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Price 2.00 Pages : 12 JAMMU SUNDAY AUGUST, 11 2019 VOL. 34 | NO. 221 | REGD. NO. : JM/JK 118/15 /17 | E-mail : [email protected] | www.glimpsesoffuture.com Andhra could be role model for rest of the country El Paso gunman 'confessed to targeting Mexicans' England spinner Adil Rashid ruled out of domestic season Only stray protests in Kashmir: MHA #2 #(%& 0$ The Union Home Ministry said on Saturday that there had been a few stray protests in Kashmir Valley in the past few days against the scrapping of special status of Jammu and Kashmir, and none of these in- volved a crowd of more than 20 people. "There have been a few stray protests in Srinagar/Baramulla and none of these involved a crowd of more than 20 people," a min- istry spokesperson said. The spokesperson also dismissed a media report about a protest by about 10,000 people in Kashmir as "fabricated and incorrect". The government abrogated pro- visions of Article 370 of the Constitution that accorded spe- cial status to Jammu and ## *(3 +* ,$# 3 ganja-peddlers held, 5 kg of contraband seized +&)/+-# 0$ Three ganja-peddlers were arrested from different areas here on Saturday and nearly five kg of the contraband was seized from them on Saturday, police said. Based on a tip-off, one of the peddlers was caught early this morning and 1.1 kg of the narcotic seized from him while his associate escaped, but was later arrested with three kg of ganja and Rs 3,500 in cash, they said. Further investiga- tions led to the arrest of another accused and seizure of 1.2 kg of the drug, they added. .%&*$/+* 0$ Pakistan, which has launched a major lobbying ef- fort, particularly in Washington and the United Nations, after India revoked Jammu and Kashmir's special status, has received little trac- tion on the issue, according to diplomatic sources here. Islamabad is being bluntly asked not to use the develop- ment in Kashmir for cross border terrorism or infiltra- tion across the Line of Control, a diplomat closely fol- lowing the massive lobbying efforts being undertaken by Pakistan in the last few days said on Friday. "They have got very little international traction," the diplomat said. India has said Jammu and Kashmir was an integral part of India and the issue was strictly internal to the country. Led by Prime Minister Imran Khan, top Pakistani leadership have been calling world leaders and its top diplomats have been meeting US lawmakers and senior officials in Washington and New York to ascertain their position and telling them that it is headed for a war if there is no mediation by them. Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Raveesh Kumar on Friday said Islamabad was trying to project a panic situation to the international community. "It is a ploy to deflect attention...It is time for Pakistan to see the new reality and stop interfering in inter- nal matters of India," he said Pakistan is being clearly told that the onus for main- taining peace and stability in the region is on them, the sources said. "They (interna- tional community) has called upon Pakistan to ensure that they do not take steps, includ- ing cross border infiltration, that would be detrimental to peace and security," they said, adding that this is what the US and other major players are working on to prevent Pakistan from unleashing non-state actors. Do whatever, but do not use terrorism, is the message being told to Pakistani leaders and officials again and again, the sources said. Pakistan is facing an im- minent risk of being blacklist- ed by the Financial Action ## ’ -#!#&1#. +* ,$# Pak receives little traction globally on Kashmir issue: Sources Russia backs India on Kashmir +.!+2 0$ Russia has backed India's move on Jammu and Kashmir, saying that the changes in the status are within the framework of the Indian Constitution and hoped that the differences between India and Pakistan are resolved bi- laterally on the basis of the Simla Agreement and the Lahore Declaration. India on Monday revoked Article 370 of ## 0..& !’. +* ,$# Army commander visits border areas in Jammu, Pathankot ))0 0$ Army commander Lt Gen R P Singh on Saturday visited the for- ward areas along the International Border (IB) in Jammu and Pathankot to review operational preparedness, officials said. Singh, Officiating Western Army Commander visited Yol Cantt and forward areas of Rising Star Corps on his maiden visit and also reviewed the current situa- tion there, they said. The General visited Headquarters and units locat- ed at Yol, Mamun and Jammu areas, where he was briefed about the oper- ational preparedness of Indian Army to counter threats manifested by ## -)3 +* ,$# ))0 0$ Desperate to make their way home, hundreds of migrant labourers con- tinue to arrive at Jammu and Udhampur railway stations from Kashmir re- gion, with many complain- ing they were not paid ful- ly by their employers and overcharged by private transporters. Officials said over 50,000 labourers have been ferried by the railways to their respective states in the last five days. Yet, the railway stations are chock-a-block with people waiting for special trains out of the state. Prohibitory orders under CrPC Section 144, imposed on August 5, were lifted in Jammu and curfew was re- laxed in Doda and Kishtwar districts on Friday, paving the way for resumption of normal ac- tivities that were badly hit after special status of Jammu and Kashmir was abrogated. The Jammu and Kashmir administration had on August 3 asked Amarnath Yatris to cut short their pilgrimage and tourists to return, citing emergency situation. Waiting for a special train to Bihar's Darbhanga, Ramesh Kumar, who ar- rived here on Friday from Ganderbal area of Kashmir with a group of 40 people, claimed that they had not eaten for two days and had little money to leave the Valley as the owner of a ice-cream pro- duction unit, where they worked, failed to pay their dues in view of the prevail- ing situation. "We managed to get some paltry amount and left the Valley. Private transport operators charged Rs 2,000 per per- sons in a Tata Sumo. They are fleecing people," he said. Another person, from Kolkata, who has been working as a ## &$-*/ +* ,$# Migrant labourers continue to leave Kashmir Valley, narrate hardships ))0 0$ Prohibitory orders under CrPC sec- tion 144 were lifted in five districts and curfew was relaxed in Doda and Kishtwar districts, paving the way for resumption of normal activities that were badly hit after special status of Jammu and Kashmir was abrogated, of- ficials said on Saturday. All schools and colleges reopened in five districts of the Jammu region, be- sides increase in attendance in govern- ment offices, a senior official said. "All kind of restrictions in these five districts of Jammu, Kathua, Samba, Udhampur and Reasi have been with- drawn and all educational institutes have reopened today," the senior offi- cial told PTI. He said the situation is limping back to normalcy as there was no report of any untoward incident from anywhere in the region since August 5, when the restrictions were imposed. All the market places and shops re- opened and traffic has resumed as nor- mal in all these districts bringing much relief to the people. Friday prayers passed off peaceful- ly in the region, the officials said. Restrictions, however, continued to be in place in Poonch, Rajouri and Ramban districts, the officials said. The administrations of 10 districts in the Jammu region had imposed pro- hibitory orders under CrPC Section 144 on August 5 in view of the Centre's move, according to an official order. District Development Commissioner of ## -+%&&/+-3 +* ,$# Prohibitory orders lifted in five J&K districts; schools, colleges reopen -&*$- 0$0./ Governor Satya Pal Malik in order to get first hand appraisal of the pre- vailing situation in Srinagar city, visited various localities includ- ing Rawalpora, Rambagh, Jawahar Nagar, Sonwar and Rajbagh. He was accom- panied by Sh. BVR Subrahmanyam, Chief Secretary; Sh. Umang Narula, Financial Commissioner to Governor; Sh. Baseer Khan, Divisional Commissioner Kashmir and Sh. Shahid Iqbal Choudhary, Deputy Commissioner Srinagar. Governor visited the Lalla Ded Hospital and G.B. Pant Children Hospital in Sonwar. He took round of the Hospitals and reviewed facilities with the doc- tors, interacted with pa- tients and parents of chil- dren inside Wards and took their feedback about the medical treatment be- ing provided to the ailing persons. He was in- formed about the suffi- cient stock of medicines available with the ## +1#-*+- +* ,$# Governor takes round of city; Visits different localities #2 #(%& 0$ The Delhi Commission for Women on Saturday said an FIR should be registered against Haryana Chief Minister M L Khattar and Rajya Sabha MP Vijay Goel for their alleged sexist and misogynistic remarks and acts. In a statement issued here, the DCW said their acts and re- marks not only amount to outrag- ing the modesty and denting the dignity of Kashmiri daughters and sisters, but have also impacted women all over the country. Their actions may end up incit- ing violence in the already sensi- tive area of Kashmir, it said. "Such statements by those in high consti- tutional offices reinforce the no- tions of a patriarchal society and severely undermine the value and voice of women and girls," the women's panel said. The DCW's reaction came after Khattar on Friday courted a con- troversy with his remarks that "some people are now saying that as Kashmir is open brides will be brought from there", apparently in reference to the scrapping of the special status for Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370 of the Constitution. At a state-level function in Fatehabad, Khattar had said, "Elders and youths will under- stand this thing that there can be problems if the number of girls is lesser than boys. Our (O P) Dhankarji had said that they (brides) will have to be brought from Bihar. "Now some people say, Kashmir is open, they (brides) will be brought from there. But jokes apart, if (sex) ratio is improved, then there will be a right balance in society." The women's panel al- so rebuked Goel for allegedly put- ting up hoardings of Kashmiri girls outside his Delhi residence. "At a time when several states are on high alert, such insensitive and crass comments that hurt the sen- timents of an entire state, have the potential of flaring up violence and need to be checked urgently," it said."The commission strongly recommends registration of an FIR in both the the matters with- out considering the issue of terri- torial jurisdiction," the women' panel said. It has demanded an action tak- en report in the matter from Delhi Police's Crime Branch by September 14. Taking to Twitter to respond the DCW's charges, Goel said that Maliwal should have ## .%+0(" +* ,$# FIR should be registered against Khattar, Goel for sexist remarks, acts: DCW #2 #(%& 0$0./ The Congress Working Committee (CWC) after hours of meeting on Saturday, named UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi as the interim party presi- dent. Before that, the party had stopped deliberation to find the next party chief citing issues surrounding Jammu and Kashmir. Briefing media, Former party chief Rahul Gandhi said, “The meeting was on- going when reports of is- sues surround J&K ar- rived and therefore the meeting has been stopped. The government needs to tell the people what is hap- pening in the state with complete transparency.” Hours after the Congress Working Committee formed five subgroups to propose names for the par- ty chief, Rahul Gandhi is once again likely to emerge as the top pick. The five groups took rec- ommendations from state leaders across India and will submit the suggestion to the CWC. Earlier, UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and former party presi- dent Rahul Gandhi re- fused to participate in the consultation process to ze- ro in on the next party chief. After holding talks during the crucial meet- ing at the AICC headquar- ters in Delhi, Sonia said as former presidents of the party, the mother-son duo cannot participate in the process. “We cannot be part of this process,” Sonia Gandhi said after she re- cused herself from the de- liberations. Congress appoints Sonia Gandhi as interim party chief Students go to school as they reopen after five days closure following a security clampdown in view of abrogation of Article 370 and bifurcation of Jammu and Kashmir into two union territories, in Jammu.

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Pakistan, which haslaunched a major lobbying ef-fort, particularly inWashington and the UnitedNations, after India revokedJammu and Kashmir's specialstatus, has received little trac-tion on the issue, according todiplomatic sources here.

Islamabad is being bluntlyasked not to use the develop-ment in Kashmir for crossborder terrorism or infiltra-tion across the Line ofControl, a diplomat closely fol-

lowing the massive lobbyingefforts being undertaken byPakistan in the last few dayssaid on Friday.

"They have got very littleinternational traction," thediplomat said. India has saidJammu and Kashmir was anintegral part of India and theissue was strictly internal tothe country. Led by PrimeMinister Imran Khan, topPakistani leadership havebeen calling world leaders andits top diplomats have beenmeeting US lawmakers andsenior officials in Washingtonand New York to ascertaintheir position and telling

them that it is headed for awar if there is no mediation bythem.

Ministry of ExternalAffairs (MEA) spokespersonRaveesh Kumar on Fridaysaid Islamabad was trying toproject a panic situation to theinternational community. "Itis a ploy to deflectattention...It is time forPakistan to see the new realityand stop interfering in inter-nal matters of India," he said

Pakistan is being clearlytold that the onus for main-taining peace and stability inthe region is on them, thesources said. "They (interna-

tional community) has calledupon Pakistan to ensure thatthey do not take steps, includ-ing cross border infiltration,that would be detrimental topeace and security," they said,adding that this is what the USand other major players areworking on to preventPakistan from unleashingnon-state actors. Do whatever,but do not use terrorism, is themessage being told toPakistani leaders and officialsagain and again, the sourcessaid. Pakistan is facing an im-minent risk of being blacklist-ed by the Financial Action

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Army commander Lt Gen R PSingh on Saturday visited the for-ward areas along the InternationalBorder (IB) in Jammu and Pathankotto review operational preparedness,officials said. Singh, OfficiatingWestern Army Commander visitedYol Cantt and forward areas ofRising Star Corps on his maiden visitand also reviewed the current situa-tion there, they said. The Generalvisited Headquarters and units locat-ed at Yol, Mamun and Jammu areas,where he was briefed about the oper-ational preparedness of Indian Armyto counter threats manifested by

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Desperate to maketheir way home, hundredsof migrant labourers con-tinue to arrive at Jammuand Udhampur railwaystations from Kashmir re-gion, with many complain-ing they were not paid ful-ly by their employers andovercharged by privatetransporters.

Officials said over50,000 labourers have beenferried by the railways totheir respective states inthe last five days. Yet, therailway stations arechock-a-block with peoplewaiting for special trains

out of the state.Prohibitory orders underCrPC Section 144, imposedon August 5, were lifted inJammu and curfew was re-laxed in Doda andKishtwar districts onFriday, paving the way forresumption of normal ac-tivities that were badly hitafter special status ofJammu and Kashmir wasabrogated.

The Jammu andKashmir administrationhad on August 3 askedAmarnath Yatris to cutshort their pilgrimage andtourists to return, citingemergency situation.Waiting for a special trainto Bihar's Darbhanga,Ramesh Kumar, who ar-

rived here on Friday fromGanderbal area ofKashmir with a group of 40people, claimed that theyhad not eaten for two daysand had little money toleave the Valley as theowner of a ice-cream pro-duction unit, where theyworked, failed to pay theirdues in view of the prevail-ing situation.

"We managed to getsome paltry amount andleft the Valley. Privatetransport operatorscharged Rs 2,000 per per-sons in a Tata Sumo. Theyare fleecing people," hesaid. Another person,from Kolkata, who hasbeen working as a

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Prohibitory orders under CrPC sec-tion 144 were lifted in five districts andcurfew was relaxed in Doda andKishtwar districts, paving the way forresumption of normal activities thatwere badly hit after special status ofJammu and Kashmir was abrogated, of-ficials said on Saturday.

All schools and colleges reopened infive districts of the Jammu region, be-sides increase in attendance in govern-ment offices, a senior official said.

"All kind of restrictions in these fivedistricts of Jammu, Kathua, Samba,Udhampur and Reasi have been with-drawn and all educational instituteshave reopened today," the senior offi-cial told PTI. He said the situation is

limping back to normalcy as there wasno report of any untoward incidentfrom anywhere in the region sinceAugust 5, when the restrictions wereimposed.

All the market places and shops re-opened and traffic has resumed as nor-mal in all these districts bringing muchrelief to the people.

Friday prayers passed off peaceful-ly in the region, the officials said.Restrictions, however, continued to bein place in Poonch, Rajouri andRamban districts, the officials said.

The administrations of 10 districtsin the Jammu region had imposed pro-hibitory orders under CrPC Section 144on August 5 in view of the Centre'smove, according to an official order.District Development Commissioner of

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Governor Satya PalMalik in order to get firsthand appraisal of the pre-vailing situation inSrinagar city, visitedvarious localities includ-ing Rawalpora,Rambagh, JawaharNagar, Sonwar andRajbagh. He was accom-panied by Sh. BVRSubrahmanyam, ChiefSecretary; Sh. UmangNarula, FinancialCommissioner toGovernor; Sh. BaseerKhan, DivisionalCommissioner Kashmirand Sh. Shahid IqbalChoudhary, DeputyCommissioner Srinagar.

Governor visited theLalla Ded Hospital andG.B. Pant ChildrenHospital in Sonwar. Hetook round of theHospitals and reviewed

facilities with the doc-tors, interacted with pa-tients and parents of chil-dren inside Wards andtook their feedback aboutthe medical treatment be-

ing provided to the ailingpersons. He was in-formed about the suffi-cient stock of medicinesavailable with the

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The Delhi Commission forWomen on Saturday said an FIRshould be registered againstHaryana Chief Minister M LKhattar and Rajya Sabha MPVijay Goel for their alleged sexistand misogynistic remarks and

acts. In a statement issued here,the DCW said their acts and re-marks not only amount to outrag-ing the modesty and denting thedignity of Kashmiri daughters andsisters, but have also impactedwomen all over the country.

Their actions may end up incit-ing violence in the already sensi-tive area of Kashmir, it said. "Suchstatements by those in high consti-tutional offices reinforce the no-tions of a patriarchal society andseverely undermine the value andvoice of women and girls," thewomen's panel said.

The DCW's reaction came afterKhattar on Friday courted a con-troversy with his remarks that"some people are now saying thatas Kashmir is open brides will be

brought from there", apparently inreference to the scrapping of thespecial status for Jammu andKashmir under Article 370 of theConstitution.

At a state-level function inFatehabad, Khattar had said,"Elders and youths will under-stand this thing that there can beproblems if the number of girls islesser than boys. Our (O P)Dhankarji had said that they(brides) will have to be broughtfrom Bihar.

"Now some people say,Kashmir is open, they (brides) willbe brought from there. But jokesapart, if (sex) ratio is improved,then there will be a right balancein society." The women's panel al-so rebuked Goel for allegedly put-

ting up hoardings of Kashmirigirls outside his Delhi residence."At a time when several states areon high alert, such insensitive andcrass comments that hurt the sen-timents of an entire state, have thepotential of flaring up violenceand need to be checked urgently,"it said."The commission stronglyrecommends registration of anFIR in both the the matters with-out considering the issue of terri-torial jurisdiction," the women'panel said.

It has demanded an action tak-en report in the matter from DelhiPolice's Crime Branch bySeptember 14. Taking to Twitter torespond the DCW's charges, Goelsaid that Maliwal should have

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The Congress WorkingCommittee (CWC) afterhours of meeting onSaturday, named UPAchairperson Sonia Gandhias the interim party presi-dent. Before that, the partyhad stopped deliberationto find the next party chiefciting issues surroundingJammu and Kashmir.Briefing media, Formerparty chief Rahul Gandhisaid, “The meeting was on-going when reports of is-sues surround J&K ar-rived and therefore themeeting has been stopped.The government needs totell the people what is hap-pening in the state with

complete transparency.”Hours after the CongressWorking Committeeformed five subgroups topropose names for the par-ty chief, Rahul Gandhi isonce again likely toemerge as the top pick.The five groups took rec-

ommendations from stateleaders across India andwill submit the suggestionto the CWC. Earlier, UPAchairperson Sonia Gandhiand former party presi-dent Rahul Gandhi re-fused to participate in theconsultation process to ze-ro in on the next partychief.

After holding talksduring the crucial meet-ing at the AICC headquar-ters in Delhi, Sonia said asformer presidents of theparty, the mother-son duocannot participate in theprocess. “We cannot bepart of this process,” SoniaGandhi said after she re-cused herself from the de-liberations.

Congress appoints SoniaGandhi as interim party chief

Students go to school as they reopen after five days closure following a security clampdown in view of abrogation ofArticle 370 and bifurcation of Jammu and Kashmir into two union territories, in Jammu.

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JAMMU SUndAy AUgUSt 11, 2019Obituary2Glimpses of Future

10TH DAY/KRIYA/UTHALA10TH DAY/KRIYA/UTHALAWith profound grief and sorrow,

we regret to inform the sad de-

mise of our beloved Smt. Sona

Balgotra W/o Sh. Pawan

Balgotra R/o 146, Moh. Afghana

Pacca Danga Jammu who ex-

pired on 2nd Aug. 2019. TENTH

DAY will be performed on 11th

August 2019 (Sunday) at 11.00

A.M. at Rani Park, Jammu

KIRYA will be performed on 14th

August 2019 (Wednesday) at 12

P.M. at our residence. UTHALA

will be performed on 14th August

2019 Wednesday from 4.00 P.M.

to 5.00 P.M. at Brahman Sabha,

Prade.

GRIEF STRICKEN

Shubham Balgotra-Son

Adiya Balgotra-Son

Smt. & Sh. Om Parkash-Mother & Father-in-law

Smt. Anu & Sh. Sat Bhushan-Jeth & Jathani

Smt. Shobha & Sh. Yog Raj-Jeth & Jathani

Mrs Suman & Mr Sanjay-Devar & Devrani

Mrs Sangeeta & Mr Ajay-Devar & Devrani

Nanad & Nandoi

Mrs Sunita & Mr Sanjeev

Mob: 9858225786, 7889574065, 9858169929

Smt. Sona

Balgotra

10TH DAY10TH DAYWith profound grief and sorrow,

we deeply inform the untimely

demise of our beloved Smt

Neena Sagoch W/o Anil Sagoch

on 3rd August 2019. The Tenth

Day will be performed at our res-

idence 20/3, Upper Roop Nagar

Housing Colony Jammu on 12th

August (Monday) at 11.00 am.

GRIEF STRICKEN

Smt Kartar Devi -Mother-in-law

Sh Anil Sagoch (FCI) -Husband

Maj. Gen. M.K Sagoch & Jyoti Sagoch -

Devar & Devrani

Er. Sundeep Sagoch & Nitasha Sagoch -

Son & Daughter-in-law

Mrs Shilpa Dogra & Mr Nishant Dogra -

Daughter & Son-in-law

Mr Tapan Sagoch & Miss Shagun Sagoch -

Nephew & Niece

Grand Children: Paaran Dogra & Saket Sagoch

Dogra Family Katra

Dogra Family, Verma Family, Banotra Family,

Jammu

Mob: 7006813003, 9419114077, 9796999009

Smt Neena

Sagoch

10TH DAY10TH DAYWith profound grief and sorrow,

we inform the sad demise of our

beloved Sh. Ram Dass Malhotra

S/o Late Sh. P.N. Malhotra R/o

173-A Bakshi Nagar. The 10th

Day will be performed on

Sunday ,11th of August , 2019 at

Samriti Bhawan, Geeta Mandir

behind New Karan Hotel, Bakshi

Nagar, Jammu from 10 A.M. to

11 A.M.

GRIEF STRICKEN

Smt. Darshana Malhotra (Wife)

(Son & Daughter-in-Law)

Dr. Ganesh Malhotra & Smt. Ruhi Gupta

(Daughters & Sons-in-Law)

Smt. Renu Gupta & Sh. Raman Kishore

Smt. Ashu Gupta & Sh. Ritesh Gupta

Malhotra Family

Mobile No: 9419632544

Sh. Ram Dass

Malhotra

10TH DAY/KRIYA/UTHALA10TH DAY/KRIYA/UTHALAWith profound grief and sorrow,

we inform the sad demise of our

beloved mother Smt Vidya Devi

W/o Late Sh Rattan Lal Gupta

R/o H.No.252, Nai Basti, Ram

Lila Chowk, near Jammu

Cantonment, Jammu. 10th Day

will be observed on 11th August

(Sunday) at Durga Palace

Mandir, Shastri Nagar, Jammu

at 11.00 am. Kriya will be per-

formed on 14th August

(Wednesday) at our residence at

12.00 Noon. Uthala will be per-

formed on 14th August

(Wednesday) at Durga Palace

Mandir, Shastri Nagar, Jammu

from 4.00 pm to 5.00 pm.

