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The sky is Land records will now be

the limit, linked to digital maps
colour no bar Statetorevampownership
paperswithdronesurveydata
RTC and the maps are independents. If a
land is bifurcated, we can’t say which RTC
has which map,” Commissioner for Sur-
vey, Settlement and Land Records Munish
Moudgil explained.
PriyankaChopra ▼ “Now, our drones have fl flown for about
a month. We have to digitise whatever the
Jonasisback EXCLUSIVE drones have captured, obtain images and
correlate them with our manual maps.
withanuancedand BHARATH JOSHI
BENGALURU, DHNS
Then, the maps will be printed along with
the RTCs,” he said. “Once georeferenced,
maturerole any sub-division (hissa) created will keep

V
illages in Ramanagaram and Tu-
SundayHerald makuru will soon get geo-refer-
enced land ownership documents
The Power of Good as Karnataka slowly migrates from pa-
per-based to map-based digital records
thanks to the ongoing drone-based survey.
In partnership with the
Survey of India, Karnata-
ka is surveying Tumakuru,
Hassan, Uttara Kannada,
Belagavi, Ramanagar-
am and Bengaluru using
drones at a cost of Rs 125
crore, which authorities
say is a first-of-its-kind ex-
ercise in India.
The immediate outcome is that the re-
cord of rights, tenancy and crops (RTC)
or “pahani”, will not only be updated but
also geo-referenced, meaning they will be
digitally linked with the lands.
RTC is an important document contain-
ing owners’ details, area, soil ttyype, nature
of possession of the land, liabilities, crops
grown and so on.
“Imagine life without Google Maps.
That’s how it is currently as we rely on maps
from 1964 that represent undivided lands.
The hissas created after 1964 have manu-
al maps, which aren’t even digitised. Also,
getting refl
flected in the RTCs.”
About half a dozen villages in Ramana-
garam and Tumakuru districts, each, will
get the new RTCs for agricultural lands.
These RTCs, Moudgil pointed out, will be
the first ones generated based on a drone
survey. “It is truly a revo-
lution,”he said. “All facets
of land planning and man-
agement will undergo a
huge change.”
It was in February this
year that Karnataka for-
mally inked an agreement
with the Survey of India to
take up a technology-driv-
en, drone-based survey. The last revenue
survey in the state happened between
1955 and 1966. According to the Karna-
taka Land Revenue Act, there has to be a
survey once every 30 years, according to
which Karnataka was to have been sur-
veyed last in 1996. The first phase of the
survey is expected to finish in ttwwo years.
The next phase will cover Vijayapura, Kod-
agu, Dharwad, Dakshina Kannada, Mys-
uru, Gadag, Davangere and Kalaburagi.
“The survey in Bengaluru will start any-
time, but we thought we will first finish the
rural side,” Moudgil said.

Unrecognised colleges are jeopardising students’ careers. REPRESENTATIVE PICTURE

Scamsthr hriveun
unchecked Give us entire Ayodhya area: Hindu parties to SC
NEW DELHI, DHNS: The Hindu parties on
Saturday asked the Supreme Court to Six arrested for

iin
n educati
tionsy
system
grant them the entire disputed site of 2.77 murder of Hindu leader
acres and other acquired area at Ayodhya
so that they can “build a grand temple” The Gujarat ATS on Saturday arrested
at the site they revere as the birthplace of six people, including three in Surat,
Lord Rama. in connection with the murder of
Maintaining that a temple continued to Kamlesh Tiwari, founder of Hindu
exist at the site as per archaeological evi- Samaj Party, in UP. ATS officials said
(UGC) has recently declared NIMS as a disciplines without any approval of the But, no action is taken against those dence, Ram Lalla said the plea by the Mus- the motive behind the murder was
fake universityty and issued a public notice technical education regulator. institutions that are not recognised. lim parties for reconstructing the mosque Tiwari’s speeches insulting Prophet
Studentsofunrecognised on October 7. Interestingly, of a total 264 such unap- “What can we do? Our mandate is was inequitable and unjust, besides being Muhammad. Page 11

educationinstitutionsare Operating since 1998, NIMS is believed proved institutions across the country,
to have enrolled hundreds of students 64 are operating from Delhi alone, right
to approve technical programmes. We
cannot cross our limits and take action
contrarytoHinduDharmaandIslamiclaw.
The top court had on October 16 re- General K Parasaran and senior advocate
leftinthelurchastheir and awarded degrees to them. But the under the nose of the UGC and AICTE.
UGC did not initiate any legal proceed- Uttar Pradesh has eight fake universities
against institutions offering technical
courses without our approval. We write
served its judgement on appeals filed
against the Allahabad HC judgement and
C S Vaidyanathan for Ram Lalla contended
that ‘Nirmohi Akhara’had disentitled itself
degreesholdnovalue ing against it for violation of the law. As a operating in the state and 24 unrecog- to the states when we receive a complaint asked the parties to submit their note on to any relief by questioning the very status
result, though the institute has stopped nised higher education institutions offer- requesting them to take action,” AICTE ‘moulding of relief’f’, which can be given in of ‘Ram Janmasthan’as a juristic entity
ty and
▼ admitting students, for ing degree programmes vice-chairman M P Poonia told DH. case the judgement is not in favour. for setting up a claim adverse of deity
ty.

PRAKASH KUMAR
now, it is alleged that
it continues to operate
INSIGHT in engineering, man-
agement, architecture
► Fake Institutions, Page 4 The note settled by former Attorney ► Ayodhya, Page 7

DH NEWS SERVICE surreptitiously. and other technical

With the entry of NIMS disciplines for the past

F
rom the second fl floor of a four-
storey commercial building located
at a busy market area in Janakpuri,
Delhi, the National Institute of Manage-
ment Solutions (NIMS) operates and pro-
duces ‘highly skilled’engineers, manage-
ment professionals and other graduates.
Though it is not authorised under the
law to award a degree, the institute offers
a range of undergraduate and postgradu-
ate degree programmes in engineering,
management and other disciplines, pri-
marily in online and distance education
modes. It also provides hands-on training
to its students ‘offl
fline’in three-four small
classrooms on its premises.
“I did BBA from NIMS in 2011. At the
time of admission, they told me that their
programmes are recognised by the gov-
ernment. But, when I applied for an MBA
at another higher-education institute, my
application was rejected. They said my
BBA certificate was not valid,”said one of
the victims, requesting anonymity ty.
The University Grants Commission
in the UGC’s list of fake several years.
universities, the total “We are aware of their
number of such institu- existence and also keep
tions in the country has warning the students. It
now reached 24. is difficult to act against
Most of these fake uni- Karnataka in ‘top them as nothing is found
versities on the UGC list 5’ illegal education at the addresses men-
maintained and updated tioned as their office,’’
for morethan ttw wo decades institutions list, an official of the higher
are not operating from PAGE 4 educationdepartmentin
their original locations. Uttar Pradesh said when
While the officials of the UGC have no asked for a response on the issue.
clue about these universities now, some of The UGC Act, 1956 clearly provides
the officials in the Ministry of Human Re- that no institution other than a univer-
source Development suspect they might sity ty established under a central, state or
be operating from some other location provincial Act, an institution declared as
with different names “which would only deemed-to-be-university ty under Section 3
come to light when someone lodges any of the UGC Act, and an institution, espe-
complaint.” ciallyempoweredbyanActofParliament,
The All India Council for Technical can award degrees.
Education (AICTE) has a much bigger As per the AICTE regulations, it is
list of private institutes, most of which mandatory for the institutions to get the
are openly operating and offering degree approval of the Council to offer degree
programmes in engineering, manage- programmes in engineering, manage-
ment, architecture and other technical ment and other technical disciplines.

21-yr
yr-old di
dies dur
uriinng Soon, J&K cops to be armed to the teeth
ramp walklk tr
trials ZULFIKAR MAJID
BENGALURU, DHNS: A 21-year-old MBA SRINAGAR, DHNS Shot in the arm
student collapsed and died due to sus- * Latest bulletproof vehicles and
pected cardiac arrest while she was prac- The Centre has sanctioned a whopping bulletproof chest shields
tising a ramp walk for a fashion parade Rs 1,000 crore to the Jammu and Kash-
ahead of the “Freshers mir Police for the purchase of latest * 50 modern armoured vehicles
Day” at her college in bulletproof vehicles, bulletproof chest with GPS
Peenya on Saturday. shields and sophisticated weaponry to * Brand new first-aid kit and special
The student, Shalini, deal with the challenge of militancy ef- helmets
was a first-year MBA fectively in the strife-torn state. * Police to be given commando
student of AIMS College Sources revealed to DH that the deci- courses, anti-militancy training
in Peenya and was prac- sion to modernise the police force was
tising the walk with her Shalini taken in a recent securityty review in New
batch mates. She was Delhi, where National Security ty Advisor and J&K,” they said. To being with, J&K
the daughter of Rajan and Ambika from Ajit Doval was also present. “It was de- Police will get a fflleet of 50 armoured ve-
Srirampuram cided to upgrade the J&K police force in hicles equipped with GPS.
► Student, Page 3A both Union Territories (UTs)—Ladakh ► J&K, Page 8

NEXT-GEN COMBAT

B’lurustartup,HALteam-upfordronebattle
AKHIL KADIDAL
BENGALURU, DHNS
DEADLY UAVs
l HAL’s Flight Operations Unit

T
oiling in secret at the Hindustan
Aeronautics Limited (HAL), test
pilots and engineers are working
on a next-generation unmanned aerial
vehicle project, which could see kami-
kaze drones destroy missile sites even
as other aircraft-sized drones engage
targets over the battlefield.
The technology might sound like the
stuff of science fiction, except that it is
just around the corner, according to
Group Captain Harsh Vardan Thakur
of HAL’s Flight Operations Unit. He
developing advanced UAVs
l Project brainchild of startup
NewSpace Research and
Technologies
l Alpha-S, an air-launched
swarm drone system, under
Delegates at the Synergia Conclave development
look at an image of drones.
l Another UAV being tested is
was speaking about the project at a robot wingman, an unmanned
conference organised by the Synergia aircraft half the size of a regular
Foundation in Bengaluru on Saturday. fighter
► Drones, Page 8
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October 20, 2019

JANASPANDANA:MLA
LA A
ArrvindLimbaval
alipromisessolutiontoMah
ahadevapura’sgar
arbageproblems

Mahadevapura MLA Arvind Limbavali speaks at Janaspandana -Citizens For Change, a civic grievance redress programme hosted by DH and Prajavani in association with the Prestige The event drew a large number of residents from nearby
Tranquility Apartment Owners’ Association, at Budigere Cross on Saturday. (R) A resident raises questions about civic infrastructure. DH PHOTOS/KRISHNAKUMAR P S apartment complexes. DH PHOTO/KRISHNAKUMAR P S

Was
aste plant soon to keep IT hub spic and span
BENGALURU, DHNS
C
ontrolled by gram
panchayats that have
limited resources, some
of the localities on the eastern
outskirts of Bengaluru are
faced with complex urban
problems such as garbage dis-
posal and poor sanitation.
But amid the disorder that
surrounds the collection and
segregationofgarbageinthese
areas, a solution is on the way.
A waste-processing plant is
coming up at Doddabanahalli
inBidarahallihobli,Bengaluru
East taluk.
The plant will handle both
wet and solid waste from the
IT hub of Mahadevapura
whichisdottedwithapartment
complexes, villas and gated
communities just outside the
BBMP limits.
Announcing this on Sat-
urday, Mahadevapura MLA
A
ArrvindLimbavalisaidthework
ontheplant wouldstartsoonas
therequiredlandwasreadyfor
construction. Environmental
NGO Hasiru Dala would help
run the plant.
He was interacting with the
residents of apartment com-
Experts to check water
plexes in and around
BudigereCross,Off ‘Removest
s orm
r waterdr
d ai
ain
HoskoteRoad,at
Janaspandana encroachm
h ents
t in
i amonth’
- Citizens For
Change, a
civic griev-
ance re-
Stressing that the work on
connecting stormwater
drains is the minor irri-
ments within a month.
The Mahadevapura
assembly constituency has
treated at apartment STPs
T
dress pro- gation department’s job, four stormwater drain he authorities face a pe- quality
ty is good,
gramme Limbavali promised to get netw
t orks — two major and culiarproblemaboutthe it can be let into
organised the project completed in a two minor, according to of- waterrecycledat sewage nearby lakes
by DH and phased manner. But when ficials. Limbavali asked for treatmentplants(STPs)inhun- through storm-
Prajavani residents complained linking up all the networks dredsofapartmentcomplexes water drains,”
in associa- about encroachment on by clearing the encroach- outside the BBMP limits. he said.
tion with the the drains, he summoned ments so that rainwater Instead of recharging Kiran Manjunath K G Bhagwat Col (retd)
Prestige Tran- the survey officials and will easily percolate groundwater,thetreatedwater Patil K G Bhagwat,
quillity
ty Apartment directed them to survey down the lakes and help is going waste because there president,
Owners’Association. and remove the encroach- recharge groundwater. is no stormwater drain net- He was speaking at the PTAOA,saidthesewagetreat-
He hoped the plant would work that could link the lakes Janaspandana - Citizens For ment plant located in their
helpclearthefast-mushroom- invariousgrampanchayatson Change programme organ- apartment complex had the
ing garbage the outskirts of the city
ty. ised by DH and Prajavani in capacity to store nine lakh li-
black spots. Khata
K t cam
a ptohelp Acknowledging the prob- association with the Prestige tres of treated water. The rest,
According
to the BJP propert
rty own
w ers lem, Mahadevapura MLA
Arvind Limbavali on Saturday
Tranquility Apartment Own-
ers’Association(PTAOA)near
includingtherainwater,would
just run through the adjoining
legislator, the Mahadevapura MLA ers. Still, many residents directedtheofficialsoftheBen- Budigere Cross. areas, he added.
chief minister Arvind Limbavali prom- have complained that they galuru Urban zilla panchayat “Unless certified by recog- Speaking about the ex-
has called a ised to hold a khata camp have not yet received them. tosetupacommitteetocertify fy nised experts, the treated wa- cess run-off during rainy
meeting on Sources in the Bengaluru at the apartment com- Some have also com- the quality
ty of water treated at ter cannotbereleasedintoany days, Kiran, a member of the
Monday to address the gar- Urban zilla panchayat con- plex within a fortnight to plained about errors in the apartments located in various lake,” the MLA said and asked PTAOA, called for netw tworking
bage problems faced by the firmed to this newspaper that address the problems faced khata, which is leading to grampanchayatsofhisassem- the CEO of the Bengaluru drains.
residentsofMitaganahalliand a survey of the land had been by propertyt owners. “Offi- problems in establishing blyconstituency.Once experts Urban zilla panchayat to con- Manjunath Patil, another
Mandur gram panchayats. “I completed and entries made cials have briefed me that address proof,”Limbav- certify the quality of water, a stitute an expert committee resident, said that on rainy
hope the problem will be inrevenuerecordstofacilitate they have been issuing ali said and promised the decision will be taken about that could visit these apart- days, their area resembled an
addressed scientifically,” he thesettingupofthewaste-pro- khatas to all property
t own- khata camp. releasingittothenearbylakes, ments and test the samples ocean with the sudden ffllow of
added. cessing unit. he added. of treated water. “If the water stagnated rainwater.

Police arrest notorious car Metro train

halted after
TREAT FOR ORCHID LOVERS

thief, recover 16 vehicles smoke incident

The suspect took to stealing cars after the Tamil Nadu police allegedly framed him
in a false case of vehicle theft. SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
that Parameshwaran’s wife,
Thereare40cases anadvocate,wouldgethimout
wheneverhe landedintrouble.
againsthiminTN, According to the police, the
accused took to car theft after
GoaandKarnataka theTamil Nadu policealleged-
ly foisted a false case of vehicle
▼ theft on him.
BENGALURU, DHNS Enraged, Parameshwaran
decided to take revenge on the
plates and vehicle documents.
But the duo’s run of luck
cametoanendwhentheywere
arrested by the Hulimavu vu po-
lice, who were following a se-
ries of theft cases.
Thepolicekeptaclosewatch
on the duo and nabbed them
when they were moving suspi-
ciously to steal a vehicle.
BENGALURU, DHNS: Smoke
emanating from the under-
side of a train forced BM-
RCL officials to deboard
passengers at the Swami
Vivekananda Road metro
stationonSaturdayevening.
Theincidentcametolight
after Kashyap Jagadeesh, a
commuter, posted a short
video of the incident on so-
cialmedia,askingofficialsto
spell out the specific reason
for the glitch.
Jagadeeshsuspectedthat
the smoke emanated from
a battery or a low-tension
earth box (LTEB). Passen-
gers had to wait for the next
train to continue their trip.
Officials of the Bangalore
Metro Rail Corporation

T
he southeast division
police have arrested a
notorious inter-state
car thief and his associate,
and recovered 16 cars worth
Rs 1.7 crore stolen from in and
around Bengaluru.
The accused Paramesh-
waran (38), hailing from
Madurai, was arrested by the
Tamil Nadu police eight years
ago on charges of recording
private videos of women and
blackmailing them.
A senior police officer said
Tamil Nadu police and began
stealing vehicles. There are
as many as 40 cases of vehicle
thefts against him in Tamil
Nadu, Goa and Karnataka.
The accused joined hands
with his associate Saddam
Hussain, a 28-year-old from
Chennai, and both became
expertsinstealingcarsparked
outside houses.
Theaccusedwouldthentake
thevehiclestoChennaiandsell
them through their contacts
after forging the registration
During interrogation, the
policealsocametoknowabout
a theft Parameshwaran had
committed in Haveri.
Recently, the ace car thief
had stolen a vehicle and was
heading to Goa when he met
with a road accident and was
badly injured.
But he still managed to es-
cape from the spot.
Based on the information,
the police contacted their
counterparts in Haveri to re-
cover the vehicle.
Limited were not available
for comment.
Reacting to the inci-
dent, Suryanarayana Mur-
thy, president, BMRCL
Employees’ Union, said of-
ficials needed to focus more
on maintenance issues.
“Poor maintenance will af-
fect the operations, as seen
from the incident. Instead
of focusing on the interior
design,officialsneedtolook
at the maintenance issues,” The two-day orchid show organised by The Orchid Society of Karnataka opened at the MH Marigowda Hall, Lalbagh, on
he added. Saturday, drawing many visitors. Various orchid species and hybrid varieties were put up for display. DH PHOTOS/S K DINESH

YOUNG AND SUFFERING

30thenew50inbreastcancer,saydoctors Meeti
ting cancer pati
tients an
eyeopener for reformed d
drrug addi
dicts
RESHMA RAVISHANKER gy, Manipal Hospital. She said the girl wai Memorial Institute of Oncology,
BENGALURU, DHNS — who had reached the advance stage said rising breast cancer among young
pretty
t early — was operated upon women has larger social implications.

A
girl aged 18 found a lump in her after several sessions of “A 19-year-old patient
right breast and her family said chemotherapy. came to us. She was engaged BENGALURU, DHNS es due to substance abuse. A ‘Must meet regularly’
it would be fine with age and Though she said it when she was diagnosed with senior police officer said it was Jurisdictional police inspec-

over time.
However, just to clear their doubts,
they visited the family doctor, who
also assured that age is on her side
and there is not much to worry. The
doctor did not ask her to undergo a
mammography.
But the family’s relief did not last
long. Weeks later, the breast swelled
and caused terrible discomfort to the
girl. She consulted an oncologist and a
biopsy report confirmed it was cancer.
“That isn’t the age when you sus-
pect cancer. She was just out of school
and entered college,” said Dr Poonam
Patil, head of the department, oncolo-
was a ‘one-off’
f case, Dr
Poonam said incidents
of breast cancer are on
the rise among younger
women. “Earlier, wom-
en had breast cancer in
their late 40s or 50s, but
now it is seen in those in
their 30s as well,” she said.
There may not be concrete reasons
for young women reporting breast
cancer, but Dr Poonam believes life-
sty
t le changes, obesityt , lack of physical
activities and fast food are contribut-
ing to the trend.
Dr C Ramachandra, director, Kid-
cancer in one breast. Months
later, she walked in again
with her fiancé to get the
other breast operated. The
boy was sensitive and didn’t
call off the marriage,”said Dr
Ramachandra.
He attributes the trend —
more prevalent in urban areas — to
hormonal imbalances. “Late marriag-
es, late conception, early menarche
and menopause are also contributing
factors,” Dr Ramachandra said,
adding that increasing estrogen levels
during fertilityt treatment also put
women at risk.
O
ver 200 reformed drug
addicts and peddlers
were made to confront
theconsequencesofsubstance
abuse at the Kidwai Memorial
Institute of Oncology, where
theymetpatientsonSaturday.
As part of the city police’s
campaign against drugs, east
division police officers had
escorted them to the hospital.
Thegroupismadeupofmostly
of men, arrested for using or
peddling drugs and were out
on bail.
Additional Commissioner
of Police (east zone) S Muru-
gansaidthepolicehaveturned
into counsellors to the men in
anefforttobringthemintothe
mainstream of societyty.
The group interacted with
patientshavingchronicillness-
aneyeopenerforsomeaddicts.
DCP (East) Rahul Sha-
hapurwad said the awareness
campaign was launched in
July.Saturday’seventwasafol-
low-upsteptoinstillfearoflaw
andtheilleffectsofdrugabuse
among addicts and peddlers.
Sincethecampaign’slaunch
in July, 220 drug cases were
booked in the east division
alone. Besides peddlers, ad-
dicts were also charged under
Section 27(b) of the Narcotics
Drugs and Psychotropic Sub-
stances (NDPS) Act, the DCP
said.
tors — assigned as counsellors
— were asked to hold regular
sessions with the accused and
their families to wean them
away from the drugs.
“Theseinitiativeshavegrad-
ually brought down the drug
menace,” observed another
senior police official.
As a result of the counsel-
ling, addicts became police
informants and drug peddling
has come down due to the fall-
ing demand.
The official said without the
demand,thesupplycanbecon-
tained effectively.
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State may thr hrow

onl
nline claim lifeline
for Ponz
nzi vviicti
tims to facilitate the swindling of
Suggestedatmeet innocent victims,”he said, and
referred to unconfirmed re-
thatdiscussedways portsthata policedeputyty com-
missionertookRs13croreand
todeliverjustice 25kgofgoldfromMohammed
tovictims Mansoor Khan, the founder of
IMA.
▼ Reddy asked for punishing
such people along with the
main culprits.
BENGALURU, DHNS The conference was attend-
ed by about 500 people — al-

I
n what may come as a relief mostallofwhomhadlostmon-
to about one lakh people ey in the Ponzi scams — from
who lost money in various (L-R) Narendra Kumar of Lanchamukta Karnataka Nirmana across Karnataka. Speakers
Ponzi scams, the state govern- Vedike, social activist Sharyar Khan, and Ravi Krishna Reddy at the conference dwelt on the
ment is planning to receive and Farhan Hoda of Indian Media Book at a conference on legal options and frameworks
theirclaimdocumentsonline. Ponzi scams on Saturday. DH PHOTO/RANJU P used by government authori-
State Public Prosecutor M tiestohelpthevictimsgettheir
Narayana Reddy announced verify
fyingtheclaimdocuments, other companies had lured money back.
this at a conference that dis- he added. Muslims by using their com- There were also elaborate
cussedwaystodeliverjusticeto Ravi Krishna Reddy, of the munity
ty leaders. discussions on the merits and
the victims of IMA, Ambidant, Lanchamukta Karnataka Nir- “People’s representatives demerits of various laws relat-
Injaz, Ajmera, Aala and other mana Vedike, said IMA and and police officers took bribes ed to investment schemes.
Ponzi schemes on Saturday.
“In cases of investment
schemes, the state govern-
ment issues a notification,
seeking the documents of the
investment. Victims have to
submit the documents within
a week. There are cases where
the victims have been waiting
for decades to get their money
back,”he said.
The online procedure is an
easier alternative to the phys-
ical process of collecting and
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Twogetfreetreatmenton
WorldOsteoarthritisDay
BENGALURU, DHNS
On World Osteoarthritis Day,
Sakra World Hospital has
treated two patients with se-
vere osteoarthritis for free as
part of their CSR initiative.
Thirty
ty-three-year-old Shriya
(name changed) from Andhra
Pradesh consulted the hospital
with hip dysplasia, a common
cause of childhood hip arthri-
tis caused by a shallow socket
(acetabulum) that cannot sup-
port the ball (femoral head)
of the hip, causing partial or
complete dislocation of the
hip joint.
Despite consulting sever-
al doctors in her hometown
and having surgeries several
times, Shriya struggled with
the effects of dislocation in
the right hip and needed to
take her family’s help to per-
form daily activities. Doctors
found her right hip shorter by
7.5 cm, which tilted her spine
and caused further difficulties
in movement. Shriya also had
constant back pain.
Sixty
ty-year-old Patel (name
changed), the second patient
from West Bengal, had severe
arthritis for 25 years, limiting
his walking and ability
ty to climb
stairways. Though advised to
undergo surgery, Patel had
financial issues and was re-
luctant.
Both were evaluated at
Sakra. Dr Chandrashekar P
counseled the patients and
offered financial help. After
treatment, Shriya and Patel
found significant improve-
ment in their conditions and
were able to walk unaided.
Consultation at HOSMAT
On World Osteoporosis Day
(October 20), HOSMAT Hos-
pital will offer free consulta-
tion on Monday (October 21)
between 10 am and 3 pm at
the hospital premises. For
details, call 080-25593796 or
9844470489.
METRO
BWSSB to fi finish pipeline work
in 110 vviillages by December
Says just 70 kms
work still remains
in five zones
▼ Mahadevapura
SANDESH MS
BENGALURU, DHNS
T
heBangaloreWaterSup-
ply and Sewerage Board
(BWSSB) will complete
laying the pipeline for drink-
ing water in 110 villages by the
year end.
Officials said a mere 70 kilo-
metres of the proposed 2,661
kilometres is pending in five
zones. The board had fixed
May 2019 as the deadline for
the project and is late by a few
A month on, hawkers back at
Majestic subway
BBMP had cleared
subway, evicted
hawkers recently
▼
BENGALURU, DHNS
H
awkers are back in the
busy Majestic subway
just a month after the
BBMP evicted them, following
a high court order.
About one lakh people use
the subway that connects the
KSR Bengaluru railway sta-
tion with BMTC and KSRTC
bus stands as well as the Kem-
pegowda metro station in the
heart of the city
ty.
But the subway had become
an eyesore what with garbage
littered all around and half of
the space occupied by more
than 100 hawkers selling daily
essentials.
In some parts of the sub-
way, walkers were left with
just about three feet to use. At
one point in time, the subway
BWSSB had fixed May 2019 as the deadline for the project
and is late by a few months. DH FILE PHOTO/B H SHIVAKUMAR
months. Now, the board is also
gearing up to lay sanitary pipes
along with the water lines,
which would stretch the work
by one more year.
Data provided by the board
reveals that 95% of the water
pipeline work has been com-
Hawkers in the subway that connects BMTC and KSRTC bus
stands to the City railway station. DH PHOTO/PUSHKAR V
was even the preferred busi-
ness zone of sex workers.
Things changed about a
month ago when the BBMP
cleaned up the subway and
evicted the hawkers. But the
situation is back to square one
now, according to regular us-
ers of the subway.
“Thesubwayremainedfree
from hawkers only for a few
days. The authorities kept
vigil only for a few days, but
the same hawkers are slowly
returning now,” Ranjith Gow-
da, a regular commuter, told
DH. “If the civic authorities do
not wake up, the subway will
pleted until October.
In 2007, the state govern-
ment brought the 110 villages
under the five BBMP zones of
Mahadevapura, Rajarajesh-
wari Nagar, Dasarahalli, Byat-
arayanapura and Bommana-
halli. A joint state government
turn into a stinking place.”
In effect, the authorities
are getting a sense of déjà
vu. Every time they evicted
the hawkers, they returned
after some time.
While previous eviction
drives were carried out on the
orders of the transport minis-
ter, the latest one came after a
high court order.
To the surprise of commut-
ers, things haven’t changed
much.
BBMP officials were not
available for comment as re-
peated phone calls went
unanswered.
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Reality check
ZONES PENDING OF
PIPE-LAYING (IN KM)
PERCENTAGE OF WORK
COMPLETED (OCTOBER)
Byatarayanapura 40 92.50%
10-15 93.50%
Bommanahalli 9 98.50%
Rajarajeshwari Nagar 5 94.50%
Dasarahalli 1 99.61%
and BBMP project to provide pleted 99% and we expect to
water for the newly merged wrap up the work by Novem-
areas with 12 lakh people has ber, while we have set Decem-
been pending for a decade. ber as the target in the other
“More than 90% of the zones. This would depend on
pipe-laying work has been the weather conditions. While
completed in the five zones,” there were some delays, the
BWSSB’s chief engineer for hurdles are now cleared and
projects B Shivaprasad con- the project will be finished
firmed to DH. soon,” he said. Shivaprasad
“The pipe-laying work in said water would be supplied
Dasarahalli has been com- in the zones in stages.
BEFORE
RAZED
Complying with the orders of the high court, the
BBMP on Saturday shifted the famous Shanimahade-
va Temple at the Okalipuram Junction located close
to the Krantiveera Sangolli Rayanna railway station.
The divisional bench of the court had ordered the
Palike in March, while hearing a PIL filed by K S
Subramanyan, a resident of Mathikere, to shift the
temple as it was hindering traffic movement.
DH PHOTO/JANARDHAN B K
AFTER
 IN THE CIT Y 
GENERAL Sharma; K N Anantaramaiah, Sub-
People Tree: Walkathon to spread hash Bhavana, Rajarajeshwarina-
awareness on arthritis; C N Ash- gar; 5.30 pm
wath Narayan, Santosh Hegde to Shrutiupasana & Dialogues: Ek
be guests; Govt Model Primary Raag Anek Roop-an evening with
School, Malleswaram; 6 am Raag Bhupali, Dialogues Cafe, JP
BM Sri Prathishthana: Awarding Nagar; 5 pm
young writers and translators; K Girinagara Sangeetha Sabha:
Puttaswamy, Swami Ponnachi, Annual general body meeting and
Sante Narayanaswamy, M H carnatic music concert; Akshar-
Krishnaiah, and B M Sri Prat- am, Girinagar; 10 am, 6 pm
ishthana to be guests; MVC Hall, RELIGIOUS
BM Sri Kalabhavana, NR Colony; Satya Sai Ashram: ‘Avatara Dina’
10.30 am special programmes; ashram
Teju Prakashana and S Dental premises, Sai Ramesh Hall, Brin-
Care: Narasimha MSN Habba-Ab- davan, Whitefield; 4 pm
hinandane; A R Mitra, S Shadak- Jayarama Seva Mandali: Release
shari and others; H N Kalakshetra, of books ‘Sachitra Ramayana Dar-
National College; 10 am shana’ and ‘Srirama Smabhava’;
Munnota: Discussion on latest ad- GV Centenary Hall, Mandali prem-
vances in agriculture technology; ises, Jayanagar 8th Block; 10 am
Aruna Urs to take part; Munnota, Vijaya Madhwa Sangha:
DVG Road, Nagasandra Circle, Discourse on Mahabharata;
Basavanagudi; 11.30 am Gangadhar Layout, Vijayanagar;
Ragikana: Discussion on water 6:30 pm
shortage; Bhakti Devi to speak;
Ragikana, Gottigere, Ban-
nerghatta Road; 12 pm
Sneha Shrunga: ‘Ondu Malenada
Seemeyalli’ cultural programme;
 CITY WEATHER 
Jayant Kaikini, Kimmane Ratna-
kara, T D Rajegowda, Snehashrun- FORECAST
ga, B K Sumitra; KEB Bhavana, Generally cloudy sky.
Race Course Road, Anandrao Rain/thundershowers
Circle; 6 pm very likely.
CULTURAL
TEMPER
RA
ATURES
Panchamruta Sugama Sangeeta
Academy: Remembering Da Ra Maximum 27.9°C
Bendre; reading, reciting and Minimum 20.2°C
singing Bendre’s poems; R Para- Rainfall ---
mashivan, A M Chandrashekhar,
G A Narayan to be guests; Seva Humidity 74%
Sadana, Malleswaram; 10 am Sunset (Oct 20) 5:58 pm
Surya Global Music Academy: Sunrise (Oct 21) 6:11 am
Purandaradasa and Tyagaraja Moonrise 11:17 pm
aradhane; R A Rmamani, T A S Moonset 11:34 am
Mani, followed by carnatic classi-
cal music by K Abhiram, Ananta (Relevant data recorded at
Satyam and Anuru Dattatreya 5.30 pm) Source: IMD
21-yr-old dies during ramp walk
trials
Student, from Page 1 get up, the friends started
CCTV footage showed Sha- panicking and rushed to her
lini finishing her ramp walk help. They rushed her to a
and waiting for her turn to nearby hospital, where doc-
come to the stage again, tors declared her brought
when she collapsed on the dead.
fflloor. “The cause of death is sus-
pected to be cardiac arrest.
Happened too fast She was standing near the
Her friends initially did not stage after her turn when
realise what had happened she fell to the ground,” dep-
and continued with the show. uty commissioner of police
However, when she did not N Shashikumar said.
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engaluru Urban and essentialinearlychildhoodand served on October 21. Other Karnataka to under 5%. It is practitioners on October 20 ► BENGALURU: The Ministry
Rural are among eight duringpubertyty,pregnancyand districtswithahighprevalence conducting surveys in the dis- at 10.30 am. of Micro, Small and Medium
districts in Karnataka lactation. Women with iodine ofiodinedeficiencyareDakshi- tricts to assess the magnitude ► BENGALURU, DHNS: The Those interested and Enterprises will conduct
that have a high prevalence deficiencies risk delivering na Kannada, Ballari, Uttara of the deficiency, as part of the Swamy Vivekananda Yoga in need of details of the training in clothes for
of iodine deficiency disorders, children with impaired physi- Kannada, Kodagu, Shivamog- NationalIodineDeficiencyDis- Research And Holistic health camp, can call children from Nov 4 to Dec 6.
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October 20, 2019

