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catching a plane for Rio
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after the wrestler was exonerated of doping charges by the
National Anti-Doping Agency
(NADA) here on Monday.
Following the verdict, the
Wrestling Federation of India
(WFI) president Brij Bhushan
Sharan Singh said the process
to get Narsingh back in the
Olympic squad has been set in
motion and the report will be
sent to global wrestling body
United World Wrestling, that
will take a final call on the issue.
Narsingh will also have to
undergo the reinstatement test
by NADA before he can be
cleared of going anywhere.
“He will have to go through
a reinstatement testing before
he goes anywhere,” said
Narsingh’s lawyer Vidushpat
Singhania.
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right to appeal within 21
days. Till the time they do not
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not overturned, this decision
stands. Right now he is free to
compete at Rio unless
they appeal and it is overturned.”
Earlier, ending week-long
speculation, NADA DG
Naveen Agarwal said Yadav
was a victim of sabotage and he
deser ved the benefit of
doubt, leading to wild celebrations among his supporters
who gathered in numbers to
offer their support to the
wrestler’s case.
“We kept in mind that in
the past, till June 2, none of his
samples were positive. It was
inconceivable that one-time
ingestion would be of
benefit. Therefore the panel is
of the view that the onetime ingestion was not intentional,” Agarwal told reporters
on Monday while reading out
the verdict.
“The panel concludes that
the athlete deserves the bene-
fit of Article 10.4 of the NADA’s
anti-doping code. Keeping in
view that he was victim of sabotage, the panel exonerates the
athlete from charges of antidoping rules of NADA,” he
added.
Agar wal added that
wrestler was not informed
about the report till the July
5 sample was taken. So had he
been regularly taking it, then
the extent of the substance in
Yadav’s body would have been
same on July 5 as well June 25.
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IChairman
its Dhenkanl Municipality
Indramani Behera
lost his post on Monday as four
of the party Councillors voted in
favour of the Congress-moved
no-confidence motion defying
party whip.
Out of the civic body's 23
Councillors, 17 voted in support of the motion while three
votes were declared invalid.
Behera along with
Gyanachand Mishra of the
BJD and Independent
Councillor Sisira Dalei
abstained from voting.
After Behera's ouster, ViceChairman Namita Behera of
the BJP was declared in-charge
Chairman.
With six BJD Councillors,
Indramani Behera had managed to avail support of five BJP
Councillors and become the
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Government on Monday
rushed to clarify that neither
was it informed by the Central
Water Commission (CWC)
about the Kelo project nor did
it receive any letter from the
Chhattisgarh Government to
this effect as claimed by opposition parties and the neighbouring State.
“We want to clarify that
Odisha Government has not
received any letter from the
Chhattisgarh Government
contrary to media reports,
which showed two letters were
received from the Chief
Engineer and the Chhattisgarh
Water Resources Secretary in
July and September 2008,”
claimed Chief Secretary Aditya
Prasad Padhi at a Press conference at the State Secretariat
here.
Slamming the CWC Padhi
said, “On January 20, 2009 the
Kelo project on Mahanadi was
cleared by the CWC and
Odisha was not apprised. Such
back door clearance is unjust
and as a co-basin State, Odisha
should have been invited to
the meeting before clearance.”
He further stated that the
Government would move an
appropriate forum or court of
law if water level in the nonmonsoon period decreases.
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period if the water level that
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less, Odisha will be adversely
affected and we will not tolerate that. After getting detailed
information
from
Chhattisgarh, we will certainly approach the appropriate
forum to get the projects
stopped or justice."
The Chief Secretary also
claimed that Chhattisgarh's
Kelo Project was approved by
the
Central
Water
Commission (CWC) on
January 20, 2009 and Odisha
was not apprised.
On the issue of formation
of a joint control board (JCB)
Padhi said the State
Government has not yet taken
any decision on the formation
of a JCB as suggested by the
Centre at the July 29 meeting
held in New Delhi.
Water Resources Secretary
Pradip Jena, who was present
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Chairman in 2013. There was
an understanding that Behera
would quit the Chairman post
to the BJP after two years.
Indramani faced the anger
of the BJP Councillers as he
refused to quit the post after
two years.
Meanwhile, four aggrieved
BJD Councillors supported the
motion and defied the party
whip on the plea that their
wards were neglected and their
voice was ignored in the party.
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protest at various railway sta-
Commission office here on
August 3 demanding an impartial
probe
into
the
Chhattisgarh's secret ploy
against Odisha's interest," said
party general secretary Debi
Prasad Mishra, spokesperson
Pratap Keshari Deb and WODC
Chairman Kishore Kumar
Mohanty at a Press meet here.
They alleged that the
Chhattisgarh Government has
shown false information
tions to stop Chhattisgarhbound goods trains for half an
hour on August 3 to protest
against construction of barrages upstream the Mahanadi
in the neighbouring State.
"We will stop all goods
trains to Chhattisgarh at different railway stations and hold a
relay strike at the Central Water
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Monday struck a double
whammy on all the former Chief
Ministers of Uttar Pradesh by
directing them to vacate their
official bungalows in the State
within two months and pay
rent for the period of their “illegal” stay. A 1997 executive
order issued by the State
Government titled “Ex-Chief
Ministers Residence Allotment
Rules” had permitted all former
Chief Ministers to occupy Type
VI bungalows for life. A PIL
filed by NGO Lok Prahari
challenged this privilege on the
ground that there already existed a law, The Uttar Pradesh
Ministers (Salaries, Allowances
and Miscellaneous Provisions)
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Singh reiterating that he
would not return to
Act, 1981 which governs allotment of bungalows. Under this
Act, a Minister or a Chief
Minister is allowed to retain the
bungalow only for 15 days
after demitting office.
A Bench of Justices Anil R
Dave, NV Ramana and R
Banumathi unanimously struck
down the 1997 Rules as violative of the 1981 Act and directed all bungalows occupied by
ex-Chief Ministers to be vacated within two months.
the Sport Hostel, the
Child
Welfare
Committee (CWC) on
Monday engaged psychologist Prof UN
Dash to counsel him to
return to the hostel.
Meanwhile, on
Monday
evening
Budhia left for Delhi along with
his mother Sukanti Singh for
promotion of a movie ‘Budhia
Singh, Born to Run,’ a Hindi
movie directed by Soumendra
Padhi. The movie is based on the
Budhia who ran 62 km at the age
of four.
Notably, the 14-year-old
marathon runner Budhia is
unwilling to return to the Staterun-Sports Hostel in the city,
where he was staying since 2007.
He had left the hostel on
May 10 during summer
vacation and did not
return thereafter.
However, Budhia
alleges that he was not
getting training at the
Sport Hostel up to his
expectation.
Budhia’s mother
Sukanti Singh also said that she
would prefer to allow his son to
stay at a private place where he
would get proper training.
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way out? A drastic
the catch of hilsa has
brought into sharp focus the
endangered State of the sea
fish. With the yield not
encouraging this time, the
price has shot through the
roof making the fish out of
reach of the common people.
One can rarely find hilsa in
the fish markets of Kendrapadra
now-a-days. A kg of hilsa is selling at as high as Rs 1,400-1,500
in Paradip, informed, Orissa
before the Centre regarding
its construction of barrages
on the Mahanadi.
Mishra said Odisha has
the absolute right to be consulted before clearing any
project on the Mahanadi, be
it for irrigation or power generation. They too informed
that party would announce a
fact-fining team to visit barrage sites in Chhattisgarh on
August 5.
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at the Press briefing, said,
though the Chhattisgrah
Government is coming up
with seven projects it has only
shared about one with the
Odisha Government.
"Out of seven projects in
Arpa of Chhattisgarh, we have
received the detailed project
report (DPR) of one project
only on April 18 this year. We
have also intimated them our
comments. Neither we have
the DPRs of three completed
projects nor the three proposed projects in Chhattisgarh. It is really impossible to
assess the combined impact of
the projects without information," said Jena.
Meanwhile, Chhattisgarh
Water Resources Minister said
they sent the receipt of the letter to Odisha Government.
On the other hand, Lok
Sabha Speaker Sumitra
Mahajan on Monday sought a
reply from Water Resources
MoS Sanjeev Balyan seeking
his response over the privilege
motion brought by the BJD
over the Mahanadi dispute.
On Monday too, BJD MP
Prabhas Singh too submitted
a priviligae motion against
Balyan on the issue.
Fishermen Federation president Narayan Haldar.
"The drop in the yield is
unprecedented. Never before,
had hilsa catch fallen to such
a low level. Those who had
pinned their hopes on bountiful catch are left thoroughly disappointed this time,"
he informed.
A few years back, at this
time of the year, Kendrapada,
Jagatasinghpur and its nearby fish markets were flooded
with basketful of silvery hilsa.
But now, hilsa has become a
rare sight in the fish market.
The fishermen are going to sea
to catch fish, especially for
catching hilsa, as it is the right
time for catch. But hardly
have the fishermen been able
to catch hilsa at sea. As a
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result, the hilsa rate is high.
The hilsa's peculiar habitat makes it impossible to
breed the fish artificially
through aquaculture, unlike
other fish. The adult hilsa
swims several km upstream to
freshwater from the sea for
spawning and returns to saline
water after that the eggs hatch
in freshwater. The sub-adult
hilsa flows back downstream
into the sea, a process that
takes a few months. Generally,
during the low pressure, the
fishermen generally catch
abundant hilsa at the confluence of river mouth of
Mahanadi and the Bay of
Bengal. But, this year in the
ongoing monsoon season ,the
rain is playing hide and sick
and low pressure rain has not
occurred enough on this
coastal part, so the hilsa catch
has reduced a lot, stated
Additional Director of Fishery
(Marine), Kujanga Biraja
Prasanna Mohapatra.
"The fishermen dispose of
their yield through auction in
the Paradip fishing harbour.
While nearly 10-15 per cent
catch is sold off in local markets
of Paradip civil township,
Kujang, Kendrapada and
Jagatsinghpur, the bulk of the
produce is dispatched to other
parts of the State. The hilsa supply to West Bengal,
mainly Kolkata, has almost
come to a grinding halt this year,
solely due to lack of hilsa catch
in the sea," said Maa Ramchandi
Boat Owner's Association president Anatha Bandhu Das.
ity roads from PMG
Square to Acharya Vihar
and from Acharya Vihar to
Vani Vihar wore a deserted
look at least for half an hour as
shops and market complexes
remained closed and vehicles
were stranded ahead of Chief
Minister Naveen Patnaik’s visit
to the Utkal University campus
here on Monday afternoon.
The Commissionerate
police didn’t take any chance
for any agitators to show black
flags or shout anti-Government
slogans during movement of
the CM’s cavalcade. A large
number of armed police personnel stood on roadsides
hours before the CM came to
inaugurate a boys’ hostel and a
sports hostel in the university
campus.
Over a 100 activists of the
Student Congress and the
ABVP were taken to preventive
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custody to avert any form of
protest by them.
Notably, some Student
Congress activists had managed to pelt rotten eggs at the
CM’s car at the Rabindra
Mandap during his visit to
Vani Vihar last year.
Opposing the CM’s visit to
the premier university of the
State, Akhila Bharatiya
Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP)
activists alleged that no development has been effected during the 16 years of the BJD rule.
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ension gripped the SOG
camp at Chandaka on the
city outskirts after a Special
Operation Group (SOG)
jawan died while running as
part of his training on
Monday.
As the news broke out, the
other jawans of the camp
staged a demonstration in
front of the camp alleging
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that the victim was forced to
undergo training even after he
had complained of illness.
The deceased was identified as Laxminarayan
Pradhan.
Pradhan fell unconscious
while running during the training session in the morning. He
was rushed to the Capital
Hospital here but declared
brought dead by doctors.
Following the mishap,
other jawans staged protest in
front of the camp and blocked
road alleging that Pradhan
was directed to undergo training even after he complained
of suffering from fever. They
further alleged that there was
delay in providing primary
treatment to the jawan for
which he died.
The jawans demanded a
probe into the incident and
action against the camp
authorities who asked Pradhan
to participate in training
despite his sickness.
Intelligence Director Sunil
Roy and IG, Operations
Soumendra Priyadarshi held
discussions with the agitating
jawans, following which the
jawans called off the strike.
“Neither the victim not
others informed the authorities about his health condition
before
running.
Compensation will be provided to the family of the
deceased jawan as per
Government norms. Though
it appears to be a case of cardiac arrest, the actual reason
behind the death can be ascertained after postmortem,” said
Priyadarshi.
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ensing a gargantuan challenge from a raging BJP
Sriding
on PM Modi’s charisma, and when the ruling BJD
apparently finding itself
sucked deep into the scandalous mucks, the ruling
party for ‘electoral nirvana’
went for a plunge in the
Mahanadi.
Why, or else, when the
smoke of Kelo Project and
Ar pa-Bhaisajar barrage
emanated from Chhattisgarh
soil way back in 2007 and
2012, when the irrigation
projects were touted then by
Chhattisgarh Government as
harbinger of new Green
Revolution and which hogged
the national media headlines
then, Odisha caught fire only
in 2016 as the State
Government here smelt the
perils when the projects are
almost on the verge of completion.
Significantly, as per a
Central Water Commission
(CWC) assessment, the river
basin of Mahanadi has an
average water resources
potential of around 66.9 billion cubic metre (BCM)
annually and the surface storage capacity created in the
Mahanadi basin is only
50BCM. And, with increasing
population in the basin,
where Odisha has a share of
over 46 per cent to
Chhattisgarh’s around 53 per
cent, the per capita water
availability of Mahanadi river
basin is on the down slope as
it is set to touch 1,294 million
cubic metres (MCM) by 2050
– down by 29 per cent since
2010.
This reveals reduced
water availability per capita in
the Mahanadi in future.
As per the 1983 interState agreement, Chhattisgarh
has been allotted to use 26,
542 MCM of water of
Mahanadi basin. And, the
current water usage by
Chhattisgarh from the basin
stood at around 7, 470 MCM.
Since, rivers are dynamic in
nature and Mahanadi being
dependant on monsoon, there
ought to have a fresh review
done with regard to the water
resources p otential of
Mahanadi basin now, given
the present CWC assessment
was done in 1993.
Odisha’s best bet now lies
in proving the fact that could
show how the State is or
would be drawing reduced
water inflow as an after effect
to Chhattisgarh’s upping up of
surface storage projects in
Mahanadi basin. Even, in the
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July 29 meeting in New Delhi
when the Chhattisgarh Chief
Secretary mounted with loads
of technical evaluations
floored his Odisha counterpart, courtesy absence of any
equivalent technical counterevaluation with the Odisha
Chief Secretary to pin down
Chhattisgarh claims.
What surprises the water
watch bodies here is while the
ruling party is gleefully moving fast to flame up passions
on Mahanadi water in districts where the river is the
lifeline, it makes a niggard
headway on the real ground
of technical study which matters most to fight with either
in tribunal or in the Supreme
Court.
Even, what dismays the
political watchers is BJD’s
political move to set fire on
the Mahanadi river in order
to harvest a sound electoral
fortune.
The reason: It carries the
risk of sinking BJD in the
Mahanadi eddies as the ‘hype’
of BJD must have to meet the
‘ground-level’ feeling among
the water users in the districts.
BJD’s hawkish stance
could bear fruits only when
the standing crops of farmers
in Odisha could risk a
washout like the infamous
Cauver y imbroglio that
singed Karnataka and TN in
1990s.
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hearing of nine servitors of the
Shree Jagannath Temple, who are
accused of creating disturbance
during the Niladri Bije rituals on
July 17 and are also declared as
absconders, to August 4.
The servitors include six
priests who were arrested for
allegedly misbehaving with Puri
district Collector Arvind
Agarwal during the Niladri Bije
of Lord Jagannath. On the other
hand, eight servitors, Damodar
Mahasuara, Jayakrushna Mahasuara, Saina Khuntia, Bhimsen Palankadhari, Ipsit
Pratihari, Rabi Dash, Kashinath Khuntia and Bhagirathi
Khuntia, who were declared
absconders by Puri police are
yet to be arrested. Some servitors had an altercation with the
Collector during Niladri Bije rituals when the latter confronted
them after they took their family members atop chariots despite
a ban order. The incident had led
to delay in the rituals and the
Pahandi of the deities.
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minent rice scientist Dr
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Himanshu Pathak joined as
the new Director of National
Rice Research Institute (NRRI)
here on Monday. Earlier, he was
working as a Senior Scientist at
the Indian Agricultural Research
Institute (IARI) in New Delhi.
An expert on soil science
and agricultural chemistry, Dr
Pathak has published more than
200 research papers and
authored at least 11 books, most
of which are on climate change.
He is also a visiting scientist in
the UK-based University of
Essex, Philippines-based IRRI
and Germany-based Institute of
Meteorology and Climate
Research.
Speaking to this correspondent, Pathak said his new assignment is relatively challenging as
he would be working mainly on
improving rice productivity in
the country, particularly in eastern India against the backdrop
of climate change and at the same
time managing the natural
resources.
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s many as 15,00,405 ineligible beneficiaries have been
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excluded from the list of the
National Food Security Act
(NFSA) cardholders by June 10,
and the number seems to rise
further as more such beneficiaries are likely to surrender cards
by August 13 for fear of legal
action.
Beneficiaries, who have
obtained digitised ration cards to
get subsidised rice and wheat
under the NFSA by furnishing
false information, are being
excluded. By now, 4,03,785 ration
cards either have been cancelled
or returned.
Notably,
the
State
Government had set a target to
include 3, 26, 41,250 eligible person under the NFSA. Accordingly, households comprising
3.15 crore people were issued
over 83 lakh ration cards by end
of previous financial year. There
were nine criteria for addition of
genuine beneficiaries under the
scheme and five criteria for
exclusion of beneficiaries from
the centrally sponsored scheme.
Under NFSA guidelines set
by the Centre, the bogus ration
cardholders such as APLs counted fraudulently as BPLs would be
excluded. The persons like beggars, destitute, pension holder
widows, particularly vulnerable
tribal groups (PVTGs) and persons having 40 per cent or above
disabilities would be included
under the scheme.
Except Antodaya Anna
Yojana, APL families of KBK districts, BPL families across the
State and poor/left-out family
concepts have been discarded.
However, provisions for
SC/ST boarders, fisherman families and persons with differently abled schemes would not be
covered under the Act. The
State Government would have to
shoulder the responsibility for
these categories.
The nine exclusion criteria
include monthly income of over
Rs 15,000 in urban area and over
Rs 10,000 in rural area, income
tax payers, persons having four
wheelers, electric consumption
above 300 units per month,
State and Union Government
employees, persons having tractors, power-tillers, fishing boats
or any other heavy vehicles,
persons having entrepreneurship
and professional tax payers.
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He holds no office of profit. He owns no business empire either. Yet, he has devoted his entire
time and energy for eradicating superstition, blind
beliefs, social taboos and the like. An arch enemy
of religious obscurantism and fanaticism, a restless crusader against occult practices, Debendra
Sutar has undertaken a pioneering effort for introducing a legislation in the Odisha Legislative
Assembly for those willing persons voluntarily
expressing their desire to donate their bodies after
their natural death for medical research. Sutar also
played a pivotal role in promulgating a law in the
Assembly against witchcraft in our State by providing necessary data to the Government over this
macabre practice of burning women suspecting
them as witches. Both these Acts have come into
force from 2013. He is also in the habit of extending free legal aid by arrangement with the socialminded lawyers and also helps such victims in
rehabilitation and in providing education to the
needy. He has his own ways to reach the desired
goal for an egalitarian society. Nourishing strong
contempt against the supine bureaucracy, Sutar
files PILs in the High Court and pursues the court
for carrying the matter to its logical conclusion.
At present, he is the editor of Odia magazine
Vaignanika Charcha published from
Bhubaneswar. The journal carries articles against
social dogmas and superstitions. In an interview
to The Pioneer, Sutar spoke to Sugyan
Choudhury at his CDA residence in Cuttack.
is now possible to save the patient by removing the diseased organ and transplanting a
healthy organ in its place. Now, from where
does his healthy organ come? It is not possible to extract such an organ from a living person nor will any living person agree to part
with his organ. But once a person is ‘brain
dead’ if instead of cremating or burning a dead
body, we extract the organ from such a body
and transplant it in the patient, we may save
a number of lives. The cornea extracted from
such a person may give sight to somebody who
is blind due to some corneal problem. In this
way, a man or woman who is dying will live
in another body for many more years. Besides,
there exists an acute shortage of cadavers for
medical students to study. First, for a long
time, I had been knocking at the doors of
Ministers and MLAs. Failing in my efforts to
convince them, once again I took the shelter
of the High Court through a PIL. After the
What propelled you to take up endgames 3TQT]SaPBdcPa
against superstition?
As a child, I had been very inquisitive. I used High Court’s directions, the Government
to question on anything I did not have an answer. brought about an amendment to the Odisha
I remember I was then a primary school student. Anatomy Act, 1975 facilitating body and organ
On a lunar eclipse day, I had to return home donation after death. Until now, we have
from school in full fasting, walking down a long, donated 15 bodies to the different medical collong way, while I was hungry. Even then, my suf- leges in Odisha. We have deposited more than
fering did not end. I had to keep on fasting there- 500 forms from different persons pledging to
after throughout the night. This incident donate their bodies after death.
shocked me very much to be on revolt against
our customs. As a youth, I observed that poor Odisha still abounds with superstitious beliefs
villagers had to sell their minimum possession and practices. What other works are you
of accruable land organising feast for the entire undertaking to eradicate these phenomena?
Yes, it is unfortunate but true. Many of such
village on the Sraddha ritual of the departed. I
have noticed my mother propitiating Goddess old beliefs and traditions are impeding social
of wealth Lakshmi, but we still continued to suf- development. Take for example, Rath Yatra. It
fer from extreme poverty. Such incidents left a is one of the important festivals of Odisha and
deep imprint in my mind. When I grew up, I celebrated everywhere. It is a part of our social
life. Such festivals may be necessary for all-round
pledged to fight against all such blind beliefs.
societal good. But just one aspect of it: Every
How did you begin trying to end witch year, the carts for the deities are built anew from
fresh wood. For making the three carts only for
haunting?
Large numbers of people, particularly the Puri Rath Yatra, 1,000 trees, 50–60 years old,
women, are killed in Odisha being branded as are cut every year. This is having a serious
witches. Every year, an average of 70 murders adverse effect on the environment and ecology.
is committed in Odisha for alleged practice of We like to say that instead of building the carts
witchcraft. During last six years, 360 people anew every year, necessary repairing could be
have been killed. But there is no concern done. I had moved the High Court on this issue
expressed about this. Much less numbers of too but without a success. We are trying to build
people died in the State in the hands of Maoists. up public opinion on the matter.
