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FIR against 21 anti-CAA
protesters in Lucknow
LUCKNOW
A total of 21 persons,
including 11 women, have
been booked for alleged
rioting and assault during an
anti­CAA protest at
Lucknow’s Hussainabad Clock
Tower. An FIR has been
registered against them for
raising “provocative” slogans
and holding up traffic during
the ‘Lucknow chalo’ event at
the protest site on Sunday.
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JNU violence: teachers
write to CP over inaction
NEW DELHI
The JNU Teachers’
Association on Monday wrote
to Delhi Police Commissioner
Amulya Patnaik over inaction
regarding the January 5
incident where students and
teachers of the university
were attacked by a masked
mob. They claimed that apart
from the initial press meet
held by the police, there was
no further information on
investigation in the matter.
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SC seeks police view on Shaheen Bagh
Protests cannot be carried on indefinitely in a common area, observes court
Legal correspondent
New Delhi
The Supreme Court on Mon­
day gently drew the atten­
tion of citizens, mothers and
senior citizens agitating
against the Citizenship
(Amendment) Act (CAA) and
the National Register of Citi­
zens (NRC) to the inconve­
nience caused when protests
were held on public tho­
roughfares for days.
A Bench of Justices Sanjay
Kishan Kaul and K.M. Joseph
said protests could not be
carried on indefinitely in a
common area.
The Supreme Court, ho­
wever, refused to pass any
interim directions urgently
Scuffle breaks
out during
anti­CAA rally
Shinjini Ghosh
Saurabh Trivedi
NEW DELHI
Hundreds of Jamia Millia Is­
lamia students and resi­
dents of nearby areas were
stopped by the police from
taking out a march to Par­
liament against the Citizen­
ship (Amendment) Act and
the National Register of Ci­
tizens on Monday, leading
to a seven­hour stand­off
during which scuffles broke
out between the protesters
and the security personnel.
The protesters began
their march, called by the
Jamia Coordination Com­
mittee, at noon from the
university’s gate number 7.
The police maintained that
the organisers had not
been granted permission to
hold the rally. The protes­
ters were stopped near Ho­
ly Family Hospital.
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Supreme Court upholds
changes to SC/ST atrocities law questions to larger Bench’
In exceptional cases, High Courts can quash cases to prevent misuse
Krishnadas Rajagopal
New Delhi
The Supreme Court on Mon­
day upheld a 2018 amend­
ment which barred persons
accused of committing atroc­
ities against those belonging
to the Scheduled Castes and
the Scheduled Tribes from
getting anticipatory bail.
But two of the judges on
the Bench, Justices Arun Mis­
hra and Vineet Saran, held in
their joint opinion that a
High Court would also have
an “inherent power” to grant
anticipatory bail in cases in
which prima facie an offence
under the anti­atrocities law
is not made out.
The two judges held that a
High Court, in “exceptional
cases”, could quash cases to
prevent the misuse of the an­
ti­atrocities law.
Justice Bhat’s caveat
The third judge on the
Bench, Justice S. Ravindra
Bhat, in his separate opi­
nion, however, added a ca­
veat to what his two compa­
nion judges on the Bench
said about the use of this “in­
herent power” by the High
Courts.
Justice Bhat stressed that
the courts should take care
to use this power to grant an­
ticipatory bail “only sparing­
ly and in very exceptional
No let-up: Women protesting against the new citizenship law at
Shaheen Bagh in Delhi. SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR
in the Public Interest Litiga­
tion filed by advocate Amit
Sahni seeking the removal of
the Shaheen Bagh protes­
ters. “The protests have
Police register FIR in Gargi
College molestation case
Students stage protest on college premises over inaction
Special Correspondent
New Delhi
The Delhi police on Monday
registered an FIR against un­
known persons on a com­
plaint filed by the principal of
Gargi College alleging moles­
tation of college students by
a group of men who had gate­
crashed a cultural festival on
the premises.
Deputy Commissioner of
Police (South) Atul Thakur
said the complaint states that
on February 6 some persons
barged into the college and
molested some students dur­
ing the fest. “On the com­
plaint of the principal, an FIR
has been registered under
Sections 452 [trespass], 354
[assault or criminal force to
woman with intent to out­
rage her modesty] and 509
[criminal intimidation] at
Hauz Khas police station,”
tuesday, february 11, 2020
‘Review court can refer
cases”. Bhat explained.
It should not become a “It is important to reiter­
norm lest it leads to miscar­ ate and emphasise that un­
riage of justice and abuse of less provisions of the Act (an­
the process of law. The inten­ ti­atrocities law) are
tion of the Parliament to pro­ enforced in their true letter
tect the oppressed classes and spirit, with utmost ear­
would suffer a defeat, he nestness and dispatch, the
said. “I consider such strin­ dream and ideal of a caste­
gent terms, otherwise con­ less society will remain only
trary to the philosophy of a dream, a mirage. The mar­
bail, absolutely essential, be­ ginalisation of Scheduled
cause a liberal use of the Caste and Scheduled Tribe
power to grant pre­arrest communities is an enduring
bail would defeat the inten­ exclusion and is based al­
tion of Parliament,” Justice most solely on caste identi­
notice to the Delhi police
and listed the case for furth­
er hearing on February 17.
The court nudged the
protesters about the bother
created for ordinary commu­
ters when protests were held
on public roads indefinitely.
“There cannot be an inde­
finite protest in a common
area. You have to find an
area for protests. If protests
are held everywhere, what
will happen?” Justice Kaul
*
asked advocate Mehmood
Pracha, appearing for Bhim
been going on for over 50 Army chief Chandrasekhar
days, you can wait. We like Azad.
to hear the other side (pol­
ice),” Justice Kaul said. CONTINUED ON A PAGE 12
The court issued a formal MORE REPORTS ON A PAGE 13
Earlier in the day, a police
team under the supervision
of Ms. Khandelwal went to
the college to record the
statements of students, se­
curity guards and teachers.
They also scanned the foot­
age of CCTV cameras in­
stalled at the main gate.
Gargi College students
staged a protest on the cam­
pus against the alleged inci­
Gargi College students dent and demanded strict ac­
protesting on the campus on tion against the intruders.
Monday. BIBEK CHETTRI
*
Priya Singh, a witness to the
incident, said, “The police
said Mr. Thakur. and RAF [Rapid Action
The investigation has been Force] did nothing to control
handed over to an Inspector­ the situation, while the non­
rank officer of the Crime teaching staff turned a blind
Against Women cell. Addi­ eye even as some inebriated
tional DCP of South district men intruded the campus.
Geetanjali Khandelwal will Female students were haras­
also conduct a parallel inqui­ sed verbally and physically.”
ry into all aspects related to
the case, said the officer. CM SEEKS STRICT ACTION A PAGE 2
ties,” Justice Bhat observed.
The judge said the express
provisions of the Constitu­
tion and statutes like the Act,
meant to protect the op­
pressed classes, underline
the social or collective re­
solve to ensure that “all hu­
mans are treated as humans,
that their innate genius is al­
lowed outlets through equal
opportunities and each of
them is fearless in the pur­
suit of her or his dreams”.
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Nine­judge SC Bench frames 7 questions on religious rights
Legal correspondent
NEW DELHI
A nine­judge Constitution
Bench of the Supreme Court
on Monday upheld the deci­
sion of the five­judge Sabari­
mala Review Bench to refer
to a larger Bench questions
on the ambit and scope of
religious freedom practised
by multiple faiths across the
country.
The nine­judge Bench, led
by Chief Justice of India (CJI)
S.A. Bobde, said a Bench en­
gaged in the review of a par­
ticular judgment could in­
deed refer other questions
of law to a larger Bench. Ar­
guments on merits would be
heard from February 17.
The Bench also framed se­
ven questions of law which it
would decide now. These
are: what is the scope and
ambit of religious freedom
under Article 25 of the Con­
stitution? What is the inter­
play between religious free­
dom and rights of religious
denominations under Arti­
cle 26 of the Constitution?
Whether religious denomi­
nations are subject to funda­
mental rights? What is the
definition of ‘morality’ used
in Articles 25 and 26? What
is the ambit and scope of
judicial review of Article 25?
What is the meaning of the
phrase “sections of Hindus”
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under Article 25 (2)(b)?
Whether a person not be­
longing to a religious group
can question the practices,
beliefs of that group in a PIL
petition?
On the last day of hearing,
Chief Justice Bobde had de­
fended the November 14,
2019, reference made by the
Review Bench, led by then
CJI Ranjan Gogoi. “By mak­
ing this reference order [on
November 14], the Bench
[led by Justice Gogoi] has not
prejudicially affected anybo­
dy’s rights. It may be the
most innovative idea, but it
has not affected any rights,”
he had said orally.
On November 14 last year,
the Gogoi Bench, in a major­
ity judgment, did not decide
Delhi
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the Sabarimala review cases
before it. Instead, it went on
to frame “larger issues” con­
cerning essential religious
practices of various reli­
gions. It further clubbed oth­
er pending cases on subjects
as varied as female genital
mutilation among the Da­
woodi Bohras to entry of
Parsi women who married
inter­faith into the fire tem­
ple and Muslim women into
mosques and referred them
all to a larger Bench.
The reference order also
asked the larger Bench to
consider the rule pertaining
to the prohibition of entry to
women of menstruating age
into the Sabarimala temple.
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Omar’s sister
challenges his
PSA detention
Special Correspondent
New Delhi
Sara Abdullah Pilot, sister
of former Jammu and Kash­
mir Chief Minister Omar
Abdullah, has approached
the Supreme Court against
the government’s move to
charge him under the Pu­
blic Safety Act (PSA).
Ms. Pilot urged for is­
suance of a writ of habeas
corpus to the authorities to
forthwith produce Mr. Ab­
dullah before the court and
set him at liberty.
The petition was men­
tioned before a Bench led
by Justice N.V. Ramana on
Monday.
The Bench said it would
consider the plea for early
listing of the case.
Ms. Pilot said she was
gravely concerned about
the welfare, safety and se­
curity of her brother. He
was already under deten­
tion from August 5 last —
the day the Centre re­
moved the special rights of
the Kashmiri people under
Article 370 — and the PSA
was slapped on him on Fe­
bruary 5, 2020.
The PSA dossier served
to Mr. Abdullah said that
the former Chief Minister
was “using politics as a cov­
er for his radical ideology
and for planning activities
against the Union govern­
ment” and “his popularity
and potential to draw vo­
ters to polling booths”
posed a threat.
“... Despite the fact that
the subject has been a
mainstream politician, he
has been planning his ac­
tivities against the Union of
India under the guise of
politics. And while enjoy­
ing the support of gullible
masses, he has been suc­
cessful in execution of such
activities,” the dossier said.
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Outsiders behind Gargi College
incident, HRD Minister tells LS
Investigation is under way and college has been told to take action, says Pokhriyal
Special Correspondent
NEW DELHI
The culprits in the alleged
sexual harassment of stu­
dents at Gargi College were
“outsiders”, Human Re­
source Development Minis­
ter Ramesh Nishank Pokhri­
yal told the Lok Sabha on
Monday. He said the college
administration has been told
to take action.
All India Mahila Congress
president Sushmita Dev
pulled up Mr. Pokhriyal for
“inaction” with regard to
violence in educational insti­
tutions, noting that it was
not enough to say that out­
siders were involved as the
ones behind the attacks are
those with right­wing ideolo­
gy.
‘Painful episode’
Mr. Pokhriyal made his state­
ment on the incident in res­
ponse to a supplementary
question from Congress MP
Gaurav Gogoi during the Lok
Sabha Question Hour. Mr.
Gogoi noted that one of the
reasons for high­levels of
stress in educational institu­
tions is cases of sexual ha­
rassment and bullying, and
referred specifically to the
“painful episode” of men en­
tering a women’s college fes­
Railways acts on
plea in HC on
medical benefits
to adopted kids
Press Trust of India
New Delhi
The Railways on Monday
told the Delhi High Court
it was “actively consider­
ing” the grievance raised
in a PIL regarding restric­
tion in medical benefits to
adopted children of its
employees and a “posi­
tive” direction was ex­
pected to be taken to ad­
dress the issue.
The submission was
made before a Bench of
Chief Justice D.N. Patel
and Justice C. Hari Shan­
kar by the lawyer appear­
ing for the Railways. In
view of the statement
made by the Railways’ la­
wyer, the court listed the
matter for further hear­
ing on May 1.
The Bench was hearing
the plea by an NGO which
has alleged that the Rail­
ways was “discriminat­
ing” against adopted chil­
dren of its employees by
providing medical bene­
fits to only the first adopt­
ed child, whereas there is
no such restriction in the
case of biological kids.
NGO Families of Joy
Foundation, in its peti­
tion, has sought a direc­
tion to the Indian Rail­
ways to extend the
medical benefits to all
and any number of adopt­
ed children of its
employees.
CM
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tival and harassing them.
“What instructions the
Ministry has given to institu­
tions of higher education
with respect to monitoring,
supervision and resolution
of sexual harassment and
bullying cases? What steps
will the Ministry take so that
the girls of Gargi College feel
safe and reassured?” asked
Mr. Gogoi.
The Minister responded,
saying that the alleged ha­
rassment was being investi­
gated. “The incident has
been carried out by outsid­
ers, not students. But it is not
a good thing. The college ad­
ministration has been asked
to take note of it and instruc­
tions have been given to take
action against the culprits,”
Masked miscreants armed with sticks inside JNU on January
5. FILE PHOTO: PTI
* to respond to petitions
Teachers write to police over
inaction in JNU violence case
No information on investigation: JNUTA
Staff Reporter
New Delhi
The Jawaharlal Nehru Un­
iversity Teachers’ Associa­
tion ( JNUTA) on Monday
wrote to Delhi Police Com­
missioner Amulya Patnaik
over inaction regarding
the January 5 incident
where students and teach­
ers of the university were
attacked by a masked mob.
Democratic rights
Stating that apart from the
initial press conference
held by the police, there
was no further informa­
tion on the investigation,
the JNUTA wrote: “It ap­
pears to be a part of a larg­
er pattern where the pol­
ice is more proactive in
restraining the exercise of
democratic rights by citi­
zens in the name of main­
taining law and order than
it is in protecting these
rights from being threa­
tened by lawless mobs.
he said. In a letter addressed
to the Minister, Ms. Dev said
the HRD Ministry has only
responded with silence or
mere lip service. “It is not
enough to say attackers
came from outside. Evi­
dence has also come to light
that the people responsible
for this attack are from a par­
ticular ideology which
points to a right­wing mind­
set but no action has been
forthcoming to prevent
these incidents or take ac­
tion against the administra­
tion or the authorities,
which not only disheartens
us but also casts serious as­
persions on the indepen­
dence of the functioning of
your Ministry,” she wrote.
She noted that the college
The targeting of teachers is
significant because it se­
riously calls into question
the legitimacy of the at­
tempts by the JNU adminis­
tration to link the mob vio­
lence to incidents that took
place earlier.”
The JNUTA reiterated
that on January 5, several
teachers were assaulted
and attacked by the mob.
“All of these have been
brought to the knowledge
of the police in the form of
several complaints by
teachers,” the letter read.
Stating that a “mood of
insecurity continues to
prevail at JNU,”it said: “It is
up to the Delhi Police to al­
lay these suspicions of
JNU’s teachers by taking
swift action on the com­
plaints lodged with them,
convert them into FIRs
and bringing the perpetra­
tors of the mob violence
and those who assisted
them, to book.”
administration had blamed
the victims for being unable
to ensure their own safety,
while the police and security
watched as goons barged in­
to the college and molested
the students. Ms. Dev also
pointed to the recent attacks
against students and teach­
ers of the Jawaharlal Nehru
University as another in­
stance of police and govern­
ment inaction although
there is “insurmountable
evidence” showing who is to
blame.
The All India Democratic
Women’s Association (AID­
WA), a Left­affiliated group,
also criticised the attitude of
authorities to the harass­
ment at Gargi College, alleg­
edly by “a group of pro CAA
protesters...who were drunk
and shouted Jai Shri Ram
slogans.”
“AIDWA is appalled to
learn that the college author­
ities to no notice of the com­
plaints of the girls. AIDWA
demands that the police
takes cognisance of the inci­
dent and immediately bring
the culprits to book. It also
demands that the university
look into the insensitive and
irresponsible behaviour of
the Gargi college authori­
ties,” it added.
HC seeks JNU
reply on pleas
over take­home
examination
Staff Reporter
New Delhi
The Delhi High Court on
Monday asked the Jawa­
harlal Nehru University
challenging its decision
to hold online open­book
or take­home exams for
the monsoon semester.
Justice Rajiv Shakdher
issued notice to JNU ad­
ministration on two sepa­
rate petitions and listed
the matter for hearing on
August 6.
The court said, for the
time being, examinations
will be conducted in the
matter as indicated in the
minutes of meeting of
Board of Studies of the
schools and special
centres having regard to
the fact that the monsoon
semester needs to be
closed at the earliest.
Central Government
Standing Counsel Monika
Arora, representing JNU,
argued that in various
schools of the university,
exams have already been
conducted via regular
mode and some have
done it through the alter­
nate mode.
The counsel, appear­
ing for petitioner teach­
ers and students, said
they were willing to ac­
cept it in this semester
due to the time con­
straints.
DELHI THE HINDU
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2020
Kejriwal seeks
‘harshest
punishment’
for culprits
Special Correspondent
New Delhi
Reacting to the Gargi Col­
lege incident, Chief Minister
Arvind Kejriwal said the cul­
prits should be caught and
given the harshest punish­
ment. “The misbehaviour
with our daughters at Gargi
College is very unfortunate.
Women students protesting inside the Gargi College campus on Monday. * PTI This cannot be tolerated.
The culprits should be
caught and given the har­
Gargi College students protest inside shest punishment...,” Mr.
Kejriwal tweeted.
Delhi BJP chief Manoj Ti­
campus, seek principal’s resignation wari tweeted: “What hap­
pened at Gargi college is
highly condemnable, cul­
They claim auto drivers were part of mob that entered premises prits should be apprehend­
ed at the earliest. College
<
> When
Kashish Vikram Singh we went to who park their vehicles out­ admin should get CCTV
New Delhi complain, the side the college gates, had en­ footage and release the
Scores of students of the all­ principal said we tered the campus. same to investigation agen­
women Gargi College on should not “There was a complete cy and media on priority...,”
Monday held a protest participate in the lapse of security. The stu­ Mr. Tiwari tweeted.
against the alleged molesta­ dents were molested and as­ Delhi Congress president
fest if we feel unsafe
tion of girls by a group of men saulted by the men who ap­ Subhash Chopra also con­
College student
who had gatecrashed a cultu­ peared to be in their mid­30s. demned the incident.
ral festival, demanding strict Kumar and union head Shee­ The college had claimed to A delegation of the DUSU
action against the intruders. la Dubey.” Some students have made security arrange­ met officials of Gargi Col­
The incident had hap­ said the college authorities ments. I don’t think such an lege and demanded an in­
pened on February 6. did not probe the matter des­ incident has taken place on quiry into the incident. The
Raising slogans of “Halla pite several complaints. any college campus in the students’ body wrote to
Bol”, the students said they One of the protesters said: country,” a student added. principals of all DU colleges,
were harassed “at a place “When we went to complain, The students’ body said urging them to ensure the
which was meant to feel the principal made a very in­ they want a safe place for security of students during
safe”. A student said: “Why sensitive statement and said themselves and “this is one fests. The DCW issued notic­
were there no guards on cam­ we should not participate in thing which the administra­ es to the police and the col­
pus when the incident took the fest if we feel unsafe.” tion has done nothing about lege administration, seeking
place? We demand the resig­ The protesters also alleged for the last two years”. information on action taken
nation of principal Promila that autorickshaw drivers, (With PTI inputs) against the “miscreants”.
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‘Give finances to civic bodies to continue with facilities in schools’
HC direction comes on plea seeking policy to ensure education of children
Press Trust of India dents in their schools can be them. The corporations told the
New DELHI continued. The affidavits were filed court that efforts made by
The Delhi High Court direct­ A Bench of Chief Justice in response to a PIL seeking them include increasing the
ed the Delhi government on D.N. Patel and Justice C. Ha­ framing of a policy to ensure classrooms in their schools,
Monday to provide neces­ ri Shankar issued the direc­ education, health and nutri­ building separate toilets for
sary finances to municipal tion after perusing the affi­ tion as well as the develop­ boys and girls, providing
corporations to ensure that davits submitted by the ment of children up to the free textbooks, subsidy for
efforts initiated by them to­ three corporations — EDMC, age of 14 years, as guaran­ purchase of uniforms, mid­
wards better education, SDMC and North body — re­ teed under the Constitution day meals and also scholar­
health and nutrition of stu­ garding the steps taken by and Right to Education Act. ships for girls.
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Noida 323 Greater Noida 312
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(Average of past 24 hours) | Source: CPCB Association (DUTA) on Monday
took out a protest march de­
manding one­time regulation for
DELHI TODAY the absorption of ad­hoc and tem­
porary teachers.
Talk: An illustrated lecture on the book “The They also demanded the remo­
Bungalow in 20th Century India: An Imperial Leg­ val of the Vice­Chancellor, citing a
acy in Colonial and Post­Colonial Times” by the
author Madhavi Desai at Conference Room ­ I, “complete collapse of routine and
India International Centre (IIC), 6:30 p.m. administrative functioning in the
Music: An evening of dance and music presented university”.
by cultural troupes from Africa at C.D. Deshmukh
Auditorium, India International Centre (IIC), 6:30 “Teachers are being harassed
p.m. with unwarranted recoveries
Music: “Vaishnav Jan To ­ A Portuguese musi­ from their salaries. The issue of
cian’s homage to Gandhi”, by composer Rão Kyão counting past service for promo­
(flute) and his team at The Stein Auditorium,
India Habitat Centre (IHC), 7 p.m. tion has also not been resolved.
Exhibition: “Sculpt For Delhi ­ III”, a group The protest programme also un­
exhibition of sculptures and paintings by Delhi derlined the DUTA’s opposition to
Art Society at Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat
Centre (IHC), 11 a.m. ­ 7 p.m. the Draft New Education Policy
Exhibition: “Prayas”, a group show of sculptures 2019,” said DUTA chief Rajib Ray.
by the students of Triveni Kala Sangam at Sculp­ “Instead of strengthening existing
ture Court, Triveni Kala Sangam, 205, Tansen public­funded State and Central
Marg, 11 a.m. ­ 7 p.m.
Universities through recruitment
Exhibition: “Memory’s Cut: Its Deep Embrace”,
a solo show by artist Remen Chopra W. Van Der of teachers and creation of infras­
Vaart at Gujral Foundation, 24 Jor Bagh, 11 a.m. ­ tructure, public funding itself
7 p.m.
stands dismantled through draft
(Mail your listings for this column at
cityeditordelhi@thehindu.co.in) NEP,” said DUTA.
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Police, protesters clash during march against CAA
Stand­off lasts nearly seven hours as citizens refuse to budge despite repeated appeals to disperse by police, Jamia Millia Islamia authorities
Shinjini Ghosh
Saurabh Trivedi
NEW DELHI
Hundreds of Jamia Millia Islamia
( JMI) students and residents of
nearby areas were on Monday
stopped by the police from tak­
ing out a march to Parliament
against the Citizenship (Amend­
ment) Act and the National Re­
gister of Citizens (NRC), leading
to a seven­hour stand off during
which scuffles broke out bet­
ween protesters and security
personnel.
The protesters began their
march, called by the Jamia Coor­
dination Committee, at noon
from the university’s Gate No. 7,
which has seen anti­CAA de­
monstrations since the last two
months. The Delhi Police has
maintained that the organisers
had not been granted permis­
sion to carry out the rally.
When the protesters were
stopped near Holy Family Hos­
pital, they started climbing over
the police barricades. The were,
however, swiftly dragged down
by the security personnel.
During the seven­hour stan­
doff, protesters kept shouting
slogans as security personnel in
riot gear tried to contain the
situation.
Some protesters held up ban­
ners reading: “Where is Ko­
Hundreds march to Jantar Mantar against citizenship law
Brother of Sharjeel Imam, arrested on sedition charges, participated in the rally that went off peacefully
Press Trust of India
New Delhi
Hundreds of protesters, in­
cluding students and civil so­
ciety members, poured onto
the streets in central Delhi
on Monday to protest against
the Citizenship (Amend­
ment) Act and the National
Register of Citizens (NRC).
The protesters, carrying
placards and banners, con­
verged at Mandi House
around 11 a.m. and started
marching towards Jantar
Mantar and reached the site
around noon via Barakham­
ba Road and Tolstoy Road.
Walking side by side
A large number of police and
paramilitary personnel
walked along with them.
The protest call was given
by the Welfare Party of India.
“The protesters do not
have permission to take out a
march, but as long as they
maintain peace, we do not
have a problem,” a police of­
ficer said. The protesters, ho­
wever, claimed that they had
the permission and would
march till Jantar Mantar.
Children as young as 10,
senior citizens, civil society
Missing for 4
days, body
of child found
in drain
STAFF REPORTER
NEW DELHI
Four days after a four­and­
a­half­year­old boy went
missing, the body of the
child was found from a
drain near northeast Del­
hi’s Karawal Nagar on
Monday, said the police.
“The body was reco­
vered from a drain in Kha­
juri Khas. As per the doc­
tors who conducted the
postmortem, the cause of
death appears to be
drowning and no external
injuries mark were found
on the body. The detailed
postmortem report is
awaited,” said a police of­
ficer. The officer added
that the case is under in­
vestigation.
The body was handed
over to the family of the
child after postmortem.
Kin allege inaction
However, the family and
relatives of the child staged
a demonstration on Pushta
Road with the body, alleg­
ing police inaction.
The victim’s family al­
leged that the child had
been missing for four days.
The demonstration also
led to traffic jams in the
area. However, after sever­
al appeals by the police,
the crowd dispersed.
CM
YK
An unconscious protester being taken to safety; police beat back students during the scuffle near Holy Family Hospital on Monday.
mal?”. A reference to the Janu­
ary 5 incident that took place at
Jawaharlal Nehru University
( JNU) where a masked mob at­
tacked students and faculty
members. One of the suspects is
named Komal.
The protesters stood their
ground despite repeated ap­
peals from authorities, includ­
ing the JMI Chief Proctor Wa­
seem Ahmad Khan. “The
message has been sent. Your
Anti­CAA protesters march from Mandi House to Jantar Mantar on Monday.
members and university stu­
dents took part in the rally.
Mohammad Shareef, who
came from Kanpur, said his
son Mohammad Rais (30)
was shot dead by the police
while returning home after
offering namaz. “On Decem­
ber 20, Rais was returning
home after offering namaz.
Three admitted to RML Hospital with
suspected symptoms of coronavirus
Centre says situation under control, asks States to be on alert
Special Correspondent
NEW DELHI
Three patients, including
two Chinese nationals, have
been admitted to Ram Mano­
har Lohia Hospital with sus­
pected symptoms of corona­
viurs on Monday.
According to information
released by health officials,
the Chinese nationals, both
39, came to India on January
1 and 29 while the third pa­
tient, a 34­year­old, was in
Beijing from November 30
last year and had returned to
India on Sunday.
Their samples have been
sent for testing and reports
are awaited. As of now, India
has reported a total of three
novel coronavirus cases, all
CBI arrests ex­Noida Chief Engineer
He allegedly awarded contracts in lieu of bribes
Devesh K Pandey
NEW DELHI
The CBI on Monday arrested
former New Okhla Industrial
Development Authority
(Noida) Chief Engineer Ya­
dav Singh for allegedly
awarding contracts worth
over ₹116 crore to five private
companies in lieu of bribes.
The arrest comes after Mr.
Singh was recently granted
protest has been registered. I ap­
peal to the students in the crowd
to go back to the university. Res­
pect the law and go back,” Mr.
Khan said.
Delhi Police officials, perched
on barricades themselves, also
appealed to the protesters to re­
turn to Gate No. 7, which has
been the epicentre of anti­CAA
protests in the area.
Towards late afternoon, the
situation turned confrontational
He used to sell ‘papad’ and
also worked in a marriage
hall. There was a commo­
tion that day and Rais start­
ed running when the police
shot him.”
“The people from the lo­
cality took him to my house
and I rushed him to a hospi­
tal. Not a single person has
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> Their samples have
been sent for testing
and reports are
awaited. As of now,
India has reported a
total of three novel
coronavirus cases,
all of them from
Kerala
of them from Kerala.
Review meet
Meanwhile, Health Secre­
tary Preeti Sudan on Monday
chaired a video conference
with Health Secretaries from
States/Union Territories
along with senior officials
from the Ministries of Ship­
ping, Civil Aviation and
bail in two other cases of al­
leged graft. The third case
was lodged in January 2018.
Among those named in
the FIR were Mr. Singh; Javed
Ahmed of Gul Engineers; Sai
Raju, Manish Kumar and
Prem Pradeep of SMP Tech­
nology; Kumar Saurav and Mr. Singh had extended un­
Prem Pradeep of Abu Infra­
con; Sanjay Kumar Gupta of
Sanjay Electricals and Sanjay
as security personnel tried to
push the protesters back, while
resorting to crowd­control mea­
sures. During the scuffle, many
protesters fell unconscious.
Khurshid, a middle­aged prot­
ester who was one of the people
that had to be dragged out of the
crowd, said: “The police tried to
hit me on my legs with lathis. We
will continue protesting as we
will not show our documents
even if we have them. We are not
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visited my house to ask how
we are. The police misbe­
haved with us,” he added.
The protesters carried the
photographs of freedom
fighters Bhagat Singh and works in a private organisa­
Chandrasekhar Azad and so­
cial reformer Savitribai around 80 women, arrived
Phule, and demanded that
the government revoke the port the anti­CAA protest.
Home Affairs to review their
actions and preparedness
for prevention and manage­
ment of novel coronavirus.
She said while the situa­
tion was under control,
States needed to stay on al­
ert and be vigilant on a conti­
nued basis. States were ad­
vised to enhance the
awareness activities regard­
ing the updated advisories.
“They were also asked to
review the availability of iso­
lation beds, Personal Protec­
tive Equipment kits and N95
masks so as to ensure adeq­
uate preparedness. It was al­
so suggested to States to
strengthen their rapid res­
ponse teams,” noted a re­
lease issued by the Ministry.
Kumar Sharma of Shakamba­
ri Projects. Unknown offi­
cials of the Noida Authority
and others were also under
the scanner for their role in
the conspiracy. The FIR was
lodged following an initial in­
quiry which revealed that
due favours to the firms by
awarding contracts in viola­
tion of the tender norms.
ready to go anywhere.”
Shivangi Bhasin, another
protester, said: “I was on my
way to Shaheen Bagh but came
here after receiving an SOS mes­
sage. It is really surprising that
the police are asking protesters
to be peaceful while they are the
ones being brutal. It is impor­
tant for us to be present here in
solidarity.”
Devesh Srivastava, Joint CP
(Southern Range), said: “Total
“black law”.
The mother of another
victim, Aftab Alam, said her
son did not participate in any
protest. “After the death of
his father, my son used to
work as a mason. He was
shot dead by the police when
he had gone to offer namaz
in Kanpur. The incident took
place at Babu Purwa and the
bullet had hit the left side of
his chest,” she said.
The wife of Kafeel Khan,
who was in September ac­
quitted of all negligence and
corruption charges in the
Gorakhpur BRD Hospital tra­
gedy, and the brother of
Sharjeel Imam, arrested on
sedition charges, also parti­
cipated in the march.
Siraj Talib, the national se­
cretary of the Welfare Party
of India, said: “We are prot­
esting against the CAA and
the NRC. We have permis­
sion. I have spoken to the
police and we are marching
towards Jantar Mantar.”
Riyasat Malik (20), who
tion, said that he, along with
from Sunder Nagri to sup­
Sirsa siblings
fail to secure
govt. jobs,
found dead
Special Correspondent
GURUGRAM
Unable to secure govern­
ment jobs, a brother and
a sister, preparing for
competitive exams for ov­
er a year, were found
dead in Sirsa on Sunday
morning, the police said
on Monday.
The two were also un­
happy over the death of
their mother, who had
been suffering from a
heart ailment and died
six months ago, said Sta­
tion House Officer, Civil
Lines police station, In­
spector Amit Kumar.
The siblings were de­
clared brought dead at Ci­
vil Hospital. The man (34)
held a degree in Mass
Communication, and his
sister (37) was a postgrad­
uate in two subjects from
Punjab University.
Coaching classes
Both siblings were taking
coaching classes at the
same institute.
The bodies were hand­
ed over to the family after
post­mortem and their
last rites were performed.
Suicide prevention hel-
pline: Sanjivini, Society for
Mental Health, 011-4076
9002, Monday-Saturday
(10 a.m.-7.30 p.m.)
CITY 3
Take action against
illegal pubs, eateries
in Hauz Khas: HC
Press Trust of India
New Delhi
The Delhi High Court has said if any
pubs, restaurants or bars are running
illegally in south Delhi’s Hauz Khas Vil­
lage, action should be initiated against
them by the authorities after giving
hearing to the owners or occupiers.
The direction issued by an HC
Bench came while disposing of a PIL
*
BIBEK CHETTRI, PTI by a lawyer who had alleged that over
120 restaurants and pubs were run­
nine students, including two ning in Hauz Khas Village without any
girls, were detained and re­ approved building plans or no objec­
leased after an hour. It all ended tion certificate (NOC) from authorities,
peacefully.” including the fire department.
He added that the police has “We hereby direct respondent 1 to 5
not used any force on protesters [Centre, Delhi government and civic
and were “only pushed back” by bodies] to look into the grievances
security forces and prevented ventilated in this petition and if any il­
from climbing on barricades. legal pubs, restaurants, bars, etc. are
As the crowd started swelling being run in the area, action shall be
near Sukhdev Vihar metro sta­ initiated by respondent 1 to 5 in accor­
tion, the DMRC closed the entry dance with law, rules, regulations and
and exit gates to the station. government policy applicable to the
facts of the present case after giving an
adequate opportunity of being heard
Jamia violence: police
announce reward of
to the concerned owner/occupier of
the premises in question,” it said.
The action be initiated as early as
possible and practicable, the court
₹1 lakh for information said.
Press Trust of India
new delhi
The Delhi Police has announced a cash reward
of ₹1 lakh to anyone who shares information
that could help in tracing unidentified accused
in the December 15 anti­CAA violence near Ja­
mia Millia Islamia, officials said on Monday.
An FIR at New Friends Colony police station
was registered on December 16 on charges of
rioting, arson, unlawful assembly and damage
to public property in connection with the vio­
lence near JMI on December 15.
According to the official order, as and when
any information about the accused is received,
the same may be sent immediately to DCP
(South East) or DCP (Crime Branch).
Protesters had torched four public buses and
two police vehicles as they clashed with police
in New Friends Colony during a demonstration
against the amended Citizenship Act, leaving
nearly 60 people injured. The police used ba­
tons and teargas shells. Following the arson on
roads, police entered the JMI campus, which
has caused a controversy.
IN BRIEF
Youth booked for
rape in Ghaziabad
GHAZIABAD
A youth has been booked for
allegedly raping a woman
and threatening to share her
objectionable photographs
on social media, police said
on Monday. The woman said
she was friends with the man
who had allegedly called her
to meet him at his place in
Loni, where he served her a
drink laced with sedatives
and sexually assaulted her.
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Assembly polls: tight security in
place ahead of counting today
Curiosity heightened as outcome of elections to unseal fate of 672 candidates
Press Trust of India
New Delhi
Tight security arrange­
ments have been put in
place at various centres
across the national capital
where the counting of votes
polled in the February 8 As­
sembly elections will take
place on Tuesday.
The curiosity among pe­
ople to know the outcome
of the elections to the 70­
member Delhi Assembly
has heightened post­exit
polls, that has forecast a big
win for the ruling AAP, and
the delay in announcement
of the final voter turnout by
authorities.
The election, seen as a
contest between AAP and
the BJP, which went aggres­
Plea seeks ban
on tobacco
products
Staff Reporter
New Delhi
The Delhi High Court on
Monday asked the Centre
and the Delhi government
to respond to a plea seeking
a complete ban on advertis­
ing, promotion and spon­
sorship of tobacco
products.
A Bench of Chief Justice
D.N. Patel and Justice C. Ha­
ri Shankar also issued not­
ice to the Delhi State Com­
mission for Protection of
Child Rights seeking their
stand on the plea which has
alleged child labour in a
company engaged in tobba­
co products in the Capital.
The petition by one Di­
pesh Jha has alleged that
the company was engaged
in manufacture, packaging,
marketing and sale of ‘khai­
ni’, in violation of statutory
provisions. The petitioner
has contended that the al­
leged “illegal activities” by
the company include surro­
gate advertisement, not
paying minimum wages to
its workers, child labour,
tax evasion and pollution.
CM
YK
Preparations in full swing at a counting centre in Akshardham
on Monday. SANDEEP SAXENA
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sive during the high­octane
campaign, was held on Sa­
turday, sealing the fate of
672 candidates — 593 men
and 79 women.
Nearly 24 hours after the
polling ended in Delhi, the
Election Commission on
9 years after killing man, wife
and two others get life term
Court imposes ₹2 lakh fine on each of them
Press Trust of India
New Delhi
A Delhi court has awarded
life imprisonment to the
wife of a restaurant owner
and two others for killing
him in west Delhi’s Moti Na­
gar in 2011.
Additional Sessions Judge
Samar Vishal awarded life
imprisonment to Arvinder
Kaur, Sant Saran Nehra and
Mridul Dixit for murdering
Virender Sachdeva by in­
flicting about 55 stab inju­
ries on him.
The court also imposed a
fine of ₹2 lakh on each of the
convicts.
The court had convicted
the trio under Sections 302
(murder), 201 (disappea­
rance of evidence or giving
false information), 120­B
(criminal conspiracy) of the
Indian Penal Code (IPC).
Based on a complaint by
Sachdeva’s wife, a case was
registered in the matter.
Kaur had said in her com­
plaint that on the interven­
ing night of September 20
and 21, 2011, she saw two
Sunday announced that the
final voter turnout was
62.59%, 5% less than 2015,
and asserted that it fol­
lowed the laid down pro­
cess to compile data, after
AAP questioned the
“delay”.
men in her room. One man,
who had a pointed object in
his hand, held her while the
other restrained her hus­
band, the complaint stated.
It further said that one of
them hit her head against
the wall due to which she
fell unconscious. When she
regained consciousness, she
saw her husband lying in a
pool of blood. Thereafter,
some of the neighbours
heard her cries for help and
rescued her, the complaint
added.
However, during investi­
gation, police scrutinised
Kaur’s call records and
found that she had planned
the murder and arrested
her.
Kaur, Nehra and Dixit
were arrested on September
23, 2011.
The couple’s 13­year old
daughter has been residing
with her maternal grandpa­
rents since the incident and
a case was pending between
the maternal and paternal
grandparents regarding her
guardianship.
Authorities in the Delhi
CEO office are gearing up
for the counting of votes
and adequate arrange­
ments have been made at
the centres spread across 21
location in the national cap­
ital, spanning 11 districts,
officials said.
Exit polls on Saturday
predicted an easy win for
AAP, which sought to retain
power on development
plank, against the BJP that
ran an aggressive campaign
centred around the issues
of anti­CAA protests and na­
tionalism. Most exit polls al­
so predicted that Congress
is unlikely to open its ac­
count even this time in Del­
hi, which it ruled from
1998­2013.
Uzbekistan craftsmen impress all at Surajkund fair
Country participates in the ongoing 34th edition of festival; artisans bring age­old secrets of their art
Special Correspondent
FARIDABAD
Uzbekistan has participated
in the ongoing 34th edition of
the Surajkund International
Crafts Mela here as the
‘partner nation’ in a big way.
A number of artisans, craft­
spersons and performers
have come to this mega
event from this country and
presented a bouquet of their
art and craft.
Uzbekistan has a unique
position in the world of han­
dicrafts, as the Uzbeks them­
selves say that their crafts
are the soul of their identity
and culture. Artistic crafts
occupy a special place in Uz­
bekistan’s cultural heritage.
After meeting a few craft­
spersons one gets a feeling
as to how these artisans have
passed down the age old se­
crets of their art through
generations. From wood
work to decorative items,
the ethnic patterns have
been carefully preserved by
these masters of art.
The artisans have brought
ceramics which can easily be
considered one of the best
applied arts from this cen­
BJP refrains from making
arrangements for celebrations
Exit polls predicted a sweep by AAP, but Tiwari exudes confidence
Special Correspondent
New Delhi
On the eve of Delhi Assembly
election results here on Mon­
day, the Bharatiya Janata Par­
ty (BJP), exuded confidence
of its victory though sought
to maintain restraint when it
came to preparations for ce­
lebrations amid exit poll re­
sults predicting a sweep by
the ruling Aam Aadmi Party
(AAP).
Speaking on condition of
anonymity, Delhi BJP leaders
said that no special arrange­
ments were made in advance
for celebrations if the party
wins the elections.
However, Delhi BJP chief
Manoj Tiwari asserted that
his party would claim more
than 45 seats in the 70­mem­
ber Legislative Assembly and
An artisan displays his wares at the Surajkund International Crafts Mela in Faridabad; a few
artefacts on display SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
* depicting various titles of a
tral Asian country.
The Oriental and Persian
styled designs and bright
turquoise colours reflect an
infinite beauty which these
ceramic decorations hold.
The often used blue and
white colour represent sky
and water and are believed
to bring happiness and
prosperity.
What’s on display?
Nigmatov Mirsaid from Uz­
bekistan is displaying his in­
tricately designed wood
work in the form of pencil
boxes that secretly turn into
a vanity box with its hidden
features. Many other wood
Manoj Tiwari
form the next government.
“Our confidence is based
on a micro analysis of all the
seats. The exit polls are
rough estimates and I, along
with the rest of the party, am
confident that the BJP will
form the government in Del­
hi with full majority,” Mr. Ti­
wari said.
The exit poll results aired
crafted items are painted
with scenes of everyday life,
quotes from famous poets
and Islamic inscriptions of­
ten appear in their art work.
Their cheerful colours, fine
lines and delicate forms are
highly impressive.
Clay toys depict life of the
countryside in Uzbekistan
and often illustrate the sim­
plicity and happiness. Each
region in Uzbeskistan pro­
duces its own range of toys
with original motifs.
Carpet making is an age­
old craft in Uzbekistan and
many craftspersons have
brought these masterpieces
for the tourists at the Suraj­
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2020
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> Our confidence is
based on a micro
analysis of all the
seats. The exit polls
are rough
estimates and I am
confident that the
BJP will form the
government...
Manoj Tiwari
Delhi BJP chief
immediately after the voting
concluded on Saturday even­
ing predicted a defeat for the
BJP while giving the maxi­
mum number of seats to
AAP. According to Delhi
BJP’s media relations head
Neelkant Bakshi, an “in­
depth analysis” of all the
seats showed that the party
was ahead of AAP.
kund Mela. The high level of
weaving technique, fabulous
natural dyes and ethnic pat­
terns make these Uzbekistan
carpets very popular among
visitors at the mela.
Seller’s pride
The ancient traditions of Uz­
bek weavers are embodied
in carpets, each of which is a
real piece of art. A pride for
its seller who claims that
once bought, it will prove to
be an indispensable piece of
art for any home décor.
Akbarov Zafar specialises
in fabric handicraft and is of­
fering a number of hand wo­
ven fabrics and dress mate­
DELHI
THE HINDU
Kejriwal asks
cadres not to
burst crackers
Press Trust of India
New Delhi
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind
Kejriwal on Monday asked
AAP volunteers not to
burst firecrackers during
victory celebrations to pre­
vent air pollution.
Party functionaries said
though preparations are
underway to celebrate the
victory in the polls, whose
results will be announced
on Tuesday, Kejriwal has
asked party volunteers not
to burst firecrackers as it
contributes to pollution.
Other preparations to
celebrate the victory, in­
cluding ordering sweets
and namkeens, are also un­
derway at the party head­
quarters in ITO, they said.
Reducing air pollution is
one of the main guarantees
given by AAP in the party’s
manifesto.
rials from his native land.
The fashion show — ‘Fergha­
na Fantasy’ — directed by Ri­
tu Beri showcased dresses
made out of the same fabric
that Akbarov is displaying in
the mela.
One of the most intriguing
displays at the stalls is the
‘Shakhmat’ or the chess
board. A wooden handi­
craft, where each piece on
the board is a tiny figurine
typical chess game.
Handmade jewellery has
always been important part
of this country’s culture and
reflects the lifestyle of the
Uzbek people. Traditional
jewellery include head wear
“Tilla Kosh”, chest jewellery
and earrings of a leaf type
and many others.
The souvenirs and deco­
rative items here come in the
form of plates, wall hang­
ings, paintings, caps, chess
boards, book stands and
much more. The traditional
gowns made with ethnic fa­
brics especially for women
are catching attention and
being lapped up by many
tourists and visitors alike.
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Mehbooba’s daughter reacts Surety bonds of AMU students
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sharply to J&K PSA dossier ‘They were found to be involved in Dec. 15 campus violence’
THURSDAY, FEB. 13
RISE 07:02 SET 18:10 Notings described Omar Abdullah as ‘radical’ and Mehbooba as ‘Daddy’s girl’ Special Correspondent present. was feeling suffocated in In­
RISE 22:42 SET 09:58
Ghaziabad While Mr. Sufiyan con­ dia. He was responding to
Peerzada Ashiq Meanwhile, Mr. Abdullah's The Aligarh district adminis­ firmed the notice has been her comment while address­
Srinagar sister Hinna Abdullah, react­ tration has seized the surety served, Mr. Imtiaz said he ing protesting women at the
The Jammu and Kashmir go­ ing to the PSA, said: “What bonds of ₹1 lakh each of two was yet to receive it. “I am Idgah ground of Shahjamal
vernment’s Public Safety Act are you so scared of?” students and two former stu­ only an accused right now. that the Uttar Pradesh go­
dossiers against National Ms. Mufti’s daughter Iltija dents of AMU which they had The case is in High Court. vernment had used coercive
Conference vice­president also reacted sharply to the signed prior to the December The bond has been seized on measures in a bid to crush
Omar Abdullah and Peoples wording of the dossier. 15 violence on campus, when mere apprehension.” the anti­CAA stir. Mr. Gautam
Democratic Party leader “Since when has being a police action inside the un­ On Monday, students con­ also said those students who
Mehbooba Mufti describe ‘Daddy's girl’ and encourag­ iversity left several students demned the police action were protesting in Aligarh
the former as a man of “radi­ NC leader Omar Abdullah PDP leader Mehbooba Mufti ing people to vote become a injured. against anti­Citizenship Muslim University would not
cal methodology” and the crime against the nation? It’s Additional city magistrate (Amendment) Act protesters be seen in the next session.
latter as 14th century queen tions have been ranging from payee, according to the pretty clear that the govern­ Ranjit Singh said the students in Kanpur and Delhi.
Kota Rani. speeches glorifying militants dossier, removed all curtains ment has no basis for charg­ signed the surety bonds of ₹1 In a related development, Ban burqa: Minister
The dossier says that for to creating fears among the and resorted to dirty politics ing Mr. Abdullah and Ms. lakh each under Section 107 denying a report carried in a Earlier, Raghuraj Singh, Mi­
her “dangerous and insi­ majority population based by adopting a radical metho­ Mufti with the PSA. They of the CrPC assuring that local newspaper, the AMU nister of State in the Yogi Ad­
dious machination and on cheap politics,” it read. dology by way of instigating must be freed,” said Ms. Iltija. they would maintain peace administration has clarified ityanath government, said
usurping nature”, Ms. Mufti Scores of tweets have and provoking the general in the city. However, they that the Vice­Chancellor during a programme in Ali­
is referred to as “Daddy’s been mentioned in the dos­ masses against the policies of Hilarious, says Tarigami were allegedly found to be in­ didn’t participate in a video­ garh that “burqa should be
girl” and “Kota Rani” by peo­ sier, which the J&K police al­ the Centre and revocation of CPI (M) leader M.Y. Tarigami volved in the December 15 conference with the U.P. banned”. Tracing the myth­
ple. Kota Rani “rose to power leged was aimed “at inciting Article 370. termed the PSA dossier violence. Chief Minister on the situa­ ology of burqa, Mr. Singh
0 by virtue of undertaking in­
trigues ranging from poison­
masses to create issues of dis­
turbance in public order and
“Despite being a main­
stream leader, he has been
“hilarous”.
“Is it a crime to have in­
The former students
whose bonds have been
tion in the university and the
Shahjamal area.
said it was an Arab practice.
“Those whose nose was cut
DISCLAIMER: Readers are requested to
verify and make appropriate enquiries to
satisfy themselves about the veracity of ing of her opponents to po­ demoralising security forces planning and projecting his fluence over voters and con­ seized are former secretary Meanwhile, responding to by Lakshman [in Ramayana]
an advertisement before responding to
any published in this newspaper. THG nyardings,” it reads while by making unscrupulous activities against the union of vince them to vote despite of the AMU Students’ Union the ongoing anti­CAA prot­ follow this practice. They are
PUBLISHING PVT LTD., the Publisher &
Owner of this newspaper, does not vouch mentioned her tweets op­ statements”. India under the guise of pol­ threats by militants and sepa­ Huzaifa Aamir and its former ests in the Shahjamal area of descendants of demons. I re­
for the authenticity of any advertisement
or advertiser or for any of the advertiser’s posing the Centre's moves on Omar Abdullah, who itics, and while enjoying the ratists? It shows the BJP go­ vice­president Hamza Sufi­ Aligarh, two BJP leaders have quest the government to ban
products and/or services. In no event can
the Owner, Publisher, Printer, Editor, Dir- the issue of triple talaq. served as an External Affairs support of gullible masses, vernment has lost the plot in yan. Those pursuing studies made offensive remarks. burqa because terrorists use
ector/s, Employees of this newspaper/
company be held responsible/liable in The dossier describes her Minister in the National De­ he has been successful in ex­ Kashmir and in desperation include Salman Imtiaz, form­ MP Satish Gautam said so­ them to their advantage,” he
any manner whatsoever for any claims
and/or damages for advertisements in as “a hard­headed” and mocratic Alliance govern­ ecution of such activities,” it it is taking such steps,” said er president of AMUSU, who cial activist Sumaiyya Rana is purportedly heard saying
this newspaper.
“scheming person”. “Her ac­ ment under Atal Bihari Vaj­ reads. Mr. Tarigami. is a research scholar at should go to Pakistan if she in a video of the programme.

