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U.K. confi rms Nirav’s presence Modi letter calls for
CBI seeks his detention and initiation of extradition proceedings
Special Correspondent
NEW DELHI
ports that he had been spot
ted in several countries, in
positive engagement
The United Kingdom has cluding the U.K. It is alleged Writes to Imran Khan of shared vision for South Asian peace
confi rmed to the Indian that he had also attempted to
agencies that Nirav Modi, in get permanent residency in Kallol Bhattacherjee
Plea opposes dropping
of case against U.P. CM volved in the ₹ 13,578crore Singapore. NEW DELHI
NEW DELHI
Punjab National Bank fraud Prime Minister Narendra
The Supreme Court on case, is staying there. Multiple reminders Modi has called for con
Monday sought the Uttar The Central Bureau of In The CBI had sought the help structive engagement with
Pradesh government’s vestigation has sought his of its counterparts in as ma Pakistan, sources confi rmed
response on a petition detention and initiation of ny as six countries to deter on Monday. In a letter to his
challenging the dropping of extradition proceedings. mine his location. Multiple newly swornin Pakistani
the 2007 Gorakhpur riots “In response to our diff u reminders were sent to the counterpart Imran Khan,
case against Chief Minister sion notice, issued through Interpol coordination agen Mr. Modi called for building
Yogi Adityanath. the Interpol, we received cy in the U.K. good neighbourly ties for se
NATION A PAGE 6 confi rmation a couple of authorities through the Ex Mr. Nirav Modi, his wife Mr. Choksi, who was ear curity and prosperity in the
DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD days ago about Mr. Nirav Mo ternal Aff airs Ministry. Ami, who is a U.S. citizen, lier in the U.S., has taken re South Asian region.
di’s presence in the U.K. The The Enforcement Directo brother Neeshal, a Belgian fuge in Antigua. He had ap “PM expressed India’s
refore, based on the Interpol rate had earlier moved an ex citizen, and uncle Mehul plied for Antiguan commitment to build good
Red Notice issued against tradition request in connec Choksi, had left the country citizenship in May last year neighbourly relations bet
him in June, we have sought tion with its money in the fi rst week of January, and got it about six months ween India and Pakistan and
his detention,” said a CBI
offi cial.
The agency has also sent
laundering cases, to be sent
to the United Kingdom and
the United Arab Emirates, as
days before the bank lodged
a complaint with the CBI. On
the request of investigating
later.
India has approached the
Antiguan government seek
pursue meaningful and con
structive engagement for the
benefi t of the people of the
Pak. Minister off ers
the extradition request to
the Union Home Ministry to
Mr. Nirav Modi’s exact whe
reabouts were not esta
agencies, his passport was
revoked in February.
ing cooperation in getting his
custody to ensure that he
region,” said an offi cial
source. ‘continued dialogue’
DELHI METRO A 6 PAGES be forwarded to the U.K. blished then. Since then, there were re faces trial in the case.
Counters Qureshi Press Trust of India course” as the two
Islamabad
The Indian response came countries could not aff ord
Rupee’s recovery
spurs stock market
Sensex, Nifty close at new highs
Special Correspondent resolve trade disputes. Nik
Mumbai kei, however, lost marginal
Indian benchmark equity ground on Monday.
indices rose to new highs on Back in India, the overall
Monday as investor senti market breadth also re
ments were lifted on ac mained slightly on the
count of a positive trend stronger side with 1,437 ad
across most leading Asian vances against 1,307 de
markets and a recovery in clines. The broader BSE
the rupee against the dollar. Midcap gained over 1%
The 30share Sensex while the BSE Smallcap also
gained 330.87 points or moved marginally up on
0.87% to close at a new high Monday.
of 38,278.75 with 23 of its
constituents gaining Stocks gaining ground
ground. Midcap and smallcap
Auto and metal majors stocks have been gaining
like Tata Steel, Tata Motors, ground in the last few trad
Bajaj Auto and Vedanta ing sessions.
were among the top gainers “Despite the correction
of the day. this year, we still believe
Infosys, meanwhile, was that midcap stocks are ex
the fi rst performer among pensive,” said Mukul Koch
the Sensex pack on Monday, har, Head Institutional
shedding over 3% or ₹ 46.15 Sales, Investec Capital
to close at ₹ 1,385.20 after Services.
the company’s chief fi nan “The only diff erence now
cial offi cer M.D. Ranganath (versus a few months back)
resigned on Saturday. is that politics looks more
The broader Nifty stable – prospects of an Op
breached the 11,500mark position coalition are look
for the fi rst time, gaining 81 ing a little shaky,” he said,
points to close at 11,551.75. while adding that rupee re
Among other major Asian mains at risk and that could
markets, Hang Seng gained help technology companies.
385 points. The rupee opened stron
The benchmark indices ger on Monday compared to
of South Korea, Indonesia its previous close of 70.16 a
and Taiwan also gained dollar and appreciated
ground amid hopes that the 0.47% or 33 paise to close
U.S. and China would soon the day at 69.83 a dollar.
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Shelter home rape case: NGOs CM Raje’s ‘Gaurav Yatra’ loses
DELHI Timings
Tuesday, Aug. 21
RISE 05:54 SET 18:55
RISE 15:23 SET 00:37
steam after PIL, Gujjars’ protest
Wednesday, Aug. 22
RISE 05:54 SET 18:54
RISE 16:11 SET 01:21
Thursday, Aug. 23
off er to surrender contracts Rajputs, Jats to hold parallel events in Jodhpur on Aug. 24
RISE 05:55 SET 18:53 CBI speeds up investigation, conducts searches and questions many people Mohammed Iqbal frontal attack on Ms. Raje’s
RISE 16:57 SET 02:07
Amarnath Tewary past few months. He added JAIPUR Yatra and demanded its im
Patna that some Department offi Rajasthan Chief Minister Va mediate cancellation, alleg
In the wake of the Muzaff ar cials too have been trying to sundhara Raje’s muchpubli ing that it is misusing the go
pur shelter home rape case get transferred to other de cised ‘Gaurav Yatra’ has vernment funds. Pradesh
and Aasra shortstay home partments. seemingly lost its steam after Congress president Sachin
case in Patna, NonGovern “We’ve asked the NGOs to Gujjars’ threat to disrupt it in Pilot said on Monday that
ment Organisations manag continue till alternative ar Bharatpur division and the tenders were being invited
ing the governmentfunded rangements are being made High Court’s notice on a pu for the ‘Gaurav Yatra’ pro
110 such homes in Bihar are and we’ve also fl oated ten blic interest litigation alleg grammes even after the mat
off ering to surrender their der for a new setup man ing that public money was ter had gone to the High
contract with the State’s So aged by the government,” he being spent on it. Court.
cial Welfare Department. said. The Yatra was suspended Vasundhara Raje. *
FILE PHOTO
The CBI, investigating the Offi cers of the CBI and the Central Forensic Science Earlier, the State govern last week following the death ‘Unethical march’
Muzaff arpur sexual abuse Laboratory at the shelter home in Muzaff arpur. FILE PHOTO PTI *
ment had announced that it of former Prime Minister munities was raised. Col. While Mr. Pilot described the
case, has speeded up the would run all shelter and Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Bainsla said the socially Yatra as Ms. Raje’s “unethical
investigation. winner Sister Sudha Vargh ese was awarded the Padma shortstay homes. BJP State president Madan backward communities march” when the farmers in
ese. Sister Varghese runs an Shri in 2006 for her pioneer Meanwhile, the CBI has Lal Saini has announced that would wage a “joint strug the State were committing
TISS report NGO to manage a shelter ing work with the marginal speeded up its probe and the Yatra’s second leg will gle” to get their rights and ac suicide, AICC general secre
Earlier, in its 100page re home for traffi cked women ised section of society. She conducted searches at sever start in Jodhpur division on cused the ruling BJP of going tary Ashok Gehlot said the
Man gets death penalty port, the Tata Institute of So and girls in the border dis also runs an adoption agen al places and questioned ma August 24. The Yatra will by back on its promises. misuse of public money
for raping, killing minor cial Sciences (TISS) had trict of Purnia. cy in Danapaur locality, near ny people. pass the Assembly segments Amid indications that the through government offi
SAGAR (M.P.) raised fi ngers at several “I’ve written to the Social Patna. State Urban Development in eastern Rajasthan where BJP has skipped the Bharat cials, engineers and contrac
A court here on Monday NGOs running shelter and Welfare Department that I Department Minister Suresh Gujjars have been holding pur division fearing Gujjars’ tors was unprecedented.
sentenced a man to death for shortstay homes in diff erent want to surrender my con 23 contracts cancelled Sharma, though, has refused protests demanding 5% re protest, Col. Bainsla said the The PIL in the High Court
raping and killing a 14year districts of Bihar where in tract for Purnia shelter home “Until now, six NGOs have of to resign from his post as de servation and withdrawal of Yatra would be opposed in has been listed for hearing
old girl in December last year.
stances of sexual and physi as I feel it is diffi cult to man fered to surrender their con manded by the Opposition police cases against the com Jodhpur as well. The State on Tuesday. After the State
Rabbu alias Sarvesh Sen (22)
cal abuse with the inmates age that from Patna… if so tracts with the Depart RJD leader, Tejaswi Yadav. munity members who were government had earlier invit government informed the
and a minor accused entered
were reported. mething unpleasant hap ment… this has come in the Mr. Yadav also ‘threatened’ detained during the previous ed Gujjars to Jaipur to dis court that the orders issued
the house of the victim in
Deval village here and raped
Besides Muzaff arpur, the pens, I cannot reach there wake of the Muzaff arpur to ‘expose’ if Mr. Sharma did agitations. cuss their demands with a on August 1 to the PWD to
her on December 7 last year, TISS social audit report had before 8 hours… so I decided shelter home and Aasra not resign. Cabinet subcommittee, but make arrangements for the
Additional District redfl agged 14 other such to surrender my contract,” shortstay home controver “I’ll fi le a defamation suit ‘Joint struggle’ only a splinter group led by Yatra had been withdrawn,
Prosecution Officer M.D. homes for abuse. Ms. Varghese told local jour sies,” said Department Direc against Tejaswi Yadav for Ahead of the Yatra in the Himmat Singh attended the the court has asked the BJP
Awasthi said. When the victim Among the several NGOs nalists. tor Raj Kumar. dragging my name into the Jodhpur region, Gujjar su talks, adding to the prevail to submit the details of ex
resisted, the accused poured which have off ered to sur The Purnia shelter home The Department, he said, Muzaff arpur shelter home premo Kirori Singh Bainsla ing confusion. penses incurred.
kerosene and set her afire, render their contract with run by her keeps about 65 has also cancelled contracts rape case,” said Mr. Sharma visited the city on Sunday The Congress, which Meanwhile, Rajputs and
Mr. Awasthi said. The girl died the State Social Welfare De girls, some of them traf of 23 NGOs running shelter who represents the Muzaf and addressed events where plans to start its own ‘San the Jats are planning to hold
of burn injuries on December partment is the one man fi cked, some mentally chal homes for girls, boys and farpur Assembly seat on a the demand for reservation kalp Yatra’ from Chittorgarh parallel events in Jodhpur di
14. PTI aged by Padma Shri award lenged and sick. Ms. Vargh beggars in the State in the BJP ticket. for Rebari and Rajput com on August 24, has launched a vision.
EDUCATIONAL
Bandh’ on September 8
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT and the DadupurNalvi
CHANDIGARH canal.
The Indian National Lok Dal “We have decided to ob
on Monday announced that serve a Statewide bandh on
it would observe a ‘Haryana September 8. We want early
Bandh’ on September 8 to completion of the SYL and
press for early construction DadupurNalvi canals,” said
and completion of the Sutlej Abhay Singh Chautala, lead
Yamuna Link (SYL) canal er of the Opposition.
Passersby at Hazratganj in Lucknow on Monday look at an old building that collapsed partially, crushing six twowheelers
parked below. RAJEEV BHATT *
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le the drug menace in the
country’s northern region,
six States Haryana, Hima
chal Pradesh, Punjab, Rajas
than, Uttarakhand and Delhi
and the Union Territory of
Chandigarh on Monday de
cided to set up a centralised
secretariat at Panchkula (Ha
ryana) where nodal offi cers
from each State will be de Chief Ministers of Haryana, Punjab and Uttarakhand Manohar
puted for sharing intelli Lal Khattar, Amarinder Singh and Trivendra Singh Rawat
gence and information. respectively taking part in an interState regional conference
The decision was taken at in Chandigarh on Monday to tackle the drug menace. SPECIAL *
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Assam pledges ₹ 3 crore to Kerala Case of U.P.origin ‘foreigners’ deferred
Hailing from a fl oodprone State, I can feel the suff ering of the people: CM Sonowal Akhil Assam Bhojpuri Parishad, a body of Hindispeakers in Assam, up in arms
RAHUL KARMAKAR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT sation of Hindispeakers in Monday. Our case has been and lodged them in detention
GUWAHATI GUWAHATI Assam, has been pegging this deferred to Friday, when it camps.
Floodprone Assam has The Gauhati High Court on case as an example of dis will hopefully be disposed of. The Dvoter tag on Dinesh
pledged ₹ 3 crore in aid to Monday rescheduled the case crimination against the com We have been told my uncle and Sarita was the reason
fl oodhit Kerala. This follows of Dinesh and Sarita Prajapa munity and misuse of the sys can perform his mother’s fi why all 17 members of the
the ₹ 1 crore announced by ti, settlers from Ballia district tem for detecting and nal riteson August 26,” Suraj Prajapati family, settled for
Nagaland, where rainfallin of Uttar Pradesh, who are in deporting foreigners. Prajapati, Dinesh’s 22year three generations at No. 6
duced landslides have cut off separate detention camps for old nephew, told The Hindu. Pakhorijan village in eastern
many areas. foreigners after having been Final rites Dinesh’s mother Chhotki Assam’s Tinsukia district,
Announcing the fi nancial declared doubtful or Dvoters “The case of our uncle and Devi, 70, had died on August were left out of the complete
aid on Monday, Assam Chief more than three months ago. aunt was numbered 46, but 16. She had stopped eating af draft of National Register of
Minister Sarbananda Sono The Akhil Assam Bhojpuri the High Court could hear on ter the authorities took away Citizens that was published
wal said he could feel the suf Parishad, an umbrella organi ly up to case number 35 on her son and daughterinlaw on July 30.
fering of the people of Kera
la. “I represent Majuli, an
Assembly constituency that
experiences fl ood up to four Night curfew
times a year. I can very well
empathise with what the
Flood-ravaged: Villagers move towards a safer place from a fl ooded village in Morigaon district
of Assam. FILE PHOTO: REUTERS
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in Shillong
fl oodaff ected people in Ker
ala are going through,” Mr. States battle with calamities out for the suff ering,” he ment should look at us too,” lifted after
Sonowal said. caused by heavy rain, may
we fi nd comfort in knowing
said.