I have tried to bring an end to this medieval
practice. In 2011, I filed a PIL in the High Court It’s said charity begins at home. Do you in your
for directing the Government to frame a spe- life and family practice do what you preach
cial law on the matter. The High Court after against superstition for a scientific bent of
adjudicating the case directed the Government mind?
accordingly. In 2013, the Government pro- Yes. I had told you that right since my childhood
mulgated the prevention of witch haunting Act. I started questioning. As a child, I could not do
In case of a witch killing, both the perpetra- more. But when I was grown enough to take my
tor and the victim suffer longtime social and own decisions, I have tried to live by examples.
financial disaster. Therefore, once we come to I married without a priest, without a provision,
know any such incident, we try to investigate without dowry in a most informal way. We do
the different aspects involved and try to devel- not have a ‘Puja room’ in our house; we have a
library instead. Instead of observing Sraddha for
op social consciousness.
our forefathers, we keep their photos and
What’s your interest on the post-death body remember them. All my family members,
including my children, have deposited the
and organ donation?
When vital organs like heart, kidney, lungs form pledging our bodies after death. After my
and liver fail due to any reason, people die. mother’s death, her body was donated to the SCB
Efforts are taken to treat these diseases with Medical College. It was the first such case in
medicines and surgery. But often, such treat- Odisha. Instead of believing in fate and miraments are not enough to set right the organs. cles, I repose confidence on my work. I am
With the developments of medical science, it happy.
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Bhubaneswar: The State
Government has decided to
recruit transgender persons as
jail warders as per the directive
of the Supreme Court.
The State police have intimated to the Odisha Subordinate
Staff Selection Commission
(OSSSC) to initiate necessary
process for recruitment of transgenders as jail waders.
“A letter to this effect has
been sent to the commission to
take necessary steps in this
regard,” ADG (Prisons)
Manoranjan Patnaik.
Notably, in a letter to the
ADG-cum-IG of Prisons, and
Department of Correctional
Service (DCS) on July 27 this
year, Home Deputy Secretary BB
Mishra had sought a clarification
on inclusion of the transgenders
as a gender category in recruitment of jail Warders by keeping
their physical standards at the
same level as that of women candidates as per the observation of
the Social Security and
Empowerment of Persons with
Disabilities (SSEPD).
The letter had also requested the ADG to furnish the
above observation/clarification
to the OSSSC to expedite the
process of recruitment of jail
warders by stipulating the same
physical standards for the transgenders as are prescribed for
women candidates.
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ven as the State
Government has ambiE
tiously set a target to commence MBBS classes in the
proposed
f ive
new
Government medical colleges
from the 2017-18 academic
session, paucity of funds for
infrastructure seems to be
standing on the way.
The Ministry of Health
and Family Welfare, which
approved the proposed medicals to come up at
Mayurbhanj, Baleswar, Puri,
Balangir and Koraput with a
project cost of Rs189 crore
each, is going very slow in
releasing funds, sources in the
Health Department said.
Cost of the projects sanctioned in 2014-15 had been
shared in the ratio of 75:25
between the Centre and the
State Government. But it was
later changed to 60:40 in
2015-16.
Out of Rs 567 crore
Central share, the Union
Government has so far
released Rs120 crore, which
counts only 21.16 per cent of
the total. Hence, projects are
facing severe funds crunch
now.
Though Chief Minister
Naveen Patnaik has requested Prime Minister Narendra
Modi to release funds for
timely completion of construction of the medical colleges, yet it had yielded no
result. The CM has too
informed the PM that admission to MBBS courses has
been set to commence from
2017-18 academic session.
Even as the State
Government has made adequate budget provision for the
projects, Centre has been very
slow in releasing funds, said
a senior official.
Meanwhile, a revised
estimate of Rs 2450.9 crore
has been submitted to the
Union Health and Family
Welfare Ministry for the five
proposed medical colleges for
capital expenditure, equip-
ment and manpower.
With 12th Five Year Plan
ending in 2016-17, State
Government officials are
apprehensive as to whether
the Centre would provide
funds for the new medical
colleges.
Unless capital cost is
released in 2-3 installments
during the current financial
year, construction of infrastructure would certainly be
delayed and the commencement from 2017-18 academic session may not be possible, apprehended a top official.
BJD MPs would take up
the matter in both the houses of the Parliament during
the monsoon session, said
Rajya Sabha member AU
Singh Deo.
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three-member Special
Investigation Team (SIT),
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headed by Human Rights
Protection Cell (HRPC) SP
Gurudas Kundu, on Monday
began its second-phase probe
into the death of five villagers
during an anti-Maoist opera-
tion near Gumudumaha village in the Malapanga forest
of Kandhamal district on July
8 even as tribals and dalits hit
the streets in B aliguda
demanding arrest of the
jawans involved in the killing.
“The team led by me with
a DSP and an officer in the
rank of deputy commandant
arrived here yesterday. We have
begun the second phase investigation from today. We will
confine our investigation to
Phulbani, Baliguda and its
nearby areas. We are trying to
collect relevant information in
connection with the incident to
bring the truth to the limelight
at the earliest,” said Kundu.
He said the SIT is yet to
get the forensic report of the
guns, live bullets and empty
cartridges it had seized in its
first phase investigation to
ballistic experts.
“Till then, our next phase
probe will focus on the collection of allied information
about the nature of firing
and the nature of death of the
villagers,” said Kundu.
Meanwhile, demanding
arrest of the jawans responsi-
ble for the civilians’ killing, a
mass protest was organised at
Baliguda by several tribal and
dalit organisations from
across the State.
In view of the mass congregation, security was tightened at Baliguda. Four DSPs,
50 officers and 19 platoons of
police force were deployed to
maintain law and order.
The protesters’ rally began
from the Baliguda mini stadium and marched through
the town before culminating
at the Sub-Collector’s office,
where tribal and dalit leaders
addressed a gathering.
Later, they submitted a
memorandum addressed to
the President and Governor
to the Sub-Collector.
“The Government is yet
to take any proactive action
against tribal and dalit killers.
In the name of Maoist operation, the security forces have
been killing civilians. We
demand immediate arrest of
the jawans responsible for
the killing and also withdrawal of security forces from
here,” said activist Prafulla
Samantara.
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dling growth story of the
Paradip Port among Indian
Major Ports continues with a
quantum jump in the cargo
handled by the port in July
when the port handled a
record throughput of 8.06
MMT in a single month surpassing the earlier highest
record of 7.61 MMT in March
this year.
This record handling of
cargo growth in July 2016
versus the same month of
previous year in 2015 is 32%
more (in July 2015, PPT had
handled 6.09 MMT).
The major growth of cargo
came in July 2016 with addition of 8 lakh tonne of POL, 6
lakh tonne of imported coking
coal and 6 lakh tonne of other
cargoes like imported lime-
stone, dolomite, etc.
Incidentally, in the four
months (April-July) of 201617, the port handled 28.65
MMT of cargo compared to
24.34 MMT in the corresponding four months of
2015-16 witnessing a growth
of 17.75%.
The port authorities have
taken necessary steps in recent
months not only for the port
customers to do “Business
with Ease” as per the initiatives
of the Ministry of Shipping, but
its efforts have taken the port
in achieving many records in
the history of the port.
The PPT Chairman and
Deputy Chairman congratulated all the port users, stakeholders and service providers
of the PPT along with port
employees and officers who
have contributed to the cargo
handling records.
have rendered their voices to
the songs.
When asked why listeners
would love the music, Ratnesh
Bhagat saied the music can win
the heart of music lovers as all
the tracks have true Odia
flavour to attract the listeners.
Being a non-Odia, he endured
a lot of pain to justify the belief,
the director and the producer
has on him.
The film is based on a real
incident of Chandipur area,
where most of the scenes of the
films have been shot. Director
Chakradhara Sahoo hoped that
the movie would give a new
direction to the Odia cine
industry that is passing through
a bad phase for different issues.
imansha, the sixth flick of
noted production house
M
of Ollywood Manjari Movies,
is all set to hit the big screen on
August 5.
The audio of this womenoriented movie was released at
a function recently held in a city
hotel here in the presence of the
entire team. Mumbai-based
young music director Ratnesh
Bhagat has scored the music.
The film has four different
types of sequence demanding
songs that are penned by
Nijam, Mohit Chakraborty and
Jatindra Pradhan. Singers like
Mahalaxmi Ayar, Sangram
Mohanty and Aman Trikha
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Balugaon celebrated its
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installation ceremony at
Balugaon on Sunday. New club
president Bijay Behera took the
charge from his predecessor
Bijay Kumar Nanda.
Chief guest former Rotary
District Governor Ashok Bihari
Mohapatra talked about the successful polio mission undertaken by the Rotary International.
He also enlightened all
members about the new Rotary
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course in Law may begin
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in the Balasore Law College
literacy mission programme.
Guest of honour PP Ashok
Kumar Mohapatra spoke about
the importance of true leadership. Dr Jogindra Nath
Senapati inducted three new
club members. The club souvenir The Salia was released by
the guests.
Club secretary Dhirendranath Patra read out the
club’s action plan. Rotarian
Omprakash Agrawal presented
mementoes to the guests while
Rotarian Sarojini Dash gave a
vote of thanks.
from this academic session.
An expert team comprising
National Law University,
Cuttack Vice-Chancellor
Srikrishna Deva Rao, KIIT
Law School’s PK Sarkar and
Siksha O Anusandhan
University’s Jaydev Pati visited
the college last week.
FM University Registrar
Gananth Patra, PG Council
Chairman Sabyasachi Pattnaik
and College Development
Council Director Ranidra
Nayak were present.
The team inspected the
available infrastructure and
staff position to assess whether
the college would be able to
impart the integrated course
after Plus Two. The team also
examined another proposal to
consider the college as a constituent of the FM University.
The team has given positive
opinion on both the proposals.
“Two proposals were given
to the FM University. The university’s syndicate proposed to
form a committee and get its
opinion. The team members
were have given positive
remarks,” said college Principal
Rabinarayan Panda
The college, established in
1978, is still being privatelymanaged and affiliated to the
FM University.
Apart from three-year LLB
course, the college has been
imparting LLM course with 32
seats since 2003.
"The college had a humble
beginning and now it has
grown with passage of time.
Since the expert team gave a
favourable note, we hope the 5year integrated course will
begin from the current academic session,” college management committee president
Himansu Das.
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Nidhipur to Chudangagarh of
the 31-km-long RajathgarhBaranga railway line doubling
project commissioned on
Sunday. The 13-km stretch
between Rajathgarh and
Ghantikhal Nidhipur and from
Machapur to Radhakishorepur
had commissioned earlier.
Out of 31-km doubling
work, 25 km from Rajathgarh to
Chudangagarh have been completed and ready for train
movement, informed an official
release. As many as six major rail
bridges, including one over
Mahanadi, have been completed. It is expected that, the doubling work of the project between
6-km stretch ChudangagarhBarang would be completed in
the current financial year.
The Rail Vikas Nigam
Limited (RVNL) has emphasized
to complete this project on warfooting basis.
a patch of Government land
near the Old bus stand on
Khata no. 1 and plot no. 276
despite court orders.
According to sources, the
land is spread over an area of 3.27
acres out of which some parts
were given on lease to some beneficiaries long back but subsequently, the lease was canceled
and the entire land was once
again taken into the Government
khata. Later, some persons
encroached upon it by constructing shopping complexes,
thereon and the Revenue
Department has initiated
encroachment cases against
them under the provisions of
OPLE Act. But a person whose
lease was cancelled earlier claiming to be the owner of the land
on the plot evicted the encroachers by the help of local revenue
officials and sold the same to
some other persons, alleged K
Pravakar Rao, a denizen of that
locality. He further alleged that
the entire land in Khata no. 1
belongs to the Revenue
Department and the lease earlier given to the beneficiaries was
canceled.
He further alleged there is
a nexus between the local revenue officials and the persons
having vested interest therein
that requires a high level
inquiry by the Vigilance
Department. The aggrieved
encroachers who have been
evicted from the land have
moved the Orissa High Court
by filing a writ petition for settlement of land in their favour
under the provisions of OPLE
Act. The court while accepting
the writ petition has issued
notice to the local tehsildar and
five others and as an interim
measure, the court directed to
maintain status quo over the
site in question till the next date
of hearing.
But despite the court order
communicated to the local tehsildar and to the parties, still people continue to construct a shopping complex thereon and the
Revenue Department remains a
mute specter, fumed petitioner
Prakash Ahuja.
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women and children are on
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the rise in tribal populated
undivided Koraput district. Not
a single woman or child activist
has raised voice against it.
Many girls in the village
remain unmarried due to
dowry system. The men folk
consume excessive liquor
everyday and ill-treat women.
The women work as labourers
and receive meagre wages.
Slowly, the tribal labourers,
especially women, are losing
even coolie jobs and are divert-
ed to work under the SubContractors.
It is a matter of concern
that tribal women from peasantry and forestry have been
compelled to take up unorganised jobs like sweeping,
grass cutting, clearing bushes,
head loading, lifting heavy
metals and hazardous wastes
and sand filling, etc. Now,
slowly, machines have started
replacing this labour force.
Thousands of tribal women
have not yet recovered from the
shock of displacement by several hydro-electric projects.
When tribal women protest,
either they are branded as
extremist group and put behind
bars or sexually harassed or
physically tortured by the State
agencies or threatened to be
arrested by NSA.
Because of no land and no
forest, the women folk now
migrate to semi-urban areas /
urban areas as labour force for
working in construction sector.
Many of them also work as
domestic helps. This has led to
a plethora of serious problems, including disintegration
of families.
Tribal women, with the
advent of globalization, can’t be
kept secluded. In spite of the
negative impact, the culture of
tribals, especially tribal women,
has not degenerated (culture
does not necessarily mean the
outwardly dress, ornaments,
etc., but the intrinsic value
one bears / exhibits).
In this context, still now the
tribal women represent the
community feeling; resist
industrialisation and dream
for an environment friendly
egalitarian society. It is said
liquor is a part of the tribal culture, but the tribal women are
active in leading the anti-liquor
campaign. Kondhs have
shunned human sacrifice as
part of their culture.
Tribal women are particularly vulnerable to the evil
effects of industrialization /
globalalisation during the last
decade. It is also a good sign
that they actively resist the
liberalization process.
The tribal women have to
be made aware of the processes of globalization so that they
look beyond their hamlet /
slum / village.
They have to be organized
and their anger towards privatization has to be constructively
ventilated through concerted
actions.
Young tribal women are to
be oriented on this process to
take collective action. Until the
projects come, the existing
movements have to be strengthened. Evolving alternative projects for the area, which could
generate more revenue and
income for the country is also
the need of the hour. Irrigation
has to be expanded to boost
agricultural production and
horticulture (Kondhs are very
good at cultivating pineapple,
orange, mango, lemon etc.) has
to be promoted.
Besides steps are to be
taken for value addition of
non-timer forest produces etc.
The tribal women have to be
organsied to ask a portion of the
dividend for the development to
be decided by them. Education
is must for the tribal kids.
The existence of any past
project must be decided by the
project affected people (PAPs)
around the area. The projects
must not affect the basic living
conditions of the Desia Kondha
women. The Government
should not abdicate its welfare
role within the area of the project like education, health, PDS
etc. All in all, child labour must
be avoided.
Staying place of the women
labourers must be regularized,
they must be provided with
quarters and essential services
like toilet, crèche, transport,
leave, minimum wage, PF, gratuity, insurance etc. There must
be grievance cell for tribal
women to look into the sexual harassment at worksites.
Either they or their
sons/daughters/dependents of
the PAPs must get jobs and it
must continue for generations
till the company continues.
Massive plantations in the
colonies, inside the plant area,
avenue plantation, etc. should
be undertaken. Free education and health facilities to the
affected villages have to be
ensured.
(Dr Maharana is a faculty member, Jeypore Law
College, Jeypore, dist-Koraput,
Mob. : 9438170563)
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the deadly dengue epiT
demic in Keonjhar district
and the failure of the administration in tackling the situation were highlighted by BJP
leader Murali Manohar
Sharma.
Speaking at a Press meet,
Sharma said the gross negligence of the authorities has
resulted in death of five persons, even though there are
many more deaths which have
gone unreported in Keonjhar.
Sharma said that the district being one of the highest
gross revenue earners of the
State does not have even
proper medical facilities for
its inhabitants. In spite of
the presence of big corporates,
mines owners, plant owners
and entrepreneurs which have
huge CSR budgets, the plight
of the poor in the district
remains dismal.
The recent dengue epidemic is but an example of the
apathy of the administration
towards this district, he
lamented.
The meeting was presided
over by the BJP district president Radha Mahanto, vice
president Dhiren Panda, Anil
Dhir and Swadhin Satapathy.
Sharma demanded that a
state-of-the–art hospital
should be set up in Barbil
with the funding from the
District Mining Fund.
Meanwhile, the hospital
should be equipped with a
Plasma Infusion Facility. The
District
Headquar ters
Hospital at Keonjhar has the
facility, but it is lying defunct
ever since it was installed. The
Barbil Municipality does not
even have a health inspector
since the last 20 years, even
though the post is mandatory.
There should be an
immediate
permanent
appointment of two medicine
Specialists at the Barbil
Hospital. The CBC Machine
was installed only after pressure was put on the State. In
fact the Centre had responded immediately after Sharma
had met the Health Minister
at Delhi.
The death of Rasabati
Sahu is a clear case of criminal neglect and culpable
homicide. She was admitted
in a serious condition on the
July 20 but she was discharged
on the July 22 even though
her condition had not
improved. On July 24, she suffered from respiratory distress
and she was brought to the
hospital. As her condition
worsened, and in spite of the
pleadings of her husband to
shift her to Cuttack, she was
instead sent to Keonjhar at 1
am. The next day the
Keonjhar doctors sent her to
Cuttack where she died in a
few hours.
The persons responsible
for her death should be
booked and criminal proceeding initiated against
them, Sharma demanded
adding that a compensation of
Rs 20 lakh for each of the
deceased be disbursed.
He also demanded the
setting up of a 24-hour control room. Sharma said that
the dengue victims, even after
recovery, suffer from long
term symptoms like weakness
and debility for six months.
The database for the discharged and affected persons
should be made and their
health monitored for the next
six months.
As dengue has a tendency of recurrence in the following years, adequate monitoring and preventive measures should be taken.
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run by the Association for
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here on Monday allowed
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the anti-corruption wing of the
Voluntary Action (AVA) organised an awareness programme
on Prevention of Drug Abuse
and a cleanliness drive at the
BJB Colony Government
School at Mahinsikhal Basti
here on Saturday.
Jointly organised by the
RRTC, the Sambedna
Education and different
Integrated Rehabilitation
Centre for Addicts (IRCAs) of
Khordha district, the programme was attended by over
80 participants.
A meeting was held to create awareness on the prevention of alcohol, drugs and substance abuse. BMC Deputy
Mayor K Shanti attended the
programme as chief guest
whereas
Mahinshikhal
Community Development
State police to take arrested
Tripura-cadre IPS officer
Joydeep Nayak on remand for
two more days.
Nayak, a native of Odessa,
was arrested on July 23 on
graft charges. The Vigilance
police had earlier last week
taken him on remand for
three days.
“We are taking the suspended IPS officer for further
custodial interrogation in the
corruption case registered
against him in connection
with his involvement in
embezzling Rs 88 lakh meant
for computer education of SC
and ST students,” said an officer associated with the investigation, adding that the second remand period would
begin on Tuesday.
Committee president Bijaya
Behera joined as guest of honour.
The Deputy Mayor spoke
on the ill effects of alcohol con-
sumption and encouraged the
people to carryout cleanliness
drive effectively so that proper health and hygienic condition will be maintained. Later,
all the participants, including
schoolchildren and slum
dwellers cleaned the surroundings of the school.
RRTC Project Coordi-
nator Deepak Ojha, documentation officer Basanti
Behera and field staff Sashi
Bhusan Mohanty coordinated
the programme.
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ROURKELA: Headmistresses
of two Government schools in
Sundargarh faced music for
closing their schools before time
and their salary for July was withheld. Besides, an assistant teacher
also faced action for staying on
unauthorised leave.
On July 29, Lepripada Block
Education Officer Sarangdhar
Bariah had gone for inspection
of teachers
training at
Gundiadih and while he was
returning, he found Saletikra
Upper Primary School was
closed around 3.50 pm before
the usual closing hour of 4 pm.
While inquiring there, the
Lepripada BEO came to know
that headmistress Hiranyamayi
Patel of Saletikjra Primary
School had left for her residence
while Jyotsnamayi Sahu, headmistress of Giringkela Upper
Primary School, had closed the
school before closing hour as per
her sweet will. The Lepripada
BEO issued show cause to both
on that day but the leave had not
been sanctioned. The BEO
marked it as unauthorized
absence of Naik. Significantly, the
headmasters of eleven schools
and seven Cluster Resource
Center Coordinator (CRCC) of
Lepripada block in Sundargarh
had been served show cause
notice on July 11 by BEO Bariah
for not bringing 11 meritorious
students to appear in a scholarship exam which was held on
July 10.
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Sunday. Local MLA Naba
Kishore Das, who was present
as chief guest, lauded the role of
the Rotary Club in serving the
needy in the society. Club pres-
ident Rajesh Agarwal handed
over his charge to newly-elected president Vikash Badhan.
Vinod Arukia took charge as
the new secretary of the club.
Sheetal Agrawal and
Nupur Singhania were chosen
as the president and secretary
for the Inner Wheel Club,
respectively. Newly-elected
Rotary Club president Badhan
said his team is committed to
continuing the club’s service of
rendering service to the suffering humanity.
Members Anil Kedia,
Manish Shah, Ajay Poddar,
Ranjit Ghosh, Sanjay Khetan,
Suresh Kumar Tulshyan, Ajay
Kedia, Amit Agrawal,
Praduman Lath and Harshit
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extorting money from the dairy
farmers for allowing them to
sell their cows in other States,
the Progressive Farmers
Association, the group of farmers running mega dairy farms
made it difficult for the dairy
farmers to run their business
and the Punjab Government
had not been able to tackle the
problem.
He further alleged under
the pressure from RSS, Punjab
Government had created such
a situation in which sending
and selling milch animals to
other States had become almost
impossible.
“The mafia does not allow
the milch animals to be transported from the State, resulting
in fall in demand of cow breeds,
which were earlier in high
demand from neighbouring
States,” he said.
Sadarapura said the Cow
Protection Board issued directions to procure a ‘No
Objection Certificate’ before
sending cows to other States
and Deputy Commissioners
of the Districts had been
assigned the responsibility to
issue the NOC but it took
around 3 months to procure
the NOC from administra-
tion.
He said the traders preferred to go to Haryana, as
Haryana allowed daily per-
mits for selling milch animals
and C300 were charged for
issuing a permit for selling
milch animals.
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IADMK chief J Jayalalithaa
on Monday expelled her
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party’s Rajya Sabha MP
Sasikala Pushpa, involved in
the slapgate controversy, from
the party and issued a stern
warning to the cadre to have
“no contacts” with the
Parliamentarian. Pushpa, for
her part, created a flutter in the
Rajya Sabha by alleging that she
faced a threat to her life in
Tamil Nadu and that she was
slapped by “a leader”, who she
did not name even as the
Opposition egged her on.
In a statement released to
the media, Jayalalithaa said
Pushpa was being ousted from
the AIADMK for causing disrepute to the party through her
acts and for acting against the
principles of the party.