STUDENTS VULNERABLE

Regu
gulators must punish ffrraudsters Over 3,000
teachers
surrender
Unapproved institutions off
ffering Percentage of discrepant certificates
Unapproved institutions off
ffering engineering,
management and other programmes
architecture courses
Philippines 30% AuthBridge, a Gurugram
fake degr
grees
Punjab 5 Chandigarh
Delhi
65
UP Bihar West
Bengal
Maharashtra: 40
Tamil Nadu: 25
Malaysia 27% -based background verifi-
cation company, performs in Bihar
7 21 15 Total Total Japan 26%
close to one million checks
24 Andhra Pradesh: 8
116
ABHAY KUMAR
Uttarakhand
3 Jharkhand 264 Haryana: 7
Gujarat: 6
India 23%
Singapore 22%
per month which include
multiple aspects of a job
DH NEWS SERVICE

O
Haryan
na 3 Others: 30
seekers credentials ne year after Nitish Kumar
17 Australia 21% including qualification. took over as Bihar Chief
Rajasthan
China 18% Minister in November 2005,
3 Fake universities off
ffering
undergraduate and postgraduate In a study by HireRight, of over
FINDINGS there were large-scale appointments
of around 2.5 lakh school teachers
Odisha degrees in various disciplines 2,18,000 screenings from 2014
Of about one million in the state. However, the process
qualification checks
Maharashtra 1 Uttar Pradesh: 8 to 2015
performed every month
of recruitment was fl flawed as one
16 Delhi:8 had to show his or her mark sheet or
Gujarat 8 Telangana Total „ 23% or 50,140 were found degrees to become a teacher instead
35 West Bengal: 2
1.13%
24
discrepant of the established rule of appearing
Odisha: 2
Goa 2 „ Discrepancies relating were found discrepant and clearing a written examination.
Karnataka: 1 As expected, a large number of
Tamil Nadu Andhra Pradesh Kerala: 1 to education, employment in 2018. Of these cases,
Karnataka background doubled from 13% fake degree holders from different
8 7 Maharashtra: 1
22 Kerala 2 Source: AICTE
Puducherry: 1 Source:UGC
in 2013 to 26% in 2014
universities (some of them unheard
of) were appointed as teachers in
were different government schools in

FAKE INSTITUTIONS, FROM PAGE 1 33% discrepant

In 2015, the UGC had made an exception
and lodged a complaint with the Delhi Police
against the Indian Institute of Planning and
Management (IIPM) accusing it of “mislead-
ing, cheating and fooling”their students. Act-
ing on the complaint, Delhi Police had regis-
tered an FIR against IIPM founder Arindam
Chaudhuri and others under Section 420 of
the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
“I was benched for ttwwo weeks by my com-
pany last month after they came to know that
my MBA degree from IIPM was not valid.
Thankfully, my company somehow agreed
to allow me to resume my work,” Soujanya
K (name changed), who works with a BPO in
Bengaluru, said.
Lack of political will
For more than tw two decades, the Union gov-
ernment has been trying to address the prob-
lem of fake universities and unapproved in-
stitutions. To give powers to the UGC to deal
with the fake universities with stringent provi-
sions for action against them, the government
placed an amendment Bill in 1991, but it could
never see the light of the day. In 2010 again,
the HRD ministry brought a Bill to check mal-
practices in the higher education sector. This
too could not get the nod of Parliament.
A parliamentary committee on govern-
ment assurance had rapped the HRD min-
istry in its report in 2016 for not taking tough
action against the mushrooming of private
and fake universities, “who deceitfully claim
to be recognised institutions of learning,”rec-
ommending that the government should con-
sider in the interest of the students to bring a
central law to punish those who indulge in
unfair practices.
“The committee would like to await the de-
cision of the government in this regard. Till
then the assurance would remain alive in the
records of the committee,”the parliamentary
panel had noted in its report. Interestingly,
Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, who is now the
HRD minister, was the chairman of the par-
liamentary committee.
“This is a very unhealthy practice; we must
end it. Existing Acts do not empower the reg-
ulators to close down such institutions. That’s
why we are bringing the Higher Education
Commission of India Bill. The Provisions
made in the Bill will deal with this kind of di-
versions firmly,”highereducationsecretaryof
the HRD ministry R Subrahmanyam told DH.
due to fake or
Bihar. When some media channels
showed how an English teacher
LAWS AND REGULATIONS forged degrees could not write even ‘Thursday’
Section 22 (1) of „ An institution de- „ All
or ‘Tuesday’ correctly, or a maths
„ No institution shall provide
the UGC Act, 1956 Section 23 of the teacher couldn’t do basic calcula-
clared as deemed any technical course or training were
provides that a UGC Act prohibits
discrepant
tions, a public interest litigation
to be university programme without the and ed-
degree can be
awarded only by
under Section 3 of
the UGC Act.
the use of word
‘University’ by approval of the AICTE ucational
institutionss
41% due to degrees
from fake or
(PIL) was filed in the Patna High
Court. The PIL was filed by an activ-
the following: any institution „ It shall be mandatory for unrecognised
ist, Ranjit Pandit, alleging that more
other than those shall definee than 25,000 teachers in Bihar were
„ An institution all training and educational universities
„ A University established eligibility criteria working on the basis of forged mark
established under specially empow- programmes to be National
under the laws as for admission to sheets and fake degrees.
a Central, State or ered by an Act of Skill Qualifications Frame-
specified before various courses in The matter was heard by the
Provincial Act. Parliament to con- work (NSQF)-compliant Source: Employment Background
terms of NSQF levels. Screening Trends Report for India by division bench of the High Court
fer the degree
HireRight and AuthBridge headed by Chief Justice
L Narasimha Reddy and Justice
Anjana Mishra. The court in 2015
Action taken to curb “Taking into consideration mushrooming ordered a vigilance probe and asked
of private and fake universities, who the investigating agency to weed out
unrecognised institutions deceitfully claim to be recognised institu- those with invalid degrees.
tions of learning, there is an imperative An embarrassed state govern-
need to rein them in administratively and ment launched a “general amnesty ty”
„ Each year, both UGC and AICTE issue a public no- scheme wherein it proposed that
legally. A central law to punish those who
tice containing state-wise list of fake universities indulge in unfair practices in these insti- those fake degree holders, who
and self-styled unrecognised institutions on their tutions may be considered by the gov- resigned on their own, would be
websites for awareness of the general ernment...The committee would spared from being punished under
public and students like to await the decision the rule of law.
HRD of the government “Around 3,000 teachers with
„ They also send letters to
the principal secretar- Ministry in 2017 in this regard,” a invalid degrees have resigned
operationalised National parliamentary National Institute of Manageement Solutions in Janakupri, Delhi on their own while the vigilance
ies, education secre-
committee was declared a fake institution by UGC. DH PHOTO/ PRAKASH KUMAR sleuths found another 353 teach-
taries of states and Academic Depository for safe report ers appointed on the basis of fake
UTs to take ap- certificates or degrees,” Principal
propriate action
storage, retrieval and digital stated in
2016. Advocate General Lalit Kishore
against such verification of the degrees, diploma, and RECENT INCIDENTS allegedly being operated by informed the Patna High Court.
institutions. other academic records to eliminate a Nagpur-based a private in- Such is the gigantic task of
„ August 2019: The UGC sets
stitution — Indian Institute of verify
fying the certificates or degrees
fraudulent practices. up a committee on the instruc-
Management and
tion of the HRD ministry to of over 2.5 lakh teachers, that the
Engineering. vigilance probe is still on. In the
probe into a media report per-
taining to the sale of original „ September 2018: meantime, the state government
Fake universities and unrecognised higher TheAuthBridge,aGurugram-basedcompany degrees of certain universities Bengaluru Police arrest two recently conducted a written test for
education institutions offering degree pro- which offers background check services to the persons with over 200 fake these teachers (appointed on the ba-
by a racket based in Navi
grammes are functioning unabated and thriving employers and performs close to one million degrees and mark sheets of sis of mark sheets) and cleared the
across the country not just because of the lack of checks per month, said that of all the checks per- Mumbai.
various universities. appointments of 98.5% of teachers.
firm action against them by the government but formed to verify
fy the education credentials of the „ May 2019: Gujarat Police Education system in Bihar was
also because they are in demand. job seekers in 2018, 1.13% were found discrepant. bust a fake degree racket „ January 2018: Delhi Police always paralysed. “When Nitish
A section of students who fail to get admission “While33%ofthesecaseswerefoundtobedis- in Vadodara and arrest two bust a pan-India fake degree regime came to power, nearly 331
in recognised institutions enrol with these insti- crepant due to fake or forged degrees, 41% were persons in this connection. racket which was operating degree colleges affiliated to different
tutions’ programmes to obtain a professional found to be discrepant due to degrees from fake They also recover 72 fake through an education society universities came under govern-
qualification. or unrecognised universities,”the company said. certificates, bogus degrees and in the city with regional offices ment scanner. These affiliated
Several HR professionals in the industry ac- “We need a widening awareness on this is- mark sheets of the institutes and 40 agents in different colleges were in addition to 250 con-
knowledged, on condition of anonymity ty, that a sue of fake and unrecognised institutes. While and universities in Madhya parts of the country. The rack- stituent colleges in the state,” said
largenumberofTier-IIandTier-IIIcompaniesdo some enterprises are extremely stringent on Pradesh, et had allegedly sold more a senior official of the Education
not mind hiring someone with a degree from an these parameters, many still haven’t woken up Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh than 50,000 mark sheets and Department, preferring anonymity ty.
unrecognised institution so long as the candidate to the potential threats. UGC publishes a list of and Rajasthan. certificates of various univer- The official added, “According
appears to have the skills required for the job. unrecognised colleges. More needs to be done,” sities and secondary educa- to a Government survey, Bihar has
“Such hirings are mostly done for low-paid AuthBridge’s founder Ajay Trehan said. „ March 2019: Thane Police barely six (genuine) colleges per one
tion examination boards.
jobs,,” a senior manag
ger of an IT comp panyy said. (With inp
puts from Sanjjayy Pandeyy in UP)) bust a fake degree racket lakh population (18-23 age group),
while the national average is 25.”

KARNATAKA’S BURDEN

Too late: Cases exposed only after students suffer ‘Everyone must
stay vigilant’
RASHMI BELUR was reversed by the previous higher edu-
DH NEWS SERVICE cation minister G T Devegowda, who had GEETHA RAMANUJAM
discussed with department officials and

T C
he scourge of scams and frauds in
Karnataka, a state that prides itself
for being an educational hub in the
country,continuestopreyuponthousands
of unaware students and parents, year on
year, from within and outside the state.
Unfortunately for most, any inkling of
something being amiss is detected too
late even though alerts and public notices
from government agencies like Universi-
ty Grants Commission (UGC), All India
Council for Technical Education (AICTE),
and state-run agencies attempt to prevent
such incidents.
In most cases, students and parents re-
alise only during the final examinations
or when their degrees are rejected during
verification purpose from companies dur-
ing placements.
“I completed my postgraduate course
from Karnataka State Open University ty in
the year 2013-14, but I am unable to get
any jobs as my degree is not recognised
by the government or by the UGC. Thou-
sands of candidates like me are suffering
ty granted admissions
today as the university
to us even though it was not recognised
by the UGC,” said Jayanth Kumar (name
changed), a 2014 batch candidate.
The problem, however, is not just con-
fined to the college level as it is a common
scene every year during Class 10 Board
examinations for students being denied
permission to appear for examinations
as the schools they got enrolled in are not
recognised by the government.
Such culprits put the future of students
in jeopardy to fill their pockets despite
knowing about the status of their recog-
nition.
Karnataka State Open University convocation hall in Mysuru; books stacked in a room at a KSOU centre.
“I got admission in a private medical col-
lege located in Kolar in Karnataka. It was
a management quota seat and I paid lakhs
of rupees as fees. After a few months, I got
to know that the institute has been disaffil-
iated and was not supposed to do admis-
sions for the 2019-20 academic year,”says
Sangeeta (name changed), a victim.
Future at stake
Over 100 students got admissions at this
particular private medical college for this
academic year. However, the college was
disaffiliated by the Rajiv Gandhi Univer-
sity
ty of Health Sciences and banned from
admitting students.
As disaffected students approached
officials at the department of medical
education, the government woke up to the
DH PHOTOS/ SAVITHA B R, ANUP R TIPPESWAMY
seriousness of the situation.
Deputyty Chief Minister Dr C N Ashwath
Narayan recently held a meeting with the
department and university officials and
directed them to take measures to relocate
the affected students to other colleges.
“We need to take measures in the in-
terest of 112 students and are looking to
see where we can accommodate them,”
he said while ordering action against the
officials who were responsible for this as
well as the college management.
Besides medical colleges, a recent re-
port published by the Union Ministry of
Human Resource Development declared
that as many as 23 engineering colleges in
Karnataka were not recognised by the
AICTE.
“Following the directions of AICTE,
asked them to take necessary measures
in the interest of students. While a com-
mittee has been constituted, the report is
yet to be released.
Monitoring needed
Meanwhile, experts feel that the onus in
these situations lies with the government
and it should provide relief to the affected
students, besides ensuring stringent mon-
itoring of derecognised and disaffiliated
institutes.
“If the admissions made at the colleges
were not approved by the government,
then such admissions are called illegal
and also degrees delivered to these stu-
dents since 2003 will be considered fake.
It clearly shows there is some glaring mis-
take at the level of university
ty, government
or the authorityty concerned,” said Dr Ba-
laveera Reddy, former vice-chancellor of
we had issued notices to all 23 colleges Visvesvaraya Technological University ty.
and also issued warning to the public to Dr Mallikarjun Babu, former principal
not get admission in such colleges. But, of BMS College of Engineering, Bengalu-
despite warnings, students and parents ru, said, “Due to the lack of regulatory and
fall for such institutions,” explained monitoring measures, such incidents re-
Prof H U Talwar, director, department of cur every academic year at all the levels,
technical education. from primary to higher education. The
In yet another related case, the state government should act more stringent-
government in 2016-17 revealed that ly as the responsibilityty does not end with
several private engineering colleges did just disaffiliating the institute. Monitor-
not get approval for the admissions they ing after the disaffiliation process matters
made since 2003. more. Government agencies must track
The then higher education minister and penalise them heavily if they continue
Basavaraja Rayareddi declined to grant to admit students.”
retrospective approval even though many
had written to the government about it.
But when this issue cropped up again Have your say
this year with even more institutions To express your opinion, e-mail us at:
coming under the scanner, his decision insight@deccanherald.co.in
orruption in education mani-
fests itself in many forms, such
as admission fraud, exami-
nation fraud, forged degrees etc. It
demonstrates a failure of transpar-
ency in the functioning of education
departments.
The need of the hour is to initiate
political reforms to establish
transparent regulatory systems. Si-
multaneously, there should be tough
enforcement of punishment to deter
unethical behaviour. India should
have zero-tolerance policies against
fraud practices. Public education
campaigns and stiff penalties for
corruption can deter incidents that
put students at risk.
A conflflict of interest needs to be
highlighted here. The mushroom-
ing of private institutions, created
in many cases by politicians, means
that there is not much hope for an
honest investigation by our political
leaders.
Therefore, parents need to be
more vigilant while seeking admis-
sion to schools. They should ask for
affiliations and the same needs to be
cross-checked on respective Board
websites. Instead of depending
on the brokers and touts, parents
should go with the counselling pro-
cedure. Likewise, before planning
to study overseas, check for the list
of fake universities across the globe
and determine to go by a straightfor-
ward, honest method only.
(The writer is an educationist
based in Bengaluru)

DECCAN
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October 20, 2019
BJP stokes passions to
mask devp
vpt issues: ex-CM
MYSURU, DHNS
T
housands of Congress
workers gave a rousing
welcome to leader of the
OppositionSiddaramaiahhere
on Saturday. The convention
also set the stage for the up-
coming byelection in Hunsur.
Speaking on the occasion,
Siddaramaiah again target-
ed the BJP for proposing the
name of Veer Savarkar for the
‘Bharat Ratna’ award. “BJP
bringsideasthatstokethepas-
sions of the people, whenever
there are elections. It is their
attempt to push development
issues under the carpet,” he
said.
“OurrequestseekingBharat
Ratna for Siddaganga seer
Shivakumara Swami was not
considered. But the name of
Savarkar, who was accused in
Govt
vt hikes DA for staff
ff;
hardship pay for cops
BENGALURU,DHNS
A
head of the Deepavali
festival, the state gov-
ernment has hiked the
dearness allowance (DA) for
government employees by
4.75%.
Chief Minister B S Yedi-
yurappa has also announced
an additional Rs 1,000 of
hardshipallowanceforpolice
personnel.
The DA enhancement
will come into retrospective
effect from July 1, 2019, and
will apply to government
employees (permanent),
Zilla Panchayat staff, em-
ployees of aided educational
institutions and universities,
according to an order issued
by the Finance department
on Saturday.
Leader of the Opposition Siddaramaiah is accorded a rousing
welcome by Congress party workers in Mysuru on Saturday.
the assassination of Mahatma
Gandhi, and later acquitted
due to lack of evidence, is pro-
posed. It was Savarkar, who
used the word ‘Hindutv tva’. He
was the president of Hindu
Mahasabha. It is a fact that he
hadgonetojail,”Siddaramaiah
said.
The hike takes the DA up
from the existing 6.50% to
11.25%ofthebasicpay.Forin-
stance, an entry-level govern-
ment employee with a basic
pay of Rs 17,000 per month
will now get DA of Rs 1,913,
up from Rs 1,105. Similarly,
an employee with a basic pay
of Rs 67,550 will get DA of
Rs7,599insteadoftheearlier
Rs 4,391.
The DA hike will also apply
to government pensioners,
the order states.
For police personnel, Yedi-
yurappa said their salaries
had been revised as recom-
mended by the Raghavendra
Auradkar committee, ahead
of the Deepavali festival and
the Police Martyrs’ Day (or
Police Commemoration
Day). The revised pay scales
“BJP has said that I do not
know history, for opposing
Savarkar’s name. The party’s
statepresident(NKateel)does
notknowaboutKarnatakaand
isspeakingabout34districtsin
the state,”he taunted.
BJP istryingtoconvincethe
people by repeating the same
have come into effect from
August 1, 2019.
“The state government
has accepted all recommen-
dations made by the Raghav-
endraAuradkarcommittee...
By upgrading the pay scales,
the government has given
priority to the welfare of the
officers and staff of the police
department,” Yediyurappa
said in a statement.
“Now, the monthly sala-
ry of police constables who
join newly will go up from
Rs 30,427 (including all
allowances) to Rs 34,267,”
Yediyurappa said.
The hike in the hardship
allowance for the police will
cost the government an ad-
ditional Rs 10.70 crore every
month and Rs 128.38 crore
annually.
STATE
lies. The leaders are adopting
Hitler’s tactics. There is not
muchdifferencebetw tweenthem
and Hitler, he criticised.
Crime has increased after
BJPgovernmentcametopow-
er.Murdersarebeingexecuted
in the name of cow protection.
RSS chief Mohan Bhagavat
is justify
fying this. Has the RSS
peopleevercollecteddungand
lookedafterthecattle?,hesaid.
Siddaramaiah announced
the name of H P Manjunath,
as the Congress candidate for
the byelection in Hunsur.
KPCC president Dinesh
GunduRaosaid,theCentrehas
usedI-Tdepartmentasaweap-
on and conducted raids on the
houses of Congress leaders.
There is a conspiracy to raid
Siddaramaiah’s house also.
The people will not be quiet,
if they touch him, he warned.
Traffichitfor8hourson
Mangaluru-Bengaluruhighway
SAKLESHPUR
(HASSAN DISTRICT), DHNS
Traffic came to a screeching
haltformorethaneighthours
on Bengaluru-Mangaluru na-
tional highway, near Saklesh-
pur, on Saturday.
The road between Heg-
gadde and Sakleshpur is in a
totally dilapidated condition.
Five lorries and two tankers
got stuck in the potholes, af-
fecting the vehicular traffic
for around eight hours on the
route from 2 am on Friday to
11 am on Saturday.
Thousandsofvehicleswere
stranded for around 10 kilo-
metres on either side of the
highway. The drivers initially
thought the traffic jam might
beduetoanaccident.But,the
truckty
tyresgettingstuckinthe
Siddaramaiah unfit
to be a lawy
wyer, says Ravi
‘Congleaderdoesn’t
knowdifference
He was reacting to Sid-
daramaiah’s tweet while
speaking to the reporters in
Karwar.
betweenaccident Siddaramaiah tw tweeted: “If
you (BJP) can confer Bharat
andmurder’ Ratna to the accused in Ma-
hatma Gandhi assassination,
▼ then you should, at least, give
Rajyotsava award to those
KARWAR, DHNS who drove the car under the
infl
fluence, killing the inno-
T
akingadigattheLeader cent.”
ofOppositioninAssem- The minister said, “The
bly Siddaramaiah, Kan- tweet reflects Siddara-
nada and Culture Minister maiah’s mindset. I never
C T Ravi on thought he would stoop so
Saturday said low. People of my constitu-
the Congress ency know that I don’t drink.
leader was There is sufficient proof,
not fit to be including the CCTV footage
a lawyer if at the toll gate, to show that
he doesn’t the accident was caused by
Minister know the dif- the car driver. It is unfortu-
C T Ravi ference be- nate that a person who does
tween the ac- not know the difference
cident and the between the accident and
murder. the murder, was once
Vehicles lined up due to traff
ffic jam on Bengaluru-Mangaluru
highway, near Sakleshpur, on Saturday. DH PHOTO
potholes was the reason. The could not reach Sakleshpur
ttyyres had got punctured. town.
The Rural police rushed The negligence by the Na-
to the spot and struggled for tional Highway Authority of
morethanthreehourstoclear India was the reason for the
the traffic. The residents and recurring traffic problem on
students in villages between the route, drivers and villag-
Maranahalli and Donigal ers said.
the chief minister of the
state,”the minister chided
Siddaramaiah.
Ravi said that he had
stopped driving well over 20
years. “I was sitting next to
the driver at the time of the
accident.Ihavegivencompen-
sation to the family members
of the deceased on humani-
tarian grounds. It was acci-
dent and nothing more,” he
said.
Background
Two youths were killed and
three others injured when a
car, in which Ravi was travel-
ling,rammedintotw twocarson
National Highway 75 in Kuni-
gal taluk, Tumakuru district,
this February. The Kunigal
police had registered a case
under IPC Sections 279, 336
and 304A (death due to rash
driving) against Ravi’s driver
Aakashinconnectionwiththe
incident.
5
Muniyappa bats
for his expelled
supporters
BENGALURU, DHNS: Senior
Congress leader K H Mu-
niyappa on Saturday urged
the KPCC president Dinesh
Gundu Rao to revoke the
expulsion of seven of his
supporters.
Seven Congress leaders
from Kolar were expelled
on Friday after they aired
their grouse in the media
against Rao and AICC gen-
eral secretary in-charge of
Karnataka.“They were just
demanding action against
thosewho’veworkedagainst
the party
ty’s interests,” Muni-
yappa told reporters.
“While doing so, only one
Khaleel strayed. He’s new,
so he doesn’t know and even
I don’t approve of speaking
against the party president
and AICC. I’ve asked Rao to
identify
fy those who’ve really
spoken against the party ty. In
this case, no notice was is-
sued and they were directly
suspended,”he said.
6 SUNDAYSPOTLIGHT
ONE-SIDEDAFFAIR:THERESULTSOFMAHARASHTRA,HARYANAPOLLSSEEMTOBEAFOREGONECONCLUSION
Asssemblypolls:BJPunchallenged
A
► Maharashtra and Haryana
go to polls on Monday, but from
the lacklustre campaign by the
opposition, it almost appears that
the results, due on October 24,
are a foregone conclusion. Unless
the people of either state choose
to spring a surprise. What seems
likely, though, is the acceleration
of the decline of the Congress,
the end of the political career
of Sharad Pawar, and of many
regional leaders in both states.
ANAND MISHRA
O
n October 24, when the results
of the Assembly elections in
Maharashtra and Haryana
are announced, the political
message of the verdict will
echo far beyond those two states -- one
in India’s west, and the other in the north.
More so, perhaps, because these polls are
happening less than six months after the
generalelectionsandwouldpartlybeseen
as refl
flecting popular sentiment on the
performance of Modi 2.0 so far.
The full-throated poll campaign, led by
PrimeMinisterNarendraModiandparty ty
chief and Home Minister Amit Shah for
the BJP, contrasted with the lacklustre
Congress campaign, with Rahul Gandhi
nowon,nowoff,hasseenstate-specificis-
suestakingabackseatandnationalissues
like the economy, joblessness (raised by
Congress) and abrogation of Article 370
inJammuandKashmir,promisetoimple-
mentNRCacrossthenation(raisedbythe
BJP)takingcentrestage,withvirtuallyno
debatearoundthechiefministerialcandi-
dates or aspirants from any side.
The saffron party had swept the state
pollsheldin2014inMaharashtraHaryana
and Jharkhand, months after its massive
Lok Sabha victory then. It could well be a
repeat performance this week in Mahar-
ashtra and Haryana, and in Jharkhand in
November-December.
These poll results will probably settle
the question of whether the Modi factor
is working equally in both parliamentary
andstateelectionseveninhissecondterm.
Besides,itwillalsomeantheemergence
of Manohar Lal Khattar and Devendra
Fadnavis as the new crop of powerful BJP
chiefministers,aftertheeclipseofShivraj
Singh Chouhan (Madhya Pradesh), Ra-
man Singh (Chhattisgarh) and Vasund-
haraRaje(Rajasthan),wholosttheirstates
in the assembly polls last year. The only
othersecond-termBJPchiefministercur-
rently is Vijay Rupaniin Gujarat, whohad
first become CM mid-term in 2014 after
Modibecameprimeminister.Karnataka’s
BSYediyu yurappahasreturnedforasecond
term,butitisrumouredthathewillnotlast
thefullterm.AgemaynotbewithKhattar
for a very long innings, but Fadnavis is in
the reckoning.
AsecondsuccessivedefeatfortheCon-
gressinthesetw twostates,whereithadbeen
thedominantparty ty forlong,willmeanthat
Maharashtra and Haryana are going the
way that Madhya Pradesh and Chhattis-
garh did at the turn of the century. The
scale of internal rivalry within the Con-
gress is also the same as was in those ttw
wo
states, which kept Congress out of power
for 15 years. In Maharashtra, where the
BJPinitiallyroseontheShivSena’sshoul-
ders, it is now the big brother in the alli-
ance. Similarly, in Haryana, after having
tie-upswithregionalplayerslikeHaryana
Janhith Congress and INLD, the BJP has
emergedasthemostpotentforce. Helped
by the decline of the regional parties as
well as of Congress, the BJP has had a me-
teoric riseinHaryana,whereitspresence
was earlier mainly among refugees from
Pakistan.
A second term for Fadnavis will effec-
tively put an end to the Nitin Gadkari fac-
torinBJP,andFadnaviswillemergeasthe
party
ty’sstrongestMaharashtraleaderafter
thelateGopinathMunde. InbothMahar-
In Maharashtra, the competition is between BJP and Sena
MRITYUNJAY BOSE
I
n Maharashtra,theOctober21Assem-
bly election is a competition betw tween
BJP and Shiv Sena as to who betw tween
thealliesgetsmoreseats,andnotbetw tween
their ruling alliance and the opposition
Congress-NCP front.
In India’s second-most populous -- and
third largest -- state, it’s clear that despite
their differences on issues like Aarey and
Nanar,theBJP-Senaalliancehasanedge.
Also, it is a fact that the BJP and Sena
have had a blow hot-blow cold relation-
ship over the last three decades but the
cementing factors -- Hindutva and the
Marathi-manoos – have held.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra
FadnavisandShivSenapresidentUddhav
Thackeray share a good working relation-
ship and keep each other in good humour
despite strong differences on multiple
issues.
In the 288-member Maharashtra As-
sembly, the BJP (122) and Sena (63) has
a combined strength of 185, plus smaller
allies. This was when they had contested
separately in 2014. In the Lok Sabha, the
allies have together held 41 of the 48 seats
since 2014. In the impending Assembly
The Shiv Sena 63
‘Maha’’ Total seats
Polls 288
RESULTS
2014
Congress 42
NCP 41 BJP
Others 12 122
Independent 7
Key Regions, Contests in 2019
Vidarbha
Nagpur South-West:
Chief Minister
Devendra
Fadnavis (BJP) vs
Ashish Deshmukh
(Cong)
Brahmapuri: Leader of Opposition in
Assembly Vijay Wadettiwar (Cong) vs
Sandeep Gaddamwar (Sena) vs
Paromita Goswami (AAP)
Western
Maharashtra
Baramati:
Former Dy
CM Ajit Pawar
(NCP) vs
Gopichand
Padalkar (BJP)
Karjat-Jamkhed:
Sharad Pawar’s grand nephew Rohit
Pawar vs Prof Ram Shinde (BJP)
Kothrud: State BJP
president Chandrakant Patil vs
Kishor Shinde (MNS, backed by
Cong-NCP)
Solapur South-Central:
Former CM Sushilkumar Shinde’s
daughter Pranati (Cong) vs
Narasayya Adam (CPI-M)
Karad South:
Former CM
Prithviraj
Chavan
(Congress) vs
Udaysinh
Patil Undalkar
(Ind)
Marathwada
Parli: Late Gopinath
Munde’s daughter
Pankaja Munde
(BJP) vs his
nephew and Leader
of Opposition in Council
Dhananjay Munde (NCP)
ashtra and Haryana, the BJP propped up
chiefministersfrompoliticallynon-domi-
nantcommunities.InMaharashtra,where
Marathas mostly occupied the CM’s post,
theBJPbroughtinaBrahminfaceinFad-
navis. The BJP, which was earlier called
the‘Sethji-Bhatji(Baniya-Brahmin)party ty
in Maharashtra, took a risk in propping
up Fadnavis.
For Congress-NCP, which have seen
a number of their leaders fl
flocking to the
BJP-Shiv Sena ahead of the polls, a sec-
ondsuccessivedefeatinMaharashtrawill
make matters worse and would trigger a
fresh round of desertions. It could well
mean the political end of the once-pow-
erful Sharad Pawar, now 78, as well as the
NCP itself.
In Congress, the multiple power strug-
gles,suchasSanjayNirupamversusMilind
Deora, in Mumbai and across Maharash-
tra will worsen. Like Pawar, age is not on
Congress’Sushilkumar Shinde’s (78) side
either, and there is no semblance of unity
ty
among others such as Prithviraj Chavan
and Ashok Chavan (both former CMs).
Then there are powerful regional satraps
election, the BJP-Sena alliance is said to
be ahead in 230-plus seats. The BJP had
set a target -- “ab ki baar, 220 paar.”
PoliticalobservrverssaythattheBJP-Sena
willsurelycrossthecurrentstrengthof185
andmaylandupnearthetargetof220,and
post-election, there will likely be a tussle
fortopport rtfolioslikerevenue, home, hous-
ing, urban development and public works
-- all currently held by BJP.
While Prime Minister Narendra Modi
and BJP president and Union Home Min-
isterAmitShahhadprojectedFadnavisas
theCMfaceagain, ShivSenahasprojected
Uddhav’s son Adity tya for the top job.
There is likely to be some hard bargain-
ingafter24October,thedaytheresultsare
out, especially if Sena matches the BJP’s
performance.Ifitdoes,theShivSenacould
welldemandtheCM’spost,orext xtractsome
key portfolios or get a deputy ty CM post.
Aditya, the president of Yuva Sena, is
makinganelectoraldebut,notjusthisown
but his family’s, from Worli in Mumbai.
The presence of more than 30 rebels
fromtheBJPandSenacampscoulddisturb
equations,though.TheBJPleadershipisin
touchwiththerebelsandhasalsoensured
thatsmallerallieslikeRamdasAthawale’s
Republican Party ty of India (Athawale) and
Konkan
Kankavli: Former CM
Mumbai Narayan Rane’s son Nitesh
Worli: Yuva Sena Rane (BJP) vs Satish Sawant
president (Sena)
Aditya Thackeray
vs Suresh Mane
(backed by
Cong-NCP)
Nalasopara: Encounter
specialist Pradeep Sharma
(Sena) vs Kshitij Thakur
(Bahujan Vikas Aghadi)
Bhokar: Latur City: Late CM Vilasrao
Former CM Deshmukh’s eldest son Amit
Ashok (Cong) vs Shailesh Lahoti
Chavan (BJP)
(Cong) vs Latur Rural: Late CM
Shrinivas Vilasrao Deshmukh’s
Gorthekar youngest son Dhiraj (Cong)
(BJP) vs Sachin Deshmukh (Sena)
who have shown their power more in in-
fightingthan by fighting therivalpolitical
force. The internal fight will exacerbate
and speed up the decline of Congress.
InHaryanaBJP,whenKhattarwasfirst
made CM in 2014 in a marked departure
fromthestate’smostlyJatCMs,therewere
voices of disgruntlement within the party ty
that had continued until quite recently. A
second term will effectively put an end to
suchmurmuring,consolidatingKhattar’s
position in the party
ty. If the results go oth-
erwise, both CMs will find it difficult to
continue in their leadership roles as the
disgruntledMarathaleadersinMaharash-
traandJatleadersin Haryana willusethe
occasion to assert their might.
InHaryanaCongress,adefeatwillmark
the sunset for Bhupinder Hooda, the tw two-
time former CM, who has managed to
forcethecentralleadershiptokneeldown
before him this time despite having lost
the state in 2014.
A second successive defeat will make it
difficult for him to stay powerful in Con-
gress politics. Rahul Gandhi’s pick Ashok
Tanwar, who was made PCC chief in 2014
MahadevJankar’sRashtriyaSamajPasha
contest on the BJP symbol, giving it more
bargainingpowerinallpost-pollscenarios.
Whatisclearisthatacrossthefivelarge
geographical regions of Mumbai-Kon-
kan, Western Maharashtra, Marathwa-
da, Khandesh-North Maharashtra and
Vidarbha, the saffron combine leads.
The Congress is missing its national
leaders and the fire in the belly; the NCP is
facingproblemsaft fteritsfounder-president
and Maratha strongman Sharad Pawar
and his nephew Ajit Pawar were booked
intheRs25,000croreMaharashtraState
Cooperative Bank scam. Pawar’s key aide
and former civil aviation minister Praful
Patel is facing an ED probe for links with
formerDawoodIbrahim-aideIqbalMirchi.
Even maintaining their strengths of 41
and 40, respectively, will not be an easy
task for Congress and NCP.
Betw
tweentheLokSabhapollsinMayand
now, tw
two dozen leaders of Congress and
NCP have joined the BJP and Shiv Sena.
Themaximumdefectionshavebeenfrom
the NCP to the BJP.
ThecontinuingleadershipcrisisinCon-
gressandtheinfightinginitsMaharashtra
andMumbaiunitsareoutintheopen,sore
wounds that refuse to heal.
The
‘Haryana’
Polls 90
Total seats
Faces in Haryana Poll Fray.
Chief Wrestling
Minister ML champ
Khattar (BJP) Babita Phogat
(BJP)
Congress Kuldeep
spokesman Bishnoi
Randeep (Congress)
Surjewala
Abhay Dushyant
Chautala Chautala
(INLD) (JJP)
and removed five years later, just two
monthsbeforepollsthistime,maystagea
comeback,thoughheisnowcourtingDu-
shyant Chautala. A victory for Congress,
which will be nothing sort of a miracle,
will at the same time firmly ensconce the
old guard in the power seat. If the feat is
achieved, Hooda’s stature will rise high in
Congress ranks.
The BJP had won 47 seats in the
90-memberHaryanaassemblyinthe2014
polls and has now set a target of 75 seats
at least. Congress, by appointing Kumari
SeljaasPCCchiefandproppingupHooda
as CM face, is trying to forge a Jat-Dalit
caste coalition, which seems difficult on
the ground, given the history of animosi-
ty
ty betw
tween the ttw
wo communities and the
number of Dalit atrocityty incidents during
Hooda’s past regime.
While the Khattar government in
Haryana has won appreciation for fair re-
cruitment to government jobs, the cam-
paign theme of BJP has focused mainly
on the persona of PM Narendra Modi
and the steps taken by the central govern-
ment. Article 370 resonates in Haryana,
The NCP’s strength in Western Maha-
rashtra has waned as several of its lead-
ers have walked out. Its original team
members, like the Mohite-Patil family of
Solapur,theroyalfamilyofBhosalesinSa-
tara, the Mahadik family in Kolhapur and
leaders like Jaykumar Gore, Dilip Sopal,
Rashmi Bagal have all moved to the BJP
orShivSena.HarshawardhanPatilmoved
from Congress to BJP.
Pawar’s grandnephew Rohit Pawar is
making his poll debut from Karjat-Jamk-
hedandispittedagainstBJPministerProf
Ram Shinde. Another of Pawar’s grand-
nephews,Parth,lostthe MavalLok Sabha
polls.
Similarly, in the Konkan region, the
Ranes have joined the BJP. Veteran
Narayan Rane, the former CM in the erst-
while Sena-BJP government, who had
moved to Congress, is now with the BJP.
ThePrakashAm Ambedkar-ledVanchitBa-
hujan Aghadi, which damaged the Con-
gress and NCP in the Lok Sabha polls, is
contestingover270seats,althoughitdoes
not appear to be getting any traction.
The Asaduddin Owaisi-led All India
Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen is contest-
ing 50-plus seats, but it does not seem to
be working for the party
ty.
47 BJP
19 INLD
15 Congress
5 Independent 2014
Results
2 HJC 1 BSP, 1SAD
Wrestling Former CM
Bhupinder
champ
Singh Hooda
Yogeshwar
Dutt (BJP) (Cong)
Former Dy Former India
CM Chander Hockey
Mohan Captain Sandeep
(Congress) Singh (BJP)
Naveen CLP leader Kiran
Jaihind Chaudhary
(AAP) (Cong)
where a passion for the military uniform
exi
xistsamongtheyouth,whocuttingacross
all castelinesjointheIndianArmy,central
security
ty forces and as policemen.
On a national plane, as these elections
are happening amid an economic slow-
down, a victory will give greater confi-
dence to the BJP to counter the criticism
ofitshandlingoftheeconomyandtheBJP
will take the argument that the ‘Janata ki
Adalat’(People’s court) has given its deci-
sion on the issue.
The opposition will find it difficult to
counter the argument. A victory will also
further silence the already muted crit-
icism of the Modi government’s action
in J&K and will embolden BJP to fulfil
the unfinished part of its core agenda—
implementation of Uniform Civil Code,
earlyconstructionofRamtemple(though
dependent on a favourable verdict from
the Supreme Court) and the recent pitch
ofcarryingoutanationwideNRCexercise.
In a nutshell, while the BJP seems to be
preparing for 2024, Congress has not yet
emerged out of even the 2014 debacle, let
alone the 2019 drubbing.
On the other hand, Uddhav’s estranged
cousinandMaharashtraNavnirman Sena
president Raj Thackeray, whose party is
contesting around 100 seats, mainly in
Mumbaianditssuburbs, PuneandThane,
has declared that he is working to build a
formidable opposition.
TheBJPisridinghighontheissueofna-
tionalismanditsleadershavecampaigned
extensively on the issues of abrogation of
Article 370 and Article 35A from Jammu
& Kashmir, the Balakot air strike and the
surgical strikes along the Line of Control,
while also adding on a development agen-
da. The Shiv Sena has raised issues of the
common man and of the Ram temple in
Ayodhya,seekingtoevokememoriesofBal
Thackeray’s support for it.
On the other hand, the Congress-NCP
raised the issue of drought, agrarian
distress, farmers’ suicides, fl
floods. The
BJP, however, turned the tables by saying
thatfarmers’suicideswerearesultofpoor
governanceoftheerstw twhileCongress-NCP
government.
The BJP campaign was spearheaded
by Modi, Shah and Fadnavis, the Sena’s
by Uddhav. For NCP, it was Sharad Pawar,
but Congress’ Rahul Gandhi arrived late
on the scene.
DECCAN
AN HERA
RALD
Sunday
October 20, 2019
A one-horse
race in
Haryana
GAUTAM DHEER
W
ith the BJP almost sure to
script a resounding victory
in Haryana and scripting a
‘Khattar 2.0’ government, the saf-
fron party’s hegemony in elections in
Jat land has some notable takeaways.
Thepositionofregionalparties,oncema-
jordeterminantsofthestate’spolitics,has
fallen to its lowest.
This election, the political landscape
underlines just how the regional parties
lost both track and traction, suffered
self-infl
flicted injuries and were cut to size
for having failed to reinvent themselves
with changing times.
The resurrection of the Congress is
hard to come about, at least for now, and
elections in Haryana have proved to be
another wasted opportunity ty for the be-
leagueredoutfit.Thiswasastateinwhich
the Congress’dominance of the political
spectrum was evident for long. Most re-
cently, Congress ruled the state continu-
ously for a decade until 2014, before the
BJP swept it out of power. The Congress
has no one but itself to blame for its loss
of the Jat land, which now seems like a
secular phenomenon.
W
Wh henvotersexercisetheirfranchiseon
Monday,itwillbeadirectBJPvsCongress
fight on at least 40 of the 90 seats. The
BJP regime under Manohar Lal Khattar
has shown how governance that focused
onthelast-miledeliveryofschemes,both
the Centre’s and its own, could help hold
the partyty’s sway over voters. The saffron
party in Haryana consciously resisted
the temptation of competitive populism,
focusingondeliveryofexistingschemes.
This election is arguably lacklustre,
but is also one highly polarized on caste
lines. In fact, the outcome of polls in this
Jat-dominated state will determine the
ty or expiry of the BJP’s model of
validity
electoralsuccessinHaryana.Theexpec-
tation is that on October 24, in all proba-
bility
ty, the BJP’s strategy to polarize non-
Jat votes will be vindicated.
The BJP’s ascent in Jat land, where it
had no more than a marginal presence
before 2014 has been due to its polari-
zation tactics in the face of a withering
opposition,combinedwiththepopularity ty
of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The BJP’s courting of non-Jats was
as much strategy as a compulsion. The
choiceofKhattar,previouslyanRSSpra-
charak and Modi loyalist, as CM despite
his rookie status, was a well calibrated
strategy towards positioning the BJP
with the non-Jat sections. Even though
theBJPeventuallyco-optedtheJats,too,
the party ty is not relying on Jat leaders, as
is evident from the diminishing number
of tickets given to them.
Thepolarizationofnon-Jatvotesinten-
sified after the ugly Jat quota stir in the
winter of 2016, when the state was para-
lyzed for over a week and properties of
non-Jats were systematically plundered
and burnt to ash in certain places. The
non-Jat community showed its anger
by voting against the Congress and the
INLD, the parties that had traditionally
wooed, and relied on, the Jats.
Beyond manoeuvring to break the
deeplyentrenchedcastecalculus,Kh Khattar
washandsoninhisdevelopmentagenda.
Hisregimewasamix ix ofpoliticalsteward-
ship and micromanagement at the low-
est level. He would talk up and focus on
schemes that apparently sounded mun-
dane: gas cylinders under the Ujjwala
scheme, cleansing 17,000 village ponds,
increasedpowerandfundstovillagelevel,
onavailability ty ofurea,regularizingillegal
colonies,SwachhBharat,andthelike.All
these helped the BJP penetrate into the
rural areas, expand into new territories
and thus its support base.
The BJP’s unchallenged run in the
last five years has been helped by a
disintegrating opposition – both the
Congress and the Abhay Chautala-led
Indian National Lok Dal (INLD). The
fragmentation of the INLD, just as elec-
tions approached, couldn’t have come at
a worse time. The family tussle betw tween
the estranged Chautala brothers has left
the partyty in tatters.
The Janata Jananayak Party ty (JJP) was
carvedoutoftheINLDfollowingthesplit
in the Chautala family and party ty. The IN-
LD’s vote share plummeted from 24% in
thelastAssemblyelectionsto1.89%inthe
Lok Sabha polls. The JJP appears prom-
ising, but it may not be able to translate
votes into winning seats.
The Congress is a house of utter cha-
os in Haryana. Its long-trusted former
state congress chief, Ashok Tanwar, has
turned rebel, supporting the JJP and the
INLD. The Congress under Bhupinder
Singh Hooda has failed to come out with
a cogent election strategy.
ThetraditionalJatvoteoftheCongress
and INLD, too, is shifting to the BJP. The
saffron party ty has centered its campaign
aroundModi’srhetoriconnationalsecu-
rity
ty,nationalprideandinclusiveness,with
theabrogationofArticle370consuming
much of the campaign space. The Con-
gress cites unemployment, corruption
during Khattar’s rule as CM, among
his failures, but has failed to gain much
traction.
 STATE 7
DECCAN
AN HERA
RALD
Sunday
October 20, 2019

