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W the single largest party
but missing its target of achiev-
ing majority on its own in
Maharashtra and losing the
numbers it got in 2014, alliance
Shiv Sena is likely to go for a
hard bargain in the
Government formation. Sena
chief Uddhav Thackeray said it
is time to implement “fifty-
fifty” formula for power-shar-
ing.
Shiv Sena leader Sanjay
Raut on Thursday said his
party and the BJP will form the
next Government in
Maharashtra, and stressed the
two parties will stick to the pre-
decided “50-50” sharing for-
mula.
With the early trends sug-
gesting the NCP and the
Congress collectively fairing
better than the 2014 polls,
Raut ruled out the possibility of
the Shiv Sena joining hands
with the Opposition parties to
form the Government.
“The BJP and Shiv Sena
will form Government in
Maharashtra,” he told reporters
here.
Asked about the possibili-
ty of the Shiv Sena embracing
the NCP and Congress to form
Government, Raut said, “No,
we fought the polls in alliance
with the BJP. We will go ahead
with the tie-up. There will be
no change in the pre-decided
50-50 formula.”
He said Shiv Sena president
Uddhav Thackeray and Chief
Minister Devendra Fadnavis
will hold talks on implement-
ing the formula.
On the Congress and NCP
collectively fairing better than
the 2014 polls in the State, Raut
said the Opposition also needs
to be strong in a democracy.
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hief Minister Raghubar
C Das today asked Deputy
Commissioners of all 24 dis-
tricts of the State to ensure that
the poor and needy families get
houses under different schemes
run by Centre and the State at
the earliest.
The CM, while talking to
DCs through Video
Conferencing, said on
Thursday to organise camps for
the purpose and ensure that no
one is devoid of a house in the
State at any cost.
The CM said that the
Government is working deter-
minedly to provide housing to
poor and homeless people.
“This is the reason that the
Deputy Commissioners of all
the Districts have been empow-
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He noted that NCP chief
Sharad Pawar “using his expe-
rience” and fanning parts of the
state also gave some success to
the Opposition party.
“But we are also winning
seats in good number,” the
Rajya Sabha member added.
On BJP candidate
Udayanraje Bhosale trailing
against NCP’s Srinivas Patil in
the Satara Lok Sabha seat
bypoll, Raut said the former
“was to face defeat”.
Bhosale quit the NCP
recently to join the BJP.
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he result of the bypolls for
T the 51 Assembly seats in 11
States, including politically
important Gujarat, Bihar and
Uttar Pradesh, came as wake-
up call for the BJP-led NDA on
Monday.
The BJP conceded ground
to the Opposition in Gujarat
and Uttar Pradesh, while its ally
Janata Dal(U) suffered a bloody
nose in Bihar.
The BJP lost the prestigious
Satara Lok Sabha bypoll in
Maharashtra. However, the
Samastipur (SC) Lok Sabha
constituency.
In Gujarat, influential OBC
leader Alpesh Thakor, who
recently joined the saffron
party, lost to the Congress can-
didate. The Congress and the
BJP shared three seats each in
the stronghold of the Prime
Minister and the BJP president.
The BJP also presented a
ered under the Ambedkar
Awas Yojana to allot 250-250
houses to the leftover poor at
their discretion. If such cases
are more, then the districts,
which have DMFT funds or the
amount of aspirational dis-
tricts, should also provide
housing to the homeless.In
this, give priority to widows,
OBCs, people of primitive trib-
al community,” he said.
Das also asked the DCs to
ensure that there should be toi-
let in every house.
“Send the approval list to
the Chief Minister's Office by
October 28. The houses are to
be allotted under the Pradhan
Mantri Awas Yojana, Baba
Saheb Bhimrao Ambedkar
Yojana, Birsa Awas Yojana and
Ved Vyas Yojana. Ensure that
the first installment is credited
in the accounts of beneficiaries
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As per the results, the BJP
and the Shiv Sena won 105
seats and 56 seats respectively.
The Opposition NCP and
the Congress got 54 and 44
seats respectively.
In his first Press conference
after the BJP emerged as the
single largest party in
Maharashtra, Chief Minister
Devendra Fadnavis on
Thursday said his party’s strike
rate has been the best ever in
the history of the state even
though it won fewer seats com-
pared to the Assembly polls in
seats went to the Opposition,
but the saffron outfit did com-
paratively better in Uttar
Pradesh, where it managed to
retain seven out of 11 seats.
In Madhya Pradesh,
Congress wrested its tradi-
tional Jhabua Assembly seat
from the BJP.
In Rajasthan also, the
Congress increased its tally in
the State legislature by one
after winning the Assembly
bypolls to Mandawa, while MP
Hanuman Beniwal’s Rashtriya
Loktantrik Party retained the
Khinwsar seat.
The BJP and its allies had
held nearly 30 of the 51
Assembly seats, while the
Congress had won 12 and the
rest were with regional parties.
Among the States ruled by
the BJP and its allies, elections
were held for 11 seats in UP,
followed by six in Gujarat, five
in Bihar, four in Assam and two
each in Himachal Pradesh and
Tamil Nadu.SP candidate from
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before Chhath,” he said.
The CM said that to speed ed and the administration will
up the work, the cooperation of provide its full corporation.”
Sakhi Mandal, Rani Mistry etc
can be taken.
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2014.
“I thank the people of
Maharashtra for giving a clear
mandate to the ‘mahayuti’
next Government will be ours,”
he said.
“In fact, it is time to cele-
brate and not analyse. But if we
look at the result, the BJP had
in 2014 contested 260 seats and
won 122. This time, we fought
164 and are likely to get 105.
Our strike is rate better, we won
70% of the seats,” said Fadnavis.
Noting that he BJP received
28% of the total votes in the
2014 Assembly elections, he
said, “This time we have got
26.5% of the votes despite con-
testing 164 seats.”
The BJP contested on 164
of the 288 seats in the state
while its ally, the Shiv Sena,
fought on 124. Fadnavis said
that 15 Independent and rebel
candidates are in touch with
him. Indirectly hinting at the
Sena’s claim for the Chief
Minister’s post, Fadnavis said
the Opposition had performed
better and managed to win
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Rampur, Uttar Pradesh, Tazeen
Fatima, who is a Rajya Sabha
member and also wife of con-
troversial SP leader and MP
from the constituency Azam
Khan, has scored victory over
the BJP candidate. The BJP has
won seven Assembly seats in
UP with one going to party of
Apana Dal (Sone Lal) and
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n an attempt to revive the
dying art of pottery and pro-
mote the numerous potters of
the State during the festivals of
Diwali and Chhath, the
Jharkhand Mati Kala Board has
instructed all the district
administration officials across
Jharkhand to allow artisans
for the sale of earthen diyas,
jugs, washable cups and saucers
and other artifacts at various
crossings and popular market
places.
Ranchi Deputy
Commissioner Rai Mahimapat
Ray said, “The potters display
same across the City. The direc-
tive issued will be implement-
Gumla DC, Shashi Ranjan,
said that adequate steps are
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more seats. “The Opposition
won many seats,” he said.
Fadnavis also hit out at
Nationalist Congress Party
(NCP) chief Sharad Pawar,
stating the veteran leader said
the Opposition parties would
ensure a clean sweep in the
election.
“We suffered only because
of the rebels, they (Opposition)
need not be happy. We only are
forming the government, they
are far from being able to do
that,” he said.
Fadnavis’s statement came
minutes after Sena chief
Uddhav Thackarey said there
was a 50-50 deal with the BJP
and it should be clear as to who
should be the Chief Minister.
In 2014, the BJP had won
122 seats in the state and the
Sena 63 — effectively making
the Narendra Modi-Amit
Shah-led BJP the “big brother”
in the alliance.
The traditional alliance
between the two has since
been stormy, with the Sena
repeatedly attacking the BJP on
different fronts.
three seats cornered by the SP.
The BSP which contested sep-
arately from the SP (unlike
2019 Lok Sabha alliance),
scored a duck.
The NDA in Bihar pre-
sented very poor show in by-
elections to five Assembly seg-
ments of the State, seen by
some as the “semi-final” ahead
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of the State. “Like every year the
artisans can display their prod-
ucts at popular markets. In case
they are looking for a specific
place adequate arrangements
will also be made.
The administration is also
appealing to the citizens to buy
to use clay diyas for Diwali and
trying to promote this craft,”
said Ranjan. Ranchi Municipal
Commissioner Manoj Kumar
said that no action will be taken
against these sellers for Diwali
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t is not the kind of Diwali
IHaryana.
which the BJP wanted in
Riding high on the
slogan of “over 75 this time”
and abrogation of Article 370,
the saffron party was reduced
to 40 seats with a resurgent
Opposition gaining strength
due to agrarian crisis and grow-
ing unemployment.
In a hung verdict, which
has opened the doors for back-
door negotiations and new
political realignments, several
new political possibilities of
Government formation
emerged and the BJP clearly
has the advantage with the
numbers.
In the new Assembly, BJP
remains the single largest party
and would stake its claim to
form the Government.
However, the biggest riddle
for the party would be to get
the requisite numbers to get a
majority in the 90-member
House. In such a scenario, the
fledgling Jananayak Janata
Party (JJP) holds the key.
The JJP — the surprise
package this election and the
true inheritors of the legacy of
Jat leader Chaudhary Devi Lal
— would take a call on extend-
ing support on Friday.
Government sources indi-
cated that Governor Satyadev
Narayan Arya would invite the
single largest party BJP to form
the Government and the frac-
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of the Vidhan Sabha polls
scheduled next year. While the
RJD won two seats, one each
seat went to All India Majlis-e-
Itehadil Muslimmeen of
Asaduddin Owaisi, the JD(U),
and an Independent.
But, in Samastipur Lok
Sabha seat, NDA constituent
LJP comfortably retained seat.
and Chhath and they will be
allowed to freely sell their
products on the road sides.
The Jharkhand Mati Kala
Board was formed by the State
government in May 2017. All
district coordinator, block
coordinators and members of
Mukhyamantri Laghu & Kutir
Udyam Vikas Board are also
involved.
The board has also opened
training centres at Gola and
Dunka. The training centre
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tured mandate notwithstand- violent Jat protests of 2016 lies
ing, the party’s Chief Minister shattered to an extent this time
would be sworn in. It will be around.
only after being sworn in that
the backstage managers of the
Barely five months ago in
the Lok Sabha election, the BJP
BJP would become active to get had swept Haryana winning all
support from the JJP, smaller 10 seats. Now its vote share has
parties and the Independents to dipped by over 20 per cent.
prove majority on the floor of Political observers here felt
the House. that after playing the non-Jat
Given the fractured verdict, card consistently over a period
a section of the BJP is con- of five years and consolidating
templating whether Chief other castes, the dominant
Minister Manohar Lal Khattar caste voted “strategically” in
is the best bet at this point of this election giving the
time to lead the party. Congress and the JJP signifi-
His rainbow coalition of cant seats in the Jat belt of the
non-Jat castes following the State at the cost of the BJP.
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ut of the three sporting
O stars fielded by the BJP in
the polls, only one managed to
secure a victory for the party.
The BJP had fielded
Commonwealth wrestling
champion Babita Phogat from
Dadri, Olympic wrestling
medallist Yogeshwar Dutt
from Baroda and former
national hockey team captain
Sandeep Singh from Pehowa.
All three were first-time can-
didates.
Sandeep recorded his
maiden election victory from
Pehowa seat in Kurukshetra
district and defeated Congress
candidate Mandeep Singh
Chathha by a margin of 5,314
votes.
In Dadri, Babita could
secure only third place as an
Independent Sombir won the
seat. Sombir polled 43,849
votes followed by 29,319 of 37,530 votes and Krishan
JJP’s Satpal Sangwan and Hooda secured 42,379 votes.
24,502 of Babita Phogat. The most “famous”
Olympic medallist celebrity candidate of the BJP
Yogeshwar failed to impress — Sonali Phogat — who was
the voters as he was defeated contesting from Adampur
by Congress’ Krishan Hooda against Congress’ Kuldeep
by 4,840 votes. Dutt was polled Bishnoi also lost the election.
operational at Bundu since the He further added that as
last four months has trained per medical research terracot-
four batches of 30 artisans ta products are also very good
each. “The board offers a train- for daily use. By using clay
ing package for a month to the utensils the micro nutrients are
artists. In this package food and saved up to 80 percent which
accommodation are provided are otherwise lost in steel and
free of cost along with a stipend aluminum utensils, hence mak-
of Rs 4500,” said Jharkhand ing it beneficial for the human
Mati Kala Board Chairman
Shrichand Prasad.
body.
The board aims to provide
Using state of the art the craftsmen not only a local
machinery from clay process- market during festivals but
ing to an advanced firing sys- also link them to new markets
tem everything is being devel- including exports and online
oped and upgraded. marketing.
As a part of the prog- “For training the artisans
tamme thousands of potters of Jharkhand, master trainers
across Jharkhand have been from Gujarat and Uttar
given electric ‘chaks’ with an 80 Pradesh have been invited who
per cent subsidy at 20 per will provide them with the
cent. “Taking cue from other skill to make export quality
states like Gujarat, products. At Bundu training
Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh centre Reshma Dutta provides
and Madhya Pradesh and using skilled training to potters,” he
modern technology, baked added.
earthen products are being The products of these
made in Jharkhand and the artists are presently available at
demand, for which is increas- the Jharcraft and Khadi Board
ing by the day,” added Prasad. outlets.
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T Jharkhand State Pollution
Control Board ( JSPCB) will
monitor noise pollution in
several areas, two more than
last year, before and on the day
of Diwali. R N Chaudhary,
regional officer of JSPCB said
that apart from decibel check,
they would also keep a tab on
the ambient air quality on the
day of Diwali.
Given the increase in the
density of the population in the
far-flung areas in the two dis-
tricts over the years the region-
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N A V Homkar, who took
over charge from the outgoing
DIG Vipul Shukla who has
been transferred to Ranchi as
IG police, was on his pre poll
work.
He held a near two hour
meeting with three SPs
Ashwani K Sinha ( Garhwa)
Ajay Linda ( Palamu) and
Prashant Anand ( Latehar)
along with a batter y of
DSPs/SDPOs namely Sandeep
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trol board has identified 18
points where noise level will be
monitored to ascertain the
level of damage inflicted on
environment due to large-
scale fireworks. “The increase
and spread of residential
Gupta, Surjit Kumar, Vijay
Kumar and Shambhu K Singh.
Homkar has joined here as
DIG Palamu just days head of
the imposition of the model
code of conduct by the Election
Commission of India.Sources
said this new man in the hot
seat days ahead of poll sched-
ule announcement is first of its
kind here in this Palamu police
range. Homkar has asked the
SPs to act tough on organised
criminals and Naxalites.
Palamu has a history of orga-
nized criminals and this is to be
colonies to the far-flung areas
has necessitated the increase in
the noise level monitoring
points,” said the officer. The
senior pollution control board
official went on to say that a
team from the regional office
busted said one SDPO
Shambhu K Singh quoting the
DIG, who was in the meeting.
Homkar is learnt to have
stressed on the curbing con-
taining and controlling the
interstate border area Naxalites
and their activities. If Garhwa
and Latehar districts have its
borders with Chhatisgarh
Palamu has a vast porous bor-
der with Bihar. Sources said
naxals at present in all these 3
districts are too down but not
out as any aberration by them
can change scenario here.
already took readings of the
ambient air quality from the
minitoring stations at Bistupur,
Golmuri and Adityapur yes-
terday. “ The readings of noise
pollution and ambient air qual-
ity will be compiled after the
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oncerned over rising
cases of c y bercrime,
District police in association
of HDFC Bank on Thursday
organised a seminar on cyber-
crime at the conference hall
of Cyber police station in
Bistupur. The district police
had invited several officials
from the HDFC for making
the cops aware about the
crime.
About 200 cops attended
the seminar in which officials
explained about the basics on
debit card and credit cards.
The HDFC Bank screened
video clippings of the cyber-
crime related to the fraudu-
lent withdrawal.
Superintendent of police
(Rural) Piyus Pandey inau-
gurated the seminar at around
noon. Pandey while address-
ing the gathering said that the
cybercrime is getting increas-
ingly as a big challenge for the
police department.
"Cybercrime is a major
challenge today. Unlike the
conventional crime, in cyber
crime, the criminals use no
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W lives with safe transfusion
of blood during the scarcity of
Blood, the Vedanta-
Electrosteel Group came for-
ward to donate blood volun-
tarily today at Bokaro.
A total of 150 units of
blood were donated to the Red
Cross Society by the Vedanta-
Electrosteel Group family in
Mega Blood Donation Camp
organised under Corporate
Social Responsibility (CSR) at
the company’s premises in
association with Red Cross
Society, said C P Pandey the
Senior General Manager of
Vedanta - Electrosteel Steels
Limited.
The blood donation camp
was inaugurated by Vijay
Kumar BDO Chas, who also
donated blood along with com-
pany CEO Pankaj Mallahan.
festival. The survey reports
would be sent to the Central
Pollution Control Board (
CPCB)," he said.
According to CPCB guide-
lines, in commercial areas, the
noise limit cannot exceed 65db
between 6am and 9pm, and
55db between 10 pm and 2pm.
In silence zones, the specified
decibel limit between 6am and
9pm is 50 decibels, and it is 40
decibels from 10pm to 2pm.
Last year during the sur-
vey, Sakchi roundabout,
Mango and a residential com-
plex in Sonari was found to be
the noisiest during Diwali due
to large scale bursting of crack-
ers.
While monitoring the
maximum decibel limit at
Sakchi roundabout and Mango
was found to be between 90db
and 120db between 6 pm and
9m on Diwali.
According to information
few places in Baridih, Telco,
Gamharia, Sonari and Mango
have been newly identified for
weapon and their weapons are
internet, mobile phone the
netbanking. We call the
cybercrime a big challenge as
a cyber criminal has not to
come to the field in the open,"
noted the SP (Rural) while
Speaking on the occasion
Kumar said, “Blood donation is
the pious work. It saves the life
of a person. The donator
receives many blessings for
this kind act.” “Donating blood
is the highest form of service of
humanity. At the same time the
donator gets fresh blood and
becomes healthier,” said
Mallahan CEO of the compa-
ny. Any healthy individual aged
between 18 and 60 years and
whose weight is above 50 kg
with more than 12.5 dg/ ml
Haemoglobin contain in the
blood can donate their blood
once in every three months,
said Dr S Mohanty of Red
Cross Society who present in
the camp
Our motto is to eliminate
the myths of blood donation
such as weakness, fear of nee-
dles and infection.
Refreshments and goodies were
also provided to the donors in
the camp, said C P Pandey.
Beside others, Amit
Kumar, K Gupta, S S P Verma,
Praveen Kumar, Dr Rinku
Jaiswal, P Sanyal, Dharmendra
Kumar were present in the
mega camp.
their inclusion in the noise
level monitoring list. Though,
the traditional strategic points
i.e. areas near hospital and
nursing homes will continue to
be on top of the said list.
The officials at the pollu-
tion control office said that
Diwali enthusiast’s interest is
gradually shifting towards
lights decoration and owing to
this there is a marginal
decrease in the bursting of fire-
crackers.
“There is no scientific data
to substantiate the theory but
the current trend suggests that
people are gradually shifting
towards house decoration and
illumination (on Diwali) and
are spending less money on
purchasing firecrackers,” said
an official at the pollution
control board, which he
described as a good sign.
Measurement of noise and
air pollution levels by JSPCB
regional offices will be tabled
and sent to Central Pollution
Control Board (CPCB).
addressing the gathering. He
pointed out to some extent
they are able to detect other
form of cyber crime like post-
ing objectionable materials
on Facebook, putting objec-
tionable materials for arous-
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eople also indulge in shop-
P ping for firecrackers. A
point of caution and moment
to ponder is however whether
or not to indulge in the shop-
ping of firecrackers. This def-
initely calls for a rational think-
ing in terms of opportunity cost
incurred with respect to envi-
ronmental damage vs. some
instant gratification from light-
ing the crackers. This festival
drenched in consumerism also
gives outlet to each individual
household to think for their fel-
low earthen lantern sellers on
the road.
After all it’s a direct com-
petition and a market layout
wherein these earthen lantern
sellers who work for months to
come out with beautiful earth-
en lantern and other decorative
pieces faces tough competition
from the cheap Chinese lights
and statues which are often
seen flooding the Indian mar-
kets . In days of globalised
world, such is the choice
matrix. Typical Diwali cele-
bration also includes gift
exchanges amongst family,
friends et al .The festival thus
gives an opportunity to indulge
in some sort of “welfarism” and
“humanism” as well.
Of late, India has witnessed
a different wave of Online sho-
ponomics. The high demo-
graphic dividend of the coun-
try spread across metro, non
metro, small towns and cities
are found to be glued to the
world of online shopping. With
the penetration of smart
phones in almost each and
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has Municipal Corporation
C (CMC) has geared up to
prevent any untoward inci-
dents on Chhat festival.
Additional Municipal
Commissioner CMC, Sashi
Prakash Jha directed officials to
construct temporary bridges on
water bodies as well as on
swampy Chhath ghats so that
devotees can perform the ritu-
als safely.
“After assessing the condi-
tion of the ghats, we have
decided to construct nine tem-
porary bridges at Garga Rive
because of the areas have
become swampy and hence
dangerous for devotees to per-
form the rituals,” said Jha.
According to our plan the tem-
porary bridges will be con-
structed at Gaay Ghat, near Sun
Temple at Ranapratap Nagar,
ing religious sentiments and
cheating girls by means of
Facebook having created
Facebook account on fake
ID, but are behind detecting
the fraudulent withdrawal.
With the city going hi-
every household across socio-
economic ladder, a one click
shopping spree has become
more of a norm for the
Millenials.
It appears that the part of
India that resides in the oft
away from metros are leaving
no stone unturned to splurge
and be a part of the festival of
shopping. A recent Redseer
report said that e-commerce
companies have hit a gross
merchandise value of $1.8bil-
lion in just the first three days
of the various festive sales
announced by these online
shopping platforms.
More than 90 per cent of
new customers for these came
from Tier 2 and Tier 3 towns
and cities. India has in fact been
the fastest growing online retail
market in 2019 thus far. Such
examples of consumer splurg-
ing amidst the RBI reports of
consumer confidence dipping
to six year low last month
,indeed gives some hope.
It also proves that this is a
new online market economics
that transcends the basic
boundary of economic theory
and is here to stay for long.
After all, Online world of shop-
ping helps to meet the chal-
lenges of diverse geography
and provide an outlet for unsat-
isfied desires and wishes of
Millennials.
This is that time of the year
when Diwali shopping is an
emotion and excessive reliance
on emotions to make eco-
nomic decisions could result in
irrational human behaviour.
This splurging is however
viewed as favourable con-
sumption by most. A research
by AP Dijksterhuis, a psychol-
ogist in Netherlands pointed
out that “Contrary to conven-
tional wisdom, it is not always
advantageous to engage in
thorough conscious delibera-
tions before choosing.
On the basis of recent
insights into the characteristics
of conscious and unconscious
thought, we find that purchas-
Kunwar Singh Colony,
Tallababa Chowk, Bhojpur
Colony, Kailash Nagar, Gandhi
Chowk including others, he
informed. Several water bod-
ies across the city are left chok-
ing on idols, puja parapherna-
lia, plastics and other waste
post immersions for Durga
puja.
In view of the of devotees
traditionally offering prayers to
the Sun god dipping into the
river the CMC held a meeting
in this connection today and
issued a directive for cleaning
it up on a war footing ahead
Chhat which is celebrated with
gaiety and fervour.
The administration has
asked the officials to identify
safe places for Chhat ghats for
offering prayers at the water
bodies across the city, said Jha.
“We are working hard to
ensure safety for devotees.
tech, cyber crime cases are
also on the rise. The crime has
shot up this year, going by the
increasing number of peti-
tions and complaints that the
police are receiving.
The latest trend in cyber
crime is that of sending e-
mails announcing job offers
i.e., appointment letters from
reputed companies wherein
the prospective candidates
are asked to responding to the
mail for a job in upcountry
destinations with reputed cor-
porates. Jamshedpur is one of
the most vulnerable cities in
the country as people here are
generally ignorant.
"In the crime like loot,
robber y murder etc, the
offenders have to remain pre-
sent at the scene of crime and
there is all possibility of get-
ting caught by the police
instantly.
But in a case of cyber
crime, an offender can com-
mit the crime by sitting at a
distant place. The police are
supposed to detect such crime
by making investigation
through the cyber technolo-
gy," said an official.
es of complex products were
viewed more favourably when
decisions had been made in the
absence of attentive delibera-
tions”. Thus, the oft unplanned
Diwali shopping is not that bad
deal.The Neo classical
Economists considered that
ordinarily people (always)
ceteris paribus make rational
economic decisions.
However, people become
irrational when they have
strong emotions and feel
strongly (in our case on the
occasion of Diwali). In the
present times of Minimalism
and Marie Kondo theory,
Diwali provides an exception-
al occasion to go for maximum
shelf purchasing. It is as if the
festive vibes entangled with
shopping zest gives the true
happiness to soul and sparks
the joy. The excessive con-
sumerism that one often asso-
ciates with the festival of lights
is all the more important in the
present times when the econ-
omy needs the perfect dose of
private final consumption
expenditure.
Whether one agrees or not
with the basic preposition of J.S
Mill that demand for com-
modities does not necessarily
leads to demand for labor and
employment or with Keynesian
focus on consumption or with
the tenet of assuming the econ-
omy to be a car with con-
sumption as the steering wheel
or would it be real investment
and savings, it cannot be denied
that this Diwali India needs
dose of consumerism.
So over next two weeks,
like Becky Bloowood of the
Confessions of a Shopaholic
don’t cut back on shopping but
do indulge in intelligent shop-
ping. Happy Shopping!
Concluded
(The writer is an IAS
Officer of Madhya Pradesh
cadre, who originally hails from
Ranchi and the views expressed
in the article are her own.)
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harkhand Mukti Morcha
J (JMM) said on Thursday
that to ensure defeat of ruling
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in
the upcoming State Assembly
Elections, all likeminded par-
ties should gathered at one plat-
form with basic issues of
Jharkhand under leadership
of JMM.
It may be mentioned here
that recently concluded Lok
Sabha election was contested
under Grand Alliance made by
almost all opposition parties
like JMM, Indian National
Congress, former Chief
Minister Babulal Marandi led
Jharkhand Vikas Morcha and
former Chief Minister of Bihar,
Lalu Prasad Yadav led
Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD). At
the time of formation of the
alliance it was decided that the
State Assembly Election will be
fought under same alliance.
Some days earlier
Jharkhand Pradesh Congress
Committee (JPCC) president,
Rameshwar Oraon had said
that the party would contest the
State Assembly Election under
the alliance with which it had
contested Lok Sabha elections.
Addressing a press meet
JMM General Secretar y,
Supriyo Bhattacharya today
said that it is necessary for all
like minded parties to gather at
one platform to ensure defeat
of BJP in the State to stop BJP’s
autocratic behavior.
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The slump in the automo-
bile sector across India has
dampened the sale of cars on
Dhanteras in Ranchi and
Jamshedpur – two Jharkhand
cities that are home to several
automobile enthusiasts, includ-
ing former team India captain
Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
The period between
Dussehra to Diwali is often the
busiest for automobile dealers
here as hundreds of car enthu-
siasts make bookings during
this period and expect delivery
on Dhanteras – a day consid-
ered auspicious for buying valu-
ables.
However, the slowdown in
the automobile sector this year
has led to a depreciation of at
least 30 per cent in bookings on
Dhanteras as compared to last
year, showroom managers said
on Thursday. “There is a
depreciation of at least 30 per
cent in bookings for Dhanteras.
Besides the slump in the auto
sector, the fall in the number of
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“The results of State
Assembly Elections of two
states- Har yana and
Maharashtra have shown that
the people of the State identi-
fied BJP and time has come
when the party will be wiped
out from Jharkhand also. In the
upcoming State Assembly elec-
tions the people of the State
have set their mind to teach a
lesson to BJP,” he added.
“BJP has no issue public
related issues to talk on. The
party is misleading the people
on some futile issues. There are
several burning issues on which
people have some serious
grievances with the
Government like increasing
unemployment, suicide cases of
farmers, increasing cases of
atrocities against women and
price rise of essential com-
modities,” said Bhattacharya.
Upbeat after holding a
huge Badlao Rally in the State
Capital on Saturday the party
has demanded that the State
Assembly Election should be
held on scheduled time.
“After the announcement
of the results of State Assembly
Elections of the two states it
seems that the elections will be
delayed in Jharkhand because
BJP has no courage to hold the
elections on schedule,” said
the General Secretary.
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bookings can also be attributed
to the increase in the registra-
tion cost of vehicles here, which
made cars dearer,” said Rakesh
Jena, showroom manager at
Diara Ford, which received 45
bookings for Dhanteras.
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nion Tribal affairs Minister
Arjun Munda on
Thursday said that Prime
Minister Narendra Modi will
soon nationalize the Van Dhan
scheme. Counting the benefits
of the scheme, he said that it
will help in the empowerment
of tribal society. This scheme
will benefit 5.5 crore tribal
people living in 307 tribal dis-
tricts of 27 states in Country.
The minister claimed that
under the scheme there is plan
to make 30,000 Van Dhan self
help groups, at the same time
one forest wealth development
centre will be built on every 15
self help group clusters.
Packaging and marketing of the
forest products made by tribal
societies will be done through
Van Dhan Vikas Kendra. This
will be done through the exist-
ing retail network. Tribal soci-
ety will be trained at Van Dhan
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T results in Maharashtra and
Haryana has left State BJP
unit worried in Jharkhand
which is going to poll year-end,
Opposition leaders claimed.
The Assembly election results
in both the states are not as per
the expectations of BJP.
While in Haryana, the saf-
fron party failed to reach the
magic number, in Maharashtra
though the BJP, Shiv Sena
alliance has got two third seats
the election results were not as
per the expectations.
The election results in both
the states have given hope to
Opposition camp in Jharkhand
that Modi wave can be
checked. Jharkhand Mukti
Morcha (JMM) executive pres-
ident, Hemant Soren said,
“The Assembly election results
clearly indicate that massive
campaign, misuse of adminis-
trative system and use of
money power can never bring
Showroom staff at Republic
Hyundai, one of the leading
dealers of Hyundai cars in the
State capital, also admitted that
the demand for four wheelers
has gone down this Dhanteras.
“We have 75 bookings for
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f it were not for some of the
Iputes,
cases related to family dis-
the CM Jan Samvad ini-
tiative may have achieved a 100
per cent success rate, Chief
Minister Raghubar Das said on
Thursday.
Addressing the Seedhi Baat
programme at Suchna Bhawan
in Ranchi, Das said that the
Government has successfully
solved 92 per cent of cases
brought to light through Jan
Samwad in the past five years.
“We may have easily
achieved 100 per cent success
in solving all the cases that
came to light through Jan
Samvad in the past five years.
However, some of the cases
were related to family disputes,
and the Government did not
wish to interfere in family mat-
ters,” Das said.
A total of 4,15,000 cases
were lodged with Jan Samvad
in the past five years and
17,73,000 people got to share
their problems with the
Government through the plat-
form. CM’s Seedhi Baat was
first held on May 1, 2015. The
purpose of creating the inter-
active platform - wherein the
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Vikas Kendra. They will be
given working capital to
increase the value of their
product gathered from the for-
est. Training and technical sup-
port will also be given. Each
Van Dhan Vikas Kendra will be
given financial assistance of Rs
15 lakh.
election results in the favour.”
The JMM leader said, “The ill-
effects of rising inflation, eco-
nomic slowdown, increasing
unemployment and worsening
condition of farmers are now
visible.
The misuse of adminis-
trative machinery and money
power by Chief Minister
Raghubar Das only shows his
despair.” The former chief min-
ister said that year end
Assembly election is going to
witness contest between those
who have fought for separate
State and those who have loot-
ed the State, claiming that the
ground reality in Jharkhand is
very bad and people in State
have made up their mind for
change.
Reacting on five MLAs
from JMM and Congress join-
ing BJP on Wednesday, the
former Chief Minister said
that those, who have left their
parent parties joining BJP sac-
rificing their political ideolo-
gy, have committed suicide.
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Dhanteras. We expect higher
sale during the entire Diwali
week. And this year, the num-
ber of bookings during this
week has gone down by at
least 50,” said Sanjiv Kumar,
sales manager at Republic
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chief minister could directly lis- Government and the people.
ten to the grievances of the
people and redress their prob- related to jobs, pensions, road the Chief Minister congratu- istration number is generated
lems in presence of govern- construction and anomalies in lated the various departments by the software and sent via
ment officials concerned - was payment of salary, were heard in Jharkhand for successfully SMS to the complainant for all
to bridge the gap between the during the Seedhi Baat pro- addressing the issues brought future references.
Prime Minister Narendra
Modi on April 14, 2018
launched the Van Dhan Yojana
from Bijapur in Chhattisgarh.
The Van Dhan Vikas Kendra
was started there with the cost
of Rs 25 lakh. This scheme was
announced to increase the
income of tribal people.
The establishment of “Van
Dhan Vikas Kendra” is for
providing skill upgradation
and capacity building training
and setting up of primary pro-
cessing and value addition
facility.
The minister claimed that
with an aim to boost forest pro-
ductivity which includes Tasar
too, a separate body will be cre-
ated which will work on pro-
cessing of mulberry cocoons.
There is immense potential
in production of mulberry silk
in the State.
Rearing mulberry silk-
worms and production there-
of will be a highly profitable
However, State BJP gener-
al secretary Deepak Prakash
said, “The Opposition is in day
dream. In both Maharashtra
and Haryana the BJP will form
the Government as neither
Congress nor any regional
party is even close to BJP.”
Prakash said that in Jharkhand
development will be main issue
in election.
State Congress president
Rameshwar Oraon reacting
on Assembly elections results
said that the poll results has
blown the hallow promises of
development by BJP in two
States.
Oraon said, “In
Maharashtra the BJP has given
the slogan of crossing 200
while in Haryana it was abki
baar 70 par, but the voters in
two states have given the man-
date against BJP’s expecta-
tions.” He said that in both the
states, local issue dominated as
economic slowdown and
growing unemployment were
the main issue in the elections.
Hyundai, Ranchi. However,
Maruti Suzuki, which has the
largest market share among
automobile companies here,
has received bumper bookings
for Dhanteras.
Rakesh Kumar, Showroom
Manager of Maruti Suzuki
Arena on Kanke Road, said that
the showroom is set to deliver
around 1000 cars on Dhanteras.
“There was a drop in the sale
earlier this year, but Dhanteras
bookings have made up for it to
a large extent. We have to
deliver 1000 cars in around 24
hours and the showroom will
remain functional 24x7 during
this period,” he said. Dhanteras
offers have failed to revive
declining demand for automo-
biles in the steel city. According
to an estimate from car dealers,
the advance bookings in the city
have been low this year. Even
the sales have registered a
decline against last year’s festive
season. A marketing executive
of a leading four-wheeler deal-
ership said that there has been
a 20 per cent decline in advance
A total of 13 cases, mostly Addressing the programme, and registers a complaint, a reg-
business because as many as
five harvests are possible in
indoor conditions. Under the
Tribal Cooperative Marketing
Development Federation Of
India (TRIFED), Jharkhand
Tasar Silk Production
Company Ltd will be set up in
which around 1200 tribal peo-
ple will be attached. The min-
ister claimed that under the
scheme self help groups will be
attached which will create
employment opportunities for
youths.
On Assembly election
results in Har yana and
Maharashtra, Munda MP from
Khunti said that the Assembly
election results in these two
states is in favour of BJP.
Munda said,
“While in Maharashtra
the BJP/Shiv Sena alliance eas-
ily crossed the magic figure, in
Haryana BJP is single largest
party and the parry will form
Government in Haryana too.”
The Congress State presi-
dent said that BJP talks about
development but the people’s
anger against government on
issue such as growing unem-
ployment and farmers’ dis-
tress were evident in the elec-
tions.
Oraon claimed that local
issue too will dominant in the
year-end Assembly election
and people will teach lesson to
Raghubar Das government.
The Jharkhand Vikas
Morcha (P) too has predicat-
ed grim picture for BJP in year-
end Assembly election. JVM
(P) general secretary, Khalid
Khalil said that BJP will per-
formance win Jharkhand will
be more poor than Haryana.
He said, “In Haryana, the
BJP has given the slogan of
Abki baar 75 paar, but the peo-
ple have shown real pictures to
BJP as people have under-
stood the real character of
BJP.” He too said that in
Assembly elections, people will
teach a lesson to BJP.
bookings this year. Despite of
offering discounts and other
attractive offers, people are not
keen to purchase a new car, he
added.
However, Smita Parikh,
director of Utkal Kia said that
despite the slump in auto sec-
tor the newly launched Kia’s
Seltos is in demand. She
informed that Seltos has taken
the Indian market by storm. It
has been one of the most suc-
cessful launches of the year. The
popularity of Kia Seltos can be
gauged from the fact that over
50,000 units of the SUV have
been booked till now.
“As per our understanding
the overall market has been hit
due to which people are defer-
ring purchases. We have
received feedback from dealers
that the slump in the manufac-
turing sector and workers los-
ing jobs are the main reasons
for the fall in demand,” said
Bharat Vasani, a senior func-
tionary of Singhbhum
Chamber of Commerce and
Industry.
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to the Government’s notice
through the platform. “This is
my last address to the people of
Jharkhand from Seedhi Baat
platform. Next year, I will try
and serve the people better as
a part of the new Government
that comes to power,” Das said.
He said that in five years,
Jan Samvad has solved the
problem of defunct trans-
formers in Jharkhand. Now,
defunct transformers were
either repaired or replaced
within 24 hours, added Das.
“Electrification has been one of
our priorities, and Jan Samvad
has proved to be a handy tool
for addressing all problems
related to transformers,” he
said.
Out of the 8 per cent cases
that could not be solved, some
are under trial at courts, offi-
cials from the Jan Samvad cen-
tre in Ranchi said. The Jan
Samvad centre has 24 dedicat-
ed phone lines, one for each
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least 60 times a day, sources
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J ust a day after joining
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
by Lohardaga MLA, Sukhdeo
Bhagat, Indian National
Congress (INC) expressed hap-
piness over the departure of the
MLA from the party.
Addressing a press meet on
Thursday Rajya Sabha MP from
Jharkhand, Dheeraj Prasad
Sahu said that departure of
Bhagat will augur well for
Congress and the party is feel-
ing relieved now.
Sahu said that there is an
atmosphere of happiness
among Congressmen due to the
departure of Bhagat. When
Bhagat was in Congress he was
never a party worker, he always
stayed with his family members,
he added. While criticising the
MLA, the veteran Congress
leader and the party MP said
that Jharkhand Pradesh
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T recovered a stolen hyva
truck within 8 hours of theft
near Chhath ghat in Thermal
city.
According to information
provided by Inspector cum
Officer in-Charge Umesh
Kumar Thakur, at about 2 am
on October 23 , a 10-wheeler
unloaded hyva truck bearing
registration no .JH 10X-3270
on the way to Govindpur CCL
project within limits of BTPS
from Jarandih was intercepted
by two unknown miscreants at
Konar river Chhat ghat.
The miscreants took away
the vehicle, leaving the driver
and khalasi in a desolate area.
On the basis of the FIR lodged
by owner of the hyva Ziyaul
Rab, the thermal police regis-
tered a case vide number
147/2019 under applicable IPC
and the Officer in-charge,
Umesh Kumar Thakur took up
the case for investigation.
During the course of inves-
tigation, the police in-charge
reached the Sikidari in Ranchi
after getting a tip off and recov-
er the stolen hyva truck.
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he ruling BJP on Thursday
T retained both
Dharamshala and Pachhad
seats in Himachal Pradesh in
the bypolls though the victo-
ry margin got reduced due to
the presence of rebels in the
fray.
In Pachhad, Reena
Kashyap of the BJP defeated
her nearest rival Former
Minister Gangu Ram Musafir
of the Congress by a margin
of 2,742 votes. Rebel BJP can-
didate Dayal Pyari, who con-
tested as an independent, fin-
ished third.
BJP's victory margin came
down as Dayal Pyari got over
11000 votes.
In Dharamshala, BJP's
Vishal Nehria defeated his
nearest rival Rakesh Kumar by
a margin of 6,758 votes.
Kumar was a BJP rebel and
contested as an independent
candidate.
Vijay Inder Karan of the
Congress lost his security
president Rameshwar Oraon
deposit as he failed to get even
the required one-sixth of total
polled valid votes. In the 2017
Assembly elections, the vic-
tory margin of Kishan Kapoor
of the BJP over Sudhir Sharma
of the Congress was of 2,997
votes in Dharamshala.
The by-elections to
Pachhad and Dharamshala
assembly seats were necessi-
tated after sitting BJP MLAs
Suresh Kashyap and Kishan
Kapoor were elected to the
Lok Sabha.
Meanwhile, Chief
Minister Jai Ram Thakur
thanked the people of
Pachhad and Dharamshala
Assembly constituencies for
electing the BJP candidates.
He said people of these
constituencies have expressed
faith and confidence in the
policies and programmes of
the present BJP government.
He also thanked the party
workers for relentlessly ensur-
ing the victory of the party
candidates in these by-elec-
tions.
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A tions, Inner Wheel Club
Jamshedpur Zest distributed
100 packets of sweets bringing
smiles to faces of the needy.
Working staff at petrol
pumps, vendors and hawkers in
surrounding areas of Bistupur
and Kadma received the sweets.
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BJP worker was murdered
A by a group of unidentified
assailants when he was coming
from Ramkanda market to his
house, late evening on Tuesday.
To protest against the mur-
der, local residents today
blocked the main road.
The deceased has been
identified as Gopal Chaurasia
, 40, who was an active work-
instead of oblige Oraon for
inclusion in the party, Bhagat
accused Oraon for his defeat in
the just concluded Lok Sabha
elections. Bhagat forgot that he
included in the party by Oraon
and made him an MLA.
“Due to direct interference
of Bhagat in the City Council,
corruption is prevalent in the
Council, the people of
Lohardaga are watching every-
thing and understanding
Bhagat and they have set their
mind to teach him a lesson in
the upcoming State Assembly
elections. His dream to
become once again MLA from
the seat will not be fulfilled,”
said Sahu.
Either Bhagat contest from
Lohardaga or Bishunpur he
will must bite the dust in the
election, Lohardaga was strong
bastion of the party it will
remain same and no one can
take it from the party, he added.
President of the club
Reema Adesara said that they
have been carrying welfare
activities in the city however, in
order to make Diwali celebra-
tion brighter for the needy
they decided to distribute the
sweets.
On the occasion, Neeta
Agarwal and Parul Vagadia
were also present.
er of BJP block unit. The iden-
tity of the assailants and the
motive for the attack are still
unknown, police said.
Residents blocked the
main road at Ramkanda to
protests against the incident
which lifted after assurance to
arrest the culprit by the police
officials.
Police handed over the
body to the family after post-
mortem today.
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he incessant rains from the
T last 24 hours is likely to
continue till October 28 and
dampen Diwali celebrations
for the residents of the State.
“It is very unfortunate for
the potters of the State for
whom this is the main season
and the showers are very harm-
ful. The non- stop rainfall
since October 23 will cause
problems for them,” said SD
Kotal, Director MET Centre
Ranchi.
According to the weather
department on October 24
heavy to very heavy rainfall will
be experienced at most places
across the Jharkhand. These
include Simdega, Gumla,
Ranchi Khunti, Ramgarh,
Bokaro, Dhanbad, Hazaribagh,
and Giridih. However, the
north-eastern districts will not
receive any heavy showers.
On October 25 all dis-
tricts, except the north eastern
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“Those districts that have
the amount of District Mining
Funds can pass it on the board
and spend it in housing
schemes.
Similarly, the aspirational
districts should also use the
amount received. Under no cir-
cumstances the target of 250
should be achieved. Using your
discretion select the needy and
allocate the house. If there are
more numbers, then take the
amount of DMFT or
Aspirational District amount.
Districts that do not have these
two should inform the depart-
ment, they will also get the allo-
cation. If people are so poor that
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districts, will receive light to
moderate rain. The north east-
ern districts like Sahibganj,
Godda, Pakur, Dumka
Deoghar and Jamtara will wit-
ness heavy rainfall on this
day.
On October 26 there will
reduced rainfall activity at most
of the districts across the State.
There are chances that the dis-
tricts located in the central and
southern parts of Jharkhand
will witness light to moderate
rainfall activity with no heavy
showers.
As per the weathermen on
October 27 and October 28 iso-
lated areas like Simdega, East
Singhbhum, West Singhbhum,
Saraikkela, Kharsawan and
Khunti will have light rain
while the remaining districts
will have clear weather.
“On October 25 and
October 26 there will be a low
pressure system which is pre-
sent at the north Andhra
Pradesh coastline. The associ-
they cannot reach DC office
then officers should reach them
and allot them accommoda-
tion,” he said.Das said that in
districts like Simdega, where
there is a lot of poverty officers
should be sent to backward
blocks to provide benefits of the
scheme to the poor.
He instructed to allot
accommodation by setting up
camps in beautiful hills in
Godda and asked to set up sep-
arate camps for Pahadia com-
munity in Pakur. He also
instructed to allot housing to the
poor by setting up camps at
Patna and Barheit in Sahebganj.
Das asked to allot a house by
placing a chaupal in the Kundhit
ated cyclonic circulation has
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caused an increase in the rain-
fall activity,” said the Director.
According to the MET
Observatory Center- Ranchi, as
per the record of the last 24
hours Ranchi has received 31.4
mm of rainfall. Ghatshila has
received maximum rainfall of
69 mm. Jamshedpur has
received 66.6 mm, Simdega 61
mm while at Saraikela-
Kharsawan 62 mm of rainfall
has been recorded.
“These are not seasonal
showers but because of the low
pressure system there has been
an increase in the rainfall activ-
ity which is now lying over
north Andhra coast and
adjoining areas like Jharkhand,
Odisha and Chhattisgarh. The
showers are not very good for
the agriculture sector. For the
crops which do not require so
much water, farmers will be
advised to drain out the excess
water from the fields at the ear-
liest,” added Kotal.
and Karmatand of Jamtara. The
CM also directed to speed up
the work for street lights in all
the districts by sitting with the
nodal officers. “Start the work
of laying pipelines in the villages
where tanks have been installed,
so that the goal of delivering
water from door to door can be
accomplished in the coming
times.
Das also directed to focus
on cleanliness in view of
Deepawali and Chhath.CS DK
Tiwari, Rural Development
Department Secretary Avinash
Kumar, Principal Secretary to
CM Sunil Kumar Barnwal
alongwith other officers were
present during the meeting.
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P aving the way for Indian pil-
grims to undertake visit to
the shrine of the Sikh religion’s
founder Guru Nanak Dev in
Pakistan, the two countries on
Thursday signed a historic
agreement on the Kartarpur
corridor. The online registra-
tion for the pilgrimage on por-
tal prakashpurb550.mha.gov.in
started soon after agreement
was signed.
The corridor will connect
the Dera Baba Nanak shrine in
India’s Punjab with Darbar
metres from the International
Border, located at Narowal dis-
trict of Pakistan’s Punjab
province.
SCL Das, Joint Secretary in
the Union Home Ministry, and
Mohammad Faisal, Pakistan
Foreign Office spokesperson
and director general (South
Asia and SAARC), signed the
agreement at the Kartarpur
Zero Point at the International
Border, fulfilling a long-pend-
ing demand of the Sikh com-
munity.
The agreement will allow
Indian pilgrims access to
Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in
Pakistan where Guru Nanak
Dev spent last 18 years of his
life.
The agreement was signed
after three rounds of tough
negotiations despite bilateral
relationship witnessing a chill
recent years. The ties touched
a new low when India revoked
the special status of Jammu &
Kashmir in August following
which Pakistan downgraded
diplomatic ties and expelled the
Indian envoy.
Indian pilgrims of all faiths
and persons of Indian origin
can use the corridor and the
travel will be visa-free. Pilgrims
need to carry only a valid
passport while persons of
Indian origin need to carry
Overseas Citizen of India
(OCI) card along with the
passport of their country,
according to a statement issued
by the Home Ministry in New
Delhi. Speaking to the media
after the signing of the agree-
ment, Faisal said Prime
Minister Imran Khan had ful-
filled his promise and com-
pleted the corridor in a year.
“It was never simple to
reach an agreement on the
Kartarpur corridor. Rather
these were very difficult and
tough negotiations (with India)
keeping in view our hostile
relations with it,” Faisal
said.
He said that Pakistan has
stuck to the points it proposed
in the start of the talks on the
corridor. “Under the agree-
ment, the corridor will remain
open seven days a week from
dawn to dusk. A total of 5,000
or so Indian Sikhs will arrive
every day and leave the same
day. They (pilgrims) will have
to only bring their passport for
their identity and it will not be
stamped. India will share the
list of those visiting the
Gurdwara (Darbar Sahib
Kartatpur) 10 days before their
travel plan,” he said.
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ners challenging territorial
integrity of India or Pakistan,
liquor and a host of other
items have been put in the pro-
hibited list for pilgrims visiting
Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in
Kartarpur across the border.
Except traditional kirpans, all
sort of knives are in the banned
list. The pilgrims will not be
allowed to carry items in the
negative list put on the newly
launched portal prakashpurb
550.Mha.Gov.In, where pil-
grims will have to register
online.
Maps and literature with
incorrect depiction of external
boundaries of India or Pakistan
(physical and digital forms), lit-
erature, media items and
objects including flags and
banners challenging the terri-
torial integrity of India or
Pakistan or potentially dam-
aging to communal harmony
in the two countries (both in
physical and digital forms) are
also banned for the pilgrims.
Any goods for commercial
purpose for profit gain or com-
mercial usage, as per applica-
ble laws, radio transmitters
not approved for normal usage,
satellite phone, objects made of
gold and silver, other than
ornaments for personal use or
for religious purposes, as per
applicable laws, are also pro-
hibited for the pilgrimage.