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Saluting a legend recession, asks

scrap power purchase pacts BJP MP
Omar Rashid
AAP leader appeals to Cong. chief to direct Punjab CM Lucknow

“If there was recession, we

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Pradesh Congress Party had State, the government has would all have come wear­
CHANDIGARH
in its 2017 Vidhan Sabha chosen to protect the inter­ ing kurta and dhoti,” a BJP
Accusing the ruling Con­ election manifesto promised ests of the private compa­ MP from Uttar Pradesh, Vi­
gress government in Punjab that the party upon forming nies, resulting in steep elec­ rendra Singh, told a gather­
of not fulfilling its election government in the State tricity tariff hike. ing at Ballia in an apparent
promise of scrapping or re­ shall scrap or review the Mr. Arora added that even dig at the critics of the eco­
viewing the Power Purchase Power Purchase Agreements some Congress leaders have nomic situation in the
Agreements (PPA) with priv­ with 3 private thermal pow­ demanded scrapping of the country.
ate thermal power plants, er plants, which were en­ power agreements yet the Addressing an event in
which were entered into by tered into by the previous ruling government is indiffe­ his constituency on Sun­
the previous SAD­BJP go­ SAD­BJP regime. rent towards the plight of day, Mr. Virendra Singh
vernment, Senior Aam Aad­ “But nothing in this direc­ people. ‘Mast’ said there were dis­
mi Party leader and MLA tion has been done even “I seek your intervention cussions about the “reces­
Aman Arora has sought Con­ though the government is into the matter to prevail sion” in Delhi and other
gress president Sonia Gand­ about to complete three upon Chief Minister of Pun­ places.
hi's intervention in the years in power,” he said. jab to listen to at least his se­
matter. nior party and government Shawl and coat
Mr. Arora in a letter to Ms. ‘Govt. favouring firms’ colleagues..,if not us at AAP, Mr. Singh asked: “Where is
Gandhi has demanded that In the letter, Mr. Arora said to fulfill his manifesto pro­ the recession? If there was
she should direct Punjab that the AAP has been rais­ mise by scrapping these recession, we would have
Chief Minister Amarinder ing this issue since the for­ power agreements, else the all come wearing kurta and
Singh to fulfil the election mation of the Congress go­ people of the State will scrap dhoti, we would not have a
promise and scrap the pow­ vernment but instead of agreement of power given to shawl, coat or jacket [to
er agreements. acting and safeguarding the the Congress in 2022,” the Students paying tribute to Sikh General Sham Singh Attariwala on his 174th martyrdom day, near Amritsar on Monday. *
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U.S. to monitor air quality in N. India BJP fine­tunes Muslim outreach ahead of M.P. polls
Move aimed at helping local communities fight pollution Expert says the party’s prospects in local body elections in the State this month remain unhurt
Special Correspondent buted 58 low­cost air­quality across North India. The air Sidharth Yadav snubbed for flagging their ex­ convince their elderly, who bers quit, he said elections to
NEW DELHI monitors and 14 weather sta­ quality and weather data ac­ Bhopal clusion from awareness make decisions for the com­ panchayats and urban bodies
The United States will moni­ tions to the Society for In­ quired from these devices The BJP’s insouciant res­ drives on the contentious munity and read Urdu,” he were fought primarily on lo­
tor air quality in multiple lo­ door Environment, an Indian will be used to analyse the ponse — or the lack of it — to law, communal remarks dur­ said. From February 3, the cal issues instead. “Candi­
cations across North India to NGO which will be a partner trends of pollutants outside minority members quitting in ing rallies and non­addressal minority cell began hearing dates contest panchayat elec­
help control pollution level, in this project. the major urban centres and droves over the Citizenship of complaints. A sense of be­ out its grassroots workers, ex­ tions without using the
its embassy said in a state­ The low­cost monitoring is build environmental aware­ (Amendment) Act, a unique trayal gradually sank in, re­ plaining the law to them, as symbol of a political party yet
ment on Monday. expected to help understand ness and capacity within challenge it is grappling with sulting in more than a thou­ “If we don’t understand the are endorsed by them. In
The initiative will cover the reasons behind the re­ smaller communities,” the in Madhya Pradesh, has pro­ sand resignations in Indore, law ourselves, how will we Madhya Pradesh, the pattern
both urban locations and ru­ cent smog­related pollution U.S. Embassy said in the re­ pelled a spiralling spate of re­ Bhopal, Khargone, Guna and make others aware?” said the largely has been that results
ral areas and is aimed at in North India that was partly lease. signations showing no signs Satna districts. The biggest cell’s vice­president Nasir of the Assembly elections are
helping local communities blamed on stubble burning To run the “low­cost mon­ of abatement. shocker was Jabalpur, where Shah. replicated in local elections,”
take remedial measures to in Punjab and Haryana. itoring units”, host institutes But faced with a sturdy 700 members quit, virtually However, the Muslim re­ he said.
deal with the issue of increas­ “These units will be set up will be trained in installing Congress government tread­ dissolving the cell. Some members of the BJP treat, would not hurt BJP’s
ing air pollution. in educational institutions in and operating the equipment ing cautiously on policy mat­ On Saturday, however, minority cell who quit the electoral prospects in the lo­ ‘Incomplete loan waiver’
The move came months select second and third­tier and in collection and analysis ters, recent setback in the when the party’s only Muslim party. FILE PHOTO
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cal elections, believes Yatin­ “The smaller the electoral
after the U.S. mission distri­ cities, as well as rural areas, of the collected data. Jhabua Assembly by­election corporator in Indore quit ov­ dra Singh Sisodia, Director, college, the more personali­
and its inability to whip up a er the CAA, its response was and media chief Javed Baig, Madhya Pradesh Institute of ty­centric the contest,” said
sustainable offensive, the BJP different. “If not the back­ who claimed even the State Social Science Research. Rasheed Kidwai, Visiting Fel­
has at last shed its reluctance bone, the cell is a major wing party president ignored com­ “Muslim population is con­ low, the Observer Research
to soothe minority members, of the party. Several leaders plaints, and democracy was centrated in certain pockets Foundation. “Farmers, irres­
with the exigency of the local have called me and are ready subverted within the party. of urban areas. The BJP didn’t pective of their religious iden­
body elections this month in to talk. They said all diffe­ enjoy popular support from tity, at present feel the pinch
view. rences could be resolved am­ Pamphlets in Urdu the community even before due to an incomplete loan
icably,” Usman Patel, a mem­ Moreover, State BJP media the CAA, which may in fact waiver promised by the Con­
Denial mode ber for 40 years, told The chief Lokendra Parashar con­ have consolidated its vote gress in the State.”
During January, the BJP’s Hindu. firmed besides Hindi, the against it,” he explained. A virtual two­party system
State unit remained in denial This contrasts with the party would now distribute As for political dividends in the State however, added
mode, looking away from party’s dismissive response CAA pamphlets in Urdu too. for the BJP owing to a possi­ Mr. Kidwai, forecloses the BJP
simmering resentment to the resignations of cell’s “Muslims are being misled. ble polarisation on religious option for Muslim aspirants
among its Muslim members — State secretary Akram Khan Therefore it’s important to lines after the minority mem­ now.

MoU signed for capacity building

The agreement will boost e­government services in Punjab
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT State’s digital transformation NISG and is sure to lead to si­
CHANDIGARH through sharing of infras­ milar joint frameworks for
Punjab’s Mahatma Gandhi tructure, hardware, special­ finding innovative solutions
State Institute of Public Ad­ ised personnel and proprie­ in a collaborative manner.
ministration (MGSIPA) and tary software in training of
National Institute of Smart civil servants and civil execu­ ‘Major role of IT sector’
Government (NISG) on Mon­ tives of other organisations, “The world today is depend­
day signed a Memorandum in utilising computer and in­ ing on Information Technol­
of Understanding here for ternet­based technologies, ogy for easier access to infor­
capacity building on e­go­ an official statement said. mation and services. India’s
vernment services in the MGSIPA, director K.B.S. IT industry is playing a major
State. Sidhu, said the signing of role not only in India but all
The MoU facilitates the MoU is first of its kind initia­ over the world’s economic
role NISG can play in the tive between MGSIPA and growth,” he said.
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EDUCATIONAL LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE

TMC govt. rains sops in budget

Shiv Sahay Singh
Kolkata
A year before West Bengal goes
EDUCATIONAL to the polls, State Finance Minis­
ter Amit Mitra introduced a new
pension scheme for the elderly
members of the Scheduled
Castes and the Scheduled Tribes,
free electricity to the poor and a
housing scheme for tea garden
workers.
Among the new schemes in­
troduced, the highest allocation
of ₹2,500 crore was made for
Bandhu Prakalpa for providing
₹1,000 monthly pension to per­
sons from the SC community
above 60 years of age not co­
vered in any other pension
scheme. Similarly, the allocation
for pension to elderly persons of
the ST community titled Jai Johar
Prakalpa is ₹500 crore. Under
Hasir Alo scheme, no electricity
tariff will be charged from cus­
tomers whose quarterly con­
sumption is less than 75 units
and an allocation of ₹200 crore
has been made for the same. For
providing housing to tea garden
workers under the Chaa Sundari
scheme, the Finance Depart­
ment has made an allocation of
₹500 crore.
Generating employment
Mr. Mitra also made a provision
for provident fund in the unor­
ganised sector for the MSMEs
and announced setting up of 100
new MSME parks in the next
three years to generate employ­
ment. The allocation for the
schemes is ₹5,165 crore.
The total budget outlay for
2020­21 was ₹2,55,677 crore. Re­
vised revenue receipts for 2019­
2020 were ₹1,63,259 crore,
which include State tax reve­
nues, non­tax revenue, State’s
share of Union taxes and duties
and grants­in­aid. Revenue re­
ceipt projections stood at
₹1,79,398 crore.
Chief Minister Mamata Baner­
jee described it as a “pro­people
budget” and said after imple­
mentation of pension schemes,
not a single family will be “left
behind”. Leader of the Opposi­
tion Abdul Mannan said the bud­
get was an attempt to “mislead
people and a statistical jugglery”.

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CM assures speedy justice in Hinganghat case
24­year­old woman lecturer, who had been critical after being set ablaze by stalker last week, succumbs at Nagpur hospital
Tanvi Deshpande
Mumbai
Chief Minister Uddhav
Thackeray has assured spee­
dy justice to the family of the
24­year­old woman lecturer
from Hinganghat in Wardha
district who succumbed to
burn injuries on Monday
morning after being set
ablaze by a stalker last week.
Addressing mediaper­
sons, Mr. Thackeray ex­
pressed grief over the wo­
man’s death. He said, “No
words are enough to de­
scribe the horrors of this in­
cident. I appeal to people to
be patient. The government
will ensure that the accused
is punished for murder. Such
criminals have no mercy in
Maharashtra, he should get
the strictest punishment.”
He added, “We are follow­
ing up to ensure that the trial
and its judgment are com­
pleted speedily. Maharashtra
is a progressive State that
respects women and anyth­
ing that breaches this image
will not be tolerated.”
Mr. Thackeray said his go­
vernment will study the Dis­
ha Act, enacted recently by
the Andhra Pradesh govern­
ment, and try to make laws
stricter to prevent such inci­
dents. The Disha Act man­
dates completion of investi­
gation into cases of sexual
offences within seven work­
ing days from the time of re­
cord, and trial within 14
working days from the date
of filing the charge sheet.
Mr. Thackeray said, “We
will see what the law is and
Maharashtra will improve it
to ensure that nobody dares
Poll affidavit
case: Fadnavis
gets exemption
for fourth time
Press Trust of India
Nagpur
A court in Nagpur on Mon­
day granted exemption
from appearance to former
chief minister Devendra
Fadnavis in a complaint
seeking criminal proceed­
ings against him for non­
disclosure of cases in his
election affidavit in 2014.
This is the fourth time Mr.
Fadnavis has been granted
exemption, with Chief Jud­
icial Magistrate P.S. Ingle
stating that it has been
granted as “last chance”.
The court was hearing
an application filed by ad­
vocate Satish Uke seeking
criminal proceedings
against Mr. Fadnavis. Uday
Dable, Mr. Fadnavis’s la­
wyer, sought exemption on
the ground that his client
had to attend the Vidhan
Sabha Salagaar Committee
meeting on Monday. The
court has set the next hear­
ing on February 20.
2019­nCoV guidelines in
place in Goa, says Rane
‘In touch with health authorities at Centre’
Press Trust of India
Panaji
Goa Health Minister Vish­
wajit Rane on Monday said
the State government was
following the guidelines laid
down by the World Health
Organization and the
Centre to tackle the novel
coronavirus outbreak
(2019­nCoV) and had set up
isolation wards in two
places.
The 2019­nCoV outbreak
in China has put tremen­
dous pressure on medical
infrastructure across the
world, including India
which has three reported
cases of the infection.
A senior Goa health de­
partment official said, cur­
rently, one person was in an
isolation ward in Goa Medi­
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In grief: People gather to catch a final glimpse of the body of the lecturer at a hospital in Nagpur. (Right) The distraught father
weeps in a car on Monday. S. SUDARSHAN *
Ujjwal Nikam named SPP
Tanvi Deshpande
Mumbai
The State government on
Monday appointed se­
nior lawyer Ujjal Nikam
as the special public pro­
secutor (SPP) in the Hin­
ganghat case.
Chief Minister Uddhav
Thackeray made the an­
nouncement on Monday.
Mr. Nikam was the prose­
cution’s main lawyer in
the State’s case against
26/11 terrorist Ajmal Ka­
sab. He has also handled
do such a thing again. All de­
partments will work in co­or­
dination with each other.”
The victim, Ankita Pi­
sudde, had been critical af­
ter sustaining burns on Fe­
bruary 3 when she was set
afire allegedly by Vikesh Na­
grale (27) while she was on
the way to her college. “She
HC pulls up State for lack of Quiet rage
action in tribal welfare scam
Court directs govt. to file affidavit
Sonam Saigal
Mumbai
The Bombay High Court
once again expressed dis­
pleasure towards the State
government for not taking
action against 123 officers
who allegedly misappro­
priated funds allotted for
the welfare of the State’s
Scheduled Tribes.
A Division Bench of Jus­
tices S.C. Dharmadhikari
and R.I. Chagla was hearing
four public interest litiga­
tions (PIL) filed in 2012, of
which one of them was filed
by Bahiram Motiram, an
Adivasi from Nashik.
The PILs had alleged that
various schemes by the
State government as well as
by the Central government
for the benefits of the Sche­
duled Tribes do not reach
them and that huge
amounts have been si­
phoned off and misappro­
priated. The PILs also state
that the budgetary provi­
sion of 9% is yet to be made
in the yearly budget for tri­
bal development and the
State is yet to establish 24
project offices in tribal areas
to implement the schemes.
In the last hearing, Man­
isha Verma, Principal Secre­
tary of the Tribal Develop­
ment Department (TDD)
cal College and Hospital for
suspected exposure to the
virus while 14 others were
being monitored outside.
“I don’t think there is any
fear on coronavirus as far as
Goa is concerned. Till date,
there is no positive case of
coronavirus reported in
Goa. We have set up isola­
tion wards at Chicalim
[South Goa] and Goa Medi­
cal College and Hospital
[North Goa],” Mr. Rane said.
He said a task force under
Chief Secretary Parimal Rai
is in place to oversee mea­
sures against the novel co­
ronavirus outbreak.
He added that his depart­
ment was in touch via vi­
deo­conferencing with
health authorities at the
Centre and other States.
Ujjwal Nikam
several high­profile cases
like the 1993 Mumbai se­
rial bomb blasts and film
producer Gulshan Ku­
mar’s murder case.
was undergoing treatment at
Orange City Hospital & Re­
search Centre in Nagpur,
where doctors declared her
dead at 6.55 a.m.,” Hingang­
hat’s police inspector Satya­
veer Bandiwar said.
Later, some angry locals
threw stones to block a road
in Hinganghat when an am­
filed an affidavit that read,
“No official of TDD has been
arrested and placed under
police custody for more
than 48 hours, and hence
the question of suspending
any official of TDD does not
arise.” The 14­page affidavit
also mentioned, “None of
the officials who were offi­
ciating the posts where ir­
regularities have taken
place are currently working
in the same posts.”
After reading the affida­
vit, the court had ex­
claimed, “All this is just an
eyewash. Does the Principal
Secretary seriously want us
to accept such an affidavit
where she is saying that she
is unable to get information
from the police. The State
government is shielding and
protecting the prima facie
guilty officials. Political par­
ties at the helm of affairs are
changing but they will still
protect their fraternity.”
On Monday, the court di­
rected the State to file an af­
fidavit with details of the
number of accused arrest­
ed, FIRs registered, applica­
tions for bail, charge sheets,
officials farmed with charg­
es, those who have filed for
discharge.
The matter will now be
heard on March 5.
‘Respecting unity, integrity of country key fundamental duty’
Ex­CJI says everyone has the right to express views on CAA, but resolution of issue must be through constitutional means
Press Trust of India
Gandhinagar
Underlining that respecting
the unity and integrity of the
country is perhaps the
“most important fundamen­
tal duty”, former Chief Jus­
tice of India (CJI) Ranjan Go­
goi on Monday said enough
protests have been held on
the new citizenship law and
that people should not
create “two parallel forums”
when the Supreme Court
has seized the matter.
Addressing students of
the Gujarat National Law Un­
iversity (GNLU) here, the
former CJI also said everybo­
dy has the right to express
views on the Citizenship
Amendment Act (CAA), but
“the resolution of the issue
must be through Constitu­
tional means”.
WEST 7
BJP seeks honour for
Savarkar to upset MVA
Party aims to move resolution in Assembly
Man held for
stalking, raping Alok Deshpande
Mumbai
In a bid to cause friction
teen in Pune among the alliance partners
of the Maha Vikas Aghadi
Press Trust of India (MVA), the Bharatiya Janata
Pune Party (BJP) has moved a pro­
A 25­year­old man was ar­ posal to introduce a resolu­
rested on Monday in Pune tion in the upcoming budget
for allegedly stalking and session of the State Assemb­
raping a 15­year­old girl and ly to honour Hindutva ideo­
threatening to douse her logue V.D. Savarkar with the
with acid if she disclosed the Bharat Ratna.
incident, police said. The BJP plans to intro­ V.D. Savarkar
The incident took place duce the resolution on Fe­
in Wagholi on the outskirts bruary 26, Savarkar’s death Mr. Mungantiwar said the
bulance carrying the wo­ a government job. of the city between June and anniversary. The Shiv Sena, BJP has proposed to intro­
man’s body was about half­a­
kilometre away from her na­
tive village, Daroda. The
Water Resources Minister
Jayant Patil tweeted, “The
accused will be given a
September last year. An of­
ficer said a similar case was
however, said only a resolu­
tion congratulating the Cen­
duce a resolution to honour
the revolutionary work of
pending against the accused tral government would be Savarkar. He said, “Febru­
police then brought the sit­ strong punishment. The in a police station in the city. passed, if Savarkar is indeed ary 26 is the death anniver­
uation under control. mentality behind this hei­ Assistant Commissioner awarded the Bharat Ratna. sary of Swatantryaveer Sa­
nous crime needs to be tack­ of Police, Lashkar division, varkar. We want the State
Strong reactions led. That is why it is impor­ Ravindra Rasal said the ac­ Playing it safe Assembly to honour one of
The news of the victim’s tant to fast track this case.” cused used to stalk and ha­ Transport Minister and Se­ the greatest freedom fight­
death led to strong political Deputy Chief Minister Ajit rass the girl. “He told the girl na leader Anil Parab said his ers of India by passing a re­
reactions from across the Pawar said to ensure that that if she meets him once, party’s demand to honour solution. We have made a
State. Governor Bhagat such an incident does not he would not harass her Savarkar with the Bharat proposal for the purpose.”
Singh Koshyari tweeted, happen again, “the govern­ again. He then took her to Ratna has been pending for Mr. Mungantiwar said the
“The entire society is agitat­ ment will be more sensitive Wagholi and sexually as­ years. “We will bring a reso­ response from the govern­
ed today. The unfortunate and take a tough stance in saulted her. He threatened lution congratulating the ment, especially Chief Mi­
incident has compelled each such cases”. Congress Minis­ to attacker her with and kill Central government if Savar­ nister Uddhav Thackeray,
one of us to introspect. To­ ter Ashok Chavan tweeted, her family members if she kar is awarded the Bharat has not been encouraging as
day women are progressing “Criminals should have fear disclosed the incident,” Mr. Ratna,” he said. it has not supported the in­
in all walks of life. They are of the law. There are laws but Rasal said. The accused also The proposal was moved troduction of the resolution.
assuming newer responsibil­ their implementation is ne­ shot video of the act. by Leader of the Opposition According to sources, the
ities and tackling challenges cessary. If the criminal is The girl later confided in Devendra Fadnavis and BJP’s move is aimed at caus­
efficiently. In order to furth­ brought to justice imme­ a counsellor at her school, former finance minister ing a rift in the MVA alliance
er hasten the progress of wo­ diately and given punish­ who then informed her fa­ Sudhir Mungantiwar at a Bu­ as the Sena, the Congress
men, society must bear a ment like death sentence, it mily members. The police siness Advisory Committee and the Nationalist Con­
positive attitude towards will instill people’s faith on have withheld the name of meeting held at Vidhan Bha­ gress Party are in disagree­
them. My heartfelt condo­ the justice system.” the accused. van on Monday. The meet­ ment over Savarkar’s Hin­
lences to her parents.” Leader of the Opposition “A case was registered ing was convened to finalise dutva politics and his letters
State Home Minister Anil Devendra Fadnavis tweeted, under Sections 376 and 354 the schedule of the budget to the British government
Deshmukh said the trial “The criminal should be gi­ and provisions of the Pro­ session, which will begin on seeking clemency while be­
would be held in a fast­track ven the strictest punishment tection of Children from February 24. The State Bud­ ing imprisoned at the Cellu­
court and a family member so that no woman has to go Sexual Offences Act on Fe­ get is scheduled to be pre­ lar Jail in Andaman and Ni­
of the victim would be given through this again.” bruary 8,” Mr. Rasal said. sented on March 6. cobar Islands.
State hikes reward to
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stop liquor smuggling
Informers to get 5% of worth of seizure
Sharad Vyas
Mumbai
The State government has
decided to increase the re­
ward money offered to in­
formers for providing infor­
mation on the trade of illicit
liquor and its smuggling
across the State’s borders.
Deputy Chief Minister
Ajit Pawar on Monday re­
viewed the work of the Ex­
cise Department and direct­
ed that the reward amount
for informers be increased Ajit Pawar
from 2% to 5% of the worth
of the seizure, an increase of “He gave us directions to
Seeking action: Students and activists stage a silent protest demanding justice for women nearly 150%. The meeting carry out strict inspections
who have been victims of violence, at Balgandharva chowk in Pune on Monday. JIGNESH MISTRY *
was attended by senior se­ under the watch of senior
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cretaries including those officials. The Deputy Chief
from the planning and fi­ Minister also expressed the
5 accused escape from Karjat jail
nance departments. need to think seriously
By hiking the reward mo­ about preventing death
ney, the State hope to from poisonous hooch,”
strengthen the network of said an official of the Excise
They removed an iron grille from a vent on the roof: police informers and curb liquor Department.
smuggling, officials said. Mr.
Press Trust of India drakant Mahadev Raut and caped on Sunday evening. Pawar informed officials Backing green buildings
Mumbai Gangadhar Jagtap. While one guard was that trade in illicit liquor Mr. Pawar also directed offi­
Five people arrested for “Dnyaneshwar was ar­ posted at the lock­up, three and its smuggling was caus­ cials of the department to
crimes like murder, rape rested under the Arms Act, others were on duty at the ing huge revenue loss to the construct new checkpoints
and carrying arms escaped while Akshay, Mohan and jail’s periphery when the in­ State asked the department as per green building norms
on Sunday evening from Chandrakant are murder ac­ cident took place. A case to increase the number of and with solar power facili­
Karjat Jail in Raigad district, cused, and Gangadhar is was registered under Sec­ checkposts as well as in­ ties. He also asked the Fi­
police said. charged with rape,” an offi­ tion 224 of the Indian Penal spections. Mr. Pawar also nance Department to carry
The five were identified as cial said. He added, “They Code on Monday. “Special said there is need to think out district­wise review of
Dnyaneshwar Tukaram removed an iron grille from teams have been formed to seriously on curbing deaths expenditure on government
Kolhe, Akshay Ramdas Raut, a vent on the roof of the dis­ nab them,” said Inspector from the consumption of offices functioning from
Mohan Kundlik More, Chan­ trict sub­jail in Karjat and es­ General Milind Bharambe. spurious liquour. rented premises.
Referring to the protests constitutional validity of the ities who came to the evening. No more protests.
over the CAA in his home Act including by RJD leader country from Pakistan, Ban­ The law and order became
State, Assam, the former CJI Manoj Jha, Trinamool Con­ gladesh and Afghanistan on all right overnight. This is
said there were elements gress MP Mahua Moitra and or before December 31, the role of the students,” he
who wanted to harm the in­ AIMIM leader Asaduddin 2014. said. I am yet to see a more
tegrity of the country, but Owaisi. “Protests have been Referring to students’ constructive role played by
the student community held, viewpoints have been move to call off the protests students, the former CJI
there called off the violent expressed. Enough. You can­ in Assam, the former CJI said said. “The moment they did
protests within days, which not have two parallel fo­ he had not yet seen such it (called off the protests),
improved law and order sit­ rums, the Supreme Court “constructive role” played there was no more violence,
uation overnight. and someone else,” he said. by students. “The protests there was no law and order
“Perhaps the most impor­ On December 18, the apex over the CAA were initiated issues.
tant fundamental duty is the court had agreed to examine from my state (Assam), be­ People were protesting,
respect of the unity and inte­ Ranjan Gogoi the constitutional validity of cause the problem of my yes, but without violence.
grity of the country. There the CAA, but refused to stay state is different than the What is the moral of the sto­
are issues in this, and why tion must be through Consti­ its operation. Assam was the problems in the rest of the ry? There are elements who
hype them. The Citizenship tutional means,” he said. first state where protests country. I had just retired want to harm the integrity of
Amendment Act...It is an is­ The former CJI further said broke out after the CAA was and reached Guwahati. All of the country. And the stu­
sue. You may have a view the matter (challenge to passed by Parliament in De­ a sudden, there were dents solved it. These are the
about it, I may have a view CAA) is pending before the cember last year. The newly protests. real leaders of the country,”
about it, and our views may supreme court. “Trust your amended law seeks to grant “After five days of intense he said.
not match. I have the right to judges. They will decide, ac­ citizenship to non­Muslim problems, the student com­ He underlined the need to
express my view, you have cording to the Constitution.” migrants belonging to Hin­ munity spearheading (the have a “fearless, indepen­
the right to express your Several petitions have du, Sikh, Buddhist, Chris­ agitations) said we will call dent and working judiciary”
view. Fine. But the resolu­ been filed challenging the tian, Jain and Parsi commun­ off our protests at 5 in the in the country.
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2020

