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short stories HT Correspondents n [email protected] KOLKATA/NEWDELHI: Thousands of doctors held protests across India on Friday and one of the leading unions announced a nationwide strike on Monday, stepping up an agitation that began from Kolk- ata and has now escalated into a public health worry with political overtones. Bengal bore the brunt of the protests on Friday, with junior doctors digging in their heels after chief minister Mamata Banerjee gave them an ultima- tum the previous day. At least one death, that of a child who could not be admitted to a government hospital, was reported. “We are demanding an imme- diate end to the violence against doctors. The strike is in response to a grave situation,” said RV Asokan, secretary general of the Indian Medical Association (IMA), which claims to represent 350,000 doctors. IMA also wrote to Union home minister Amit Shah calling for a new law to ensure the safety of doctors in the country. Stirs and demonstrations were witnessed across 17 states and Union Territories and involved about 100,000 doctors across India, according to reports from various medical associations. Trouble began on Monday Bengal doctors’ strike spreads across states DAY 4 OF STIR Protesters seek Mamata apology; infant dies in Bengal hospital when three junior doctors at NRS Medical College in Kolkata were assaulted by the relatives of a patient who died during treat- ment. On Friday, at least a dozen prominent government hospitals in Bengal were paralysed and hundreds of doctors threatened to resign and continue their agita- tion if the state government did not meet their demands. “We want an unconditional apology from the chief minister for the manner in which she addressed us yesterday. She should not have said what she had,” a spokesperson of the joint forum of junior doctors, Dr Arin- dam Dutta, said while listing six conditions. The other demands included a personal visit by Banerjee to the injured doctors, a condemnation of Monday’s attack, and a judicial inquiry into alleged police inac- tion against the assailants. A petition also flagged the mat- ter to the Calcutta high court, which refused to pass an interim order on the strike and asked the state government to persuade doctors to resume work and pro- vide usual services to patients. The court also directed the Ben- gal government to spell out the steps it took following the attack. CONTINUED ON P 8 RELATED REPORTS ››P3, 6 n Doctors staging a protest in Lucknow on Friday. HT SARAH SANDERS QUITS AS WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY >htworld p14 BIHAR: 5 MORE DEAD DUE TO ENCEPHALITIS > p3&7 TENDULKAR SUES AUSTRALIAN BAT MAKER SAYS MANUFACTURER USED NAME, IMAGE ON PRODUCTS WITHOUT ROYALTIES >p16 HC DISMISSES JAYA PLEA AGAINST AZAM’S ELECTION LUCKNOW: The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court on Friday dismissed actress-turned-politician Jaya Prada’s plea filed against Mohd Azam Khan challenging his election as MP from Rampur Lok Sabha constituency. Jaya Prada, who lost the election from Rampur in Uttar Pradesh, had sought a court direction to set aside Khan’s election as MP and declare her elected as the Lok Sabha member from Rampur instead. ››P4 PV Ramasastry is new ADG law and order LUCKNOW: The Uttar Pradesh government on Friday transferred six Indian Police Service (IPS) officers. PV Ramasastry, a 1989 batch IPS officer who was posted as ADG Varanasi zone, has replaced Anand Kumar as the new ADG law and order. ››P2 Motive for UP Bar Council chief’s murder still a mystery AGRA: Mystery over the motive for the murder of UP Bar Council chief Darvesh Yadav’s continued on Friday even as the main accused remained on ventilator after being operated upon at a hospital in Gurgaon. Darvesh Yadav, 36, was shot dead by a colleague on civil court premises on Wednesday. ››P4 US, Iran in war of words on tankers WASHINGTON: Calling Iran “a nation of terror”, President Donald Trump on Friday said the Persian Gulf nation was responsible for Thurs- day’s attacks on two oil tankers near the strategic Strait of Hormuz, stoking fears of a confrontation in the vital oil shipping route, even as Iran dismissed US charges that it was behind the attacks. ››P14 Body of Indian girl found at US border HOUSTON: A body of a seven-year- old girl, believed to be Indian, was found near the remote US-Mexico border area, according to the US officials. The girl “was trying to cross into the US with a group of people”, authorities said. Agents were tipped off after encountering women who were part of that group. ››P14 305 cops fined for traffic violations LUCKNOW: As many as 305 civil police and traffic police personnel riding two-wheelers were fined for violation of traffic norms in the city on Friday. ››P2 Road Surcharge Effective 3rd January 2014, a road surcharge of Rs 2/- will be applicable on this edition for all locations except Kanpur, Allahabad, Varanasi, Gorakhpur and Lucknow M Tariq Khan n [email protected] LUCKNOW: The Supreme Court- appointed Ayodhya mediation panel will hold talks with senior office-bearers of All India Mus- lim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) here on Saturday to explore the possibility of a nego- tiated settlement of the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid land dispute. Ahead of the crucial meeting with the panel members, the AIMPLB office-bearers held consultations with the Board’s chairman Maulana Rabey Has- ani Nadwi at Darul Uloom Nad- watul Ulema here on Friday to apprise him of the progress and prepare a brief for the talks. The AIMPLB delegation will be led by its general secretary Maulana Wali Rahmani and include secretary Zafaryab Jil- ani and members Mehfooz Rah- mani and Qasim Rasool Ilyas. “Since the Ayodhya dispute is not limited to the parties to the case alone, the panel has made an outreach to other religious organisations, distinguished leaders and representatives of both the religious communities to make any possible solution more acceptable and broad- based,” said an AIMPLB mem- ber requesting anonymity. He said a similar meeting of the panel members with Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind chief Maulana Arshad Madni and some other prominent clerics has already been held in New Delhi. “The negotiations are being held at two-levels. While the panel is holding discussions with the litigants, both Hindus and Muslims, and their repre- sentatives in Faizabad (Ayo- dhya), it is meeting community and religious leaders in various other cities,” said another mem- ber. The mediation panel, headed by justice (retired) FM Ibrahim Kalifulla and compris- ing senior advocate Sriram Pan- chu and Art of Living founder Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, will meet the AIMPLB delegation at VVIP Guest House here. Formed on March 8, the com- mittee, which has been given a two-month extension by the apex court, would hold its third round of discussions with the litigants in Faizabad (Ayodhya) on June 18 and 19 and submit its report by August 15. HT Correspondents n [email protected] GORAKHPUR/LUCKNOW: Himanshu Gaurav Singh of Gorakhpur secured All India Rank 2 in the IIT-JEE Advanced examination 2019, the result of which was declared on Friday. He scored 340 marks out of 372. Maharashtra’s Kartikiye Gupta emerged the topper of the JEE Advanced, while Delhi’s Archit Babuana finished third. Reacting to his success a day before he turns 18 on Saturday, an elated Himanshu said it was time to celebrate for him as his dream of studying in IIT Mumbai had come true. He said he planned to pursue computer sci- ence engineering at IIT Mumbai. “Finally, celebrations will begin now as I plan to get admis- sion in Indian Institute of Tech- nology, Mumbai (IIT-M),” said Himanshu, who did class 12 from Gorakhpur and was ranked 14th when he scored 100 percentile in JEE (Mains) in January 2019, which was also the first position in Uttar Pradesh. A student of Academic Heights Public School in Gor- akhpur, Himanshu found study- ing to be fun. “It comes naturally to me. Probably I am blessed to have teachers who taught me in a very simple way,” he said. “I knew that I will score well but never thought that I will be ranked All India 2,” he said. His strategry was simple: Consistent hard work and staying stress free. He credited his parents for all the success. Himanshu credits his parents and teachers for his success. “It’s really the happiest moment of my life. I had promised my par- ents that I would crack the exam- ination and I did it with their sup- port and the guidance of teachers who always kept motivating me to achieve the target,” said Himanshu, who had also topped the Chemistry and Astronomy Olympiad earlier. Humanshu has twice partici- pated in Kishore Vaigyanik Prot- sahan Yojana (KVPY), an on-go- ing National Programme of Fel- lowship in Basic Sciences, initiated and funded by the Department of Science and Tech- nology, government of India, to attract highly motivated stu- dents for pursuing basic science courses and research career in science. His father, Luv Kush Singh is a teacher in Govern- ment Polytechnic and mother Roopa Singh is a housewife. The overjoyed parents said they were extremely proud of their son’s achievement. Academic Heights Public School chairman Sanjeev Kumar said, “Himanshu is a bril- liant student and loves to solve maths questions in his spare time. He prepared at the coach- ing run by the school and studied for about 12 hours every day. Unlike other students, he stayed away from social media and avoided wasting time.” Ayodhya panel-MPLB talks in city today JEE Advanced: Gorakhpur’s Himanshu bags No 2 spot n Himanshu Gaurav Singh. FILE LUCKNOW: Pragatisheel Samaj- wadi Party-Lohia (PSP-L) chief Shivpal Singh Yadav on Friday rejected rumours of a patch-up with Samajwadi Party (SP) and added that his party had no plan to merge with it. “I had gone to meet “netaji” (SP patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav) to inquire about his health. We did not discuss anything else,” said Shivpal, referring to the recent meeting with Mulayam where SP chief Akhilesh Yadav was also present. ››P5 Shivpal: No plan to merge with SP, open to alliance VARANASI : Members of the All Indian Muslim Forum for Ayodhya Dispute Set- tlement (AIMFADS) held a meeting with Swami Amimukteshwaranand at Sri Vidya Matt here on Fri- day. They apprised the seer of their signature campaign which they launched for an amicable solution to the Ram Janmabhoomi and Babari Mosque land dis- pute site. The campaign was aimed at finding a solution to the vexed issue. Forum senior member Aftab Ahmad Khan said, “We have created this forum to find an amicable solution to the Ram Janma- bhoomi-Babari Mosque Land dispute case.” ››P5 MEMBERS OF MUSLIM BODY MEET KASHI SEER IN VARANASI Asit Ranjan Mishra n [email protected] NEW DELHI: In what could poten- tially aggravate trade tensions between India and the US, New Delhi has decided to impose long- pending retaliatory tariffs on 29 US products. Washington had withdrawn duty-free benefits for Indian exports under its General- ized System of Preferences (GSP) effective June 5. “The duty hikes will come into effect in normal course as the notification to postpone the hikes will expire on Saturday night. We don’t see any reason for escala- tion as the duty hikes are against the tariff hikes by the US on steel and aluminium products, and not because the US withdrew duty- free benefits to Indian exporters,” said a government official with direct knowledge of the matter, requesting anonymity. According to the current noti- fication, the retaliatory tariffs will come into effect beginning June 16. India had repeatedly post- poned the imposition of retalia- tory tariffs of $235 million on import of US goods worth $1.4 bil- lion since they were first announced on June 20, 2018. Key items imported by India from the US include almond and fresh apples worth $645 million and $165 million, respectively. Biswajit Dhar, professor of economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, said the escalation in trade tensions between the two countries would have happened in any case. “Trump wants market access in India and he will not stop at the withdrawal of GSP benefits. But I am happy that India has responded, since it was giving a wrong signal about India’s deci- sion-making process. Now, both sides can sit down and talk like equal partners,” he added. India’s move comes ahead of a meeting between US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Nar- endra Modi on the sidelines of a G20 summit on June 28-29 in Osaka, Japan. Trump has often termed India a “tariff king” and repeatedly pointed to the 50% duty that India imposes on imports of Harley-Davidson motorcycles. US secretary of state Mike Pompeo is scheduled to visit New Delhi on June 25-26, on his way to the G20 Summit, to hold bilateral discussions with his Indian counterpart, external affairs minister S Jaishankar. Speaking at the 44th annual meeting of the US-India Business Council in Washington DC on Wednesday, Pompeo said they may discuss “tough topics”, including the recent GSP pro- gramme decision. “We remain open to dialogue, and hope that our friends in India will drop their trade barriers and trust in the competitiveness of their own companies, their own businesses, their own people, and private sec- tor companies,” Pompeo said. CONTINUED ON P 8 India to levy retaliatory tariffs on 29 US products Yashwant Raj n [email protected] WASHINGTON: A senior Trump administration offi- cial said on Thursday there were “serious concerns” about India’s planned acqui- sition of Russian S-400 mis- sile defence systems that could not only leave India vulnerable to sanctions but also “limit” interoperability between US and Indian mili- taries, a key focus of grow- ing ties between the two countries. India’s acquisition of S-400s “effectively could limit India’s ability to increase our own interoper- ability”, Alice Wells, head of the state department’s south and central Asia bureau told lawmakers at a Congressio- nal hearing. The threat to defence interoperability is a new and developing argu- ment Americans are deploy- ing to up the ante for India by saying it could be risking growing defence ties marked by the signing last year of the Communications Compatibility and Security Agreement that allows sharing of classified defence intelligence. ››P9 US WARNING ON S-400 DEAL Rezaul H Laskar n [email protected] NEWDELHI: Countries supporting and financing terror must be held accountable, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday while addressing a gathering in the Kyrgyzstan capital of Bishkek that included his Pakistani coun- terpart Imran Khan. Modi didn’t name any country in his speech at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit, keeping in mind the grouping’s sensitivities to the raising of bilateral matters by members, but there was little doubt the reference was to Paki- stan. India’s concerns about terror emanating from Pakistan were also addressed in the Bishkek Declaration adopted at the sum- mit, which spoke of the need for greater coordination to tackle “cross-border” security challen- ges and said the use of terror groups “to achieve one’s own mercenary ends is unaccepta- ble”. “It is necessary that the coun- tries which encourage, support and finance terrorism are held responsible,” said Modi, who largely kept his distance from Khan while attending at least seven events during the two-day summit, including photo ops, a formal dinner and a formal lunch. The two leaders only “exchanged usual pleasantries” when they came face-to-face in the leaders lounge on Friday, peo- ple familiar with developments said. Modi referred to the impact of the Easter Sunday suicide bomb- ings in Sri Lanka last month and called for an international con- ference to fight terror. All humanitarian forces will have to emerge from their narrow realms and unite to combat the menace, he said. “During my visit to Sri Lanka last Sunday, I visited St Anthony’s Church, where I saw the ugly face of terrorism that emerges everywhere and at any time to claim the lives of inno- cents,” Modi said in his address, referring to one of the sites tar- geted by the suicide bombers who killed more than 250 people. SCO members should use the full potential for cooperation under the grouping’s Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure (RATS) to eliminate terror, he added, speaking in Hindi. India has linked any engage- ment with Pakistan to a crack down on terror groups based on Pakistani soil. Modi said during a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday that Pak- istan is yet to take concrete action on India’s concerns and create an atmosphere free of terror. The Bishkek Declaration called for close coordination and constructive cooperation by the world community to tackle “chal- lenges and security threats that are becoming cross-border in their nature”, including terror- ism, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, unsettled con- flicts undermining the global security system and climate change. The SCO members condemned terror in all forms and empha- sised their intention to deepen cooperation to address threats to stability and security. They said acts of terrorism cannot be justi- fied and called for comprehensive measures to determine, and elim- inate factors and conditions that promote terror. “They note that interfering in other countries’ domestic affairs under the pretext of fighting ter- rorism and extremism as well as using terrorist, extremist and radical groups to achieve one’s own mercenary ends is unaccept- able,” the declaration said. CONTINUED ON P 8 Terror sponsors must be held accountable, Modi tells SCO n PM Narendra Modi with Kyrgyz President Sooronbai Jeenbekov. AFP Jayashree Nandi n [email protected] WASHINGTON DC: A team of inter- national scientists has, for the first time, collected crucial cli- mate and biodiversity informa- tion from near the Everest sum- mit that will tell us how climate change is impacting the world’s highest peak and the entire watershed below, and will help examine long-term implications for the southwest monsoon. The team also set up the high- est weather station in the world at about 8,430 metres above sea level near the Everest summit last month. This will provide weather information from Ever- est in real-time. Ice cores (sam- ple from a glacier) from the mountain, which will be ana- lysed over the next six months, will reveal the trajectory of cli- mate change impacts, the scien- tists said, adding that the analy- sis could help influence global decision-making on dealing with the climate crisis in the coming years. This two-month expedi- tion between April and June, supported by National Geo- graphic and Rolex, is called Per- petual Planet Extreme Expedi- tions. The multidisciplinary team of scientists would have had to queue up at the back of several climbers to reach the summit. So its members decided to set up the weather station near the summit and not at the sum- mit, factoring in the risk of life. CONTINUED ON P 8 Weather station near Everest maps impact of climate change THIS EXPEDITION WILL ALSO REVEAL HOW MONSOONPATTERNS WILL CHANGE IN INDIA Rahul Singh n [email protected] NEW DELHI: The Indian Air Force (IAF) is planning to curtail the role of the Antonov-32 (AN-32) in extreme environments follow- ing the June 3 crash in Aruna- chal Pradesh that led to the deaths of 13 people — the third fatal incident of the Soviet-origin aircraft in India over the last 10 years. According to three senior IAF officers, who asked not to be named, the AN-32, seen as a workhorse for the force, may be taken off duties that involve fly- ing over mountainous regions and oceans out of safety con- cerns. “The effort will be to assign most of those tasks to the C295 medium transport aircraft that we are buying. They have higher safety margins,” said one of the officials, who is familiar with IAF’s modernisation proc- ess. A second official said the defence ministry has wrapped up price negotiations for 56 C295 aircraft made by Airbus, and while it is meant to replace the fleet of the vintage medium-sized Avro 748 transport planes, it will also be suitable for demanding roles that the AN-32 currently undertakes. The $2.5-billion project is likely to come up before the Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) for final clearance. CONTINUED ON P 8 AN-32 MAY BE TAKEN OFF CRITICAL OPERATIONS ››SEE ALSO P2 NEW DELHI: Former Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) chief E Sreedharan on Friday sought Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s personal intervention” to halt the Delhi government’s proposal to provide free services to women in the city and said the concession will push the Delhi Metro towards “inefficiency and bankruptcy”. In his letter dated June 10, Sreedharan said he had taken a firm decision not to intervene in the working of the Delhi Metro after stepping down from the post of managing director. 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KOLKATA/NEWDELHI:ThousandsofdoctorsheldprotestsacrossIndiaonFridayandoneof the leadingunionsannouncedanationwidestrikeonMonday,steppingupanagitation that began fromKolk-ataandhasnowescalated intoapublichealthworrywithpoliticalovertones.Bengal bore the brunt of the

protests on Friday, with juniordoctors digging in their heelsafter chief minister MamataBanerjee gave them an ultima-tumthepreviousday.Atleastonedeath, that of a child who couldnotbeadmittedtoagovernmenthospital,wasreported.“Wearedemandinganimme-

diate end to theviolenceagainstdoctors.Thestrikeisinresponseto a grave situation,” said RVAsokan,secretarygeneraloftheIndian Medical Association(IMA),whichclaimstorepresent350,000doctors.IMAalsowrotetoUnionhomeministerAmitShahcallingforanewlawtoensurethesafetyofdoctors inthecountry.Stirsanddemonstrationswere

witnessed across 17 states andUnion Territories and involvedabout 100,000 doctors acrossIndia,according toreports fromvariousmedicalassociations.Trouble began on Monday

Bengaldoctors’strikespreadsacrossstatesDAY 4 OF STIR Protesters seek Mamata apology; infant dies in Bengal hospital

whenthreejuniordoctorsatNRSMedicalCollegeinKolkatawereassaulted by the relatives of apatient who died during treat-ment.On Friday, at least a dozen

prominentgovernmenthospitalsin Bengal were paralysed andhundreds of doctors threatenedtoresignandcontinuetheiragita-tion if the state government didnotmeet theirdemands.“We want an unconditional

apology from the chiefministerfor the manner in which sheaddressed us yesterday. Sheshould not have said what shehad,”aspokespersonofthejointforumofjuniordoctors,DrArin-damDutta, saidwhile listingsixconditions.Theotherdemandsincludeda

personalvisitbyBanerjeetotheinjureddoctors,acondemnationofMonday’sattack,andajudicialinquiry into alleged police inac-

tionagainst theassailants.Apetitionalsoflaggedthemat-

ter to the Calcutta high court,whichrefusedtopassaninterimorderonthestrikeandaskedthestate government to persuadedoctorstoresumeworkandpro-vide usual services to patients.The court alsodirected theBen-gal government to spell out thestepsittookfollowingtheattack.

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n Doctors staging a protest in Lucknow on Friday. HT

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HCDISMISSES JAYAPLEAAGAINSTAZAM’S ELECTIONLUCKNOW: The Lucknowbench ofthe Allahabad high court on Fridaydismissed actress-turned-politicianJaya Prada’s plea filed againstMohdAzamKhan challenging hiselection asMP fromRampur LokSabha constituency. Jaya Prada,who lost the election fromRampurin Uttar Pradesh, had sought acourt direction to set aside Khan’selection asMP and declare herelected as the Lok SabhamemberfromRampur instead. ››P4

PVRamasastry is newADG law and orderLUCKNOW: TheUttar Pradeshgovernment on Friday transferredsix Indian Police Service (IPS)officers. PV Ramasastry, a 1989batch IPS officerwhowas posted asADGVaranasi zone, has replacedAnandKumar as the newADG lawand order. ››P2

Motive for UPBar Councilchief’s murder still a mysteryAGRA: Mystery over themotive forthemurder of UP Bar Council chiefDarvesh Yadav’s continued onFriday even as themain accusedremained on ventilator after beingoperated upon at a hospital inGurgaon. Darvesh Yadav, 36,wasshot dead by a colleague on civilcourt premises onWednesday. ››P4

US, Iran in war ofwords on tankersWASHINGTON:Calling Iran “a nationof terror”, President Donald Trumpon Friday said the Persian Gulfnationwas responsible for Thurs-day’s attacks on two oil tankersnear the strategic Strait of Hormuz,stoking fears of a confrontation inthe vital oil shipping route, even asIran dismissedUS charges that itwas behind the attacks. ››P14

Body of Indian girl foundat US borderHOUSTON: Abody of a seven-year-old girl, believed to be Indian,wasfound near the remoteUS-Mexicoborder area, according to theUSofficials. The girl “was trying tocross into theUSwith a group ofpeople”, authorities said. Agentswere tipped off after encounteringwomenwhowere part of thatgroup. ››P14

305 cops fined fortraffic violationsLUCKNOW: Asmany as 305 civilpolice and traffic police personnelriding two-wheelerswere fined forviolation of traffic norms in the cityon Friday. ››P2

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LUCKNOW: The Supreme Court-appointed Ayodhyamediationpanelwillholdtalkswithsenioroffice-bearersofAll IndiaMus-lim Personal Law Board(AIMPLB) here on Saturday toexplorethepossibilityofanego-tiated settlement of the RamJanmabhoomi-Babri Masjidlanddispute.Aheadof thecrucialmeeting

with the panel members, theAIMPLB office-bearers heldconsultationswith theBoard’schairmanMaulanaRabeyHas-aniNadwiatDarulUloomNad-watul Ulema here on Friday toapprisehimof theprogressandprepare abrief for the talks.TheAIMPLBdelegationwill

be led by its general secretaryMaulana Wali Rahmani andincludesecretaryZafaryabJil-aniandmembersMehfoozRah-

mani andQasimRasool Ilyas.“SincetheAyodhyadisputeis

not limited to the parties to thecase alone, the panel hasmadean outreach to other religiousorganisations, distinguishedleaders and representatives ofboth thereligiouscommunities

to make any possible solutionmore acceptable and broad-based,” said anAIMPLBmem-ber requesting anonymity.He said a similar meeting of

thepanelmemberswithJamiatUlama-i-Hind chief MaulanaArshadMadni and some other

prominent clerics has alreadybeenheld inNewDelhi.“The negotiations are being

held at two-levels. While thepanel is holding discussionswith the litigants, bothHindusand Muslims, and their repre-sentatives in Faizabad (Ayo-dhya), it ismeetingcommunityandreligious leaders invariousothercities,”saidanothermem-ber. The mediation panel,headed by justice (retired) FMIbrahimKalifullaandcompris-ingsenioradvocateSriramPan-chu and Art of Living founderSriSriRaviShankar,willmeettheAIMPLBdelegationatVVIPGuestHousehere.FormedonMarch8, thecom-

mittee, which has been given atwo-month extension by theapexcourt,wouldhold its thirdround of discussions with thelitigants inFaizabad(Ayodhya)onJune18and19andsubmit itsreport byAugust 15.

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GORAKHPUR/LUCKNOW:HimanshuGaurav Singh of Gorakhpursecured All India Rank 2 in theIIT-JEEAdvancedexamination2019, the result of which wasdeclared on Friday. He scored340marksoutof 372.Maharashtra’s Kartikiye

GuptaemergedthetopperoftheJEE Advanced, while Delhi’sArchitBabuana finished third.Reacting to his success a day

before he turns 18 on Saturday,an elatedHimanshu said it wastime to celebrate for him as hisdreamofstudyinginIITMumbaihad come true. He said heplannedtopursuecomputersci-

enceengineeringatIITMumbai.“Finally, celebrations will

beginnowasIplantogetadmis-sion in Indian InstituteofTech-nology, Mumbai (IIT-M),” saidHimanshu,whodidclass12fromGorakhpurandwasranked14thwhenhescored100percentile inJEE (Mains) in January 2019,whichwasalsothefirstpositioninUttarPradesh.A student of Academic

Heights Public School in Gor-akhpur,Himanshufoundstudy-ing tobe fun.“It comes naturally to me.

Probably I am blessed to haveteacherswhotaughtmeinaverysimpleway,”hesaid.“I knew that I will scorewell

but never thought that I will be

rankedAll India 2,”he said.Hisstrategrywassimple:Consistenthard work and staying stressfree.Hecreditedhisparents forall the success.

Himanshucreditshisparentsandteachersforhissuccess.“It’sreally the happiest moment ofmy life. I had promisedmypar-entsthatIwouldcracktheexam-inationandIdiditwiththeirsup-portandtheguidanceofteacherswhoalwayskeptmotivatingmeto achieve the target,” saidHimanshu,whohadalsotoppedthe Chemistry and AstronomyOlympiadearlier.Humanshuhastwicepartici-

patedinKishoreVaigyanikProt-sahanYojana(KVPY),anon-go-ingNationalProgrammeofFel-lowship in Basic Sciences,initiated and funded by theDepartmentofScienceandTech-nology, government of India, toattract highly motivated stu-

dentsforpursuingbasicsciencecourses and research career inscience. His father, Luv KushSingh is a teacher in Govern-ment Polytechnic and motherRoopaSinghisahousewife.Theoverjoyedparentssaidtheywereextremely proud of their son’sachievement.Academic Heights Public

School chairman SanjeevKumarsaid,“Himanshuisabril-liant student and loves to solvemaths questions in his sparetime.He prepared at the coach-ingrunbytheschoolandstudiedfor about 12 hours every day.Unlikeotherstudents,hestayedaway from social media andavoidedwasting time.”

Ayodhya panel-MPLB talks in city today

JEE Advanced: Gorakhpur’s Himanshu bags No 2 spot

n Himanshu Gaurav Singh. FILE

LUCKNOW: Pragatisheel Samaj-wadi Party-Lohia (PSP-L) chiefShivpal SinghYadav onFridayrejected rumours of a patch-upwithSamajwadiParty (SP) andaddedthathispartyhadnoplantomerge with it. “I had gone tomeet “netaji” (SP patriarchMulayam Singh Yadav) toinquireabouthishealth.Wedidnotdiscussanythingelse,” saidShivpal, referring to the recentmeeting with Mulayam whereSP chief Akhilesh Yadav wasalsopresent.

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VARANASI :Members of theAll IndianMuslimForumforAyodhyaDispute Set-tlement (AIMFADS)held ameetingwithSwamiAmimukteshwaranandatSriVidyaMatt here onFri-day.They apprised the seer of

their signature campaignwhich they launched for anamicable solution to the

RamJanmabhoomi andBabariMosque landdis-pute site. The campaignwas aimedat finding asolution to the vexed issue.Forumseniormember

AftabAhmadKhan said,“Wehave created thisforum to find anamicablesolution to theRamJanma-bhoomi-BabariMosqueLanddispute case.” ››P5

MEMBERSOFMUSLIMBODYMEETKASHI SEER IN VARANASI

AsitRanjanMishran [email protected]

NEWDELHI: In what could poten-tially aggravate trade tensionsbetween India and the US, NewDelhihasdecidedtoimposelong-pending retaliatory tariffs on 29US products. Washington hadwithdrawnduty-freebenefitsforIndianexportsunderitsGeneral-izedSystemofPreferences(GSP)effectiveJune5.“Thedutyhikeswillcomeinto

effect in normal course as thenotificationtopostponethehikeswillexpireonSaturdaynight.Wedon’t see any reason for escala-tionasthedutyhikesareagainstthetariffhikesbytheUSonsteelandaluminiumproducts,andnotbecause the USwithdrew duty-freebenefitstoIndianexporters,”said a government official withdirect knowledge of thematter,requestinganonymity.Accordingtothecurrentnoti-

fication, the retaliatory tariffswill come into effect beginningJune16.India had repeatedly post-

poned the imposition of retalia-tory tariffs of $235 million onimportofUSgoodsworth$1.4bil-lion since they were firstannouncedonJune20,2018.Key items imported by India

fromtheUSincludealmondandfresh apples worth $645millionand$165million,respectively.Biswajit Dhar, professor of

economicsatJawaharlalNehruUniversity,saidtheescalationin

trade tensions between the twocountrieswouldhavehappenedinanycase.“Trumpwantsmarketaccess

inIndiaandhewillnotstopatthewithdrawalofGSPbenefits.ButIam happy that India hasresponded, since itwas giving awrongsignal about India’s deci-sion-makingprocess.Now,bothsides can sit down and talk likeequalpartners,”headded.India’smove comes ahead of ameetingbetween US President DonaldTrumpandPrimeMinisterNar-endraModi on the sidelines of aG20 summit on June 28-29 inOsaka, Japan. Trumphas oftentermed India a “tariff king” andrepeatedly pointed to the 50%duty that India imposes onimports of Harley-Davidson

motorcycles. US secretary ofstateMikePompeo is scheduledtovisitNewDelhionJune25-26,onhiswaytotheG20Summit, tohold bilateral discussions withhisIndiancounterpart,externalaffairsministerSJaishankar.Speaking at the 44th annual

meetingoftheUS-IndiaBusinessCouncil in Washington DC onWednesday, Pompeo said theymay discuss “tough topics”,including the recent GSP pro-gramme decision. “We remainopen to dialogue, and hope thatour friends in India will droptheir trade barriers and trust inthecompetitivenessoftheirowncompanies,theirownbusinesses,theirownpeople,andprivatesec-torcompanies,”Pompeosaid.

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India to levy retaliatorytariffs on 29USproducts

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WASHINGTON:AseniorTrumpadministrationoffi-cialsaidonThursdaytherewere“seriousconcerns”aboutIndia’splannedacqui-sitionofRussianS-400mis-siledefencesystemsthatcouldnotonlyleaveIndiavulnerabletosanctionsbutalso“limit” interoperabilitybetweenUSandIndianmili-taries,akeyfocusofgrow-ingtiesbetweenthetwocountries.India’sacquisitionof

S-400s“effectivelycould

limit India’sability toincreaseourowninteroper-ability”,AliceWells,headofthestatedepartment’ssouthandcentralAsiabureautoldlawmakersataCongressio-nalhearing.Thethreat todefenceinteroperability isanewanddevelopingargu-mentAmericansaredeploy-ingtouptheante forIndiabysayingitcouldberiskinggrowingdefencetiesmarkedbythesigninglastyearof theCommunicationsCompatibilityandSecurityAgreement thatallowssharingofclassifieddefenceintelligence. ››P9

USWARNINGONS-400DEAL

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NEWDELHI:Countriessupportingandfinancingterrormustbeheldaccountable, Prime MinisterNarendra Modi said on Fridaywhile addressing a gathering intheKyrgyzstancapitalofBishkekthatincludedhisPakistanicoun-terpart ImranKhan.Modididn’tnameanycountry

in his speech at the ShanghaiCooperationOrganisation(SCO)summit, keeping in mind thegrouping’s sensitivities to theraising of bilateral matters bymembers, but there was littledoubt thereferencewas toPaki-stan.India’s concernsabout terror

emanating from Pakistan werealso addressed in the BishkekDeclarationadoptedat thesum-mit,which spoke of theneed forgreater coordination to tackle“cross-border”securitychallen-ges and said the use of terrorgroups “to achieve one’s ownmercenary ends is unaccepta-ble”.“It isnecessarythat thecoun-

tries which encourage, supportand finance terrorism are heldresponsible,” said Modi, wholargely kept his distance fromKhan while attending at leastseveneventsduringthetwo-daysummit, including photo ops, aformal dinner and a formallunch. The two leaders only“exchangedusualpleasantries”when they came face-to-face intheleadersloungeonFriday,peo-ple familiar with developmentssaid.Modireferredtotheimpactof

theEasterSundaysuicidebomb-ingsinSriLankalastmonthand

called for an international con-ference to fight terror. Allhumanitarianforceswillhavetoemergefromtheirnarrowrealmsandunitetocombatthemenace,he said. “Duringmy visit to SriLanka last Sunday, I visited StAnthony’sChurch,where I sawthe ugly face of terrorism thatemergeseverywhereandatanytime to claim the lives of inno-cents,”Modisaid inhisaddress,referring to one of the sites tar-getedbythesuicidebomberswhokilledmorethan250people.SCOmembers shoulduse the

full potential for cooperationunder the grouping’s RegionalAnti-TerroristStructure(RATS)to eliminate terror, he added,speakinginHindi.India has linked any engage-

ment with Pakistan to a crackdownon terror groupsbasedonPakistanisoil.ModisaidduringameetingwithChinesePresidentXiJinpingonThursdaythatPak-istanisyettotakeconcreteactiononIndia’sconcernsandcreateanatmospherefreeof terror.The Bishkek Declaration

calledforclosecoordinationandconstructivecooperationby theworldcommunitytotackle“chal-lenges and security threats thatare becoming cross-border intheir nature”, including terror-ism, proliferation ofweapons ofmassdestruction,unsettledcon-flicts undermining the globalsecurity system and climatechange.TheSCOmemberscondemned

terror in all forms and empha-sised their intention to deepencooperationtoaddressthreatstostabilityandsecurity.Theysaidactsofterrorismcannotbejusti-fiedandcalledforcomprehensivemeasurestodetermine,andelim-inatefactorsandconditionsthatpromoteterror.“Theynotethatinterferingin

othercountries’domesticaffairsunderthepretextof fightingter-rorismandextremismaswellasusing terrorist, extremist andradical groups to achieve one’sownmercenaryendsisunaccept-able,” thedeclarationsaid.

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Terror sponsorsmust be heldaccountable, Modi tells SCO

n PM Narendra Modi with Kyrgyz President Sooronbai Jeenbekov. AFP

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WASHINGTONDC: A teamof inter-national scientists has, for thefirst time, collected crucial cli-mate andbiodiversity informa-tionfromneartheEverestsum-mit thatwill tell ushowclimatechangeis impactingtheworld’shighest peak and the entirewatershed below, andwill helpexaminelong-termimplicationsfor thesouthwestmonsoon.Theteamalsosetupthehigh-

estweatherstation in theworldat about 8,430metres above sea

level near the Everest summitlast month. This will provideweatherinformationfromEver-est in real-time. Ice cores (sam-ple from a glacier) from themountain, which will be ana-lysed over the next sixmonths,will reveal the trajectory of cli-matechangeimpacts, thescien-tistssaid,addingthat theanaly-

sis could help influence globaldecision-makingondealingwiththe climate crisis in the comingyears. This two-month expedi-tion between April and June,supported by National Geo-graphicandRolex, iscalledPer-petual Planet Extreme Expedi-tions. The multidisciplinaryteam of scientists would havehad to queue up at the back ofseveral climbers to reach thesummit.Soitsmembersdecidedtosetuptheweatherstationnearthe summit and not at the sum-mit, factoring in theriskof life.