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in India through joint ventures,
the US and India on Thursday
held a review meeting here. It
was held under the aegis of the
Defence Trade and Technology
Initiative(DTTI)and the
Defence Ministry said the two
countries are poised to achieve
tangible results.
Giving details of the ninth
round of DTTI, set up some
years back to foster trade in
nificant achievement of the
meeting was the signing of
‘Statement of Intent’ with
respect to key deliverables in
the near, medium and long
ing sustained focus on some of
the projects and signal com-
mitment of both sides towards
continued collaboration on
mutually beneficial issues.
The DTTI is part of the
Cooperation and the meeting
on Thursday was held between
Secretar y (Defence
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T US lawmakers raising
doubts about measures to pro-
tect people of Jammu &
Kashmir after abrogation of
Article 370 giving special sta-
tus to the State in August,
India on Thursday said ques-
tioning by the US was a reflec-
about robust functioning of
democratic institutions in
India.
India said it was regrettable
that a few US lawmakers used
a Congressional hearing to
question measures to protect
lives of people in Jammu &
Kashmir.
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Affairs Spokesperson
Raveesh Kumar said here
the US Congressional hear-
ing on Kashmir was a
reflection of lack of
understanding about
robust functioning of
democratic institutions in
India.
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Defense for Acquisition and Highway Development streams, the major perennial large-scale landslides,” said the
Sustainment of the United
States Ellen M Lord. E arth scientists from Indian
Institute of Technology
Project) is being exe-
cuted by the Union
stream, including river Ganga
may witness such critical issues.
scientists as they called for its
proper channelization to avoid
Speaking on the occasion, (IIT), Roorkee have raised a red Ministr y of Road Such adverse practices are the build-up of pore pressure.
Subhash Chandra said that flag over the Modi Transport and unendurable and violation of The report has recom-
while DTTI has been an ongo- Government’s C12,000- crore Highways (MoRTH). It rules and regulations of the mended setting up a panel
ing process, both sides were pet project Char Dham aims to connect four river ecosystem needs to be comprising of locals and
now poised to actually achieve Mahamarg Vikas Pari Yojana holy towns in assessed.” experts to monitor the project
tangible outcomes. The shared (Char Dham Highway Utt ara k hand Similar activities in the for sustainable development in
values that form the bedrock of Development Project) that them. The project is already —Badrinath, Kedarnath, upper reaches of Uttarakhand the region.
stable relations between the two aims to connect the four drawing flak from environ- Yamunotri and Gangotri. will cause siltation problem in To attain safer design dur-
sides have led to deepening of pilgrimage in the Uttarakhand’s mentalists, NGOs like Citizen The scientists came to major hydroelectric projects, it ing pre- and post-construction
defence ties. The Indian fragile mountainous for Green Doon and locals who know about the violations after said. According to the scien- stages, efforts should be under-
Government remains commit- eco-system. too have alleged serious viola- evaluating various stretches tists, no preventive and stabi- taken for better prediction of
ted to continually engage with In their study published in tion of green norms as well as along NH-58, from Rishikesh lization measures were under- extreme rainfall events and
the US Government and facil- the latest issue of Current rampant cutting of hills mak- to Devprayag and took excep- taken after excavation. accordingly planning needs to
itate cooperation between the Science, the scientists said that ing the area prone to landslides. tion that in order to complete However, in a few road-cut sec- be done, said the report adding
defence industries of both the 900-kilometer long all- T Siddique and SP Pradhan the project, the scientific stud- tions, gabion walls have been that the real-time monitoring
nations. Ellen Lord said, “the weather road project which from the Department of Earth ies/reports which ought to be constructed for stabilization; of slope movements should be
US National Defence Strategy envisages widening of National Sciences, IIT, Roorkee too given topmost priority were but these walls are deformed done along highly vulnerable
envisages strengthening Highway-58, is being executed echoed similar views warning being ignored. Observing that due to inadequate stabilization and risk sections.
defence alliances and partner- in complete violation of envi- that inadequately performed the excavated materials, includ- measures and maintenance. Also, in rockfall-prone sec-
ships. The DTTI has now ronmental norms with several excavation without proper con- ing massive rock blocks, soil The scientists also tions, rock shed may be
matured enough where its var- irregularities. sideration of eco sensitive ter- and debris have been dumped expressed concern at authori- designed to overcome acci-
ied activities could be translat- Adoption of unscientific rain may lead to catastrophic in hairpin bends along the ties ignoring scientific norms in dents and frequent blockage of
ed into accomplishments.” methods, inappropriate dump- events as witnessed during the road, the report cautioned that handling percolation of water the highway and implementing
She added that the inter- ing of tones of mud and debris, Kedarnath disaster in 2013. “these dumps are interrupting which was allowed to be col- preventive measures like steel
face of the industry with DTTI excavation at steep angles, Launched by the Prime the natural channel of many lected in a roadside ditch. mesh to retain potential falling
would provide necessary fillip allowing wrongful collection of Minister Narendra Modi in ephemeral streams and may “Such careless practices are blocks along with flexible bar-
to various projects under con- water percolated from the slope December 2016, the Char give rise to an alarming situa- continuously hampering and riers to reduce kinetic energy
sideration. to the roadsides were some of Dham Mahamarg Vikas Pari tion in subsequent monsoon endangering the health of of these blocks.
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New Delhi: Voicing concern over illegal construc-
tions, the Supreme Court on Thursday directed all T he Centre on Thursday moved the
Supreme Court seeking extension
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday
asked the Jammu & Kashmir administration
G Government land, the Central Public Works
Department (CPWD) has directed its officials to come
the cities in Maharashtra with population of 50 lakh of time for completing formalities to as to how long they intend to continue the up with a list of unauthorised occupants and the quan-
or more to get geomapping done of the municipal
areas in the city.
transfer Assam
Register of Citizens (NRC)
National restrictions, including internet blockade,
imposed in the Valley following the abroga-
tum of land grabbed by them. The CPWD has asked offi-
cials to submit details by the end of this month. The move
Geomapping, or surveying of land and sub sur- Coordinator Prateek Hajela to Madhya tion of provision of Article 370. comes close on the heels of Union Housing and Urban
face using GPS, presents a detailed view of a site and Pradesh. The Apex Court, which was hearing a Affairs Ministry deciding to hire a private agency to
the surrounding area including roads, buildings, The apex court on October 18 had batch of petitions challenging the restrictions protect Government land, bungalows and flats from
mountains, rivers, estuaries and pipelines. ordered the Centre and the Assam on movement and communication blockade encroachment.
The top court held that Geomapping can be done Government to transfer Hajela to his imposed in the Valley, said the authorities According to the official, once the list is prepared,
by satellite, drones or vehicles and once it is done native State Madhya Pradesh within may impose restrictions for national interest a drive will be launched to free the CPWD land from
it would be easy to control illegal constructions. seven days. but they have to be reviewed from time to encroachment. “All additional director generals and other
A bench of Justices Deepak Gupta and The counsel for the Centre on time. A bench headed by Justice N V Ramana top officers have been asked to gather details about unau-
Aniruddha Bose further directed the Maharashtra Thursday told the bench headed by told Attorney General K K Venugopal and thorised occupants and quantum of land grabbed by
government to ensure that sufficient funds are made Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi that Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, who were them. Officials have been directed to submit the same
available to the municipal corporations concerned though the government has taken steps appearing for the Centre and the J&K admin- by October 31,” official also said. The CPWD also sought
and the exercise be completed within a year from to transfer the 1995 batch IAS officer istration respectively, to come out with to know what action has been taken to free land from
the date of this order. of Assam-Meghalaya cadre but pro- “clear” reply and find out other methods to encroachment, official added. Earlier this month, the
It will be obligatory for all municipal corpora- cedural formalities will take some deal with the issue. Mehta told the bench, also Ministry had directed CPWD to deploy private securi-
tions in the State of Maharashtra where the popu- more time. comprising justices R Subhash Reddy and B ty guards, preferably ex-serviceman in Delhi. As per the
lation is 50 lakhs or more to get geomapping and “You file the application,” the R Gavai, that “the restrictions are being plan, the security agency will have to get their guards ver-
geo-photography of the areas under their jurisdic- bench, which also comprised Justices reviewed daily. In around 99 per cent area, no ified from the Delhi Police before their deployment at
tion done within a period of one year. PTI SA Bobde and S A Nazeer, said. restrictions are there”. PTI vacant Government bungalows, land and flats.
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W ing a boost to defence
exports and enhance ease of
doing business, Defence
Minister Rajnath Singh on
Thursday approved issuance
of two Open General Export
Licences (OGELs) for export
of certain parts and compo-
nents and intra-company
transfer of technology to
select countries.
Giving details of the
clearance, officials said the
application for grant of OGEL
will be considered by
Department of Defence
Production (DPP) on a case-
to-case basis. The OGEL is a
one-time export licence to be
granted to a company for a
specific period (two years
initially).
The countries allowed
under the OGELs are
Belgium, France, Germany,
Japan, South Africa, Spain,
Sweden, UK, USA, Canada,
Italy, Poland and Mexico.
However, export of items to a
‘Special Economic Zone’ is
not permitted.
For acquiring the licences,
the applicant is mandatory to
have Import-Export certifi-
cate, the Defence Ministry
said adding “the quarterly
and end of the year reports
on all the transactions done
under OGELs should be sub-
mitted to DPP for examina-
tion and post-export verifi-
cation.”
The items permitted
under OGEL includes com-
ponents of ammunition and
fuse setting device without
energetic and explosive mate-
rial; firing control and relat-
ed alerting and warning
equipment and related sys-
tem; and body protective
items. Complete aircraft or
complete unmanned aerial
vehicles (UAVs) and any
components specially
designed or modified for
UAVs are excluded under
this licence.
and a Brigadier rank officer of
93rd Brigade had a ‘miraculous’
escape along with six others
when their chopper crash land-
ed in Bedar stream, in general
area of Mandi, around 2.00 p.m
on Thursday.
Experienced pilot and his
co-pilot saved the day for all the
officers present on board.
According to official
sources, “the Advanced Light
Helicopter,Dhruv was returning
after completing tour of forward
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Guwahati: A CBI court here on
Thursday sentenced an employ-
ee of the regional passport office
to four years rigorous impris-
onment while acquitting her
spouse in a disproportionate
assets case.
CBI Special Judge Soneka
Bora convicted the lower divi-
sion clerk/junior passport assis-
tant Anjali Das Thakuria in the
case filed by the central agency’s
anti-corruption bureau in 2016.
He also slapped a fine of
C50,000 on Thakuria under sec-
been constituted by the
Northern Command head-
quarters to ascertain the exact
reasons behind the crash land-
ing.
According to official
sources, “soon after the heli-
copter crash landed, locals in the
area rushed to the spot to help
army officers”.
Official sources said, “army
commander escaped unhurt
with minor facial injuries and
was soon up on his feet after
undergoing precautionary med-
ical checkup”.
Other officers including
tions of the Prevention of
Corruption Act, 1988.
Thakuria was found guilty of
amassing assets worth
C 5 8 , 4 3 , 8 6 0 ,
disproportionate to her known
sources of income, during her
posting at the regional passport
office here from November 2006
to September 2014.
Her husband Munindra Das,
who was acquitted, was accused
of instigating and aiding
Thakuria in acquiring the
assets. PTI
Hospital in Udhampur.
Defence Spokesman in
Jammu said, “as army com-
mander was visiting units in
Poonch sector the ALH devel-
oped a technical snag and crash
landed”. He said, “all passengers
and crew sustained injuries.
As per medical investigations,
all have sustained blunt and
superficial injuries but are sta-
ble”.
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saluted local villagers for assist-
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Chennai: An AIADMK func- ing, to permit to withdraw erected for the wedding of district on September 27 after
tionary, arrested in connection them. Jayagopal’s son, was fatally run being on the run for more than
with the death of a 23-year-old Allowing the request, the over by a truck that was com- two weeks since
woman techie here after a judge dismissed the petitions as ing from behind. the death of Subashree, which
hoarding put up for his son’s withdrawn after taking an On October 15, when had triggered an
wedding fell on her, withdrew endorsement of withdrawal Jayagopal pleaded that he had outrage.
his bail petition filed in the from the counsel for Jayagopal no role in erecting the hoard- Jayagopal moved the high
Madras High Court on and Meganathan. ings, the judge had sought to court seeking bail after a lower
Thursday. In a recent hearing, the know why he went absconding court rejected the relief.
Apparently anticipating court has orally observed that for 12 days after the incident if In his petition, the former
rejection of the plea, counsel for a “daughter lost her life in the he had not done anything councillor of a local body
the petitioners Jayagopal and process of welcoming a daugh- wrong. claimed that the banners were
his brother-in-law ter-in-law”. Jayagopal, booked by put up by his party cadres along
Meganathan, who are co- On September 12, police on charges of attempt to the arterial road for
accused in the case, requested Subashree, who fell on the commit culpable homicide not his son’s marriage out of ‘love
Justice C V Karthikeyan before road after being knocked off amounting to murder, and affection’ and that he had
whom the petitions were pend- her two-wheeler by a banner was arrested in Krishnagiri no role in it. PTI
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Aaditya Thackeray, who made
history by becoming the first
member of his family to take
poll plunge, has marked his
arrival in Maharashtra politics
with a bang and is likely to
play a key role in the next State
Government and help expand
his party.
The 29-year-old next-gen
Thackeray, whom his party
wants to be the Deputy Chief
Minister in the BJP-Sena
alliance Government, won
with a thumping majority
from Mumbai's Worli con-
stituency.
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Mumbai: In the newly-elected
288-member Maharashtra
Legislative Assembly, there
would be only 23 women,
eleven of them sitting legislators.
It is still an improvement over
the previous Assembly which
had 22 women legislators.
The sitting legislators who
were elected on Thursday were
Manda Mhatre (from Belapur),
Manisha Chaudhari (Dahisar),
Vidya Thakur (Goregaon),
Devyani Farande (Nashik
Central), Seema Hiray (Nashik
West), Madhuri Misal (Parvati),
Monica Rajale (Shevgaon) and
Bharati Lavhekar (Versova).
All eight MLAs are from
the BJP.
Congress MLAs Praniti
Shinde (Solapur City Central),
Yashomati Thakur (Teosa) and
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The Yuva Sena leader is
now likely to make his party,
which was rooted in the 'sons
of the soil' agenda and later
embraced the Hindutva ide-
ology, more inclusive and
broad-based.
In run up to the polls, he
conducted several roadshows,
foot marches and raised issues
like cutting of trees in Aarey
Colony and Mumbai's
nightlife and said he wants to
make the constituency a
"model of development".
He also reached out to
non-Marathi voters in the
constituency to romp home a
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Mumbai) also retained their
seats.
NCP MLA Suman Patil
too retained her Tasgaon-
Kavathe Mahankal seat.
The newcomer women leg-
islators are Saroj Ahire (Devlali)
of the NCP, Lata Sonavane
(Chopda) and Yamini Jadhav
(Byculla) of the Shiv Sena;
Shweta Mahale (Chikli),
Meghana Bordikar (Jintur),
Namita Mundada (Kaij), Mukta
Tilak (Kasba Peth); and
Congress' Pratibha Dhanorkar
(Warora) and Sulbha Khodke
(Amravati).
Two independents — Geeta
Jain (Mira Bhayander) and
Manjula Gavit (Sakri) have also
won. Among 3,237 candidates,
there were 235 women. PTI
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big win.
A pass out of the Bombay
Scottish School in suburban
Mahim, Aaditya is a graduate
in English Literature from St
Xavier's College and has a
law degree from KC College.
He has always managed to
keep himself abreast of civic
issues and concerns of youth
in the State. The Maharashtra
Government's decision to ban
plastic is partly credited to his
campaign against the wide-
spread use of the material.
In a bid to attract young
followers, he also proposed the
revival of Mumbai's nightlife
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Mumbai: Former Maharashtra
deputy Chief Minister and NCP
leader Ajit Pawar on Thursday
won from the Baramati
Assembly constituency by
defeating his nearest rival by
over 1.65 lakh votes — the
highest victory margin record-
ed by a candidate in this election.
On the other hand, Shiv
Sena candidate Dilip Bhausaheb
Lande won from the Chandivali
constituency in north Mumbai
by just 409 votes — the lowest
victory margin posted by a
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Mumbai: Some prominent
Opposition leaders who had
joined the ruling BJP or Shiv
Sena, including Cabinet
Minister Jaydutt Kshirsagar,
have bitten the dust as the
Maharashtra Assembly poll
results came in on Thursday.
Kshirsagar, fighting on Shiv
Sena ticket, was defeated by his
nephew and NCP candidate
Sandip Kshirsagar.
Vaibhav Pichad, son of for-
mer NCP Minister Madhukar
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by allowing malls and restau-
rants to be open all night. The
Shiv Sena-ruled
Brihanmumbai Municipal
Corporation has approved the
proposal, which is now pend-
ing with the Chief Minister for
clearance.
The young politician also
sports a creative side like his
grandfather, father and uncle.
His grandfather, the late
Bal Thackeray, who founded
the Shiv Sena in 1966, was a
cartoonist, an art shared by his
estranged uncle Raj Thackeray,
the chief of Maharashtra
Navnirman Sena (MNS). PTI
nominee in
the elections
held on
October 21.
A j i t
Pawar won
the seat in
Pune district
for a sixth
consecutive term.
According to the Election
Commission (EC) data, Ajit
Pawar defeated the BJP's
Gopichand Padalkar by a mar-
gin of 1,65,265 votes.
Pichad had joined the BJP few
days before the election. He lost
to Dr Kiran Lahamate of the
NCP by 57,689 votes from
Akole seat.
Interestingly, Lahamate
was a BJP worker for many
years and had been in the
camp opposed to the Pichad
family. Irked with State BJP's
decision to induct Vaibhav,
Lahamate joined the NCP and
won the election.
Two MLAs who had joined
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ailing to live up to the hype
F and hoopla created by it in
the run-up to the election that
it would post a thumping elec-
toral victory, the BJP-Shiv Sena
alliance on Thursday man-
aged to retain power in
Maharashtra by either winning
or leading in 160 seats out of
the total 288 seats in the State
Assembly polls.
From a combined tally of
185 seats that the BJP and Shiv
Sena had won when they con-
tested the 2014 polls separate-
ly, the ruling saffron alliance
partners were to set end up
with a winning tally of a max-
imum of 160 seats, which is 25
seats fewer than the two parties
had won in the previous
Assembly polls.
On its own, the ruling BJP
was poised to win a maximum
of 104 seats out of the total 164
seats it had contested, while the
Shiv Sena was expected a max-
imum of 56 seats out of the
total 124 seats it had contested
in the polls.
From the Opposition, the
NCP — which fared relatively
better than it was expected
thanks to mainly to the exten-
sive campaigning done by its
founder-president Sharad Pawar
— had either won or was lead-
ing in 54 seats out of the 121
seats it contested in the polls,
while its senior ally Congress
was set to end up with a win-
ning tally 45 seats in the polls.
Among the smaller parties
and independents, the Bahujan
Vikash Aghadi (BVA) had won
one seat and was leading in two
seats, while the All India
Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen
bagged two seats.
The Prahar Janshakti Party
won 2 seats, while Krantikari
Shetkari Party, Samajwadi Party
and Swabhimani Shetkari Party
bagged one seat each. Among
the independents five emerged
victorious, while at least eight
independents were heading to
Ajit Pawar, nephew of NCP
president Sharad Pawar, polled
1,95,641 votes, while his nearest
rival, Padalkar, bagged just
30,376 votes.
The 60-year-old NCP leader
was followed by Vishwajit
Kadam, who is the State
Congress working president, in
terms of victory gap.
Kadam defeated his nearest
Shiv Sena rival Sanjay Vibhute
by a margin of 1,62,521 votes in
Palus Kadegaon in Sangli district
of western Maharashtra. PTI
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the Shiv Sena before the polls,
namely, Pandurang Barora and
Nirmala Gavit, also lost the
elections from Shahapur and
Igatpuri, respectively.
Barora was an NCP MLA
and Gavit a Congress legislator.
Former Minister
Harshvardhan Patil, who
switched sides from the
Congress to the BJP so that he
could contest from his home
turf, Indapur, lost to the NCP's
Duttatray Bharane. PTI
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victory.
As was expected, the rebels
belonging to both the ruling
BJP and Shiv Sena played a
spoilsport for the two parties in
the polls. Admitting that the
presence of rebels in the fray
had affected both the saffron
alliance partners, a senior BJP
leader said in the evening that
he was in touch with at least 15
winning rebels.
On his part, Chief Minister
Devendra Fadnavis sought to
play down relatively unimpres-
sive performance of the BJP in
the polls. “On the contrary to
the perception sought to be cre-
ated, our strike rate is much bet-
ter what it was in the 2014
Assembly. At that time, BJP had
contested 260 seats and won
122 seats which was 47 per cent
strike rate. In this election, we
contested 164 seats and won
103 seats which is 70 per cent
strike rate,” Fadnavis said.
The strike rate projected by
Fadnavis notwithstanding, the
BJP leaders, including BJP
national president Amit Shah
and the chief minister himself,
had gone to town saying that
the BJP-Shiv Sena alliance
would win more 220 seats in
the State Assembly. The
premise was based on the fact
that the saffron alliance part-
ners had established leads in
227 Assembly segments in the
Mumbai: NCP leader
Dhananjay Munde on
Thursday said he was both
"joyous and pained", as he
took an unassailable lead over
his cousin and Maharashtra
BJP Minister Pankaja Munde in
Parli Assembly seat, which saw
the two engage in recrimina-
tion in a high-voltage contest.
He also thanked the people
for his "unprecedented victory".
On the other hand, Pankaja
Munde dubbed her defeat was
"unexpected and inscrutable",
but said she accepted the peo-
ple's mandate humbly.
According to the trends
made available by Election
Commission so far, the NCP
leader secured 1.22 lakh votes
as against 91,413 votes bagged
by his BJP opponent.
"The people of Parli have
given me an unprecedented
victory. I thank them. Heavenly
Anna (referring to his father)
wanted to see me winning.
How do I tell him that his son
has won and that too in Parli?"
an emotionally-charged
Dhananjay Munde said.
The Leader of Opposition
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Nagpur: Maharashtra Chief
Minister Devendra Fadnavis
defeated his nearest rival,
Congress' Ashish Deshmukh
by a margin of 49,344 votes
from the Nagpur South West
constituency, election officials
said on Thursday.
Fadnavis won from this
constituency for the third time,
but with a reduced margin.
He had won from the seat
by 58,942 votes in 2014.
Fadnavis secured 1,09,237
votes while Ashish Deshmukh
got 59,893 votes.
Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi
candidate Ravi Shende bagged
8,821 votes and BSP candidate
Vivek Handle secured 7,646
votes. As many as 3,064 votes
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Lok Sabha polls, which saw the
BJP, Shiv Sena and their ally
win 42 out of 48 seats.
Interestingly, in the current
Assembly polls, the BJP secured
25.69 per cent of total votes
polled, while the Shiv Sena
mustered 16.50 per cent votes.
The younger Opposition party
NCP polled higher percentage
(16.72 per cent votes), while the
Sonai Gandhi-led party secured
15.76 per cent votes.
In what came as embar-
rassment for the ruling saffron
alliance, at least eight BJP-
Sena Ministers in the Devendra
Fadnavis Government bit elec-
toral dust.
The biggest jolt that the
BJP-led Government suffered
was the defeat of late senior BJP
leader Gopinath Munde’s
daughter and State Minister
Pankaja Munde who was
trounced by her estranged
cousin and NCP’s Leader of
Opposition in Legislative
Council Dhananjay Munde in
Parli constituency of Beed dis-
trict in Marathwada.
The BJP’s other losing
ministers include: Anil Bonde
from Morshi (Amravati), Ram
Shinde who was defeated by
NCP President Sharad Pawar’s
grandnephew Rohit Pawar in
his maiden election from
K a r j a t - J a m k h e d
(Ahmednagar), Sanjay ‘Bala’
in the State Legislative Council
said he contested the election
on the issue of development,
but, without naming anyone
one, he added that "dirty poli-
tics" was played by the ruling
party.
He also observed that peo-
ple of Parli backed him despite
Prime Minister Narendra
Modi, BJP chief Amit Shah and
Chhatrapati Shivaji's descen-
dant Udayanraje Bhosale cam-
paigning against him.
"I am happy. But I am also
sad somewhere, being the elder
in the family. Whether they
consider me as part of the fam-
ily or not, the blood relation
never breaks. I am pained that
went to None Of The Above
(NOTA) option.
Fadnavis had won twice
from Nagpur-West seat in 1999
and 2004. Following delimita-
tion in 2009, he contested and
won from Nagpur South-West
in 2009 and 2014.
Ashish Deshmukh had
fought the 2014 Assembly elec-
tions on BJP ticket from Katol
and defeated his uncle, NCP
leader Anil Deshmukh. He
later quit the BJP. PTI
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Bhegade from Maval (Pune),
and Parinay Fuke from Sakoli
(Nagpur) who was trounced by
Congress leader from eastern
Maharashtra Nana Patole.
The Shiv Sena ministers
who were defeated in the polls
are: Vijaybapu Shivtare from
Purandar (Pune) and Arjun
Khotkar from Jalna and
Jaydatta Kshirsagar from Beed.
Most of these ministers,
including Pankaja, had faced
allegations of involvement in
scams made by the Opposition
parties in the past five years.
The major victors in the
Assembly polls were: Devendra
Fadnavis (BJP, Nagpur South
West), Aditya Thackeray (Shiv
Sena, Worli), Ajit Pawar (NCP,
Baramati), Prithviraj Chavan
(Congress Karad South), and
Ashok Chavan (Congress,
Bhokar), Santosh Raosaheb
Danve (BJP, Bhokardan),
Ganesh Naik (BJP, Airoli),
Dilip Walse Patil (NCP,
Ambegaon) and Chandrakant
Patil (BJP, Kothurd).
Amit Deshmukh and
Dhiraj Deshmukh, sons of late
Chief Minister Vilarasrao
Deshmukh, were elected on a
Congress ticket from Latur
city and Latur rural con-
stituencies respectively.
While Amit was elected for
the third time from Latur city
constituency, Dhiraj — making
his debut — won the polls from
Latur rural by a margin of
1,18,000 voters – that too over
an interesting rival 'None Of
The Above' option.
Dhiraj Deshmukh secured
around 1,31,000 votes, while
26,800 votes were cast for
NOTA. Shiv Sena’s Sachin
Deshmukh, Maharashtra
Navnirman Sena’s Arjun
Waghamare, and 12 other can-
didates forfeited their election
deposits.
Interestingly, 18 of the 35
sitting MLAs and Congress-
NCP leaders who had switched
over either the BJP or the Shiv
Sena were defeated in the polls.
someone in the family has
been defeated," he said.
The NCP leader also said
he will fulfil all the develop-
ment-related promises made to
people in the next five years.
Meanwhile, reacting to her
defeat, Pankaja Munde said, "I
accept the mandate humbly.
This is an inscrutable result. I
did not expect the result, given
the developmental works car-
ried out during the past five
years and the response I
received from people."
The BJP leader, who was a
Minister in the first Devendra
Fadnavis Government, said she
will analyse reasons behind
her defeat. PTI
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secured second slot in the
Latur rural Assembly segment,
from where late Maharashtra
Chief Minister Vilasrao
Deshmukh's son Dhiraj is set to
register a handsome victory in
his maiden poll outing.
According to the trends
available till late Thursday
evening, Dhiraj Deshmukh,
the Congress candidate, has
secured 1,35,006 votes (67.64
per cent).
The 'None of the Above'
(NOTA) has clinched 27,500
votes (13.78 per cent), rele-
gating other candidates in
fray from the seat to inferior
positions. PTI
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espite the BJP's showing
D not upto the expectations
in Maharashtra and Haryana
Assembly polls, Prime Minister
Narendra Modi and BJP pres-
ident Amit Shah on Thursday
sought to outline the key pos-
itives even while asserting to
form the Governments in both
the States despite Haryana
throwing up a fractured man-
date.
Addressing BJP workers
at the party headquarters in the
evening, Modi pointed out
how the party scripted history
in Maharashtra, where "for the
first time in 50 years, a Chief
Minister completed his full
five-year term" and the return
of the party to power shows
people reposed faith in the
Devendra Fadnavis-led State
Government. "Political stabil-
ity is a must for a state like
Maharashtra," he added.
"Even before Diwali, the
way people of Haryana and
Maharashtra have put their
faith in BJP, I want to thank
them from the core of my
heart," he maintained.
Modi said the people have
reposed faith in leadership of
Fadnavis and Haryana chief
minister Manohar Lal Khattar.
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"Devendra Fadnavis ji and
Manohar Lal ji both were first
time chief ministers, they did
not even have the experience as
ministers. And for 5 years they
kept working for people's wel-
fare and as a result people have
again put their faith in them,"
Modi said.
"The political pundits who
are analysing today's election
results, Haryana in itself is an
exceptional win since these
days there have been less
instances of winning again
after completing a 5-year term..
Moreover, BJP's vote share in
Haryana went up to 36 per cent
from 33 per cent; it shows peo-
ple's endorsement of Govt's
work," Modi said.
Earlier, Modi tweeted: "I
thank the people of Haryana
for blessing us. We will con-
tinue to work with the same
zeal and dedication for the
state's progress. I laud the
efforts of hardworking
@BJP4Haryana Karyakartas
who toiled extensively and
went among the people to
elaborate on our development
agenda.".
BJP president Amit Shah
said the BJP has won the first
two elections in Prime Minister
Narendra Modi's second term.
Addressing the party workers,
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Shah said "I want to congratu-
late party workers across the
country as in Modi-2, the first
two elections have been won by
the BJP. The BJP-Sena yuti
(alliance) has full majority in
Maharashtra and we won 3 per
cent more votes and emerged
as the biggest party in
Haryana." Shah also referred to
various decisions of the central
government like ending special
status to Jammu and Kashmir,
criminalizing instant Triple
Talaq and giving rights to 40
lakh residents of unauthorized
colonies in Delhi, indicating
that the BJP's latest wins were
an endorsement of these steps.
Earlier, in his tweet, Shah
said the (Manohar Lal) Khattar
government in Haryana has
made every effort for people's
welfare under the central lead-
ership of (Narendra) Modi. "I
thank people for making the
BJP the single-largest party
and giving it another opportu-
nity to serve them," Shah tweet-
ed. He congratulated Chief
Minister Khattar and state
party chief Subhash Barala.
Shah said: In Maharashtra,
BJP-Shiv Sena is going to form
the govt once again with major-
ity. We'll work even harder in
both states for the welfare of the
people.
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he Congress-NCP alliance put up
T a good show in Maharashtra while
the grand old party surprised the rul-
ing side in Haryana by giving it a tough
fight and coming up with an increased
tally. As trends started pouring in,
Congress leaders started discussing
that had the party not given up mid-
way apprehending the loss to yet
another apparent 'Modi wave', it would
have made a comeback in Haryana and
together with regional parties wrested
power in Maharashtra.
In the first Assembly elections after
the BJP's triumph in the Lok Sabha
polls in May, the ruling party's electoral
juggernaut met with some resistance
in Maharashtra and Haryana with a
resurgent Congress performing cred-
itably in the northern State.
"It is for the first time in five years
that people have voted against BJP in
Assembly relying more on local issues
concerning them. BJP tried to mis-
guide the voters in local elections by
pitching national issues like Article 370
and triple talaq. But onions selling at
C70-80 per kg weighed more on the
electorates' minds than Article 370,"
quipped a senior Congress leader.
The party said the poll verdict in
Haryana and Maharashtra is a moral
defeat of the BJP and what it stands for.
Congress' senior spokesperson
Anand Sharma said that BJP chief Amit
Shah's claim of victory in Haryana does
not hold as the party is short of major-
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ity and there is a significant drop in its
vote percentage. Claiming that the ver-
dict of Haryana is against the BJP, he
also said all parties opposing the BJP
must come together.
In Haryana, the Congress, which
failed to bag even one seat in the Lok
Sabha polls, won or was ahead in 31
of the 90 seats at stake compared to its
previous tally of 15. The BJP, which had
47 seats in the outgoing 90-member
house, won or was ahead in 40 seats.
The half-way mark is 46.
In Maharashtra, the BJP-Shiv Sena
coalition was on course to retain
power albeit with a reduced majority
with the opposition Congress-NCP
alliance putting up a good show.
Haryana Congress chief Kumari
Selja said people has rejected the rul-
ing BJP and was ready to "embrace a
new dawn of justice". Selja was
appointed couple of months before the
assembly elections when former Chief
Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda had
threatened to quit the party if Selja's
predecessor Ashok Tanwar is not axed
as party chief.
A confident Hooda said he will
soon meet Congress president Sonia
Gandhi and top party leaders to strate-
gise on forming the Government in the
state. Sonia already spoke to Hooda
and given him the go-ahead to work
towards forming the Government,
they said.
"Former Haryana CM Hooda is
already in touch with JJP and
Independents," a source close to him
said. Sonia had appointed Hooda the
Congress Legislative Party (CLP)
leader which proved to be a game
changer for the party in Haryana
which was struggling to maintain the
party's ground which ruled for maxi-
mum number of years in the Jat dom-
inant state.
While former Congress chief
Rahul Gandhi campaigned in both the
States, leaders lost hope after the only
rally scheduled for Sonia to address
was cancelled on the penultimate day
of elections early this week.
Following the impressive results,
senior Congress leader P
Chidambaram said party workers Lucknow: Samajwadi Party on Thursday
must believe that the BJP can be retained its Rampur assembly seat, which