THE HINDU

IN BRIEF
Special Category Status not Four Indian pilots begin
a closed chapter, says Jagan astronaut training in Russia
Ramesh Jarkiholi gets
It may become a reality when the Centre feels our need, says A.P. Chief Minister One or two will be finally named for Gaganyaan
Irrigation portfolio Special Correspondent
KARNATAKA
Appaji Reddem tended by five more years if their medical examination,
BENGALURU
Four days after inducting 10
Tadepalli it was voted to power. and space training.
new Ministers, Karnataka CM The long­pending and much­ Sounding upbeat about The four Indian pilots cho­ Glavkosmos said, “The
B.S. Yediyurappa on Monday sought­after Special Catego­ the ongoing welfare schemes sen as candidate­astronauts 12­month training pro­
allocated portfolios. Ramesh ry Status (SCS) to Andhra being implemented as part on Monday began their 12­ gramme includes compre­
Jarkiholi, who took the lead Pradesh is not a closed chap­ of the YSR Congress Party’s month training at the Gaga­ hensive and biomedical
in effecting defections that ter, says Chief Minister Y.S. flagship programme Nava- rin Research and Test Cos­ training of the Indian candi­
paved the way for the forma­ Jagan Mohan Reddy. ratnalu, Mr. Reddy said the monaut Training Centre dates, combined with regu­
tion of the BJP government, Speaking at his first­ever State would be able to sus­ (GCTC) in Moscow, Russian lar physical practices. They
got the Major and Medium media conference after as­ tain the schemes. space business company will study in detail the sys­
Irrigation portfolio. S.T. suming office as Chief Minis­ “There is tremendous res­ Glavkosmos has last few months. At the end tems of the Soyuz manned
Somashekhar and Byrathi ter, at his camp office on ponse to our schemes and announced. of all training modules in spaceship, as well as be
Basavaraj have been given Monday, Mr. Reddy said, we are very much equipped Much of the training will India and Russia, one or trained in short­term
Cooperation and Urban “We have been pursuing the to sustain them financially. take place at the GCTC facil­ two of the four will be final­ weightlessness mode
Development, respectively. Centre for SCS. It’s not a We also see our financial ities, a statement issued in ly named to circle the earth aboard the Il­76MDK air­
The remaining Ministers have closed chapter. It will be a ability growing year over Moscow said. The full pro­ in the first crewed Gaga­ craft.”
not got any major portfolios. On a confident note: A.P. CM Jagan Mohan Reddy said there
possibility till the day we year, which means a better gramme includes basic or nyaan, which is planned The Il­76MDK is an Ily­
stop fighting for it. Some day was tremendous response to the new welfare schemes. scenario,” he said. generic astronaut training around 2022. ushin­78 military transport
No power tariff hike for God will soften the Prime Mi­ Popular among the pro­ followed by activities spec­ plane specially re­designed
domestic users in A.P. nister’s heart so that it will will also be given as a loan at the hands of the Centre’. grammes are English medi­ ific to the first Indian hu­ 12-month module for parabolic flights of trai­
HYDERABAD
be a reality. Worst case, it zero per cent interest. Usual­ For the record, the SCS um in government schools, man space mission, In June 2019, the Human nee astronauts and space
In a relief to a majority of may not be this term. But it ly, the ratio for general cate­ was promised to Andhra Pra­ Rythu Bharosa ­ payment to Gaganyaan. Space Flight Centre of the tourists. The candidates
domestic power consumers in
may be a reality when the gory States is 70% loan and desh by the then Congress ₹50,000 to farmers (spread Indian Space Research Or­ will also be trained to take
Andhra Pradesh with a
Centre feels our need.” 30% grant. government at the Centre in across 5 years), free health­ From IAF team ganisation and the Russian appropriate actions during
monthly consumption up to
Besides tax breaks and Mr. Reddy had written to 2014, at the time of bifurca­ care through Arogyasri, The four candidates are government­owned Glav­ emergencies — for example
500 units, the AP Electricity
Regulatory Commission has
other benefits, the State with the Prime Minister remind­ tion which resulted in the ₹15,000 to mothers of fighter pilots from the In­ kosmos signed a contract should the spacecraft make
spared them from tariff hike SCS will get 90% of all the ex­ ing him of the bifurcation formation of Telangana. The school­going kids below the dian Air Force and were for the training, which in­ an abnormal landing in (un­
for 2020­21. Telescopic penditure on Centrally spon­ promise and 15th Finance then Opposition party BJP poverty line, pensions to the chosen from among hun­ cludes Russian support in planned) climate and geo­
billing for all domestic sored schemes as Central Commission report that stat­ too agreed to it and even elderly, liquor ban and hous­ dreds of applicants over the the selection of candidates, graphic zones.
consumers would be based on grant. The rest of the 10% ed that ‘grant of SCS lies in stated that SCS would be ex­ ing to 25 lakh poor people.
the monthly billing and not
on their annual consumption
during the previous year.
Those using above 500 units
would be charged higher at
Police file final chargesheet Draft policy on rare diseases notified
in Koodathayi case in court
₹9.95 per unit from the
existing ₹9.05 per unit.
HC judges not satisfied with the provision of ₹15 lakh for one­time treatment
Telangana girl dies after Special Correspondent hundred pages, said Jolly
taking de­worming pill Kozhikode had poisoned to death An­ Mohamed Imranullah S. ditional Solicitor General G. mesh, said the draft policy of Rashtriya Arokya Nidhi
JAGTIAL The special police team namma after lacing her mut­ CHENNAI Rajagopalan that the govern­ envisages provision of ₹15 and that the beneficiaries
A seven­year­old girl died probing the Koodathayi se­ ton soup with ‘Dog Kill’ , a After being directed by the ment had called for public lakh to those suffering from would not be limited to fami­
after consuming de­worming rial murder case filed the poison. Madras High Court on Janu­ opinion on the draft policy certain LSDs. He said the lies below the poverty line.
tablets at an anganwadi sixth and final chargesheet Jolly Joseph allegedly fin­ ary 6 to consider the issue of till February 15, and that it draft policy had categorised After hearing the counsel,
in Dharmapuri town in
before the Thamarassery ished off two branches of the providing medical care to would be finalised only after rare disorders amenable to the Judges expressed their
Telangana on Monday. Soon
judicial first class magis­ Ponnamattom ancestral fa­ those suffering from the rare considering the views of all one­time curative treatment reservations over the suffi­
after taking the tablets given
trate’s court II in Kozhikode mily after giving them poi­ Lysosomal Storage Disorders stakeholders. such as Hematopoietic Stem ciency of allocating just ₹15
as part of a nationwide drive,
she started vomiting and
district on Monday. Jolly Joseph son or cyanide­laced food or (LSD) as a “national emer­ Cell Transplantation and dis­ lakh and impressed upon the
went into convulsions. The The prime accused in the drink over a period of 14 gency”, the Centre on Mon­ PIL petition orders that were amenable Centre as well as the State go­
authorities said the girl was case, Jolly Joseph, is charged Annamma, a retired years. The chargesheet said day informed the court of The submission was made to organ transplantation into vernment to deliberate
suffering from an ailment and with murdering six persons, schoolteacher and mother Jolly tricked Annamma into having notified a draft na­ during the hearing of a pu­ one group, and states that further after taking note of
ruled out any side­effects of including her first husband, of her first husband, Roy believing that she had an tional policy on rare blic interest litigation (PIL) they could be provided with efforts being made globally
the tablet. However, 10 between 2002 and 2016. Thomas, was the first of the MCom degree. She decided diseases. petition filed by the Lysoso­ financial support. to address needs of those suf­
students of various schools The sixth chargesheet de­ murders Jolly had carried to kill Annamma when she The First Bench of Chief mal Storage Disorders Sup­ It further added that a fering from rare diseases.
also developed side­effects tails how she killed her out to get hold of the ances­ suspected and questioned Justice Amreshwar Pratap port Society of India, based maximum of ₹15 lakh could The judges granted time
after consuming the tablets mother­in­law Annamma tral property. The chargesh­ her about her educational Sahi and Justice Subramoni­ in New Delhi, in 2017. The be provided to each patient till March 2 for the Centre to
and were hospitalised. Thomas in 2002. eet, running into several qualifications. um Prasad were told by Ad­ petitioner’s counsel, V. Ra­ under the umbrella scheme report back.

Rehabilitate those evicted Kerala faces

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It’s showtime uphill task in

from Bellandur shanties: HC making list of
State to come out said it was open for the peti­
CRZ violations
tioner to help the affected to
with a scheme make proper representa­ K.S. Sudhi
within a month tion, seek relief from the go­ Kochi

vernment, as the petitioner The arduous task of refin­

Special Correspondent had submitted the names of ing the tentative list of over
Bengaluru around 130 persons evicted. 26,000 Coastal Regulation
The Karnataka High Court Zone (CRZ) violations
on Monday directed the Rejects owner’s stance stares at the Kerala govern­
State government to come Though both the govern­ ment with the Supreme
out with a comprehensive ment and the BBMP denied Court cracking its whip on
scheme within a month to having demolished shanties such violations.
rehabilitate people evicted on the private land, the land The apex court has al­
from their shanties erected The scene at Bellandur after owners claimed that the oc­ lowed the State six weeks
on a private property in Bel­ the hutments were cupants left the shanties in to come up with the list.
landur based on a notice is­ demolished on January 21. response to polite requests Chief Minister Pinarayi
sued by the Marathalli police made by them to vacate. Ho­ Vijayan has convened a
to the land owner. prising Chief Justice Abhay wever, the court declined to meeting for Wednesday to
The court also directed Shreeniwas Oka and Justice accept the land owners’ discuss the verdict and de­
the government to take steps Hemant Chandangoudar is­ contention. cide on action plan. The
to identify the evicted per­ sued the directions while The notice, issued by the government strategy will
sons and make arrange­ hearing a PIL petition filed police, had asked one of the be finalised at the meeting,
ments for providing imme­ by the People’s Union for Ci­ land owners to remove the said an official.
diate temporary monetary vil Liberties ­ Karnataka, illegal structures and inform The State is likely to seek
assistance or shelter within which contended that the the police about any illegal Folk artistes getting ready to perform ‘Chindu Yakshaganam’, a traditional dance ballet of Telangana, at Ravindhra Bharathi more time to prepare the
two weeks. eviction was illegal. immigrant from Bangladesh in Hyderabad on Monday. G. RAMAKRISHNA * list as it is a time­consum­
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also brief the court about
the works done so far. For

Distraught Bidar student

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ices will have to be issued

Matching steps with refugees to owners of all the build­

ings mentioned in the draft

A freelance journalist joins walking campaign of UN for the noble cause

yearns for mother’s return list to find out whether any
court has regularised the
violations. It also needs to
be found out whether cas­
M.P. Praveen “Initially, I planned to also lends the participants Her mother, a domestic help, was arrested in sedition case es are pending in any
KOCHI walk exactly the 409 the assistance of an online court, the official said.
Riyaz Ali has been walking kilometres that Eva had to coach. Kumar Buradikatti with allowed the staging of
for the last 10 days and has flee in search of safety but “I cover on an average Bidar the play. Alarm bells
covered over 190 then I decided to walk all 25­30 kilometres a day It was with the dream of bet­ Mohammad Hafeezuddin Serving of notices to over
kilometres. the way to the Rohingya walking about eight hours ter education for her 11­year­ and his wife, neighbours of 26,000 people is likely to
He will do more of the refugee camp in split between morning and old daughter that Nazbunni­ Ms. Nazbunnisa, took care of trigger panic and the State
same for another 30 days by Kelambakkam in Chennai,” evening. The campaign also sa, a 27­year­old single moth­ her daughter for 10 days, be­ needs to tackle the
the end of which he would Mr. Ali said. facilitates setting a target as er, moved from her native fore she was moved to a hos­ situation.
have reached Chennai part of daily fitness and then village to Bidar city a few tel run by the school. “The The Hindu had last week
treading over 1,000 Trek for survival adding those kilometres months ago. She had seen a police questioning and her reported on the unprece­
kilometres. The campaign, Step with manually. But I felt that girl from her village study in mother’s arrest has left her dented socio­economic
Mr. Ali, a 31­year­old Refugee, aims to cover 2 hitting the road upheld the Bidar’s Shaheen School and in a state of shock. She and legal crisis looming ov­
freelance journalist, started billion kilometres, which is spirit of being part of the later get a medical seat and would wake up in the middle er the State following the
his walk from Kozhikode on the approximate distance campaign,” said Mr. Ali who this had spurred her dreams The Shaheen School in of the night and start cry­ preparation of the list in
February 1 after signing up refugees cover worldwide reached the city on Monday. too. Karnataka’s Bidar, where a ing,” says Mr. Hafeezuddin, a the wake of Maradu demo­
for Step With Refugees, a every year to reach the Mr. Ali’s endeavour seems She rented a small house play on CAA was staged. cloth merchant. litions. For filtering the
campaign being organised Riyaz Ali on his way nearest point of safety for to have already captured the and started work as a dom­ When contacted on draft list, the State needs to
by the United Nations High to a refugee camp in survival. imagination of society with estic help, while her daught­ orities facing a sedition case phone, the girl had only one segregate the buildings in­
Commissioner for Refugees Chennai. H. VIBHU *
Participants could choose a college in Malappuram er went to school. But, her and Ms. Nazbunnisa and thing to say: “I want to see to residential and commer­
as an expression of walking, cycling or running, and a combine in Ponnanni dreams did not last long. headteacher Fareeda Begum my mother. Please do so­ cial ones and mark the dis­
solidarity with the many 12 days covering 409 and can join the movement approaching him for A play her daughter acted being arrested. The police, mething.” Asma Taranum, tance of each building
travails of refugees globally. kilometres to reach the through fitness apps Fitbit, becoming part of the in about the Citizenship after questioning the chil­ her class teacher, said she from the High Tide Line of
Reading about the safety of Ethiopia after her Strava or GoogleFit and the campaign. Mr. Ali has (Amendment) Act, with dren, charged Ms. Nazbun­ had stopped coming to the nearby waterbody.
haunting story of Eva, a family was killed in the civil kilometres they log will add agreed to organise a mini comments allegedly insult­ nisa with “teaching the ob­ school. “Her exams started The violations in each
South Sudanese girl who at war, was what prompted Mr. automatically to the marathon for them once his ing Prime Minister Narendra jectionable dialogues” to her on Monday. She is not writ­ CRZ zone need to be classi­
the age of nine had to walk Ali to take up the mission. campaign. The campaign mission is over. Modi, led to the school auth­ daughter and the teacher ing them.” fied separately.
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IN BRIEF
Four suspended after
Ganjam bus accident
BERHAMPUR
The Odisha government
suspended four engineers for
negligence, a day after 10
persons died when a bus
came in contact with a 11KV
cable in Ganjam district. Two
of them were working for
SOUTHCO Utility, a power
distribution company, and
the others were attached to
the Rural Development
Department.
Seven killed in fire at
Gujarat textile factory
AHMEDABAD
Police booked six officials
including owners of Nandan
Denim, a textiles factory
where a massive fire gutted
seven workers on Saturday.
The fire had occurred on
Saturday and continued till
Sunday morning when the
three­storey factory was
engulfed in the flames.
Case filed against man
for posing as PM’s staff
NEW DELHI
The CBI has registered a case
against an unknown person
for allegedly impersonating
as P.K. Mishra, Principal
Secretary to PM Modi. The
case has been instituted on
the basis of a complaint
received from the PM’s Office
in November 2019.
CBI-ED team in London
for hearing in Mallya case
NEW DELHI
A team of officials from the
CBI and the ED has reached
London for a crucial hearing
on an appeal filed by
businessman Vijay Mallya
against his extradition in the
wilful loan default case
involving over ₹9,000 crore.
The hearing is scheduled to
commence on Tuesday.
Mumbai blasts accused
arrested by Gujarat ATS
AHMEDABAD
Gujarat’s Anti­Terrorist Squad
(ATS) arrested Munaf Halari
Mussa, a key accused in the
1993 Mumbai serial blasts
case, from Mumbai airport
early on Monday. According
to Gujarat ATS officials,
Mussa was en route to Dubai
via Mumbai on a Pakistani
passport.
Woman bus driver shown the
door for on-duty Tiktok video
Raina Assainar
Navi Mumbai
The contract of a Navi Mum­
bai Municipal Transport
(NMMT) driver was termi­
nated after a Tiktok video
featuring her dance inside a
bus went viral. The driver,
who was identified as Yogita
Mane, was terminated on Ja­
nuary 31.
Yogita Mane, one of the
two woman drivers for
NMMT Tejaswini special
buses, had reportedly
danced inside the bus dur­
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Rioting students asked to clean up
Madurai HC Bench judge orders 28 students to sweep and mop hospital ward
B. Tilak Chandar
Madurai
It is not often that youth who
have messed up get a chance
to clean up their act.
But a novel judgment from
the Madras High Court has gi­
ven a group of 28 engineering
students, charged with riot­
ing and criminal intimidation,
a chance to mend their ways
— by actually mopping up a
mess!
The order on Monday,
from Justice A.D. Jagadish
Chandira of the Madurai
Bench of the High Court,
came on a plea from the stu­
dents to quash the FIR regis­
tered against them.
The judge directed the stu­
dents to clean the general
ward of the K.A.P. Viswanath­
am Government Medical Col­
lege in Tiruchi.
In a case of campus vio­
lence, two groups of students
of the Oxford Engineering
College at Pirattiyur in Tiruchi
had attacked each other with
Pilot suspended for
threatening passenger
75-year-old woman denied wheelchair
special correspondent
NEW DELHI
The Directorate General of
Civil Aviation (DGCA) on
Monday suspended the fly­
ing licence of an IndiGo pi­
lot for three months for
“threatening and intimidat­
ing” a woman passenger ac­
companying a wheelchair­
bound senior citizen on Ja­
nuary 13, 2020.
“The pilot’s attitude to­
wards the wheelchair­
bound senior citizen was in­
timidating, threatening and
lacked compassion. His ac­
tions led to avoidable deten­
tion,” the DGCA said in a
statement.
Sharing her ordeal of “ha­
rassment” on Twitter, Ben­
galuru resident Supriya Un­
ni Nair said the pilot,
Captain Jayakrishna
stopped her and her 75­
year­old mother from de­
planing the aircraft after she
ing her “rest period”.
"The video was created
during duty hours, in un­
iform and inside the bus,
which is not acceptable. It is
unprofessional conduct and
gives out a wrong message,"
Navi Mumbai Municipal
Commissioner Annasaheb
Misal said.
In the 18 second video,
she is seen dancing to a Ma­
rathi folk song—Aai babachi
ladki mi gaura mala havay
chikna navra.
According to Ms. Mane,
ILLUSTRATION:
SREEJITH R. KUMAR
beer bottles and wooden logs
in July last year. The violence
left at least five students
injured.
According to the police,
the violence followed a warn­
A woman and her mother
were stopped from
deplaning the aircraft.
insisted on a wheelchair for
the latter. The wheelchair
had been booked by her be­
fore embarking on the flight
but the crew members said
they had no access to it,
leading to an argument.
Civil Aviation Minister of
State Hardeep Singh Puri,
taking note of her social me­
dia post, asked the DGCA to
probe the matter.
“The video was not made by
me. A female auto driver,
with whom we often chat
during break time, had
made the video and upload­
ed using her account. None
of the NMMT officers are rea­
dy to hear me out. I have
been knocking on their door
but no one pays attention.”
“I am done begging be­
fore them. I haven’t had a
single accident in last one
year and my record is clean.
I am sure I won't be jobless
for long,” she added.
ing from fourth year students
to a group of third year stu­
dents to stop harassment of
fellow women students. What
began as a warning turned in­
to a wordy duel and soon es­
J&K to allocate
100 acres for
TTD temple
S. vijay kumar
CHENNAI
The Jammu and Kashmir
administration has agreed,
in principle, to allot 100
acres along the Jammu­Ka­
tra Highway to the Tiruma­
la Tirupati Devasthanams
for constructing a replica
of the Tirumala temple
there.
TTD hopes to complete
the construction of the
temple along with a vedic
school and hospital in two
years, MP V. Vijaya Sai Red­
dy, who led the delegation
of the TTD Board, said on
Monday. Talking to The
Hindu over phone from
Delhi, Mr. Reddy said two
sites had been identified
for constructing the tem­
ple.
The delegation met J&K
Lt. Governor G.C. Murmu,
who agreed to allot the
land free of cost for con­
structing the temple.
calated into a clash, and even
spilled outside the campus.
All 28 students were ar­
rested by the police based on
separate complaints filed by
both groups. The E. Pudur
police registered a case un­
der IPC Sections, including
147 (rioting), 148 (rioting
armed with deadly weapon),
324 (voluntarily causing hurt
by dangerous weapons or
means) and 506 (ii) (criminal
intimidation).
A compromise
However, the two groups,
having agreed to a compro­
mise, moved the High Court
and sought the quashing of
the FIR.
Justice Jagadish Chandira,
who quashed the FIR, direct­
ed the students to approach
the Dean of the K.A.P. Viswa­
natham Government Medical
College and clean the general
ward on February 22. He also
posted the case for reporting
compliance on February 26.
L-G cautions against
CAA resolution
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
PUDUCHERRY
Two days ahead of the spe­
cial session of the Legisla­
tive Assembly convened by
the government to adopt a
resolution seeking a repeal
of Citizenship (Amendment)
Act, Lt Governor Kiran Bedi
on Monday wrote to Chief
Minister V. Narayanasamy
advising him not to go
ahead with the legislative
procedure as a law passed
by Parliament was applica­
ble to the Union Territory as
well, she said.
Beyond the purview
Hours after a delegation of
three nominated MLAs, V.
Saminathan, K.G. Shankar
and S. Selvaganapathy, be­
longing to the Bharatiya Ja­
nata Party — submitted a
memorandum to Ms. Bedi
seeking her intervention on
the issue, the Lt. Governor
in her letter to the Chief Mi­
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Another NC Weather Watch
leader booked
Rainfall, temperature & air quality in select metros yesterday
under PSA
Special Correspondent
Srinagar
The Jammu and Kashmir
government on Monday
booked MP and senior Na­
tional Conference leader
Akbar Lone’s son Hilal
Lone under the Public Sa­
fety Act.
The PSA dossier, con­
taining the grounds to ex­
tend the detention of Mr.
Lone, said he supported
the provocative statements
of his father Muhammad
Akbar Lone, Baramulla MP.
PDP leader Khursheed Temperature Data: IMD, Pollution Data: CPCB, Map: INSAT/IMD (Taken at 18.00 Hrs)
Alam was set free from the Forecast for Tuesday: Thunderstorm accompanied with lightning
MLA Hostel, declared a likely over Jammu and Kashmir. Dense fog likey in isolated parts
sub­jail, where the main­ over Odisha.
stream leaders were de­ city rain max min city rain max min
Agartala................ —....27.5....11.3 Kozhikode.................... —....36.5....23.6
tained for more than three Ahmedabad ........... —....28.3....13.2 Kurnool ....................... —....31.7....20.2
months. Aizawl................... —....18.6......7.6 Lucknow...................... —....24.2......8.2
Congress leader Ghulam Allahabad.............. —....25.4......8.4 Madurai ....................... —....34.2....22.4
Bengaluru ............. —....30.2....19.0 Mangaluru .............. 34.5....19.8........ —
Mohammad Saroori was Bhopal .................. —....26.6......9.9 Mumbai ....................... —........ —....21.4
summoned by the National Bhubaneswar......... —....23.4....14.8 Mysuru ........................ —....32.5....19.3
Investigation Agency “in Chandigarh ........... —....21.6......6.8 New Delhi ................... —....21.9......6.0
Chennai ................ —....31.6....23.0 Patna .......................... —....25.8......8.7
connection with cases of Coimbatore ........... —....32.4....22.1 Port Blair..................... —....30.9....24.2
violence” in Kishtwar in Dehradun .............. —....23.1......6.3 Puducherry .................. —....31.8....23.0
the Jammu region. Gangtok ................ —....14.2......4.6 Pune............................ —....29.1....16.9
Goa....................... —....33.0....20.9 Raipur ......................... —....26.0....12.0
Guwahati .............. —....27.7....11.3 Ranchi ......................... —....23.5......6.5
Hubballi ................ —....31.0....19.0 Shillong....................... —....15.0......5.4
Hyderabad ............ —....26.5....18.9 Shimla......................... —....15.1......3.7
Imphal ............... 3.4....22.0......5.9 Srinagar....................... —....13.0.... -4.0
Jaipur ................... —....23.9......8.0 Thiruvananthapuram......... —....34.2....24.2
Kochi .................... —....33.6....24.6 Tiruchi......................... —....33.3....21.8
Kohima ................. —....16.2......6.2
Kolkata ................. —....26.4....13.6
(Rainfall data in mm; temperature in Celsius)
Vijayawada ............... 7.8....27.2....21.5
Visakhapatnam ............. —....28.3........ —
Pollutants in the air you are breathing Yesterday
CITIES SO2 NO2 CO PM2.5 PM10 CODE
nister said the legislative Ahmedabad..... 35 .49 27 ..109 .106 ....*
power of the Assembly did Bengaluru ....... ..— .37 83 ..161 .144 ....* O In observation made at
Chennai .......... ..— .13 41 ....74 .....— ....* 4.00 p.m., Ghaziabad, Uttar
not extend to the subject Pradesh recorded an overall
Delhi .............. 18 .54 35 ..390 .308 ....* air quality index (AQI) score
matter of Citizenship as it Hyderabad ...... ..3 .63 42 ....87 ...88 ....* of 327 indicating a
fell squarely within the do­ Kolkata ........... 15 .59 22 ..252 .171 ....* hazardous level of pollution.
In contrast, Ramanagara,
main of Parliament and the
Lucknow ......... ..7 163 54 ..341 .....— ....*
Karnataka recorded a
Mumbai .......... 18 .87 26 ....72 .145 ....* healthy AQI score of 43
Centre. Pune............... 60 .18 70 ....76 ...73 ....*
Visakhapatnam 10 .24 42 ....49 ...53 ....*
“Further, the matter of
the CAA was under adjudi­ Air Quality Code: * Poor * Moderate * Good (Readings indicate average AQI)
cation before the Supreme SO2: Sulphur Dioxide. Short-term exposure can harm the respiratory system,
Court. As per the Rules of making breathing difficult. It can affect visibility by reacting with other air
particles to form haze and stain culturally important objects such as statues
Procedure and Conduct of
and monuments.
Business of Puducherry Le­
NO2: Nitrogen Dioxide. Aggravates respiratory illness, causes haze to form by
gislative Assembly, 1966, re­ reacting with other air particles, causes acid rain, pollutes coastal waters.
solution of any matter CO: Carbon monoxide. High concentration in air reduces oxygen supply to
which was under the juris­ critical organs like the heart and brain. At very high levels, it can cause
diction of a court of law hav­ dizziness, confusion, unconsciousness and even death.
ing jurisdiction in any part PM2.5 & PM10: Particulate matter pollution can cause irritation of the eyes,
of India is not admissible nose and throat, coughing, chest tightness and shortness of breath, reduced
lung function, irregular heartbeat, asthma attacks, heart attacks and premature
under Rule 105 of the Rules death in people with heart or lung disease
of ibid,” Ms Bedi said, in her
letter.
Opposing the move to
adopt a resolution, the BJP
members, in their memo­
randum to the Lt. Governor,
said any discussion on CAA
would be an infringement
on the rights of Parliament.
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Liberty at the government’s whim

The J&K High Court’s recent ruling on preventive detention stands as an antithesis of the Constitution’s basic function
maintenance of public order”. a long­standing jurisprudence. extensions made available for the
Mr. Qayoom submitted in court In the litany of precedents that asking.

