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T he Congress presidentship remains within the Gandhi family. After spending the entire day brainstorming to decide Rahul Gandhi’s succes- sor as the party president, the Congress Working Committee (CWC) on Saturday decided to make UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi the interim Congress president. The decision, announced by senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad, comes even as Rahul had been categorical in saying he want- ed a non-Gandhi as the new party president. Earlier, the CWC could not come to a conclusion on Rahul’s successor till late at night amid a majority view that there was none better than the Gandhi scion himself for the top job. The view persisted despite his categorical refusal to continue at the helm owning responsibility for the Lok Sabha debacle. In between, the meet- ing’s focus even shifted to Jammu & Kashmir. Around 10.20 pm, as the CWC was in a huddle for the second time in the day to take a call on the vexed presi- dentship issue, Rahul, who had reached the meeting venue around 9 pm, emerged to announce that he was called by the CWC to see a presentation on Jammu & Kashmir, where, he said, some reports have come that things are going very wrong and there are reports of violence. He demanded Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Government to be transparent about what’s happening in J&K. Rahul said the CWC was continuing its meeting on the issue of president and left the venue. Earlier, the CWC had met to form five sub-groups each representing a region — North, South, East, West and North East — to hold confabulations with the regional leaders on the appointment of the next party chief. Sonia was asked to hold talks with leaders in the east- ern region while Rahul was asked to meet leaders from the western region. But the two recused themselves from the consultation process saying they cannot be part of it as they would not like the opinion of the party leaders to be influ- enced in any manner. “There is process of con- sultation and naturally Rahul ji and myself, we cannot be part of that consultation,” Sonia told reporters during the day. Asked how their names were in the sub-groups of the CWC for consultations, she said, “That’s obviously a mis- take, because we cannot be in that.” W ith no let-up in rain this monsoon season, floods have caused considerable dam- age in 12 States affecting peo- ple in 35,000 villages in 125 dis- tricts in the country. The loss- es too have been considerable as many as 700 people have lost their lives while 300 persons sustained injuries even as one lakh houses got damaged since the beginning of the mon- soon, as per official data. According to the Ministry of Agriculture, over four lakh each of milch cattle, goats, pigs and more than 4 crore poultry have been lost in the flood. Besides, 1.40 lakh ani- mals have been hit hard. The flood has ravaged a whopping 4.79 lakh hectare (11 lakh acre) of agricultural land all over the country. It is esti- mated that 4 crore poultry has been washed away in the flood as several States are yet to assess the damage. Assam has seen a huge loss to its animal population with more than 1,30,000 animals being affect- ed by floods. According to flood situa- tion report prepared by the Home Ministry, the worst- affected State in terms of loss of lives has been Maharashtra with 200 deaths, followed by Bihar with 150 and Assam with 130. Gujarat reported 98 deaths while Karnataka report- ed 78 and Kerala 48. The damages could be more as the Home Ministry data has not included incidents occurred in Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and sever- al North-eastern States. Moreover, heavy losses of fisheries stocks, including orna- mental, rearing and nuclear breeding stock of fish and hatcheries have not been reported. The pineapple and banana production zones have suffered a huge loss. Data from the Central Water Commission (CWC) said one fifth of global flood- related deaths take place in India. In the 64 years from 1953 to 2017, more than one lakh people have died due to floods and damage to crops. Also, infrastructure and housing losses during the period are pegged at 3,65,860 crore, which is 3 per cent of the coun- try’s current Gross Domestic Product (GDP). K erala and Karnataka con- tinued to face a grim situ- ation on Saturday due to floods and landslides triggered by torrential rain that have left 66 people dead in the two States in the last couple of days and disrupted normal life. In fact, reports said there have been as many as 80 land- slides in Kerala alone. In Gujarat, as many as 19 people lost their lives in rain-related incidents since Friday while the toll stood at 12 in Maharashtra during the same period. Former Union Minister and Congress leader B Janardhana Poojary was res- cued in Karnataka while an 8- month pregnant woman and an 11-month-old baby were among many safely evacuated from flood-affected places on Saturday. According to Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, who took stock of the flood situation on Saturday, around 80 land- slides had occurred in 8 dis- tricts in the last three days. He, however, allayed fears of open- ing dams, saying all the major dams have enough storage capacity. The Konkan Railway Corporation has suspended the services of one train besides partially cancelling two others along its route on Saturday due to heavy rain in the State. Turn to Page 4 T he Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leadership in Delhi has got clear indications of early Assembly election in the national Capital. While the BJP national leadership appointed Union Minister Prakash Javadekar poll incharge for Delhi, its working president JP Nadda has reportedly asked Delhi BJP president Manoj Tiwari to begin preparations for Assembly polls in full swing. Sources in the party high command said Delhi Assembly polls, scheduled for January next year, could be held simul- taneously with elections in Haryana, Jharkhand and Maharashtra in October- November this year as top brass believe that public mood is in favour of the BJP, partic- ularly after abrogation of Article 370 that gave special status to Jammu & Kashmir. The possibility of early election is also backed by the fact that One Nation One Election is next on BJP’s card and the Prime Minister. The BJP leadership has appointed Union Ministers Hardeep Singh Puri and Nityanand Rai as co-incharges for the Delhi elections. “Appointment of Puri is crucial for BJP as being the Urban Affairs Minister he is already dealing with critical issues like regularisation of unauthorized colonies and sealing in Delhi. Rai, on the other hand, hails from Bihar and Delhi has a siz- able population of poorvan- chalis,” said a BJP leader. Turn to Page 4 T he National Conference on Saturday moved the Supreme Court challenging the changes made in the con- stitutional status of Jammu & Kashmir, contending that these have taken away rights of its cit- izens without their mandate. In a separate petition, the editor of a daily from the State sought the removal of restrictions imposed on working of jour- nalists in the State after scrap- ping of Article 370. Arguing that the legislation approved by Parliament and the orders issued by the President subsequently were “unconstitutional”, the petition filed by two NC MPs, Mohammad Akbar Lone and Justice (rtd) Hasnain Masoodi, prayed for these to be declared “void and inoperative”. Lone is a former Speaker of the Jammu & Kashmir Assembly and Masoodi is a retired judge of Jammu & Kashmir High Court. Masoodi had ruled in 2015 that the Article 370 was a permanent feature of the Constitution. As for the petition regard- ing media rights, Anuradha Bhasin, Executive Editor of Kashmir Times, has sought directions for restoration of all modes of communication, including mobile internet and landline services, throughout the State in order to provide an enabling environment for the media to practise its profession. Turn to Page 4 T he Delhi Police has regis- tered a first case of triple talaq in the national Capital, after the law was passed in Parliament in July. Police said the man had given triple talaq to his wife in June, but the woman approached police on Friday, following which the 38-year-old man was arrested. However, the accused, Atir Shamim, got bail on Saturday. Police said Atir, a resident of Azad market and a shop- keeper in Kamla Market in North Delhi, allegedly pro- nounced triple talaq and informed his wife about the decision on WhatsApp. According to Nupur Prasad, the Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), North district, the 29- year-old woman, Raima Yahya, reached the North Delhi’s Bara Hindu Rao police station on Friday and filed a complaint in which she claimed that she was given triple talaq by her hus- band on WhatsApp. “Acting on her complaint, an FIR was reg- istered under Section 4 of the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Act 2019,” said the DCP. Raima, in her police com- plaint stated that she got mar- ried to Atir on November 24, 2011. She alleged that she was harassed for dowry by her hus- band and his family and on June 28, under a well-planned conspiracy, her husband and his family members came to her room and pressurised Atir to pronounce triple talaq. “Thereafter, Atir pro- nounced talaq three times, and they all asked me and my six- year-old son to leave the house,” Raima said in the FIR. Turn on Page 4 RNI Regn. No. MPENG/2004/13703, Regd. No. L-2/BPLON/41/2006-2008

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The Congress presidentshipremains within the Gandhi

family. After spending theentire day brainstorming todecide Rahul Gandhi’s succes-sor as the party president, theCongress Working Committee(CWC) on Saturday decided tomake UPA chairperson SoniaGandhi the interim Congresspresident. The decision,announced by senior Congressleader Ghulam Nabi Azad,comes even as Rahul had beencategorical in saying he want-ed a non-Gandhi as the newparty president.

Earlier, the CWC couldnot come to a conclusion onRahul’s successor till late atnight amid a majority view thatthere was none better than theGandhi scion himself for thetop job. The view persisteddespite his categorical refusal tocontinue at the helm owningresponsibility for the Lok Sabhadebacle. In between, the meet-ing’s focus even shifted toJammu & Kashmir.

Around 10.20 pm, as theCWC was in a huddle for thesecond time in the day to takea call on the vexed presi-dentship issue, Rahul, who hadreached the meeting venuearound 9 pm, emerged toannounce that he was called bythe CWC to see a presentation

on Jammu & Kashmir, where,he said, some reports havecome that things are goingvery wrong and there arereports of violence. Hedemanded Prime MinisterNarendra Modi and theGovernment to be transparentabout what’s happening in J&K.

Rahul said the CWC wascontinuing its meeting on theissue of president and left thevenue.

Earlier, the CWC had metto form five sub-groups eachrepresenting a region — North,South, East, West and NorthEast — to hold confabulationswith the regional leaders on theappointment of the next partychief. Sonia was asked to hold

talks with leaders in the east-ern region while Rahul wasasked to meet leaders from thewestern region. But the tworecused themselves from theconsultation process sayingthey cannot be part of it as theywould not like the opinion ofthe party leaders to be influ-enced in any manner.

“There is process of con-sultation and naturally Rahul jiand myself, we cannot be partof that consultation,” Soniatold reporters during the day.

Asked how their nameswere in the sub-groups of theCWC for consultations, shesaid, “That’s obviously a mis-take, because we cannot be inthat.”

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With no let-up in rain thismonsoon season, floods

have caused considerable dam-age in 12 States affecting peo-ple in 35,000 villages in 125 dis-tricts in the country. The loss-es too have been considerableas many as 700 people have losttheir lives while 300 personssustained injuries even as onelakh houses got damaged sincethe beginning of the mon-soon, as per official data.

According to the Ministryof Agriculture, over four lakheach of milch cattle, goats,pigs and more than 4 crorepoultry have been lost in theflood. Besides, 1.40 lakh ani-mals have been hit hard.

The flood has ravaged awhopping 4.79 lakh hectare (11lakh acre) of agricultural landall over the country. It is esti-mated that 4 crore poultry hasbeen washed away in the floodas several States are yet toassess the damage. Assam hasseen a huge loss to its animalpopulation with more than1,30,000 animals being affect-ed by floods.

According to flood situa-tion report prepared by theHome Ministry, the worst-affected State in terms of loss

of lives has been Maharashtrawith 200 deaths, followed byBihar with 150 and Assamwith 130. Gujarat reported 98deaths while Karnataka report-ed 78 and Kerala 48.

The damages could be moreas the Home Ministry data hasnot included incidents occurredin Uttarakhand, MadhyaPradesh, Rajasthan, and sever-al North-eastern States.

Moreover, heavy losses offisheries stocks, including orna-mental, rearing and nuclearbreeding stock of fish andhatcheries have not been

reported. The pineapple andbanana production zones havesuffered a huge loss.

Data from the CentralWater Commission (CWC)said one fifth of global flood-related deaths take place inIndia. In the 64 years from 1953to 2017, more than one lakhpeople have died due to floodsand damage to crops. Also,infrastructure and housinglosses during the period arepegged at �3,65,860 crore,which is 3 per cent of the coun-try’s current Gross DomesticProduct (GDP).

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Kerala and Karnataka con-tinued to face a grim situ-

ation on Saturday due to floodsand landslides triggered bytorrential rain that have left 66people dead in the two Statesin the last couple of days anddisrupted normal life.

In fact, reports said therehave been as many as 80 land-slides in Kerala alone. InGujarat, as many as 19 peoplelost their lives in rain-relatedincidents since Friday while thetoll stood at 12 in Maharashtraduring the same period.

Former Union Ministerand Congress leader BJanardhana Poojary was res-cued in Karnataka while an 8-month pregnant woman andan 11-month-old baby wereamong many safely evacuatedfrom flood-affected places onSaturday.

According to Kerala Chief

Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, whotook stock of the flood situationon Saturday, around 80 land-slides had occurred in 8 dis-tricts in the last three days. He,

however, allayed fears of open-ing dams, saying all the majordams have enough storagecapacity. The Konkan RailwayCorporation has suspended

the services of one train besidespartially cancelling two othersalong its route on Saturday dueto heavy rain in the State.

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The Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) leadership in Delhi

has got clear indications ofearly Assembly election in thenational Capital. While the BJPnational leadership appointedUnion Minister PrakashJavadekar poll incharge forDelhi, its working president JPNadda has reportedly askedDelhi BJP president ManojTiwari to begin preparations forAssembly polls in full swing.

Sources in the party highcommand said Delhi Assemblypolls, scheduled for Januarynext year, could be held simul-taneously with elections inHaryana, Jharkhand and

Maharashtra in October-November this year as topbrass believe that public moodis in favour of the BJP, partic-ularly after abrogation ofArticle 370 that gave specialstatus to Jammu & Kashmir.

The possibility of earlyelection is also backed by thefact that One Nation OneElection is next on BJP’s cardand the Prime Minister.

The BJP leadership hasappointed Union MinistersHardeep Singh Puri andNityanand Rai as co-inchargesfor the Delhi elections.“Appointment of Puri is crucialfor BJP as being the UrbanAffairs Minister he is alreadydealing with critical issues likeregularisation of unauthorizedcolonies and sealing in Delhi.Rai, on the other hand, hailsfrom Bihar and Delhi has a siz-able population of poorvan-chalis,” said a BJP leader.

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The National Conference onSaturday moved the

Supreme Court challengingthe changes made in the con-stitutional status of Jammu &Kashmir, contending that thesehave taken away rights of its cit-izens without their mandate. Ina separate petition, the editorof a daily from the State soughtthe removal of restrictionsimposed on working of jour-nalists in the State after scrap-ping of Article 370.

Arguing that the legislationapproved by Parliament andthe orders issued by thePresident subsequently were“unconstitutional”, the petitionfiled by two NC MPs,Mohammad Akbar Lone andJustice (rtd) Hasnain Masoodi,prayed for these to be declared“void and inoperative”.