Pushpa
(40)
from
Thoothukudi in Tamil Nadu
was in the news last week following reports about fisticuffs
she had with the DMK’s
Tiruchi Siva (62) at Indira
Gandhi International Airport,
New Delhi on Saturday.
There were reports that Pushpa
slapped Siva following an
argument the duo had at the
airport.
Pushpa’s allegations led to
sharp exchanges between the
AIADMK members and the
Congress and the SP leaders,
who urged Deputy Chairman
PJ Kurien to allow her to speak.
AIADMK MPs, led by their
leader A Navaneethkrishnan,
had denied Pushpa’s allegations and demanded expunction of certain remarks made
by her. Kurien assured protection to the woman MP, who
broke down several times while
making her submission.
While Siva was not available for comments, Pushpa
had told on Saturday that she
slapped the DMK member
because of the harsh language
he used against her leader. But
political observers in Tamil
Nadu were unanimous of the
view that there are some facts
which have been left out of the
story.
Pushpa had been handpicked by Jayalalithaa from
among the cadre and was made
the mayor of Thoothukudi
Municipal Corporation. She
was also made the chief of the
women’s wing of the party and
was nominated to Rajya Sabha
in April 2014. But of late, she
was stripped off all her positions in the party as a fallout of
gossips which had made to
some of the Tamil weeklies and
dailies.
“There is something more
than what the ordinary eyes
see. There were money transactions which ended up in
mind transactions and the
news could have reached Veda
Nilayam (residence of
Jayalalithaa),” said a former
top bureaucrat.
Former Chief Election
Commissioner
N
Gopalaswamy said Pushpa
would not lose her membership of the Upper House following her ouster from the
party. “But it will be difficult for
her to function as an unattached member in the House,”
he said.
In the House, Pushpa first
rushed into the Well of the
House to get permission to
make her statement and then
broke down several times as
she said she faced “life threat”
from the State Government
and alluded to her being
slapped by a “leader”. She,
however, did not mention who
slapped her and when.
Raising the issue, she said
“If an MP is being slapped by
a leader, where is human dignity?” provoking strong protest
from members of her own
party. She was backed by
Congress and SP members
who asked the Chair to let
Pushpa speak.
Deputy Chairman PJ
Kurien said the chairman was
the custodian of all members of
the House and he will protect
her too. He, however, asked her
not to mention anyone’s name
who cannot come to the House
to defend himself or herself.
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Amit Shah, the Supreme
on Monday refused to
reopen the trial against him in
the 2005 fake encounter killing
of Sohrabuddin during his
tenure as Gujarat's Home
Minister.
A trial court in Maharashtra
had discharged Shah in the
case in December 2014 following which the victim’s brother
Rubabuddin moved to withdraw his appeal protesting
against the discharge. But a
former IAS officer and social
activist Harsh Mander filed an
application before the trial court
opposing Rubabuddin’s decision
as also discharge of Shah.
However, on November 23,
2015, the trial court allowed
Rubabuddin to withdraw.
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Bombay High Court, but lost as
the HC questioned his “locus”
in the trial and dismissed his
petition on March 11, 2016.
Mander then came to the apex
court against this order.
It was battle royale on
Monday as Mander’s legal team,
headed by senior advocate Kapil
Sibal, clashed with Shah’s coun-
sel senior advocate Harish
Salve. Sibal pointed out that the
Sohrabuddin encounter killing
was a case of such gravity that
the Supreme Court monitored
it and ordered CBI to conduct
the trial outside Gujarat, in
Maharashtra.
With Shah being discharged
despite being chargesheeted for
serious offences of murder, kidnapping, extortion, and criminal conspiracy, Sibal urged the
Court not to close its eyes when
even the CBI has “turned turtle”
by choosing not to appeal
against the discharge order with
the change in Government at
the Centre.
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Monday expressed conA
cern over the plight of 10,000
Indian workers stranded in
Saudi Arabia, External Affairs
Minister Sushma Swaraj
assured that the workers will
be evacuated and "no one will
go hungr y."
She also
informed the members that
her deputy VK Singh will
leave for that country on
Tuesday to oversee evacuation.
Making a statement in
both the Houses, she said
the Indian embassy was running five camps to feed the
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continuously monitoring the
situation, the Minister said
adding "not one worker of
ours will go hungry. This is
my assurance to the country
through Parliament... We will
bring all of them back to
India.”
The Government, she
said, was in touch with the
foreign and labour offices in
Saudi Arabia to ensure their
early evacuation. Sushma
informed Parliament the
Saudi laws do not permit an
exit visa without no objection
certificate(NOC) from the
employers.
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Indian embassy officials had
conveyed this fact to the Saudi
Government and trying to get
exit visas.
Efforts were on through
the labour office of Saudi
Arabia to ensure that the
workers get their salaries
dues, the Minister said. In
many cases, the workers had
not received their salaries for
more than eight months and
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Some opposition members in Lok Sabha raised some
questions and Speaker
Sumitra Mahajan disallowed
them, saying “She (Swaraj)
has done everything. She has
done really good work.
Nobody has worked this
much.” Swaraj's response also
drew praise from the Chair
and members cutting across
party lines in the in the Rajya
Sabha.
The issue was raised by
Ali Anwar(JD-U) and Naresh
Agrawal(SP). They said many
stranded workers hailed from
Bihar and UP and were facing
tough times in Saudi Arabia.
In her reply, Sushma said
workers hailed from minority and majority communities
besides from many parts of
the country.
But the Bench of Justices
Sharad Arvind Bobde and
Ashok Bhushan consistently
raised the issue of “locus” of
Mander in a criminal trial. “We
cannot leave the locus so wide
open that any criminal trial can
be gone into at the instance of
an outsider…It is not a case
where at your instance prosecution has been initiated.”
Salve countered saying in
criminal matters, State is the
master of criminal litigation. He
showed recent cases where the
apex court has disallowed third
party interests in criminal matters as he said, “It’s a dangerous
trend to allow anybody to join
anybody's trial." But Sibal cited
various decisions to the contrary
where the Supreme Court held
that if a public offence is committed, Section 397(3) of the
Code of Criminal Procedure
allows "any person” to seek revision against a trial court’s order.
But the Bench said, “You are
not directly affected…we don't
know whether you are a political person. Although we understand the politics behind the case,
criminal law takes a different
note…just realize the impact-a
person whose rights under the
criminal law stand exhausted,
can he be again and again made
to face trial after his discharge.”
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fter a long time, the
Parliament on Monday
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passed seven Bills, including
three in the Rajya Sabha where
the ruling party is in a minority, on a single day. One of the
significant Bills passed in the
Upper House was the The
Indian Medical Council
(Amendment) Bill 2016, which
concerns lakhs of pre-medical
entrance candidates undergoing NEET (National Eligibility
cum Entrance Test) as per the
Supreme Court's decision.
The four legislations
passed in the Lok Sabha related to amendments in the existing debt recovery acts. The
amendments included the
speedy recovery methods like
attaching collaterals given for
loans, provisions for central
register and power of RBI in
speedy recovery of the bad
debts or defaulters.
Rajya Sabha passed The
Indian Medical Council
(Amendment) Bill, 2016 and
the Dentists' Amendment Bill,
2016 together. During the
debate on the Medical Council
Bill most of the members
expressed their concern on the
proforma of the NEET exams.
Replying on the debate,
Health Minister JP Nadda said
NEET's aim was to reduce the
multiplicity of exams; improve
transparency to curb corruption; reduce exploitation of students. He also mentioned that
all private institutions, including those under deemed universities, will be covered under
NEET.
“Health Ministry is trying
to increase the quantity of
medical seats without compromising on quantity and
for that deliberations are being
conducted about Medical
Council of India. “We have also
taken the recommendations of
the Standing Committee in
this regard and will do the right
thing," Nadda said.
On concerns expressed by
members from AIADMK,
DMK, NCP and SP that the
poor will be sidelined through
NEET, Nadda set aside apprehensions by stating that state
reserved category is with the
State Government and they
can decide.
Jairam Ramesh of the
Congress slammed the Centre
on the issue stating that in the
current structure of the con-
stitution of the National Board
of Examination, he has no confidence at all that this government has the courage to stand
up to the Medical Council of
India's vested interests and go
with the recommendations of
the Standing Committee.
While SP's Naresh
Aggarwal said that all concerns
can be put to rest if the government rethink on a system
of exit exam of the passing out
doctors.
On the issue of reservation
Nadda said reservation is
something for states to decide
but as for the fee structure in
private colleges, it will be
decided on the basis of the
infrastructure of the colleges by
a committee headed by a
retired judge.
“We will make parity
between NCERT and state syllabi before creating question
paper. We have already asked
states about details of how
many students have taken
exams in regional languages.
Once we have that, we will create exams in regional languages also," Nadda said.
Another Bill passed in the
Rajya Sabha was National
Institutes of Technology,
Science Education and
Research (Amendment) Bill,
2016. HRD Minister Prakash
Javadekar said the faculty
problem in all institutes will be
addressed duly and the government is contemplating on
how more students can retain
themselves as faculty.
“I can assure you that
there will be no dearth of
funds for NITs as far as teach-
ing, research is concerned.
Hostels and other facilities are
also planned accordingly.
Research infrastructure will
get a boost with C20,000 crore,"
Javadekar said who had his
maiden Bill as HRD Minister
passed.
In Lok Sabha, the MPs
debated on the amendments to
Sarfaesi Act, Recovery of Debts
due to Banks and Financial
Institutions Act, Indian Stamp
Act and Depositaries Act and
raised concerns over the implementation of recovery of bad
debts created by powerful corporate defaulters including
absconding liquor baron Vijay
Mallya. The amendments also
made provisions for new asset
recovery companies for specialising on bad debts recovery
and enhanced role of RBI.
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inally, the long-pending
GST Bill has been listed for
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consideration and passage in
the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday
amidst indications that it
would be supported by
Congress and all other major
political parties.
Finance Minister Arun
Jaitley held further consultations with senior Congress
leaders Ghulam Nabi Azad and
Anand Sharma and chalked out
details of the contentious bill
aimed at bringing about a consensus on the key Bill.
Meeting was also held with
other parties, including the Left
and Samajwadi Party, for
building a consensus on the
key tax reform legislation.
Another round of talks to
clarify on the language of key
parts of the bill is likely to be
held with Congress on
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on Monday sought the response of the
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Centre, NHAI and others on a petition
seeking a direction for maintenance of
mandatory 30 meters green cover on both
sides of the national highways.
In another hearing on a related issue
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not far off when common man has to
move about with oxygen cylinders in
hand”. The remark of the green bench
came in observation of the fact that not
a single tree had been planted after clearing a forest area for road project.
A bench headed by NGT chairperson Swatanter Kumar issued notices to
the governments of Delhi and Haryana,
based on a petition claiming that there
was an erosion of the mandatory green
cover on both sides of NH-1 and NH-8,
necessary to maintain the ecological
balance between pollution and development. The next hearing has been slated
for September 7.
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made by National Highway Authority of
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pointed out that the effective green
cover is as per what NHAI had prescribed
as mandatory. "This is a huge loss to the
green cover of the country, which is facing acute shortage of water and is faced
with mammoth air and noise pollution,"
it said.
The petition also referred to the notifications issued by the Haryana government which said that no construction can
be allowed within 30 metres on either side
of national highways and 50 metres on
both sides in case of bypass road and it
has to be maintained as green area.
"The basic concept is that trees
should be planted along the highway to
maintain ecological balance between
pollution and development and the
future need for expansion of roads and
insulate the population living nearby from
noise pollution, dust and emission pollution," noted the petition.
During the hearing on the issue of tree
plantation in Himachal, NGT Chairperson
questioned, "Half of the country is facing
floods and half of the country is dry.
Temperature of Shimla is going up. Show
us one tree which you have planted. Will
the road give you oxygen? It is tree which
would give us oxygen."
Voicing concern over environment
degradation, the green bench further
observed, "nobody bothers" about this key
issue and that the concerned authorities
have failed to show even a single photograph where trees have been planted. The
next hearing has been scheduled for
August 11.
Tuesday.
Jaitley also met CPI-M
general secretary Sitaram
Yechury. Yechury said his party
is “completely out of loop”
over the developments relating
to the proposed legislation
and “does not know” what the
Government is planning to
bring as GST bill and asked it
to call an all-party meeting to
build consensus in this regard.
Sources said that the
Government was to initially
bring the Bill on Tuesday, but
Congress was not keen on the
proposal due to the roadshow
of party president Sonia
Gandhi in Varanasi on Tuesday
which may be attended by
some party MPs. BJP has
issued a whip to its members
asking them to be present in
the House for the next three
days during which it expects
the legislation to be passed.
The Government, sources
say, is keen to bring about four
key amendments in the
Constitution Amendment Bill
which will include the scrapping of 1 per cent additional
tax provision and grant of
more powers to states for providing them full compensation
for a period of five years.
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Mission (SBM) in October, 2014, just 17
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the 686 districts in the country have
he Supreme Court on Monday issued
notice to the Income tax department
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on a petition filed by the Congress seek-
become open-defecation free (ODF) so far
even though a whopping 207.49 lakh toilets have been constructed in the rural
areas. The Government aims to achieve the
goal of the Mission of making India ODF
by 2019.
“As on July 27, 2016, 17 districts, 223
blocks, 31,077 gram panchayats and 68,808
villages have declared themselves as ODF
as per the information uploaded by states
on Integrated Management Information
System (IMIS)," Drinking Water and
Sanitation Minister Narendra Singh Tomar
said during Question Hour in the Rajya
Sabha on Monday.
In rural areas, 207.49 lakh toilets have
been constructed under the mission and
sanitation coverage has increased to 53.45
per cent now. In urban areas, 58 cities and
towns have so far become open defecation
free, he said.
Upto June 2016, work has commenced
on around 21.44 lakh individual household
toilets and 20.73 lakh toilets completed.
While work has started on 1.40 community and public toilet seats and 68,506 seats
have already been constructed, he said.
There is 100 per cent door-to-door waste
collection in 38,990 wards, the Minister said.
Observing that there was a spurt in
progress in rural sanitation after the
launch of the mission on October 2, 2014,
ing exemption from paying income tax
for the assessment year 1994-95.
The Congress claimed that the
Income tax Appellate Tribunal and the
Delhi High Court failed to take note of
the fact that the exemption available to
it under Section 13A of the Income Tax
Act was available prior to this period
(beginning 1986-87) and even after this
period (till 2014-15).
However, for the assessment year
1994-95, the exemption under Section
13A was denied on account of certain
procedural formalities that later stood
complied.
Challenging against the Delhi High
Cour’s order of March 23, 2016 by
which the exemption for paying income
tax was rejected, the party showed that
in the final assessment done by the
income tax authorities for 1994-95, a
net loss of approximately C60 lakh was
computed. “Thus on remand, it was
found as a matter of fact that there
was no assessable income and if there
was no income, there could not have
been any levy of income tax,” the
petition said.
The bench of Justices Kurian Joseph
and RF Nariman issued notice to the
Centre seeking response on the petition
filed by the oldest political party.
he said since sanitation is primarily a
behavioural issue, the mission is therefore
focusing on addressing the behaviour of
communities to adopt safe sanitation.
Highlighting the steps taken to bring
about behavioural change, Tomar said the
states have been suggested to adopt community-led and community-driven
approach for behaviour change in rural
areas.
On monitoring the programme, he said
it has been strengthened to capture household level details on the IMIS. Mobile application for uploading photographs of toilets
constructed after October 2, 2014 has been
developed. Third party monitoring is also
being done through agencies such as
National Sample Survey
Organisation (NSSO) and Quality
Council of India (QCI) among others, he
said, adding that the progress of the mission was being monitored on a regular
basis. Launched by Prime Minister
Narendra Modi on October 2, 2014 on
Gandhi's 145th birth anniversary, the mission is a national campaign, covering
statutory cities, towns and villages across
the country.
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Minister Mehbooba Mufti on
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hile Telugu Desam MPs held noisy
protests in and outside the
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Parliament in New Delhi on Monday
Baramulla district to meet a
selected group of locals even as
curfew, restrictions on public
movement and shutdown continued to impact normal life in
Kashmir for the 24th day since
the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen
commander Burhan Wani.
The authorities imposed
curfew in two south Kashmir
districts and restrictions
in parts of Anantnag and
Srinagar districts to thwart
public protests.
Police and paramilitary
personnel were deployed in
strength to block attempts of
locals to hold protests according to the plan circulated by the
separatist groups.
A civilian from south
Kashmir's Anantnag district
Manzoor Ahmad, who was
admitted with a head injury 20
days ago at SMHS Hospital,
died. However, Deputy
Inspector General (DIG) of
Police (south Kashmir range)
Ghulam Hassan Bhat said the
civilian was injured in a tyre
burst on July 11 and his death
was not related to the ongoing
unrest in Kashmir.
Sources said clashes erupted between youth and security
forces in Kalaroos area of
Kupwara district, in which four
people sustained injuries. Locals
alleged that security personnel
smashed the windowpanes of
residential houses. Hundreds of
bikers held a protest demonstration in Shopian against the
recent civilian killings.
Sources said that Minister
for Rural Development Abdul
Haq Khan faced angry protesters in Tangdar area, where
he had gone on an official tour.
“Locals staged protest and
demanding Special Category Status (SCS)
to Andhra Pradesh, the State leaders also
continued their criticism of the BJP.
A day after a high-level meeting of TDP
leadership chaired by Chief Minister N
Chandrababu Naidu decided to step up the
pressure, TDP MPs staged a sit-in protest
near Gandhi statue in Parliament premises. They shouted slogans and carried placards demanding the Centre to fulfil all the
promises made in the State Reorganization
Act, including the SCS. Later they continued the protest in both the House of the
Parliament shouting slogans, displaying
placards and disturbed the proceedings.
The YSR Congress MPs rushed to the
Well of the House shouting slogans and
demanded the SCS. YSCRP has called a
State-wide strike on Tuesday to protest
against Centre's stand. It has evoked support from the Congress and the Left parties, while the ruling TDP was opposing it.
Outside the Parliament, the issue
also came up for discussion as the Minister
of State for Science and Technology from
Telugu Desam YS Chowdary and Union
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Srinagar: A militant was killed
in north Kashmir's Nawgam
sector, as Army foiled another infiltration bid, Defence
sources claimed on Monday.
“There was an exchange of
fire between alert troops and
infiltrating militants. During
the gun fight one militant
was killed,” the official said
and added that search operation is going on in the area
from past many days.
Sources added that one
AK-47 rifle was recovered
from the encounter site. Seven
militants and three soldiers
have been killed in Nowgam
sector since July 26.
PNS
started pelting stone on the
Minister's cavalcade. The security forces escorting the
Minister swung into action to
disperse the protesters,” witnesses said.
This is the second time
when a Minister faced angry
protesters. Last week education
Minister and Government
spokesman Naeem Akhtar was
waylaid by protesters at Sumbal
in Bandipora District.
Additional reinforcements were
rushed to rescue the Minister's
cavalcade from the mob fury.
Reports of minor clashes
between protesters and security personnel also poured in
from several old city areas
during which security forces
resorted to tear smoke shelling
to chase away the protesters.
A spokesman of provincial
police claimed the situation
throughout Kashmir remained
under control though “15 incidents of stone-pelting were
reported.” These incidents were
reported from Ganderbal,
Kulgam, Anantnag, Shopian,
Baramulla, Kupwara and
Bandipora, police said. “During
these law and order violating
situations three people, 25
police and security force personnel, including a CRPF
Company Commander, were
injured. The CRPF Company
Commander suffered serious
injury on his face,” police said.
As a precautionary measure, curfew, restrictions were
put in place in police stations
of north zone of Srinagar and
Anantnag town.
Meanwhile, scores of youth
were also seen writing pro-free-
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Kashmir Deputy Chief
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Minister Nirmal Singh of the
BJP over his remark that the
killing of Hizbul commander
Burhani Wani was an “accident”, the Shiv Sena said on
Monday that Singh's remark
amounted to his “backing” a
terrorist and “insulting” the
Army jawans killed on the borders.
Viewing Singh's comment
in the context of Defence
Minister Manohar Parrikar's
recent statement that anyone
speaking against the country
must be “taught a lesson” in the
same way that an “actor” and an
“online trading company” were
taught, the Sena took strong
exception to the J & K deputy
chief minister's statement that
Wani's killing was an “accident”.
In an editorial published in
its official mouth-piece
“Saamana”, the Sena referred to
Parrikar's covert dig at
Bollywood actor Aamir Khan
whose contract with Snapdeal
was not renewed after his
“increasing intolerance in the
country” statement, and said:
“It is easy to teach a lesson to
an actor. What should we do
with people who make similar
statements wearing mask of
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patriotism. Should we perform
puja to such people?”
Alluding to the J&K deputy
chief minister's “accident”
remark over Wani killing, the
Sena editorial said: “The country needs politicians who justify Wani's killing and support the
Armymen who carried out the
act. If killing Wani was an accident then the PDP-BJP
Government in Jammu &
Kashmir is also an accident.
What if the people view Wani's
killing in this way?”.
The Sena editorial said that
the J&K Deputy Chief Minister's
statement had put Parrikar's in
a difficult position.
“Parrikar has only expressed
the sentiments of people but
who is it that is discouraging our
armymen? We can understand
if Pakistan mourns the killing of
terrorist Burhan Wani. But it was
(J&K CM) Mehbooba Mufti
who first shed tears on Wani's
killing and then it was Nirmal
Singh, who allegedly termed it
as an accident,” the Sena said.
“This is like backing the terrorist in Wani on one hand, while
insulting our martyred jawans on
the other. This will make it challenging for Parrikar who talks of
teaching a lesson to those who
speak against the nation,” the
Sena editorial stated.
The Sena, in its editorial
ripped apart Singh's remark
that Wani's killing was an “accident”. It may be recalled that on
July 30, the J&K deputy chief
minister — referring to Wani's
killing — had said: “Police and
security forces told us (the
government) that they don't
know who the terrorist is. It was
an accident. Because when an
operation takes place, precautions are taken but we didn't
know it would be of such kind.
Had we known about it, preparations would have been made”.
dom and anti-India graffiti on
walls, shop shutters and roads.
Senior Hurriyat leader Syed Ali
Geelani painted a slogan on a
wall near his residence in
uptown Srinagar. The Srinagar
Municipal Corporation warned
people against defacement of
public places.
Meanwhile, Chief Minister
Mehbooba Mufti called for a collective effort to reach out to the
people of Jammu and Kashmir,
especially the youth, to expand
and consolidate the constituency of peace in the State.
“To achieve sustainable
peace in the State and the
region, we have to unshackle
the political thinking from the
legacies of the past and have
confidence in our self, our
institutions and above all our
people,” Mehbooba said.
The CM said the country's
policy on Jammu and Kashmir
should not be based on strategic and security considerations
alone but on ideological and
humane values. “If we were to
base our J&K policy on the ideological values of democracy,
rule of law and tolerance, which
have been the defining strength
of India, we will expand the constituency of peace at the micro
level of individuals as well as
institutions,” she said.