GRIEF STRICKEN

Sons & Daughter-in-laws

Sh Manohar Lal Gupta & Smt Rama Gupta

Sh Ashok Gupta & Smt Veena Gupta

Sh Ravi Gupta & Smt Sunita Gupta

Late Sh Jatinder Gupta & Smt Meenu Gupta

Daughters & Son-in-laws

Smt Tripta Gupta & Late Sh Madan Lal Gupta

Smt Sharda Gupta & Sh Kuldeep Raj Gupta

Ph: 9797367254, 9419235689, 9682670299

Smt Vidya Devi

1ST DEATH ANNIVERSARY1ST DEATH ANNIVERSARYOne year has passed without

you, but you have always been

alive in our thoughts and hearts.

In memory of Late S. Surinder

Singh Oberoi, R/o 16- A

Extension, Gandhi Nagar,

Jammu, KIRTAN will be held at

Gurdwara Baba Fateh Singh,

Gandhi Nagar on 11th August

2019 from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm.

PROFOUNDLY REMEMBERED BY:

Mrs. Manjeet Kour

Mrs. Harinder Dhingra & D S Oberoi

Mrs. Tejinder Kour & Maninder Singh Oberoi

Ms. Harveen Oberoi, Arpit Oberoi & Gurjas Singh

Oberoi

S. Surinder

Singh Oberoi

BARKHIBARKHIWhat can be more painfull than a

life without you. A year had

passed since you left us. Your

teachings, blessings and lovely

memories will continue to in-

spire us, and we wish you still

had been amidst us. Barkhi of

our beloved Late Sh Sudarshan

Kumar Gupta S/o Late Sh

Bhagat Ram Khajanchi (Kotli

wale) will performed on Sunday

11-8-2019 at 11 am at our resi-

dence Ward no. 13, Shastri

Nagar Kathua.

DEEPLY REMEMBERED BY:

Smt Kamlesh Rani -Wife

Daughter & Son-in-law

Archana & Raki Gupta

Daughter-in-laws and Sons

Anita & Rajesh Gupta

Rittu & Varun Dogra

Grand Children: Rakshit, Mridhula, Ankit, Aarush &

Shivaay

M/s Nav Bharat Printers, Shaheedi Chowk (Kathua)

M/s Fair Price Opp. D.C Office, Patel Nagar, Kathua

Ph.No: 9419148029, 9797412882, 9086005060

Sh Sudarshan

Kumar Gupta

10TH DAY/KRIYA/UTHALA10TH DAY/KRIYA/UTHALAWITH PROFOUND GRIEF AND

SORROW, WE REGRET TO IN-

FORM THE SAD DEMISE OF

OUR BELOVED FATHER SH

MANOHAR LAL GUPTA S/O

LATE RAM DITTA (RAMNA-

GAR WALE) WHO LEFT FOR

HEAVENLY ABODE ON 2ND

AUGUST 2019 AT SIDHRA OP-

POSITE KIDZEE SCHOOL.

10TH DAY WILL BE PER-

FORMED AT ANKUR CELE-

BRATION NEAR INDIAN OIL

PETROL PUMP SIDHRA 11 AM

ON (11-8-2019) SUNDAY.

KRIYA WILL BE PERFORMED

10.30 AM AT OUR RESIDENCE

NEAR PARSHOTAM FILLING

STATION OPP. KIDZEE

SCHOOL BYE PASS ROAD,

SIDHRA ON (14-8-2019)

WEDNESDAY. UTHALA WILL

BE PERFORMED AT ANKUR

CELEBRATION NEAR INDIAN

OIL PETROL PUMP SIDHRA

BETWEEN 4.30 TO 5.30 ON

(14-8-2019) WEDNESDAY.

GRIEF STRICKEN

LALITA DEVI -SISTER

BROTHER-IN-LAW AND SISTER-IN-LAW

KRISHAN KUMAR GUPTA & BIMLA DEVI

SON & DAUGHTER-IN-LAW

KAMAL GUPTA & NEETU GUPTA

VIPAN GUPTA & ABHA GUPTA

SON-IN-LAW & DUAGHTER

BHUSHAN GUPTA & RANJANA GUPTA

SANJAY TREHAN & ANJANA TREHAN

RAJESH GUPTA & ROHINI GUPTA

PANKAJ KOHLI & VANDANA KOHLI

ROHIT GUPTA & SHILPA GUPTA

GRAND CHILDREN: ASHOK, TAMANNA, TAN-

ISHQ, RIMJHIM, ABHRAL, ARADHYA, SATWIK,

OJSWIN, REHANSHI, AWANTIK

ABHA ALUMINIUM STEEL GLASS WORKS &

NEW AGENCY SIDHRA

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SH MANOHAR

LAL GUPTA

10TH DAY/KRIYA/UTHALA10TH DAY/KRIYA/UTHALAWith profound grief and sorrow

we inform the sad demise of our

beloved Sh Kunj Lal Dusgotra

S/o Lt. Santokhu Ram R/o Mera

Mandrian Akhnoor at present

MCJ 284 Lane No. 17 Rajpura

Mangotrian Shakti Nagar

Jammu. 10th Day shall be per-

formed on 12-08-2019 at 11 AM

at Jagat Resorts Shakti Nagar

Jammu. Kriya shall be per-

formed on 13-08-2019 at 11:30

AM at our residence at Rajpura

Mangotrian Lane No 17 Jammu.

Uthala shall be performed on 14-

08-2019 from 2 PM to 3 PM at

Jagat Resorts Shakti Nagar

Jammu.

GRIEF STRICKEN

Satya Rani -Wife

Vikram Dusgotra & Renu -Son & Daughter-in-law

Jeetesh Dusgotra & Navpreet Dusgotra

Daughters & Sons-in-law

Nisha Changotra & Parshotam Changotra

Isha Verma & Rajeev Verma

Champa Devi (W/o Lt. Jagdish Kumar) -Bhabi

Sumit & Suhani Dusgotra -Son & Daughter-in-law

Vandna & Roshan Janghir -Daughter & Son-in-law

Grand Daughters: Karen - Shine - Rihanna – Aadya

M/S SANTOKHOO GUN WORKS

M/S SANTOKHOO BOTTLING CO.

M/S EAGLE ARMOURY

M/S STATE ARMOURY

M/S SANTOKHOO ARMOURY

M/S CHENAB GUN HOUSE

M/S BASANT GUN HOUSE

M/S SHIV SHAKTI ENTERPRISES

M/S SHINE TRADERS

(M) 9469300004 - 9086908600 (M) 8713039999

Sh Kunj Lal

Dusgotra

10TH DAY KRIYA10TH DAY KRIYAALL NEARS & DEARS ARE IN-

FORMED THAT SMT MOHAN

RANI KENUE /KHEMA SHORI

(W/O LATE MOHAN LAL

KENUE), ORIGINALLY R/O

BAGH JOGI LANKAR,

RAINAWARI, SRINAGAR,

PRESENTLY AT 41/4, PAM-

POSH COLONY, JANIPUR,

JAMMU. PEACEFULLY COM-

PLETED HER EARTHLY JOUR-

NEY ON 8TH AUG 2019.

TENTH DAY KRIYA WILL BE

PERFORMED AT MUTHI GHAT

(NEAR DIRECTOR SCHOOL

EDUCATION) ON 16TH AU-

GUST 2019 (FRIDAY) AT 8.00

AM.

IN GRIEF:

Smt Sheela Kenue -Sister-in-law

Daughters & Son-in-laws

Anila & P.K Tikoo

Pummy & Deepak Bhat

Dolly & Sudhir Raina

Anjana & Kuldeep Dhar -Niece & Son-in-law

Rajiv & Sunita Kenue -Nephew & Daughter-in-law

All Grand Children, Sadhoo & Gagroos

Contact: 9419190241, 9810103982

SMT MOHAN

RANI KENUE

BARKHIBARKHIMemories are treasures that no

one can steal separations are

wounds that no one can heal.

One year has passed since you

left us for the ‘Heavenly Abode’

physically you are not with us

but we miss you and feel your

presence in every moment of our

life. You will remain alive in our

heart forever. Barkhi of Late Shri

Savtanter (Bittu) resident of

Katra (Vaishno Devi) will be per-

formed at home (Kalka Nagar,

Near Masjid) on 11th of August

2019 Sunday.

Deeply Missed & Remembered By:

Smt. Sushma Sharma

Kamla Devi - Mother

Abhi Sharma - Son

Shivangi Sharma - Daughter

Kuldeep Sadhotra (Kala) - Brother

Jag Jeevan Sadhotra (Jeevan) - Brother

Roshan Lal Sadhotra (Mangi) – Brother

Mob. No: 9797599930, 9419164797, 7006702280

Shri Savtanter

(Bittu)

10TH DAY/KRIYA10TH DAY/KRIYAWith profound grief and sorrow,

we inform the sad demise of our

beloved father Sh Jai Krishan

Pachiala R/o Chabutra Bazar,

Sitla Mandir Gali, Udhampur on

2-08-2019. The Tenth Day Kriya

will be performed on 11-08-2019

at Mahajan Hall, Chabutra Bazar

Sitla Mandir Gali Udhampur at

11 AM. (Sunday). The Thirteenth

Day Kriya will be performed on

14-08-2019 (Wednesday) at 10

AM at Devak Ghat, Udhampur.

GRIEF STRICKEN

Dr Bal Krishan Pachiala & Sabita -Brother & Bhabi

Sh Avtar Krishan & Chanchala -Brother & Bhabi

Smt Shashi Gupta -Wife

Sh Sunny Gupta & Neha -Son & Daughter-in-law

Sh Sanjay Feria & Meenu -Son-in-law & Daughter

Sh Sanjay Gupta & Rajni -Son-in-law & Daughter

Sh Amit Gupta & Bindu -Son-in-law & Daughter

Sushant, Pawni, Sanchit, Manchit, Shivansh -

Grand Children

Mob: 8803110360, 9086528346s

Sh Jai Krishan

Pachiala

10TH DAY KRIYA10TH DAY KRIYAWITH PROFOUND GRIEF &

SORROW, WE REGRETTO IN-

FORM THE SAD DEMISE OF

OUR BELOVED SH PRAN

NATH PANDITA S/O LT. SH

NAND LAL PANDITA (ORIGI-

NALLY OF PETH KANIHAMA,

MAGAM, SRINAGAR, KASH-

MIR) WHO ATTAINED NIRVAN

ON 02-AUG-2019 AT JAMMU.

MAY HISNOBLE SOUL ATTAIN

MOKSHA. TENTH DAY KRIYA

WILL BE PERFORMED ON 11-

AUG-2019 (SUNDAY) AT

MUTHI GHAT (NEAR DIREC-

TORATE SCHOOL EDUCA-

TION) JAMMU AT 8.30 AM.

GRIEF STRICKEN

SMT PHOOLA PANDITA - WIFE

BROTEHR & BHABHI

SMT JAYANTI & SH C.L. BAKSHI

SISTERS & BROTHER-IN-LAWS

SMT KISHNI PANDITA

SMT SHAMA & SH L.K. BHAN

SMT VIJAY RAINASMT TEJA & SH H.N. BHAT

DAUGHTERS & SON-IN-LAWS

SMT LOVELY & SH KAMAL CHAKOO

SMT RUHIE & SH AJAY KOUL

MS JYOTI PANDITA (MEENU)

MASTER KALASH CHAKU (GRAND SON)

MOURNING CONTINUES TO H.NO. 111, LANE-4,

ANAND NAGAR, BOHRI JAMMU

CONTACT: 6005299202, 9419072519,

9796699966, 908607068

SH PRAN NATH

PANDITA

10TH DAY/ANTIM ARDAS10TH DAY/ANTIM ARDASWith profound grief and sorrow,we regret to inform the sad demiseof our beloved Sdr. Mohinder KourW/o Lt. S. Darshan Singh (Mehta)R/o Ward No. 3 Simbal Camp,who left for heavenly abode on 02-08-2019. Aramb Sh. Akhand PathSahib at our residence on 09-08-2019 at 9.00 A.M. (Friday). BhogSh. Akhand Path Sahib at our resi-dence on 11-08-2019 at 9.00 A.M.(Sunday). Kirtan and Antim Ardasfrom 10.00 to 12.00 P.M. on 11-08-2019 (Sunday) at Gurudwara SriGuru Singh Sabha Ward No. 4 & 5Simbal Camp. Guru Ka Langer willbe served 12.00 P.M. to onwards.GRIEF STRICKENS. Khazan Singh Mehta-SonS. Bhai Paramjeet Singh Mehta-SonS. Harbans Singh Mehta-SonS. Rangil Singh Mehta-SonS. Rajinder Singh Mehta-Son (Raju Simbliya)S. Pardeep Singh Mehta-SonMob: 8492038787

Sdr. Mohinder

Kour

10TH DAY KRIYA10TH DAY KRIYAWith profound grief and sorrow

we inform the sad demise of our

beloved father Sh. Prithvi Nath

Moza S/o Lt. Sh. Mahadev Joo

Moza R/o Badiyar Bala Srinagar

A/P 100-P Sec-1 Extn. Khoowali

Gali Mandir Marg, Trikuta Nagar

Jammu left for heavenly abode

on 5th August 2019 (Monday).

Tenth Day will be performed on

14th August 2019 (Wednesday)

at Muthi Ghat near Directorate of

Education at 8.30 AM.

GRIEF STRICKEN

Daughter-in-law & Son

Mrs Tosha & Mr S.K. Moza

Daughters & Sons-in-law

Mrs Santosh & Mr Ashwani Koul

Mrs Usha & Mr Romesh Bambroo

Grand Children: Rahul, Rohit, Kunal, Monu, Nitish

Great Grand Children

Aryen, Aaradhy, Uma, Esha, Onish

Contact No. 9419122046, 7006362507

Sh. Prithvi Nath

Moza

KRIYA/UTHALAKRIYA/UTHALAWith profound grief and sorrow, we

inform about the sad demise of our

beloved Smt Lalita Sharma wife of

Sh Madan Mohan Sharma (Retd

AEE) R/o 70 B/B, Gandhi Nagar,

Jammu. Kriya will be performed at

Home 70 B/B, Gandhi Nagar,

Jammu on 11/08/2019 (Sunday) at

12.00 Noon. Uthala shall be per-

formed at Laxmi Narayan Mandir,

Gandhi Nagar, Jammu on

12/08/2019 (Monday) at 4.00 PM.

GRIEF STRICKEN

Sons and Daughters-in-law

Pawan Kumar Sharma (SBI) and Neeru Sharma

Raman Sharma and Subaha Sharma

Daughters and Sons-in-law

Kanchan & Ajay Khajuria (AEE Mechanical)

Dr Jyoti Sharma and Dr Rakesh Sharma

Indu Sharma -Daughter

Phone: 9873445631, 9419193960, 0191-2430457,

0191-2433479

Smt Lalita

Sharma

OBITUARYOBITUARYWith profound grief and sorrow, we

deeply inform the untimely demise

of our beloved Rajeev Raina (S/o

Late Dr. M.L.Raina) and Smt.

Krishna Raina on 3rd August, 2019

in Delhi. The TENTH DAY KRIYA will

be performed at Ganga Nahar,

Muradnagar, Gaziabad, U.P (Chota

Haridwar) on 12th August at 9.30

A.M sharp. Reassembling will be

held at Hall No. 2, Capetown

Supertech, Sec. 74, Noida by 12

Noon.

GRIEF STRICKEN:-

Renuka Raina- Wife

Rahul Raina- Son

Krishna Raina- Mother

Rakesh Raina- Brother

S.K Raina- Uncle

Nitin Bidichandani- Brother-in in-law

Rainas and Bidichandanis.

Mob:- 8800191432,9811547609,9810213579

Rajeev Raina

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JAMMU SUNDAY AUGUST 11, 20193 ������������ � �LOCAL

Officiating WesternArmy Commander Reviews OperationalPreparedness In TheRising Star Corps�������������

Lt Gen RP Singh, OfficiatingWestern Army Commander visit-ed Yol Cantt and forward areas ofRising Star Corps on his maidenvisit to review the current situa-tion and operational readiness.The General visitedHeadquarters and units locatedat Yol, Mamun and Jammu areas,where he was briefed about theoperational preparedness ofIndian Army to meet futuristicthreats manifested by inimicaland anti-national elements.

ADC Kathua reviewsarrangements forEid-ul-Azha����������������

Additional DeputyCommissioner, GhanshyamSingh today convened a meetingto discuss and review the arrange-ments being put in place forsmooth celebration of upcomingEid-ul-Azha festival. Meeting wasattended by District SheepHusbandry Officer, Dr. AjaySoodan, AC LMD, Kuldeep Raj,Designated Officer Food Safety,Pankaj Soni, AD Fire Services, RK Raina, DySP HQ., NikhilRasgotra, Engineers, MedicalSupdt. DH Kathua, Dr. S K Verma,TSO, CEO MC Kathua, SanjeevKumar, religious heads and otherprominent citizens. Threadbarediscussion was held on sanita-tion, traffic regulation, parking,health care facilities, supply of es-sential commodities, sale of sacri-ficial animal, drinking water,electricity etc. ADC directed PDDand PHE to ensure uninterruptedpower supply besides adequatewater supply to the habitants ofthe district during Eid celebra-tion especially during prayertime. The Municipal authoritieswere directed to launch a cleanli-ness drive at Eidgah and othercongregation places before Eid.ADC asked the officers to ensurestrict implementation of ap-proved market rates of chicken,mutton, bakery and other itemsduring EID. He further directedthe officers to take strict actionagainst black marketers, hoard-ers and erring shopkeepers as perthe law. He directed the Police andTraffic departments to effectivelyimplement the route manage-ment and crowd managementplan before Eid. The FCS&CA de-partment was directed to provideration in every place including farflung areas before Eid.

Heavy rush of Eid shoppers in Kargil, situation peaceful�����������������

The Kargil region today wit-nessed heavy rush in the shopsand other business establish-ments with people thronging en-thusiastically for Eid-u-Azhashopping. The Government andprivate offices were found func-tioning normally as per routinepractice while public transportand private vehicles were alsoseen plying on the highways aswell as the internal roads as usu-al. Banks, colleges and schoolswere also functioning normally.

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In yet another exampleproving best in class med-ical treatment, a 63-year-old patient hailing fromReasi suffering fromHepatitis B related chronicliver disease was success-fully operated at Shri MataVaishno Devi NarayanaSuperseciality Hospital(SMVDNSH). The patientwas diagnosed withHepatocellular Carcinomawith obstructive uropathy.The patient was at highrisk due to prolong dia-betes background andchronic liver disease.

Experts from multipleteams comprised ofSurgical oncology (DrSujeet Kumar Bhat, DrVikas Heer), G.I SurgeryTeam (Dr Suhail Khuroo,Dr Ajaz Ahmed Wani),

Urology Team (Dr RajanGupta), Anaesthesia Team(Dr Pankaj Gupta, DrTrupati Modi) and ICUTeam (Dr Vanilla Chopraand Team), worked roundthe clock and performed asingle-stage procedure inwhich resection of the tu-mour was done preservingmaximal liver tissue. TheUreteric stone causing ob-struction in kidney was al-so treated.

Speaking about the suc-cess of this case, Dr Sujeet

Kumar Bhat, SurgicalOncologist, SMVDNSH,said, “Hepatitis B causesslow destruction of Livercells. If not treated in time,chronic infection can leadto development of LiverCancer. Pertinently,Surgery in such patients ischallenging as it is prone tointraoperative and postop-erative complications. Postthrough diagnosis, thiscase seemed to be high risk,as it was observed to haveliver tumor and kidney

dysfunction due toUreteric stone.”

Dr. (Brig) Man MohanHarjai, ChiefAdministrative Officer,SMVDNSH added that withthis surgery Shri MataVaishno Devi NarayanaSuperspeciality Hospitalreassures to the citizens ofJammu & Kashmir to offerworld-class tertiary health-care services to the needyand critical patients. In thepast SMVDNSH has per-formed several more suchsurgeries which were com-plex in nature and savedlives of many. Since its in-ception in the year 2016, thehospital has a daily footfallof 250 OPD patients ap-prox., over 60 approx sur-geries are performed everyweek and 9000 approx. sur-geries in total have beenperformed till date.

Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Narayana SuperspecialityHospitalsuccessfully performs liver surgery on 63-year-old patientPatient suffering from Hepatitis B related chronic liver disease with liver cancer

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National Conference onSaturday reiterated its demandof lifting siege over Jammu andKashmir and sought immediaterelease of the party leaders in-cluding President Dr FarooqAbdullah and Vice President MrOmar Abdullah from continueddetention after robbing of thespecial entity of the state. “Theidea of secular and democraticIndia is in peril in this part of thecountry which is undergoingmost traumatic phase of its his-tory”, the senior leaders said ina resolution adopted at a meet-ing at Sher-e-Kashmir Bhavanhere this afternoon.

The leaders expressed an-guish over detention of hun-dreds of National Conference

leaders in the Valley, Jammu re-gion and Ladakh, saying this ischilling and unprecedented.The prevailing situation isworse than the 1975 emergencywith tragic difference of Jammuand Kashmir losing its identityand stature.

The dejected people, irre-spective of region and religion,are feeling deprived of their ex-istence in the wake of harshmeasures unleashed by the BJP.History will remember these asHimalayan blunders, they said,adding that muzzling the voiceof voice of people is a blot on thelargest democracy of the world.

The National Conferenceleaders sought immediate re-lease of the political leaders ofall hues, especially in view of en-suing Eid and called for liftingthe siege in the dumb struckstate.

With restrictions havingbeen imposed on the movementof senior provincial leaders, themeeting was attended by StateSecretary Mr Rattan Lal Gupta,

Th Kashmira Singh, SheikhBashir Ahmed, Mr RachpalSingh, Mr Sajjad AhmedKichloo, Mr Jugal Mahajan, MrBrij Mohan Sharma, Mr QaziJalal Ud Din, Mr Vipan PalSharma, Ch. Mohd Shaffi, MrBabu RamPal, Ch. Haroon, MrChander Mohan Sharma, Dr.Chaman Lal Bhagat, Mr AnilDhar, Mrs Satwant Kour Dogra,Mrs Bimla Luthra, Mrs DilshadMalik, Mr Sardar GurdeepSingh Sasan, Mr MohinderSingh, Mr Bharti Sharma, Dr.Kamal Arora, Mr Abdul GaniMalik, Mr Vijay Lochan, MrSurinder Singh Bunty, MrPardeep Bali, Mrs Reeta Gupta,Mr Romy Khajuria, Mr G. HMalik, Master Noor Hussain,Mr Jagjeevan Lal, Mr SunilVerma, Dr. Gagan Bhagat, MrsSwarn Latta, Haji MohdHussain, Mr Ajeet KumarSharma, Mr Dharamveer SinghJamwal, Mr Mohinder Gupta,Mr Sardar Narinder SinghBhagat and Retd. Col RashidAhmed.

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Today Yuva Rajput Sabha(YRS) held a press conferenceat Sabha Headquarters,Jammu. The press conferencewas chaired by SurinderSingh Gill, President, YuvaRajput Sabha. Addressing thepress conference Gill said thatUnion Territory (UT) status toJammu and Kashmir is not ac-ceptable to the public ofJammu province. YRS wel-come the decision of scrapingArticle 370 and abrogation ofArticle 35 A. “We also wel-come the decision of makingLadakh a full fledged UT, butdowngrading of Jammu andKashmir is not acceptable”,Gilli said, He adding that theUnion Government has nottaken into consideration thesentiments of Dogras and lead-ers of Jammu while preparing

the architecture of Jammuand Kashmir. Gilli furtheradded that the position ofDogras who are the founder ofthe State and sacrificed theirlife to create this state have notgiven due respect and regard.He alleged that the CentralGovernment is worried aboutKashmir only. Gilli welcomethe Govt. decision onReorganization of State, 5years Assembly tenure,Dissolution of Legislative

Council, Property rights toWomen, Citizenship rights toWest Pakistani Refugees,Delimitation Commission,One Nation, One Flag etc. YRSdemanded statehood forJammu region along withdomicile and Article 371 on thepattern of Himachal Pradesh(HP). Others who were presentin the press conference includ-ed Vikram Singh Chib, BalbirSingh, Vicky Singh & SunilKhajuria.