Lone is a former Speaker ofthe Jammu & Kashmir

Assembly and Masoodi is aretired judge of Jammu &Kashmir High Court. Masoodihad ruled in 2015 that theArticle 370 was a permanentfeature of the Constitution.

As for the petition regard-ing media rights, AnuradhaBhasin, Executive Editor of

Kashmir Times, has soughtdirections for restoration of allmodes of communication,including mobile internet andlandline services, throughoutthe State in order to provide anenabling environment for themedia to practise its profession.

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The Delhi Police has regis-tered a first case of triple

talaq in the national Capital,after the law was passed inParliament in July. Police saidthe man had given triple talaqto his wife in June, but thewoman approached police onFriday, following which the38-year-old man was arrested.However, the accused, AtirShamim, got bail on Saturday.

Police said Atir, a residentof Azad market and a shop-keeper in Kamla Market inNorth Delhi, allegedly pro-nounced triple talaq andinformed his wife about thedecision on WhatsApp.

According to NupurPrasad, the DeputyCommissioner of Police(DCP), North district, the 29-year-old woman, Raima Yahya,reached the North Delhi’s Bara

Hindu Rao police station onFriday and filed a complaint inwhich she claimed that she wasgiven triple talaq by her hus-band on WhatsApp. “Acting onher complaint, an FIR was reg-istered under Section 4 of theMuslim Women (Protectionof Rights on Marriage) Act2019,” said the DCP.

Raima, in her police com-plaint stated that she got mar-ried to Atir on November 24,2011. She alleged that she washarassed for dowry by her hus-band and his family and onJune 28, under a well-plannedconspiracy, her husband andhis family members came toher room and pressurised Atirto pronounce triple talaq.

“Thereafter, Atir pro-nounced talaq three times, andthey all asked me and my six-year-old son to leave the house,”Raima said in the FIR.

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He flaunts a walrus moustache witha loosely fit untucked vibrantcoloured shirt and a more loose

pant, which reminds us of the fashion styleof the 80s. He is funny, innocent yet evil,a romeo by heart and a proud owner ofan undergarments shop which people ofthe lively gully of Kanpur’s ModernColony call — a khokha.

He is Laddoo’s bhaiyya, Angoori’sbeloved husband, Anita Bhabhi’s caringneighbour who loves putting his nose intheir business and Vibhuti NarayanMishra’s frenemy and sometimespartner in crime too. MeetManmohan Tiwari aka RohitashGaud.

Gaud was born andbrought up in HimachalPradesh. It was his love foracting brought him to the Cityof Dreams — Mumbai, manyyears back. His acting journeystarted from the National Schoolof Drama where he got themuch needed professionaltraining. His idea of acting was to dotheatre but destiny had something elsein store for Gaud. He rose to fame afterplaying Tiwariji in & TV’s hilarious show— Bhabhi Ji Ghar Par Hain.

Launched in 2015, the show even afterfour years manages to tickle the funnybone. Gaud feels that the USP of the showis the script which is why the show hasbeen able to maintain its essence even after1,141 episodes.

“Our show is on similar lines asShrimaan Shrimati which used to be airedon Doordarshan in 1990. The reasonbeing our writer, Manoj Santoshi, used towork as an assistant writer for ShrimaanShrimati. The script is rib-tickling andfresh and based in Uttar Pradesh. Theconcept is not something which is out ofthe box but the freshness in the scriptmakes it worth watching. We have also gotsome talented actors who fit their roles toa T and add spice to the show. Thedirection and characterisation have beendone well. The other thing that sets thisshow apart is the use of idioms. These arewidely used in Kanpur and this is whyeveryone is able to relate to the show,” hesays.

Gaud believes in working in sync withthe script, when required he brings in hisown style so that the character can standout. “I always go by the script. But, I dobring in my originality and style in it. Wecan say it is like karat karat abhyaas (youlearn when you practice).There have

been many instances where I madechanges in my character. Charactersevolve over time. You have to nurturethem. If we talk about the signature stepof Tiwari, when he is stuck in an unwantedsituation, he makes a weird noise ‘eeee’ andpretends as if he is biting his nails, it wasn’ta part of the script originally. It camenaturally. Even when he calls Angoori‘pagli’ that wasn’t in the script. The tone

with which he says Bhabhi Ji Ghar ParHain, that tone was also my idea.

The gist is that, as actors, we dobring in our style in the

characters we play. It showshow connected we feel with

our roles,” he tells you.Outfits speak a lot

about one’s personality.It is a reflection of theirpersonality and Gaud

abides by this. He saysthat outfits do play an

important role when itcomes to the characters thatyou are portraying on screen.

People relate to the charactersbecause of the way they dress.

“Imagine Tiwariji in jeans and tight fittedT-shirt. No one will recognise him. No onewill relate to him. Outfits are designed ina manner where the audience can relateand connect to it. They speak for thecharacters,” he tells you.

Gaud didn’t face too many challengesin playing Tiwari because of his strongfoundation that was rooted in theatre.However, when he came into the industry,it was difficult for him to adapt to the styleand face the camera. “Theatre actors aregenerally too loud since they have toensure they are heard till the last personsitting in the auditorium; they have to bevery extra expressive as well. But, whenwe face the camera, it becomes difficultto understand the camera angles.Sometime we go too loud withexpressions and it has to be controlled.You have to go easy with the camera sinceit can capture even the minute detail andno one wants to be overdramatic,” he tellsyou.

Gaud is thoroughly enjoying being apart of Bhabhi Ji Ghar Par Hai and hasnothing in the pipeline yet. “When youare doing TV and moreover when you area part of such a famous show, it becomeshard to take time out for other projects.It also comes as a huge responsibility tobe able to do justice to your character. Idon’t want to lose this concentration,” hetells you.

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Despite some great movies onout of the box stories that havebeen coming out of Bollywood

recently, the one thing that theindustry has not managed to master ishow to sustain comedy till the veryend. Over the years, there have beenmany comedy films that have fallenprey to this problem. Jabariya Jodi isno different.

The movie starts off on a greatnote. The one-liners make you laughand keep you entertained — at leastfor the first hour and 15 minutes. Andone hopes for better things to come inthe second half. Unfortunately, this isnot the case.

Director Prashant Singh instead ofkeeping up with the laughter quotient

and keeping the audience interestedin the happenings that unfold resortsto melodrama and sad tears follow.The preachy message at the climax isa bit too much to handle especially ina film that is 143 minutes long.

The movie is about the pratha ofpakadwa Shaadi. In the end thedirector end up making JaavedJaaferi, the villain, apologise for thesame in the end. Why make the filmto begin with if an apology had to bemade?

Having said this, all is not losthere. Performances by SidharthMalhotra and Parineeti Chopra keepyou engrossed. As does SanjayMishra. But then any movie with himwill ensure that when he is on thescreen, there will never be a dullmoment. Aparshakti Khuranaentertains you with his shayari.

Overall, a fun movie that getscaught up in the melodrama.

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Hanumanganj police havebooked a miscreant who

abducted a 17-year-old girland silted his wrist after sherefused to marry her at BoatClub on Frdiay; victim lodgedcomplaint after she escapedfrom the accused.

According toHanumanganj police, victimwho is 17-year-old girl was kid-napped by accused GauravSisodia and took her to BoatClub area where he proposed tomarry her but victim refused.

The victim is a resident ofShahjehanabad while the also

lives in the same locality anddoes CCTV cameras installa-tion work.

After the incident victimlodged complaint stating that asthe accused is her neighbourshe was acquainted and theaccused had conversation sev-eral times in normal mannerbut the accused took the inter-action in different manner andfall for her and when she cameto know she started to avoidtalking him which irked theaccused and few days agoaccused entered the house ofvictim girl few days ago andafter misbehaving with herelder sister and mother also

manhandled with them afterwhich she stopped communi-cation.

On Friday evening around8 pm the accused took herforced to Boat Club where heagain harped the same stringthat he like her and wanted tomarry her but she refused andangry over the act accusedbroke girl mobile phone andsilted his wrist the girl managedto escape reached her homewhere she narrated the wholeincident to her mother.

The police have registeredcase of kidnapping andmolestation and POCSO andstarted further investigation.

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Alady SDM foiled the ferry-ing of illegal sand and

caught hold of the driver of thedumper after giving a chase forseveral minutes.

A dumper, being operatedby the local sand mafia and fer-rying illegal sand was inter-cepted and seized by the MorarSDM Pushpa Pusham on theDelhi- Mumbai highway dur-ing the intervening night ofFriday- Saturday .

Illegal sand mining hasbeen a profitable business forthe mafias in the GwaliorChambal division for manyyears because of the boom inthe realty sector. However inrecent months the administra-tion and the police have beencracking down on the mafia.

Earlier, acting on a tip- offabout transportation of illegalsand, District Collector AnuragChaudhary had instructed theMorar SDM Pushpa Pusham toinvestigate and take appropri-ate action.

On Friday night the SDMled a team consisting of twopatwaries and police personnelto the Hajira area. On seeing adumper speeding towardsMorena, the team signaled the

driver to stop it. However thedriver instead of stopping thevehicle sped away towards theDelhi- Mumbai Highway.

The SDM and the teamchased the dumper. After achase that lasted several min-utes, the team intercepted thedumper under a RailwayBridge on the highway. In asheer display of bravery theSDM overtook the dumperand stopped her vehicle infront of the dumper. The dri-ver tried to ram the SDM’svehicle in his bid to escape butwas caught before he could getaway. Police arrested the dri-ver and FIRs have been lodgedagainst the owner of thedumper and a few others underrespective sections of the IPC.

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Under the celebrations ofInternational Day for

World’s Indigenous People’sIndira Gandhi RashtriyaManav Sangrahalaya organ-ised Demonstration ofIndigenous Knowledge Systemprogramme on TraditionalTechnology open air exhibitionarea from August 9.

On the Second day of thisprogramme, PritamChoudhary (Asst. ProgrammeCoordinator) told that aboutthis programme, traditionalartisans from Manipur, AndhraPradesh, Bihar andChhattisgarh presenteddemonstration of traditional inthe presence of students of BalBhawan School, Bhopal andNational Design Institute,Bhopal.

On this occasion artistfrom Thoubal, Manipur toldthat, Meitei believe that the siteof salt spring is guarded by agoddess -Thum Lairembi whois the giver of these naturalresources. Meitei salt is tradi-tionally prepared by womenunder a shed calledThumsung- shang.

Pandit Ram Rajwar andSauhadri Bai from Sarguja,Chhattisgarh said that 'TIRHI'is actually a traditional tech-nology through which the oilfrom different oil seeds areexpelled.

The state of Bihar is wellknown for production of'Makhana. The seed ofMakhana popularly known as'Gudi' Is a water plant productcultivated in lakes, ponds andwet lands. Gudi is collected

from the lake and ponds anddried in the sun and after theseed of the 'Gudi' is extract-ed.The well dried gudi is roast-ed in an iron pan & then ham-mered on a wooden platformto get the Makhana.

Edullumota is a tradition-al water lifting device, widelydistributed in Vizianagaram &Srikakulam district of AndhraPradesh. The farmers of thisarea are depended for irrigationon canal, well, tank andstreams. In this technique themechanism is simple but inter-esting as water lifting contain-er called 'Guna' works underbackward & forward motion.

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Gautam Nagar police haveregistered a case of stealing

of a bag of Vidisha based jewel-er carrying gold worth lakhs ofrupees from a car at JP Nagar;a case was registered on Friday.

Police said that the victimMukul Soni came to Bhopal forsome work related with goldand after completing workwhen the car was near JPNagar his bag was found stolen.

The incident took place onThursday when the victimalong with his driver IndrajParihar and employee ShivaSahu was on his way back toVidisha after completing thework of gold jewelry.

In his complaint victimstated that near JP Nagar atruck brushed his car whichlead to altercation and duringwhich three scooter borne per-sons intervened to pacify thefight. After the incident whenthey continued journey theyfound that the bag carryinggold was stolen. The victimsearched for the bag but failedto find it and later approachedGautam Nagar police.

Based on the complaintafter the preliminary investiga-tion the police have registereda case under section 379 of theIPC and have started furtherinvestigation into the matter.

In the initial investigationpolice have not found anythingconcrete which could help inthe nabbing the miscreants asthe locals have expressed igno-

rance over the stealing of bag. Police have started investi-

gation. The nearby installedCCTV cameras have beenchecked still the incident wasnot found to be captured in anyof the CCTV cameras.

Mhow: A two day weaponand equipment display pro-gram was held at garrisonground Mhow under theaegis of HQ central com-mand which was attendedby thousands of schoolchildren and civilians fromall walks of life. The aim ofthe event was to give andexposure to the people thatIndian army is a way of liferather than a profession. Theevent included a display ofvarious arms and equipmentsinfantry combat vehicles, tanks,svl equipment being used byIndian army as well as banddisplay showcasing the drilland discipline of Indian armyto the budding youngsters.

The role of Indian army washighlighted and attention was

drawn to the contribution madeby Indian army towards thenation building. The fwg unitsparticipated with full zeal andenthusiasm for smooth conductof the event with overall respon-sibility being of 10 BIHAR.The event was organized toincrease awareness of the youthand motivate them to join thearmed forces. More than 5000students from different schoolvisited the event. PNS

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Two of the total 11 sluicegates of Bhadbhada Dam

were opened in the earlymorning hours on Saturdayafter the water level touchedthe

The gates were openedone by one by Bhopal MayorAlok Sharma to let the excessrainwater outf low intoKaliyasot reservoir.

After water level reached1666.80 feet at around 1 in thenight on Friday , the officialsof Bhopal MunicipalCorporation (BMC) decidedto open one gate and withinfive minutes second gate was

opened. To take stock of the situa-

tion District Collector TarunPithode and BMCCommissioner Vijay Duttavisited dam and were presentat the time of opening ofBhadbhada gates.

Bhopal residents lookedenthusiastic about the openingof the Bhadbhada gate. Towitness the spectacular view ofthe opening of the dam gatesand water gushing through thegates with incredible forcethousands of people reachedthe dam. Before the gate wasopened, a warning siren wassounded at around 6 am toalert the residents down-

stream.Earlier in the year 2017

gates were opened ofBhadbhada dam.

The level in Upper lakesaid the water level hasincreased due to heavy show-ers in the catchments area ofthe lake. The gates were closedat around 11 am.