defeated in elections as calm and fell vacant after Azam Khan successfully
quiet patriotism can defeat muscular fought the Lok Sabha polls with his wife
nationalism. Taking a swipe at the BJP, emerging victorious by a margin of over
Chidambaram, who is in ED custody 7,000 votes.
in a corruption case, said that miracles Khan's wife and SP candidate Tazeen
can happen if people shed their fear. Fatma won by defeating her nearest rival
"Congress workers must believe BJP candidate Bharat Bhushan.
that the BJP can be defeated in an elec- While Tazeen secured 79,043 votes,
tion. Calm and quiet patriotism can Bhushan got 71,327 votes.
defeat muscular nationalism," he said on Congress candidate Arshad Ali Khan
Twitter. He said he had asked his fam- got 4,182 votes while BSP's Zubair Masood
ily to tweet on his behalf. Khan secured 3,441 votes.
Elated over the party's perfor-
mance in the assembly polls in
In Gangoh, the BJP retained the seat
with its candidate Kirat Singh defeating his
Maharastra and Haryana, the leader of nearest rival Congress candidate Nooman
Congress in Lok Sabha, Adhir Ranjan Masud.
Chowdhury Thursday said the so While the BJP candidate secured
called "Modi magic" is fast waning. The 68,300 votes, Masud got 62,881 votes.
result of the assembly polls in the two Samajwadi Party candidate Inder Sain
states will help to rejuvenate Congress got 57,374 votes while BSP candidate Mohd
in the days to come, he said. Irshad got 32,276 votes. PTI
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Ahmedabad: The Opposition comeback after trailing in initial
Congress and ruling BJP won rounds, and defeated the BJP's
three seats each in the bypolls to Jivraj Patel by over 6,400 votes.
six assembly constituencies in In Kheralu seat in Mehsana,
Gujarat, the results of which the BJP's Ajmalji Thakor defeat-
were declared on Thursday. ed the Congress' Babuji Thakor
The Congress managed to by 29,000 votes.
wrest one seat away from the In Radhanpur seat, the BJP's
BJP. Alpesh Thakor was defeated by
Congress turncoat MLAs the Congress' Raghu Desai by
Alpesh Thakor and Dhavalsinh over 3,800 votes.
Zala, who contested on BJP In Lunawada, BJP candidate
ticket, lost. Jignesh Sevak won against the
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Lucknow/Patna: The BJP and
its allies on Thursday won 26 of
the 51 assembly seats at stake in
the bypolls across 18 states
and the Congress emerged vic-
torious in 12 constituencies
while Asaduddin Owaisi's
AIMIM tasted its maiden elec-
toral success in Bihar.
In bye-elections to two Lok
Sabha seats, Prince Raj of the
Lok Jan Shakti Party won in
Samastipur (SC) in Bihar
defeating Ashok Kumar of the
Congress, while Shriniwas
Dadasaheb Patil of the NCP
emerged victorious in
Maharashtra's Satara con-
stituency over Udyanraje
Pratapsinhmaharaj Bhonsle of
the BJP.
The Samajwadi Party
turned out to be a major gain-
er in Uttar Pradesh, wresting a
seat each from the ruling BJP
and the BSP, while the NDA got
eight, one less than it held.
The SP wrested Zaidpur
seat from the BJP and Jalalpur
seat from the BSP, while retain-
ing Rampur. The BJP won
seven seats and its ally Apna Dal
(S) bagged one.
The BJP retained Balha,
Gangoh, Manikpur, Ghosi,
Iglas, Lucknow Cantt and
Govindnagar, while Apna Dal
(S) retained Pratapgarh.
The ruling JD(U) suffered
a setback in Bihar managing to
win only one of the four seats
it contested. Bypolls were held
in five seats of which RJD won
two and AIMIM one. The
remaining seat was won by an
Independent.
The results gave the once
mighty RJD a reason to smile,
while Hyderabad MP Owaisi's
AIMIM gained a toehold in the
state clinching Kishanganj, a
Muslim-dominated con-
stituency. BJP rebel candidate
Karnjeet Singh won the
Dharaunda seat as an
Independent.
The JD(U) could win only
Nathnagar where its candidate
Laxmi Kant Mandal beat Rabia
Khatun of the RJD by little over
5,000 votes.
Four of these five seats
were held by BJP ally JD(U) and
one by the Congress.
Among the states ruled by
the BJP and its allies, bypolls
were held on Monday for the
maximum 11 seats in Uttar
Pradesh, followed by six in
Gujarat, five in Bihar, four in
Assam and two each in
Himachal Pradesh and Tamil
Nadu.
The other states where
bypolls were held are Punjab (4
seats), Kerala (5), Sikkim (3),
Rajasthan (2) and one seat
each in Arunachal Pradesh,
Madhya Pradesh, Odisha,
Chhattisgarh, Puducherry,
Meghalaya and Telangana.
The BJP and its allies held
nearly 30 of these seats, while
the Congress had won 12 and
the rest were with regional
parties.
Assembly elections were
also held in Maharashtra, where
the BJP-Shiv Sena coalition
retained power albeit with a
reduced majority, and in BJP-
ruled Haryana which appeared
headed for a hung assembly
with JJP chief Dushyant
Chautala holding the key to
government formation.
In the Gujarat bypolls, rul-
ing BJP and Congress shared
the spoils winning three seats
each. OBC leader Alpesh
Thakor, who switched sides
from Congress to BJP, lost from
Radhanpur by 3,807 votes to
Congress's Raghubhai Desai.
Congress candidate Jashu
Patel defeated BJP's Dhavalsinh
Zala in Bayad, while in Tharad,
Congress nominee Gulabsinh
Rajput prevailed over BJP's
Jivraj Patel.
In Kheralu seat, BJP's
Ajmalji Thakor beat Congress's
Babuji Thakor.
In Lunawada, BJP's Jignesh
Sevak beat Congress's
Gulabsinh Chauhan while in
Amraiwadi, Congress's
Dharmendra Patel lost to BJP's
Jagdish Patel.
Prior to the bypolls, the
Congress held Radhanpur and
Bayad seats while the other four
were with the BJP.
In a morale booster after
the Lok Sabha poll drubbing
months ago, the ruling
AIADMK in Tamil Nadu wrest-
ed two seats from arch-rival
DMK and its ally Congress in
the bypolls. AIADMK won by
impressive margins in
Vikravandi and Nanguneri con-
stituencies.
In Kerala, the Congress-led
UDF tasted defeat at the hands
of the ruling LDF headed by the
CPI-M in its strongholds of
Vattiyoorkavu and Konni, while
it retained two seats and won
from the Marxist bastion of
Aroor. Thiruvananthapuram
Mayor V K Prasanth won from
Vattiyoorkavu against his near-
est Congress rival K
Mohankumar.
Another UDF bastion,
Konni, went to the LDF kitty
with its candidate K U Jenish
Kumar defeating P Mohanraj
(Cong).
However, the LDF tasted
defeat at Aroor, a CPI(M)
stronghold where UDF's
Shanimol Usman, who had
unsuccessfully contested the
April Lok Sabha poll from
Alappuzha, won by a margin of
2079 votes.
Usman defeated her near-
est rival Manu C Pulickal of the
LDF.
The UDF won the
Manjeshwaram seat where M C
Kamaruddin (IUML) won by
7,923 votes against BJP's
Raveesh Thanthri Kuntar.
It retained the Ernakulam
seat as its candidate T J Vinod,
deputy Mayor of Kochi corpo-
ration, defeated his nearest
rival advocate Manu Roy, the
LDF-Independent candidate by
over 3,750 votes.
The LDF's strength has
now gone up to 93, while that
of UDF 45 in the 140-member
house.
The defeat in Vatiyoorkavu
and Konni comes as a rude
shock for the UDF which had
won 19 of the 20 Lok Sabha
seats in the Lok Sabha polls in
May.
In Madhya Pradesh, the
Congress wrested back its tra-
ditional Jhabua assembly seat
from the BJP. Congress candi-
date and former Union minis-
ter Kantilal Bhuria won by
27,804 votes, defeating BJP's
Bhanu Bhuria.
The Congress lost the seat
to BJP in last year's assembly
polls with G S Damor defeating
Kantilal Bhuria's son Vikrant
Bhuria by 10,437 votes.
However, the BJP fielded
Damor in the general elections
from the Ratlam-Jhabua seat,
which he won by defeating
Kantilal Bhuria.
The Congress now has 115
members, one short of simple
majority in the 230-member
house. It enjoys the support of
4 Independents, two BSP MLAs
and one SP MLA.
The ruling Congress in
Rajasthan increased its tally in
the state assembly by winning
the bypoll to Mandawa seat
while MP Hanuman Beniwal's
Rashtriya Loktantrik Party
retained the Khinwsar seat.
Congress's Rita Chaudhary
won from Mandawa by a mar-
gin of 33,704 votes while RLP
candidate Narayan Beniwal
won Khinwsar by 4,630 votes.
Now the Congress tally in
the 200-member assembly has
increased to 107, including six
those who had defected to the
party from the BSP last month.
The BJP has 72 MLAs and the
RLP three.
The ruling Congress con-
solidated its position in Punjab
winning three assembly seg-
ments while opposition
Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD)
won one seat.
Raminder Awla defeated
SAD nominee Raj Singh
Dibipura by 16,633 votes from
Jalalabad, considered an Akali
bastion.
Earlier, the segment was
represented by SAD chief
Sukhbir Singh Badal, who was
elected to Lok Sabha in May.
In Phagwara, which fell
vacant after sitting BJP MLA
Som Parkash was elected to Lok
Sabha, Congress candidate and
former IAS officer Balwinder
Singh Dhaliwal defeated BJP's
Rajesh Bagha by 26,116 votes.
Congress's Indu Bala won
from Mukerian by defeating
BJP's Jangi Lal Mahajan by
3,440 votes.
But the ruling party suf-
fered a setback as SAD's
Manpreet Singh Ayali defeated
its nominee Sandeep Singh
Sandhu by 14,672 votes in
Dakha.
The ruling TRS in
Telangana won the Huzurnagar
seat with its nominee S Saidi
Reddy defeating Congress's N
Padmavati Reddy.
The BJP in Assam won
three seats with its candidates
Bijoy Malakar (Ratabari), Rajen
Borthakur (Rangapara) and
Nabanita Handique (Sonari)
defeating their respective
Congress opponents. All India
United Democratic Front's
Rafiqul Islam prevailed over
Congress's Shamsul Hoque in
Jania.
The by-election was neces-
sitated after sitting BJP MLAs
and ministers Pallab Lochan
Das (Rangapara) and Tapan
Gogoi (Sonari) and Deputy
Speaker Kripanath Mallah
(Ratabari) besides Congress
MLA Abdul Khaleque (Jania)
were elected to the Lok Sabha.
In Himachal Pradesh, the
ruling BJP retained both the
Dharamshala and Pachhad
seats. In Pachhad, Reena
Kashyap defeated her nearest
rival, former minister Gangu
Ram Musafir of the Congress,
by 2,742 votes.
Vishal Nehria defeated
Independent Rakesh Kumar
by 6,758 votes in Dharamshala.
In Puducherry, the ruling
Congress retained the Kamaraj
Nagar Assembly seat with its
nominee A John Kumar defeat-
ing his nearest AINRC rival S
Bhuvaneswarane.
With this win, the
Congress's strength in the
assembly has been restored to
15 in which the Congress enjoys
the support of the DMK, its
alliance partner, from outside.
The bypoll was necessi-
tated after incumbent legisla-
tor V Vaithilingam (Cong)
quit following his election to
Lok Sabha from the lone seat
here.
The ruling Congress won
the Naxal-affected Chitrakot
Congress' tally in the 182- mem- by over 11,000 votes.
ber House to 72, and that of the In Amraiwadi, the BJP's
BJP to 103. Congress's Jashu Jagdish Patel, who was trailing
Patel defeated Zala from Bayad behind Congress' Dharmendra
seat in Arvalli district by a mar- Patel initially, managed to come
gin of over 700 votes. back and won by over 5,500
constituency, reserved for Before the results were votes.
Scheduled Tribes, in declared, Zala had accepted his Prior to the by-elections, the
Chhattisgarh with Rajman defeat and left the counting Congress held Radhanpur and
Benzam defeating Lachhuram centre. Bayad seats while the other
Kashyap of the BJP by 17,862 In Tharad seat of four were with the BJP.
votes. Banaskantha, Congress candi- Congress snatched Tharad
BJD candidate Rita Sahu date Gulabsinh Rajput made a seat from the ruling party. PTI
won the Bijepur Assembly seat
in Odisha defeating Sanat
Gartia of the BJP by 97,990
votes, which is the highest-ever
margin in the history of the
state's assembly polls.
Sikkim Chief Minister
Prem Singh Tamang aka PS
Golay won from Poklok
Kamrang seat by 8,953 votes.
The Sikkim Krantikari Morcha
(SKM) founder defeated Moses
Rai of the Sikkim Democratic
Front.
The SKM's alliance partner
BJP tasted its first electoral
victory in the northeastern
state winning the Martam
Rumtek and Gangtok seats.
Sonam TSH Venchungpa
won from Martam Rumtek,
defeating his nearest rival Nuk
Tshering Bhutia of the SDF by
6,150 votes while Yong Tshering
Lepcha beat Delay Namgyal
Barfungpa of the Sikkim
National People's Party by 1,010
votes in Gangtok.
Former Indian football
team captain Bhaichung Bhutia,
who contested from Gangtok
seat on a Hamro Sikkim Party
ticket, managed to bag only 579
votes.
The ruling SKM's tally in
the 32-member House has now
gone up to 19 while the BJP's
strength in the House is 12. Ten
SDF legislators had earlier
switched to the BJP.
United Democratic Party
candidate Balajied Kupar
Synrem won the bypoll to
Shella constituency in
Meghalaya by over 6000 votes.
The bye-election was necessi-
tated due to the death of UDP
president Donkupar Roy, who
had represented the seat for a
record seven times, earlier this
year. Synrem is Donkupar
Roy's son. In Arunachal
Pradesh, Independent candi-
date Chakat Aboh, wife of
National People's Party (NPP)
leader Tirong Abo. PTI
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espite the BJP's showing
D not upto the expectations
in Maharashtra and Haryana
Assembly polls, Prime Minister
Narendra Modi and BJP pres-
ident Amit Shah on Thursday
sought to outline the key pos-
itives even while asserting to
form the Governments in both
the States despite Haryana
throwing up a fractured man-
date.
Addressing BJP workers
at the party headquarters in the
evening, Modi pointed out
how the party scripted history
in Maharashtra, where "for the
first time in 50 years, a Chief
Minister completed his full
five-year term" and the return
of the party to power shows
people reposed faith in the
Devendra Fadnavis-led State
Government. "Political stabil-
ity is a must for a state like
Maharashtra," he added.
"Even before Diwali, the
way people of Haryana and
Maharashtra have put their
faith in BJP, I want to thank
them from the core of my
heart," he maintained.
Modi said the people have
reposed faith in leadership of
Fadnavis and Haryana chief
minister Manohar Lal Khattar.
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Manohar Lal ji both were first
time chief ministers, they did
not even have the experience as
ministers. And for 5 years they
kept working for people's wel-
fare and as a result people have
again put their faith in them,"
Modi said.
"The political pundits who
are analysing today's election
results, Haryana in itself is an
exceptional win since these
days there have been less
instances of winning again
after completing a 5-year term..
Moreover, BJP's vote share in
Haryana went up to 36 per cent
from 33 per cent; it shows peo-
ple's endorsement of Govt's
work," Modi said.
Earlier, Modi tweeted: "I
thank the people of Haryana
for blessing us. We will con-
tinue to work with the same
zeal and dedication for the
state's progress. I laud the
efforts of hardworking
@BJP4Haryana Karyakartas
who toiled extensively and
went among the people to
elaborate on our development
agenda.".
BJP president Amit Shah
said the BJP has won the first
two elections in Prime Minister
Narendra Modi's second term.
Addressing the party workers,
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Shah said "I want to congratu-
late party workers across the
country as in Modi-2, the first
two elections have been won by
the BJP. The BJP-Sena yuti
(alliance) has full majority in
Maharashtra and we won 3 per
cent more votes and emerged
as the biggest party in
Haryana." Shah also referred to
various decisions of the central
government like ending special
status to Jammu and Kashmir,
criminalizing instant Triple
Talaq and giving rights to 40
lakh residents of unauthorized
colonies in Delhi, indicating
that the BJP's latest wins were
an endorsement of these steps.
Earlier, in his tweet, Shah
said the (Manohar Lal) Khattar
government in Haryana has
made every effort for people's
welfare under the central lead-
ership of (Narendra) Modi. "I
thank people for making the
BJP the single-largest party
and giving it another opportu-
nity to serve them," Shah tweet-
ed. He congratulated Chief
Minister Khattar and state
party chief Subhash Barala.
Shah said: In Maharashtra,
BJP-Shiv Sena is going to form
the govt once again with major-
ity. We'll work even harder in
both states for the welfare of the
people.
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he Congress-NCP alliance put up
T a good show in Maharashtra while
the grand old party surprised the rul-
ing side in Haryana by giving it a tough
fight and coming up with an increased
tally. As trends started pouring in,
Congress leaders started discussing
that had the party not given up mid-
way apprehending the loss to yet
another apparent 'Modi wave', it would
have made a comeback in Haryana and
together with regional parties wrested
power in Maharashtra.
In the first Assembly elections after
the BJP's triumph in the Lok Sabha
polls in May, the ruling party's electoral
juggernaut met with some resistance
in Maharashtra and Haryana with a
resurgent Congress performing cred-
itably in the northern State.
"It is for the first time in five years
that people have voted against BJP in
Assembly relying more on local issues
concerning them. BJP tried to mis-
guide the voters in local elections by
pitching national issues like Article 370
and triple talaq. But onions selling at
C70-80 per kg weighed more on the
electorates' minds than Article 370,"
quipped a senior Congress leader.
The party said the poll verdict in
Haryana and Maharashtra is a moral
defeat of the BJP and what it stands for.
Congress' senior spokesperson
Anand Sharma said that BJP chief Amit
Shah's claim of victory in Haryana does
not hold as the party is short of major-
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ity and there is a significant drop in its
vote percentage. Claiming that the ver-
dict of Haryana is against the BJP, he
also said all parties opposing the BJP
must come together.
In Haryana, the Congress, which
failed to bag even one seat in the Lok
Sabha polls, won or was ahead in 31
of the 90 seats at stake compared to its
previous tally of 15. The BJP, which had
47 seats in the outgoing 90-member
house, won or was ahead in 40 seats.
The half-way mark is 46.
In Maharashtra, the BJP-Shiv Sena
coalition was on course to retain
power albeit with a reduced majority
with the opposition Congress-NCP
alliance putting up a good show.
Haryana Congress chief Kumari
Selja said people has rejected the rul-
ing BJP and was ready to "embrace a
new dawn of justice". Selja was
appointed couple of months before the
assembly elections when former Chief
Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda had
threatened to quit the party if Selja's
predecessor Ashok Tanwar is not axed
as party chief.
A confident Hooda said he will
soon meet Congress president Sonia
Gandhi and top party leaders to strate-
gise on forming the Government in the
state. Sonia already spoke to Hooda
and given him the go-ahead to work
towards forming the Government,
they said.
"Former Haryana CM Hooda is
already in touch with JJP and
Independents," a source close to him
said. Sonia had appointed Hooda the
Congress Legislative Party (CLP)
leader which proved to be a game
changer for the party in Haryana
which was struggling to maintain the
party's ground which ruled for maxi-
mum number of years in the Jat dom-
inant state.
While former Congress chief
Rahul Gandhi campaigned in both the
States, leaders lost hope after the only
rally scheduled for Sonia to address
was cancelled on the penultimate day
of elections early this week.
Following the impressive results,
senior Congress leader P
Chidambaram said party workers Lucknow: Samajwadi Party on Thursday
must believe that the BJP can be retained its Rampur assembly seat, which
defeated in elections as calm and fell vacant after Azam Khan successfully
quiet patriotism can defeat muscular fought the Lok Sabha polls with his wife
nationalism. Taking a swipe at the BJP, emerging victorious by a margin of over
Chidambaram, who is in ED custody 7,000 votes.
in a corruption case, said that miracles Khan's wife and SP candidate Tazeen
can happen if people shed their fear. Fatma won by defeating her nearest rival
"Congress workers must believe BJP candidate Bharat Bhushan.
that the BJP can be defeated in an elec- While Tazeen secured 79,043 votes,
tion. Calm and quiet patriotism can Bhushan got 71,327 votes.
defeat muscular nationalism," he said on Congress candidate Arshad Ali Khan
Twitter. He said he had asked his fam- got 4,182 votes while BSP's Zubair Masood
ily to tweet on his behalf. Khan secured 3,441 votes.
Elated over the party's perfor-
mance in the assembly polls in
In Gangoh, the BJP retained the seat
with its candidate Kirat Singh defeating his
Maharastra and Haryana, the leader of nearest rival Congress candidate Nooman
Congress in Lok Sabha, Adhir Ranjan Masud.
Chowdhury Thursday said the so While the BJP candidate secured
called "Modi magic" is fast waning. The 68,300 votes, Masud got 62,881 votes.
result of the assembly polls in the two Samajwadi Party candidate Inder Sain
states will help to rejuvenate Congress got 57,374 votes while BSP candidate Mohd
in the days to come, he said. Irshad got 32,276 votes. PTI
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Ahmedabad: The Opposition comeback after trailing in initial
Congress and ruling BJP won rounds, and defeated the BJP's
three seats each in the bypolls to Jivraj Patel by over 6,400 votes.
six assembly constituencies in In Kheralu seat in Mehsana,
Gujarat, the results of which the BJP's Ajmalji Thakor defeat-
were declared on Thursday. ed the Congress' Babuji Thakor
The Congress managed to by 29,000 votes.
wrest one seat away from the In Radhanpur seat, the BJP's
BJP. Alpesh Thakor was defeated by
Congress turncoat MLAs the Congress' Raghu Desai by
Alpesh Thakor and Dhavalsinh over 3,800 votes.
Zala, who contested on BJP In Lunawada, BJP candidate
ticket, lost. Jignesh Sevak won against the
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Lucknow/Patna: The BJP and
its allies on Thursday won 26 of
the 51 assembly seats at stake in
the bypolls across 18 states
and the Congress emerged vic-
torious in 12 constituencies
while Asaduddin Owaisi's
AIMIM tasted its maiden elec-
toral success in Bihar.
In bye-elections to two Lok
Sabha seats, Prince Raj of the
Lok Jan Shakti Party won in
Samastipur (SC) in Bihar
defeating Ashok Kumar of the
Congress, while Shriniwas
Dadasaheb Patil of the NCP
emerged victorious in
Maharashtra's Satara con-
stituency over Udyanraje
Pratapsinhmaharaj Bhonsle of
the BJP.
The Samajwadi Party
turned out to be a major gain-
er in Uttar Pradesh, wresting a
seat each from the ruling BJP
and the BSP, while the NDA got
eight, one less than it held.
The SP wrested Zaidpur
seat from the BJP and Jalalpur
seat from the BSP, while retain-
ing Rampur. The BJP won
seven seats and its ally Apna Dal
(S) bagged one.
The BJP retained Balha,
Gangoh, Manikpur, Ghosi,
Iglas, Lucknow Cantt and
Govindnagar, while Apna Dal
(S) retained Pratapgarh.
The ruling JD(U) suffered
a setback in Bihar managing to
win only one of the four seats
it contested. Bypolls were held
in five seats of which RJD won
two and AIMIM one. The
remaining seat was won by an
Independent.
The results gave the once
mighty RJD a reason to smile,
while Hyderabad MP Owaisi's
AIMIM gained a toehold in the
state clinching Kishanganj, a
Muslim-dominated con-
stituency. BJP rebel candidate
Karnjeet Singh won the
Dharaunda seat as an
Independent.
The JD(U) could win only
Nathnagar where its candidate
Laxmi Kant Mandal beat Rabia
Khatun of the RJD by little over
5,000 votes.
Four of these five seats
were held by BJP ally JD(U) and
one by the Congress.
Among the states ruled by
the BJP and its allies, bypolls
were held on Monday for the
maximum 11 seats in Uttar
Pradesh, followed by six in
Gujarat, five in Bihar, four in
Assam and two each in
Himachal Pradesh and Tamil
Nadu.
The other states where
bypolls were held are Punjab (4
seats), Kerala (5), Sikkim (3),
Rajasthan (2) and one seat
each in Arunachal Pradesh,
Madhya Pradesh, Odisha,
Chhattisgarh, Puducherry,
Meghalaya and Telangana.
The BJP and its allies held
nearly 30 of these seats, while
the Congress had won 12 and
the rest were with regional
parties.
Assembly elections were
also held in Maharashtra, where
the BJP-Shiv Sena coalition
retained power albeit with a
reduced majority, and in BJP-
ruled Haryana which appeared
headed for a hung assembly
with JJP chief Dushyant
Chautala holding the key to
government formation.
In the Gujarat bypolls, rul-
ing BJP and Congress shared
the spoils winning three seats
each. OBC leader Alpesh
Thakor, who switched sides
from Congress to BJP, lost from
Radhanpur by 3,807 votes to
Congress's Raghubhai Desai.
Congress candidate Jashu
Patel defeated BJP's Dhavalsinh
Zala in Bayad, while in Tharad,
Congress nominee Gulabsinh
Rajput prevailed over BJP's
Jivraj Patel.
In Kheralu seat, BJP's
Ajmalji Thakor beat Congress's
Babuji Thakor.
In Lunawada, BJP's Jignesh
Sevak beat Congress's
Gulabsinh Chauhan while in
Amraiwadi, Congress's
Dharmendra Patel lost to BJP's
Jagdish Patel.
Prior to the bypolls, the
Congress held Radhanpur and
Bayad seats while the other four
were with the BJP.
In a morale booster after
the Lok Sabha poll drubbing
months ago, the ruling
AIADMK in Tamil Nadu wrest-
ed two seats from arch-rival
DMK and its ally Congress in
the bypolls. AIADMK won by
impressive margins in
Vikravandi and Nanguneri con-
stituencies.
In Kerala, the Congress-led
UDF tasted defeat at the hands
of the ruling LDF headed by the
CPI-M in its strongholds of
Vattiyoorkavu and Konni, while
it retained two seats and won
from the Marxist bastion of
Aroor. Thiruvananthapuram
Mayor V K Prasanth won from
Vattiyoorkavu against his near-
est Congress rival K
Mohankumar.
Another UDF bastion,
Konni, went to the LDF kitty
with its candidate K U Jenish
Kumar defeating P Mohanraj
(Cong).
However, the LDF tasted
defeat at Aroor, a CPI(M)
stronghold where UDF's
Shanimol Usman, who had
unsuccessfully contested the
April Lok Sabha poll from
Alappuzha, won by a margin of
2079 votes.
Usman defeated her near-
est rival Manu C Pulickal of the
LDF.
The UDF won the
Manjeshwaram seat where M C
Kamaruddin (IUML) won by
7,923 votes against BJP's
Raveesh Thanthri Kuntar.
It retained the Ernakulam
seat as its candidate T J Vinod,
deputy Mayor of Kochi corpo-
ration, defeated his nearest
rival advocate Manu Roy, the
LDF-Independent candidate by
over 3,750 votes.
The LDF's strength has
now gone up to 93, while that
of UDF 45 in the 140-member
house.
The defeat in Vatiyoorkavu
and Konni comes as a rude
shock for the UDF which had
won 19 of the 20 Lok Sabha
seats in the Lok Sabha polls in
May.
In Madhya Pradesh, the
Congress wrested back its tra-
ditional Jhabua assembly seat
from the BJP. Congress candi-
date and former Union minis-
ter Kantilal Bhuria won by
27,804 votes, defeating BJP's
Bhanu Bhuria.
The Congress lost the seat
to BJP in last year's assembly
polls with G S Damor defeating
Kantilal Bhuria's son Vikrant
Bhuria by 10,437 votes.
However, the BJP fielded
Damor in the general elections
from the Ratlam-Jhabua seat,
which he won by defeating
Kantilal Bhuria.
The Congress now has 115
members, one short of simple
majority in the 230-member
house. It enjoys the support of
4 Independents, two BSP MLAs
and one SP MLA.
The ruling Congress in
Rajasthan increased its tally in
the state assembly by winning
the bypoll to Mandawa seat
while MP Hanuman Beniwal's
Rashtriya Loktantrik Party
retained the Khinwsar seat.
Congress's Rita Chaudhary
won from Mandawa by a mar-
gin of 33,704 votes while RLP
candidate Narayan Beniwal
won Khinwsar by 4,630 votes.
Now the Congress tally in
the 200-member assembly has
increased to 107, including six
those who had defected to the
party from the BSP last month.
The BJP has 72 MLAs and the
RLP three.
The ruling Congress con-
solidated its position in Punjab
winning three assembly seg-
ments while opposition
Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD)
won one seat.
Raminder Awla defeated
SAD nominee Raj Singh
Dibipura by 16,633 votes from
Jalalabad, considered an Akali
bastion.
Earlier, the segment was
represented by SAD chief
Sukhbir Singh Badal, who was
elected to Lok Sabha in May.
In Phagwara, which fell
vacant after sitting BJP MLA
Som Parkash was elected to Lok
Sabha, Congress candidate and
former IAS officer Balwinder
Singh Dhaliwal defeated BJP's
Rajesh Bagha by 26,116 votes.
Congress's Indu Bala won
from Mukerian by defeating
BJP's Jangi Lal Mahajan by
3,440 votes.
But the ruling party suf-
fered a setback as SAD's
Manpreet Singh Ayali defeated
its nominee Sandeep Singh
Sandhu by 14,672 votes in
Dakha.
The ruling TRS in
Telangana won the Huzurnagar
seat with its nominee S Saidi
Reddy defeating Congress's N
Padmavati Reddy.
The BJP in Assam won
three seats with its candidates
Bijoy Malakar (Ratabari), Rajen
Borthakur (Rangapara) and
Nabanita Handique (Sonari)
defeating their respective
Congress opponents. All India
United Democratic Front's
Rafiqul Islam prevailed over
Congress's Shamsul Hoque in
Jania.
The by-election was neces-
sitated after sitting BJP MLAs
and ministers Pallab Lochan
Das (Rangapara) and Tapan
Gogoi (Sonari) and Deputy
Speaker Kripanath Mallah
(Ratabari) besides Congress
MLA Abdul Khaleque (Jania)
were elected to the Lok Sabha.
In Himachal Pradesh, the
ruling BJP retained both the
Dharamshala and Pachhad
seats. In Pachhad, Reena
Kashyap defeated her nearest
rival, former minister Gangu
Ram Musafir of the Congress,
by 2,742 votes.
Vishal Nehria defeated
Independent Rakesh Kumar
by 6,758 votes in Dharamshala.
In Puducherry, the ruling
Congress retained the Kamaraj
Nagar Assembly seat with its
nominee A John Kumar defeat-
ing his nearest AINRC rival S
Bhuvaneswarane.
With this win, the
Congress's strength in the
assembly has been restored to
15 in which the Congress enjoys
the support of the DMK, its
alliance partner, from outside.
The bypoll was necessi-
tated after incumbent legisla-
tor V Vaithilingam (Cong)
quit following his election to
Lok Sabha from the lone seat
here.
The ruling Congress won
the Naxal-affected Chitrakot
Congress' tally in the 182- mem- by over 11,000 votes.
ber House to 72, and that of the In Amraiwadi, the BJP's
BJP to 103. Congress's Jashu Jagdish Patel, who was trailing
Patel defeated Zala from Bayad behind Congress' Dharmendra
seat in Arvalli district by a mar- Patel initially, managed to come
gin of over 700 votes. back and won by over 5,500
constituency, reserved for Before the results were votes.
Scheduled Tribes, in declared, Zala had accepted his Prior to the by-elections, the
Chhattisgarh with Rajman defeat and left the counting Congress held Radhanpur and
Benzam defeating Lachhuram centre. Bayad seats while the other
Kashyap of the BJP by 17,862 In Tharad seat of four were with the BJP.
votes. Banaskantha, Congress candi- Congress snatched Tharad
BJD candidate Rita Sahu date Gulabsinh Rajput made a seat from the ruling party. PTI
won the Bijepur Assembly seat
in Odisha defeating Sanat
Gartia of the BJP by 97,990
votes, which is the highest-ever
margin in the history of the
state's assembly polls.
Sikkim Chief Minister
Prem Singh Tamang aka PS
Golay won from Poklok
Kamrang seat by 8,953 votes.
The Sikkim Krantikari Morcha
(SKM) founder defeated Moses
Rai of the Sikkim Democratic
Front.
The SKM's alliance partner
BJP tasted its first electoral
victory in the northeastern
state winning the Martam
Rumtek and Gangtok seats.
Sonam TSH Venchungpa
won from Martam Rumtek,
defeating his nearest rival Nuk
Tshering Bhutia of the SDF by
6,150 votes while Yong Tshering
Lepcha beat Delay Namgyal
Barfungpa of the Sikkim
National People's Party by 1,010
votes in Gangtok.
Former Indian football
team captain Bhaichung Bhutia,
who contested from Gangtok
seat on a Hamro Sikkim Party
ticket, managed to bag only 579
votes.
The ruling SKM's tally in
the 32-member House has now
gone up to 19 while the BJP's
strength in the House is 12. Ten
SDF legislators had earlier
switched to the BJP.
United Democratic Party
candidate Balajied Kupar
Synrem won the bypoll to
Shella constituency in
Meghalaya by over 6000 votes.
The bye-election was necessi-
tated due to the death of UDP
president Donkupar Roy, who
had represented the seat for a
record seven times, earlier this
year. Synrem is Donkupar
Roy's son. In Arunachal
Pradesh, Independent candi-
date Chakat Aboh, wife of
National People's Party (NPP)
leader Tirong Abo. PTI
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in the career of an individual, a sudden
change and a different pattern of educa-
tion at that level may become difficult for
absorption. It is, therefore, essential that our
education system be integrated from the
foundation stage onwards, in certain spe-
cific core areas, which would encourage
thinking and inculcate a sense of enquiry
and inquisitiveness.
Scientific evidence shows that 80 per
cent of the brain is fully developed by the
age of six, which indicates importance of
child care in an appropriate environment
with stimulus to the brain. Here lies the
importance of school as well as pre-
school education. Emphasis on foundation-
al literacy and numeracy at the school as
well as pre-school levels is known to aid
healthy growth of the cerebral cortex, an
area associated with such skills within the
brain. In this context, the most important
factor is the teacher, who has to be ade-
quately equipped with the latest pedagog-
ical techniques so as to ensure appropri-
ate development of the cognitive skills
among youngsters in a sensitive manner.
Accordingly, text books and exercises,
which encourage correlation of concepts
besides thinking and questioning, will have
to be designed.
A report published by the International
Labour Organisation (ILO) recently found
that India had a disproportionately low
number of teachers for school-going chil-
dren. While we do need quantity, the qual-
ity of teachers is perhaps even more
important. The ILO report also revealed
that elementary school teachers have a crit-
ical impact on the earning capacity of stu-
dents and, hence, the economy. Recent pro-
nouncements, that we have a large num-
ber of educated unemployables, may be a
result of poor quality of teachers and ped-
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agogy. Hence, the need is for a new look
towards training of teachers.
Simultaneously, it has been observed
that at higher levels, following an approach
which integrates arts, linguistics, and
humanities besides mathematics along with
science and technology, leads to a deeper
learning. This promotes critical thinking
and one of higher order. Besides, it also
leads to the development of problem-solv-
ing and communication skills. Such a holis-
tic approach for acquisition of knowledge
would be relevant in present-day context
as well as future.
Work being done at the PMF for the
acquisition of knowledge shows that mem-
orising is like carrying the burden of books;
it does not have much meaning and does
not even add to one’s knowledge unless one
comprehends the content. In today’s class-
rooms, so much of information is already
available with the students that they do not
expect it from the teachers. Instead of
“what”, they need to be explained “why”
and “how”, which can satisfy curiosity of
students and stimulate critical thinking.
The link between critical thinking and
education is obvious as one cannot learn
without thinking well. For comprehension
of content and clarity of concepts, it is,
therefore, important that students ask ques-
tions. This is where lies the importance of
critical thinking. It consists of techniques
of sound and systematic reasoning as well
as arguments and counter arguments,
besides elements of deductive logic. Work
books are now available, which help pro-
mote critical thinking skills. Irrespective of
the subject, the usefulness of such tech-
niques has been tried and tested by
experts in the stimulation of the brain.
In the contemporary scenario, the
importance of critical thinking in view of
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the draft National Educational Policy
(NEP) has also drawn inspiration.
Appropriate modifications to the curricu-
lum have been suggested. According to
research findings of a US-based partner-
ship for 21st century, communication, col-
laboration, creativity and critical thinking,
known as the 4Cs, will be the core skills
required for 21st century education. It has
been established that at the college and uni-
versity levels, habits of mind, such as analy-
sis, interpretation, precision and accuracy,
problem-solving and logical reasoning can
be as important as content knowledge itself.
At the same time, the question before
us is that with the advent of the fourth
industrial revolution and the arrival of the
Internet of Things and Artificial
Intelligence (AI), what would be the
future of critical thinking? In fact, a
restructured curriculum with focus on 21st
century skills would be even more impor-
tant for a comfortable interface with the
fourth industrial revolution technologies.
Emphasis on collaboration and team work
would still be essential so that in the hi-tech
future, one can think critically as well as
independently and not become entirely
subservient to AI. The draft NEP, with ref-
erence to school education, has made no
mention either of a reduction in the weight
of school bags or any happiness classes. On
the positive side, it has alluded to the use-
fulness and introduced the concept of crit-
ical thinking in higher education. It is to
be hoped that the final NEP will take into
account and focus on some of the issues
mentioned here so as to improve the lot of
our youth, so that they can significantly
contribute towards nation building.
(The writer is a former Governor and
a Senior advisor at the Pranab Mukherjee
Foundation)

