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lurking near Arhama fired at the ve-
hicle and decamped with three riffles.
spokesperson.
Police said Kachroo was one of
rested several persons who were
motivating the youth to join the
Jaish-e-Mohammad claimed that Hizbul’s most important command- terrorist ranks.
Mt Kailash soon
eral other settlements. “The was the ‘safe’ Blackberry mes- jail and that was the main
(spillway) of the dam was senger that did him in. Even reason for his transfer from
broken and flooded the two as he had depended on it for its Kashmir to Jammu three
villages close to the high- high-security features, within months ago,” said a source.
Iftikhar Gilani & way,” the fire department Residents negotiate a flooded road after rampaging waters from Swar Chaung dam submerged villages in Bago the jail during his tenure, he It was, however, the same
Amrita Madhukalya The trip said on its Facebook page. region, central Myanmar on Wednesday —AFP had conspired with inmate Blackberry that blew the lid
correspondent@dnaindia.net Report, P7 Ishaq Palla who is lodged off his role as a ‘conspirator’.
n Rahul Gandhi is said
there since October 2017. “Accused persons were in
to fly to Beijing on August
New Delhi: Making good on According to sources, Pal- contact with each other
caught on cam `1k cr and counting, Hardik health slips, says fast to go on
Panchayat man
DNA Correspondent
beating student in protest
assaulted by
with a stick. After a while, he oured have been rampant been settled in an informal mal complaint. Bhagat said that
drags the boy inside a class- over the past two and a half manner. The Mahajan has in spite of the fact that Goods
got the authority to arbitrate and Services Tax (GST) has
neighbour
room and beats him up there, years resulting in accumu-
‘Women ragpickers need natural anti-oxidant therapy’ Talks start for Retail Trade Policy
DNA Correspondent DNA Correspondent were invited to the meeting.
correspondent@dnaindia.net
Health at stake correspondent@dnaindia.net “We have given recommen-
The researchers years. Only 23% of women dations before. We also gave
There is a need to develop natu- examined 70 women used personal protective The Gujarat government is some fresh suggestions. The
ral or herbal anti-oxidant ther- exposed to various dumping equipment like gloves, masks mulling a policy on retail trade government will think it over,”
apy to prevent women ragpick- sites over a period of three and tools for rag picking. and held consultation, on said Jayendra Tanna, former
ers from diseases, recommends Wednesday, with representa- vice-president of GCCI. Pratap
a study by two professors of tives of organised retail compa- Chandan, co-chairman of Ma-
Gujarat University. The study cured or taken care of can lead also showed a high prevalence nies as well as traditional mom hajan Sankalan Samiti of GCCI
conducted on ‘Health Risk As- to various ailments in them of ‘Eosinophilia’ caused by al- and pop stores. Representatives said that traditional shopkeep-
sessment on Women Rag Pick- and in their children as they lergies, asthma, inflammatory of traditional neighbourhood ers want a level playing field
ers of Ahmedabad’ by profes- are also present at the dump conditions, parasitic infections shops feel a need for a level Picture for representation against players in organised
sors Divya Fulwani and Dr Di- site for long hours and exposed and reactions to medications. playing field to compete with retail and e-commerce firms,
vya Chandel of Department of to unhealthy conditions. As most of them use public toi- organised retail as well as e- tion of such a policy for a who have deep pockets, access
Zoology, BMT & Human Genet- Picture for representation Professor Chandel said, lets, they often get urinary commerce companies. while. Representatives from to technology and best manage-
ics at Gujarat University, re- “Medical examination was per- tract infections (UTIs) and this “We met representatives of Retailers Association of India, ment practices. “There is no
vealed that nearly 70% of sence of protective equipment system of Indian cities. They formed by a doctor and blood may be also a reason for getting trading community and took Gujarat Chamber of Com- level playing field. Organised
women suffered from higher like gloves and masks. collect garbage in search of re- samples were collected by tech- frequent fever. Also, most of their suggestions,” Industries merce and Industry, regional retailers have long business
number of injuries through Rag-pickers play an impor- cyclable items that can be sold nical staff to study various the rag pickers follow home Commissioner Mamta Verma chambers, Vadodara-based hours, can operate seven days a
syringe, dog bites, harsh chem- tant but usually unrecognised to scrap merchants. The occu- haemotological and oxidative remedies and do not consult a said. Local representatives Federation of Gujarat Indus- week and have access to institu-
icals, and metal scraps in ab- role in the waste management pational exposure, which if not stress parameters. The women doctor due to ignorance.” have been advocating forma- tries and other trade bodies tional finance,” said Chandan.
ah edabad
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Paryushan: Students
that a formal complaint Saturday, the civic body Odhav resident evacuate the building on Tues-
was not registered. surveyed the remaining day. “We have given them no-
building units and found six that’s where they have shifted. tice to evacuate the building.
AMC to recycle
Adani Power cheated of `55 lakh CEPTian wins 5 national competitions ernment also took credit for
the same as it issued a state-
ment citing the government’s
efforts in helping class 12 Sci-
DNA Correspondent orders. After this, Adani re- DNA Correspondent Coimbatore smart city. ence students prepare better.
correspondent@dnaindia.net fused to entertain the said ser- correspondent@dnaindia.net Speaking about the same, she The statement said, “In 2017,
vice order. The accused then said, “I have been interested in out of a total of 3,551 seats, a
Adani Power Maharashtra also took to social media and Smart city logos designed by a smart cities and its design since total of 2,839 (80%) of Gujarat
limited has registered a com- started badmouthing the com- student of CEPT University for I joined CEPT University. I tried board students took admission,
plaint at the Navrangpura Po- pany on Twitter. three cities in India have been to make inclusive designs keep- whereas the percentage of
lice Station against three part- Following this, Adani reg- selected to be implemented by ing elderly, differently-abled, those students in 2018 rose to
ners of Balaji Enterprises for istered a complaint of cheat- the local governments. Jil and all types of people in mind. 81.13% for 3,354 seats.
cheating them of Rs 55 lakh. ing. The police said, “A case Sheth, who studied Bachelors of The coursework furthered my State Education Minister
It stated in the complaint has been registered against Construction Technology from understanding for urban de- Bhupendrasinh Chudasama,
that, Balaji Enterprises tried Picture for representation the three accused of cheating. CEPT University, won five na- sign. My designs are being im- said, “There has been an in-
to dupe the Adani group of Rs But as of now, all the three are tional-level competitions organ- plemented in the cities I won. crease in the number of stu-
55 lakh by forging service or- ni for an order. absconding. Further investi- ised by the Indian government. Further to this, I acquired full dents of Gujarat Secondary
ders. The three partners, In August, the partners of gation is on and we will also While she bagged first position scholarship and will study ur- and Higher Secondary Educa-
namely, Chandrashekhar Balaji then marched into Ada- analyse the alleged forged for smart city Udaipur, which ban and regional planning at tion Board schools cracking
Parekh, Deendayal Radheshy- ni’s office located in Navrang- documents among other will be adopted as the official Edinburgh to deepen my knowl- NEET and it is because of the
am, and Karan Parekh are the pura and claimed that their things as evidence. It could be logo now, she bagged second po- edge about the same topic.” efforts of the state govern-
accused in the case. The com- material was not delivered in possible that the Balaji Enter- sition in: ‘Make Your City Smart For Udaipur logo, she incor- ment. Bisag and Vande Mata-
plaint also stated that Chan- lieu of the cash that the fake prises themselves swindled - Phase- 2’ of design park in Bho- porated features of Udaipur city ram schemes helped students
drashekhar happened to be an documents stated has been this cash and now are trying pal, ‘Make Your City Smart - in the logo and chose colours get clearer concept. Apart
assistant manager at Adani paid already. to take it from Adani. We are Phase- 2’ –for design street in and motifs accordingly. “Each from this, Gujarat State Board
Power Ltd. He forged the docu- Upon looking at the docu- looking into that angle as Bhopal, ‘Make Your City Smart logo of the cities differ from of School textbooks created a
ments that stated that Balaji ments more carefully it was well,” said Abhijeet Singh Phase 1’ for Jabalpur, and came each other based on its heritage, question bank for class 12 sci-
Enterprises has already paid found that the partners them- Parmar, PI, Navrangpura Po- fourth in overall category. She specialities, culture, communi- ence students, which helped
rupees 55 lakh in cash to Ada- selves had forged the service lice Station. CEPT University student Jil Sheth also got a special mention in the ty, and more,” she said. them prepare better.”