This year the level of damdipped below dead storagewhich raised concerns andnow after only 33 days ofrainfall in the season dam hasreached full water level tankand apart from this the aver-age rainfall of the season hasbeen recorded above the nor-mal average rainfall.

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threw chilli powder at twopolice constables and tore theirclothes in Shahdara area to helphim evade arrest, but failed intheir attempt, police said onSaturday. In self-defence, thepolicemen had to fire shots inthe air. The accused Sajan, anexternment who had over 16cases registered against him inthe national capital, was laterarrested when more forcereached the spot, they said.

Two constables of VivekVihar police station were onpatrolling on Friday came toknow that Sajan has returnedto Delhi, a senior police officersaid.

From Page 1The overall death toll

climbed to 42 in Kerala.Many people are still feared

trapped under debrisKavalappara in Malappuramand Puthumala in Meppadi inWayanad. As rescue opera-tions were on in Kavalappara,another landslide occurred inthe region on Saturday due towhich search operations havebeen halted. The IndiaMeteorological Departmentissued a red alert for eight dis-tricts in Kerala

According to CentralWater Commission (CWC)officials, one of the four shut-ters of the Banasurasagar dam,located about 21 km fromKalpetta in Wayanad, one of

the worst affected districts,was opened at 3 pm to dis-charge excess water and peopleon the banks of the Kabini riverhave been asked to be cautious.One of the largest earth damsin India and the second largestof its kind in Asia,Banasurasagar impounds theKaramanathodu tributary ofthe Kabini River.

The KarnatakaGovernment pegged the dam-age caused by torrential down-pour and subsequent floods inthe State at Rs 6,000 croreeven as the toll from variousrain-related incidents stood at24. Terming it the biggestcalamity in 45 years, KarnatakaChief Minister BS Yediyurappahas sought Rs 3,000 crore as

relief from the Centre. As many as 222 head of

livestock is dead and 44,013head of cattle have been evac-uated and provided shelter.The Yediyurappa Governmenthas assessed that 3,22,448hectares of agricultural landhave been damaged due tofloods and landslides. As manyas 243 PWD roads have beenblocked while 2,450 km roads,530 bridges, 56 public buildingshave been damaged. As manyas 2.35 lakh people have beenmoved to safety.

In Maharashtra, over 4.24lakh people have been evacu-ated and shifted to safer placesacross the State. A total of 761villages in 69 ‘talukas’ in theState were affected by flood.

Over two lakh homes are with-out power and are facing short-age of fresh water, as many stor-age tanks have either got dam-aged or are filled with dirtyflood waters in Sangli andKolhapur.

In Sangli, crops on 27,468hectares have been affectedand 484 km of roads were dam-aged in the district. In the res-cue boat capsize incident atBramhmanal, 12 peopledrowned and eight were miss-ing, but no deaths were report-ed from elsewhere in Sangli.

In Tamil Nadu, the IAF res-cued 11 people, including twoinfants from rain-batteredAvalanchi in Nilgiris District inTamil Nadu and shifted them toCoimbatore for medical help.

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From Page 1Javadekar, a senior leader

and a strategist, will be facingthe biggest task of keeping thefaction-ridden state BJP unitunited during the polls. Thisassumes significance in wake ofdispleasure within the BJPranks since appointment ofManoj Tiwari, a poorvanchali,the state unit president in 2016.On his appointment, Javadekar,who was earlier in-charge ofassembly polls and Lok sabhaelections for Rajasthan, said hewill discharge his responsibili-ty with dedication and willprepare plans for the Delhipolls after consulting partypresident and other leaders.

Nadda reportedly discussedBJP’s strategy to take on theKejriwal government in Delhi.

The BJP is out of power inDelhi since 1998. The BJP hadfirst formed the government inDelhi way back in 1993 withlate Madan Lal Khurana as the

chief minister. Since then, theBJP lost three successive pollsto Congress. In 2013, BJPemerged as the largest party butfell short of the majority andAAP formed the governmentwith support of the Congress.After the fall of Kejriwal’s 49-day government, assembly wasdissolved and fresh electionswere held in 2015 where AAPbagged a whopping 67 of the 70seats in Delhi. According tosources, Nadda also discussedthe freebies being announcedby the AAP government essen-tially aimed at wooing thelower and the middle classvotes. The BJP leaders have alsobeen told to come up with astrong case against the govern-ment while also countering thefreebies announced by the gov-ernment. In the meeting it wasdecided that the Delhi BJP willprepare a list of services that itcan provide to citizen free ofcost after coming to power.

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From Page 1In the petition, the editor

said she is seeking a directionfor the Centre and the Jammu& Kashmir administration toimmediately relax all restric-tions on freedom of movementof journalists and media per-sonnel in Kashmir and somedistricts of Jammu.

The direction was soughtin order to enable media per-sonnel to practise their profes-sion and exercise their right toreport in furtherance of theirrights under Article 14, 19 (1)(a) and 19 (1) (g) and 21 of theConstitution as well as theright to know of the residentsof the Kashmir Valley, the peti-tion said.

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From Page 1“Police have also arrested

the husband of the woman andfurther investigation is under-way,” said the DCP.

According to a relative ofRaima, the financial situationof her husband was not welland he was forcing her againand again to get money fromher parents. “When sherefused, Atir threw Raima andher son out of the house andpronounced triple talaq,” saida relative. Under section 4 ofthe new Act - passed byParliament on July 30 - aMuslim husband who pro-nounces triple talaq is liable tobe punished by imprisonmentup to three years and fine.

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The Delhi Police has bookedformer Bharatiya Janata

Party (BJP) MLA ManojShokeen for allegedly rapingand threatening his daughter-in-law at gunpoint. Police saidthat the incident occurred onthe intervening night ofDecember 31, 2018 andJanuary 1 this year.

According to a seniorpolice official, a FirstInformation Report (FIR) wasfiled after the victimapproached police on August 8.

The victim has stated thaton December 31, 2018, she lefther maternal home, along withher husband, brother, and acousin, to her in-laws home inMeera Bagh area. “But insteadof taking her to their house, herhusband took her to a hotel inPaschim Vihar area,” she stat-ed in her FIR.

“When we reached thehotel, some of my relativeswere already present there tocelebrate New Year’s Eve. Afterthe party, we went to my in-

laws house at Meera Bagh ataround 12.30 am on January 1.My husband went out with hisfriends while I went to sleep,”she stated in the FIR.

“At around 1.30 am myfather-in-law Shokeen askedme to open the door as hewanted to talk to me. After heentered the room, he startedtouching me inappropriately.When I resisted, he took out hisgun, slapped me and threat-ened to kill my brother. Hethen overpowered me andraped me. Initially in order tosave the marriage and mybrother, I stopped myself fromfiling a complaint against him,”she alleged in FIR.

“Police have registered acase under section 376 and 506of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).Police have also initiated aprobe and appropriate actionwill be taken,” said Seju PKuruvilla, DeputyCommissioner of Police(DCP), Outer district.

According to sources, thevictim also filed a domestic vio-lence case against her in-lawsat the Crime Against Women(CAW) cell in Delhi’s Saketcourt. “The case was filed soonafter her marriage in December2018,” said the sources.

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The Delhi Commission forWomen on Saturday said

an FIR should be registeredagainst Haryana Chief MinisterML Khattar and Rajya SabhaMP Vijay Goel for their allegedsexist and misogynisticremarks and acts.

In a statement issued here,the DCW said their acts andremarks not only amount tooutraging the modesty anddenting the dignity of Kashmiridaughters and sisters, but havealso impacted women all overthe country. Their actions mayend up inciting violence in thealready sensitive area ofKashmir, it said.

“Such statements by thosein high constitutional officesreinforce the notions of a patri-archal society and severelyundermine the value and voiceof women and girls,” thewomen’s panel said.

The DCW’s reaction cameafter Khattar on Friday court-ed a controversy with hisremarks that “some people arenow saying that as Kashmir isopen brides will be brought

from there”, apparently in ref-erence to the scrapping of thespecial status for Jammu andKashmir under Article 370 ofthe Constitution.

At a State-level function inFatehabad, Khattar had said,“Elders and youths will under-stand this thing that there canbe problems if the number ofgirls is lesser than boys. Our (OP) Dhankarji had said they(brides) will have to be broughtfrom Bihar.

“Now some people say,Kashmir is open, they (brides)will be brought from there. Butjokes apart, if (sex) ratio isimproved, then there will be aright balance in society.”

The women’s panel also

rebuked Goel for allegedlyputting up hoardings ofKashmiri girls outside his Delhiresidence.

“At a time when severalStates are on high alert, suchinsensitive and crass commentsthat hurt the sentiments of anentire state, have the potentialof flaring up violence and needto be checked urgently,” it said.

“The commission strong-ly recommends registration ofan FIR in both the matterswithout considering the issue ofterritorial jurisdiction,” thewomen’ panel said.

It has demanded an actiontaken report in the matterfrom Delhi Police’s CrimeBranch by September 14.

Taking to Twitter torespond the DCW’s charges,Goel said that Maliwal shouldhave “clean thoughts”.

“Fearing the public ofDelhi, they supported the revo-cation of Article 370 but thediscomfort of Kejriwal’s team isclearly visible. These state-ments symbolise the disap-pointment palpable amonganti-nationals,” Goel tweeted inHindi.

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Four people were killed whileone more was injured when

their auto rickshaw crashedinto a mini truck after being hitfrom behind by a speedingdumper, police said onSaturday.

The accident took place onthe Vatika flyover on the Jaipur-Delhi National Highway 8around 10 pm on Friday night,they added.

Sarfaraj Alam (40),Dhirendra Kumar (27) andSatya Prakash Maurya, resi-dents of Bihar, Haryana andUttar Pradesh respectively diedon the spot. The driver of theauto also died in the accidentbut his identity was not yetknown, officials said.

Another passenger,Paranveer Singh fromRajasthan, suffered criticalinjuries in the accident and isbattling for life, they added.

“The victims are employedin different companies in IMTManeser,” Sajjan Singh, sub-inspector of Kherki Dhaulapolice station, said.

They had boarded a shared

auto from IMT ManeserChowk for Rajiv Chowk, headded.

“Due to light traffic atnight, the auto was going at ahigh speed and a mini truckplying ahead of it was alsospeeding. The driver of minitruck suddenly applied brakesand the auto driver did thesame to avoid an accident.

“The auto driver managedto control his vehicle but dri-ver of the speeding dumferfailed to apply the brakes intime,” Singh said.

The dumfer rammed theauto from behind and theimpact made the latter crashinto the mini truck ahead, headded.

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The Governor Lalji Tandonwill celebrate the

Independence Day at RajBhavan, Bhopal. He will unfurlthe national flag at 8.00 a.m.Several programmes are beingorganized by the Raj Bhavanbetween August 13 and 16during the Independence Day.

This is the firstIndependence Day celebrationprogramme of the Governor inthe state and coincidently thefestival of Raksha Bandhan isalso falling on the same day.

The Raj Bhavan willremain open for common manin the evening from 5 to 10p.m. from August 13 to 16.

Entry will be allowed in the RajBhavan from 8.00 p.m. onAugust 15 only. A special playfocusing 150th jayanti ofGandhi Ji will be showcased inRaj Bhavan.

On the eve of theIndependence Day i.e. August14, in the memory of theFormer Prime Minister LateAtal Bihari Vajpayee, a kavisammelan will be organized inthe Raj Bhavan from 6.00 p.m.

Kumar Vishwas, WaseemBarelwi along with Atul Kanak,Ved Prakash, Ankita Singhand Ramesh Kumar will recitetheir poetry.

The Governor Shri Tandonwill honour freedom fighters inthe programme and meetguests.

The Governor Shri Tandonbelieves in promoting talents.He believes that the culture ofpatriotism, service, dedicationand discipline should beinfused in children since child-hood. The Police Band andArmed Forces Band along with800 children of about 12schools will give presentationsbased on patriotic songs onAugust 16 from 5.00 p.m.

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The spate of joining in theBJP continues. On

Saturday, two formerSamajwadi Party leaders, whohad quit their party and RajyaSabha memberships recently,joined the BJP, lauding theleadership of Prime MinisterNarendra Modi.

Surendra Singh Nagar, atwo-time Member ofParliament, and Sanjay Seth, awell-known realtor of UttarPradesh and the SP’s treasurer,joined the BJP in the presenceof its general secretaryBhupender Yadav and its mediahead Anil Baluni.

Both Nagar and Seth hailedModi’s leadership and laudedhis government’s decision toscrap the provisions of Article370 to end Jammu & Kashmir’sspecial status in theConstitution.

Yadav said Nagar has beenan important leader in UttarPradesh, while Seth too heldsignificant positions in the SP.The SP no longer represents itsfoundational values, he said.

Nagar, a Gurjar leader fromwestern UP, and Seth had quittheir party during the recentParliament session. The BJPmay name the two leaders as its

candidates for the bypolls tocontest the Rajya Sabha seatsvacated by them.

The BJP’s win is all but cer-tain due to its huge majority inthe state Assembly.

The BJP has successfullywooed a number of Rajya

Sabha MPs from rival parties,including the Congress, Telugu Desam Party and the SP,recently.

The rise in the saffronparty’s numbers in the House,

coupled with its success insecuring support from severalregional parties, has resulted inthe Union Government beingable to push its legislative agen-da in the Rajya Sabha.

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Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birlaon Saturday said the con-

struction of a new Parliament building is beingconsidered among variousoptions. A final call is yet to betaken, he maintained.

Addressing a Press confer-ence, Birla said there is a sensethat a new Parliament buildingis required. Several groupshave been formed for takingsuggestions from various peo-ple, including parliamentarians,on the issue, he said adding thecurrent Parliament buildingmay also be modernised.

Speaking in the House dur-ing the just-concluded session,Birla had urged Prime MinisterNarendra Modi to include theexpansion and modernisationof Parliament Building in hisresolution for ‘New India’, onthe completion of the 75thyear of India’s Independence.

He also had said it is theaspirations of “all of us” thatParliament Building of thelargest democracy of the worldshould be the most magnificentand attractive.

Talking about the just-con-

cluded session, Birla said, “Theproceeding of Lok Sabha wasnot adjourned even once dur-ing the session and as a result,it sat for 72 hours more than itsallocated time, which is equiv-alent to working of 12 sittings.”