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Weather station near Everestmaps impact of climate change

THIS EXPEDITIONWILLALSOREVEALHOWMONSOONPATTERNSWILL CHANGE IN INDIA

Rahul Singhn [email protected]

NEWDELHI: The IndianAirForce(IAF) is planning to curtail theroleoftheAntonov-32(AN-32) inextreme environments follow-ing the June 3 crash in Aruna-chal Pradesh that led to thedeaths of 13 people — the thirdfatalincidentoftheSoviet-originaircraft in India over the last 10years.AccordingtothreeseniorIAF

officers, who asked not to benamed, the AN-32, seen as aworkhorse fortheforce,maybetakenoffduties that involvefly-ing over mountainous regionsand oceans out of safety con-cerns.“The effort will be to assign

most of those tasks to the C295medium transport aircraft thatwearebuying.Theyhavehighersafetymargins,” saidoneoftheofficials,who is familiarwithIAF’smodernisationproc-ess.A second official said the

defence ministry has wrappeduppricenegotiationsfor56C295aircraft made by Airbus, andwhile it is meant to replace thefleetofthevintagemedium-sizedAvro748transportplanes, itwillalso be suitable for demandingroles that the AN-32 currentlyundertakes.The $2.5-billion project is

likely to come up before theDefence Acquisition Council(DAC) for final clearance.

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AN-32 MAY BETAKEN OFFCRITICALOPERATIONS

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NEWDELHI: Former Delhi MetroRailCorporation (DMRC) chiefE SreedharanonFridaysoughtPrimeMinisterNarendraModi’spersonal intervention” to halttheDelhigovernment’sproposalto provide free services towomen in the city and said theconcession will push the DelhiMetrotowards“inefficiencyandbankruptcy”.In his letter dated June 10,

Sreedharansaidhehad takenafirmdecisionnottointerveneinthe working of the DelhiMetroafter stepping down from thepostofmanagingdirector. HTC

Free Metro ridesnot a good idea,says SreedharanNumber of

candidatesto qualify38,705

33,349

15,566 General category

8,758 SC candidates

7,651OBC-NCL candidates

3,094 ST candidates

3,636 General EWS category

5,356Boys

candidates

Girls

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Now, polarising treatmentfor prostate enlargementLUCKNOW:All surgical interven-tions related to prostate gland aredone due to unconditionedconsciousnesswhich leads tocomplications such as loss ofurinary control, erection, ejacula-tion and affects urinary system,said Dr Surindar S Bedi (Steve)who has started prostate rejuve-nation centre in city’s Indira Nagarlocality. Dr Bediwho haspracticedfor over 50 years in theUSA hascome to Lucknow to serve peopleby providing polarising treatmentfor prostate enlargement,prostate cancer andprostatitis. DrBedi said all surgical interventionsproduce complicationswhich canbe avoided by educating thephysician andproviding polaris-ing therapy. Dr Bediwould beproviding polarising programmefor prostate diseaseswhichwouldnot produce any complication aspatientswill be rejuvenated at acellular level. Dr Bediwould bestarting an international prostaterejuvenation centre in ChennaiandDelhi in 2020 and an interna-tionalmeeting inMarch 2020, inwhich speakerswill come fromUSA.

BHIMUPI based paymentsLUCKNOW:Airtel PaymentsBanktoday said that it has enabledopen loop BHIMUPI basedpayments at over 500,000merchant points across India,allowing consumers tomakedigital payments for goods andservices by using any BHIMUPIenabled bank or payments appover theirmobile phones. AirtelPaymentsBank’spaymentssolution formerchants allowsconsumers tomake instantcashlesspayments from theirmobile phones, directly through

UPRANKSSECOND IN TERMSOFACIDATTACKS, SAYSNCRBDATALUCKNOW:Asper NCRB data, Uttar Pradesh stands second in terms of acidattacks afterWest Bengal and 93.4% cases are still pending, said RenuMishra of AALIwhile releasing the research report on acid attack in the state.The research paperwas prepared after talking to acid attack survivors andlawyers in 10 districts. Renu said that another fact that came to lightwasthat the attackwasdone upon thosewomenwhowanted to do somethingother thanwhat the societywanted them to do. “The state believes acidattack is a physical assault but there is no formal step to ensure the survivorcan overcomemental trauma as unlessmental trauma is over any newopportunitywill not be effective,” she said.

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CHECKONVIOLATORS

n Traffic cops conducting a vehicle checking drive in the state capital on Friday. Around 3,422commuters were fined for traffic violations during the day-long drive. SUBHANKAR CHAKRABORTY/HT

HT Correspondentn [email protected]

LUCKNOW:The state governmentonFridaytransferredsixIndianPolice Service (IPS) officers,including additional directorgeneral(ADG)lawandorderandADGprisonadministrationandreform.The1989batchIPSofficerPVRamasastry,whowaspostedasADGVaranasiZone,hasbeenmadenewADGlawandorderinplace of 1988 batch IPS officer

AnandKumar,whohadbeenpro-motedtotherankofDGrecently.KumarhasbeenpostedasDG

prison administration andreforminplaceofADGChandraPrakash,whohasbeenshiftedasADGrulesandmanuals.ADGUPPolicepromotionand

recruitmentboard,DeepeshJun-eja and ADG security VijayKumarhaveswappedtheirpostswhile ADG vigilance BrajBhushanhasbeentransferredasADGVaranasiZone.

Six IPS shifted,PVRamasastry is newADG law and order

lucknow weathertodayFORECAST:

HIGH LOW

Mainly clear sky

43.0° C 28.0° C

HTCorrespondentn [email protected]

LUCKNOW :As many as 305 civilpoliceandtrafficpoliceperson-nel riding two-wheelers werefined for violation of trafficnorms in the city onFriday.Moreover, thepoliceofficials

sent thereport forcancellationof vehicle registrations toregional transportofficerafterfindingat least 574vehiclesrid-ers of whichwere fined four ormorethanfourtimessinceJan-uary 1 this year.District police spokesman

Ashish Tewari said the trafficdrivewas carried out speciallyat reservepolice lines inMaha-nagarand trafficpolice lines inSadar during which 305 policepersonnelwere fined.Hesaidatleast 150policepersonnelwerefinedatreservepolice linesand155 at traffic police lines.Around 3422 commuters werealso fined for traffic violationsduring the day-long drive car-riedoutacross thestatecapital.Tewari said the city police

had taken a tough stanceagainst frequent traffic viola-tors andrecommendedcancel-lation of 574 vehicles’ registra-tion.Hesaidthesevehicleswerefoundviolatingnormsmultipletimes and it was detectedthrough e-challan system thatkeeps the data bank of pastfines. He said all vehicles thatwere fined for violation ofnorms four or more than fourtimeswerekept in theregistra-tion cancellation list.Earlier in the day, senior

superintendent of police, Luc-know, Kalanidhi Naithani dis-tributed 17 thermal printers tothetrafficcopstoprovideimme-diatereceiptofe-challan.Ther-malprinterproducesaprintedimage by selectively heatingcoated thermo-chromic paperor thermal paper when thepaper passes over the thermalprint head.

305 COPS FINEDFOR TRAFFICVIOLATIONS

LUCKNOW:FormersuperintendentofDeoriajailandfourstaffersareon the radar of the CentralBureauInvestigation(CBI)teamprobing the case in which Luc-know-based realtorMohit Jais-wal was allegedly tortured bymafioso-turned-politician AtiqAhmad and his aides inside thejailonDecember26,2018,anoffi-cial privy to the investigationsaid.The then jail superintendent

Dilip Kumar Pandey, jailorMukeshKumarKatiyar,deputyjailor Devnath Yadav, headwarder Munna Pandey andwarder RakeshKumar Sharmawere placed under suspensionand an FIR was lodged againstthemforallegedlyconnivingwithformerMPAtiqAhmad,whowaslodgedinDeoriajailthen,onMay6. The present jail superintend-ent KN Tripathi had lodged theFIRafteradepartmentalinquiry.A senior CBI official said the

roleofallfivejailofficialsandper-

sonnel will be investigated indetail while probing the caseagainst the former MP, his sonUmar and four aides Farrukh,Zaki Ahmad, Zafarullah, GulabSarwar and 12unidentified peo-ple. HesaidtheCentralBureauofInvestigation team will seek areport of the departmentalenquiryconductedagainstthemearlierbeforevisitingthe jail.He also said five jail officials

andpersonnelwereallegedtobeinleaguewiththeformerMPandtheyhelpedhimbytamperingthefootage of CCTV camerasinstalledatDeoriajailtoconcealthe sequenceof events that tookplace when Mohit Jaiswal wastakeninsidethejailonDecember26,2018.Intheinquiry,theformerjail superintendent and otherswereaccusedof tamperingwithjail entry records as they men-tionedthenamesofonlytwopeo-ple though 13 people visited theDeoriajailtomeetAtiqAhmadonthedayof the incident.

TherealtorMohitJaiswalwastorturedandbeatenupallegedlyintheirpresence.Earlier,Jaiswalhadallegedhe

was forcibly taken toDeoria jailfromLucknowbyAtiqAhmad’saides where the formerMP tor-turedandthreatenedhimbeforeforcing him to transfer owner-shipof five firms in thenamesofdifferentpeople.Jaiswal had lodged an FIR

againstAtiqAhmadandhisaideswith Krishna Nagar police sta-tioninLucknowonDecember28,2018.TheCBIhadtakenoverthecaseonThursdayincompliancewiththeSupremeCourtorderofApril 23, 2019 and had lodged afirst information report (FIR)with thespecial crimebranchofCBI’sLucknowunit.Hesaiddeputysuperintendent

of police (Dy SP) of CBI specialcrime branch, Lucknow unit,Prashant Srivastava has beenmadeinvestigationofficerof thecase. HTC

CASE AGA INST AT IQ

Ex-jail superintendent, fourothers under CBI scanner

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LUCKNOW : Once again the IIT-JEE Advanced website gave atough time to candidates whoremainedgluedtotheircomput-ers for more than six hours tocheck their results. The candi-dates in Lucknowwho crackedthe examination said it spoiledtheirmoodandhencetherewerenoreal celebrations.‘Due to some problem at the

serverendtheresultportalmaytakesometimetorestart.Candi-datesareadvisedtorevisitafter4pm’,thewebsiteread.“LinkforJEE advanced 2019 results wasnotworkingforalongtime.TheJEE advanced website hasregretted the delay in showingtheresults,”acandidate said.The delay in results led to

severecriticismforIITRoorkee,theinstitutethatorganisedJEEAdvanced this year, on socialmedia. Many questioned the

ability of the premier instituteabout hosting results andwon-dered if the computer scienceprogrammeoffered at the insti-tutewasworthashot.People also took to social

media to mock the crashing ofwebsite.“If IIT-Roorkeecannothandle their own website howcan someone even think of tak-ing a computer science coursethere? Every minute crores ofpeople login to their Facebookand Instagram accounts. Howcometheirservernevercrashes?Heretherearejust1.67 lakhstu-

dents,” reada tweet.PrajitKumar,AIR-1113,saidit

was frustrating as most candi-dates remained glued to com-puter to find their results.Anudeep Verma, AIR -1282,

said nearly 60 lakh studentsappearedinUPBoardexamina-tion and that website nevercrashedonresultday.Theexam-inationconductingbodyofJEEAdvanced must take a lessonfrom the world’s biggest examboard.KanishakGandhi,AIR–1711,

Madhur Kumar, AIR – 2382,RaghavPrakashAgarwal,AIR–2659,TanmaySingh,AIR–2690,Ojas Srivastava, AIR – 2785,Aryan Rastogi, AIR – 3167 andShresth Grover AIR 3422, havealso done the city proud. NimitAgarwal who scored AIR 3434sharedsimilarviews.Exuding happiness at the

results, a coaching centre headextendedhisheartiestcongratu-lationstoallsuccessfulstudents.

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ServercrashleavescandidatesdisappointedDELAY IN RESULTS Organising body draws severe criticism on social media

LUCKNOW: Dhruv Arora scoredAIR24and is topper in themalecategory from IIT KanpurregionwhileValayaRamchan-dani AIR 612 is topper amongfemale category from theregion.The Indian InstituteofTech-

nology (IIT)RoorkeeonFridaydeclared the JEE (Advanced)2019result. It canbecheckedonthe official website results.jee-adv.ac.in.InOpencategory,Himanshu

Gaurav Singh of Prayagrajscored (CRL) 2.In Scheduled Caste Person

with Disability, Aryan KumarfromIITKanpurZonegotAIR1.The top five candidates from

IIT Kanpur zone are: DhruvAroraAIR24,AkshatGuptaAIR61, Tanay SharmaAIR 62, Pra-kharJagwaniAIR78andKevin

ShahAIR 85.A total number of1,61,319candidatesappeared inboth papers 1 and 2 in JEE(Advanced)2019.Atotalof38705candidates have qualified JEE(Advanced) 2019. Of the totalqualifiedcandidates, 5356werefemales.KartikeyChandreshGuptaof

Ballarpur is the top ranker inCommonRank.Heobtained346marks out of 372marks.ShabnamSahayofMadhapur

is the top ranked female withCRL10.Sheobtained308marksout of 372marks. HTC

Dhruv Arora getsall-India rank 24›Link for JEE advanced2019 results was not

working for a long time.The JEE advancedwebsitehas regretted the delay inshowing the resultsACANDIDATE

INNUMBERS

33349numberof qualified boys

5356numberof qualified girls

15566numberof qualifiedgeneral (GE) candidates

3636numberof qualifiedgeneral (GEN-EWS)candidates

Totalnumberof qualifiedOBC-NCL candidates: 7651Totalnumberof qualifiedSC candidates: 8758Totalnumberof qualifiedST candidates: 3094

n Dhruv Arora

HTCorrespondentn [email protected]

LUCKNOW:IndiraGandhiNationalOpenUniversity,RegionalCen-tre,Lucknoworganisedadiscus-sionatAasthaoldagehome,Pic-nic Spot Road, on the eve ofWorld Elder Abuse AwarenessDay ,onFriday.The event was organised in

collaboration with Samarthorganisation.The children of the commu-

nity were taken to an old agehome to meet the elderly andthey were encouraged to holdconversationwith them.Regional director, IGNOU,

Regional Centre, ManoramaSinghaddressed thepeopleandsaid that we could gain betterexperienceinlifebyinteractingwith theelderly.“Buttheyouthnowadaysisso

engrossed in social media thattheydonotgainanyexperienceand keep repeating the samemistakes again and again,” shesaid.She added that 87 years old

Laxmi Srivastava fromAasthaOldageHometookadmissioninCertificateinFoodandNutritionProgrammeofIGNOUwhichisasourceofinspirationforallofus.

Kids encouragedto interact withthe elderly

their savings bank accounts byjust scanning amerchant QR codethrough their preferred BHIMUPIenabled app. Airtel PaymentsBank users can also use thisQR topay directly through their SavingsBank account orwallets using theAirtel Thanks app, said AnubrataBiswas, MD&CEO–AirtelPaymentsBank.

Customizable Smart TermPlan offerLUCKNOW:Max Life InsuranceCompany Ltd announced thelaunch of its customizable ‘MaxLife Smart TermPlan’, thatwilloffer customers the flexibility tocustomize their own protectionsolution by selecting fromawiderange of benefits and features.Under theMax Life Smart TermPlan, comprehensive benefits likeoptions of choosing frommultiplepremiumpayment term to suitevery budget, ‘Life Stage Add-onSumAssured Benefit’ formajorlife’smilestones likemarriage,child birth or home loan, sevendistinct death benefit options,said Aalok Bhan, director andchiefmarketing officer,Max Life.

CMS founder attendsint’l conference in AngolaLUCKNOW:Founder of CityMontessori School and education-ist, JagdishGandhiwas given awarmwelcome at Amausi airportby the CMS teachers and staff onhis return fromAngola. Gandhiwas on a visit to Luanda, thecapital city of Angola, to attendthe ‘5th International Conferenceof Constitutional Jurisdictions ofAfrica’ as the special guest ofhonourwhere Gandhi addressedthe chief justices, judges and legalluminaries of variousAfricancountries at the inaugural sessionof the conference. HTC

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LUCKNOW: The state-of-the-artfullyair-conditionedQaiserbaghbusstation,whichwasdedicatedto public inDecember 2016, hasbecomeavictimofapathy.

Aftera₹9.44crorefacelift,thefacility now is a ‘picture of filth’due to poormanagement by theRoadways authorities, saidlocals. Officials have failed tocheckmovementofoutsidersonthe bus station premises andthat’s why standards of cleanli-nessarenotmaintained, lamentpassengers.Allrenovationworkperformed by the state govern-mentseemstohaveprovedfutileas paan/gutkha stains can beseenallover thewallsandat thebaywherethebusesareparked.

“Thetoiletsarestinking.Theyarehardlycleanedduringthedaytime,” said Sunil Srivastava, adailypassengeratthebusstation.“It’s hard to believe that sanita-tion iscompromisedatabussta-tion that sees operationsof over1,000 buses and has a footfall ofaround1.5 lakhpeopledaily,”headded.

Despite 32 CCTV camerasinstalled here, no one has beencaughtspittingorspreadingdirtat thebusstation.

“Quite a few street vendorscomehere.Theyuse toilets, spitout in the open, spread filth andgo away. They want to be herebecause the campus has a cen-

n (Clockwise) Paan/gutkha stains on surface at the bus station; a man urinates in the open despite awarning on the wall and a railing on the premises being used for drying clothes DEEPAK GUPTA/HTPHOTOS

LUCKNOW: Doctors at the KingGoerge’s Medical University(KGMU),withthehelpofexpertsfrom a private hospital inNewDelhi, performed yet anotherliver transplant operationhereonFriday.This is thethirdsuchsurgery thisyear.

The patient was 48-year-oldmaleanddonorwashis21-year-old son and both are stable,according to the doctors. Thesurgery began at 5am and wascompleted late evening takingover12hours.

The transplant teamwas ledby Prof Abhijit Chandra, HoDSurgicalGastroenterology,whohadalreadydonetwomore livertransplants this year onMarch14 andMay 9. The team had DrVishal Gupta,DrVivek Gupta,Dr Pradeep Joshi, Dr TulikaChandra,DrSheetalVerma,andDr OP Singh. Dr Singh did thecounsellingwhilethechiefmedi-cal superintendent Dr SNSankhwarcoordinatedthe inter-departmentwork.

The patient was sufferingfrom chronic liver disease andthe doctors decided transplantfor theproblem. “It is oneof themilestones inthehistoryofSur-gical Gastroenterology depart-ment.This transplantationwasperformed at a very affordablecost as compared to other cen-tres inIndia,”saidProfChandra.

AccordingtoKGMUauthori-ties this transplant cost wasabout ₹7 to ₹8 lakh which isalmost 1/10th of any corporatehospitalcharge.

The patient and donor both,accordingtothedoctors,willbekept under round-the-clockobservation of medical expertsfor next one week and thenshiftedoutof thespeciallymadeICU for transplant patients.“High level of monitoring andinfection free environment hasbeenensured.Theywillbe laterbrought out of the ICU andshiftedtoaward,”saidadoctor.Later, the patient would

remainunder followupand thedoctorswouldadvisemedicinesand other measures to keepthemhealthy. HTC

KGMU doctorsperform anotherliver transplant

HTCorrespondentn [email protected]

LUCKKNOW:AnawarenessrallybyKGMUdoctors andmanyblooddonation campsorganised bydifferent orga-nisationsmarkedWorldBloodDonorDayonFriday.

Medical educationminis-terAshutoshTandonwasthe chief guest at the aware-ness rallybydoctors andmedical students.

The rally started fromKGMUandconcludedatShaheedSmarak.LucknowMetroRailCor-

poration, incollaborationwithKGMU, organised ablooddonation campat theMetroStationnearLucknowUniversity.

The campreceived over-whelming response fromMetro passengers andotherswho turnedup to donateblood. Supporting the initia-

tive,manyMetro employees,PACpersonnel and securityguards also donate blood.

“In just onehour of thecamp, 15units of bloodwasdonated,” saidProfTulikaChandra, HoD transfusion

medicine, KGMU.On14 June every year,

countries around theworldcelebrateWorldBloodDonorDay to raise aware-ness on theneed for safebloodandbloodproducts,

and to thankblooddonorsfor their voluntary, life-sav-inggift of blood.

“There is amisconceptionthat donatingblood causesweakness or loss of blood inthedonor’s body.But this isnot true. In fact, thosewhodonate blood arehealthierindividuals as their bodygenerates freshbloodafterdonation,” saidDrTulikaChandra. Shealso empha-sised that blooddonation isnot just a charitable causebut it alsohelps the donor infuture emergencyneeds.When someonedonatesblood, they get a certificate,which acts as a blood receiv-ing cardvalid for a year.

Thismeans that if incaseof an emergency, the certifi-cate holders or their familymembers require blood, theycanget it from thebloodbank just on the basis of theblooddonation certificate.

Thosewho donate blood are healthier: DocsWORLD BLOOD DONOR DAY

n KGMU doctors taking out an awareness rally onWorld BloodDonor Day on Friday HT PHOTO

trally air-conditioned hall, foodcourt, drinking water facility,etc,” said Kashi Prasad, addi-tionalmanager,Qaiserbaghbusstation. “I have issued instruc-tions to stop entry of outsidersinto the bus station to ensureproper cleanliness of the prem-ises. Higher authorities havebeen asked to issue platformticket for every outsider whowantstocometothebusstation,”headded. Atthetimeof its inau-guration,thebusstationwassaidto have access control system(ACS) to restrict entry of unau-thorisedpersonsandvisitors.

Hi-techbusstnapictureofapathyQAISERBAGH Three years after a ₹ 9.44-cr facelift, filth and poor management are clearly visible on the premises

n TheQaiserbagh Bus stationwas renovated at a cost ofRs 9.44 crore in December2016.

n It has passenger amenitiesin the formof enquirycounters, centrally airconditionedwaitinglounge, food courts,drinkingwater facility,toilets and CCTV surveil-lance.

n The premises have earth-quake-resistant construc-tion and proper bus andpassengermovement areas.Separate entry/exit forpassenger vehicles.

n It also has private vehicleparking in basement.

FACILITIES

LUCKNOW:ExpertsfromUttarPra-desh will guide health staff inBihar on controlling AcuteEncephalitisSyndrome (AES) /JapaneseEncephalitis (JE) andsharewhat theydidhere to con-trol the disease that killed hun-dredsofchildren inthepastsev-eralyears.

“This year till June 12 therehasbeenaremarkablereductionindeaths and cases.Therehavebeen14deathsfromAESandonefrom JE and I hope the numberdoes not go beyond 50,” saidhealth minister SiddharthnathSingh,addressingaworkshopofhealthstaffhereonFriday.

He said that he spoke to hiscounterpart in Bihar where 35deathstookplaceduetoAES/JEanddiscussed if UPexperts cangoandhelp .InUP ,thenumberofdeaths from AES came downfrom655 in2017to248 in2018andthisyearitis14.Similarly,deathsduetoJEwere93 in2017and30in2018.“Themeasuresworkedbutwehaveto take it furtherso thatthediseasedoesnottroubleany-one now,” said theminister. Hetoldthehealthstafftoworkwithownership.“Youdidwellbutthatwas 50% of your performance. Iwantyoutoput in50%morethisyear,”hesaid. HTC ( SEE P 7)

UP to help Biharcombat AES, JE

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LUCKNOW:TheresidentdoctorsofSanjay Gandhi Post GraduateInstitute of Medical Sciences(SGPGIMS)observedatwo-hourofpendownstrikefrom1pmto3pmand tookoutamarchonFri-day to protest the violenceagainst doctors inNRSMedicalCollege of Kolkata. They alsoworkedwith a dressing aroundtheirheadsasamarkofprotest.

TheFacultyForumandhospi-taladministrationalsoextendedsupport to theprotest.

Chiefmedicalsuperintendentof SGPGIMS professor AmitAgarwalsaid,“Violenceagainstthe residents is unacceptable.Resident doctors work underheavystress.Theircommitmenttosavelivesmustnotbedoubted.Theyneedprotection,not aban-donmentbytheauthorities.”

PresidentofResidentDoctorsAssociationDrAjayShuklasaid,“Despite best efforts, it is notalwayspossibletosaveapatient.InNRSMedical College, internDrParibahaMukhopadhyaywasbeaten brutally leading to adepressed skull fracture. He isfightingtosavehisown lifenow.The following day there weremultiple assaults on doctors ofBurdwan Medical College whowere protesting this violence.Despiteappealsfromthemedicalfraternity,there iscompleteapa-thyonthepartoftheadministra-

tionandpolice to stop such inci-dents. SGPGIMS RDA stronglycondemns such heinous acts ofhooliganismandstandsuncondi-tionally beside the residents ofNRSMedicalCollegeintheirpro-test.Doctorsaremadethescape-goat for lack of infrastructure,unavailability of bedsandotherproblemsfacedbythepublic inagovernmenthealthcareset-up.”He said, “We request the gov-

ernment to take strict actionagainst the culprits. If thedemands are notmetwewill beforcedtogoonanationwidepro-test.”

IMAPROTESTRALLYtheIndianMedicalAssociation’sLucknow branch organised aprotestrally inFridayinsupport

of doctors inWest Bengal.Emi-nent doctors including Dr PKGupta, Dr Manoj Asthana, DrRamaSrivastavaandDrPranjalAgrawalparticipatedintherally.IMA members also tied blackbandsasamarkofprotestfortheentiredayastheyworked inclin-ics/hospitals.

A delegation of United Resi-dentDoctorsAssociation(URDA)metunionministerHarshVard-hanandhandedoveramemoran-dumforcreatingbetterenviron-mentfordoctorstowork.Thedel-egation included Dr NeerajMishra, a resident doctor fromLucknow.

ProfSuryaKant,president ofthe Indian College of Allergy,Asthma,andApplied Immunol-ogyalsocondemnedtheattack.

PGI doctors protestKolkatamedical college violence

NATIONWIDESTRIKE ONJUNE 17

PRAYAGRAJ: On the call of theIndianMedical Association (IMA),doctorswill go on a nationwidestrike on June 17 to protest theWest Bengal incident inwhich ayoung doctor ParibahaMukherjeewas assaulted. Routinemedicalservices likeOPDwill bewith-drawn for 24 hours from6am thatday, though emergency andcausality services have beenexempted from the strike.Doctors associatedwith Allaha-badMedical Association (AMA) onFridaywore black badges andwill

continue to sport themon June 15too, on the call of IMA, said AMApresident RKS Chauhan. On June16, the AMAwill also take out acandlemarch.The AMAmembers also handedover amemorandum to thedistrictmagistrate in context oftheir demand of forming anational law against violence athospitals. The doctors at SwaroopRani NehruHospital also joinedthe protest. SomeOPDs remainedclosed.

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LUCKNOW:Withthestategovern-menttakingaseriousnoteofthedepleting ground water levelacross the state, the LucknowDevelopment Authority (LDA)hasdecidedonstrict implemen-tation of rainwater harvestingbye-laws.

Accordingtothebye-laws,allconstructions, residential orcommercial, on plots above 300sqmetresmusthavearainwaterharvestingsystem.However, barring big com-

mercialconstructionsbypromi-nent developers, most of thebuildings in the state capital donothavesuchasystem.

“All bye-laws related withrainwater harvesting will beimplemented strictly. We areensuring that commercial andresidential establishments onplots above 300 sqmhave rain-water harvesting system,” said

PNSingh,vice chairman, LDA.There isaseparatedivision in

thedevelopmentauthority thatclears all maps for residentialand commercial buildings.“Toget the map cleared, buildersshow rainwater harvesting aspart of the project but do notimplement it,”saidaseniorLDAofficial.

“If thedevelopmentauthority

wants to implement rainwaterharvesting bye-laws strictly, itwill have to make its zonal inchargesaccountable,”headded.

Chief minister Yogi Aditya-nathwill submit a report on thestatusofgroundwaterandstepstakentoharvestrainwater inthestateattheNitiAayogmeeting inNewDelhionSaturday.

“Uttar Pradesh has a dismaltrackrecord incheckingexploi-tation of ground water,” said asenior official of the state gov-ernment.

Tonote,groundwater ismer-cilesslyexploitedacrossthecity.In prominent markets tradershave installed submersiblepumps togetwater supply.In Aminabad market even

juicestallsoppositeJhandewalaPark have installed such sub-mersiblepumps.However, permission from

the municipal corporation forinstallingsuchpumps ismanda-tory.

LDA to enforce rainwaterharvesting bye-laws

NOFIGURESUttar Pradesh has no figuresrelatedwith exploitation ofgroundwater in cities acrossthe stateHarvesting rainwatern Jhansi is among the fewcities in the statewhich isserious in harvestingrainwater.

n Under the smart cityproject, Jhansi is enforcingrainwater harvestingsystem in 100 locations

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LUCKNOW : There’s a sharpdecline in the sale of litchis inLucknow after the Bihar gov-ernment issued an advisoryasking parents not to give thisfruit to children on an emptystomach.Healthexpertssuspectedthat

thedeathsofchildren inMuzaf-farpur were linked to toxinspresent in litchis. The kidsshowed symptoms of acuteencephalitis syndrome.

The fruit has a chemicalmethylenecyclopropyl-glycine(MCPG), which is believed tohaveaffectedbrainfunctioningwhensugar levelsare low, theysaid.

“Now, there are hardly any

takers for litchis inLucknow,”said traders.

“We actually don’t know

what to do with the stock thatcertainlywon’t last long, if notsold,” said Babu MohammedAtiq,whoownsashopata fruitmarket inDubaggaareaofLuc-know.

“Generally, litchis hit themarket prior to the arrival ofmangoes. Hence, the marketsare full of litchis asmangowilltakeanother10daysorso tohitthemarket. If thesalecontinuesto be low for the next couple ofdays, traders will suffer hugelosses this season,” BabuMohammedAtiq added.Nankau, a fruit seller from

Khadra area, said: “There aremany who have stocked thefruit.Butsincetherearehardlyanytakersnow,poorpeople likeuswhodependondailysale,willbe left hand tomouth.”

Litchi biz in the red in Lkoafter Bihar govt advisory

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LUCKNOW: The Lucknow bench ofthe Allahabad high court on Fri-day dismissed actress-turned-politician Jaya Prada’s plea filedagainst Mohd Azam Khan chal-lenging his election as MP fromRampur Lok Sabha constitu-ency. Jaya Prada, who lost theelection from Rampur in UttarPradesh, had sought a courtdirection to set aside Khan’selection as MP and declare herelected as the Lok Sabha mem-ber from Rampur instead.The petitioner sought a direc-

tion in the nature of quo war-ranto, thereby asking Azam as tounder what authority of law hewas holding the office of MPdespite holding an office of profitin the form of chancellor of Mau-lana Jauhar Ali University.For the first time since his reg-

istration in 1984, Amar Singh,Member of Parliament, alsoappeared as a counsel for JayaPrada in this case. He submittedthat it was a sensitive matterrelated to the issue of holdingdouble office of profit.Opposing the petition, the

counsel for the Election Com-mission of India OP Srivastavaraised a preliminary objectionon the point of maintainability ofthe petition. He said in electionmatters only election petitioncould be filed as per law. Hence,this writ petition was not main-tainable, he said.The issue of jurisdiction of

hearing the petition at the Luc-know bench was also raised asthe matter was related to Ram-pur parliamentary constituencyof UP.

HC dismisses Jaya Prada’s plea against Azam’s election

GORAKHPUR : Two mares and ahorse were euthanised afterthey tested positive for thedeadly Glanders disease. Glan-ders is an infectious disease andcan infect human beings. On Thursday, the horses,

owned by a local RajeshMaurya, were euthanisedthrough injection in the pres-ence of veterinary and animalhusbandry department officialsand after DM Vijyendra Pan-dian had granted permission forit. All three horses – Champa,

Chameli and Badal – had beenunwell for the last few months

and the blood sample sent to agovernment lab in Haryana’sHissar had confirmed Glanders.“To reconfirm, a test was againdone last month with the help ofanimal husbandry departmentofficials who then sent a letter tothe DM, requesting permissionto kill the ailing animals as theycould have posed a seriousthreat of infection among thehuman beings in the area”, chiefveterinary officer HarendraPrasad said. Following theeuthanasia, the three horseswere buried in graves of salt andlime water to stop spread infec-tion.

DM Vijyendra Pandian saidthat as per rules, the owner willbe given total Rs75,000 as com-pensation (Rs 25,000 per horse).Recently, some cases were

reported from Bareilly. Twohorses infected with Glandersdisease were executed in May.The first horse to be executed

was of one Kishan Babu whilethe second one was of oneAnokhe Lal – both residents ofBareilly. The two horses testedpositive for Glanders disease inMay during routine samplingcarried out by animal hus-bandry department.

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3 horses test positive for deadly Glanders disease, euthanised

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AGRA: Mystery over the motivefor the murder of UP Bar Councilchief Darvesh Yadav’s contin-ued on Friday even as the mainaccused remained on ventilatorafter being operated upon at ahospital in Gurgaon. The policepinned hopes on his revival todig deep into the case.Darvesh Yadav, 36, was shot

dead by a colleague in her cham-ber on the civil court premises onWednesday. The accused, Man-ish Babu Sharma, fired at herthrice after an altercation andthen shot himself in the head. Three persons were named as

the accused in the murder. Thedeceased’s nephew Sunny Yadavnamed Manish Sharma, his wifeVandana and another lawyerVineet Gulecha in the FIR. Sunny accused Manish’s wife

Vandana Sharma of repeatedlythreatening his aunt (DarveshYadav) on phone. According to him, Vandana

warned that if she (DarveshYadav) asked for the cash andjewellery (allegedly given toManish) back, she would bekilled. Sunny also alleged thatManish had encroached hisaunt’s chamber on the civil courtpremises. “We are working on allpossible aspects of the case andstatements of all those related tothe case are being recorded,”said Prashant Verma, SP (city).He said the investigations wereon, but did not share manydetails. “Manish Babu Sharmacontinues is on ventilator withnot much signs of improve-ment,” revealed police sources.

Motive behind Bar Council chief’s murder still a mysteryCRITICAL Main accused still on ventilator, police pin hopes on his revival

n Security arrangements at the civil court premises in Agra on Friday. HT PHOTO

AGRA : The senior superintendentof police, Mainpuri, has initiateda probe into the absence of apolice inspector from his Main-puri office as the same inspectorwas found present on the Agracivil court premises on the day ofUP Bar Council chairperson Dar-vesh Yadav’s murder on June 12.Inspector Satish Yadav had

marked his presence in the regis-ter at police office in Mainpuri,but moved to Agra withoutobtaining the required permis-sion on Wednesday, an officialsaid.“As a rule, policemen on duty

need to inform before leaving thedistrict headquarters, but itcame to our knowledge thatinspector Satish Yadav, who wasposted at the Mainpuri policeoffice, had moved to Agra with-out informing (anyone),” saidSSP, Mainpuri, Ajay ShankarRai on Friday evening.“Circle officer (office) Abhay

Narain Rai would conduct theprobe and submit his report afterseeking a clarification frominspector Satish Yadav about hisabsence from the district head-quarters without prior permis-sion on Wednesday,” Rai said.