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International airport, rendered non-functional following deluge since Aug 15, resumes ops n Loss estimated between `220-250 crore
No more God’s Own
Country for most of
its migrant workers
people live in each room. Now
some rooms are empty while
others have one or two per-
sons living,” he said, noting
many people fled as the water
entered the first floor.
ground report As many of the plywood
g jagannath manufacturing units were
hit by floods, thousands of
Perumbavoor, Kochi: Sujan migrant workers dependent
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ith the Supreme Court’s Wednesday order that the five among other team sports, hockey
people with alleged Maoist connections be kept under and volleyball. Following Imran
house arrest till the next hearing on September 6, the spot- Khan’s election as Pakistan Prime Min-
light has shifted on the incompetence of the Pune police. The ister, a strong lobby has sprung up for
resumption of bilateral cricket between
law-enforcers have cut a sorry figure because of their failure India and Pakistan. The argument is sim-
to pass judicial scrutiny. The charges levelled by the police ple: we play Pakistan in multilateral
against these individuals are serious. The accused were picked sports. Why not bilaterally?
up during raids carried out in Delhi, Faridabad, Goa, Mumbai, The argument is disingenuous on sev-
Ranchi and Hyderabad. They were booked under various sec- eral counts. Sport has been used success-
tions of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (2012) — an anti- fully by democracies as a weapon against
injustice in dictatorial regimes. The West
terror legislation — and the Indian Penal Code for their sup- boycotted South African sport to pressur-
posed links with Maoist groups. If proven guilty under this Act, ise the white supremacist government to
these very people could be in prison for a long time. Given the dismantle apartheid. It took over 20 years
gravity of the case, the Pune police should have done a thorough of sustained sporting and political isola-
spade work and furnished incontrovertible evidence. Instead, tion to finally liberate South Africa from
in their hurry to carry out arrests, they jumped the gun to dis- a noxious white racist regime and free
Nelson Mandela from 27 years in prison.
astrous effect. However, there is no denying the fact that Naxal- India forfeited the opportunity to win its
ism is a growing threat in this country and poses an even grav- first Davis Cup tennis trophy when it re-
er risk than cross-border terrorism. According to the Home fused to play South Africa in the 1974 fi-
Ministry’s 2014 data, more than 12,000 people, including secu- nal. South Africa was expelled from the
rity forces, have been killed by Naxals in nine states badly hit International Olympic Committee (IOC)
by Red terror over 20 years. The killings had taken place in in 1970. FIFA, to its credit, expelled South
Africa as early as 1963.
Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya With Pakistan, the issue is far more
Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. serious. Since 1989, the Pakistani army
The year 2010 proved to be the deadliest for security forces and has used terrorism against India as an Sports has been used successfully by democracies as a weapon against injustice in dictatorial regimes
civilians as 1,005 lives were lost in Naxalite violence — the hor- instrument of state policy. Thousands
rific Dantewada ambush that led to the death of 75 CRPF men of Indian soldiers and civilians have hore, summits in Agra, invitations to Emboldened, the pro-Pakistan lobby
been killed over the past 29 years by Pa- prime ministerial oath-taking in Delhi, in India asks: why boycott only bilateral
and one Chhattisgarh police constable, the Gyaneshwari Ex-
kistani terror proxies. Why then did and impromptu stopovers in Lahore cricket with Pakistan? Why not ban hock-
press derailment, the Dantewada bus bombing and the Silda India not boycott bilateral cricket with were met with terror attacks. ey and other sports as well? In fact, bilat-
camp attack in Midnapore, among other incidents. For the Pakistan till 2012-13? The answer is that The penny began to drop after 2012-13, eral hockey matches between India and
CRPF jawans, the long days and nights in Naxal-dominated for- India is a soft state. It lives in the hope when the Manmohan Singh government Pakistan have belatedly been put on ice.
ests have had devastating effects. In the last two years, deaths that diplomacy, people-to-people con- allowed the last bilateral cricket series In most sports, including the ongoing
due to heart attacks, depression, suicides, malaria, dengue and tacts, trade and other confidence build- with Pakistan to take place in India de- Asian Games in Indonesia, India plays
ing measures (CBMs) would change spite strong criticism over Pakistan’s Pakistan only multilaterally. Bilateral
other such reasons have been 15 times more over operational
Pakistan’s violent behaviour. Through inaction in the 26/11 Mumbai terror at- contests are increasingly rare.
duties. Moreover, the nature of threats too have changed. Red the 1990s and 2000s, leaders across the tack. The Congress lost power soon after. Playing bilateral cricket, hockey and
extremists are increasingly resorting to Improvised Explosive political spectrum, from Atal Bihari Since the NDA government took office other sports with Pakistan for decades
Device in their battle against security personnel. This year, till Vajpayee to Dr. Manmohan Singh, tried in 2014, the question of resuming bilat- did nothing to stop terror attacks on In-
August, 55 security personnel, 170 Maoists and 76 civilians have to build bridges with Pakistan. eral matches with Pakistan has been dia. Why would resuming bilateral sports
died in skirmishes. While there is still no definitive proof of But Pakistan is ruled by an Army that periodically raised by leaders from both centrality within the country and retain- with Pakistan stop terror attacks now?
sees India not so much as an existential- the Congress (Rajeev Shukla) and the ing access to financial resources. But Quite the contrary: Pakistan would gain
urban naxalism, reports of sleeper cells and Maoist ideologues
ist threat, but as a financial resource. BJP (Anurag Thakur). The Narendra Pakistan also craves respectability. It is the respectability and false equivalence
inciting the youth to take up arms and resort to violence crop The Pakistani Army’s bloated defence Modi government has had the good widely disrespected. Neighbouring Af- with India it craves, without ending its
up every once in a while. Coming back to the case in hand, the budget is nearly 4 per cent of GDP — sense to ignore their entreaties. It has ghanistan despises it. The United States state policy of sponsoring lethal terror
next date of hearing will add to clarity since the apex court has compared to India’s defence budget of not permitted the forthcoming cricket distrusts it. Resuming official talks with attacks against India that suits the Paki-
issued notices to the Centre and Maharashtra government, 1.6 per cent of GDP. This can only be Asia Cup, which features games be- India along with bilateral sporting links stani Army’s pathological agenda.
seeking their replies. The police and the government must be justified by setting India up as an exis- tween India and Pakistan, to be held in would afford Pakistan a patina of re- Pro-Pakistan lobbyists repeat ad nau-
tential enemy. Without India, the Paki- India. The United Arab Emirates will spectability. For Islamabad, terror and seam: don’t mix politics and sport. For
mindful of the fact that those arrested are prominent rights
stani Army’s senior officers, who siphon host the multilateral contest in Septem- talks are mutually inclusive. The Indian them, here’s a lesson on the subject from
activists, professors and lawyers and not petty criminals. If the off large parts of the defence budget, ber. Pakistan is obsessive about resum- lobby that believes talks will end terror the late Nobel peace laureate Nelson
police are not careful, this issue may snowball into a national would be forced to consign themselves ing bilateral cricketing ties with India. falls into Pakistan’s trap by propagating Mandela: “Sport has the power to change
political challenge. to a vastly more modest lifestyle. Its cricket board is bankrupt. No inter- Islamabad’s fraudulent narrative. The the world. I became president of South
India’s policy-making establishment, national cricket team has played a Test Modi government’s blow hot, blow cold Africa because of the sports boycott.”
ranging from bureaucrats in the defence match in Pakistan since the 2009 terror policy on Pakistan has given this narra- The writer is the author of The
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he BJP is already in poll mode, with Prime Minister Narendra
Modi and BJP President Amit Shah working out strategies in QUOTE HANGER slowburn
close consultations with the Chief Ministers of the states ruled
by the saffron party. While the bigger battle in 2019 is still several
months away, assembly elections in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh,
Arun Jaitley MadhuPurnima Kishwar ‘30% C-sections in rural India unnecessary’
@arunjaitley Rahul @madhukishwar
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and Chhattisgarh will determine the efficacy of the government’s global study, which also picked two case as the majority of surgeries
flagship programmes and infrastructure projects. In Rajasthan, the Gandhi quoted a price of If Gautam Navlakha is a districts in India, has revealed a were carried out in private hospitals.
high percentage of “unnecessary” To stop this practice, they have rec-
government is pinning hopes on the Delhi-Mumbai expressway, Rs 700 cr per aircraft in Delhi, K’taka in human rights activist, I am Einstein! I Caesarean Sections (C-sections) in ommended that hospitals in India
which is touted to bring about transformation in the state’s back- April & May this year. In Parliament, witnessed from close quarters his rural and low-resource settings. Ac- could be accredited possibly on the
ward areas through rapid industrialisation. The Centre wants to he reduced it to Rs 520 cr per aircraft, vicious diatribes against India not just at cording to the study, which looked at number of C-sections being carried
complete the super fast highway by 2021 at an estimated cost of Rs C-sections between 2010-13 in Nagpur out. The experts also recommended a
one lakh crore. Apart from generous compensations for land acqui- in Raipur he increased it to Rs 540 cr home but also when in Pakistan & US. and Belgaum as part of an assess- mandatory yearly audit of all child-
ment in six low-income countries, births in hospitals by state health
sition, an infrastructure project of this size would also provide jobs about 30 per cent surgeries were car- departments.
to thousands of people. In an effort to boost development through Sachin Tendulkar ried out for reasons that were not life
road connectivity in Madhya Pradesh, the Centre last year had ap- @sachin_rt I’ve heard threatening. Data from the National
proved two major expressways, the Chambal Expressway and Nar-
mada Expressway, to connect the state with Uttar Pradesh, Ra-
stories of Major Dhyan Sometimes it can get very Family Health Survey (NHFS) showed
about 30-35 per cent babies in urban 68% schoolkids are
jasthan, Chhattisgarh and Gujarat by allocating Rs 2 lakh crore. In Chand practising Hockey under moonlit demanding when you have to India are born through surgeries and
low on stamina
Rajasthan, there are 27 ongoing railway projects worth Rs 45,833 sky as there were no floodlights then. He play so much cricket regularly. I in some southern states like Telan-
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gana, this figure is 41 per cent. Statis- study covering 15,000 children from
crore, covering a distance of 4,937 km. Rajasthan has seen a rise of did what it took to fulfil his dream. feel somewhere the tics also showed that at a pan-India 25 schools across Mumbai, Navi
567 per cent in its budget allocation from an average of Rs 682 crore level, the rate of C-sections has dou- Mumbai, Thane and Delhi has re-
in 2009-14 to a total outlay of Rs 4,553 crore in 2018-19. Similarly, commercial aspect bled in ten years, while in the last 20 vealed that 68 per cent children have
TheRichaChadha
Madhya Pradesh also witnessed a rise of 906 per cent in its Railway
@RichaChadha People is taking over the years, it has risen six times.