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he goal of crafting a $5 trillion economy
T by 2025 is only achievable if rural India
grows by 12 per cent per annum. In spite
of increasing urbanisation in the last decade, the
rural economy still contributes about 46 per cent
to the national income. Once a predominantly
agrarian economy, now rural India is more diver-
sified, with the non-agricultural sector contribut-
ing to about two-thirds of household incomes.
More than half of the manufacturing and a
majority of micro, small and medium enterpris-
es (MSMEs) are also operating from rural India.
The reports of farmers’ distress, slow growth in
rural wage rates and high unemployment fig-
ures indicate that the recent economic slowdown
has affected rural parts of the country more than
urban areas. However, the recent heavy-lifting
on providing fiscal stimulus with corporate tax
cuts, repo rate slashes and cheaper loans to facil-
itate recovery in the beleaguered property
market and automobile sector, mainly benefit
urban India, rather than rural India, as the econ-
omy there is mainly informal and transmission
is not direct.
(according to the World Bank), another impor-
India’s economic recovery depends on omy efficient, it also creates consumption
translating fiscal stimulus measures to enhanced demand in the short run, by putting money in tant aspect is the quality of jobs. A majority of
consumption; investment; employment; output the hands of construction workers, painters, elec- the people working in agriculture have low pro-
and exports in the rural areas. A good recov- tricians, masons and so on. As the private sec- ductivity, resulting in low incomes compared to
ery strategy is identification of growth engines tor is reluctant to invest in rural areas due to low 8=380³B42>=><82 non-farm incomes. There is an urgent need to
and concentration on a few actionable points to
fuel them. The four engines of rural economic
profitability, it should come directly from
Government investments in construction of A42>E4AH create more productive jobs and ensure skill
development to truly benefit from India’s
growth are consumption, investment, employ-
ment and exports.
rural roads and housing in terms of the viabil-
ity gap in funding and housing subsidies.
34?4=3B>= demographic dividend.
Export push: Most of the SMEs, livestock
Consumption growth at the bottom of the Public investment in rural infrastructure will CA0=B;0C8=6 and horticulture sectors have a huge export
pyramid: The Indian economy is consumer-dri-
ven, with consumption contributing about 60
in turn attract private investment with the
expected increased profitability being a major 58B20;BC8<D;DB growth potential, which also provides high pro-
ductive employment for the rural youth and gen-
per cent to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
As per a Boston Consulting Group (BCG) report
incentive. Budget announcements like the
planned C100 lakh crore investment in infra-
<40BDA4BC> erates more profits for the private sector. These
sectors also provide quality employment and
titled Going for Gold, that was released in structure need to be placed on the fast track, with 4=70=243 absorb educated youth with higher labour pro-
February, the consumer market in the country
was estimated at C110 lakh crore in 2018.
special geographical targets within rural areas.
A big push in investment in rural infrastructure, 2>=BD<?C8>=* ductivity in the post-harvest units, food process-
ing industry and export sectors.
Domestic consumption has grown at the rate even at the cost of a higher fiscal deficit, is worth 8=E4BC<4=C* There is a need for identification of bottle-
of 13 per cent in the last decade and although taking to thwart the negative sentiment in the necks in the export of these products — with a
it slowed recently due to the deceleration in the private sector. This investment as a share of the 4<?;>H<4=C* focus on logistics, food safety, global standards
economy, it is expected to grow much faster in
the near future, given the bottom of the pyra-
GDP has reduced to 29 per cent now from about
40 per cent in 2008. In addition to public financ-
>DC?DC0=3 and quality issues — on a war footing to take
advantage of the vacuum created in the global
mid population transition from the low-income ing, the Government has to provide a congenial 4G?>ACB supply chain by the trade war between America
to the middle-income class. atmosphere and tax holidays in rural areas to and China. India needs to achieve 19-20 per cent
Putting cash into the hands of these lower attract private investment. 8=ADA0; export growth to be able to achieve its $5 tril-
and middle-income families, together compris-
ing 76 per cent of the households in the coun-
Employment intensive sectors: The rural
economy is facing a serious structural problem.
0A40B06>>3 lion economy dream.
This means the country has to export a tril-
try, is one of the surest ways to pump-prime the Although the rural non-farm sector’s contribu- A42>E4AH lion dollar worth of goods and services in the
economy, with large multiplier effects spread-
ing across all sectors.
tion to the rural NDP (Net Domestic Product)
increased over the last two decades, its contri- BCA0C46H8B next five years. Although it is a big goal, but this
is doable if consistent efforts are made to make
As a quick solution, priority must be given
to removing implementation bottlenecks of
bution to employment creation is slow. The share
of the non-farm sector in rural NDP was 61 per
834=C85820C8>=>5 the economy competitive.
India contributes to less than 2 per cent of
direct money transfer schemes. For instance, the cent, but its share in the rural workforce was just 6A>FC7 the world’s exports despite its 18 per cent share
Prime Minister Kisan scheme, which aimed to
transfer C6,000 each to 14.6 crore farmers (who
36 per cent, as per the latest Central Statistical
Organisation (CSO) data. This resulted in 4=68=4B0=3 in the global population and the added advan-
tage of the largest youth population in the world.
are mainly lower-middle income households)
has been able to reach just 7.35 crore farmers
increased unemployment among the youth. This
structural problem has to be addressed with tax
2>=24=CA0C8>= India has to use this population dividend to
increase its economic power and to make it
as of now. The low-income households can be sops for employment-intensive industries in >=054F export-competitive through the use of technol-
targetted through more emphasis on MGNRE-
GA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural
rural areas. The Government should identify and
promote at least one employment-intensive sec- 02C8>=01;4 ogy, enhanced productivity and upgraded value
chains.
Employment Guarantee Act), as about 7.7
crore households are actively seeking employ-
tor like textiles, leather, jewellery and food prod-
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Investment: Pumping money into invest- invest and create employment. (The writer is agricultural economist, ICAR-
ments in rural infrastructure not only creates Apart from the large quantum of jobs that Central Research Institute for Dryland
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lasting pro-Government impression
on the minds of poor families in both
urban and rural areas before the 2019
general elections. The result was that
the NDA Government returned to
power at the Centre with a thumping
majority.
While speaking on the first
anniversary of the AB-PMJAY on
October 1, the Prime Minister flagged
it as an employment generation tool
for the next five years as it is expect-
ed to create around 11 lakh jobs for
quality healthcare.
Though, the Government’s
endeavours to provide affordable
healthcare to the needy are laudable,
the success of any welfare programme
depends largely on the role played by
the bureaucracy and in this case, the
honesty of private hospitals and ben-
efit seekers.
In the past, many such welfare
schemes were ruined by graft and the
best example of this is the deep-root-
ed corruption that unfolded in almost
senior Government officers and
Ministers sitting in the State capital.
For instance, recently, a tubercu-
losis patient from Uttarkashi district
became critical and started vomiting
blood. He was rushed to a hospital in
Vikas Nagar but it did not have the
infrastructure to handle the case. He
was then taken to the Doon Hospital,
which is part of the Government
Doon Medical College. Unfortunately,
he could not be admitted there as the
Emergency as well as Intensive Care
He was taken to Max Hospital
where some preliminary treatment
was done.
But when the family was told
about the cost of the treatment, they
approached me for advice. I contact-
ed Vijay Dhasmana, Vice Chancellor
of Jolly Grant Medical College, and
apprised him of the situation.
Consequently, the patient was admit-
ted to a special room in the Jolly Grant
Hospital, despite it being full of
dengue patients also.
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the medical bureaucracy to monitor
the effectiveness of the scheme.
Also, this incident happened
because the health and sanitary infra-
structure of the State has collapsed
resulting in a dengue epidemic. The CAD<?;>F4A8=6
hospitals are full of dengue patients
and many people have died. This has
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nation is a mammoth task that
requires access to a robust healthcare
system, education, employment and
industrial infrastructure. The other
element which is very vital in today’s
scenario is the state of our environ-
ment and the stability of natural
resources like water, air and soil.
A few of the NDA Government’s
pro-poor initiatives like the Pradhan
Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY),
better known as Ayushman Bharat
(AB), the Ujjwala Yojana for provid-
ing LPG connections and the Swachh
Bharat Mission (SBM) under which
individual toilets were built, made a
the youth. The Government’s endeav-
our is to make AB-PMJAY the best
healthcare scheme in the world with
the registration of 46 lakh people. Out
of this number, around 50,000 peo-
ple have availed of the benefits of the
scheme outside their home districts.
There are two facets to the
scheme. The first is to bring more
than 10 crore poor and vulnerable
families within its ambit by providing
a cover of C5 lakh per family per year
for secondary and tertiary hospitali-
sation. Second, the Government is
going to upgrade 1.5 lakh primary
health centers by 2022 so that the
needy can get comprehensive and
all States in the National Health
Mission. A huge amount of money
was looted by the medical fraternity
and the bureaucracy all over the coun-
try.
Another case in point is the
complete collapse of the health and
sanitary infrastructure in Uttarakhand
due to the arrogance and lackadaisi-
cal attitude of Government officers
and public representatives. The prob-
lem there is of systemic failure. First
bureaucratic guidelines run counter
to the objectives of the scheme and
bury the patient in mounds of red
tape. Second, is the insensitivity and
lack of integrity among the doctors,
Unit (ICU) were both overflowing
with dengue patients.
He was then rushed to the
Indresh Hospital and Medical College,
which is a private hospital but was
turned away due to the crowd of
dengue patients at the facility. At this
juncture, his hapless family informed
me and I contacted the Agriculture
Minister of Uttarakhand Subodh
Uniyal, who arranged the man’s
admission to the Doon Hospital’s
emergency section late in the night.
As he continued vomiting blood, the
hospital staff told his family that he
needed intensive care as he was crit-
ical.
Shockingly, the AB-PMJAY card
was not accepted by any of the private
hospitals in Dehradun, including the
Jolly Grant Medical College. The
hospital staff told me that as per the
Uttarakhand Government’s guide-
lines (this is a BJP-ruled State), they
are not authorised to accept the card
unless the patient was referred by a
Government hospital.
My question is, why the red
tapism in emergency cases? All
empanelled hospitals should be free
to admit patients because it is only
then that the objectives of the AB-
PMJAY scheme will be achieved.
The Government could better use
collect garbage on a regular basis, the
staff remains on strike on one pretext
or the other and senior officers do not
bother.
Hopefully, the Central and State
authorities concerned will take note
of this and revamp the healthcare sys-
tem so that the beneficiaries of AB-
PMJAY do not have to rush from pil-
lar to post to get treatment. There is
also a crucial need to control the bur-
geoning population of the country as
no amount of welfare schemes and
facilities will be sufficient unless the
numbers are effectively controlled.
(The writer is a retired civil
servant)
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IBusiness
World Bank’s Ease of Doing
ranking to stand at the
63rd position and figured
among the world’s top 10 most
improved countries for the
third consecutive time on the
back of faster bankruptcy res-
olution and issuance of con-
struction permits.
The rise, which comes on
the back of a 23-spot jump last
year, underscored the reformist
credentials of the Modi gov-
ernment that is hard pitching
India as an alternative invest-
ment destination to China.
“India put in place four
new business reforms during
the past year and earned a place
in among the world’s top ten
improvers for the third con-
secutive year,” the World Bank
said in its ‘Doing Business
2020’ report released on
Thursday.
The improvement in rank-
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fresh set of “bold reforms” in
the next three to four years if
it wants to be among the top
50 countries with ease of
doing business, a top World
Bank official said.
The official’s remarks
came as India jumped 14
places to take the 63rd posi-
tion on the World Bank’s ease
of doing business ranking.
With the current reform
agenda that the bank is watch-
ing like Insolvency and
Banking Code, enforcing con-
tracts, tax reforms being com-
pleted next year or the year
after, India can get within the
top 50, Simeon Djankov said.
PTI
ings is a shot in the arm for the
government that is battling to
engineer a quick turnaround in
the economy buffeted by weak
consumer demand and muted
investment activity. GDP
growth had slumped to a six-
year low of 5 per cent in the
April-June quarter.
In five years of the Modi
government, India’s ranking
has improved 79 places —
from 142 in 2014 to 63 in 2019,
which is a record for a major
economy. It has improved its
rank by 67 positions in the last
three years.
Prime Minister Narendra
Modi had last year set a target
to break into top-50 countries
by 2020.
The ranking is topped by
New Zealand. India’s ranking
was behind Asian peers
Singapore (2nd ranked), Hong
Kong (3rd), Korea (5th),
Malaysia (12th) and China
(31st). The US was placed 6th
on the list.
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63rd position on the World
Bank’s ease of doing business
ranking is a testimony to the
remarkable improvement in the
country’s business climate owing
to the series of reforms under-
taken by the Narendra Modi-led
government, industry bodies
and experts said on Thursday.
Enthused by India’s 14-
notch jump on the World
Bank’s ‘Doing Business’ report,
industry leaders as well as star-
tups said it will prove to be a
shot in the arm for the coun-
try by attracting foreign invest-
ments, augmenting business
opportunities. PTI
India figured among the
top 10 performers on the list for
the third time in a row. India
is the only large country this
year to have achieved such a
significant shift.
The economies that
showed the most notable
improvement were Saudi
Arabia, Jordan, Togo, Bahrain,
Tajikistan, Pakistan, Kuwait,
China, India and Nigeria,
according to the World Bank.
World Bank said India still
lagged in areas such as enforc-
ing contracts where it was
ranked 163rd and registering
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G Audi today took the wraps
off the eight generation of its
executive sedan, the A6 in
India. The carmaker which
has suffered from the negative
fallout of the “Dieselgate” scam
that engulfed its parent
Volkswagen has only launched
the vehicle in a 250hp petrol
variant featuring a ‘mild
hybrid’s that improves fuel
economy. Speaking at the
launch alongside Virat Kohli,
Indian cricket team captain
and Audi India brand ambas-
sador, Balbir Dhillon, Audi
India’s new Head, said that car
penetration is still very low in
India at just 22 cars per 1000
and thus he expected demand
to pick up in the next few
months even for the luxury
since there was still a lot of
pent-up demand.
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property where it was 154th.
Meanwhile, Finance
Minister Nirmala Sitharaman
said some categories such as
resolving insolvency, con-
struction permits and trading
across borders, have shown a
lot of improvement.
She, however, said the
ranking based on a survey of
two cities (Delhi and Mumbai)
in such a vast and diverse
nation may not be adequately
representative and so in the
coming year Kolkata and
Bengaluru will be added to the
list of surveyed cities.
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against the Mercedes Benz E-
Class and BMW 5 series which
were both launched last year,
and the range for the new
vehicle starts at C54.2 lakhs. It
features several new digital
technologies including touch-
screen controls, a new Audi
“In starting business, India
has improved just one rank
(from 137 to 136) and starting
business is very critical in a
cycle of an industry. I will
make sure that the (finance)
ministry and other govern-
ment departments will make
enough effort to improve on
that scale as much as we have
done on insolvency,” she told
reporters in New Delhi.
India saw the biggest jump
in ‘resolving insolvency’ cate-
gory, to 52nd rank from 108th,
on the back of implementation
of the Insolvency and
Bankruptcy Code, while its
ranking improved substantial-
ly in ‘construction permits’ (to
27th from 52nd) and ‘trading
across corders’ (to 68th from
80th).
On registering property
and paying taxes, India was
ranked a lowly 154th and 115th
respectively, though these were
improvements over the previ-
ous year’s ranks of 166 and 121.
The finance minister said
there can be an improvement
in registering property and
getting electricity connections
which are done at the state
level.
Promising to remove any
hitches, she also said the gov-
ernment is working on improv-
ing the GST regime.
Compared with last year,
India’s ranking deteriorated on
telematics app and new lught
technology both at the front
and behind. Speaking at the
launch, Virat Kohli described
himself as an Audi fanboy and
said that it was great to be asso-
ciated with a brand
that he loved.
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F Sitharaman on Thursday
said efforts will be made to fur-
ther simplify Goods and
Services Tax, and expressed
hope that it will help in further
improving India’s ranking in
the World Bank’s ease of doing
business index.
India has jumped 14 places
to rank 63rd out of 190 coun-
tries in the World Bank’s Doing
Business 2020 report on
account of significant improve-
ment in resolving insolvency
and obtaining construction
permits.
two parameters — protecting
minority investors (from 7th to
13th position) and getting elec-
tricity (from 22nd to 25th) —
and remained unchanged in
‘enforcing contracts’ at 163rd.
“Despite some challenges
in the implementation of the
reform - particularly regarding
court operations and the appli-
cation of the law by multiple
stakeholders - the number of
reorganizations in India has
been gradually increasing. As a
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Idisappointment
Thursday expressed deep
over SC ruling
on telecom revenue definition,
and termed it the last straw in
contributing to the sector’s
financial distress.
The Cellular Operators’
Association of India (COAI)
said in a statement that it
remains to be seen whether the
industry — which is reeling
under a daunting debt of about
C4 lakh crore and is
in dire financial straits — will
be able to recover from this
setback.
“The Supreme Court’s
judgment is the last straw in
contributing to financial dis-
tress and it remains to be seen
whether the industry will be
able to recover from this set-
back.
The other parameters business, enough effort will be
where the country has done made to improve on this scale,
well include trading across as it is a “very critical” in a
borders, registering property,
paying taxes, getting electric-
cycle of an industry.
“In GST, it is an ongoing
ity connections and starting a process to understand where
business. the difficulties are...We are
However, the improve- also looking at what were the
ment in the remaining three glitches in using online filing
parameters — getting credit, of returns. So, GST is an ongo-
protecting minority investors, ing process in improving. Even
enforcing contracts — are not now for the next meeting, as
impressive. Sitharaman said and when it happens, we want
that the effort will be now to to make sure that several steps
achieve the target to reaching are taken to simplify compli-
within top 50 rank. ance,” she said.
She added that as there is On income tax front, she
just one rank improvement in said: “At this stage, there may
the parameter of starting a not be much to say”.
result, reorganization has enhancing the country’s over-
become the most likely proce- all competitiveness, the World
dure for viable companies as Bank said in its report.
measured by Doing Business, While the competition to
increasing the overall recovery
rate from 27 to 72 cents
move up the ladder would
increase and become much
on the dollar,” the World Bank tougher, India is on the track to
said.
Prime Minister Narendra
be within top 50 of the Ease of
Doing business in the next year
Modi’s ‘Make in India’ cam-
paign focused on attracting
or two, Simeon Djankov,
Director of Development
foreign investment, boosting
the private sector, manufac-
Economics at the World Bank,
told PTI in an interview in
turing in particular, and Washington.
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ment may seem optimistic,
but these projections are in line
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billion in 2020, according to a from the IMF (International
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T for Infosys as US market
regulator SEC has initiated a
(NFRA) — which is part of the
Corporate Affairs Ministry —
has been asked to look into the
matter. Leading exchange BSE
on Wednesday also asked
matter. The company will
cooperate with the SEC’s inves-
tigation,” Infosys said.
Also, Sebi has requested
additional information from
mous complaints. “The com-
pany intends to defend itself
vigorously in such a lawsuit,” it
added.
US-based Rosen Law Firm
“Weak macroeconomic
indices, waning business con-
fidence and rising geopolitical
tensions have increased the
possibility of a recession in
2020,” James McDonald,
Managing Editor, WARC Data,
said in a statement.
per cent, 2020 is expected to see
a marked uptick from the 2.5
per cent growth in 2019 but is
down on the 7.3 per cent rise
recorded last year,
according to the report titled
“WARC’s Global Advertising
Trends”.

