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F ocusing on development and achievements of his Government at the Centre, Prime Minister Narendra Modi refrained from uttering a sin- gle word on two major agita- tions in Gujarat on Tuesday at a function in Saurashtra region - the epicentre of pro-quota stir of Patidar community and Dalit agitation after flogging of Dalit youths in Una. The Prime Minister was in Gujarat to inaugurate the first phase of Rs 12,000 crore Saurashtra Narmada Avtaran Irrigation Yojna (SAUNI) pro- ject at Aji-3 dam site near Sanosara village in Jamnagar district. SAUNI is aimed at pro- viding sufficient irrigation water to farmers of Saurashtra region. Once the project would be completed as many Continued on Page 2 New Delhi: Major trade unions, except the Bhartiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS), on Tuesday said they will go ahead with nation- wide strike on Friday, rejecting the Government’s 42 per cent hike in minimum wage to 350 per day, “as completely inade- quate”. Besides increasing the minimum wage, the Govern- ment also decided to pay bonus for 2014-15 and 2015-16 to Central Government employees based on revised norms. This will have annual financial impli- cation of 1,920 crore. “The Go- vernment’s minimum wage an- nouncement is completely inad- equate. The strike stands and we demand they should enact a law to fix minimum (universal) wage,” said AITUC general sec- retary Gurudas Dasgupta. Earlier in the day, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley announced a slew of labour- friendly measures — including hiking of minimum wage to 350 a day for unskilled non- agricultural workers for ‘C’ cat- egory areas in central sphere. Calculated monthly, it comes to 9,100 minimum income (for 26 days) which is way below the unions’ demand of 18,000. Initially, the unions had demanded 15,000 as mini- mum monthly income for daily wagers but the demand was revised after the Government accepted the recommendations of the 7th Pay Commission. Asked whether this will be a benchmark wage, Labour Secretary Shankar Aggarwal said this is for workers in Central sphere and States can fix a min- imum wage lower or higher than this rate. Labour Minister Bandaru Dattatreya said an amendment to the Minimum Wage Act is required for fixing a universal minimum wage and an initiative has been taken. PNS A dopting a tough stance against terrorism emanat- ing from Pakistan, India on Tuesday said there cannot be “double standards” in combat- ing the scourge and asked Pakistan to withdraw safe havens provided to terror out- fits operating from its soil. Making this point during her talks with her US counterpart John Kerry, Minister for External Affairs Sushma Swaraj said India and the US agreed that nations must not act as sanctuaries and safe havens for terrorist organisations. Kerry said his country stands in “strong partnership” with India against all terrorism. “There was meeting of minds between the two sides on the issue of terrorism and we both agreed that Pakistan needs to do more to bring the perpetrators of Mumbai and Pathankot attacks to justice,” Swaraj said, adding talks with Pakistan will take place only when it takes steps on Pathankot terror attack. “Terror and talks cannot go hand-in- hand,” she remarked. Swaraj and Kerry met here during the 2nd India-US Strategic and Commercial Dialogue co-chaired by Swaraj and Commerce Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, along with US Secretary of State Kerry and Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker. Swaraj said there was scope “to do a lot more” in the field of counter-terrorism by India and the US and called for enhanc- ing co-operation in counter- terrorism. Besides bilateral issues, substantive discussions were held on important region- al and global developments, including the security situation. Terrorism, more specifi- cally emanating from Pakistan, figured prominently during talks between the two leaders. Swaraj briefed Kerry on the “continuing problem of cross- border terrorism that India and the larger region face from Pakistan.” Addressing a joint news conference with the visiting leader, Swaraj said, “We reaf- firmed the urgent necessity for Pakistan to dismantle safe havens for terrorists and crim- inal networks, including Lashkar-e-Taiybba, Jaish-e- Mohammad and D Company.” Kerry said he had spoken to Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Army Chief General Raheel Sharif so that Pakistan does not any terrorist group a safe haven. The US Secretary of State said, “We cannot and will not distinguish between good and bad Continued on Page 2 E ven though many parts of Bihar are inundated right now, newspapers in the State are full of reports about a dif- ferent kind of flood, i.e. the flood of alcohol in ‘dry’ Bihar. Suddenly the recovery of liquor bottles has increased manifold across the State after total prohibition was enforced in April’s first week. From trains and railway stations to buses, men, women and even children are caught almost daily stealthily carrying bottles from across the borders of Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bengal and Nepal. The recov- ery has reached alarming pro- portions in recent months, trig- gering fears that the boozers are using various means to grab a bottle or two, even at the risk of being arrested and fined. In the month of August only about 45,000 litres of Indian Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) was seized and what is more surprising is that this huge quantity was seized despite 16,775 raids across the State. Excise Department sources said most of the illegal consignments seized had come from Haryana. The death of 18 people by consuming hooch in Gopalganj district last week and illegal entry of IMFL only shows that tipplers have little fear of strin- gent punishment and are even willing to pay extra to get a sin- gle peg of country liquor or IMFL. The quantity of the seizure has shown an upward trend since April when Bihar turned dry. In that month 15,400 litres of liquor was seized. Though this quantity came down to 3,500 litres in May it shot up to 44,748 litres in August, said an Excise Department official. Assistant Excise Commiss- ioner OP Mandal said, “We seized 4,455 litres of IMFL on Sunday alone from different parts of Bihar. A few days ago 2,270 bottles of IMFL were confiscated from two vehicles in Gopalganj that had been brought from Haryana.” It is not as if smugglers and consumers are going scot-free. The amended Excise Law was invoked and over 13,200 peo- ple have been sent to jail from April till now, with 3,600 arrests made in August alone. “The recovery of smuggled liquor and the arrest of violators of the prohibition law are increas- ing,” the official admitted. During the pre-prohibi- tion period from December 2015 to March 2016, the Excise Department had lodged over 13,000 cases and arrested 7,982 people, of which 5,011 were sent to jail. With the arrest of several serving and retired Army men with liquor bottles in different parts of Bihar, the ex-servicemen are getting restive and have threatened to take to the streets. Though they are allowed to consume liquor in their cantonment areas, they are not spared if caught with bottle off the lim- its of cantonments. The Bihar State Ex- Servicemen Association has urged the State Government to exempt serving and retired personnel from the prohibition law. Its president Lieutenant NK Singh said they would hold a procession up to Raj Bhavan on September 2 to press their demand. “It is very unfortunate that we are arrest- ed for carrying authorized IMFL,” he lamented. Another retired Army man Captain MS Rawat said, “A retired Brigadier is allowed 12 bottles of liquor and those below his rank get 10 bottles a month. JCOs get six bottles and others four bottles a month. There are 1.20 lakh ex-service- men in Bihar and about 16,000 personnel come home on leave and all of them have been affected by the ban. Many of them coming from far-flung areas have no knowledge of the ban in Bihar and they are arrested for carrying IMFL.” I ndia and the United States have signed a major logistics exchange agreement that will give a further push to bilater- al Defense ties and enable the two militaries benefit from reciprocal logistic support dur- ing port visits, joint exercises, training, humanitarian assis- tance and disaster relief. The Logistics Exchange Memorandum of Agreement (LEMOA), as it is called, was signed here on Monday in the wake of Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar’s discus- sions with US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter at the Pentagon. A joint statement issued after the talks said that both sides welcomed the pact, say- ing it will “facilitate addition- al opportunities for practical engagement and exchange”. Parrikar, however, clarified at a news conference later that the new pact has nothing to do with setting up any military base. “There is no provision for any base or any sort of activities to set up a base in India,” he said while replying to a question. “It’s basically logistics support to each other’s fleet, like supply of fuel, supply of many other things which are required for joint operations, humanitarian assistance and many other relief operations. Continued on Page 2 S he always braved travelling 5 kilome- ters daily from her village Champa to Mahuadarn to attend school; not even dreaming to become a doctor despite uncountable odds. But unfortunately, the flight of Anima Minj seems to have succumbed to her plights when she reached so close to it. The 20-year-old tribal girl of a farm labourer father with her polio-hit leg from a naxal hotbed of Lahetar district managed to crack prestigious All India Pre-medical test exam through NEET-2016 and is now wondering how to get admitted without much in her wallet. “I have secured 8th rank in the coun- try and 1st in Jharkhand in the ST-phys- ically handicapped category. I got my coun- seling done and offered MBBS course at Grant Medical College & Sir JJ Hospital in Mumbai. The college has asked me to come up with two demand drafts amount- ing 65,000 and 12,000. I told my father but he has gone silent since then,” says Anima with chocking throat. The family of eight that comprises her other five siblings is to remain dependent on couple of acres of land that produces only when it rains. “My father migrates to other states every year in search of some other job after the monsoon is over. It is very difficult to meet our daily needs. I can understand how my father can arrange such a big amount for me,” she added. The BPL family somehow managed to send Anima at St Joseph Cluster School, Mahuadarn where she performed excel- lently and scored 70 per cent in her 12th. “My elder brother would carry me to school on his bicycle. Due to some assis- tance I got admission in a coaching insti- tute in Ranchi. I passed the test in my first attempt in 2015 but was offered veterinary which I rejected. This time I got MBBS but now I don’t know what to do,” said the girl. Due to lack of awareness, her family has not been able to approach the local dis- trict administration, people representatives, Government Departments, banks or any other forums from where some assistance could be expected. “We don’t know about these things. Someone has told Anima to contact the Chief Minister Office. She is in Ranchi for that. Let’s see,” said her father Basudeo Minj, a matriculate. Moreover, time is running out for the monetarily poor girl. The Grant Medical College & Sir JJ Hospitals, a premier med- ical institution of the country and is governed by Government of Maharashtra, has given September 3 as deadline to secure her seat. “The college management has told me to come with the fee and take admission by September 3. I have very little money with me and I fear to lose my chance of becom- ing a doctor,” said Anima with uncertainty since she is fully aware of the bumpy terrains ahead in her way to fulfil her dreams. F ollowing the footsteps of MP Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan, the State Cabinet on Tuesday gave its approval to ‘Mukhyamantri Tirth Yojana’ under which peo- ple above the age of 60 years coming under BPL category will be sent on pilgrimage by the State Government. Under the pilgrimage scheme, followers of “all the religions and communities can undertake journey to any pil- grimage centre of their choice”. Eligibility criteria for a per- son to be sent on pilgrimage will be decided by the Deputy Commissioner at the district level on first come first serve basis. The Cabinet on Tuesday gave its approval to a total of 9 proposals of various depart- ments of the state Government. “Under this programme, any citizen of the State above the age of 60 years coming under BPL category will be facilitated by the State Government to go on pilgrim- age twice in his life to the des- tinations located both inside and outside the state,” said Cabinet Secretary SS Meena. There must be a gap of two years between the two pil- grimages, he said. Places which have been listed for the purpose includes – Rajrappa, Deoghar, Sammed Shikher, Basukinath, Maluti and Itkhori in Jharkhand while destinations outside the State includes places like – Dwarika, Puri, Bhubaneswar, Tirupati, Madurai, Remeshwaram, Haridwar, Rishikesh, Vaishno Devi, Jammu, Shirdi, Amritsar, Agra, Fetehpur Shikri, Amritsar, Shravan Belgola, Belantini Church, Nagpattanam etc, he said. “The pilgrims under this programme will be provided special travel equipments and guides along with them. There is also a provision of travel insurance for the person going on pilgrimage and they can also take an attendant along with them during the journey,” Meena said. An agreement will be signed between IRCTC and Jharkhand Tourism Development Corporation for the purpose he said. Continued on Page 2

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Focusing on developmentand achievements of his

Government at the Centre,Prime Minister Narendra Modirefrained from uttering a sin-gle word on two major agita-tions in Gujarat on Tuesday ata function in Saurashtra region- the epicentre of pro-quota stirof Patidar community andDalit agitation after flogging ofDalit youths in Una.