The All Assam Students’
Lurin Jyoti Gogoi, AASU gen
eral secretary, told The Hin- eighty days
Large-scale devastation that the rest of India stands Union (AASU) has appreciat du. “Floods have destroyed
“Looking at the largescale with us. The people of Naga ed Prime Minister Narendra Assam’s agriculturebased SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
devastation caused by the land pray for you.” Modi’s instant package of economy and thousands of GUWAHATI
Odisha: Fishermen allege
bungling in subsidy money
Staff Reporter ceived new boats, nets or en has been misappropriated.
BERHAMPUR gines. But loans with subsidy In 2015, former manager
Marine fi shermen in Odisha have been sanctioned in of Gopalpur branch of UCO
coast have alleged that the their name for it. The irony bank V. Kamma and Chinta
racket in misappropriation is that banks are deducting mani Behera, Additional Dis
of subsidy money for provi money from their savings ac trict Fisheries Offi cer (AD
sion of boats, nets and boat counts towards repayment FO) of Ganjam district in
engines was still continuing. of these loans. It is alleged Odisha, had been arrested
There are fi shermen in that through loans provided by the police on charges of
Ganjam, Puri and Khurda on pen and paper, large misappropriation of subsidy
districts who have not re amount of subsidy money money.
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5 years after
Dabholkar
Arms seizure: Jalna Sena 2 years on, 2.5 lakh farmers
killing, MANS
leader in ATS custody await power connections
more popular No money, says MSEDCL; power regulator unimpressed
Press Trust of India Former councillor was funding accused in explosives seizure, alleges prosecution Renni Abraham
Pune Mumbai
The killing of antisupersti
Press Trust of India probed. A pen drive, hard ber of bombs and weapons. Despite being promised pow
tion crusader Narendra
Mumbai disks and some incriminat All three men are in ATS er connections within two
Dabholkar fi ve years ago Former Shiv Sena council ing documents were reco custody till August 28. months of applying, more
hasn’t stop the expansion of lor from Jalna Shrikant Pan vered from his residence in The ATS had alleged that than 2.5 lakh farmers in the
his citybased organisation, garkar, arrested in connec Jalna district, the prosecu the accused were planning State have been waiting for
which has spread to several tion with the seizure of tion said. Prime facie he to carry out blasts in the over two years for one. With
States, including Assam. explosives and arms, was was funding the other three State ahead of Indepen the Maharashtra State Elec
The Maharashtra Andhash remanded in Maharashtra accused, arrested earlier dence Day and BakriEid. It tricity Distribution Company
raddha Nirmoolan Samiti AntiTerrorism Squad (ATS) this month following sei also said it would probe if Ltd (MSEDCL) saying it
(MANS) has intensifi ed its custody till August 28 by a zure of a large cache of ex the accused had any con doesn’t have the funds to give
activities, a functionary said city court on Monday. plosives, the prosecution nection with the killings of connections, there appears
on Monday. Additional Sessions Judge said, adding that Mr. Pan rationalists Narendra Dab to be no early solution to
Vinod Padalkar remanded garkar’s bank transactions holkar and Govind Pansare, their problem. Long wait: Farmers need power connections to run
Dabholkar, a doctor who
Mr. Pangarkar in ATS custo also need to be probed. and journalist Gauri Lan Last month, Ramdas Na agricultural pumps. FILE PHOTO*
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SOUTH 5
IN BRIEF
Rescue teams reach isolated
villages in Kodagu district
Gold seized from Death toll put at 12 as multiple agencies remove 4,320 people to safety
passenger from Dubai Special Correspondent
VISAKHAPATNAM
Customs officials at the
MYSURU Kodagu
The continuing rescue and
Visakhapatnam International
Airport have arrested a relief operations in Kodagu plantations
district have reached their
passenger from Dubai on
charges of smuggling gold last phase with the Army disappear
weighing 1.2 kg valued at and National Disaster Res
₹ 33.74 lakh. The passenger ponse Force personnel R. Krishna Kumar
arrived by an Air India flight searching isolated villages SUNTIKOPPA
on Sunday. The passenger even as the authorities con As the spectacle of destruc
allegedly tried to smuggle fi rmed the death toll at 12 in tion unfolds in the fl ood
the gold by concealing it in the district. ravaged district of Kodagu, Falling apart: A bridge that was damaged due to fl oods at Tadavai village in West Godavari
the shoes and wrapping Multiple agencies in where more than 5,000 district on Monday. SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT*
River interlinking: Karnataka seeks
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rightful share in water allocation
State had been facing water stress for decades, says Water Resources Minister
Staff Reporter tions, including from the in the diverted/transferred
Bengaluru Krishna basin, where it got water from links under the
Seeking its rightful share for 907 tmcft against the 1,012 Peninsular River Develop
Karnataka in water alloca tmcft it demanded, Cauvery ment.
tion as part of river inter basin (284.75 tmcft against a In the modifi ed link pro
linking, Water Resources Mi demand of 465 tmcft) and posal of the MahanadiGoda
nister D.K. Shivakumar on Mahadayi basin (13.42 tmcft variKrishnaCauveryVaigai
Monday said that the State against a demand of 36.55 Gundar river, the State was
had been facing water stress tmcft). again not considered for al
for decades on account of Mr. Shivakumar said that location. The allocation
demands for drinking water to the government’s sur made by National Water De
and irrigation. prise, the State was com velopment Agency without
Speaking during the 15th pletely left out in the 2010 re consulting all basin states of
meeting of the Special Com D.K. Shivakumar port on assessment of the Cauvery and the Krishna
mittee for Inter Linking of surplus water for transfer to is arbitrary,” he said.
Rivers held in New Delhi, he ment Programme (DDP) defi cit river basin under Pe The State would be forced
said that the State had been areas which have been fac ninsular River Development to approach the Union go
denied of its rightful share ing water stress for decades. by National Water Develop vernment for the constitu
from the transferred water — “The situation had risen be ment Agency. tion of a tribunal if its inter
from surplus basins under cause demand is more than “The State government in ests were not taken care of
the Inter Linking of Rivers the allocations to the State several letters to Ministry of by the National Water Deve
Scheme. He said that the by various river water tribu Water Resources and Nation lopment Agency in deciding
State had a large Drought nals,” he said. al Water Development Agen water share under the river
prone Areas Programme He cited examples of how cy has been persistently urg interlinking proposals, he Fishermen returning to the coast as dark clouds hover on the horizon due to the presence of a low pressure area, at Jalaripeta in
(DPAP) and Desert Develop the State got lower alloca ing them to restore its share said Visakhapatnam on Monday. K.R.DEEPAK *
Disease Karnataka mulling law asking offi cials
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Teachers fume over attack on Bihar prof.
IN BRIEF Weather Watch
Rainfall, temperature & air quality in select metros yesterday
Write to Union HRD Minister seeking high-level inquiry into incident; allege ‘forgery’ by university V-C
Amarnath Tewary sion of Professor N.K. Sanghi league of Prof. Kumar.
Patna in 1992”. “Such a corrupt The injured professor was
The All India Federation of VC... can only spread cor fi rst admitted to Patna Medi
Bengal’s focus on
University and College ruption,” said the letter. cal College and Hospital but
renewable energy
KOLKATA
Teachers’ Organisations (AI later on Monday he was shift
The Bengal government is FUCTO) on Monday wrote a Protest against V-C ed to the All India Institute of
drawing up several schemes twopage letter to Union Hu A large section of the univer Medical Sciences in Delhi as
to promote solar power and man Resource Development sity teachers have been prot he complained of some eye
other sources of renewable Minister Prakash Javadekar esting against the “fascists sight problem.
energy, CM Mamata Banerjee demanding a highlevel in and dictatorial attitude” of The police said two per
said on National Renewable quiry into the attack on an the VC since May 29. On Au sons have been arrested for
Energy Day on Monday. She assistant professor of Mahat gust 17, Prof. Kumar, who the attack so far. Earlier,
made a reference to ma Gandhi Central Universi had also been protesting Prof. Kumar had lodged a
‘Aloshree’, a scheme taken up ty of Bihar and “forged” doc against Prof. Agrawal, was case against 12 persons for
to fit solar panels in all uments submitted by the dragged out of his thirdfl oor attacking him at the town
government offices and university’s vicechancellor. fl at by a mob and beaten up police station in Motihari in
educational institutions. PTI “On behalf of AIFUCTO for making a comment on so East Champaran district.
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Seven dead in landslide the brutal attack on the assis the assault on Assistant Professor Sanjay Kumar, in Patna on former Prime Minister Atal rism Minister Pramod Ku Forecast for Tuesday: Heavy/very heavy rain is likely at isolated
in Jammu and Kashmir Monday. RANJEET KUMAR
tant professor of the Mahat *
Bihari Vajpayee. The attack mar alleged that Professor places over Vidarbha, Chhattisgarh, Telangana, Konkan & Goa,
KISHTWAR
ma Gandhi Central Universi ers allegedly also tried to set Kumar was a part of the “di Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, sub
Seven persons, including a
ty at Motihari, Sanjay Kumar, ter, a copy of which is with alleged that the VC , Arvind Prof. Kumar on fi re after visive forces” as his com Himalayan West Bengal, Sikkim, Odisha, Jharkhand, Himachal
policeman, were killed and 12
and also over corruption and The Hindu. Agrawal, has furnished pouring petrol on him. ment on Vajpayee on social Pradesh, Uttarakhand, east Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, central
others injured on Monday as Maharashtra, coastal Andhra Pradesh and coastal Karnataka
the two vehicles they were tyranny of the ViceChancel “false information that he “The attackers were, in media was not acceptable.
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massive landslide on Doda who has been made VC on In the letter undersigned by Heidelberg University, Ger teach us all protesting teach ers and students’ organisa Ahmedabad........19.7.... 32.5.... 24.8 Kurnool .................0.1.... 31.0.... 24.8
Kishtwar highway, a senior the basis of false and fabri AIFUCTO general secretary, many, in 1989, whereas he ers a lesson… The social me tions have extended their Aizwal ................... —.... 29.8.... 12.9 Lucknow................1.2.... 33.9.... 25.4
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and a car plying on the road monials in his application for dent, Prof. Kesab Bhatta gree by the University of Ra for the attack,” said Mritun while demanding removal of Bhopal.................2.2.... 28.5.... 23.8 Mumbai...............15.9.... 29.0.... 24.2
were hit with massive the post,” said AIFUCTO let charya, the organisation has jasthan under the supervi jay Kumar Yadavendu, a col the ViceChancellor. Bhubaneswar .......3.4.... 30.2.... 26.0 Mysuru.................... —.... 28.3.... 18.8
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In Kerala’s rice bowl, life moves on in camps
Majority of the 2.5 lakh population of Kuttanad have been moved to relief camps in Alappuzha and Kottayam districts
Sam Paul A.
Alappuzha
Sitting on a verandah of the
SDV School for Boys in Alap
puzha, Omana Raveendran,
65, is listening carefully to a
volunteer who is reading
loud the names of people
from a list. Inside the room,
women, children and the el
derly are picking clothes
closest to their size from a
collection donated by gener
ous people and voluntary or
ganisations.
“We came to the relief
camp with just the clothes
we were wearing. Our house
was submerged and we took
a small country boat to es
cape drowning,” says Ms. Ra
veendran. She along with
her son, daughterinlaw and
granddaughter are among
538 people from diff erent
parts of Kuttanad living un Picking up the pieces: Checking out new clothes at a camp in Alappuzha and, right, food being distributed at a camp in Ernakulam. *
SURESH ALLEPPEY & THULASI KAKKAT
der one roof for the past four
days. and Kottayam districts. ferring to the recurring can I expect in a diffi cult gannur where, at the relief gest thing is that we are all
In Kuttanad, the rice bowl A fragile Sarojini, 68, walk fl oods in the region. time like this? They are pro camp at the Christian Col alive.”
of Kerala, normal life has ing with heavy steps past a viding enough food, water lege, Sajini’s little daughter is All though there were is
come to a standstill for a se group of children who are ‘Nothing left at home’ and clothing. But there is asleep on her shoulder. “She sues regarding toilet facilities
cond time in a month owing playing after a meal of fi sh Ms. Sarojini is sharing space nothing left in my home. My is tired after being stranded in some of the camps, offi
to the fl oods. curry from the food distribu with 16 others in a class house at Kainakary is com on the terrace of our house cials said biotoilets had been
Of the 2.5 lakh population tion centre in the com room, and sleeps on a mat pletely submerged,” she (at Kallissery) for four days,” set up in most camps. Over
of the region, a majority of pound, says: “The people of provided by the government. says, wiping a tear. says Ms. Sajini. “We can go 2.7 lakh people are staying in
the people have been moved Kuttanad are destined to live “I am happy with the facili Apart from Kuttanad, the through this ordeal, but our 662 relief camps in the dis
to relief camps in Alappuzha in relief centres.” She was re ties provided here. What else fl oods also badly hit Chen children can’t. But the big trict.
