The Modi-Shah duo took everyone by surprise by planning thewhole operation in complete secre-cy. The Opposition has complainedthat no consultations were madewith the stakeholders. In fact, whilethe Bill was introduced in theHouse, two former Chief Ministers— Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)chief Mehbooba Mufti and NationalConference leader Omar Abdullah— were kept under house arrest inSrinagar. Getting the Bill passed inthe Rajya Sabha, where the rulingparty is in a minority, was indeed a feat for the TreasuryBenches. The Congress feels outfoxed.

Modi’s success in the Upper

House was also possible due to thedivision in Opposition ranks. Manyparties, including the Biju JanataDal (BJD), Telangana RashtraSamithi (TRS), YSR Congress Party(YSRCP), Bahujan Samaj Party(BSP) and the Aam Aadmi Party(AAP), sided with the Government,thus isolating the Congress, theTrinamool Congress (TMC) and afew other parties. However, allregional parties in the State, includ-ing NC, PDP, Jammu and KashmirPeople’s Movement (J&KPM) andothers, opposed the measure.

Now that the Parliament hasendorsed the proposal, managingthe aftermath is the challenge aheadfor the Modi Government. ThePrime Minister believes that themeasure will solve the Kashmirproblem and bring peace and pros-perity to the State.

While there has been no imme-diate signs of violence in Jammu &Kashmir as massive forces havebeen deployed, it is too soon to dis-miss any trouble. The gene is outof the bottle and it is not knownwhether it will turn uncontrol-

lable. There are some who fearKashmir might turn out to beanother Palestine.

Second, the State has beendegraded but has the Governmentthought of an economic plan for thedevelopment of these two UnionTerritories? As Amit Shah hadnoted in his speech in Parliamentwhile presenting the Bills, crores ofrupees have been sent to the Statefor development but they neverreached the people. The economicplan is a must for the future and theGovernment is yet to disclose it.

Third, Pakistan, too, must havebeen taken by surprise by thiscoup. Enthused by the good recep-tion Pakistan Prime Minister ImranKhan received in the US recently,with promises of more aid to bailout its economy, the Pakistaniestablishment is upbeat.Encouraged by all these, it cannotbe ruled out that Pakistan mightinstigate some violence in Kashmir.Also the Valley is the most vulner-able to Talibanis and other terrororganisations like Al Qaeda and theIslamic State (IS). There is also the

danger of more home-grown terror-ism and the emergence of moreBurhan Wanis.

Pakistan might also take it tothe United Nations as Kashmircan no longer be on the agenda andalso seek the US’ intervention.

Above all, most Kashmiris inthe Valley feel betrayed. The StateGovernment and the Centre mustdo everything to assuage their feel-ing of alienation and fill up the trustdeficit. Bringing normalcy in theValley should be the top priority.

Overall, while doubts maylinger about the response from theValley, Prime Minister Modi hasearned huge political capital by thismeasure.

If the Supreme Court gives agreen signal by November, the BJPis ready to build the Ram temple inAyodhya, too. There are many,who believe that if elections were tobe held tomorrow, Prime MinisterModi might even beat former PrimeMinister Rajiv Gandhi’s record ofgetting 405 seats in the 1984 LokSabha elections.

(The writer is a senior journalist)

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In more troubles for the audi-tors of the crippled IL&FS —

Deloitte and BSR, the corporateaffairs ministry Tuesday movedthe NCLT seeking to freezetheir bank accounts along withthose of 21 others who areimpleaded in the main petitionin the one of the largest fraudcases.

This comes even as theNCLT is yet to pronounce itsverdict on the ministry pleaseeking to ban these auditorsfor their omissions and com-missions in the case for fiveyears. The Ministry counselsaid he wants their accountsfrozen as an interim measuretill the tribunal delivers on itsdemand to ban these auditorsfor five years.

Seeking to restrain theiractivities by freezing theiraccounts, ministry counselSanjay Shorey said the tribunalcan allow these individuals towithdraw a certain amountsay �1 -2 lakh every monthbased on their requirementlike it had done in case ofIL&FS former directors.

He explained that the moveis based on the fact that theministry doesn’t have the pow-ers to halt the operations ofthese statutory auditorsDeloitte Haskins & Sells, andBSR Associates which is an

associate of KPMG, and theyshould be allowed to accessmoney to meet only opera-tional expenses till the order oftheir ban is passed.

But the tribunal did notoffer any interim relief sayingthese auditors have moved theNCLAT challenging the tri-bunal order to implead themand prosecute them at theappellate tribunal, which willhear the matter on August 19.

“Hence, we will only hearyour arguments and not pass anyorder today,” the tribunal benchcomprising VP Singh and RajeshSharma added and adjournedthe matter to August 28.

To this, Shorey pointedout that the tribunal has the

powers to give an interim reliefto attach the accounts, other-wise the coffers will be emptyby the time the NCLAT verdictcomes in.

“Moreover, the objective isto ensure that if fraud hasindeed taken place, thereshould be something realisablefrom the parties to the fraud,”he added.

It can be noted that afterNCLT had stayed its own orderto prosecute the auditors onJuly 25 for four weeks to allowthe auditors to appeal inNCLAT, the auditorsapproached the appellate tri-bunal. The NCLAT would hearthe pleas of auditors on August 19.

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Scores of Jet Airways employ-ees on Tuesday gathered in

the national capital and soughtan interim financial assistancetill completion of the insol-vency resolution process.

The once-storied full ser-vice carrier stopped flying onApril 17 as it ran out of moneyfor daily operations.

An employees’ consortiumhas demanded that theCommittee of Creditors (CoC)should look at providing onemonth’s salary as an interimfinancial assistance.

The consortium representsaround 9,000 employees,including pilots, engineers andcabin crew, according to A KMohanty.

Mohanty, a representativeof the consortium, said onemonth’s salary should bereleased to existing employeesof Jet Airways for their basicsurvival. The resolution processshould be fast-tracked andoperations should be restartedat the earliest. There shouldn’tbe liquidation, he added.

Most of the employees,who gathered at Jantar Mantarhere, were clad in the airline’suniform. The deadline for sub-mission of initial bids under theinsolvency resolution processends on August 10.

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The National Company lawTribunal (NCLT) has

approved issuance of bonusdebentures by the BritanniaIndustries Ltd to its share-holders, which was announcedin 2018 in the company’s cen-tenary year.

The company had last yearannounced issuance of securedredeemable non-convertibledebentures as bonus debenturesof �60 in the ratio of one suchdebenture for every equity shareat an interest rate not exceed-ing 8 per cent to be paid annu-ally for a period of three years.

The Kolkata bench of theNCLT in its August 2 order hadapproved the scheme ofarrangement for issuance of thedebenture bonus to its share-holders. According to the com-pany, it had proposed issuing12,01,59,147 bonus debenturesand the same would be listedon BSE and NSE.

The company had totalfree reserves and securitiespremium of �3,196 crore as onMarch 2018.

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Users of payment app BHIMwill be able to access and

operate multiple bank accountsin the next version of the plat-form planned to be launchedby October.

“BHIM is being upgraded.It will allow users to accessmultiple bank accounts fromthe app in the next versionwhich will be launched byOctober,” said an official of theMinistry of Electronics andIT.

The official said the nextversion of BHIM will give full-

fledged competition to privatepayment platforms.

“BHIM already facilitatespayment service for utilities.We are bringing several othermerchants also on board. Thiswill enable users to buy prod-ucts and services from themand pay them through theapp,” the officer said.

Any user who has linkedhis mobile phone number witha bank account can carry outtransactions on BHIM app.

In June, over 1.5 croretransactions worth Rs 6,202crore were carried on theBHIM platform.

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With inflation under con-trol, experts are expect-

ing another 25 basis points ratecut by the RBI for a fourth timein a row to boost economicactivities.

The Monetary PolicyCommittee (MPC), headed byRBI Governor Shaktikanta Das,is deliberating on the macro-economic situation, and isscheduled to announce its thirdbi-monthly policy of the ongo-ing fiscal on Wednesday.

The MPC meeting beganon Monday.

Speculations are rife aboutanother rate cut with inflationwell under RBI’s comfort zone,slowing automobile sales,muted growth in infrastructureindustries, concerns overspread of monsoon and slumpin stock market.

Finance Minister NirmalaSitharaman held reviewedcredit bursal by banks at ameeting on Monday and askedbanks to pass on 75 basispoints (bps) rate cut by RBIsince February to borrowers.

Talking to reporters afterthe meeting, SBI chairmanRajnish Kumar had said he washopeful of another rate cut byMPC.

“I hope so, everybody is

expecting a ratecut...Everybody says 25 bps(would be the reduction),”Kumar said when asked abouthis expectations from MPC.

The industry also expectsthe six-member MPC to takesteps to improve liquidity sit-uation and also ensure trans-mission of rate cuts to bor-rowers by the banks.

Industry body CII in astatement said the central bankstarted its interest rate easingcycle in February 2019, takingcognizance of the headwinds togrowth and inflation readingremaining below the RBI’s tar-get of 4 per cent.

It also wants the RBI toslash cash reserve ratio (CRR)by 50 bps which will releasearound �60,000 crore into thesystem. The real estate sectortoo is expecting further easingin the monetary policy.

In its June policy review theRBI had signalled more easingas it looked to support aneconomy growing at the slow-est pace since the BJP-led NDAcame to power in 2014.

Experts are also of theopinion that slowdown in highfrequency indicators, likeautomobile sale and core sec-tor industries, will be a majorfactor before the MPC whilereviewing the monetary policy.

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The NSE and SingaporeExchange (SGX) have

received all regulatory approvalsto launch SGX Connect, a newjoint platform that is likely to befunctional from the NSEInternational Exchange at GiftCity in Ahmadabad towards theend of 2020.

The announcementTuesday formally ends the longbickering and an arbitrationcase at the Bombay High Courtbetween the two largeexchanges in Asia that tracesthe problem to a February2018 statement by NSE that itwould end the joint platform--SGX-Nifty-that used to tradeNSE’s offshore equity deriva-tives, from October 2018.Subsequent talks between thetwo did not yield any results.

Soon, the BSE had alsodecided to stop supplying itsderivatives to its foreign part-ners as part of an attempt toprevent more of the domesticequity derivatives market fromgoing offshore.

In fact, the domesticexchanges were prodded bySebi and the RBI as huge off-

shore volumes were leading tovery high volatility in theonshore rupee and futuresmarkets.

The move prompted SGXto seek legal remedies againstNSE and in April 2018 SGXalso decided to launch Indiansingle-stock options despiteNSE’s objections which furthercreated a rift between the twoand in May 2018 both the par-ties moved Bombay HC seek-ing an arbitration award. Thenext month, the HC askedNSE to allow its derivatives tobe allowed to be traded on theSGX in the interim.

In March 2019, theBombay HC extended NSE-SGX arbitration deadline toDecember 31, 2020 as both theparties sought more time to set-tle the dispute.

It can be noted that Niftyfutures contracts on the SGXwere very popular among for-eign portfolio investors lookingto trade in dollar-denominat-ed products and not wanting toregister with Sebi. And at itspeak in 2016, SGX Nifty vol-umes were 1.4 times higherthan those on the onshoreNSE platform.

New Delhi: Mastercard launched Identity Check Express, amobile-first authentication solution that aims to redefine the e-commerce journey for millions of Indian consumers. The solu-tion will help eliminate unnecessary friction and enhance thesecurity of online transactions. Identity Check Express was show-cased at the Global Mastercard Cybersecurity Summit, held forthe first time in India. PNS

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During the Quarter thepower generation and

power sale was 5059.11 MUand 4305.91 MU respective-ly compared to 4883.91 MUand 4111.89 MU in the cor-responding quarter of theprevious year registering agrowth of 3.59% in powergeneration and 4.72% inpower sale.

The company has com-missioned 163 MW of SolarPower during the quartertaking its renewable footprint to 857.56 MW at theend of the quarter ended30th June, 2019. Renewablepower generation during thequarter is 291.89 MU asagainst 116.53 MU in the cor-responding quarter of previ-ous period.

Plant Load Factor (PLF)of Thermal Plants achievedduring the quarter is 69.52%as against 67.37% in the cor-responding quarter of previ-ous year.

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KSreekant has assumed thecharge of Chairman and

Managing Director of PowerGrid Corporation of IndiaLimited (POWERGRID) on5thAugust, 2019. Prior to tak-ing up this assignment, he wasserving as Director (Finance)POWERGRID.

Sreekant is a B.Com(Hons.) graduate, CMA andPGDBM (Finance), having-more than thirty three years ofexperience in the power sectorinvolving all facets of Finance& Accounting function and inparticular, long term financialplanning, investmentappraisals, formulation of cap-ital budgets, resource mobi-lization from domestic andinternational markets and cor-porate accounts.