Thanking members of theHouse, he said that by taking allparties along he would try hisbest to ensure that the pro-ceedings continue uninter-rupted during his tenure.

“If Lok Sabha functionsproperly and sat for longerhours, it sends out a positivemessage in the country,” he

said. Birla said a conference ofspeakers of all state assemblieswill be convened soon to dis-cuss how can the productivityof the State Legislatures can beenhanced.

Discussing various initia-tives taken by him for improv-ing the functioning of thehouse, Birla said to updatemembers about the bills whichhave been introduced in theHouse, the Lok Sabha secre-tariat will provide experts whowill brief them on the technicality of the proposedlegislation.

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The Government has decided to extend benefits of childcare leave (CCL) to single male service personnel after

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh approved the move. The deci-sion is in sync with an order by Department of Personneland Training (DoPT).

Giving this information on Saturday, Defence Ministryofficials said the Minister has also given his nod for givingcertain relaxation in child care leave (CCL) provisions in caseof women officers in Defence forces.

At present, CCL is granted only to women officers inDefence forces. Recently, DoPT has made certain amend-ments to allow CCL to civilian employees, whereby the CCLgranted to woman employees till now has been extended tosingle male Government servants also.

“The age limit of 22 years prescribed earlier in the caseof a child with 40 per cent disability has been removed forthe purpose of availing CCL. Further, the minimum periodof CCL that can be availed at a time has been reduced to fivedays instead of 15 days,” the Defence Ministry said.

It said a proposal to extend similar benefits to Defencepersonnel has been approved by Singh. With this, single maleservice personnel will be able to avail the benefit of CCL.Single male service personnel and woman officers ofDefence forces will also be able to avail CCL in respect ofchild with 40 per cent disability without any restriction ofage limit for the child. Further, the minimum period of CCLthat can be availed in each spell has been reduced to five daysfrom the earlier limit of 15 days, officials said.

New Delhi: President RamNath Kovind has signed intolaw a Bill which seeks toincrease the sanctionedstrength of judges in theSupreme Court from 30 to 33besides the Chief Justice ofIndia. The Supreme Court(Number of Judges)Amendment Bill was passed byParliament earlier this week.

With no vacancy, the presentstrength of the apex court is 31,including the chief justice ofIndia. After the law comes intoforce, the sanctioned strength ofSC will be 33, besides the CJI.The move to increase thestrength of judges by 3 or 10 percent comes against the backdropof rising cases in the top courtwhich stand at nearly 60,000.

The decision comes daysafter CJI Ranjan Gogoi wrote toPrime Minister Narendra Modito increase the number of judgesin the top court. According toa written reply by the LawMinistry to a Rajya Sabha ques-tion on July 11,59,331 cases arepending in the top court. Dueto paucity of judges, therequired number of constitutionbenches to decide importantcases involving questions oflaw were not being formed, theCJI said. PTI

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The Centre and the Tripura Government on Saturdaysigned a tripartite pact with National Liberation Front

of Twipra, led by Sabir Kumar Debbarma (NLFT-SD), underwhich the insurgent group has agreed to lay down arms andjoin the mainstream.

According to a Home Ministry statement, the NLFT-SDhas agreed to abjure the path of violence, join the mainstreamand abide by the Constitution of India, it said. The grouphas agreed to the surrender of its 88 cadres with theirweapons. The surrendered cadres will be given benefits underthe Surrender-cum-Rehabilitation Scheme, 2018 of theMinistry of Home Affairs. The Tripura Government will helpthe surrendered cadres in housing, recruitment, education,etc, the statement said.

The Central Government will consider the proposals ofthe Tripura Government regarding economic developmentof tribal areas of the State.

The NLFT has been banned under the UnlawfulActivities (Prevention) Act since 1997 and has been involvedin violence, operating from their camps across theInternational Border.

The NLFT has been responsible for violent activities,including 317 insurgency incidents, in which 28 securityforces personnel and 62 civilians lost their lives between 2005and 2015.

Peace talks with NLFT were initiated in 2015 and therehas been no violence by NLFT since 2016.

The MoM was signed by Satyendra Garg, Joint Secretary(Northeast) of Ministry of Home Affairs; Kumar Alok,Additonal Chief Secretary (Home), Tripura; and Sabir KumarDebbarma and Kajal Debbarma of NLFT-SD.

Later, the NLFT representatives called on Union HomeMinister Amit Shah.

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After Jammu & Kashmir could it bethe turn of another Queen of

Hills: Darjeeling. Apprehensions wenthigh in Bengal State administrationover exchange of letters between RajuSingh Bista the BJP MP from Darjeelingand the Union Home Ministry.

According to sources Bista in a let-ter to the Home Minister has demand-ed Union Territory status for Darjeeling.He also wants the Queen of Hills to bebrought under the control of the DelhiPolice to protect people from excessesbeing perpetrated by the Bengal Police.Bista had written the letter to HomeMinister Amit Shah on July 12.

While such letters to the Centrefrom Darjeeling outfits are not unfa-miliar to the State administration whatseems to have unnerved them is the sit-uation that is building up post abroga-tion of Article 370 in Jammu & Kashmir.

“There the Government repealed370 and here we want it to be invokedin Darjeeling, because ours is the oldestdemand for a statehood,” a leader of nowdefunct Gorkha Janmukti Morcha whois currently staying away from Darjeeling,said. Though the ruling TrinamoolCongress leadership would not make anyofficial comment sources in the rulingparty warned, “Any interference fromCentre in the State or any alteration ofits boundary line will invite political

chaos that the BJP which aspires to wrestpower in 2021 will not risk.”

GJM leader Roshan Giri said,“The BJP in its manifesto had alsopromised a permanent political solu-tion… We think this is the appropri-ate time for the Centre to carve a Unionterritory with legislature. We wouldsoon start agitation over this.”

On the other hand GorkhaNational Liberation Front leader NVChetri said, “The demand of a separatestate may be a long-drawn process, butwe think a Union Territory (UT) withlegislature would be accepted by all thestakeholders.”

Incidentally Mamata Banerjee aftercoming to power in 2011 had signed a

new accord with GJM introducingGorkhaland Territorial Authority replac-ing Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council.

Claiming that GTA had lost its rel-evance Bista assured “The BJP wouldkeep its promise of a permanent politi-cal solution, adding “All the options —be it Gorkhaland, Union territory withlegislature or any other — would be dis-cussed with all the stakeholders beforetaking a final call.” Even as the saffronMP upped the ante on pro-Gorkhalandmovement the State BJP leadershipquickly embarked on a damage-controlexercise saying Gorkhaland or bifurcat-ing the State was not on their agenda.

Aware of the suicidal impact such ademand could have on the saffron out-

fit’s steadily rising graph in Bengal StateBJP president Dilip Ghosh immediate-ly dissociated his party from any “indi-vidual” initiative. Trying to give clarifi-cation on the issue he said Biota’s letterhas been misinterpreted by the media.Ghosh on Friday said, “The BJP does notsupport creation of Gorkhaland. It isalways for a united Bengal,” adding whatthe Darjeeling MP might have demand-ed is measures that could provide reliefto the people of Darjeeling.

“The BJP wants a permanent solu-tion to Darjeeling crisis and relief forits people. We want to end the suffer-ing of the people of Darjeeling but thatdoes not mean that we are advocatingbifurcation of Bengal,” he said.

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As the rain-ravaged Sangli, Kolhapurand three other flood-hit districts

of western Maharashtra got into arelief-mode on Saturday, a staggering4,13,945 flood victims have beenmoved to 535 temporary transit campsset up at various places and the author-ities have engaged themselves in restor-ing power supply in 2,96,630 homes.

With some let up in rains, theNavy, Army, local authorities and var-ious agencies shifted 1,28,684 moreflood-affected people in Sangli,Kolhapur, Satara, Pune and Solapur tosafer places during the day. “As manyas 4,13,945 flood victims, whom weevacuated from the marooned areasduring the last three to four days arenow in 53t temporary transit camps,”

Pune Divisional Commissioner DrDeepak Mahaisekar said.

Teams of NDRF, Navy, SDRF,Territorial Army, social organisationsand district authorities have been usingas many 169 expandable rubber boatsto shift marooned people in the worst-affected districts of Sangli and Kolhapur.

“The marooned are being shiftedin 95 boats in Sangli, while we havepressed 74 boats into relief and rescueoperation in Kolhapur district. A totalof 302 medical teams have been mov-ing around the flood-affected areas ofSangli, Kolhapur and Satara. Similarly,we are distributing food pockets,drinking water bottles, drugs, candles,milk powder and solar lights,”Mahaisekar said.

Briefing mediapersons at Sangliabout the flood-situation in western

Maharashtra, chief minister said thatthe main reason for the unprecedent-ed floods in Sangli and Kolhapur dis-tricts was the phenomenally heavyrains that lashed the two districts dur-ing the past nine days.

“In 2005, Sangli registered 217percent rainfall in 31 days, but this yearthis district has received 758 per centrainfall in just 9 days. Similarly in 2005,the rainfall received by Kolhapur districtwas 159 percent in 31 days, while thequantum of rains received this year is480 per cent in nine days,” Fadnavis said.

Fadnavis, who assessed the dam-age caused by the floods, said: “Nearly27.468 hectares of land was destroyed.Roads of 484 km length was badlydamaged in the floods,” the chiefminister said.

The Chief Minister said that the

compensation to the kin of thosekilled in the floods had been increasedfrom the earlier Rs 2 lakh per familyto Rs 5 lakh per family, while the com-pensation to those families whosehouses collapsed had been enhancedfrom the earlier Rs 60,000 to Rs 1 lakh.“Similarly, we have decided to give acompensation of Rs 38,000 per hectareof agriculture field destroyed in thefloods as against Rs 13,000 perhectares,” Fadnavis said.

The authorities are restore roadconnectivity in the flood affectedareas. “As many as 203 roads and 94bridges are still closed in the five dis-tricts of the Pune revenue division. InSangli district, 29 major state highwaysand 37 district roads are closed, while30 major state highways and 61 districtroads have been closed in Kolhapur

district. We are in the process ofrestoring them,” Mahaisekar said.

Meanwhile, continuing their res-cue operations in Kolhapur, the Navyteams rescued and shifted 1000 peo-ple including 600 women and 200 chil-dren to safety from Chikhali village by14 Navy rescue teams. Food and waterwere also provided to 250 homes.

In Sangli today, 12 Navy rescueteams evacuated about 850 people tosafety and distributed food and waterto about 250 homes.

A total of 26 Navy teams with 110personnel and 26 boats with life-jack-ets have been deployed in Kolhapur andSangli so far. “The teams will contin-ue to remain in the area till flood sit-uation subsides and comes to normal.More naval teams will be deployed ifrequired,” a defence spokesperson said.

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US President Donald Trumpon Saturday said America

will not do any business withChinese tech giant Huawei.

The Trump administra-tion believes that giving accessto the state-controlled Huaweion 5G would risk America’snational security. As such theUS is not only denying Huaweiaccess inside the country butalso is asking other countries tofollow suit.

“We’re not going to dobusiness with Huawei. We’renot doing business with them.And I really made the decision,”Trump told reporters at theWhite House.

“It’s much simpler not to doany business with Huawei. So,we’re not doing business withHuawei. That doesn’t meanwe won’t agree to something ifand when we make a tradedeal, but we’re not going to bedoing business with Huawei,”he added.

US Senator Marco Rubiowelcomed the new interimrule, which bans the US gov-ernment agencies from pur-chasing equipment fromHuawei and other specifiedChinese companies. This entersinto effect on August 13.

The interim rule is pur-suant to the Fiscal Year 2019National DefenseAuthorization Act’s prohibi-tion against the federal gov-ernment’s procurement oftelecommunications equip-ment, video surveillance equip-ment and services of fiveChinese companies, includingHuawei.

“We must be clear-eyed

about the real and long-termrisks posed by Huawei andother Chinese state-directedcompanies. Securing ournation’s telecommunicationsand critical infrastructure fromforeign adversaries is a criticalpriority for our country and theAmerican people,” Rubio said.

“Beyond fully and faithfullyexecuting the laws passed bythe Congress, the ExecutiveBranch must work withCongress to do much more todefend America’s national andeconomic security from theChinese government andCommunist Party’s threats —including keeping Huawei onthe Entity List and not water-ing down enforcement throughsweetheart licenses allowingthe US tech sector to export toand build up Huawei,” headded.

Senator Rick Scott said itwas “good” to see that theadministration took furthersteps to ban business transac-tions between the US andHuawei.

“Huawei is a national secu-rity threat and we must makesure they have no access to theUS market,” he said.

Congressman BradleyByrne applauded Trump forgetting tough on China.

“I will always work withPresident Trump to stand upfor American workers and holdChina accountable!” he said.

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US President Donald Trumpon Saturday said China

wants to settle trade issueswith America as it is experic-ing the “worst year” in decades,but reiterated that he was notready for a deal.

The US has imposed 25 percent additional import tariffs onmore than $250 billion worth ofChinese products. An addi-tional 10 per cent import dutieson remaining nearly $300 billionworth of Chinese products is allset to come into effect onSeptember 1.

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Aviation regulator DGCAon Saturday suspended

two SpiceJet pilots for a year astheir B737 aircraft made a latetouchdown at the Mumbai air-port overshooting the runwayon July 2, sources said.

“The DGCA found thatSpiceJet’s Coimbatore-Mumbaiflight, which was being flownby the two pilots — CaptainKarun Gujral and CaptainArpit Gandhi — on July 2,touched down approximately4,462 feet from the runwaythreshold. This led to runwayoverrun,” one of the sourcestold PTI.

The runway threshold areais the point from where therunway begins.

“The B737 aircraft flownby these two pilots was floatingfor a long time before touch-

down, the DGCA found in itsinvestigation,” the sourceadded. Both the pilots wereissued show-cause notices onJuly 4 and they were asked togive a reply within 15 days bythe Directorate General of CivilAviation (DGCA), the sourcessaid.

“Their replies were notfound to be satisfactory. As aresult, this action has beentaken by the DGCA,” thesource said.

Both the pilots have beensuspended for a period of oneyear from the date of the inci-dent, the sources said.

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The Centre on Saturday saidthe Investigation Wing of

Income Tax Department ofNorth East Region (NER) car-ried out searches on certainbusinessmen in Meghalayafound to be involved in run-ning a web of petrol pumpsmanaged and controlled asbenami properties.

