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re a Muslim boy claimed tohave converted to Hinduismto wed a Hindu girl, the Utta-rakhand HC directed the sta-te to formulate a law on “for-ced conversions”. P 11

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conversions’

The 18 women’s jails in thestate are “stuffed” beyo-

nd capacity, an SIT formed af-ter Manjula Shetye’s death inByculla Jail said in its report.The SIT has suggested enter-tainment facilities and smo-king rooms to improve livingconditions in the jails. P2

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The Centre has expressedits helplessness to curb

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It feels good. It hasn’t been a long journey yet. If I can step up and perform, that will

give me more pleasure than thinking of the number of hundreds I have. That will remain the mindset till I play this game —Virat KohliSky is the limit. He is a fabulous player and I am very happy —Ravi ShastriIt was a majestic innings. He is very good as a captain —Sourav Ganguly

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Ahmedabad: The Congressconceded the demand of Hard-ik Patel-led Patidar AnamatAndolan Samiti (PAAS) andreplaced two candidates to endthe logjam with the quota war-rior. In all, three PAAS nomine-es found their way into the Co-ngress list

Congress-PAAS talks hadhit a roadblock late on Sunday,reportedly due to the exclusion

of Surat’s diamantaire andBJP rebel Dhiru Gajera fromthe first list of 77 candidatesannounced by the chief oppo-sition party. Cornered by pro-tests from PAAS, the Congresson Monday replaced Praful To-gadia with Gajera from the Pa-tel-dominated Varchcha cons-tituency of the diamond city.

The other two PAAS nomi-nees on the Congress list wereSaurastra convener Lalit Vaso-

ya from Dhoraji and Ashok Ji-rawala from Kamrej. Congresshad earlier fielded Nilesh Kum-bani from Kamrej seat in Surat.

Congress relents,gives 3 tickets to

Hardik’s nominees

BJP filed its third and finallist for the first phase of the

Gujarat polls on Monday, axingthree ministers and 14 sittingMLAs. With Monday’s list, all 89BJP nominations for the firstphase stand complete. P 8

BJP drops 3 mantris,14 MLAs in final list

Congress-NCP talks over analliance in Gujarat collapsed

on Monday due to differencesover seat-sharing. Soon afterthe ‘split’, NCP’s Praful Patelsaid local party workers were intalks with Hardik Patel.P 8

After split with Cong,NCP talking to Hardik?

New Delhi: The Congress setthe ball rolling for a generatio-nal change in the party on Mon-day by announcing the electionschedule for the post of party

president, set to be occupied byRahul Gandhi, in the midst ofthe Gujarat campaign.

The poll schedule, approvedby the Congress Working Com-

mittee at a meeting chaired bySonia Gandhi, fixed the date ofnomination and scrutiny of ca-ndidature for the first week ofDecember. If Rahul is the onlyaspirant to file a nomination, heis likely to be declared electedon December 5 itself.

This would mean Rahulwould go into the first phase ofvoting in Gujarat on December9 as head of the party, a politi-cally significant development.

Rahul could be Congpresident by Dec 5

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One of Con-gress’s

stalwarts fromBengal and fo-rmer Unionminister PriyaRanjan Dasmunsi, in comasince 2008, passed away at aDelhi hospital on Monday. Hewas 72. The former All IndiaFootball Federation (AIFF)chief ’s death was condoledby leaders, including the PM,from across party lines. P 10

Ex-Union ministerDasmunsi, 72, diesafter 9 yrs in coma

At least eight workers we-re killed after an eleva-

tor carrying them snappedand plunged 210 feet downduring tunnelling work forthe Bhima-Nira river link-ing project near at Bhigwan,about 115km from Pune onMonday evening. A probe ison to ascertain how the cab-le snapped and what its load-bearing capacity was.

8 die as tunnellift near Pune

snaps, plunges

The Unique IdentificationAuthority of India (UID-

AI) has simplified the proc-ess for linking mobile phoneswith Aadhaar, especially forelderly and the differently ab-led who will be able to do theUID linking from home. P 11

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from your home

Mumbai/London: Controversial Indian busi-nessman Vijay Mallya has drawn parallelswith Congress chief Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-lawRobert Vadra and Himachal Pradesh chief mi-nister Virbhadra Singh in his defence before aUK court against India’s request to extraditehim in a money laundering case.

In a statement, which also cited inhuman ja-il conditions back home, Mallya said he was apolitical victim like the other two.

Subsequently, the Enforcement Director (ED)has filed a reply saying instead of discussing thecase on merit, Mallya is trying to divert attentionby making statements on the basis of unsubstan-tiated media reports. The liquor baron had atta-ched newspaper reports which quoted Congressleaders alleging that the Centre was targetingVadra and Singh out of political vendetta.

Mallya, who fled to the UK in March 2016, re-mains on bail until December 4. Wanted in Indiafor loan defaults amounting to nearly Rs 9,000-crore, the 61-year-old businessman appeared be-

fore another local court in London on Mondaywhere dates for his extradition trial were confir-med for eight days starting December 4.

I’m a political victim likeVadra, Virbhadra: Mallya

In a first, the BMC has okay-ed a provision to allow lifts

right up to the terrace areasof all buildings, in an attemptto improve accessibility forthe elderly and differently ab-led. The proposal calls for op-timal use of terrace as an add-itional recreational area. P3

BMC nod for liftup to terrace

Andhra CM N Chandraba-bu Naidu said on Mond-

ay that Amaravati, would bea pollution free capital. Afterlaunching the refreshed Vija-yawada edition of The Timesof India, he said he wouldcreate a “green capital”.P9

‘Amaravati to bea green capital’

Rape charges cannot be qu-ashed by consent unless

the FIR shows the relation-ship was consensual, theBombay HC has said . It washearing a petition by a build-er who claimed he had settledthe case with the survivor. P3

HC puts rider forsettling rape case

Vijay Mallya leaves the Westminster Magistrates’Court in London after a hearing on Monday

�‘Talks positive’, P 11

�Tough Gujarat face-off, P 9

�Extradition ruling expected by Dec 24, P 11

Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and Rahul at the CWC meeting on Monday

FULL COVERAGE: P 9

Vijay V Singh & Naomi Canton TNN

� Sonia targets BJP overwinter session delay, P 11

Less than 24 hours afterKarnataka chief minis-

ter Siddaramaiah ruled outany liquor ban, governmentinsiders said the party mayinclude prohibition in its ma-nifesto for the 2018 polls withan eye on rural women’s vote-bank. “It’s unlikely that Kar-nataka will announce a banon liquor, but the party is defi-nitely contemplating includi-ng prohibition in its manifes-to,” a senior leader said. P 11

Karnataka Congeyes prohibitionto woo women?

Armed with the ‘achhedin’ message, BJP chief

Amit Shah is now focusing onthe medium. To help his cam-paign in Bengal and TamilNadu, the BJP chief has sta-rted learning Bengali and Ta-mil, apart from Assameseand Manipuri, reports Ka-pil Dave. A source said Shahhas also become a student ofIndian classical music. P 11

Shah learningBengali, Tamil& Assamese

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The Navi Mumbai crimebranch is closer to crack-

ing the Rs 3-crore Sanpadabank heist with the arrest ofWadala resident MoinuddinShaikh from Kolkata. Jewell-er Sanjay Wagh, who alleged-ly bought the stolen gold, wasarrested from Malegaon. P 2

Bank heist: Twoaccused nabbed

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TAKING OVER AREA OUTSIDE STATION: “I am writing to you on behalf of residents of Tulsiwadi in Tardeo. This area is right outside Mumbai Central station (west) on the road towards the Tardeo RTO. Residents of the area are fed up with the total disregard to all safety norms by motorists and blatant misuse of the public road and footpath. On numerous occasions there are various so-called roadside festivals. In spite of numerous complaints, the BMC and police don’t seem interested. Recently there was a mela going on where 30 food stalls were put up in the middle of the road. People cooked in those stalls” —Anand Bhatia

ENCROACHED: A mall at Mahavir Nagar, Kandivli (west) has encroached upon this footpath —Seth Manishkumar

PARKING ILLEGALLY AT KALYAN RAILWAY STATION: Railway staffers park their bikes illegally near the ticket booking office of Kalyan station. Complaints to the RPF have not resulted in any action —Pankaj Gawade

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Telangana chief minist-er K Chandrasekhar

Rao plans a nationwide agi-tation to demand power forstate governments to decidereservations for Muslims,tribals and OBCs and hasspoken to the chief minis-ters of Rajasthan and Mah-arashtra regarding this. P 8

Quota power forstates: KCR eyesnationwide stir

In a step towards outsourc-ing its launch vehicle pro-

gramme, Isro is planning ajoint venture with a consorti-um of private companies tobuild a space rocket. “Thetarget for such a launch vehi-cle is 2020-21,” Isro chairmanAS Kiran Kumar said. P 11

Pvt-built rocketby 2020-21: Isro

Tech billionaire NandanNilekani and his wife Ro-

hini have joined The GivingPledge, a network of the wor-ld’s wealthiest people comm-itting half their wealth to phi-lanthropy. The Pledge websi-te uploaded Nilekanis’ lettersigning up for the cause. P16

Nilekanis pledgehalf their wealth

A housewife from Jogesh-wari was conned into

parting with Rs 1.3 crore byfive men who promised to getadmission for her son at a me-dical college. The accused we-re known to the woman. P3

Medical aspirant’smom duped of 1cr

The Supreme Court has al-lowed Unitech promoter

Sanjay Chandra to hold nego-tiations with prospective bu-yers of the company’s assetswithin Tihar Jail premises toraise Rs 750 crore to be deposit-ed in the court to refund home-buyers who have not been giv-en possession of flats.

SC: Unitech bosscan broker sale

of assets in Tihar

Charles Manson, one of themost notorious murderers

of the 20th century, died on Sun-day in California. He was 83 andhad been behind bars for mostof his life. Among his most fa-mous victims was Hollywooddirector Roman Polanski’s ac-tress wife Sharon Tate who waseight-month pregnant. P14

Notorious serialkiller Manson dies

A 16-year-old girl has beenhospitalised after she at-

tempted to end her life byjumping 18 feet from the Kan-divli skywalk recently. Policesaid she had had an argumentwith her mother. She wantedto get a job while her motherwanted her to study. P5

Tiff with mom, teenjumps off skywalk

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New Delhi: Fortis MemorialResearch Institute (Gurgaon)charged the family of a seven-year-old dengue patient overRs 15 lakh but the girl diedwhile being shifted from Fort-is to Rockland Hospital.

Union health minister J P

Nadda on Monday assu-red the bereaved familyof necessary action inthe matter following amassive uproar on soci-al media.

Fortis Healthcaredenied any wrongdoing. It sa-id standard medical protocolwas followed in treating AdyaSingh and all clinical guideli-

nes were adhered to. Ina “ detailed clarifica-tion” submitted to Nad-da, Fortis said it hadcharged Rs 15.79 lakh.

It started with a poston Twitter by the berea-

ved father’s friend on Novem-ber 17: “One of my batchmate’s7 year old was in @fortis hospi-tal for 15 days for dengue. Billed

Rs 18 lakhs including for 2700gloves. She passed away at theend of it. Corrupt a*******.”

The message was retwee-ted 9,000 times, prompting areply from Nadda on Monday.“Please provide me details onhfwminister@gov.in. We willtake all necessary action.”

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Punjab chief minister Cap-tain Amarinder Singh onMonday became the first

Congress CM to oppose SanjayLeela Bhansali’s ‘Padmavati’even as his BJP counterpart inMadhya Pradesh Shivraj SinghChouhan declared that he wo-uld not allow the controversial

film to be screened in his state.However, ‘Padmavati’ rece-

ived backing from Congress-ruled Karnataka and Trina-mool-ruled West Bengal, with

the former even assuring se-curity to Deepika’s family.Karnataka CM Siddaramaiahsaid: “These sort of threats,especially towards women,

are yet another sign of gro-wing intolerance and bigotryin the country. I condemn theculture of intolerance and ha-te perpetuated by BJP.”

But the Punjab CM said ci-nematic licence could not beused to distort historical facts.

Shivraj DeclaresBan In MP, DidiSupports Film

‘Padmavati’ splits Cong CMs:Sidda backs, Captain opposes

I want Ms Deepika’s head... saved. Respect it more than her body. Even more her freedom. Do not deny her that... Extremism in any debate is deplorable. Wake up, cerebral India. Time to think. We’ve said enough. Listen, Ma Bharat — KAMAL HAASAN | ACTOR & FILMMAKER

I can’t even articulate

the way I feel about these violent threats. It’s harrowing to even think of it… makes me feel insecure as a filmmaker.It seems to set a precedent for anyone to stand up, say anything and get away— ANURAG KASHYAP | DIRECTOR

I condemn these

groups and their bounty calls. It’s ridiculous and I stand by Sanjay Leela Bhansali and his team. I wish he shows the film to CBFC as soon aspossible. Fringe groups need to cool themselves— MADHUR BHANDARKAR | DIRECTOR

Mumbai: If civic chief AjoyMehta has his way, 41 publicprojects worth over Rs 30,000crore will commence beforeMarch 2018, around the timehis tenure ends in the BMC.

These include eight swim-ming pools, a 12-acre sportscomplex at Andheri, wideni-

ng of roads, beautification pr-ojects, restoration of herita-ge structures, hospitals.

“Once the tender is floatedfor a project the additional co-mmissioners are expected toensure that the work gets offground,” said Mehta. Last we-ek, he allotted the work to fouradditional municipal commis-sioners and asked them to pre-

pare individual timelines. Thefour additional commissionerswill prepare a vision documentof these projects within a week.

The addition of new pub-lic swimming pools shouldcome as a welcome move con-sidering there are just six ci-vic pools in the island city.

41 city projects worth `30,000crlikely to take off before March ’18

Richa.Pinto@timesgroup.com

Mumbai: Faced with litiga-tion, the Maharashtra RealEstate Regulatory Authority(MahaRera) has informedthe Bombay high court that ithas rolled back a May 2017 or-der that had the effect of hol-ding a housing society or plotowner responsible for viola-tions or irregularities com-mitted by builders under thenew housing regulation law,reports Shibu Thomas. P 5

MahaRera rollsback key order

Jaipur:Tahir and Javed, thetwo men who had accompa-nied Ummar Khan—whowas killed, allegedly by gaurakshaks, while transporti-ng cows on November 10—were arrested by police onMonday on charges of cowsmuggling. The police also

claimed that Ummar Khanhad been carrying a firearmwhen killed.

A cow smuggling case hadbeen registered against Um-mar and his two friends at Go-vindgarh police station afterthey were chased and shot at.Ummar had died in the attack.

Two friends of slain transporterheld for cow smuggling in Raj

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Beijing: China is positioni-ng itself as a mediator in thedispute between Banglade-sh and Myanmar over theRohingya refugee crisis andannounced a three-stage sol-ution to the humanitariancalamity on Monday, claim-ing both the countries haveaccepted its proposal.

There were 1 million Ro-hingyas in Myanmar beforethe 2016-17 crisis. This Octo-ber 22, a UN report said6,03,000 refugees from Myan-mar’s Rakhine had entered

Bangladesh since August 25.This number increased to6,24,000 by November 2.

“The (Chinese) initiativewas approved in Bangladeshand also in Myanmar,” Chin-ese foreign ministry spokes-man Lu Kang said.

China proposesa ‘solution’ to

Rohingya crisis Mumbai: Close on the he-els of veteran cyclist AshokKhale’s death in an accide-nt in the eastern suburbs, a56-year-old man on a cyclewas killed in a hit-and-runat Borivli (West) on Thurs-day. Ashwin Shah, a Gorairesident, was on his way to a

bank when a BEST bus issaid to have hit his bicycleon L T Road.

The police are trying totrack down the bus driverbut are finding it difficultsince nobody had noted do-wn the registration numberof the vehicle and the mis-hap has not been capturedby any of the CCTV came-ras in the area.

Another cyclistrun over, BEST

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Hardening its stand on‘Padmavati’, Rajasthan’s

BJP government has decided to ban the film even before its fate is decided by the censor board.

Raj to ban withoutwaiting for censor

The petition committee ofParliament has accepted a

petition filed by two BJP MPsseeking to stall release of thefilm which, they claim, is “dis-tortion” of historical facts. P 9

Parliament committeeaccepts stall-film plea

China said on Monday that it“firmly opposes” President

Kovind’s visit to Arunachal thisweekend. “China has neveracknowledged so-calledArunachal Pradesh and China’sposition on the border issue isclear,” a China foreign ministryspokesperson said. P 11

Beijing opposes Prezvisit to Arunachal

�Karnataka to give Deepikacover and TIMES VIEW, P 9

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The railways has decidedto change the station code ofMumbai Central from BCTto MMCT from February 1,2018. Since reservations canbe made four months in advance, those booking tickets for trains departingon this date were unable toget Mumbai Central as theoriginating or destinationstation. This led to chaos and

social media was abuzzwith rumours that Mum-bai Central station wouldbe shut for long-distancetrains from February 1onward.

Western Railway had an-nounced the code change inOctober. To curb rumours,Western Railway again clar-ified on Monday, “WR has de-cided to replace the stationcode of Mumbai Centralmain (BCT) and MumbaiCentral local (BCL) withMMCT with effect from Feb-ruary 1, 2018. Accordingly,the new code has been de-fined in all Passenger Reser-vation Centres (PRC) and onthe IRCTC website with ef-fect from this date.”

Borivli resident DhimantBhatt said, “At first I did notbelieve the social media

messages about MumbaiCentral station being shut.However, somebody sent mescreenshots of the trainschedule displayed on theIRCTC booking app. It showsall trains that originate from

Mumbai Central had origi-nating stations as either Da-dar, Andheri or Borivli.”

A booking clerk at thePassenger Reservation Cen-tre (PRS) said, “There may bea problem with the IRCTCapp because there was no is-sue with bookings done atthe counters when we madeentries with the new code ieMMCT and not BCT.”

Shree Naik, another com-muter said, “I was trying tobook the ticket by enteringthe station code as BCT andwas shocked to see Rajdhanioriginating from Borivli. Af-ter I read the WR tweets, I fig-ured the correct code to befed for trains departing fromFebruary 1 is MMCT. On en-tering the new code, I wasable to book the ticket fromMumbai Central.”

Mumbai Central stn ‘disappears’from rly app, commuters derailed

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Mumbai: Monday morningsaw citizens waking up to No-vember Rain. Areas like Parel,Mulund and Powai as well asneighbouring regions likeThane and Navi Mumbai recei-ved light showers, much to citi-zens surprise.

The rain also raised the mi-nimum temperature, whichhad been dropping over thepast few days and touched 18.5degrees Celsius on Sunday-—lowest this season so far. OnMonday, the minimum tempe-rature recorded by the IndiaMeteorological Department(IMD)’s Santacruz observato-ry was 21.2 degree Celsius. Thesudden drizzle set the socialmedia talking and commen-ting on the uncertainty ofMumbai’s rains.

The IMD has forecastlight rain in the city over thenext 24 hours. This year, mon-soon withdrawal from the ci-ty was delayed as comparedto the last two years. IMD de-clared monsoon withdrawalon October 24 this year. Lastyear, south-west monsoonwithdrew from Mumbai onOctober 14, while in 2015, itwithdrew on October 15.“There is a trough over the so-uth- east Arabian Sea, off thecoast of North Karnataka,

which is causing such weat-her in Mumbai,” said K S Ho-salikar, deputy director-ge-neral (western region), IMD.

IMD officials said norther-ly winds, which bring in dryair, were setting over the city.On Monday, humidity levels atthe Colaba and Santacruz ob-servatory were 75% and 54%.The maximum temperaturesat Colaba and Santacruz were34 degrees Celsius and 34.3 deg-rees Celsius respectively.

Besides beating Mondayblues, the drizzle also bro-ught in sme relief from pol-

lution as the air quality index(AQI) bettered from 189 to 170on Monday, according to rea-dings of System of Air Quali-ty Weather Forecasting andResearch (SAFAR). An AQIbetween 101 and 200 is consi-dered moderate and may be ahealth concern for peoplesensitive to air pollution.Among the 10 suburbs moni-tored by SAFAR, Mazgaonwas the most polluted withan AQI of 313, which falls inthe “very poor” category.Chembur recorded the “clea-nest” AQI at 97.

Drizzle beats Mondayblues, raises temperature

CITY’S DATES WITH NOV RAIN

Year Rain in mm (date)

2016 -2015 1.6 (22)2014 3.2 (15)2013 -2012 -2011 -2010 20.4 (24)2009 35.3 (11)2008 0.1 (29)2007 5.4 (2)

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Mumbai: A four-year-old boyplaying outside a car showro-om was seriously injured af-ter an employee of the storerammed an SUV into him inChunabhatti on Monday.

The victim, Tauffik Ansa-ri, stays at Bhuntar Bhavan,in Quresh Nagar, Kurla (E), afew meters away from the sho-wroom. Police said that the ac-cused, Pranav Bane (30), wastold to take the SUV outsidethe showroom for a test drive.

“The incident took place inthe evening when the boy wasplaying outside. Witnesses sa-id that he was running aroundwhen the vehicle hit him. Butwe are are still recording sta-tements of witnesses to knowwhat actually happened. Im-mediately after the incident, ahuge crowd gheraoed the dri-ver and was about to assaulthim when the police reachedthe spot and arrested him,” sa-id sub-inspector Ghorpade,adding that the victim suffe-red head injuries and was be-ing treated at Sion hospital.

DCP Shahaji Umap saidthat they have arrested Bandeand have booked him for rashand negligent driving, andcausing grievous hurt.

4-year-old boyhurt after SUV on test drive

rams into himTIMES NEWS NETWORK

Navi Mumbai/Kolkata: Sleuths of Na-vi Mumbai crime branch seem to be in-ching closer to cracking the Rs 3-croreSanpada bank burglary case with twomore arrests on Monday.

While Wadala resident MoinuddinShaikh (38), one of the main conspira-tors of the heist, was arrested from Ho-wrah in Kolkata, where he was hiding ata relative’s house in Panchla, jewellerSanjay Wagh, who had allegedly boughtthe stolen gold, was arrested from Male-gaon in Nashik district.

Last week, a gang of robbers had loo-ted over Rs 3 crore worth jewellery andcash from around 30 lockers from the

Bank of Baroda branch in Sanpada byentering its strongroom through the flo-or after digging a 40-ft-long tunnel from ashop rented in the same building.

A crime branch official claimed thatthe mastermind of the bank heist wasNalasopara resident Deepak Mishra. Po-

lice teams are hunting for Mishra as hisarrest will enable a huge recovery of sto-len valuables which he had kept withhim after the robbery.

On Saturday, crime branch and San-pada police had arrested four allegedgang members from Govandi, Vikhroliand Goregaon in separate operations

and recovered 500gm gold ornamentsworth Rs 10 lakh that they had allegedlysold to Wagh. The suspects—ShrawanHegde, an autorickshaw driver; MominKhan, a Goregaon resident; Anjan Ma-hanti, an autorickshaw driver fromVikhroli; and Hajid Baig from Govandi-—are currently in police custody.

While sources claimed around 3kggold worth around Rs 90 lakh has beenrecovered from Shaikh after his arrestfrom Kolkata, crime branch officials cla-imed only Rs 10,000 was found on himand he had sold the stolen gold to Wagh.

Sources claimed Wagh, in turn, hadalready sold the stolen booty to other je-wellers. Police are now trying to tracethese jewellers to recover the booty.

`3cr bank heist: Conspirator nabbedin Kolkata, Malegaon jeweller arrested

HUNT ON FOR MASTERMIND

George Mendonca & Suman Chakraborti TNN

Mumbai:Women’s jails in Ma-harashtra are “massively stuf-fed” beyond capacity. There areatotal of 18 jails in the state thathouse women prisoners. Theleast crowded women’s jail inLatur houses 104% more inma-tes than its sanctioned capacityand the most crowded one inThane 404% of its capacity.

These details have emergedin a report submitted by thespecial investigation team(SIT) formed by the state wo-men’s commission to suggestmethods to improve the livingcondition of women inmatesin prisons across the state afterthe brutal custodial death ofconvict Manjula Shetye in By-

culla Jail. The report was sub-mitted to chief minister De-vendra Fadnavis on Monday.

The SIT comprises a three-member committee, includingretired high court judge Justi-ce Anand Nirgude, former di-rector general of police PravinDixit and women’s rights acti-vist Anjali Deshpande. “To de-al with overcrowding, we havesuggested that new jails be con-structed and inmates be shiftedfrom massively crowded jails

to slightly less crowded ones,”said Vijaya Rahatkar, chairper-son of the state women’s com-mission.

Meanwhile, the SIT has su-ggested separate smoking ro-oms for inmates and that onlyone matchbox be provided tothem there. Sources said provi-ding cigarettes and bidis in jailrequires greasing of palms ofjail staff and by making theselegal, a big reason of alterca-tions would be taken care of.

The report suggests that be-sides installing CCTVs in allbarracks, there should also be asystem for audio-recordingconversations inside jails.

“There should be entertain-ment options for inmates, in-cluding screening of movies,dance and playing of music atregular intervals,” said Rahat-kar. The committee has sugges-ted making a provision of coinboxes for inmates to call theirfamilies and making availablepostcards so that they can wri-te to them.

It has suggested stationingfemale nurses, health check-ups and also a mechanism toregister complaints of inmatesthrough video-conferencing. Ithas suggested steps to ensurethat jail staff get enough restand their shifts are shortened.“We have proposed separate re-sting areas and canteens for jailstaff. The Shetye episode sho-wed that both staff as well as in-mates are under a lot of stressand small issues can flare up in-to big episodes,” said Rahatkar.

Screen films, set up smokingareas in women’s jails: Panel

Report OnOvercrowdedPrisons Bares‘Stress Within’

THANE HAS 4 TIMES MORE INMATES

Separate smoking room for prisoners

Prisoners must get sanitary napkins, bindis and unbreakable bangles

Film screenings at regular intervals

Nurses & monthly health check-up

Special investigation team suggestions

Jail Inmate capacity

Inmate numbers

Overcrowding (in %)

Byculla 262 299 114 Thane 25 101 404 Alibaug 2 6 300Kalyan 35 88 251

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Mumbai: In a first, the BMChas approved a provision to al-low lifts to travel right till thecommon terrace areas of allbuildings, in an effort to im-prove accessibility for the eld-erly and differently abled.

According to the BMC’s de-velopment control regulatio-ns (DCR), the lift is an alterna-te means of vertical access inaddition to a staircase. The ci-vic body’s building proposals(BP) department had initiated

a plan to allow lifts till the ter-race areas of buildings earlierthis month.

The proposal states that

the provision for lifts is neededfor optimal use of terraces asan additional recreationalarea. Currently, the common

terrace of any building can on-ly be accessed by a staircase asthere was no clear-cut provi-sion regarding accessibility of

common terraces above thetop-most floor by lift. Whilethe DCR 1991did not have sucha provision, the draft DCR2034, which is currently un-dergoing revisions, has provi-ded for making common terra-ces available by staircases aswell as lifts. It also states thatcommon terraces could beused for an additional recrea-tional green area over and abo-ve the mandatory layout openspace requirement.

Civic officials said the ne-ed for such a provision arosebecause of increasing de-mand from newer projects inthe past few years. “However,in case of existing buildings,prior certification regarding abuilding’s structural stabilitymust be submitted. The socie-ty must also ensure securityof premises once a lift is allo-

wed to travel right till the ter-race,” said an official, addingthat external lifts till the terra-ce area will be permitted too.

Municipal commissionerAjoy Mehta said that whilelifts will be allowed to reachthe terrace, no constructionwill be allowed on it.

“A lot of people these dayshave taken an interest in roof-top gardens. We are allowingthis provision to enable themto reach there easily.”

Activist Neenu Kewlani,who uses a wheelchair, calledit a wonderful decision.

“I was never able to attendparties or events organized onterraces because of lifts. Be-ing carried to the terrace fromthe last floor was always diffi-cult. This decision is definite-ly a great move on part of thecivic body,” said Kewlani.

Existing CityStructures To

Need StructuralStability Cert

BMC allows terrace access to all building lifts

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I was never able to

attend parties or events organized on terraces because of lifts. Being carried to a terrace from the last floor was always difficult. This decision is definitely a great move on part of the civic bodyNeenu Kewlani | AN

ACTIVIST WHO USES

A WHEELCHAIR

In the revised draft Development Control Regulations 2034, BMC has inserted a provision for making common terraces accessible by both staircases as well as lifts

On Monday, BMC commissioner Ajoy Mehta approved the proposal for allowing lifts to reach right till the

terraces of buildings

Terraces can also be used for additional recreational green areas over and above the mandatory layout open space requirement

‘MOVE TO HELP ELDERLY AND DIFFERENTLY ABLED’

Mumbai: A 32-year-old Vasaiman, Sunil Lugun, killed hisroommate, Hanuman Patil(35), for not opening the door oftheir flat when he came homedrunk on Saturday. Lugun la-ter dumped the body at an isola-ted location in Vasai and fled.He was arrested on Sunday and

later, confessed to the crime. The Valiv police said that

on Saturday around 1am, Patilrefused to open the door for adrunk Lugun. After about anhour, he opened the door andthey got into a fight and Lugunhit Patil with a wooden stick.Patil died on the spot. TNN

Drunk Vasai man kills roomiefor not opening door at night

Mumbai: Rape charges cannotbe quashed by consent unlessthe first information report(FIR) shows that the relations-hip was consensual, the Bombayhigh court observed on Monday.

A division bench was heari-ng a petition filed by a builder ac-cused of rape who claimed thathe had settled the case with hisvictim and that she had no objec-tion to dropping of charges.

“There should be some mate-rial in the FIR to show that thephysical relationship was conse-nsual. Let him face trial,” saidthe bench and added that it wasnot inclined to quash the FIR. Fo-llowing the refusal, the accuse-d’s lawyer withdrew the plea.

The accused’s lawyer hadclaimed that the man and thevictim were in a relationshipand she had lent him money.When the money was not retur-ned, the FIR alleging forcible in-tercourse was lodged after a de-lay of one and a half years, the la-wyer said. He added that she hadnow given her consent to with-draw the allegations. “The FIRonly mentions a relationship,but just because it says he used tovisit her house does not mean th-ere was a consensual physicalrelationship. They could havebeen friends. There is no materi-al in the FIR that allows him to

come out of the allegations un-der Section 375 of the Indian Pe-nal Code (which defines rape),”remarked the judges in their or-al observation at the hearing.

In the past two months, therehave been at least six cases whe-re the high court has quashed anFIR alleging rape, after the accu-sed and the victim reached a sett-lement (see box). This included acase where a wife had accusedher husband of rape (Section376) and unnatural sex (Section377). In all the cases, the FIR reve-aled that the accused and the vic-tim were in a consensual physi-cal relationship.

The court had observed thatin normal circumstances, the of-

fence of rape was serious and co-uld not be quashed by consent.But it referred to Supreme Courtorders and added, “The decisionof the apex court makes it clearthat the court cannot decline toquash the FIR merely becausethe FIR incorporates a particul-ar provision, which is a seriousoffence or an offence against so-ciety. The court can accept thesettlement and quash the FIR/chargesheet if the court is of theopinion that such an offence isunnecessarily incorporated inthe chargesheet.” The court saidsince in the six cases, the FIR dis-closes that the relationship wasconsensual, there was no mate-rial to book the accused for rape.

Couple tries to settle case,but judge cites rape FIR

‘NO MATERIAL TO BOOK ACCUSED’

Oct 5 | HC strikes down 2015 rape FIR lodged at Dindoshi police station after girl says she lodged case as accused refused to marry her

Oct 6 | HC drops 2016 rape charges against a man lodged at Ghatkopar police station after the girl says the relationship was consensual

Oct 6 | HC quashes 2017 FIR at Oshiwara police station after girl says she filed rape case when

accused stopped taking calls

Oct 11 | HC quashes 2015 rape FIR lodged at Sakinaka police station after victim says

she has married accused

Nov 1 | HC quashes 2017 FIR lodged at Vile Parle

police station against a man by his wife, who had accused him of rape and unnatural sex

Nov 1 | HC quashes FIR filed at Oshiwara police station in 2017 after girl says she has married accused

CASES IN RECENT PAST

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Mumbai: A Jogeshwari hou-sewife was conned into par-ting with Rs 1.35 crore by agroup of men who promisedto secure admission for herson at a medical college. TheAmboli police have registe-red a case of cheating undersection 420 of the IPC and arelooking for the accused.

NJ Shaikh, the 44-year-oldcomplainant, lives in a high-rise at Jogeshwari West withher family. Police said the fiveaccused were known to Sha-ikh and her family for someyears. “The accused had beenadvising Shaikh’s family onfinancial investments. Thefamily had been obtaining de-cent returns and they trustedthe accused. In July 2014, theaccused claimed they hadcontacts in prominent colle-ges. They offered to secureadmission for Shaikh’s son atDr DY Patil Medical Collegein Navi Mumbai,” an Ambolipolice official said.

From time to time, rightup to November 2017, the ac-

cused managed to persuadeShaikh to part with varyingsums. Shaikh eventually rea-lised something was amiss.On November 17, she approa-ched the Amboli police sta-tion and lodged a complaint.

Earlier this month, theson of a jeweller from Jogesh-wari East had lodged a comp-laint with Meghwadi policeafter being scammed by twopersons who promised to se-cure him admission in a pro-minent architecture college.The Meghwadi police havesent a notice to the two men toremain present at the policestation for questioning. “Anacquaintance of the complai-nant, Abhishek Chandilya,introduced him to the accu-sed and said they could secu-re him admission at RizviCollege of Architecture. Bet-ween August 6 and Septem-ber 13, the accused wrested atotal of Rs 4.63 lakh fromChandilya,” said a Meghwa-di police official. “If the accu-sed do not respond to the noti-ce and come to the police sta-tion, they may face arrest.”

Woman promisedmed seat for son

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Mumbai: Family members of acontract worker, Mohan Patil(45), who died a few months agowhile repairing a shed at BESTworkshop in Dadar, have been gi-ven a Rs 5 lakh compensation bythe transport undertaking.

“This is the first time thatsuch a huge compensation hasbeen paid by the BEST to a priva-te contract worker, who was en-gaged in waterproofing work atour Dadar workshop and diedwhile on duty. He is not a BESTstaffer, but the undertaking hasgiven a cheque of Rs 5 lakh to hiswife on humanitarian grounds,”said BEST committee memberRajesh Kusale.

“The contractor too had gi-ven a compensation to the family.But they were still in crisis,” Ku-sale added . TNN

`5L payout for kinof man who died

on BEST duty

Mumbai: A Powai business-man, Tarun Grover (53), was du-ped of Rs 5.8 lakh after he fell vic-tim to an email fraud. Grover re-ceived an email from his friend’semail account, saying he wasstranded in another countryand needed financial help.

Grover transferred the fundto the account number mentio-ned in the email. “Grover reali-zed he had been duped when hechecked with his friend and fo-und out that he never made anyrequest for financial help and isvery much in the city,” said a po-lice officer. TNN

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ming pools and a 12-acre sportscomplex at Andheri, if a grandplan of the BMC succeeds.

The new pools planned willbe at Worli hill reservoir, Vikh-roli, Malad, Kondivita in And-heri (east), Gilbert Hill in And-heri (west), Dahisar, Govandiand an Olympic-size one inKandivli (west).

The Rifle Club at Worli willalso get a facelift. The southMumbai phase of BMC’s coas-tal road project will start in thecoming months along with theRs 4,000 crore Goregaon-Mu-lund Link Road (GMLR).

Shiv Sena leader in the ci-vic House Yashwant Jadhavsaid the civic administrationmust ensure works are comple-ted within a stipulated time.Another important project ini-tiated by the BMC is surveyingproperties with the help of ve-hicle-mounted camera andscanners, which began earlythis year. It provides a panora-mic image of buildings and da-ta, which gives length, width,height and even polygon areain square metres. This datawill be used to validate tax re-cords and point out deviations,if any. Officials said this willadd to municipal revenue bytaxing buildings which werenot assessed. The project costis Rs 57 crore.

Samajwadi Party leader inthe BMC Rais Shaikh said eve-ry project must be completedwithin a deadline. “However,our experience is that delaysoccur in movement of files bet-ween two departments. Hope-fully, supervision at the addi-tional municipal commissio-ner’s level will expedite theprojects,” said Shaikh.

Acycle track along the Tan-sa pipeline across Mumbai andthe 111-hectare Central Park re-claimed from the sea at Cuffe

Parade are among the 41 pro-jects scheduled to commencenext year.

Right to Information acti-vist Anil Galgali said that thiswas a positive step as puttingresponsibility on IAS officerswould mean that they need toensure that work takes off.

Standing committee mem-ber and Asif Zakaria said thatany project for improvement ofservices to be provided to citi-zens is a welcome move. “In thefrenzy of making announce-ments for new projects in thecity, its implementation in thelong run is never given thought

and eventually it keeps ondragging once it begins on gro-und,” said Zakaria.

The announcement of anew sports facility at Andherileft many wondering if therewas really a need for one as the-re is already the AndheriSports Complex, which is spre-ad across 11acres. The new oneis proposed to be built on VeeraDesai Road in the same area.

Andheri Sports Complex,officially named Shahaji RajeBhosale Kreeda Sankul, has fa-cilities for swimming, football,karate, tennis and boxing. Pri-vate community gatherings

and award functions are alsoorganized there.

It was inaugurated in 1991and redeveloped as recently as2016. Its Olympic-size swim-ming pool, which was closedfor years, was reopened afterpublic clamour. A large foot-ball stadium was designed in2016. Local MLA Bharti Lave-kar said, “The proposed plot onVeera Desai Road is largerthan Andheri Sports Complex.The two cannot be compared.Only football is played at the ex-isting complex. The new struc-ture will be a large stadiumthat will serve the city well.”

Complete InfraProjects In

Time: Netas

City likely to get 8 new pools,sports complex at Andheri

WHAT MUMBAIKARS CAN EXPECTWorli hill reservoir, Vikhroli, Malad, Kondivita in Andheri, Gilbert Hill in

Andheri, Dahisar, Govandi

and an Olympic-size

one in Kandivli

Estimated cost of each project is around `8.53cr, Kandivli (west) facility to cost 32cr

Modernization of Deonar abattoir

Central Park at Cuffe ParadeCoastal Road

Twelve-acre sports complex in Andheri to be built at a cost of `23cr

The proposal to be tabled before the civic standing committee

GOREGOAN-MULUND LINK ROAD (GMLR)Project cost |

`4,025cr

Connect Eastern Express Highway at Mulund to Western Express Highway at Goregaon

The link road alignment passes through Sanjay Gandhi National Park

BMC plans to construct a tunnel below Sanjay Gandhi National Park apart from

widening the existing road and providing grade separators at major intersections on GMLR

Length of twin tunnels |4.75 km (3+3 lanes)

Cost | `400-500cr

Details | Mechanized slaughtering units of buffaloes, sheep/goats and pigs with facility of processing units

Resting sheds for animals

Phase 1 | Mulund to airport boundary at AndheriPhase 2 | Parsekar Chowk, Ghatkopar to Futka Tank, Sion | Airport boundary to Dharavi | Powai to GhatkoparPhase 3 | Sewri-Chembur Nalla | Mahim Creek

Cost | `5,303cr (first phase)Length of first phase | Marine Drive

and Bandra-Worli Sea Link (9.98km)Total Cost `15,000cr

Cost | `1,000cr

Details | In the Development Control Regulations (DCR) 2034, the BMC proposed reclamation plan in Cuffe Parade to create a 111.78 hectare park on the lines of New York’s Central Park, which will include a garden, a playground and a play area for children

`300-crore ‘cycle track’ project

Swimming pools

Total length of link

road | 12.5km

Richa.Pinto@timesgroup.com

Mumbai: Seven BMS stu-dents, who were among the 13arrested for their alleged in-volvement in question paperleak, appeared for the exam onMonday, in presence of anAmboli police team. The courtallowed the students to takethe test on police request sothat they do not suffer acade-mically.