Reservation as right that the grounds for his detention the judgment has cited, pride of As Haley Duschinski and Shri­

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were not only indistinct and arbi­ place is occupied by India’s first moyee Nandini Ghosh have noted,
trary but that the government’s or­ big constitutional case, A.K. Gopa- in permitting detentions based on
Ensuring adequate representation to der invoked a brace of first infor­ lan v. State of Madras. There, the postulations that are protected
disadvantaged sections is a state obligation Suhrith Parthasarathy mation reports lodged way back in Supreme Court of India found that from review by courts, the law “es­
2008 and 2010, for which he had Article 21, which guarantees a tablishes a broad jurisdiction of

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t is quite understandable that a recent Supreme
Court judgment, that there is no fundamental right already faced detention. Accord­ right to life and personal liberty, suspicion”. Even the Supreme

F
undamental rights, we have
to claim reservation in promotions, has caused some
been repeatedly been told,
political alarm. The received wisdom in affirmative ac­ do not exist in silos. The va­
tion jurisprudence is that a series of Constitution lues inherent in the rights to
amendments and judgments have created a sound legal equality, freedom of expression
framework for reservation in public employment, sub­ and association, and to life and
ject to the fulfilment of certain constitutional require­ personal liberty are deeply intert­
ments. And that it has solidified into an entitlement for wined, with each right deriving
meaning from the other. Under
the backward classes, including the SCs and STs. Ho­
this conception, our right to be
wever, the latest judgment is a reminder that affirma­ treated with equal concern de­
tive action programmes allowed in the Constitution mands that we are allowed to
flow from “enabling provisions” and are not rights as speak freely, that our movement is
such. This legal position is not new. Major judgments — unrestrained, and that any limita­
these include those by Constitution Benches — note that tion placed on our personal liberty
Article 16(4), on reservation in posts, is enabling in na­ is founded on laws that are just,
fair, and reasonable. But, despite
ture. In other words, the state is not bound to provide
the theoretical affirmation of this
reservations, but if it does so, it must be in favour of sec­ idea, judicial practice is permeat­
tions that are backward and inadequately represented ed by cases where some laws are
in the services based on quantifiable data. Thus, the seen as special, as untouched by
Court is not wrong in setting aside an Uttarakhand High the rigours of due process. Prime
Court order directing data collection on the adequacy among them, as a recent judgment
or inadequacy of representation of SC/ST candidates in of the Jammu and Kashmir High
Court in Mian Abdul Qayoom v.
the State’s services. Its reasoning is that once there is a
State of J&K shows us, are laws pro­
decision not to extend reservation — in this case, in pro­ viding for preventive detention —
motions — to the section, the question whether its re­ in this case, the Jammu and Kash­
presentation in the services is inadequate is irrelevant. mir Public Safety Act of 1978
The root of the current issue lies in the then Congress [PSA].
government’s decision to give up SC/ST quotas in pro­
motions in Uttarakhand. The present BJP regime also The background
shares responsibility as it argued in the Court that there The petitioner before the court
was the 76­year­old Mian Abdul
is neither a basic right to reservations nor a duty by the
Qayoom, who is the president of
State government to provide it. The idea that reserva­ the High Court’s Bar Association at
tion is not a right may be in consonance with the Consti­ Srinagar. He was arrested original­
tution allowing it as an option, but a larger question ly in the lead­up to the Union go­
looms: Is there no government obligation to continue vernment’s decision on Article 370
with affirmative action if the social situation that keeps of the Constitution and has since
some sections backward and at the receiving end of dis­ been detained for more than six
months in a jail at Agra, with a
crimination persists? Reservation is no more seen by
view, the government says, to
the Supreme Court as an exception to the equality rule; “preventing him from acting in
rather, it is a facet of equality. The terms “proportionate any manner prejudicial to the
equality” and “substantive equality” have been used to
ing to him, the order also made does not require the state to follow Court, in Jaya Mala v. Home Secre-
vague references to his purported due process. It was therefore, in tary, Government of J&K (1982) de­
advocacy of secessionist ideology, tine, did no such thing. It instead the court’s belief, that Article 22 scribed the legislation as a “law­
without, in fact, specifying clearly held that preventive detention had been incorporated, stipulat­ less law” and warned of a looming
whether there was at all any crimi­ laws stand alone, that they are ing a set of procedural parameters danger in which normal criminal
nal charges placed against him. compelled by a “primordial” re­ for preventive detention laws. And trials would be replaced by re­
What is more, the detention, he quirement to maintain order in so­ such laws, according to the court, gimes of detention. But ever since
submitted, did not take into ac­ ciety. In their absence, the court were immunised from the limita­ its enactment, the PSA has served
count his rapidly deteriorating said, the right to personal liberty tions placed on the legislature by precisely this purpose. It has been
health: according to his family, as would lose all its meaning. And the other fundamental rights. used by successive governments to
a report in the Hindustan Times need for such laws, the judgment The verdict in Gopalan has quell even the slightest hint of dis­
states, Mr. Qayoom not only ails added, is so intensely felt that the since been overruled. Not only has sent. And when review of the or­
from diabetes and heart problems political executive ought to enjoy the Supreme Court held that the ders is sought, courts have invaria­
— with a doctor having advised an complete immunity in deciding fundamental rights chapter com­ bly followed the model that has
open heart surgery just before his when to invoke these powers. prises a network of mutually de­ now been adopted in Mr.
detention — but he is also surviving “The Court cannot substitute its pendant promises but it has also Qayoom’s case: an assumption
on only one kidney. own satisfaction for that of the ruled that Article 21 implicitly in­ that the executive knows best and
The High Court, in its judg­ authority concerned and decide cludes within it a guarantee of sub­ that any decision made by it is
ment, opened with the now cus­ whether its satisfaction was rea­ stantive due process. In other beyond the scope of judicial en­
tomary panegyric on freedom. sonable or proper,” wrote Justice words, the clause demands that quiry.
The right to personal liberty, Rabstan, “or whether in the cir­ any action or law that limits liberty The only thing transcendental
wrote Justice Tashi Rabstan, is a cumstances of the matter, the per­ ought to fair, just, and reasonable, about this approach is the omni­
“most precious right”. It has been son concerned should have been untouched by the caprices of the potent supremacy of the execu­
held, he added, to be “transcen­ detained or not.” All that judges state. tive. In reducing judicial review to
dental, inalienable and available could do, he said, was to see an irrelevance, the judgment, the­
to a person independent of the whether the stated grounds — re­ Executive knows best refore, stands as an antithesis of
Constitution”. And the right is not gardless of whether they are, in In overruling Gopalan, the court’s the Constitution’s basic function.
to be denied “except in accor­ fact, credible or not — bear some rationale was simple: the absence To understand the dangers inhe­
dance with procedures esta­ nexus with the objective of the of a substantive promise of due rent in vesting unbridled power of
blished under law” and that proce­ law. process would mean that the polit­ this kind, we do not need to see
dure, as held in Maneka Gandhi v. ical executive is free to use the J&K as exemplifying a state of ex­
Union of India, had to be “just and Guarantees reduced to a trifle most whimsical of motives to res­ ception. Nor do we need to appre­
fair”. Effectively, therefore, the judg­ trict freedom. Under such a no­ hend that the model employed
ment places liberty at the pleasure tion, something as arbitrary as a will likely be adopted in other
A ‘standalone’ law of government. It reduces the Con­ coin toss can act as a substitute for States. For, as Gopalan’s lawyer,
A person unacquainted with the stitution’s core guarantees to a tri­ a trial. But yet the apparent bury­ M.K. Nambyar, told the Supreme
workings of our judiciary would fle. Yet, extraordinary as the ver­ ing of the verdict in Gopalan has Court all those years ago: no
hardly be mistaken in thinking dict appears, a study of the history had little practical consequence. amount of fine phrasing can dis­
that the court, having appealed to of the law of preventive detention The PSA, which was introduced by guise the fact that detention with­
the powers of liberty, would then in India, especially as applied in the former Jammu and Kashmir out trial is repugnant to the “un­
render its findings on whether the the State of J&K, would show us ( J&K) Chief Minister Sheikh Abdul­ iversal conscience of civilized
detention in question was justified that we ought to have little to be lah’s government to purportedly mankind”.
as a matter of both law and fact. surprised about. The ruling, in re­ keep timber smugglers “out of cir­
But the court here, in what has be­ cognising boundless executive culation” allows for detention of Suhrith Parthasarathy is an advocate
come an increasingly familiar rou­ pre­eminence, only gives effect to up to two years without trial, with practising at the Madras High Court

A mix Indian health care can do without

show that the equality norm acquires completion only
when the marginalised are given a legal leg­up. Some
may even read into this an inescapable state obligation
to extend reservation to those who need it, lest its ab­ Ayushman Bharat entails diverting limited resources towards wasteful areas, ignoring productive fields in public health
sence render the entire system unequal. For instance, if
rance route as the way to go for this would entail considerable areas, which could have been set
no quotas are implemented and no study on backward­
health care. These are being large­ costs which would not primarily aside for much more pressing and
ness and extent of representation is done, it may result ly envisaged while riding on the contribute to, or be indispensable productive domains, such as pu­
in a perceptible imbalance in social representation in back of the Ayushman Bharat­Na­ for, improving health outcomes. blic hospitals and health centres.
public services. Will the courts still say a direction can­ tional Health Protection Scheme And this is set in a context where Improvements in these areas
not be given to gather data and provide quotas to those (AB­NHPS), which aims to provide public health spending fails to ex­ would have strongly reflected in
with inadequate representation? Soham D. Bhaduri insurance cover to nearly 50 crore ceed a single per cent of GDP (anti­ terms of tangibly better health out­
poor Indians. With the great razz­ podal to the U.S.) and where each comes. Rather, the AB­NHPS ap­
matazz that characterised its rupee spent on health is highly pears attuned to reinforcing a
Safeguarding the delta
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The move for a protected agriculture zone in tems, but this does not help
the U.S. with the well­known reali­
T.N. favours food security over energy greed ty that it is infamously poor­per­
launch, the AB­NHPS affirmed precious. While a besottedness stark contradiction wherein trail­
strong mechanisms to check insu­ with cutting­edge technology and blazing but unproductive high­
rance fraud which was common­ state­of­the­art systems can help end structures thrive alongside de­
place in its precursor programme, garner eyes and promote busi­ crepit but potentially fructuous
the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yoja­ arrangements and concomitant nesses, each unnecessary penny basic structures. In line with the

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y announcing that the Cauvery delta region, Ta­ forming. And so does the fact that na (RSBY). In the scramble to suc­ complex regulatory provisions incurred this way raises significant suggestions of experts and critics,
mil Nadu’s rice bowl comprising eight districts, it is also one of the most intricate ceed at this, deleterious emulation have ensured that health care in ethical concerns when basic it becomes essential to take a
will be declared as ‘Protected Special Agricultu­ of health systems across the globe. of the U.S. example appears to the U.S. is one of the most adminis­ health needs remain unmet and fresh, hard look at the larger ques­
ral Zone’ (PSAZ), State Chief Minister Edappadi K. Pala­ Over a century, U.S. health care have already set in. tratively and technologically inten­ abject shortages of fundamental tion of whether adopting the insu­
niswami has recognised farmer concerns about hydro­ has seen numerous elaborate ar­ Recently, 171 hospitals were re­ sive systems in the world. More health resources and infrastruc­ rance mode for achieving univer­
rangements, from organisational ported to have been de­empa­ than 50% of health­care spending ture stare square in the eye. sal health coverage is a felicitous
carbon exploration and accorded primacy to food
and regulatory structures to pay­ nelled from the AB­NHPS on in the U.S. in 2010 went into health Gupta and Roy have shown how path for India.
security. In political messaging, he also sought to de­ ment mechanisms emerge, be dis­ charges of fraud, which also in­ worker’s wages, with a large chunk the allocation for the AB­NHPS for The grandiloquent fanfare with
flect the perception that the AIADMK government, after mantled, and reincarnate with cluded the issuance of fake e­cards of the growth in health­care la­ 2019­20 would have covered less which the AB­NHPS has been
Jayalalithaa’s death, is subservient to the BJP­led central even greater degrees of complexi­ and the manipulation of claims. A bour taking place in the form of than a quarter of the targeted be­ rolled out and the global hype it
government and is complicit in allowing “anti­people” ty. Health care has repeatedly first information report was non­clinical workers. What this neficiaries. For 2020­21, there has has generated can readily adum­
projects. His decision comes weeks after he protested topped the political agenda; been lodged against a few hospitals and entails is that for every penny been a paltry increase in health­ brate the pressing concerns that
the Centre’s unilateral amendment of the Environment an area of passionate contention multiple show cause notices were spent on health care, very little care sector allocation (5.7% above lie underneath, while floating the
among an unexampled plethora of issued. This was almost within a goes into actually improving 2019­20 RE), while the allocation mistaken impression that much is
Impact Assessment Notification 2006, exempting prior
diverse interest groups; and scar­ year of the programme being health. for the AB­NHPS is unchanged. It being done for health care in the
environmental clearance and public consultations for cely ever been an unpopular topic launched with the promise of of­ is very possible that the AB­NHPS country. One persistent habit that
oil and gas exploration. The delta, which produces 33 of national discourse. However, fering a religious check on fraudu­ Range of concerns continues to remain insufficiently has characterised Indian health
lakh tonnes of grains in 28 lakh acres, has seen multiple fervent attempts to reconcile its lent practices. In India, the path of the AB­NHPS funded and incapable of extend­ care since inception is of leaping
protests for a decade over methane, hydrocarbon, oil health care with traditional Amer­ The response to these has been appears indistinguishable from ing considerable financial risk pro­ onto the next, more aspirational
and natural gas projects, which required acquisition of ican values of individual freedom envisaged through an unprece­ the former, though only more me­ tection to the poor. However, position or endeavour before do­
fertile lands and well drilling — proposals which trig­ and consumerism have not sat dented bolstering of administra­ nacing. It necessitates a battery of more investment is not necessarily ing sufficient justice with the pre­
well with the ideals of equity and tively­heavy and technology­dri­ new structures, personnel cadres, merrier in this context. Embracing vious one, thus leaving the basics
gered fears of groundwater contamination. Neduvasal
social justice. ven mechanisms. Already, data systems, and working arran­ the complexities associated with unattended. The AB­NHPS, in the
in Pudukottai and Kadiramangalam in Thanjavur have national­ and state anti­fraud units gements only in order to sub­satis­ robust regulation of the insurance presence of this vice, can only be
been the nerve centres of these resolute protests, led by Piggyback route have been established and part­ factorily operate an insurance programme and making the requi­ another precarious rung in the
agriculturists and backed by mainstream political par­ In India, multiple policy pronoun­ nerships with fraud control com­ scheme that would cover less than site technological and administra­ ladder.
ties. In July 2013, in response to sustained protests, then cements over the last few years panies conceived. One would ask half the population. Disregarding tive investments appear attractive
Chief Minister Jayalalithaa ordered suspension on have expressed an implicit intent this question: what is wrong in all the death spiral that policy­driven and commendable on the face. Dr. Soham D. Bhaduri is a Mumbai-based
coalbed methane exploration and production in Than­ to emulate certain features of the of this? over reliance on private health However, they entail diverting doctor, health-care commentator, and
U.S. health system, enhance priv­ Let us return to the U.S. once care could lead to — given India’s highly limited resources towards editor of the journal, ‘The Indian
javur and Tiruvarur and followed it up with a ban in
ate initiative, and uphold the insu­ again. Multiple layers of complex feeble regulatory architecture — wasteful and dispensable high­end Practitioner’
2015. But in 2017, the Centre signed contracts for hydro­
carbon extraction from 31 areas of discovered small
fields including from Neduvasal. Two years later it al­
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Mr. Palaniswami has rightly sensed that the farmers’ The happenings in the
country make me doubt if it
emotive and intense opposition can be ignored only at a
is a democratic country and
political cost. Agricultural scientists such as M.S. Swam­ a welfare state. The voice of
inathan have for long mooted such zones similar to spe­ the people and the
cial economic zones; Uttarakhand and Kerala have Opposition remain stifled in
them. Tamil Nadu now has to enact legislation to pro­ Kashmir.
tect a vast region, largely in the coastal area, from in­ And, ironically, instead of
dustries that would affect farming. The State has its winning the confidence and
goodwill of the people, the
challenges. In 2017, a government notification delineat­
government is striving to
ed 45 villages covering about 23,000 hectares in Cudda­ assure businessmen of
lore and Nagapattinam districts in the delta, as a Petro­ freedoms. Opening
leum, Chemical and Petrochemical Investment Region, Kashmir to investors will no
with an eye on over ₹90,000 crore in investments. The doubt usher in job and
proposed PSAZ raises a question mark on this ambi­ industrial opportunities.
tious scheme. The government may have to brave cen­ But there will also be a mad
rush to exploit the natural
tral pressure and litigation from companies which
wealth of Kashmir. It is
pumped in money for exploration. The latest decision doubtful if the pristine
may have implications for the State’s investment cli­ beauty of the area would
mate, what with the closure of the Sterlite Copper plant survive such an onslaught
still fresh in memory. But the intent to prioritise farmer (Page 1, “J&K administration
interests and food security is beyond reproach. offers investors
‘uninterrupted’ Internet,
T. Anand Raj,
Chennai
Out of bounds
The Tamil Nadu Chief
Minister’s announcement,
on Sunday, that the
Cauvery delta region would
be declared a ‘Protected
Special Agriculture Zone’ is
a real bonanza for the
State’s farmers (Page 1,
“Cauvery delta to be
declared a protected
agriculture zone”, February
10). The declaration that
hydrocarbon units would
be kept at arm’s­length is a
good move to safeguard the
fertility of the land. But the
declaration, which is a bold
move, will not be complete
unless a special law is
enacted based on this
announcement. The State
cancel hydrocarbon G. David Milton, populations; it also has a
projects awarded, if any, in Maruthancode, Tamil Nadu white tiger safari. Before any captain not only gracefully
the proposed protected cheetah introduction, the congratulated the Indian
area. Bringing cheetahs back prey base has to be reviewed. team but was also bold
D. Sethuraman, To truly revive the Indian Importantly, there must be enough to admit with regret
Chennai cheetah population, India social and environmental the uncalled for aggressive
should swap a few Asiatic Gir impact assessment. postures by his team. Such
■ For once the State lions for Asiatic Iranian Introduction of the cheetah an admission, even a captain
government cannot be run cheetahs. Iran had native is bound to increase a of a senior team would hate
down as being spineless. One wild Asiatic lions in the past tourism­based economy. to make. Maturity of thought
wonders whether the party’s before they became extinct Diwakar Prasad Tiwari, at an young age deserves
recent poll performances locally. It could be a win­win Bara, Satna, Madhya Pradesh appreciation. Bangladesh
have shaped the situation for both India and should not let go of the
announcement. In the end, Iran to reclaim a lost animal. The dazzlers victory as a flash in the pan
agriculture will get a boost, This idea was conceived in No one would have predicted but capitalise on it to build
and Tamil Nadu’s rice bowl the past but was not carried that Bangladesh, considered up its senior team. India
saved. It would be the height out. If all goes well we may minnows, would be roaring fought hard to defend a
of folly to destroy a fertile see the world’s fastest land all the way to take the U­19 below par score. What
region of immense ecological animal prowling again on World Cup cricket title, ultimately made the
importance. The government India’s grasslands. steamrolling superior teams difference was India giving
should withdraw the cases A. Kutub Shamshudin, (‘Sport page, “Sensational away 33 extras, most of them
filed against Chennai Tiger Cubs conquer the wides, with pacers wayward
environmentalists and world”, February 10). It is many times.
farmers who protested ■ It will be a test case for also gratifying that the V. Subramanian,
against hydrocarbon Madhya Pradesh, which has victorious Bangladeshi Chennai