The Prime Minister was inGujarat to inaugurate the firstphase of Rs 12,000 croreSaurashtra Narmada AvtaranIrrigation Yojna (SAUNI) pro-ject at Aji-3 dam site nearSanosara village in Jamnagardistrict. SAUNI is aimed at pro-viding sufficient irrigationwater to farmers of Saurashtraregion. Once the project wouldbe completed as many

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New Delhi: Major trade unions,except the Bhartiya MazdoorSangh (BMS), on Tuesday saidthey will go ahead with nation-wide strike on Friday, rejectingthe Government’s 42 per centhike in minimum wage to �350per day, “as completely inade-quate”. Besides increasing theminimum wage, the Govern-ment also decided to pay bonusfor 2014-15 and 2015-16 toCentral Government employeesbased on revised norms. Thiswill have annual financial impli-cation of �1,920 crore. “The Go-vernment’s minimum wage an-nouncement is completely inad-equate. The strike stands and wedemand they should enact a lawto fix minimum (universal)wage,” said AITUC general sec-retary Gurudas Dasgupta.

Earlier in the day, FinanceMinister Arun Jaitleyannounced a slew of labour-friendly measures — including

hiking of minimum wage to�350 a day for unskilled non-agricultural workers for ‘C’ cat-egory areas in central sphere.Calculated monthly, it comes to�9,100 minimum income (for 26days) which is way below theunions’ demand of �18,000.

Initially, the unions haddemanded �15,000 as mini-mum monthly income for dailywagers but the demand wasrevised after the Governmentaccepted the recommendationsof the 7th Pay Commission.

Asked whether this will bea benchmark wage, LabourSecretary Shankar Aggarwalsaid this is for workers in Centralsphere and States can fix a min-imum wage lower or higher thanthis rate. Labour MinisterBandaru Dattatreya said anamendment to the MinimumWage Act is required for fixinga universal minimum wage andan initiative has been taken. PNS

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Adopting a tough stanceagainst terrorism emanat-

ing from Pakistan, India onTuesday said there cannot be“double standards” in combat-ing the scourge and askedPakistan to withdraw safehavens provided to terror out-fits operating from its soil.Making this point during hertalks with her US counterpartJohn Kerry, Minister forExternal Affairs Sushma Swarajsaid India and the US agreedthat nations must not act assanctuaries and safe havensfor terrorist organisations.Kerry said his country standsin “strong partnership” withIndia against all terrorism.

“There was meeting ofminds between the two sideson the issue of terrorism andwe both agreed that Pakistanneeds to do more to bring theperpetrators of Mumbai andPathankot attacks to justice,”Swaraj said, adding talks withPakistan will take place onlywhen it takes steps onPathankot terror attack. “Terrorand talks cannot go hand-in-hand,” she remarked.

Swaraj and Kerry met hereduring the 2nd India-USStrategic and CommercialDialogue co-chaired by Swarajand Commerce MinisterNirmala Sitharaman, alongwith US Secretary of StateKerry and Secretary ofCommerce Penny Pritzker.Swaraj said there was scope “todo a lot more” in the field ofcounter-terrorism by India andthe US and called for enhanc-ing co-operation in counter-terrorism. Besides bilateralissues, substantive discussionswere held on important region-al and global developments,including the security situation.

Terrorism, more specifi-cally emanating from Pakistan,figured prominently duringtalks between the two leaders.Swaraj briefed Kerry on the“continuing problem of cross-border terrorism that Indiaand the larger region face fromPakistan.”

Addressing a joint newsconference with the visitingleader, Swaraj said, “We reaf-firmed the urgent necessityfor Pakistan to dismantle safehavens for terrorists and crim-inal networks, includingLashkar-e-Taiybba, Jaish-e-Mohammad and D Company.”

Kerry said he had spokento Pakistan Prime MinisterNawaz Sharif and Army ChiefGeneral Raheel Sharif so thatPakistan does not any terroristgroup a safe haven. The USSecretary of State said, “Wecannot and will not distinguishbetween good and bad

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Even though many parts ofBihar are inundated right

now, newspapers in the Stateare full of reports about a dif-ferent kind of flood, i.e. theflood of alcohol in ‘dry’ Bihar.Suddenly the recovery ofliquor bottles has increasedmanifold across the State aftertotal prohibition was enforcedin April’s first week.

From trains and railwaystations to buses, men, womenand even children are caught

almost daily stealthily carryingbottles from across the bordersof Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh,Bengal and Nepal. The recov-ery has reached alarming pro-portions in recent months, trig-gering fears that the boozers areusing various means to grab abottle or two, even at the risk ofbeing arrested and fined.

In the month of Augustonly about 45,000 litres ofIndian Made Foreign Liquor(IMFL) was seized and what ismore surprising is that thishuge quantity was seized

despite 16,775 raids across theState. Excise Departmentsources said most of the illegalconsignments seized had comefrom Haryana.

The death of 18 people byconsuming hooch in Gopalganjdistrict last week and illegalentry of IMFL only shows thattipplers have little fear of strin-gent punishment and are evenwilling to pay extra to get a sin-gle peg of country liquor orIMFL. The quantity of theseizure has shown an upwardtrend since April when Biharturned dry. In that month15,400 litres of liquor wasseized. Though this quantitycame down to 3,500 litres inMay it shot up to 44,748 litresin August, said an ExciseDepartment official.

Assistant Excise Commiss-ioner OP Mandal said, “Weseized 4,455 litres of IMFL onSunday alone from differentparts of Bihar. A few days ago2,270 bottles of IMFL wereconfiscated from two vehicles in

Gopalganj that had beenbrought from Haryana.”

It is not as if smugglers andconsumers are going scot-free.The amended Excise Law wasinvoked and over 13,200 peo-ple have been sent to jail fromApril till now, with 3,600 arrestsmade in August alone. “Therecovery of smuggled liquorand the arrest of violators of theprohibition law are increas-ing,” the official admitted.

During the pre-prohibi-tion period from December2015 to March 2016, the ExciseDepartment had lodged over13,000 cases and arrested 7,982people, of which 5,011 weresent to jail. With the arrest ofseveral serving and retiredArmy men with liquor bottlesin different parts of Bihar, theex-servicemen are gettingrestive and have threatened totake to the streets. Thoughthey are allowed to consumeliquor in their cantonmentareas, they are not spared ifcaught with bottle off the lim-

its of cantonments. The Bihar State Ex-

Servicemen Association hasurged the State Government toexempt serving and retiredpersonnel from the prohibitionlaw. Its president LieutenantNK Singh said they wouldhold a procession up to RajBhavan on September 2 topress their demand. “It is veryunfortunate that we are arrest-ed for carrying authorizedIMFL,” he lamented.

Another retired Army manCaptain MS Rawat said, “Aretired Brigadier is allowed 12bottles of liquor and thosebelow his rank get 10 bottles amonth. JCOs get six bottles andothers four bottles a month.There are 1.20 lakh ex-service-men in Bihar and about 16,000personnel come home on leaveand all of them have beenaffected by the ban. Many ofthem coming from far-flungareas have no knowledge of theban in Bihar and they arearrested for carrying IMFL.”

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India and the United Stateshave signed a major logistics

exchange agreement that willgive a further push to bilater-al Defense ties and enable thetwo militaries benefit fromreciprocal logistic support dur-ing port visits, joint exercises,training, humanitarian assis-tance and disaster relief.

The Logistics ExchangeMemorandum of Agreement(LEMOA), as it is called, wassigned here on Monday in thewake of Defence Minister

Manohar Parrikar’s discus-sions with US DefenseSecretary Ashton Carter atthe Pentagon.

A joint statement issuedafter the talks said that bothsides welcomed the pact, say-ing it will “facilitate addition-al opportunities for practicalengagement and exchange”.

Parrikar, however, clarifiedat a news conference later thatthe new pact has nothing to dowith setting up any militarybase. “There is no provision forany base or any sort of activitiesto set up a base in India,” he saidwhile replying to a question.

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She always braved travelling 5 kilome-ters daily from her village Champa to

Mahuadarn to attend school; not evendreaming to become a doctor despiteuncountable odds. But unfortunately,the flight of Anima Minj seems to havesuccumbed to her plights when shereached so close to it.

The 20-year-old tribal girl of a farmlabourer father with her polio-hit leg froma naxal hotbed of Lahetar district managedto crack prestigious All India Pre-medicaltest exam through NEET-2016 and is nowwondering how to get admitted withoutmuch in her wallet.

“I have secured 8th rank in the coun-try and 1st in Jharkhand in the ST-phys-ically handicapped category. I got my coun-seling done and offered MBBS course atGrant Medical College & Sir JJ Hospital inMumbai. The college has asked me tocome up with two demand drafts amount-ing �65,000 and �12,000. I told my fatherbut he has gone silent since then,” saysAnima with chocking throat.

The family of eight that comprises herother five siblings is to remain dependenton couple of acres of land that producesonly when it rains. “My father migrates toother states every year in search of someother job after the monsoon is over. It isvery difficult to meet our daily needs. I canunderstand how my father can arrangesuch a big amount for me,” she added.

The BPL family somehow managed tosend Anima at St Joseph Cluster School,Mahuadarn where she performed excel-lently and scored 70 per cent in her 12th.“My elder brother would carry me toschool on his bicycle. Due to some assis-

tance I got admission in a coaching insti-tute in Ranchi. I passed the test in my firstattempt in 2015 but was offered veterinarywhich I rejected. This time I got MBBS butnow I don’t know what to do,” said the girl.

Due to lack of awareness, her familyhas not been able to approach the local dis-trict administration, people representatives,Government Departments, banks or anyother forums from where some assistancecould be expected. “We don’t know aboutthese things. Someone has told Anima tocontact the Chief Minister Office. She isin Ranchi for that. Let’s see,” said her father

Basudeo Minj, a matriculate.Moreover, time is running out for the

monetarily poor girl. The Grant MedicalCollege & Sir JJ Hospitals, a premier med-ical institution of the country and is governedby Government of Maharashtra, has givenSeptember 3 as deadline to secure her seat.“The college management has told me tocome with the fee and take admission bySeptember 3. I have very little money withme and I fear to lose my chance of becom-ing a doctor,” said Anima with uncertaintysince she is fully aware of the bumpy terrainsahead in her way to fulfil her dreams.

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Following the footsteps ofMP Chief Minister Shivraj

Singh Chauhan, the StateCabinet on Tuesday gave itsapproval to ‘MukhyamantriTirth Yojana’ under which peo-ple above the age of 60 yearscoming under BPL categorywill be sent on pilgrimage bythe State Government.

Under the pilgrimagescheme, followers of “all thereligions and communities canundertake journey to any pil-grimage centre of their choice”.

Eligibility criteria for a per-son to be sent on pilgrimage willbe decided by the DeputyCommissioner at the districtlevel on first come first servebasis. The Cabinet on Tuesdaygave its approval to a total of 9proposals of various depart-ments of the state Government.

“Under this programme,any citizen of the State abovethe age of 60 years comingunder BPL category will befacilitated by the StateGovernment to go on pilgrim-age twice in his life to the des-tinations located both insideand outside the state,” saidCabinet Secretary SS Meena.There must be a gap of twoyears between the two pil-grimages, he said.

Places which have beenlisted for the purpose includes– Rajrappa, Deoghar, SammedShikher, Basukinath, Malutiand Itkhori in Jharkhand whiledestinations outside the Stateincludes places like – Dwarika,Puri, Bhubaneswar, Tirupati,Madurai, Remeshwaram,Haridwar, Rishikesh, VaishnoDevi, Jammu, Shirdi, Amritsar,Agra, Fetehpur Shikri,Amritsar, Shravan Belgola,Belantini Church,Nagpattanam etc, he said.

“The pilgrims under thisprogramme will be providedspecial travel equipments andguides along with them. Thereis also a provision of travelinsurance for the person goingon pilgrimage and they can alsotake an attendant along withthem during the journey,”Meena said. An agreement willbe signed between IRCTC andJharkhand TourismDevelopment Corporation forthe purpose he said.

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Having complet-ed the first

phase of Jan Ki Batcampaign by AJSUstarted Jan SandeshMarch on August 30by garlanding thestatue of martyrSudarshan Bhagatnear Kutchhery Mor.The membersreached to the mainpost office after paying tributes at the statues of Dr Bheem RaoAmbedkar and Veer Budhhu Bhagat. They posted as many as19743 post cards written to the CM.

On the occasion the central secretary Mahendra Mahto said,“The Local policy implemented by the state governmentseemed to be detached from welfare of the public. Being a respon-sible political party AJSU is trying to convey the message of thepublic.”