New Delhi: Indian counterfeiting market has surpassed over�40,000 cr. according to 2018 survey. Especially in the FMCGsector, it was found that 30 per cent goods sold in the marketare fake and around 80 per cent consumers believe that they areusing genuine products. Cello Group of Companies, a house-hold products and plastic molded furniture maker, are up in armsby launching a full-fledged war against counterfeiting by filingvarious cases of violation of its intellectual property rights (IPR)and trademarks in the FY19. PNS

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Former RBI Governor BimalJalan on Tuesday said the

government should borrowonly long-term fund from theoverseas market, and the quan-tum should not exceed 1.5 percent of GDP under any cir-cumstances.

“...If you (the government)are borrowing from aboard(then) borrow long-term andthe total foreign borrowingshould not exceed more than1.5 per cent of GDP under anycircumstances,” he said at thelaunch of his book ‘ResurgentIndia’.

Jalan said that he does nothave negative view about over-seas sovereign borrowing, buthe thinks India does not needto borrow from abroad.

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Equity benchmarks Sensexand Nifty rebounded on

Tuesday, a day after plunging tofive-month lows as investorslapped up bank and auto sec-tor stocks with hopes that theRBI will cut repo rate to lift sag-ging consumer sentiment.After swinging over 705 pointsduring the day, the 30-shareBSE index closed at 36,976.85,rising 277.01 points or 0.75 percent. The gauge hit a high of37,241.77 and a low of36,536.59.

The broader 50-share Niftyended 85.65 points or 0.79 percent higher at 10,948.25. TheRBI Monetary PolicyCommittee (MPC) is sched-uled to announce its third bi-monthly policy of the ongoingfiscal on Wednesday.

Besides, the market also gota boost from a hint that thegovernment might soften itsstand on higher super-richsurcharge on foreign portfolioinvestment. The Sensex chartwas led by Yes bank, with itsshares climbing 5.30 per cent.Other major gainers wereTechM, Bajaj Finance, BhartiAirtel, Maruti, Asian Paints andHero MotoCorp — rising up to3.97 per cent.

On the other hand,PowerGrid, TCS, RIL, Tata

Motors, Bajaj Auto, Vedanta,Infosys and ITC fell as much as1.52 per cent. Sectorally, BSEcapital goods, telecom, realty,industrials, basic materials,finance, bankex and metalindices rose up to 2.12 per cent.

In contrast, BSE energy, IT,teck and oil and gas indices fellup to 0.68 per cent. BroaderBSE midcap and smallcapindices followed benchmarks,rallying up to 1.72 per cent.According to analysts, marketsgained strength on the back ofbuying by investors ahead ofkey RBI policy announcementon Wednesday.

The market breadth wastilted in favour of buyers as1,637 stocks advanced and 809declined on the BSE. Marketrecouped Monday’s lossesaided by broad-based buyingacross sectors supported bythe finance minister’s decisionto have a discussion over for-eign portfolio investment issueamid continued outflow of liq-uidity, said Vinod Nair, Head ofResearch, Geojit FinancialServices Ltd.

Global cues were positivedue to China’s step to preventfurther slid in Yuan... Whilehope for a 25 basis point ratecut in the RBI meet tomorrowprovided some support to thetrend,” he said. The industry isalso expecting the MPC to

take steps to improve liquiditysituation and ensure transmis-sion of rate cuts to borrowersby the banks.

Meanwhile, positive senti-ment ahead of finance minis-ter’s meetings with industryleaders amid anticipation ofsteps to improve the state of theeconomy quickly too buoyedmarket mood here, he added.Finance Minister NirmalaSitharaman on Monday saidshe will meet representatives ofvarious sectors and “fairlyquickly” come out with steps tohelp them.

“Essential idea behindthese meetings is to hear fromthem and fairly quickly afterthat come up with somethingwhich will help those sectorswhich are giving their views tous,” she told reporters.Meanwhile, the worrying trendover foreign investment out-flows continued on Tuesdaywith overseas investors takingRs 2,107.93 crore out of Indianequities. However, domesticinstitutional investors put in Rs2,289.05 crore on a net basisinto domestic stock market.

The Indian rupee onTuesday fell by another 8 paiseto settle at 70.81 against the USdollar. Elsewhere in Asia,Shanghai Composite Index,Hang Seng, Nikkei and Kospiended in the red.

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Coffee Day Enterprises Ltdon Tuesday said it is aware

of reports questioning theauthenticity of the signatureon the purported letter writtenby late founder VG Siddharthaand is cooperating with regula-tory authorities on this issue.

The purported letter, whichis believed to be the final noteby the late promoter and wide-ly circulated on social media,contained statements allegingharassment on VG Siddharthaby the Income Tax department.In a reply to the clarificationsought by the bourses on theissue, Coffee Day Enterprisessaid “the company is aware ofthe news report” and added thatit is “co-operating with regula-tory authorities in relation to the

letter and related matter.” OnJuly 30, BSE had sought clarifi-cation from Coffee DayEnterprises over reports thatSiddhartha’s signatures on thepurported letter were notmatching with his signature onother documents. VGSiddhartha, was confirmed deadon July 31, after his body wasfound in the Netravati river inDakshina Kannada district ofKarnataka, a day after he wentmissing. On the same day,Coffee Day Enterprises hadnamed independent directorSV Ranganath as the interimchairman of the company. In thepurported letter, dated July 27,2019 Siddhartha had said therewas a lot of harassment from theprevious DG of the Income TaxDepartment in the form ofattaching “our shares on two

separate occasions to block ourMindtree deal and then takingposition of our Coffee Dayshares, although revised returnshave been filed by us”.

“This was very unfair andhas led to a serious liquiditycrunch,” the letter, bearing apurported signature ofSiddhartha, had said. However,the Income Tax Departmenthad last week denied charges ofharassment during their probeagainst Siddhartha and had

pointed out that the signaturesof the entrepreneur availablewith them were different fromthose on a letter being widelypublished on the social media.

“The authenticity of thenote is not known and the sig-nature does not tally with ShriVG Siddhartha’s signature asavailable in his annual reports,”the statement from the IncomeTax Department had said. In apress statement issued on July30, Coffee Day Enterprises hadadmitted about the purportedletter signed by Siddhartha andsaid that it has shared it with theauthorities. “The board alsoreviewed a copy of the letterpurportedly signed by VGSiddhartha dated July 27, 2019and has shared a copy of the let-ter with relevant authorities,” ithad said.

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Reliance Industries and UK’sBP plc have agreed to form

a new joint venture to set up5,500 petrol pumps and retailaviation turbine fuel to airlinesin India, the two firms said onTuesday. In a statement, the twofirms said “they have agreed toform a new joint venture thatwill include a retail service sta-tion network and aviation fuelsbusiness across India”.

The joint venture will buildon Reliance’s existing fuel retail-ing network of near 1,400petrol pumps and an aviationfuel business. “This joint ven-ture will also include RIL’s avi-ation fuels business, whichcurrently operates at over 30airports across India, providingparticipation in this rapidly-growing market,” the state-ment said. Reliance will hold 51per cent stake in the new jointventure, while BP will have theremaining 49 per cent. Thisjoint venture would assumeownership of Reliance’s existingIndian fuel retail network andaccess its aviation fuel business.

“It is anticipated that finalagreements will be reachedduring 2019 and, subject to reg-ulatory and other customaryapprovals, the transaction willbe complete in the first half of2020,” it added.

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New Delhi (PTI): Singapore’s sover-eign wealth fund GIC will invest up to Rs4,400 crore in the road assets of IRBInfrastructure Developers, according to acompany statement. As part of the trans-action, IRB will transfer 9 of its BOT(build, operate and transfer) assets into aprivate infrastructure investment trust inwhich IRB will hold controlling stake of51 per cent, IRB said on Tuesday.

The deal was approved by the boardfollowing which IRB has signed bindingdefinitive agreements with GIC for a

total investment of up to Rs 4,400 crore,including funding of future constructioncosts. “IRB Infrastructure Developerstoday announced investment by affiliatesof GIC, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund,in its road platform...The portfolio spansacross 1,200 km in Haryana, Uttar Pradesh,Rajasthan and Gujarat, Maharashtra andKarnataka,” IRB said in a statement.

Three of these projects have recentlybecome operational and another six areunder various stages of construction. Fiveof the assets under construction are pro-

jects for widening of highways into fourand six lanes where tolling as well as con-struction have already begun, the compa-ny said. These projects are strategicallylocated along economic corridors andacross tourist hubs, it said.

“The proposed investment is subjectto regulatory approvals, lender consentsand other applicable approvals. Theinvestment proceeds from GIC will be usedfor deleveraging of the portfolio, and equi-ty funding for under construction projectsof the portfolio,” the company said.

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NCC 72.05 76.70 71.90 76.10TATAGLOBAL 266.00 273.20 262.10 270.60DELTACORP 144.00 149.20 143.50 145.35MCX 785.00 831.00 784.00 826.10BIOCON 229.00 229.00 223.95 225.40ADANIPORTS 360.00 378.50 360.00 376.95GODREJIND 434.55 454.20 433.00 447.45EXIDEIND 180.00 182.70 177.40 179.15JUSTDIAL 700.90 706.95 689.70 694.55MARICO 373.60 383.05 373.55 377.55POWERGRID 200.90 202.40 196.35 198.10BAJAJ-AUTO 2620.00 2648.00 2591.75 2609.20ADANIENT 124.50 129.40 124.50 128.10UJJIVAN 273.40 282.85 273.40 279.55BHARATFORG 408.90 421.80 398.40 417.85GRASIM 755.00 769.80 744.35 761.55IDFCFIRSTB 40.90 41.90 40.50 41.60HCLTECH 1003.00 1036.45 1003.00 1024.35ACC 1513.00 1558.30 1504.45 1548.00HINDPETRO 256.80 258.95 251.70 253.75VOLTAS 599.00 621.00 599.00 617.80TATACOMM 469.15 472.70 458.10 460.85GODREJCP 613.50 631.30 612.50 622.35ONGC 131.25 132.50 129.50 131.45APOLLOTYRE 145.95 153.40 145.95 150.95DEEPAKFERT 82.90 83.55 80.00 82.05AMBUJACEM 199.70 203.20 195.25 201.75PCJEWELLER 33.90 34.95 33.25 34.55UNIONBANK 65.25 66.60 64.15 65.55HAVELLS 631.10 649.55 631.10 646.25AUROPHARMA 545.10 566.00 545.10 561.95GUJGAS 183.90 189.50 181.75 183.80UFLEX 207.55 230.00 195.00 225.45HSCL 65.00 75.75 64.85 74.05BANDHANBNK 468.15 495.05 468.15 481.80GRUH 252.70 263.45 251.15 260.45TATAPOWER 57.95 59.95 57.95 59.30NMDC 100.50 105.30 100.15 104.70SAIL 39.25 41.00 39.25 40.55KEI 417.00 449.85 415.90 445.20INDIACEM 84.10 86.35 83.15 85.50PETRONET 235.05 238.15 229.85 231.95SBILIFE 787.65 799.85 780.65 787.70ICICIGI 1169.00 1172.15 1144.35 1163.45GSPL 209.65 218.75 209.65 214.95M&MFIN 290.70 306.35 290.70 300.95LTTS 1502.90 1527.15 1493.00 1519.95CANFINHOME 373.05 388.90 371.70 386.35JUBLFOOD 1176.00 1220.00 1175.45 1181.10PVR 1437.00 1484.95 1414.90 1464.60JAMNAAUTO 36.70 42.10 35.30 41.20DBL 385.00 393.00 367.65 385.15DMART 1482.00 1504.35 1480.00 1489.75RAJESHEXPO 697.90 709.00 678.50 686.80DCMSHRIRAM 380.00 394.60 379.00 392.05COLPAL 1196.40 1210.45 1185.00 1206.85BASF 1058.55 1136.05 1044.35 1062.70CONCOR 501.00 503.10 483.90 497.35GSFC 77.00 78.65 75.90 76.90SREINFRA 11.56 12.93 11.50 11.89SRTRANSFIN 948.50 990.70 948.50 982.30GET&D 138.20 154.00 138.20 148.00GODFRYPHLP 695.00 708.00 684.45 688.75ENGINERSIN 93.75 99.05 92.70 98.50INFIBEAM 38.90 42.65 37.80 41.25QUESS 420.60 444.25 420.60 440.25BPCL 340.20 347.00 337.00 345.15GLENMARK 410.40 421.00 410.40 415.15IGL 300.30 311.10 298.55 310.30INDHOTEL 137.05 142.10 136.50 141.10SOUTHBANK 11.60 11.80 11.44 11.65JSLHISAR 60.15 68.40 60.15 66.20WOCKPHARMA 281.50 290.00 278.60 282.40BEML 813.90 833.90 812.80 823.75EDELWEISS 140.80 144.05 140.30 142.85NATCOPHARM 532.00 561.15 529.75 549.55CARERATING 489.75 523.90 483.80 516.60JAICORPLTD 70.00 74.70 70.00 73.55NOCIL 84.00 90.00 84.00 89.45NESTLEIND 11740.00 11994.80 11717.00 11832.10VIPIND 377.45 390.00 375.55 386.50RADICO 294.75 306.50 294.75 304.20MINDAIND 290.00 299.60 288.35 295.70

