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S ecurity forces have launched major operations against 21 most-wanted terrorists in Kashmir with the objective of throwing the lower ranks of the militant organisations into dis- array by neutralising the top leadership. Some of the top ter- rorists carrying a reward of more than 12 lakh each and categorised A++ include Altaf Kachroo, Zeenat UL Islam, Riyaz Ahmed Naikoo and Zakir Musa. Most of these ter- rorists owe allegiance to Hizbul Mujahideen (HM), while oth- ers are from Jaish-e- Mohammad (JeM) and Lashkar-e-Tayyebba (LeT). With the Centre calling off the month-long unilateral ceasefire during Ramzan on Sunday, security forces, includ- ing the Army, Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and the Jammu & Kashmir Police, have moved into top gear to conduct anti-terror operations against these militants, sources said here on Friday. Explaining the rationale behind going after the top ter- rorists, the sources said if the security forces were able to nautralise them or restrict their movement, it will create a void in the three terror “tanzeems” (organisations). The next generation of top leadership will take time to come up as the aspiring com- manders will have to prove their mettle time and again to gain “respect” of the cadre, they said. On categorisation of ter- rorists, officials said it was done on the basis of types of crimes committed by these terrorists, including killings, organisational capabilities, control over the “tanzeem” and statements issued by them from time to time to mark their presence. While catego- ry A++ is the highest one car- rying a reward of more than 12lakh, A+ is the second in the list with a reward of 8 lakh. C is the third category of wanted terrorists. Giving an example, they said Altaf Kachroo (Hizbul Mujahideen), category A++, has survived since 2006 after joining the terror ranks. He is a division commander of his “tanzeem” in south Kashmir. Similarly, Riyaz Naikoo has been managing to avoid the security dragnet since 2012. He is also categorised A++. Giving the break-up ogan- isation-wise of 21 most-want- ed terrorists, sources said 11 are from HM, seven from LeT, two from JeM and one from Anzar Ghazwat ul-Hind. Incidentally, all the LeT ter- rorists figuring in the list are A+. Officials also informed that all the most-wanted ter- rorists have their bases in south and north Kashmir. While Hizbul is local ter- rorist organisation, JeM and LeT are Pakistan- based outfits comprising mostly foreign fighters. Of late, some mis- guided local Kashmiris have joined these two organisa- tions, officials said. I n a major offensive after the imposition of the Governor’s rule in Jammu & Kashmir, four ultras affiliated with a pan- Islamic group were killed on Friday in an encounter at Nowshahr village of Srigufwara in Anantnag district. A police- man and a civilian also were killed in the encounter. Eight security personnel were injured in a separate grenade blast in Tral sub-district of Pulwama. A joint team of the Army, the CRPF and the police in the morning carried out search operation based on leads about the presence of terrorists in Khiram area of Sirigufwara. “As the joint patrol made an advance towards the sus- pected house, terrorists hiding inside fired indiscriminately due to which policeman Ashiq Hussain and a civilian identi- fied as Mohammad Yousuf Rather (53) received bullet injuries and later succumbed to injuries,” police spokesman said, adding that some other civilians were also injured in the gunfire. Sources said two terrorists were killed in the initial phase of the encounter and two oth- ers were shot while trying to flee the site. “In the encounter, all the four ultras were killed. They have been identified as Dawood Ahmad Sofi, Majid Manzoor Dar, Aadil Rehman Bhat and Mohammad Ashraf Itoo,” he added. The social media profiling and inputs indicate that they were inspired by ISIS module, the police spokesman said. Sofi (33), police said, was a resident of Zainakoot village on the outskirts of Srinagar city. He was involved in a number of stone-pelting cases in the area prior to joining the terror outfit. “He (Sofi) was involved in a terror attack which resulted in the death of two policemen at Bagh Ali Mardan Khan in Zadibal and also in the killing of a policeman and snatching his rifle at Tengpora Batamaloo besides other terror attacks,” the spokesman said. “Initially Dawood was known to be affiliated with Tehreek-ul-Mujahideen outfit. Continued on Page 4 P olitical rivals BJP and Congress entered in a bit- ter war of words over certain controversial remarks by senior Congress leaders Saifuddin Soz and Ghulam Nabi Azad about Jammu & Kashmir. Launching a blistering attack against Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, the BJP said a “New Congress” is in sync with terrorists across the coun- try as it quoted Gulam Nabi saying that Army has killed more civilians than the terror- ists in J&K. The BJP also attacked former Union Minister Soz, who said Kashmiris want independence. While the Congress defended Azad’s statement by saying it was in support of the common people of the State and should not be viewed as something which is “anti- national”, the party condemned and disowned Soz, saying what he said was “cheap gimmick” to sell his forthcoming book. Addressing a Press confer- ence here, senior BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad said Azad’s comments were approved by terrorist outfit LeT’s spokesperson Dr Abdullah, who said, “We have been of the same opinion as that of Azad”. Describing Azad’s com- ments as “shameful and irre- sponsible”, Prasad said the Congress’ pathological hatred of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP has become a “corner stone” of its politics in which national interest at times takes a back seat. The BJP leader said that Pakistan will use Azad’s remarks to push its agenda of human rights viola- tions against India. Prasad said latching on Azad’s statement the LeT has started blaming Indian forces for the killing of journalist Shujaat Bukhari. The BJP will raise the issue in Parliament when its Monsoon Session begins next month, he said. Lashing out at Rahul, Prasad alleged the Congress under him has “designed” its politics in sync with terrorists. “But what do we expect from the Congress whose pres- ident visits JNU in support of ‘tukre gang’, questions the Army’s surgical strike in POK, makes barbs like ‘khoon ki dalali’ aimed at the Government, and its another leader bad mouths Army chief,” he said. Continued on Page 4 S ix youths from Uttar Pradesh, who had gone to Jammu & Kashmir to eke out a living and claimed that they were made to pelt stones at the security forces, might have cooked up the entire story to evade arrest for stealing. These youths — three each from Baghpat and Saharnpur districts — were working in Kashmir’s Pulwama as tailors and were getting 20,000 a month each when they were pushed to unskilled works such as mopping and washing vehi- cles. “During encounter with terrorists, the locals used to ask us to pelt stones at the securi- ty forces. As we were taking shelter in houses of locals we obeyed their orders,” the youths told the police. But Director General of Police OP Singh told a TV channel that “Since the incident received wide media cover- age, we decided to investigate the matter immediately. It was then that we found the six youths had concocted the story to avoid arrest.” “During our investigation, it was found that the owner of the tailoring factory contacted them and accused them of stealing clothes. Realising that they could be caught soon, the youth decided to cook up a story to avoid arrest,” Singh added. He further said that there- after the youth went around telling people that they had gone to Kashmir to work, but were forced to pelt stones near an Army camp. “The fact is, no such inci- dent ever took place. In fact, they are the ones who had stolen clothes from the facto- ry. We are convinced that their story is fake, and hence, we have decided not to investigate the matter further,” the DGP said, adding that the youth have not been arrested for theft as there is no formal complaint. However, Superintendent of Police, Baghpat, Jai Prakash said one of the youth identified as Nasim told police that he and some others were kept at a fac- tory in Pulwama. “On one occasion, the labourers there took part in stone pelting. He was also asked to throw stones but he refused and escaped from the place,” he said. Prakash said that the youth were changing their statements frequently. “Hence, we are cor- roborating the information. The police are on the lookout for the contractor who took these youths to Kashmir,” he said. The families of the detained youths told the police that their children had gone to Kashmir for a contractual job at a stitching factory but they returned, complaining of being coerced into stone-pelting. A fter Chief Minister Nitish Kumar scrapped Prime Minister’s crop insurance scheme (known as Prime Minister Fasal Bima Yojna — PMFBY) in Bihar and com- plaints poured in from across the country about insurance companies making huge prof- its at the cost of farmers, the Union Government has ordered a review of the scheme. The Ministry of Agriculture has asked General Insurance Corporation of India to look into ways to finalise rational premium. In a note to General Insurance Corporation of India, the Agriculture Ministry has said, “The Government is reviewing the implementation of the PMFBY and how to make it effective in practical terms so that more farmers could be benefit from the scheme.” The sources said sev- eral State Governments have complained that the scheme is more beneficial to insurance companies rather than farmers in distress. Insiders said the PMFBY is a classic case of poor implementation of a good scheme. Several State Governments have alleged that farmers have not benefitted from this scheme and delay in paying “claim amount” is still an issue. Though the Centre is working with the States and other stakeholders to adopt new technology at the earliest so that timely claim settle- ment is ensured, farmers in many States have to wait long to get claims. Highlighting instances of inadequate and delayed claim payment to farmers, insiders said, insurance companies, in many cases, did not investigate losses due to a localised calami- ty and, therefore, did not pay claims. Based on its field study in Haryana, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh and engagement with farmers, insurance com- panies and Government departments, the Centre for Science and Environment in its report had noted that the PMFBY mainly remains a scheme for loanee farmers. It means farmers who take loans from banks are mandatorily required to take insurance. An official associated with the PMFBY, told The Pioneer that insurance companies had paid more “claim amount” than the “gross premium” in 2014- 15 and 2015-16 which were drought years. “Most of the companies had, however, booked profits in 2016-17 which was good monsoon year. This is how insurance business runs,” official added. On the other hand, officials said the new scheme permits insurance company represen- tatives to take part in the crop- cutting experiments. “This may be one of the reasons for the decline in number of benefi- ciaries and areas under the scheme,” the official said. “Besides, manual yield data collection and manual trans- mission to insurance compa- nies impedes timely and accu- racy yield data which in turn used to lead to delay in claim processing and settlement under erstwhile scheme,” the official added. As per Agriculture Ministry’s data, the number of farmers insured during both the Kharif and Rabi seasons has gone down by 14 per cent. Continued on Page 4 T he Parliament of Seychelles, a strategically locat- ed archipelago nation in the western Indian Ocean, has blocked India’s plan of building a naval base there following Opposition’s argument that allowing India to build a naval base at the Assumption island would infringe on the country’s sovereignty. Meanwhile, Seychelles President Danny Faure arrived in India on Friday evening. He will hold talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and review the wide-ranging cooperation between the two countries. Faure’s visit comes just days after Faure said a joint project with New Delhi to devel- op a naval base at Assumption Island in his coun- try would not move forward. There has been growing political opposition in Seychelles to an agreement it signed with India in 2015 to develop a naval facility at the island which would have given New Delhi a strategic advantage in the Indian Ocean Region. During the 6-day visit, Faure will also visit Gujarat, Goa and Uttarakhand. Continued on Page 4 I n a virtual re-run of Gurugram’s Ryan school murder case, a 14-year-old boy studying in Class IX was stabbed to death by his senior at a school in Vadodara on Friday. Identified as Dev Tadvi, the boy had taken admission in Shri Bharati School sit- uated in old Vadodara city around a week ago. Dev’s parents are residing in Anand town, around 30 km from Vadodara. He was staying with his maternal relatives. Around 11.45 am, Dev’s body was found in the school’s washroom with mul- tiple stab injuries. After the school author- ity informed the police, the alleged murderer, a Class X student, was arrested. Investigation officer RS Bhagora said the victim had 10 stab injuries. “We have recovered a knife and a bottle of water con- taining chilli powder from a school bag from a temple near the school. The assailant might have thrown the bag after attacking the vic- tim. Another 12-inch long knife was found near the body,” said Bhagora. According to him, a scuffle between the two students culminated into murder.

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Security forces have launchedmajor operations against 21

most-wanted terrorists inKashmir with the objective ofthrowing the lower ranks of themilitant organisations into dis-array by neutralising the topleadership. Some of the top ter-rorists carrying a reward ofmore than �12 lakh each andcategorised A++ include AltafKachroo, Zeenat UL Islam,Riyaz Ahmed Naikoo andZakir Musa. Most of these ter-rorists owe allegiance to HizbulMujahideen (HM), while oth-ers are from Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) andLashkar-e-Tayyebba (LeT).

With the Centre calling offthe month-long unilateralceasefire during Ramzan onSunday, security forces, includ-ing the Army, Central ReservePolice Force (CRPF) and theJammu & Kashmir Police, havemoved into top gear to conductanti-terror operations againstthese militants, sources saidhere on Friday.

Explaining the rationalebehind going after the top ter-rorists, the sources said if thesecurity forces were able tonautralise them or restricttheir movement, it will createa void in the three terror“tanzeems” (organisations).The next generation of topleadership will take time tocome up as the aspiring com-manders will have to provetheir mettle time and again togain “respect” of the cadre,they said.

On categorisation of ter-rorists, officials said it wasdone on the basis of types ofcrimes committed by theseterrorists, including killings,organisational capabilities,control over the “tanzeem”and statements issued by themfrom time to time to marktheir presence. While catego-ry A++ is the highest one car-rying a reward of more than�12lakh, A+ is the second inthe list with a reward of �8lakh. C is the third category ofwanted terrorists.

Giving an example, theysaid Altaf Kachroo (HizbulMujahideen), category A++,has survived since 2006 afterjoining the terror ranks. He isa division commander of his“tanzeem” in south Kashmir.Similarly, Riyaz Naikoo hasbeen managing to avoid thesecurity dragnet since 2012. Heis also categorised A++.

Giving the break-up ogan-isation-wise of 21 most-want-ed terrorists, sources said 11are from HM, seven from LeT,two from JeM and one fromAnzar Ghazwat ul-Hind.Incidentally, all the LeT ter-rorists figuring in the list areA+. Officials also informedthat all the most-wanted ter-rorists have their bases insouth and north Kashmir.

While Hizbul is local ter-

rorist organisation, JeM andLeT are Pakistan- based outfitscomprising mostly foreignfighters. Of late, some mis-guided local Kashmiris havejoined these two organisa-tions, officials said.

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In a major offensive after theimposition of the Governor’s

rule in Jammu & Kashmir,four ultras affiliated with a pan-Islamic group were killed onFriday in an encounter at

Nowshahr village of Srigufwarain Anantnag district. A police-man and a civilian also werekilled in the encounter. Eightsecurity personnel were injuredin a separate grenade blast inTral sub-district of Pulwama.

A joint team of the Army,the CRPF and the police in themorning carried out searchoperation based on leads aboutthe presence of terrorists inKhiram area of Sirigufwara.

“As the joint patrol madean advance towards the sus-pected house, terrorists hidinginside fired indiscriminatelydue to which policeman AshiqHussain and a civilian identi-fied as Mohammad YousufRather (53) received bulletinjuries and later succumbed toinjuries,” police spokesmansaid, adding that some othercivilians were also injured inthe gunfire.

Sources said two terroristswere killed in the initial phaseof the encounter and two oth-ers were shot while trying toflee the site.

“In the encounter, all thefour ultras were killed. Theyhave been identified asDawood Ahmad Sofi, MajidManzoor Dar, Aadil RehmanBhat and Mohammad AshrafItoo,” he added.

The social media profilingand inputs indicate that theywere inspired by ISIS module,the police spokesman said.

Sofi (33), police said, wasa resident of Zainakoot villageon the outskirts of Srinagar city.He was involved in a numberof stone-pelting cases in thearea prior to joining the terroroutfit.

“He (Sofi) was involved ina terror attack which resultedin the death of two policemenat Bagh Ali Mardan Khan inZadibal and also in the killingof a policeman and snatchinghis rifle at Tengpora Batamaloobesides other terror attacks,” thespokesman said.

“Initially Dawood wasknown to be affiliated withTehreek-ul-Mujahideen outfit.

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Political rivals BJP andCongress entered in a bit-

ter war of words over certaincontroversial remarks by seniorCongress leaders SaifuddinSoz and Ghulam Nabi Azadabout Jammu & Kashmir.

Launching a blisteringattack against Sonia Gandhiand Rahul Gandhi, the BJP saida “New Congress” is in syncwith terrorists across the coun-try as it quoted Gulam Nabisaying that Army has killedmore civilians than the terror-ists in J&K. The BJP alsoattacked former Union

Minister Soz, who saidKashmiris want independence.

While the Congressdefended Azad’s statement bysaying it was in support of thecommon people of the Stateand should not be viewed assomething which is “anti-national”, the party condemnedand disowned Soz, saying whathe said was “cheap gimmick” tosell his forthcoming book.

Addressing a Press confer-ence here, senior BJP leaderRavi Shankar Prasad saidAzad’s comments wereapproved by terrorist outfitLeT’s spokesperson DrAbdullah, who said, “We have

been of the same opinion asthat of Azad”.

Describing Azad’s com-ments as “shameful and irre-sponsible”, Prasad said theCongress’ pathological hatredof Prime Minister NarendraModi and the BJP has becomea “corner stone” of its politicsin which national interest attimes takes a back seat. The BJPleader said that Pakistan willuse Azad’s remarks to push itsagenda of human rights viola-tions against India.

Prasad said latching onAzad’s statement the LeT hasstarted blaming Indian forcesfor the killing of journalist

Shujaat Bukhari. The BJP willraise the issue in Parliamentwhen its Monsoon Sessionbegins next month, he said.

Lashing out at Rahul,Prasad alleged the Congressunder him has “designed” itspolitics in sync with terrorists.

“But what do we expectfrom the Congress whose pres-ident visits JNU in support of‘tukre gang’, questions theArmy’s surgical strike in POK,makes barbs like ‘khoon kidalali’ aimed at theGovernment, and its anotherleader bad mouths Armychief,” he said.

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Six youths from UttarPradesh, who had gone to

Jammu & Kashmir to eke outa living and claimed that theywere made to pelt stones at thesecurity forces, might havecooked up the entire story toevade arrest for stealing.

These youths — three eachfrom Baghpat and Saharnpurdistricts — were working inKashmir’s Pulwama as tailorsand were getting �20,000 amonth each when they werepushed to unskilled works suchas mopping and washing vehi-cles.

“During encounter withterrorists, the locals used to askus to pelt stones at the securi-ty forces. As we were takingshelter in houses of locals weobeyed their orders,” the youthstold the police.

But Director General ofPolice OP Singh told a TVchannel that “Since the incidentreceived wide media cover-age, we decided to investigate

the matter immediately. It wasthen that we found the sixyouths had concocted the storyto avoid arrest.”

“During our investigation,it was found that the owner ofthe tailoring factory contactedthem and accused them ofstealing clothes. Realising thatthey could be caught soon, theyouth decided to cook up astory to avoid arrest,” Singhadded.

He further said that there-after the youth went aroundtelling people that they hadgone to Kashmir to work, butwere forced to pelt stones nearan Army camp.

“The fact is, no such inci-dent ever took place. In fact,they are the ones who hadstolen clothes from the facto-ry. We are convinced that theirstory is fake, and hence, we

have decided not to investigatethe matter further,” the DGPsaid, adding that the youth havenot been arrested for theft asthere is no formal complaint.

However, Superintendentof Police, Baghpat, Jai Prakashsaid one of the youth identifiedas Nasim told police that he andsome others were kept at a fac-tory in Pulwama. “On oneoccasion, the labourers theretook part in stone pelting. Hewas also asked to throw stonesbut he refused and escapedfrom the place,” he said.

Prakash said that the youthwere changing their statementsfrequently. “Hence, we are cor-roborating the information.The police are on the lookoutfor the contractor who tookthese youths to Kashmir,” hesaid.

The families of thedetained youths told the policethat their children had gone toKashmir for a contractual jobat a stitching factory but theyreturned, complaining of beingcoerced into stone-pelting.

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After Chief Minister NitishKumar scrapped Prime

Minister’s crop insurancescheme (known as PrimeMinister Fasal Bima Yojna —PMFBY) in Bihar and com-plaints poured in from acrossthe country about insurancecompanies making huge prof-its at the cost of farmers, theUnion Government hasordered a review of the scheme.The Ministry of Agriculturehas asked General InsuranceCorporation of India to lookinto ways to finalise rationalpremium.

In a note to GeneralInsurance Corporation ofIndia, the Agriculture Ministryhas said, “The Government isreviewing the implementationof the PMFBY and how tomake it effective in practicalterms so that more farmerscould be benefit from thescheme.” The sources said sev-eral State Governments havecomplained that the scheme ismore beneficial to insurancecompanies rather than farmersin distress. Insiders said thePMFBY is a classic case of poorimplementation of a goodscheme. Several StateGovernments have alleged thatfarmers have not benefittedfrom this scheme and delay inpaying “claim amount” is stillan issue. Though the Centre isworking with the States andother stakeholders to adoptnew technology at the earliestso that timely claim settle-ment is ensured, farmers inmany States have to wait longto get claims.

Highlighting instances ofinadequate and delayed claimpayment to farmers, insiderssaid, insurance companies, inmany cases, did not investigate

losses due to a localised calami-ty and, therefore, did not payclaims.

Based on its field study inHaryana, Tamil Nadu andUttar Pradesh and engagementwith farmers, insurance com-panies and Governmentdepartments, the Centre forScience and Environment in itsreport had noted that thePMFBY mainly remains ascheme for loanee farmers. Itmeans farmers who take loansfrom banks are mandatorilyrequired to take insurance.

An official associated withthe PMFBY, told The Pioneerthat insurance companies hadpaid more “claim amount” thanthe “gross premium” in 2014-15 and 2015-16 which weredrought years. “Most of thecompanies had, however,booked profits in 2016-17which was good monsoon year.

This is how insurance businessruns,” official added.

On the other hand, officialssaid the new scheme permitsinsurance company represen-tatives to take part in the crop-cutting experiments. “This maybe one of the reasons for thedecline in number of benefi-ciaries and areas under thescheme,” the official said.

“Besides, manual yield datacollection and manual trans-mission to insurance compa-nies impedes timely and accu-racy yield data which in turnused to lead to delay in claimprocessing and settlementunder erstwhile scheme,” theofficial added.

As per AgricultureMinistry’s data, the number offarmers insured during boththe Kharif and Rabi seasons hasgone down by 14 per cent.

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The Parliament of Seychelles, a strategically locat-ed archipelago nation in the western Indian

Ocean, has blocked India’s plan of building a navalbase there following Opposition’s argument thatallowing India to build a naval base at theAssumption island would infringe on the country’ssovereignty.

Meanwhile, Seychelles President Danny Faurearrived in India on Friday evening. He will holdtalks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi andreview the wide-ranging cooperation between thetwo countries. Faure’s visit comes just days afterFaure said a joint project with New Delhi to devel-op a naval base at Assumption Island in his coun-try would not move forward.

There has been growing political opposition inSeychelles to an agreement it signed with India in2015 to develop a naval facility at the island whichwould have given New Delhi a strategic advantagein the Indian Ocean Region.

During the 6-day visit, Faure will also visitGujarat, Goa and Uttarakhand.

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In a virtual re-run of Gurugram’s Ryanschool murder case, a 14-year-old boy

studying in Class IX was stabbed to deathby his senior at a school in Vadodara onFriday. Identified as Dev Tadvi, the boy hadtaken admission in Shri Bharati School sit-uated in old Vadodara city around a weekago. Dev’s parents are residing in Anandtown, around 30 km from Vadodara. He wasstaying with his maternal relatives.

Around 11.45 am, Dev’s body wasfound in the school’s washroom with mul-tiple stab injuries. After the school author-ity informed the police, the alleged murderer,a Class X student, was arrested.

Investigation officer RS Bhagora said thevictim had 10 stab injuries. “We haverecovered a knife and a bottle of water con-taining chilli powder from a school bag froma temple near the school. The assailant mighthave thrown the bag after attacking the vic-tim. Another 12-inch long knife was foundnear the body,” said Bhagora.

According to him, a scuffle between thetwo students culminated into murder.

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Alert security personnelapprehended a Mumbai-

bound woman passenger atthe Indira Gandhi International(IGI) Airport for carrying fivelive bullet rounds in her bag-gage. Recovery of live bulletswas reported to police andaccordingly an FIR was regis-tered.

According to an airportofficial, an officer of CentralIndustrial Security Force(CISF), posted at the IGIAirport, detected bullet-likeobjects on the X-ray monitoron Thursday while checkingthe bag of the woman passen-ger identified as Anshu R.

“Five live bullet roundswere found on the passengertravelling to Mumbai,” the offi-cial said.The woman was notallowed to board the flightand was handed over to thepolice as she could not produceany document for the ammu-nition, the official said, addingthat she was later booked under

sections of the Arms Act. In another incident an

African national was appre-hended at the IGI airport forallegedly trying to smuggleforeign currency $34,500 byhiding them in his socks, offi-cials said on Friday. T NMwaisemba, a Malawiannational, was detected withthe huge foreign currency dur-ing frisking by the CISF per-sonnel while he was on his wayto take a flight to Dubai, theofficials said.

A total of $34,500, which isover �23.24 lakh, was foundconcealed in the socks that theman was wearing, they said.

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East Delhi MunicipalCorporation (EDMC)

bagged Order-of-Merit Awardsfrom SKOCH on Friday. Thecivic body received the awardunder solid waste manage-ment category for its con-struction and demolition wasteprocessing plant.

Chief Engineer of EDMCPradeep Kumar Khandelwalreceived the award on behalf ofthe civic body.

EDMC’s construction anddemolition waste plant situat-ed at Shastri Park processes 500tonnes of construction wasteper day and convert it into use-ful products such as bricks,stone, sand, pavement andfootpaths tiles, drain covers,kern stone etc based onadvance wet processing tech-nology.

A senior EDMC officialsaid that the project is beingrun by the civic body on 2.5acre land through its privatepartner. The processed mater-

ial in the plant ranges fromcement concrete, bricks,cement plaster, steel, rubble,stone, timber/wood, clay etc.“Poor management of con-struction waste is one the majorcauses of air pollution in Delhi.Construction and demolitionwaste processing plants likethese can help in curbing airpollution to a large extent,” hesaid.

The official further saidthat this plant is in line withSwachh Bharat Mission andSmart City. “Solid waste man-agement is one of the biggestchallenges the country andproject like this will help citiesget rid of illegal dumping ofconstruction materials in pub-lic places,” he said.

