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T hree pro-Pakistan Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) terror- ists who had attempted to hijack a transport vehicle on NH-244 near Batote early on Saturday were eliminated by the joint team of security forces during nine-hour-long opera- tion in Ramban district. One civilian who was held hostage by the terrorists inside his house in Batote town was safely rescued by the security forces while one Army jawan sacrificed his life and two other policemen received injuries. Police claimed one of the three terrorists, identified as Osama, was behind killing of BJP leader Anil Parihar in Kishtwar on November 1, 2018. During the operation, traf- fic on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway and the Batote-Doda highway remained disrupted causing inconvenience to hundreds of commuters. Batote town too remained shut as cordon and search operations were launched by the security forces early on Saturday morning to track down the footprints of heavily armed terrorists in the area. For past several days, intel- ligence agencies were issuing warnings about the possibility of terror strikes on vital defence installations across Jammu & Kashmir. Even airbases across north India, including Jammu, Pathankot and Awantipora, were put on high alert follow- ing these reports that at least 60 terrorists had infiltrated into the State to carry out daring strikes. Meanwhile in Kashmir Valley, a terrorist was killed in a separate operation in Ganderbal while unidentified terrorists lobbed a grenade on CRPF personnel in Safakadal area of Srinagar. No injury or loss of life was reported. After the operation was called off, Inspector General of police, Jammu zone, Mukesh Singh told reporters in Batote, “All three terrorists, who were cadre of Hizbul Mujahideen, were eliminated by the secu- rity forces during the opera- tion”. Singh said one of the Army jawans also lost his life while two other policemen received injuries. Mukesh Singh said, “65-year-old civilian, who was held hostage was also safely res- cued by the security forces”. S trongly hitting back at Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s rant at the UN General Assembly, India has said its citizens do not need anyone else to speak on their behalf and “least of all those who have built an industry of terrorism from the ideology of hate.” Khan delivered his maid- en speech at the 74th UN General Debate on Friday and in his almost 50-minute address, devoted half of his time to India and Kashmir, drumming up hysteria over nuclear war. India exercised its right of reply to the statement made by Khan later on Friday and field- ed its newest diplomat at its mission at the UN to fend off the allegations made by former Pakistan cricket captain. “Every word spoken from the podium of this august Assembly, it is believed, carries the weight of history. Unfortunately, what we heard today from Prime Minister Imran Khan of Pakistan was a callous portrayal of the world in binary terms. Us vs Them; Rich vs Poor; North vs South; Developed Vs Developing; Muslims vs Others. A script that fosters divisiveness at the United Nations. Attempts to sharpen differences and stir up hatred, are simply put — ‘hate speech’,” First Secretary in India’s Permanent Mission to the UN Vidisha Maitra said. Maitra said rarely has the General Assembly witnessed such “misuse, rather abuse”, of an opportunity to reflect. T he Government will soon undertake a mega exercise of demarcation and mapping of around three million springs in the Indian Himalayan Region on the GPS platform. The move is aimed at conserving these aquifers to gear up for a likely water scarcity in future. A pilot project will be kicked off from Uttarakhand’s Tehri district soon as the Union Jal Shakti Ministry is exploring various technologies, including that of the ISRO, to carry out the project. Over 50 million people are dependent on the spring water for their livelihood in the IHR, said Mustafa Ali Khan, team leader of the Indian Himalayas Climate Adaptation Programme, at an event organ- ised by the Centre for Media Studies (CMS) recently. The 12 States under IHR include Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram, Sikkim, Nagaland, Tripura, Arunachal Pradesh and now Union Territory Jammu and Kashmir. Two par- tial hilly States Assam and West Bengal are also included. “We are exploring various technologies like that of the space agency to conduct the task which would need massive human resources. We are work- ing on the technology to be deployed for mapping these springs,” said an official from the Ministry. The move follows a NITI Ayog report released in August 2019. “The Himalayan springs are drying up primarily due to changes in land use, ecological degradation and the so-called developmental activities. These have depleted aquifers in the mountains,” says Himanshu Kulkarni, convenor of Pune- based Advanced Center for Water Resources Development and Management. For instance, with almost 64% of the cultivable area in the Himalayas fed by natural springs, they are often the only source of irrigation in the region. “Spring discharge is report- ed to be declining due to degradation and erratic trends in precipitation,” the docu- ment observed stressing an urgent need to restore, revive and sustain springs. “Lack of knowledge, understanding and awareness on springs has fur- ther compounded the problem while also inducing elements of conflicts and haphazard devel- opment. Land-use changes, rapid urban expansion and growing commercial con- sumption are affecting forests and impacting spring water availability,” it noted. Currently, National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC), ISRO at Hyderabad monitors the status of all the water bodies in the country using satellite images and pro- vides water spread area infor- mation on a fortnightly basis. However, water springs in the Himalayan region are out from its ambit. Rather, all surface water features like reservoirs, tanks, lakes, ponds, rivers and streams in the plains are included. Due to presence of cloud cover, the daily processed data are time- composited and fortnightly water spread information is made available through Bhuvan Geo-spatial Platform. W ith the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) session over, the secu- rity establishment apprehends a spurt in violence with Pakistan’s Border Action Team (BAT) actions on the Line of Control (LoC). There was a lull since abrogation of special sta- tus under Article 370 for Jammu & Kashmir on August 5 as Pakistan did not want to draw negative attention till the UN session ended. Now the terrorists will go all out to infiltrate into Kashmir with active support of the Pakistan Army and carry out BAT actions in north Kashmir before snow blocks all ingress routes by October, officials in the security establishment said. The State did not witness any major terrorist related incident till now. However, the Ramban incident signals that the coming four to five weeks are crucial to foil infil- tration bids especially in Tangdhar, Machhal and Keran sectors. Moreover, in an effort to gain moral ascendancy over the Indian Army, the BAT teams comprising militants and elite Special Services Group (SSG) commandos of the Pakistan Army will try to hit the Indian posts and inflict casualties. Explaining the rationale for the likely challenge, officials said, as infiltration starts wan- ing towards October-end or mid November due to weath- er. Given this factor coupled with no violence in the last 54 days, the Pakistan Army will try BAT actions besides push- ing in militants into J&K. The BAT teams having eight to 10 members plan their cross-border raid and ambush to kill Indian soldiers over days by closely observing the patrolling pattern of the Indian troops along the LoC. T aking strong exception to China’s reference to Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh at the UN General Assembly, New Delhi on Saturday brought the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) in Pakistan- occupied Kashmir (POK) in picture terming it as “illegal”. At the same time, it asserted that the “recent developments” (related to Article 370) were India’s internal matter and cau- tioned other countries to respect India’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. “The Chinese side is well aware of India’s position that Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh are an integral part of India, and that the recent develop- ments are entirely a matter internal to us. We expect that other countries will respect India’s sovereignty and territo- rial integrity, and desist from efforts to change the status quo through the illegal so-called China Pakistan Economic Corridor in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir,” External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said. Raising the Kashmir issue, China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi told the UN General Assembly that the “dispute” should be peacefully and prop- erly addressed in accordance with the UN Charter, UN Security Council resolutions and the bilateral agreement. New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Saturday set up a five- judge Constitution Bench, headed by Justice NV Ramana. It will commence hearing from October 1 on a batch of pleas mounting legal challenges to the Centre’s decision to abro- gate provisions of Article 370 that gave special status to Jammu & Kashmir. The Bench also comprises justices SK Kaul, R Subhash Reddy, BR Gavai and Suryakant. The Bench will examine the constitutional validity of the scrapping of the Article’s provisions and the subsequent presidential orders on it. PNS New Delhi: The National Institute of Technology (NIT) in Srinagar will reopen on October 15, Human Resource Development Higher Education Secretary R Subramanyam said on Saturday. The NIT had sus- pended classes in Srinagar last month after the district admin- istration directed the educa- tional institutions to be watch- ful of the situation following the abrogation of special status to J&K under Article 370.PNS T he Indian mixed 4x400m relay team qualifies for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics after reaching the finals in the World Championships here on Saturday. The quartet of Muhammed Anas, VK Vismaya, Jisna Mathew and Tom Nirmal Noah clocked 3 minutes 16.14 seconds to fin- ish third in heat number 2 and book a berth in the Olympics. The top 3 in each of the two heats and the next two fastest qualify for the final of the World Championships to be held on Sunday. The final- ists in the Championships are automatic qualifiers for the Tokyo Olympics. O n the occasion of 150th birth anniversary of father of the nation Mahatma Gandhi, elaborate celebrations will be held across the State under the leadership of Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel. The series of special events will commence from October 2 and will continue till October next year. On October 2 this year a special two-day session of Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly will be held to com- memorate the contribution of Mahatma Gandhi in India's freedom movement and his teachings for social reforma- tion. Exhibition based on mem- ories of Mahatma Gandhi's Chhattisgarh tour, the move- ments led by him for indepen- dence of the country and his works for creating public awareness, will be held in Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly premise. The State Government is also all set to launch four important schemes in the State on October 2. These schemes will be for the betterment of health and nutrition of people of the State. Chief Minister Haat-Bazaar Clinic Scheme, Mukhyamantri Suposhan Abhiyan, Chief Minister Urban Slum Health Scheme and Universal Public Distribution System will be launched. On the day of Gandhi Jayanti, 'Padyatra' will be held at 8am, under which one thou- sand children dressed as Mahatma Gandhi will take out procession from Jaistambh Chowk to Gandhi Maidan in Raipur. Later, from October 4 to October 10, 'Padyatra' from Kandel, Dhamtari District to Raipur will be held. This pro- cession will be held under the banner of "Gandhi Vichaar Yatra'. Chief Minister and a large number of public representa- tives and citizens will partici- pate in this 'Padyatra'. Mahatma Gandhi reached Raipur to participate in 'Nahar Satyagarh' of farmers, which was going on in Kandel at that time. This 'Padyatra' will be held in every block of the state from October 11 to October 17, under the banner of 'Gandhi Vichaar Yatra'. On the occasion of 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma, various events would be held in all the schools and colleges of the state round the year to make students aware of his ideals and principles. This includes essay, painting and speech competitions. 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Three pro-Pakistan HizbulMujahideen (HM) terror-

ists who had attempted tohijack a transport vehicle onNH-244 near Batote early onSaturday were eliminated bythe joint team of security forcesduring nine-hour-long opera-tion in Ramban district.

One civilian who was heldhostage by the terrorists insidehis house in Batote town wassafely rescued by the securityforces while one Army jawansacrificed his life and two otherpolicemen received injuries.

Police claimed one of thethree terrorists, identified asOsama, was behind killing ofBJP leader Anil Parihar inKishtwar on November 1, 2018.

During the operation, traf-fic on the Jammu-SrinagarNational Highway and theBatote-Doda highwayremained disrupted causinginconvenience to hundreds ofcommuters.

Batote town too remainedshut as cordon and searchoperations were launched bythe security forces early onSaturday morning to trackdown the footprints of heavilyarmed terrorists in the area.

For past several days, intel-ligence agencies were issuingwarnings about the possibilityof terror strikes on vital defenceinstallations across Jammu &Kashmir.

Even airbases across northIndia, including Jammu,Pathankot and Awantipora,were put on high alert follow-ing these reports that at least 60terrorists had infiltrated intothe State to carry out daringstrikes.

Meanwhile in KashmirValley, a terrorist was killed ina separate operation inGanderbal while unidentifiedterrorists lobbed a grenade onCRPF personnel in Safakadalarea of Srinagar. No injury orloss of life was reported.

After the operation wascalled off, Inspector General ofpolice, Jammu zone, MukeshSingh told reporters in Batote,

“All three terrorists, who werecadre of Hizbul Mujahideen,were eliminated by the secu-rity forces during the opera-tion”.

Singh said one of the Armyjawans also lost his life whiletwo other policemen receivedinjuries. Mukesh Singh said,“65-year-old civilian, who washeld hostage was also safely res-cued by the security forces”.

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Strongly hitting back atPakistan Prime Minister

Imran Khan’s rant at the UNGeneral Assembly, India hassaid its citizens do not needanyone else to speak on theirbehalf and “least of all thosewho have built an industry ofterrorism from the ideology ofhate.”

Khan delivered his maid-en speech at the 74th UNGeneral Debate on Friday andin his almost 50-minuteaddress, devoted half of histime to India and Kashmir,drumming up hysteria overnuclear war.

India exercised its right of

reply to the statement made byKhan later on Friday and field-ed its newest diplomat at itsmission at the UN to fend offthe allegations made by formerPakistan cricket captain.

“Every word spoken fromthe podium of this augustAssembly, it is believed, carriesthe weight of history.Unfortunately, what we heardtoday from Prime MinisterImran Khan of Pakistan was acallous portrayal of the worldin binary terms. Us vs Them;Rich vs Poor; North vs South;Developed Vs Developing;Muslims vs Others. A scriptthat fosters divisiveness at theUnited Nations. Attempts tosharpen differences and stir uphatred, are simply put — ‘hatespeech’,” First Secretary inIndia’s Permanent Mission tothe UN Vidisha Maitra said.

Maitra said rarely has theGeneral Assembly witnessedsuch “misuse, rather abuse”, ofan opportunity to reflect.

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The Government will soonundertake a mega exercise

of demarcation and mapping ofaround three million springs inthe Indian Himalayan Regionon the GPS platform. Themove is aimed at conservingthese aquifers to gear up for alikely water scarcity in future.

A pilot project will bekicked off from Uttarakhand’sTehri district soon as the UnionJal Shakti Ministry is exploringvarious technologies, includingthat of the ISRO, to carry outthe project.

Over 50 million peopleare dependent on the springwater for their livelihood in theIHR, said Mustafa Ali Khan,team leader of the IndianHimalayas Climate AdaptationProgramme, at an event organ-

ised by the Centre for MediaStudies (CMS) recently.

The 12 States under IHRinclude Uttarakhand, HimachalPradesh, Meghalaya, Manipur,Mizoram, Sikkim, Nagaland,Tripura, Arunachal Pradeshand now Union TerritoryJammu and Kashmir. Two par-tial hilly States Assam andWest Bengal are also included.

“We are exploring varioustechnologies like that of thespace agency to conduct thetask which would need massivehuman resources. We are work-ing on the technology to bedeployed for mapping thesesprings,” said an official fromthe Ministry.

The move follows a NITIAyog report released in August2019. “The Himalayan springsare drying up primarily due tochanges in land use, ecological

degradation and the so-calleddevelopmental activities. Thesehave depleted aquifers in themountains,” says HimanshuKulkarni, convenor of Pune-based Advanced Center forWater Resources Developmentand Management.

For instance, with almost64% of the cultivable area in theHimalayas fed by naturalsprings, they are often the onlysource of irrigation in theregion.

“Spring discharge is report-ed to be declining due todegradation and erratic trendsin precipitation,” the docu-ment observed stressing anurgent need to restore, reviveand sustain springs. “Lack ofknowledge, understanding andawareness on springs has fur-ther compounded the problemwhile also inducing elements ofconflicts and haphazard devel-opment. Land-use changes,rapid urban expansion and

growing commercial con-sumption are affecting forestsand impacting spring wateravailability,” it noted.

Currently, NationalRemote Sensing Centre(NRSC), ISRO at Hyderabadmonitors the status of all thewater bodies in the countryusing satellite images and pro-vides water spread area infor-mation on a fortnightly basis.However, water springs in theHimalayan region are out fromits ambit.

Rather, all surface waterfeatures like reservoirs, tanks,lakes, ponds, rivers and streamsin the plains are included. Dueto presence of cloud cover, thedaily processed data are time-composited and fortnightlywater spread information ismade available through BhuvanGeo-spatial Platform.

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With the United NationsGeneral Assembly

(UNGA) session over, the secu-rity establishment apprehendsa spurt in violence withPakistan’s Border Action Team(BAT) actions on the Line ofControl (LoC). There was a lullsince abrogation of special sta-tus under Article 370 forJammu & Kashmir on August5 as Pakistan did not want todraw negative attention till theUN session ended.

Now the terrorists will goall out to infiltrate into Kashmirwith active support of thePakistan Army and carry outBAT actions in north Kashmirbefore snow blocks all ingressroutes by October, officials inthe security establishment said.

The State did not witnessany major terrorist relatedincident till now. However,the Ramban incident signalsthat the coming four to fiveweeks are crucial to foil infil-tration bids especially inTangdhar, Machhal and Keransectors. Moreover, in an effortto gain moral ascendancy overthe Indian Army, the BATteams comprising militantsand elite Special Services

Group (SSG) commandos ofthe Pakistan Army will try tohit the Indian posts and inflictcasualties.

Explaining the rationalefor the likely challenge, officialssaid, as infiltration starts wan-ing towards October-end ormid November due to weath-er. Given this factor coupledwith no violence in the last 54days, the Pakistan Army willtry BAT actions besides push-ing in militants into J&K.

The BAT teams havingeight to 10 members plan theircross-border raid and ambushto kill Indian soldiers overdays by closely observing thepatrolling pattern of the Indiantroops along the LoC.

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Taking strong exception toChina’s reference to Jammu

& Kashmir and Ladakh at theUN General Assembly, NewDelhi on Saturday brought theChina Pakistan EconomicCorridor (CPEC) in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (POK) inpicture terming it as “illegal”. Atthe same time, it asserted thatthe “recent developments”(related to Article 370) wereIndia’s internal matter and cau-tioned other countries torespect India’s sovereignty andterritorial integrity.

“The Chinese side is wellaware of India’s position thatJammu, Kashmir and Ladakhare an integral part of India,

and that the recent develop-ments are entirely a matterinternal to us. We expect thatother countries will respectIndia’s sovereignty and territo-rial integrity, and desist fromefforts to change the status quothrough the illegal so-calledChina Pakistan EconomicCorridor in Pakistan-occupiedKashmir,” External AffairsMinistry SpokespersonRaveesh Kumar said.

Raising the Kashmir issue,China’s Foreign Minister WangYi told the UN GeneralAssembly that the “dispute”should be peacefully and prop-erly addressed in accordancewith the UN Charter, UNSecurity Council resolutionsand the bilateral agreement.