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Facing up to realities
Health pandemics and economic crises cannot be masked for too long
Praveen Chakravarty
As India entered the 21st century, the
Net National Income of the average
Indian was ₹20,000. While this fi­
gure is not the actual earnings of an
individual, it is a good proxy for the
average Indian’s annual income. By
2015, it had grown to ₹90,000. Had it
continued on the same trajectory, it
should have been ₹1,65,000 today.
Instead, as the recent Economic Sur­
vey shows, the Net National Income
for the average Indian is ₹1,35,000.
In other words, the average Indian
has potentially lost ₹30,000 in net
annual income. For most Indians,
₹30,000 a year is a very big amount.
This is the cost of economic under­
performance for the average Indian.
The POW trinity
It is well accepted by most political
economists that India’s economic
performance is largely shaped by the
‘POW’ trinity — politics, oil and world
economy. Political leadership and
stability are critical determinants of
domestic and foreign investment in
India. Global oil prices play an inor­
dinately large role in shaping India’s
macroeconomy. World trade and glo­
bal GDP drive India’s exports and in­
dustry.
In 2014, India gleamed with hope.
For the first time in nearly half a cen­
tury, the ‘POW’ trinity was perfectly
aligned. Indians handed a parlia­
mentary majority to a supposedly
strong, decisive leader with a pro­
mise of economic development.
Beginning in 2014, global crude oil
prices dropped precipitously from
more than $100 a barrel to $40. It
was estimated then that the steep fall
in oil prices alone would add two ex­
tra percentage points to India’s GDP
growth rate, besides taming infla­
tion. The global economy was also
on an upward trend from 2014, reco­
vering robustly from the devastation
of the 2008 economic crisis. The pe­
riod from 2014 to 2019 was among
the best five years for world econom­
ic growth in the 21st century.
So, in the summer of 2014, a bil­
lion Indians glimmered in hope and
excitement at the prospect of rapidly
The calumny against Gandhi
The Mahatma is not beyond criticism, but slander
based on falsehoods amounts to vilification
Mohammed Ayoob
Of late, there has been a flurry of
statements directly or indirectly de­
nigrating Mahatma Gandhi. Pragya
Thakur’s praise for Nathuram Godse
as a ‘patriot’ stands out, because she
is a high­profile Member of Parlia­
ment elected on the ruling party’s
ticket.
According to reports, there has
been a demand, attributed to the
Hindu Mahasabha, that Meerut in Ut­
tar Pradesh be renamed ‘Godse Na­
gar’. Several statues of Godse have
been erected, beginning with the one
installed at the Hindu Mahasabha of­
fice in Meerut on Mahatma Gandhi’s
birthday on October 2, 2016. It was
reported that on the anniversary of
the Mahatma’s assassination on Janu­
ary 30 this year, members of the Ma­
hasabha garlanded Godse’s statue.
The most recent incident of ca­
lumny against the Mahatma was
former Union Minister and current
BJP MP Anantkumar Hegde’s state­
ment on February 1 claiming that the
freedom movement led by Gandhi
was a “drama” that was “staged with
the consent and support of the Brit­
ish”. He went on to say that it is not
that “India got independence be­
cause of the fast unto death and sa­
tyagraha... Britishers gave indepen­
dence out of frustration. My blood
boils when I read history. Such peo­
ple become Mahatma in our coun­
try.” Despite Mr. Hegde’s attempt to
wriggle out of the controversy
caused by his statement, it cannot be
denied that his remarks were an at­
tempt to bring Gandhi and his unpa­
ralleled contribution to the freedom
movement into disrepute.
Disagreements with Ambedkar
No political leader, not even the tal­
lest among them, should be immune
from criticism. This applies to Gand­
hi as well. His ideas and actions were
open to legitimate criticism even dur­
ing his lifetime. For example, B.R.
Ambedkar criticised Gandhi for let­
ting down Dalits by going on a fast
unto death against the separate elec­
torate granted to them in 1932. This
led to Ambedkar dropping his de­
mand in exchange for greater repre­
sentation for Dalits elected by the
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rising income levels and prosperity
under a perfectly aligned ‘POW’. Six
years later, not only has the average
Indian’s income levels not grown fas­
ter than before, it is actually ₹30,000
short of what it should have been.
Why did things go so wrong? The
ongoing health catastrophe caused
by the novel coronavirus in Hubei
province of China offers meaningful
parallels and lessons for India’s eco­
nomic policy climate.
The coronavirus parallel
In a recent article, The New York
Times reconstructed the events lead­
ing up to the novel coronavirus cri­
sis. In early December, several shop­
keepers in an open meat market in
Wuhan started falling ill. Doctors in
the hospital treating these patients
raised alarms about a mysterious ill­
ness.
The Mayor of Wuhan, however,
did not want any negative news
about his city. He issued summons to
the doctors who raised alarm about
the illness and forced them to sign
statements that their warnings were
unfounded. Further, Wuhan’s
healthcare authorities placed restric­
tions on discussing the illness in pu­
blic. They assured the public that the
disease was “entirely preventable
and curable” and issued statements
claiming that all was well. Ironically,
at this time, the Mayor even held a
“Health Expo” event to showcase
Wuhan as a top healthcare
destination.
Within days, there were hundreds
of deaths and all hell had broken
loose. It was no longer possible for
general Hindu electorate. Ambedkar
later came to regret the decision.
Similarly, Subhas Chandra Bose
was critical of Gandhi’s reliance sole­
ly on non­violence to gain India’s in­
dependence and the Mahatma’s aver­
sion to industrialisation.
Nonetheless, the two respected, even
admired, each other. In 1942, after
Bose had formed the Indian National
Army and despite Gandhi’s aversion
to violence, he called Bose a “patriot
of patriots”. Bose referred to Gandhi
as the “father of the nation” in a
broadcast from Rangoon in 1944.
Gandhi’s economic ideas were
criticised by the left because of his
theory of trusteeship by which the
wealthy would hold India’s wealth in
trust for the people. The socialist and
communist left argued that this theo­
ry was anti­poor because it justified
the concentration of wealth among
landlords, feudal princes and capital­
ists. Those, including Jawaharlal Neh­
ru, committed to making India a
strong modern state and an indus­
trialised nation, were critical of
Gandhi’s aversion to industrialisation
and his belief that self­governing vil­
lages should constitute the basis of
Indian polity.
Fabrication
These criticisms were based on ge­
nuine differences of opinion. Calum­
ny is a different matter, especially
since it is based on falsehood. The
prime example of such fabrication is
that Gandhi was responsible for Par­
tition when the truth is absolutely the
opposite. Gandhi remained a firm
opponent of Partition until the very
end. The Congress Working Commit­
tee accepted the Partition plan,
knowing that this was the case. This
is the main reason why Gandhi disas­
sociated himself from the celebra­
tions accompanying Indian Indepen­
dence and left Delhi for Bengal to
heal the wounds of communal riots.
Unfortunately, slander has now be­
come a fine art in India and electron­
ic and social media have become the
principal conduits for its
propagation.
Mohammed Ayoob is University Distinguished
Professor Emeritus of International Relations,
Michigan State University
OPED 11
Prepared for the coronavirus
India has responded in many ways to contain the epidemic
and acted upon, warnings not sup­ crossings by the Home Ministry is in place.
pressed and expert advice not dis­ Hospitals with isolation facilities near all in­
missed. The average Indian is paying ternational airports are prepared to meet
the price for this severe folly – any emergency requirements.
₹30,000 a year. In Kerala, where the three people with
However, there is now one major nCoV are quarantined, the health authorities
difference in the way the Wuhan no­ Preeti Sudan & Balram Bhargava have responded in a stellar manner. Kerala
vel coronavirus crisis is being han­ has not only traced hundreds of contacts of
dled vis­a­vis the Indian economic the confirmed cases and notified them to the
crisis. The Chinese government has Declared by the World Health Organization Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme
acknowledged the enormity of the as a Public Health Emergency of Internation­ for monitoring, but also used unique com­
Wuhan crisis and is acting at lighten­ al Concern, the novel coronavirus (nCoV) munity­based isolation methods, innovated
ing speed to salvage the situation. It has infected more than 37,000 people and while dealing with the Nipah virus out­
built a brand new 1,000­bed hospital killed more than 800. The Indian govern­ breaks. Its model of monitoring, with the
in just 10 days to accommodate pa­ ment and health authorities have responded District Collector as the administrative unit,
tients and contain the virus. It is in a robust manner to contain the epidemic has been shared as a best practice with all
building two more hospitals. Experts in various ways on the basis of available States. All the States have put together a ro­
from across the country are being knowledge, but there are no grounds for bust system of contact tracing, community
sent to Wuhan. There is an all­out ef­ complacency. While logistical challenges surveillance with community engagement,
fort by the government to help China have been overcome by the Ministries, earmarking isolation facilities, sharing infor­
recover from this crisis. States, the military and civilians together, In­ mation, updating surveillance data, issuing
dian scientists have shown their eagerness to daily health bulletins, skilling health workers
the government to suppress this bad Nonchalant Central government attain world­class skills by rapidly develop­ with new guidelines, etc. The States border­
news. Within a span of seven weeks On the other hand, India’s Finance ing diagnostics and treatment protocols. ing Nepal have even held special gram sab­
from the doctors raising an alarm Minister, in delivering the longest has to empower people with information.
about a mysterious disease, the novel Budget speech in history recently, A swift response
coronavirus became a global epi­ did not even seem to acknowledge Swift diplomacy was at work during the Wu­ Treatment
demic. the enormity of the economic crisis, han airlift. The External Affairs Ministry ob­ Till date no antiviral treatment for the coro­
It is both tempting and natural to much less outline concrete steps to tained permission and ground support from navirus infection has been effective but stu­
ponder about the counterfactual. revive the economy. Beyond the its Chinese counterparts and coordinated dies among SARS­CoV patients show that the
Could China have been saved from numbers about fiscal deficit, taxation with Air India through the Civil Aviation Mi­ combination of lopinavir and ritonavir was
the novel coronavirus epidemic had and expenditure, the most worrying nistry. The Health and Family Welfare Minis­ associated with possible clinical benefit.
the doctors’ alarms not been sup­ and important takeaway from the re­ try provided the team of medical personnel Based on this research as well its own dock­
pressed? What could the situation cent Budget exercise was the govern­ to accompany the students home, and ar­ ing studies, ICMR has obtained approval to
have been had the government not ment’s seeming nonchalance to­ ranged for their health check­ups and qua­ use this combination therapy as part of a pu­
stifled factual reporting? Could doc­ wards the gravity of the crisis the rantine at special camps organised by the blic health emergency within a research fra­
tors and scientists have discovered Indian economy is facing. Any Armed Forces Medical Services in Manesar mework and restricted use. On the diagnos­
the virus sooner and ring­fenced it, amount of analysis of the intricate and the Indo­Tibetan Border Police facility in tics front, the NIV has leveraged its
had the Mayor not intimidated the details of the Budget numbers or Delhi. Temporary visa restrictions have been considerable expertise in real­time reverse­
doctors into silence? One will never schemes is moot unless there is con­ put in place. All the 645 evacuees have tested transcription polymerase chain reaction
know. But it is indisputable that fidence and trust built among eco­ negative for nCoV. They are being monitored testing to develop assays for in­vitro qualita­
drawing a veil over the ugly truth and nomic participants that the govern­ on a regular basis and will be tested again. tive detection of nCoV, using primer and
facts made it much worse and the ment is seized of the gravity of the India issued its first advisory on January probe sequences of the virus provided by the
consequences more dire than what situation and is taking concrete steps 17. The Emergency Medical Response Unit in WHO. Scientists at NIV are also carrying out
could have been. to resolve it. At present, this is con­ the Health Ministry was activated, the Na­ genomic sequencing of nCoV and attempting
The parallel with India’s unfolding spicuously missing. tional Centre for Disease Control opened a to isolate the virus in order to replicate it for
economic crisis is striking. India’s go­ Health pandemics and economic 24X7 helpline, and the Indian Council of further research. Fourteen Viral Research
vernment had dismissed, ignored, si­ crises cannot be draped and masked Medical Research (ICMR) worked to quickly and Diagnostic Laboratories have been up­
lenced or shunted all negative data, for too long. India’s $3 trillion market put in place a testing facility at the National graded to carry out nCoV testing.
indicators, views and opinions about economy cannot be dictated and bul­ Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune. The Joint India has also offered help to other coun­
the economy. From the initial signs lied into appropriate behaviour. It Monitoring Group under the Chairmanship tries in the South Asia region as part of its
in 2015 of a banking stress to falling needs careful treatment by experts. of the Directorate General of Health Services Neighbourhood First policy. It evacuated se­
private investment to collapsing con­ It may be a cliché that desperate was activated to continuously assess the risk ven Maldivian nationals from Wuhan. It has
sumption demand to dormant ex­ times call for desperate measures but and review the preparedness to manage any extended technical assistance to several
ports and rising unemployment, worth repeating. While the run­up to case that might get imported to India. countries to set up testing laboratories.
there were ample signs and metrics India’s economic crisis was eerily si­ Thermal entry screening of passengers The public too has helped deal with the
of the rapidly deteriorating state of milar to the way China ignored warn­ from China is taking place in 21 airports. Un­ crisis, particularly by preventing the dissem­
the economy. But these were either ing calls on coronavirus, one hopes, iversal screening at earmarked aerobridges ination of wrong information. We should all
quickly buried or altered. Sure for the sake of a billion Indians and for all flights from China, Hong Kong, Singa­ observe good hygiene and sanitation practic­
enough, India’s economic growth the world, that the Indian govern­ pore and Thailand is carried out. There are es to prevent infection, avoid crowding in
has collapsed to a six­year low. Simi­ ment emulates the Chinese govern­ inflight announcements and self­declaration public places and perhaps even replace the
lar to the Wuhan situation, one is left ment in handling its crisis. forms in international flights, so that passen­ handshake with the traditional Namaste.
to wonder about what could have gers with any symptoms can volunteer for
been India’s economic situation to­ Praveen Chakravarty is a political economist screening. Screening at international sea­ Preeti Sudan is Secretary, Health Ministry; Balram
day had early alarm bells been heard and an office bearer of the Congress party ports by the Shipping Ministry and border Bhargava is Secretary, Department of Health Research
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FROM THE ARCHIVES
FIFTY YEARS AGO FEBRUARY 11, 1970
Banking Companies Act struck down
A special Bench of the Supreme Court, by a
majority of ten to one, to­day [February 10]
struck down as unconstitutional the Banking
Companies (Acquisition and Transfer of Un­
dertakings) Act 1969, in its entirety. This Act
replaced the Ordinance under which the Go­
vernment had nationalised 14 scheduled
banks. The majority judgment, however,
upheld the competence of Parliament to le­
gislate on nationalisation of banks. The ma­
jority struck down the Act on the ground
that it made hostile discrimination against
the taken­over banks in that it prohibited
these banks from carrying on “banking busi­
ness” whereas other banks, Indian and fo­
reign, were permitted to carry on banking
business and even new banks may be
formed, which may engage in banking busi­
ness. The majority also held that the Act had
violated the guarantee of compensation un­
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certain amounts determined according to
DATA POINT principles which were not relevant to the de­
termination of compensation. The amounts
so declared “cannot be regarded as compen­
sation”, the Court said.
A HUNDRED YEARS AGO FEB. 11, 1920.
Comments on Amritsar Floggings.
Why the Indian poet, Sir Rabindranath Ta­
gore, handed back to his donors the knight­
hood bestowed by the British Government is
made plain by ‘The Japan Weekly Chronicle’
(Tokyo). He did it in protest against British
floggings of Hindu rioters.. But this is the
story: “By the courtesy of an Indian reader
we learn some further particulars of the sur­
render of his knighthood by Sir Rabindra­
nath Tagore. It was done on account of the
measures taken in the suppression of riots in
the Punjab. It appears that floggings were
administered to rioters; and administered in
public. Military men are apparently incura­
ble in their belief that this is the way to
‘teach people a lesson’. One might have ex­
pected that after the Denshawi affair this
method of dealing with a popular demon­
stration, even if it amounts to a bloodthirsty
insurrection, would be forever discredited.
The ultimate object of any sort of govern­
ment must be that the people will uphold it,
and it is obvious that anybody witnessing
corporal chastisementwill feel much more
sympathy for the persons punished than for
the authority thus vindicated.” ­ “Literary
Digest.”
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SC upholds changes to
SC/ST atrocities law
Despite Justice Bhat’s ca­
veat, all three judges on the
Bench have upheld the con­
stitutionality of Section 18A
of the Scheduled Castes and
Scheduled Tribes (Preven­
tion of Atrocities) Amend­
ment Act of 2018. The sole
purpose of Section 18A was
to nullify a controversial
March 20, 2018, judgment of
the Supreme Court diluting
the stringent anti­bail provi­
sions of the original Sche­
duled Castes and Scheduled
Tribes (Prevention of Atroci­
ties) Act of 1989.
A two­judge Bench of the
Supreme Court had on
March 20, 2018, held that
there was no “absolute bar”
on accused person obtain­
ing anticipatory bail under
Section 438 CrPC, “if no pri­
‘Review court can refer
questions to larger Bench’
Chief Justice Bobde, who
succeeded Justice Gogoi, set
up the nine­judge Bench to
hear the reference.
The November 2019 refe­
rence hit a bump on Monday
last, with senior advocate Fa­
li Nariman objecting to it. He
argued that the court could
not declare law in thin air.
“Fundamental [to judicial
process] is you apply law to
the facts of cases and not de­
cide the law before looking
into the facts... Never in­
dulge in the exposition of
law outside the realm of the
facts of the case,” he said.
The Gogoi Bench’s sole
task was to review the Saba­
rimala judgment of Septem­
ber 2018. The major ground
for seeking a review was the
finding in the judgment that
Ayyappa devotees did not
form a separate religious de­
nomination, he stated. On
November 14, the Review
Bench recorded no errors
apparent or miscarriage of
justice in the 2018 verdict.
“When Ayyappa devotees
were not found to be a sepa­
rate denomination, these re­
Court seeks police view
on Shaheen Bagh protest
When Mr. Pracha submit­
ted that there should be a
“balancing of rights”, Jus­
tice Kaul said, “This is not
about any balancing of
rights”. “Can you block a
public road?” Justice Joseph
asked.
The petition filed by Mr.
Sahni sought directions to
the police to take action to
ensure smooth traffic
movement on the Kalindi
Kunj­Shaheen Bagh stretch,
which has been closed for
over a month owing to anti­
CAA protests, making the
public at large suffer.
The plea sought supervi­
sion of the situation in Sha­
heen Bagh, where several
women are sitting on an in­
definite protest, by a retired
Omar’s sister challenges
his detention under PSA
Without citing any incidents
or statements, the dossier
accused Mr. Abdullah of “re­
moving his cover and resort­
ing to dirty politics, adopt­
ing a radical methodology
by way of instigating general
masses against the policies
of the Central government”
after the abrogation of Arti­
cle 370 by the BJP­led Cen­
tral government on August
5. Ms. Pilot said she was
shocked to learn that, just
like what happened to their
father, the government had
imposed a fresh lease of de­
tention under the PSA on
her brother too.
The petition explained
that Mr. Abdullah’s deten­
tion from August 5 under
Section 107 of the Cr.PC (se­
curity for keeping the
peace) was scheduled to
end on February 5, 2020.
His release was imminent.
He had served the maxi­
mum period of detention.
CM
YK
ma facie is made out or if
judicial scrutiny reveals the
complaint to be prima facie
malafide”.
The March 20, 2018 judg­
ment was a response to the
court’s belief that the law
was abused to file false
complaints.
The verdict had led to wi­
despread violence. Conse­
quently, Parliament amend­
ed the 1989 law and inserted
Section 18A into it. Section
18A re­affirmed the original
legislative bar on pre­arrest
bail.
A number of petitions
were filed in the Supreme
Court to declare Section 18A
“arbitrary and unconstitu­
tional”. All of them were dis­
missed by the Bench on
Monday as without merit.
ference questions on Article
25 [religious freedom] are
purely an academic exercise.
It was not necessary to raise
these hypothetical questions
in reference. The President,
and not the CJI, consults the
Supreme Court under Arti­
cle 143 of the Constitution on
questions of law and facts,”
Mr. Nariman had argued.
Senior advocate Shyam
Divan had agreed that review
jurisdiction did not include
“framing a catalogue of
questions randomly”.
Senior advocate A.M.
Singhvi had said, “But what
if judges have a doubt? They
refer it to a larger Bench. Are
you saying the President can
refer questions of law to the
Supreme Court, but judges
cannot?”
Senior advocate K. Parasa­
ran had said the Supreme
Court had unlimited jurisdic­
tion. The fact that it was re­
viewing the Sabarimala judg­
ment did not preclude it
from referring other ques­
tions of law and cases with si­
milar issues to a larger
Bench.
Supreme Court judge or a
sitting judge of the Delhi
High Court to avoid any
further deterioration in the
situation.
“The respondents [the
Delhi police] cannot be per­
mitted to behave like mute
spectators particularly in a
situation now faced by per­
sons living in the vicinity of
Kalindi Kunj,” said the plea.
Mr. Sahni contended that
the Delhi High Court did
not order the forthwith re­
moval of traffic restrictions
and observed that no direc­
tion could be issued on the
methodology to handle the
protest and traffic move­
ment successfully, and left
it to the discretion of the
police.
On February 5, the Exec­
utive Magistrate, instead of
releasing him, ordered his
further detention under
Section 8 of the PSA in an
“arbitrary exercise of
power”.
Ms. Pilot asked what was
the point of detaining a man
already detained through
the long months of lock­
down suffered across Jam­
mu and Kashmir. In fact, she
said, during the past six
months there had been no
effort by the authorities to
verify the truth behind the
“information” that Mr. Ab­
dullah was a threat to the
peace. On the other hand,
there were reams of mate­
rial in the form of tweets
and public statements
vouching for his exemplary
conduct to maintain the
peace.
Ms. Pilot said there was
danger to her brother’s life
and liberty.
Oppn. walks out from Houses over quota issue
Members charge Centre with failure
to defend reservation in promotions
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
NEW DELHI
Opposition parties on Mon­
day staged a walkout from
both Houses of Parliament
after Social Justice and Em­
powerment Minister Thaa­
warchand Gehlot said the
Centre was not a party to the
case in which the Supreme
Court held that reservation
in promotions in public
posts could not be claimed as
a fundamental right.
He said that though the
Centre was neither asked to
file an affidavit nor made a
party to the case, the matter
was being discussed at the
“highest level” and “appro­
priate steps” would be taken.
His remarks were in res­
ponse to the Opposition’s
charge that the Centre had
failed to defend the reserva­
tion.
Refutes charge
Refuting the Opposition alle­
gation, the Minister reiterat­
ed the Narendra Modi go­
Govt. in denial over economic collapse: Chidambaram
Former Finance Minister says the
States are being cheated of funds
Special Correspondent
New Delhi
Senior Congress leader and
former Union Finance Minis­
ter P. Chidambaram on Mon­
day led the Opposition’s sev­
ere criticism of the
government’s economic poli­
cies, saying the economy was
perilously close to collapse
and, with “rising unemploy­
ment and falling consump­
tion, India is becoming
poorer.”
Leading the debate on the
Mahua asked not to cast
aspersions on Chair
Her remarks irked Speaker Om Birla
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
NEW DELHI
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla
on Monday cautioned Trina­
mool Congress member Ma­
hua Moitra for casting asper­
sions on the Chair and
passing comments from her
seat while the proceedings
were under way.
“I am telling you that
please don’t keep passing
comments from your seat or
else I will be forced to take
action,” he told her.
The Speaker’s comments
came after Ms. Moitra made
certain remarks on the
Chair after she was not al­
lowed to ask a supplemen­
tary question on the growth
rate during the question
hour.
“Honourable member,
please don’t make undue
comments and, that too,
when sitting in someone els­
e’s seat. Whether I am im­
partial or not, the House
will decide...,” Mr. Birla
said. Then he told Trina­
RSS leader Suresh Joshi underscores broader Hindu unity
His statement in
Goa seeks to draw
in other parties
Nistula Hebbar
NEW DELHI
RSS second­in­command Su­
resh “Bhaiyyaji” Joshi in an
interaction in Goa on Sunday
said the BJP, referred to as
the political voice of the
Sangh Parivar, was not “syn­
onymous” with the Hindu
community and moves to op­
pose the BJP should not be
automatically assumed to be
opposing Hindus.
While many meanings are
being read into Mr. Joshi’s
words, specifically in the
context of the Union govern­
ment’s handling of a bitter fa­
ceoff over the Citizenship
(Amendment) Act (CAA) but
more importantly over the
BJP’s break with the Shiv Se­
na — its only ally on the issue
of Hindutva — last year, RSS
vernment’s commitment to
reservation for the Sche­
duled Castes (SCs), the Sche­
duled Tribes (STs) and the
Other Backward Classes
(OBCs) and pointed out that
the order pertained to a 2012
decision of the Uttarakhand
government when the Con­
gress was in power in the
State.
Last Friday, the court
ruled that the State govern­
ments were not bound to
give reservation in promo­
tion without data showing an
imbalance in the representa­
tion of certain communities.
The order pertained to an
appeal against the Uttarak­
hand High Court’s order on
promotions to Assistant En­
gineers (Civil) in the Public
Works Department.
When Mr. Gehlot talked
about the Congress being in
power in Uttarakhand then,
Opposition MPs shouted
“shame, shame” and walked
out.
The issue was raised by
Union Budget in the Rajya
Sabha, he said the govern­
ment was in denial and the
economy had to be attended
to by “competent doctors”.
Revenue shortfall
The Congress leader said the
States were being cheated.
“In the beginning of the cur­
rent year, you promised to
transfer ₹8,09,133 crore in
the Budget Estimate. At the
end of the year, you will
transfer only ₹6,56,046
Mahua Moitra
mool Leader of the House
Sudip Bandyopadhyay to
advise his colleague.
‘Banks doing well’
Minister of State for Finance
Anurag Thakur said the pu­
blic sector banks were doing
well now, and there was no
reason for worry.
In a written reply, Fi­
nance Minister Nirmala Sith­
araman said bad loans of
these banks had come down
to ₹7.27 lakh crore at the end
of September 2019 follow­
ing the measures taken by
the government to improve
their health.
Suresh Joshi
insiders say the context is
even larger. The meaning of
Mr. Joshi’s statement, they
say, is to draw the point that
the Hindu cause is a larger is­
sue, notwithstanding the
political position taken by
people of different political
ideologies. It is also to under­
score the point that the RSS’s
voice is not confined to that
of the BJP.
Insiders point to the fact
that the late Nanaji Desh­
mukh favoured supporting
Leading the charge: Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury
speaking in the Lok Sabha on Monday. PTI
Congress leader Adhir Ran­
jan Chowdhury as soon as
the Question Hour began.
Defence Minister Rajnath
Singh, who is also the Depu­
ty Leader of the Lok Sabha,
said, “The Congress is politi­
cising the issue.”
Parliamentary Affairs Mi­
nister Pralhad Joshi urged
Speaker Om Birla to expunge
comments from Opposition
leaders who had linked the
Centre with the judgment.
In the Rajya Sabha, Minis­
ter for Food and Consumer
Affairs Ramvilas Paswan
said, “We have been de­
P. Chidambaram
crore. There is a cut of
₹1,53,000 crore. Divide it
among 30 States. On an aver­
age, every State will lose
₹5,000 crore…and the next
year, you [have] promised to
1.97 lakh passengers screened for nCoV
India helping Maldives, Afghanistan and Bhutan in tackling infection: Vardhan
Special Correspondent
NEW DELHI
More than 1.97 lakh passen­
gers travelling in 1,818 flights
had been screened for the
novel coronavirus, Health
Minister Harsh Vardhan said
on Monday as he outlined
the steps taken by the go­
vernment to deal with the in­
fection since its outbreak last
month.
Issuing a suo motu state­
ment in the Lok Sabha, Dr.
Vardhan said the screening
of the passengers had been
initiated at 12 major seaports
and all minor ports to identi­
fy passengers and crew
members coming from Chi­
na and isolate them in case
they were found
symptomatic.
He told the House that In­
dia had also provided sup­
port to other countries in
tackling the challenge posed
by the nCOV disease.
“The ICMR has offered to
do testing of samples for oth­
er South East Asian Region
countries. Testing of sam­
‘Gurukul system must be revived’
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
PANAJI
The ‘gurukul’ system of
education should be revived
and Sanskrit made part of
the school curriculum, RSS
general secretary Suresh
‘Bhaiyyaji’ Joshi has said.
Speaking at Dona Paula
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the Congress in the election
in the aftermath of Prime Mi­
nister Indira Gandhi’s assas­
sination in 1984. At that time,
say senior RSS men, the
country needed to be united
in the face of fissiparous forc­
es regardless of ideology.
Many in the RSS also feel
that ideology is one thing,
but the way the RSS func­
tions organisationally is also
* quota in promotions could
manding two things: there
be a separate judiciary ser­
vice with due reservation for
the SCs/STs; and the reserva­
tion clause be part of Sche­
dule 9 of the Constitution so
that it can’t be tampered
with.”
Leader of the Opposition
Ghulam Nabi Azad said,
“None of us could have ima­
gined that the reservation
would be revoked. We were
hopeful that Mr. Gehlot
would say the government
would file a review petition
or bring in a law to make the
judgment null and void.”
give ₹784 lakh crore. I don’t
believe your numbers,” he
said.
The economy, he said, is
facing demand constraints
and is investment­starved.
“Fear and uncertainty pre­
vails in the country,” he ad­
ded. The former Minister
pointed out that the govern­
ment is facing a shortfall in
all forms of taxes — ₹1.56 lakh
crore on corporate tax,
₹10,000 crore on personal
income tax, ₹30,000 crore
on customs, ₹52,000 crore
on excise and ₹51,000 crore
on the GST. This despite “the
extraordinary powers” and
Making a plea: S. Jaishankar with the family of a student, who
is still in Wuhan city, in New Delhi on Monday. PTI
ples from Maldives has alrea­
dy been undertaken. Re­
quest from Afghanistan for
samples testing has been
agreed to. We have agreed to
provide technical assistance
to Bhutan in screening of
passengers also,’’ he said.
He thanked Air India, its
crew and the team of doc­
tors and the para medical
staff who brought back 654
passengers — 647 Indians (in­
cluding two embassy offi­
cials who were on the
ground in Wuhan to coordi­
near here on Sunday, he
said, “Sanskrit should be
taught in every school. The
government has to give it a
serious thought. We feel
Sanskrit is the mother of all
languages, and if you have to
understand India, you can’t
do it without Sanskrit...”
important. That functioning,
say sources, cannot be based
only on political activity.
In Kerala, Bengal
Mr. Joshi’s statement in Goa
(the transcript of which was
made available to The Hin-
du) also referred to instances
of Durga Pooja pandals, dur­
ing the Left rule in West Ben­
gal, being headed by mem­
bers of the CPI(M) or even
the fight for control over De­
vaswom Boards in Kerala by
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2020
BJP, RSS conspiring to
end quota, says Congress
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
NEW DELHI
The Congress accused the
BJP and the RSS of conspir­
ing to end reservation for the
Scheduled Castes and the
Scheduled Tribes and the
Other Backward Classes after
the Supreme Court held that
not be claimed as a funda­
mental right.
It also accused Minister
for Social Justice Thaawar­
chand Gehlot of “mislead­
ing” the Lok Sabha and said
it would move a privilege
motion against him.
“The issue is that the RSS
and the BJP cannot stand the
idea that the Dalits, the tri­
bals and the OBCs have re­
servation. It is in their DNA.
They wake every morning
and this irritates them, right!
Except, it is in our Constitu­
tion and these rights are gua­
ranteed by our Constitu­
tion,” former Congress
“all kinds of power” given to
lower­level tax officials, he
said.
The net tax revenue in the
current fiscal was targeted at
₹16.49 lakh crore but only ₹9
lakh crore had been collect­
ed in the first nine months
till December 2019, and “you
want us to believe this will
rise to ₹15 lakh crore by
March 2020?” he said.
Similarly, the expenditure
in 2019­20 was pegged at
₹27.86 lakh crore, but only
₹11.78 lakh crore was spent
during April­December, and
by March this is projected to
rise to ₹27 lakh crore.
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nate the evacuation opera­
tion) and seven Maldivians.
He said the government
had initiated screening at all
integrated checkposts from
Nepal in collaboration with
U.P., Uttarakhand, Bengal,
Sikkim and Bihar, the Sash­
astra Seema Bal (SSB) and
the Land Port Authorities.
“In our country, three
positive cases have been re­
ported so far from Kerala. All
these cases have travel histo­
ry from Wuhan. They have
been isolated and are report­
Mr. Joshi underscored the
need to revive the ‘gurukul’
system.
“We can’t think of an
ashram­like arrangement
today, but when we talk
about the ‘gurukul’ system,
education is the focus of the
institution,” he said.
the Left again. In such situa­
tions, he says, while political
ideology is the basis for the
tussle, that it necessarily
stems from an anti­Hindu
stance is not correct.
This broad swathe drawn
by Mr. Joshi is significant as
the BJP is engaged in a bitter
battle in West Bengal and in
Kerala, where religious po­
larisation is part of the polit­
ical playbook and parties
that seek minority votes are
often accused of speaking
DELHI
THE HINDU
president Rahul Gandhi told
reporters in Parliament.
He said Prime Minister Na­
rendra Modi and RSS chief
Mohan Bhagwat might be
“dreaming” of ending reser­
vation, but the Congress
would not let it happen.
“Understand the BJP’s bid
to end reservation — RSS pe­
ople consistently make state­
ments against reservation.
The BJP government of Utta­
rakhand makes an appeal in
the Supreme Court to abol­
ish the fundamental right to
reservation. The Uttar Pra­
desh government also imme­
diately starts tampering with
the rules of reservation. The
BJP first tried to weaken the
law to curb atrocities on Da­
lits and tribals. Now, it is try­
ing to weaken equal rights gi­
ven to them by the
Constitution and Babasaheb
[B.R. Ambedkar],” party gen­
eral secretary Prianka Gand­
hi Vadra said in a tweet.
“Today, there is no money
in the hands of the people
and there is no incentive for
anyone to invest. On the con­
trary, there is fear and uncer­
tainty prevailing all over this
country and under this fear
and uncertainty, nobody will
invest in India,” he said.
He said Arvind Subrama­
nian, Chief Economic Advis­
er to the BJP government for
four years, had stated that
the economy is in the ICU. “I
would say the patient has
been kept out of ICU and in­
competent doctors are look­
ing at the patient,” Mr. Chi­
dambaram quipped.
ed to be clinically stable,”
Mr. Vardhan said.
The government had al­
ready constituted a Group of
Ministers (GoM) headed by
the Health Minister to moni­
tor the virus. Besides, gram
sabhas were being organised
near the border with Nepal
to create awareness.
So far, 1,510 samples had
been tested of which 1,507
were found negative. Three
samples had tested positive
and 27 were under process.
The Minister said China
had reported the outbreak
on December 31. “The out­
break was initially noticed in
a seafood market in Wuhan
city in Hubei Province early
December and in a short
span has spread to all the
provinces of China. As on Fe­
bruary 9, 37,198 confirmed
cases and 811 deaths had
been reported there, while
354 confirmed cases had
been reported from 27 coun­
tries [including Hong Kong,
Macao and Taiwan],” he
said.
the language of Pakistan.
It also does not mean that
the RSS is backing off from its
support for the CAA, with
several office­bearers being
part of the programme for a
door­to­door outreach.
What it does or at least
seeks to do is to send a mes­
sage to parties like the Shiv
Sena that the RSS’s agenda
still includes them. It also
points to an effort to broad­
base Hindutva as an ideolog­
ical aspect of other parties,
and to have certain causes of
Hindu society as acceptable
to all and separate from
politics.
In all, Mr. Joshi, consi­
dered an ideologically driven
man, has given much food
for thought — not just to the
BJP­led Central government
— but also other parties and
organisations on their levels
of engagements with what
are considered largely Hindu
causes.
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Don’t make irrelevant submissions: SC
Not stifling debate, says irked CJI while hearing plea over death of infant in Shaheen Bagh protest
Krishnadas Rajagopal
NEW DELHI
The Supreme Court on Mon­
day made it clear to mothers
participating in the Shaheen
Bagh protests that it respects
motherhood and social
peace but will not entertain
“guilt­generating” or “irrele­
vant” submissions about
their children being called
“Pakistani, terrorists or gha­
dar [traitors] in school”.
A visibly angry Chief Jus­
tice of India (CJI) Sharad A.
Bobde warned lawyers that
“irrelevant” arguments and
pleadings would be either
cut short or struck off the
records.
The CJI’s oral remarks
came while taking suo motu
cognisance of a letter from
12­year­old national bravery
award winner Zen Gunratan
Sadavarte for a probe into
the death of four­month­old
Mohammed Jahan, who ac­
companied his mother to the
protest site and died on Janu­
ary 30 morning.
Solicitor General Tushar
Mehta said the incident was
“really very painful”.
But advocate Shahrukh
Alam, for some of the Sha­
heen Bagh mothers, said the
reality was that it was very
difficult to “sanitise the lives
of our children... Our home
is not what people imagine.
It may be just a plastic sheet
NHRC issues
notice to U.P.
govt., police
Special Correspondent
NEW DELHI
The National Human Rights
Commission issued notices
to the U.P. government and
the police regarding Con­
gress general secretary Pri­
yanka Gandhi Vadra’s com­
plaint of police brutality
during the anti­Citizenship
(Amendment) Act
demonstrations.
The NHRC issued notices
to the U.P. government
Chief Secretary and the
DGP on January 29, giving
them six weeks to respond
to the complaint of the
Congress delegation, in­
cluding Ms. Vadra, who vi­
sited it on January 27. The
Congress delegation asked
for an enquiry into police
action. The NHRC noted
that it had received “some
more complaints alleging
high­handedness and ex­
cessive use of force by the
police in Lucknow and
Kanpur districts”.
No shortage of funds for
Siachen: Army sources
‘Soldiers get equipment worth ₹2.5 lakh’
Dinakar Peri
NEW DELHI
Special areas such as the Sia­
chen glacier “do not suffer
from any shortage of
funds”, and whenever re­
quired, funds are made
available to cater to all re­
quirements and exigencies,
Army sources said on Mon­
day, referring to a recent re­
port of the Comptroller and
Auditor General (CAG),
which flagged deficiencies
in clothing, equipment and
rations to soldiers on the
world’s highest battlefield.
“Presently, each soldier,
prior to his induction to the
Siachen glacier, is kitted
with special clothing equip­
ment worth over ₹1 lakh,
along with auxiliary, medi­
cal and mountaineering
equipment worth an addi­
tional ₹1.5 lakh,” a source
said, adding there were no
international benchmark
standards for war fighting
equipment for troop de­
ployment in the glacier, and
that the Army conducted
stringent field trials under
actual operational condi­
tions to clear each piece of
clothing and equipment
based on suitability.
The CAG, in a report ta­
bled in the Parliament last
week, had pulled up the Ar­
my for deficiencies in provi­
sioning of special clothing,
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A national bravery award winner had sought a probe into the death of a 4­month­old in Shaheen Bagh.
covering. Our children are
called ‘Pakistani, terrorist,
ghadar’ in school”.
One of the lawyers persist­
ed that “these children live
in jhuggis. They attend me­
las. You have to hear the
mothers’ voices... On the
other hand, families are be­
ing separated by NRC [Na­
tional Register of Citizens]
and children are being
detained”.
But the CJI intervened,
saying, “We do not want you
or any people using this fo­
rum as a platform to further
create problem. If somebody
calls ‘Pakistani’ in a school,
Child rights body’s directive draws flak
NCPCR recommending counselling is an attempt at stifling their voice, says report
Jagriti Chandra
NEW DELHI
The National Commission
for Protection of Child Rights
(NCPCR) directive seeking
counselling for children at
Shaheen Bagh here is an at­
tempt at “stifling their voice”
and “targeting” their com­
munity, argues a report pre­
pared by educationists and
researchers who visited the
protest site and recorded the
testimonies of many moth­
ers present there.
“Hatred and suspicion tar­
geted at the Muslim com­
munity is what children are
being exposed to through te­
levision and social media.
That seems to be a larger
reality that NCPCR ought to
be concerned about – about
children living and learning
in an environment of com­
munal polarisation and pol­
itical hate speech that has
become the ‘new normal’ es­
pecially in times of elec­
tions,” says the report.
A CAG report had flagged
deficiencies to troops on
the Siachen glacier.
rations and housing for
troops on the Siachen gla­
cier for the audit period
2015­16 to 2017­18. Accord­
ing to the report, there was
a critical shortage of snow
goggles ranging from 62% to
98%, and troops were not is­
sued “multi­purpose boots”
from November 2015 to Sep­
tember 2016, leaving them
to resort to recycling of
available boots.
“The government has
authorised a special scale of
rations to all troops who are
deployed above 12,000 ft. It
has also authorised procure­
ment substitutes in accor­
dance with the preference
of the troops on a cost­to­
cost basis,” the source said,
adding that till date, the sup­
ply of rations had never
been delayed or denied.
this is not the platform to
bring that... We are not here
to discuss NRC, CAA, rude
behaviour in school, calling
‘Pakistani’, climate change
or the Prime Minister.”
The CJI said: “We are on
the death of a particular
child... We respect mother­
hood, we respect social
peace. So don’t make argu­
ments intended to generate
guilt.”
Advocate and mother
Radhika Kolluru, who made
submissions in the case, later
told The Hindu that “as far
CAA/ NRC is concerned, wo­
men are a class of stakehol­
Safe zone: For children, the site is secure because their
parents and community is there, the report said. R.V. MOORTHY
It is based on field obser­
vations of the researchers
and interactions with chil­
dren, women and others at
Shaheen Bagh and includes
views expressed by experts
at a panel discussion earlier
this month.
The study was submitted
to the NCPCR on February 9.
It asserts that the NCPCR
has failed to do its job in pro­
Army open to
giving pension
for women
officer litigants
Special Correspondent
NEW DELHI
The Army is open to giving
pension to women officers
who have finished the pen­
sionable service limit, de­
fence sources said on Mon­
day. The limit for officers is
20 years and for Junior
Commissioned Officers
and Other Ranks 15 years.
On Permanent Commis­
sion (PC), sources said the
Army has already opened
several areas recently and
prospectively but that can­
not be applied retrospec­
tively to the women offic­
ers who have taken the
legal route on Permanent
Commission.
“Women officers who
have finished the pensiona­
ble service, Army is open
to give pension,” a source
said adding they cannot be
granted PC now as the
terms of service they were
recruited on were diffe­
rent.
Last week, the govern­
ment cited ‘physical’ and
“physiological limitations”
in grant of command posi­
tions to women officers to
which the Supreme Court
said there is need for a
“change of mindset”.
There are about 322 wo­
men officers who have ap­
proached the SC on the PC.
ders in themselves as they
find it hardest to prove an­
cestry due to lack of docu­
mentation. Poor women
have no option but to go to a
protest site with their chil­
dren. By disallowing women
from bringing their children
to protests, you are effective­
ly rendering impossible to
them to voice their dissent
against a law which they are
going to be directly affected
by”.
Another lawyer, also ap­
pearing for the mothers, ar­
gued that India had ratified
the UN Convention for Pro­
tection of Child Rights. “Chil­
*
tecting children from police
atrocities in Uttar Pradesh
and by remaining silent on
the issue of the police ques­
tioning schoolchildren on se­
dition in Karnataka’s Bidar
as well as against rampant
sexual abuse in the country.
The study also says that by
ordering the South Delhi Dis­
trict Magistrate to identify
children and ensure their
*
SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR
dren have a right to protest.
Don’t stop that,” she argued.
“A four­month­old child is
going there [Shaheen Bagh]
to protest? Are you saying a
four­month­old can prot­
est?” the CJI asked.
Issuing notice to the go­
vernment, the CJI agreed to
the protesting mothers of
Shaheen Bagh to intervene
but warned them not to
make “irrelevant” submis­
sions. “We are not stifling ar­
guments. Remember, this is
a properly constituted pro­
ceeding of the Supreme
Court of India,” the CJI point­
ed out.
counselling on the basis of
an “anonymous complaint”,
and without conducting its
own investigation, the Com­
mission violated its own
rules. As per the NCPCR’s
rules, a complaint should be
“clear and legible and not
vague, anonymous or pseu­
donymous”. The authors say
that it is in fact the NCPCR
which is subjecting the chil­
dren to trauma by giving
such ‘harmful’ directives.
“For these children the
site is secure, because their
parents are there, and the
community is there. The
children are safe, they are
imbibing the best patriotic
values and learning the im­
portance of speaking out
against perceived injustice.
None of this can be equated
to trauma. To want to take
children for counselling
without any kind of assess­
ment, without any kind of
discussion is in itself shock­
ing, perhaps traumatic.”
German envoy may lead
diplomats’ team to J&K
Envoys from EU, Gulf, ASEAN nations to visit UT this week
Suhasini Haidar
Peerzada Ashiq
NEW DELHI/ SRINAGAR
A month after a delegation
of diplomats visited Jammu
and Kashmir, the govern­
ment plans to take a second
batch of Ambassadors there
later this week, and allow
them to speak with several
delegations about the
ground situation six months
after the amendment of Arti­
cle 370.
The government has invit­
ed diplomats from the Euro­
pean Union, including Ger­
many, France, the Czech
Republic, Poland, Bulgaria,
Hungary and the European
Union envoy himself for the
two­day visit, beginning Ja­
nuary 12, although sources
said they have not received
confirmations from all those
who will participate.
As one of the most senior
Delhi­based diplomats, Ger­
many’s Ambassador Walter
Lindner is expected to lead
the delegation. Other invi­
FIR against
CAA protesters
in Lucknow
Special Correspondent
LUCKNOW
Twenty­one persons, 11 of
them women, have been
booked for alleged rioting
and assault during a prot­
est against the Citizenship
(Amendment) Act, 2019
(CAA) at Lucknow’s Hussai­
nabad Clock Tower.
An FIR was registered by
the Uttar Pradesh Police at
the Thakurganj Police Sta­
tion against 21 persons and
hundreds of unidentified
persons for allegedly rais­
ing “provocative” slogans
and holding up traffic dur­
ing the ‘Lucknow chalo’
event at the protest site on
Sunday.
Activists had given the
call for the rally asking peo­
ple from outside to attend
the protests that have been
on since Jan. 17. The police
said that the event was be­
ing publicised on social
media, and personally by
people, for the past four­
five days. On the morning
of February 9, hundreds of
men and women turned up
at the venue and started
protesting against the CAA
and National Register of Ci­
tizens (NRC), the FIR said.
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tees include the envoys from
Qatar and other Gulf coun­
tries, the 10­nation ASEAN
grouping as well as countries
in the neighbourhood. The
Russian Ambassador, who
has been invited twice, had
said on January 17 that Kash­
mir is an “internal matter”
for India and there is “no
reason” for him to travel
there, and is unlikely to join
this batch as well.
According to sources, the
visit to Srinagar was earlier
planned for Tuesday, but
was put off due to a call by
separatist groups for a ‘shut­
down’ on Feb. 11, anniver­
sary of the hanging of JKLF
founder Maqbool Bhatt.
Depending on the status
of the shutdown, the delega­
tion of diplomats that is ex­
pected to begin its visit to
Srinagar on February 12,
may be taken to other dis­
tricts in North Kashmir be­
fore visiting Jammu. Officials
confirmed that all logistics
and security was is in place
U.S. nod for air defence
system sale to India
It is awaiting Congress approval
Sriram Lakshman
Washington DC
The U.S. Department of
State has approved the po­
tential sale of a $1.867 billion
Integrated Air Defence Wea­
pon System (IADWS) to In­
dia. The potential sale,
which is being processed via
the Foreign Military Sales
(FMS) route, is now before
the U.S. Congress for consid­
eration, with a 30­day win­
dow for Congress to raise
any objections to the sale.
“The Integrated Air De­
fence Weapon System, also
known as the National Ad­
vanced Surface to Air Mis­
sile System (NASAMS), pro­
vides integrated air missile
defence and is currently de­
ployed around Washington,
DC,” a Department of State
spokesperson said. “The
IADWS system includes ra­
dar, launchers, targeting,
and guidance systems, ad­
vanced medium­range air­
to­air missile (AMRAAM)
and Stinger missiles, and re­
lated equipment and sup­
port.”
The government had
asked to buy an IADWS com­
for the visit, which will be
coordinated by the Ministry
of External Affairs (MEA).
As The Hindu reported
last week, the presence of
envoys from EU member
countries is significant as the
last time a batch had visited
Kashmir in January, the EU
had declined to participate
unless they were taken as a
group of all 27 (then 28, in­
cluding the U.K.) members.
Diplomatic sources had also
said the envoys wanted
more than a “guided tour”,
and had asked to meet the
former chief ministers in de­
tention, who have now all
been charged under the
stringent Public Safety Act.
The inclusion of EU en­
voys is also timed just before
External Affairs Minister S.
Jaishankar’s visit to Munich
and Brussels, where he is ex­
pected to engage with Ger­
man and EU officials and
parliamentarians over con­
cerns on the situation in
Kashmir.
prised of five AN/MPQ­64Fl
Sentinel radar systems; 118
AMRAAM AIM­120C­7/C­8
missiles; three AMRAAM
Guidance Sections; four AM­
RAAM Control Sections and
134 Stinger FIM­92L mis­
siles, as per a statement
from the State Department.
Also included are 32
M4A1 rifles; 40,320 M855
5.56mm cartridges; Fire Dis­
tribution Centres (FDC);
Handheld Remote Termi­
nals; Electrical Optical/In­
frared (EO/IR) Sensor Sys­
tems; AMRAAM
Non­Developmental Item­
Airborne Instrumentation
Units (NDI­AIU); Multi­spec­
tral Targeting System­Model
A (MTS­A); Canister Launch­
ers (CN); High Mobility
Launchers (HML); Dual
Mount Stinger (DMS) Air De­
fence Systems; Vehicle
Mounted Stinger Rapid Ran­
ger Air Defence Systems, the
statement said.
Communications, testing
and training equipment and
documentation and techni­
cal and logistics support are
also part of the package, as
per the statement.
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WHO warns of overseas virus spread
Cases outside China could be the tip of the iceberg, the agency warns as the death toll rises to 908
Reuters
BEIJING
People across China trickled
back work on Monday after
an extended Lunar New Year
holiday as the government
eased restrictions imposed
to counter the coronavirus,
but the World Health Organi­
zation (WHO) said the num­
ber of cases outside China
could be just “the tip of the
iceberg”.
The death toll from the
epidemic rose to 908, all but
two in mainland China, on
Sunday as 97 more fatalities
were recorded — the largest
number in a single day since
the virus was detected in the
city of Wuhan in December.
Across mainland China,
3,062 new infections were
confirmed on Sunday, bring­
ing the total number to
40,171, according to the Na­
tional Health Commission
(NHC). An advance team of
international WHO experts
was en route to Beijing to in­
vestigate the outbreak.
Wu Fan, vice­dean of
Shanghai Fudan University
Medical school, said there
was hope the spread might
soon reach a turning point.
“The situation is stabilising,”
she told a briefing when
asked about the spread in
Shanghai, which has had
nearly 300 cases and one
death.
Global spread
But WHO chief Tedros Adha­
nom Ghebreyesus said there
had been ”concerning in­
stances” of transmission
from people who had not
been to China.
“The detection of a small
number of cases may indi­
cate more widespread trans­
mission in other countries;
in short, we may only be see­
ing the tip of the iceberg,” he
said in Geneva.
The virus has spread to at
least 27 countries and terri­
ELSEWHERE
‘Scotland taking steps
to hold referendum’
BRUSSELS
Scotland is already taking
steps to hold a referendum
on Independence and
believes it is a matter of
when rather than if the
country separates from the
rest of Britain, Scotland’s
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon
said on Monday. REUTERS
‘Soleimani sought to
bring stability to region’
DUBAI
Qassem Soleimani, the
Iranian commander killed in a
U.S. strike on January 3, had
sought to bring stability to
the region, President Hassan
Rouhani said on Monday in a
speech broadcast on state
television. REUTERS
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tories, according to a Reuters
count based on official re­
ports, infecting more than
330 people. The two deaths
outside mainland China
were in Hong Kong and the
Philippines. The death toll
from the outbreak has now
surpassed that of Severe
Acute Respiratory Syndrome
(SARS), which killed hun­
dreds worldwide in 2002­03.
‘We will beat the virus’
Usually teeming cities have
become virtual ghost towns
after Communist Party rul­
ers ordered lockdowns, can­
celled flights and closed fac­
tories and schools.
Ten extra days had been
added to the Lunar New Year
holidays that had been due
to finish at the end of Janu­
ary. But even on Monday,
many workplaces remained
closed and many people
worked from home.
One Beijing government
official, Zhang Gewho, said it
would be be harder to curb
the spread of the virus as pe­
ople returned to work. “The
capacity of communities and
flow of people will greatly in­
crease and the difficulty of
virus prevention and control
will further rise,” he said.
President Xi Jinping, who
has largely kept out of the
spotlight, leaving Premier Li
Keqiang to take the public
lead in government efforts to
control the outbreak, said on
Monday the government will
prevent large­scale layoffs,
Chinese state television
reported.
Mr. Xi, who was shown on
television inspecting the
work of community leaders
in Beijing, and wearing a
mask as he had his tempera­
ture taken, also said China
will strive to meet economic
and social targets for the
year.
He reiterated that China
would beat the virus.
‘Palestinian detainees
were tortured by Israel’
They were taken into custody last year
Associated Press
Ramallah
One of the men was hospi­
talised with kidney failure
and 11 broken ribs. Another
was nearly unrecognisable
to his wife when he was
wheeled into a courtroom.
A third was stitched up after
being attacked by a security
dog.
Then the three Palesti­
nians were returned to their
Israeli interrogators. They
had been swept up in a
sprawling manhunt
launched after a roadside
bomb killed a 17­year­old Is­
raeli girl and wounded her
father and brother as they
hiked down to a spring last
August in the occupied West
Bank. Israeli and Palestinian
rights groups say there is
■ ACROSS
1 Heavy boxer’s try ends in loss
(8)
5 Setter and Indian brigades
gather trophies (6)
10 Unusual big care for organ
case (3,4)
11 Dull expert starts speaking
about Indian culture (7)
12 Directions to study a foreign
country (6)
Reassuring residents: Chinese President Xi Jinping speaking to residents while inspecting
work aimed at gaining control over coronavirus in Beijing on Monday. AP
65 more cases
confirmed on
Japan ship
Reuters
Tokyo
Passenger tests aboard the
Diamond Princess cruise
ship in Japan confirmed at
least 65 more cases of coro­
navirus on Monday, ac­
cording to the vessel’s cap­
tain. The figure takes the
tally on board to 135, show­
ing a rapid rise in the out­
break on the ship docked
in the port of Yokohama.
Among the new cases
are 45 Japanese and 11
Americans, the ship’s oper­
ator, Princess Cruises, said.
The captain’s remarks
formed part of an audio re­
cording about the 66 new
cases posted on Twitter by
Yardley Wong, a passenger
documenting the expe­
rience on the ship.
A demonstration in Gaza
City on Monday. AFP *
strong evidence that Israeli
interrogators tortured sev­
eral detainees in violation of
Israeli and international law.
The allegations against Is­
rael are the most serious to
come to light in years, and
the rights groups say they
point to a loosening of con­
straints two decades after Is­
raeli Supreme Court out­
lawed most forms of torture.
13 Tax official finds fools very
rude, to begin with (8)
15 At last, saag, kheer, thokku,
kebab rustled up for food (4)
16 Keen on kiss, I lean towards a
drink that would make me
heady (10)
18 He kept Tara wrongfully —
what should he do? (4,3,3)
20 What the metal container has
for applying on body (4)
23 Spread rumour about
backsliding Indian Railway in
mockery (8)
24 South Indian in relocated unit
is undisturbed (2,4)
26 Directions to Cole’s relocated
corral (7)
27 Mournful as glee dissipates
where fatality is (7)
28 Turn West to North and be
whiny (6)
29 Untrue alloy? (8)
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1 With which saw ahead sad end
of sightseers? (15)
U.K. medical
centre closes
over case
Reuters
London
The County Oak Medical
Centre has been tempora­
rily closed down, the BBC
said. It did not cite sources.
Last week, health offi­
cials said a case of corona­
virus had been identified in
Brighton and they were
working to prevent any
further spread.
A message left at the
medical centre’s phone
says: ”Unfortunately, the
building has had to close
due to an urgent operation­
al health and safety
reason.”
A British man, who has
not been identified, tested
positive for coronavirus in
Brighton on February 6 af­
ter travelling to Singapore.
Democratic rivals rip into each other
Buttigieg has claimed most delegates; Sanders retains leads in New Hampshire
Sriram Lakshman
Washington
Rifts between Democrat can­
didates were on full display
over the weekend as the pre­
sidential hopefuls criticised
each other during a wee­
kend of campaigning in
freezing temperatures
across New Hampshire, be­
fore the State’s primary elec­
tions on Tuesday.
Candidates campaigned
against the backdrop of con­
fusion over and a delay in re­
sults from the crucial Iowa
Caucuses held last week — in
which centrist Pete Buttigieg
has claimed most delegates
and progressive candidate,
independent Senator from
Vermont Bernie Sanders’s
campaign has said it will ask
for some of the votes to be
recanvassed (votes re­
checked against paper bal­
(set by Gridman)
2 Indian instrument you passed
over end of line in artistic
arrangement (7)
3 Abandons pages (6)
4 Affiliation with right bank (4)
6 Secret coteries disbanded (8)
7 Real as a shrunken body of
water (4,3)
8 Assembly in guardroom? Not
exactly! (8,7)
9 Copies prepared by friend for
kind of church (9)
14 Worker runs off as these
beasts appear (9)
17 Native Americans manage OK
with canal examiner’s tool
(8)
19 Indian spicy snack to Greek
character in city in
neighbouring country (7)
21 Skill — skill has no limit! (7)
22 Open University man finally
gets to omit a point from
unfair lease (6)
25 Had the local roti finally in a
food shop (4)
* would not seek to be the par­
EU to host
emergency
meeting
Agence France-Presse
Brussels
The European Union (EU)
will host an extraordinary
meeting of Health Minis­
ters on Thursday, along
with a World Health Organ­
ization (WHO) envoy, to
discuss the novel coronavi­
rus outbreak.
So far, around 30 cases
of the new strain have been
detected in Europe. “Now
is the time to join forces to
stop this epidemic,” said
European Commissioner
for Crisis Management Ja­
nez Lenarcic.
The EU Ministers will
discuss ways to prevent the
virus’ spread and “adopt
conclusions in relation to
the EU response to the no­
vel coronavirus outbreak”.
lots). Several news outlets,
including the Associated
Press, which has traditional­
ly had a prominent role in
calling U.S. races, refrained
from doing so.
Weekend polls showed
that Mr. Sanders continued
to hold on to his significant
lead going into the state’s
primaries.
A Boston Globe/Suffolk
poll put Mr. Sanders at 27%,
followed by centrists Mr.
Buttigieg at 19%. Senator
from Minnesota, centrist
Amy Klobuchar, was third at
14%. Massachusetts Senator
Elizabeth Warren, who is al­
so running on a progressive
platform like Mr. Sanders,
came in at 12%, tied with
former Vice­President Jo­
seph R. Biden.
Mr. Sanders and Mr. Butti­
gieg took aim at each other’s
SUDOKU
Solution to puzzle 12854
Merkel’s heir quits in row over
cooperation with far right party
Kramp-Karrenbauer will not run for Chancellor next year
Agence France-Presse
Berlin
German Chancellor Angela
Merkel’s party and her plans
to stay on until 2021 were
plunged into disarray on
Monday, after her heir­appa­
rent gave up her leadership
ambitions in a deepening
crisis over ties between the
centre and far right.
Annegret Kramp­Karren­
bauer, the leader of the
centre­right Christian De­
mocratic Union (CDU), opt­
ed out barely a year in the
post — a period marked by
internal battles over wheth­
er to cooperate with the anti­
immigrant Alternative for
Germany (AfD). She an­
nounced that she was stand­
ing down as CDU leader and
ty’s candidate for Chancellor
in next year’s general
elections.
‘Unresolved ties’
AKK, as Ms. Kramp­Karren­
bauer is popularly known,
blamed the “unresolved re­
lationship of parts of the
CDU with the (far­right) AfD
and (far­left) Left party” for
her decision, said a party
Chinese officials charged over Equifax hack
Katie Benner
Washington
The Justice Department an­
nounced charges on Mon­
day against four members of
China’s military on suspi­
cion of hacking into Equifax,
the credit reporting agency,
in 2017 and stealing trade se­
crets and the personal data
of about 145 million
Americans.
“This was a deliberate
and sweeping intrusion into
the private information of
Senator Bernie Sanders in
Manchester, New Hampshire,
on Monday. REUTERS*
campaign financing.
“Our views are different,”
Mr. Sanders said over the
weekend. “Pete has raised
campaign contributions
from over 40 billionaires.”
Mr. Buttigieg — like his
competitor for the centrist
vote, Mr. Biden — criticised
Mr. Sanders for his Medi­
care­for­all policy without
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the Social Democratic Party
(SPD), to call urgent talks at
the weekend about the part­
nership’s future.
AKK’s departure, the
most prominent political
head to roll after the Thurin­
gia crisis, was “unsettling,”
SPD board member Michael
Roth tweeted on Monday. It
remains uncertain “whether
decent democrats stand to­
Annegret Kramp- gether in the battle for de­
Karrenbauer. mocracy and against nation­
alism,” he added.
source. “This is an unusually With the race to the chan­
serious situation for the cellery wide open again,
CDU,” said close Merkel ally Sueddeutsche Zeitung said
and Economy Minister Peter the aftershocks could be
Altmaier. “This is about our huge. “It’s very possible that
future as a modern people’s the Chancellor’s exit is com­
party of the centre.” ing closer,” it wrote.
While the party has a pol­ Voting alongside the far
icy of no cooperation with right breaches one of the
either far left or far right at a fundamental taboos of post­
national level, regional CDU
lawmakers last week went
Second World War German
politics — the refusal of
rogue and voted with MPs
from the AfD to oust a far­left
mainstream parties to work
with the extremes.
State Premier in tiny central
Thuringia.
Germany’s next national
elections must take place by
The breach in the political autumn next year, although
dam towards the AfD in the fractious coalition bet­
Thuringia prompted Ms. ween the CDU, its Bavarian
Merkel’s junior partners in CSU allies and the centre­left
the national government, SPD may not hold until then.
the American people,” Attor­ the Justice Department.
ney General William Barr The nine­count indict­
said. Hackers stole names, ment accused the Chinese
birth dates and Social Secur­ military of hacking into the
ity numbers of millions of company’s networks, main­
Americans — data that can taining unauthorised access
be used to access informa­ to them and stealing sensi­
tion like medical histories tive, personally identifiable
and bank accounts. information about Ameri­
“This data has economic cans. China has “pioneered
value, and these thefts can an expansive approach to
feed China’s development of stealing innovation,” Chris­
artificial intelligence tools,” topher A. Wray, Director of
Mr. Barr said in announcing the FBI, said on Friday at a
the charges on Monday at conference. NY TIMES
5 Turkish
soldiers dead
in Syria firing
details about how it would
Agence France-Presse
be funded. He also suggested
Ankara
Mr. Sanders was not the one
to unite a highly polarised Five Turkish soldiers were
country. killed on Monday by Syrian
“I respect Senator San­ regime artillery fire in the
ders, but when I hear this northwestern province of
message go out that you’re Idlib, Turkey’s Defence Mi­
either for revolution or nistry said.
you’ve got to be for the sta­ Another five soldiers
tus quo, that’s a vision of the were wounded in the “in­
country that doesn’t have tense assault that targeted
room for most of us,” Mr. our elements sent as rein­
Buttigieg said on Sunday, as forcement to the region
per the Washington Post. with an aim to prevent
Mr. Biden is still leading in clashes in Idlib, ensure our
national polls. The Econo- border security and stop
mist/YouGov poll of Febru­ migration and human tra­
ary 2­4, where he was at 24% gedy,” said the Ministry.
followed by Mr. Sanders at The Turkish Army reta­
19% and then Ms. Warren at liated, it added, “destroy­
18%. Mr. Biden is also expect­ ing targets.”
ed to win in South Carolina “The developments are
on February 29, where the closely watched and the
African American vote is necessary measures are be­
strongly represented. ing taken,” it added.
FAITH
The only true joy
To seek material possessions instead of the feet of God is like
seeking the husk instead of the grain, says Saint Vallalar.
God’s feet have been praised by the scriptures, said M.A.
Manickavelu, in a discourse.
Manickavachagar’s verses in praise of Lord Siva’s feet are
moving.
Manickavachagar sang thus: “Praise to Namasivayah!
Praise to His feet. Praise to the feet that do not exit my heart
even for a second. Praise to the feet that became the Agama
texts. Praise to the feet of the One, who is also many. Praise
to the feet of the One, who set my mind at rest. Praise to the
feet of the One, who puts an end to repeated births. Praise to
the feet of the One, who keeps away from those who do not
seek Him. Praise to the feet of the One, who delights in the
company of those who worship Him. Praise to the anklets of
the One, who blesses those that bow before Him. Praise to
Eesan (Siva). Praise to my father. Praise to the feet of Lord Si­
va, my friend . Praise to His red hued feet. Praise to the feet
of the blemishless One, who stands near me with love.”
And yet there are many who, instead of seeking the feet of
Lord Siva, waste their lives in worthless pursuits. The husk is
part of the grain, until it is separated.
No matter how well you clean a copper utensil, a patina is
soon formed on it. The Tamil work Sivagnanabodham says
that like the husk of the grain and the patina of copper, ana­
vam (ego), kanmam (karma) and maya (illusion) are always
with the wicked. Seeking His mercy is the only true joy.
Appar sang that if one could see the curved eyebrow, the
lips as red as the coccinea fruit, the matted locks, the coral
colour body smeared with sacred ash, and the raised foot of
Lord Siva, then birth in this world would become desirable.
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market watch
10-02-2020
Sensex dddddddddddddddddddddd 40,980 ddddddddddddd -0.39
US Dollar dddddddddddddddddddd 71.30 ddddddddddddddd0.14
Gold ddddddddddddddddddddddddddd 41,508 ddddddddddddddd0.13
% CHANGE
MF assets rise to record highs in Jan. Chiefs of 6 banks under
CBI, ED scanner: FinMin
Brent oil ddddddddddddddddddddd 53.85 ddddddddddddd -1.89 Jump in flows into debt funds; mid­cap and small­cap funds see revival in investor interest
No arrests have been made: Ministry
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT ded Mr. Sikka.
NIFTY 50 MUMBAI <
> The recent market
rally seems to have Meanwhile, the number of Special Correspondent non­executive chairman
PRICE CHANGE The average assets under driven the inflows SIP folios crossed the three­ NEW DELHI and an MD & CEO,” the Mi­
Adani Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368.25. . . . . . . . -1.30
management of mutual crore mark, with the number The Central Bureau of Inves­ nistry said. A Banks Board
Asian Paints. . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 1869.50. . . . . . . 10.80 into small and
Axis Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 741.10. . . . . . . . -7.05 funds hit an all­time high of of such folios pegged at 3.04 tigation (CBI) and the Direc­ Bureau has been created for
midcap funds
Bajaj Auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3103.30. . . . . . -31.55 ₹28.18 lakh crore in January, crore in January — the month torate of Enforcement (ED) arm’s length selection of
Bajaj Finserv. . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 9627.00. . . . . . . . . 3.70 Sundeep Sikka,
as flows into debt funds in­ ED and CEO, Nippon Life
that saw an addition of 12.07 are probing cases against non­executive chairmen
Bajaj Finance . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 4721.75. . . . . . . 67.45
Bharti Airtel . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 538.70. . . . . . . . -0.75 creased significantly, while India Asset Management lakh folios. the managing directors or and whole­time directors
BPCL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485.45. . . . . . . . -5.95 mid­cap and small­cap funds Further, the flows through chief executive officers of (WTDs). Performance­based
Britannia Ind . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 3155.60. . . . . . -95.80 saw a revival in investor midcap funds. As a result, SIPs was ₹8,531.90 crore in six scheduled commercial extensions have been insti­
Cipla . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444.75. . . . . . . . . 1.55
Coal India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178.85. . . . . . . . -6.20 interest. the small cap AUM has also January with the AUM banks. However, no arrests tuted for WTDs.
Dr Reddys Lab . . . . . . . .. . . . 3149.10. . . . . . -17.60 According to the Associa­ seen the biggest jump in the pegged at ₹3.25 lakh crore. have been made, according The Ministry said com­
Eicher Motors. . . . . . . . .. 19057.25. . . -679.05 tion of Mutual Funds in India last nine months,” said Sun­ According to N.S. Venka­ to the Finance Ministry. prehensive reforms to insti­
GAIL (India). . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 121.80. . . . . . . . -1.20
Grasim Ind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 757.55. . . . . . -30.10
(AMFI), net inflows in the deep Sikka, ED and CEO, tesh, chief executive, AMFI, To a query in Lok Sabha, tutionalise responsible
HCL Tech. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 604.90. . . . . . . . -2.80 month of January was Nippon Life India Asset the SIP contribution and the the Ministry on Monday said banking had been effected
HDFC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2414.30. . . . . . . . . 8.65 pegged at ₹1.20 lakh crore, Management. AUM are proof that retail in­ as per existing guidelines, through codified policies
HDFC Bank. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1240.30. . . . . . . . -1.90
Hero MotoCorp . . . . . .. . . . 2385.70. . . . . . -57.75
as against outflows of nearly Such categories of funds cap index gained a little over “With the Union Budget vestors have accepted mu­ the Central Vigilance Com­ and audited procedures for
Hindalco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190.85. . . . . . . . -6.55 ₹61,810 crore in December typically see a spurt in out­ 3% in January after losing 2020 and subsequent RBI tual funds as a long­term mission (CVC) had been gi­ prudential lending, and ro­
Hind Unilever . . . . . . . . .. . . . 2159.30. . . . . . . . -0.65 2019. flows at the end of every ground in December. Furth­ policy leading to several wealth creation avenue. ven powers to act on whis­ bust data­driven risk assess­
ICICI Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533.95. . . . . . . . -2.50
IndusInd Bank . . . . . . . .. . . . 1274.95. . . . . . -23.85
The total assets under quarter. er, the gains in the broader structural changes, we will “We expect this positive tle­blowers’ complaints. ment and monitoring.
Bharti Infratel . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 239.80. . . . . . . . -8.00 management (AUM) touched Within the equity seg­ index came even as the continue to stay optimistic growth momentum in mu­ “Fundamental gover­ The board­approved loan
Infosys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773.20. . . . . . . . -4.10 ₹27.86 lakh crore in January. ment, both mid­cap and benchmark Sensex lost near­ on the market outlook. The tual fund AUMs to continue, nance reforms of far­reach­ policies of PSBs now man­
Indian OilCorp . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 115.80. . . . . . . . -1.70 Further, flows into income small­cap categories of funds ly 1.30% in January. retail investors may continue driven by growth­oriented ing significance have been date tying up necessary
ITC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210.55. . . . . . . . -2.85
JSW Steel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277.90. . . . . . . . -1.40 and debt category turned saw net inflows of over “While the small cap investing in the markets Budget and RBI stance on effected in public sector clearances and linkages be­
Kotak Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1669.30. . . . . . . 16.25 positive in January with net ₹1,000 crore each, with the funds have not been in fa­ through SIPs [systematic in­ continuing benign interest banks (PSBs). To strengthen fore disbursement, scrutiny
L&T . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1285.30. . . . . . -13.70 inflows of ₹1.09 lakh crore, mid­cap category registering vour during the last few vestment plans], while stay­ rate cycle, resulting in 15­ governance at the board le­ of group balance sheet and
M&M . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 528.40. . . . . . -40.70
Maruti Suzuki . . . . . . . . .. . . . 6892.90. . . . . . -78.85
as against the previous flows of nearly ₹1,800 crore months, the recent market ing balanced in their invest­ 20% growth for the mutual vel, the position of chair­ ring­fencing of cash flows,
Nestle India Ltd. . . . .. 16172.20. . . -155.60 month’s outflows of nearly in January. rally seems to have driven ing approach between fund industry this fiscal,” man and managing director non­fund and tail­risk ap­
NTPC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113.50. . . . . . . . -2.10 ₹78,427 crore. Incidentally, the BSE Mid­ the inflows into small and different asset classes,” ad­ said Mr. Venkatesh. has been bifurcated into a praisal in project financing.
ONGC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106.20. . . . . . . . -3.05
PowerGrid Corp . . . . .. . . . . . 186.60. . . . . . . . -3.80
Reliance Ind . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 1435.60. . . . . . . . . 1.95
State Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318.50. . . . . . . . -2.05
Sun Pharma . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 420.30. . . . . . -10.50
Tata Motors . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 168.90. . . . . . . . -4.70
Tata Steel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443.80. . . . . . -27.20
Sundaram Finance net IOB Q3 loss widens to ₹6,075 cr. on higher provisions
TCS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2161.95. . . . . . . 25.40
Tech Mahindra . . . . . . .. . . . . . 813.65. . . . . . -10.80
Titan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1257.20. . . . . . -17.80
profit up 6.4% to ₹167 cr. Lender to focus on retail, agriculture, MSME sector; eyes coming out of Reserve Bank’s PCA in FY21
UltraTech Cement . .. . . . 4413.75. . . . . . -58.05
UPL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 574.10. . . . . . . 31.00
Vedanta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140.30. . . . . . . . -4.30
Declares interim dividend of ₹10 apiece Special Correspondent crore with a ratio of 13.56%. hausted. We don’t foresee
Wipro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240.90. . . . . . . . -3.05
CHENNAI Provision coverage ratio im­ any fresh slippages,” he said.
YES Bank. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37.55. . . . . . . . -1.15 Special Correspondent that in a difficult environ­ Public sector lender Indian proved to 86.20% (64.23%).
Zee Entertainment . . . . . . 230.45. . . . . . -19.30 CHENNAI ment, they were able to post Overseas Bank’s (IOB) net Fresh slippages during the NCLT accounts
City­based non­banking fi­ reasonable results by con­ loss for the third quarter period stood at ₹1,648 crore Mr. Sekar also said exposure
nance company Sundaram taining costs and improve ended December 2019 wi­ (₹1,700 crore) and recovery, towards telecom sector was
Finance Ltd. (SFL) regis­ market share in a majority dened to ₹6,075 crore on including technical write­ nil and slippages in retail,
EXCHANGE RATES tered a 6.4% rise in its stan­ of segments that they oper­ higher provisioning of offs, was ₹7,085 crore (₹3,723 agriculture, MSME (RAM)
Indicative direct rates in rupees a unit dalone net profit for the ated in. ₹6,664 crore for non­per­ crore). sector was coming down to
except yen at 4 p.m. on February 10
CURRENCY TT BUY TT SELL
third quarter ended Decem­ He also said that the sales forming assets (NPAs) and “To come out of the an average of ₹500­600
US Dollar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 71.09. . . . . . . 71.41 ber 2019 to ₹167 crore. for automakers during the investments. Prompt Corrective Action crore per quarter. He also ex­
Euro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 77.85. . . . . . . 78.20 Net income rose 14% to fourth quarter would be In the year­earlier period, (PCA) of the RBI, we have to pected to recover a huge sum
British Pound . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 91.90. . . . . . . 92.32 ₹976 crore. Assets Under more depressing than that
Japanese Yen (100) . .. . 64.74. . . . . . . 65.03 provisioning stood at ₹2,075 cross two major hurdles. from two huge NCLT ac­
Chinese Yuan . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 10.18. . . . . . . 10.23 Management (AUM) grew in the third quarter as most crore. One is to keep the net NPAs Shifting focus: Going forward, we don’t want to be aggressive counts.
Swiss Franc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 72.69. . . . . . . 73.06 8.5% to ₹30,502 crore. Net of them would be trying to During the period under below 6% and another is to in the corporate sector, says Mr. Karnam Sekar. BIJOY GHOSH *
“We have a net NPA of
Singapore Dollar . . . . . . .. . 51.19. . . . . . . 51.43
non­performing assets clear their BS­IV invento­ review, total income stood at make a profit. We have about ₹7,000 crore and this
Canadian Dollar . . . . . . . . .. . 53.48. . . . . . . 53.73
Malaysian Ringitt . . . . . .. . 17.14. . . . . . . 17.23 stood at 2.09%. ries. There would not be ₹5,198 crore (₹5,689 crore). brought down the net NPAs covery, low­cost deposits “Going forward, we do could be provided for within
Source:Indian Bank The board of directors much sales of BS­VI vehicles IOB brought down its to 5.81%. Our next objective and less capital­consuming not want to be aggressive in three years.
have declared an interim di­ in the period. gross NPAs to ₹23,734 crore is to make profit every quar­ advances,” he said. the corporate sector. We will “With conviction and con­
vidend of ₹10 per share. For the nine­month pe­ with a ratio of 17.12% against ter and make it sustainable,” Stating they were hoping be in retail in a big way. Cur­ fidence, I can say we will sus­
BULLION RATES CHENNAI riod ended December 2019, ₹35,787 crore with a ratio of said Karnam Sekar, MD & to make profit from the next rently, the split between cor­ tain net profit as we will be
February 10 rates in rupees with pre- Difficult environment SFL registered a 31% in­ 23.76% in the year­earlier pe­ CEO, Indian Overseas Bank. quarter onwards, he pointed porate and retail is 28% and making a profit of ₹3,000
vious rates in parentheses
Commenting on the results, crease in net profit to ₹593 riod. Net NPAs were con­ “This is the year of resur­ out that IOB had been incur­ 72% respectively. The slip­ crore every year and with
Retail Silver (1g) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50.1. . . . . . . (49.4)
T.T. Srinivasaraghavan, ma­ crore. Net income rose 19% tained to ₹7,087 crore with a gence. We plan to come out ring losses for almost five pages in the corporate sector this, the net NPAs could be
22 ct gold (1 g) . .. . . . . . . . . . . . 3891. . . . . . (3837)
naging director, SFL said to ₹2,900 crore. ratio of 5.81% against ₹17,988 of the PCA by focusing on re­ years. accounts have been fully ex­ taken care off,” he said.