Statehood for Jammu region along withdomicile and Article 371 on the pattern ofHimachal Pradesh: Yuva Rajput Sabha

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Asserting that therewas ambiguity in the Thirdschedule of the J&K Re-or-ganization Act 2019, Mr.Harsh Dev Singh JKNPPChairman and FormerMinister today called for astatement from the UnionGovt and the UnionMinistry for law and jus-tice rather than using stateofficers to browbeat themedia and to crush thosewho had the temerity toquestion. He was referringto the statement ofDivisional Commissionermade in the media whereinthe latter had hinted atPolice action against themedia and others who werespreading reports of re-or-ganization of Districts anddeletion of certain districts

during the process of re-cent re-organization ofJ&K.

Calling upon the UnionGovt to take note of the am-biguity in Third scheduleunder sec 14 (5) of J&K Re-organization Act, Mr.Harsh Dev Singh pointedout that the names of EightDistricts created in 2006-07were conspicuously miss-ing.

He said that despite theThird schedule subtitled as“Amendments to theDelimitation of Assemblyconstituencies order, 1995”with a further sub headingof “Union Territory ofJammu and Kashmir”, thenames of several Districtsincluding Samba, Reasi,Ramban and Kishtwarwere not mentioned in theTable creating genuine ap-

prehensions that these dis-tricts had been disbandedin the process of Re-organi-zation of state.

And whereas the Re-or-ganization Act in the footnote of the said third sched-ule had given clarificationwith regard to Tehsils,Patwar circles and NACsforming a part of variousAssemblies, no such clari-fication had been givenwith respect to Districts,revealed Mr. Singh. He re-gretted that rather thanUnion Govt making a state-ment on the subject, thestate bureaucrats were be-ing used by BJP to silencethe voice of people.

Maintaining furtherthat the J&K Re-organiza-tion Act 2019 having beenpassed by both Houses ofParliament in the present

form, the DivisionalCommissioner had no pow-ers to rectify the anom-alous situation.

He said that mere me-dia statement and hurlingof threats by the DivisionalCommissioner did not suf-fice to address the concernsof the people who had gen-uinely pointed out certainabstruse and incongruousaspects in the Re-organiza-tion Act.

He said that the anom-alous situation could haveinadvertently crept in thesaid schedule but could berectified only by theParliament as theDivisional Commissioneror any other authority hadno powers to add or deleteany provision in a Billpassed by the UnionLegislature.

‘State govt suppressing the voices of sanity’

Anomalies in Third schedule of J&K Re-organization Act need rectification: Harsh

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Prof. Manoj Dhar, Vice-Chancellor, University ofJammu today released‘Rang Trang’ the first everbrochure of ‘Display YourTalent’ (DYT-2019) which isan annual festival of music,dance, theatre, fine artsand literary activities or-ganized by the Departmentof Students Welfare,University of Jammu. Hecomplimented DeanStudents Welfare, Prof.Jasbir Singh, CampusCultural Committee andthe entire team for bring-ing out this maidenbrochure as part of theGolden JubileeCelebrations of theUniversity of Jammu.Asserting the benefits ofcultural/literary events inthe overall development ofthe students, Prof. Dharmentioned that ‘DisplayYour Talent’ event pro-vides an excellent opportu-

nity for the enterprisingstudents to showcase theirtalents on a larger canvasby participating in activi-ties like cultural festival ofmusic, dance, theatre, fine-arts and literary sessions.Extra curricular activitiesform part of the curricu-lum in educational institu-tions as these help studentsto develop and use theirskills in a productive man-ner. Prof Jasbir Singh,Dean Students Welfare in-formed that that this year,‘Display Your Talent’ iscommencing on 13th ofSeptember, 2019 and this

booklet will provide all thedetails regarding theevents, dates, rules andregulations for the conven-ience of the participants.Prof. Anupama Vohra Co-Chairperson CampusCultural Committee, Dr.B.K. Bajaj, Associate DeanSW, Dr. Anil Gupta,Assistant Dean (SW), Dr.Garima Gupta, AssistantDean (SW). Ms. MansiMantoo, Media Officer, Mr.Sumeet Sharma, DramaInstructor and Ms. IfraKak, Cultural Officer werealso present on the occa-sion.

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Scores of Gujjar-Bakkarwal communitymembers from Jammu aswell Kashmir region cele-brated “Jashne-Azadi”,while dancing and distribut-ing sweets in the presence ofparty State PresidentRavinder Raina nearBharatiya Janata Partyheadquarter, Trikuta Nagar.BJP State General SecretaryYudhvir Sethi, formerMinister Abdul Ghani kohli,party state Spokesperson &former MLA R.S.Pathaniawere also present, while theGujjar-Bakkarwal commu-nity members led by BJP STMorcha State PresidentChoudhary Haroon celebrat-ed the scrapping of Article370. Gujjar-Bakkarwalsclaimed that they have beenliberated from the clutchesof slavery after decades ofservitude. They said that theshackles have been shat-

tered and they are now feel-ing happy to breathe in thenew refreshed air. Theyclaimed that they have beenliberated after 70 years. Nowdozen seats have been re-served in the Jammu &Kashmir Assembly by thenew legislation giving usvoice in the Assembly. Theysaid that earlier, ForestRight act was enforced inwhole of India except J&Kdue to 370, but now every-thing is fine and, here we are,celebrating our victory.

Community memberssaid they have been duped inthe past by 3 families namelyAbdullahs, Muftis andNehrus for their own bene-fits for decades together andadded that they are thankfulto Prime Minister NarendraModi and Union HomeMinister Amit Shah for thebold move that has openedup gates of development andprogress for the community.

Ravinder Raina, whilespeaking on the occasion,said that this is the true em-

bracement of spirit of unity.He said that we all are hu-mans first and this historicdecision is for the benefit ofevery community, every re-gion and every religion.

He praised the commu-nity members for their ener-getic celebration for the pas-sage of the bill. He said thatthis decision has given thecommunity their PoliticalRights. Till now NC,Congress, PDP only usedthe community for their vot-ing rights but never reallygave any thought for theirdevelopment or giving themtheir due rights.

Ajay Pargal, ChoudharyTahir, MukhtiarChoudhary, Hassan Sardar,Choudhary Bag Hussain,Mohd. Akhtar, Megh Mohd.and others were amongstthe prominent membersfrom the Gujjar-Bakkarwalcommunity from various re-gions, present on the occa-sion.

Gujjar-Bakkarwals community celebrate Jashn-e-Azadi

JUVC Releases Brochure ofDisplay Your Talent

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Indian Army,Tiger Divisioncommemoratedthe supreme sacri-fice in service ofnation byLieutenantTriveni Singh,Ashok Chakra (Posthumous),by unveiling his statue at maingate of Sunjuwan MilitaryStation on 10 Aug 19. The un-veiling of the statue was doneby proud parents Capt JanmejSingh (Retired) and MrsPushplata. The event was at-tended by Maj Gen SharadKapur, GOC, Tiger Division,Brigadier JS Budhwar,Brigadier Vikrant Kulkarniand other officers of the divi-sion. Martyrs never die, theybecome immortal. Historyrecords their names in golden

letters. Lieutenant TriveniSingh, Ashok Chakra(Posthumous) is one such mar-tyr. He displayed conspicuousbravery and courage when hekilled two heavily armed mili-tants at Jammu RailwayStation on 02 Jan 2004 andmade the supreme sacrifice inthe highest traditions ofIndian Army and saved hun-dreds of passengers. Sincethen he has been inspiringyouth of entire country andwill remain to be a role modelfor future generations.

Unveiling Of Statue: Indian ArmyCommemorates Lt Triveni Singh,Ashok Chakra (Posthumous)

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As per a public notice issued by the Office ofthe Senior Superintending of Police SecurityJammu, the cooperation of general public hasbeen sought to ensure a secure and successfulconduct of this year’s Independence Day cele-bration. The public has been advised not to carryarms/ammunition, sharp edged weapons, handbags, polythene bags, transistors, handi fire ex-tinguishers, stop watch, any kind of powder, in-flammable material like cigarettes, match box-es, lighter, cameras and alike objectionableitems. They have further been advised full coop-eration to the frisking teams deployed at differ-ent gates, maintain queue while entering thegates through door frame metal detector in-stalled at the gates, ensuring timely presenceand seating. The public has further been askednot to hesitate in disclosing their identity in caseare requested for the same by the security per-sonnel besides they are advised to seek helpfrom traffic police for proper parking at appro-priate places. They have also been asked to im-mediately inform the police personnel on duty incase of any suspicious person or item is noticedand do not touch the object.

SSP Security issuesadvisories in connectionwith I-Day celebrations

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Mobile Magistrate, SanjeevGandotra, today imposed fine of Rs.10000 and Rs. 20000 on M/s VaishnoDhaba, Maheshpura Chowk, BakshiNagar, Jammu and M/s Chatty'sCorner C/o Veekage FoodsCorporation, Opp. Vermani 168-A,Nanak Nagar, Jammu respectively.The names of the defaulters are AshuKumar Alias Pawan and Madhu JainW/o Kamal Jain, who was also im-prisoned for 6 hours under Shops andEstablishment Act, 1966. In the saidcases, the challans were presented be-fore the court of law against the de-faulters and Labour Department wasrepresented by Pawan Bhatti, Labourofficer Prosecution. Renu Bala Saini,Assistant Labour Commissioner,Jammu appealed Jammuites not toemploy any child for domestic pur-pose or in commercial establishmentsto avoid legal action under the law.

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JAMMU, AUGUST 10:

Deputy Commissioner SushmaChauhan convened a meeting withconcerned officers and representa-tives of various religious organiza-tions to review and finalizearrangements for ensuing Eid ulAzha here today.

Threadbare discussion washeld on various vital issues includ-ing sanitation, traffic regulation,security, parking, health care facil-ities, supply of essential commodi-ties, sale of sacrificial animals,drinking water, electricity and re-late issues.

The DC directed the Municipalauthorities to ensure proper sanita-tion and cleanliness in all theplaces particularly at those placeswhere congregation prayers wouldbe offered on Eid-ul-Azha. She di-rected them to give special atten-tion to pre and post cleanliness onEid-ul-Azha.

The meeting was informed thatspecial sale markets have been es-tablished in prominent placeswhere sacrificial animals will beput on sale.

FCS&CA, Revenue, Legal

Metrology and Food Safety depart-ments were directed to intensifymarket checking.

The Deputy Commissionerasked for strict action against profi-teers and black-marketers so thatpeople are not fleeced by hoardersand profiteers. She ordered specialmarket checking squads be consti-tuted to keep vigil on market ratesand ensure that no sub standard,adulterated or spurious items aresold. The rate list should be dis-played on every business establish-ment, she added.

The PHE and PDD authoritieswere directed to ensure uninter-rupted supply of electricity and ad-equate drinking water supply. Shealso asked the Fire and Emergencyservices to be prepared to deal withany eventuality.

The Deputy Commissionerasked the CMO to ensure thatmedicos and para-medicos attendthe duty as per the roster, and keepambulance service in a state ofreadiness at religious places wheremain congregations are scheduledto meet any exigency during the fes-tival.The DC asked the PoliceDepartment to ensure fool proof se-

curity arrangements throughoutthe district.

Responding to issues raised bythe representatives of various or-ganizations regarding arrange-ments for Eid, the DeputyCommissioner assured them thatall of their issues would be re-solved. The meeting was attended

by SSP Jammu Tejinder Singh,Superintending Engineers of PWD(R&B) and PDD, N.D Khawaja andKaram Chand, Additional DeputyCommissioner, Rishpal Singh,Additional Superintendent ofPolice (Traffic), Prabh DayalSharma, Joint Commissioner, JMCP.S Manhas, SDM Jammu South,

Shrikant Suse, SDM Jammu North,Satish Sharma, Deputy DirectorInformation (PR) Minakshi Vaid,Deputy Controller, LegalMetrology Department, ManojPrabhakar, Administrator AuquafWakeel Bhat Chief AnimalHusbandry Officer, Chief MedicalOfficer besides members and repre-

sentatives of various MasjidCommittees. The DeputyCommissioner asked for strict ac-tion against profiteers and black-marketers so that people are notfleeced by hoarders and profiteers.She ordered special market check-ing squads be constituted to keepvigil on market rates and ensurethat no sub standard, adulteratedor spurious items are sold. The ratelist should be displayed on everybusiness establishment, she added.

The PHE and PDD authoritieswere directed to ensure uninter-rupted supply of electricity and ad-equate drinking water supply. Shealso asked the Fire and Emergencyservices to be prepared to deal withany eventuality.

Earlier, Deputy Commissionervisited Mini Stadium ParadeGround and took stock of prepara-tions being made in connectionwith Independence Day 2019 cele-brations. She directed the con-cerned departments mainlyHospitality and Protocol, YouthServices and Sports, Culture, PWD(R&B), Police, Traffic, Education towork in coordination for successfulconduct of this national day.

DC Jammu finalises Eid-ul-Azha arrangements

KARGIL AUGUST 10:

Deputy Commissioner andChief Executive Officer, LadakhAutonomous Hill DevelopmentCouncil (LAHDC), Kargil, BaseerUl Haq Choudhary today con-vened a meeting of district offi-cers and took stock of arrange-ments being made forIndependence Day celebration inthe district.

The main function would beheld at Khree Sultan Cho SportsStadium Bemathang Kargil.

The meeting discussed vari-ous aspects of the function in-cluding arrangements put inplace at the venue, security,march past parade, cultural pro-grammes, seating arrangements,medical facilities, transportationand other related arrangements.

The Deputy Commissioner,while enquiring from the officersabout the status of the arrange-ments made so far, instructedthem to ensure that all necessary

facilities are put in place well intime.

It was informed that a cultur-al programme based on folk mu-sic and dance performances andpatriotic songs would be present-ed by the school children besidesthe artists of the Academy of Art,Culture and Languages.

Besides, stalls on localHandloom and Handicraft,Agricultural and Horticultureproducts and various govern-ment schemes by different de-partments, traditional kitchensbesides archery and polo exhibi-tion matches would be the addedattractions of the IndependenceDay celebration in the districtthis year.

The DC stressed upon the offi-cers to maintain close coordina-tion among departments so as toensure smooth conduct of thefunction. He also asked the de-partments concerned to ensureproper maintenance of the ven-ue, cleanliness and parking facil-

ities for visitors.Besides, stallson local Handloom andHandicraft, Agricultural andHorticulture products and vari-ous government schemes by dif-ferent departments, traditionalkitchens besides archery and po-lo exhibition matches would bethe added attractions of theIndependence Day celebration inthe district this year.The meet-ing discussed various aspects ofthe function including arrange-ments put in place at the venue,security, march past parade, cul-tural programmes, seatingarrangements, medical facilities,transportation and other relatedarrangements.

Additional DeputyCommissioner Kargil SonamChosjor, Assistant DirectorPlanning, Chief Accounts OfficerDistrict Fund Office, CEO,Executive Engneers of I&FC,R&B II, PHE, PDD, Mechanicalbesides other concerned officersattended the meeting.

Arrangements for IndependenceDay reviewed at KargilSAMBA AUGUST 10:

District DevelopmentCommissioner, Rohit Khajuria, to-day reviewed arrangements forsmooth and successful conduct offorthcoming 72nd Independence Dayin the district during a meeting of dis-trict Officers.

Additional District DevelopmentCommissioner Arvind Kotwal,Senior Superintendent of PoliceShakti Pathak, Additional DeputyCommissioner Samba Vikas Gupta,PO ICDS Jyoti Rani Salathia,Assistant Commissioner (Revenue)Kulbhushan Khajuria, ChiefEducation Officer, Chief MedicalOfficer, Executive Engineer PWD(R&B), PHE, and PDD Division, be-sides other concerned officers attend-ed the meeting.

During thé meeting, it was in-formed that the main function shallbe organised in the Sports Stadiumwhere the VIP will unfurl theTricolor and take salute at the Marchpast by the contingents of JKP, JKAP,CRPF, FPF, NCC and school children.Besides, a colorful cultural pro-

gramme will be presented by theschool children in collaboration withCultural Academy Samba.

The DDC constituted aCommittee of officers under the su-pervision of the Additional DeputyCommissioner comprising membersfrom Police, Army, PWD and otherDepartments to monitor the arrange-ments for the function.

Various other necessary arrange-ments were also discussed in themeeting which included security,drinking water facility at the venue,

cleanliness and sanitation, seat-ing arrangement, traffic manage-ment, power supply refreshmentsand others.

DDC asked the SSP to ensure foolproof security arrangements duringthe celebration of the National Day.DDC directed Executive EngineerPDD and EO Municipality to replaceand repair all the street and floodlights in the town besides ensuringinstallation of adequate lighting atthe venue for security reasons. It wasalso informed that the IndependenceDay full dress rehearsal will be heldon 13th of August 2019.

DDC reviews arrangements forIndependence Day in Samba

Officers’ teaminspects markets,books 16 defaultersJAMMU AUGUST 10:

Following the directions ofDeputy Commissioner Jammu, thechecking committee today conductedinspection of various markets inJanipur, Paloura, Sultanpur andHaiderpura.

During the inspection, the teaminspected around 50 shops andkhokas and booked 16 defaulters im-posing a fine of Rs. 23000 on them.

The market inspection laid em-phasis on checking the meat, fruitand vegetable shops wherein focuswas given to overall hygiene, displayof rate lists, complaints of overcharg-ing, food safety licence, certificates ofWeights and Measure Department be-sides encroachment of footpaths andlanes.

The inspection team was com-prised of Tehsildar Jammu North,Mohammad Bashir, SHO Janipur,Naresh Kumar, Food Safety OfficerJammu, Parvez Choudhary,Inspector Legal Metrology Jammu,Jagdeep Raj and Inspector FC&CAJammu, Raman Kumar.

UDHAMPUR, AUGUST-10:-

To finalize arrangements forcelebration of Independence Dayfunction 2019, a meeting of dis-trict officers of different depart-ments was held under theChairmanship of DistrictDevelopment Commissioner, Dr.Piyush Singla, here today.

Threadbare discussion washeld on various arrangementslike seating, barricading, securi-ty, traffic regulation, drinkingwater and power supply, sanita-tion, first-aid, deployment of bus-es and fire-tenders etc.

It was decided in the meetingthat the main function would beheld at Govt. PG Degree Collegefor Boys, Udhampur where theVIP would hoist the National flagat 9 A.M. The contingents drawnfrom Police, NCC and schoolswould participate in the marchpast. It was also decided thatDistrict Information Centre,Udhampur shall play ShehnaiVadan from 5.30 AM to 6.30 A.M.in Deputy Commissioner’s OfficeComplex and DIC Office,

Udhampur. Speaking on the occa-sion, DDC directed the concerneddepartments to adopt coordinat-ed approach in ensuring thearrangements pertaining to theirrespective departments well inadvance. He also called upon theofficers and employees of all de-

partments to remain present onthe day of function.

DDC also directed ACD toaware the PRIs to host theNational flag in all panchayats.

Among others, AdditionalDistrict DevelopmentCommissioner, Ashok Kumar,

Additional DeputyCommissioner, Dr.Gurvinderjeet Singh, AssistantCommissioner Revenue, ViqarGiri, DIO, Er. Sajad BashirSomberia and other districtheads of various departmentswere present in the meeting.

I- Day arrangements finalized at UdhampurJAMMU AUGUST 10:

As per AdministratorAuqaf Islamia Jammu,the namaz timings forEid-Ul-Azha at variousEidgahs and MasjidShariefs of Jammu dis-trict have been issuedhere today.

As per the schedule,the Namaz will be per-formed at Ali- MianMasjid Bathandi Jammuat 6:15 am, Madina MasjidBathandi Jammu at 7 am,Eid Gah Malik MarketJammu at 7:30 am,Makkah Masjid BathandiJammu at 7:30 am, JamiaMasjid Gandhi NagarJammu at 7:45 am, MainEidgah, Jammu at 8 am,Eidgah Sidhra Jammu at 8am, Eidgah Digiana

Jammu at 8:00 am, EidgahNarwal Bala Jammu at 8am, Jamia Masjid HaiderPora Janipur Jammu at 8am, Karbala Complex,Jammu at 8 am, BathandiMorh Jammu at 8 am,Eidgah Pull Tawi Jammuat 8:30 am, Jamia MasjidLakhdata Bazar Jammuat 8:30 am, Eidgah RehariSarwal Jammu at 8:30 am,Jamia Masjid TophSherkhanian at 8:30 am,Eidgah Janipur Jammu at8:30 am, Jamia MasjidTalab Khatikan Jammu at9 am and Jamia MasjidUmar Railway StationJammu at 9 am.As per theschedule, the Namaz willbe performed at Ali- MianMasjid Bathandi Jammuat 6:15 am, Madina MasjidBathandi Jammu at 7 am,

Eid Gah Malik MarketJammu at 7:30 am,Makkah Masjid BathandiJammu at 7:30 am

All the Namazis havebeen requested to reachtheir respectiveEidgahs/Masjid Shariefswell in advance to avoidany inconvenience.Besides, general publichas been advised not tobring with them MobilePhones, lighters,Cigarettes and otherTobacco products etc, forsecurity reason.

In case of bad weath-er/rain, the Eid Namazshall be offered in respec-tive Jamia Masjids of thearea and the Namaz tim-ings shall be announcedby the concerned MasjidCommittee.

Administrator Auqaf Islamia Jammu issues Namaz timings for Eid-Ul-Azha

JAMMU, AUGUST 10:

DeputyCommissioner, SushmaChauhan today conveneda meeting to review thearrangements being put inplace by different depart-ments for IndependenceDay 2019 celebration in thedistrict. ADC JammuRashpal Singh, SSPTraffic Joginder Singh,SSP Jammu Tejinder

Singh, ACG InderjeetSingh Parihar, JointDirector Hospitality andProtocol Jammu Dr.Subash, Health OfficerJMC Dr. Saleem, FieldPublicity Officer, VipanBhagat besides other con-cerned officers attendedthe meeting.While reviewing the arrangements, theDeputy Commissioner di-rected the officers to en-sure that all necessary

arrangements are put inplace well in time for theNational event. She re-viewed arrangements oftraffic regulation, parkingof vehicles, security, seat-ing plan, installation ofPAS, barricading, power,drinking water, invitationof guests, refreshment toschool children, transport,electricity, march past andother necessary arrange-ments.

DC Jammu reviews IndependenceDay arrangements

Kolkata, Aug 10 (PTI)

The chairman ofBidhannagar MunicipalCorporation (BMC) KrishnaChakraborty was sworn in asmayor of the corporation onSaturday.

The post of mayor has beenlying vacant after SabyasachiDutta, the first mayor of thecorporation which was formedin 2015, resigned from the poston July 18 following differ-ences with the party leadershipand a majority of councillorsexpressing no confidenceagainst him.

Chakraborty said she ishappy that the party leader-

ship has reposed faith in herand she will do her best to liveup to the expectations of thepeople.

"Our party supremoMamata Banerjee says that weneed to work for the masses.The chair doesn't matter, whatmatters is what we are doingfor the people," she said afterbeing sworn in.