New Delhi: The SupremeCourt on Saturday set up a five-judge Constitution Bench,headed by Justice NV Ramana.It will commence hearing fromOctober 1 on a batch of pleasmounting legal challenges tothe Centre’s decision to abro-gate provisions of Article 370that gave special status toJammu & Kashmir. The Benchalso comprises justices SK Kaul,R Subhash Reddy, BR Gavaiand Suryakant. The Bench willexamine the constitutionalvalidity of the scrapping of theArticle’s provisions and thesubsequent presidential orderson it. PNS

New Delhi: The NationalInstitute of Technology (NIT)in Srinagar will reopen onOctober 15, Human ResourceDevelopment HigherEducation Secretary RSubramanyam said onSaturday. The NIT had sus-pended classes in Srinagar lastmonth after the district admin-istration directed the educa-tional institutions to be watch-ful of the situation followingthe abrogation of special statusto J&K under Article 370.PNS

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The Indian mixed 4x400mrelay team qualifies for the

2020 Tokyo Olympics afterreaching the finals in the WorldChampionships here onSaturday. The quartet ofMuhammed Anas, VKVismaya, Jisna Mathew andTom Nirmal Noah clocked 3minutes 16.14 seconds to fin-ish third in heat number 2 andbook a berth in the Olympics.

The top 3 in each of thetwo heats and the next twofastest qualify for the final ofthe World Championships tobe held on Sunday. The final-ists in the Championships areautomatic qualifiers for theTokyo Olympics.

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On the occasion of 150thbirth anniversary of father

of the nation Mahatma Gandhi,elaborate celebrations will beheld across the State under theleadership of Chief MinisterBhupesh Baghel.

The series of special eventswill commence from October2 and will continue till Octobernext year.

On October 2 this year aspecial two-day session ofChhattisgarh LegislativeAssembly will be held to com-memorate the contribution ofMahatma Gandhi in India'sfreedom movement and histeachings for social reforma-tion.

Exhibition based on mem-ories of Mahatma Gandhi'sChhattisgarh tour, the move-ments led by him for indepen-dence of the country and hisworks for creating publicawareness, will be held inChhattisgarh LegislativeAssembly premise.

The State Government isalso all set to launch fourimportant schemes in the Stateon October 2. These schemeswill be for the betterment ofhealth and nutrition of peopleof the State. Chief MinisterHaat-Bazaar Clinic Scheme,Mukhyamantri SuposhanAbhiyan, Chief Minister UrbanSlum Health Scheme andUniversal Public DistributionSystem will be launched.

On the day of Gandhi

Jayanti, 'Padyatra' will be heldat 8am, under which one thou-sand children dressed asMahatma Gandhi will take outprocession from JaistambhChowk to Gandhi Maidan inRaipur. Later, from October 4to October 10, 'Padyatra' fromKandel, Dhamtari District toRaipur will be held. This pro-cession will be held under thebanner of "Gandhi VichaarYatra'.

Chief Minister and a largenumber of public representa-tives and citizens will partici-pate in this 'Padyatra'.

Mahatma Gandhi reachedRaipur to participate in 'NaharSatyagarh' of farmers, whichwas going on in Kandel at thattime.

This 'Padyatra' will be heldin every block of the statefrom October 11 to October 17,under the banner of 'GandhiVichaar Yatra'.

On the occasion of 150thbirth anniversary of Mahatma,various events would be held inall the schools and colleges ofthe state round the year tomake students aware of hisideals and principles. Thisincludes essay, painting andspeech competitions.

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Everyone is hustling. There arepeople who are throwing themoney and there are people

who are dancing. This is the premiseof Hustlers directed directed byLorene Scafaria. Based on true events— New York magazine’s 2015 articleThe Hustlers at Scores by JessicaPressler — the movie is about howfour women dupe men of theirmoney. The subject itself is cringeworthy since women are notsupposed to be doing this eventhough prostitution is an ageoldprofession. Hustling is a totallydifferent ball game since one istaking the men for a ride withouttheir knowledge.

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did was amoral, one understands whythey did it. Not that this a justificationfor righting a wrong but gives aperspective. At some level you evenwant them to get away with theircrime. But we all know that taking shortcuts and a life of a crime never last forlong.

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�What is your role?I play Angad Jindal.

He belongs to agregarious, full of lifeand well to do Punjabifamily. He is family-oriented. He is in lovewith Sandhya but he isnot able to express hisfeelings to her becauseshe is an employee inhis company. He didn’twant to give the wrongimpression to her.�How similar ordifferent are you fromyour character?

Angad is like a 90sBollywood film hero.

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I wasn’t able to handle thepressure that comes withbeing a journalist. We actorsdo have hard working hoursbut a journalist’s schedule isworse. They have to be on callat all times. I used to runaround the city during oddhours for stories. To do thisone needs an insane amountof passion for that kind ofwork. The reason I chose to bea journalist was only becauseI thought I will be seen on TV.I thought that it’s an easy wayout but it didn’t turn out to be

so. I was alwayspassionate aboutacting sincechildhood. Here

also the working hours arelong but I enjoy my work. Idon’t realise when the timepasses by. Whenever I am ableto deliver a tough scene nicely,I feel happy about it the wholeday. On my way back to home,I always recall what I did andtry to imporve like woh lineaese bolni chahaiye thi ya wohscene aese karna chahaiye tha.When your work constantlyruns on your mind, not in anegative way, I believe that youhave found your dream job.�How did you get yourbreak in the industry?

I went to give an auditionfor another project andwalked past Mukesh Chabbra’soffice, a casting director. I wasinvited inside the office. I wasshocked because I have neverbeen there. I was dressed in asuit. A team member askedme to wear the same suit forthe next day’s meeting. Withintwo weeks I was playingAhsaan in Qubool Hai. This ishow I got my first break.During the auditions ofQubool Hai, I met the directorof Ek Duje Ke Vaaste. We hada conversation for about five-10 minutes. He called me forthe auditions. It was my firstshow as a lead where I playedShravan.�How have things changedfor you after playingShravan?

There has been a hugedifference. Now I am on theradar of people and I amgetting offers for shows. It isdifficult to put it into wordsbecause things didn’t pan outin a matter of seconds. It hashappened over time. But,having my take on thecharacters I play and to be ableto do certain changes whichsits well with the script is the

biggest change that came myway.�Having played so manyroles, how hard or easy wasit for you to get into the skinof different characters.

It can be as easy or as hardas you want it to be. If youwant to do the same roleevery time, changes willbother you. It is up to you howdifferent you want your workto be from the previous ones.You can always push yourselfand bring in certain changesin your character. Sometimesit will work and sometimesnot. There’s nothing to worryabout. I am trying very hardto differentiate between mycharacters. I don’t want mywork to be monotonous.�Is there any pressure whenit comes to doing sequels?

Pressure is there everytime you sign a new project.If we talk about sequels, thenKawach Mahashivratri has adifferent story. There is noconnection with the previousseason. So, there’s no specialpressure that comes with it.The only thing that we have inmind is to perform well andthe audience should appreciateour work.�What kind of roles attractyou?

The roles that challengeme and where I get to learnsomething new. It should befresh and unique. I should feelexcited to take up the project.�Is there any mantra thatyou follow?

I believe in working hardand grabbing opportunities. Ibelieve in giving my best.And just be thankful andgrateful for all theopportunities that I get andthis is what has workedfor me.

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He huffs and puffs. But unlike the big badwolf from Three Little Pigs who huffsaway the two homes made from straw,

this creature doesn’t blow away any houses. Justthe opposite. He wants to go home — to MtEverest — even though he is thousands ofmiles away in a city, Shanghai to be precise.Meet Yeti named Everest. Abominable, acomputer-animated adventure film produced byDreamWorks Animation and Pearl Studio that iswritten and co-directed by Jill Culton and ToddWilderman is by far the cutest movie made onthis mythical creature. If Yeti looks like this, wewant this creature to exist.

Not just because he is cute and sweet and canmend broken things in a jiffy or bring alive analmost deadplant to life but because he hasmagic. He can hum, glow and fly. He can beaggressive as well who is considered to be hisfriends even at the cost of putting his life indanger. The fact that he gets high on an aerateddrink wins your heart.

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Actor Hrithik Roshan known for hissuper hit movies like Super 30,Krish, Kaho na Pyaar Hai and

many more will be seen this weekend onThe Kapil Sharma Show. Accompanyinghim will be beautiful actress Vani Kapoorto promote their upcoming movie War.While sharing the screen with KapilSharma disciplined man Hrithik will beseen having his first cheat meal afterwrapping up shoot for the film. Hrithik willcelebrate over samosas with Vani Kapoor,Kapil Sharma and Archana Puran Singh.Entire cast will also be seen shaking legson one of the popular song from his filmGhungroo toot gaye.

During the show Kapil complimentedHritik for being very particular about hisfitness, diet and inspiring young actors. Towhich Hritik memntions, “War ho gayahai, mote hone ka time aa gaya hai.. I ameager to have so many samosas and batatawada”.

Hrithik revealed that after completinghis shoot he is very much eager to breakhis strict diet and have a cheat meal. Towhich Kapil pulls his legs saying: “Youmust be eating tiny samosas for cheat mealsand not the regular big ones.” He responds:“If I am disciplined, I am very disciplined.When I am not, I just let go. Fir mera ekdo ya teen samosa se nhi hota… (laughs).I need minimum of 8 samosas.”

In a conversation, Kapil mentionedthat HR has travelled seven countries and

15 cities shooting for the film. Narratingthe incidences HR reveals: “The directorof the film is a foody. He used to recceplaces across countries keeping in mind thevariety of cuisines they offer. Henceduring the entire shoot, I have tried manydifferent cuisines.”

Talking about his cheat days HRshares an interesting story when Vani tookhim to the world’s worst pizza place

saying that they serve best pizzas in theworld. HR shares, “I was having my cheatday after really long time. I wanted to eattoo much of pizzas. Vani took me at arestaurant saying it is the best pizza placeand I ordered 5 large pizzas. It turned outto be the worst pizza experience for me.”

Vani covers up and says: “I did itpurposely so that HR doesn’t put on muchweight. (laughs).”

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of Sony SAB has dazzledthe viewers with herbreathtaking looks andperformance as Timnasa onBaalveer Returns. She is takingsword fighting lessons to makeher action sequences morerealistic and to bring out theviciousness of her charactereven more. Her characterTimnasa is fierce and evil,who is on a quest to destroyBaalveerto gain the ultimatepowers of the world.

Pavitra Punia on takingsword fighting lessons for herrole as Timnasa said: “I havealways enjoyed portrayingnegative characters and with astrong character like Timnasa,the stakes are high. This role isinspiring me to pushboundaries as an artist. Inorder to add more perfectionto my role in Baalveer ReturnsI have started taking swordfighting lessons. Initially, I

used to get hurt during thesword fighting sequences andI realised I was lacking somedetails. I have poured my heartand soul in this character andI didn’t want to stop. I amthoroughly enjoying this artand it makes me feel alive andmakes me Timnasa ready.Sword fighting makes me feelpowerful and I will leave nostone unturned to perfect everylittle detail about Timnasa.”

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and bringing an intense competition amongst the top 10rappers. Week on week, the battle is getting a notch higher withperformances that are taking the audience and the judges in aweof them!

This week will have two global icons — DJ, television andradio presenter Bobby Friction coming in as the guest judge onthe show. Friction, who has been a big fan of the show, has beenreviewing the episodes week on week on BBC Radio UK. Heexpressed his excitement on being a part of the show that hekeeps a close watch on: “These are revolutionary and excitingtimes. It is great to see how TV, with MTV Hustle has perfectlycaptured the mainstream and the underground. To think even10 years ago, a poor kid in Dharavi could come up with a lyricsthat chips away at the edifice of vested interests in India, youwould have thought some of this would never going tohappen. Now, some of these rappers who are from Dharavi orother places in India are coming up with some of the biggestsocial commentaries ever and they’re selling it to music, theyare modern day poets, this is like the ghazals and the kawaalisthat came out of the middle ages in India and that culture is seton an electronic beat. I think MTV Hustle is just a greatexperience that has brilliantly worked.”

This week will also see the Australian hip hop artist L-FreshThe LION gracing the episode with a special performance. L-Fresh also commented on the current rap revolution: “It is a greatprivilege to be here on the show. Hip-hop is booming in Indiaright now and MTV Hustle is playing a big part in that. Thementors, Raftaar, Nucleya and Raja Kumari are amazing.”

RAIPUR | SUNDAY | SEPTEMBER 29, 2019chhattisgarh 03

The nine-day festival of Navratri dedicated to the goddess Durga and all her nine avatars will begin from Sunday. A well decorated historicMahamaya temple, situated in Purani Basti locality of the state capital gets ready to welcome the goddess. Photo Santosh Sahu

STAFF REPORTER n RAIPUR

Emphasising on the need tocultivate an environment

for innovation, Chief MinisterBhupesh Baghel appealed tothe citizens of Raipur tocontribute in making thecapital city beautiful.

The CM was speaking atthe inaugural function ofone-day-long National UrbanInnovation Workshop beingheld at a private hotel in statecapital on Saturday.

Raipur Mayor PramodDubey presided over thefunction in which expertsfrom across the nation as wellas abroad were distinguished

speakers.Speaking on this occasion,

CM said Raipur is on its way tobecome a smarter city. He on

this occasion appealed to thecitizens to contribute in mak-ing the city clean and beautifuland assured of providing every

possible help to civic body inachieving the goal.

He underlined the needfor such innovative techniquesin achieving the goal that pol-lution is not increased andpeople shouldn’t die of dis-eases like malaria and dengue.

For a comprehensivedevelopment of the city, theCM stressed on adequate andplanned utilisation ofresources other than deckingup the city with constructionworks.

The CM also felicitatedand rewarded the sanitaryworkers of the state capital fortheir valuable contribution inmaking the city clean.

CM urges Raipurians to takepledge for making city beautifulExperts across the nation as well as abroad were the distinguishedspeakers at the one-day-long workshop on urban innovation

Convocationceremony of policeacademy todayRAIPUR: ChhattisgarhState Police AcademyChandkhuri is organis-ing a convocation cere-mony of trainee deputysuperintendents ofpolice (ninth session)and sub-inspectorstransport, elecommuni-cation (second session)on Sunday at 10.30am.

Chief MinisterBhupesh Baghel will bethe chief guest at theconvocation ceremony.Home MinisterTamradhwaj Sahu andUrban AdministrationMinister Dr Shiv KumarDahariya will be thespecial guest of theprogramme. DirectorGeneral of Police DMAwasthi and other seniorpolice officials andemployees will also bepresent in the convoca-tion ceremony.

STAFF REPORTER nRAIPUR

Chief Minister BhupeshBaghel on Saturday said

in contrary to the previousBJP government which hadpromoted contractors andcorruption, the presentCongress government in thestate is focusing on uplift ofcommon man.

He said because of thisdifference in governance thatpeople of Dantewada reject-ed BJP in the by-polls.

Baghel was jointlyaddressing a press conferenceat party’s state headquartersRajiv Bhawan along withPCC chief Mohan Markam.

In the conference, bothof them thanked voters ofDantewada for casting theirvotes in favour of Congresscandidate and also

congratulated their candidateDevati Karma for registeringan impressive victory.

Baghel claimed that thevictory of their party depictsthe approval of voters ofDantewada towards the wel-fare works they have initiatedin Bastar. “Whether it washeath camps at ‘Haat Bazaar’(weekly market) or it be thedrive launched to eliminatemalnutrition and anemiaamong tribal children andwomen,” he said citing someof the welfare works.

It was remarkable thatthe vote percentage of theparty increased considerablyfrom 31% to 43%, he furthersaid.

Regarding allegations ofBJP leader and former chiefminister Raman Singh andUnion Minister Renuka

Singh about misuse ofadministration for winningthe elections, Baghel said itwas a mere excuse to hidetheir defeat.

Markam speaking at theconference asserted that thevictory of Congress candi-date boosted the confidenceof the party. “It is also a mat-ter of pride that in the firstever election fought undermy leadership of the organi-zation, the registered animpressive victory,” he added.

Dantewada is rich inmineral resources and has aconsiderable amount of Rs500 Crore for local develop-ment under District MineralFund (DMF). People ofDantewada rejected the BJPas it misused the fund byspending the DMF in extrav-agance, he added.

Cong govt focusing on upliftof common man: Baghel

STAFF REPORTER nRAIPUR

Adelegation ofChhattisgarh BJP lead-

ers called on GovernorAnusuiya Uike on Saturdayseeking her interventionover filing of FIR againstfarmers and BJYM workersat Pandariya by theCongress government,which the saffron partytermed as attack on demo-cratic rights in the state.

They also urged theGovernor to re-investigatethe matter and scrap thenon-bailable sections ofthe IPC imposed on thosewho participated in therally.

BJP leaders pointedout that on September 24,2019, at block headquar-ters Pandariya of districtKabirdham, raising

different demands, thevillagers, farmers andBharatiya Janata YuvaMorcha (BJYM) workersjointly took out a rally aftertaking prior permission.They went to the office ofSDM, Pandariya to handover a representationcontaining their demands.

As SDM refused to

receive it, agitated farmersand BJYM workers burntthe memorandum on thespot, raising slogans. Noinjury was caused to anyperson, due to whichpolice administrationdenied registering FIR.But, suddenly at midnight,naib tehsildar went topolice station to ensure

filing of FIR underdifferent non-bailablesections of the IPC forvarious offence andproperty defacement.

BJP leaders said theaction against agitators wasan attempt to crush thevoice of dissent by theCongress government inthe state.

‘Shikshadoot' reportedly killed by Naxals in SukmaSUKMA: A man was killed allegedly by Naxals in Sukma district police here said on Saturday.As per the preliminary information, the victim, identified as Muchaki Linga, who worked asa 'shikshadoot' (education ambassador) and was killed by suspected Naxals at his villageBenpalli under Jagargunda police station area, Sukma Superintendent of Police Shalabh Sinhasaid. The district administration has hired local youths as ‘Shikshadoot’ to motivate childrento go to schools and also to teach them in the remote Naxal-affected areas. They are givenmonthly stipend, he said. The incident reportedly took place on Friday, but its details were notknown immediately as his relatives are yet to lodge a complaint about it, he said.

However, a team of security personnel has been sent to the spot after being informedabout the incident, he added.

BJP seeks Guv’s interventionin Pandariya protest case

STAFF REPORTER n RAIPUR

All India Congress Committee(AICC) on Saturday declared

Rajman Benjam as Congress can-didate for Chitrakot assembly by-polls. Benjam is at present hold-ing the post of District Congresspresident of Bastar (Rural).

The by-poll was necessitatedin the Chitrakot assembly con-stituency as the sitting MLADeepak Baij vacated the seat afterbeing elected as a Member ofParliament in Lok Sabha.

BJP on the other hand isgoing to field LachhuramKashyap from the Chitrakot seat.Though a final announcementhas not been made by the party,according to BJP sources only asingle name and that is ofKashyap has been sent to highcommand for the formalapproval.

Kashyap was also BJP candi-date in 2018 assembly electionsand had lost the election againstDeepak Baij.