‘We have received no com-plaint against inspector SatishYadav, but this is a disciplinaryprocedure we have to undertakein routine course,” the SSPMainpuri said. Preliminaryinvestigation had indicated thatSatish Yadav was present nearthe chamber on the Agra civilcourt premises where DarveshYadav was shot dead.The family members of Dar-

vesh Yadav have already clari-fied that Satish Yadav was theirrelative and thus was there inAgra the day she was welcomedon her election. HTC

Cop faces probe for leaving Mainpuri sans permission

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KANPUR : The Special Investiga-tion Team (SIT) probing the kid-ney transplant racket that wasbusted in February is tighteningthe noose around Fortis Hospi-tal, Faridabad in the case afterthe hospital’s coordinator Son-ika Dabas was arrested earlierthis week. SIT plans to question mem-

bers of the hospital committee,which oversees organ trans-plants, on the basis of evidencegathered in the last threemonths, a senior police officersaid.SIT officials said the hospital,

where organ transplant is done,has a committee that goesthrough the details and approvesthe process after careful vetting,supposedly in accordance with

government rules.Dr Deepak Shukla, chief exec-

utive officer of Delhi’s Pushpa-wati Singhania Research Insti-tute (PSRI), was the head of onesuch committee. He was arrestedlast week.Officials privy to the investi-

gation said it had emerged thatlike the PSRI, blood samples ofdonors and recipients werechanged for their DNA matchingat Fortis. Sonika Dabas allegedly con-

fessed that some people in thelaboratory were involved, theofficials said. A doctor and atechnician would soon be ques-tioned, they added.“We have evidence with us

about the samples being changedto make a favourable report tofacilitate organ transplant inFortis. The investigators willsoon question the lab staff,” said

a police officer.The committee approved the

process. SIT, which is in posses-sion of documents signed bycommittee members, will ques-tion them. “The committee and its mem-

bers are clearly under purviewof the investigation,” said theofficial.In addition, SIT is serving a

final notice on two PSRI coordi-nators Sunita Verma andMithun, who have obtained astay on their personal appear-ance before the SIT. Investigat-ing officer Anurag Mishra saidthe two were communicatingthrough their lawyer, but hadnot appeared before SIT torecord their statements. “After the final notice, we will

initiate appropriate legal actionagainst them before the chargesheet is filed,” he said.

SIT plans to question Fortis transplant panel members

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KANPUR : Scientists at the IndianInstitute of Technology (IIT-K)have developed a motion plan-ning and generation software forChandrayan-2, which will helpthe rover in its movement andguide its route on the lunar sur-face. It will also save energy andtime required to reach the targetarea. The Indian Space Research

Organization (ISRO) wouldlaunch its second mission to themoon- Chandrayan-2 on July 15.The mission expected to reachthe moon by September 6-7, 2019.Prof Ashish Datta of mechani-

cal engineering department andProf KS Venkatesh of electricalengineering who have developedthe software said the IndianSpace Research Organisation(ISRO) has approved the plan-ning and mapping generationsoftware developed by them.They said the lunar rover soft-

ware has been developed anddesigned in the country for thefirst time. “It was long due. This has ena-

bled the country to find a placeamong those having the tech-

nique of making lunar rover soft-ware,” they said.Prof Datta, who has been

working on the intelligent con-trol system, micro-sensor andbio-robotics said it took one yearto develop the software based onan algorithm method.The rover fitted with the soft-

ware developed by IIT-K wouldtrace water and other mineralwealth in the lunar surface. Therover would also send a relevantpicture to the laboratory for fur-ther research and examination.The software would be oper-

ated with a 20-watt solar batteryand assist the rover in drillingthe lunar surface to trace waterand other chemicals inside it.Fifteen trials to trace chemicaland water could be done with thehelp of the software, theyclaimed.

IIT-K scientists developed software for Chandrayan-2

THE ROVER FITTED WITH THE SOFTWARE DEVELOPED BY IIT-K WOULD TRACE WATER AND OTHER MINERAL WEALTH IN THE LUNAR SURFACE.

REVAMPED SAC TO ADVISE POWER REGULATORLUCKNOW: The UP Electricity Regulatory Commission (UPERC) on Friday announced a revamped State Advisory Committee (SAC) giving representation to, among others, farmers and consumers.The SAC constituted under the Electricity Act-2003 will hold its meeting from time to give advice to the UPERC on various issues related to the power sector. The new panel headed by UPERC chairman as its ex-officio chair-man, comprises 20 other mem-bers, including the two UPERC members.

UPSRTC to run buses on unserved rural routesLUCKNOW: The UP State Road Transport Corporation (UPSRTC) will now tie up with private operators to run buses on un-served rural roads to meet the conveyance needs of villagers. The UPSRTC board of directors on Friday approved the ‘Ordinary Rural Contract Scheme-2019’ in its new form at its meeting presided over by chairman Sanjiv Saran. Among others who attended meeting were principal secretary, transport, Aradhana Shukla and UPSRTC managing director Dheeraaj Sahu. “Under the new scheme, the UPSRTC will operate contract buses of different seating capacities with more attractive terms and conditions for the private operators,” said a UPSRTC spokesman.

Mentally challenged dalit girl raped in PratapgarhPRAYAGRAJ: A 17-year-old mentally challenged dalit girl was allegedly raped by a man in Patti area of Pratapgarh, late on Thursday night. The 45-year-old accused was later caught by the girl’s kin and handed over to the police. SHO Patti Akhilesh Pratap Singh said the victim was sent for a medical examination and the accused detained. HTC

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LUCKNOW : Four students fromUttar Pradesh were among thetop 10 rank-holders in the Com-mon Law Admission Test(CLAT) 2019 for postgraduate(LLM) courses, the result ofwhich was declared on Friday.A student from UP, Shubh

Mittal, secured eighth rank inthe same test for the undergrad-uate courses (BA-LLB).In CLAT for PG (LLM), Shi-

wali Agarwal and PriyankaTewari of UP were fifth and sixthrespectively with 102.3 markseach. Ankit Kumar Srivastav(102 marks), Anshuman Singh(101.3 marks) stood eighth andninth respectively. Among theundergraduate candidates, Her-amb Mishra got a rank of 40.Aditya Thakur, son of IPS officerAmitabh Thakur secured AllIndia Rank 71 in CLAT PG- 2019,obtaining 94/150 marksCLAT is the gateway for

admissions to undergraduateand post graduate courses in topnational law universities of thecountry. The test was conductedon May 26 at 84 centres all overIndia. CLAT was conducted for

admission to 21 national law uni-versities all over India. Thisyear, the permanent CLAT Sec-retariat was established atNational Law School of IndiaUniversity, Bangalore. The Con-sortium of NLUs decided to con-duct the test offline this year.The executive committee of

the consortium of NLUs consistsof Prof Faizan Mustafa, vice-chancellor, NALSAR University

of Law, Hyderabad as president;Prof V Vijayakumar, vice-chan-cellor, NLIU, Bhopal as vice-president; R Venkata Rao, vice-chancellor, NLSIU, founderpresident and treasurer; Param-jit S Jaswal, vice-chancellor,RGNUL, Patiala and SrikrishnaDeva Rao, the CLAT-2019 con-venor and vice-chancellor,National Law University Odisha(NLUO), Cuttack.A total of 61,859 candidates

applied for the UG course and7728 students did so for the PGcourse. As many as 56,247 stu-dents took the admission test forUG courses and 6,587 studentsdid so for PG courses.A number of public and pri-

vate sector undertakings use theCLAT PG score for recruitment.A number of well-known and

reputed institutions in India areusing the CLAT score for admis-sion to their UG and PG pro-grammes in law. Fifty-threeinstitutions have entered intoMemorandum of Understandingwith the CLAT Consortium foruse of CLAT-2019 score.

Four UP students among top 10 in CLAT PG 2019

IN NUMBERS n A total of 61,859 candidatesapplied for the UG course and 7728 students did so forthe PG course. As many as 56,247 students took the admission test for UG courses and 6,587 studentsdid so for PG courses.

n A number of public and private sector undertakingsuse the CLAT PG score for recruitment.

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LUCKNOW : Chief minister YogiAdityanath on Friday said allofficials of the basic educationdepartment, district inspectorsof schools, joint directors of edu-cation and other officials shouldwork from their respective offi-ces.“All officers should work from

their designated offices and stopthe practice of functioning fromcamp offices immediately,” thechief minister said at a reviewmeeting with officials of thehigher, secondary and basic edu-cation departments at Lok Bha-van. He also issued directives totransfer those officials who areposted in one place for manyyears. Deputy chief minister Dinesh

Sharma, minister for basic edu-cation Anupama Jaiswal andchief secretary Anup ChandraPandey were also present at themeeting.Adityanath directed officials

of the education department toconduct random checks and paysurprise visits to every school inthe state. The quality of mid-daymeals served to children shouldalso be checked regularly, hesaid, adding that principalsshould meet the parents of chil-dren twice a year.

‘FORM COUNCIL OF FORMER STUDENTS’The CM suggested forming acouncil of former students in allschools, colleges and universi-ties. The former students can befelicitated on Independence Day,Republic Day and at other pro-grammes. Many of the formerstudents are IAS, PCS officials,politicians or businessman whocan financially assist their almamater, he said.

POLICE VERIFICATION MANDATORYChief minister Yogi Adityanathdirected the chief secretary towrite a letter to police officials ofthe districts to make sure that no

school vehicles are run withoutpermits. Police verification wasmandatory for driver- conductorof schools, he said, adding allthese works should be done aweek before the schools and col-leges reopened.The chief minister said he will

inspect the functioning of differ-ent departments in various parts

of the state from June 21onwards.

INTERACTION WITH GRAM PANCHAYATS Officials of blocks, tehsils anddistricts should interact withgram panchayats and public rep-resentatives to bring a positivechange in education, the chief

minister said.“Our government is not going

to compromise on the quality ofeducation. In secondary educa-tion, we took strong measuresfor conducting fair examination.We will not let anyone play withthe future of students. We tookstrong measures which helpedus in weeding out the copyingmafia. The government has suc-ceeded in bringing a change inthe education sector,” he said.

Stop working from camp offices: CM to edu officials

n Chief minister Yogi Adityanath, deputy CM Dinesh Sharma and chief secretary Anup Chandra Pandey at an event in Lucknow. HT

›Our government is notgoing to compromise

on the quality of education. In secondary education, we took strong measures for conducting fair examination. We will not let anyone play with the future of studentsYOGI ADITYANATH, UP CM

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LUCKNOW: Pragatisheel Samaj-wadi Party-Lohia (PSP-L) chiefShivpal SinghYadav onFridayrejected rumours of a patch-upwithSamajwadi Party (SP) andaddedthathispartyhadnoplantomergewith it.“I had gone to meet “netaji”

(SP patriarch Mulayam SinghYadav) to inquire about hishealth.We did not discuss any-thing else,” said Shivpal, refer-ring to the recentmeetingwithMulayamwhere SP chief Akh-ilesh Yadav was also present.This meeting seemed to havetriggeredthetalkinpoliticalcir-cles of a possible patch-upbetweenSPandPSP-L.Addressing a press confer-

ence here, Shivpal said thatthough some people were intouch with him over the issue,therewasnoplanofmergerwiththeSP.However, Shivpal added: “If

thereisaproposalforanalliancefor the upcoming by-polls to 12assemblyseats,wemayconsiderthesame.”Ofthevacantassem-bly seats, 10 belong to the BJPandoneeach to theSPandBSP.Hesaid the recentLokSabha

pollresultswouldhavebeendif-

ferent had his party beenincluded in the SP-BSPalliance.According to sources, Akh-

ilesh is said to be completelyagainst the return of hisestrangeduncle to theSP fold.Political circles were abuzz

with talk of Shivpal and hisestranged nephew Akhileshburying the hatchet post-2019Lok Sabha results in whichwhile PSP-L failed to win anyseats and SP’s tally was alsoreduced to just five seats.“Wejusthadamarathonfour-

day review meeting to discussthe outcome of the results. Wehave no plan to contest the

by-pollsasourimmediate focusisonexpandingandstrengthen-ing the party for 2022 assemblyelections,”saidShivpal,addingthat we are growing fromstrength to strength.Shivpal said his partywould

soonlaunchanagitationagainstthe rising crimegraph, deterio-rating law and order and prob-lemsof farmers.“Chiefminister YogiAditya-

nathishonestandhardworkingbut the same cannot be saidabouthiscouncilofministers. Itis thecorruptbureaucracyalsoaroundhimwhich isnot lettingthegovernmenttofunction,”hesaid.

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Shivpal: No plan tomergewith SP, open to alliance

n PSP-L chief Shivpal Yadav addressing a press conference at hisparty office in Lucknow on Friday. SUBHANKAR CHAKRABORTY/HT PHOTO

LUCKNOW:The National HumanRights Commission (NHRC) onFridayissuedanoticetotheUttarPradesh director general policeoverbrutalassaultonaTVjour-nalist allegedly byGovernmentRailwayPolice(GRP)personnelinShamli.Thecommissionhasaskedthe

DGP to submit a detailed reportwithin four weeks, includingactiontakenagainstguiltypublicservants and status of the FIRregisteredagainst them.In a press statement, the dep-

utydirector,NHRC,saidthecom-missionhadtakensuomotucog-nizance of media reports that aTV journalist inwestUttarPra-desh’s Shamli district was bru-tallyassaultedbytheSHOoftheGRPonJune11night.TheSHO,alongwithaconsta-

ble, was booked and suspendedafter videos of the attack wentviral thenextday.The incident reportedly

occurredwhen group of report-ers assembled in the Manipurareawheretwobogiesofagoodstrainderailedatnight.Anargu-menttookplacebetweenjournal-istsandpolicepersonnel.TheTVjournalistwasthenthrashedanddragged to the local GRP policestationwherehewas lockedup.The victim claimed he wasstrippedandtheSHOurinatedinhismouth,hesaid.Thecommissionhasobserved

that the contents of the mediareports, if true, amounted togrossviolationof thevictim, thedeputydirectorsaid.Goingbythereportedallegations,thiskindofcruel and uncivilized act by apublicservantishighlydisgrace-ful and cannot be tolerated in acivilised society, he said. Sternaction should be taken againstthe police personnel if foundguiltysothatsuchabarbaricactwas not repeated by any publicservant in future, the deputydirectorsaid.According to media reports

carriedonJune13, theSHOwasseen attacking the journalist inthevideoclips.Thevictimreport-edlyallegedthepolicepersonnelattackedhimoutofvengeanceashe had run a story about anencroachmentbyunauthorizedvendorsinconnivancewithGRPpersonnel lastmonth.AnFIRbasedonthecomplaint

of the journalist was registeredand a departmental inquiryundersupervisionoftheIGRail-wayswasordered. HTC

NHRC notice toDGP over assaulton TV journalistin Shamli

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LUCKNOW:Congressgeneral sec-retaryJyotiradityaScindiasaidon Friday the party leadershipwill takeacall on thechiefmin-isterial candidate for the 2022assembly elections when thetime comes.InLucknow,hereviewedthe

party’sperformance inwesternUttarPradesh in theLokSabhaelections in a nearly six-and-a-half-hour session with partyleadersattheUPCongressCom-mittee (UPCC)headquarters.“The Congress leadership

andacommitteeworkingunderthe leadershipwill takeacallonthis issue,” saidScindia, reply-ing to a question on demandsfromafewquarterstomakePri-yanka Gandhi Vadra the chiefministerial candidate.Some party leaders

demanded that party generalsecretaryPriyankaGandhi, theCongress’s eastern UPincharge, be picked for thestate’s top job at a meeting inRaeBarelionJune12.PriyankaGandhihadconvenedthemeet-ing to review the party’s pollperformance and draw a roadmap for the2022assemblyelec-tions.Scindia, the party’s western

UPincharge, saidafterFriday’sreview meet, “Yes, we have anumberofsuggestions fromthepartymen. We need tostrengthen the organisation,and the process to strengthen

the party and energise the cad-res will begin in the next twoweeks.”Asked whether the party

would contest the 2022 stateelection in an alliance, he said,“We contested Lok Sabha elec-tions on our own. The outcomeinsomeof theLokSabhaseats isalright, while in some otherseatstheresultsarenotsatisfac-tory…we have completed thereviewof poll performance.”

In 2019, Uttar Pradesh saw atriangularcontestbetween theBharatiya Janata Party (BJP),Congress,andanallianceof theSamajwadi Party, BahujanSamajParty and theRashtriyaLokDal.TheCongresswonjustone of the state’s 80 seats.During the Friday’s review

meeting, someof thecandidatesblamed the party organisationfor thedismalperformance.Onthe other hand, the office bear-

ers of party’s district and cityunitsattributed thepoorshow-ing to lackofeffortsandcoordi-nationby candidates.The party leaders also

pointedout therewasconfusioninranksover theparty’s stanceon alliances in the Lok Sabhaelection.The party leaders could not

give clear signals whether theCongress would fight the elec-tion in alliance or would go italone, said a leader.TheCongressdecided togo it

alone only after the SP-BSP-RLDalliance snubbed it.Congress president Rahul

Gandhi had tasked both Pri-yankaGandhiVadraandJyoti-radityaScindiatoensureforma-tionofCongressgovernment inthestate in2022assemblypolls.

Partyleadershipwill takeacallonCMface:ScindiaPOST-POLL REVIEW Process to strengthen the party and energise the cadres will begin innext two weeks, says Cong general secretary in charge of west UP Jyotiraditya Scindia

n UPCC President Raj Babbar felicitates Congress western UP in-charge Jyotiraditya Scindia during a reviewmeeting with partyleaders in Lucknow on Friday. ANI PHOTO

›Wecontested LokSabha elections onour own. The outcome insome of the Lok Sabhaseats is alright, while insome other seats theresults are notsatisfactory…we havecompleted the review ofpoll performanceJYOTIRADITYA SCINDIA , Congressgeneral secretary (in-charge ofwestUP)

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VARANASI :Members of the AllIndianMuslim Forum for Ayo-dhya Dispute Settlement (AIM-FADS), called onSwamiAmim-ukteshwaranand at Sri VidyaMatt here andheld a longmeet-ing. They apprised the seer oftheirsignaturecampaignwhichthey launched for an amicablesolutiontotheRamJanmabhoo-mi-BabriMosquedispute.Addressingapressconference

in the presence of Avimuktesh-waranand,forumseniormemberAftab Ahmad Khan said, “We

havecreatedthisforumtofindanamicablesolutiontothedispute.”Khan said that the forum haslisted four points for creating aconsensusontheissue.“Point one:Asagoodwill ges-

ture, Muslims of this country,expresstheirconsenttoofferthedisputedlandinAyodhyaforcon-structionofRamtempleinorderthattheRamtemplemaybebuilt.“Point Two: In exchange,

around10acreofland,atasuita-ble location, should be given toMuslims in Ayodhya for con-structionofabeautifulmosque,”hesaid.Khan said thatPointThree is

most important.Muslims of thecountyshouldbegivenanassur-ance from Hindu brothers,backedbytheSupremeCourtandapproved by the President ofIndia,totheeffectthatnofurtherdispute shall be raised for andaboutanyotherMuslimreligiousplaceinthecountry,thatisstatusquoasontheeveofindependenceistobemaintainedforalltimetocome.Fourthly,withtheassurance,

responsibilityshouldbefixedonthe MP, MLA, DM and SP tostrictlyenforcetheprovisionsofThe Places of worship (Specialprovision)Act,1991.

AYODHYA D ISPUTE

Muslim bodymeets Kashi seer

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VARANASI: The process for thearrestofBSPMPelectAtulRai–arapecaseaccused–pickedupspeedwiththeVaranasipoliceput-tingupanotice for theattachment of property on two houses ofRai.A copy of the notice has been

putupathishouseinManduadihofVaranasiandBirpurvillageinGhazipur. IfRai doesn’t surren-der within the next two days,policewillattachhispropertiesafter seeking permission fromcourt. A case was registeredagainst Rai at Lanka police sta-tion here on May 1 following acomplaint by a woman whoalleged that Rai sexuallyexploited her. Since then, Rai isontherun.OnWednesday,June12,thecomplainantwrotetochief

ministerYogiAdityanathalleg-ing that Rai and his goonswerepressuring her towithdraw therapecase.Shedemandedspeedyaction against Rai and said thathe has not been arrested yet,thoughthecaseagainsthimwasregisteredonMay1.After registering the case

againstRai, policehad formedateam to arrest him and raidedvarious locations to ensure hisarrest. To avoid Rai gettingarrested, his advocate filed anapplicationinacourtinVaranasion May 17, expressing a will tosurrender.However, he didn’tsurrender.OnJune4,Rai’s law-yerfiledthepetitioninthecourtofjudicialmagistratefirst,Vara-nasi, and requested the court tofix any other date for Rai’s sur-render.His advocate informedthecourtthatRaihadmetwithanaccidentnearJamaniawhenhe

wasonwaytothecourttosurren-derbeforeitonTuesday.Raisuf-fered injuries in his leg. Rai’sadvocaterequestedthecourtthatanyotherdateshouldbefixedforsurrendering.The court askedhis lawyer toproduceamedicalcertificateregardingtheincidentofaccidentby3pmonJune4.After the medical certificate

was not produced, the courtrejected the appeal saying thattheaccusedisdeliberatelydelay-ing surrenderwhich affects thebasicspiritof justice.Raihasalreadybeendeclared

absconder.In the meantime,policepastednoticetoattachtheproperty at the houses of Rai.SuperintendentofpoliceDineshSingh said that a copy of thenotice has been pasted at thehouseofRai,ifhedoesn’tsurren-der now, his property will beattached.

Policemove to attach propertiesof BSPMPAtul Rai in rape case

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n Governor of Uttar Pradesh Ram Naik meets Union HomeMinister Amit Shah, in New Delhi onFriday. HTPHOTO

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VARANASI:PrimeMinisterNar-endraModihaswrittenalet-ter toallvillageheadsofSon-bhadra,wheremanyvillagesfaceacutewatershortage,andneighbouringdistricts,includingVaranasi,urgingthemtoresort torainwaterharvesting.Districtdevelopmentoffi-

cer,Sonbhadra,RambabuTripathisaidacopyof thePM’s letterwasreceivedrecently.“Itwillbesent toall637vil-

lageheads inthedistrict. Itwillcertainlystrengthenandacceleratetheongoingeffortsofwaterconservationinthedistrict,”headded.AsimilarletterwasreceivedinVara-nasionThursday.AdditionaldistrictpanchayatirajofficerRakeshYadavconfirmedit.“DearSarpanchji, rainyseasonisabout toarrive.Weareluckythat theGodhasgiftedsufficientrainwatertothecountry. It isourdutytomakeefforts for itspreserva-tion.Topreservethisgift(water),wehavetomakesuch

arrangementsthatwecouldstoreasmuchrainwateraspossible,” thePM’s letterreads.Intheletter, thePMhas

urgedeachvillageheadtocallanopenmeetingintheirrespectivegrampanchayatandreadouthis letter toallvillagers.Theyshouldholdaseriousdiscussionontheissue.Theymayalsooffer‘shramdan’ (labour) formak-ingpondsand ‘taankas’ (acyl-indricalundergroundrain-waterstoragecistern).Thelet-ter furtherreadsthat there isneedtotakesomemeasures

includingbuildingandclean-ingsmallpondsforstorageofwater,constructing/ install-ingstoragetanksat thecom-munityor individual level forrainwater,creationofsoakpits inthehouseholds forreuseofdomesticandagricul-turepurposeandgroundwa-terrecharge. ThePMhassug-gestedcarryingoutaware-nesscampaignforwaterconservationthroughralliesbesidesvillageandschoollevelpromotionofrainwaterharvestingthroughstreetplays, folksongsanddanceperformances.

Theletteralso laysempha-sisonmakingwallpaintingsinpublicplaceonthethemeofwaterconservation.Hehasaskedforconstructing‘tankas’ in largenumbers infieldssothatrainwater inthefarmscouldbepreserved.“Ifwecoulddoso,wewillnotonlyhavehugestorageofwaterbutyieldwillalsoincrease.Wewillbeabletoutilise thiswater forseveralworks inourvillages,” the let-terssays.“Iamconfident thatevery

dropofwaterwillbesavedwiththecollectiveeffortsatthevillage level.”“Asyoumadethecleanli-

nessmissionagreatsuccessbycomprehensivelypartici-patinginit, soallofyouwilltogethergiveashapeofmassmovementtoourupcomingcampaignonrainwaterhar-vestingandwaterconserva-tionandwillmakeitagreatsuccesstoo,” thePMsaysintheletter.ThePMhasinstructedthe

districtmagistrates tosendacomplianceemailwithphoto-graphof theseactivities tothePMObyJune30.

Dear Sarpanchji... Modi writes to villageheads of Sonbhadra, Kashi

RAINWATER HARVESTING

‘Taanka’ is a traditional rainwaterharvesting technique, common tothe Thar desert region of Rajast-han. It ismeant to providedrinkingwater for a single or asmall group of families and is animportant element ofwatersecurity in these arid regions.A ‘Taanka’ is a cylindrical under-ground rainwater storage cisternwherein rainwater from rooftops,a courtyard or natural or artifi-

cially prepared catchmentflows into the paved pit,through filtered inletsmadeon the externalwall of thestructure, where it is storedand can be used by one familyduring the dry season. Oncefully filled, thewater issufficient for a family of 5-6members for a period of 5–6months.

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MEERUT:ApallofgloomdescendedKiwanavillageinShamlidistrictonFridaymorningwhenmortalremainsofCRPFjawanSatendraKumarreachedhishouse.SatendraKumarwaskilledin

AnantnagofJammu&KashmironWednesday in an encounterwithterrorists.Hislastriteswereconductedwithfullstatehonourin thepresenceof stateministerSuresh Rana, MP of KairanaPradeep Choudhary and BJPMLATejendra Nirwal. Districtmagistrate Akhilesh Singh andpeoplefromdifferentsectionsofthesocietyalsoattendedthelastrites of the martyr. Satendra’swife Sonia has demanded toavengethekillingofherhusbandandfourotherCRPFjawans.“Wherewill I gonowwithmy

twosons,”shekeptaskingpeoplewhoweremourningthedeathofherhusband.Meanwhile,mortalremainsof

CRPFconstableMaheshKumarKushwahawhowasalsoamongthe ones killed inAnantnag ter-ror attack, arrived at his resi-denceinJaitpuravillageinGhaz-ipur. Thousands of villagersgathered to pay homage to theslainjawan.Formerunionminis-ter Manoj Sinha visited thedeceasedCRPFconstable’shouseto meet his family. Five CRPFpersonnel attained martyrdomand three others were injuredwhen their patrol party wasattackedbyterrorists in Anant-nagonWednesday. HTC

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hhtnation ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION IS IMPORTANT BUT THE COUNTRY’SPROGRESS IS ALSO IMPORTANT

>PRAKASHJAVADEKAR, UnionEnvironmentminister

ONDAY4, STIRSPILLSOUTOFBENGALMedical practitioners helddemonstrations acrossthe country on Friday,wearing fake bandagesand holding banners, tocondemnviolence againsta junior doctor inWestBengal earlier thisweek

since the delivery, is mentallybroken.“Thebabywasdetectedwith

‘foetal distress’ (birthasphyxia). We kept him at thesicknewborncareunit (SNCU)andtriedthebest thatwaspossi-ble for us,” hospital superin-tendent Palas Das told themedia.The junior doctors’ strike

thatgot support frommost sen-iordoctorsseverelyhit thefunc-tioning of outpatient depart-ments (OPD) at governmenthospitals.The crisis spread to indoor

wards and emergency depart-ments too. Radiology andpathology departments werealso affected.“If junior doctors, who form

thebulkofmedics inanyhospi-tal, stay away from work, it’snatural that seniors cannot fillthegap.Andsincemanyseniordoctors expressed their inten-tion to resign, one can imaginethesituation,”saidaseniordoc-toratHowrahdistricthospital,notwishing to benamed.Several tragic scenes were

seenat state-runhospitals.AtKolkata’sSSKMhospital,

the largest referral hospital in

n Awoman with her daughter at a government hospital in Kolkata on Friday. REUTERS

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MIDNAPORE/KOLKATA:On the daygovernorKeshariNathTripathicalledameetingofWestBengal’sfourmain parties in an effort tocontainthecontinuingpost-pollviolence, a politicalworkerwasshot deadandabout six personswereinjuredinclashesbetweensupporters of the ruling Trina-moolCongressandtheBharatiyaJanataParty.Saraswati Das, 40, a

BJPworker,wasshotdeadinsideher home in Takipur village inNorth 24 Parganas district onThursday, police said. “We arelooking into if it was a politicalmurderorwastriggeredbysome-thing else,” said Sabari Raj-kumar,superintendentofpolice.GaneshGhosh,BJP leader in

the area, said Saraswati was anactive party member and had

beenthreatened for thepast fewdays. “Goons backed by theTMC killedher,”healleged.Saraswati’s husband,

Suvankar, found her body rid-dledwithbulletsafterreturninghomefromthemarketonThurs-dayevening.“Ican’tunderstandwhymywifewaskilled.Shewasreceiving threats. I think thatTMC-backed men murderedher,”heclaimed.Jyoti Priyo Mallik, North 24

ParganasdistrictTMCpresident,saidthepoliceshouldbeallowedto investigate thematter beforejumping to conclusions. “It hasbecomeahabitofBJPtoinventapolitical angle in every incidentandblameus,”healleged.Politicalviolenceflaredinthe

state after theBJPbagging 18 ofBengal’s42LokSabhaseatsinthegeneral elections, restrictingchief minister Mamata Baner-jee’sTMCtoonly22.

V IOLENCE CONT INUES

BJPworker shot deadin Bengal, six injured

district.Kanchraparacomesunderthe

BarrackporeLokSabhaconstitu-ency. Barrackpore is an indus-trialareawherealargesectionofthe people aremigrantworkersmainly from Hindi-speakingstates.Reacting to Banerjee’s state-

ment,theBJP’sBengalunitvice-president Jay PrakashMajum-darsaidshewastryingtocreateadivide between the Bengali andnon-Bengali population to gainlost ground. “She realizes thather support base is eroding and

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KOLKATA:ChiefministerMamataBanerjee,whoislockedinapolit-icalbattlewithabuoyantBharat-iya Janata Party (BJP), said onFriday that those living inWestBengalhave to speak inBengaliandrespectBengaliculture.“IhavelearnedthattheBJPis

trying to instigate Nepalis, Raj-bongshis(acommunitysettledinnorth Bengal) and other non-Bengali people in the stateagainstBengalis, justastheyaretryingtoinstigateHindusagainstMuslimsandChristiansagainstSikhs. But I will never allowsomeone to stay in Bengal andstartadriveagainstBengalis,orterrorizethem.IfyoustayinBen-gal,youhavetospeakinBengaliand respect Bengal’s culture,”shetoldagatheringofTrinamoolCongress(TMC)workersinKan-chrapara in North 24 Parganas

theadministrationiscollapsing.Sosheisbecomingdesperate,”heclaimed.Friday’smeetingwas thesec-

ond in Barrackapore since theLokSabhaelectionresultswereannouncedonMay23.On May 30, on her way to

addressarallyatBhatpara,apartof Barrackpore Lok Sabha con-stituency, Banerjee had got offhercartwiceafterlocalBJPsup-portersraised“JaiShriRam”slo-gans.Shewasthenheardshout-ing,“Whatdoyouthink?Youwillcomefromotherstates,stayhereand abuse us? Iwill not toleratethis.”AccordingtoBiswanathChak-

raborty, a professor of politicalscienceatRabindraBharatiUni-versity: “Mamata Banerjee isresorting to Bengali ethnicregionalismtocountertheBJP’sprogressinthestate.However, Ihavedoubtswhetherthiswillbeaneffectivestrategy.”

Learn Bengali, respect state’sculture to stay here: Mamata

n Mamata Banerje

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MIDNAPORE/BERHAMPORE/SILI-GURI:A three-day-old baby boywith foetal distress died at agovernment hospital in WestBengal on Thursday afterremaining untreated since hisbirth, the death encapsulatingthe sufferings of hundredsof people since Tuesday whenjunior doctors across govern-ment hospitals struck workto protest an assault on col-leagues.Soonafter thebaby’sbirthon

Tuesday,doctorsat theCollegeof Medicine and Sagore DuttaHospital in North 24-Parganasdistricthadtoldhisparents thathe needed paediatric ventila-tion.Since the hospital did not

have facilities for this, the fam-ilywasasked to transferhimtoahospital inKolkata.However, the parents were

not able to step into Kolkata’sgovernmenthospitals.Weepingwith his newborn’s body in hislap, Abhijit Mallick said, “Thenote thatSagoreDutta’sHospi-taldoctors leftwithussaid thatthe baby was in critical condi-tion.“But the police did not let us

enterNRSMedicalCollegeandHospital, RG Kar Medical Col-lege and Hospital and the Cal-cuttaMedicalCollege andHos-pital. We approached two pri-vate hospitals but they did nothave ventilation facility forbabies.”Mallicksaidajuniordoctorof

Sagore Dutta Hospital tele-phoned the state health secre-tariat four times to try andarrange help for the baby butfailed. “The doctor himselfbroke down,” he said. His wifeJhumpa, who has been unwell

thestate,SandhyaMondalwasseen crying incessantly. Herdaughter Pratima suffered anepileptic fit onSundayandwastransferred fromagovernmenthospital inEastMidnaporedis-trict on Monday. She died onThursday.“She received the last treat-

ment on Monday. Since Tues-day,shereceivednotreatment,”saidMondal.At Midnapore Medical Col-

lege and Hospital, the familymembers of 17-year old SheikhSamim,whowasadmittedtothehospital after suffering headinjuries, alleged that he dieduntreated.Tension prevailed also in

North Bengal Medical Collegeand Hospital in Siliguri thatcaters to around 4,000 outdoorpatients everyday.On Friday, several hundred

familymembersofpatientspro-tested at the hospital, demand-ing immediate reopening ofOPDs.“My daughter suffers from

neurological problems. Wespent the nights ofWednesdayand Thursday on the hospitalcampus, hoping that OPDswould resume functioning,”said Khagesh Barman, whocamefromChengrabandaneartheBangladeshborder.Rabiul Islam, a resident of

Sujapur in Malda, said his sis-ter-in-law, who is sufferingfrom throat cancer, could notbe treated in Malda MedicalCollege and Hospital as theyfoundtheOPDclosedafter trav-elling more than 30 km in theheat.FromSiliguri toKolkata, the

scenewasthesame—hundredsof patients and their familymembers waiting at hospitals,sometimesevenoutsidethehos-pital gates.

RAJASTHANdoctors werepart of the stir

against the assault on a junior doctorin Kolkata. All Rajasthan In-serviceDoctor Association president (ARISDA)Ajay Choudhary said across the state,the doctors wore black ribbons andhelmets while working. Doctorsat private hospitalsboycotted work from10am to 12 noon

Doctors’ stir escalates across IndiaThousands of doctors held protests across the country on Friday, demanding better security and stepping up anagitation that began from Kolkata and has now escalated into a public health worry with political overtones

DELHIdoctors across theNational Capital

participated in the nationwide stir. Allout patient department (OPD)services, routine operation theatreservices and ward visits, except incase of an emergency, were halted infour major hospitals

KARNATAKAdoctors, nursesand other

medical staff took part in the stir. Theprotesters staged a demonstration atthe IMA (Karnataka chapter) office inBengaluru. The doctors and themedical staff on duty in privatehospitals and nursing homes sportedblack bands on their arms and apronsto express solidarity with theircounterparts inWest Bengal

*In Kerala, over 3,000 post-graduate medical students and house surgeons went on a token strike demanding an increase in their stipends

ODISHAresident and juniordoctors, and interns of

All India Institute of Medical Sciences(AIIMS) Bhubaneswar started aday-long strike on Friday. Juniordoctors in the state staged a dharnawith bandages on their foreheads todraw attention to the ”repeatedattacks” onmedical staff across thecountry. However, the emergencyservices at the premier healthinstitute remained unaffected.Students of the SCBMedical Collegeand Hospital and themembers of theOdishaMedical Services Association(OMSA) took out a protest march inCuttack

MADHYAPRADESH

doctors acrossthe state staged

protests on Friday. The junior doctorsat Bhopal’s Gandhi Medical College,observed a strike, impacting healthfacilities, except emergency services.In most hospitals, doctors workedwhile wearing black badges toprotest. "We are going to write to thePM for ensuring security to doctors.The Bengal incident has frightenedthe doctors across the country,” saidgeneral secretary of United DoctorsAssociation, MP, Dr Lalit Shrivastava

TELANGANAdoctors particpatedin the stir against

the assault on a doctor in Kolkata.The protesting doctors observed astrike for an hour between 9 and 10am. At Hyderabad’s Nizam’s Instituteof Medical Sciences and GandhiHospital, doctors attended only toemergency services. They submittedamemorandum to the stategovernment demanding security andstated that at least 10 incidents ofattacks on doctors had taken in placedifferent hospitals in eight months

GOAdoctors took part inprotests on Friday.