SSLC tentative
time table released
BENGALURU, DHNS
Likelydates
T
he Karnataka Second-
ary Education Exami- „ 20 March, 2020 - First
nation Board (KSEEB) language
A H Vishwanath has announced the tentative „ 21 March, 2020 - Core
timetable for March/April subjects and Economics
AHV blames 2020 Secondary School
Leaving Certificate (SSLC) „ T23 March, 2020 - Social

Siddaramaiah for final examinations.

Accordingtotheprovision-
Science
„ 26 March, 2020 - Core
his resignation Saraswati stream near Banashankari, Badami taluk, has come alive following heavy showers in the night intervening Friday and Saturday. (Right) Kids play on
the flooded bridge over Jaarkal Halla stream in Koppal taluk. Heavy showers in the last few days have infused life into the waterbodies in the district.
al timetable released, the ex-
amination is scheduled to be
subjects and political science,
Science and Carnatic music

Rain batters Kalyana K’taka,

HUNSUR,DHNS: Disqualified held betwtween March 20 and and Hindustani music
MLA A H Vishwanath, on April 3, 2020. „ 30 March 2020 - Mathe-
Saturday, blamed leader of In case of any objections,
matics and Social studies
the Opposition in the As- students can submit them
sembly for his resignation between October 21 and „ 1 April 2020 - Second

yellow alert issued for many dists

as an MLA.
“Ithasbeenprojectedthat
17 MLAs were responsible
for the collapse of the coali-
tiongovernment.But,greed
for power by the leaders of
both the parties was the real
reason”.
Speakingataprogramme
S
here, Vishwanath said, “I
BENGALURU, DHNS
howers, accompanied by
incessant showers in the last
few days. On Saturday, 5,000
cusec was discharged into the
town received 120 mm of rain
in the last 24 hours (ending
8.30 am on Saturday).
Torrential rain lashed
Gadag-Betageri and several
villages in Naregal hobli in the
November 19 by writing to language
the director (examinations) „ 3 April 2020 - Third
of the board, according to a language
press release.
night and Saturday.
‘Workpressure’drives
IMD forecasts more rain

had to come out of the Con-
gressparty
ty duetothemental
harassmentmetedouttome
by Siddaramaiah”. Criticis-
ingRameshKumar,whowas
theSpeakerduringtheterm
ofthecoalitiongovernment,
hesaid,thegovernmentsuf-
focated to death due to his
decision.
“Iwasmadethescapegoat
inthepoliticalslug-festafter
the elections. I was assured
ministership, but made
scapegoat due to the con-
spiracyofSiddaramaiahand
HDKumaraswamy(former
chief minister),”he said.
thunder and lightning,
pounded most parts of
Kalyana Karnataka and isolat-
ed places in Malnad, coast and
south interior Karnataka.
Kalyana Karnataka region
receivedwidespreadraininthe
interveningnightofFridayand
Saturday.Theovernightshow-
erspouredmiseryonMaskita-
luk in Raichur district.
The showers left Gaddi
Halla near Santekallur in
spate.Theoverfl flowingstream
ffllooded the bridge, affecting
the vehicular traffic for hours.
Hirehalla reservoir in Koppal
is full to the brim following
stream. Excess water is being
diverted to Ginagera lake.
The ready-to-harvest sajje
(pearl millet), groundnut,
paddy and maize, on over 100
hectares in Koppal district
has been damaged in wet
weather.
Bunds of many farms have
washed away in Yelaburga,
Kushtagi and Koppal taluks.
VillagersofKotturtalukonSat-
urday rejoiced at overfl
flowing
Hagari rivulet near Kuditina
Maggi.
Many streams in the taluk
received good infl
flows follow-
ing overnight showers. Kottur
Thundershowerscontinued
topummelHosapetetownand
surrounding areas, including
Hampi, Kamalapur, Nagena-
halli and Dharmasagar. Skies
opened up on Friday midnight
anditpouredtilltheweehours
of Saturday.
Hagaribommanahalli ex-
perienced 100.8 mm of rain
while Tambralli recorded 111.1
mm rain since Friday night.
Showers flflooded BCM hostel
inHBHalliputtingstudentsto
hardships.
As many as 47 houses in
the taluk have suffered partial
damage in the overnight rain.
night intervening Friday and
Saturday.
Overnight showers left
many streams overflowing
in Badami taluk. Saraswati
streamnearBanashankarihas
come alive.
ManyplacesinDharwaddis-
trict,includingHubballi-Dhar-
wad ttw
win cities, received inter-
mittentrainsinceFridaynight.
Showers left Toll Naka
Circle in Dharwad inundated
causing hardships to the com-
muters. Parts of Shivamogga,
Chitradurga and Tumakuru
districts also experienced
thundershowers on Friday
The India Meteorological
Department has forecast
heavy
vy showers for north and
south interior Karnataka,
coastal district and Malnad
region for next three days.
The IMD has issued a yellow
alert warning for Chikkama-
galuru, Hassan, Kodagu,
Shivamogga, Koppal, Ballari,
Gadag, Bagalkot, Dharwad,
Haveri, Uttara Kannada,
Udupi and Dakshina Kanna-
da districts. The said districts
are expected to receive heavy vy
showers, accompanied by
thunder and lightning, from
October 20 to 22.
SBIdeputymanagertosuicide
SHIVAMOGGA, DHNS: State
Bank of India Jog Falls
branch deputy manager al-
legedly committed suicide
by hanging himself from a
ceiling fan at his home in Jog
in Sagar taluk on Saturday.
According to police, Anil
Kumar was a native of Kadur
in Chikkamagaluru district.
He had married four years
ago and was serving in Jog
for the past one year. It is sus-
pected that work pressure
prompted him to take the
extreme step.
Hehadexpressedhisinten-
tion to tender resignation to
the job due to pressure. The
auditofthebankcommenced
on October 17, it is learnt.
Hehadtakentw twodaysleave
due to work pressure. He
went to the bank on Saturday
morning. He returned home
after some time and took the
ext
xtremestepaftersendinghis
wife to market to buy vegeta-
bles. He had told customers,
whowereathischamber,that
he would be back in 10 min-
utes while leaving the bank.
He is survived by his wife and
three-year-old child.

Agr
gri income: ED probes authenticityty
of tahsildar’s lett
tter produced by DKS
BENGALURU, DHNS tember 12, he did not produce Court. The ED also informed withapplicantregardingcash
thedocumentaryevidencefor the court that Anjaneya H, an movement,”the ED informed

T
he Enforcement Di-
rectorate (ED) has in-
formed the Delhi High
Court that it is investigating a
certificate purportedly issued
by a Tahsildar submitted by
former minister D K Shivaku-
mar, claiming that his father
had agriculture income to the
tune of Rs 25 lakh.
During the hearing of
the bail application filed by
Shivakumar, who is in ju-
dicial custody in the mon-
ey laundering case, the
ED claimed that though
the investigating agency
recorded his statements 12
times from August 30 to Sep-
agriculture income earned by
his father.
“However, in the instant
bail application, the applicant
(Shivakumar) has mentioned
about a certificate from the
tahsildar to justify
fy his father’s
agriculture income. It prima
facieappearstohavebeencre-
ated as an afterthought since
there is neither any date of
issuance of the certificate nor
thetahsildarhasrecordedthe
basicdetailslikelandholdings,
cropsgrown,etc,forcertify fying
the agriculture income to the
tune of Rs 25 lakh.
Thisisunderinvestigation,”
the ED submitted to the High
assistantliaisonofficeofficeof
theKarnatakagovernmentisa
closeassociateofShivakumar
and was involved in handling
of cash in Delhi.
“He(Anjaneya)is a govern-
ment employee and has de-
posed before ED that he was
paid Rs 1.5 lakh per annum
by Shivakumar. A search was
conducted at his residence
on September 4, 2019 and
it was found that his mobile
phone was formatted on the
dayofreceiptofthesummons
from ED. Formatting of mo-
bile phone was done with
an intention to destroy the
evidence of communication
the court.
The ED claimed that two
laptops and mobile phone
recovered during the search
at Anjaneya’s House in Del-
hi belonged to Shivakumar.
The applicant (Shivakumar)
has tried to hide the evidenc-
es by placing his personal
laptops in some other per-
son’s custody. These laptops
have been sent for forensic
examination.
The HC has already re-
serveditsjudgementonShiva-
kumar’s bail application. The
Supreme Court had granted
protection from arrest to An-
janeya.

‘Giveus
entirearea
inAyodhya’
Ayodhya, from Page1

The Muslim parties are

also not entitled to any re-
lief for they built a structure
overthe“sacredandrevered
Ram Janmasthan”claiming
it to be vacant land. Their
claim of no temple existing
beneath the disputed struc-
ture have been proved to be
erroneous, it said.
“There are no good
groundsformouldingthere-
liefinanymannerwhichwill
impact the entire acquired
area including the disputed
site being utilised in accord-
ance with the wishes of the
Hindus,” it said, asking the
top court to invoke its ex-
traordinarypowerfordoing
complete justice.
The Muslim sides, includ-
ing the Sunni Central Waqf,
also submitted their note,
but they did so in a sealed
envelope.
Another party, Akhil
Bhartiya Sriram Janmab-
hoomi Punaruddhar Sami-
ti,throughsenioradvocateP
N Mishra, asked the court to
passadecreeinfavourofthe
Hindu parties – Ram Lalla
Virajman and Sri Ram Jan-
mabhoomi–forthepurpose
of doing complete justice.
Appellant Gopal Singh
Visharad, represented by
senior advocates Ranjit
Kumar and P S Narasimha,
sought“unhinderedrightto
worship of the idols of Lord
SriRam”,whichincludedall
other idols and sites at the
birthplace.
“Any exercise of equity ty of
allowingconstructionofany
structure, contrary to the
said purpose, would defeat
the purpose of suit and right
to do worship at the entire
site,”it said.
8 NEWS
DECCAN
AN HERA
RALD
Sunday
October 20, 2019

Havericollege
insoupover FATF action aft
fter Feb 2020 Mah
ahadayi yi protest:
Farmers submi mit
cartonidea
HAVERI, DHNS: The Bhagat
PU College, which is in the
dock for covering students’
heads with cardboard car-
may put Pak’s plan in peril plea to ggu
uv’s off
ffice
BENGALURU, DHNS rashtra, during his election
campaign.

tons to check copying dur-
ing examinations, will be
de-recognised.“Thecollege
management has failed to
give a proper explanation
for the notice served. It has
simply admitted its fault in
a two-line statement. The
recognition of the college
will be cancelled,” said Dep-
uty Commissioner Krishna
Callforactionmayaffect
Imran’splantosecureloan
▼ transactions with entities in
NEW DELHI, DHNS
to deliver on its promises to
plug the loopholes in its legal
action applies”. The FATF put
North Korea on its “black-list”
in 2011 and accordingly called
upon all nations to advise their
companies and financial insti-
tutionstogivespecialattention
to business relationships and
the ‘rogue’ nation. The organ-
isation indicated at the end of
its plenary that it might issue
the imminent balance of pay-
mentscrisisafterKhangovern-
mentpromisedseveralausteri-
ttyy measures and reforms. This
was the 22nd loan package of
the IMF for Pakistan.
Pakistan’s debt and liabili-
ties already reached 104.3%
of its Gross Domestic Product
(GDP).
If Pakistan does not fall
isting branches, subsidiaries
and representative offices of
the banks of Pakistan in their
territories and to terminate
correspondent relationships
with the banks in Pakistan.
The FATF, however, may de-
cide to keep in suspension its
calls for action, if Pakistan gov-
ernment starts taking actions
F
armers protesting the
delay in the implemen-
tation of the recom-
mendationsoftheMahadayi
Water Disputes Tribunal
awardcalledofftheirprotest
onSaturday,aftersubmitting
a memorandum to the Gov-
ernor’s office here.
Thefarmersweresittingin
protest for the last ttw
wo days,
The farmers were unable
to get a meeting with the
Governor on Friday and had
continued their protests till
Saturday afternoon. Then,
a group of representatives
of the farmers’ association
handedoveramemorandum
to the Governor’s office. The
protest, which was led by
Raitha Sena leader Veeresh

P
Bajpai.
When deputy direc-
tor of the Department of
Pre-University Education
S C Peerzade inquired with
the college management,
the members stated that
they wanted the examina-
tion procedure to be “dif-
ferent” and wanted to rep-
licate measures adopted by
schools in China and Japan.
“We expected the district
administrationtoappreciate
ourefforts,”saidMBSatish,
a management member.
rime Minister Imran
Khan’s government in
Islamabad may find it
difficult to get loan from Inter-
nationalMonetaryFund(IMF)
and other foreign lenders to
revive the troubled economy
ofPakistan,iftheFinancialAc-
tion Task Force (FATF) has to
put the South Asian nation on
its “black-list” after February
2020.
TheFATF,whichhelditsple-
nary in Paris from Wednesday
to Friday, set February 2020
as the deadline for Pakistan
framework to squeeze ffllow of
fundtotheterroristoutfits.The
intergovernmental organiza-
tion warned of actions if Khan
Government fails to meet the
deadline.
Pakistan may be put in
the same bracket with North
Korea and Iran – the two na-
tions, which are currently on
the FATF’s “black-list”, offi-
cially the list “jurisdictions
with strategic AML/CFT
(Anti-Money Laundering and
Counter Terrorist Financing)
deficiencies for which a call of
a similar “call for action” to its
member-nations, if Pakistan
government could not fully
implement its action plan to
squeeze the ffllow of fund to the
terror outfits within the next
four months.
Such a “call for action” by
theFATFislikelytoputinperil
Khan government’s plan to se-
cureloansfromtheIMFaswell
as from China, Saudi Arabia
and United Arab Emirates to
revivetheeconomyofPakistan.
The IMF in July approved a $6
billionloanforPakistantoavert
in line even after the FATF’s
call for enhanced scrutiny of
transactions with the entities
in the South Asian nation, the
organisation has the option
of scaling it up. It may call on
its members to apply effective
counter-measures and target-
ed financial sanctions against
the entities of Pakistan, pro-
tecting their financial sectors
from being involved in money
laundering and financing of
terrorism. The FATF may also
ask jurisdictions to take nec-
essary measures to close ex-
to curb financing of terrorism,
just as it did in case of Iran.
Pakistan is already on the
FATF’s “grey-list” – officially a
list of “jurisdictions with stra-
tegic deficiencies in its legal
regime to check money laun-
deringandterroristfinancing”.
New Delhi, with support
from United States, France
andafewothernations,lobbied
hard during the FATF’s plena-
ry to put it on the “black-list”
immediately. China, however,
savedPakistanfromimmediate
black-listing.
demanding that the Centre
implement the recommen-
dations at the earliest.
The Tribunal has award-
ed 13.4 tmcft of water to
Karnataka and the union
government is yet to notify
it. The farmers’ protest was
prompted by a recent state-
ment by Chief Minister B S
Yediyurappa, promising
water from Krishna river
(Tubachi-Babaleshwar lift
irrigation project) to Maha-
Sobaradamath, was called
off after the submission of
the memorandum.
In the memorandum, the
farmers have urged the state
government to implement
the recommendations of the
Mahadayi Water Disputes
Tribunalattheearliest.They
have ffllayed the ruling party
ty
for“beingunjusttovotersby
delaying implementation of
the Tribunal’s recommen-
dations.”

YELLOW EVERYWHERE
Info commissioners move
governor against state CIC
BENGALURU, DHNS ersalsochargedSrinivasawith “The decisions I have taken
“misbehaviourandincapacity ty” arebas asedonSecti
tion15(4)ofthe Deputy Chief Minister Govind Karjol speaks to the

I
n an unprecedented devel-
opment, nine information
commissioners of the Kar-
nataka Information Commis-
sion filed a complaint against
state chief information com-
missioner N C Srinivasa and
held a press conference, with
the commission becoming a
foru
rum for a power stru
ruggle on
Satu
turday.
Led by L Krishnamurthy,
though none of the commis-
sionerscouldprovideanyproof
tosubstantiatethem.
They took objection to
Srinivasa holding a meeting
of staffers in the commission
and instru
ructing them to adopt
a particular format in writing
orders.“Thisisaclearviolation
rulesasthechiefinform
ofru rmation
commissioner is interfering in
the work of other commission-
RTIActwhichhaslaidoutclear Mahadayi agitators in Bengaluru on Saturday. DH PHOTO
guidelinesforthestatechiefin-
formation commissioner,” he
said.
Refufutingtheallegationsthat
meetings have not been held
with other commissioners,
Sri
rinivasareleasedtheproceed- Longertheststaffst
stir,
less
sserthefinaloffer:
ings of a meeting held on June
25,alittttleoveramonthaft fterhe
wasappointedtothepost.
“Al
Allthecommissionersinthe

accompanied by six ix commis-
sioners, addressed the press
during which he accused
Srinivasa of making arbitrary
decisions without taking their
“assistance”. “Since assuming
office, he (Srinivasa) has not
convened regular meetings
of information commission-
ers and has kept us in the dark
about important events like
the Central Information Com-
mission’s annual convention in
Devotees throw turmeric and coconuts to Vittal Birdev annual yatra as part of the birth Delhi,”Kr
Krishnamurtrthysaid.
ers,”theysaid.
An
An RTI activist said it was a
sadstateofaffairstoseeoffi ficials
appointedtopromotetr transpar-
ency fighting with each other.
“Information commissioners
moving the governor against a
state CIC has never happened
before. They should have set-
tled it among themselves,” he
said.
When Srinivasa’s response
was sought, he rejected the
chargesofarbitraririnessandde-
meeti tingunanimouslyagreedto
adopt a uniform procedure in
writingtheordersatthecourt rts
ofthecommission.Subsequent-
ly, a meeting with the staffers
was held to implement the de-
cision,”hesaid.
He sought to clarify
fy that the
RTI Act allows him to make
decisions in administrative
matters like attending events.
“However, all commissioners
function autonomously in the
quasi-judicial matters. There
HALchairman
would start to downgrade
FirmfilespleainHC, this offer, Madhavan said:
“right from the first day of
claimsstrikecosting the strike itself.”
Madhavan also rubbished
itRs17crperday claims that the strike was
costing the company crores,
▼ saying that the company has
BENGALURU, DHNS not lost its assets.
“Our day-to-day opera-

T
anniversary of Vittal Birdev Maharaj, considered to be the reincarnation of Lord Vishnu, The complaint signed by fended his decision not to take has been no interference from he longer workers of tionsarecontinuingbecause
at Pattan Kodoli village near Kolhapur, Maharashtra. DH PHOTO/ BH SHIVAKUMAR nine information commission- allthecommissionerstoDelhi. meoranyoneelse,”headded. Hindustan Aeronaut- one, the vendors are contin-
ics Limited (HAL) uing to supply materials,
continue the strike, the our officers are working and
greater will be the decline of test ffllights are continuing
our final offer to them, HAL to take place,” he said, but

Absenceofinjurynogroundto B’luru start

rtup, HA
HAL team-up Soon, J&K cops to be
armed to the teeth
chairman R Madhavan said
on Saturday.
added that the strike would
definitely start to bite in the

saytherewasnosexabuse:HC
Speaking on the sidelines long-run.