“In a swift and coordinat-ed action on Friday, August 2,2019 the Investigation Wing ofIncome Tax Department, NERcarried out searches on certainbusinessmen in Meghalaya,”the finance ministry said in astatement. These persons weredepriving the StateGovernment of legitimate rev-enue by suppressing sales andnon-deposit of local taxes col-lected, while also indulging inmassive evasion of income taxby misusing exemption under

Section 10(26) of the IncomeTax Act, 1961 meant for tribalpersons, it said. In the enforce-ment operation that com-menced in the early hours andwent on till wee hours of thenext day, more than �2 crore ofunaccounted cash along withincriminating documents havebeen seized by officials of thedepartment. The cash foundwas hidden in unexpectedplaces like water tanks.

This search by the depart-ment was a much neededaction on a long existing rack-et run by some unscrupulouselements exploiting local citi-zens of Meghalaya and avoid-ing paying income tax usingtribal persons who are exempt-ed from income tax, as a front.

The pre-search investiga-tion involved extensive sur-veillance and covert enquirieswhich were continuing for overa year.

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West Bengal is at the top ofthe list of States for GDP

growth rate recording 12.58 percent during 2018-19, StateFinance Minister Amit Mitrasaid on Saturday.

The feat was achieved bythe state at a time when thecountry is going through a“deep recession”, he said.

“I am delighted to say thatas per the Government ofIndia’s ministry of statistics

and programme implementa-tion just-published table onGDP growth of states in 2018-19 West Bengal’s growth is thehighest in the country at 12.58per cent,” Mitra told newsmenhere.

Bengal is followed byAndhra Pradesh which hasrecorded GDP growth of 11.02,Bihar with 10.53 and Telangana10.5 per cent respectively. Goais at the bottom of the list with0.47 per cent growth rate, hesaid.

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Facing headwinds amid aslowdown in the economy,

Tata Steel Ltd on Saturday saidit is likely to revise the plannedcapital expenditure for the2019-20 fiscal to �8,000 crorefrom �12,000 crore.

The steel sector is expect-ed to see a pick up in the sec-ond half of the year, a top com-pany official said.

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Fuel demand rose 3.3 percent in July compared with

the same month last year.Consumption of fuel, a

proxy for oil demand, totalled17.58 million tonnes, data fromthe Petroleum Planning andAnalysis Cell (PPAC) of the oilministry showed.

Sales of gasoline, or petrol,were 8.8 per cent higher froma year earlier at 2.52 milliontonnes.

Cooking gas or liquefied

petroleum gas (LPG) salesincreased 9.0 per cent to 2.22million tonnes, while naphthasales fell 5.2 per cent to 1.22million tonnes.

Sales of bitumen, used formaking roads, were 36.4 per-cent up, while fuel oil useedged up 8.3 per cent in July.

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Giving a relief to startups,the finance ministry has

simplified the angel-taxassessment process underwhich any action would betaken against such entitiesonly after approval of a super-visory officer.

The Central Board ofDirect Taxes (CBDT), in acircular, said that no verifi-cation will be done by anassessing officer if a startuphas been recognised by the Department for Promotion ofIndustry and Internal Trade(DPIIT) and the case is selected under limited scrutiny. In cases wherescrutiny assessments of start-up entities are pending, theCBDT has decided that thecontention of the assesseewill be summarily acceptedwhose cases are under ‘lim-ited scrutiny’ for those enti-ties recognised by DPIIT.

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Taluqan: At least 15 militants were killed and 10 others woundedafter a military aircraft targeted a gathering of Taliban fighters inAfghanistan’s Takhar province on Saturday, officials said.

The air raid was conducted at 2 am (local time) when a groupof Taliban militants were assembled in Eshkamish district to attacksecurity checkpoints, district Governor Abdul Qayum Qani wascited as saying by Xinhua news agency. A car and two motorbikesof the Taliban fighters were also destroyed in the raid, the offi-cial said. Taliban militants, who are in control of parts of the restiveEshkamish district, did not comment on the incident. IANS

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Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif con-tinues to have an air conditioner, television, heater

and other facilities in prison, the Punjab province’sgovernment said on Saturday in response to a letterit received from opposition leader Shehbaz Sharifseeking an update on the facilities given to his broth-er in jail.

The three-time Premier is imprisoned in Lahore’sKot Lakhpat jail after an accountability court hand-ed him a seven-year jail term in the Al-Azizia SteelMills corruption case.

In a letter written by Shehbaz Sharif to the PunjabChief Secretary, the Pakistan Muslim League(Nawaz) President demanded an explanation aboutthe facilities being provided to Nawaz Sharif. The let-ter was then forwarded to the Home Minister.

Geo News, citing sources, reported that theprovincial government in its response said that NawazSharif “continues to have the facility of an air con-ditioner and others on the recommendation of themedical board”.

Tehran: Iran’s supreme leader called on allMuslims to support the Palestinian peoplein their opposition to the Trump admin-istration’s “deal of the century” Middle Eastpeace plan.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in a letterSaturday marking the Islamic hajj pil-grimage, said the still-unreleased US planwas a “ruse” that’s “doomed to failure.”

He also called for “active participation”in efforts to block the US plan, which facesdeep skepticism from the Palestiniansbecause of policies they see as biased towardIsrael. The Trump administration plan cen-ters on a $50 billion Palestinian investmentand infrastructure proposal, but avoids corepolitical issues that are key to resolving thedispute. This year’s hajj pilgrimage inSaudi Arabia comes amid heightened ten-sions in the nearby Persian Gulf betweenthe US and Iran. AP

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Disgraced US financierJeffrey Epstein has com-

mitted suicide in prison whileawaiting trial on charges that hetrafficked girls as young as 14for sex, US news media report-ed Saturday.

Epstein, a convictedpedophile who befriendednumerous politicians andcelebrities over the years, wasfound unresponsive in his cellat the MetropolitanCorrectional Center from “anapparent suicide”, the USDepartment of Justice said.

He was discovered around6:30 am (1130 GMT) andrushed to hospital in New Yorkwhere he was pronounceddead, it added in a statement.

“The FBI is investigatingthe incident,” the departmentsaid. The New York Times andother media quoted officials assaying Epstein had hanged

himself. The city medical exam-iner’s office confirmed Epstein’sdeath but said nothing aboutwhat caused it. It said a medicalinvestigation has been opened.

Epstein’s death comes a dayafter a tranche of sealed legaldocuments were released for thefirst time providing new detailsabout what prosecutors allegewas Epstein’s sex-traffickingoperation. It also comes just overtwo weeks after the 66-year-oldwas found unconscious in hiscell with marks on his neck afteran apparent suicide attempt.

Epstein did not appear tobe showing any visible signs ofinjuries when he appeared incourt on July 31 following thatincident, to be told that his trialwouldn’t begin before Junenext year. The hedge fundmanager had been chargedwith one count of sex traffick-ing of minors and one count ofconspiracy to commit sex traf-ficking of minors.

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Britain could struggle to stopEuropean Union fishing

boats illegally entering itswaters after a no-deal Brexitdue to a lack of enforcementvessels, according to a leakedGovernment email.

The document, preparedby officials in the Departmentfor Environment and seen bySky News, warns there is “a lotof uncertainty” over whetherthe country will have theresources to police its seas.

It details concerns thatonly 12 vessels will be available “to monitor a spacethree times the size of the sur-face area of the UK”, the broad-caster said.

The warning comes asFrench fishermen, who relyheavily on British waters for

their catch, have threatened todisrupt UK exports via theChannel if they are deniedaccess after Brexit.

Britain will leave theCommon Fisheries Policy —which allows EU fishermenaccess to British waters — andbecome an independent coastalstate if, as increasingly feared,it crashes out of the bloc with-out a deal on October 31.

Under the terms struckwith Brussels by former PrimeMinister Theresa May, it wouldhave continued to allow EUboats access during a 21-monthtransition period while thetwo sides tried to reach a newfisheries agreement.

However, British lawmak-ers rejected the deal threetimes, forcing Brexit to bedelayed to the end of Octoberand May to resign.

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US President Donald Trumpsaid on Saturday that

North Korean leader Kim JongUn wants to resume denu-clearisation talks after US-South Korean war games end.

Trump tweeted that in aletter to him, Kim issued “asmall apology” for a recentspate of missile tests, the latestof which came at daybreak onSaturday Korean time, and saidthey were to protest these jointmilitary drills.

Trump said he looks “for-ward to seeing Kim Jong Un inthe not too distant future!” “Ina letter to me sent by Kim JongUn, he stated, very nicely, thathe would like to meet and startnegotiations as soon as the jointUS/South Korea joint exerciseare over,” Trump wrote.

The exercises beganMonday and are due to end onAugust 20. North Korea, which

has furiously protested suchexercises in the past, has said itsrecent short-range missile testsare designed to protest thewar games.

On Saturday, Trump againseemed to side with Kim bycriticising the exercises, whichare a cornerstone of US-South Korean militarycooperation.

“It was a long letter, muchof it complaining about theridiculous and expensive exer-cises. It was also a small apol-ogy for testing the short rangemissiles, and that this testingwould stop when the exercisesend,” Trump said.

Trump has appeared deter-mined to secure a denucleari-sation agreement with NorthKorea ahead of next year’s USpresidential elections, despitefaltering talks since he first met Kim in a historic ice-breaking summit in Singaporein June 2018.

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The death toll from a land-slide triggered by mon-

soon rains in eastern Myanmarrose to at least 41, an officialsaid late Saturday, as emergencyworkers continued for a secondnight their desperate searchthrough thick mud for thescores feared missing.

A huge brown gash on thehillside marked where the del-uge of mud flooded onto YePyar Kone village in Mon stateon Friday, wiping out 27 homes.

Search and rescue teamsworked through Friday nightand into late Saturday, usingexcavators and their bare handsto recover bodies from thedeep sludge. “The death toll has

risen to 41,” township admin-istrator Zaw Moe Aung said.Some farm animals, like cowsand goats, were found alive, but“there are no humans left alive,”he said, adding that the search

operations will push throughfor a second night.

So far, 47 people have beeninjured while officials believethat about 80 people could stillbe missing.

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Police in Hong Kong firedtear gas on Saturday at pro-

democracy protesters whodefied orders to cancel a rallyand blocked intersectionsacross the city in “hit-and-run”demonstrations.

The new protests cameafter the city’s leader warnedshe would grant no concessionsto the demonstrators, whosemovement is now in its thirdmonth. Activists who haveembraced the mantra “BeWater” took their commit-ment to flexible protest actionto new heights, splitting up intogroups to spread quickly acrossthe city and block roads.

They gathered first in theTai Po district, despite policedenying their request for amarch permit there, and quick-ly faced off against officersdressed in riot gear.

But before any clasheserupted, the demonstratorsretreated and split into small-er groups, heading to differentlocations across the city toblock roads and chanting“reclaim Hong Kong, revolu-tion of our times”.

One group of protesterswearing their movement’s sig-nature black and armed withhelmets and gas masks arrivedin the Tai Wai district, wherethey dismantled railings along

the road to set up barricades andchanted “triads, triads” at near-by police, in a reference to thecity’s infamous criminal gangs.

“Today is not about stand-ing off with police or guardinga road. It’s more about going to

different places and leavingonce police get here,” said a 17-year-old student protester whogave only his surname, Lok.

“We won’t meet eye-to-eye and will actually createmore trouble for them,” hesaid. Riot police quickly movedin and began firing tear gas,sending demonstrators run-ning to the sides of streets andinto a nearby bus terminal.

The gas drifted into thenearby subway station, wherea mother and child coveredtheir faces along with othertravellers caught in the con-frontation. “I was just walkingleisurely nearby and wasshocked when I heard theyfired tear gas. Me and my

friends had to help other olderresidents to quickly walk away,”said a 23-year-old who gaveonly his family name, Tsang.

He said he had not beeninvolved in the protest but sup-ported the movement.Protesters also briefly blockedtraffic in the city’s CrossHarbour Tunnel, and faced offwith police in the popular TsimSha Tsui shopping district,where tear gas was also fired.

The fresh protests mark the10th weekend that demonstra-tors have taken to the streets ina movement that began in

opposition to a bill allowingextradition to mainland Chinabut has become a call forgreater democratic freedoms.

Demonstrators were alsostaging a second day of protestsin the city’s airport and earlierhundreds of parents and chil-dren gathered for a familyrally. Faye Lai attended with herthree-year-old niece and saidshe hoped the demonstrationwould help children under-stand the recent tumult. “HongKong’s future is theirs. We arefighting for rights that childrenshould have,” Lai said.

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lied in Moscow on Saturdayafter mass police detentions atrecent protests that have beenamong the largest sincePresident Vladimir Putin’sreturn to the Kremlin in 2012.

On a cold rainy afternoon,protesters huddled underumbrellas on the centralProspekt Andreya Sakharovastreet, where city authoritieshad given permission for therally to take place but deployeda massive police presence,including officers in riot gear.

The White Counter, anNGO that tracks participants inrallies, counted 40,000 people,while Moscow police gave amuch lower attendance figureof 20,000.

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India’s star shuttlers Saina Nehwaland P V Sindhu are on a collision

course at next week’s WorldChampionships in Basel,Switzerland, as they have beenplaced in the same half after theworld governing body re-conduct-ed the women’s singles draw.

“It was determined a player hadmistakenly been included in thewomen’s singles entry list and theBWF has subsequently adjusted the

entry list and conducted a re-draw,”the Badminton World Federationsaid on its website.

Saina and Sindhu could face-offat the semifinals if they get past theinitial rounds of the tournament.

Double World ChampionshipSilver medallist Sindhu, who isseeded fifth, received a bye in thefirst round and will open her cam-paign against either Chinese Taipei’sPai Yu Po or Bulgaria’s LindaZetchiri.

Eighth seeded Saina, on theother hand, will take on the winnerof the match between Switzerland’sSabrina Jaquet and TheNetherland’s Soraya De VischEijbergen in the second round aftergetting a bye.

If she wins her first match,Sindhu is likely to meet BeiwenZhang of USA in the third roundwhile Saina could square off againstMia Blichfeldt of Denmark.

The Indian pairs’ likely oppo-nents are China’s Chen Yu Fei andChinese Taipei’s Tai Tzu Yingrespectively.