Resident junior doctors at the state’spremier government-run GoaMedical College and Hospital andother government hospitals joinedthe nationwide stir and refused tojoin duty. The emergency servicesand intensive care units of thehospitals remained operational andsenior doctors reported for duty

States and UTs wheredoctors protested

Kerala*

INDIA

TAMIL NADUdoctors particpated inthe countrywide stir on

Friday. The protesting doctorsstaged a dharna in front of thegovernment hospital in Coimbatoreto protest against the assault on ajunior doctor in Kolkata. Themembers of the local chapter ofIMA and Tamil Nadu GovernmentDoctors Association raised slogans,demanding better security

MAHARASHTRAdoctors took partin the stir. Those

affiliated to the MaharashtraAssociation of Resident Doctors(MARD) observed a one-day strikein all the 26 government hospitals inthe state. However, the doctorsposted on emergency dutiescontinued with their work, theassociation said. Doctors gatheredoutside the KEMHospital, Sir JJHospital, LTMG Sion Hospital and DrRN Cooper Hospital with banners,posters and placards to expresssolidarity with the doctor whowasassaulted in Kolkata and demandedmore security

5,00O

14,000

10,000

4,500

500

3,000

10015,000200

WestBengal

JAMMU &KASHMIR

doctors in Jammu tookpart in protests,

demanding better security formedical practioners across thecountry. The junior doctors of theGovernmentMedical College Hospitaland Associated Hospitals wore headbandages to work to protest againstthe attack on a junior doctor inWestBengal

UTTAR PRADESHdoctorsacross India’s

most populous state took part inprotests on Friday. IndianMedicalAssociation's Lucknow branchorganised a protest rally in thestate capital, Agra, Meerut,Gorakhpur and Allahabad. Residentdoctors held a two-hour strike at theSanjay Gandhi Post GraduateInstitute of Medical Sciences(SGPGIMS) andworked with abandage around their heads. IMAmembers also wore black armbandsfor the entire day as a mark ofprotest

PUNJABdoctors went on atwo-hour strike,

affecting services in government-runhospitals across Ludhiana, Amritsar,Jalandhar, Gurdaspur andMohali.The members of Punjab Civil MedicosService Association (PCMSA) woreblack bands and held protestmarches inside the hospitalcampuses. IMA state chief Dr NavjotDahiya said they submitted theirdemands to the state government

8,000 200CHANDIGARH

resident doctors atthe Postgraduate

Institute of Medical Education andResearch (PGIMER) held ademonstration to express solidaritywith their protesting counterparts inKolkata. The doctors suspendedworkfrom 8am to 12 noon, resulting insuspension of OPD services. Theresident doctors wore bandages ontheir forehead and held a peacefulmarch from Bhargava auditorium tillNew OPD

UTTARAKHANDdoctors acrossmedical colleges

and hospitals held a silent protestby tying black ribbons aroundtheir arms and demanding bettersecurity for medical staff. IMA'sstate secretary DD Choudhury saidit is “high time” the NationalSecurity Act is implemented tocreate a strong deterrent for thosewho attack doctors on dutyanywhere in the country

1,200 4,000 30,000

BIHARdoctors, including3,500 from

government-run hospitals, took partin the stir on Friday. The protestingdoctors abstained fromwork atPatnaMedical College Hospital(PMCH) and other state-runhospitals

10,000TRIPURA

doctors wore blackbadges and

armbands in all the hospitals and twomedical colleges, All TripuraGovernment Doctors' Association

General Secretary RajeshChoudhuri said, addingthat nurses also took partin the protest

1,200

JHARKHANDdoctors wore blackbadges, and

bandages on their heads to expresssolidarity with the junior doctorassaulted inWest Bengal. Juniordoctors of Ranchi Institute of MedicalSciences and other governmenthospitals took out protest in thestate capital on Friday. Doctors alsoboycotted outpatient department(OPD) and inpatient department(IPD) services in three medicalcolleges leading to long queuesof patients

1,000

PatientssufferasprotestintensifiesGROUND ZERO Three-day-old baby dies as strike continues inBengal, families of patients demand immediate reopening of OPDs

THE JUNIORDOCTORS’STRIKE THATGOTSUPPORT FROMSENIORDOCTORSSEVERELYHITTHE FUNCTIONINGOFOPDATGOVERNMENTHOSPITALS. THECRISISSPREAD TO INDOORWARDS, EMERGENCYDEPARTMENTSANDTHERADIOLOGYSECTION

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NEWDELHI: SeniorCongressleaderBalasahebThoratwasonFridaynamed Congress LegislaturePartyleaderinMaharashtra,thefirstappointmentinthegrandoldpartyafteritsdrubbingintheLokSabhaelections.Thiswas also a rare occasion

when the name was cleared bytheAll IndiaCongressCommit-tee,andnot thepartychief.Congress president Rahul

Gandhiisreportedlyabroadandis expected to return before thecommencementofthebudgetses-sionofParliamentonJune17.Gandhiofferedtoresignatthe

Congress Working CommitteemeetingonMay25followingtheparty’s rout in the Lok Sabhaelections.Thepartymanagedtowin just 52 seats. He asked theCWC to appoint a new chief buttheparty’shighestdecision-mak-

ing body rejected the offer andpassedaresolution,authorisinghimtorevamptheorganisation.Congress functionaries said

theappointmenthadtobeclearedbytheAICCasmonsoonsessionof the Maharashtra assemblybeginsfromMonday.Itwillbethelast session of the assemblybeforetheelections inOctober.Inalettertopartygeneralsec-

retaryinchargeofMaharashtra,Mallikarjun Kharge, and stateunitchiefAshokChavan,generalsecretaryinchargeorganisationKCVenugopalsaidtheAICChasapproved their proposal on theappointment of floor leaders inbothhousesof theassembly.Thorat replaced arch-rival

RadhakrishnaVikhePatil,whoquit the CLP leader’s post daysafter his son Sujay joined theBharatiyaJanataPartyandsuc-cessfullycontestedtheLokSabhapolls fromAhmednagar.The Congress also appointed

Vijay NamdeoraoWaddetiwar,currentlyitsdeputyleaderintheassembly,asthefloorleaderandMohammedArif NaseemKhanwillbehisdeputy.Meanwhile,aheadoftheirpar-

ticipationintheNITIAayoggov-erningcouncilmeetingonSatur-day, Congress chief ministersmetoverdinneronFriday.Madhya Pradesh CM Kamal

Nath hosted his counterpartsfromRajasthan (AshokGehlot)and Chhattisgarh (BhupeshBaghel)athisDelhiresidence.FormerMadhyaPradeshCM

DigvijayaSingh,formerHaryanaCMBhupinderSinghHoodaandformer Union minister AnandSharmatoowerepresent.Punjab CMCaptain Amarin-

derSinghdidnotattend thedin-nermeeting, held to discuss theparty’s strategy in the wake ofreports suggesting that Gandhiremainsadamantonhisresigna-tionoffer.

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Since June 1, 178 and 72 chil-dren were admitted in SKMCHand Kejriwal hospital respec-tively with suspected cases ofAcute Encephalitis Syndrome(AES) but most of them werefound to be victims of hypogly-cemia.The health minister who held

a meeting with doctors and offi-cials at the SKMCH said sixmore ambulances will be availa-ble there from Friday and a 100-bed new ward will be made oper-ational soon.Chief Minister Nitish Kumar

has already directed the offi-cials concerned to ensure thatpreventive measures weretaken in the affected districts,though deaths have so far beenreported from Muzaffarpuronly.Health Department’s Princi-

pal Secretary Sanjay Kumarhad earlier said the disease hasaffected 222 blocks of 12 districtsespecially Muzaffarpur, Vais-hali, Sheohar and East Cham-paran.

partnership basis. “Though ventilators — at

least six of them — were availa-ble in paediatric intensive careunits (PICUs), they were notbeing put to use as the doctorswere not trained. No trained intensivist was

available at the hospital to runthe ventilator. Even arterialblood gas (ABG) analysers werenot being put to use as doctorsdid not know precisely when touse them in such cases,” thereport said.“We are open to supporting

and developing capacity of statehealth personnel. We are evenwilling to share our functionalmodel of ICU and send our teamof experts and paramedics toSKMCH for firefighting andhands-on training of their per-sonnel,” said AIIMS-Patnadirector Dr Prabhat KumarSingh. Dr Lokesh Tiwari, associate

professor of AIIMS-Patna, is oneof the members of the centralteam.

HT Correspondent and Agenciesn [email protected]

MUZAFFARPUR: Nine more chil-dren died on Friday in Bihar’sMuzaffarpur district, which isreeling under an outbreak ofbrain fever, taking the toll to 63this month, with officials main-taining the deaths were due tohypoglycemia.All the victims have fallen

prey to hypoglycemia, a condi-tion caused by a very low level ofblood sugar and electrolyteimbalance, they said.The children died in two hos-

pitals of Muzaffarpur, one ofwhich was visited by stateHealth Minister Mangal Pandeyduring the day.On Friday, a seven-member

team from the Centre examinedpatients at the SKMCH and pre-pared a report on the hospital’smanagement of the disease.The team led by Dr Arun

Kumar Singh, national advisorof Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Kar-yakram, which submitted itsreport to the director general,health services, on Friday, saidresources were not being opti-mally utilised at the hospital, astate health official privy to thereport said. A copy of the report was also

handed over to Sanjay Kumar,the principal secretary, health,in Bihar. Singh declined to comment.The report also mentioned

that doctors were not perform-ing CT (computed tomography)scans as they were not familiarwith diagnosis and manage-ment protocol for AES, said theofficial. CT scan is available atthe hospital on public-private

Bihar death toll reaches 63OUTBREAK Central team says resources not optimally used in crisis management, officials blame hypoglycemia amid encephalitis scare

n A child being treated at Sri Krishna Medical College and Hospital in Muzaffarpur on Thursday. PARWAZ KHAN /HT

JAMSHEDPUR: Suspected left-wingextremists, also known as Mao-ists, shot dead five police per-sonnel at a weekly market inJharkhand’s Seraikela-Khar-sawan district on Friday even-ing, the police said.The Maoists who were riding

motorcycles also looted theweapons of the slain policemenbefore fleeing, they said.“Maoist assailants have

killed five of our jawans inKukdu this evening. The attack-ers were on two motorcyclesand ...[opened fire on] policepersonnel when they were on apatrol. We have reached the spotand brought in additional for-ces. The looting of arms andweapons indicates that it is thehandiwork of Maoists; we aretrying to ascertain the Maoistsquad involved in the gruesomekillings,” Chandan Sinha,Seraikela-Kharsawan superin-tendent of police (SP), said.Seraikela sub-divisional

police officer (SDPO) AvinashKumar had also reached thespot with additional forces.Sources said two of the slainpolice personnel were in therank of assistant sub-inspector(ASI) while two others were con-stables. Chief minister Raghu-bar Das condemned the incidentand said the attack reflects des-peration on part of the Maoistswho are on the verge of beingwiped out from the state. “The government stands

firmly with the family of thepolicemen killed in the incident.This is an act of desperation andthe government would continuewith its firm action against thebanned organization,” Dasadded. HTC

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NEW DELHI: Improving educationalstandards, creating job opportu-nities, providing quality health-care, empowering women andimproving human developmentare the focus areas of the govern-ment, finance minister NirmalaSitharaman said on Friday whileholding pre-budget consultationson the social sector.Experts present in the meeting

asked the minister to focus oneducation, hygiene, women’ssafety, rationalisation of taxes on

medical devices, higher taxes onsweetened and salted products,fiscal incentives for recycling ofwaste water and rainwater har-vesting in the budget, which isscheduled on July 5, according toan official statement.Finance ministry officials said

experts’ suggestions would befactored in while preparing thebudget. The outcome of the seriesof consultations may also be dis-cussed with the Prime Minister,who is expected to meet Sithara-

man and key finance ministryofficials before the budget. Themeeting, which is routine innature, is expected on June 20,officials said. Sitharaman isscheduled to chair the first meet-ing of the Goods and Services Tax(GST) council on June 21, atwhich state finance ministerswill be present. They also askedthe finance minister to furthersimplify the GST regime andimplement the Direct Tax Code,the statement said. HTC

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‘2 LET MILITANTS GUNNED DOWN’SRINAGAR: Two Lashkar-e-Taiba militants were killed in an en-counter with security forces on Friday in Awantipora area of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Friday, police and army officialssaid. Acting on a tip-off, police, army and the CRPF had launched a cordon a search operation in Braw Bandina area of Awantipora, officials said.

Bombay HC gives bail to 4 accused in Malegaon caseMUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Friday granted bail to four accused in the 2006 Malegaon blasts case. A division bench of Justices I A Mahanty and A M Badar granted bail to Dhan Singh, Lokesh Sharma, Manohar Nar-waria and Rajendra Chaudhary.

JD(U) spokesperson resigns after tweet rowPATNA: Ajay Alok, one of the six spokespersons of the Janata Dal (United), has resigned from his post, saying he does not “want to be a source of embarrassment” for party president and Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar. Some of Alok’s tweets did not go well with the leadership. There have been murmurs of Kumar being upset over the spokesperson going overboard in his criticism of the Mamata Banerjee govern-ment in West Bengal.

Amarnath pilgrims to be tagged for a safe trek NEW DELHI: In a first, each of the 300,000-odd pilgrims expected tovisit the Amarnath Shrine this year will be tracked from the base camp to the shrine and back, using a unique card, even as nearly 45,000 security personnel will be deployed to protect them, a senior home ministry official said on the condition of anonym-ity.

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The CM met five prominentdoctors and her office invited fourrepresentatives of the doctorsfrom NRS Medical College, whereMonday’s attack took place, tothe state secretariat for discus-sion but the offer was turneddown. Doctors in other states took out

protest marches and wore blackbands and helmets to work, as thefight reached the federal govern-ment and the Supreme Court aswell. Patients in some major hospi-

tals in the nation, such as the AllIndia Institute of Medical Scien-ces (Aiims), were seen queuedoutside out-patient department(OPD) sections as doctors partici-pated in demonstrations.“Doctors should resort to other

simple and symbolic ways of pro-test. As medical professionals,their duty is towards protectingthe rights of their patients,” saidUnion health minister HarshVardhan in New Delhi, when healso called on Banerjee to “notmake this a prestige issue” andresolve the matter with the pro-testers.“Despite getting beaten up so

badly, doctors have only askedher [Mamata Banerjee] to pro-vide them adequate security andalso demanded action against theperpetrators of the violence asper the law… But instead of doingthat, she warned them and gavean ultimatum which angered doc-tors across the country and theyproceeded on strike,” he said. “So if the chief minister acts in

a sensitive manner in such agrave scenario, patients acrossthe country will not suffer,” headded. Bengal governor Keshari Nath

Tripathi on Friday said he calledup chief minister Banerjee to dis-cuss the strike but got noresponse from her. “I have calledher up. Till this moment there isno response from her. If she callsme, we will discuss the matter,”he said while visiting one of thedoctors injured in Monday’sattack.

Doctors’ strike

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Airbus Defence and Space andTata Advanced Systems Limited(TASL) will jointly execute theproject, which will also be part ofthe Make in India initiative inthe aerospace sector, the secondofficial said.Once the contract is awarded,

Airbus will supply the first 16aircraft in “flyaway condition”while the remaining 40 will beassembled in India by TASL. “After the DAC’s clearance,

the C295 purchase will be sent tothe Cabinet Committee on Secu-rity for approval. The contract islikely to be awarded by the year-end. While the C295 is a replace-ment for Avro, it will conductsome of the critical duties cur-rently assigned to AN-32s,” saidthe third IAF official.The first 16 planes will be sup-

plied in two years, and the deliv-eries of the 40 locally-assembledones will be spread over an addi-tional eight years.

“The AN-32 is a versatileplane and has served us well. Butit’s too old and even theupgraded variants are nowhereclose to new-generation tacticalairlifters. The C295s can carryout most of the roles performedby AN-32s. I hope we concludethe C295 deal soon,” said AirChief Marshal Fali Major (retd),a former IAF chief. The C295 can operate from

short, unprepared airstrips andcarry out a raft of missions in all-weather conditions.The June 3 AN-32 crash has

put the safety record of the air-craft in the spotlight, especiallysince the incident now takes thetotal toll in AN-32 accidents to 55in 10 years. The plane took offfrom Jorhat in Assam and wason its way to an advanced land-ing ground at Mechuka in Arun-achal Pradesh’s West Siang dis-trict when it vanished from theradar screens and slammed intoa hillside. An airborne search team spot-

ted the wreckage on Tuesday,

eight days after it disappeared.There were no survivors, IAFconfirmed on Thursday.In July 2016, an AN-32 went

down in the Bay of Bengal with 29people on board. Exactly a dec-ade ago, an AN-32 crashed inWest Siang, killing all 13 onboard. The IAF operates a fleet of

around 100 AN-32s, more thanany other air force in the world.Some of the AN-32s have under-gone an upgrade in Ukraine toimprove avionics and increaseengine lifespan. Several planes are also being

upgraded at an IAF repair facil-ity in Kanpur as part of the samecontract. India and Ukraineinked a $400-million deal in 2009to modernise the planes.

AN-32

The trade ministry’s move,which was cleared by the exter-nal affairs ministry, comes a dayafter a senior Trump administra-

tion official raised “serious con-cerns” about India’s plannedacquisition of Russian S-400 mis-sile defence systems.Last week, commerce and

industry minister Piyush Goyalsaid India accepts the decision ofthe US to withdraw GSP benefitsto its exporters “gracefully”, andwill work towards making theexports competitive.Briefing reporters after a

meeting with exporters and stategovernment representatives,Goyal said the withdrawal of GSPis not a matter of life and death forall exporters. “India is now evolv-ing and moving out of thecrutches that we thought weneeded to export. India is no morean underdeveloped or least devel-oped country that we will look atthat kind of support. We believewe can be export-competitive atour own strength or at thestrength of our own comparativeadvantage.”In March, the US had

announced its decision to with-draw the preferential duty bene-

fits to India after talks betweenthe two sides broke down on “dis-proportionate” demands byWashington.However, the US had deferred

the withdrawal of the GSPbecause the Indian general elec-tions were underway. This hadraised hopes that the two sidesmay re-engage to try and resolvetheir differences after the Modigovernment took charge. OnJune 1, though, the US presidentsurprised everybody by issuingthe presidential proclamationand withdrawing GSP benefitsgiven to India, effective June 5.

India tariffWhile condemning the “propa-

ganda of the ideology of terror-ism” and intolerance and dis-crimination based on religion,the SCO members said it is a pri-ority to step up joint efforts tocounter attempts to involveyoungsters in the activities of ter-rorist, separatist and extremistgroups.Modi also presented a new

acronym HEALTH that could bea template for cooperation –healthcare cooperation, eco-nomic cooperation, alternateenergy, literature and culture,terrorism-free society andhumanitarian cooperation.A peaceful and united Afghani-

stan is an important factor for sta-bility and security in the SCOarea and India backs an Afghan-led, Afghan-owned and Afghan-controlled inclusive peace proc-ess, he said. “We are happy thatthe road map for further action bythe SCO Afghanistan contactgroup is ready,” he added.In the field of climate change,

Modi urged SCO members toback the International Solar Alli-ance to mobilise technology andfinance to reduce solar energycosts. Referring to India’s involve-

ment in connectivity projectssuch as Iran’s Chabahar port andthe North-South Corridor, Moditold the gathering that includedJinping, Russian President Vlad-imir Putin and Iranian PresidentHassan Rouhani that all such ini-tiatives should be based onrespect for sovereignty, regionalintegrity, transparency and relia-bility.In his speech, Pakistan Prime

Minister Imran Khan said hiscountry condemns terrorism inall forms and manifestations,“including state-terrorismagainst people under illegal occu-pation”. He contended Pakistanwas among the “few countries tohave successfully turned the tideagainst terrorism”. He also said

growing intolerance and Islamo-phobia were “threatening toaccentuate religious fault lines”.A scheduled bilateral meeting

between the Indian premier andthe Iranian president on Fridaycouldn’t be held as an official ban-quet for all the SCO leaders wasdelayed and this disrupted theschedule of all the leaders, peoplefamiliar with developments said.Modi had to attend a business

forum while Rouhani had vari-ous engagements, they said.

Modi at SCO

Climate scientist Tom Matt-hews described the experienceas “frustrating” at the NationalGeographic Explorers Festivalon Thursday. “We ran into theback of queue…which both wasfrustrating if you have queuedup for anything you would know.On top of that, we had the knowl-edge that queuing up is veryunsafe for everyone.”Paul Mayewski, distinguished

professor at the School of Earthand Climate Sciences, Univer-sity of Maine, and lead scientiston the expedition, told HT thatthe team has already got someinitial results from their expedi-tion, with locals giving themdetails of how dramatically cli-mate change has impacted themountain. Analysis of the sam-ples will give the first-ever cli-mate information to the worldfrom any region above 6,500metres above sea level, he added.“Glaciers around Everest

have become smaller in a very

short period of time. If you lookat the climate records you cansee that in the last 20 years therehas been about a one degree Cel-sius rise in temperature depend-ing on the elevation,” Mayewskisaid. “It’s one thing to say howclimate change is impacting usbased on models, it’s anotherthing to go up there and measurethings. In the next few monthswe will start analysing the sam-ples, we will look at what sort ofpollutants are being seen inthese glaciers, including leadand persistent organic pollu-tants (POPs). They are amazingreservoirs of everything that isin the atmosphere. Glaciersdon’t lie.”The analysis from thisexpedition will also reveal howmonsoon patterns will change inIndia. Indian scientists haveindicated that monsoon is weak-ening over the years, but thisdata may give more clues to whattime of the year moisture comesin compared to earlier.

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ces is the non-availability of drug-eluting stents in India. Even asthe two sides try to hammer out adeal, this is an issue that couldalso impact India’s booming med-ical tourism sector. Second, on the investment

front, India’s recent rules one-commerce have inconven-ienced US-based firms Walmartand Amazon, which run India’stop two e-commerce marketpla-ces. Walmart, in 2018, completeda $16 billion acquisition of Flip-kart. India’s new e-commercerules say that online marketpla-ces must treat all vendors equallyby providing the same terms.This effectively stops these com-panies from forcing sellers to fea-ture products exclusively ontheir platforms, thereby limitingcontrol over inventory. It’s anissues that has become anotherirritant between the countries. Third, data localization rules

by the Reserve Bank of India(RBI) -- all system providers must

Shishir Guptan [email protected]

NEW DELHI: India’s move to imposeretaliatory tariffs on the UnitedStates could worsen the trade-re-lated problems between the twocountries because the Trumpadministration is not in a mood torelent on international trade andmay not shy away from a con-frontation, according to tradeanalysts in Washington and NewDelhi who asked not to be named.The trade deficit between India

and the US stood at roughly $21.3billion in India’s favour in 2018.Though some trade between thetwo countries has increased inrecent months, the problemlargely hovers around threeissues that could have long-termimplications, the analysts con-tended.The first is the disagreement

over medical devices. India, in2017, put certain cost caps on cer-tain procedural and remedialequipment largely to benefitpoorer patients. The most impor-tant among the devices was thecap on stents, which affectedlarge US multinationals such asAbbot and Boston Scientific.India’s medical devices market isestimated to be about $5 billion,and one fallout of the cap on pri-

ensure that the entire datarelated to payment systems arestored in a system only in India toensure better monitoring of ser-vice operators – have become apoint of contention. In April, the US criticised the

norms, describing them as dis-criminatory and trade-distortive.“India has recently promulgateda number of data localisationrequirements that would serve assignificant barriers to digitaltrade between the US and India,”the US Trade Representative’s2019 National Trade EstimateReport on Foreign Trade Barrierssaid. It added that the costs ofdata-intensive services for sup-pliers were being raised by forc-ing the construction of unneces-sary, redundant data centres andpreventing local firms from tak-ing advantage of the best availa-ble global services.In this backdrop, on June 1, US

President Donald Trump issuedthe presidential proclamationand withdrew preferential dutybenefits — Generalised System ofPreferences (GSP) — to India.The trade analysts cited above

said that a retaliatory tariffsresponse by India may be goodfrom a political standpoint, butcould inflict long-term damage totrade between the two countries.

Retaliatory tariffs on US could worsen trade ties

THE TRADE DEFICIT BETWEEN INDIA AND THE US STOOD AT ROUGHLY $21.3 BILLION IN INDIA’S FAVOUR IN 2018

Yashwant Rajn [email protected]

WASHINGTON: A senior Trumpadministration official said onThursday there were “seriousconcerns” about India’s plannedacquisition of Russian S-400 mis-sile defence systems that couldnot only leave India vulnerable tosanctions but also “limit” inter-operability between US andIndian militaries, a key focus ofgrowing ties between the twocountries.India’s acquisition of S-400s

“effectively could limit India’sability to increase our own inter-operability”, Alice Wells, head ofthe State Department’s south andcentral Asia bureau told lawmak-ers at a Congressional hear-ing.The threat to defence interop-erability is a new and developingargument Americans are deploy-ing to up the ante for India by say-ing it could be risking growingdefence ties marked by the sign-ing last year of the Communica-tions Compatibility and SecurityAgreement (COMCASA) thatallows sharing of classifieddefence intelligence and is con-sidered a foundational militarypact. “At (a) certain point, a stra-

tegic choice has to be made aboutpartnerships... and platforms acountry is going to adopt,” Wellssaid. The US first used the inter-operability argument in the con-text of S-400s against Turkey, aNATO ally. It is in danger of losing the alli-

ance’s next-generation F-35fighter jets that it had contractedto buy, and already paid for, overits plans to buy the Russian mis-sile defence systems despiteAmerican warnings and threats,because, US department ofdefense officials said earlier thisweek, the two platforms are“incompatible”. Americans,actually, fear that their cutting-edge, superior technologies couldbe compromised working in thesame environment as Russianequipment.Interoperability was Wells’s

first line of argument on the issueof S-400s on India’s shopping listin response to a question from alawmaker who wanted to knowIndia’s reasons for pursuing thedeal. And it overtook the threat of

sanctions US officials had heldout as the lead deterrent under aUS law aimed at punishing Rus-sia for the 2016 election meddling.

‘Serious concerns’ in US over S-400 purchase HT Correspondent

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NEW DELHI: After appearing toavoid each other at more thanhalf a dozen events during theShanghai Cooperation Organi-sation (SCO) Summit in the Kyr-gyzstan capital of Bishkek,Prime Minister Narendra Modiand his Pakistani counterpartImran Khan briefly exchangedpleasantries on Friday.People familiar with develop-

ments were quick to point outthat there was no “pull aside” orformal meeting between the twoleaders, who have spoken onphone and exchanged letterssince Khan’s party won Paki-stan’s general election last year.Ahead of the SCO Summit,

Indian officials had insisted thatthere would be no formal meet-ing between Modi and Khan at

Bishkek. This didn’t prevent the Paki-

stani side from making over-tures for an engagement. India’slack of desire to engage was sig-nalled by Modi on Thursday,when he said Pakistan is yet toact on India’s concerns and cre-ate an atmosphere free of terror-ism. On Thursday and Friday,Modi and Khan were together attwo photo ops, a concert, a din-ner hosted by the Kyrgyz presi-

dent, a formal lunch, and twosessions of the SCO leaders butchose not to engage. While six ofthe eight visiting SCO leaderswere hosted at Ala Archa StateResidence, the official home ofthe Kyrgyz president, Modi andRussian President VladimirPutin opted to stay at othervenues.It was only when Modi and

Khan came face to face in theleaders lounge on Friday thatthey “exchanged usual pleasant-ries” in the presence of SCOheads of government, the peoplecited above said.Pakistan’s foreign minister

Shah Mahmood Qureshidescribed the encounter toIndian journalists as “aninformal exchange”, and saidKhan congratulated Modi on hisrecent election victory “with aheavy mandate”.

Modi, Khan briefly exchange pleasantries at SCO Summit

PEOPLE FAMILIAR WITH DEVELOPMENTS WERE QUICK TO POINT OUT THAT THERE WAS NO “PULL ASIDE” OR FORMAL MEETING BETWEEN THE TWO LEADERS

tuted by the Karnataka govern-ment, to probe the matter, said itwas still on the lookout for Man-soor Khan, amid reports that hemight have fled abroad. “We seized his car from the air-

port, but we do not have evidencethat he has indeed flown abroador anywhere,” the official said onFriday.IMA Jewels auditor Iqbal

Khan has been arrested by SIT inthe IMA Ponzi scam in Benga-luru, the investigative team con-firmed on Friday, a news agency

reported.Meanwhile, news agency PTI

reported the Enforcement Direct-orate has filed a case of moneylaundering in this connection.The agency’s zonal office in

Bengaluru has filed an Enforce-ment Case Information Report(ECIR), equivalent to a first infor-mation report (FIR), and haspressed criminal charges underthe Prevention of Money Laun-dering Act (PMLA), PTI quotesagency officials as saying.

(With agency inputs)

Vikram Gopaln [email protected]

BENGALURU: Around 28,000 peoplehave filed complaints since Mon-day of having been cheated by IMonetary Advisory (IMA), anIslamic investment firm that haspurportedly gone bust, a day afternews broke that the company’sfounder Mohammed MansoorKhan had absconded, the policesaid.A senior official of the special

investigation team (SIT), consti-

K ’ TA K A I M A S C A N D A L

ED files money-laundering case

GOVERNMENT OF INDIAMINISTRY OF TEXTILES

NATIONAL HANDICRAFT AND HANDLOOM MUSEUMINVITATION FOR CRAFTS DEMONSTRATION PROGRAMME

1. The craft museum (National Handicraft and Handloom Museum) organizes a monthlyprogramme of crafts demonstration throughout the year in which crafts persons (weavers,artisans, folk, performers of songs/dance/music) are invited from all parts of India to comeand demonstrate their skills at crafts museum, New Delhi.

2. Applications are invited from crafts persons for participation in the programme on plainpaper supported with artisan identity card by mentioning previous participations details andtype of craft. The norms of the programme are following

i. The craftsperson should possess an identity card issued by the O/o the DevelopmentCommissioner (Handicrafts/Handlooms).

ii. The selected craftsperson/weavers will be paid a prescribed Honorarium, Travellingallowance, local conveyance and transportation costs.

iii. Basic dormitory accommodation will be provided free of cost.

iv. Each programme will be for a calendar month.

v. Previous participants will not be eligible for 3 years from the last date of participation.

3. Applications should be sent by post/email on the following addresses:-

Contact NumbersDeputy Director Deputy Director: 011-23370265National Handicrafts and Handlooms Museum [email protected](Crafts Museum)Pragati Maidan, Bhairon Road, New Delhi-110001 Senior Director: 01123371641Fax: 011-23371515 Email ID: [email protected]

4. To ensure participation of crafts person the scheme is open ended with no last date.

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HT Correspondentn [email protected]

CHENNAI: Faced with protests frompolitical parties and railwayemployees, Southern Railway onFriday withdrew a circular man-dating all station masters to com-municate with divisional controlrooms only in Hindi or English,avoiding the use of local langua-ges.Published in a section of media

two days ago, the circular waswithdrawn after the DravidaMunnetra Kazhagam (DMK)slammed it as another attempt at“imposing” Hindi. The PattaliMakkal Katchi (PMK) and Maru-malarchi Dravida Munnetra Kaz-hagam (MDMK) too panned themove.The All India Station Mas-ters Association and the All IndiaRailwaymen’s Federation alsoregistered their protest.The circular was issued in

May, days after a reported lan-guage issue between two stationmasters in Madurai district led totwo trains running on the sametrack. Three officials were sus-

pended over the incident. At thattime, there was a vociferousdemand to recruit only those hav-ing a knowledge of Tamil.Terming the Southern Rail-

way move “arrogant”, DMK pres-ident M K Stalin alleged that thecircular amounted to imposingHindi and destroying the locallanguage. “They are repeatedlyplaying with the sentiments ofTamils... If such cheap orders arenot stopped immediately, we willput a full stop to them,” Stalinposted on Facebook in Tamil.DMK MP Dayanidhi Maran

presented a memorandum toSouthern Railway officials. Theofficials assured them of with-drawing the circular with “imme-diate effect”. Maran told report-ers the DMK would “make anysacrifice” to prevent what he saidwas the imposition of Hindi inTamil Nadu.Southern Railway officials

clarified that the circular was“purely internal” and issued toavoid any communication prob-lem.

(With agency inputs)

A F T E R P R O T E S T S

Southern Rly recalls ‘Hindi-English’ order

HT Correspondentn [email protected]

NEW DELHI: The ministry of infor-mation and broadcasting (MIB)has issued an advisory to all pri-vate television channels to carrycredits at the end of programmesin the language in which the pro-grammes are telecast for the ben-efit of viewers who cannot readEnglish. The channels will be freeto also carry the credits inEnglish.Union MIB minister Prakash

Javadekar tweeted that this wasbeing done to promote Indian lan-guages. He said the governmentwas not “restricting” the chan-nels to use only Hindi or regional

languages, but “adding” morelanguages. A similar order will beissued to cinemas as well, he said.“It has come to the notice of

ministry of information andbroadcasting that several Hindiand Regional Language TV chan-nels display the castings/credits/titles of Hindi and Regional lan-guage TV serials only in English.This practice tends to deprivepeople versed with Hindi andregional languages of the valua-ble information about casting ofTV serials,” the advisory reads.In January, HT had reported

that the MIB had written to par-ties concerned to run titles andcredits in Hindi for all Hindi fea-ture films.

Channels get advisory on credit language

GOVERNMENT OF INDIACENTRAL INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY

KANKE, RANCHI-834006 (JHARKHAND)Notice

Director, Central Institute of Psychiatry, Ranchi invites theapplications for the posts of Senior Residents and Junior Residents(Non-PG). Details of vacant postsareas under;1. SeniorResident - 08posts.i) Psychiatry - 06 (02 UR) (Reserved (Vertical) ST-1 & OBC-3,(Horizontal)PH-1)ii) Neurology - 01 (01-UR).iii)Radio-diagnosis- 01 (01UR)2. Junior Resident (Non-PG) – 05 posts.Desirous candidates fulfilling the qualificationmay appear for walk-in-interview with their application in the prescribed format giving fulldetails of academic records and experience along with original andattested photocopy of the relevant documents with recentphotograph on 10.07.2019 at 9.30 A.M. at this institute. Details canbe seen on the institute'swebsite;www.cipranchi.nic.in

Sd/- Director

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HT Correspondentn [email protected]

LAKHIMPUR KHERI: A mysteriousunderground fire on a barrenpiece of forest land in MudaGalib block of Mohammadirange forests of Uttar Pradesh’sKheri district created sensationin the area on Friday.Emanating through cracks in

the ground, the fire baffled thevillagers who thought it wassome volcanic incident.“At some places, the hard-

cracked material on the groundturned into red embers,” saidlocals, who intimated the localadministration and the forestauthorities. “It was a natural

phenomenon in which theunderground humus layer of thesoil caught fire,” said VikasDubey, tehsildar, Mohammadi.Dubey, who was the first offi-

cial to rush to the spot, said; “The

land where the underground firebroke out has been lying barrenfor several decades.” “Dry leavesand twigs which had piled up onthe land in past several years gotnaturally buried undergroundforming a humus layer. It mayhave started cracking due to therise in temperature, therebycausing underground fire,” said

Dubey.“Locals had unintentionally

lit fire on the land a few daysback, which was doused immedi-ately. While the visible fire over the

land was doused, in the process,it may have caught the humuslayer of the soil causing smokeemission from the crackedground,” said Dubey.Divisional forest officer

(DFO), south Kheri, SameerKumar also termed the incidentas “nothing unusual”. “We haverushed forest officials to dig tren-ches around the affected piece ofland to prevent spread of under-ground fire in the neighbouringcluster,” Kumar said.