The by-poll in the Chitrakotseat is scheduled on October 21.

STAFF REPORTER nCHITRAKOT

Election Commission ofIndia had announced

the by-poll for theChitrakot assembly con-stituency, which had fallenvacant after sitting MLADeepak Baij was elected toparliament from Bastar LokSabha seat.

The notification for theby-poll was issued onSeptember 23 after whichthe nomination process hascommenced. The last datefor filing of nomination isSeptember 30.

The Congress hasalready announced the can-didate while BJP has sentthe name of candidate tocentral party committee forapproval.

Meanwhile, office ofChief Electoral Officer,Chhattisgarh has initiatedthe process of creatingawareness among the elec-tors to cast their vote andparticipate in the democraticprocess. On Saturday, a rallywas organised under

Systematic Voters’ Educationand Electoral Participation(SVEEP) programme.

The villagers of Karanjiunder Tokapal block wereurged not to fall in the trapof allurement instead casttheir vote without fear andensure fair election.

Electoral awareness rallytaken out at Chitrakot

STAFF REPORTER nBALRAMPUR

Two persons, including awoman and her four-and-

a-half year-old son were killedby a rogue elephant inBalrampur district, forest offi-cials informed here onSaturday.

The incident happened onthe intervening night of Fridayand Saturday in Sevari villageof Rajpur block in Balrampurdistrict, officials said.

“Two women were injuredin the wild elephant’s attack.They are now out of danger,”KS Khutiya SDO Rajpur said.

The deceased were identi-fied as Saroj Tirki (35) wife ofChargan Tirki and her sonViveek Tirki, both residents ofSevari.

According to forestofficials, on Friday-Saturdaymid night a group of 15

elephants raided the houselocated close to the jungle.

Hearing elephant’strumpets and commotion,Saroj along with her boy triedto run away but they wereintercepted by the rogueelephant ‘Pyare’ who trampledthem, officials said.

The tusker then attackedtwo women Shanti Singe Tirki(59) and Amarmani Tirki (58)who somehow managed to runaway but were seriouslyinjured in the attack, officialsadded.

The injured after adminis-tering first aid were referred toAmbikapur medical college.

The deceased person’sfamily members have beenprovided with immediatefinancial assistance of `25,000and remaining `5.75 lakh willbe provided soon, SDO Khutiasaid.

Mother, son trampled todeath by rogue elephant

Benjam declared as Congcandidate for Chitrakot

STAFF REPORTER nDANTEWADA

Security forces on Saturdayrecovered two powerful impro-

vised explosive devices (IEDs),weighing 30 kg each, planted byNaxals, in Maoist violence-hitDantewada district, police said.

The IEDs were planted closeto a culvert on Metapal-Katekalyan village road to targetsecurity forces or VIPs movingduring the recently concludedDantewada by-polls,Superintendent of Police (SP)Dantewada Abhishek Pallava said.

“We had specific intelligencethat IED was planted onDantewada -Katekalyan road,since then de-mining operationwas being carried out on the routeto trace the explosive,” he said.

Several leaders includingby-poll candidates, ministers andex-ministers moved to Katekalyanvia this route during electioncampaign and police had deployedadequate Road Opening Parties(ROPs) to provide them securitywhich probably averted a majortragedy, he said.

Former chief minister RamanSingh was slated to do a publicmeeting during the campaign inthe area but permission wasdenied due to security reasons aslong travel on an IED prone roadwas not advisable, he added.

On Saturday, finally securityforces unearthed the IEDs placedon two big steel containers andwere connected in such a way thatthe both IEDs would haveexploded together if triggered, hesaid.

STAFF REPORTER nRAIPUR

Leader of Oppositionand BJP leader

Dharamlal Kaushiktermed the annulment ofrecruitment process of2259 posts of police con-stables on Saturday asinjustice towards theunemployed of the state.

He said just beforecoming to power,Congress had solddreams to unemployedyouth of the state bypromising job, unem-ployment allowance andregularization of ad hocjobs, but now the gov-ernment is showing itstrue face.

He said for last 70years, Congress party hasduped people of eachcategory, each age group.

Kaushik said, in the‘Gauthans’ across the

state due to hunger thecows are dying, develop-mental works have cometo standstill, unemployedhave been given onlyassurances while prohi-bition announcementhas progressed tonowhere.

Leader ofOpposition said, in lastnine months of Congressgovernment has beentotal failure.

Recently, policeheadquarters hasannulled the recruitmentprocess carried out bythe previous BJP govern-ment in 2017 for 2259posts. The candidateshave been agitating forlong asking the govern-ment to announce theresult. The annulmentorder cited recommen-dation of the law depart-ment for cancelling therecruitment process.

STAFF REPORTER nDONGARGARH

Government ofChhattisgarh is organis-

ing ‘Jagrata’ programmefrom September 29 at lowerpremises of MaaBambleshwari templeDongergarh, as announcedby culture, food and civilsupplies minister AmarjeetBhagat.

Addressing the media onSaturday, Maa BamleshwariTemple Trust Committeechairman Narayan Agrawaland vice president NavneetTiwari said, considering theenvironment protection, thetemple premises have beenmade polythene free forwhich the trust has arrangeddistribution of ‘Prasad’through paper packets. The

shopkeepers have been askedto put up rate list of materialsto be sold. Additional to it forenhancing security, CCTVcameras have been installed.

The Trust membersinformed that new ropewaytrial has been completed andthe few more pending workswill be completed soon. Itwill be dedicated to publicduring Diwali. There are 14trolleys with a seatingcapacity of 6 persons eachand can serve around 600persons in one hour.

The temple has made allarrangements for thedevotees arriving to thetemple during the ‘Navaratri’

Meanwhile, SECR hasannounced special stoppagesfor devotees from September29 to October 7.

Two powerful IEDsweighing 30 kg each found,major mishap averted

BJP flays annulment of

constables’ recruitment

‘Jagrata’ programmeat Maa Bambleshwaritemple from today

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The Union Human ResourceDevelopment (HRD)

Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal‘Nishank’ has said that theancient wisdom encapsulatedin Veda, Purans andUpanishads are needed to beprotected, understood and newresearch should be done onthem. He was addressing at theinaugural session of the two-day workshop on improvementin quality of higher educationand new innovations at DoonUniversity here on Saturday.The Union Minister said thatthe Himalayas have remaineda source of inspiration to theworld since ancient times and

research should be done on itsvarious aspects like bio-diversity, science andspirituality.

He accepted that some ofhis statements often raiseruckus but added that whateverhe speaks are based onauthentic facts.

Expressing concern overthe research in the universitiesof the country, he said thatthere are more than 1,000universities in the country withmore than 33 crore studentsbut the research being done inthese universities is not provingto be as beneficial for thesociety as it should be.

The Minister emphasisedthat the research should be of

importance for society and theresearch on related issuesshould not be repetitive. Hesaid that the education isneeded to be synergised withthe industry so that theemployability of the students isincreased.

The Minister said that theGovernment is providing everypossible support to improve thequality of education in thecountry. He expressed concernthat only three educationalinstitutes of the country figurein top 200 institutes of worldand said that more and moreinstitutes of the country areneeded to bring into this elitelist.

Terming Uttarakhand as an

education hub, the UnionMinister said that apart from 29universities, the small Statehas institutions of repute likeIAS academy, forest academy,IMA, NIT, AIIMS and IIT.

He declared that a branchof the world famous VanasthaliVidhyapeeth of Rajasthanwould be opened in

Uttarakhand which would givea further fillip to girl educationin the State.

Giving a detailed accountof the higher educationscenario of the state, the stateminister for higher education,Dhan Singh Rawat said thatUttarakhand has the highestpercentage of students seeking

higher education and even thenumber of girls entering theinstitutes of higher education inthe state is highest in thecountry.

He said that from October2, a drive ‘ Green campusclean campus’ in the collegeand universities of the statewould be launched. The UnionHRD Minister unveiled thelogo of the campaign on theoccasion. He also released abook ‘Himalaya-ecology,resources, development andconflict’ authored by ViceChancellor of Sridev SumanUniversity U S Rawat, HarshDobhal and dean studentswelfare of Doon University, HC Purohit.

Many vice chancellors,director college education,principals of Governmentcolleges and academicians areparticipating in the two-dayworkshop.

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The HRD Minister saidthat the new education

policy which is being broughtafter 33 years would help inbuilding a strong, safe andgreat India. Addressing mediapersons here on Saturday, theMinister claimed that world’s biggest interactionfor the new education policywas done.

Lauding the achievementsof Narendra ModiGovernment, he said thatrecent decision to slash

corporate tax rate is a historicdecision which would give a big boost to theeconomy.

He said that the tourismindustry of Uttarakhandwould also get benefit ofeconomic reforms.

The Minister said thatthe a relief in tax on hotelrooms is being provided andGST on outdoor catering hasbeen reduced.

He said that the UnionGovernment has removed GST from most ofthe things of household use.

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In a development whichwould give an impetus to the

religious tourism inUttarakhand, Air India startedDehradun–Varanasi air serviceon Saturday. The service wouldconnect, Uttarakhand usuallycalled Dev Bhoomi with theVaranasi often referred to as the‘Spiritual Capital of India. Theservice which would operatetwice a week initially wasformally inaugurated by theChief Minister of UttarakhandTrivendra Singh Rawat atDehradun airport, Jollygranton Saturday.

Speaking on the occasion,CM said that the direct airservice between Dehradun andVaranasi would especiallybenefit the people ofUttarakhand and UttarPradesh.

He said that the servicewould also give a fillip to thetourism in the State. Rawat saidthat special attention is beingpaid to develop infrastructurein Uttarakhand and effort isbeing made to increase road,air and rope-way connectivity.He opined that the expansionof air services in the Statewould attract more investmentand give a big boost to the

tourism industry. Thesedevelopments would help ingeneration of moreemployment opportunities inthe State. The CM said thatDehradun is now linked toevery major city of the countryby air.

In the programme, the CMlit a ceremonial lamp anddistributed a cake to thosepresent on the occasion. Healso congratulated the pilot of

Air India’s Mumbai-Dehradun-Varanasi flight,Shiraj Faroqui.

An official communicationinformed that the Dehradun-Varanasi air service would beinitially available onWednesdays and Saturdays.After assessing the traffic onthe route, this service could bemade thrice a week or evendaily. In October, air servicefrom Dehradun to Kolkata

would also start.This is third air bus of Air

India to operate fromDehradun Airport, Jollygrant.

The Lok Sabha Member ofParliament (MP), Mala RajyaLaxmi Shah, MLA Dhan SinghNegi, advisor, aviation of CM,Captain Deep Srivastava,director Air India MeenakshiMallik, Aruna Gopalkrishnanand others were present on theoccasion.

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Haryana Congress president KumariSelja on Saturday launched the party’s

“Pehle report, phir vote” (First report, thenvote) campaign ahead of the Assemblypolls scheduled on October 21, asking thevoters to seek report from the BJP leaderson the work done by them in the past fiveyears. Congress Legislature party leaderand ex-Chief Minister Bhupinder SinghHooda and former Haryana FinanceMinister Capt Ajay Yadav were alsopresent at the launching ceremony.

Making a call to a toll-free number9911427999, Selja said the voters could callor send an SMS or WhatsApp message tothe number to share the issues on whichthey want to seek report from thegovernment.

She further that the Congress hadalready kicked-off a multi-prongedcampaign and the leaders have beenreaching out to the masses with theirmessages on the five years misrule of theBJP. Accusing the BJP of hatching aconspiracy to harm the Aravalis andpromoting the mining mafia, Selja said thecorruption was at its peak during thepresent regime.

The Congress leader said the Army

was called twice and around a hundredpeople were killed in police firing in theState during the past five years. Sheclaimed the common man was nowdisillusioned with the BJP and inclinedtowards the Congress.

1200 applicants for 90 Assembly seatsThe Screening Committee meeting of

Congress Party started on Saturday todecide the names of the candidates. Themeeting will continue on Sunday also.

Haryana Congress President KumariSelja said that this time 1200 candidatesfrom 90 assembly seats have applied fortickets. There has been intensebrainstorming on applications from everyassembly seat. The candidate's experiencewith the qualification is also beinganalysed. In every seat, the state electioncommittee is working work hard to decidethe candidate's name. Every effort isbeing made to select only winnablecandidates, she said, adding for this,senior leaders of the Screening Committeewere having extensive consultations atGurdwara Rakabganj Road, New Delhi.Congress General Secretary Ghulam NaviAzad, Screening Committee membersMadhusudan Mistry, Devendra Yadav,Deepa Dasmunsi, State President and

Legislative Party Leader Bhupinder SinghHooda were present in the meeting of theScreening Committee on Saturday.

Selja said that what is encouraging forthe Congress party is that it has a long listof applicants who had sought their ticketfor this election. The list of candidates willbe released with the approval of theparty’s high command. Of these, thenames are to be finalised in the CentralElection Committee meeting to be held onMonday.

She further said that party will givemore opportunities to the youth andwomen in the state assembly elections. Toa large extent, it has been agreed to fieldthe sitting MLAs too.

Promise only what can be fulfilledSelja said that the Congress manifesto

is being prepared for the election with thesuggestions of the public. In this onlypromises will be made to the publicwhich can be fulfilled. She said thatCongress had earlier sought suggestionsfrom the people. Thousands of peoplefrom every section have given theirsuggestions for the manifesto. Now theparty is reviewing those suggestions.

She said that in those suggestions, onlythose promises will find place in themanifesto that we can fulfill. She also urgedthe people of the state that this time theyshould not be misled by false government.Openly support the Congress so that youcan get a transparent government.

Hitting at the BJP, she said that beforecoming to power, the BJP government hadreleased a list of long-promised promisesto the public. But now the governmentdoes not talk about those promises.

In five years neither youth gotemployment nor farmers got fair price fortheir crops. The government has tried tofill the stomach of every section only withblank announcements. She said that theCongress will keep this anti-people policyof the state govt in an effective manneramong the people so that the public is notconfused while voting this time.

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Two senior IPS officers havelocked horns over the

investigation in the high-profilehoney-trap case. They includeDirector General of Police VKSingh and Director GeneralSpecial Task Force (STF)Purushottam Sharma. Sharmahas approached Chief MinisterKamal Nath in this regard.

Official sources claimedthat the State Government onreceipt of the complaint fromSharma, has decided to collectinformation at its own level tofind out fact. Soon, stern actioncould be taken against one ofthe officers.

The problem started aftera f lat taken on rent inGhaziabad by Special DG STFPurushottam Sharma haslanded him in a controversyafter the DGP Madhya PradeshVK Singh recently got the flatvacated, allegedly on the inputsthat the place had something todo with the honey-trap racket.

It was alleged that the flatwas taken on rent withoutseeking any permission fromthe DGP.

Meanwhile the tussle tookanother turn on Saturday asSpecial DG (Cyber Cell andSTF) Purushottam Sharmaclaimed that the honey-trapprobe should be dealt with aDG-rank officer who is postedoutside the PoliceHeadquarters. DG Sharma also

demanded that location ofcyber cell and STF officersshould not be made public asthis could land them in troubleand put their lives at risk.

At present, the case is beingprobed by a SpecialInvestigation Team (SIT) led byADG Sanjeev Shami.

His remarks seem to be apart of the tussle between himand DGP VK Singh who hadgot a flat rented out by STF inGhaziabad (Haryana) vacateddays ago.

Around four days ago, theDGP had served a notice toSharma asking him to explainas to why a flat was rented outin Ghaziabad without theknowledge of policeheadquarters.

The DGP also got the flatvacated afterwards.

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Himachal Chief Minister JaiRam Thakur on Saturday

said the State Government wasendeavouring to provideadequate facilities to thetourists visiting the State and itstourism potential needed to beharnessed.

Addressing the members ofShimla Hoteliers Associationorganized on the occasion ofWorld Tourism Day, the chiefminister said that nature hasblessed Himachal Pradesh withnatural beauty and differentkinds of tourism potential andthe State Government wasmaking all out efforts to tap itand make the State as one ofthe favourite destination ofthe country.

Thakur said that the StateGovernment had made aprovision of �50 crore first timein the budget for promotion ofthe tourism activities in theState. He urged the privatehoteliers to provide qualityprofessional services to thetourists visiting the State so thatthey could act as brandambassadors to promotetourism industry in the State.

He said that the UnionGovernment has decided tolevy no GST on hotel roomswith the tariffs upto �1000and had decided to levy 12percent GST on hotel roomswith tariffs ranging from 1001to �7500. Similarly the

Government had decided toreduce GST on hotel roomswith tariff of �7501 and abovefrom existing 28 percent to 18percent.

He said that GST onoutdoor catering has beenreduced from 18 percent to 5percent. He said that this wouldgive much needed boost to thetourism industry and facilitatethe tourists.

Thakur said that the StateGovernment had decided toorganize global investors meeton 7th and 8th November,2019 at Dharamshala to woothe entrepreneurs to invest inthe State.

He said that it was ahealthy sign to see that 195MoUs worth Rs. 12368 crorehave been signed in tourismsector alone till date which wassecond highest after powersector.

He said that once theseinvestments come into realityit would not only transform theeconomy of the State but alsoprovide ample employmentopportunities to thousands ofthe youth of the State besidesself employment avenues.

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President of India, Ramnath Kovind,reached the State Capital on Saturday

on his three-day visit of Jharkhand.Kovind landed at 5.10 pm at Birsa MundaInternational Airport from Bhubaneswar.Governor, Droupadi Murmu, ChiefMinister, Raghubar Das; Chief SecretaryDK Tiwari; Ranchi Mayor, Asha Lakraamong dignitaries were present at theairport to welcome the President of India.

More than 10,000 security personnelincluding Jharkhand Police, Military andpara Military were deployed to provide

security cover to the President Kovind sothat no untoward incident takes place. Theregular traffic from Airport to Rajbhawan(official resident of Governor) was eitherdiverted or halted for around 45 minutesduring Kovind’s journey.

Police personnel were deployed evenin small link roads also which fall nearPresident’s route.

The President’s convoy started itsjourney at 5.20 pm from Ranchi Airportand entered Rajbhawan at 5.45 pm in tightsecurity arrangement. Kovind will meetwith Chief Justice of Jharkhand HighCourt and other judges after that he willparticipate in a dinner with the judges andwith their family members then he will gofor night rest.

As per President’s office on September29 the President will visit Vikas Bharti,Bishunpur, Gumla on Sunday. OnSeptember 30, he will grace the 33rdconvocation of Ranchi University.