The BWF did not elaborate whythe re-draw was done. However, areport in TV2 Sports said thatBWF had mistakenly includedMauritius’ Kate Foo Kune, who wassuspended since July due to a dop-ing charge, in the initial draw andhence had to conduct the drawagain. The draws of the other four

competitions remain unchanged.

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Manchester Citymade a flying

start to their PremierLeague title defence as

Raheem Sterling’s hat-trickinspired a 5-0 demolition ofWest Ham on Saturday.

Pep Guardiola’s side arebidding to become just thesecond club in the PremierLeague era to win threesuccessive titles.

And after Liverpoollaid down an early mark-er with a 4-1 win againstNorwich in the season’sopening game on Friday,

the championsresponded with aswaggering displayof their own at theLondon Stadium.

Brazil forwardGabriel Jesus opened

the scoring to repayGuardiola’s faith afterthe City manager pickedhim instead of the club’s

record goalscorer SergioAguero.

Then Sterling tookover, replicating his dynam-

ic form of last season with atwo classy finishes. SubstituteAguero bagged City’s fourth

with a penalty after his firsteffort from the spot was saved,

only for VAR to call for a retakeafter Lukasz Fabianski cameoff his line too soon.

Sterling wrapped up histreble in the final moments as

City showed they have no intention of con-ceding any early ground to European cham-pions Liverpool, who finishedjust one point behind them lastterm.

This was the perfect start asCity made it nine successiveopening-day wins.

STRONG STARTEarlier in season’s opener on Friday at

Anfield, Liverpool faced a huge setback as theycould be without inspirational goalkeeperAlisson Becker for a number of weeks afterthe Brazilian suffered a calf injury 4-1 thrash-ing of Norwich to kick-off the season in style.

The European champions aiming to enda 30-year wait to win the Premier League aftermissing out by only one point to ManchesterCity last season, laid down an early markerin the title race by racing into a 4-0 lead beforehalf-time.

Norwich captain Grant Hanley’s hapless

own goal just seven minutes in set the tonefor what could be a long season for theCanaries before Mohamed Salah, Virgil vanDijk and Divock Origi netted as Liverpoolshot out of the blocks.

However, the Reds’ joy was curtailedwhen Alisson pulled up after kicking the ballclear from a routine goal kick and neededsupport to limp off the field.

Alisson kept 20 clean sheets in his firstPremier League season and was also instru-mental in Liverpool’s Champions League tri-umph.

Spanish goalkeeper Adrian only joinedLiverpool this week on a free transfer afterSimon Mignolet departed to join ClubBrugge.

But the former West Ham stopper couldnow have a huge role to play in the comingweeks to ensure Klopp’s men cede no earlyground in the title race to City with trickymatches against Southampton and Arsenal tocome.

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Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson Beckerwill miss Wednesday’s UEFA Super

Cup against Chelsea after pulling upwith a calf injury as the Europeanchampions opened their PremierLeague campaign with a 4-1 win overNorwich on Friday.

The Brazilian fell to the floor afterkicking the ball clear from a routinegoal kick and needed support to limpoff the field six minutes before half-time.

Liverpool face Chelsea in Istanbulthis week in the traditional early sea-son clash between the previous cam-paign’s Champions League and EuropaLeague winners.

“He will not be ready forWednesday, I can say that already,” saidLiverpool boss Jurgen Klopp.

“He felt his calf. He looked behindhim because he thought something hithim.”

Spanish goalkeeper Adrian wasexpected to play second fiddle toAlisson after joining Liverpool thisweek on a free transfer after SimonMignolet joined Club Brugge.

However, Klopp now faces havingto rely on the former West Ham goal-keeper for at least a couple of weeks.

“Adrian is a good goalie. In pos-session he is calm and he is good atshot-stopping, that’s why we signedhim. It’s good for him but we have a lit-tle problem with Ali.”

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Paris Saint-Germain revealed on Saturday thatNeymar transfer talks are “more advanced than

before” after the Brazilian was dropped for the Frenchchampions’ opening Ligue 1 match.

Sporting director Leonardo confirmed toreporters that the Brazilian is near the exit door butthat PSG were “not yet ready to give their approval(to the transfer)” ahead of today's game against Nimesat the Parc des Princes.

PSG coach Thomas Tuchel said: “Neymar didnot complete training and it’s not possible that heplays on Sunday (today).”

The club are impatient for the transfer saga toreach a conclusion, one way or another.

“It’s important to shape our future for everyone,”Neymar’s fellow Brazilian Leonardo told a press con-ference.

“If he stays, he plays. If he leaves, he leaves. Thequicker (we know) the better.”

Real Madrid or a return to Barcelona are themost likely destinations for the world’s most expen-sive footballer, with Spanish media on Friday say-ing that Zinedine Zidane’s side will battle Barca forthe 27-year-old’s signature.

Sports newspaper AS claimed Neymar has beenoffered to Madrid by PSG, who are open to sellingif they can either recoup the 222 million euros ($249million) they spent on him in 2017 or receive halfthat amount with players included in the deal.

Barcelona-based Mundo Deportivo says that hewould prefer a move back to Catalonia to play along-side former teammates Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez.

Neymar started the new season by angering theclub when he turned up one week late for training.

The player’s camp maintained he had a prioragreement to stay away but that didn’t wash with hisemployers who threatened to take “appropriateaction”.

In total, he has scored 51 goals in 58 games forthe capital side, winning two Ligue 1 titles and the2018 French Cup and French League Cup.

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Borussia Dortmund captain Marco Reus saidhis team had “big plans” for the coming sea-

son after they secured a routine 2-0 win over third-division side KFC Uerdingen in the first roundof the German Cup on Friday.

Reus’ second-half goal set Dortmund on theirway to a comfortable victory, just a week after theybeat Bayern Munich 2-0 in the German Supercup.

“The two wins were important for us to findour rhythm,” Reus told Sport1.

“We are not yet quite at the level that we wereat last season, but we have big plans this year, andwe want to show that when the Bundesliga startsnext weekend.”

Dortmund, who host Augsburg in theirBundesliga opener next Saturday, were forced tobe patient against a well-organised Uerdingen

defence which included former Dortmund fanfavourite Kevin Grosskreutz.

Grosskreutz, a World Cup winner in 2014 andtwo-time Bundesliga winner with Dortmund,denied his old team early on with a goalline clear-ance. The underdogs then gave Dortmund a scareat the other end shortly before half-time.

Dortmund took the lead just after half-time,Reus flicking in Manuel Akanji’s long ball as theUerdingen defence came fully undone for the firsttime.

With 20 minutes to play, Alcacer put the gamebeyond reach with a brilliant direct free-kick.

Borussia Moenchengladbach fought to a 1-0 win over second-division minnows Sandhausenthanks to a debut goal from new signing MarcusThuram.

Second-tier Nuremberg also progressed to thesecond round with a 1-0 win over Ingolstadt.

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Lionel Messi has been awardedUEFA’s Goal of the Season

award for his free-kick againstLiverpool at Camp Nou last sea-son.

The set-piece by Barcelona’sArgentine star from 30 yards outwas his second goal of the match.

Messi’s second goal roundedoff his team’s 3-0 win overLiverpool in the first leg of theChampions League semi-final onMay 1.

Cristiano Ronaldo was run-ners-up in the UEFA award forthe goal he scored for Juventus

against his former teamManchester United on November7 at the San Siro Stadium.

The third spot went toPortugal’s Danilo who scored theequalizer in a 1-1 draw againstSerbia in the Euro qualifiers.

Fans voted on the UEFAwebsite and social media accountsto choose between 10 goals scoredin the 2018-2019 season.

The final winners were select-ed by a jury comprising of formercoaches and international players.

This is the third time Messiearned the award, following hissuccess in 2014/2015 and 2015-2016.

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Lyon hammered Monaco 3-0 onFriday in the first game of the

Ligue 1 season as former Brazildefender Sylvinho started his coach-ing reign in perfect style and CescFabregas was shown a red card.

Moussa Dembele and MemphisDepay scored either side of Fabregas’dismissal in the first half.

Midfielder Lucas Tousart addeda third with 10 minutes remainingagainst an inexperienced home sidewho were without former captainRadamel Falcao who is expected toleave the Principality before the endof the transfer window onSeptember 2.

“I said in the week all of threeor four opening games will be dif-ficult and Monaco were a difficultopposition, I’m happy with theresult,” Lyon boss Sylvinho toldFrench broadcasters Canal+.

“I hoped my team would playlike this, there’s always improve-ments to be made but I am happy,”the former Champions League win-ner added.

His side showed minimal rusti-ness despite seeing influential trio informer skipper Nabil Fekir, left-backFerland Mendy and midfielderTanguy Ndombele leave during the

off-season.They claimed an early lead with

six minutes on the clock with a pow-erful Dembele header.

Things turned from bad toworse for the hosts when experi-enced playmaker Fabregas wasshown a red card for stamping onthe back of Leo Dubois’ leg on thehalf hour mark.

Sylvinho’s outfit doubled theiradvantage with nine minutes of thefirst 45 to play.

Bertrand Traore, who set up

Dembele for Lyon’s first, could haveadded his side’s third but his head-er from Depay’s 65th-minute cornerfound the side-netting.

Lyon made sure of all threepoints with 10 minutes remaining toguarantee a positive start toSylvinho’s tenure.

Dembele broke down the left,cut back to find summer signingThiago Mendes who laid a pass offto Tousart at the edge of the box whohammered home a powerful half-volley.

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India’s top two wrestlers con-tinued their impressive run

this season with Bajrang Puniadefending his title at TbilisiGrand Prix and Vinesh Phogatreaching her fourth final atMedved event.

Bajrang, who had won aGold at the same event last yearas well, prevailed 2-0 over Iran’sPeiman Bibyani in the 65kgfinal of the men’s free style com-petition in the capital city ofGeorgia.

It is fourth Gold of the sea-son for the Asian Games cham-pion Bajrang after standingatop the podium at Dan Kolov,

Asian Championship and AliAliev tournament.

At the Medved event inMinsk, Belarus, Vinesh out-classed local wrestlerYafremenka 11-0 in the 53kgsemifinals to be in line for herfourth consecutive Gold.

Vinesh began with a left-legattack but could not take advan-tage after getting a hold. TheIndian got on board whenYafremenka lost a point for pas-sivity.

In the second period,Vinesh again attacked her rival’sleft leg and added two morepoints with a takedown. Shethen stunned Yafremenka witha four-point throw which sheinitiated with a right leg attack.

It became 9-0 when Vineshsucceeded in exposing her rival.The bout ended on technicalsuperiority in Vinesh’s favourwhen the Indian made it 11-0with another takedown.

Next for Vinesh is Russia’sN Malisheva, who blankedlocal girl Pichkouskay 6-0.

The top Indian womanwrestler had bagged the tophonours at Grand Prix of SpainYasar Dogu International andPoland Open recently.

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Twenty seven-year-old Jaya Gopalhas been planning her upcomingwedding very meticulously. From adestination wedding at a heritageresort to a diving trip to Galpagos

Island for her honeymoon, she has it all sort-ed. However, it is her bachelorette inMykonos, Greece that has her closest crewmost excited. What makes it off-beat is thatGopal has booked a B&B (Bread andBreakfast) space for her celebratory experi-ence. “I’d be hosting my bachelorette at abeautiful villa with a sea view and a pool ofits own. I have planned a theme pool partyand my closest crew is looking forward to avery exciting holiday,” she shares. Gopal isonly one of the increasing number of trav-ellers who are opting for B&B arrangementsfor a personalised experience to travel theworld.

While Indians have caught up to thetrend, customising it to fit their experiences,in the recent times, the world travellers hadembraced made the shift over the past coupleof years. Travel surveys indicate that therental homes got really popular with the trav-ellers around 2018, with as many as one outof three travellers choosing to stay in oneover a hotel and one in five home ownerssigning up to list their home on a travelaccommodation site.

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a local experience and are increasingly seek-ing to stay at a place that provides them thefeel of being at a home in another country.There is an increasing tribe of celebrities whoare signing up for AirBnb experiences toavoid public glare and enjoy their momentsof privacy. Very recently, Lara Dutta andMahesh Bhupathi chose to stay at AirBnbspace during their Wimbledon trip. As didRohan Bopanna and Leander Paes. In an ear-lier interaction, Dutta had shared about herpreference for “homes with outdoor spacesand calming interiors” as these allowed her tomake most of her family time. “My daughterloves to play in the gardens and splash in thepools,” she had shared.

While 11-year-old tech-hospitality plat-form, AirBnb is counted as a leader among

the platforms for accommodation, there areothers such as Booking,com, Homestay,Flipkey and Homeaway (to name a few) thatare gaining popularity. The young travellers,especially the millennials are increasinglyopting for B&Bs for the value that thesespaces offer, especially to those travelling onbudget. They are getting hooked to the expe-rience of staying in unique locations with thepersonal touch and comforts of home. Justlike a local.

“I prefer to stay in spaces that allow methe comfort of home, especially during longerstays,” says Manish Mehrotra, CorporateChef, Indian Accent restaurants. For some-body who divides his time between New Yorkand India, Mehrotra prefers the comfort of arented apartment when not at home. “I nowwant spaces that allow me to cook and do lit-tle things by myself,” shares Mehrotra of hispreference for apartments over hotels. “Someeven come with a personal touch like a bottleof wine and launderette facilities. I try to finda place closer to my workplace, so I can evenwalk to work,” he shares.

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fact that when travellers book a B&B, theydon’t just get a bed—their reservation is com-plemented by various invaluable amenitiessuch as homemade food, free Internet, and,most importantly, a hospitable staff.

A fully furnished set in a foreign locale

works out so much cheaper than staying in ahotel, especially if on a longer trip. So foundout frequent traveller and travel writer AlkaKaushik, who is now a B&B convert, especial-ly when travelling with family. “Recently, Itravelled to Spain with my elderly mother,who is a strict vegetarian. We chose spacesthat were centrally located, with a livingroom and operational kitchen to ourselves.This worked really well in terms of budget aswe could save on eating out and commutewithin the city,” she shared.

Her mother was most happy with thehome like arrangement, where she did nothave to struggle for food and could cookwhatever she liked. Somebody who often liketo travel solo and sometimes with a pet, shedoes not hesitate to share and recommendsome safe and pet friendly options that shehas stayed in. “All you need to do is put yourrequired filter before making a booking,” shesays. Kaushik has been booking her accom-modations via Booking.com.

