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TUESDAYOCT 1, 2019

CHANDIGARHVOL. XXIII, NO. 233

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All the world's a stage, and all themen and women merely players:

they have their exits and theirentrances; and one man in histime plays many parts, his acts

being seven ages.

William Shakespeare

INX Media case:Delhi HC rejectsPC’s bail pleaNEW DELHI: The Delhi HighCourt on Monday rejected theregular bail petition filed by seniorCongress leader P Chidambaramwho is currently in Tihar jail inconnection with the INX Mediacase. Justice Suresh Kumar Kaitdismissed his plea observing thatthe investigation is in the ad-vanced stage and that the ac-cused might influence the wit-nesses. The Central Bureau ofInvestigation (CBI) had arrestedChidambaram on August 21 fol-lowing which he was sent to judi-cial custody in Tihar jail till Octo-ber 3 by a Delhi court. While CBIis probing the corruption allega-tions, the Enforcement Direc-torate (ED) is looking into moneylaundering allegations againsthim in the case.

AGENCYNEW DELHI, SEPT 30

Directorate of Revenue Intelligence(DRI) has warned all investigatingand intelligence agencies that a hugequantity of hazardous Chinese fire-crackers has started reaching India il-legally ahead of Diwali.

According to DRI, the import offirecrackers is 'restricted' in terms offoreign trade policy.

The Chinese crackers are not onlydangerous for the environment but arealso against Explosive Rules, 2008 asthey contain banned chemicals likered lead, copper oxide and lithiumamong others.

The Chinese dealers, on the otherhand, have been targetting the Indianmarkets to achieve their annual finan-

cial targets, sources claimed."The import of firecrackers is 'Re-

stricted' in terms of the 'Foreign TradePolicy' and is allowed only against animport license issued by the Director-General of Foreign Trade. It has been

observed that in order to circumventthe licensing requirements, unscrupu-lous importers are indulging in the il-legal import of firecrackers by anymisdeclaration and concealment," anofficial communication of DRI, ac-

cessed by ANI read. "In this regard,several alerts have been issued by thisoffice in the past. Seizure of juggledfirecrackers by Customs enforcementwings bear testimony to the unabatedattempts of entities to clandestinelyimport of firecrackers by way of mis-declaration and concealment. This is aserious matter and a grave cause ofconcern," DRI's letter added. The DRIhas asked all intelligence and investi-gating agencies to be on the lookoutfor firecrackers imported from Chinaand to apprise it with details of suchseizures in the future. "It is requestedthat the field formations under yourjurisdiction may be sensitized andsuitably alerted to carefully assess andexamine consignments of consumerand miscellaneous goods imported bytraders from China.

SC refuses to furtherentertain plea forproducing AbdullahNEW DELHI: The SupremeCourt on Monday refused to fur-ther entertain Rajya Sabha MPVaiko's plea seeking productionof former Jammu and KashmirChief Minister Farooq Abdullahbefore it and said the MDMKleader can challenge the deten-tion order under the Public Safe-ty Act. "He (Abdullah) is underdetention under the Public Safe-ty Act," a bench headed by ChiefJustice Ranjan Gogoi told Vaiko'scounsel. Vaiko's counsel ques-tioned the conduct of Jammu andKashmir administration andclaimed that few minutes beforethe scheduled hearing in the apexcourt on September 16, Abdullahwas detained under the Jammuand Kashmir Public Safety Act.The bench also comprising jus-tices S A Bobde and S A Nazeersaid the petitioner can challengethe detention order against Abdul-lah under the Jammu and Kash-mir Public Safety Act before theappropriate authority.

Sholay’s KaliaViju Khotepasses away

MUMBAI: Veteran Hindi andMarathi film-theatre actor VijuKhote passed away on Mondaydue to multiple organ failure. Hewas 77. The actor, most famousfor playing the dacoit Kalia in"Sholay" and Robert in "AndazApna Apna", died at his resi-dence. "He passed away todayat 6.55 am peacefully in his sleepat the residence. He has beenunwell since quite sometime.loss for all of us," she said.

DRI warns govt agencies

Parineeti Chopra is in lovewith her new 'Pad'

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Rahane feels there'sconnection between him

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Rajbir Singh Barara replaces Sarwanfrom Mullana

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NEW DELHI: Brahmos su-personic cruise missile featur-ing Indian propulsion system,airframe, power supply andother major indigenous com-ponents, was successfullytest-fired on Monday.

"The missile was suc-cessfully test-fired at 10.20am today from Chandipur inOdisha for its full range of290-km during the launchjointly conducted by DRDOand BrahMos Aerospace," anofficial statement from De-fence Ministery said.

With this successful mis-sion, the indigenous contentin the formidable weapon hasreached a high value, thus

bolstering India's defence in-digenisation and the flagship'Make in India' programme.

Defence Minister RajnathSingh, DRDO Chairman GSathees Reddy and DG Mis-siles and Strategic SystemsMSR Prasad congratulatedteam DRDO, Brahmos and in-dustries for the successful mis-sion. DG (Brahmos) SudhirKumar Mishra, DirectorDRDL Dashrath Ram and BKDas, Director ITR coordinatedand witnessed the entire mis-sion at the launch site andtermed the successful flight testas a landmark achievement inenhancing India's "Make in In-dia" capabilities.

Brahmos missile withmajor indigenous systems

test-fired successfullyHazardous Chinese firecrackers reaching India illegally

Tarun Tejpal sexualassault case: Courtadjourns hearing PANJI: Panaji Sessions court onMonday adjourned till October 7the hearing in the sexual assaultcase against Tarun Tejpal, theformer editor-in-chief of Tehelkamagazine.Tejpal, a veteran journalist, wasaccused of sexual assault by afemale colleague in November2013. He was arrested on No-vember 30, 2013, and is current-ly out on bail.On September 29, 2017, theGoa court had charged him un-der various Sections of the Indi-an Penal Code, including rape,sexual harassment and wrongfulconfinement. He, however,pleaded not guilty.Following the framing ofcharges, Tejpal moved theSupreme Court seeking quash-ing of the charges levelledagainst him. In August, the topcourt refused to quash thecharges and directed the trial tobe concluded within six months.

AGENCYNEW DELHI, SEP 30

Chief Minister Manohar LalKhattar has been fielded againfrom Karnal as the BJP an-nounced on Monday names ofits 78 candidates for October 21assembly polls in Haryanawhere the saffron party is seek-ing to retain power.

The party has given ticketsto a number of noted sportsper-sons who had joined it in recentweeks with wrestler BabitaPhogat, former Indian hockeycaptain Sandeep Singh,Olympic medallist YogeshwarDutt contesting from Dadri, Pe-howa and Baroda respectively,its national general secretaryArun Singh told reporters here.

He said the party's centralelection committee, which hadmet on Sunday, has repeated 38MLAs and dropped seven ofthem for the polls to the 90-member assembly.

Khattar had won from Kar-nal seat in 2014.

Haryana BJP president Sub-hash Barala will contest fromTohana, Captain Abhimanyufrom Narnod and Om PrakashDhankar from Badli, Singhsaid.

Former Union minister andJat leader Birender Singh'sMLA wife will contest fromUchana Kalan, a seat she hadwon in 2014. Aditya Devilal, agrandson of Jat stalwart DeviLal, has been fielded from Dab-wali.

The candidates include ninewomen and two Muslims.

The last date for filing nom-

inations is October 4.With the opposition weak-

ened by desertion among itsranks and shrinking supportbase, as seen in the recent LokSabha polls, the BJP is confi-dent of returning to power witha bigger mandate.

Riding on 'Modi wave', theparty had stormed to power inHaryana for the first time in2014, winning 47 seats. It hadearlier been part of non-Con-gress governments as a juniorpartner and was never seen as aprincipal force.

Since coming to power ithas consolidated its political po-sition further in the state as itsrivals, Congress and INLD,were hit by internal fight madeworse by their repeated poorshot in different polls.

This coupled with "popularsupport" to the party followingthe Union government's deci-sion to nullify Article 370 willfurther boost its chances in thepolls, its leaders have said.

The BJP believes that Khat-tar, who was a surprise pick forthe CM post after the 2014 win,enjoys a clean image after run-ning a government "untainted"by any allegation of corruption.He is again the party's choicefor the top post.

In 2014, the BJP had fromthe consolidation of non-Jatvoters behind it in a state longdominated by leaders from thecommunity. The party's choice

of Khattar, who is from Punjabicommunity, was apparentlydriven by it. The party is, how-

ever, hopeful of winning over asignificant section of Jats thistime. ... MORE ON PAGE 3

BJP releases list of 78 candidates for Hry polls

Nine women, two muslims fielded

Babita Phogat, Yogeshwar,Sandeep named in first list

Two cabinet ministersamong 7 denied tickets

CHANDIGARH: The BJP has decided to drop seven sitting MLAs in-cluding two cabinet ministers Vipul Goel and Rao Narbir Singh. VipulGoel and Rao Narbir Singh, both ministers, were sitting MLAs fromFaridabad and Badshahpur constituency respectively. Deputy SpeakerSantosh Yadav, who represented Ateli constituency in Mahendergarhdistrict, too was denied ticket.The others who have been denied ticketsinclude Santosh Sarwan of Mulana, Kulwant Bazigar from Guhla con-stituency, Sham Singh Rana of Radaur and Bimla Chaudhary.Goel has been replaced by Narinder Gupta, Manish Yadav comes in forRao Narbir Singh and Sita Ram Yadav has replaced Santosh Yadav.However, among the ministers who have been re-nominated includeCapt Abhimanyu, Ram Bilas Sharma, Anil Vij, Krishan Kumar Bedi,Karan Dev Kamboj, Kavita Jain and O P Dhankar.The BJP had won 47 seats in the 2014 assembly polls and after its winin the Jind bypolls earlier this year, the party's strength rose to 48. TheBJP has set a target of winning 75 plus seats this time.Party sources said some of the sitting MLAs who failed to get re-nomi-nation did not get along too well with Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khat-tar, who is seeking re-election from Karnal seat.

Manohar LalKhattar to

contest fromKarnal

AGENCYNEW DELHI, SEPT 30

In a surprise move, Pakistan ForeignMinister Shah Mahmood Qureshi onMonday invited former Prime MinisterManmohan Singh to travel across theborder for the Kartarpur corridor inau-guration in November this year.

Qureshi announced the decision toinvite Dr Manmohan Singh in a videomessage that he said, would be followedup with a formal invitation from thePakistan Government.

“Dr Singh is widely respected in In-dia and hails from the Sikh community,”he said in the video that also made a ref-erence to Prime Minister Imran Khan’sdeep interest in the Kartarpur project.

The Kartarpur corridor will connectDarbar Sahib in Pakistan’s Kartarpurwith Dera Baba Nanak shrine in Gur-daspur district of Punjab and facilitatevisa-free movement of Indian pilgrims,who will have to obtain a permit to makethe pilgrimage.

The corridor will be opened in No-

vember ahead of Guru Nank Dev’s550th birth anniversary. Kartarpur Sahibwas established in 1522 by Sikh faithfounder Guru Nanak Dev. Meanwhile,Singh’s office said it neither receivedsuch an invitation nor did it have any in-formation about it. The Congress mean-while remained tight-lipped about thepurported invitation. Congress sourcesadded that Singh, even if invited, wasunlikely to go. “When he did not go toPakistan when he was Prime Ministerfor ten years of the Congress led UPArule, why will he go now?” a seniorCongress functionary said.

Pak invites ManmohanSingh for Kartarpur

Corridor inaugurationCong keeps silence on issue

AGENCYNEW DELHI, SEPT 30

The Supreme Court will pronounceits verdict on Tuesday on a reviewpetition filed by the Centre against itsjudgement diluting various stringentprovisions of SC/ST (Prevention ofAtrocities) Act.

A three-judge Bench of JusticeArun Mishra, Justice Vineet Saranand Justice S Ravindra Bhat will passthe judgement after centre asked thetop court to rethink its verdict.

The court reserved its order onthe review petition on September 18.

A two-judge bench had earlierthis month referred the review plea toa three-judge bench for hearing thecase.

The Centre had filed the reviewpetition asking it to rethink its verdictafter a backlash from the SC/STcommunity against the decision,which resulted in widespread protestsacross the country.

A two-judge bench had on March20, 2018, passed a slew of directions,directing that a public servant couldbe arrested in cases lodged under theSC/ST Act "only after prior approvalby the competent authority".

The apex court had held thatthere will be no automatic arrest on acomplaint filed under the SC/ST Pre-vention of Atrocities Act. It also in-troduced the anticipatory bail provi-sion and a preliminary probe by thepolice before the arrest of the ac-cused.

The Centre had filed the petitionin the court and later made amend-ments in the Act to overcome the topcourt's order. The implementation ofthe amendment in the law was notstayed by the court.

The court is seized of a bunch ofother petitions opposing amendmentsto the Act passed by the Parliamentthat rule out any provision for antici-patory bail for a person accused ofatrocities against SC/STs.

SC to pronounce verdict on Centre'sreview plea on SC/ST Act today

AGENCYLUDHIANA, SEP 30

Punjab Chief Minister CaptainAmarinder Singh on Monday made itclear that his government had merelysent to the Union Home Ministry, the listof all long-term TADA prisoners, andhad no role in the Centre's reported deci-sion to release Beant Singh's killer, orany other particular prisoner.

His government, said the Chief Min-ister, had only sent the list of 17 TADAprisoners held in Punjab, as required bythe Centre, which had taken an inde-

pendent decision on the re-lease of the prisoners.

In fact, the state gov-ernment was yet to receivethe names of the nine pris-oners, who the Ministry ofHome Affairs had decidedto grant special exemption,he added.Capt Singh wasresponding to questions onthe Congress stand on me-dia reports, suggesting that former chiefminister Beant Singh's killer Rajoana,was among the eight prisoners that theCentre had decided to release, as a hu-

manitarian gesture on the550th Prakash Purb of SriGuru Nanak Dev ji. Ra-joana was in the list of 17inmates, submitted by thestate government to theCentre, as he was a TADAprisoner, who had complet-ed more than 14 years injail, like others on the list,he added. The Congress

stand on Beant Singh's killers had alwaysbeen clear and consistent - that theyshould serve their full sentence, ex-plained Capt Singh.

No role in commutation of Rajoana'sdeath sentence, says Amarinder

AGENCYCHENNAI, SEP 30

Prime Minister Narendra Modi onMonday said the world has "greatexpectations" from India, and as-serted his government will leadthe country to a path of 'greatness'where it will be beneficial to theentire globe.

On his first visit to Tamil Nadu after re-taining power in this year's Lok Sabha polls,the Prime Minister reiterated his campaignagainst single-use plastic. "During my (justconcluded) US tour I saw the world has greatexpectations from India, which is growing. It

is the responsibility of all--we willcertainly ensure the welfare of In-dia, and swiftly, but we will makeit such a great nation that it will beuseful for the world," he said.Making the country great was notthe job of the Central government,but that of 130 crore Indians, hesaid addressing BJP workers at a

felicitation function organised by the party atthe airport. This was the job of citizens set-tled in every nook and corner of the countryand "whether those who live in city or vil-lage, the rich or poor and young or old," andthe nation will become great from the contri-bution of all these, he said.

World has "great expectations"from India, says Modi

PUBLIC NOTICESI, Sadiqan widow of Saddique R / o N a v i B a s t i , Q i l a Rehmatgarh, Malerkotla Distt Sangrur have dismissed my daughter Gafoora from my property. Concerned note it.

100072I, Murari Lal S/o Shri Hans Raj R/o H.No. 174/20 Huda kaithal Teh and Distt kaithal declare that my son Ajay Sidana and his wife Kirti Sidana are out of my control. So I disown with them from my moveable/immoveable property. If any body dealing with them at his/her own risk.

100039I, Madan Lal S/o Natha Ram R/o Vill Asmanpur Tehsil pehowa distt (Kurukshetra) declares that my daughter Aarti Devi out of my control , I disown them from my m o v e a b l e / i m m o v e a b l e properties. I and my family will not responsible for their act and conduct anybody deal with them .

84661I, hitherto known as Chet Singh Son/daughter/wife of Late: Inder Singh residing at Vill: Mehal Kalan Near Nanak Sar Teh-Barnala Distt. Barnala Punjab (148104) have changed my name and shall hereafter be knonw as Harcet Singh Banipal. It is certified that I have complied with other legal r e q u i r e m e n t s i n t h i s connection.

63372It is for general information that I Anu Rani D/o Santokh Lal residing at Village-Nangal Te h s i l - P h i l l a u r D i s t t . Jalandhar, Punjab-144410 declare that name of my mother has been wrongly written as Suman Lata in my educational documents. The actual name of my mother is Soma Rani, which may be amended accordingly. it is certified that I have complied with other legal requirement in this connection.

63372I, Navdeep Kaur W/o Baljit Singh R/o Payal W.No. 10 Teh-Payal (Ludhiana) declare that in my school certificate and school record my name entered Rupinder Kaur before marriage. But after marriage my name entered Navdeep Kaur in my Aadhar Card, Voter Card, Bank Passbook and Marriage Certificate. Both names are one lady. I have known by both names. my both names are right & correct.

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I No 14639322K Rank Hav I, Bhawna Arora W/O Nitin I, Suresh Singh S/o Hardish I, Paramjit Kaur W/o Raj I, Harnoor Kaur Sethi D/o I, Mohinder Singh S/O Name Bhaskar Nandi unit Dhir R/O H.no E S 25 Dhan Singh Vill Chanalheri , Singh R/o Dhurkot Kalan Jagmohan Singh Sethi R/o Avtar Singh Sohal R/O

I, Mohanjit Kaur W/o 138 (I) WKSP EME (Sig Mohalla Distt Jalandhar Pehowa , Kurukshe t r a (Moga), I, Paramjit Kaur W.No. 3 Bhucho Mandi Jhanjr ian Patt i , Ward Jaswant Singh R/o H.No. GP) C/o 56 Apo have Have Changed My Name changed name Suresh. Al ias Manpreet Kaur (Bathinda) changed my No.2, Dhanaula Distt. 683 W.No.4, Near Punjab correction DOB of my wife From Bhawna Arora To 84661 B o t h n a m e s a r e m i n e name to Harnoor Kaur. Barnala Have Changed and Sind Bank, Mundi Smt Rita Rani Nandi is as Bhawna Dhir I, Gurmail Singh S/o andsame Person. 63372 My Name To Mohinder Kharar Distt Mohali have under for Dob 20 Apr 1982 72778 J a s w a n t S i n g h Vi l l 63372 I , Gurwinder S ingh Singh Sohal.changed my name to Read Dob 20 Apr 1983 I, Hitherto Known As Yash Santokhpura ,Thanesar, I, Rupinder Kaur W/O Dhaliwal S/o Harjinder 63372Mohan Lata 98765 Pal S/O Hazara Singh, R/O Kurukshetra . I changed my Gurshaib Singh Sandhu R/O Singh R/o Vill: Kothe I, No. 15477453l Ex Ld

100071 I Iqbal singh Brar S/o Vill. Khanoor, Jallowal, minor son name from Ghagga Teh. Gidderbaha Janisar Dhilwan Kalan Raghbir Singh, Of Village I, Rajesh Kumari W/o Balveer singh R/o vpo Distt. Hoshiarpur-146001, Ramanjeet Singh to Dist. Sri Muktsar Sahib (Faridkot) changed my Gujjar, Tehsil & District Vinod Kumar R/o House Mehma sarja dist Bathinda P u n j a b , I n d i a , H a v e Ramanjeet (given name) Have Change My Name name to Gurwinder Singh. Faridkot Have Changed My N o - 7 2 5 , D . C O f f i c e have changed my name Changed My Name And Singh (surname). From Rupinder Kaur To 63372 Son’s Name From Armanjit Housing Society, Sector- Iqbal singh Brar to Iqbal Shall Hereafter Be Known 84661 Rupinder Kaur Sandhu. I, Rajbinder Kaur W/O Singh To Armaanjeet Singh 48 A, Chandigarh have singh As Jaspal Jassal. I, Suman Devi W/o Anil 63372 Resham Sngh R/O VPO Bhullar.changed my name to 98765 72778 Dhiman R/o 560/13, Baba I, Jaspal Singh S/o Saljinder Dod (Fa r idko t ) have 63372Rajeshwari I, Yugesh Sharma S/o I, Gurpreet Kaur W/O Dalip Singh Marg ,Pehowa , Singh R/o Kothe Kehar C h a n g e d h e r N a m e I, Rajesh Kumari W/O

100071 Sardari Lal Sharma R/o Gagan Deep Singh Rehil Kurukshetra changed name Singh Wale Jaito changed my R a j b i n d e r K a u r To Joginder Singh R/O Duneke I, Balbir Bains S/o Late H.No. B-2/120/1 Shalimar R/O V.p.o. Dhade Fateh Nishi Rani . name to Jaspal Singh Brar. Rajwinder Kaur. Moga I Changed To My Sh. Chhunka Singh R/o avenue near Brahmkund Singh, District Hoshiarpur 84661 63372 63372 Name Rajesh Kumari To Flat No. 7B Noorvilla-2 Kapurthala 144601 I have (Punjab) Have Changed My I, Babita Singla D/o Ashok I, Veerpal Kaur W/o Jaspal I, Hardeep Kaur W/O Rajesh Devi.K h a n p u r n e a r G B M changed my name from Name From Gurpreet Kaur Kumar Singla now W/o Singh Brar R/o Kothe Kehar Gurmeet Singh Devgun R/O 63372 Apartment Kurali Road Yugesh To Yugesh Sharma. To Gurpreet Kaur Rehil Parmod Mittal R/o 22 Acre Singh Wale Jaito changed my Village Dhale Ke (Moga) I, Joginder Singh Chohan Kharar 140 301 Distt. All concerned note. 72778 (Barnala) Pb, India, have name to Veerpal Kaur Brar. Declare That I Have S/O Saju Singh R/O Mohali have changed my 100076 I, Priya W./O Vikramjit, R/O known by both names 63372 Changed My Name To Duneke Moga I Changed name to Balbir Singh I, Dimple w/o Jatinder M o h a l l a S a r a f a n , Babita Singla and Babita I, Prabhjot Singh S/o Hardeep Kaur Devgun After To My Name Joginder Bains. Kumar R/o Masitan Road, Rahon,(Sbs Nagar) Have Mittal. Jaswinder Singh Gill R/o My Marriage. Singh Chohan To Joginder

100071 Kot- Ise -Khan Moga have Changed My Name From 63372 Vill: Gobindgarh (Faridkot) 63372 Singh.I, Hardeep Kaur Panaich changed my name from Priya To Priya Khullar, I, Davinder Singh S/o changed my name to I , Veerpal Kaur W/O 63372 W/o Avatar Singh Brar Dimple to Dimple Gaba. All 72778 Thakar Singh R/o Vpo. Prabhjot Singh Gill. Gursewak Singh Brar R/O I, Jatinder Pal S/o Surinder holder of Indian Passport note please. I, Vikramjit S/O Sohan Lal, Mehandpur Teh-Balachaur 63372 Patto Jawahar Singh Wala P a l R / o R a s u l p u r No. L4597691 issued at 98765 R/O Mohalla Sarafan, Distt. SBS Nagar (Nsr) I , Harbans Kaur W/o (Moga) Have Changed My (Ludhiana) change his name V a n c o u v e r o n I, Iqbal Singh Brar S/o Rahon,(Sbs Nagar) Have changed my name to Jaswinder Singh Gill R/o Name To Veerpal Kaur Brar. Jatinder Pal Sharma.08/08/2014 resident of Balveer singh R/o VPO Changed My Name From Davinder Singh Nagra. Vill: Gobindgarh (Faridkot) 63372 63372 7476-146St Surrey, BC Mehma sarja dist Bathinda Vikramjit To Bikramjit 63372 changed my name to I, Ravinder Pal Makkar S/O I, Kamaldeep Kaur D/o Jai Canada V3S 8Y8 and have changed my name Khullar., I, Ramandeep Kaur W/o Harbans Kaur Gill. Amarnath Makkar R/O Singh R/o Vpo. Bhagpur present ly res id ing a t Iqbal singh Brar to Iqbal 72778 Harjinder Singh Ghuman H.No.542, Near Balmiki alias Gagra (Moga) changed 63372 8337-150St Surrey B.C V singh I, Gurwinder Singh Bhullar R/o Teh-Bhawanigarh Vill: Mandir, Moh. Kasaba, my name to Kamaldeep I, Jaswinder Singh S/o 3S 3J6 do hereby change 90004 S/o Budh Singh Village P h a g u w a l a ( S a n g r u r ) Khanna (Ludhiana) Have Kaur Sidhu.Joginder Singh Gill R/o Vill: my name from Hardeep I, Lovisa W/o Nathaniel Bhullarheri Tehsil Dhuri changed my name to Changed My Name To Gobindgarh (Faridkot) 63372 Kaur Panaich to Hardeep Bhatti R/o.Vpo Pakharpura Sangrur have changed my Ramandeep Kaur Ghuman. Ravinder Kumar.changed my name to I, Karamjeet Kaur Gill K a u r B r a r w i t h Tehsil & Distt Amritsar name to Gurwinder Singh 63372 Jaswinder Singh Gill. 63372 W/o Japinder Singh R/o immediate effect. Punjab Have Changed my 98724 I, Meenu Sharma S/o Arit 63372 I, Hardeep Singh S/O Gian Ghaloti (Moga) changed

100055 Name from Lavizan to I, Gurbax Kaur wife of Sood R/o H.No. 2650 I, Sunil Kumar Maheshwari Singh R/O Vill: Lalheri, Po. my name to Karamjeet Lovisa. Please note it Sucha Singh resident of Mathura Dass Street Sirhind Harion Kalan, Teh-Khanna Kaur Hayer.S/o Gian Chand R/o W.No. 3

72737 village Murar, P.O Hamira , (Fatehgarh Sahib) changed Bhucho Mandi (Bathinda) (Ludhiana) Have Changed 63372 I, Sarbjeet Singh S/o Natha District Kapurthala have my name to Meenu. changed my name to Sunil My Name To Hardeep Singh I, Akoo Begam Mane W/o Singh R/o.H.No.L-5/620, changed my name from 63372 Kumar. Maan. Arshpal Khan R/o Rama Gali No.1,Bazar No.5, G U R B A X K A U R t o I, Surinder Kaur W/o 63372 63372 Teh-Nihal Singh Wala Shaheed Udham Singh GURBAKHASH KAUR. Malkeet Singh R/o Vill: I, Kuldeep Kaur W/O Hardeep (Moga) changed my minor I, Rohit Kumar Garg S/o Nagar Sultanwind Road All Concerned please note. Rosiana Po. Saharan Majra Singh Maan R/O Vill: Lalheri, daughter name Nargis to Harbans Lal R/o W.No. 3 Amritsar have Changed my 98706 Teh-Payal (Ludhiana) Po. Harion Kalan, Teh-Khanna Nargis Mane.Bhucho Mandi (Bathinda) Name to Sarbjit Singh. I, Sandeep S/o Sh. Mehar changed my name to (Ludhiana) Have Changed My 63372changed my name to Rohit Plese note it Singh R/o Village 784/20, Sinderpal Kaur. Name To Kuldeep Kaur Maan.Kumar.