But according to WHO norms, a
below par stamina. The study, which
screened children between five and 17
budget allocation, going up from Rs 632 crore to a total outlay of Rs
6,359 crore in 2018-19. The state has 36 on-going railway projects for hung dead bodies of real quality of cricket rate of 10-15 per cent is considered ap- years of age, found that they had low
propriate for C-sections as per medi- stamina, inferior muscle strength, body
6,279 km, worth Rs 63,064 crore. Chhattisgarh also saw a boost in Mussolini and his mistress upside and that hurts me. cal indications. As a result, the Indian composition and musculoskeletal fit-
railway budget allocation from Rs 311 crore to an outlay of Rs 3,964 figures indicate C-sections are being ness. As per these parameters, boys did
crore. Currently, there are 19 railway projects under execution, cost-
down in Italy, so passers-by could spit —Virat Kohli, conducted for non-medical reasons better in comparison to girls. Around 79
ing around Rs 28,524 crore for approximately 2,750 km. on them. Violence begets violence. Captain, India — for commerce or for the conveni- per cent of girls were found to be at po-
ence of doctors. tential risk of cardiovascular and other
Experts believed that this was the non-communicable diseases.
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drugged, abused, tortured and raped. lived nearby and were interviewed later in all kinds of spaces. Some like the
he term shelter home is self ex- Among those who have not been exam- had suspicions, but they did not report girls from Muzaffarpur don’t even have
planatory. It’s a home. It’s sup- ined for rape is a four-year-old disabled the matter because the person who ran an agency to raise their voice against
posed to give shelter. In our coun- girl, lying in a hospital bed, too ill to be it was a powerful figure. their perpetrators. The state and the civ-
try, there are shelter homes in examined. All these girls were aban- What happened in Muzaffarpur is not il society needs to introspect and assure
every town and city, sheltering doned or neglected by their families. All just a one off incidence; it is a testimony that these girls are protected, that they
those who have been abandoned these girls were abused and tortured in to how women and adolescent girls are get safe spaces to live, that they get the
or neglected. A shelter home is sup- the shelter home that was meant to pro- treated in our country. The exploitation opportunity to become empowered indi-
posed to be a safe house. vide them a safe environment. of women, sexually and otherwise, viduals and not just victims who are for-
Yet, the recent case in Muzaffarpur The horrific accounts of physical as- points to the deeply embedded patriar- gotten in a week’s news cycle.
contradicts each of these basic premis- sault, starvation and rape make those chal roots of our society. From the streets If today, audits are conducted across
es. The stories emerging from a state- involved seem like monsters. But these of Delhi to a shelter home in Muzaffar- the country, one would not be surprised
funded shelter home in the town of Mu- monsters are the kind of people who are pur, from an independent girl working in to find that there are many other shelter
zaffarpur should have filled us with not only ‘respectable’ members of the the city to vulnerable adolescents aban- homes like these across India. Some-
horror and shattered the conscience of society, but are also powerful enough to doned by their families, there are no safe times, it seems like the welfare system
this nation. Maybe they did, for a day or do all this with the confidence that they funding to run these shelter homes. the involvement of politicians who run spaces for women in this country. in this country exploits the very people
two. Perhaps, we have become so used will never get caught. It took an audit re- Funds are often given to shady non- NGOs on the side and use their political The gender inequality in this country it was supposed to protect. That said,
to stories of violence against women port by the Tata Institute of Social Sci- profits run by local powerful men, with- mileage to get government funding. In is not hidden from anyone. Yet, it is only while it is somewhat easy to give state-
and children that our conscience has ences (TISS), Mumbai, to reveal the hor- out any due diligence. The state, which all of this, the state is also a complicit when instances of rape and abuse come ments on a particular case, it is often
become numb to such incidences. None- ror of what happens in these shelter is supposed to protect vulnerable people actor. Thus, one must ask the govern- out that we realise how hostile our soci- difficult to question the power struc-
theless, the facts of what happened homes. According to that report, not hands them over to powerful men who ment questions regarding its role in the ety can be towards women. While it is tures that govern us and how they are
must be repeated and talked about be- only this particular shelter home, but then exploit them with full impunity. entire affair. important that justice is done in this designed to benefit only a few. For now,
cause it questions not only the state of abuse is common in some other shelter The contract for shelter homes is a prof- On the other hand, it also raises ques- particular case, it is also essential that one can only wonder if the state or the
government machinery, but also the so- homes across Bihar. itable business and often only those tions about the civil society. How “civil” we rethink the way our society is society is ready to face these questions.
ciety we live in. The incident raises many questions with reach and political connections get is our society. Did no one living in Mu- shaped. Today, in this country, women The author is a poet and activist
Out of the 42 girls living in the state about the state machinery, which gives these contracts. It is not unusual to find zaffarpur know what was going on in- from every section of the society contin- based in Delhi. Views are personal.
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Canada, US set for second day of NAFTA talks tenders & Notices
Washington: Canada and US ing the way for Ottawa to re- Freeland said after a brief
are set to tackle their conten-
ultimatums in trade sume talks with US this week. meeting with US Trade Repre-
tious issues in bilateral talks US President Donald After being sidelined from sentative Robert Lighthizer.
on Wednesday, as the two na- Trump warned he could the talks for more than two She dodged questions on
tions work to salvage the proceed with a deal with months, Freeland will be un- what points Canada would be
North American Free Trade Mexico alone and levy der pressure to accept terms willing to concede on, noting
Agreement amid signs Ottawa tariffs on Canada if it the US and Mexico worked out. that Ottawa’s key issues are
was open to taking a more con- does not come on board The US Congress also wants a well known. “We will, as we
ciliatory approach. with the revised trade deal that includes Canada. have done throughout this
After more than a year of Goods pass through an inspection terms “The fact that agreement on negotiation, stand up for the
talks, Mexico and the US an- station near San Diego —Reuters those difficult issues for Mexi- Canadian national interest
nounced a bilateral deal on co was able to be reached defi- and for Canadian values,
Monday, setting the stage for trillion in annual trade be- Tuesday that Mexico’s con- nitely clears the way for us to while looking for areas where
Canada to rejoin negotiations tween the three nations. cessions on auto rules of ori- have significant, substantive, we can find a compromise
to modernise 24-year-old NAF- Canadian Foreign Minis- gin and labour rights was a and I hope productive, conver- that everyone can live with,”
TA which accounts for over $1 ter Chrystia Freeland said on crucial breakthrough, clear- sations with the US this week,” she said. —Reuters
planning a military
base in Afghanistan
Beijing: China on Wednes-
day denied that it planned to
build a military base in Af-
ghanistan, after a Hong Kong
newspaper said Beijing was
constructing a training camp
for Afghan troops to which it
could also send its own sol-
diers.
The South China Morning
Post, citing unidentified A Chinese flag in front of the Great
sources with ties to the Chi- Wall of China —Reuters
nese military, said China was
building the camp in the nar- military might
row Wakhan Corridor that
links the two countries. Last year, China
Foreign Ministry spokes- opened its first overseas People grapple with a swarm of bees that descended on the Times Square in New York City, US —Reuters
woman Hua Chunying dis- military base, in the Horn
missed the report, however. of Africa country Djibouti.
“After looking into it, the It has previously denied
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About 99.3% of high value currency banned in Nov 2016 has returned to the system; only `10,720 cr haven’t come back
T
he 2018-19 fiscal has be-
gun on a promising
Manju AB
manju.ab@dnaindia.net
invalidated total 15.44 lakh
crore notes in circulation on
November 8, 2016.
Order and supply
of banknotes
by Reserve Bank presses
RBI sees
recovery
note. Most economists Mumbai: Demonetisation, which The returned amount of the
have projected the eco- junked Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes, banned notes could increase fur- (April-March) (Million pieces)
nomic growth in the first has failed to throw up black mon- ther as this does not take into con- Order Supply
quarter to come between ey that cast a shadow on the Indi- sideration the currency confis- 2016-17
7.25% and 7.6% as indus-
trial output and private
investment pick up, de-
spite a challenging milieu.
an economy.