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In a bid to check practice ofhiring locals for replacing

teachers posted in schools inremote areas, Chief MinisterRaghubar Das on Tuesdaydirected all DeputyCommissioners to ensure thatAadhaar-photographs of allthe teachers posted in a par-ticular school gets displayed

there within a month. Das wasspeaking at Suchna Bhawanhere during a Seedhi BaatProgramme.

“All the DCs will ask theirDSEs to ensure that theAadhaar photographs of theteachers are displayed in thatschool within a month. It willenable students as well as theirparents to know about theteachers who are posted in thatparticular school,” said Das.There are reports that some ofthe teachers posted in remoteareas have hired locals from thenearby villages as their replace-ments by paying them minimalamount of �5 - 6 thousand or

so while they live at someother places, he added.

“Teaching work is extremelygetting stalled in these schools

due to such practices rampantin remote villages,” said theCM. Salaries of teachers mustbe stopped, who fail to do so ina month’s time, he added.

“Not only that, jail inmatesshould also be connected withAadhaar,” the CM said.

The matter was raised byone Gopikrishna Verma ofGiridih who complained thatchildren of Harodih UtkramitMadhya Vidyalaya were notgetting the facilities provided bythe State Government.

“The school timing hasalso been shortened to 1 pmfrom 10 AM against the actu-al timing of 8 am to 2 pm,” said

Verma. Despite the fact that vil-lagers made several complaintsat the block and district level,no action was taken againstanybody, he said.

The Chief Minister alsodirected Gumla DC to ensurethat not a single girl getstrapped by the mediators forexploitation.

“Arrange employment forthem in Gumla only and alsoarrest those persons who areindulged in trafficking of thesepoor girls,” said the CM. Healso passed a message to thesegirls that they need not go out-side the state as they will beprovided employment in the

here only. Das also appealed to Lalo

Kumari, who had come to lodgeher complaint with the CM, toexpose those who are indulgingin this business of trafficking.He directed Gumla Police totake immediate action againstthe persons whom Lalo Devihas named in her complaint.

The Chief Minister duringSeedhi Baat also providedimmediate relief of Rs 1 lakh toChinta Devi, wife of late ViptaRam who died back in the year1997 but the family, was yet toget their dues from the stategovernment. Ram was aBHALCO employee.

When the CM enquiredabout it, he was told that mat-ter was related to BiharGovernment, yet they weretalking to the officials in Biharin this regard. Looking at themonitory conditions of theChinta Devi, the CM gave heran immediate relief of Rs 1 lakh.

The CM also directedSaraikela-Kharsawan SP tolook into the murder case ofUttam Kumar, a student of NICJamshedpur, again and rein-vestigate the case from thebeginning. Das ensured thecomplainant that a high levelinquiry will be set up in thecase if required.

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Higher and TechnicalEducation Minister Neera

Yadav on Tuesday said that thequality of education should notbe compromised in order toincrease the Gross EnrolmentRatio (GER).

She was speaking at ameeting held to discuss themeasures for bringingJharkhand at par with otherstates in higher education andto increase the GrossEnrolment Ratio (GER) upto32 percent by 2022.

Notably, GER ofJharkhand in higher educationis 8.1 per cent in comparisonto the national GER which is19.4 per cent. The present sta-tus can be improved byimproving teacher studentratio, strengthening infra-structure and addressing othervital problems.

The Department SecretaryAjay Kumar Singh alongwithVice-Chancellors of all the fivevarsities, including the collegeprincipals and other represen-tatives attended the meeting.

Principals from differentcolleges present in the meetingbrainstormed on few majoragendas which included run-

ning classes in second shift,appointment of trained andqualified teachers to meet thestaff crunch in colleges, Wi-Fifacility at college campuses,including enhancement ofcomputer labs and establish-ment of language labs.

“At present, we need tofocus on imparting qualityeducation. In order to increasethe Gross Enrolment Ratio, thequality of education should notbe compromised. There areproblems in online-offlinemode of admission procedure,strengthening the existinginfrastructure. However, it canonly be sorted out with eachother’s cooperation. Soon,approximately 30 colleges of

five different universities willbe lashed with Wi-Fi facility infirst phase,” said the Higherand Technical EducationMinister. The minister willalso conduct a meeting withthe Jharkhand AcademicCouncil (JAC) officials on theissue of separating the inter-mediate sections from thedegree colleges soon. “Withinthree months, teachers will beappointed in all the highschools for different subjects.The department is makingconstant efforts to fill thevacant posts. Separating inter-mediate sections from col-leges will be decided at the ear-liest,” added Yadav.

“If there are no NET qual-

ified teachers, Ph.D holders toocan be considered for teachingfor the time being. Besides that,if JPSC is not addressing theproblem of teachers’ recruit-ment, University ServiceCommission will be estab-lished soon. Classes must beconducted in two shifts. Girlswill attend the classes in firstshift to ensure regularity. Tocomplete the syllabus, collegesmust conduct classes onSaturdays and Sundays also,”said Higher and TechnicalEducation Secretary AjoyKumar Singh. To meet thedemand of students in higherstudies, RU VC, RameshKumar Pandey in the meetingrequested the Principal of St.Xavier’s College, Ranchi toestablish another branch of St.Xavier’s College in the capitalcity. “Approximately, 45 thou-sand students apply for differ-ent courses every year. Lookingat the demand, a women’s col-lege has been established inLohardaga on PPP mode. Anew college too has been estab-lished at Simdega. As far as,GER is concerned, data is notbeing uploaded on time by sev-eral constituent colleges andthis is one major hindrance,”added Pandey.

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Kashyap Eye MemorialHospital in association

with Rani Children Hospitallaunched the drive ‘Roshni’on Tuesday. The drive targetspre-mature babies and pro-vides free check-ups, includingfree laser surgeries to suchkids with retina disorder.

The goal of ‘AbhiyaanRoshni’ is to identify thepreterm infants at risk ofRetinopathy of Pre-mature(ROP) and to provide freelaser and intra vitreal injectiontreatment to them.

Notably, out of approxi-mately 26 million annual livebirths in India, as many as twomillion newborns are at risk fordeveloping ROP. Timelyscreening and treatment ofROP can prevent blindness

and minimise visual handicaps.The drive was launched by

Health Minister of JharkhandRamchandra Chandravanshialong with Mayor Asha Lakraand Deputy Mayor SanjeevVijaywargia. “The state gov-

ernment will provide assis-tance to hospital for taking thisnobel initiative ahead. In orderto create awareness amongpeople, all measures will beadopted. Doctors from thishospital will also attend RIMS

at a regular interval,” the HealthMinister said.

Supporting the initiative,the Mayor and the DeputyMayor assured to organizecheck up camps at all the 55wards of state capital to detectsuch cases and to address theproblem with immediate effect.

“If check-up camps areorganized on regular basis cov-ering all the wards, the initia-tive will be successful. This isone major step to create aware-ness among people aboutROP,” said the Mayor.

Notably, below poverty linepre mature babies will be oper-ated for free of cost. “We havecollaborated with children hos-pitals in the capital city, includ-ing few child care specialists toreach maximum people.Through 532 Green Laser tech-niques kids are being treated.

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Chief Secretary RajbalaVerma directed that the

convergence program of RuralDevelopment Department,Agriculture Department andDrinking Water andSanitation Department shouldbe implemented throughSHGs. She said that agricul-tural equipments, purchaseof goat and poultry, makingsanitary napkin etc. should bedone by them. The CS wasaddressing a meeting withthe officials of Jharkhand StateLivelihood Promotion Societyon SHG formation and expan-sion on Tuesday.

Verma said that variousconversion schemes underDrinking Water and SanitationDepartment should be exe-cuted through SHGs and VOs.The government will transferfunds directly into the accountof SHGs for purchase of agri-cultural equipments, goat andpoultry. It should be noted thatthe SHGs are to be providedRs. 3498 lakh as revolvingfund which has been provid-ed to J.S.L.P.S. by the UnionGovt. She directed all the dis-trict officers to coordinatewith agricultural officers, ani-mal husbandry officers andKVK officers.

She directed the officials toselect one SHG in every pan-chayat for implementation ofschemes and panchayats inter-ested in it should be formedwith one. It should be notedthat 52,000 SHGs are to beformed in 7,000 villages in

122 blocks in 2016-17. Out ofthese, 37,000 SHGs have beenformed. She directed to employyouths of the state after beingskilled and invite proposalsfrom placement agencies. Shesaid to focus on migrant vil-lages of Simdega, Khunti andGumla and skill the youths.

Laying stress on the poten-tials of enterprises, the CS saidthat a special work plan shouldbe prepared for this purposeand schemes should be made toprepare sanitary napkins infive divisions so that schoolstudents can be provided withthem. She also directed tomake work-plan to supplydress through SHGs. She saidthat SHGs should be connect-ed with milk collection centerto promote dairy production inthe state. The department saidthat milk is being collected in1173 villages. She also laidstress on making work plan toconnect SHGs with micro-irri-gation and drip irrigation.

Regarding ODF, it wasdirected to survey 2,000 select-ed villages and make themODF through VOs. She saidthat the VOs will report districtlevel officers where toilets arethere and where they are want-ing after survey of the villages.

The meeting was alsoattended by PrincipalSecretary, Rural DevelopmentDepartment NN Sinha,Agriculture Secretar y Nitin Madan Kulkarni,Fisheries Secretary PoojaSinghal and other officials ofJharkhand State LivelihoodPromotion Society.

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In another decision, theCabinet approved JharkhandRajya Jal Vigyan Pariyojanaunder which the data of waterresources will be developed sys-tematically and Water andLand Management Institutewill also be constituted underthis programme. “With theavailability of data, better man-agement of ground and servicewater could be done and imple-mentation plan is being pre-pared for the same,” Meenasaid. The Cabinet also gave itsapproval to the proposed MoUto be signed between UnionMinistry of Civil Aviation,Jharkhand Government andAirports Authority of IndiaLimited under the guidelinesissued under National CivilAviation Policy – 2016 regard-ing the State Government’scommitment to promoteregional communication.

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stands with India on all mattersof terrorism, no matter whereit comes from.

“It’s crystal clear we are onthe same view over it,” he said.The visiting leader reiteratedthe US support to India’sdemand that Pakistan takeaction against attackersinvolved in the Mumbai attacksand terrorist strike on thePathankot airbase.

Kerry said, “It is vital thatPakistan join with othernations in tackling this chal-lenge, and in fairness, in recentweeks and months they havebeen moving more authorita-tively.” Swaraj said the twocountries agreed that nationsmust not maintain double stan-dards, such as the categorisa-tion of good and bad terrorists,nor must they act as sanctuar-ies and safe havens for terror-ist organisations. Kerry said, “Imade it very clear that theUnited States stands in strongpartnership with India againstall terrorism no matter fromwhere it comes from, no mat-ter what form it takes. As I saidthere is no good terrorists,

bad terrorists. Terrorism is ter-rorism. We have had conver-sation with all of the membersof the region frankly about theefforts they need to take to curbterrorism that comes out oftheir countries.”

Stating that they haveinteracted with Pakistan inone way or the other, Kerrysaid, “I have recently spoken tothe Prime Minister andGeneral Raheel Sharif regard-ing the need for Pakistan todeprive any group sanctuaries.It is well known that theHaqqani network and othersoperated out of the westernpart of the country. LeT, we allknow and we all spoken outagainst, had an impact onIndia, directly.” The two coun-tries agreed to boost theircounter-terrorism cooperationby enhancing intelligence shar-ing, screening of terrorists,exchange of information onknown or suspected terror-ists. They also agreed to con-tinue to work closely to get ter-rorist entities listed by the UNsystem, by coordinating theapproach to the UN 1267Committee. Noting that tiesbetween the two countries inthe sphere of defence, energyand security had deepened,Kerry said the US was lookingforward to finalise a cyberframework that will help thetwo countries protect fromnew global cyber threats.

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The two-member panel, con-stituted by the State

Government, to probe into thepolice firing on the protesterskilling two persons at Gola inRamgarh, began the investiga-tion on Tuesday.