72737 Durga Colony, Jail Road, 63372 6337263372 I, Harbans Singh S/o Surjit Rohtak declare that I have I, Mukhtiar Singh S/o Roor S i n g h R / o . H . N o . 2 4 , changed my name from Singh R/o Vill: Athwal Po. Friends Avenue, Gali No.5, Sandeep to Sandeep Hooda Ladha Munda Teh-Batala Opp. Suvidha Center for all future purposes. (Gurdaspur) changed my Majitha Road Amritsar 72779 name to Mukhtar Singh.Have Changed my name to I, Nafe Singh S/o Ramnath 63372Harbans Singh Randhawa. R/o Village Bakal, Tehsil I, Gurjant Singh S/o Nazar Please note it Pundri, District Kaithal Singh R/o Sirye Wala Teh-

72737 declare that in my army Phul (Bathinda) changed I, Sarabjit Singh S/o record my son’s name my name to Gurjant Singh Gurcharan Singh R/o written as Parva that is and Gurwant Singh.Ward No.9, Ajnala Distt wrong. My son’s correct 63372Amritsar Have Changed name i s Pa rv i n a l l I, Mehakdeep Singh S/O my Name to Sarbjit Singh documents. Please note all Rajwinder Singh R/O Patti Nijjar. Note it concerned. Sandli, Mehraj, (Bathinda)

72737 100047 Have Changed My Name To I,Ritika Bamby Wife Of I h i t h e r t o k n o w n a s Mehakdeep Singh Sidhu.Vinit Kumar Bemby R/O RAJINDER KAUR W/O 63372 1 9 - A , H u k a m S i n g h JALOUR SINGH BRAR I, Charanjeet Kaur W/O R o a d , N e a r S h i v a l a residing ROOPA PATTI Hardeep Singh R/O Patti Bhiyian Amritsar Changed VPO RODE DISTT MOGA Kala, Mehraj, (Bathinda) My Name Ritika Bamby PUNJAB 142049 have Have Changed My Name To To Ritika Bemby Please changed my name and shall Charnjeet Kaur.Note hereafter be known as 63372

72737 RAJINDER KAUR BRAR. I, Jagbir Singh @ Jagbir Singh It was certified that I have Dhillon S/O Chand Singh

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3HARYANAMan commits suicide in SirsaRESHAM SIDHUSIRSA: Due to mental problem in village Jhoradohi of Rori police station, a young man endedhis life by hanging himself from a tree near the government school located in the village. Theyouth was also reportedly addicted to drugs. On receiving the information, the police reachedthe spot and took stock of the situation and after taking the body down, took it to the hospital forpost-mortem. According to the information, 25-year-old Soni, a resident of village Jhoradohi,was unmarried and also addicted to drugs. When some people saw the dead body hanging onthe tree near the government school in the village, they informed the dignitaries of the villageand the Road Police. Sub Inspector Atmaram said reached the spot along with the team and thebody was taken to the civil hospital for post-mortem.

YUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2019

No dearth of talentin country: DilbaghGURMEET KASHYAPKARNAL: On behalf of the SK MartialArts Foundation of India, in the premisesof Manav Seva Sangh, sportspersonswho hold national and national records inthe field of martial arts were recognised.DMC Dheeraj Kumar of Municipal Cor-poration, distinguished guest councillorVeer Vikram, Sunny Chauhan, philan-thropist Dilbag Kadian, Amit Thakur,Vikas Dhingra, Tara Chand Saini, OmPrakash Sharma from Indian Army at-tended the ceremony as the chief guest.Judge Manmohan Rawat from Nationaland Children's Record also reached theprogram. Foundation President SatishKumar Rana welcomed the guests withflower garlands. Players who made therecord were Shivanagi Rohila, NishantDhania, Aryaveer, Mehak. At the sametime, Aryan Rana, Siddharth, Abhinav,Aarti, Sarita Rohila were honored formaking national records. Apart from this,Satish Kumar Rana was also honoredfor making two records. Dheeraj Kumarpraised the work being done by theFoundation and said that his academyhas touched heights. . Rahgiri's team ledby DMC Dheeraj Kumar also attendedthe programme,

Solid waste plantcapacity to beincreased: DC

SHIV SHARMAKARNAL: Keeping in view the futureneeds, the capacity of the only Sheikh-pura (Karnal) plant in the state to regular-ly manage solid waste from the city willbe increased from 150 tonnes per day to250 tonnes. For this, the municipal cor-poration will buy some more machines.This was revealed by Municipal Corpora-tion Commissioner Nishant Kumar Ya-dav after visiting the plant on Monday.Deputy Corporator Dheeraj Kumar alsoaccompanied the tour.He said that along with increasing thecapacity, there is a need to make someimprovements in the plant. Under this, itsground level will be fixed and it will be re-designed by land scrapping. They willalso repair the plant by making minor re-pairs from one place in the boundarywall, so that the strength remains intact.The corporator witnessed the perform-ance of the solid waste plant. During thisperiod, Pre-Segregation, Post Segrega-tion, Refinement and RDF will be done.

Nukkar sabhas topromoteparticipation in poll

SHIV SHARMAKARNAL: In order to have maximumparticipation of voters in the AssemblyGeneral Election, by organizing nukkadmeetings in the drama congregation vil-lage-by-village of District Information andPublic Relations Department under theguidance of District Election Officer andDeputy Commissioner Vinay PratapSingh. Informing villagers about the im-portance of votes under sweep activities.The campaign was started by theseartists from 25 September, on Mondayby the artists by organizing street meet-ings in village Kachhwa of Karnal sectionand sensitized the villagers. Under thiscampaign, till date, we have done pro-grams in 20 villages. This program willcontinue till October 15. About 90 vil-lages will be covered under this cam-paign. Under this programme, whereyouths are being motivated about votingin the educational institutions of the dis-trict, information, public relations and lan-guage departments of Haryana's dramaand bhajan circles reach village after vil-lage through street meetings to be heldon October 21 Legislative Assembly.

World heart daycelebratedNARAINGARH: World Heart Day wascelebrated in the Civil Hospital here un-der the theme “My Heart, Your Heart”.The health talk was delivered by Dr. Kir-tan Rana (Senior Resident) along withDr. Atul Gupta (Junior Resident) underthe guidance of Dr. Kathirvel S. (Assis-tant professor) Department of Communi-ty Medicine and School of Public Health,PGIMER, Chandigarh in presence of Dr.Praveen, Senior Medical Officer, Sub Di-visional Hospital Naraingarh. The healthtalk was attended by nearly 60 patientswho came to OPD for seeking medicalservices and hospital staff members. Dr.Kirtan told participants that every year1.8 crore people world-wide dies be-cause of heart disease. He told the par-ticipants to stop smoking cigarettes, bidisand hookah, to consume less salt (<5grams/day) and fat, control blood pres-sure and blood sugars by adhering to themedicines and regularly monitoringthem, do regular physical activity (briskwalk, yoga) for at least 30 minutes perday and to live a stress free life whichensures a healthy heart. He encouragedthe female participants to use less saltand fat while cooking food and to dophysical activity for 30 minutes daily be-side their routine household works. Dr.Atul explained the participants about theeffect of high fat on heart and also toldthem to report to their doctor in case theyfeel any pain in chest.

SHIV SHARMAKARNAL, SEPT 30

The first list of Bharatiya Janata Par-ty nominees has been released. CMManohar Lal Karnal and HaryanaBJP President Subhash Barala willcontest from Tohana. The list was an-nounced after 4:30 pm. The BJP hasjust announced 78 candidates. Themost important is the information ofthe state Industries Minister VipulGoyal to cut the ticket. So far, thetickets of seven MLAs have been cut.The party has given tickets to ninewomen.

Three players have been giventickets. International wrestler Yo-geshwar Dutt will contest from Baro-da assembly constituency in Sonepatdistrict. Former Indian hockey teamcaptain Sandeep Singh will contestfrom Pehwa and international womenwrestler Babita Phogat Dadri of Ku-rukshetra. Gyanchand Gupta got aBJP ticket from Panchkula. CabinetMinister Krishnalal Panwar has beenmade the candidate from Israna. Sim-ilarly, cabinet minister Kavita Jainwill be contesting from Sonepat.

The meeting was again held at theresidence of election in-chargeNarendra Singh Tomar after discus-sions with Union ministers and MPsbefore releasing the list. Chief Minis-

ter Manohar Lal, BJP state in-chargeDr. Anil Jain, election in-charge Bhu-pendra Singh, state organization min-ister Suresh Bhatt and state presidentSubhash Barala were present in themeeting.

The Bharatiya Janata Party onMonday released the first list of 78candidates for the Haryana Assemblyelections. The BJP has cut the ticketof sitting MLA and cabinet ministerVipul Goyal from Faridabad. BJP hasbeen given ticket by Narendra Guptain his place. At the same time, the par-ty has expressed confidence in Na-

gendra Bhadana from NIT Faridabad.At the same time, the ticket of sit-

ting MLA and cabinet minister RaoNarbir Singh from Badshahpur As-sembly constituency in Gurugramdistrict has also been cut. In his place,BJP has given ticket to State Presi-dent of Youth Cell Manish Yadav. Atthe same time, Seema Trikha got aticket from Badkhal assembly con-stituency of Faridabad. Seema's tick-et was already believed to be firm.Narendra Gupta, a ticket from Farid-abad, is a longtime state treasurer ofHaryana BJP.

CM Manohar Lal to contest fromKarnal, Barala from Tohana

GURMEET KASHYAPKARNAL, SEPT 30

The Bharatiya Janata Party today an-nounced its candidates for the state's 78assemblies. In this, Chief MinisterManohar Lal from Karnal will contestagain, while Bhagwan Das, the sittingMLA from the Nilokheri assembly, hasgiven him a ticket again by expressinghis confidence in Kabirpanthi. Apartfrom this, Baksheesh Singh from As-sandh and Harvinder Kalyan from Gha-raunda will contest again.

The only change seen in Karnal dis-trict was Indri assembly seat. From here,Ramkumar Kashyap has been given theticket in place of the current MLA andMinister Karnadev Kamboj. Apart fromthis, Karnadev Kamboj will now contestfrom Radaur Assembly. The political en-thusiasts in Karnal have intensified afterthe BJP announced the candidates. Al-though speculations were being madethat tickets of one or two MLAs may bechanged this time from Karnal district,but this did not happen. While givingtickets to all the MLAs again, the BJPHigh Command has given them the tick-et again. Now Congress and other partiesare yet to field their candidates.

At the same time, BJP's State Gener-al Advocate Vedpal has been given aticket from Pundri Assembly. BJP Dis-trict President Jagmohan Anand said thatin the presence of Uttar Pradesh Chief

Minister Yogi Aditya Nath, HaryanaChief Minister Manohar Lal will filenomination papers tomorrow at 10 am onOctober 1 at the Small Secretariat, Sec-tor-12. Earlier, Chief Minister YogiAdityanath and Manohar Lal Khattarwill also address the huge public meetingin Huda Ground Sector-12.

On this subject, a meeting was or-ganized today in Radha-Krishna VatikaSector-14, in which all the workers ofBJP Karnal district were present. He in-formed that besides the Chief Minister ofUttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath, there isa possibility of many other Union minis-ters and all ministers of Haryana govern-ment. While addressing the meeting, for-mer OSD of Chief Minister AmarendraSingh has requested all the workers tomake maximum number of entire team

force and to mark the occasion of thenomination of Chief Minister ManoharLal and the first arrival of Uttar PradeshChief Minister Yogi Adityanath inHaryana and Arrived at the rally venueincluding the instruments. In this meet-ing, Assembly Election Incharge JungBahadur Chauhan, Election ConvenorAshok Sukhija, Mayor Renubala Gupta,Mahila Morcha President Nirmala Baira-gi, Ashok Bhandari, former ministersJayaprakash Gupta, Chandra PrakashKathuria, Santosh Atreja, Prem Kapoor,Krishna Garg, Rajbir Sharma , Krish-nalal Taneja, Sunil Maihata and all thecouncilors, divisions, fronts and cells ofthe municipal corporation and ministersApart from these, members of ElectionSteering Committee and Working Com-mittee were present.

Kabirpanthi gets ticket from NeelokheriSHIV SHARMAKURUKSHETRA, SEPT 30

Kurukshetra. National Voluntary BloodDonation Day is celebrated in IndiaBharat on October 1 every year. The dayis very important for those people whoare doing great job by blood do-nation. It is well known that thereis a great need of blood for everylife. A man of Haryana Police isthe most suitable example forthis job namely Dr. Ashok Ku-mar Verma. He is known as Goldmedalist Diamond blood donorand environmentalist. He is serv-ing in Police department for 21years and donating blood for 30years at the age of 18.

He has donated blood for 126times and platelets for dengu pa-tients 54 times. Moreover healone organised 247 voluntary blood do-nation camps in which 11519 blood unitswere provided to government bloodbanks. Hence he tried to save the livesmore than 34000 persons as one unit ofblood saves three lives. He wants to be asoldier like his father Kali Ram whoserved in Army and participated in warsof 1962 and 1965 but failed no reason.

He joined Haryana Police and nowworking in Forensic Science Laboratory

Haryana Madhuban. He has been award-ed thousands time for his work either po-lice or social. Recently he has beenawarded with Gold Medal with applica-tion and secondly with a Shield for High-est blood collection by the HonourableGovernor of Haryana Shri Satyadev

Narayan Arya. The list of his social workdoesn't end here. He is doing this for bet-terment of environment. He planted14000 plants, holds 219 cycle rally andspread the knowledge for traffic rules inall institutions. He runs Haryana PoliceRoti Bank in Kurukshetra under the lead-ership, supervision and guidance of Ad-ditional Director General of Police ShriShrikant Jadhav IPS who provides foodfor needy people.

RAMAN WADHWABARARA, SEPT 30

Former MLA Rajbir Singh Barara has got BJPticket from the Mulana Legislative Assembly.Those who congratulated former MLA RajbirSingh Barara got inflicted. His people arrived athis residence to congratulate him, while RajbirSingh Barara reached Maharana Pratap Chowkafter which he reached the temple on his wayhome. Where Mathatek took blessings of Moth-er. Please tell that Chaudhary Rajbir Brara isconsidered by the local leaders as a friendly,soft-spoken candidate.

His father Risal Singh was the Social Wel-fare Minister in the INLD government, RajbirBrara himself was an MLA from 2009 to 2014.Despite being an honest and clean image, INLDleft the party and joined the BJP only a fewmonths ago. Kukku Bansal, former sarpanch

Barada Mukesh Rana, Arun Goyal, RockyRana, Soni Kochhar, Babarkhan, Lochan Shar-ma, Jasmer Rana, Surendra Rana, Mohit Shar-ma, Goldie Rana, Dinesh Sharma and PraveenKumar were present on the occasion.

Rajbir Singh Barara replacesSarwan from Mullana

Blood donation is thepart of life: Dr. Verma

Pradeep Hooda filesnomination from Lokdal

SHIV SHARMAKARNAL, SEPT 30

37-year-old Tilak Nagar Rohtak resident Pradeep Hooda filed his nomination forthe assembly polls as the first nomination from the Karnal Assembly constituencyunder the Haryana Assembly general election. Election Officer and SDM KarnalNarendra Pal Malik received his nomination. The nomination process for Haryanaassembly elections is going on. Pradeep Hooda has filed his first nomination in thedistrict as a candidate for Lok Dal in Karnal assembly constituency. The returningofficer of the Karnal Assembly, Narendra Pal, took the nomination after scrutiniz-ing the nomination.

Unnat Bharat Trust works forenvironment protection

SHIV SHARMAKARNAL, SEPT 30

BJP’s former minister Madan Mohan Mittal- Surjit Giani set anew record by planting 2lakh 50 thousand trees indifferent districts of Pun-jab, in which BharatPrem and Punjab Kesariplayed a major role.Haryana: In 2004, play-ing an important role inthe sugarcane move-ment, got 12 demands ofthe farmers and also got atree plantation done atKarnal-Kurukshetra-Yamunanagar. Chaudhary Dharamvir,Minister of Haryana Government and current MP in village BalRangdan informed the farmers about the latest technology inthe field of plantation and agriculture in Karnal. In the memo-ry of Lala Jagat Narayan, the founder of Punjab Kesari, withHaryana Police and Village Cooperation, Mr. Subhash Yadavin the erstwhile square Panipat planted 1 lakh 51 thousand treesin the police station and police lines, the role of Bharat Premwas also appreciated here.

Poshan fortnight byDayal Singh NSS unit

SHIV SHARMAKARNAL, SEPT 30

Students of the college were made aware during the nutritioncampaign mass movement program at Dayal Singh CollegeKarnal. In this programme, the team of Women and Child De-velopment Department participated to awaken the youth. Ad-dressing the volunteers in the program, the college principal Dr.Chandrashekhar Bhardwaj said that we should take care of ourfood and drink because if the foundation is strong then we canbuild a strong building. If we have to strengthen ourselves, thenwe have to include fruit in our food which the youth of todaydo not include in their diet. If we do not do all this, then ourbody will be hit by diseases.NSS Programme Officer Prof. Nid-hi Jast and other partners were present in this program.

Jubilation in Leela Ram Gujarcamp on getting BJP ticket

KAITHAL, SEPT 30

The followers of Leela Ram Gujar, who has been given BJPticket from prestigious Kaithal assembly seat, are celebratingoutside his residence and raised slogans in favour of PrimeMinister Narendra Modi, BJP President Amit Shah andHaryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar.

The supporter applied gulal to each others at his native vil-lage Ujhana, 6 km from here, to express their pleasure over BJPticket to their son. Leela Ram entered active politics as studentleader. He did his post graduation in Political science.

He remained associated with INLD fought assembly elec-tion from Kaithal in 1991 but lost. He remained INLD districtpresident from 1991 to 2000. He contested again from Kaithalas INLD BJP alliance candidate in 2000 and defeated DharamPal (Independent) by 17,957 votes. He joined BJP after 2014.Gujar is a dominant caste in about 14 villages having around20000 voters. Leela Ram said that he was grateful to BJP highcommand for reposing faith in him.

On second day: over 31 nominations filedin 26 Assembly Constituencies: CEO

CHANDIGARH, SEP 30

On the second day of filing nominationpapers for the Assembly elections inHaryana, 31 nominations were filed in 26Assembly constituencies.

The process for filing of nominationsstarted on September 27, 2019 and willcontinue till October 4, 2019. Nomina-tion papers will not be filled on October2, 2019, being a public holiday.

Giving more information, Joint ChiefElectoral Officer, Dr. Inder Jeet said thatone nomination paper each from Tohanaand Ratia Assembly Constituencies inFatehabad district, one nomination papereach from Ganaur and Gohana AssemblyConstituencies in district Sonipat havebeen filed.

He said that two nomination papersfrom Jind Assembly Constituency andone from Julana Assembly Constituencyin Jind district, one from Thanesar As-sembly Constituency in Kurukshetra dis-trict and one nomination paper each wasfiled from Nalwa, Hansi and AdampurAssembly Constituencies in Hisar dis-trict.

He further informed that three nomi-nation papers have been filed from Bad-shahpur Assembly Constituency in Gur-goan district, one nomination paper eachfrom Yamunanagar, Sadhaura and RadaurAssembly Constituencies in Yamunana-gar district. Three nomination paperswere filed from Mahendragarh, Narnauland Nangal Chaudhary Assembly Con-stituencies in Mahendragarh district.

AGENCYCHANDIGARH, SEPTEMBER 30

Over 80 per cent of sitting MLAs (Membersof Legislative Assembly) in Haryana arecrorepatis, according to an analysis by the As-sociation for Democratic Reforms (ADR).

The ADR report also said that 75 out ofthe 90 sitting MLAs in Haryana possess as-sets worth more than one crore rupees.

According to the ADR report, the averageof assets per sitting MLA in Haryana was Rs12.97 crore.

Party-wise, the average assets per MLAfor 48 Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) MLAsanalysed was Rs 10.34 crore, while for 18

MLAs of the Indian National Lok Dal(INLD), the average assets stood at Rs 13.63crore.

The average assets of 15 Congress MLAswere Rs 12.43 crore. For the two HaryanaJanhit Congress (BL) MLAs the average as-

sets were valued at Rs 80.12 crore, while thefive Independent MLAs have average assetsof Rs 13.93 crore.