“Travel has always been something that Iassociate with freedom and independence. Ilike to revel in the unknown and loveimmersing myself in new cultures. While Inever hold back when it comes to tryingsomething new, I treasure the safe and famil-iar feeling of home no matter where I am,”shares Actor Mandira Bedi, for choosing tobook B&B space on her travels. Bedi bookedthrough AirBnb for her travels to Colombo,Goa and Portugal in the recent times.

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mendations and have formulated a reviewalsystem of their own. Platforms like AirBnballow both a host and the guest to share theirreviews on the other. These reviews become likeyour points for future bookings where the boththe guest and host can refer to before choosingto rent/host. “As a guest, you can be rated onwhether you were responsible, polite and nonuisance during your stay and likewise, as ahost on whether you provided the guests withall that you had promised,” shares Kaushik.

Something like word of mouth where peo-ple trust their friends more than they trust tra-ditional advertising. Studies show that travellersare willing to overlook a notable brand name,and even a low cost, in favour of a positive rec-ommendation. This encourages the B&Bs tostand out for a good business. Another surveyreports points out that over 75 percent of peo-ple do their own travel planning and 76 percentof people ranked recommendations as their pri-mary consideration when booking lodging.

Most platforms allowed the host and theguest to interact before finalising their bookingand even gave the host the right to refuse aguest. Some places even come with a humanless contact, where the entire interaction playson the app and the host and guest don’t have tomeet in person.

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Security and privacy are twobig factors. As a solo trav-eller, I have been extra cau-

tious in picking up accommoda-tion that gives me an assurancethat I am in a safe space,”Kaushik details. She recommendsyou opt for apartment complexesin a busy neighbourhood wherelocal security systems are inplace. “These apartments havetheir own cameras and guards. Ifind that particularly reassuringwhile ordering food at night orcoming in late,” she adds.

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when you have a local to guideyou,” shares Delhi based designerAnupama Dayal, a frequent trav-eller. Dayal likes to opt of B&Bspaces that are offbeat and offerlocal experience. A host herself,Dayal offers her beautiful homes-tay at Mangar near Delhi to peo-

ple looking for off-beat stays. “Inmy experience so far, I haveplayed host to very evolved trav-ellers who seem to be clued in tothe concept,” she shares.

Likewise, she too, prefers tobook lodgings that allow her topotter around in the kitchen andbe herself. “There is a certainwarmth to such spaces that makeyour stay very personal. A hotelmay not be as intimate at timesand sometimes restricting interms of privacy,” she shares,recalling her stay at a JodhpurB&B where she ended up forginga friendship with the host. “I wastravelling with a purpose to pickup some furniture in the city. Myhosts were not only warm, but

they guided me to some reallygem of places where I could domy shopping. I came back withsome amazing pieces and a richexperience,” she recalls.

��������������������To make sure that your B&B

stay is a pleasant one, the sea-soned travellers suggest youspend some time researching onthe net before finalising on thespace. “Make sure to ask aboutthe host/guest expectations andunderstand where they comefrom,” says Radhika Jain, abanker and frequent traveller.Jain has been choosing B&Bspaces for family travels with hertwo children and a dog.

“Most hosts like you to cleanup and leave the place in thesame condition as when youchecked in. Make sure you getyour instructions right to avoidany embarrassment or a poor

review later,” suggests Kaushik,adding, “Also be very clear onwhat the host is offering to avoidany disappointments once youreach there.”

Do your research on the areato understand its profile andsafety factors. Usually placesclose to the main or city centreare expensive as compared tothose on the outskirts. Figureyour transportation before book-ing a faraway space. You mayfind yourself stranded or end uppaying more than what youwould have otherwise.

Ask your host for local rec-ommendations for a personalisedexperience, like a local bakery orplaces to eat, an art space or evenshop. Some hosts offer specialmenus and walks through thecity. It is a good idea to sign upin advance. For no one knows acity like a local. That’s whatmakes the experience special.

First time in Sri Lanka?” A rou-tine question at the immigra-tions counter had me wonder-ing why hadn’t I thought ofvisiting this country before.

Considering, we are friendly neigh-bours, the access is so smooth and cur-rency makes it budget friendly, why wasit that the idea had never popped in ourheads? And just about when I hadshrugged the thought away, my daugh-ter’s observation had us all discussingit aloud. “It’s so similar to south India,”she remarked. “Close. And yet, so dis-tinct in its character,” remarked thehusband. We were driving towards thesouth west coast of this island countryfor our first stop to the city of Galle.

Verdant green landscape linedwith coconut palm trees, wild foliageand great (albeit a little humid) weath-er had us all hooked and agreeing thatit’s better late than never. Thatchedroofs of traditional style homes, high-ways that remind you of state roads inthe south back home, it felt as if we hadbeen transported back in time. All savefor a distinct coastal line in the backdrop that reminded us that we were onan island.

Galle was the first city we visitedin Sri Lanka, choosing to drive straightdown from the capital Colombo. A bitgroggy from the early morning flight,we were not particularly impressedwith what we saw of Colombo. It hasall the frills of a busy city, including

cold structures and growing traffic.Perhaps this was why the city of Gallecame as a welcome surprise. We hadopted to stay in the fort city of Galle.Built by the Dutch in the beginning of1663, Galle Fort continues to be a liv-ing fort ensconced within the wall, cut-ting off the sea and the new part.

In many ways the city transportsyou to a medieval town of Europe.Cobbled streets, building that date backto the time Dutch set it up (and real-ly well preserved at that!) there is a cer-tain quaintness about the place thattouches an instant cord with a heritagelover like me.

It is said that Galle got its namefrom the Portuguese in 1505 when theywere forced to land at its shores. Theychristened it Galle after the rooster’s(Galo in Portuguese) call that helpedthem discover the land. Incidentally,Gala in Sinhalese means a rock and thatwas possibly how the place got itsname. Galle Fort was first built in 1588by the Portuguese and further fortifiedby the Dutch in the years after to pre-vent attacks from colonial competitorsboth from the sea as the land. You canstill see battlements along the fort wallsthat were built for defense in case of aninvasion. The British took over the cityin 1796.

It is fascinating to see the impres-sions that each of the settlers leftbehind, preserved so well even to thisday. Little wonder the fort city finds a

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place in UNESCO WorldHeritage list. The city todayattracts a lot of visitors fromacross the world for the her-itage experience that it offers.Every structure is a part of aliving community, housingadministrative offices, courts,cafes, companies, shops andhotels, many of which areowned by foreigners.

You can easily cover thefort city as a heritage walk inabout two hours. Heritagelovers, of course can easilyspend days here! The heritagewalk takes you through theramparts of the Zwarte or theFort (oldest of 14 bastion builtby the Portuguese that gets itsname from the fact that it wasalways covered in the blacksmoke from the canons andguns); Old Dutch Hospital(now a shopping and diningprecinct), All Saints’ Church(dating back to13th Centurythat stands on the site of theold court house. It is said thegallows stood on the site of thepresent church altar); GrooteKerk (Dutch ReformedChurch built by the Dutch in1755); Maritime ArchaeologyMuseum (a warehouse datingback to 1671 that now show-cases marine-centric exhibits)and Amangalla (a 1684 man-sion that was once the head-quarters of Dutch comman-ders and their staff).

Amangalla has an interest-ing history. After the Dutchleft, the Britishers too used thecomplex as the quarters fortheir soldiers. In 1865, it wasconverted into the New OrientHotel, catering to 1st-class

P&O passengers travellingbetween Europe and Galleport in the 19th century.During much of the 20th cen-tury, it was run by the leg-endary Nesta Brohier, a grandlady who was actually born inthe property itself. It was in2004, that the property wasrestored to its full splendourand run by the existing man-agement. The building is beau-tifully preserved and filledwith antiques, chandeliers, andflower displays dating back tothe 19th century. Certain areasof the property, such as theZaal (or the verandah) andreception are open to the out-siders and only hotel guest canaccess the rest of the building.Tea at Amangalla at Zaal ishighly recommended by trav-el advisors across the world.

The fort does not offermuch of a nightlife and therestaurants usually close ataround ten at night. Thosewho wish for more excite-ment can head out for seasideresorts like Amari Galle thatoffer a good night time expe-rience plus great food, espe-cially their Sri Lankan spread.Make sure you ask for one incase you are there. In fact,those interested in water activ-ities would find a lot to do atseaside spaces that come witha beach.

Surfing was definitely onour minds as we headed toTangalle. The coastline here isdotted with boutique proper-ties and luxury resorts, muchlike the south Goa (not reallya fair comparison, but just soyou get the gist). Unashamedly,

Aman’s other property leavesa distinct mark. Designed byAustralian architect, KerryHill, Amanwella is charac-terised by a modern, linear andstreamlined design, and clear-ly pays tribute to the style of SriLankan native Geoffrey Bawa.It comes with the most pristineof the beaches, which thoughpublic does not get too manyvisitors as the sea is very chop-py here. You can of course,enjoy by the side or use it foryoga. We did and it was one ofthe most beautiful experi-ences.

Back to surfing. The areaoffers a good ‘mix’ of beachesthat are suitable for surfing,grade varying and dependingon how well trained you are. Itis easy to enroll in one of thesurfing schools, who run class-es starting from a day for thebeginners. We took one for thebeginners and were taken to asandy beach suitable for thebeginning with beautiful wavestempting you to ride them. Toshare about the training, thedaughter had a go and yes, shewas able to board her surf-board within an hour of thelesson!

Dolphin and whale watch-ing at Mirissa is another pop-ular activity. But this is entire-ly season depending. It wasraining the day we were there,so not in luck. But as they say,you save it for the next time.

For a seemingly smallisland, there is a lot that onecan do in Sri Lanka. As for me,the trip has been like an intro-duction. I’m definitely comingfor more.

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are a kosher instrument ofboth wartime and peace-timedeterrence. Still, the nuke relat-ed kill potential and aggressiveJoe behaviour is here to stay!Iran intends to utilise its nukekill potential with an objectiveto mitigate the Occident, par-ticularly the United States, atthe Strait of Hormuz.

An instance has been thecatching of the British oiltanker, Impera. The downingof each other’s drones and theugly transactional quid proquo has become part of the ter-tiary diplomacy, along with theprimal sphere of nuclear diplo-macy. The moment of sendingpacking away the JointComprehensive Plan of Action(JCPOA) by US PresidentDonald Trump has beenanalysed by a section of inter-national relations observersand experts as being indicativeof moving out of the disarma-ment and the non-proliferationregime in the larger constructin West Asia, without rulingout nations of the order ofSaudi Arabia and Israel.

Though the US has movedout of the JCPOA, the othernations remain part of themultilateral treaty and theJCPOA remains in forcedespite the tertiary delibera-tions on the entire Iraniannarrative. Dan Smith writes inInter Press Service, “Thismakes it clear that, rather thanan evidence-based technicalobjection to the agreement orits implementation, the USdecision to withdraw from theJCPOA was a political measureaimed against Iran. The time-limited nature of the JCPOA isby no means unique — themajor US-Russian strategicarms control agreement, forexample, expires in 2021. It isnormal in such cases to find anappropriate opportunity to dis-cuss extending the agreement.”

In a manner, the globalsecurity architecture remainsundone as the US has sashayedout of the entire JCPOA andraises questions and pertinentposers concerning the nomde plume of multilateral diplo-

macy but still such hiccups arepart of international negotia-tions, but definitely it’s here thatmultilateralism takes a gravebeating. International institu-tions such as the UnitedNations Security Council pro-mulgated the UNSC resolutionin order to sustain and subli-mate the idiom of nuclear dis-armament, but the infringe-ment of the multilateral treatymakes the institutional under-standing, largely peripheraland questionable.

The political story arrivesin the text with PresidentRonald Reagan terming theIranian nation as the“indomitable satan”, which hadto be collectively resisted at anycost after the Iran hostage cri-sis as before the AmericanEmbassy was run down by thelocal protesters, the UnitedStates was an able supporter of

the Shah of Iran. It was the Iranhostage crisis which initiatedthe “vile context” of the rela-tionship between Washingtonand Tehran which was furtherbuttressed by the Americansupport to dictator SaddamHussein in Iraq in the nearneighborhood of Iran.

Tehran has made it prettyclear that if the Americanswant the way of diplomacy,then sanctions have to be lift-ed over Iran, and Javad Zarifhas contended that the USsanctions pinpoint towards agrandiloquent “failure” of mul-tilateralism and the larger tenetof the praxis of diplomacy.

Still, it needs to be reiter-ated that the “political” com-plex will always catch on withthe leaders, heads of statesand their respective popula-tions once the dice of interna-tional politics has been rolled

in the dark and light colouredstrategic squares.

Bloomberg reports aboutthe Iran’s nuclear programme.It contends, “Iran’s nuclearcapabilities have been the sub-ject of global hand-wringingfor more than two decades.While Iran’s leaders long insist-ed the country was not build-ing nuclear weapons, its enrich-ment of uranium and history ofdeception created deep mis-trust.” It’s not exactly a quest forsecurity but it’s a historicalsecurity dilemma which theregion suffers from. The USand Tehran have been talkingfor long years and Iran and thegreat powers at the high tableintended to settle the disputebetween the West and the restby entering into a muchexpected nuclear deal with acivilisationally high brow Iran.

It can be safely surmised

that Iran has been foretold andwarned that to prevent its econ-omy from getting strangulated,it needs to cap its nuclear pro-gramme. But, once the die hasbeen cast by President Trumpmoving out from the JCPOA,the call becomes one associat-ed with the tenets and the call-ing of real politique with Israel’sPrimer Benjamin drawing the“thin red line” for Iran’s nuclearheft and experiments at one ofthe United Nations GeneralAssembly session a few yearsback which kicked off a kind ofcold war between Tel Aviv andTehran then.

Iran has breached the 300KG limit set up by the Iran USNuclear Deal in 2015. Iranhas always maintained that it beallowed to carry on the urani-um enrichment process beforethe idiom of concessions can bereferred to. It was Mahmoud

Ahmadinejad who was on theverge of declaring a battle withTel Aviv at the slightest hint ofa provocation. But, with theushering in of Hassan Rouhani,the developments and theexchanges began to call offtense vibes, between Tehranand Washington and wentbeyond the “satanic discourse”between both the nations.