‘Mysterious’ fire grips Kheri forest area

› It may have startedcracking due to rise in

temperature, thereby causing underground fireVIKAS DUBEY, tehsildar, Mohammadi

n The fire in Mohammadi. HT PHOTO

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Indore,MadhyaPradesh:Thegovernmenthasorderedpoliceescortforwatertank-ersandguardsatallwatersources.Chennai, Tamil Nadu: Twelve tech

companies have asked employees to workfromhomebecausetheydon’thavewatertosustainoperations.Beed,Maharashtra:Almostentirevillages

aredesertedasresidentshavestartedmigrat-inginsearchofwater.Theseare justa fewexamplesof thecrisis

India is facing.Thiswater emergency,how-ever,isnotjustaboutthelackofavailabilityofthenaturalresource.It ismuchmoreseverethanthat.Ourriversarepolluted,traditionalwater harvesting systems are gone, catch-mentsaredeforested,groundwaterlevelsaredepletingandpondsandlakesaredisappear-ingatanalarmingpace.India has over 18%of theworld’s popula-

tionbutjust4%ofitsfreshwaterresources.A2018reportoftheNITIAayogalsomentionedthatthecountryis“sufferingfromtheworst

The political response tothewater crisis is tepidA new ministry will not solve the problem unless thecountry’s water governance system is overhauled

watercrisisinitshistory”.Despitesuchwarn-ings, unfortunately, thepolitical andpublicresponseontheissuehasbeentepid.Therul-ing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and theOppositionCongress did not raise the issueduring their pre-election rallies asmuch asrequired,thoughtheirmanifestoshadwater-relatedpromises.TheBJPsaiditwillprovidepipedwater to everyhousehold by 2024 andtheCongresshadpromisedprovidinguniver-salaccesstodrinkingwater.Politicianswereable to get awaywithvery little focuson thewater crisis because the voters did notdemandanswerseventhoughmanyofthemareseverelyaffectedbythiscrisis.The first proactive efforts at tackling the

calamitywasseenafterthenewgovernmenttookoveronMay30withPrimeMinisterNar-endraModiunveilingtheJalShaktiministry,whichhasbeenformedbymergingtheminis-tryofwaterresources,riverdevelopmentandGangarejuvenationandministryofdrinkingwater and sanitation. This raisedhopes butmanywereshockedwhenthenewminister,GajendraShekhawat,onJune11,said:“Thewatercrisis isnotasbadas thehypecreatedbythemedia.”ThecommentcomesamonthaftertheCentreissueda“droughtadvisory”toMaharashtra,Gujarat,Karnataka,AndhraPradesh,TelanganaandTamilNadu,askingthemtousewater judiciously.Even if theminister thinks that the situa-

tionisundercontrol,hisministryhasalonglaundry list. First, the water sector is con-frontedwiththelackofcredible“waterinfor-mation”, that is, information about waterstorage, groundwater, water flows and, insomecases,evenrainfallandsnowfalllevels.Thisproblemhasalsobeenacknowledgedbythe NITI Aayog. “Access to accurate waterinformation could help one understand therisks andurgency of the situation and steertowardsinformeddecisions,”writesHiman-shuThakkar, coordinator of theSouthAsiaNetworkonDams,RiversandPeople,inEco-nomic & Political Weekly (Challenges inWaterGovernance,April13,2019).Second,thePMhaspromisedpipedwater

forallby2024.Thisisanimportantstepbutthegovernment also needs to spell out how itplanstoprotectthesourcesofwater,stoptheoverconsumption,wastageandintenseover-exploitationofgroundwaterandstrengthen(and in many cases re-establish) the link

n Residents filling drinking water, SanjayColony, New Delhi, June 12 BURHAAN KINU/HT

betweengroundwaterandsurfacewater.Third, this is also the right time to talk

aboutthecountry’swatergovernancestruc-ture.There is, as theMihirShahCommitteereport (2016) mentions, an express need torehaultheCentralWaterCommission,Cen-tral GroundWater Board, Central GroundWater Authority, State Pollution ControlBoardsandCentralPollutionControlBoard,among others. “These institutes,” writesThakkar,“mayhaveadifferentevolutiontra-jectory, but they show a typical top-down,bureaucratic,unaccountable,non-transpar-entandnon-participatorymindset.”Fourth, there has to be an acknowledge-

mentthatgroundwaterisIndia’slifeline,and,therefore, there has to be a focus on itsrechargeandaquifermanagement.Last, but not least, get people involved.

Bundelkhand is a drought-prone region,whereaccesstowaterisatapremiumanddif-ficult for thepoor toaccess.While theuppereconomicclassesdonotsuffermuchshortage,thepoorfacethebruntofthislackofwaterinadisproportionatelylargemanner.Thishashugehealthandlivelihoodimplications,espe-ciallyforscheduledcastes/scheduledtribes,andwithin these groups, evenmore seriousforwomenandchildren.“Despitesuchodds,illiterate and semi literate women haveformedgroups(jalsahelis)thatworktowardswater security by spreading water literacyandwaterconservation,” says IndiraKhur-ana,awaterandsanitationexpert.In Andhra Pradesh’s Anantpur district,

farmers have formed a collective to “sharegroundwaterwitheachother”tosustaintheircrops.AndinBangalore,AnandMalligavad,atechie, is leadingacitizen-driveninitiativeto rejuvenate the city’s lakes. In Delhi andmany other cities of India, several residentwelfareassociationshavedonecommendableworkinharvestingrainwaterandaugment-inggroundwater.Thegovernmentmustbuildonthesepositive interventions.

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CHALLENG INGTASK

SCKhungar

Amajority of people visiting religiousplacescarryalistofdemands.Butaskingsomethingonlymeans thatyou lack it.Jesus says: “What you see you shall

be”.Ifyoufocusonwhatyoudonothave,youwillcontinuetolackit.Complainingaboutmisfortuneorillnessbringmoreofit.Ontheotherhand,ifyouexpressgrati-tude,amagneticattractionisestablishedbetween you and the unlimited abun-danceof theuniverse.Godunderstandsyouperfectly.Heknowsexactlywhatyou

want and what you are going though.Therefore when you live in attitude ofgratitude,youliveinabundanceandulti-matelyreceiveallblessingsof life.God’sfavours come in many shapes -- yourbirthasahuman,yourhouse,moneyandchildren. Be thankful that you are notsick, differently-abled, or forced to pullrickshaws inscorchingheat.Complainingdoesnot change things.

ThankingHimforgivingyoustrengthintrying time does -- it transforms youranxietyintopeace.WhenyouthankHimintoughtime,thecircumstancesbecomeinsignificant.Thereforethetransforma-tionstartswithtwosimplewordsspokenfromtheheart: ‘Thankyou’German philosopher, Meister Eck-

hert,” If ‘Thankyou’ theonlyprayeryoucanutter in your life time thatwould beenough.

innervoice

Prayers are not to ask for things butto express gratitude to the almighty

StraightPride isamisplaced idea

The idea of Pride, in this case specifically LGBTQI+pride,emergedasaresponsetooverpoweringsocialstigma and discrimination faced by people of non-heteronormative gender and sexual identities.Asserting LGBT pride was a way to take a positive

stanceinthefaceofviolenceandhumiliationthatpeoplefaced. Itisnowaway to celebrate sexual diversity, gendervarianceandpromoteself-affirmation,dignity, andequal rights. June, in theUnited States, is celebrated as PrideMonthtocommemorate thestrugglesofa people who fought hard to achieveequality inthefaceofseverebrutalityandtoencourageidealsofequality and dignity for all. It is, therefore, incongruous that aStraightPrideParade isbeingorganisedostensibly to“demandanendtodiscriminationagainststraights”.Eversince“StraightPride”was announced, it has been going viral on socialmedia,withstrongvoicesbothcondemningandcelebratingsuchamove.GiventhatmostofthediscriminationthatLGBTpersonshave

facedhasbeenatthehandsofthosewhoidentifywiththehetero-normative idea of sexuality and gender, it is hard to buy thestancethat thismajority issomehowdiscriminatedagainst.Weappear to have come to such a pass thatmajority communitiesaroundtheworldfeelputuponanddiscriminatedagainstbytherise of equal rightsmovements. It appears as though the ideaofequality,whichnecessarilyrequiresanerosionofunwarrantedprivilegestothedominantcommunity, is threateningtothem.Itis importanttorecognisethatwhileequalitydemandsanerosionofprivilege, itdoesnotthreatentherightsofanycommunity. It isthisfearoftheriseoftheminority(inthiscase, theLGBTcommu-nity) that finds expression in these muscular ways. While thePrideParadewasdevisedasawayfor thosewhoareafraidtobein public to occupypublic spaces andbecomeunafraid of beingvisible, theconceptofstraightpriderequiresthatsocialsanctionbe granted to the notion that the heteronormative majority’srights topublic spacehavesomehowbeencurtailed.Instead of dismissing this as ridiculous, analysing how and

why such insecurities take the shape they domight shed somelightontheincreasingintoleranceintheworld.Perhapsitneedsamoreacademicapproachtounderstandtheinsecuritiesanddis-comforts of majorities in order to explain to these dominantgroupsthatequalityandsocial justicearenot threats,butsome-thing tobeaspired for.

But itmustbestudiedtodecodetheinsecuritiesofmajorities

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IndianeedsanewOpposition.Hereiswhat theCongressneeds todoThe Gandhis must give up control and get out ofthe way so that a coalition of parties can emerge

IstheCongresshavingameltdown?Bynow,weinthemediashouldhave

turnedourattentiontoreportingonthenew government and beginning theprocess — our job — of holding itaccountable. So, too, should have the

Opposition.Butwhenacountryis indangerof altogether losing a cogentOpposition,weshouldallbeworried.WhileBJPpresidentAmitShahisalready

pushingthepartytoopenbattleintheremain-ingbastionsofBJPresistance—KeralaandTamilNadu—theCongressleadershipisbyturns paralysed and inexplicably arrogant.All talk of Rahul Gandhi’s resignationappearstohavebeenplacedinsuspendedani-mation. Meanwhile, in possibly her worstgaffe in this election season, his sister Pri-yankaGandhiVadradecidedtoblameasec-tion of party workers for the humiliatingdefeat inUttarPradesh.Thatshewarnedanalready depleting party cadre without firsttaking any responsibility herself — or onbehalf of her brother—made the commentnothingshortof feudal.Andwhile therearenoabsolute endings inpolitics, it hasbeenarude reality checkon themuch-hyped “Pri-yankaphenomenon”.Whilehersupportershave argued that she wasn’t given enoughtimeandwasunveiledatthewrongmoment,andwithoutaplan,noneofthatexplainsthesortofentitlementandpoliticalnaiveté thatsuchstatementsdisplay.Congressleadersarguethattherecanbeno

partywithouttheGandhifamily;thatitisthegluethatholdsthemtogether.Ifso,itpointstoa structural crisis within the organisation.Within their own fold is anexample to emu-late,andthatisofSachinPilot.Whilehe,too,couldhavebeenbrandedadynast,thereason

that he has successfully escaped the judge-ment of that label is because he visiblyuprooted his life in Delhi (and, dare I say,KhanMarket)andmovedbagandbaggagetoRajasthan. Since the results — an extremeembarrassmentcomingsosoonafterthewinintheassemblyelections—Pilothasreturnedto the road to renew a mass contact pro-grammewiththepeople.Bycontrast,RahulGandhi is still to visitAmethi,wherehe lostand his sister has ranted at even thosewhohelped them win in Rae Bareli. Yet, in thepresentstructureoftheparty,wheretheGan-dhifamilycontrolsthepartyasif itwerepri-vate real estate, it is impossible for aPilot torisetothetopof thehierarchy.Thisinexplicableattitudeofarighttorule

wasalsoondisplaywhenthesiblingsdecidedto pose with Navjot Sidhu, the recalcitrantrebel of Punjab, in a visible undermining ofAmarinderSingh’sauthority.Whywouldyoupubliclysnubtheonestatesatrapwhodeliv-ered you a handsome result in these LokSabhapolls?ItisreminiscentofhowtheCon-gresslostHimantaBiswaSarma,andbeforethat Jaganmohan Reddy, from the deludedbeliefthatitisentirelyinthehandsoftheGan-dhifamilytomakeorbreakpoliticalcareers.OtherOpposition leaders likeTrinamool

Congress’sMamataBanerjeearealsomakingfatalmistakes. The negative volatilitywithwhich she has responded to slogans of JaiShriRamorherhandlingofthedoctors’agi-tationareallbetrayingsignsofdeepanxietyandpoliticalunravelling.InDelhi,chiefmin-ister Arvind Kejriwal miscalculated hisprospectsintheelectionandcannottaketheassemblyperformance forgranted. InUttarPradesh, cracks have appeared in the rela-tionship between Samajwadi Party’s Akh-

ileshYadavandBahujanSamajParty’sMay-awati.AndtheLeftofcourse isallbutdone.Butnodemocracycanfunctionwithoutan

assertiveOpposition.Sowhatistheanswer?At this moment, if the Opposition had anyhumilityorcommonsense,itwouldallmergeintoacommonpartyorplatform.Notanalli-anceoragathbandhan(coalition);butasingleentity where the leadership should then bedecided by a process of internal elections.What could this platformbe?Well, theCon-gress could be reborn as a new group thatbrings Banerjee, Sharad Pawar, Reddy —maybeevenBiharchiefministerandJanataDal (United)’sNitishKumar—on the samepage.Thatwouldalsoaddressthecriticismof

theCongressbeingreducedtothepartyofonefamily.Forthistohappen,however,theGan-dhismust give up control and get out of theway.Theymustbereadytobemerelyoneofmany.IndiadesperatelyneedsanewOpposition.

Among the available options, this can onlyemergeifoneoftheexistingregionalleadersdevelopanationalfootprintoriftheCongressisreorganisedtobeanewlybornmélangeofassertivestatechieftains.IfNarendraModi’smegamandateisn’tenoughtoshakethemoutof their stupor, theymust ready forpoliticalextinction.BarkhaDutt is an award-winning journalist and author

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n India desperately needs a new Opposition. Among the available options, this can onlyemerge if one of the existing regional leaders develops a national footprint or if the Congressis reorganised to be a newly born mélange of assertive state chieftain AFP

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case — in which an eight-year-old girlwas inJanuary lastyearabducted, rapedand then murdered in order tointimidate her community of nomadicshepherds— should have been the occa-sionto talkabout thisepidemicandfigureout away to end it.Instead,we are seeingugly politics.During the December 2012 protests,

nobody inquiredabout thereligionof thesixmenwhohadrapedandmurdered themedical student.Ameasure of just how farwe’ve fallen

can be seen in our journey of six yearswhen the Hindu Ekta Manch in Kathuamarchednot forthevictim,butherrapistsandkillers.BharatiyaJanataPartystateministers,sincesacked,spokeforthemen.And lawyersphysicallybarred thecrimebranchpolice from filing a charge-sheet.The Supreme Court was forced to orderthe trial to bemoved toPunjab.Thiscommunalisationofrapehasbeen

extendedtoAligarhwherewearehearingsickening details of themurder of a two-year-old girl byMuslimmen. Thosewhoare asking liberals who spoke for the

Kathuavictimseemto ignore the fact that(a)notonepersonisdefendingthesemon-strous men and (b) their own silence onother brutal rapes of children at aroundthe same time make them complicit incommunalising child rape.When the religion of the perpetrators

becomesmore important than the crimeitself, youknowthatyouarewitnessingacivilisational breakdown.TheKathuajudgment isanopportunity

to retrace our lost steps and think aboutnext ones. Since 2012, we have tinkeredwith the law tono avail.We need fresh thinking. Perhaps we

need an empowerment commission thatcalls for ideas fromall sectionsof society.Definitelyweneedtorehauloureducationsystemto includeconceptsofconsentandrespect. And it might not be out place toexpand the scope of Beti Bachao, byheighteningspendingongroundactivism.There is something deeply rotten in

India.Unlessweputthepoliticsbehindus,we cannot begin to set it right.

Namita Bhandare writes on social issuesThe views expressed are personal

To find evidence of the epidemicof violence against young girlsand women gripping India, youhave only to flick through

yournewspaper.Intherecentpast:Twominorsisters, 13

and15, gang-rapedat gunpoint inMuzaf-farnagar,UttarPradesh(UP). InSingraulidistrict,MadhyaPradesh, aneight-year-oldgang-rapedbytwoboysaged15and16.Also inMadhya Pradesh, near Bhopal, a10-year-oldgirl firstmurdered, thenraped

and sodomised.These are a fraction of the horror sto-

ries in a country where, according toNationalCrimeRecordsBureaudata for2016, not updated since, 19,764 rape caseswere registered — an 82% jump in rapecases from the preceding year, with theworst rise inUPwhere figureshave treb-led.Theseare,ofcourse, reportedcases inacountrywhere,accordingtoMint,99%ofsexual assault goes unreported.The welcome judgment in the Kathua

It’s the criminal, nothisreligious identity, stupid!

NAMITA BHANDARE

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Thisbooksubtitled“Lessonsfromthe entry and exit of CEOs”soundslikeaheavyweightman-agement text book.But it reads

almost like a story book thanks to RGopalakrishnan’s style. His self-confi-dence stems from his familiarity withopeningandclosingboardroomdoorsinLever and Tata. The author doesn’tmince words describing anxious andambitiouscareerseekersonthebottomrung of the corporate ladder staringlonginglyat itsupperrungs.Surely it iscommonsensetocuttheclumsyclutterof laddersaltogetherandusherthoseofnoble breed, the Grand Panjandrum’sdirectseed, intoelevatorsheadedfortheboardroomfloor?No,saysGopalakrish-nan, it isn’t sense. He fleetingly dropsintofirst-personmode:“Likethousandsofothers,IwasnodifferentasIstudiedatIIT-Kharagpur, joinedHindustanLeveranddevouredbooksonhowtosucceed.”It is intriguing, ruminates Gopala-

krishnan,himselfanarchitectofmany

tosayhecouldn’tmanagetoavoidabusi-nessleader’s ‘exitvictimsyndrome.’Forquiteafew,thehumourinthispartofthetale isunpalatablydark.Theauthordebunksapossiblecharge

that these analyses aren’t illustratedwith true-to-life examples. He looksbeyondIndianborderstoconstructPartTwo,which gives the book the sheenofauthentic international boardroomdrama.IllustrativecasestudiesincludeexternalhireRichardThomas(Xerox),internalhiresLeeIacocca,MarkFields(bothFordMotor),JohnWalter(leftRRDonnellytojoinAT&T).HealsowritesofhowWarrenBuffettlunchedwithAnshuJain and predicted: “That boy will berunninganinvestmentbankoneofthesedays.”Hedid (DeutscheBank).Gopalakrishnanendswithapoint to

ponder: “The hard truth for businessleaders is that performance cannot bejudged only through one part which istangible andmeasureable. The secondpart isculture fitandleadershipstyle.”Read thisbook.

Sujoy Gupta is a business historianand biographer.

hangingontothehotseat

selections, how companiesselectaccomplishedleaders.Some prefer their own dis-tinctive process of inter-views, some thoroughlycheck references or evenconduct psychometric test-ing. They ask themselveswhethertop-of-the-listprob-ables possess adequate“hardware of skills”mean-ing technical knowledge todo the jobefficientlyaswellasthe“software”ofrequiredbehavioural skills. If achoicedoesn’tworkout thefaultmaybewiththecandi-dateorthecompany’soper-atingsystem(OS).“Inmanycasestherelationshipbetweenthenew-ly-appointedleaderandtheOScompris-ingdirectors,colleagues,shareholderssuffer irreparable tears,”hewarns, “...whereverthefaultmight lie itresults intheleaderpartingfromthecompanyandthis is attributed to ‘cultural differen-ces’.”Next,thenarrativemovesontothesubjectof“StayingUpThere”. It’squite

a bit of fun to read andthough the author coverstricky ground he doesn’tlose elan. After all, a goodpart of his managementcareer owes much to his“staying-up-there”skill.Toparaphrasehisviews

onthis fascinatingsubject,it takessomethingquitedif-ferenttostayuptherefromwhat it took to get up therein the first place. This isbecause the yardsticks ofassessing leadership per-formance are whollyunclear. In Gopalakrish-nan’sexperience, ‘culturalfit’ or its absence leads to

the exit ofCEOs. Itmayormaynot be agoodideafortheCEOtotardilymaintainhis relationship with the chairman.Everythingdependsonsubjectivepref-erences. Ultimately, it all rests on theleader’s ability to takerisks. If theCEOquitswithoutmakingafussortom-tom-ming the oddities of his chairman’sdemands,thefashionableeuphemismis

CrashRGopalakrishnan280pp, ~499Penguin

Climbing to the top of the ladder and staying there

SHUTTERSTOCK

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The comfortless snow-shires,the frozen rocks: this placewas not hostile to my pres-ence, farfromit.Justentirely,gradelessly indifferent,”

writesnatureauthorRobertMacfarlaneinhisbook,TheWildPlaces.Manynaturalspacescanbeintimidat-

ing,becausetheyexistinanunapologeti-callywild state. But this certainly feelsmoretrueforthemountains.Mountain

ranges,spreadout likevastchain-linksofmeaning,canmake you feel alive and setyour skin tingling with anot-fully-understood spiri-tuality. Or their vastnessand lofty beauty canmakeyou feel like the loneliest,most insignificant personon earth. Writing aboutmountains Macfarlanenotes:“Alltravellerstowildplaces will have felt someversion of this, a blazingperception of the world’sdisinterest. In small meas-ures it exhilarates. But infull formitannihilates.”Any book onmountains

hastoconveythisduality:asweep of beauty that canneverbefullyunderstood;afeeling of intimacyshrouded in mystery and

remoteness. The Great HimalayanNational Park...focusses on an espe-cially rich part of theWesternHimala-yas. Early on, the authors stress thatthey want to bring alive lesser known

aspectsof theHimalayas. “Thegeneralpreoccupationwith the zone of ice andsnow is unfortunate because it divertsattentionawayfromthetrulyextraordi-naryassemblagesofplantsandanimalsthatliveontheflanksofthemountains,”the authorswrite. Pandey,whowas anIndian Forest Service officer, andGas-ton,whodidhisPhDonIndianwildlife,cover ecology, culture and trekkingtrailsoftheGHNPinHimachalPradesh.Theystressonthedetails:theintermedi-ate zones between altitudes that areendemic habitat; the time a particularflower will blossom; and how thebeardedvulturewithaone-metrewingspan soars in a “slow,majestic fashionalongthecontoursofthemountainside.”Theyareclearly inaweof thepark.Buttheypresentwhythisawe--aproductofthe known and the unknown -- shouldlead us to protect the diversity of theHimalayas.Gastonandhis teamdidwildlife sur-

veys in GHNP, which led to the parkbeing notified by the Government ofIndiainthe1980s.Thoughdecadeshavepassed, you feel the area is still verymuchitsownthing, threatenedbutwil-

ful.Fourrivers,Tirthan,Sainj,JiwaNaland Parvati originate in the park, andPandeyandGastondescribehowgoral(akindofgoat-antelope)clamberuptheslopesandblackbearscomelookingforfruit. They narrate how changing sea-sonsandsnowmeltcreateadiversityofcolour.Apricot(khumani inHindi)treeshave pale pink blossoms, elms put outpurpleleaves,andaldertreesflower.Asthe months roll by, locals can tell themonsooniscomingbecauseof theflow-eringofthewhipcordcobralilyinrhodo-dendronforests.Thewhipcordcobralilylookslikeitsnamesuggests:acobrawithitsheadupandhoodspreadout.Then there is the native Brahma

kamal,awhiteandpurpleflower,whichlooks like it could be made of paper; aflower one wants to see, standing on acoolmountainslope.LocalcommunitiesconsiderthistobeLordBrahma’slotus.The authors tell us there are severalBrahmakamals in Parvati KaBagicha(garden of goddess Parvati) at SrihandMahadev,morethan5,000metresabovesea level.Agreatdealofdataispresentedinthis

364-pagevolume,whichmakesitmorea

text book than a coffee table book. Myfavourite bits, though, were the unex-pectedflashesofmaterial inbetweenthestraightforward text. For instance, wemeetShastriji,whoranaschoolinacavefor13yearsinShaktivillageinSainjVal-ley, simply because no other buildingwas available. In pictures, we find aGaddi shepherd carrying a new-bornlamb,andothermencarryingbunchesofwild flowers—akindofmasculinityparticular to the people of this ecosys-tem, that is tobecherished.Thereareanumberofaccompanyingpictures.Thisisalabourof loveandalifetimeofwork,alifetimeduringwhichtheparkwasalsonotified as a UNESCOWorld HeritageSite.Information is the book’s primary

aim,andit is fullofgovernmentreport-styledtables, flowchartsandsections. Iwish more insights accompanied theinformation. I would have liked morewordsonShastriji,morefieldnotesandraconteurship.Thebookcouldalsohavecontainedclearerportionsonthepoliti-calandclimatechallengestotheHimala-yas now; faced as we are with climatechange and a general apathy towardsconservation. The writing variesbetween being descriptive and exceed-ingly formal. An effort to blend bothstyleswouldhaveappealedmoretoalayaudience.Bethatasitmay,thebookwillbe a rich source for researchers, schol-ars, and visitors, and should be soughtout by thosewho enjoyhistory andnotjustthepresent.Thereisundeniablyanold-fashioned, stoic quality about thebook. Perhaps, it sought to mimic themountains.

Neha Sinha is with theBombay Natural History Society.

Great wonders in thegarden of the goddess

n Magnificent vistas: The south side of Bhabar pass. FROM THE GREAT HIMALAYAN NATIONAL PARK; THE STRUGGLE TO SAVE THEWESTERN HIMALAYAS

NATURE A book on The Great Himalayan National Park that focuses on an especially rich part of theWestern Himalayas brings alive lesser known aspects of the magnificent mountains

TheGreatHimala-yanNational Park–The struggle tosave theWesternHimalayasSanjeeva PandeyandAnthony JGaston364pp, ~1500Niyogi books

n Sanjeeva Pandey (left) and Anthony J Gaston

Towards that pointwhere worlds collideVrindaNabarn [email protected]

The city and the sea have beenvariously portrayed in litera-ture. They figure as delusoryescaperoutes inCavafy’spoem

TheCity, capturing theuniversalmod-ernhumanpredicamentofano-exitsitu-ation in a prison of our ownmaking. Inthe French Romantic poet Alfred deVigny’sLabouteilleà lamer, thebottle(city) representsman’s desire to trans-mit ideas, togivethempermanence, thesea their mortal transience. Morerecently,thechoralcomposerEricWhit-aker turned five short poems by e. e.cummingsintoacompositiontitledTheCity and the Sea, in which the twobecame metaphors for an alternatingcanvas of human life and Nature. Alltheseresonateinthenovelunderreviewwhichmoves forward throughsequen-cesrepeatedlycaptioned“Thecity”and“Thesea”.Whathappenswhenyourmotherfails

toreturnhomeonenightandthepassingdays bring no news of her?When yourfatherprovides little comfort orpracti-calsupport,wanderingaimlesslyinandout of the front door? “The city” posesthesetroublingquestionsasayoungboysetsouttofindhismissingmother,wan-deringthroughstreetshehasneverseenon a relentless journey where the bor-derline between the real and the imag-ined is tenuous and flimsy. He under-stands what his mother had meant indescribingtheworldoutsidethehomeasanintrusivesea,aterrainteemingwithhumanbeings, filth,drainsandsewage.Meanwhile, inthealternatingsequence“Thesea”,awomaninaforeigncountry(Germany) tries making sense of thealien,desertedseascapeshefindsherselfalonein,andofthecon-flicting images (snow, possi-blyabandonedchildren,evenarecentNobelLaureate) thatdanceinandoutofhervision.Thestreamof consciousnessmodedominatesmuchof thenovel,becomingnotonevoicebutmany,notalwayssatisfac-torily, even tedious at times,beforesurrendering toasur-real fantasy nearer the endwhenthetwoworldscollideinways one partly anticipates,butwithbizarretwistsinvolv-ingmotherandsonthatsome-what redeem the two imagesandtakethemtoanotherlevel.Sexualviolenceandabuse,

hinted at in the considerable“advance praise” for the novel, areimplicit in the story and the spectre ofrapedominatesit fromtheopeninglinesofThePrologue:“MynameIcannottell.Thereisalawinmylandtoprotectme,toensure that I am not shamed…” Thelinesareachillingreminderoftheyoungwoman gang-raped on amoving DelhibusinDecember2012,whowasconfinedtoanonymityas“Nirbhaya”orthefear-less one till her mother decided therewasnoindignityinrevealinghername.Significantly, the word rape remainsunmentioned in the novel, a word theprotagonistwantsto“speak…outloud”but never does though Nirbhaya is athinly-disguised but ubiquitous pres-ence throughout, a peg on which thenovelhangs.The young stranger, hardly more

thanaboyhimselfthoughhehasa“faintfuzz”onhisupper lip,who insertshim-self intotheson’sstoryandaccompanieshim on his search, remains nameless(ironically, likearapevictim).Whenhelowershisguardmomentarilyit istosayhecouldbecalled“December”–amonthmarked into our national calendar ofshame and an unsubtle intimation ofwho or what he stands for. Crammed

intohisbagarecrumpledpagesofwhatreadlikeaconfessionfromwhichdistur-bingly familiar images spill out: a busdriver urging a group that includedDecember to go on a joy ride and find awoman; a young woman and hermalefriendwhoweredupedintoboardingthebus; the iron rodwithwhich theywereattacked;andsoon.Thestorystepsoutof thepages inmagicalrealismmodeasDecemberusherstheboythroughshan-ties and highways, landing up eventu-allyinhisvillageandhishome.Inaver-bal catharsis he now admits what hadbeen insinuated but left unsaid, and

points theboy throughacur-tain as it were, into aregionwherethecityandtheseamergeinanunex-pected finale.Sharply detailed

throughout, some of theparticulars work moresatisfactorily than oth-ers. Among those thatworkaretherepeatedref-erencestowhattheboy’smissingmotherwore onthat fatal day: a cream-colouredshirtwithblackleggings, a black jacketand a red scarf. Takentogethertheycreateacer-tain image of contempo-raryIndianwomanhood,onethatcontinuestopro-vokeadversepublicreac-

tions in those who would perpetuate amythical stereotype of the BharatiyaNari.Theyofferarebuttaltothisstereo-type,subtlyarguingforawoman’s free-domtodresshowshewantsandextend-ing thecanvas toapan-Indianscenarioin which women face physical assaultdaily, irrespective of what they wear.The fact that themotherwasanewspa-perreportercontainsanaddednuance,perhapsunintendedhere as themanu-script was most likely in press beforesexual harassmentinthemediabecamebreakingnews.Less convincing are the attempts to

project December as repentant, andthereby a victim of circumstances – anargument somehave put forwardwithrespect to his real-life prototype. Onemayandshould justifiablydebate,cen-sure, and condemn the socialmilieu inwhich boy-men like December areallowedtogrowandhowitimpactsthembut his fictional repentance and trans-formation,unsubstantiated inreal life,calls formorethanawillingsuspensionofdisbelief andmayneedadifferentkindofbook.Vrinda Nabar is the author of “Caste asWoman”and a former Chair of English, Mumbai University.

The City andthe SeaRaj Kamal Jha240pp, ₹ 499Penguin

n Raj Kamal Jha NEERAJ PRIYADARSHI

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DUBAI:Iran said onFriday itwasresponsible formaintaining thesecurityoftheStraitofHormuzinthe Gulf, state radio reported,adding that blamingTehran forattackson twooil tankers in theGulfofOmanwas“alarming”.“Weareresponsibleforensur-

ing thesecurityof theStrait andwehaverescuedthecrewofthoseattacked tankers in the shortestpossibletime,”Radioquotedfor-eignministryspokesmanAbbasMousavi as saying. “AccusingIran for such a suspicious andunfortunate incident is the sim-plest and the most convenientway for (US secretary of state)MikePompeo.Theseaccusationsarealarming.”IranianPresidentHassanRou-

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the explosions that forced thecrewstoabandonshipandleaveboththeNorwegian-ownedFrontAltairandJapanese-ownedKok-ukaCourageousadrift inwatersbetween Gulf Arab states andIran.A source said the blast on

Front Altair, which caught fireand sent ahugeplumeof smokeinto the air, may have beencausedbyamagneticmine. TheUSmilitary’sCentralCommand(CENTCOM) released a videothat it said showed Iran’s IRGCremoving an unexploded minefrom the side of the Japanese-ownedoil tanker.

Irandeniesroleinattacks,daresUSafterminevideosparksbuzzGULF TENSIONS SOAR Iran calls US charges ‘alarming’; Russia warns against ‘hasty conclusions’

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KenyanMP in trouble forslapping female colleagueNAIROBI:Rashid KassimAmin, aKenyan lawmakerwill appear incourt on Friday for slappingFatumaGedi for failing to allocatefunds to his constituency. AFP

China summons US envoyover ‘irresponsible words’HONGKONG:China summoned aUS envoy in Beijing, RobertForden, to protest “irresponsiblewords and deeds” on an extradi-tion bill that sparked protests inHongKong. AGENCIES

100KGWORLDWAR2BOMB INBERLINCAUSESPANIC, FORCES EVACUATIONBERLIN:An unexplodedAmerican aerial bomb fromWorldWar 2was foundin central Berlin during constructionwork on Friday, forcing the evacuationof surrounding city blocks, police said. The 100kg explosivewas unearthedon a building site adjacent to the Alexa shopping centre and near a train lineat the central transport hub of Alexanderplatz in the city’s east. Peoplewerebeing evacuated fromwithin a 300-metre (1,000-feet) radius of the cor-roded bomb,which had an intact detonator, police said. A bombdisposalsquadwas set to attempt to defuse the bomb later in the day, police said onTwitter, warning that nearby areaswould remain blocked off. AFP

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PARIS:WhenNeilArmstrongwalkedontheMoon,hebecamethebiggest livetelevi-sionstar inhistory.Officiallymorethan500

millionpeoplegatheredaroundtheirsets towatchhimleapfromtheladderofApollo11’sEagle landingcraftandontothesurfaceof theSeaofTranquility.ButasAFPreportedat the

time, that figurewasprobablyanunderestimation. Expertsnowbelievetherealnumberwascloserto700million,afifthof theplanet’spopulationat thetime.Nextmonthwillmark50

yearssinceArmstrong’sfamousphrase -“That’sonesmallstepforman,onegiantleapformankind”-washeardaroundtheworld.Themomentwastheculminationofanunprecedented31-hourlive link-upbetweenNASAandmajorUSTVnetworks.Armstrong’s firststeps

ontothelunar landscapeonJuly21,1969werefollowedsecond-by-secondbyviewersacrosstheglobe,withthenotableexceptionofChinaandtheoldSovietbloc.Normal lifeacrossthe

planetstoppedforthosespe-cialmoments,AFPreported,withJapan’sEmperorHiro-hito interruptingaritualwalkwithhisempresstowatchit.