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Minister M Venkaiah Naidu met the
Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.
They discussed the situation arising out
of Jaitley's statement rejecting the demand
of SCS for AP.
Venkaiah Naidu also met the Prime
Minister Narendra Modi and briefed him
about the situation. According to the
sources, Venkaiah Naidu urged the Prime
Minister to solve the problem with Andhra
Pradesh by fulfilling the election promises. Naidu conveyed his concern over the
growing differences between the two
friendly parties. The PM on the other hand
inquired about the statements made by the
TDP president Chandrababu Naidu and
other leaders of the party.
Meanwhile, in Andhra Pradesh also
TDP leaders continued to target the BJP.
In Visakhapatanam the TDP MLA V
Ganesh adopted a novel method of protest.
He took the garb of a Sadhu clad in saffron clothes to meet the BJP MLA Vishnu
Kumar Raju and urged him to cooperate
in the fight for the SCS.
Vishnu Kumar assured him that his
party will also not compromise on the special status and he will soon meet the Prime
Minister to convey the people's sentiments
to him. Senior Andhra Pradesh Minister
Ganta Srinivas said that if the Prime
Minister takes the issue seriously, he can give
special status to Andhra Pradesh in one
hour. “The people who had demanded special status for ten years are now saying they
will not give it. This is not justified”, he said.
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Devendra Fadnavis on
Monday sought to defuse the
vehement protests by the ruling Shiv Sena and the
Opposition Congress and the
NCP against any move to bifurcate Maharashtra, by stating
categorically that there was no
Vidarbha Statehood proposal
before his Government.
In a statement made amid
fierce protests by the Sena,
Congress and NCP legislators
in the both the House 0f State
legislature, the Chief Minister
informed the Assembly: “There
is no such proposal (about
formation of separate Vidarbha
state) before the Maharashtra
Government. The formation of
new States is a subject dealt
with by the Centre and
Parliament”.
On a day when the ruling
Shiv Sena joined the
Opposition Congress and NCP
in protests against any move to
create a separate State for
Vidarbha region, senior
Congress member and former
Chief Minister Narayan Rane
demanded Fadnavis' resignation over the pro-Vidarbha
statehood stand taken by the
BJP legislators from the backward eastern Maharashtra.
Monday was second day
when the proceedings in both
the Houses of Maharashtra
Legislature were disrupted by
the ruling Shiv Sena and
Opposition Congress and NCP
over the contentious Vidarbha
State issue.
On Friday, pro-Vidarbha
statehood members had raised
slogans in favour of their
demand in the State Legislative
Council, prompting the Sena,
Congress and NCP to stage
strong protests against the BJP
members' clamour for bifurcation of Maharashtra. The issue
had also sparked protests by the
Sena and the Opposition in the
State Assembly on that day.
The protests by the Sena,
Congress and NCP were a fallout of a private member bill
moved recently by BJP MP
Nana Patole in Lok Sabha,
demanding a separate
Vidarbha state.
In the State Assembly, the
Congress and NCP members
hit out at the ruling BJP for its
MLAs's clamour for a separate
state, while the Shiv Sena members raised slogans against the
BJP for its efforts to bifurcate
Maharashtra.
Earlier in the day, Congress
and NCP legislators rushed to
the well and raised slogans
against the formation of a separate Vidarbha state. The ruling Sena members also joined
the Opposition members in the
protests.
Shiv Sena MLA from
Kolhapur, Rajesh Kshirsagar,
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picked up the mace kept in
front of the Speaker. He, however, kept it back after the
Chief Minister took exception
to the member's act.
The Sena MLAs also
sought an apology from BJP
state unit president Raosaheb
Danve for backing the demand
of a separate Vidarbha state.
Senior Sena MLA Pratap
Sarnaik demanded that State
BJP president Raosabhe DanvePatil clarify his party's stand on
the separate Vidarbha statehood issue. Inside the House,
Sena MLA Prakash Abitkar
asked Fadnavis to clarify stand
on creation of a separate
Vidarbha state.
Leader of the Opposition in
the
State
Assembly
Radhakrishna Vikhe-Patil
charged that there was a fixing
between Sena and BJP over
Vidarbha.
Outside the House, VikhePatil said: “If the Chief Minister
is so honest about his inten-
tions, then he should table a resolution on separate Vidarbha in
the legislature,”
The Shiv Sena, who has
been consistent in its opposition
to the bifurcation of
Maharashtra, staged protests at
the entrance of the Vidhan
Bhavan, opposing the clamour
for a separate Vidarbha state.
Displaying a banner BJP
MP Nana Patole as “shekhchilli”
(a comic character), the Sena
legislators shouted slogans like
“Maharashtra should remain
united” and “we are for Akhand
Maharashtra
(United
Maharashtra)”. The protesting
legislators also wore caps that
carried a slogan “ Akhand
Maharashtra”
In the Upper House,
Congress' Narayan Rane
demanded the chief minister's
resignation, while leader of the
Opposition Dhanjay Munde
asked the chief minister to
clarify his stand on the
Vidarbha statehood issue.
Senior Sena MLC Neelam
Gorhe had a covert dig at the
ruling BJP, when she said: “Just
because a party has a majority
in Lok Sabha does not mean
that it owns the country”.
NCP MLC Jitendra
Awhad said that Patole's move
to table a private member bill
in Lok Sabha seeking statehood for Vidarbha had given
rise to apprehensions in the
minds of the people that the
State was heading for a bifurcation. “That being the case,
we will not allow this House
to function. We will also
enforce gaon-bandhi (ban on
entering villages) on those
speaking
against
Maharashtra,” Awahad said.
committee at Jhansi this
weekend following announcement of a jumbo-size executive committee.
BJP State president Keshav
Prasad Maurya announced
the 255-member executive
committee that has former
Prime Minister Atal Bihari
Vajpayee, Lal Krishna Advani
and PM Narendra Modi as
special invitees.
Kashi region has the maximum number of 68 members.
Rupesh Pandey, the man who
made controversial poster
depicting Maurya as ‘Lord
Krishna’ a couple of months
back, has been included in the
list from Varanasi city.
The Awadh region has 51
members. They include Dr
Ram Kapoor, an eye specialist
from Chowk in Lucknow. It is
his maiden entry into the BJP
state executive committee.
The western UP has 42
members, followed by
Gorakhpur region (37), Braj
region (29) and KanpurBundelkhand region (28).
Almost all BJP leaders handling media have been accommodated in the state executive
committee. Among them, Dr
Chandra Mohan is from west
UP, Harish Srivastava from
Lucknow in Awadh region list,
IP Singh from Gorakhpur
region list. Yash Bharti awardee
Narendra Singh Rana also finds
a place in the list.
The
much-awaited
announcement came five days
before the first state executive
committee meeting under
Maurya’s presidentship, scheduled to be held in Jhansi on
August 6 and 7.
Meanwhile, BJP state general secretary Vijay Bahadur
Pathak said that preparations
for the executive committee
meeting were underway on a
war footing and around 600
members would participate in
the meet. He said the meeting
would be inaugurated at 11 am
on August 6 and conclude the
next day in the afternoon. On
the evening of August 5, a
meeting of state office-bearers
would be held to finalise the
agenda of the state executive
committee meeting.
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national ambitions from a
Trinamool Congress rally in
Kolkata, Bengal Chief Mamata
Banerjee on Monday launched
a scathing attack on the BJP-led
Central Government for trying
to divide the people of the
country along religious and
caste lines.
Coming down heavily on
the
Narendra
Modi
Government for having done
nothing except “unleashing
cow vigilantes” throughout the
country, Banerjee said, “You are
doing nothing except spreading
fundamentalism, giving ads
and doing cow census,” adding
that the BJP was doing it consciously to divide the people of
the country along communal
and caste lines.
“You (BJP) are spreading
fundamentalism and even not
sparing the Hindus when your
men attack the Dalits,” the Chief
Minister said at a programme
organised for minority development. “Here you are attacking
the Dalits, there you are attacking the Christians and somewhere else you are attacking the
Muslims,” she said adding “every
where your men are involved in
spreading hatred.”
Attacking the Centre for
allowing a portal launched for
giving scholarships to the
minority community to lie nonfunctional for a year Banerjee
said “either you repair it or you
simply discontinue it. There is
no use continuing with something and intentionally allowing
it to remain non-functional.”
The Chief Minister who
had a few days ago told a
Trinamool Congress rally that
she was planning to bring togeth-
er all the like-minded regional
parties and prop a non-BJP,
non-Congress Federal Front in
the Centre alerted the people not
to be provoked by the BJP's “evil
designs to divide the people.”
She said “the BJP is trying
to divide the people. They are
not even sparing the Hindus
and are attacking the Dalits.
They have no regards for united India. So they are planning
to provoke the people. But do
not get provoked by them,
because we want peace to prevail. We want development.
“But they want to divide us. So
we should not step into the trap
layed down by them.”
The Chief Minister had last
week sent a three-member
Trinamool parliamentary committee led by Derek O Brien to
visit Una in Gujarat to sympathise with Dalit victims of a clash.
Unhappy with the cow census undertaken by a particular
organisation in Midnapore a
nervous Chief Minister is
known to have asked her party
men to remain vigilant about
ensuring that the former Left
supporters do not get sucked
into the saffron orbit by in the
name of cow census.
“This Government is doing
nothing but only giving advertisements and spreading fundamentalism in the name of
cow census” Banerjee said asking the people to “remain vigilant against their evil designs.”
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the inclusion of Hindu
Bangladeshis into the National
Register of Citizens (NRC),
authorities updating the NRC
in Assam said that they have
not received any instruction
from the Supreme Court to
enter the names of Hindu
Bangladeshis, who had entered
India due to religious persecution, into the NRC.
State Coordinator of the
NRC, Pratik Hajela said this on
Monday while addressing a
Press conference and said that
the Supreme Court order in
this regard only instructed not
to deport the Hindu
Bangladeshis but there is no
instruction to include their
names in the updated NRC.
The process of the updation of the NRC necessitated as
there have been reports of
lakhs of Bangladeshis entering
the State of Assam illegally and
living in the state, affecting
state's demography. Assam had
also witnessed a mass movement between 1979 to 1985
demanding detection and
deportation
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After
the
Central
Government last year issued a
circular allowing the minority
communities from Bangladesh’
who enter India due to religious persecution, it led to an
apprehension among a section
of people in Assam that the
names of these Bangladeshis,
particularly the Hindu
Bangladeshis will be included
in the updated NRC.
The updation of the NRC
would also be beneficial for
lakhs of people who have
doubtful citizenship creden-
tials, known as 'D' voters and
hence not allowed to cast their
votes. According of official
statistics, there are 1,36,448
'D' voters in Assam.
Hajela said that the 'D'
voters have to apply for inclusion of their names in the
NRC but those will be included only after Foreigners'
Tribunals, where their cases are
pending, declare them as
Indian citizens and not as foreigners.
Hajela said that they have
so far received 6.63 crore documents to verify the citizenship
status of individual applicants.
“It's a herculean task to
verify such a huge number of
documents. However, we are
doing as per the guidelines of
the Supreme Court in this
regard. We have also received
forged documents from different individuals to prove
their Indian citizenship and we
have registered 137 cases so far
against individuals for submitting forged or fake documents,” he said adding that the
task will be completed as per
the date specified by the
Supreme Court in future.
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mentary board is expected
to announce a new Gujarat
Chief Minister in the next few
days following Anandiben
Patel's exit, already few names
for the new incumbent are
making rounds in the political
circles of Gujarat.
Though sources close to
the top BJP leaders are not
denying surprise package, current Gujarat BJP president and
Cabinet Minister in Anandiben
Patel Government Vijay Rupani
is believed to be the front runner for the most coveted post
in the State.
A known close-aide of
Prime Minister Narendra Modi
having exceptional organisational ability, Rupani belongs to
Jain Baniya community. He
can be the best bet for the BJP
to neutralize caste factor in
context of on-going issues of
pro-quota agitation, post Una
episode related to beating of
Dalit youths and emerging
OBC movement in the state.
In case the 60-year-old
leader coming from the
Saurasthra region would be
announced on Tuesday, it
would a great birthday gift for
him as Rupani was born on
August 2, 1956. The MLA
from Rajkot West assembly
constituency
remained
Member of Parliament (Rajya
Sabha) from 2006-2011. He
started his political career as
RSS worker and later on in
1971 joined Jan Sangh.
Other prominent name
making round is Gujarat BJP's
organising
secretar y
Bhikhubhai Dalsania. After
historic win of BJP in 2014 Lok
Sabha polls, Dalsania's name
was emerged as one of the contenders to become Narendra
Modi' successor in Gujarat.
Once again, the RSS man
believing in working silently in
party's organisational structure emerged as one of the contenders for the Chief Minister's
post.
Apart from Rupani and
Dalsania, names of Gujarat's
senior cabinet Minister Nitin
Patel, former state BJP presi-
dent RC Faldu and even Union
Minister of State for Panchayti
Raj Parshotam Rupala are also
being discussed. Barring Nitin
Patel who is from North
Gujarat town Kadi, all the
three - Dalsania, Rupala and
Faldu are from Saurasthra
region and belonging to Kadva
Patel community. Name of
Gujarat Assembly Speaker
Ganapat Vasava is also making
round. Highly educated Vasava
is not only young in his forties
but he belongs to tribal community too.
Even a faction BJP envisaging BJP's national president
Amit Shah's entry in Gujarat as
the Chief Minister. However,
chances of Shah becoming the
new CM are blink in view of
the upcoming assembly polls in
Punjab and Uttar Pradesh. A
section of powerful business
community is expecting
Gujarat's finance Minister
Saurabh Patel for the post.
Though Patel is considered as
an intellectual, but many in the
party strongly believe that he
lacks mass appeal. According
to a senior BJP leader, what BJP
requires at the moment is a
state level leader with mass
appeal in order to win 2017
assembly polls and retain
power in Gujarat.
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Lucknow : Uttar Pradesh
Congress Committee (UPCC)
strongly criticised open abuses against Government officials
hurled by State Minister Radha
Shyam Singh and demanded
his immediate arrest in the
matter besides sacking him
from the post.
“It seems that that there is
no law for the Samajwadi Party
leaders and Ministers hence
they openly used muscle power,
threatened and abuse the government officials just after anyone dared to refuse to dance to
their diktats”, asserted
Amarnath Agarwal, senior
spokesman of the UPCC media
cell. Reacting to Singh’s statement here on Monday afternoon, Agarwal said that this is
not the first case but a series of
Ministers or those enjoying
Minister’s status in Akhilesh’s
ministry had taken law in their
hand resulting into ‘Jungle Raj’
in the State.
Agarwal also criticises
Chief Minister for adopting
double standards. “Why SP
leaders were at the maximum
removed from the post and no
further action has been taken
against them for issuing threats
to Government officials or
abusing them”, questioned
Amarnath.
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Rakesh Siddaramaiah, son
of Karnataka Chief Minister
Siddaramaiah was laid to rest
at his form house in Katur village near Mysuru on Monday
with thousands of people paying their tributes to the departed soul.
The body of 39-year-old
Rakesh, who died of multiorgan failure at Antwerp
University Hospital in Brussels,
in Belgium on Saturday, was
bought to Mysuru, his home
town by a special aircraft on
Monday morning. Chief
Minister Siddaramaiah, his
family members and others
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Mysuru from Brussels.
Karnataka
Governor
Vajubhai R. Vala and senior
leaders from various parties,
including Mallikarjuna Kharge,
Digvijay Singh, S.M. Krishna, M.
Veerappa Moily, Kagodu
Thimmappa, K.H. Muniyappa,
B.S. Yeddyurappa, D.V.
Sadananda Gowda, Jagadish
Shettar, H.D. Kumaraswamy and
former Kerala Chief Minister
Oommen Chandy and many
others paid their last respect.
Rakesh, the elder son of
Siddaramaiah, who was all set
to enter electoral politics from
Varuna constituency in
Mysuru, now represented by
Siddaramaiah, was expected
to be his heir.
The body, accompanied
by Home Minister G.
Parameshwara and Minister
in-charge of Mysuru District
H.C. Mahadevappa, was
brought to the venue around
12.40 p.m. in a special funeral
vehicle, where thousands of
people paid their last respect to
the departed soul.
As the leaders paid floral
tributes, an evidently grief
stricken Siddaramaiah stood
next to the body. According to
his close aides Siddaramaiah
was attached to Rakesh and
wanted him to make it big in
politics. He broke down when
top political leaders consoled
him.
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proceedings.
The explosion was reported from the toilet block. There
were neither any injuries nor
casualties, but a portion of the
toilet block collapsed due to the
impact of the explosion.
Window panes and the
asbestos sheet of the toilet
block shattered due to the
explosion.
The court proceedings
have been suspended. The
nature of explosive is yet to be
ascertained. The police rushed
to the spot and are investigating. Experts from the bomb
squad also rushed to the court
complex.
According to Home
Minister G Parameshwara, who
visited the spot confirmed the
explosion but said investigation
was on to ascertain the reason.
He said it was a crude bomb
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Lucknow: In a major relief to
the domestic power consumers
and farmers having private
tube wells, the power tariff has
not been hiked by the power
regulator in the tariff order for
the current financial year 201617 announced here on
Monday.
The power regulator UP
electricity regulatory commission has however announced
overall hike of 3.18 per cent in
power tariff for all other categories of the power consumers
which will help the four power
distribution companies—all
subsidiaries of the UP Power
Corporation Limited (UPPCL)
to stabilise their financial bottom line.
UPPCL in its annual revenue requirement petition filed
before the regulator in April
this year had asked for hike of
5.75 percent in tariff. The regulator however approved hike
of only 3.18 per cent, which is
estimated to fetch additional
revenue of C1,537 crore to the
UPPCL during the current
financial year 20160-17. Even
after the hike in tariff the revenue gap or the cash loss of
UPPCL is estimated to be
C7,598 croee in 2016-17.The
accumulated loss of the UPPCL
is over C75,000 crore by the end
of March this year.
The domestic consumers
of NOIDA where the power
distribution is handled by a private company have also been
spared from the hike in tariff.
The farmers having private
small tube wells have also been
spared from the hike in tariff.
Power regulator has also
announced relief for the farmers of Bundelkhand region and
they will pay only C100 per
BHP till the installation of the
meter applicable for the private
tube well.
In another relief to the
power consumers the power
regulator has abolished the
regulator y
surcharge-I,
imposed by the power distribution companies to cover their
cash losses. Power regulator has
also reduced the regulatory
surcharge-II to 3.03 per cent
from the present 4.28 per cent.
To encourage the consumers for making payments of
the electricity
bill on or
before due date the rebate has
been increased from 0.25 percent to 0.50 percent. This will
benefit both the consumers
and power distribution com-
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panies.
The regulator has however announced a steep hike of
7.24 per cent for the commercial category of consumers and
8.83 per cent for the state tube
wells and other Government
consumers like the pump
canals of the irrigation department. The farmers having private tube wells have also been
spared from the hike in tariff.
This was the lowest ever
hike in the tariff order
announced by the power regulator during the present
Samajwadi Party regime.. In
the fifth and the last tariff
order of the current regime as
the state goes to pools in first
quarter of 2017, this was the
lowest ever hike of only 3.18
per cent. In 2012-13, the tariff was increased by 17.60
percent, and 8.9 percent in
2013-14 and 5.47 percent in
2015-16 and 3.18 per cent
for 2016-17.
PNS
explosion and investigation
was on to ascertain the reason
and type of material used in the
low intensity explosion.
According to unconfirmed
reports two people have been
injured and taken to hospitals
by bystanders. It is also said two
unidentified bags were recovered on the blast site.
The bomb squad and dog
squads were at the site of blast,
and Police have cordoned off
the area . The explosion has
occurred at a time many VIPs
were in Mysuru to attend the
last rites of
Rakesh
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review petition against the tariff order for 2016-17 issued by the UP
electricity regulatory commission here on Monday. It said that the
power regulator has done no favour to the domestic power consumers and farmers by not increasing the tariff for the two categories of consumers. Instead of maintaining status quo the regulator should have reduced the tariff for the domestic consumers and
farmers owning private tube wells. Avadesh Verma, chairman of the
forum said the regulator under the pressure of the UP Power
Corporation Limited has retained the system loading charge which
is levied by the power corporation on all kinds of new power connections foe all categories of consumers.
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May spoke, in
the week she
became Prime
Minister, of
being “at the service of ordinary,
working people” and of thinking
of those people who can only
just manage, she took aim at
exactly the right target.
In Britain, and all over the
Western world, huge numbers of
people feel the system no longer
works for them: That immigration is no benefit to them; that
globalised trade and corporations removes their control over
their lives; that the quantitative
easing of the central banks
inflates the prices of assets other
people already own.
The anger of such people
fuels much of the rise of the
Trumps, the Wilders and the Le
Pens. In its Left-wing form it has
brought us Bernie Sanders and
Jeremy Corbyn, and last month
it helped the Leave campaign to
win a famous victory.
Finding the answer to such
rampant discontent should be
the central concern of mainstream political leaders, in a race
against time to find workable
solutions before rampant populism overwhelms them.
In speaking as she did on the
steps of Downing Street, and in
the speech she gave in
Birmingham just before the dramatic collapse of the Tory leadership election, May fired the
starting gun of that race, opening up a new effort to define
how the centre-Right of politics
can lay claim to inclusion, fairness, and control.
The prize for success is enormous: Across the world, parties
of the Left have been unable to
find the language or policies to
deal with this disillusionment,
leaving them vulnerable to the
old-fashioned socialists now
returning with such vigour.
If Conservatives can produce the next wave of successful ideas, their political dominance for another generation
will be assured.
The urgency of this effort is
impossible to overstate. Every
one of the factors squeezing the
unhappy middle-income household, or the young person who
is worse off than their parents,
is accelerating. Japan-style economic stagnation is spreading to
other economies, particularly
in Europe. The huge numbers
around the world who aspire to
move to richer nations is growing rapidly.
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Above all, the pace of technological change seems set to
jump into a faster gear with the
arrival of artificial intelligence —
computers which learn as they
go along, and have the potential
to disrupt or make redundant
the jobs, training and qualifications of hundreds of millions of
people. One assessment is that
we are on the brink of change
happening at 10 times the speed
and with 300 times the scope of
the industrial revolution itself.
More livelihoods are going to
be upset, more professions transformed, more skills made obsolete and more new ones required
than ever before in the history of
the human race. From the car
that drives itselfto the robot
that provides a company’s security and audits its accounts at the
same time, new devices are going
to present not just an important
scientific event but a transformational political one too.
The risk is that such a
change will divide society further into those who master it
and those who are at its mercy;
that the disappearance of the
steady, routine job will be a dis-
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who consequently will be angrier still. The challenge set by our
new Prime Minister is, therefore,
even more urgent, more important, and even more difficult
than it might seem.
Whatever the answers may
be, we can be sure they will not
be found on the Left.
This will be a century in
which state ownership and
direction will fall even further
behind private initiative; regulation will be out of date before it
can even be agreed; and penal
taxation will impoverish any
country foolish enough to try it.