The panel comprisingHazaribagh DivisionalCommissioner Dr PradeepKumar and DIG UpendraKumar reached there and wentstraight into talks with theinjured and eyewitnesses.

Talking to The Pioneer overphone after the visit head of theteam Dr Pradeep Kumar hint-ed the line of the report goingto be in the case. “We tookstatements of the villagers andthe policemen present there atthe time of incident.

It looks obvious that themob went out of control andresorted to heavy stone peltingat the police personnel. This costone eye of the BDO while 15policemen and as many as fiveother officials got injured. First,the police lathi charged, andthen fired in air before openingfire to disperse the mob,” said theDivisional Commissioner.

Similar version also camefrom the DIG who informedabout the flashpoint and added

that cases have been registeredat Rajrappa and Gola police sta-tions relating to the bloodyincident which caused twodeaths. However, unconfirmedreports coming in on Tuesdaysuggested that two more bodieshave been found from the bat-tleground. Following the inci-dent Chief Minister RaghubarDas had ordered to form thecommittee and directed tosubmit its report within a week.

The Commissioner saidfurther that the probe team hadrecorded statements of 25-30people and talked to over 100others about the incident. “Weare returning to Ranchi.Tomorrow, we would go to theinjured admitted in the RIMSand also to the policemen get-ting treated at Medanta inRanchi. Our efforts would be towork on daily basis and presentthe report to the Government

in time,” said Dr PradeepKumar.

Meanwhile, managementof Inland Power has sent an SoSto the district administration torestore its damaged intake welland other facilities. “The inci-dent caused severe damage toour properties and machiner-ies. Pipes of intake well havebeen damaged which hasstopped water supply to theplant. We have water availablejust for today and if it is notrestored by Wednesday, wemay even go for a shut down,”said a top official of the powerplant providing 63 MW ofpower to the State.

He further added that pettypolitics and vested interest ofsome local contactors haddamaged the ‘excellent rela-tions’ of the villagers with theplant that was commissioned inRamgarh district in May 2014.

“Talks with villages were on atBDO office but a local con-tractor, who was running histrucks for the company that gotdiscontinued later on, gotadamant that the talks wouldtake place at plant site so thata large crowd can be gatheredand disturbance can be creat-ed. It was pre-planned. We havebeen meeting all the commit-ments made to the villagesand have had excellent rapportwith them,” said Sanjay Singh,DGM with Inland Power.

The company also main-tained that since the entireland involved was purchaseddirectly from ‘raiyats’ therewas no question of any reha-bilitation and agreementsreached were on individualbasis. “We have provided dailywages jobs to 283 unskilledlocals and helping with teachersalary to schools. Water facili-ty to Bhavni Tola and Bariyatuis being provided. But how cana company build roads orschool buildings of its own?Some local leaders have mis-guided the villages so that theplant gets shut down,” he said.

Moreover, as expected pol-itics has also started on thematter. Congress sent a dele-gation to Gola comprising PCCchief Sukhdeo Bhagat andMLA Alamgir Alam whileLeader of Opposition HemantSoren, who met some of thevictims at his residence, isplanning to visit the place onWednesday.

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The Centre has praised the State forimplementing public fund manage-

ment system (PFMS) and the progressmade in this regard. Union FinanceSecretary Ashok Lavasa while holding ameeting with all the Finance Secretaries ofthe country through videoconferencingunderlined the works done by the StateGovernment.

Informing about this, Additional ChiefSecretary, Finance, cum DevelopmentCommissioner Amit Khare said on Tuesdaythat the State had been able to computerised

all the 32 trea-suries.

“We arefor the firsttime going toset up cybertreasury in theState. Mappingof all the 71 centrally sponsored schemeshas been completed two months ahead ofthe deadline October 30. Out of 90,000implementing agencies 68,230 have beenregistered so far while the rest would bedone by October 30. We have also set upthe Chief Secretary headed State Advisory

Group and Project Management Groupunder Finance Secretary Satyendra Singh,”said Khare.

The Union Finance Secretary whilelauding the State stressed that speedyimplementation of PFMS would ensuretransparency in financial management atevery level, situation of fund can be knownand just in time release of the fund can bemanaged besides, submission of the utili-sation certificate. The officials also assuredabout financial assistance in the tune of Rs39.33 crore sought by the State for softwareupgradation in treasuries. Senior officialswere also present in the meeting.

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Third converter in the steelmaking facility of state-of-

the-art IISCO Steel Plant atBurnpur successfully complet-ed hot-trial on Tuesday after-noon. Having a capacity of 150Tons and identical to other twoconverters already in operation,this addition will ramp upconsistent production of steelto the rated capacity, PR offi-cial informed.

The hot trial run was wit-nessed today by Chief

Executive OfficerRajesh KumarRathi, ED (P&A)Mrinal KantiB a r m a n ,E D ( W o r k s )Pawan KumarSingh, Director(Technology) of MECON S RSengupta, all GeneralManagers, a large gathering ofsenior officials and employeesand consortium partners.

“Commencement of steelmaking from this converter willdrastically reduce the down-

time in steel making by ensur-ing availability of two convert-ers at any time,” said CEORajesh Kumar Rathi calling ita landmark achievement for theISP collective. The converterhas been built by SMS Siemag,Germany.

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Prominent educationistsDr Ashok Singh, Principal ofChinmaya Vidyalaya SchoolBokaro has been selected forNational Teacher’s Award. Hewill get the award on 5September at New Delhi,school authority informed.

For his outstanding con-tribution in the field of educa-tion Dr Ashok was earlier felic-itated with the prestigious

‘Chinmaya Gaurav Award’ and‘Bharat Gaurav Award’. He alsoawarded with ‘Bharat VidyaShiromani Award’ by theIndian Solidarity Council.Inthe year 2013 he became thebrand ambassadors of BritishCouncil and the ChinmayaVidyalaya Bokaro became‘School Ambassador’ for theBritish Council. “I am veryhonored and grateful to havebeen selected for this award,” hesaid.

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Lalit Kumar Das, a managerin HR department of Tata

Steel and son of Chief MinisterRaghubar Das on Tuesdaypromised to give a facelift toRajkiyakrit Harijan UchhaVidyalaya in Bhalubasa, theschool where the CM got hisprimary education.

The 28-year-old LalitKumar Das visited the schooland promised to improve thebasic amenities through hisNGO ‘Samarpan’.

“I am very excited to behere. Whenever my father vis-its city he speaks about theschool. I remember my fatherused his MLA fund for the newbuilding of the school (G+2)last year. I decided to arrangein resources both from my

NGO and alsospeak toadministrativeofficials toensure that stu-dents at theschool have thebasic amenitiesin place beforethe end of thisyear,” said LalitKumar Daswho is the con-vener ofSamarpan.

The Rajkiyakrit HarijanMadhya Vidyalaya has been inexistence since 1935 has on itsroll 187 boys and 245 girls andhas classes till eight. While theRajkiyakrit Harijan UchhaVidyalaya (class 9 and 10) hason its rolls 135 girls and 98 boys.

Lalit Kumar Das who wasaccompanied by JamshedpurEast MLA’s (Raghubar Das)representative Pawan KumarAgarwal listened to the griev-ances from the headmistress ofthe middle school, SashikantaMinz and principal of high

school, Rana Binod KumarSingh. He also interacted withthe students and motivatedthem.

“We want better safetyarrangements. We have gotthe buildings but there are nogrills which is required so thatsmall children are safe. Thereis no kitchen shed forcing us tokeep the utensils used to keepand distribute mid-day mealsin the classrooms. There is noproper water supply in the toi-lets We also require a libraryand computers,” said the head-mistress of the middle school.

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In a shocking incident, ateam from Anti-Corruption

Bureau (ACB) on Tuesdaynabbed a junior engineer ofJharkhand Urja Vikas NigamLimited (JUVNL) at Mosabaniin Ghatshila while taking bribefrom a customer.

The junior engineer iden-tified as Rafique Alam wasposted at the JUVNL'sGhatshila sub-division. He wascaught while accepting �4,000from one Vimal Agrawal atMosabani in the Ghatshilasub-division this morning.

Alam (32) who stays at aGhatshila-based lodge wasnabbed by the ACB team atDVC power sub-station officein Mosabani where the bribewas being accepted at 11:30 am.

Deputy superintendent ofpolice, ACB, Jamshedpurbureau, Amar Pandey saidAgrawal who is a resident ofGhatshila has set up a play-school at Galudih. He wantedto get a power connection tohis play-school named Sand-fort Play School.

"As per our investigationAgrawal had applied for thepower connection for his play-school at the JUVNL'sGhatshila office recently, butAlam who was assigned toprocess the application andrecommend for the powerconnection demanded �10,000from him.

Finally, the deal was fixedat �4,000 which was supposed

to be handed over to thejunior engineer at the DVCsub-station off ice inMosabani," said Pandey.

The DSP, ACB said thatAgrawal had already regis-tered a verbal complaintabout the junior engineer'sdemand for providing thepower connection, but afterdeal was fixed, he submitteda written complaint with theACB office in Sonari.

"We made a plan to nabthe culprit red-handed. So wesmeared a chemical in thebundle of 100 rupees noteswhich was to be handed overto Alam, as the complainanthanded over the bundle ofnotes to the junior engineer,the ACB team which wasaround entered the DVC officeand nabbed the junior engi-neer," Pandey said.

He pointed out that theyplunged the right hand of theaccused in water, which turnedred due to the chemical effectand soon afterward theyarrested the JUVNL official.

Alam has been taken awayto the ACB headquarters inRanchi. Meanwhile, superin-tending engineer, Jamshedpurcircle, JUVNL, RB Mishra con-firmed that he was aware aboutthe arrest by the ACB team.

"We are aware of the devel-opment and it is a matter ofshame that an officer of ourorganisation was arrested whiletaking bribe," said Mishra.

He said the guilty juniorengineer should be punishedsternly for misusing his power.

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Concerned over rising casesof road mishaps involving

teenagers, the East Singhbhumtraffic police have directed alltraffic police posts to increaseduration of surprise checkdrive against bikers involved inrash driving or driving withouthelmets in city.

Traffic DSP VivekanandaThakur said, “We are con-cerned over rising cases ofroad mishaps involving youth.We have asked all the five traf-fic police stations in the city toconduct surprise checks at dif-ferent locations throughoutthe day till evening. It isobserved that school and col-lege students mostly indulge inrash driving and also drivewithout helmets while going toinstitutions and we hope toinstill a sense of fear and helpthem adhere to traffic rules".

Incidentally, earlier the sur-prise checking drive used to beconducted for few hours (max-imum two-three hours) till after-noon at various traffic police sta-tions and there was hardly anychecking on traffic violators inthe evening or morning.

The traffic DSP said thatthe drive being carried whilecoordinating with the policepatrolling team deputed (22PCR vans) deputed at variousstrategic points in city andalso with local police stationspatrolling team to catch suchoffenders.

When a van notices anybikes indulging in stunt onroad like criss-crossing they

note down the number andimmediately inform throughwireless to the traffic officialsat various checking points.

According to officials inMotor Vehicle Inspection unit,the fine for riding without hel-mets as per MVI Act is �300and those found indulging inrash driving will be fined�1,000.

Directive was issued to allthe senior police officials in thedistrict to instruct all police sta-tions to prepare a list of ‘habit-ual offenders’ in their respec-tive areas along with recom-mendations for action againstthem as per law.

School students drivingbikes without traffic normsand performing stunts wouldhenceforth be levied maxi-mum fines (ranging between�3000 and �4000) and simul-taneously parents of these stu-dents would also be informedby district police.

District traffic police wereasked to undertake drivesagainst use of mobile phonesduring driving and levy maxi-mum fines from offenders(�1000 for each offence).

“The sudden rise in theroad mishap is a matter of greatconcern and steps are beingtaken to curb the menace.” saidan official

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The Musalim Muhallah of Bagodar area reeledunder a shock wave following the recovery

of bodies of a woman and her child from a adjoin-ing well this morning.The bodies identified asLaxami Devi and her 7 month old daughterKhushi Kumari. The bodies were recovered by

the police when it was spotted by their familymembers who later informed Bagodar officer -in charge Rajiv Kumar. The reason for death isyet to be ascertained. However Rajeev Kumarinformed that the woman and her daughter couldhave been drowned in the well in an inebriatedcondition. However the police are also lookingat suicide and murder angle into the incident.