As per district administration sources,on Sunday Kovind will leave forBishunpur where he will participate atcultural function of Vikas Bharti. ThePresident will stay at Bishunpur for 30

minutes. The visit of Kovind at cultural events

of Vikas Bharti assumes importance asrecently Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh(RSS) Sarkaryawah (General Secretary),Suresh Bhaiyyaji Joshi visited Bishunpur.Sources said that the President’s visit toVikas Bharti will help the socialorganization in putting it on internationalmap.

The President on the same day willleave for Deoghar, where he will performpuja at Baba Baidyanath Dham temple.Kovind will return Ranchi in the eveningand will have night stay at Raj Bhavan.

On next day he will grace the 33rdConvocation of Ranchi University. TheRanchi University for making thefunction a grand affair has startedpreparations.

The convocation will be held atRanchi University Convocation groundand hold 33rd annual convocation inwhich around 4,000 students will get theirdegrees and he will personally handover the degrees and certificates to 56 goldmedalists from different faculties out ofwhich 46 are girls student.

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Delhi Chief Minister ArvindKejriwal on Saturday

flagged off 70 mobile vans fromthe Delhi Secretariat gate forsupplying onions at �23.90 perkilogram (kg) in nationalCapital. Besides the vans, onionswill also be sold at 400 fair priceshops across the city.

Chief Minister said thatafter first five days, the pro-curement of the onion stock willbe reviewed as per the require-ment. One person can get amaximum of five kilograms ofonions a day. The sale of onionswill be held from 10 am to 5 pm.

While flagging off themobile vans, Kejriwal said thatthe retail market in Delhi is sell-ing the onions at �70-80 kg. "Wedo not want people of Delhi tosuffer from these eye-wateringprices of onions. So, we havedecided to sell onions at �23.90

per kg. One mobile van eachwill be taken by the MLAs totheir respective constituencies to

cover all the 70 Assembly con-stituencies in Delhi," he said.

"We are directly putting

into the market whatever hasbeen procured from the Center.Two Delhi Government officials

will visit Nagpur to examine thequality of onions and to ensuresupply of good quality onions toDelhi," said the Chief Minister.

He also said that theGovernment is also keeping aneye on the hoarders and legalaction will be taken againstthem.

Onions are currently avail-able at �60-80 per kg in theretail market in Delhi. Thewholesale price of onion atAzadpur Mandi in Delhi hasgone up to �60 per kg, thehighest since 2015. On theother hand, Asia's largest onionmarket in Lasalgaon inMaharashtra is also selling theonions at �50 per kg.

The traders said that thestock of onions in the countryis very low due to which supplyof onions to the mandis is com-ing down. The price of onion isrising due to lower inflows thanconsumption.

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National Building ConstructionCorporation (NBCC) has been

fined �5 lakhs by Delhi PollutionControl Committee (DPCC) for theirnegligence in checking dust emission atthe site of an under-construction WorldHealth Organisation (WHO) building innational Capital. The construction siteis located at ITO, the busiest intersectionin Delhi.

According to an official, as part ofits ongoing drive to check dust emissionsat construction sites, a DPCC team vis-ited the site of the WHO building andfound a huge quantity of constructionmaterial lying uncovered and earth dugout indiscriminately.

"The DPCC imposed a fine of �5lakh on the NBCC, the occupier of the

land at present for carrying out the con-struction work," he added. DPCC mem-ber secretary Arun Mishra said theNBCC had been negligent even thoughthe entire Delhi-NCR region has beenput on high alert to prevent air pollution.

The pollution control body alsoimposed a fine of �5 lakh each againstpolluters at a few other large construc-tion sites in Delhi including a hotel pro-ject in Motia Khan, Deepak MemorialHospital on Vikas Marg in East Delhi,ESIC Hospital and Medical College inBasai Darapur and Rajiv Gandhi CancerInstitute in Rohini.

The DPCC directed the polluters atthe sites, located along major transportcorridors, to take corrective measureswithin three days, failing which the con-struction work will be stopped and pros-ecution launched.

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With the arrest of two persons, the DelhiPolice on Saturday claimed to have bust-

ed an inter-State racket involved in supplyinghash and marijuana oil in the national Capitaland its peripherals.

The seized 400 gram hash was worth �4 lakhin the national market.

The accused have been identified as DhruvSareen (30), a resident of Delhi's Karol Bagh andSameer Sharma (28), a resident of Pusa Road inDelhi.

According to Dr G Ram Gopal Naik, theDeputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), CrimeBranch, on September 27, specific inputs werereceived that Dhruv, along with his associateSameer, is indulged in supply of malana creamcharas and imported marijuana oil (THC shat-ters) in west Delhi and Gurugram (HR).

"Acting on the inputs, surveillance wasmounted and the duo were nabbed from theShanker Road area. During search, police teamrecovered 300 grams charas, along with oneTHC Shatter (500 MG Cannabis oil) from pos-session of Dhruv Sareen while 100 gram cha-ras was recovered from Sameer Sharma pos-session," said the DCP.

"During interrogation, Dhruv disclosedthat he came in contact with one who was sup-

plying charas in Delhi and NCR. The man luredDhruv in supply of charas following whichDhruv started supplying charas. To not gettraced and nabbed by police Dhruv bought a carand started procuring and supplying of charasin his vehicle," said the DCP.

"The accused Sameer disclosed that he camein contact of Dhruv through common friendsand started purchasing charas from him.Gradually, he became partner in these nefari-ous activities and actively participated in hisdeals and supply," said the DCP.

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Aday after the Pakistan PrimeMinister made a sharp attack on

the RSS at the United GeneralAssembly (UNGA) on Friday, theNagpur-based outfit thanked "ImranSaheb" for what it said" spreading ourname".

Pakistan Prime Minister ImranKhan has made RSS' name synony-mous with India and targeted theSangh as it is against terrorism, saidsenior RSS functionary Krishna Gopal.

Gopal also added wryly that Khanhas ended up spreading the RSS'name and prayed that the PakistanPrime Minister does not stop now.

"The RSS is only in India and forIndia. It has no branch anywhere elsein the world. Why is Pakistan angry

with us? It means if it is angry withSangh, then it is angry with India. TheRSS and India have now become syn-onymous.

"We also wanted that the worldshould see India and the RSS as oneand the same, and not two separateentitles. Our Imran sahab has done thisjob very well and we congratulate himfor that. He is spreading our name," theRSS joint general secretary said. Gopal,who was speaking at an event here, saidpeople who are victims of terrorism oropposed to it now realise that the RSSis also against it. That is why, he said,Khan is attacking the RSS.

"It is getting so much of famewithout doing much and we pray thathe should not stop now," Gopal said.

Attacking the RSS and PrimeMinister Narendra Modi, Imran

Khan said that the Indian PrimeMinister's "whole life is RSS" and theSangh is "inspired by German dicta-tor Adolf Hitler, Italian dictator BenitoMussolini".

"RSS believes in the ethnic cleans-ing of Muslims. RSS goons butcheredhundreds of Muslims. This is arro-gance. This makes people do cruelthings. Something PM Modi hasdone. Arrogance has blinded PMModi," he said while addressingUNGA after Modi had addressed itwithout even once mentioningPakistan in his speech.

In his 45-minute speech at UNGA,Khan also quoted Congress to beratethe RSS. "The previous CongressHome Minister gave a statement thatin RSS camps, terrorists are beingtrained," he said.

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The 22.3 km-long thirdphase of the Delhi-Meerut

Expressways from Dasna toHapur will be inaugurated onSeptember 30. After the com-pletion of this stretch, com-muters will be able to reducetravel time by more than anhour. Commuters will be ableto reach Hapur from Dasnawithin 15-20 minutes.

Union Road Transport andHighways Minister NitinGadkari will inaugurate Dasna-Hapur stretch on September30. This stretch will have aspeed limit of 100 km perhour. The total cost of thirdphase of this stretch is �1,989crore.

According to officials,Dasna-Hapur stretch, having10 lanes, was scheduled to becompleted by June, 2019 butwork on the stretch was onlycompleted by August 28, aftera delay of two months. "Thestretch was opened for com-muters for trial. Now, thestretch will be formally inau-gurated by the Union MinisterNitin Gadkari on September30," officials said.

The project will help indecongesting National CapitalRegion and bring significantreduction in pollution level. Itwill also lead to reduction intravel time by more than anhour. After the inauguration ofphase 1 of the expressway,from Akshardham to UP Gate,this is the second stretch on theexpressway to be operational.

Officials said the Dasna tollplaza has been removed and anew toll plaza has been put upat Chhajarsi. "The other phase2 of the project, which spansfrom UP Gate to Dasna, will bethe next phase that would beoperational. The stretch is like-ly to open in December," offi-

cials added. This 6-lane section has

2+2 lane service roads on eithersides, or a 4.68-kilometre long6-lane elevated corridor atPilkhuwa. The project involvesconstruction of a major bridgeacross Upper Ganga Canal,seven new minor bridges, a fly-over at Hapur bypass, 11 vehic-ular underpasses, two pedes-trian underpasses, two footover-bridges, six major junc-tions and 105 minor junctions.During the inauguration,Minister of State for RoadTransport and Highways Dr VK Singh will be present on theoccasion.

The 82-kilometre longDelhi-Meerut Expressway pro-ject connects Delhi withMeerut in western UttarPradesh is likely to cost Rs 8346crore.

The 4.68-kilometre long6-lane elevated corridor atPilkhuwa has been conferredGold Medal for innovation inconstruction technology. ThePilkhuwa Viaduct has alsobeen awarded as outstandingconcrete structure of westernUP.

The Delhi-MeerutExpressway project is beingimplemented in four packages- (i) an 8.72 km long 6-laneexpressway/ 8-lane NationalHighway (NH) 24 from SaraiKale Khan in Delhi toGhazipur border, already com-pleted in June 2018, (ii) a 19.28km long 6-lane expressway/ 8-lane NH 24 from Ghazipurborder to Dasna in UP whichis 60% done, (iii) 22.23 km long6-lane NH 24 with 2+2 laneservice roads on either sidesfrom Dasna to Hapur in UP,which is being inaugurated,and (iv) a 31.78 km long green-field 6-lane expressway fromHapur to Meerut, work onwhich is 57 % done.

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The Congress on Saturdayannounced the names of

candidates for the upcomingAssembly bypolls in Assam,Puducherry, Kerala, HimachalPradesh and Chhattisgarh. Thebypolls will be held on October21, along with the Assemblyelections to Maharashtra andHaryana.

In Assam, there will bebypolls in four seats for whichKeshab Prasad Rajak(Ratanbari), Shamsul Haque(Jania), Kartik Kurmi(Rangapara) and Sushil Suri(Sonari) will be the Congresscandidates.In Kerala, theCongress has nominated TJVinod from Ernakulam, AdvShanimul Osman from Aroor,P Mohanrajan from Konni andDr K Mohan Kumar from

Vattiyoorkavu.John Kumar has been

nominated for the Puducherryby-election for the lone KamrajNagar seat.

In Chhattisgarh, RajmanBenzam will contest the bypollfor the Chitrakoot Assemblyseat on a Congress ticket.

In Himachal Pradesh, VijayInder Karan will contest fromDharamshala seat and GanguRam Musafir will contest fromPachhad reserved seat from theCongress ticket.

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As a humanitarian gestureon the 550th birth anniver-

sary of Guru Nanak Dev inNovember, the ModiGovernment will release eightSikh prisoners, lodged in dif-ferent jails in the country forcommitting crimes during themilitancy period in Punjab.

The Union Home Ministryalso announced that through aspecial remission, the deathsentence of another Sikh pris-oner has been commuted to lifeimprisonment.

The Central Governmenthas taken a decision to grant aspecial dispensation to nineSikh prisoners from variousjails in the country, a HomeMinistry spokesperson said.

In one case, a decision hasbeen taken to commute thedeath sentence to life impris-onment, and in the remainingeight cases, the decision hasbeen taken for prematurerelease of prisoners servinglife and other sentences,through special remission.

These individuals were

convicted by various courts inthe country for the offencescommitted by them duringthe militancy period in Punjab,the spokesperson said.

The above decision wastaken by the CentralGovernment as a token ofgoodwill in response to thelong-pending demands of therelease of Sikh prisoners artic-ulated by various sections of theSikh community.

A communication to thiseffect was sent on Saturday tothe State Governments andUnion Territories concernedfor release of the Sikh prisoners.

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To help lessen the agony ofthe patients battling sarco-

ma cancer, a 24x7 helpline hasbeen launched here whereinthose afflicted with the diseasecan seek any informationregarding their condition aswell as medical treatment.

Sarcoma is the type of can-cer that develops from tissuessuch as nerves, muscles, fats,blood vessels and deep skin tis-sues. In fact, if Sarcoma isdetected at an early stage, cureis still possible. However, manya times the diagnosis of sarco-ma is very tedious and arduoustask because of intricate pathol-ogy of these tumors, said DrSameer Rastogi, MedicalOncologist at Delhi-basedAIIMS.

The purpose of launchingthe helpline 9667248800 is tocounsel the patients on variousaspects of the disease, ensurethem emotional support, andspread awareness about thetreatment and current therapiesneeded to tackle the disease,said Rashi Kpoor from SachinSarcoma Society whichlaunched the helpline recentlyat a sarcoma support group

meeting here. On our part, saidRashi, who is a sarcoma sur-vivor, said, we are counsellingthe patients, spreading aware-ness of sarcoma by distributinginformation sheets, assistpatients in terms of gettingscans done free of cost or ondiscounted basis with the helpof our collaborators.

We are also assistingpatients by distributing dis-ability aids, medicines and helppoor and needy patients byproviding accommodation, sheadded. Sarcomas can developin children and adults. Forchildren under 20 approxi-mately 15 percent of cancerdiagnosis are sarcomas.

Dr Sameer added that"Unlike lung, breast and cervi-cal cancers, Sarcoma is a littleknown cancer but has morethan 200 subtypes. Connectivetissues include all tissues thatsupport, connect or separatedifferent tissues in the body.

"Therefore it can be foundin the structure of organs in thebody (e.g., the uterus), but aremost common in arms and legs(50 per cent), followed bytrunk and abdomen (40 percent), and head and neck (10per cent)."

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Hyderabad: Hitting out at UttarPradesh Chief Minister YogiAdityanath for his reportedcomments that the Mughalsand the British were responsi-ble for weakening the economy,AIMIM chief AsaduddinOwaisi on Saturday claimedthat it flourished during thereign of Jahangir andAurangazeb.

Owaisi said that the UttarPradesh should instead focus onensuring law and order in hisstate.

"First of all, YogiAdityanath has once againproved that he has no knowl-edge about anything. It is justthat he is lucky enough tobecome the Chief Minister of

the biggest state of India.What history tells us,had

the Chief Minister read historyand economy, during the timeof Mughals, when Jahangir wasthe ruler, Indias contribution tothe world GDP was 25 per cent.

"This continued tillAurangazeb. DuringAurangazebs tenure, India over-took the economy of China," hesaid, quoting an internationaleconomist.

The AIMIM chief claimedthat Dadabhai Naoroji (the firstIndian member of the BritishParliament), had also writtenthat the Indian economydeclined after 1800 "when theMughals were no more".

"I would request the Chief

Minister to tell someone toread Dadabhai Naoroji, who inhis famous book 'Poverty andunbritish rule' said the samething, that the Indian economycame down after 1800 when theMughals were no more," he toldreporters here.

Owaisi said he understandsthat Yogi Adityanath has "hatredfor anything to do withMuslims", but history andempirical-based studies cannotbe changed.

The AIMIM leader said heaccepts that the economy was'completely devastated' duringBritish rule, but claimed that itwas the other way around dur-ing Mughal rule.

He alleged that the Uttar

Pradesh Chief Minister andBJP have no answer to job loss-es and unemployment in thecountry.

He said the Uttar PradeshChief Minister should focus onlaw and order in his state likeensuring that the Unnao rapevictim gets justice and thatatrocities on Dalits do not takeplace.

....'Please dont worry aboutissueswhich you will never com-prehend," Owaisi said.

Yogi Adityanath reported-ly made the statement aboutMughals and the British onSaturday at the ongoing threeday World Hindu EconomicForum in Mumbai, which willconclude tomorrow. PTI

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Muzaffarpur (Bihar): A com-plaint was filed in a court hereon Saturday seeking thatPakistan Prime MinisterImran Khan be tried for wag-ing war against the countryand other offences for hisspeech at the UN GeneralAssembly.

Sudhir Kumar Ojha, alawyer, who earlier filed peti-

tions against Bollywood actorsand top political leaders,moved his latest application inthe court of Chief JudicialMagistrate Surya Kant Tiwari.

In the petition, the 50-year-old advocate objected toKhan's speech at the UnitedNations General Assembly onFriday in which he had spo-ken of the Narendra Modi

government's actions inKashmir and about its possi-ble fallouts.

The matter is likely to beheard on October 24.

Ojha accused Khan ofhaving indulging in war mon-gering and prayed for direc-tions to the police to lodge anFIR against the cricketer-turned-politician. PTI

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New Delhi: Suspended paedia-trician Kafeel Khan, who hasbeen absolved of charges ofmedical negligence and cor-ruption in connection with theGorakhpur's BRD hospitaltragedy of 2017, on Saturdaydemanded he be reinstated withdue honour.

Addressing mediapersonsat the Press Club of India here,he reiterated the Uttar Pradeshgovernment should apologise tothe families of the children whodied and provide compensationto the kin.

"The departmental inquiryhas shown that I did not do anymedical negligence or indulge inany corruption...That tag of'murderer Kafeel' and infamousdoctor Kafeel is off my headnow," he said. "I demand that Ishould be reinstated in my jobwith due honour and a CBIinquiry should be conductedinto the case or a court-moni-tored probe outside the UttarPradesh," he said. About 30children had died at the hospi-tal during the night of August 10,2017 and 34 more over the nextfew days, officials had then said.

Many of the infants diedallegedly because of disruptionin oxygen supply on the night ofAugust 10 due to pending pay-ments to the supplier, a chargerefuted by the StateGovernment. PTI

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The Government onSaturday set October 15 as

the deadline for central PSUs toclear overdue payments to ven-dors and exhorted them tofront-load capital expenditureas it looks to lift economicgrowth from six-year low.

Finance Minister NirmalaSitharaman, who reviewed cap-ital spending programmes withheads of 32 maharatna andnavratna Central Public SectorEnterprises (CPSEs), said state-owned companies have beenasked to front-load investmentfor the second half of the cur-rent fiscal.

CPSEs have been asked tosubmit a roadmap for the nextfour quarters by October 15,she said after the meeting.