After nearly two years of count-
ing, Reserve Bank of India (RBI)
has said that 99.3% of the banned
cated by the enforcement agencies
and some of the district co-opera-
tive banks, which have not been
able to submit due to certain legal
—7,260
2,200925
this fiscal
This is indeed a leap from currency has returned to the In- issues pending in the court. 3,5003,504 Praveena Sharma
5.6% growth reported dur- dian banking system. After nearly two years since the correspondent@dnaindia.net
ing the same period last The data, released on Wednes- demonetisation on November 8,
year, due to the demoneti- day by RBI in its annual report for RBI said the verification of the New Delhi: Reserve Bank of India
sation hangover and the
impending implementa-
2017-18, is expected to spark a
heated political debate as In-
banned notes is now com-
plete. At the time of demon-
2000 (RBI), in its latest annual report
published on Wednesday, called
tion of GST then, which dia heads for a round of state etisation, there were 17,165 last fiscal “a year of inflexions” for
had resulted in huge de-
stocking by businesses.
elections starting later this
year and general elections in
million units of Rs 500 notes
and 6,858 million units of Rs 1000 the Indian economy and expects
recovery in growth to be “consoli-
The GST implementation 2019. While the ruling BJP 1,000 notes, which together dated and built upon” this fiscal.
has surely enhanced the party has argued that a radical added up to Rs 15.44 lakh crore of “The year 2017-18 turned out to
potential growth of India. step like demonetisation was nec- currency that was banned. 500 be a year of inflexions in the
The first quarter essary for transition to a more RBI also incurred a huge print- growth path of the Indian econo-
Source: RBI
growth is primarily driv-
Swipe gain upper hand transparent and less cash-based ing cost. It spent Rs 7,965 crore on my, despite the lingering after-ef-
200 Indent Supply
en by domestic factors. economy, the Opposition has ques- printing currency notes in 2016-17, 2017-18 fects of demonetisation and the
132.07
There is a revival in in- More Indians are paying through electronics means tioned the purpose of the move which is more than double the Rs GST implementation,” stated the
193.0
150
vestment, with both pri- that has slowed down the economy 3,420 crore spent year before that. 9,2139,693 central bank report.
vate and public sector in- Total Retail Electronic Clearing and impacted small and medium The rise in cost of printing And going by how the current
Rs lakh crore
91.0
82.0
81.9
——
80.9
vestments growing. The Total Card Payments 100 businesses. was due to printing of new cur- macroeconomic factors are un-
private investment is gath- Total Cheque Clearing According to RBI, only Rs rency notes during remonetisa- ravelling, the apex bank main-
ering momentum now 50 10,720 crore of the demonetised tion. In 2017-18 (July 2017 to June 151151 tained its earlier projection of a
10.6
while capacity utilisation currency has not come back 2018), it spent another Rs 4,912 7.4% gross domestic product
7.4
figures show better days 0 into the system. Banks have re- crore on printing of currency, the Mudran Private Limited SPMCIL: Security Printing (GDP) growth this fiscal.
ahead. 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18 ceived Rs 15.31 lakh crore of the report said. and Minting Corporation of India Limited “Over the rest of 2018-19, the ac-
The consumption and Source: RBI celeration of growth that com-
the capital expenditure Cash is king Fakes galore menced in 2017-18: H2 (second half)
data have fuelled confi- is expected to be consolidated and
dence among economists
during the first quarter
number.
` 15.31lakh `15.44lakh crore `18.3lakh crore 35% 9,892 fakes notes built upon. Keeping in view the
evolving economic conditions,
real GDP growth for 2018-19 is ex-
Total value of high value or 86% of the currency in circulation— Total value value of notes as at end-March 2018, rise on of Rs 500 detected in 2017-18 vs 199 a year ago
However, many of them pected to increase to 7.4% from
bank notes returned Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes that were demonetised a 37% rise over the previous year counterfeit notes
believe that India is lag- 6.7% in the previous year, with
154.3%
ging in its potential in denomination jump in counterfeit risks evenly balanced,” forecasts
growth which is pegged 80.2% share of Rs 500 and Rs 2,000 notes as of March end 2018 of Rs 100 notes of `50 the RBI.
somewhere close to 8%. In its summary of how the
Though some aver that the economy performed in the year
external sector is still not gone by, the central bank said the
The disinvestment of counterfeit notes of the new de- 50 6,453 9,222 23,447 ing digital payments. tion. nal consumption expenditure
loss-making Air India nominated currency notes of Rs While defending the govern- The government is facing criti- (PFCE) supported by rural de-
2015-16
2016-17
2017-18
Source: Bloomberg
years, it said in a Finance, the wholly
killing airlines
stock-exchange filing. owned subsidiary of New Delhi: Global financial government.
The first stage of the Piramal Enterprises. conglomerate Macquarie Macquarie was among the
deal will be completed Piramal Capital & group’s infrastructure fund- four bidders to win the first
by the end of Housing Finance has ing arm on Wednesday made bundle of the TOT contract
December, subject to extended a credit line an upfront payment of Rs of NHAI.
customary closing to Leap India to meet 9,681.50 crore to the govern- Transport minister Nitin
conditions. Ampere the company’s growth ment to operate nine stretch- Gadkari said, “The handing
counts Tata Sons requirement over the es of NHAI under a new toll over of the first bundle un-
chairman emeritus next two to three collection policy. der TOT will encourage
Ratan Tata and Infosys years. Leap is a leader National Highways Au- more such awards in coming
co-founder Kris in providing pallets thority of India (NHAI) has days and we will invest the
Gopalakrishnan
among its investors.
Tata had invested in
and foldable large
containers (FLCs) on
rent to more than 370
floated India’s first toll oper-
ate transfer (TOT) model to
monetise national highways
tracts to a third party under
the TOT model.
It will manage and collect
money received to boost in-
frastructure in the country,”
he said.
Up to 30%
– Taxes on aviation fuel in India
Drying Coffers
Jet Airways cash dwindles
AirAsia, which
entered in 2014 with
a vow to break even
Ampere in July 2015. leading corporates (NH) by awarding toll collec- toll from nine stretches of “We can now think about
against high debt in four months, is
Gopalakrishnan first from fast moving tion operations to a private NHAI -- five in Andhra implementing this TOT mod-
Entry of budget carriers such Cash & Cash Equivalent (Rs cr) still nowhere close
invested in December comnsumer goods, party on a long-term basis. Pradesh and four in Gujarat el in Ganga river also. Like- to its goal
as IndiGo and SpiceJet has forced
2015 and again the beverages, auto and NHAI has identified 75 -- for a period of 30 years wise, it can be implemented Net Debt (Rs cr)
full-service carriers like Jet Airways Vistara, Singapore
following year. pharma industry. NH stretches across the against the upfront payment in other infrastructure sec-
to offer discounts Air’s JV with the Tata
country for awarding con- of about Rs 9,682 crore to the tors as well,” he added. —PTI
10,190
Group that started in
2 cents 9,830
9,380
9,100
8,890
2015, has yet to make
320
Cadila gets five – Fall in previous year
$210 bn
specific pre-approval tion, who asked not to be queries. 2017-18 against Rs 669 crore
inspection located at identified because the infor- Varde’s co-chief invest- earned in the previous year,”
Vadodara. US FDA mation is private. ment officer Ilfryn Carstairs Nalco CMD Tapan Kumar
conducted the – Soured loans in India
The US investment firm called the India distressed Chand said on the sidelines
inspection from and Indian financial servic- opportunity “enormous” of the 37th annual general
August 20-28. The venture is expected to
es provider, helmed by bil- and one of the biggest in the meeting (AGM).
PENCAK SILAT Vietnam’s Van Tri Nguyen and Dinh Nam Tran win gold medals to break Indonesia’s hold on the sport 10
Ahmedabad I THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 2018
Medals Tally
Rank Nation G S B T The champion with 12 toes
asks for customised shoes
1. China 102 67 50 219
2. Japan 52 47 63 162
3. South Korea 37 42 50 129
4. Indonesia 30 22 36 88
5. Iran 19 16 17 52
6. Chinese Taipei 13 17 21 51
7. Uzbekistan 12 17 16 45 Indian heptathlete Swapna draws attention to her abnormal feet after winning historic gold
8. DPR Korea 12 8 11 31
9. India 11 20 23 54 India’s Arpinder Singh during his gold-winning effort in the final of the men’s
10. Thailand 9 13 36 58 triple jump in Jakarta on Wednesday —AFP
India Results
MEDALS: ATHLETICS: Arpinder Arpinder triple
jumps to gold
Singh won gold in men’s triple jump,
Swapna Burman won gold in women’s
heptathlon, Dutee Chand won Silver in
women’s 200m finals
TABLE TENNIS: SK Achanta/M Batra
won bronze in mixed doubles Jakarta: Arpinder Singh the National Inter-State
clinched India’s first men’s tri- Championships in June,
l ATHLETICS: MEN: Manish Singh Rawat
and Irfan Kolothum Thodi were disqualified ple jump gold in 48 years with which had put him at number
from 20km walk finals,, Jinson Johnson a jump of 16.77m in the Asian three in the Asian rankings.
finished 2nd, Manjit Singh finished 7th Games here on Wednesday. Arpinder has a personal
in 1500m qualification, India finished 4th Arpinder, who has been best of 17.17m. He had fin-
in 4x400 relay qualification; WOMEN: without a medal in multi- ished fifth in the 2014 Asian
Khushbir Kaur finished 4th , Soumya Baby sporting events since winning Games. Arpinder said he had
was disqualified in 20km walk, Purnima
a bronze in the 2014 Common- come into the Asian Games
Hembram finished 4th in Heptahlon
wealth Games, produced a best looking to break the national
l BOXING: MEN: Amit beat Kim Jang 5-0 in jump of 16.77m which he came record which is in the name of
Light Fly (49 kg) Quarterfinals, Dheeraj vs up with in his third attempt. Renjith Maheshwary (17.30m).