CHENNAI, PTI: The Madras lence, in absence of which, it

High Court has said mere ab-
sence of injury on the body
of a sexually abused minor
cannot be a ground to say
there has been no offence
committed at all. The court
made this observation while
upholding a lower court or-
der sentencing a person con-
currentlyto10years’rigorous
imprisonmentunderIPCand
seven years’ rigorous impris-
onment under the POCSO
Act, 2012.
Justice S Vaidyanathan
rejected the argument of the
counselfortheaccusedthatin
the event of any physical vio-
lence, there must have been
bodily injury on the person,
who is subjected to such vio-
 WEATHER
Overv
rview
Rainfall may occurred at a
few places over South Interi-
or Karnataka and at isolated
cannot be said the victim was
not subjected to sexual har-
assment.
He said, “It is a highly fal-
lacious argument ... as the
minor girl did not even know
as to what for she is being
pulled in for and touched.
Therefore, an inference can
be drawn that there cannot
be much resistance on the
side of a minor girl and in the
absence of any opposition,
naturally,thereisnopossibil-
ity
ty of sustaining injury on the
body.” Mereabsenceofbodily
injury cannot be a ground to
say there is no offence at all,
when it was reported that se-
menwasdetectedonthegirl’s
clothes, he said.
 “The system is so compact
INTERIOR SOUTH
Stations Max Min
Agumbe 27 16.4
for drone batt
ttle
Drones, from Page1
The programme, being ru run at
HA
HAL’s ffllight testing facilities in
Bengaluru and in New Delhi,
aspires to develop three dis-
tinct classes of drones, many
of which are already in devel-
opmentintheWestandChina.
Am
Amongthemisaglidebomb
and an air-launched swarm
drone system called the Al-
pha-S, a metre-long drone car-
rying 1.5 tonnes of explosives
anddesignedtobeair-launched
from panniers carried aboard
fighteraircraft ft.
W
Whhen deployed, the drones
ffllyinform
rmationatspeedsof100
kmph, scouting for targets of
opport rtunity
ty, including missile
sites. Once the target is identi-
fied, the swarm dives, kamika-
ze-stytyle,toobliteratethetarget.
that a Sukh khoi Su-30 is capable
Rain
19.8
of carrying 30 to 40 drones,”
Thaku
kur explained, adding that
thisisthefu
futtu
ureofwarfare.
The programme, which is
called the Combat Air Team-
ing System (CATS) began in
2017 and was the brainchild
of the Bengaluru-based start-
up NewSpace Research and
Technologies. Since then, the
project has grown to include
the involvement of medium
andsmallindustriesandHA HAL.
Thakur said concern over
China’sadvancesindronetech-
nology
gy hadpromptedthepilots,
engineers and HAHAL to indulge
inacrash-coursetodevelopthe
newgenerationsofdrones.
“Youhavetounderstandthat
we are up against tremendous
development in other coun-
tries, especially China, to the
pointthatwecannotcatchup.If
youlookatarecentChinesemil-
itary
ry parade, you will see them
wielding a massive amount of
drones,”hesaid.
CATS’ most technically ad-
vanced creation, however, is
a new robot wingman - an un-
manned aircraft half the size
of a regular fighter and armed
with stealth features. Armed
with AAII, the drone is designed
to fl
fly nearly a 100 kilometers
aheadofaconventionalfighter
toengageenemythreats.
A
AllthoughCATshas as beentest-
ed for the Indian A Aiir Force in
Pokh
khran, Thaku kur clarified that
the technology still requires a
lot of work from H HAAL, the Na-
tionalAeronauticsLaboratory ry
andothers,plusafewthousand
crores to complete the pro-
gramme. “We can‘t afford to
stop.WhWhatisfrighteningisthat
50% of China’s combat forces
in the nextxt war will be autono-
mous,”said a project manager
whodidnotwishtobenamed.
J&K, from Page1
Theywillalsogetbrandnew
first-aid kit along with all the
facilities to deal with injuries
during encounters with mili-
tants, sources said.
“In future, special helmets
will also be provided to po-
licemen involved in anti-mil-
itancy operations,” they said.
“All this will be done under
the police modernisation pro-
gramme of the MHA. After
a year or so, J&K police will
also have anti-mine vehicles
fitted with IED detection
system.”
Confirming the develop-
ment, a senior police officer
said the Union home ministry
has also decided to take small
batches of J&K police out of
the Union Territory for com-
mandocourses,anti-militancy
training, guarding VIP guests
and security installations
among others. .
of a conference organised by
independentthink-tankSyn-
ergiaFoundation,Madhavan
explained that HAL can’t
offer more concessions to
striking workers.
“We hope that they will
calm down and return to the
discussiontable.Wecan’tof-
feranytythingfurtherbecause
we have to see it from an eco-
nomicalstandpointandprof-
itability,”he said.
“The longer the workers
strike, the costs will get fac-
tored into the wage revision.
We are a commercial organ-
isation and if a long strike
causes me to lose money,
what we have offered also
will start coming down,” he
added.
The management’s cur-
rent offer amounts to a
11% fitment increase and
22% perks for Scale 1 to 10
workmen and 20% perks
for higher-class workmen.
But when asked when HAL
However,accordingtothe
All India HAL Trade Unions
Coordination Committee
(AIHALTUCC), the writ pe-
tition filed by HAL against
the committee in the high
court on Friday claims that
it is incurring a loss of Rs 17
crore per day because of the
strike.
As the strike entered its
sixth day on Saturday, union
leaderssaid theywereaware
of the management’s hard-
line position on the standing
offer, but said they had no
option but to continue.
“The management has so
many weaponsinitsarsenal.
It can file FIRs against us, it
can harm our workers by
reducing their wages, it can
disrupt our protests. But
we trade unions have only
weapon - that is the strike.
We are exercising our basic
right,”saidSuryadevaChan-
drasekar, chief convenor of
AIHALTUCC.

Channeliseenergytomakeinspiring MAHATMA AS MESSAGE

Bengaluru 28.8 20.2 09
places over Coastal Karnata-
Ballari NA NA NA
ka and North interior.
Chamarajanagar 29.5 20.3 16.2
Forecast-Oct20:Rain/show-
ers likely to occur at most
places over the State.
Chikkamagaluru 23
Chitradurga
Davangere 29
18.4
28.9 20.1
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creatives,saysModi
Hassan NA NA NA NEW DELHI, DHNS: As the bring about positive transfor-
INTERIOR NORTH Mysuru 28.2 20.6 11 NDA government is plan- mation in society
ty.
Stations Max Min Rain Madikeri 20.8 17.4 37.8 ning big celebrations to mark The PM recalled his inter-
Belagavi 25.5 22 24 Kolar 30.1 20.3 01 the 150th birth anniversary actionwithChinesePresident
Vijayapura 29 19.8 39.8 of Mahatma Gandhi, Prime Xi Jinping in Mamallapuram,
Dharwad 29 20.9 10.4 Minister Narendra Modi on wherein the President had
OTHER STATIONS
Haveri 26.2 21.4 12.2 Saturday interacted with the highlighted the popularity
Stations Max Min Rain
Kalaburagi 31 23 4.7 members of the film industry. of Indian films like Dan-
New Delhi 32.6 19.8 00
Raichur 31 23.5 5.4 Kolkata 34.4 25.2 00 The event was attended by gal, in China. He also men-
COASTAL Mumbai 26.7 24.9 1.9 noted actors, directors and tioned about the popularity
Honnavar 30.8 22.9 65.2 Chennai 31.7 24.9 5.2 other members of the Indian of Ramayana in South East
Karwar 31 23.3 53 Pune 24.6 21 01 film and entertainment in- Actor Shah Rukh Khan takes Asia.
Shirali 32.2 25.7 58.6 Hyderabad 29.3 22.1 TR dustryincludingAamirKhan, a selife with PM Narendra Modi outlined that India is
Mangaluru 29.3 22.9 34.6 Trivandrum 31.7 23.9 13 Shahrukh Khan, Rajkumar Modi at an interaction going to celebrate the 75th
Hirani, Kangana Ranaut, programme in New Delhi. anniversary of its Independ-
Anand L Rai, S P Balasubrah- Actor Amir Khan is also seen. ence in 2022. In this regard,
manyam, Sonam Kapoor, he requested the gathering to
 RESERVOIR LEVELS  Jackie Shroff, Sonu Nigam PrimeMinisterurgedthefilm showcasetheinspiringstories
and Ekta Kapoor. and the entertainment indus- of India’s freedom struggle
Name of the Full Present KRS 124.80 124.80 In the event, Modi also try to channelise its energy to from 1857 to 1947 and India’s
Reservoir level* level* Kabini 2284.00 2283.89 released four cultural vide- make entertaining, inspiring growth story from 1947 to
Linganamakki 1819.00 1819.00 Tungabhadra 1633.00 1633.00 os marking the 150th birth creativesthatcanmotivatethe 2022. He also underlined the Muttanna Channabasappa Tirlapur, a resident of Karkikatti village in Ron taluk, Gadag dis-
Supa 1849.92 1846.28 Malaprabha 2079.50 2079.50 anniversary of Mahatma ordinary citizens. He remind- plan to host an Annual Inter- trict dressed as Mahatma Gandhi, was at the Vidhana Soudha in Bengaluru on Saturday. He
Harangi 2859.00 2858.26 Almatti 1704.81 1704.81 Gandhi. ed them of their immense nationalEntertainmentSum- wants to spread the Mahatma’s message against cow slaughter, for prohibition and on the
Hemavathi 2922.00 2920.65 *In feet Source: KSNDMC During the interaction, the potential and their ability to mit in India. environment. DH PHOTO/ RANJU P
DECCAN
AN HERA
Sunday
RALD
October 20, 2019
ARTICLES
OF FAITH
An
AnAArrticle370forevery
ry stateintheIndi
P
rime Minister Narendra Modi, while
campaigning for the Maharashtra As-
sembly elections, “dared” the Opposi-
tion to promise the reinstatement of Article
370and Article35-Awhichhis government
has cynically removed from the Constitu-
tion. If India had a principled Opposition
capable of dealing in ideas instead of tired
cliches and patronage netw tworks, the short
answer should have been “Done! And we
think it’s such a good idea that we will also
Alok ensure every single state in the Union gets
Prasanna acustomisedversionofArticle370aswell.”
Kumar Soundsshockingoroutlandish?
argues that It shouldn’t be. Because there are already
Harry Potter is nine articles of the Constitution like Article
science fiction and 370, creating special provisions for various
Star Wars is fantasy states, including Karnataka. Yes, there is
Article 371-J which allows the President of
India to make special provisions for Hyder-
THRU’ THE LOOKING GLASS
in andsensibil
Sin ilitty
y Everyryoneshoul
of lyi
ying
T T
hirteen years ago, I was travelling all the way from
Kolkata to Kerala on an Indian Railways train. Ac-
companying me was an Indian guy. He was a family
friend, nobly escorting me around the country. Or, so the
other passengers thought. In reality ty, he was my boyfriend
(now my husband) and we were embarking on a crazy ad-
venture together to run a guesthouse in a place we’d never
been. However, this wasn’t what he told the passengers
when they predictably asked who I was and where we were
going. Instead, he lied. I was dismayed and confused, and
admittedly a bit offended. A “family friend”? “Escorting
me around India”?
Itwasn’tuntilyearslater,afterI’ddevelopedsomeIndian
common sense, that I understood how sensible he’d been.
He had told the passengers the most appropriate answer
for the situation. An answer that was socially acceptable
and would curb further curious questioning.
What’smore,Iwasshockedtorealise,Iwoulddothesame
thing in his position. It had saved us a lot of bother. Yet, my
changedperspectiveconcernedme.Iwouldlie,too?Where
had my morals gone? Fortunately, my newfound Indian
common sense provided a comforting explanation. The
end justifies the means. The goal matters, not the path. It’s
not the action that’s good or bad but rather the outcome.
There’s no black or white, right or wrong, just a lot more
than 50 shades of grey.
In a largely collectivist and hierarchical societyty such as
India,wheresmalltalkcanactuallybeanundercoverinves-
tigation and assessment, lying is more than a choice -- it’s
a crucial survival skill. Recently,
anIndianfriendwasshoppingfor
groceries in Bengaluru and the
ladyatthebillingcountercasually
asked her how much she earned.
Itwasn’tthefirsttimesuchathing
had happened either. Inquiring
about someone’s salary is taboo
inaWesterncountry,evenamong
close friends. Yet, this concept
of privacy and personal space
doesn’t apply in India. Nothing
is off-limits for most people. Sur-
name, age, weight, job, income, Sharell Cook
neighbourhood, marital status, is trying to make
children...and the mandatory sense of India, one
“Whynot?”ifyouranswerdoesn’t ‘Like That Only’ at
fit expectations or social norms. a time
No wonder lies are told to avoid
such intimate examinations. It’s
better than having to define yourself, defend yourself, and
be categorised.
That said, simply telling a lie isn’t sufficient. The skill
is in telling a believable lie, and providing just enough in-
formation to make the person feel like they’ve discovered
something significant, so they’ll be satisfied and leave you
alone. Alas,thisaptnessforlyinginvariablyextendstoerode
accountability ty and trust.
Liesaretoldtoensureworkgetsdoneontime,andliesare
toldwhenworkisn’tdoneontime.Thetemptingeaseoflying
iseventhreateningmymotivation.Whybotherhurryingto
bepunctualwhenIcansayI’mstuckintrafficlikeeveryone
else(despitethefactI’mstillchillingonthecouchathome)!
DevelopingmyIndiancommonsensehasmeantlearning
to decipher what people actually mean and who is being
misleading. Gone are the days when I’d foolishly clean the
apartment,preparefoodandwaitforhoursifsomeonesaid
they were planning to visit. Now, I pester them numerous
timesforconfirmation.“Areyousureyou’recoming?”“99%
sure.” Ah, okay, they’re probably not coming. They’re just
telling me what I want to hear because they don’t want to
disappoint me.
And, the customer service representative who assured
me my air conditioner had finally been dispatched after
waiting ttwwo weeks (but mysteriously couldn’t give me the
nameofthecourierortrackingnumberwhenIaskedhim)?
Definitely a lie! Of course, the air conditioner didn’t arrive.
Turns out, it was out of stock.
Wh
Whytw
twowomenwr
writerssharingtheBookeriscausecelebreforfemi
min
niism
L
ast week, ttw
wo Booker Prize winners
wereannounced:Canadiannovelist
MargaretAtw twood(sheofTheHand-
maid’sTaleandBlindAssassinfame),and
the relatively unknown (at least to me)
BernardineEvaristowerejointlyawarded
the Booker in a ffllagrant “fl
flouting” of the
rules by the judges when they declared a
tie instead of choosing one of them. This
meant,amongotherconsiderations,that
thetwtwowinnershadtosharemanythings:
the stage, the recognition, the glory, and
Suma Nagaraj most important of all, the prize money of
Her choice of
weapons in a
GBP 50,000.
Atwood, 79, is a giant in the literary
mansplaining world, with a career spanning close to 60
world are yearsandanoeuvrethatisasvastasitcan
little to no patience possibly be: numerous novels, poetry an-
and word barbs thologies,andworksofnon-fictionarejust
thetipoftheicebergwhenitcomestoher
dianUni
nion!
abad-Karnataka in respect of equitable de-
velopment and reservation of jobs for those
from the region. This was introduced as
recentlyas2012 by wayoftheNinety ty-Eighth
ConstitutionAmendment.
In fact, I would go so far as to say that the
underlying principle of Article 370 -- that
some states will be treated differently from
others,hasprobablyhelpedkeeptheIndian
Union together and avoided much, much
bloodshed.
Unlike the United States, which is some-
times held up as the ideal federal polity ty, In-
dia’sfederalstruructureoperatesonaprinciple
of asymmetry -- not every state has exactly
the same relationship with the Union gov-
ernment.Thebasicprincipleoffederalismis
thatbothUnionandstategovernmentshave
equal share in law-making and executive
powers, but in different areas. However, not
STATE, MARKET, SOCIETY
twogoats
Ahorseandtw ts
T
he Reserve Bank of India tells
PMCBanknottoallowitsdeposi-
tors to withdraw more than a few
thousand rupees of their money with
the bank. A key manufacturing growth
index goes into reverse gear as factory
output in India drops compared to a
year ago. And communities on either
side of the Outer Ring Road on the east
side of Bengaluru call for a protest as
public services in the area keep drop-
ping to new lows.
This is not the way it is supposed to
be. In our democracy, we have invested
the State with authority ty to make good
thingshappen,andstopbadthingsfrom
happening.
When the PM himself opens the
doors to more manufacturing invest-
ment, how could there be so little of
it five years later? When the banks
are overseen by regulations regard-
ing what they can do with depositors’
money, how could PMC Bank end up
with such lopsided lending to a single
borrower? When urban development
in large cities is governed by laws about
master planning, how did ORR end up
with neither planning nor its master
anyw
ywhere in sight?
There’s a much longer list of exam-
plesonecouldcompiletoaskquestions
like this. The broad theme of all this is
the same -- the State has immense
power to do good, but somehow that
authorityty isnottranslatingintothekind
ofoutcomesforwhichthisauthority ty has
been given in the first place. Where is it
all going wrong?
The answers to each of these situa-
bodyofwork.Hersideavatarsincludeen-
vironmental activism, literary criticism,
academia,andpoliticalcommentary,and
she is one of the world’s staunchest allies
offeminism.HerbookthatwontheBook-
er this year, The Testaments, is a sequel to
The Handmaid’s Tale, coming close to 35
years after the first book, but fictionally
narratedabout15yearsafterthefirstbook
ends. Even those who have not yet read
her will know, or have heard, of her.
Evaristo, on the other hand, is a black
British author with eight novels to her
credit (her work explores the African di-
aspora),andissomeonenewIamexcited
to discover and read, as any other writing
dilettantewouldbe.Discoveringanewau-
thorwhoplayswithformandnarrative(as
my post Booker announcement research
revealed), is a prospect that has this per-
THEPRISM 9
every state need be exactly the same in this the Naga Peoples’ Convention as part of the for following this model to deal with other
scheme. Which is why the Constitution has NagaPeaceAccord. conflflicts in the North-East and to accede
provisionslikeArticle370,371,371-Aandso Itsimportancewashighlightedbythefact to political demands across the rest of the
on,makingdifferentspecialprovisionsfor10 that immediately after Article 370 was ab- country. One of the great features of our
differentstates. rogated, Nagaland Governor RN Ravi, who Constitution, exemplified in Article 370, is
Was this part of the original design? Not is also the interlocutor for ongoing peace flexibility
the fl ty to accommodate differences
necessarily. Except for Article 370 itself, all talks with Naga factions, assured them that and diversity ty when needed to preserve the
the other articles making special provisions Article 371-A was not under any threat and Union. If it weren’t so, we only need to see
were inserted after Independence. All of wasa“sacredcommitment”. the examples of Pakistan and Sri Lanka to
themweretheresultof veryspecificpolitical Not just Nagaland, even Mizoram is gov- understand what happens when you try to
movements and demands. Take Article 371- erned by a similar provision (Article 371-G) eradicate or diminish diversityty in the name
A, for instance, inserted by the Thirteenth regarding the application of laws made by of“nation-building”.
Amendment to the Constitution. It applies Parliament. When seen this way, perhaps it’s not so
to the state of Nagaland only and (among While much has been made of the word outlandishaft fteralltodemandthateachstate
other things) guarantees that no law made “temporary” in the heading of Article 370, in the Union get its own version of Article
by Parliament in four key areas will apply this was actually put in because of specific 370--thateachstatebeallowedtohavespe-
to the state without the approval of the Na- historical exigencies at that moment but cial provisions in the interests of the unique
galandLegislativeAssembly.Itwasbrought did not mean that Kashmir’s unique con- history, geography, culture or economic
in after a 16-point agreement was entered stitutional position was in any way tempo- needs. The very future of the Indian Union
into between the Indian government and rary. If it were so, there would be no basis maydependonit.
DEBATES WITH MY DAUGHTERS
uld
tta
akescience
he first charge Fairy levelled against me was one of
hypocrisy. How could I, after having always encour-
aged her to look beyond engineering and medicine
ascareeroptions,declarethatsheshouldtakethePhysics,
Chemistry, Mathematics & Biology (PCMB) option at the
pre-university ty level? Had I not suggested economics, phi-
losophy and other social sciences as subjects that offered
rewarding career paths? So, why was I now arm ttw wisting
TenthGradersoftheWorldtotakePCMB?Whatelsewas
this other than pure hypocrisy?
Appearing in my own defence, I explained that the ttw wo
exhortations were neither contradictory nor mutually
exclusive. That everyone should study science and math-
ematicsupto12thstandard(orpre-university ty)butcantake
upsocialsciences,business,artsandcommerceatunder-
graduate or postgraduate levels. She saw the logic in the
argument, but I do not think has completely exonerated
me from the charges.
A few months after this, she accused me of a new of-
fence—thatof“judging”peoplewhohadn’ttakenscience.
Peoplewhotakehumanitiesandcommerce,shedeclared
indignantly, are as smart as the people who take science.
It took some effort to convince her that I was not making
judgements on individuals, but rather dispensing advice
on how young people can best prepare themselves for the
21st century. She rolled her eyes. Airy gave a “there he
goes again” look, and right before my eyes I could see
the balance of power shifting away. I decided to press on
nevertheless.
This is what I said: Taking science is necessary for tw two
reasons—acquirevitalknowledgeandmoreimportantly,
to acquire reasoning skills. Since
science is taught chronological-
ly, the newest bits are not taught
in secondary school. Stopping
at Newton, Mendel and algebra
tions is quite complex, and a uniform closer to the outcomes we seek. means missing out at least a cen-
response can’t capture their entirety. In some cases, we have passed the tury of human progress. Most of
Nonetheless, there is something in point of being able to do anyt ything fur- ourschoolboardsaresuchthatit’s
common across such failures -- what ther with authority. Half the seats in only in the 11th year of school that
we are seeing, repeatedly, is that there professional colleges are vacant, even you encounter Einstein, DNA and
arelimitstowhatcanbeachievedbythe though we have a large system of over- calculus, the stuff that you need
authority of the State alone, and that sight in place to ‘recognise’ the right Nitin Pai today and tomorrow. In a way, the
someotheringredientsarealsoneeded colleges and universities. Meanwhile, is an unapologetic science that you learn at the 10th
in the stew of democracy. institutions like the Indian School of proponent of dad standard level is like an older ver-
One line of argument in response to Business, or BITS Pilani earlier to that, jokes sion of iOS or Android.
thisis,“butthereisnothingwrongwith were dissed as unrecognised institu- Moreimportantly,unlessyou’ve
ty itself, it is just not being
the authority tions, despite the consumers’view that hadareallygoodscienceteacherat
usedproperly.”That’snaive.Withsuch these are very good places to study. secondaryschool,youdon’trealisethatscienceisactually
asymmetric assignment of power, we The imbalance of authority ty is at the not a “subject”but a method of knowing. It teaches you to
have no right to expect it to be used heart of State failure. There is almost becurious,scepticalandbelieveinthingsonlytotheextent
right. The answer to over-speeding is an entropy of power that results from there is evidence for them. It also teaches you to change
not better steering. it. Individuals in public offices pursue yourmindwhennewevidenceemerges.Takingsciencefor
theirvestedinterestsandusethepower tw
two more years improves the chances that you’ll develop
of the State itself to shield them. Public better reasoning skills.
servicesstarttocreakandfail,butwith- Without adequate scientific knowledge and reasoning
Ashwin Mahesh outaccountability ty sincetheiroversight skills, it will be hard to succeed in the 21st century. Should
wakes up with is also by themselves. And every shiny youstorethestemcellsfromyourbaby’sumbilicalcord?Is
hope for the city
y newgoalsetfordevelopmentisunmet. that expensive magnetic bracelet really going to save you
and society, goe
es Development is like a team of three fromdangerouscellphoneradiation?WillAItakeoverthe
world?Shouldyouundergotheprescribeddiagnostictest
to bed with a sig
gh, horses pulling a wagon. Replacing
or treatment? Even if you canGoogle thequestions,you’ll
repeats cycle two of them with goats will have con-
stillhavetomakeupyourownmind.You’llneedeconomics
sequences, not only for the wagon, but and philosophy, too, but that can be picked up later.
also for the remaining horse and the Besides, it’s easier to move from science to liberal arts
goats. orsocialsciencesatalaterstageinlife,thantheotherway
Governments perform better when around. (Which is why those in doubt on what to do with
What’s the alternative? Simple -- they create enough space for the inno- their lives ought to study engineering!)
there must be three prongs to every vationsofindustryandforthepersonal Whenthetimecame,FairychosePCMB,butonlypartly
goal. It’s better to recognise that any libertiesandeconomicfreedomsofciti- because of my advice. Her main inspiration came from
large goals we seek will result from the zens.Countriesgothroughtimeswhen watching a Netfl flix show. My turn to roll eyes. A few weeks
combined action of the State, Market the public tells itself that these things after school started, she came to me and complained that
and Society. Therefore, at the time of are not as important as powerful lead- the “commerce gang” is having the time of their lives,
settingagoalitself,itisimportanttoask ership in government. The invariable while she’s labouring under physics problems, chemistry
what roles each of the three will play in consequence of those, throughout his- equations,mathsderivationsandbiologymemorisations.I
realising the goal. tory, has been to look back on that as a startedexplainingtheconceptofopportunity ty costs,butat
This spread of roles is likely to get us mistake. that moment at least, she was in no mood to listen.
WOMANSPLAINING
ennial student of literature drooling. She these do is surface authors most of the Elif Shafak, two of the other nominees
is the Booker awardee this year for her world might not yet have discovered, this year. I haven’t yet read Lucy Ellman
latest novel Girl, Woman, Other. which they have done with Evaristo. At- and Chigozie Obioma. But thanks to the
The judges defended their decision as wood is merely coincidental to the whole Booker, the first book I will read will be Thejudges
something that they had to do because shebang here, and I reckon she knows it. Evaristo’s.
they “couldn’t separate” one book as the And like any other competition, the de- All this to say: The arc of the moral saidthey
clearwinnerovertheotherandthatitwas cisions are hugely subjective. First of all, universe may be long, but it does bend “couldn’t
“their decision to flflout the rules.” Swift thatonepanelorjurycandecideonebook toward justice, albeit late in the case of
was the backlash that followed, the most asthebestoftheyearfromthethousands recognising women writers’ enormous separate”one
commonsentimentbeingthatthejudges thatenterthemarketishubris(quitepos- contributiontotheliterarycanon.Inthis bookasthe
could have made a statement by choos- siblymalehubris).Secondly,it’sacharged case,bothwomen.So,whatifoneiswhite
ing Evaristo over Atwood and “making world we are all living in. Having said (anotherSJW JW bugbear)andoneisblack?
clearwinner
history”. Another shared sentiment was that,thatthedecisionthisyearhonoured Theyarewomenofthewrittenword,and overthe
that this year’s decision will go down in
historyforitsrule-flfloutingratherthanfor
both a literary giant and a hitherto less-
er-known woman of colour is something
the more women are recognised in this
world, the merrier it is for all involved.
other.”
theemphaticrecognitiontheycouldhave worthcelebrating,forawards,whenthey Don’t agree with me? Just look at the
bestowed on Evaristo as the first black pay lip service to woke politics, become grace with which both writers dealt with
woman to win the Booker. mere popularity ty contests. having to share the prize with the oth-
Points well-made, and well taken, but At this point, I must put out a disclaim- er. We should all be so thankful. More,
here’s the thing: what competitions like er: I’ve read both Salman Rushdie and please.
 10 DHPOLITICALTHEATRE
DECCAN
A HERA
RALD
Sunday
October 20, 2019

Keralatowitness INTERVIEW

bypollsonMonday
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, DHNS: As the
campaign for bypolls to five Assembly seats in
Ourworkspeaksforitself,thereispro-incumbencyinHaryana:Khattar
H
Kerala ended on Saturday, the Congress-led aryana chief minister Manohar this change in the Jat-dominated state. ing majority
ty. Our work speaks for centre and state schemes to people. The Congress and other Opposition
UDF and CPM-led LDF accused each other of Lal Khattar was arguably the itself. parties are all a divided house, fighting
triggering religious and communal senti- BJP’s wildcard entry in 2014, You have embarked upon Mis- Besides development, the BJP nar- among themselves. People have lost
ments. when the party ty surprised every- sion 75. What makes you What has brought about this change rative in the election has revolved faith in them.
While the CPM accused the Congress of one by naming him the CM of optimistic about winning in Haryana? around nationalism. Why?
openly pooling the votes of the Hindu-Nair the state. Five years down the so many seats? We have focused on development The country is proud that the abro- If voted to power for a second term,
community ty, the Congress slammed the LDF line, despite controversies, It’s an achievable target issues and last-mile delivery. Unlike gation of Article 370 has happened what will be the outlook for the next
for trying to trigger communal sentiments. Khattar has proved his mettle for us. This is the first time past regimes plagued by corruption under PM Modi. 5 years?
Four seats were left vacant after sitting with his political astuteness that there is a wave of and nepotism, the BJP in Haryana BJP is a strong nationalist partyty. We We must further our development
MLAs got elected to Lok Sabha and a bypoll and administrative prowess. complete pro-incumbency has provided a clean, transparent are proud that the BJP has been able agenda. Our manifesto is realistic and
was necessitated in Manjeswaram, Kasargod The BJP has had a dream run in Haryana. government. to instill a sense of national pride intends to deliver benefits to all sec-
with the death of sitting legislator. under Khattar’s regime We are on the cusp of We have ensured the equitable among citizens. tions of society
ty. A strong government
In the run-up to the bypolls, the Sabarimala in Haryana. He tells forming the next distribution of resources for all-round at the Centre under Prime Minister
issue prominently figures in campaigns with Gautam Dheer of DH government development. The BJP has ensured Are Opposition parties, Congress and Modi will act as a catalyst for us to
the ruling LDF highlighting the development what brought about with a thump- seamless dissemination of benefits of others, a challenge in this election? propel further growth.
initiatives it has taken there; the Congress

In 40 seats,
camp boating that a bigger amount for
infrastructure at Sabarimala was spent during
its term in office and the BJP being defensive HARYANA Number of TOTAL NO OF Male IndirasplitPak
over the issue. CANDIDATES
1,064
intotwo:Cong
Assembly
Polling for State
BJP, which is in power at the Centre, was
Assembly Elections: Counting:
Constituencies:
1169

Cong, BJP in
accused of not taking any steps to bring in a
90
legislation to protect the customs of Saba-
rimala, even though such an assurance was
October21, October24, Others remindsPM
made during the Lok Sabha poll campaign. 2019 2019 1
While KPCC president Mullappally Ram- NEW DELHI, DHNS: On the last

direct contest
achandran has said,”the UDF would win all day of election campaign for
five seats by taking advantage of the anti-in- SMALLEST Maharashtra and Haryana,
cumbency factor against the state and central AND LARGEST which the BJP has centred
Female
governments.” CPM state secretary Kodiyeri CONSTITUENCY: around the issue of national-
Balakrishnan said,”the LDF would get an ( Size of Electorate) 104 ism, the Congress on Saturday
upper hand as the people have felt the need reminded PM Narendra
for an alternative at the Centre to effectively Modi that Pakistan was split
resist the BJP-RSS.” GAUTAM DHEER, TOTAL ELECTORATE and Bangladesh was created
Out of the five seats, four were with the CHANDIGARH, DHNS Modi
d slam
ams Pak
a for Badshahpur during former prime minister
Congress-led UDF and one with the LDF. The drugmenace
dr 3.96lakh 1.8cr Indira Gandhi’s regime.