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The Delhi Government hasbagged four Order-of-Merit

Awards from SKOCH duringits 52nd SKOCH Summit.

On Friday, the DelhiGovernment received three ofthe awards namely: SKOCHOrder-of-Merit for ‘Jan Suvidha(Toilet) Complex Monitoring’,SKOCH Order-of-Merit ‘NightShelter Management System’,and SKOCH Order-of-Meritfor ‘GIS Mapping of DUSIBVacant Land’, said a statementfrom the Delhi Government.

The Delhi Government lateon Thursday night received theSKOCH Order-of-Merit Awardfor ‘Aam Aadmi Mohalla ClinicProject (Health)’. The summitthat convened on Thursday isscheduled for three days. SkochGroup is a think tank dealingwith socio-economic issues witha focus on inclusive growthsince 1997. The Group has insti-tuted India’s highest indepen-dent civilian honours in the fieldof governance, finance, tech-nology, economics, social sector.

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Witnessing the discrimi-nation faced by the

transgender community dailyin the society, DelhiGovernment is planning toform a seven-member com-mittee to look into the issuesfaced by the community in theday to day life.

The matter was discussedin the meeting held on Fridayby the Delhi Social WelfareMinister Rajendra Pal Gautamat Delhi Secretariat.

The meeting was attendedby senior officials from thesocial welfare departmentincluding the Laya Vasudevan,

Legal and technical expert,Representatives of the trans-community.

“It is not their fault thatthey born like this, they toobelong to this community so itis our duty to provide better liv-ing facilties and service forthem. They are also humanbeing like us.

Therefore we should work to empower the commu-nity so they can also live a dig-nified life like the other gen-ders.

We are working towards toempower and inclusion oftransgender into the main-stream society,” said RajendraPal Gautam.

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Lieutenant Governor AnilBaijal on Friday reviewed

the progress and steps taken toimplement the amended pro-visions of offences againstwomen in pursuance of pro-mulgation of the Criminal Law(Amendment) Ordinance,2018.

Baijal emphasised uponoptimum use of staff andresources of Forensic ScienceLaboratory (FSL) for speedydisposal of the cases. He furtheradvised to explore the possi-bility of engaging public pros-ecutors on contractual basis tillregular recruitment is con-ducted by Union Public ServiceCommission.

He also directed all theagencies to take up all neces-sary steps for effective imple-mentation of the ordinance ina time-bound manner.

The meeting was attendedby Satyendra Jain, Minister

(Home), Principal Secretariesof Home and Law), special CP(Crime) SatishGolchha,Secretary (Womenand Child Development),Director of Forensic ScienceLaboratory and others.

Outlining various issues,Principal Secretary (Home)said that the steps to be takento enforce the Criminal Law

(Amendment) Ordinance,2018 effectively. He alsoappraised L-G about the vari-ous steps already taken in thisregard.

“It was stressed that a coor-dinated approach among inves-tigation, prosecution and trialmachineries is needed toenforce the said ordinance in itsletter and spirit,” a release from

L-G office stated. Adequate provisions to

enhance forensic facilities,employment of dedicated staffin FSL, recruitment of womenofficers for purpose of investi-gation and an increase in pub-lic prosecutors for timelyscrutiny of charge sheet andprosecution in the court isrequired, it said.

It further said that settingup of additional dedicated spe-cial fast track courts/specialcourts is also needed to enforcethe provisions of the ordinance in its true spirit. This would be helpful in clearing the backlog alreadypending in the court, therelease stated.

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Lieutenant Governor (L-G)Anil Baijal on Friday

released a report on womensafety in the national Capital.The report prepared by the six-member committee reveals theimportant factors and issuessuch as absence of policepatrolling , lack of public toiletsfor woman, poor public spacesand transport, unsafe busstands, poor lighting, absenceof proper dustbins for menstrualwaste disposal, inadequate elec-tricity connections, poor light-ing and uneven roads make thecity unsafe for the woman.

The six member committeeconstituted in 2017 by LG Baijalcomprising of SpecialCommissioner of Police(Women Safety), Airport andModernisation Sanjay Baniwal,Krishna Menon, Professor,

Gender Studies and Dean at theSchool of Human Studies,Amberdkar University, ProfessorPamela Singh of DelhiUniversity, Kalpana Vishwanath,the co-founder of SafetypinApp, Nimesh Desai, Member ofManas Foundation and OPMishra, Additional Secretarywith Delhi Government.

The committee furthergave a call to all the otherdepartments such as MunicipalCorporations, Delhi TransportCorporations (DTC), PublicWorks Department, DelhiMetro and so on to unite andwork together to make the cap-ital a safer city for the woman.

“Law and enforcement isalways not the solution for allthe problems. It is not only myjob in the end of the day.Everyone should come togeth-er to raise questions on thethings that is lacking in the

society. But most of the timethe departments itself fightslike this is my zone, this is notour work, construction onlycomes under our section andso on. So what we are sayingthat join the hands to build asafe society,” said Baniwal.

The report further gaverecommendations for properinfrastructure, increasing ofstreet lights, improving lastmile connectivity, systematicand user friendly transportsoutside metros, installment ofhelpline numbers directlylinked to the police controlroom inside the bus for imme-diate response, more public toi-lets for woman, CCTV camerasat bus stops, inside buses andstreet.

Apart from the recom-mendations the report alsorevealed shocking facts such asout of 1147 public toilets only

67 toilets are allotted forwoman in the south Delhi. Inthe entire Karol Bagh areathere is only two toilets con-structed for women.

To tackle the situation in

the city, LG Baijal directed toform Department-wise sub-committees that will be head-ed by the President Secretary ofDelhi Government on specificactions to be taken by the

departments/organizationsconcerned. He also directed thehome department to review allthe actions that will be taken bythe respective departments ina time bound manner.

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Ghaziabad police havearrested four persons for

impersonating as officers ofCentral Bureau of Investigation(CBI). The police arrested theimpersonators after an informertold police that a gang wasplanning a raid in Loni area.The accused were riding anSUV and they were noticedstarting from Samrat hotel inKaushambi area on Friday.

The police have recovereda laptop, 2 rubber stamps ofCBI, a joining letter, somepapers pertaining to recruit-ment in CBI and fake identity

cards of CBI officers they wereimpersonating.

Senior Superintendent ofPolice (SSP) Vaibhav Krishnain a press conference told thatthe police was receiving com-plaints that a gang in the nameof recruitments in CBI wascheating persons by fraudulentmeans . The police made a planand spread its network aroundthe culprits. “On Friday whenthey hired a Scorpio Jeep toconduct a raid in Loni area tocheat some man, police afterdecoying nabbed them fromnear Samrat hotel inKaushambhi bordering Delhi,”said SSP.

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The national capital has wit-nessed the lowest load-

shedding for the month tillJune 19 as compared to the pre-vious two years, according toDelhi Government data.

While the percentage ofload-shedding with reference toenergy consumption till June19 for this year was 0.08 percent, the same for 2017 was0.10 per cent and that for 2016was 0.23 per cent, it said.

The load-shedding duringthis period was 1.874 MUs thisyear, which was 2.195 MUs in2017 and was 4.936 MUs in2016.

On June 8, city’s powerdemand broke all previousrecords with the peak powerdemand reaching 6,934 MW at3.28 pm, the highest everrecorded in the city. Last sum-mer, it was recorded at 6,526MW.

The peak power demandhad soared to 6,651 on June 1this year and broke the previ-ous record of 6,526 MWrecorded on June 6, 2017.

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The 11.18-km-long sectionMundka-Bahadur Garh

Metro corridor is expected tocommence on June 24.According to sources, “PrimeMinister Narendra Modi willinaugrate the new metrolinefrom his office through VideoConferencing.”

This would be the exten-sion of Mundka-KirtiNagar/Inderlok Green Linewhich was started in two phas-es in 2010 and 2011.

The corridor will haveseven elevated stations in total,of which four will be in Delhi

and three in Haryana. Thesewill be Mundka industrialArea, Ghevra, Tikri Kalan,Tikri Border (Delhi) andModern Industrial Estate, BusStand, and City Park(Haryana).

Haryana Government willorganise a function to inaugratethe stretch. Chief Minister ofHaryana Manohar Lal Khattarwill participate in the function.

“This extension of metroline would be a great help to thedaily commuters. I travel dailyin this route by opening of thisline my journey would be eas-ier” said Ankit Yadav residentof Mundka.

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Delhi BJP president ManojTiwari has expressed grat-

itude to the Centre for takingconcrete steps for providingrelief to the traders by amend-ing various provisions of DelhiMaster Plan-2021 after freshenquiry and hearing.

He said, “With this amend-ment, the Centre and the DDAhave taken initiative to fulfil itspromises made to city traders.”

“The trading activities inthe markets started before 1962in areas like Tilak Nagar,Rajouri Garden, Lajpat Nagarand Kamla Nagar will getinstant relief. It will also help inproviding relief to other mar-kets also,” he said.

Tiwari hailed Union UrbanDevelopment Minister SardarHardeep Singh Puri and L-GAnil Baijal for protecting thelivelihood of thousands oftraders by taking special inter-est in the matter.

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Justice Satyendra SinghChauhan, from the Lucknow

bench of the Allahabad HighCourt, was on Friday appoint-ed as the Chairperson of theDelhi Electricity RegulatoryCommission (DERC), an offi-cial said. He has been appoint-ed by Lt Governor Anil Baijal,according to a letter issued byDelhi’s Special Secretary, Power.Chauhan, a LucknowUniversity law graduate, willretire from the bench on July 4.

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(1) The Executive Engineer (E) PWD DHC& ND/CENTRAL, Ground floor MSO Bldg,New Delhi on behalf of President of Indiainvites ONLINE item rate bids from theapproved and eligible contractors registeredwith CPWD in appropriate composite cat-egory or those of appropriates list of MES,BSNL, Railway and other state Govt.Department dealing with buildings andRoads and other experienced non regis-tered contractors, who satisfy the criteriaof execution of similar works, Provided theymeet Eligibility Criteria as stipulated inthe NIT:- of the following work (s):- whichshall be received by "E-Tendering.N/W:- R.M.O. Specialized Electrical &Mechanical Services of Delhi HighCourt, New Delhi (SH:-Miscellaneouswork in administrative block, extensionblock and LCB-3 building).NIT No: 90/EE(E)/PWD DHC & ND/Central/2018-19 Estimated Cost: Rs.593420/-Earnest Money: Rs. 11868/- & period ofcompletion*One Month, Last Date and timesubmission of Tender upto 3:00 PM on 28-06-2018The tender forms and other details can beobtained from the website:http://govtprocurement.delhi.gov.in atTender I.D. NO. 2018_PWD_152948 _1

(2) The Executive Engineer (E), PWD DHC& ND/Central, Ground Floor, MSO Bldg.,I.P. Estate, New Delhi-110002 invites onbehalf of President of India, online item ratetenders in two bid system i.e. (i) Pre qual-ification bid & (ii) Price bid, from the spe-cialized agency for SITC of Lift floor sta-tus Digital LCD display system. whichshall be received by E-Tendering for thework:-

N/W:- R.M.O. 9 Nos passenger lifts installedat department of Trade & Taxes, VyaparBhawan, I.P.Estate New Delhi. (SH:-Providing Lift Floor Digital LCD DisplaySystem with inbuilt lift voice announcementfor Lift no 7&8).NIT No: 91/EE(E)/PWD DHC & ND/Central/2018-19Estimated Cost: Rs. 1241150/-Earnest Money: Rs. 24823/- & period of com-pletion*Three Months, Last Date and timesubmission of Tender upto 3:00 PM on 28-06-2018 The tender forms and other detailscan be obtained from the website:http://govtprocurement.delhi.gov.in atTender I.D. NO. 2018_PWD_152996__1

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National Green Tribunal(NGT) will hear a petition

on felling of trees by CentralPublic Department Work(CPWD), Ministry of HousingUrban Development (MoUD)and National BuildingConstruction Corporation(NBCC) on July 2 next month.A petition has been filed beforethe NGT against cutting 16,573trees in South Delhi area tobuild a township.

According to the petition,fully grown trees are beingchopped in premier locationsof South Delhi, instance -Netaji Nagar, Naroji Nagar,the entities have not takenpermission from DelhiPollution Control Commission(DPCC) , the prime authorityto take permission for cuttingtrees on Delhi land.

Meanwhile sources saidthat Delhi Government hasgranted permission for thecutting of 3500 tress only butin this case, a enormous num-ber of 16,573 trees are being cutto make way the development.Green activists are concernedover the cutting of trees asDelhi is already reeling under

vehicular and dust pollution.Activists and residents of SouthDelhi have threatened to stagea protest under “ChipkoMovement”..

Activists in Delhi willassemble near Sarojini NagarPolice station and mark theirprotest against the governmentagencies under the tag “Let’s hugthe tress to save them on June 24.As per the documents accessedby The Pioneer, the governmentagencies have no answer toRTIs asking about the Env-ironment Impact Assessment(EIA) on this matter.

While Sarojini Nagar willbe worst affected with the cut-ting of 11,000 trees out of13,128 trees, Nauroji Nagarwill also be affected withfalling of 1465 of 1513 treesand Netaji Nagar witnessingthe incessant cutting of 3033trees and other areas includingKasturba Nagar, MohammadPur and RK Puram.

On one hand, dust hasbeen caused respiratory issuesand on the other hand thedeforestation will matter evenworse for the people of Delhi.

Around thousands of Delhi

residents have already launcheda protest by Whatsapp regis-tering, giving missed calls andjoining various WhatsAppgroups. “Cutting tress on thename of development is absurd,why these agencies are notgiving a thought on health ofDelhi people, various studies ofAIIMS have been read onhealth hazards due to air pol-lution,” said a petitioner.

“Deforestation is fraughtwith consequences as surfaceheat may get even worse”, saidan environmentalist Accordingto a MeT scientist, Delhi air-port is already facing the con-sequences of it. “ With no treearound, the surface heat willplay havoc with flight opera-tions and runways will not beoperational”..

It is very pertinent to men-tion here that On Friday, flightoperations witnessed delays atthe Indira Gandhi InternationalAirport (IGIA) as runwayswere abnormally hot and thetemperature was recorded at44.5 degree Celsius. “Majorflight operations were delayeddue to high temperature atIGIA,” said weather expert.

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The Delhi High Court onFriday declined to put on

hold the felling of trees sanc-tioned by the Centre in con-nection with the re-develop-ment of six south Delhicolonies by the NationalBuildings ConstructionCorporation (NBCC) and theCentral Public WorksDepartment (CPWD).

While refusing to pass anyinterim order, a vacation benchof Justices A K Chawla andNavin Chawla issued notice tothe ministries of Housing andEnvironment as well as theNBCC, CPWD and DelhiPollution Control Committee(DPCC) and sought their standon a plea challenging the envi-ronment clearance given tothe housing projects.

The bench said it was notinclined to grant an ex-parteorder at the moment and want-

ed to hear the NBCC beforeissuing any direction.

It also told the petitioner,an orthopaedic surgeon, thatthe project was going on forseveral months while the envi-ronment clearances were givenin 2017-18.

The PIL has sought settingaside of the terms of reference(ToR) and the environmentclearances (EC) granted to theproject by the EnvironmentMinistry, saying it would leadto felling of over 16,500 trees.

The six south Delhicolonies where the trees wouldbe felled are Sarojini Nagar,Naoroji Nagar, Netaji Nagar,Thyagaraja Nagar,Mohammadpur and KasturbaNagar, the petition by DrKaushal Kant Mishra said.

According to the petition,the separate ECs for each areawere granted betweenNovember last year and Junethis year.

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Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)chief spokesperson

Saurabh Bharadwaj on Fridayclaimed that the BJP-ledCentral Government was plan-ning to cut down 17,000 treesin the National capital as partof its redevelopment plan.

He also added that AAP ismulling a Chipko like move-ment in order to protest againstthe move by the centre.Bharadwaj claimed that theplan involved construction offlats for politicians and babus.

He alleged that the“Ministry of Housing andUrban Affairs had on Thursdaysaid that 14,031 trees would becut out of the existing 21,040trees for the redevelopment ofseven south Delhi colonies ofNauroji Nagar, Netaji Nagar,Sarojini Nagar, Mohammadpur,Sriniwaspuri, Kasturba Nagarand Thyagaraj Nagar”.

The Chipko movementwas started in Garhwal regionof Uttarakhand in 1970s byenvironmentalist SunderlalBahuguna, under which people

embraced trees as and whenefforts were made to cut them.

Bharadwaj said 17,000trees would be cut in Lutyens’ Delhi as part of theredevelopment plan with thecentral Government planningto cut “11,000 trees in Sarojini

Nagar itself ”. He also accused the central

Government of failing toaddress the environmental safe-ty concerns before attemptingthe project.

“Our information is that noenvironmental assessment hasbeen conducted. The Delhigovernment has also not beenconsulted as to how the needsof transport, water and sewerrequirements under the rede-velopment plan will be ful-filled,” said Bharadwaj.

He clarified that the rulingAAP in the city was not againstthe redevelopment of the southDelhi colonies, but the Centreshould take the project to otherplaces like Rohini, Dwarka,Gurugram or Noida if treeswere to be cut on such a largescale.

“The re-development ofthe seven colonies is beingdone with complete adherenceto environmental sustainabili-ty and green building conceptsand special care and attentionis being given towards retainingthe maximum number of theexisting trees,” he said.

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Contrary to the popularUndergraduate (UG)

courses like B.A Programme &BCom (Hons) etc at DelhiUniversity (DU) in which more than thousand have taken admission against thefirst cut-off, courses like Bachelor of Vocational(BVoc) Software Development, BA (Hons)Spanish and BSc AppliedPhysical Sciences withAnalytical Methods inChemistry & Biochemistryhave only lone takers.

While in the other lesspopular courses like BSc(Hons) Instrumentation andBSc (Hons) Polymer Scienceonly 3 and 4 admissions havetaken place against the first cut-off.

On the other hand amongthe merit based undergraduate(UG) courses, B.A Programmetops the chart followed byB.Com (Hons), B.A. (Hons)Political Science, B.A (Hons)History and B.Com succes-sively with more than thousandadmissions in each of thesecourses.

A DU official on the con-dition of anonymity said thatvocational courses cater to therequirement of job marketsand have more ‘employability’as compared to the traditionalcourses but “ironically” thereare very few or almost no tak-ers for it.

B.Voc. Programme hasbeen designed by the UGC asper National Skill QualificationFramework (NSQF) of

Ministry of Skill Developmentemphasizing on skill-basededucation in consultation withNational Skills DevelopmentCorporation (NSDC).

“The programme focuseson skill development basedhigher education leading toBachelor of Vocational (B.Voc.)degree with multiple entry andexit points.

Its objective is to providejudicious mix of skills relatingto a profession and appropriatecontent of general education, sothat they are work- ready ateach exit point of the pro-gramme.

It also integrates NSQFwithin the undergraduate levelof higher education in order toenhance employability of thegraduates and meet industryrequirement,” said the DUOfficial.

Also, there are many DUcolleges that are not very pop-ular and very few admissionshave taken place in these col-leges against first cut-off. DyalSingh College (Evening) is atthe bottom of the chart withonly 2 admissions against thefirst cut-off.

Fairing a little better andsecond from the bottom is SriAurobindo College (Evening)with 6 admissions.

“Almost 15,000 admissionshave taken place with studentspaying their fees. 1000 morehave been approved .

As principals are stillapproving the admissions anduploading it on portal we have extended the timing till 6pm on Friday. While the students can pay their fee till

12 pm on Saturday,” said Prof. Maharaj K Pandit,Chairman, admission com-mittee, DU.

However with four more “realistic” cut-offs yet to come up, the number ofadmissions in these least soughtout courses and colleges isexpected to rise though not

much. The second cut-off will be

announced on Monday 25 Junewhile the admissions againstthe second cut-off would bemade in between 25 to 27June.

The third cut-off will comeon 30 June, fourth on 6 July andfifth and the last on 12 July.

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An independent study oninstitutional ethics by a

non-profit organisation hasheaped praise on Delhi MetroRail Corporation (DMRC) per-forming well in areas of “lead-ership, punctuality and safetynorms”.

The study compiled by theIC Centre for Governance(ICCfG), was released by for-mer governor of JharkhandPrabhat Kumar in the presenceof DMRC Managing DirectorMangu Singh at the MetroBhawan on Friday.

The study found that oneof the primary reasons for thesuccess of DMRC has been itsimplementation of a Code ofEthics and Values. The study also said that DMRC hadshown excellent performancein areas such as exemplary leadership, punctu-ality, fair and transparentprocesses in procurement, pre-vention of corruption, employ-ee welfare, adherence to safetynorms etc.

“The Delhi Metro employsclose to 12,000 people and hasimplemented a code of valuesand ethics for its employees,”the Delhi Metro RailCorporation said in a state-ment. The DMRC currentlyspans a network of 277 km with24.82-km-long Janakpuri West-Kalkaji Mandir stretch, the lat-est to have been inaugurated

last month.The study also said that

“DMRC had shown excellentperformance in areas such asexemplary leadership, punctu-ality, fair and transparentprocesses in procurement, pre-vention of corruption, employ-ee welfare, adherence to safetynorms”.

It involved a rigorous andtime-consuming process dur-ing which the ICCfG teamhad extensive interactions withthe DMRC management andofficers. They visited DMRC’sconstruction sites, controlrooms, metro stations and thetraining institute, the DMRCsaid.

They also took intoaccount the actual travellingexperience of the people andinteracted with the public.“The case study has firmlyestablished that there is a directcorrelation between an insti-

tution’s performance and theextent to which it implementsa proper code of ethics. Basedon the learnings of the report,the ICCfG now intends to pre-pare an Awareness andTraining Module on institu-tional ethics for other Indianinstitutions,” the statement said.

ICCfG is a non-profitorganisation with a vision tocreate a work culture in Indiathat encourages inculcation ofethics and values in gover-nance structures, systems andinstitutions.

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In order to ensure a bettercoordination among various

civic agencies and to avoidblame game, the North DelhiMunicipal Corporation (NMC)on Friday brought all the stake-holders responsible for main-tenance of civic amenities inthe city on a single platform todiscuss the issues and work in“tandem”.

A senior NMC official saidthat various issues related toproper and timely solid waste

management to avoid collec-tion of water in waste, dispos-able plastic material, desiltingof drains, provision of lids andrepair of over head tanks inGovernment office complexesand residential colonies, pro-vision of emergency beds inhospitals, control of mosquitobreeding in empty tyres kept atall Delhi TransportCorporation bus depots andorganising workshops to createawareness to prevent vectorborne diseases were discussed.

The inter-sectoral coordi-nation committee meeting wasconducted under the chairman-ship of NMC Commissioner

Madhup Vyas. It was attendedby concerned officials of variousgovernment agencies such asDelhi Development Authority,Public Works Department,Flood and IrrigationDepartment, Delhi Jal Board,DTC, Delhi Police and DelhiMetro Rail Corporation. Besides,Additional Commissioner(Health) R S Meena, MunicipalHealth officer Dr A K Bansal,Engineer-in-Chief Vijay Prakash,Chief Engineer Naurang Singhand other senior officials ofNMC were also present.

The official said that rep-resentatives of the PWD, Floodand Irrigation Department,

DMRC and Delhi Jal Boardwere requested to ensure prop-er arrangement and coordina-tion amongst the departmentsto control to reduce the men-ace of vector borne diseases.He further said that municipalhealth officer Dr A K Bansalgave a short presentationexplaning reasons for dengueoutbreak and suggested mea-sures to prevent it. “A shortdocumentary on life cycle ofmosquito which causes denguewas also played,” he said.

On June 7, South DelhiMunicipal Corporation alsoheld a similar meeting andasked all agencies to take “pro-active actions work in tandemand avoid blame game”.

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The Delhi Government hasdirected schools in the

national Capital to observeJune 26 as the “InternationalDay against Drug Abuse andIllicit Trafficking”.

The decision by the AamAadmi Party (AAP)Government has come underthe light of a resolution passedby the United Nations (UN)General Assembly.

“The UN GeneralAssembly passed a resolutionin December 1987 proclaimingJune 26 of each year as the‘International Day against DrugAbuse and Illicit Trafficking’.Schools must organise variousactivities to mark the day,” theDirectorate of Education (DoE)said in a communication toschools.

The awareness pro-grammes in schools suggestedby the DoE include publicmeetings among target groupsvulnerable to drug abuse andHIV (street children, jailinmates, truck drivers, slumdwellers), seminars on drugabuse and trafficking, work-shops to evolve new coordi-nated strategies for supplyreduction and demand reduc-tion by various enforcementagencies and NGOs, exhibitionon drug abuse, display and dis-tribution of banners, postersand pamphlets.

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Aday after the Congresscame out in support of

Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’sdemand for grant of special sta-tus to Bihar, an unimpressedJanata Dal (United) on Fridayasked why the national partyhad failed to do the needfulwhen they were in power at theCentre for a decade.

AICC in-charge for BiharShaktisinh Gohil had onThursday criticised PrimeMinister Narendra Modi forignoring the demand raised byKumar for granting specialcategory status to Bihar at ameeting of the Niti Ayog inNew Delhi earlier this week.

Gohil had said that he waspersonally in favour of specialstatus and special package forBihar and that if voted topower, the Congress wouldextend all possible help to thepoor and densely-populatedState which suffers droughtsand floods every year.

After disintegration ofGrant Alliance in Bihar lastyear, while JD(U) joined handswith BJP to form a coalitionGovernment, rest two — RJDand Congress — are together inthe Opposition camp.