A small step for Armstrong, a giant leap for live TV50 YEARS ON

n Neil Armstrong’s photo of fellow astronaut Buzz Aldrin walkingon the surface of the Moon on July 21, 1969. AFP

CHRISTCHURCH:Themanaccusedofshooting dead 51 Muslim wor-shippers in the ChristchurchmosqueattacksinMarchsmiledonFridayashislawyersenterednotguiltypleastomultiplemur-derandterrorismcharges.Brenton Tarrant’s barrister

toldChristchurchhighcourthisclientwaspleadingnot guilty toall charges, prompting angerfrom survivors and relatives ofthose killed in the March 15attacks. The self-proclaimedwhite supremacist appeared incourtviaaudio-visuallinkfromamaximum-security prison inAucklandforthebriefhearing.Tarrant,a28-year-oldAustra-

lian national,was committed tostandtrialnextyearon51countsofmurder, 40 of attemptedmur-der and engaging in a terroristact.His smiling demeanour

enraged survivors still reelingfromtheworstmassacreinmod-ern New Zealand history, whohadpackedthecourthouse’spub-lic gallery for a glimpse of theaccused.“Itjustshowshe’sananimal,”

Mustafa Boztas, who waswounded in the thigh, told AFPoutsidethecourt. AFP

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LONDON:The field of contendersvying to become Britain’s nextprimeminister narrowed to sixonFridaywhenhealthsecretaryMattHancockwithdrewfromthecontest.Hancock,whoisagainstBritainleavingtheEUwithoutadeal,pulledoutsayinghewasnotin a position to win followingThursday’sfirstroundofvoting.Former foreign secretary

Boris Johnson, a Brexit figure-head who insists Britain mustleave the European Union inOctober“dealornodeal”,toppedthesecretballotofConservativeMPsbyalandslide,winning114ofthe313availablevotes.Hancockcamesixthoutofthe

seventomakeitthroughtoasec-

ondroundonTuesdaynextweek,whenatleastonemorecandidatewilldropout.“I have decided to withdraw

fromtheraceandworkoutwhatisthebestwaytoadvancetheval-ues that I caredeeplyabout,”hetold the London Evening Stan-dardnewspaper.In Thursday’s vote, foreign

secretaryJeremyHuntcamesec-ond behind Johnson with 43votes,whileenvironmentsecre-taryMichaelGovewas third on37.Following a televised debate

onSunday,candidateswillneeda minimum 33 votes to getthroughTuesday’ssecondround.Johnson, meanwhile,

announcedhewilljoinaBBCTVdebatewithhis rival candidatesonTuesday.

Field narrows to six inrace for UKPM’s post

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COLOMBO: FiveSriLankans sus-pected of having links toEasterSunday bombings that killedmore than 250 people werebroughthomeinpolicecustodyon Friday after being deportedfromSaudiArabia, police said.Police declined to provide

detailsofthearrestsbeyondsay-ing the five were picked up in aWest Asian country and weresent back, in the custody of SriLankan police, from the SaudicityofJeddah.“Thesearethefiveremaining

leaders of the April 21 terroristgroup,”spokesmanRuwanGun-asekera told reporters.

Police declined to give infor-mation about the nature of thefivesuspects’rolesintheattacksbutsaidoneofthem,identifiedasMohamedMilhan,wasa seniormember of the National Thaw-heedhJamaath.“Hecouldhavebeen the next leader,” Gunase-kerasaid.

MASSHELDATCHURCHDAMAGEDINBOMBINGSSriLankanCatholicscelebrateda saint’s feast at St Anthony’sshrine,whichwasatargetof theApril 21 attacks. Hundreds ofworshippers, including survi-vorsandrelativesofthevictims,gatheredattheshrineinthecap-ital Colombo for the feast of StAnthonyofPadua.

Five Sri Lanka attack suspectsdeported from Saudi Arabia

n Reopening of St Anthony'schurch in Colombo. REUTERS

NZ attacker pleadsnot guilty to terror,murder charges

n Brenton Tarrant AFP

40,000-YR-OLDWOLFHEADFOUND

n The head of an Ice Age wolf was found during an expedition nearBelaya Gora in the Abyysky region of Sakha Republic, Russia. AP

MOSCOW:About 40,000 yearsago, awolf died inwhatwe knowas Siberia. Now its head has beenfound, and because of thefreezing conditions, it is sowellpreserved that its fur, teeth, brainand facial tissue are largely intact.A Yakutia resident, Pavel Yefimov,found the head last summer onthe banks of the Tirekhtyakhriver, close to the Arctic Circle inthe region of Yakutia, localmediareported.The headwas handed over to theScience Academyof Yakutia. Theysent samples andmeasurementdata abroad andwith help fromcolleagues in Japan and Swedendetermined its age as approxi-mately 40,000 years, the SiberianTimes reported. REUTERS

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WASHINGTON:WhiteHouse presssecretarySarahHuckabee San-dersisquittingafterarockytwo-yeartenuremarkedbyloyaltytoUS President Donald Trump,sharpexchangeswithreporters,accusations of lying and beingturnedawaybyarestaurant.Announcing her departure,

Trumphadnotingbutpraiseforher,whileobliquelyacknowledg-ingthetoughexchangesshehadengagedin:“We’vebeenthrougha lot together. She’s tough andshe’s good. You also have toughand bad, right? She’s tough, butshe’sgood.She’sgreat.”He said Sanders may go into

theprivatesector,whilealsourg-inghertorunforoffice-forgover-norofherhomestateArkansas.

HARRIS,GABBARDINFIRSTDEMDEBATEFormer US vice-president JoeBiden,Indian-AmericanSenatorKamala Harris and the firstHinduelectedtotheUSCongress,TulsiGabbard,areamongthe20candidates for the Democraticpresidential nominationannounced for the opening pri-maries debate that takes placeovertwodays later thismonth.TheothersnamedincludeSen-

atorsBernieSanders,ElizabethWarren, Amy Klobuchar, CoryBooker and Kirsten Gillibrand,former Congressman BetoO’Rourke,MayorsPeteButtigiegandBillDeBlasio,formercabinetmemberJulianCastro,entrepre-neur Andrew Yang and authorMarianneWilliamson.Thefirstdebatewilltakeplace

inMiamionJune26and27.

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Sarah Sanders quitsafter rocky tenure

WASHINGTON:CallingIran“anationof terror”,USPresi-dentDonaldTrumponFri-daypubliclyaccuseditofcar-ryingouttherecentattacksonoil tankers intheGulf.TrumpsaidIran’sculpa-

bilitywas“exposed”bytheUS.Whilecalling intoFox

NewsChannel’sFox&Friends,hesaidofThurs-day’sattacks,“Irandiddoit.”Trumpdidn’tofferany

potentialUSresponsetotheattack,sayingtheUShasbeen“verytoughonsanc-tions”.Headded,“They’vebeentold inverystrong

termswewanttoget thembacktothetable.”USofficialssaidonThurs-

daythat theTrumpadminis-trationwasconsideringareturntoprovidingnavalescorts tovessels transitingthroughthemaritimechokepoint. AGENCIES

TRUMPBLAMESIRANFORTANKERATTACKS

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HOUSTON: The body of a seven-year-old girl, believed to beIndian, has been found near aremoteanddesertedUS-Mexicoborder area with authorities inArizonasayingshewasavictimofhumansmuggling.TheCustomsandBorderPro-

tection (CBP) officials said onThursday the girl was part of agroup trying to get into the USafterhumansmugglersdroppedthemoffneartheMexicoborder.Temperatures in the rugged

wilderness where agents foundherremainsonWednesdayhov-ered around 42 degrees Celsius.The girl was found dead 27 kilo-metreswest of Lukeville inAri-zonastatebytheUSborderpatrolagents.“Oursympathiesarewiththis

littlegirlandherfamily.Thisisasenselessdeathdrivenbycartelswho are profiting from puttinglivesatrisk,”saidRoyVillareal,TucsonChiefPatrolAgent.Thepatrolagentsgottheinfor-

mation after encountering twowomen from India, whoexplained how they came to theUS and that three others, awomanandtwochildren,gotsep-arated fromthemhours earlier,theUSagencysaidinastatement.The agents took the two

women into custody and begansearching the area north of theinternational border in theremote terrain for the missingpersons.Withinhours,theydiscovered

thelittlegirl’sremains, it said.Aircraftandhelicoptersfrom

National Guard and CBP’s Airand Marine Operations werecalled out to expand the searchfortheothersmissing.AdditionalagentsfromBorder

Patrol SearchTrauma andRes-cue Unit, the Ajo Border PatrolStation and personnel from theBureau of Land Managementcombedtheareaonfoot.However, US Border Patrol

agentslocatedfootprints,indicat-ing theremainingtwomembersof the group crossed back intoMexico. The CBP and Mexicanauthoritiessearchedtheareaforany associated persons but noadditionalmembersofthegroupwerelocatedoneithersideoftheborder.The US agency, in its state-

ment, described the border’sremote area as a rugged desertwildernesswith fewback coun-try roads, little to no resourcesandveryhightemperature.Theagencyearliersaidcrimi-

nalorganisationsoftenabandonmigrants inthedesert.

V ICT IM OF HUMAN SMUGGL ING?

Body of 7-year-oldIndian girl foundinArizona desert

SHEWASTRAVELLINGWITH FOUROTHERSANDDROPPEDNEAR THEUS-MEXICOBORDERBYHUMANSMUGGLERSWHOORDERED THEGROUP TOCROSS IN THEDANGEROUSANDAUSTERE LOCATION.

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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan PM ImranKhan was targeted on socialmedia for seemingly breakingdiplomaticprotocolattheShang-hai Cooperation Organisation(SCO) summit in Bishkek, Kyr-gyzstan.AvideofromtheSCOmeeton

ThursdaysharedbyKhan’s Pak-istan Tehreek-e-Insaaf partyshowedhimsittingwhileevery-one else stood to welcome theheads of states, including Rus-sianPresidentVladmirPutin,astheyenteredahall.Commentator Kamran Shafi

said,“Goodgod!Hedoesn’thavethefaintestidea,doeshe?Every-oneisstandingasheadsofstatesandgovernmentsareannouncedexcept forourclass item/act.”

LAWYERSPROTESTGOVTINTERFERENCEPakistani lawyers staged a pro-testoutsidethesupremecourt onFridayagainstthegovernment’smove to file cases against somejudges.Theyburnedcopiesofref-erences filed by President ArifAlviagainst top judgeQaziFaezIsa and Sindh high court judgeKKAghaovernon-disclosureofforeignproperties.

EX-PREZZARDARI’SSISTERARRESTEDHours after Pakistan’s anti cor-ruptionwatchdog, theNationalAccountabilityBureau(NAB),onFridayissuedarrestwarrantsforPakistan Peoples Party (PPP)leaderFaryalTalpur - the sisterof formerpresidentAsifAliZar-dari - in the fake accounts case,officialsdeclaredherresidenceinIslamabad as a sub-jail andplacedherunderhousearrest.

KHAN TARGETEDON SOCIAL MEDIAFOR ‘PROTOCOLBREACH’ AT SCO

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BEIJING:Chinasupportsefforts toimprovetiesbetweenNewDelhiand Islamabad, President XiJinping told Pakistan PrimeMinister Imran Khan in Bish-kek onFriday.Xi also assured Khan of

China’s fullcooperationinPaki-stan’scounterterrorismefforts.Xi’sassurancetoKhancomes

adayafter IndianPrimeMinis-terNarendraModitoldhimdur-ingbilateral talks thatPakistanneeds to create an atmosphereclear of terror.XimetKhanon the sidelines

of the Shanghai CooperationOrganisation (SCO) summit inBishkek,Kyrgyzstan.“WesupportPakistan incar-

rying out the national anti-ter-rorismactionplanandwillhelpPakistan strengthen its coun-terterrorismcapacitybuilding.China supports Pakistan andIndia to improve relations,” XiwasquotedashavingtoldKhaninastatement issuedbytheChi-nese foreignministry.Indian foreign secretary

Vijay Gokhale told reportersafter the meeting between Xiand Modi on Thursday, “ThePrimeMinisterdid informPres-ident Xi Jinping that Pakistanneeds to create an atmospherefreeof terrorismandthatat thisstage, we did not see this hap-pening as yet, and that, there-fore,weexpectPakistanto takeconcrete action on the issuesthat India has proposed in theareas of concern that we haveflagged toPakistan.”

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“Theworseningtradeoutlook(is) a common theme across allregions”, itadded.

The oil demand growth fore-castassumesthemaintenanceofUS and Chinese tariffs imposedongoods in2018,buttheIEAsaid

it hadnot factored in furtherUStariffsannounced inMay.

The IEAalso attributed lack-lustredemandgrowthinthefirsthalf of theyear toaslowdown inthe petrochemicals industry inEurope, warmer than average

upfrontpaymentof $131millionanddeferredpayouts of $51mil-lion, the filingsaid.Srikrishna added that the

acquisitionwill helpHexawaregrow itsbusiness inthree impor-tant industryverticals.

“Forty-one percent of Hexa-ware’s revenue is from BFS(bankingandfinancialservices)butthere isnotmuchofbankingin that. It’s largely capitalmar-ketsandmortgage.Wehavea lit-tlebitofbanking,butitisnotcoredigitalbanking,whichisthemostimportantpriorityforallbanks.Mobiquity is good at that.Theyhave helped the largest bank inthePhilippinesonthis frontandareworkingwithoneofthe larg-est Middle East banks for theirdigital banking platform,” hesaid. The other two industrieswhereMobiquitywillhelpHexa-ware grow its business arepharmaandretail,headded.“Intheir top 20 clients,wehave justonecommonclientandthatbusi-ness is small for us.We literallyhave no overlap in clients.Eighty-five percent ofrevenue comes from 20 clients.Theyhavematerialclients.”In the near term, Hexaware

will focus on growing revenuethroughcross-sellingandup-sell-ing services across the twoplat-forms,aswellasbycreatingnewservices.

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NEWDELHI: Retail sales of vehi-cles across categories declinedby 7.5% to 1.77million units inMay, impacted by a slowingdomesticeconomyandcontinu-ing liquiditycrisis innon-bank-ing financialcompanies,showsdatapublishedbyFederationofAutomobile Dealers Associa-tions.

The decline in retail sales ofpassengercarswashaltedaftersignificant production cuts bymanufacturers, but two-wheeler and commercial vehi-cle sales fell significantly.Retail sales of passenger

vehicles decreased by just 1%year-on-year to 251,049 units,with manufacturers reducingwholesale dispatches.

Maruti Suzuki IndiaLtd, thecountry’s largestautomanufac-turer, reduced wholesale dis-patchesby23%to125,552units,Hyundai Motor India Ltd by5.6% to 42,502units andMahin-dra andMahindraLtd by 1% to20,608 units.

Maruti Suzuki also cut pro-duction by 18%, due to weakretaildemand.

According to the Siam, salesof passenger vehicles declinedby a whopping 20.5% in May.The lobbygroupsaidtherateofdeclinewasthebiggestsincethe22%fall inSeptember2001.Thiswas the seventh consecutivemonthof fallingpassengervehi-cle sales.Lackofcredit fromnon-bank-

ing financial companies,revisedaxlenorms formediumand heavy trucks, and slow-down inmanufacturing led toa7.8%year-on-yeardrop incom-mercial vehicle sales to 62,551units.

The demand slowdown forconsumer goods in both urban

andruralmarkets led toayear-on-year decline of 8.6% in salesof two-wheelers to 1.4 millionunits.

The trend started in the sec-ond half of the last fiscal yearfollowing an increase in insur-ance premium, which led to aprice increase of around 10%.According to Society of IndianAutomobile Manufacturers,wholesale volumes of scootersdeclined by 7.8%,whilemotor-cycles sales fell by 4.8% as aresultof thedistress inthe farmsector.

According to Asish Harsh-arajKale,president,FederationOfAutomobileDealersAssocia-tions (Fada), the increase in

two-wheeler inventory isamat-ter of concern and Fada hasaskedmanufacturers toreducesupplies.It will also request automo-

bilemanufacturers tomaintainan inventory of 21 days.

“It should also be noted thatMay2018hadaveryhighbaseasvehicle registrations were thesecondhighest.Dealer liquidityalso continues to be negativeand extremely tight,” addedKale.

Customers’ decision to waitfor thegeneralelectionsresultsbeforemakingabig-ticket pur-chase, also contributed to thedemand slowdown.

Duringthemonth, inventorytwowheelers increased to 55 to60 days from 45 to 50 day in themonthbeforewhilethesameforcommercialvehicles remainedaround 45-50 days. In the pas-sengervehiclesaverage inven-torywithdealersdroppedto35–40 days compared to 40-45 daysinApril.

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NEWDELHI:MortgagelenderHDFCon Friday said it has sold a fur-ther 4.22% stake in subsidiaryGruhFinanceLtd(Gruh),whichis proposed to be amalgamatedwithBandhanBank, for ₹899.43crore.

The sale of 31 million equitysharesrepresenting4.22%oftheissuedandpaid-upsharecapitalofGruhwascarriedoutthroughstockexchangesattheprevailingmarketprice,HDFCsaidinareg-ulatoryfiling.

Theaveragepricewas₹290.14equityshare, itadded.

“Post the completion of theaforesaid sale of shares, GruhwouldceasetobeasubsidiaryoftheCorporation,”HDFCsaid inthefiling.

The corporation, being ashareholderofGruh,isentitledto14.96%stakepost-amalgamation,based on the share exchangeratio.However,theReserveBankof India has directed it to hold9.9%or lessofthepaid-upcapitalofBandhanaftermerger.

“In view of this, the Corpora-tion isrequiredtosellsuchnum-ber of shares inGruh so as to beentitled to 9.9%of thepostamal-gamationpaid-upcapitalofBan-dhan. The sale reported underthisdisclosureisapartofthesaidtransaction,”HDFCsaid.Gruh is engaged in the busi-

nessofprovidinghomeloansandis registered with the NationalHousing Bank as a housingfinancecompany.

HDFC SELLS4.22% STAKE INGRUH FINANCEFOR ₹899 CRORE

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MUMBAI: In a late sell-off, Indianequitiesslippednearly1%onFri-dayasinvestorsworriedaboutanescalating tradewar after Indiaimposed retaliatory tariffs on abunch of US products.TheBSESensex ended at 39,452.07,down289.29points or 0.73%,while theNifty closed at 11,823.30, down90.75pointsor0.76%.Indiahasdecidedtoimposethe

long-pending retaliatory tariffson29USproductsafterWashing-tonwithdrewduty-freebenefitsfor Indian exporters effective 5June.Heavy sellingpressure in the

finalhouroftrade,onthebackofweak global cues and poor datafromChina, ledtothesteepfallinthe Nifty, according to DeepakJasani, head retail research,HDFCSecurities.“Worldstocksstruggled and safe haven betswerebackinplayonFridaywithGermanbondyieldsplumbingtorecord lows as Chinese datarekindledwoesaboutthehealthoftheglobaleconomyandfearsofa new US-Iran confrontationintensified,”saidJasani.

“Themarketshavegrowncon-cerned if theUSwill impose fur-thertariffsortakeotheractiononIndiangoods or services follow-ing the recent move. This mayimpactIndianexportbusiness ifthe trade war threats escalateamid ongoing negotiations. Asharper downmove in themar-ketsmaybeexpectedonlywhenforeigninstitutionalinvestorsgetnervousiftheUStakesanycoun-ter action on India,” Jasaniadded.

Markets worldwide were

underpressuredue togeopoliti-cal tension inWest Asia. Stockmarkets in China, Hong KongandKoreawereweakonFriday.China’sindustrialoutputgrowthslowedtotheweakestpacesince2002,highlightingtheheadwindsthat the economy is facing, as itgrappleswiththetariffwarwiththeUS.

VinodNair,headof research,Geojit Financial Services Ltd,saidtherippleeffectfromaweakglobalmarket,andpremiumval-uation and slow economy, arehurting themarkets. “Continu-ous exchange ofwords betweenthe US and Teheran regardingtheoiltankerattack,progressofUS-China trade-war, FederalReservepolicyoutcomeonJune19,andprogressofmonsoonwill

becloselywatchedby the inves-tors. The market is cautioustoday awaiting these importantevents,while companies highlyleveraged are being mostlyimpacted,”Nairadded.

Meanwhile, the Indian rupeeonFridayweakened for the sec-ondstraightsession,tohitatwo-week low against the US dollar,tracking losses intheAsiancur-rencies market on weak China

data,asrisksentimentremainedfragile on tradeandgeopoliticalconcerns.

Therupeeendedat69.80adol-lar—a level last seen onMay 30,down 0.41% from its previouscloseof69.51.

The Indian currency hadopenedat69.58adollar.So far thisyear, therupeehas

fallen 0.04% against the green-back.Duringtheperiod, foreigninvestorsbought$11.26billion inIndian equities and $1.35 billioninthedebtmarket.

AsiancurrenciesweretradinglowerwiththeIndonesianrupiahdown0.31%,Philippinespesoby0.26%, South Korea’s won wasdown 0.18%, Taiwan dollar fell0.11%, and China Offshoreslipped0.05%.

n A late sell-off saw Sensex losing 289.29 points to close at 39,452.07. MINT

INDIANRUPEEONFRIDAYWEAKENED FORTHESECONDSTRAIGHTSESSION, TOHIT A TWO-WEEK LOWAGAINSTTHEUSDOLLAR

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BENGALURU:FacebookInc.hasenlistedmore thanadozencompanies includingVisaInc.,Mastercard Inc.,PayPalHoldings Inc.andUberTech-nologies Inc. toback itsnewcryptocurrency, theWallStreetJournal reportedonThursday.

Eachcompanywill investaround$10million inacon-sortiumthatwillgovern thecryptocurrency, theWSJreported,citingpeople famil-iarwith thematter.

Themoneywill fund thecreationof thecoin,whichwillbepegged toabasketofgovernment-issuedcurren-cies, thereport said.

Facebook,Mastercard,Paypal,VisaandUberdidnotimmediatelyrespond toReu-ters’ requests for comment.

Facebook sharesclimbedonFridayasconcernscontin-

ued toeaseover theprospectof greater regulatoryscru-tiny,and following thereportof launchadigitalcurrency.

Thestock roseasmuchas2.5% inmorning trading,extendingarecentuptrend.Sharesof thesocial-network-ingcompanyareon track for

theireighthrise inthepastnine tradingdays,and theyareupmore than10%fromalowearlier thismonth.

“Investorsmaybegettingrelativelycomfortablewiththeunderlyingregulatoryrisk” facingmajor internetand technologystocks,wrote

YoussefSquali,ananalystatSunTrustRobinsonHum-phrey.

“Theremaybeagrowingrealization that even incaseofabreakupof thesebehe-moths, thevalueof thepartsmaybehigher than thewholeover time.”

According to the firm’s cal-culations,Facebook’s fivemainbusinesses—thename-sake socialnetwork, Insta-gram,FacebookMessenger,WhatsAppandOculus—haveasum-of-the-partsvaluationthat impliesasharepriceof$226,or27%aboveFace-book’sThursdayclose.SunTrustadded that itwas

“likely to takeyears” foranyregulatorymeasure tobeimplementedandenforced,but thecommentaryechoesanargument thathasbeenrepeatedlymadeaboutGoo-gle-parentAlphabet Inc.,which isalso facingantitrustscrutiny.

Facebook’s new cryptocurrency gets big backersNEW BLOCKCHAIN ENTRANT

n Facebook CEOMark Zuckerberg. AP FILE

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LONDON: The outlook for oildemand growth in 2019 hasdimmed due to worseningprospects for world trade, theInternational Energy Agency(IEA) said on Friday, althoughstimuluspackagesanddevelop-ing countries should boostgrowthgoing into2020.

The Paris-based IEA, whichcoordinatestheenergypoliciesofindustrialnations,reviseddownits2019demandgrowthestimateby 100,000 barrels to 1.2 millionbarrels perday (bpd),but said itwouldclimbto1.4millionbpdfor2020. “The main focus is on oildemand as economic sentimentweakens ...Theconsequencesforoildemandarebecomingappar-ent,” the IEAsaid in itsmonthlyoilreport.

weather in the northern hemi-sphere and stalled US gasolineanddieseldemand.

Demandgrowthwas likely topick up to 1.6million bpd in thesecondhalfoftheyearongovern-ment measures to mitigate theeconomic slowdownand robustconsumption in the non-devel-opedworld.

“Stimuluspackagesare likelyto support growth in the shortterm. Inaddition, themajorcen-tralbankshavestoppedorslowedinterest rate increases, whichshould support growth in 2H19and2020,” the IEAwrote.

USsanctionsonIranandVen-ezuela,anoutputcutpactbytheOrganization of the PetroleumExportingCountries(Opec)plusits allies, fighting in Libya andattacks on tankers in theGulf ofOmanaddedonly limiteduncer-taintytosupply, the IEAsaid.

IEA cuts 2019 estimate for oil demand growth

n IEA revised down its 2019 demand growth estimate by 100,000barrels to 1.2 million barrels per day. REUTERS

RETAIL SALESOFPASSENGERVEHICLESDECREASEDBY JUST1%YEAR-ON-YEAR TO251,049UNITS

Retail vehicle sales decline7.5% to 1.77mnunits inMay

POWERED BY

Globaltensions,traderowwithUSweighonmarketsWEAK SENTIMENT Sensex slips 0.73%, Rupee weakens to 68.80

Faizan Haidern [email protected]

NEWDELHI:Loss-makingnationalcarrierAir Indiaexpects toearnan operational profit of at least₹1,000croreperyearwithmorefrequent flights to the US andAustralia as well as directflights toBali,TorontoandNai-robi that theairlinewill launchin October, a senior official oftheairlinesaidontheconditionof anonymity.In 2017-18, the airline had

earned a revenue of ₹23,000crore but a year later, itincurred a loss of about ₹4,000crore, adding to the ₹50,000crore debt it alreadyhad.

“In2018-19,our revenuewas₹25,000 crore but the expensesrangearound₹29,000crore.Wehave increased the target for2019-20 to ₹31,000 and since theexpense isexpected tobesame,we can manage operationalprofit of around ₹1,000 crore.However, a lot depend on theopening of Pakistan airspace,”said theAI official.

The closure of airspace byPakistan inthewakeof theFeb-ruary 26 Balakot airstrikes byIndian Air Force has cost AirIndiadearly.Since then, the airline has

beenspending₹6croreadayfortheextradistancethat its flightsto the US and Europe have tocover because of the restric-tions.With more than 80% of the

seats going full, Air India ishopeful to increase the load fac-tor to 90%.

AI sees operationalprofit of ₹1,000 crper year with newinternational flights

lowest since the 2008 financialcrisis, blaming the US-Chinatrade tensions, loss of momen-tum in Europe and the uncer-taintysurroundingBrexit.Engi-neering Export PromotionCouncil chairman Ravi Sehgalsaid export growth for Mayremains at sub-optimal levels,

requiring immediate govern-ment intervention. “For engi-neering sector, exporters needcrucialrawmaterial likesteelatinternationalprices.Exportersare looking forward to theBud-get for fiscal reliefs,”headded.

The commerce ministry iscontemplatinganexportpromo-tion scheme, along with a pro-duction-based support scheme,toboostMake In Indiaaspartofits100-dayactionplan.Thenewexport promotion schememayreplace the existing Merchan-diseExport from IndiaScheme,followingtheUSdecisiontochal-lengeIndia’sexistingexportsub-sidyschemesat theWTO.

Asit RanjanMishran [email protected]

NEW DELHI: India’s trade deficitexpandedtoasix-monthhighof$15.4billion inMay,with importgrowthoutpacingexportgrowthfollowing a 37% jump in goldimports.

Accordingtodatareleasedbythe commerceministry on Fri-day,exportsgrew3.93% inMay,while imports rose 4.31%.Exportshavebeen in lowsingledigits insixoutof the last sevenmonths,barringMarchwhen itgrew in double digits. Risingcrudeoilprices,amidsanctionsonIranianoil imports,couldfur-ther increase imports and putpressure on India’s currentaccountdeficit.China’sexportsin May inched up 1.1%, whileimportsfell8.5%, leadingtoasig-nificantly higher trade surplusof $41.65 billion than analystsprojected.The escalating tradewar between theUS andChina,and rising protectionism havecast a shadow on India’sprospects forhigherexports.InMarch, theWTO had pro-

jected trade growth to fall from3.9% in2018to3.7% in2019.Ithadcautioned that these estimatescould be revised downward iftrade conditions continue todeteriorate. The InternationalMonetary Fund also cut itsglobal growth forecast for 2019by 20 basis points to 3.3%, the

May trade deficit widens tosix-month high of $15.4 bn

Mind thegapIndia’s trade deficit widened for a fourth straight monthas exports remained under pressure amid a slowingglobal economy and escalating US-China trade war.

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n The decline in retail sales of passenger cars was halted aftersignificant production cuts by manufacturers. MINT

SwarajSinghDhanjaln [email protected]

MUMBAI:Informationtechnology(IT)servicescompanyHexawareTechnologies Ltd has acquiredUS-based digital services firmMobiquity for $182million inanall-cashdeal,thecompanysaidinanexchangefilingonFriday.Hexaware ismajority owned

byprivateequityfirmBaringPri-vateEquityAsia.AsofMarch31,Baring owned 62.59% in Hexa-ware.With a presence across three

continents,Mobiquity is one ofthe largest independent cus-tomer experience consultingfirmsspecializingincreatingfric-tionless multi-channel digitalexperiencesusingcloudtechnol-ogies, thecompanysaid.

Mobiquity creates digitalproducts for well-known globalbrandssuchasAmazonWebSer-vices,Rabobank,Philips,Wawa,BackbaseandOtsuka.

“Hexawareentersanexcitingnewphaseofgrowthandcapabil-itywiththeacquisitionofMobiq-uity Inc.Mobiquitystrengthenstwoofourkeystrategicofferings:Cloudify Everything and Cus-tomer Experience Transforma-tion. We are seeing strongdemand for these capabilitiesand,withthisacquisition,wewillbeable to furtheraccelerateourcontributions toourcustomers’businessgrowth.Ourcombinedcapabilities will enhance ourmarketpositioningandopportu-nitytomakeanimpactforourcli-ents,” said R Srikrishna, chiefexecutive officer (CEO), Hexa-wareTechnologies.

The transaction involves an

Hexaware acquiresUS-basedMobiquity

THE TRANSACTIONINVOLVESANUPFRONTPAYMENTOF $131MILLIONANDDEFERREDPAYOUTSOF $51MILLION

NDTV’S PRANNOYROYBARRED FROMCAPITALMARKETSFOR TWOYEARSNEWDELHI: India’smarketregulator on Friday barred thefounders of news televisionchannel NewDelhi Television Ltd(NDTV) from the country’s capitalmarkets for the next two years.The Securities and ExchangeBoard of India (Sebi), which islooking into allegations of fraudover amulti-million-dollar loansecured byNDTV, also barred itsfounders, Prannoy and RadhikaRoy, fromholding anymanagerialposition for the next two years.“The loan agreementswereunmistakably structured as ascheme to defraud the investors,”the Sebi said in its order. Federalauthorities first launched aninvestigation into the founders ofNDTV in 2017 and later brought acase against the couple in amovethe company had saidwas anattempt tomuzzle free speech.

WPI inflation near two-yearlow at 2.45% inMayNEWDELHI: Wholesale PriceIndex-based inflation (WPI) hit a22-month lowof 2.45% inMayhelped by falling prices of foodarticles, fuel and power items, andthis in turnmay prompt RBI to gofor another cut in key interestrates in the current fiscal.WPIinflationwas at 3.07% in April thisyear. It was 4.78% inMay 2018.Inflation in food articles basketwas 6.99% InMay, down from7.37% in April, official data re-leased on Friday said. However,onion prices spiked during themonthwith inflation at 15.89%, asagainst negative 3.43% in April.Inflation in pulses continued indouble digit for four consecutivemonths at 18.36% inMay, up from14.32% in April.

Trump says ‘doesn’t matter’if Xi agrees tomeet at G20WASHINGTON: US PresidentDonald Trump said “it doesn’tmatter” if Chinese President XiJinping agrees tomeetwith himlater thismonth to restartnegotiations over trade becausetheUS is collecting billions ofdollars in tariffs on goods fromthe country. “If he shows up,good,” Trump told FoxNews onFriday. “If he doesn’t—in themeantime,we’re taking in billionsof dollars amonth.” He added:“Eventually, they’re going tomake a deal, because they’regoing to have to. Look, they’repaying hundreds of billions ofdollars.” Trumphas repeatedlythreatened to raise tariffs if Xidoesn’tmeetwith him at the G20leaders’meeting June 28-29 inOsaka, Japan.

Flipkart, GOQii settle caseover sharp discountingNEWDELHI: Walmart unit Flipkarthas settled a legal disputewith anIndian startup that alleged itsuffered losses because itsproductswere sharply discountedon the global retailer’swebsite.GOQii, a seller of smartwatch-type health devices, sued Flipkartlastmonth in aMumbai court,alleging its deviceswere dis-counted by around 70% to theretail price,muchmore than thetwo sides had agreed. The courthad, as an interimmeasure,ordered device sales to be haltedon Flipkart. In a joint statement,the companies said the disputehad been resolved andGOQiihealth deviceswould again beavailable on Flipkart.COMPILED FROM AGENCIES

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LONDON:AustraliacaptainAaronFinch has backed MitchellMarsh to shine if injured all-rounderMarcusStoinisisforcedtopull outof theWorldCup.Stoinis suffered a side strain

in Australia’s defeat againstIndialastweekendandwasside-linedwhentheholdersbeatPak-istanonWednesday.Hehasalreadybeenruledout

ofSaturday’smatchagainstSriLanka at The Oval and hisinvolvement for the rest of thetournament will be decided inthenext fewdays.“Stoinis won’t be available

again.Hehasn’tbowledyetinhisrecovery over the last couple ofdays,” Finch told reporters onFriday. “So having four daysbetween this gameand thenextgame, I think that will be theideal time to really test him outandassesshim.ButI thinkoverthenext five, sixdays therewillbeacallmadeonthat, justbasedonwhathecanandcan’tdo.“We’ve seen himbatting and

running, no problem. Just hehasn’t tried to bowl yet. Justwaiting for the injury to settledownabitmore.”Marsh is already on standby

afterflyingtoEnglandtolinkupwithFinch’ssquadandtheskip-per has full confidence in theunderstudy.Hewasduetotravelwith Australia’s A side toEnglandthisweekbutflewoveracoupleofdaysearlierascoverforStoinis.Marshhasplayednoprofessional cricket since

March, while his last 50-overappearancewas18monthsago.But if Cricket Australia does

decidetotriggeraformalrequestto remove Stoinis then FinchbacksMarsh to be ready to faceBangladeshnextThursday.“The short answer is yes.

There is confidence that Mitchwill come in and do well ifselected, if Stoinis doesn’trecoverproperly,”hesaid.Despitethreewinsfromtheir

opening four games, FinchadmitsAustraliahaveyet tohittop form. “I don’t think we’vegone anywhere near our best,which is still a good thing, thatwe’vegotsixpointsontheboardwhilenotplayinganywherenearourbest cricket,”headded.“Butas longaswe’re improv-

ing, and continue to go up andnotgobackwards, I think that’sthekey.”

SHORTBALLTESTSri Lanka are ready to face anonslaught of fierce AustralianpacebowlingonSaturday.Whiletheyareawarethatthe

Australians will be out to takeadvantageofthebouncypitchbyfiringdownshortdeliveries,cap-tainDimuthKarunaratneiscon-fidenthismencanwithstandtheattack.“Weknowtheyaregoingtogoreallyhardagainstusbut...the thing is, they can bowl onlytwobouncers,soIthinkwehaveto be aware of those things,” hesaidon theeveof thematch.Their last two matches

against Asian rivals PakistanandBangladeshwerebothcom-pletewashouts inBristol.