Daltonganj: Indian railwaysgive just �1,000 for disposal ofunidentified victims got killedon railway tracks. Such victimsare kept for 72 hours for iden-tification and when none turnsup to enquire, the GRP dis-poses the body.

Officer-in-charge of GRPDaltonganj thana MukeshKumar said, “The railways give�1,000 for the disposal. It is toosmall a fund for disposal. Thelast rites of the victims cannotbe any decent. We give ourmoney for disposal.”

GRP official further said,“Our expenses on such dispos-al are too big. Sweeper is engagedto collect the mutilated parts ofthe body of the deceased fromthe tracks. Sweeper is paid incash. Then the pieces of the bodyare wrapped in any cloth. Clothis bought from the market. Thenit is sent to the post mortem andafter post mortem the body isdisposed of.” He added that nocremation of the bodies aredone, “as we cannot afford theprice of wood meant for crema-tion. All such unidentified vic-tims are buried in pit dug bylabourers invariably near theriver irrespective of their faithand religion.” Daltonganj GRPhas its range from Japla toBarwadeeh more nearly 110Kms in stretch and unidentifiedvictim on the railway tracks isfirst brought to Daltonganj bytrain be it passenger or thegoods train and then the for-malities are performed. PNS

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Saria sub-divisional policeofficer on Tuesday arrested

six cattle smugglers from Saria–Bagodar road near Saria col-lage under the same police sta-tion. Police also seized one con-tainer truck and one Scorpio(JH 02-7689 ) laden with 32cattle and Rs 55000 from theirpossession, said Deepak KumarSharma, the SDPO.

According to reports theSaria police Inspector and oth-ers police forces headed by theSDPO were tipped off thatone container truck laden withabout cattle were heading forJamua to Babughat Kolkata.

The police laid a trap nearSaria collage and on sighting itthe police succeeded in nab-bing six persons identified Md

Mohmood alias Mannu ofJamua area while five others areAmzad Khan, Mehraz Khan,Gujra Khan, Tosif Khan andKapil Khan.

The SDPO said the arrest-ed persons were involved in theillegal cattle smuggling in theregion.

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Road Transport and High-ways Minister Nitin Gadkari

on Tuesday said that the draftvehicle scrapping policy wouldoffer a combined benefit of�14,000 crore to the Centre andStates, and drive the auto indus-try growth by 22 per cent.

Gadkari said that the pro-posed Voluntary Vehicle FleetModernisation Programme (V-VMP) aims to scrap heavyvehicles that are more than 15years old in the first phase andits draft would be sent to theCabinet soon. “The CentralGovernment will benefit by�4,000 crore and StateGovernments will benefit by�10,000 crore, while automo-bile industry will grow by 22per cent,” Gadkari said duringhis address at the annual meeting of AutomobileComponent ManufacturersAssociation of India (ACMA).

Gadkari had met FinanceMinister Arun Jaitley in thisregard and policy is beingfinalised by taking into con-sideration the latter’s sugges-tions too. Gadkari said it wouldbe formulated in such a fash-ion that those surrenderingtheir old vehicles will get somefinancial benefits.

“At the time of new pur-chase, manufacturer will offersome concession, Governmentof India will provide some andthere would be value for thescrap,” he said.

The Road TransportMinister further informed thatthe policy would curb pollutionas 65 per cent of the vehicularpollution is caused by heavyvehicles like trucks and busesand scrapping of these will bedone at industrial clusters likeKandla to be set up under theGovernment’s ambitiousSagarmala project.

The draft V-VMP policyhad earlier proposed to bring

vehicles bought on or beforeMarch 31, 2005, numberingabout 28 million, under itspurview. Gadkari had thensaid the benefits of the policyinclude additional net revenueof over �21,000 crore onaccount of additional automobile sales, besides crudeoil savings of �7,700 crore due to improved fuel efficiency.

Once the policy is finalised,it is estimated to result indomestic steel scrap generationworth �5,500 crore to substituteimported scrap, he said addingthat it would create hugeemployment. According to theMinistry, the proposed policyhas the potential to reducevehicular emission by 25-30per cent and save oil con-sumption by 3.2 billion litres ayear.

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Throwing money at dancebar girls is an insult to dig-

nity of women, the SupremeCourt said on Tuesday as it setout to examine the validity ofa set of fresh conditionsimposed by the MaharashtraGovernment for granting per-mission to open dance bars inthe State.

One of the conditions ofthe new law introduced by theState Government to regulatedance bars imposed restrictionson throwing of coins or cur-rency notes at the dancers dur-ing their performance.

Commenting on it, theBench of Justices Dipak Misraand C Nagappan said, “Primafacie we feel this provisionshows respect for women. Thisdignifies decency and cultureand it would protect women. Aperson watching a dance at a

dance bar cannot be allowed tothrow coin or currency notes atbar girls. It is against their dig-nity.”

The Bench noted thatthrowing of coins in a cinemahall is quite different from

throwing coins at a performer asthere is a certain dignity attachedwith a professional performancecarried out by a bar dancer.Although the dance bar ownersmaintained that the currencythrown was a tip, the Bench

refused to buy the argument.But there were a host of

other conditions contained inthe Maharashtra Prohibition ofObscene Dance in Hotels,Restaurants and Bar Roomsand Protection of Dignity of

Women (Working therein) Act,2016, on which neither thebench nor the association ofdance bar owners agreed withthe State. For instance, thebench was critical about thestate imposing curbs on priva-cy of bar girls by installingCCTVs inside the dance bars.The Court issued notice toMaharashtra Government toseek their response on thisaspect. The Court also found ithard to accept yet anothercondition in the Act that barredserving of liquor at the placewhere dance is performed. The

state argued that such a provi-sion will help curb obscenity.

Senior advocate JayantBhushan, who appeared for thedance bar owners, submittedthat every attempt was beingmade by the State Governmentto frustrate the reopening of thedance bars, as ordered by theSupreme Court in 2013. Hepointed out a clause in the newAct that restrained bar girlsemployed at one bar to performat other bars. Giving the Statesix weeks to respond to eachobjection, the bench fixed thematter for hearing in October.

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Ultrasound and imaging ser-vices like CT scan and

MRI are likely to be affectedacross the country onSeptember 1 with over 13,000radiologists planning to go onstrike over their demand toamend the PC&PNDT (Pre-Conception and Pre-NatalDiagnostic Techniques Act-1994) Act.

Asserting that they do nothave even a "remote connectionwith sex determination," theradiologists alleged that theywere being "harassed" even forminor clerical errors whichwere being considered equal tosex determination.

The closedown of serviceson Thursday is expected to befollowed by an indefinite strikefrom the next day, unless theGovernment steps in to resolve

their concerns, Dr OP Bansal,President of IndianRadiological and ImagingAssociation (IRIA) said at apress conference here.

The PC & PNDT Act (Pre-Conception & Pre-NatalDiagnostic Techniques(Prohibition of Sex SelectionAct, 1994) prohibits genderdetermination of the baby to beborn through techniques likeultasonography, a move meantto ensure the birth of a girlchild.

"However, under thePC&PNDT Act, non-uniformimplementation have resultedin sealing of many ultrasoundmachines depriving radiologistof their livelihood and havingto face criminal proceedings incourt on minor clerical mis-takes," Bansal said.

Dr Jignesh Thakker,national coordination PNDT,IRIA said that though they hadbeen passing the informationabout the black sheep in theirprofession, nothing was donein actual. Rather, honest radi-ologists who had nothing to do

with illegal practices are beingraided in the name of imple-menting the Act.

Thakker said that the IRIAwants the Government to"decriminalise" their profes-sion and have a gradedapproach to punishment withminor clerical errors like notwearing an apron or not keep-ing a copy of the Act beingpunished with smaller penal-ties, rather than raids and con-fiscation of equipment.

Asserting that they werenot advocating gender deter-mination, Thakker suggestedthat the Government "co-relate" PNDT and the MedicalTermination of Pregnancy(MTP) Act, so they are able totrack development of the babytill it is born, even as they pro-tect the privacy of the motherand family.

He said that during thestrike the emergency and in-hospital services and theIntensive Care Units wouldcontinue to function. No emer-gency cases will be deniedthough, he adds.

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The Congress and the CPI (M) onTuesday expressed serious concern

over India’s national, geo global andstrategic interests following the sign-ing of the LEMOA (‘Logistic ExchangeMemorandum of Agreement) betweenIndia and United States.

The Congress in a statement saidsigning of LEMOA is a fundamentaldeparture from India’s time testedpolicy of ‘strategic military neutrality’.“It raises a genuine and grave appre-hension regarding India being unwar-rantedly drawn into an operational mil-itary design in Asia Pacific Region andMiddle East. This Agreement will alsocause serious misgivings, unlessexplained and justified, among India’straditional partners and time testedallies, regionally and globally,” saidAICC chief spokesperson RandeepSurjewala.

Surjewala said Modi governmenthas neither explained the reasonswhich prompted this major shift normade the contents of the agreement

public. “Congress demands that con-tents of the agreement be placed inpublic domain or at least shared withleadership of opposition parties as thisdecision has been taken in an opaquemanner by stealth as also unilaterallywithout National consensus,” he added.

The CPI(M) polit bureau in a state-ment said the Modi Government hascompromised Indian sovereignty andsurrendered autonomy. “By signingsuch an agreement, India has acquiredthe formal status of a military ally ofthe US. Under this agreement, the USairforce and navy can use Indian navaland air bases for logistics support, refu-eling and services on a regular basis.The US armed forces can utilise Indianmilitary bases while conducting mili-tary operations in third countries,” theCPI(M) said.

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To create awareness aboutsanitation, the Government

will soon launch a �4.70-crorecampaign ‘Asli Tarakki’ where-in 450 youth ambassadors willbe tasked to promote objectivesof its flagship Swachch BharatMission (SBM) across five citiesin the National Capital Region.

The selected youth withcommunication skills and lead-ership qualities as lead moti-vators will spread the messageof benefits of having and usingtoilet besides disseminatingGovernment’s support beingdoled out under the Mission,said a senior official from theUrban Development Ministry.

The Ministry, which isentrusted with the task to imple-ment the SBM in urban areas, onTuesday inked a pact with NehruYuvak Kendra in the presence ofMinister of Urban DevelopmentVenkaiah Naidu and Minister ofState for Urban DevelopmentRao Inderjit Singh.

The MoU was signed byPraveen Prakash, JointSecretary on behalf of theMinistry and Major GeneralDilawar Singh, DirectorGeneral of Nehru YuvakKendra. Rajiv Gupta, Secretary(Youth Affairs) was also presenton the occasion.

As per the MoU, NYK willdeploy 50 enthusiastic, experi-enced in public speaking, moti-vated and educated youth for52 days each of the five munic-ipal areas of Delhi (NDMC,NMCD, SMCD, EMCDandDelhi Cantonment), Faridabad,Gurgaon, Ghaziabad andNoida for a mass awarenessmovement for successfulimplementation of SwachhBharat Mission.

The 450 youth will be

engaged to spread the messageof ‘Asli Tarakki’ suggesting thathaving and using toilet shouldbe a major priority and ask cit-izens to give feedback on dif-ferent components of ‘SwachhSurvekshan-2017’ launchedearlier this month.

They will also encouragepeople to take Swachh BharatPledge for a clean India and toinform targeted beneficiariesabout the government supportfor building individual, com-munity and public toilets.

Four chariots will bedeployed in each of the ninemunicipal areas with bannersand posters on sanitation, pub-lic address system for address-ing people on key issues withfacilities for showing audio-visual films and for distributionof IEC material.

Naidu asked for its successso that it could be replicated inother parts of the country. Atotal of 23,400 man days wouldbe spent promoting the Missionobjectives in urban areas.

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The National Green Tribunal (NGT) onTuesday directed the Environment Ministry

for information on the status of implementationof its stop work order on the Polavaram project.The dam across the Godavari River is under con-struction in Andhra Pradesh and its reservoir inparts of Chhattisgarh and Odisha.