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CPI(M) slams hate campaign on social media Use MPLADS funds to
and friend who has always
stood by Maldives in need,”
Ambassador of the Maldives
to India Ahmed Mohamed
told The Hindu on Monday. It shows utter social media that the fl oods Ms. Karat’s comments religion or own problems contribute, MPs told
in Kerala are a refl ection of came after a recent tweet by have been pitching in.
Keralite in Oman loses inhumanity, says god’s anger on the Sabrimala RBI board member S. Guru “Some organisations Venkaiah Naidu,
job for social media post Brinda Karat case. Others who have car murthy on August 18. “Su stand out in their toxic hate
Mahajan give a
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM ried out campaigns on social preme court judges may like ful lies and false claims. The
A Keralite working in a
supermarket in Oman has
Special Correspondent media against donations to to see if there is any connec Sangh Parivar and the Sewa month’s salary
New Delhi the CM’s relief fund have tion between the case and Bharati are asking people not
been terminated from his job
The CPI(M) on Monday hit Brinda Karat brought in their communal what is happening in Sabari to donate [to the] CM’s dis Special Correspondent
following a highly insensitive
out at the selective social me politics, saying don’t donate mala. Even if there is one in a tress relief fund. The CPI(M) New Delhi
post he wrote in the wake of
dia hate campaign from the Supreme Court to allow to the CM relief fund because million chance of a link peo refuses to engage with their Rajya Sabha Chairman M.
the floods in the State. Rahul
C. Palayattu, who worked as
rightwing affi liated organi women to enter the Sabari the money will go to minori ple would not like the case lowlevel politics. For the Venkaiah Naidu and Lok
cashier at the Lulu sations, persons asking not mala shrine. The party said ties alone. This kind of cam decided against Ayyappan,” party and thousands of Left Sabha Speaker Sumitra Ma
Hypermarket, Bousher, was to donate to the Chief Minis such instances showed utter paign, which is not refuted he tweeted. volunteers, the only aim is hajan on Monday urged
handed his termination letter ter’s Disaster Relief Fund inhumanity. or criticised by a single lead Ms. Karat said such hate rescue, relief and rehabilita Members of Parliament to
that stated that the action is since the money may go to “A newly appointed RBI er of the BJP and the RSS, campaigns should be com tion. People of Kerala will generously contribute from
prompted by his highly minorities, and those calling board member, known for shows their utter inhumani pared to the rescue work answer those who indulge in their MPLADS funds for re Sumitra Mahajan
insensitive and derogatory the Kerala fl oods the wrath his close contacts with the ty,” CPI (M) Politburo mem done by the fi sherfolk in Ker politics of division amidst lief and rehabilitation works
comment in his post. IANS of god for the ongoing case in Sangh Parivar, has posted on ber Brinda Karat said. ala, who regardless of their suff ering,” she added. in Kerala, besides consider trict. The guidelines further
ing donating a month’s say that from the day an MP
salary. makes such contribution,
An enduring threat
Intelligence agencies have a terrible track record in anticipating religious-oriented terrorism
Hardly any intelligence agency longing to disparate terror organi and the role of organisations such
in the mid20th century was able sations, including the IS, carried as the JaisheMohammed ( JeM)
Stay with RCEP to comprehend the danger posed
by the teachings of Islamist scho
out four major terror attacks, kill
ing over 160 people. In succeeding
and the LashkareTaiba (LeT) in
sponsoring terror attacks from
India must not take the easiest way out lar, Sayyid Qutb. Few saw in what months, there have been several across the border. Notwithstand
he said the seeds of allembracing similar attacks, leading to the ing this, India must not be obli
on the trade deal and walk out of talks M.K. Narayanan religious terrorism that would deaths of many more civilians and vious to attacks from other radical
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egotiations on the Regional Comprehensive Eco plague the world for years to soldiers. Killings have been indis Islamist sources. According to re
REUTERS
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nomic Partnership, among 16 Asian and Pacifi c ntelligence is often referred to come. Today, no doubt, it is possi criminate and a majority feature ports, both the IS and alQaeda are
Ocean countries, have entered a decisive phase. as the ‘missing dimension’ ble to see the connection between suicide bombers. Targets tend to engaged in a fi erce competition to
Most potential membercountries of the grouping, that when there is a failure to antici Qutb’s views and the establish wined with religious extremism, it be indiscriminate; in a recent sui enlarge their activities in India.
pate critical developments of a ment of alQaeda, and how his becomes an even more potent cide attack, the target was a con There are also attempts being
comprises the 10 ASEAN members and their Free Trade
political and strategic nature. His teachings spawned an entire gen mixture. Behavioural patterns voy of Sikhs and Hindus on their made to secure more recruits from
Agreement partners, Australia, China, India, Japan, tory is replete with many such in eration of Islamist terrorists. contribute to escalation, from way to meet the President of Af India. The territorial demise of the
New Zealand and Republic of Korea, would like to see a stances. In recent times, re It was only after alQaeda car grievance redress to mobilisation, ghanistan in Jalalabad city in IS in Syria and Iraq is likely to exa
“substantive agreement” on the trade deal by the end of nowned historians like ried out its spectacular attack on and on to violent extremism. which at least 19 persons were cerbate insurgencies elsewhere, as
this year. At a meeting in Singapore, which is driving Christopher Andrew have also the World Trade Center in New killed. was witnessed after the ‘Afghan Ji
the eff ort as the current ASEAN chair, countries which talked of a lack of ‘theologians’ York in 2001, that the world truly The Islamic State Given the climate of violence, had’ in the 1980s and 1990s. Mili
still have issues with the outline of the agreements compounding this situation. Com woke up to this reality. The failure Consequently, any premature ce and the determination of radical tants fl eeing the ‘Caliphate’ could
reached so far may be told politely to step aside and al bined, these are seen as reasons or inability to piece together mis lebrations of the socalled destruc groups to wage war, India cannot enlarge the ranks of those already
for failing to anticipate many of sing pieces of nonsecular tion of the Islamic State (IS) ‘Cali aff ord to be oblivious to what is present. As it is, there are reports
low a smaller group to go ahead with fi nalising the
the serious developments that thought, leading to a lack of under phate’ would be uncalled for. IS happening around us. It cannot af from many nations in the West of
RCEP, with the option to join it at a later date. India is took place during the late 20th standing of the expanding saga of stormtroopers have moved from ford the luxury of amnesia, given stray attacks by returning IS re
among the countries that will have to take a call at this and early 21st centuries. revolutionary violence, mostly of strongholds in Syria and Iraq to the kind of terror threats that we cruits from the Syrian and Iraqi
point, and the government’s decision to set up a group To this day, for instance, many the religious variety, constitutes countries across Europe, Asia and faced in the past. battlefi elds — in cities as far apart
of four ministers to advise Prime Minister Narendra Mo still wonder how the West and its one of the most spectacular fai Africa. Many regional franchises as London, Toronto and Paris.
di on the path ahead indicates the seriousness of the sit intelligence agencies failed to real lures of intelligence in modern linking individual IS and alQaeda The ‘Khalistan’ revival It is important to appreciate the
uation. India’s concerns with RCEP negotiations thus ise the dimensions of Iran’s reli times. groups are already in the works. Very recently, we have seen a ma fact that the strength of Islamist
gious revolution, leading to the es Ethnicoriented violence and As the IS lost ground in Syria nifest attempt by Sikh extremist terror groups, and especially that
far are manifold, but some have been addressed. The
tablishment of a theocratic state terrorism is no less sanguinary in and Iraq, parts of Africa became groups residing in Canada and the of the IS, lies not only in their mil
fi rst is the greater access Chinese goods will have to the under Ayatollah Khomeini. In re many instances, as the history of the new battleground. More than a U.S. to revive the demand for Khal itary capabilities but more in their
Indian market, a problem given India’s massive trade trospect, the Iranian Revolution ‘peoples’ uprisings’ in diff erent dozen African countries across istan and of selfdetermination for ideology and propaganda. Jihad
defi cit. To circumvent this, given that India is the one was much larger than most pre parts of the world confi rms. Some two broad belts of Africa — from Sikhs. They have the backing of and martyrdom continue to in
country that doesn’t have an FTA with China, the go vious secular uprisings, including of the better known struggles of Somalia and Kenya in the east sections of the Sikh community in fl uence young Muslims to join
vernment has proposed a “diff erential market access” the French Revolution. The gener recent times, such as that of the through Nigeria, Niger, Mali, Bur the U.K. as well. As a result, a fresh their fold. Socalled polarisation
strategy for China, which others are inclined to accept. ally accepted view, hence, is that Kurds in West Asia, have attracted kina Faso and Senegal in the west wave of Sikh radicalisation is be and the plight of religious minori
intelligence agencies and policy international attention. Many oth — are facing a wave of Islamist ter ginning to be seen in quite a few ties present them opportunities as
After the Wuhan summit, India and China have made
makers are usually unable to re ers, however, have had a more li rorism. During the past two years, Western nations. well as soft targets.
progress on addressing the trade defi cit, with China in cognise the potential of move mited shelf life. Some are based on unverifi ed reports indicate the The August 12 proKhalistan ral
creasing access for Indian goods such as pharma and ments about which they know lit local grievances, and many are deaths of more than 10,000, and ly in London, sponsored by a body No time for complacency
agricultural products. The second concern is about de tle or understand even less. sponsored by outside forces an the battle continues in unrelenting styling itself as ‘Sikhs for Justice’ The enduring message is that
mands by other RCEP countries for lower customs du xious to create turbulence and dis fashion. based in the U.S. has the backing the ideological battle against reli
ties on a number of products and greater access to the Grave lacuna order in another country. Hardly Boko Haram, a onetime affi liate of the U.K.based Khalistan Sikh giouslyoriented terror groups like
market than India has been willing to provide. On the Intelligence analysts are better off any of them, however, have the of the IS, has been even more san Federation and the Dal Khalsa. It is the IS is far from over. No short
when it comes to matters arising same broad sweep or appeal as re guinary than the IS or alQaeda. Al the clearest sign yet of the resur cuts are available as of now. Above
other hand, the more developed RCEP countries such
from more pedantic issues and ligiousoriented terrorism, espe Shabab in Somalia, the Jama’at gence of proKhalistan sentiments. all, India must realise that some of
as Australia and Singapore have been unwilling to ac events. For example, in the case of cially Islamist terrorism. This is Nusrat alIslam wal Muslimeen in The August event has come in the the world’s top 10 most wanted
commodate India’s demands to liberalise their services nondenominational terrorism, not to say that they do not pose a Mali, and several others continue wake of proKhalistani activists terrorists are located in its vicinity
regime and allow freer mobility of Indian workers. which has been around for a long threat, or that the danger they to thrive in parts of Africa. ripping off the Indian fl ag in Parlia (the Haqqani brothers, LeT Chief
Naturally, none of this is made easier by the fact that time, intelligence is better placed pose is any less. Afghanistan is the other main ment Square, London during the Hafi z Saeed, JeM leader Masood
some of the RCEP countries, including India, are head to understand its dimensions than What is apparent as one surveys epicentre of radicalised Islamist Indian Prime Minister’s visit ear Azhar and Zakiur Rehman Lakh
ed for elections next year, a point where governments that of religiousoriented terro the global scene today is that the terror. The years 2017 and 2018 lier this year. A revitalised move vi). India, hence, cannot aff ord to
rism. Any number of instances can number and variety of terror have been particularly bad in ment for a separate Sikh state can be complacent.
traditionally turn protectionist. Despite these con
be cited, wherein agencies failed groups is larger and more wides terms of the number of terror at cause problems within India,
cerns, the government must take into account the deep to understand the emerging di pread than at any time previously. tacks and casualties resulting from sooner rather than later. M.K. Narayanan is a former National
er strategic pitfalls of either slowing down India’s RCEP mensions of religiousoriented Ideology remains the main source these attacks. In a single month in India is currently preoccupied Security Adviser and a former Governor
engagement or walking out of the talks at this stage. Do terrorism. of violent extremism. When intert January this year, terrorists be with terror attacks from Pakistan, of West Bengal
ing so would cut India out of the rulesmaking process
Puja Mehra (BoE) sold the securities so ac their use by the two countries — as value of military equipment, re
The decks have been cleared quired, adding the dollars to its unrestricted spending would have gardless of the condition and
coff ers. Dollars for the war were al run the British balance of pay worth, the British forces had left
for government formation in Iraq
T
he rupee’s depreciation to so raised by selling silver bullion ments, and consequently its eco behind. The subtractions added to
T
he Iraqi Supreme Court’s ratifi cation of the re more than 70 to a dollar just from India’s reserves to govern nomy, to the ground. £100 million.
sults of the May 12 parliamentary election has set ahead of Independence Day ments outside the sterling area. Under this interim agreement, Limits were placed on how
the stage for government formation. After claims led to historical comparisons of Dollars could be spent on im India could spend from the ba much could be drawn in a given
of widespread irregularities during voting, Iraqi law the value of the rupee. These can ports of essential consumables, lances in dollars, as Britain had period from the balances.
be misleading, as political free not capital goods. What was essen tiator, B.K. Nehru, has described agreed to make the pound conver
makers had ordered a recount. The only change after
dom did not automatically result tial was defi ned by the war re the protracted settlement in his tible under the terms of a loan The Cripps mission
the recount is that the AlFatah bloc, which had come in India’s monetary independence quirements until 1946, when civi memoirs. from the U.S. But Britain soon re At the talks, the British side gave
second with 47 seats, now has 48, gaining one from the in 1947. The rupee’s association lian requirements were included. Winston Churchill had been pudiated the convertibility clause, credible warnings of an imminent
Baghdad Coalition. The Sairoon Alliance led by fi re with Britain was prolonged by fac The restrictions on capital goods threatening to write off the sterling in turn altering the character of sterling devaluation. India failed to
brand Shia cleric Muqtada alSadr remains the largest tors beyond India’s control. imports continued because the balances. In the fi rst round of ne the agreement entered into with capitalise on them. The telegram,
bloc with 54 seats, while incumbent Prime Minister On a sterling standard 1931 on BoE had blocked what were called gotiations, in 1946, by which time India. Pound convertibility was ‘For ( Jawaharlal) Nehru from At
Haider alAbadi’s Victory Alliance has 42. Now that the wards, the rupee, linked to a de India’s sterling balances. By the Churchill was out of power, the ruled out by the sorry state of Brit tlee’, received on September 21,
preciating currency, depreciated end of World War II, India had ac British delegation sought a consid ish production after the war years. 1949, announcing a devaluation
results are offi cial, lawmakers have about 90 days to
along with the sterling. cumulated a sizeable sterling ba erable scalingdown of the sterling Pentup demand for consumer from $4.03 to the pound to $2.8 to
elect a Prime Minister. The MPs must elect the Speaker lance of £1,300 million — India’s balances. India sought word that goods could only be met with im the pound, took India completely
in the fi rst session of Parliament. Within 30 days they War distortions earnings in foreign currency on its the sterling — that had become ports from the U.S. Pound conver by surprise. It eff ectively wrote off
are to elect, with a twothirds majority, the next Presi Britain (and France) declared war exports for the war, deposited in much overvalued — would not be tibility would have exhausted Brit a third of the sterling balances.