“Police informed us onSunday that they had submit-ted a request to the court to al-low them to take the exam andhad received a positive reply,”said the parent of one of thearrested students. “We wereworried about their future.”

After the exam, the sevenstudents, computer technici-an Kalpesh Bagul (31), who isthe main suspect in the case,Mohammed Khatri alias Ali(20), who allegedly purchasedthe papers, and four otherswere produced before theAndheri metropolitan ma-gistrate’s court in the eveningand were released on bail.

“Bagul was caught afterwe managed to get hold of thesource from where the paperwas sent through WhatsApp.He sold nine questions papers(BAF and BMS exams) toKhatri,” said an officer of Am-boli police station.

Police have seized the com-puter system, mobile hands-ets of the 13 arrested accusedand collected the source of thepaper sent as part of evidence.The leak was busted on No-vember 16, when the supervi-sor at an Andheri college ex-amination hall got suspiciouson finding a mobile phone inthe compass box of a student.“The supervisor informed thecollege head, who, in turn,alerted the board. During theprobe, they found out that thegirl had uploaded the questionpaper on FB messenger beforedeleting the question paperfrom the WhatsApp group,”said the officer.

7 students held for paper leak

take exam withpolice escort V.Narayan@timesgroup.com

BAIL FOR 13 SUSPECTS

Mumbai: Whether you’re abusinessman buying a 2,000sqft flat or a hawker renting20 sqft of space illegally, not-hing matters more in this ci-ty than location. Profits canvary drastically dependingon where a hawker is located—while fruits and vegetablessell fast in largely vegetarianlocalities, items like ‘Chinesebhel’ are a big hit aroundschools and colleges. And in abusiness district like Fort,mobile cases and earphonesare always in demand.

In an effort to deconstructthe world of street peddling,TOI interacted with severalhawkers from across the city.Most of them admitted to paying a premium to squat il-legally on a prime spot. OnBandra’s Linking Road, forinstance, which boasts de-partment stores, fast-foodchains and hordes of pedest-rians, hawkers are willing to pay as much as Rs 20,000per month.

This money isn’t used tobribe a BMC official despitethe fact that the hawker issquatting on a public foot-path. Instead, explains a localpolitician, it finds its way in-to the hands of local ‘seths’and ‘sahabs’ with politicalconnections, who have “cap-tured” this location illegallyand are now sub-letting it fora fee. The more the footfall inan area, the more those cont-rolling the space demand. If a

hawker is unwilling to pay,the space is immediately gi-ven to the next person in line.

Irfan Chand (namechanged), who sells maxidresses, found this out two ye-ars ago when the BMC evic-ted him from his original spotoutside Jogeshwari railwaystation. “I started searchingfor another space, and I foundthis spot at Andheri, but I wastold that it belongs to someo-ne already,” says Chand. “Inow have to pay him Rs200

fast food even though coo-king on the road is strictlyprohibited. But hawkers arewilling to break the law be-cause of the spiking demand.Babloo Raja, who sits outsideDadar’s St Paul’s High Scho-ol, remembers selling ‘Chine-se bhel’ for Rs5 just five yearsago. Now, a plate is Rs15.

The price of goods andtheir quality also varies indifferent locations. At Kurlamarket, for instance, tomato-es sell for Rs55-60 a kg butthey can’t match the qualityof those sold at Andheri’sLokhandwala market for Rs70. And in residential localiti-es, hawkers have loyal custo-mers. “Ours is a family busi-ness. Therefore most of ourcustomers are old- timersfrom the locality, says Jee-tendra Tripathi, who sellsfruits at Vile Parle market.

(This is Part 2 of a serieson hawking in Mumbai. To-morrow: In Part 3, we tell youabout the ‘protection’ invol-ved in the business and the mo-ney which exchanges hands)

und it to be an uphill task.“The lakhs of people who tra-vel by local trains prefer pick-ing up fruits and vegetableson their way home instead of

heading to a market,” says aBMC official. "This makesour job even more difficult aspeople patronize these haw-kers.” On the other hand,hawkers complain that theBMC’s eviction drives negati-vely impact their business.

Some, however, do briskbusiness anyway, making asmuch as Rs50,000 a day. Dhar-men Gupta sells importedfruit outside Santacruz rail-way station and earnsRs40,000 per day though heclaims his profit is onlyRs2,000-4,000. He explainsthat this is because fruits areperishable and so if theydon’t sell, he has to offloadthem on another fruit sellerat the wholesale price.

Food items often sell inplaces where there are manyschools, colleges and restau-rants. These lanes often beco-me unofficial ‘khau gallis’.Bandra corporator Asif Za-karia says that the KFC lane,off Bandra’s Linking Road,has seen a huge spurt in thenumber of hawkers selling

walk to and fro, providingthem with a captive clientele.BMC officials have been try-ing to clear these areas to re-duce congestion but have fo-

every day for doing my busi-ness here.”

Hawkers dot the footpathsoutside railway stations be-cause commuters have to

To get best spots, hawkers pay up to `20K/month to ‘seths’WHAT’S IN DEMAND, AND WHERE

This lane off Bandra’s Linking Road has seen a spurt in the number of hawkers selling fast food

Fruits and vegetables | In largely vegetarian localities in Mumbai such as Vile Parle, Santacruz, Ghatkopar and Mulund

Chinese Bhel |Popular outside schools and colleges of Mumbai

Mobile phone accessories (earphones, covers, etc) | Outside CSMT and Dadar railway station

Footwear, clothing, purses, scarves | Outside railway station areas such as Andheri (West), Dadar (West) and Vile Parle

Pic: Uma Kadam

Richa.Pinto@timesgroup.com

STREETSMART

Mumbai: Days after Bom-bay high court ordered thatcustody of an eight-year-oldgirl, whose father is facingthe death penalty in Dubaifor killing her mother, be gi-ven to her maternal grand-mother, a criminal case ofkidnapping was lodged aga-inst the paternal grandmot-her at a police station in Rai-gad district on Monday.

“The HC had told the pa-ternal grandmother to im-mediately hand over custo-dy of the child to the mater-nal grandmother. When poli-ce went to the house, the doorwas locked and the child wasmissing. Prima facie itshows that the paternalgrandmother does not wantto obey the court’s orders,” asenior police officer said.Goregaon police in Raigaddistrict confirmed that anFIR had been registered aga-inst the minor’s paternalgrandmother under Section363 (kidnapping) of the Indi-

an Penal Code. “Efforts areon to find the accused andthe child. A police team hasgone to Mhasala in Raigaddistrict to look for the accu-sed as we have informationthat she could have taken thechild there,” a Goregaon po-lice official told TOIon Mon-day evening.

“Kidnapping only provesutter disregard for law by thepaternal grandmother,” said

Maharashtra MinoritiesCommission former vice-chairman Abraham Mathai,who has been helping thematernal grandmother.

The child’s father hadstrangled her mother inMarch 2013. He was convic-ted for murder and is facingdeath by a firing squad inDubai. Subsequently, thechild’s maternal grandmot-her applied for her custody,which the paternal side refu-sed. A case filed in 2014 went

in the maternal grandmot-her’s favour. The paternalgrandmother challenged theverdict, while the child con-tinued to stay with her.

In November 2014, the pa-ternal grandmother allegedthat the child had been sexu-ally assaulted by her mater-nal uncles after she spenther Diwali vacation at thematernal grandmother’s ho-me in Kerala. Police had fileda report in 2015 that the casewas false.

The maternal grandmot-her, who has now moved toDombivli, said the criminalcase was lodged to exertpressure on them to sign amercy petition for herdaughter’s husband. The“false” sexual assault allega-tions was one of the factorswhich led the high court toconclude the child was gro-wing up in an “unhealthy at-mosphere” at the paternalgrandmother’s house. Thecourt had held the girl’s reli-gion could not be the sole de-termining factor to decidethe child’s custody.

Grandmom loses custodybattle, booked for abduction

AN ODE TO POETRY THROUGH DANCE Sanjay Hadkar

Dancers from Upaasana Academy performed a dance drama act, Dasavataram, on Sunday as part of the 4-dayclassical dance festival, Mumbai Bharatha Nritya Viza, at Sri Shanmukhananda Fine Arts & Sangeetha Sabha

The censor board mustbe given “space” to re-solve the ‘Padmavati’row, CBFC chief Pra-

soon Joshi said in Panaji onMonday. The board has not cre-ated the controversy and it was“unfair” to expect it to comeout with a quick-fix solution,he added.

“There is a lot of expecta-tion, curiosity around it. Butyou should ask, how fair is it toput everything on the head ofCBFC and not give it the spaceto operate. Also, it is very im-portant to understand that thisis a special case. There is toomuch curiosity and too muchof attention around it. Everyo-ne wants to see it with a micro-scope. So, it is very importantthat adequate space is providedfor CBFC to operate,” he saidon the sidelines of the Iffi ope-ning ceremony.

Several groups of Rajputshave called for a ban on ‘Padma-vati’, alleging misrepresenta-tion of facts about queen Pad-mavati, who, according to so-me is based on a legend, whileothers believe her to be a histo-rical figure.

“We have been saying foryears that as per CBFC rules, itmay take 68 days for certifica-tion because there could be ma-ny things involved. Here we ha-ve to understand that we haveto take a decision with a coolmind, a balanced mind. This isnot a situation created by

CBFC. The protests that arehappening on the streets, hasCBFC done it? You are showingthe film to media houses andgetting the critiquing done bythem. Is this done by CBFC?But you are expecting CBFC to resolve it. We are asking fortime, but we are not asking for

time which is not already writ-ten in the CBFC’s rules,” said Joshi.

Joshi said he respects andunderstands filmmaker San-jay Leela Bhansali’s state as he himself comes from the filmfraternity. But it is unfair topush CBFC to resolve the matter at a fast pace. “GiveCBFC the state of mind to re-solve the issue. This is my requ-est,” said Joshi.

Some groups have even put a bounty on anyone who be-heads Bhansali and chops offlead actor Deepika Padukone’snose.

Joshi said he condemnssuch calls. “But I also respectthe sentiments and differentsections of society. We need tobe patient. All of us can decidetogether,” said Joshi.

One of the film’s male leadsShahid Kapur, who was also atthe Iffi opening ceremony, said:“The calls for violence are un-called for and unfortunate. It is not a time to be angry and lose your cool. I believe in theprocess and I am optimistic ofthe process. I am very proud ofthe film.”

Give CBFC the space and time toresolve ‘Padmavati’ row: Prasoon

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COLOUR OF PARADISE: Renowned Iranian director Majid Majidi (C) ofthe opening film, Beyond the Clouds, and music director A R Rahman atthe Iffi inauguration at Panaji on Monday

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Rajtilak Naik

Mumbai:While the loan waiverscheme is yet to take off in the re-al sense, information technolo-gy secretary Vijay Kumar Gau-tam, who is responsible for im-plementation of the initiative,has proceeded on leave. BesidesGautam, cooperation secretaryS S Sandhu and his financecounterpart V K Jain handle thescheme implementation. Veter-an bureaucrat SVR Srinivas hasbeen given the additional chargeof the IT department.

Though the buzz is that CMDevendra Fadnavis had sentGautam on leave, he denied itand said he is on leave to takecare of his ailing father. “I hadsought leave in October to takecare of my 93-year-old father,who is in the ICU. But I was de-nied leave. Now that the imple-mentation is in the final stages, Ihave got leave,” Gautam toldTOI. A senior bureaucrat saidFadnavis has had to face embar-rassment over the inept hand-ling of the scheme.

—Prafulla Marpakwar

IT secy handlingloan waiver

goes on leave

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which caught fire had beenrunning for five to six hoursthat day. A senior official sa-id, “The prolonged run mayhave caused heating of thetyres. However, the fire bro-ke out because of the sparkthat (was) ignited from theunderframe of the coachdue to technical reasons.”The official did not specifythe technical cause that ledto the sparks.

He said, “The train hadbeen running since mid-night on the day of the inci-dent as part of trials for thesecond phase between JacobCircle and Wadala depot. Ba-sed on the trial performan-ce, a report has to be sent tocommissioner of railway sa-fety, who then carries out hisown inspection before gran-ting a go-ahead for passeng-er services.” Phase I of mo-norail services opened in Fe-bruary 2014 on the 8.8km-long stretch between Chem-bur and Wadala depot.

Heated tyres, spark from undercoach led to monorail fire: Panel

At 5 am on November 9, one coach of an empty monorail train caught fire at Mysore Colony station before morning ser-vices had started. Two coaches in all were affected by the fire

Passenger services begin at 5.30am; train was travel-ling from Wadala to begin day’s services from Chembur

When the train reached Mysore Colony station, the motorman noticed smoke emanating from below the last coach and called the fire brigade immediately

Fire extinguished by 6am

Had train been running during operating hours,

lives of 30 passengers could have been endangered

TWO COACHES WERE CHARREDManthanK.Mehta@timesgroup.com

Mumbai: The draft reportof the inquiry committeelooking into the Novem-ber 9 monorail fire hasstated that heated tyresdue to prolonged use ofthe rake on the day of theincident resulted in theblaze after a spark from un-derneath the coach came incontact with the train’s whe-el. The fire had charred twobogies of a monorail train.The probe instituted byMumbai Metropolitan Re-gion Development Authori-ty (MMRDA) is being con-ducted by former commis-sioner of railway safety P SBaghel, who is being assi-sted by a former chief elec-trical engineer of MMRDA.

Metropolitan commis-sioner UPS Madan said,“The final report is expectedto be submitted in eight da-ys. Monorail services willnot run as inspection of therakes will have to be carried

out based on findings of thereport.” Monorail serviceshave been suspended sincethe incident as MMRDA offi-cials said they did not wantto take any chances with sa-fety issues.

MMRDA had, after the fi-re, said that the blaze had be-en confined to two cabs of themonorail car stationed atplatform number one. The

electric wiring, cab window,door, seat, flooring, cab roof,tyres, etc and the electriclight panel, platform rai-ling, polycarbonate sheet ofthe roof of the elevatedstructure of Mumbai mono-rail station had got dama-ged, they had said. The inci-dent shocked both authoriti-es and citizens because mo-norail coaches were billed as

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Mumbai: A 16-year-old girl hasbeen hospitalised after she at-tempted to commit suicide by byjumping off the 18-ft high Kan-divli skywalk.

Police said that the teenagertook the step after an argumentwith her mother. She wanted towork while her mother wantedher to study.

The incident was reportedaround 12.30pm on Saturday ne-ar ESIS Hospital in Kandivli (E).The girl climbed up the skywalkand jumped off. Passersby rus-hed her to a hospital and infor-med the police. “As she has susta-ined injuries to her jaw and hasbroken her teeth, she is not in aposition to give a statement.Fortunately, she did not sustainhead injuries. She has also suffe-red injuries to her legs,” said apolice official.

Police have recorded thegirl’s mother’s statement. “Thegirl had dropped out of schooland took up a job for aroundthree months. She wanted towork and earn but her mother, amaid, thought it was a bad idea.She wanted the girl to return toschool and look after her young-er brother in her spare time. Thegirl’s father is not around. Themother-daughter duo used to ha-ve frequent arguments over theissue,” said an official.

Police have not yet registe-red a case. The girl will be coun-selled once she gets better.

Girl jumps offskywalk after

argument withmom over job

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Mumbai: The state environment depart-ment on Monday issued a notification rei-terating the Centre’s ruling that silenceareas/zones will have to be notified by thestate government.

The Centre’s ruling has already beenchallenged by activists in the Supreme Co-urt. “The noise rules state that an area ofnot less than 100 metres from hospitals,educational institutes and courts is a si-lence area. It is mandatory and not optio-nal. So, where is the question that the stateshall notify these areas?” asked Ashok Ra-wat, an activist from Dadar. Nearly 10 pub-lic interest litigations had been filed befo-re Bombay high court to declare the Shiva-

ji Park area a silence zone. However, follo-wing the Centre’s notification this year, nopermission was sought from the court tohold the Dussera rally.

Sumaira Abdulali, convenor, AwaazFoundation, said the government, insteadof protecting public health, is allowing theuse of loudspeakers for political mileage.“This is against public interest and majo-rity of citizens want silence zones,” she sa-id. In September, at the request of the Ma-harashtra government, the Centre chang-ed noise rules, making the declaration ofan area as a silence area/zone conditionalsubject to the area being notified by thestate government.

State issues order:Govt has to notify

silence zones, areasTIMES NEWS NETWORK

TOLL-FREE NUMBERBMC had told Bombay high court that it was planning a new 24-hour toll-free number for citizens in Mumbai

It said it had provided 9920760525 for complaints by SMS and WhatsApp, and email mcgm.licnp@gmail.com to lodge complaints

Mumbai: Faced with litiga-tion, the Maharashtra RealEstate Regulatory Authori-ty (MahaRERA) has infor-med the Bombay high courtthat it has rolled back a May2017 order that had the effectof holding a housing societyor plot owner responsible forviolations or irregularitiescommitted by the developerunder the new housing regu-lation law.

In an affidavit filed befo-re the division bench of Jus-tice Naresh Patil and JusticeRajesh Ketkar, MahaRERAsecretary said that the orderhad been withdrawn “in or-der not to disturb the vario-us steps that are already ta-ken by all stakeholders andthe statutory authority...soas to dispel various appre-hensions expressed by thepetitioners”.

The court was hearing apetition filed by owners of athree-acre plot on the Gore-

gaon-Mulund Link Road,Mulund (W) challenging theMay order. In the order, Ma-haRERA had gone on to defi-ne the term “co-promoter”under the Real Estate (Regu-lation and Development) Actto mean plot owners and or-

ganizations which have sig-ned a development agree-ment with the builder. Suchentities had to register un-der RERA as co-promotersand were to be liable for de-faults committed by the buil-der. Advocates Girish Kul-

karni and Vishwajeet Kap-se, counsel for the petitio-ners, had argued that theauthority was not empowe-red to coin a new definitionof “promoter” and notify itin absence of provisions un-der RERA. “MahaRERA isnot empowered to interpretthe provisions of a centrallaw in defining the term co-promoter. Such a definitionwould add to confusion,which is not permissible,”the lawyers had said. In anearlier affidavit filed in Au-gust, MahaRERA had justi-fied the order claiming thatit was done in order to clari-fy the provisions and “tobring about more transpa-rency in the process of regi-stration, ease of maintenan-ce of accounts...”.

When the matter cameup for hearing on November14, advocate general Ashu-tosh Kumbhakoni placed onrecord the new affidavit inwhich MahaRERA said ithad decided to withdraw itsorder.

Plot owner or soc not liablein case of default by builder

Shibu.Thomas@timesgroup.com

2016 | Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act enacted in 2016 to protect home buyers

May 2017 |Maharashtra Real Estate Regulatory Authority (MahaRERA) notifies order saying plot owner or organization that signs development agreement with a builder will also have to register with RERA and will be treated as co-promoter of the project. Such co-

MAHARERA ROLLS BACK ITS ORDER

promoters would be held liable for violations by the builder

Aug 2017 | MahaRERA tells HC it was done to bring about clarity

Nov 2017 | MahaRERA informs HC that it had withdrawn the order

Mumbai: Land for a5,000 sq mt Christian ce-metery will be formallytransferred to the staterevenue department bythe agriculture, dairy de-velopment and animalhusbandry departments.The revenue departmentwill then hand it over to

the urban developmentdepartment.

In 2014 the state ur-ban development depart-ment had sought 7,500 sqmt in Aarey colony to behanded over to it for a ce-metery. Of this, 2,500 sqmetres had been handedover in 2014. TNN

Land for Aarey cemeteryto be transferred

Mumbai: The prosecutionin the murder case of jour-nalist J Dey moved an appli-cation before the special co-urt on Monday seeking toexamine an official from aforensic laboratory in theUS as a witness.

Special public prosecu-tor Pradeep Gharat soughtthe deposition of EdwardBurns through video confe-rencing in an effort to showthat the bike seen in theCCTV footage recoveredfrom the crime scene in 2011matched the bike found du-ring the course of investiga-tions. He contends the bikewas used by the murder ac-cused.

The court directed thedefence to file its reply on

Tuesday.Gharat said the footage

recovered from the crimescene and the pictures of

the bike were first sent tothe additional director ge-neral in Karnataka afterwhich it was sent to the labin the US. “This is the latest

technology used to matchthe video footage with theactual photos of the vehiclein question,” said Gharat.

Dey, who was a reporterwith Mid-Day, was gunneddown by bike-borne men onJune 11, 2011, in Powai. Afterinvestigation, the police ar-rested 10 men who allegedlyexecuted or abetted the cri-me on gangster Chhota Ra-jan’s behest.

In August last year, thecourt framed charges aga-inst Rajan under varioussections of the MCOCA, andfor murder and criminalconspiracy. The CBI char-gehseet claims Rajan hadordered the hit as Dey was towrite a book that not onlyshowed him in poor light,but also put arch rival Da-wood Ibrahim on a higherfooting.

Let US forensic expert deposeon bike of Dey’s ‘killers’: State

Rebecca.Samervel@timesgroup.com Mumbai: In the works for a wh-

ile, the state has finally got a ‘ge-nder budget cell’ which will mo-nitor implementation of we-lfare schemes for women andkids and also ensure benefits ofgender-neutral schemes reachwomen in equal measure.

Sudhir Mungantiwar, mi-nister for finance and plan-ning, on Monday announcedsetting up of the cell. He saidthe cell would work toward bet-ter coordination and imple-mentation of various schemes,especially of the Women andChild Development and educa-tion departments. He also inst-ructed all departments to forminter-departmental panels toassess schemes and look intobudgetary allocation as well asimplementation so that therewere no gender inequalities.

There was some confusionover who would be responsiblefor the gender budget cell withboth the planning and financedepartments passing the buckto each other. But it has finallybeen decided that the financedepartment will bear the onusin line with the policy followedby other states, said an official.The new cell will not only coor-dinate between departmentsand ensure effective impleme-ntation of schemes, but alsoevaluate schemes and work to-ward improving their outcome.

Pankaja Munde, ministerfor women and child develop-ment, who was present at themeeting at Sahyadri guest house, said not only should re-sult-monitoring be done, butactual spending of allocationon various schemes should al-so be taken into account withfocus on the concept of ‘innova-tive spending’. TNN

Maha now getsgender budgetcell to monitorwelfare plans

Mumbai: Even as first year lawadmissions are concluding onDecember 7, Mumbai Universi-ty has set a deadline of Novem-ber 28 to fill exam forms, leavingaspirants in a dilemma. This isone of the many anomalies inthe university’s exam scheduleowing to the results’ delay thisyear.

Semester-I exams for first ye-ar students are scheduled in Ja-nuary. To appear for a universityexam, students have to fill the ex-am form, in this case by Novem-ber 28. But admissions to theprogramme will conclude onlyon December 7, as per the sche-dule released by the state’s CETcell. A principal said studentswho are still unsure about theiradmissions will not be able tosubmit the exam forms by the gi-ven deadline. “If we are still un-sure about getting a seat, howare we expected to fill the examform? There is no co-ordinationbetween the admission cell andthe university,” said a student.

A principal said the delay inannouncement of results pus-hed many exam dates ahead.“The varsity will have to extenddates and give students time tillDecember. But they will also ha-ve to postpone exams as somestart in the third week of Decem-ber,” said the principal. TNN

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Mumbai: A newborn babygirl was found abandoned inan autorickshaw in Kanjur-marg late on Sunday. Th girl isbeing treated at Sion hospital.Police said it appears that sheis 10 days old.

Kanjurmarg police regis-tered an offence under IndianPenal Code (IPC) section 317(exposure and abandonmentof child under 12 years, by pa-rent or person having care ofit) and are looking out for herparents. Police said a man in-

formed them that a child wasfound abandoned in an auto-rickshaw parked alongside aroad in the cold weather.

Aman (@Jugadu_banda)sought help in a series of twe-ets and tagged the Mumbai Po-lice official handle, which tookcognizance. A team was sentto the location and the childwas admitted to hospital. ‘Ple-ase help me guys. I’ve no ideawhat to do? #help’ Aman hadtweeted.

Police stated that autos re-gularly park on the road andthe accused may have sensedan opportunity to abandon thechild, found on the passeng-ers’ seat. CCTV footage fromthe area is being scanned.

Infant girl found abandonedin auto, youth tweets for helpAhmed.Ali@timesgroup.com

Special public prosecutorPradeep Gharat sought thedeposition of Edward Burnsin an effort to show that thebike seen in the CCTV foot-age from the crime scene in2011matches the bike foundduring the probe into the JDey murder.The prosecutionsays the bikewas used by theaccused

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City-based NGO Sabira Sikwani Foundation held an ijtemai nikah (mass marriage) of underprivileged pairs,some of them orphans, at Sir Elly Kadoorie School Ground at Mazgaon on Monday. Sikwani who had earnedthe title Shaadi Maa died a couple of months ago, but the Foundation she established carries on the good work

Navi Mumbai: A police he-ad constable and his collegi-an son were arrested for alle-gedly cheating a Panvel be-autician of Rs 1crore by pro-mising to facilitate illegalexchange of banned notes.

“Two months ago, Mana-si Urankar (37) complainedto crime branch unit I thatKhandeshwar police headconstable Mukund Mhasa-ne, his wife Anita and theirson Ankit had taken Rs 1cro-re in demonetized notes toexchange for valid curren-cy,” said Kharghar senior po-lice inspector Dilip Kale. “Af-ter a preliminary probe, anFIR was registered at Kharg-har police station and the fat-her-son duo was arrested onSunday.” Anita is behindbars in a dacoity case. On Oc-tober 30, Vashi police arres-ted Anita, the alleged mainconspirator in the Rs 2-croredacoity at APMC trader Ar-un Menkudale’s Vashi flat.

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kund would arrange dealersfor illegal exchange of ban-ned notes, while Anita andAnkit carried out the deal. Ithas been learnt that Ankithad purchased an expensivesmartphone by exchangingUrankar’s money.” TheMhasanes have been bookedunder IPC sections 420 (chea-ting) and 34 (common inten-tion). “The father and son ha-ve identified seven of theiraccomplices either by theirfirst name or surname—oneof them is an assistant sub-inspector. We are tracingthem,” said Kale.

Mukund and Ankit havebeen remanded in police cus-tody till November 24. “AsAnita is lodged at Byculla ja-il, we will seek her transit re-mand from court and inter-rogate her,” said Sonawane.

Kale said, “Urankar willhave to provide details to theI-T department about the Rs1 crore demonetized curren-cy. She has claimed the mo-ney was savings from herhusband’s income while heworked abroad for years.”

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Mumbai: After knocking atthe doors of the education de-partment and then the statechild rights commission, theparents of a 16-year-old boywho is suffering from autismand has been detained in Std IXhave filed a petition in the Bom-bay high court as the child con-tinues to be out of school sincethe start of the academic year.

Astudent of an ICSE schoolin Juhu, the parents had writ-ten to the education depart-ment and the Maharashtra Sta-te Commission for Protectionof Child Rights after he was al-legedly detained in Std IX andwas being forced to either repe-at the year or leave. The parentshad alleged that they were notallowed to see the boy’s final ex-am report card on the basis ofwhich the school took a re-ex-amination that the child failed.

The commission closed thecase for final recommendationon September 27. “Members ofthe commission observed thatthey would instruct the schoolto admit him to Std X duringthe final hearing. We have beenwaiting for orders from thecommission. Until then, theschool will not take back ourson and allow him to appear forStd X exams,” said the boy’smother. The boy last attendedschool in March.

In their petition, the pa-

rents have prayed that the HCpass orders to allow the child toattend Std X and direct the com-mission to pronounce a finalorder. The petition is scheduledto be heard in the high court onThursday. “He is preparing forStd X exams at home but whet-her or not he will be able to ap-pear for the exam is still uncer-tain. The exam is only a coupleof months away,” said the mot-her. A N Tripathi, secretary ofthe commission, said the orderis under process.

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The parents allege that the child has not been given necessary provisions during exams

In August, the parents move the Ma-harashtra State Commission for Protec-tion of Child Rights with the complaint

On September 27, the commission hold a final hearing and closes it for final recommendation

Mumbai: A petitioner,who had filed a PIL expo-sing structural problemsin the Lalbaug flyover, app-roached the Bombay highcourt on Monday to ap-point an indepen-dent agency to ex-amine the agree-ment that allows the same contrac-tor who built thebridge to build 11Metro stations.

“The technical expertin the structural audit re-port has pointed out thatevery joint and pillar of theLalbaug flyover is corrodedand in a dangerous condi-tion within five years of itsconstruction,” said theapplication filed by activistBhagwanji Raiyani.

Advocate SumedhaRao, counsel for the petitio-ner, mentioned the applica-tion before a divisionbench of Justice AbhayOka and Justice Anil Me-non. The judges asked thepetitioner to seek a clarifi-cation from the HC regist-rar as to the bench that isassigned to hear the matter.

Raiyani saidthat the contrac-tor, who had bu-

ilt the flyover in 2011,was awarded the deal to

construct 11 stations forMetro 2B between D N Na-gar and Mankhurd. The ac-tivist had approached theHC last year after a blockfell off the flyover. An audithad revealed that the brid-ge required structural re-pairs. The flyover’s surfacerepairs will be completedby February 15, 2018.

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Mumbai: A day after waterconservationminister RamShinde’s clipanswering na-ture’s call in anopen field wentviral, he hasclarified that was unwell as hehad been touring the state fornearly a month. Shinde is on atour for the state govern-ment’s flagship Jalyukta Shi-var scheme.

When contacted, Shindeclarified that he had urinatedin the open as he was feeling illafter touring the state for ne-arly a month.

“I have been travellingcontinuously for the last onemonth reviewing the waterconservation scheme. Conti-nuous travelling in high tem-peratures and dust has mademe ill. I was having fever andwhen I couldn’t find a toiletwhile travelling, I had to relie-ve myself in the open,” Shindesaid. However, the NCP saidthe minister not finding a toi-let on a highway shows thatPrime Minister Narendra Mo-di’s Swachh Bharat Abhiyanhas failed.

“It is now proved that thegovernment has been lootingpeople in the name of SwachhBharat cess on fuel,” NCP spo-kesperson Nawab Malik said.

“The minister has provedthat the whole scheme is a bigfailure,” Malik said. AGENCIES

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Kalyan: Four persons suffe-red grievous injuries after ablast took place in an air com-pressor of a factory in Dom-bivli on Monday.

The blast at Alu Fin Com-pany caused parts of the com-pressor to fly out of the facto-ry and land on the nearby ser-vice road. Two factory wor-kers—Rajendra Javle (49),Ramkumar Chavan (35)—andtwo bikers— Husain Mujawar(21) and Satish Patil (39)—whowere passing by were injuredin the blast. Javle has sustai-ned serious injuries and hasbeen admitted to ICU in AimsHospital. —Pradeep Gupta

Four injured infactory blast

Mumbai: Nearly 38 workers dieevery day at constructions sites,contributing to 24.2% of thecountry’s occupational deaths,according to recent reports onhealth and safety hazards. Thisis among the several occupation-al hazards that the British SafetyCouncil hoped to address as itopened its India chapter inMumbai on Monday.

Currently in its 60th year, thecouncil that has been serving adozen organizations in Indiaover 30 years, has tied up withChennai-based safety traininginstitute NIST to focus on localneeds. Mike Robinson, chief ex-ecutive of British Safety Coun-cil, said, “Official statistics areunder-reported and there’s poorinventive structure. Despite theissues...we hope to raise aware-ness, challenge traditional appr-oaches and support employersin adopting practices that bettersafeguard their workers.” TNN

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Mumbai: NCP chief SharadPawar on Mon-day asked chiefminister De-vendra Fadan-vis to take im-mediate stepsfor the revival

of industries that are in thered in the Vidarbha region.

“I was on a tour of Vidarb-ha. Many industrial units areclosed for a long period. Aro-und 20,000 people have beenrendered jobless. In view ofNaxal menace, it is essentialto concentrate on Vidarbha’sdevelopment. Efforts shouldbe made for the revival of suchunits,’’ Pawar slated in a letterto Fadnavis.

A paper mill in Chandra-pur is facing a crisis since thestate government has stoppedsupplying bamboo. “Since2014, bamboo supply to theunit has stopped, hence it hasto procure costly raw materialfrom Assam and MP. For sixmonths the unit was closed,subsequently production re-sumed but the workers havenot been paid,’’ he said.

Revive ‘sick’Vidarbha

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Mumbai:A Narcotic Drugs andPsychotropic Substances Act(NDPS) court on Saturday sen-tenced a 37-year-old Tanzanianto 12 years imprisonment afterhe was caught with around 13 kgof psychotropic substances, Ep-hedrine and Phenmetrazine,worth Rs 6.40 crore at the inter-national airport in 2014.

Dar-es-Salaam native MgeniAbdullah Aboud was also finedRs 1.5 lakh. He was arrested onJuly 2, 2014. An Air IntelligenceUnit customs officer suspectedAboud who was travelling to Jo-hannesburg. The officer told theairlines to keep aside his check-in bag. On being asked, the accu-sed identified himself and theblack checked-in suitcase. Whenthe officers asked him if he wascarrying any narcotic drugs, hereplied in the negative.

The prosecution stated thatthe sniffer dog Anju was instruc-ted to check the bag. Anju gave apositive indication about thepresence of drugs, by barking.

The bag contained seven setsof bed-sheets and they each hadone polythene pack. The prose-cution said that when one of thepacks was cut open, a white crys-talline powder was found.

Tanzanianheld with 13kgdrugs gets 12years in jail

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Mumbai: Central Railway(CR) has requested the stategovernment to restore the 108ambulance service at LTT inthe wake of the death of a pas-senger, Abdul Ansari (45), al-legedly due to unavailabilityof an ambulance in time onNovember 12. TNN

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Shah lived in Gorai with hisfamily and ran an electri-cals business. Around

1.20pm on November 16, Shahleft for a Bank of Maharashtrabranch to deposit money. He ne-ver returned home.

“My mother received a pho-ne call from a passerby, whomust have accessed my father’scellphone. She called me and werushed to the Kandivli hospitalwhere my father had been ad-mitted. He had suffered injuriesto his head and back,” said Ni-kunj, Shah’s son who workswith a Borivli school. Shah waspronounced dead at the hospital.

“My father always used thebicycle. He was careful and hadnever had an accident. Unfortun-ately, cyclists, like pedestrians,are not given enough space on the

road by other motorists,” said Ni-kunj. On Monday, the family heldaprayer meeting for Shah.

“Local residents told us thata BEST bus had rammed intoShah’s cycle. But nobody noticedits registration number. Wescanned footage from CCTVsput up by establishments on LTRoad. No camera captured theactual crash. But a BEST buscan be seen passing by later. Weare trying to track down the dri-ver who fled without providingany aid to Shah,” said a senior of-ficial from Gorai police station.

A case has been registeredunder IPC sections 304 (A) and279 for causing death due to neg-ligence and rash driving. Nikunjsaid his uncles are making regu-lar trips to the Borivli police sta-tion hoping to hear that the cul-prit has been arrested.

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Mumbai: The state water re-sources department led byBJP leader Girish Mahajanhas, in the last three years,awarded more than 55% oftenders for less than the esti-mated value of the irriga-tion projects.

Mahajan told TOI thatbetween November 2014 andOctober 2017, the depart-ment floated 2,836 tenders,of which 55% were awardedfor less than the estimatedvalue of the projects, 33% forestimated value and 12% formore than the estimated va-lue. “We brought in completetransparency in the tende-ring process; as a result, aga-inst the total value ofRs 2,019.16 crore, the cont-racts were awarded for Rs 1,874.18 crore, and we wereable to save nearly Rs 145 cro-re. This was for the first timein the department’s recenthistory that tenders were al-

lotted for prices below theprojects’ estimated value,”he said.

Mahajan said that themaximum number of ten-ders—1,376—were floatedfor water resources projectsin the Vidarbha region, follo-wed by Thane (689), Pune(353), Jalgaon (239) and Au-rangabad (179).

Against the estimated va-lue of Rs 935 crore for pro-jects in Vidarbha, tenderswere allotted for Rs 807 cro-re, while in the Pune region,

against the cost of Rs 258 cro-re, tenders were allotted forRs 244 crore. In Jalgaon andAurangabad zones too, theprice was less than the esti-mated cost. However, in Tha-ne region, against the esti-mated cost of Rs 323 crore,tenders were allotted for Rs325 crore.

Elaborating on the go-vernment’s strategy, Maha-jan said for the first time, thedepartment had introducedthe concept of e-tenderingfor all projects of Rs 3 lakh

and above, and the system ofpre-qualification of bidswas abolished. “In the earli-er regime, there was massi-ve scope for manipulation atall levels owing to pre-quali-fication of bids and therewas scope for elimination ofcontractors during the ten-dering process. We broughtin the new concept of e-ten-dering and abolished pre-qualification of bids, so the-re was a level playing field,”Mahajan said.

Also, Mahajan said, theCentre has agreed to grantmassive financial assistan-ce for completing 104 pro-jects in 14 suicide- prone dis-tricts—eight in Marathwa-da and six in Vidarbha.

“We had a meeting withfinance minister Arun Jait-ley on financial assistancefrom the Centre. Against thecost of Rs 10,000 crore, theCentre will provide us assi-stance of 25%, while the re-maining will come from theNational Bank for Agricul-ture and Rural Developmentin the form of a loan. An ad-ditional one lakh hectares ofland will come under irriga-tion, and we will thus be ableto reduce farmers’ suici-des,” Mahajan said.

E-TenderingHelped Save`149Cr: Min

55% of irrigation tenders nowclose below estimated costs

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Total no. of works

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341

1,543

Tenders awarded for estimated price

Tenders awarded below estimated price

Tenders awarded above estimated price

Estimated cost of projects

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Tenders awarded for

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Money saved by state

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PROJECTS IN LAST 3 YEARS

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Mumbai: Former Rajya Sab-ha MP and ex-vice-chancellorof Mumbai University DrBhalchandra Mungekar offe-red precious words of wis-dom before an assembly ofcollege students while inau-gurating the second season ofthe Maharashtra edition ofthe ‘Speak For India’ initiati-ve at Sophia College on Mon-day. The series of inter-colle-giate debates will identify thebest speakers who stand towin certificates, apart fromcash prizes and scholarshipsfrom Rs 50,000 to Rs 2 lakh.