A bench headed by NGT Chairperson JusticeSwatanter Kumar asked the Ministry to submit astatus report on the project and the OfficeMemorandum issued by it for stopping thework, by next week. The next date of hearing hasbeen fixed on September 5.

The counsel appearing on behalf of theMinistry, however, sought further time to followthe instructions. The bench claimed that "in theinterest of justice, we grant last opportunity mak-ing it clear that in the event of default, the con-cerned Officer of the Ministry shall be presentbefore the Tribunal on the next date of hearing."

The ministry had issued stop-work order in2011 due to non-compliance of the condition forenvironment clearance that is by conducting apublic hearing in Chhattisgarh and Odisha. Butthe Environment Ministry last year decided tokeep the stop work order in abeyance for a year,which expired in June this year.

The Centre on Tuesdayapproved 16 highway pro-

jects in 11 States to be exe-cuted at a cost of �7,457 crore.Road Transport and HighwaysSecretary Sanjay Mitra saidthat the standing finance com-mittee (SFC) cleared 16 pro-jects worth �7,456.88 crore for622 km. The projects are inMaharashtra, Odisha, WestBengal, Andhra Pradesh,Gujarat, Chhattisgarh,Haryana, Uttarakhand,Arunachal Pradesh, Assamand Sikkim. Mitra said two ofthe projects pertained to CharDham Yatra connectivity inUttarakhand on EPC mode.Mitra said projects would bebid out shortly while work onthem would start after acquisition of 90 per centland.

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Athree-judge Bench of theSupreme Court hearing the

fate of hundreds of medical stu-dents stuck in the Vyapamscam was faced with an embar-rassing situation after its orderseeking clarification on a splitverdict, rendered by a two-judge Bench, was returned onTuesday with a notice that sucha reference amounted to “intra-court appeal” that cannot bemade under the Constitution orany law in the country.

The three-judge Bench,headed by Justice JS Khehar, hadon July 28, 2016 sought a clar-ification from a bench of JusticesJ Chelameswar and AbhayManohar Sapre on whether theorder passed by the latter onMay 12, 2016 provided scope forrehearing the entire matter. Thetwo-judge Bench’s order creat-ed confusion in the minds of thelarger bench as both judgesagreed that the students whotook admission in the MBBS

course in Madhya Pradesh from2008-12 used illegal means butin its final conclusion, onejudge quashed their degreeswhile the other suggested thatdegrees could be handed over tothe students on the conditionthat they serve in hospitals runby armed forces for a five-yearperiod.

Dealing with the referenceorder, the Bench of JusticesChelameswar and Sapre in theircommon order said, “We com-

pletely fail to understand thereference made to Article 145(5)of the Constitution in the orderdated July 28…a rehearing ofthe entire matter as apparentlysuggested to the larger bench, inour opinion, would amount toan intra-court appeal…neitherthe Constitution of India norany other law of this countryprovides an intra-court appealinsofar as Supreme Court isconcerned.”

The Bench said that its

order of May 12 was “concur-rent” on the finding that theexamination process conduct-ed by Vyapam for 2008 to2012 was vitiated as regards theappellant students as they stoodbenefitted from such vitiatedprocess. The only point of dif-ference, according to the benchwas on whether the affectedstudents, numbering almost634, should be disentitled toretain the benefits of the five-year medical training they

obtained as a result of such a“tainted” examination process.

Wondering how there canbe scope for re-hearing of thematter which already standssettled by them, the two judgebench went on to State, “If thelarger Bench of this court wish-es to create such an intra-court appeal, we obviously arepowerless to stop it. We canonly record our understandingof the law on the question.”

This order will now belisted before the three-judgebench where the court isexpected to hear on the limit-ed scope whether the studentscan retain their medical degreeshaving gone through the rig-orous five years of medicaltraining. The lawyers for theaggrieved students had sub-mitted that this could be pos-sible if the court moulds reliefunder Article 142, the all-encompassing Constitutionalpower that enables SupremeCourt to do complete justice inany case.

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Kerala’s CPI(M)-led LDFGovernment will launch an

extensive housing scheme,Home for All, and other ambi-tious programmes as part of itscompletion of 100 days inpower. A meeting of the LDFleadership held inThiruvananthapuram onTuesday took the decisionabout the schemes to be intro-duced on the occasion. TheLDF Government will com-plete 100 days of rule onThursday.

As per the Government’sestimates, 4,00,000 houses willhave to be built under the‘Home for All’ scheme for peo-ple belonging to four cate-gories: Those with no land orhouses, those who own onlyland, those who live in shacksin plantation and fishing sec-tors and those whose housesare unlivable. The plan is tocomplete the scheme in a time-bound manner.

Marxist Chief MinisterPinarayi Vijayan explained theschemes to be initiated on theoccasion to the participants inthe meeting. The plan is tobuild flats in places where landavailability is less and to con-struct houses for those in thefishing and plantation sectorsin areas where they are work-ing. People with no land tobuild houses will be providedwith land also.

A Haritha Keralam (Green

Kerala) scheme will also be ini-tiated on the occasion by con-necting effective waste man-agement and organic vegetablefarming. Another schemeenvisaged on the occasion is forstrengthening the public distribution system. The plan is to implement all theseschemes with the support ofmass campaigns.

Meanwhile, the Congress-led Opposition UDF unleasheda scathing attack against theLDF Government on Tuesdayat the dharnas it had organisedat the district collectorates toprotest against the “anti-people”policies of the State and Centralgovernments.

Opposition leader RameshChennithala, who inauguratedthe dharna in Alappuzha,alleged that the AKG Centre,State headquarters of theCPI(M), had turned into aparallel Secretariat under theLDF regime while former chiefminister Oommen Chandysaid in Kottayam that theGovernment had failed in con-trolling the prices of essentialcommodities.

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The Rhino Horn VerificationCommittee (RHVC) insti-

tuted by the AssamGovernment to verify the hornsof one-horned rhinos in thecustody of the Assam forestdepartment and different trea-suries of the State on Tuesdaystumbled upon one of thelargest rhino horns in the world.

The RHVC members foundwhile verifying the horns keptin the custody of treasury atNagaon district on Tuesday,the committee members said

adding that the particular rhinohorn weighed 3.051 kg and itsheight is 36 cm. “The outer cur-vature length of the horn is 45cm, inner curvature is 38 cmwhile the base circumference is60 cm,” said the committeemembers while adding that theparticular horn was found inBagori range of the Kaziranganational park in August 1982.

The committee memberssaid that there is another hornof one-horned rhino at BritishMuseum in London, whichhas the record height of 60 cm.“The horn kept in British

museum was recovered fromAssam and it was kept in themuseum since 1909. However,there is no mention of theweight of that horn,” the RHVCmembers said on Tuesday.

“The Committee onTuesday verified 210 rhinohorns, of which 206 werebrought from Nagaon trea-sury, three from Jorhat treasuryand one horn from Diphutreasury,” it said adding that the22 horns kept in Morigaontreasury will be taken up forexamination tomorrow.

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that the Committee had alreadycompleted verifying the hornsstored in the Golaghat andMangaldai treasury. While thecommittee verified 1,195 RhinoHorns kept in Golaghat treasury,the committee found five fakerhino horns while verifying the56 rhino horns kept in the cus-tody of Mangaldai treasury.

The Committee also didnot open a box belonging to theSonitpur(West) division whichsaid to have contained threerhino horns because the boxseal was found broken and keysof the locks were missing.

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ASub-Inspector of police,who had taken the charge

of his post only three days agocommitted suicide on Tuesday.K Sridhar Sub-Inspector ofPolice at Kermeri police sta-tion in Adilabad district shothimself in the wee hours onTuesday, police official said.

Alerted by the sound ofgun fire in the residential quar-ter of the SI, servant rushedinside to find him in a pool ofblood.

On getting the informationthe policemen reached thescene and took him to theGovernment hospital atKermameri where he suc-cumbed to his injuries.

Police said Sridhar, who

was a bachelor and stayed in aquarter within the premises ofthe police station, shot a singlebullet from his service revolverin his temple.

Two additionalSuperintendents of Police GRRadhika and Vijayakumar con-ducted a preliminary inquiry into the incident and reached theconclusion that it was a case ofsuicide. “There was apparent-ly no reason for him to takesuch a extreme step”, saidVijayakumar.

Sridhar who hailed fromAvunuru village of Mustabadmandal in Karimnagar districthad undergone three monthstraining as a probationary offi-cer before he was posted as thesub inspector in Kermeri onlythree days ago.

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After the recent success ofscramjet engine, Antrix

Corporation, the commercialsubsidiary of Indian SpaceResearch Organisation (ISRO)is gearing up to launch 68 smallsatellites riding piggy back onits workhorse, Polar SatelliteLaunch Vehicle (PSLV) in thenext six months. RakeshSasibhushan, Chairman-cum-Manaing Director of Antrix,said in Bengaluru that ISROwould launch 68 satellites withPSLV by early next year.

He said ''We plan to sendup PSLV early next year with 68satellites on board,'' he said.

To a question over reserva-tions of US Congress over Indianspace programmes and Antrixinviting commercial flights offer-ing its launch vehicles, saying thatIndian space launches were sub-sidized by the Government,Sasibhushan replied that Antrixwas not bothered.

''Every Indian space pro-gramme is subsidised by theGovernment. It is not that USspace launches or those fromother (space faring) countries

are are not subsidised (by thoseGovernments). We need notanswer all those questions. Weare doing our programmesand competing with the world.We will try to be more com-petitive and that will providethe answer,'' he stated.

ISRO has created a recordthrough its 36th flight of PSLV-C34 in July this year when itsuccessfully launched the 727.5kg Cartosat-2 Series Satellitealong with 19 co-passengersatellites from its spaceport inSriharikota. It is the 35th con-secutively successful mission ofPSLV. The total weight of all the20 satellites carried on-boardPSLV-C34 was 1288 kg.

Sasibhushan said PSLV wasvery commercially competi-tive and it was the reason it hadattracted interest among manycountries and organisationswhich wanted their own satel-lites in the space. On futureprogrammes connected withAntrix, he said GSLV will beready for commercial opera-tions but number of launchesof the heavier launch vehiclewill be less compared to PSLV.

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and readiness of Cryogenicengines for GSLV. We are alsolooking for commercial opera-tions (for GSLV) but thelaunches of these heavier rock-ets will be less compared toPSLV because of the Cryogenicengine and difficulties in man-ufacturing them. We do nothave that much opportunity onGSLV, but we are on the look-out for commercial opportuni-ty for GSLV also,'' Sasibhushansaid.

According to ISRO theorders include contracts fromUS weather forecasting satellitecompany, PlanetiQ, which hassigned a deal to launch 12 satel-lites on India’s PSLV by 2017and a heavier earth observationsatellite by an unnamed cus-tomer. ISRO so far, haslaunched 74 satellites for for-eign customers, including theUS, Israel, Singapore andBritain.

ISRO will witnessincreased competition forlaunch business from playerssuch as SpaceX, BlueOrigin,Rocket Lab and Firefly Systems,who will begin to offer servicesfrom next year.

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Karnataka is not in a posi-tion to release Cauvery

water to Tamil Nadu at thisjuncture due to failed monsoonand we will explain the groundreality to the SC said KarnatakaChief Minister Siddaramaiah inMysuru on Tuesday maintain-ing that the water level inentire reservoir has hit therock-bottom.

He said "They have peti-tioned the Supreme Court. Wewill make Supreme Courtaware about the ground reali-ties in Karnataka. Tamil Naduis asking for 50 tm-ft that wassupposed to be released in anormal year. Do we have a nor-mal year?" The water level inthe KRS Dam here was 93 feetinstead of the 124 feet it wassupposed to be in rainy season”.

"A total of 50 tmc-ft wateris there from four reservoirs inthe Cauvery river basin areawhich was supposed to be 114tmc ft. It is not that we don't

want to release water, but wedon't have water. We don't havewater for our crops; we want 40tmc ft of water for drinking.Where do we have water torelease?" Siddaramaiah added.