Bhaatarsukh in Light Welter (64kg) Quar-
terfinals, Vikas Krishnan bt Tanglatihan 3-2 Ruslan Kurbanov of Uz- “It’s gold, so it’s okay but I
in Middle (75kg) Quarterfinals; WOMEN: bekistan took the silver with wanted to go better than the
Sarjubala Devi lost to Chang Ya 0-5 in Fly a best jump of 16.62m while national record. I was dehy-
(51 kg) Quarterfinals Shuo Cao of China was third drated after three jumps,
l CANOE/KAYAK SPRINT: MEN: India with an effort of 16.56m. that’s why there were fouls
finished 2nd in Seminfinal of Kayak Four Wednesday’s mark of after that. The performance
(K4) 500m, Ching Ching Singh Arambram/ Arpinder was, however, well was going up and down. My
Naocha Singh Laitocham finished 1st in below his season best of calves were hurting,” Arpin-
Semifinal 1 of Kayak Double (K2) 1000m 17.09m which he did during der said. —PTI
l CYCLING: MEN: Ranjit Singh finished
2nd in Heat 2 in Sprint 1/16th elimina-
tion, Esow finished 2nd in Heat 1 in 1/8th
Kamal-Batra carry on
elimination, Manjeet Singh finished 12th
in 4000m Individual Pursuit Qualification;
WOMEN: Manorama Devi DNF in Women’s
Omnium
l HANDBALL: MEN: India bt Indonesia
37-23 in Group 3
l HOCKEY: WOMEN: India bt China 1-0 in
Seminfinal
paddlers’ dream run
Jakarta: The Indian table ten-
l JUDO: MEN: Vijay Kumar Yadav lost nis contingent’s did you know?
to Urozboev Diyorbek 0-10 in 60kg dream run at the n This is India’s second medal
Elimination round of 16; WOMEN: Thoudan Asian Games got in table tennis and the second at
Kalpana Devi lost to Ziyaneva Gulnoza 0s3- better on Wednes- these Games, after bronze in the
10s2 in 52kg Elimination round of 16 men’s team event
day when the
l KURASH: MEN: Manish Tokas lost to mixed doubles pair- n Achanta Sharath Kamal
Sobirov Muso 0-10, Kunal lost to Baayan- ing of A Sharath Kamal and becomes the first Indian table
munkh Gaajadamba 0-10 in 81 kg Round tennis player to win two medals
Manika Batra exceeded its own
of 32 WOMEN: Binash Nayakattu Biju lost
to Koolivand Azar 0-3 in 63 kg Round of expectations to win a historic in this sport.
32, Meghna Tokas lost to Njama in 63 kg bronze.
Quarterfinals It was only on Tuesday that
lPENCAK SILAT: WOMEN: Simran/Sonia the Kamal-led men’s team had na’s Yingsha Sun and Wang
finished 7th in Women’s Doubles Final secured a bronze, ending In- Sun before going down 9-11,
l SAILING: WOMEN: Nethra Kumanathan (Top) India’s Swapna Barman reacts after winning gold in the women’s heptathlon in Jakarta on Wednesday. (Below from left) combination pictures show Swapna dia’s 60-year-wait for a maiden 5-11, 13-11, 4-11, 8-11. The semi-
finished 5th after Race 10, 5th after Race participating in javelin throw, 800-metre run, and long jump — which are all part of the heptathlon event —Agencies medal at the Asian Games. final was a best of seven games
11 in Laser Radial MIXED: Govind Bairagi On Wednesday, Kamal and contest while the earlier rounds
finished 3rd, Harshita Tomar finished 4th Jakarta: The first Indian hep- I use normal shoes worn by people who have normal the pain in her teeth. “I used to Batra played four matches in a were played in the usual best of
in Race 10, Harshita Tomar finished 3rd, tathlete to win an Asian Games eat a lot of chocolates, so I have a day and only the opener against five format.
Govind Bairagi finished 4th in Race 11 in gold, Swapna Bar- five toes. It really pains during training. It is very teeth problem. It started paining Malaysia was comfortable. In Their pre-quarterfinal was
Open Laser4.7, India finished 8th in Race
12, 8th in Race 13, 8th in Race 14 of Mixed man on Wednesday uncomfortable two days before the event. It was the lead-up to the event, Kamal against the strong a South Ko-
RS One made a plea to pro- severe but I could not let years of had slammed the scheduling of rean pairing of Lee Sangsu and
vide her more cus- Swapna Barman, Heptathlete, India hard work go waste. So I forgot the competition. Jeon Jihee but the Indians bat-
l SEPAKTAKRAW: WOMEN: India lost to
tomised shoes for the pain and gave my best,” said In the semifinals, Kamal and tled past them 11-7, 7-11, 11-8,
Malaysia 0-2, India lost to Vietnam 0-2 in
Group B her ‘abnormal’ feet. shoes,” Swapna said with a smile. tion) and 200m in which she fin- the undergraduate, who is fear- Batra made life tough for Chi- 10-12, 11-4. —PTI
Barman, who has six She said she also overcame a ished seventh with 790 points. ing for final examination result.
l SOFT TENNIS: MIXED: R Dhiman/ A toes in both her feet, produced knee injury before the event. Going into the 800m run, the last “First day, I thought I won’t
Tiwari lost to K Yu/C Cheng 0-5 in Group
C, R Dhiman/ A Tiwari lost to C Xayalin/P her career-best performance on Asked if she would like some of the seven-event competition, be able to compete. It was un-
Champamanivog 3-5 in Group C, Namita Wednesday by logging 6026 ag- companies to manufacture cus- Barman was leading China’s bearable. I thought what will
Seth/ AC Patel bt D Alkanthuyag/A Mun- gregate points from the seven tomised shoes for her, she said, Qingling Wang by 64 points. happen to my hard work, I had
gunsetseg 5-0 in Group F, Namita Seth/ AC events spread for two days. She “Definitely. It will make life easy.” She needed a good run in the to do it. I forgot the pain.” An-
Patel lost to T Uematsu/R Hayashida 0-5 competed with a tape on her At one time, Barman’s father was concluding event in which she other Indian in the fray, Purni-
in Group F right cheek to lessen pain arising a rickshaw puller and bed-ridden eventually finished fourth. It was ma Hembram was 18 points be-
l SQUASH: WOMEN: India bt China 3-0 out of teeth infection. due to a stroke suffered. the same event in which she had hind Japan’s Yuki Yamasaki
in Pool B “I have got this gold on the Na- En route the title, she won the collapsed during the Asian Ath- going into the 800m run. She
l TABLE TENNIS: MIXED: AA Amalraj/MS tional Sports day, so it’s really high jump (1003 pwoints) and letics Championship last year in finshed just ahead of Barman in
Patkar lost to Ho Kk/ LeeHC 11-6, 7-11, special. I use normal shoes worn javelin throw (872 points) events Bhubaneswar but despite finish- the 800m run and overall fourth
5-11, 4-11 in Round of 32 doubles by people who have normal five and finished second-best in shot ing fourth today, she had emerged with 5837 points.
l VOLLEYBALL: WOMEN: India bt Hong toes. It really pains during train- put (707 points) and long jump a champion. Qingling (5954) won the silver
Kong 25-18, 25-16, 25-13 in Seminflas ing. It is very uncomfortable, (865 points). Her weakest events Asked about the tape on her and Yamasaki the bronze with India’s Achanta Sharath Kamal (left) and Manika Batra celebrate during the
for 9-12 whether I wear spikes or normal were 100m (981 points, 5th posi- cheek she said, it was to lessen 5873 points. —PTI mixed-double table tennis match in Jakarta on Wednesday —PTI
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over her future in The number of woman athletes, ance, which also affects South
Jakarta: The Indian women’s athletics as she including Dutee Chand, to achieve Africa’s 800m Olympic champion
Chander Shekhar Luthra get this coveted award this time hockey team made its scooped her second the 100m-200m double at a single Caster Semenya.
shekhar.luthra@gmail.com around. India cricket captain Vi- first Asian Games Asian Games sil- Asian Games. New athletics rules in place
rat Kohli’s is also in contention. final in 20 years, out- ver in the wom- from November will bar runners
New Delhi: Newly-crowned Chopra, for instance, was also lasting three-time en’s 200 metres on did you know? with hyperandrogenism from
champion wrestlers in the ongo- given the honour of carrying the champions China 1-0 Wednesday — four years nDutee Chand is the second middle-distance races, Semenya’s
ing Asian Games, Bajrang Punia national flag at the opening cere- here on Wednesday. after missing the last edi- Indian woman to win medals speciality, but allow sprinters
and Vinesh Phogat, are strong mony. He was also with nominated Gurjit Kaur’s strike tion in a row over her in both the 100m and 200m with the same condition.