A
BJP is pinning hopes for a victory at Man- s campaigning for the 90 As-
jeswaram and Konni in Pathanamthita. sembly seats in Haryana end-
ed on Saturday, it appears to
be a direct fight betw
tween the incum-
FocusonAzamKhan’s bentBJPandtheCongressonatleast
40 Assembly segments.
Others “Modi ji only remembers
Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Article) 370. He does not
slammed Pak on Saturday for 252 know when Pakistan split and
conspiring to push drugs into who did it. It was we (Con-
India to “destroy”the country’s
youth and called for tackling Narnaul
gress) who split Pakistan’s
integral part from it. Where

fortinUPbypolls Inanotherdozenseatsorso,there
seem to be a triangular contest.
It now remains to be seen wheth-
LUCKNOW, DHNS: As the campaign for bypolls er the Congress, fraught with all its
to 11 Assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh ended on problems and major internal strife,
Saturday, all eyes were trained on Rampur, the
seat widely regarded as the bastion of senior SP
can only put up a tough contest with
the BJP or translate the contest into
leader and partyty MP Azam Khan.
Although the BJP had won nine of the 11 seats
winning margins.
Manytopleadersacrossallparties
in the 2017 Assembly elections, it has gone all are facing a tough contest.
out to make a clean sweep of the bypolls. The In hindsight, the BJP wins hands
SP and BSP had won one seat each in the 2017
polls. BJP has its eyes set on Rampur, where
Azam Khan’s wife Tanzeen Fatima is in the fray
downwhenitcomestoelectioncam-
paign.
While top leaders of the BJP led
BJP’s women team pushes last-mile delivery
on a SP ticket. A battery of senior BJP leaders, by PM Modi, Amit Shah, JP Nadda,
including Chief Minister Yogi Adity tyanath Yogi Adityanath, Smriti Irani, Jai
the problem of drug abuse with
an iron hand, reports PTI.
“When our neighbour could
1.50 Lakh – 2 More than 2
1.4lakh were you (Modi) then? Tell
the people of Haryana that it
was because of the Congress
Lakh Lakh
not succeed in its nefarious that Pakistan’s integral part
designs by sending terrorists 47 42
NRI & SERVICE VOTERS
was split from it. This hap-
and weapons, it hatched a
conspiracy to smuggle drugs SIZE OF ELECTORATE:-
724 Number of
NRI Voters Female Male
pened under the Congress
rule. Praise the Congress, but
Number of Assembly Constituency
into our country to destroy our
youth,”he said. 1lakh Number of
Service Voters 85lakh 97.7lakh you don’t have the guts to do
that,” senior Congress leader
Compiled by Anirban Bhaumik Kapil Sibal said.
The bitter election cam-
paign for the tw
two states that
came to an end on Saturday
saw US President Donald
KALKA (HARYANA), DHNS supply. “There were 110 small clusters in “Kali Bakht”, says many women workers like Trump, Pakistan and most re-
Morni region which got electricity during herhavebeenworkingsilentlytoaggrandize cently Bangladesh frequently

campaigned in Rampur. In a bid to counter
the BJP campaign, Azam Khan himself had
camped in Rampur for the past several weeks.
SP president Akhilesh Yadav also addressed
election meetings there. Similarly, the BJP has
also set its eyes on the Jalalpur in Ambedkar
Nagar district. The seat was won by the BSP in
2017. Even though the bypolls hold little nu-
merical value for the saffron party ty, it assumed
an added significance as they were being held
at a time when the Adity tyanath government has
little more than half of its term left in office.
Though the Opposition was divided and the
SP and BSP alliance was no longer present, the
BJP is taking no chances and had deployed its
ministers to ensure victory in the bypolls.
While the BJP’s campaign mainly revolved
around Article 370 and nationalism, the Op-
position made the economic slowdown and the
alleged deteriorating law and order situation in
the state its main poll plank.
Ram Thakur etc, all made multiple
visits in Haryana to address public
gatherings, Congress top leader So-
nia Gandhi missed her rally maiden
in Haryana on Friday.
Rahul Gandhi visited Haryana
only tw
twice. A
AAAP, which is contesting
its first assembly election in Hary-
ana, could not manage a single ap-
pearance in Haryana by its national
convener and Delhi Chief Minister
Arvind Kejriwal.
The Congress is banking on old
warhorseformerchiefministerBhu-
pinderSinghHoodaforreversingits
falling stock.
The congress has promised the
moon in its manifesto and hopes to
woo voters with cash doles.
Experts maintain such lures are
less feasible.
H
ad it not been for BJP’s team of ‘wom-
enwarriors’,ChiefMinisterManohar
Lal Khattar’s development model fo-
cused on the ‘last mile delivery’ would have,
perhaps,fallenshortofitsdesiredobjectives.
Foremost among these foot soldiers is sit-
ting MLA from Kalka, Latika Sharma who
has worked relentlessly towards the BJP’s
quintessential last mile delivery agenda.
TalkingtoDH,54-yearoldLatikaSharma,
a Delhi-bred advocate by profession,
explains why the last mile delivery
of government schemes was
essential to ensure equitable
development under the Khat-
tar regime.
For decades, regions
like the upper inhospitable
semi-hilly regions of Morni
in her constituency were
deprived of electricity
my term as MLA. This explains the impor-
tance of our last mile delivery agenda. There
weren’troadsinremoteareas.Weconnected
schoolsintheseterrainwithroads.Theresult
in schools has improved,”Latika said.
Nestled in the backdrop of a hill, the Hin-
du-dominated Kalka constituency is the
gateway to Himachal Pradesh and derives
its name after Goddess Kali.
An ancient Kali temple beholds faith
amongfollowers.Interestingly,Kalkaisnum-
beroneintheorderofAssemblyconstituen-
cies listed by the Election Commission.
Foroneortheotherreasons,toplead-
erscuttingacrossparty ty lines,including
formerprimeministerHDDevaGow-
da,havevisitedKalkatopayobeisance
at a revered shrine up the hill.
Latika, a philanthropist and a
Latika Sharma
BJP’smicromanagementschemerightupto
the last point of delivery.
Ironically,womenparticipationinelectoral
politics hasn’t been encouraging in Jatland.
While there are as many as 1,169 candi-
dates in poll fray this time, only 104 of them
are women.
Nearly 90% contestants are men.
The INLD has fielded 15 women candi-
dates, the BJP 12 while the Congress has
fielded nine.
The last Assembly elections in 2014 saw
maxaximumparticipationofwomencandidates
(116). That was the time when maximum
numberofwomen,asmanyasthirteen,were
elected to the Vidhan Sabha.
Latika is pitted against Pradeep Chaud-
hary, who recently switched over to the
Congress from the INLD. In 2014, she had
defeatedPradeepChaudharybyover19,000
votes to win Kalka.
being mentioned by leaders
in their speeches.
While the BJP has at-
tempted to keep the election
campaign focused on issues
like NRC, Kashmir, dynas-
tic politics and corruption
by Congress leaders, the
Congress has been attempt-
ing hard to reorient the
narrative towards issues of
development, joblessness
and fl
flagging the condition of
economy.
Mocking the government
over its handling of the recent
PMC Bank Cooperative crisis
Sibal demanded a Prime Min-
ister’s Commitment that the
money deposited by people
will be given back to them.

BJP seeks
ks to dominate Mahacampaignends,
Marathwada overtovotersnow
MUMBAI, DHNS: The on the issue of nation-
SAGAR KULKARN almostnon-existentandconditionof vitriolic yet colourful and alism even as Congress’
AURAGABAD, DHNS roads is very poor,”Pramod Mane, a high-voltage month- leadership crisis was
political analyst, told DH. long campaign that clearly visible and NCP

T
hrough a thrust of central
schemesandsometacitcollab-
orations, the BJP is strength-
eningitsholdoverMarathwada,the
drought-hit region of Maharashtra
that sends 46 legislators to the state
Assembly.
Traditionally a stronghold of the
CongressandtheShivSena,theBJP
has been making inroads in the re-
gion, also succeeded in getting the
upperhandin2014whichwitnessed
a four-cornered contest as the Con-
gress,theShivSena,theBJPandthe
NCP went to polls on their own.
Marathwada has given four chief
ministers but still ranks among the
most backw kward regions of the state
with civic issues such as lack of good
roads, sanitation and water.
Shiv Sena has held sway over
Aurangabad, a city with a sizable
strengthofMuslims,scheduledcastes
and other backwkward classes. The slo-
gan ‘Khan vs Baan’ dominated from
1980s till 2019 with Shiv Sena domi-
ty and parts of
nating politics in the city
the region. The ‘baan’ (arrow) being
the reference to Sena symbol ‘bow
and arrow’.
“Civicissueshavetakenabackseat
ty where public transport is
in the city
Sena’sconsolidationsufferedase- had moments of anger, had its own problems.
veredentwhenChandrakantKh Khaire, anguish and emotions During the campaign,
who has represented Aurangabad ended in Maharashtra the BJP raised the issue
in the Lok Sabha for decades, lost in on Saturday. of abrogation of Article
2019pollstoAIMIM’sImtiyazJaleel. On the last day of 370 and 35A from
The2014Assemblyelectionsalso the campaign when Jammu & Kashmir and
sawtheBJPgetanupperhandinthe there were drizzles in assured Bharat Ratna to
region by winning 15 out of the 46 several parts of the state, Veer Savarkar.
seats,followedbySena’s11,Congress Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis (c) waves at his supporters during a road show in Nagpur on Saturday. PTI candidates carried out The Shiv Sena on the
(9), NCP (8) and Others (3). roadshows, padyatras, other hand promised
According to Mane, BJP saw this street-corner meet- the Rs 10 thali and Rs 1
as an opportunity to strengthen its MAN OF ALL SEASONS ings and door-to-door health check-up.
holdoverthecity ty androlledoutaslew campaign. The Congress-NCP
of central schemes to improve roads
andpublictransportunderthesmart
city
ty project. “The ultimate aim is to
Pawarinrainreignsonsocialmedia The ruling saffron
alliance is in a better po-
sition and is riding high
raised the issue of eco-
nomic situation, rural
distress and job losses.
dislodge the Sena from the Aurang- MRITYUNJAY BOSE pen from October lost an election, appealed to people to
abad Municipal Corporation where SATARA, DHNS 21, I am sure of it.” ensure the NCP’s victory in Satara Lok Shah’s copter Pan
ankaja
it has ruled since 1988,”he said. Those gathered Sabha bypoll and Assembly election.
in rough air
T fai
aints
t dur
uring
Marthwada has also seen large- he video and still images of a responded with For the NCP, which is going through a
scale defections from the Con- drenched NCP supremo Sharad a thunderous rough patch after the exodus of many of ► MUMBAI, DHNS: Union
gress-NCP to the BJP-Shiv Sena. Pawar addressing a rally in Satara applause. its leaders to the saffron fold, retaining Home Minister Amit ral
ally
Sanjeev Kulkarni, a political ana- amidst a heavyv downpour has gone viral Seeing these both the seats in Western Maharashtra, Shah’s helicopter faced Maharashtra
lystbasedinNanded,saidthatmostof since Friday night. Sharad Pawar reactions, Pawar’s the area of infl
f uence of the Pawars, and inclement weather Women and Child
theleaderswhohavejoinedtheSena For this, the 79-year-old politician has addresses a rally daughter and Bar- the state’s sugar-belt is crucial— in both and had to make an Welfare Minister,
have the blessings of Chief Minister won praises on social media. in Satara during amati MP Supriya t candidates are pitted
the seats party unscheduled landing Pankaja Munde
Devendra Fadnavis, indicative of Striking an emotional connect with rain. PTI Sule said, “Satara is against turncoats. Pawar has been while he was on his way fainted on the dais
wheretheirpoliticalloyaltiesliewhen the audience, Pawar, unfazed by the again creating his- facing attacks from the BJP ever since to Akole in Ahmednagar while addressing a
key decisions will have to be taken. rain, said,“The Varun Raja is blessing tory... The NCP has got a new energy.” he and his nephew were booked for the district. The helicopter campaign rally at
Be it Jayadutta Kshirsagar in Beed, us... There will be a miracle in Mahar- The master politician, who is in public alleged Rs 25,000 crore Maharashtra made an unscheduled Parli in Beed district
or Abdul Sattar in Sillod both have ashtra politics... The beginning will hap- life for over five decades and has never State Cooperative Bank scam. landing at Ozar airstrip on Saturday, reports
Fadnavis’approval to join the Sena. in Nashik. After a halt PTI.
of 40 minutes, Shah left Attending her fifth

Your job is to improve economy not run comedy circus: Priyanka

for Akole. rally in the town
on the last day of
Shera joins campaigning, she
collapsed while
Shiv Sena speaking.
ANAND MISHRA the government’s job is to improve the remarksonFriday,Congressspokesper- “She was taken to a
NEW DELHI, DHNS “collapsing economy” and “not to run a
comedy circus”.
tweet, “so
son Abhishek Singhvi said in a tw
electoral victory makes Nobel experts
PCta
takesajibeatgovt
vtsloveforcow
’ ► MUMBAI, DHNS:
Bollyw
ywood actor Salman
nearby hospital and
is recovering,”a BJP

C
oming down heavily on Un- “The economy is collapsing. wrong, maybe ignorant; Nyay bad be- Jailed senior Congress leader does not translate into increased Khan’s bodyguard and spokesperson said.
ion minister Piyush Goyal Your job is to improve it, not to cause BJP returned to power. Amaz- and former finance minister P productivityt or fertility
t .” aide Shera has joined BJP spokes-
for his remarks that Nobel run a comedy circus,” Priyanka ing inverse logic and huge arrogance.” Chidambaram, who has asked his He also targeted the government the Shiv Sena. person Keshav
laureate Abhijit Banerjee’s sug- said. Training guns on Goyal Earlier Goyal had said that Banerjee’s family to tweet on his behalf, said, on the job front saying, “Over Gurmeet Singh alias Upadhaye said that
gestion of a minimum income withoutnaminghim,shesaidthat “thinkingistotallyLeft-leaning”andthat “Population of indigenous cattle 50% of those asked said that the Shera met Shiv Sena Pankaja’s hectic
scheme to the Congress was re- instead of doing their job, the BJP Banerjee supported ‘Nyay’(poverty ty alle- declined by 6% between 2012 and employment situation is presently president Uddhav campaigning sched-
jected by voters, Congress leaders are trying to falsify the viationschemeofCongressinthelastLok 2019. Meaning, the government’s worse. Over 30% said it will worsen. Thackeray and his son ule could have taken
leader Priyanka Gandhi achievements of others. Sabhapolls)andpeopleofIndiarejected love for the cow is only on paper. It Meaning, the job crisis is acute.” Aadity
tya and joined the a toll on her health.
on Saturday said that Earlier reacting to Goyal’s the Nobel laureate’s ideology. party
ty.
 NATION 11
DECCAN
AN HERA
RALD
Sunday
October 20, 2019

BSF stops
Aparna Sen from 3 from Surat among six held for saffron leader’s murder Allegedserial
killerJolly
entering border Haq, were also arrested after angle associated with this inci- wari in Lucknow that led the sentative, one was working as

enclave Policesaynoterrorangletoincident; Tiwari’s wife named them in

provocativespeechbyTiwariledtohiskilling
KOLKATA, PTI: Filmmaker
Aparna Sen and two other
members of Citizen Speak
India, an organisation of
personalities alive to differ-
ent social contemporary
▼ head in 2016.
LUCKNOW, AHMEDABAD, three persons detained in Su-
NAGPUR, PTI/DHNS rat by Gujarat Anti-Terrorist
Squad (ATS) were identified
her police complaint, alleging
that the duo had announced a
bounty of Rs 1.5 crore on his
The Maharashtra ATS also
arrested an unidentified man
from Mominpura locality of
Nagpur, based on a tip by the
dent,” Uttar Pradesh Director
General of Police, O P Singh
said at a press conference in
Lucknow,adayaftertheHindu
Samaj Party ty chief was killed at
his home in Lucknow’s Khurs-
hed Bagh
However, Tiwari’s mother
Kusuma alleged he was killed
police to the suspects in Surat.
“On Friday, two of the ac-
cused reached Tiwari’s house
with the sweet box in which
they had hidden a coun-
try-made revolver. They were
disguised in saffron kurta to
pretend that they were follow-
ersofTiwari.Attheirmeeting,
a food delivery boy for Zomato
and the third is a cleric.
Tiwari’s cremation was
delayed as family members
demanded ameetingwithCM
Adityanath to put forth their
nine demands, including a
probe by NIA, government job
for victim’s son and security
ty to
deniedbail
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM,
DHNS: Serial killing case
accused Jolly Joseph was
denied bail by a court at
Thamarassery in the rural
parts of Kozhikode on Sat-
urday. Jolly and two co-ac-

issues, were on Saturday
stopped from entering an
enclave in West Bengal’s
Coochbehar district by BSF
jawans.
Bolan Gangopadhay, a
women’s rights activist who
was accompanying Sen,
said the NGO members had
intended to visit 50 people
S
ix people, including three
in Gujarat’s Surat, have
been detained in connec-
tion with the murder of Kam-
lesh Tiwari, the president of a
little-known Hindu outfit.
According to police, the
as Faizan Yunus Bhai, Maula-
na Mohsin Sheikh and Rashid
Ahmed Khursheed Ahmed
Pathan.
Bijnor residents Moham-
med Mufti Naeem Kazmi
and Imam Maulana Anwarul
UP police.
The police said on Satur-
day that the suspects were
“radicalised” and appeared
to have targeted Tiwari for in-
ffllammatory remarks made in
2015. “Sofar,thereisnoterror
by a “local BJP leader”due to a
temple dispute in a village.
A sweet box with a receipt
of purchase dated October 16
from “Dharti Sweets” located
in Udhna area in Surat had
been found at the house of Ti-
theaccusedtookouttherevolv-
er but they couldn’t fire. Im-
mediately, they overpowered
Tiwari and slit his throat with
a knife,”sources said.
ATSofficialssaidthatoneof
theaccusedisamedicalrepre-
family members.
The chief minister, mean-
while, said he was ready to
meetTiwari’sfamilymembers.
He said such incidents will not
be tolerated, and those in-
volved will not be spared.
cused, jewelry shop worker
M S Mathew and goldsmith
Prajikumar, were remand-
ed to judicial custody for 14
more days.
Jolly and the two others
wereinitiallyarrestedincon-
nectionwiththedeathofher
first husband Roy Thomas.
Additional charges

Won’t buiuild mosque if

belonging to 11 families liv- againstJollyinthecasewere
ingintheenclaveatKalarala
village at Dinhata.
BALANCING ACT registered on Friday, in con-
nection with the death of
These people, she said, Sily, her present husband’s
are virtually leading a life of firstwife.Arrestsinfouroth-

verdi
dict is in our
ur favour
ur:
confinement due to restric- er cases would be recorded
tionsbytheBSF,thoughthey induecourse,policesources
are citizens of the country. said.
“We as citizens of India

Muslim liti tigants

can visit our countrymen. It
is granted by the Constitu-
tion. Then why were we not
allowed ?”she asked.
Theysaymosque
Looking to
restore Goa’s
interestofharmony
mining ‘mojo’
soon: Goyal
PANAJI, DHNS: The centre
as well as the state govern-
in view is the present situation
of the country. I will also dis-
cuss this proposal with other
shouldn’tbe litigants,”he said.
constructedin Anotherlitigant,MuftiHas-
bullah Baadshah Khan, who is
thelocalpresidentoftheJami-
▼
at Ulema Hind, also agreed
with Mahboob.
Harmony important
AYODHYA, PTI “It is correct that we must take
care of communal harmony
Plaintagainst
the mosque’s construction,
if the verdict comes in our fa-
vour,”he said.
Kejriwalin
Mohammad Umar, who is Biharcourt
also a litigant in the case, said
heagreedwithpostponingcon- HAJIPUR (BIHAR), PTI: A
struction. “We must take care criminal complaint has
of peace and communal har-
monyinthesociety ty,”headded.
been filed in Bihar court
against Delhi Chief Minis-
Iqbal Ansari, one of the
main Muslim litigants did not
ter Arvind Kejriwal over his
controversial remark about
comment on the remarks, but people from Bihar visiting
saidthattheywillnotallowany the national capital for free

mentareworkingintandem
to ensure that Goa’s ‘mojo’,
the mining industry in the
state which has been para-
lysed due to closure by the
SupremeCourtofIndia,can
be revived at the earliest.
Union Trade and Com-
merce Minister Piyush Go-
yal said on Saturday.
Goyal who was in Goa to
attend an ongoing invest-
mentconclave‘VibrantGoa’,
also said that it was time to
start a mass movement
against non-government
organisationswhoblockde-
velopment works.
“Minerals is a sector, I
thinkweshouldworktogeth-
er along with the judiciary
to find an early resolution
to the problem... I do hope
that in the near future we
canquicklyresolvetheissue
so that the mojo, the large
economic activity that the
mineral industry will pro-
vide to Goa, will come back
very quickly,”Goyal said.
Major naval
exercises
planned on
West coast
MUMBAI, DHNS: The
Western Naval Command
(WNC), the sword arm of
the Indian Navyvy, is prepar-
ing for a major exercise of
the Western Fleet in the
Arabian Sea over the next
fortnight.
“With the withdrawal of
the monsoon and improved
sea conditions, this is the
right time to test our oper-
ational preparedness, vali-
date procedures and try out
newstrategiesandconcepts
of naval operations”, a naval
spokesperson said.
“This is the ideal time to
fine tune our deployment
concepts, test communica-
tion plans, exercise contin-
gencies at sea,” the spokes-
person added.
S
ome Muslim litigants
in the Ram Janmab-
hoomi-Babri Masjid dis-
pute have said that if the Su-
premeCourt’sverdictisintheir
favourthentheconstructionof
amosqueshouldbedelayedon
thedisputedlandinAyodhyato
maintain harmony.
A litigant, Haji Mahboob,
said that keeping in view the
condition of the country, the
first priority is to maintain
harmony.
“If the verdict is in favour of
Muslims,theninthegreaterin-
terest of peace and communal
harmony,weshouldnotbuilda
mosqueontheland,weshould
constructaboundaryaroundit
and leave it,”he said.
“This is my personal opin-
ion,whatIthinkshouldbekept
HopeAyodhyaverdictwillbebasedon
evidence,notfaith:Jamiatchief
NEW DELHI, PTI: Prominent
Muslim body Jamiat Ula-
ma-i-Hind’s chief Maulana
Arshad Madani on Saturday
said no compromise will be
acceptable in the Ram Jan-
mabhoomi-Babri Masjid land
dispute case, and hoped that
the Supreme Court verdict
would be based on evidence
and not faith.
Atthemeetingofthecentral
executive committee of the
Police look on as workers clear debris after a portion of the ‘Nampally Sarai’
in Hyderebad caved in on Saturday, injuring two persons. PTI
first. We will discuss the situ-
ation with senior Muslim reli-
gious leaders. In the current
scenario we should postpone
Commuters ride across a street near Ram Ki Paidi area in
Ayodhya on Saturday. PTI
Jamiat, Madani also claimed
that “people from Kashmir to
Kanyakumariarescared”and
there is a feeling of “mistrust”
due to the current situation.
There is an attempt to end
theconstitutionaltraditionsso
that new history can be writ-
ten, he was quoted as saying
by a Jamiat statement.
Referring to the Ram Jan-
mabhoomi-BabriMasjidcase,
Madani said that Jamiat Ule-
CAVED IN
breachinthecommunalfabric
of the society
ty.
“Let the verdict be pro-
nounced,”he said.
ma-e-Hind has full faith that
the judiciary’s decision will
be based on evidence and wit-
nesses, and not on faith.
On the offer by the Sunni
Waqf Board to drop its claim
aspartofasettlement,hesaid,
“TheheadoftheWaqfBoardis
not the owner of the land, but
a caretaker. We will not ac-
cept any compromise in this
matter. Whatever the court
decides, we will accept it.”
Aspirants perform physical exercises during a practice session for recruitment in
security forces, near Jammu, on Saturday. PTI
Protestsbannedtillnormalcyreturns:J&Kcops
SRINAGAR, DHNS: The Jam-
mu and Kashmir police has
banned all forms of protests,
including sit-ins, in the Kash-
mir Valley till normalcy re-
turns and restrictions are
completely lifted.
“Noprotestsofanyform,in-
cludingsit-ins,willbeallowed
in Kashmir till the situation
improves and the restrictions
intheKashmirarecompletely
lifted,” J&K police Chief Dil-
bagh Singh told reporters,
here. He said the effort would
Don’t release NRC
co-ordinator wi
without proof of
exp
xpenditu
ture: A
Asssam BJP
SUMIR KARMAKAR
GUWAHATI, DHNS
T
he ruling BJP in Assam
asked the government
nottoreleaseNRCstate
co-ordinator Prateek Hajela
tillhesubmitsprooffortheex-
penditure of Rs. 1,600 crore,
released by the Centre for the
citizenship verification exer-
cise.
This comes a day after a
bench of the Supreme Court
headed by Chief Justice Ran-
janGogoi orderedimmediate
transfer of IAS officer Hajela
to his home state Madhya
Pradesh “for the maximum
period permissible under the
relevant rules/regulations”
after he had apparently told
the apex court about “threat”
to his life.
The order of the bench,
however, did not cite the rea-
son for Hajela’s transfer.
“We all must honour the
order of the Supreme Court.
But the government should
JAIPUR DIALOGUES
be to stabilise peace further
before any such activity is
allowed. “Some placards car-
ried by women protesters last
week were not very good and
that they had law and order
implications,”Singh said.
He was referring to Tues-
day’s protest carried by over
a dozen women, including
former Jammu and Kashmir
ChiefMinisterFarooqAbdul-
lah’s sister and daughter.
The women were arrested
for holding a sit-in against the
not release Hajela till he sub-
mits documentary proofs of
expenditureofRs.1,600crore
incurredintheupdationofthe
NRC,”BJP’sAssamunitpresi-
dent Ranjit Kumar Dass said.
Das said, “the Centre and
theAssamgovernmentshould
fileanappealintheapexcourt
in this regard. A huge sum of
money was spent in the name
of the NRC but eventually we
got nothing. He played with
ourburning(foreigner)prob-
lem.”
Hajela was slammed by the
rulingBJPinAssamafterover
19.06lakhapplicantswereleft
out of the final list of NRC, re-
leased on August 31 this year.
BJPallegedthatlargenumber
of foreigners made it to the
NRC while genuine Indian
citizens were left out due to
“autocratic”stytyle of function-
ing of Hajela.
Hajela became a target of
BJPsincetheSCturneddown
a petition filed by the Centre
and Assam government seek-
revocation of special status to
Jammu and Kashmir on Au-
gust5bygovernmentofIndia.
The women, most of them
agedbetw
tween60and80years,
were detained by the police
and paramilitary contingent
at Press Enclave, here and
were released next day after
furnishing bail bonds.
Thepolicechiefsaidprovo-
cations do not come only fron
word you speak. “Provoca-
tion comes from the placards
which you carry,”he said.
ing 20% re-verification of
applications in districts bor-
dering Bangladesh and 10%
in rest of the districts.
But the apex court denied
the government’s plea after
Hajela told the court that
re-verification was not nec-
essary as 27% re-verification
was done during disposal of
claims and objections of the
applications filed after publi-
cationofthedraftNRCinJuly
31 last year.
Hajela had even refused
to meet Chief Minister Sar-
bananda Sonowal to discuss
about the NRC just before
release of the final list of the
NRC.
The Assam Public Works
(APW), an NGO which had
first moved the apex court
seeking the NRC’s updation,
said, “Hajela should be pun-
ished for giving Assam an er-
roneous NRC.”
The APW was also critical
of the expenses of Rs.1600
crore in the NRC process.
medical treatment.
Nitish Kumar, who is a so-
cialactivist,filedhispetition
on Wednesday before the
court of Chief Judicial Mag-
istrate Prem Chandra Ver-
ma,whointurnreferredthe
matter to the judicial mag-
istrate for further hearing.
In his complaint, Kumar
has alleged that he “felt
hurt”byKejriwal’sremarks,
his lawy
wyer Surendra Kumar
Bharti said.
“According to a report in
a Hindi daily, Kejriwal had
said that people from Bihar
visit Delhi by purchasing a
ticket of Rs 500 and go back
after availing free medical
treatment worth Rs 5 lakh,”
Bharti said.
Manipur won’t be
hit by Naga pact:
Biren Singh
GUWAHATI, DHNS: Mani-
pur Chief Minister N Biren
Singh on Saturday assured
people that the state’s ter-
ritorial integrity would not
be affected by the Centre’s
impending agreement with
Naga groups that will end
the decades-long Naga con-
fl
flict.
“The Centre has assured
the state government that
the territorial integrity of
Manipurwillnotbeaffected
in bringing a solution to the
ongoing Indo-Naga peace
talks.
“The state government
believed that the Centre
and its leaders would re-
spect the sentiment of the
stategovernment.Thestate
is vigilant and monitoring
every stage of the ongoing
peace talks,” Singh said at a
function in Imphal, to mark
the 128th Raising Day of the
Manipur police.
The statement is seen as
an assurance to those who
are apprehensive that the
agreement to be signed be-
ttw
ween the Centre and Naga
groups, could see the de-
mand for the intergration
of all Naga-inhibited areas
in the Northeast, including

Bangl
gladeshi
hi Border Guard India’s growthgivingneighbouringcountries Manipur, being fulfilled.

booked for BSF jawan’s k

kiilling sleeplessnights:SudhanshuTrivedi ED raids DHFL
KOLKATA, PTI the BGB troops, standing at a with the police, in accordance TABEENAH ANJUM t and
religion. “The culture of positivity premises
riverine in the middle of the with the norms. The BGB’S JAIPUR, DHNS mutual harmony has shaped India’s MUMBAI, PTI: “The