The Congress was in powerfrom 2004 to 2014. Why did it

not then take any step in thedirection of granting specialstatus to Bihar? Nitish Kumarhas been raising the demandsince even before he becamethe Chief Minister in 2005. Hehas been raising the demandmore forcefully after assumingpower in the State, JD(U)spokesman Ajay Alok said inreply to Gohil’s assertions.

In another remark, thatseemed to target both theCongress and the BJP, withwhich the JD(U) is currentlyallied in the State, Alok said itis a strange thing with big par-ties. They promise special sta-tus while out of power but oncethey form a Government, theyforget their commitment.

Meanwhile, former Chief

Minister Jitan Ram Manjhiblamed Kumar for Bihar notgetting a special category sta-tus after Jharkhand was carvedout of it with its mineral-richsouthern region.

When the then ChiefMinister Rabri Devi had sent arequest to the then PrimeMinister Atal Bihari Vajpayeefor grant of special status toBihar, the latter had set up acommittee headed by Kumarwho was a Union minister atthat time to look into the issue,Manjhi claimed.

The committee did nothold even a single meeting andKumar, since he was not inpower in the state at that time,did not find the idea political-ly profitable and chose to draghis feet till the Vajpayee gov-ernment lost power, Manjhiwho was a minister in theRabri Devi government at thattime alleged.

Today, Nitish Kumar issimply venting his frustrationwith the BJP by raking up theissue of special status as heknows he does not have theclout to extract such a conces-sion from the BJP, theHindustani Awam Morcha(HAM) president, who walkedout of NDA to join hands withLalu Prasad's RJD recentlysaid.

From Page 1And the area under crop

insurance scheme has comedown to 24 per cent of grosscropped area (GCA) in 2017-18 from 30 per cent in 2016-17.In 2017-18, the area insuredunder the PMFBY was 47.5million hectares, which trans-late into 24 per cent of the GCAof 198.4 million hectares.

“Over 1.20 crore farmersbenefited from the crop insur-ance scheme during the Kharifseason last year and the Rabiseason in 2016-17 as com-pared to 1.62 crore in 2013-14.In 2016-17, over 5.73 crorefarmers insured their cropwhile 3.33 crore farmers in

2013-14,” it said.As per the Government’s

targets, the coverage in 2017-18 should have increased to 40per cent but has actuallyreduced to 24 per cent.

Earlier, dumping the cen-tre’s PMFBY, the Nitish KumarGovernment in Bihar hadalleged that the farmers weregetting little relief through thescheme. “For Kharif and Rabiseasons, insurance companieswere deposited Rs 800 crore (Rs400 crore each from the Centreand the State) but the farmersgot relief worth Rs 150 croreonly,” it said.

In the Bihar, Rajya FasalSahayta Yojana (BRFSY) -- anew scheme introduced by theNitish Kumar government --makes Bihar the first State tolaunch its own insurancescheme for its farmers by dis-

carding PMFBY. While inPMFBY the farmers had to paya premium to crop insurancecompanies, they will not haveto pay anything from theirpocket under BRFSY. TheState’s farmers will be entitledto fixed monetary benefits inthe event of crop loss due tonatural calamities. The MamtaBenerjee Government hasalready refused to implementthe scheme in West Bengal.

The Government had allo-cated Rs 55 billion in theBudget for 2016-17, which wasincreased to Rs 1,324 billion. In2017-18, the allocation was Rs90 billion. For 2018-19, theGovernment has provided Rs130 billion with a target tobring 98 million hectares --close to 50 per cent of grosscropped area -- under thescheme.

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From Page 1The Congress’ commit-

ment to the country has under-gone a sea change since Rahultook charge, said Prasad, whois also Union Law Minister.

Prasad claimed a newCongress has emerged andunder Rahul and with theblessings of Sonia, it wants tostrengthen the forces workingto break India.

The BJP leader decriedAzad’s another commentallegedly describing Army chiefand Defence Minister’s visit tothe late Armyman Aurangzeb’shouse in Kashmir as a “drama”.Stating that it was anotherirresponsible comment fromAzad, he sought Rahul andSonia to respond on this.

Referring to Soz’s state-ment, Prasad said though theCongress has disassociateditself from his comment “it is

not enough as it is his consid-ered opinion”.

Azad’s comments that theArmy was killing more civiliansthan terrorists seek to “breakthe morale of the forces, bringthem into disrepute and seri-ously impinge on the country’ssecurity”, he said.

On the other hand, theCongress cited statements offormer Finance MinisterYashwant Sinha made inSrinagar and by BJP veteran LKAdvani on Mohammed AliJinnah to hit out at the BJP.

“We have also seen in thepast how BJP’s then DeputyChief Minister Nirmal Singhmade a public statement sayingthat they would have perhapstold security forces to not takeaction if BJP-PDP Governmentknew that Burhan Wani, dread-ed terrorist, was inside,”Congress chief spokesmanRandeep Surjewala said.

Surjewala also took a dig atModi and Amit Shah, sayingwhile the Prime Minister invit-ed the ISI which is responsiblefor terrorist attacks to investi-

gate the Pathankot airbaseattack by terrorists, the BJPchief expressed confidence inthe ISI.

The Congress leader citedthe remark made by formerChief Minister MuftiMohammed Sayeed in thepresence of Modi, during hisswearing-in thanking sepa-ratists and Pakistan and not thesecurity forces and ElectionCommission, for formation ofthe Government in J&K.

“We also saw as to howPDP-BJP Government madeAsifa Andrabi -- the poster girlfor ‘Beti Bacho Beti Padhao’ inJ&K -- while she also went toPakistan and addressed publicrallies with terrorists,”Surjewala said.

“So let us not try to divertagenda based on a stray state-ment made by some individualwhich we reject in toto,” theCongress leader said.

Surjewala rejected Soz’scontention and said that J&K isan integral part of India andwill continue to be so and thatis an incontrovertible and

unquestionable truth.“The Congress party and

every rightful citizen of Indiareject such content as a gim-mick to sell a book that is yetto come into the market. Thereis incontrovertible unques-tionable truth and that is J&Kwas an integral part of India, isan integral part of India, andwill always remain an integralpart of India,” Surjewala said tothe reporters.

The Congress leader saidmany people will make manystatements “either to sell bookor to gain cheap publicitythrough friends of the media”.

In his book, Soz has saidthat “independence” is the firstchoice of Kashmiris as he sup-ported former PakistanPresident Pervez Musharraf ’sassessment in this regard.“Musharraf had explained thatif Kashmiris were given achance to exercise their freewill, they would prefer to beindependent. In fact, thisassessment of Musharraf seemsto be correct even today,” he haswritten in the book.

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From Page 1Faure, who will first visit

Gujarat and Goa, will beaccorded a ceremonial wel-come at the forecourt of theRashtrapati Bhavan onMonday. He will then visit theRajghat to pay tributes toMahatma Gandhi, the MEAsaid. Faure will meet PresidentRam Nath Kovind and holddelegation level talks with Modiduring his visit. Vice-PresidentVenkaiah Naidu and ExternalAffairs Minister Sushma Swarajwill call on Faure during thevisit. Faure will also address theIndia-Seychelles BusinessForum. He will be accompa-nied by a high-level delegationcomprising two cabinet minis-ters, four secretaries of state andother senior officials. A busi-ness delegation will also beaccompanying the President onthe visit, the MEA said.

Faure’s state visit, part ofregular high-level exchangesbetween India and Seychelles,will accord an opportunity toreview wide-ranging bilateralcooperation including in thefields of defence and securityand development partnership,it said. At a press conference onJune 4, Faure had saidSeychelles will develop militaryfacilities at the island on its ownand that the project with India“will not move forward”.

He had also said the issuewould not be discussed withthe Indian leadership duringhis visit to New Delhi.India was keen on developingthe Assumption Island as anaval base to expand its foot-print in the strategically-keyregion where China has beentrying to enhance its militarypresence. The agreement onthe Assumption Island betweenIndia and Seychelles was firstsigned in 2015 during Modi’svisit to that country. An updat-ed version of the original dealwas finalised by the two sidesearlier this year.

However, Opposition lead-ers in Seychelles came outopenly against the agreementafter the original document aswell as the revised version of itsurfaced online in March.

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From Page 1“This terrorist organisa-

tion was active on socialmedia and mostly attacked thepolicemen on duty at differentplaces,” the spokesman added.

“Incriminating materialand a huge quantity of ammu-nition were also seized fromthe site of the encounter.”

Sofi’s death sparkedprotests and shutdown in sev-eral parts of Srinagar as peo-ple came out of homes toreceive his body for burial.

Security sources said thecivilian, who was killed in thegunfire, was the owner of thehouse where terrorists werehiding. His wife also sus-tained fire arm injuries andwas hospitalised.

Two critically injuredyouths among several injuredwere shifted to Srinagar hos-pital for advanced treatment.Over a dozen protesters wereinjured during intense clash-es between protesters and thesecurity forces near the gunfi

ght site.The authorities snapped

internet services in Anantnag,

Pulwama and Srinagar dis-tricts soon after the encountertriggered.

Two Armymen were alsoreportedly injured in the ini-tial phase of operation.

This is the secondencounter in south Kashmirarea after the counter-insur-gency operations resumed inthe State following withdraw-al of month-long halt on suchoperations in the wake ofRamzan. Earlier, three Jaish-e-Muhammad terrorists werekilled in an encounter in Tralarea on Wednesday.

In another incident, fourCRPF personnel and as manypolicemen were injured afterunidentif ied terroristsattacked a joint patrollingparty of police and CRPF inTral sub-district of southKashmir.

Security officials saidultras hurled a grenadetowards a joint deploymentinflicting splinter injuries toeight security personnelincluding 4 CRPF jawans.

The injured personnelwere shifted to hospital.

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Lal Bahadur Shastri’s sonand Congress leader Anil

Shastri on Friday said the NDAGovernment should declassifyall documents related to thedeath of the former PrimeMinister to “clear the air onceand for all” around the cir-cumstances of his passing awayin 1966. He was speaking onthe sidelines of the release of aPunjabi translation of the book“Lal Bahadur Shastri: Lessonsin Leadership”, the originalversion of which is in Englishand has been penned by PavanChoudary with anecdotes givenby Anil Shastri.

“We want all documentspertaining to Shastriji’s death tobe declassified,” Anil Shastrisaid here while addressing themedia. The English version ofthe book was earlier released bythe Dalai Lama.

Lal Bahadur Shastri died inTashkent on January 11, 1966,at the age of 61, soon after sign-ing the Tashkent Pact withPakistan. It was maintainedthat Shastri died of cardiacarrest but his family had allegedfoul play. "Many things havebeen said about the way he died,even yesterday a young manwalked to me at Delhi airportand asked me how my father

had died. Family members andcommon public still have sus-picion because the circum-stances in which Shastriji diedwere uncommon...," Anil said.

He said the findings of theRaj Narain Committee, con-stituted in 1977 to look into themysterious death of then primeminister Shastri, should also bemade public. "When BJP was inopposition, one of their majordemands was that the docu-ments related to Shastriji'sdeath be declassified. Today, Iam not asking as a politician,but as a son. Although theyhave been in power for the pastfour years, they have not doneso although files related toSubhas Chandra Bose wererecently declassified.

"If the prime minister cantake a decision on this andrelease the findings of the RajNarain committee report anddeclassify documents related toShastriji's death, I think onceand for all, it would clear theair," Anil said. He said he hadwritten a letter to PrimeMinister Narendra Modi onthis a year back, stating, "thereis doubt in people's mind sur-rounding Shastriji's death andthe only way to clear it is todeclassify the documents". Headded that he was yet to receivea reply.

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As many as 90 Hindus fromPakistan, who had migrat-

ed to the city years ago, wereawarded Indian citizenship bythe district authorities at afunction held here on Friday.

District Collector VikrantPandey handed over the cer-tificates of Indian citizenship,issued in accordance with theprovisions of the CitizenshipAct, 1955, to the 90 applicants.

"In 2016, the Centre haddecentralised the process ofissuing citizenship to theminority communities, such asthe Hindus and the Sikhs, ofPakistan, Bangladesh andAfghanistan," Pandey toldreporters.

Through a gazette notifi-cation issued in December2016, the district collectors ofAhmedabad, Gandhinagar andKutch in Gujarat were givenpowers to confer Indian citi-zenship to the applicants fromthese communities living inGujarat, he added.

"With today's tally of 90,Ahmedabad becomes a leaderamong all the districts in thecountry in awarding such cit-izenship since the newarrangement came into effect,"Pandey said.

"Since 2016, theAhmedabad district collec-torate has awarded citizenship

to 320 people. No other districtin the country has awardedthese many certificates of citi-zenship. Ninety per cent of the320 applicants were fromPakistan, while the rest werefrom Bangladesh," he added.

The collector said sincethese people were now Indiancitizens, they could apply forAadhaar, passport and variousother benefits.

"The names of these citi-zens will also be included in theelectoral rolls," he added.

Those who were awardedcitizenship today thanked theadministration and expressedjoy for finally being able to callthemselves "Indian".

Some of them shared theirexperiences in Pakistan, whichforced them to leave behindtheir businesses and loved onesand come to India on long-term visa.B h a r a t k u m a rKhatwani (35), who used to livein Karachi, said Hindus werean easy target in Muslim-majority Pakistan.

"I have been living heresince 2009. I used to own asuper-store in Karachi, but I

had to migrate here due to thelaw-and-order situation there.Hindus are an easy target there.It is more rampant in smalltowns. Hindus have to hidetheir identity in order to savethemselves in Pakistan," hesaid.

Nanakmal Chandvani,who lived in Badin district ofPakistan till 2010 with his fam-ily, claimed that threats wereissued to Hindus and eventheir children were abducted bythe hardliners.

"I used to run a kirana(grocery) shop there. Unknownpersons used to threaten me bydropping letters at my shop.One day, men armed withKalashnikov rifles stormed intomy house and threatened toabduct my kids. This has hap-pened with many Hindus,"Chandvani, who now works ata textile shop, said.

Meeraben Maheshwari(70), who lived in the Sindhprovince before migrating toIndia years ago, claimed thather daughter was abductedand converted to Islam.

"My daughter was abduct-ed by Muslims, who convertedher. Though I had approacheda court there, she was neverfound. The locals forcibly tookpossession of our house andshop. I was left with no otheroption but migrate here," shesaid.

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Five women working with aNGO were allegedly raped

at gunpoint by a group of atleast five men when they hadgone to Chochang village inJharkhand to create awarenesson migration and human traf-ficking, the police said onFriday.

Initial investigation hasfound that the people behind'Pathalgarhi' (a practice inwhich villagers inscribe varioustenets on huge stone slabs andban outsiders in their area), arebehind the incident in Khuntidistrict on Tuesday, Deputy

Inspector General of PoliceAmol V Homker said.

According to SP AshwiniKumar Sinha, a 11-memberteam of an NGO went to thevillage to perform a street playon migration and human traf-ficking.

A group of men arrived onthe scene and took them to anearby forests at gunpoint

where the crime was perpetu-ated, police said.

The police have identifiedthe culprits and eight peoplewere detained in this connec-tion, he said.

An FIR has been filed andthree teams have been formedto investigate the matter andarrest the culprits, he said.

The police officer said thevictims did not inform theadministration about the inci-dent. They got the informationfrom sources and identified theculprits.

Medical examination ofthe women has been complet-ed, he said.

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Senior BJP leader and RajyaSabha member from

Chhattisgarh Saroj Pandeycalled Rahul Gandhi “mandbuddhi” (slow-witted), whichdrew a sharp rebuke from theOpposition Congress.

Speaking at a gathering onThursday at Durg, Pandey saidthat Gandhi's body languageshowed that he was keen to learn.He went on add that those whowere still learning after the ageof 40 were slow-witted. “Thekind of statements the nationalpresident of the opposition party(Rahul Gandhi) makes is sur-prising,” she said. “The way hebehaves and his body languagesuggest that he is trying to learnbut there is an age for learning.A person who learns after his 40sis called mand buddhi,” Pandeytold the gathering of intellectu-als and other eminent persons.The Chhattisgarh Congress con-demned Pandey's statement andsaid it reflects the BJP's mentality.

"Saroj Pandey is sufferingfrom mental bankruptcy and itis not her fault but that of theRSS-nurtured culture of theBJP," state Congress spokesper-son Shushil Anand Shukla saidin a statement.

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Aweek-long coordinatedpatrol between the navies

of India and Thailand con-ducted in Andaman culmi-nated on Friday, the Armysaid in a statement.

The two armies are alsoscheduled to hold joint militaryexercise in September underthe Bay of Bengal Initiative forMulti-Sectoral Technical andEconomic Cooperation (BIM-STEC) grouping. The multi-nation drill involving thearmies of India, Thailand,Myanmar, Bangladesh, Nepal,Sri Lanka, Bhutan will takeplace in Pune.

The Royal Thailand Navyand the Indian Navy have beenparticipating in theCoordinated Patrol (CORPAT)twice a year since 2005 to keepthis vital part of the IndianOcean Region safe and securefor commercial shipping andinternational trade. The exer-cise commenced on June 16.

The Andaman Sea andadjoining Malacca Straits is

one of the important Sea Lanesof Communication (SLOC).

The Royal Thailand NavalShip HTMS Longlom arrivedyesterday at Haddo Wharf,Port Blair to mark the culmi-nation of the 26th series ofIndia -Thailand CoordinatedPatrol. A Thai naval Dornieraircraft flew in a high-level ThaiNaval delegation led by ViceAdmiral SonukPreampramot,Commander Third Naval AreaCommander of the Thai Navyto INS Utkrosh, Port Blair.

SonukPreampramot alsocalled on Vice Admiral BimalVerma, the Commander-in-Chief the Andaman andNicobar Command yesterday.

Apart from securing thetrade sea route, the coordinat-ed patrol also serves to enhancemutual understanding andinter-operability between thetwo navies. "The CORPAT thusreflects the shared concernsbetween the two countries fora peaceful Indian Ocean for thebenefit of international com-munity," the Navy said in astatement.

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Imphal: The Assam Rifles(AR) seized party drugs wortharound �49 lakh and detaineda person in Manipur'sTengnoupal district today, ARsources said. Based on specif-ic information regarding trans-port of contraband drugs usinga jungle track in Khudengthabivillage, the Assam Rifles troop-ers spotted a man moving sus-piciously with a bag, a pressrelease issued by AR said.Onchecking the individual, theyfound 9,800 party drug tabletscalled ' World is Yours' in thebag. The apprehended personalong with the seized partydrugs were handed over theMoreh police station, it added.

The police on Tuesdaynight had seized a huge quan-tity of heroin and party drugsworth around �40 crore fromthe official residence of thechairman of AutonomousDistrict Council (ADC)Chandel, Lumkhosei Zou inImphal. PTI

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New Delhi: The Chief of Staffof Qatar Armed Forces onFriday visited National DefenceAcademy, Khadakwasla, andthe headquarters of theSouthern Army Command,Pune. A delegation led byLieutenant General (Pilot)Ghanim Bin Shaheen Al-Ghanim, who arrived in Indiaon June 19, also visited the Air

Force Station, Lohegaonyesterday, where they werebriefed by the Air OfficerCommanding, Air ForceStation, Lohegaon. Ghaniminteracted with LieutenantGeneral Manoj Pande, theChief of Staff of the SouthernCommand and they discussedthe best practices being fol-lowed by the two armies.

On June 20, Ghanim hadmet with Admiral Sunil Lanba,who is the also the Chairmanof the Chiefs of StaffCommittee and Air Force ChiefB S Dhanoa here. PTI

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The EnforcementDirectorate (ED) has filed

an application under FugitiveEconomic OffendersOrdinance for declaring VijayMallya a fugitive economicoffender and seeking confisca-tion of his assets worth over�12,500 crore. This is expect-ed to happen under a newFugitive Economic OffendersOrdinance that was passed inApril this year. The ED filed anapplication before a Mumbaicourt under the recently pro-mulgated Fugitive EconomicOffenders Ordinance thatempowers it to confiscate allassets of an absconding loandefaulter.

The application seeks toimmediately confiscate about�12,500 crore assets of Mallyaand his companies, both mov-able and immovable. The EDhas furnished evidences in itstwo charge sheets, filed underthe Prevention of MoneyLaundering Act (PMLA) in thepast, to make a case for seek-ing a fugitive offender tag forMallya from the court. Mallyais contesting these money laun-dering charges in London aspart of India’s efforts to extra-dite him from there and face

the legal system here in con-nection with an overall allegedloan default of over �9,000crore of various banks.

As per the existing processof law under the PMLA, the EDcan confiscate the assets onlyafter the trial in a case finish-es which usually takes manyyears

Mallya is contesting thesemoney laundering charges inLondon as part of India’s effortsto extradite him from there andface the legal system in con-nection with an overall allegedloan default of over �9,000crore of various banks.

As per the existing processof law under the PMLA, the EDcan confiscate the assets onlyafter the trial in a case finish-es which usually takes manyyears.

The Modi Governmentbrought the fugitive ordinanceas “there have been instances ofeconomic offenders fleeing thejurisdiction of Indian courts,anticipating the commence-ment, or during the pendency,

of criminal proceedings,” theGovernment said.

The Fugitive EconomicOffenders Bill, 2018 was intro-duced in the Lok Sabha onMarch 12 but couldn’t be takenup due to logjam in Parliamentover different issues. WithParliament being adjournedsine die, an ordinance wasproposed.

The Union Cabinet onApril 21 approved the ordi-nance and the President gavehis assent to promulgation ofthe same a day later. The ordi-nance makes provisions forspecial courts under thePrevention of MoneyLaundering Act, 2002 todeclare a person as a fugitiveeconomic offender and orderimmediate confiscation ofassets.

“A Fugitive EconomicOffender is a person againstwhom an arrest warrant hasbeen issued in respect of ascheduled offence and whohas left India so as to avoidcriminal prosecution, or beingabroad, refuses to return toIndia to face criminal prose-cution,” the Government said.

Cases of frauds, chequedishonour or loan default ofover �100 crore would comeunder the ambit of this ordi-nance. The ordinance offersnecessary constitutional safe-guards in terms of providinghearing to the person throughcounsel, allowing him time tofile a reply, serving notice ofsummons to him, whether inIndia or abroad and appealbefore the high court.

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In a major setback to investi-gation agencies, Italy has

refused to extradite CarloGerosa, an alleged middlemanin AgustaWestland briberyscandal, saying it did not haveany mutual legal assistancetreaty with India. According toCBI, the agency had approa-ched the External AffairsMinistry, citing provisionsunder which he could be extra-dited to India even in theabsence of legal assistance treatybetween the two countries.

Carlo Valentino Ferdinan-do Gerosa (71), an Italian andSwiss national, was believed tobe a key player in the briberyscandal as the process ofmanipulating the specifica-tions for VVIP helicopter dealallegedly started after a meet-ing between him and cousins offormer IAF chief SP Tyagi,they said.

Interpol had issued a RedCorner Notice against Gerosa,they said. He was apprehend-ed by authorities in Italy on thebasis of the Red Corner Noticein connection with its moneylaundering probe in the �3,600crore AgustaWestland VVIPchoppers deal case.

Gerosa was one of thethree alleged middlemen want-ed in this case and his interro-gation and statement was veryimportant for both the EDand the CBI who were probingthe case.

On January 1, 2014, Indiascrapped the contract withFinmeccanica’s British sub-sidiary AgustaWestland forsupplying 12 AW-101 VVIPchoppers to the IAF overalleged breach of contractual

obligations and charges of pay-ing kickbacks to the tune of�423 crore for securing the deal.

It was alleged that the threemiddlemen, Gerosa, GuidoHaschke and Christian Michel,“managed to” make inroadsinto the IAF in order to influ-ence and subvert its standregarding reducing the serviceceiling of helicopters from6,000 m to 4,500 m in 2005after which AgustaWestlandbecame eligible to supply thedozen helicopters for VVIP fly-ing duties.

The ED and the CBI hadalso issued Letters Rogatory tomultiple countries to gathermore leads and evidence in thiscase. Letters Rogatory arerequests issued by courts on therequest of an investigationagency when it wants infor-mation from another country.

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The Congress has demand-ed a probe into reports

that notes worth �745.58 crorewere deposited in AhmedabadDistrict Cooperative Bank,where BJP chief Amit Shah isa director, within five days ofPrime Minister Narendra Modiannouncing demonetisationon November 8, 2016.

The Congress accusedModi of having “choreo-graphed” demonetisation tobenefit scamsters to converttheir black money and dubbedthe decision as independentIndia’s “biggest scam” thatallowed scamsters convert theirblack money into white.Congress chief Rahul Gandhicongratulated Shah for beingthe director of a bank that won“the 1st prize in conversion ofold notes to new”.

“Congratulations AmitShah ji, Director, AhmedabadDistrict Cooperative Bank, onyour bank winning 1st prize inthe conversion of old notes tonew race �750 crore in 5 days!Millions of Indians whose liveswere destroyed by demoneti-sation, salute your achieve-

ment,” he said on Twitter.He also used the hashtag

“ShahZyadaKhaGaya” alongwith a picture of Shah, whichwas also used by the Congresson its social media handles tohit out at him.

However, just before theCongress made the demand,NABARD issued a statement,saying that the average depositamount in the AhmedabadDCCB was �46,795 peraccount holder, which is lowerthan the average per depositorin 18 DCCBs of Gujarat.NABARD, or National Bankfor Agriculture and RuralDevelopment, is the country’sapex financing agency for insti-tutions that promote ruraldevelopment.

The NABARD statement

also said that during the peri-od 1.60 lakh customers of thebank deposited/exchangeddemonetised notes worth �746crore which was only 15 percent of the total deposits of thebank.

“We expect the PrimeMinister will himself comeforward and give answers onthe charges against Amit Shah,whom he has appointed. Thereshould be an independenttime-bound probe into thisentire scam,” Congress chiefspokesman Randeep Surjewalasaid. The BJP cited theNABARD statement to say thatthe Ahmedabad DCCB wasone of the biggest in the coun-try and that it was not out ofthe ordinary for it to collectsuch an amount.