JPASSOCIAT 2.56 2.72 2.31 2.56DEEPAKNI 280.00 283.95 277.00 279.55HSIL 214.40 224.80 214.40 219.85NATIONALUM 42.70 44.50 42.55 44.15CASTROLIND 114.00 116.25 113.80 115.85CADILAHC 227.90 227.90 222.30 226.50JSWENERGY 66.55 68.70 66.10 67.70AJANTPHARM 960.00 986.40 945.45 955.70APOLLOHOSP 1300.75 1345.95 1297.70 1337.95SPARC 151.05 159.00 151.05 154.65FORCEMOT 1035.00 1069.00 1035.00 1047.90LTI 1531.40 1594.40 1531.40 1577.70PARAGMILK 207.05 209.45 201.00 201.35WHIRLPOOL 1486.55 1550.00 1486.55 1539.75KTKBANK 81.30 82.60 79.95 80.20SUNTECK 402.00 409.15 399.15 407.40RELAXO 439.95 444.80 416.60 428.85ADANIGAS 150.00 156.00 149.00 154.60PIIND 1092.95 1102.50 1086.00 1088.45ORIENTBANK 64.00 67.15 64.00 66.30CENTURYTEX 868.35 893.30 868.20 890.10OMAXE 200.85 200.85 197.10 197.25VGUARD 220.00 228.55 219.35 227.20WESTLIFE 278.00 280.40 275.00 279.40SADBHAV 123.00 128.35 115.00 127.70JKTYRE 56.00 57.85 53.55 56.05KANSAINER 431.00 449.50 427.35 445.75MINDTREE 708.00 720.00 705.00 711.65RNAM 228.50 243.00 227.60 230.60GODREJPROP 905.00 934.50 903.15 928.05COCHINSHIP 350.10 350.15 341.35 345.85INFRATEL 240.10 248.10 240.10 245.90MUTHOOTFIN 600.00 628.50 600.00 624.90CUMMINSIND 667.75 686.00 665.05 673.15J&KBANK 32.25 37.50 32.25 37.50MEGH 47.40 50.50 46.50 49.60SOBHA 498.45 518.20 498.45 507.80MGL 821.90 821.90 799.70 808.85TRIDENT 55.00 56.25 54.45 54.80PHILIPCARB 111.65 116.50 111.20 113.65CERA 2410.95 2519.00 2359.60 2462.40TORNTPHARM 1668.20 1678.00 1655.00 1674.25WABAG 271.00 277.50 268.00 269.25TATACHEM 557.35 572.55 557.35 570.10SIEMENS 1114.35 1140.90 1107.55 1131.60SCI 26.60 27.75 26.60 27.55ADANITRANS 203.10 209.40 202.75 207.80CEATLTD 800.05 821.85 799.10 818.60MPHASIS 941.75 968.70 929.95 963.00FCONSUMER 25.40 27.45 24.10 27.10CROMPTON 230.50 231.45 224.50 229.40NIITTECH 1200.00 1228.70 1200.00 1220.15AUBANK 631.00 662.00 629.40 657.75JUBILANT 415.15 432.70 415.15 427.25KRBL 220.85 237.05 220.85 233.90AEGISLOG 185.05 199.50 185.05 198.00DIVISLAB 1571.00 1621.60 1568.00 1615.30PRSMJOHNSN 85.00 88.25 85.00 86.05RCF 44.30 46.65 44.10 46.25AMARAJABAT 642.85 666.50 642.85 646.35ASTRAL 1206.00 1236.40 1203.00 1229.05HEXAWARE 356.00 362.45 352.20 358.85CRISIL 1249.00 1249.00 1167.30 1175.95FSL 48.45 48.60 47.35 47.85RAMCOCEM 708.00 740.70 708.00 736.35BAJAJELEC 356.00 378.45 355.00 364.20BALKRISIND 710.00 714.25 692.60 711.10JAGRAN 65.30 75.70 65.30 69.65HINDZINC 202.80 208.90 201.60 205.30ZYDUSWELL 1512.25 1557.45 1508.25 1513.70TTKPRESTIG 5290.00 5655.00 5242.00 5409.55SHANKARA 240.05 274.00 240.05 259.60KALPATPOWR 453.00 474.35 452.45 469.10IDBI 28.35 28.65 27.95 28.20GESHIP* 215.15 231.05 212.20 225.55RAIN 84.00 86.00 83.60 85.15GICHSGFIN 242.60 242.80 240.05 240.55ITI 73.50 77.35 73.50 76.70NHPC 21.65 22.05 21.65 21.85NAUKRI 2146.95 2185.00 2140.00 2147.65ADANIGREEN 46.10 48.10 46.00 47.40ALLCARGO 92.95 94.75 89.00 92.20GLAXO 1199.75 1210.00 1170.35 1208.80OBEROIRLTY 550.80 565.90 542.05 560.95IPCALAB 948.50 955.50 944.45 948.50GRANULES 90.00 92.30 89.15 92.00TRENT 445.00 452.45 442.20 443.65GNFC 198.30 202.70 196.70 200.45UBL 1372.60 1415.15 1372.60 1400.20MRPL 51.10 52.00 50.00 51.60MAHINDCIE 172.30 180.35 170.40 176.20BLUESTARCO 658.00 709.95 658.00 699.40HUDCO 33.10 34.10 32.80 33.80AIAENG 1690.00 1695.00 1600.00 1619.65JISLJALEQS 19.40 20.00 19.05 19.90RAYMOND 626.45 636.25 624.75 634.10SUVEN 223.90 226.50 220.85 224.75PGHL 4703.95 4754.20 4663.05 4711.15INTELLECT 206.10 217.80 202.80 211.35AVANTI 299.00 306.40 295.40 302.10OFSS 3260.00 3350.00 3260.00 3290.75NLCINDIA 55.00 56.50 54.20 55.55ALBK 36.50 37.60 36.30 37.15CGPOWER 17.70 18.55 17.60 18.20PRESTIGE 263.90 271.80 263.90 270.05CENTURYPLY 113.00 116.95 112.65 115.00IBULISL 90.50 99.65 90.50 99.65JINDALSAW 63.80 65.55 63.80 64.85OIL 151.35 155.45 150.05 154.40

FORTIS 118.10 121.05 116.10 120.45GREAVESCOT 117.40 118.90 116.45 117.55CHAMBLFERT 150.00 150.00 140.50 144.20IFCI 7.10 7.95 6.97 7.69SHK 113.00 117.10 109.60 112.05REPCOHOME 310.00 312.00 299.80 301.90ENDURANCE 919.10 955.45 911.00 919.70GODREJAGRO 424.30 435.40 424.00 430.50RITES 288.00 298.55 286.90 296.35PAGEIND 18171.00 18663.80 18171.00 18593.75KEC 298.00 307.50 298.00 301.65SWANENERGY 104.00 104.70 103.50 103.80PFIZER 2979.60 2991.55 2938.00 2954.20TATACOFFEE 70.35 72.85 70.35 72.40EIHOTEL 159.05 161.80 157.00 159.45GMRINFRA 14.88 14.97 14.79 14.82PNBHOUSING 706.00 715.00 699.50 710.90HINDCOPPER 30.10 31.50 30.00 31.35ORIENTELEC 150.25 154.60 150.25 152.35TATAINVEST 796.65 798.40 775.00 777.25BBTC 780.00 803.95 779.80 788.70PTC 53.35 55.50 53.00 55.25IDFC 33.15 33.50 32.75 33.20BDL 288.00 295.00 283.05 289.35GICRE 191.50 196.15 190.65 192.10NIACL 121.30 123.60 118.25 121.45NILKAMAL 904.05 946.00 904.05 934.30JSL 28.10 30.20 28.00 29.90PERSISTENT 514.65 537.40 510.00 533.30INOXWIND 50.40 52.25 48.55 49.40INOXLEISUR 286.70 289.85 281.35 283.90SCHNEIDER 73.50 76.30 73.20 75.65TIINDIA 325.00 360.00 325.00 353.10JETAIRWAYS 40.10 40.55 39.10 40.55HFCL 18.80 19.20 18.80 19.00HEIDELBERG 185.35 187.50 183.60 186.90VBL 590.00 618.15 586.00 605.15TEJASNET 84.50 87.50 83.60 84.75WELSPUNIND 49.20 50.70 48.85 50.45SUPREMEIND 1041.75 1074.00 1030.00 1061.40BIRLACORPN 589.00 592.20 573.80 587.25EIDPARRY 141.00 146.70 141.00 144.90RALLIS 156.10 158.60 155.00 156.20PNCINFRA 186.10 193.60 186.10 189.90TIMETECHNO 75.30 76.50 73.05 76.05MMTC 18.00 18.60 17.90 18.50ABB 1372.15 1399.85 1372.15 1382.40GUJALKALI 412.35 434.30 412.35 430.10MINDACORP 82.15 83.15 78.90 80.15PHOENIXLTD 625.00 640.10 619.40 624.45THERMAX 1025.00 1069.00 1025.00 1062.65LAXMIMACH 3888.75 3962.00 3870.00 3944.00APLAPOLLO 1352.35 1360.05 1315.20 1349.20WELCORP 115.20 119.55 114.10 115.20ECLERX 503.95 520.50 503.95 512.20ISEC 198.00 201.40 196.00 199.20COROMANDEL 360.00 368.00 357.60 361.20TV18BRDCST 19.80 20.70 19.80 20.50THOMASCOOK 171.00 180.40 171.00 179.25ANDHRABANK 20.00 20.50 20.00 20.25NESCO 532.00 545.00 532.00 536.70SYNGENE 298.10 308.55 295.00 306.05CENTRALBK 17.00 17.60 16.90 17.40ASHOKA 123.60 124.00 119.50 120.75CUB 186.00 188.15 182.60 187.60JYOTHYLAB 156.85 159.40 154.40 157.10GMDCLTD 65.20 66.40 64.65 65.45JMFINANCIL 66.00 66.50 65.00 65.90LALPATHLAB 1064.10 1109.65 1064.10 1092.35SANOFI 5908.00 6037.85 5908.00 6009.70JKLAKSHMI 341.50 343.75 336.10 338.75TATAMETALI 511.00 520.00 504.45 510.95MAHLOG 357.70 371.15 357.70 367.65CARBORUNIV 281.00 294.50 281.00 290.90ASTRAZEN 1883.90 1898.45 1845.00 1856.70CYIENT 435.80 445.00 434.00 443.10CHENNPETRO 192.45 193.85 192.00 192.65LEMONTREE 58.50 58.65 56.35 56.85BAJAJCON 268.05 268.65 256.00 258.75GHCL 198.30 204.50 198.00 203.90MAXINDIA 60.55 64.90 60.45 61.75SONATSOFTW 312.45 317.55 310.60 316.30FDC 161.00 163.00 160.00 162.45EMAMILTD 313.00 315.00 310.20 313.75LUXIND 1043.75 1090.00 1034.70 1059.40HIMATSEIDE 126.35 129.50 124.75 127.35MAGMA 69.00 71.70 69.00 71.05HATHWAY 17.60 21.30 17.55 21.00SHREECEM 20008.25 20417.80 19990.25 20219.00MOIL 130.00 135.20 130.00 133.00APLLTD 520.70 531.00 515.00 518.40ATUL 3535.00 3669.95 3535.00 3638.30SYNDIBANK 31.50 32.20 31.50 32.00CORPBANK 21.05 21.35 20.85 20.90CCL 235.90 243.20 235.70 240.05BAJAJHLDNG 3363.35 3487.50 3363.35 3450.60VINATIORGA 1844.55 1851.00 1820.00 1834.20SUNDRMFAST 426.60 438.90 422.15 425.15TIMKEN 631.90 645.25 631.90 640.75REDINGTON 95.80 99.45 95.65 97.00IOB 10.65 10.93 10.65 10.69SYMPHONY 1235.30 1284.90 1229.55 1277.35FLFL 420.20 420.20 414.00 418.15GSKCONS 7480.00 7550.00 7427.50 7502.20MOTILALOFS 502.60 514.70 501.00 508.35BALMLAWRIE 174.05 174.30 171.00 171.30ASTERDM 122.25 124.30 119.70 121.05CAPPL 437.00 437.00 408.00 412.75MHRIL 212.55 218.10 211.45 212.35