Ten MLAs in Haryana have criminal cas-es pending against them. The ADR analysis isbased on the affidavits filed by these MLAs inthe 2014 elections.

ADR also pointed out that out of the 90MLAs, six have declared serious criminalcases against them.

Five (10 per cent) out of the 48 MLAsfrom BJP, Two (11 per cent) out of 18 MLAsfrom INLD and 1 MLA each from INC,Haryana Janhit Congress (BL) and the Inde-pendent member have declared criminal cas-es against themselves in their affidavits.

83 per cent sitting state MLAs arecrorepatis: ADR report

Premlata fielded from Uchana, Captain Abhimanyu to fight from Narnaund

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YUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2019

1411 youth get jobsduring sixth job fair atdistrict industry centreJALANDHAR: In its efforts to ensurejobs to the unemployed youth of districtunder the state government’s flagship'Ghar-Ghar Rozgar’ scheme as manyas 1411 youth got jobs during the sixthjob fair organised at the DistrictIndustry Centre in local Focal Point.In the job fair, 2463 applicants hadapplied for the jobs. Out of these 1411applicants were offered jobs whereas28 more youth were shortlisted for thejobs by 35 leading companies. DeputyDirector Employment Generation andTraining Mrs Sunita Kalyan said thatthe youths who got selected weregoing to start a new inning in their livesadding it was just a beginning of themarvellous success story which all ofthem were going to script in the future. She said that Ghar-Ghar Rozgar is aflagship program of the Punjab ChiefMinister Captain Amarinder Singhwhich aims at ensuring a job for everyunemployed youth.

STF takes fourincluding a girl intocustody from a Dhaba

KULJIT SINGHJANDIALA GURU:STF carried out amajor operation on a Nijji Dhaba nearGT Road Jandiala Guru at UparbariCanal and took four including a girlsinto its custody. It recovered a blackcolored car Breeza number PB02BN4681 and a motorcycle numberPB02C X4681 from 4 alleged accusedincluding a girl. They opened fire onthe police party, police said. Officers ofother agencies including STF's ADGPHarpreet Singh Sidhu, IG Punjab STFBalkar Singh Sidhu, and AIG BorderZone STF Rachhpal Singh also arrivedon the occasion. Police startedinvestigation where they have anyterrorist connection.

Symposium on artificialintelligence heldCHANDIGARH: One-day Symposiumfocusing on the Artificial Intelligence(AI) in the biomedical devices and thecertification of biomedical instrumentswas organized by BID-Hub atPGIMER. This unique multi-disciplinary event was attended byapproximately 180 delegates fromvarious medical and engineeringinstitutes of North India along with therepresentatives from the medicalindustry. Prof. GD Puri, Chairman,BID-Hub welcomed the delegates andelaborated on the objectives of thisevent. He stressed that this Hub isgoing to provide a common platformfor engineering as well medicalscientists to develop indigenous andaffordable technology for the benefit ofIndian health care problems. Theevent was inaugurated by Prof. JagatRam, Director PGIMER, Chandigarh.Mr. RK Verma IAS, Principal,Secretary, DSTE, Punjab Govt., the‘Guest of Honor’ at the symposium,shared his vision about how to extractmaximum output through the variouscentre of excellence established in theregion and the whole nation. He alsoshared the Punjab Govt. mission tomake the region an innovations basedtechnology Hub.

Governor mourns noted journalist Gobind Thukral's demiseCHANDIGARH: Punjab Governor and UT Administrator V P Singh Badnore on Monday ex-pressed grief over the passing away of noted journalist Gobind Thukral. Offering condolences tothe bereaved family, the Governor described him as a fearless and seasoned journalist who will belong remembered for his objective writings in both English and vernacular media. The veteranjournalist who passes away on Sunday had spent nearly three-and-a-half decades as an active jour-nalist with various leading newspapers on senior positions and had reported not only from thestates of Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir but from the troubled spots ofthe north-east and Bihar. His extensive writings on rural India won him the prestigious StatesmanRural Reporting Award in the very year of its inception for reports on the migrant farm workers.The cremation was largely attended by people of diverse fields at the electric crematorium wherewreath was laid on behalf of the Governor Punjab as a mark of respect to the departed soul.

MOHALI, SEPT 30

In order to raise awarenessabout the health of the hearton World Heart day, PunjabHealth department directorDr Avneet Kaur today morn-ing flagged off cycle rallyfrom Phase 5 market here. Asmany as 100 cyclists took partin the rally which ended in themarket of Phase 11.

The rally was organized bythe health department withthe support of a city basedNon-governmental organiza-tion (NGO) Generation Sav-ior Association. Speaking atthe event, Dr Avneet Kaursaid that the purpose of the

rally was to sensitize the citi-zens about the ways to keeptheir hearts healthy andstrong.

She said, "We need tochange our life style if wewant to stay away from heartailments. Eating healthy andnutritional food, doing physi-cal activity every day, avoid-ing smoking and tobaccoproducts, keeping a healthyweight and keeping total cho-lesterol in control are some ofthe ways to have a healthyheart." Dr Avneet further said,'Changing lifestyle is not aherculean task. Why can wenot take care of the most im-portant part of our body when

we take full care while pur-chasing clothes, home appli-ances, vehicles for ourselves?' she said that the basic recipefor keeping the heart healthyis to keep the body busy andkeep doing physical activity.

On the occasion, civil sur-geon Dr. Manjit Singh saidthat the cause of the increasein heart diseases nowadays isthe deterioration in our eatinghabits. There is a need todayfor the consumption ofhealthy and nutritious prod-ucts. When our food anddrink are right, our thinkingand our body will be right, sothe heart can stay fit andhealthy.

Avneet Kaur flags off cycle rally

RAJIV JAINCHANDIGARH, SEPT 30

The Governor of Punjaband Administrator,Chandigarh, V.P. SinghBadnore, felicitated Ran-veer Duggal for his out-standing achievement inthe game of Snookers, atPunjab Raj Bhavan today.

Master Ranveer Dug-gal has represented Indiain the World SnookerChampionship under 16 atTyumen, Russia from 18thto 24th August, 2019 andhas beeb felicitated with aBronze Medal. He has de-feated opponents fromIreland, Australia, Russiaand England. MasterRanveer Duggal came intop 8 of the World under16 in World SnookerChampionship at St Pe-tersburg in 2017. He be-came finalist in 2016 inNationals Snooker under18 held at Pune. Thechampion has also baggedthe top positions inChandigarh State Billiardsand Snooker Champi-onship from last four

years under 18 and 21 cat-egory. Rakesh Duggal,Secretary, Billiards andSnookers Association(Coach of Master RanveerDuggal), Jaswinder Kaur,mother of Master RanveerDuggal, K.K. Yadav, IAS

Secretary Sports, U.T.Chandigarh, MukeshAnand, Chief Engineer,Sh. Kapil Setia, Chief Ar-chitect, Tejdeep SinghSaini, Director Sportswere also present at thefelicitation ceremony.

Further to this, the Gover-nor of Punjab-cum-Ad-ministrator, Chandigarhalso reviewed the progressof following infrastruc-ture projects being under-taken by the Sports De-partment, Chandigarh.

Badnore felicitates Ranveer Duggal foroutstanding performance in Snookers

Law expert delivers talkat Rayat Bahra Varsity

MOHALI: A one-day workshop on"Practical Aspects of Law of Evidenceand Procedural Laws" was organizedby University Institute of Legal Studiesof the Rayat Bahra University. Theworkshop was conducted by JohnyGoyal, Advocate, Punjab and HaryanaHigh Court. The workshop aimed atproviding practical orientation tolearning. Goyal told the law studentsthat procedures help courts decidecases in a fair and uniform manner.Procedural law makes sure that oneparty can't unfairly surprise the otherduring litigation. It means making sureeveryone has fair notice of courtdates. It also means preventing aparty from using delay or harassmenttactics. He said the law of evidence,also known as the rules of evidence,encompasses the rules and legalprinciples that govern the proof offacts in a legal proceeding.

ISHA UPADHYAYCHANDIGARH, SEPT 30

It is believed that usingKansa to eat our food anddrink water from on a dai-ly basis enhances our im-munity apart from purify-ing the food. Kansa din-ing ware has been usedsince the period of Samhi-ta Kala, or as far back aswe know from our record-ed history. According tothe descriptions given inAyurveda Prakasha,Kansa dining ware is alsoused for its therapeutic ap-plications.

Cutlery, cookware andtableware brand, Kishcohas brought ancient wis-dom to the modern tablewith the introduction of

their latest Pure KansaCollection today at HyattRegency here. The collec-tion was announced bywellness expert and Man-aging Director, Dr NamitaJain who is a recipient ofthe honorary Post Doctor-ate title from the YoungScientist University, USAfor excellence in the fieldof Healthcare and Well-ness.

“Indian culture hasdeep roots in Ayurvedicscience and most of ourtraditions are tied in withgood health. So, at Kish-co, we aim to revive thisheritage with our latestPure Kansa Collection,”shared Dr. Jain, adding,she always wanted tradi-tional dining ware to make

a comeback in contempo-rary Indian kitchens.

Kishco Pure Kansa(Bronze or Bell Metal)comprises of 78 percentCopper and 22 percentTin. This is the ideal ratiofor the alloy Kansa to becalled ‘pure’. Ayurvedarecommends usage ofPure Kansa for its bound-less health benefits. Kansais known for its holistichealing, stress relievingand purifying properties.The food served in it re-mains fresh and hygienic.

Dr Namita Jain, MDKishco said, “Eating fromPure Kansa has amazinghealth benefits. Kansa al-kalises and purifies thefood and also promotes di-gestive health.”

ISHA UPADHYAYCHANDIGARH, SEPT 30

QUEST- the quiz committeeof Mehr Chand Mahajan DAVCollege for Women organizedan Inter-College Quiz Compe-tition on the theme of 'PlasticFree Chandigarh' under theaegis of Director Higher Edu-cation, Chandigarh. As manyas 11 teams from various tech-nical and non-technical insti-tutions from across the regionparticipated in it. Dr. DalipKumar, Additional State Pro-

ject Director (RUSA),Chandigarh Administrationgraced the occasion as theChief Guest. The competitioncomprised of 5 rounds includ-ing an audio-visual round,with questions focused on en-vironmental issues and plasticpollution. To sensitize stu-dents about the problemsposed by plastic waste and theneed to switch to eco-friendlyalternatives, informativevideos including one onBhopal's Sarthak model wereshown on this occasion.

‘I wanted traditional dining ware to make acomeback in contemporary kitchens’: Namita

Quiz on plastic freeChandigarh at MCM

VERMAGURDASPUR, SEPT 30

The Open Athletic Meet heldat SN College qadian wherestudents of Cheema Publicschool’s students gave spec-tacular performance.

Schoo chairman AmarinderSingh congratulated the DPEand students of the School.Describing about the impor-tance of sports, PrincipalParveen Sharma said thatalong with educational quali-fication, physical develop-ment is also necessary for theall-round development of stu-dents.

Therefore, the main objec-tive of the school is to equipstudents with education aswell as sports, academics andreligious programs so that

they can achieve progress infuture. In the open competi-tions, Lovepreet Kaur stoodsecond, Gagandeep Kaur gotfirst position in the javelinthrow, second in the discusthrow and third in the shortput, Arshdeep Kaur got firstin the javelin throw and sec-ond in the discus throw.Sukhdeep Kaur remainedfirst in shortput and second indiscus throw.

Among boys, GursavekSingh first in discus throw,Jashandeep Singh got first indiscus throw and second inshortput. Similarly RanjitSingh acquired third in thediscus throw. In this way, thestudents of the school per-formed brilliantly in thesebouts and illuminated theschool and its name.

Cheema Public School studentsperform in Athletic Meet

Jagran organisedBARNALA (KARANIPREET DHANDRAL): The shop-

keepers of Theekta WelfareSociety organized a second ja-gran under the first Navrata inwhich a large number of peo-ple attended. On this occasion,the Chairman of the Improve-ment Trust, Makhan Sharmaworshiped with a member ofthe Ekta Welfare Society andlit Jyoti Parchand. Lyricist Ki-

ran Sharma Sunam a Punjabi singer regaled the audience.

VERMAGURDASPUR, SEP 30

Teachers who have beenshifted from the depart-mental schools to the SSAschools are facing hugeproblems due to non-pay-ment of salary for the lasttwo months, while theDDOs are waiting forsanctions of posts in theschool .

Due to the process ofjoining the departmentthrough the click system

by the teachers of SSAschools for the last aboutone year, they joinedschools of SSA whichhave been included in theEducation Department.Even after this, they havenot been issued salariesdue to lack of sanctioningof the posts. District offi-cials are waiting the sanc-tioning of the posts inthese schools, while thehigher officials believethat they have appointednodal officers for each

district, who will help thedistrict officers in gettingthe posts.

Lalit Kishore Ghaideputy director of educa-tion department said thatthe nodal officers havebeen appointed across thestate in this connectionfor sanctioning the posts.Gurmej kainth has beenappointed as a Nodal Offi-cer in District Gurdaspurand District Education Of-ficer can talk to him in thisconcern.

Teachers transferred to SSAschools sans salary for 2 months

Camp to provide informationabout Rabies organised

JANDIALA GURU (KULJIT SINGH): RabiesDay was celebrated by the Health Department at theGovernment Hospital Manawala. Dr. Sumit Singh,Medical Officer told that Civil Surgeon HardeepSingh informed about the disease rabies and said thatanti-rabies vaccines must be applied. Baljinder Singh,Harkirat Singh, Dilbag Singh and others were present.

People to teach Congress a lessonin by-elections: Aulakh, Lahoria

RAJWINDER SINGH MITHAGOINDWAL SAHIB, SEP 30: Shiromani Akali DalOrganizing Secretary Kuldeep Singh Aulakh and

Sarpanch KuldeepSingh Lahoria saidthat during the last twoand a half years ofCongress government,there was zero devel-opment work andbringing about de-struction in Punjab.

Concerned Punjabis will teach Congress a lesson inthe coming four by-elections. He said that Congressfailed on law and order. Punjab has tuned turnedworse in a compare to even Bihar on lawlessness, theyadded. People have made up his mind to teach theCongress government a lesson in the by-elections.

Rajesh Bagha files papersas BJP candidate

DALJEET AJNOHAHOSHIARPUR, SEPT 30

Rajesh Bagha filed his papers as BJP candidate from FawadsAssembly byelection today. BJP senior leader Tikshin Sood,BJP chief Swait Malik, union minister Som Prakash, formerminister Manoranjan Kalia, former union minister Vijay Sam-pla, Mayor Arun Khosla, Advocate DS Baghi were present.

Plastic ban awareness drive heldCHANDIGARH, SEPT 30

Awareness drive to Ban use of Single use Plastic by students ofBanyan Tree School, Chandigarh on 29th September, 2019 in the

neighborhood Sector markets. Thereare billions of items of plastic wastechoking our water bodies and pilingup on our land. This is harmful toplants and wildlife. The best way tocurb single-use plastic pollution is toreduce your personal plastic con-sumption! The students of Grade IV,Banyan Tree School, Chandigarhwere responsible citizens as they

made a commitment to take the initiative to create awareness.

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YUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2019

Dr. Surender Kashyap appointed VCSHIMLA: Dr. Surender Kashyap has been appointed as Vice-Chancellor of Atal Medical and Research University, HimachalPradesh. A Spokesperson of the Raj Bhawan informed here todaythat Dr. Surender Kashyap's appointment has been made for threeyears or till he attain the age of 65 years, whichever was earlier.The appointment will be effective with immediate effect or from thedate he assumes the charge of the office. Dr. Kashyap is theresident of village Bhalawag, P.O. Janedghat in district Shimla.

Twenty wedding goersinjured as bus plungesinto gorge in PalampurSHIMLA: A private bus fell into a 10-feet gorge in Palampur injuring morethan twenty passengers , belonging toa marriage party on Monday, policesaid. The bus enroute to Amritsar fromPalampur met with the accident inParaur in Himachal Pradesh, theysaid. Earlier, in another incident , anHRTC Delux bus lost its control whenit was heading to New Delhi fromKangra, however , it was almostempty. The injured are being treated atTMC and Palampur hospitals, policeadded.

Workshop on GraminKaushalay YojnaorganisedSHIMLA: A state level workshop onDeen Dayal Upadhyaya GraminKaushalay Yojna (DDU-GKY) was heldhere today. Secretary, RuralDevelopment Dr. R.N. Batta speakingon occasion said that DDU-GKY wasbeing implemented in HimachalPradesh since 2016-17 to providetraining to candidates under differenttrades and it was also mandatory totraining partner to provide 70 percentplacement. He said that DDU-GKYaims to skill rural youth who were poorand provide them jobs having regularmonthly wages at or above minimumwages. He said that it was a nationalflagship programme for skilling underthe Ministry of Rural Development.The programme focuses is on skillingand placement in the formal sector forpoor rural youth. Dr. Batta said thatthis workshop was organised to getfeedback from agencies implementingthis programme besides the trainedyouth and to fill up the gap betweentrained candidates and placements.He said that it would provide aplatform to know the demand ofindustries and the training providers tounderstand the supply challenges.Director, Rural Development Lalit Jainsaid that an action plan under DDU-GKY was submitted to Government ofIndia in July 2016 with target of 15000youth to be trained with in a period ofthree years. He said that there shouldbe a simple platform where completebio-data of trained youth could beuploaded so that industries and otherpersons could employ the person asper their requirement. Alumni's ofDDU-GKY and training providersshared their experience on theoccasion and also gave suggestionsfor making this programme morebeneficial to the youth. DeputyCommissioner Mandi Rugved Thakur,CEO Himachal Pradesh State RuralLivelihood Mission (HPSRLM) SachinKanwal, Deputy CEO HPSRLM LatikaSehwal and other officers werepresent on the occasion.

Arjuna awardee Ajay Thakur getsgrand reception

SHANTI GAUTAMBADDI: Arjuna Awardee and Captainof the Indian Kabaddi Team AjayThakur and his family members werefelicitated here today. Doon MLAParamjit Singh attended the functionas the chief guest while former DoonMLA Ramkumar attended as thespecial guest. Sportspersons andmeritorious students who excelled intheir field were honored. ArjunaAwardee Ajay Thakur and his parentsand father-in-law, brother-in-law andsister and brother-in-law were firsthonored. Ajay Thakur and his wifeSandeep Rana were honored withflowers by giving them necklaces andsouvenirs.

Rain lashes parts of Himachal,Sirmaur receives 98 mm rainfall

SHIMLA, SEP 30

South West Monsoon system wasstill active in the state as manyplaces were lashed by moderate toheavy rainfall in last 24 hrs .

Jatton Barrage in Sirmaurreceived 98 mm rainfall, Rajgarh 75mm, Paonta Sahib & Sanngrah 71mm each, Pachhad 48 mm, Renuka44 and Nahan 41 mm.

Dehra Gopipur in Kangrareceived 54 mm, Mehre and Guller33 mm and Dharmshla 28 mm,

Baijnath and Ghamroor 27 mmeach,, Nadaun in Hamirpur 51 mm,Bhoranj 42 mm,Agahar 26 mm andSujanpur Tira 22 mm.

Berthin in Bilaspur received 49mm, Ghumarwin 35 mm, Nainadeviand Jhanduta 20 mm each, Solan-49mm, Kandaghat 45 mm, andDharmpur 24 mm, Baldwara inMandi 38 mm, Jogindernagar 21mm and Gohar 20 mm, Amb in Una36 mm, Bangana 27 mm and Una 20mm, Jubbarhatti in Shimla 30 mmand Shimla 21 mm.

Maximum temperature ofShimla was 16.8 degree Celsius,Sundernagar in Mandi 25.1 deg,Bhuntar in Kullu 20.1 deg, Kalpa inKinnuar 12.6 deg, Una 27.4 deg,Nahan 23.3 deg, Solan 20 deg,Kangra 25.6 deg, Bilaspur 24.5 deg,Hamirpur 24 deg, Chamba 27.4 deg,Dalhousie 15.5 deg, Keylong inLahaul Spiti 16.6 deg respectively.

The Met Office forecast rain atfew places in the mid hills andisolated places in the foot and highreaches of state during next 24 hrs.

SHIMLA, SEP 30

Total 15 candidates,including eight fromDharamshala AssemblyConstituency (AC) and sevenfrom Pachhad AC, filed theirnominations on Monday forthe Vidhan Sabha by-elections, scheduled to beheld on October 21.

According to ChiefElectoral Officer (CEO)Devesh Kumar, scrutiny ofthe nominations will be doneon October 1 and the last datefor withdrawal is October 3.

BJP has fielded newfaces from both theconstituencies. While BJP'sVishal Nehria (31) will takeon another first-timer fromDharamashala in Kangradistrict, Vijay Inder Karan(41) of Congress, in Pachhad,Reena Kashyap (34) fromBJP is pitted againstseasoned Congress contenderGangu Ram Musafir (74).

Another interesting twistin the Dharamshala by-elections is the number ofIndependent nominees in thefray, which has crossed the

mark of six. These includeSubhash Chand Shukla (66),Nisha Katoch (37), RakeshKumar (42), ChokkasBhaardwaj (50), PuneeshSharma (42) and Dr ManoharLal Dhiman (62). The fiveremaining candidates fromPachchad (SC) AC inSirmour district, includeDinesh Arya (46) as coveringcandidate of INC, AshishKumar (32) as Independent,Pawan Kumar (25) asIndependent, Dyal Pyari (40)as Independent and SurenderPal (58) as Independent.

15 candidates file nominationfrom Dharamshala, Pachhad ACs

Focus on emerging agri-tech forsuccess of agriculture: Experts

DINESH AGARWALSOLAN, SEP 30

Focussing on thedevelopment and adoption ofemerging agriculturaltechnology will go a longway in the success ofagricultural activities in thecountry and contributetowards increasing farmersincome, experts said here.With these recommendations,the 2nd InternationalConference on ‘RecentAdvances in Agricultural,Environmental and AppliedSciences for GlobalDevelopment’ concluded onthe campus of Dr YS ParmarUniversity of Horticultureand Forestry (UHF), Nauni –Solan, on Monday. Eminentand young scientists fromdifferent State AgricultureUniversities and ICARinstitutes took part in theevent and presented theirresearch. Several topics under

the major themes like recentadvances in agriculture andallied fields, natural resourcemanagement and sustainablehill farming for livelihoodsecurity, emerging issues inenvironmental management,recent advances in biologicaland allied sciences, andrecent trends inpharmaceutical and appliedsciences for sustainabledevelopment were coveredduring the conference. In hispresentation, Dr DB Parekh,former principal scientist,ICAR NBPGR, New Delhi

shed light on the vast scope ofLED grow lights that canusher in a new revolution inplant sciences in the country.This food productiontechnology consumes 40 percent less power, 80 per centless food wastage, 99 per centless water usage than outdoorfields and leads to thereduction of carbon footprint.This technology, withnegligible infestation ofdiseases and pests, does notrequire any chemicalpesticides and thereby helps toproduce healthy foodstuff.

Bahra Varsity organisesFreshers’ Party

SHIMLA, SEP 30

School of Hospitality and Tourism, School of Engineering andTechnology, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences and School ofLaw, Bahra University, organized Fresher’s Party to welcomethe newly admitted students for session 2019-2020.

Chancellor Bahra University, Mr Gurvinder Singh Bahrapresided over the function as the Chief Guest. He spoke atlength about the achievements of the University and askedstudents to strive to achieve perfection. He urged the studentsto live a disciplined life as their future would depend on theirdays in the University. At the same time, he assured that theUniversity would leave no stone unturned towards impartingexcellent education to its students.

Vice Chancellor Dr. Piush Verma said that the students ofvarious departments enthralled the audience by presentingcolorful and entertaining programs.