probe on whistleblower com-
plaints that alleged “unethical
practices” by top management
of the Bengaluru-based IT
Infosys to explain why it did
not make a disclosure about the
whistleblower complaint.
“The company has been in
the company concerning the
anonymous complaints, and
Infosys will provide the infor-
mation as per its request, it
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had previously said it was
preparing a class action lawsuit
to recover losses suffered by
Infosys investors in the US.

major.
Back home, the Securities
and Exchange Board of India
(Sebi) has also sought addi-
tional information from the
company, while the National
Financial Reporting Authority
touch with the Securities and
Exchange Commission (SEC)
regarding the anonymous
whistleblower complaints
(anonymous complaints) and
has learnt that the SEC has ini-
tiated an investigation into this
added.
Infosys said it is also “aware
of a securities class action law-
suit” that has been filed against
the company in federal court in
the US, based on the gener-
alised allegations in the anony-
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New Delhi: After a day of no
change, the prices of petrol and
diesel fell again on Thursday, an
Indian Oil Corporation (IOC)
data revealed. The oil market-
ing companies reported no
change in the price of petrol
and diesel on Wednesday.
According to the IOC web-
site, the price of petrol fell on
Following reports of
whistleblower allegations on
Monday, Infosys had informed
stock exchanges of having
received anonymous whistle-
blower complaints alleging cer-
tain unethical practices.
Thursday in Delhi, Kolkata,
Mumbai and
Chennai to C73.17 per litre,
C75.82, C 78.78, and C75.99,
respectively. The diesel prices
also fell in the four major met-
ropolitan cities. It fell to C66.06
per litre in Delhi, C68.42 in
Kolkata, C69.24 in Mumbai,
and C69.77 in Chennai. IANS
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Isolidated
37.06 per cent rise in con-
net profit at C4,173.72
crore for the second quarter
ended September 30, driven
mainly by paperboards,
hotels and FMCG-others
business.
The company had posted a
net profit of C3,045.07 crore in
July-September quarter a year
ago, the FMCG major said in
a regulatory filing.
Its net sales rose 6.16 per
cent to C12,759.44 crore during
the quarter under review from
C12,018.61 crore in the corre-
sponding quarter a year ago.
“Gross revenue for the
quarter stood at C11,750.16
crore, representing a growth of
6 per cent, driven mainly by
paperboards, hotels and
FMCG-others (excluding the
lifestyle retailing
business),” ITC said in a
statement.
Total expenses for the
quarter under review rose 4 per
cent to C8,455.16 crore from
C8,129.19 crore a year ago.
Revenue from FMCG busi-
ness grew 5.78 per cent to
C9,138.13 crore from C8,638.60
crore in the September quarter
a year ago.
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choppy session on
Thursday, dragged by IT and
bank counters, amid mixed
results for the ruling BJP in
state polls. Lacklustre macro-
economic cues and an adverse
judicial ruling against the tele-
com sector also sapped risk
appetite, brokers said.
After gyrating over 486
points, the 30-share BSE Sensex
settled 38.44 points, or 0.10 per
cent, lower at 39,020.39. The
broader NSE Nifty slipped 21.50
points, or 0.19 per cent, to
11,582.60. Telecom and bank
stocks came under selling pres-
sure after the Supreme Court
allowed the Centre to recover
dues of about C92,000 crore
from telcos, increasing the
financial burden on them and
their lenders. Interestingly,
Bharti Airtel emerged as the top
gainer in the Sensex pack, spurt-
ing 3.31 per cent.
Other winners were RIL,
HCL Tech, Asian Paints, Tata
Steel and Tata Motors, which
rose up to 3.12 per cent.
Top losers included Yes
Bank, SBI and IndusInd Bank
that cracked up to 5.76 per cent.
Shares of Infosys also ended
2.36 per cent lower after Sebi
and the US Securities and
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New Delhi (PTI): The mutual fund industry has added 3.45 lakh
investment.
However, Fitch Ratings
slashed India’s GDP growth T he country’s largest car-
maker Maruti Suzuki India
forecast in the current fiscal to
5.5 per cent saying a large
credit squeeze emanating from
growth forecast for India to 5.8
per cent from 6.2 per cent ear-
lier, saying the economy was
amount to only 6.6 per cent of
GDP in the fiscal year 2019-
2020, down from 9.5 per cent
investor accounts in September, taking the total tally to 8.56 crore, forecast in the current fiscal to on Thursday reported 38.99 shadow banks has pushed eco- experiencing a pronounced in the previous fiscal year.
amid volatile market conditions. In comparison, the industry had 5.5 per cent, saying a large per cent decline in consolidat- nomic growth to a six year low. slowdown which is partly relat- While an array of factors
added 4.8 lakh new folios in August and more than 10 lakh folios credit squeeze emanating from ed net profit at C1,391.1 crore Fitch, which had in June this ed to long-lasting factors. have contributed to the Indian
in July. Folios are numbers designated to individual investor shadow banks has pushed eco- in the second quarter ended year put India’s GDP growth at Moody’s had attributed the slowdown - including a down-
accounts. An investor can have multiple folios. nomic growth to a six-year low. September 30. 6.6 per cent for the fiscal year deceleration to an investment- turn in world trade, Fitch
According to data from Association of Mutual Funds in India, “Looking at the stress in the The company had posted a that began in April 2019, said led slowdown that has broad- believes that the severe credit
the number of folios with 44 fund houses rose to 8,56,26,244 at balance sheets of telecom play- consolidated net profit of the recent government mea- ened into consumption, driven squeeze has taken a heavy toll.
the end of September, from 8,52,81,222 at the end of August, reg- ers, it seems that government C2,280.2 crore in the same sures to boost economy includ- by financial stress among rural “NBFCs have faced a
istering a gain of 3.45 lakh folios. The total folio count stood at 8.48 would likely step in and come period a year ago. ing a cut in corporate tax rates households and weak job cre- severe tightening of funding
crore in July, 8.38 crore in June, 8.32 crore in May and 8.27 crore out with a practical solution Revenue from operations will gradually nudge growth. ation and said the growth will conditions over the past year
in April. Market experts said the addition of folios suggested that either by waiving the penalty in the second quarter stood at The projection is lower pick up to 6.6 per cent in 2020- and a half. They have in turn
investors were undeterred by the market volatility. Besides, it indi- and interest or else extending C16,123.2 crore as against than 6.1 per cent that the 21 and to around 7 per cent sharply reduced the supply of
cated their understanding of the market risks associated in the mutu- payment over a period of time. C21,553.7 crore in the year-ago Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had over the medium term. credit to the commercial sector.
al fund schemes. If not, then banks will be star- period, down 25.19 per cent, forecast in early October. GDP Last month, the Asian The auto and real estate sectors
The number of folios under the equity and equity-linked sav- ing at more incremental stress MSI said in a regulatory filing. expansion will pick up to 6.2 per Development Bank and the have been particularly hit by
ing schemes rose by 2 lakh to 6.18 crore at September-end as com- in their loan books from the sec- Sales volume during the cent in the next financial year Organisation of Economic NBFC credit rationing,” it said.
pared to 6.16 crore at the end of the preceding month. The debt tor,” said Paras Bothra, president quarter under review stood at (2020-21) and to 6.7 per cent in Cooperation and Development Data from the RBI show
oriented schemes folios count went up by more than 92,000 to 67.67 of Equity Research, Ashika 3,38,317 units, down 30.2 per the year after, Fitch said. lowered 2019-20 growth fore- that the flow of new lending
lakh. Within the debt category, liquid funds continued to top the Stock Broking. cent as compared with same The Indian economy decel- cast for India by 50 basis points from non-bank sources was
chart in terms of number of folios at 17 lakh, followed by low dura- Sectorally, BSE bankex, period last fiscal. erated for the fifth consecutive and 1.3 percentage points to 6.5 down 60 per cent year-on-year
tion fund at 9.25 lakh. finance and telecom indices Net profit for the first half quarter in April-June, with per cent and 5.9 per cent, between April and September.
Overall, mutual fund schemes witnessed a redemption of C1.52 fell up to 1.16 per cent. Energy, of the fiscal ended September GDP expanding by a meagre 5 respectively. Rating agency In contrast, banks’ lending has
lakh crore last month as compared to an inflow of C1.02 lakh crore realty, consumer durables and was at C2,767.9 crore as against per cent, down from 8 per cent Standard & Poor’s has also low- held up well in recent months,
in August. The massive redemptions could be attributed to debt- healhcare indices gained up to C4,295.3 crore, down 35.55 per recorded a year earlier. This is ered its India growth forecast to mitigating some of the overall
oriented schemes, which saw an outflow of C1.58 lakh crore. Besides, 1.57 per cent. Broader BSE cent. the lowest growth outturn since 6.3 per cent from 7.1 per cent. credit supply shortfall.
equity mutual funds witnessed a net inflow of around C6,489 crore midcap and smallcap indices fell Revenue from operations 2013. On October 15, the However, bank lending could
in September, the lowest in the last four months, due to profit-book- up to 0.39 per cent. in the first half stood at C34,862 “Weakness has been fairly International Monetary Fund not prevent a sizeable credit
ing by investors after a rally in markets following a reduction in Elsewhere in Asia, bourses crore as compared to C43,367.5 broad-based, with both domes- (IMF) slashed India’s GDP crunch in the first half of 2019.
corporate tax. in Hong Kong, Tokyo and Seoul crore in the corresponding tic spending and external growth rate projections to 6.1 Fitch said the success of the
ended on a positive note, while period last fiscal. demand losing momentum,” per cent from the 7 per cent in inflation-targeting framework
Exchange Commission initiat- Meanwhile, India jumped those in Shanghai settled in the Sales volume in April- Fitch said. “The Indian econ- July, while World Bank had its adopted by the RBI in 2016 in
ed probe against the firm fol- 14 places to the 63rd position on red. Equites in Europe were September period stood at omy is being held back by a estimate for India’s GDP reducing inflation has been
lowing whistleblower com- the World Bank’s ease of doing trading higher in their respec- 7,40,911 units, down 24 per large squeeze in credit avail- growth for 2019-20 to 6 per associated with sharply rising
plaints. business rankings, riding high tive early deals. cent as against same period of ability emanating from non- cent. real lending interest rates since
2018-19. bank financial companies Fitch in a note on Indian mid-2018.