SUDARSCHEM 323.20 324.90 320.25 320.50BOSCHLTD 14290.00 14568.00 14203.85 14500.70CREDITACC 517.90 517.90 498.00 507.10TVTODAY 275.70 283.70 270.75 280.60DCAL 192.50 202.80 192.50 201.50HERITGFOOD 350.70 356.20 345.80 354.20SJVN 24.05 24.30 23.90 24.15CENTRUM 23.60 24.90 23.05 24.30COFFEEDAY 85.50 85.50 85.50 85.50MRF 53325.00 54000.00 53049.55 53851.30KNRCON 259.65 264.35 253.15 257.00THYROCARE 442.00 457.50 442.00 453.25FINOLEXIND 505.00 531.95 505.00 528.60GDL 100.30 103.50 100.30 103.05IFBIND 565.80 596.50 565.80 591.05NAVINFLUOR 641.50 647.50 636.60 644.50LINDEINDIA 484.20 495.25 480.65 488.35UCOBANK 16.00 16.45 15.95 16.30MAHABANK 12.28 12.45 12.03 12.29SOMANYCERA 320.00 331.00 312.30 318.75ITDCEM 72.50 72.95 71.25 71.85MASFIN 594.00 597.00 585.00 587.60AAVAS 1441.00 1489.45 1441.00 1487.40HAL 632.00 639.00 622.45 636.60IRCON 347.85 355.00 347.85 352.95ORIENTCEM 92.55 93.80 92.20 92.85FINEORG 1415.00 1480.00 1415.00 1428.05GRINDWELL 536.50 549.05 535.35 544.30TAKE 95.10 97.90 93.75 95.20NBVENTURES* 93.00 93.00 90.60 91.10HONAUT 23207.75 23207.75 22672.95 22802.30JKCEMENT 966.10 970.00 954.05 961.20CHOLAHLDNG 467.40 476.50 464.50 475.30VARROC 420.50 430.00 419.40 423.75NETWORK18 20.55 20.95 19.90 20.20ERIS 401.90 408.60 401.90 405.90INDOSTAR 284.05 294.90 280.75 291.55TNPL 154.00 156.00 153.10 153.80TCNSBRANDS 653.45 656.00 645.00 651.00SKFINDIA 1817.55 1885.65 1758.00 1865.75APARINDS 487.00 494.50 478.85 482.45MAHSCOOTER 3801.00 3849.95 3740.00 3788.80ELGIEQUIP 238.80 252.00 235.75 243.10ZENSARTECH 218.00 219.95 216.20 218.75ADVENZYMES 150.35 152.45 149.35 151.90LAOPALA 166.95 171.10 166.35 168.40DHANUKA 342.85 352.50 338.00 339.70

SHILPAMED 339.00 359.90 335.25 359.15DBCORP 151.80 153.50 151.40 153.40NH 204.45 214.00 203.65 206.85GALAXYSURF 1180.95 1200.65 1180.95 1188.30LAURUSLABS 314.95 320.00 314.95 316.85ABBOTINDIA 8400.00 8477.50 8399.85 8435.65UNITEDBNK 9.43 9.70 9.42 9.53GPPL 77.65 78.55 76.65 77.00IEX 142.85 144.55 141.85 143.75SCHAEFFLER 4362.15 4375.00 4239.00 4270.35EVEREADY 73.00 80.40 73.00 80.40ALKEM 1662.30 1690.35 1662.30 1672.85ITDC 165.00 168.65 164.90 165.30TVSSRICHAK 1480.00 1508.60 1472.10 1508.25VMART 1800.00 1890.00 1800.00 1874.15JBCHEPHARM 364.70 369.80 362.40 366.30GILLETTE 7094.25 7153.90 7055.70 7147.00MAHLIFE 368.60 375.00 368.50 374.55MONSANTO 2060.00 2076.90 1982.40 2056.603MINDIA 20757.10 21250.00 20751.00 20841.50AKZOINDIA 1660.05 1718.50 1660.00 1717.95HATSUN 638.95 645.35 623.05 624.45BAYERCROP 3002.70 3021.75 2986.00 3003.45SUPRAJIT 157.55 159.20 151.00 155.50WABCOINDIA 6001.00 6250.00 6001.00 6127.80FINCABLES 370.00 373.75 368.90 371.00BLUEDART 2316.00 2349.15 2295.30 2300.85SHRIRAMCIT 1402.55 1427.50 1360.50 1412.45STARCEMENT 95.30 98.80 94.50 96.80GEPIL 758.50 777.45 751.00 770.10JCHAC 1525.00 1599.25 1525.00 1589.00JSWHL 2520.00 2591.85 2520.00 2581.05GULFOILLUB 773.05 775.90 760.00 766.25TEAMLEASE 2659.60 2701.75 2659.60 2677.80KPRMILL 546.20 555.60 541.25 542.85SOLARINDS 1105.00 1105.00 1094.00 1094.70PGHH 10509.90 10509.90 10400.00 10507.35MAHSEAMLES 406.90 406.90 403.40 405.75VTL 905.35 927.85 903.50 921.85GAYAPROJ 131.50 132.90 131.25 132.80SIS 833.75 838.80 818.95 823.00TRITURBINE 99.40 101.00 99.30 99.85ASAHIINDIA 192.50 192.50 191.60 192.35SHOPERSTOP 377.80 378.00 374.00 377.90SFL 1180.00 1180.00 1175.25 1175.25

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SCRIP OPEN HIgh LOW LTP CHANGENIFTY 50 10815.40 11018.55 10813.80 10948.25 85.65IBULHSGFIN 476.00 519.70 475.00 512.00 35.25YESBANK 80.90 86.65 79.70 85.55 4.45TECHM 650.10 679.85 650.10 672.00 23.95BAJFINANCE 3160.05 3287.00 3153.15 3274.95 114.90BHARTIARTL 354.10 375.40 354.10 369.00 11.30HEROMOTOCO2399.25 2484.00 2380.05 2473.00 73.75EICHERMOT 16410.00 17144.55 16410.00 17002.00 498.00MARUTI 5640.00 5849.00 5640.00 5830.00 159.65ADANIPORTS 365.60 378.60 365.25 377.30 9.45ULTRACEMCO 4208.10 4369.00 4205.00 4354.80 108.60HINDALCO 173.00 182.60 173.00 180.15 4.40ASIANPAINT 1530.00 1569.85 1524.05 1563.30 37.90AXISBANK 658.70 682.85 654.00 678.40 15.95INDUSINDBK 1388.20 1430.00 1377.75 1416.30 28.10LT 1342.70 1399.40 1340.05 1372.90 27.10ICICIBANK 401.00 411.50 400.90 410.55 7.90NTPC 120.00 124.90 119.75 123.20 2.20COALINDIA 198.55 207.75 198.55 204.20 3.60KOTAKBANK 1454.30 1493.85 1451.65 1484.55 24.45BAJAJFINSV 6950.00 7128.00 6950.00 7096.40 109.45HDFC 2146.05 2217.65 2136.55 2185.10 32.75UPL 537.95 552.95 533.05 548.95 8.00DRREDDY 2509.85 2584.90 2501.00 2551.00 36.30GRASIM 742.40 770.40 740.00 759.00 9.55HCLTECH 1011.10 1037.00 1003.20 1022.40 11.30BPCL 339.95 347.50 336.60 342.35 3.35M&M 543.00 552.25 543.00 549.45 4.00SBIN 298.80 304.25 297.25 301.40 1.15HINDUNILVR 1731.50 1760.00 1727.55 1747.10 5.90TITAN 1027.00 1070.00 1021.25 1039.35 2.55HDFCBANK 2167.00 2210.25 2167.00 2183.00 3.75SUNPHARMA 416.00 422.45 414.50 417.80 0.65GAIL 122.00 126.55 121.65 123.15 0.20ONGC 130.85 132.50 129.35 131.50 0.20INFRATEL 244.00 248.50 243.00 245.60 0.25TATASTEEL 393.65 408.00 393.65 399.00 -0.25IOC 131.85 133.85 130.45 132.05 -0.20INFY 778.80 783.70 769.80 775.30 -1.40JSWSTEEL 214.60 221.45 214.15 216.70 -1.00VEDL 139.30 143.80 138.30 140.05 -0.65ITC 258.75 261.50 258.15 258.20 -1.60BAJAJ-AUTO 2600.00 2649.00 2592.90 2602.50 -17.25WIPRO 262.00 262.70 257.80 258.95 -3.05TATAMOTORS 123.05 126.55 121.75 122.25 -1.50BRITANNIA 2563.00 2611.75 2538.30 2544.00 -34.35TCS 2232.80 2251.95 2211.45 2213.75 -34.85POWERGRID 200.60 202.55 196.25 197.70 -3.45RELIANCE 1134.75 1149.60 1122.00 1122.35 -21.00CIPLA 518.00 527.00 496.85 502.35 -16.55ZEEL 328.00 330.00 304.70 311.60 -19.35

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China warned Hong Kong’spro-democracy protesters

on Tuesday that “those whoplay with fire will perish by it”,a day after the most widespreadunrest of the two-month crisis.

In its harshest warning yetBeijing said the immensestrength of the CentralGovernment should not beunderestimated as police in thesemi-autonomous cityannounced they had arrested148 people in connection withMonday’s violence.

The city has been plungedinto chaos by weeks of proteststriggered by Opposition to aplanned law that would haveallowed extraditions to main-land China. The protests havesince evolved into a widermovement for democraticreform and the protection offreedoms.

At a Press briefing inBeijing, Yang Guang,spokesman for the Hong Kong

and Macao Affairs Office of theState Council, said the “radicalprotests... Have severelyimpacted Hong Kong’s pros-perity and stability, pushing itinto a dangerous abyss”.

Yang said the Governmentstill “firmly supports” both theHong Kong police force --who have been criticised fortheir handling of the protests -- and Carrie Lam, the city’s pro-Beijing leader who protesterswant to resign.

“We would like to make itclear to the very small group ofunscrupulous and violent crim-inals and the dirty forcesbehind them: Those who playwith fire will perish by it,” Yangsaid.

“Don’t ever misjudge thesituation and mistake ourrestraint for weakness... Don’tever underestimate the firmresolve and immense strengthof the Central Government.”

Hong Kong Police said 148people were arrested duringrunning battles with protesters

on Monday as the city buckledunder a general strike followedby the most widespread andsustained clashes so far at morethan a dozen locations.

Police stations were a par-ticular target, with protestershurling stones, eggs and bottles,and using giant improvisedslingshots to catapult bricksover walls. An apartment com-plex that houses police officersand their families also cameunder attack.

Superintendent John Tsetold reporters that police firedsome 800 tear gas rounds --almost as many as the 1,000rounds they said they had firedthroughout the last twomonths.

In Beijing, the Press con-ference held by China’sCabinet-level State Councilwas the second about theunrest in as many weeks, high-lighting concern in the capital.

The clashes have piledpressure on Chinese PresidentXi Jinping, and led to specula-

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Prime Minister Imran Khanon Tuesday expressed

apprehension that Pulwama-like attacks can follow the revo-cation of the special status forJammu & Kashmir, which couldtrigger a conventional warbetween Pakistan and India.

“This will be a war that noone will win and the implica-tions will be global,” he warnedwhile addressing a rare joint sit-ting of Parliament that wasconvened to discuss theKashmir situation, a day afterthe Indian Governmentrevoked Article 370 which gavespecial status to Jammu &Kashmir.

India maintains thatJammu & Kashmir is its inte-gral part and it includesPakistan-occupied Kashmir.

Prime Minister Khanexplained how the war-likescenario could erupt in themiddle of the current tensions

between the two nuclear-armedneighbours. He said Kashmiriswould protest and India wouldlaunch a crackdown on them.

Khan said with thisapproach, “attacks likePulwama are bound to happenagain. I can already predict thiswill happen. They will attemptto place the blame on us again.They may strike us again, andwe will strike back.”

“What will happen then?...Who will win that war? No onewill win it and it will havegrievous consequences for theentire world. This is not nuclearblackmail,” Khan told the law-makers.

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The United States and theTaliban have resolved dif-

ferences in peace talks over thewithdrawal of American troopsfrom Afghanistan and guaran-tees from the insurgents thatthey will cut ties with otherextremist groups, a Talibanofficial said Tuesday.

The US side did not imme-diately provide details about thelatest round of talks held inQatar, where the Taliban main-tain a political office. ButZalmay Khalilzad, theAmerican envoy who has beenleading the talks since theybegan late last year, tweeted thatthey had made “excellentprogress.” The two sides havebeen meeting for the last twodays, and technical teams werecontinuing discussions onTuesday in Doha.

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China warned on Tuesday itwould take unspecified

countermeasures if the UnitedStates goes ahead with plans todeploy ground-based interme-diate-range missiles in theAsia-Pacific region.

The comments come daysafter US Defense SecretaryMark Esper said Washingtonwas now free to deploy theweapons following its with-drawal last week from the Intermediate-RangeNuclear Forces (INF) treatywith Russia.

“China will not stand idlyby and will be forced to takecountermeasures should theUS deploy intermediate-rangeground-based missiles in thispart of the world,” said FuCong, the director of armscontrol at the Chinese foreignministry.