“PM choreographed thedemonetisation, leaving outwindow for black moneyhoarders to benefit. Nineteenmonths post ‘Modi made dis-aster’ of demonetisation, it isnow officially clear that thisentire exercise was the biggestscam in independent India,indulged to convert its ill-got-ten ‘black money’ into ‘white’!,”he said.

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Like leprosy, lots of mythssurround vitiligo, com-

monly known as ‘leucoderma,’leaving the patients in intenseemotional trauma which some-times prompt them to commitsuicide. As June 25 marksworld Vitiligo Day, dermatol-ogists, however say that thisautoimmune disorder —wherein the immune system ofthe body attacks the healthycells and, in turn, starts affect-ing the body — is a non-con-tagious skin condition and arange of cost-effective treat-ment options are available inthe country itself.

They also stressed on earlytreatment to ensure better andquick results.

While there is no cure forvitiligo, phototherapy or sur-gical treatments can help, andcamouflage creams can be usedto hide the white marks, saidDr Rashmi Sarkar, professor atMaulana Azad Medical CollegeIndian and President,Association of DermatologistsVenereologists and Leprologists(IADVL), Delhi, on Friday.

She pointed out thataround 1-2 per cent of theworld’s population is sufferingwith the condition but it is as

high as 8.8 per cent in India. Ofthese, more than 75 per cent go

through emotional stress andlow self-esteem due to white

patches.“The most common

doubts include fear of diagno-sis, fear of increase in thewhite patches, likelihood oftransmission to close ones,besides developing insecurityand loss of confidence psy-chologically,” added Dr KrishnaDeb Barman, Professor atMaulana Azad Medical Collegeand IVDL secretary.

He explained that inLocalised Vitiligo patientsreport that they have gonewithout developing new patch-es for many years, whileGeneralised Vitiligo is a pro-gressive disease resulting inunpredictable cycles of spread-ing and cycles of stabilitythroughout life.

The cause of Vitiligo is yetto be ascertained. Though itseems to be the result of a com-bination of genetic and envi-ronmental factors, it’s directlynot genetic since it is an auto-immune disease, said DrSomesh Gupta, assistant pro-fessor at the Department ofDermatology and Venereologyat AIIMS.

He said due to disfigure-ment because of white patch-es, the psychiatric morbidityhas been reported 16 per cent-35 per cent of those who were

affected. Number of incidentshas not increased but we aregetting more cases as awarenessis on increase.

Dr Rohit Batra, consul-tant dermatologist , Sir GangaRam Hospital said, “There areplenty of treatment optionsavailable ranging from topicalmedications, phototherapy,including narrow-band UVradiation (NBUVB), immuno-suppressive agents and variousdermatosurgical procedures.These vary from patient topatient as the type of vitiligo,extent of disease; stability andcost effectiveness determinethe type of treatment and out-come.”

Government organisationslike Defence Research andDevelopment Organisation(DRDO) under the UnionDefence Ministry and CentralResearch Institute of UnaniMedicine (CRIUM) of theUnion Ayush ministry too havedeveloped herbal products afterintense research. The DRDOdeveloped poly-herbal drug,‘Lukoskin’, is being sold byDelhi-based AIMILPharmaceuticals while Unaniresearcher Dr MA Waheed hasdeveloped Unani formulationwhich is drawing hugeresponse.

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The Indian officials in theUnited States have estab-

lished contact with theauthorities in the UnitedStates where children of theIndian detainees are beingkept separately at detentioncentres.

“Our Embassy inWashington has establishedcontacts with both the deten-tion facilities. A consularofficial has visited the deten-tion facility in Oregon andanother one is scheduled tovisit the detention facility inNew Mexico. We are moni-toring the situation,” sourcessaid.

According to mediareports, 52 Indians are at adetention centre in Oregonwhile about 45 Indians are atanother detention centre inNew Mexico.

It is learnt that over adozen of them are beingheld at the New Mexico cen-tre for months while the restof the Indians were broughtto the detention centre abouta week ago.

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The Interpol is expected toissue a red corner notice

(RCN) against fugitive dia-mantaire Nirav Modi as theinternational agency is satisfiedwith the documents providedby the CBI which is probing the�13,500-crore PNB scam.

The records the CBI pro-vided to the Interpol includedthe non-bailable warrants issuedby a Mumbai special court andthe details of the charge sheetsfiled in the case etc. The docu-ments were found in order andhave satisfied the Lyon-basedinternational police cooperationagency which is “processing” theCBI’s request, they said.

The sources said theprocess was at an advancedstage and an RCN could beissued today or early next week,unless some last-minute expla-nation was sought, the chancesof which were negligible, theysaid.The sources in the gov-ernment said that a meeting ofthe External Affairs Ministry,the CBI and other investigativeagencies was held to discussNirav Modi’s multiple pass-ports.

The CBI officials said thata June 5 letter, shared byBritain, revealed that the fugi-tive businessman travelled

from US’ John F KennedyInternational Airport toBritain’s Heathrow Airport onFebruary 10, from Frank PaisAirport in Cuba to Heathrowon February 15, fromHeathrow to Hong KongInternational Airport on March15, from there back toHeathrow on March 28 andfrom Heathrow to Charles deGaulle Airport in France onMarch 31.

The CBI had tried to trackthe movements of Nirav Modithrough a diffusion noticeissued through the Interpol onFebruary 15, but it had limit-ed success as only the UnitedKingdom responded to theCBI request, they said.

Nirav Modi managed totravel across several countrieseven after information abouthis passport being revoked bythe Indian Government wasflashed in the Interpol centraldatabase on February 24, theCBI had earlier said.

“After the passport wasrevoked/cancelled by the

External Affairs Ministry, wehad updated this informationin the diffusion notice. Theinformation that Nirav Modi’shas been revoked was provid-ed in the Interpol central data-base, available to all the mem-ber countries, on February 24,”CBI spokesperson AbhishekDayal had said.

He had said the after the‘diffusion’ notice was issued bythe Interpol on the request ofthe CBI, the agency followed itup with six countries whereNirav Modi was suspected tohave fled. The agency request-ed these countries to shareinformation about his where-abouts and movements.

The agency sent thesereminders to the Interpol coor-dination agency of the UnitedKingdom on April 25, May 22,May 24 and May 28. Similarreminders were also sent to theagencies of the US, Singapore,Belgium, the UAE and France,they said. The case pertains tocheating the state-run PunjabNational Bank through fraud-ulent issuance of Letters ofUndertaking and ForeignLetters of Credit worth over $2billion (about �13,500 crore) byNirav Modi and his uncleMehul Choksi, both abscond-ing since the first week ofJanuary.

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Expressing displeasure onthe frequent disruptions in

Parliament, Lok Sabha SpeakerSumitra Mahajan on Fridayobserved that all the acrimo-nious and unruly behaviour ofthe Parliamentarians are close-ly watched by voters and theywould articulate their prefer-ences during elections.

Disapproving of the cre-ation of chaos, she said that theprimary function of Parliamentis to discuss, debate and decideissues concerning the people atlarge and there are severalrules to conduct of the businessof the House in a meaningfulmanner. She also said thatapart from individual MPs,the responsibility of smoothfunctioning of basically lieswith the leaders of the politicalparties.

The Lok Sabha Speakerwas interacting with more than160 students and alumni frompremier institutes like IITs,NLUs, Yale, LSE, Manchesterunder a programme organ-ised by the Vision IndiaFoundation in New Delhi, saidthat hard work, credibility and

purity of purpose are necessaryfor success and endurance inpolitical life. She said thatSpeaker’s Research Initiative(SRI) is organising workshopson different issues, whereimportant information is con-veyed to Parliamentarians toenable them to perform skill-fully and in a better way.

Sharing her experiences asa politician and about her con-stituency at Nehru MemorialMuseum & Library, Mahajansaid that her priority is toensure better connectivity, eco-nomic growth and inclusivedevelopment in Indore. Shereferred to several projects thathave been started over theyears to ensure the develop-ment of the different segmentsof the constituency, including

Rail, Air, and Road connectiv-ity. She particularly referred toher efforts in mainstreamingthe rural areas of Indore.

She underlined that unrulybehaviour is closely watched bythe people who articulate theirelectoral preferences on thebasis of the performance oftheir representatives. She fur-ther said that the uproar in theHouse is not solely due tobehavior of the individualMembers. As the Leaders ofparties owe a greater responsi-bility for articulating the standof their parties on certainissues, she sought their coop-eration so that the debates anddiscussions on crucial issuestake places in a responsible andpeaceful manner.

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Congress president RahulGandhi on Friday consti-

tuted screening committees forpoll-bound States and appoint-ed senior party leaderMadhusudan Mistry as thechairperson of the panel onMadhya Pradesh and RajyaSabha member Kumari Seljafor the post in Rajasthan.

Congress also appointedsenior leader MallikarjunKharge as the party’s generalsecretary in-charge ofMaharashtra. Kharge is theleader of Congress in the LokSabha and replaces MohanPrakash, who ceases to be aparty general secretary.

Party’s chief whip in theRajya Sabha BhubaneshwarKalita will chair the screeningcommittee for Chhattisgarh,while Luizinho Faleiro willhead the same for Mizoram.

A Congress statement saidparty leader VD Satheesan willchair the panel for Odisha. Thepanel will have Jitin Prasadaand Naushad Solanki as mem-bers.

These committees willscreen the party candidatesfor the Assembly elections inthese States and will recom-mend the names of candi-dates, which will finally becleared by the central electioncommittee chaired by theCongress president, it said.

Netta D’Souza and AjayKumar Lallu will be membersof the panel for Madhya

Pradesh and Lalitesh Tripathiand Shakir Sanadi will be partof the Rajasthan committee.

The statement said RohitChaudhary and AshvinbhaiKotwal will be members of thepanel for Chhattisgarh. WhileMadhya Pradesh, Rajasthan,Chhattisgarh and Mizoram goto polls later this year, Odishawill have election early nextyear.

Congress also appointedthree AICC secretaries forMaharashtra. These includeSonal Patel from Gujarat,Ashish Dua from Haryana andSampath Kumar fromTelangana.

Outgoing AICC generalsecretary in charge ofMaharashtra, Mohan Prakash,thanked UPA chairpersonSonia Gandhi and Congresschief Rahul Gandhi after hewas relieved from the post.

Maharashtra PradeshCongress Committee chiefAshok Chavan welcomedMallikarjun Kharge’s appoint-ment as the new AICC GeneralSecretary in charge ofMaharashtra, saying theKarnataka veteran was well-versed with the State politics.

“Maharashtra is an impor-tant State since it sends 48members to the Lok Sabha, sec-ond only to Uttar Pradesh (80seats).

Therefore, Kharge’sappointment shows the seri-ousness with which the partylooks at the State,” said a partyleader.

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To save itself from furtherembarrassment, Uttar

Pradesh Police apologisedafter a photograph of a victimof Hapur lynching beingdragged by a crowd in thepresence of three cops wentviral on social media. Thecops seen in the picture havebeen transferred to PoliceLines, an official said.

Kasim (45) was lynchedafter a minor tiff with a manon a motorcycle in Bachedavillage in Pilakhuwa area onMonday. The biker called hisfriends who then beat upKasim and his friend

Samayuddin.In a tweet, UP Police on

Thursday night apologised forthe incident and said that thethree policemen seen in thepicture have been transferredto Police Lines and an inquiryhas been ordered.

“This picture seems tohave been taken when thepolice reached the spot to shiftthe injured to a police vehicleand because of non-availabil-ity of an ambulance at thatmoment, the victim was unfor-tunately carried this way,” DGPHeadquarters, UP Policetweeted. “Admittedly, thepolicemen should have beenmore sensitive in their con-

duct. Humane concerns gotignored in the urgency of sav-ing a life and maintaining lawand order. As is clear from thepicture the victim was rushedto the hospital by policemen ina UP100 PRV (police van),” itadded.

The Hapur police claimedthat Kasim and his friendwere assaulted after a scufflewith some men from a neigh-bouring village. The policeregistered a murder case andarrested two persons. “Therewere rumours of cow slaugh-ter but they have not beenfound to be true in the inves-tigations so far,” SP of Hapur,Sankalp stated.

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Ten days after he fled theorange city after allegedly

killing a BJP worker and his fourfamily members, the crimebranch sleuths of the Nagpurpolice arrested Vivek GulabPalatkar from Ludhiana inPunjab and booked him for themultiple murders.

Confirming Palatkar’s arrestlate on Thursday, a senior Crimebranch official said on Fridaythat the absconding accused wastracked to a slum in Ludhianawhere he was holed up afterfleeing Nagpur soon after heallegedly murdered KamlakarMotiram Pawankar and fourmembers of his family.

Kamalakar (52), his wifeArchana (45), mother Meerabai(73), daughter Vedanti (12) and

nephew Krishna (5) were foundbrutally murdered in theirArdhana Nagar residence inNagpur on June 10. They hadbeen attacked and killed by theassailant using a sharp andheavy object. The gruesomemurders had taken place whenthe five members of Kamlakar’sfamily were asleep.

Palatkar, who was broughtto have confessed to multiplemurders, is being brought toNagpur from Ludhiana.

Kamlakar’s brother-in-lawPalatkar, whom the Nagpurbench of the Bombay HighCourt had early this year acquit-ted of his wife Savita’s murder bygiving him a benefit of doubt,had not taken kindly to his sis-

ter Archana refusing to takeaway his children Kamlakars'home. Archana was taking careof Palatkar’s his son Krishna anddaughter Vaishnavi after the lat-ter’s arrest in connection withhis wife’s arrest.

Palatkar had issues withhis brother-in-law Kamlakarover money amounting to near-ly Rs 5 lakh that he had bor-rowed for fighting his case in thehigh court but had not returned.What made matters complicat-ed was his sister Archana’srefusal to hand back to Palatkarhis children, after the latter’sacquittal in his wife’s murdercase.

Apart from being a small-time businessman dealing in

property and mobile phonerepairing business, Kamlakarwas a local BJP leader.

After the multiple mur-ders, the needle of suspicion hadturned towards Palatkar as hismotor-bicycle was found nearthe slain Kamlakar’s residenceafter the gruesome murders.

The investigations haverevealed that Palatkar had fledNagpur and shifted his base toLudhiana, where he had takenup a job and was staying in aslum.

Following Palatkar’s arrest,the investigators are trying toascertain if more number ofpersons were involved in thekilling of Kamlakar and hisfour family members.

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Even as UP Public ServiceCommission is struggling

to conduct Provincial CivilService (Main) exams of 2017,it’s set to announce the sched-ule for holding UP PCS(Prelim) exams for 2018.

On June 19, the Hindipaper of PCS (Main), 2017 wascancelled as wrong questionpaper was distributed amongexaminees in Allahabad. Freshdates were yet to be announcedfor the re-examination.

Candidates and coachinginstitutions in Allahabad havedemanded that theCommission should first set itshouse in order then proceedwith conducting the PCS, 2018exams.

Official sources said thatthree incidents of questionspaper leak of PCS (Main)exam, 2017 indicate towards adeeper conspiracy to not onlyderail the exam process butalso influence the ongoingCBI probe into the recruitmentscam during the previous SPregime.

In the first incident, ques-tion papers were less thanrequired which led to strongprotest by the candidates inAllahabad. In second incident,wrong Hindi paper was dis-tributed in Allahabad leading

to cancellation of GeneralHindi and Hindi essay paper.In the third incident, a rumourspread that Social Work paperwas available on social mediasite Whatsapp.

Official sources main-tained that the three incidentscould not be coincidental andthere was some conspiracyand involvement of officersand employees of UP PublicService Commission could notbe ruled out.

The PCS (Main) exam,2017 is being held at 11 centresin Lucknow and 17 inAllahabad and would be heldtill July 6.

On June 19, the Hindiexam was cancelled as wrongquestion paper was distributed.It was later cancelled as the sec-ond section of the paper wasdistributed in the first half atGovernment Inter College,Allahabad.

“The date of conductingcancelled exams would beannounced later. Rest of theexams would take place as perpre-announced schedule,”UPPSC secretary Jagdish said.

With less than two monthsleft for the 2018 exam, it isexpected that a notificationwould be issued by UPPSCprobably by June end. It wouldalso be published by regionaland national dailies.

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Multilateral finance anddevelopment agency -

Asian Development Bank(ADB) presented a mega infra-structure investment plan forthe development of 19 districtsacross six regions of UttarPradesh with an estimatedinvestment of Rs 1.5 lakh crore.The plan includes industrialpark infrastructure, urbandevelopment, power, logistics,road, railway and airport inBundelkhand, Central,Eastern, Northern, SouthWestern and Western regionsof the state.

The ADB identified 242multi-sectoral projects for thesix zones. The agency said as

per needs investment for roadinfrastructure will be enhancedby 50 percent, urban areas by14 percent, 14 percent for rail-ways and airports, 11 percentfor logistics, 7 percent forindustrial park infrastructureand one percent for power sec-tor.

The draft report presentedby ADB to UP governmentemphaszised on the need foraddressing problems of region-al disparity and increasingcontribution of manufacturingin Gross State DomesticProduct (GSDP).

The report also recom-mended for promoting high-value added jobs in organizedsectors. Districts identified byADB are Gautam Buddh Nagar

(Noida), Ghaziabad, Meerut,Saharanpur, Aligarh, Agra,Ferozabad, Kanpur, Unnao,Lucknow, Sonbhadra,Allahabad, Varanasi,Gorakhpur, Amroha, Bijnor,Moradabad, Jhansi andChitrakoot.

The industries identifiedby ADB for promotion inorganized sector for creatingnew jobs are food processing,beverages, leather and relatedgoods, basic metals, fabricatedmetal products, chemicals elec-tronics, garments, automobilespare parts and Glass products.

For the leather industry,the ADB recommended thatfor promoting export of leatherproducts industrial cluster withcommon infrastructure like

central effluent treatment plantand branding support bedeveloped.

The ADB estimated thatshare of UP in production ofelectronic goods and componentin India was 27 percent, whichhad the potential of beingincreased up to 41 percent.

There is huge scope fordevelopment of dairy as of thetotal milk produced in thestate, only 30 percent goes toorganized sector or dairyindustry. It said that there wasneed for developing moredairies for milk processing.The ADB said for Micro, Smalland Medium Enterprises(MSME), a cell dedicated to itscause be developed to lookafter development of MSME

and cluster development,.The ADB report was pre-

sented to Chief Secretary RajivKumar on Thursday. The ADBhas so far presented 177 con-sultation papers to the stategovernment where it identifiedpossible hurdles and gaps andrecommended for making suit-able changes in policies andregulatory mechanism.

The ADB suggested to UPgovernment to remove thehurdles and gaps in institu-tional mechanism so as tomeet the objectives of `UPIndustrial Investment andEmployment PromotionPolicy, 2017’ announced by theYogi government soon aftercoming to power in March2017.

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An enquiry setup to assessthe damage to a bungalow

alloted to former ChiefMinister Akhilesh Yadav anddocument missing articles andfittings of Estate department,failed to gain steam as the offi-cer heading the probe went onleave citing health reasons.

The incident created ahuge controversy after Estatedepartment escorted mediapersons to 4, VikramadityaMarg bungalow allotted toAkhilesh Yadav as former CMand detailed how theSamajwadi Party chief dam-aged the entire house and tookaway costly fittings, tiles etcbefore vacating the house.Akhilesh was forced to vacatethe bungalow on the directionsof Supreme Court.

Akhilesh’ father MulayamSingh Yadav along with formerCMs including Union Homeminister Rajnath Singh,Mayawati, ND Tewari, andKalyan Singh also had to vacatetheir respective bungalows.

After orders were issued bythe UP government, the PWDset up a five-member com-mittee headed by ChiefEngineer (Housing) in PWD,Sudhanshu Kumar on Tuesdaylast and initiated a probe toassess the total loss inflicted tothe bungalow by Akhilesh.

In the process, Head ofPWD, VK Singh took outanorder that the enquiry wouldbe overseen by PrincipalEngineer (planning anddesign) AK Sharma.

Besides Kumar, the com-mittee also included MD ofNirman Nigam, Rajan Mittal,

Chief Architect and engineersof Electrical and Civil wing.

However, f inding theprobe too hotto handle as itconcerfned a former CM,Kumar proceded on medicalleavea day after being asked tohead the probe. As Mittal wassenior to Kumar, it was decid-ed that he would be replacedby someone else so that probecould start.

When contacted on Friday,VK Singh said that he was notaware of the development inthe probe as it was being over-seen by Sharma. Interestingly,Sharma too avoided mediacontactand was not availablefor his comments on Friday.Sources said that the probe wasyet to start and officers werewaiting to gauge the mood oftheir political bosses beforemaking any headway.

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Chief Minister YogiAdityanath has started

making waves in the socialmedia as support poured infor the campaign`#Yogi4development’ withpeople appreciated UPGovernment for its pro-people decisions.

The twitteratiremained busy today asmajor part of the day theYogi and# Yo g i 4 D e v e l o p m e n tremained the most soughtafter hashtag.

G o v e r n m e n tspokesman AwanishAwasthi said in a statementthat #Yogi4developmentwas seen by over 10 crorepeople in just six hours onFriday and it had a reach ofover 6.5 crore people.

“The high point is thatpeople mentioned#Yogi4Development in1,37,632 tweets while over16.87 lakh people re-tweet-ed it. This is not all as 19.87lakh people l iked it ,”Awasthi said in a writtenstatement.

He said that develop-ment steps being taken bythe Yogi government haswon laurels across thecountry. “The state hadbagged number one posi-tions in several schemesincluding Pradhan MantriUrban Housing Schemes,Pradhan Mantri GraminAwas Yojana, food grainproduction, potato pro-duction, SwachchataMission, sugarcane pro-duction, wheat production,Ujjawala scheme andSaubhagya Scheme,” hesaid.

As per records UttarPradesh accounts for 20per cent of total food grainproduction in India. In thefiscal 2017-18 over 577lakh meteric ton of foodgrain was produced. UttarPradesh produces 50 percent of total sugar caneproduced in India. Over1707 metric ton of sugar-cane was produced in2017-18.

In wheat productionUttar Pradesh’s share standsat 35 per cent of totalIndia’s production. In milkproduction Uttar Pradesh’sshare is 291 lakh metriclitre. This is 16 per cent ofthe total milk productionin 2017-18.

“These steps will fur-ther accelerate the pace ofdevelopment in UttarPradesh,” Awasthi, who isalso Principal SecretaryInformation said.

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The Bombay High Court onFriday admitted a petition

filed by the 2008 Malegaon blastcase accused Lieutenant ColonelPrasad Shrikant Purohit, chal-lenging earlier court verdictsrejecting his pleas for dischargefrom the case.

After a special NationalInvestigating Agency (NIA)court on December 27 last yearrejected his application seekinghis discharge from the 2008Malegaon blast case, Lt Col

Purohit had earlier this yearmoved the Supreme Court andbased on the direction from theapex’s court, he approached theBombay High Court challengingthe earlier verdicts and seekinghis discharge from the case.

Purohit’s contention is thatthe sanction granted by the gov-ernment to prosecute him in thecase, “was wrong in law”. He hadalso questioned the manner inwhich a prior sanction wasgranted for his prosecution, apre-requisite for his trial in viewof the fact that he was a servingArmy officer at the time.

On January 17, 2009, thissanction was issued by theAdditional Chief Secretary of theMaharashtra Home Department.

Purohit’s lawyer ShrikantShivde has contended that underthe Unlawful Activities(Prevention) Act (UAPA), thestate law and judiciary depart-

ment, which is the sanctioningauthority, had to constitute anappropriate authority and seek itsreport first.

Shivde, in the plea field onbehalf of his client, has arguedthat the sanction for Purohit wasgranted in January 2009 but theauthority was appointed only inOctober 2010, he has argued.Hence, the sanction in Purohit’scase thus, was not valid under theprovisions of the UAPA andhence, the courts couldn’t havetaken cognisance of the chargesagainst him.

At Friday’s hearing, a HCbench of Justices Ranjit Moreand Anuja Prabhudesai, admit-ted Purohit's petition and notedthat arguments over the sanctiongranted for the latter’s prosecu-tion would be heard from July16.

Advocate Sandesh Patil,counsel for the NIA that had ear-lier had earlier opposed Purohit’splea, argued that as per proce-

dure, Purohit must file a freshplea before the special courtseeking discharge on the point ofsanction.

On its part, the HC benchalso suggested that the NIArefrain from proceeding with thetrial in the special court until theissue of sanction vide Purohit’splea was decided by the highcourt.

Patil, however, told the courtthat while the special NIA courtwas to frame charges againstPurohit in the case on Friday, itwas unlikely that the Specialcourt would go ahead with thetask as it wasn’t “ready yet”.

On December 27, 2017, aSpecial NIA court had droppedcharges under the stringentMaharashtra Control ofOrganised Crime Act(MCOCA) against SadhviPragya Singh Thakur, Lt ColPrasad Purohit and five other keyaccused in the much-discussedcase.

However, Additional

Sessions Judge SD Tekale reject-ed the applications of keyaccused Sadhvi Pragya, Purohit,Sameer Kulkarni, RameshUpadhyay and SudhakarDwivedi for discharge from thecase.

The seven accused againstwhom MOCCA charges weredropped, but continue to facecharges under UnlawfulActivities Prevention Act(UAPA) are: Sadhvi Pragya,Purohit, Dwivedi, Major (Retd)Ramesh Upadhyay, SameerKulkarni, Sudhakar Chaturvediand Ajay Rahirkar.

Two other accused RakeshDhawde and Jagdish Mhatrewill be tried under only underthe Arms Act. The Judge, how-ever, discharged three accusedPravin Takalki, Shyamlal Sahuand Shivnarayan Kalsangra fromthe 2008 Malegaon blasts case.