Mungekar said, “Studentpower is acknowledged to beapillar of strength in the task

of nation-building. Our co-untry is faced with multiplesocial, financial and politicalchallenges. This is why it isessential for you to voice your

views against such problemswith fearlessness and cando-ur.” The Speak For India initi-ative by Federal Bank, The Ti-mes of India and Maharash-tra Times encourages young

minds to cultivate their orato-rial skills and becomechange-makers in society.

Federal Bank’s executivedirector Ashutosh Khajuria,senior officials Sumit Kak-kar and Deepak Govind, Sop-hia College principal SrAnanda Amritmahal, The Ti-mes of India group directorSudha Natarajan and execu-tive editor of MaharashtraTimes Ashok Panvalkar werepresent. Mungekar said Spe-ak For India presented a gol-den opportunity to youth tohone their talent. Sr Amrit-mahal urged students to beresponsible citizens, addingthe title ‘Speak For India’summarised the task that layahead of them.

Voice views fearlessly,former V-C tells students

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Mumbai: An elderly manfrom Kandivli, James Godwin,tried to jump off the Vasai ses-sions court building on Mon-day after he was pulled up forwalking into a judge’s cham-ber and shooting a video on hisphone. Court employees pin-ned him down and handed himover to the police.

The incident took placearound 4.30pm when Godwinwas in the court to get a certifi-ed copy of an FIR. He got intoan argument with a staffer andbarged into the judge’s cham-ber and started video-shootingusing his cellphone. When thestaff noticed him and questio-ned him, he ran out into thecorridor and climbed onto thefirst floor parapet. He thenstarted making calls and threa-tened to jump off when he waspinned down. No case has beenregistered against him. TNN

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Veterancyclist AshokKhale wasrushed tohospital in anunconscious

state by Bandra resident MoizShaikh on Nov 5. After Khalesuccumbed to his injuries onNov 11, the police foundseveral discrepancies inShaikh’s statement. Onsustained questioning, headmitted to having rammedhis vehicle into Khale’s cycleon Sion-Panvel Highway,resulting in severe injury

Mumbai:A special Protectionof Children from Sexual Offen-ces (POCSO) Act court on Mon-day convicted and sentenced a45-year-old man to five years’imprisonment for sexually as-saulting a five-year-old girl.

The girl’s mother told thecourt that the incident tookplace in 2014 after her daughterreturned from school and wentout to play with friends. A fewminutes later, she returned ho-me crying. When the motherenquired with the child, shetold her that a man had scrat-ched her private parts and fled.

Later in the day, the motherand daughter went to market,where the girl spotted the accu-sed. The mother informed thefather and the accused was ar-rested. The child identified theaccused in the court. TNN

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Ahmedabad: A day beforethe deadline for filing the nomination papers for thefirst phase of Gujarat assem-bly polls ends, BJP declaredits third list of candidateswith 27 names. With this, all89 BJP nominations for thefirst phase of Gujarat pollsstands complete.

The party has axed waterresources minister NanuVanani, panchayat and ruraldevelopment minister Jayan-ti Kavadia, agriculture mini-ster Vallabh Vaghasiya.

Earlier in the day, therewas speculation that formerchief minister AnandibenPatel’s daughter Anar may befielded from Navsari.However, in the eve-ning, the BJP confir-med that the seat re-mains with their sit-ting MLA Piyush De-sai. Women have agot a raw deal this ti-me with just ninecandidates among the 135BJP candidates declared sofar. Of these, OBCs and Pati-dars have 41 and 34 seats, re-spectively.Former industriesminister and Akota MLA Sa-urabh Patel will contest fromhis parent assembly seat, Bo-tad, while speaker Ramana-lal Vora will now contest

from Dasada seat inSurendranagar dis-trict instead of Idarconstituency. Theparty has offered La-lit Sagathiya the Raj-kot rural seat. He hadlost from the same se-

at in 2012 assembly elections.In all, BJP has declared

names of 135 candidates sin-ce November 17 of which 89will contest in phase-1 of Gu-jarat assembly elections. Theparty hasn’t fielded a singleMuslim candidate so far.

Under its ubiquitous “norepeat theory” to battle anti-

incumbency, the BJP drop-ped 14 sitting MLAs, inclu-ding former women andchild minister and Jamnagar(South) MLA, Vasuben Trive-di, and former irrigation mi-nister and sitting UdhnaMLA, Narottam Patel.

In place of Trivedi, BJPhas given its mandate to for-mer Gujarat BJP president RCFaldu, while on Patel’s seat,the party has brought in afresh face, Vivek Patel. TheBJP has allotted tickets to 12Kshatriyas till now, and fiel-ded 25 ST and 7 SC candidatesfor this election.

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Nagpur: Clue, the three-and-a-half-year-old sniffer dog ofPench Tiger Reserve, led forestofficials to the man accused ofpoisoning two tigers in Paoni,but died the next night. Herhandlers suspect she died of pes-ticide poisoning, probably inha-led or ingested during the probe.

Two tigers, a male and a fe-male, were found dead in Pusdabeat of Paoni range, 82km fromNagpur, on Friday. These deathstook the tiger toll in Maharash-tra to 23. Most of the deaths areunnatural. Clue, a Labrador, hadplayed a key role in nabbing ma-in accused Anandrao Madavi.Wildlife veterinarians who per-formed the postmortem suspectClue died due to poisoning as so-me organs had turned dark.

‘Pesticide’ killsdog who traced

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Hyderabad: Telangana chiefminister K ChandrasekharRao (KCR) has decided to la-unch a nationwide agi-tation, demanding pow-er for state govern-ments to decide on res-ervations for Muslims,tribals and other back-ward castes (OBCs).

KCR is also gearing up to siton a dharna in Delhi to presshis demand. He is mobilizingsupport from other states,which have raised similar de-mands. The TRS governmentwanted to increase reserva-tions to 62% and also sought in-clusion in the Ninth Scheduleof the Constitution so that itcan’t be challenged in court.

“KCR has already spoken toCMs of Rajasthan and Maha-rashtra and they have also sup-ported the cause. He is plan-ning to sit on a dharna at JantarMantar,” said a senior Telan-

gana minister. The CM isholding talks with MPs ofNCP, TMC, BJD, JD(U)and JD(S).

KCR wanted to raiseMuslim quota from 4% to12% and the state assemb-

ly has already passed a resolu-tion. He’s also pressing for ahike in reservations for Sched-uled Tribes from 6% to 10%.Currently, Telangana provides15% reservation to SCs, 6% toSTs and 25% to OBCs under thefour categories of A, B, C and D.

In 2007, the Y S RajasekharaReddy government in unifiedAndhra Pradesh enacted a law

providing 4% quota to econom-ically backward Muslims bycreating a separate group ‘E’under the ‘backward castes’category, exclusively for minor-ities, taking the total quota st-rength to 50%. However, it waschallenged in court and thecase is pending before the SC.

Since Rajasthan, Maha-rashtra and Karnataka are al-so demanding higher quota,KCR is trying to build a plat-form to mount pressure on theNDA government. Rajasthanhas been trying to come outwith ways to raise reservationsfor Gujjars, Haryana for Jatsand Gujarat for Patidars. BJP’smanifesto in UP promised 90%job reservations for locals andKarnataka is planning a 100%quota for Kannadigas in allnon-IT, non-BT blue-collar jobs.

Quota hike: KCR woos state CMsto mount pressure on Centre

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Mysuru: A frail octogenarianseeking alms near a Mysurutemple has donated Rs 2.5 lakhto the same temple.

A decade after she stoppedworking as a domestic help dueto poor health and started beg-ging at the Prasanna AnjaneyaSwamy Temple, M V Sitalaksh-mi, 85, has contributed her en-tire savings of Rs 2.5 lakh to im-prove the amenities for devote-es and give them ‘prasadam’ onHanuma Jayanthi every year.

After hearing about her ge-

nerous contribution, devoteeshave been coming to the templeto seek her blessings. Livingwith her brother and sister-in-

law in Yadavagri, Sitalakshmididn’t want to depend on them.After she couldn’t work anym-ore, she stared sitting at thetemple where she’s taken careof by the temple authorities.Moved by their kindness, Sita-lakshmi started donating tothe temple.

Sitalakshmi told TOI,“Whatever devotees gave meI’d deposit that in the bank. Forme, God is everything. If I keepmoney, people will steal it andthat’s why I decided to donatemy savings to the temple, wh-ich takes care of me so well.”

Mysuru woman donates `2.5Lto temple where she begs

Nagpur: Posting photos onFacebook with a nine-foot de-ad Indian Rock Python aro-und his neck landed a youth introuble on Sunday night. Theaccused, Rahul Kale Patil (22), was arrested within mi-nutes by forest department for allegedly killing a protec-ted animal.

Indian Rock Python is lis-ted under Schedule-I of Wild-life (Protection) Act 1972, andkilling it attracts same pu-nishment as applicable for kil-ling tigers. If found guilty, theaccused face minimum threeyears’ imprisonment. TNN

Man kills python,posts pics with itaround his neck

RICH IN DEEDS: M V Sitalakshmiwants the temple to use the amountto give ‘prasadam’ to devotees

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Late on Monday, Congress declared the names of 13 more can-didates in its second list for the phase 1of the Gujarat assem-

bly polls scheduled on December 9. Besides giving candidatesin nine more seats, Congress has replaced fourof its candidates from Sunday’s list. These in-clude Bhikha Joshi who now replaces AmitThummar on Junagadh seat, Ashok Jariwalareplaces Nilesh Kumbani on Kamrej seat, Dhi-ru Gajera replaces Praful Togadia on Varach-ha Road seat, and Jayesh Patel replaces Kiran

Thakor on Bharuch seat. With this, the Congress has declarednominations of 86 candidates who will fight the first round ofelections in South Gujarat, Kutch and Saurashtra regions onDecember 9.

Meanwhile, after talks of alliance with Congress collapsedon Monday, top NCP officialPraful Patelsaid his party wouldcontest 100-150 seats. “After talks spanning three weeks, Cong-ress declared that it is not possible to give nine seats to NCP. De-spite (Sharad) Pawarji speaking to Congress, it declared itscandidates on seats held by NCP. The party has breached ourtrust,” said Patel in Ahmedabad. Congress alleged the alliancebroke as NCP demanded more seats than it should have giventhe situation on the ground. TNN

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Tharoor’s attempt to attackthe Centre over demonetisati-on using the surname trig-gered a backlash on socialmedia, following which the pol-itician had apologised on Twit-ter, stressing he meant no of-fence. “Guess the pun IS thelowest form of humour, and thebilingual pun lower still! Apol-ogies to the many who seem tohave been righteously offendedby a light-hearted tweet today.Certainly no offence wasmeant to a bright young girlwhose answer I’ve separatelypraised. Please: Chill!,” Tha-roor had tweeted. Manushi’swin at the Miss World pageantended India’s 17-year-long dryspell at the event. AGENCIES

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New Delhi: Wading into thecontroversy over the exclu-sion of two films, ‘Nude’ and‘S Durga’, from the Interna-tional Film Festival of India(IFFI), veteran filmmakerShyam Benegal said whilethere was no doubt that thegovernment organised IFFIand it could do anything, in-cluding getting rid of the juryit appointed, it was a matterof propriety that it shouldhonour the jury’s decision.“By dropping the two films,the government is disrespect-ing the jury it appointed and,in turn, disrespecting it’sown choice,” Benegal said.

While Ravi Jadhav’s‘Nude’ was said to be techni-cally incomplete, Sanil Sa-sidharan’s ‘S Durga’ wasdropped on the grounds thatit could hurt religious senti-ments. “Durga is a goddess,but it is also a name. In a coun-try like India, where millionsof people are named aftergods, where will this stop? I,for instance, am Shyam. So Iam god! This doesn’t makeany sense,” Benegal said.

Hoping that the govern-ment’s “interference” andoverruling the IFII jury wasan aberration, Benegal said itwould be wrong to paint theentire picture black. He add-ed that filmmakers still hadthe freedom to express them-selves. “This is not how coun-tries run. This sort of thinghappens when some people inimportant roles becomewhimsical,” he said. Al-though he has been taskedwith drafting a new set of gui-delines for CBFC, Benegalbatted for the makers of ‘Pad-mavati’ and said it was “per-fectly legitimate” to screenthe film privately to people.

Swati.Mathur@timesgroup.com

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Ravi Kishan | ACTOR

The issue is between two people and they should solve it among them-

selves. When a film is made, a lot of people invest their time and energy. Many are de-pendent on it for their income. I believe what is happening should not have happened. Shekhar Suman | ACTOR

It is an unhealthy trend in a democracy. I am saddened that a group of people, which is clam-ouring to ban Padmavati, have not even watched it. Govt seems to be falling into the hands of

fringe elements who have vested interest in polarising society — Adoor Gopalakrishnan, director

These threats are very unfair. The film hasn’t even been

censored yet. After people watch it, there can be debate regarding its historical interpretation. Leaders, irrespective of political parties, need to condemn this violence and take steps to curb it.

Goutam Ghose | DIRECTOR

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Panaji: The current turmo-il in the Indian film industrymade its appearance on sta-ge at the opening ceremonyof the 48th InternationalFilm Festival of India (IFFI)on Monday when Union I&Bminister Smriti Irani play-fully remarked about theBJP government being tole-rant, while actor Shah RukhKhan, the chief guest, saidstorytelling can make rela-tionships stronger even inthe face of dissent.

As actor Rajkumar Rao,who was hosting the event,cracked a joke linking Irani’s last name and the Ira-nian origins of legendaryauteur Majid Majidi, whosefilm opened the festival, Ira-ni, in her speech, obliquelytook a dig at the intolerancedebate.

“I will not say much. Ithink Rajkumar Rao, theword should go around thro-ughout the country that you

have joked about Irani,which shows what a tolerantgovernment we are. Thankyou. I am thanking you sothat at least no one shouldsay that BJPwalas broke anactor’s leg,” she said.

By a broken leg, Iraniwas referring to Rao’s frac-tured leg, despite which hewas hosting the event.

The I&B ministry is mi-red in controversy with the

‘Padmavati’ row and thewithdrawal of two films—‘Nude’ and ‘S Durga’—from IFFI’s Indian Pano-rama section.

IFFI chief guest ShahRukh Khan, after declaringthe festival open, seeminglyhinted at these controversi-es. Khan later also joked thatif he says anything more,“Smritiji maregi mujhe(Smritiji will beat me up).”

Smriti Irani, Shah Rukh bring dissentand tolerance debate to IFFI stageGauree.Malkamaker@timesgroup.com

Vijayawada: Andhra Pra-desh chief minister NChandrababu Naidu said onMonday that the upcomingcapital, Amaravati, would befree of noise, atmosphericand water pollution, provi-ding longevity to its citizens.

“If you want to live a longand healthy life, come toAmaravati,” Naidu said, an-nouncing that only electricvehicles for public and priva-te transport will be allowedto ply the roads of the new ca-pital. There will be exclusivecycle tracks.

Naidu, after launchingthe refreshed Vijayawadaedition of The Times of In-

dia here, said he would crea-te a “green capital”.

He unveiled the “ManaAmaravati” installation andlater participated in the‘bhoomi puja’ near Praka-sam Barrage where the Ma-na Amaravati installationwill come up.

He also revealed his vi-sion for an economically he-althy Andhra Pradesh with agrowth rate of 15% in thenext 15 years. He said he wo-uld bid for the Olympic Ga-mes to be held in Amaravati.

The Andhra Pradesh CM,while listing a slew of boldgovernment initiatives, sa-id, “Just like The Times ofIndia, we are being innovati-ve. We also want to compete

with TOI in efficiency.”Earlier, while referring

to the TOI Group’s size andsprawl, Naidu said, in a lightvein, “No one can competewith The Times of India.” Hecomplimented the Group for“consistently moving for-ward” and for “keeping allits stakeholders in mind”.

Coming out strongly onthe side of press freedom,Naidu said he looked for-ward to intellectual inputsand “constructive criti-cism” from the paper.

Bennett Coleman andCompany Limited (BCCL)chief operating officer Shri-jeet Mishra complimentedNaidu for his vision to createa people’s capital city.

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Andhra CM N Chandrababu Naidu signing the refreshed Times of India, Vijayawada edition, on Monday

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He is spearheading theparty’s campaign in abid to unseat the BJP

in PM Narendra Modi’s ho-me state and his elevationfurther frames the tough con-test as a ‘Modi vs Rahul’ face-off. Interestingly, the electionschedule announced by AICCin-charge of organisationalelections Mullapally Rama-chandran does not appear tobe influenced by Gujarat re-sults. The process is to startwith notification on Decem-ber 1and nominations can befiled till December 4. The pa-pers will be scrutinised onDecember 5 while last date ofwithdrawal is December 11.Voting is to be held on Decem-ber 16 and results declared onDecember 19, though theymay well be out much before.

Though Rahul’s elevationhas been both a fait accompliand subject of feverish specu-lation for two years, the elec-tion of a new Congress presi-dent is a milestone. Sonia hasbeen helming the party since1998, a record stint, beating fa-mily and Congress mascotslike Indira Gandhi and Jawa-harlal Nehru. Rahul will bethe fifth member of Nehru-Gandhi clan to hold the orga-nisational reins.

For long seen as a “reluc-tant politician”—a reasonwhy the Congress had to seekextension of internal elec-tions for two years—Rahul fi-nally stepping up to the platewill mark a makeover amid atussle between the party’s“old guard” and “GenNext”.But the Gandhi scion has co-me a long way from the timewhen his rise was viewed as

curtains for experienced lea-ders. Possibly at its nadir interms of popularity andstrength since 2014 defeat,Congress’s change of guardcomes at a tricky time for Ra-hul, given that his elevationwill coincide with electionsin Gujarat and Himachal Pra-desh. A good outcome in Hi-machal Pradesh and Gujaratpolls will provide a leg-up forthe leader while big defeatswould further depress theparty mood, especially whenthe ruling saffron camp andthe opposition parties havebegun to prepare for 2019 LokSabha elections.

The discussion at theCWC meeting touched uponthe Gujarat challenge. Sayingthat Rahul and others wereworking hard for a “positiveresult”, Sonia said, “Let us doour best to prove that peopleare not fooled and they willmake the right decision anddefeat present dispensation.”Rahul sounded positive onGujarat and advised the par-ty keep its focus on the “deve-lopment” plank and not allowBJP to change the discourse.

Rahul’s elevation willintensify Guj face-off

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With Amarinder andShivraj joining anti-‘Padmavati’ band-

wagon, a total of four stategovernments have opposedthe film so far. BJP-ruled Ra-jasthan and UP governmentshave already opposed thefilm’s release in its currentform. Amarinder Singh, thescion of the erstwhile royalfamily of Patiala whose fam-ily members are also marriedto other royal families in thecountry, chose to sing a tunedifferent from the KarnatakaCM. “I have myself studiedhistory and even been to Chit-tor. Cinematic licence doesnot give anyone the right totwist historical facts. Thosefeeling hurt by distortion offacts had the right to protest.The protests were a justifiedrecourse in a democratic sys-tem,” he said.

Hailing Maharani Padma-vati as ‘rashtramata’ (motherof the nation), Chouhan saida memorial would be estab-lished in Bhopal to displayher ‘valor and sacrifice’.

“People working for thebetterment of women will beconferred with #Rashtrmata-PadmavatiPuraskar,” said atweet from the twitter handleCMO Madhya Pradesh,which was re-tweeted byChouhan.

Chouhan, who met a dele-gation of Rajputs, said hewould not allow the release ofBhansali’s magnum opus inMadhya Pradesh. “An Indianwoman can turn herself intoashes to protect her honour.

And a film on a characterwhich is worshipped by peo-ple should not be distorted. Ifthe character is fictional thenthere is no resistance, but iffacts get mutated, it will notbe tolerated,” he said.

The CM, who faces elec-tions in the state and cannotafford to upset Rajputs whonumber around one crore, in-sisted that “corrections” inthe film will have to be madeas per public demand asBhansali is not “dealing witha fictional character”.

“The film includes dis-torted historical facts. RaniPadmavati is the reflection ofIndian women. For her prideand honour, Rani Padmavatiperformed ‘jauhar’ (immola-tion) and made the ultimatesacrifice. A film that distortshistorical facts will never betolerated,” said Chouhan.

West Bengal CM MamataBanerjee said the ‘Padmava-ti’ controversy was a “calcu-lated plan of a political partyto destroy the freedom to ex-

press ourselves. We condemnthis super emergency”.

Meanwhile, two days afterRajasthan CM VasundharaRaje wrote to Union I&B min-ister Smriti Irani not toscreen ‘Padmavati’ withoutchanges, her governmentsought legal opinion whethera film can be banned before itis cleared by the CBFC.

“Since many people areprotesting against the filmand demanding a ban on thefilm, I sat for a review of lawand order situation with se-nior officers of my depart-ment. I suggested to find out ifin a legal framework we canban a film before it is clearedby the CBFC,” said home min-ister Gulab Chand Kataria.

The anti-Padmavati bri-gade also received supportfrom National Conference(NC) MLA Devender Rana on Monday.

He wrote to J&K CM Meh-booba Mufti demanding a banon the film in the state when-ever it is cleared by the CBFC.

Didi condemns ‘super emergency’

New Delhi: The petition com-mittee of Parliament has jum-ped into the raging Padmavatirow. The panel has accepted apetition filed by two BJP MPsseeking to stall release of thefilm which, they claim, is ‘dis-tortion’ of historical facts.

The committee, headed bysenior BJP leader BhagatSingh Koshiyari, has written

to the I&B ministry seeking de-tails of the entire controversy.Chittorgarh MP C P Joshi andhis Kota counterpart Om Birlaare the two petitioners, see-king stay on the release of thefilm until “doubts”are cleared.

“Story of Maharani Padi-mini is a heart-rending episo-de of Indian history when thecountry was attacked by the fo-reign invaders. Her agony sho-uld not be distorted in the na-me of creativity,” the two MPs

said, urging the committee toensure that the film is not rele-ased and promos showing Pad-mavati dancing are stopped.

As the committee has alrea-dy written to the I&B ministry,it is likely to summon CBFCmembers, film-makers, inclu-ding Sanjay Leela Bhansali,and ministry officials. A sour-ce said though the petitioncommittee can’t pass judge-ment but individuals will haveto explain the concerns raised.

Parliament petition committee acceptsplea by 2 BJP MPs to stall Bhansali film

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Times View: The ‘compromise’ reached on the ‘Padmavati’issue is one that has really been forced on the filmmakers by thecircumstances they find themselves in. With several chiefministers showing little inclination to back their right to artisticexpression or to enforce the law against those handing outthreats to them, they have obviously decided that it is better tobe safe than sorry. It is a shame that matters have come to thispass. Indeed, it is becoming a depressingly commonphenomenon — some group raises a shindig over a book or filmand makes belligerent statements threatening violence, thestate refuses to take a tough stand against such elements, andthe artist decides to back off while the those making the threatscontinue to roam free, further emboldened by the course ofevents. It is time governments showed some spine and respectfor democratic values. Prompt and severe action against thosethreatening violence is the only thing that can give artists theconfidence to unleash their creativity.

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New Delhi: The Supreme Co-urt on Monday dismissed aplea to ban public screening ofSanjay Leela Bhansali’s ‘Pad-mavati’, saying it is prematu-re as the censor board is yet totake a call on the issue and thecourt could not usurp the sta-tutory body’s functions.

A bench of Chief JusticeDipak Misra and Justices A MKhanwilkar and D Y Chand-rachud, which had earlier dis-missed a similar petition, saidit was premature to file peti-tion against release of thefilm as Central Board of FilmCertification (CBFC) is yet toclear the movie.

“CBFC has a definite roleand it will decide the issue asper the guidelines. The boardhas a statutory duty. How canthe court intervene and stayscreening of the film. Can thecourt injunct the statutory bo-dy from exercising its duty?You are crossing the statutorysteps and coming directly tocourt. It is pre-mature,” thebench said.

The court passed the orderon a PIL filed by advocate Ma-nohar Lal Sharma allegingthat the film hurt sentimentsof people by distorting andtwisting historical facts andportraying queen Padmavatiin a bad light. He also told thebench that producers and di-rector of the film should beprosecuted for defaming a his-torical personality.

Senior advocate HarishSalve, appearing for the pro-ducers, refuted the allegationand said there was no merit inthe petition as the film was yetto cleared by the censor board.

SC: Can’t hearplea againstfilm till CBFCtakes a call

AmitAnand.Choudhary@timesgroup.com

Jaipur: A 29-year-old Argenti-nian tourist, Juan PabloLamp, was gored by a bull op-posite Taadkeshwar Temple inChaura Rasta on Saturday eve-ning and succumbed tohis injuries at SMS Ho-spital . Now his live-inpartner Paula Haenni-nen alleged on Mondaythat he may have beensaved if emergency faci-lities were available du-ring the golden hour.

He wasshunted to the AmarJain Hospital and later to SMSin an ambulance, which lackedemergency facilities, and was-ted precious time while batt-

ling death, said Paula.The duo had come to the ci-

ty on Saturday. “At around 5pm,Pablo suddenly pointed to-wards a bull and said he was go-red by it on the right side of hisneck. He was not able to breathe

and collapsed,” she said,still in a state of shock.

“Four men carriedPablo to a nearby clinicwho asked us to take himto a bigger hospital. Theambulance was ill-equ-ipped and the oxygen cy-

linder was not working,” shesaid. Pablo’s post-mortem re-port suggested that he had in-ternal bleeding. The blood fromhis neck got into the lungs, re-sulting in congestion.

Argentinian man goredby bull in Rajasthan, dies Ashish.Mehta@timesgroup.com

Both Tahir and Javed weresummoned for questio-ning by the police. After an

five-hour interrogation, policearrested the Tahir and Javed oncharges of cow smuggling.

So far, police claimed thatTahir and Ummar were part-ners. “The driver, Javed, waspaid Rs 15,000 to transport cows,while the owners of the vehiclestransporting the cows wouldget Rs 10,000 each,” said a seniorpolice officer with Govindgarhpolice station.

Police claimed that Ummaralso possessed a firearm. “Weare yet to recover Ummar’s fire-arm. It was also found that Ja-ved was involved in two cases ofcow smuggling and Tahir in fivecases, including three of cowsmuggling and two of assault,”said a senior police officer.

Asked about reports sugges-ting Tahir and Javed had doub-le-crossed the deceased, Um-mar, to steal the cows, Alwar SPRahul Prakash told TOI, “Thetrio Tahir, Javed and Umar we-re together and were attackedby Bhagwan Singh and aides.”

Javed, Tahir have seven cowsmuggling cases: Police

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Music maestro A R Rahman made a reference to the fatwa againsthim and legendary Iranian filmmaker Majid Majidi in 2015 by an

organization linked to controversial Muslim preacher Zakir Naik, as heshared the dais with the auteur at the opening of the 48th edition of Iffion Monday. “It is great to be here. It feels very extraordinary to bestanding next to a filmmaker who is internationally known. We bothhave got fatwas. So, we are in a very elite society,” Rahman said. TheIranian film ‘Muhammad: Messenger of God’ was the first movie onwhich Majidi and Rahman collaborated. The 2015 fatwa was issuedagainst all those involved in the project. This year, their secondcollaboration ‘Beyond the Clouds’, was Iffi’s opening film. TNN

Majidi & I both have fatwas against us: Rahman

Shah Rukh Khan with Goa CM Manohar Parrikar and I&B ministerSmriti Irani at the inaugural ceremony of IFFI at Panaji on Monday

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New Delhi:Taking a swipe atthe imminent elevation of Ra-hul Gandhi as Congress presi-dent, the BJP said the opposi-tion party had turned into aprivate limited company,which no one from outside theNehru-Gandhi family couldlead. “It was always on thecards... Congress leadershave been echoing for the pasttwo years but where are thefamily members of veteranslike Sardar Vallabhbhai Pa-tel, Rajendra Prasad, Sub-hash Chandra Bose?” seniorBJP leader Ravi Shankar Pra-sad asked.

He said Congress underRahul had lost polls at all lev-els and BJP did not see him as a challenge.

Party spokesperson GVLNarasimha Rao said, “De-spite a disastrous track re-cord, Rahul's elevation as thenext Congress president was

a foregone conclusion.” Hesaid the timing of the eleva-tion though was curious.

“It seems like Sonia Gand-

hi wanted to pass the leader-ship mantle to Rahul beforeanother impending defeat inGujarat,” he added.

Gandhis running Cong like aprivate limited company: BJP

RAGA’S POLITICAL JOURNEY2004 | Political plunge with election to Lok Sabha from Amethi

2006 | Started countrywide visits as part of political familiarisation➤ Focussed on UP with social outreach; started visiting Dalit, tribal homes across states

2007 | AppointedAICC general secretary incharge of youth outfits NSUIand Youth Congress➤ Initiated internal elections in NSUI and Youth Congress to promote

merit and democratisation➤ Strongly espoused welfare programmes like MGNREGA

2009 | Re-elected to Lok Sabha, campaigned widely for Congress. Was offered but turned down ministerial position

2013 | Appointed Congress vice-president; Made “power is poison” speech

2014 | Re-elected to Lok Sabha

2015 | Mandateexpanded, started

participating actively in party decisions, hascampaigned in state elections

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Shyam Benegal bats for ‘Padmavati’,says pvt screenings of film legitimate

New Delhi: The SupremeCourt on Monday allowed Karti Chidambaram to visitthe UK from December 1to 10 toget his daughter admitted to

CambridgeUniversity, butdirected him togive an under-taking that hewould return toface investiga-

tion in a payoff case registeredagainst him by the CBI.

Karti was barred from leav-ing as CBI had issued a ‘lookoutcircular’ against him on June16. The Madras HC had stayedthe circular, but the SC over-ruled the order. The CBI had al-leged Karti received commis-sion in irregular FIPB approvalfor foreign investment in INXMedia in 2007. The bench madeit clear that Karti will have toface contempt proceedings if hedoesn’t come back. TNN

SC allows Kartito travel abroad

for ten days

New Delhi: The EnforcementDirectorate made its first prop-erty attachments on Monday ina case related to demonetisationin Katni, MP, in which three per-sons had deposited Rs 200 crorein 39 bank accounts operated bythem in Axis Bank.

The ED provisionally attac-hed immovable assets worth Rs2.65 crore. In the case, Rs 200 cro-re was deposited in cash in bankaccounts opened in Axis Bank,Katni, in the name of poor perso-ns without their knowledge andby forging their signatures andmisusing their KYC data. TNN

ED makes firstasset attachmentin a DeMon case

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Kolkata/New Delhi: One ofCongress’s Bengal stalwartsand former Union ministerPriya Ranjan Dasmunsi, in co-ma since 2008, passed away at aDelhi hospital on Monday. Hewas 72.

“He had been critically illin the last one month and suc-cumbed to his illness at12.10pm. His family members,including wife Deepa andtheir son, were at his bedsideat that time,” Apollo hospitalauthorities said.

Dasmunsi had a scrappy,stormy career. Once, his politi-cal enemies broke his left arm,shortening it by a few inches.He bore that mark of violencefrom 1967 until he died in Delhion Monday. But they were nev-er able to break his spirit as heremained the nucleus of anti-Left forces in Bengal politicsfrom the 1980s to the 1990s, preceded and succeeded byCongress and TMC CMs Sidd-hartha Shankar Ray and Ma-mata Banerjee, from two dif-ferent generations.

Until October 12, 2008,when he suffered a stroke athis Raiganj home in northBengal that sent him into anine-year coma, he was one ofBengal’s tallest anti-Left lead-ers, much more imposing thanhis diminutive frame, at a time

when many a state Congressofficial’s reputation was sul-lied by allegations of being a‘tarbuj’ (watermelon), a deri-sive term for a Congress offi-cial who was green outside butred, or CPM, inside.

Dasmunsi’s reputationwas made in the 1960s-styleCalcutta street politics, whereno quarter was asked for andnone given between the Con-gress and the CPM. He becameone of the youngest MPs in theLok Sabha, winning the presti-gious South Calcutta constitu-ency in 1971. And, at 26, he be-came one of the youngestmembers of the Congress Wo-rking Committee, and noticedby Prime Minister IndiraGandhi. The Emergency led to

his falling out with Mrs Gand-hi and her son, Sanjay. Das-munsi left the Congress for abrief period, telling a Bengalrally infamously: “You can na-me your pet dog after me if I ev-er return to the Congress fold.”

But return he did, holdingthe hand of Rajiv Gandhi, af-ter Indira’s assassination in1984. He also returned to the LSand returned to the cabinet,handling portfolios like com-merce, parliamentary affairsand I&B, under several Con-gress PMs, ending with Man-mohan Singh. A helicopterwill carry Dasmunsi’s mortalremains to his hometown, Rai-ganj, for cremation.

Nucleus of anti-Left forces inBengal, Dasmunsi dies at 72

➤ Dasmunsi, a known diabetic and heart patient, suffered from cardiac arrest in 2008

➤ He survived that. But the arrest led to ‘hypoxic encephalopathy’,decreased rate of blood flow or decreased oxygen in the blood

➤ Due to this, his brain was damaged severely. He turned vegetative with no intellectual functions like memory or wakefulness

➤ Dasmunsi was kept in a single room suite at Apollo hospital where a team of

dedicated nursing staff and doctors took care of him for nine years

➤ Last month, he contracted chest

infection and sepsis. Despite all efforts, his condition did not improve and the former Union minister died on Monday at 12.10 pm due to multi-organ failure

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New Delhi: The Centre ex-pressed its helplessness on Mo-nday in curbing the menace ofBlue Whale challenge, an on-line game that has claimed thelives of many young people,saying it was technically notpossible to evolve a mecha-nism to block it.

Appearing before a benchof Chief Justice Dipak Misraand Justices A M Khanwilkarand D Y Chandrachud, attor-ney general K K Venugopalsaid the government had con-ducted a series of brainstorm-ing sessions with scientists, in-formation technology expertsand internet and social mediacompanies, but a solution tothe problem remained elusive.

The Centre said it did nothave the technological know-how to block the game, saying,“It is believed that Blue Whalegame was being communicat-ed by one-to-one communica-tion through encrypted/secre-tive communication links. He-nce, it is difficult to interceptand analyse the contents.”“Ministry of electronics andinformation technology ap-proached leading academic,R&D institutions, cyber secu-rity organisations like Indra-prastha Institute of Informa-tion Technology, Amrita Uni-versity, Indian Computer

Emergency Response Team,Data Security Council of Indiaetc. ... Based on responses, Mei-tY was not able to find any ab-solute information about thesource ... and availability ofthe game on the internet,” thegovernment said in its affida-vit. The Centre filed its re-sponse following an SC orderdirecting it to disclose actionstaken to prevent the spread ofthe deadly game in the country.

As the Centre threw up itshand in blocking the game, theSupreme Court said there wasvery little it could do in the caseand disposed of the petition. It,however, directed chief secre-taries of all states to spreadawareness among studentsabout the game to preventthem from playing it.

Centre to SC: Notpossible for us toblock Blue Whale

AmitAnand.Choudhary@timesgroup.com

The SC on Monday refused tovacate its status quo order

on construction of multi-levelparking near Taj Mahal, sayingtourists could walk up to themonument. The SC court rappedthe state for not introducing acomprehensive policy topreserve the beauty of thehistoric structure, saying “weneed sustainable development”.The SC said it first needed toexamine the comprehensiveaction plan to protect the Taj. TNN

SC firm, says no toparking site near Taj

Rampur/New Delhi: UPmeat exporter Moin Qureshi,arrested by Enforcement Di-rectorate for offering gratifi-cation to a number of govern-ment officials between 2011and 2014, had spent roughly Rs91.45 crore to acquire a proper-ty in London.

The property is a ChesterField House flat in South Au-dley Street in Mayfair in Lon-don, says the ED chargesheetfiled in a Delhi court on Octo-ber 24. It includes statementsby two industrialists, PradeepKoneru and Satish Sana, whoallegedly paid Rs 2 crore andRs 5 crore to Qureshi in 2012 tosecure relief for family mem-bers being probed by the CBI.

The industrialists saidQureshi told them the moneywas for then CBI directors A PSingh and Ranjit Sinha.When Qureshi began inter-acting with the industrialists,he used four foreign bank ac-counts to buy the Londonproperty. To operate the ac-counts, he floated two compa-nies, Bulova Holdings in Brit-ish Virgin Islands and BarroHoldings in Seychelles. “TheBarro bank account in SwissBank of Singapore was credi-ted $93,33,464 between July 27,2011and April 2, 2013. Anotheraccount, in Swiss bank of Sin-gapore, was credited $43,46,-526. Rs 91.45 crore was used topurchase the London proper-ty,” the chargesheet says.

Meat exporterQureshi boughtLondon homefor 91cr: ED

Rohan.Dua@timesgroup.com New Delhi: IndiGo has sus-pended two staffers for al-legedly misbehaving with awoman passenger at Guwa-hati airport.

The incident involving alawyer, Krishna Sarma,took place on Sundaywherein her mobile phonewas allegedly snatched by astaffer to delete certain pic-tures clicked by her.

Regretting Sarma’s “un-pleasant experience” withits airport staff, IndiGosaid, “based on her com-plaint, (the airline) has sus-pended the two employeesinvolved in the incidentpending investigation”.

When contacted, Sarmasaid, “I am satisfied that In-diGo responded with suchalacrity”. She, however, re-fused to talk further aboutthe incident.

According to a messagecirculating on social media,Sarma clicked some pic-tures when her luggage wasbeing screened repeatedly.

After checking her bag, one of the staff alleged-ly said she had to delete thephotographs that had been taken.

Despite the flyer sayingthe pictures had been delet-ed, the staff forcibly sn-atched her phone and pro-ceeded to delete the samefrom the ‘recently deleted’folder in the phone, as perthe message purportedly at-tributed to Sarma. AGENCIES

IndiGo staffers‘misbehave’with woman, suspended

Kolkata/New Delhi: VeteranCongress leader and formerUnion minister Priya RanjanDasmunsi spent his last nineyears in a “minimum con-scious state”, a condition thatjust about let him breathe andlive. It was only a month agothat he turned critical and fi-nally succumbed to age-relatedissues, said experts.

Critical care expert Arin-dam Kar, who was on the medi-cal team set up two months af-ter the former I&B ministerwas admitted to AIIMS (he wasthere till October 2008, beforebeing shifted to Delhi’s ApolloHospital), told TOIon Monday:“The layers of his brain, con-trolling functions like recog-nition, awareness, memory,were damaged, while basicbrain functions were normal.”The doctor, who was on the pan-el that was mulling stem celltherapy as a final treatment op-tion said: “He was like a 15-day-old baby ... It’s impossible to re-cover from such a state.” TNN

‘In minimallyconscious

state for 9 yrs’Ajanta Chakraborty

& Durgesh Nandan Jha TNN

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2nd Death AnniversaryIn Ever Loving Memory of

MR. STEPHEN V. ANTHONY

15 Aug 1933 - 21 Nov 2015

Those we love don’t goaway, they walk besideus every day.Unseen, unheard, but always near; still loved,still missed & very dear.We MISS YOU DAD!!

Fondly Remembered By:- Wife, Children,Grand Children, Relatives & Friends.