This meeting was held aspart of the series of consulta-tions the finance minister hasbeen holding with variousstakeholders to brainstorm onmeasures needed to accelerateeconomic growth, whichdipped to a six-year low of 5per cent in the first quarter of2019-20.

“It was decided that all

pending dues to be cleared byOctober 15 and by October 15they will have a portal throughwhich all dealers and contrac-tors shall start monitoring theirpayment,” Sitharaman said.

“Meeting (will be held)with the RBI and the financesecretary and selected numberof CPSEs to talk about whybank guarantees are becominga big hitch or hurdle in gov-ernment paying up the 75 percent post arbitration awards. Ifthat is the case, I want RBI’shelp also,” she said.

Also, CPSEs have beenasked to detail the lifespan ofarbitrations that lock payments

after disputes with vendorsand contractors, she said.

The finance ministerstressed that capital expendi-ture (capex) needs to be givena vigorous push in the next twoquarters.

CPSEs must ensure thatregular payments are clearedexpeditiously as it spurs invest-ment cycle and establish the e-billing portal for enablingstakeholders to track the statusof payments, she said, addingspecial efforts must be made toclear dues of MSMEs andresolve cases on the SAMAD-HAN portal of the Departmentof MSME.

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The Reserve Bank has initi-ated Prompt Corrective

Action (PCA) against LakshmiVilas Bank (LVB) due to highlevel of bad loans, lack of suf-ficient capital to manage risksand negative return on assetsfor two consecutive years, theprivate sector lender said onSaturday.

The RBI move comesamidst the Delhi Police’sEconomic Offences Wing reg-istering a complaint against theboard of LVB alleging cheatingand misappropriation of funds.

The regulatory action maycast doubts over the proposedmerger of Indiabulls HousingFinance with LVB, which isawaiting RBI nod.

The Delhi High Court onFriday agreed to hear a petitionalleging Indiabulls gave loansworth crores of rupees to shellcompanies.

In a regulatory filing, LVBsaid RBI has taken the action“on account of high net NPAs,insufficient Capital to Risk(Weighted) Assets Ratio(CRAR) and Common EquityTier 1 (CET 1), negative return

on assets for two consecutiveyears and high leverage.”

The PCA was initiatedafter an on-site inspection,under the risk-based supervi-sion, was carried out for theyear ended March 31, 2019.

“RBI has also advised theBank on the restrictions put inplace and the actions to betaken by the Bank, which theBank has taken note of for nec-essary compliance, withprogress to be reported on amonthly basis to RBI,” it added.

For FY19, the bank’s netNPA stood at 7.49 per cent,capital adequacy ratio was at7.72 per cent and its return onassets was (-) 2.32 per cent. Ithad reported a net loss of Rs894.10 crore for 2018-19.

PCA is aimed at improvingthe performance of the bankand will not have any adverseimpact on the day-to-day oper-ations, including accep-tance/repayment of depositsin the normal course, LVBsaid.

Under PCA, banks aremandated to cut lending to cor-porates and focus on reducingthe concentration of loans tocertain sectors.

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Indiabulls Real Estate onSaturday said shareholders

have approved proposal to sellits London property to pro-moters for 200 million poundsin an annual general meetingheld on September 28.

Earlier, the company haddisclosed its plans to focus onits India business and cut downon debt. The resolution to sellthe London property has beenapproved by the requisite major-ity of shareholders, stated aBSE filing by the company.

In the notice for AGM, thecompany had said, “In light ofcontinuing Brexit related issues

and uncertainty around it, theLondon property market remainssluggish. The Great BritainPound has also had a sustaineddepreciation from around thetime of Brexit referendum result.”

The continued uncertain-ty associated with Brexit con-tinues to provide headwindsagainst both the London prop-erty market as well pound as acurrency, it said.

As per assessment withlenders, a further loan ofapproximately 133 millionpounds is to be availed tocomplete the ongoing con-struction on 22 HanoverSquare property (London property).

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Glenmark Pharmaceuticalson Saturday said its share-

holders have approved a pro-posal to raise up to $200 mil-lion (about �1,413 crore)through issuance of debt secu-rities.

The proposal was approvedat the company’s annual gen-eral meeting held onSeptember 27.

“All the Resolutions weredeclared passed with the req-uisite majority,” the companysaid in a BSE filing.

New Delhi: Midnapore railwaystation in West Bengal hasbecome the 5000th station inthe country to have free pub-lic Wi-Fi, officials said.

RailTel, a PSU under therailways, started providing freeWi-Fi from Mumbai Centralstation in January 2016.

In a span of 44 months,RailTel has successfully provid-ed Wi-Fi at 5000 stations acrossthe country, the railways said.

Talking about the journeyso far, Puneet Chawla,CMD/RailTel, said, “We arenow just few hundred stations

away from achieving the ambi-tious target of providing freepublic Wi-Fi at all Indian rail-way stations (except the haltones).

“The dedication of theRailTel team, our partners andsupport from the Indian rail-ways has made it possible. Thefree Wi-Fi is becoming moreand more popular with users.

“The month of August2019 saw total 1.14 crores ofuser logins in ‘RailWire’ Wi-Fiservices with 10192.55 TB ofdata usage across all stations,”the railways said. PTI

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The pilot project for usheringin Industry 4.0 in the coun-

try has been launched at theModern Coach Factory in UttarPradesh’s Raebareli district, therailways said on Saturday.

Industry 4.0, commonlyreferred to as the fourth indus-trial revolution, is a name givento the current trend of automa-tion, inter-connectivity anddata exchange in manufactur-ing technologies to increaseproductivity. Industry 4.0 is a

complex cyber-physical systemwhich synergies productionwith digital technologies,Artificial Intelligence, Big Data,Analytics, Machine Learningand Cloud Computing.

The Ministry of Railwaysand the Department of Scienceand Technology have joinedhands in partnership with IITKanpur for taking up a uniqueproject on ‘Industry 4.0’. Theylaunched the pilot project onFriday for implementation atthe Modern Coach Factory, anofficial statement said.

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Reliance Capital hasannounced the completion

of 21.54 per cent stake sale inits mutual fund arm RNAM tojoint venture partner Japan’sNippon Life Insurance for Rs3,030 crore. The company willfurther monetise its balance4.28 per cent stake in RelianceNippon Life AssetManagement (RNAM) worth�700 crore, Reliance Capitalsaid in a statement.

Reliance Capital, the finan-cial services arm of AnilAmbani-led Reliance Group,had earlier sold 17.06 per centshareholding in RNAM inthree successive past offers forsale, aggregating over �2,480crore. The entire RNAM stakemonetisation proceeds of�6,200 crore will be utilised toreduce Reliance Capital’s out-standing debt obligations.

In a statement issued lateFriday, Reliance Capitalannounced “the successful com-pletion of 21.54 per cent stakein RNAM to Nippon LifeInsurance of Japan for sale pro-ceeds of �3,030 crore pursuantto binding definitive agreementsigned on May 23, 2019”.

In May, Reliance Capitalhad announced that it hadsigned binding definitive agree-ments with Nippon LifeInsurance of Japan.

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The deadline to link perma-nent account number

(PAN) with Aadhaar has beenextended till December 31, aCBDT order said Saturday.

Earlier, the deadline wasSeptember 30. This is the sev-enth time that the Governmenthas extended the deadline forindividuals to link their PAN

with Aadhaar. The CentralBoard of Direct Taxes (CBDT)has extended the date for link-ing PAN and Aadhaar fromSeptember 30 to December 31and a notification has beenissued on Friday in this con-nection, the policy-makingbody for the Income-TaxDepartment said.

It is now mandatory to linkthe two unique IDs for

incometax purposes.The Supreme Court, in

September last year, haddeclared the Centre’s flagshipAadhaar scheme as constitu-tionally valid.

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President Donald Trumpcalled his struggle with

Democrats threateningimpeachment a “war”, a videoof comments that he expectedto remain private showedFriday.

"We're at war. These peopleare sick," Trump says in thevideo obtained by Bloomberg.

He was speaking at aclosed-doors gathering withUS diplomats in New York onThursday and apparentlyfilmed by one of the peopleattending.

The event was held in thewake of the Democrats' deci-sion to launch an impeachmentinvestigation into Trump'salleged attempt to arm-twistthe Ukrainian president intoproviding dirt on one of hismain 2020 election rivals, JoeBiden.

The recording of the event,part of which was first pub-lished by the LA Times, showedTrump suggesting that whoev-

er gave compromising infor-mation to the whistleblowerwas "close to a spy." He went onto say that "spies and treason"used to be handled "a little dif-ferently than we do now."

While that commentprompted chuckles from thecrowd, it has since been criti-cized by Trump's opponents asbeing a veiled threat to the safe-ty of the whistleblower and hissources.

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the matter who requestedanonymity confirmedVolker's resignation Friday,which was first reported by the student newspaper at Arizona State University,where he directs an institute. AFP

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Egyptian authorities liftedSaturday some tight secu-

rity measures in the capital,Cairo, a day after they sealed offthe main square and downtownthoroughfares to thwart a pos-sible protest against the coun-try's president.

The measures were part ofa harsh security clampdownfollowing rare demonstrationsin several cities last weekend, allof which were broken up bypolice.Calls for fresh protestson Friday were largely stifled bythe deployment of thousands ofpolice in Cairo's streets, butthere was a small protest of atleast three dozen people on el-Waraq island at the northernfringes of the capital, which wasquickly dispersed, according tothree witnesses who spoke oncondition of anonymity for

fear of reprisals.Security personnel were vis-

ible in Cairo's main streets andsquares on Saturday but did notprevent normal traffic as in thepast days. Tahrir Square, the epi-center of the pro-democracyuprising in 2011 that toppledlongtime autocrat HosniMubarak, was reopened, as weresubway stations in the area thathad been closed the day before.

Last week's small but rareprotests against el-Sissi markeda startling eruption of populardissent, which has been com-pletely silenced in the pastyears by draconian measuresimposed under the general-turned-president.More than2,000 people were arrested inthe days after, according toright lawyers. The country'sgeneral prosecutor said hisoffice had questioned no morethan 1,000 people over protests.

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Afghans voted in presiden-tial elections amid tight

security Saturday, even asinsurgents attacked pollingcentres in a series of blastsacross the country that left atleast one person dead.

The first-round vote marksthe culmination of a bloodyelection campaign that is seenas a close race betweenPresident Ashraf Ghani and hisbitter rival Abdullah Abdullah,the country's chief executive.

Wary authorities placed anuneasy Kabul under partiallockdown, flooding streets withtroops and banning trucksfrom entering the city in aneffort to stop would-be suicidebombers targeting residents asthey cast their votes.

By midday, the toll

appeared relatively light com-pared to previous elections,though Afghan national author-ities provided little, if any, infor-mation about reported blasts.

One person was killed andtwo others wounded in anexplosion near a polling centrein Jalalabad in the easternprovince of Nangarhar, provin-cial governor's spokesmanAttaullah Khogyani said.

And at least 16 people werewounded in the southern city ofKandahar when a bomb wentoff at a polling station, a hospitaldirector told AFP, while officialsacross the country reportedseveral small explosions at otherelection sites.

The Taliban, whounleashed a string of bombingsduring the two-month electioncampaign, claimed to have hitseveral polling stations.

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The University of Oxford isplanning to issue a new

'family guide' translated intoHindi, Urdu and Bengali toreach out to ethnic minorityhouseholds in order to addressthe challenge of attractingdeserving students from allbackgrounds.

The new guide is part of adrive which includes a series ofevents, open days and pro-grammes set to kick off inJanuary 2020 and run through-out the year, to encourageteenagers from low-incomehouseholds around the UK toapply.

The drive follows researchwhich found that the extendedfamily can play a crucial role inyoungsters' decision makingabout the university, especial-ly from South Asian back-grounds.

"In the past we havethought about mum and dad.The research has made usthink more widely, aboutgrandad, grandma, aunts and

uncles," Dr Samina Khan,Oxford's director of under-graduate admissions, told TheDaily Telegraph.

She added that schools donot always offer the "depth" ofinformation about Oxfordadmissions that teenagers arelooking for, so the new infor-mation campaign targetted atfamilies is another way toinform prospective students.

"We know particularly withcertain ethnic minorities, par-ents and the community arevery big influencers. It may bethat mum and dad haven'tgone to university, but is theresomeone else in the familycircle has gone to universitywho might be able to help," shesaid.

Oxford's new family guidewill include information onwhat it is like to study at theuniversity, what support isavailable for students and howmuch it will cost.

A number of colleges havestarted piloting "family days"where prospective students andtheir relatives are invited to

meet tutors and learn moreabout Oxford. "This wouldinvolve spending a day in thecollege, in the gardens, havingcake and tea," Dr Khan said.

She added: "The big effectit has is that it provides reas-surance to the parents andguardians that the students aregoing to a safe place. They canask questions about the cost,debt and financial support.

"It also helps them torealise that their son or daugh-ter will fit in here. The familydays are specifically for thosefrom background where mum

and dad might not have goneto university. To make it suc-cessful we invite everyone sothere is no stigma attached tocoming."

Earlier this year, OxfordUniversity announced it willoffer places with lower gradesto students from disadvan-taged backgrounds for the firsttime in its 900-year history.

From 2020, 250 state-fund-ed school students will receivefree tuition and accommoda-tion as part of a multi-million-pound recruitment bid for dis-advantaged students.

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While voters ofMaharashtra and

Haryana will elect their lawmakers for the next five yearson October 21, people in TamilNadu and Kerala in the southwould not be left devoid of anyelection fever. The election dayin the west and north IndianStates will see electorate inKerala and Tamil Nadu pickingthe right candidates in by-polls to be held in seven assem-bly constituencies from theStates( five in Kerala and twoin Tamil Nadu).

The Indian NationalCongress has fielded RubyManoharan from Nanguneri inKanyakumari district whichfell vacant following the res-ignation of Vasanth Kumar, thesitting MLA who got elected tothe Lok Sabha in the 2019 gen-eral election. N Pugazhendi isthe DMK candidate fromVikravandi, the by-election forwhich was necessitated by thedeath of sitting MLA KRadhamani (DMK).

Though the results of theby-elections in the two assem-bly constituencies are notexpectedto make any change inTamil Nadu politics, the battlesare seen as a precursor to thelocal body election in the Statewhich may take place in themonth of November. Thetenure of the Tamil Nadu leg-islative assembly comes to anend in May 2021.

Vikravandi and Nangunericonstituencies were representedin the House by the DMK andthe Congress respectively. Sincethe Congress could not field anyChristian community candi-dates in the Lok Sabha election,as an act of atonement it has

fielded Manoharan , a Christianhailing from Kanyakumari. Asthings stand today, the DMKand the Congress are expectedto retain the seats.

The AIADMK is contest-ing both the seats and its allieshave declared support to theparty candidates. In the Housewhich has an effective strengthof 234, the ruling AIADMK has123 members while the DMKhas 100 seats and the Congress,the third largest party hasseven members. Though theTamil fringe groups have putup candidates in both the con-stituencies, the by-poll is main-ly between the AIADMK andthe DMK.

Neighbouring Kerala willalso elect five representatives tothe assembly on October 21.The Congress is contestingfour seats while the MuslimLeague has been allocated theManjeswaram constituencywhich fell vacant after thedeath of PB Abdul Rasaq, thesetting MLA.

The CPI-M is contesting allthe five constituencies. Theparty’s morale went up by leapsand bounds as the LDF sup-ported Mani C Kappan of theNCP wrested the Pala assem-bly constituency which hasbeen represented by K M Manifounder-chairman of the KeralaCongress for the last 54 years.Mani passed away in Aprilwhich led to the Pala seatbecoming vacant.

Though the by-election toPala saw some high potchcampaign by the top Congressleaders including A K Antony,Oommen Chandi, BennyBehanan MP who also headsthe UDF, the Kerala Congresscandidate was defeated by morethan 2900 votes by the LDFnominee.

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In a lethal addition the IndianNavy’s conventional subma-

rine arsenal, INS Khanderi,the second of the Kalvari Class

diesel electric attack sub-marines of the Navy, was com-missioned by Defence MinisterRajnath Singh at the NavalDockyard here on Saturday.

In two other ceremonies

where he was the chief guest,the Defence Minister inaugu-rated the new Aircraft CarrierDry Dock at Naval Dockyardand launched the first StealthFrigate under the Project 17-A,

at Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders(MDS) Limited here.

Built indigenously by MDSLtd, INS Khanderi is designedfor silent and stealthy sub sur-face operations.

Addressing an august gath-ering at the Naval Dockyardhere, the Defence Ministerdescribed the commissioningof INS Khanderi as "a proudmoment for the Nation, theIndian Navy and MDL"

“It's a matter of great pridefor us that India is one of thefew countries capable of con-structing submarines,” Singhsaid.

Congratulating the IndianNavy for induction of thepotent platform and expressedhis confidence in theCommanding Officer and theCrew of Khanderi, the DefenceMinister complimented the

Western Naval Command foran impressive Guard of Honourand expressed his keenness tointeract with the officers andsailors of the Navy at sea.

INS Khanderi is the follow-on to INS Kalvari, which wasthe first of the French originScorpene class submarinesbeing indigenously construct-ed in India and commissionedby Prime Minister NarendraModi in 2017.

First put out to sea in2017, INS Khanderi has under-gone comprehensive sea trials,torpedo and missile firings tovalidate her fighting capability.She was handed over to theIndian Navy on completion oftrials on 19 Sep 19.

Khanderi, which 67.5meters long and 12.3 metershigh, embodies cutting edgetechnologies that ensure

stealthy, silent operationsunderwater and is equippedwith an array of torpedoes,missiles and sensors that enableher to detect, identify anddestroy enemy targets.

The crest of Khanderidepicts three sail ships at peakof the crown, symbolisingIndia’s rich maritime heritage.The design of the lower parthas the Ashoka Chakra flankedby a Horse and a Bull on eitherside with a plaque bearing theship’s name in Devanagiriscript. Khanderi’s motto“Akhand Abhedya Adrishya”signifies the indomitable spir-it of the stealth platform.

The Submarine inheritsher name from the original INSKhanderi, which was a Sovietorigin Foxtrot Class submarine,inducted into the Indian Navyin 1968.

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After a two-and-a-half-hourlong grilling by the Central

Bureau of Investigation in con-nection with the Narada TVsting case, BJP leader MukulRoy on Saturday accused WestBengal Chief Minister MamataBanerjee of hatching a “bigconspiracy” to frame him, butpromised to cooperate with theprobe agency whenever he getsa call from them.

Roy was summoned bythe CBI within a day after thearrest of IPS officer SMH Mirzawho was caught accepting cash—from journalist MathewSamuel acting as a prospectiveinvestor —in the Narada vide-ofootage grilled.