Sadhvi Pragya and Purohitwere among the 11 personscharge-sheeted by the ATS onJanuary 20, 2009, in connectionwith 2008 Malegaon blasts.

It may be recalled that animprovised explosive keptunder the seat of a LMLFreedom motor-bicycle hadexploded between BhikkuChowk and Anjuman Chowk,near Noorani Masjid, atMalegaon in northMaharashtra, on the night ofSeptember 29, 2008, leavingsix persons dead and injuring101 others.

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On the appeal of a non-gov-ernment organisation

(NGO), Governor Ram Naikasked the State Government tomull over the pattern adoptedby Maharastra Government sothat, a State InformationCommissioner (SIC) chouldbe posted in each divisionalheadquarters. Naik dispatcheda letter to AdministrativeReforms department directingto look into the suggestions andsubmit a report for necessaryaction.

Reports said that an NGO- Jagriti Welfare Society, wroteto the Governor suggestingthat that to facilitate the RTI toevery citizen, the UP govern-ment should follow Maharastragovernment where one SIC isposted in every divisional head-quarter of the state.

The NGO said that present-ly 10 posts of SIC and one ofChief SIC was sanctioned in UP

and out of this, eight SIC andone Chief SIC were presentlyposted but they sit in Lucknow.

The NGO reasoned thatsince all top officials sit in thestate capital so activists and gen-eral public seeking RTI replieshave to come to Lucknow topursue appeals against delaywith InformationCommissioners.

The NGO said that if likeMaharastra, SICs were postedat divisional headquarters, thenmaking appeal under the RTIwould become easier andmoney and time of governmentofficers could also be saved.Under the present set-up,Information Officers of variousdepartments claim Traveli andDearness Allowance for comingto Lucknow and attend appeals.

Sources said that GovernorRam Naik after going throughthe request wrote to the stategovernment to look whetherthe Maharastra model was fea-sible in Uttar Pradesh or not.

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Pro-quota Patidar agitatorHardik Patel and OBC

rights activist turned CongressMLA Alpesh Thakor weredetained by police after theythreatened to lock office ofAhmedabad District EducationOfficer over the issue of givingadmission to underprivilegedstudents in a private schoolunder Right to Education Act.

Before visiting DEO office,Patel and Thakor went toUdgam School situated in aposh locality of Ahmedabadwith a couple of children to seekclarification about their admis-sion. Being CBSE affiliated theschool authorities claimed thatas the kids were below age of sixyears, they could not be admit-ted to Class 1.

According to HardikCongress led UPA governmenthad brought Right to EducationAct for economically weakerstudents. Earlier both had goneto the school and the schoolauthority gave in writing thatunder RTE they would giveadmission in senior KG.However they required to giveadmission in Class 1, but theauthority denied, said Pateladding that eventually theydecided to lock DEO office forthe proper implementation ofRTE.

The CBSE law is that chil-dren of 6 years can be admit-

ted to Class 1, but state lawsuggests that a 5-year-oldchild should be given admis-sion in Class 1, said Thakoradding that the school said thecase is in the court but whatabout education of children ifcourt takes six months todeliver its judgment. Heclaimed that more than 30,000student are yet to be givenadmission in different schoolsacross the state.

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The statement on law andorder in Tamil Nadu by Pon

Radhakrishnan, Union Ministerof State For Finance, SurfaceTransport and Shipping theother day at Chennai has led toa war of words between the rul-ing AIADMK and the BJP.

Speaking to reporters atChennai on Wednesday,Radhakrishnan had repeatedhis stand that Tamil Nadu hasbecome a haven for terrorists,extremists and anti-national ele-ments. “The agitation held bythese elements at Marina Beachin January 2017 demanding theconducting of Jallikkattu (tam-ing of bulls) over riding theSupreme Court order was thebeginning of anti-national activ-ities in the State. Then we had

many such agitations demand-ing the cancellation of themethane gas extraction projectat Mannargudi, shale gas extrac-tion project at Neduvasal and theagitation demanding the can-cellation of the proposed NutrinoObservatory at Theni. The anti-Sterlite agitation which culmi-

nated in police firing resulting inthe death of 13 persons was thelatest incident of these anti-national activities,”Radhakrishnan.has said.

Marudhu Alaguraj, chiefeditor, Namathu PuratchiThalaivi Amma, the officialmouthpiece of the AIADMK,said Radhakrishnan’s charge wasnothing but a political statement.“He wats to stay in the limelightand hence the statement. Thereis no semblance of truth in whathe has said,” Alaguraj told ThePioneer. He said the law andorder in Tamil Nadu was goodand nobody would be able topoint out any discrepancies inthe same.

“Radhakrishnan, whilealleging that Tamil Nadu hasbecome a safe haven for terror-ists and extremists is forgetting

the fact that law and order is theresponsibility of the State and theCentre. The TN Government isdoing its best to keep the State asa garden of peace and happiness.Could we tell the same aboutother States? Let him furnish theexact details with evidence thatthe State is home to terrorists annextremists. The statements he ismakings are only to get cheappublicity and without checkingfacts,” said Alaguraj.

D Jayakumar, Tamil NaduMinister for Fisheries and theofficial spokesman of theGovernment had lambasted theUnion Minister for his charges.“Radhakrishnan is forgettingthe fact that he is a UnionMinister and is speaking like aman in the street,” retortedJayakumar.

Interestingly, the war of

words between the AIADMKand the BJP comes at a timewhen all political outfits in theState portray the parties as allies.MK stalin, working president ofthe DMK always allege that theEdappadi Palaniswamy-ledAIADMK Government was con-tinuing in office with the “activeconnivance” of the BJP. “The BJPis trying to enter Tamil Nadupiggy riding the AIADMK,” saidStalin. But the ground realitiesare different according to CMEdappadi Palaniswamy. “Thepolicy of AIADMK has been tomaintain cordial ties with theparty ruling the Centre so as toget protect the interests of theState. This was taught to us byparty founder MGR and Amma( Jayalalithaa, the late CM). Weare following the same guide-lines,” said Palaniswamy.

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Making a prompt move inthe absence of any confir-

mation of scheduled “politicalmeetings at the appropriatelevel from the other side”, BengalChief Minister MamataBanerjee on Friday called off herChina visit hours before she wasto take the plane to Beijing.

According to inside reportsthe Chief Minister who washeading an Indian delegation tothe neigbouring country forengagements both at “political”and business levels canceledthe trip as “visiting Shanghaionly and not engaging eachother politically would be futile.”

State Finance Minister AmitMitra said in consequence of arequest from the ExternalAffairs Minister Sushma Swarajto lead an Indian delegation toChina, Banerjee had agreedand offered to visit that countrysometime in June.

However, she had to call offthe tour on Friday as “political

meetings at the appropriatelevel were not confirmed by theChinese Government despitereminders from our side andsincere efforts made by theIndian Ambassador and theExternal Affairs Department,”Dr Mitra said adding bothSushma Swaraj who was cur-rently abroad and ForeignSecretary VKGokhale had beeninformed about the cancellationof Banerjee’s visit to China.

The Chief Minister latertweeted, “till yesterday every-thing was going well. But theChinese side could not confirmthe political meetings at appro-priate level as informed by ourAmbassador in China.”

“In March this year theUnion Minister of ExternalAffairs had recommended tome to kindly consider leading adelegation to China in the com-ing months under the ExchangeProgramme of the Governmentof India with the InternationalDepartment of the CommunistParty of China,” Banerjee wrote

on the FB adding “I mentionedto her (Swaraj) that since theinterest of my country isinvolved, I wish to visit Chinasometime during the last weekof June.”

She added, “it has been inti-mated by our Ambassador toChina that political meetings atthe appropriate level under theexchange programme could notbe confirmed. Therefore, thepurpose of my visit with a del-egation to China under theexchange programme is of nouse.”However she wished “thecontinuation of the friendship ofIndia and China in the days tocome” and “it should strength-en further in the interest of theboth the countries.”

On whether the cancella-tion of the visit could impactbusiness opportunities betweenChina and India (read Bengal)as there were talks of someChinese investment in this partof the country post Banerjee’svisit, State Government sourcesrefused comment.

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Famous shrine of Baba DalipSingh Manhas, popularly

known as Baba Chamliyal, hasonce again fallen victim to theongoing border tension betweenthe two neighboring countries -India and Pakistan.

In view of the prevailingsecurity situation and growing'mistrust' between the borderguards, the district administra-tion in Samba has decidedagainst organising annual fair atthe shrine located metres awayfrom the International border.

At the peak of hostilities dur-ing Kargil war the annual fair wasnot organised in 1999.

Additional DeputyCommissioner, Samba Tilak RajSharma Friday told reporters, inview of prevailing security situ-ation along the Internationalborder it is not advisable toendanger lives of thousands ofdevotees who throng the shrineevery last Thursday of June". Thisyear the annual fair was due onJune 28.

Sharma said we had request-ed BSF to give their assessmentreport in the wake of selectivetargeting of BSF soldiers in the

same area. Four BSF personnel includ-

ing an Assistant commandantwere martyred in cross borderfiring in the same area on June12-13.

According to ADC, SambaBSF submitted in its report thattension is prevailing along theInternational border hence it isnot advisable to hold annual fairand endanger lives of devotees".

Every year large number ofdevotees converge at the shrineto find cure for their chronic skinailments as well as per the pop-ular legend.

After performing the ritualsin their own land the men in uni-form from both the countriesgather at the zero line along theInternational border in Ramgarhsector and exchange holy clothwith trolleys of shakkar-sharbat.

The original shrine of BabaChamliyal is located inside theIndian territory in village cham-

liyal and its replica is built bydevotees of Baba Chamiyal in vil-lage Saidawali in Pakistan afterthey were disallowed to enterIndian territory following 1971war.

Both the shrines are sepa-rated by imaginary line of bor-der but devotion and sentimentsof Baba chamliyal’s worshippersare similar on both sides of theborder.

As per the legend the orig-inal shrine is over 300 years oldand was built by devotees of Babachamliyal after his supreme sac-rifice. The shrine remained non-descript till BSF men occupiedthe area and renovated the place.

For past several years thePakistani rangers have not beenvisiting the shrine located insidethe Indian territory in villagechamliyal but they hand overholy cloth,’ chaddar’ to the BSFauthorities at the zero line to beplaced inside the sanctum sanc-torum.In return the BSF menhand over Shakkar-Sharbat(mudand holy water of the well) intractor trolleys for distributionamong devotees in Pakistan.

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Two days after the imposi-tion of Central rule in

Jammu & Kashmir, GovernorNN Vohra on Friday soughtcooperation from all stake-holders for the restoration ofpeace and tranquility to enablespeeding up of developmentalactivities.

The Governor held a meet-ing with representatives of polit-ical parties of the State at RajBhawan and asked them to joinhands in bringing the State outof the present morass. He urgedthem to motivate the youth toshun the path of violence andconcentrate on their educationand future careers.

The Governor held wideranging discussions on issuesrelated to internal security, lawand order, development, edu-cational problems, the ensuingShri Amarnath Yatra, besidesthe political scenario which

has emerged after the imposi-tion of Governor’s Rule.

Former Chief Minister andVice President NationalConference Omar Abdullah,Congress state president GulamAhmad Mir, BJP leader SatSharma, PDP leader DilawarMir, panther’s Party chairmanHarsh Dev Singh and formerminister Ghulam Hassan Mirwere among prominent leaderswho attended the meeting andexchanged ideas on the presentsituation in the state.

An official spokesman saidthat the leaders put forth theirview points for improving thelaw and order situation on theground and suggested mea-sures in this regard. They unan-imously expressed their supportto the Governor for restoringlasting peace in the State by tak-ing into confidence all sec-tions of the society. Theyemphasized the need for theadministration to work in a

neutral, transparent andaccountable manner, comple-tion of important pendingdevelopment projects in the dif-ferent regions of the State.

Advisors to Governor,Bharat Bhushan Vyas and KVijay Kumar, Chief Secretary,BVR Subrahmanyam, PrincipalSecretary to Governor, UmangNarula and Principal SecretaryPlanning & Development,Rohit Kansal were also presentin the meeting.Earlier, formerchief minister and PDPPresident Mehbooba Mufticalled upon Vohra and con-veyed her concern over the pro-tection of the state’s specialstatus and pursuance of Rasanarape and murder case of 8-yeargirl, with all seriousness andprofessionalism. She alsorequested the Governor thatfear, panic, and harassmentshould be avoided and therights of the peaceful citizens ofthe state are protected.

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Encouraged by the success ofreducing dropout rate in pri-

mary schools to as low as oneper cent, the GujaratGovernment has decided totake the ‘transition rate’ fromClass-VIII to Class-IX to 100per cent, said Chief MinisterVijay Rupani while launchingthe state-wide ‘ShalaPraveshotsav’ – school enrol-ment campaign for urban areasof the state.

Rupani said his govern-

ment is completely committedto Right to Education to ensurenot a single eligible student isdeprived of admission to ClassIX. “The government is creat-ing modern educational facili-ties, be it in towns or villages, orin remote tribal areas. The gov-ernment allocates crores ofrupees to add 1.25-lakh class-rooms, and equipping schoolswith computers, library andlaboratories,” said CM Rupaniadding that the Gyan KunjProject is to provide privateschool-like facilities such as

digital classroom and smartclasses for in governmentschools for children from poorand middle class families.

On the occasion the ChiefMinister appealed to theguardians to treat this two-dayschool admission drive as a fes-tival. He said education preparesa child to be future citizen use-ful to build a nation. He laud-ed the contribution of founderof Sarva Vidyalay at Kadi, lateManekbhai, and donors forinculcating culture among stu-dents and social responsibility.

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The State Government hasplans to set up pilgrim cen-

tre at Garhmukteshwar of Hapuron the lines of Haridwar.Garhmuketshwar has the samesignificance for locals asHaridaw for the rest of thecountry.

The town on the banks ofGanga is proposed to be devel-oped for eco-tourism, adventuretourism along with the avail-ability of other facilities like riverrafting and boating in order topromote tourism.

A presentation in this regardwas made before Chief SecretaryRajiv Kumar on Friday. TheChief Secretary said that con-sidering the convenience of pil-grims coming toGarhmukteshwar, bathing ghatsshould be developed on bothsides of Ganges. Kumar said thatthe project for Garhmukteshwar

whould also include develop-ment and promotion of localhandicrafts and construction ofraft markets, craft museum,arrangements to organize hand-icraft workshops. For the com-fort of pilgrims visitingGarhmukteshwar, Ganga Haatand Tourist Centre, HeritageWalks, development of ecolog-ical park in Alamgirpur whouldbe included in the proposal. Healso directed officials to initiateaction regarding the foundationof wellness resort in KhandavForest Adventure camp underAyush Wellness Village.Additional Chief Secretary,Tourism and InformationAvnish Kumar Awashthi andother senior officers of con-cerned departments were pre-sent during the meeting. TheChief Secretary also directed forinspection of the developingwork of various projects costingRs 500 crore.

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The Chairman, Animal WelfareBoard of India, SP Gupta, didwell to refer, at a Press confer-ence on June 14, to reports thatanimals were being thrown out

of Smart Cities, and say that the AnimalWelfare Board of India (AWBI) has takenthe initiative to ensure that such cities wereanimal-friendly and did not remove ani-mals that were an important part of civi-lized society. He reportedly further rea-soned that if the Smart Cities plan couldprovide for parks, shopping complexes, res-idential and commercial areas, “then whyshould it not have place for animals?”Stating that animals had to live in the cities,Gupta added, “We will take stringentaction” if animals were driven out “whileestablishing Smart Cities.”

Gupta’s announcement was most com-mendable, as was his assertion that no citywas complete without animals. In respect ofstray dogs, however, his proposal for settingup hostels/shelters in these cities need to bevery carefully harmonized with the imple-mentation of the Animal Birth Control pro-gramme which the AWBI has adopted on anational scale with the twin objectives of erad-icating rabies in the country by 2020 and opti-mizing the management of dog populations.Its Revised Module for Street Dog PopulationManagement, Rabies Education, ReducingMan-Dog Conflict states, “The AnimalBirth Control (ABC) Program is mandatedby the Animal Birth Control (Dogs) Rules,2001. The Supreme Court and several HighCourts have, in their judgments, emphasizedon the need for implementation of the ABCRules, 2001, in letter and spirit.”

The programme, in its essentials, pro-vides for catching stray dogs in a humanemanner, neutering them and vaccinatingthem against rabies, and releasing them in theplaces from which they had been picked up.The importance of returning them to theiroriginal habitats can never be overstated. Dogsare territorial. Those living in one area willnot allow dogs from other areas to come in.That is why one notices that each area has itsown resident stray canines with very rareadditions to their ranks. With sterilized andvaccinated dogs returned to their areaskeeping unsterilised and unvaccinated dogsout, the authorities implementing the ABCprogramme can progressively move into otherareas, leaving each to be guarded by steril-ized and vaccinated dogs. Proceeding area byarea they can cover an entire city or countrywithin a pre-fixed period — returning onlyoccasionally to areas already covered to takecare of sundry unsterilised and unvaccinat-ed dogs that might have sneaked in.

If dogs from an area, say XYZ, are killedor relocated, dogs from other areas will movein. Those conducting the ABC programmewill then have to return to XYZ, where thenewcomers, with no other takers for the

resources of the area, will have proliferatedrapidly, and begin neutering all over again.Indeed, the experience of XYZ will berepeated in all other areas and the exerciseof sterlising and vaccinating stray dogs willhave to be carried on indefinitely.

Not surprisingly, Dr K. Bogel, ChiefVeterinary, Public Health, Division ofCommunicable diseases, World HealthOrganization (WHO), Switzerland, andJohn Hoyt, then President, World Society forthe Protection of Animals (WSPA), as wellas the Humane Society of the United States(HSUS), made this clear in their joint pref-ace to the Guidelines for Dog PopulationManagement (Henceforth Guidelines),released by the WHO and WSPA in May1990. They stated, “All too often, authoritiesconfronted by problems caused by these[stray] dogs have turned to mass destructionin the hope of finding a quick solution, onlyto find that the destruction had to continue,year after year, with no end in sight.”

According to the Guidelines, killing waspracticed in the past to a large extent “sim-ply because knowledge of the compositionand dynamics of dog populations” as well as“crucial data on the density, composition andturnover of dog population” were lacking”.These add, “Removal and killing of dogsshould never be considered as the most effec-tive way of dealing with the problem of sur-plus dogs in the community: It has no effecton the root cause of the problem, which isover-production of dogs.

Of course, far from advocating thekilling or removal of stray dogs, theChairperson, AWBI, had asserted at his press

conference on June 14, “We will take strin-gent action” if animals were driven out “whileestablishing Smart Cities.” Unless, however,clarified carefully, Governments and local self-governing institutions like municipalities mayinterpret his talk of providing hostels/shel-ters for animals, including stray dogs, as a callfor setting up pounds for incarceratingthem. Besides being worse than death for freeroaming strays, such a step will be disastrousfor the implementation of the ABC pro-gramme, which cannot succeed if neuteredand vaccinated dogs are not released at theplaces from which they had been picked up.

There is another aspect. Stray dogs thatare familiar with their surroundings,know who is a friend and who is not, whatspells danger, places where food and shel-ter are available, and have referral house-holds that support them, are at peace withtheir environment. In contrast, stray dogsmoving into a new area are often aggres-sive because they are under attack fromlocal dogs, cannot distinguish betweenfriend and foe, do not know where they canfind food and shelter and are hencealways on the edge.

The proposed hostels/ shelters should befor stray dogs that are too old and/or ill tofend for themselves, and puppies that havebecome separated from their mothers. Tryingto herd all stray dogs in these will have dis-astrous consequences. The ABC programmeconstitutes the only effective and humanemethod of controlling stray dog populations.In its report, Technical Report Series 931,WHO’s Expert Consultation on Rabies,which met in Geneva from October 5 to 8,

2004, states: “Since the 1960s, ABC pro-grammes coupled with rabies vaccinationhave been advocated as a method to controlurban street male and female dog populationsand ultimately human rabies in Asia. Therationale is to reduce the dog populationturnover as well as the number of dogs sus-ceptible to rabies and limit aspects of maledog behaviour (such as dispersal and fight-ing) that facilitate the spread of rabies. Theculling of dogs during these programmes maybe counterproductive as sterilized, vaccinat-ed dogs may be destroyed.”

Unfortunately, the Module cited above,points out, “Though the Animal BirthControl (Dog) Rules were notified in 2001,they are still not mass implemented with theseriousness they deserve. Hence, they needto be systematically implemented andenforced across the country, in a plannedphase-wise manner in each state. Sporadicunplanned efforts do not ordinarily show thedesired results.” The AWBI’s first task wouldbe to ensure the programme’s large-scale,India-wide implementation. For this tohappen, many more neutering centres willhave to be established and a sufficientnumber of veterinary surgeons trained in the“side slip” method of neutering bitches, whichinvolves taking the ovaries out through asmall incision in the flank, and which willensure early post-surgery release. All thiswould require a significant increase in theallocation of funds for the ABC programme,and the AWBI should do everything possi-ble to ensure that it comes.

(The writer is Consultant Editor, ThePioneer, and an author)

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Sir — This refers to the report,“What is the roadmap to ensurepeace in J & K? Cong asks Modi”(June 21). It is a funny situationwherein the party that created theKashmir problem and which has notbeen able to bring peace in the Valleyduring its rule at the Centre is nowquestioning the present Go-vernment about the roadmap topeace. The Congress’s misadventuresin the Valley have brought Kashmirto a stage where it has now becomethe worst problem that India is cur-rently facing.

A suitable mix of diplomacy andtoughness of attitude seems to theonly solution. On the Kashmirfront, Congress’s first befriendingSheikh Abdullah in the backdrop ofnot seeing eye to eye with MaharajaHari Singh and then puttingAbdullah in prison a few years lateris a clear example of its flawed pol-icy when it comes to dealing with theregion. The Congress must alsoanswer the question of how theapplication of Article 370 in Jammu& Kashmir gets along with theparty’s much trumpeted idea of aunited India. The Congress mustintrospect its own record.

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Sir — Academic freedom is increas-ingly under assault from authoritar-ian Governments worldwide. Thisassault is usually supported byRight-wing student groups who actas provocateur within them. InIndia, assault on academic freedomranges from curbs on academic and

extracurricular events to brutalassaults on students.

However, the concept of acad-emic freedom is complex and needsto be placed in a wider institution-al context. While academic freedomwas critical to earlier visions of theIndian university, as shown by var-ious commissions on higher educa-tion, it is now increasingly devaluedin favour of administration central-isation and standardisation.Privatisation and the increase in pre-carious has also contributed to theshrinking of academic freedom.

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Sir — This refers to the editorial,“Doing it right” (June 21). Late PaulBrunton, eminent British author ofdelightful spiritual travelogues,writes in his classic “A Search inSecret India” that once when he com-palined about twisting and turningof the body during yoga asanas, hewas told by a Tamil Yogi, “There aremany nerve-centers scatteredthroughout the body, and eachposture affects a different centre.Through the nerves we can influ-ence either the organs of the bodyor the thoughts in the brain. Thosetwists enable us to reach nerve-cen-ters which otherwise might remainuntouched.” This briefly sums up theunique significance of yoga. Giventhe mental stress and physical ail-ments emanating from modernlifestyles, practising yoga is all themore crucial today.

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public domain as to who firstproposed this informal one-on-onemeeting between Prime MinisterNarendra Modi and ChinesePresident Xi Jinping. Retaining secre-cy without being secret is, after all,part of political diplomacy. Modi’svisit to Wuhan to meet Xi, not viceversa, answers this unknown.

Dialogues are a prelude to build-ing consensus on decisions andforming directives in internationalrelations discourse. States in inter-national relations use dialogueforums to their advantage not onlyto put forward ideas through nation-al security idioms but also to marka new beginning in their respectiveforeign policy objectives. TheUlaanbaatar Dialogue (popularly known as UBD), hostedby Mongolia, is one such dialogueforum in which India must aim to intellectually invest in and takepart in to enhance its Northeast Asiaoutreach.

The UBD is a foreign policy pub-lic diplomacy peace initiative by theMongolian Government to debatesecurity issues among experts andscholars in Northeast Asia.Propounded in 2013 by MongolianPresident Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj, theUBD was officially announced at theSeventh Ministerial Conference ofthe Community of Democracy inUlaanbaatar not only to promotepeace but also to offer centrality toMongolia’s outreach in NortheastAsia or Greater Eurasia region. Withthe completion of its fifth round onJune 14-15, 2018, the UBD hasemerged as another dialogue forumin Northeast Asia along the lines ofJeju Forum, which is the architectureof the South Korean Government toaddress Indo-Pacific security andglobal affairs with special focus onthe Korean Peninsula.

Mongolia’s strategic pledge

Considered as Northeast Asia’sGeneva, Ulaanbaatar is emerging fastas a regional security dialogue plat-form in recent years. Mongolia’smain intent behind initiating theUBD is to create an amicable strate-gic ambience in Northeast Asia tomaintain a strategic balance amongall the actors such as China, Russia,Japan, South Korea and North Korea,and the United States.

Mongolia has not only hosted anumber of bilateral meetings amongthe Six-Party Dialogue membersthat were involved in a few years agoto find a solution to the denucleari-sation of the Korean Peninsula, butalso hosted the OSCE ParliamentaryAssembly in September 2015 andASEM Summit in 2016. For India,this is an opportune forum to par-ticipate to advocate Indian interestsin Northeast Asia while solidifyingrelations with Mongolia. GivenIndia’s growing relationship withMongolia, the UBD should be con-sidered as a strategic platform foropen advocacy of foreign policy

positioning and participatory frame-works. This will not only strength-en India’s relations with Mongolia butalso improve India’s image as a for-ward-looking power in the region.