Block level task force meetingorganized under Beti Bachao-

Beti Padhao campaign

ANWAR HUSSAINNALAGARH, SEPT 30

Sub Divisional Officer (Civil) Nalagarh PrashantDesta said that all the departments for theprotection of daughters should work byestablishing mutual coordination in the workforceconstituted under Beti Bachao, Beti Padhaocampaign, so that the sex ratio of daughters in thesociety can lead to positive results. PrashantDeshata was chairing the block level task forcemeeting for Beti Bachao Beti Padhao campaign atsub-divisional headquarters Nalagarh today. Hesaid that Beti Bachao Beti Padhao scheme is beingrun effectively for the protection of girls. Givinginstructions to departmental officials, he said thatit is mandatory to completely eradicate the processof biased gender. He said that while equal numberof boys and girls in the society eliminates variousinequalities, it provides an opportunity to all tolive with equality.

Jammu MC to fine for open defecation, urinating publicly, spittingJAMMU, SEP 30

Jammu Municipal Corporation is all set to tighten nooseagainst those indulging in open defecation, spitting, urinatingpublicly and littering on roads. Official sources here said onMonday that Jammu is being developed as Smart City forwhich many initiatives are being taken, adding, "In view ofthe similar project, it was decided to fine people for urinatingpublicly and open defecation besides habitual of littering on

roads." "A fine from Rs 200 to 500 will be slappeddepending upon the nature of violation under the norms ofsolid waste management act 2016." The directives will cometo force from October 2 on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti."The sanitary staff of JMC has been authorised to fine theviolators," he said, adding that several steps were takenpreviously to aware people of maintaining hygenic and cleansurroundings but they did not obey following which strictmeasures were being taken from October 2.

Art 370 abrogation: Educational institutesremain closed for 57th day in Kashmir

SRINAGAR, SEP 30

As the situation remaineduncertain for the 57thsuccessive day on Monday,majority of students continuedto stay away from schools inKashmir valley even as theshutdown has completed eightweeks against scrapping ofArticle 370 and bifurcation ofthe state into two UnionTerritories. The educationalinstitutes remained deserteddespite administrationordering reopening of primary,middle and high schools lastmonth. All educational

institutions, includinguniversities, engineering andother professional collegeswere closed since August 5,when the special status of thestate was scrapped, evokingsharp and spontaneousreaction from the locals.Meanwhile, some coachingcenters in the valley haveshifted their institutes outsidethe state alongwith teachersand students. The coachingcenters have provided hostelfacilities to the students andteachers though, it has furtherburdened the pockets of theparents at a time when

economy in the valley isalready under huge stress dueto unrest since August 5. Eventhough students continued tostay away from classes,different private educationalinstitutions have announcedfresh admission for lowerclasses in the valley. Theprivate schools have alsoprovided all study material andvideo lessons to students onpen-drives and photo-copies toprepare for examinations.Parents have expressedconcerns over sending theirchildren to schools in view ofuneasy situation.

Akshay becomes Mr. Bharaticon 2019, Parul runner up

SHANTI GAUTAMBADDI, SEPT 30

Himachal has captured thetitle of Mr. Bharat Icon 2019held in Mumbai. The statehas received this honor dueto the brilliant performanceof Akshay Kumar fromKandaghat in district Solan.Akshay has won the title ofMr. India icon, leavingbehind hundreds ofcontestants from the countryand the world who arrived atSahara Hotel. Parul Sharmaof Nagali village of Solan,who is participating in theMiss India icon from

Himachal Pradesh, alsoshowed amazing talent andmade it to the top three andwas awarded the title ofsecond runner up. There is anatmosphere like Deepawaliafter this achievement in thehomes of both the winners.This was the first timeHimachal had such a hugeachievement in Himanagariby two people together.Himachal was first entered inseason three of the India Iconorganized by the RoyalHeritage Group. This firststep has left a tremendousimpression of Himachalitalent in Mayanagari.

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Rly announces 14 spl trains to Sultanpur Lodhiduring 550th Prakash Purb celebrations

GAURAV GOELCHANDIGARH, SEPT 30

Accepting Chief Minister CaptainAmarinder Singh’s request for spe-cial trains for Sultanpur Lodhi tomeet the rush of pilgrims expectedthere during the 550th PrakashPurb celebrations of Sri GuruNanak Dev Ji, the Ministry of Rail-ways has decided to run 14 specialintra-state and long distance inter-state trains connecting the historictown from November 1, 2019.

These special passenger andexpress trains will facilitate devo-tees from Punjab and other re-gions, significantly Nanded andPatna Sahib, according to an offi-cial spokesperson. Earlier thismonth, the Centre had acceptedthe state government’s proposal toannounce a special express trainconnecting New Delhi with Sul-tanpur Lodhi. The ongoing worksto upgrade the Sultanpur LodhiRailway Station would be com-

pleted by the Railways before thehistoric celebrations scheduled tobe held in November, thespokesperson said. As per thecommuniqué issued by the North-ern Railway, the Amritsar-DeraBaba Nanak diesel multiple unit(DEMU) would ply 60 times, be-tween 1st and 16th November,2019, starting from Amritsar at

9:10 PM to reach Dera BabaNanak at 2:30 AM. Anticipating aheavy inflow of pilgrims, the Rail-ways would also be running an-other train connecting the historictowns of Dera Baba Nanak dailyand Sultanpur Lodhi, which wouldleave Dera Baba Nanak at 7:15PM to reach its destination at 1:30AM. The frequency of the train

would be doubled from 4th No-vember. The Ferozepur-PatnaJunction express would run thricebetween 1st to 16th November,2019, departing from Patna Sahibat 10:45 PM on November 6, 10and 16. For return journey itwould start from Ferozepur at12:40 AM on November 5, 9 and14, to reach Nanded at 6:05 PM.

The weekly Ferozepur-Nandedexpress would start from Nandedon Saturday at 9:00 AM and reachFerozepur via Bhopal, Agra, andBathinda at 10:50 PM. It would de-part for its return journey fromFerozepur on Thursday at 1:30 AMand reach Nanded at 1:00 PM. TheHissar - Sultanpur Lodhi wouldrun 28 trips every day, as wouldthe Sultanpur Lodhi to Gangana-gar, Sultanpur Lodhi to NawansharDoaba, and Fazilka–SultanpurLodhi trains. Old Delhi-LohianKhas would run 40 trips on alter-nate days, leaving Delhi at 11:50PM on Mondays.

SUMER GARGLUDHIANA, SEPT 30

A total of 16 candidates havefiled their nomination papersfor the Dakha assembly by-election scheduled on Octo-ber 21, 2019. Today, a total of11 candidates from Congress,Lok Insaf Party (LIP), Bahu-jan Samaj Party, Aapna Pun-jab Party, Shiromani AkaliDal (Amritsar), National Jus-tice Party and three as inde-pendents filed their nomina-tion papers.

The candidates who filedtheir nomination papers todayinclude Sandeep Singh Sand-

hu and Puneeta Sandhu (ascovering candidate) fromCongress party, SukhdevSingh and Sarabjit Kaur (ascovering candidate) from LIP,Baldev Singh from BahujanSamaj Party, SimrandeepSingh from Aapna PunjabParty, Joginder Singh fromShiromani Akali Dal (Amrit-sar), Harbans Singh, GurdeepSingh Kahlon and Neelam asIndependent candidates,while Gurjit Singh from Na-tional Justice Party.

The by-election fromDakha assembly constituencyis scheduled on October 21,2019.

16 file nominations forDhaka by-elections

Education department introducesnew timetables for winterKULJIT SINGHJANDIALA GURU:EducationDepartment has released a new timeschedule of government schools forthe coming winter season. SukhjitpalSingh DPI (CCI) has issued a letterstating that the education departmenthas changed this time in two phases inthe time of public schools. Accordingly,in the first phase, all primary schoolsfrom 1st October 2019 to 31st October2019 and from 1st March 2020 to 31stMarch 2020 will be from 8.30am to2.30pm while all Middle, High andHigher Secondary schools will beopen at 8.30am to 2.50pm. Similarly,in the second phase, the period of allprimary schools from 1st November2019 to 28th February 2020 will befrom 9:00 am to 3:00 pm while thetime for all middle, high and uppersecondary schools will be from 9am to3.20pm.

Education Minister approves new time schedule for schoolsCHANDIGARH: Punjab Education Minister Vijay Inder Singla has approved the new timeschedule for schools in the state. A spokesperson of State Government informed that MrSingla signed cleared the file in this regard.

According to the spokesperson, the time for all primary schools from 1st October to 31stOctober 2019 and 1st March to 31st March 2020 will be from 8.30 am to 2.30 pm while allMiddle, High and Higher Secondary schools will start from 8.30am to 2.50pm. Likewise fromNovember 1, 2019 to February 28, 2020, the time for all primary schools will be from 9amto 3pm, while the time for all middle, high and senior secondary schools will be from 9am to3.20pm.

‘Role ball trialtournament' organized

VIKAS VERMADHURI: Under the supervision of S.Gurmeet Singh Physical EducationProfessor and S. Amandeep Singhinstructor, district level ‘Roll Ball TrailTournament’ was organized at VasantValley Public School, Ladda (Sangrur).In this , 14 schools from the districtSangrur have participated. PrincipalYogita Bhatia welcome the players andinspired them to play with game spirit.The Chairman of the school, SanjayGupta and Ratna Gupta, encouragedthe players to play as a team andkeep the spirit high during practice andcompetitions.

Chand Setia re-electedDussehra Committee chief

RAJ SADOSHABOHAR: Chand Setia has been re-elected president of DussehraCommittee here today.Vinod Sharmawill again be chief organiser of theevent. Setia said DeputyCommissioner Manpreet SinghChhatwal and SSP Bhupinder SinghSidhu will be chief guests, SandeepJakhar, SDM Poonam Singh andAbohar based SP Manjit Singh will bespecial guests of thefunction. Veteran journalist KantiBhardwaj and Lekhak Parishadpresident Raj Sadosh joined thecommittee members today in releasingthe brochure cum invitation for theDussehra celebrations here.

Innocent hearts win over alltrophy in Table tennis

HARPREET SINGH LEHALJALANDHAR: Tennis Tournament bydefeating Police DAV Team Thestudents of Innocent Hearts kept theschool flag high by achieving over alltrophy in Sahodaya Table TennisTournament. U-19 Boys, U-17 (Girls),U-19(Girls) teams won first positionand bagged gold medal. On the otherhand U-14 and U- 17 Boys got secondposition.Principal – Rajeev Paliwalcongratulated the winners, HOD sportsSanjeev Bhardawj and coach Tilakand Kanika on their achievement andwished them good luck for future.Harnoor, Dhruv, Jayesh and Hardikplayed U-17 and stood second. U-14(Boys) team Tanish, Sachit, Sakshamand Keshav also got second position.

Punjab may procure 170 MT ofpaddy, purchase centres readyMOGA: Punjab is all geared to procure170 Lakh MT of paddy for the Kharifsession of 2019-20. Though Punjabgovernment is ready to enter themarket to make purchase theharvesting might be delayed for a weekdue to heavy rains in various parts ofthe state last week. Punjab MandiBoard chairman Lal Singh claimed thatcurrent area under paddy was 29.20lakh hectares and production will be170 Lakh MT. He also said in 2018-19,Punjab procured 170 LMT paddy ofwhich 169.10 LMT was procured bythe government agencies alone whereas the traders procured 1.8 LMT.

CHANDIGARH, SEP 30

Five times Chief Minister andSAD patron-in-chief SardarParkash Singh Badal on Mon-day described as ''statesman-like, far-sighted and humane''the Centre's decision to releaseeight Sikh prisoners who hadalready served their full termand to commute the death sen-tence of Balwant Singh Ra-joana into life-imprisonment.

Badal said these gestureswould go a long way in as-suaging the hurt sentiments ofthe Sikh masses, laceratedduring successive Congressregimes. ''Every step thatstrengthens the hands of theforces of peace and communalharmony and cements Hindu-Sikh unity in Punjab and thecountry should be welcomedby everyone, overcoming per-sonal factors,'' Mr Badal saidin a statement here this after-noon.

''Whole heartedly thank-ing’ Prime Minister NarendraModi and Home MinisterAmit Shah for ‘the strong pos-

itive gesture’ on the eve of the550 Parkash Utsav of GuruNanak Dev ji, Badal said likeon many such occasions in thepast , it is perhaps “divinelyordained” that on the auspi-cious occasion of Parkash Ut-sav too, there is a governmentat the centre which is friendlyto Punjabis and the Sikhs. ''Asalways, it is left to the NDAgovernment to apply the ‘heal-ing touch’ to the Sikh wounds.PM Modi started the processof ensuring punishment to theguilty of 84 massacre, end thedreaded Black Lists for over-seas Sikhs and re-opened theKartarpur Sahib Corridor.

With the latest decision,he and Mr Shah have carriedthe process of healing the pastwounds of Sikh masses deci-sively forward,'' said the for-mer. He also appealed to thePM and the HM ‘to carry thisprocess forward so that all thelegitimate religious, politicaland economic grievances ofthe Sikh masses are addressedin a just and time-bound man-ner.’

PRITPAL SINGH JALANDHAR, SEPT 30

To eradicate Anemia andmalnutrition among spe-cially-abled, The SocialSecurity, Development ofWomen & Children de-partment organized healthand nutrition camp inPingla Ghar and Mission-aries of Charity and sensi-tized the caretakers in theinstitutions to ensure ade-quate nutritional diet tothem.

The experts from thedepartment said that thatthe caretakers were guid-ed to ensure morning andevening walks, yoga exer-cise, healthy food habits,daily intake of fruits,drinking clean water,hand- wash by the spe-cially-abled persons. Fur-ther, they were advised toavoid junk food as suchfood items are not good

for the health. Likewise,the experts told that stren-uous efforts also are beingmade for generating max-imum awareness againstthe malnutrition and ane-mia through effective de-livery of health and nutri-tion services to them. Theexperts told that PoshanAbhiyaan was a revolu-tionary program to im-prove the nutritional indi-cators of pregnantwomen, lactating mothersand children.

Further, they statedthat under Poshan Ab-hiyan, the teams of the

Social Security, Womenand Child DevelopmentDepartment, Skill Devel-opment Department, Rur-al Development and Pan-chayat Department, LocalGovernment Department,Youth Services Depart-ment, Education Depart-ment, Agriculture Depart-ment, Health and FamilyWelfare Department andWater Supply and Sanita-tion Department werespreading the message ofthis prestigious drive inevery nook and corner ofthe district to make Ja-landhar a healthy district.

Health, nutrition campheld in Pingla ghar

SUSHIL GOYALSANGRUR, SEPT 30

A couple, riding on a motor-cycle, was killed when theirmotorcycle met with an acci-dent on Sangrur-Dhuri roadnear road over bridge (ROB)at Sangrur today.

As per information Man-jinder Singh (45) and his wifeAmanpreet Kaur (42) weregoing on a motorcycle whenthe motorcycle and a four-wheeler collided. Both weretaken to Civil Hospital, San-grur, where they reportedlysuccumbed to their injuriesduring treatment. Prem

Chand Goyal, a pharmacist atCivil Hospital, Sangrur, saidthat both were brought to thehospital in a very critical con-dition as they had sustainedmajor injuries on their bodies.He said both died after someminutes.

Their bodies had beenplaced in the mortuary. Whencontacted Ranjit Singh, anASI, City-1 Police Station,Sangrur, over the phone con-firmed that in the accident aman and his wife had died.He said he had not more de-tails with him so far as he hadyet to record the statements,with regard to the accident.

Couple killed in a roadmishap at Sangrur

KULBHUSHAN GARGGIDDERBAHA, SEPT 30

With the cooperation of theDistrict Administration andother departments, the Pun-jab Employment Departmenttoday organized 5th megajob fair at DAV Collage,Gidderbaha. The youth en-thusiastically participated inthe fair and interviewed var-ious companies for jobs.

The candidates were se-lected by the companies onthe spot. On this occasion,Amrita Warring arrived asthe Chief Guest. She saidthat these fairs are helping toconnect the youth with em-ployment. She said that the

Punjab Government was go-ing to set up employmentfairs in view of the need ofemployment of the youth.

Punjab Government alsoset up employment and busi-ness bureaus in all 22 dis-tricts of the state. KaramSingh, District Employmentand Business Officer, saidthat at today's fair, 33 com-panies have reached whichhave offered more than 1400jobs. On the occasion OmParkash SDM Gidderbaha,Block Congress PresidentDeepak Garg, placement of-ficer Daljit Singh, YashpalGoyal, Mukesh Goyal andother dignitaries were present.

5th mega job fair held

KULBHUSHAN GARGGIDDERBAHA, SEPT 30

Aggarwal Sabha Gidderbahatoday celebrated the Aggar-sain Jayanti at SSD Commu-nity Center, Gidderbaha un-der the leadership of Presi-dent Dinesh Singla Bobby.

He apprised the peoplespresent in the ceremonyabout the life of MaharajaAggarsain ji and appealed tothem to follow their teach-ings and eliminate the socialevils prevalent in the Aggar-wal community.

During the Jayanti ceremo-ny a blood donation and freesugar checkup camp was alsoorganized. Blood Bank teamof Civil Hospital Sri MuktsarSahib collected about 42

units of blood during theblood donation camp whileDeepak Hi-tech Laboratoryexamined the sugar of about120 people. On this occasionSwarn Singh Garg, AjayGoyal, Sham Sunder Shindi,Sanjeev Bansal, LuckyBansal, Adv. Lovelish Goyal,

Adv. Kuldeep Jindal, YaspalGoyal, Adv. Mohit Garg,Adv. Suresh Garg, Kulb-hushan Garg, ParshotamGarg, Davinder Singla, Bho-la Bansal, Ramesh Kumar,Ved Parkash Goyal, RishiGarg, Parvesh Bansal and Ji-wan Bansal was also present.

Aggarwal Sabha celebratesAggarsain Jayanti with gaiety

KULJIT SINGH JANDIALA GURU, SEPT 30

Former MLA and inchargeofJandiala Guru Dr. DalbirSingh Verka has appointedNirmal Singh Nimma as Dis-trict Head of SC Wing of theShiromani Akali Dal (SAD).It was done on the basis of hisexcellent services. Nimmawas honoured here for hisnew responsibility. Sweetswere distributed by Akaliworkers led by Sarup Singh

Sant. They thanked SADchief Sukhbir Singh Badal,Bikram Singh Majithia andJandiala Incharge Dr. DalbirSingh Verka. for appoint-ment of Nimma as districthead of SC wing of AkaliDal.Tejinder Singh Chandi,Harpreet Singh Bablu, Man-deep Singh Dhot, JaspalSingh Babbu, Savinder SinghChandi, Narendra SinghOlakh, Chacha Amar Singh,Gopal Singh, Vinod Sharma,Gurbhej Singh.

Nimma appointed SAD’s SCwing Distt President

550 saplings plantedat Nankana Sahib

OUR CORRESPONDENTKHARAR SEPT 30

Sucha Singh Somal who was born and brought upin nearby village Daumajra and at present doinggood business in Canada have sponsored 550 tresswhich were planted in Nankana Sahib in connection

with 550th birthanniversary of GuruNanak Dev ji.

On Sunday aprogram wasarranged by RaiBullar Bhatti toplants trees inNankana Sahib.

Sucha singh Somal while giving this informationsaid that we need to preserve land and water ofworld to save and serve humanity by planting moreand more trees. Notably Somal sponsored Bhai LalMardana ji group , in 2003,Rai Aziz Ulla khan(Ganga Sagar familyl) in 2000, and Chan peer ji(Mia meer Ji) in 2005 to hongkong. He said that heis planning to spend many Lakh Rupees in his vil-lage Daugmajra for constructing a school.

Man killed in road accidentMOGA, SEP 30 : A 56-year-old motorcyclist died on the spotafter being hit by a jeep near village Jhandewala near Chrikpolice station area, police said on Monday. Sinder Singh, res-ident of Talwindi Bhagerian village, died on the spot in the in-cident which took place late on Sunday night.

A case was registered with Moga city south police stationby the victim's brother Iqbal Singh against unidentified Jeepdriver.

DALJIT AJNOHAHOSHIARPUR, SEPT 30

From time to time, vari-ous schemes are made bythe representatives of thegovernment to raise thesession of education onthe promotional stage, butclaims made by the gov-ernment and political rep-

resentatives here areproved hollow.

And in many places,the number of students ingovernment schools ishigh but teachers are veryfew, due to which the stu-dents' studies suffer. Theworst affected isMahilpur Senior Sec-ondary School (Boys).

Principal Renuka Balisaid that there are 710children but due to lack ofteachers and lecturers,they suffer a lot in theirstudies. MLA Dr. Raj Ku-marr Chabewal assuredthat they would soon talkto the concerned authori-ties and resolve this prob-lem soon.

Mahilpur Govt Sr Sec School deprivedof expert teachers: Renuka Bali

RAJWINDER SINGHMITHAGOINDWAL SAHIB,SEPT 30

At the retirement of MadamHarjit Kaur Pawar, who hasbeen serving as Principal forthe past three years at Govern-ment Senior Secondary SchoolGoindwal Sahib, today he wasgiven a wonderful departurefrom the staff and the promi-nent personalities of the area.

The farewell celebrationswere attended by Deputy Dis-trict Education Officer Rajin-der Kaur, Sarpanch JaspalSingh Randhawa, KuldeepSingh Aulakh, SarpanchKuldeep Singh

Lahoria,Varinder jyoti and oth-er personalities spoke and saidthat Principal Harjit KaurPawar has made multi-faceteddevelopment of the school dur-ing his tenure. This has led tothe school becoming known asa model throughout the dis-trict. He said that he would al-ways remember the honor be-stowed on him by the localityand the staff. Dr. Navtej SinghPawar, Principal GurdeepSingh, Gurupratap Singh, Bal-bir Singh, Nirmal Singh,Gurmeet Kaur Sarpanch,Sandeep Singh, Manjit Kaur,Bhinder Singh, Bhinder Kaur,Principal Parvinder Kaur Fate-habad Girls, Charanjit Kaur,Praveen Kaur Honda.

Principal Harjit Kaurgiven warm send off

Badal hails releasing of8 prisoners by Centre

NEWS AT AGLANCE

YUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2019

MP Cong to stage sit-in outside PM house toseek central fundsBHOPAL: Congress leaders from Madhya Pradesh would stage a sit-in outsidePrime Minister Narendra Modi's official residence in New Delhi on Thursday todemand release of central funds for losses suffered by the state due to heavyrains this monsoon. The Congress wants that the Centre immediately release Rs32,171 crore to Madhya Pradesh, party MLA Arif Masood, who would lead thedemonstration, told PTI on Monday. The party would also submit a memorandumof its demands to the prime minister, said Masood, who is an MLA from Bhopal."The Modi-led NDA government has deliberately not released Rs 32,171 crore ofthe central funds, under different heads, to the Congress-ruled Madhya Pradeshand is discriminating against the state," he alleged.

Jodhpur: 4-year-oldrescued fromdrowning in gutterJODHPUR: A four-year-old girl whofell into a sewage gutter in HorseChowk in Jodhpur on Sunday wassaved from drowning due to quickaction taken by a local. The incidenttook place on Sunday around 5:40 pmwhen Vaishnavi, 4, accidentally fellinto the open eight feet deep drain infront of Mundra Bhawan here. CCTVvisuals show Jyotiram Patil, who wasworking in his shop 10 feet awayrushing to the child's rescue afterhearing her screams and managed topull out the drowning girl. "For the pastfour to five days, people have beenfacing problems due to this open andflowing drain. The road constructiondepartment has made pit holes andstopped the work. We had earlier filleda complaint regarding this but no oneunderstood the seriousness of it", saida local. "The girl could have died if shewas not saved on time. The gutterholes are open here from eight days.People are constantly complaining butno action is being taken.