dent. The President will then, within 15 days, ask the on Germany in 1939. In prepara the BoE in the form of sterling to devalued. The visitors refused. ish forex reserves. B.K. Nehru noted that Churchill’s
largest coalition’s representative to form the govern tion, India’s economy was geared the credit of the Reserve Bank of The sterling to them was still the A delegation was sent back to threat was partially achieved by
ment. The Prime Ministerdesignate will have 30 days up by the colonial government to India (RBI) account. The balance premium currency against which London to renegotiate the conver Staff ord Cripps, then Chancellor
to come back to Parliament to approve a Cabinet, with wards the war eff ort through im had grown with import controls other currencies were valued. tible portion of the sterling balanc of the Exchequer. India devalued
position of controls. The fi rst was limiting forex outfl ows. The cor The next sterling balances nego es. It returned emptyhanded. The the rupee proportionally: from
each member required to be approved by a majority
the exchange control. Completely responding increase in rupee cir tiations were held in London in Ju negotiations were concluded in ₹ 3.309 to a dollar to ₹ 4.762.
vote. If this process fails, the President has 15 more days convertible into any currency until culation stoked war infl ation in ly 1947 against the backdrop of the the summer of 1949, after the com The sterling was fl oated against
to invite another candidate to be Prime Minister. A wor then, the rupee was made incon India. Government of India having been pletion of the bitter separation of the major international currencies
kable coalition will need the support of 165 MPs in the vertible. Transferring money out After the war ended, the transf thrown into chaos by the advance Indian and Pakistani fi nances. (Till in the early 1970s, the rupee as late
329member House. side the sterling area required per er of the sterling balances was ne ment of the date Independence/ July 1, 1948, the RBI continued as as 19931994. The two currencies
For now, four Shia blocs — Mr. Sadr’s Sairoon that in mission under rules that were laid gotiated between India and Bri Partition to August 15, 1947, from the central banker for the Govern were delinked in 1975.
cludes the Sadrist movement and the Iraqi Communist down in London. The maze of con tain. (After Partition, Pakistan June 30, 1948. ment of Pakistan. India national
trols grew as the war went on. joined the talks.) India’s key nego After August 15, India and Pakis ised the RBI on January 1, 1949.) Puja Mehra is a Delhi-based journalist
Party; Mr. Abadi’s Victory Alliance; Shia cleric Ammar
alHakim’s National Wisdom Movement; and secular
politician Ayad Allawi’s Wataniyah — have formed a LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Letters emailed to letters@thehindu.co.in must carry the full postal address and the full name or the name with initials.
grand alliance. This Shia coalition has the support of
about 140 lawmakers, and has sought support from oth Sidhu’s Pakistan visit mean that an inimical architect of the Kargil according to a written reply strange actions and Christian lyrics set to
er parties. The second largest bloc, Hadi alAmiri’s pro I wonder why Navjot Singh stance needs to be confl ict, for a summit at Agra by Minister of State for utterances of its leaders and Carnatic music. It is always
Iran Fatah Alliance, is yet to join hands with Mr. Sadr. Sidhu, who is a Minister in maintained all the time. as a diplomatic gesture to External Aff airs M.J. Akbar to cadre. the ignorant who create
During the campaign, Mr. Sadr had attacked the grow the Punjab government, is Sports and cultural improve bilateral relations. the Rajya Sabha — why C.M. Umanath, spurious schisms in society
now the target of much programmes are great steps Even though it turned out to question Mr. Sidhu’s gesture? Kozhikode and use them to further their
ing infl uence of the U.S. and Iran in Iraq. Fatah, made
criticism just because he that can help usher in be a fl op, the Opposition . As long as we maintain bigoted agendas. Anyone
up of the Irantrained Popular Mobilisation Forces that hugged Pakistan Army chief peace between any two then did not demand diplomatic ties with A collaboration willing to investigate the
were at the forefront of the battle against the Islamic Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa warring nations. Vajpayee’s resignation. We Pakistan, all such actions are Carnatic music has no matter dispassionately will
State, ran a proIran campaign. In June, Mr. Sadr and during Imran Khan’s T. Anand Raj, need to grow as a nation and to be viewed through the religion, which the writer has invariably come up with a
swearingin as the Prime Chennai not get worked up over such prism of diplomacy. succinctly brought out nuanced narrative. To use as
Mr. Amiri had announced a surprise alliance in Najaf,
but later Fatah backed out. If Mr. Sadr’s grand coalition Minister of Pakistan trivialities. Mudgal Venkatesh, (Editorial page, “A chronicle universal a language as music
(“Wrong of Sidhu to hug ■ The controversy is not only S.K. Choudhury, Kalaburagi, Karnataka of collaboration”, August to drive a wedge between
does not get Fatah on its side, it will have to seek sup Bengaluru
Pak. Army chief, says an overreaction but also 20). It is the mindset and people can only be the work
port from Kurdish or Sunni parties. Mr. Sadr cannot be
Amarinder”, August 20). It uncalled for. Punjab Chief ■ The actions and utterances milieu which have changed of diseased minds. Amidst all
come Prime Minister as he did not contest. But being is silly to question a Minister Amarinder Singh ■ The hue and cry in some of Mr. Sidhu show the recently, which this, the deafening silence of
the leader of the largest bloc, he will play a crucial role person’s patriotism because too is only playing to the quarters over Mr. Sidhu’s Congress party in a bad light. unfortunately have resulted both the purveyors of
in selecting the Prime Minister and setting the agenda of this act. gallery with his public gesture is perhaps Was he trying to emulate his in the present atmosphere of Carnatic music as well as the
for the government. His nationalist, propoor rhetoric When South Korea and disapproval of what unjustifi ed. It has to be party president? The manufactured hate that cognoscenti who fl ock to
during the campaign focussed on policies independent America could hold direct happened. But more construed as a spontaneous Congress president needs to some people are trying to mainstream concerts is
of foreign interference. The next government’s biggest talks with North Korea — ridiculous is the BJP’s gesture. When India has rein in his partymen, which exploit. Please leave Carnatic worrying. Those who know
which made it a point to demand for Mr. Sidhu’s accorded Pakistan the ‘Most is a tall order given that music alone. better should never allow
early task is to improve security and address Sunni re
maintain bitterness all resignation; the party needs Favoured Nation’ (MFN) Rahul Gandhi attacks the S. Viswanathan, lumpen elements to take
sentment in the north against the Shia elite in Baghdad. around — there is nothing to be reminded of former status, and when the Prime Minister almost every Chennai over such discourses.
Mr. Abadi’s government has succeeded in regaining ter wrong in Mr. Sidhu’s Prime Minister Atal Bihari government clarifi ed in day without rhyme or S. Bhashyam,
ritories from the IS, but the task of reaccommodating gesture. It is a fact that Vajpayee inviting then January this year that there reason. The Congress is ■ It is good to see that sanity Bengaluru
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Erasing the past Indo-Pak confederation suggestion untenable
Why rename old roads and stations The Union Defence Minister, Mr. Swaran Singh today [August
when new ones are waiting to be named? 20, New Delhi] turned down as unacceptable and untenable
the suggestions for the confederation of India and Pakistan.
Anuradha Raman Answering a volley of questions arising from a calling atten
tion motion in the Rajya Sabha on Pakistan’s military prepara
To rename the 150yearold Mugh tions, the Defence Minister said: “With the type of tension that
alsarai railway station in Uttar Pra now exists, with their (Pakistan’s) forces in Jammu and Kash
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desh after Rashtriya Swayamsevak mir and with their throwing to the wind their obligations un
Sangh ideologue Deen Dayal Upad der the Tashkent agreement the proposal is untenable.” Mr.
hyaya, who was mysteriously Swaran Singh stated that the two countries were sovereign and
found dead on the railway track any suggestion that would compromise the sovereignty of the
close to the station in 1968, doesn’t country would not be acceptable to India or Pakistan.
make much sense if the objective is
to systematically erase Mughal history. Islamic and Hindu A HUNDRED YEARS AGO AUGUST 21, 1918.
cultures mingled in India for centuries, leaving a plethora of
shared or overlapping nomenclature — too many to wipe Suicide by Revolver Shot.
out. How far do we go back in history and what do we
choose to excise? Yesterday [August 19] forenoon at 1030, a European Lady re
Yet this prominent example is but one in a long list of sta siding at No. 8 Waterloo Street [Calcutta], with her husband,
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being renamed. Are we witnessing a movement that seeks to head and a fi ve chambered revolver lying by her side on the
rewrite or erase parts of history? CONCEPTUAL ABSTRACT fl oor. The deceased who was about 44 years old had been mar
Some seek to justify this process and draw parallels to ried about 19 years and there is a son who is being educated in
movements in other countries, such as the movement Schelling point Dynasties and development England. It is stated that at about 1030 A.M. on Monday when
Mr. Monk was putting on his hat to go to offi ce his wife shouted
against Confederate monuments and memorials in the U.S., Game theory
or the movement to bring down the Cecil Rhodes statue in Comparing dynastic and non-dynastic politicians out something and immediately afterwards he heard the re
Oxford in the U.K. But these are not the same. In the U.S., This refers to the common port of a revolver shot. He ran into the dining room whence he
fi erce debates continue to rage over allowing Confederate solution to a problem that Srinivasan Ramani parliamentary elections tive responses in surveys heard the report and found his wife lying motionless on the
statues — symbols of the country’s dark history of slavery is chosen by individuals in from 2003 onwards. They when people were asked fl oor. Near her side was a fi ve chambered revolver.
and white supremacy — to stand, and parks bearing the a group when there is an Dynastic politics is an oft compiled dynastic con about a legislator’s perfor CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC
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names of Confederate leaders have been renamed Justice absence of coordination repeated term in Indian nections using the nomi mance. They found that
Park and Emancipation Park. The net impact has been to between them. In other political discourse. Most nation papers of the can the performance of dynas DATA POINT
bring a measure of solace or closure to those who suff ered words, it refers to people’s major political parties are didates, and combined tic politicians and legisla
racist attacks. And in the U.K., students have led protests to expectations of what oth helmed by people who are that with the data collect tors was poorer compared
bring down the statute of Cecil Rhodes, the Britishorigin ers expect them to do in the sons, daughters or re ed by Patrick French (who to nondynastic ones in all
Prime Minister of Cape Colony who espoused racist views, the absence of suffi cient latives of prominent lead had also tabulated dynas the three categories. This
yet left behind a generous and lasting corpus of funds in information to coordinate ers. At the parliamentary tic politicians before fi nding is consistent with
higher education. This hints at a broader social realisation of their actions. Two stran constituency level, how 2014). In order to study studies in other democra
the legacy of colonialist racism. gers agreeing to meet in a does a dynastic politician the outcomes of the pre cies.
In India, the last of the Mughals became the symbolic large city, but without any perform, both during sence of dynastic and non The authors concluded
leaders of a revolt against white rulers. Yet, Aurangzeb, not predetermined time or ve elections and as a legisla dynastic candidates, the that dynasts are overre
the most popular of Mughal rulers in public memory, has nue, for instance, might tor, compared to other authors restricted the presented in Indian polit
been so demonised in school textbooks that alternative decide to gather at a pro candidates who do not comparison between ics as they have electoral
readings of him have become impossible. As historian Na minent locality of the city come from dynasties? This them to closely contested advantages, but “dynastic
rayani Gupta once remarked to this newspaper, “Ultimately, at a signifi cant moment. It is the question that re races, as in such races descendants underper
it comes down to the appalling way we teach history in is named after American searchers Siddharth Ea there are no particular form in offi ce”. This is be
terms of good and bad kings. It shows a lack of imagination, economist Thomas Schell pen George and Dominic reasons for a candidate’s cause while dynasts inhe
a lack of a sense of history, a smallness of mind.” ing who proposed it in his Ponattu sought to answer close victory over his/ her rit voters easily from their
The clamour for renaming roads is also unlike the move 1960 book, The Strategy of in their working paper, immediate competitor. predecessors, the very
ment to erase the names of British rulers from the roads of Confl ict. “How do political dynas The authors measured fact of a loyal vote base
Delhi. Colonialism diff ered from Mughal rule in that the Brit ties aff ect economic deve the following variables to could “mute performance
ish government’s motives were resource extraction and stra CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC
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tegic control. Thus, an argument could be made for relabell dence from India”. It was winning candidate: night wering their performance
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ing roads named Chelmsford, Curzon, and Connaught after
Indian leaders. However, isn’t India’s Mughal legacy an in
dispensable part of its history, culture and cuisine? There
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are always new roads and railway stations waiting to be Kerala fl oods: In
conversation with the mies hosted by the World fi cacy of public schemes cians who have sons per
named after Indian leaders. So, why attempt to wish away Ernakulam District Bank. eff ected by the legislator, form better in offi ce,
history? Collector The researchers looked such as availability of which suggests that this is
at 1,05,000 Indian politi schools, healthcare servic an incentive to establish a
The writer is an Associate Editor with The Hindu in New Delhi http://bit.ly/keralainterview cians across Assembly and es, and so on); and subjec dynasty (“bequesting”).