Aussies fret overStoinis injury

n Marcus Stoinis missed Australia’s win over Pakistan onWednesdaydue to a side strain and will also not play against Sri Lanka. REUTERS

Reutersn [email protected]

SYDNEY: Sachin Tendulkar hasfiled a civil lawsuit against anAustralian bat manufacturer,accusingitofusinghisnameandimage to promote products andthenfailingtopayhim$2millioninroyalties.In Federal Court papers filed

thismonthandreviewedbyReu-ters, Tendulkar said Sydney-based Spartan Sports Interna-tionalagreedin2016topayhimatleast $1million a year to use hisimage,logoandpromotionalser-vicestosell“SachinbySpartan”sportinggoodsandclothing.Theretiredstarbatsmansoonwenttowork promoting the products,andappearedatarangeofpromo-tional events in places such asLondonandtheIndianfinancialhub ofMumbai, the documentsshowed.However,bySeptember2018,Spartanhadfailedtomakeasinglepaymentowed,Tendulkarsaid, and he made a formalrequestforpayment.Whennonecame, he ended the agreement,askingthecompanytostopusinghisnameandlikeness.YetSpartancontinuedtodoso,

accordingtothedocuments.Spartan, whose legal repre-

sentative was not listed on theFederal Court website, did notrespondtoanemailrequestfromReuters forcomment.Les Galbraith, listed by the

courtdocumentsasitschiefoper-atingofficer,didnotrespondtoaprivate message sent to hisLinkedIn page. The law firmlistedasrepresentingTendulkar,Gilbert + Tobin, declined com-ment. Tendulkar’s civil claimaccusedtheAustraliancompanyof misleading or deceptive con-duct,“passingoff”,orsuggestingan official endorsement whennoneexisted, andbreachof con-tract.Itdidnotsaywhatdamageswere sought. The court websiteshowed the lawsuitwas filed onJune5,withthefirstcourtdateinSydneyonJune26.

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MUMBAI:Fromneeding22runsoffoneballtogettingtheirnumberswrong once, SouthAfrica are awalking,talkingexampleofhowraincanruin thebest laidplansin aWorldCup. That their onlypoint in the latest edition hascome because of rain will besmallconsolationforthemisfir-ingProteas.And even then it wasn’t as if

South Africa were poised for awinliketheywereinthesemi-fi-nalagainstEnglandin1992whenthescoreboardflashedimpossi-bility.True,thegameagainsttheWest Indies was all of 7.3 overswhen play was abandoned inHampshirebutat29/2andShel-donCottrellhavingalreadydonehis march-and-salute routinetwice, it wasn’t smooth sailingforSouthAfrica.ThecontestagainsttheCarib-

beans carried a lot of signifi-cance for Faf du Plessis’s menwho had gone down againstEngland,BangladeshandIndiawith a whimper. West Indieswere an opposition somewhatequal in skills and they too hadmisfired. But not for the firsttime thisEnglish summer, raincheckmatedcricket.South Africa and rain have

somehistory.Itbeganwhentheyreturned from 20-year interna-tional isolation, in 1992, andthere seems to be no let-up. In1992, theymade the semi-finalsdefeatinghostsAustralia,West

Indies,PakistanandIndia.PeterKirsten(410runsat68.33ineightmatches) and Allan Donald (13wickets in nine matches) werethe star performers and therewasJontyRhodes:agile,nimbleandaddingadifferentdimensionto fielding.Things were hunky-dory in

the semi-final against Englandtill therainarrived.Before that12-minuteshower,SouthAfricaneeded22off 13balls inSydney.

The electronic scoreboard firstshowed22wasneededoff sevenwhenplayresumed.Difficultbutnot impossible. It turned out tobe an error. South Africa, bysomecomplexequation,actuallyneeded22offoneball.Tocall itafarcewouldbeunderstatingtheobvious.If South Africa have all to

complain about 1992, theyhavethemselvestoblamein1999and2003.In1996,theyranintoaWest

Indiesteamstillpackingapunchin quarter-finals. In 1999, theysnaredatie fromthejawsofvic-tory and let Australia slip intothe final because they had fin-ishedhigherinSuperSixstand-ings.South Africa have always

shownupataworldeventwithasquadsbrimmingwithtalent. In2003, thehostshadJacquesKal-lis, Shaun Pollock, HerschelleGibbs, Lance Klusener apart

fromDonaldandRhodes. In thefinal league match against SriLanka, South Africa needed awin toprogress.SriLankadidwell toseta269-

run target. South Africa werebolstered by Gibbs’ 73 beforeMark Boucher and Pollockadded 63. Then it began to rainand before the players werecalledoff,Pollockwasrun-out.By the end of the 44th over,

Boucher, in Klusener’s com-pany,wasconveyedbythedress-ing roomthat a total of 229 after45 overswas enough.With raingettingheavierandSriLankansfinding it tough to grip the ball,Boucherhitasixtotakehissideto229andthendefendedthefinalball before breaking into cele-brations.However, it turned out that

229wasneededforatieaspertheDuckworth-Lewismethod, andonemorerun—whichBoucherhad not gone for—was neededforawin.Thehostscrashedoutof the World Cup embarrass-ingly, having miscalculatedtheir target.Through every World Cup,

South Africa have struggled toshed the chokers’ tag but thiswould be theworst start for thefour-timesemi-finalists.NewsofABdeVilliers’scupperedcome-backhasbeenadistractionandifinjuriestoLungiNgidiandDaleSteynmakesKagisoRabadafeellikehe iswalkingaloneyoucanhardlyblamehim.ThelastthingSouth Africa need now is rain-drops fallingon theirheads.

When it rains onProteas, it pours

n South Africa’s rain abandoned match against West Indies on June 10 has left them in a tricky spot goinginto their fifth tie against Afghanistan in Cardiff on Saturday. Both teams are yet to win a game. AFP

SOMETOUGHQUESTIONSMATE...n Australia captainAaron Finch wasjoined by assistantcoach Brad Haddin’ssons during the pressconference ahead ofSri Lanka match. Atthe end of the meet,Haddin’s elder sonZac decided to stepinto a scribe’s shoesand asked: “Whenare you going to win atoss!” Finch laughedand answered,“Soon.” Then Finchasked Zac: “Do youhave a girlfriend?”“No,” came the reply.We have to wait andsee which onehappens first—Finchwinning a toss or Zacwooing a girl.

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cityscanASTADIUMORAGIANTMAZE?The Rose Bowl at Southamp-ton is a one of a kind stadium.Located in the countryside, ithas an 18-hole golf course, astand named after ShaneWarne, a savvy restaurantnamedBeefy’s (owned by IanBotham) and an entrancethrough a hotel lobby! To getto themedia centre, one hasto go through the lobbywhere the hotel securitychecks bags before youfinally proceed to the lift thatgoes through three hotelfloors before finally reachingthe impressive press box thatoffers a viewof the entireground. Trying to find the loocan be a bit tricky though attimes. Go off themarkedlanes and one can easily veerinto themaze of corridorsinside the hotelwhere thesecurity finally bails you out.

straight drive or the backfootsquare drive. Jonny BairstowcontinuedinhisrichveinofformandWoakestoomadethemostofhis sudden promotion. WestIndies looked clueless, tryingsevenbowlersbutbowlingwronglengthstodefensive fields.EvenGaylewastriedforafewoversasaprobablepartnershipbreaker.Butthatturnedouttobeafarceaswell.

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SOUTHAMPTON: England reaf-firmed their top billing in theWorldCupbyinflictinganeight-wicket win so crushing that itmightsendWestIndiesonasoul-searchingmission if theyaimtobounce back strong. Despite adecentstart,WestIndies’inningscapsized due to reckless battingand staying blind to the need ofcurbing their natural instincts.England,forallthepredictionsofthis being one of thematches tolookout for, strolled toavictorydespitenothavingtheservicesofEoinMorgan and Jason Roy asbatsmen. Jofra Archer too hadhismomentsinwhatwashisfirstmatch against his former team.He nixed countrymen NicolasPooran and Carlos Brathwaitebefore crashing into the pads ofSheldonCottrelltoendupwithahaulof3/30.Staying true to the Calypso

brand of cricket may work forWestIndiesinT20s.Andit’seasyto be swayed in a format thatrequiresafastbowlertobowljustfouroversandabatsmantostayat the crease for a short period.One-dayers,however,pushlimi-tations.AndWest Indiesclearlyhave a few. Six out of their eightbatsmen on Friday perished tocatches, showing how crucialshot selectioncanbe.Nowis thetime todigdeepandplanhowtoconsolidate the batting in themiddle, take more runs in theform of singles and see off thethreateningbowlers.Andit’salsoprobablytimeWestIndiesrevisittheir decision of making AndreRussellgothroughthesufferingof bowling, only for the all-rounder to clutchhis knee after

thefirstover.But first,West Indies need to

changetheirapproachtobatting.OnFriday,theycameacrossasateamthatalwaysplaysallout,allbrawn,littlebrainandpoorplan-ning. West Indies have a sham-bolic batting record inEngland.Only once in sixmatches in thelast fouryearsbeforethisWorldCup have West Indies crossed300—356/5againstEnglandattheOval in 2017. They still lost. Tocome out firing on all cylindersagainstthesameopponentswhenthereisacloudcoveroverthesta-diumisnothingbuthara-kiri.Still, thestartwasn’tthatbad.

England returned themost eco-nomical first 10 overs in theircampaignasWestIndiesreached41/1—three runs less thanwhatthey had conceded to SouthAfrica. Chris Gayle had playedout29ballsandlookedgoodforalonginnings.Butonlyjust.GaylewantedtoaccelerateeventhoughhehadmilkedChrisWoakes for10 runs in two balls four oversago.Lackofawarenessofthefieldtoowas visible in his shot selec-tion. Instead of aiming for theshorter square boundaries,Gaylewent for deep square-leg,spearing the ball and givingJonny Bairstow all the time topouchthecatch.The timing of dismissals

exposed West Indies’ reckless-ness too. Notmoving his feet orplayingwithastraightbat, ShaiHopegaveEnglandtheopportu-nitytosuccessfullyreviewaleg-before appeal and West Indieshadslumpedfrom54/1to55/3inthespaceofthreedeliveries.Farworsewas gifting thewickets ofShimron Hetmyer and JasonHolder to part-time bowler JoeRootwhowasbroughtonexactlyfor this.Itshouldhavealarmedtheset

Nicolas Pooran but he main-tainedhiscomposureintheface

of Russell’s whirlwind batting.Russellismoreeffectivewiththebat when there is a target. Thistime, he just wentwith the flowtilloneofhishitsdidn’thavethepower to cross over the bound-ary. Chris Woakes didn’t evenhave to move to complete thecatch at deep midwicket. ThatwasprobablythesignforPoorantobreakfree.Butawell-directedbouncergot tohim, extractinga

faint edge that only stand-inwicketkeeper Jos Buttler couldhear.West Indies thenmanaged to

render the game boring withtheirinflexibletactics.Knowingfully that 212 can only bedefendedbydismissingEnglandwho were two batsmen short,West Indies still bowled short.Required run rate not an issue,Englandwere only happy to let

them go even though JonnyBairstow got one on his visorfrom Russell. Apart from that,WestIndiesrarelycreatedadentinEngland’sbattingconfidence.Neither was there any visibleurgency to attack the stumpsorpitch the ball up nor the fieldplacementswereattacking.Looking collected and calm,

England broke little sweat tocanter to the target. Thebatting

was shuffled as Jason Roy washamstrungandEoinMorganhadto hobble off the ground with abackspasm.Rootmadefulluseofthat opportunity, racing to aneasy century, his second of thistournament, making him thehighestscorer.HardlychallengedbytheWest

Indies pacers with their short-balltheory,Rootwasalleleganceinhisdrives,beitthecoverdrive,

Archerontarget, fells theWest IndiesSENSATIONAL Pacer picks 3 againstformer ‘home team’ but England faceinjury crisis in Roy and captain Morgan

n England's Jofra Archer celebrates taking the wicket of West Indies’ Carlos Brathwaite in Southampton on Friday. REUTERS

scorecardnWest Indies

CGayle c BairstowbPlunkett36 (41)

E Lewis bWoakes 2 (8)S Hope lbwWood 11 (30)N Pooran c Buttler b Archer

63 (78)S Hetmyer c&b Root 39 (48)J Holder c&b Root 9 (10)A Russell cWoakes bWood 21 (16)C Brathwaite c Buttler b Archer

14 (22)S Cottrell lbwArcher 0 (1)O Thomas not out 0 (11)S Gabriel bWood 0 (3)n Extras (lb 5, w 12) 17n Total (all out; 44.4 overs) 212n FoW: 1-4, 2-54, 3-55, 4-144,5-156, 6-188, 7-202, 8-202, 9-211nBowling: CWoakes 5-2-16-1,J Archer 9-1-30-3, L Plunkett5-0-30-1,MWood 6.4-0-18-3,B Stokes 4-0-25-0, A Rashid10-0-61-0, J Root 5-0-27-2n England

J Bairstow c Brathwaite bGabriel45 (46)

J Root not out 100 (94)CWoakes c sub bGabriel 40 (54)B Stokes not out 10 (6)n Extras (lb 2, nb 1, w 15) 18n Total (for 2wkts; 33.1 overs) 213n FoW: 1-95, 2-199nBowling: S Cottrell 3-0-17-0,O Thomas 6-0-43-0, S Gabriel7-0-49-2, A Russell 2-0-14-0,J Holder 5.1-0-31-0, C Brathwaite5-0-35-0, C Gayle 5-0-22-0

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Associated Pressn [email protected]

LAS VEGAS: Although Tyson Fury isthe heavyweight division’s linealchampion and one of its best fight-ers in recent years, this Britishbehemoth would be a gifted enter-tainer in just about any arena.Whether he’s performing with

brute grace inside the ring orpoignantly retelling the story ofhis battles with substance abuseand depression outside it, Fury(27-0-1, 19 KOs) holds an audiencespellbound like few boxers inrecent history. He even loves tosing , particularly after his bouts—albeit with more enthusiasmthan skill. A man of his diversetalents is a natural for the sport’sbiggest stages—and Fury isfinally in the world’s fight capitalon Saturday night.Sin City has a mythic allure for

many Brits in general, and fornearly all boxers—includingFury, who once told himself thathe wouldn’t visit Vegas unless hewas fighting there. “Fighting inLas Vegas is an honour for aboxer, and I feel I’m ready to wearthe part,” Fury said. “It suits me

down to the ground.”After starring in London,

Dublin, Düsseldorf, New Yorkand Los Angeles, the Manchesternative finally gets his Vegasdebut against Germany’sunbeaten Tom Schwarz at theMGM Grand Garden.The 6-foot-9 Fury has already

captured the attention of Ameri-can fight fans with his perform-ances stateside, none bigger thanhis theatrical rise from the can-vas in the 12th round to earn athoroughly entertaining drawwith Deontay Wilder at StaplesCenter in his last bout six monthsago. Not many observers expectFury to need similar recupera-tive powers against Schwarz(24-0, 16 KOs), who has neverfought anyone close to Fury’sstature. But Fury still intends toput on a show.“It’s different, but it’s what I

was born to do,” Fury said of hisfights. “I was born for US fighting.The British are reserved. For aconfident, brash talker like me,you have to come to America to beappreciated. I always wanted tobe here as a boxer. It’s my time toput on great shows.”

Tyson set to unleash fury in Las Vegas

n Tyson Fury (left) and Tom Schwarz face off in Las Vegas. AFP

n Raptors forward Kawhi Leonard joined greats Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and LeBron James as the only players in NBA history to win Final Most Valuable Player with two different franchises. USA TODAY SPORTS

Agence France-Pressen [email protected]

TURIN: A rare gold boxing glove made to commemo-rate Muhammad Ali’s “Fight of the Century” against Joe Frazier in Madi-son Square Garden nearly 50 years ago failed to find a buyer in an auction in Turin on Thursday. The glove was produced by Everlast to pro-mote the world heavyweight title fight on March 8, 1971 during which Ali suffered his first defeat.But it failed to get an offer

for the 5,000-euro asking price at Sala Bolaffi in Turin. The glove returns to the collection of its Italian owner, Ezio Scime, a former record company owner,

who was in the front row of the fight in New York.“We had ringside seats,

between Woody Allen and Frank Sinatra,” recalled Scime. “We were so close that when they punched each other we were covered in splashes of sweat.“Only a few of us in the

front rows were given a glove as a memento, and I would have had Ali auto-graph it, but the match ended tragically, and so it was not possible.”“(After his defeat) Alì

looked wretched, not so much on a physical level but psychologically.” It was not until years later that Ali finally autographed the glove when he was suffering from Parkinson’s.

Ali’s golden glove fails to find a buyer

‘F IGHT OF THE CENTURY’

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OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA: Kawhi Leon-ard raised his arms high in tri-umph and celebrated Canada’sfirst NBA championship. “We theNorth!” is now “We the Champs!”Leonard and the Toronto Rap-

tors captured the country’s firstmajor title in 26 years with theirmost remarkable road win yet inthe franchise’s NBA Finals debut,outlasting the battered anddepleted two-time defendingchampion Golden State Warriors114-110 on Thursday night in aGame 6 for the ages.“I wanted to make history

here. That’s what I did,” a soakingwet Leonard said, ski gogglesperched on his forehead andsporting a fresh black championshat. Stephen Curry missed a con-tested three-pointer in the wan-ing moments before Golden Statecalled a timeout it didn’t have,giving Leonard a technical freethrow with 0.9 seconds left to sealit. Leonard, the NBA Finals MVPfor a second time, then got behindAndre Iguodala for a layup as thebuzzer sounded, but it went toreview and the basket was calledoff before Leonard’s two freethrows. That only delayed the cel-ebration for a moment.When it actually ended, the

typically stoic Leonard could let itall out. A Canadian team—andwe’re not talking hockey here—stood on top of one of the tradi-tional major sports leagues forthe first time since the TorontoBlue Jays won the 1993 WorldSeries. Serge Ibaka pulled hishead up through the hoop by theGolden State bench as the crowdchanted “Warriors! Warriors!”after a sensational send-off atOracle Arena.Curry walked away slowly,

hands on his head on a nightSplash Brother Klay Thompsonsuffered a torn ACL in his leftknee and departed with 30 points.Fred VanVleet rescued the

Raptors down the stretch with hisdazzling shooting from deep toscore 22 points with five 3s off thebench, while Leonard wound upwith 22 points. Kyle Lowry scoredthe game’s first eight points andfinished with 26 in all to go with 10assists and seven rebounds.Fans poured into the streets in

Toronto, screaming and honkinghorns after the Raptors pulled offa third straight win on GoldenState’s home floor that said good-bye to NBA basketball after 47

seasons. And the Raptors did itwith the very kind of depth thathelped define Golden State’stransformation into a dynasty thepast five seasons. This time, theWarriors were wounded. GoldenState already was down two-timereigning NBA Finals MVP KevinDurant, who had surgeryWednesday for a ruptured rightAchilles tendon. Then, the Warri-ors lost Thompson—and theycouldn’t overcome just one moreheartbreaking injury.“A lot of bad breaks in the

finals, to be honest,” Raptorscoach Nick Nurse said. “Like us,they kept on playing. We just hadto keep on playing no matter whowas out there. And I think theywere super intense high-levelgames and both teams desper-ately trying to win.”This thrilling back-and-forth

game featured 18 lead changes,nine ties and neither team goingahead by more than nine points.Curry scored 21 points but shot

just 6 for 17 and went 3 of 11 on 3s.Iguodala added 22 for his biggestgame this postseason as the War-riors did everything until thevery last moment to leave a last-ing legacy at Oracle.Thompson provided his own

dramatic memory. He injured hisknee when fouled by DannyGreen on a drive at the 2:22 markof the third, was helped off thecourt and walked partially downa tunnel toward the locker room,then—shockingly—re-emergedto shoot his free throws beforegoing out again at 2:19. He didn’treturn and left the arena oncrutches, and the Warriorsannounced that an MRI had con-firmed the torn ACL.“More than the what-ifs is just

feeling bad for the playersinvolved. Injuries are always partof the NBA season—any profes-sional sport, injuries play a hugerole,” Warriors coach Steve Kerrsaid. “It’s just the nature of theseinjuries, the severity of theseinjuries.”

Kawhi, the new king in the North NBA CHAMPIONSHIP Toronto Raptors became the first team from outside the US to win the NBA Finals

GAME 1May 30: Toronto Raptors beat Golden State Warriors 118-109 in their home game. Pascal Siakam scores a playoff career-high of 32 points.

GAME 2June 2: Warriors level the score 1-1 in their away match, winning 109-104. Klay Thompson scores 25 points as Warriors hold off a late Raptors rally to win.

GAME 3June 5: Raptors beat Warriors 123-109 in their away match. Kawhi Leonard scores 30 points and the Raptors shoot 17 three-pointers to beat Warriors.

GAME 4June 7: Raptors beat Warriors 105-92 in their away match. Raptors stretch their lead to 3–1 after Leonard scores 36 points.

GAME 5June 10: Warriors eke out a 106-105 win in their away match. Stephen Curry scores 31 points to narrow the lead to 2-3.

GAME 6June 13: Raptors win 114-110 to seal the best-of-seven playoffs 4-2 in their away match. Leonard scores 22 points and is named the NBA Finals most valuable player.

THE JOURNEY

LU C K N O W S P O R T

Saad’s all-round brilliance helps Chauhan Sporting enter finalHT Correspondentn [email protected]

LUCKNOW : Saad Khan’s all-roundbrilliance helped ChauhanSporting crush Tariq CricketClub (TCC) by six wickets tomake it to the final of the 3rd RamChandra Sharma MemorialTournament, at the NER Sta-dium here on Friday.Saad first took 3/33 along with

Nikhil Patel (3/24) and Jai Singh(2/37) to get TCC out for 209 in39.2 overs, and later struck92-ball 108 with the help of 16fours and two sixes to see his sidehome in 30.3 overs, for the loss offour wickets.Suhail made 52, whereas Gau-

rav Pandey remained unbearenon 38. Raj Sonkar took 2/56 forthe losers.BRIEF SCORESTCC 209 in 39.2 overs (Jaiv-

ardhan 71, Rahul Chandra 38,Yash Chaudhary 30, Nikhil Patel3/24, Saad Khan 3/33, Jai Singh

2/37) lost to Chauhan Sport-ing 214/4 in 30.3 overs (SaadKhan 108, Suhail 52, Gaurav Pan-dey 38*, Raj Sonker 2/56).

ALOK, SONU SHINEAlok Gautam took 5/4, whereasSonu Singh bagged 4/11 asMicrolit Gymkhana defeatedPanthers Cricket Academy(PCA) by 225 runs to enter quar-terfinals of the Under-19 MathruTrophy in memory of ShiveshRanjan Mazumdar, at the KDSingh ‘Babu’ Stadium here onFriday.Even before Alok and Sonu

could show their marks with redcherry, it was Kapil Gupta, whohelped the side post a big total onthe board, hitting an unbeaten113, which contained 13 hits tothe fence.BRIEF SCORESMicrolit Gymkhana 263/9

in 40 overs (Kapil Gupta 113*,Rahul Verma 2/22, MangalmDwivedi 2/45, Ishan Gupta 2/45)beat PCA 38 in 13.3 overs(Alok Gautam 5/4, Sonu Singh4/11).

FINE BATTINGKaran Singh and PrabhnoorSingh slammed sparking halfcenturies to help UP TimberClub (UPTC) score a convincingseven-wicket win against KSports Academy (KSA) in aleague match of the 2nd LeelaGhosh Memorial Tournamenthere on Friday.KSA put up 243/7 in 40 overs

while batting first after winningthe toss. But in reply, UPTC romped

home in 38.2 overs.BRIEF SCORESKSA 243/7 in 40 overs

(Deepak Kumar 71, Anand Sriv-

astava 52*, Hasan Akhtar 2/43)lost to UPTC 244/3 in 38.2overs (Karan Singh 92,Prabhnoor Singh 74, ViprajNigam 28*, RP Singh 2/46).

ASHUTOSH EXCELSAshutosh Bajpai took one wick-ets and scored a half-century toguide Lucknow Colts notch up aconvincing five-wicket winagainst ASCA Hostel in a leaguematch of the 2nd Ekmi DeviMemorial Tournament, at the PtRaas Bihari Tewari Stadiumhere on Friday.BRIEF SCORESASCAH 198 in 40 overs

(Satyam Srivastava 73, Sub-hankar 50, Kshitiz Tripathi 4/35)lost to Lucknow Colts 199/5in 27.5 overs (Ashutosh Bajpai68, Shailendra Singh 42, VishalSingh 27, Manmath Tiwari 2/41,Arjun Yadav 2/43).

ASCA LOSELucknow’s Abhijeet SinhaCricket Academy finished run-ners-up at the All-India CaptShanta Bauntiyal Under-14Tournament, losing to DBCA,Dehradun by 22 runs in Deh-radun on Friday. Needing 195 towin in 30 overs, ASCA couldscore 142/7. Alok Bharti (48), ARMishra (48) and Ayush Mishra(43) were the main run getters.

DAY OF TONSSarthak Singh struck anunbeaten 101 for Aman GeraEleven, but even a superb 86-ball139, which contained 20 fours

and six sixes by Ali Inamcouldn’t help Asad AnsariEleven from losing theirUnder-16 trials match by 15 runs,at the CSD Sahara here on Fri-day. In other match of the day,NR Dey XI defeated Jasbir SinghXI by 77 runs.

KARATE MEETKarate exponents of Uttar Pra-desh won 11 medals, includingthree gold, two silver and sixbronzes and finished fifth at thenational championship at NewDelhi. Among the winners, Pra-shant Kumar, Ishita Verma andJunali Singh belong to Lucknow.

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RENNES:StrikersManaIwabuchiandYuikaSugasawawereonthescoresheet as Japan got theirwomen’s World Cup campaignback on trackwith a 2-1 victoryover Scotland inRennes onFri-day. Japan, champions in 2011andfinalistsfouryearsago,werecomingoffauninspiringgoallessdrawwith lowly-rankedArgen-tina in their opener but lookedmuch sharper in the attackingthirdagainstScotland.Theygotabreakthroughwhen

striker Iwabuchi controlled apoorheadedclearancefromScot-landcaptainRachelCorsiebeforeunleashing a powerful strikehighintothenet from20metres.Sugasawa doubled Japan’s

leadfromthespotinthe37thmin-uteafteranotherdefensiveerrorfromCorsie,whowaspenalisedfor tugging back the forward inthebox.Scotlandrespondedwitha physical approach going for-ward in the second half andpulledonebackthroughacurlingeffortfromsubstituteLanaClel-land but Japan held on to theadvantagetosealtheirfirstwinofthetournament.

AUSTRALIAECSTATICAFTERWINOVERBRAZILMONTPELLIER:For Australia, thecome-from-behind 3-2 victoryover Brazil in Montpellier onThursdaydidnot justkeeptheirWorld Cup hopes alive – it pro-vided vindication. “RealAussieheart being shown,” said goal-keeper Lydia Williams. “It waskindofdoordie forus.”Afteranunfortunate2-1lossto

Italy in their opener, AustraliafelltwogoalsbehindagainstBra-zilbeforetheirsecondhalfcome-back.“TonightisoneofthefinestAustralianperformancesIhaveseen,”saidcoachAnteMilicic.Marta and Cristiane Rozeira

had givenBrazil the lead beforeCaitlinFoordpulledonebackatthe stroke of half-time. A ChloeLogarzo strike and an own goalfrom Brazil’s Monica AlveshandedAustraliavictory.

Japan back ontrack with 2-1 winover Scotland

n A group of boys practice stepovers at a kindergarten tucked awaybetween residential tower blocks in Shanghai. AFP

SUPPORTING THE TEAMARE THREESELECTORSLEDBYMSK, ASTATEMENT IN ITSELFCONSIDERING THE TEAMMANAGEMENT (CAPTAIN,VICE-CAPTAIN ANDCOACH) HASASTRONGSAY INDECIDING THE 11.ALL LEGENDSAREHEREEXCEPTDRAVID.

MANCHESTER: AmritMathur, themanager of India’s World Cupteamin2003,narratesatale thatputs in perspective the off-fieldpressures that players are sub-jectedtointhelead-uptoanIndia-PakistanWorldCupgame.Espe-cially in a climate like today’s,whenpoliticalanddiplomatictiesbetween the twocountrieshavebeen severed. As the two teamshadn’t played an ODI in nearlythree years leading up to thematchatCenturiononMarch1,2003, it was decided byMathur,his Pakistani equivalent Shah-ryar Khan and Ali Bacher, the2003 World Cup tournamentdirector, that the playerswouldshake hands before the matchbegins;agestureof friendship.“Justminutes before the two

teamswereabouttodescendthelongstaircase to thegroundandexchange mementos and hand-shakes,someonefromourcampraisedanimportantpoint,”saysMathur, a columnist with HT.“This gentleman said, ‘We keepsaying that this is just anothergame. Then why are we doingthis? We are not the UnitedNations.” But Mathur was cer-tain that it wouldn’t do India’simagemuchgood if theybackedout at this late hour. “So, I tookthis gentlemanasidealongwithour captain, Sourav Ganguly,andconvincedthemthatbackingout wasn’t an option. Themementos had beenmade. ThePakistaniswerewaiting.Andtheworldwaswatching,” saysMat-hur. “They agreed and the twoteamslinedup,Sourav’smenandWaqar Younis’s men, and likebeforea footballmatch,allplay-ersshookhands.”ForIndia, thegestureofgood-

will seeminglyspilledoverontothefieldaswell.AttheendofPak-istan’s innings of 273, SaeedAnwar—as he often did againstIndia—scored big runs, 101 ofthem.AndseldominthepasthadIndia won after an Anwar hun-dred. SaysMathur: “During thebreak, itwasadressingroomontheedge.Thescorewasdauntingand so was Pakistan’s bowlingattack ofWasimAkram,WaqarandShoaibAkthar.”Youknowwhathappenednext

—SachinTendulkar’s 98helpedIndiawinamatchthatwastensefor reasons more than just thecontest—butyouperhapsaren’tawareofwhatthevictorymeantto the players in the dressingroom,soallowMathurtotellyou.“In all my time with differentIndia teams, I have not seen a

dressingroomcelebratelikethat.Eventhenon-drinkerswerepol-ishingofftheAmstelbeerstockedin the fridge.”Mathur says thatsometime during the emotionalcelebration,Tendulkarcameupto himand revealed that he hadbeenpreparingforthatmatchforoverayear,sincetheWorldCupschedulehadbeenreleased.“HiswifeAnjalicalledhimfromBan-dra,Mumbai,and heldthephoneby the balcony so that Sachincouldhearthecrackersthatweregoing off all over the city,” saysMathur. “Sachin told us itsoundedlikeDiwali.”It is of course terribly unfair

that professional sportspersonshavetoshoulderambassadorialburdensatatimewhenthecross-borderrelationsare inatrough.During the 2011World Cup,MSDhoni’s side were to play Paki-stan in the semi-final atMohali.As if the tensionof the stageandthe opposition weren’t enough,the team was reminded almostdailyinthenewspapersthatthiswasthefirsttimePakistanwouldbeplayingonIndiansoilsincetheterror attacks in Mumbai inNovember2008.And even before Dhoni and

ShahidAfridi could proceed forthe toss, the PrimeMinisters ofIndia andPakistan,ManmohanSingh and Yousuf Raza Gilani,took the field foraphoto-op. It isunlikelythatPMNarendraModiandhiscounterpart(andwinnerof the 1992 World Cup) ImranKhanwillbepresenthereonSun-day,giventhatthecurrentIndo-Paksituation is somewhat simi-lar towhenthetwoteamsmetatverysamegroundin1999.Just10daysbeforethatWorld

Cupwastostart inmid-May,theKargilWarbrokeout.Rightintheheart of that conflict on June 8,1999 and many thousand milesaway from it, the two countrieslined up their cricket teams infrontofhigh-strungspectatorsatOldTrafford,allofthempatrioti-callycharged.Andonefearsthatthe environment in the standsmay not be too different duringthegroupgameonSunday.Although the tense situation

acrosstheIndia-Pakistanborderescalatedandde-escalatedoverashort span in February (threemonths before this World Cupevenstarted)ithaslivedoninanIndian dressing room eager topay its tribute to the armed for-ces.Thecamouflagecapswornbythe entire team during an ODIagainstAustraliaathomeandthepara-militaryinsigniaonDhoni’swicketkeepingglovesduringthisWorld Cup both have a deeperrevelation: that, forperhaps thefirsttimeinthelead-uptoaWorldCup game against Pakistan, theunnecessary pressures havebeenself-inflicted.

Cricket in thetime of conflict

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OfthetwopossiblethreatstothePakistan game, one subsided asrain clouds were headed else-where.Theotherthreat,apoliti-calone,hasalsoreceded.Aheadof the ‘mother of all cricket bat-tles’thereisexpectationbutalsoanunusual calm.Not long backtheBCCICOAdemanded toughactionagainst countries (mean-ingPakistan)forsupportingter-ror.Now,justasteamsareabouttoline-upatManchester,thestri-dentrhetoricisonmute.It’stimetoreissuestatementsthat‘thisisonlyagameofcricket’.Still, mindful of the impor-

tanceofthematch,COA’sLtGenRavi Thogde is around. His twocolleagues (also eligible for a7-daytriphere)havestayedback,oneduetopreoccupationandtheother in solemn protest. How-ever, EhsanMani (ex-ICCchief,recentlypickedbyImranKhantohead PCB) and ICC head Sha-shankManohar arenothere.Supportingtheteamarethree

selectorsledbyMSK,astatementin itself considering the teammanagement(captain,vice-cap-tainandcoach)hasastrongsayindeciding the 11. All legends arehereexceptDravid.Representing Pakistan, is

WaqarYounis.Heisactiveacrossmedia platforms and a soughtaftercoach.Heisbemusedbythelack of swing in contemporarycricket.Askedaboutthereasons,hejustshrugs:asktheICC.Havebowlers lost theart?Couldn’tbethat, he replied. Everyone can’tbe so unskilled. Is it the whiteball? Quite likely, but I don’tknowwhatbecausetheseamandtheball looksthesame.WaqarfeelsPakistanmustdis-

cover its A game to challengeIndia.Viratechoesthesentimentand because of ChampionsTro-phy2017,realisesPakistan,how-ever up and down performancewise, isnevertobetakenlightly.