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Those we love can never be far away for aslong as there is a memory, they are in ourhearts to stay.Madhuri, Deepak, Mahesh, Minal, Nishita,Abhishek, Anisha, Niranjan, Myra and Suresh

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of Lauryn & Zoe. 1st Death

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SHORT TAKES

Calling SP chief Akhilesh Yadav his “political enemy”, Rajya SabhaMP and former SP leader Amar Singh said he was willing to join

Bharatiya Janata Party if he was invited, and that he was happy withthe way BJP governments at the Centre and in Uttar Pradesh werefunctioning. “Akhilesh Yadav is my political enemy. He has crossed alllimits of indecency by now. I personally want BJP to make RamMandir in Ayodhya by making a law in its favour. I am convinced withthe way BJP is running the government, and if given a chance, I wouldbe happy to join the party,” said Singh here late on Sunday night.

‘Akhilesh my enemy, I’ll join BJP if invited’

Pune: The Unique Identifi-cation Authority of India(UIDAI) has simplified theprocess for linking mobilephone numbers with Aad-haar. The move will particu-

larly help se-nior citizensand the dif-ferently-abled, whoneed not goto service

providers but will be able todo the linking fromhome.

The UIDAI has issuedfresh directives for generat-ing a one time password(OTP) either through theservice provider’s websiteor through its InteractiveVoice Response (IVR) ser-vices to facilitate the link-ing, also known as re-verifi-cation. “This will help thosewho cannot travel to the op-erator’s offices and also se-nior citizens who are find-ing that the readers with the

provider experience diffi-culty in scanning their fin-gerprint impressions,” UI-DAI officials said.

The UIDAI had found theearlier approved system ofgenerating the OTP with amere SMS unsafe. The onlycatch in the new method isthat a user needs to have themobile number registeredwith Aadhaar or would haveto first update the mobilenumber in the Aadhaar re-cords by going to the Aad-haar updation centres — ei-ther post offices or govern-ment offices. A user can re-verify a mobile number onthe web portal of the serviceprovider, for which the lat-ter will provide an OTP.Once the OTP is entered, the

user will see a consent mess-age displayed on the web-site. The user can enter theAadhaar number afterchecking the consent box.

The UIDAI has also spec-ified that the service provid-ers need to ensure that theyhave internal robust securi-ty measures to protect theAadhaar information. Forthe IVR re-verificationmethod, a user has to put ina call through the mobilenumber that needs to belinked. The interactivevoice recorder plays theconsent message and the us-er provides the Aadhaarnumber, following which anOTP request is sent. The re-verification message is fi-nally issued on the IVR.

UIDAI IssuesDirectives For

Use Of OTP

Now, link Aadhaar tomobile from home

Nisha.Nambiar@timesgroup.com

Bengaluru:Less than 24 ho-urs after Karnataka chiefminister Siddaramaiah ca-tegorically ruled out any li-quor ban, speculation is rifethat the state governmentmight suggest total prohibi-tion in the state next year.

Though Karnataka mini-sters and bureaucrats haverepeatedly denied any moveto ban liquor, insiders in theCongress-led governmentsaid the party may includeprohibition in its electionmanifesto for the 2018 pollswith an eye on rural wo-men’s votes.

A senior Congress mem-ber confirmed to TOI: “It’sunlikely that Karnatakawill announce a total ban onliquor, but the party is defi-nitely contemplating inclu-ding prohibition in its mani-festo.” Sources said Karna-taka can ill-afford a ban sin-

ce excise revenue forms thesecond largest tax pool aftercommercial taxes.

Recently, a 31-member te-am led by HC Rudrappa, cha-irman of Karnataka StateTemperance Board, a go-vernment agency establis-hed to create awareness onthe ill-effects of alcohol con-sumption, visited Bihar tounderstand the financial im-plications of the ban.

Sources said that the go-vernment may announce adecision in this regard by Ja-nuary after the results of Gu-jarat assembly elections areannounced.

Prohibition in Congressmanifesto for K’taka?

ManuAiyappa.Kanathanda@timesgroup.com

ANOTHER DRY STATE?

New Delhi: In a step towardsoutsourcing its launch vehicleprogramme, the Indian SpaceResearch Organisation (Isro)is planning a joint venture witha consortium of companieswhere a space rocket will becompletely built by the privateindustry.

Speaking exclusi-vely to TOI on the side-lines of an internatio-nal seminar on ‘IndianSpace Programme’ he-re, Isro chairman A SKiran Kumar said,“The target for such a (fully pri-vately built) launch vehicle is2020-21. Isro will be part of theJV. Work is in progress to putthe mechanism in place.” Tillnow, Isro was the only manu-facturer of the Polar SatelliteLaunch Vehicle (PSLV). In thetwo decades since PSLV’s de-but launch, Isro has launched39 consecutive successful mis-sions. While commenting on arecent report that China isplanning to reduce the cost oflaunching satellites to woo fo-reign customers, the Isro chiefsaid, “We will continue to im-prove our cost-effectiveness. It

(launch cost) is not linked towhat someone else is doing. It’snot possible to change your ac-tivities at such a pace.”

On increasing satellitenumbers, Kiran Kumar said,“Currently, there are 42 satelli-tes in orbit. These satellites arebeing used for earth observa-tion, navigation and communi-cation purposes. Still, we aresignificantly short of commu-

nication satellites. The-refore, Isro will doubleits launch frequencyfrom 8-10 launches (perannum) to about 20 from2018 onwards. We are tar-geting to launch 60 satel-

lites in the next five years.”He said, “We want to maxi-

mise launches with the exis-ting launchpads. We are alsoworking on a plan to get thethird launchpad at Sriharikotato increase our launch capabi-lities.” Stating that the spaceagency is currently engagedwith over 500 industries, the Is-ro chief, at the conference, saidmaking use of all the sectionsof society and its talent is requ-ired to enhance capabilities.

Isro is going to resume satellite launches from mid-December after a lull of threemonths.

First privately builtrocket to launch by ’21

Surendra.Singh@timesgroup.com

New Delhi: Congress chief So-nia Gandhi, on Monday, at-tacked the Modi government

for delayingconvening ofthe winter ses-sion of Parlia-ment, saying ithad cast a“dark shadow

on India’s parliamentary de-mocracy by sabotaging Parlia-ment on flimsy grounds”. Add-ressing the CWC meeting onMonday, Sonia said, “The go-vernment is mistaken if itthinks that by locking thetemple of democracy, it willescape constitutional accoun-tability ahead of the assemblyelections.” The party intends tohold a press conference on theissue on Tuesday.

She insinuated that the BJPgovernment was avoiding Par-liament to pre-empt attacks bythe opposition during electionsin Gujarat. “Parliament is theforum in which questions sho-uld be asked — questions aboutcorruption in high places, con-flict of interest of serving mini-sters and dubious defence de-als. Government will be obli-

ged to answer these questions,but in order to avoid the ques-tions and answers ahead of Gu-jarat elections, the governmenthas taken the extraordinarystep of not holding a winter ses-sion,” Sonia said. Targeting the

PM, she said Modi had the “au-dacity” to call a midnight ses-sion of Parliament to launchan “ill prepared and flawedGST” but was now “lacking thecourage to face Parliament”.Rahul Gandhi said allegations

of corruption abounded in thegovernment, but the PM wasrefusing to answer any. He toldparty leaders they should notallow the discourse to be chang-ed and compel the governmentto answer the charges.

‘Govt delaying winter session toavoid facing oppn ahead of polls’

All through Monday, bothCongress and PAASleaders maintained a

studied silence even as PAASleader Hardik Patel re-mained largely in-communicado, but forhis tweets urging hisaides to remain unit-ed at least out of re-spect for Patel ‘mar-tyrs’. Sources said PA-AS pressed hard for the inclu-sion of Gajera, who has beensupporting the quota stir.

Gajera is the youngerbrother of Vasant Gajera, oneof the trustees of Khodald-

ham in Rajkot’s Kagvad, an in-fluential and revered reli-gious centre of Leuva Pati-dars. Congress, however, gavethe mandate to Praful ‘Pap-pan’ Togadia, nephew of VHPleader Pravin Togadia, who

has a long associationwith Congress. Thistriggered turbulenceamong PAAS, said topPAAS and Congresssources. Late on Sun-day night, Patidar lead-

ers had come to blows withCongress workers in Surat,while a furious co-convener ofPAAS, Dinesh Bhambania,knocked on Gujarat Congresschief Bharatsinh Solanki’s

house in vain.Finally, Congress agreed

to renominate candidates onsome seats, including Varach-cha, even as its list of remain-ing 12 candidates for the firstphase of polls was awaited, tobuy peace with PAAS. Con-gress, however, knocked outanother PAAS leader, AmitThummar, who was earliergiven the ticket from Juna-gadh, to be replaced by Bhik-habhai Joshi. On being qui-zzed if there could be changesin the first list of 77 candidatesdeclared earlier, the GujaratCongress chairman, Bharat-sinh Solanki said, “Talks haveconcluded on a positive note.”

Talks with PAAS closed onpositive note, says Congress

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Beijing: China said, on Mon-day, that it “firmly opposes”President Ram Nath Ko-

vind’s week-end visit toArunachalPradesh. “Chi-na has neveracknowledgedso-called Aru-

nachal Pradesh, and China’sposition on the border issue isconsistent and clear,” Chineseforeign ministry spokesper-son Lu Kang said.

In a statement meant to ad-dress the Indian media, theministry said, “China and In-dia are in the process of set-tling the issue through nego-tiation and consultations. Weseek a fair solution acceptableto all.” Lu said India-China re-lations are “in a crucial mo-ment”. China “hopes the Indi-an side can refrain from com-plicating the border situationand create favourable condi-

tions for steady developmentof bilateral relations”.

Work begins on 150km roadto China border: The work onthe all-weather road in Utta-rakhand has begun with theconstruction of the 150-km Ta-nakpur-Pithoragarh stretchthat would make it easier for

the armed forces to mobilisetroops and armaments to theIndia-China border, officialssaid on Monday.

The section is a part of the‘All-Weather Roads Project’launched by PM Modi earlierthis year and is likely to becompleted by 2019, a newsagency reported. TNN & AGENCIES

Beijing objects to Prez’s Arunachal visit

The former King of Good Ti-mes emerged from the co-urtroom looking confi-

dent and relaxed. “Please cometo court and witness the hea-ring yoursel-f…all the allega-tions againstme are baselessand fabrica-

ted…,” he said.The ED and the CBI have al-

ready submitted documents tothe court that will hear his pleaagainst the extradition to estab-lish that Mallya defraudedbanks with the help of forged do-cuments. In his reply, Mallya hassaid there was no diversion offunds and all the money wasused for legitimate business acti-vities. For the first time since Ju-ne when hearings on his case be-gan, top English barrister ClareMontgomery, who specialises infraud and extradition cases, wasrepresenting Mallya in court.

Montgomery told the judge,“There will also be short oral clo-sing submissions. We hope to have the entire process done by the 14th.”

“It could be that you take ti-me to consider the evidence andcome back in January for half aday,” chief magistrate EmmaArbuthnot suggested.But Mont-gomery disagreed: “It may be po-pulated by further material. Weare anxious to draw a line beforemore material comes,” she said.

Aaron Watkins, represen-ting the Government of India,said the Crown Prosecution Ser-vice was not proposing to makeany changes to the timetable. Ba-sed on the defence’s timetable,the judge should be ready to ruleon the case by December 24.

Vijay Mallyaextradition:

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Lucknow:The UP Shia CentralWaqf Board, rejecting theclaims of the UP Sunni CentralWaqf Board (UPSWB) to theRam temple site in Ayodhya, onMonday unveiled a proposed so-lution for an out-of-court settle-ment of the Ramjanmabhoomi-Babri Masjid case: a Ram templeat the disputed site in Ayodhyaand a mosque in Lucknow.

Shia board chairman Wa-seem Rizvi said they were in fa-vour of a Ram temple at the dis-puted site, reiterating that theboard was the rightful and onlyclaimant to the land on whichthe demolished Babri mosqueonce existed. The Shia Boardsaid the state may allot one acreof land for a mosque for ShiaMuslims in Lucknow’s Husai-nabad area, “away from the reli-gious territory of the Hindus”.

An application seeking per-mission to file the said settle-ment proposal was submitted bythe UPSCWB in the SC on Satur-day. The move may revive the riftbetween the two communitieswhich had led to innumerablesectarian clashes in the past.However, the Sunni leaders andclerics questioned the locusstandi of Waseem Rizvi, as theyclaimed that his suggestion didnot reflect the sentiments ofSunni and Shia communities.

Build temple inAyodhya, mosquein Lucknow, ShiaBoard proposesAli Rizvi & Pervez Iqbal

Siddiqui TNN

New Delhi: The BJP dismissedCongress’s allegations over de-lay in convening the winter ses-sion of Parliament and said re-scheduling of sessions duringelection time was nothing new.The party also took aim at Ra-hul Gandhi, saying he shouldstart attending the House andthen Congress could talk of re-spect to Parliament. TermingCongress’s charges as amongthe “greatest hypocrisies of ourtimes”, BJP general secretaryBhupendra Yadav pointed to se-veral occasions in the pastwhen Parliament sessions weredelayed and cited Rahul’s poorattendance in Parliament to ta-

9 and 14. Jaitley said the Cong-ress had delayed a session in2011 and even earlier becausethe sittings coincided with elec-tion campaigns. “It has been atradition and it has happenedseveral times that Parliamentsessions are rescheduled whenan election is happening,” hetold reporters in Rajkot.

The senior BJP leader ad-ded that, “Parliament sessionwill be held for sure and on allsubjects, and the Congress willbe totally exposed.” Yadav re-called that similar situationswere seen in 1981, 1990, 1993 and2011. “In fact, the winter sessionin 1990 began after Christmas,on December 27 and lasted tillJanuary 11, 1991.” he said.

ke a jibe at the Congress.“It should be pointed out

that Rahul Gandhi’s record asan MP is nothing to be proud of.In the 16th Lok Sabha so far, hisattendance stands at 54%. In the15th Lok Sabha (2009 to 2014), hisattendance stood at an even lo-

wer 43%. His participation indebates, questions and privatemember bills is negligible,” Ya-dav said in a statement.

Finance minister Arun Jait-ley too said rescheduling of Par-liament sessions had happenedseveral times before duringelection time. Assembly pollsare due in Gujarat on December

First improve attendance inParliament: BJP jibe at Rahul

Nainital: Hearing a case abo-ut an inter-faith marriage,where a Muslim boy claimedto have converted to Hindu-ism to wed a Hindu girl, the Ut-tarakhand high court had aspot of advice for the state go-vernment on Monday.

While disposing of the pe-tition, Justice Rajiv Sharmasaid, “...The court has comeacross a number of cases whe-re inter-religious marriagesare being organised.

“However, in few instan-ces, the conversion from onereligion to another is a shamconversion only to facilitatethe process of marriage. In or-der to curb this tendency, thestate government is expectedto legislate the Freedom of Re-

ligion Act on the analogy ofMadhya Pradesh Freedom ofReligion Act, 1968, as well asHimachal Pradesh Freedomof Religion Act, 2006, withouthurting the religious senti-ments of citizens.”

“We are well aware that itis not the role of the court to gi-ve suggestions to the state go-vernment to legislate but dueto fast changing social milieu,this suggestion is being ma-de,” the judge said.

The two laws seek to pre-vent “forcible conversionsthat create resentment amongsections of society”.

U’khand HC seeks lawon ‘forced conversion’

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We hope the proposal will help resolve the current crisis,”Luadded. Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi is on a tour of

Bangladesh and Myanmar.Beijing is trying to convince Myanmar toimpose a ceasefire and stop the persecuted Rohingyas from fleeinginto Bangladesh. It’s also pitching for the return of those who haveentered Bangladesh. This is the first stage of the Chinese proposalwhich Dhaka has been asking for. As a second step, Beijing wantsBangladesh and Myanmar to strengthen dipomatic exchanges andfind a solution “on the basis of equality”, Lu said.The third stageinvolves asking the international community to help develop thebackward Rakhine state in Myanmar, which is the home ofRohingyas, Lu said. Lu gave no direct answer to a question aboutwhether China wanted to mediate in the dispute at the second stage.

China pitches for return of Rohingyas

TOI spoke to the bereavedfather who alleged thehospital had misguided

them throughout. “The go-vernment must act againstthem so that no hospital dealswith its patients like this aga-in,” Jayant Singh, an IT profes-sional said. The family tookher to Fortis Hospital in Guru-gram on August 31. Adya rema-ined on life support for 10 days.The family also alleged, “Theyhave charged for 1,600 gloves,660 syringes, high-end antibio-tics and sugar strips which weare not sure were even used.”

They added: “On Septem-ber 14, when an MRI was con-ducted and it revealed extensi-ve damage to the brain, thedoctors gave up. We decided to

take her to another hospitalbut the doctors refused to evenfacilitate an ambulance.”

Fortis Healthcare Limited(FHL) denied any wrongdo-ing. “We empathise with BabyAdya’s family... As her condi-tion deteriorated, she had to beput on ventilatory support.The family was kept informedof her condition and the poorprognosis. On 14th September,2017, family decided to take heraway from the hospital againstmedical advice and she suc-cumbed the same day,” the ho-spital said. “...Care of ventila-ted patients in ICU requires ahigh number of consumablesas per globally accepted infec-tion control protocols. All con-sumables are transparently re-flected and charged as per ac-tuals,” FHL added.

Hosp misguided us allalong, says girl’s father

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Gandhinagar: Amit Shahis now learning Bengali andTamil. And guess why? The BJP president, accord-ing to sources, wantsto use these regionallanguages to drive in the achhe dinmessage in his par-ty’s target states —West Bengal and Ta-mil Nadu.

Shah’s effort is not at alldilettantish. He has broughtin professional tutors tolearn the languages formal-ly. Party sources claim thatin just a year, Shah haslearnt enough Bengali and

Tamil to engage in “properconversations”. He is takingfurther lessons now to ac-quire fluency.

A key source closeto Shah said, “To ex-pand BJP’s base inWest Bengal, TamilNadu and other states,Amitbhai has startedtaking formal tuitions

in Bengali and Tamil… He islearning the languages to di-rectly reach out to people ofthe two states, with the aimto form governmentsthere.”Shah has also startedto learn Assamese and Ma-nipuri. TNN

Amit Shah learns Tamil,Bengali to win over states

New Delhi: Delhi HC, on Mon-day, asked for an “unambiguo-us” answer from the Centre andWest Bengal government if callsof BJP MP Mukul Royare being intercepted orare his movements be-ing monitored. HC’s po-ser came on a plea filedby the former Trinamo-ol Congress MP seekinga CBI probe into the alleged sur-veillance and tapping of his pho-ne by the West Bengal police.

The plea also sought direc-

tions to Roy’s telecom serviceproviders MTNL and Vodafoneto produce the orders, if any, is-sued by the Centre or the state to

intercept telegraphicmessages originatingfrom or received by the le-ader or his relatives. Jus-tice Vibhu Bakhru askedthe ministries of HomeAffairs and Information

and Broadcasting, West Bengalgovernment and police, CBI,MTNL and Vodafone to file theirresponses in two weeks. TNN

HC: Mukul Roy under surveillance?

The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), onMonday, reiterated that Aadhaar data is completely safe and

secure. The agency said Aadhaar number is not a secret number,and it is to be shared with authorised agencies if one wishes toavail a certain service or benefit of government welfare schemesor other services. “Aadhaar data is fully safe and secure and therehas been no data leak or breach at UIDAI,” the authority said inresponse to a report based on RTI that 210 government websitesmade Aadhaar information public . UIDAI said the data wasplaced in public domain as a measure of proactive disclosureunder the RTI Act by the government .The authority said it actedpromptly and both UIDAI and ministry of electronics and ITdirected the government departments and ministries concernedto immediately remove the data from their websites. TNN

No info leak, Aadhaar data safe: UIDAI

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RESCUE OPERATIONS ON: At least three firemen were killed andmany others injured after a five-storeyed building in Ludhianacollapsed on Monday after catching fire. Till late in the evening, atleast 15 people were believed to be trapped under the rubble

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Two policemen, including an ASI, were killed and three othersinjured when a bomb they were defusing exploded inside a

police station in Giridih district on Monday. The deceased have beenidentified as ASI Mohamad Ashraf Qureshi of the Hazaribag police’sbomb disposal unit, and Mahendra Turi, a guard stationed at thepolice station. ADGP R K Mallick said, “The blast happened when theexplosives seized in various operations, including our drive againstillegal mining, were being defused by a bomb disposal squad.”

2 J’khand cops killed while defusing bombs

The court observed that in afew instances, conversionfrom one religion to anotheris only to facilitate theprocess of marriage

WAR OF WORDS

MYSTERIOUS FIND: In a bizarre discovery that has baffled experts, awell-preserved skeleton of a ‘dinosaur-like’ creature was found under a pile ofjunk in a store room at an electric sub-station in Uttarakhand. The room wasopened on Sunday for the first time in 35 years by an electrician to clean it

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SacredspaceFable & History

History fades into fable; factbecomes clouded with doubt and

controversy; the inscription moulders from the tablet: thestatue falls from the pedestal.

Columns, arches, pyramids, whatare they but heaps of sand; andtheir epitaphs, but characters

written in the dust? Washington Irving

In a long awaited development, the Congress Working Committeehas passed a resolution that will very likely see Rahul Gandhibecome party president by December 19. With the timeline for

internal elections approved and with state units of the party havingalready passed resolutions endorsing Rahul’s promotion, it isexpected to be a mere formality. In fact, there’s a good chance thatRahul will be elected Congress chief unopposed.

It made little sense to delay the matter further, as the ElectionCommission gave the party a December 31 deadline for completing organisational polls. The argument that the party could have waitedfor the Gujarat poll results doesn’t cut ice either. There’s a series ofassembly polls next year as well, and putting off the leadership succes-sion would have only invited the charge of Rahul still being reluctant

to shoulder the party’s responsibilitiesfully. Besides, he has done a good job ofleading the Congress campaign for Gujarat. He has led from the front andtaken the fight to BJP in that state. Whilethis may still not be enough to dislodgeBJP’s two-decade-old grip there, he hasinfused fresh energy into Congress andit’s finally looking like an oppositionparty that can offer electoral resistanceto the Modi-Shah juggernaut.

Rahul’s elevation now will alsoenable the party apparatus to better prepare for the next Lok Sabhapolls. It may also see younger leaders occupy key Congress bodies.In this regard, some potential Congress allies may prefer SoniaGandhi to helm an opposition coalition as they have developed a good working relationship with her. However, the incumbent Congress president is unwell and it’s time she passed on the leader-ship baton. Actually, a generational shift is taking place across thepolitical spectrum with younger leaders like Samajwadi’s AkhileshYadav and TDP’s Nara Lokesh coming to the fore. In order to connectwith a young electorate, Congress too must keep with the trend.

Rahul’s elevation as party vice-president in 2013 should havebeen followed by his promotion to party president fairly soon. That this didn’t happen reinforced the impression of Rahul beingshielded. But if the Gandhis are the default leaders of Congress,then they must be fully accountable for the party. Especially when itis really in need of renewal since the 2014 debacle and various reverses in state assembly elections thereafter.

Take The BatonRahul Gandhi’s impending elevation

within Congress is long overdue

What do the film Padmavati and a Rajasthani girl child have incommon? Both made it through gestation but neither one maylive to see the light of day. Yes, in an ironic twist Rajasthanimen have taken up the cause of a mythological Queen whiletheir own state suffers amongst the worst rates of sex selectiveabortions. There are districts in Rajasthan that have 850

women for every 1,000 men, where child marriage is rampant and where femaleliteracy is lower than that of Bihar. Yet the men of this state have decided thatthe biggest problem on hand is a movie based on a poem about a 13th century,possibly imaginary, Hindu Queen who may or may not have had a love affairwith a Muslim King. Exactly whose honour do you want to protect next gentlemen? Sleeping Beauty or the Little Mermaid?

Because of my journalistic integrity i did a deep-dive on the internet determined to find all i could on a group called the Karni Seva aka the driving force behind this latest Indian embarrassment. To my utter lack of surprise i found

no sign of any developmental or socially positive work, instead the groupappears to have distinguished itself mainly by protesting various films,TV shows and Jats all of which leads me to believe that the biggest problem the Land of Kings may be facing is adult male unemployment. If

these Karni Sevaks had actual jobs they would have less time to get worked up overDeepika Padukone’s bare midriff. If you really want to support women’s rights atthe very least object to the story line involving the hideously ugly practice of self-immolation. Nope, because that is probably the part they like.

Whenever men who have not passed the 10th standard board exam get allworked up about a woman’s honour most of us can see through it. We are notidiots, you can’t possibly care enough about women if the only time you stepforward is to protect one that doesn’t exist by issuing fatwas against one thatdoes. Are these men upset that the film supposedly depicts a woman choosing alover or choosing a lover who is Muslim? Probably both, because in Indian culture women are chosen. Change that equation and what do you have? Abunch of Karni Sevaks who are both unemployed and single.

The writer is a comedian

Rajasthan’s pride, really?

Radhika Vaz

In the Land of Kings youhave to be a Queen to matter

Last week when Moody’s,one of the world’s topthree credit ratingsagencies, raised India’ssovereign rating afternearly 14 years, the

responses to it demonstrated the nation’s sharply divided politics. While the government understandablytom-tommed it as proof that its policieswere succeeding, opposition leaders almost universally derided it.

In reality, it is indeed a vindication ofimprovements in the fundamentals ofIndia’s economy. It will ease access tocredit, help attract investment, and boost job creation. While this is surelycause for some celebration, hubris isbest avoided. There is still immensestruggle ahead over many years if Indiais to overcome its economic and humandevelopment challenges.

Ratings agencies are far from infallible.Indeed, Moody’s itself had been criticisedfor not catching the problems at LehmanBrothers, the Wall Street firm it had ratedhighly, whose collapse in 2008 precipitatedthe global financial crisis. But they werenot alone, with the other two ratings majors – Fitch, and Standard & Poor’s(S&P) – also being in the same boat.

Subsequently, they have had to workhard to reestablish credibility. For instance, S&P claimed to “have spentapproximately $400 million to reinforcethe integrity, independence and perfor-mance of our ratings. We also brought innew leadership, instituted new gover-nance and enhanced risk management.”

Regulatory changes too have tightenednorms and increased oversight, such asthe US Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reformand Consumer Protection Act. Thoughsome critics still pan the ratings process,the fact is that risk evaluations by independent agencies remain crucial tohow capital is allocated throughout theworld. Finally, the proof of the puddinglies in the eating: no respectable lenderor investor of consequence will act without a credit rating.

Thus, questioning ratings firms’

evaluations might have been justifiablea few years ago, or even today in relevantindustry or academic forums with specificprocedural challenges. But sneering atthem broadly, that too only when triggeredby the country’s rating upgrade, reeks ofpartisanship. In fact, since some of thecritics would gladly have turned meta-phorical cartwheels to get a ratings uptick if they were in government, itmight even be seen as churlish.

The ratings improvement ought not tohave come as a surprise to any neutral observer of the Indian economy. This column, for one, has on several occasionsbucked the generally gloomy trend ofcommentary since demonetisation to recognise contrarian, positive changestaking place. There were also unmissableexternal clues, including praise from theInternational Monetary Fund (IMF) andIndia’s unprecedented 30-place jump inthe World Bank’s annual ease of doingbusiness index just a couple of weeks ago.

The Moody’s report has forecast aGDP growth rate turnaround from last

quarter’s 5.7%, a three year low, to 6.7% for FY 2018, 7.5% for FY 2019, and“similarly robust” levels from 2019 onwards. If this turns out to be the case,it will bode well for the nation.

However, India’s potential for growthis even higher, as is our desperate needfor it. China, the only other billion pluspopulation nation, had a similar per capita income level as India in the late1970s. But four decades of sustained highgrowth has taken the size of its economyto five times of India’s. That has helpedChina to do much better than us in reducing poverty and creating jobs.

India has missed the bus on earlier occasions to put policies in place for susta-ined high growth rates, but there is now ahistoric fork in the road. Chinese growthhas been plateauing, and global financialmarkets currently deem that country’scommitment to reform inadequate. China’s aggressive foreign policy has alsoraised hackles. Both economics and geo-politics have conspired to give us anotheropportunity to get our act together.

For that to happen, many significanthurdles will have to be overcome. Take,for example, the PM’s declared goal ofgetting India into the top 50 in the WorldBank ease of doing business index. Despite dramatic improvements this year on several measures, India stillranks a lowly 181 (out of 190 nations) ondealing with construction permits. And164 on enforcement of contracts.

Some of these could be tackled administratively, and steps are apparently already being taken to havededicated courts for commercial disputes.Others, like the Goods and Services Tax(GST) will require even more simplifica-tion than the many steps already takenin recent weeks. If 90% of items could betaxed at one rate, say 15%, and filings andrefunds further simplified, the effectswould be substantial.

But the really big-ticket items willrequire legislative changes, and thereinlies the rub. Two of the biggest hurdles toinvestment, economic growth and jobcreation are the impossibly complicatedland acquisition law, and obsolete, counterproductive labour laws.

For now, this government seems tohave concluded, like its predecessors,that it would cost too much political capital to take these head on. So it has been left to the states, a few of which areattempting tentative, baby steps.

Demonstrable success in any statewould stir competition and emulationby others, gradually boosting the nationaleconomy. But for a dramatic, and quicker,raising of the trajectory, there is no alternative to taking the bull by thehorns in Parliament.

The writer is BJD Lok Sabha MP. Viewsare personal

Moody’s: Glass Half FullUpgrade vindicates fundamentals, but for economy to take off bold reform steps are needed

Baijayant ‘Jay’ Panda

Two of the biggest hurdles toinvestment, economic growthand job creation are theimpossibly complicated landacquisition law, and obsolete,counterproductive labour laws

The delay in announcing dates for Parliament’s winter session,held during the third week of November by tradition, smacksof disdain for a positive legacy. The notification summoning

the two Houses is issued around 2-3 weeks in advance so that MPshave adequate time to provide notice for questions and reach Delhi.So by November 2 the President should have summoned Parliament.The delay has raised questions about the government’s conduct.With no official explanation forthcoming, a plausible reason is theGujarat assembly election campaign in which Prime Minister

Narendra Modi is heavily invested.The Constitution mandates that gap bet-

ween two sessions cannot exceed six months.Since monsoon session ended on August 11, thegovernment can proceed to the budget sessionwithout violating constitutional strictures.But the convention of starting tri-annual sessions – budget, monsoon and winter – around loosely fixed dates harks back to 1955.

Allowing such vital norms of parliamentary functioning to lapse because of contingencies like assembly polls sets a bad precedent.Congress has termed it an “assault on parliamentary democracy” andaccused the government of ducking tough questions on GST and economy. But it was Congress that thwarted established conventionin 2008 by deferring the monsoon session to October-November leaving no room for a winter session after scraping through a controversial trust vote that witnessed the cash-for-votes scandal.

In 2016, Parliament had 70 sittings against just 48 this year. Contrast this to the first Lok Sabha which averaged 135 sittings a year. Parliament is as much about legislating as debating and asking questions that hold governments to account. The lack of enthusiasm also implicitly reveals that government has no pressinglegislative agenda either. There is merit in Trinamool Congress leader Derek O’Brien’s suggestion to fix parliamentary calendar atthe year’s start so that politicking doesn’t interfere with lawmaking.

Parliament FirstState elections aren’t a persuasive reason for

central ministers to skip Parliament

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A thought for today

The unnecessary controversyregarding Sanjay Leela Bhansali’sfilm, ‘Padmavati’, must be seen

and understood against the backdrop ofPersian mysticism, spirituality andpoetry, to get a comprehensive pictureof the whole issue.

The subcontinental mystic-poetMalik Muhammad Jayasi wrote ‘Padmavat’ in 1540 AD and deliberatelycreated a female character to be even-tually deified in accordance with Persianmystical traditions and also as one of theindispensable 16 rules of Persian spiritualpoetry that were religiously followed byall Central Asian and subcontinentalpoets of Persian mysticism includingAmir Khusrau from Hindustan andRumi, Hafiz, Sanai and others from Iran.

The language of Jayasi’s ‘Padmavat’was Avadhi, the dialect of Avadh, but theoriginal script was Persian. Beforedescanting upon how and why Jayasithought of creating a character like

Padmavati, it’s worthwhile to mentionMuhammad Iqbal’s letter to youngRaghupati Sahay Firaq Gorakhpuri,which the former wrote to the latter in1929, when Firaq was a young lecturer ofEnglish at Muir College, Allahabad.

Here’s that relevant passage: “For anIslamic mystic, woman is always a catalystor medium to reaching higher conscious-ness. She could also be his imagi-nary muse, unadulterated andunspoilt by thought and action.She’s an indispensable characterwhether fictitious or real, butmostly the former, because only afabricated – male or female –character can be so divinelychaste. Jalaluddin Rumi’s Irfa,Nizami’s Nahila, Attar’s Qaneem,Hakim Sanai’s Aviara did neverexist, but they were woven andassimilated into poetic plots by allmystics so beautifully, that with the passa-ge of time, they began to appear as real-lifecharacters. Poetry, especially Islamictasawwuf – spirituality based poetry –

among others.Persian mysticism looks at a woman

as ‘alamat-e-paakeezgi’ – the ‘perfectsymbol of purity’. She cannot be defiled– just like Padmavati, who couldn’t bedesecrated by the ‘lascivious’ AlauddinKhilji. Moreover, according to anunverified account mentioned by Colonel James Tod in his tome, ‘Annalsand antiquities of Rajasthan’, Jayasiwas enamoured of one Rajput damsel,Padma, whom he got to see somewherenear Ajmer, Rajasthan. No furtherdescription is given in the book. It is,therefore, surmised that he immortalisedthat Padma as Padmavat, both as hisspiritual muse and also as a necessarycog in the scheme of Persian mysticism.

Nowadays, we all tend to squabble overthings without ever bothering to delveinto the broader canvas. We’re living inexceedingly intolerant times when onespark is enough to flare up and burn downeverything. This has to change.

(The writer is a scholar of Islam andPersian)

always has a central or powerful clandesti-ne female character, who’s often unreal.”

The invariable end of this fictitiouscharacter – as in Padmavati’s jauhar(ritualistic self-immolation) in Jayasi’sPadmavat – is a symbol of the end of thelast obscure vestiges of carnality neces-sary for union with the universal mind.

The inviolability of a woman’s character and her elevation tothe highest pedestal can be seenin Jayasi’s ‘Padmavat’. It’sinteresting to note that inCentral Asian mystic traditions, self-immolation isunIslamic. But Jayasi’s mysticism was rooted in theethos of the subcontinent andhe used jauhar as a symbol ofcoordinating a composite veinof Hindu-Muslim unity. Despitehimself being a Muslim, Jayasi

didn’t present Khilji in positive light.The same spiritual poetic tradition wasfollowed by the Iranian predecessors ofJayasi like Rumi, Hafiz, Jami and Bedil

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France, Norway and India – China seesthis as a way to meet the goals of the ParisClimate Accord. And like the others, it isheavily promoting the adoption ofemission-free electric vehicles combinedwith renewable energy generation.

Now that the technological challengeof electric mobility has been solved andmany new e-vehicles will come on to themarket over the next three years, thefocus needs to be on providing the necessary charging infrastructure. Andto make e-cars a truly sustainable form oftransport, charging stations must becombined with renewable energy.

In the medium term, electric vehicleswill not cost more than conventional vehicles – prices are falling rapidly asproduction numbers rise – and the vehicles’ lower operating costs alreadymake them attractive to many car buyers.The most critical technology that goes into any e-car is the batteries that powerit. These are becoming more affordableeven as they grow more efficient and global demand accelerates.

Thanks to the latest generation of batteries, the range of vehicles has beenextended to slightly over 300km between

charges. What’s more, new high-powercharging technology has reduced rechargetimes to as little as 14 minutes – a dramaticadvance from the overnight chargingthat limited widespread adoption of theearlier generation of electric cars.

The biggest remaining impediment tothe adoption of battery-powered cars is thedearth of charging stations. For the elec-tric car to become a major form of personaltransportation consumers need to know

that, no matter how far they venture fromhome, they will be as certain to encounter acharging station as they now are to find afilling station. This is precisely where poli-cy makers are now in a position to enable aquantum leap in e-mobility. If we all worktogether, we can make the transition tosustainable transport by combining electric vehicles with renewable powergeneration, connected through smart grids.

To date, progress has been slow. Acrossthe EU, there are only an esti-mated 1,20,000 non-residentialcharging stations. In the US,where more than a half-millionall-electric or plug-in hybridcars have been sold, there are ro-ughly 16,000 non-residential charging sites.

China, where last year alone morethan 3,50,000 electric vehicles were sold,has been more proactive than most. It ispushing to raise its total to 8,00,000 charging sites by the end of 2017, and Chinese planners intend to build a network to serve 5 million e-cars by 2020.Yet there are currently an estimated290 million vehicles on China’s roads. Replacing them all with electric vehicleswill prove extremely challenging if thecharging infrastructure is not in place.

There is a historic irony behindthe world’s effort to wean itself fromfossil-fuel cars.

Schoolchildren are taught that KarlBenz invented the first automobile in 1885in the German city of Mannheim. It’s lesswell known that other inventors across

Europe were developing the earliestelectric cars at around the same time, inspired by the recent introduction of thelead-acid battery.

For the first 20 years of the auto indust-ry battery-powered vehicles outsold those,like Benz’s, that were powered by fossilfuels. That changed when major improve-ments, like the muffler and automaticstarter, helped give gasoline-powered vehicles an edge. So did the emergent petro-

leum companies, like StandardOil in the US, which had a readyincentive to build networks offilling stations to sell fossil fuelsto a mass market.

New advances in batterytechnology are now shifting that edgeback in favour of electric vehicles. Yetthere is much more that can and shouldbe done. Possibilities include providingtax breaks for investments in chargingsystems; establishing international standards for charging protocols; funding additional research for high-power charging technologies; or evenmandating installation of charging stat-ionsat some existing filling stations, suchas those located on public highways.

The key is for all of us to work to-gether to combine electric vehicles withrenewable power generation, connectingthem with a smart grid. The faster we can make this happen, and rid our citiesof air pollution and our atmosphere ofgreenhouse gas emissions, the better.

The writer is CEO of ABB

Electric vehicle technology has come of age. To curb airpollution, combine charging stations with renewable energy

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For years, science has rele-gated our love to this ba-sic instinct, almost like

an addiction that has no re-deeming value.”

These are not the words ofsome New Age evangelistpreaching at a couples re-treat, but of Stephanie Ca-cioppo, a neuroscientist atthe University of Chicagowho has spent much of her

career mapping the dynam-ics of love in the brain.

Her research and some ofthe theories she has devel-oped put her at odds with oth-

er scientists who have de-scribed romantic love as anemotion, a primitive drive,even a drug. Using neuroi-maging, Cacioppo has collect-

ning techniques to see whatsections of the brain lit up inresponse.

She used the data not onlyto sort out passionate, roman-tic love from more basic emo-tions (like happiness) and oth-er types of love (like mater-nal), but also to identify 12 spe-cific brain regions that weresystematically activated bythis version of love.