Characterising India-Mongolia ties

India shares a content relationwith Mongolia on various spectra.Prime Minister Narendra Modi’svisit to Mongolia in May 2015brought a new context to India-Mongolia ties, making it the first eversuch visit by an Indian PrimeMinister. The visit marked a “dawnof a new era” in India-Mongolia rela-tions, where the two sides agreed toenhance bilateral ties from a“Comprehensive Partnership” to a“Strategic Partnership”. The pledge tohave a “strategic partnership” cannotbe achieved in a vacuum. Both sidesmust encourage their strategic com-munities to engage in dialogues anddebates that will promote their bilat-eral relations. The Joint Statementreleased during Modi’s visit promis-es to encourage institutional linkagesbetween the two countries. Think-tank interactions, civil society meet-ings and visits of media personnel tobusiness communities must beencouraged at length to strengthenthis much-needed bilateral relation-ship.

Above this bilateral spectrum,India must have an open spectrumof outreach towards Mongolia if New

Delhi envisions having a greater par-taking in the Northeast Asian peacearchitecture. India and Mongoliahave agreed to promote the drive foran “open, balanced and inclusivesecurity architecture” in Asia-Pacific.The onus to promote such architec-ture through bilateral understandingis more on India than Mongolia.Given its strategic positioningbetween the two big powers —Russia and China — Mongolia wouldbe careful in its foreign policyapproach to engage with other pow-ers, including India. Mongolia seesIndia under the purview of its “thirdneighbour” policy. That, however,should not discourage India fromengaging regionally and considerMongolia more intently and pur-posefully as a regional partner. Indiawould require Mongolia’s support inits quest for UN Security Council(UNSC) permanent membership inthe future.

A platform for orthodox belief

India must view the UBD as anintellectual strategic exercise forumto strengthen its outreach inNortheast Asia. One of UBD’s primeobjectives is to uphold peace and har-mony in the region, since Mongoliawants to pursue a neutral and equi-cordial foreign policy towards all themajor powers in the region. ForIndia, the aim, therefore, should beto invest intellectually in the UBD bysending more experts and scholars

who could possibly advocate India’sinterests in Northeast Asia.

Given the geographical distancebetween India and the NortheastAsian region, New Delhi has notreally factored this region as animportant constituency in its ActEast policy. The time has come forIndia to have a progressive approachto engage in intellectual debatesand discussions that would encour-age the countries in the region torealise India’s importance as a power.Northeast Asian security is undertransition with a number of devel-opments such as the Donald Trump-Kim Jong-Un meeting in Singapore,inter-Korean summit, PyeongchangOlympics, and DPRK’s decision tosuspend its nuclear and missile tests.In the light of such developments,India must seek fresh opportunitiesto participate in dialogues and dis-cussions. Given the strategic objec-tions that New Delhi might have toface from China and other countriesin the region, participating official-ly in dialogue forums in North-eastAsia may not always be a practicalproposition. That, however, shouldnot discourage India from seekingnew opportunities and pursuingsmart diplomatic measures thatwould position Indian interests bet-ter. Soft-power strategy is an effec-tive tool in diplomacy.

Channelling greater participation

A more purposeful participation

in the UBD would only exemplifyIndia’s partaking in other NortheastAsian mainstream security dialoguemechanisms. The UBD in someways complements the spirit of theRussia-India-China (RIC) trilateralforum and Shanghai CooperationOrganisation (SCO) and also com-plements the South Korean admin-istration’s Northeast Asia Platformfor Peace and Cooperation(NAPPC). While India’s participationconstitutes an important aspect of theRIC framework, New Delhi’s fullmembership recently in the SCOequally has strengthened Indianoutreach in Central Asia. UnderSouth Korea’s “New Southboundpolicy”, India has been factoredhighly in NAPPC. To take advantageof its growing stature as a power, NewDelhi should consider gettinginvolved and invest intellectually inthe UBD.

South Korea’s NAPPC frame-work involves the US, Japan, China,Russia, North Korea and Mongolia.India is yet to have any credible dia-logue mechanisms or multilateralfora where either DPRK or Mongoliais involved directly. The UBD is aforum where the DPRK has regularlysent its officials and experts to par-ticipate. Participating more inten-sively in the UBD will provide anopportunity for Indian scholars andexperts to get accustomed with themainstream security thinking inNortheast Asia. This is an opportuneperiod for India to expedite further

its strategic reach by connectingstrongly with Mongolia. That meansa multilateral contact with Russia andChina under the RIC and SCO,stronger contacts with South Koreaand an opportunity to capitalize therelationship with Mongolia willsolidify the broader Indian out-reach in Northeast Asia.

Capitalising on infrastructure to energy

India must also ponder overmultilateral security dialogue bothofficially and non-officially.Northeast Asia is currently having anumber of economic collaborativeinfrastructure projects such as AsiaSuper Grid Network, Greater TumenInitiative (GTI), and Trans-Railwayprojects such as theTKR+TSR+TCR+TMGR linkages,inwhich India must officially aimtoparticipate. This will enhance India’sfoothold in the region.

Northeast Asia, which accountsfor almost one-fifth of the world econ-omy, is a key unexplored energy-reserve region. Energy infrastructureis an important area which India mustaim to explore. Prospects for energycooperation have been a dominantdiscussion issue in the UBD. After theFukushima nuclear disaster, theproposition for renewable energythrough the Asian Super Grid (ASG)project is yet to take off. This is onekey project that India must aim tocapitalise for participation, particu-larly given India’s membership advan-tage in bodies like the AIIB, SCO andNew Development Bank (earlierBRICS Development Bank). A pur-poseful participation through thesebodies could be foreseen for energyinfrastructure development andresource exploration in the region. Ata bilateral level, India must seize itsopportunity with Mongolia whereboth sides have forged aMemorandum of Understanding(MoU) on energy resources cooper-ation. The fifth UBD had a special ses-sion on “Prospects of Future EnergyCooperation” too.

To see from an open spectrum,the UBD may appear as just anoth-er dialogue forum in a rapidlychanging Indo-Pacific environmentwhere trilateral, quadrilateral andmultilateral dialogues have been theorder of the day. A smart power strat-egy must employ different spectrumsof engagement. India’s full member-ship in the SCO should also encour-age India to visualise the issue froma wider geopolitical perspective.The time has come to bring a special “north” component toIndia’s East Asia campaigning.Mongolia would fit appropriatelyinto this new endeavour to whichIndia must nurture with care andconstructively.

(The writer is a Fellow andCentre Coordinator for East Asia atInstitute for Defence Studies andAnalyses, New Delhi. He was a speak-er at the fifth UBD)

�������������&������&�����#����,���������������A����&������������Mongolia launched construction of its

first oil refinery on Friday, a long-awaited project that is funded by India anddesigned to end the country’s dependenceon Russian fuel. Friday’s ground-breakingceremony was attended by MongolianPrime Minister Khurelsukh Ukhnaa andIndian Home Minister Rajnath Singh.

The oil refinery, in a remote corner ofthe Gobi Desert, will be capable of pro-cessing 1.5 million tonnes of crude oil peryear, said Mongol Refinery, the state-owned company building the project, ina press release. That is about 30,000 bar-rels per day (bpd).

“From a national security perspective,we do need to diversify our sources of oilproducts from the current single source,Russia,” said Munkhdul Badral Bontoi,chief executive of Mongolia-based marketintelligence group Cover Mongolia.

The refinery’s financing is part of a 20-year $1 billion credit line agreementbetween Mongolia and the Export-ImportBank of India, made during a 2015 visit byPrime Minister Narendra Modi.

“The Indian guarantee is what put theodds in favour of the oil refinery beingfinally built, but the biggest worry here iswhether the oil refinery can pay for itself,”said Munkhdul.

Mongolia hopes the project will boostthe economy and reduce its dependenceon foreign gasoline imports. Mongoliaimported almost 1.5 million tonnes of oilproducts last year, virtually all fromRussia. They amounted to 18 per cent ofall Mongolia’s imports, according to offi-cial data.

The project could boost Mongolia’sgross domestic product by up to 10 percent, according to a Government state-ment. The economy of the landlockedcountry sandwiched between Russia andChina has struggled in recent years and hasbeen propped up by a $5.5 billion IMFbailout.

The refinery will be small by interna-tional standards, with most Chinese facil-ities each processing hundreds of thou-sands of barrels of crude per day, and

India’s Reliance Industries running onerefinery at a record 1.2 million bpd. Still,Mongolia’s new refinery, planned for com-pletion in late 2022, will meet all of thenation’s demand for gasoline, diesel, avi-ation fuel and liquefied petroleum gas.

“By establishing this strategicallyimportant oil refinery, the national econ-omy will become independent from ener-gy imports, and fuel and commodityprices will be stabilised,” said MongolRefinery. The plant will employ 600 work-ers and construction is expected to takefour years. It is expected to produceannually 5,60,000 tonnes of gasoline,6,70,000 tonnes of diesel fuel and 1,07,000tonnes of liquified gas. More than 500 kilo-metres of pipeline will be needed totransport the crude oil from Mongolia’s oilfields in Dornod province.

The cost of the refinery is estimatedat $1.35 billion, and it will include apipeline and its own power plant. Therefinery will process Mongolia’s owncrude oil, which is now sold to China.

Mongolia produced 7.6 million barrelsof oil last year, about 21,000 bpd, amount-ing to 6 per cent of its total export earn-ings. The country’s petroleum industryregulator is expecting its crude oil outputto rise over the years prior to the refinery’sstart-up.

Mongolia’s big southern neighbourChina is currently the recipient of nearlyof Mongolia’s crude oil. China producesaround 3.8 million bpd of crude, andimports more than 9 million bpd, accord-ing to official Government data. Mongoliaimported 1,44,000 tonnes of gasolineworth $97.4 million in the first fivemonths of this year.

A Mongolian oil refinery has been dis-cussed since 1997, but while several pro-jects were approved, none has been com-pleted.

Mongolia has a population of just 3million. Almost half its people live asnomadic stock herders, and the country’soil demand is growing very slowly.

(With inputs from agencies)

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country, Prime MinisterNarendra Modi on Fridaycalled for targeting double-digit GDP growth for breakinginto the $5 trillion economyclub and said India's share inworld trade has to more thandouble to 3.4 per cent.

"The need of the hour isthat we should work towardsachieving the target of doubledigit growth from 7-8 per cent.The world is watching as towhen India will break into the$5 trillion economy club bydoubling its economy," Moditold the reporters while speak-ing after laying the foundationstone of Vanijya Bhawan, a newoffice complex of the Ministryof Commerce here. Modi also

expressed confidence thatVanijya Bhawan will be com-pleted well within the stipulat-ed time.

"My Government has infour years taken steps to easethe process of doing business inIndia while maintainingmacroeconomic indicators likeinflation, current accountdeficit (CAD) and fiscal deficitwithin limits," he added.

After scaling these positivemacroeconomic indicators,what next, the Prime Ministerasked. He said GDP growthtouched 7.7 per cent in the lastquarter of 2017-18 fiscal butnow the time has come to

look beyond 7-8 per centgrowth and target double-digitexpansion.

The Prime Minister furtheremphasised the need forincreasing exports and saidthat states must be made activepartners in this effort. He saidthe Department of Commercemust resolve to raise India'sshare in total global exports toat least 3.4 percent, from thecurrent 1.6 per cent.

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India is trying to resolve tradedisputes with several coun-

tries and is willing to create anew world trade order as itextends a hand of friendship toall, Union Minister SureshPrabhu said on Friday -- a dayafter the country slapped tar-iffs on 29 US products in aretaliatory move.

Addressing the 5th IndiaInternational MSME Start-upExpo here, the commerce andindustry minister hoped thatsmall and medium enterpriseswould create more economicopportunities and become thedriver of a new India.

Prabhu said: "We are tryingto resolve the trade disputeswith so many countries in theworld. We want to make surethat India remains a friend ofall countries of the worldwhether it is South East Asia,whether it is Far East includingour good friend Japan, whetherit is in the Middle East, whetherit is Africa or Latin America, ineach of these segments.

"I have personally metalmost all the ministers at dif-ferent levels at different time, of

course, Europe and the US."The minister's remarks

came a day after India decidedto raise customs duty on 29products, including almond,walnut and pulses, importedfrom the US as a retaliatoryaction against the tariff hike byWashington.

The duty hike would comeinto effect from August 4, theFinance Ministry said in anotification.

"We are not against anycountry. We would like to dobusiness with all the countriesof the world and therefore Iextend a hand of friendship toall of you," Prabhu said.

"Please join us with yourideas and we together candevelop better world, benefiteach other. We want India tobenefit obviously, but not at theexpense of the other country.We would like both to benefitand to do that we are willing tocreate a new trade order," headded.

Last week, India had sub-mitted to the World TradeOrganisation (WTO) a list of30 items on which it proposedto raise customs duty by up to50 per cent.

The decision to hike dutiesis in retaliation to the unilateralincrease in tariff by the US oncertain steel and aluminiumproducts earlier this year whichhad tariff implication of $241million on India.

Prabhu pointed out thatMSMEs take wealth to differ-ent corners of the country,through equitable distributionof wealth, unlike large indus-tries.

He also said that they playa key role in exports, in pro-motion of industrialisation andinnovation.

"We must promote SMEs,we must promote innovationand startups and that is whyour Government is committedto do this," Prabhu said.

The event is supported bythe Ministry of Micro, Smalland Medium Enterprises(MSME) and the Ministry ofCommerce and Industry.

The Expo being organisedby the MSME DevelopmentForum is supported by theMinistry of Micro, Small andMedium Enterprises and theMinistry of Commerce andIndustry.

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Benchmarks weathered volatility toend sharply higher on Thursday, pro-

pelled by a late-session surge as investorssnapped up healthcare, telecom andfinancials stocks amid mixed global cues.

The BSE Sensex, which was tradingflat with a negative bias for the majorpart of the day, spurted 257.21 points or0.73 per cent to finish at 35,689.60.

The broader NSE Nifty, after shut-tling between 10,710.45 and 10,837,ended at 10,821.85 -- up 80.75 points or0.75 per cent.

Sentiment was buoyed after datashowed that foreign portfolio investors(FPIs), who had been net sellers for thepast several sessions, were back to buy-ing mode on the domestic bourses.

FPIs bought shares worth a net�1,126.75 crore, while domestic insti-tutional investors (DIIs) picked upequities to the tune of �663.57 crore yes-terday, provisional data showed.

Both the Sensex and Nifty postedtheir fifth straight weekly gains, rising67.46 points, or 0.19 per cent, and 4.15points, or 0.04 per cent, respectively.

On the global front, all eyes were ona crucial OPEC meet amid indicationsthe oil cartel may agree to a productionincrease.

"Market recouped yesterday's losesled by outperformance by pharma andbanking stocks while appreciation in

rupee also gave a positive sentiment tothe broad market.

"Oil price rose despite OPEC pro-posal to increase output by 1 mbpd.Investors may like to have a closer viewon oil due to global risk. Trade tensionand faster pace of tightening by Fed mayrefrain the market from a decisiveuptick," said Vinod Nair, Head ofResearch, Geojit Financial Services.

Sun Pharma stole the show in theSensex pack, spurting 3.91 per cent, fol-lowed by M&M at 2.87 per cent.

Others prominent gainers includedHDFC 2.54 per cent, Axis Bank 2.22 percent, SBI 1.69 per cent, ITC Ltd 1.67 percent, Asian Paints 1.54 per cent, BhartiAirtel 1.53 per cent, ICICI Bank 1.33 percent, NTPC 1.26 per cent, HDFC Bank1.22 per cent and HUL 0.87 per cent.

Reliance Industries, which madefresh closing highs for the past few ses-sions, succumbed to profit-booking,sliding 1.94 per cent.

Sectorally, the BSE healthcare indexjumped 1.31 per cent, telecom 1.31 percent, bankex 1.01 per cent, power 0.90per cent, FMCG 0.81 per cent, PSU 0.50per cent, auto 0.49 per cent, infra-structure 0.46 per cent, consumerdurables 0.45 per cent, metal 0.23 percent, capital goods 0.18 per cent and teck0.14 per cent.

In the broader market, the BSE mid-cap index rose 0.46 per cent while thesmall-cap gauge inched up 0.07 per cent.

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The second tranche of Bharat-22 ETF wasoversubscribed on the final day of offering,

with the issue garnering subscription to the tuneof �12,500 crore.

Through the Bharat-22 Exchange TradedFund (ETF), comprising shares of 22 companies,the Government had targeted to mop up �6,000cr with a green-shoe option of another �2,400 cr.

Subscription has come in for over 2 timesof the base issue size of �6,000 cr. The total bidsthat has come in so far is for �12,500 cr and onelakh applications have come in, market sourcessaid.

The Government is likely to exercise thegreen-shoe option to retain the additional�2,400 crore worth bids received.

The Government had on June 19 launched thefollow-on fund offer (FFO) of Bharat-22 ETF, whichis managed by ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund.

On the first day of the issuance, anchorinvestors put in bids worth �5,163 cr, which was3.44 times the portion reserved for them. Thestate-owned companies that are part of the ETFinclude ONGC, IOC, SBI, BPCL, Coal India andNalco. The other central public sector enter-prises on the list are Bharat Electronics,Engineers India, NBCC, NTPC, NHPC, SJVNL,GAIL, PGCIL and NLC India. Only three pub-lic sector banks — SBI, Indian Bank and Bankof Baroda — feature in the Bharat-22 index.

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Consultancy firms — HSCCand EPIL — are likely to be

the first set of state-ownedfirms which will be merged withtheir peers in the current fiscal.

The Government lastOctober invited bids from sim-ilarly placed central public sec-tor enterprises (CPSEs) forbuying out entire 100 per centstake in them, along with man-agement control.

“EPIL and HSCC are inadvanced stages as bids havecome in from respective sectoralCPSEs. The Alternate mecha-nism, led by Finance Minister,will meet to decide the reserveprice,” an official told PTI.

The official said once thereserve price is fixed, the bidsfrom prospective buyers wouldbe opened and the one whichwould have bid above thereserve price would be eligibleto buyout the PSU on offer.

In the Budget for 2017-18,the then Finance MinisterArun Jaitley had announcedthe possibility of merger ofPSUs to create large state-owned firms.

Consequently, in Januarythis year, the Governmententered into an agreement withONGC for strategic sale of its51.11 per cent stake in HPCLfor �36,915 crore.

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iconic US products includingbourbon, jeans and motorcy-cles on Friday in its openingsalvo in a trade war withPresident Donald Trump.

The tariffs, which tookeffect at midnight (2200 GMTThursday) according to theEU's official journal, will fur-ther fuel jitters on world stockmarkets that are alreadyalarmed by trade tensionsbetween the United Statesand China.

Customs agents acrossthe Europe's colossal marketof 500 million people will nowimpose the duty, hiking priceson US-made products insupermarkets and across fac-tory floors.

Brussels imposed the raftof duties on US productsworth 2.8 billion euros ($3.3billion) in a tit-for-tat responseto Trump's decision to slapstiff tariffs on European steeland aluminium exports.

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Aradical Indonesian clericwas sentenced to death on

Friday for masterminding a2016 Islamic State terror attackthat saw a suicide bomberblow himself up at a Starbuckscafe.

Aman Abdurrahman wasfound guilty of ordering theattack that killed four inJakarta, as heavily armed policeguarded his sentencing at atcourt in the capital.

It was the first attackclaimed by the international ter-ror network in Southeast Asia."(The defendant) has beenproven to have committed acriminal act of terrorism," saidjudge Akhmad Jaini, who alsocited Abdurrahman's involve-ment in other deadly plots. "Hewill be sentenced to death."

Abdurrahman — who wasalready in jail on a separate ter-ror conviction — gestured tohis legal team and briefly kissedthe floor, as machine gun-tot-ing guards stood nearby.

His lawyer, AsludinHatjani, said the ruling was

"unfair", citing a lack of evi-dence connectingAbdurrahman to the attack,which he was accused of organ-ising from inside prison.

Executions are carried outby firing squad in the world'sbiggest Muslim-majority coun-try, which has long struggledwith Islamist militancy.

In 2002, bombings at the

resort island of Bali killed over200 — mostly foreign tourists— in Indonesia's worst-everterror attack.

Three militants involved inthe Bali bombing have sincebeen executed. The assault inthe capital two years ago sawsecurity forces battle radicalsnear the cafe where a suicidebomber detonated his explo-

sives. Considered the de facto

head of IS supporters inIndonesia, Abdurrahman, 46, isalso the spiritual leader of localextremist network JamaahAnsharut Daulah (JAD).

JAD was involved in the2016 Jakarta attack and a waveof suicide bombings last monthin Indonesia's second-biggestcity Surabaya, according toauthorities.

Two families — includinggirls aged nine and 12 — blewthemselves up at churches anda police station, killing 13.Abdurrahman has not beencharged in the Surabayaattacks.

His death sentence will bewelcomed by some JAD mem-bers, analysts said. "It's seen asheroic — he'll become a mar-tyr," said Al Chaidar, a terror-ism expert at Indonesia'sMalikul Saleh University.

From prison,Abdurrahman has recruitedmilitants to join IS, is thoughtto have been in communicationwith leaders of the jihadistgroup, and is the main trans-

lator for IS propaganda inIndonesia, according to ana-lysts and authorities.

Although consideredIndonesia's largest pro-IS coali-tion, JAD's structure and linksto the network are murky. TheJakarta-based Institute forPolicy Analysis of Conflict hassaid JAD is "a generic term" forany IS supporter and functionsmore as an umbrella organisa-tion than a coherent group.

Formed in 2015, JAD isthought to be composed ofsome two dozen Indonesiangroups that have pledged alle-giance to IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, according to the USState Department, which lastyear designated it as an extrem-ist network.

Apart from the 2016Jakarta attacks, JAD carried outsuicide attacks the followingyear which killed three police-men and injured a dozen oth-ers at a busy bus station inJakarta.

It has also been linked to aseries of other plots includingthe firebombing of a churchthat killed a toddler.

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if the country exits theEuropean Union without anagreement on trade relations,underscoring the concerns ofbusiness leaders who say theGovernment is moving tooslowly.

Airbus, which employsabout 14,000 people at 25 sitesin the U.K, said it needs toknow by the end of the sum-mer what rules will govern itsoperations or the companywill "reconsider its long-termfootprint in the country."Airbus also says a proposedtransition deal that runsthrough December 2020 is tooshort for the company to reor-ganise its supply chain.

"While Airbus under-stands that the political processmust go on, as a responsiblebusiness we require immediatedetails on the pragmatic stepsthat should be taken to oper-ate competitively," TomWilliams, CEO of AirbusCommercial Aircraft, said in a

statement. "This is a dawningreality for Airbus. Put simply,a no-deal scenario directlythreatens Airbus' future in theU.K."

While many business lead-ers have demanded clarityabout the future with Britainset to leave the EU in ninemonths, Airbus' sheer size androle in the economy make it aninfluential voice in the Brexitdebate.

Airbus is the U.K.'s largestcommercial aerospace com-pany, a leading provider ofmilitary satellite communica-tions and the biggest supplierof large aircraft to the Royal AirForce. It also has a significantimpact on other companies,funneling an estimated 5 billionpounds ($6.6 billion) to 4,000U.K. suppliers, including bignames like Rolls-Royce, as wellas many smaller businesses.

Darren Jones, the memberof Parliament for the commu-nity where Airbus makeswings, attacked the govern-ment for listening to those whowant the most hard-line formof Brexit and "not to the busi-

nesses that employ thousandsof British workers, includingAirbus."

"Thousands of skilled,well-paid jobs are now on theline because of the shambolicmess the government havecreated over the Brexit negoti-ations," he said.

Airbus, the biggest rival toU.S.-based aircraft makerBoeing, has been a primeexample of how Europeancooperation could lead to suc-cess in business. The German,French and Spanish govern-ments own 26.4 percent ofAirbus, which was createdthrough the merger ofGerman, French and Spanishaerospace companies.

Prime Minister TheresaMay's government reactedquickly to the Airbus state-ment, saying it was confidentof getting a good deal and "wedo not expect a no-deal sce-nario to arise."

But Williams said Airbus isfrustrated after it tried to dis-cuss its concerns with the gov-ernment for 12 months andmade little progress.

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President Donald Trump on Friday toldhis fellow Republicans in Congress to

"stop wasting their time" on immigrationlegislation until after November, dis-missing his party's struggle to surmountinternal divisions.

Trump's tweets come just days afterhe insisted Congress needed to act toresolve the problems at the U.S.-Mexicoborder. But stubborn differences betweenconservative and more moderate Republicans in the House have stalled immi-gration legislation on Capitol Hill, with a vote on a compromise measure delayeduntil next week.

Trump said Friday that even if a measure passes, it's doomed in the Senate."Republicans should stop wasting their time on Immigration until after we elect

more Senators and Congressmen/women in November," he tweeted. "Dems are just play-ing games, have no intention of doing anything to solves this decades old problem. We

can pass great legislation after the Red Wave!"Trump's comments come amid an interna-

tional outcry over the separation of migrant fam-ilies at the southern border. Trump assertedThursday that Congress could provide the"only real solution" to the crisis.

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McALLEN, Texas: President Donald Trump'sorder to stop separating migrant children fromtheir parents spread confusion and uncertain-ty along the border, with no clear plan to reunitefamilies but with growing signs the adminis-tration is dialing back its "zero tolerance" pol-icy on those entering the U.S. illegally.

Immigrants who remained locked up andseparated from their families struggled to getin touch with children being held in many caseshundreds of miles away.

Some parents said they didn't even knowwhere their children were.