It might well be a good idea
to have an “industrial strategy”,
as the new Cabinet does, but not
if it is going to be focused on
picking businesses to support
and spending too much time
worrying about who owns what.
That is where Britain went
wrong in the 1960s.
An industrial strategy for the
next few decades would mean providing the research base, worldclass infrastructure and skills in
concentrated areas necessary to
attract innovators and jobs that
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That could be supported by
rolling out on a far bigger scale
many of the ideas tried in small
packets in recent years: Generous
tax reliefs for small businesses on
research and development; enterprise zones; enterprise capital
funds dedicated to backing new
technologies; and much more
on these lines — but absolutely
not civil servants trying to plan
the future of the economy.
If we have spare public
money as a result of balancing the
budget less quickly, that should go
into science, faster broadband and
pilot projects to train and educate
people in a new way.
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skills to be used over a lifetime
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learning how to learn, re-learn,
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changes in the nature of work.
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was an important theme of
May’s Birmingham speech. The
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to use their brains and free the
businesses they work in from
slow-moving rules and controls.
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moving instead against the
entrepreneur and the fast-moving company. When Philip
Green exhibits the “unacceptable
face of capitalism” it is not surprising that our minds turn to
new controls.
Yet there are many successful firms which treat their
employees as partners, and
ensure they share widely in success. Some big businesses do
have to change their attitudes,
and the idea of binding shareholder votes on executive pay is
a good one, but the emphasis
must be on making the UK the
best possible home of the thrusting, innovating, risk-taking user
of new technology and ideas.
Leaving the EU makes it all
the more vital that we chart a
pro-enterprise future, as
investors worry about sticking
with Britain. Transparency and
fair taxes from the big corporations are vital, but that shouldn’t stop us going for low taxes
and great infrastructure for the
businesses we need.
If the discontented voters
find, in the new industrial revolution, that they have strong
firms around them, better jobs
and the adaptive learning they
need, they will be much happier. If they don’t, no amount of
laws and regulations will ever
pacify them.
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Sir — This refers to the editorial, “Children aren’t workers”
(July 29). Why don’t we appreciate the fact that the owners of
the industries are also possessed
with human rights? Therefore,
their interests should also be
taken into account. If industries
are forced to recruit adults, they
will have to part with a larger
pay packet.
Also, unlike the hapless
child laborers, adults will not be
exploited to the full, economically and physically, for fear of
repercussion. So won’t the profit margin of industrialists witness a significant nosedive,
thereby harming our economy?
Kajal Chatterjee
Kolkata
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Sir — It is shameful that All
India Anna Dravida Munnetra
Kazhagam (AIADMK) Rajya
Sabha MP Sasikala Pushpa
slapped senior Dravida
Munnetra Kazhagam leader and
R ajya Sabha MP Tiruchi
Siva at an airport. She has also
gone on record to confirm her
act with pride.
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people are nominated by political parties to the Rajya Sabha.
AIADMK supremo Jayalithaa
has done well to sack Pushpa,
who with her bad conduct, has
brought shame not only to her
party, but also to Tamil Nadu.
Tharcius S Fernando
Chennai
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Sir — This refers to the editorial, “Water, water, everywhere”
(July 1). A decade back, India’s
financial capital, Mumbai too
witnessed waterlogging after a
heavy spell of rain throughout the
city. But no steps were taken to
stop the growth of jhuggie clusters. What to talk about eliminating the earlier ones.
All remaining construction
works on the national highway
and their sides should be completed on war-footing. It may be
noted that record-breaking traffic jam at Gurgaon was caused
due to unfinished work on a
drain at side road of the national highway rather than rain.
Effective measures need to
be taken in a manner to create
much-desired fear psychology
amongst wrong-doers of
encroaching on public land and
unauthorised constructions to
effectively check migrant population coming to cities who find
easy place to erect jhuggies,
and vending on public-land
including open area, roads and
footpaths. Unfortunately such
activities grow like a cancerous
disease because of political
patronage required by votebank politics.
Madhu Agrawal
Delhi
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Sir — This refers to the brain
stromer, “India’s blind spot at Rio:
Track and Field” (July 30). The
answer is simple: Brilliant selfrespecting athletes are destroyed
by sports officials and drug testing authorities. People lose interest in sports once they get a
Government job or a seat in a
good course under the sports
quota. They know that it is better to quit sports than lick the
boots of the fat corrupt officials.
Whatever achievement that has
been achieved is inspite of these
officials and not because of them.
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‘Dalit’ means ‘oppressed’.
Dalits, both Scheduled Castes
(SC) and Scheduled Tribes
(ST), as a group, account for
25 per cent of the Indian population.
A recent report by the very erudite
Amitabh Kundu said that 44.8 per
cent of ST and 33.8 per cent of SC
populations in rural India lived below
poverty line in 2011-2012. This highlights some other known and yet
embarrassingly disturbing facts.
A 2014 report by The India
Governs Research Institute said that
medical field workers do not visit 65
per cent of Dalit settlements, 47 per
cent are not allowed entry into ration
shops, 64 per cent are given less grains
than non-Dalits. And yes, the aforesaid data is for the period when the
Congress-led UPA Government was
in power which shamed and failed its
people en masse.
And this is not all. A report by the
National Confederation of Dalit
Organisations, working for the Dalits,
said that in 2011-2012, 49 per cent of
the children from Dalit families in
Haryana were underweight and malnourished. Eighty per cent of the Dalit
children in the six to 59 months’ age
group were anaemic.
The sex ratio in Haryana had been
languishing at 877 or each 1000 male
for a decade. However, in 2015-2016,
under the BJP-led Manohar Lal
Khattar Government, it stood at 905
females for every 1,000 males. Dalits
are the biggest beneficiaries of the fall
in infant and maternal mortality rate
in States like Haryana.
Hundred per cent digitisation of
ration cards, linking Aadhaar with
ration cards, transferring subsidies/cash
via direct benefit transfer to provide
food security, opening more than 22
crore bank accounts under the ‘Jan
Dhan’ scheme, efforts to give loans to
at least 1.5 lakh Dalit entrepreneurs
under the ‘Stand up India’ scheme by
asking bank branches to give at least
one loan under this scheme to a SC/ST
aspirant, benefits under the ‘Green
Business’ scheme to help Dalits fight the
adverse impact of climate change, venture capital fund with a C200 crore corpus specifically for the SC/ST, ‘Sukanya
Samriddhi’ scheme which specifically
aims at the girl child, especially girls
from Dalit families, efforts to ensure
five crore free LPG connections to families below poverty line over the next
three years, et al, are slated to make the
lives of the poor, especially the Dalits,
much better.
Last two years of Modi’s governance has done more in terms of
empowering the Dalits than almost 60
years of inept Congress rule. Yes, it is
the same Congress which is trying to
usurp the legacy of BR Ambedkar and
has blissfully forgotten about its own
leaders. I am talking about Jagjivan
Ram who was one of the tallest Dalit
leaders and has now been abandoned
by his own party men.
Hypocrisy of the Congress was
again highlighted last year during the
death of Rohith Vemula, a Dalit
research scholar at the University of
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many as eight Dalit students committed suicide in University of Hyderabad.
Of the eight suicides, seven took place
when the Congress Government was in
power — both at the Centre as well as
in the State. Surprisingly, Congress vice
president Rahul Gandhi, never visited
the aggrieved families then, but made
a dash to Hyderabad to lend ‘support’
to Rohith’s cause.
On the other hand, Bahujan Samaj
Party (BSP) chief Mayawati’s conduct
has been equally deplorable. The outrage over the violence in Una is a
sham coming from a behenji who did
not even deem it fit to condemn a
mob that stripped and paraded a Dalit
woman naked in full public view, in
front of her young son, in Uttar
Pradesh last year.
Both the Samajwadi Party and the
BSP did virtually nothing in the last
decade to improve the condition of the
Dalits in Uttar Pradesh. In sharp contrast, the BJP-led Devendra Fadnavis
Government in Maharashtra took a
noteworthy step by passing the
Prohibition of Social Boycott Bill in
the State Assembly. This Bill seeks to
make discrimination and social boycott a punishable offence, with a
maximum punishment of seven years
in prison or a fine up to five lakh
rupees or both.
One thing amidst all the clutter
that deserves applause and is unarguably one of the most defining
moments for its sheer progressiveness,
is the laudable step taken by BJP president Amit Shah who on May 11, took
a holy snan (sacred bath) with Dalit
sadhus, on the occasion of Simhastha
Kumbh Mahaparv at Valmiki Ghat in
Ujjain. Dalits know that religious,
social or caste-based discrimination
can alienate one forever. The holy
snan is symbolic of the BJP’s larger
ethos and desire to bring the Dalits
onto the socio-cultural centrestage;
from the fringes to the mainstream.
It will be suffice to conclude that
the rise of Dalit capitalism and Dalit
empowerment under the charismatic leadership of Modi is best exemplified by two gigantic steps. First, the
Pradhan Mantri Mudra Bank Loan
scheme which gave loans to the tune
of C1.37 lakh crore to almost 3.6 crore
people last year. For the next year, the
target is even more ambitious at C1.8
lakh crore with the re-finance rate in
many cases being just seven per cent.
Coming back to Uttar Pradesh,
which along with Bihar accounts for
more than 30 per cent of all crimes
committed against Dalits, Mayawati’s
doublespeak has no takers anymore.
While Mayawati reportedly spent
anywhere between C7,000 crore to
C40,000 crore in building elephants in
pink sandstone and obscenely expensive statues of Dalit leaders, the true
inheritor of the legacy of Kanshi
Ram is the BJP.
The second big stride by the
Modi Government, to ameliorate the
condition of the Dalits, is the amend-
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of the most powerful tools in
the Leftist arsenal, and this
week, we witnessed some of the
most fact-free examples of it in the
US presidential elections. It seems
most of the ‘mainstream’ Press in
the US (translation: Self-certifying
Left-wing types) have decided that
presidential candidate Donald
Trump “slandered” the parents of
US soldier Humayun Khan.
Obviously, its complete tosh.
Piece after piece, while outraging
about the said outrage, failed to
provide any quote on how exactly the fallen captain or his family
had been slandered. But this
worldwide phenomenon of hurling unproven, fact-free muck at
the Right, has hidden the foreign
policy disaster ie Hillary Clinton.
This same cabal of self-righteous hypocrites has casually
laughed off Trump's earthy but
remarkably clear sighted vision of
foreign policy. The plague i.e.
Clinton is best described by
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Khizr Khan — the father of
Humayun Khan. He asked rather
pompously at the Dumbo
National Convention (also
known as the Democratic
National Convention) of Trump,
“You have sacrificed nothing
and no one" following it up with
(without even a hint of irony)
with this hilarious line “Have you
even read the US Constitution?
I will gladly lend you my copy”.
This pretty much sums up the
problem because everything that
he attributed, Trump is far more
applicable to Hillary. After all,
what exactly has Clinton, the
Clinton family, her husband, her
daughter or her son-in-law, sacrificed for the country?
Far from the members of
her husband’s Cabinet — specifically former Foreign Secretary
Madeleine Albright are certified
war profiteers, reaping huge
commercial contracts in places
that Bill Clinton bombed (sorry
“liberated”). It is ironic then that
if Khizr Khan was worried about
Trump’s assault on minorities, he
didn’t offer to lend his copy of
the Constitution to Clinton —
the same woman who had
opposed the Gay and Lesbian
equality for decades, and voted
for the abominable Defence of
Marriage Act (DoMA). This
was the same DoMA that was
struck down by the US Supreme
Court as being unconstitutional, but hey since Clinton is a
democrat — even her bigotry is
you know “liberal”.
But that brain-deadedness is
exactly what Khizr Khan displayed
at the DNC — the simple words
of a weak malleable mind. As professor Sumit Ganguly (A sworn
democrat) observed a few years
back during a lecture on the last
US elections — there was a distinct pattern of southern Black
voters, voting against their own
interests — voting Republican, the
same party that arguably disenfranchises them.
This same pattern though can
equally be observed with two
minorities with respect to Clinton
— Muslims and the LGBT community. Clinton is one of the
biggest Muslim killers in modern
history. Every disaster in the
Middle East today — Afghanistan,
Pakistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya — all
have a direct or indirect relationship to her actions.
In fact, going by the lady's
record, if you were superstitious,
you'd be excused for thinking
Clinton is the unholy by-product
of a diabolical Congress between
a Dementor and Damien (from
Omen). Yet, here was Khan
endorsing the woman whose vote
killed his own son, do you need
any more proof of voting against
one’s own interests?
The second set of supporters
of Clinton is large sections of the
LGBT community. To be fair,
much Republican homophobia
has pushed the community into
an unhealthy Stockholm syn-
drome with the Democrats.
Curiously this was community
whose mention was left out by
“freedom lover” Khan. Hardly surprising given that Clinton and US
President Barack Obama refused
to blame Islamic extremism for
the Orlando Gay club shooting —
instead blaming guns. Curiously
they didn't see fit to blame trucks
for the July 14 Nice attacks. Forget
the fact that Omar Mateen was a
licensed security guard, who had
a permit for his firearm; forget that
his employers were uncomfortable
with him, but didn't want to sack
him and get accused of being
islamophobes; forget that Omar
swore Bayah (allegiance) to Daesh.
And what was Obama’s solution
(endorsed by Clinton)?
Get the US Embassy in Delhi
to run LGBT films and light the
hideous eyesore of an Embassy
in a particularly unpleasant rainbow. Yup that should fix Daesh
— after all Clinton isn’t known
as Umm Ad-Daesh (mother of
ment to the Scheduled Castes and
Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act,
1989. The amended act assumes special significance in the wake of horrifying data from the Akhilesh Yadav
Government in Uttar Pradesh which
reported a shocking 8,946 cases of
crime against Dalits in 2015.
The amended SC/ ST (Prevention
of Atrocities) Act which was passed by
both houses of Parliament in April, is
more lethal as it includes new
offences, increases quantum of relief
payable to Dalit victims, provides for
speedy justice via exclusive special
courts and special prosecutors and
even has a whole new provision to fix
wilful negligence and dereliction of
duty by public servants while dealing
with crimes against the aggrieved.
It will be apt to end with an
immortal quote by BR Ambedkar
which goes thus... ‘Men are mortal. So
are ideas. An idea needs propagation
as much as a plant needs watering.
Otherwise both will wither and die’.
That idea of Dalit empowerment,
which only found lip service even after
60 years of independence, is today an
idea whose time has come, an idea
that needs to be propagated by each
one of us, cutting across political affiliations so as to ensure for future generations, ‘Dalit’, does not mean
oppressed or marginalised, but
empowered and enriched.
(The writer is an economist, stock
market expert and a spokesperson for
the BJP)
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And guess what — Ghazala
Khan, mother of the fallen
Captain said, “When Donald
Trump is talking about Islam, he
is ignorant. If he studied the real
Islam and Quran, all the ideas he
gets from terrorists would
change, because terrorism is a
different religion”.
Yes Ghazala, this is the same
tired line that every apologist has
used. These are the same people
who believe that while temple and
church should be separated from
state, mosques should not on the
grounds of cultural relativism. If
you actually believed the lip service your husband paid to the constitution you would've said "religion is fallible and incompatible
with a modern state".
But perhaps the biggest revelation was Clinton, whose
actions killed Khan. Yet she
had not one iota of shame using
the fallen hero's corpse as a political shield. Let that sink in.
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entry of new players in banking sector, the Reserve Bank
on Monday heralded 'on tap'
universal banking licence
regime, but excluded large
industrial houses from the
purview though they can
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“The licensing window
will be open on-tap, and the
applications ... Could be submitted to the RBI at any
point of time,” according to
the 'Guidelines for 'on tap'
Licensing of Universal Banks
in the Private Sector' released
by RBI.
As per the guidelines,
the initial minimum paid-up
voting equity capital for a
bank should be C500 crore
and thereafter, the bank
should have a minimum net
worth of C500 crore at all
times.
“Large industrial houses
are excluded as eligible entities but are permitted to
invest in the banks up to 10
per cent,” the guidelines said.
Individuals/professionals
who are 'residents' and have
10 years of experience in
banking and finance at a
senior level and existing nonbanking financial companies
(NBFCs) that are 'controlled
by residents' and have a successful track record for at
least 10 years can apply for
the licence.
Further, “entities/groups
in the private sector that are
'owned and controlled by
residents' and have a successful track record for at
least 10 years, provided that
if such entity/group has total
assets of C5,000 crore or
more, the non-financial business of the group does not
account for 40 per cent or
more in ter ms of tot a l
assets/in terms of gross
income” are also eligible promoters.
The applicant would have
to pass the 'Fit and Proper'
criteria. According to it, promoter/promoting entity/pro-
moter group should have a
past record of sound financials, credentials, integrity
and have a minimum 10
years of successful track
record.
The foreign shareholding
in the bank would be as per
the existing FDI. At present,
the aggregate foreign investment limit is 74 per cent.
While assuming charge
on S e pte mb e r 4 , 2 0 1 3 ,
Governor Raghuram Rajan
had said one of his key
reform measures would to
put bank licensing on-tap. He
fulfilled a part of it in April
2014 by issuing in-principal
approvals to two-infra lender
IDFC and microfinancier
Bandhan, out of 25 applicants. Both of them are operational since last year. These
banks came in after a gap of
over a decade.
Besides, the RBI gave inprinciple approval to 10
payments banks and 11 small
finance banks last year. RBI
had last issued guidelines
for licensing of new banksin
t he pr iv ate s e c tor on
Febr u ar y
22,
2013.
Consequently, the RBI issued
in-principle approval to two
applicants and they have
since established the banks
(Bandhan Bank and IDFC
Bank).
It its monetary policy
statement in April 2014, RBI
had indicated that after issuing in-principle approval for
new licences, the central
bank will start working on
the framework for on-tap
licensing as well as differentiated bank licences.
RBI released draft guidelines on 'on-tap' licences for
universal banks in May.
After considering the
experience of licensing two
universal banks in 2014 and
granting in-principle approvals
for Small Finance Banks and
Payments Banks, RBI has now
worked out the framework for
granting licences to universal
banks on a continuous basis,
RBI said in a release.
On approval process, RBI
said that the applications will
be referred to a Standing
External Advisory Committee
(SEAC) to be set up by the
Reserve Bank. The validity of
the in-principle approval
issued by the RBI will be 18
months from the date of granting in-principle approval and
would thereafter lapse automatically.
On minimum capital
requirement, RBI further said
the promoter/s and the promoter group/Non Operative
Financial Holding Company
(NOFHC), should hold a
minimum of 40 per cent of
the paid-up voting equity
capital of the bank which
would be locked-in for a period of five years from the date
of commencement of business
of the bank.
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Didi will take over Uber's
China business, in a deal worth
$35 billion as the US car-hailing firm gave in after fierce
competition from its rival in the
world's second largest economy.
Uber will take a 5.89 per
cent stake in Didi. Didi did not
disclose the stake it will take in
Uber. Uber China's on-demand
mobility (ODM) service will
continue to operate independently. The deal follows China's
legalistion of ODM services.
Uber's founder Travis
Kalanick and Didi founder
Cheng Wei will sit on each
other's company boards.
The two companies have
been locked in a bitter battle for
customers in China marked by
huge customer discounts since
last year.
Post the merger of its
Chinese business, Uber is
expected to focus more aggressively on the Indian market, its
third biggest market after the
US and China, at present.
Interestingly in India, Uber
is locked in an intense battle
with market leader Ola which
counts Didi as an investor.
Didi had picked up a stake
in Bengaluru-based Ola last
year as a part of the $500 million funding round.
Last December, Didi
Chuxing, along with Ola, USbased Lyft and GrabTaxi had
also formed a global pact to
share customers and technology across countries to compete
with Uber.
Uber has been pumping in
substantial funds to fuel its
growth in India. In July last
year, Uber had announced an
investment of $1 billion in
India to expand its services
here. It has also set up a
response and support centre in
Hyderabad with an investment
of $50 million.
India is also expected to be
a major beneficiary of the $3.5billion fund raised by Uber earlier this year as the US-based
firm looks to overtake local
rival Ola.
There were also reports
suggesting that Uber may buy
Ola, though the Indian company rubbished those saying it
has “no intentions of selling to
Uber”.
Uber is one of very few foreign tech firms that has been
able to compete with domestic
rivals head-on in China.
While Didi holds a majority share in China's ODM services, Uber has managed to
establish a foothold, and has
made inroads into lower-tier
cities this year to further threaten Didi's dominance.
iding on positive sentiments brought by a good
monsoon car sales in the
country grew at a robust pace
in July with market leader
Maruti Suzuki India posting
record monthly sales while
others like Hyundai, M&M,
Ford and Renault also registered strong numbers
Maruti Suzuki India
(MSI) said it had its best ever
monthly domestic sales in
July at 1,25,778 units, up 13.9
per cent from 1,10,405 units in
the same month last year.
Its growth was mainly on
the back of sales of utility
vehicles, including newlylaunched compact SUV Vitara
Brezza, Ertiga and the SCross, which surged over twofold to 17,382 units in July this
year from 6,916 units in the
corresponding month last
year.
The company's sales of
mini segment cars, including
Alto and WagonR, however,
declined by 7.2 per cent to
35,051 units as compared to
37,752 units in the year-ago
month.
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prices of its various models
by up to C20,000.
The increase in price
for the newly launched
compact SUV Vitara Brezza
will be C20,000 while that
of new premium hatchback
Baleno is C10,000.
On a select range, the
price hike will be between
C1,500 and C5,000, Maruti
Suzuki India (MSI) said in
a regulatory filing.
On reasons for the hike,
MSI said: “This price revision is based on factors
like, segment-wise demand,
f o r e x m ov e m e nt s a n d
strategic objectives of the
company.”
The hike is effective
f r o m f r o m Mo n d ay, i t
added.
The company sells a
range of models starting
from hatchback Alto 800 to
p r e m i u m c r o s s ov e r S Cross, priced C2.45 lakh to
Rs 12.03 lakh (ex-showroom Delhi).
MSI stock on Monday
ended at C4,869.80 on BSE,
up 2.41 per cent from the
previous close.
Sales of the compact segment comprising Swift, Estilo,
Ritz, Dzire and Baleno
increased by 4.1 per cent to
50,362 units in July this year
as against 48,381 units in the
corresponding month last
year.
Rival Hyundai Motor
India Ltd (HMIL) sold 41,201
units in the domestic market
last month as compared with
36,503 units in July last year,
a growth of 12.87 per cent.
Commenting on the sales
performance, HMIL Senior
Vice-President (Sales and
Marketing) Rakesh Srivastava
said the company continued
to sustain growth trajectory
on the strength of strong pull
performance of Grand i10,
Elite i20 and Creta.
The market has showed
improved customer sentiments led by good monsoon,
low inflation, reduced interest
rates and dropping fuel prices,
he said.
Homegrown utility vehi-
cles major Mahindra &
Mahindra (M&M) reported
14 per cent increase in its
domestic sales at 35,305 units
last month compared with
31,087 units in July 2015.