According to a TMC coun-cillor of BMC, the party leader-ship had zeroed in on KrishnaChakraborty as the next mayorafter Sabyasachi Dutta re-signed from the post. Todayduring a meeting of party coun-cillors she was officially elect-ed as the leader of the party in

the corporation and was swornin as the first lady mayor ofBMC. Dutta was in the eye of apolitical storm after he partici-pated in an agitation againstWest Bengal's power depart-ment and slammed the TMCgovernment for not fulfillingthe employees' demands for in-creasing their salaries."Ourparty supremo MamataBanerjee says that we need towork for the masses. The chairdoesn't matter, what matters iswhat we are doing for the peo-ple," she said after being swornin. The party leadership was al-so annoyed with Dutta over hismeetings with senior BJPleader Mukul Roy.

Krishna Chakraborty sworn inas Bidhannagar mayor

Man sentenced to lifeterm for murder inKarnatakaMangaluru, Aug 10 (PTI)

A court here has sentenced a 31-year-old man to life imprisonment for rapeand murder of a woman in DakshinaKannada district in the state.

Judge of the Sixth AdditionalDistrict and Sessions Court Syedunnisaon Friday sentenced the man for rapeand murder of the 40-year-old womanwho was living alone in Marody villagein Belthangady taluk in the district.

The judge also imposed a fine of Rstwo lakh on the man. Laxman Acharyahad developed an illicit relationshipwith the woman seven years ago. Heraped and killed her in August 2012 aftershe insisted that he marry her. Based ona complaint filed by the brother of thedeceased, Acharya was subsequently ar-rested and he confessed to the crime.

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Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 10 (PTI)

As the rain fury continued un-abated in most parts of Kerala,rocked by 80 landslides and floodsover the last three days, the tollclimbed to 57 on Saturday even asmore than 1.65 lakh people havebeen displaced from their homes.

Congress leader RahulGandhi is likely to visit his con-stituency--Wayanad, which isamong the worst affected, tomor-row to get first hand informationabout the rain havoc.

The Indian MeterologicalDepartment (IMD) has issued ared alert for three districts onSunday- Wayanad, Kannur andKasaragod.

Chief Minister PinarayiVijayan said in a tweet that "57lives have been lost. There arenow 1,318 flood relief camps oper-ating across the state. Thesecamps host 1,65,519 persons from46,400 families".

The maximum deaths were re-ported from Malappuram district-- 19, while 14 people lost their livesin Kozhikode and 10 in Wayanad.

Official sources said 198 hous-

es were fully damaged and 2303partially. Many people are stillfeared trapped under debris in thetwo major landslides that hitKavalappara in Malappuram andPuthumala in Meppadi inWayanad in the last two days.

In Kavalappara, the Army,National Disaster Response Force(NDRF) police and fire force per-sonnel raced against time amidheavy downpour and pulled outnine bodies from a huge landslide,where many more are feared tohave been trapped, officialsources said. Unable to hide histears, 60-year-old Rajashekharanwaited patiently to hear about thenine members of his family, in-cluding his wife, daughter andgrandchildren, who were missing.Unconfirmed sources saidaround 60 people are suspected tobe buried in the mud and slush asa portion of the hill came down,flattening several homes inKavalappara. In Puthumala, 18people are missing and nine bod-ies have been recovered, KalpettaMLA C K Saseendran told re-porters. From the tribal hamlet ofAttapady in Palakkad, a nine

month pregnant woman Lavanya,her one-year-old child and hus-band were rescued in a daring res-cue operation by the fire force.

One of the four shutters of theBanasurasagar dam, locatedabout 21 km from Kalpetta inWayanad, was opened at 3 PM todischarge excess water and peo-ple on the banks of the Kabini riv-er were asked to be cautious.

One of the largest earth damsin India and the second largest ofits kind in Asia, Banasurasagarimpounds the Karamanathodutributary of the Kabini River.

A red alert has been issued forKannur, Wayanad and Kasaragoddistricts on August 11. Across thestate, about 1.45 lakh people havebeen shifted to 1,221 relief camps.

Landslides and overflowingrivers have caused flooding inseveral parts of Kasaragod,Kannur, Wayanad, Malappuram,Idukki, Palakkad, Thrissur,Kottayam and Kasaragod dis-tricts.Twenty three trains werecancelled fully and five partially,Southern Railways said.

In some relief to passengers,the Kochi airport, which was

closed after being inundated, willbecome operational from tomor-row. Since August 8, 2,234 houseshave been partially damaged, and196 fully, official sources said.

The Chief Minister saidaround 80 landslides had oc-curred in eight districts in the lastthree days and allayed fears ofopening dams, saying all the ma-jor dams have enough storage ca-pacity. "Not all dams are full. Wehave enough storage capacity inall major dams of the state. As ofnow only 30 per cent of water isthere in Idukki dam. Last year itwas nearly 98 per cent," he added.Opposition leader in the state as-sembly Ramesh Chennithala andKPCC President MullapallyRamachandran, visitedPuthumala in Wayanad onSaturday. Heavy rains and strongwinds lashedThiruvananthapuram districtSaturday, damaging at least 84houses. Various agencies, includ-ing the Army, Navy, Coast Guard,NDRF, police force, volunteersand fishermen are working jointl-hy in the rescue mission at vari-ous places.

No let up in rain in Kerala,toll climbs to 57

BJP registers 8.5 lakh primarymembers in UttarakhandDehradun, Aug 10 (PTI)

The BJP has registered 8.5 lakh primary membersin Uttarakhand during the party's ongoing member-ship drive. State BJP president Ajay Bhatt chaired ameeting on Saturday to review the party's member-ship drive, state unit media in-charge DevendraBhasin said. The party had set itself a target of making15,000 active members in the state, he said.

The party extended the membership drive tillAugust 20, he said. Earlier, it was scheduled to end onAugust 11. The party also decided to hold a number ofprogrammes on August 16 throughout Uttarakhand tomark the first death anniversary of former prime min-ister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

12 Bangladeshis arrestedwhile crossing over to IndiaKolkata, Aug 10 (PTI)

Twelve illegal Bangladeshi immigrants have beenarrested from Bithari and Hakipur area of the Indo-Bangla border, while trying to crossover to India, BSFofficials said.

A BSF patrol party intercepted and arrested eightfemale and four male Bangladeshi nationals in two dif-ferent incidents from Bithari, Hakipur and Doboliaarea of North 24 Parganas district on Friday night, aBSF statement said. "During preliminary questioning,these Bangladeshi illegal intruders revealed that theycame into India with the help of Bangladeshi touts,"the statement, issued on Saturday, said.

The arrested persons have been handed over to re-spective police stations for further legal action, itadded.

Veteran actor Vidya Sinhaadmitted to hospitalMumbai, Aug 10 (PTI)

Veteran actor Vidya Sinha is admitted at a subur-ban hospital here reportedly due to breathing prob-lems. Sinha was admitted to CritiCare Hospital inJuhu on Thursday. As per reports, she is sufferingfrom lung and heart disorders and has been put on ven-tilator in the ICU.

"She is not well right now... Beyond this I can't com-ment anything," Sinha's daughter Janhavi told PTI.

The veteran actor is best known for her perform-ances alongside Amol Palekar in "Rajnigandha" and"Chhoti Si Baat" and in mainstream commercial spacefor "Pati Patni Aur Woh" among others. She has alsoacted in quite a few TV shows like " Kkavyanjali","Qubool Hai" and "Kullfi Kumarr Bajewala"."She isnot well right now... Beyond this I can't comment any-thing," Sinha's daughter Janhavi told PTI.

Man sentenced to life term formurder in KarnatakaMangaluru, Aug 10 (PTI)

A court here has sentenced a 31-year-old man to lifeimprisonment for rape and murder of a woman inDakshina Kannada district in the state.

Judge of the Sixth Additional District and SessionsCourt Syedunnisa on Friday sentenced the man forrape and murder of the 40-year-old woman who was liv-ing alone in Marody village in Belthangady taluk inthe district.

The judge also imposed a fine of Rs two lakh on theman.

Laxman Acharya had developed an illicit relation-ship with the woman seven years ago. He raped andkilled her in August 2012 after she insisted that he mar-ry her.

Based on a complaint filed by the brother of the de-ceased, Acharya was subsequently arrested and heconfessed to the crime.

Venoor police conducted an investigation and filedthe charge sheet.Based on a complaint filed by thebrother of the deceased, Acharya was subsequently ar-rested and he confessed to the crime.

A total of 23 witnesses were examined in the caseand 20 documents scrutinised.

Lucknow, Aug 10 (PTI)

Uttar Pradesh ChiefMinister Yogi Adityanath onSaturday laid emphasis on asso-ciating local youths withtourism, saying this will give amajor boost to developmentprospects.

He was speaking at the inau-gural function of Uttar PradeshTravel Mart-2019.

The chief minister said if thetourists are connected with ac-tivities in the place they are vis-iting, then there will be a spurtin development and employ-ment opportunities.

Referring to DudhwaNational Park, Adityanath said,"There are many centres, whichalong with tourist spots, are al-so associated with wildlife. Be itSonbhadra, Bundelkhand orTerai area. Tour operators canplay a vital role in connectingthe tourists with wildlife activi-ties."

The operators and othersworking in this industry shouldtrain local youths as thereshould be good guides and serv-

ice providers in this sector, hesaid, adding that they can give amajor boost in taking ahead theprospects of tourism develop-ment.

Adityanath said that newdevelopment boards were set upfrom the point of view of spiritu-al tourism.

"We successfully hosted theKumbh at Prayagraj because weformed the Prayagraj MelaPradhikaran. Similarly, sevenpilgrimage spots, includingMathura, Vrindavan, Barsana,Gokul and Nandgaon, have been

linked to Braj Teerth VikasParishad," he said.

"More than 24 crore devo-tees participated in the world'slargest spiritual, religious, andcultural congregation. Kumbhestablished standards with re-gards to cleanliness and securi-ty which was witnessed by thewhole world. Be it PravasiBhartiya Sammelan in Kashi orDeepotsav in Ayodhya, theseare being organised in UP," hesaid.

Adityanath said thatthrough the Kashi Vishwanath

Dhaam, the work of holistic de-velopment of the area was takenahead.

"Uttar Pradesh is a majorcentre of spiritual tourism, andtourists and pilgrims visit thestate in lakhs. We have alsostarted working on establishingdevelopment boards inAyodhya, Chitrakoot,Naimisharanya,Vindhyawasini Dhaam andDevipatan Dhaam," he said.

The chief minister said thatunder the new tourism develop-ment policy, a number of hotelsand restaurant chains will comeup in the state.

Adityanath said tour opera-tors will be able to translate var-ious possibilities of tourism in-to reality, and the state govern-ment will help them in everypossible way under the policy.

"Tour operators act as abridge between tourists andtourism. UP is a centre ofBuddhist circuit over which alot of work has been done. A lotof work has also been done inSarnath, Kushinagar,Kapilvastu, Shravasti. Along

with this, Uttar Pradesh alsohas an important place in Jaintourism. The work related to thespiritual circuit and Ramayancircuit is also being done," hesaid in a statement issued by theUP government.

Adityanath also said LordRam spent most of his exileyears in Chitrakoot and the gov-ernment has worked on devel-oping tourism here.

Speaking about air and roadconnectivity, he said, "The roadand air connectivity in the statehas improved compared to pre-vious years. The work on build-ing 11 new airports, includingthe international airport atJewar, has also been expedited."

He said the work on buildingPurvanchal Expressway hasbeen expedited and it will beopened for public in 2020.Similarly the BundelkhandExpressway and other express-ways will be made operationalin time.

The chief minister said alldistrict headquarters in thestate have been linked by four-lane roads.

UP CM stresses on associating youths with tourism

Nagpur, Aug 10 (PTI)

Two staffers of private car-rier GoAir have been booked forallegedly abetting the suicide ofa 19-year-old employee of theairline here, city police said.

Manthan Chavan, whoworked as GoAir's trainee rampofficer at Nagpur airport, hadallegedly committed suicide athis home in Nagpur on May 30,police said. In a statement is-sued on Friday, Ajni police saidthat an offence was registeredagainst Akshay Patil, managerof GoAir (Nagpur) and NilayJanbandhu, senior officer oframp operations, under IPC sec-tions 306 (abetment of suicide)and 34 (common intention) onThursday.

"During the investigation, itwas found that the deceased,Manthan Chavan, was on sickleave (when the incident hap-

pened). However, he was undermental pressure as he was con-stantly getting calls and mes-sages from Akshay Patil andNilay Janbandhu, who askedhim to resume duty, whichdrove him to commit suicide,"the police said. According to po-lice, Chavan hanged himselffrom an iron rod of a ventilatorat his home in ChandramaniNagar. His father, MahendraChavan, had later lodged a com-plaint saying that Manthan wasnot keeping well and sufferingfrom jaundice. He had been onleave since 10 to 12 days beforethe incident, he had said.

In the complaint, he had alsoalleged that his son might havetaken the extreme step due towork stress. Police hadlaunched a probe into the casebased on his complaint.

Meanwhile, the Mumbai-headquartered budget airline

has said that police have"wrongly booked" two of its em-ployees. It also said that its legalteam was "ascertaining thefacts" and will decide about the"next course of action". "GoAirhas extended full cooperationand support to the investigatingauthorities in the 19-year-oldemployee Manthan MahendraChavan suicide case," the air-

line said in a statement issuedon Friday. "Chavan was work-ing with GoAir as a traineeramp officer at Nagpur airportfor about nine months. GoAirshall obtain a copy of the FIRfiled by Nagpur Police, in whichtwo employees Akshay Patiland Nilay Janbandhu havebeen wrongly booked," it added.

Nagpur police had recorded

the statements of GoAir em-ployees on two different occa-sions in the past and all requi-site information related to thematter had been handed over tothe authorities, as requested, itsaid. "The initial enquiry wasconducted and the authoritiesdid not find any complicity ofthe employees in the incident.

Our legal team is ascertain-ing the facts and after taking aconsidered view, we will decidethe next course of action," itadded. "GoAir deeply regretsthe demise of Chavan who left asuicide note, where he wishedhis mother a happy birthdayand apologised for committingsuicide. Our hearts go out to theparents and family members ofyoung Manthan. With immedi-ate effect GoAir had releasedhis dues and other compensa-tion as per the Company poli-cy," it said.

2 GoAir staffers booked for abetting employee's suicide

Chennai, Aug 10 (PTI):

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister KPalaniswami visited the ArignarAnna Zoological Park, near here,Saturday and named three lioncubs and four tiger cubs.

Also, Palaniswami unveiled anew visitor's area near the enclo-sure for rhinoceros.Three cubsborn to lion 'Siva' and lioness'Neela' were named as 'Pradeep','Dhakshina' and 'Niranjana' byPalaniswami, an official press re-lease said. Similarly, four whitetiger cubs born to tiger 'Vijay' andtigress 'Uthra' were named as'Mithran', 'Yuga', 'Venmathi' and'Rithwik', the release said.

Referring to the earlier an-

nouncement made byPalaniswami that an Indian rhi-noceros would be brought fromBihar and Telangana through ascheme involving exchange of ani-mals, the release said an upgradedenclosure was formally inaugurat-ed also by him.

Steps have been taken to re-ceive two females from Bihar and amale rhinoceros from Telangana,the release said.Also,Palaniswami unveiled a new visi-tor's area near the enclosure forrhinoceros.

Forest Minister 'Dindigul' CSrinivasan, Minister for RuralIndustries, P Benjamin, and seniorgovernment officials were presenton the occasion, the release said.

2 GoAir staffers booked forabetting employee's suicide

Mumbai Aug 10

The Centre has declared twowildlife sanctuaries near Mumbai as'Eco-Sensitive Zone'(ESZ), accordingto Union Minister for EnvironmentPrakash Javadekar.

There are 11 more such ESZs inTamil Nadu and Chhattisgarh,

The two wildlife sanctuaries inMaharashtra are TungareshwarWildlife Sanctuary (TWLS) and TansaWildlife Santuary (TWS), both lushgreen areas spread across several hun-dred square kms in Palghar and Thanedistricts adjoining Mumbai. They alsoserve as the catchment areas for lakesand reservoirs supplying drinking wa-ter to the country's commercial capi-tal."I have approved the final ESZ noti-fication in respect of TWLS inMaharashtra. This will help scientificconservation of eco-systems and at thesame time will give relief to farmers,artisans, rural people, small business-es in the area between final ESZ and 10km from the protected areas, whichwas banned earlier," Javadekar said intweets on Friday.

The total protected area of theTWLS is around 86 sq km and will havethe ESZ of 67 sq km. For the TWS, thetotal protected area would be around305 sq kms with the ESZ of around 490sq km which will also include 150 vil-lages.

Both the TWLS and TWS are

ranked as major habitats for severalwildlife, including leopards.

The Sanjay Gandhi National Parkin Borivali, which is sprawled acrossMumbai's north-east and north-west-ern suburbs, itself is home to around 45leopards, different varieties of deer,Sambar, four-horned Antelope, RhesusMacaque, Bonnet Macaque, monkeys,grey Langur, Indian Flying Fox, spot-Striped Hyena and a large number ofbirds and insects.ation in respect ofTWLS in Maharashtra.

This will help scientific conserva-tion of eco-systems and at the sametime will give relief to farmers, arti-sans, rural people, small businesses inthe area between final ESZ and 10 kmfrom the protected areas, which wasbanned earlier," Javadekar said intweets on Friday.

Leopards often stray into the sub-urban residential areas like Dahisar,Borivali, Kandivali, Malad, Goregaon,Jogeshwari, Andheri, Powai,Bhandup, Kanjurmarg and Mulund,and other green areas in the MumbaiMetropolitan Region.

Experts said that declaring an ESZ,or a buffer zone, around a wildlife re-serve would help conserve the ecosys-tem since only agriculture, a few smallscale industries and minor infra-works are permitted within the ESZ.

Maharashtra had proposed the ESZaround TWLS and TWS forests inAugust 2016.

Two wildlife reserves declared'eco-sensitive zone'

New Delhi Aug 10

The Congress WorkingCommittee that met on

Saturday to decide the suc-cessor of Rahul Gandhi againurged him to reconsider hisdecision and said it was yet to

take a final call on his resig-nation. Addressing media-persons after the meeting,Congress media in-chargeRandeep Singh Surjewalasaid: "The CWC unanimouslyappealed to Rahul Gandhi tolead the party as he was thebest person for the top post atthe time when the BJP-ledgovernment was assaultingdemocracy and underminingpeople's rights."

Surjewala said, afterRahul Gandhi refused to re-consider his decision, theCWC began consultations tofind his successor under fiveregional sub-groups led bysenior party leaders.

CWC urges Rahul to reconsider hisdecision to quit as party chief

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Frustraed PakistanAfter revocation of Article 370 from Jammu and

Kashmir, already isolated internationally,Pakistan is trying to woo world community in

its favour particularly Washington and the UnitedNations. But it has received little traction on the issue.Islamabad is being bluntly asked not to use the develop-ment in Kashmir for cross border terrorism or infiltra-tion across the Line of Control. Jammu and Kashmir isan integral part of India and the issue is strictly internalto the country. Led by Prime Minister Imran Khan, topPakistani leadership have been calling world leadersand its top diplomats have been meeting US lawmakersand senior officials in Washington and New York to as-certain their position and telling them that it is headedfor a war if there is no mediation by them. Islamabad istrying to project a panic situation to the internationalcommunity. It is a ploy to deflect attention. It is time forPakistan to see the new reality and stop interfering ininternal matters of India. Pakistan is being clearly toldthat the onus for maintaining peace and stability in theregion is on them. International community has calledupon Pakistan to ensure that they do not take steps, in-cluding cross border infiltration that would be detri-mental to peace and security. This is what the US andother major players are working on to prevent Pakistanfrom unleashing non-state actors. Do whatever, but donot use terrorism, is the message being told to Pakistanileaders and officials again and again. Pakistan is facingan imminent risk of being blacklisted by the FinancialAction Task Force if it fails to meet its commitment oncounter-terrorism financing. The international com-munity is closely watching its move. After the Taliban'sstatement that Afghanistan peace talks should not belinked to Kashmir, another Pakistani argument has fall-en flat. The US is in a mission mode to end the war inAfghanistan and pull back its troops from the war-torncountry. The Trump administration, is not buying thePakistani argument that the road to peace in Kabul goesthrough Kashmir and would hold Islamabad account-able if its seen jeopardising the ongoing Afghan peacetalks. There is a clear understanding inside the Trumpadministration that Pakistan will try and use the devel-opments in Kashmir to calibrate US response. India'smove has taken away from Pakistan a basis for it to in-ternationalize the issue of Jammu and Kashmir and thisrealisation is reflected in the frustration by seniorPakistani officials when they reach out to their counter-parts in other countries. Pak must understand thatKashmir is an internal affair of India and it should stayaway from Kashmir in future.

Congress at crossroadsYoung Turks are impatient

and if the CWC presidentemerges from the old guard,they could take drastic steps.Today could be a transforma-tive day for the Congress as itwould not only choose a newparty president but decidewhether it would go down theroad to perdition or revival,stifle itself with formulaic tra-dition or break out of boxes,part with the old and stakeeverything on the new, andsimply put, matter anymore in news headlines. Of course, murmurs are ofthe predictable kind, that the leadership vacuum created by the exit ofRahul Gandhi will be filled by a loyalist and a retainer of the old order, anendorsement that guarantees the centrality of the party’s first family with-out owning responsibility for the post. Even Gandhi’s good intentions, toforce a rethink without dynasty and the baggage of history, will then comeinto question. It would seem like he, too, played along with the tested plot offoisting a lesser leader and seeking a distress vote to resume dynastic con-trol. Clearly, that will be ruinous given the current context where the partyis clearly split down the middle over key issues, the latest being the abroga-tion of Article 370 in Kashmir. The younger lot of leaders, some of whom arebelieved to be of Rahul Gandhi’s camp, like Jyotiraditya Scindia,Deepender Hooda and Milind Deora, are clearly looking for a changed axisin a Modi-fied and Naya India and want their voices heard as newCongressmen. So all of them publicly endorsed the revocation of Article 370contrary to the stance of senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad in theRajya Sabha. The less said about the forked tongue approach in the LokSabha the better with CLP leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury going to theother extreme of classifying Kashmir as not an “internal” matter. Thisforced the old guard to pass a united resolution emphasising the whole of

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Toxic masculinity

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By : VANSHAJ RAVI JAIN

There are already signs that theKulbhushan Jadhav case betweenPakistan and India might return tothe ICJ. The publication of theInternational Court of Justice’saward in the Kulbhushan Jadhavcase on July 17, 2019 was heraldedby both India and Pakistan as a vic-tory to their side; the truth proba-bly lies somewhere in between. Theaward vindicated India’s claims onmerit, concurring that Pakistanwas guilty of multiple violations ofthe Vienna Convention onConsular Relations (VCCR): by fail-ing to inform Mr. Jadhav of hisrights under Article 36 of the treaty,by neglecting to notify India of hisarrest without delay, and by deny-ing him consular access.Nonetheless, the ICJ rejectedIndia’s claims on two crucialgrounds: fair trial rights and reme-dy. The bedrock. Much of India’scase hinged on Article 14 of theInternational Covenant on Civiland Political Rights (ICCPR),which guarantees individuals theright to a fair trial. By convictingMr. Jadhav through a military tri-bunal, using video evidence of aconfession obtained under coercivecircumstances, and by denyingIndian consular officers the oppor-tunity to arrange for his legal repre-sentation, India argued that thePakistani state had employed anunjust procedure in his trial.Predictably, however, the ICJchose to hinge its jurisdiction inthis case on Article 1 of the OptionalProtocol to the VCCR, which grants

the ICJ compulsory jurisdiction on-ly over disputes arising out of theapplication or interpretation of theConsular Convention. The unfortu-nate consequence of this choice wasthat disputes pertaining to viola-tions of other international lawnorms, such as the human rightsobligations under the ICCPR, wereruled to be outside the remit of theICJ’s jurisdiction. India’s attemptsto have the ICCPR piggyback on theVCCR, by claiming that the latterwas also, in essence, a humanrights treaty and by asserting thatthe inclusion of the ICCPR was nec-essary for an effective remedy,were rejected out of hand.