Iran was also quick to chal-lenge the European nations inMay 2019 and went aheadwith its uranium enrichment.Iran apparently draws itslessons from national prideand nations in the region suchas Saudi Arabia, and Israelhave contended that theempowering of Tehran, whichis primarily theocratic, is despi-cable which engages Tehranwith Saudi Arabia in a peren-nial tiff to lead the larger andthe global Islamic world. The

yes sayers contend that nationssuch as Brazil, South Africa andJapan have been made to beopen to charges of enrichinguranium and utilising the fuelfor a strategic weaponisationprogramme.

The history of confronta-tion leads us to the staid butstill stolid saga of warspremised upon civilisation dif-ferences. The manner in whichthe Persian King Xerxes some-how managed to crush thehundred Spartans reflects theperennially recorded and oftencommented upon historicalschism between the Iran andthe West, especially theemblematic Greek city states.

Who can but forget theswift destruction of Persianquick moving vessels pittedagainst the Greek motley crew!Thus, historicity too leavesintact the much deliberatedupon BOT, balance of terror,between nations such as theUnited States and the PersianEmpire of the yonder years.

Coming back to the con-temporary context of theJCPOA, and the Iran’s habit ofdoing nuclear activities fromeighties onwards till 2003, it hasbeen alleged that Iran too wasin more ways than oneinvolved in the violations of theNuclear Proliferation Treatyof 1968. Iran’s import of U-6from the Chinese was neverreported to the InternationalAtomic Energy Agency in thepost 2003 phase. The Kalayecentrifuge facilities were alsounreported by Tehran to IAEA.The laser isotope separationactivities carried on by Iranwere also relegated to the darkside of the moon with theIAEA being kept ignorantabout them. Iran does not per-mit IAEA snoops to sites .Thus, in a way before the aba-cus of the international com-munity, the erstwhile PersianEmpire has been unrelentingand seamlessly confrontation-ist akin to its adversary, theUnited States of America.

(The writer teachesInternational Relations atIndian Institute of PublicAdministration, Delhi)

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odds were stacked againstSrinivasa. His parents scoldedand nagged him for his failureto cope with the stress in class,and for his inability to read andwrite in English and in hismother tongue Kannada. Ashis classmates laughed at hismistakes, he kept away fromthem. Teachers felt he wasbeing deliberately obtuse.

But today the 11-year-old,Srinivasa, happily attends hisschool, can read and write, butof course with the help of spe-cial educators in school.

Using DALI (DyslexiaAssessment for Languages ofIndia), a screening and assess-ment tool in four Indianregional languages, teachersand psychologists assessedSrinivasa’s sound awareness,skill acquisition capability inreading, writing and numbers,communication, motor coor-dination, behaviour and mem-ory.

Pinpointing his areas ofdifficulty, the test helped themrealise the child was not thick-head.

Experts say early diagnosisof dyslexia — Srinivasa’s dis-ability — can go a long way inhelping children with specificlearning disability, which isneurobiological in origin. Theinability to achieve adequatereading skills despite normalintelligence, equal opportuni-ty and adequate classroominstruction is termed as dyslex-ia. It has a biological basis andoccurs because of differences inbrain wiring.

“If not addressed, we stand

to lose out on a significantchunk of the literate populationfrom future productive work-force of the country. In fact, inthe absence of tests in differentlanguages and writing systems,dyslexia assessment is oftenrestricted to English, leading toinappropriate and incorrectassessment of the child,” point-ed out Professor NandiniChatterjee Singh, who alongwith her team, developed thetool under a project supportedby the Government’sDepartment of Science andTechnology

DALI is the only stan-dardised test currently availablein India in four languages todetect the learning disorder inwhich people find it difficult tospell and process verbal andwritten instructions.

Developed and tested atthe country’s only neuroscienceand research institute NationalBrain Research Centre,Haryana, an autonomous bodyfunded by the Department ofBiotechnology in 2015, DALIis now seen as a new hope forchildren who speak in region-al languages, besides English.

Professor Singh said,“DALI has been standardisedand validated across nearly4,000 children from Class 1 toV in various schools. It is cur-rently available in Hindi,Marathi, Kannada and Englishand work is underway toextend it to Tamil, Telugu andBengali. Importantly, it is notcurriculum based, thus facili-tating its use across the coun-try in bilingual children.”

The tool was standardised

and validated in variousschools at five centres namelyOrkids Centre for LearningDisabilities, Delhi; Centre ofBehavioural and CognitiveSciences, University ofAllahabad, Allahabad;Maharashtra DyslexiaAssociation, Mumbai; Dr.Shanta Vaidya MemorialFoundation, Pune; and AllIndia Institute of Speech andHearing, Mysore.

While DALI has notgained ground in India as theGovernment is yet to notify itfor use across schools in thecountry as a part of a nationalpolicy, this multi-lingualscreening and assessment toolhas already generated a lot ofinterest among neighbouringcountries like Nepal,Afghanistan and Bangladesh,to name a few.

In fact, realising its poten-tial, the UNESCO MahatmaGandhi Institute of Educationfor Peace and SustainableDevelopment (MGIEP) hasdecided to scale it up further.UNESCO-MGIEP broughtProfessor Singh on it board totake it further to neighbouringcountries, like Afghanistan andBangladesh where awarenessabout the dyslexia is evenlower, although the problem isprevalent.

Professor Singh, nowworking on DALI extension atUNESCO-MGEIP, said, “I havealready conducted two aware-ness programmes in Nepaland Bangladesh, and more arebeing planned.”

On its part, UNESCO-MGIEP has been holding many

such workshops in Delhi andin different parts of the coun-try to reach out to childrenwith learning disability.“UNESCO-MGIEP aims toextend the DALI test to allother regional languages inIndia and the Asia Pacificregion for early detection anddiagnosis of learning difficul-ties,” said an official from theUN body.

The research is clear thatapproximately 10 per cent ofthe global population hasdyslexia. Although there is nodefinitive study, around 10-15per cent Indian children areafflicted with dyslexia that isequal to nearly 35 million chil-dren.

Various Delhi schools pri-vate and those run by the StateGovernment have found DALIuseful in screening such prob-lems. “They have approachedus for extending the test tohigher education classesbecause teachers have beenidentifying children who arenot able to read even in theeighth or even higher classes.The State Government wants toknow how many kids havelearning disability and howmany have not been taught bythe teachers,” said ProfessorSingh.

Psychologist and special-needs (children) educator GeetOberoi has been using DALI inher Orkid centres across thecountry. “I find it very useful.However, since so far, the toolis validated just for Class III toV. We are waiting for the toolsfor higher classes. It may hap-pen within next six months.”

Other Indian assessmentsfor learning disabilities includeDST (Dyslexia Screening Test)and Bangaluru-based NationalInstitute of Mental Health andAllied Neuro Sciences(NIMHANS) Index for SLDand Behavior Checklist forScreening the LearningDisabled developed by Swarupand Mehta (1991), abbreviatedas “NIMHANS battery”.

Presently, the “NIMHANSbattery” is the only test notifiedby the Government for screen-ing and certifying childrenwith dyslexia. This “battery”,consisting mostly of Westernand English language-basedtests, was developed over threedecades ago. Developed as partof a small sample for a PhDthesis at Bangaluru and neverdeveloped or tested further, itis the only tool accepted forcertifying dyslexia as a disabil-ity.

However, Professor Singhargued the NIMHANS bat-tery is not for non-Englishspeakers. It is also curriculumbased, and results are oftensubjective.

Since the Government hasnot notified DALI, psycholo-gists cannot use it for issuingdisability certificates under theRights of Persons withDisability Act, 2016, whichbrought dyslexia under theumbrella of disability.

It is now time to audit theNIMHANS battery or look forother tools. A seniorNIMHANS’ psychologistagreed. On the condition ofanonymity, she said theNIMHANS battery was devel-

oped keeping in mind needs atthat time.

“However, a large numberof children who come to us forscreening, we are able to get theanswer for the questionthrough the NIMHANS bat-tery. The problem comes whenit’s about the higher-class kidswhere we too are in a fix as tohow to decide their learningdisability,” said Professor Singh.

She felt that it was hightime that NIMHANS battery,which is just for English lan-guage, test is relooked andmodified with the changingneeds and increasing awarenessabout the condition.

Centre of Excellence inMental Health, Dr RamManohar Lohia Hospital Delhi,has already started a projectcomparing the two tools: DALIand Nimhans Battery. ProfessorSmita N Deshpande, headingthe project, said, “We need tohelp these children in everypossible way. To that end, weare now trying to compareDALI and NIMHANS batteryas part of a larger scientific pro-ject as well as extending DALIfor adults, because childrenwith such disabilities have aspecial quota in college admis-sions as well as in Governmentjobs.”

Due to lack of awareness,their department has been fac-ing demands for dyslexia cer-tification for people as old as22- 23 years. “Moreover”, shesaid, “Children with dyslexiasee the world differently andthis has valuable implicationsfor the future of human devel-opment. We must help them at

the earliest.”When contacted, KVS Rao,

a senior official from the UnionSocial Welfare Ministry said itis the prerogative of the UnionHealth Ministry as to whichtool should be notified. “We arejust an implementing body,” hepointed out.

The Indian PsychiatricSociety (IPS), currently exclud-ed from certifying childhooddisability although its psychi-atrists are trained and willingto do so, has already written tothe Ministry about these lacu-nae, said an office bearer of theIPS.

Geet pointed out,“Children in India receive edu-cation at school in at least twolanguages. It is necessary thatthe assessment of dyslexia becarried out in all languages thatthe child is exposed to. InIndia, the diagnosis of dyslex-ia has been incomplete becauseof the absence of standardised,validated assessment tools inregional Indian languages.” Shestressed on early identificationof child’s learning disability.

Talking about DALI’s sci-entific standing, ProfessorSingh explains that DALI hasaround fifteen questions whichthe teachers, who have taughtthe child for at least six months,need to fill in. A teacher needsabout six months to knowwhat type of problem a child isgoing through.

“Suppose the child hasappeared in Class IV, theteacher will try to assess him tosee why the kid has not beenable to do his homework. ‘Hasthe teacher not taught him

properly or the child is havingsome problem’ can be identi-fied. Once the problem hasbeen identified, the psycholo-gist can draw up an individualaction plan,” she explained.

“We would like DALI forother languages also,” HBSingh, a senior official in theDepartment of Science andTechnology which funded theproject, said, adding, “and wecould potentially have newtesting formats, like onlinequestionnaires, to popularisethis.”

Given that appropriatedyslexia assessment and earlyremediation is the right ofevery child, it is importantthat such initiatives be under-taken as part of theGovernment policy. Only thencan we bring back the smiles onfaces of kids like Srinavasa, whohave all rights to feel goodabout themselves.

(The writer is SpecialCorrespondent, The Pioneer)

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and unmindfully jumping from onebranch of a tree to the other. Evernoticed children? Oblivious to implica-tions, they keep shifting attention fromone object to another in rapid succes-sion, their curious minds keen toexplore whatever be around. That is apart of the learning process. Theimpressions gathered during early child-hood shape the mind and psyche ofchildren, which keeps reflecting later inlife. As the child grows, there is furtheraddition to their memory bank as grad-ually the Karmic imprints (samskara)carried over from the past birth beginunfolding. That defines the uniquecharacter of a being — the desire trends,virtues and attributes, habits and atti-tudes, likes and dislikes, prejudices andobsessions. These vary from person-to-person according as one would haveindividually experienced life. Theprocess doesn’t end here. As one furthernegotiates life in real terms, one isexposed to tempting influences of theliving world and gains positive as well asnegative experiences in life.

We, thus, carry a huge stockpile ofimpressions in our minds that keepplaying from within, making us flirtwith random thoughts — a majoritybeing inconsequential and even nega-tive. Supposedly, every being entertainsnothing less than 60 to 70 thousandthoughts every day. Such a clutteredmind won’t allow time and mind-spacenecessary to objectively process freshthoughts. In the process, mind oftenloses its sense of order and reason.Consequently, the thought processbecomes so complex that even simpleissues keep playing in the head and notarrive at a clear-headed solution. Onethen begins to move mindlessly. Ourcreative abilities get compromised. Itwould be interesting to note here thatour mind is equipped to purify itself ofall its vagaries too. Following which, onecould put to use mind’s wholesomepowers in a focused way over our prior-ity preferences. The irony, however, isthat ordinarily caught up in the usualgrinds of life, we seldom care to nurtureour own empowerment tool that is themind, and with obvious consequences.

Here is the case of a professional inhis early forties who left his job in a

huff, minus an alternative option.Having had continuously tasted success,he had assumed that any other compa-ny, seeing his track record, would bewilling to take him in immediately. Butnot been able to get a job befitting himfor months together, he came asking:“How long would I have to wait for ajob? It is now becoming difficult to paymy monthly bills. It has never happenedwith me in the past. Why so now?”

Well, if you move mindlessly in life,you would tend to invite problems. Hadyou explored the environmental condi-tion beforehand, you would haverealised that in a declining economy thejob market was shrinking. “But sir, thework atmosphere was difficult to bearwith.” He countered. “Do you think theworld has to necessarily move to yourasking? In a collective working, youneed to intelligently engage with thosearound, amicably resolve differences,and keep marching ahead. Over a peri-od of time, your mind has become socluttered and complexed that you arenot able to see simple truths writ large,”I pointed out. “Why now?” he pushed.“Earlier, you were bent upon provingyourself, so you were guided by yourpriority preferences and your habit ten-dencies went ignored. But having tasted

success, you seem to have become com-placent, and so your inherent tendencieshave come into full play. It’s time nowthat you work upon your mind-traits sothat you do not fall into similar trapagain.” I replied.

Look at the astrological pointers tohis habit tendencies. The lagna signSagittarius makes him tactless andundiplomatic. Moon being well alignedto Uranus makes him talented. ButMoon being 8th lord makes him habitu-ally suspicious of everybody. Both theluminaries the Sun and Moon, locked inadverse formation to Mars and Venus,make him temperamental, impulsive,irritable, rash, moody, and emotionallyvolatile. Being very touchy, he getsworked up even on trivial issues, overwhich he keeps unnecessarily mullingfor long, thus momentarily losing hissense of reason. The Sun placed adverseto Uranus makes him erratic. Saturnconjunct Mercury makes him skeptical.And the result is there to see.

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