M&M Chief Executive
(auto division) Pravin Shah
said: “The advent of good
monsoon so far has brought in
positive sentiment for the
economy and that is somewhat reflected in our performance.”
Ford India said its domes-
ountry's largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki
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=4F34;78)Rejecting RBI plea
for exempting Tata-DoCoMo
deal from foreign exchange
Act, the Finance Ministry has
said the two firms had entered
into a share buyback contract
in contravention of prevalent
law and the case will now
have to be legally settled.
Japan's largest mobile
phone firm NTT DoCoMo
had in November 2009
acquired 26.5 per cent stake in
Tata Teleservices for about
C12,740 crore (at C117 per
share). This was as per a 2008
understanding that in case it
exits the venture within five
years, it will be paid a minimum 50 per cent of the acquisition price.
A top Finance Ministry
official said the Tata-DoCoMo
buyback contract was signed
despite Reserve Bank of India
(RBI) rules barring pre-set
buyback pricing.
The RBI had in 2007 come
out with regulations barring
pre-determined share buyback
contracts, he said, adding the
Tata-DoCoMo contract was
signed despite RBI FEMA rules
barring such deals.
DoCoMo in April 2014
decided to exit the joint venture that struggled to grow
subscribers quickly. It sought
C58 per share or C7,200 crore
from Tatas.
But the Indian Group
offered C23.34 a share in line
with RBI guidelines that states
that an international firm can
only exit its investment at a
valuation “not exceeding that
arrived at on the basis of
return on equity”.
The Japanese firm dragged
Tatas to international arbitration where it won a $1.17 billion award. To honour that
award, an application was
made to the RBI seeking
exemption from the foreign
exchange act.
The official said the RBI in
turn wrote to the Finance
Ministry exemption from the
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tic sales rose 62.21 per cent to
7,076 units last month as
against 4,362 units in the same
period a year ago.
Renault India also reported an over seven-fold increase
in sales to 11,968 units in July
as against 1,686 units same
month last year.
Toyota Kirloskar Motor
(TKM) domestic sales grew by
2.76 per cent rise 12,404 units
in July, 2016 as against 12,070
units in the same month last
year. Nissan Motor India saw its
domestic sales rising by overtwo-fold at 6,418 units in July,
compared to 2,841 units in the
same period of previous year.
“Our sales have been gaining momentum over the past
few months and the trend has
been encouraging. The customers have responded positively to the new Datsun rediGO,” Nissan Motor India
Managing Director Arun
Malhotra said.
In the two-wheeler segment, the country's largest twowheeler maker Hero MotoCorp
reported 9.13 per cent increase
in sales at 5,32,113 units in July.
It had sold 4,87,580 units in July
2015.
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Tech Mahindra today reporteda 28 per cent year on year
growth in its June quarter net
profit at C796 crore, buoyed by
a surge in revenues.
Vice-Chairman Vineet
Nayyar said: “We have had a
steady quarter in spite of seasonal weakness in our mobility business. We look forward
to continuing our journey of
improving profitability of our
business.”
It had posted a profit of
C880.6 crore in January-March.
Nayyar added that quarteron-quarter performance was
affected largely by a dip in margins, which slipped to 14.9 per
cent as against 17 per cent in
the March quarter on an
increase in visa costs and seasonal downturn in some
clients.
Its Chief Financial Officer
Milind Kulkarni said the company incurred a cost of $11
million on H1B visas while
there was a hit of 1.80 per cent
because of the seasonal downturn with select clients of
Comviva.
Its consolidated revenues
grew to C6,920.9 crore, from
C6,293.8 crore in the year-ago
period.
Terming the UK's vote to
exit the European Union as the
“biggest destabilising factor”,
Nayyar said it will take at least
one year for the uncertainties
to settle down.
He added that the US
election verdict can also be
“potentially disruptive”. Nayyar
hoped that the company's
“critical services” will not be
affected.
MD and CEO C P
Gurnani said Britain accounts
for 10 per cent of the company's revenues and the
spillovers in an inter-connected world are something
the company needs to keep in
mind.
Gurnani said the delivery on
one deal lifted the share of digital revenues to above 20 per cent,
from 11 per cent in the year-ago
period, and is optimistic that this
will be maintained. Interestingly,
he said Indian customers are featuring among some of the digital deal wins.
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national carrier Air India has barred its officials from
using luxury cabs while travelling within the country and asked them to put up only in crew hotels.
In a strongly-worded circular to “all concerned”
on Saturday last, Air India Chairman and Managing
Director Ashwani Lohani warned the officials of serious action in case of any violation of his instructions on austerity measures.
“I have been repeatedly emphasising on economy, curbing of wasteful expenditure and maintaining immaculate conduct and behaviour,” he said.
Recalling that several instructions regarding official travel have been issued in the past, Lohani said,
“Full time taxi shall not be hired for any officer
(except CMD) while travelling in an overseas country.”
“If any officer has to cover many points in a day
that otherwise would be uncomfortable, to cover
by point-to-point taxies, written prior approval need
to be taken,” according to the circular.
The circular came soon after the PMO asked
the airline to improve its performance on all fronts
during the first official review late last month.
According to the circular, taxies hired for
domestic travel should not be luxury vehicles while
“crew hotels being fairly reasonable, officials shall
invariably stay in the hotels only during official travel both within India and overseas.”
However, at places where crew hotels are not
available, the officials should be “judicious” in booking a reasonably priced hotel, the Air India top boss
said in the circular.
“Entertainment is definitely not for entertaining
family and friends. It should be for strictly for official purposes and done judiciously.
The official should maintain a record of who
was entertained and in case of excessive expenditure,
this record may be called for scrutiny,” it said.
The airline's director-finance has been asked by
Lohani to keep a tab on such expenses and bring any
violation in this regard to his notice.
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<D<108) Extending its gains for
the fifth straight session, the
rupee on Monday surged by 28
paise to close at nearly 2month high at 66.74 a dollar on
persistent dollar selling by
banks and exporters on hopes
of foreign capital inflows into
equity market.
The rupee opened higher
at 66.80 a dollar from last closing level of 67.02 per dollar at
the Interbank Foreign
Exchange (Forex) market. It
firmed up further to 66.69 per
dollar before finishing at nearly 2-month high at 66.74 per
dollar, showing a gain of 28
paise or 0.42 per cent.
The domestic currency has
gained 61 paise or 0.91 per cent
since Junly 26. The domestic
currency had last settled at
66.71 a dollar on June 9, 2016.
Overseas investors infused
over Rs 12,600 crore into equity markets last month. The foreign capital inflows are expected to grow further with the passage of long-pending GST bill
in the Rajya Sabha. The bill has
been listed in Rajya Sabha for
consideration and passage on
Wednesday.
Meanwhile, the RBI fixed
the reference rate for the dollar at 66.7412 and for euro at
74.5165.
In cross-currency trades,
the rupee recovered against the
pound sterling to close at 87.96
from 88.31 on last Friday while
dropped further against the
euro to settle at 74.50 from
74.47 previously.
The domestic currency
also moved down further
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=4F34;78)Infrastructure sec-
tor grew at 5.2 per cent in
June, fastest in two months, on
the back of double-digit
growth in coal and cement
sectors.
The eight infrastructure
sectors -- coal, crude oil, natural gas, refinery products, fertilisers, steel, cement and electricity -- had expanded by 3.1
per cent in June 2015. The
eight core sectors comprise
nearly 38 per cent of the total
industrial production.
The cumulative growth
during the first quarter of the
current fiscal was 5.4 per cent.
These eight core sector
industries had expanded by
3.1 per cent in June 2015. The
core sector had expanded by
against the Japanese yen to
65.27 per 100 yen from 64.89.
The dollar index was trading up by 0.16 per cent against
a basket of six currencies in the
late afternoon trade. Overseas,
the dollar struggled against
the Japanese yenbut rose
against the British pound in late
afternoon trade as the UK
manufacturing activity hit its
lowest level in three years.
In the forward market,
premium for dollar ended narrowly mixed due to uneven
transactions of dollars.
The benchmark six-month
premium for January 2017
moved down to 198-200 paise
from 198.5-200 on last Friday
while and forward July 2017
contract inched up to 399-401
paise from 397.5-399.
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given additional charge of
Chairman and Managing
Director of Mahanagar
Telephone Nigam Limited
(MTNL) for three months.
The
Appointments
Committee of Cabinet has
approved entrustment of additional charge of the post of
CMD, MTNL, in favour of
Purwar, for a period of three
months with effect from June 8,
an order issued today by
Department of Personnel and
Training said.
Purwar is currently working
as Director (Finance) in MTNL,
which has been without a fulltime CMD since May 31, 2014,
following superannuation of A K
Garg.
Meanwhile, the Government
has started search for the new
head of the loss-making telecom
PSU, after a gap of two years.
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Trai is planning to start a consultation process to review call
connect charges, also known as
Inter-connection Usage Charges,
for the telecom network -- a move
that could bring down call rates.
According to sources, the
regulator plans to bring out a consultation paper on the same in
about a week.
In February 2015, during the
previous review of IUC, the regulator removed charges that a
landline service provider has to
pay to other players for transmitting a phone call of its customers.
The benefit of the waiver was
passed on to consumers by leading fixed line providers. This
prompted PSUs BSNL and
MTNL to start free unlimited
night calling plans. Among pri-
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2.8 per cent in May, slowest in
2016.
As per the data released by
the Government, coal production increased by 12 per
cent in June year-on-year.
Similarly, cement production saw a double digit expansion in June (10.3 per cent)
over the same in 2015.
Fertilizer production
increased 9.8 per cent in June
(though slower than the previous month) while petroleum
refinery production expansed
of 3.5 per cent. The growth in
electricity generation was 8.1
per cent on annual basis.
Steel production, with a
weight 6.68 per cent in the
index, also increased by 2.4
per cent.
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today said it has chalked out
a capital expenditure plan of
C30,000 crore in 2016-17 to
add anot her 4,500 MW
power generation capacity to
meet r ising elec tr icity
demand.
“For the financial year
2017, the capex outlay of
NTPC is C30,000 crore to
increase the power generation
capacity. The capex of C5,538
crore incurred in Q1 of
FY17,” NTPC Chairman and
MD Gurdeep Singh told
reporters here.
During FY16, the company spent C25,737 crore
towards cap ex plans as
against C23,239 crore in the
preceding year.
“The company plans to
raise C15,000 crore through
bonds in the current year,”
Singh said, adding that the
fund raising is an ongoing
programme for the company.
The company will be
adding 4,500 MW of power
generation capacity and hope
to surpass the total capacity
of 50,000 MW in the current
fiscal, he said.
NTPC has a tot a l
installed capacity of 47,178
MW through its 18 coal
based, 7 gas based, 9 solar PV,
one hydro and 8 subsidiaries/joint venture power
stations.
Dur ing FY16, NTPC
group contributed 24 per
cent of total electricity generated in the country with 15
per cent share of country’s
total installed capacity as on
March 2016. The company
has added 2255 MW capacity during the last fiscal.
The comp any has a
capacity of over 24,000 MW
under different phases of
const r uc t ion pres ent ly.
Among the coal-based projects, it is setting up a 1,980
MW unit at Barh in Bihar,
2,400 MW unit at Kudgi in
Karnataka, 1320 MW at
Solapur in Maharashtra, 1600
MW at Lara in Chhattisgarh,
1600 MW at Gadarwara in
Madhya Pradesh, 1320 MW
at Tanda in Uttar Pradesh and
1600 MW at Telangana.
In the renewable energy
space, the company has
committed to central government for setting up 10,000
MW of renewable energy
project during the next four
to five years. It has commissioned 200 MW and 560 MW
is under construction, Singh
said.
In the overseas market,
the company has set up 50:50
JV with Bangladesh Power
Development Board to set up
2X660 MW thermal power
projec t at K hulna in
Bangladesh.
It has also set up 50:50 JV
with Ceylon Electricity Board
to undertake the development, construction, operation
and maintenance coal based
electricity generating station
of 2X250 MW capacity at
Trincomalee in Sri Lanka.
“The power generation
company will diversify into
fertiliser production,” said
Singh entering a regulated
industry.
L ast mont h, Pr ime
Minister Narendra Modi
unveiled the foundation stone
at Gorakhpur, for the revival
of gas-based Gorakhpur fertiliser plant, implemented by
Hindustan Urvarak Rasayan
Ltd, a joint venture between
Coal India Limited (CIL) and
NTPC.
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vate operators, telecom major
Bharti Airtel offers unlimited
local and STD calls from its landline connection on any network
throughout the day for a fixed
monthly charge.
Trai also reduced network
IUC on calls made from mobile
phones by about 30 per cent to 14
paise per call, from 20 paise earlier.
Telecom subscribers cannot
communicate with each other or
connect to other networks unless
necessary inter-connection
arrangements are in place. ?C8
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billion on solar panel
T
maker SolarCity in an all-stock
deal.
While electric car maker
has said that the tie-up would
create a one-stop shop for
cleaner energy, some have
questioned the motives behind
it.
Elon Musk is the chairman
and biggest shareholder of
both companies. And SolarCity
is run by his cousin, Lyndon
Rive. SolarCity’s stock slid
more than 6 per cent before the
market opened today.
The buyout gives SolarCity
Corp stockholders 0.110 Tesla
common shares per SolarCity
share, which puts the value of
SolarCity stock at $25.37 per
share. Tesla previously said it
would offer $23.56 to $25.30
per SolarCity share.
Musk has cultivated the
image of a maverick since he
made his initial fortune as cofounder of online payment
service, PayPal, which eBay
bought for $1.5 billion in 2002.
He is hailed as a visionary by
admirers who applaud him for
shaking up the auto industry
with Tesla’s sleek, electric vehicles and drawing up plans to
send people to Mars on Space
X’s rockets.
His detractors ridicule him
as an unpredictable control
freak.
Musk owns a 26 per cent
stake in Tesla Motors Inc.,
based in Palo Alto, California,
and a 22.5 percent stake in
SolarCity. His motivation to
pair Tesla with the San Mateo,
California, solar company primarily revolves around a battery system that stores solar
energy in homes and businesses.
The deal may draw more
attention to the financial position of both companies. Tesla
has lost $1.2 billion in the past
two years alone while SolarCity
has suffered losses exceeding
$1.1 billion during the same
span. Analysts surveyed by
FactSet are predicting a 416
million loss from Tesla this year
while they believe SolarCity
will lose $851 million. On
Monday, SolarCity said that it
experienced lower-thanexpected residential bookings
in the first half of the year, so
it’s reducing its full-year guidance for megawatts installed to
a range of 900 to 1,000
megawatts. Its previous outlook
had been for 1,000 to 1,100
megawatts.
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It is for general awareness of the members of Group Housing Societies that Delhi
Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC or Commission) has rationalized the tariff for
supply at 11 kV to Group Housing Societies in the Tariff Order dated 29/09/2015 as
follows:
1) Group Housing Society (GHS) shall mean a residential complex owned/managed by a
GHS registered with Registrar, Cooperative Societies, Delhi/registered under Societies
Act, 1860 and for sake of brevity, the definition shall include residential complex
developed by a Developer and approved by appropriate authority.
2) Distribution Licensee shall bill at Rs. 6.00/- per unit to GHS.
3) GHS shall bill the Individual Members of the society as per the applicable Tariff slab
available for Domestic Consumers: i.e., for FY 2015-16.
DOMESTIC (INDIVIDUAL) CONNECTIONS
0-200 units
400 Paisa/kWh
201-400 units
595 Paisa/kWh
401-800 units
730 Paisa/kWh
801-1200 units
810 Paisa/kWh
Above 1200 Units
875 Paisa/kWh
4) GHS shall bill Common Area as per Tariff of GHS i.e., Rs.6.00 per unit.
5) Any deficit/surplus, due to slab rate of Tariff and Tariff of GHS (Rs.6.00 per unit), shall
be billed by the members of the GHS on pro rata basis of consumption.
6) As per Order of GoNCTD for Domestic Consumers, individual members of the GHS are
also eligible for benefit of subsidy. The subsidy benefit is applicable w.e.f. 01/10/2015
7) DERC has framed modalities regarding claim of subsidy by the individual members of
the GHS as follows:
a) GHS shall maintain consumption data of individual members.
b) GHS shall submit Subsidy Claim Form to Distribution Licensee duly signed by
individual members and counter signed by President/Secretary of GHS. Format of
Subsidy Claim Form is available on the Commission's website.
c) Distribution Licensee on receipt of Subsidy Claim Form shall adjust subsidy in the
subsequent bill.
d) GHS shall get the subsidy audited by a CAG empanelled auditor on yearly basis
and submit its report to Distribution Licensee.
Issued In Public Interest by
DELHI ELECTRICITY REGULATORY COMMISSION
VINIYAMAK BHAWAN, C-BLOCK, SHIVALIK, MALVIYA NAGAR, NEW DELHI-110017
Tele: 011-41080417, Email: secyderc@nic.in, Website: www.derc.gov.in
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confrontation between him
and the parents of a slain
Pakistani-American Muslim
soldier have quickly snowballed into a major controversy, prompting top Republican
leaders to distance themselves
from Trump’s comments and
hail the sacrifice of the soldier
and his family.
House Speaker Paul Ryan
and Senate Majority Leader
Mitch McConnell obliquely
criticized Trump as they said
that the sacrifice of the soldier,
Army Captain Humayun
Khan, and his family should
always be honoured.
Significantly, they also came
out strongly against Trump’s
proposal for a temporary ban on
all Muslims entering the United
States, commenting that a religious test for entering our country was “simply contrary to
American values”.
“Many Muslim Americans
have served valiantly in our
military, and made the ultimate
sacrifice. Captain Khan was
one such brave example. His
sacrifice — and that of Khizr
and Ghazala Khan — should
always be honored. Period,”
Ryan said in a statement.
The spat between Trump
and Khizr Khan, father of the
soldier who died in the Iraq
war in 2004, appeared to roil
the US presidential race as it
played out across all major
American television channels
and social media for the third
day on Monday.
In his series of media interviews on Sunday, Khan, who
said Trump does not know
what sacrifice is, branded the
New York billionaire “a black
soul” who lacked “a moral
compass”.
And his wife, Gazala Khan,
writing an opinion piece in The
Washington Post, said: “Donald
Trump said he has made a lot
of sacrifices. He doesn’t know
what the word sacrifice means.”
“Donald Trump said I had
nothing to say. I do. My son
Humayun Khan, an Army captain, died 12 years ago in Iraq.
He loved America, where we
moved when he was 2 years
old,” she wrote, adding: “I am
a Gold Star mother. Whoever
saw me felt me in their heart.”
While
Ryan
and
McConnell did not name
Trump, senior Republican
Senator John McCain directly
hit out him, saying: “While our
party has bestowed upon him
the nomination, it is not
accompanied by unfettered
licence to defame those who are
the best among us.”
Commenting that Trump
has “disparaged a fallen soldier’s
parents”, McCain said, adding
how deeply he disagrees with
Trump’s other suggestion that
the likes of Captain Khan
should not be allowed in the
United States — to say nothing
of entering its service”.
With Khan continuing to
be interviewed by TV networks on Monday, Trump got
active on Twitter again, commenting: “Mr Khan, who does
not know me, viciously
attacked me from the stage of
the DNC and is now all over
TV doing the same — Nice!”
In a tactical move in an
apparent bid to walk back from
the controversy that is seen to
be damaging for Trump, his
vice-presidential running mate
Mike Pence put out a statement
on Sunday night, saying:
“Donald Trump and I believe
that Captain Humayun Khan is
an American hero and his
family, like all Gold Star families, should be cherished by
every American.”
Amid the raging controversy, a number of other “Gold
Star families” of service members who died fighting for
America came for ward,
demanding an apology from
Trump.
In a joint letter, members of
11 Gold Star families — a term
used for families that have lost
their loved ones in military service — termed Trump’s comments “repugnant, and personally offensive”.
onboard were killed, the
Kremlin said, in the deadliest
single incident for the Russian
military since its entrance into
Syria’s civil war.
The Mi-8 helicopter was
shot down in Idlib province
while returning to the Russian
air base on Syria’s coast after
delivering humanitarian goods
to the city of Aleppo, the
Defence Ministry said in a
statement. The helicopter had
three crew members and two
officers deployed with the
Russian centre at the
Hemeimeem air base on the
Syrian coast.
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information provided by the
Defence Ministry, all those
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triggering a seven-hour gunand-bomb assault that highlighted the deteriorating security situation in a capital still
reeling from its deadliest attack
for 15 years.
The guests and staff of
Northgate hotel were
unharmed but one policeman
was killed after the bombing,
which rattled windows several kilometres away, paved the
way for armed insurgents to
enter the heavily guarded facility close to Kabul airport.
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lead to a second referendum, a
senior Conservative party peer
warned on Monday. Baroness
Wheatcroft said she hoped
that a pause in introducing
Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty,
the official trigger for Brexit,
could lead to British public
potentially changing its mind.
“If it comes to a Bill, I think
the Lords might actually delay
things. I think there’s a majority in the Lords for remaining,”
she told ‘The Times’.
addressing security threats and
“provocations”, amid escalating
tensions over the disputed
South China Sea after a UNbacked tribunal struck down
Beijing’s claims over the strategic waters.
The People’s Liberation
Army (PLA) will “unswervingly safeguard national sovereignty, security and development interests including territorial integrity and maritime
rights and interests”, State
Councillor and Defence
Minister Chang Wanquan said.
“It will always stand ready
to be called upon and be able
to fight and win,” state-run
China Daily quoted him as saying while addressing an event
to mark the 89th anniversary of
the PLA.
coalition of insurgent groups
called Jaish al-Fateh, or Army
of Conquest, which has captured most of Idlib.
Videos uploaded online by
Syrian opposition activists
show the burning wreckage of
a Russian helicopter in footage
seemingly taken in the first few
moments after the helicopter
crashed.
In one video, a rocket pod
can be seen next to the wreckage. People standing nearby are
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who were on the helicopter
died,” Russian President
Vladimir Putin’s spokesman
told journalists. The ministry
statement released earlier said
their fate was still unknown.
Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry
Peskov, said the Russians “died
heroically because they tried to
move the aircraft away so to
minimise losses on the ground.”
There was no immediate
claim of responsibility for
the attack.
Idlib province has a strong
presence of fighters both for the
al-Qaeda branch in Syria
known as the Nusra Front and
other groups fighting against
Syrian President Bashar Assad’s
forces. The Nusra Front
announced last week that it was
changing its name and relinquishing ties with al-Qaeda in
an attempt to undermine a
potential US and Russian air
campaign against its fighters.
The group is part of a
The 2.3 million-strong
army, the world’s largest and
part of the ruling Communist
Party of China’s liberation
struggle, turned 89 on Monday.
China will staunchly protect
the country’s maritime rights
and interests and is “fully confident and capable of addressing various security threats
and provocations”, he said.
Chang did not directly refer
to the South China Sea situation
during his remarks yesterday,
but tension there was heightened this year by increased US
patrols and the arbitration case
brought by the Philippines
against China, according to the
official media.
ously attacked in July 2013.