Issue of remedies : The moretroubling aspect of the ICJ’s award,from the Indian perspective, con-cerns the ICJ’s decision on reme-dies. It denied India’s prayer to setaside Mr. Jadhav’s conviction bythe military tribunal, and for his re-lease. Instead, it ruled that the ap-propriate remedy would be forPakistan to carry out an “effectivereview and reconsideration” of the

tribunal’s conviction and sentence.What this means, in simpler terms,is that Pakistan will have to pro-vide Mr. Jadhav a judicial mecha-nism to assess the prejudice causedto him by a denial of consular ac-cess, and to reconsider (and possi-bly alter) his sentence and convic-tion based on its findings.

While not entirely unforesee-able, this decision is worrying forseveral reasons. First, this remedycarries a fraught history: it has on-ly ever been used before by the ICJin LaGrand and Avena, which in-volved an identical denial of con-sular access to nationals ofGermany and Mexico, respectively,by the United States. Crucially, theunsatisfactory implementation ofthis remedy and the weak reviewmechanisms provided by the U.S.in response to the ICJ’s decision inboth cases have been widely notedin academic literature. Second, theremedy does little to account for theviolation of Mr. Jadhav’s fair trialrights. This means that the reviewprocedure Pakistan opts for might

well be one carried out by a mili-tary tribunal, and also one that con-tinues to rely on the allegedly-forced video confession. But per-haps the most troubling aspect ofthis remedy, and the one thatmakes it most ripe for further liti-gation, is that it is intrinsically am-biguous. Apart from asserting thatthe review and reconsideration ofMr. Jadhav’s conviction “must beeffective”, the ICJ has offered littleguidance on how it must be carriedout. It is known, from the Avenajudgment, that providing Mr.Jadhav access to a clemency peti-tion (as Pakistani law does) is an in-sufficient form of review, since itdoes not entail the use of a judicialmechanism. The PakistaniSupreme Court, in Said ZamanKhan v. Federation of Pakistan,ruled that the state’s civilian courtscould only review the decision of amilitary tribunal on the narrowgrounds of coram non judice (i.e.,an absence of jurisdiction) or malafides(bad faith). It is unlikely thatMr. Jadhav’s denial of VCCR rightsfalls under either category.However, the decision in SaidZaman Khan is under review, fol-lowing the Peshawar High Court’sattempts to widen it in 2018, in theAbdur Rashid case. Heading backto The Hague? The outcome of thelatter case may well portend the useof a civilian review mechanism forMr. Jadhav’s case. Even if theRashid case fails, Pakistan couldpotentially be required to altertheir laws to provide a more effec-tive review mechanism for deci-

By : RINKU GHoSH

It would be easy to attributesuch mindset to the resurgence of re-visionism or a stoking of primal in-stincts. But male behaviour in thisera is linked to political contexts.Enough has not yet been said of thebrutality of the “One India” narra-tive and the brazenness with whichit legitimises the lowest common de-nominator of societal attitudes anda viral thinking. Two incidents overthe last few days embody a deeplydisturbing and distressing fallout ofthe muscular leadership in the polit-ical space degenerating into gendertriumphalism in the social space.One that automatically assumesmuscularity and decisiveness as ad-mirable male traits and everythingelse as supine and feminine frailties.Is “toxic masculinity” then the newnational character? Now codified al-most? The first case was of theUnnao rape accused KuldeepSengar, now expelled by the BJP,wishing a speedy recovery for thesurvivor with not even a twitch ofemotion or even betraying hispredatory nature, one that he hadused to hound, scare and subjugateher for two years. The girl, whosefamily was neutralised or eliminat-ed through means foul and his in-timidation, had to threaten self-im-molation in front of the UP ChiefMinister’s residence for her ulti-mate appeal to justice. And a nation-al conscience. Sengar is in custody,

booked under serious charges andnow even guilty by evidence, butthat hasn’t stopped him fromsquashing his female victim whereit hurts the most. As she fights forevery breath of her life in a hopelesssituation, Sengar publicly insultedher effort by “wishing her well,” thefinal blow to her dignity, patronis-ing in dispensing grace while beingthe perpetrator of her humiliation.Some distorted charity that hethinks will earn him clemency.Sadly, it has for the last two years.

The second instance was evenmore belly-churning. As the govern-ment road rolled its way into chang-ing the character of Jammu andKashmir by abrogating Article 370and bifurcating the State into UnionTerritories, a majority of reactionson social media were about howevery Indian male could now marry“fair Kashmiri girls,” buy propertyand settle down in the Valley, theimplication reeking of feudal con-quests of the darkest ages of civilisa-tion, where women were traded asspoils of war. A forceful integrationamounts to a war on people overland. Nobody even stepped in to con-demn such irresponsible and crasshumour, which was relished bymany. And considering that a cer-tain level of awareness, power andeducation can be assumed of onlinecitizenry, this truly was a new low,no different from the mentality of aninvading, occupation force of themedieval era. Since when were

Kashmiri women prevented frommarrying outside the State? Manyhave already done that out of freewill, knowing full well that it wouldentail relinquishing claims to theirfamily inheritance. Of course, to theavaricious male, she can now be en-titled to her birth heritage. Is thatthe implication? Also did anybodyask why Kashmiri women wouldagree to marry outsiders, particu-larly in challenged circumstancesas now? Or why they are not a voice-less tribe and just like other womenin the rest of India? Yet there is asweeping assumption of their acqui-escence to a new order in this perni-

cious propaganda warfare that isdeeply problematic. By denyingthem their equal, civil space and ap-propriating their human rights ofchoice and decision-making, itshows that political control is equiv-alent to a patriarchal social authori-tarianism. Also, by equalising mar-riage with a Kashmiri woman andacquisition of land in Budgam for asummer chalet, the script-writersare blanking out consent and will ofthe other side and force-feedingchoices. It would be easy to attributesuch behaviour and mindset to theresurgence of revisionism or a stok-

By : SUHRITH PARTHASARATHy

With the kernel of theInformation Act under threat, theindependence of the informationcommission is in peril. When we de-scribe India as a democracy what dowe really mean? Are we referringmerely to a system of popular sover-eignty founded in universal adultfranchise? Or are we suggestingsomething more perhaps an assur-ance, grounded in the Constitution,of a set of rights, of the rights, amongothers, to a freedom of expression,life and personal liberty, and equalopportunity and status? These arequestions, as Astra Taylor argues inher remarkable newbook,Democracy May Not Exist, ButWe’ll Miss It When It’s Gone, that wemust perpetually ask ourselves. Ifnothing else to remind oneself thatwhile there can be reasonable dis-agreements over how a republicought to be structured, seeingdemocracy as purely an enforce-ment of majoritarian will, where theonly end in mind is the selection of arepresentative government, leads toself-rule “becoming not a promisebut a curse”. Evidence throughouthistory has shown us that just re-sults do not necessarily follow froma simple guarantee of equal statusenshrined in a right to vote. Thewealthy and the dominant classesfind uncanny ways to ensure con-

centration of power. Democracy,therefore, has to percolate beyondthe bare promises of formal politicalequality. It is to this end that India’sConstitution provides a frameworkfor governance by pledging to peoplea set of inviolable guarantees. Butrealising the full value of those guar-antees at times requires a parleywith the state. It was one such longbattle, fought over nearly twodecades, driven by the unstinting ef-forts of the Mazdoor Kisan ShaktiSangathan, that resulted in the en-actment in 2005 of theRight toInformation Act (RTI Act). By anyaccount, the law proved transforma-tive to India’s democracy; it revolu-tionised the citizen’s ability to en-gage with the state, arming people

with a mechanism to ferret out someof the truth from the government’sotherwise secretive operations.

Deep-reaching amendmentsToday, though, the kernel of the

RTI Act is under threat. New amend-ments have been passed withoutsubjecting the draft law to scrutinyby a parliamentary committee. Afeature common to every law enact-ed by Parliament in its present ses-sion, this portends the reduction ofgovernance to a form of democracyby crude acclamation. The changesmade include an alteration to theterm in office of the informationcommissioners (ICs) and to the man-ner of determination of theirsalaries. In place of the existing five-year term accorded to the Central

Information Commissioner (CIC)and the various ICs the law grants tothe Uniongovernment the power tonotify their terms through execu-tive regulations. What is more, theamendment deletes the RTI Act’smandate that the salary paid to theCIC and the ICs ought to be equiva-lent to that paid respectively to theChief Election Commissioner andthe Election Commissioners (ECs).Now, the salary, allowances, andterms and conditions of service ofthe CIC and the ICs will be deter-mined by executive guidelines. Onits face, a reading of these amend-ments might not strike us as beingespecially harmful. The changesmay appear to be nothing more thanmatters of legislative niceties. Butthe RTI Act is not an ordinarystatute. It is a law that enlivens andanimates the basic right to freedomof information. Although such aright is not enumerated in theConstitution, the Supreme Courthas repeatedly affirmed its positionas intrinsic to the right to freedom ofexpression (for example, in PUCL v.Union of India, 2004). It might be dif-ficult to see the merit in this findingif we take democracy to mean gover-nance by the many and nothingmore. But as the courts have wiselyrecognised, information often actsas a great leveller; it helps anchordemocratic action. Therefore, for

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ing of primal instincts. But male behaviour in the millen-nial era has considerably changed organically, lendingheft to the definition of metrosexuality. This then is not la-tent expression but an adjunct of hardening politicsworldwide, where sexism and gendered violence are be-ing redefined as a masculine privilege of power. In theIndian context, it is about inequality of political powerand the way it is dispensed. It is about a certain male chestsize which can be the nation’s armoured shield like noother. One has only to look at the way political decision-making process has converted the democratic process asa fait accompli. Nowhere is this totalitarian might moreevident than in Parliament, where productivity is aboutsteamrolling legislation and the consultative, coopera-tive process is seen as wasting time and energy, where op-position is about anti-nationalism and considered opin-ions are national deterrents to possibilities, where plural-ity is pointless and negotiation an extinct tool of trade. Ina system, where monotheistic and simplistic decision-making is blurring out layers and complexities, and pow-er flowing from an iconised perception of maleness, itmust follow that society will react to it. For it is only reallife conditions and forces that sustain popular culture, inour case a brainwashed sort. One where institutions andpurveyors perpetuate the sentiment rather than politicalthought. This explains why the Hindi film Kabir Singh,which celebrates toxic masculinity and a subjugation ofgender roles, finds crores of takers in the 21st century and isfrighteningly endorsed by the youth in middle and small townIndia. This is so different from the “angry young man” of the70s, who was fighting the establishment against suchruthless toxicity of power. What confounds the discourseis attributing male superiority to our cultural DNA whenfact is an eco-system has been created to foster an old con-struct for easier acceptance. A study conducted in the USon alcoholism may be cited here to explain the context.

The alcohol industry there had funded research to denythe relationship between alcohol and violence and in-stead blamed “masculinity” and “cultures of drinking.”But the study uncovered strong evidence that the densityof liquor shops in a given geographic area increased thelocal rate of domestic violence and recommended thatany serious framework for preventing violence againstwomen would have to address alcohol availability as wellas sexist mindsets. In other words, such a mindset is beingengendered by systematic and selective blanking out ofexisting narratives and pushing convenient ones withbrute force. The problem with this approach in our socie-ty is that we have still not begun to respect women’s rightsas evolutionary but as an imposition of grace by a male or-der. We have not been able to pass the Women’sReservation Bill at a time when it was required to ensureproportional representation that would ensure inclusiveparticipation and policy-making, not even now when aflurry of other Bills have made the cut. All women andchild-friendly schemes of the government are bestowedrather than earned. The very act of “empowerment” as-signs the agency to an external power of dole rather thanclaiming rights. And with so much muscularity of pur-pose on display, embracing the virtues and strength offemininity as a man upsets operable binaries. If reason,counsel and civility are now emaciating characteristics,then the idea of power automatically gets slotted in theprivileged domain of a raw, hunter-gatherer masculinity.The otherness gets lumped in baskets of minorityism, lib-eralism or feminism. Of these, feminism is the easiest to target asthe tide of opinion still favours men. Generations of women inIndia have worked tirelessly to rebalance the equation be-tween sexes, often mistakenly acquiring masculine quali-ties and benchmarks to do so. Now they have a far tougherpolitical context of endowment to battle, one where hu-maneness is predicated on the dehumanisation of others.

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Kashmir as an integral part of India and just criticising theNDA government’s lack of a democratic and consultativepolitical process behind the reorganisation of Jammu andKashmir. Hooda and Deora are facing Assembly electionsin their States and do not want to go against the nationalsentiment while seeking votes. Younger leaders likeSachin Pilot are also living down their dynastic entitle-ment and working towards creating their personal legacieswith practical logic. With all of them now 40ish and mid-dling, they want to take a last shot at credibility than perishaway into extinction. This young lot is also not averse to or-ganisational elections to build inner-party democracy first beforeespousing it in Parliament or blaming other parties for run-ning roughshod over it. Elections, they feel, would infusenew energy and get new faces in on the basis of politicalacumen and deliverables. Particularly JyotiradityaScindia, the co-general secretary of Uttar Pradesh withPriyanka Gandhi and believed to be an inner circle mem-ber, has put pressure on the party by publicising his sup-port for the Government move on Kashmir and sparkingspeculation whether the disenchanted Congress brigadehad parked themselves in the shopping cart. Of course, sen-ior leaders are still prevailing on Congress matriarch

Sonia Gandhi, warding off elections for fear of being side-lined. After all, their undisputed runs in the party havemeant that they have carved their own fiefdoms too and le-gitimised their continuity by virtue of maintaining theseturfs and votebanks. Truth be told, most senior leaders inthe CWC have not fought elections in a long, long time andare out of depth with ground reality. For example, one ofthe names for CWC president, Mukul Wasnik, last won anelection in 2009. Were they to contest now, they would losetheir deposits. So they don’t want to let go of their statusquo in the Congress, hoping their posts would still length-en their political careers. What the Gandhis need to under-stand is that egoistic dramas have run their course and it istime to either hand over charge fully or rescue it upfront.The Congress leadership, which is either calculatedly orhelplessly driving the party to disaster, better value its po-litical relevance over selfish interests. Because when theformer is gone, even the latter won’t be of any consequence.If all this is part of an elaborate attempt to create an irre-trievable mess where the Gandhis would look like supremesaviours, then one could also look at a consensus candidatewho is accepted in their presence. And that would be an an-ti-climax.

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sions of military tribunals: a fact alluded to by the ICJ,which stated that “Pakistan shall take all measures to pro-vide for effective review and reconsideration, including,if necessary, by enacting appropriate legislation” [em-phasis added]. Ultimately, though neither state will admitit, the Jadhav decision will be a bitter pill to swallow forboth India and Pakistan. For Pakistan, making a signifi-cant alteration to its legal system would amount to an ad-mission that the ICJ’s judgement was a public admonitionof Pakistan’s judicial review mechanism: a prospectPakistan is unlikely to welcome. For India, any reviewmechanism that fails to acquit Mr. Jadhav will be seen asprocedurally unsound, and an attempt by Pakistan to fur-ther shirk its international legal responsibilities. It doesnot help that both countries have dug themselves into

holes by thoroughly politicising the ICJ’s verdict. Thelikely consequence is that, irrespective of what reviewmechanism Pakistan implements, both nations will besoon be back, knocking on the door of the InternationalCourt: the ICJ’s Statute allows parties to approach thecourt again, asking it to interpret its judgment. Signs ofthis outcome can already be witnessed, with Pakistan re-fusing India unimpeded access to Mr. Jadhav through anote verbale issued mere weeks after the ICJ’s decision.India’s counsel, Harish Salve, has publicly stated that thestate will not hesitate to return to the ICJ if Pakistan’sconduct proves to be unsatisfactory. It is increasinglylikely that we haven’t heard the last of the Jadhav litiga-tion. For now, however, the ball remains in Pakistan’scourt.

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execution in the EnglishCivilWar. In 1682, Louis XIV movedhis court to Versailles, and the Louvre ceased to be the main roy-al residence. In the spirit of the Enlightenment, many inFrance began calling for the public display of the royalcollections. Denis Diderot, the French writer and philoso-pher, was among the first to propose a national art muse-um for the public. Although King Louis XV temporarilydisplayed a selection of paintings at the LuxembourgPalace in 1750, it was not until the outbreak of the FrenchRevolution in 1789 that real progress was made in estab-lishing a permanent museum. On August 10, 1793, the rev-olutionary government opened the Musée Central desArts in the Grande Galerie of the Louvre. The collection atthe Louvre grew rapidly, and the French army seized artand archaeological items from territory and nations con-quered in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. Much

of this plundered art was returned after Napoleon’s defeatin 1815, but the Louvre’s current Egyptian antiquities col-lections and other departments owe much to Napoleon’sconquests. Two new wings were added in the 19th centu-ry, and the multi-building Louvre complex was completedin 1857, during the reign of Napoleon III. In the 1980s and1990s, the Grand Louvre, as the museum is officiallyknown, underwent major remodeling. Modern museumamenities were added and thousands of square meters ofnew exhibition space were opened. The Chinese American ar-chitect I.M. Pei built a steel-and-glass pyramid in the center of theNapoleon courtyard. Traditionalists called it an outrage.In 1993, on the 200th anniversary of the museum, a rebuiltwing formerly occupied by the French ministry of financewas opened to the public. It was the first time that the en-tire Louvre was devoted to museum purposes.

democracy to be valuable, citizens must possess a right tofreely express themselves. It ought to follow then that it isonly when citizens have a right to know what the state isup to, where governance is transparent, can their speechhave genuine meaning; only then can they constructivelyparticipate in the veritable marketplace of ideas.

It was with a view to giving effect to these constitution-al promises that the RTI Act was formulated. Extensivedebate was held both in Parliament and within parliamen-tary committees before it was decided that public authori-ties ought to be mandated by law to making a series of vol-untary disclosures on their structure, their functioning,and their financial management. Besides this basic direc-tive, citizens are also empowered under the RTI Act toseek and obtain any information from public authorities,barring a few exempted categories such as informationwhich might affect the sovereignty of the country or pri-vate information which might have a bearing on a per-son’s right to privacy. Ferreting out the truth. This free-dom to secure information that the law provides has, inmany ways, redesigned the structure of India’s democrat-ic governance. It has helped open the government up togreater scrutiny. For example, it was through a responseto a request made under the RTI Act that it was discoveredthat between 2006 and 2010 more than •700 crore had beendiverted from Delhi’s special component plan, intendedfor the development of Scheduled Caste communities, toprojects related to the Commonwealth Games. More re-cently, an exposé by Rohini Mohan into the horrifyingprocesses of the “Foreigners Tribunal” in Assam wasmade on the back of securing information through the RTIAct. Even there, as Ms. Mohan has pointed out, only fiveout of the 100 functioning tribunals replied to requests for

copies of the orders delivered. It is when a plea for infor-mation goes unheeded that the CIC and the ICs play an es-pecially vital role. Should the initial request for informa-tion made to a public information officer, designated byeach public authority, fail, the petitioner is entitled tolodge an appeal to an authority within the departmentconcerned. Should that entreaty fail too and it often doessince this is a virtually illusory remedy a further appealcan be made to the office of the CIC or the StateInformation Commission. Until now, the RTI Act grantedan acceptable level of independence to ICs. By placingtheir terms of service on a par with those of the ECs thelaw insulated the ICs from political influence. This protec-tion was not dissimilar to the autonomy accorded to mem-bers of the higher judiciary. The basic idea remained thesame: security in office is imperative if members must in-tervene without fear or favour to ensure that the law’smandate is met. It could well be argued that the RTI Act, inits original form, was far from flawless, especially in thatit did not do enough to open up public authorities to com-plete scrutiny. But the present amendments, far fromstrengthening the existing regime, subvert the independ-ence of the information commission. The delegation of thepower to fix the tenure and the salaries of the CIC and theICs to the political executive places the information com-mission’s autonomy in a state of peril. With the witheringof that independence, the right to freedom of informationalso begins to lose its thrust. Ultimately, therefore, thenew amendments represent a classic piece of totalitarianlegerdemain. Democracy, to borrow the Americanphilosopher Cornel West’s conception, demands a “leap offaith”. If the new amendments are allowed to stand, mak-ing that leap becomes all the more implausible.

PReSS TRUST of INDIALucknow, Aug 10

Uttar Pradesh Chief MinisterYogi Adityanath on Saturday laidemphasis on associating local youthswith tourism, saying this will give amajor boost to developmentprospects. He was speaking at the in-augural function of Uttar PradeshTravel Mart-2019. The chief ministersaid if the tourists are connected withactivities in the place they are visit-ing, then there will be a spurt in de-velopment and employment opportu-nities. Referring to Dudhwa NationalPark, Adityanath said, "There aremany centres, which along withtourist spots, are also associated withwildlife. Be it Sonbhadra,Bundelkhand or Terai area. Tour op-erators can play a vital role in linkingthe tourists with wildlife activities."The operators and others working inthis industry should train localyouths as there should be good guidesand service providers in this sector,

he said, adding that they can give amajor boost in taking ahead theprospects of tourism development.Adityanath said that new develop-

ment boards were set up from thepoint of view of spiritual tourism."We successfully hosted the Kumbhat Prayagraj because we formed thePrayagraj Mela Pradhikaran.Similarly, seven pilgrimage spots, in-cluding Mathura, Vrindavan,Barsana, Gokul and Nandgaon, havebeen linked to Braj Teerth VikasParishad," he said. Adityanath saidthat through the Kashi VishwanathDhaam, the work of holistic develop-ment of the area was taken ahead."We have also started working on es-tablishing development boards inAyodhya, Chitrakoot,Naimisharanya, VindhyawasiniDhaam and Devipatan Dhaam," hesaid. The chief minister said that un-der the new tourism development pol-icy, a number of hotels and restau-rant chains will come up in the state.He said tour operators will be able totranslate various possibilities oftourism into reality, and the stategovernment will help them in everypossible way under the policy.

UP CM stresses on associatinglocal youths with tourism

PReSS TRUST of INDIANagpur, Aug 10

Two staffers of privatecarrier GoAir have beenbooked for allegedly abet-ting the suicide of a 19-year-old employee of the airlinehere, city police said.Manthan Chavan, whoworked as GoAir's traineeramp officer at Nagpur air-port, had allegedly commit-ted suicide at his home inNagpur on May 30, policesaid. In a statement issuedon Friday, Ajni police saidthat an offence was regis-tered against Akshay Patil,manager of GoAir (Nagpur)and Nilay Janbandhu, sen-ior officer of ramp opera-tions, under IPC sections306 (abetment of suicide)and 34 (common intention)on Thursday. "During theinvestigation, it was foundthat the deceased,Manthan Chavan, was on

sick leave (when the inci-dent happened). However,he was under mental pres-sure as he was constantlygetting calls and messagesfrom Akshay Patil andNilay Janbandhu, whoasked him to resume duty,which drove him to com-mit suicide," the policesaid. According to police,Chavan hanged himselffrom an iron rod of a venti-lator at his home inChandramani Nagar. Hisfather, Mahendra Chavan,had later lodged a com-plaint saying that Manthanwas not keeping well andsuffering from jaundice.He had been on leave since10 to 12 days before the inci-dent, he had said. In the com-plaint, he had also alleged thathis son might have taken theextreme step due to workstress. Police had launcheda probe into the case basedon his complaint.