Emerging from a two-and-a-half hour grilling sessionwith the CBI — where he wasreportedly made to sit oppositeMirza to respond to his claimsfor some time — Roy said,

“Mamata Banerjee is trying tohatch a big conspiracy againstme. She is instructing everyonewho is caughtof corruptioncharges to take my name. ButI will handle this because truthwill prevail.”

Mirza a formerSuperintendant of Police wasamong a group of 13 peo-pleincluding TMC MPs andMinisters who were seen in thesting videoaccepting cash for

alleged.The IPS officer reportedly

told the CBI after his arrest thathe had taken cash at the behestof Roy.

The former RailwayMinister however rejected hisclaims saying “nowhere in thecamera I was seen taking cash.”

When asked as to why hadhe sent Samuel to Mirza Roysaid, “He had come to me forland to set up industry at

Burdwan after which Idirectedhim to Mirza who was the SPbecause in such cases one hasto approach the local adminis-tration.” The BJP leader said hewould go to the CBI “whenev-er they call me.”

He said “nothing can joinmy name with Narada. It isonly the handiwork of MamataBanerjee who is trying to hatcha conspiracy against me by ask-ing the arrested persons of theTMC to take my name.”

Meanwhile, TMC MPKakoli Ghoshdastidar conced-ed having taken cash fromSamuel saying the money wastaken by her for electoralexpenses of her party. “I tookmoney and I have already saidthat because I have nothing tohide. I took the cash for elec-toral expenses of my party andI even gave receipt for that,” shesaid adding she would cooper-ate with the CBI whenevercalled upon to do so.

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Sixty five- year-old VijayKumar Verma had a close

encounter with death Saturdaymorning when three heavilyarmed terrorists barged inside hishouse in Batote area of Rambandistrict while security forceswere chasing them to pin themdown.

With his presence of mind,Kumar,a tailor by profession,managed to save his life.

Narrating his nightmarishexperience of spending timewith terrorists before they wereeliminated in the intense gun-fight, Vijay Kumar told reportersin Batote, "when terrorists bargedinside his house in Batote theywere thirsty and hungry.

Soon after they came theyasked for water and some eata-bles. He said, "I offered themwater and left over ‘apples’ to eat.

He said, one of the three terror-ists even gulped some tabletsalong with water in front of myeyes.

Without losing his calm ,Vijay Kumar, stood firm stand-ing close to them and directedhis family members to shift to anadjacent room and bring somevegetables from the market.

The terrorists, inside theroom directed him to stay backin a corner without making anynoise. Vijay Kumar claimed, ter-rorists also warned his son, pre-sent in the house, against inform-ing security forces about theirpresence in the house.

Around the same time whensecurity forces started makingannouncements and appeals tothese terrorists to lay down theirarms and surrender before thesecurity forces, Vijay Kumarclaimed terrorists appeared con-fused and in two minds.

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They chose a privatefarewell for one of Africa'smost divisive figures after aweeks-long dispute with theadministration that forced himfrom power.

"This man lives forever,"declared the priest, to cries ofapproval.Mugabe died thismonth in Singapore at age 95after leading the country fornearly four decades and beingpushed into a shocking resig-nation as thousands danced inthe streets. "I was ridiculed," arelative said Mugabe told them.His coffin, draped in the coun-try's flag, was carried by mili-tary pallbearers. AP

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Meghan Markle has visitedthe site where a young

female student was murderedin South Africa last month in

a show of solidarity withvictims of gender violence inone of the world's most dan-gerous countries for women.

The Duchess of Sussex tieda yellow ribbon in memory of19-year old Uyinene Mrwetyana,brutally raped and killed in thecoastal city of Cape Town, whereshe was attending university.

The visit took place secret-ly this week but was announcedon the official Sussex RoyalInstagram page onSaturday."Visiting the site ofthis tragic death and being ableto recognise Uyinene... Waspersonally important to TheDuchess," said the Instagrampost, adding that Meghan alsomet her mother to relay her

condolences.South Africa is plagued by

gender-based violence, with atleast 137 sexual offences com-mitted per day, according toofficial figures. In August alone,more than 30 women werekilled by their spouses.Mrwetyana's murder is amonga handful of recent cases thatsparked widespread demon-strations across the country.

Protesters are calling on thegovernment to do more toprotect women and crack downon perpetrators.

Meghan — an outspokenwomen's rights advocate — isin South Africa as part of a 10-day official trip with her hus-band Prince Harry and theirbaby son Archie.

The Duke and Duchessboth expressed their supportfor the ongoing fight againstgender violence on the first dayof their tour earlier this week.

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Royal College of Physiciansexplicitly tells doctors to pro-mote e-cigarettes "as widely aspossible" to people trying toquit.

Public Health England'sadvice is that vaping carries asmall fraction of the risk ofsmoking.

US public health officialshave taken a more waryapproach, and have been slowto regulate e-cigarettes.

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Indian shuttler ParupalliKashyap’s impressive run at

the Korea Open Super 500 tour-nament came to an end after helost to world number 1 KentoMomota of Japan in the men’s sin-gles semifinals here on Saturday.

A former world No 6,Kashyap, who was the lone Indianleft in fray, went down 13-21, 15-21 to the two-time reigning worldchampion Momota in 40 min-utes.

The 33-year-old had noanswers to Momota’s precision asthe Japanese opened up a 9-5 leadearly on. A deceptive return anda body smash gave the Indian acouple of points before theJapanese entered the break witha four-point advantage after along rally.

Kashyap didn’t take enoughinitiative and often hit wide andlong to end the energy-sappingrallies. It acted in Momota’sfavour as he continued to accu-mulate points, reaching 18-10.

The Japanese committed anuncharacteristic unforced errorand soon Kashyap added twomore points but unforced errors,

including a wide shot, gaveMomota a comfortable 20-13lead and he sealed it whenKashyap went wide again.

In the second game, the ral-lies became faster as Momotaproduced angled returns to putKashyap out of position andthen unleashed his precisestrokes.

The left-handed Momotasoon worked up a lead of 7-2with Kashyap missing the line fartoo many times.

Kashyap slowly startedputting pressure on Momotaand gathered five straight pointsbut the Japanese managed to heldon to a 11-7 lead at the breather.

The Indian unleashed a cou-ple of smashes on Momota’sforehand to slowly narrow thelead to 11-12. A superb netstroke brought Kashyap to levelpar but he then hit the nets andsend one long as the Japaneseagain surged ahead.

Momota soon made it 19-13and grabbed six match pointswith a cross court smash.Kashyap saved one before theJapanese unleashed anotheraccurate return to seal his placein the summit clash.

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Rohit Sharma’s trial run asan opener lasted only two

deliveries as he left withouttroubling the scorers in adrawn three-day warm-upgame between BoardPresident’s XI and South Africahere on Saturday.

Test aspirants PriyankPanchal (60, 77 balls) andkeeper batsman Kona Bharat’squickfire 71 off 57 balls werethe highlight of BoardPresident XI’s 265 for 8 in 64overs.

Mumbai batsmanSiddhesh Lad (52) also helpedhimself to a half-century afterSouth Africa declared theirfirst innings at 279 for 6.

Temba Bavuma (87)remained unbeaten, whileVernon Philander (48 off 49balls) added quick runs to thetotal.

All eyes were on Rohitduring the final day of thegame as he came out to openalongside Mayank Agarwal(39).

Seamer Philander got hisdelivery to move a shade andRohit edged one to substitutekeeper Heirich Klaasen, whokept wickets instead ofQuinton de Kock.

It was an ideal situation toget quality batting time aheadof the first Test but Rohitfluffed his lines at the onset.

With selectors promisinghim the full series and a fairrun, India’s limited overs vice-captain will like to put up abetter account of himself dur-ing the f irst Test inVisakhapatnam, starting onOctober 2.

While Kagiso Rabada istheir strike bowler, Philanderwith his ability to swing thenew ball both ways couldprove to be a bigger threat forRohit, who is not exactly bigon feet movement during theinitial part of the innings.

The first four batsman inthe order (now that includesRohit) were all openers andAgarwal and Panchal had abetter day in office comparedto Rohit and Abhimanyu

Easwaran (13).Easwaran was dismissed

by Rabada, caught by AidenMarkram and then Gujarat’sPanchal joined forces withAgarwal.

The duo added 52 runs forthe third wicket beforeAgarwal was out trying togive left-arm spinner KeshavMaharaj (3/35 in 13.1 overs),the charge. His 92-ball knockhad six boundaries.

Coming in at No 4 in the11th over, Panchal looked solidas he hit 10 fours and a six,adding another 49 runs withKarun Nair (19).

It was Philander (2/27 in 9overs), who dismissed him inhis second spell, caught byskipper Faf du Plessis.

Nair was also out edgingone off Maharaj to Klaasen asBoard President’s XI wasreduced to 136 for 5.

Once Rabada andPhilander, who are going tostart off in Visakhapatnam, gota feel and didn’t bowl further,the second string Proteasbowlers were easy meat for the

other batsmen.Bharat and Lad added 100

runs in only 20 overs for thesixth wicket.

The Andhra ‘keeper, whois in the mix for the red-ballversion, hit seven fours andfive sixes. He was especiallysevere on off-spinner DanePiedt (1/80 in 14 overs),repeatedly carting him formaximums.

Lad was more conservativein his strokeplay even thoughhe hit seven fours and a six.Bharat was finally bowled byMaharaj as he was looking fora quick-fire century.

BRIEF SCORESSouth Africa 279/6 decl(Aiden Markram 100 retd out,Temba Bavuma 87 no, VernonPhilander 48, DharmendraJadeja 3/66).Board President's XI 265/8(Rohit Sharma 0, KS Bharat 71off 57 balls, Priyank Panchal 60off 77 balls, Siddesh Lad 52 nooff 89 balls, Vernon Philander2/27, Keshav Maharaj 3/35).Match Drawn.

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Charles Leclerc confirmedFerrari's Formula One

resurgence when he reeled offhis fourth consecutive pole posi-tion with another stunning lapon Saturday as he topped thetimes in qualifying for Sunday’sRussian Grand Prix.

The in-form Monegasqueclocked a best lap of one minuteand 31.628 seconds to improvehis time in the final seconds andset up an end to Mercedes’ five-year domination of the eventsince it began in 2014.

After three successiveFerrari wins, two by Leclerc, heappears set to extend the scar-let scuderia’s run of currentsuccess to four races.

His performance made himthe first Ferrari driver sinceMichael Schumacher in 2001,when Leclerc was only threeyears old, to secure four straightpoles.

Series leader and defendingfive-time champion LewisHamilton pulled out a dazzlingfinal sector and final lap to takesecond ahead of Sebastian Vettelin the other Ferrari by a narrowmargin.

Vettel, who won inSingapore last Sunday, was thirdahead of Red Bull’s MaxVerstappen, who is set to take agrid penalty, Valtteri Bottas inthe second Mercedes and CarlosSainz of McLaren.

“The car felt amazing. Itdefinitely feels amazing to beback on pole, but I don’t knowif it’s the best track to start onpole,” said Leclerc.

“The straight at the start isvery long. It definitely feelsvery special (to take four con-secutive poles), but I don’t wantto think about those stats!”

Hamilton said he remainedamazed at Ferrari’s power andspeed on the straights.

“I tell you, it was a toughsession. These guys have anoth-er level on the straights — jetmode.

“I gave it everything I hadand the team was able to tinkerand push forward… I didn’texpect to get on the front row.”

����0: Gurjit Kaur’slast minute effort sawIndian women beatGreat Britain 2-1 in athrilling openingencounter of the five-match series.

It was a brilliantcome-from-behind vic-tory for India after trail-ing 0-1 as goals fromSharmila Devi andGurjit sealed the issuefor the visiting side.

India took controlof the game in the sec-ond quarter and won a

couple of penalty cor-ners in the first fewminutes forcing smartsaves from custodianMaddie Hinch.

Soon enough, itwas Great Britain’s turnbut in India’s goalkeep-er Savita Punia pulledoff a smart save to denythe home team as it wasgoalless at half-time.

Great Britain brokethrough first in the finalquarter, with EmilyDefrond scoring in the46th minute to give her

team the much-neededlead.

Despite trailing,India mounted pres-sure and soon reapedthe dividends withSharmila restoring par-ity.

The match lookedlike ending in a drawbut with 48 secondsleft, India won a shortcorner and Gurjit suc-cessfully converted it.The second match ofthe series will be playedtoday. PTI

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Jurgen Kloppsaid he washappy to win

ugly afterL i v e r p o o lextended theirperfect start tothe PremierLeague seasonthanks toG e o r g i n i oWijnaldum’s for-tunate strike in a1-0 victor y at

Sheffield United on Saturday.The European champions

looked short on invention againstthe well-organised Blades until

Wijnaldum’s shot from the edge of thebox 20 minutes from time trickledbetween the legs of United goalkeep-er Dean Henderson.

The win — Liverpool’s 16thconsecutive victory in the topflight — moved Klopp’s men eight

points clear of championsManchester City ahead of City’s

game against Everton at GoodisonPark.

Liverpool missed out on winningthe Premier League by a single pointlast season but are now setting a sear-ing pace as they chase their first top-flight title since 1990, with seven vic-tories in as many matches.

“For us it was important to win,we had unbelievably big chances,”Klopp told BT Sport.

“In the first half we had two big

chances and in the second one whichwe scored from.

“These games, they arenot all beauties and you haveto work hard for the results.

“You have to respect theopponent. We had goodmoments and it was one ofthese games you have to winbut not think too much aboutit. One team deserved to win, whichwas us, but all respect to SheffieldUnited, they were tough.”

LIVERPOOL CHANCESChances began to come

for Liverpool towards the endof the first half as Sadio Manesliced horribly wide with justHenderson to beat and thenhit the post when it seemedeasier to score from RobertoFirmino’s pass.

Mane was unfortunateminutes into the second period,though, as he was taken out by JohnLundstram as he broke into the box.

Referee Anthony Taylor wasunimpressed and it was another exam-ple when VAR backed the official’sdecision when it should have beenoverturned.

The hosts had their chances tospring a huge shock as Adrian turnedbehind a long-range drive from OliverNorwood before Andy Robertsonmade a brilliant block to deny JohnFleck the opener.

All of Sheffield United’s goodwork was undone with one mistakewhen Wijnaldum pounced on a looseball 20 yards from goal, but his strikeshould have been easily handled byHenderson, who instead watched onwith horror as the ball slipped underhis grasp.

The Manchester United loaneemade some amends 11 minutes fromtime when Mohamed Salah brokeclean through, but could not beatHenderson with a low finish.

That save could still have salvageda point had substitute Leon Clarke notblazed over with the goal at his mercylate on.

Instead, Liverpool held on togrind out the sort of win that couldfinally make them champions comeMay.

Sheffield United boss Chris Wilderwas irritated his side did not takeadvantage of a sub-par Liverpool.

“I am not bothered about pride, Iam bothered about the result,” he said.

“Liverpool had an off day and Ithink we missed an opportunity. Inpressurised situations we need toremain composed. We were delightedwith the shape but their chancescame from our mistakes.”

Crystal Palace were 2-0 winnersagainst Norwich, thanks to a LukaMilivojevic penalty and a late AndrosTownsend goal while a Matt Dohertystrike and a Daryl Janmaat own goalgave Wolves a much-needed 2-0 vic-tory against Watford.

Aston Villa’s John McGinn gavehis side a 2-1 lead in the 79th minutebut Chris Wood levelled for Burnleyjust two minutes later and the matchfinished level.

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Defending championsMumbai were in for a

shock as minnowsChhattisgarh defeated themby 5 wickets in a high-scor-ing thriller in the VijayHazare trophy here onSaturday.

At the Alur CricketStadium III, put into bat,Mumbai posted a descent317/5 in their allotted 50overs, but Chhattisgarhchased the target with oneball to spare and rode on agritty 117 not out by middle-order batsman AmandeepKhare.

Put into bat, Mumbai’sexperienced opener AdityaTare slammed 90 off 107balls and remained the top-scorer.

After Jay Bista (24) wasdismissed cheaply, Tare gotsupport from young prodi-gy Yashasvi Jaiswal (44) asthe two rebuilt the innings.

Skipper Shreyas Iyer toochipped in with a 46-ball 50.

And when Iyer depart-ed ever-reliable Surya KumarYadav had some differentplans as he hammered 8fours and six sixes in hisquick fire 81 off 31 balls andtook Chhattisgarh bowlers totask.

It was due to Surya’s blis-tering knock that Mumbaiwent past the 300-run mark.

Chhattisgarh did nothave a good start with open-er Shashank Chandrakar (5)falling early.

Jiwanjyot Singh (44) andone-down Ashutosh Singh(35) tried to rally the innings.

But Jiwanjyot wastrapped by spinner ShamsMulani as Chhattisgarh were82-2 and then Ashutosh alsofell when the score was 95.

However, AmandeepKhare showed his mettleand made a gritty 117 off just94 balls, with 8 fours and 4sixes to his credit.

He first got support

from Shashank Singh (40)and then shared an unbeat-en 96-run stand with AjayMandal (39 not out) as thetwo took the side home.

For Mumbai, ShamsMulani (3-33) was success-ful, but others, includingexperienced pacer DhawalKulkarni (1-66), had a badday in office.

At the M Chinnaswamy,Karnataka defeated Keralaby 60 runs, with K L Rahulslamming a hundred.

Rahul, who plays forIndia, took the oppositionbowlers to task as he hit astroke-filed 131 off 122 balls.

He hit 10 fours and foursixes and remained the top-scorer for his team.

Skipper Manish Pandeyalso chipped in with 50 off51 balls, but then Keralabowlers were successful inrestricting them to 294.

But Karnataka bowlersput a spirited show despite afighting hundred by Keralaopener Vishnu Vinod (104)to bowl them out for 234 andregister a win.

Meanwhile, in anotherElite Group A match,Hyderabad defeatedSaurashtra by 121 runs.

SHANKAR SMACKS 91�� ��6� All-rounder VijayShankar marked his returnfrom injury with a superbknock of 91 (88 balls, 6 fours,1 six) to power Tamil Naduto a seven-wicket win overBihar in a Group C match.

Tamil Nadu made 218for 3 in 46.5 overs in reply toBihar’s 217 for 7 in 50 oversto notch up a third straightvictory.

Shankar bowled sixovers to pick up 1 for 17from six overs and thenunfurled a series of superbshots to showcase his form.

Earlier, captain BabulKumar made 110 as Biharrecovered from a poor startto make 217 after electing tobat first.