“What was fascinating tome was that I could see thatlove had its own brain signa-ture, a kind of blueprint,” Ca-cioppo said. (Other emotions,like anger and disgust, ac-cording to many researchers,have similarly unique brainsignatures.)

The experiments allowedCacioppo and her colleaguesto pinpoint a specific area of

the brain — the angular gy-rus — that appears to be par-ticularly sensitive to love.The more a participant re-ported feeling passionatelyin love, the more this regionshifted into overdrive.

Located behind the ear,the angular gyrus is foundonly in apes and in humans,which means it developed rel-atively late in evolutionaryhistory, and is connected tocreativity and abstractthought. Cacioppo likens thearea to a “robot”: one thathelps us process languageand numbers and managescomplex autobiographicaldata as well, like a person’sself-image. Falling in love, ac-cording to Cacioppo, is an in-tense workout for the angulargyrus. NYT NEWS SERVICE

ed data that could suggest thatthis kind of love activates notonly the emotional brain, butalso regions involved in high-er-level intellectual activitiesand cognition.

“This means that it’s pos-sible that love has a real func-tion — not only to connectwith people emotionally butalso to improve our beha-viour,” she said. Cacioppo’sfirst formal breakthrough inthe study of love came earlyin her career, when she was apostdoctoral researcher atDartmouth College. In a se-ries of experiments, sheshowed research subjects im-ages and names of people —their significant others,along with random strangersand “neutral friends” — andused functional MRI scan-

MRI ScansShow RomanceBoosts IntellectAnd Cognition

Falling in love is like an intense brain workout

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Aliens might have beencarried to Earth onspace dust, according

to new research. Bugs mighthave flown across the uni-verse and onto our own pla-net, scientists have said.And bugs from our own pla-net might have made thesame journey, flying off ofEarth and onto other planetselsewhere in the galaxy.

The theory could evenhelp explain how life beganhere, suggesting that it wascarried from elsewhere inspace then flourished inEarth. That’s according toBritish scientists who havestudied powerful flows of in-terplanetary dust that cantravel through space at up to70 km per second.

They calculated that smallbio-particles floating high inthe atmosphere at an altitudeof 150 km or more could beknocked free of the Earth’sgravity by incoming spacedust. Eventually the tiny or-ganisms could reach otherplanets in the solar system.

Some bacteria, plantsand even hardy micro-ani-mals called tardigrades areknown to be capable of survi-ving in space. The same pro-cess could occur in reverse,bringing extraterrestrialbugs to Earth and possiblyhelping to seed life on the pla-net, the scientists believe.

Study leader professor

Arjun Berera, from the Uni-versity of Edinburgh’sSchool of Physics and Astro-nomy, said: “The proposi-tion that space dust colli-sions could propel orga-nisms over enormous dis-tances between planetsraises some exciting pro-spects of how life and the at-mospheres of planets origi-nated. The streaming of fastspace dust is found throug-hout planetary systems andcould be a common factor inproliferating life.”

Previously scientists haveconsidered the possibility ofimpacting asteroids and co-mets importing life, or the rawingredients of life, to Earth.The new research, publishedin the journal Astrobiology,was part-funded by the Scien-ce and Technology FacilitiesCouncil. THE INDEPENDENT

Alien bugs may’vehitched a ride to

Earth on space dust

Wendy McElroy isready for most dooms-day scenarios: a one-

year supply of nonperishablefood is stacked at her farm inrural Canada. Her blueprintfor survival also depends onworking internet: part of hermoney, assuming she needssome after civilisation collaps-es, is in bitcoin.

Across the North Ameri-can countryside, preppers likeMcElroy are storing more andmore of their wealth in invisi-

ble wallets in cyberspace in-stead of stockpiling gold barsand coins in their bunkers.

They won’t be able to ac-cess their virtual cash themoment a catastropheknocks out the power grid orthe web, but that hasn’t dis-suaded them. Even staunchsurvivalists are convincedbitcoin will endure globalpandemic, climate change ca-tastrophes and nuclear war.

“I consider bitcoin to be acurrency on the same level as

internet to access their digi-tal wallets. Preppers, though,stock enough food and suppli-es to sustain them formonths, if not years, and theyexpect whatever governingstructure emerges post-ca-lamity will prioritise gettingthe web back up and running.

“The blockchain does notneed a specific place or a spe-cific person to survive —that’s a strong survival tac-tic,” said bitcoin investor RobHarvey. BLOOMBERG

alist forums like mysurvival-forum.com and survivalist-boards.com this year as bit-coin rallied above $7,000.“Buy bitcoin” is now a morepopular search phrase than“buy gold” on Google.

Still, it’s hard to envisionpeople walking aroundspending digital coins to buycanned beans or bottled wa-ter at a local supermarketwhen they don’t have elec-tricity at home to chargetheir smartphones, let alone

as the money of the future,which has surged 10-fold inthe past 12 months.

Bitcoin is similar to pay-ment networks like PayPal orMastercard, but runs on a de-centralised network — block-chain — that’s beyond the con-trol of central banks and regu-lators. It was born out of an an-ti-establishment vision of agovernment-free society.

Discussions on the prosand cons of investing in cryp-to have popped up on surviv-

gold,” McElroy said. At firstglance, it seems counter-intui-tive that some of bitcoin’smost ardent proponents arepeople motivated by the beliefthat public infrastructure willcollapse in times of social andpolitical distress.

Bitcoin isn’t yet widely ac-cepted as a method of pay-ment and steep transactioncosts make it inconvenient touse at vendors that do take it.But preppers have a differentperspective on what they see

Doomsday preppers are now stocking up on bitcoin

Treated excrement from turkeys, chickens andother poultry birds may be used as a fuel for

heat and electricity generation, reducing green-house gases and providing an alternative energysource, a study has found. The treated excrementwhen converted to combustible solid biomassfuel, could replace about 10% of coal used inelectricity generation, according to a studypublished in the journal Applied Energy.

PTSD stalks some cancer patients foryears: One-fifth of cancer patients experiencepost-traumatic stress disorder within sixmonths of diagnosis, according to a study thathighlights the need for early identification,careful monitoring, and treatment of PTSD insurvivors. PTSD is primarily known to develop inindividuals following a traumatic event such asa serious accident or natural disaster.

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Chicken poop can be usedto generate electricity

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RUBBER MAGIC: Sculptures of aunicorn and a gorilla made of tyres ison display in Zaozhuang, China

Washington: Scientists have warned therecould be a big increase in numbers of devastat-ing earthquakes around the world next year.They believe variations in the speed of Earth’srotation could trigger intense seismic activity.Although fluctuations in rotation are smalland may only change the length of a day by onemillisecond, they could lead to the release ofvast amounts of underground energy, resea-rchers said. “The correlation between Earth’srotation and earthquake activity is strong,”said Roger Bilham of the University of Colora-do, US. Researchers looked at quakes of mag-nitude seven and greater that had occurredsince 1900. They found five periods when therehad been significantly higher numbers oflarge earthquakes, ‘The Guardian’ reported.They discovered that when Earth’s rotationdecreased slightly, it was followed by periods ofincreased numbers of intense temblors. PTI

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US Forces in Japan bannedall personnel from con-

suming alcohol after a drink-driving accident on the islandof Okinawa where anti-basesentiment runs high. A USMarine crashed his vehicleinto a mini-truck at an in-tersection on Sunday, killingthe other driver. The 21-year-old, whose breath test showedan alcohol level three timesthe legal limit, was arrestedand charged with negligentdriving resulting in death.Military personnel in Okinawahave also been restricted tobase and their residencesfollowing the incident.

Should have left basketballplayers in China jail: TrumpUS President Donald Trumpsaid on Sunday that he shouldhave left three UCLA basket-ball players accused of shop-lifting in China in jail. Trump’stweet on Sunday came afterthe father of one of the playersminimised Trump’s involve-ment in winning the players’release. Trump had raised theplayers’ detention with Chi-nese President Xi Jinpingduring the leaders’ recentmeeting in Beijing.The playersreturned to the US last week.

Gold leaf from Napoleon’scrown fetches $735kA gold laurel leaf removedfrom the crown NapoleonBonaparte wore to his coro-nation sold for 625,000($735,000) euros at an auction

in Paris on Sunday. The leafwas one of six cut from thecrown ahead of the 1804coronation, because themonarch considered it tooheavy. The goldsmith gave thespare leaves to each of hisdaughters — with the auc-tioned gold carving havingbeen passed through thefamily to present day.

Egyptian singer detainedover racy video clipA pop star has been detainedfor a week in Egypt on suspi-cion of inciting debauchery ina music video. Shaimaa ap-pears in the video in herunderwear singing whilesuggestively eating an appleand a banana before a class ofyoung men. The video createda stir on social media in con-servative Egypt.

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Self-taught ‘rocket scientist’ Mad Mike Hughes shows off his steam-powered rocket he built out of salvageparts in his garage. Built at a cost of $20,000, Hughes — who is a limo driver — plans to launch his home-made contraption on Saturday near the ghost town of Amboy, California, at a speed of roughly 804.6kmph

Booze banned forUS troops in Japanafter accident

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Berlin: German ChancellorAngela Merkel said on Mon-day that she was “very scepti-cal” about leading a minoritygovernment if no coalitioncould be formed to run Euro-pe’s biggest economy andthinks a new election wouldbe a better solution.

Her comments came afterthe country’s president appe-aled to political leaders to ret-hink their positions and tryagain to form a new govern-ment after coalition talks bet-ween Merkel’s conservativesand two parties collapsed. Butthere was little immediate in-dication his call would be hee-ded, and a new election lookedincreasingly likely.

The conservative Merkelspent four weeks hagglingwith the pro-business FreeDemocrats and the traditio-nally left-leaning Greens on anew, untried governing coali-tion until the Free Democratswalked out on Sunday night.

Her partners in the outgo-ing government, the center-left Social Democrats, said onMonday they would not join anew Merkel administration, astance the party has repeatedtime and again since it slum-ped to a disastrous defeat inGermany’s September 24 elec-tion. No other politically plau-sible combination of partieshas a majority in parliament.

“We now face a situation

that we haven’t had in the his-tory of the Federal Republicof Germany, so in nearly 70years,” President Frank-Wal-ter Steinmeier told reportersafter meeting Merkel. It isSteinmeier who will have todecide whether to pave theway for a minority govern-ment or a new election.

Steinmeier said he willmeet leaders of all the partiesinvolved in the failed talks, aswell as others, in the comingdays. Merkel said the situa-tion was “regrettable” butinsisted that “we neverthe-less have stability in our co-untry”. She deferred to Ste-inmeier on the next steps.It’s likely to be a while beforethe situation is resolved.

If neither the Free Demo-crats nor the Social Demo-crats budge, that leaves as theonly options another electionor a minority government —asetup that has never been tri-ed in post-World War II Ger-many. The German Constitu-

tion doesn’t allow parliamentto dissolve itself, so the deci-sion lies with Steinmeier.

To get to either destina-tion, the president would firsthave to propose a chancellorto parliament, who must winamajority of all lawmakers tobe elected. Assuming that fa-ils, parliament has 14 days toelect a candidate of its ownchoosing by an absolute majo-rity. And if that fails, Steinme-ier would then propose a can-didate who could be elected bya plurality of lawmakers.

Steinmeier would then ha-ve to decide whether to appo-int a minority government ordissolve parliament, trigge-ring an election within 60 da-ys. Merkel’s two-party Unionbloc is easily the biggest gro-up in parliament, but is 109 se-ats short of a majority.

Anew election may produ-ce an equally awkward situa-tion, with polls so far sugges-ting results would be similarto last time. AP

Germany coalition talksfail, fresh elections likely

Wellington: New ZealandPM Jacinda Ardern on Mon-day played down suggestionsthat US President Trumpconfused her with Canadianleader Justin Trudeau’s wifeat a summit in Asia last week.

Trudeau was supposedlymaking the introductions asArdern attended her first ma-jor forum since taking officelast month when Trump mix-ed-up the 37-year-old with the

Canadian leader’s partnerSophie. However, Ardern sa-id details of the encounterhad become muddled and the-re was actually no confusionon Trump’s part. She said “athird party” at the meeting ofworld leaders incorrectlythought Trump had failed toidentify her and she later toldthe anecdote to friends backin New Zealand.

A version leaked publicly

that was unflattering to Trumpand the rookie PM said she wo-uld now have to be more care-

shoulder, pointed at me and sa-id, ‘This lady caused a lot of up-set in her country,’ talking abo-ut the election,” she told news-room.co.nz. “I said, ‘Well, youknow, only maybe 40%,’ thenhe said it again and I said, ‘Youknow,’ laughing, ‘no-one mar-ched when I was elected’.” Pro-tests had followed Trump’selection last year, but Ardernsaid the US leader took her ri-poste in good humour. AFP

ful when telling tales of her en-counters in the corridors of po-wer. “It was a bit of a funnyyarn, something I don’t want tocause a diplomatic incidentover... ,” she told TVNZ.

It comes after Ardern re-called another Trump anecdo-te from the Manila summit,when she was waiting to makeher entrance at the event’s galadinner. “Trump in jest pattedthe person next to him on the

Kiwi PM denies Trump mistook her for Trudeau’s wife

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Beijing: China has signalledthat the People’s LiberationArmy has deployed its next-generation intercontinentalballistic missile (ICBM),which can hit most parts of theworld except South Americaand Antarctica. The missile,Dongfeng-41, has a range of12,000km and can carry 10 nu-clear warheads at a time, theofficial media said on Monday.

The signal is meant to dem-onstrate China’s growing mil-itary clout although it goesagainst the traditional Chi-nese policy to avoid discussingspecifics about the country’smilitary capability. Chineseexperts on military issues

usually obtain official permis-sion before speaking aboutsensitive issues publicly.

State media had earlier re-ported about Dongfeng-41 af-ter Donald Trump took overas the US President after hisbitter tirade against Chinaduring his poll campaign.

Military analyst SongZhongping, a former memberof the PLA’s Second ArtilleryCorps (Rocket Force), toldHong Kong’s Phoenix TV thatthe Dongfeng-41 is very likelyalready in service since testsand other checks of missilescan be conducted after de-ployment as well. But XuGuangyu, a senior adviser ofthe China Arms Control andDisarmament Association,

told the Beijing broadcaster,CCTV, that the official deploy-ment may take place in thefirst half of next year becausethe missile must have ma-tured considerably.

Another report in theSouth China Morning Postsaid China had tested theICBM last November in thecountry’s western desert ar-ea but did not give the exactlocation. The WashingtonFree Beacon reported way

back in April 2016 that the USsatellite tracking system hadspotted the seventh test firingof Dongfeng-41. “It can carryup to 10 nuclear warheads,each of which can target sep-arately,” Xu told the state-backed Global Times. TheICBM can also use decoy de-vices that can cut through theenemy’s missile warning anddefense systems, he said.

“Once the Dongfeng-41goes into service, China’s abili-ty to protect its own safety andto prevent wars would greatlyincrease,” Xu said.

Song reiterated Beijing’sofficial line saying that Chi-nese does not believe in thearms race and would not com-pete with any country on thiscount. The ICBM deploymentis meant to protect the coun-try’s interests because it stilllags far behind the US in thenumber of nuclear weapons.

China next-gen ICBM deployed with PLA?

German Chancellor Angela Merkel (C), along with her party leaders,announces the collapse of preliminary coalition talks in Berlin. Thefailure is unprecedented in Germany’s post-war history, and waslikened by newsmagazine Der Spiegel to the shock election of USPresident Donald Trump or Britain’s referendum vote to leave the EU

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Charles Manson, one ofthe most notoriousmurderers of the 20th

century, who was very likelythe most culturally persis-tent and perhaps also themost inscrutable, died onSunday in Kern County, Cali-fornia. He was 83 and had be-en behind bars for most ofhis life. He died of naturalcauses in a hospital.

Manson was a semilitera-te habitual criminal and fai-led musician before he cameto irrevocable attention in thelate 1960s as the wild-eyed lea-der of the Manson family, amurderous band of youngdrifters in California. Convic-ted of nine murders in all,Manson was known in parti-cular for the seven brutal kil-lings collectively called theTate-LaBianca murders, com-mitted by his followers on twoconsecutive August nights in1969. The most famous of thevictims was Sharon Tate, anactress who was married tothe film director Roman Po-lanski. Eight and a halfmonths pregnant, she was kil-led with four other people ather Benedict Canyon home.

The Tate-LaBianca kil-lings and the seven-month tri-al that followed were the sub-jects of fevered news covera-ge. The Manson family has oc-cupied a dark, persistentplace in American culture. Ithas inspired, among otherthings, pop songs, an opera,films, a host of internet fan si-tes, T-shirts, children’s wearand half the stage name of themusician Marilyn Manson. Ithas also been the subject ofmany nonfiction books, mostfamously “Helter Skelter”(1974), by Vincent Bugliosiand Curt Gentry. Bugliosi wasthe lead prosecutor at the Ta-te-LaBianca trial.

It was a measure of Mans-on’s hold over his followers,mostly young women who

had fled middle-class homes,that he was not physically pre-sent at the precise momentthat any one of the Tate-LaBi-anca victims was killed. Yethis family swiftly murderedthem on his orders, which, ac-cording to many later acco-unts, were meant to incite anapocalyptic race war thatManson called Helter Skelter.He took the name from the tit-le of a Beatles song.

Throughout the decadessince, Manson has remainedan enigma. Was he a parano-id schizophrenic, as some ob-servers have suggested? Washe a sociopath, devoid of hu-man feeling? Was he a cha-rismatic guru, as his follo-wers once believed and hisfans seemingly still do?

No Name Maddox, asManson was officially firstknown, was born on Novem-ber 12, 1934, to a 16-year-old un-wed mother in Cincinnati. Hismother, Kathleen Maddox,was often described as havingbeen a prostitute. Manson ap-parently never knew his bio-logical father. His mother bri-efly married another man,William Manson, and gaveher young son the name Char-les Milles Manson. From theage of 12 on, Charles was pla-ced in a string of reform scho-ols. At one institution, he heldarazor to a boy’s throat and ra-

ped him. By March 1967, whenManson, then 32, was paroledfrom his latest prison stay, hehad spent more than half hislife in correctional facilities.

Manson had learned toplay the guitar in prison andhoped to make it as a singer-songwriter. Manson’s lyrics,by contrast, were often aboutsex and death, but in the ’60s,that did not stand out verymuch. (Songs he wrote werelater recorded by Guns N’ Ro-ses and Marilyn Manson.)

In the summer of 1969, fe-ar swept the city after a maidreporting for work ran screa-ming from the home whereTate lived with Polanski.Scattered around the estatewere blood-soaked bodies.The 26-year-old actress, whowas pregnant, was stabbedand hung from a rafter in herliving room.

To the end of his life,Manson denied having orde-red the Tate-LaBianca mur-ders. Nor, as he replied to aquestion he was often asked,did he feel remorse, in any ca-se. He said as much in 1986 ina prison interview with thetelevision journalist CharlieRose. “So you didn’t care?”Rose asked, invoking Tateand her unborn child. “Ca-re?” Manson replied. He ad-ded, “What the hell does thatmean, ‘care’?” NYT & AGENCIES

Charles Manson, whose cultslayings horrified world, dies

Charles Manson (above), thehippie cult leader of died ofnatural causes on Sunday at age83 after nearly half a centurybehind bars, orchestrated thekillings of Roman Polanski’spregnant wife Sharon Tate (left) and eight others

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China on Monday dismissed atop Pakistani army general’s

allegation that India hasestablished a special intelligen-ce cell at a cost of $500 million tosabotage the strategic China-Pakistan Economic Corridor(CPEC), saying it does not haveany such report.Chairman ofPakistan’s joint chiefs of staffcommittee general ZubairMehmood Hayat had allegedthat RAW had established thespecial cell. “We have no suchrelevant reports,” Chineseforeign ministry spokesman LuKang said. China’s rebuff overthe allegation against India issignificant considering thatBeijing and Islamabad regardthemselves as “iron brothers”sharing “all-weather ties”. PTI

Beijing dismisses Pakgeneral’s charge ofRAW sabotaging CPEC

Harare (Zimbabwe): Zim-babwe’s ruling party on Mon-day ordered impeachmentproceedings to begin againstPresident Robert Mugabe andexpressed confidence that hecould be voted out within twodays, while the world’s oldesthead of state ignored the par-ty’s midday deadline to resignand instead summoned mini-sters to a cabinet meeting onTuesday morning.

The ruling ZANU-PF par-ty’s deputy secretary for legalaffairs Paul Mangwana saidlawmakers would move a mo-tion for impeachment on Tu-esday and set up a parliamen-tary committee, and on Wed-nesday the committee wouldreport back to all lawmakersand “we vote him out.”

The main charge againstthe 93-year-old Mugabe is “allo-wing his wife to usurp govern-ment powers” and that “he istoo old and cannot even walkwithout help,” Mangwana toldreporters. He said the rulingparty needs the backing of theMDC opposition group to haveenough votes in parliamentbut “we have talked to themand they are supporting us.”

Zimbabweans were stun-ned by Mugabe’s defiance du-ring a national address onSunday night in which the in-creasingly isolated president,put under military house ar-rest last week, had been expec-ted to step down.

Anotice by Mugabe’s chiefsecretary announced on Tues-day morning’s cabinet mee-

ting at State House and said allministers “should attend.” Ho-wever, a tweet by one minister,Jonathan Moyo, indicated thatseveral had left the country.

The military appears to fa-vour a voluntary resignationfor Mugabe, one of Africa’slast remaining liberation lea-ders, to maintain a veneer oflegality in the political trans-ition and avoid accusations ofa coup. Mugabe, in turn, is lik-ely using whatever leveragehe has left to try to preservehis legacy or even protecthimself and his family frompossible prosecution.

Amid the political confu-sion, the government on Mon-day urged Cabinet ministers topursue business as usual. Me-anwhile, opposition activists

and the influential liberationwar veterans association an-nounced more demonstra-tions to pressure Mugabe to go.

“Your time is up,” veteransassociation leader ChrisMutsvangwa said at a pressconference. He suggested thatthe military was still beholdento Mugabe and compelled toprotect him because he is offi-cially their “commander inchief”. The war veterans’ as-sociation will go to court to ar-gue that Mugabe is “derelict ofhis executive duty”, he said.

Mugabe was stripped ofhis party leadership on Sun-day by the ruling party’s cen-tral committee but said in hisspeech he would preside overa party congress next month.

That congress is expected

to ratify his firing as party chi-ef, the expulsion of the unpo-pular first lady and the na-ming of Mugabe’s recently fi-red deputy, EmmersonMnangagwa, to succeed him.

The firing of Mnangagwaand the positioning of first la-dy Grace Mugabe to succeedher husband as president ledthe military to step in last we-ek. Mugabe has discussed hispossible exit on two occasionswith military commanders.

At the University of Zim-babwe, students protestedand refused to sit for exams,demanding that Mugabe stepdown. The spokesman for theZimbabwe National StudentsUnion, Zivai Mhetu, said theywant all universities shutdown until he does.

The once-formidable Mu-gabe is now virtually power-less, largely confined to his pri-vate home by the military. Yethe sought to project authorityin his speech on Sunday, whichhe delivered after shakinghands with security force com-manders. The army comman-der himself leaned over a cou-ple of times to help the presi-dent find his place on the pagehe was reading. “I, as the presi-dent of Zimbabwe, as theircommander in chief, do ack-nowledge the issues they havedrawn my attention to, and dobelieve that these were raisedin the spirit of honesty and outof deep and patriotic concernfor the stability of our nationand for the welfare of our peo-ple,” Mugabe said. AP

Defiant Zimbabwe Prez Ignores Warnings, Calls Cabinet Meet

Mugabe will be voted out ofoffice in 2 days: Party official

Washington: President Do-nald Trump on Monday decla-red North Korea a state sponsorof terrorism, returning KimJong-un’s nuclear-armed pari-ah regime to a short blacklist oftargeted US foes. “Should havehappened a long time ago. Sho-uld have happened years ago,”Trump declared, announcingthe designation at the start of aWhite House cabinet meeting.

North Korea is already un-der a wide array of US and UNsanctions, and the terror desig-nation will not have much im-mediate economic impact in it-self. But US officials see the de-signation — lifted by then-pre-sident George W Bush in 2008—as a way of ratcheting up thepressure on Pyongyang andespecially on other states thatmay be failing to fully enforcethe sanctions already in place.

“In addition to threateningthe world by nuclear devasta-tion, North Korea repeatedlysupported acts of internationalterrorism including assassina-tions on foreign soil,” Trumpsaid. In February, Kim’s potenti-al rival and elder brother KimJong-Nam died after he wassprayed with a nerve agent inKuala Lumpur airport, in an as-sassination blamed on Pyongy-ang. “As we take this action to-day, our thoughts turn to OttoWarmbier and others affectedby North Korean oppression,”Trump continued, underliningthe legal case for the designa-tion. US student Warmbier didthis year after he was repatria-ted from detention in North Ko-rea. US officials allege he wastortured in custody. AFP

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state sponsorof terror

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Islamabad: The Islamabadhigh court summoned Pakis-tan home minister Ihsan Iq-bal and other top administra-tion officals on Monday andgave them 48 hours to dealwith protesters from religio-us parties who have beenblocking the main highwaybetween the twin cities of Isla-mabad and Rawalpindi formore than two weeks to de-mand the resignation of lawminister Zahid Hamid.

The controversy began inearly October due to a missingclause in the Election Act rela-ted to the finality of ProphetMuhammad in an oath thatwas turned into a religiousand political controversy. Cal-ling it a clerical error, the go-vernment had subsequentlyrectified the omission of theclause but it failed to satisfy so-me hardline clerics.

The sit-in highlights the

difficulties faced by the Pa-kistan Muslim League-Na-waz government in dealingwith law and order problemsfollowing the disqualifica-tion of Nawaz Sharif as pri-me minister on July 28 over acorruption investigation.

Home minister Iqbal toldthe court that a governmentteam and some religiousscholars were negotiatingwith the protesters to resolvethe issue peacefully.

Khadim Hussain Rizvi, afirebrand cleric heading theTehreek-e-Labaik Ya RasoolAllah — a newly formed gro-up registered this year as amainstream political party,led the protesters. The go-vernment’s defensive move toenclose Islamabad’s Red Zone— which houses Parliament,the presidency, Supreme Co-urt, foreign office, embassiesand other important buil-dings — with shipping contai-ners has added to the chaos.

Pak gets 48 hrs to clearprotesters from road

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Bengaluru: Cyber securityspends in India are rising rapid-ly because of the massive digiti-sation movement — especiallyin the payments space — andthe ease of internet’s use on themobile. The ransomware at-tacks in the past year have ad-ded to the urgency of thesespends. Leading global securitysolutions companies say theirrevenue growth in India has ac-celerated, in some cases shar-ply, and they say security todayis a major discussion point atthe topmost levels in customercompanies.

“Earlier, it was seen as only the responsibility of theIT department. Now, boardsare asking about security, revi-ewing it, because it can dis-rupt brands, reputations,” sa-ys Bhaskar Bakthavatsalu,managing director for Indiaand SAARC at Check PointSoftware.

Tarun Kaura, director ofproduct management for Asia-Pacific and Japan at Symantec, agrees: “Boardro-om- and CEO-level discus-

sions are happening on securi-ty. There’s a lot of awarenessbecause common people areusing the internet a lot, giventhat it is very easy to transacton the mobile, unlike in the PCworld where some learningwas required.”

Trend Micro has seen itsrevenue grow by 35% (compo-unded annual growth rate) inIndia over the past three ye-ars. Check Point Software sa-ys that in some quarters, itsrevenue growth has been intriple digits. Tata Communi-cations says its security ser-vices business is growing atover 50% year-on-year.

Ransomware impactNilesh Jain, country managerfor India & Saarc in Trend Mi-cro, says, “Ransomware hascreated the next level of aware-ness about security.” In May, theWannaCry ransomware attackis estimated to have infectedmore than 230,000 computers inover 150 countries in just oneday. The following month, thePetya attack again impactedmany countries. Security solu-tions company Kaspersky Labestimated that India was thethird most affected country bythe WannaCry attack.

Dhanya Thakkar, MD andVP-APAC at Trend Micro, says,

“Ransomware has been arounda long time, but how quickly itspread this time from machineto machine is new.” Ransomwa-re are malicious software thatare designed to block access to acomputer system, typically byencryption. The attackers de-mand money to decrypt and un-block the system. Often they areable to hold large parts of an or-ganisation’s systems to ran-som. It could even be critical sy-stems in a hospital. Money is of-ten asked to be paid through bit-coins in order to make itdifficult for surveillance agen-cies to figure out who is behindit. In many cases, organisationsmake the payments to try andget the systems back up quickly.

Moneyed more vulnerableJain says most hackers todaygo after places where the bigchunks of money lie. “The RoI(return on investment) is hig-her when they attack organi-sations,” he says, indicatingwhy large-scale attacks on in-dividuals aren’t as frequent ason companies.

Cos boost spends on cyber securitySujit.John@timesgroup.com

GLOBAL TREND | Tom Leighton, co-founder & CEO of Akamai, a global leader in making the internet fast and reliable, says security concerns have become huge globally. “There have been massive data breaches, that are very, very costly. So enterprises are really worried about that, losing their intellectual property, losing their email, their data on users, like credit cards, banking information, health records,” he says

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New Delhi: The Central Bo-ard of Excise and Customs(CBEC) has asked all consu-mer goods companiesto immediately lowerprices of shampoos,detergents, deodo-rants and other pro-ducts on which GSTwas slashed from 28% to 18%.

While several companieshave already lowered prices,there are others who are yet topass on the gains. As a result,CBEC chairman Vanaja NSarna has written to majorfast-moving consumer goods(FMCG) companies, pointingto the need of immediately re-

vising the maximum retailprice, the finance ministry sa-id in a statement.

The ministry tweetedfrom its official handle, “The

government expectsthat the industry sho-uld immediately re-spond to the earlier ap-peal made by FM ArunJaitley on this issue.

The central government ap-peals to industry leaders topass on the benefit of the GSTrate reduction to the consu-mers as it is expected to enco-urage domestic demand andinvestment, among others.”

On November 10, the GSTCouncil had recommended re-duction of GST rate from 28%

to 18% on 176 items, with two se-eing a larger reduction, leavingonly 50 items in the highestbracket. In all, prices were re-duced on over 200 items withthe changes effective from themidnight of November 14.

As reported by TOI lastweek, the government ex-pects the consumer goods in-dustry to reduce prices by8-9% and was willing to waitfor four-five days to ensurethat the gains are shared.

In the meantime, the Cabi-net has also approved the es-tablishment of the anti-profi-teering agency that will dealwith errant companies thatrefuse to pass on benefits oflower taxes.

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Sovereign bonds rose the mostin a year after the central

bank scrapped a debt sale due la-ter this week that was designedto reduce banking liquidity.

The RBI won’t proceed witha Rs 10,000-crore ($1.54-billion)auction under its open-marketoperations (OMO) on Thursdayafter a review of liquidity condi-tions, it said after the market clo-sed Friday. The RBI has auctio-ned Rs 90,000-crore securitiessince the start of July.

Government bonds haveslumped since August due to apotential end to monetary ea-sing, concern about rising supp-ly and possible fiscal slippage.They jumped at the start of tra-ding on Friday when Moody’s In-vestors Services upgraded thenation’s sovereign rating, onlyto reverse direction and end theday almost flat. BLOOMBERG

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Mumbai: The government’slatest divestment move thro-ugh the Bharat 22 exchangetraded fund (ETF) turned outto be a huge success with thenew fund offer (NFO) collec-ting Rs 32,000 crore — four times its initial size of Rs 8,000crore. Of the total amount,which also makes it the largest NFO in the Indian mu-tual fund industry’s history,the government will retain Rs 14,500 crore, a release fromICICI Prudential MutualFund, the fund manager to the ETF, said.

Initially, the governmentwas looking to mobilise up toRs 12,000 crore by divestingpartial stakes in 19 PSUs andthree blue-chip private com-panies — L&T, ITC and AxisBank, in which the stakes areheld through Special Under-taking of the Unit Trust of In-dia (SUUTI).

Since the allotment will beon a pro-rata basis, all retailinvestors will get full allot-ment. But that would not bethe case for other categories of investors.

Bharat 22 ETF is the firstdivestment-oriented fundthat the NDA government haslaunched. Earlier in 2013, theUPA government had divestedits stakes in 10 entities thro-ugh CPSE ETF, the first suchfund structure launched byany government in India.

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Mumbai: Reliance Industries(RIL) has managed to secure anextremely fine pricing on its$800-million, 10-year internatio-nal bond issue — the first offe-ring since Moody’s raised Indi-a’s sovereign rating. The bondswere priced at a yield of 130 ba-sis points (100bps = 1percentagepoint) over US Treasuries.

RIL has been a beneficiary ofthe India upgrade as the compa-ny’s ranking is constrained bythe sovereign rating. Followingthe revision of India’s ranking,RIL too has been assigned a Baa2rating. The bond offering helpsthe oil and telecom giant to refi-nance an earlier issue of perpe-tual notes, which were offering areturn of 5.875%.

The joint global coordina-tors for the RIL issue are Bank ofAmerica Merrill Lynch, Citi andHSBC. The joint book runnersinclude the global coordinatorsand three other banks — Barcla-ys, JP Morgan and StanChart.

The current pricing is the lo-west achieved by an Indian issu-er in recent years. In 2014, ONGCVidesh had raised $750 millionselling bonds at a spread of160bps over US Treasuries. RILitself had last raised bonds at ayield of 240bps over US Treasu-ries in 2015. Given the positivesentiment in the bond market,other corporate issuers are alsolikely to float bonds. These inclu-de Adani and Tata Motors, besi-des some public sector units.

Reliance has a debt of aro-und $12 billion (approximatelyRs 75,000 crore) on its books — alarge part of which was raised tofund its foray into the telecomsector. A big chunk of this debtwill mature in 2018. The averagespread on Indian dollar bondsover Treasuries compressed4.3bps on Friday to 208.6bps, af-ter Moody’s raised the sovereignrating by one notch to Baa2.

RIL raises$800m at

lowest yieldin recent yrs

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130BPS OVER US TREASURIES

New Delhi: The govern-ment has referred 18 “shellcompanies” to the SeriousFrauds Investigation Office(SFIO) for depositing andwithdrawing large sums du-ring demonetisation inwhat appeared to be entitiesthat existed largely on pa-per. At the same time, the mi-nistry of corporate affairshas ordered the regional di-rectors to scan the records ofother companies, many ofwhich operated thousandsof bank accounts, whichhad smaller deposits.

“All entities that had de-alings of over Rs 100 crorehave been referred to theSFIO. Depending on the in-vestigations, the govern-ment will take further ac-tion,” a source in the go-vernment told TOI. Sepa-rately, other agencies suchas the income tax depart-ment and the EnforcementDirectorate are also pro-bing companies for viola-tion of other laws.

Based on the report fromSFIO and the regional direc-tors, the government willdecide if it will initiate cri-minal action under theCompanies Act, somethingthat has not been done in thepast. As reported first byTOI on October 23, the mini-stry is looking at the possibi-lity of invoking provisionsof section 447 of the newCompanies Act, which rela-te to fraud, citing public in-terest. The law provides forimprisonment of three to 10years in case of fraud andcan come with a penalty thatis equal to the value of the of-fence. A “fraud” has been de-

fined to include acts of omis-sion and concealment.

MCA has already askedcompanies to share detailsof deposits of old currencynotes during the demoneti-sation period. That exerciseis in addition to the focus onover 2.24 lakh companiesthat have been de-registeredfor not filing the requisite re-turns under the CompaniesAct for three years. Whileover three lakh directors ha-ve also been barred from ta-king up board positions,

banks have also been askedto scan the records to exami-ne if large deposits andwithdrawals were made du-ring demonetisation or afterde-registration. The bankaccounts of these compani-es are also being frozen.

A scan of just 35,000companies showed thatthey deposited over Rs 17,000crore post the demonetisa-tion drive, which was laterwithdrawn, raising suspi-cion of wrongdoing, latestdata released by the govern-ment showed.

Govt refers 18‘shell cos’ to

SFIO for probeTo Scan Others That MadeDeposits During Note BanSidhartha@timesgroup.com

➤ Ministry of corporate affairs has ordered the regional directors to scan the records of other companies, many of which operated thousands of bank accounts, which had smaller deposits

➤ Other agencies such as I-T department and ED are also probing companies for violation of other laws

➤ “All entities that had dealings of over Rs 100 crore have been referred to the SFIO. Depending on the investigations, the government will take further action,” said a source

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Mumbai: India-born Canadi-an billionaire Prem Watsa’sFairfax Group has agreed tobuy a 51% stake in Hyderabad-based BPO company, Tata Bu-siness Support Services(TBSS), for Rs 153 crore.

The Fairfax Group, thro-ugh its BSE-listed Quess Corp,will acquire the majority stakein TBSS, which employs 27,000people across 27 centres in thecountry. The transaction valu-es TBSS, including its debt, atRs 330 crore. With Tata Sonsbecoming a minority share-holder in TBSS, the BPO com-pany will no longer sport theTata brand. The transactionwith Quess will mark the TataGroup’s gradual exit from thevoice-based BPO business,though it will continue to haveinterest in the non-voice-basedBPO business through TCS.

This will be the third dealbetween Fairfax and the Tatagroups this year. In September,Fairfax’s Thomas Cook (India)

agreed to buy the forex and tra-vel services businesses of TataCapital. Thomas Cook (India)holds nearly 57% in Quess Corpwhich has a market capitalisa-tion of about Rs 11,980 crore.

Quess Corp will buy the sta-ke in TBSS from Tata Sons andTata Capital. The financial ser-vices arm of the Tata Grouphad acquired a sizeable stake

in TBSS following the mergerof e-Nxt Financials with theBPO company in 2014. TataSons, which set up TBSS in 2004to cater to group companies’ requirements, will, however,continue to hold the remaining49% stake in the entity.

Over the years, TBSS,which offers voice and non-voi-ce-based services, expanded its

clientele to include third-partycompanies from telecom, DTH,hospitality, banking, insuran-ce and FMCG industries.

TBSS handles 500 millioncustomer transactions a year,delivering services in 24 Indi-an and 12 international lang-uages, according to its websi-te. The company, which willcontinue to be led by SrinivasKoppolu, reported an opera-ting profit of about Rs 56 cro-re on revenues of Rs 661crorein fiscal 2017. Its operatingprofit has been in the range ofRs 50 crore to Rs 55 crore forthe past three financial years.

The proposed stake-divest-ment in TBSS highlights the Ta-ta Group’s intent to reduce itsinterests in relatively smallerventures and increase its focuson larger enterprises which areor have the potential to becomeindustry leaders. The $100-bil-lion-plus conglomerate, whichgets a lion’s share of its revenu-es from outside India, has saidthat it intends to weed out dupli-cating business either throughamerger or sale.