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HCLTECH 1155.10 1159.00 1110.50 1118.90 23.75 YESBANK 51.20 52.60 47.45 48.30 M&M 591.90 595.00 579.00 582.50 SUNTECK 415.00 415.00 397.25 409.80 INDHOTEL 151.00 152.00 149.80 151.75 FINCABLES 376.00 383.25 374.50 376.75
TITAN 1364.00 1379.00 1350.65 1377.00 28.35 SBIN 277.00 277.65 248.80 262.70 LICHSGFIN 378.45 378.45 366.25 370.75 JAICORPLTD 85.25 86.00 82.00 83.90 IEX 146.30 146.30 136.95 143.00 EIDPARRY 167.35 169.40 165.05 167.65
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TATASTEEL 356.05 362.00 353.80 359.65 3.45
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JSWSTEEL 215.20 225.10 215.20 224.05 1.35
BPCL 526.15 526.50 501.00 513.95 PVR 1800.00 1854.95 1790.80 1798.80 NMDC 108.00 108.20 105.05 105.35 GESHIP* 309.70 316.85 303.30 315.10 MAHABANK 11.55 11.55 10.60 10.72
ADANIPORTS 399.00 401.45 393.35 398.30 2.20 RBLBANK 264.40 266.70 246.80 251.90 ADANIPOWER 62.45 64.50 62.40 63.40 NATIONALUM 43.80 44.00 42.50 43.15 WESTLIFE 341.00 351.40 341.00 346.00 MAHSCOOTER 4472.00 4611.00 4470.00 4589.50
HINDUNILVR 2141.00 2150.00 2118.05 2143.90 10.65 IDEA 5.61 5.67 4.10 4.33 PFC 105.00 105.30 103.20 104.35 FORCEMOT 1052.30 1087.80 1050.00 1062.90 SHANKARA 331.40 331.45 331.00 331.45 BLISSGVS 140.00 140.00 137.10 138.60
UPL 600.00 606.50 595.10 599.95 2.95 RNAM 343.90 354.90 304.35 318.90 DRREDDY 2828.00 2850.00 2770.20 2825.60 RELINFRA 27.70 27.70 27.70 27.70 CCL 217.00 219.75 196.95 199.20 ITDCEM 40.95 43.60 40.95 42.60
TCS 2084.00 2099.00 2061.30 2078.35 8.25 TCS 2075.10 2099.00 2062.00 2082.20 SBILIFE 989.10 992.60 955.00 969.30 SHREECEM 19900.00 20443.95 19872.00 20310.95 GUJGAS 184.00 184.00 176.70 179.70
LT 1460.00 1467.00 1426.35 1435.95 4.15 HDFCBANK 1248.00 1254.55 1227.50 1235.95 HINDALCO 186.00 186.45 180.65 181.30 TATACHEM 618.00 621.00 607.70 612.65 SUDARSCHEM 388.00 388.00 375.00 376.80
BAJAJ-AUTO 3165.00 3201.00 3143.45 3171.40 8.75 BIOCON 249.90 250.40 241.35 244.95 GAIL 128.80 129.20 123.30 123.90 PFIZER 3270.00 3421.00 3266.90 3393.30 MAHLIFE 400.90 412.60 400.90 410.45
BAJAJFINSV 8129.95 8200.00 8035.00 8089.00 18.05 TATAMOTORS 133.50 135.10 130.70 133.45 NESTLEIND 15022.00 15022.00 14626.00 14677.20 BALRAMCHIN 160.05 161.70 155.70 158.10 GSKCONS 9087.05 9087.05 8978.00 9062.00
SUNPHARMA 405.00 407.75 398.70 406.10 0.90 INDUSINDBK 1332.15 1346.70 1272.25 1282.20 HONAUT 28964.30 29000.00 28828.40 29000.00 TORNTPOWER 280.70 281.80 274.25 278.40 GODREJAGRO 504.00 514.10 498.50 504.90
HDFC 2150.00 2174.20 2141.35 2146.00 3.05 LT 1459.00 1466.00 1426.80 1431.90 CONCOR 612.00 613.30 582.85 586.45 ITDC 350.00 355.20 339.05 341.00 RALLIS 165.00 166.90 161.00 162.95
KOTAKBANK 1619.90 1629.90 1597.55 1614.00 0.35 TATASTEEL 356.00 362.05 353.85 359.85 NAVINFLUOR 789.80 833.00 783.95 826.60 EDELWEISS 94.45 94.45 87.15 87.15 ENDURANCE 1004.40 1025.75 989.50 1002.65
DRREDDY 2839.75 2849.95 2770.00 2825.20 -1.50 AXISBANK 717.60 722.80 702.20 707.45 ABBOTINDIA 10906.35 11200.00 10906.05 11169.00 RAYMOND 599.00 612.25 594.10 600.50 WHIRLPOOL 2158.35 2181.00 2154.70 2155.00
TECHM 730.00 745.00 724.40 725.55 -1.05 GRASIM 743.10 743.10 668.15 706.55 BALKRISIND 838.00 853.00 831.90 835.35 WOCKPHARMA 269.95 276.00 264.00 268.60 ZYDUSWELL 1701.00 1755.00 1676.80 1694.00
VEDL 147.00 148.60 145.00 146.00 -0.25 HCLTECH 1160.00 1160.00 1111.90 1118.55 AMBUJACEM 198.45 199.05 194.50 197.40 TRENT 527.00 549.00 513.00 538.15 LAXMIMACH 3718.95 3783.45 3615.00 3633.00
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HEROMOTOCO2730.00 2749.75 2650.00 2691.50 -21.40 ASHOKLEY 75.50 77.20 74.80 75.85 COROMANDEL 453.90 472.20 453.90 466.00 BOSCHLTD 14650.00 14822.10 14486.80 14500.00 MAHINDCIE 145.20 151.00 142.40 148.70 ASTERDM 125.00 125.45 124.10 125.10
ITC 252.60 254.00 247.95 249.05 -2.00 ADANIPORTS 399.95 401.35 393.65 399.35 SUNTV 519.40 523.50 514.00 520.30 CHOLAFIN 290.00 297.50 286.35 291.00 GSPL 215.00 215.00 208.00 208.70 ORIENTCEM 81.25 81.25 76.00 78.00
AXISBANK 719.95 723.00 701.55 708.85 -6.00 TV18BRDCST 23.55 24.25 22.50 22.85 PIDILITIND 1347.70 1367.00 1332.85 1363.05 KAJARIACER 563.00 563.00 543.00 547.95 LINDEINDIA 534.90 546.95 534.20 539.40 UCOBANK 11.98 12.00 11.61 11.72
POWERGRID 206.40 207.25 203.60 204.20 -2.05 HDFC 2146.00 2174.00 2141.10 2143.00 DELTACORP 197.90 198.95 192.50 196.35 DBL 405.55 419.75 402.00 406.30 SHK 147.95 147.95 136.35 138.85 HAL 712.05 721.40 712.00 717.90
CIPLA 455.00 456.00 443.55 447.95 -6.30 BAJFINANCE 4050.05 4081.45 4014.10 4024.25 GMRINFRA 19.95 20.45 19.60 19.90 GPPL 79.50 82.00 78.55 80.00 FINEORG 1929.35 1950.00 1901.00 1910.00 DBCORP 157.95 157.95 155.25 156.95
M&M 592.00 595.50 578.60 582.00 -9.85 ITC 252.80 253.95 248.05 248.95 POWERGRID 206.80 207.05 203.55 203.55 NOCIL 116.75 116.90 109.95 110.30 SUNDRMFAST 463.75 475.00 460.00 472.90 INOXWIND 36.20 36.90 34.50 34.85
ZEEL 245.00 245.50 236.30 237.95 -4.15 HDFCAMC 3118.20 3140.00 2981.05 3000.65 TATAGLOBAL 278.05 284.90 278.05 280.70 ASTRAZEN 2542.90 2573.20 2434.00 2454.60 ASHOKA 108.35 108.70 103.50 103.50 AEGISLOG 176.20 177.65 169.00 170.45
WIPRO 253.90 254.20 249.20 249.75 -4.60 PIIND 1375.00 1448.80 1375.00 1425.90 IRB 84.90 84.90 78.25 82.35 IPCALAB 945.25 983.30 944.55 969.55 WABAG 196.20 198.45 193.35 195.55 SHOPERSTOP 386.00 389.70 375.50 375.50
COALINDIA 210.00 210.00 204.40 205.00 -3.80 ZENSARTECH 186.35 191.05 185.20 188.55 STRTECH 149.00 149.20 143.20 145.30 APOLLOTYRE 184.15 184.40 180.85 181.85 IBULISL 61.50 63.60 60.90 60.90 SHILPAMED 269.00 280.90 269.00 277.00
BHEL 54.00 54.30 50.50 51.25 ORIENTELEC 184.45 190.30 178.50 185.50 ORIENTBANK 51.80 52.00 50.10 50.25 SYNGENE 334.45 334.45 326.35 330.00 HERITGFOOD 319.15 321.05 310.00 312.10
NESTLEIND 15019.00 15048.00 14625.85 14665.00 -318.00
EICHERMOT 20555.00 21188.00 20518.15 21080.95 INOXLEISUR 359.00 386.45 357.65 365.30 HIMATSEIDE 158.55 166.00 155.00 157.00 PERSISTENT 610.00 621.80 603.30 614.50 CENTRUM 23.00 23.05 22.50 22.95
IOC 144.65 144.95 141.00 141.35 -3.15
SANOFI 6119.00 6219.00 6119.00 6180.00 REDINGTON 119.90 122.15 112.20 113.35 IBVENTURES 96.90 99.40 93.60 94.65 JKTYRE 66.30 67.50 65.55 66.10 NETWORK18 22.90 22.90 21.45 21.65
HINDALCO 186.25 186.65 180.70 181.00 -4.10
VEDL 148.00 148.55 145.10 145.65 PNBHOUSING 459.85 470.00 440.50 446.70 GSFC 79.50 80.60 77.40 78.35 MINDAIND 356.00 372.00 353.95 371.40 TATAMETALI 591.00 591.00 564.90 572.20
INFY 650.00 653.20 632.00 635.00 -15.60 DLF 175.25 180.45 174.75 176.50 BATAINDIA 1784.00 1792.20 1771.50 1786.00 GHCL 223.00 224.50 212.00 213.05 TVTODAY 323.45 324.90 313.25 321.15 BAYERCROP 3375.00 3421.70 3327.55 3340.00
BPCL 525.90 525.90 500.65 512.90 -14.20 ESCORTS 656.30 667.30 643.00 648.90 GODREJCP 718.00 725.00 707.60 714.00 DCMSHRIRAM 399.45 411.15 387.70 394.45 HATHWAY 20.15 21.15 19.20 21.10 APLLTD 545.00 551.00 531.45 546.95
INDUSINDBK 1340.20 1347.85 1272.00 1285.00 -47.60 RAJESHEXPO 683.00 683.00 671.50 674.35 GLAXO 1500.00 1512.85 1459.80 1472.10 FINOLEXIND 609.70 614.95 599.00 602.25 NBVENTURES 74.65 75.60 72.75 74.40
GAIL 129.10 129.10 123.35 123.85 -4.80 JUBLFOOD 1521.00 1553.85 1521.00 1541.95 NAUKRI 2371.25 2371.25 2300.40 2313.55 VBL 626.70 643.00 623.70 628.60 CENTRALBK 17.00 17.55 16.95 17.10
SBIN 276.00 277.65 248.65 263.15 -12.30 ADANIENT 175.50 180.00 173.95 179.05 PRESTIGE 311.40 319.40 301.50 304.25 JINDALSAW 86.15 88.25 85.40 85.60 TAKE 112.65 112.85 110.10 110.80
YESBANK 51.20 52.55 47.45 48.45 -2.75 SAIL 35.40 35.75 34.20 34.35 PARAGMILK 157.50 157.65 145.60 148.60 BALMLAWRIE 182.10 184.05 181.90 183.00 RATNAMANI 915.00 915.20 908.65 910.00
GRASIM 743.00 743.00 663.45 695.85 -47.30 NBCC 36.05 36.25 34.25 34.45 AIAENG 1762.90 1762.90 1644.00 1647.65 BAJAJELEC 401.95 401.95 381.00 382.30 APLAPOLLO 1415.00 1415.00 1393.05 1393.90
INFRATEL 255.00 258.30 234.40 238.65 -20.70 HEROMOTOCO 2725.00 2746.80 2652.00 2696.50 OBEROIRLTY 496.00 502.60 487.05 499.45 NHPC 23.60 23.95 23.30 23.35 CENTURYPLY 165.00 166.00 161.30 161.45
TORNTPHARM 1685.05 1797.00 1685.05 1766.95 3MINDIA 21500.00 21887.45 21214.00 21214.00 NESCO 560.00 571.65 558.00 561.00 VSTIND 3925.00 3957.00 3888.55 3888.55
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NIFTY NEXT 50 28220.75 28291.60 27932.95 28045.25 -95.20
POLYCAB 803.25 837.00 795.00 823.00 GILLETTE 7888.35 8060.00 7808.95 7810.00 J&KBANK 32.40 32.40 30.75 30.95 CGPOWER 14.80 14.80 14.50 14.72
MOTHERSUMI 109.15 111.80 107.85 111.30 3.70
BAJAJ-AUTO 3185.00 3200.95 3145.90 3169.00 DCBBANK 181.05 181.95 175.05 176.50 SOBHA 436.55 447.60 430.25 432.00 CORPBANK 15.00 15.00 14.40 14.40
PIDILITIND 1335.00 1367.95 1331.50 1365.80 40.55
COALINDIA 208.00 209.80 204.45 205.20 SWANENERGY 106.10 106.90 104.00 104.10 NATCOPHARM 576.25 586.90 575.05 583.00 ERIS 420.00 434.95 418.00 429.55
SHREECEM 19888.50 20449.00 19791.90 20370.00 605.05
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incursion into Syria and its deal
with Russia to jointly patrol a
“safe zone” there, US Defense
Secretary Mark Esper warned
Thursday.
“Turkey put us all in a very
terrible situation” by sweeping
into northern Syria this month
to fight Kurdish militia allied
with the US in the fight against
the Islamic State group, Esper
told a conference in Brussels
ahead of a NATO Defence
Ministers’ meeting. “I think the
incursion’s unwarranted,” Esper
said.
The onus was on Turkey’s
NATO allies to now “work
together to strengthen our part-
nership with them, and get them
on the trend back to being the
strong reliable ally of the past,” he
said.
The issue of Turkey’s mili-
tary offensive in Syria is set to
dominate the two-day NATO
meeting, with diplomats in the
organisation saying “frank” dis-
cussions with Ankara’s repre-
sentatives have already taken
place.A subsequent arrangement
with Russia to clear Kurdish mili-
tia that Turkey regards as “ter-
rorists” linked to the outlawed
PKK group on its soil has also
raised hackles.
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briefly brought the Democrat-
led impeachment investigation
to a halt when around two
dozen GOP House members
stormed into a closed-door
deposition with a Defense
Department official.
Democrats said the move
compromised national securi-
ty because some of the
Republicans took electronic
devices into a secure room.
The protest by Republican
lawmakers on Wednesday cap-
tured national attention, draw-
ing the focus away from the tes-
timony of a top U.S. Diplomat
after roughly four hours.
As a series of diplomats
have been interviewed in the
impeachment probe, many
Republicans have been silent
on the president’s conduct. But
they have been outspoken
about their disdain for
Democrats and the impeach-
ment process, saying it is unfair
to them even though they have
been in the room questioning
witnesses and hearing the tes-
timony.
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had it, and they want to be able
to see and represent their con-
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als, British media outlets
reported on Thursday, citing
sources.
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covered in a container on the
back of a truck in Grays, east
of London, on Wednesday,
shortly after arriving by ferry
from Belgium.
The local Essex Police
force, which is working with
immigration officials,
said their initial priority
was to try to identify the vic-
tims, thought to be 38 adults
and one teenager.
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Brussels: Turkey’s military
operation in Syria will provoke
“forceful” discussion at a
NATO defence ministers’
meeting Thursday and Friday
but Ankara risks little from its
allies because of its strategic
position, diplomats said.
The issue looks certain to
Brussels, with Turkey isolated
among the 29 member states
because of its incursion this
month against Kurdish fight-
ers, considered “terrorists” by
Ankara but which were key in
the fight against the Islamic
State group in Syria.
NATO Secretary General
Jens Stoltenberg has refused to
condemn Turkey, saying it has
“legitimate security concerns”
along its border with Syria.
On arrival Thursday, he
confirmed the meeting “will
address the situation in
northeast Syria” where he said
a Turkey-US “ceasefire” accord
struck last week had
reduced fighting.
Diplomats, however, described
exchanges with Ankara’s
representatives as
“frank”.
But they admitted that
Turkey’s location at the gates of
the Middle East and next to
Russia gave it a strategic value
weightier
objections.
than the
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members have limited them-
selves to criticism only.Esper
defended the US decision to pull
US forces out of northern Syria,
effectively opening the path to
the Turkish operation.
“The US decision to with-
draw less than 50 soldiers from
the zone of attack was made after
it was made very clear to us that
President (Recep Tayyip)
Erdogan made the decision to
come across the border,” he said.
US President Donald
Trump has lifted all sanctions on
Turkey after Ankara agreed to a
permanent ceasefire in Syria as
the American troops left the
“blood stained sand”, allowing
the Russian and Turkish forces
to take over the territory con-
trolled by America and the
Kurdish military. AFP
President Donald Trump was
withholding military aid from
Ukraine unless the country’s
president pledged to investigate
Democrats.
The maneuver delayed a
deposition with Laura Cooper,
a senior Defense Department
official who oversees Ukraine
policy, until mid afternoon.
The inter view began
roughly five hours behind
schedule, after a security check
by Capitol officials, and ended
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Dhaka:Sixteen people includ-
ing the head of a madrasa
the House Oversight and
Reform panel.
That committee is one of
three leading the investiga-
tion, and its members are
allowed into the closed-door
hearings.Lawmakers described
a chaotic scene. Rep. Debbie
Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla.,
said she had just walked into
the room when the Republican
lawmakers blew past Capitol
police officers and Democratic
staffers. AP
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London: A march planned by
pro-Pakistani separatist
groups on Kashmir to coin-
cide with Diwali on Sunday
nearby Tilbury docks so the
bodies could be
removed.
Essex Police and the
Chinese embassy in London
did not respond to requests
for comment.
In 2000, the bodies of 58
clandestine Chinese immi-
grants were discovered in a
Dutch truck at the
southeastern English port
of Dover. Two people
survived. AFP
The route of the march
will now reportedly end up at
Trafalgar Square instead, a
requirement imposed due to