Close associate ofgangster Kapil Sangwanheld in DelhiNEW DELHI: A close associate ofgangster Kapil Sangwan wasapprehended by the Delhi Policefollowing a shootout in Dwarka in theearly hours of Monday, officials said.The accused has been identified asKuldeep Rathi, they said. He waswanted in several cases of murder,attempt to murder, extortion andkidnapping in Delhi-NCR, a seniorpolice officer said. Rathi sustained abullet injury to the leg during theshootout with personnel of the SpecialCell of Delhi Police, officials said.

NCP's Maha pollcandidate NamitaMundada joins BJPAURANGABAD: NCP leader NamitaMundada, who was given ticket by theparty for next month's MaharashtraAssembly polls, joined the ruling BJPon Monday. Mundada resigned fromthe NCP following which she wasinducted into the saffron party in Beeddistrict in the presence of BJP's LokSabha member Pritam Munde andstate minister Pankaja Munde. Hermother-in-law Vimal Mundada was aformer state minister from the NCP.Namita Mundada was earlier thismonth declared as the NCP'scandidate from Kaij Assemblyconstituency in Beed for the Assemblyelections, scheduled to be held onOctober 21. During the 2014 statepolls, she lost to BJP's SangeetaThombre from Kaij seat.

Rains wreak havoc inUP, prisoners shiftedfrom Ballia jailLUCKNOW: In the wake of heavyrains wreaking havoc in Uttar Pradeshsince the past four days, the inmatesof the water logged Ballia districtprison had to be shifted to Azamgarhjail. Process of shifting the prisoninmates went on till late Sunday nightas the barracks, hospital, residenceand office of the Ballia jail weresubmerged in water. Pumping setshave been installed to remove thewater. Ballia jail has a capacity for 350prisoners but over 900 inmates hadbeen lodged there and 500 of themwere sent to Azamgarh on Sunday.The outgoing monsoon rains havewreaked havoc in Eastern UP affectingnormal life in several districts. As manyas 90 deaths were reported from UPin the past four days. The weathermanhas predicted that the monsoon maytake more time to return even as 14people died in the state on Sunday.Earlier, 25 deaths were reported onSaturday while 18 people reportedlydied on Friday. Numerous districts inUttar Pradesh have been hit by heavyrains accompanied with floods. ChiefMinister Yogi Adityanath has directedthat in view of the flood situation, noofficial should be given a holiday andthe officials should regularly visit andinspect the flood situation in theirrespective districts. Alongside,Adityanath has directed the DistrictMagistrates to deal with the issue ofwater-logging on an immediate basis.He said in case of any human loss orother instances, the affected shouldimmediately be provided thecompensatory amount. The relief workshould be carried out in a speedymanner and it should be ensured thatthere is no laxity of food materials inthe affected areas. Yogi has alsodirected that preparations shouldinstantaneously be done to solve anyemergency situation, adding that anynegligence will not be tolerated.

Five killed as SUV rams intotruck in GujaratKHEDA: Five people were killed whentheir SUV rammed into a trailer truckon the Ahmedabad-VadodaraExpressway on Monday morning, apolice official said. The accident tookplace around 7.30 am when the SUV(sports utility vehicle) hit the truck fromits rear side while trying to overtake itnear Mehmedabad on theExpressway, he said. Five occupantsof the SUV, including its driver, werekilled in the mishap, he said. Thedeceased were identified as PragneshJoshi (51), Mahendra Chauhan (38),Rignesh Patel (40), Birendra Shah(42), and Rajesh Patel (48). Thebodies were sent to a communityhealth centre in Mehmedabad forpostmortem, he added.

Repeal of Article 370 move towardspermanent peace in J-K: Amit Shah

AHMEDABAD, SEP 30

The repeal of Article 370 was amove towards permanent peacein Jammu and Kashmir and itreflects the honour and respectgiven by Prime MinisterNarendra Modi to the securitypersonnel who laid down theirlives for the country, HomeMinister Amit Shah said onMonday.

"I believe that the true andwell-deserved respect to ourpersonnel who have sacrificedtheir lives in Kashmir wasgiven by revoking Article 370and Article 35-A from Jammuand Kashmir by Prime MinisterNarendra Modi. It is a move forpermanent peace in the valley,"Shah said at the 27th RaisingDay event of the Rapid ActionForce (RAF), a specialisedwing of the CRPF constitutedto deal with riots.

"It is a push for peace sothat our personnel do not have

to lay down their lives in theValley but are there to take careof the usual law and ordersituation. People re-elected thePrime Minister with a bigmajority and he did the rightthing in less than a month," headded.

Provisions of Article 370,which gave special powers toJammu and Kashmir, were

repealed last month.Earlier in his speech, Shah

praised the Central ReservePolice Force (CRPF) and otherparamilitary forces for theirrole in providing security topeople.

He said over 34000personnel who had laid downtheir lives for the internalsecurity of the country have

contributed immensely to theprocess of development.

Shah also lauded the role ofRAF since its inception.

"RAF so far has fulfilled itsrole in keeping with theexpectation of the people andthe government," he said.

Recounting the bravery ofthe CRPF personnel, Shah citedthe terror attacks in Kashmirand the attacks on Parliamentand the makeshift Ram templein Ayodhya which were foiledby its personnel.

Referring to the NationalPolice Memorial in the nationalcapital, he said it wascompleted and inaugurated atthe initiative of Prime Minister.

The Minister said the logoof the memorial, which isdedicated to the sacrifices ofsecurity personnel in internalsecurity duties, will be unveiledon Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel'sbirth anniversary next month bythe Prime Minister.

Hails role of para military forces for providing security to people

Sirsa hails commuting Beant Singh assassin'sdeath sentence, says 'dark day for Congress'

NEW DELHI, SEP 30

Delhi Sikh GurdwaraManagement Committee(DSGMC) on Monday hailedthe Centre's decision tocommute the death sentenceof Punjab chief ministerBeant Singh's assassin andclaimed it as a "dark day forthe Congress, whichmurdered many Sikhs." "It isa dark day for the Congressbecause they killed over 1lakh young Sikhs. This didnot happen anywhere in thecountry and the world thatpeople of the same partycommitted massacres inmany places in the countryincluding 1984 Sikh riots andkillings in Sri Raj Darbar. Itis really a dark day for

Congress," DSGMCpresident Manjinder SinghSirsa told ANI. The Unionhome ministry on Sundayapproved the commutation ofdeath sentence to lifeimprisonment Balwant SinghRajoana for his role in BeantSingh's assassination onAugust 31, 1995. On Sunday,Congress MP Ravneet SinghBittu termed thecommutation of Rajoana's

death sentence as "a dark dayin the history of Punjab,democracy and justice".However, DSGMC presidentslammed the remarks andstated the dark days whereinnocent Sikhs wereruthlessly killed were nowover, adding that the formerchief minister Beant Singhwas a "victim of the sameconspiracy against Sikhs".

Manjinder Singh Sirsaalso hailed Prime Ministerand Home Minister AmitShah for the decision.

"This was a long-standing demand of Akalis.Sikhs are the pride of thecountry. We have given andtaken life for the country. Iwant to appeal to thecountrymen that those who

are opposing thegovernment's decision tounderstand the pain of Sikhcommunity."

Sirsa said it was "wrong"to question this decision ofthe government as it givesthe message of humanity.

"Congratulations aregiven if the Congressforgives the assassin of RajivGandhi. If the centralgovernment changes thehanging of Balwant Singhinto life imprisonment, thenthere is protest" said theDSGMC president.

On August 31, 1995, 17people, including the thenchief minister Beant Singh,were killed in an explosionoutside the Civil Secretariatin Chandigarh.

No respite for people of Bihar,govt swings into action

PATNA, SEP 30

Residents of Patna and at least 13districts of Bihar continue to facethe wrath of heavy downpour as atleast 27 people lost their lives innatural calamity persuading stategovernment to request Indian AirForce (IAF) to provide twochoppers for lifting andairdropping food packets andmedicines in the flood-affectedareas of Patna. The stategovernment has also asked the AirForce for de-watering machines.

Residents of the state capital ofBihar have some relief with norainfall this morning but it could beshort lived as weather office haswarned of more rain in Bihar for 24hours. Principal secretary (disastermanagement department) PratyayAmrit said students living invarious hotels in Rajendra Nagarlocality are being evacuated to safeplaces. He said teams of NationalDisaster Response Force (NDRF)and State Disaster Response Force(SDRF) have been deployed inwater logged areas. People living inground floors of houses inRajendra Nagar locality are alsobeing shifted to safe places. Amritsaid that arrangement had beenmade for Sudha booths at sixplaces and also for 50 tankers for

safe drinking water in the statecapital. He said two lakh bottles ofdrinking water have been arrangedand relief camps are being openedat six schools. Food would also beprovided at these relief camps, headded. At least 27 people have diedin Bihar after incessant rain in thestate. Patna district administrationhas ordered for suspension ofacademic activities all governmentand private schools till October 1.

Cranes of Patna MunicipalCorporation (PMC) are being usedfor rescuing people fromcompletely submerged areas. Manypeople in the state capital arestranded in their homes withoutelectricity and water supply.

At least 19 teams of NationalDisaster Response Force (NDRF)have been deployed in affectedareas of Bihar. Many trains in Biharhave been cancelled or diverteddue to flooding of railway tracksand, in some places, damagecaused to bridges.

NEW DELHI, SEP 30

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh onMonday launched the website of 11thedition of DefEXpo, to be held inLucknow from February 5 to 8.

The website, www.defexpo.gov.in,provides online services to exhibitors,besides hosting informative contentabout the product profile of DPSUs andOrdnance Factories, the defenceministry said.

The website would enable exhibitorsto register and book space online as pertheir requirements on first-come-first-serve basis, make online payments,book conference halls and venues forBusiness-to-Business (B2B) meetings.

Exhibitors can avail early birddiscounts by booking space on thewebsite before October 31, it added.

Trade visitors will be able to buy

their tickets on the website for visitingthe show during business days. Entry forgeneral public will be free on February8. General visitors, however, arerequired to pre-register on the websiteand they would be sent e-tickets on theirregistered email ids, the ministry said.

Rajnath Singh launchesDefExpo website

Air Chief Marshal Bhadauria takes charge as new IAF chiefAGENCYNEW DELHI, SEP 30

Air Chief Marshal RakeshKumar Singh Bhadauria onMonday took charge as the 26thchief of the Indian Air Force.

He succeeds Air ChiefMarshal BS Dhanoa, whoretired after 41 years of servicein the IAF.

Air Marshal Bhadauria wascommissioned in the fighterstream of the Indian Air Force in

June 1980, and has held variouscommand, staff andinstructional positions.

An alumnus of the NationalDefence Academy, Bhadauriawas commissioned into thefighter stream of the IAF in June1980 and won the coveted'Sword of Honour' for standingfirst in the overall order ofmerit.

During his nearly four-decade career, Bhadauriacommanded a Jaguar squadron

and a premier Air Force Station.He devised a method for

carrying bombing from theJaguar aircraft using the GlobalPositioning System (GPS). Thiswas especially relevant for thebombing role of Jaguar aircraftin Operation Safed Sagar in1999.

Bhadauria also has 4,250hours of flying experience on 26types of fighters and transportaircraft.

Bhadauria is one of the few

Air Force pilots to fly a Rafalejet. In July, during ExerciseGaruda between the Air Forcesof India and France, Bhadauriahad flown the Rafale aircraft.

He was the Air Attache atthe Indian Embassy in Moscow,Assistant Chief of the Air Staff(Projects), Commandant of theNational Defence Academy,Deputy Chief of the Air Staff atAir Head Quarter and AirOfficer Commanding-in-Chiefof Southern Air Command.

Exams to be conducted in January every yearfor filling govt vacancies: Jagan Mohan ReddyVIJAYAWADA, SEP 30

Andhra Pradesh ChiefMinister YS Jagan MohanReddy on Monday saidthat exams for vacanciesin all departments of thestate government will beconducted in January,every year.

"Month of January,every year will be themonth of examinations.All departments will filltheir vacancies throughexams in January," Reddysaid at an event here.

In the event, Reddyhanded over appointmentletters to persons who hadbeen selected for differentpositions in the village andward Secretariat.

As a part of reformingthe governance to deliverhassle-free services, the

YSRCP government hasstarted village and wardsecretariat system whichwill start functioning fromOctober 2. "I congratulatethe youth who have gotjobs in the village andward secretariats. Thisrecruitment has takenplace within very shortspan of time. Givingalmost 1.40 lakhpermanent governmentjobs within only 4 monthsof forming the governmentis a new record," Reddysaid. Speaking about the

new system introduced inthe state, the AndhraPradesh Chief Ministersaid, "For everypopulation of 2 thousandone village or wardsecretariat has been set up.Each consisting of close to13 employees. Thus 1.40lakh jobs are created."

"Volunteers have alsobeen recruited at the rateof one for every 50households. Thus, in total,our government wassuccessful in giving 4 lakhjobs within 4 months."

Police conducts combing operation at RohiniPark to curb anti-social activities

NEW DELHI, SEP 30

The Delhi Police on Monday carriedout a combing operation against anti-social elements at Rohini's JapanesePark to curb illegal activities in thearea. "In view of the inputs receivedabout anti-social elements in Rohini, aspecial combing operation code-named Drishyam was launched onSeptember 29. The operation was

conducted by a platoon force led byAdditional DCP Rohini, JitendraMeena along with ACP Prashant Viharand area SHO Inspector," DCP Rohini,SD Mishra said. The operation wasaimed at putting a curb on theactivities of anti-social elements forensuring the safety of citizens,especially women, children and seniorcitizens. The operation was launchedat 6 pm and it concluded at 8 pm

during which a total of 40 personswere checked and questioned. 22suspicious persons were brought toPrashant Vihar police station anddetained under section 65 of the DelhiPolice Act. DCP Mishra further saidthat in view of Ramleela arrangementsand inputs of movements of anti-socialelements, such combing operationswill continue further to make peoplefeel safe at public places.

PSPL gets award for highest business growthNEW DELHI, SEP 30

The Synergy Awards 2019 held onWednesday in which PSPL honoredthe best work done in the field ofadvertising and creativity. In thisawards ceremony, PSPL AdvertisingPrivate Limited was awarded theAgency of the Year Awards for thehighest business growth in the year2018-2019. Along with this, PSPLAdvertising also won the Best CreativeAdvertisement in Informative Designand Highest Business in GroupCombined (GRC) Awards. On thissuccess of PSPL Advertising, thecompany's director says that the creditfor these awards goes to the entire teamwho have made the company worthy ofthese awards through their work.

Exports of e-cigarette bannedNEW DELHI, SEP 30

The commerce ministry on Monday saidit has banned exports of electroniccigarettes, e-Hookah and other similardevices. The notification was issued tocomply with the government's ordinanceissued on September 18 to banproduction, import, distribution and saleof electronic cigarettes. "Export ofelectronic cigarettes including all formsof Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems,Heat Not Burn Products, e-Hookah andthe like devices by whatever name calledand whatever shape, size or form it mayhave...is prohibited," the Directorate

General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) saidin a notification. However, it said theban does not conclude any productlicensed under the Drugs andCosmetics Act, 1940. The ordinanceissued on September 18 bans e-cigarettes, making the production,import, export, transport, sale oradvertisements of such alternativesmoking devices a cognizable offence,attracting jail term and fine. First timeviolators will face a jail term of up toone year and a fine of Rs 1 lakh. Forsubsequent offences, a jail term of up tothree years or a fine of Rs 5 lakh, orboth, according to the ordinance.

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The People’s Republic ofChina will turn 70 onOctober 1, 2019. Pre-

ceded by the 110-year “na-tional shame and humiliation”inflicted by Western mer-chants, missionaries, armiesand their carbines, corpora-tions and other entities, theerstwhile Middle Kingdomfeels it is time to hit back. Theyear 2019 is thus China’s timeto do a role reversal, and es-tablish itself as the dominat-ing, domineering state, givingthe West a taste of its ownmedicine — essentiallythrough economics and mon-ey power. The goal — to takeover and possess the financialnerve centres of the West,through multiple means, toextend influence and shapethe future course of global de-mography.

It is important to checkChina’s contemporary eco-nomic and financial standing.With a $12.238 trillion GDP(2017), it is second only to theUnited States’$19.485 trillion(2017). It’s the biggest econo-my by purchasing power, of$23,190 billion, followed bythe US, India, Japan and Ger-many. In numbers of million-aires, China stands third; afterthe US and the Europeanzone. Its seven per cent eco-nomic growth, despite theslowdown, is way ahead ofthe West and India’s five per

cent. With 10.33 per cent oftotal world exports (goods,services and incomes) in2017, Beijing is the thirdbiggest exporter, after Eu-rope’s (19 nations) 16.43 percent and America’s 12.47 percent.

Also, China is the biggesttrader of goods. It tops the listof exports and stands secondto the US in imports. In bal-ance of payments and its cur-rent account, China’s surplusstands fourth, at $195,117million (2017), behind theUS, Europe and Japan. And fi-nally, China’s $3.168059 tril-lion (end-2018) official re-serves stands far ahead of sec-ond-placed Japan’s$1.270,402 trillion and third-ranked Europe’s $821.608 bil-lion. India’s $430 billion re-serves, however, positions it

within the top 10 nations.The People’s Republic,

therefore, has come of age,having shed China’s “inglori-ous” past of 110 years (1839-1949). Nevertheless, as it hap-pens now and has happened inthe past, no nation can resistthe temptation of ruling thewaves, and expand its horizonof influence — through mon-etary or muscle power. This“historical inevitability”,however, is often either ig-nored or forgotten by thosewho aspire to attain greatness,and China is no exception.The bigger the nation or its“zone of influence” aspira-tions, the larger the number ofadversaries. China’s presentposition is thus being coun-tered by the West and its alliesin matters of trade, tariffs,telecommunications.

YUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2019

The murder of two dalit children at Shivpuri in MadhyaPradesh for defecating in the open near a panchayatbuilding last week serves as a shocking reminder of how

heartless Indians can be. Beyond the challenge to civilisation,the incident in which Yadavs beat children to death with lathisbecause they defecated in the open as there was no toilet intheir home is a reality check on claims made about India hav-ing become totally ODF, or “Open Defecation Free”. The fam-ily, which lost a 12-year-old girl and a 10-year-old boy, was de-nied a toilet although the village was declared ODF last year.Caste equations between dalits and Yadavs should bear theblame for the allotment of the use of public toilets in villages.

Noble as Swachchh Bharat’s intentions may be in follow-ing Mahatma Gandhi’s footsteps and his thinking that “sanita-tion was more important than independence”, the reality isquite different. Over nine crore toilets have been built, besidessubsidies for individual toilets at home, since the sweeping so-cial reform was heralded in 2014, but many toilets are not inuse for lack of water or other issues. The Prime Minister’sclaim in his UN General Assembly speech in New York that In-dia would meet its ambition of becoming ODF on MahatmaGandhi’s 150th birth anniversary on October 2 may be some-what removed from the truth.

Of course, access to toilets doesn’t mean open defecationhas ended. In fact, a survey showed that 23 per cent of peoplewho own a toilet still defecate in the open, including in MP andRajasthan, which have been declared ODF. Blame it on oldhabits dying hard or not, this peculiar problem does exist. Nev-ertheless, it is indubitable that toilets built under the SwachchhBharat programme have proved a boon as they have made aworld of difference to womenfolk who don’t have to stray intothe open for their ablutions, with its concomitant dangers in ru-ral areas.

To give up hope that Swachchh Bharat would eventuallymake a great difference would be an insult to the memory ofMahatma Gandhi, who had said “I will not let anyone walkthrough my mind with their dirty feet”. Having seen the differ-ence in sanitation levels when living in South Africa, Gandhiwas not just an ideator. He showed in his ashrams that he wasequal to the task of cleaning the toilets himself. It may be asweeping generalisation that while a Chinese citizen keeps hiscity spotless, though his home may not be so clean, and Indi-an, on the other hand, tends to keep his house clean, while notcaring a whit for public spaces. In a quirky way, that makessense, but what doesn’t is why innocent children must be killedwhen India is only just moving on from V.S. Naipaul’s onetimedescription of it as one massive open toilet.

EditorialDalit kids’ deaths inMP a reality check

As China, at 70, hits back at theWest, India needs to watch out

It is important to check China’s contemporaryeconomic and financial standing

8THE WEAK CAN NEVER FORGIVE. FOR-

GIVENESS IS THE ATTRIBUTE OF THESTRONG.

MAHATMA GANDHI

LIVE AS IF YOU WERE TO DIE TOMORROW.LEARN AS IF YOU WERE TO LIVE FOREVER.

MAHATMA GANDHI

STARS TALKSSeemaa Singh, As-

trologer and Vastu Ex-pert known for her accu-

rate predictions of winningBJP minister Kirron Kher, as

well winningof Punjabelections byCongress. Shehas deliveredmany lectureson astrologyin India aswell as

abroad. ARIES:-The mysterioustwelfth house of your solarchart is still the focus of at-tention, and there may be fartoo much going on behindclosed the doors for you tofeel at ease.

Lucky Color:-Grey

Lucky Number:-9TAURUS:-As long as Marsis stirring up your emotionsyou are liable to fly off thehandle, which ashame is consid-ering how welldisposed peo-ple are to yourplans.

Lucky Col-or:-Red

Lucky Num-ber:-6

G E M I N I : - A c -cording to the newpsychological understandingof astrology our happiness isdependent on our inner stateof being rather than on exter-nal events.

Lucky Color:-VioletLucky Number:-5

CANCER:-Day by day thereis little change in your roman-tic situation, so in a sense thesame advice holds good for

the whole week.Lucky Color:-Dark

Slate GreyLucky Number:-8LEO:-Yet again,thanks to new lu-nar patterns, yourstars are vibrant,

vivacious and fullof life.

Lucky Color:-ParrotGreen

Lucky Number:-7VIRGO:-Such is your repu-tation, nobody ever expectsyou to go the attack, lay downthe law or drive a hard bar-gain.

Lucky Color:-Turquoise

Lucky Number:-11LIBRA:-The Moon is nowreleasing you from certain ofthe unsettling domestic ten-sions which have added com-plications to your worldlyambitions.

Lucky Color:-LavenderLucky Number:-2

SCORPIO:-A deeper look atthe current planetary patternsuggests that this is a time togo all out to prove your deter-mination and truth worth.

Lucky Color:-BrownLucky Number:-4

SAGITTARIUS:-Sometimeseven you have to back downand take the initiative in dif-fusing highly charged situa-tions.

Lucky Color:-GoldenLucky Number:-1

CAPRICORN:-The oneitem of variety in the astro-logical scene today is provid-ed be the Moon, giving youthe chance to take time outfrom your usual routine andfollow up one or two usefulsocial contacts.

Lucky Color:-MetallicGrey

Lucky Number:-22AQUARIUS:-This particularphase in your life is a highlycreative one.

Lucky Color:-PurpleLucky Number:-10

PISCES:-Some would saythat this simply has to be theperfect moment to put on ashow of strength and demon-strate your mettle.

Lucky Color:-OrangeLucky Number:-14

Why Gandhi still relevant for present day in world?JAG MOHAN THAKEN

“In an age of rapid change,characterized by exponentialeconomic growth, increasingpopulation, rise in vio-lent extremism, climatechange, migration &refugees, globalizationand rising inequalities,the 21st century poses aunique set of chal-lenges.” Highlightingthe Global Challenges ,UNESCO MGIEP , TheMahatma Gandhi Insti-tute of Education for Peace andSustainable Development(MGIEP), New Delhi, statesso .