The Supreme Court onSeptember 2 will hear TamilNadu Government's plea seek-ing release of 50 TMC of waterfrom Karnataka to meet its irri-gation demands in the back-drop of the Cauvery waterrow. Karnataka had on August27 made it clear that it was notpossible for it to spare Cauverywater to Tamil Nadu given the"severe distress" it was facingwith an all-party meetingdeciding that the same standshould be placed before theSupreme Court.

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Mumbai: In a relief to oniongrowers in Maharashtra afterprices of the crop fell to arecord low, the StateGovernment on Tuesday decid-ed to provide grant of �100 perquintal to these farmers.

The decision was taken ata meeting of State Cabinet,chaired by Chief MinisterDevendra Fadnavis here.

"Big relief. Maharashtracabinet decides to give grant of`100/quintal to onion produc-ing farmers," Fadnavis tweetedafter the Cabinet meeting.

"Farmers who sold onionproduce in APMCs from July1 to August 31, eligible to availthis grant. Each farmer to getrelief up to 200 quintals," hesaid.

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In twin major decisions, theBJP-led Maharashtra

Government on Tuesdayscrapped 94 tenders in 14 irri-gation projects floated by theprevious Congress-NCPalliance dispensation that areinvestigations by the State Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) andenhanced the cost of the megaGosikhurd national irrigationproject from �5,659 crore to�18,494 crore.

The move to scrap at onestroke 94 tenders — 12 incoastal Konkan region, one inNashik district and 81 inGosikhurd project in Vidarbha— came as a jolt toMaharashtra's former seniorMinister Ajit Pawar, who wasState Irrigation Ministerbetween 1999 and 2010, beforehe was elevated as the DeputyChief Minister and handedthe portfolios of Finance andEnergy.

The scrapping of a sizeable

number tenders (81) ofGosikurd project should beseen in the context of the factthat Ajitdada, as Ajit Pawar isknown in the State political cir-cles, has been come under thescanner of the investigatingagencies for the alleged irregu-larities in the awarding of 38contracts worth �20,000 crore in2009, without seeking a manda-tory sanction from the govern-ing council of the VidarbhaIrrigation DevelopmentCorporation (VIDC). He hadalso appeared before the StateACB for questioning onOctober 21, 2015 in connectionwith the alleged irregularities inthe irrigation projects in Raigaddistrict in Konkan region.

The scrapping of 94 pro-jects comes at a time when theACB is holding an openinquiry into the in whichalleged irregularities in thefloating of tenders and costescalations in projects locatedin nthree different regions —Konkan, north-Maharashtra

and Vidarbha. In most of 12 of the irriga-

tion projects of Konkan regionwhich are under the investiga-tions by the ACB, theMaharashtra Government hasneither acquired land nor hasit transferred forest land for theprojects concerned. It has alsonot also rehabilitated the pro-ject-affected people.

"The State Governmentwill scrap the tenders under theIndian Contracts Act, 1972. ...In Gosikhurd projects in which81 tenders have been scrapped,fresh tenders will be floated," anofficial spokesperson said.

In a related development,the State Government enhancedthe cost of the much-delayedGosikhurd national irrigationproject from �5,659.10 crore in2007 to �18,494.57 crore basedon the revised estimates for theprojects. "The ongoing inquiryby the State ACB will have nobearing on enhanced cost esti-mates for the Gosikurd projectsaid.

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After her Pakistan no hellcomment which gave her

worldwide publicity film actorturned Congress politicianRamya alias Divya Spandana isback in news once again.Ramya now says BJP and RSSdid not fight for nation’s inde-pendence but joined handswith the British but it wasonly the Indian NationalCongress fought for the inde-pendence.

The 33 year old actress toldmediapersons in Mandya onTuesday after taking part in anNSUI organised rally that RSSand BJP had played no role incountry’s independence.Ramya said Congress got free-dom not RSS and BJP. The filmactress turned politician allegedthat RSS has sided with British

during the freedom struggle. She was speaking to Press

persons after inaugurating arally of the National StudentsUnion of India (NSUI) to pro-mote patriotism among stu-dents and youngsters. The rallybegan near the KSRTC busstand on the Bengaluru-Mysuru highway and a 3,350-ft.-long national flag was takenin a procession as part ofNSUI’s ‘Deshakkagi VidyarthiNade’ programme.

Ramya, who has been inthe news for making a com-ment on Pakistan, has nowquestioned the role of theBharathiya Janata Party (BJP)and the Rashtriya SwayamsevakSangh (RSS) in the India's free-dom movement, while laudingthe contribution of the IndianNational Congress (INC) toIndia's independence.

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Disappointing those whowere hoping to buy booze

without standing in serpentinequeues in front of retail outletsfrom the coming Onam festi-val season, the KeralaG ove r n m e nt - c ont ro l l e dCooperative ConsumersFederation (Consumerfed) hasdecided to drop its move forarranging facility for bookingliquor online.

The federation hasdropped its plan, devised tohelp those who do not want tobe seen standing in queues inpublic view, due to the lack ofinterest shown to it by the

CPI(M)-led LDF Governmentwhich is preparing to introducea new liquor policy in theplace of the pro-Prohibitionpolicy the former Congress-ledUDF regime had introduced.

“We are abandoning theplan for arranging online book-ing system for liquor as theGovernment is not interested init. The opinion of theGovernment (that it is not infavour of the proposed plan) hasbeen expressed in clear terms bythe concerned Ministers. Sowe are dropping it. After all, weare an agency working underthe Government,” saidConsumerfed chairman MMehaboob.

Mehaboob himself had afew days ago announced thefederation’s plan to supply 59premium liquor brandsthrough the Consumerfed’s36 retail outlets in the State tothose who placed ordersonline. As per the plan, liquorwas to be supplied throughspecial counters at theagency’s retail outlets to thosewho came with the receiptthey got while placing theorder online.

The plan was to start theonline booking system duringthe Onam festival which fallsin the second week ofSeptember this year.Mehaboob had envisaged the

system as a means to increaserevenues of the federationwhich has been writhing underdebt burden. While boozers ingeneral had welcomed themove, it had infuriated theanti-liquor crusaders.

Mehaboob’s announce-ment of the move for onlinebooking system had come closeon the heels of the reports thatthe LDF Government wasplanning to repeal the formergovernment’s liquor policy bywhich all bars in the Statewere closed and ten percent ofall the retail shops had to beshut down every year leadingto eradication of hard liquor bythe year 2024.

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Jammu & Kashmir ChiefMinister Mehbooba Mufti

urged upon the students inKashmir to return to the edu-cational institutions instead ofgoing on the streets or idling athomes. Speaking at a functionin Jammu she said the rightplace for the students is to bein the educational institutionslike IITs, IIMs, engineering,medical, dental colleges andnot on the streets.

The educational institu-tions in Kashmir are shut forthe past more than two monthsdue to summer vacations whichwere followed by the unrest thattriggered off after the killing ofHizbul Mujahideen comman-der Burhan Wani on July 8.

“Education is consideredmost important in all religionsand we should seek educationas a religious duty to realize thehigher goals of life,” she said.“Our children look good withbooks in their hands in theclassrooms studying to be doc-tors, engineers and architects ofour future rather than being onthe streets,” she said.

Asserting that educationholds key to emancipation andempowerment of any society,Mehbooba outlined the impor-tance of providing quality edu-cation to the youth with greaterfocus on skill development toenhance their proficiency. Shesaid the pursuit of educationshould not be merely for thepurpose of acquiring employ-

ment and that it should servethe larger purpose of trans-forming the character of anindividual by making him/heraware of his surroundings.

The statement came in thebackground of continued shut-down in Kashmir sponsored bythe separatists. Even as theEducation Minister NaeemAkhtar who controversially tookseveral steps to “bring the edu-cation system on rails” since thePDP-BJP coalition took over inMarch 2015, tried several meth-ods to reopen educational insti-tutions in Kashmir but themethods did not work on theground. Recently, he issuedorders to the State board ofschool education to prepare forconducting annual examina-tions due in autumn. However,the minister’s commandmentevaporated when the authoritiesdeployed additional troops inschools and colleges in capitalSrinagar and several towns ofthe Valley.

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Minority Affairs AzamKhan said in the UP

Assembly that the SamajwadiParty had never promisedreservation to Muslims in itselections manifesto. Khan alsosaid that BSP leaders should begrateful to Chief MinisterAkhilesh Yadav for not initiat-ing action against them as perreports of Lokayukta probingcorruption in the previousregime.

Azam Khan intervenedduring the speech of Leader ofOpposition and BSP leaderGayacharan Dinkar pressingthe adjournment notice on lawand order. Dinkar charged thatmost incidents of crime againstwomen took place in areasrepresented by SP leaders andcommunal riots had takenplaces only in those areas wherethe ruling party and the BJPwere influential.

The Leader of Oppositionsaid, “The SP Government’spromise to provide reservationto Muslims and release theinnocent Muslim youths jailedin the name of terrorism werenever fulfilled. Communal riotsin the State have spiked indi-cating a clear nexus betweenthe BJP and the SP for polari-sation votes during elections.Besides, illegal mining wasrampant in the State especial-ly in Bundelkhand.”

Reactingto this, Khan said,“The BSP leaders should begrateful to the CM for not ini-tiating action against them forinvolvement in corruption inthe previous BSP regime. TheLokayukta had recommendedstrict against some of senior

BSP leaders but the CM wastoo generous to pursue thematter.’’

Demanding an apologyfrom the Leader of Oppositionfor his comment on reservationto Muslims, Khan said, “The SPnever promised 18 per centreservations in Governmentjobs to Muslims in its electionmanifesto of 2012.’’

Cautioning the BSP torefrain from exploitingMuslims through false propa-ganda, the Minister said,“Muslims are no longer back-ward, and they now useWhatsapp. They know what ishappening around them andwhich party is trying to foolthem and which is serioustowards development.”

Charging the BSP ofdoing nothing for Muslimsexcept humiliating them,Khan said, “The Muslims, ontheir smart phones, have seenMayawati campaigning forNarendra Modi in Gujaratand branding Muslims asextremists. The BSP does notrespect any religion. EvenMayawati is not aware of herreligious belief.’’

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Lucknow: Certain remarks byUttar Pradesh Minister AzamKhan apparently against PrimeMinister Narendra Modi onTuesday led to an uproar in theAssembly with BJP membersdisrupting the proceedings andforcing a brief adjournment bypressing for expunction of the"derogatory comments".

During a discussion onlaw and order issue, Khan, inan apparent reference to Modi,said, "It is an irony that the 'bad-shah' (emperor) of the countrydoes not keep his mother withhim and goes on gifting thingsto enemy's mother. He talks of'beti bachao' (save daughters)but left his own wife."

The comments by thestate's Parliamentary AffairsMinister were an apparent ref-

erence to Modi gifting a shawlto his Pakistani counterpartNawaz Sharif 's mother on thelatter's visit to India duringModi's swearing-in-ceremonyin 2014. Modi had also sent asaree for Sharif 's mother.

BJP members took strongexception to the commentsand rushed to the Welldemanding that the Speakerexpunge the "derogatorywords" from the proceedings.

The Minister, however, saidthe country wanted to knowwho were inside the roomwhen 'badshah' was givingbirthday wishes (to NawazSharif in Pakistan).

Even after Speaker MataPrasad Pandey's assurance thathe will look into the matter, BJPmembers did not return to

their seats. The Speaker thenadjourned the House for 20minutes till 12.20 pm. Earlier,BJP member Suresh KumarKhanna wanted to know fromthe Samajwadi party-led StateGovernment about the responseof '1090 women helpline' whenthe Bulandshar rape incidenttook place on July 19.

He said if the helpline hadresponded properly, the inci-dent would not have happened.

Azam Khan had courtedcontroversy by allegedly sayingthat the Bulandshar incidentwas a "politically controversy".

The SC had yesterdaysought a reply from the minis-ter and the State Governmenton a plea to shift the probe andtrial in the case out of the Statedue to "distrust". PNS/PTI

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Congress CM candidateSheila Dikshit said that

her party is the lone hope forthe betterment of the people ofUttar Pradesh. Sheattacked successiveGovernments ruling theState in the last 27 yearssaying the State slippedbackward in time witheach passing year undernon-Congress rule.