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The State government has tribution of LPG cylinders. Major political parties and Shah Geelani and Yasin Ma speaking of talks. The Supreme Court on
convened an allparty meet The Chief Minister said the Hurriyat in Jammu and lik, hinted at holding a meet “We hope the new govern Monday gave the Rajiv
ing on Tuesday to discuss volunteers had been enlist Kashmir on Monday ex ing of various leaders over ment in Pakistan walks the Gandhi assassination con
the fl ood havoc. ed to clean up damaged pressed support for a Kash the latest engagement bet talk and gets adequate res vict A.G. Perarivalan a fort
Chief Minister Pinarayi houses. Electrical and mircentric dialogue bet ween India and Pakistan. ponse from this side too. night’s time to place on re
Vijayan said the rescue op plumbing jobs would be ween India and Pakistan, Kashmir, he said, was a Jammu and Kashmir is di cord a copy of his
erations would continue till done free of cost and hospi welcoming the intent for complex issue, and Pakistan rectly hit by the hostility bet application made to the Ta
the last of the marooned vic tals supplied with antive “constructive engagement” had rightly suggested an un ween the two countries and mil Nadu Governor two
tims were brought to safety. nom to deal with snake expressed by the former and interrupted dialogue. the progress in the region is years ago seeking grant of
Responding to a public bites. “uninterrupted dialogue” by “The dialogue is the need held hostage to security con pardon.
interest petition in the High Mr. Vijayan said the State the latter. of the hour. We always sup cerns. We expect a serious A threejudge Bench of
Court, Assistant Solicitor would require almost as Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, port any such initiatives,” he dialogue to follow up the Justices Ranjan Gogoi, Na
General N. Nagaresh said much as the annual Plan chairman of the All Parties said. The Mirwaiz, however, statements,” Mr. Akhtar said. vin Sinha and K.M. Joseph
there was no provision in outlay of ₹ 37,248 crore for Hurriyat Conference, de was quick to add that India The National Conference listed the case for Septem
the statute or manuals to de reconstruction of infrastruc scribed Prime Minister Na needed to show reciprocity termed the statements of In ber 6.
clare a disaster as ‘National ture. rendra Modi’s letter to Pakis and “change its current mili dia and Pakistan “a crucial In a court hearing that
Calamity.’ He, however, said He said the Central go tan Prime Minister Imran lopment”. “It refl ects new terest of the entire region if tary approach in Kashmir to development”. coincided with the 74th
the Centre considered the vernment was expected to Khan and the Pakistan Fo positivity. We hope that the the two countries come clos a political one”. “Dialogue needs to be ta birth anniversary of the
fl ood situation in Kerala as a provide assistance to help reign Minister Shah Mah channels of communication er and resolve the longpend ken forward. All groups will late leader, Perarivalan, re
disaster of serious nature. the State tide over the crisis. mood Qureshi’s remarks of will remain open to build ing Kashmir dispute,” he told Good beginning: PDP appreciate it,” party general presented by advocate Go
The Union Ministry of Revenue Minister E. “uninterrupted dialogue on trust. It is in the interest of The Hindu. Peoples Democratic Party secretary Ali Muhammad Sa pal Sankaranarayanan,
Health airlifted 52 tonnes of Chandrasekharan said all Kashmir” as “a positive deve Kashmir and also in the in The Mirwaiz, who is a part leader Naeem Akhtar said gar said. submitted that his mercy
emergency medicines to fl ood victims would be com petition was pending since
Kerala. pensated for losses based on December 30, 2015.
Dawood aide to appear Congress misinformed
Another 20 tonnes was reports and verifi cation by In his letter to the Gover
on the way, the National Cri revenue authorities. nor, he had written how he
sis Management Committee The State Level Bankers had already undergone 24
which met in New Delhi was Committee which met here
in London court today years of solitary confi ne
on Rafale: Anil Ambani
informed. on Monday announced a ment, while life imprison
A consignment of bleach moratorium on repayment ment is for a maximum of
ing powder and chlorine ta of interest on crop loans for He was arrested at a hotel on Friday 20 years after which the
blets would be despatched a period of one year. convict could be consi
on Tuesday and 12 medical Based on a request from Vidya Ram A warrant had been is dered for release.
teams were put on standby. Agriculture Minister V.S. Su LONDON sued by the Westminster Says it’s the handiwork of vested interests, corporate rivals “The main culprits who
The Ministry of Petro nil Kumar, the committee al An aide of Dawood Ibrahim Magistrate’s Court, where designed the bomb made
leum and Natural Gas said it so resolved to restructure is set to appear in a London he appeared later on Friday, Special Correspondent tions. More than 100 medi of RDX were not nabbed till
had sanctioned 12,000 KL of the repayment of the loan court on Tuesday morning, and is due to appear again Mumbai um, small and micro enter date. They are scotfree
kerosene for Kerala and amount over a period of fi ve following his arrest by the on Tuesday, the police said. Reliance Group chairman prises will participate in this, and investigation is still
made arrangements for dis years. Metropolitan Police’s extra Earlier this year, Yasin Anil Ambani has said that along with public sector un pending into the vital as
dition unit at a hotel here on Mansoor Mohammed Fa the Congress has been “mis dertakings like BEL and De pects of the crime itself,”
Friday. rooq, aka Farooq Takla, 58, informed, misdirected and fence Research and Develop the letter said. Perarivalan
Vajpayee put country, democracy fi rst: Modi
said. Message for Kabul
Responding to External On Afghanistan, Mr. Qureshi
Aff airs Minister Sushma said he will make a phone
Swaraj’s letter, he said, “I call to the foreign minister
want to say to Indian Fo of Afghanistan and also visit
reign Minister that we are Kabul with a “solid mes Political leaders across party lines and representatives of various faith groups pay homage to former PM in New Delhi
not only neighbours but al sage” that both countries
so nuclear powers. We have have the same destiny. Special Correspondent the way when it came to coa compatriot of over sixanda es came from the three form
old issues and we both “There will be no peace in NEW DELHI lition politics,” he said. half decades, stating that he er Chief Ministers of Jammu
know what these issues are. Pakistan without peace in Political parties and senior He mentioned the Pok “never imagined that he and Kashmir — Mr. Azad, Fa
We need to address these is Afghanistan,” he said. Ministers led by Prime Minis hran tests of 1998, which would be addressing a public rooq Abdullah and Ms. Mufti.
sues,” Mr. Qureshi said. “I want to tell people of ter Narendra Modi paid strengthened India’s defenc meet without him Mr. Azad recalled his deal
The Foreign Minister said Afghanistan to understand homage to former Prime Mi es, and credited him with [Vajpayee].” ings with Vajpayee when he
the two countries could not each other’s problems and nister Atal Bihari Vajpayee at changing the narrative on “We read books together, was Parliamentary Aff airs Mi
aff ord any adventurism due bilaterally try to resolve all a prayer meet in New Delhi Kashmir, to shifting focus on watched fi lms, he even nister in the minority Nara
to close proximity. “We can issues,” he said. on Monday, each remarking the terror being sponsored cooked for me. We were simha Rao government, stat
not aff ord any adventurism Talking about relations specifi c facets of his public from across the border. compatriots and I learnt a lot ing that Vajpayee was the kind
as response time is so short. with the U.S., the foreign mi life. In a remark aimed at the from him,” said Mr. Advani. of man who even when he
The only option is to engage nister said there is a trust While Mr. Modi spoke of erstwhile ally Telugu Desam He said it would be a satisfac criticised you, did it with a
with each other. We cannot defi cit between the two his holding strong on ideolo Party, the Prime Minister tion that they lived their lives sweetness and light touch.
live in enmity and we have countries but Pakistan gy and nationalistic priori Shared grief: Former Deputy PM L.K. Advani comforting the made a special mention of by the values taught by the Dr. Abdullah spoke of his
to accept that there are out wants to have good ties ties, former Jammu and kin of A.B. Vajpayee in New Delhi on Monday. R.V. MOORTHY *
the creation of three new RSS. patriotism and toughness in
standing issues,” he said. based on its interests. Kashmir Chief Minister Meh States — Chhattisgarh, Jhark RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat the face of the sanctions after
He said Kashmir is an is booba Mufti termed him a the Indira Gandhi Indoor democracy fi rst. hand and Uttarakhand — termed Vajpayee a model the Pokhran test and during
sue and both countries Economic diplomacy messiah for the State. Stadium, said Vajpayee had “When Atalji formed the without any “acrimony and swayamsevak. the Kargil war, ending his
know about it. “Whether we Mr. Qureshi said the foreign Leader of the Opposition braved political untouchabil government for 13 days, no bitterness.” The meet was also ad speech with a rousing cry of
wish or not, Kashmir is an policy of the new govern in the Rajya Sabha Ghulam ity accorded to his party’s party was willing to support dressed by Yoga guru Baba ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’.
issue and both countries ment will be based on the Nabi Azad recalled his go ideology and had a very long him. His government fell. He Advani’s tribute Ramdev and chief of the Ja “He was the fi rst national
have recognised it. In my interests of Pakistan and it vernment’s collegial ways, stint in the Opposition to did not lose hope and re Former Deputy Prime Minis mateUlemaeHind, Maula politician who trusted Kash
opinion there is no option can be fi netuned according now “absent”. emerge as a statesmanlead mained committed to serv ter L.K. Advani made an na Madani. miris and who won their
other than talks to resolve to the needs of the nation. Mr. Modi, in his address at er, who put the country and ing the people. Atalji showed emotional speech about his The most rousing speech trust,” Ms. Mufti said.
it,” he said. He said former He said the foreign policy
prime minsiter Atal Bihari priority will be to change
Curb intolerance: Manmohan Nation remembers
Vajpayee visited Lahore and the lives of common people
Islamabad and recognised through economic diploma
the reality of Pakistan and cy. “We will try to change
the issue of Kashmir. lives of people through so
cioeconomic develop Rajiv, PM pays tribute
Growing divide ment,” he said. Former PM says such ‘unsavoury trends’ are anathema to the promotion of peace
Mr. Qureshi has had an ear He said, “There are enor Rahul shares his memories on Twitter
lier stint as foreign minister mous local and regional Special Correspondent hi as a leader who put India
from 2008 to 2011 under the challenges but we want to New Delhi onto the 21st century with SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT was a kind, gentle and aff ec
Pakistan Peoples Party make progress on these is Former Prime Minister Man the IT and telecom revolu NEW DELHI tionate man whose untime
(PPP) government during sues. Some forces have been mohan Singh on Monday tion, brought about path The nation remembered ly death left a deep void in
the Mumbai terror attacks. trying to isolate the country said every citizen needed to breaking changes like wo former Prime Minister Rajiv my life. I remember the
He was in New Delhi when but it will not happen now,” refl ect on how to work to men’s reservation in Pan Gandhi on his 74th birth an times we had together and
10 Pakistanbased LeT terro he said. gether and arrest “disturbing chayati Raj institutions and niversary on Monday, with a the many birthdays we were
trends” of intolerance, com allowed 18yearold youth to host of leaders led by Prime lucky to celebrate with him
Temple can be built munal polarisation and inci
dents of violent crimes pro
pelled by hate groups and
vote, Mr. Gandhi took a
swipe at the present regime.
“We have seen that the open
Minister Narendra Modi
paying homage to him. “Tri
butes to our former Prime
when he was alive. He is
greatly missed, but his me
mory lives on,” he tweeted.
by law: Maurya mobs.
Speaking at an event to Former PM Manmohan Singh felicitating former diplomat
Gopalkrishna Gandhi in New Delhi. SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR
ing of the economy and the
closing of the mind is a
Minister Shri Rajiv Gandhi Ji
on his birth anniversary. We
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dangerous and destructive remember his eff orts to dra, her husband Robert Va
Special Correspondent could introduce a law if oth Sadbhavana Award (201617) mix,” he said. wards the nation,” tweeted dra and former Union
LUCKNOW er options failed. on the former West Bengal the centralisation of power, fi ght the forces of divisive Mr. Gandhi said, “The Mr. Modi. Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar
Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief “There is no need for a Governor and diplomat Go to the nexus of big power and ness, hate and bigotry”. larger entity, the bigger lead Former President Pranab were among those who paid
Minister Keshav Prasad law today as the fi rst two op palkrishna Gandhi, the form big money need to work to Karan Singh, who is the er, the bigger party or the Mukherjee, former Prime homage.
Maurya said on Monday that tions are open. Also, we er Prime Minister said such gether. And that means shed chairman of the advisory larger community is expect Minister Manmohan Singh, In Parliament’s Central
Parliament could enact a don’t have the numbers [in “unsavoury trends” were ding personal and institu board of the Rajiv Gandhi ed to make the larger gesture UPA chairperson Sonia Hall, Lok Sabha Speaker Su
law to build a Ram temple in Rajya Sabha] as of today,” he anathema to the promotion tional egos.” Sadbhavana Award Trust … I envision the democratic Gandhi and Congress chief mitra Mahajan and veteran
Ayodhya, but the govern said. of peace, national integra UPA chairperson Sonia said the homage to Rajiv parties and movements of In Rahul Gandhi off ered fl oral BJP leader L.K. Advani,
ment would do so only after AIMIM president Asadud tion and communal Gandhi said conferring the Gandhi should be marked by dia through the wisdom of tributes to him at Veer Bhu among others, garlanded
exhausting two other op din Owaisi hit out at Mr. harmony. award on Mr. Gopalkrishna a reaffi rmation of one’s com their dynamism, harmonis mi, dedicated to the late the portrait of Rajiv Gandhi.
tions. The fi rst was a Su Maurya for his ‘atrocious’ Mr. Gandhi said, “All those Gandhi signifi ed a “resolve to mitment to the core values ing their strengths to meet leader. The Lok Sabha Secreta
preme Court decision and comments and said it was a who are opposed to zabar- oppose the ideologies that that the late Prime Minister the challenge of harmony’s Mr. Gandhi took to Twit riat brought out a booklet
the second mediation. Mr. ploy by the BJP to divert at dasti [coercion], to bigotry, reject the composite essence stood for. opposite: suspicion, bigotry ter to share his memory of on the life of the former
Maurya said the Centre tention of the people. to the cult of fear and hate, to of our nationhood and to Remembering Rajiv Gand and violence.” his father. “Rajiv Gandhi Prime Minister.