Meanwhile, theMumbai-headquarteredbudget airline has said thatpolice have "wronglybooked" two of its employ-ees. It also said that its legalteam was "ascertaining thefacts" and will decide aboutthe "next course of action"."GoAir has extended fullcooperation and support tothe investigating authori-ties in the 19-year-old em-ployee Manthan MahendraChavan suicide case," theairline said in a statementissued on Friday. "Chavanwas working with GoAir asa trainee ramp officer atNagpur airport for aboutnine months. GoAir shallobtain a copy of the FIRfiled by Nagpur Police, inwhich two employeesAkshay Patil and NilayJanbandhu have beenwrongly booked," it added.Nagpur police had record-ed the statements of GoAir

employees on two differentoccasions in the past andall requisite informationrelated to the matter hadbeen handed over to the au-thorities, as requested, itsaid. "The initial enquirywas conducted and the au-thorities did not find anycomplicity of the employ-ees in the incident. Our le-gal team is ascertaining thefacts and after taking a con-sidered view, we will decidethe next course of action," itadded. "GoAir deeply regretsthe demise of Chavan wholeft a suicide note, wherehe wished his mother ahappy birthday and apolo-gised for committing sui-cide. Our hearts go out to theparents and family membersof young Manthan. Withimmediate effect GoAirhad released his dues andother compensation as perthe Company policy," itsaid.

2 Go Air staffers booked for abetting employee's suicide

PReSS TRUST of INDIANew Delhi Aug 10 :

Former Prime Minister andsenior Congress leader ManmohanSingh will file nomination for theRajya Sabha from Rajasthan. Hewill file his nomination on August13. The seat has been vacant afterthe death of state BJP presidentMadan Lal Saini, who was elected tothe Rajya Sabha last year when theBJP was in power in the state. Now,the Congress party is in majority inthe legislative assembly. Earlier,the former Prime Minister repre-sented Assam in the Rajya Sabha for28 years before his tenure ended ear-lier this year.

Former PM Manmohan Singhto file nomination for RajyaSabha from Rajasthan

PReSS TRUST of INDIANew Delhi Aug 10 :

The Delhi Policehave filed a caseagainst former BJPMLA Manoj Shokeenfrom Nangloi for al-legedly raping andthreatening his daugh-ter-in-law at gunpointon the interveningnight of December 31,2018 and January 1, po-lice said on Thursday.According to PTI, thevictim approached po-lice on Thursday fol-lowing which an FIRwas registered againstShokeen. According tothe police, the victim inher complaint has al-leged that on December31, 2018, she left her ma-ternal home along withher husband, brother,and a cousin and wentto her in-laws home inMeera Bagh area. Butinstead of taking her totheir house, her hus-band took her to a hotelin Paschim Vihar area.The FIR read: "Whenwe reached the hotel,some of my relativeswere already presentthere to celebrate NewYear's Eve. After theparty, we went to my in-

laws house at MeeraBagh at around 12.30am on January 1. Myhusband went out withhis friends while I wentto sleep.” She furtherclaimed that around1:30 am her father-in-law asked her to openthe door as he wantedto talk to her. After heentered the room, hestarted touching her in-appropriately. “When Iasked him to go, he tookout his gun, slapped meand threatened to killmy brother when Itried to raise an alarm.He then overpowered

me and raped me.Initially in order tosave the marriage andmy brother, I stoppedmyself from filing acomplaint againsthim," the FIR added.The victim also men-tioned that she had pre-viously filed a domesticviolence case inDecember 2018 againsther in-laws at theCrime Against Women(CAW) cell. A case hasbeen registered againstthe former BJP leaderunder sections 376 and506 of the Indian PenalCode.

Ex-BJP MLA Shokeen from Delhibooked for raping daughter-in-law

PReSS TRUST of INDIAAmaravati Aug 10 :

Andhra Pradesh Chief MinisterJagan Mohan Reddy chose to addresshead-on any concerns foreign busi-nesses may have about investing inhis 10-week old government, admit-ting that while the state lacked "bigmetros like a Hyderabad, Bengaluruor Chennai", it offered a stable admin-istration backed by a decisive man-date. He was speaking at a one-daydiplomatic outreach summit onFriday. It was attended by delegatesfrom 30 countries and organised inpartnership with the Ministry ofExternal Affairs. Reddy said his gov-

ernment had taken "revolutionarydecisions" like renegotiating energytariffs and introducing legislation toreserve jobs, reported PTI. "The deci-sion to renegotiate on PPAs is beingseen as highly controversial. Butwhat is the point of a PPA when dis-coms are not in a position to pay yourbills? Discoms are crumbling," Reddyadded. The Chief Minister also ex-plained a bill passed last week by thestate assembly to reserve 75 per centof jobs for locals in all the industrialunits in the state. He stressed onthese aspects, highlighting that withthe backing of the people of the state,his government could "stand as a rolemodel for the rest of the country".

Andhra could be role model for rest ofthe country : Jagan Mohan Reddy

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Hong Kong, Aug 10

Armed with balloons andstrollers, several hundred fami-lies took to the streets in HongKong on Saturday to show sup-port for pro-democracy proteststhat are now in their thirdmonth. The colourful and calmatmosphere at the rally was afar cry from the increasingly vi-olent confrontations that havemarked recent demonstrationsby activists calling for greaterfreedoms in the city.

A leaflet featuring an alter-native alphabet was circulated,offering "demonstration" forthe letter D, "angry" for A and"protest" for P.

Faye Lai was attending withher three-year-old niece andsaid she hoped the rally wouldhelp children understand thetumult that has engulfed the in-ternational financial hub in re-cent weeks. "We have to tell chil-

dren about the current situa-tion in Hong Kong, and educatethem about what the right kindof society is," Lai, a stage assis-tant, told AFP.

"The future belongs to thechildren. Hong Kong's future istheirs. We are fighting forrights that children shouldhave," she added.Protests thatbegan in opposition to a contro-versial bill to allow extraditionto mainland China have mor-

phed into a broader movementcalling for greater freedoms, in-cluding direct election of thecity's chief executive. The fami-ly event, billed as a rally to"guard our children's future,"received a permit from authori-ties, unlike several otherprotests that activists have or-ganised for the weekend. "Atthis stage, we need to come outfor any event, especially thosefor the future generation, not

just protests and marches," saidRoger Cheng, a 50-year-old of-fice worker.

"Like today, it's for the nextgeneration to know about theimportance of having a future...Although they don't understand(everything) yet, they might beable to experience freedom, thehuman need to just do what theywant." Activists plan to rampback up their demonstrationsover the weekend, includingwith a three-day sit-in at the air-port that began on Friday andattracted thousands of people.Earlier Saturday, older peoplestaged a "silver hair" rally, de-livering letters to police head-quarters and the office of chiefexecutive Carrie Lam in sup-port of the protests. Activists al-so plan marches on Saturdayand Sunday that authoritieshave not authorised, raising thepossibility of fresh clashes be-tween protesters and police.

'P is for protest': Hong Kong families join pro-democracy rally

Members from The federation of fujian Associations pose for photos during a pro-China rally in Hong Kong. Hong Kong is in its ninth week of

demonstrations that began in response to a proposed extradition law but have expanded to include other grievances and demands for more dem-

ocratic freedoms.

Hong Kong Aug 10

The number of demon-strators have drasticallydwindled as the mass sit-inat the Hong KongInternational Airport(HKIA), a part of the ongo-ing anti-governmentprotests in the city, enteredits second day on Saturday

Many of those presenthad stayed overnight toguard supplies left overfrom the day before, whenhundreds had gathered to"greet" travellers with anti-government brochures in abid to win internationalsupport for the movement,the South China MorningPost reported.

The brochures explainthe main demands of themovement, which eruptedfrom opposition to the now-abandoned extradition bill,which would have allowed

the transfer of criminal sus-pects to mainland Chinaand other jurisdictions withwhich the city does not havean extradition agreement.

The demands include afull withdrawal of the draftlegislation, implementationof universal suffrage and aretraction of the riot labelattached to recent anti-billprotests.

Airport authorities hadheightened security aheadof this mass sit-in protest,which began on Friday andwill end on Sunday.

Meanwhile, energy lev-els were running low amongthe fewer than 100 protest-ers present. Many weresleeping on the floor in thearrivals hall on Saturdaymorning. But organisershave said that more protest-ers would be arriving by 1p.m. On Friday, Beijingbanned Hong Kong flag car-

rier Cathay Pacific from us-ing aircrew on flights enter-ing Chinese airspace whohad been involved in anti-government protests, re-ports the South ChinaMorning Post.

Two other rallies at thecity's Tai Po and Wong TaiSin were planned to takeplace later on Saturday.

But permits for the ral-lies were rejected by the po-lice, and it remained un-clear if they would be al-lowed.

The sit-in protest fol-lows the cancellation ofmore than 250 flights as partof the citywide strike onMonday.

On July 26, an estimated15,000 protesters gatheredat the airport to try and wininternational support forthe movement against thenow-shelved extraditionbill.

Numbers dwindle as HK airportprotest continues

UN diplomats of 50countries pay tributeto Sushma SwarajNew york August 10,

Diplomats of about 50 countriesacross the world at the United Nationshave written separate condolence mes-sages for former External AffairsMinister Sushma Swaraj who died of acardiac arrest on Tuesday. India'sAmbassador and PermanentRepresentative to the United Nations,Syed Akbaruddin, on Saturday posted avideo on Twitter featuring some of thesemessages written for Swaraj in a book."In diplomacy, words matter... Diplomatsfrom all across the world visit@IndiaUNNewYork to record condo-lences on the sad demise of Madam@SushmaSwaraj ," his tweet read. Thecountries condoling Swaraj's death were:Germany, Italy, Ghana, Cuba,Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh,Nepal, Russia, UAE, Maldives, NewZealand, among others. Swaraj breathedher last on Tuesday night at the All IndiaInstitute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) af-ter suffering a cardiac arrest. She was theforeign minister in the first term of theModi government in 2014. She opted outof the 2019 Lok Sabha elections citing illhealth. The former EAM was crematedwith full state honours on Wednesday.

Rome Aug 10

Hollywood actor RichardGere took food to an NGO operat-ed ship with 121 migrants on-board that has been stranded inthe Mediterranean Sea for aweek waiting to find a port. TheOpen Arms NGO on Fridayshared photographs of the actorand activist taking food and sup-plies aboard the humanitarianvessel, Efe news reported. "Weare here on the Open Arms boat,I just arrived here fromLampedusa and we havebrought as much water and asmuch food as we possibly can foreveryone on board. I thinkthere's about 140 people here,maybe 150," Gere said in a state-ment. "Finally, a little goodnews. Food arrives at#OpenArms and we have an ex-ceptional crewmate#RichardGere," the organiza-tion tweeted Friday. Since lastweek, the ship has been strandednear the southern Italian islandof Lampedusa, in internationalwaters, to be assigned a safe har-

bour to disembark 121 peoplewho were rescued at sea duringtwo different operations. Thefirst rescue was on August 1when 55 migrants were saved,including twin babies and apregnant woman, just as theirboat was about to capsize,founder of the NGO, OscarCamps, told Efe. The second wasin the middle of the night the dayafter and 69 people were rescuedand welcomed aboard, includingtwo children and two pregnantwomen. Italian InteriorMinister Matteo Salvini has con-sistently campaigned to keepports closed to NGOs, which heaccuses of boosting irregular mi-gration and has insisted that hewill not allow the Open Armsvessel to enter Italianwaters.Salvini further addedthat the immigrants aboardwere the "direct responsibility"of Madrid. Spanish Governmentspokeswoman, Isabel Celaa, saidon Friday that Spain wants theOpen Arms migrant rescue shipto disembark the 121 migrantson board at the nearest safe port.

Richard Gere takes foodto stranded migrant ship

Washington August 10,

US President Donald Trump onSaturday claimed that North Korealeader Kim Jong-un has issued a'small apology' for recently testingshort-range missiles.

He also said that Kim has writ-ten a "long letter" and has expressedhis wish to renew negotiations assoon as the US and South Korea jointexercise is concluded.

"In a letter to me sent by KimJong Un, he stated, very nicely, thathe would like to meet and start nego-tiations as soon as the jointU.S./South Korea joint exercise areover. It was a long letter, much of itcomplaining about the ridiculousand expensive exercises," saidTrump in a tweet.

"It was also a small apology fortesting the short-range missiles, andthat this testing would stop whenthe exercises end. I look forward toseeing Kim Jong Un in the not toodistant future! A nuclear-free North

Korea will lead to one of the mostsuccessful countries in the world!",he added.

North Korea has conducted mul-tiple short-range missile tests in lessthan two weeks. However, theTrump administration has repeat-edly downplayed the significance ofthese tests, pointing out that themissiles are short-ranged, and,therefore, were not in violation ofthe agreement between Trump andKim.

Korean Central News Agencyhad reported last week that Kimwatched the demonstration launchof a new type of tactical guided mis-siles in the wee hours of Tuesday,sending an adequate warning to theUS-South Korea joint military drillunderway

Denuclearisation negotiationsbetween the US and North Koreahave been stalled since the secondsummit between Trump and Kimended without reaching an agree-

ment in February in the Vietnamesecapital of Hanoi.

At the end of June, Trump andKim met at the inter-Korean border,and the two leaders agreed to set upteams to resume working-level ne-gotiations in weeks, but to no avail.

US Secretary of State MikePompeo on Wednesday said he washopeful that Washington andPyongyang would get back to the ne-gotiating table in the coming weeks.(ANI)

Kim Jong-un has issued 'small apology'for testing missiles: Trump

Hong Kong Aug 10

The number of demonstrators have drasticallydwindled as the mass sit-in at the Hong KongInternational Airport (HKIA), a part of the ongoing an-ti-government protests in the city, entered its secondday on Saturday Many of those present had stayedovernight to guard supplies left over from the day be-fore, when hundreds had gathered to "greet" travellerswith anti-government brochures in a bid to win interna-tional support for the movement, the South ChinaMorning Post reported.

The brochures explain the main demands of themovement, which erupted from opposition to the now-abandoned extradition bill, which would have allowedthe transfer of criminal suspects to mainland China andother jurisdictions with which the city does not have anextradition agreement. The demands include a fullwithdrawal of the draft legislation, implementation ofuniversal suffrage and a retraction of the riot label at-

tached to recent anti-bill protests. Airport authoritieshad heightened security ahead of this mass sit-inprotest, which began on Friday and will end on Sunday.

Meanwhile, energy levels were running low amongthe fewer than 100 protesters present. Many were sleep-ing on the floor in the arrivals hall on Saturday morn-ing.

But organisers have said that more protesterswould be arriving by 1 p.m.

On Friday, Beijing banned Hong Kong flag carrierCathay Pacific from using aircrew on flights enteringChinese airspace who had been involved in anti-govern-ment protests, reports the South China Morning Post.

Two other rallies at the city's Tai Po and Wong TaiSin were planned to take place later on Saturday.

But permits for the rallies were rejected by the po-lice, and it remained unclear if they would be allowed.

The sit-in protest follows the cancellation of morethan 250 flights as part of the citywide strike onMonday.

Numbers dwindle as HK airportprotest continues

el Paso (Texas) Aug 10

The suspect accused of killing 22people in a mass shooting at aWalmart in El Paso, Texas, has con-fessed that his motive was to mas-sacre Mexicans, according to an ar-rest affidavit. "I'm the shooter," theaffidavit, which was seen by Efenews on Friday, quoted PatrickCrusius as saying when he surren-dered to police after pulling overand exiting his car at an intersec-tion near the Walmart that was thescene of the massacre on August 3.

The affidavit, drawn up by ElPaso police detective AdrianGarcia, said that Crusius, 21,waived the right to an attorney andagreed to talk to the officers.

The shooter told police that hedrove more than 10 hours from hishome in Allen, Texas, near Dallas,with an assault rifle and a large

quantity of ammunition. "The de-fendant stated once inside the store,he opened fire using his AK-47,shooting multiple victims," accord-ing to the affidavit, whose contentswere first reported by TheWashington Post. "The defendantstated his target were Mexicans,"Garcia wrote. he 83 per cent Latinocity lies just across the Rio GrandeRiver from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.US federal authorities characterizethe El Paso massacre as domesticterrorism and Crusius might becharged with a hate crime as well asmultiple counts of murder and at-tempted murder. Crusius could facethe death penalty if convicted.Investigators are trying to confirmwhether Crusius was the also au-thor of a statement posted onlineroughly 20 minutes prior to theshooting that called for halting an"Hispanic invasion" of Texas.

President Donald Trump has re-peatedly used the word "invasion"to describe the flow of undocument-ed immigrants into the US.

Eight of the 22 fatalities wereMexican nationals and Mexico'sForeign Secretary, Marcelo Ebrard,has raised the possibility of seekingCrusius' extradition to face chargessouth of the border.

El Paso gunman 'confessed totargeting Mexicans'

Geneva Aug 10

The Russian Ambassador to UN, Gennady Gatilov,said that Moscow believes that regardless of "recent neg-ative developments" over disarmament, it was open fordialogue with the US to maintain the world's strategicstability.

Gatilov addressed media persons here on Friday onMoscow's future steps in non-proliferation and disarma-ment after the US withdrew from the Cold War-eraIntermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty onAugust 2, reports Xinhua news agency.

"By doing so, it damaged strategic stability formedafter the Cold War and that contributed to the creatingnecessary conditions for progressive, positive develop-

ment of cooperation between Moscow and Washingtonon a wide range of international security issues," saidGatilov, a former Deputy Foreign Minister.

"The new situation has increased the risks to inter-national stability because the INF was one of the pillarsof strategic stability." While withdrawing from the INFTreaty, Washington declared that the US-Russian bilat-eral nuclear disarmament era had ended.

"Russia is still keeping the door open for substantive,constructive and goal-oriented dialogue with the UnitedStates on all issues of strategic stability, based on mutualrespect, and due consideration of each other's interests,as well as of those of the international community," saidGatilov. The INF Treaty was signed in 1987 between theformer Soviet Union and the US on the elimination ofground-based intermediate-range and shorter-rangemissiles. The scrapping of the treaty threatens to dragthe two major military powers back into a Cold-War-style arms race. He said the US move was a "sad" one andthat judging by recent statements from Washington, "itis ready to resume production, and at a later stage the de-ployment of missiles previously banned by the treaty".Instead of returning to the legal framework of the INFtreaty and discussing the problematic issues within themechanism provided for by accord, Gatilov said the USlaunched "a propaganda campaign against Russia".

"It was done... to prepare the international publicopinion to the U.S. withdrawal from the treaty under thepretext of its violation by Russia."

Russia open to disarmament dialogue with US

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Toronto, Aug 10

Serena Williams won the re-match Friday, dominating NaomiOsaka 6-3, 6-4 to ensure theJapanese star won't leave Torontowith a title to go with her numberone world ranking.

Williams fired 12 aces and did-n't face a break point as she beatOsaka for the first time in threemeetings -- avenging her shockloss in last year's controversial USOpen final in which the Americanstar was docked a point and agame after losing her temperwhen warned about coaching.

There was no such drama inToronto, where Williams brokeOsaka for a 5-3 lead in the first andclosed out the opening set with aservice winner.

She broke again for a 2-1 leadin the second and never lookedlike surrendering the advantage.

Even a run-in with the netcord -- as she raced forward tryingto run down a drop shot -- didn'tfaze her.

"It hurt, but it wasn't the end ofthe world," Williams said.

The American's lone wobblecame in the final game. After apair of aces gave her a triplematch point, Williams offered upa double fault and two backhands

into the net before she closed itout with an ace on her fourthmatch point.

"We haven't played since NewYork, which was a really goodmatch for her," said Williams,adding that she feels her owngame is coming on as she'd hopedin the buildup to this year's USOpen at Flushing Meadows.

"I'm getting there," saidWilliams, who hasn't dropped aset this week as she pursues afourth Toronto title to go withthose she won in 2001, 2011 and

2013."It's definitely not where Iwant to be, but I'm getting there."

- Bouzkova books Serena'dream' - Osaka said she playedtoo defensively -- something shesaid was hard to avoid whenWilliams was hitting 31 winners.

"But I think there werechances where she hit shorterballs, but I wasn't expecting her tohit the shorter balls, so I didn'tmove up on time," she said.

In the semi-finals Williamswill face Czech qualifier MarieBouzkova, who advanced when

Wimbledon champion SimonaHalep retired with Achilles ten-don trouble after dropping theirfirst set 6-4.

"I've always wanted to playSerena," said Bouzkova, a 21-year-old ranked 91st in the world.

"It's always my dream to playagainst her." Bouzkova notchedher third straight win over aGrand Slam champion, havingbeaten former US Open winnerSloane

Stephens and former FrenchOpen champ Jelena Ostapenko.

But Halep marked her firstwin over a top-five player.

The Romanian, who roaredback from 0-4 down to level the setat 4-4 only to lose the last twogames, said she had been both-ered by her Achilles tendon fromthe start of the tournament.

"And today I felt it more, sothat's why I decided to retire," saidHalep, no doubt exercising extracaution with the final Grand Slamof the year due to start on August26. Despite the defeat, Osaka is as-sured of a return to world numberone next week after the second-round exit of top-rankedAustralian Ashleigh Barty and aquarter-final defeat for third-ranked Czech Karolina Pliskova.

Serena powers past No. 1-boundOsaka, Halep retires hurt

New Delhi August 10,

Hockey India on Saturday an-nounced 33 players for the upcomingjunior men's national coachingcamp, which is scheduled to beginon August 12.

The Indian junior men's team isscheduled to take part in the 9thSultan of Johor Cup 2019 later thisyear in October, therefore the focusof the national camp will be on main-taining the fitness and rhythm of theplayers.

"The players selected for the na-tional coaching camp remains thesame from our last camp in July, andthe aim for us is to make sure thatthe players maintain their fitness,agility and rhythm," Director HighPerformance, David John said.

"Apart from that, we have the 9thSultan of Johor Cup 2019 coming uplater this year, and the camp will beutilized to make sure that we arepreparing the Core Probables in thebest way possible and to make surethat they are prepared to compete

against the teams participating inthat tournament," he added.

The players will undergo a train-ing and conditioning camp at the na-tional training camp, and the list in-cludes:

Goalkeepers: Pawan, PrashantKumar Chauhan and Sahil KumarNayak.

Defenders: Suman Beck, PratapLakra, Sanjay, Sundram SinghRajawat, Mandeep Mor, Parampreet

Singh, Dinachandra SinghMoirangthem, Nabin Kujur, ShardaNand Tiwari and Niraj KumarWaribam.

Midfielders: Sukhman Singh,Gregory Xess, Ankit Pal, AkashdeepSingh Jr, Vishnu Kant Singh, GopiKumar Sonkar, Vishal Antil, SuryaNM, Maninder Singh, andRabichandra Singh Moirangthem

Forwards: Sudeep Chirmako,Rahul Kumar Rajbhar, Uttam Singh,

Hockey India names 33 players forjunior men's national coaching camp

St. John's August 10,

Cricket West Indies(CWI) on Saturdaynamed the 13-membersquad for the upcomingTest series against India.

The interim selec-tion panel of CWI headedby Robert Haynes has in-cluded Antiguan un-capped off-spinnerRahkeem Cornwall inthe squad.

"Rahkeem has beenperforming consistentlyover a long period oftime and has proven tobe a match-winner, so webelieve his elevation tothe Test squad is meritedat this time," saidHaynes.