A
“A
nFIRhasbeenlodged Padmariver,toresolveanissue allegation that we fired first is identity
t in the world,” said Mishra Enforcement Directorate

againstBorderGuard
Bangladesh (BGB) by
its Indian counterpart Border
Securityty Force (BSF) over the
killing of one of its jawan ear-
lier this week,” a senior police
officer said.
ABangladeshiborderguard
onThursdayfiredfromhisAK-
47 rifl
fle during a ‘fl
flag meeting’
alongtheInternationalBound-
aryinWestBengal,killingBSF
headconstable,VijayBhanSin-
gh (51) and injuring another
jawan, Rajvir Yadav.
A BSF statement said, “the
incident took place in Murshi-
dabad district around 9 am
whenaforceparty ty approached
linked to Indian fishermen.”
“Yes, we have received a
complaint from the BSF. A
case has been registered and
investigation is on,” Murshi-
dabad Superintendent of Po-
lice Mukesh Kumar said.
The BSF officials, too, con-
firmed that police have lodged
an FIR against the BGB. Re-
futing claims by the Bang-
ladeshi border force that its
patrol team “had to open fire
in self-defence”, a senior BSF
officialsaid,“notasinglebullet
wasfiredfromtheIndianside.”
“Although an inquiry has
beenorderedbytheBSF,westill
decided to lodge a complaint
notjustabsurdbutablatantlie.
We didn’t fire a single bullet,”a
seniorBSFofficialsaid.
Officials had said that the
trouble arose when BGB per-
sonnel held three Indian fish-
ermenwhowereallowedbythe
BSF to fish within the IB, that
runsthroughthemiddleofthe
3 km wide Padma river.
“The BGB team later freed
two fishermen and informed
the BSF that the third person
hasbeenheldbythemandthat
was when the BSF post com-
manderofthe117thbattalion,a
sub-inspector,tookasix-mem-
berpartyty onamotor-boattore-
solve the issue,”they said.
R
ajya Sabha MP and BJP leader
Sudhanshu Trivedi said on
Saturday that the changes in the
country which took place in the past
few years have brought peace to its
citizens.
Speaking at ‘The Jaipur Dialogues’,
a three-day-long event which started
on Saturday, featuring speakers from
different fields such as journalism, ac-
ademia and politics, Trivedi said that
it is a matter of pride, the way India
has grown strongly in the internation-
al scene and it has resulted in giving
sleepless nights to several neighbour-
ing countries.
The BJP leader said that zero
was invented from the Vedas and
Sudhanshu Trivedi. TWITTER
it is everyone’s duty
t to acquaint
the new generation with culture,
values and literature for their holistic
development.
Rajasthan Governor Kalraj Mishra,
who inaugurated the event, said that
apart from materialistic pleasures,
the spiritual realization is the greatest
while speaking at the event. on Saturday conduct-
ed searches at about a
‘Greatest strength’ dozen premises of Dewan
Mishra extensively spoke on Mahat- Housing Finance Corpo-
ma Gandhi and Deendayal Upadhyay ration Limited (DHFL)
and said that it is India’s idea of peace- and other linked firms in
ful coexistence, mutual harmony and connection with its money
cooperation, which are the greatest laundering probe against
strengths of the country. Iqbal Mirchi, the aide of
More than three dozen speakers global terrorist Dawood
from different countries are taking Ibrahim,”officials said.
part in the event, which was inaugu- They said, “the raids are
rated on Saturday. being conducted in and
Some of the speakers who will take around Mumbai under
the stage on Sunday include Shefali provision of the Preven-
Vaidya, Abhijit Iyer Mitra, Abhinav tion of Money Laundering
Prakash, Dr CK Raju and Sunil Act (PMLA). About a
Sharma. dozen premises are being
searched.”
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Juryrecommendsdeathsentenceforwomenkiller
Gargiulowasarrestedin
2008afterafailedplotto
killasleepingwoman
▼ in her Hollyw
LOS ANGELES, AFP
A
jury in California recom-
mended the death sentence
on Friday for a man dubbed
the “Hollyw
ywood Ripper”who was
earlier found guiltyty in the gruesome
killings of ttw
wo women at their
homes.
Michael Gargiulo, 43, was con-
victed in August on ttw wo counts of
first-degree murder and one count
British MPs pass law to force
Boris to seek another Brexit delay
Defiantprimeministervowsto
pressaheadwithexitplan
▼ asbestos, a known carcino-
LONDON, AFP
B
ritish MPs voted on Sat-
urday to force Prime
Minister Boris Johnson
to ask the European Union to
delay Brexit yet again but he
insisted Britain must leave on
October 31.
In a day of high drama in
the House of Commons, MPs
declined to give their back-
ing to the divorce agreement
Johnson struck with the EU
this week until accompanying
legislation has been passed.
In doing so, MPs triggered a
lawrequiringJohnsontowrite
to EU leaders asking to delay
Brexit to avoid a “no deal” de-
partureinlessthantw twoweeks.
The result is a major blow
to Johnson, who said he would
ratherbe“deadinaditch”than
prolong the torturous Brexit
process that has left Britain in
politicalturmoilsincethe2016
EU referendum.
But in a ttyypically defiant re-
sponse,theConservativelead-
Siberian dam collapses near
gold mine vi
village, 15 dead
MOSCOW, AFP
F
ifteen people were killed
andanothersixstillmiss-
ing after an illegally built
damcollapsedatagoldminein
a remote Siberian settlement
onSaturday,inthelatestdead-
ly accident to hit Russia.
The dam on the Seiba Riv-
er in the Siberian region of
Krasnoyarsk burst and fl flood-
ed several cabins where more
than70workerslived,Russian
authorities said.
Icy and muddy fflloodwaters
hit the cabins located near
the village of Shchetinkino
at around 6Siberia am as the
workers were resting.
About 300 people, six heli-
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CRYPTIC
ACROSS: 9, Pro-motion 10, Appl-ianc-e 12, As-
p(in)’s 13, Se-veR-e 14, R-I’s-ings 15, He-reaf-
ter 17, Outgoings 18, D-angled 19, Disma-L
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26, Rush(hour) 27, P(a)ledge 29, Rancour 32,
Grace-less 34, Res-I-lien-t 35, Netb-all 36, Gen-
tle 37, Blue 38, Free-lance 39, As-SA-ilant.
of attempted murder by a Los
Angeles jury.
A judge is set to sentence Gargi-
ulo, also described as the “boy next
door killer,” on February 28.
Among his victims was 22-year-
old Ashley Ellerin, who was found
ywood home with 47
stab wounds in February 2001. On
the night of her murder, Ellerin had
been due to go on a date with actor
Ashton Kutcher, who testified at the
trial. The second murder victim was
Maria Bruno, a 32-year-old mother
of four and neighbour of Gargiulo
who was attacked in her sleep in
December 2005 and “quite literally
butchered,”prosecutors said.
Those who testified at the trial
included Gargiulo’s teenage son,
who pleaded with the jury to spare
BORIS JOHNSON
British prime minister
“
I will
not
negotiate a
delay with
the EU and
neither does the law com-
pel me to do so.
er refused, sparking outrage
among opposition MPs — and
fresh uncertainty about what
happens next. “I will not nego-
tiate a delay with the EU and
neither does the law compel
me to do so,”he told MPs, who
were sitting on a Saturday for
the first time since the 1982
Falklands War.
He said he would tell EU
leaders that “further delay
would be bad for this country,
bad for the European Union
and bad for democracy”. The
Tory party ty went further, writ-
inginatwtweet:“ThePrimeMin-
ister will not ask for a delay.”
A gold miners’ village close
to the town of Shchetinkino,
about 250 km from the city of
Krasnoyarsk. AFP
copters and six boats were in-
volved in a search and rescue
mission but the operation was
to be suspended for the night,
officials said. Officials said the
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Diverted 4, End-ear 5, Ravenous 6, Spirit lamp
7, Mission 8, Pers-Ist-ent 11, Ni-non (rev) 16,
(t)Ailing 19, Doe (dough) 21, Used one’s loaf
22, Ken-neL 23, Stroganoff 24, Ill-feeling 25,
R-O-e 28, De-sign-ed 29, Rest-less 30, Retreats
31, Re-calls 33, Ar-ti-e 34, Rental.
HOLLYWOOD RIPPER
Michael Gargiulo during his trial in
Los Angeles court. AFP FILE
his dad’s life, and Michelle Murphy.
She was stabbed eight times in her
home by Gargiulo in April 2008 but
survived.
Murphy said she woke up on that
fateful night to find a man strad-
Pro-Brexit and anti-Brexit activists argue at the Parliament Square as the House sits on a
Saturday for the first time since the 1982 Falklands War, to discuss Brexit in London. REUTERS
BrusselsurgedUKtoexplain
itsplanassoonaspossiblewhile
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn,
whose partyty opposed the deal,
said:“Theprimeministermust
nowcomplywiththelaw.”
Securing the deal at Thurs-
day’s Brussels summit was a
personal victory for Johnson,
a figurehead in the 2016 Leave
campaign who has vowed to
deliver Brexit on October 31
come what may. He has spent
dam had been built in breach
ofsafety ty rulesandclaimedthat
theauthoritieswerenotaware
of its existence.
President Vladimir Putin
ordered officials to provide
assistance to the victims and
identifyfy the reasons for the ac-
cident, his spokesman Dmitry
Peskov told reporters.
Investigators said they have
opened a criminal probe into a
breach of safety ty rules. Six peo-
ple were still missing, Alyona
Aleksishina, spokeswoman
for the regional branch of the
emergencies ministry, told
AFP. A total of 16 victims re-
ceived medical aid, and four of
themwereairliftedtoaregion-
al hospital, authorities said.
ACROSS
1 Decorative knotted thread-
work (7)
5 Apparent (7)
9 Take a false step (7)
10 Race meeting for boats (7)
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12 Highly confidential (3-6)
13 Bold action (7-2)
15 British soldier (5)
16 Fresh, bracing air (5)
18 Be assiduously careful (4,5)
21 Retaliation in kind (3,3,3)
24 Light boat (5)
25 Adage (7)
26 Equilibrium (7)
27 Unfamiliar (7)
28 Long, wandering journey
(7)
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12, Stye 13, Agenda 14, Extreme 15,
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WORLD AT A GLANCE
dling her while he stabbed her in was red wine spilled on the fflloor
the arms and chest. She managed
to fight him off and as he fl
fled from
before leaving, assuming she had
already gone out.
the apartment he yelled “I’m sorry,” Kutcher said he and Ellerin,
she testified. a fashion design student, were
Prosecutors during the trial acquaintances.
described Gargiulo, an air-condi- Gargiulo was arrested following
tioning repairman, as a ruthless the attack on Murphy in 2008 in
killer who targeted women who her Santa Monica apartment.
lived near him and waited for the His defence team has argued
perfect opportunityty to attack them that he should not get the death Archaeologists remove the cover of an ancient
at night in or near their homes in sentence, describing their client painted coff
ffin discovered at Al-Asasif Necropolis in
“totally planned killings.” as a mentally ill man who suffered the Vally of Kings in Luxor, Egypt, on Saturday. As
Two and a Half Men actor abuse while growing up. many as 30 ancient wooden coff ffins were recently
Kutcher told jurors he had gone to When his trial in Los Angeles discovered in Luxor. The coff
ffins were for men, women
Ellerin’s home in Hollywywood to pick ends, Gargiulo is set to be trans- and children from 945 BC-715 BC. REUTERS
her up for a date on the night she ferred to Illinois where he is facing
was murdered, but had arrived late charges for the 1993 murder of Tri-
and nobody had answered the door.
He said he had looked through a
cia Pacaccio, 18, who was killed in
front of her home after an evening
Chileprezdeclaresemergency
window and seen what he thought out with friends. afterviolentprotests
► Chile’s president midnight President Se-
declared a state of bastian Pinera declared
emergency in Santiago a state of emergency
J&J recalls Friday night and gave the
military responsibility
for security
ty
ty after a day
and appointed Major
General Javier Iturriaga
del Campo as head of
tainted baby of violent protests over national defence. “The
an increase in the price objective of this state of
powder of metro tickets, AFP
reports from Santiago.
Throughout Friday,
emergency is very simple
but very profound: to
ensure public order and
NYT NEWS SERVICE protesters clashed with peace for the inhabitants
riot police in several parts of Santiago,” Pinera said
Johnson & Johnson, which of the capital and the in a statement. The state
has spent years insisting subway system was shut of emergency is initially
that its baby powder is safe,
recalled 33,000 bottles of
after attacks on stations
in some of the worst
for 15 days and restricts
freedom of movement
the product Friday after the violence the city
ty has and assembly. Due to the
Food and Drug Administra- seen in years. At least 16 emergency, the National
tion discovered evidence of buses were torched and Football Association has
a dozen metro stations suspended matches this
gen, in one of the bottles. totally destroyed. Around weekend.
The recall, the first time
Johnson & Johnson has
pulled baby powder from 2 Indians die in UAE accident
store shelves over asbes-
tos concerns, comes as the ► Two Indians were killed Khaleej Times reported.
companyisentangledinnu- and tw
two others sustained However, the deceased
merouslegalbattlesoverthe critical injuries in a quad were not identified in
safety
ty of its products. bike accident while they the report. “On being
The company has settled were trying to scale a informed a police patrol
some claims — and is still sand dune in country’s Al and ambulance arrived at
fightingothers—involvingits Madam city ty, PTI reports the site and rushed them
roleinthenationwideopioid from Dubai. to A
All Dhaid Hospital. Two
crisis.OnThursday,Johnson The incident happened of them were pronounced
&Johnsonagreedtopay$117 on Friday when the quad dead,”the report said,
million in a settlement over bike of the tw
two Indians, quoting a senior police of-
deceptivemarketingoftrans- both aged 38, ffllipped over ficial. He said the deceased
vaginalpelvicmeshimplants, multiple times trying to suffered severe internal
and a jury this month or- scale a sand dune, the bleeding in the skull.
thelast48hoursfranticallytry- allies rejected the text, and dered it to pay $8 billion to a
ing to persuade MPs to back it, joined together to back an Maryland man who accused
andwonsupportfrommanyof amendment brought by for- thecompanyofdownplaying
the eurosceptic Conservative merConservativeministerOl- the risks associated with the
MPs who rejected a previous iver Letw
twin. This amendment antipsychotic drug Risperd-
divorceagreement.Butparlia- madeapprovalofthedealcon- al.Intotal,thecompanyfaces
ment—likethefrustratedpub- tingent on parliament passing more than 100,000 lawsuits
lic—isstillbitterlydividedover legislation to ratify the text over its products.
how and even if Britain should before Britain leaves the EU. Morethan15,000ofthose
endfourdecadesofintegration If the prime minister moves are from people who said
with its closest neighbours. ahead with his exit plan, he is baby powder and other talc-
Opposition parties and likely to face a court challenge basedproductscausedthem
Johnson’s own Northern Irish again. to develop cancer.
Alphabet’s (Google) Wing drone on its way to deliver
a package in Christiansburg, Virginia, on Saturday. AFP
Corporate tax cut will help Google’s drone delivers goods
► Alphabet (Google) sub- already operates in two
sidiary Wing has become Australian cities as well
revive investment in India: IMF the first company in the
United States to deliver
packages by drone, AFP
reports from Washing-
as Helsinki, announced
in a statement that the
first drone-powered
deliveries had taken
WASHINGTON, PTI Director, Asia and Pacific De- provementsthathavebeenput ton. place on Friday after-
partment,IMF,toldreporters in motion, including efforts to In Christiansburg, noon in Christiansburg,
T
he International Mon- at a news conference here. recapitalise the state banks, the small Virginia town “paving the way for the
etary Fund on Friday Following a marked slow- theissueofnon-bankfinancial chosen as Wing’s test most advanced drone
supportedIndia’srecent downinthelasttw twoquart rtersin institution remains partly un- location, the 22,000 delivery service in the na-
decision to reduce corporate India,theeconomyisexpected resolvedandregulatoryequity ty residents can order prod- tion.” Other companies
income tax, saying it has a to grow at 6.1% this fiscal year, is one of the issues that needs ucts normally shipped are working to launch
positiveimpactoninvestment. picking up to 7% in 2020, he to be achieved,”she said. by FedEx, medicine similar services, most
It, however, said India said. “The monetary policy “We also had a FSAP. So from Walgreens and a notably Amazon, UPS
should address continued fis- stimulus and the announced there are issues working at selection of candy from and Uber Eats. But Wing
cal consolidation and secure corporate income tax cut are thatandthisissomethingthat a local business -- all was the first to obtain a
long-termstability
ty ofthefiscal expectedtohelpreviveinvest- is why not yet fully achieved of which will arrive via license from the Federal
conditions. “We believe India ment,”said the IMF official. but is entrained. While there drone. Wing, which Aviation Administration.
still has limited fiscal space Anne-Marie Gulde-Wolf, are problems at this stage, in-
so they have to be careful. Deputyty Director, Asia and Pa- creased attention to lending
We support their corporate cific Department, IMF, said practices of non-bank finan- Turkey, Kurds trade accusations
income tax cut because it India should address the non- cialinstitutionscontinuetobe
has a positive impact on in- bank financial sector issues. very important,” Gulde-Wolf ► Turkish and Kurdish border. The offensive has
vestment,” Changyong Rhee, “While there have been im- said. leaders accused each killed dozens of civilians,
other of violating a mainly on the Kurdish
US-brokered truce in side, and prompted
northeastern Syria even hundreds of thousands
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to fl
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latest humanitarian crisis
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1 A hot condiment (7) from Ras al-Ain (Syria). war. On Saturday, Turkey
2 Untidy accumulation (7) The deal announced accused Kurdish forces
3 Eggplant (9) late Thursday is intend- of violating the truce.
4 Choose (5) ed to halt a Turkish-led “The Turkish armed
5 Album for cuttings (9) offensive against Kurdish forces fully abide by the
6 Hole two under par (5) forces launched on Octo- agreement” reached on
7 Meantime (7) ber 9, on condition they Thursday with the United
8 Horrific (7) pull out of a “safe zone” States, the defence minis-
14 Readily accessible (3-2-4) on the Syrian side of the try said in a statement.
15 In characteristic fashion (9)
16 Eight-armed cephalopod
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17 Alfresco (7)
19 Period of opportunity (7)
20 Stage backdrops (7)
22 High seas (5)
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DOWN: 1, Dissuade 2, Grey squirrel numbers 1 to 9 in the empty
3, Blighted 4, Pruned 5, Savagery 6, squares so that each row,
Copenhagen 7, Contour 8, Dependence 11, each column, each 3x3 box
Inept 16, Intend 19, Vet 21, Apprehension 22, and each shaded diagonal line Actor and activist Jane Fonda in handcuff ffs as she is
Gateau 23, Far and away 24, Gulf Stream contains the same number
25, Pry 28, Disaster 29, Publican 30, only once. detained for blocking the street in front of the Library
Distaste 31, Missive 33, Rival 34, Lounge. of Congress during the “Fire Drill Fridays” protest in
Washington, DC, on Friday. REUTERS
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in the country.
As long as this winding journey to the
summit of Indian football structure was,
it’s still only the beginning. After wresting
the top division status, the onus is now on
the league to take Indian football forward.
To succeed where its predecessors - the
I-LeagueandtheNationalFootballLeague
before - failed and supersede the old guard
is where they struck gold.
After the tumultuous handful of years,
that much is expected.
The ISL has done well to increase the
mainstream presence of Indian football.
They’ve also done a great job in marketing
andpromotingtheleague,sometimesatthe
expense of others. But there remain wrin-
kles that need to be ironed out.
Mostimportantly,sustainability ty ofclubs.
The ISL was touted to be resistant to the
effects of the well-known demon in Indian
football-economics-becauseofitsfinancial
muscle but with tw two franchises moving cit-
iesduetofinancialissues,albeitofdifferent
degreesandconcerns,thereisanargument
tobemadethattheexorcismisfarfromsuc-
cessful.
Pune City FC, always fighting an uphill
battle, as the history shows in the city ty, and
DelhiDynamosarenowHyderabadFCand
Odisha FC respectively.
The Odisha experiment has been a suc-
cessinhockey-asportthathasarichhistory
in the state - but it remains to be seen how
theyembracethebeautifulgame.Thehype
ofanewteamshouldpiquethefans’interest
to stop by the stadium in the early rounds
butthechallengesliesinensuringtheykeep
coming back.
Hyderabad, on the other hand, is seeped
with a rich history in football having pro-
ducedinternationalplayerslikeShabbirAli,
Syed Abdul Rahim and Peter Thangaraj to
name a few. A top division club could just
be the boost the football culture needs. To
capitalise on it is the key.
Now bestowed with the AFC Champions
League playoff berth, it’s still unclear if the
spot goes to the winner or to the league ta-
bletoppers?Atthetimeofwriting,tw twodays
beforethestartoftheleague,eventheclubs
are in the dark.
If it were to maintain status quo, there is
of course the likelihood of the league losing
Teams like Bengaluru FC, the defending champions, have packaged and marketed the Indian Super League well to the masses
along with organisers’ push. DH PHOTO/ S K DINESH
steam towards the latter half of the season
whenthefatesoftheteamslookmoreofless
decided one way or another. If finishing in
top four is confirmed, the teams can take
their foot off the gas and prepare for the
playoffs while at the other end of the spec-
trum,withnorelegationtoworryabout,the
bottom teams will be better served looking
towards next season than making ‘Hail
Mary’attempts.
There is also the case of the five for-
eign-player rule. With the AFC standards
INTERVIEW
being four foreigners (3+1 Asian player),
perhaps it would be more prudent to stick
to the same. With the recent performances
of the national team, especially in the final
third, the blatant fact is that Sunil Chhetri,
at 35 years young, remains the only relia-
ble source of goals. Game time for Indian
players, especially along the spine, is par-
amount.
It’s hardly been smooth sailing for the
clubs either, especially with the extended
offseasonwhichalsoincludedatournament
beingscrappedatthelastminute.Bengalu-
ru FC, the defending champions, had con-
cerns over playing in their own backyard
until less than two weeks before the start
of the season.
AstheballrollsonattheJawaharlalNeh-
ru Stadium in Kochi on Sunday to mark the
start of yet another season, it’s clear that
ISL-nolongeraboostertournament,awell
produced alternative or even a rival league
running parallel - would have to deliver as
the first division tournament.
also roped in winger Michael Soosairaj, one of the
most infl
f uential players for Jamshedpur FC last
year. He is expected to feature in the com-
pany of Javi Hernandez, Pronay Halder and
Edu Garcia while Englishman John Johnson
Key player: and Anas Edathodika will man the
Roy Krishna
backline.
Kerala Blasters FC
After the last season’s horror show
that saw them finish ninth in the table
and coach David James getting the
sack midway, Kerala Blasters will be
determined to put on a good
show. Coach Eelco Schattorie, COACH:
who took NorthEast United FC Eelco
to the play-offs, has brought in Bartholomew Og- Schattorie
beche, who scored 12 goals last year for the coach.
Having signed their foreign players poorly, they have gone
for players who have experience in India except for
Cameroonian attacker Raphael Eric Messi Bouli.
The arrival of Spanish duo Mario Arques and Sergio
Cidoncha alongside Sahal Abdul Samad will add more
creativity
t in midfield. However, they do have a concern
at the back. With Sandesh Jhingan out injured, the
Key player:
onus falls on Dutchman Gianni Zuiver-
loon and Brazilian Jairo Rodriguez.
Sahal Abdul Samad
Jamshedpur FC
Jamshedpur FC have finished fifth
tw
t ice, coming tantalisingly close to
making it to the play-offs in the past
t o seasons. Much of this was down to
tw
their inabilityt to finish off
games in the closing stages. COACH:
New Spanish coach Anto- Antonio
nio Iriondo has brought in four Spanish Iriondo
players – Francisco Medina Luna aka
Piti, Aitor Monroy, Noe Acosta and Sergio Castel.
Piti, 38, has the La Liga experience and he is
expected to provide the creative spark in midfield along
with pacy Isaac Vanmalsawma. They’ve also roped in CK
Key player: Vineeth, who is looking to find his shoot-
ing boots again. Indian youngsters Amar-
CK Vineeth
jit Singh Kiyam and Narender Gahlot have
also joined. At the back, Spaniard Jose Luis Espinosa,
also know as Tiri, is will lead the defence.
Chennaiyin FC
Two-time champions Chennaiyin FC
only has one way to go, up. Having
finished last in the league last
season, a good Super Cup run
saved coach John Gregory’s job.
The ‘Super Machans’ have signed COACH:
nine new players including six John
foreigners. New recruit Brazilian Rafael Crive- Gregory
llaro will join Anirudh Thapa and Romanian
Dragos Firtulescu in midfield while young Indian tal-

‘KanteeravastayingasBFCvenuewasimportant’
ent Lallianzuala Chhangte will provide the pace. The
forward line comprises of seasoned Jeje Lalpekhlua with
Rahim A and Lithuanian Nerijus Valskis. At
Key player: the back, Brazilian centre back Eli Sabia is
Anirudh Thapa expected to form a solid partnership with
BENGALURU, DHNS played there before, but time English expression because we club have such a nice relation Lucian Goian of Romania.
changed and the ISL is doing a don’t use that in Spain. It’s just for a long time. It would have

B
engaluru FC (BFC) coach
Carles Cuadrat is pleased
with the recognition of
Indian Super League (ISL) as
the country’s premier domestic
competition. The Spaniard
spoke about what these
structural changes could mean
for the Indian football as he
prepares his side for the tough
task that lies ahead.
On ISL being the top division
I’m glad about the decision.
In my opinion, Indian Super
League is the one with more
quality
t and standard. It’s mak-
ing the players more compet-
itive. I have all the respect for
clubs in I-League, we have also
good job making the standard
improve. Also with the new
plan, I hope things can become
more normal and we can have a
full league with more teams.
On the long gap between
seasons
It’s a strange situation. But it’s
the way it has been working un-
til now so one of the targets was
to make it better for everybody.
I think all teams are in the same
condition. The first game is
going to be a little bit... not 100%
fit but with more competition,
we will get to that level.
On defending the ISL title
Defend the title? It’s kind of an
BFC coach Carles Cuadrat said
the confidence showed in
him by the side has given him
stability. FILE PHOTO
one more team competing to
win the title. Maybe it’s a cul-
tural thing. For me, I never ask
my players to defend the title.
I’ve always said that we have to
be competitive and try to reach
the playoffs. Here, no team has
won ttwice in a row so the really
strange thing will be to win it
ttwice. Once we reach the play-
offs we will see our dynamics.
On Sree Kanteerava Stadium
remaining BFC’s home ground
That was very important. With
all respect for new players,
the signing of Kanteerava was
the best thing of the pre-season.
We have to be clear, it helped
us a lot. The supporters and the
been sad to move to another
place.
On his first season as head
coach of BFC
It was a test for me and I was
very happy. I didn’t know how
my relationship would be with
players, the wins and losses.
It was a very good personal
experience. You never know
how it is going to work until
you do it. Last season I had to
try that position. To work and
take decisions in the game. I
know football, of course, but you
have to know when you have to
take that kind of responsibility
t,
whether you’re going to enjoy
it or not.
Odisha FC
Odisha FC has come in place of the
now-defunct Delhi Dynamos, another
casualty
t of economics. The Josep
Gombau’s
core squad
largely COACH:
resembles Josep
last year’s Delhi team. However, Gombau
they have also roped in midfielder
Xisco Fernandez from Bengaluru FC, Argentine
Martin Guedes and Spanish centre back Carlos Javier
Delgado to bolster their title ambitions. Midfield holds
the key for Odisha. Marcos Tebar, who was in fine form
last season, along with Xisco will definitely give them an
edge. Gaurav Bora and Delgado will handle
Key player: the defence while Aridane Santana and
Marcos Tebar Daniel Lalhlimpuia will be in the attack.
TEAM PROFILES COMPILED BY JOY DAS