“And we also call on ourneighbours, our neighbouringcountries, to exercise prudenceand not to allow a US deploy-ment of its intermediate-rangemissiles on (their) territory,” headded, naming Australia, Japanand South Korea.

Washington: Speaking outagainst weekend mass shoot-ings that rocked a nation,President Donald Trump calledfor bipartisan solutions to thebloodshed but offered fewdetails and faced pointed ques-tions from Democrats aboutwhether he had the moralauthority to rally Americaagainst the spasm of violenceand racism.

Trump, back at the WhiteHouse on Monday afterremaining largely out of viewfor two days at his New Jerseygolf club, declared the shoot-ings in Texas and Ohio barbariccrimes “against all humanity”and called for unity to respondto an epidemic of gun violence.He blamed mental illness andvideo games but made no men-tion of more limits on thefirearms that can be sold.

Trump said he wanted leg-islation providing “strong back-ground checks” for gun users,though he has reneged on pre-vious promises along that lineafter mass attacks. He seemedto abandon his latest idea oflinking gun control legislationto immigration policy just a fewhours after proposing it. AP

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first African-American womanto win the Nobel Prize forLiterature and one of America’sbest loved writers, has died fol-lowing a brief illness, her fam-ily said in a statement onTuesday. She was 88.

“It is with profound sad-ness we share that, following ashort illness, our adored moth-er and grandmother, ToniMorrison, passed away peace-fully last night surrounded byfamily and friends,” they said.

“Although her passing rep-resents a tremendous loss, weare grateful she had a long, welllived life,” the statement added,describing her as “the con-summate writer who treasuredthe written word.”

Morrison wrote 11 novels,many of them touching on lifeas a black American, in a glit-tering literary and award-ladencareer that lasted over sixdecades. AFP

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Anew paper Biomedical Engineering (BM)in Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering

(GATE) is introduced from the year 2020. Thisis expected to unify undergraduate syllabus ofBiomedical Engineering among several uni-versities, and to help stimulating the growth ofBME research and product development inIndia.

The BME Sector in India is in need of amajor development mainly due to the lack ofadequate integration between research insti-tutions, hospitals, industries, and universitiesin India. Clinicians and engineers work in iso-lation without collaborating with each other andother stakeholders.

The challenges of BME graduates in India

were discussed in a recent meeting held at IITMadras, which is organised by BiomedicalEngineering Group of Applied MechanicsDepartment, IIT Madras, along with repre-sentatives from several other IITs. The meet-ing was chaired by Prof V Jagadeesh Kumar,Dean (Academic Courses), IIT Madras, and co-chaired by Prof Neelesh Vasa who was theGATE Chairman last year.

After analysing the issues, it was decidedto propose a new GATE paper for BME to solvesome of the issues. In the recent times, GATEhas become the gateway for not only for vari-ous higher education but is also considered forentering Government institutions such asPublic Sector Undertakings, Defence Researchand Development OrganiSation (DRDO)Laboratories besides a few institutes abroad.

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The Indian Institute ofTechnology Mandi’s

Technology Business IncubatorCatalyst is hosting third editionof its Annual Flagship Event,Himalayan Startup Trek (HST)on September 14 and 15, 2019.

Start-ups, innovators andaspiring entrepreneurs can applyto pitch during this event and getan opportunity to meetinvestors/experts one to one.The last date to apply is August31, 2019. The event aims atbringing together the stakehold-

ers of Indian Startup ecosystemand providing a platform toyoung entrepreneurs to pitchtheir ideas for incubation supportand to raise funding frominvestors. Applications can befilled on the event website.

In the past two years, IITMandi Catalyst has disbursedover �1 crore in grants andinvestments to more than 30 star-tups, out of which 16 are fromHimachal Pradesh. Of these,four startups have progressed intothe commercialisation phase.These startups have generatedmore than 60 employment and

internship opportunities.The event will feature an

interesting portfolio of speakersranging from experienced toyoung entrepreneurs, commercialinvestors to social impactinvestors, and technology expertsto business experts.

The early stage startups willlearn about the fundamentalaspects of running abusiness.Operational startupsthat already have some experi-ence will get to meet investors.Startup will also have a chance tointeract with government officialsand industry experts.

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The placement season ofJaipuria Institute of

Management, 2018-19 wit-nessed a major improvement inthe number of offers and theaverage package as compared tothe previous year. The class of2019 with over 98 per centplacement is embarking on anew journey to take on thechallenges that they hadimbibed from their learning atthe institute.

The placement season wit-nessed recruiters from MNCsand Fortune 500s companies.

Among the hirers are Deloitte,Amazon, Amul, Aditya Birla,Philips, RBL Bank, Godrej,Havells, HDFC Bank, LavaInternational, IDFC First Bank,TVS Motors, Capital Firstamong many others.

Further Class 2019’s place-ments got better with yearswith an average CTC shining at�6.89 lakh per annum. Andhighest package of �18.05 lakhper annum.

Interestingly, the batch haschosen careers in diverse indus-tries, with Financial Servicestopping the chart with 23 percent followed by Banking.

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applications for admissions toits Professional Diplomacourse in F& B Service, FrontOffice Associate and CommisChef.

These programmes teach-es students how food serviceprofessionals create and deliv-er guest-driven ser vice,enhance value, build guestloyalty, and promote repeatbusiness.

Students will learn howevery aspect of a food serviceoperation contributes to theguest experience and willexplore unique features of avariety of food and beverageoperations.

Duration: One yearEligibility: Candidates

who have appeared/passedClass XII examination ofCBSE, ICSE or equivalentaccreditation.

How to apply: Log on towww.thehotelschool.com.

Last date to apply :August 20, 2019.

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International Institute ofResearch and Studies invitesapplications for admissionsto its Automobile pro-grammes.

Programmes offered:BTech — AutomobileEngineering, BTech —Automobile Engineering(Lateral Entry), PhD —Automobile Engineering.

Duration: Four years forBTech — Automobile engi-neering, three years for auto-mobile eng (lateral entry) andtwo years for PhD.

Eligibility: For BTech —Automobile Engineering —Pass in Class XII examinationwith at least 50 per cent marksin aggregate in five subjectsand eligibility shall be deter-mined on the basis of per-centage of aggregate marks in:English, Physics,Mathematics; One subject outof Chemistr y, computerScience, Biology orBiotechnology; One subject

with the highest score out ofthe remaining subjects.

For BTech — AutomobileEngineering (Lateral Entry)— 50 per cent marks inDiploma in Engineering inany branch/discipline of threeyear duration, from StateBoard of Technical educa-tion, Haryana or equivalentexamination or BSc Degreefrom a recognised Universityas Defined by UGC, with atleast 50 per cent marks andpassed XII standard withMathematics as a subject.

For PhD — AutomobileEngineering — The admissionto PhD programmes wouldstrictly be done on the basis ofregulations contained in thePhD Ordinance 8(B) of theinstitute available on its web-site, which is in total confor-mity with the UGC newRegulations, 2016 for Awardsof MPhil/PhD degree.

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

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Banking & Finance, NewDelhi invites applications forit advanced diploma inBanking & Finance.

This programme aims atproviding students, a strongacademic foundation inaccounting together withadvanced qualifications andindustry relevant skills to kickstart their career in bankingand finance industry.

Duration: Three yearEligibility: Class XII pass

in commerce stream withminimum 55 per cent marksfrom a recognised board.

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

L ast date to apply :August 30, 2019.

If you are looking for a career thatgives you ample opportunities to

have fun with your creativity, meetnew people every day and earn asmuch as you work hard, then thebeauty industry is perfect for you.It holds one of the top slots in thelist of unconventional and offbeatcareers.

What makes the beauty indus-try truly unique is the fact that itoffers a place to everyone depend-ing on one’s talent and area of inter-est. Whether you want to be anentrepreneur, a makeup artist, hairstylist, skin aesthetician or nail artexpert, it favors all. With the inva-sion of technology, the beautyindustry has created more space forskilled beauty experts such as der-matologist, skin specialists foradvanced facials and nail extensionexperts.

Gone are the days when beau-ty was looked down upon as acareer for housewives or thosewho were unable to do anythingelse. Today, this profession com-mands respect and enjoys cult sta-tus, especially in the glamourworld. Flip through any fashion orlifestyle magazine or watch anyBollywood movie or daily soaps,and you will realise how crucial hasthe role of a makeup expert, hair-stylist or even skincare specialist has

become in the glamour world.From fashion shows to beautypageants, magazine cover shoots towedding celebrations, andBollywood to television, thedemand for hair, makeup and skinprofessionals have seen a remark-able rise in recent years, makingbeauty professionals one of themost sought after professionals inthe country.

Nowadays, there has been ahuge surge in the demand for afreelance makeup artist. Thanks tothe opulent & magnificent Indianweddings, freelance makeup artistsare now one of the most sought-

after professionals in the beautyindustry.

The profession of beauty is notjust limited to makeup, skin care,and hair styling; Nail Art is also oneof the significant parts of this ever-expanding industry. The growth ofexclusive and uber-cool Nail bars orsalons have opened a slew ofopportunities for creative minds.From Nail extensions to Nail Art,there is so much exciting to do inthis field.

With little or limited invest-ment you can either start your ownsalon from the comfort of yourhome or you can go big, take a fran-

chise and become a successfulentrepreneur. This flexibility ofchoice in terms of time, investmentand scale of your business is some-thing that perhaps no other pro-fession offers. Plus, this professionnever becomes monotonous. Thecreativity and close interactionwith people never let you feelbored. You can keep updating andgrowing your knowledge with newcourses and technology to keepyourself update with the newtrends.

If you are creative and feel pas-sionate about beauty then start withzeroing in a good, reputed beautyinstitute. Thanks to the growinginterest as well as the demand ofbeauty professionals, there are a fewpremier institutes that have beentraining the best minds in beautyfrom past two or three decades. Itis imperative to check the back-ground of the beauty institutebefore you get enrolled. Make sureit is well recognised and offers thelatest courses that are duly accred-ited. From beginners to advanced,most beauty institutes offer cours-es that are aligned with the latesttrends and technology. However,learning and excitement never stopwith one course.

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A student’s life takes a major turnafter Class XII. There is a big deci-

sion to be made about what gradua-tion course you should do to push yourcareer in the right direction. One of themost sought-after graduation coursesamong Class XII pass out students isBachelors of Business Administration(BBA) with specialisation in market-ing.

Marketing is an evergreen fieldthat has always stayed in demand, irre-spective of the nature of product, ser-vice, organisation or industry. It hasadapted and evolved in accordancewith the changing dynamics of thebusiness world. The advent of digitalmedia and technologies such as bigdata and artificial intelligence hasgiven an entirely new dimension tomarketing.

Marketing offers a gamut of careergrowth opportunities after graduationand even beyond. There is a hugedemand for skilled and creative mar-keters in domestic and multinationalcompanies. All you need is the rightqualification, aptitude and passion formarketing. You can fetch a part-time/full-time job, work as a freelanceror even become an entrepreneur bystarting your own marketing agency.

If you are looking to pursue acareer in marketing, here are youroptions:

�Market Research: Whenever acompany launches a new product or

wants to forecast customer behaviourand sales, it calls for thorough marketresearch. A market research analystcollects, organises and interprets datausing various statistical tools, tech-niques and software as well as surveysand focus groups to give actionableinsights.

�Sales: This is a hardcore mar-keting job which requires you toidentify prospects, establishing con-tacts, meet customers, understandtheir requirements, recommend solu-tions, sell the products and build along-term relationship. Dependingon your position, you may also haveset sales targets and lead a team of salesexecutives and managers.

�Product/Brand Management:A product/brand manager is involvedin marketing at a strategic level. Youare responsible for the development ofthe product and also, design strategies

that manage the reputation and integri-ty of the brand. Your job is to estab-lish the product/brand in the market.

�Advertising and Promotions:In this profile, you work closely withthe marketing department to under-stand how to advertise the product andpromote the product to the target audi-ence. You allocate an advertising bud-get, negotiate advertising contracts,plan an advertising campaign anddecide the advertising medium (tele-vision, newspaper, radio, billboards,online).

Marketing is the bloodline ofevery organisation. There will alwaysbe a high demand for marketing pro-fessionals in the job market. So, thereis no doubt why most graduates opt formarketing for bright career prospects.

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operating in volatile and complexmarket scenarios. There is also thepressure on organisations to embraceemerging technologies such as big data,artificial intelligence and machinelearning to drive results. Hence, theyneed employees who possess the rightmanagement and techno-functionalskill set to steer the organisation in theright direction and keep it at the topof the game. They look for company-ready candidates who can start con-tributing to the workplace from dayone without much on-the-job trainingor handholding.

However, an increasing number ofemployers are highlighting the gapbetween skills that management grad-uates have to offer and what is actual-ly expected at the job. The lack of job-ready skills has adversely impacted theemployability rate of managementgraduates. The employability rate ofIndian management graduates haswitnessed a drop of 3 per cent in 2018from previous year. Around 60 per centof these graduates are unemployabledue to skill gap.