Conglomerate Exits Voice-Based Outsourcing Business

Watsa’s Fairfax buys 51%stake in BPO co of Tatas

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Tata Business Support Services (TBSS) employs 27,000across 27 centres in India

It claims to service 500m transactions a year in 24 Indian & 12 international languages

Canadian billionaire Prem Watsa’s (right) Fairfax Group will acquire the majority stake through its BSE-listed Quess Corp for Rs 153cr

This values the Hyderabad-

based TBSS, including its debt, at Rs 330cr

After Quess Corp acquiresthe stake from Tata

Sons & Tata Capital, the BPO servicesco will no longer sport the Tata brand

This will be the third deal between

Fairfax and the Tatas this year. In Sept, Fairfax’s

Thomas Cook (India) bought Tata Cap’s forex & travel services businesses

THIRD DEAL BETWEEN TWO GROUPS

Mumbai: The Mumbai benchof the Income Tax AppellateTribunal (ITAT) has in its re-cent order dismissed the actionof the lower I-T authorities totax capital gains of around Rs 1lakh crore in the hands of TataIndustries. This capital gainhad arisen on sale of Idea Cellu-lar shares by a Mauritius subsi-diary of the Tatas to a Birla gro-up company during the financi-al year 2006-07.

In April 2006, Tata Industri-es sold its shareholding in IdeaCellular to Birla TMT Hol-dings and offered the resultantcapital gains on such sale totax in India. Apex, a Mauriti-us-based subsidiary of Tata In-dustries, also sold its sharehol-

ding in Idea Cellular to the Bir-la group company. However,the capital gains arising on sa-le of Idea Cellular shares heldby Apex were not offered to taxin India — the contention be-ing that according to the provi-sions of the India-Mauritiustax treaty, there would be notax incidence in India.

The I-T officer determinedcapital gains on sale of sharesby Apex to be Rs 1 lakh croreapproximately and sought to

tax this sum in the hands of Ta-ta Industries under section 93of the I-T Act.

The objective of this sec-tion is to curb the practice oftax avoidance by an Indian tax-payer (say, a company in India)by transferring its asset to anon-resident (say, an offshoreentity). It applies when the re-sident taxpayer continues toenjoy the income from such as-sets, even after the transfer.Section 93 is a ‘deeming’ provi-

sion — it enables the I-T autho-rities to disregard the offshoreentity and make the Indiantaxpayer pay tax on the incomeof the offshore entity.

The ITAT pointed out thatprovisions of section 93 will notapply in this case. For this sec-tion to apply, there must be atransfer of assets by a tax resi-dent of India (for example, anIndian company) to a non-resi-dent. Whereas, in this case, itwas the Mauritius companythat had sold its own sharehol-ding in Idea Cellular to a resi-dent company of the Birla gro-up. Further, such sale was madeto an unrelated party. Thus, Ta-ta Industries could not be taxedon the capital gains that aroseon sale of Idea shares by itsMauritius subsidiary.

Can’t tax `1L-cr gains on Idea share sale by Tatas’ Mauritius arm: ITAT

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That’s not to say those indi-vidual attacks don’t hap-pen. Bakthavatsalu re-

collects a recent instance whe-re the personal laptop of a fri-end’s niece was encrypted by aransomware attack. The at-tackers asked for $40 in bitco-ins. She did not pay becauseshe was not in a hurry to set theproblem right, and there are so-lutions available to decrypt.

But enterprises typicallydo not have the luxury of ti-me. Rajnish Gupta, regionaldirector for India & Saarc inRSA Security, now part of theDell EMC group, says large or-ganisations that deal with va-luable data, or with money,tend to be the most consciousabout security.

In India, the leading usersof security solutions are fi-nancial institutions, IT & IT-enabled services companies,and governments. The Bom-bay Stock Exchange (BSE) inOctober said it has heavily in-vested in cutting-edge securi-ty architecture, including asecurity operations centrethat would help the exchangekeep up with the latest threatintelligence. Bakthavatsaludescribed BSE’s security ar-chitecture as “world class”.

More and more compani-es are seen to be hiring consul-tants like Deloitte, PwC, andKPMG to do audits of theirnetwork systems.

The complex fightThere is also recognition thatthe fight with attackers itselfis becoming increasinglycomplex. Anti-virus software

and firewalls are just not goodenough. Kaura says compani-es need lots of defensive lay-ers. Much of the focus is onusing machine learning andartificial intelligence (AI) torapidly detect unknown filesthat enter a system, and determine whether it could be malware, and then deploytools to block or misguide theattackers, or isolate the infec-ted systems.

Gupta says it is also im-portant to identify assetsthat are more critical andthose that are less critical, asalso clearly identify all busi-ness risks. “Then you can ta-ke more informed decisions(about the security architec-ture),” he says. However, asThakkar notes, new technolo-gies aid hackers too. “Crimi-nals use AI to find the biggestvulnerabilities,” he says.WannaCry exploited a vulne-rability in the network filesharing protocol called ServerMessage Block (SMB) that isused widely.

Large organisations withlegacy systems are often themost vulnerable. Bill McGee,SVP of hybrid cloud securityin Trend Micro, says, “They

don’t even know where all the-ir servers are.” He advocatesmoving to the cloud. “You have 100% visibility of yourassets in a cloud, and cloudenables better automation of security controls and canlock down systems more easily if there’s an attack. One of our customers recent-ly said he sleeps much betterwith security in his cloud en-vironment.”

Globally, 10-12% of IT in-vestments go into security. InIndia, that figure has been at2-3%. Bakthavatsalu says, “Butmany of our customers arenow at 5-6%.” Even that’s a longway from global standards.

And the awareness levelsare still restricted mostly tolarge, mature companies.Gupta of RSA says that whilesecurity conversations withclients went up during theransomware attacks, thosehave come down now. “Are wewaiting for a mass-scale disas-ter?” he wonders. And he wor-ries particularly about smal-ler organisations. “Theythink they don’t have criticalinformation, so attackerswon’t target them. That’s nottrue,” he says.

Enterprises do nothave luxury of time

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Trend Micro’s Dhanya Thakkarsays new technologies like IoT

(internet of things) are bringingnew vulnerabilities. “IoT is beingused in manufacturing, smartmeters, traffic lights, public Wi-Fi,smart cities. But often they are not

built with security in mind,” he says, adding that Trend MicroVentures was investing millions of dollars in IoT companies tounderstand vulnerabilities and find solutions. TNN

IoT brings new vulnerabilities

Beijing: Alibaba Group saidon Monday it would invest$2.87 billion for a major stakein China’s top hypermart ope-rator, Sun Art Retail Group,part of a wider push into offli-ne retail.

As part of an alliance withAuchan Retail and RuentexGroup, Alibaba would buy thestake from Ruentex, while Au-chan Retail would boost itsstake, the three companies sa-

id in a joint statement. The al-liance would target opportu-nities in China’s $500 billionfood retail sector, as Alibabaraces to build big-data capabi-lities in the offline retail mar-ket where roughly 85% of sa-les are made.

“Physical stores serve anindispensable role during theconsumer journey, and sho-uld be enhanced through da-ta-driven technology and per-

sonalised services in the digi-tal economy,” Alibaba CEODaniel Zhang said in the state-ment. The deal would giveFrench retailer Groupe Au-chan SA, China’s AlibabaGroup and Taiwanese conglo-merate Ruentex 36.2%, 36.2%and 4.7% stakes respectivelyin Sun Art.

Alibaba would replace Ru-entex as the second-largestshareholder. REUTERS

Alibaba puts $3bn in China’s top grocer

Detroit:Call it MANA’s pushin the time of #MAGA. Indi-a’s $19-billion business majorMahindra is taking anothercrack at the Americanmarket. Unrelenting inits effort to make amark in the world’s pre-mier auto industry, itsUS beachhead Mahind-ra Automotive NorthAmerica (MANA) is openinga new manufacturing plantoutside Detroit, a gambitthat also fits in with presi-dent Trump’s ‘Make Ameri-can Great Again’ campaign.

This time, following upearlier modest inroads intothe US market, Mahindrawill crank out what are calledoff-road vehicles at a new1,50,000-square-foot manu-facturing facility in AuburnHills, home to the world head-quarters of Chrysler amongother storied companies. Thevehicle will roll out in early2018, Mahindra chairmanAnand Mahindra said in aninterview on the sidelines ofthe inauguration of the newfacility, which brings the Ma-

hindra footprint in the re-gion to 4,00,000 square feet ona $230-million investment.

A mere 80 new jobs will beup on offer for starters at thenew facility, although Ma-hindra’s seven American en-

tities across sectorsemploy more than3,500 people in theUS. But in a city, a sta-te, a region, that wasseen to be in termi-nal decline till re-

cently, anything is welcome.The local Detroit News saidit is “the first new auto as-sembly plant in southeastMichigan in more than 25 ye-ars,” and local Michigan law-makers and local officialsturned up in strength for theinauguration on Monday.

Michigan’s famed Mo-town and Mahindra are notnew to each other. The Indianmajor arrived here in 2013when it opened a technicalcentre and North Americanheadquarters in Troy, and anassembly plant to build Gen-Ze electric two-wheelers inAnn Arbor.

Things have not pannedout exactly as Mahindra plan-ned, but that hasn’t stopped

the company from rampingup, partly in response to theTrump’s call to bring manu-facturing to America, altho-ugh its plans predate Trump’selection. “We are counter-in-tuitively bullish on Ameri-ca,” said Mahindra. “Peoplewho make predictions aboutAmerica’s doom don’t under-stand…If you can make it he-re you can make it anywhe-re.” The fact that Trump aimsto make it easier to do busi-ness and lower taxes “onlysweetens the pot,” he added.Even before its ‘Make in Mi-chigan’ mantra, Mahindrahas had a long-standing foot-print in America, a countrywhere its CEO studied (Har-vard MBA 1981) and in whoseeco-system he is completelyat home with. It has long beena distributor of hobby trac-tors and information techno-logy services in the US, and inrecent years, it has stepped upgame in aerospace.

But hitting the highwayhas proved to be a little har-der. Mahindra’s effort nearlya decade ago to import anddistribute its signature four-wheelers, a modified pick-upversion of the Scorpio na-

med Appalachia, came uns-tuck between regulatory dif-ficulties and legal problemswith a distributor. Its elec-tric two-wheeler GenZe ven-ture too was deemed bettersuited to West Coast sensibi-lities and shipped off to Cali-fornia, where it has now ta-ken on a new urban mobilityavatar in partnership withScoot Networks.

However, that hasn’t stop-ped Mahindra from taking acrack at graduating from itsoriginal mission of desig-ning and engineering carsand trucks to manufacturingthem at a US facility, this ti-me via an off-road vehicle, inthe home of the automobileindustry. The market scuttle-butt, which Mahindra wouldnot confirm pending its in-troduction to meet marketdemand next year, is that theoff-road vehicle will be a va-riant to its rugged IndianSUV Mahindra Thar. Appro-priately enough for a vehicleaimed at breaking into theUS market, it is expected tobe called Mahindra Thor, af-ter the hammer-wieldingNorse god associated withthunder and lightning.

Detroit Plant Will Boost Jobs | Aligns With Trump’s Policy

Mahindra launches new USmfg facility for off-roaders

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Mumbai: Mswipe — a domes-tic maker of point of sale (PoS)terminals — has partneredMasterCard to digitise mer-chant acquisition and can now enable a shopkeeper any-where in India to acquire a cardswipe machine.

At present, merchants needto sign physical agreementsand, in some cases, open newcurrent accounts to becomepart of a credit card network.

Mswipe will enable a mer-chant to complete the ‘know-your-customer’ (KYC) require-ment using a mobile applica-tion that will scan documentsand use complex software tocompare these with govern-

ment databases, including theincome tax department’s per-manent account number (PAN)database and the Shops and Es-tablishments database.

Mswipe founder and CEOManish Patel said, “We havecompletely digitised the mer-chant onboarding process. Ifthe document is validated (by government sites), the datain the document is used to up-date the fields in the electroniccontract. Additionally, the appis used to geotag the merchantlocation with a shopfront pho-tograph and identify the mer-chant category.”

At present, India has aro-und 2.9 million PoS terminalswith over 60 million mer-chants. MasterCard divisionpresident (South Asia) PorushSingh said, “Acceptancegrowth is key towards driving adigital economy. This platformaims to help increase the accep-tance footprint exponentially.Being a paperless solution, itdrastically reduces merchant’son-boarding time from threedays to 30 minutes.” This solu-tion to digitally validate andauthenticate KYC documentshas been developed by Benga-luru-based startup Signzy.

MasterCard,Mswipe to setup card unitsin 30 minutesMayur.Shetty@timesgroup.com

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Bengaluru: Infosys co-foun-der and tech billionaire Nan-dan Nilekani and his wife Ro-hini have joined The GivingPledge, an elite network of theworld’s wealthiest individu-als committing half their we-alth to philanthropy.

The Giving Pledge websiteuploaded Nilekanis’ letter sig-ning up for the cause.

The letter said, “We thankBill and Melinda for creatingthis unique opportunity to re-alise a moral aspiration inspi-red by the Bhagwad Gita.

“We have a right to do ourduty, but no automatic right tothe fruits from the doing. It iscritical that we do not slip intoinaction fearing that we maynot be able to reap direct re-ward. It is to this ideal that wepledge,” it added.

Later, Bill Gates tweetedabout Nilekanis’ pledge on

Monday. “I’m amazed by how@NandanNilekani has lenthis entrepreneurial passionto philanthropy. I’m delightedto welcome him and his wifeRohini to The Giving Pledge,”Gates tweeted.

The Giving Pledge wascreated by Bill and MelindaGates and Warren Buffett inAugust 2010 following a seriesof conversations with phi-lanthropists around the world

about how they could collecti-vely set a new standard of ge-nerosity among the ultra-we-althy. It is an effort to help add-ress society’s most pressingproblems by inviting theworld’s wealthiest individu-als and families to commitmore than half of their we-alth to philanthropy or chari-table causes either during the-ir lifetime or in their will.

The Nilekanis are the fourth Indians after Wiprochairman Azim Premji, Bio-con chairman Kiran Mazum-dar-Shaw and Sobha Develo-pers chairman emeritus P N CMenon to sign up for The Gi-ving Pledge.

Talking about their initia-tives as EkStep, Nilekanis’ let-ter said “We are excited by ourinitial experimentation withsocietal platforms in earlyeducation and see immense

potential for scaling up diver-se solutions.

They also said their phi-lanthropic efforts would be di-rected at societal platforms,which are open, technology-enabled ecosystems or nurtu-ring networks.

“Our philanthropic jour-ney of two decades has beenled by Rohini’s passion andcommitment!” Nilekani twee-ted. Nilekani recently retur-ned to Infosys as non-executi-ve chairman after the exit ofSikka as Infosys CEO.

Sikka quit following along-standing feud betweenboard and founders, especial-ly N R Narayana Murthy, whohad raised concern over fal-ling corporate governancepractices at Infosys. Rohini isalso founder of Arghyam, aninitiative for safe and sustai-nable water. AGENCIES

Nilekanis to donate half their wealth

Nandan Nilekani (R) and wifeRohini join Bill Gates’ ‘The GivingPledge’ initiative

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Sussex have appointed former Australia fastbowler Jason Gillespie as their new headcoach on a three-year deal, the county sideannounced on Monday. The 42-year-oldguided Yorkshire to the County Championshiptitle in 2014 and 2015 and will take up his postin the New Year, in time for pre-season prep-arations.

Jemima named in India ‘A’ squadTalented Mumbai girl Jemima Rodrigues, whoshot into the limelight earlier this monthwhen she cracked a 163-ball 202 in an Un-der-19 One-day tournament, has been namedthe India ‘A’ squad for the upcoming homeseries against Bangladesh ‘A,’ comprisingthree one-day and three T20 matches. With anaim to strengthen women’s cricket in thecountry, the BCCI as part of its developmentprogramme, has organized the series in-volving the ‘A’ team for the first time.

Broad fine after being struck by golf ballEngland pace bowler Stuart Broad saw thefunny side of things after being struck by astray golf ball during a day off at the BrisbaneGolf Club on Monday as his team eased fearsthat it would affect his Ashes preparation.Broad was working on his putting when awayward shot by a club member hit his lowerback but the 31-year-old played it down.

New Perth stadium to host Aus-Eng ODIThe new Perth Stadium will host Australia'sfifth ODI against England in January, CricketAustralia said on Monday. The Western Aus-tralia state government has confirmed thenew stadium will be ready to host the ODI onJanuary 28. “For cricket to host the first majorsporting event at Perth Stadium is a hugehonour for our sport,” CA CEO James Suther-land said.

Sky is the limit for Virat, says ShastriIndia coach Ravi Shastri on Monday said "skyis the limit" for skipper Virat Kohli after hismatch-winning 104 against Sri Lanka in thefirst Test in Kolkata. “He is a fabulous player.The sky is the limit for him,” Shastri said.

SL coach sees positives from draw Sri Lanka were finally able to pose a challengeto India in the first Test after being hammeredin the home series and that, according tochief coach Nic Pothas, was a huge positive.“We did not compete at all in the series in SriLanka. We have been very competitive here inthe first Test that's a huge positive, credit toeveryone in the team and the support staff.We got tougher, we got success in UAE andplayed well here,” Pothas said.

Kotla to name stands after Bedi, Jimmy Having started the tradition of honouringstalwarts with the 'Virender Sehwag Gate',the DDCA now will name stands of the Feroz-shah Kotla after legendary Bishen Singh Bediand Mohinder Amarnath. The move is DDCA'sway of acknowledging the contribution ofBedi and Amarnath in Indian cricket.

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Batting legend Sachin Tendulkar gives tips to anadolescent cricketer during a friendly match onWorld Children's Day, in New Delhi on Monday.Tendulkar is the Goodwill Ambassador forUNICEF South Asia

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Mumbai: Cricket South Africa (CSA)president Chris Nenzani (R) and the chiefexecutive Thabang Moroe were at the BCCIheadquarters here on Monday, reportsGaurav Gupta. The purpose of their visitcouldn’t be ascertained. A few months back,the launch of CSA’s much-hyped Twenty20global league was scuttled at the lastmoment and a probe ordered into thedealings of the league. CSA’s previous CEOHaroon Lorgat was also sacked at that time.It’s an open secret that Lorgat didn’t enjoygreat relations with the BCCI. It is beingspeculated that CSA’s top officials may benow trying to convince the Indian Board tohelp out in the launch of the T20 globalleague. Interestingly, an informal meeting ofCEOs of ICC members is scheduled for inSingapore on December 7 and 8 to discussthe FTP. The workshop, felicitated by theICC, will give a final shape to the world Testchampionship and ODI leagues.

Top CSA officials Nenzani,Moroe visit BCCI HQ

Poor light halts bright chargeSCOREBOARDSri Lanka – 1st innings 294

India – 2nd innings (overnight 171/1): KL Rahul b Lakmal 79, S Dhawan c Dickwella b Shanaka 94, C Pujara c D Perera b Lakmal 22, V Kohli not out 104, A Rahane lbw b Lakmal 0, R Jadeja c Thirimanne b D Perera 9, R Ashwin b Shanaka 7, W Saha c Samarawickrama b Shanaka 5, B Kumar c D Perera b Gamage 8, M Shami not out 12; Extras (b-7, lb-1, nb-1, w-3) 12; Total (for 8 wickets declared, 88.4 overs) 352; Fow: 1-166, 2-192, 3-213, 4-213, 5-249, 6-269, 7-281, W Saha 8-321; Bowling: Suranga Lakmal 24.4-4- 93-3(w-1), Lahiru Gamage 23-2-97-1 (nb-1), Dasun Shanaka 22-1-76-3 (w-2), Dilruwan Perera 13-2-49-1, Rangana Herath 6-1-29-0

Sri Lanka – 2nd innings (Target: 231 runs): S Samarawickrama b B Kumar 0, D Karunaratne b Shami 1, L Thirimanne c Rahane b B Kumar 7, Angelo Mathews

lbw b U Yadav 12, D Chandimal b Shami 20, N Dickwella lbw b B

Kumar 27, D Shanaka not out 6, D Perera b B Kumar 0, R Herath not

out 0; Extras (lb-1 nb-1) 2; Total (for 7 wickets, 26.3 overs) 75; Fow: 1-0, 2-2, 3-14, 4-22,

5-69, 6-69, 7-75; Bowling: B Kumar 11-8-8-4, M Shami 9.3-4-34-2 (nb-1), U Yadav 5-0-25-1, R Jadeja 1-0-7- 0

RESULT: DRAW

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Kolkata: In spite of unseasonal rains washing away bulk of the play on the first two days of the first Test between India and Sri Lanka, the match sprang to life on the final day, throwing up thrills aplenty before ending in a stalemate.

Indian pacers bowled with lot of fire and purpose after skipper Virat Kohli set the visitors a 231-run winning target from a maximum 47 (32 + 15 manda-tory) overs. The inexperienced Sri Lankans ap-peared to panic and collapsed dramatically to 75 for seven in 26.3 overs before bad light came to their rescue and denied India and improbable victory.

Earlier, Sri Lanka’s first-innings hero Suranga Lakmal foiled India’s bid to go for quick runs in the first session by claiming three wickets.

It took a masterly knock from Kohli to set the platform for India from where they launched an all-out attack to force a win. Kohli’s bravehearts almost achieved the impossible — of picking up 10 Lankan wickets in just over one session of play.

Lakmal provided the first breakthrough in the fifth over of the morning by getting one through KL Rahul’s defence as the opener tried to play on the on-side. Rahul fell for a well-made 79 that came off 125 balls with the help of eight boundaries.

Cheteshwar Pujara was done in by an extra bounce of Lakmal and edged the ball to gully where Dilruwan Perera held a diving catch. Ajinkya Ra-hane, who had failed in the first innings, fared no better in the second essay. The Indian vice-captain lasted just four balls as Lakmal trapped him in front of the stumps with one that cut back into him.

Ravindra Jadeja, promoted up the order, to get some quick runs, too disappointed and fell to Dilru-wan before lunch.

It situation prompted Kohli to take matters in his own hands and he single-handedly took on the Lankan attack. Even the quick dismiss-als of Ravichandran Ashwin and Wriddhi-man Saha, did not deter the skipper, who hit Lakmal for two sixes over extra cover to race to his 18th Test century.

India declared their second innings on 352/8 immediately after Kohli reached his three-figure mark — an hour-and-half after the lunch interval.

In the seven overs prior to the tea break, Sri Lanka lost their openers Sadeera Samara-wickrama and Dimuth Karunaratne, both bats-men dragging widish deliveries off Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Mohammad Shami, respectively, on to the stumps. Samarawickrama, incidentally became Kumar’s 50th Test victim.

The UP pacer then had Lahiru Thirimanne edg-ding one to Rahane at gully in the second over after the break. The Lankans suffered a massive setback when Umesh Yadav trapped the experienced An-gelo Mathews LBW soon after.

Skipper Dinesh Chandimal and Niroshan Dick-wella briefly stalled India’s march with a feisty 47-run partnership for the fifth wicket. Dickewella was his usual attacking self, pulling Shami for consecu-tive sixes before indulging in time-wasting tactics that saw tempers rising on the field.

However, India’s hopes on snatching a victory faded with the setting sun. The umpires brought out the light meter before signalling the end of an excit-ing day of Test cricket.

Sri Lanka Hang On For A Draw After Dramatic Collapse And Kohli Ton

INDIAN PACERS TAKING MIN 15 WICKETS IN A TEST IN INDIAFor the first time in India’s Test history, Indian spinners failed to take even a single wicket in a Test at home

Vs Venue Series Wkts Ave

SL Kolkata 2017-18 17 19.94

Eng Chennai 1933-34 16 21.31

Pak Delhi 1979-80 16 20.37

Pak Kolkata 1998-99 16 14.31

Pak Chennai 1979-80 15 25.06

1Kohli has become the first Indian captain to post a duck and a century

in the same Test—Stats: Rajesh Kumar

SOMETHING EXTRA: Virat Kohli exults after his century at the Eden Gardens on Monday

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Kolkata: In the end, it was so near yet so far for India.

KL Rahul felt that India could have won the first Test against Sri Lanka if another five-six overs of play had been possible on Monday. “We wanted to make a game out of this,” he said after stumps were drawn for the last time in the opening Test at Eden Gardens on Monday. “The light was not good enough towards the end and we couldn’t do anything about it. Five or six overs more, and it would have gone our way.”

The Karnataka batsman had no complaints about the Sri Lanka’s apparent time-wasting ploy that saw some heated exchanges in the middle. “That’s how the game is played. No-body wants to lose a match. These are tricks played by every team, so nothing unfair about it. As a team, we too were trying to win the game and wanted to push in as many overs as we could,” he explained.

Sri Lankan coach Nic Pothas was proud of his boys and was happy that the last session produced an intense battle. “It was fantastic Test-match cricket. It’s in such a tough envi-ronment that players earn respect,” he said.

Talking about the home team’s gameplan at the start of the final day’s play, Rahul said: “The plan was to go out there and play posi-tively. We thought of getting 200-250 runs more and give them a challenging target which they would have felt could be chased down, so that we could create the opportunities.” He agreed that the plan went a bit haywire since “we lost three wickets early in one spell of Lakmal. So we had to play on for a little bit extra.”

Pothas hoped back-to-back series against India will help the Lankan boys develop. “I think these two back-to-back series against India are going to shape the Sri Lankan team of the future, because you grow while playing against quality sides under pressure situa-tions like these,” Pothas elaborated.

5-6 overs more, and we’d have

won: Rahul

FOUR MEMORABLEDRAWS CAUSED BYRAIN AND BAD LIGHT

Test cricket involving India has witnessed many tight finishes. Some of them were natural outcomes of the way the games

unfolded. A few happened due to the elements. Back in 1948, one dramatic finish took place due to an umpiring gaffe. Here’s our top four...

1979: Eden Garden, Kolkata: Against West Indies: Alvin Kallicharan’s team held on in fading light to force an unlikely draw. The visitors were chasing 335. By the time the last overs were bowled, the street lights had come on. Bastman Sew Shivnarine was the WI hero scoring a dogged 36*. Scores: India 300 and 361 for 1. West Indies: 327 and 197 for 9

1971: Lords, London: Against England: Needing 183 to force an improbable win, Ajit Wadelkar’s India were 145 for 8 at tea – 38 short of win. Eknath Solkar (6) and Bishan Singh Bedi (2) were at the crease. But the score stayed that way as rain intervened. Scores: England 304 and 191. India 313 and 145 for eight

1969: Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium, Hyderabad: Against New Zealand: India escaped with a draw due to an unsavory combination of riot, rain and allegedly biased administration. Time was lost due to a riot in the stadium when a spectator, who had rushed to the field, was roughed up by the men in uniform. Later, India were down in the dumps at 76 for 7 when rain stopped play. It is said, efforts to resume play were painfully slow. Scores: New Zealand: 175 and 181 for 8. India: 89 and 76 for 7

1948: Brabourne Stadium, Bombay: Against West Indies: Chasing their first ever Test victory, India needed just six runs to reach the imposing target of 361 with two wickets left. Led by Lala Amarnath, hosts had lost their eighth wicket at 321 but Dattu Phadkar (37 not out) and Ghulam Ahmed (nine not out) had dramatically taken the hosts to 355 when umpire Bapu Joshi declared the end of play. Incredibly, Joshi had ended the game with two minutes left when another over could have been bowled. Scores: West Indies 286 and 267. India: 193 and 355 for eight (Vijay Hazare 122)

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Chennai: India’s home leg was just about to start and Virat Kohli was on 47 inter-national hundreds. “You are close to 50, does that keep you under pressure?” somebody asked him. Kohli shurgged. “No, it doesn’t. I know I am close to a mile-stone but I never play with those in mind, that’s why probably I get a few,” Kohli had said.

A sense of detachment for per-sonal milestones — that’s the theory that Kohli loves to preach, probably he practises it too. Even on Monday at Eden Gardens, when the new master of Indian cricket was clos-ing in on that 50th international century, it was the same noncha-lance that characterised his batting.

In his 90s, he was giving himself room and playing over the top. It was quite clear the team had a time in mind for declaration. At 97, he looked at the dressing-room, as if to ask “Should I declare?” and it was coach Ravi Shastri who signalled him to play one more over to com-plete the century.

“It feels good. But if I can step up and perform, that will give me

more pleasure than thinking of the number of hundreds. That will remain the mindset till I play this game,” Kohli explained after the match.

Kohli says “it hasn’t been a long journey” yet, but for the Indian cricket fan, it has been a memorable one. Making his international debut nine years back, the Delhi boy has moved at a breakneck speed. In fact, his first international century came at the Eden Gardens nine years back against Sri Lanka in an ODI, and it was fitting that he got his 50th at the historic venue.

While he took to limited-overs cricket the way Rafael Nadal dealt with Roland Garros, Kohli always aspired to be India’s No. 4 in Tests. There was a sense of symbolism

when Sachin Tendulkar got out the last time in a Test, it was Kohli who came out to replace him in the mid-dle. They crossed paths, as if an imaginary baton passed, and since then, barring England, the Indian captain has been unstoppable all around the world.

There are cricket pundits like Michael Atherton who believe that Kohli is more effective than Ten-dulkar in his prime. That’s a debat-able theory but people have started to believe that he can climb Mount 100. Kohli will be 30 next year and there are bound to be less consistent phases in the days to come, but Kohli seems to be preparing for that.

His hard fitness regime, his in-credibly low carb diet — all these are aimed to keep him in supreme shape at a time when the body starts playing a few tricks. “Kohli has taken his fitness to a completely dif-ferent level. That’s why I don’t see him faltering due to issues related to fitness in the coming years,” K Srikkanth, who was the chairman of selectors when Kohli was first picked for India, told TOI.

But all that’s post intermission. For now, it’s all about marvelling at a fantastic first half.

Sydney: Australian cricketers have called on retired sprint king Usain Bolt to boost their running between the wickets during the Ashes Test series against England.

The Jamaican track super-star, the world record holder in the 100m and 200m and eight-time Olympic champion, is working with the Australian batsmen to improve their “ex-plosiveness” off the mark.

“It’s all about explosiveness, and that’s one thing I’ve noticed with cricket – they don’t really have a lot of explosiveness when they’re running,” the world’s fastest man told the Herald Sun newspaper. “They seem to al-

ways take off at a slow rate. Get-ting that right will definitely help people.”

Bolt, 31, who retired from athletics after August’s World Championships in London, said he was trying to increase the awareness of running while batting. Australian batsman Peter Handscomb said Bolt’s tips were welcomed ahead of Thursday’s first Ashes Test in Brisbane. “He was giving us a few pointers on how to get a lit-tle bit faster,” Handscomb said.

“We’ll give it a crack. He was trying to get us nice and low in the turn and in and out. The first couple of steps are key and if we can get them right, we’ll

be fast. Obviously he’s the fast-est man ever so if we can have the title with him, that’d be cool.”

Bolt said he had been busy after retirement, preparing for a tilt at football, having been invited to train with Bundesliga side Borussia Dortmund.

“It’s something that I want to do. I’m trying to get fit now,” he said. “My doctor finally passed me after my hamstring problems at the world champi-onships, so now I can start train-ing. I’ve started training while I’m here and trying to get into shape before I get home and next year I’ll get a trial and we’ll take it from there.” AFP

At 50, Kohli an elder not a seniorAs soon as we lost Saha, me

and Bhuvneshwar started having fun. It was important to take our minds off the

situation and the shots started coming off.”

—Kohli, ON HIS DECISION

TO GO AFTER LANKAN BOWLING

8/96Match figures by Bhuvneshwarat the Eden, his best in a Test match

Bolt helping Oz cricketers become ‘explosive’ runners

SET, GO! Usain Bolt coaches Australian cricketers Glenn Maxwell (left), Ashton Agar, Peter Handscomb and Aaron Finch in Melbourne

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BHUVI, DHAWANRELEASED FROMTEST SQUADKolkata: Opening batsman Shikhar Dhawan will not be available for the second Test against Sri Lanka at Nagpur, while pacer Bhuvneshwar Kumar will not play further part in the remaining two Tests in the series, after the duo requested the BCCI to release them, the Board

said in a release on Monday. “Bhuvneshwar will not take any

further part in the ongoing Test series against Sri Lanka and the senior selection committee has named Vijay Shankar as his replacement. Dhawan is available for selection for the third Test,” the release said, without going into details. As already reported by the media, Bhuvneshwar is going to get married on Nov 23.

Tamil Nadu all-rounder Shankar has been part of the India ‘A’ set-up

in the last few months. Dhawan cracked an attacking 94 in the India’s second innings of the drawn first Test, while Bhuvneshwar was pick of the bowlers at the Eden Gardens.

Squad for second Test: Virat Kohli (Capt), KL Rahul, M Vijay, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane (vc), Rohit Sharma, Wriddhiman Saha (wk), R Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Umesh Yadav, Ishant Sharma, Vijay Shankar. TNN

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CRISIS-HIT DORTMUNDNEED TO BEAT SPURS TO

MAINTAIN ANY SLIM HOPE OF PROGRESSING

Dortmund: Borussia Dortmund host Totten-ham Hotspur on Tuesday needing a win to keep alive their slim Champions League hopes after a terrible run of form.

Spurs visit Dortmund’s Signal Iduna Park already sure of a place in the last 16, but vic-tory will see Mauricio Pochettino’s side finish top of Group H.

Dortmund, who are third on two points, must beat Spurs and hope Real Madrid do not win at APOEL to maintain a chance of reach-ing the knock-out stage. Peter Bosz’s Dortmund held a five-point lead in the Bundesliga at the end of September, but since then they have taken just one from a possible 15 points and are fifth following Friday’s 2-1 defeat at Stuttgart.

Bosz took over after Thomas Tuchel was sacked days after winning the German Cup in May for failing to see eye-to-eye with CEO Hans-Joachim Watzke. Bosz, who led Ajax to last season’s Europa League final defeat by Manchester United, prefers a 4-3-3 formation with striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang playing off wingers Christian Pulisic and Maximilian Philipp.

However, poor defending leaves huge holes which centre-backs Sokratis Papastathopou-los and Marc Bartra struggle to fill, while Bosz has stood by goalkeeper Roman Burki despite a string of howlers. “I prefer to work on the Plan A option,” Bosz insisted when asked why he does not change tactics during defeats.

Gabon hot-shot Aubameyang is goalless in his last five games. He was suspended for Fri-day’s loss and last scored on October 14. Au-bameyang claims to be baffled by his latest suspension and Dortmund are tight-lipped. Magazine Kicker said he was late for training and failed to get permission for a video shoot last Wednesday at Dortmund’s training ground. “Aubameyang is actually an awesome lad, but he has no special rights,” insisted Watzke.

The Dortmund keeper is inconsistent, yet Bosz perseveres with Burki even with veteran Roman Weidenfeller on the bench. In the last seven games, Burki has leaked 16 goals. Bur-ki’s fumble at APOEL last month led to Dort-mund drawing 1-1 in the Champions League. Kevin Trapp is touted as a possible replace-ment for Burki in the January winter break as the Paris Saint-Germain goalkeeper has lost his starting spot in France.

Burki’s plight is not helped by playing be-hind a porous defence, which will invite Spurs striker Harry Kane to attack in midweek.

Bosz made changes after Dortmund were routed 4-2 at Hanover 96 last month after being constantly hit on the break, but Sokratis and Bartra are still unconvincing. AFP

BLAME IT ON BENZEMAMadrid: In a recurring theme of Real Madrid’s stuttering season, Zinedine Zidane turned the spot-light once more on the misfiring Cristiano Ronaldo and Karim Ben-zema. Ronaldo’s run of one goal in eight La Liga games has attracted more attention because it is so out of character for a man who has plundered 414 goals in 408 games

as Madrid’s all-time top scorer. The World Player of the Year has also bagged six goals in four Champi-ons League games to compensate for a slow La Liga start, and will look to score more against APOEL.

Benzema, by contrast, has just two goals in near-ly 1,000 minutes on the field this season in all com-petitions and patience with the Frenchman is wearing thin.

Marca described the repeated

presence of Spanish wonderkid Marco Asensio on the bench for Real’s biggest games as “incompre-

hensible”. AS described Benze-ma as a “ghost striker” for

his lack of end product.The one competition

where Benzema does have a formidable record

is in the CL. Only Ronal-do, Lionel Messi, Raul and Ruud van Nistelrooy

have scored more than his 51 goals in the competition proper. AFP

KANE WANTS TO ‘SPEND ENTIRE CAREER AT SPURS’Tottenham Hotspur and England forward Harry Kane wants to spend his entire career at the London club, he told Germany’s Bild. “My aim is to play my whole career only for Tottenham,” Kane, who is reportedly a major transfer target for the biggest European clubs but whose current deal with Spurs runs to 2022, told Bild. “Everything fits well for me here and I am happy. We have a fantastic team, a good coach and a professional training centre and we are getting a new stadium as well.”

PULIS SACKED AS WEST BROM COACHTony Pulis has been sacked as West Bromwich Albion manager after a sequence of poor results, the Premier League club said. The 59-year-old Pulis has paid the price after nearly three years at Albion with the Midlands club struggling just a point above the Premier League relegation zone.Pulis’s assistant Gary Megson, the club’s former manager between 2000 and 2004, will take over as caretaker manager. West Brom’s 4-0 hammering at home by Chelsea on Saturday proved the final straw.

VALENCIA KEEPPRESSURE ON BARCAValencia coach Marcelino was sent off from the dugout for dissent before watching his side earn a barely deserved 2-0 win at Espanyol to stay in touch with Barcelona ahead of next week’s showdown against the Liga leaders. A rocket from Geoffrey Kondogbia put Valencia on their way to victory midway through the second half soon after Marcelino received his marching orders and Santi Mina sealed the victory late in the game. Barca lead on 34 points from 12 games, Valencia are second in 30.

ITALIAN BOSS RESIGNS AFTER WC WOESItalian football federation (FIGC) president Carlo Tavecchio resigned from his post on Monday, a week after the national team failed to qualify for the World Cup finals, Italian media reported. Referees association president Marcello Nicchi told reporters that Tavecchio had quit during a meeting at FIGC headquarters in Rome, AGI news agency reported.

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HE’S BACK: Dortmundhave lifted the suspension on Aubameyang (R) with their star striker set to face Tottenham

TODAY’S MATCHESThe permutations for progressing to the Round of 16...Group E: Spartak Moskva (5) v Maribor (1)*, Sevilla (7) v Liverpool (8)

Liverpool will qualify with a win, or with a draw if Spartak lose.

Sevilla will qualify if they win.

Spartak cannot be eliminated whatever their result and will ensure at least third place with a draw.

Maribor must win and hope Sevilla lose to stay in contention for a top-two finish. They will finish fourth if they fail to win.

Group F: Napoli (3) v Shakhtar Donetsk (9), Manchester City (12) v Feyenoord (0)

Man City are through and will clinch first place if they win and

Shakhtar do not or if City draw and Shakhtar lose

Shakhtar will be through if they avoid defeat or if they lose but hold a better head-to-head after both games against Napoli.

Napoli therefore must win by any scoreline that leaves them at least level with Shakhtar on head-to-head. They will confirm a top-three finish if they pick up more points than Feyenoord.

Feyenoord will be confirmed in fourth if they draw and Napoli win or if Feyenoord lose and Napoli avoid defeat.