Bengaluru FC FC Goa NorthEast United FC Mumbai City FC Hyderabad FC

Bengaluru FC have set the Probably the most NorthEast United made Mumbai City t had Pune City t FC rechris-
bar. In the tw
t o editions, the exciting team to watch it to the play-offs for the a strong season, tened as Hyderabad
Blues, besides topping the in the league, FC Goa first time in their his- finishing third in the FC after being forced
league round on both oc- came agonisingly close tory last season under table with 30 points to shift its base due
casions, have won the title to winning the ISL Schattorie. But they from 18 games, and to financial issues,
once and finished second title last year. The Sergio have lost their coach seem to have invested have former Hull City t
in the other. This season, Lobera-coached side have and captain Ogbeche to well in their team to manager Phil Brown
however, the Blues will be reached the final tw t ice rivals while infl f uential go the next step. They at the helm. Brown,
without infl f uential Vene- and made it to the play- midfielder Federico added India interna- known for his defen-
zuelan striker Miku. Not an easy shoes to offs on three occasions. They pumped in Gallego is also out due to injury. Croatian tional Rowllin Borges to the midfield sive solidity
t , will rely on India interna-
fill, coach Carles Cuadrat has brought in goals for fun last season, netting 36 times Robert Jarni is the new coach and World that already boasts of Portuguese Paulo tional Adil Khan, Englishman Matthew
another Spanish forward Manuel Onwu in 18 matches and Ferran Corominas, the Cupper Asamoah Gyan has come in to Machado. Croatian Mato Grgic looks like Kilgallon and Spaniard Rafael Lopez
and supplemented it by adding Ashique last edition’s top-scorer, will once again replace Ogbeche. Up front, the Ghanian an upgrade from Goian in the defence. Gomez, to keep attackers at bay. They
Kuruniyan to the attack. With top Indian be the player watch out for. The addition is likely to combine with Argentine He is expected to pair up with Pratik have retained the services of Austrian
players including Sunil Chhetri, of Seiminlen Doungel adds a bit of Maximiliano Barreiro and Uruguay- Choudhari and India’s U-17 World Marko Stankovic, a vital cog in the
Gurpreet Singh Sandhu, Rahul physicalityt as well to the forward an Martin Chavesh. Milan Singh Cupper Anwar Ali. The African midfield. He is expected partner
Bheke and Udanta line. Goa’s strength has been has returned is expected to feature duo of Modou Sougou, the last with Spaniard Nestor Jesus
Singh already in their their midfield, the engine behind alongside Greek Panagi- year’s top scorer with 12 goals, Benitez. The attack will be led
ranks, the club that free-fl
f owing sty
t le of play, otis Triadis and and Amine Chermiti, former by the craftyt Marce-
has roped operated by the likes Colombian Marseille striker, linho. Hyderabad
in Raphael of Edu Bedia, Bran- Jose Leudo. will lead the attack. also have Alwy w n
Augusto, don Fernandes, COACH: Defence is a wor- COACH: At the goal, Jorge COACH: George and young
COACH: formerly of COACH: Ahmed Jahouh and Robbert ry for NEUFC, Jorge Costa’s side have a Ph
hil prospect in
Carles Chen- Sergio Lenny Rodrigues. Jarrni who conceded Co
osta quality
t shot-stopper in Bro
own Deependra
Cuadrat naiyin Lobero However, as many as 18 Amrinder Singh. Negi and
FC, and the Achilles goals last season. Abhishek
Eugeneson heel for the Croatian Mislav Halder.
Lyngdoh. With Gaurs remains Komorski and
such rich blend their lack of a Dutchman Kai
of foreign and clear plan B. Stop Heerings will be
local talents, BFC will be the them playing, get entrusted with
favorites to retain the title. them out of their the task for
comfort zone and protecting their Key player:
Key player: Key player: Key player: Key player: Marcelinho
the opponents al- rearguard.
Sunil Chhetri ways have a chance. Ferran Corominas Asamoah Gyan Paulo Machado Leite Pereira
DECCAN
AN HERA
Sunday
RALD
October 20, 2019
Notplayingisnosolution
Initslongfightagainstracism,footballshoulddenyhomecomfortforrepeatoffenders
RORY SMITH
NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE
R
aheemSterlingismanythings:
arguablytheoutstandingEng-
lish player of his generation; a
leading light for both his club,
Manchester City, and his na-
tionalteam;aconsideredandurgentvoice
on the issue of racism both within soccer
and outside it. He is not, and he should
not be expected to be, an expert on the
intricacies of Bulgarian politics.
On Tuesday, a few hours after Sterling
and his England teammates were sub-
jected to incessant racist abuse during a
EuropeanChampionshipqualify fyinggame
against Bulgaria in Sofia — abuse so bad
that play was halted, twice, to warn the
crowdthatthematchmightbeabandoned
iftheabusecontinued;sobadthatBulgar-
ia’scaptain,IvelinPopov,pleadedwithhis
own fans to desist; so bad that a number
of England’s multiracial back room staff
members were visibly upset by it; so bad
that the result, a 6-0 England win, will be
nothingbutafootnote—Sterlingtw tweeted
a message of thanks to Bulgaria’s prime
minister, Boyko Borisov.
On the surface, it was easy to see why:
Borisovhad,afterall,demandedtheresig-
nation of Boris Mihaylov, the president of
the body that runs soccer in Bulgaria, as
penance for an evening that had brought
international condemnation of the coun-
try. In a possible breach of FIFA’s rules
on governmental interference, he had
orderedthatthesportsministrywithhold
itsfundingtotheBulgariansoccerauthor-
ities until Mihaylov quit.
Suchswiftanddecisiveactionis,surely,
commendable,asSterlingunderstandably
thought.ThecomplicationisthatBorisov
—leaderofacenter-rightparty ty —isonlyin
powerbecauseofacoalitionwithafaction
known as United Patriots, a grouping of
three far-right parties who stand accused
of “establishing xenophobia as a govern-
mentpolicy.”Andbecausewhathappened
MondayinSofiawashardlyanisolatedin-
cident.
The European season is only a few
weeks old, but it has already spawned a
litanyofexamplesofplayersbeingsubject-
ed to racist abuse, including at least three
in Italy: Romelu Lukaku during a game at
Cagliari;DalbertofFiorentinawhileplay-
ing against Atalanta; and Franck Kessie
at Verona. Social media has produced yet
more bile, most recently toward Man-
chesterUnited’sPaulPogbaandChelsea’s
Tammy Abraham. And those, of course,
are merely the most high-profile cases.
Itwasthesamelastseason,includingan
incidentthathelpedSterlingfindhisvoice
on the topic, and the season before that.
It is hard to quantify
fy if European soccer’s
problem with racism is getting worse. It
is easy to see that it most certainly is not
getting better.
The shame of Sofia is not unique, in
that context, but it is instructive in two
ways. One is illustrated in the issue that
wrong-footed Sterling. The president of
 THIS WEEK 
INTERNATIONAL
RUGBY: World Cup: Wales will face
France in the third quarterfinal in
Oita while Japan will take on South
Africa in Tokyo in the fourth last-
eight clash on Monday.
CRICKET: The Third Test between
India and South Africa in Ranchi is
scheduled for a Wednesday finish.
The 2020 T20 World Cup qualifier in
United Arab Emirates will continue
throughout the week.
MOTO GP: The main race of Grand
Prix of Japan in Motegi will be held
on Sunday.
TENNIS: ATP meets in Basel and
Vienna begin on Monday while the
WTA Elite Trophy at Zhuhai in China
starts from Tuesday.
GOLF: The EPGA French Open, PGA
Tour at Jeju Island in South Korea
and LPGA at Shanghai culminates
on Sunday.
The EPGA Portugal Masters
in Vilamoura, LPGA BMW Ladies
Championship in Busan and the PGA
Tour’s Zozo Championship in Chiba
will kick off from Thursday.
FOOTBALL: The Group stage match-
es of the UEFA Champions League
across Europe will be held on Tues-
day, Wednesday and Thursday.
The AFC Champions League semifi-
nal second leg matches will be held
on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The UEFA Europa League group
stage matches will be held across
Europe on Thursday and Friday.
BASKETBALL: The NBA regular sea-
son starts with Champions Toronto
Raptors taking on New Orleans
Pelicans on Wednesday while LA
Clippers will face LA Lakers in the
day’s other game.
NATIONAL
CRICKET: Vijay Hazare Trophy:
Karnataka will take on Puducherry
in the quarterfinals in Bengaluru
on Sunday while Delhi will be up
against Gujarat in the other last-
eight fixture on the same day. On
Monday, Punjab will face Tamil
Nadu while Chhattisgarh will battle
it out against Mumbai.
FOOTBALL: Indian Super League:
The sixth edition begins on Sunday
with Kerala Blasters facing ATK
in the opening match in Kochi.
Champions Bengaluru FC will face
NorthEast United FC in Bengaluru
on Monday.
Stewards at the ground confront as Bulgarian fans chant racist abuse during their match against England. REUTERS
European soccer’s governing body,
Aleksander Ceferin, suggested in the
aftermath of Monday night that a “rise
of nationalism across the continent
has fueled some unacceptable behav-
ior, and some have taken it upon them-
selves to think that a football crowd
is the right place to give voice to their
appalling views.”
Bulgaria is a case in point: It is hard
to see why soccer would be immune
to the currents that have swept three
far-rightpartiesintogovernmentthere
andthatencouragesome2,000people
every year to join the Lukov march, a
demonstrationhonoringaNazi-sympa-
thizinggeneralthattakesplaceinSofia
every February.
The same pattern is being repeated
across Europe: in Italy, where Lukaku,
Kessie and Dalbert were abused and
where anti-immigrant sentiment is on
therise;andinEngland,too,wherethe
prime minister, Boris Johnson, railed
Tuesday against the scourge of racism
insportsroughlyayearaftersayingthat
Muslimwomenwearingburqaslooked
like “letter boxes.”
Jordan Spieth’s epic golfing fall
HowignoranceandpaniccombinedtoaffecttheAm
AFP
A
fewyearsagoitallcameso
easy to Jordan Spieth.
Fresh-faced, articulate
and ridiculously talented,
in 2015 the young Texan
was on top of the world and virtually
untouchable.
He won the Masters and US Open
back-to-back before his 22nd birthday,
was second and fourth in the other twtwo
majors, and was victorious in three
more PGA Tour events including the
season-ending Tour Championship.
Heroundedoffanunbelievableyear
by being a key member of the Presi-
dents Cup team that won a nail-biter
inIncheon15.5-14.5onthefinalgreen.
He was dominating golf, but lev-
el-headed and mature enough to ex-
pect such heady times couldn’t last.
“There’s really nothing I could do
that wouldn’t be a dip after 2015,” Spi-
eth told AFP in a frank interview at
the CJ Cup in South Korea, where on
Thursday he will tee up in Asia for the
first time since 2016.
“It is impossible to replicate, you
know, 2015 each year. I mean, Tiger
(Woods)hadquiteanumberofyearsof
thoseandJack(Nicklaus)hadanumber
ofyearsofthose.Butnoone’severdone
that every year.”
Spiethwonthreemoretimesin2016
and swept majestically to his third ma-
jor at the Open Championship in 2017
at the age of 24.
Then came the slump: not a single
win since that Sunday at Birkdale, on
the windswept north-west coast of
England.
Spieth endured a headlong plum-
met into the depths of golfing despair.
Itsparkedpanic,thenintrospectionand
finally a long search for answers as his
famedball-striking,accuracyoffthetee
SPORTSCENE
ISSUE
But while that highlights the com-
plexity, and scale, of the challenge
facing soccer, it does not give it a free
pass. Too often, whenever racism has
reared its head in the stands at games,
theargumentthatitissimplyamanifes-
tationofasocialproblemhasbeenused
toexcuseinaction.Onlywhenracismis
absent from societyty can it be expected
tobeabsentfromsports,thelogicruns.
“Hardened” to racism
There is some truth in that, of course,
butthatdoesnotmeansportsshouldsit
aroundandwait.GarethSouthgate,the
Englandmanager,saidhisplayershave
been “hardened” to racism because of
the issues they face at home, a brave
statement for a manager who might
have seen an opportunity to take the
easy path to the higher ground. There
isableaktruthinthat,andyetit didnot
stopEngland’splayersfromdoingwhat
theycouldtomakeastand,anexample
that UEFA might follow.
Just because racism exists in society
ty
does not mean, after all, that it should
bepermittedtoexistintheclosedenvi-
American’sgame
After a terrific start to his career, America’s Jordan Spieth lost his way as he battled self-doubt. REUTERS
andfearsomeshortgamedesertedhim.
After such a majestic rise, Spieth ad-
mitted he found it hard to cope with an
equally dramatic fall.
“It was more like I had a lot of ‘ig-
norance is bliss’ within my game. You
know,IdidthingswellbutIdidn’tknow
why.
“SoIthinkforalittlewhileitwasabit
ofpanic,justnotreallyknowingwhy(it
wasgoingwrong).Andthenthelastsix ix,
seven months has been really kind of
calming and patient -- just saying ‘hey
this is part of the game’and you just let
it come right back around.”
There were finally some glimpses of
his old self this year after a torrid 2018.
ronmentofsoccer.Theoldideathatthe
bestwaytoprovetheracistswrongisby
winning—asthoughblackplayerswho
are abused and lose, simply because
theyhappentobeonweakerteams,are
insomewaycomplicitintheirownpun-
ishment — has been proved wrong. So,
too, has the belief that stopping games
is in some way giving the racists what
they want.
ItisherethatwhathappenedinSofia
offersitssecondlesson.England’splay-
ers were abused in a stadium that was
operating at limited capacity ty because
of similar abuse in a previous game,
and Bulgaria’s next game is subject to
a partial stadium closure for the same
reason.UEFA’spaltryfinesforracistof-
fenses have long been a laughingstock,
despite Ceferin’s protestations to the
contrary.
Ifheistofollowthroughonhisprom-
ise this week to “wage war”against the
racists — one that, as he said, needs to
involve an alliance of leagues, clubs,
governing bodies, governments and
everyone else — then he needs to use
the true armory at his disposal.
Spieth tied for third at the US PGA
Championship and battled wind and
rain at Royal Portrush for a top-20 fin-
ish at the British Open.
“It’s mainly I turned around my put-
tingandchippingfromtheyearbefore,”
Spiethsaid.“Thelonggame,Iknowit’s
beenoff,”hesaidwitharefreshinghon-
esty
ty.It’sjustamatterofhavingthetime
off to be able to reset and actually put
the work in.”
Spieth has now had that time. It’s
two months since his last PGA Tour
appearance. “It’s so tough when you
have to play seven out of nine weeks,
you can’t really make any changes in
time,”he said.
Many would advocate an outright
ban for teams or nations that are re-
peat offenders, like Bulgaria. If there
is a fear that may nourish some sort of
victim complex — though it should be
pointed out that at the heart of all far-
right thinking is a contorted sense of
persecution — then perhaps a simpler
solution is at hand.
There is no reason that any player,
white or black, should be expected to
go and play in a country with a history
of racist abuse. Perhaps, then, those
nationswherethisoccursdepressingly
frequently should be forced to play all
of their matches away from home. The
samepunishmentcouldbemetedoutto
club teams, rather than forcing games
tobeplayedwithoutfansbutonfamiliar
ground.Neitherpunishment,ofcourse,
will end the problem of racism in soci-
ety
ty. But that is not soccer’s job. All that
soccer can do is ensure that it does not
feel like a safe space for those that hold
theseviewstoexpressthem.Whathap-
pened in Sofia showed the scale, and
nature, of the problem. The test for the
sport is to prove it is not cowed by that.
The long break has enabled him
to work hard on his swing, and he is
relishing the chance “to try it out this
week and hopefully peak next week (in
Japan).”
And with a good twtwo weeks he feels
he might stillbe able to grab acaptain’s
pick from Woods and represent Team
USA again at December’s Presidents
Cup in Melbourne.
“Yeah I’m coming in with that be-
ing a major goal out of the next couple
weeks,” Spieth said. “I know I’m down
pretty
ty far down on the list,” he added.
“ButIthinkifIcanreallyplaywell,have
achanceandmaybegrabawinthatmay
be enough to sneak in.”
15
CHESS CHECKS
Faulty
ty plan
results in
series of
errors
MANISHA MOHITE
A
t times, one can get away with a
slighterrorinagameofchessbut
thereisnoescapinglosswhenone
commits a series of bad or weak moves.
Generallyafaulty ty planormiscalculation
canleadtothesety typeoferrorswhichon
hindsight are easy to spot.
In the game which follows, Black
thoughnotonthebettersidehaschanc-
es of holding on to the game. He how-
ever starts with an interesting plan by
advancing his king-side pawn but loses
way after a series of mistakes to end on
the losing side.
White: Viorel Iordachescu (2485) –
Black: Dragan Solak (2355)
Ciocaltea Memorial, 1997
Sicilian Defence
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Bb5+ Nd7
The usual response is 3. ..Nc6
4.0–0 Ngf6 5.Re1
He can play 5.Nc3
5. ..a6 6.Bf1
f1 b6 7.d4
If 7.c4 Bb7 8.Nc3 e6 9.a3 Be7 10.b4
0–0 11.Rb1 (11.d4 cxd4 12.Qxd4 Qc7
13.Bb2 Rfd8 14.Rac1 Rac8 15.Nd2 Qb8
16.Kh1Bf817.f4Nh518.Qf2d5hasbeen
played previously
7...cxd4 8.Nxd4 Bb7 9.c4
If 9.f3e610.a4Be711.a5b512.c4bxc4
13.Bxc4 0–0
9...e6
If 9...Nxe4 10.f3 Nef6 11.Nf5 e6
12.Nxd6+Bxd613.Qxd6Qe714.Bf4Nh5
15.Qxe7+ Kx Kxe7 16.Be3 Bc6 17.Nc3
10.Nc3 Be7 11.f3 0–0 12.Be3 Qc7
13.Rc1 Rac8 14.Qd2 Qb8
Not a very familiar looking structure
but it has been played before
15.Kh1 Bd8
He can consider 15. ..Ne5
6.Bg1 Kh8
Black played a new move here. In a
game played before the continuation
was 16...Bc7 17.Qf2 Kh8 18.b4 Qa8
19.Qb2 Ne5 20.Na4 Nfd7 21.a3
17.b4 Rg8
Why this move? He should have
thought about 17...Ne5 18.Na4 d5 (18...
Bc7 19.Nb3 Bc6 20.Nc3) 19.exd5 exd5
20.c5 b5 21.Nc3 Nc4 22.Qc2
18.Nb3
He can consider 18.f4
18...Bc7
Changing diagonals! If 18...Ne5
Diagram 1
19.Na4
19.Qb2.Thequeenalsodecidesonher
diagonal to target the King
19...g5. Black also makes his aggres-
sive intentions clear with this bold ad-
vance. 20.Na4 Rg6
Whythismove?Hecouldhavecontin-
ued with his aggressive play by advanc-
ing the pawn 20. ..g4
21.c5 dxc5 22.bxc5 Rh6
Missing the good continuation 22...
Be5 23.Bd4 Bxh2!! 24.Nxb6 Nxb6
25.Bxf6+ Kg8 26.cxb6 Rh6 this is the
critical position which results after
23.Bd4 and as we will see black with a
piecedownhasmorethanenoughcom-
pensation
23.h3
Diagram 1
23. .. Bf4. A big mistake which lands
Black in a soup!
White is clearly better as his King ap-
pearssafewhiletheBlackKingsuddenly
looks vu
vulnerable. The correct continu-
ation here is 23...Be5; 23...b5 24.Nb6
24.Nxb6 Nxb6 25.cxb6 Bxc1 26.Rx Rxc1
Rx
R xc1. If 26...Rd8 27.Rc7
27.Qxc1.Afterthesespateofexchang-
es,Whitesadvancedpassedpawnonthe
‘b’file looks dangerous
27...Bxe4. Another mistake! Last
few moves, Black has been very error
prone. If 27...Rg6 28.Nc5 also doesn’t
help Black’s cause
28.fxe4 Nxe4 29.Bd4+ e5 30.Qc7
Qxc7 31.bxc7 Rc6 32.Bxe5+ f6 33.Bxa6
And Black resigned rather than pro-
longing the agony.
1–0
Diagram 2
White to play and checkmate in ttw wo
moves
1.Bc6 Bd7 2.b7 checkmate
Diagram 2
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IN BRIEF
Kohli may skip
Bangla T20Is
► India skipper Virat Kohli
could be rested from the
three-match T20 series
against Bangladesh, begin-
ning here on November 3.
Kohli has been playing
almost non-stop, featuring
in 48 of India’s 56 games
since October last year. The
squad for the Bangladesh
series will be picked in
Mumbai on October 24.
“There is a possibility
ty
that Virat could be rested
keeping the workload man-
agement programme in
mind. But the selectors will
only speak to Virat once the
Test match (against South
Africa) ends,”a source
close to the selection
committee told PTI on
conditions of anonymity ty.
Nadalmarries
partnerXisca
► Rafael Nadal married
his partner of 14 years,
Xisca Perello, at a castle
in Mallorca on Saturday,
reports AFP.
Nadal, the 19-time grand
slam champion, tied the
knot with 31-year-old Perel-
lo at La Fortaleza, with a
reported 350 guests invited
to a private ceremony.
Juan Carlos I, the king
of Spain from 1975 to
2014, was believed to be
among those in attendance
while the Michelin-star
chef, Quique Dacosta, was
reportedly in charge of
catering.
Indianjuniors
lose to Britain
► The Indian junior men’s
hockey team lost to Great
Britain 1-2 in the final of the
9th Sultan of Johor Cup
here on Saturday, reports
PTI from Johor Bahru.
Much like in their round
robin encounter, in the
fourth quarter India’s play
gained an urgency. More
and more Great Britain
were being pushed back
and in the 49th minute,
India won another penalty ty
corner, their seventh of the
game. This time a variation
proved to be key, Man-
deep’s dragflflick smartly
defl
flected by Gursahibjit
Singh to give India lead.
Anwartoseek
medicaladvice
► Promising young defend-
er Anwar Ali (Jr.), who has
been diagnosed of a heart
problem, is being sent to
France for seeking further
medical advice, his club
officials said on Saturday,
reports PTI from Mumbai.
“He (Ali) is being looked
after and both the club
and the All India Football
Federation are doing
everyt
ything that can be
done to help him,”a Mum-
bai City
ty FC official said.
Panghal begins
with win atWMG
► World Championships
silver medallist Amit
Panghal won his opening
bout in the men’s ffllyyw
weight
(52kg) category as the
boxers gave India a good
start in the 7th CISM World
Military Games here on
Saturday, reports PTI from
Wuhan.
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Rohi
hit, Rahane to the rescue
Mumbaiduoforgesunbeaten
185-runstandforfourthwicket
▼ championhasneverbeenon
VIVEK MV 11x4,1x6)notonlysurvivedthe
RANCHI, DHNS initial scare but fl
flourished as
the day progressed to help In-
O
n Saturday, at the JSCA diatofinishstronglyat224/3in
International Stadium 58 after bad light, followed by
Complex here, South rain, ended proceedings early.
Africa welcomed the first ses- For the first time in the
sionwithadifference.Thefirst series, Virat Kohli (12) was
two Tests of the Freedom Se- called for dutyty within the first
ries saw the visitors searching ten overs and that told the
for answers against the Indian story. Rabada, moving the
top-order. However, the first ball both ways, had reduced
hour of the third and final Test India to 16/2. The world’s sec-
witnessedaSouthAfricanper- ond-ranked Test bowler drew
formance that not many saw it Mayank Agarwal (10) in front
coming. andinducedanedgetosecond
slip.
He soon trapped Chetesh-
war Pujara (0) plumb in front
with a ball that nipped back in.
The on-field umpire surpris-
ingly dismissed the vociferous
appeal from the South Afri-
cans but the visitors rightly
reviewed and got their second
wicket.
Lungi Ngidi, coming in
for Vernon Philander, wasn’t
impactful but it was Anrich
Nortje, carrying only the ex-
perience of his debut Test in
Ajinkya Rahane Pune, who bagged the big fish.
The right-arm pacer set Kohli
Blendingconfidencewithat- up with ttw
wo balls that shaped
tack,FafduPlessis’men,asked awayandfiredinabrilliantball
to bowl, mounted pressure on that came back in sharply and
thehosts.At39/3,Indiasought crashed the Indian skipper’s
a steadier footing through pads. Kohli failed once again
Rohit Sharma and Ajinkya with the DRS – his ninth in a
Rahane. It was a period when row–andwalkedbackagitated
finally in the series, Kagiso Ra- as umpire’s call halted his stay.
bada(2/54)wasbowlinglikehe The three early dismissals
isknownfor.Theovercastcon- put the spotlight on Rohit. As
ditionsincreasedtheright-arm an opener, he had the ticked
pacer’s fear factor. the box of making runs with
The Indian duo, focused on tw
two hundreds in the first Test.
theirsensiblegameplan,made Nowwasthetimeforhimtobe
sure normalcy was restored. an opener with immense pa-
Rohit (117 n.o., 164b, 14x4, tience. To India’s advantage,
4x6)andRahane(83n.o.,135b, Rohitcamethroughwithfl flying
colours.
SCORE BOARD It didn’t bother him that his
INDIA
first four came after 22 balls.
Agarwal c Elgar b Rabada............... 10
The menacing show from
(19b, 2x4)
Rabada slightly shook him.
Rohit (batting)..................................117
(164b, 14x4, 4x6)
The Proteas pacer thought he
Puraja lbw Rabada...............................0
had got him leg before wicket
(9b) but India’s review showed a
Kohli lbw Nortje ................................ 12 thick inside edge from Rohit’s
(22b, 2x4) blade. South Africa nearly got
Rahane (batting)................................ 83 him run out. Zubayr Hamza at
(135b, 11x4, 1x6) short-leg dropped a tough one
off debutant left-arm spinner
Extras (B-1, NB-1)................................2
Total (for 3 wkts, 58 overs)........224 George Linde.
Fall of wickets: 1-12 (Agarwal), 2-16 Rohit’s fortitude bore fruit
(Pujara), 3-39 (Kohli). oncehegothiseyein.WithRa-
Bowling: Rabada 14-5-54-2 (nb-1), bada out of the attack, he took
Ngidi 11-4-36-0, Nortje 16-3-50-1, onNortjeand Ngidi.He pulled
Linde 11-1-40-0, Piedt 6-0-43-0.
Ngidi for four and ffllicked him
Ranchi’s own
wn Nadeem
rewarded for years of toil
VIVEK MV
RANCHI, DHNS
D Test cricket Test at home Test opener
rafted in the squad less
than24hoursbeforeIn-
dia’s third and final Test
against South Africa, Shahbaz
Nadeem received the biggest
gift of his career here on Sat-
urday.Overthelastfiveyearsin
domestic cricket, Nadeem has
been a picture of consistency, Shahbaz Nadeem
andasajustrewardforhisstag-
gering numbers, the left-arm background, Nadeem has
spinner made his debut on his bagged 424 wickets from 110
home ground. first-class games at an average
Justthreedaysago,Nadeem of 28.59 with a career best of
was in Bengaluru, playing for 7/45. Nadeem has played a
Jharkhand in the Vijay Haz- pivotalroleinJharkhand’spro-
are Trophy. He was called up gressfromPlateDivisiontothe
after Kuldeep Yadav picked up ElitegroupoftheRanjiTrophy.
a shoulder niggle on the eve However,withthesuccessofR
of the match. In the morning, AshwinandRavindraJadeja,it
Nadeem received the India was hard for Nadeem to break
cap from skipper Virat Kohli, into the national side.
a proud moment in his 15-year “He has always been a fight-
journey. “Nadeem is the local er. If you look at his record, he
boy and it’s a dream debut. I is mostly available for all for-
amreallyhappy forhim.It’sall mats of domestic cricket for
aboutplayingconsistentcrick- Jharkhand every year. He is a
et,”Kohli said at the toss. tirelessperformer,”Jharkhand
Hailing from a humble coach Rajiv Kumar told DH.
EnglanddownAustraliatosetupAllBlacksclash
OITA (JAPAN), REUTERS Earlier England beat Aus-
tralia 40-16, equalling their
The All Blacks overwhelmed record margin of victory over
Ireland 46-14 and England their fierce rivals, following
thumpedtheiroldenemyAus- Jonny May’s quickfire try dou-
tralia to set up a blockbuster ble in the first half.
semifinal at the Rugby World It sets up a mouth-watering
Cup on Saturday. showdown next Saturday in
Aaron Smith scored the first Yokohama, where top-ranked
two of seven tries by the All New Zealand will put their
Blacks,whokeptIrelandscore- 18-match World Cup winning
lessfor70minutesinaone-sid- streakonthelineagainstEddie
edvictoryatToky kyoStadium. Jones’s formidable English.
SPORT
CRICKET THIRD TEST
India’s Rohit Sharma pulls one to the boundary during his unbeaten century against South Africa on Saturday. AFP
foranotherboundarytobreak
the shackles. He then effort-
lessly pulled Nortje for a six
and headed for lunch looking
ominous.
A minor hostile spell from
Rabada put a check on Rohit’s
charge but once the spinners
were introduced, the 32-year-
old scored sixes for fun. Dane
Piedt, the rookie right-arm
off-spinner, bore the brunt of
Rohit’s fury. After smashing a
six over his head, Rohit struck
another big one over long-on
off Piedt and then brought up
hissixthTestcenturywithasix
over wide long-off.
India, who were untrou-
bled in the second session and
scored at a handsome rate of
4.62 runs an over, owe a lot to
Rahane too. The vice-captain
batted with great intent and
cruisedtoa70-ballhalf-centu-
ry with the help of eight fours.
Rahane’s shots of pure timing
were a delight to watch as he
fetched boundaries even of
good deliveries. The tw
two bats-
men have now given India the
perfect platform to post a big
total and the hosts wouldn’t
want rain to play spoilsport on
Sunday.
In the 2015-16 season, he be-
came only the second Indian to
take50ormorewicketsinasea-
son ttw
wice in Ranji Trophy aftfter
Hyderabadoff-spinnerKanwaljt
Singh.Lastyear,the30-year-old
puthisnameintheListArecord
book. With an effortrt of 10-4-10-
8 against Rajasthan in the Vijay
Hazare Trophy, Nadeem regis-
tered the best bowling figures
in the world in the particular
format. In the recent past, he
remained in contention for an
India call-up court
rtesy his good
numbersforIndiaA.
“I have played with him for
close to 20 years now. It will
be frustrating for any player
when he isn’t picked despite
consistently being in the top
five wicket-takers’ list of the
RanjiTrophy.Hehasremained
mentallystrongtoplaywiththe
same amount of passion every
season.Thatspeaksalotabout
his character,” said India dis-
card Saurabh Tiwary.
With the pitch here expect-
ed to assist spinners, Nadeem
willbeeyeingtomakehisdebut
a memorable one.
On Sunday, Wales face
France in Oita and hosts Ja-
pan,thetournament’ssurprise
package, play the first World
Cup quarter-final in their his-
tory against South Africa in
Toky
kyo.
New Zealand are going for
their third straight title and
they brutally dismissed a mis-
firing Ireland side who have
now lost in the quarterfinals
seven times.
The Rohit-Rabada battle
RANCHI, DHNS: Kagiso Rabada
was like a storm that had been
a long time coming. South
Africa’s strike bowler had just
four wickets from two games,
a statistics he was desperate to
improve. When he snared the
wickets of Mayank Agarwal
and Cheteshwar Pujara on the
opening day of the third Test
here,manyexpectedtheexcit-
ingrivalryofRabadaandVirat
Kohli to unfold. But it wasn’t
to be as the Indian captain was
dismissedbyabeauty ty fromAn-
drich Nortje.
The fired-up Rabada (2/54),
producing great movement,
now had Rohit Sharma to go
hard at and the duo was in-
volved in a mouth-watering
battle. Rohit, who was content
in blocking many deliveries
from the pacer, was steadily
settling down. Rabada stayed
in the fight by bowling some
unplayabledeliveries.Fortune
favouredRohitasheremained
unscathed in the first session.
The duo k kiick-start
rted the sec-
ond session with an absorbing
OFF DRIVES
Faf gets ‘proxy
captain’ for toss
► “Probably I will send some-
one else for the toss. I will give
you that, because my record
hasn’t been great,”South
African skipper Faf du Plessis
had said on the eve of the third
and final Test against India,
laughing. And on Saturday
morning for the toss, much
to the surprise of many, he
did bring vice-captain Temba
Bavu
vuma with him!
Ahat-trickof
pitchinvasions
► It happened in Vizag and
it happened in Pune as well.
Ranchi wasn’t left alone as the
opening day’s proceedings of
the third Test were interrupt-
ed by a pitch invader. In the
second session, a fan ran onto
the field and hugged South
African wicketkeeper Quin-
ton de Kock and even touched
his feet. The security
ty person-
nel rushed and took him out
of the field. However, while he
was taken out, his slipper fell
off near the stumps.
Smith’s early double was
followed by a score to man-of-
the-match Beauden Barrett,
who ran on to his own grubber
kick, before the All Blacks re-
pulsed an Irish charge to turn
22-0 ahead.
Kieran Read’s off-the-deck
offl
fload put Codie Taylor over
for New Zealand’s fourth try
before Matt Todd grabbed
their fifth. Robbie Henshaw fi-
nallyputIrelandontheboard.
DECCAN
AN HERA
RALD
Sunday
October 20, 2019
Marquez takes
MotoGP pole at
Motegi
VIVEK PHADNIS
MOTEGI (JAPAN), DHNS
N
ewly crowned 2019
MotoGP champion
Marc Marquez (Rep-
sol Honda) will start the
Grand Prix of Japan on pole
position here on Sunday.
The six-time MotoGP
poleattheTwinRingMotegi
in this premier class but his
time of one minute, 45.763
got the job done in the sec-
ond qualifying session. In
doingso,healsoclinchedhis
90thcareerpolepositionon
a wet day at the track.
The Petronas Yamaha
SRT riders did a splendid
job with Italian Franco
Morbidelli and Frenchman
Fabio Quartararo taking
the second and third spots
in qualify
fying.
Yamaha MotoGP’s Span-
ish rider Maverick Vinales
will start the race fourth,
while LCR Honda’s British
riderCalCrutchlowwillstart
from the fifth spot.
An elated Marquez,
happy with his 90th career
pole position, said: “It was
a tricky day for everybody
(due to rain). But in qualifyfy-
ing, the track was dry, apart
from twtwo corners. We must
be honest because the race
will be tough due to the con-
ditions. But we are ready to
fight for victory and we will
ything to do it.
try everyt
“We also need to
know which is the best
tyre compound for the
conditions,” he added.
Earlier,CrutchlowandAlex
Rins (Team Suzuki Ecstar)
were the top tw two in the first
batters should survive those qualify
fying session and thus
spells and stay in the middle. moveduptothesecondqual-
Rohit did that well. Early on, ifying. However, Rins only
they bowled in better areas qualified in 11th place.
but our recovery was phe- In the rain-delayed third
nomenal,” observed Vikram free practice session in the
Rathour,India’sbattingcoach, morning,Marquezledmost
at a press conference. of the way but the fastest
Ahead of the series, it was a eventually was Ducati’s
question of will for Rohit. Giv- Italian rider Danilo Petruc-
en the new role of opening in ci. Dry patches of the track
the longer format, the experi- were beginning to be seen
encedcampaignerhadonelast when the Moto2 qualify-
chancetoresurrecthisTestca- ing was on. The fourth free
reer. By plunderingrunsin the practice for MotoGP saw
openingTest,Rohitshowcased dry racing lines even as the
contest. In Rabada’s opening his gifted skills but his unbeat- ridersusedsoftwetweather
spell after lunch, Rohit missed en117-runknockhererevealed ty
tyresandMarquezemerged
more than he played. The his hunger to succeed in red- on top.
right-hander was lucky ky to get a ball cricket.
fouroffanedge.Ifanyoneshould “In Tests, the only adjust-
have got the wicket of Rohit on ment he had to make was his
Saturday, it was Rabada. The game plan. You need to play
rriight-arm
rm quickwasunlucky ky but thosetoughspellsthatyouwill
ffu
ullmarkstoRohitforhisgrit. get and he is doing that very
“This is what Test cricket is well in this series. Once he is
all about. Rabada is one of the set, he is a phenomenal play-
bestbowlersintheworldatthe er and he can really punish
moment. Today, he showed you. He just had to make that
why he is rated so high. There mental adjustment,” Rathore
was movement for him. Good explained.
Marc Marquez
Stat attack from day one
Rohit Sharma's unbeaten
117 would be his: Yuvraj’s jibe at
6th 6th 3rd ‘yo-yo’ tests in
hundred in hundred in hundred as tweet to Ganguly
NEW DELHI, PTI: Former
98,Rohit completed
When on
cricketer Yuvraj Singh
on Saturday congratulat-
2000 runs in Test cricket. ed Sourav Ganguly on his
journey from being India’s
l Rohit also set a new record for the most runs scored by captain to becoming BCCI
top boss and jokingly said
an Indian batsman in a Test series against South Africa.
it would have been good for
At the end of the first day's play of the Ranchi Test, his him if he had taken reins of
aggregate in the ongoing Test series stood at 434 runs. The the board when the yo-yo
previous record was held by Mohammad Azharuddin, who test was in demand.
had scored 388 runs in three Tests in the home series in Yuvraj while announcing
1996-97. his retire-
l By scoring a hundred in the ongoing Ranchi Test, Rohit mentinJune
became the first batsman from Asia to score three hundreds this year had
in a Test series against South Africa. revealedthat
BCCI had
l With his 117 not out on Saturday, Rohit became only promised
the second Indian opening batsman to score three or him a fare-
more hundreds in a Test series. The only other batsman Yuvraj well game
to accomplish this feat was Sunil Gavaskar, who did so on if he failed
three occasions. the yo-yo test but since he
l With the four sixes he hit on the opening day of the passed, he never got a swan-
song.
Ranchi Test, Rohit Sharma took his tally of sixes in the
“Greater the man great-
ongoing Test series against South Africa to 17 - which is the
most any player has hit in a Test series.
est the journey! From
Indian captain to @BCCI
president. Think it will be a
Compiled by Arun Gopalakrishnan
great insight for a cricketer
to be an administrator &
make others understand
admin from a players point
of view. Wish you were the
presidentwhiletheyoyowas
indemand.Goodluckdadi,”
Yuvraj tw
tweeted.
A yo-yo test involves a
player sprinting between
ttw
wo cones which are set 20
metresapartonthesoundof
a beep. It is used to measure
an athlete’s endurance. It is
mandatory to clear the test
to be eligible for selection in
the Indian team.
Ganguly is set to be elect-
England’s Jonny May scores a try during their quarterfinal ed unopposed to the post of
match against Australia in the Rugby World Cup at the Oita BCCI president on October
Stadium in Oita. AFP 23.
 SPORT 17
DECCAN
AN HERA
RALD
Sunday
October 20, 2019

IN BRIEF FOOTBALL PREMIER LEAGUE KABADDI PKL

Stumbling Spurs salvage point Bengal Warriors

James, Chandra
star for Beasant
► James scored a treble
while Chandra Shekar
struck a brace as Beasant
Hockey Club thumped reign supreme
Bengaluru Blues hockey
Club 6-1 in the BHA ‘C’ City,Leicester,Chelseapost The Warriors did not have
Kolkatasideedge
impressivewins;Evertonshine
Division Hockey League on theservicesofstarraiderand
Saturday captain Maninder Singh in
Results: Garuda Hockey Club: 6
(Chinthapalli 6th, 34th, Eswar
DabangDelhi 39-34 the night but got his support
10th, Parya D 23rd, 25th, Tarun
Kumar P 43rd) bt Ideal Sports
▼ formaidentitle withhispresenceasassistant
coachoftheteam.That,orthe
pressureofthefinal,gottothe
Academy, KGF ‘B’: 2 (Abbas 22nd,
Alwin Felix 40th); Beasant Hockey LONDON, AFP hind in the sixth minute, Ab- ▼ Warriorsintheearlyminutes
Club: 6 (James 4th, 16th, 33rd, doulaye Doucoure finishing asDelhistormedtoa6-0lead.