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Qamishli (Syria): Kurdish
forces in northeastern Syria left
several positions along the
long border with Turkey
Thursday, complying with a
deal that sees Damascus,
Ankara and Moscow carve up
their now-defunct autonomous
region.
Russian forces have started
patrols along the flashpoint
border, filling the vacuum left
by a US troop withdrawal that
effectively handed back a third
of the countr y to the
Moscow-backed regime of
President Bashar al-Assad.
US President Donald
Trump has praised the agree-
ment reached in Sochi by
Turkey and Russia and rejoiced
that US personnel were
leaving the “long
blood-stained sand” of Syria,
leaving just a residual contin-
gent behind “where they have
the oil”.
The deal signed in the
Black Sea resort by Syria’s two
main foreign brokers gives
Kurdish forces until Tuesday to
withdraw to a line 30
kilometres (19 miles) from the
border. AFP
were sentenced to death by a
Bangladeshi court on Thursday
for burning alive a teenage
girl student for refusing to
withdraw a sexual harassment
complaint against him.
The gruesome murder
took place in April when a gang
of killers poured kerosene over
18-year-old Nusrat Jahan Rafi
and set her on fire on the roof
of the madrasa in the south-
eastern Feni, some 162 kms
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strations was “wholly unac-
ceptable”, it emerged on
Thursday that the groups
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sion area of Aldwych in cen-
tral London.
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Commission,” a mission
spokesperson confirmed.
concerns of violence in the
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last few days, including a
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from the Indian High
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ty concerns.
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Blackman had raised his fears
of violence during the
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its 108 little shrines and the stunning albeit
florid Rani Ki Vav with images of the avatars
of Vishnu are not just impressive because of
the stonework but also because they sur-
vived. The irony was that many of the
masons were from lower castes and could
WKHSLRQHHU not visit the temples to admire their own
work.
Not just time but keeping in mind
human destruction, one cannot help but
praise the Archeological Survey of India for
doing such a great job. The Rani Ki Vav in
particular, which is also a UNESCO World
Heritage site, has been extensively and
painstakingly cleaned although maybe pro-
tection for all the sites we visited from mod-
ern-day humans can be improved.
In addition, while the ASI has done a
great job restoring the sites, it is extremely
difficult for visitors to find information about
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today for the ASI to make apps that can
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visitors whether they are the intricate jalis
8QLW\WRWKH on the windows at Champaner’s Jami
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Vishnu at Rani Ki Vav. Also, it might not be
WDNLQJLQ*XMDUDW¶V a bad idea to have proper cafes where visi-
tors could grab a tea or a cold-drink as well
LQFUHGLEOHKLVWRULFDO as a snack. Earlier this year, I had travelled
to the Alhambra in Spain, the grand fort at
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Islamic part of the Spanish peninsula and
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DQLQFUHGLEOHYR\DJH in our country. In just two days I saw three
amazing sites but clearly, also, pathetic mar-
RIGLVFRYHU\WKURXJK keting. Putting the Rani Ki Vav on our new
C100 note might make some more people
,QGLD¶VZHVWHUQPRVW familiar with it, despite the awful lilac tinge
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EHVWVHOOLQJQHZ6SRUWV itself. But even Ahmedabad residents I met,
who had travelled the world on holidays and
8WLOLW\9HKLFOH talked about visiting the (quite lovely)
temples of Angkor, hadn’t bothered to take
a two-hour drive down to see what sur-

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rounds them.
Day three would be Talish’s last day with
us. Until now we hadn’t found a great
Gujarati food place as most highway restau-
rants served Punjabi food and at Patan we
had tried a quite hideous Cheese ki sabzi,
with actual chunks of Amul Cheese, I kid

Gujarati
you not. But those who know Ahmedabad
will tell you that if you want Gujarati food
you go to Swati Snacks. And while this chain
began in Mumbai 60 years ago, it has
become a staple of Amdabadi life in the 15
years it has been around in the city. Shaan

Expedition
Patel, India’s first Home Minister and the
man who effectively formed the Union by
bringing in the 500-plus princely states into
the nation. This 182-meter tall statue over-
looks another engineering marvel of mod-
ern India, the Sardar Sarovar Dam and it’s
reservoir.
The first thing you have to understand
1H :DB70= =9DB1 about Gujarat is that it has always played a
pivotal role in the history of the subconti-
ujarat is hardly the first state in India nent. The Indus Valley Civilisation existed
towns and in villages, it doesn’t seem to deter
rulebreakers. Reaching late in the evening,
we checked into our hotel, as the next day
was going to be a busy one.
Our second day was to take us to
Modhera and Patan, sites around the indus-
trial city of Mehsana. Several years ago, while
working for another publication, I had vis-
ited the McCain foods factory where the
Canandian company processes potatoes
grown in the region into the french fries you
love to eat at fast-food restaurants. Again,
the fact that spectacular historical sites and
high-tech factories can exist a few kilome-
tres apart is something that really makes
This brings us to the sites we visited, India unique, much more so than any other
starting with Champaner. The major country in the world. Both the sites we vis-
remains come from pre-Mughal times, ited — Modhera Surya Mandir and the jaw-
making them younger than some of the droppingly spectacular Rani Ki Vav — were
Jhaveri who runs the restaurant in the city
told me that the restaurant is a place where
multiple generations can sit and enjoy
food together. After all, it is an important
part of culture. Sure, Gujarati food as we
know it is primarily vegetarian but there is
also a vibrant eating culture in the city. And
there is some very good ice-cream too par-
ticularly at Shankar’s Ice Cream Library
which in the humble opinion of a sweet-
toothed Bengali makes possibly the best of
this cold dessert in the country.
Before that we had gone to the Patang
Vali Gali in Ahmedabad’s Jamalpur district
in the old city. This area which was devas-
tated in 2002 still houses some of India’s
finest craftsmen, in this case kite makers.
Unfortunately in this lane, like so many other
such places across the country, the trade is

G you think of when you consider his-

tory, culture and tourism. Sure, it
runs an impressive advertising campaign
with no less than Amitabh Bachchan pro-
moting the Rann of Kutchh. It indeed grabs
eyeballs but it is only while driving through
the state that you recognise its historical and
cultural significance. So when Hyundai
invited The Pioneer to participate in the
Great India Drive, the area that we were
given to explore — Ahmedabad — was a bit
puzzling. I was disappointed since we were
being flagged off from the Statue of Unity,
which is a two-hour drive from Vadodara,
hardly an ‘epic’ route.
How wrong I was! During this drive, I
discovered so much about the state. This
tour reaffirmed the fact that driving isn’t just
about the journey, it is a voyage of discov-
ery. And the Great India Drive opened my
eyes to a lot about Gujarat. I hope that my
journey of discovery lives up to its name and
reaches the readers.
Joined by lawyer and amateur histori-
an, Talish Ray, our route discovered histo-
ry, food and craftsmanship. It is wonderful
to see the way that history and modernity
can exist next to each other in India. We
were flagged off from the Statue of Unity,
the giant monolith of Sardar Vallabhbhai
here and evidence of that is found in the
ruins of Lothal, a port city in the Gulf of
Khambhat. Goods from India were traded
to European civilisations such as the Grecian
states, Egypt, Rome and crucially the
Phoenicians, the major traders of the
Mediterranean. The very existence of Lothal
is proof that the people of Gujarat have
always been traders, thanks to the state’s vast
shoreline and sheltered ports. It is by no
means a recent occurrence. We discovered
later that the great wealth of the Solanki
empire and the Gujarat Sultanate came from
trading. It led to the stunning architecture
in the classical and medieval era.
The state got its name and identity from
the Gurjar tribe. There is genealogical evi-
dence that they moved in from Central Asia
or present-day Iran. Of course, genealogy
is a very controversial path to take in today’s
hypersensitive times but the Gurjars did give
the state its name. The great wealth of the
region attracted immigrants and invaders for
millennia, not just Turkic and European
ones in the medieval and pre-modern
times but also several kingdoms under the
Gupta clan. Although the first major
‘Gujarati’ state was that of the Khichi
Rajputs but historians doubt that the Rajput
clans were identified as such back then.
other sites. But the location, particularly the
Pavagadh hill, is important as it is the only
mountain for miles around, giving com-
manding views all the way into the fertile
plains of the Malwa region. This makes it
an obvious site to build a city and garrison.
The hill has had a Kali temple that has been
around in one form or another since even
before recorded history. The site was first
developed by the Chavda dynasty and it’s
king, Vanaraj Chavda. He apparently named
the fort after his general Champaraj,
although there are sources that say that the
area got its name from the champa flower
endemic to the region. The site, as we see
it today, is from the Gujarat Sultanate and
then known as Mohammedabad. It was the
capital of the region though it was moved
back to Ahmedabad before Mughal
Emperor Humayun sacked the city (after his
defeat by Sher Shah Suri and the loss of
Delhi). The attack meant that the city was
abandoned and today remains as the only
example of a standing pre-Mughal Islamic
city in India. This allows us to see how the
Islamic rulers of Gujarat incorporated the
skills of the state’s master craftsmen, show-
ing a continuity to sites of the Solanki
Empire three-four centuries older as well as
displaying how grand Mughal architecture
was inspired from Gujarat which was final-
ly conquered by Akbar and effectively
became part of India thereafter.
After visiting a strangely empty
Champaner, strange since the site is a
UNESCO recognised World Heritage Site,
we drove to Ahmedabad past Vadodara.
Avoiding the new Expressway connecting
Gujarat’s two largest cities and sticking to the
old highway, which is as fast and an equal-
ly smooth road, the Venue’s great ride and
a good music system made the three-hour
drive quite comfortable. That said, I have
come to believe that poor driving habits are
what unify Indians, and with Gujarat
bizarrely not notifying the new Motor
Vehicles Act, helmet compliance by two
wheeler drivers was abysmal. While there
were a disconcertingly large number of
CCTV cameras across the state, both in
built during the reign of Bhimdeva, the great
Solanki king, the latter for his queen
Udaymati.
While Bhimdeva was to become a great
conquering king later in his reign and the
Solanki empire was to rule a swathe of west-
ern India comprising parts of modern
Gujarat, Sindh, Maharashtra and Madhya
Pradesh, his reign had an inauspicious start
with the first raid of the notorious Mahmud
of Ghazni and the destruction of the first
Somnath Temple. On a side note, the colo-
nial British believed that the doors of the
Somnath Temple adorned Ghazni’s grave
and to curry favour with Gujarati merchants
they went to Ghazni’s gravesite, stripped the
doors and brought them back to India only
to discover that the wood on the doors was-
n’t the sandalwood that they expected but
teak. These doors apparently still lie in the
Agra Armoury. The entire story of that and
how Sardar Patel ordered the rebuilding of
the Somnath Temple can be the topic of
another story. But maybe as penance for the
destruction of the temple or simply as a show
of might, Bhimdeva constructed some of the
most spectacular Hindu monuments in the
eleventh century C.E which have survived
The intricately constructed sites, the
stepwell outside the Modhera temple with
dying out. Disinterest by the next genera-
tion and being swamped by Chinese imports
is killing the profession. Watching a master
kitemaker make a kite is amazing and while
that narrow lane is not somewhere even an
urban warrior like the Hyundai Venue can
enter, it is a place that you must visit in
Ahmedabad, just like Rani Ni Hajiro near-
by where you find merchants selling hand-
made cloth and trinkets from all over the
state.
On the last day, I decided to bookend
the trip by visiting the site of another famous
Gujarati, but one who belongs to every
Indian. So much so that we all know him
as the ‘Father’ of the modern nation state of
India. Once on the outskirts of the city, the
Sabarmati Ashram is now surrounded by the
city. Yet it remains an island of peace and
serenity in the midst of urban chaos. It is the
place where Mahatma Gandhi spent a
majority of his time from its inception in
1917 and also the location from where he
began the famous Dandi March to protest
the Salt Tax the British had imposed. This
protest began the steady decline of the British
Raj. It is a place, that I believe, every Indian
should make a pilgrimage to once in their
lives. It was a great site to end the Great India
Drive at the home of the Greatest Indian.