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IN BRIEF
Clarify action taken on lynching: SC ‘Targeting judges
Order on contempt plea against Rajasthan government; Additional AG says appropriate action taken
has become a trend’
Legal Correspondent pak Misra recorded the sub Supreme Court contemplates fi ne
NEW DELHI missions made by senior ad
The Supreme Court on Mon vocate Indira Jaising for Mr. Legal Correspondent
PNB case: CBI court day ordered the Principal Se Poonawala that “a terrible NEW DELHI
grants bail to Usha
cretary (Home) of Rajasthan lynching has taken place on It has become a trend to tar
MUMBAI
to clarify the Vasundhara July 24, 2018 at Village Lal get judges, Supreme Court
A CBI court on Monday
granted bail to Usha
Raje government’s position wandi, District Ramgarh, Justice D.Y. Chandrachud
Ananthasubramanian, former and “every aspect” of the ac Rajasthan”. said on Monday.
managing director and chief tion taken against offi cials in Additional AdvocateGen The judge, who is part of
executive officer of the aftermath of the lynching eral for Rajasthan Shiv Man a threejudge Bench led by
Allahabad Bank, who was in of Rakbar Khan by cow vigi gal Sharma submitted that Chief Justice Dipak Misra,
the same position at the lantes and his subsequent appropriate action has been passed the remark while
Punjab National Bank (PNB) death at Alwar district in taken against the erring offi contemplating a fi ne of ₹ 25
at the time of the multicrore July. cials. Mr. Sharma undertook lakh on the Bharatiya Mat
fraud, and two others. The incident took place a to fi le an affi davit of from the data Sanghatan, which
Sanjeev Sharan and Nehal couple of days after the Su Principal Secretary (Home) linked Chief Justice Dipak
Ahad were also granted bail. preme Court’s July 17 verdict within a week. “Needless to Misra with his “cousin” Pi Justice D.Y. Chandrachud
condemned lynchings and say, the affi davit shall deal naki Misra, a Lok Sabha
Tejashwi Yadav worried mob violence as “horren with every aspect and clarify member and lawyer, citing The offi cebearer issued
about Lalu’s health dous acts of mobocracy” and the position, keeping in view “confl ict of interest”. his unconditional apology
MUMBAI urged Parliament to enact a Sulaiman Khan, father of Rakbar Khan who was lynched, at a recent protest. the assertions made and also
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FILE PHOTO The allegation was made in writing. Senior lawyers
Tejashwi Yadav, former new antilynching law. regard being had to the di by the organisation in its like Shekhar Naphade sug
Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar The court had also direct gilantism. Khan, 28, was at Ladpura village to his home activist Tehseen Poonawala rections issued in the judg written submissions in a gested that the court impose
and son of Rashtriya Janata
ed offi cials from the States tacked by cow vigilantes in to Haryana. seeking action against the ment ( July 17),” the Supreme case seeking a ban on sitting ₹ 50,000, but AttorneyGen
Dal chief Lalu Prasad, said on
such as Rajasthan, Haryana the Ramgarh area of Alwar The orders came during a Rajasthan government. Court ordered. parliamentarians and legis eral K.K. Venugopal raised it
social media on Monday that
and Gujarat to take imme district on July 20 when he hearing on a contempt plea In its order, the Bench led The court listed the case lators from practising as to ₹ 5 lakh.
he was worried about his
father’s poor health. Mr.
diate steps to prevent cow vi was leading two cows from fi led by Tushar Gandhi and by Chief Justice of India Di for hearing on August 30. lawyers. The Sangathan’s general
Prasad has been under “These written submis secretary, repeating his
treatment at the Asian Heart sions were made after we re apologies, said ₹ 5 lakh was
NDRF aid only for severe calamities
There are no legal provisions to designate a disaster a ‘national calamity’
TCA Sharad Raghavan once the cess was disconti crore in 201617 and
nued or subsumed within ₹ 7,281.76 crore in 201718.
The Union government has the Goods and Services Tax.
declared the Kerala fl oods a However, the government, How have NDRF funds been
“calamity of severe nature”. instead, decided to continue allocated to States in the
Here is a look at what this with the National Calamity recent past?
means, whether the State Contingent Duty even in the ■ In 201718, up to December
can expect additional help GST regime. The SDRF cor 27, 2017, the Union govern
from the Centre and how the pus is contributed by the Un ment released NDRF funds
various disaster relief funds ion government and the res to nine States — Arunachal
in the country are funded pective State governments in Pradesh, Bihar, Himachal
and deployed. a 75:25 ratio for general cate Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala,
gory States and 90:10 for Nagaland, Rajasthan, Tamil
What are the classifi cations Special Category States. Nadu, and Telangana — over
of disasters, and how does BACKGROUNDER The allocation of the and above its contributions
this aff ect funding? SDRF for each State is done to their respective SDRFs.
■ According to the National declaring a disaster a nation by the Finance Commission, The recipient of the highest
Disaster Management Policy, al calamity. and the Centre contributes amount was Karnataka,
the State governments have its specifi ed share each fi which got ₹ 913 crore that
to provide disaster relief How are the NDRF and the nancial year. The Central year.
from their respective State SDRFs funded? share of SDRF is released in Over the four years till De
Disaster Response Funds ■ The NDRF is funded two equal instalments, in cember 27, 2017, the Centre
(SDRFs), and only for a “ca through a National Calamity June and then in December. has released the most cumu
lamity of severe nature”, will Contingent Duty levied on lative funds to Maharashtra
additional assistance be pro pan masala, chewing tobac What has been the trend in (₹ 5,244.69 crore), Karnataka
vided from the National Dis co and cigarettes, and with budgetary allocations to the (₹ 5,122.45 crore), Uttar Pra
aster Response Fund budgetary provisions as and NDRF and SDRFs? desh (₹ 4,949.04 crore), Ta
(NDRF). when needed. A provision ■ The Union government mil Nadu (₹ 3,115.31 crore),
There is, however, no pro exists to encourage any per has maintained a steady fl ow and Madhya Pradesh
vision in the law or rules for son or institution to make a of funds to the NDRF each (₹ 1,958.93 crore). For specif
the government to designate contribution to the NDRF. year, ranging from ₹ 5,690 ic calamities, the Centre re
a disaster as a “national ca However, this source of crore in 201516 to a budget leased ₹ 1,365.67 crore for the
lamity”. funding has not been tapped ed amount of ₹ 2,500 crore Chennai fl oods of 2015 and
Minister of State for Home so far, according to the for the current fi nancial ₹ 218.76 crore after Cyclone
Kiren Rijiju informed Parlia government. year. In addition, the Centre Vardah in 2016. Andhra Pra
ment recently that the guide The 14th Finance Com has also been contributing to desh received ₹ 400 crore
lines of the NDRF and the mission recommended the SDRFs every year, and ₹ 230 crore after Hudud
SDRFs did not contemplate changes to this structure amounting to ₹ 8,374.95 ravaged Visakhapatnam.
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In 1982, he became the fi rst prominent Israeli to meet PLO leader Yasser Arafat for Mahatma?
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ExTrump lawyer could be Separated Korean families
charged with bank fraud
Agence France-Presse
hold brief, tearful reunions
Washington Reuters wheelchairs, embraced 185
Federal investigators are in Seoul separated relatives from the
quiring into whether U.S. About 90 families from North with tears, joy and dis
President Donald Trump’s North and South Korea wept belief. Some struggled to re
former personal lawyer Mi and embraced on Monday as cognise family not glimpsed
chael Cohen committed the neighbours held their in more than 60 years.
bank and tax fraud exceed fi rst reunion events in three
ing $20 million via loans ob years for relatives wrenched ‘How are you so old?’
tained by the taxi medallion apart by the Korean War for “How are you so old?” Kim
business he owns with his more than six decades. Dalin, 92, asked his sister,
family, The New York Times Michael Cohen. *
AFP The brief reunions are set Yudok, after gazing at her
has reported. to total just 11 hours over the briefl y in silence. “I’ve lived
The Times, in its report charges by the end of the next three days in the this long to meet you,” re
fi rst published on Sunday, month, the newspaper said, North’s tourist resort of plied the 85yearold, wiping
said investigators were also citing two people familiar Mount Kumgang after the away tears as she clasped a
trying to determine whether with the matter. neighbours renewed ex A South Korean, right, photograph of her brother
Mr. Cohen violated cam Convictions for tax and changes this year following a hugging his North Korean in his youth.
paign fi nance or other laws bank fraud carry potentially standoff over Pyongyang’s brother on Monday. AFP * From Thursday, 88 more
when he made deals using hefty prison terms, which nuclear and missile groups of relatives will meet,
hush money to silence wo could put additional pres programmes. agreed to the reunion events comprised of 469 indivi
men who claimed they had sure on Mr. Cohen to coop North Korean leader Kim at a summit in April. duals from the South and 128
aff airs with Mr. Trump. erate with prosecutors in Jongun and South Korean About 330 South Koreans from the North, Seoul’s Un
Prosecutors could fi le the event that he is charged. President Moon Jaein from 89 families, many in ifi cation Ministry says.
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market watch
20-08-2018
Sensex dddddddddddddddd38,278.75 dddddddddddddd 0.87
US Dollar dddddddddddddddddddd 69.82 dddddddddddddd 0.47
% CHANGE Credit registry: RBI Act may need tweak
Gold ddddddddddddddddddddddddddd 30,420 dddddddddddddd 0.56
Brent oil ddddddddddddddddddddd 72.53 dddddddddddddd 1.15 Setting up the crucial database of public credit information may pose legal issues, says RBI’s Acharya
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT ty is contemplated for the Bank of India Act, 1934, can
Mumbai proposed PCR, it might be be suitably amended confer
NIFTY 50
The Reserve Bank of India diffi cult to label PCR as a ‘fi ring the Reserve Bank pow
PRICE CHANGE
Adani Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378.25. . . . . . . . . 4.15 Act, 1934, may need to be nancial institution’. This ers to conduct the business
Asian Paints. . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 1409.10. . . . . . . . . 8.45 amended to facilitate the set takes it out of the purview of of PCR, he said.
Axis Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 624.40. . . . . . . . -2.90 ting of a public credit regis a promotion under the Re In October 2017, RBI had
Bajaj Auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2735.35. . . . . . . 74.00
Bajaj Finserv. . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 7063.60. . . . . . -33.75 try (PCR), RBI Deputy Gover serve Bank of India Act, set up a highlevel task force
Bajaj Finance . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 2839.75. . . . . . -11.45 nor Viral Acharya said on 1934,” he said. (HTF) chaired by Y.M. Deos
Bharti Airtel . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 370.55. . . . . . . . -0.85 Monday. thalee to review the availabil Tough times: There have been several cases where there has
BPCL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375.95. . . . . . . . -1.65 been clear breach of trust, says Rajnish Kumar. REUTERS
Cipla . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643.85. . . . . . . . -3.05 Underscoring the vital Other options ity of information on credit *
Coal India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284.05. . . . . . . . . 2.65 need for the registry — the Another option, would be to and assess the gaps.
‘Govt., judiciary too
Dr Reddys Lab . . . . . . . .. . . . 2380.75. . . . . . . 16.60 PCR is planned as an exten promote an organisation for “The HTF submitted its re
Eicher Motors. . . . . . . . .. 28382.80. . . . . . -93.35
GAIL (India). . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 379.05. . . . . . . . -8.65 sive database of credit infor a matter incidental to the port on April 4, 2018, recom
Grasim Ind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1039.85. . . . . . . . -6.00 mation for all credit pro Bird’s-eye view: The PCR would provide lenders with a 360 functions of RBI — as part of mending that a PCR should
responsible for NPAs’
HCL Tech. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 988.25. . . . . . -14.80 degree view of borrower’s outstanding credits. PAUL NORONHA
HDFC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1920.05. . . . . . . 34.40
ducts in the country from *
the RBI Act or Banking Regu be set up by the RBI in a
HDFC Bank. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2096.20. . . . . . . 18.85 point of origination of credit lation Act, 1949. phased and modular man
Hero MotoCorp . . . . . .. . . . 3304.00. . . . . . . 61.70 to its termination — Dr. the borrowing. by the RBI Act, or other rele He said collection of infor ner,” Dr. Acharya said.
Hindalco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226.65. . . . . . . . . 6.95
HPCL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270.00. . . . . . . . . 2.45
Acharya said its main benefi t Highlighting some legal is vant legislation, creates com mation, including credit in Highlighting the impor
Hind Unilever . . . . . . . . .. . . . 1777.00. . . . . . . . -7.75 would be to provide lenders sues around setting up the plications. formation, from regulated tance of the interplay of the Loan proposals to be verifi ed: SBI chief
Indiabulls HFL . . . . . . . .. . . . 1296.20. . . . . . . 29.30 with a 360 degree view of the PCR, Dr. Acharya said while He said in addition to its entities is an important as GST Network and PCR, he
ICICI Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338.45. . . . . . . . -1.55 SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
IndusInd Bank . . . . . . . .. . . . 1990.95. . . . . . . . . 0.55
borrower’s outstanding cre the PCR is initially being set core central banking func pect of the RBI’s regulatory said with such an infrastruc of advances, in the yearear
Mumbai
Bharti Infratel . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 284.80. . . . . . . . . 2.25 dits and past performance. up within the existing RBI in tions, RBI also performs cer and supervisory functions ture in place “we expect the lier period.