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Chandra Shekar 18th, 44th, Pawan ottenham narrowly superblyfromDarylJanmaat’s AHMEDABAD, AGENCIES Naveen Kumar certainly
48th) bt Bengaluru Blues Hockey avoidedanembarrassing assist. looked charged up for the

Club: 1 (Jeelani 38th).
Billiards and
snookertourney
► Karnataka State Billiards
Association will conduct
the Karnataka State
Billiards and Snooker
Ranking tournament from
November 11.
Entries will close on
November 6.
Singapore stun
Scotland
► Scotland’s sporting
October suffered another
setback when their cricket
team slumped to defeat
at the hands of Singapore
on the opening day of the
2020 Twenty ty20 World Cup
qualifyfying tournament.
The 12th-ranked Scots
were set a target of 169
for victory but stumbled
to a ttw
wo-run loss despite
needing just eight off the
final over.
Singapore made 166
for 8 from 20 overs with
Surendran Chandramohan
making a top score of 51.
Elsewhere, Ireland beat
Hong Kong by eight wick-
ets with 16 balls to spare.
home defeat to bottom
club Watford on Saturday as
Chelsea and Leicester posted
impressivewinsinthePremier
League on Saturday.
With leaders Liverpool not
in action until Sunday, it was a
chance for the chasing pack to
press their credentials for top-
four spots.
Chelsea’s Marcus Alonso
broke the deadlock for Frank
Lampard’s side at Stamford
Bridge against Newcastle for a
1-0 win while Youri Tielemans
sealed a 2-1 victory for Leices-
ter over Burnley at the King
Power Stadium.
QuickfiregoalsfromGabriel
Jesus and David Silva set up a
comfortable 2-0 win for Man-
chesterCityty overCrystalPalace
atSelhurstParkasthechampi-
ons closed the gap on leaders
Liverpool to five points.
But Spurs boss Mauricio
Pochettino saw his side labour
to a 1-1 draw at home to Wat-
ford, following a 3-0 thrashing
at Brighton and a humiliating
7-2 defeat at home to Bayern
Munich.
Spurs, who reached the
Champions League final in
June, have now won just three
oftheiropening12gamesinall
competitions and appear una-
ble to find their spark.
Pochettino’s men got off to
an awful start as they fell be-
But Dele Alli grabbed a late
leveller for Spurs with his first
goal since January.
There was major confusion
as it appeared as if VAR had
ruled out the effort, but it was
allowed to stand.
“Wemadeitdifficultforour-
selves,”said Alli.
“We controlled the game
and bossed possession. It was
my first start and great to be
back in the team but overall a
disappointing result.
“We know we have a world-
classteamsoit’saboutshowing
what we can do when things
don’tgoourway.It’simportant
we turn it around. We know
how good we are, we just have
tostartshowingitonthepitch.”
Leicester held a minute’s
silence before kick-off to re-
member their late owner Vi-
chai Srivaddhanaprabha, who
waskilledin ahelicopter crash
at the stadium last October.
Chris Wood put Burnley in
front but Leicester’s in-form
forward Jamie Vardy headed
an equaliser just before half-
timeandTielemanscompleted
the turnaround with just over
15 minutes to go.
“We didn’t play as well as we
canandwecouldn’tgetintoour
rhyt
ythm as much as we would
have liked,” said Leicester de-
fender Jonny Evans.
Leicesterweresecondinthe
Chelsea’s Marcos Alonso celebrates after scoring against Newcastle United. REUTERS
table,sevenpointsbehindlead-
ers Liverpool, while Chelsea,
also on 17 points, were third.
Matt Targett scored a goal
deep into injury time as Aston
Villacamebackfrom1-0down
to beat 10-man Brighton 2-1.
Southampton took the lead
against Wolves at Molineux,
courtesy of a Danny Ings goal
butwerepeggedbackbyaRaul
Jimenezpenalty ty whileBourne-
mouth drew 0-0 at home to
Norwich.
Intheearlykick-offonSatur-
day,Evertonclimbedoutofthe
relegationzonewithawell-de-
served2-0victoryagainstWest
Ham that eased the pressure
on Marco Silva.
A first-half goal from Brazil
forwardBernardandalatesec-
ond from substitute Gylfi Sig-
urdssongaveEvertonthethree
pointsinamatchinwhichthey
had 19 shots.
“It was a fantastic perfor-
mance,” Sigurdsson told BT
Sport.
“We had a lot of chances, es-
peciallyinthesecondhalf.You
never know when it’s 1-0 -- you
always want to get more.”
B
engal Warriors pro-
duced an outstanding
performance to beat
DabangDelhi39-34toclinch
the Pro Kabaddi League Sea-
son 7 title for the first time in
front of a packed audience
at the EKA Arena in Ah-
medabad on Saturday.
Bengal’s consistency in the
mostfiercely-foughtseasonof
PKL got rewarded as a com-
posed performance by the
team, captained by captain
Mohammad Nabibakhsh’s
10-point game. This helped
Bengal Warriors clinch the
covetedtitleforthefirsttime.
Naveen Kumar was brilliant
onceagainwith18raidpoints
for Delhi but uncharacteris-
tic errors in the night cost
Dabang Delhi the title.
Bengal Warriors, winners of the seventh edition of the Pro
Kabaddi League in Ahmedabad on Saturday.
eventwhileDelhi’scovercom-
bination of Anil Kumar and
VishalManealsoseemedkeen
tostopanyraidercomingtheir
way. The Delhi side clinched
theirAl
All-Outinthe8thminute
to open a four-point lead but
the Warriors were a different
side after restart.
Stand-in captain Moham-
mad Nabibakhsh picked up
his game, clinching valuable
raid points, as Bengal quick-
ly reduced Delhi’s lead. Del-
hi’s Iranian Meraj Sheykh
impressed as a substitute,
picking up ttw
wo raid points in
pressure situations, but the
Warriors secured their first
All-Out with under 4 min-
utes remaining for the break.
The first-half ended with the
scores leveled at 17-17.

Prevalent WawrinkaendsSinner’sfinerun BarcelonarideonMSG;Atleticoheld

Forcebags
riches
MYSORE RACE RESULTS
Prevalent Force, trained by D Byramji
and ridden by S Zervan, pipped
highly-fancied Sakura to claim the
top prize in the 1400-metre Raghulal
Mysore Race Club Anniversary Cup, the
feature event of the races held here
on Saturday. Sakura finished second
behind Merlot.
1. The Sharan Lakshmanan Memorial
Trophy (Div II) - 1600M: Grey Channel
(Savi K Jain’s) TS Jodha, 1; Queen Reg-
nant (YS Srinath) 2; Great Celebration
(I Chisty) 3; Rorito (S Zervan) 4; WB:
4-3/4, 3/4, 1-3/4L; T: 1:41.45; Tote:
Rs 124w, Rs 23, Rs 14, Rs 25p; TB: S
Inayathulla; Fav: Glorious Dancer; Fc:
Rs 1080; Q: Rs 269; Shp: Rs 37; Tri: Rs
12461 and Rs 3204; Thp: Rs 56; Exp: Rs
ANTWERP, AFP
Stan Wawrinka ended Italian
teenager Jannik Sinner’s fine
run at the European Open
in Antwerp on Saturday, the
Swiss veteran defeating the
18-year-old 6-3, 6-2 to book a
place in Sunday’s final.
Sinner was the youngest
player to make the semifinals
of an ATP tournament since
RACING MYSURU CARD
CosmicRaytippedtowin
17-year-old Borna Coric in
2014.
But he met his match in
three-timemajorwinnerWaw-
rinka, with the 34-year-old
taking one hour 59 minutes to
secure a date with either Andy
Murray or Ugo Humbert.
Earlier, former world num-
ber one Andy Murray reached
his first semifinal since the
2017 French Open with a
battling three-set win over
Romania’s Marius Copil. The
32-year-old British star, stead-
ily rebuilding his career after
major hip surgery earlier this
year, defeated qualifier Copil
6-3, 6-7 (7/9), 6-4.
Murray goes on to face
France’s world No. 70 Ugo
Humbert who put out Argen-
tine fifth seed Guido Pella 5-7,
6-4, 6-4.
MADRID, AFP
Barcelona’s‘MSG’strikeforce
isfinallyclickedintogearasLi-
onel Messi, Luis Suarez and
AntoineGriezmannallscored
in a ruthless 3-0 victory over
Eibar on Saturday.
Griezmann’s place in the
newly-formed attacking tri-
dent has not been secure but
the Frenchman opened the
Karnataka
scoring at Ipurua before tee-
ing up Messi and then playing
the crucial pass for Suarez to
make it three.
An authoritative Barca dis-
play thrust them to the top of
LaLiga,forafewhoursatleast
before Real Madrid play Real
Mallorca. They moved three
points clear of Atletico, who
drew 1-1 at home to Valencia.
The victory also dismissed
‘Boxi
xing is not Chawrasia
suggestions their players
might be affected by Friday’s
postponement of next Satur-
day’sClasicoduetoprotestsin
Catalonia.
Violence in Barcelona and
disruptions at El Prat airport
meant Ernesto Valverde’s
side altered their pre-match
routine and embarked on a
589-kilometre bus trip to the
Basque County ty on Friday.
All the while, discussions
continued over the Clasico
against Real Madrid, which is
now expected to go ahead in
December. “It is fashionable
nottoagreeonpoliticalissues
but at least let’s agree on the
date of the Clasico,” Valverde
said afterwards. “It doesn’t
seem to me that difficult.”
Perhaps chaos off the pitch
inspired Barca to unite on it.

girls edge Bindra’s business’ T-23, Sharma

21603 and Rs 3472.
2. The Forester’s Trophy - 1400M:
Swiss Admiral (Swiss Stud & Livestock

past Gujarat T-41 at

Pvt Ltd’s) Rajesh Kumar, 1; Veni Vidi
Vici (TS Jodha) 2; Ela Harika (Arshad
Alam) 3; Felix Legion (Janardhan
Paswan) 4; WB: 1-1/4, 1-1/2, 7-1/4L; T:
1:27.87; Tote: Rs 16w, Rs 12, Rs 19, Rs
16p; TB: J Sharavanan; Fav: Swiss Ad-
miral; Fc: Rs 119; Q: Rs 97; Shp: Rs 45;
Tri: Rs 456 and Rs 259; Thp: 39; Exp: Rs
2056 and Rs 1402.
3. The Bottolonda Trophy (Div I) -
1200M: Kir Royale (P M Nanaiah &
Mrs Neetu Kamath’s) Arshad Alam, 1;
Be Bold (P Sai Kumar) 2; Wind Striker
(R Manish) 3; Donna Rossa (TS Jodha)
4; WB: Snk, 1-3/4, 1-3/4L; T: 1:16.20;
Tote: Rs 72w, Rs 19, Rs 18, Rs 38p; TB:
MP Kamath; Fav: Kir Royale; Fc: Rs 243;
Q: Rs 109; Shp: Rs 44; Tri: Rs 832 and
Rs 475; Thp: Rs 79; Exp: Rs 8329 and
Rs 2295.
4. The RM Puttanna Memorial Trophy
- 1400M: Hukum (Mrs Deepa Deva-
ney’s) C Umesh, 1; King Of The Wind
(PP Dhebe) 2; Silver Dew (YS Srinath)
3; Ewandor (Rajesh Kumar) 4; WB:
3-1/2, 2-1/2, 1-3/4L; T: 1:26.28; Tote:
Rs 68w, Rs 25, Rs 12, Rs 15p; TB: Neil
Devaney; Fav: King Of The Wind; Fc: Rs
238; Q: Rs 61; Shp: Rs 41; Tri: Rs 354
and Rs 166; Thp: Rs 54; Tri: Rs 34049
and Rs 29185.
5. The Gayatri Devi Memorial Tro-
phy - 2000M: Super Smart (Rajesh
Narredu’s) PP Dhebe, 1; Cavarozzi (S
Shareef)f) 2; Striking Grey (RN Darshan)
3; Steinlight (S Zervan) 4; WB: 3-3/4,
Lnk, 6-1/4L; T: 2:09.36; Tote: Rs 26w,
Rs 14, Rs 32p; TB: Rajesh Narredu; Fav:
Steinlight; Fc: Rs 182; Q: Rs 80; Shp: Rs
45; Tri: Rs 410 and Rs 130; Thp: Rs 31;
Exp: Rs 671 and Rs 220.
6. The Raghulal Mysore Race Club
Anniversary Cup - 1400M: Prevalent
Force (Rienzie MK Edwards & Mrs PPM
Edwards’) S Zervan, 1; Merlot (I Chisty)
2; Sakura (Akshay Kumar) 3; Megas-
thenes (P Sai Kumar) 4; WB: 7-3/4,
1/2, 1L; T: 1:24.72; Tote: Rs 21w, Rs 11,
Rs 34p; TB: D Byramji; Fav: Prevalent
Force; Fc: Rs 157; Q: Rs 95; Shp: Rs 52;
Tri: Rs 312 and Rs 89; Thp: Rs 31; Exp:
Rs 1270 and Rs 1155.
7. The Sharan Lakshmanan Memorial
Trophy (Div I) - 1600M: Speedster
(Laksh Bhatia’s) S Shareef, 1; Duxton
(RN Darshan) 2; Radiant Treasure
(Suraj Narredu) 3; Cuban Pete (Akshay
Kumar) 4; WB: 1/2, Lnk, 2-1/4L; T:
1:41.80; Tote: Rs 137w, Rs 28, Rs 51,
Rs 15p; TB: Warren Singh; Fav: Radiant
Treasure; Fc: Rs 4619; Q: Rs 1800;
Shp: Rs 170; Tri: Rs 54854 and Rs
5877; Thp: Rs 46; Exp: Rs 54012 and
Rs 15432.
8. The Bottolonda Trophy (Div
II) - 1200M: Countrys Crown (Mrs
Namrataa Rakesh’s) Vijay Kumar, 1;
Classic Jewel (R Shelar) 2; Scorpene (VR
Jagadeesh) 3; Humming Bird (Shivnath
Paswan) 4; WB: 3/4, 3-1/4, 3/4L; T:
1:15.26; Tote: Rs 67w, Rs 19, Rs 17, Rs
24p; TB: Rakesh; Fav: Classic Jewel; Fc:
Rs 332; Q: Rs 198; Shp: Rs 66; Tri: Rs
6644 and Rs 3322; Thp: Rs 60; Exp: Rs
20549 and Rs 11743.
Jackpot: Rs 120206 (4).
Runner-up: Rs 4384 (47). II treble: Rs
1291 (8). III treble: Rs 6040 (5).
Cosmic Ray, to be ridden by Suraj Narredu and trained by S At- 1. Set To Win (D Byramji) 60 S Zervan 5
taollahi, is tipped to land the spoils in the AVR Group And Catalyst 2. Script Writer (Monnappa) 59.5 Arshad Alam 3
Properties Mysore Derby 2019 (Grade I) over 2000 metres, the 3. Sadeek (M Bobby) 59 K Sai Kiran 7
NEW DELHI, PTI inFebruarynextyear.“While
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main event of the races here at the Mysore Race Club on Sunday. 4. Tremendous (MP Kamath) 58.5 Ramandeep B 6
5. Booker Jones (D Byramji) 58 AR Pradeep 8 PATNA, DHNS: Karnataka he celebrated M C Kom, the fact is, an athlete’s
1. THE DELHI R
RA
ACE CLUB TROPHY (DIV II) (RTD 00-
25) 1200M, 1:00 PM
6. Towering Storm (V Appachu) 57.5 Rajesh Kumar 4 girls notched their first vic- Mary Kom on Satur- life is an offering of proof.
7. Top Striker (Rakesh) 55.5 C Umesh 1
8. Don’t Trust Anyone (Sharavanan) 53 I Chisty 2 tory in the ongoing 70th day said boxing is not The proof that we can be as
1. Darahasini (Pradeep) 60 P Surya 1
2. Above The Rest (Lokanath) 59 Chetan Gowda 12 Junior National basketball Abhinav Bindra’s “business goodasyesterday.Betterthan ROME, PTI: Indian golfer
3. Apollo Bay (Kishan Thomas) 59 PP Dhebe 2 Set To Win 1; Script Writer 2; Top Striker 3. championship in Patna on to interfere”, expressing her yesterday. Betterthantomor- SSP Chawrasia was one-
4. Snow Queen (Dheeraj V) 59 TS Jodha 6
6. THE BANGALORE TURF CLUB TROPHY (RTD 70 & Saturday. displeasure at the Olympic rows man/woman. In sport, over through 15 holes, slip-
5. Country’s Fame (MP Kamath) 58.5 Ramandeep B 9
6. Zala Princess (Hidayat K) 58.5 Nazerul Alam 11 ABOVE) 1200M, 3:30 PM Riding on Sonika’s game- champion’sbackingofNikhat yesterday NEVER counts,” ping to T-23 from overnight
7. Kruger Park (Warren S) 58 S Shareef 8 1. Master Of Universe (Bipin VS) 63 S Shareef 11 high 20-point effort, Karna- Zareen’s demand for a trial Bindra wrote on his twitter T-13 in the Amundi Open de
8. Ash Winder (Surender) 57 R Shelar 3 2. Southpaw (Pradeep) 62.5 Chetan Gowda 2 takaposteda57-54winover bout against her. handle on Thursday. France here on Saturday.
9. Show Girl (I Ghatala) 57 S John 7 3. Constantine (Eshwer) 58.5 H Rahul 1
10. Sardinia (Sharavanan) 56.5 Rajesh Kumar 5 4. Diamond Rays (S Komandur) 57.5 Srinath 3 Gujarat. Sahana (13) and On Thursday, Bindra Both Bindra and Zareen Chawrasia, who needs a
11. Dallas (Samar Singh) 55.5 Indrajeet S 4 5. Aeolus (D Byramji) 57 S Zervan 10 Sanjana (11) were the other backed Zareen’s demand for are associated with JSW good finish to keep his card,
12. Italian Stallion (Vishal Yadav) 54 A Baandal 10 6. Star Of Thea (PC Tejaswi) 57 I Chisty 6 scorers for Karnataka. a trial bout against the six- group in different capacities. had a series of pars and just
7. Courage (A Mangalorkar) 56.5 S John 4
Show Girl 1; Darahasini 2; Above The Rest 3. 8. Korol (V Appachu) 56.5 HM Akshay 9
Results: Group A: Maharashtra: 79 time world champion before one bogey on 14th.
(Tanay T 18, Pritish Kokate 16, Raza
9. Air Command (A Mangalorkar) 54.5 Antony Raj 5 Shaik 15, Ojas Ambedkar 12) bt Delhi: India’s squad for next year’s No govt interference ShubhankarSharmashot
2. THE ROYAL WESTERN INDIA TURF (RTD 40-65) 10. Country Music (MP Kamath) 54 Arshad Alam 7 78 (Harthik Choudary 17, Lalithianghil- OlympicQualifiersisdecided. Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju one-under 70, but for the
1200M, 1:30 PM 11. Batman (V Appachu) 53 Rajesh Kumar 12
12. Maduro (Vishal Yadav) 51.5 K Sai Kumar 8
ima 16, Nitish Beniwal 14, Amit 13). ThatdidnotgowellwithMary onSaturdaymadeitclearthat third day running he had a
1. Nikka (Vishal Yadav) 61.5 Arshad Alam 1 Group C: Madhya Pradesh: 89 (Harsh-
2. Admiral Act (Surender) 59.5 Mukesh K 4 wardhan Tomar 20, Brijesh Tiwari Kom, who is also an Olympic the government would not doublebogeyonhiscard.He
3. Space Ship (Dinesh Pujar) 57 Chetan Gowda 5 Diamond Rays 1; Aeolus 2; Air Command 3. 20, Uday Veer Yadav 16) bt Himachal bronze medallist. interfere in selection matters is even for 54 holes and T-41
4. Perfect Legacy (Santosh R) 56.5 J Paswan 12
7. AVR GROUP AND CATALYST PROPERTIES MYSORE
Pradesh: 55 (Abahay Bhadwal 14, Suk- “Bindra is an Olympic gold but advised the Boxing Fed- though much of the field
5. Cantabria (Monnappa) 56 I Chisty 11 winder Singh 13, Devender 13); West
6. Ascendency (Prashanth) 55.5 RN Darshan 10 RADE I) 2000M, 4:00 PM
DERBY 2019 (GRA Bengal: 44 (Sumit S 11, Krishnendu 11,
medallistbutItoohavemulti- eration of India (BFI) to be wasstillplaying.Hehasnow
7. Class Above (MP Kamath) 55.5 Ramandeep B 7 1. Alexander Burnes (Neil Darashah) 56 S Zervan 7 Dipak 10) bt Goa: 42 (Jeshua P 20). plegoldsatWorldChampion- transparent and resolve the droppedfourdoublebogeys
8. Magnum Opus (M Bobby) 55.5 Sai Kiran 2 2. Malwa (S Attaollahi) 56 CS Jodha 5 Group D: Haryana: 87 (Sahil 36) ships. This is not his business Zareen-Mary Kom issue in and a quadruple bogey this
bt Utharkhand: 34 (Khan 13); Haryana:
9. Star Atrium (Bipin VS)
10. Al Dorado (Md Sajid)
54.5
53.5
H Rahul
Kiran Rai
6
9
3. Southern Ruler (Ganapathy)
4. Square The Circle (Md Sajid)
56
56
Srinath
A Imran K
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6 107 (Sahil 38, Deependar 21, Divaiin
to get involved in boxing, to the best possible manner. week where he dropped big
11. Aliboxer (PC Tejaswi) 53.5 Shiva Kumar 8 5. Star Cavalry (Ganapathy) 56 RN Darshan 3 Singh 11) bt Jharkhand: 29 (Singh R interfere. I don’t talk about “We have to understand numbers.
12. Pankti (Rakesh) 50 S Shareef 3 6. Streaming Gold (A Mangalorkar) 56 S John 2 K 16); Chhattisgarh: 54 (Salim Ali 11) shooting,soitisbetterforhim one thing, govt can’t dictate On Friday evening, he
bt Utharkhand: 24.
7. Cosmic Ray (S Attaollahi) 54.5 Suraj Narredu 1
Group E: Odisha: 49 (Amit Kumar 22,
to stay quiet on boxing. He thefederationsorgetinvolved fired four straight birdies
Admiral Act 1; Nikka 2; Space Ship 3.
Cosmic Ray 1; Streaming Gold 2; Square The Circle 3. Chitta Ranjan 12) bt Bihar: 37 (Kus- doesn’t know the exact rules in the process of selection,” in the last five holes to make
3. THE ROYAL CALCUTTA TURF CLUB TROPHY (RTD hagra Rai 9); Odisha: 67 (Amit 30, of boxing,”Mary Kom said. Rijiju said on the sidelines of amends for three bogeys
20-45) 1400M, 2:00 PM 8. MADRA
RAS R
RAACE CLUB TROPHY (DIV I) (RTD 20-45) Chittaranjan 10) bt Jammu Kashmir:
48 (Deepak Bardwaj 19).
Earlier, former junior thefelicitationprogramofthe betw
tween 16th and second as
1400M, 4:30 PM
1. Export Quality (G Srinivas) 62 S John 9
Group F: Telengana: 70 (Karthil 18, world champion boxer Za- Indianwomen’sboxingteam. he carded two-under 69 to
2. Bestow (M Bobby) 60 C Jaiswal 6 1. Arak (PC Tejaswi) 62.5 Rayan Ahmed 1
3. Cracksman (Vishal Yadav) 58.5 L Prashant 1 2. Bold Move (I Ghatala) 62.5 S Shareef 7
Goutham 17, Thamaroon 10) bt Andhra reen, who was refused a tri- “Ifthereareanomaliesand be T-13 at end of the second
Pradesh: 46 (Ahari Sai Pavan 14, Na-
4. Country’s Pace (MP Kamath) 55.5 Kiran Rai 8 3. After Hours (Pradeep) 61.5 RN Darshan 12
sam Seiti 13).
al by the Boxing Federation certain things which are not round. Chawrasia was now
5. Intrepid Warrior (PC Tejaswi) 55 Rayan Ahmed 11 4. Amazing Skill (S Narredu) 60.5 Arshad Alam 4
Women: Group A: Tamil Nadu: 67 (J of India (BFI) for the World in the interest of sports we three-under for 36 holes.
6. Naval Wrestler (Bipin VS) 55 N Jodha 7 5. Fotogenic (Dheeraj V) 60.5 Kiran Rai 2
7. Rich Tribute (Monnappa) 55 Arshad Alam 3 6. Helenka (Kishan Thomas) 60 S John 10
Monica 17, Steffi Agnes 13, R Sruthi Championships, had written make advisory suggestions. Nicolas Colsaerts and
8. Country’s Power (Prashanth) 54 RN Darshan 12 7. Rare Rhythm (Neil Devaney) 59.5 TS Jodha 5
11) bt Haryana: 55 (Tanver 18, Ritika to Sports Minister Kiren Riji- Olympic charter is clear that GeorgeCoetzeeleadtheway
14); Karnataka: 57 (Sonika 20, Sahana
9. King’s Command (Dinesh Pujar) 54 I Chisty 5 8. Scarlet Princess (Sharat K) 59.5 I Chisty 11
13, Sanjana 11) bt Gujarat: 54 (Naomi ju,demandinga“fairchance” govt
vt shouldn’tinterfereinthe goingintotheweekendafter
10. Ashwa Vikrant (Md Sajid) 53 S Imran 2 9. Final Destiny (Manohar) 59 M Naveen 9
11. Tough Sussex (Rakesh) 52 C Umesh 4 10. Bluejack (MR Singh) 58.5 Jagadeesh 6
Lakaanpal 11, Naiya Parel 10, Heman- to make it to the team for the functioning and administra- adayoftestingconditionsat
12. Lovely Micmel (SM Johnson) 51 R Shelar 10 11. Stari Grad (Md Khan) 58.5 Chetan Gowda 8
zhu Gainit 10, Hitisree Sapotiya 10). Olympic qualifiers to be held tion of a federation.” Le Golf National. Belgium’s
Group B: Punjab: 63 (Harismran Kaur
12. Fantastic App (D Byramji) 57.5 AR Pradeep 3
19, Sukhman 11) bt Madhya Pradesh: Colsaertstoppedtheleader-
Export Quality 1; Tough Sussex 2; Rich Tribute 3.
Helenka 1; Bluejack 2; After Hours 3.
20 (Bhumi16); Uttar Pradesh: 61 boardatnineunderparwith
4. THE DELHI R
RA
ACE CLUB TROPHY (DIV I) (RTD 00- (Mnira 14, Kushboo 13, Sruti 10) bt a round of 66.
9. MADRA
RAS R
RAACE CLUB TROPHY (DIV II) (RTD 20-45) Delhi: 39 (Kritika 20).
25) 1200M, 2:30 PM
Group C: Rajashthan: 63 (Rashi Kotan
1400M, 5:00 PM
1. Fierce Fighter (Faraz Arshad) 62.5 R Ajay Kumar 4 14, Harsh Nandini 12, Dikhs 10) bt Rashid, Sandhu in lead
2. Safe Bet (V Appachu) 62.5 I Chisty 2 1. Frosted (Bipin VS) 60 S Shareef 6
3. Arrogance (R Narredu) 62 M Mark 9 2. Red Galileo (Imtiaz Khan) 60 Withdrawn --
Jharkhand: 25 (Anu 10). Delhi’sRashidKh
Khanstaked a
Group D: West Bengal: 50 (Megha 10,
4. She’s Superb (KPG Appu) 62 S Shareef 8 3. Divine Retribution (Surender) 59 Vipin Kumar 8 Koyani 10) bt Goa: 11; Chhattisgarh:
claim to his fourth title of
5. Desert Combat (Prasanna K) 61.5 withdrawn -- 4. Papadokia (Sharat K) 59 I Chisty 2 61 (Elizbeth Ekka 21) bt Odhisa: 37 (S the year with an error-free
6. Princess Pride (Azhar Ali)
7. Estella (Md Khan)
61.5
60.5
withdrawn --
Chetan Gowda 10
5. Raw Gold (Inayathulla)
6. Amber Crown (Ganapathy)
58.5
58
PP Dhebe
Chetan Gowda 3
5 Lipramayee 15,S Anuradha 14). five-under-67thatpropelled
Group E: Bihar: 55 (Anupa 14, Sulocha
8. Himachali (Neil Devaney) 60.5 S John 6 7. Find (A Mangalorkar) 58 S John 12 13, Sunaiana 12) bt Puducherry: 33
him to the top of the leader-
9. Regal Force (Imtiaz Khan) 60.5 Arshad Alam 1 8. Jayadratha (MR Singh) 58 C Umesh 1 (Varsha 13); Chandigarh: 60 (Deb L board at 14-under-202 in
10. Ruler Of Nation (Inayathulla) 60.5 Jagadeesh 5 9. Aerospeed (Samar Singh) 57 Nazerul Alam 7 18, Manju PP 14) bt Puducherry: 14; the Jeev Milkha Singh Invi-
11. Silver Eclipse (Dominic) 60.5 TS Jodha 3 10. Lightning Attack (Lokanath) 56.5 RN Darshan 11 Bihar: 46 (Sulochana 19, Bibika 10)
12. Happy Dancing (Samar Singh) 60 Nazerul Alam 12 11. Amazing Angel (Azhar Ali) 56 Jagadeesh 4 bt Utharkhand: 20.
tational presented by TAKE
12. Dolphin (M Bobby) 54 K Sai Kiran 10 Group F: Andhra Pradesh: 50 (Pallavi Solutions on Saturday.
Regal Force 1; Arrogance 2; Estella 3. Find 1; Lightning Attack 2; Amber Crown 3. 18) bt Telengana: 33 (Lakshyasri Chandigarh’s Ajeetesh
Sidhika 11); Himachal Pradesh: 61
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RAACE CLUB TROPHY (RTD 60 & Day’s best: Set To Win. Double: Diamond Rays and Helenka. (Tamanna 16, Ramandeep 15) bt Tripu-
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ABOVE) 1600M, 3:00 PM Jackpot: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 . I Treble: 1, 2, 3; II Treble: 4, 5, 6; III Treble: ra: 5; Himachal Pradesh: 45 (Rupal 22, Rashid as the co-leader.
7, 8, 9 Pallavi 12) bt Telengana: 27. MC Mary Kom. PTI