A senior Trump administration official saidthat about 500 of the more than 2,300 childrentaken from their families at the border in recentweeks have been reunited since May. Federal

agencies are working to set upa centralised reunificationprocess for the remaining chil-dren at a detention center.AP

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Melania Trump wanted to show theworld that she was a compassionate first

lady by visiting a migrant child detention cen-tre in Texas but her insensitive choice of ajacket during the trip has caused an uproaron social media.

As she boarded a plane, she wore an olivegreen jacket, which said on the back: "I real-ly don't care. Do U?" in white graffiti-stylelettering.

Melania, 48, was not wearing the brand-ed Zara jacket when she landed in McAllen,Texas yesterday on a visit to personally wit-ness the humanitarian situation along the US-Mexico border that has captured global atten-tion. Under President Donald Trump's"zero-tolerance" immigration policy, nearly 2,000 chil-dren have been separated from their parents andplaced into holding facilities between April 19 andMay 31 of this year, according to the Department

of Homeland Security. The public outcry in the wakeof images and stories of the children caught in themiddle of Trump's controversial immigration pol-icy has sparked a fierce global debate.

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The Executive Engineer, BuildingDivision South-East (M-421), PWD(GNCTD), Police Colony, Hauz Khas,New Delhi invites on behalf of thePresident of India percentage rate ten-der in two bid condition for followingwork(s):-

1. NIT No. 34/South-East(B)M/NewDelhi/2018-19, Name of Work: A/R &M/O residential quarters at MBITCampus, New Delhi under South-East(Building)M Division (during 2018-19(SH: Improvement of vacant quarters onchange of occupancy), Estimated Cost:Rs. 25,38,028/-, Earnest Money: Rs.50,761/-drawn in favour of EE, CBMDM-421, PWD, New Delhi, time of com-pletion of work 08 Months, The Last date& time for receipt of Tenders through e-procurement is 29.06.2018 upto 15.00Hours & Tender ID No2018_PWD_153002_1.

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At a time when sports biopics aremaking their mark at the box

office, how could not one be dedicat-ed to the hockey legend and formerIndia team captain, Sandeep Singh? Sothough a one-time cricketer himself,actor Angad Bedi readily agreed to bea part of Soorma, which is not onlyabout how Sandeep Singh enduredtough times and became a hero butalso about how he could not have donethis without his brother nurturing andlooking out for him. Angad, who isplaying Bikramjeet Singh, the elderbrother of Sandeep, tells us, “For me,playing Bikramjeet has been verygratifying. This film is about a uniquebond which probably needs to behighlighted in relationship-stressedtimes. Bikramjeet keeps his brotherfirst at all times, loving him like a son.He will go above and beyond any levelto make sure that his brother repre-sents the nation. It wasBikramjeet’s desire to seeSandeep representing the coun-try because he was a very explo-sive hockey player himself. Infact, he was the best drag-flicker forIndia but because of injuries,couldn’t go ahead. His dreamswere left unfulfilled. ForBikramjeet, his brother’s victorywas his own. Sandeep knew ofhis brother’s hurt welling insideand worked even harder to ful-fill his dreams.”

With Diljit Dosanjh at theother end playing the lead role ofSandeep Singh, Angad says, “If weboth can essay the love and relation-ship between Sandeep andBikramjeet, the film will gothrough.”

For Angad, playingBikramjeet was a tall order.“Portraying the sacrifice thatBikramjeet made for his family,working two jobs a day to look afterhis family and sending money forSandeep’s rehab and training was dif-

ficult considering the complexity ofemotions and will power involved,” hesays. Further, having met Bikramjeetand spending time with him in per-son, he realised that they don’t makemen like him anymore. “He’s such agiving person, he has a heart of gold,a very humble soul and no matter howmuch I observed him, I fell short as aperson.”

Then there was the difficult busi-ness of learning hockey. Says Angad,

“I had to unlearn cricket to learn hock-ey. I’ve played cricket up to U-19 andhockey is a very different sport.Cricket is all about your top hand andas opposed to that, hockey is allabout the bottom hand. In order tolearn hockey, you have to change yourstance, grip and your body language.Also, I really had to work on my fit-ness. Bikramjeet is a really muscularguy. Playing hockey and all of its shotsneed a lot of core strength to hit themcorrectly; the core needs to beengaged at all times so we reallyworked on that. We had to run a lot.There was a lot of prep.”

But the actor didn’t mind the reg-imen as he got coached by none otherthan Sandeep and Bikramjeet them-selves. “Sandeep corrected my form.I really had to work towards thatbecause I did not want to look like acricketer trying to play hockey. Hockeyhas been a very challenging sport forme to take up and it’s definitely one ofthe most difficult sports ever. But inthe end, it’s beautiful,” he says, soak-ing in his moment of discovery.

Describing his journey in thefilm as “a beautiful and my most pleas-ant experience”, Angad says, “I’veworked with stalwarts of this indus-try but working with Diljit Dosanjhand Taapsee Pannu was very different.I’ve worked with Taapsee before andit’s great to see both of us playing verydiversified roles. As for Diljit, I believethat he’s the most endearing co-actorI’ve ever had. He’s extremely loving,honest and so giving. He gives youcues and he’s always there for you.”

The 35-year-old actor believesthat it is important for him as an actorto play an impactful role. “Whatevercharacters I’ve played so far have beenvery performance-oriented. All thesecharacters have had a very powerfuland intense impact on the audience.This is what matters to me the mostand that’s how I want to pick up myscripts and stories.”

He has had to stretch and bend his time tomake it as a Michelin-star chef but VikasKhanna has never ever taken the shortcut

with breakfast. “Belonging to a small town, I was-n’t allowed to step out of the house without eatinga big breakfast. There was no negotiation, thetummy had to be full. Today, the habit has pro-grammed my sleep and activity patterns. I wouldwilt without my breakfast. My cousins, who livedin big cities, had a more flexible lifestyle. They brokethis rule often, usually having the liberty to pick upa snack along the way. In smaller towns, we neverhad this option.”

However, chef Vikas now credits his routine tohis happiness hormones. He believes skipping break-fast is one of the foremost reasons why most Indiansfeel stressed, more agitated and angry throughoutthe day. “There is a scientific reason behind this.You feel taxed because your brain does not get therequired fuel for it to function. You tend tobecome more anxious and your body craves for foodleading to unwanted binges.”

Now that he has a multi-national stint, shuttlingbetween the US and India, he has developed ahealthy breakfast habit of oats and is crafting sev-eral recipes out of it for today’s no-fuss profession-als on the go. “When Indians took to oats as oneof their staple cereals, I thought it was a fantasticidea because they have all the proteins and nutri-ents that one needs. The prep time needed for oatsis anywhere between three and six minutes accord-ing to how you like it and one doesn’t even needto go through the hassle of cooking it,” he tells usat a product launch.

And on a hot summer day, chef Vikas, whoentered every Indian home with his disarming waysin the Masterchef series, gives a master class on howto make Thandai Oats with Chikki. Putting thesaucepan on medium heat, he points out to theingredients for the recipe — A jar of milk, a cup ofhazelnuts, a cup of almonds, a cup of dried melonseed, cashews, a few strands of saffron and honey.These are the things you need for the thandai.

As the pan heats up, he tosses in a few hazel-nuts, almonds, melon seeds and cashews, lettingthem roast. “Make sure you don’t burn these nuts.Dry roasting brings out the flavours more than justhaving to dry the seeds outside,” says Vikas,adding a dollop of smart tricks and tips. “Pour in

a glass of whole milk after roasting the nuts. Putin a few strands of saffron which will enhance theflavours further and give the thandai a beautifulcolour. Adding too much of saffron will overpow-er the rest of the flavours. So be prudent,” adds he.

Ladling a bit of honey into the mix, the chef rec-ommends that to give a kick to the more tradition-al taste, one could add a pinch of black pepper.“Turn off the heat after stirring the mixture for afew seconds. Then add the oats. The ratio of thethandai and oats should be 1:1. Oats need to bloomevenly in an equal volume of liquid.” And then headds texture, dropping a few figs soaked in simplesugar syrup at the bottom of the jar.

For chef Vikas, texture, body and richness arevery important to make a great start to the day.“Eating plain soaked oats every day in the morn-ing will eventually bore you but if we add textureand layers, you will eat the same thing every daywithout complaints.

He next proceeds to make the chikki, adding halfa cup of sugar in a pan containing two tablespoonsof water and turning down the flame. Stirring theconcoction, he offers another smart tip: “I do notuse a spoon to stir the sugar mix because if there’seven a little moisture on the spoon, it will crystallisethe syrup and that’s something we don’t want.” Oncethe syrup turns golden brown, he tosses in a tea-spoon full of sesame seeds and immediately poursthe syrup mix on to a silicon pad. He spreads it even-ly and lets it cool down.

In order to assemble the dish, he drops the figsat the bottom of a jar, then adds the thandai oatsover it and sprinkles some basil seeds to coax a bitmore complex flavour profile. Another layer ofthandai oats and he tops it with dry fruits and piecesof the chikki. A fusion of modernity with a time-less classic, looking temptingly luscious like a dessertin a jar.

Chef Vikas further demonstrates a South indi-an innovation, curd rice-inspired oats with a zestytadka or tempering, plum chutney and parmesanKolhapuri papad, a perfect balance of tastes, atummy soother with a nice crackle of a crunch. Heusually loves to plate his food but when it comesto curd rice, he has it straight out of the bowl.

Despite the tweaks, oats in the average Indianhousehold are seen as a western import. Does thesuperchef have any card up his sleeves to revive the

Indian cereal and grain heritage, considering theyare equally good in ensuring weight loss and low-ering blood cholesterol? Says he, “While millenni-als may go for Western choices, traditional Indianshaven’t given up on what they have grown up with.So I do not think our grain heritage is under threatat all. I see so many people eating rotis made outof bajra (pearl millets), amla (Indian gooseberry)daily and what not. But we live in a time whereinpeople are more open to adopting western trendsand create something with their own flavours. My

demo was all about cooption, not subversion.Personally, I still feel that we are connected to ourroots, we know our grains and food, and we arelucky to have the knowledge of both worlds.”

He emphasises on living healthy as being ofutmost importance. “I know people who have livedfor over 90. The only reason behind their long livesis healthy living and not missing a single meal a day.”And finally we get some starred advice as well fromchef Vikas: “A mantra everyone should adopt is Rise,Eat and only then can you Shine!”

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Jimi Hendrix once said, “Musicdoes not lie. If there is some-

thing to be changed in thisworld, then it can only happenthrough music.” Music-makerRicky Kej, the youngest Indianto receive the prestigiousGrammy award, believes in liv-ing by the same principle. He isone of the few independentcomposers who composes musicthat comes straight from theheart. He is also a conservation-ist who is concerned about incul-cating a concern for environ-ment through his music. His lat-est album Shanti Samsara buildsenvironment consciousness andemphasises on climate change.

Performing in the capitalduring the World EnvironmentDay celebrations, he left theaudience spellbound. Kej said,“All my music, my work and mylife are dedicated to the cause ofenvironment, performing onthis occasion in my motherlandmeant a lot to me.”

Kej had his calling early inlife, wanting music to be “myhobby, profession, career andbread and butter.” He even gaveup the idea of pursuing a careerin dental science to pursue thisgoal. Says he, “I studied dentalsurgery because my parentsforced me to complete it. I hadmade a deal with my father thatonce I completed the degree, Icould do what I wanted to withmy life. The minute I got mydegree, I handed it over to myparents and became a full timemusician. I did not practisedentistry even for a day!”

From being part of a rockband in college to becoming acomposer, Kej has been inspiredby the work of many famousmusicians. “I have loved thestyles of Pandit Ravi Shankar,Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan,Peter Gabriel and AR Rahmanbecause they have never letgenre boundaries define them.All that they did was makemusic that they strongly believedin, and collaborated with someof the best musicians and indi-viduals across the globe.”

Talking about collabora-tions, he has worked with nativeAmerican flute players, Gaelic,Hebrew and South Africanchoirs, Korean, Turkish,Senegalese singers, Azerbaijanimusicians, a Koto player fromJapan and Maori musicians in hislast album. His aim was to bringall these different cultures, tra-ditions and people togetherthrough the universal languageof music. He further wishes tocollaborate with Hans Zimmer,whom he thinks is responsiblefor the careers of a whole newgeneration of genius composers.Pharell Williams, whom he feelsis underrated, is another musi-cian with whom he’d love to jam.

For Winds of Samsara, thealbum that got him the goldengramophone, he collaboratedwith South African flute player

Wouter Kellerman. It is based onRicky’s faith in the philosophy ofNelson Mandela and Gandhi. Hetalks about how his ideas clickedwith Wouter’s: “It was around2012 when I met him. Werespected each other’s work andwanted to do a joint venture.When we met in Los Angeles,while discussing ideas for apotential collaboration, I men-tioned that I had just composeda piece of music based on theideals of peace by MahatmaGandhi, my father of the nation.It was a huge coincidence thatWouter was working on a pieceof music inspired by NelsonMandela, his father of the nation.Through our discussions werealised that there was a wholelot of cross-pollination here —Mahatma Gandhi spent his for-mative years in South Africa.Meanwhile, Nelson Mandelawas heavily inspired byMahatma Gandhi.” This albumwent on to reach the top of theUS Billboard charts and worldradio charts.

The Indian music industryhas never been the principalmarket for this Indo-Americancomposer. Here’s why. “It isbecause in India, 99 per cent ofall the music content is createdby the movie industry, whetherBollywood or the regional indus-tries. Bollywood is so tightlyintegrated with the music indus-try that when I tell people inIndia that I am a composer, thefirst question I am asked is‘Which film?’ So music in Indiais always commissioned to amusician and is based on thesensibilities of a script or adirector. Every piece of main-

stream music is either an itemsong or a love Song. We have somany issues in India and peopledo feel strongly about theseissues but there is no mainstreammusic created on these topics.”

Kej says his greatest perfor-mance was at the United NationsGeneral Assembly. He wasthrilled by the fact that he got toperform on the same stage whereevery world leader has stood andevery major treaty has beensigned. The history in that roomwas extremely overwhelmingfor him. Another of his favouriteperformances included the oneat the Vidhana Soudha inKarnataka. Recently, he also gotthe opportunity to perform atthe India Gate in New Delhi forthe World Environment Daycelebrations, which he says, wasa dream come true. He eluci-dates, “Performing at these his-toric venues reflects a lot on mymusic and I am always gratefulfor these opportunities.”

Ricky is not just a musicianbut a conservationist as well. Hesays that both of them are con-nected, “I have always been astrong conservationist and envi-ronmentalist, along with being amusician. It was through mymusic that I fell in love with thenatural world. I found a deepconnection within music andnature. As a child, I loved hang-ing around with animals andwithin nature more than I didwith humans. And I would seea personality in every singleanimal I saw, including insectsand reptiles. At that young age,I was definitely a weird child.”

He also talks about how hismeeting with the Prime MinisterNarendra Modi was just thepush he needed to keep workingin the direction of conservation.“The meeting turned out to bean hour-long philosophical dis-cussion. Our Prime Ministerknew that I was a strong conser-vationist and inspired me to ded-icate my life and my music to thesole cause of environmental con-sciousness. Since then all mymusic has been about environ-ment and raising awarenessabout climate change.”

He concludes with high-lighting the importance of edu-cating children about environ-ment conservation and incorpo-rating that message in his music.Kej says, “To continue makingmusic for the environment, raiseawareness about the beauty ofour natural world and what weneed to do to sustain and regen-erate are my future plans. I amnow spending a lot of my timefocussing on children.”

Mike Libecki has done it all,from conquering the world’shighest mountains, back-

country skiing in Antarctica, touchingthe remotest area of the world, explor-ing the unnamed and survivingextreme climate conditions — the listis seemingly endless. He has complet-ed more than 75 expeditions to placesin Afghanistan, Antarctica, Guyana,China, Madagascar, Kyrgyzstan,Uzbekistan, Papua New Guinea,Indonesia and Polynesia. He has beenunstoppable and has no plans to slowdown in the future. Certainly, a throw-back to the era of great explorers anduncharted lands.

What makes these expeditionseven more exciting is the fact that his15-year-old daughter, Lilliana Libecki,has joined him for six of them. Not sur-prisingly, just like her father, she is anadventure enthusiast and wants tocarry his legacy forward.

Says Mike, “The expeditions we doalways have a ‘give back’ component,asking ourselves, what are we doing forthis planet, both around the world asglobal citizens and for the local com-munities?” He wants his daughter tograb these opportunities and alsoappeals to her generation to thinkabout what Gandhi said years ago,“What are we doing to change theworld? Are we being the change wewant to see?”

As part of their attempt to giveback this time round, the duo tied upwith National Geographic as part ofits “Give Back” Project to work in theremote village of Tawang in ArunachalPradesh. The initiative aims at provid-ing better education, enhancing thequality of lives and creating hope forthe future with the possibilities thattechnology and internet can offer.Through this initiative, 20 new laptopsand printers have been installed andprovided with internet access to impartcomputer education to the kids and theteachers in Tawang. They have alsoinstalled new solar power, panels andsolar generators for the computercentre and 14 additional buildings inthe community.

Lilliana says that the love and com-passion she shares with people whileworking in India is her “pinch me”moment. Mike says that nature neverfails to amaze him and illustrates it withan example. He says, “While workingon the solar panels outside in the field,

I suddenly looked up and saw a hugedouble rainbow. When we are caughtin these moments, we think about thisgift called life and where did it comefrom. In that moment, you don’tthink about religion, politics or any-thing. There is just one thought inmind about the reality in front of you— this is amazing. And travelling withmy daughter and seeing things throughher eyes, those are my specialmoments.”

Talking about India and what hetakes back from here, Mike says, “Ihave been reminded that we are all oneperson, and that we all share the samethings. We want to be healthy, happywith family and friends and share theidea that we are in this together as ateam.” He minces no words abouthow the politicians have raised highwalls engulfing countries and says, “Itis haunting!”

Travel is important to Mike and hehighlights its importance by quotingprophet Mohammed, “Don’t tell mehow educated you are but tell me howmuch you have travelled.” So as a father,he believes travelling the world is quin-tessential and can be the best educa-tion. “We are trying to give back, that’sour goal and if we are succeeding inthat by sharing our knowledge with thelocals and changing our own perspec-tives too in the process, then that’s whatwe want. The humanitarian work is touplift the most remote places of theworld and a little work can make a lotof impact,” he asserts.

It is not just the advanced worldthat has something to offer to theremote areas, the latter too can give alot back. Mike mentions, “The organ-ic livelihood that the people there leadneeds to be emulated. We need to learnhow not to use chemicals, plastic andeverything that is harmful to naturebecause life can be led without thesetoxic things.” He appeals to people tobe mindful and not use a straw or any-thing plastic the next time they go outto eat. “We all can work as a team tosave this planet,” he asserts.

While this is important for thefuture, going back in the past, Lillianadid not find it unusual to have aclimber and explorer for a father. Shesays, “As a child I always thought it wasnormal to have an explorer dad but asI grew up, I realised it wasn’t normaland I am really grateful because hegives me these opportunities andexperiences to go around the world.”

Naturally with her being involvedwith climbing enormous mountains,it becomes unavoidable that theteenager misses out on school andhomework. However, she ensures thatshe is always updated and is thankfulto everyone who has supported hertravelling lifestyle. Lilliana has been to23 countries and her father points outthat just to be able to travel is a privi-lege. “It is very special lifestyle, millionpeople in this world haven’t done a partof what she has done at the age of 15.”As a father, Mike, too, ensures thatthere is a balance between school,house chores, taking care of the fam-ily and adventure. He has issued thediktat that she has to get straight A’s toearn the privilege of the wanderinglifestyle.

While Lilliana inherited her lovefor expeditions, for Mike it was hisgrowing up years amid mountains, sur-rounded by forests and nature and apassion for mathematics that set himon the path. Young Mike combined thelove of climbing and exploration withmathematics — it was a mystery tosolve these equations of expeditions forhim. “It came naturally, growing closeto nature, learning about conservation,taking care of the planet and makingit a healthy place, a sense of responsi-bility grew in me, something I was real-ly passionate about it,” shares Mike.“This is what I call ‘OrganicEnthusiasm’, something I love. Forexample, if we go to get ice creamtogether and I choose chocolate andyou choose mango, we don’t know whywe love that flavour, we just do.Similarly, climbing and exploration arewhat I love but I don’t know why.”

Mike has a motivating spell behindevery expedition and says, “For me lifeis everything, including people, food,culture, experiences, the human emo-tions like laughter, anger, sadness,everything. The memories that we cre-ate while travelling the world are oneof the most significant meanings. Asimple answer would be that this cre-ates so much joy and climbing hastaught me so much to be a human, aglobal citizen, a father and a child ofmother earth.” Lilliana adds, “I’mmotivated to explore the unseen whilehaving a good time and motivatingmore people to travel the world andcare about the environment.”

Mike mentions that with everyexpedition, he experiences a range ofhuman emotions like homesickness,joy, gratitude, appreciation and thereis nothing more powerful than these.“Without memories, there is no real-ity. If we cannot remember anything,we have nothing. Thinking about cre-ating powerful moments pushes us tothink and care about the global com-munity and to do something for it.”

Not just climbing, Lilliana aims tocarry forward her father’s legacy inother ways as well. In order to makethe world a better place for the under-privileged and to make the privilegedones realise the importance of things,Lilliana has started a non-profit organ-isation called The Joyineering. Mikeexplains the choice of name, “We wantto create ‘Joy’ and education and newthings that create joy. If you take thewords ‘Engineering’, and‘Mountaineering’, they mean plan-ning, preparing, setting goals and suf-fering to make it to the summit.These things aren’t guess work butneed mathematics and skills. The endproduct is success. If we look at joyi-neering, it has all the elements, and youhave to push, train, and prepare your-self.” Lilliana reshaped her goals afterher first humanitarian expedition toAfghanistan.

Mike will soon be embarking onanother climbing expedition to China,which is a highly demanding expedi-tion with new terrains and extremeconditions. Lilliana won’t be accompa-nying him. However, the father daugh-ter duo will undertake another human-itarian project in Philippines laterthis year. Mike will head to SaudiArabia to climb in the fall next year.More power to them.

He rose to fame with Vicky Donor andthen starred in endearing films like

Dum Laga Ke Haisha and Shubh MangalSaavdhan, which entertained with a mes-sage. Actor Ayushmann Khurrana, who hascarved a niche for himself in just six yearsin Hindi filmdom, says he is loving hisspace in Bollywood.

“I am loving my space in Bollywood.It is great to be associated with content-dri-ven cinema and films which give a mes-sage in the end in an entertaining way. It’sa great space to be in and also being in thespace of being an actor-singer makes mea little different. It makes me carve my ownniche in the industry,” said Ayushmann.

Asked about how he feels not being aconventional Bollywood hero, he said, “Thetimes have changed, the audience haschanged, the films have changed. Any char-acter who is central to the theme of the filmis actually the hero of the film.”

The 33-year-old actor said it makes afilm actor more watchable and palatable forthe audience if “quirk, spice and somethingunique” is added to the role.

Ayushmann had started his career withthe youth-based reality show Roadies in2004. Since starting his film journey, he hasfeatured in eight movies — all differentfrom one another. But it was never a con-scious choice to do different genres.

“More than anything else, I choose thescripts which are really different andunique. I think I am lucky that I am get-ting interesting scripts. The idea is to haveunique scripts and then go for the charac-

ter which you are playing,” saidAyushmann, who will host the IIFARocks at the ongoing 19th edition ofthe International Indian FilmAcademy (IIFA) Weekend andAwards.

In hindsight, he says he is gladhe started his career with a “radicalscript” like Vicky Donor, in which heplayed a sperm donor. “My last film(Shubh Mangal Saavdhan) was com-pletely and diametrically different...From a sperm donor to a guy witherectile dysfunction... So, I have gotthe whole spectrum correct. I amglad I am getting to make thesechoices,” he said.

On all his films having a touchof realism in them, Ayushmannsaid, “It’s great to have real life ref-erences... Like you are playing somecharacters on-screen, you add a lit-tle bit of yourself in it and make itmore believable and relatable. But attimes there are no references becauseyou have not gone through certain

experiences. Then I think you have to bea keen observer of life... That's moreimportant.”

His next projects are Shoot The PianoPlayer, a thriller and Badhaai Ho. The for-mer is a thriller by director SriramRaghavan. “He is a thespian when itcomes to thrillers. He is a very excitingfilmmaker, and he is the one who does notbelieve in a fixed script and will improviseon the spot. It is very challenging to workwith him and exciting at the same time.”

As far as Badhaai Ho is concerned, hesays, “It is completely my space. It is aquirky film. We have still not revealed theone-liner of the film. It is from the spacethat I own and I had a lot of fun shootingfor it in Delhi,” he said.

For now, he is upbeat about co-host-ing IIFA Rocks with Kartik Aaryan.

Performing live is somethingAyushmann loves. “Live performance isinstant gratification... You get to knowabout the audience instantly and improviseinstantly. So, I think it has its own charm.”

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tion around with filmbuffs awaiting therelease of the Ocean's8, Indians can alsolook forward to aunique shared con-nection. Hogging thelimelight is The JeanneToussaint necklacerecreated by Cartierespecially for the film.

Initially designedby Jacques Cartier in1931 for the Maharajaof Nawanagar, theneckpiece had to berecreated using sketch-es and old pho-tographs to fit the neckof a woman. The orig-inal necklace featured136.25 carat Queen ofHolland diamonddescribed as a“Cascade Of ColouredDiamonds.” Sadly, thenecklace no longer exists in its original form. It was dismantled and its dia-monds used to create other pieces making it a beautiful story indeed. Full oflustrous diamonds and high-fashion, this is a movie you definitely wouldn’twant to miss.

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Lionel Messi's World Cupdream was left hanging bya thread as Croatia pow-

ered into the last 16 with a 3-0rout of Argentina here.