MGIEP was establishedwith the support of the Govern-ment of India and is an integralpart of UNESCO. It is the first

and only category 1 ResearchInstitute in Asia Pacific and fo-cuses on achieving the Sustain-able Development Goal (SDG)4.7 towards education to foster

peaceful and sustain-able societies. In this,the Institute is guidedby its vision of ‘trans-forming educationfor humanity’. Let ushave a sight on somepresent day unkindincidents of violentextremism, intoler-ance , racial and reli-

gious vilification . On August24, 2019 , a British Sikh ,Amitpal Singh Bajaj , was re-portedly choked to death by aNorwegian tourist in Phuket,Thailand. Mr Bajaj confrontedthe tourist for making too muchnoise because his wife and

child wanted to sleep . MrRoger Bullman, a Norweigianmartial arts expert , was drunkand causing so much noise thathotel security came to warn MrBullman twice. Second exam-ple is that of acquittal of all thesix accused in Pehlu Khan'slynching case by India’s Al-war (Rajasthan ) court givingbenefit of doubt on August 14,2019, which has once again re-freshed the unkind incident ofreligious vilification . PehluKhan, a 55-year-old native ofHaryana’s Nuh, had left his vil-lage to purchase cattle for milk-ing purpose and after purchas-ing some cows from a cattlefair he along with his two sonsand a few others was transport-ing the cows to his native vil-lage as claimed by his familymembers.

Did brutality by Saudis on Yemenislead to oil attacks?

Those who have beenwatching the Saudimassacre of Yemenis

over the last five years withhorror and rage can be ex-cused our moment ofschadenfreude. This Germanexpression is used to describethe feeling of joy over thepain of another. I experiencedthis as I watched the Saudi oilfacility and wells in Auqaband Khurais go up in flamesrecently.

While the world con-demned this attack, nobodyseemed to have a word ofsympathy for the tens of thou-sands of victims who havebeen killed and maimed as aresult of inept Saudi and Emi-rati aerial bombardment. Ourgovernment, too, was swift tocondemn the attack, althoughit has remained silent in theface of wanton Saudi brutali-ty. Apart from all those civil-ian casualties, the Saudishave also pushed some 20million Yemenis close todeath by disease and starva-tion through its naval block-ade of ports.

Nesrene Malik, theGuardian columnist, wrote re-cently: “There is a long-standing joke told in the Mid-dle East about Saudi Arabia’sreluctance to fight its ownwars. ‘Saudi Arabia will fightuntil the last Pakistani’, thepunchline goes, in referenceto the fact that Pakistanishave long supported Saudi'smilitary endeavours… SaudiArabia is accustomed to buy-ing labour that it deems too

menial for its citizens, and ex-tends that philosophy to itsarmy... “...When asked whatfighting in Yemen was likeunder the command of theSaudis, some returning Su-danese troops said the Saudimilitary leaders, feelingthemselves too precious toadvance too close to the frontline, had given clumsy in-structions by satellite phonesto their hired troops, nudgingthem in the general directionof hostilities. When thingswere too treacherous, Saudiand coalition air forcesdropped bombs from high-flying planes, inflating civil-ian casualties. This is howSaudis fight: as remotely aspossible, and paying others todie.” There has been an inter-national chorus accusing Iran

of being behind these attackson Saudi oil facilities. Reluc-tant to do its own fighting,Riyadh has called on its alliesto respond to the Iranians.Few have made the connec-tion between the Saudi on-slaught on Yemen, and themassive damage inflicted onits oil-processing facilities.

Iran has denied any in-volvement in the attack, but itis hardly likely to accept re-sponsibility. Despite theHouthi claim to have acted ontheir own, it is doubtful if therebels have the technical ca-pability to launch such a so-phisticated operation. In ei-ther case, the pinpoint accura-cy and range of the dronesand missiles used would havegiven the Saudis and theAmericans reason to pause.

Another connection is thedirect link between America’sexit from the nuclear dealsigned by Obama and the re-cent attacks. Not satisfiedwith the existing economicsanctions on Iran, Trump hasturned the screw tighter, mak-ing it virtually impossible forIran to export its oil.

While Saudi Arabia andIsrael have exulted in Iran’spain, President Rouhani hasproclaimed that if his countrycould not export oil throughthe Strait of Hormuz, nobodyelse would be allowed to ei-ther. Meanwhile, America’shighly successful exploitationof its shale oil reserves hassubstantially reduced its de-pendence on Middle East oil.This has changed the natureof the relationship between

the US and Saudi Arabia. Andwith Israel in post-electionturmoil, Netanyahu is unableto exert the kind of pressurehe could a few months ago.Many have questioned theutility of Saudi Arabia'smultibillion-dollar arms pur-chases, especially from theUS. When the drones and themissiles hit their targets re-cently, there was no responsefrom the Patriot defence sys-tem. It turns out this was de-signed to intercept missilesapproaching from a steep an-gle, not low-flying drones.

The fact is that over theyears, the Saudis have beenbuying high-tech weaponry atexorbitant prices, withprincelings allegedly rakingin massive commissions.These weapons are parked inthe desert, and are then re-placed by the next generationof modern weapons.

I am embarrassed thatPakistanis could be fightingfor the Saudis against Yemen.When Gen Raheel Sharif wasrecruited by Riyadh, therewas come confusion about hisrole.

It appears to have becomeclearer. However, the per-formance of the coalitionforces in Yemen does not in-spire much confidence in hiscapability. In chess, if youpush an unsupported pieceinto your opponent’s territory,it is likely to have a short life.The Americans have scores ofbases in the region that can behit by Iranian missiles in caseof hostilities.

Prime Minister NarendraModi and Pakistan’s PMImran Khan were cir-

cling each other since the“Howdy, Modi” extravaganzain Houston on September 22.They finally lined up likeprizefighters on September27 on the world’s biggeststage, the UN General As-sembly podium.

Their performance couldnot have been less identical.Mr Modi stuck to the highroad, recalling his unprece-dented mandate, the develop-ment schemes of his govern-ment in its first term like 11crore toilets to eliminate opendefecation, the Rs 5 lakhhealth coverage for 50 crorepeople, financial inclusionand digital identification. Heoutlined new programmeslike the banning of single-useplastic, greater connectivityby building over one lakhkilometres of roads and cleanwater supply to each Indianby 2022, the 75th anniversaryof India’s Independence. Inaddition, tuberculosis is to beeradicated by 2025, the 100thanniversary of the foundingof the BJP’s parent body, theRSS.

These developmentmarkers were then woven byMr Modi into the global re-sponsibility of India. Quotingan Indian aphorism, he saidJan Kalyan, meaning people’sgood, is tantamount to JagKalyan, that is global good.Like the China Dream ofPresident Xi Jinping, the “In-dian Dream” was spelt out,

but shown as different as it’snot India-exclusive but glob-ally shared. Rhetorically, thiswas great messaging from theUN stage as it defined India’ssoft power as an instrumentfor global influence throughassistance and cooperation. Inthe past, India had supplied atlow prices drugs to controlpandemics like AIDS inAfrica. India has also spon-sored computer literacy pro-grammes like Hole-in-the-Wall under India’s time-hon-oured Indian Technical andEducational Cooperation(ITEC) scheme. But as usual,Prime Minister Modi excelledat remarketing old schemeswith contemporary upgradesand catchy slogans. Modi hasprioritised climate change ac-tion since the Paris Climate

Accord. He, unlike US Presi-dent Donald Trump, attendedthe special climate summitconvened by the UN Secre-tary-General a day before thehigh-level UNGA summit.Mr Modi also inaugurated theIndia-gifted 193 solar panels,one for each UN member, onthe roof of the UN headquar-ters.

In his UNGA address, herecalled the Indian Solar Al-liance, and advocated a newcoalition for environment en-gendered disaster relief. Cli-mate change most endangerssmall island nations as risingseas are beginning to devourthem. Mr Modi met thosegroups to discuss theirpredicament. Finally, heturned to the challenge of ter-rorism, faced by India for four

decades. Avoiding any refer-ence to Pakistan, the abettorof India-specific terror at-tacks, he urged the globalcommunity to jointly counterit. He supported multilateral-ism and a stronger UN. Be-hind this lay the push againby the old G-4 group consist-ing of Brazil, Germany, Indiaand Japan, for their inductionas new permanent membersof the UN Security Council.However, the chances appeardim after the rise of BrazilianPresident Jair Bolsonaro, athinly veiled nationalist pop-ulist, and the post-AngelaMerkel political vacuum inGermany, as indeed the risingconfusion within the post-Brexit European Union andBritain. Pakistan’s PrimeMinister Imran Khan, in total

contrast, launched into a me-andering address that lastedthrice the allotted time. Aftera tutorial on moderate Islam,the need for sensitivity abouteach faith’s belief system, hearrived at the Kashmir issue.He demonised the Indian PMas a puppet of the RSS, liken-ing it to Nazis, etc. He re-counted in great detail his at-tempts to reach out to theNarendra Modi governmentbefore and after the May elec-tions in India. He ended bywarning the internationalcommunity that continued re-pression of the Kashmiri peo-ple could result in a limitedand then a nuclear war. Thiswas a plaintive cry for UN in-tervention. It seemed the ad-dress, to a largely empty hall,was meant for his domesticaudience as a strong riposte toIndia, as indeed a warning tothe US and P-5 members. TheUS has been publicly and pri-vately telling him to moderatehis rhetoric.

The India-Pakistan dramahad already played out inmeetings of the two coun-tries’ Prime Ministers withPresident Donald Trump. De-spite attempts by the media,Mr Trump refused to eitherendorse Pakistan’s criticismof the Indian actions in Kash-mir or the Indian argumentthat Pakistan is the sole fountof terror.

Other than being presentat the Houston rally, whereMr Modi strangely asked theIndian diaspora, who arelargely US citizens, to en-

dorse his government’s abro-gation of Article 370, Presi-dent Trump did not endorsethe Indian action. The Ameri-can views emerged at a pressbriefing by acting assistantsecretary of state Alice Wells.She said the US urged India todeliver on the promise to “im-prove the lives of the Kash-miri people”. She noted USconcerns about “widespreaddetentions, including those ofpoliticians and business lead-ers, and the restrictions on theresidents of Jammu andKashmir”, and looked for-ward to the resumption of po-litical activity and elections.Finally, she said that the USwas aware of India’s rejectionof outside mediation, but In-dia and Pakistan must have a“constructive conversationthat leads to an improvementof relations between the twonuclear powers”.

Mr Modi’s visit wasmostly successful in meetingthree principal objectives —to ensure that the Kashmir is-sue does not figure on the UNagenda, in Geneva or NewYork; President Trump is en-gaged and the trade issue is atleast contained if not fi-nessed; an finally, the UNstage is used to broadcast In-dia’s message on contempo-rary issues engaging globalattention, like climate changeand terrorism. Pakistan waslargely isolated, and ImranKhan’s 50-minute haranguewon few kudos international-ly.

Modi success at UN, but larger questions remainModi has prioritised climate change action since the Paris Climate Accord

R egistered Dietician PreethiRahul helps demystifyweight gain that is difficult

to understand.1. Hormonal havocImproper function of the en-

docrine system has a major impacton weight gain. Three of the com-mon problems could be hypothy-roidism, Polycystic ovary syn-drome (PCOS), Cushing’s syn-drome. When the thyroid glandsdon’t function properly energyburnt is reduced but energy con-sumed remains constant, leading toweigh gain. In PCOS, there is ex-cess rapid accumulation of glucosein the blood stream, leading toweight gain and in case of Cush-ing’s disease the fat accumulatesdue to excess cortisol.

2. Side effects of medicinesA number of medications can

lead to excess weight gain. Contra-

ceptive medications lead the list-be it oral or depo-provera shots.Anti-depressants, steroids used forasthma, eczema etc could also besources of hidden weight gain. So,in case you feel that your weightgain is a side effect of any medica-tion you are taking, consult yourdoc before you take a decisionabout continuing its usage.

3. Intestinal microfloraA recent research done at Cor-

nell University and University ofColorado, studied the relationshipbetween intestinal microflora andweight gain. They discovered thatlab mice lacking a certain protein(TLR5) had more of the probioticflora in their intestine than otheranimals and were about 15% heav-ier. Good amount of inflammationwas also observed in these mice.This could also be one of the rea-sons why despite your best efforts

your midriff is flabby!4. StressWhen in stress, you become an

emotional eater and eat sugaryfoods to comfort yourself or have acarbonated beverage. This is one ofthe major reasons for weight gain.Also, when you are stressed, yourhormonal system goes haywire andit could add on to your fat woes.

5. Food allergiesMany people are unaware about

allergies to certain foods whichthey might be consuming. Accord-ing to research, 1 out of 10 peopleare gaining weight despite best ef-forts due to food allergies. Some ofthe common allergens are soy,gluten, lactose, egg, nuts etc whichcan lead to bloating and even waterretention.

Take an allergy test, in case youhave not been cheating on your ex-ercise and diet!

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Basic First launchesDoubt ClearingProgram for students NEW DELHI: 90 per cent or more ofthe school teachers are unable or un-available to solve the problems of thestudents due to sheer paucity of timeversus the intensity of the syllabus tobe completed. Opting for tuitions, acostly and exclusive privilege has be-come a basic requirement for studentsright from the sixth standard. It onlygets worse for those aspiring to ap-pear for competitive exams. The com-mon problem is that the students arestill not able to get personalized atten-tion to match their speed of compre-hension or clear individual doubts. SoBasicFirst comes up with the solutionfor students who cannot have the lux-ury of personal tuitions or get the sup-port of parents, is to be in touch withsomeone who is dependable, trainedand an expert faculty to guide the stu-dents. BasicFirst, is an aptitude basedpersonalized learning platform usingthe Adaptive Learning, Artificial Intelli-gence, Machine Learning, Data Sci-ence and 100 Years of combinedclassroom teaching experience. Ba-sicFirst’s Doubt Clearing program isorganized to address all student-relat-ed queries.

Samsung BringsPremium CameraFeatures to Mid-RangeNew Galaxy A50s & A30sCHANDIGARH : Samsung, India’slargest consumer electronics andsmartphones brand, today unveiledthe Galaxy A50s and A30sin an allnew premium design. The newGalaxy A50s and A30s come with en-hanced innovations and aremade forthose who want to capture and sharetheir experiences instantaneously.With flagship features such as NightMode, Super Steady video, SamsungPay and a powerful processor withGame Booster technology, the twonew smartphones delivera superiorperformance.“As a global leader intechnology, we are dedicated in pro-viding meaningful innovations to ourconsumers.Our coolest new GalaxyA50s and A30s have been designedto elevate the smartphone experienceof young millennials and Gen Z to thenext level as they are equipped withpremium features such as NightMode, Super Steady video & Sam-sung pay,” said Ranjivjit Singh, SeniorVice President and Head of Market-ing, Mobile Business, Samsung In-dia.“These new smartphones empow-er the users to remain on-the-go andthereby encapsulate the philosophy of‘Ready for Live’ for the Gen Z,” headded.With striking designs, inspiredby the unique geometric patterns andfuturistic holographic effect on theback, Galaxy A50s and Galaxy A30sflaunt a stylish look and feel. The twosleek smartphones come in threestunningcolours - Prism Crush Black,Prism Crush White and an all-newmillennial colour - Prism Crush Vio-let.Both the smartphones come with asuper durable 4,000mAh battery,15Wfast charging capabilities and an AI-based Game Booster.The GalaxyA50s and Galaxy A30s offer an en-hanced gaming experience on-the-gowithout having to worry about thebattery life.

Jaguar Opens the Doors to itsHeart and FutureCHANDIGARH – Jaguar has unveiled its new dedicat-ed design studio in Gaydon, bringing the entiredesignteam intoonepurpose-builtcreative space for the firsttime in the marque’s 84-year history.Led by Jaguar De-sign Director, Julian Thomson, the new studio is themost advanced automotive design centre in the world,developed to enhance the human creative designprocess with world-leading technologies.The ‘HeartSpace’, acollaborativehub at the centre of the newJaguar Design Studio,will bring together the diverseand creative 280-strong team as it designs future gen-erations of Jaguars. Julian Thomson, Design Director,Jaguar, said: “Jaguar has a unique heritage as a de-sign-led brand and this will always be a central pillar ofour DNA. The design values and philosophy that werecreated by Jaguar’sfounder, Sir William Lyons, remainthe same and this building will allow us to design thevery best cars for our customers, far into the future. Inthe design team, we understand the issues that arefacing the automotive industry and can respond ac-cordingly through innovation and creativity. Surround-ing the Heart Space are bespoke working environ-mentsfor the Interior, Exterior and Colour and Materialsteams, plus Design Visualisation and Design Technicaldisciplines. Jaguar Designis made up of designersfrom across the globe and from a range of industrybackgrounds, including fashion, watch-making, sportsand gaming. Being drawn from such different spheresof designhelps the team deliver its ‘Jaguar’ interpreta-tionof Britishness using contemporary materials andprocesses. Those processes utilise industry-leadingtechnology, including custom-made clay modelling ma-chines allowing 20 models to be worked on at once.

Bharat Vikas Parishad dedicates4D Ultrasound Machine to publicdonated by Indian Oil

CHANDIGARH: Nationwide Non Govt Organization,Bharat Vikas Parishad today dedicated state of the art4D Machine to public which is donated by Indian OilCorporation Limited (IOCL). Prof Jagat Ram, DirectorPGI, and Sujoy Choudhury, Executive Director, PunjabState Office, Indian Oil Corporation Limited inauguratedthe machine in the presence of Ajay Dutta, parishad’s na-tional general secretary Sunita Jain, Chairperson, Ma-havir International, New Delhi today at Bharat VikasParisahd Charitable Medical Trust, Sector 24, Chandi-garh. This donation project of Indian Oil was part of theirCorporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Present on theoccasion, Prof Jagat Ram lauded the efforts of Parishadwhich is active in social upliftment over the last fewdecades while Sujoy Chaudhary in his address saidapart from providing all forms of quality fuels, Indian Oil’svarious projects hailing from health, education, solar en-ergy, sanitation, sports and other sectors are being en-couraged under their corporate social responsibilities.

Coca-Cola collaborates with Diesel to designCHANDIGARH : This Autumn, two iconic brands, DIESEL andCoca-Cola, have joined forces to create The (Re)Collection; a beau-tifully crafted and edgy capsule collectionpartially made of recycledmaterials, available online, worldwide from 7th October 2019.The range includes recycled materials such as recycled PET de-rived from plastic bottles and recycled cotton, to create a fresh, mod-ern interpretation of the Diesel casualwear aesthetic combined withCoca-Cola iconicity. Creating beautiful fibres from plastic, this collab-oration aims to raise awareness on the value of recycling with allpieces made with recycled PET fibres. The collaboration will roll outworldwide from September 28, with a global first showcase of The(Re)Collection taking place at the renowned department store.

AMRITSAR: Apollo Hos-pitals Group hosted the first"Futuring Cardiac CareSummit" on 28th Septemberin Chennai. The summit pro-vides insights and perspec-tives that have the potentialto transform the efforts to-wards prevention and eradi-cation of heart disease.Bringing together all stake-holders on a single platform,the Futuring Cardiac CareSummit brought togetherkey partners, expert clinical consultants,prevention specialists and Apollo Hospi-tals' leadership to develop targeted rec-ommendations and specific action stepstowards reversing the epidemic of heartdisease. The summit brought to the forethe synergy between modern cardiaccare delivery and technology adoption

for a disease free India. Dr. Prathap C. Reddy, Founder and

Chairman, Apollo Hospitals Group,said, "Cardiovascular disease is one ofthe major NCDs and the leading causeof death with India having the highestburden of cardiovascular disease in theworld.

Apollo Hospitals Group host 'FuturingCardiac Care Summit'

YES BANK’s capitalraising plans firmlyon trackCHANDIGARH : “Recent market ru-mours and reports appear to havegenerated a lot of speculation around YES BANK Limited. We strongly re-fute them as being speculative, un-substantiated, and irresponsible.While this has impacted the shareprice adversely, the Bank would liketo state that its capital and liquidityposition are comfortably above theregulatory threshold and the assetquality is in line with the guidanceprovided post Q1 FY20 results. TheBank’s outstanding exposure to theHousing Finance / Real Estate con-glomerate, which is in the news to-day, is totally secured and over thelast six months there has been a re-duction of approximately 30% in thisexposure. The account is standardand current. The Bank’s retail fran-chise continues to strengthen with anincrease of 39% in the number ofnew Fixed Deposit (FD) accounts,over the previous quarter.Subsequent to receiving the goahead from the Reserve Bank of In-dia on Friday, September 27, 2019,the Bank is firmly on track to raisingthe required growth capital.” -Ravneet Gill, MD & CEO, YES BANK

Lakmé Salon presents 'The Blockbuster Brides'CHANDIGARH: Every girl has grownup with Bollywood and has her heartset on a wedding straight out of themovies. With some of the biggestnames tying the knot in the last year,brides today want their wedding look tohave a filmy twist. Taking cues fromthis, Lakmé Salon has created a newbridal hair and makeup collection thatis designed to turn the silver screendreams of brides-to-be into a reality.'The Blockbuster Brides' is a collectionof 9 stunning looks inspired by iconicwedding moments from the Bollywoodmovies. Speaking on the collection,Pushkaraj Shenai, CEO, Lakmé Leverthat Lakme Salon has been the trustedbeauty partner of brides for close to 40years. More than five lakh brides havetrusted us on their D Day. Our compre-hensive portfolio of pre-bridal andbridal services is designed to meet allthe beauty needs of the brides - andtheir tribe- for the big day. This yeardrawing inspiration from the movies,our collection lets them add a Bolly-wood twist to their wedding day.

Maruti Suzuki brews its Mini SUV S-PRESSO, ahead of the festive seasonAMBALA : Maruti Suzuki today launched its much-awaited Mini-SUVS-PRESSO. The S-PRESSOis conceptualized and designedin India for India and the world. It stands out with its bold and pow-erful SUV stance. Built afresh on acclaimed 5th generation HEAR-TECT platform,it uses 40%high tensile steel that ensures stronger,safer and sturdier struc-ture.S-PRESSO will besold countrywidethrough the extensiveARENA retail networkand is packed with morethan 10 safety featuresand is compliant with allsafety regulations.Maruti Suzuki will offerseveral best -in-its classfeatures to customerswith S-PRESSO.Presenting the all new S-PRESSO to customers,Mr. Kenichi Ayukawa, Managing Director and CEO, Maruti SuzukiIndia, said, “At Maruti Suzuki, we believe in the philosophy of ‘cus-tomer first.’ We continue our endeavor to provide Indian customerswith high quality cars backed by affordable pricing. Today’s globallaunch of S-PRESSOstands testament to our commitment to offerbest in design, technology and safety to our customers. I am hap-py to share that S-PRESSOjoins our BS6 range, as the 8th vehiclecompliant with new emission norms. We are confident that S-PRESSO will bring excitement in its segment, attracting the everevolving young customer.”

Diplo Has Made Historywith the First Ever DJ Seton Top of SydneyCHANDIGARH: Diplo – award winning, genre-hopping US songwriter, producer, entrepreneur,performer and philanthropist – has just madehistory with the first ever DJ set on top of Aus-tralia’s world famous Sydney Harbour Bridge.This world first performance kicked off Bridge-Climb’s 21st birthday celebrations and the inter-national superstar’s return to Australia for Lis-ten Out festival.

At sunset, 440 feet above sea level, Diploonce again shifted culture with this groundbreaking set. Diplo, born Thomas WesleyPentz, is one of the most dynamic forces in mu-sic today under his own name, as well as amember of the now legendary Major Lazer,LSD with Sia and Labrinth, and Silk City withMark Ronson—whose ‘Electricity’ with DuaLipatopped charts worldwide and won a GrammyAward for Best Dance Recording.Known forbreaking boundaries in everything he does,Diplo is the world’s most in-demand producerand has worked with artists as diverse as Bey-oncé, MØ, Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande,Snoop Dogg, Trippie Redd, Bad Bunny andSanitgold.