The squad includestwo uncapped players -Cornwall and ShamarhBrooks. The Test sidewill be lead by pacerJason Holder.

Cornwall will makehis long-awaited Test de-but at home when WestIndies kick off their cam-paign in the ICC WorldTest Championshipagainst India later thismonth.

Cornwall has been

rewarded for his impres-sive record for LeewardIslands Hurricanes inthe West IndiesChampionship and theWest Indies "A" team,since making his first-class debut less than fiveyears ago.

The 26-year-old hastaken 260 wickets at anaverage of 23.90 in 55first-class matches andis highly regardedamong his peers as oneof the most effective spinbowlers in theCaribbean side.

West Indies squadfor Test series againstIndia: Jason Holder (c),Kraigg Brathwaite,Darren Bravo, ShamarhBrooks, John Campbell,Roston Chase, RahkeemCornwall, ShaneDowrich, ShannonGabriel, ShimronHetmyer, Shai Hope,Keemo Paul, KemarRoach.

Windies will playagainst India in two Testmatches. The first Testwill be played at the SirVivian Richards CricketGround in Antigua fromAugust 22 to 26. (ANI)

London August 10,

England leg spinnerAdil Rashid was ruled outof the rest of the domesticseason due to a shoulderinjury. Rashid said he isconfident of regaining fit-ness before the winterseason as he has twomonths in his hand.

"I'm very confident, af-ter being ruled out for therest of the season, that Ican get myself fully fit be-fore we go away in thewinter. I've got twomonths now to get myselffully fit and it's as simpleas that," ESPNcricinfoquoted Rashid as saying.

Rashid was part ofEngland's 2019 WorldCup-winning team whichconcluded recently. Hescalped 11 wickets in thesame number of matchesin the tournament.

The 31-year-old played

every game for Englandin the World Cup but,needed an injection tomanage the pain.

"The aim was to comeback after the World Cupand play for Yorkshire. Ienjoy playing forYorkshire, but it just was-n't meant to be. I've had ashoulder problem for a lit-

tle while and I got throughthe World Cup with an in-jection. Obviously, astime has gone on the injec-tion has worn out and, af-ter the World Cup, I start-ed feeling a bit of a pinchin my shoulder," Rashidsaid.

Rashid played 99 ODIsfor England and bagged

143 wickets. In Test crick-et, he played 19 matchesand took 60 wickets, whilein the shortest format ofgame he had 36 wickets in37 matches.

"I've played 13-14years of professionalcricket and this is the firsttime I've suffered an in-jury to my shoulder,"Rashid said.

He will now attend anintense rehabilitationand rest over the next sixto seven weeks, con-firmed England andWales Cricket Board(ECB) spokesperson.

"We believe intenserehabilitation and restwill be sufficient over thenext six to seven weeks.He might need furthertreatment ahead of thewinter if this persists.That will be decided indue course," the ECBspokesperson said.

England spinner Adil Rashid ruledout of domestic season

Patna Aug 10

Bengal Warriors got the betterof U Mumba by a 32-30 scoreline atthe Patliputra Indoor Stadium inPatna on Friday. Baldev Singh gota High 5 for the Bengal Warriors,while Arjun Deshwal scored afighting Super 10 for U Mumba.

U Mumba began the matchwith a successful tackle bySurinder Singh and followed it upwith a successful raid by Deshwalto move into a quick 2-0 lead. Theyenjoyed the better of the openingexchanges with both their defenceand raiders firing.

U Mumba eventually enforcedthe first all-out of the game onBengal Warriors in the 11thminute to take a 12-5 lead. BengalWarriors looked to forge a come-back immediately after the All-Out, but it was their defence thatwas proving to be their mainsource of points with the raiders

finding it difficult against UMumba's defenders.

Despite managing to chipaway at U Mumba's lead, BengalWarriors still trailed 11-16 goinginto the break. Bengal Warriorsstarted the second period in rol-licking fashion courtesy ofPrapanjan's three-point SuperRaid.

Just three minutes later, theywent on to enforce an All-Out on UMumba and took a narrow 18-17lead. U Mumba, though, wrestledback the initiative after a two-point raid by Deshwal, who hadbeen finding success all night.

Deshwal picked up his Super10 near the half-hour mark afteranother two-point raid that en-forced a second All-Out on BengalWarriors and gave U Mumba a 26-20 lead.

Bengal Warriors began toclaw away at U Mumba's leadagain and brought it down to two

points to set up a nervy last fiveminutes. Their defence andBaldev, in particular, seemed tobe thriving under pressure asthey reduced the deficit to just onepoint with a little more than fourminutes to play.

Successive successful raids byMohammad Nabibakhsh thengave Bengal Warriors the leadand set up a second All-Out on UMumba. With a three-point lead at

31-28 to protect in the last threeminutes, Bengal Warriors lookedto run down the clock.

An unsuccessful tackle byBaldev and a successful tackle byU Mumba's Sandeep Narwalbrought Bengal Warriors' leaddown to just one point. However,an emphatic tackle by JeevaKumar on Deshwal in the finalraid sealed the win for BengalWarriors.

Baldev picks up another High 5 for Bengal Warriors

Karachi August 10,

Pakistan's JaveriaKhan said the experienceof captaining ICCWomen's GlobalDevelopment squad inEngland was 'very benefi-cial'.

"It was a great experi-ence and valuable expo-sure which provided greatlearning opportunities. Itwas an opportunity that Ihad been hoping for; play-ing for a new team in dif-ferent conditions was verybeneficial," Javeria said ina press release.

The 31-year-old cap-tained and mentored theICC development side in aseries of six T20 matchesagainst Southern Vipers,Surrey Stars and EnglandAcademy teams as part ofthe ICC's initiative of im-proving the standard ofwomen's cricket.

On the personal front,this proved to be a success-ful series for Javeria. Hercontributions included amatch-winning 64 off 59balls against the fanciedSurrey Stars. She alsomade an all-round contri-bution in the return gameagainst the same side,scoring 40 runs off 35 ballsincluding seven fours be-side a haul of two for 19 in athree-over spell.

"It was quite a chal-lenge to lead a new team

since we all gathered just aday ahead of the event,practised and then playedthe games. I hadn't met theplayers before so to leadthem straightaway wastough. However, with thesupport of the team man-agement we graduallyovercame the challengeand as the games pro-gressed we started to un-derstand each other betterwhich helped us improveour performances,"Javeria said. Javeria, whohas played for Pakistan in98 ODIs and 91 T20Is, hasresumed training at theHanif Mohammad High-Performance Center inKarachi after returningfrom England last week togear up for the upcomingseason. She aims to utilisethe experience gained inEngland for the nationalside as she focuses onachieving the milestone of100 caps each both in ODIsand T20Is. "The experi-ence I gained in England, Iwould now want to trans-fer it to the international

arena. We have a busy sea-son ahead and I want to putin practice the lessons ofthe tour in my game whilemanaging my workload.The tour has given me a lotof confidence which I aimto impart in my game forthe upcoming assign-ments," Javeria said.Being a senior, Javeria al-so mentors younger play-ers during her practicesessions in Karachi. "Thefacilities have improvedconsiderably here at theHanif Mohammad High-Performance Center espe-cially in the last year withthe new management's in-terest and focus. We havecoaches and trainersavailable here to help uspractice here withKarachi-based girls," shesaid. "I also get to observethe emerging talent. I tryto pass on my knowledgeand experience to theyoungsters and also learnfrom them. All in all, wehave a nice and healthy en-vironment here," sheadded.

Leading ICC Women's Global Development squad was 'very beneficial' for Javeria Khan

orlando Aug 10

Trailing 16-25 at half-time, the Indian Under-14boys almost pulled off animprobable heist before ag-onisingly going down 56-64in Over Time to heavy-weights Canada in a rip-roaring quarter final con-test of the Jr. NBA GlobalChampionships here at HPFieldhouse courts onSaturday.

Promising guards

Harsh Dagar (20 points, 10rebounds, 3 assists) andLokendra Singh (13 points,10 rebounds, 4 assists) putin an all-round perform-ance while forward KushalSingh also contributed byscoring 14 points and 8 re-bounds as the boys in greendid not lose a single quar-ter after being drubbed 7-16in the first period to takethe game to over time. Inadded time of four min-utes, Canada edged India

out 7-15 before being heldby the scruff of their neck 9-9, 19-12, 14-12 in the previ-ous three quarters.

While the boys were in-consolable even an hour af-ter the game finished, spec-tators at the ESPN WideWorld of Sports Complexcould not stop talkingabout their performanceagainst a country whichhouses the reigning NBAchampions, TorontoRaptors. To put the boys'

performance into perspec-tive, there are moreCanadians than ever in theNBA now (12 Canadian-born players appeared inat least one game in the2018-2019 season) withtheir youth programmesreaching record numbers."We always win or welearn. We never lose. Wehave learnt many thingsfrom here," Delhi boyDagar said after the game."We were confident before

the match we could beatthem. We can beat USA. Ifwe keep our teammates to-gether," he added. MarcPulles, BasketballOperations Team Leader -NBA India, said the boyscan be very proud of theirperformance. "It was aclose game and truly agreat showcase of howcompetitive we can be,with a solid come back,eventually pushing thegame to overtime.

Jr. NBA Global C'ships: India boys godown fighting against Canada in quarters

Windies name 13-membersquad for Test seriesagainst India

Injured Alissonto miss SuperCup clash withChelseaLiverpool, Aug 10

Liverpool goalkeeperAlisson Becker will missWednesday's UEFA SuperCup against Chelsea afterpulling up with a calf in-jury as the European cham-pions opened their PremierLeague campaign with a 4-1win over Norwich onFriday.

The Brazilian fell to thefloor after kicking the ballclear from a routine goalkick and needed support tolimp off the field six min-utes before half-time.

Liverpool face Chelseain Istanbul this week in thetraditional early seasonclash between the previouscampaign's ChampionsLeague and Europa Leaguewinners. He will not beready for Wednesday, I cansay that already," saidLiverpool boss JurgenKlopp. "He felt his calf. Helooked behind him becausehe thought something hithim." Spanish goalkeeperAdrian was expected toplay second fiddle toAlisson after joiningLiverpool this week on afree transfer after SimonMignolet joined ClubBrugge.

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JAMMU SUNDAY AUGUST 11, 2019EntErtainmEnt10 Glimpses of Future

Sara Ali Khan and Varun Dhawan's first lookfrom Coolie No.1 sets is everything pink

Mira Rajput comments on Shahid Kapoor’spicture and rules the internet for the day

Taapsee Pannu on her 'double filter'remark for Kangana Ranaut : I donot see it as a derogatory comment

Veteran actress Vidya Sinhaadmitted to a Juhu hospitalfor lung and heart disorders

Vicky Kaushal or Kartik Aaryan - who lookshotter in this shirtless picture?

Rani Mukerji's Mardaani 2to release one week beforeSalman Khan's Dabangg 3

Unarguably, KartikAaryan and Vicky Kaushal aretwo of the most handsomedudes of Bollywood. They are arage, not only because of theircharming looks but also fortheir acting skills and choice ofprojects. Apart from that,Kartik and Vikcy have beengrabbing headlines and haveset tongues wagging with theirinteresting love life. Kartikand Vicky have made theirmark in the industry in a small-time, which is a commendablefeat. While Vicky's 'How's TheJosh' makes people skip a beat,Kartik's adorable antics makeladies go weak in the knees.Vicky and Kartik are quite ac-tive on social media and enjoy ahuge fan base in the country.While one is termed as the'National Crush' the other is a'Hot Heartthrob'. Recently thetwo of them uploaded shirtless

pictures and everyone is droolingover them! And to adjuge who de-serves the 'Shirtless and HOT' tag,we decided to run a poll. On thework front, Vicky has quite a fewfilms in the pipeline. He has twobiopics lined up, one is SardarUddham Singh and other is onSam Manekshaw. He will also bea part of a horror franchise filmBhoot - Part One: The HauntedShip. Vicky will also feature inKaran Johar's ensemble perioddrama Takht. Kartik, on the otherhand, will be seen in Patni PatniAur Woh which is a remake of the1978's classic of the same name.The film will feature BhumiPednekar and Ananya Pandey op-posite Kartik. He recentlywrapped up shooting for ImtiazAli's next which is tentatively ti-tled Aaj Kal. Sara Ali Khan playsKartik's love interest in the film.The actor also has Dostana 2 inthe pipeline.

Actress Vidya Sinha, who is seen onKullfi Kumar Baajewala has been admit-ted to a hospital in Juhu, Mumbai for lungand heart disorders. It seems she com-plained of breathlessness on Thursday andwas taken to the CritiCare Hospital. The la-dy was put on ventilator support. It seemsher blood pressure and pulse rate are nor-mal now but she is under observation inthe Intensive Care Unit (ICU). She is on thePositive Airway Pressure Ventilator.Hindustan Times has reported that she isfeeling a lot better now and should recoversoon. An official told the paper, "Her pro-longed medical issues had aggravated,leading to breathlessness and she even de-veloped heart and lung disorders, leadingto more breathlessness. All that has beentaken care of." However, they won't releaseher very early. The official said completerecovery will take some time. An officialtold the paper, "The doctors are yet to de-cide (about her discharge from the hospi-tal). She will have to stay here for a fewdays for complete recovery.

And the release date of Rani Mukerji's Mardaani has beenrevealed by the makers as the cop action thriller is set to hitthe screens on December 13, which is one week before SalmanKhan's Dabangg 3. So, we are having back-to-back cop action-ers for us at the ticket windows. Mardaani 2 is directed byGopi Puthran, the writer of the first film. Earlier, when Raniannounced Mardaani 2, she told, "'Mardaani' is and will al-ways be extremely close to my heart. Right since its release,everyone has asked me time and again when I would be doing'Mardaani 2' and I'm sure this announcement will come as apleasant surprise to them all. Gopi has written an extraordi-nary script that we all love and I can't wait to start shootingthis film soon." The first film proved a breakthrough for TahirRaj Bhasin, who featured in a negative role, and giving asneak peek into the character of the new antagonist, Rani saidShivani will face a “merciless” villain. “Shivani will face acold, merciless villain who has no empathy, no fear of Godand is pure evil. The character has been written superbly andI’m excited to find out who the actor will be.” Another sourcetold DNA, "Rani is raring to go and it will be thrilling to seeher back in action as Shivani Shivaji Roy. What adds to thecuriosity is that this time, the villain is a 21-year old whoknows no empathy. Their edge-of-the-seat showdown willhave the audiences glued to their seats."

Sara Ali Khan and VarunDhawan have reachedBangkok, Thailand for theshoot of Coolie No.1. WhileSara Ali Khan shared themahurat shot on her Instastories, a picture of the twofrom the sets has gone viral.In the click, Varun Dhawancan be seen in a hot pinkshirt while Sara Ali Khan iswearing a pink and whitepolka dot apron. Coolie

No.1's new version is a re-make of the 90's hit featuringGovinda and KarismaKapoor. This is the fourthfilm Sara Ali Khan is shoot-ing for in two years.BollywoodLife was the firstto break the news that SaraAli Khan is being consideredfor Karisma Kapoor's role inthe remake that is beinghelmed by David Dhawan.This is Varun Dhawan's sec-

ond film with his dad afterJudwaa. Sara Ali Khan flewdown to Bangkok two daysback. She wore a denim jack-et that had Coolie No.1 writ-ten behind. At the airport,she also posed with fans.This is Sara's second masalafilm after Simmba. It wasVarun Dhawan's mom Lalliwho clapped the first shot.Itseems Varun Dhawan won'tbe seen in a coolie's uniform

in the film. David Dhawantold IANS, "After re-watch-ing the original, I startedworking on the script. Forsix months, I wondered if Ishould make it or not.Finally, I decided to adapt it.It's actually a new film. I'veworked on it for almost ayear with the original writerRumi Jaffery on the screen-play and Farhad Samji on thedialogue."

Shahid Kapoor and Mira Rajputmake for one handsome couples oftinsel town. The two lovebirds dishout some major #couplegoals andquite often their virtual PDA makesus go aww. His wife often slips out afew secrets about Shahid, either in aninterview with hubby or by com-menting on his social media posts.And that is what happened recently,Shahid's wife Mira left a funny com-ment on a photograph of her actor-husband which is pretty awesome.Apparently, Shahid along withbrother Ishaan and friends is cur-rently enjoying a road trip inSwitzerland. Shahid Kapoor took tohis Instagram handle and shared acouple of pictures from his trip andthe only way to describe the picturesis HOT HOT HOT. In one of the pic-tures which the star shared, we cansee him leaning on his bike. The pic-turesque countryside backdropwould make you want to go on a vaca-tion and that too a road trip verysoon. Sharing the image he wrote,"Traveldiaries". The actor receivedcompliments from his fans andfriends from the industry about howhe is looking cool and charming asever. But Mira's comment was whatgrabbed our attention. Mira wasquick to respond to Shahid's picturewith lots of fire and heart-eyes emo-jis.

Mission Mangal actress Taapsee Pannu in aninterview earlier had said how the JudgementallHai Kya actress Kangana Ranaut needed a 'doublefilter' while speaking. The comment didn't sit wellKangana and her sister Rangoli Chandel, and shelashed out at Taapsee on Twitter and called her a'sasti copy' of her Kangana. And now, Taapsee hassaid refused to apologise about her "double filter"comment about Kangana for Ranaut. The argu-ment began when Kangana's sister Rangoli took toTwitter and called Taapsee a sasti copy of Kanganaas she didn't mention Kangana when she heapedpraises about the trailer of Kangana's latest outing.Her tweet read, "Kuch log Kangana ko copy kar kehe apni dukaan chalate hain, magar pls note, theynever acknowledge her, not even a mention of hername in praising the trailer. Last I heard, Taapseeji said Kangana needs a double filter, and Tapsee jiyou need to stop being a sasti copy. In an interview,Taapsee Pannu responded to the actress' comment,"Seriously, I will not apologise for my honest opin-ion. I did not know that she has a patent on curlyhair because I born with curly hair, and my par-ents are responsible for that. So, I cannot apologiesfor that either. Rest, I do not know what else I havecopied," said Taapsee. "However, if I am a copy of agood actress like her (Kangana Ranaut) -- and I al-ways maintain that she is a good actress -- I take itas a compliment. I am also called ‘sasti' (cheap).Yes, I am not the highest-paid actress, so that wayyou can call me ‘sasti'." Taapsee added.

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With 370 rendered ineffective,35A consigned to the flames and a sep-arate constitution for the state be-coming part of history, every citizenof Jammu & Kashmir will now lead alife of equality, honour and prestigeasserted Brig Anil Gupta, StateSpokesperson of Bharatiya JanataParty. Regretfully, Congress and oth-er Kashmir-centric parties are nothappy with the newly achieved free-dom by the so-far neglected sectionsof the society and hence are busy mis-leading the people through motivatedand provocative statements regrettedBrig Gupta. Rather than explainingthe positive aspects and plus points ofthe bold and historic decision of theModi government they are trying tospread negative propaganda and cre-ate an atmosphere of scare and de-spair accused Brig Gupta.

Every citizen will now enjoy simi-lar benefits and privileges and nonewill be treated as a “second rate”be-cause of not being a permanent resi-dent, an anarchic and discriminatorypractice prevalent in the state. Theywill now be able to participate in thepanchayat, local bodies and assemblyelections, own, buy and sell proper-ties, apply for government jobs, enjoybenefits of the reservations in jobsand academic institutions. Theirchildren will be like the other chil-dren and enjoy same benefits likethem. The gender discrimination will

no more exist and all daughters of thesoil will be treated equally. NoPakistani or a foreign origin lady willbe able to obtain Indian citizenshipmerely by marrying a Kashmiri. Inother words the state will witness endof cronyism, favouritism and nepo-tism with equality and justice beingthe new buzzwords claimed BrigGupta.

It is travesty of history that thepresent government is being blamedfor “murder of democracy.” How canone forget 1951 when SheikhAbdullah played the biggest constitu-tional fraud with the people of J&K bycomposing a Constituent Assemblywithout any member from the opposi-tion? The same ConstituentAssembly went on to frame aConstitution for the state that cateredfor the aspirations and interests of aparticular region only thus grantingconstitutional validity to regionaldiscrimination and scuttling the as-

pirations and hopes of the 2/3rd of theState rued Brig Gupta. Now that thedays of discrimination and partialityare over and the citizens are seeing anew ray of hope, these leaders arebusy issuing statements critical ofthe government ignoring the senti-ments of vast majority.

Under the garb of 370 and 35A,these leaders have amassed huge per-sonal wealth disproportionate totheir known sources of income. Manyof them, already are facing charges ofcorruption and misuse of publicfunds against them. A sense of insecu-rity haunts them due to the ongoingwar on corruption unleashed by thepresent administration asserted BrigGupta. The people now are muchmore aware and conscious and henceare unlikely to fall prey to theirmachinations hoped Brig Gupta.People will hold them accountable fortheir sins and misdeeds if everythingis normal and hence their attempt tocreate chaos through a planned disin-formation campaign based on pre-sumptions like loss of identity, landand jobs. To achieve their sinisteraim they are also resorting to rumourmongering and fake news rued BrigGupta. A disturbed environmentrather than peace suits them. BrigGupta appealed to the government toframe new laws to protect the demo-graphic and cultural interests of thepeople similar to Article 371 for otherstates.

What rattles the opposition if all citizenslead a life of equality: Brig Gupta

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Renowned agriculture scientistDr. H.S Muker with experience ofover 10 years in teaching and 34 yearsin Research experience has joined asthe Director in AgricultureDepartment at Aryans Group ofColleges, Rajpura, Near Chandigarh.

Dr. Anshu Kataria, Chairman,Aryans Group while welcoming himsaid that the demand of Agriculturecourse is increasing day by day.Students not only from Punjab but al-so from other states like Bihar,Himachal, North East etc come toPunjab for admission in Agriculture

course. The joining of the senior andexperienced faculty in the Deptwould make Agriculture Deptstronger now.

H.S Muker while showing ecstasyover the joining said that I am happyand excited to work in theAgriculture college of Aryans where-in the students from other states arealso studying and working in the fieldthemselves to learn practically.

He said that it's an opportunityfor me to train these students with thebest of my experience. It is to be men-tioned that Dr. H.S Muker is Ph.D. inPlant Breeding from PAU, Ludhiana.He has also been the trainee at

International Human Hybrid RiceCentre at Changsha, Hunan, Chinaand Dr Panjabrao Deshmukh KrishiVidyapeeth,

Akola, Maharastra. He hasworked as the Dean in Desh BhagatUniversity, Mandi Gobindgarh;Director, PAU Seed Farm, Lodowal;Dean Faculty in RAMA University,Kanpur; Professor in RIMT; SeniorPlant Breeder in PAU, Ludhiana;Rice breeder at Rice ResearchStation, Kapurthala etc. He has alsodeveloped more than 13 varieties ofRice & other plant crops. He has alsobeen awarded by ICAR team awardfor developing Basmati 386.

Renowned Agriculture ScientistDr. H.S Muker joined AryansH.S Muker has developed 13 varieties of crops & got trainingon hybrid rice varieties in China

CONTD FROM PAGE 1Pak receives

Task Force if it fails to meet its commitment oncounter-terrorism financing.

The international community is closely watching itsmove, said two diplomatic sources. After the Taliban'sstatement that Afghanistan peace talks should not belinked to Kashmir, another Pakistani argument has fall-en flat, the diplomats noted.

The US is in a mission mode to end the war inAfghanistan and pull back its troops from the war-torncountry. The Trump administration, the officials said, isnot buying the Pakistani argument that the "road topeace in Kabul goes through Kashmir" and would holdIslamabad accountable if its seen jeopardising the ongo-ing Afghan peace talks.