contenders for this year’s Rajiv for the Arjuna Award after he won from a penalty corner in the 52nd gender. at the Asiad Games, after PT But Chand, 22, said uncertain-
Gandhi Khel Ratna award, accord- gold in the World Junior Champi- minute was the difference be- Chand, denied gold USHA. ty remained. The ruling by the
ing to sources. onships in 2016. tween the two sides, in a match in both sprint races n Odiong becomes International Association of Ath-
It has been learnt from highly The awards will be given on that lacked the quality of a high- by Bahrain’s the fourth woman letics Federations has been criti-
placed sources in the sports min- September 25, deviating from the profile semifinal. Nonetheless, it Edidiong to complete the cised, and could face challenges
istry that gold medallist in 65kg Bajrang Punia (left) and Vinesh Phogat tradition of giving it on August 29 was good enough for India’s first Odiong, was 100m/200m and amendments.
weight category, Bajrang, has al- — the birth anniversary of hockey appearance in the final since the barred from double at a single “My legal team helped me to
ready filed his nomination The final decision, however, legend Major Dhyan Chand — 1998 Bangkok Games. the 2014 Asian come back,” said Chand. “But no-
through the Wrestling Federation would be taken after sports minis- which is being celebrated as Na- India’s only title at the Asiad G a m e s Games, body could guarantee what will
of India (WFI). ter Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore tional Sports Day. came way back in 1982 when over her after happen in the future. Caster Se-
Also, women’s freestyle 52 kg will go through the entire list of Arjuna Awardee Vinesh be- women’s hockey made its debut. hyper- Chisato menya is still fighting.
category gold winner, Vinesh, candidates and their performanc- came the first Indian woman wres- India will now face Japan, who andro- Fukushima “There is always fear but you
could well be considered by the es at the Asiad. A short-list of tler to win a gold in the Asian upset five-time champions South g e n - (Japan , 2010), need to overcome it.”
ministry for her remarkable come- names will be made and forward- Games. She won a bronze medal in Korea 2-0 in the other semifinal. i s m , Esther Rot Chand’s nagging doubts come
back after injury during Rio ed to the selection committee of the 2014 Incheon Asiad. It was not the most fluent of which (ISR, 1974) despite a triumphant appearance
Olympics. National Sports Awards for final Vinesh is also a two-time Com- matches with both India and causes and Mona in Jakarta, where she became the
“Bajrang and Vinesh’s entries nod. monwealth Games gold-medallist, China failing to create opportuni- high testosterone Solaiman first Indian woman since sprint
have not been received by April 30 Going by the tradition followed having won back-to-back titles in ties in the field. “The team surely levels and left her (Philipines, 1962). queen PT Usha in 1986 to win
cut off date but we will have a re- during the Olympics or Asian 2014 and 2018.at Incheon earlier. did not play to its potential in the undergoing trau- medals in both sprint events.
view meeting soon after the Asian Games year, other gold medallists Bajrang also won gold medals in first half. They stepped up in the matic tests to “God has given me a lot of
Games to consider their names,” a such as javelin thrower Neeraj Gold Coast before Jakarta besides second half and I am really hap- prove her gender. Dutee Chand poses trouble since 2014. I suffered a lot.
senior official in the ministry told Chopra or other track and field winning bronze in 2013 World py for these girls,”said India The Indian with her silver medal on Nobody could have suffered so
DNA on Wednesday. stars are also strong contenders to Championship. coach Sjoerd Marijne. —PTI athlete won a Wednesday —AFP much,” said Chand. —PTI
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Pictures ‘n’
hot on heels
Bhuvi takes three
wickets on return
snippets
India’s pace spearhead
Bhuvneshwar Kumar
made an impressive
comeback to competitive
cricket with a three-wick-
et haul for India A, giving
clear indication that he
will be available for selec-
tion during the Asia Cup
in the UAE from Sep 15.
Brief scores: Final:
Australia ‘A’ 225 in 47.5 ov
(D Short 72, A Carey 53; S
Kaul 2/24, N Saini 2/33, S
Gopal 3/50, D Hooda 2/41)
lost to India ‘B’ 230/1 in
36.3 ov (M Agarwal 69, S
Gill 66*, M Pandey 73*)
3rd place play-off: India
6
‘B’ 275/7 in 50 ov (S Iyer
67, A Rayudu 66, N Rana 1 6. Chinese divers perform
30; B Hendricks 3/39) bt the men’s synchronised
South Africa ‘A’ 151 in 37.1 10m platform; 7. Tomohiro
ov (S Muthusamy 40. F Fukaya of Japan
Behardien 38; B Kumar passes Zhou
3/33, D Chahar 2/31, M Yu of China
Markande 2/30) as they
compete in
Lanka arrest 2 Men’s Sprint
Indian spectators cycling
Sri Lankan cricket’s an-
kti-corruption unit de-
tained two Indian specta-
tors on suspicion of
match-fixing during a
7
domestic Twenty20
5
league game, officials
said on Wednesday. The Jakarta Tales
men were apprehended 1. An athlete squeezes a water-soaked sponge
after officials spotted
them behaving suspi-
during the women’s 20km walk on Wednesday;
2. Hong Kong women perform at synchronized
Street urchin Japan cagers Ugly scuffles at
ciously and making re-
peated calls on their mo-
swimming competition; 3. An official Games
photographer comforts Christina Grace Lai of
eyes Tokyo 2020 suspended boxing arena
F F U
bile phones during the Malaysia after she fell during warm ups of the rom runaway street ur- our Japanese basketball gly scuffles broke out in
match between Galle and skateboard women’s park final; 4. Athletes cool chin eating out of a players – Yuya Nagay- the arena between cor-
Dambulla at Pallekele. off as they pass through water spray during trash can to Thai nation- oshi, Takuya Hashimoto, nermen and security
Men’s 20km walk; 5. Indias Sarjubala (blue) al skateboard champion, Takuma Sato and Keita staff after an Iraqi fighter
Holder to lead punches China’s Chang Yuan during the women’s 2 “Oat” Athiwat is a Imamura – kicked lost a split decision to an
Windies in India fly (51 kg) boxing quarterfinal; —Reuters/PTI graduate of life’s out of the Asian Indonesian opponent in
West Indies named Jason school of hard Games for paying their Asian Games ban-
Holder as captain of a knocks. But the prostitutes for sex tamweight boxing quarter-
15-member Test team for 24-year-old, aban- will be suspended for final on Wednesday. Local
the tour of India in Sep- doned by his parents a year, officials said favourite Sunan Agung
tember-November in at a young age and on Wednesday. Amoragam and Iraq’s
which they will play 2 beaten by relatives, is Japan Basketball Jaafar Al Sudani had gone
Tests, 5 ODIs and 3 T20s. daring to dream Association chief toe-to-toe for three pulsat-
The Tests will be played about the 2020 Tokyo Asian Games Yuko Mitsuya told re- ing rounds in Jakarta be-
in Rajkot (Oct 4-8) and Olympics after a 2018 Jakarta Palembang
porters the players fore the Indonesian’s hand
Hyderabad (12-16). ODIs promising fourth- would be barred from was held aloft on a 4-1 deci-
will be in Guwahati (Oct place finish at the official tournaments sion by the five judges.
21), Indore (Oct 24), Pune Asiad. Oat never knew his for a year, adding their ac- While Al Sudani dropped
(Oct 27), Mumbai (Oct 29) mom and his dad left him to tion “damages the honour to his knees distraught at
and Thiruvananthapu- pursue a monk’s life in a and trust of Japan’s sport- losing a medal and Amor-
ram (Nov 1) and the 3 monastery. “I used to eat ing world”. They would be agam celebrated a guaran-
T20Is in Kolkata (Nov 4), anything, even gum on the allowed to take part in teed bronze, his coach and
Kanpur-Lucknow (Nov 6) 4 3 floor or the leftovers I found training, however, Mitsuya cornerman screamed
and Chennai (Nov 11). in the trash bin,” Oat says. added. abuse at the officials.