CHANDIGARH: Angrezi Wali Madam hasbeen one of the best duets Punjabi industryhas ever produced. The song that has defi-nitely started again the trend of duet songs inthe industry, now the hit pair of KulwinderBill and Shipra Goyal is all set to come to-gether with 'Angrezi Wali Madam 2' alongwith the doctor of music Dr. Zeus.

The other details of the song are yet to berevealed. However, the video of the song hasalready been shot.

The two artists share a good rapport witheach other, have also performed together fora show on TV.

Talking about the collaboration, ShipraGoyal said, "Angrezi Wali Madam is one ofmy favorite songs till date. I feel so over-whelmed when people still call me 'Angrezi WaliMadam'. And now, working with the same team is anamazing experience. We have tried our best to makethe song even better. I just hope that the audiencesupports even this track as they have always sup-ported." Kulwinder Billa said, "I haven't done manyduet numbers in my career but the response we gotfor 'Angrezi Wali Madam' is just unbelievable. Now,coming together with the same team is not only ex-citing but it is like an added responsibility and an ex-pectation we have to fulfill. I just wish that we will

be able to live up to the expectation of the audienceand hope that this track will also be a super hit."

The music director of the song, Dr. Zeus said,"Both Shipra Goyal and Kulwinder Billa are blessedwith the melodious vocals and together they are justmagical. The lyrics of the song are amazing and wetried to make it as the perfect blend of urban and desimusic which will surely attract audiences all over. Iam quite confident about this track, now it is up toaudiences how they will react when they hear thesong."

Shipra Goyal and Kulwinder Billa are allset to come with 'Angrezi Wali Madam 2'

CHANDIGARH: As many100 doctors from tricity attend-ed a CME on World Heart Dayat IMA here last night. TheCME was organised by IMA inassociation of Ojas Super Spe-ciality Hospital, Panchkula.

In CME, Dr Virendar Sar-wal head- cardiovascular &thoracic at Ojas talked aboutnew frontiers in cardiacSurgery’ whereas Dr AnuragSharma, Director Cardiology spoke about ‘treat-ment of aortic stenosis , breaking the barrier :TAVR’

Dr Sarwal said that it is well proven that sur-gery is the only long-term solution for heart dis-eases and increases the survival. Thus it shouldbe opted by most of the patients as first line oftreatment without any fears.

He dwelled on the concept of minimal inva-sive surgery to give these patients more comfortduring surgery by making it less stressful, lesspain less stay in ICU and hospital and less re-quirement of blood products. This enable the pa-tient to join work within 2-week instead of 6-

week with conventional surgery as patients aredischarged in 4 days after minimally invasivesurgery, he remarked.

He further informed that these surgeries aredone for bypass or valve replacements throughsmall incisions on left or right side of chestwhich are hardly 4-5 inches in length. They arecosmetically very helpful specially in females asthey are covered by the breast and clothing andno midline scar is visible in the patients. So itgives lot of confidence to patient and in femalesgives them lot of benefit socially especiallythose who need to get married after surgery, heasserted.

100 docs attend CME at IMA Chandigarh

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TECH/HEALTHYUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2019

LUDHIANA: Ludhiana’s biggest furni-ture extravaganza, ‘Furniture & HomeDécor Expo 2019’has kicked off at Gov-ernment Girls College Ground, OppositeDurga Mata Mandir, Ferozepur roadhere. A Thailand International Shoppingfestival has also been put up concurrent-ly.

The inimitable expo is being organ-ised by I Ads & Events, an organizationwhich is known for putting up such huge& unique expos. The expo will be onfrom September till September 30,2019(Monday).

Visitors are thronging the expo inlarge numbers, & experiencing a largecollection of some of the best quality &the finest furniture, interiors and homedécor items.

Speaking on the occasion, RaeesArif, Founder & Director of I Ads &Events said, “We are privileged to or-ganise the mega show in the city of Lud-hiana. The basic intent behind putting upthis show is to bring the best genres offurniture & home décor products not

only from India but even abroad underone roof.”

This time the residents of Ludhiana& adjoining the region who have a desireto spruce up their homes with the bestfurniture and interiors to ring in the up-coming festive season, the expo is offer-ing a full fledged Thai Pavilion. The In-ternational Pavilion has nearly a dozenexhibitors from Thailand and Indonesiawho are displaying a variety of home ac-cessories, home décor products , furni-ture items, fashion accessories et al.

More than 70 exhibitors from acrossthe country and abroad have put up theirstalls at the expo. The Thai Pavilion ispresenting jewellery items, purses, artifi-cial flowers & home décor items fromThailand.

‘Furniture & Home Décor Expo 2019’ kicksoff, Thai pavilion centre of attraction

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Bollywood's diva ParineetiChopra who has her handsfull this year with back-to-

back films has a new address inMumbai now.

The actor who has finishedshooting for herupcoming film 'The Girlon the Train' will now

move into a luxurious newhome in Khar West.Decorated with artwork andother collector's items thatshe's personally curatedfrom all over the world,

and surrounded by lushgreenery and a new housingcomplex, the star is reallyexcited to relocate afterreturning from the UnitedKingdom.

Sharing her excitementover shifting to a new spacewhich she was desiring for

from a very long time, the 30-year-old starsaid, "I love my new place. I have beenwanting a larger, warmer and homely space forsome time now. I have been neck-deep in workas I was constantly shooting for films andendorsements, and my work commitments hadmade it difficult to focus on house hunting andon finding my choice of decor."

"I'm in love with my new pad. It's areflection of me and I can't wait to show it tomy friends. It's all finally done and I havemoved in! Bits and pieces in the house reflectmy persona and my love for travel and I amlooking forward to adding morepersonalisation to this place soon," she added.

Parineeti recently wrapped up the shootingfor 'The Girl on the Train' remake by RibhuDasgupta. She will soon begin shooting for theSaina Nehwal biopic directed by Amole Guptewhere she will be seen playing the role of theace shuttler. Since the time she was roped in toplay the lead, the actor is seen taking trainingin badminton and prepping intensely for hercharacter.

Akshay Kumar who is knownfor his humour and wittyanswers recently gave a

hilarious reply on Chunky Panday'stweet. Chunky who will be sharingscreen space with the 'Khiladi' actorin the upcoming 'Housefull' franchiseas his fictitious character 'Pasta,'shared a picture with his co-actor onTwitter. In the picture, the actor canbe seen kissing Akshay who isdressed in his character as Bala fromthe film 'Housefull 4.'

Chunky compared his Jodi withAkshay as "Batman and Joker" andwrote, "Batman&Joker, Bala&Pasta#HF4. 33 years, 4 films and a millionmemories. Thank you, my Friend,Akshay Kumar."

Akshay replied back to the starwith his own meme where he can beseen making a quirky face. PullingChunky's legs for his praises, thepicture read, '50 rupya kat overactingka.' This is not the first time that theactor is sharing his own funnymemes. Some time back Akshay whomade to the Forbes world's highest-paid celebrities list was teased by his

'Mission Mangal' co-actor TaapseePannu on Twitter where shecongratulated him for the milestoneand wrote, "Inspiring, deserving andtruly one of the best we have around...Akshay Kumar. Bas sir ab sharing andcaring ki baari hai."

The 'Padman' actor was instantwith his witty reply and posted ameme of himself in which he is seenmaking a quirky face. "Beg yourpardon," the photograph read.

Akshay who is all set to impressthe fans with reincarnation comedy in'Housefull 4,' released the trailer ofthe film on Friday. Apart from thetrailer, the star also unveiled thecharacter posters from the film. Theposters show the characters inelaborate old-world costumes as wellas modern setting.

Revolving around the theme ofreincarnation, the film follows a non-linear narrative. It is slated to hit thebig screens on Diwali and lock hornswith Taapsee Pannu and BhumiPednekar-starrer 'Saand Ki Aankh'and Rajkummar Rao-starrer 'Made inChina'.

Akshay Kumar giveshilarious reply on

Chunky Panday post

Farhan Akhtar flaunts chiselledbody in first look from 'Toofan'

Farhan Akhtar who is busy promoting his upcomingfilm 'The Sky is Pink,' surprised fans with his firstlook as a boxer from 'Toofan.'

The first-look poster shows the actor flaunting hischiseled body, washboard abs, and biceps as he is set totake on a boxer. Farhan is seen standing in a boxingring, ready to pack a few powerful punches.

"From the director of 'Bhaag Milkha Bhaag'," theposter reads. The film is slated to hit the silver screenson 2 October 2020. "Toofan Uthega!! FIRST LOOK!#TOOFAN releasing 2nd October 2020!!" the actorcaptioned the poster on Twitter.

The film is produced by Ritesh Sidhwani, Farhanand Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra who is also directing.

The director-actor duo had earlier collaborated forthe biopic based on Indian athlete Milkha Singh, 'BhaagMilkha Bhaag,' which won Farhan a number of awardsfor his portrayal of the athlete.

Reportedly, unlike 'Bhaag Milkha Bhaag', theupcoming sports drama would not be a biopic but afictional story.

The 'Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara' actor who is quiteactive on the photo-sharing application, Instagramshared several posts about his preparation for the film.

Farhan will also be seen in Shonali Bose's 'The SkyIs Pink' for which he has reunited with his 'DilDhadakne Do' co-star Priyanka Chopra. The film alsofeatures 'Dangal' fame Zaira Wasim in a pivotal role.

'Mardaani 2' teaser: Rani Mukerjistuns in fierce cop avatar

The gripping teaser of'Mardaani 2' featuringRani Mukerji as a

fearless cop released onMonday and the leading ladyis thrilled that it happenedduring the auspicious periodof Durga Puja.

Rani, as inspectorShivani Shivaji Roy, in thefilm is leaving no stone tobring out the best of a fierceand daredevil cop.

"For me, personally, I'mthrilled that the first keycommunication of Mardaani2 is happening during DurgaPuja that celebrates womanpower in its truest andbravest form," the actor said.

The teaser starts withseveral police officersbarging into a factory withguns to find a criminal, andthe last to enter is Rani.

In the background, Rani

is heard warning criminals tonot commit crimes, else shewon't stop at anything frombringing them to the book.The makers of the film aretrending the teaser with thehashtag -- #Shewon'tstop.

There are also glimpsesof Rani beating culprits witha belt in the clip.

The teaser was shared by

film critic and trade analystTaran Adarsh on his Twitterhandle.

The film is a sequel to2014 hit 'Mardaani'. ThePradeep Sarkar directorialwas a cop drama thatrevolved around childtrafficking. She played therole of a senior inspector,who takes on the kingpin ofthe child trafficking racket.

With films like 'Black','No One Killed Jessica' and'Hichki' under her belt, Raniis a powerhouse of talent. Itwill be interesting to seewhat racket she will bust inMardaani 2, given her action-packed performance in itsprequel.

The film marks thedirectorial debut of GopiPuthran, the writer of the firstfilm and is slated to hittheatres on December 13.

Kartik Aaryan starts preparation for 'Dostana 2'Bollywood's dashing actor Kartik

Aaryan who currently has a handfulof films in his kitty including 'Pati

Patni Aur Woh,' 'Bhool Bhulaiya,' amongothers have started preparation for his nextfilm 'Dostana 2' which also stars JanhviKapoor. The young actor shared a picture ofhim posing with the film's script on thephoto-sharing application Instagram onMonday and captioned it with, "Thepreparations of Dostana2 begin." Some timeback, ace filmmaker Karan Johar hadwelcomed newbie Lakshya on board.Introducing the new lad to the people, Karanshared the picture of Lakshya and wrote,"Both happy and excited to introduce the

new kid on the Dharma block! LAKSHYAwill be making his debut with us in#DOSTANA2 and from there on, we hope tostart a solid cinematic journey together!Please welcome #Lakshya and shower himwith all your love and blessings."

In another tweet, the filmmaker clearedthat Lakshya is not from the film industryand has been selected through a "legitaudition process". Earlier, Karan hadannounced the sequel of the 2008 comedy-drama 'Dostana' and tweeted that apart fromKartik and Janhvi, the film will star a'suitable boy.' The film directed by CollinD'Cunha is penned by Navjot Gulati, SumitAroraa, Rishabh Sharma and D'Cunha.

'Udta Teetar' of 'Saand Ki Aankh'celebrates women power

The first song from Taapsee Pannu andBhumi Pednekar-starrer 'Saand KiAankh' is out, which depicts the heroic

story of Shooter Dadis -- Chandro andPrakashi Tomar.

Titled -- Udta Teetar -- the song witnessesthe remarkable journey of the sharpshootergrannies and their daughters in honing theirshooting skills for a tournament.

In the video, the actors can be seen hidingaway from home at night to carry out intensepractice sessions. It also shows them creatinga balance between their passion and dailyhousehold work. The trailer of the flick wasreleased earlier this week, which took theaudience into the world of the brave ladies,who are battled with a society dominated bymen, in order to encourage their daughterstowards a bright future and win against allodds. The three-minute six-seconds trailer of'Saand Ki Aankh' also left an urge foreveryone to know how the Tomar sisters

fought to win 352 medals each in the courseof their professional life as shooters.

Directed by Tushar Hiranandani, the filmseems to be close to the hearts of the twoleading ladies as they have been quite activein sharing insights into their shootingexperience. The actors wrapped up shootingfor the film in April.

Bengali actor Prosenjit Chatterjee, who is essaying thechallenging roles of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and anascetic in upcoming film 'Gumnaami', says he always waits

for good roles and the one offered to him in the Srjit Mukherjimovie was beyond his dreams. Chatterjee told PTI on Sunday thatany actor would have accepted the roles, that were offered to himin 'Gumnaami'. The film portrays Netaji Subhas Chandra Boseand the character of an ascetic inFaizabad called 'Gumnaami Baba', butthere was no effort in the movie toestablish that the two were the same, hesaid. The film, slated to be released onOctober 2, is based on theoriessurrounding Netaji's 'disappearance'."Never in my wildest dreams had Ithought of getting a chance to portraysuch a character, but it is equally true that I am approached bydirectors only when they have a challenging role to offer. "I alsobelieve any actor in the world will agree to portray a global iconlike Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose," he said. Recalling that he hadundergone a prosthetic makeup that took three to four hours toperfect the looks of Netaji and Gumnaami Baba, the actor said,"For me, it was more challenging to become Netaji, as I don't havethe same physical built or look like him."

Any actor will readily acceptthe role of Netaji: Prosenjit

Riteish Deshmukhfinishes dubbingfor 'Marjaavaan'

Riteish Deshmukh finished the dubbing for his upcomingfilm 'Marjaavaan', which also stars Sidharth Malhotraand Tara Sutaria on Sunday. The actor took to Twitter

and informed that he has finished dubbing for the flick and itis his "last day at work"alongside a picture of him withthe crew. "Finished Dubbing for#Marjaavaan - last day atwork...missed you @zmilap,"tweeted Riteish.

The trailer of the filmdropped on Thursday appears tobe a sequel of the crime-thrillerfilm 'Ek Villain'.

Riteish Deshmukh isessaying the role of a verticallychallenged antagonist whoseheight is just 3-feet whileSidharth will be seen as a rowdy,angry Raghu who walks aroundwith a match-stick in his mouthand spouts some smart one-liners. Marjaavaan' marks thesecond collaboration between Sidharth and Riteish after 'EkVillain'. It is bankrolled by Bhushan Kumar, Divya KhoslaKumar, and Krishan Kumar along with Monisha Advani,Madhu Bhojwani and Nikhil Advani. The flick is slated to hitthe theatres on November 8.

Star sons like me are spoiltbrats: Parikshit Sahni

It is difficult for star sons toreplicate the success of theirfathers as they are handed

everything on a platter rather thango through the grind, says ParikshitSahani, son of Bollywood legendBalraj Sahni.

Parikshit Sahni, who was herein the capital recently to launch hisnew book "The Non-Conformist:Memories of my Father BalrajSahni", said he himself belongs inthat category of "spoilt brats". "Thesimple reason that no star sonsmade it as big as their father in theindustry is that they didn't gothrough that grind. Sunil Dutt,Amitabh Bachchan, Dharmendra...just look at their back-breakingjourneys. "Or read my father'sautobiography and see what a hellof grind he has gone through in hisjourney. That is what made them.They had seen both sides of thelife," the actor said. Star sons, on theother hand, had access to best of theschools and colleges, he said. "Wewere spoilt brats," Parikshit saidduring a conversation with actorDeepti Naval. The 75-year-old actor

said he did not have kind of passionfor acting his father had. This iswhy he never blamed anyone fornot giving him good roles. Onpeople doing comparisons betweenthe two, Parikshit said his fatherwas a "class apart" and thosedrawing parallels should know thatwhile one is a "race-horse" theother is a "jack***". "As they sayin English, 'All comparisons areodious'.

Parineeti Choprais in love with her new 'Pad'

YUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2019

"Maa Durga took onthe forces of evil anddefeated them andMardaani 2 will see awoman stand upagainst evil, againstcrimes committedagainst women andtake a bold and bravestand," Ranielaborated.

NEWS AT AGLANCE

YUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2019

'Karo- Kari' killings claimover 70 lives in 6months in SindhKARACHI: Honour killings haveclaimed over 70 live in the rural partsof Sindh during the first six months of2019, according to official figures inthe local media. Official estimates said78 people were killed betweenJanuary to June this year in parts ofSindh as part of honour killings alsoknown as 'Karo-Kari', leading toregistration of 65 cases, reported TheDawn. Adding that 90 per cent of thecases were pending trial citing variousreasons, the official data said aninvestigation by police into the majorityof the cases remain inconclusive. Thiscomes after Inspector General ofPolice (IG) Syed Kaleem Imamchaired a meeting to look into thestatus of investigations into Karo-Karikillings in the region. Imam haddirected the police to prepare adetailed report on a case-to-case basisabout the conviction and release ofpeople in connection with Karo-Karikillings across the province. Besides,he urged officials to ensure noloopholes are left during the probe andthe same was adequately pursuedbefore courts. According to police,Karo-Kari killings, a heinous trendcriticised by the authorities as well ashuman rights organisations, continuesunabated as they find it hard toinvestigate such killings as bothaggrieved and accused partiesgenerally belong to the same family ortribe.

Turkey shoots downunidentified dronenear Syrian border ANKARA: The Turkish military shotdown a drone near the Syrian borderafter it violated the country's airspacemultiple times, the Defense Ministrysaid. The drone of undeterminednationality was tracked down and shotby two Turkish F-16 fighter jets after itviolated the airspace a total of sixtimes, a statement by the ministrysaid. The violations occurred in theoperation centre of OperationEuphrates Shield and the southernprovince of Kilis, the statement read,as reported by Xinhua news agency.The wreck of the drone was found inKilis between a military base and atemporary sheltering centre forrefugees, it added.

Huawei announcesspread the joy DiwalicampaignNEW DELHI: Adding to the festivefervour of the season, HuaweiConsumer Business Group India,today announced attractive deals andoffers on its premium range ofsmartphones, tablets and wearables,which includes Huawei Y9 prime 2019,Huawei Y9 2019, Huawei P30 Pro,Huawei MATE 20Pro, HuaweiMediaPad T5, Huawei Watch GTsport, Huawei Watch GT classic andHuawei Watch GT Active, betweenSeptember 29 and October 4, 2019.Consumers can avail of the offers ononline platforms such as Amazon andFlipkart. At offline stores, Huawei isoffering product combos and discountson Y9 Prime, P30 Pro and P30 lite.Huawei will also be launchingFreelace, Minispeaker on September29th. With exceptional looks coupledwith best-in-class features, Huawei'srange of tablets, smart phones andwear ables offer unmatched consumerexperiences that complements theirmodern fast paced lifestyles. Theeight-day period offer consumers awindow to buy Huawei's best-sellingsmart phones, smart watches andtablets, at jaw-dropping discounts andcombo offers. There are also a rangeof offers that are applicable during theAmazon Freedom Sale. Some keyones include instant discounts, NoCost EMIs, cash backs, exchangesand product combos.

China to send its toptrade negotiator toUS for talksBEIJING: China's top trade negotiatorwill lead an upcoming 13th round oftalks aimed at resolving a trade war withthe United States, a senior Chineseofficial said Sunday. Vice Premier LiuHe will travel to Washington for thenegotiations, Vice Commerce MinisterWang Shouwen said. He didn't giveexact dates, but said the talks would beafter China's National Day holiday,which runs through Oct. 7. "The twosides should find a solution throughequal dialogue in accordance with theprinciple of mutual respect, equality andmutual benefit," Wang said at a newsconference with other officials, includingCommerce Minister Zhong Shan. TheTrump administration first imposedtariffs on Chinese imports last year in abid to win concessions from China,which responded with tit-for-tat tariffs.The escalating dispute between theworld's two largest economies hasdepressed stock prices and poses athreat to the global economy. Bothsides have made conciliatory gesturesahead of the next round of talks, but adeal remains elusive. The USpostponed a further tariff hike onChinese goods, and China liftedpunitive duties on soybeans. The movehelps both American farmers andChinese pig breeders, who use soy asfeed and are struggling with adevastating outbreak of African swinefever. The Chinese governmentreleased a third round of 10,000 tons ofpork from its reserves Sunday to try tostabilize rising prices ahead of theholiday, Vice Commerce Minister QianKeming said at the news conference.

6.8 magnitude earthquake rattlesCentral ChileSANTIAGO: An earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scalestruck central Chile on Sunday, country's national emergency agencysaid. The epicentre of the quake, which occurred at around 3:57(UTC), was registered at a depth of 9.8 kilometres, about 67kilometres west of the city of Constitucion, reported Sputnik newsagency. There were no immediate reports of casualty or damage tothe property as a result of the quake. Chile lies in the 'Ring of Fire',an area in the basin of the Pacific Ocean, which is vulnerable tofrequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.

Suzlon Energy denies reports of filingfor bankruptcy, stock dives by 9 pc

AGENCYMUMBAI, SEP 30

Troubled renewable energysolutions provider Suzlon onMonday denied reportssuggesting that it has filed forbankruptcy and will soon beapproaching the NationalCompany Law Tribunal(NCLT). "We wish to reiteratethat Suzlon's debt resolutionand revival plans have neverbeen dependent on any singleoption," it informed stockexchanges in regulatoryfilings.

"The lenders and thecompany continue to workhard for a sustainableresolution plan to preserve thevalue of the company since therelevant stakeholders aremindful about Suzlon'scontribution to Indianrenewable energy sector, its

strong market positiontogether with its order book aswell as industry potential."

The company said thelenders have already signed aninter-creditor agreement. Interms of the June 7 circular ofReserve Bank of India, thelenders have time till January2020 to work on a sustainableresolution plan before taking

any extreme steps."Considering the interest

of all stakeholders, the lendersand the company are workingon a constructive solution," itsaid.

For 2018-2019, Suzloncompany reported aconsolidated loss of Rs 1,527crore and debt of Rs 9,624crore. Care Ratings assigned a

default measure for thecompany in April this year.

In July, the companyfailed to pay the principalamount of 172 million dollarsfor outstanding bonds whichwas due. The outstandingpayment was part of a totalbond issuance of 546.91million dollars.

Reports say Suzlon hasbeen in talks with investorslike Brookfield for a stakesale. In 2015, pharmabillionaire Dilip Shanghviinvested Rs 1,800 crore inSuzlon for a 23 per cent stakeand hoped to turn around thecompany.

When Suzlon defaulted ona repayment of 221 milliondollars in October 2012, it wasIndia's biggest bond default tillthen. At 1 pm, its stock wastrading 9.09 per cent down atRs 2.30 on BSE.

MUMBAI, SEP 30

Reliance Anil Dhirubhai AmbaniGroup (ADAG) Chairman AnilAmbani said on Monday thatReliance Capital will no longer be inany lending business.