MRF Q3 net BoB, Union

skids 17.18%
Wholesale PV sales crash on rising costs Bank cut
CRR exemption for retail,
on slowdown Slower GDP growth continued to pressure consumer demand, says SIAM lending rates MSME loans for 5 years
Special Correspondent nuary 2019. Under commer­ Loans from Jan.31 to July 31 eligible
Special Correspondent
CHENNAI
NEW DELHI <
> We hope response
to the Auto Expo cial vehicles segment, sales SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
Continuing a downward will help improve of medium and heavy com­ Mumbai SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT During the monetary pol­
Tyre major MRF Ltd.’s con­ trend, wholesale passenger mercial vehicles fell 34.64% State­run lender Bank of Mumbai icy review last week, the
consumer
solidated net profit from vehicles sales in the country to 22,534 units, while that of Baroda and Union Bank of The Reserve Bank of India central bank said lenders
continuing operations for sentiment India have lowered their
declined by 6.2% to over 2.62 light commercial vehicles (RBI) has exempted banks will not have to maintain
the third quarter ended lakh units in January 2020, Rajesh Menon,
SIAM director general
were down 0.68% to 52,755 lending rates by 5­10 bps. from maintaining cash re­ CRR for loans extended bet­
December 2019 dipped as rising cost of vehicle ow­ units. BoB has reduced its one­ serve ratio (CRR) for loans to ween the above mentioned
17.18% year­on­year to ₹241 nership and slower GDP cles and the two­wheeler SIAM director general Ra­ year MCLR by 10 bps to retail and micro, small and time period.
crore on economic growth continued to put segment. The total two­ jesh Menon noted that who­ 8.15% and one­month medium enterprises for five “...the Reserve Bank is ac­
slowdown. pressure on consumer de­ wheeler sales in January lesale sales continued to dip MCLR by 5 bps. The new years, if these loans are ex­ tively engaged in revitalising
Net profit in the second mand, industry body SIAM 2020 declined by 16.06% to in all segments, barring the rates will come into effect tended between January 31 the flow of bank credit to
quarter of the current fis­ said on Monday. 27.68% to 12,992 units in the over 13.41 lakh units as com­ three­wheeler segment, from February 12. and July 31, 2020. productive sectors having
cal stood at ₹227 crore. The domestic passenger last month. pared to over 15.97 lakh units which saw a growth of Union Bank of India has “An amount equivalent to multiplier effects to support
During the period under vehicle sales, which includes Rajan Wadhera, president in the same month last year. 12.69% to over 60,903 units. reduced its 3­month MCLR the incremental credit out­ growth impulses,” the RBI
review, total income y­o­y sales of cars, utility vehicles at SIAM, said, “Sales of vehi­ While sales of motorcycles Vehicle sales across cate­ rate by 5 bps to 7.80% from standing from the fortnight said.
dipped 1.68% to ₹4,150 and vans, stood at over 2.8 cles continue to be stressed declined by 15.17% to more gories registered a decline of 7.85%. The one­year MCLR beginning January 31, 2020 This exemption was avail­
crore. Compared with the lakh units in January 2019. due to rising cost of vehicle than 8.71 lakh units, scooter 13.83% to over 17.39 lakh un­ capital stands at 8.10%. and up to the fortnight end­ able for incremental credit
second quarter of FY20, to­ As per the data released by ownership and slower sales were down 16.21% to its, down from sales of more The revised rates will come ing July 31, 2020 will be elig­ disbursed as retail loans to
tal income had risen by the Society of Indian Auto­ growth in GDP.” more than 4.16 lakh units. than 20.19 lakh units in Janu­ into effect from February ible for deduction from automobiles, residential
₹46.65 crore. The company mobile Manufacturers, car He added that the indus­ The data showed that ary 2019. “We are hopeful 11, 2020. NDTL (net demand and time housing, and loans to micro,
managed to bring down its sales fell 8.1% to over 1.64 try was hopeful that the re­ wholesale sales of commer­ that the response that we “Union Bank of India liabilities) for the purpose of small and medium enter­
expenditure for Q3 y­o­y to lakh units in January 2020 as cent announcement of the cial vehicles, which are seen have received to the ongoing has recently reduced its computing the CRR for a pe­ prises (MSMEs).
₹3,779 crore from ₹3,801 against over 1.79 lakh units in government on infrastruc­ as one of the indicators of Auto Expo will help further home loan interest rates riod of five years from the At present, CRR is 4% of
crore. The board declared the same month last year. ture and rural economy economic activity in the improve consumer senti­ for different categories of date of origination of the net demand and time liabili­
a second interim dividend Sales of utility vehicles would support growth of country, fell by 14.04% to ment. Already there have borrowers by up to 30 bps, loan or the tenure of the ties. Banks do not earn any
of ₹3 per equity share. It were up 2.57% to 84,929 un­ vehicle sales going forward, 75,289 units in January 2020, been 70 unveilings and i.e. from 8.20% to 7.90%,” loan, whichever is earlier,” interest for maintaining
will be paid by March 3. its, while that of vans fell by especially commercial vehi­ as compared to 87,591 in Ja­ launches so far,” he added. Union Bank said. the RBI said. CRR with the RBI.

Royal Enfield eyes global markets for accessories business Union Bank profit surges Amazon
challenges
Motorcycle manufacturer hopes to make inroads into Europe, Asia Pacific with its riding gear to ₹575 cr. on recoveries antitrust probe
Yuthika Bhargava in higher double­digit duce products that are value Bank gets ₹2,000 cr. from 3 accounts
NEW DELHI growth right now. So, we are for money, and are competi­ Reuters
Royal Enfield is eyeing inter­ definitely growing at a faster tive in terms of pricing and SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Rajkiran Rai G., managing NEW DELHI

national markets, particular­ pace in that market, which it­ suitable for the Indian Mumbai director and chief executive Amazon.com Inc has be­
ly in Europe and the Asia self is growing at a good pace terrain. Recoveries from Essar Steel officer of the bank. gun legal action in India to
Pacific region, to grow its in India.” Under the segment, the and Ruchi Soya helped Cash Recoveries in­ quash an antitrust investi­
nearly five­year­old apparel Mr. Sood pointed out that company sells protective State­run lender Union creased 261.4% year­on­year gation against the compa­
and accessories business, riding conditions and pro­ gear such as helmets, riding Bank of India to report ₹575 to ₹2,255 crore . ny, saying it could cause
and is looking at catering to duct certifications vary from jackets, gloves, trousers, crore in net profit for the “Our total recoveries and “irreparable” loss and
the increasing demand with­ market to market. “For ex­ shoes, besides products like quarter ended December 31 upgradation for the nine damage to its reputation,
in India, a senior company ample, a helmet in Thailand shirts, t­shirts, key chain, compared with ₹153 crore in months has been ₹4,910 according to its court filing
official said. will require different certifi­ mugs, belts and wallets. Mr. the year­earlier period. crore. We are expecting seen by Reuters.
“Royal Enfield motorcy­ cation vs. helmet sold in In­ Sood said that the company Net interest income grew another ₹3,000 crore in this Last month, the Compe­
cles sell in a large number of Terrain test: Riding conditions and product certifications dia, vs. what is sold in Eu­ had invested a lot of time in 25.7% to ₹3,134 crore while quarter both from the NCLT tition Commission of India
countries and that gives us a vary from market to market, the company said. R. ASHOK
* rope... so that is another bit developing products special­ non­interest income growth (National Company Law Tri­ (CCI) ordered an investiga­
platform to cater to the cus­ that we are working on. Plus, ly for India as the weather was almost flat at ₹112 crore. bunal) and non­NCLT ac­ tion of Amazon and rival
tomers there and represen­ be one of the areas that is a heritage market for us. in an apparel business, the fit and terrain here were diffe­ Domestic net interest counts. So, we can close the Flipkart over alleged viola­
tation in those countries. would drive growth for the We are a known brand there. also differs from market to rent than in other markets. margin (NIM) improved to year at about ₹8,000 crore,” tions of competition law
The plan that we are working company’s apparel and ac­ This is one of the markets we market...we are working on.” “One of our objectives is 2.55% compared with the he added. and certain discounting
on right now is to build a cessories business. will focus on, the U.K, specif­ He added that while cur­ that keep improving the pro­ 2.23% in Q3 FY19. Gross slippages remained practices.
stronger portfolio that could Asked about the target ically. APAC is another mar­ rently the company’s range duct portfolio that we have. “We were helped by elevated at ₹5,112 crore com­ “The entire order
cater to specific internation­ markets, he said, “One of our ket, which we believe, holds was focussed on India, most We are working with riding some good recoveries which pared with the ₹2,983 crore passed by (the CCI) ... is be­
al markets,” Puneet Sood, objectives is to build high im­ huge potential for us.” riding products met interna­ groups very very closely... came from Essar Steel, Ru­ reported during the same reft of any foundation,”
head, Apparel & Accessories pact, which means that whe­ While Mr. Sood did not tional norms, and were sup­ there are market needs that chi Soya Industries and period of the previous year. Amazon said in a February
Business at Royal Enfield, rever our motorcycle pre­ share any numbers, he said plied to international mar­ are emerging... we are cur­ Prayagraj Power Generation Gross NPAs as at Decem­ 10 filing to a court in Ben­
told The Hindu. sence iS strong, those are the that in the last two years, the kets as well. Mr. Sood said rently researching products Company. We recovered ber end stood at 14.86% galuru, rejecting the allega­
Mr. Sood believes that the markets we will start focuss­ business segment had seen a that specifically for India, the that can be offered to cater to close to ₹2,000 crore from compared with 15.66% a tions levelled against the
international market would ing on. For example, Europe significant growth. “We are company intended to intro­ that need,” Mr. Sood said. these three accounts,” said year ago. company.
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proclaimed scout. Jwala saw demy (Dilip Vengsarkar

Showing his mettle (From
below) Yashasvi Jaiswal with
Bhupendra and Kaan­
the Player of the Series trophy, chan, earned just enough
in a file photo from last year; to feed their four children.
with Jwala and his family Bhupendra sold paint and
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ICC; SUDHAKARA JAIN Kaanchan was a teacher in a
private school. Cricket was
an expensive game, and Bha­
dohi was known for its car­
pet­weaving industry, not
cricket coaching. They wor­
ried about their son’s future.
a bit of himself in the young
prodigy. “I had come from
Gorakhpur at 13 and strug­
gled to make ends meet in
Mumbai. I did not want Yash­
asvi to suffer the same fate.”
When the two met, the
boy was on the verge of giv­
ing up. “I want to go back,”
Jaiswal would repeatedly tell
his mentor, adding that he’d
faced resistance from the lo­
cals who’d called him an out­
sider. It took a while for Jwala
to convince the teenager to
stick to his resolve.
Jaiswal found shelter in
Jwala’s house. Jwala, who
was engaged to be married,
Foundation) where he PEOPLE
scored runs in almost every
match,” he says. Vengsar­
kar’s friends, knowing that
Spice on stage
the boy had come from diffi­
Gaurang Shah will present a monochrome collection at
cult financial circumstances,
would give him money, to the Lakme Fashion Week Summer/Resort 2020
keep him in the game. “Yash­
asvi was a very determined
player at such a young age
(13) and could excel in all
conditions,” says Vengsarkar.
Then came the IPL windfall
— a 2.4 crore contract with
Rajasthan Royals and a place
in the India under­19 team.
Unfortunately, Jaiswal and
his teammates, earned the
displeasure of fans on Sun­

Early pickings
One morning, when he was
just 13, Jaiswal convinced his
father to take him to Mum­
bai, though Allahabad would
have been the logical choice.
It was closer and had a histo­
ry of producing reputed
cricketers like Mohammad
Kaif, who captained the Un­
der­19 team that won the
2000 World Cup; and Hyder
Ali, a Ranji Trophy veteren.
Given the selection chal­
told his future wife about the
boy, asking her to treat the
boy like her own. He became
A cursory glance and it feels like Gaurang Shah has opted
for a colour detox. The Hyderabad­based designer, who
also has a store in Defence Colony, Delhi, has usually
showcased a melange of weaving techniques, and colours
at LFW. But his new collection for the LFW summer/resort
2020 edition, happening in Mumbai, is predominantly
monochrome, comprising 24 saris and 22 ensembles.
Last year, he also brought out a special edition of khadi
saris whose pallus had woven replications of Raja Ravi
day, when they almost came Varma paintings, and for this he used around 600 shades of
to blows with the players natural dyes. “I’ve been wanting to do a black and white
from Bangladesh. "Whatever collection for a year. Winter­festive edition was not the

‘All he
Vijay Lokapally
Yashasvi Jaiswal, 18, was de­
clared the Player of the Se­
ries at the controversial fin­
lenges at the junior level in
Uttar Pradesh, and the fact
that Mumbai seemed to offer
unbiased attention for some­
part of the family, with Van­
dana taking care of nutrition.
Surviving it all
ideal time for it, so I am doing it now,” he says.
happened wasn't good.
The collection is in association with Lakme Salon and the
Players can get emotional be­
theme is Garam Masala. Actor Tabu will be the showstopper
cause there is so much at
and sport a Kanjivaram lehenga teamed with a sari draped
stake,” says the India Un­ like a dupatta. “I was in Mumbai just recently and showed

wanted was ish to the ICC Under­19 World

Cup in South Africa. Bangla­
desh carried the trophy, but
Jaiswal took the individual
one starting out, Jaiswal de­
cided to hone his skills out­
side his home state.
The Azad Maidan became
The hardships of surviving
almost on the road in the ci­
ty, gradually waned. Runs
flowed and transformed into
der­19 coach Paras Mham­
brey, referring to the money,
media, and star treatment
the young players get.
her the ensemble; she loved it,” says Gaurang, adding that
the actor will recite Urdu poetry on stage, when curtains go
up on the collection on February 14.
The monochrome line is by no means less complicated

to play
honors by scoring 400 runs
overall and 88 in the final.
Though the unsporting beha­
viour of both sides has cast a
shadow over his personal
his address as he found a
‘home’ in a tent, waking up
to the sound of cork on
wood. His world revolved
around the Maidan, cricket,
invitations to play in various
tournaments. “Cricket be­
came his driving force,” said
Jwala, who became his god­
father since Bhupendra had
“Cricket life for these U­19 than his previous ones. Yet again, he will be showcasing a
kids starts now. We are not spectrum of woven textiles and jamdani will be the
going to a war front. Let’s all mainstay, done on geometric single and double ikats,
be responsible,” said veteran paithani, pinhole bandhanis from Bhuj, Banarasi silk, Patan
player Amol Muzumdar, now patolas, kalamkari, Kota, Telangana’s Puttapaka, uppada

cricket’ gain, his mentor, Jwala Singh

says that as a teenager, Jais­
wal lived for cricket alone.
He speaks about his jour­
bat, and ball. In the begin­
ning, he sold street food to
make ends meet.
On a pitch where an esta­
returned to Bhadohi, con­
vinced that his son’s future
was in safe hands.
Soon, former India cap­
a cricket coach and commen­
tator. Authorities are now
planning to guide players
like Jaiswal on finance man­
and Kashmir’s kani.
Models will walk the stage in two rows, one sporting
ivory white ensembles and the other complementing it with
the blacks. All the significant hues of ingredients that go
Adjudged the Player of the ney from Bhadohi, 50 km blished club cricketer strug­ tain, Dilip Vengsarkar took agement and staying fo­ into making garam masala are in the colour palette, in
addition to a splash of deep red, beige, pomegranate pinks,
Tournament in the Under-19 World from Varanasi, where as a gled to put bat to ball, Jaiswal him under his care at Dadar cussed on the game. The
and blues on motifs or borders.
boy, as young as eight, he’d performed with ease, to the Union, a cricket club. “I Bhadohi boy, hailed as the
Cup 2020, Yashasvi Jaiswal always rise before the sun and prac­ extent that his batting caught found him awesomely gifted. next big player in Indian
In his collections, Gaurang says he strives, along with
weavers and craftspeople, to create heirloom worthy
had a dream, but not the resources, tise until it became too dark the attention of Jwala, a club I got him to tour England cricket, would do well with
pieces of wearable art.
to spot the ball. His parents, cricketer himself and a self­ (four years ago) with my aca­ such help.
says his mentor, Jwala Singh He points at a dhakai jamdani sari that uses fine count
(300) khadi yarn that takes a year to be woven: “The yarn is
so fine that you won’t see it clearly with the naked eye,” he
says. It is gossamer, lightweight and bears surface
Anant Kaur (for which she used to play), Lady techniques done with finesse.
Shri Ram, Bharati, and Janki Devi Sangeetha Devi Dundoo
On a chilly Friday evening, a group Memorial, to name a few.
of women between 13 and 40 warm One of the players in the league’s
up, dribble, and chase a ball to HFW Warriors, Dana Smith, 16, also
score, at Conscient sports arena in #DELHIMOVES plays centre forward in her school’s PRODUCTS
Vasant Kunj. Most of the players are football team. Originally from En­
working professionals, students, or
homemakers, and are practising
for the Kica Women’s Football
League, which is the first for ama­
Girls for gland, Dana has been in India for 12
years now, and says the sport has
taught her togetherness and has gi­
ven her the ability to socialise with
Best of both worlds

teur women players in India.