Earlier this month, the Islamic
State group claimed twin bombings that left 80 people dead in
the Afghan capital, the deadliest
attack in the city since the
Taliban were ousted from power
in 2001. “A truck bomb packed
with explosives struck the outer
wall of the hotel,” said Kabul
police chief Abdul Rahman
Rahimi. “One policeman lost his
life and three others were
wounded but none of the hotel
staff or guests were hurt. Three
Taliban fighters, including the
truck bomber were killed.”
Afghan commandos set up
a tight security cordon around
Northgate as erratic grenade
explosions and gunfire rocked
the area after the attack began
around 01.30am local time
(0230 IST).
Local TV station Tolo cited
a source inside the facility as
saying that all the staff and
guests — including 11 foreigners — hunkered down in safe
rooms all through the night. It
added that NATO special forces
had overseen the clearance
operation at the Northgate, a
luxury enclave which had been
fortified with blast walls, watchtowers and sniffer dogs.
Tremors from the massive
truck bombing, which was preceded by a power outage, were
felt across the city. Taliban
spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid
claimed that more than 100
“American invaders” were killed
and wounded in the assault.
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Washington: Social media
giant Facebook has successfully carried out its first test flight
of a solar-powered drone
designed to provide faster and
inexpensive internet access to
remote regions of the world.
The Aquila drone is being
created to widen the range of
internet connectivity around
the globe. “New technologies
like Aquila have the potential to
bring access, voice and opportunity to billions of people
around the world, and do so
faster and more cost-effectively than has ever been possible
before,” said Jay Parikh, global
head of engineering and infrastructure at Facebook.
When testing is finished,
the huge unarmed airplane will
be able to circle a region mea-
suring up to 96.6 kilometres in
diametre, while using laser
communications and millimetre wave systems (extremely
high-frequency radio waves) to
send connectivity down from
an altitude of more than 18,288
metres, ‘Live Science’ reported.
The autonomous aircraft
has a wingspan larger than a
Boeing 737 airliner, but weighs
hundreds of times less (about
one-third of an electric car)
because of its carbon-fibre
frame, according to Facebook.
Half of Aquila’s mass is
made up of batteries, which lets
the internet-delivery drone fly
during day and night.
“Aquila is designed to be
hyper efficient, so it can fly for
up to three months at a time,”
said Parikh.
PTI
seen taking cellphone photos
and shouting “Allahu Akbar,” or
God is great in Arabic. The
helicopter appears to have broken up as it crashed, its tail can
be seen lying separately from
the aircraft’s body in flames. In
other videos, the body of one
purported Russian soldier is
seen being dragged by
the legs while an unidentified
person stands on the body of
another soldier, also purportedly Russian.
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to carry identity cards with
them, amid increased security
arrangements at border areas in
view of the Independence Day
on August 15.
“India’s Sashastra Seema
Bal (SSB) made the request to
the aspiring Nepali visitors
through the Nepal Police,”
Baitadi District Police Office
was quoted by media as saying.
DSP Mohan Prasad
Pokharel said that those without proper ID cards would be
turned back from the border
points. According to the SSB,
security has also been tightened
at Jhulaghat, the border area in
Baitadi, according to Nepal’s
Rastriya Samachar Samiti news
agency.
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Government after the deadline
given to them for forging consensus expired without yielding
any results.
In a letter sent to the
Parliament, the President asked
the parties to begin the process
of electing a new Prime
Minister on a majority basis in
accordance
with
the
Constitution. The call by the
President to form a majority
Government was issued after
the deadline given to the parties to form a consensus
Government expired on
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eports of 15-year-old Ayush Bharadwaj
developing sleep disorders because of constantly playing Pokemon Go created quite
a buzz recently. Turns out this addiction is now
compromising the vision of a generation. “It has
become a serious problem,” says Dr Sanjay Verma,
head of the department of ophthalmology, at Paras
hospital in Gurugram.
“It has been observed that constant exposure
to blue light, which has a short wavelength and
high energy level, leads to multiple eye problems
and even sleep disorders. When you play games
on a small screen, your concentration level is at
its peak because you have to focus on multiple
things together. The human eye is not meant to
be focussing on anything beyond a certain time
frame, so when that happens, the blink rate goes
down significantly resulting in dryness and irritability.” This may or may not have a lasting effect
on sleep patterns, but when it does, it can have
some serious repercussions.
Mike Schultz, a 21-year-old communications
graduate on Long Island, New York, took a spill
on his skateboard while he was playing the game,
he cut his hand on the sidewalk after hitting a big
crack. He said, “I wanted to be able to stop quickly to see if there were any Pokemons nearby to
catch, I don’t think the company is at fault.”
The American Association of Orthopaedic surgeons has said in an official guidance that looking at your phone or any electronic devices while
walking can result in sprains, broken bones and
other serious and even fatal injuries. Experts
around the world believe that this can have adverse
effects on one’s mental health as this is a very
addictive game. They advise people to regularly
monitor the number of hours that they are spending on the game each day and if playing the game
is affecting their social life or not, because if it is,
then they have to be classified as addicts and treated accordingly. Some experts and psychologists
recommend setting an alarm to limit your time on
the game and organising trips and sessions with
people that don’t involve your phone. Some even
go to the extent of asking people to leave their
chargers at home if they see signs of addiction.
The famous television cartoon show that
exploded in popularity in the 90s has made a
comeback and looks stronger than ever. This time
it has entered the space of your mobile screen and
is so addictive that people don’t even have the time
watch the road while they are walking the streets.
Pokemon Go is a game that uses your phone’s GPS
and clock to detect where and when you are in the
game and make a Pokemon appear on your phone
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is an attempt at realising what the fans always
wanted. It is a world full of exotic and powerful
monsters in the form of rats, snakes, dinosaurs,
eggs and trees. You try and catch, tame and train
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eventually flaunt your success. Doesn’t it sound
interesting? Well, it did, at least for those millions
who remained glued to their television screens at
sharp 5 in the evening to see the central character Ash winning those highly acclaimed tournaments.
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progressed and come a long way in terms of communications technology but are we really communicating?
The whole idea of being able to game on and
doing multiple things on our phones and Ipads has
handicapped us so bad that we now try and “kill
time” than utilise it. How many times have you
noticed a family sitting in a restaurant and talking to each other? It is a rare sight these days
because mothers are usually busy chatting on their
whatsapp groups, fathers are busy with their work
and children with their games. Why blame technology or in this case a game, when the root cause
is you, yourself? We think the best thing to do in
this case would be to either grab a Pokemon that
induces sleep or learn the divine art of self control.
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eye and lip. I believe in finding a balance;
try the dark lip trend, for example, but keep
the rest of your makeup light and fresh.
And I also believe that just because it is a
trend, doesn’t mean it will suit you. I believe
that trends can be adapted and personalized to a woman. If you don’t feel comfortable wearing a dark purple lipstick, try
wearing a purple gloss instead; that way
you are still on trend but you don't
become a fashion victim,” said
Emmanuelle Geoffrey, the lookbook expert from the house of
Christian Dior.
Geoffrey was in town for the
opening of the brand’s first boutique
store at Select Citywalk, Saket. We also
asked her about the easiest way to turn a
day look into something that works for
a night-out, to which she said, “Just create more contrast on your eyes by using
a eyeshadow palette in a more intense
shade. This has eyeshadows, shimmer
and a cream liner to easily make your
day makeup look more sophisticated.
Apply a deep mascara and a brighter
lip colour and you are set for a fun
evening out.”
Talking about the latest trends,
the international makeup artist said,
“Graphic eyeliner, dark lip or a
softly sculpted complexion and
strobing are the current
trends.” Also, she felt, no
woman should leave home
without a mascara, lipstick and
a blush.
We also asked her if there is an age that
she thinks is too soon for girls to begin
wearing makeup on a regular basis, “That
is something I face very often during my
travels and which can be a bit tricky. I
believe that makeup should be used to
enhance beauty but it seems that young
girls are wanting to grow up too fast in this
world and want to be older more quickly;
again, the media has a big influence on the
younger generations and it seems that
young girls are being ‘forced’ to look and
act older than they are. Why rush it? That
being said, I don’t think there’s anything
wrong with a young teenager using a
coloured lip balm, a touch of mascara and
a hint of blush on the cheeks,” she
answered.
Talking about her career, Geoffrey told
us, “I think for me the biggest challenge has
been that many people think being a makeup artist is all just glitz and glamour but
in reality, it has taken a lot of hard work,
dedication and sacrifice to get where I am.
I wouldn’t have been able to do it if it hadn’t been for the support of my husband,
family and friends.”
craze for Korean platters is increasing.
Looking at the fast-spreading love, the
Korean Culture Centre India hosted a
workshop by Master Chef Ahn Bok Ja.
A Korean food specialist, she gave
a two-hour lesson on Yukwa, a traditional Korean snack, from scratch. She
also prepared a special presentation on
Korean food at the beginning of the session, which was extremely helpful
and informative for everyone present.
Yukwa, a healthy traditional
Korean rice snack, is exclusively made
by hand. “A lot of effort goes into making the Yukwa. Specially when you have
to make everything from scratch. We
use dried fruit, honey and natural products, she said. “These snacks can be preserved for a long time and don’t get
spoilt if kept away for long,” she added.
The delicious Yukwa is made in a
time span of about 50 minutes and
includes various powders like pumpkin, cactus and rice. “The powders that
are used in making Korean snacks are
natural products from the environment
so they are health-friendly,” said the
master chef.
Mrs Ahn Bok Ja also showed us
how to make really frilly and flat rice
cakes. The rice cakes are then deep
fried in hot oil and later, sugar syrup
is added to them. “Yukwa is a traditional dish which is made in various flavours and shapes. When the
dish is in a square shape, it is called
‘Yukwa’ and when it is cut into small
pieces, it is called ‘Khan Jum’. There
is no addition in the ingredients,
only the name changes when the size
does,” she added.
The master chef, who decided to
take up this profession to meet her
financial needs, told us a few fun
facts about Yukwa. “In history,
Yukwa was a royal snack. It was only
made during festivals and special
occasions. However, later on it was
made compulsory on all occasions.
It is now easily available in the market and is a part of regular meal” she
claims.
The ace chef also spoke about ‘Ebazi’ meal, which is her specialisation. “In E-bazi, special food is prepared only for the bride and groom.
It is not made for the guests. So even
though I am not restricted to anything, I can easily say that E-bazi
meal is my specialisation” she rounded off with a touch of humour.
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Rage production’s 12 Angry Jurors, staged
recently at the Aadyam theatre fest,
raised relevant moral questions in a
society homogenised more by biases
than fairplay or debate, it got many talking about the film Ek Ruka Hua Faisla.
For those not in the know, this Basu
The drama is an adaptation of 12
Angry Men, a 1954 teleplay by the erican
writer Reginald Rose. Director Nadir
Khan’s version unfolds somewhere in
contemporary India in a room in which
12 individuals on jury duty must decide
the conviction of an 18-year-old slum
dweller being tried for the murder of his
father.
The filmief: To establish the crime
without “reasonable doubt.” And though
the jurors begin by more or less agreeing
that the distressed slum kid had killed his
oppressive and abusive father in a fit of
rage, it takes one of them to question the
veracity of the evidence itself. Since the
jury system is out of place in our country, having been stopped in 1959, it is a
tad difficult to contextualise it in the present. But Khan perhaps uses all the 12
jurors as a metaphor for the voices in our
heads, voices that get drowned in the
cacophony of loud-mouthed pre-suppositions, instant judgment and bullying
majoritarianism. It is an unpeeling of our
urban masks with the reality of the prejudiced, regressive,hierarchical and conditional value systems. As one of them
blatantly says, “Let us get them before
they get us,” implying the revenge of the
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of the reasons Khan gave his own spin
could be because theatre companies in
various countries have adapted it to
their local scenarios.
The play opens with the judge’s
somewhat dismissive voice handing over
the charge to the jury, almost assuming
that it is an open and shut case. We hear
neither the prosecutor nor the defence
attorney and learn of the evidence as the
jurors debate and analyse it. In the
process, the play becomes a critique of the
justice system as we know it today. It has
a contemporary relevance considering the
crime is by a juvenile, who has just turned
18. The jurors gradually move away
from the question if the defendant is
innocent or guilty to whether the jury has
a reasonable doubt about his guilt. The
evidence has such gaping holes of logic
that you are left wondering if the defence
lawyer was sleeping on the job. How can
a case stand if facts are compromised so
easily? Point to ponder. The principle of
reasonable doubt, the belief that a defendant is innocent until proven guilty, is one
of the most enviable and demanding
clauses of our justice system. But do we
practise it indeed? Aren’t we given to convenient opinionating? As the key dissenter juror Rajit Kapur says, “We may
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by the characters, all of whom have different backgrounds — corporates, businessmen, professionals, activists, homemakers, there’s even the NRI returnee
who’s constantly reminded of his unpaid
debt to the country of origin and his misplaced righteousness — and attitudes.
This is also an extremely well-knit and
timed ensemble anchored by many familiar faces of stage and ad films. While Rajit
Kapur is the pivot of dissent, who gradually turns the 11-1 vote against him to
12-0 in his favour, his subtlety is matched
by the combative and aggressive Deven
Khote, who being a victimised father,
won’t allow any argument to stand in the
way of his belief. And if you are literally
left gnashing your teeth by the rigidity
and racism of the juror played by Prerna
Chawla, you know she has been great at
her job.
The play is longish, almost making
you feel like it is done in real time. There
has been deft use of a cinematic technique, the jury room windows screening
shots of a rain-washed city outside. The
screen is also used to project the private
conversations in the loo between likeminded jurors and also to examine the
evidence close-up, like the switch-blade
knife and the layout of a chawl where the
murder happened. Evidence is debated so
completely that we feel we know as much
as the jury does, especially about the old
man who says he heard the murder and
saw the defendant fleeing, and the lady
across the street who says she saw it happen through the windows of a moving
train, though she may or may not have
been wearing glasses.
The jurors even debate the angle of
the knife wound and do mock drills to
analyse the efficacy of the claims. So
Kapur shuffles like the old witness, a
stroke victim, to see if he could have gotten to the door in time to see the murderer fleeing. In the way it balances one
piece of evidence against another that
seems contradictory, the play keeps it taut
like a thriller. But in the end, it is not
about solving the crime. It is about
sending a young man to die on the possibility of contaminated evidence. “We’re
talking about somebody’s life here,"
Kapur says. “We can’t decide in five minutes. Supposing we’re wrong?” In its
claustrophobic intensity, the play makes
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Bharatnatyam ingredients of Pushpanjali, Jatiswaram, Varnam
and Alarippu were immaculately brought out by Lavanya in a manner most
professional. Though with the highest of regards for them, she doesn't like
being compared to any of the greatest Bharatnatyam exponents as she
believes that all dancers develop their own personal style - and she possesses her own.
The original elements of Hindu mythology, history, drama and
aesthetics that is, bhava (expression), raga (melody) and tala) were
a treat to watch in the ebulliant of Lavanya in the entire performance
as part of her elegant moves from hands and feet to the minutest
of nerves.
No journey to excellence is complete without ones Gurus.
When asked, Lavanya stated that all credit goes to both her Gurus,
Jamuna Krishnanji and Ragini Chandrashekhar - the mother and
daughter duo, most highly revered owing to their amazing competence in the world of Indian classical dance.
Though a maestro like Jamuna excels beyond the mortal realms
of awards and achievements, however, she is a winner of the most
coveted Sahitya Kala Parishad, Natya Ratna and Sangeet Natak
Akademi Puraskarbesides others in India and abroad. At present, globally, she comes across as the best Bharatnatyam trainer with her students from all over the world.
The Jamuna-Ragini rendition of the vocal Nattuvangam gelled so well
that they sang on two separate mikes but the loudspeaker released just one
voice! The Wizard on the flute was, G Raghuraman while the magic on
Mridangam was rendered by MV Chandra Shekhar.
In her heart- warming speech, Sonal, mother of the talented dancer said
“Lavanya's aim in life is not to dance better than others but to dance better than
herself ”. However, the reward was instant, right after her Arangetram as
Lavanya was approached by an exponent of Bharatnatyam who invited her
to dance at the Khajuraho Dance Festival.
ing of potential Geographical indications for "Goyna Bori" — the fine art of
using lentil paste mix to create exquisite designs, a institution's director said
here on Sunday.
“Goyna Bori is distinctive of certain
parts of Bengal. With a distinct historical basis dating back several centuries, the art form has been elaborately described by Rabindranath Tagore in
his works. It is believed to have originated in Midnapore” IIT Kharagpur
director Partha Pratim Chakrabarti
told the media.
A team comprising students and
faculty of the IPR Cell visited Tamluk,
headquarter of East Midnapore district
and embarked on the exercise of preparing the requirements for filing of a GI
for "Goyna Bori".
The team met district officials and
also interacted with some self-help
groups engaged in the art-form.
The women demonstrated various
aspects of the making of the goyna bori,
its current status and also the distinct
demand this has in several states of
India and abroad.
“The self-help groups suggested
that this art must be encouraged and
agreed to assist in providing information that could help in the documentation for the registration of
GI.”
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team collected the
documentation as
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be renewed once. The award amount
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showed a lot of composure hitting a careerbest 158 as India reached a
comfortable 358 for 5 on the
second day, taking complete
control of the second cricket
Test against West Indies here
on Monday.
At stumps, India had consolidated their lead to a sizeable
162 runs despite only 232 runs
being scored in the 88 overs
bowled in the day as the visitors
looked to grind the home team
with an aim of outbatting them.
With three days of play left,
India has enough time to register another facile win over a
below-par Test outfit.
Rahul certainly was the
hero of the day as he scored his
third Test century on foreign
soil with the help of 15 boundaries and three huge sixes —
the first of which enabled him
to complete a coveted ton. It
was a compact innings in
which he played 303 balls.
He had a partnership of
121 runs for the second wicket with Cheteshwar Pujara,
who scored a dogged 46 off 159
balls with four boundaries.
Rahul also had a 69 run stand
with skipper Virat Kohli, who
scored 44 off 90 balls. Kohli's
innings had four boundaries
and a six.
By the time, Rahul was
adjuedged caught behind down
leg-side off Shanon Gabriel
(1/50), he had put India in driver's seat.
Kohli, who has been in
sublime form was dismissed
just when he was looking to
take on the spinners having hit
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the bigwigs of BCCI are to meet here on Tuesday
to discuss the Supreme Court verdict upholding most of its appointed committee's recommendations for sweeping reforms in the Board.
The Working Committee of the Board has
been convened urgently to discuss this burning
issue that is set to shake up the very structure
of the BCCI, along with the proposed two-match
T20 series against the West Indies in Florida,
USA, later this month.
Post the WC meet, the BCCI's SGM has
been convened on August 5 in Delhi to discuss
the Supreme Court order which has shaken up
the Board's mandarins, a lot of whom will be
impacted by it.
The SC-appointed Lodha panel has also
invited BCCI president Anurag Thakur and secretary Ajay Shirke to meet the committee in
Delhi on August 9 and, as such, tomorrow's
meeting would obviously be used to discuss the
apex court's verdict threadbare.
Already Mumbai Cricket Association has
held a meeting of its managing committee and
accepted the SC verdict in toto, although they
wanted some clarifications about the one state,
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un Yang's career has mixed tales of sex and World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) susdrugs with jaw-dropping world records, but pended the accreditation of its national testChina's wild-child star will hope to stay clear ing laboratory in Beijing in April.
In March, China's state media had reportof trouble as he anchors his country's Rio
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Liu Peng, head of the General
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the pool.
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served in secret and announced retrospective- China's anti-doping work, according to a
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It echoed last year's world championships
swimming champion when he won the 400m
and 1500m freestyle at London 2012, where in Kazan, Russia, where Sun won the 400m and
he also lowered his own world record over the 800m but withdrew from the 1500m, blaming
longer distance — after smashing Grant a heart condition.
Kazan was eventful for Sun, who was also
Hackett's decade-old mark at the 2011 world
involved in an angry confrontation with
championships in Shanghai.
The two titles in London put Sun at the Brazil's Larissa Oliveira in the warm-up pool.
Sun will hope for less choppy waters in Rio
forefront of his country's best ever Olympic
swimming performance, as China finished sec- -- although he may face a challenge from Italy's
ond behind the United States in the pool tally Gregorio Paltrinieri, who swam the secondfastest 1500m in history at the European chamwith five gold medals.
More glory could follow in Rio, although pionships in May.
As for Ye, after her phenomenal 2012
with China's swimmers taking part in few
international events, their form is hard to Olympics, she failed to make the podium at
either the 2013 or 2015 world championships,
assess.
In London, China unleashed Ye Shiwen, and was 22 seconds off her 400m medley world
then only 16, who won a sensational women's record at the Chinese championships, after sufindividual medley double including a new fering stomach pain.
However, Ning Zetao, who served a oneworld record in the 400m race.
Ye attracted doping innuendo — strong- year suspension after testing positive for
ly rejected by China — after her final 50m clenbuterol in 2011, should shine for China
burst in the 400m medley was quicker than after he upstaged a strong field to win 100m
American Ryan Lochte's when he won the freestyle gold at last year's world championships.
men's gold a few races earlier.
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Devendra Bishoo's (1/79)
bowling.
It was spinner Roston
Chase (2/91), who bowled an
off-break which Kohli tried to
guide only to offer a simple
catch to Rajendra Chandrika at
forward short leg.
Ravichandran Ashwin (3)
was adjudged leg-before off a
Bishoo delivery that hit the toe.
Rahane and Saha negotiated the remaining 12.5 overs
adding 31 runs with minimum fuss.
Earlier, Rahul notched up
his third overseas Test century
and helped India lead by 63
runs at tea.
Along with Pujara, he
looked to make good on the
hard work done in the morning session. The West Indies
were looking listless as ever and
this was a good time to get
some quick runs under the belt.
The only difference from
the Antigua Test was perhaps
that West Indies weren't allowing easy scoring, and had tightened up.
The 200-mark for India
came up in the 70th over, and
the duo celebrated their 100run stand for the 2nd wicket off
283 balls.
Even as the batsmen
looked for runs, they had to
take some risks, and in doing
so Pujara was run-out after a
direct throw from square leg
found him short of the crease.
Rahul suffered cramps
thereafter, but kept going as
Kohli joined him. The West
Indies' decision to delay the
new ball helped him settle
down, and he was beaten only
once in the first 20 deliveries
that he had faced.
Kraigg Brathwaite (0-26)
was put to bowl, much to
everyone's surprise, and soon
the runs began flowing again as
India went past the 250-mark
in the 90th over, as the two
batsmen put up 50 runs for the
3rd wicket off 106 balls. Just
before tea, Rahul went past the
150-mark for the first time in
his Test career.
In the morning, Rahul and
Pujara had played out a slow
morning session, as India were
trailing the hosts by just 11
runs at lunch.
Starting at the overnight
score of 126/1, the two batsmen
looked to play for time, as there
was still something in the pitch
for the bowlers.
However they didn't have
any help from the weather, as
it was bright and sunny when
play began, rendering this a
good day to bat.