6
Yuki bows out in Rd 1
Kohli talks against
we started playing a bit bet-
15:00 & 19:00 Euro- No. of men who retired during
ter,” Djokovic said. “I started India’s top singles player Yuki
pean Tour England VS India hitting the ball – before that it Bhambri once again failed to clear
matches on Tuesday, when
the US Tennis Association
Fourth Test, Rose Bowl, Southampton was survival mode.” Djokovic the first round hurdle of a Grand
ff the field
experiments in formats
instituted an “extreme heat” rule
missed last year’s US Open Slam, losing to Frenchman Pierre
Live on Sony Six, Sony Ten 3, 3:30pm onwards because of high temperatures and
with a right elbow injury. Hugues Herbert in straight sets.
humidity
India look to tighten noose around England Federer, the second seed, Bhambri, who is world No. 96,
1 London: India captain Virat part of “one more format”. team news
launched his quest for a sixth
US Open title – and a first
lost 3-6 6-7(3) 5-7 to Herbert in a Did you kn w?
match that lasted nearly two-and-a-
Kohli feels cricket is losing “Obviously for the people England: Seamer Sam Curran India: Virat Kohli hints at playing since 2008 – not under the half hours. The India No. 1 did put At 39, Switzerland’s Patty Schnyder
out on quality because of the involved (ECB) in the whole replaces Chris Woakes, who has an unchanged 11 for the first time blazing sun but under the up a fight in the second and third was the oldest female qualifier in
“commercial aspects” which process and the set-up it will thigh issue. Moeen Ali comes in in his Test captaincy. R Ashwin has floodlights on Ashe against sets but that wasn’t enough to beat Grand Slam history. She went on to
are taking over the game and be really exciting but I can- place of Ollie Pope in the 11. Jonny recovered from hip injury. India Japan’s Yoshihito Nishioka. the world No 75. —PTI lose 1st round to Maria Sharapova
also criticised proposed ex- not think of one more for- Bairstow will play as batsman with will be keen to maintain winning The Swiss great eased into
2 periments such as the 100-
ball format being pushed by
mat, to be honest,” Kohli
said. “Honestly, I don’t want
Jos Buttler keeping wickets. momentum in this Test also. the second round, beating
Nishioka 6-2 6-2 6-4 to im-
seedwatch
the England and Wales Crick- to be a testing sort of a crick- Key contest prove his perfect record in Men: 1-R Federer (SUI) bt Y Nishioka (JPN) 6-2 6-2 6-4, 7-M Cilic
et Board (ECB). eter for any new format. I Alastair Cook vs Ishant Sharma US Open first-round matches (CRO) bt M Copil (ROM) 7-5 6-1 1-1 (retd), F Tiafoe (USA) bt 29-A
Kohli, who leads India don’t want to be someone with his 18th win in 18 at- Mannarino (FRA) 6-1 6-4 4-6 6-4, J Benneteau (FRA) bt 22-M
across all three formats also who’s going to be part of that The England opener is not in the best of form, tempts. Cecchinato (ITA) 2-6 7-6(5) 6-3 6-4, 10-D Goffin (BEL) bt F Gaio (ITA)
3 plays the BCCI’s marquee World XI who comes and and has been falling often to Indian pacer Ishant.
Cook’s place in the 11 is debated and he needs 1 good knock to silence
“I’m very happy to be back 6-2 6-4 7-6(5), 13-D Schwartzman (ARG) bt F Del Bonis (ARG) 6-2
flagship event the Indian Pre- launches the 100-ball for- in New York healthy,” said 7-6(6) 6-2, 21-K Nishikori (JPN) bt M Marterer (GER) 6-2 6-2 6-3, M
mier League for six weeks, mat.” all. But Ishant will look to add one more Cook scalp. Federer, who claimed five Ebden (AUS) bt 32-F Krajinovic (SRB) 7-6(1) 6-7(5) 4-6 6-1 4-1
making for a very exhaustive Kohli also explained the straight US Open titles from (retd), 4-A Zverev (GER) bt P Polansky (CAN) 6-2 6-1 6-2, 6-N
HEAD TO HEAD: Played: 120, England: 45, India 26, Drawn: 49
schedule. “I’m already very, I difference between leagues 2004-2008 but missed the 2016 Djokovic (SRB) bt M Fucsovics (HUN) 6-3 3-6 6-4 6-0, 17-L Pouille
wouldn’t say, frustrated, but like IPL or Big Bash League Pitch report: Green top has been laid What to expect? India edition and only made it to (FRA) bt Y Maden (GER) 7-6(6) 6-2 7-5, 12-P Carreno-Busta (ESP) bt
sometimes it can get very de- from the proposed 100-ball out. The grass is live and not believe that they can now win the quarter-finals last year. M Jaziri (TUN) 7-5 6-2 6-2, 14-F Fognini (ITA) bt M Mmoh (USA) 4-6
manding of you when you format. “I love playing the sprinkled to give it the look. So, the series following their bril- In the women’s singles, 6-2 6-4 7-6(4), 23-C Hyeon (KOR x23) bt R Berankis (LTU) 4-6 7-6(6)
have to play so much cricket IPL, I love watching the BBL, pacers will look to strike a lot. liant victory in the third Test. Maria Sharapova shattered 6-0 2-0 (retd), 30-N Kyrgios (AUS) bt R Albot (MDA) 7-5 2-6 6-4 6-2
regularly. I feel somewhere because you are working to- Their pacers will look to make the fairytale return of
Weather report: Should be early inroads into the brittle Women: 6-C Garcia (FRA) bt J Konta (GBR) 6-2 6-2, 30-C Suarez
the commercial aspect is tak- wards something, competing 39-year-old Patty Schnyder at
perfect for Test cricket with sun England top-order. The Indian (ESP) bt N Gibbs (USA) 5-7 6-3 6-4, 22-M Sharapova (RUS) bt P
ing over the real quality of against high-quality sides the US Open on Tuesday, win-
coming out and the occasional batsmen will get their act Schnyder (SUI) 6-2 7-6(6), 10-J Ostapenko (LAT) bt A Petkovic (GER)
cricket and that hurts me,” and it gets your competitive ning a roller-coaster first
cloudy skies without rain threat a pos- together and not overburden 6-4 4-6 7-5, 14-M Keys (USA) bt P Parmentier (FRA) 6-4 6-4, K
Kohli told the Wisden Cricket juices flowing. That’s what round clash 6-2 7-6(6).
sibility Virat Kohli once again. Flipkens (BEL) bt 24-C Vandeweghe (USA) 6-3 7-6(3), 29-D Cibulkova
Monthly. you want as a cricketer. I am Schnyder was outgunned
While the ECB is starting all for the leagues, but not to Watchability quotient: (1-3: by the five-time major cham- (SVK) bt A Rus (NED) 4-6 6-2 6-3, 4-A Kerber (GER) bt M Gasparyan
(RUS) 7-6(5) 6-3, 26-A Sabalenka (BLR) bt D Collins (USA) 6-0 4-6
8
Send in your answers to a new 100-ball format, which experiment.” Forget it ; 4-7: If you have Punter Point: pion in the first set and for
sportsdna@gmail.com. Names of has drawn flak from all quar- Kohli said that he would nothing else to do; 8 and England 10/11, India the majority of the second. 6-4, 11-D Kasatkina (RUS) bt T Babos (HUN) 6-4 5-7 6-4, 13-K Bertens
the first 10 winners will be published ters, the Indian skipper an- love to play first-class cricket above: do not miss it) 13/8, Draw 5/1 However, she battled back (NED) bt K Plískova (CZE) 6-0 7-5, K Siniakova (CZE) bt 28-A Kontaveit
tomorrow nounced that he won’t be a in England. —PTI from 1-5 down to 6-6. —AFP (EST) 6-7(3) 6-3 7-5, L Tsurenko (UKR) bt AV Uytvanck (BEL) 6-3 6-2
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ALIA’S STOPOVER Alia Bhatt, who joins Ayan Mukerji and Ranbir Kapoor for the next schedule of
Brahmastra in Bulgaria, took a stopover in London. A source said that the petite
actress, who is ruling the ranks in Hindi cinema, was in the UK capital yesterday
IN LONDON to spend time with her mother, Soni Razdan. Ranbir was also expected to fly to
Bulgaria via London, but he flew out of Mumbai a day later.
A
Nayandeep Rakshit haan Panday, Chunky Panday’s
nephew, still has a few years currently
E
ver since
Aishwarya Rai
before he makes his Bollywood
debut, but the young lad is
preparing to make
Bachchan returned quite popular on social media. The their debut on the
to the silver screen same holds true for Manushi Chillar,
with Jazbaa (2015), who was crowned Miss World last silver screen
she has been year. Apparently, both of them have
taking measured steps. In the last become close friends over the past few
three years, she has been a part of months.
four projects. The diva is clear Says a source, “Ahaan and
that she wants to do movies that Manushi, who hang out with the same
will help her portray diverse bunch of friends, bonded at a common
characters and make the audience buddy’s party. Since then, they have
see her in a new light. She talks to stayed in touch and have become the
After Hrs about the films that she
Abhishek best of friends. In fact, Ahaan was
has greenlit and the ones that are had taken a even present to ring in Manushi’s
still being worked on. birthday earlier this year (May 14).”
small break Reportedly, Manushi was dating
Couple shenanigans to review his model Rohit Khandelwal, but that
After the recently-released
Fanney Khan, Ash will be seen in
work. It was buzz died down a few months ago.
“Rohit had won the Mr World pageant
Anurag Kashyap’s Gulab Jamun a good move and he apparently helped Manushi
opposite Abhishek Bachchan. The because I train for her Miss World stint. They
former beauty queen is excited to were reportedly close to each other
share screen space with her think every for some time before they went
hubby after eight years. They professional their separate ways owing to some
were last seen together in Mani differences,” adds the source.
Ratnam’s Raavan (2010). Ash
should do As for Ahaan, he has signed a
reveals, “I agreed on it early last that. He just three-film deal with a big banner
year. At that time, Abhishek had and is currently readying himself
taken a small break to review his
wanted to sit for showbiz. Manushi, too, is gear-
work. It was a good move because back and ing up for a career in movies. A
I think every professional should
do that. He just wanted to sit back
decide what common friend of the two youngsters
tells us, “They just love hanging out
and decide what he wanted to do he wanted to together.” Guess we have two new
next.” She adds, “He chose do next friends in B-Town!