“Football was a big part of my
life in Vasant Valley school,” says
Aneesha Labroo, 28, who started
Kica as a sportswear brand exclu­
sively for women three years ago.
Aneesha, who started playing foot­
ball as a 10­year­old, adds that she
was a part of the first Delhi state
team, going on to play the nationals
twice. Later, she went to the U.S.
for a university degree, after which
she worked in advertising in New
York, for four years, losing touch
with the sport.
About 10 months ago, Aneesha
took up football again. “From play­
ing among just four friends to ac­
tually becoming a massive group
through social media was an en­
couragement for us. Gradually, we
would play a game every Tuesday
and Thursday,” she says.
Prompted by an event she organ­
ised that brought beginners and
long­time players together, and a
football­loving father, she thought
of a women’s league. The aim: to ig­
nite the passion to play football,
raise fitness and confidence levels,
and build team spirit.
Coaching two teams in the Kica
league — Pure Fire FC and the Lalit
Lionesses — is Swati Rawat, 27, a
former India team player and cur­
rently a physical education teacher
at DPS R. K. Puram. She says wo­
men’s football has come a long way
since her playing days. “As a 14­
year­old, I was the only girl and pe­
ople used to say ‘girls don’t play
football’; the coaches were least in­
terested in coaching a girl.”
It was only coach Naveen Kanwal
who paid attention to her talent
and coached her individually, lead­
ing her to eventually get picked for
the Asian Football Confederation
(AFC) Under­19 championship.
Then there were just three girls
football teams in Delhi; today, there
are 40.
Swati also plays for the Pure Fire
FC , while Aneesha plays for Paper
Pipe Pirates. “It’s all in the spirit of
goals different age groups. “The love and
passion for the sport is amazing to
see,” she says .
It’s still an uphill task to con­
vince parents, whose rea­
The Kica Women’s Football sons for not encourag­
ing girls to play the
League is all about celebrating sport range from get­
the spirit of the sport ting ‘tanned’, scarring
bruising, to studies
‘suffering’ and bones
breaking. Swati tries to
overcome these hur­
dles by playing with
the girls and counsell­
ing parents. She or­
ganises matches
between different
classes to bump up
their competitive skills.
“It took two years to make
a good team and now there are
50­60 girls who play football;
one represents Delhi,” she says.
Luxury handloom brand Ekaya Banaras is launching a ready­
The Kica Women’s Football to­wear line called Kashi in the Clouds. For this, they are
League, season 1 has six teams of collaborating with French couturiers Pierre & Daniel. Expect
seven players each. The women oversized jackets, flared pants, A­line skirts, and organza
will be playing on a small turf for 50 shirts, all created with handwoven textiles that have been
Pushing the envelope (Clockwise from top) Swati Rawat;
Dana Smith; Aneesha Labroo SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
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minutes with a break. Registrations exposed to French tailoring and pattern cutting.
for season two will be announced
spreading the popularity of the leges having after the completion of season one. Kashi in the Clouds is available by appointment at Ekaya’ s Delhi
game,” says Swati. She has a larger their own foot­ store, e7, Defence Colony, and the Mumbai store, Ador House, first
pool from which to pick players to­ ball teams: Jesus Every Sunday until March 8th; Conscient floor; upwards of ₹10,000
day, with a number of women’s col­ & Mary College Sports Arena, Vasant Kunj; 3 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Contact us at delhimetro@thehindu.co.in

5 EVENTS WORTH YOUR WHILE

ART DESSERTS EXHIBITION DINING FILM

Painted textiles Valentine special Paintings Food fest Swedish drama

An ongoing show titled The Art of Hand Painted
Textiles showcases works by Ajit Kumar Das. The
artist uses kalam, a hand­rafted bamboo reed,
and natural dyes to do his paintings. His work
spans a four­decade­long exploration of textiles.
The collections on display illustrate Ajit's long
engagement with flora and fauna.
Venue: Gallery Art Motif, Safdarjang Enclave
Time: 11 a.m. ­ 4 p.m.
The Artful Baker has curated a month­long menu
with Valentine special delicacies. This includes
Strawberry Pannacotta, Raspberry Cream Cheese
Brownie, Mocha Bundt Cake, and Strawberry and
White Chocolate Muffins. The main course will
have Creamy Chicken, Chicken Caesar Salad,
Curried Potato, and Mushroom Puff.
Venue: Khan Market and Vasant Vihar outlets
Time: 8 a.m. ­ 10:30 p.m.
Mapping Memories, an exhibition of paintings
and silk­screen prints by Madan Meena, is
currently on display at the Triveni Gallery. The
collection of works explores the artist’s
connection with two places in Rajasthan:
Ranthambore and Kota. The paintings showcase
a rich a language of colours and motifs.
Venue: Triveni Kala Sangam, Mandi House
Time: 11 a.m. ­ 8 p.m.
MKT, a spread out, casual dining restaurant at
The Chanakya has organised a 10­day
Hyderabadi­Awadhi Food Festival titled Jashn-e-
Nawabi. On till 16th February and curated by
chef Shaikh Arif Ahmed, it offers dishes made
with spices and recipes that were used in the
royal kitchens of the Nawabs.
Venue: The Chanakya Mall, Chanakyapuri
Time: 11 a.m. ­ 11 p.m.
Beyond Dreams will be screened as part of the
ongoing Swedish Film Festival. The 2017 film by
Rojda Sekersöz, is a story about Mirja who served
a prison sentence for a failed robbery. On her
return, she manages to get a job but is torn
between looking after her sick mother and her
old friends, who are to her like her real family.
Venue: Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre
Time: 7 p.m.