Group G: Besiktas (10) v Porto (6)*, Monaco (2) v RB Leipzig (4)

Besiktas are through (and would clinch first place) with a draw. Even if they lose, they are through if Leipzig do not win.

Porto are through if they win and

Leipzig do not.

Leipzig will be out of contention for a top-two finish if they do not win and Porto do.

Monaco must win and hope Porto do not to stay in contention for a top-two finish. They will be confirmed in fourth if they lose.

Group H: Borussia Dortmund (2) v Tottenham Hotspur (10), APOEL (2) v Real Madrid (7)

Tottenham are through and would ensure first place with a win, or if they at least match Madrid’s result (due to their superior head-to-head).

Madrid will qualify if they win, or if they draw and Dortmund fail to win.

Dortmund must win and hope Madrid do not to stay in contention for a top-two place.

APOEL must win to stay in contention for a top-two place.

KARIM BENZEMA

Mumbai: The Committee ofAdministrators (CoA) has cal-led for a meeting with the offi-ce-bearers of the BCCI at a sub-urban five-star hotel in Mum-bai on Tuesday. In what is beingtermed as an ‘unofficial’ get-to-gether of individuals whosimply don’t seem to get along,the task on hand for the CoA isto assert itself in matters rela-ted to a few important issueswhich include India’s stand onthe International Cricket Co-uncil’s (ICC) new Future ToursProgramme (FTP).

The FTP, in the given cir-cumstances, is in fact the big-gest bone of contention betwe-en the CoA and member unitsof the BCCI. The members ar-gue that a unilateral decision isbeing taken vis-à-vis the FTPand the CoA has not botheredto consult the general bodyabout the same.

FTP is one of the threeitems that’s been listed on theagenda for the BCCI’s SpecialGeneral Meeting (SGM) sche-duled for December 9 and Tues-day’s meeting between CoAand the office-bearers is expec-ted to revolve around it.

The treasurer of the Board,Anirudh Chaudhary, has beeninvolved in an exchange ofemails with Amitabh Choud-hary, the secretary, “reques-ting” him to share details ofwhat the BCCI’s plans are withregards to the scheduling ofthe international cricket ca-lendar and India’s stand.

In April this year, when theSupreme Court had ruled thatthe BCCI secretary would re-present the Board at the ICCthat was in the middle of ring-ing in major policy changes,the general body of BCCI hadcategorically decided in itsthen Special General Meeting

(SGM) that the secretary wo-uld only take note of procee-dings at the ICC meeting andreport the same to the generalbody.

Members, who make for thegeneral body, are now seethingat the prospect of their secreta-ry “following CoA’s diktat” wit-hout consulting them on a mat-ter as important as India’s bila-teral commitments going for-ward. “How can decisions betaken without consultingmembers? Eventually, who do-es it affect? A couple of indivi-duals are taking unilateral de-cisions today, but the questionis will they be around tomor-row when the after-effects ofthese decisions begin to take atoll?” the members ask.

The members do under-stand that CoA head Vinod Raiturns 70 in May next year, amonth possibly in advance tothe ICC’s annual conference.What the state units want toknow is if there’ll be a new CoAtaking fresh decisions yet aga-in when that happens or willthere be a more cohesive unitworking on these decisionsstarting now.

Members want to know ifCoA has engaged itself in anykind of a dialogue with othermember boards of ICC and ma-de any kind of commitment.

“The ICC chairman’s officeis under pressure to justify theUS$2.7b figure on which the2016 model is based. Earlier,BCCI had taken the onus uponitself to compensate memberboards while keeping the lion’sshare with itself, simply becau-se India was at the forefront inguaranteeing the revenue.Now, ICC can’t compensatewhat it promised and thereforethe onus is once again on Indiato compensate its own losses.Except the only worry this ti-me is that the overall revenuemodel itself is a curtailed one,”says a member, adding, “what’ssurprising is nobody wants toshare any details.”

CoA, office-bearersset for a face-off

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Mumbai:The owners of the In-dian Premier League (IPL) fran-chises will attend their first evermeeting post the auction of me-dia rights with the executiveswho operate the league and itsgoverning council in Mumbaion Tuesday.

While there’s no officialagenda that’s been circulatedfor the meeting, in focus are keyissues regarding the IPL such asplayer retention, the right-to-match card at the auction, auc-tion purse, the window for theleague, a newly designed trans-fer window and the new reve-nue policy that’ll be in placefrom the 2018 season onwards.

The meeting has been sche-duled at a five-star hotel, a sto-ne’s throw away from the resi-dence of Kolkata Knight Ridersowner Shahrukh Khan and themovie star is likely to attend. Sowill the owners of the otherfranchises, including AkashAmbani from the Mumbai Indi-ans. Those in the know say it’sonly a “meet and greet session”.

Yet, as discussion progres-ses, player retention will be animportant topic of discussionand IPL authorities expect fran-chise owners to come up withideas on how they’d like to goabout. As of now, the generalidea floating around is to have athree-player retention policyand two right-to-match cardsthat every franchise can avail.

“Right-to-match was used inthe IPL before and it served its

purpose well. A franchise maynot want to directly renegotiatewith its players or may want tounderstand the value of thatplayer from the perspective ofother franchises interested inhim. Right-to-match can help insuch a situation where the play-er doesn’t lose out on his salaryand the franchise doesn’t haveto do any uncomfortable rene-gotiation,” says an executive in-volved with the league.

The IPL could deliberate onthe number of Indians and over-seas players that can be retained(two Indians and one overseas,for example) but the idea lackslogic. “If a franchise wants to re-tain all three Indians, what’s theharm? This needs to be delibe-rated,” adds the executive.

Also in discussion will bethe big question surroundingthe new auction purse. The fran-chises will see their incomefrom the central pool risingmulti-fold — from around Rs75cr per annum until now to in ex-cess of Rs220 cr over — over thenext five years. What the IPLand the franchises have to deci-de is to what extent should thepurse be hiked, given the reve-nue surplus?

Another aspect that needs tobe discussed is the 15-day win-dow between IPL and interna-tional cricket, as recommendedby the Lodha Committee, and la-ter mandated by Supreme Co-urt. “What exactly constitutesfor this 15-day window? The lea-gue needs to first understandthis and then educate the otherstoo because, on the face of it, therecommendation doesn’t makeany sense,” say franchises.

IPL owners to meetand brainstormK.ShriniwasRao

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Mumbai: Swami Viveka-nand's Neil Patade narrowlymissed out on a century butput his team on the front footagainst Cathedral & JohnConnon in their HarrisShield Elite Division SuperLeague match.

Patade's knock of 95 sawhis team reach 252/9 beforedeclaring. Cathedral & JohnConnon were helped by Su-meir Zaveri's impressive fig-ures of 5/71. Cathedral werebatting at 18 for no loss at theend of day's play.Brief Scores: Swami Viveka-nand Intl 252/9d in 84.3 overs(Nishant Kadam 40, AnubhavSharma 75, Neil Patade 95; Su-meir Zaveri 5/71) vs The Cathe-dral & John Connon 18/0 in 12overs); Rizvi Springfield 209/5in 51 overs (Devaditya Subhash79, Aditya Pandey 33*; Tirth Triv-edi 3/36) vs Parle Tilak Eng Medi-um; Green Bombay (Urdu) 115 in44.2 overs (Vijeet Pujari 4/25,Yash Kripal (SLA) 4/32) vs Don

Bosco High School (Matunga)130/6 in 30 overs (Arjun Dani 53);Al Baarkat MMI (Eng) Kurla288/6d in 66 overs (Atharva Nigre77,Hammad Mujavar 51, HarshMogaveera 50, Dashrath Chavan60; Abbas Karachiwala 3/88) vsLilavatibai Podar ISC 0/1 in 6overs

D’Souza to the four as UBI beat MSB 6-0 Union Bank of India rompedto a fluent 6-0 win againstMaharashtra State Police ina Elite Division match of theMDFA League at St Xavier’sground, Parel on Monday.

The highlight of UnionBank’s win was their dash-ing striker Scot D’Souza wholed their charge with fourgoals. Valentine Pereira andKshijit Dhabolkar chipped inwith one each to complete themargin of victory.

The bankers dominatedplay from the outset andD’Souza drew first blood in

the very second minute.D’Souza the livewire in theUnion Bank attack was againon target with the secondgoal six minutes later and hestruck the third in the 15 min-ute to complete his hat-trick.

Double titles for MastanYMCA, NBAMastan YMCA won the men’sand junior boys titles, whileNagpada Basketball Associ-ation (NBA) emerged miniand youth boys championsand Bandra YMCA won thewomen’s crown, in the NBAbasketball tournament, atthe Bachoo Khan Municipalplayground in Nagpada.

Bandra YMCA gave theday of championship roundsan explosive start following agripping 46-45 overtime winover Indian Gymkhana in thewomen’s final.

In another gripping con-test, Mastan YMCA beatarch-rivals NBA 79-77 in thejunior boys’ final after lead-ing 38-33 at half time.

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Mumbai: The motive behind the Maha-rashtra State Lawn Tennis Association(MSLTA) bringing a WTA event back tothe country after a five-year gap was clear—to give India’s young women players anopportunity they would usually find hardto come by.

That desire did not just see Ankita Ra-ina, Karman Kaur Thandi, Rutuja Bhosa-le and Zeel Desai handed wild card entriesto the Mumbai Open main draw, it alsoprompted tournament officials to ensureall four Indian players got a taste of centrecourt action at the Cricket Club of Indiaon Monday. The partisan scheduling me-ant Belgian Yanina Wickmayer, a 2009 USOpen semifinalist and the tournament’sthird seed, had to play her first roundmatch against Briton Laura Robson, anOlympic mixed doubles silver medallist,on a side court.

Eighteen-year-old Zeel, ranked 622 inthe world, tried as hard as she could aga-inst the 149th-ranked Carol Zhao, but thevast difference in the two players’ ran-kings told a stern truth as the seventh se-ed from Canada stormed into the secondround with a 6-3, 6-1win in 67 minutes.

Karman was next on court but she toofailed to extend her debut outing in a WTAevent to a deciding set, at the very least.

Taking on Slovenian Dalila Jakupo-vic, the 19-year-old Indian, showed plentlyof grit in the second set but faltered on ser-ve at a crucial stage to lose 6-2, 6-4.

Having done well to fight back from a

3-1 deficit in the second set, Karman, notlacking in support with mentor MaheshBhupathi watching from the stands, wasbroken in the ninth game following whichthe 242nd-ranked Jakupovic comfortablyserved out the match.

“I had my chances, a little bit on myserve. Even the 4-4, I was 30-0 and servingso I lost the game from there and that’swhen the second set changed,” said Kar-man who has, however, jumped from 312

to 284 in the latest WTA rankings. Bhupathi called for patience when as-

ked about the way forward for his protege.“Unless you are Roger Federer, you arenot going to fly into the top five in theworld right? If you look at Jack Sock, it’s ahistory of seven years. It’s been a progres-sion. That’s the same progression that wehave charted out for both Sumit (Nagal)and Karman,” said the current skipper ofIndia’s Davis Cup squad.

Karman, Zeel crash out in first roundRohan.Alvares@timesgroup.com

Indian luger Shiva Kesha-van will make his sixth ap-pearance at the WinterOlympics as he qualified forthe 2018 PyeongChang Win-ter Games at the ongoing

Viessmann Luge World Cupin Innsbruck, Austria.

He needed five necessarypoints to achieve the qualifi-cation standard for nextyear's mega-event and hemanaged to achieve that atthe World Cup. Competing inthe Viessmann Luge WorldCup, Keshavan finished 23rdout of 57 athletes with a timedifference of 0.701s from thewinner.

Aditi finishes 61stIndia’s Aditi Ashok shot aneven-par 72 in the final

round to sign off 61st in theseason-ending CME GroupTour Championship at Na-ples, Florida, on Sunday. The19-year-old finished with atournament tally of five-over 293. .

Shreyasi wins double trapShreyasi Singh bagged agold, her second individualmedal at the 61st NationalShooting Championshipcompetitions, when she wonthe women's double trapevent in New Delhi on Mon-day. Representing Bihar,Shreyasi defeated VarshaVarman of Madhya Pradesh92-87 to finish on top. hagunChowdhary, who won thewomen's trap gold, claimedthe third spot after scoring84. In the junior women'sdouble trap, Haryana'sBhavna Chaudharyclinched the gold beatingManisha Keer of MP 79-75.

Keshavan qualifiesfor 6th Winter Oly

Mumbai: Transfers are partand parcel ofevery govern-ment ser-vant’s life andthey can, at ti-mes, do moreharm than go-

od to an individual’s career.More so, if it is a sportsper-son.

A case in point could bethat of swimmer VirdhawalKhade. The 2014 Asian Gamesbronze medallist, who was al-so the youngest man from In-dia to qualify for the 2008 Be-ijing Olympics, was posted asa tahsildar at the Collector’sOffice in Sindhudurg, a smalldistrict in Maharashtra’sMalvan region.

The designation may so-und impressive, but for aswimmer, it was like being afish out of water as there wereno swimming pools in that re-igon for Khade to train.

After serving eightmonths and putting on extrakilos in the process, the 26-ye-ar-old from Kolhapur sought

a transfer to get his careerback on track. His requestwas approved and on Monday,he reported to his new officeat Andheri. It was also a daywhen he was appointed as abrand ambassador for a swi-mathon scheduled to be heldat Colva beach.

Khade says his posting inMalvan affected his career.“There were no swimming po-ols so I did not enter a pool forsix to eight months. I suffereda little as I also had to work abit. When you are posted in arural area, there are differentchallenges,” the swimmer sa-id.

Khade recently startedtraining for the Bhopal Se-nior Aquatics Nationals andin the process lost 20 kgs. “Iweighed 105 kgs, in the lasttwo months of training, I gai-ned race fitness.”

More than the weight, hewas glad about his timings asthat puts him in the medalbrackets. “Realistically, I ha-ve a chance to bag a medal, butI have to balance my work(and training) and see how do-es it work out,” said Khade.

I’m back in medalbracket: Khade

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New Delhi: Priya Ranjan Das-munsi, former All India Foot-ball Federation (AIFF) presi-dent, who was in coma since2008, died at a Delhi hospital onTuesday. He was 72. Dasmunsiserved as the AIFF president fortwo decades and ran the count-ry’s footballing affairs even tho-ugh he was a senior Congress le-ader and a Union minister.

Elected president of theAIFF in 1989, after serving theorganisation as vice-president,Priya da, as he was known in thefootball fraternity, stayed in thepost till he suffered the massivestroke in 2008.

His tenure at the helm offootballing affairs in the count-ry was tumultous and had seen more troughs than crests.Still, his affable nature and uncanny knack for improvisa-tion had stood out amid manycrisis situations.

One can level a million criti-cisms against Priya da, but onemust give credit to the man who-se single-handed effort gave In-dia its National League in 1996.

“We feel that the first editionof the league was the best as itwas beamed live. Indian footballstarted entering the drawing ro-oms on a regular basis,” recal-led a club official.

Dasmunsi’s primary andbiggest contribution to Indianfootball is the introduction ofthe national league. The pressu-

re from Fifa was there but to ac-tually manage the logistics andhelping the tournament see thelight of day was a massive task.

Manipur was fraught withinsurgecy in 2002 but it did notdeter the then AIFF presidentwho selected Imphal as a venuefor Santosh Trophy. It turnedout to be one of the most suc-cessful events of the time andfittingly the hosts won the trop-hy for the first time. Frankly, ittook a lot of courage and daringto oragnise a tournament inImphal at that time.

He earned a rare distinctionwhen in 2006, FIFA named himthe match commissioner for agroup stage game betweenAustralia and Croatia in the2006 World Cup.

Never afraid to knock onany door for football, Priya dacopped a lot of bad press duringhis time. Never for once, did it le-ave him perturbed or evokedvindictive reactions.

NFL was Dasmunsi’s biggestcontribution to Indian football

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Ongole (Andhra): As hardas Mumbaitried, theystill fell shortof beatingAndhra Pra-desh outrightin a crucial

Group C Ranji Trophy en-counter here at the CSR Sar-ma College ground on Mon-day. While there were someterrific performers for the 41-time champions, includingPrithvi Shaw, Siddhesh Lad,Abhishek Nayar, ShardulThakur, Dhawal Kulkarni,Shreyas Iyer and debutantKarsh Kothari over the fourdays, Mumbai somehowcould not land the knock-outpunch.

Nevertheless, skipperAditya Tare felt the side haddone well, especially afterlosing the toss on a bowler-friendly track. “It was atough game to start after los-ing the toss. We put up a de-cent score on this pitch as itwas not easy to score on thefirst day. Also, full credit toour bowlers who gave us thefirst innings lead, consider-ing the track had settleddown considerable by thethird day,” Tare told TOI, postthe conclusion of the match.

While pace bowlers Tha-kur and Kulkarni bowledtheir hearts out for morethan two days, the need for athird pace bowler was prettyglaring. And, Tare blamedthis on injuries that haveplagued some of the playersin contention for the spot.

“Minad (Manjrekar, thethird paceman selected forthe Andhra game), has goodpace but had a tough game. Inthe first innings he strug-gled, but he raised his gamein the second innings. We arestruggling with a few inju-ries to our bowlers. TusharDeshpande is an ideal third

bowler, Balwinder SinghSandhu (Jr) too is a goodthird bowler. Both of themare recovering from surger-ies, so we are trying out dif-ferent bowlers. Royston Diasis also injured, so that hasmade it tough,” said Tare.

He praised the effort ofKothari, the debutant spin-ner, who returned with 3-55in the second innings.“Karsh was pretty impres-sive given that the pitch didnot have much help for spin-ners. He has got good heightand if he can get some assist-ance from the pitch, he will

hede, Tare said: “We areaware of the situation, andall of us will be ready for thegame. We are confident wewill do well.”

deliver the goods for us.” Speaking about the forth-

coming must-win matchagainst Tripura that beginson Saturday at the Wank-

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Ongole (Andhra): For a major part ofMonday, the Ranji Trophy Group C en-counter between Andhra Pradesh andMumbai resembled the previous Mumbai-Baroda game that the hosts drew, battlingwith their backs to the wall at the Wank-hede. Only this time, the roles were re-versed, with Mumbai pressing on for anoutright win and Andhra putting up stoutresistance at the CSR Sarma Collegeground here.

However, the end result was a draw,with the visitors walking away with threepoints on account of the first innings lead,and the hosts settling for a solitary point.Mumbai, who were the dominant side eversince they claimed the lead on Sunday af-ternoon, set their opponents a huge 397-run target off a possible 81 overs, but thatclearly was too much to chase and Andhrafinished proceedings at 219-5 by the timethe last ball of the 15th and final mandatoryover was bowled amidst fading light.

This result, coupled with Tamil Nadu’sfirst innings lead over Madhya Pradeshmeant that four teams – Andhra (19 pts),MP (15 pts), Mumbai (14 pts) and TN (11pts)— are still gunning for two quarterfinalplaces in Group C with only one round ofleague games remaining. Andhra, though,will have to wait and watch from the side-lines as they are through with their leagueengagements.

Mumbai were in a hurry to get runsfrom the very first over on Monday withShreyas Iyer resuming on 75. He struck

spinner Bhargav Bhatt for a couple ofboundaries in the 43rd over and just whenhe looked set to be racing towards a well-de-served century, he was out for 89, caught byKV Sasikanth at deep mid-wicket off pacebowler P Vijay Kumar. His knock was lacedwith nine boundaries and a six.

Thereafter, the duo of Abhishek Nayar(38 not out, 39 balls, 3x4, 1x6) and DhawalKulkarni (33 not out, 30 balls, 4x4) raisedthe tempo, allowing skipper Aditya Tare todeclare their innings on 279-6 in a total of 57overs. Andhra began their quest to save thegame with openers DB Prashanth Kumarand KS Bharat coming out strongly. Theybatted patiently and never missed out onscoring opportunities. Just when it lookedlike the game was headed for a tame draw,with the duo gradually establishing theirhold on proceedings, Prashanth perished.He was caught and bowled by pacer Shar-dul Thakur for 40 on the first ball of the 31st

over. The first wicket partnership fetched68 runs, and Thakur, who had claimed 5-55in the first innings, let out a loud roar lead-ing to expectations that he may just bewarming up for an encore of the previousinnings.

He got rid of skipper Hanuma Viharifor 15 in the 39th over, trapping him leg be-fore wicket, and Mumbai were suddenlyalive and kicking. Nevertheless, Bharatand the new batsman Ricky Bhui held fortfor the next 13.4 overs, before debutant spin-ner Karsh Kothari had the former caughtby Jay Bista for 68. The wicketkeeper bat-sman, had done extremely well till thenand had consumed 161 balls, hitting sevenboundaries and a couple of sixes.

Thereafter, the tall left-arm spinnerwent on to claim the wickets of Bhui for 55and B Sumanth for 11, returning with fig-ures of 32-19-55-3. Both these batsmen werecaught at silly point by Prithvi Shaw.

41-Time ChampsNeed Victory &Luck To Qualify

AP boys Bharat, Bhui denydesperate Mumbai a win

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Mumbai’s Prithvi Shaw takes a blinder off Andhra batsman Ricky Bhui on Day 4 of the RanjiTrophy match at the CSR Sarma College ground in Ongole on Monday

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GROUP A: At Guwahati: Hyderabad 326 &144/6 in 39 ovs (A Rayudu 52*). Assam 136 &f/o 331in 109 ovs (R Das 52, A Sinha 122, RAhmed 75; S Tyagi 3/34). Hyderabad won by4wkts (Hyderabad 6 pts, Assam 0). At Delhi(Palam): Delhi bt Maharashtra by an inningsand 61runs (Delhi 7 pts, Maharashtra 0). AtKanpur: Karnataka 655 & 262/0 in 59 ovs (RSamarath 126*, M Agarwal 133*). UP 331in84 ovs (Rinku Singh 73, Upendra Yadav 49; SGopal 3/63) Match drawn (Karnataka 3 pts,UP 1). Points tally: Karnataka (26 pts/5matches), Delhi (24/5), Hyderabad (15/5),Railways (14/5), Maharashtra (10/5), UP (5/6),Assam (2/5)GROUP B At Surat: Rajasthan 153 & 341in107.3 ovs (MK Lomor 60; S Desai 5/129).Gujarat 601/4 decl in 155 ovs. Gujarat won byan innings 107 runs (Gujarat 7 pts, Rajasthan0). At Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala 225 &411/6 decl in 92 ovs. Saurashtra 232 & 95 in51.3 ovs (Jalaj Saxena 4/29; S Joseph 3/27,Akshay 3/23). Kerala won by 309 runs (Kerala6 pts, Saurashtra 0). At Rohtak (Lahli):Haryana 184 & 167 in 86.3 ovs (R Dayal 6/44).J&K 176 & 157 in 44.1ovs (Bandeep Singh 44,Owais Shah 52; AK Chahal 5/53). Haryanawon by 18 runs (Haryana 6 pts, J&K 0) Pointstally: Gujarat (27 pts/5 matches), Kerala(24/5), Saurashtra (23/5), J&K (9/6), Haryana(9/5), Jharkhand (8/5), Rajasthan (5/5)GROUP C At Ongole: Mumbai 322 & 279/6in 57 ovs (S Iyer 89). Andhra 215 & 219/5 in 81ovs (D Prashanth 40, KS Bharat 60, R Bhui 55;KKothari 3/55). Match drawn (Mumbai 3 pts,Andhra 1). At Vadodara: Baroda 503 &259/1in 43.5 ovs (A Waghmode 101*, VSolanki 53, D Hooda 100*). Odisha 445 in 166ovs (S Senapati 173, R Dhuper 86; SwapnilSingh 5/50). Match drawn (Baroda 3 pts,Odisha 1). At Indore: Madhya Pradesh 264 &351/4 decl in 102.5 ovs (R Patidar 89, SSharma 56, Harpreet Singh 100*, Ankit Dane65*). Tamil Nadu 326 & 79/1in 25 ovs. Matchdrawn (Tamil Nadu 3 pts, MP 1) Points tally:Andhra (19 pts/6 matches), MP (15/5),Mumbai (14/5), TN (11/5), Baroda (10/5),Odisha (6/5), Tripura (4/5)GROUP D At Raipur: Services btChhattisgarh by an innings and 9 runs(Services 7 pts, Chhattisgarh 0). AtPorvorim: Goa 239 & 151in 53.3 ovs (AWakhare 5/54). Vidarbha 427/3 decl in 143ovs. Vidarbha won by an innings and 37 runs(Vidarbha 7 pts, Goa 0). At Amritsar: Bengalbt Punjab by an innings and 19 runs. (Bengal 7pts, Punjab 0)Points tally: Vidarbha (28 pts/5 matches),Bengal (20/5), Punjab (15/5), Himachal (13/5),Chhattisgarh (13/6), Services (9/5), Goa (5/5)

Ranji TrophyRound 6, Day 4

Injuries to bowlers did not help: Tare

IT’S been a wonderful experi-ence this AirtelDelhi HalfMarathon. Be-ing at the startline, witness-ing the focusand intensity

of the elite athletes before thestart was something I could re-late to. And then to see the restof 34000 plus runners wassheer joy, the spirit and theirenthusiasm was infectious.

Personally I also love run-ning. For training and keepingmyself mobile, I run between2-7 miles on flats, hike and in tothe wild. For most swimmers

we do so much training that itincreases our mobility andlooses our upper joints. It’s notdifferent with me as I’m con-

stantly in this battle to in-crease the strength through-out my body and loosen up mybody and gain mobility in thelower too so I do enjoy runningas an alternate way of keepingmyself fit from head to toe.

Now that one and all havecompleted the run, it is veryimportant from them to focuson their recovery. An individu-al gets ready for such races in away that puts the bodythrough some serious rigours.Immediately afterwards oneshould look for an opportunityto re-pull the body back in

shape so that it’s ready to per-form again.(THE WRITER IS THE INTERNATIONAL EVENT

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Job done, focus on recoveryAnthony Ervin

Hyderabad: Smarting fromtheir worst performance in thelast eight months at the ChinaOpen, the Indians will be keento make amends at the HongKong Super Series beginningin Kowloon on Tuesday. For

the first time since Sai Pra-neeth won the Singapore Openon April 16, Indians didn’t pro-gress beyond the quarters inChina. PV Sindhu was the soleexception, reaching quarters.

Having won seven SuperSeries titles and six GrandPrix Gold crowns this year, In-dians have emerged as one ofthe top nations this year butthe move to force them play theNationals appears to have

backfired. The shuttlers havebeen playing non-stop badmin-ton since October 17, travellingfrom Europe to India and thenChina to feature in six tourna-ments. The poor show in Chi-na could mean HS Prannoyand Saina Nehwal may missout on qualification for the Su-per Series Finals next month.

Many feel K Srikanth hasplayed it smart by opting out oftwo tournaments to be freshfor the Finals in December.Barring Sindhu, most of theIndians have a tough draw atthe Hong Kong Open. Sindhubegins against a qualifier andis expected to reach the quar-terfinals. The second-seededIndian may face Akane Yama-guchi of Japan in last eight. Ya-maguchi won the China Openlast week and has toyed withSindhu and Saina in the lasttwo months.

Shuttlers look tomake amends

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HK SUPER SERIES

New Delhi: Just a few monthsback, the Wrestling Federationof India (WFI) and Sushil Ku-mar wouldn’t see eye-to-eye.Narsingh Yadav’s dope contro-versy was fresh in the minds ofWFI’s top bosses and after Sush-il’s subsequent elevation as na-tional observer, the rift had wid-ened between the federation andthe two-time Olympic medallist.

But, as they famously say inpolitical circles “there are nopermanent friends and ene-mies”; the same language of di-plomacy works in the case ofWFI and Sushil.

Else, how would you justifyWFI’s internal decision that noaction would be taken againstthe three wrestlers who volunta-rily walked out of the contest topave the way for Sushil’s corona-tion as the new national cham-pion in the 74kg weight category.

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‘Felt I deserved to be here’London: Wimbledon cham-pion Jana Novotna was a truewinner but it was the misfor-tune of the brilliant Czech, whodied on Monday aged 49, to al-ways be recalled for one ofsport’s most famous and heart-rending meltdowns despite hercollection of 100 tennis titles.

After Novotna’s death fol-lowing a long fight with can-cer, Wimbledon, the tourna-ment where she really madeher name in both defeat andvictory, paid tribute to her as“a true champion in all sensesof the word”.

For even though she wasvictorious as singles cham-pion there in 1998, it was fiveyears earlier on the same Cen-tre Court that she really cap-tured the imagination — andsympathy — of the sportsworld when losing the final toGerman Steffi Graf.

Her defeat, conjured fromthe jaws of victory when she losther nerve and confidence, is stillconsidered one of sport’s greatmeltdowns as Novotna was apoint away from taking a 5-1leadin the third set only to serve adouble fault. It led to a capitula-tion that was painful to beholdas Graf took five games on thetrot and won the final set 6-4.

The failure was all toomuch for the then 24-year-oldNovotna to take.

At the presentation cere-mony afterwards, she brokedown and, in one of the iconicimages in Wimbledon annals,burst into tears while beingcomforted by the Duchess ofKent, the British royal whogave her a shoulder to cry on— literally.

“I know you will win it oneday, don’t worry,” the Duchesstold her at that moment. They

proved to be prophetic words.Four years later, Novotna,

whose background as a talentedchild gymnast helped her tohone a dynamically athleticserve-and-volley game perfectfor Wimbledon, reached the fi-nal again. Again, she lost, thistime to the teenage tyro MartinaHingis, after being a point awayfrom a 3-0 lead in the final set butthis time she was scuppered notso much by a lack of nerve as byan abdominal injury as theSwiss swept the last set. AGENCIES

Novotna, a true winner,succumbs to cancer

London: There’s a fresh drive, a newdetermination to Grigor Dimitrov.He wears it on his sleeve, it toucheshis eye. Waiting to walk out onto theelectric setting of the Nitto ATP Fi-nals — bright lights, floor screens,complete with country colours andaction shots — the 26-year-old emit-ted a spark of his own.

And following 2 hours and 29-minutes of action — when the Bul-garian fell to the court sobbing afterDavid Goffin dumped a volley intothe net — he showed how much hewanted the win. Dimitrov, the newWorld No. 3, clinched his biggestprize yet with a dogged 7-5, 4-6, 6-3 re-sult in the title round.

Dimitrov said consistency wasthe key to the best season of his ca-reer. “As soon as you’re prepared,you have good stability behind you. Ifelt I had a good mental toughnessthroughout the whole year, I wasconsistent,” the champion said.“Physically we keep on working,during the tournament, before thetournament, after the tournament.So when my body’s allowing me to dothis kind of preparation, I feel I al-ready have an advantage over anyother player. It’s not just a result ofone or two weeks’ work, it’s the re-sult of the last off-season, the wholeyear so far.”

Dimitrov, who made the cut forthe season-finale for the first time,fell face-down on the court after thelast point, tears streaming down hischeeks. “It is a special event. Some-

times you get the chance to play that,sometimes you don’t. For me, theway the year has been, I felt I de-served to be here. But I didn’t want toimagine that far ahead, that I’m go-ing to be in the final, win the wholething,” the popular Bulgarian said.“As a tennis player, if you want to beup at the top, there’s no shortcuts.I’m fully dedicated. This year I’vedone a lot of work on that. I sacri-ficed days, that time when Ishould’ve probably had off, maybegone on a little vacation... Now itpays off.”

Delighted with his success in theyear-end championship, Dimitrovwants more. “I’m going to sit downwith the team and reassess the

whole year, see what we’ve donegood, what we can improve. One ofmy main goals is to win a GrandSlam tournament. This has alwaysbeen a dream of mine. Now I thinkI’m slowly getting there. I’ve hadgood results in the past, but I need tobe even more consistent in thosekind of events, and also raise my lev-el. Obviously this is a great, unbe-lievable achievement for me, but Istill have a lot to give. I want to per-form better and better.”

Goffin says, no regretsGoffin, who’ll lead the Belgian chal-lenge in the Davis Cup final, carry-ing a 4-0 record into the clash againstFrance in Lille, showed great spirit

at the O2. “After this week I’m a bet-ter player mentally and also physi-cally,” he said. “Sometimes whenyou’re for the first time in the top-eight, you don’t know how it’s goingto go, if you’re going to play a goodlevel. I proved to myself that I’m inthe right place and I deserved to behere in this tournament.”

The soft-spoken Belgian added,“Match after match I took more con-fidence. I’m proud of what I’veachieved, even if I’m disappointedabout the final. I gave everything, Ihave no regrets after the final.”

Goffin, who beat the World No. 1and 2 — Rafael Nadal and Roger Fe-derer — en route to the final, said ithad been a great week for him. “I de-served to win, but Grigor also de-served the win. He was unbeatablethis week. He played really great ten-nis, was really solid from the firstmatch until the end. So he deservedcompletely to win the tournament.Even if I won against Rafa and Rog-er, I lost the final.”

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Stephen Curry scored aseason-high 39 points,grabbed 11 rebounds andpassed out seven assistsbefore fouling out Sunday asthe defending NBA cham-pions Golden State Warriorswon 118-111 at Brooklyn. Results: Toronto 100 btWashington 91; Indiana 120bt Miami 95; Golden State 118bt Brooklyn 111; Detroit 100 btMinnesota 97; Phoenix 113 bt Chicago 105; LA Lakers 127 btDenver 109.

Lee retires David Lee, who helped theGolden State Warriors to the2015 NBA title during a 12-season career, announcedhis retirement on Sunday on

Instagram. Lee, whose fian-cee is Danish tennis starCaroline Wozniacki, aver-aged 13.5 points and 8.8rebounds over 829 gameswith New York, Golden State,Boston, Dallas and SanAntonio.

Farah for London Mo Farah will start his careeras a full-time road runner bytaking part in a London halfmarathon early next yearbefore tackling the fulldistance around the Britishcapital in April, according toThe Times.

Wu resigns The Taiwanese head ofamateur boxing’s governingbody Wu Ching-Ko has re-signed after a power strug-gle involving accusations offinancial mismanagement.

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Curry stars inWarriors’ victory

Guwahati: India had a mixedday inside the ring in the AIBAWomen’s Youth World Cham-pionships (AWYWC) at NabinChandra Bordoloi Indoor Sta-dium here.

India won two bouts andlost one on Monday. ShashiChopra first took on Uzbekis-tan’s Durdonakhon Rakhma-tova in the 57 kg feather-weightcategory and won 5-0 withoutany fuss.

In the 69 kg welter-weightcategory, Astha Pahwa defeat-ed her Bulgarian opponent Me-lis Nezhdetova.

India’s Vanlalhariatpuiilost to her aggressive Koreanopponent Aeji Im in the 60 kglightweight category.Results: Light Flyweight (45-48kg): Tdorova Emi-Mari (BUL) btClayton Danielle (AUS) won onunanimous points decision; NieYuan (CHN) bt Denholm Billie(SCO); D’Almeida Gloria (FRA) btDuwal Asmita (NEP); Fryers Caitlin

(IRL) bt Nasu Misaki (JPN).Bantamweight (54 kg): PuszkaDaria (POL) bt Blue FayzullaevaMaftuna (UZB); Featherweight(57 kg): Rodionova Valeriia (RUS)bt Timlin Amy (ENG); EN Havanur(TUR) bt Vozniak Olha (UKR);Mauermann Emily (GER) bt ThapaMagar Sisam (NEP); Glover Victo-ria (SCO) bt Sorrentino Giordana(ITA); Monkhor Namuun (MGL) btPiteau Victoire (FRA); Shashi Cho-pra (IND) bt Rakhmatova Durdo-nakhon (UZB); Middleweight(75kg): Shamonova Anastasiia(RUS) bt Moreu Sharahya (USA);Marczykowska Natalia (POL) btMakhno Karolina (UKR); Karakoy-un Selma (TUR) bt Petrovics Ga-briella (HUN).

Shashi, Astha bringcheer to Indian camp

Bengaluru: It’s been agood year for Yuki Bham-bri. A consis-tent one, as heputs it. Lan-guishing at534 in the 2016year-endranking fol-lowing an in-jury-hampered season, the25-year-old has done quitewell to climb to 122.

In the city for the Bengalu-ru Open Challenger, a titlehere — to follow up the one hewon in Pune on Sunday —would put him in good steadfor a spot in the AustralianOpen main draw. A covetedspot, but not one Yuki is keento focus on at the moment.When asked about the firstGrand Slam of the season, hereplied: “Not at all (thinkingabout it). Every match is diffi-cult. I have played 20 tourna-ments and won one Challen-ger for the year. So it’s very dif-ficult. You can’t look past thefirst round.

Consistency,not Aus Open,on Yuki’s mind

Bulgaria’s Grigor Dimitrov, who made the cut for the season-finale for the first time, fellface-down on the court after winning the last point against David Goffin in London

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ATP FINALS

Finland’s Henri Kontinen andAustralian partner John Peers wonthe doubles title at the ATP Finals forthe second year running when theybeat World No. 1duo Lukasz Kubotand Marcelo Melo 6-4, 6-2 on Sunday.

Kontinen and Peers lost theiropening round-robin match but wenton to become the first pair to winback-to-back titles at theseason-ender since Bob Bryan andMike Bryan in 2003-2004. REUTERS

Kontinen-Peersretain title

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RIP CHAMP: An emotional Jana Novotna holds the Venus RosewaterDish after clinching the 1998 Wimbledon title. The Czech native won 24 singles and 76 doubles titles in a career spanning 14 years

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India’s Shashi Chopra (right)defeated Uzbekistan’s Durdonak-hon Rakhmatova 5-0 on Monday

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D ivya Khosla Kumar, who has acted inand also directed Bollywood films, is allset to explore a new territory — digital

short films. Her debut venture, Bulbul, is acomedy that revolves around a free-spiritedgirl, who wears her heart on her sleeve. Thefilm, which also marks T-Series’ entry into thedigital world, promises to reveal various shadesof Divya as an entertainer.

Interestingly, the short features her in mul-tiple avatars — a Punjabi kudi, a pregnant ladyand a Kathak dancer, among others. The movie,shot in Shimla and Mumbai, also stars ShivPandit, who plays her love interest. It featuresjust one song — a soft melodious number com-posed by Meet Bros.

The trailer of the film, which was launchedonline on November 17, has already garneredappreciation. The actress says, “I’m over-whelmed by the audience’s response to the trail-er. I am happy that I have tried to do somethingnew. This film has given me a chance to playdifferent characters, experiment with my looksand tell a story in a comic way. In a short-film

format, it’s very difficult to narrate a story witha strong dose of humour.”

Divya’s associate director on her previous film,Ashish Panda, has helmed the short, which re-leases digitally on December 7. The duo hadworked on its script with late filmmaker Kun-dan Shah for almost a year, making Bulbul hislast project. Divya sums it up saying, “With thisfilm, I have got a chance to challenge myself cre-atively and also work with Kundan Shahji.”