Second-half goals fromAnte Rebic, Luka Modric andIvan Rakitic sealed a deservedvictory as a poor Argentinawere left on the brink of ahumiliating first round exit onThursday.

The Group D defeat meansArgentina have just one pointfrom two games, meaning theywill probably have to beatNigeria in their last game andhope other results go their wayto avoid elimination.

The result left Argentinianfans in tears inside the NizhnyNovgorod stadium, while DiegoMaradona watched from thestands in stunned disbelief.

Croatia took the lead aftera horrendous blunder by

Argentine goalkeeper WillyCaballero in the 53rd minute,the stopper chipping a clearancestraight to Rebic who lashedhome a thunderous volley.

Real Madrid star Modricthen produced an electrifying80th-minute goal before Messi'sBarcelona team-mate Rakiticcompleted the scoring afterCroatia sliced apart Argentina'shapless defence in injury time.

The defeat leaves theArgentinians facing an igno-

minious repeat of their 2002campaign when they also wentout at the group stage afterbeing tipped as possible WorldCup winners.

All the attention after the 3-0 defeat will focus on Argentinaand Messi but it was also theresult of a fine performance byCroatia.

With all the pre-matchattention on Messi it was hisReal Madrid counterpart LukaModric who provided the

game's true flashes of genius.The Croatian was the one

player to find space and time ina bruising encounter and itwas his moment of magic in thesecond half which settled theencounter.

Picking the ball up some 25yards outside the Argentinaarea, Modric had the option ofat least two passes but chose tobide his time before planting afantastic shot past a haplessCaballero.

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The party at the Buenos Aires fanzonefell flat as a crowd expecting a

Messi-inspired Argentina World Cuprevival could only watch in horror atas the nadir of Nizhny Novgorodunfolded.

"We lost very badly, they reallyhumiliated us this time," said 22-year-old Joaquin.” "And now, on topof that, we're depending on Nigeria!"

After the abject 3-0 loss to Croatia,the team will have to beat Nigeria in theirfinal game and hope other results go theirway to advance.

For even the most passionate fanshere, that seems a tall order now. LionelMessi came in for particular criticismafter an under-par performance."Messi, who keeps winning forBarcelona, who continues to delivertriumph after triumph for Barcelona,has given us nothing but defeats andsadness," said an angry Miguel Angel,wearing an "Albiceleste" wig.

But this was no party in Buenos Airesas fans young and old hid their sky blue-and-white painted faces in their hands, the clas-sic reflexes of cinemagoers at a horror movie. Somewept and others hugged each other like survivors at a disaster scene. One manstood and gestured angrily at the big screen as passes went astray on the pitchin Russia.

"We are very sad because it's all wrong! Just look at the dollar, we are verytired of everything. We trusted in this team," a despondent Dominguez, saidfrom under his blue-and-white-striped hat, which said "Messi 10".

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Ahmed Musa gave Nigeria theirfirst win at this year's World Cup,

and gave Argentina a gift.Musa scored two second-half

goals to help the Nigerians beatIceland 2-0 Friday and move into sec-ond place in the group behindalready-qualified Croatia.

Musa gave Nigeria the lead in the49th minute after Victor Mosessprinted deep into the Iceland halfand curled a cross to the near post.Musa deftly controlled the ball beforeslamming it past Iceland goalkeeperHannes Halldorsson on the half-vol-ley.

He doubled the lead in the 75th.Picking up the ball on the left side ofthe Iceland penalty area, Musa mazedhis way past Halldorsson and pickedhis spot in the Iceland goal.

Iceland had a chance to get oneback but Gylfi Sigurdsson sent apenalty kick way over the Nigeria barin the 83rd minute. The penalty wasawarded after a video review showedthat Alfred Finnbogason had beenbrought down by Tyronne Ebuehi.

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Lionel Messi sloped off down thetunnel in Nizhny Novgorod with

his head bowed, knowing Argentinaface the humiliation of a group-stageexit at the World Cup in Russia.

The Barcelona star was silencedby a far superior Croatia side in abrutal 3-0 defeat that left the SouthAmericans needing an unlikelyseries of results to keep their hopesof reaching the knockout stagesalive.

The World Cup is likely to losethe man who - along with Portugal'sCristiano Ronaldo - has dominatedand defined football for a decade.

Messi is just days short of his31st birthday. We may be witnessinghim on football's biggest stage for thefinal time - a talent curiously unful-filled at international level despite hisastonishing feats for his club.

Argentina lost the 2014 WorldCup final 1-0 to Germany after extratime, before suffering successivedefeats by Chile on penalties in CopaAmerica finals in 2015 and 2016.

Messi hinted before the start ofthis World Cup that he could quitinternational football after the tour-nament, having already retired in 2016before swiftly reversing his decision.

After missing a penalty in theopening 1-1 draw with Iceland inArgentina's first game in Russia,there was little doubt Messi waslooking to atone against Croatia.

But he appeared tense even beforekick-off, his body language betrayinga man feeling the weight of expecta-tions as he nervously rubbed his fore-

head amid deep contemplation dur-ing the national anthems.

An early darting run within sec-onds of the start suggested it couldbe his night, but it was not to be.

Messi was almost invisible as hewas restricted to just 20 touches inan alarmingly subdued first half.

Only strike partner SergioAguero (seven) was less involved,with even goalkeeper WillyCaballero seeing the ball more fre-quently.

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take Argentina to theWorld Cup hadpapered over gapingcracks, rescuing theircampaign at the last,but the faultlineswere plain to see onThursday.

He desperatelydropped back just infront of the defenceat times to collectthe ball but wasrepeatedly greeted bya wall of blackCroatia shirts.

Two late goalsdrove a dagger into

Argentina's heart andMessi's flickering hopes, leavingthe five-time world player of the yearseemingly destined never to winfootball's greatest prize. It is all instark contrast to the heroics of hiseternal rival Cristiano Ronaldo,who already has four goals at theWorld Cup.

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An early German exit from theWorld Cup seems unthinkable, but

that could be the grim reality for thereigning champions unless they get thebetter of Sweden this weekend.

Still, at leastthey know exactlywhere the dangeris coming from.The main creativethreat in JanneAndersson's prin-cipally solid,unspectacular side

lies in the shape of Emil Forsberg, oneof the most talented wide attackers inEurope.

"I'm a big fan of Emil Forsberg, he'sa great player," said Germany defend-er Mats Hummels when asked if any-one in the Scandinavians' side couldmake it into the World Cup holders'

line-up.Bayern Munich defender

Hummels and his international team-mates are well placed to comment onForsberg's ability.

The 26-year-old has come toRussia on the back of two outstandingseasons in the Bundesliga with RBLeipzig, and on Saturday evening, at

the Fisht Stadium by the Black Sea, hewill come up against a German sidefeaturing his club colleague TimoWerner.

The Germans came early to Sochito acclimatise to the heat as they lookto stave off talk of a crisis following their1-0 defeat to Mexico, with which theybegan their trophy defence.

In contrast, the Swedes — whostunned Italy in a play-off to qualify —travel down the coast from their peace-ful base in the resort of Gelendzhik inrather more buoyant mood after beat-ing South Korea 1-0.

If Mexico beat the Koreans earlieron Saturday, a draw for Sweden againstthe Germans would probably con-demn Joachim Loew's side to an earlyexit in Group F — Sweden could thenplay against the Mexicans in their finalgame knowing a point would take themboth through.

The Germans have work to do after

a disjointed opening performance.Worryingly, they were especiallyexposed at full-back, with JoshuaKimmich posted missing time andagain on the right. Mexico's goal camefrom their left-winger Hirving Lozano.

Forsberg, who has been linkedwith a big-money move to the PremierLeague, did not stand out againstSouth Korea as Sweden won thanks toan Andreas Granqvist penalty.

So he may feel he has something toprove against Germany.

"We don't play as Mexico play, weare not the same type of players," wascaptain Granqvist's assessment of thegame.

He said the team needed to staysolid, as they did in qualifying match-es, especially against Italy and France.

"We need to be very compact whenwe win the ball, have our own offensivegame, create some chances, and keepthe ball as much as possible."

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After more than 90 minutes ofaggravation and exasperation,Neymar and Brazil finally broke

through Costa Rica's smotheringdefence.

Philippe Coutinho scored in thefirst minute of stoppage time, andNeymar followed six minutes later togive Brazil a 2-0 victory over CostaRica on Friday at the World Cup.

Unlike Argentina and LionelMessi, Brazil are still in a good posi-tion to advance to the round of 16.Costa Rica have been eliminated.

"The responsibility is huge whenyou are playing for the national team,"Coutinho said. "You have to be men-tally strong from the beginning untilthe end. We fought until the end andwe were rewarded."

Neymar dropped to his kneesafter the final whistle, sobbing in hishands as his teammates surroundedhim and then lifted him off theground.

"We know he had a difficult injury,he went through a very bad patch,"Coutinho said through a translator,referring to Neymar breaking a bonein his right foot four months ago. "Buthis joy at being on the pitch is conta-gious."

A few minutes before the end,Neymar flopped backward to initial-ly earn a penalty, but the contact wasso exaggerated that the referee reversedthe call after using video review.Neymar then angrily punched the balla short time later as Costa Rica's play-ers tried to waste time. It earnedBrazil's biggest star a yellow card.

"The joy, the satisfaction and thepride of representing the nationalteam is a lot," Brazil coach Tite said,defending Neymar. "He has theresponsibility, the pressure. Everyoneshows it in their own way."

Neymar seemed panicked for mostof the second half as his shots sailed

over the bar or simply missed themark, and he complained over near-ly every call. In danger of ending in adraw, Brazil seemed nervous but com-posed themselves through the sevenminutes of injury time.

Coutinho was first to get the ballpast goalkeeper Keylor Navas. Risingsuperbly to meet a header fromMarcelo's cross, Roberto Firmino

nodded the ball down to strikerGabriel Jesus, who then flicked it to asprinting Coutinho in the penalty area.

In the seventh minute of injurytime, Douglas Costa whipped in across from the right and Neymardeftly tapped it into the net.

Both Firmino and Costa had comeon as substitutes in the second half.

"I think Brazil's changes made an

impact," Costa Rica coach OscarRamirez said. "It became very difficultfor us."

Brazil have four points in GroupE and play Serbia in their final matchin Moscow on Wednesday. CostaRica have zero points and cannotadvance.

After a drab and scrappy first halfat St Petersburg Stadium, Brazil came

out energized and the chances piledup. Jesus put a header onto the cross-bar, and Neymar's hurried shot curledwide.

In Brazil's opening 1-1 drawagainst Switzerland, Neymar had beenfouled 10 times, sometimes harshly.But he was also in theatrical modeagainst Costa Rica, tumbling over dra-matically when touched.

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Belgium take on Tunisia onSaturday with their eyes set on

the knockout round of the WorldCup but fearful that star forwardEden Hazard is set for anotherbruising encounter.

The Belgianswant to win atthe SpartakStadium inMoscow to avoidmaking theirfinal group gameagainst Englandon June 28 amake-or-breakqualification affair.

The Red Devils opened theiraccount in Russia with a 3-0 winover Panama on Monday, whenRomelu Lukaku netted twice, butHazard was tightly marked andoccasionally clattered by the CentralAmerican opponents.

Belgium coach RobertoMartinez hopes the Chelsea playerwill not get the same treatment fromTunisia.

"It is a worry that in any of thosetackles he could really get hurt," saidBelgium's Spanish coach.

"It doesn't worry me if that is just

their way of trying to stop him."History favours the Belgians.

They are yet to lose to African oppo-sition at a World Cup, while Tunisiahave never beaten a European sideat the finals.

The experienced OussamaHaddadi is set to replace Ali Maaloulat left-back in the Tunisian defenceand Martinez saw plenty of danger

for his team in the north Africans'opening 2-1 defeat to England.

"They have a lot of bravery andthey're very dynamic," Martinezsaid.

"The players have a good under-standing between each others andthey can bring energy and intensi-ty on counter-attacks. They playdirect, efficient football."

After seeing Lukaku and DriesMartens grab the goals againstPanama, Hazard wants to add somegoals of his own.

Belgium, ranked third in theworld, reached the quarter-finals ofBrazil 2014 and are aiming to matchtheir previous best of reaching thesemi-finals at Mexico 1986.

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Aconfident Mexico will be eyeing theirsecond win to seal a pre-quarterfinal

berth when they take on South Korea in aGroup F match of the 2018 FIFA WorldCup at the Rostov Arena here on Saturday.

The South Americans were impressiveduring their 1-0 win over defending cham-pions Germany in their campaign openerwhere they put onone of the bestteam perfor-mances.

Meanwhile,the Asian side willbe under pressureafter going down0-1 to Sweden onMonday and arefacing theprospect of beingeliminated at thegroup stage in a second consecutive WorldCup.

Korea head coach Shin Tae-yong willcertainly be wanting something specialfrom his side to keep themselves alive inthe mega event.

The Koreans played well in their firstmatch, but found the going tough against

the tall, physically strong Swedes.While the Koreans did well

in the midfield, the well-organised Swedendefence coupled with the Europeans' phys-ical advantage proved too much for them.

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His meticulous build-up plan wasthrown haywire by injury but fit-again Indian cricket captain Virat

Kohli on Friday said missing the much-anticipated county stint before the tour ofEngland has turned out to be a blessingin disguise.

"In hindsight, when I look at it now,it's the best thing that has happened forme. I wanted to go and experience as thisis the place where we haven't played somuch as there's big gap of four years andyou forget what conditions were when youplayed last time," Kohli said in a press con-ference ahead of team's departure for UKon Friday night.

"I would have gone there feeling 90percent rather than 110 percent that I feelright now. I would rather be like this as Ineeded to be fresh for the tour. Althoughnot intended but this is the best thing tohave happened," he added.

His poor show during the last tour ofEngland had come under intense scruti-ny but Kohli feels that critics have "heldon" to the 2014 tour for far "too long".

Kohli's technical deficiency outsidethe off stump was exposed by JamesAnderson as he failed to get a single halfcentury in the five Test series that Indialost 1-3.

Asked if he is a better batsman, Kohlidid express his displeasure at the repeat-ed reference to the 2014 tour.

"I think lot of people have held on tothe last tour of England for too long. Ithink we have had the Champions Trophy(2017) in between and it wasn't held inBangladesh," the sarcasm wasn't lost onanyone.

That he doesn't like the same questionagain and again was proved as he spokeabout how he looks at a tour.

Asked about his targets this time, hesaid: "I was asked this on the last tour ofEngland as well. I said I want to walkaround and have coffee. So my thinkingis different when I go on tour as I try toliterally to enjoy the country.

"I know when I am in good zone I playwell. I can't think like other people thatoh I need to do well. I know what I haveto face out there in the middle," the skip-

per gave a pointed reply.The skipper made it clear that he is

available for the first T20 against Irelandin Dublin on June 27.

"I am hundred percent ready to go.The neck is fine now. I have had six toseven sessions in Mumbai. I have hadgood practice and I am absolutely readyto go.

"I went through a fitness test as wellso body is feeling fine. Actually I am readyto get back to the field which is a very rarething when you play so much cricket. Thiskind of break makes you excited to go backto field again," he added.

He reacted sharply when asked aboutwhat the team strategy will be.

"Strategy will remain the same that itwas in all the previous series. Strategynever changes from series to series. It onlyhappens with those who don't havepatience. If we start thinking like you peo-ple then it will be a problem," he stated.

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Patil may have been scathing in his criticismfor YoYo test being a benchmark for gettinginto the Indian team but head coach RaviShastri and skipper Virat Kohli made theirstand clear - you pass the test, you play forIndia.

While Shastri in his inimitable mannerwas clear that YoYo test is here to stay, Kohli

said that one should look at it as a "hard call"that benefits the team rather than beingemotional.

Recently, one of IPL's top scorersAmbati Rayudu failed to clear the 16.1 markdespite scoring 600 plus runs in IPL. Thissparked a debate with former selection com-mittee chairman Patil openly questioning thepolicy decision.

When Shastri was asked at the team's

pre-departure media interaction ahead of theUK tour, he was straight forward in hisresponse.

"You have a certain ability but if you arefit then you can enhance it. That's why weemphasise on YoYo test. If anyone thinks thatthis is a one-off thing, he is sadly mistaken.He can take a walk," Shastri said in his typ-ical no-nonsense style.

"Philosophy is simple -- you pass youplay, you fail, you fail. This is not going togo anywhere. The captain leads from thefront, selectors are on same page, entire teammanagement is on the same page and boyshave responded tremendously well," the for-mer India captain made it clear as to wherehe stood on the issue.

Speaking in the same vein, Kohli citedan example as to how the YoYo test para-meter has been a proof of stamina andendurance for a fast bowler like JaspritBumrah.

"People might not be able to see a small

thing that happens when you play a partic-ular Test match but I think that makes a mas-sive difference," Kohli said.

"We are a team that wants to travel well.Jasprit Bumrah was bowling 144 kmph inhis last spell during the final Test. That'swhen one's fitness comes in. When you havepeople who are fit, hungry and ready, thenyou are not only competing but also win-ning matches," the skipper added.

"Either you get emotional and let go(chuck) a policy or take hard calls and moveahead with the system. All those things havecome together nicely and we are looking for-ward towards playing some real hard crick-et. We are looking forward towards playingdifficult cricket as that's the only way we willbe able to test ourself as a team," Kohli signedoff.

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ners and it has enough experience in bothbowling and batting to outwit hosts Englandduring the upcoming series, said formercoach Anil Kumble.

"We have a great side and an all-roundside. In bowling we have the experience andbowlers who can take 20 wickets consis-tently. If you look at the batting line-up, ithas a lot of experience as well," he said.

"On average, all the players have playedclose to 50 Tests. That adds a lot of value andits not the first time that they are touringEngland. They have all been there before andthey are familiar with the conditions,"Kumble said.

The former skipper feels India have thebest spinners in the world, adding, playingin the second half of the summer inEngland would help the visitors.

"We have the best spinners in the worldand even in terms of conditions the fact thatwe are playing in the second-half will helpour cause. We have a great opportunity towin the series. We shouldn't have a prob-lem operating with Duke ball," he added.

The spin legend said wrist spinnerswould play an important part in Englandthis time."Wrist spinners will certainly be ahandful and they will certainly play animportant part in England since this timewe are touring in the second half. The wristspinners will come into the game much ear-lier than the first half of the summer,” he said.

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Concerned by a spate of runfests recently, Indian cricket

icon Sachin Tendulkar has criti-cised the use of two new balls inODIs, saying it is "a perfect recipefor disaster", a view endorsed bynone other than current India cap-tain Virat Kohli.

Mostly a reticent commenta-tor, Tendulkar shared his point ofview after watching England bats-men go on a rampage againstAustralia in the last two ODIs.

"Having 2 new balls in oneday cricket is a perfect recipe fordisaster as each ball is not given thetime to get old enough to reverse.We haven't seen reverse swing, anintegral part of the death overs, fora long time," Tendulkar tweetedfrom his official handle.

Kohli on his part agreed thatthe game has become increasing-ly "brutal" for bowlers especially ifthe pitch is flat.

"I think it's brutal for thebowlers. I have played ODI crick-et when there was only one newball allowed and reverse swingused to be a massive factor in thelatter half of the innings, which Ithink as a batsman was more chal-lenging," Kohli said.

England posted a worldrecord 481 for 6 against Australia

in the third ODI, bettering theirown record of 444 vs Pakistan. Inthe next ODI, England chaseddown a target of 312 inside 45overs.

Tendulkar's view wasendorsed by Pakistan's legendarymaster of reverse swing WaqarYounis.

"Reason why we don't pro-duce many attacking fastbowlers..They all very defensive intheir approach...Always lookingfor change ups..Totally agree withyou @sachin_rt reverse swing isalmost vanished," Younis tweetedin response Tendulkar.

"I don't think it's trend but it'sabout the time of the year. Pitchesbehave differently at different

times of the year and this is sup-posed to be hottest and driestphase we are also going to end up.I have read a lot about two newballs and a lot of those things. Iagree its brutal for bowlers. There'shardly any room for attackingcricket left for bowler's point ofview if there isn't anything in thewicket," Kohli further said.

The ICC had introduced twonew balls from two ends afteramending it's playing rules back inOctober 2011.

Interestingly, BCCI was oneboard that protested the movequestioning the diminishing roleof spinners due to this new ruletweak.

However, ICC has stuck to itin its efforts to make the gamebatsman-friendly.

The logic given was the dis-coloration of the white ball dur-ing the end of the innings andbatsmen not being able to sight itproperly especially in the dustysub-continental conditions underlights.

The current rule means thatthe white kookaburra is bowled foronly 25 overs from one end.

Therefore when the spinners,who are introduced in the middleovers, are handed the ball, theyeffectively bowl with a ball that ishardly 8 to 9 overs old.

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England captain Eoin Morganhopes his side can maintain

their "new level of intensity"after moving to within sight of afirst 5-0 one-day internationalseries whitewash of Australia.

Morgan's men, the numberone-ranked side in this format,beat Australia by six wickets atChester-le-Street on Thursday.

Set an ODI ground record of311 to win, England finished on314 for four with more than fiveovers to spare after Jason Roy(101) hit his second hundred ofthe series.

Following their century part-nership during England's 481 forsix - the highest total in men'sODI cricket, Roy and Bairstow(79) again overwhelmed a noviceAustralia attack while putting on174 for the first wicket.

There was a brief wobblewhen both openers fell in quicksuccession, but Jos Buttler'sunbeaten 54 put the resultbeyond doubt.

This latest victory leftEngland 4-0 up in the five-match series against world cham-

pions Australia heading intoSunday's finale at Old Trafford.

It was further confirmationof England's dramatically alteredapproach to one-day cricketafter a humiliating first-roundexit at the 2015 World Cup.

England, the 2019 hosts, arenow among the favouritesalthough, following last year'ssemi-final loss to Pakistan inCardiff, doubts remain over theirability to cope with the particu-lar pressures of winner-takes-allknockout games.

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The Indian hockey team would be aim-ing for a fresh start, putting behind

the disappointment of a poorCommonwealth Games campaign, whenit begins its pursuit of a maidenChampions Trophy title, taking on arch-rivals Pakistan in the opening clash, hereon Saturday.

Asian champions India have neverwon the Champions Trophy in its last 36editions but will be hoping to claim thefeat in the tournament's last edition here.

The best India has fared in the tour-nament was the runners-up finish at the2016 event in London, losing to Australiain a shoot-out.

World's best six teams compete in theChampions Trophy and this year's line-up include reigning Olympic championsArgentina, world no 1 Australia, Belgium,hosts Netherlands, Pakistan besidesIndia.

India will open against Pakistanbefore taking on Argentina (on June 24),Australia (June 27), Belgium (June 28)and Netherlands (June 30).

Even though India (6th) are wayahead of Pakistan (13th) in the worldrankings, but there is hardly any gapbetween the two teams when it comes tothe head-to-head contests.

India-Pakistan encounters on thehockey turf have always been full ofdrama and controversies with adrenalinerunning high on both the sides.

And come on Saturday it won't beany different as both the neighbours

would be eager to prove the other wrong.Going by ranking and results of late,

India will start favourites.But under former India coach and

High Performance Manager, RoelantOltmans, Pakistan surprised India by

scoring a late equaliser to earn a draw inthe Commonwealth Games this year.

In Gold Coast, India fielded a lot ofyoungsters dropping a senior like SardarSingh, but Harendra is in no mood tocontinue with the experimentation andhas selected a strong squad purely on thebasis of form in the recent national camp.

Goalkeeper PR Sreejesh has got thecaptaincy from Manpreet Singh, while SVSunil and Sardar, who is just two gamesaway from reaching 300 internationalcaps, has been recalled to the side.

The 2014 Champions Trophy silvermedallists Pakistan may have finishedseventh at the CWG, but that result hidesthe fact that they went through the eventcompletely unbeaten.

Pakistan's squad selected by Oltmansis a blend of experience and youth, withcaptain Muhammad Rizwan Sr being oneof eight players to have surpassed the 100international appearances milestone.

Shafqat Rasool is the most cappedplayer in the group with 190 senior inter-national appearances.

In other matches of the opening day,home favourites and European champi-ons Netherlands will play Olympic andPan American champions Argentina,while reigning champions Australia willtake on Olympic silver-medallistsBelgium.

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Roger Federer stepped up his grass gameas the start of Wimbledon looms, hold-

ing off Australian Matt Ebden 7-6 (7/2), 7-5 in their quarter-final at the ATP Hale tour-nament on Friday.

With his world No 1 ranking on the line,the Swiss is sparing no effort to make surehe lifts a tenth title at the event on Sunday.

Failure to win the grass title would sendrival Rafael Nadal back to the top spot. Thefirst set on Friday was decided in a tiebreak-er while the Swiss had to twice recover froma break down in the second to secure a tightvictory in 88 minutes.

Federer set up match point with a flick-ing backhand pass and then sealed his semi-final place as Ebden returned long.

The victory was the 18th in a row ongrass for the 36-year-old Federer, who lastlost on his favourite surface in an openingmatch in Stuttgart a year ago, although the20-time Grand Slam champion atoned lastweekend, winning the Stuttgart tournamentfor the first time.

Now Federer is having to work to winat Halle, the German replica venue whichmimics the All England club, and then makehis final preparation at Wimbledon itselfbefore that tournament starts on July 2.

Ebden did not make it easy for Federer,staying with the Swiss into the first-set tie-breaker. The Aussie double-faulted to handover four set points but one was enough asFederer hit a backhand service return win-ner. In the second set, Ebden broke Federertwice and served for the set at 5-4 only forthe Swiss to break back for a second time.

Federer will next take on qualifier DenisKudla, who scored the best grass victory ofhis career as he beat Japan's Yuichi Sugita 6-2, 7-5.

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