The management schools haverealised that there is dire need to tai-lor their curriculum to accommodatethe industry requirements and expec-tations. Today, several managementschools have started offering new-agesubjects and specialisations that canhelp students develop industry-relevantskills and make them more valuable tocompanies as soon as they pass out.Some of these subjects and specialisa-tions are enumerated below:�Data Science and Data Analytics

Businesses are driven by numbersand rely heavily on data. There is agrowing demand for managementprofessionals with data science back-ground so that they can make informeddata-driven business decisions. In fact,the demand for data science profes-sionals in India has seen 400 per centrise across various industry sectors inthe last two years.

The data science and data analyt-ics course helps students to developcompetencies required to navigatethrough big data and business analyt-ics. It gives practical exposure to var-ious data tools like MapReduce, R,Hadoop and others. The data scienceskills picked up in this course can proveuseful for students to provide cus-tomised solutions to organisations in

banking, education, healthcare, retail,computer service, manufacturing andmany other domains.�IT Infrastructure Management

Information Technology (IT) hasgained immense prominence in organ-isations. It can strengthen their tech-nical foundation and boost operationalefficiency. They need candidates whocan plan, design, deploy and managethe robust network hardware andsoftware devices in the company.

The IT Infrastructure Managementcourse offers networks specific man-agement and technological knowl-edge to students. It gives them first-hand insight into unified communi-cations, enterprise-wide networks andnext-generation intelligent networksolutions.�Software Solutions Management

In this digital age, companies aredemanding software solutions thatcan automate their day-to-day process-es, reduce human errors and increasetheir returns on investment. Right fromfinance, human resources and mar-

keting to customer relationship man-agement, compliance and supply chain,software solutions are required inevery business function.

The Software SolutionsManagement course provides the stu-dent with adequate knowledge of inte-grating technology with managementpractices. It teaches them managementinformation systems,requirementsengineering, enterprise architecture,business intelligence concepts andtechnology management along withtraditional modules such as marketing,finance and HRM.�Systems

Candidates with both technicaland managerial skills can be an addedadvantage to organisations. Theyunderstand how business processeswork and which technological elementswill make these processes better.

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Students at times find them not so suit-ably equipped to attend college interviews andSelection drives as they do not work on theseareas at the right time. The four years of pro-fessional education must not be spent on onlymaking assignments and giving exams. Thereis a long list of skills which have to be honedin these valuable years.

It is imperative to know that India facesthe gloomy reality that a high percentage ofits college pass outs are not employable. Timeand again, this issue has been raised by indus-try experts and academicians. Let us explorethe skills required for professional successafter college.

Soft skills for a successful career: Softskills are a must for every college student.What to talk, when to talk and how to talk arethree important skills which can make or breaka career. A student with excellent soft skills willfare much better than a student who doesn’twork on his soft skills. Participation in pub-lic speaking events, joining college clubs,attending seminars by experts of profession-al skills are few ways of developing one’s softskills in College.

Finding inner strength: When a studentis in college, he thinks stress is a good thing.It makes him follow deadlines and to studyhard. Though when one enters professionallife,the stress levels become gigantic andthen,only people with better life skills are ableto hold their nerves. Skills like time manage-ment, anger management, stress managementetc. should be learnt by college student as theyhelp in shaping the inner personality.

There are many courses of life manage-ment which are being run by organisations ofglobal repute these days. Such courses not onlyhelp a student in finding the right balance inlife, they also add up value to your CV.Companies would love to hire individuals whohave worked hard for building a holistic per-sonality. Such individuals would be able to gelbetter with the norms and culture of the organ-isation as well.

Body language and interview skills:Body Language is the science of understand-ing what is not spoken.

During interviews, candidates are judgedon their body language and gestures. The righthandshake, the right body posture can help acandidate in building the right rapport withthe Interviewer. Colleges must invite body lan-guage experts for special workshops as dur-ing selection days body language can make orbreak a deal.

Another important aspect on which suc-cess of college students depends is whetherthey are trained for Interviews or not. Studentswork laboriously for years to clear exams andaptitude test of companies but they somehowignore the ultimate test: The interview.Frequently asked questions, questions onone’s interests and academic scores must bepracticed beforehand. It takes not more than10 days to prepare for an interview butStudents never pay attention to this importantskill. There are even free tutorials available onthe Internet from where one can learn the artof cracking Interviews. For learning fineraspects, the students must request the place-ment cell of the college to get them profes-sional guidance.

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Eligibility: British cur-riculum (GCSE): 2-3 subjectsat A Levels with grades “10points” (average A) or abovealong with at least 5 subjectsat O-Levels, British curricu-lum O Levels 8 subjects with(average B) or above,American High School:Successful completion of thehigh school diploma with anoverall GPA of 3.5 and SAT1650, Indian & Pakistaninational curriculum:Completion ofFSC/HSC/CBSE/ICSC 75%,IB curriculum – diplomaminimum of 30 points (UG),International students canapply.

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Application deadline:November 1, 2019 (deadlineis 18 October 2019);December 1, 2019 (deadlinefor submitting a application is15 November 2019).

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Technology has had a mon-umental impact on theworld and is changing the

fashion industry by leaps andbounds. The newage digitisationhas pushed fashion consumertowards a new digital-self, a dig-ital social image which theywant to live up to. Touted as oneof the major ideas in the field offashion for the current year,Artificial Intelligence (AI) isplaying a complementary role inthe fashion design department.

When Karolina Kurkovawalked the runway for Manus XMachina: Fashion in an age ofTechnology at the Met Gala2016, little did people know thatthe Marchesa dress she is wear-ing for the Tech White Tie codehas actually been designed andput together by Watson, IBM’s I.Marchesa collaborated with IBMto come up with the first cogni-tive dress which was not onlyresearched upon by Watson, butwas also designed based on theinspiration and colour providedby Watson after researching andanalysing previous data.

Though AI emerged in thefifties and according to manyobservers the present AI boombegan about seven years agoand it followed a series of upsand downs which are oftenreferred to as AI summers andwinters. The magnitude of thepresent wave of AI can be mea-sured with the fact that fifty per-cent of the patents related to

artificial intelligence have beenfiled in the last seven years sinceits emergence in 1950s.

AI is believed to integratetextile industry with evolvedproduction quality cost, cuttingback-end costs, improving oper-ations process, informed statis-tics and process control and ontime manufacturing. Accordingto WGSN Forecast (Constellationresearch), by 2020, AIce marketwill surpass $40 billions and willexceed $100 billions by 2025.

Artificial Intelligence andEmotional Intelligence will ele-vate human experience byopening up new creativeopportunities. AI has thecapacity to automate gru-elling and reiterative tasksat effective speed allow-ing the designers to con-centrate on problemsolving and working ontasks which requiremanual assistance andsupervision.

The fashion industryaims at creating a person-alised and one on one servicefor its customer making itexclusive and artificial intelli-gence is helping them with thecause. Retailers are usingmachines and AI-powered soft-ware to understand the cus-tomers need and offering solu-tion making the buying experi-ence a one on one service.Burberry, Thom Browne, andHarvey Nichols have teamed up

with FarFetch to increase theirvisibility in the millennial mar-ket.

The field of design is evolv-ing beyond the traditional ideaof decoration and innovatinggarments which combine prac-ticality with fantasies to createsensorily enhanced experiencewhich is equal parts aestheti-cally stimulating. DutchDesigner Bart Hess is convey-ing the idea of transformationby using AI and

blurring the lines between tech-nology and design.

The product is described asa mutation of half textile andhalf human and according toofficial description Hess is fas-cinated by the idea of physical-ly morphing the body usinglatex to liquefy and sculpt thebody, creating a physical alter-native to the virtual morphosis.

Bio-ceramic textiles whichprovide thermal insulation,thermal dry system, infra redemitting technology are some ofthe intelligent categories of tex-

tiles which are being devel-oped keeping the exertions

related with physical activ-ities. These similar typesof textiles offer thermal

insulation to the body,adjusting the temper-ature according to

body heat, providingbreathability.

AI has madethis task efficientby providingcolour solution. It

becomes the highestpriority of a designer toget precise colour qual-ity amongst variousblends of fabric as samecolours tend to come

differently on different fab-rics due to the nature of theblend. AI can help in getting theaccurate colour quality duringdyeing and printing as well.

Conspicuous technology

and augmented aesthetic is thetrend for upcoming five years.The coming decade would belife changing for the technolo-gy industry and it advocates anage of system. We will movefrom product-focused thinkingin design to systematically gen-erated design. Interactive andsensory textiles along with trick-le up technology will be chal-lenging for designers to tackle.Development of variations in AIfabric blends is still ongoing andneeds multi discipline frontiertechnology which can investi-gate its comfort and predict itsproperties.

AI products and projectswould only derive informationfrom the date provided and fedinto the system and hence thelearning curve would be zero asopposed to humans. Theywould lack the ability andadaptability to make decisionsand come up with creativeideas. The complexity of AIgenerated system would beanalysed in future when theywould have been a recurring oran integral part of industry. Atpresent, their limitations lie invarious sectors which wouldrequire a detailed research andanalysis to overcome. Till thetime AI is able to generate cre-ative concepts by itself, design-ers would keep on innovatingand experimenting.

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Faf du Plessis will captainSouth Africa in the Test

series against India in Octoberbut may not lead the side in allformats, Corrie van Zyl,Cricket South Africa’s (CSA)new acting director of cricketsaid on Tuesday.

Van Zyl, who was appoint-ed to the acting role followingthe weekend purge of headcoach Ottis Gibson and hiscoaching staff, said he wouldchair a selection meeting “inthe next day-and-a-half ” todiscuss future strategy, whichwould include planning for the2023 World Cup.

“Faf will be the captain ofthe Test team,” said Van Zyl.

“But we need to look for-

ward and we will talk aboutthe white-ball strategy to2023.”

South Africa will playthree Twenty20 internationalsin India next month ahead ofthe Test series, their first in thenew world Test championship,which starts on October 2.

At Tuesday’s press confer-ence, Thabang Moroe, thechief executive of CSA, said hehoped the appointments in anew structure for thenational team would bemade before England starta tour of South Africa inDecember.

On Sunday, CSA saida football-style teammanager would beappointed, who wouldtake charge of al l

aspects of the national team,including the appointment

of a coaching staff, thecaptain or captainsand medical andadministrative per-sonnel.

Moroe also sug-gested that policywould be directedfrom the top.

“We want to see amore pro-active styleof play with the teamtaking calculated risks

and backing them-selves,” said Moroe whoadded that racial “repre-sentivity targets” (quotas)

would remain in place witha target average of six blackplayers in a team over the

course of a season.

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James Anderson has been ruled out of the second AshesTest, with England uncertain when he will be fit to return

after injuring his right calf.England’s record wicket-taker broke down after just

four overs in the series opener at Edgbaston and did notbowl again as Australia romped to a 251-run victory.

Scans have confirmed he has no chance of taking partin next week’s game at Lord’s, the second of the five-matchseries, with assessment taking place “on an ongoing basis”.

Anderson’s absence is a huge blow for England, whosedeflating defeat in Birmingham came just three weeks afterthey won the World Cup.

After pulling up injured on the first morning inBirmingham, Anderson, 37, was restricted to two battingcameos at number 11.

The veteran, who has taken 575 Test wickets, had notplayed competitive cricket for a month leading into thematch after injuring the same calf playing for Lancashire.

“The MRI confirmed that Anderson has suffered a calfinjury,” said a statement from the England and WalesCricket Board on Tuesday.

“As a result of the injury, he will commence a rehabil-itation programme working with the England andLancashire medical teams.

“Anderson will miss the second Test match, which startsat Lord’s on Wednesday August 14. He will be reassessedon an ongoing basis.”

Former England captain Michael Vaughan does notexpect to see Anderson on duty again until the fourth Testat the earliest and warned his absence could have a bigimpact in both dressing rooms.

“My concern is you don’t underestimate the psycho-logical effect of Jimmy Anderson has on the England team,but also the positive effect it sends through the Australiateam,” he said.

“For them to arrive next week and the week after toknow they won’t be facing Jimmy... That is monstrous.”

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England’s World Cup campaign, could lessen the blow buthe must first prove his own fitness for the five-day game.

He was carrying a side strain throughout the tourna-ment and has been sent to play for Sussex 2nd XI to getlong spells with the red ball under his belt.

England captain Joe Root had no regrets about includ-ing Anderson for the Edgbaston game, saying he had passedevery medical test.

“It’s one of those freak scenarios where he pulled up— because it’s the same calf, we’re not sure whether it’s aslightly different injury,” said Root.

“Jimmy in those conditions, if he bowls 15 overs, thingscould have been very different in the first innings in gen-eral. Root said picking Archer would not represent a gam-ble if he gets through the required workload this week.