Infosys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1384.25. . . . . . -46.10 This would allow better frastructure, the fact that the tain promotional functions and hence such an activity costs for onboarding those State Bank of India Chair A major factor for the
Indian OilCorp . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 158.65. . . . . . . . -0.90
ITC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313.30. . . . . . . . -0.45
screening at the time of pro RBI as a statutory corpora which is only limited to ‘fi could be done by setting up a users who are currently ex man Rajnish Kumar has surge in NPAs, according to
Kotak Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1274.75. . . . . . . 11.50 viding credit and superior tion can only engage in those nancial institutions’. subsidiary or a department. cluded by formal credit to held everyone including the Mr. Kumar, had been con
L&T . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1323.70. . . . . . . 83.55 monitoring during the life of activities that are permitted “Since no fi nancing activi “Otherwise, the Reserve nosedive.” government and the judici sortium lending, which of
Lupin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 869.25. . . . . . -12.00
M&M . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 969.55. . . . . . . . . 8.05
ary responsible in their own ten led to inordinate delays
Maurti Suzuki . . . . . . . . .. . . . 9074.35. . . . . . -77.75 way for the sharp rise in in loan appraisal.
‘China tariff s to raise costs Coal use
to rise on
from cradle to grave in U.S.’ power
American fi rms warn administration against new duties uptick: Crisil
Reuters
Special Correspondent
WASHINGTON
KOLKATA
A broad crosssection of U.S. Consumption of noncok
businesses has a message for ing coal is forecast to climb
the Trump administration: to 1,076 million tonnes in
new tariff s on $200 billion of fi scal 2023, from 826 mil
Chinese imports will force lion tonnes in fi scal 2018,
Americans to pay more for Crisil Research said in a re
items they use throughout port.
their daily lives, from cra In a sectoral study, Crisil
dles to coffi ns. Research also said that
Six days of public hear noncoking coal imports
ings on the proposed duties would decline to 145 mil
of up to 25% will start on lion tonnes in fi scal 2023
Monday in Washington as Grief compounded: Centennial Casket says it relies on caskets from 162 million tonnes in
part of President Donald from China and duties would hurt grieving families. REUTERS*
fi scal 2018. However, this
Trump’s and the U.S. Trade would be due to lower im
Representative’s eff orts to tariff s and retaliation by At the other end of the life ports by nonpower sector
pressure Beijing for sweep China. cycle, Centennial Casket which has seen improved
ing changes to its trade and In more than 1,400 writ Corp. domestic supply after lin
economic policies. ten comments submitted to President Douglas Chen kage auctions. Overall, the
Unlike previous rounds of USTR that will be echoed in said his Plano, Texasbased power sector, with im
U.S. tariff s, which sought to the hearings, most business company relies exclusively proved plant load factors,
shield consumers by target es argued that the tariff s will on Chinesemade caskets has driven domestic coal
ing Chinese industrial ma cause harm and higher costs and the tariff s would cause consumption.
chinery, electronic compo for products ranging from “great loss” and raise costs On coking coal, the re
nents and other Halloween costumes and for “grieving families pur port said that imports
intermediate goods, thou Christmas lights to nuclear chasing caskets for their would remain high as dom
sands of consumer products fuel inputs, while a small loved ones at one of the estic supply of metallurgi
could be directly hit with ta number praised them or worst times of their life.” cal coking coal is estimated
riff s by late September. asked that they be extended The Internet Association, at 19 million tonnes against
The $200 billion list tar to other products. representing companies in a demand of 65 million
gets seafood, furniture and cluding Facebook Inc., Ama tonnes in FY23.
lighting products, tires, ‘Safety of children’ zon.com Inc. and Alphabet Global coking coal pric
chemicals, plastics, bicycles Graco Children’s Products Inc., said the tariff s “would es are expected to soften
and car seats for babies. Inc. said tariff s “will have a cause disproportionate eco but still be dear at about $
“USTR’s proposed tariff s direct negative impact on nomic harm to American In 190 to $200 per tonne this
on an additional $200 billion our company, American pa ternet companies. The list year according to the Crisil
of Chinese imports dramati rents and most importantly includes products that im analysis, noting a world
cally expands the harm to the safety of American chil pact how Internet compa wide revival in steel de
American consumers, work dren.” nies function.” mand. Production too is
ers, businesses, and the eco The company said higher expected to improve led by
nomy,” the U.S. Chamber of prices may prompt more pa Cost of nuclear fuel resumption of coal mines
Commerce said in written rents to buy car seats, Westinghouse Electric Co. which were closed earlier
testimony for the hearing. swings and portable play LLC, the leading U.S. nuclear and resolution of transport
The top U.S. business lob yards on the secondhand fuel producer, said it relies bottlenecks in some of the
bying group said the admi market. on China for zirconium and mining countries. Howev
nistration lacks a “coherent “The proposed tariff s may zirconium powders — key in er, these easing of supply
strategy” to address China’s force parents to use unsafe puts for tubes used in nu constraints may lead to
theft of intellectual property sleeping environments or let clear fuel assemblies that it prices dropping to about
and other harmful trade children dangerously co uses at plants in Utah, Penn $175 to $185 per tonne next
practices and called for “se sleep with parents,” Graco sylvania and South Carolina. year, Crisil Research said.
rious discussions”. wrote. There is no U.S. source of It said that Coal India is
Midlevel Trump adminis The tariff “only causes a zirconium so the tariff would expected to increase its
tration offi cials and their children safety issue; it will “raise the cost for Westin output through increased
Chinese counterparts are ex not convince China to ghouse to manufacture nu production from large
pected to meet later this change its policies.” clear fuel for U.S. commer blocks.
week in Washington to dis Evenfl o Feeding said the cial nuclear power plants” Domestic noncoking
cuss their trade dispute. But tariff s will hit manual breast and ultimately “would in coal prices would be go
it is unclear whether the pumps “and would cause crease the cost of electricity verned by linkage prices,
talks will have any eff ect on disproportionate economic to a signifi cant percentage of auction of linkages and
the implementation of U.S. harm to U.S. interests.” U.S. electricity consumers.” spot auctions.
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‘Southern States outshine rest Maruti unveils new Ciaz
of India in mobile banking’ Prices begin at ₹ 8.19 lakh for petrol version of the sedan
Special correspondent
Eastern, southern States lead in Internet banking fi nancial transactions, says BCG NEW DELHI
Tanla Solutions to buy Karix Mobile, unit
level changes. Sundeep
Bajoria, earlier vicepresident
strategy and insights, has
Taiwan’s Maxxis to set Paytm parent
been named VP – South West unveils cloud
Asia (SWA) operations.
Chandrasekar Radhakrishnan
up 5 tyre units in India platform from Blackstone’s GSO in ₹ 340 cr. deal
has been appointed VP
strategy and insights, Coca Firm also eyes 4wheeler tyre market
Cola India and SWA. “These Special Correspondent Karix will help in adding a diverse, highvalue customer base, says Tanla’s Reddy
changes will address the Special Correspondent through the Vietnam facility NEW DELHI
developing business needs,”
Bengaluru since 2016, according to One97 Communications, Special Correspondent customer base and business. terprise reach. Subject to ap
said T. Krishnakumar, Maxxis India, the Indian Maxxis India. that owns the Paytm HYDERABAD On a fully diluted basis, proval from Tanla sharehol
president, CocaCola India subsidiary of Taiwanbased The Sanand facility is cur brand, on Monday intro Cloud communication ser GSO would own about 14.6% ders and regulators, the
and SWA. tyremaker Maxxis, plans to rently manufacturing two duced ‘Paytm AI Cloud for vices provider Tanla Solu in Tanla, promoters 30.6%, acquisition is expected to
set up fi ve additional manu wheeler tyres and tubes. India’ — a cloud computing tions Ltd. is acquiring Karix employees 5.6% and the pu close by October.
Hyundai to partner with facturing plants in the The plant has a capacity to platform aimed at develop Mobile and its wholly owned blic 49.2% on completion of With combined revenues
self-drive start-up Revv country. produce about 20,000 tyres ers, startups and subsidiary Unicel from the acquisition. GSO would of ₹ 1,170 crore in FY18, Tanla
NEW DELHI “The company has plans and 40,000 tubes a day, the enterprises. Blackstone company GSO have an observer seat on would emerge as a leading
South Korean automobile to set up fi ve more plants in company said. The company has part Capital Partners at an enter Tanla’s board and also be en cloud communications fi rm
major Hyundai Motor India which will also cater to nered with Chinese tech prise value of ₹ 340 crore. titled to preemptive rights providing digital transforma
Company on Monday Announcing that the de in future allotment of capital tion strategies to its enter
the fourwheeler tyre mar To supply 1 mn tyres nology giant Alibaba for
announced a partnership fi nitive share purchase to enable it to avoid dilution. prise clients.
ket,” according to a state Production from the fi rst the cloud computing in
with Revv, an Indian self agreement, to acquire 100% Uday Reddy Established in 2000, Ka According to the state
ment from the company. phase of the India facility frastructure.
drive car sharing startup. of Karix and its subsidiary, rix (formerly known as ment the acquisition leverag
The partnership, along with
Maxxis India, on Monday, began in August 2017. The The cloud computing
rolled out its fi rst two company aims to supply platform will off er a suite was signed on Monday, Tan la will take over a debt of mGage India) has 1,500 en es Tanla’s strong telecom
Hyundai Motor’s investment
wheeler tyre consignment one million tyres to its OEM of businesscentric apps la said in a statement that the ₹ 103 crore and would use in terprise clients across indus carrier partnerships and Ka
in Revv, will help the two
from its Sanand facility to partners by the end of this for organisations that need acquisition would be a cash ternal accruals for making tries. In FY18, it had posted a rix’s enterprise selling ex
fi rms build competency and
Honda Motorcycle and year. solutions for cloud com and stock transaction. A the cash payment to GSO. revenue of ₹ 540.2 crore. pertise to build a rational
the technology necessary for
leading the “future mobility Scooter India (HMSCI). Maxxis India is targeting puting, readytouse servic cash payment of ₹ 112 crore Tanla Solutions CMD ised yet comprehensive
market” in India, Hyundai The company had been to capture at least 15% of the es to automate their work apart, GSO will also be is Uday Reddy described Karix ‘Will accelerate growth’ solutions portfolio that can
Motor said in a statement. It, supplying OEM (original country’s twowheeler tyre fl ow, easy to integrate sued ₹ 125 crore worth of as an “ideal strategic fi t” to Tanla’s expects the acquisi quickly generate revenues
however, did not disclose the equipment manufacturer) market by 2023, according payments, messaging and Tanla stock at a price of achieve the objective of ad tion to accelerate growth and reduce gotomarket ti
investment details. tyre fi tments to HMSCI to the statement. customer engagement. ₹ 56.79 per equity share. Tan ding diverse and highvalue strategy and deepen its en melines.
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Vinesh Phogat crowns herself in style
Overpowers Japan’s Yui Irie 62 in the 50kg fi nal after a dominant performance in the initial rounds
WRESTLING
UTHRA GANESAN
JAKARTA
Two years back, when Vi
nesh Phogat was stretchered
out of the arena writhing in Not enough: Saina Nehwal took it to the decider against
pain and crying inconsolably Nozomi Okuhara, but could not get past the fi nish line. *
AFP
at the Rio Olympics, it was
anybody’s guess if she would
ever be able to fi ght again.
Her image of wheeling her
self to receive the Arjuna
Shuttlers bow out
award was one of the most
poignant moments that year.
On Monday, she was again
in team event
lifted off the mat — this time Saina falls to Okuhara; Sindhu loses
in celebration after claiming
out in doubles with Ashwini Ponnappa
“In the third game, the
BADMINTON rallies were getting longer
Stan Rayan and I was trying to get more
JAKARTA easy points. After 16 or 17,
The last time Saina Nehwal somehow I knew that some
played Nozomi Okuhara was one would crack,” said Sai
more than a year ago, at the na. “I made many unneces
Glasgow World Champion sary errors in the last three
ships. And when the Indian or four points, I could have
Breaking through: Vinesh Phogat ended her losing streak against Yuki Irie to bag gold. *
REUTERS met the Japanese in the wo played more rallies well. But
men’s team badminton I did my best.”
avenge her pain and strug tha, meri mehnat thi, sab sath to pin her opponent but quarterfi nal of the 18th Japan had won the Uber
gles in the past two years.
Among the favourites to win
a medal at Rio before her
me aa gaya,” (god was with
me, my hard work was with
me, everything came togeth
could not break her defence.
“Against a strong opponent,
the match can turn even in 10
The pain eases, fi nally Asian Games at the GBK Is
tora Stadium here on Mon
day, Saina felt her opponent
Cup in Thailand in May, and
it had beaten India 50 when
it had met then. Chief coach
India’s and wrestling’s se twisted knee against Sun Ya er),” she admitted after the seconds. If I get a chance to Special Correspondent competition. Yanan, a had changed tremendously. P. Gopi Chand tried to
cond gold medal at the 18th nan abruptly halted her cam win. outplay her with a pin, there Jakarta former World Champion Okuhara had been a great change the doubles combi
Asian Games here, overpo paign, the Chinese was the She was clearly a favourite could not have been anyth Sun Yanan had a shocked and silver medallist at the retriever earlier but now nations, breaking up the
wering Japan’s Yuki Irie 62 in fi rst to be ticked off the list for a medal here but even Vi ing better and I put all my look on her face but every Incheon Asiad four years Saina realised that she had Ashwini PonnappaSikki
the 50kg fi nal to end her los here in the prequarters with nesh did not expect to stamp power into it but she is too pair of eyes was only on ago, was no pushover but become more of an attack Reddy pair and pairing the
ing streak to her opponent — an 82 win. her dominance in this man good and escaped,” Vinesh the slumped fi gure in Vinesh made it look too ing player. two with diff erent partners,
this was the fourth meeting ner. “For me, this is like explained. orange singlet on the mat. easy. It took Saina time to settle in an eff ort to unsettle the
between the two with Irie Diff erent challenge Olympics. We had the Olym She did concede two Vinesh Phogat, only 21 She admitted even she down in the second singles Japanese. Reddy partnered
having the upper hand every The next two rounds did not pic bronze medallist here points towards the end for then but already one of In hadn’t expected it to be so and once she did, she trou Arathi Sara Sunil while Pon
time before this. last the distance and saw her and to beat a Japanese is a big passivity but by then, there dia’s brightest hopes for a easy. bled the World No. 8, mov nappa teamed up with Sind
storm into the fi nal on tech thing. It needed a lot of men was little doubt that the gold medal at the Rio Olympics, “As an opponent, you ing her nicely and picking hu but it did not make much
Sakshi fails nical superiority. Irie was a tal and physical composure was coming India’s way. For had twisted her knee at an respect everyone. I wasn’t up plenty of points with her of a diff erence in the end.