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REVIEW

The real-time Down to the last detail

state of mind Despite its Qualcomm aptX HD Sound,
Blaupunkt’s new True Wireless earbuds do
the bare minimum to meet the demands
This live- for today’s tech
streaming
Divya Kala Bhavani
app, on a fast
rise in India, Blaupunkt has long been known
for their high­quality yet affordable
is mediating car audio systems. In the early
the lives of 2000s, no one did audio systems
like the German name. Last year,
the creator more followers.” however, when they entered the In­
and the In 2019, the Madras High dian market, with consumer acces­
Court briefly had TikTok sories such as earbuds and televi­
consumer pulled from app stores as it sions, many were excited.
was criticised for inappro­ Now, Blaupunkt is out with their
priate content and also point­ latest true wireless earbuds, the
Reality bytes ed out for lack of safety to chil­ BTW Pro’s.
Screenshot from the dren. “Many video streaming Vanity in design is something
app, (far right) apps feature suggestive con­ brands need to stay attuned to,
Dimple D’Souza at tent posted by young women and, sadly, the BTW Pro’s do not
the BIGO Awards to gain eyeballs. This may pro­ meet the benchmark here. What Hear this Blaupunkt BTW Pro True
Gala 2020 SPECIAL *
mote further objectification of the company tried for in angular Wireless earbuds offer decent noise
ARRANGEMENT/ GETTY design, they lacked in general ap­ cancellation SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
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Aswathi Pacha
Dimple D’Souza, a fashion de­
signer from Chennai, cannot
decide on the perfect eye sha­
dow for her black dress. She
settles on a metallic purple and
starts her live broadcast. No,
she is not on the news; every
night, she connects with thou­
sands of her followers on a mo­
bile live streaming app called
BIGO LIVE. “What song should
I dance to first?” she asks and,
messages with suggestions and
virtual gifts pop up almost
instantly.
At the BIGO Awards Gala
2020 held on January 15 in Sin­
gapore, Dimple bagged the
third prize in the top regional
host category. “I’ve been on
this app for three years and I
have nearly five million follow­
ers. They send me virtual gifts
which I can encash later, as my
Google Pay is connected to the
app,” she explains.
Dimple tells me that the app
helps her earn at least five to 10
lakhs every month. To make
things clearer, she asks: “Guys!
Send me some gifts. Let my
friend here see how it works.”
A family shield pops up on the
screen. One fan under the alias
Redbull has sent her the gift. A
sword is worth ₹1,400 and she
earns ₹1,000 from it. The most
expensive virtual gift Redbull
has sent is a luxury yacht that
costs him about ₹56,000 and
she earns ₹39,999.
Unlike sending direct cash,
these gifts are seen more as a
fun, casual exchange, a cele­
bration for the sender and re­
ceiver. The app has no direct
link to these transactions and
the data resides with the pay­
ment gateways providers.
According to ‘You Watch,
You Give, and You Engage: A
Study of Live Streaming Prac­
tices in China,’ by Zhicong Lu
et al, presented at the 2019 CHI
Conference on Human Factors
in Computing Systems, more
than 60% of the studied users
reported sending paid gifts.
Dimple’s top sender, who
goes by the ID Nitesh Agarwal,
a business owner in Gujarat,
has spent over ₹2 lakhs on her
over the years. He justifies this
spending, “She is a talented
person. If I go out to the mo­
vies or the mall, I would end
up spending the same amount
WHO’S ON IT? there. Here, I sit at home and
am entertained every day after
BIGO LIVE has over 22 my daily job.”
million monthly active
users and Nagesh Banga, Safety and big picture
deputy country manager of Like most other social net­
BIGO LIVE, explains that it works, BIGO LIVE has strict
is more popular in Tier 2
community guidelines, and
and Tier 3 cities. He adds
much of the content flowing
that the users are located
through the system is moderat­
across the country with the
exception of a few South ed by in­app Artificial Intelli­
Indian cities. gence, which scans for obscen­
ity, pornography, graphic
From passing time and images, gambling, terrorism,
making friends to sharing a under­age usage.
slice of their life, each user “Individually, within each
has a different motivation segment, there are ways to en­
for watching and sure that AI is compliant and
participating in live
in­line with the local laws and
streams.
culture,” explains Mike Ong,
“BIGO LIVE helps content Vice President, Government
creators not just become Relations, BIGO, in an email to
famous but also earn an The Hindu.
income. The support given Dr. Manoj Sharma, who runs
by followers to these the SHUT Clinic, a technology
content creators/ de­addiction centre in Benga­
broadcasters is luru’s NIMHANS, says, “These
tremendous. This kind of live­streaming apps are rela­
monetisation is missing on tively new and we don’t have
short video apps,” adds
much empirical data to suggest
Nagesh.
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tional time on the app to make
extra money and get a few
police the choices of adult wo­ peal with this device. Similar to the
men,” explains Devdutta Muk­ BTW01, the main build material is trial and error, and only a couple of
hopadhyay, associate counsel, ABS which keeps the gadget light times did I randomly experience
the Internet Freedom Founda­ and heat­resistant, but the matte ‘out of range’ unpairing when it
tion. “To promote women’s finish is not as appealing as the was not warranted. Also, do these
well­being, we should focus on glossy one of the previously­tested not mimic the Airpods, but with a
data protection principles Blaupunkt BTW01’s. more angular look?
such as informed consent, pur­ One of the pet peeves I faced But let us talk audio quality: the
pose limitation and right to with the BTW01 is that to shut the Qualcomm aptX HD Sound offers
erasure. Further, women case, it requires a bit of pressure. up users detailed nuances to even
should be granted more con­ The higher­end Pro only requires a the tiniest sound in whatever they
flick of the wrist to shut the case, are listening to. The noise cancella­
trol over who can view and
share their content, and some thanks to the magnetic feature. tion is effective but not dizzying.
social media platforms have Voice assistant and calls are pret­
developed technical features Power up ty easy on these, thanks to the two­
to facilitate this.” Like most budget­friendly earbuds, mic system, but these features are
“Freedom of speech and ex­ the BTW Pro requires wired charg­ more preferable to the long­haul
pression is a fundamental ing via a Micro­USB cable. Charging users, who might not even remove
right, and in as much as it does is fairly quick and the fortnight­ these through the day.
not violate others’ right to pri­ long battery life is probably one of Ultimately, these earbuds have
vacy or is not obscene, no one my favourite pull­factors with the more cons than pros. While they
can object to it. This right in­ brand name. I use these ear­ pack a punch in the audio de­
buds for about five hours partment, there is a lot to be
cludes expressions through vi­
deos or such live­streaming everyday — music, wor­ said for the technical and
apps. The duty of the state will kout, calls, stream­ design flaws, making them
have to be to protect this right ing, transcribing — not worth the price tag.
as far as possible,” adds advo­ so that is fairly im­ Word to Blaupunkt: if you
cate and women’s rights acti­ pressive. Each ear­ had started 2020 with a set of
vist Sudha Ramalingam. bud, however, has only true wireless earbuds with a
Nagesh Banga, deputy coun­ 70mAh, while the BTW01 had wireless­charging capacity
try manager of BIGO LIVE, 75mAh each. The BTW Pro’s and a savvier look, you would
concludes that the company charging case has more juice have been set.
sees great potential in the with 740mAh.
That said, the fact that I used
future. The Blaupunkt BTW Pro True
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retailers at ₹6,999
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Series sweep: boot is on the other foot
Indian top­order will have to fire to avoid embarrassment; Williamson set for return, hosts also add Sodhi, Tickner
INDIA IN NZ
Press Trust of India
Mt. Maunganui
India will expect its top­or­
der to fire to avoid a series
whitewash when it clashes
with a high­flying New Zea­
land in the third and final
One­Day International, here
on Tuesday.
Despite missing inspira­
tional skipper Kane William­
son in the line­up due to a
shoulder injury, the hosts
shrugged off the T20 series
debacle to claim the ODI se­
ries.
New Zealand, though, will
have the experience and lea­
dership of Williamson for the
final game as he has passed
the fitness test.
Top-order impact
The major difference bet­
ween the two sides has been
the top­order’s impact.
With Rohit Sharma and
Shikhar Dhawan missing due
Ball in ICC’s court: India manager The real challenge starts now, says Jwala
There was an ugly spat after Bangladesh’s win in the öfinal
U-19 WORLD CUP
Amol Karhadkar
MUMBAI
It was anything but a gentle­
man’s game as the scenes at
the Senwes Park in Potchef­
stroom after the Under­19
World Cup final showed. In­
stead of shaking hands after
an exciting summit clash,
the India and Bangladesh
players were involved in an
ugly spat.
Losing their cool
While the host broadcaster,
quite understandably, didn’t
show the footage, videos
that surfaced on the social
media indicated that there
was some in­your­face cele­
bration from the Bangladesh
cricketers and also some
pushing and shoving among
both sides’ players.
Even the customary hand­
shake happened only just
before the official presenta­
tion, almost 15 minutes after
the conclusion of the match.
While India captain Pri­
yam Garg termed his neigh­
bours’ overzealous celebra­
tion “dirty”, his Bangladesh
counterpart Akbar Ali apolo­
gised on behalf of his team at
the post­match press confe­
rence.
India manager Anil Patel,
who had told ESPNcricinfo
Warner claims third
Allan Border Medal
Perry wins second Belinda Clark Award
Top of the heap: Ellyse Perry and David Warner at the 2020
Cricket Australia Awards. GETTY IMAGES
* Feels like a gift
Press Trust of India
Melbourne
Dashing opening batsman
David Warner on Monday
won his third Allan Border
Medal, while Ellyse Perry
claimed her second Belinda
Clark Award at the Austra­
lian Cricket Awards here.
Warner won the presti­
gious medal beating Steve
Smith by a solitary vote,
while fast bowler and last
year’s winner Pat Cummins
came third.
Meanwhile, Perry won
the Belinda Clark Award af­
ter her teammate Alyssa
Healy bagged both the T20
and ODI Player­of­the­Year
awards for women’s
cricketers.
Australia’s limited­overs
skipper Aaron Finch was
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to injuries, Virat Kohli mis­
sing out on scoring big and
K.L. Rahul batting down the
order, India’s traditional ODI
strength was neutralised.
India’s previous ODI series
loss in New Zealand was 4­1
on the 2014 tour.
Shreyas Iyer, with a
hundred and a half­century,
has mirrored Ross Taylor’s
rich form in Hamilton and
Auckland.
But Shreyas lacked the fin­
ishing touch as compared to
Taylor’s experience. He
couldn’t see India’s chase
through in Auckland like the
senior Kiwi did in Hamilton.
India may also look to ex­
periment a bit before the
Test series. Rahul, Shaw,
Shreyas, Kedar Jadhav and
Yuzvendra Chahal did not
take part in the optional
practice session on Monday.
Kohli was first at the nets
against both pace and spin.
Manish Pandey was there be­
side him, while Rishabh Pant
on Sunday that match refe­
ree Graeme Labrooy had
apologised to him for the ug­
ly scenes, confirmed that the
match officials had had a
long meeting with represen­
tatives of both teams on
Monday morning to discuss
the unfortunate incidents af­
ter the final.
Detailed account
“We were asked to pre­
sent a detailed account
which we have done. We
have no further plan to in­
itiate any complaint or ac­
tion. Since the tournament
is over, it’s up to the ICC to
decide how to deal with it,”
Jaiswal, Bishnoi, Tyagi in
Team of the Tournament
Press Trust of India
Dubai
Yashasvi Jaiswal, leg­
spinner Ravi Bishnoi and
pacer Kartik Tyagi were
the three Indians named
in the ICC U­19 World
Cup Team of the
Tournament on Monday.
Jaiswal claimed the
Player of the Tournament
award after he played a
crucial role in guiding
male ODI Player­of­the­Year
and Marnis Labuschagne
Test Player­of­the­Year.
Warner also claimed the
male International Twen­
ty20 Player­of­the­Year
Award.
The winners: ODI Player­of­
the­Year: Male: Aaron Finch;
Female: Alyssa Healy; Hall of
Fame: Sharon Tredrea, Betty
Wilson, Craig McDermott;
Young cricketer: Tayla Vlae­
minck; Bradman Young cricke­
ter: Wes Agar; Male Test
player: Marnus Labuschagne;
Domestic player: Female: Mol­
ly Strano; Male: Shaun Marsh;
Twenty20 player: Female:
Alyssa Healy; Male: David War­
ner.
Belinda Clark Award: Ellyse
Perry.
Allan Border Medal: David
Warner.
had a long session once
again. Kiwis Tim Southee
(stomach bug), Mitchell
Santner (stomach bug) and
Scott Kuggeleijn (viral fever)
are hoping to recover in time
for the match.
The teams (from):
India: Virat Kohli (Capt.), Prithvi
Shaw, Mayank Agarwal, K.L. Ra­
hul (wk), Manish Pandey, Rish­
abh Pant, Shreyas Iyer, Shivam
Dube, Ravindra Jadeja, Kuldeep
Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Mo­
hammed Shami, Jasprit Bum­
rah, Shardul Thakur and Nav­
deep Saini.
New Zealand: Kane Williamson
(Capt.), Tom Latham (wk), Mar­
tin Guptill, Ross Taylor, Colin de
Grandhomme, Jimmy Neesham,
Scott Kuggeleijn, Tom Blundell,
Henry Nicholls, Mitchell Santn­
er, Hamish Bennett, Tim South­
ee, Kyle Jamieson, Ish Sodhi
and Blair Tickner.
Umpires: Langton Rusere, Chris
Brown; TV umpire: Bruce Oxen­
ford; Fourth umpire: John
Dempsey; Match referee: Chris
Broad.
Match starts at 7.30 a.m. IST.
Anil told The Hindu over
phone on Monday.
The Hindu understands
that Labrooy will follow pro­
tocol and submit a detailed
report to the ICC about the
spat.
Sanctions unlikely
However, considering that
the match saw the end of yet
another biennial cycle of Un­
der­19 cricket, it is unlikely
that any player is likely to
face sanctions. The final
turned into a highly­charged
affair with the subcontinent
neighbours carrying on their
rivalry from last year’s Asia
Cup final.
India to the final.
The team (in batting
order): Yashasvi Jaiswal,
Ibrahim Zadran (Afg),
Ravindu Rasantha (SL),
Mahmudul Hasan Joy (Ban),
Shahadat Hossain (Ban),
Nyeem Young (WI), Akbar
Ali (Ban, wk, captain),
Shafiqullah Ghafari (Afg),
Ravi Bishnoi, Kartik Tyagi,
Jayden Seales (WI).
12th man: Akil Kumar
(Can).
Sasikumar beats Kavcic
Myneni cruises past Russian Karatsev
BENGALURU OPEN
Ashwin Achal
Bengaluru
Sasikumar Mukund over­
came an emotional roller­
coaster to record a 2­6, 6­3,
6­4 win over Blaz Kavcic in
the first round of the
$162,000 Bengaluru Open
ATP Tennis Challenger at the
KSLTA Stadium on Monday.
Sasikumar struggled to
keep his mind in check in the
early stage of the match, and
lost the first set in quick
time. It looked like he was set
to throw in the towel, until
he began to relax and find
his groove.
“Going into the match today,
my head was all over the
place. I was feeling disas­
trous. After losing the first
In the nick of time: Sasikumar Mukund brought his emotions under control to rally to victory
over Blaz Kavcic. V. SREENIVASA MURTHY
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Need to firm up: Shreyas Iyer has a hundred and a half­century to his name, but has lacked the finishing touch.
Yashasvi Jaiswal’s coach is ‘satisfied’ with his ward’s performance at the WC
Yashasvi Jaiswal. *
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set, I thought I would lose
the match. I was getting rea­
dy to attend the press confe­
rence. Honestly speaking, I
don’t deserve the win. This
feels like a gift,” Sasikumar,
the World No. 289, said.
“When you are playing at
home, you get a huge high.
And when the high wears off,
you feel real low. The same
thing happened in the Davis
Cup last year too. The Na­
tional anthem played and my
adrenaline shot up. And then
for the next three days, I
couldn’t do anything,” the
23­year­old said.
He hopes to get his "head
in the right place” to tackle
the challenges ahead in the
tournament.
Fellow Indian Saketh My­
neni had an easier time,
cruising past Russian Aslan
Karatsev 6­3. 6­3. Myneni
Amol Karhadkar
MUMBAI
Yashasvi Jaiswal’s face on
Sunday night after accepting
the Player­of­the­Tourna­
ment award minutes after
the ICC Under­19 World Cup
final ended, told a story.
There wasn’t an iota of ex­
citement on the teenager’s
face. Instead, despite finish­
ing the final against Bangla­
desh, and the tournament,
as the highest run­getter, a
disappointed look was writ­
ten large over Jaiswal’s face.
The pain of not holding the
cup that mattered to future
stars was evident on his face.
On Monday morning, ho­
wever, Yashasvi was in a
slightly cheerful mood, ac­
cording to his mentor Jwala
Singh. “When I spoke with
him in the morning, he was
obviously still upset with the
was happy with the result, as
he is easing his way back
from injury. The 32­year­old
was not in peak physical con­
dition — laboured in his
movement on court — but it
was enough to get the job
done on the day.
The results (first round): Mu­
kund Sasikumar bt Blaz Kavcic
(Slo) 2­6, 6­3, 6­4; Malek Jaziri
(Tun) bt Arjun Kadhe 6­2, 7­6
(5); Saketh Myneni bt Aslan Ka­
ratsev (Rus) 6­3, 6­3; Laurent
Lokoli (Fra) bt Adam Pavlasek
(Cze) 6­3, 7­6(4); Vaclav Safra­
nek (Cze) bt Fabrizio Ornago
(Ita) 7­6(5), 7­5; Vladyslav Or­
lov (Ukr) bt Suraj Prabodh 6­2,
6­2; Khumoyun Sultanov (Uzb)
bt Prajwal Dev 6­2, 6­1; Filippo
Baldi (Ita) bt Evgeny Karlovskiy
(Rus) 6­2, 7­5; Frederico Ferrei­
ra Silva (Por) bt Karim­Mo­
hamed Maamoun (Egy) 6­1,
3­6, 6­0; Niki Poonacha bt Adil
Kalyanpur 6­4, 6­7(5), 7­6(4).
team’s loss but he has seen so
many ups and downs that I
am sure he will be able to ce­
lebrate his individual
achievement soon,” Jwala, a
maidan cricketer­turned­
coach, told The Hindu.
At a tender age, the boy
who moved from Bhadohi
near Varanasi to Mumbai to
realise his dream of playing
cricket on the biggest stage
has seen more in life than
most kids his age. With little
financial support from his
parents, Yashasvi would
sleep in a tent at Azad Mai­
dan after training. At times,
he would also sell chaat on
pavements to make a quick
buck and earn a meal.
Once Jwala spotted him,
things changed. The coach
spotted his talent, helped
him get a home, and ensured
he got the right support —
Messi orchestrates Barca fightback
On a high: Inter players celebrate the victory over AC Milan.
EURO LEAGUES
Agence France-Presse
Madrid
Lionel Messi gave a hat­trick
of assists on Sunday as Bar­
celona ended its turbulent
week with a thrilling 3­2 vic­
tory over Real Betis to stay in
touch with Real Madrid at
the top of La Liga.
Madrid’s 4­1 win at Osasu­
na earlier in the day put
pressure on Barca to res­
pond, only for Betis to twice
lead at the Benito Villamarin
through a penalty from Ser­
gio Canales and brilliant solo
effort from Nabil Fekir.
Yet both times Barcelona
hit back as Frenkie de Jong
and Sergio Busquets pulled
it level before Clement Len­
glet headed in with 18 mi­
nutes left, all three goals
teed up by Messi.
Fekir and Lenglet were
then sent off in a frantic con­
test, by the end of which Bar­
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2020
THE HINDU
Southee
unaware of his
‘Kohli record’
Press Trust of India
Mount Maunganui
He has dismissed Virat Koh­
li the most number of times
in international cricket, but
New Zealand pacer Tim
Southee on Monday credit­
ed helpful pitch conditions
for the feat he “didn’t
know” about.
Including Saturday’s
Auckland ODI, Southee has
now dismissed Kohli nine
times across formats.
“I think the wicket had a
little bit of assistance with
the new ball and if you put
it in the right areas, there
was enough there to ask a
few questions,” Southee
said here on Monday.
“It is your job to take
wickets. Virat is a great
player and he has been in
great form. Especially in
run chases he is exception­
al, so I guess it’s always nice
to see the back of him. I
didn’t know that was the
* AFP most...,” he said.
Vivek is FIH
Rising Star
technical and nutritional — of the year
and most importantly,
exposure. PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
Still, his early days are of­ LAUSANNE
ten talked about more than The Indian men’s team
his exploits on the field. Even midfielder Vivek Sagar
before heading to South Afri­ Prasad was on Monday
ca with the Under­19 team, named as the 2019
Yashasvi had shown a Rising Star of the year
glimpse of talent at the high­ by the International
est level when he became the Hockey Federation
youngest List A double cen­ (FIH).
turion in the world — he tore The 19­year­old Vivek
through a Jharkhand attack won the accolade ahead
comprising Varun Aaron and of Argentina’s Maico
Shahbaz Nadeem en route a Casella and Blake
classy 203 for Mumbai in the Govers of Australia,
Vijay Hazare Trophy. who finished second
Jwala said he is “satisfied” and third.
with his ward’s performance
— “both with the bat and the
ball” — but insists it’s just the
beginning. “The real chal­
lenge starts now. It’s the end
of age­group cricket and he
realises that we have to work
harder to achieve the real
goal (of playing for India). I
am sure he has it him and we
shall start working as soon as
he returns on Wednesday.”
Despite the disappoint­
ment of missing out on the
champion’s trophy, for now,
Yashasvi can revel in having
become the fifth Indian — all
four of his predecessors went
on to represent India in inter­
national cricket — to be Vivek Sagar Prasad.
crowned the * FILE PHOTO: K. MURALI KUMAR
Player­of­the­Tournament.
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ca had the victory it so des­ Saturday, but is ahead of the
perately needed following a champion on goal difference
difficult few days. thanks to a exhilarating se­
Messi had put himself at cond half turnaround after
the heart of a political spat Ante Rebic and Zlatan Ibra­
this week by publicly taking himovic had put Milan 2­0
exception to comments up at the break.
made by sporting director
Eric Abidal, who suggested Hard-fought
the players were the cause of Lazio is just a point behind
the decision to sack Ernesto in third after Felipe Caicedo
Valverde last month. scored the only goal in a
Barcelona was then bea­ hard­fought win at Parma
ten by Athletic Bilbao and earlier on Sunday.
knocked out of the Copa del Milan’s collapse means it
Rey before the semifinals for missed the chance to move
the first time in 10 years on into the Europa League plac­
Thursday. es and sits 10th.
The results: La Liga: Celta Vigo
2 (Aspas 78, Sisto 90+1) bt Se­
Storming back
villa 1 (En­Nesyri 23); Real Betis
Inter Milan moved top of Se­
rie A on Sunday after storm­ 2 (Canales 6­pen, Fekir 26) lost
to Barcelona 3 (de Jong 9, Bus­
ing back from two goals
quets 45+3, Lenglet 72).
down to snatch a 4­2 win ov­
Serie A: Inter Milan 4 (Brozovic
er AC Milan in a pulsating 51, Vecino 54, de Vrij 70, Luka­
derby at the San Siro. ku 90+3) bt AC Milan 2 (Rebic
Inter pulls level on 54 40, Ibrahimovic 45+1).
points with Juventus, which Bundesliga: Bayern Munich 0
lost 2­1 at Hellas Verona on drew with RB Leipzig 0.
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IN BRIEF
Bogdanovic helps
Jazz pip Rockets
LOS ANGELES
Bojan Bogdanovic shook off a
frustrating shooting night by
nailing a clutch three­pointer
at the buzzer to lift Utah Jazz
to a 114­113 win over Houston
Rockets on Sunday.
The results: Boston Celtics
112 bt Oklahoma City
Thunder 111; Atlanta Hawks
140 bt New York Knicks 135
(OT); Philadelphia76ers 118
bt Chicago Bulls 111; Memphis
Grizzlies 106 bt Washington
Wizards 99; Utah Jazz 114 bt
Houston Rockets 113; Los
Angeles Clippers 133 bt
Cleveland Cavaliers 92;
Portland Trail Blazers 115 bt
Miami Heat 109. AGENCIES
Aditya Mehta triumphs
PUNE
Aditya Mehta defeated
multiple­time World
champion Pankaj Advani 6­2
to win the National snooker
championship here.
Mehta (PSPB) in the clash on
Sunday night, started off
with a bang after wining the
first frame 103­17, with a
break of 103.
The results: Finals: Men:
Aditya Mehta bt Pankaj
Advani 6­2 (103(103*)­17,
50­58, 47­48, 70­40, 83(51)­
36, 69(61)­07, 79­29, 64­
28).
Women: 3­2 (41­68, 57 ­35,
37­61, 69­50, 87­05). PTI
McDermott, Tredrea in
Oz cricket Hall of Fame
MELBOURNE
Former Australian cricketers
Craig McDermott and Sharon
Tredrea (in pic) were inducted
into the Australian cricket
Hall of Fame on Monday.
McDermott, who debuted in
1984, played 71 Tests and 138
ODIs and returned with 291
and 138 wickets respectively.
Tredrea featured in 10 Tests
and 31 ODIs and scalped 30
and 32 wickets. IANS
Tejas prevails
over Pranav
Sports bureau
GURUGRAM
Tejas Ahuja fought his way
past Pranav Taneja 6­7(4),
6­3, 6­4 in the boys’ first
round of the Asian un­
der­14 tennis tournament
at the Yellow Balls Tennis
Academy at Baliawas on
Monday.
The results (first round):
Boys: Rushil Khosla bt Pranay
Vadhera 6­1, 6­1; Raghav
Harsh bt Dhruv Sachdeva 6­4,
6­3; Jason David bt Manav Si­
yal 6­2, 6­1; Samprit Sharma
bt Viraj Gohil 6­2, 6­1; Vitin
Rathee bt Jash Shah 6­4, 6­1;
Kandhavel Mahalingam bt
Siddhant Sharma 6­1, 6­2;
Manan Nath bt Parag Jain
2­6, 6­3, 6­2; Cahir Warik bt
Harsh Fogaat 6­4, 6­1; Tejas
Ahuja bt Pranav Taneja 6­7
(4), 6­3, 6­4; Jigyashman Ha­
zarika bt Smit Patel 6­4, 6­2;
Vansh Nandal bt Simardeep
Sawhney 6­0, 6­0.
Girls: Joleen Saw bt Yashika
6­2, 6­0; Shruti Ahlawat bt
Sonika Bhogade 6­2, 6­0;
Sanjana Devinneni bt Jennis
Manoj Ojha 6­3, 6­2; Saumya
Ronde bt Aarushi Raval 6­1,
6­0; Samiksha Dabas bt
Saumrita Verma 6­3, 4­6, 6­2;
Shagun Kumari bt Sunira Tha­
pa 6­0, 6­1; Jannvi Asawa bt
Siya Digankar 6­3, 6­0; Ridhi
Choudhary Poka bt Danica
Fernando 6­3, 6­7(5), 6­3;
Jeetesh Kumari bt Suhani
Gaur 6­4, 6­2; Riya Sachdeva
bt Amodinni Naik 6­4, 6­2.
CM
YK
Rahane slams century
India­A makes 467 for five in reply to the hosts’ 386 for nine
INDIA-A IN NZ
Press Trust of India
Lincoln
India vice­captain Ajinkya
Rahane warmed up for the
Test series in New Zealand
with an unbeaten 101 in the
drawn four­day ‘Test’ against
New Zealand­A here on
Monday.
In response to New Zea­
land­A’s 386 for nine, India­A
reached 467 for five in 109.3
overs when the game ended
in a draw on the fourth and
final day.
The end of the second
‘Test’ also marked the end of
the ‘A’ tour.
Rahane stayed unbeaten
on 101 off 148 balls and his
knock comprised 15 fours
and a six.
Shubman Gill, who has
scored a double hundred in
the first game at number
four, continued his good run
with the bat, making another
Foster is KKR fielding coach
Special Correspondent
KOLKATA
Kolkata Knight Riders has
drafted in former England
wicketkeeper James Foster
as fielding coach for the up­
coming Indian Premier
League season.
Foster, whose appoint­
ment was confirmed in a re­
lease by Knight Riders on
Monday, will be joining in
place of former Assam and
Railways cricketer Subha­
deep Ghosh.
Anand, the author, is just loving it
I had this feeling of something, you know, I’ve done it, says the Grandmaster
Rakesh Rao
New Delhi
Viswanathan Anand, the
author, is just loving it. Se­
lect city­hopping to promote
his book, Mind Master and
getting a first­hand feedback
on his honest effort.
So you begin by asking the
Grandmaster, how does it
feel to be an author?
Adding to public idea
“I would say it's very nice.
But you have to do this with
some enthusiasm,” says
Anand and elaborates, “the
point of the book is to share,
add to the public idea of
what, who or what you are.
“I mean, most people
have a certain impression of
what a chess player is like,
what you do and so on. And
they now have something
which is slightly closer to the
truth.
“That's why I felt that it
was important to address
this book as a chance to get
your story out and, you
know, you have to divulge
Leudo saves NEUFC’s blushes
ISL
SPORTS BUREAU
GUWAHATI
Jose Leudo’s 88th­minute
strike helped NEUFC hold
Jamshedpur FC 3­3 in a
thrilling ISL match here on
Monday.
The hosts had gone ahead
through Federico Gallego in
Chennai City FC beats Churchill
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
MARGAO
Swiss recruit Jan Muzangu
scored the match­winner in
the injury time as defending
champion Chennai City FC
It’s Gokulam vs KRYPHSA
IWL
Special Correspondent
Bengaluru
Sabitra Bhandari scored a
brace as Gokulam Kerala
toppled defending cham­
pion Sethu FC 3­0 in the
semifinals of the Hero Indian
Women’s League here on
Monday.
Groundwork: Ajinkya Rahane’s preparations for the New Zealand Test series seem to be on the
right track. FILE PHOTO: R.V. MOORTHY
*
hundred on day three, this
time as an opener.
Resuming day four at 107,
Gill, went on to make 136.
A practice game will also
Forster, who retired from
competitive cricket in 2018,
played seven Tests, 11 ODIs
and five T20Is for England
between 2001 and 2009.
The two­time IPL cham­
pion has former New Zea­
land captain Brendon
McCullum as head coach.
McCullum took over the
reins after the departure of
South African great Jacques
Kallis at the conclusion of
the 12th edition of IPL last
season.
Closer to the truth: Viswanathan Anand said that quite a few
players liked his book Mind Master. FILE PHOTO: K.V.S. GIRI
stuff. So even though that’s
not something I normally do
liberally, over the last few
years, I found that I have
opened up in many ways.
Been fun
“I talk more frankly. May be,
it's just the sense that, now
everything's in the past and I
can talk about it without the
pains and so on. But it's been
fun for me. I had this feeling
the fifth minute before JFC’s
David Grande made it 1­1 in
the 45th minute.
Quick strikes
Redeem Tlang gave NEUFC
the lead again in the 77th mi­
nute before two goals in the
space of three minutes from
Noe Acosta (82) and Memo
Moura (85) seemed to have
sealed it in JFC’s favour be­
(CCFC) defeated Churchill
Brothers 2­1 in an I­League
football clash here on
Sunday.
The win took CCFC’s tally
to 14 points from 10 games
Manisha Kalyan put Goku­
lam ahead on 21 minutes
with a fine free­kick before
Sabitra doubled the advan­
tage on the brink of half­
time. The Nepal internation­
al then sealed the result with
another strike six minutes
from time.
In the other semifinal,
KRYPHSA FC overcame
Kenkre FC 3­1, with Ratanba­
be played before the
series­opener.
The scores: New Zealand­A
386/9 in 131.5 overs (Daryl
Mitchell 103, Glenn Phillips 65,
James Foster. *
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* then it's a fairly light year be­
of something, you know, I've
done it. Now I can't do
anything more.”
Did any of the chess
players get back to you on
this?
“Quite a few players said
they really liked it. Many
players said they couldn’t get
it yet. I probably expect
more feedback later. (Boris)
Gelfand said he loved it. He
was in Chennai and he read
fore Leudo’s goal.
NEUFC is second from
bottom with 13 points from
15 matches while Jamshed­
pur is seventh with 17 from
16 games.
The result:
NEUFC 3 (Federico Gallego
5, Redeem Tlang 77, Jose Leu­
do 88) drew with Jamshedpur
FC 3 (David Grande 45, Noe
Acosta 82, Memo Moura 85).
while Churchill has 13 from
nine.
The result: CCFC 2 (Katsumi
Yusa 85, Jan Muzangu 90+3) bt
Churchill 1 (Lalkhawpuimanwia
87).
la Devi scoring twice for the
Manipur side.
Friday’s final will thus be
contested by two teams
making their first appea­
rance in the title clash.
The results (semifinals): Goku­
lam Kerala 3 (Manisha Kalyan
21, Sabitra Bhandari 44, 84) bt
Sethu FC 0; KRYPHSA FC 3 (Ra­
tanbala Devi 18, 38, Roja Devi
63) bt Kenkre FC 1 (Jyoti 43).
Sandeep Warrier 2/50) drew
with India­A 467/5 in 109.3 ov­
ers (Shubman Gill 136, Che­
teshwar Pujara 53, Ajinkya Ra­
hane 101 n.o., Ed Nuttall 2/98).
Harika beats Kosteniuk
Press Trust of India
St. Louis (USA)
India’s D. Harika got the bet­
ter of former world cham­
pion Alexandra Kosteniuk in
the third round of the Cairns
Cup chess tournament here.
Meanwhile, K. Humpy
drew with reigning world
champion Ju Wenjun of Chi­
na in 22 moves late on Sun­
day, to take her tally to 1.5
points.
Harika, who is unbeaten
after three rounds, is joint
it on the flight back home.
“Kramnik didn't mention
it. Anish (Giri) even tweeted
something, you know, as
usual. I'm sure if I probed he
would tell me something.
But I expect the few others
will read it as well.”
Away from the book, what
does your schedule for 2020
look like?
Light year
“For the moment. I’ve got a
tournament — Grenke Chess
Open in April. Hopefully I'll
get an event in May. And
cause I am not playing the
Grand Chess Tour. I'll play
the Olympiad, maybe. And if
some new tournament turns
up, I might go for that.
“After all these years of
complaining that the sche­
dule was heavy, if I spend
this year complaining, it
doesn't make sense. So I
thought I'll just go with the
flow, keep working, keep
training and also enjoy more
time at home.”
Waqar, member
of Pakistan’s
first Test side,
passes away
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
KARACHI
Waqar Hasan (87), the last
surviving member of Pakis­
tan’s first Test side that
toured India in 1952, died
here on Monday. Waqar
featured in the Pakistan
team that played its first­ev­
er Test series in India in
1952 and also on the En­
gland and West Indies tours
of 1954 and 55/56.
He played in the Tests
that Pakistan won on these
tours before retiring in 1959
after a 21­match career that
fetched him 1,071 runs. He
also served as chief selector
and manager in the Pakis­
tan Cricket Board.
Waqar Hasan.
*
THE HINDU ARCHIVES
Big win for
Pakistan
Agence France-Presse
Rawalpindi
Pakistan completed a
crushing innings and 44­
run victory over Bangla­
desh on the fourth morn­
ing on Monday, taking a 1­0
lead in the two­Test series.
Bangladesh was bowled
out for 168 in its second in­
nings after resuming the
day on 126 for six as Pakis­
tan’s pace and spin attack
was too hot to handle des­
pite a flat pitch.
Fast bowler Naseem
Shah, who at 16 years and
359 days became the youn­
gest bowler to take a Test
hat­trick on Sunday, fin­
ished with four for 26 and
was Man­of­the­Match.
The scores: Bangladesh 233 &
168 in 62.2 overs (Mominul
Haque 41, Naseem Shah 4/26,
Yasir Shah 4/58) lost to Pakis­
tan 445 in 122.5 overs (Shan
Masood 100, Babar Azam 143,
Haris Sohail 75, Asad Shafiq
65). Pakistan leads two­
match series 1­0.
second with two points
along with former world
champion Mariya Muzy­
chuk (Ukraine) and Kater­
nya Lagno (Russia). Geor­
gia’s Nana Dzagnidze leads
the field with 2.5 points.
Third round results: Nana
Dzagnidze (2.5) bt Carissa Yip
(0), K. Humpy (1.5) drew Ju
Wenjun (1.5), D. Harika (2) bt
Alexandra Kosteniuk (1.5), Va­
lentina Gunia (1) bt Irina Krush
(1), Katernya Lagno (2) drew
with Mariya Muzychuk (2).
AICF elections: Justice Kalifulla
finalises nominations
Chauhan­panel set to get elected unopposed;
23 nomination papers found invalid
CHESS
RAKESH RAO
NEW DELHI
Notwithstanding legal inter­
vention and delay, secretary
Bharat Singh Chauhan and
four members of his election
panel are set to get elected
unopposed to the All India
Chess Federation (AICF) for
the term 2020­2023.
The situation arose after
the nomination papers filed
by his rival, presidential­
candidate Venketrama Raja
and 22 others were found in­
valid by the Madras High
Court­appointed Returning
Officer Justice F.M. Ibrahim
Kalifulla on Sunday.
Five nominees
Since there are only five no­
minees in the fray for as ma­
ny posts — Messrs Ajay Patel
(president), Vipnesh Bhard­
waj (vice­president), Bharat
Singh Chauhan (secretary),
Arun Singh (joint secretary)
and Naresh Sharma (treasur­
er) — they could be declared
elected unopposed, ahead
of the scheduled voting in
Hyderabad on February 23.
Ravindra Dongre, whose
Tootsie Roll wins feature event
HYDERABAD: Tootsie Roll (I.
Chisty up) won the Lingapur
Cup (Div 1), the main event of
the races held here on Monday
(Feb. 10).
The winner is owned by Mrs.
Rajini Meka & Miss Meka Ahalya
and trained by L.D'Silva. Trainer
R.H. Sequeira saddled three
winners on the day.
1 ROCK OF GIBRALTAR PLATE
(2,000m), 4­y­o & over, rated
upto 25 (Cat. III): HONORABLE
GUEST (Mukesh Kumar) 1, Re­
cumbentibus (Irvan Singh) 2,
Wings Of Eagles (Ajeeth Kumar)
3 and Brave Syera (Afroz Khan)
4. Nk, nk and 1. 2m, 10.99s. ₹ 43
(w), 14, 7 and 5 (p), SHP: 16, FP:
175, Q: 61, Tla: 418. Favourite:
Wings Of Eagles. Owner: Mr.
Bolla Murali Krishna. Trainer:
R.H. Sequeira.
2 NORTHERN DANCER PLATE
(Div. II), (1,400m), 4­y­o &
over, rated 20 to 45 (Cat. III):
PROMISEOFHAPPINESS
Vikrant) 1, Nova Scotia (Suraj
(A.A.
Narredu) 2, Rhine (Irvan Singh)
3 and Tiger Of The Sea (Ajeeth
Kumar) 4. Hd, nk and nose. 1m,
26.51s. ₹ 87 (w), 17, 6 and 10 (p),
SHP: 18, FP; 273, Q: 61, Tla: 692.
Favourite: Nova Scotia. Owner:
Mr. N.V. Rohin Kumar. Trainer:
D. Netto.
3 MEMBERS CUP (Div. II),
(1,200m), 4­y­o & over, rated
40 to 65 (Cat. II): CITY OF BLOS­
SOM (Mukesh Kumar) 1, Kamyar
(Gaddam) 2, Dancing Doll
SPORT 19
Indian shooters getting
ready for World Cup
Kamesh Srinivasan
NEW DELHI
A very thoughtful selection
rule, which allows all the
Olympic­quota winning
shooters to compete in the
first World Cup of 2020, will
ensure the participation of
at least two shooters in rifle
and pistol, who do not meet
the regular stipulation of be­
ing within the top three to
make the main team.
Chinki Yadav has slipped
to the fourth spot in wo­
men’s 25­metre sports pis­
tol, behind Rahi Sarnobat,
Manu Bhaker and Annu Raj
Singh.
Chinki hanging on
Chinki’s case was weakened
when she shot 567 in the Na­
tional championship and
her first trial score subse­
quently was 566. A shooter’s
three best scores from the
last four matches are taken
for selection, and Chinki has
not been able to wish away
one bad score. She reco­
vered to shoot 582 in the se­
cond and last trial, to hang
on to hope for the season
ahead.
In women’s air pistol, Ma­
nu and Yashaswini Singh
Deswal are on top, followed
by Annu. Shri Nivetha and
Shweta Singh are in the
fourth and fifth spots, which
could get them a chance to
compete in the MQS
section.
Tejaswini in fifth spot
In women’s rifle 3­position,
Tejaswini Sawant, who won
the Olympic quota, is in the
fifth place in the averages,
papers for the post of secre­
tary from Raja’s panel were
found invalid, told The Hin-
du, “Soon, we will approach
an appropriate court of law
to challenge the order of the
Returning Officer.”
After the scrutiny of nom­
ination papers was taken up
on February 8 in Chennai
and the rival factions put
forth their arguments
through their advocates, Jus­
tice Kalifulla rejected 23
nominations.
In his 11­page order, Kali­
fulla highlighted the main
reason for rejection of nomi­
nations was the violation of
para 6.4 of the National
Sports Development Code,
which reads as under:
“6.4 ­ Each nomination
paper shall be delivered per­
sonally to the Returning Of­
ficer in person by the candi­
date himself/herself from…”
Elaboration
Elaborating on his verdict,
Kalifulla stated, “the inevita­
ble conclusion would be that
any candidate who wish to
contest for any of the posts
either president or vice­pre­
sident or secretary or joint
secretary or treasurer, he
(Rafique Sk.) 3 and La Mer (Md.
Ismail) 4. 3/4, hd and 1/2. 1m
12.60s. ₹ 16 (w), 6, 45 and 22 (p),
SHP: 144, FP: 1,846, Q: 1,374,
Tla: 54,218. Favourite: City Of
Blossom. Owners: M/s. K. Thrib­
huvan Reddy & K. Vivek Reddy.
Trainer: R.H. Sequeira.
4 R.M. REDDY MEMORIAL
PLATE (1,600m), 4­y­o &
over, rated 40 to 65 (Cat. II): THE
GREAT GATSBY (Santosh Raj) 1,
Reno Star (Koushik) 2, Miss Mar­
vellous ( Jitendra Singh) 3 and
Artistryy (R. Vaibhav) 4. 2­1/2,
nk and shd. 1m, 38.31s. ₹ 14 (w),
8, 10 and 20 (p), SHP: 23, FP: 81,
Q: 74, Tla: 1,280. Favourite: The
Great Gatsby. Owners: M/s. Vijay
Racing & Farms Pvt.Ltd.rep. by
M/s. Vijay Kumar Gupta &
Susheel Kumar Gupta. Trainer:
Laxman Singh.
5 LINGAPUR CUP (Div. I),
(1,200m), 5­y­o & over, rated
60 to 85 (Cat. II): TOOTSIE ROLL
(I. Chisty) 1, Happy Together
( Jitendra Singh) 2, Trump Girl
(Koushik) 3 and N R I Symbol
(Afroz Khan) 4. 1­1/2, 1/2 and 1/2.
1m, 11.84s. ₹ 94 (w), 15, 17 and 5
(p), SHP: 37, FP: 1,042, Q: 375,
Tla: 1,951. Favourite: Trump
Girl. Owners: Mrs. Rajini Meka &
Miss Meka Ahalya. Trainer:
L.D'Silva.
6 MEMBERS CUP (Div. I),
(1,200m), 4­y­o & over, rated
40 to 65 (Cat. II): STRATEGIST
(Suraj Narredu) 1, Sovet Pride (I.
Chisty) 2, Shandaar (Irvan
behind Anjum Moudgil,
Gayathri Nithyanandam, Su­
nidhi Chauhan and Ayushi
Podder.
Tejaswini has the same
average as Ayushi (1162.25).
Anjum is a spot of bother as
she is third, despite an aver­
age of 632.40, including six
merit points.
Apurvi Chandela has
managed to retain her No.1
status with 634.40, which
includes 4.75 merit points.
Elavenil Valarivan is second
with 633.46.
The three are followed by
Shreya Agrawal (629.68)
and Mehuli Ghosh (629.59)
who may get to compete in
the MQS section.
There is no such situation
in the men’s section, even
though Sanjeev Rajput has
slipped to the third spot in
50­metre rifle 3­position,
0.25 point behind Chain
Singh while Aishwary Pra­
tap Singh Tomar is leading
the averages, six points
ahead, with 1173.50.
Swapnil Kusale and Niraj
Kumar figure in the fourth
and fifth spots.
Divyansh leads averages
In air rifle, Divyansh Singh
Pannwar (634.50) and Dee­
pak Kumar (631.36) lead the
averages, ahead of Pankaj
Kmar, Sandeep Singh and
Aishwary.
In air pistol, the Olympic
quota winners, Abhishek
Verma (589.13) and Saurabh
Chaudhary (589.00) are
miles ahead of Dharmendra
Singh, Gaurav Rana and
Omprakash Mitharval.
should file his nomination
paper personally by handing
it over to the Returning Offic­
er and the said condition
will have to be scrupulously
followed.
When that is the ultimate
resultant position of the im­
plication of para 6.4 of the
Code and the attending cir­
cumstances, in the present
case, I find that the candida­
ture of the following persons
for different posts having
failed to comply with the
mandatory requirement of
para 6.4, they cannot be
held to be validly nominated
candidates.”
List of nominations found in­
valid: President: P. R. Venke­
trama Raja; Secretary: Ravindra
Dongre; Treasurer: Kishor Ban­
dekar; Vice­president(s): A.
Narasimha Reddy, G. Basker,
Jagdish Singh Cheema, V.
Chandra Sekhar Iyer, Ajay Aj­
mera, Sanjay Kapoor, Dhiraj
Singh Raghuvanshi, Niapung
Konia, P.C. Lallianthanga and
D.P. Anantha. Joint­secretary:
Atul Kumar, Pradip Kumar
Choudhuri, R. Rajesh, Atanu La­
hiri, Y. Suman, G. Sankar, Diljeet
Khanna, Mahendra Dhakal,
Mughaho Awomi and Bonney
Kharbani.
Singh) 3 and Yours Forever
(Surya Prakash) 4. Nk, 3­3/4 and
3/4. 1m, 11.84s. ₹ 27 (w), 8, 8 and
33 (p), SHP: 18, FP: 95, Q: 39,
Tla: 1,138. Favourite: Best In
Show. Owner: Col. S.B. Nair.
Trainer: S. Sreekant.
7 LINGAPUR CUP (Div. II),
(1,200m), 5­y­o & over, rated
60 to 85 (Cat. II): N R I POWER
(Suraj Narredu) 1, Starlight
(Mukesh Kumar) 2, Warrior Su­
preme (Kiran Naidu) 3 and
Ashka Ashka Ashka (Abhay
Singh) 4. Hd, 1/2 and 1/2. 1m,
12.38s. ₹ 9 (w), 7, 21 and 11 (p),
SHP: 68, FP: 201, Q: 182, Tla:
744. Favourite: N R I Power.
Owner: Mr. Ravinder Reddy
Male. Trainer: R.H. Sequeira.
8 NORTHERN DANCER PLATE
(Div. I), (1,400m), 4­y­o &
over, rated 20 to 45 (Cat. III):
SURSEINE (Ashhad Asbar) 1, Al­
liston ( Jitendra Singh) 2, Plat­
inum Claasz (Afroz Khan) 3 and
Sun Dancer (I. Chisty) 4. Not
run: Tapatio. Shd, shd and 2.
1m, 27.32s. ₹ 105 (w), 34, 14 and
12 (p), SHP: 45, FP: 1,760, Q: 663,
Tla: 12,960. Favourite: Angel Te­
soro. Owner: Mr. Rakesh Reddy
Kondakalla. Trainer: Robin
Reddy.
Jkt: ₹ 1,28,797 (six tkts), Runner
up: 745 (444 tkts), Mini Jkt (i):
21,201 (two tkts), (ii): 29,744
(three tkts), Tr (i): 2,674 (13 tkts),
(ii): 948 (53 tkts), (iii): 1,251 (101
tkts).
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South Korea’s Parasite makes Oscar history with Best Picture
It became the first non­English feature film to win both Best Picture and International Feature, while also taking home Best Director and best Original Screenplay awards
Special Correspondent
Mumbai
Just days before the Oscars,
South Korean filmmaker
Bong Joon­ho had referred to
the Oscars as “very local”
awards. It seems to have
done the trick. Or, perhaps,
it was Mr. Bong’s other fa­
mous quote — “once you
overcome the one­inch tall
barrier of subtitles, you will
be introduced to so many
more amazing films” — that
made the Academy of Mo­
tion Picture Arts and Scienc­
es look beyond the home
turf, and English language,
to write history. Mr. Bong’s
searing look at class divides
— Parasite — became the first
non­English feature film to
win the Best Film Oscar at
the 92nd Academy awards.
Ten foreign language films
are said to have been nomi­
nated previously for Best Pic­
ture but none of them could
make it to the final post.
These include Ingmar Berg­
man’s Cries and Whispers in
1973 and Ang Lee’s Crouch-
ing Tiger, Hidden Dragon in
2000.
Rare feat
Not just that, Parasite is also
a rare film to have won both
International Feature and
Best Picture awards. Last
year, Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma
took the best international
film and best director award
but was overtaken by Green
Book in the best film catego­
ry. In 2013 Michael Haneke’s
Amour took the foreign lan­
guage Oscar but not for the
best film. In 1999 Roberto
Benigni’s Life Is Beautiful got
best foreign film and best ac­
tor awards but the best film
eluded it.
The firsts for Parasite
didn’t stop at that. It is the
first South Korean film to get
nominated and to have won
the International Film Oscar.
Lee Chang­dong’s Burning
couldn’t make it to the list of
IN BRIEF
Solar Orbiter mission
to reveal Sun's secrets
MIAMI
A new probe built by NASA
and the European Space
Agency set off on a blazing
hot journey to the sun on
Sunday to take the first
close­up look at the star's
polar regions, a mission
expected to yield insight into
how solar radiant energy
affects Earth. The Solar
Orbiter spacecraft lifted off
from Cape Canaveral and is
on a 10­year voyage. REUTERS
Italian opera star
Mirella Freni dies at 84
ROME
One of the great stars of
Italian opera Mirella Freni
died on Sunday at the age of
84 following prolonged
illness. Born in 1935 in the
northern town of Modena,
Ms. Freni was a childhood
friend of tenor Luciano
Pavarotti and also his partner
on stage. In a career that
spanned five decades, she
shone in opera and was famed
for roles as Mimi in Puccini's
La Boheme and Desdemona in
Verdi's Otello. AFP
Excess smartphone use
linked to mental distress
TORONTO
Using smartphone for long
hours every day may do you
more harm than you can
probably think of.
Researchers have found that
spending a lot of time with
the device and on social
media may lead to mental
distress and suicidality among
adolescents, says finding
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THE HINDU
Bong Joon­ho:
Obamas’ film wins filmmaker
best documentary on a wild ride
Agence France-Presse and China,” director Julia Agence France-Presse
Los Angeles Reichert said while Seoul
American Factory, a accepting her golden South Korean filmmaker
documentary produced by statuette. “But it really Bong Joon­ho has been on
Barack and Michelle could be from anywhere quite a wild ride this
Obama for Netflix about a that people put on a awards season. That trip
manufacturing plant in the uniform, punch a clock, reached its climax on Sun­
U.S. Midwest reopened by a trying to make their day when he secured his
Chinese billionaire, won families have a better life.” country’s first­ever Oscars
the Oscar for best “Working people have it for Parasite.
documentary on Sunday. harder and harder these Mr. Bong — who is
The film charts a days, and we believe that known for his dark and
Midwestern rust belt things will get better when genre­hopping thrillers —
community’s journey from workers of the world already had a series of crit­
optimism at the giant unite,” she said. ical and commercial hits
plant’s reopening — Co­directed by Reichert behind him before Parasite
bringing back vital jobs — and Steven Bognar, the film and is one of South Korea’s
toward creeping anger and is a look at how both best­known faces.
disillusionment as the American and Chinese Mr. Bong grew up in an
Chinese management workers, from blue­collar elite artistic family in Seoul
imposes its strict, to management, had their — his maternal grandfather
exhausting demands on lives transformed by global was a renowned novelist
workers and sacks those economic forces that while his late father and all
who do not comply. caught the eyes of none of his siblings are universi­
Top honours: (Clockwise from top left) Bong Joon­ho poses with the Oscars for Parasite in Los Angeles; Renee Zellweger (Best “Our film is from Ohio other than the Obamas. ty professors in fields in­
Actress), Joaquin Phoenix (Best Actor), Laura Dern (Best Supporting Actress) and Brad Pitt (Best Supporting Actor). REUTERS *
cluding fashion and fine
art.
final nominees last year. Pa- zy,” he had said in an inter­ were not familiar with my supporting role as a laid­ He studied sociology at
rasite is also the first Asian
film to have grabbed the Best
view to The Hindu on the eve
of winning the Palme D’Or at
films, Quentin [Tarantino] al­
ways put my films on his
back stunt man.
Laura Dern took the Sup­
Afghans celebrate the South’s prestigious
Yonsei University and re­
Screenplay award, shared by
Mr. Bong with Han Jin­won.
Giving Mr. Bong company
Cannes Film Festival last
year. No wonder his Oscar
acceptance speech for Best
list.” And then rounded it off
by acknowledging Todd Phil­
lips and Sam Mendes. “If the
porting Actress Oscar, her
first Academy Award, for
playing a ruthless divorce la­
‘Skateistan’ victory portedly took part in street
protests while enrolled
there during the country’s
in making history was the Director was a warm and Academy allows, I would like wyer in Marriage Story.
Agence France-Presse encouraged to participate pro­democracy movement
New Zealand filmmaker Tai­ generous ode to fellow film­ to get a Texas chainsaw, split First World War film 1917,
Kabul in sport. in the 1980s.
ka Waititi, who became the makers, starting off with the award into five and share from Universal Pictures, had Afghans took to social The film follows a group His Memories of Murder
first Maori to enter the privi­ Martin Scorsese: “When I it with all of you,” he said. been seen as the film to beat media Monday to celebrate of young girls enrolled at — a 2003 feature film based
leged Oscar club with Adapt­ was young and starting in ci­ The acting Oscars went as but won just three of its 10 a rare piece of good news the nonprofit, who gain on real­life serial killings
ed Screenplay award for his nema there was a saying that expected. Joaquin Phoenix nominations. They came for for the war­torn country, confidence and courage as that rattled the nation in
Nazi satire Jojo Rabbit. He I carved deep into my heart won Best Actor for playing a its stunning “one­shot” feel after a film about girls they learn to skate on the 1980s — was seen as a
dedicated the award to the which is, ‘The most personal failing clown who finds fame Cinematography, for Visual skateboarding took home ramps and quarter pipes in metaphor for a repressive
indigenous children all over is the most creative.’ That qu­ through violence in the dark Effects and for Sound an Oscar for best Kabul amid frequent society under military
the world. ote was from our great Mar­ comic­book tale Joker. Mixing. documentary short at the militant attacks and suicide rule.
tin Scorsese... When I was in Renee Zellweger was Toy Story 4 took home the Academy Awards. bombings. His 2013 feature film
Crazy passion for cinema school, I studied Martin named Best Actress for her Oscar for best animated film “Learning to Skateboard The film’s director Carol Snowpiercer depicted a
Mr. Bong grew up in the Scorsese’s films. Just to be performance as an ageing Ju­ — the third golden statuette in a Warzone (If You’re a Dysinger also highlighted dystopian future, in which
1990s when there was crazy nominated was a huge ho­ dy Garland in the musical for the innovative Pixar fran­ Girl)” tracks international the plight of Afghan women the last humans on Earth —
passion for cinema in Korea. nour. I never thought I would biopic Judy. chise about a collection of charity Skateistan’s bid to during her victory speech. who survived a failed at­
“We would give everything win.” Mr. Tarantino’s sentimen­ toys, the value of friendship teach young Afghan girls “This movie is my love tempt to stop global warm­
up for cinema. 1990s was the He then went on to thank tal ode to Tinseltown, Once and accepting change. how to skateboard in the letter to the brave girls of ing — travel endlessly on a
most cinephile decade in Ko­ Quentin Tarantino for get­ Upon a Time in Hollywood, Hildur Guðnadóttir won ultraconservative country, that country,” Ms. Dysinger train separated according
rean history, the time when ting him a place in the sun: brought the first acting Oscar the Best Original Score for where few women are said. to class, and the lower class
we devoured films like cra­ “When people in the U.S. for Brad Pitt, who played a Joker. (With Reuters inputs) revolts.
India moves to include elephant, Flight crosses Museum on Delhi’s art
Atlantic in less
history at Qila Rai Pithora
bustard in global conservation list than 5 hours
Associated Press
London
Virtual reality lab, exhibition planned
Damini Nath an Ode to the Art of Delhi,”
The proposal will be debated at the 13th Conference of Parties in Gandhinagar For the first time in years, a NEW DELHI the RFP read.
commercial passenger The rise and fall of the cities The document added
of Delhi will be told through that Delhi had seen several
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT working in wildlife conserva­ plane has flown across the
NEW DELHI tion, are expected to attend Atlantic in less than five its art at a new museum be­ cities rise and fall over mil­
India will be moving to in­ the COP, which will also see hours. ing set up by the Archaeo­ lennia. Over the years, ar­
clude the Asian Elephant Prime Minister Narendra A British Airways flight logical Survey of India (ASI) tists have depicted Delhi’s
and the Great Indian Bustard Modi address the gathering landed early on Sunday at Qila Rai Pithora, consi­ history and imagined its fu­
in the list of species that me­ via video conference. morning at Heathrow Air­ dered to be the first of the ture, it said.
rit heightened conservation The Union Environment port in London after leav­ seven historical cities. The plan includes a curat­
measures. The list will be de­ Ministry reports India as ing John F. Kennedy Inter­ An ASI official said while ed exhibition in a refur­
bated at the 13th Conference having 29,964 elephants ac­ national Airport in New the theme of the museum bished building of Qila Rai
of Parties (COP) of the Con­ cording to the Project Ele­ York in just four hours and was yet to be finalised, a re­ Pithora, which dates back to
vention on the Conservation phant Census in 2017. The 56 minutes. quest for proposal (RFP) the 11th century, and would
of Migratory Species of Wild pachyderm merits the high­ That set a new speed re­ had been floated last week include paintings, sculp­
Animals (CMS), an environ­ est level of protection, or cord for subsonic — or inviting ideas on the basic tures, prints, photographs,
ment treaty under the Unit­ Jumbo cause: An elephant herd searching for food in a forest Schedule 1, under the Wil­ slower than the speed of theme of “cities of Delhi”. maps, posters, books and
ed Nations Environment near Panbari village, on the outskirts of Guwahati. AP/FILE *
dlife Protection Act. sound — commercial air­ The RFP floated on Fe­ installations. A virtual reali­
Programme (UNEP). craft to fly between the two bruary 7 asked for applica­ ty lab may also be included.
faces risks particularly in the list — more formally India to lead cities, according to Flight­ tions to set up a “museum/ “The aim of the exhibi­
Gujarat convention neighbouring Bangladesh known as Appendix 1 — India has been designated radar24, which tracks glo­ interpretation centre cele­ tion is to inform and edu­
The COP is scheduled to be and Nepal,” Soumitra Das­ would coax countries neigh­ the President of the COP for bal flights. brating the art of Delhi, cate the public while provid­
organised from February 17 gupta, a senior official in the bouring India, where wild the next three years. “The The previous record was ancient and contempor­ ing them a critical
to 22 in Gandhinagar, Guja­ Union Environment Ministry animals such as tigers and government of India has held by a Norwegian Air ary”. understanding of the Capi­
rat. There are 130 parties to told The Hindu. elephant foray into, to direct been taking necessary ac­ flight, which flew between Applicants were asked to tal city’s art history connect­
the convention and India has India is home to several more resources and atten­ tions to protect and con­ the two cities with a flight send in their bids by Febru­ ing it with its political and
been a member since 1983. migratory species of wildlife, tion to protecting them. serve migratory marine spe­ time of five hours and 13 ary 17 for conceptualising, social history,” the docu­
“We expect the COP to including the snow leopard, There are now 173 species in cies. Seven species that minutes. designing, layout and execu­ ment read.
clear the inclusion of the Amur falcons, bar­ headed the Appendix 1. include Dugong, Whale The recent average flight tion of the museum. “Just a Apart from Qila Rai Pitho­
Great Indian Bustard and the geese, black­necked cranes, Shark, Marine Turtle (two time between New York half a mile from the UNES­ ra, the other historical cities
elephant as it has been vet­ marine turtles, dugongs and PM to address meet species), have been identi­ and London is 6 hours and CO World Heritage Site of of Delhi are Siri Fort, Tugh­
ted by technical experts and hump­backed whales. Representatives from across fied for preparation of Con­ 13 minutes. The wind and Qutub Minar, in the Mehrau­ laqabad, Jahanpanah, Firo­
reflects the consensus of sev­ Having the elephant and the world, and conservation­ servation and Recovery Ac­ air currents were ideal for li area of Delhi, the exhibi­ zabad, Purana Qila and
eral countries. The elephant the Great Indian Bustard in ists and international NGOs tion Plan,” the Ministry said. the flight. tion should present itself as Shahjahanabad.
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‘Half­a­million
J.R.D. Tata, the ‘maverick’ of Indian aviation, gets a digital licence
insect species
face extinction’
In what might be a befitting tribute, the digitisation process of flying licences is being undertaken by Tata Consultancy Services
Agence France-Presse
Aditya Anand undertaken by Tata the first Indian pilot. land was witness to heavy Paris
Mumbai Consultancy Services (TCS). Born on July 29, 1904, in rainfall. Half of the one million ani­
In was on February 10, 1929 Paris, J.R.D. launched India’s “In in first year, Tata Air mal and plant species on
that India got its its first pilot ‘Aviators certificate’ first airmail service in 1932, Mail made a profit of Earth facing extinction are
in Jehangir R.D. Tata, who Dated February 10, 1929, when he flew into Mumbai ₹60,000, while rose to ₹6 insects, and their disap­
qualified with number 1 on J.R.D’s licence, then called in a De Havilland Puss Moth lakh by 1937,” Capt. Bunsha pearance could be catas­
his flying licence, giving an ‘aviators certificate’, was from Karachi’s Drigh Road said referring to available trophic for humankind,
birth to Indian aviation. issued by The Aero Club of Aerodrome to the Juhu records. scientists have said in a
India has come a long way India and Burma, an Airstrip via Ahmedabad on Arun Kumar, the current “warning to humanity”.
since then, with digitisation associate of the Royal Aero the basis of this flying director general of the DGCA “The current insect ex­
process of flying licences Club of Great Britain, which license. This later became the aviation regulator was tinction crisis is deeply
underway, being the latest was authorised to issue the country’s national now issuing Commercial worrying,” said Pedro Car­
among initiatives to be licences by the British The flying licence of J.R.D. Tata. *
SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT carrier, Air India. Pilots License online after doso, a biologist at the Fin­
undertaken by Directorate Empire’s Federation Capt. Russi Bunsha, verification of the log­book nish Museum of Natural
General of Civil Aviation Aeronautique The certificate in itself register, J.R.D was the first executive trustee, J. R. D. of the concerned flying History and lead author of
(DGCA). In what might be a Internationale. The Aero was a beginning of Indian Indian to pass out with ‘No. Tata Memorial Trust recalled training school, while Airline a review study published in
befitting tribute to the Club of India and Burma was aviation, as many aviation 1’ endorsed on his flying that that planned flight was Transport Pilot’s License will Conservation Biology.
legend, the digitisation recognised by Federation historians have noted over licence. Purushottam Meghji delayed by a month to go online in May. “As we say, “Yet, what we know is
process, which kicked off in Aeronautique Internationale time. Kabali is by various aviator October 15, 1932, as Juhu we have miles to go before only the tip of the iceberg,”
December 2019 is being as a sporting authority. Though not the first to accounts considered to be mud flats, where it would we sleep,” Mr. Kumar said. he said.
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