“With Jofra, we’re in a slightly different situation wherehe’ll have played a lot of cricket in between and we’ll havea clearer idea of where he’s at,” he said.

“We’ll turn up to Lord’s and make sure in the next fewdays we don’t make any shotgun decisions.”

England’s defeat at Edgbaston means they face an uphillbattle to wrestle the Ashes back from Australia, who havenot won a Test series in England since 2001.

The home side have a number of issues to address asidefrom Anderson’s absence, needing to shore up their bat-ting and find a chink in the armour of Steve Smith, whomade two centuries in the match.

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Anett Kontaveit spoiled MariaSharapova’s return from injury

on Monday, rallying to beat thefive-time Grand Slam champion 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 at the WTA tournamentin Toronto.

Sharapova, competing for thefirst time since retiring from her first-round match at Wimbledon,appeared to be on course for just afourth match win since Januarywhen she went up a set and an earlybreak on the 16th seed from Estonia.

Having forced the third set,Kontaveit gave herself a chance toserve for the match with a break ofserve in an epic ninth game.Sharapova hung on through ninedeuces before Kontaveit convertedher third break chance in a game thatlasted more than 15 minutes.

“I was just trying to take it pointby point and not think about thescore that much. It worked in the

end,” said Kontaveit, who convertedher first match point in the follow-ing game when Sharapova sent a ser-vice return long.

While Kontaveit readies herselffor a second round match againsteither Venus Williams or CarlaSuarez Navarro — who open play onCentre Court on Tuesday —Sharapova will set her sights on next

week’s tournament inCincinnati, where

she has received awild card just asshe did inToronto.

“I don’t thinkthis is the time to

take a break,” she said.The 32-year-old has slipped to

82nd in the world rankings afteranother season marred by injury. Shehad missed more than four monthsin the wake of right shoulder surgerywhen she returned for the grass courtseason this year.

She was forced out ofWimbledon by a left forearm injury.

4����4�����,���4!�!The top eight seeds in the key US

Open tuneup receive first round byes— a group led by world number oneAsh Barty of Australia which alsoincludes No 2 Naomi Osaka ofJapan, fourth-seeded Wimbledonchampion Simona Halep and eighth-seeded Serena Williams.

German 12th seed AngeliqueKerber was unable to make to thesecond round, however, the three-time Grand Slam champion beaten0-6, 6-2, 6-4 by Russian DariaKasatkina.

Two former champions made itsafely into the second round,Caroline Wozniacki and BelindaBencic both posting straight-setswins.

Denmark’s Wozniacki, seeded15th, shook off an early break of ser-vice, rallying from 2-4 down in the

opening set to win in 90 minutes.The Dane, who lifted the WTA’s

Canadian Premier-level title in 2010when the tournament was inMontreal, hasn’t always thrived in theyears in which Toronto hosted,although she did make it to the finalin 2017.

“I’m just happy to be here andwin another match here and get agood start,” Wozniacki said. “We’ll seehow it goes.

Switzerland’s Bencic, seeded11th, advanced with ease, dispatch-ing Russian qualifier AnastasiaPotapova 6-2, 6-1.

Despite the lopsided scoreline,Bencic needed four match points toclose it out.

Bencic won the second WTAtitle of her career in Toronto in 2015,beating four of the top-six players inthe world, including Serena Williams.

But she hasn’t played in Torontosince as her precocious WTA rise wasstalled by a string of injuries.

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Australia coach Justin Langerfeels Steve Smith is at par withIndian captain Virat Kohli as the

world’s best batsman after the come-back-man struck consecutive hun-dreds in the opening Ashes Test againstEngland.

Langer said it’s credit to Smith thathe began his career as a spinner andlater transformed into the best batsmanin the world.

“Let’s face it; when he (Smith) firstcame in, leg-spinner, unorthodox...(everyone thought) ‘I’m not sure thiskid’s going to make it’. Then he goesaway (and decides) ‘I don’t want to bea leg-spinner; I want to be the best bats-man in the world’.

“Then he transforms himself andhe is the best batsman in the world withVirat. It’s a great credit to him,” Langersaid.

“I said during the summer thatVirat Kohli is the best player I have everseen but that (Smith’s knocks) is justanother level,” the coach said.

Kohli currently leads the ICC Testrankings, while Smith has moved up tothird with his latest performance.

Langer said Smith’s knocks atEdgbaston showed his mental tough-ness and traits of a great player.

“You have in different teams, dif-ferent eras, great players but for some-one like Smudge (Smith), who is aver-aging over 60 and the way he played inthis innings with all the pressure andeverything that is on him, it was notonly great skill but enormous charac-ter, enormous courage, very brave,unbelievable concentration, unbeliev-able physical stamina, unbelievablemental stamina, all traits of great play-ers,” he said.

The former left-handed openertermed Smith a problem-solver of histeam, someone who just loves battingfor long hours.

“You throw to him in the nets andyou literally feel like you can’t get himout and there’s no batsman like that andyou just end up throwing a million ballsand you are just lost for answers,"Langer said.

“I guess you would have to askEngland how they feel about that andthey had some interesting tactics forhim. They had the really short pointwhich I had never seen before, theyobviously had a tactic they preparedand Trevor Bayliss has seen a lot ofSteve Smith since he was a kid. Theywould have studied him closely but hejust has a knack, well, he is the bestproblem-solver in the game,” he added.

Langer also praised off-spinnerNathan Lyon, who claimed 6 for 49 inthe second innings to seal the win forAustralia.

“Like a few of our players, like SteveSmith, I didn’t realise how good NathanLyon was until I took over coaching thecricket team,” he said.

“You see him on telly, yeah NathanLyon, off-spin bowler, but the last 12months or so I just can’t believe howgood a bowler he is. He’s a brilliantbowler, such good control: he spins, hegets some bounce, great fielder, reallygood in the team, he’s the song master,so that tells you something about hischaracter.”

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Former England captain WayneRooney is to leave Washington-

based DC United after agreeing adeal to become player-coach ofChampionship side Derby County,the clubs announced on Tuesday.

The 33-year-old — the recordgoalscorer for both his countryand Manchester United — signedan initial 18 month contract withthe ambitious second tier side,who under Rooney’s formerEngland team-mate FrankLampard reached the play-offfinal last season.

The high-profile signing hasalready paid off for the club.

“On the back of Wayne join-ing the club, we have just beenoffered a record-breaking sponsor-ship deal with our principal shirtsponsor,” said owner Mel Morris.

Derby, two-time Englishchampions back in the 1970s,have been rewarded for beingquick off the mark when rumourssurfaced that Colleen, Rooney’swife and mother of their threechildren, was unhappy in the

United States and wanted to returnhome.

Rooney, who is presentlyworking towards securing hiscoaching qualifications, will workunder former PSV Eindhovenboss Phillip Cocu.

“I am very excited about theopportunity that Derby Countyhave provided me with,” Rooneytold the club website.

“I am looking forward to join-ing Phillip Cocu, his coaching staffand the first-team squad from thestart of January.

“I am sure I can make a bigcontribution and can’t wait tomeet everyone, especially the sup-porters.

“I am equally excited to beginmy coaching career at DerbyCounty working with both the firstteam and academy.

“I must also take this oppor-tunity to thank DC United, theirowners, executives and supporterswho have been superb to workwith.

“I want them to know that Iwill give my all in support of ourpush for the play-offs.”

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Former New Zealand captainBrendon McCullum will

retire from all forms of compet-itive cricket after the conclusionof the ongoing Global T20Canada, ending a journeywhich he termed “one hell of aride”.

McCullum, who is playingfor Toronto Nationals, hadretired from all forms of inter-national cricket in 2016 butcontinued to ply his trade invarious T20 leagues across theglobe.

The 37-year-old formerBlack Caps skipper has played101 Tests from which he scored6453 runs with 12 hundreds

and a highest score of 302.In 260 ODIs, he scored

6083 runs with five hundredswhile 71 T20 Internationalsfetched him 2140 runs.

He has a prolific T20 career(all leagues included) as hescored 9922 runs from 370games so far.

“It is with pride and satis-faction that I am todayannouncing my retirementfrom all cricket following theconclusion of the GT20 Canada.I now won’t be playing in theEuro T20 Slam and I sincerelythank the organisers for theirsupport and understanding ofmy decision,” McCullum said inan official statement on hisTwitter page.

“As much as I am proud ofwhat I have achieved in my 20-year professional career — morethan I ever could have dreamtof when I first entered thegame — I felt the drive to keepgoing, harder to maintain inrecent months,” said McCullum,who was one of the commenta-tors during last month’s ICCWorld Cup.

“My style of cricket hasalways been full noise and fullthrottle. From Culling Park toLord’s and everything inbetween, there has been somewonderful memories,”McCullum said.

“Unfortunately, the sacri-fices needed and commitmentrequired to play that type of

cricket have now become toogreat. I owe it to myself and theteams I represent to close thatchapter rather than plough onregardless of what I know to betrue.”

The dasher from Canterburyis extremely proud for the man-ner in which he played the game.He was a trailblazer in his ownright and is happy that the Kiwisbroke boundaries during histenure in international cricket.

“With New Zealand, webroke boundaries and estab-lished a style of play that earnedus respect across the world. InT20 cricket, I have enjoyed somany varied challenges, I canleave the game knowing I left nostone unturned.”

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Australian batsman Steve Smith onTuesday overtook India’s

Cheteshwar Pujara to grab the No 3spot in the ICC rankings after con-secutive hundreds in the openingAshes Test in Edgbaston.

Smith, playing his first Test seriesafter returning from a one-year banfor ball-tampering, gained a rung toreach the third position in the latestlist for batsmen, which continues tobe led by India captain Virat Kohli.Pujara is placed fourth in the freshstandings.

Smith’s knocks of 144 and 142won him the Man of the Match awardand the formerly top-ranked batsmanis back above the 900-point markalong with Kohli (922) and NewZealand captain Kane Williamson(913). He started the Test, whichAustralia won by 251 runs, in fourthplace and with 857 points.

Australian spinner Nathan Lyon’snine wickets in the match have lift-

ed him six spots to the 13th positionamong bowlers.

Pacer Pat Cummins has consol-idated his top position with a seven-wicket match haul that helped himreach a career-best 898 rating points,the third-best for an Australia bowlerin the past 50 years after GlennMcGrath and Shane Warne.

For England, Ben Foakes andChris Woakes are in 69th and 70thpositions in the list for batsmenafter gaining one and 11 points,respectively. Opener Rory Burns’knock of 133 in the first innings hashelped him move up 25 places to acareer-best 81st position.

Fast bowler Stuart Broad, whocompleted 100 Test wickets againstAustralia during the match, hasgained two places to be 16th.

Woakes has advanced four placesto take the 29th slot after grabbingfour wickets in the match. Woakeshas also leapfrogged compatriotMoeen Ali to reach ninth among all-rounders.

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The uncertainty overwhether Ravi Shastri will

continue to be the head coachof Team India seems all butover, as the Cricket AdvisoryCommittee (CAC) — com-prising Kapil Dev, AnshumanGaekwad and ShanthaRangaswamy — appointed topick the new coach has madeit clear that it is not looking ata foreign face for the covetedpost.

Speaking about it, a CACmember said that with theteam doing so well underShastri, it was all but certainthat the former India all-rounder will continue to coachthe Virat Kohli-led team.

“We are not too keen tobring in a foreign coach. Yes,had someone of the stature ofGary Kirsten applied, we mighthave given it a thought. Buteven then, an Indian would

have always been the priority.After all, the team has alsodone well under an Indianhead coach, so why look for achange? As things stand now,Shastri does look to be thefavourite to be handed a freshcontract,” the CAC membersaid.

A senior BCCI officialhad also recently said thatit was important forShastri to continueas the team wasu n d e r g o i n gtransition.

“Nothingp e r m ane ntwith a longterm effectshould happenat this stage of transition.Shastri and Kohli comple-ment each other well and itwould be unfair to changehalf of a team that has beensuccessful. A change incoach may disturb the equa-

tion that exists and allows theplayers to have the mentalspace to excel.

“If a change is made at thisstage, it would be a change ofstrategy and planning for thenext 5 years. It would be unfair

to take such a decision at astage when the stake-

holders are not theones deciding,”

the official said.CoA chief

Vinod Rai hasmade it clear

that the finaldecision lay with

the CAC and theywill appoint the

coach and there won’t be acase of them giving their rec-ommendation to the BCCI.

When asked if there was ajoint winner, the CAC membersaid that the vote of Kapilwould come in if at all such ascenario arose.

“See, firstly, it is a three-

member panel, so a split deci-sion is highly unlikely. Butyes, if at all a situation doesarise where A goes for one can-didate, B for another and C foranother, the vote of the chair-man will come in and thedecision will stand. But as ofnow, we don’t see somethinglike that happening,” the mem-ber said.

“But yes, we will give theboard options like our firstpreference is A, second prefer-ence is B and third preferencefor the job is C. That is morebecause there can be a case likeat the time of the women’scoach appointment whenKirsten had IPL commitments.”