Manmarziyaan then, and now
with Anurag directing this one
(Gulab Jamun) too, people have
incidentally put it together and
there have been a lot of re-men-
tions. We will set the plan to do
this one soon.” Aishwarya Rai Bachchan Ahaan Panday
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BOX-OFFICE REPORT
‘I want to make An average August
Majnu aspirational’ for Bollywood
Avinash Tiwary on playing an impassioned This month’s BO collections showed mixed results August 2018 BO
lover in his forthcoming film Meena Iyer offering that week was the August 3:
Fanney Khan: `10.50 cr
A
much-talked-about Mulk, a
ugust is over! And, just film that spoke up for the Mulk: `20.05 cr
Ashwini Sawant/DNA
Hiren Kotwani one film, Gold, crossed Indian Muslim community. Karwaan: `18.26 cr
A
the coveted `100-cr Veteran actor Rishi Kapoor
vinash Tiwary, mark in the last 29 turned in an award-winning August 10:
who made his days. The month that looked performance as a Muslim Vishwaroop II:
Bollywood debut extraordinarily promising man who feels ‘ostracised’ (Hindi) `4.08 cr
as part of an at the start, due to a in his own country.
ensemble cast in the light- number of high-profile However, all three August 15:
hearted Tu Hai Mera releases, was a letdown films met with an Gold: `99.60 cr (till
Sunday (2016), will now be for the most part. indifferent fate. “The Tuesday, August 28)
seen as the lead in Sajid For a quick rewind: hype didn’t carry Satyameva Jayate:
Ali’s Laila Majnu. Fanney Khan, starring through,” observed a `74.20 cr (till Tuesday,
Scripted by acclaimed Anil Kapoor, Aishwarya trade source. Veteran August 28)
filmmaker Imtiaz Ali, Rai Bachchan and trade analyst Taran
who is also backing the Rajkummar Rao, opened Adarsh had tweeted, August 24:
film along with Ekta in cinemas on August 3. “Terrible terrible Happy Phirr Bhag Jayegi:
Kapoor, it’s a contempo- The musical drama, terrible Friday... `14.80 cr (till Tuesday,
rary retelling of the helmed by Atul New Hindi August 28)
classic love story. The Manjrekar, was accompa- films open to Genius: `3.90 cr
Mumbai lad, who quit nied by Akarsh Khurana’s shockingly low (till Tuesday, August 28)
engineering in the road-adventure drama, numbers (sic).”
fourth semester to pur- Karwaan, toplined by Irrfan For the full *BO figures are India Nett
sue a career in acting, Akshay Kumar has added another and Malayalam sensation story, log on to John Abraham’s Satyameva Jayate Collections collated from
tells us about strug- `100-crore movie to his Dulquer Salmaan. The third www.dnaindia.com released on the same day as Gold reliable trade sources
gling for 13 years filmography with Gold
before landing his big
I
audition, but they were yet Gold in women’s freestyle 50 kg wrestling
to take the final call. Even- ndia is having a glorious moment
tually, in 2017, I was signed at the Asian Games 2018 that are
No medals for guessing that she is related to Geeta Phogat
on for the part. underway in Indonesian cities
and Babita Kumari. The wrestlers’ cousin (she is their father
Avinash Tiwary Mahavir Phogat’s younger brother Rajpal’s daughter) became
zz After debuting in Tu Jakarta and Palembang. So far,
Hai Mera Sunday, the our sportspersons have gifted us
the first Indian woman to gain the topmost position in the
struggle and waiting for with the bragging rights for a total of
freestyle 50 kg segment. She is also the first Indian woman
a second film must have
When was the last time you saw a 50 medals — nine gold, 19 silver and
wrestler to win gold in Commonwealth Games.
been tough. guy go really crazy in love in a film? 22 bronze, catapulting the nation to
I had quit engineering
and joined Barry John’s
Our movie shows that jo junooniyat the eighth position at the sporting
event. Here’s who had won the
Acting Studio. After that, hai, woh jab kissi din nikale aati hai, toh laurels till the time of going to press.
I went to New York Film kya ho sakta hai. Majnu is so liberated
Academy and started
doing short films since from the clutches of society
2005. I kept myself busy.
By the grace of God,
Neeraj Chopra
something or the other gracious enough to call Then, headed to the kitch- Gold in men’s javelin throw
kept coming. So 13 years me home. Back then, I en and made it himself. I This was the track and field athlete’s debut at the Asian
down the line, I can say I thought I had almost been just couldn’t believe it. I’m Games, and he was also the flag bearer at the opening
have started off now. selected for his movie, but a huge fan of Imtiaz. ceremony. The almost 21-year-old sportsman from Haryana
zz Tell us about your still wasn’t entirely sure. I Every time I see his films, became the first Indian to win gold in this category. He
first meeting with was nervous, but he was I want to be a part of cleared a distance of 88.06m and broke his own record
Imtiaz Ali. so humble. He asked me if them. of 86.47m at 2018 Commonwealth Games where he had
It was in 2016; he was I would like to have tea. Contd on P13 secured the same spot. Like Milkha Singh, he was a winner For the full story, log on
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abhishek.bhalla@dnaindia.net Pune cops claim Varavara procured New Delhi: A panel headed
by Home Secretary Rajeev
Swachh: PM Modi
New Delhi: In 2012, the UPA
government identified 128 or-
arms, other two recruited from TISS Gauba has prepared a report
on the possibility of a new law
Lucknow: On the third
and final day of his inter-
ganisations in urban areas Anurag Bende that not only has Varavara to target the menace of mob action with the party
with Naxal links and had anurag.bende@dnaindia.net Rao raised funds for Maoist lynching, and presented it to workers in his Parlia-
asked states to initiate action activities, but has even a Group of Ministers (GoM). mentary constituency
against them, the Pune police Pune: Before the Supreme played an active role in pro- It has also issued guidelines to Varanasi, Prime Minis-
ISRO chairman K Sivan has informed the Centre in a Court’s directions reached curing firearms for Maoists social media platforms to ter Narendra Modi asked
report on the alleged ‘urban the Pune court, the Pune in the country. Pawar also check rumours and hate mon- them not to use social
Naxal’ arrests. The report adds police informed the court told the court that along gering. The panel’s recom- media for ‘spreading dirt’
Definitely, in my
1 opinion, in the ISRO
activity, industry is
that those arrested by Maha-
rashtra police recently were
that they have strong evi-
dence suggesting they were
with Rao, the names of
other two arrested accused
mendations are likely to be
taken up by the GoM headed
but instead share the
good things happening
part of these organisations. ‘waging a war against the — Gonsalves and Ferreira by Home Minister Rajnath around the country. In
going to play a major role.
The investigation in the country’. Submitting near- — have also cropped up in Singh, sources said. his first-ever interaction
If only the industry is taking
current arrests goes back to ly nine letters in court, pub- letters, mentioning recruit- The panel met representa- over Namo App with par-
the load, ISRO can work out
the Bhima-Koregaon riots on lic prosecutor Ujjwala Pa- ing young professionals tives of various social media ty workers, he said that
on human space programme
December 31, 2017. “Seven of Protestors shout slogans after being detained while demonstrating against war stated that some letters from institutes like TISS. platforms, and asked them to the issue was not con-
and research and develop-
those arrested till now — Var- the arrest of Varavara Rao in Hyderabad —PTI set up a portal to let people cerning any ideology or
ment activities.
avara Rao, Sudha Bhardwaj, register complaints regard- political party. “We must
arrest sheet
Delhi HC questions why
The industry should Surendra Gadling, Rona Wil- ing objectionable content. “It train all party workers to
2 help in manufactur-
ing PSLV as well as
son, Arun Ferreira, Vernon
Gonsalves and Mahesh Raut Earlier in the case,
was felt that further meas-
ures are required for moni-
refrain from doing so.
There are times when
SSLV. ISRO had already — all belong to these organisa- five people were arrested toring content and cyber po- people overstep their lim-
Parrikar heads
to US again
for treatment
Panaji/Mumbai: Goa Chief
Minister Manohar Parri-
kar, who is currently admit-
ted to a private hospital in
Mumbai, flew to the US on
Wednesday evening for fur-
ther medical treatment as he
has developed “some compli-
cations”, state Assembly
Speaker Pramod Sawant said.
Parrikar left for the US at
5 pm, Sawant told reporters
in Panaji. “Some complica-
tions have developed due to
which Parrikar is going to
the US for treatment. His con-
dition is stable and we need
not worry,” he said.
Sawant said the chief min-
ister was expected to be back
in Goa within a week.
The chief minister under-
went treat-
ment in the US
for three
months earlier
this year for a
pancreatic ail-
ment and re-
turned in
June. He went
there again for a follow-up
earlier this month.
He was admitted to the Li-
lavati Hospital in Mumbai for
a review health checkup on
August 23, a day after he re-
turned from the US, and was
scheduled to return to Goa on
Wednesday.
A senior official in the
Chief Minister’s Office said in
the morning that Parrikar
would leave for the US from
Mumbai in a flight later in the
day. “The official charge of the
post of chief minister will re-
main with him (Parrikar).
There is no need to hand over
the charge to anyone,” he said.
BJP’s Goa spokesperson
Siddharth Kuncalienkar said
Parrikar developed some in-
digestion problem while trav-
elling. “He will go to the US,
consult doctors and will re-
turn soon.” —PTI