Instead, it will be only a financialshareholder in subsidiary companiesReliance Home Finance and RelianceCommercial Finance.

"As a part of transformationprocess, Reliance Capital has decidedit will not be in any of the lendingbusinesses," Ambani toldshareholders at the company's annualgeneral meeting. "RelianceCommercial Finance and RelianceHome Finance are working closelywith all our lenders and otherstakeholders to finalise the resolutionplans which are expected to becompleted in the next few months byDecember 2019," he added. Ambanisaid that Reliance Capital will only bea financial shareholder in both thesecompanies to reconverge shareholdervalue under a new management andshareholding structure and effectively

reduce debt of the group by Rs25,000 crore. He said the companysuffered great collateral damage overthe last six months due to acombination of factors, including thecrisis in the financial services sector,irrational action by auditors andrating agencies, and now slowdownof the Indian economy. "Non-bankingfinancial companies (NBFCs)suffered collateral damage due to acombination of factors, includingreckless selling and rumourmongering over the past six months,"he said.

Reliance Capital to exitlending business: Anil

AGENC YDHAKA, SEP 30

Over 2,000 families wereaffected by the flash flood inSadar thana and Shibganjupazilas of northernB a n g l a d e s h ' sChapainowabgonj districtdue to the rise of water levelin the Padma and theMahananda rivers.

Syed Sahidul Alam Zila,Executive Engineer of localWater Development Boardoffice, on Sunday said, "Thewater level in the PadmaRiver started to increase 10/12 days ago due to onrushof hill water from India."

The water level in thePadma river increased by5cm and that of Mahanandariver by 10

cm in the last 24 hours,he added.

Low-lying areas ofNarayanpur, Alatuli,Shahajahanpur, Charanupur,

Debinagar of Sadar upazilaand Paka, Durlovpur andMonakosha areas ofShibganjupazila weresubmerged due to the flash

flood, he said.Zila Agriculture Office

sources said at least 6,280hectares of winter vegetablesdestroyed in Shibganj,Bholahat and Sadarupazilas’ river bank areas.

Sadar upazila projectimplementation officerMoudud Alam said over 900families were marooned inNarayanpur, Alatuli,Charanupur, Debinagarunions of the upazila andover nine metric tonnes ricewere distributed among theaffected families.

Shibganj upazila projectimplementation officerengineer Ariful Islam saidrelief materials weredistributed among 400flood-affected families in theupazila.

2,000 families marooned as flashflood hit Northern Bangladesh

War with Iran couldcollapse global economy:

Saudi crown princeRIYADH, SEP 30

Saudi Arabia crown prince Mohammedbin Salman (MBS) on Sunday said thata military confrontation with Iran wouldcollapse the global economy, addingthat peaceful resolution "will be better".

In an interview to US-based CBSprogramme '60 Minutes', he also urgedthe world to take strong and firm actionto deter Iran.

"The region represents about 30 percent of the world's energy supplies,about 20 per cent of global tradepassages, about four per cent of theworld GDP," the crown prince wasquoted by Al Jazeera. "Imagine all ofthese three things stop. This means atotal collapse of the global economy,and not just Saudi Arabia or the MiddleEast countries." MBS said that heprefers a peaceful resolution because it"is much better than the military one."

Tensions in the region surged followingan attack on Saudi oil facilities onSeptember 14. The attack was claimedby Iran-backed Houthi rebels. Thekingdom had provided proof that Iranhad sponsored the attack. ManyEuropean powers, the United States hadalso blamed Iran. However, Iran hasrepeatedly denied allegations. Duringthe interview, MBS also said that heagrees with US Secretary of State MikePompeo's conclusion that the September14 attacks on the kingdom's oil facilitieswere an act of war by Iran.

Sensex closes 155 points lower, IndiabullsHousing Finance slumps over 34 pc

HONG KONG, SEP 30

Several parts of Hong Kong'commercial streets were setablaze by the protesters here onSunday as the pro-democracyprotests turned violent in thecity. During the violence, anofficer in civil dress fired alive-round warning shotskywards to disperse theprotestors who were near himand his colleagues, reportedSouth China Morning Post.Moreover, as many as 100people were arrested and over25 were taken to hospital withinjuries. Notably, this cameahead of the 70th anniversaryof Communist Party rule onOctober 1 in China.Demonstrators have also calledfor a general strike o Monday

and vowed to go out in fullforce on Tuesday to disruptNational Day celebrations. Theprotesters spotted theoccasion as a chance tobroadcast their resentment ofBeijing's growing influenceover their life and politics inthe semi-autonomous region.The movement has muddledHong Kong for 17 weekends,often boiling over intoclashes between the policeand protesters. In addition,Home Affairs Departmentofficials had earlierannounced that Hong Kongis set to tone down ChineseNational Day celebrations toavoid potentially chaoticdisruptions by anti-government protesters inthe city.

Mylan to invest$1 bn in India oncapex in 6 years

HYDERABAD, SEP 30

Multinational drug company Myaln has said it willinvest USD one billion in the next 5-6 years onCapex in India, given the importance of thecountry's position in world pharma supply-chain,and pitched for the government incentivisingresearch and development activities. Mylan GlobalPresident and Executive Director Rajiv Malik saidthe company had been investing close to aboutUSD 400 million or USD 450 million towardsCapex every year and half of it in India. "Half ofthat has been invested in India as a rule of thumb.So we have invested about USD 200 -USD 250million in India every year. During the last six orseven years we have invested more than USD onebillion in India to upkeep and expand thecapacities, he told PTI.

As long as this network is there (in India), wehave no other option but continue to invest at thesame pace. I would say in the next 5 to 6 years it(investment on capex) would not be less than onebillion dollars, he said. Mylan Indias journeystarted in 2007 after it acquired Matrix laboratoriesand at that point in time the company waspredominantly a manufacturer of activepharmaceutical ingredient (API). CurrentlyMaylan has 21 facilities and 15,000 employeesworking in India. Out of 44 plants we have today,India has 21 of those.

Xi bows to Mao ahead of China's 70th anniversaryAGENCYBEIJING, SEP 30

Chinese President Xi Jinpingpaid his respects to ChairmanMao Zedong's embalmed bodyMonday in a rare gesture aheadof China's celebration of 70years of Communist rule.

Xi and other top Chineseofficials visited Mao'smausoleum -- located in theheart of Beijing in TiananmenSquare -- and bowed three timesto the late leader's statue,reported official news agencyXinhua.

He also paid respects to theremains of Mao, whoseembalmed body is kept in aglass display at the memorial

hall. The last time a Chineseleader bowed to the statue of the"Great Helmsman" was sixyears ago, when Xicommemorated Mao's 120thbirthday.

The move to honour thefounder of the People'sRepublic of China comes as thecountry readies itself for a dayof tightly-choreographedfestivities, including a massivemilitary parade and the releaseof 70,000 doves.

The anniversary is meant toshowcase China's extraordinaryrise from the ravages of war andfamine to a modern, powerfulnation state whose economicand military muscle is viewedby many with increasing

concern. But the celebrationcomes in a very bad year for theChinese president. The US-China trade spat threatens topummel the global economy,while African swine fever hassent the price of pork -- thecountry's staple -- soaring.

Months of unrest and pro-democracy protests in semi-autonomous Hong Kong alsothreaten to upstage Tuesday'scelebrations, with fierce clashesbetween protesters and riotpolice erupting on Sunday.

Democracy activists in thefinancial hub have vowed toramp up their nearly four-month-long campaign ahead ofthe National Day, which HongKong protesters have dubbed a

"Day of Grief".On Monday morning, Xi

and other leaders of theCommunist Party of China alsoattended a wreath-layingceremony to honour nationalheroes on Tiananmen Square.

A choir of children in crispwhite shirts and red scarvessang before Xi approached theMonument to the People'sHeroes -- a tall obelisk in themiddle of the square -- wherebaskets of flowers decoratedwith red banners were placed.

"A promising nation musthave heroes, and a country withfuture prospects must havepioneers," said state-run CCTVin a broadcast of the ceremony,quoting Xi.

Demonstrators set streetsablaze in central Hong Kong

MUMBAI, SEP 30

Bearish tendencies prevailedat the Dalal Street onMonday, dragging equitybenchmark indices loweramid subdued global cues.

The BSE S&P Sensexclosed 155 points or 0.4 percent lower at 38,667 whilethe Nifty 50 slipped by 35point to 11,477.

At the National StockExchange, most sectoralindices were in the red exceptfor IT and FMCG. Nifty PSUbank was down by 3.4 percent, private bank by 2.7 percent, pharma by 1.9 per cent,realty by 1.2 per cent andauto by 1 per cent.

Among stocks, IndiabullsHousing Finance slumped by34.4 per cent after the DelhiHigh Court agreed on Fridayto hear public interestlitigation (PIL) alleging funddiversion and accountingirregularities by itspromoters. It closed the dayat Rs 255.50 per share.

Private lender Yes Banktumbled by 14.3 per cent to

Rs 41.75 per share despitegets a nod from the ReserveBank of India for furthercapital raising.

Reliance Capital fell by12.3 per cent after itsChairman Anil Ambani toldshareholders during theannual general meeting thatthe company will exit thelending business.

Troubled renewableenergy solutions providerSuzlon dropped by 10.2 percent despite denying reportsthat it has filed forbankruptcy and will soon beapproaching the NationalCompany Law Tribunal(NCLT).

The other major loserswere IndusInd Bank whichslipped by 6.1 per cent, StateBank of India by 3.6 per cent,ICICI Bank by 3.4 per cent,

Zee Entertainment by 3.3 percent and Cipla by 3.2 percent. HDFC, Sun Pharma,Axis Bank and Britannia tooclosed in the red.

However, HCLTechnologies gained by 3.6per cent, Infosys by 2.8 percent, Tata ConsultancyServices by 2 per cent andTech Mahindra by 1.6 percent. UPL, ITC, RelianceIndustries, Adani Ports andNestle India too were in thepositive zone.

Meanwhile, Asian stockmarkets were little changedfollowing reports the Trumpadministration is consideringradical new financialpressure tactics on Beijing,including the possibility ofdelisting Chinese companiesfrom US stock exchanges.

In Japan, the Nikkei 225slipped by 0.56 per cent asshares of index heavyweightand conglomerate SoftbankGroup plunged more than 2.5per cent. The Shanghaicomposite shed 0.92 per centbut Kospi was up by 0.64 percent.

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SHORT

TALKS

AGENCYMADRID, SEP 30

Real Madrid's revolution was supposedto be built around their attack but re-silience has been the base for the recov-ery ahead of their Champions Leaguegroup game at home to Club Brugge onTuesday.

At the end of last season, as ZinedineZidane's dreary run-in came to a closeand paved the way for what many ex-pected to be a spectacular summer, pollswere published by Madrid's newspapersasking fans which of the world's dead-liest strikers they hoped would arrive atthe Santiago Bernabeu.

Harry Kane, Mohamed Salah, SergioAguero, Mauro Icardi and RobertLewandowski were some of the names

offered up and, in the end, Luka Jovic ar-rived, the Serbian who has struggled forstarts so far and is yet to score a goal.

Eden Hazard is tasked too with help-ing fill the void left by Cristiano Ronal-do, even if the Belgian's own opening inMadrid has also been underwhelming,stalled by injury and now seemingly a

period of adjustment."We would like him to score because

it will release him," said Zidane on Sat-urday. "But there is no problem withhim." Yet the stalemate against AtleticoMadrid, in which neither side everlooked likely to find a winner, was a astark indication of how Real Madridhave relied on their defence to ease thepressure on their coach. "We have beencompact and again we have not conced-ed," said Zidane after the derby draw."We have missed a little offensively butwe are in it and we can improve." This isthe first time Madrid have kept threeconsecutive clean sheets in the leagueunder Zidane and in the games againstSevilla, Osasuna and Atletico, they havehad to cope with just a single shot on tar-get.

Defence is king as Madrid go back to basics

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce scripts historywith fourth WorldChampionships goldDOHA: Jamaica sprinter Shelly-AnnFraser-Pryce scripted history whenshe won her fourth women's 100metres world title on Sunday.With this win, she has become thefirst athlete to win four gold medalsover the distance in the champi-onship.She achieved the feat in the ongo-ing World Athletics Championshipsjust 13 months after giving birth,IAAF's official website reported.The 32-year-old Fraser-Prycerecorded a timing of 10.71s to clinchthe gold medal.Britain's Dina Asher-Smith won a sil-ver medal with a time of 10.83secwhile Ivory Coast's Marie-Josee TaLou claimed bronze after recordingtiming of 10.90s.Fraser-Pryce has previously wongold in 2008 and 2012 Olympics.Jamaica's sprinter Usain Bolt hasthree gold medals to his name in theathletics world championships.Earlier in the day, USA's Allyson Fe-lix became the most consistent per-former in the history of the champi-onship as she helped the UnitedStates to script victory in the mixed-gender 4x400m relay race.With this Felix scripted her 12th goldmedal and went past Usain bolt tobecome the most decorated athlete.

Aston Turner likelyto miss T20Is against SL, PakLONDON: Australia all-rounderAshton Turner is likely to miss up-coming T20I series against Sri Lan-ka and Pakistan after being ruledout for at least a month with a bro-ken finger.He picked up the injury during train-ing ahead of Western Australia'sMarsh Cup match against NewSouth Wales."Ashton sustained a fracture to hisright index finger at training thisweek. After reviewing the injury withspecialists, he will require a periodof approximately four-six weeks be-fore being able to return to play,"ESPN Cricinfo quoted WACA sportsscience medicine manager, NickJones as saying.The 26-year-old recently made him-self as a household name aftershowing great finishing skills in theseries against India earlier this year.He was a part of Australia's recordODI run chase in Mohali.The series against Sri Lanka is slat-ed to begin from October 27 and itwill be followed by series againstPakistan in November.Turner had a good start to the do-mestic season as he scored a half-century in the opening Marsh Cupmatch against Victoria.He was left out of Australia's WorldCup squad and then he decided toundergo shoulder surgery to enablehim to field and eventually bowl tofull capacity.

There's still plenty ofroom for improvement,says Virgil van DijkLIVERPOOL: Despite winning allthe games of Premier League sofar, Liverpool's Virgil van Dijk said'there's still plenty of room for im-provement'."It's the media who love statistics.The reality is we have nothing at themoment. We want to continue to dowell and there's still plenty of roomfor improvement," the club's officialwebsite quoted Van Dijk as saying.Liverpool registered a 1-0 win overSheffield United on Saturday whichtook their winning streak in this sea-son of Premier League to seven.The club tops the Premier League'spoints table with 21 points but VanDijk said it is 'too early' to look at thetable."It's far too early [to look at thetable]. We're almost in October andthe busy period will come. There arestill so many games left and the onlything we focus on is the gameahead of us," he said.

Want to be an all-rounder for theteam: Pak spinner KARACHI: As Pakistan and SriLanka get ready to lock horns in thesecond ODI of the three-match se-ries, spinner Shadab Khan said hewants to become a genuine all-rounder option for the team."I have been working hard on mybatting as I want to be an all-round-er for the team. I am looking forwardto doing that in the next two match-es here in Karachi. I am ready to batat any position, at any numberwhere my team wants me to bat,"International Cricket Council (ICC)quoted Khan as saying.

YUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2019

We havemissed a little

offensively but weare in it and we canimprove

- Zidane“

Rahane feels there'sconnection between himand No. 17 in his career

AGENCYVIZAG, SEPT 30

There is a definite spring in AjinkyaRahane's steps after he ended a 17-Test run of not scoring a hundred, anumber which has proved to be luckyfor him.

Rahane, India's Test vice-captain,was under pressure to perform in theWest Indies and he delivered with an81 and 102 in the first Test in Antigua.

"You get to learn from everymatch and every series and I had towait for two years, 17 Tests, for myTest debut and for this century (inWest Indies) I had to wait for 17Tests. I think there was some co-ordi-nation," said Rahane in Marathi aheadof the first Test against South Africabeginning here on Wednesday.

"When I was playing for Hamp-shire, I was thinking, when I made mydebut, how my mindset was beforethat. In these 17 Tests, I was not get-ting a hundred, I was going behindgetting a hundred and it was not com-ing.

"So, in the West Indies, mythought process was that I will notthink of getting a hundred even once,whatever has to be happen will hap-pen. If a hundred has to come, it willcome," said Rahane who could nothide the excitement of becoming a fa-ther soon. Rahane insisted that he didnot work too much on his techniqueto get back amongst the runs. "Fromoutside it may look easy, for me it wasabout believing in my ability. Not

thinking about the technical stuff, itwas all about how I make the mentaladjustment like handling difficult sit-uations," said the 31-year-old. SouthAfrica may not have the services ofstar players like AB de Villiers andDale Steyn anymore but Rahane saidIndia cannot afford to take the Proteaslightly. India hammered them 0-3 athome four years ago.

"There are five Tests at home ver-sus South Africa (three Tests) andBangladesh (two Tests). Because ofthe Test Championship, you cannottake any team lightly. Even before thechampionship, we were not takingany team lightly and since the pointssystem is involved, every match isimportant.

VIZAG: South Africa's most experi-enced spinner Keshav Maharaj wants tobe as consistent as seasoned Indian duoof Ravindra Jadeja and RavichandranAshwin during the upcoming three-Teststarting on Wednesday.

The orthodox left-arm spinner with94 wickets from 25 Tests had a success-ful county performance and is hoping tomake life "uncomfortable" for the Indiantop-order. "It is nice that people speakhighly of you. Look at Jadeja and Ash-win. Ashwin has got a lot of variationsand Jadeja keeps it simple but the key isconsistency and that make it uncomfort-able for the batsmen. I can (want to) em-ulate that going forward and do my job

from one end," said Maharaj, who is onhis maiden Test tour of India. Spin willhold key but reverse swing can also playa huge role in the series, he said. "Yougot to expect the ball to turn in the sub-continent and that is why people carry anextra spinner here. As far as bowling toIndian batsmen goes, you can only Testyourself against the best. The series willtell me how good I am and if I belonghere in international cricket," Maharajsaid. "Besides spin, reverse swing willbe key. Every bowling unit everywherein the world likes to utilise if reverseswing is available. India have got strongbowlers including Mohammad Shami,who is unplayable at times.

Want to replicate Ashwin andJadeja's consistency: Maharaj

Rain threat loomsover first TestVISAKHAPATNAM: Weather couldplay spoilsport during the first Testbetween India and South Africastarting here on Wednesday withrains predicted on all five days.It has been raining here regularlysince the last one week and there isan 80 percent chance of showers onthe opening day of the series open-er. There is 50 and 40 percentchance of rain on day two and threeand play could also be affected onthe final two days. The warm-upgame between South Africa BoardPresident's XI in Vizianagram,around 50 kms from here, too wasaffected by rain.

LONDON, SEPT 30

With a big jump of 26 places,Indian tennis star Sumit Na-gal on Monday achieved hiscareer-best ranking aftermoving up to the 135th posi-tion in the latest ATP rank-ings.

The 22-year-old Nagalwon the Buenos Aires ATPChallenger on Sunday andwith this, he saw himselfclimbing 26 places in the lat-est ATP rankings chart.

Nagal defeated FacundoBognis in the men's singlesfinal to win the title.

He registered a comfort-able 6-4, 6-2 win over Bog-nis in an hour and 37 min-utes, making him the firstAsian to bag the ATP Chal-lenger title in Buenos Aires.

Nagal had defeated localhope Francisco Cerundolo inthe quarter-finals and enteredfinal after steamrollingBrazil's Thiago Monteiro 6-0, 6-1 in the semifinal.

The rising Indian tennisstar had recently made head-lines after making his GrandSlam debut against RogerFederer in the recently con-cluded US Open.

Nagal had become thefirst Indian to win a setagainst Federer in a GrandSlam.

He achieved the featduring his first-roundmatch against Federer inthe US Open as he out-classed him in the first set.Nagal ended up losing thematch 6-4, 1-6,2-6,4-6against Federer.

AGENCYDOHA, SEP 30

India's 4 x 400 mixed relay team,comprising Muhammad Anas,VK Vismaya, Nirmal Noah Tomand Jisna Mathew finished sev-enth in the final race of the WorldAthletics Championships, hereon Day 3.

The Indian team clocked 3minute 15.77 seconds to finishseventh in the field of eight coun-tries on Sunday. It was just a bidslower than the 3:15.71 clockedby the Indian team while winninggold in the Asian Games last year.

India began the final fromlane 8 with Muhammad Anas

Yahiya taking the charge for theside. Anas gave India a competi-tive start by remaining close tohis Bahrain counterpart. He thenpassed the baton to Vismaya who

was running last.

Third leg runner Jisna collid-ed with a second leg runner of an-other country after collecting the

baton from Vismaya, leading tothe loss of crucial time though In-dia was at the last spot by thattime. Noah recovered a bit but In-dia ended at seventh in the end,ahead of Brazil.

The United States baggedgold in world record timing of3:09.34 in the event which wasmaking debut in the champi-onships. Jamaica (3:11.78) andBahrain (3:11.82) secured the sil-ver and bronze respectively.

Earlier on Saturday, Indianteam had finished third in its heatand seventh overall with a timingof 3:16.14 to qualify for the fi-nals, which had ensured a TokyoOlympics berth for the country.

AGENCYNEW DELHI, SEP 30

Young pacer Kamlesh Nagarkoti onMonday returned to the Indian teamfor the upcoming Emerging Asia Cupafter a 19-month injury layoff.

The pacer, who excelled in India'striumphant campaign at the U-19World Cup in New Zealand last year,has been constantly monitored by ex-perts at the National Cricket Academy(NCA) in Bengaluru, where he under-went rehab following a stress fracturesin his lower back, heel and ankle.

The 19-year-old, who picked thefirst ever hat-trick for Rajasthan inList A cricket, last played a competi-tive game during the Vijay HazareTrophy last year. Nagarkoti, who

formed a fine combination with fel-low pacer Shivam Mavi during theWorld Cup, is one of the notablenames in the squad announced after ameeting of the junior selection com-mittee in Mumbai. The tournament isscheduled to be held in Bangladesh inNovember.

Squad for Emerging Teams AsiaCup: Vinayak Gupta (NCA), AryanJuyal (UPCA), B.R. Sharath (C &WK) (KSCA), Chinmay Sutar(MCA), Yash Rathod (VCA), ArmanJaffer (MCA), Sanveer Singh (PCA),Kamlesh Nagarkoti (Team Rajasthan),Hrithik Shokeen (DDCA), S.A. Desai(GCA), Arshdeep Singh (PCA), S.R.Dubey (VCA), Kumar Suraj (JSCA),P. Rekhade (VCA), Kuldip Yadav(DDCA).

Mandeep Mor to lead Juniorteam for 9th Sultan of Johor CupNEW DELHI, SEP 30

Hockey India on Mondaynamed the 18-member Ju-nior Men's team for the 9thSultan of Johor Cup whichis scheduled to take placefrom October 12-19 inMalaysia.

The team will be leadby Mandeep Mor whileSanjay will take charge asvice-captain and will faceoff against Malaysia, New Zealand, Japan, Australia and GreatBritain in the round-robin league stage.

The Indian Junior Men's Hockey team includes Goalkeep-ers Prashant Kumar Chauhan and Pawan, Defenders Sanjay,Dinachandra Singh Moirangthem, Pratap Lakra, Suman Beck,Mandeep Mor, Yashdeep Siwach and Sharda Nand Tiwari. TheMidfielders called-up for the 9th Sultan of Johor Cup are Vish-nu Kant Singh, Rabichandra Singh Moirangthem and Manin-der Singh.

Nagarkoti returns to Indianteam for Emerging Asia Cup

IAAF Worlds: Indian mixed relay teamfinishes seventh, US bags gold

Sumit Nagalachieves career-

best ranking