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She is the most successfulboxer in the history of ama-

teur world championships butIndian icon M C Mary Komsays she is a shade “nervous”heading into her ninth appear-ance at the showpiece, notbecause of the competition thatawaits her but the overwhelm-ing expectations at home.

Mary Kom has to her cred-it six Gold medals and a Silverin eight world championshipappearances, the last of whichwas in New Delhi in 2018.

Statistically, she is the mostsuccessful boxer in the eventand has also earned themoniker “Magnificent Mary”from the International BoxingAssociation (AIBA).

Speaking ahead of theupcoming edition, from

October 3 to 13 in Ulan-Ude,Russia, the seasoned Manipurispoke about the nerves that canget triggered by the expecta-tions despite her wealth ofexperience.

“I say it all the time, I willgive my best but cannot guar-antee a medal. I tell myself thattoo but the pressure is alwaysthere and so is the stress of han-dling it. It can make you ner-vous,” the 37-year-old said.

Mary Kom and the rest ofthe Indian team will depart forthe mega-event today earlymorning.

“The world championshipis a familiar space for me butthe competition is always new.I am looking forward to it,” shesaid.

The mother of three will becompeting in 51kg category,which is on the Olympic roster.

Her last world title came in the48kg division.

She has dominated 48kglike no one else and has alsomanaged to get the results evenin the higher category, the bestbeing the 2012 LondonOlympics Bronze and the 2014Asian Games Gold.

But none of her world titleshave been in the 51kg division.In the 2012 and 2016 editions,she competed in the 51kg cat-egory and lost in the quarter-finals on both occasions. That’sone rare record she would beaiming to improve starting nextweek.

“I have goodresults in both(48kg and51kg) and in51kg, the chal-lenge hasalways been

strength. That’s been my focuseven for the upcoming worldchampionship and I am readyfor it. It’s not a new category forme but again results can neverbe predicted,” was her familiarassessment of how the tourna-ment might pan out.

“I just want to give mybest and if I am able to

do it, gold is nevera problem,”

she addedb e f o r ebre a k -ing into

a giggle.This year,

Mary Kom wonGold medals in the India

Open and the President’sCup in Indonesia. She

skipped the AsianChampionships to prepare

for the world event.

“I have a good feeling aboutit. My body feels better thanbefore and the training trip toItaly has also helped immense-ly. I am keeping my fingerscrossed,” she said.

With soon-to-be nineappearances at the premierevent, which one of them wouldshe count as her most memo-rable so far?

“I think the one last year. Iwon a Gold, in front of my fam-ily, friends and supporters andproved so many critics wrong.It was quite special,” she said.

“But yeah, that kind ofemotionally overwhelmingexperience makes you realisehow much people expect out ofyou. I hope I can deliver thistime too,” she added.

“Rest of the talking, I willdo after the world champi-onship,” she signed off.

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Since my teens I would haverecurring bouts of cold andcough, and almost every othermonth would be on antibiotics.This continued for years and

had become a way of life. Emotionallyand physically I was “fragile” — I wasalways told that, and I had slowly start-ed believing in that. As Louise Haysaid, “you are the only thinker in yourmind,” I wired my mind to believe that

I am weak and myhealth wouldalways be a con-cern. And everytime I reinforced it,the thought wentdeeper and deeperinto my soul.

I smiled, putup a brave frontand hardly ever

shared my mental and emotional agonywith anyone. I thought “I am like thatonly”. That was okay — to feel bad, tohold anger, to be hurting, to occasion-ally harbour thoughts of harmingmyself… I wish someone would havegiven me then the Bach Flower remedyof Agrimony — a flower essence thathelps you face your demons rather thansuppressing your fears and sadnesswith a smile.

And then, I simultaneouslyencountered Nichiren Daishonin’sBuddhism (my husband introduced meto this) and Bach Flower Therapy (afamily friend brought these remediesinto my life). I believe that nothing is acoincidence in life and now in retro-spect I understand how synchronisedthis was. Buddhism gently helped meundergo a subtle yet deep inner trans-formation, which is often referred to as“human revolution” and Bach FlowerTherapy aided the process.

At first I took the flower essenceswithout questioning, as just anothermedicine. However, my skepticismcrept in and I started questioning theworkings of the remedies. This led meto research more on them and in turnguided me to do a weekend course onBach Flower Therapy from Ainsworthin London. So you see a “negative ten-dency” of disbelief worked as a catalystfor learning a healing therapy. That’swhat you would call “changing poisoninto medicine”.

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icines, apart from being sold by home-opathy companies, nor are they essen-tial oils. Flower essences are flowerwaters or water “energised” by flowers.

Bach Flower Remedies are 38flower essences that comprise a com-plete system of alternative healing.These flower remedies were discoveredby Dr Edward Bach in the 1930s inEngland. Dr Bach was a physician andhomeopath. He believed that attitude,mind and emotions play a vital role inthe health and well being of an individ-ual, and when a person’s emotions are“balanced” or restored to their positive

potential the health improves and ail-ments can in turn be cured.

The principle of flower essences issimilar to any other vibrational healingtherapy. Flowers have their uniqueenergies and when the “essences” ofthese flowers are taken by us they affectour vibrations and bring in a balance.The way in which they are chosen, isdetermined based on the current emo-tions or personality of the individual.Therefore, you will not be given a par-ticular remedy for your headache butfor your emotional state while experi-encing the headache. For instance, if Iam having a headache I may getextremely irritable and impatient andwould be advised to have Impatiens,but another person when experiencingheadache may keep quiet and suffersilently because she doesn’t want tobother anyone else she should ideallytake Agrimony; while another individ-ual can get so perturbed by it that shewill continue talking about it and in theprocess disturb others around her.Heather wouldbe apt for her.

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That’s a very legitimatequestion and it should crossyour mind. The answer to it is —Yes. These remedies can heal us.However, a lot of the healing involves aself transformation and depends onyour current emotional state. Whenyou go for a Bach Flower consultationyou are gently led to recognise andown your emotions. Just the process ofrecognising your feelings can beextremely healing. For instance, I suf-fered from chronic cold and any slightchange in temperature, climate or per-sonal/professional life would trigger it.I started taking Walnut Bach FlowerRemedy, a flower essence that helps usaccept change. I also took Crab AppleBach Flower remedy with it to get ridof negativity. Together these remedieshelped me clear my mind and acceptchange as the single most importantfact of life. When my attitude changed,slowly my chronic ailment disap-peared. Dr Bach believed that theseremedies in different combinations canbalance and heal any emotion. It isimportant to bear in mind that theremedies won’t push down negativeemotions; rather they will raise yourvibrations or improve your life state todevelop positive emotions, the way, forinstance, music works in uplifting ourmood or soothing ruffled souls. Inother words, the remedies help usunderstand our troubles and therebyempower us to heal ourselves. Theprocess is gentle and simple. Whileacute and emergency emotions getaddressed quickly, chronic or pro-longed feelings take a while to balance.However, within two weeks one shouldbe able to perceive a change.

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there are no“actual” side

effects. In rarecases, there may be

an upheaval of somenegative emotions but

like any other alternativeremedy, it is akin to a cleans-

ing effect. If the condition isacute, as an emergency, take

Rescue Remedy till the emotionssettle down. Any other symptom is

usually coincidental. Bach Flower Remedies can be taken

by anyone. Even babies and expectingmothers can be given these essences.We all have emotions and it is naturalfor them to get disbalanced from timeto time. It’s as common as cold, cough,flu or stomach bug. So whenever youfeel emotionally disturbed, reach out forBach Flower remedies.

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included in Dr Bach’s system of flowerremedies are listed below with the traitsand emotions that they heal:

Agrimony-mental torture behind acheerful face; Aspen-fear of unknownthings; Beech-intolerance; Centaury-the inability to say no; Cerato-lack oftrust in one's own decisions; Cherryplum-fear of the mind giving way;Chestnut bud-failure to learn frommistakes; Chicory-selfishness, posses-sive love; Clematis-dreaming of thefuture without working in the present;Crab apple-the cleansing remedy, alsofor self-hatred; Elm-overwhelming feel-ing of responsibility; Gentian-lack of

inspiration caused by a setback; Gorse-hopelessness and despair; Heather-self-centeredness and self-concern; Holly-hatred, envy and jealousy;Honeysuckle-living in the past;Hornbeam-tardiness and lethargy;Impatiens-impatience; Larch-lack ofconfidence; Mimulus-fear of knownthings; Mustard-deep gloom for noreason; Oak-compulsive ploddingbeyond the point of exhaustion; Olive-exhaustion following mental or physi-cal effort; Pine-guilt; Red chestnut-over-concern for the welfare of lovedones; Rock rose-terror and fright; Rockwater-self-denial, rigidity and self-repression; Scleranthus-inability tochoose between alternatives; Star ofBethlehem-shock; Sweet chestnut-extreme mental anguish, when every-thing has been tried and there is nolight left; Vervain-over-enthusiasm;Vine-dominance and inflexibility;Walnut-protection from change andunwanted influences; Water violet-quiet self-reliance leading to isolation;White chestnut-unwanted thoughtsand mental arguments; Wild oat-uncertainty over one’s direction in life;Wild rose-drifting, resignation, apathy;Willow-self-pity and resentment.Rescue Remedy, a mix of five flowerremedies-cherry plum, impatiens, starof Bethlehem, clematis and rock rose-to tide over crises or emergencies

The list above offers a briefoverview of the remedies. To start with,you can first think what kind of a per-sonality you are and what you are feel-ing right now and then check whichsituations/emotions from the list applyto your current state. Initially you mayfeel that you need all or several ofthem. Go over the list again and makenote of the ones that seem to apply toyou. If you are focused enough, yourlist wouldn’t go beyond 10-12 remedies.Now, ponder over this narrower list

and bringit down to 6-

7. This mix willin all probabilities

be the best combina-tion for you.

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There are various ways inwhich you can take the remedies,

however, for beginners, I would recom-mend the “glass of water” methodwherein you put two drops of each ofyour 6-7 chosen remedies.

For chronic problems, it’s best tomake a remedy mix that will last you 2-3 weeks. In a 30 ml glass bottle withdropper (you will find it in homeopa-thy stores or you can even purchase itonline) add two drops of your chosenremedies and/or four drops of RescueRemedy — if it’s a part of your remedyselection — and top it up with mineralwater. From this bottle take four dropsdirectly or mixed in water or any bev-erage, four times a day.

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Our difficulties can be seen as lay-ers of an onion. Bach Flower Remedieshelp peel away the surface emotionsand then the next layer emerges.There’s no need to jump the gun andtry to unearth what’s not apparent.Don’t push yourself. Address only whatyou are prepared to face. Allow theremedies to work and a new layer ofemotions emerge. Change your reme-dies when that happens. So this mayseem like a continuous process butthen self improvement is a lifelongprocess. Bear in mind that remedies arenot habit forming. Benefits are longlasting, so you may not have to returnto a remedy for a while. However, theremay be a relapse but if you are attunedto the remedies, you will be ablerespond quicker.

While you can always select yourown remedies, it would be best if youcan discuss and take a recommenda-tion from a therapist.

Even if you don’t talk to a therapist,discussing it with a friend would makeit better. A lot of healing happens whenthere is somebody to listen to you.Remember a human contact needs tobe kept alive.

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India is celebrating 150th year of Gandhi. And rightly so.A fitting tribute to someone who is India’s biggest glob-al icon, whether anybody likes it or not. When his birth-

day is recognised by The UN as a global affair, the man mustbe having something. It is important, therefore, to try andunderstand why this is so. Why do we say that Gandhi is aGlobal Icon? The man who lived for 79 years and sat on 17big fasts unto death, staying without food for 144 days inthe process. On two occasions his fasting went on for 21 con-tinuous days. In 1921, he took a resolution to observe a fastevery Monday. That adds another 1,341 days of fasting. Hewas arrested 13 times and remained incarcerated for a totalof six years and five months. He stayed abroad for 24 years.Gandhi statues are there in more than 100 countries includ-ing Pakistan and Great Britain. Interestingly, his statue findsa place besides that of Winston Churchill at the ParliamentSquare in Britain. The same Churchill who gave Gandhi theepithet of the ‘Naked Fakir’. There are more than 250 citiesin some 70 countries where many major roads are namedafter Gandhi. In all the 719 districts of our country there areeither schools, roads, buildings or parks in the name ofGandhi. Some 70 cities here are named MG (MahatmaGandhi) Road. About 150 countries have issued 800 kindsof stamps on Gandhi. In 1969, commemorating his cente-nary the British Government issued a stamp on Gandhi.Before that only the members of the Royal Family were givenplace on stamps. There have been 45 films and 500 docu-mentaries made on Gandhi and a film on Gandhi also gotan Oscar. Some 90,000 books have been written on Gandhi.And all these were not managed. These were spontaneousactions to respect a man who till date remains the greatestmass leader in the Indian history, and the global, too. Theintriguing question is how all that happened. One word thatepitomises Gandhi is Truth. His advocacy of truth, his prac-tice of truth and his commitment to truth are the reasonswhy Gandhi is still living, more than seven decades after hisdeath. From Mister Gandhi in South Africa his names kepton changing periodically. In Champaran, he was called Bapufor the first time in 1917. In 1919 Tagore addressed him asMahatma and in 1944 Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose in hisradio message addressed him as Father of the Nation. It washis experiments with truth that went on evolving Gandhitill his transformation from Mohandas to super human. Inhis 150th year let the young India know, and if possible,understand Gandhi. Particularly, because for the Indian youthtoday the two greatest sources of knowing Gandhi are RichardAttenborough who made Gandhi and Rajkumar Hirani whomade Lage Raho Munna Bhai. But Gandhi has many moreattributes that ought to be known. A man who was not evena regular 25 paise member of the Congress Party and whonever occupied any position in the party still remains theall-time greatest leader of the Congress. While we are toobusy trying to sort out the Ram Janma Bhoomi issue, it isalso important to understand Ram from Gandhian perspec-tive. For Gandhi, Ram was different. For him, Ram was bothIshwar and Allah who would give good intentions to all.

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Really? Have you ever heard of ananimal committing suicide? Iwas watching a programme about

mental health on CNN recently. Theseare some of the facts they presented.Roughly 47,000 Americans committedsuicide in 2017. One in four Americanssuffer from depression. And America isthe most developed country in theworld. Do these facts gel?

No, because those who are sohopeless that they are taking the extremestep of killing themselves do not knowthe reality of the cosmic design. It is soperfect that for most it is unimaginable.There is a solution of every conceivableproblem, but one needs to know thedetails of the cosmic design. There is atwo-tier system. The first tier is what wegenerally know or at least are supposedto know is the karmaphala principle,which means that you reap what yousow. This is the guiding principle for allour acts except those carried out in con-nection with the soul/God. If there issome ignorance about the karmaphalaprinciple, evidenced by some people try-ing to be too smart by trying to cheatthe system, there is almost total igno-rance about what God can do for us.The system that we see and know does-n’t have all the answers; we need to goto God, who has. If it wasn’t so, the cos-mic design would be defective, whichis not. When we feel that our problemis impossible to deal with, we need toapproach God; He will have the answer.

This is how the second tier works.First of all, we must accept that we aresouls – parts of God. In spite of all thetalk about rebirth, heaven, etc. wemore or less live in ignorance; we real-ly believe that we are material bodiesthat we see. We have to go past this falseassumption of our reality. Our scriptureshave provided great details about the

soul. A child is conceived only when asoul comes, otherwise every copulationwill result in the woman conceiving.Does it happen like this when the sexis unprotected? The sperm is there andthe egg is there. I am referring to thegeneral situation, not where there is amedical problem. Once the body isformed in the womb, the person staysalive till the soul is there inside the body.Once the soul departs, the material bodybecomes a material body in reality. Whatdistinguishes a material body from ahuman being was the presence of thesoul in the body.

When this fact is accepted or, moreimportantly, realised, we go to the nextstep, that is begin doing activities ben-efitting us souls starting with activatingthe connection with God. This is doneby carrying out spiritual activities likechanting, meditating, and so on.Essentially, what is required is an activ-ity related to the soul not to the mate-rial body, ie spiritual — the worddeprived from the spirit or soul. Believethat there are so many options that one

is spoilt for choice. What will you sayabout buying a photo of God in theform, which attracts you most and hangit where you see it frequently. This canbe a start for you to begin your spiritu-al journey. You won’t fail to notice theresponse from God. He won’t exactlytalk to you in the beginning but Hismessages will be difficult to ignore. Godguides, protects, supports, etc.

I will share my personal experiencein this connection. My active contactwith God started when I started chant-ing. Gradually, I began benefittingfrom God. He empowered me to writespiritual articles. Now I am able to getanswers to my questions. He hasblessed me with everything one canhope for just as Sanjaya had observed,ie there will be opulence, victory (suc-cess), wealth and moral principles. (TheGeeta 18.78)

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In the last few years there has beena great interest amongst doctors,researchers, and people in thefield of psychology concerningthe effect worry has on health.

Worry is one of the causes of stress thatcan, in turn, create stress-related illness-es. It is interesting that the word“worry” comes from old English andoriginally means to choke or strangle.If we think about the original mean-ing of the word “worry,” we find thatit accurately describes what worryingdoes to us.

When we choke or are strangled,we cannot breathe. Our air supply is cutoff and we struggle for life. While wemay not associate choking with worry,if we think about it, when we worry weare actually cutting off our life. We maynot shows signs of physical distressright away, but slowly over time, ourbody exhibits some form of deteriora-tion. Stress produces hormones thatwere meant for escaping danger. Weeither run or fight. It sends hormonesthat pump up our strength in our armsor legs to run or fight. But when we feelstress without the necessity of runningor fighting, those hormones circulatethrough our body. An excess of thesehormones have the effect of causinglong-term damage to different parts ofthe body. Although we do not chokeor become strangled, they definitely

cause physical illness over time.Thus, doctors and psychologists

have been focusing their attention onhelping people avoid worry as a meansto better health, both mentally andphysically. Some of the research pointsto the fact that worry is a condition thatarises from fear. A study was doneabout worry that analysed the kinds ofworry that people have. More than one-third of what people worry about dealswith things that never happen. Anotherone-third of worry deals with thingsthat happened in the past that cannotbe changed. The remaining one-thirdof worry is divided between worryingabout things that concern other peo-ple and are not our business, things thatdeal with sickness that we really haveor imagine we have, and a small per-centage are real things about which weshould worry.