The CAC is yet to receive adate from the board as to whenthe shortlisted candidates arewill be interviewed. But theyexpect to get intimation on thesame soon. Rai on his part hassaid that the interviews will takeplace in mid-August.

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The maturity to handlepressure situationswas the recipe for

their success at theThailand Open after a briefdownward spiral post lastyear’s CommonwealthGames success, emergingstar shuttler Chirag Shetty

said on Tuesday.Chirag and his partner

Satwiksairaj Rankireddylast week defeated Li JunHui and Liu Yu Chen ofChina to win their firstever BWF Super 500 event.

However the Mumbailad remembers how theduo lost track having takenunnecessary pressure on

themselves after winningSilver at the Gold CoastGames last year.

“The pressure of expec-tations was there after theCommonwealth Games, welost in three tournaments inthe first round. It wasunnecessary pressure thatwe took upon ourselves,”Chirag said.

“This time, we man-aged the pressure reallywell in the final, eventhough we were playing aSuper Series summit clashfor the first time. We couldhave given into pressureand lost the third gameeasily, having lost the sec-ond. But we handled itpretty well, and that’s howwe were able to comeback.

“I think, we havematured as players and nowthe way we handle pressureis lot better than what weused to handle a year back,”he emphasised.

On a high after theirmaiden t it le tr iumph,Chirag has now trained hiseyes on the upcomingWorld Championship inBasel, starting August 19.

“Well, after this win (inThailand Open), hopefullywe will able to carry themomentum into the WorldChampionships as well. Atthe World Championship,the competition is toughright from first round(itself),” Chirag said.

“This year, we havebeen playing pretty well.Now, we are pretty muchconfident and hopefully wewill be able to carry themomentum in the WorldChampionships,” said the22-year-old.

Asked what this titletriumph means, the young-ster replied: “At an individ-ual level, I feel that it augurswell for Indian men’s dou-bles because for the past somany years, we haven’t wonanything at this level as faras this category is con-cerned. So, hopefully thingschange for better in doublesdepartment for India,” thelanky shuttler said.

For him, this victorysurpasses the Silver medalwon at the Gold CoastCommonwealth Games.

“For us, it is our bestvictory so far. I would rateit above Commonwealth(Games) Silver medal. Thecompetition pool in this

tournament was far morechallenging compared toCWG. Also consideringthat it is an Olympic yearand all the top players werein fray.”

On Tuesday, the pair ofChirag and Satwiksairajclimbed to their career bestworld rank of 9 in the BWFcharts.

While Satwiksairaj told

reporters in Hyderabad thatit’s yet to sink in, Chiragfinds it a bit more believ-able.

“Kind of, now it is littlebelievable. We played ourhearts out and won that titlein Thailand. Now, we needto get ourselves up andstart preparing for the nexttarget, that is the WorldChampionship.”

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The season-openingDuleep Trophy, which

has been India’s only day-night first-class tournamentwith pink ball for the lastthree seasons, is set to goback to the day format withred ball due to lack of TVcoverage.

The blue-riband tourna-ment, which will featureIndia’s top domestic stars, willbe played from August 17 toSeptember 9 at Bengaluru’sChinnaswamy Stadium.

India’s next superstarin making ShubmanGill, India A regularPriyank Panchaland VidarbhaRanji championskipper Faiz Fazal will leadBlue, Red and Green teamsrespectively.

However, the BCCI’s GM(Cricket Operations) SabaKarim confirmed that savethe final from September 5-9, which will be telecast liveon Star Sports, all the othermatches will be traditionalred-ball games like the oldtimes.

“We have floodlights atthe Chinnaswamy but weare not playing with pink ballunder lights as there is no livecoverage. Only the finalmatch will be a day/nightaffair as that’s the only matchto be aired live” Karim saidon Tuesday.

Asked if this will be aroadblock in moving towardspink ball Tests in future,Karim disagreed.

“I don’t think so. If every-one associated with Indiancricket is on the same page,may be we can think of hav-ing India A first class gameswith pink balls. I am not say-ing anything is confirmed butyou never know if everyonecomes on same page,” Karimsaid.

However, a senior BCCIofficial said the decision toscrap pink balls save the

final has been done keepingbigger picture in mind.

“The Indian team is notplaying any pink ball cricketin near future. All our Testengagements are a part ofWorld Test Championship.And we are not playing anyDay/Night games in WorldTest Championship,” thesenior official, who is privy toIndian team management’sselection policies, said.

“So what’s the logic ofour supply line of playersplaying a tournament withpink ball when they are inany case going to play red ballcricket if selected for India,”he said.

On the three Duleepsquads formed, most of thecurrent India A players alongwith performers fromVidarbha and other Ranjiteams have got a chance.

The likes of AbhimanyuEaswaran, Anmolpreet Singh,Ruturaj Gaikwad, ShreyasGopal, Jayant Yadav, AxarPatel, all of whom have playedat least one format for IndiaA in the West Indies A tour,are there.

India discards like KarunNair and Varun Aaron are

also in the mix just like lastseason's highest run-scorerMilind Kumar of Sikkim ortalented left-arm seamer fromRajasthan Tanveer ul Haq.

SQUADSIndia Blue: Shubman Gill(captain), Ruturaj Gailwad,Rajat Patidar, AnmolpreetSingh, Ricky Bhui, AnkeetBawne, Snell Patel (wk),Shreyas Gopal, SaurabhKumar, Jalaj Saxena, TusharDeshpande, Basil Thampi,Diwesh Pathania, AniketChoudhary, Ashutosh Amar.India Green: Faiz Fazal (cap-tain), Akshath Reddy, DhruvShorey, Priyam Garg, SiddeshLad, Akshdeep Nath, RahulChahar, Dharmendra Jadeja,Jayant Yadav, Ankit Rajpoot,Ishan Porel, Tanveer ul Haq,Akshay Wadkar (wk), RajeshMohanty, Milind Kumar.India Red: Priyank Panchal(captain), AbhimanyuEaswaran, Axar Patel, KarunNair, Ishan Kishan (wk),Harpreet Bhatia, AdityaSarwate, Mahipal Lomror,Akshay Wakhare, VarunAaron, Ronit More, JaydevUnadkat, Sandeep Warrier,Ankit Kalsi.

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New Zealand pacer Tim Southeebelieves that adapting to condi-

tions in Sri Lanka will hold the key forthe Kiwis in the upcoming two-matchTest series against Sri Lanka in the IslandNation.

New Zealand will play a three-daywarm-up game against the Sri LankaBoard President XI from August 8before taking on Sri Lanka in the first Testfrom August 14 in Colombo.

Speaking about it, Southee said:“We have some guys who were on the lasttour to Sri Lanka and we had some suc-cess here. So, it’s nice to have that expe-rience. But we know that the conditionshave changed and we need to adapt tothat as quickly as we can.”

The two teams have not playedTests in Sri Lanka since 2012, when NewZealand won the second Test (also at theP Sara Oval) to draw the series follow-ing a heavy defeat in Galle.

“It’s going to be a tough series in thispart of the world. The sub-continent isalways a tough place to come, purelybecause the conditions are quite differ-ent from that we are used to. Here (in SriLanka), the conditions are different from

that of UAE. You get the damp heat anda lot more sweat than UAE. So, we are justacclimatizing to it,” said Southee point-ing at the difference in conditions betweenSri Lanka and UAE, where the Black Capslast played in the subcontinent anddefeated Pakistan in the Test series.

New Zealand are coming fresh from

their heart-wrenching World Cup deba-cle where they lost to England in one ofthe most epic ODI encounters in the finalat Lord’s on July 14. They lost to hosts oncount of boundary after both the regu-lation overs and the subsequent SuperOver ended in a tie.

Southee feels that the group is still try-

ing to coming to terms with the loss, how-ever, they are proud of the way they faredin the showpiece event.

“There are a few guys here who werepart of the World Cup. Our focus wasthere at the ODI format for quite sometime and we now have to shift it to Testcricket. There are still conversationsabout what happened in England and alsoabout what we were able to achieve as agroup in those eight weeks,” said Southee.

“There’s a lot of frustration andother emotions that come to mind. Butwhen we dig deep, we are very proud ofthe way we represented New Zealand,” headded.

The two-match series, which will bebroadcast on Sony ESPN, will see the twoteams beginning their campaign in theICC World Test Championship.

Southee believes the WTC will addfurther excitement to Test cricket as it willbring more context to bilateral series.

“World Test Championship is some-thing new and exciting. There are manyguys who enjoy playing Test cricket. Andso, with the added edge of WTC, Testcricket becomes all more exciting,” saidSouthee.

“It will be nice to go back to Lord’sin a couple of years and play the finals.”

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Country’s former table tennis coachMassimo Costantini has advised

the Indian paddlers to pick and choosetournaments wisely ahead of the 2020Tokyo Olympic qualifiers.

Under the Italian, India had maderapid strides with historic perfor-mances at the Gold CoastCommonwealth Games and JakartaAsian Games, where the countryended a 60-year-wait for a table ten-nis medal.

However, Constantini had decid-ed against renewing his contract lastyear citing personal reasons. Since hisdeparture, Indian paddlers have beenwithout the services of a nationalcoach.

“Olympics is always very special.I think you have to analyse youropportunities and adopt a balanceapproach towards tournaments. Try toget the proper appetite and miss tour-naments if the need be. They need toplan fitness and training well and strikethe perfect balance,” Constantini saidon the sidelines of Ultimate TableTennis league.

“They have to combine the quan-tity of competition and performance.They must also prioritise their train-

ing plans. Now they have the qualifi-cation stage that they must focus on,”he added.

Constantini, who is currently serv-ing as the High Performance Managerat International Table TennisFederation (ITTF), lauded the Indianpaddlers for their good show despitebeing without a coach.

“Lack of guidance is a major prob-lem. Being alone can be a weakness.

Planning, guidance and support arevery important for players. So I

admire the Indian players thatthey are performingso well in spite ofthat. Manav

(Thakkar), GSathiyan and Manika

(Batra) are doing verywell. They have managed

this period very well,” hesaid.

The 61-year-old backed worldnumber 30, Sathiyan, to give a goodfight to his opponents at the Olympicqualifiers.

“Sathiyan has a fantastic chance ofqualifying for the Olympics. He can bea big threat for many players. In fact Ifeel Olympics is easier than the WorldChampionships, which has moreChinese, Japanese and Korean com-petitors. Here there is a lesser number.So technically, Sathiyan has a greatchance,” Constantini said.

Constantini also revealed that hehas remained in contact with theIndia paddlers and they are openseek his advice at any point of time.

“I have not only been in touch butI have been following their perfor-mances on the ITTF website. Somehave been still asking me what to do,what to change. Some personally textme which feels great,” he said.

“But that is natural because afterhaving done so much and achieved somuch, I keep following them. Even inITTF training camps, I meet them.”

India’s best shot at winning amedal in table tennis comes from theAsian Games bronze medallist mixeddoubles pair of Manika Batra andSharath Kamal.

Talking about the duo, Constantinisaid if both the players go in with thecorrect mindset, then they can win atTokyo.

“All doubles are very unpredictable,that’s the problem. But Manika andSharath have an edge for sure. Theyhave the authority to be promising can-didates. If you are able to achieve onestage, you can do it again so it is allabout the mindset,” he said.

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Rankireddy and ChiragShetty on Tuesday jumpedseven places to enter thetop 10 of the latest bad-minton world rankings,courtesy their historic winat last week’s ThailandOpen.

Rankireddy andShetty, who created histo-ry on Sunday by becomingthe first Indian men’s dou-bles pair to win a BWFSuper 500 tournament, areplaced ninth in the men’sdoubles rankings issuedon Tuesday.

Rankireddy and Shettystunned reigning worldchampions Li Jun Hui andLiu Yu Chen of China 21-19, 18-21, 21-18 in theThailand Open final to

achieve the feat.The other Indian

men’s doubles duo ofManu Attri and BSumeeth Reddy remainedon 25th spot.

In the men’s singles,there were no significantchanges for Indian shut-tlers as KidambiSrikanth (10th),Sameer Verma (13), B

Sai Praneeth (19), H SPrannoy (31) and SouravVerma (44) are all static atthe respective positions.

Parupalli Kashyapmoved up three places to32nd spot, whileSubhankar Dey climbedtwo places to 39th.

Meanwhile, Olympicmedallists P V Sindhu andSaina Nehwal managed tohold on to their fifth andeighth spots respectively inthe women’s singles rank-ings.

In the women’s dou-bles, Ashwini Ponnappaand N Sikki Reddy movedup a place to 23rd.

But Indians witnesseda downward move in themixed doubles rankings.

While the pair ofPranaav Jerry Chopra andSikki Reddy dropped aplace to 23rd, the duo ofPonnappa and Rankireddyslipped four spots to beplaced 27th.

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