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T he only extant example of
a pre-Mughal Islamic city
that survives in India,
Champaner was founded in
the 10th century by Vanaraj
Chavda. But it was only after
the capture of Champaner by
Mahmud Begada in the
1420’s that the city, as we
know it today, came into
being. Mahmud renamed the
city Mohammadabad and
went on a construction spree
building several mosques,
the four most notable ones
that survive to this day are the
Sheher Ki Masjid, Kevada
Masjid, Nagina Masjid and
the Jami Masjid. The last is
one of the most spectacular
old mosques surviving in the
subcontinent. Begada
used local Hindu
and Jain artisans
to build the
mosques.
The lattice
work
structure in the prayer halls
and arches give a great idea
of how Islamic architecture in
India evolved. The Nagina
Mosque on the edge of the
site with its open topped
cenotaph is particularly bril-
liant. When Mughal Emperor
Humayun sacked the city,
several concepts were noted
by his advisors. Aspects like
the lattices became central
concepts of Mughal architec-
ture as evidenced in sites like
Fatehpur Sikri. Champaner-
Pavagadh has several other
interesting sites and local vil-
lagers still call it home. The
Sat Kaman fortification on
the Pavagadh hillside offers a
great overview of the site and
also great views of the plains
of Malwa beyond. The site
was declared a UNESCO
World Heritage Site in 2004.
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oth these sites were built by
B the Emperor Bhimdeva, a
ruler of the Solanki empire and
considered examples of the
Golden Age of Gujarati rule in the
middle of the 11th century C.E.
Even though some historians
speculate that both sites were built
as penance for the destruction of
the Somnath Temple by Mahmud
of Ghazni early in Bhimdeva’s
rule. The Modhera site also has an
archaelogical museum that main-
tains several of the fallen sculp-
tures of gods from the pantheon
as well as other carvings. The sig-
nature of the site is it’s unique
he Vintage Auto Museum located in a farmhouse
W ork on the Sardar
Sarovar Dam was
begun in 1961 and the dam’s
of Unity of Sardar Vallabhbhai
Patel was announced by
Narendra Modi as Chief
ue at a height of 182 metres
(240 meters including plinth)
is the tallest in the world and
T on the Ahmedabad ring road is a fascinating col-
lection built up by an avid car collector and cloth
reservoir that fills in a vast Minister of Gujarat in likeness was designed by Ram merchant Pranlal Bhogilal. He acquired many vehi-
area between the Vindhyachal October 2013. It took five Sutar. Visitors can travel in cles from India’s erstwhile princely states after the
and Satpura ranges only years to complete and was high-speed elevators to a older Rajas died or when they fell on hard times fol-
topped out in 2017. The dam inaugurated on October 31, height of 135 metres and lowing the abolition of the privy purses. Even though
is the worlds third-largest 2018. It is covered by 6,500 have commanding views of most of the vehicles might seem in decent condi-
concrete dam and the water unpolished bronze plates that the dam and reservoir. An tion, but after Bhogilal’s demise, a few years ago,
from the reservoir provides are expected to oxidise over estimated 25,000-35,000 vis- many of the cars are not in a working condition.
irrigation to vast swathes of time to give it a ‘green’ look itors visit the statue daily, even However it is an amazing collection that any car buff
Gujarat, Rajasthan and like the Statue of Liberty in though it is two hours drive will like and includes some very rare Rolls Royce,
Madhya Pradesh. The Statue New York harbour. The stat- from Vadodara. including one in the ‘boat tail’ shape, a Hispano-
Suiza extended wheelbase hunting vehicle that
belonged to the Alwar royal family, several vintage
Mercedes and some stunning American vehicles
from the 1950’s and 1960’s that Bhogilal personal-
stepwell with 108 shrines. The ly used and drove.
Rani Ki Vav as the name suggests
was built for (and according to
legend, by) the royal consort,
Udaymati. It is one of the most
spectacular archaeological sites in
India and by far, the most stun-
ning example of a stepwell in the
country. The walls are adorned
with sculptures of the avatars of
Vishnu and other Hindu Gods
and Goddesses. The site was sand in what many believe was and visitors do not have access
remarkably preser ved and a deliberate act. This meant that to the full site. It was declared a
remained untouched by any of the site was only discovered UNESCO World Heritage site in
the armies that raided the lands after independence and fully 2014 and an image of the Vav
over the next 800 years because excavated only in 1958. Much features on the reverse of the
the Vav was covered by mud and restoration work is still ongoing new C100 note.
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even the ragpickers, who, during the fes-
tival, are busy sweeping up the streets and
picking the refuse outside people’s homes,
instead of celebrating.
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by 21N78E Creative Labs, nudges people
to spend quality time with their loved ones
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them have hit just the right chord with their
highly emotional appeal. We analyse the
trend this Diwali.
The Delhi Government, through their
community laser light show, has urged the
citizens to visit Connaught Place during
Diwali and enjoy the show with an aim of
moving beyond bursting crackers and in
turn, reducing pollution. The hour-long
shows will be staged between October 26
and 29. Special parking arrangements and
battery-operated vehicles will also be
pressed into service.
Some campaigns also focus on pro-
moting the idea that Diwali is special for
everyone — Diwali toh sabki hoti hai!
Much like the
#TuJashnBanKisiKiZindagiKa, Umeed Ka
Diya campaign by HP that surfaced on the
Indian internet last year, breaking records
with its simple message and a great exe-
cution of an important idea.
‘Yeh Diwali sabke saath manatey hain.
Khaali haath kisi ko wapas nahi bhejte
hain!’ campaign by Swiggy has again won
many hearts as it promotes the idea of just
giving and catering to every person who
knocks at your doorstep.
Indiabulls home loans unveiled their
campaign #SwatchDiwali, wherein the peo-
ple of a housing society, after enjoying the
festival and feeding on multiple delicacies,
clean up all the mess on their ramp. The
next morning, when the society sweeper
arrives with his broomstick, he looks at the
area, which doesn’t have even a hint of
garbage. It aims to make Diwali special for
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food, to those in desperate need. Each
fridge serves between 1,500 to 2,000
meals a month. Anyone who is hungry can
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Amritsar, Jodhpur, Jaipur, Lucknow,
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15 of the Indian Constitution that prohibits
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immediate surroundings as you spread the
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B tine and almond cake or
making fennel, grapefruit and
feta salad or coastal cooking,
for Irish chef Rachel Allen
cooking and baking are equal-
ly important. Brought up in
Dublin, at the age of 18, Rachel
left to study at the Ballymaloe
Cookery School. After gradu-
ating she worked in the
kitchens at Ballymaloe House
and then returned to work at
the cookery school where she
found her passion in teaching
and where she continues to
teach each week.
Rachel recalled that the
most memorable part of her
journey was meeting the
Queen of England at
Buckingham Palace. “Apart
from this, the extraordinary
places that I have travelled for
work are also special. I love the
contribution I make towards
food,” she added.
Rachel, celebrity chef and
an author is the show presen-
ter at the BBC Natural Unit
and has appeared on many
cookery shows. Talking about
her remarkable findings and
experiences she said, “I loved
all the different kinds of food
and producers. The variety
they offered was tremendous.
Not only the food but even the
scenery was breathtaking all
the way up the coast. I adored
flying over the cliffs of Moher.
It was my favourite one.”
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familiar with Indian dishes
too. In fact, she adores Indian
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again but just a minute Substitute with a low left-foot shot to the better of their German vis- misery for a French side
later, Napoli restored Batshuayi struck in become the first player to score itors 2-0 at the San Siro with who are only out of the
their lead through Lorenzo the 86th minute and put Chelsea in 15 consecutive Champions Lautaro Martinez and Antonio relegation zone in the
Insigne in a breathless second level on six points with last League campaigns. Candreva scoring. league courtesy of goal
half. year’s semi-finalists at the top of Barca grabbed a second on Marcel Sabitzer set up a difference.
Haaland at least had the Group H. 57 minutes when Slavia winger goal and scored a spectacular Memphis Depay
consolation of becoming the “It feels huge, which always Peter Olayinka deflected a Luis winner as RB Leipzig came from levelled for the French
first player to score six goals in scares me because there’s a lot to Suarez close-range shot into his behind to beat Zenit St visitors on 70 minutes
his first three Champions League do. We’re entitled to be excited own net. Left-back Jan Boril Petersburg 2-1 to take a two- but Benfica clinched
games. about the way we played tonight,” scored for Slavia five minutes point lead in Group G. their first win when
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otshot Gabriel Barbosa scored a brace

Ten minutes from half-time Uruguayan
Giorgian de Arrascaeta tried to chip Gremio
goalkeeper Paulo Victor who could only
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05?Q 14A;8= H as Flamengo hammered fellow
Brazilians Gremio 5-0 on Wednesday to
palm the ball out to Gabriel, but his spec-
ulative overhead bicycle kick bounced

Ihasnter Milan are interested in signing for-

mer Germany star Thomas Muller, who
lost his starting place at Bayern
Munich, magazine Kicker reported on
Thursday.
The 30-year-old has often found him-
self on the bench this season behind
Philippe Coutinho, who Bayern coach Niko
Kovac prefers in the attacking midfield role.
According to Kicker, Inter’s “interest is
intensifying” and the Italian giants could
bring Muller to Milan in the January trans-
fer window.
Mueller made a rare start, only his fifth
of the season, in Tuesday’s 3-2 win at
Olympiakos in the Champions League on
the right wing, helping set up two goals for
Robert Lewandowski.
“I’m trying to concentrate on playing
secure a place in the Copa Libertadores final
against Argentine holders River Plate.
Bruno Henrique, Pablo Mari and
Rodrigo Caio also got their names on the
scoresheet as the Rio de Janeiro giants com-
pleted a 6-1 aggregate victory over the 2017
champions at the Maracana stadium.
River Plate made a 2-1 aggregate vic-
tory over their bitter Buenos Aires rivals
Boca Juniors on Tuesday despite losing the
second leg 1-0.
This year’s final will be played over a
single match for the first time, on November
23 in Santiago.
Despite being Brazil’s most popular
team, Flamengo have only once before won
the Copa Libertadores, back in 1981. River
are looking for a fifth title.
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Rafinha, sporting rugby style head
gear, chipped a cross in from deep on the
right on 26 minutes and Henrique dashed
across his day-dreaming marker before
sending a diving header inches wide.
harmlessly across the face of goal.
The pressure told on 43 minutes,
though, as Gabriel found space with a diag-
onal run and Victor could only palm his
cross-shot into the path of Henrique, who
had a tap-in.
A minute after half-time Flamengo dou-
bled the lead as Brazil international Gabriel
— on loan from Inter Milan — rifled high
into the net from 15 yards after a poor clear-
ing header from a corner.
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top of the competition’s scoring charts this
season with seven goals. 05?Q 10B4; showing on the ATP since beating
Mari and Caio got in on the act with Andreas Seppi at the Paris Masters 6-
headers from set pieces on 67 and 71 min- oger Federer crushed Radu Albot 1, 6-1 four years ago.
utes as Gremio’s defence capitulated. R 6-0, 6-3 on Wednesday to win his
22nd match in a row at the Swiss
If Wawrinka beats America’s Tiafoe
in their second-round match, the Swiss

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football. Slowly all the discussions will come Indoors and earn a quarter-final place pair will clash in the quarters.
to an end,” Mueller told reporters in at his home event for the 17th time. Wawrinka, who was a runner-up to
Athens when asked about his future at The nine-time champion was ruth- Andy Murray in Antwerp last weekend,
Bayern. less in a 22-minute opening set, finish- currently stands at 15th in the race for
He has spent his entire career at ing the entire job in 63 minutes in front the season-ending showpiece in
Bayern, who he joined as a school- ?C8Q 274==08 round matches. I have the current of 9,000 fans. London with 1,500 rankings points
boy in 2000, and club president world No 2 in my pre-quarter, so, He will today face the winner from available between Basel and next week’s
Uli Hoeness has made it clear ndia’s leading female squash right now, I am just looking for- Stan Wawrinka and Frances Tiafoe, Paris Masters, the final event of the reg-
that no one at the club wants to
see Mueller leave.
Iworking
player Joshna Chinappa is
harder than ever as
ward to take it match by match,”
she said.
who both earned straight-set wins
earlier in the day.
ular campaign.
Six of the eight spots for the ATP
It has been a difficult year the world number 12 aims to The Chennai-based player, “It’s a super feeling to know exact- Finals have already been secured.
for Mueller, who break back into the top-10 of who has been spearheading ly where the ball is going, what the Sixth seed David Goffin also stayed
was told by PSA rankings, starting with a India’s challenge in internation- other guy is doing,” said top seed in the race to London with a 6-4, 6-4
Germany good showing in the World al events for more than a decade, Federer. defeat of 2014 US Open champion
coach Championship in Cairo. want to carry on at least till the “I was hitting a lot of winners, those Marin Cilic.
Joachim The 33-year old, who 2022 Commonwealth and Asian kind of moments are really rare.” Ricardas Berankis of Lithuania
Loew in achieved a career-high rank- Games. Federer’s Swiss compatriot lined up a second-round match with
March, ing of world number 10 in “At the back of my mind, I Wawrinka fired 10 aces and 30 winners third seed Stefanos Tsitsipas after
alongside 2016, will be competing at still have the Commonwealth to overwhelm fellow veteran Pablo defeating Pablo Andujar 6-1, 6-1.
fellow 2014 the World Championship. Games and Asian Games in Cuevas 6-3, 6-4 to make it into the sec- Filip Krajinovic will next take on
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winners Mats to competing at the World Chinappa said. the Indian could face world pete in and win medals for India chances of making the ATP Finals. Serb compatriot Laslo Djere, 6-1, 6-4.
Hummels and Championship. I would like She will face 42nd-ranked number 2 Nour El Sherbini of there. Yeah... That is what moti- Federer, who is playing in Basel for Australian Alex De Minaur defeat-
J e r o m e to break back into top 10 Haley Mendez of USA in the first Egypt. vates me, and exciting times in the 19th time, won his first set to love ed Taylor Fritz of the US 6-3, 6-3 and
Boateng, that he this season, better my round followed by either Mariam “Right now, I am seeded 12 squash and I really hope to do at the tournament since 2006. Switzerland’s Henri Laaksonen was
has no future in the career high rank of 10 and Metwally (27) or Ho Tze-Lok of in the tournament. I have a cou- more for the game,” Chinappa His loss of just three games on put out by Germany’s Jan-Lennard
national squad. take it from there,” Hong Kong. In the pre-quarters, ple of tough first and second added. Wednesday was his most powerful Struff 6-3, 6-4.
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A team. against the Proteas, coming hief selector MSK Prasad on
The prolific Sanju
Samson and leg-spinner
in as replacement for the
injured Kuldeep Yadav ahead
C Wednesday made it clear that they
are willing to give Rishabh Pant a long

Yuzvendra Chahal returned
to the side for the T20
Internationals.
The 24-year-old Samson
from Kerala has played his
only T20I, against
Zimbabwe in 2015. A regu-
lar in the India A set up,
Samson has been rewarded
for a good Vijay Hazare
Trophy season, having
amassed 410 runs in eight
innings, including a double-
century.
All-rounder Hardik
Pandya was not discussed in
the selection meeting as he
underwent a surgery for a
back injury, paving the way
for the 26-year-old rookie
Dube’s inclusion in the
shortest format.
Dube pipped Vijay
Shankar as the second
choice all-rounder, primar-
ily based on his big-hitting
prowess.
Chairman of selection
committee MSK Prasad said,
“You can see, earlier we had
Hardik Pandya, then we also
tried Vijay Shankar. All of us
agreed in unison that the
role we have, he (Dube) fits
in very well.
“He bats aggressively,
his performances in the
India A Series in West Indies
and also against South
Africa in the ODIs (for India
A) was phenomenal. He has
gone up by leaps and
bounds, a notch higher and
we are convinced about it.”
As has been the case in
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the past, Rohit Sharma will
lead the squad in Kohli’s
absence.
Apart from the three-
match T20 series which
starts in New Delhi on
November 3, followed by
matches at Rajkot and
Nagpur on November 7 and
10 respectively, Bangladesh
will also play two Tests as
part of the World
Championship, in Indore
and Kolkata, from
November 14-18 and
November 22-26 respective-
ly. The squad for the Test
series against the neighbours
of the Ranchi Test.
Also finding a place in
the T20 squad was Mumbai
seamer Shardul Thakur
while all-rounder Ravindra
Jadeja was rested.
Rishabh Pant has been
the natural heir to Mahendra
Singh Dhoni, but Samson
could now push him for a
slot in the XI.
Delhi pacer Navdeep
Saini was omitted on fitness
grounds, paving the way for
Shardul, who has played the
last of his T20Is in March
2018.
“Experienced pacer
Bhuvneshwar Kumar could
make a comeback from
injury in the next series
(against the West Indies),”
chairman of selectors MSK
Prasad said.
“Navdeep Saini was not
available, that is the reason
we picked up Shardul
Thakur,” he added.
When asked about
Chahal, he said, “With
regards to him, we wanted to
try out Chahal and that’s the
reason we are giving him so
many opportunities.”
T20 squad: Rohit Sharma
(capt), Shikhar Dhawan, KL
Rahul, Sanju Samson,
Shreyas Iyer, Manish Pandey,
Rishabh Pant(wk),
Washington Sundar, Krunal
Pandya, Yuzvendra Chahal,
Rahul Chahar, Deepak
Chahar, Khaleel Ahmed,
Shivam Dube, Shardul
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rope, saying Mahendra Singh Dhoni is
on the same page with the selection com-
mittee’s decision to back youngsters.
Prasad said he has already mentioned
that it’s time to think beyond Dhoni and
it reflected in their team selections.
“I made it very clear, post World Cup
that we are moving on. We are giving
opportunities to youngsters and see that
they establish themselves in the side.
With Rishabh Pant doing so well and
Sanju Samson coming into the side, I am
sure, you must be understanding our
thought process,” Prasad said.
“We definitely had a chat with Dhoni
and he also endorses our view of back-
ing youngsters.”
Putting his weight firmly behind
Pant, Prasad said, “Post World Cup, I
have been very clear on this, that after
World Cup we have started backing
Rishabh Pant. So we will still back him
(Pant) and see that he progresses well.
“Of course, he might not have the
best of the matches, the way we expect
of him, but we can still only make a play-
er by backing somebody. So we are con-
fident that he will come out successful
and that’s been the thought process
post World Cup and we focusing on
Rishabh Pant.”
Prasad also said that they are look-
ing at Samson as a top-order batsman.
“We are looking at him as a batsman
who can keep. Definitely he will play at
the top,” he said.
Test team: Virat Kohli (capt), Rohit
Sharma, Mayank Agarwal, Cheteshwar
Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, Hanuma Vihari,
Saha (wk), R Jadeja, R Ashwin, Kuldeep
Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Umesh Yadav,
Ishant Sharma, Shubman Gill, Rishabh
Pant.
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angladesh cricketers, led by
B star all-rounder Shakib Al
Hasan, have called off their strike
over pay and benefits after getting
assurance from the country’s
board that all their demands will
be met, putting their tour of
India back on track.
The deadlock between the
players and Bangladesh Cricket
Board (BCB) ended after a two-
hour long meeting which went on
close to midnight on Wednesday.
The truce means that the
team’s T20 and Test tour of India,
beginning November 3, will go on
as per schedule and players will
be joining the preparatory camp
today.
“As Papon bhai (BCB boss
Nazmul Hassan) said, it was a
fruitful discussion. He and the rest
of the directors assured us that our
demands will be met as soon as
possible. Based on their assurance,
we will start playing the NCL and
attend the training camp,” Shakib
was quoted as saying by
ESPNCricinfo.
Shakib attended the meeting
alongside other senior players
including Mushfiqur Rahim,
Mahmudullah and Tamim Iqbal.
The players added two more
demands to the 11 made on
Monday, asking for a percentage
of BCB revenues and equal pay
for women cricketers.
BCB president Hassan did
not commit anything on the two
latest demands but said the orig-
inal 11 will be fulfilled. Players had
also demanded fresh elections in
the players’ body and BCB agreed
to that.
“We told them that there
should be CWAB elections (play-
ers’ body) swiftly. We want a rep-
resentative from the current play-
ers, so that our problems can be
discussed with the board regular-
ly. It will be the best for the play-
ers.
“They have agreed, and the
elections will be held when we are
all available. We can tell you that
we are happy when the demands
are implemented, but discussions
have been satisfying,” said Shakib.
Hassan, who had earlier
slammed the players for the tim-
ing of the strike calling it a con-
spiracy, said the Board agreed to
most of the cricketers’ demands.
“Among their 11 demands,
the first one (CWAB elections)
doesn’t have anything to do with
the BCB and the last demand
(more than two NOCs per year to
play franchise tournaments) will
be taken case to case.
“We have agreed with the rest
of the demands, like the DPL
transfers and BPL franchise
model. We will also significantly
improve their allowances in the
domestic competitions, and it
will be done in the next two or
three days. Not in six months or
a year,” said the BCB chief.

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Sthatanju Samson has experienced so

many lows in his chequered career
he has learned to embrace them.
Back in the Indian team after a four-
year gap, Samson is at peace with his
flaws and doesn’t try to be the “perfect
batsman” that he wanted to be for the
longest time.
Samson played his sole match for
India — a T20 — in July 2015 when a
second- string team toured Zimbabwe.
He was 19 then.
Since that high, it has been a
roller-coaster ride for the wicketkeep-
er-batsman, who has been dropped
from the Kerala team on disciplinary
grounds. He has not been consistent
enough, has had fitness issues but every
now and then, he came up with an
innings befitting his rich batting talent.
One such knock happened earlier
this month — an unbeaten 212 — the
highest individual score in the history
of Vijay Hazare Trophy.
“You rightly said it has been a
roller-coaster ride for me. If you have
a very safe and easy career there are very
less things you will learn. I have learnt
a lot in the last four to five years. If you
you have failed a lot of times then you
know how to rise up and how to suc-
ceed. I have failed a lot of times in my
life so I know how to stand up and per-
form. That has been a blessing,”
Samson, now 24, said on Thursday.
Many including the great Rahul
Dravid rated Samson highly but incon-
sistency went against him. The resur-
in him being out of India’s limited overs
set-up in the last two years.
With Kohli being rested from the
T20 series against Bangladesh, Samson
is likely to play as a specialist batsman
with Pant standing behind the stumps.
Like others, Samson too had high
expectations from himself but not
anymore. He also has no hard feelings
about getting just one international
game so far to prove himself.
“I don’t have any regrets. As I said
I have gone through a lot of ups and
downs. I had lots of high expectations
about myself that I should have per-
formed much better than what I did.
“... That I should have got into the
team much before, but lately, I under-
stood that everything has its own time
and you have to be patient for your turn.
I have been doing that and have
become a better person in the process.
“Have really enjoyed my tough
times, to be honest. I have understood
who all are with me genuinely and who
are not.”
As a batsman, Samson feels he is in
a really good space.
“Mentally and technically many
changes have happened in the last five
years. I have understood my game a lot
more, a lot abut myself as a person. I
have worked on my strengths and not
tried to be the perfect batsman that I
tried be for a long time. I understood
that no one can be a perfect batsman.
Now I keep it simple and enjoy my
cricket.”
E lated after his years of hardwork finally paid
off, Mumbai all-rounder Shivam Dube on
Thursday said he loves power-hitting and would
never give up his aggressive brand of cricket,
which earned him his maiden call-up to the
Indian team.
Dube was rewarded with a maiden call-up
for his “phenomenal” exploits with the India A
team.
“I have a bit of natural power and I work on
that. My father always wanted to make me an
aggressive batsman and that became my lifestyle.
I love power-hitting,” Dube told journalists soon
after his selection.
“I would like to thank God and my dad.
Specially my dad, who always supported me and
it was his dream (that I play for India).”
Dube thanked all his well wishers and said
he had positive vibes about his selection after a
successful season, in which he scored 1,012 runs
in 16 first-class matches so far.
The Mumbai all-rounder, who idolises leg-
endary South African all-rounder Jacques Kallis,
is known for hitting long sixes and aims to give
his 100 per cent on the ground if he gets to fea-
ture in the playing eleven.
“I will continue to work hard. I haven’t
thought about (my goals yet). At the moment, I
am happy. As an all-rounder I need to be there
with 100 per cent focus and good fitness,” he said.
Dube, who was picked up by Royal
Challengers Bangalore for a whopping C five
crore, said during his IPL stint last season skip-
per Virat Kohli had always backed him.
“He (Kohli) always helped and supported me.
If I was under pressure or faced any problem, I
spoke to him (Kohli) and he would always make
me understand.”