Think of how often we worryabout things tremendously, yet theynever happen. For example, considerhow many times in the past years theweather reports spoke of heavy rainsand thunderstorms that threatened toruin the plans over the Fourth of Julyholiday. Yet, the day turned out to besunny and beautiful. Our mind projectsevents into the future that cause us toworry, with some people even worry-ing themselves sick over some impend-ing disaster. They may think about the

perceived threat day and night. Theymay talk about it with others. Somepeople may even lose sleep over it.Most of the time, whatever they wor-ried about never came to pass. Theresults are that all those days and weeksthey spent thinking about their fear ofthe future has wasted much precioustime of their life. It was as if they werechoking on their fears. Those life-breaths allotted to them were wasted.The quality of their life was cut shortdue to worry.

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can consider whether it is worth thetime of our precious lives to engage inthoughts about things that may or maynot ever happen. If there is really a dan-ger, then instead of worrying, weshould make specific plans to avert thethreat. If we take actions, we have doneall we can do. We do not need to sup-plement those actions with worry.Taking action is useful; but worry isuseless. We do our best, and then putin the remaining time to somethingthat is going to be beneficial to otherpeople or ourselves. In this way, we caneliminate one-third of our worries.

Another cause for worry is eventsthat happened in the past that we can-not change. It may be true that whathas happened in the past was not to our

liking or to the liking of other people.Once the event is gone, it does no oneany good to worry about it. What hashappened has happened. Worryingabout it will not change it; worry willonly make us sick. Thus, we suffer dou-bly for the events of the past. We suf-fered once for the situation we did notlike. But then we suffer repeatedly eachmoment we worry about it because itmakes us relive that situation again andagain in our minds. It is like replayingthe same bad movie over and over. Isn’tonce enough?

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The value in thinking about thepast is only to learn from it, take stepsnot to repeat our mistakes, and thenmove on. Worrying about it will notchange it. Worry will not even makeus avoid the same mistakes in thefuture. We should take a lesson fromthe past, and we should resolve to dobetter in the future. If we could forgetthe past, we could eliminate anotherlarge chunk of our worries.

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independence from worry is to trust inGod. Sometimes in life we go throughgood times and at other times, difficul-ties. When things are going well for uswe believe in God. However, whendespite our best efforts and goodnessof heart we hit bad times, then we ques-tion whether there is God.

In our own lives, we can reflect ontimes when we worried that thingswere not going our way. We began toquestion God and how bad thingscould happen to us. Yet, later we cometo realise that in the end all worked outfor the best. What seemed to be a set-back actually was a blessing, becausethings in the end worked out betterthan we could have arranged them forourselves.

We realise that God is always withus and looking out for us. Sometimeswe cannot see it right away but at theappropriate time we find out that God’swisdom knew what was best for us.

One way to develop trust in Godis to meditate. When we meditate andgo within we discover God within us.Then, there is no more questioning ofwhether there is God or not. We cometo see God and all the wonders with-in. With this awareness, we no longerhave to question God’s wisdom. We seeGod’s hand in all things and know thatwhatever happens is for the best for us.

So let us declare independencefrom worry by trusting in God in allareas of our life. We can do so throughmeditation where we will experiencefirsthand the presence of God in ourlives.

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We are the most blessed generationin the history of human race.Never before, has there been so

much material prosperity, freedom ofthoughts and opportunities available to peo-ple. Even an ordinary person today possess-es items of luxury, like car, air-conditioners,televisions, computers and mobile phones,which were available only to the rich class ageneration ago. However, despite all theprosperity, the modern generation is per-haps the unhappiest generation of all time.It is suffering from poor health, obesity,stress at the work place and poor relation-ships with their friends and family.

Let us try to find out what is makingpeople unhappy in the present times.

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cess. We are happy if we succeed in achiev-ing, else we feel unhappy. Associating suc-cess with happiness is a trap that takes awayyour happiness since you can’t alwaysachieve success. Even when you become

successful, you set a new and higher para-meter of success till you are no more able toachieve it. Thus you tend to make your lifemiserable despite so many successes in yourlife. In order to achieve happiness, we mustkeep our expectations realistic and attain-able. Let us learn to seek only what is neededand be content. This will ensure lasting hap-piness in our life.

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hood that we must be better than others.Even when we grow up, we keep comparingourselves to others and become unhappywhen we come across a more successful per-son. Jack Canfield, the co-author of theChicken Soup for the Soul series explains, ‘Igenerally find that comparison is the fasttrack to unhappiness. No one ever comparesthemselves to someone else and comes outeven. Nine times out of ten, we compareourselves to people who are somehow betterthan us and end up feeling more inadequate.’

We must learn to appreciate and focus

on what we have rather than what othershave. If we avoid comparisons, we can makeour life happier.

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on the basis of their human qualities, but onthe basis of what they have. They seek morewealth in the hope that it would make givethem happiness. When that does not hap-pen, they seek even more wealth in life andwork even harder. They become part of therat race that never ends, nor do they everenjoy life. Instead, we must earn only asmuch as necessary and make money only ameans to good life and not an end. We mustlearn to derive happiness in non-materialthings like love, friendship, reading, writing,music, arts and so on, which do not needmuch money.

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power, reputation and fame, which dependson others. They feel happy when they areappreciated and unhappy when others criti-cise them. The happiness of such people isalways dependent upon others whom theyalways try to please. However, as they say,‘You can’t please all people all the time’.These rarely find happiness since some peo-ple are always critical of them.

Instead, we must try to discover happi-ness within. If we know ourselves well andidentify our passion, we can live life accord-ing to our nature and discover the source ofjoy within. Hence, no one can take our hap-piness from since its source is within us.

It is possible to be happy if we recognisethe importance of happiness in our life anddirect all our actions towards achieving hap-piness. Aristotle has said it wisely,“Happiness is the meaning and the purposeof life, the whole aim and end of humanexistence.”

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Union Home Minister AmitShah’s assertion that the

promotion of Hindi will helpunite India with a commonlanguage invited him the ire ofthe leaders of the non-HindiStates, particularly from south-ern India. The outrage ensuedin Shah’s clarification that henever stood for the impositionof Hindi on any other mothertongue, his own being Gujarati,but advocated the promotion ofHindi as a common secondlanguage to encourage nation-al integration.

However, Shah’s clarifica-tion didn’t have so much atten-tion as his purported firststatement. Between his twocomments, there was immedi-ate pushback from the leadersfrom southern States, includingfrom his own party membersin Karnataka. While the nationdiscussed Shah’s contentionfrom various perspectives,ranging from cultural and lan-guage domination to northIndian hegemony, not muchtime was spent on some otherunderlying messages.

Language may be oneissue, but the social reality ofthe society of its speakers isanother matter. There are someunspoken codes encrypted intoit which need thinking itthrough. They might not makefor pleasant reading.

Like all languages, Hindiand its dialects, are as beauti-ful as any on the planet. ButHindi cannot paper over thepoor public image its nativespeakers have in the eyes of therest of Indians. The reactionagainst the Home Minister’sstatement is a collective dis-agreement with what the Hindibelt stands for. To a largeextent, it has a poor social trackrecord. Law and order, justice,gender equality, poverty alle-viation and many other indicespaint an abysmal picture. It isnot that these are not true ofother parts of India; but in largeparts of the north they appearto be the norm. In journalisticand anecdotal accounts, evennorth Indians living in thesouth have concurred withsuch a perception.

For long, it has been a truthuniversally acknowledged thatthe capital of India has a bad

name in India and abroad. Therefore, it is tough to

make Hindi appealing to oth-ers. Sure, there have beenchanges in many parts of northIndia for the better, but onmany human developmentindices, they have been foundwanting. A study conducted bythe Bengaluru-based PublicAffairs Centre in 2013 said so.Better leadership and quality ofgovernance has led to southernStates surging ahead andwidening the gap in terms ofper capita income and poverty between the south andnorth.

The non-northern regionshave better schools, publicservices and localGovernments. There are more

north Indians working there,than the reverse. Indeed, beinglinked as Hindi speaking Statesof the north and getting con-flated with the Hindi belt doesinjustice to Punjab, HimachalPradesh and Uttarakhand,which have seen more progressas compared to the Hindiheartland. And this brings usto the biggest elephant inIndia’s political room: UttarPradesh. No state has such out-size power and say over whatIndia does. It is Hindi chau-vinism’s seedbed. How does itfare in human developmentmarkers? The Giri Institute ofDevelopmental Studies con-ducted research which it pub-lished in 2018 that said it hadamong the lowest quality of life

among Indian States. Uttar Pradesh’s size is its

blight. Uttarakhand was carvedout due to long agitationamong otherwise feuding hilltribes who united as theiropponent was common. Thereare long-standing demands forstatehood in water scarceBundelkhand, and in the sug-arcane and industrial belts ofPurvanchal and Harit Pradesh.Given its hulk, Uttar Pradesh iskeeping India backward, anddenying its own people rightsand services as citizens.

If the State with the largestnumber of Hindi speakers isthe bellwether of so much thathas gone awry in India, howcan its language become thenational one, so think the non-

Hindi people. Any languagecannot become an importantone till it hasn’t earned publicapproval. With his comments,the Home Minister may haveeroded any toehold of legiti-macy Hindi may have hadwith non-Hindi speaking peo-ples of India. He might havealso played a cruel joke onHindi’s first-born speakers. Forthey too aspire to move toEnglish.

Pride in one’s language is ofno value till it rewards itscommunicators. This applies toevery tongue in the world. IfAmit Shah and our politicalancestors were serious aboutHindi or any other language,we would have seen an indus-try develop around it that sus-

tained its speakers. Spanish,Standard Chinese, French,German, Portuguese, Arabic,and, of course English, aresome of the most powerful lan-guages of the world, as to agreat extent their speakers canget better chances to earn bet-ter livelihoods. Not manyIndian languages offer thatopportunity. For all their cul-tural capital what’s the future ofan individual learning Sanskritor Urdu in today’s India? Havethese languages been empow-ered to generate sustainableemployment? How does onemake an ancient or old lan-guage germane today?

Perhaps, it would be prag-matic and advisable for India todevelop the means to master

the English language andbecome its world champion.The economic and other incen-tives will be aplenty. Our cur-rent political masters hail fromIndia’s most trade savvyregions. If they plan it well, theycan leverage the chance tomake India the best Englishcommunicating country in theworld, to great ends. Languageand culture are also a form ofcapital. The subcontinent’smany languages prospered dueto state patronage. So, let’sleave Hindi aside for themoment. Can we focus onEnglish?

(The writer is AssociateProfessor, Jindal School ofLiberal Arts & Humanities.)

If you ever went through arough patch in your person-

al or professional life and hap-pened to search the existingself-help space for any practi-cal solution, you are most like-ly to stumble upon theomnipresent advice of lookingat the positive side of your cur-rent situation. Quite a vastlandscape of self-help space isoften found dispensing theadvice of positive thinking - theefficacy of which is debatable,to say the least.

A person with low self-esteem is highly unlikely tobecome a confident person bymerely faking the so-calledbehavioural nuances of a con-fident person. Since that per-son didn't feel particularly con-fident, to begin with, in hishonest effort to convince him-self otherwise merely reaf-firmed his negativity. In short,“positive thinking” in all like-lihood will make him feelworse and less happy in theprocess.

A set of thoughts which arein direct dissonance with yourbehavioural pattern will strug-gle to leave an imprint onyour psychology.

Most of us usually gothrough life under the delusionthat it is certain people, situa-tions, or events that make ussad, anxious, or angry. But

nothing outside your mindcan properly be described asnegative or positive at all. Whatactually causes suffering are thebeliefs you hold about thosethings.

The inherent flaw in posi-tive thinking is captured best byone of the characters in an EdithWharton story, “There are lotsof ways of being miserable, butthere's only one way of beingcomfortable, and that is to stoprunning after happiness.”

Our insatiable urge to findperfection in everyday life isone of the primary causes ofour general dissatisfaction.Denying failure doesn't meanthat it does not exist. Similarly,denial of obstacles and con-comitant failure is never goingto help you prepare for unfore-seen challenges. Avoidance ofimpending obstacles is hardlythe answer.

Clinging to a particularversion of a happy life, whilefighting to eliminate all possi-bility of an unhappy one, is thecause of the problem, not itssolution. The sooner you cometo terms with your own set ofvulnerability and imperfec-tions you are ready to acceptfailures as a part of the grow-ing process. You start believingthat nothing is going to keepyou down and out for long.

Your tireless effort to dot

every “i” and cross every “t” inlife often results in unmanage-able stress in life. Mindless pur-suit of positive fantasizingmight give you a false sense ofcalmness, while obstructingyou from realising your mostcherished dreams.

But if positive thinking is

not the best solution then whatthe alternative is?

Gabrielle Oettingen andPeter Gollwitzer, experts on thepsychology of motivation atNew York University, discov-ered that people are far morelikely to achieve their goals ifthey think hard about both the

outcome they want and theobstacles they are facing andplan for both.

Goals without plans andplans without a schedule arenothing but a hopelessly unre-alistic dream. Plans and sched-ules have the potential to trans-form a seemingly unrealistic

dream into realistic milestones.Therefore an approach to

goal-setting that contrasts theideal outcome with the realityof the obstacles results in amore robust and successfulplan of action — known asmental contrasting.

Why does mental con-

trasting work so well?The mental contrasting

allows people to direct moreenergy towards goals; they hada chance of achieving. Itenhances our awareness ofobstacles in our path. It alsostrengthens cognitive linksbetween the future and obsta-cles, as well as between obsta-cles and what we need to do toovercome them. All of thisprimes us to tackle obstaclesthat seem possible to overcomeand to shrink away from obsta-cles that we believe are insur-mountable.

People with realistic goalsinvariably apply more effortand perform better, and peoplewith unrealistic goals oftentend to leave midway. Thepath of least resistance is rarelythe preferred choice for achiev-ers. Invariably all breeds ofachievers train themselves toface the worst fear withoutbeing intimidated by them. Asa result, they are ever ready toadapt their strategies accord-ingly and tend to thrive underall sorts of challenging cir-cumstances. “Enthusiasm iscommon. Endurance is rare.”

Our cognitive associationbetween the future possibilitiesand possible impedimentsprove to be a significant factorin deciding how long we willpursue a seemingly challenging

task and to what extent we arewilling to stretch ourselves tofind a solution. And a lot of itdepends on how you treat yourmind and feelings.

Have you seen the skyclinging on to a specific weath-er condition or trying to get ridof the bad ones? The humanmind is a lot like a screen onwhich our feelings get project-ed but should screen get con-fused about its own identity bythe content of the things thatget projected on it?

However, we all are com-mitting the mistake of identi-fying ourselves with emotionsthat get often projected througha diverse set of experiences. Weoften let those emotional expe-riences shape the contours ofour identity; which is not a wisedecision on our part.

Your current feelingshouldn't be an obstacle in exe-cuting your daily plan of action.Making it a hostage to yourever mutable feeling is not thewisest of decisions. Your feel-ings are just part of your innerexpression. Accept it and let itbe. Your mind can coexist withthe diversity of your feelingswithout being affected by it.Just give it a try.

(The writer is an IRS officer. Views expressed are personal.)

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Someone holding a high position inan international organisation is offand on confronted with upsetting

situations at works and even on personalscore for the last three years. He cameasking the other day: “Why is it happen-ing so, particularly during second half ofSeptember? It takes almost two monthsto get over the problem. Otherwise, myoverall performance level is quite good.Some pundits say that my problems willcontinue till sadhesati exists, whichmeans for the next three years. They havesuggested some belief driven practices toappease shanideva, the possibility ofwhich doesn’t exist in a foreign country.Please suggest some remedial measure,which is workable in my present environ-ment to overcome recurring problem.”

Well, your problems can’t be simplyattributed to sadhesati. I do not subscribeto the pundit’s view that you may have tonecessarily go through similar ordeal forthe remaining period of sadhesati, whichends in January 2023. The remedial mea-sure they suggested wont help you any-way. Sadhesati began five years back, butit didn’t bother you during its beginningphase of two and half years. You gotaffected with the onset of its second

phase in January 2017, when transitSaturn closed up with natal Moon. Thattriggered your inherent mind-traits tocome out full force in their true colours.The fact that you carried lot of negativetraits, is what accounts for your problems.

Remember, planets are not doers thatcould do good or bad in our life in theirown right. Planet’s progression just servesas pointers to the way your karmic cycleis expected to play out during a particularperiod. We, however, are not necessarilybound by them. Should we be aware ofthe basic fabric of our mind’s making, wecould make necessary correction and bewell geared up to intelligently take on anynegative implication. Also, we must opti-mise our inherent strengths to successful-ly avail of the opportunities expected tounfold. The paradox, however, is that sel-dom people are found to be consciousabout exploring their own fault lines fornecessary correction.

Bear in mind — life runs throughvarious phases from birth to death, eachone calling for a particular mode ofworking. Accordingly, we need to reori-ent our thought process and workingmodalities from time to time in order tokeep pace with the asking of the emerg-

ing phases of life. Otherwise, our life willbecome subject to unwanted twists andturns. The human tendency is to stick topast habits and beliefs unless otherwiseforced by circumstances. That makes itincumbent upon you to take charge ofthe self, and willingly change with time.There could be no better remedial mea-sure than this. Those who do, sadhesatidoesn’t pose any problem. Otherwise, youmay become victim of your own making,as has happened with you.

Here, an insight into astrologicalpointers to your mind-traits becomesimperative. The Sun, which stands foryour identity, is conjunct Saturn, andadverse to Neptune. This, in the firstplace, speaks of an inherent sense of fearand insecurity, which puts you in a nega-tive mode particularly when confrontedwith a situation not to your liking.Second, you are stuck to your imaginaryperceptions, often distanced from groundrealities. Also, you may not acknowledgetruth on its first appearance, and ratherpursue your line of thinking till pushed tothe wall.

Moon occupying your 10th house, onone hand promises occupying prominentposition, which you are already enjoying.But that it occupies Sagittarius signmakes you tactless, undiplomatic, and

habitually suspicious of others. Moon alsolocks horns with Saturn and Venus. That,in the first place, further adds to yoursense of negativity. Also, it doesn’t let youremain alert enough to foresee challengescoming your way. Second, it makes youextremely emotionally touchy and sensi-tive, whereby you may overreact to eventrivial issues, which may tempt you tounnecessarily get into a combative mode.On top of that is your inflated ego, aswould Mars placed adverse to Jupitermean. This makes you stuck to self-defined dos and don’ts, not open to lookbeyond for a reality check. It also makesyou judgmental of the highest order.

No wonder, as transit Saturn trig-gered your natal Moon, your inherentinfirmities came into full play. That madeyou vulnerable to become a victim ofown making, particularly when transitSun enters Virgo sign as it becomesopposite natal Saturn. Should you try toresolve your fault lines, sadhesati may notbother you anymore.

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