There is a clear understanding inside the Trump ad-ministration that Pakistan will try and use the develop-ments in Kashmir to calibrate US response, the sourcessaid. However, the US has expressed concerns about thehuman rights situation in Kashmir and is worried aboutlaw and order situation in Jammu and Kashmir, theysaid.

Another official said India's move has taken awayfrom Pakistan a basis for it to internationalise the issueof Jammu and Kashmir and this realisation is reflectedin the frustration by senior Pakistani officials when theyreach out to their counterparts in other countries.

Russia backs the Constitution to withdraw the special status given

to Jammu and Kashmir and bifurcated the state into twoUnion Territories -- Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh."Moscow expects that India and Pakistan will not allowaggravation of the situation in the region due to thechange by Delhi in the status of the state of Jammu andKashmir," the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia saidin a response to questions on Friday. "We proceed fromfact that the changes associated with the change in thestatus of the state of Jammu and Kashmir and its divi-sion into two union territories are carried out within theframework of the Constitution of the Republic of India,"the ministry said. "We hope that the parties involved willnot allow a new aggravation of the situation in the regionas a result of the decisions."

Russia is a consistent supporter of the normalisationof relations between India and Pakistan."We proceedfrom fact that the changes associated with the change inthe status of the state of Jammu and Kashmir and its di-vision into two union territories are carried out withinthe framework of the Constitution of the Republic ofIndia," the ministry said.

"We hope that the parties involved will not allow anew aggravation of the situation in the region as a resultof the decisions."

Russia is a consistent supporter of the normalisationof relations between India and Pakistan."We hope thatthe differences between them will be resolved by politi-cal and diplomatic means on a bilateral basis in accor-dance with the provisions of the Simla Agreement of 1972and the Lahore Declaration of 1999," it added.

Army inimical and anti-national elements, they added.

Northern command Chief Lt Gen Ranbir Singh has al-ready conducted forward visits in Rajouri, Poonch,Jammu, Ladakh and North Kashmir areas along the LoClast week. He also visited the hinterland of Kashmir andJammu.

Migrant goldsmith in Srinagar city for a decade, said he had to

pay Rs 2,500 per person to ferry his family of six toJammu from Kashmir.

Another labourer, Zafarullah, who hails fromMoradabad in Uttar Pradesh, said his employer paid himjust one-week wage, despite having worked for onemonth.

"This has happened for the first time. I was com-pelled to borrow money and left as soon as I could," hesaid. Chief PRO of Norther Railway Deepak Kumar toldPTI, "The railways pressed into services special trainsand additional coaches to ferry them to their respectivestate. Also additional coaches have been attached to alltrains." "All arrangements for shelter, food and waterhas been made," he said.

Prohibitory Kishtwar Angrez Singh Rana said the curfew was re-

laxed for one hour in a phased manner in different partsof the town for the first time since its imposition onMonday.

The officials said the curfew was also relaxed inBhadarwah town and its adjoining areas in Doda districtin a phased manner. The situation in Ramban, Poonch

and Rajouri districts was also normal and people offeredFriday prayers in a peaceful manner amid heavy deploy-ment of forces to maintain peace, the officials said.

Governor hospitals and all possible health care services were

being provided to patients. Governor also directedDeputy Commissioner Srinagar to airlift a child fromSrinagar to Delhi for further specialized treatment.

Governor while taking a round of the city noted func-tioning of ATMs, on ground sanitation and other basicfacilities like water supply and electricity. He expressedsatisfaction over on the whole semblance of peace andcalm prevailing in the city.

Meanwhile private vehicles were seen plying on theroads, vendors selling fresh vegetables and fruits andpeople busy with buying their daily needs along theroadsides. He also took stock of ration supply in Fairprice shops which were seen open in various localities.He took note of various animal Mandis allowed at differ-ent places by the Administration for buying and sellingof animals on the occasion of Eid-ul-Azha.

The Divisional Commissioner briefed Governorabout the arrangements made for celebration of Eid-ul-Azha and informed about Mobile vans which have beenpressed into service for selling essential commodities topeople and instructions passed on to officers to keepcheck on profiteering and other unethical trade prac-tices by the traders. He assured Governor regarding ade-quate availability of electricity, water supply and sanita-tion arrangements for observing the festival in a befit-ting manner.

FIR should "clean thoughts". "Fearing the public of Delhi, they

supported the revocation of Article 370 but the discom-fort of Kejriwal's team is clearly visible. These state-ments symbolise the disappointment palpable amonganti-nationals," Goel tweeted in Hindi.

CWC CWC, the party's top decision making body, met to

elect a new party chief after Rahul Gandhi quit the postfollowing the party's miserable showing in the LokSabha elections.

The CWC has been divided into five region-wise sub-groups to hold further talks with the state in-charges,state party chiefs, AICC department chairman, partyMPs and CLPs to build a consensus on the name of thenew party chief. According to party sources, all the sub-groups were in favour of Rahul Gandhi. After holdingconsultations post the CWC, several members of thesouth group from Tamil Nadu were in favour of RahulGandhi to continue as party chief.

Besides Rahul and Sonia, the meeting of the CWCwas attended by former Prime Minister ManmohanSingh, senior party leaders like Priyanka Gandhi Vadra,Anand Sharma, Ghulam Nabi Azad, JyotiradityaScindia, Sachin Pilot, Ahmed Patel, P. Chidambaramand several others.According to party sources, all thesub-groups were in favour of Rahul Gandhi. After hold-ing consultations post the CWC, several members of thesouth group from Tamil Nadu were in favour of RahulGandhi to continue as party chief.

Besides Rahul and Sonia, the meeting of the CWCwas attended by former Prime Minister ManmohanSingh, senior party leaders like Priyanka Gandhi Vadra,Anand Sharma, Ghulam Nabi Azad, JyotiradityaScindia, Sachin Pilot, Ahmed Patel, P. Chidambaramand several others. The party informed those leaderswho could not attend, including Punjab CM AmarinderSingh, that they would be contacted over phone and theirrecommendations would be noted.

The CWC will meet again at 8.30 p.m. to get final rec-ommendations of the five groups. The new Congresschief's name will be finalised on Sunday, said a seniorparty leader. Addressing media, Congress national me-dia in-charge Randeep Singh Surjewala said, "The CWCunanimously appealed to Rahul Gandhi to lead the partyas he is the best person for the top post at a time when theBJP-led government is assaulting democracy and under-mining peoples' rights." "His resignation is still pendingapproval of the CWC. But he is adamant on his decision,so a group has been formed for consultation with the par-ty leaders to decide on the new chief," Surjewala said. Hesaid the CWC has not accepted Rahul Gandhi's resigna-tion yet.

Only Kashmir and divided the state into two Union

Territories -- Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh.President Ram Nath Kovind had on Saturday given

assent to the legislation on Jammu and Kashmir's bifur-cation and the new Union Territories will come into exis-tence on October 31.

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A high-level 'MissionReachOut' Conferencechaired by the WhiteKnight Corps Commander,Lt Gen Paramjit Singh washeld in Nagrota MilitaryStation to review theprevalent situation inJammu Region in view ofrevocation of Article 370 inJ&K. The conference wasattended by DivisionalCommissioner, Jammu in-cluding members of CivilAdministration, represen-tatives from J&K Police,CRPF, BSF andIntelligence agencies. Theprevailing security sce-nario and preparedness ofsecurity agencies and civiladministration were dis-cussed during the confer-ence. It emerged during theconference that the situa-tion in the Jammu Regionhad been peaceful with nountoward incident takingplace post the revocation ofArticle 370, on 05 Aug 19.

The Corps Commanderwas appreciative of the ab-solute synergy between theArmy, CivilAdministration and othersecurity establishments inmaintaining peace, harmo-ny and conducive environ-ment.

During the conferencethe DivisionalCommissioner assured ofadequate availability of allbasic necessities and es-sential services to meet therequirements of the people.He further informed thatdue to normalcy in the re-gion, the general publichad requested for openingof schools and educationalinstitutes which wasagreed and schools in thecity were opened from 10Aug 19 by the civil adminis-tration. He further addedthat schools & institutionsin other areas will alsosoon start functioning. Healso assured of availabilityand normal functioning ofATMs & Banks. The Friday

prayers also showed nonegative impact of the rev-ocation of Article 370 andthe general public has wel-comed the move and poli-cies of the government. Theaudience were informed ofthe availability of helplinenumbers which has al-ready been intimated to thegeneral public.

The Corps Commanderinformed that numerousinitiatives have been un-dertaken by the Army un-der 'Mission Reach Out'.Mobile Medical care unitswith essential medicinesand Lady Medical Officer,where needed, providingwater by bowsers in loca-tions where water supplywas disrupted, provision ofessentials including ra-tions, assistance in trans-portation of patients tohospitals, facilitating peo-ple to speak to their near &dear through Army ex-change, creating safe envi-ronment for ATM, Banks &Hospitals to function has

been ensured. In addition,shops to provide day to dayneeds and ensuring supplychain of essential com-modities does not get dis-rupted, encouraging eld-ers, religious heads, youthand opinion makers to ad-dress apprehensions ofpeople and help in main-taing calm and peace, cre-ation of environment thatis conducive to performFriday Prayers and setstage for Enid celebrationswere some of the othersteps undertaken. TheCorps Commander, duringthe conference assured ofcontinued Army's effortsin ensuring that inconven-ience to populace is mini-mum. The CorpsCommander also assuredthe civil administration offull support for reachingout to populace for provid-ing all basic necessitieswherever the requirementis felt. The CorpsCommander also assuredof logistics

Review Of Prevailing Situation InJammu Region: Mission Reachout

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National Exhibition ofVisual Arts by Jammu andKashmir Centre forCreative Arts (JKCCA)was inaugurated at IndianAcademy of Fine Arts(IAFA), Amritsar (Punjab)by S. Rajinder MohanSingh Chhina,Chairman,IAFA,Amritsar. Sh. AkhileshNigam, Chairman, A NAcademy of Visual Arts &Former RegionalSecretary, Regional CentreLalit Kala Akademi,Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh)was the guest of honour onthis occasion while S.Shivdev Singh, PresidentIAFA & Dr. A S Chamak,Hon. Gen. Secy. IAFA andMushtaq Ali khan, Council10th North Zone CultureCentre, Patiala & EminentFilm maker, Director,Producer & Actor who hassecially coming fromSrinagar to attend thisfunction were the SpecialGuest on this occasion. Alarge number of artists,

writers and intellectualsattended the inaugural cer-emony and visited the exhi-bition.

While welcoming theguests Sh. O P Sharma,Director, JKCCA informedthat the works of 46 artistsfrom eleven states of thecountry have been dis-played in the show. Theworks executed in differ-ent mediums would dis-play the panoramic view ofthe variety of art practicesbeing done throughout thecountry. The works ofyoung, senior and veteranwould be displayed side byside in this exhibition. Mr.

Sharma thanked theChairman, IAFA for pro-moting artist & giving sup-port to the NGO for organ-izing such type of events inAmritsar.

The artists whoseworks have been displayedin the show includeAntima Manhas, DeepaSoni, Payal Chadha Gupta,Nidhi Jain, Ganesh KumarSharma, Amrit Kaur, RoufQyasi, Sunita Gandhi,Soumya, Ojas, Rayees ,Sheikh Gulam Rasool,Mushtaq Barq, MudasirRehman Dar,Shivani KoulBhat, Mushtaque Ali Khan,Kaunain Zubair, Tsring

Youdol(J&K); DharminderSharma, Gaytri, SanjeevKumar Bansal, AtulMatoo, Harsmrit Kaur,Mala Chawla, RavinderDhillon, Nisha, ArjunYadav and Sahil Sodhi,Kavi Chouhan (Punjab);Dr. Mamta Singh(Uttarakhand); Dr. RekhaRani Sharma, PratimaSingh and Dr. DishaDinesh, Dr. RashmiSaxsena, Dr. NeelamKanth (Uttar Pradesh);Pankaj Raina and SunitaHandoo (Chandhigarh);Minu Dey (West Bengal);Prerana Mitra (MadhyaPradesh)and DeepikaSehrawat (Haryana),Shressha Srinivas (NewDelhi).

S. Rajinder MohanSingh Chhina, in his ad-dress appreciated the ef-forts of JKCCA to organizenational art events at vari-ous places in the country.He said that sharing of artexperiences has alwaysbeen joyful and productive.He appreciated the worksof all the artists.

National Exhibition of Visual Arts by JKCCA opens at Amritsar

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Thar Express fromPakistan reached India onSaturday afternoon, whilethe Karachi-bound train ison its way to the neighbour-ing country, officials said.

The Thar Express fromPakistan started from thestation zero point at 17.20hours and reached Indianstation Munabao at 17.40hours with 165 passengers --62 Indians and 103Pakistanis -- on board, rail-ways said. The Thar linkExpress from India is on itsway to Karachi. Pakistan

had on Friday announcedsuspension of all train serv-ices to India after the Centrescrapped provisions ofArticle 370 and dividedJammu and Kashmir intotwo Union territories.Pakistan's RailwayMinister Sheikh RashidAhmed had said inIslamabad that this wouldbe the last Jodhpur-Karachitrain. The passenger fromboth the countries reachedzero point on the interna-tional border and changedtrains to go to their respec-tive destinations in Indiaand Pakistan. The Indiantrain reached Munabao, the

last station on the Indianside of the border, at 6.55 amafter departing from BhagatKi Kothi station in Jodhpurat 1 am and was awaitingclearance from Pakistan,they said. The clearancewas received at 3.05 pm, aNorth Western Railwayspokesperson said, addingthat the train departed soonafter.

The Thar Express hasbeen running betweenJodhpur and Karachi everySaturday morning (1 am)since services resumed onFebruary 18, 2006 after a 41-year suspension. Accordingto estimates, over four lakh

passengers have taken thetrain in the past 13 years.

Among the 165 passen-gers, 81 are Indians, who arevisiting their relatives inPakistan. Eighty-fourPakistan nationals are re-turning to their country af-ter completion of their visalimit in India, a railway offi-cial has said.

As the passengersboarded the train at Bhagatki Kothi station, there wereconcerns that the journeycould even end at Munabaoin Barmer district, amid un-certainties over strainedties between the two coun-tries.

Thar Express from Pak reaches India;Indian link train on way to Karachi

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The Editors Guild ofIndia expressed deep con-cern on Saturday over thecontinued shutdown in com-munication links with theKashmir Valley and the con-sequent "curtailment of themedia's freedom and ability"to report fairly on the devel-opments there.

The guild's statementcame days after the govern-ment revoked the provisionsof Article 370 of theConstitution in Jammu andKashmir to withdraw thespecial status given to thestate and bifurcated it intotwo Union territories --Jammu and Kashmir andLadakh.

The guild said whilesome visiting journalistsmight be able to file their re-ports once they were out ofthe Valley, the lockdown wasalmost "total and draconian"for the vibrant local mediaorganisations that were thefirst eyes and ears on theground.

The government knewvery well that it was impossi-ble to process and publishnews now without the inter-net, it said. The governmentowed it to the people of thecountry, including those inJammu and Kashmir, to al-low the press, a vital institu-tion of democracy, to func-tion freely, the guild said.

It added that it wasdeeply concerned over thecontinued shutdown in com-

munication links with theKashmir Valley and the con-sequent "curtailment of themedia's freedom and ability"to report fairly and accurate-ly on current developments.

In a situation such as thatprevailing in Jammu andKashmir at present, the roleof a free media, unhinderedby such restrictions, be-comes critically importantin helping in disseminationof news and in its democraticduty of keeping a watch oninstitutions of the govern-ment and security, the guildsaid.

"The Guild underlinesthe imprudence in creatingan unfair distinction in thetreatment: for access, curfewpasses, communication be-tween local journalists and

those coming in to reportfrom outside. All journalistsand all Indian citizens areentitled to equal freedom,"the statement said.

The guild urged the gov-ernment to take immediatesteps to restore normalcy forthe media's communicationlinks. Media transparencyhad always been and shouldbe India's strength, not fear,it said.

The guild also expressedits appreciation for and soli-darity to all journalists re-porting from the ground de-spite unprecedented chal-lenges.

"The Guild requests all,especially the government,to ensure their safety andfreedom of movement," thestatement said.

Editors Guild of India concerned over shutdownin communication links with J&K

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In a LPA filed by Imtiyaz AhmadMalla against the judgment of WritCourt whereby Writ Court dismissiedthe petition seeking quashment of anorder No. 2580 of 2017 dated 31st July,2017 whereby the respondents have re-jected the claim of the appellant for re-instatement in service as a Constablewith the Jammu & Kashmir Police withconsequential benefits. A DivisionBench of State High Court comprisingChief Justice Gita Mittal and JusticeRashid Ali Dar allegations on which acriminal prosecution rests and the cir-cumstances leading to the acquittaltherefrom would be different in each in-stance. So far as suitability for recruit-ment into the police is concerned, theappointing authority is required to ef-fect a strict scrutiny into each individ-ual candidate's background. Therefore,merely because the respondents mayhave recruited some individuals whowere acquitted from their criminalprosecutions, would not ipso facto enti-tle the appellant to the same. Nothingwould also turn on the respondents hav-ing offered appointment to some per-sons who stand acquitted in a criminalcaseand refusing it in another case. Wehave no material regarding the natureof the charges against those persons orthe reasons for their acquittal. DB fur-ther observed that we found that it hascarefully noted the scrutiny by theDirector General of Police.It has beenrightly observed that as per the applica-ble principles and law only personswith impeccable character can be al-lowed to make entry into the policeforce which is a disciplined one. It hasbeen observed that the importance ofthe integrity and high standard of con-duct in police force has to be taken intoconsideration in the matter of formingan opinion whether his retention in thepolice force is or is not justifiable.

DB further observed that in thisbackground, the Single Judge was alsoof the view that the Director General be-ing the highest functionary in the po-lice hierarchy is the best judge to con-sider the suitability of the applicant forinduction into police force. Given theabove factual background, it has beenheld that such decision cannot be calledinto question especially as the same hasbeen arrived at after giving due applica-tion of mind to the relevant facts. Theseobservations are in consonance withthe binding principles laid down in thejudicial precedents extracted above,are legally correct and cannot be fault-ed. With these observations, DB dis-missed the appeal. JNF

Normal life restored in Kargil

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City Judge Jammu Prem Sagar re-jected the bail application of Shokat aliS/o Nazir Ahmed from whose posses-sion heroine was recovered. Accordingto the police case that applicant/ ac-cused is involved in case FIR No.64/2019 at P/S Bagh-e-Bahu, Jammufor the alleged commission of offencesu/s 8/21/22/ NDPS Act as during NakaChecking “Heroine” like substanceweighing about 01.5gram was recov-ered from his possession and subse-quently has been arrested in this caseon 28-07-2019. City Judge Jammu PremSagar after hearing Sr. PO Raj Kumarfor the State observed that statements

of material witnesses are yet to be ex-amined/recorded and the source of thenarcotic seized is yet to be ascertained.Investigation of the case is at initialstage. Though the offence committedby the accused person is "Bailable" innature but its impact on the society atlarge is very detrimental particularlyfor the youngsters who are failling easyprey to the drug traffickers who allurethem and selling of narcotics is creat-ing havoc in society. Though bail is arule and jail is an exception but the du-ty of the Court is paramount particular-ly when the offences are under NDPSAct and court must exercise the discre-tion of bail judicially. With these obser-vations Court rejected the bail applica-tion. JNF

Court reject bail in NDPS

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As the CongressWorking Committee be-gan consultations onSaturday to find its nextpresident, UPA chiefSonia Gandhi and outgo-ing party head RahulGandhi left the meetingmidway, saying theycouldn't be part of theprocess.

"We cannot be part ofthis process," SoniaGandhi said after she re-cused herself from thedeliberations.

Rahul Gandhi leftsoon after, saying hewould be visiting hisparliamentary con-stituency Wayanad inKerala, which is cur-rently ravaged by heavyrains. Sonia Gandhi said

her name was includedby default in the region-wise committees formedfor wider consultationson selecting a new partychief. The CWC has de-cided to have consulta-tions with leaders from

across the country andthe party's top decision-making body then wasdivided into five groupsfor different regions --northeast, east, north,west and south. RahulGandhi, while resigning

as the party president onMay 25, had asked theCWC to elect a presidentfrom outside his family.His sister PriyankaGandhi Vadra is aCongress general secre-tary.

Sonia, Rahul recuse themselves from CWC meet

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The flood situation in South India con-tinued to remain grim on Saturday,withKerala being the worst hit as rains,cou-pled with landslides left 42 dead and near-ly 1.25 lakh people displaced. The mon-soon fury continued unabated inKarnataka and in neighbouring TamilNadu, with the latter pressing the IAF torescue stranded people from the worst-hitAvalanchi in Nilgiris district.

In Kerala, many people are still fearedtrapped under debris following majorlandslides that hit Kavalappara inMalappuram and Puthumala in Meppadiin Wayanad even as a red alert has beenissued in eight districts of Ernakulam,Idukki, Palakkad, Malappuram,Kozhikode, Wayanad, Kannur andKasargod. As rescue operations were onin Kavalappara, another landslide oc-curred in the region on Saturday due to

which search operations have been halt-ed.

One of the four shutters of theBanasurasagar dam, located about 21 kmfrom Kalpetta in Wayanad, one of theworst affected districts, was opened to dis-charge excess water and people on thebanks of the Kabini river have been askedto be cautious. One of the largest earthdams in India and the second largest of itskind in Asia, Banasurasagar impoundsthe Karamanathodu tributary of theKabini River. The government allayedfears of opening dams, saying all the ma-jor reservoirs had enough storage capaci-ty.

"While we are engaged in rescue oper-ations, some are spreading false newsacross the social media. Will take strictaction against such people. Some peoplewere spreading news that there will bepower cuts or shortage of petrol and allthat," Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayansaid. "Not all dams are full.

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A newly-discoveredlake in Nepal is likelyto set a new record ofbeing the world's high-est lake replacingTilicho, which is situat-ed at an altitude of 4,919metres in theHimalayan nation andcurrently holding thetitle.The Kajin Saralake in Manang districtwas discovered about a

few months ago by ateam of mountaineers,the Himalayan Timesreported. It is located atSingarkharka area ofChame rural munici-pality. "As per the

measurement of thelake taken by the team,it is located at an alti-tude of 5,200 metres,which is yet to be offi-cially verified. It is esti-mated to be 1,500-me-

tre-long and 600-metre-wide," Chame ruralmunicipality ChairLokendra Ghale wasquoted as saying by thereport. "The lake wouldbe the world's highestlake if its altitude of5000-plus metres is offi-cially verified," he said.The Tilicho lake, situ-ated at an altitude of4,919 metres, is 4 kmlong, 1.2 km wide andaround 200 metresdeep.

Newly-discovered lake in Nepal likelyto become world's highest

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Former PrimeMinister ManmohanSingh, whose tenure asRajya Sabha member end-ed in June this year is set toreturn to the Upper Housefrom Rajasthan, partysources said.

A Congress source saidManmohan Singh will bethe party's candidate forthe Rajya Sabha. He saidthe former Prime Ministerwill file his nomination on

August 13. ManmohanSingh has representedAssam in Rajya Sabha for28 years.

The Rajya Sabha elec-tions in Rajasthan was ne-cessitated after the deathof BJP MP Madan LalSaini, who passed away ina Delhi hospital.

Saini was elected to theUpper House last yearwhen the BJP was in powerin the state. The Congresshas a majority in the 200-member Assembly.

Former PM ManmohanSingh To File Nomination ForRajya Sabha From Rajasthan

Rains pound South India; Keralaworst hit with 42 dead


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