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tion to stay positive and aggressive on
the second day paid off as he put India
on the driver's seat in the second Test
against West Indies here.
Opening the innings, Rahul scored
a composed 158 on day two to help
India finish at 358/5, a lead of 162 runs
with still three days to go.
It was the highest individual score
for Rahul, who had notched up his
maiden ODI hundred on debut in
Zimbabwe. This is his third Test ton
overall and all three of them have come
outside India — Australia, Sri Lanka
and now in the Caribbean.
Even so, his place in the eleven is
not confirmed yet, as he was a replacement for the injured Murali Vijay. That
could change in the near future.
"To me, it didn't look too difficult.
I went in there and started hitting the ball
from the first or second ball. Obviously,
I've been spending a lot of time in the
nets. It's a different challenge once you
go out there and when you have the pressure of the game," Rahul said after the
end of the second day's play.
"I tried to keep things simple. I've
been in good form for the last 3-4
months. I've been moving well, and hitting the ball really well.
"My plan when I went out yesterday was to put the loose balls away and
be positive and have a very aggressive
intent. I am really happy with the way
I batted. I don't know whether it is easy
or tough, but the simplest things if you
do it right, it pays off all the time.
"That is to play to the merit of the
ball, you think the ball is there to be hit,
and you feel confident, then you hit the
ball. I tried to keep it simple," he added.
The 24-year-old from Karnataka
said he is enjoying his consistent run in
all three formats of the game.
"The last couple of months, I've
been performing well. I've been consistent in all the three formats and that's
what I want to do as a cricketer," said
Rahul.
"I'm only watching the ball and trying to judge the ball and if I think the
ball is there to be hit, I'm hitting the ball.
I'm very happy with the space I'm in
and the focus levels have been great.
"The biggest challenge was obviously the weather, it was a very hot day.
When I went into bat yesterday, the
wicket was still a little two-paced and
a little damp, and the ball was doing a
little bit. Those were the challenges but
once I got a few runs under my belt, and
once I spent a little time on the wicket,
I felt comfortable. To have Kohli, Ashwin
and the other guys speak highly of me
definitely gives confidence." he said.
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avishing praise on his
bowlers for their disciplined
show on day two, West Indies'
coach Phil Simmons said they
would now look to get the
remaining Indian wickets and
urged the batsmen to step up
to help them bounce back in
the second cricket Test.
"I think it was a lot better.
Usually you average a day to be
270 in Test cricket with 90 full
overs and we have restricted
them, especially with KL Rahul
going the way he was and then
the skipper later. Restricting
them to 230 in 90 overs shows
there's improvement from
Antigua," Simmons said.
"The only thing we can do
is to come again tomorrow and
work hard to get the wickets
that we have to. And then the
batsmen have got to stand up
because the bowlers have stood
up today. Hopefully they will
stand up again tomorrow
morning and we get the wickets we need," he added.
Indian opener KL Rahul,
who scored 158, was also full
of praise for the opponents who
bowled tight lines and didn't let
any batsmen get away quickly.
It was a stark contrast from
the first Test, wherein runs had
come off very easily for the
Indian batsmen.
"We have plans for everybody, to get their wickets and
stop them scoring. We got
Kohli cheaply this time, which
is good for us. But we have plans
for every batsman so its about
how we execute what plans we
have for them," said the coach.
"I think the bowlers
learned today what we have
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been talking about for the last
six months, about being patient
in Test cricket. And when the
wicket isn't assisting like this
one you have to be patient.
"Then the pressure that
you build from patience will get
you wickets. They are seeking
the patience now, and they are
trying to hold these world
class batsmen," he added.
The coach, meanwhile,
defended his team's ploy of batting first on a damp pitch as the
West Indies were bowled out
for 196 in their first innings.
"Batsmen are supposed to
bat. I didn't think there was any
threat in the wicket yesterday.
So I would bat first bat again,"
he said. "Ashwin is the number
one bowler in the world. He is
going to be difficult on any
wicket you play him on, let
alone a wicket that's turning
and has some bounce too. It's
going to be difficult but that's
what Test cricket is about.
"If its not difficult it won't
be called Test cricket. The
batsmen know that they have
to come and make sure that
they put their heads down and
they have to work hard against
both spinners," he signed off.
=4F 34;78) The BCCI secretary Ajay Shirke has responded to the letters sent by Lodha
panel, stating that the parent
body of Indian cricket cannot
stop the state units from holding its elections.
The Cricket Association
of B engal (CAB) and
Karnataka State Cricket
Association (KSCA) are not
having their elections on
scheduled date after Supreme
Court-appointed panel sent a
letter to BCCI to intimate
associations that all state unit
elections to be put on hold.
This was after the apex court
verdict on July 18 as the
reforms will take place in
next six months.
According to ESPN
Cricinfo, Shirke wrote: "The
BCCI is not empowered
under any law to stop any
electoral process which is
mandated by any statute.
Furthermore the Lodha
Committee recommendations
does not empower the BCCI
to interfere with statutory
and fundamental rights of
citizens who are members of
such associations."
However a source close to
Committee maintains that
BCCI were never ever asked
to interfere in state units'
elections but merely intimate
about panel's decision that all
elections will remain frozen
till the reforms take place.
"Yes, Shirke has replied to
the letter that was sent to the
BCCI office-bearers. Mr Shirke
in his reply has stated that BCCI
cannot stop state associations
from having elections." PTI
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Trading dramatic shots over the final holes
of a 36-hole golfing marathon, Walker and
Australian star Day kept the drama intense to
the last shot, a three-foot par putt by Walker at
the 18th to claim a one-stroke victory yesterday.
"Sometimes a par is tough," Walker said.
There were a lot of emotions out there... It was
a battle all day."
Day was at the 18th green to congratulate
Walker after the tension-packed putt.
"I know how it feels," Day said. "It's a very
special moment to be able to celebrate on the
18th green."
Walker, a former top-10 player now set to
rise from 48th in the rankings, fired a threeunder par 67 in the final round to finish 72 holes
on 14-under 266 and win his sixth US PGA
crown, the first since last year's Texas Open some
16 months ago.
The 37-year-old from Oklahoma took the
Wanamaker Trophy and the top prize of $1.8 million (1.6 million euros) from a $10 million purse.
Walker, the PGA's first wire-to-wire winner
since Phil Mickelson at Baltusrol in 2005, missed
the cut in three of the prior four majors and was
never better than seventh in 17 prior major starts.
American Daniel Summerhays was third on
270, three strokes behind runner-up Day, with
Japan's Hideki Matsuyama, South African
Brendan Grace and American Brooks Koepka
sharing third on 271.
Day and Walker were among 10 golfers
forced to play their entire third and fourth
rounds on an overcast and sometimes rainy
Sunday after thunderstorms halted play Saturday.
The water-soaked course nudged organizers into using preferred lies, or "lift, clean and
place" rules, in the last round, believed to be a
first in major golf history.
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in his goal to at last
win an Olympic medal.
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appears in mint condition for
the 31-year-old 'Manx Missile'
to fill the one hole in his CV as
he arrives in Rio fresh from
four stage wins in the Tour de
France — taking his total to 30,
just four shy of Eddie Mercx's
record.
However, Cavendish —
who pulled out of the Tour de
France early so as to preserve
his strength for the Games —
will have to adapt quickly as he
is not competing on the road
but reverts to the track, something he has not competed at
in the Games since 2008.
Cavendish teams up with
Wiggins in the six-discipline
Omnium in Rio — the duo
having won the world title this
year in the Madison — and
hope for a happier outcome
than when they finished ninth
in the 2008 Beijing Games.
"Olympic gold is one thing
left - I've tried it twice and I was
in superb form on both days
and they eluded me," said
Cavendish, whose other
appearance at the Games saw
him squeezed out of contention
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my aim is to win an Olympic
medal and I'm so pleased to
have been given this opportunity. "I'm proudly patriotic and
I love every time I get to pull
on the Great Britain jersey
and the Olympics is the biggest
thing I can do. I wouldn't have
done it unless I thought I
could medal in my two events,"
added Cavendish, who is also
a reserve for the team pursuit.
Cavendish, who won the
world road race title in 2011
when the team was captained by
one of his idols as a boy David
Millar, fell in love with competitive cycling at an early age.
He would often compete in
mountain bike races while racing an ordinar y BMX.
Frustrated at his failure to
compete, he pestered his parents for a mountain bike to
level the playing field.
"I got one for my thirteenth
birthday. The very next day I
went out and beat everyone," he
said in a 2008 interview.
Cavendish, though, has
had to battle hard to make it as
a professional and despite
sometimes being accused of
arrogance, is described as
down-to-earth by those closest
to him.
Indeed Cavendish showed
his sensitivity when he won the
opening stage of this year's
Tour de France, which climaxed at Utah Beach, one of
the landing sites for the Allied
Forces on D-Day in 1944.
After collecting the yellow
jersey, Cavendish was part of a
moving ceremony to remember the war dead.
"I wanted to be involved
with the armed forces in the
UK and to finish here at Utah
Beach was an incredible opportunity to remember and respect
not just D-Day but those
who've fought and died in all
wars for our freedom in the
western
world,"
said
Cavendish.
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victory and say thank you to
those great men and women
and friends back in the UK
who served in the armed
forces."
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OC president Thomas Bach defended
the decision not to ban Russia's entire
team from the Rio Games, declaring on
Sunday that the doping crisis won't damage the Olympic body's credibility and taking a swipe at global anti-doping officials
for failing to act sooner against state-sponsored cheating in Russia.
Speaking at a news conference five
days before the opening of the Olympics
in Rio de Janeiro, Bach said a total ban on
Russia for systematic doping "would not
be justifiable" on either moral or legal
grounds.
"Every human being is entitled to certain rights of natural justice," said Bach,
who also denied suggestions he had
bowed to pressure from the Russian government to reject calls by anti-doping
authorities for a complete ban.
Bach was peppered with questions
about the International Olympic
Committee's handling of the Russian
scandal, including the decision to give
international sports federations the authority to decide which Russian athletes
should be cleared to compete in Rio.
Asked whether the ruling represented a failure by the IOC, Bach said: "No.
This is for very obvious reasons."
Bach said the IOC had set a "very high
bar" by imposing strict conditions on the
entry of Russians, including a ban on any
athletes with prior doping sanctions.
More than 100 Russian athletes —
including the track and field team — have
been excluded, with more than 250
declared eligible by the federations.
With the games opening Friday, it
remains uncertain exactly how many
Russians will be competing. Some have
filed appeals against their bans.
"I don't think that this in the end will
be damaging because people will realize we
have to take this decision now," Bach said.
"Imagine if we had not taken a decision,
what limbo we would be in then.
"I trust the people realize the difficulties we are in, that they realize that it was
not an easy decision to take, and that they
realize we did our best to address this situation in a way which allows to protect all
I
clean athletes all over the world," he
added.
The IOC on Saturday set up a "review
panel" consisting of three executive board
members who will have the final say on
which Russians are let into the games,
based on advice from an independent
expert appointed by the Court of
Arbitration for Sport.
Bach and the IOC have been heavily
criticized by anti-doping bodies, athletes'
groups and Western media for not imposing a total ban on Russia.
Pressure for a complete ban followed
a World Anti-Doping Agency report by
Canadian lawyer Richard McLaren that
accused Russia's sports ministry of overseeing a vast doping conspiracy involving
the country's summer and winter sports
athletes.
Despite the backlash against the IOC
decision, Bach said the committee had
"broad support" across the Olympic movement, including from national Olympic
committees and sports federations.
"Of course the negative opinions are
most likely to be quoted," he said.
Bach took a shot at WADA, which was
set up by the IOC in 1999, for not having
acted earlier on whistleblower evidence of
widespread doping in Russia. He also questioned why WADA had accredited the
Moscow and Sochi doping labs at the center of the scandal.
"The IOC is not responsible for the
timing of the McLaren report," Bach said.
"TheIOC is not responsible for the fact that
different information which was offered to
WADA already a couple of years ago was
not followed up. The IOC is not responsible for the accreditation or supervision
of anti-doping laboratories.
"Therefore, the IOC cannot be made
responsible, neither for the timing nor for
the reasons of these incidents we have to
face now ... just a couple of days before the
Olympic Games."
Bach said the IOC wants to "shed full
light on all the allegations" in McLaren's
report, including evidence that Russian
officials replaced tainted urine samples
with clean ones during the 2104 Winter
Games in Sochi.
McLaren's investigation has been
extended so he can identify athletes and
others involved in state-backed doping and
cover-ups. Once McLaren finishes his
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he Indian hockey teams at the
Olympics are facing a shortage
of chairs and Television sets at the
Games Village and chief coach
Roelant Oltmans has complained
that the players' apartments are
not properly furnished.
In a letter to Chef de Mission of
the Indian contingent Rakesh
Gupta, Oltmans complained about
unfurnished accommodation provided to both the men's and
women's hockey teams.
"The apartments of the Rio
Olympics are not furnished properly," Oltmans, who is also the High
Performance Director of Indian
hockey, wrote in his letter.
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"For athletes who have to perform at top-level during a longer period of the Olympics we need proper
chairs and tables in the apartments for
6 persons. Actually there are only 2
chairs in each apartment.
"For men and women we are
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SL franchise Delhi Dynamos on Monday signed Brazilian
central midfielder Bruno Pelissari from Chennaiyin FC
for the upcoming season.
The central attacking midfielder had been one of
Chennaiyin FC's key players for the last two seasons and
is expected to inject energy and creativity into the Delhi
Dynamos FC side.
The Brazilian had signed up with Moldovan Divizia
Nationala side Sheriff Tiraspol but the Dynamos managed
to lure him back to the ISL on
a free transfer.
"I am thankful to Delhi
Dynamos FC for this opportunity. I have been playing in
the ISL since its inception. I
was fortunate to win the title
last year and hope that I
enjoy similar kind of success
this year too.
"I was looking for new
challenge and when Delhi
Dynamos FC approached
me, I couldn't say no. It was
unfortunate that Delhi lost in the semifinals last year. But
now, with a new coach and a stronger set of players, I believe
we will be a real force to reckon with," Pelissari added.
Delhi Dynamos' head coach Gianluca Zambrotta was
highly pleased with the signing and declared that Bruno
will be vital to his plans for the upcoming season.
"He has been one of the top players in the ISL over the
last two years and through his performances he has proven
himself a match-winner. He will definitely be an asset to
us at Delhi Dynamos FC," Zambrotta said.
Club's CTO Vishnu Madhu was delighted with the new
signing and feels that Bruno will play a crucial role in achieving DDFC's goal of going all the way in the ISL.
"We are very happy to welcome him into the Delhi
Dynamos FC family. He is a past champion and that is going
to help an ambitious team like ours. Both, the club management and the coaching staff, believe in him and his abilities and know that he will do wonders for us," said Madhu.
I
using 9 apartments so there is a lack
of 28 proper chairs and for 7
Apartments we need at least one
table as well. In the staff apartments
we've managed to bring in some
tables. During the Olympics we
would like to give our players the
possibility to watch the matches of
our competitors live on TV. This will
help the players to prepare themselves for the upcoming matches
against these opponents." he said.
In another letter, Oltmans asked
for Chef de Mission's permission to
purchase TV sets for the hockey
teams. "Thank you very much to
offer your TV to our team to be able
to watch the hockey matches during the Olympic Games. I've tried
to rent more TV's but unfortunately they are sold out in the Village.
"I would like to get permission to
purchase 3 TVs to be able to follow
the hockey competition in both the
staff rooms and at least in one of the
male and female Apartments," the
Dutchman wrote.
work, "then we will take all the further necessary sanctions," Bach said.
The evidence published so far by
McLaren was "shocking," Bach said.
"If this system was applied like this, it's
an attack on everything we want to represent," he said. "It's an attack on the
Olympic Games and it's an attack on our
values."
But Bach reiterated his position that
it would be wrong to collectively sanction
all Russian athletes because it would punish some who had no links to doping.
"How far can you go to punish an individual for the failures or manipulations of
your government?" he said. "Is it possible
to take an athlete and say, 'Because your
government has done something wrong,
you automatically are out?' This would not
be justifiable, neither on a moral ground,
not to speak on a legal ground."
Bach dismissed suggestions that pressure from the Russian government influenced the IOC decision.
"I haven't been talking to any Russian
government official since the publication
of the McLaren report and not even in the
days or weeks preceding it," he said.
Bach defended the decision to reject
a bid by 800-meter runner Yulia Stepanova,
a former doper and whistleblower who
helped expose the extent of cheating in
Russia, to compete in Rio as a neutral athlete, as proposed by the IAAF.
"It was not easy," he said. "The executive board made it really clear that it appreciates the contribution of Yulia Stepanova
in the fight against doping. We offered
assistance and support which no other
organization has so far offered."
Bach said the IOC had targeted 2,200
athletes in pre-Olympic tests ahead of Rio,
and that 4,500 urine tests and 1,000 blood
controls would be conducted during the
games, similar to the figure in London four
years ago.
Bach also gave an upbeat assessment
of Rio's readiness for the games. The preparations have been clouded across multiple
fronts, including a severe recession leading to Olympic budget cuts, concerns over
water pollution, crime and the Zika virus,
and problems with accommodations in the
athletes' village.
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ouble Olympic medallist Sushil
Kumar on Monday welcomed the
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NADA decision to exonerate Narsingh
Yadav from charges of doping which
would enable him to represent the country at the Olympic Games.
Sushil and Narsingh were locked in
a bitter legal battle as to who would represent the country in the 74kg category.
Narsingh won the quota place while
Sushil wanted a trial.
"Bahot Khushi ki baat hain. Mera support pahle bhi thaa, aaj bhi bhain aur kal
bhi rahega. (It's a great news. My support
was there earlier also, even today and will
remain tomorrow). Go win for me and
the country," the legendary Olympian
tweeted.
He also lamented that wrestling in the
past few months went through this
tumultous phase.
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go through this. I hv given my life to ot
(sic) & wl always support fellow
wrestlers," Sushil stated in the micro-blogging site. Meanwhile, Maharashtra Chief
Minister Devendra Fadnavis today
expressed happiness over Narsingh Yadav
getting a clean chit in the doping scandal, saying he always knew the wrestler
was being victimised.
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7-5 ATP Toronto Masters
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final win over Kei Nishikori for his
66th career title, Novak Djokovic
had already shifted his focus to the
Rio Olympics.
The world number one, who
claimed his fourth Canadian title
with a command performance over
Asia's top player lasting less than 90
minutes, will waste no time in heading south to Brazil for the weekend
start of the Summer Games.
"It's the biggest event in the history of the sport, so to be part of it
is already a huge privilege and honour that I will cherish, as I did in
Beijing and London Olympic
Games," said the holder of a leading 30 Masters 1000 trophies.
"I had an honour of carrying
the flag for my country in London
2012, one of the most unique and
unforgettable moments of my life.
So I look forward to that, honestly, just being part of it.
"I'm approaching the Olympic
Games as any other tournament.
I'm trying to respect the same kind
of preparation and routine that I
have with my team and that I have
respected for so many years.
"It has worked well for us this
week and as most of the other weeks
the last couple of years."
Djokovic lifted his game in
Canada as the week progressed,
sweeping to the title without the loss
of a set and dispatching challenges
from Gael Monfils in the semis followed by Japan's Nishikori.
"The overall sensation (of Rio)
is not going to be the same as the
other tournaments, because it's
Olympic Games," he said. "Of
course you represent your country.
"You get to feel that you're part
of something much larger than just
the tennis event. I look forward to
that. "I'm going to try to extract that
positivity out of that huge attention
and energy that will be directed into
the Olympic Games and hopefully
put myself in a position to battle for
a medal."
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the first round in German Bundesliga
on August 27.
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to Roy Hodgson's unsuccessful team
line-up changes.
Hodgson made six changes to
England's final group match against
Slovakia and the goalless draw in the
match cost England the top spot in
their group. England then lost to
Iceland 1-2 in their last 16 stage
match, reports Xinhua.
Rooney was one of those rested by
Hodgson and the Manchester United
forward said the loss of momentum
caused by Hodgson's decision was crucial to the team's surprising defeat
against Iceland.
"I wouldn't have rested six players.
It's more than half the team. It was a
gamble and it didn't pay off," Rooney
told the Daily Mail on Monday.
"We had lost momentum from the
Slovakia game and tournament football is about confidence. You get that
from winning."
"We didn't play great in the friendlies, but we won. So you try to build,
even from before the tournament,
but we couldn't get that consistency
once it began," he added.
"It was Roy's decision to make
changes against Slovakia and either
way, the team he put out should have
been able to win. But, right or wrong,
I wanted to play and I can't deny that."
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Wolfsburg have signed Polish
midfielder Jakub Blaszczykowski from
Bundesliga rivals Borussia Dortmund
for three years, both the German
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football clubs confirmed on Monday.
The 30-year-old strengthens the
"Wolves" offence after German Andre
Schurrle left for Dortmund last week.
The contract keeps Blaszczykowski in
Wolfsburg until June 2019, reports
Xinhua.
"We clearly increased our versatility and effectiveness on the right wing
with this signing," Wolfsburg coach
Dieter Hecking told the club's official
homepage. "Jakub has a vast experience
and is a tremendous asset for us."
Blaszczykowski played since 2007
for Borussia Dortmund where he
scored 27 goals in 197 appearances ever
since. He won with Dortmund the
Bundesliga title in 2011 and the
German domestic double in 2012.
However, after the departure of
coach Juergen Klopp and the arrival of
Thomas Tuchel, the Poland interna-
tional was loaned to Italian outfit ACF
Fiorentina on August 2015. During the
season-long loan deal, the midfielder
scored two goals in 15 games.
Wolfsburg's sixth summer transfer
is since 2006 part of Poland's national squad, where he made 84 caps to
provide 18 goals, and will join his new
teammates in the trainings camp soon.
Dortmund and Wolfsburg agreed
to keep silence over the transfer fee.
French striker Andre-Pierre
Gignac, who is currently playing for
Mexican side Tigres UANL, is being
targeted by Spanish football champions Barcelona, who seek to support
their attacking lines, according to
media reports.
Catalan newspaper El Mundo
Deportivo reported on Monday that
Barcelona's sporting director Roberto
Fernandez has spoken with the
Frenchman and his club to see if there
is a possibility of hiring his services.
Gignac, 30, who played with
France in Euro 2016, is one of the
favourites to join Barcelona on the
bench as a substitute for the attacking
trio of Lionel Messi, Lui Suarez and
Neymar, reports Efe.
El Mundo Deportivo explained
that Barcelona's list of interests also
includes the Croatian Mario
Mandzukic of Juventus, Germany's
Mario Gomez of Fiorentina and
Colombian Carlos Bacca of AC Milan.
In the meantime, Roberto
Fernandez is touring Latin America in
search of a striker that will complete
the missing spot in Luis Enrique's
squad before the beginning of the new
season.
Gignac started off his career in FC
Lorient for three seasons, and then he
moved for four seasons to Toulouse,
then to Marseille for five seasons,
before heading to Mexico, where he
scored 33 goals with Tigres UANL in
50 games in the 2015-16 season.