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SOUTHAMPTON/MUMBAI:Twoyearsago,India’sambitionofwinningback-to-back Champions Tro-phytitleslayintatterswithinthefirstnineoversoftheirchase.Ona flat Oval pitch, MohammadAmir swung the ball in to trapRohit Sharma leg-before,pitchedtheballshortoflengthtolure Virat Kohli into a flick hefailed to keep down, before tak-ing a faint nick off ShikharDhawan’sbat.Threeworld-classdeliveries trampled India’sdream and showcased Amir’sgamechangingability.Then dexterity abandoned

Amir.Post theChampionsTrophy,

hemanagedjust fivemorewick-ets in two years, and despitemaintaining an enviable econ-omyratethroughthatperiod,hewasdulydroppedfromthePaki-stansquad,beforebeingnamedin the World Cup squad at thelastminute.The story on the grapevine

goes something like this: Paki-stan’s chief selector Inzamam-ul-Haq got a call straight fromthePrimeMinister’soffice. Inz-amamcouldn’taffordtosaynotohis former captain, and Amirwas back in. As enticing as thegossipmaybe, thebanal truthisthat Pakistan couldn’t haveaffordedkeepingAmiroutafterthe dismal performance of itsoriginal pace attack in the five-match ODI series againstEnglandweeksbeforetheWorldCup.NowAmir is the renaissance

man,atthetopofthewicket-tak-ers list at the Cup, after a stun-ning5for30haulagainstAustra-liaonWednesday,afiguremadeall themoreremarkableconsid-ering the rest of the Pakistanibowlers had economy rates ofover six, andAustraliaposteda300-plus total.Maybe it’s the big stage that

brings out the best in Amir; henow has 10 wickets in threematchesatanaverageof12.30ataneconomyof4.73.Withthecon-ditions facilitating seam bowl-ing,Amirhaskept itsimple.“Assoonas I bowled the first over, Igottheideaitwasn’tswinging, it

was seaming,”Amir toldPCB’sofficial site about his bowlingagainstAustralia.“SoIwasjustfloatingtheballandmakingsureIputit intherightareainsteadofputtingtoomuchworkontoitatthe point of release. And themovementitgeneratedcameoffthe seam.”The Director of PCB’s

National Cricket Academy,MudassarNazar,says:“Thecon-ditions are tailor-made formedium pace bowling inEngland, andAmir is using hisexperiencetolandtheball intheright areas, which others areunabletodo,andgettingtheballtodeviate fromtheright spot.”Amir isworking toapattern:

Hepitches itup inhis first spell,when conditions are usuallyovercast and there is the possi-bility of swing. In his second orthird spell, he usesmore varia-tion,cuttersbeingthebulkof it.LongerspellscouldhelpAmir

get into better rhythm, but thelack of proper support from theother bowlers, with the excep-tionofWahabRiaz,hasperhapsforcedcaptainSarfarazAhmedto use him in short bursts. Thismaywork in Pakistan’s favourthough, forAhmadwouldwantto keep the pressure on India atall timesonwhatcouldbeaverydry pitch inManchester. Amirwouldn’tworrythough.Dryorabit grassy, his performanceagainstIndiahasimprovedsincehisreturnfromthefive-yearban(2010-2015)forspot-fixing.Beforetheban,Amirhadaneconomyof5.71 and twowickets at anaver-age of 51. That has lowered to37.33 (for three wickets in fourmatches) with an economy of4.45.BumrahorAmir?TheIndia-Pakistanencounter

couldbelitupbyabattleforpacesupremacy between Amir andJaspritBumrah.At the World Cup, Bumrah

has five wickets in 2 games (20overs), against Amir’s 10 in 3games (26overs).Mohammad Asif, who was

Amir’s partner in a fierce Paki-stan pace attack before bothwere banned in the spot-fixingscandal, says Bumrah is ‘goingbeautifully’.“Thewayhe isbowling to the

left-handers, using the crease

AmirhitsarichveinREJUVENATED Pakistan’s starpaceman recovers his golden touch atcricket’s biggest stage

goingwide, is impressive,”Asifsays. “He has the slower ballsandgreatyorkers.”Asif is lessimpressedwithhis

former partner, and says thatAmir isplaying it ‘safe’.“Overall he is bowling well

but it’s not match-winning. Hehas got wickets but he has tostrikewiththenewball,becauseif you don’t, India will get 300plus, andourbatting inEnglishconditionscan’tchase300.”Asifsays.For Asif, the concern is that

Amir is not getting enoughmovementontheincomingballsto right-handers.“He used to get a beautiful

shapeontheball, that’snotcom-ingyet,”hesays.

Nazar blames it on rushingAmirstraightintointernationalcricketaftertheendofhisbanin2015.“Afteryoumissouton three-

fouryears,itisalwaysdifficulttoget back to the original level,”Nazar says. “He should havebeen gradually eased into theinternationalarenaafterproperwork on his fitness. He waspickedforthefirstgamewhenhebecameavailable.”NazaralsocallsoutPakistan’s

weakslipcordonforAmir’s lackof successafterhis comeback.“Pakistandon’thavespecial-

ists in the slip cordon,” he says.“BabarAzamistheonlyonewhois good at taking slip catches.Amir is a conventional swing

bowler unlike Imran Khan,Wasim Akram and WaqarYounis, andwilldependa lotoncatches being taken behind thewickets. Imran, Wasim andWaqarwere great exponents ofreverse swing and attacked thestumps forwickets.”When Amir first burst onto

the scene as a teenager in 2009,the left-arm pacer was an irre-sistible forcewhomadeforcom-pellingwatching.Theworldwasat his feet when the spot-fixingscandal broke. Since his come-back,Amirhasstruggledtofindhis original pace and sting, andstruggledtokeephisplaceinthesquad.AtthisWorldCup,itlookslike

Amiris findinghisgrooveback.

n Mohammad Amir leads the standings for most wickets at the ongoing ICCWorld Cup with an impressivehaul of 10 scalps in three matches. GETTY IMAGES

AgenceFrance-Pressen [email protected]

LONDON:Maurizio Sarri is set toreturntoItalytotakethevacantmanagerialroleatJuventusandbringthecurtaindownonafret-fulone-yearstayatChelsea.Sarrimethistargetsbyreturn-

ingChelseabackto theChampi-ons League through a third-placed finish in the PremierLeagueandwinningtheEuropaLeague, claiminghis firstmajortrophyasacoachintheprocess.However, a failure toconnect

withtheChelseasupport,publiccriticism of his players and arefusal to adapt his style of playmeantSarriwasalwaysunlikelytohangaround forasecondsea-sonatStamfordBridge.The60-year-oldformerbanker

becomestheninthfull-timeman-ager to leave Chelsea sinceRomanAbramovichtookchargeof theclubin2003.Yet,foroncetheRussiandidn’t

wieldtheaxeandwaitedinsteaduntilJuventusagreedtopaythecompensationto freeSarri fromthefinaltwoyearsofhiscontracton Thursday, according toreports inEnglandandItaly.The Italian champions are

keen on the brand of footballSarriimposedduringthreeyearsat Napoli when only Juventus’remarkable consistency pre-vented the Neapolitans a firstleague title since the dayswhenDiegoMaradonagraced theSanPaolopitch.However,Sarrifailedtotrans-

port that free-flowingfootball toChelsea, despite a promisingstart to theseason.The club’s record goalscorer

FrankLampard is the favouritetoreturntoStamfordBridgeafterjustoneseasoninmanagementatDerbyCounty.But it represents ahugegam-

bleboth forLampardsoearly inhismanagerialcareertotakethehugestepuptoa top-six job,andfor a club in transition to backarookiemanager.

Juventus moveends Sarri’sunhappy marriagewith Chelsea

NEWGALACTICO

n Eden Hazard plays with a ball during his official presentationas a Real Madrid player at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium inMadrid on Thursday. Around 50,000 fans were reportedlypresent to welcome the Belgian star, who has signed a five-year deal with the 13-time European champions. AFP

The kindergarten push behind China’s football dreamAgenceFrance-Pressen [email protected]

SHANGHAI:Theirheadssoaked insweat, a class of little boys prac-tiseLionelMessi-esquestepoversatakindergartentuckedbetweenresidential tower blocks inShanghai.Theydonot know it, but they

areatinypartofPresidentXiJin-ping’s aggressive drive tomakeChinaa footballing superpowerby 2050. Xi’s ruling CommunistParty is ploughing money intograssroots football but itwent astep further in March when itannouncedapilotschemeoffoot-ball-focusedkindergartens.AtKangchengKindergartenin

Shanghai,23ofthebestboysagedsixandsevenplayfootball twiceaweekinwhatis their finalyearbeforeprimaryschool.At some other kindergartens

in Shanghai they play from asyoung as four. Zhu Guanghu,president of the Shanghai Foot-ballAssociation,saysthatwhenitcomestocoaching,itisacaseoftheearlier, thebetter.“Ipersonallythinkthree-year-

old children canplay football aslongastheycanwalksteadilyandkeep the ball at their feet,” saidZhu, as a coach armed with awhistlegoesthroughballdrillsatKangchengKindergarten.There are nearly 200 kinder-

gartens offering football inShanghai tobothboysandgirls.

CARTOONRABBITSTheboys,wearingmatchingyel-low T-shirts, spend most of thetimewithaballeach.Exercisesfocusoncontroland

dribbling,andtheyaretoldtousebothfeet.Towards the end of the hour-

long practice, they do one drillwheretheyplacetheballinfrontofthemand,withouttouchingit,alternatebetweenleft-andright-footstepovers.Itisthesortofmanoeuvrethat

Messidoesatpacetotieopposingdefenders inknots.RatherthantheCampNouand

a fanatical Barcelona crowd of100,000, the boys of KangchengKindergarten are in the play-ground and have statues of car-toonrabbitswatching.WangZhilin’s fatherdoesnot

playfootball,buthehashopesforhisseven-year-oldson.“He wants me to be play for

(Shanghai) SIPG,” said Wang,referring to the Chinese SuperLeaguechampions.Perhaps one day little Wang

will lifttheWorldCupforChina.But it would take a major

improvement—themen’ssideis

ranked 74th by FIFA and hasreachedtheWorldCuponlyonce,in2002.Theylostallthreegamesandfailedtoscoreagoal.There is particular concern

aboutthedearthofqualityyouthplayersemerging,despiteChinahavingapopulationof1.4billion.That is where the football-fo-

cused kindergartens come in,although the potential benefitswon’tbefelt formorethanadec-ade.Kangchengwasaheadofthecurveandhashadfootballclassesfor two years. Its principal saysthatmoreparentswanttheirchil-dreninvolved.“Wedon’thavesufficienttime

ormanpowersoit’sonlycarriedout as a small club for the timebeing. But of course if there areguarantees of human, materialand financial resources in thefuture, I think we can expandthis,”saidXuRong,theprincipal.

BShrikantn [email protected]

BHUBANESWAR:On the eve of thesemi-final against hosts India,JapanchiefcoachSiegfriedAik-manwasaskedwhatsurprisehadhe planned for India. “Theyalready know they’ll win. Sothere aren’t many surprises,”Aikmanhadsaid.ButhisteamdidsurpriseIndia

on Friday when Kenji Kitazatoscoredafieldgoaloffaswiftcoun-terattackinthesecondminuteoftheFIHSeriesFinalssemishere.The surprisewas short-lived asIndia used better skills andgreater experience to establishascendancy soon and thrashedtheAsianGamesgoldmedallists7-2toclinchtheirappointedplacein the final and thus claiming aberthintheOlympicqualifiers,,tobeheldinOctober-November.In the final, India will meet

South Africa, who edged pastUSA2-1 intheothersemi-final.AfterJapanleftthemstunned

momentarilywiththeearlygoal,India createdanumberof chan-ces. Nilakanta Sharma wasthwarted by Japan goalkeeperYusukeTakano in the fifthmin-

ute,youngHardikSinghfailedtotap in a pass by GursahibjitSingh, while Akashdeep Singhtoo failed to capitalise on anopportunity.But India couldnot bedenied

forlongastheyenforcedtwopen-altycornersinsuccessionandofthesecond,HarmanpreetSingh,playing his 100th international,flicked a powerful shot to theright of ‘keeper Takano to levelthescore1-1.Indiaforcedthreepenaltycor-

ners in succession and the lastone (India’s fifth in all), Varun

Kumar planted a powerful yetlow flick to therightof theJapa-nesegoalkeeper.Japan were not done yet as

they levelled at 2-2 with KotaWatanabecapitalisingonaswiftcounterattacktotapinapassbyKazumaKurata.Stunned again by the Japan

forwards, India regrouped anddominatedproceedings,scoringtwice in two minutes throughRamandeep Singh and HardikSingh,bothfieldgoalscomingoffwell executed attacks initiatedfrom the back tomake it 4-2 five

minutesbeforehalf-time.Theirsuperiorityestablished,

IndiastrucktwomoreinthethirdquarterwithRamandeepgettinghisnameagainonthescoresheet(37th)andGursahibjitgivingfin-ishing touch to a well orches-tratedattack.Thematchintheirpocket with 6-2 lead, India tookthefootoffthepedalandenjoyedsome quiet time in the fourthquarter, scoring their seventhgoal via Vivek Sagar Prasad inthe 47th minute and absorbedsomepressurecreatedbyJapantosealvictory.

India book Olympic qualifiers berth

n Ramandeep Singh (C) scored a brace against Japan in Bhubaneswar on Friday. ARIJIT SEN/HT PHOTO

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easy for you to turn down roles?Yeah, afterworking for somany years.When I startedout, I had a very clear vision ofthe kind ofwork Iwanted to doandwho Iwanted to be onscreen. I was fortunate to haveticked a lot of those boxes.With time, you become alittle bit of a different person.You evolve—what you feel,you believe, what attractsyou, or interests you – itchanges. Now I respondinstinctively towhere I’ll bechallenged andwhere I’ll learnsomething.

Do you feel there’s pressure forbig-budget films to work as acouple of them have failed?Many big films haven’t donewell in the last fewmonths but

I don’t analyse it.We alwayswant to find some generic, one-size-fits-all kind of sweepinganswer. Every film is a uniqueexperience of two-and-a-half-hours. You just have tomake agood story, and the filmwillwork. There is no trend. If youmake a good filmwith anyactor – be it young, new, old orestablished, it will work.

Do you feel this is one of the mostenriching phases in your career?I have, right frommy thirdfilmNamastey London (2007),played strong roles. ThencameRajneeti (2010), afterwhich I played themostbeautifully layered characterin Zindagi NaMilegi Dobara(2011). I’ve had fantasticopportunities. Can you go

deeper?Of course. I have somuch time to do that.n [email protected]

Your role in Zerowaspraised but the filmtanked at the boxoffice.Was it a toughsituation to be in?You feel very bad as we allput in somuchwork. Ahuge amount of effort hasgone into the film, so youfeel theweight of it. Buton a different note, Zerogaveme somuch. As anactor, it broughtme themaximum love I’vereceived so far. It was awonderful and creativelysatisfying experience.

Juhi Chakraborty

After spending 11 years inBollywood, Amrita Raodecided to pause her film

career in 2013 post starring inSatyagraha, only to return tothe big screen earlier this yearwith Thackeray. And in thisinnings, the actor says she is“not going to disappear” andwill “build up on themomentum” that her returnhas created.“A lot of people tellme they

want to seemore ofme. I feeltaking a break gaveme thatmuch-needed freshness. I hadnot plannedThackeray, it justchoseme. This time, I havecome back and I am in it for thelong haul. Good thingswillhappen now,” saysAmrita,whowas in the Capitalrecently.The actor, who has starred

in films such as IshqVishk(2003),MainHoonNa(2004),Vivah ( 2006),Welcometo Sajjanpur ( 2008) and JollyLLB (2013),may not havesigned anything yet, but saysshe is already swarmedwith alot of scripts and is cautiouslytreading her career path thistime around.“Now that a lot of people

have got the signal that I amback, I amgetting approachedbymany filmmakers. But, Ihave taken this decision of notrepeatingmyself because Ihave been there, done that.Now, I amonly taking upprojectswhich exciteme. Ihave consciously decidedthat,” she shares.AndAmrita is happy to be

back in the film industry at atimewhen there are differentkinds of opportunities openingup for actors and stories arealso increasinglymore female-centric.“There is a newkind of

‘I have come back, this timeI am in it for the long haul’

Amrita RaoPHOTO: RAAJESSH KASHYAP/ HT

Amrita Rao hasreturned from abrief break and israring to go

cinema and definitelymoreequal to both genders. Thereare somany different kinds offilms beingmade and evenseries on differentOTTplatforms. I recentlywatched

City of Dreams and loved howthe female andmale actorswere given equal roles. Timeshave changed andwill changefor the better,” she signs off.n [email protected]

Rishabh Suri

Sui Dhaaga:Made In Indiagotmuch love frombothcritics and the audience

when it released in India lastyear. And it continues togarner appreciation theworldover. TheVarunDhawan-Anushka Sharma starrer hasbeen selected in thecompetition category at theShanghai International FilmFestival’s TheBelt andRoadFilmWeek,which beginstoday.Whatmakes it evenmore special is the fact that itis the only Indian film to bescreened during theweek.The film,whichwas about

finding love and respect throu-gh self-reliance, narrated thestory of an innocent ruralcouple,Mauji andMamta.Varun says, “Sui Dhaaga—

Made in India, wasmadewitha lot of heart and is a storyabout aworking-classmanwho fights for self-respect. I’mhoping the filmwill win heartsin this festival aswell.”Anushka adds, “Our film is

an incredible story of humantriumph and I am certain thatits universal storyline has thepotential to appeal toaudiences across the globe.”Maneesh Sharma,who had

produced the film, says, “Thestory of the film is a specialsalute to the inherententrepreneurial spirit of localartisans in India. I’m eagerlylooking forward to theaudience response at aplatformas prestigious as TheShanghai International FilmFestival’s TheBelt andRoadFilmWeek.” This year, theWeekwill feature 24 films from24 countries.n [email protected]

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AFTER OSCARS,EMMYS TO GOWITHOUT A HOST?W ith threemonths to

go, and no hostconfirmed as yet, reportssuggest this year’s EmmyAwards will probably bewithout a host. Accordingto a report in Variety,“possibility of a host-lessEmmys is among theleading options” beingconsidered by the networkwhich will telecast theaward ceremony. The lasttime the Emmys didn’thave a host was in 2003.This year’s Oscars too, wentaheadwithout a host, asthe initial choice, KevinHart, stepped down due toan online outrage againsthis homophobic remarks onsocial media.

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Peter Dinklage receivingan Emmy in 2018

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After a rather lean phase,KatrinaKaif finally hasreasons to celebrate asher latest film, Bharat,

has faredwell at the box office.The actor is not disappointeddespite two consecutive dudslast year—Zero andThugs ofHindostan—as she believes incounting her blessings andmoving forward gracefully.She talks about Bharat’ssuccess and how theexperience has changed herchoices of roles. Excerpts:

What do you feel about thereactions coming your wayfor Bharat?I appreciate the feedbackbecause it helpsme get better.The validation feels great. Afilm is a collaborative effortand there is somuch that goesinto a character – not just bythe person essaying the rolebut the onewho haswritten it,the entourage behind it, thedirectorwho helps bring it out.

You have worked with SalmanKhan in several projects. Is it anydifferent each time the two of youcollaborate?I don’t carry any baggagewhen I go on set –who ismyco-star, howmany filmswe’vedone together and anythingelse for thatmatter.We need tokeep giving the audience a newexperience. I’m very consciousof that, especially now.

At this point in your career, is it

Katrina Kaifis delightedwithreactions toBharat, saysshe choosesfilmsinstinctively

‘IDON’TANALYSEWHYAFILMDOESN’TWORK’

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“More andmore childrenare coming into actingand lending a new

freshness to the art form. Theyenact plays from their ownpoint of view. In Lucknow,four to five generations areperforming together on onestage,” said theatre legendUrmil KumarThapliyal, whohimself started his career as achild artist at the age of nine.“With great energy students

perform in the plays andhighlight the existing socialproblems, giving the storytheir ideas. However, theirefforts still need direction andneed to be polished,” saidThapliyal.“Parents have realised the

importance of co-curricularactivities and coax theirchildren to join a culturalactivity during vacations”,said theatre personality FaisalHussain. “However, tomake itinteresting for children, anactivity needs generous dosesof enthusiasmand fun,” headded.As an example, he points

out the play ‘Did theButler DoIt?’, which he directed. Held attheKalaMandapAuditoriuminLucknow, recently, littlewonders solved themystery ofa necklace goingmissing. TheButler (played byDronePande)was suspected to havestolen it.Jasmine, themother of

Atharv, another very talentedyoungster said, “Wewere inMyanmar then andwediscoveredAtharv’s interestin acting.Whenhewas stillfive, he participated in a

workshop on theatre skills andhis teacherwas all praise forhis passion for acting. That’swhenwe started supportinghim.” She said that he enjoyedacting somuch thatwhen hewouldwatch his favouritecartoon shows hewould tryand deliver the dialoguesexactly the sameway.“We saw a play directed by

Faisal Hussain last year andenjoyed it a lot andwe decidedto sendAtharv to his class,”said Jasmine. “Whenwe toldAtharv about Faisal Hussain’sacting class he got reallyexcited about it,” she added.“Mothers alwayswant to

engage their children in sometype of co-curricular activities

so that their vacations don’t gowaste,” said Stuti Agarwal,eight-year-old PrishaAgarwal’smother. She is alsoa part of Faisal Hussain’sgroup and teaches acting tochildren.“Prisha enjoys acting as she

gets to learn something new allthe time,” hermother said.“The young generation’s

interest lies in acting andTVproduction. So to know thebasics and to get the feel ofacting, their being attached totheatre is a good thing, as theywill only hone their talent byperforming on stage,” saidtheatre shows producer andorganiser BhoopeshRai.“I have been teachingstudents acting for thelast six years and thegrowing interest ofyoungsters in acting isdue to the increasingcraze for acting amongstudents,” saidMaheshChandraDeva ofChabutra TheatrePathshala.AryanGautam (9)

said, “I have beeninterested in actingsince Iwas three-years-old and as timehas passed, thisinterest has onlyincreased. Now, Iwishtomake a future inacting. But I have tobalancemy studieswith acting.”ShikhaValmiki (12)

said, “I aspire to

become a theatre artist oneday. Previously, I was not intotheatre but aftermymotherencouragedme, I tried it andnow I love it. Imanagemystudies side-by-side. Till now Ihave done 20-21 plays.”With youngsters being

drawn to theatre, itmay beinferred that the talent comingto stagewill not only improvethe child but even the art form.

SAKSHI RASTOGI,(with inputs fromShrutiRai andAkriti Saxena)

Nokidsplay,butthey’reenrichingthemselves& theatre

An animated Athrav (centre) before the play ‘Did the Butler Do It?

City kids rehearsing for a nukkad natak

Aryan Gautam& (below) ShikhaValmiki with actorManoj Pahwa

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Whilemany feel thatsong remakeshavespelt doom for the

music industry, composer-singerAnkitTiwari doesnot think the trendofremakes inBollywood is abad thing.Ankit, ridinghighon the success of hisrecently releasedindependent single, TereDoNaina, says overuse ofrecreations inBollywoodis one of the biggestreasons for the growthofnon-filmmusic in thecountry.“It is just a situation,

anda situation is neithergoodnorbad.Rather, itleads to opening ofavenues.Nowadays, everybig film’s first trailer hasone remake song in it.There are somanyrecreations beingdone inBollywood, that theoriginalmusic in filmstookabackseat. That’swhyyou seenon-filmmusic pickupagain,” hesays.“I amnot surewhat the

conclusionof this trendwould be.But, formusicians, it’s a greatthing. It’s throughnon-filmmusic thatmusiciansare able to create their ownidentity,” the 33-year-oldadds.However,Ankit,who

composed the recreatedversionofKoiFariyaad forTumBin 2 (2016), doesn’tfeel comfortable recreatingmusichimself.“Teri Fariyaadwas in

TumBin (2001) aswell [asKoiFariyaad]. InTumBin2 itwas recreatedbecausethe directorwanted toevoke that nostalgia. EveninDhoom [the franchise],youhear the title track inall three films. Thatmakesa lot of sense, as therecreations carry thenostalgia of the previousfilms.But today, anyrecreation is put in anyfilm. So original filmmusicis also important.Whatwill be left to recreated ifthere is nooriginalmusic?”he says.n [email protected]

‘Non-film music popularagain due to remakes’

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E k Thi Rani Ek Tha Raavan actorRam Yashvardhan is a tattoosfreak. The actorwho is playingthe negative character as Rivaajin the Star Bharat show is afitnessmaniac and a tattoo loverhas 8 tattoos on his body. Ramhas a tattoo of lord Shiva on hisleft armand thewords Invictuswhich alsomeans ‘undefeated’ inLatinwritten on his right arm. Theactor has a deep connectionwithtattoos. He got his first tattoo atthe age of 22 and the love for

tattoos have never stopped. “YesI’mplanning to havemoretattoos in future. I have currentlyeight and I would love to round itup to ten,” he said.

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Designers fromvariousparts ofUttarPradeshshowcased their collection

during theLucknowDesignersWeekheld at a city clubrecently. Thosewhopresentedtheir designs during the showincludedSherKhan,Amir,Riya,RemshaFatimaandBhawnaGupta.The collection thatwas

showcasedduring the showincluded ethnicwestern,summerwear andArabianthemegarments. Thedesignerswere fromKanpur, Lucknow,Varanasi,Gorakhpur andNewDelhi. The special guests on theoccasionwereShikharDixit,AnupAgarwal andSatish Jha.The eventwas choreographedbyAmrit Sharma.Theparticipants on the

ramp,who showcased thecollection, includedwomen,kids andprofessionalmodels.Around 50 participants tookpart during the event. HTC

Baby show during the Lucknow Designer Week 2019 PIX: DHEERAJ DHAWAN/HT Ishita Mrs UP NeloferAastha

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Some of the winners during the eventAditi Richa Zainab Sher KhanDeepika

Rahul Rashmi

Acomedy ‘JaatHi PuchoSadhuKi’ was stagedduring the six-day

SummerTheatre Fest beingorganised by NSDRepertoryandBhartenduNatyaAcademy, in the city.The play penned byVijay

Tendulkarwas directed byRajindarNath. The dramaopenedwith the centralcharacter namedMahipat, anunemployed youth frombackward class. Hewishestocomplete hismasters degreeand finally clears theexamination butwith thirddivision. But, as hewas ofbackward class he gets just nocalls for an interview.Actorswho performedwere ShubhamParik, RajuRai, AshutoshBanerjee, ShrutiMishraMeenuDevi and a fewmore.Also, a nautanki, ‘Abu

Hasan’was showcased in thecity at Rai UmanathBaliAuditorium. The dramawasstaged alongwith ‘Dohe,’‘Chand’ and ‘Qawwali.’ Thestory waswritten byGirishChandra and translated byknown theatre personalityUrmil KThapaliyal. Directedby Shailesh Srivastava thedramawaswell appreciated bythe audience. The storyrevolved around themaleprotagonist AbuHasanwhoplanned to revenge a religiousheadwhohad duped hismother once. A scene from the play ‘Jaat Hi Pucho Sadhu Ki’ staged at Bhartendu Natya Academy

Scenes from the nautanki ‘Abu Hasan’ held at Rai Umanath Bali Auditorium HT PHOTOS

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SkodaAuto India launc-hed its newly designedsales, service and

spares facility in partners-hipwithKamalKishoreAuto Corp. Pvt Ltd, oppos-ite HighCourt, in Luck-now. Company’s directorsales, service andmarket-ing ZacHollis and principaldealerNeeraj Rastogiinaugurated the state-of-the-art dealership facility.They aims to further stren-gthen its position inUttar

Pradesh and push forwardits campaign of establis-hing a strong foothold inthe northernmarkets. Thefacility sprawls over anarea of 18,256 sq. ft. andaccommodates a six cardisplay, sixmechanicalstations, and seven bodyshop bays. Theworkspacehas a capacity to serveapproximately 3,000vehicles per annum,withmore than 20 dedicatedafter sales personnel.

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fromacross the countryare participating.

FASHION EXPO OPENS

The ICC CricketWorld Cup2019 was the one thingfans had beenwaiting for

this summer, but inclementweather has played amajorspoilsport in the tournament.With asmany as fourmatches(including Thursday’s Indiavs New Zealandmatch) beingcalled off due to rain,Twitterati aren’t too happywith the International CricketCouncil (ICC) for planning thequadrennial tournament at atimewhen the UnitedKingdom is seeing twice theaverage rainfall than itgenerally does in June. Butamid all the angsty tweets,we’vemanaged to strikememe gold once again (at leastthat wasn’t a washout!). Hereare some of the best from theblessed the Internet. HTC

Twitter user @Atheist_Krishna’smeme (right) inspired other memes

World Cup: Fans openmemeumbrella as rain plays spoilsport

The total solar eclipseexpected in northernChile early nextmonth is

already drawing flocks ofvisitors eager to glimpse arare view of the phenomenonthrough the region’s clearskies.In Coquimbo, a region

spanning the Pacific coast andthe Andes, tourism demandhas already eclipsed offeringsof some services, forcinghotels there to put up signswarning they have no roomsleft for the July 2 event.Flights to Coquimbo

offered by Chile’s domesticairline companies are beingsnapped up, as a clock in thecoastal town of La Serena inCoquimbo counts down to thebig day. “People have gonemad. They want the day tocome as soon as possible,”local resident Patricia saidabout the frenzy.Together with parts of

Argentina andNew Zealand,northern Chile is one of thefew places in the world thatwill be directly facing the sunwhen themoon passes in frontof the earth, blocking its lightcompletely and darkeningskies for several minutes.Total solar eclipses occur at

any specific location onaverage every 360 years,according to the EuropeanSouthern Observatory,Germany.Chile prides itself on being

an astronomer’s paradise,home to dozens of telescopesand ambitious studies at itsobservatories. The eclipse isexpected to draw some 400,000visitors to Coquimbo,according to the government.“It’s a unique occasion,”

says, Chilean astronomer IvoSaviane. Chilean PresidentSebastian Pinera is one of 150VIPs with tickets to watch theeclipse at La Silla. REUTERS

SOLAR ECLIPSEFRENZY FUELSASTRONOMICALTOURISM INCHILE PHOTO: REUTERS

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Cuba Gooding Jr. turnedhimself in andwasarrested on Thursday

on charges that he groped awoman in an encounter at aNewYork City night spotthat appears to have beencaught on video.The 51-year-old Oscar-

winning star of JerryMaguire (1996) denies theallegations and pleaded notguilty to forcible touchingand sexual abuse charges ata night court arraignment.He was released on his

own recognisance afterabout six hours in policecustody. Gooding did notdiscuss his case as he leftcourt, instead offering wellwishes to David Ortiz, theBoston Red Sox starhospitalised after he wasshot Sunday in theDominican Republic.“Get well, Big Papi,”

Gooding said while passinga phalanx of cameras andreporters in the courthouselobby. Before getting into acar outside, he added, “It’sbeen a long day.”A 29-year-old woman told

police that Gooding placedhis hand on her breast and

squeezed it without herconsent Sunday night atMagic Hour Rooftop Bar &Lounge. The woman saidshe believed Gooding wasintoxicated.Video obtained by TMZ

that the website says isfrom inside the bar on thenight in question appears toshowGooding putting hishand on or near a woman’sleg and breast as they sit ona couchwith anotherwoman between them.Gooding is then seen

pulling the woman’s handto his lips, as if to kiss it,and leaning toward herbefore anotherman stepsup and talks with them. The

video could be key evidencefor prosecutors, butGooding’s lawyer said thefootage showed “not theslightest scintilla ofinappropriate conduct” andwill exonerate him.“Mr. Gooding has not actedinappropriately in anyshape or form,” lawyerMarkHeller said.“Nothing in the video

could even be consideredambiguous, and I franklyam shocked and horrifiedthat this case is beingprosecuted,” he added.Gooding, in a dark blue

suit, smiled andwaved ashe walked into a policestation Thursday afternoontomeet with special victimsinvestigators. Inside, theytook his fingerprints and amug shot before leadinghim out in handcuffs.Later, Gooding sat on a

wooden bench in the frontrow of an austerecourtroom, his hands cuffedbehind his back and his faceturned serious as he waitedfor his case to be called. As adetective uncuffed him, heuncurled his hands andshook them out. AP

Cuba Gooding Jr. pleads notguilty to groping woman at bar

A CONVICTIONCOULD PUT CUBAGOODING JR.BEHIND BARS FORUP TO A YEAR.HE IS DUE BACK INCOURT ON JUNE 26

CubaGooding JrPHOTO: STEVEN

HIRSCH/ REUTERS

Cesar Sanchez-Guzman sued Bryan Singer in 2017, alleging sexualharassment, which Singer denied PHOTO: SHUTTERSTOCK

X-MendirectorBryanSinger’s attorney onWednesday informed that

the directorwill pay $150,000(~ 1 crore approx) to resolveallegations that he raped a 17-year-old boyCesar Sanchez-Guzman in 2003.“Singerhas denied even

knowing this individual, letalone allegedlyhavinginteractedwithhimmore than15 years ago,”FoxquotedSinger’s attorney,AndrewBrettler, as saying.Sanchez-Guzman filed a

lawsuit against Singer in 2012inwhichhe alleged that thefilmmaker sexually assaultedhimduring ayacht party inSeattle.Allegedly, Singer tookthe boy to a secluded area,forcedhim to get sexuallyintimate, and then rapedhim.However, Singer’s attorney

informed that the directorhasdenied the charges andagreedto pay the amount for abusiness reason related toSanchez-Guzman’s bankruptcycase. Sanchez-Guzman filed forbankruptcy in 2014. “Thedecision to resolve thematterwith the bankruptcy trusteewaspurely abusiness one aslitigation costswouldwellexceed the amount requestedby the trustee to pay off thecreditorswhowere owedmoneywhen thedebtor filedfor bankruptcy,” he explained.Singerwas fired from the

Oscar-winningmovieBohemianRhapsody for“unreliable behaviour” amidthe allegations. Thedirectorwas also later removed fromhis film’sBaftaAwardsnomination due to theallegations. ANI

Bryan Singer topay $150,000 tosettle rape claim

Wickwas embraced, andworking onAlwaysBeMyMaybe—great, youknow.AliWongandRandall Parkarejust reallywonderful artistsandpeople, and itwas reallycool to get a chance to playwiththem,”he said of his co-stars inthe film.Reeves also spokeaboutToy

Story 4,wherehevoices adaredevil,motorcycle-obsessedtoy calledDukeCaboom.WhileReeves saidhis on-screen, toycharacter “looks absolutelynotlikeme,”hedid say that someofhis physicalitymade it to theavatar.Reeves,whohashadab

fan following inHollywood

But trust theactor to nothave knownabout beingnamed theinternet’sboyfriend

since the 1990s, is enjoying aresurgence inpopularity,largely online.His appearancein avideo game, his tendencyfor introspection, buyinghisowngroceries and ridingmotorcycles hasmade fans onthe internet fall in lovewith thestar. Lastweek, users hadafield daymaking funnyreferences associatedwithhissurname.Thisweek, photos ofthe actorwith the oppositegenderwent viral, after userspointed out thatReeveskepthis hands away, andwas aperfect gentlemanwhentakingphotoswithwomen.

ANI

INTERNET’SPUPPYEYESFORKEANU

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Keanu Reeves is notedfor random acts ofkindness, like giving uphis seat on the subway ortaking extra time to chatwith a fan who uses awheelchairPHOTO: FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP

In Toy Story 4, Reevesvoices a toy known as DukeCaboom, a Canadianstuntman who rides amotorcycle

Above: KeanuReeves recentlyappeared in AliWong’s Always BeMyMaybe; Reevesin a still fromCyberpunk 2077

ActorKeanuReeves justlearned that hehasbeennamedas the internet’sboyfriend. Speaking to

People on the red carpet of ToyStory 4’s premiere, the actorwas askedabouthis thoughtson the epithet, referencingfans’ love for the star in thewakeof his recently releasedJohnWick:Chapter 3—Parabellumandhishilariouscameo in the streaming rom-comAlwaysBeMyMaybe(whereheplays a fictionalversion of himself).“I’ve beenwhat?”he said

whenaskedhowhe felt aboutthe internet’s obsessionwithhim. “I didn’t know that...That’s... uh... that’swacky.Well, the positivity’s great,”saysReeves, adding abouthisprojects fanshave latchedonto,“It’s really special howJohn

SelenaGomez feelssocialmediahasbecomeunhealthy

Singer-actor SelenaGomez saysshehas put a cap on

spending timeon socialmedia as she believes thatthe obsessionwithapplicationshas gone outof control.The 26-year-old said

that sheused to regularlyengagewithher fans onTwitter and Instagrambuthas pulled backbecauseshe started to feel“depressed”. “...I think it’sjust become reallyunhealthy, I think,personally, for youngpeople, includingmyself,to spendall of their timefixating onall thesecomments and letting thisstuff in. Itwas affectingme. Itwouldmakemedepressed. Itwouldmakeme feel not good aboutmyself and lookatmybodydifferently andall kinds ofstuff,”Gomez said duringanappearance onLive!WithKelly andRyan.Therewas a timewhen

Gomezused to be themostfollowedpersononInstagrambut she saidtoday shedoesnot havethe apponher phone.“I have it on someone

else’s phone.Andwhen Ifeel like Iwant to sharesomethingwithmy fans orjustmess aroundwith it, Ido it then,” she added.Gomez’s comments

comealmost amonthaftershe said socialmediahasbeen “terrible” for hergeneration and itwas“impossible” at this pointtomake it safe for userswhile speaking at a pressconference at the 2019CannesFilmFestival. PTI

THE 26-YEAR-OLD SAID THAT SHE USED TOREGULARLY ENGAGEWITH HER FANS ONTWITTER AND INSTAGRAM BUT HAS PULLEDBACK BECAUSE SHE STARTED TO FEEL‘DEPRESSED’

PHOTO: SHUTTERSTOCK


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