Bulbul is a comic tale ofa free-spirited girl

‘I AM HAPPY THAT I HAVE TRIEDTO DO SOMETHING NEW. THISFILM HAS GIVEN ME A CHANCETO PLAY DIFFERENTCHARACTERS, EXPERIMENTWITH MY LOOKS AND TELL ASTORY IN A COMIC WAY’

— Divya Khosla KumarEd Sheeran left his fans craving for more ashe wrapped up his city concert in 90 minutes

‘MUMBAI, YOU ARE ALWAYSSPECIAL AND THIS NIGHT IS MAGICAL!’

‘MUMBAI, YOU ARE ALWAYSSPECIAL AND THIS NIGHT IS MAGICAL!’

Renuka.Vyavahare@timesgroup.com and Debarati.Sen@timesgroup.com

O ver the past two years, the city has becomea hotshot destination for internationalartistes — be it Coldplay, Justin Bieber,

The Chainsmokers and now Ed Sheeran, whoperformed in Mumbai on Sunday night.

It was an evening that his fans will alwaysremember for a long time. The British singer-songwriter, who had first performed in Mumbai in2015, captivated the audience with his interactive andhighly entertaining performance, as he belted out his chartbustertracks one after the other, from 8 to 9.30 pm at an open-air arena inBandra-Kurla Complex.

Divya Khosla Kumar sports different avatars in her upcoming short film, Bulbul

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Trouble in Rinku and Kiran Karmarkar’s marriage?Tanvi.Trivedi@timesgroup.com

L ooks like yet anothermarriage in tellylandhas hit choppy waters.

BT has it that actor coupleRinku and Kiran Karmarkar,who got married 15 yearsago, are facing troubles intheir relationship.

According to sources, thetwo have been livingseparately for a year now. Asource said, “Both Kiran andRinku are mature, creativepeople. After being togetherfor 15 years, they havedecided to separate becauseof unresolved differences —they believe it is better thanliving in constant acrimony.The decision is amicable and

their priority is theirteenager son.”

While the couple remainedunavailable for comment, thesource added, “Rinku andKiran don’t want to talk abouttheir personal lives. They arefiercely guarding theirprivacy as they don’t wantunnecessary publicity toupset their son.”

Rinku and Kiran had firstmet on the sets of KahaaniGhar Ghar Kii, in which theyplayed siblings. Soon,friendship turned into love andthe two tied the knot in asimple ceremony. While Kiranwas last seen in the showTamanna and Dhhai KiloPrem, Rinku played a strongcharacter in Yeh Vaada Raha.

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T o celebrate its 10th anniversary,Viacom18 hosted a lavish cele-bration, where the media and

entertainment conglomerate unveiledits new corporate brand film, Open NewWorlds. The evening, a star-studdedaffair with who’s who of corporateIndia, Bollywood and TV industry,offered a peek into the decade-old lega-cy of the network.

Gracing the occasion was MukeshDhirubhai Ambani, who said, “Today,where you stand after 10 years,the success is entirelyyours. My warm con-gratulations to theentire team andits leadership! Inthe next decade,the digital andentertainmentindustries inIndia will growmanifold; infact, the nextdecade will be thegolden period of theentertainment indus-try in India.”

Sudhanshu Vats, Group CEO, Viacom18,added, “In my mind, we are a 10 year ‘young’future-focused organisation that continu-ously challenges status quo. Unlike legacyplayers, we have often entered new areasmuch later and yet carved out a distinctidentity for ourselves. Our vision to beIndia’s most admired M&E company isreflected in our intent to open new worlds forour audiences. Whether through our showssuch as Balika Vadhu, Shakti, LakshmiBaramma, Angels of Rock, VOOT OriginalUntag or movies like Bhaag Milkha Bhaag,Queen, Toilet: Ek Prem Katha and more; astrong undercurrent of social messagingdrives a lot of our content.”

The night, hosted by MeiyangChang, Maniesh Paul, Bharti Singhand Sumeet Vyas, saw glamorouscelebrities who’ve been associatedwith the network. From Malaika Arora,who brought back memories of MTVLoveline, to VJ Bani reminding us of herRoadies’ stint, the red carpet was a starry

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and Rajiv, MonaliThakur, Arjun Bijlani,

Karishma Tanna, SunilGrover and Avdhoot

Gupte turned up to shake aleg to power-packed per-formances from Mika,Kailash Kher, ShankarMahadevan, Raghu Dixit,Neeti Mohan and

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A grand celebration for media house’s 10th birthday

MonicaDogra

Mika

Kailash Kher

Mouni Roy

RubinaDilaik

Stars celebrate the network’s newbrand film Open New Worlds

Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani, Chairmanand Managing Director, RelianceIndustries Ltd., and Sudhanshu Vats,Group CEO, Viacom18

Raj Nayak, COO,Viacom18

Piyush Pandey

E V E N T SSTAND-UP COMEDY Fresh Comedy Night: Featuring bothnew talent and professional comedians,it will surely be a fun night with stand-up comedians Kautuk Srivastava, TruptiKhamkar, Backstage Cafe, Andheri,9 pm.3WM Comedy Tuesdays: A no-holds-barred comedy night with Anand Reghu,Mandar Bhide, Kajol Srinivasan and NeilBalthazar, 3 Wise Monkeys, Khar, 9 pm.Global Village Idiot Trial: Watch AditiMittal testing one hour of new jokes andconfessions that will transcend bordersand in some cases comedy itself,Independence Brewing Company,

Andheri, 8.30 pm.THEATRE The Father: Wry, moving, hilarious anddisturbing by turns, on one level, this isa family drama, and on another, asearing picture of mental dysfunctionand the toll it takes on both the suffererand the care giver, Prithvi Theatre,Juhu, 9 pm.NALANDA1. Nalanda@HELP (Health EducationLibrary for People) is organising a freetalk on ‘Anger Management’ by DrAshok Balsekar, Help, Ashish, Fifth Floor, Tardeo, 3.30 pm, 6595 2393/ 6595 2394.

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S unday evening sawTusshar’s friends head toNandita Mahtani’s Bandra

pad for a sundowner to bring in his41st birthday (November 20).Planned at the last minute, buddiesof both, the hostess and the birth-day boy joined in for the sponta-neous celebration. Karan Johar,Tabu, Urmila Matondkar, AftabShivdasani and his wife NinDusanj, Tanishaa Mukerji, NeelamKothari Soni, Dino Morea, Chunkyand Bhawna Panday, Atul andAlvira Agnihotri, Shabina Khan,Himansh Kohli and their non-filmfriends like Sheetal Mafatlal amongothers, were present.

At the stroke of midnight,Tusshar cut two cakes – oneordered by Nandita and anotherthat he had called for. The partywent on till 2 am.

Tusshar’s birthday bash: Fromsundown to the wee hours

A quick round-up of stars @ IFFIShah Rukh Khan andShahid Kapoor aren’t theonly stars adding a doseof glamour to the fest thisyear. Here’s a list of theother famous faces thatyou can spot at severaltalks, panel discussions,

and red carpets, orsimply hanging

out at the IFFIpremises inPanjim, overthe next fewdays...

@ CLOSING CEREMONY: INDIAN FILM PERSONALITYOF THE YEAR:

SalmanKhan Amitabh

Bachchan

@ PANEL DISCUSSIONSKaran Johar Ekta Kapoor Ashwiny IyerTiwari (director,Nil BatteySannata)RS Prasanna

(director,Shubh MangalSaavdhan)Raja KrishnaMenon (director, Chef)

Diana PentyBhumi PednekarHuma Qureshi Aditi Rao Hydari

OTHER STARSEXPECTED TO ATTEND:

Shekhar KapurFarah KhanRiteshSidhwani Nitesh Tiwari (director,Dangal)

@ MASTERCLASS SESSION:

Pablo Cesar @ Closing Ceremony:The Argentinian filmmakerwill present the World pre-miere of his film ThinkingOf Him with his cast andcrew.

Craig Mann@ Master Class:A Canadian re-recording mixer, he justwon the Academy Award in the categoryBest Sound Mixing for Whiplash.

Atom Egoyan@ Master Class:One of Canada’s most celebrateddirectors, Atom has been knightedby the French government, and hasreceived two Academy Award nom-inations for his film, The SweetHereafter. He will also be presentedwith the Lifetime AchievementAward.

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The concert was opened by American musician AriStaprans Leff aka Lauv, who played his popularsingles like A Different Way, I Like Me Better andEasy Love.

Unlike a pop-star, Ed casually walked onto thestage at 7.59 pm, dressed in an ocean blue kurta,with the name of his album written in Devnagrion the back, and a pair of dark blue jeans, strum-ming his guitar. Ed belted out his soulful, genre-bending hits one after the other without a sin-gle break. He sang Castle On The Hill, Eraser,The A Team, Sing, Dive, Bloodstream, Happier,Perfect, Tenerife Sea, Photograph and finallyThinking Out Loud and Shape Of You. He evendonned the jersey of the Indian cricket team forthe last two songs, which drove the crowd into afrenzy and made them rap with him. UnlikeBieber, whose fans were predominantly teens,Sheeran commanded a wider fan base, com-prising adults and teens alike, who thronged thesuburban arena.

He magically strummed his guitar, humblythanked the crowd after every song and told a lit-tle backstory as a prelude before each song. Thesinger continued telling his stories like how the pi-ano and not guitar, was the first musical instru-ment that he played and how he found Mumbai, itspeople and food amazing.

While Chris Martin, with his warmth and crowd-engaging performance, ranks the highest amongstthe three, Ed comes a close second, followed by JustinBieber,who chose to let his dance do the talking insteadof ‘live singing’.

However, both Coldplay and Justin clocked in at atleast two hours unlike Ed,who wrapped up his gig with-in 90 minutes, keeping his second date with India shortand sweet, but ‘real’ (unlike many popular stars, in-cluding Bieber, Ed didn’t resort to lip-synching). Hestopped at 9.30 pm (way before the 10 pm deadline), sothose who turned up fashionably late, missed a lot. Edconcluded the event by saying, “Mumbai, you are al-ways special and this night is magical.” While the90 minutes duration left his fans a tad wistful,his utmost passion for ‘live performance’ morethan compensated for lack of time.

SPOTTED AT THE CONCERT...

Naveli Deshmukh (Yamaha Fascino Miss Diva 2015-2nd Runner-Up) andLopamudra Raut (Miss United Continents2016-2nd Runner-Up)

Lucinda Nicholas (MissWorld South Australia2010)

SHEERIOSIN MUMBAI

Ed Sheeran commands awider fan base, comprisingadults and teens alike, whothronged the venue sinceafternoon to witness their

favourite singer perform live

Akshay Kumar’s son Aarav with friends

M ost parents feel a sense of dread when they getthat letter or text from the school saying therehas been a case of nits. It is usually followed

by a nervous check and then hours spent in the bath-room with the nit comb. And you then send your littleones back to school, hoping and praying that all theother parents have done the same so you don’t have torepeat the process next week.

But for one mum this isn’t the case, as she’s boldlyadmitted she’s happy when her kids come back with head lice.

Mandy Nolan says, “It’s a bizarre confession, but Iactually enjoy removing head lice from my children.There’s a strange thrill when one locates aforemen-tioned freeloader, lines up the louse between ones’opposing thumb nails and cracks it. It’s a small butvery satisfying pop.”

Head lice are tiny insects that live in hair, and nitsare the empty egg cases they hatch from.

Normally they are harmless, but they can be itchyand may cause a rash on the back of the neck.

Mandy claims that her kids also enjoy havingthem, and it can end up becoming a bit of a

game.She says, “After combing throughtheir hair they’ll cry out, ‘How many

did you get?’“Once I’ve decom-

missioned thehead

lice I

am then requested to show my child the collection ofcorpses squashed onto the tissue.”

The family even count up who had the most — andthe ‘winner’ has to empty the dishwasher. She com-pares picking nits to social grooming in the animalkingdom and believes it brings her family together.

She describes the times they are all in the bathroomtogether, while the treatment lotion is working itsmagic, as ‘a moment of family closeness’.

Probably not for everyone, but each to their own!

— Daily Mirror

Mum admits she’s happywhen her kids get nits andclaims they enjoy it too

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N A N C Y By Guy and Brad Gilchrist

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H I a n d L O I S By Brian and Greg Walker

P E A N U T S By Charles M. Schulz

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LEISURE

THE DAILY CROSSWORD

SCRAMBLERearrange the letters in the four word jumbles,one letter to each square/circle, to make fourordinary words

Fidelity to ____ in the face of doubts and fears is avery spiritual thing - Gordon Atkinson (10)

H O W T O P L A YNow arrange the letters in the circles to form theanswer to the riddle or to fill in the missing word asindicated

FACT OF THE MATTERPersians might look prissy and aloof, but they’re actually

considered to be one of the most low-maintenance and friendliest cat breeds.

LOOP THE LOOP

SCRAMBLE

SPELLATHON

WHATZIT? Topless bathing

The Great Lakes:Superior,Michigan,Huron,Erie,Ontario

There are five,lakes being blue (as in true blue).LakeMichigan belongs to the United States,the other lakes are

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Fidelity to commitmentin the face of doubts and fearsis a very spiritual thing - Gordon Atkinson

SOLUTIONS TO GAMES/PUZZLES

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ARIES March 20 - April 18 Step back,learn from your own mistakes andbecome a stronger person. Dosomething new and exciting today. Ifsomeone is always in control ofeverything, you may feel yourimportance is diminishing. Even smallchanges can help get things back ontrack. This day favours artisticcreativity.TAURUS April 19 - May 19 You enjoymaking plans for tomorrow. You areirritated with one of your closestcompanions. Be realistic whilespending and make saving a priority.Talk to someone you respect, if youneed encouragement or support.GEMINI May 20 - June 20 Pride andstrong feelings hold too much sway -distance yourself if you don’t want tosay or do something that you can’ttake back. This will help you strike a

balance that gives you theenergy to be there for others.CANCER June 21 - July 21 Youmay need to realise that youcan’t live anyone else’s life andthat your advice isn’t alwayssought or even wanted. Yourtalent lies in communicationand that lets you shine at anysocial gathering. If you want tobe different, make acommitment to change this day.LEO July 22 - August 21 Youwill alter so much that you mayfeel as if you’ve undergone acomplete rebirth. It will be easyto complain if you feel you’rebeing treated unfairly. Follow upimportant matters for a few

days. Some situations will not have asimple or easy answer.VIRGO August 22 - September 21 Youhave a provocative approach in orderto force a reaction out of those who areclose to you. Highlight your lack offocus in the past. Get involved withactivities that please you. Familymatters are of prime importance to you.You will be able to manage your life.LIBRA September 22 - October 22You will sort and sift through yourhopes and dreams, discarding someand adding a few new entries to yourwish list. Spend time at home and enjoythe company of your family. The vibe ismore solid and steady. Strong opinionsmight end up hurting you.SCORPIO October 23 - November 20Make sure you are consistent andconcise when you discuss your plansfor the future. Change will be good as

long as you don’t hold back informationor do things secretly. In your personallife, dealing with others is difficulttoday. Sit back and assess what hasbeen accomplished today.SAGITTARIUS November 21-December 20 It's about time youactually accomplished your agenda orput your plans into action; do not youprocrastinate. You are surrounded bynegative emotions -jealousy, schemingand malicious gossip. Take out sometime to do nice things for yourself. Youwill have a good time with friends.CAPRICORN December 21 - January 19 On the work front, thingsmay get a bit complicated. You arecurrently undergoing a lot of change.Afinancial or physical problem willdevelop if you are too abrupt orimpulsive in the way you do things.Youmay be enticed by how others areconducting business, but you must beconservative in your dealings.AQUARIUS January 20 - February 18Make personal changes that will ease yourstress and help you relax. Pampering,followed by organising what you want toaccomplish over the upcoming week, is anexcellent way to spend the day.Focus lesson personal problems that may be hauntingyou.PISCES February 19 - March 19You need to focus on yourself and yourown needs, no matter what the finaloutcome. There are cutting remarksand hurtful responses from all sides.Surrender emotionally charged issuesand go with the flow. Makeappointments and set up meetings. Bemethodical in your work.

BIRTHDAY TODAY

You can now see through the pretence of thosewho had been behaving like friends.

Tip: Your lucky colours are violet and pink. Yourlucky gems are opal and amber.

You share your birthday with: Jena Malone

H O W T O P L A Y

Fill in the grid so that every horizontal row, every vertical columnand every 3x3 box contains the digits 1-9, without repeating thenumbers in the same row, column or box.You can’t change thedigits already given in the grid. Every puzzle has one solution.

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Level: Easy

(Fig B)Not allowed

Rules■ Connect adjacent dots withvertical or horizontal lines, creating asingle loop (Fig A).■ Crossovers or branches are notallowed (As shown by dotted lines inFig B).■ Numbers in the puzzle indicatethe number of lines that shouldsurround it, while empty cells maybe surrounded by any number oflines.■ You can’t draw lines around zeroes.■ Each puzzle has just one unique solution.

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LOOP THE LOOP

How to begin: Example(Fig A) - Begin with thezero next to 3. Since nolines can be drawn aroundzero, mark crosses aroundit, as shown. Now there isa cross in one spacearound 3. So we know thethree lines of 3 can only bedrawn in the remainingthree spaces. Next, theselines can only be extendedin one direction each.Continue, using the samelogic.

Hints: Keep eliminatingpossibilities by markingcrosses in spacesbetween dots where aline isn’t possible, i.e., ifyou have alreadycompleted required linesor where a line extensionmay create a branch orcause a deadend (Fig B)

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Dragons New Artist of the Year: Niall Horan Favorite Alternative Rock Artist:Linkin Park Favorite Adult Contemporary Artist:

Shawn Mendes Video of the year: Bruno Mars, That’sWhat I Like Favourite Male Artist Country: KeithUrban Favourite Female Artist Country:

Carrie Underwood Favourite Artist Rap/Hip Hop: Drake Favourite Male Artist Soul/R&B:

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cover up with rippeddenims. The no-fuss,

clear look works forthe gym or a dayout about town.Her hair accentu-ates the look. Welike!

SONAMKAPOORSonam’s all-blacklook turned headsat the airportrecently. Spottedreturning fromBangkok, the actresswore a kaftan dresswith biker boots and abaseball cap. It’s not thefirst time she’s gone tip-to-toe black and it rocks!

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Unfortunately, style isn’teasy. It does require effort,focus on the fit, trial room

exercises, choosing the rightcolour palettes and well, the rightpieces that suit your body type.It’s difficult, we know. But takeheart, it only sounds difficult.With just a few simple tips/tricksand some sartorial know hows,you’re bound to fare well withyour uniform everyday. You onlyneed to pay attention to what youchoose. That said, a lot of us don’thave the perfect body to flaunt.Yet, if a guy is thin enough towear almost anything, the leasthe can do is — not appear fat.Unless, of course, he’s hell-benton succumbing to the listed point-ers here. Men, take notes...

BAGGY PANTSIf you’re an oxygen-ledhuman who lives on aplanet called Earth,here’s a reminder —throw your baggy

pants/ jeans out of the window.And definitely avoid wearingthem in public. Why? One,because baggy pants make youlook bigger than you really are.Two, they also make you look

unnecessarily broader. Andthree, they just don’t flat-

ter your body inany cor-

ner.

While wearing slightly loosepants is alright, the really baggypants do absolutely no justiceto your look. Neither will theyscore you any brownie pointswith the women. Likewise, sinceanything skinny fits you like sec-ond skin, if your legs aren’t yourbest assets, we strongly sug-gest that you keep skinnyjeans away in your closet.Slim fits are the best bet formost men because they sitjust right on the hips andlegs.

ANYTHINGWITHHORIZON-TALSTRIPES

Your eyes are easy —they look at a line fromone end to the other. So,clearly, if there’s a hori-zontal line that movesfrom the left to the right,your eyes will move in thesame direction (or mayberight to left). Result? You’llappear broader. Why do thatto yourself? Opt for vertical-ly striped apparel instead.Vertical stripes look far bet-ter than their horizontalcounterparts any day.However, rugby stripes arespiffy, so, if you’re wearingthem anyway, proceedwith caution.

ALWAYSTUCKINGIN YOURT-SHIRTIn most

cases, doing this isa part of good(or profession-al) manners.However, it’s some-thing that might be high-lighting all your problemareas. Tucking your T-shirtinto your jeans/ trousers willcontour your stomach area,

which is bound to glorifywhat’s odd around there. Don’t

tell us we didn’t warn you.AN ILL-FIT-TED SUITWhetheryou’re a corpo-

rate honcho or not, nothingshould stop you from spendingmoney on a well-fitted suit. Ifyour sleeves are too long ortrousers are representing theNiagara falls, visit a tailor andget it suitably altered to sitsnugly on your frame. Don’tallow extra fabric on your suitto add any unnecessary bulkon you.

WEARING TOOMANY COLOURSTOGETHERBreaking your bodyup with tons of

colours, will only bring focus oneach and every part of your body.And in case there flaws in anygiven area, it’s almost like you’rebringing the spotlight to it. So,preferably wear just one or twocolours all over, or tints/ shadesof the same colour or best —stick to only dark colours.

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There’s a nip in the air and the season isset to get colder soon. With the pleasantweather on the agenda, it’s also time to

notch things up in your wardrobe. From beanies tolighter wraps, capes and long jackets, styles are set toshift dramatically. With winter, the layering possibil-

ities are endless, too. You can try a leatherjacket with flare jeans or a belted calf-

length coat and skinny jeans withankle booties, a long, bright coatwith your bootleg denims,monochrome power dressingand more. Here’s how

Bollywood is flaunting thecool weather look.

SHRADDHA KAPOORMixing prints are in vogue of lateand Shraddha seems to have thatsorted. She teamed a blackOriental print jacket with a calf-length sequins dress and sneakers.Festive holiday dressing, for sure.

PRIYANKACHOPRAThe actresssports a tanktop, jeggingsand shortmaroon jacket.It was stylishand showed offher toned figure.

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ANUSHKASHARMAAnushka Sharma wore a deepred pant suit at a sportsawards function a week ago.She co-ordinated her lookwith beau, Virat Kohli. Theflared trousers and beltedjacket, went perfectly with herloose, wavy hair and kohl-lined eyes. Definitely makesits way up on the winter partystyle charts.

WHETHER YOU HAVE A CORPORATE JOB ORNOT, NOTHING SHOULD STOP YOU FROMSPENDING MONEY ON A WELL-FITTED SUIT. IFYOUR SLEEVES ARE TOO LONG OR TROUSERSARE REPRESENTING THE NIAGARA FALLS,VISIT A TAILOR AND GET IT SUITABLY ALTEREDTO SIT SNUGLY ON YOUR FRAME. DON’TALLOW EXTRA FABRIC ON YOUR SUIT TO ADDANY UNNECESSARY BULK ON YOU

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T he year 2017 was one full of chaos,laxity and impromptu decisionsmade by the authorities of

Mumbai University. While the varsitywas in news for all the wrong reasons,what we must not forget is how all of thisaffected the students and faculty mem-bers alike. Teachers and students unionheld protests, the former Vice ChancellorDr Sanjay Deshmukh was asked to stepdown and there were structural changes,which resulted in most students losingout a year, not just academically, but pro-fessionally, too.

So, while BT has reported about theissues surrounding the University on var-ious occasions, this time we reached outsolely to students to understand whatimprovisations they would like the varsi-ty to pay heed to.

STICK TO ONE FIXED SYSTEM The University needs better organisationin terms of paperwork and how theystructure their syllabus. This includesgiving out hall tickets, exam time tablesetc. What happened this year, cannot berepeated. Any new system they introduce

needs to be tested on a small scalebefore being implemented to avoidany hassles in between an academicyear.— Pranika Sharma, who graduatedthis year from Jai Hind College

ACADEMIC OFFICIALS CANNOTHAVE A CLERICAL MINDSET For the coming academic year, Iwould suggest the university totrain their staff at Kalina Campus todeal with students in a better way.They should have knowledge ofwhat’s happening in the Universityand be able to answer students well.Many of us would dread going there.

— Unnati Gala, Jai Hind College

UNIVERSITY’S RECKLESSATTITUDE HAS FORCEDSTUDENTS TO SEEK OTHEROPTIONSTwo of my papers were unassessed,which led to a delay in my admis-sion. I have always scored well. Thisyear, when I asked for a photocopy ofmy answer sheet, I saw that the sup-plements I had attached were miss-ing and because of this, I will haveto appear for a KT exam next month.Had it been any other university, likeDelhi University, the repercussionswould have been severe. Many copiesare lying outside the room, most ofthem are spoilt by fungus.— Akanksha Choudhary, fourth-year BLS

LLB student, Government Law College

THEY COULD HAVE ISSUED ADECLARATION ASKING COMPANIESAND OTHER UNIVERSITIES TOCONSIDER THE DELAYI had applied for a job in a graphic compa-ny and they needed a graduate for an in-tern. I was qualified but I didn’t get the jobas the results were delayed. For starters,they need to take care of the marksheetsas it is three years of hard work. As it wasthe University’s fault, they could have is-sued a declaration ask-

ing them to consider thesame on the basis of our pre-vious results and kept a fewseats vacant.— Riya Visariya, a Sciencegraduate from KC College.

THEY NEED BETTERPLANNING WHENIMPLEMENTING ANEW SYSTEMThese results were simi-lar to demonetisation —it was a good initiative butneeded better planning. Iunderstand the varsityunderwent a lot of stress,but so did we. There arestudents who have beenable to influence and getan admission, but manyothers had to run around. There was no

uniformity inthe spot

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tration system and I am still waiting formy MSc admission.

Only 60 to 70 per cent results were up.There was a delay in the process all throughand we were told that the results will bedisplayed later. We were worried every

time the dates were announced.For them, it was just a date,

but for us, it is THE DAY.— Syed Mo-

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Set against the backdrop of theBandra-Worli Sea Link, this pictureis an amalgamation of the beautiful

sea and extraordinary architecture the cityboasts of. On an early morning visit toBandra, I managed to capture my friendagainst this picturesque backdrop depict-ing the essence of Mumbai.

UNIVERSITY SHOULDHAVE WELL-SPACED OUTEXAM DATES My results were held in reserve for thelongest time. After several trips to the uni-versity, they were finally declared. But, bythe time I could enroll for my masters inPolitical Science in the university, it was al-ready time for my semester exams. Not sur-prisingly, I had to take exams in less thana week’s time. I wasn’t even prepared. Totop it, I had to miss a couple of job op-portunities owing to the delay.

— Mithila Naik Satam,MA, Political Science.

◗ Paper leak: Earlier this month, the fifth se-mester BMS paper was leaked via WhatsApp.A student on conditions of anonymity says,“It’s disappointing that a few of my classmateshad an upper hand because they already knewwhat’s in the question paper. To my woes, Iread a report that there will be no re-exami-nation.”

◗ On-Screen Marking: The chaos, which be-gan in May 2017 continues till date. In Janu-ary 2017, Dr Deshmukh had announced theintroduction of the On-Screen Marking Sys-

tem (OSM) for all the colleges under Mumbai University. The exams were starting in April and the teachers were nottrained in time for operating this system.Thus, after the examinations got over, thefaculty members could not check paperson time, thus leading to the delay in re-sults, among other things.

◗ No elected body for the past two years:The University has been functioning with-out elected bodies (senate, managementcouncil and an academic council) since

August 2015. The Maharashtra Public Uni-versities Act, 2016, ratified in Decemberlast year. Though brought into force inMarch this year, is yet to constitute elect-ed bodies for enhanced management.

Apart from this, errors on hall tickets,clashing examination dates, delayed re-evaluation results, delayed marksheets,procedural confusion and infrastructure-related complaints have been registeredagainst the university on the National Con-sumer Complaint Forum.

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NAME:AKRAM MOHAMMAD FROM: YEMENCOLLEGE: MUMBAI UNIVERSITY STUDYING: PHD IN CLOUDSECURITY

Akram at asugarcanejuice stall

GlobalMumbaikar

Choosing India to pursue my studies was anovernight decision and I am glad I did so. When Ifirst moved here, it was difficult to adapt myself to

this city, which is always on the move. However, I’vespent enough years here (I completed my graduation atThakur College of Science & Commerce) and I love it. Ihave been to different parts of the country, includingUttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Goa and tosome parts of Maharashtra but nothing matches thevibe of this city. I prefer hanging out with my friends inCharni Road, Chowpatty, the cafes in Bandra, Andheriand Juhu beach. Many mistake me for an Indian owingto my looks. In fact, I even follow Bollywood and lovetheir music. Arijit Singh, Armaan Malik, ShreyaGhoshal and Atif Aslam are my favourite singers.

I love the local food. The flavours and spices used inmy country are quite similar. I like Indian food morethan most Indians! Often after a stroll, I love sipping onsome sugarcane juice and masala chaas they serve onthe streets. My favourite street food is Chinese bhel, vadapav, idli, misal pav, among other things. I absolutely lovethis country and I am looking forward to experiencingmore here.

— As told to Garvita.Sharma@timesgroup.com

‘ENOUGH OF GOOF-UPS, MUMBAI UNIVERSITYNEEDS TO BUCK UP’...say students who’ve faced the brunt of theUniversity’s negligence in the last one year

YEETMeaning: A gesture usedto express excitementUsage: “Yeet! Are yousure of what you are say-ing? You really made it inthe top five!”

A CRAPELLA Meaning: Singing badly whilelistening to music on theheadphones Usage: “Dude, your version ofthis song is A Crapella!”

GRRRLMeaning: A girl who isindependent, strong andaggressiveUsage: “The way shewas tackling him waslike a total grrrl.”

WHAT THE TEACHERS’COUNCIL HAS TO SAYThe decision to sack the former VC Dr Sanjay Desh-mukh was ideal, but it came too late in the day. Andon behalf of the union, we feel it was not enough forputting the students’ future at stake. His negligencehad costed the students a lot and will also somewhereaffect next year’s enrolment, teaching methodologiesand evaluation. The repercussions of this laxity willonly be borne by the students.”

— Rohini Sivabalan, President, Bombay Universityand College Teachers’ Union

We were not against technological advancements, butthe former Vice Chancellor should have introduced theon-screen marking system much before the examinationsstarted. The teachers could have acquainted themselveswith the new system.”

— Tapati Mukhopadhyay, President,Maharashtra Federation of University and College

Teachers’ Organisation (MFUCTO)

The Universityshould get back to

the old system ofchecking papers

manually or doing onlinetests and then check

them digitally. MUdoesn’t have the right tomess with our futures.

— Monal Thakkar,an Arts graduate from a South Bombay College

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UNIVERSITY SHOULD UPGRADEITS ONLINE OPERATING SYSTEM ‘Other helpline numbers should beshared and the University’s websiteshould be updated, we can also tryhaving an app where we can findregular updates from MU’— Divya Keswani, who graduatedthis year from HR College

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I f you have been suspicious why a recentupdate has slowed down your phone and com-panies want to force you to upgrade, you

wouldn’t be off the mark. There are manyassumptions and misconceptions about how oldersmartphones slow down after a new model isannounced. It’s just a myth that companies delib-erately slow down your phone and we wanted topoint out why smartphones generally slow down.

Remember, you have alreadybeen using your current smart-phone for at least a year orbought a new device that has oldcomponents. Hardware on anydevice generally does not slowdown that quickly and the samecan be applied to smartphones.There are plenty of other rea-sons why smartphones generallyslow down and wanted to informabout general remedies that cancure your smartphone of bloat.

UNAVAILABLE MEMORY A smartphone’s internal memo-ry has a large role to play when itcomes to performance. Apps aregetting larger in terms of sizeand when you update these apps,they tend to take more space.Apps frequently add new addi-tional features that require morememory and, in turn, more com-putation power. Since yoursmartphone already has manyother apps loaded, there is lessmemory available for your phoneto speed up the performance.Apps are getting larger in sizeand require more space thanever to function properly.

The other factor that affects a smartphone’s per-formance is the limited amount of RAM available.Most smartphones come with 4GB or 6GB of RAMand when your device can’t access any more of it,your device gets slower. Applications and operat-ing systems require a certain amount of RAM towork effectively.

EXCESSIVE CACHEING In order for apps to run faster, developers oftenput in a feature that lets the application storecopies of data in RAM. This data is stored so thatwhen a user might want to see something again, itwould not take so long to fire it up. This is knownas cacheing, which makes accessing things fasterand easier. However, if your smartphone runs out

of memory, it causes your device to slow down oreven freeze. Many apps don’t effectively managecache data, which is one of the primary cause forsluggishness on your device. This, in turn, affectsthe rest of the smartphone and brings down othersystems along with it.

REMOVE UNNECESSARY APPS We’re all guilty of downloading apps we don’t really

need and unwanted apps can slowa system down as well. It takes upspace on your smartphone anduses up RAM a smartphone alwaysneeds. Unwanted apps also useother system resources that canimpact performance. You canalways manually start deletingapps or do a factory-reset anddownload apps that you useoften. This will free upmemory space andalso makemore

RAMavail-able foryoursmart-phone.

You need tofirst accept thefact that yoursmartphone will never be able to match the perform-ance of a newer model. The simple reason being,newer devices have faster and more efficient compo-nents. However, if you spend a little time on yourexisting device, you can make it run faster thanbefore.

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You need to firstaccept the fact thatyour smartphone willnever be able tomatch theperformance of anewer model. Thesimple reason being,newer devices havefaster and moreefficientcomponents.However, if youspend a little timeon your existingdevice, you canmake it runfaster thanbefore

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Thanks to the the avalanche of technology that has crept in almostevery area of our lives, we’re using our smartphones more than

ever. A study has revealed that while the average user touches theirsmartphone over 2,600 times in a day, heavy users touch theirs over5,400 times.We now spend more time on mobile apps than we dowatching TV, which is probably explained by the fact that a whopping130 billion apps were downloaded by users last year.

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L ets face it. There can benothing more frustratingthan trying to surf the inter-

net using Wi-Fi that is agonisinglyslow. While there are several com-panies that make claims of super-fast speed, there is no dearth ofcomplaints from users about slowinternet speed. It is important toremember that Wi-Fi waves areradio waves that travel small dis-tances and are picked up by smart-phones. Unfortunately, if anythingcomes in the way of these waves,they get blocked causing slowinternet speed. Here’s what youneed to keep in mind when itcomes to your Wi-Fi router...

1 NEVER PLACE THEROUTER ON THE FLOOR

Home routers are designed in sucha way that they emit signals down-ward. So, when you place yourrouter on the floor, the signal goestowards the floor instead yoursmartphone/ laptop. Wi-Fi wavesneed no obstruction whatsoever inorder to function well.

2 DON’T PLACE THEROUTER IN AN

ENCLOSED SPACEWhile you may want to protectyour precious router from dust,water, breakage, etc, keeping it in alocked cupboard or cabinet will

render it almost useless. This isbecause the signal will getabsorbed by the door of the closet,rendering the router almost use-less. Instead keep it on a shelf thatis slightly higher so that there arelesser chances of damage.

3 THE PLACEMENT OFYOUR ROUTER

This is the most important thingyou need to keep in mind.Remember, Wi-Fi waves are easi-ly absorbed by things that comein their way, hence, you need toplace your router at a placewhere there will be minimumhindrance. Place it in a roomthat is accessible from all cor-ners of the house. This way itwill ensure that the signalstrength is equal in all areas ofthe house.

4 PAY ATTENTION TO THEANTENNAS

Just in case your modem has twoexternal antennas, make sure youkeep one pointed straight up whilethe other one should be tilted hori-zontally towards the left.

5 KEEP ELECTRONICITEMS AWAY FROM

YOUR ROUTERIt’s pointless to keep your routernext to your computer, thinkingthe speed will pick up. On the con-trary, television sets, kitchen appli-ances, computers, etc will interferewith your router’s signals, makingthe signal weak. Make sure thatyou keep your router away fromany electronic devices that mayimpact Wi-Fi speed.

6 IDENTIFY APPS THATUSE A LOT OF

BANDWIDTHIf you or the people you share yourWi-Fi with regularly indulge invideo chats, play games or watchmovies online, precious band-width gets used and makes theinternet slower. This is where youcan use Quality of Service (QoS) toprioritise certain applicationsover others so that the more essen-tial applications get the bandwidththey need.

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monsoon and its surrealtraffic are the three most

distinct characteristic featuresthat sets it apart from other met-ros. While it is true that waitingfor an indefinite period of timecooped up in your car in crazytraffic is extremely annoying,we’ve listed a few simple thingsthat could prove to be a refresh-ing way to channelise your frus-tration and improve your mood.

PRACTISE FACE YOGAIf binging during the festive sea-son has done more harm thangood to your chiselled face, it istime to opt for face yoga. The dif-ferent types of face yoga are sosimple that one could do them intheir cars and see visible resultsafter just a month or so. It isimportant that you do them thricea day. There are seven differenttypes of face yoga. These includepuffing up your cheeks, stick yourtongue out for as long as you can,stare at the ceiling, make an ‘O’with your lips, fish face, carry anastonished or startled look andtilt your head sideways to kickthat double chin out of your life.

A GOOD TIME TO CHANT One of the commonest things weusually do to kill time while stuckin traffic is listening to music.While there is nothing wrong in

starting your daywith the soothingvoice of yourfavourite singer,some find chantsmore relaxing.Regardless ofwhat your reli-gious and spiritu-al beliefs are, youcould alwayskick-start yourday (or end it)with a little bit ofintrospection andsome catharticchants to go withit. Many video-sharing siteshave clips that goon for hours.And, there is awide variety ofsub-sections tochoose from —piano music,meditationmusic, religious chants and evenmusic for concentration. BankerSmriti Sharma, who travels fromAndheri to Nariman Point every-day, says, “It gets extremely frus-trating to spend hours on endstuck in endless traffic. There’sonly so many games you can playon your smartphone or watch TVshows/ movies. After some time,you need something to de-stress.I’ve discovered that chanting is

extremely soothing and helps megather my thoughts and unwind.I’ve started doing it daily while Icommute.”

INDULGE IN SOME BRAINSTIMULATING GAMESSelfies are a great way to mas-sage your ego and beat the trafficblues. But do you know knowwhat is even better? A game thatbroadens your horizon and teas-es the brain. From games onimproving ones concentration tosomething as basic as Scramble,productive games are a great wayto keep boredom at bay. Also, thefact that they enlighten you isicing on the cake. Word gamesand jigsaw puzzles stimulate themind and are known to have anumber of health benefits,including better concentrationand quicker responses.Advertising professional Aditya

Bhanushali says, “I take a cabdaily from the suburbs to come tomy work place in town andinstead of just listening to musicwhile stuck in traffic, I play wordgames that not only improve myvocabulary but also my memory.”

GIVE YOURSELF A QUICKMANICURE Cracked, brittle nails are passéand women from all walks of lifewant to look their best, evenwhen they step out for a regularlunch date. But for a woman, whois always on the go, it is impossi-ble to file her nails or add a topcoat to that pretty nail paint.Keeping your nail kit handy andusing it during rush hours wouldnot only mean you are ready forthe day but also helps you getover boredom. Honestly, whodoesn’t need bright and beautifulcolours on their nails?

WI-FI WAVES AREEASILY ABSORBED BYTHINGS THAT COME INTHEIR WAY, HENCE, YOUNEED TO PLACE YOURROUTER AT A PLACE

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YOU COULD ALWAYS KICK-START YOUR DAY (OR END IT) WITH A LITTLE BIT OF

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