With Rio bronze medallist diff erent challenge, though. and I managed to keep that someone who, having torn awkward angle, could not looking for revenge. But smart net play. But just Later the Indian men
Sakshi Malik going down Japan is a powerhouse in wo today.” all six side ligaments on her move at all and was dis yes, there was pressure on when she appeared ripe for crashed out too, losing to In
tamely in the 62kg bronze men’s wrestling and against She also admitted to pres knee in that freak accident at traught enough to not even me before the bout — pres a win, Saina cracked. donesia 31 in the quarterfi
medal match, and Pooja Irie, Vinesh knew she had to sure before the bout — to Rio, took less than six realise the extent of her sure to prove it to myself. And though World No. 3 nal. The host was backed by
Dhanda in the 57kg, she en take her chances. prove herself. “It was the months to return to action, it pain and injury. “I have met her thrice P.V. Sindhu defeated Akane a loud crowd and the signs
sured the women wrestlers “I knew I had to win gold, I pressure of proving it to my was sweet retribution for all That pain fi nally eased before and lost every time Yamaguchi, who is one rung were not good for India as
would not return empty could not have gone back self. I knew I was stronger the naysayers. “Someone has away on Monday here but I knew I was good above her in the world rank its best bet K. Srikanth
handed from the with a silver yet again. I was and better but the mat is said that injuries make an when Vinesh overcame Ya enough, strong enough. I ings, Saina’s loss virtually (World No. 8) lost to Antho
competition. tired of being the second where it counts,” she said. athlete stronger. It took a lot nan with a dominating 82 had to now prove it on the stopped India’s run in an ny Ginting, ranked four
Irie was not the only one best. I had an opportunity to She proved it in style too. of eff ort to get out of it back win in the prequarterfi mat, that is where it event where it had won a rungs below him, in the
the 23year old Vinesh had day, my body was respond Two minutes into the bout then, but I also have learnt a nals of her Asian Games counts,” she said. bronze at the last Asiad. It opening singles. H.S. Pran
been on the lookout for to ing well. Bhagwan ka sath and 40 up, she had a chance lot from that injury,” she said. did not take the Japanese noy defeated Christie Jona
long to win the series 31 and tan for the lone Indian victo
enter the semifi nal. ry in the fi vematch event.
170 romp for Indian men 26.89.
Advait Page also bettered
venth in 7:37.07. Japan won
the gold in 7:05.17.
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Sanjay and Aparajith light up fi nal day
Hammer unbeaten centuries in drawn encounter; India Red takes three points
in a tame draw, with the had made an elegant 109 on He would surely be regret In the next match, begin
DULEEP TROPHY former taking the fi rstin Sunday. ting his dismissal, as he mis ning on August 23, India Red
P.K. Ajith Kumar nings points. “I was determined to sed out on batting against a will take on India Blue.
DINDIGUL Even this eminently for score a hundred,” Aparajith friendly attack on a friendlier The scores:
For most of Monday, the gettable day will be remem said. “I am happy that Indra track. India Red — 1st innings: 337.
cricket was like what Grou bered with fondness by two jith also got a century. It was Aparajith and Sanjay, ho India Green — 1st innings: 309.
cho Marx famously de players — Sanjay Ramaswa important for him as he is wever, were in no mood to India Red – 2nd innings: Sanjay
scribed during his visit to my and B. Aparajith. coming back from a shoulder let go of the opportunity. Ramaswamy (not out) 123, Ab
Lord’s in 1954 — a wonderful Both scored hundreds and injury. This is the fi rst time They were willing to grind in hinav Mukund c Indrajith b Raj
cure for insomnia. added 210 for the unfi nished we both are scoring hun itially and changed gears, poot 31, B. Aparajith (not out)
Any chance of fi nal day ex third wicket. Sanjay was un dreds in the same First Class clearing the boundary on a 101, Extras (lb1, nb5, w1) 7;
Total (for one wkt. decl. in 79
citement in the opening Du beaten on 123 (245b, 9x4, match, though we have done few occasions.
overs): 262.
leep Trophy fi xture at the 2x6) and Aparajith 101 (205b, it before in other matches.” Sanjay, the Vidarbha
Fall of wicket: 152.
NPR College Ground ended 7x4, 3x6) as India Red was opener who has had a great
India Green bowling: Rajpoot
when unfi t ground condi 262 for one when stumps Abhinav misses out year, was the fi rst to reach
112401, Dinda 70290, Vig
tions — there were problems were drawn for the fi nal Aparajith had come to the the milestone when he nesh 50160, Saxena 172
at the bowling runup area — time. wicket after the fall of his smashed leftarm spinner Vi 470, Mishra 253680, Cho
allowed only sevenanda Aparajith, though, wasn’t captain Abhinav Mukund kash Mishra for a huge six ov pra 120550, Panchal 2160.
half overs of play in the fi rst the fi rst batsman from his fa who was the only one to get er longoff . “After missing out Man-of-the-Match: Rajneesh
session. mily in Chennai to score a out this day. The opener in the fi rst innings, I wanted Gurbani.
The match between India hundred in this match. His edged to Indrajith at second to hit a hundred in the se India Red 3 points, India Green On the double: Sanjay Ramaswamy and B. Aparajith combined to torment the Green bowlers.
Red and India Green ended twin brother, B. Indrajith, slip off Ankit Rajpoot. cond,” he said. 1. *
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Nizam’s Gold Cup
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IN BRIEF Cincinnati
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run: City Of Sails. 11/2, 1 and 6
Novak Djokovic ended a ca winner. 1/4. 1m 28.61s. Rs. 8(w), 5, 6 and
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64, 64 victory over Roger THEGREAT (P. Trevor) 1, Lockhart XISCA PLATE (1,400m), 3yo
Federer in the Cincinnati
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MILAN Ruia, Kersi Homy Vachha & Tla: 66. Favourite: Blue Empress.
ters 1000 events since the Aditya P. Thackersey. Trainer:
Chievo goalkeeper Stefano Owners: Dr. Pratap C. Reddy,
ATP was formed in 1990. Deshmukh. Mrs. Upasana Kamineni & Miss
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Ameeta Mehra. Trainer: Laxman
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Ronaldo a “legend” and
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Singh.
NIZAM’S GOLD CUP (2,000m),
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Federer, a seventime cham
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26 to 46 (Cat. III): 1. LIGHTNING
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out by the Portuguese player
Mer (Akshay Kumar) 4. 11/2, nose (P. Trevor) 3 and Like Wise (Na
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whiplash and a shoulder Sanghani, Narendra Surana & Prabhakar Reddy. Trainer: Ath
ed by Djokovic in the seventh
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game of the fi rst set. Netto.
the fivetime Ballon d’Or
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Ronaldo. Thank you legend!”
shay Kumar) 2, Rahil (Gopal (Md. Ismail) 4. Hd, 1/4 and 21/2.
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McIlroy dies time. World No. 1 26, 76(6), 62 in The results (fi nals): 5(p), SHP: 12, FP: 73, Q: 30, Tla: Mr. Syed Nawaz Hussain. Trainer:
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ever player, has died aged 86,
the club announced on
Monday. An inside forward
who was capped 55 times and
helped the Northern Irish
Santosh fi nishes second Huesca registers historic win
reach the 1958 World Cup Press Trust of India it was time to mark yet ry forward the team’s ‘Road
quarterfinals, McIlroy was an New Delhi another milestone fi nish for to Dakar 2019’ campaign. Gallar powers the side to a 21 victory over Eibar in its maiden La Liga appearance
integral part of the Clarets After an impressive fi rst leg, the factory rally team.
team that won the 1960
league title. AFP
Hero MotoSports Team Rally The closing stage of the ‘Great competition’ EURO LEAGUES
rider C.S. Santosh grabbed rally went rather smooth Santosh said: “I am glad
the second position at the compared to the fastpaced to cross the fi nish line of In Agence France-Presse
India u16 boys India Baja 2018 — the only fi rst day as the competitors dia Baja to be on the podium Eibar
lose to Oman
‘Dakar Challenge’ rally in the had to tackle a hard pack ter after a tough race with great La Liga debutant Huesca an
NEW DELHI
country. rain due to heavy rain the competition and challenging nounced its arrival in the
After finishing second in the
WAFF U16 football
The fi nal leg of the rally previous night. weather conditions. Spanish top fl ight in style.
championship, the Indian resumed action in Jaisalmer A total of about 208km “This is the fi rst race on
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boys lost 21 to Oman in a where Santosh arrived at the were run on Monday, divid home soil where I am walk
sive strikes from midfi elder
friendly in Turkey. After Oman fi nish ramp, maintaining the ed into three special stages ing away healthy in the past
Alex Gallar, the promoted
scored on either side of team’s 100 % fi nish record at in the desert. The team is three years and that is a big
side grabbed a 21 win away
halftime on Monday, Vikram the India Baja. now gearing up for the INCA positive I take forward going
to Eibar on Sunday in its fi rst
scored from the penalty spot After completing the Rally in Peru where Santosh into the fi nal months before
game of the season.
in added time to reduce the 274km run across Jaisalmer, will lead the charge and car Dakar.”
margin. IANS Gallar danced his way
past three defenders before
sticking the ball through the
National Sports should be made a legs of Eibar goalkeeper
Marko Dmitrovic to score
open water Huesca’s fi rst ever goal in La
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Antidepressants may counter Apple drops
illegal lottery
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eff ects of brain ageing: study Reuters
BEIJING
MIT study found that fl uoxetine could restore some of the lost plasticity of the cells Apple Inc said on Monday
Malaysia seizes rhino it has pulled illegal lottery
horns worth $12 million Press Trust of India quite limited during normal ticity. Plasticity, in turn, is apps from its App Store in
KUALA LUMPUR Boston ageing and unlikely to ac key to enabling learning and China amid tightening reg
Malaysia has made a record
A commonly used antide count for agerelated func memory and in maintaining ulation and a barrage of
seizure of 50 rhino horns
worth an estimated $12
pressant medication Prozac tional impairments,” re sensory acuity. In the study, criticism from State media.
million at Kuala Lumpur can counter some of the ef searchers said. while they focused on the vi According to state me
airport as they were being fects of brain ageing, such as sual cortex, the plasticity dia, the company has re
flown to Vietnam, authorities sensory and cognitive de Age-related decline they measured is believed to cently pulled around
said on Monday. Customs cline, an MIT study suggests. “Rather it seems that struc be important elsewhere in 25,000 apps from its Chi
officials found the parts in The research published in tural alterations in neuronal the brain as well. nese store in an eff ort to
cardboard boxes in the cargo the Journal of Neuroscience morphology and synaptic “Our fi nding that fl uoxe cooperate with regulators.
terminal of the capital’s provides fresh evidence that The research was published in connections are features tine treatment in ageing Apple confi rmed it has
airport. The 50 rhino horns the decline in the capacity of the Journal of Neuroscience. most consistently correlated mice can attenuate the age recently removed gam
weighed 116 kg. AFP brain cells to change — called *
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‘plasticity’ — rather than a considered as the potential ron structural and visual cor but did not confi rm the
decline in total cell number, tore a signifi cant degree of physical basis for the agere tex functional plasticity sug number of apps or a time
may underlie some of the
sensory and cognitive de
clines associated with nor
lost plasticity of the cells by
treating mice with the com
monly used antidepressant
lated decline,” they said.
Researchers focused on
the ageing of inhibitory in
gests it could provide a
therapeutic approach to
wards mitigation of sensory
line for the removals. “We
have already removed ma
ny apps and developers for
Marquees 2018 to take
mal brain ageing.
Scientists at Massachu
medication fl uoxetine, also
known as Prozac. “Despite
terneurons which is less
wellunderstood than that of
and cognitive defi cits asso
ciated with ageing, provided
trying to distribute illegal
gambling apps on our App place on August 29
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Robots can
manipulate Brave dog in M.P. attacks
children owner’s rapist, helps her escape
Press Trust of India
London
Two accused have been arrested after a police complaint
Robots can infl uence the Press Trust of India charge Vipin Tamrakar Tamrakar said, quoting the
opinions and decisions of Sagar said. victim.
young children, according The pet dog of a 14yearold As she came out of the The victim freed herself
to a study published in the girl attacked and bit one of home, two persons, identi from the clutches of the ac
journal Science Robotics. the two men who allegedly fi ed as Aishu Ahirwar, 39, cused and ran towards her
The study shows that kids raped her near here in and Punit Ahirwar, 24, home.
are signifi cantly more sus Madhya Pradesh, forcing overpowered her and took After hearing the noise
ceptible to manipulation them to fl ee, police said on her to a nearby deserted and the dog’s continuous
by machines than adults. Monday. The incident took hut at knifepoint, where barking, people from near
Researchers from Un place on Friday night in Ka they allegedly raped her, by homes rushed towards
iversity of Plymouth com reela village of Sagar dis he said. the hut, forcing the duo to
pared how adults and chil trict, a police offi cer said, The girl shouted for help run away, he added.
dren respond to an adding the duo was later and her pet dog reached The victim's family fi led
identical task when in the arrested. the spot and bit Aishu Ahir a complaint on Saturday,
presence of both their On the night of the inci war on his leg. following which the two
peers and humanoid ro dent, the minor girl went were arrested on Sunday,
bots. out of her house to bring Dog attacked he said.
Children were likely to fodder to create smoke for The accused attacked the The duo has been
give the same responses as keeping mosquitoes at bay, dog with the knife but the booked for rape and ab
the robots, even if they Motinagar police station in dog continued to bark, Mr. duction, he said.
were obviously incorrect.
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