Addressing a gathering atMohanlalganj (Lucknow) soonafter starting the ‘27 Saal-UPBehal’ Yatra from Amausi airporton Tuesday morning, the formerDelhi CM said that wherever shewent in UP, the masses com-plained of non-development,unemployment, power woes,

bad roads, scarce water supplyand above all lack of safety.

She said that the healthcare system and medical ser-vices were is such poor condi-tion that people particularly in

eastern UP wereforced to witnessdeaths of several hun-dred children everyyear.

Dixit, who alongwith Sanjay Singh was

en route to Pratapgarh via RaeBareli on Tuesday morning,said that the response from thepublic was a clear pointer thatpeople were fed up with twoand a half decade of misruleand were eager to bring aCongress Government forbringing the State back on thepath to development and

progress. Meanwhile, UP Congress

chief Raj Babbar, who ledanother Bus Yatra fromGorakhpur on Tuesday morn-ing, said that despite maximumleaders hilding Ministries in theUP Government, the districthasbeen deprived of develop-ment in the last three decades.

He also highlighted theflood situation in the region andclaimed that even after know-ing that most of Gorakhpurdivision were flooded everyyear, no measures were taken bythe successive Governments tominiise the losses.

Babbar assured that onceCongress comes to power, theywould ensure proper diversion ofwater so that floods do not playhavoc and trouble the masses.

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Tezpur/Guwahati: Bodo agi-tators on Tuesday blockedNational Highways at variousplaces across Assam demand-ing a separate Bodoland State,the police said.

Workers of All BodoStudents Union (ABSU),National Democratic Front ofBodoland-Progressive (NDFB-P) and People's Joint ActionCommittee for BodolandMovement (PJACBM) blockedtraffic in at least seven placesin six districts.

The districts areLakhimpur, Darrang, Baksa,Udalguri, Goalpara andKamrup.

Police said a number ofagitators were picked up fromdifferent places for blockingthe roads.

ABSU president PramodBoro said agitators blocked thehighways at Orang,Gogamukh, Borama,Kajalgaon, Karigaon, Dudhnoiand Sonapur.

Addressing the gatheringat Orang, Boro said no dis-criminatory stand from theCentre and the BJP State lead-ership regarding the longpending issues of the Bodopeople will be tolerated.

He alleged that the BJP-ledGovernment is ignoring andundermining the issue and areengaging in political conspir-acy to exploit the margin-alised groups.

Bodo leaders announcedprogrammes like closure ofbusiness establishments,blocking of rail traffic and amaha rally in New Delhi infuture.

Last week, the three lead-ing groups involved withBodoland movement accusedthe Centre of neglecting andignoring the issues of peopleand announced to restart theiragitation by blocking NationalHighways across Assam.

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Through his invocationof mera jawan duringhis Independence Dayspeech and the extraor-dinary display of respect

and affection by three of his ladyMinisters tying rakhis to soldiers,including those deployed at theSiachen base camp, Prime MinisterNarendra Modi showcased thissymbolism as the Modi brand ofnationalism. A great gestureindeed, though it cannot mask orcompensate the relative deficien-cies in defence management vis-à-vis his achievements of other sec-tors of governance. In his famousinterview to Times Now on dutiesof political and bureaucratic lead-ership and soldiers he noted:“Those who have to work from thetable will work from the table; andthose who have to guard the bor-der will work at the border with fullstrength. Each one will fulfilresponsibility entrusted to them.Our jawans are fulfilling theirresponsibility.” He did not indicatewhether those at the table were ful-filling their responsibility.

In September 2013 as primeministerial hopeful Modi enam-oured a big gathering of militaryveterans at Rewari in the presenceof retired Army Chief Gen VKSingh (who as an Army Chief hadcreated a stir in Parliament by dis-closing critical hollowness in oper-ational capabilities), now a trust-ed Minister, that he would give themilitary its due — in care, respect,welfare and most of all, attention.The BJP manifesto promised torevise defence policy and imple-ment long overdue defence mod-ernisation. He added that it did notmatter how good the equipment orhow motivated the soldier. Whatwas key was a patrioticGovernment in New Delhi.

Thirty months later, factsspeak otherwise. Two of the low-est defence budgets (below 1.7 percent of gross domestic productGDP) scant modernisation, zerodefence reforms, and a half-bakedone-rank-one-pension (OROP)followed by a thoughtless awardof Seventh Pay Commission (mer-cifully not promulgated for theArmed Forces). A country thatmakes it veterans protest at JantarMantar, allows them to beroughed up by police, and acceptsits military being told by the Chairof the Pay Commission that itcannot be treated at par withUnion Government Services (withregards not to pay but status in thehierarchy of service and com-mand) is sending a rather dangerous signal.

These very officers and sol-

diers ensure Parliament canproudly pronounce every timethere is absence of governance andprotests in J&K that it is an inte-gral part of India. For 70 years, theArmy has been deployed in J&K;for 60 years along the northernborders; and for 60 years in theNorth-East. One of the finestmilitaries in the world has becomea border guarding force. It alsosays something about the capaci-ty of the political and bureaucrat-ic leadership to employ force andcoercion along with diplomacy toproactively resolve outstandinginternal and external disputes.

The recent judgement by theSupreme Court (July 8) on indef-inite deployment of the ArmedForces in Manipur since 1958while unappreciative of thenuances of counter-insurgencyoperations and embedded politics,makes a larger strategic reflection:Failure of the Government and theArmed Forces in jointly restoringnormalcy. The political classspends its time and resources inwinning elections with the nexusbetween under- and over-groundbeing clear in disturbed areas.Modi has asserted that winningelections is good for his party.

While Kashmir valley isexpected to start breathing normal-ly soon, periodically men in uni-form are pitted against their ownpeople notwithstanding externalinstigations. Cyclic protests signala breakdown in public order. Andwhen the political class goes under-ground the onus of restoring nor-malcy falls on the security forces.It was Lt Gen DS Hooda, the ArmyCommander in J&K, who firstappealed for calm to find a way outof the situation through introspec-tion by all involved in J&K includ-ing the Hurriyat. Army chief GenDalbir Singh made a similar appealfor calm and peace. Another for-mer Army Commander in J&Kobserved: “Although militarily thesituation in Kashmir valley hasbeen kept under control most ofthe time, the political and socio-economic dimensions have notbeen adequately address. This hascaused a degree of alienation”.

For the services it has renderedsince independence, the militaryhas not got a fair deal. It is one insti-tution that has been mostly takenfor granted. Reforms for streamlin-ing the Ministry of Defence havebeen made by numerous commit-tees and task forces. The powerful

IAS babus are preventing integra-tion as it will dilute their controlover the military. The DefenceMinister’s focus is on defence pro-curement and Make in India.Manohar Parrikar, someone joked,has become the Minister forAcquisition. Unfortunately, as helacks the political clout of his pre-decessor AK Antony, whom heridicules liberally in Parliament, heis unable to have his way with theFinance Ministry and the PrimeMinister’s Office. The new Ministerof State for Defence is an oncolo-gist, Subhash Bhamre, who hasbeen locked out from the Ministry’skey files.

OROP is a good example ofhow good a deal Parrikar couldsecure for the ex-Servicemen. MajGen Satbir Singh, the mastermindof the ex-Servicemen’s agitation, hasalleged that the four anomalies inthe implementation of OROP weresummarily rejected by MoD andnot forwarded to the one-manjudicial commission of Justice LNarasimha Reddy despite the assur-ance given by Parrikar. He called itbetrayal by the Government.

On the Seventh PayCommission, independent RajyaSabha MP Rajeev Chandrashekhar(member of ParliamentaryStanding Committee on Defence)has said the anger among defencepersonnel and veterans goes backto the Fifth Pay Commission(actually, the Third PayCommission) in which the statusof the Armed Forces vis a vis othercentral government Services (IASand IPS) was undermined in hier-archy of service and command inthe guise of preserving civil-mili-tary balance. Civilian politicalcontrol should not mean thatcivilian bureaucracy is calling theshots and that subordination ofmilitary leads to it being disadvan-taged or subservient. The 46anomalies of Sixth PayCommission and 36 from theSeventh Pay Commission remainunresolved and no legitimate rea-sons are provided.

The Service Chiefs used toperiodically meet Modi when hebecame Prime Minister. Soon thatstopped. Modi did not meet theService Chiefs or respond to for-mer Service Chiefs over theseissues. He was expected to restorethe izzat and iqbal of an impecca-bly apolitical, secular and profes-sional military to sharpen itsblunted edges. The political class,with little knowledge of defence,has allowed itself to be guided bybabus who know equally littleabout military issues amounting tothe blind leading the blind.

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Sir — This refers to the report,“Modiji is in pockets of powercos: Kejriwal” (August 30). It issickening to see that Delhi ChiefMinister Arvind Kejriwal hasbeen displaying a mindset of astreet fighter, lacking in digni-ty, propriety and discretion.Kejriwal’s repeated cheap, crudeattacks on Prime MinisterNarendra Modi and LieutenantGovernor Najeeb Jung, signifythat he has not grown intomaturity and responsibility.

Lt Governor Jung has right-ly refuted Kejriwal’s charges thathe had cancelled the AamAadmi Party Government’sorder to make discoms to paycompensation to consumers forunscheduled power cuts.

Lt Jung reminded Kejriwalof the Delhi High Court’s recentverdict cutt ing the ChiefMinister and his Government toits size. That seems to have pro-voked Kejriwal to resort to hisfamiliar loose tongue, accusingthe Prime Minister of being‘hand-in-glove’ with power companies, ordering LtGovernor ‘on phone’ to do whatthe companies wanted.

Thus, Kejriwal is now clear-ly monitoring the Prime

Minister’s phone calls! Doessuch a man even deserve toremain in power anymore?

M RatanVia email

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Sir — This refers to the article. “Thegrand old party’s Baloch cacopho-ny” (August 30) by A SuryaPrakash. The cacophony itselfmakes it clear that the Congress isleaderless. Every leader thinkshimself to be wise and a worthyvoice of the party. But another man,who thinks himself to be wiser, overrides him. Finally, the spokesper-son makes a copy-paste of his timeold answer. The supposed leadersare in silent mode or ill and con-fined to bed. Really, the countryneeds coherence, not cacophony.

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Sir — This refers to the article.“The grand old party’s Balochcacophony” (August 30) by ASurya Prakash. For India’s sake,one should hope that this cacoph-ony ends soon and the nation getsrid of the grand old party. Thenonly can we return to a state of

civilisational coherence, instead ofthe divide-and-rule civilisationthat the Congress propagates.

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Sir — This refers to the complaintfiled by Haryana Police againstmusic director Vishal Dadlani andCongress leader TehseenPoonawalla for making objection-able remarks against a Jain monk.In principle, Dadlani is not wrongto say that he had a problem withreligion and governance goinghand-in-hand. The Constitution ison his side. What he said may haveoffended the sentiments of some inthe Jain community and he hasapologised for this. To go so far toseek legal action against him is toblow things out of proportion.

To make matters worse, DelhiChief Minister Arvind Kejriwalhas jumped into the fray to politi-cise this issue despite the fact thatDadlani has been a vocal support-er of the Aam Aadmi Party. If thisis not mixing politics with reli-gion, then what is this?

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India’s higher education sys-tem is the third largest in theworld after the US and

China. It provides the much-required fillip to the economyof our country. India’s bour-geoning education system is theengine of economic growth. Beit the manufacturing sector,the service sector or the ener-gy sector, the success of all isdependent on the quality ofmanpower which is nurtured inthe portals of educational insti-tutions. There are more than aquarter of million students whopass the higher secondaryexamination every year withhopes flying high and dreams ofa bright future.

While many students aspireto get into a good Governmentinstitution, may be owing to theless fees, credibility and accessi-bility, some aim for private insti-tutions and others marchtowards foreign shores. Mostmiddle-class or lower middle

class families want to send theirchildren to private schools. Thetrend is more noticeable in citieswhere more than 50 per cent stu-dents enroll in private schools.Parents prefer private education-al institutions with a hope thatbetter education will make it eas-ier for their wards to get admis-sion in professional institutionsor colleges of high repute.

Seeing the trend in highereducation admission process, itis found that in most of theschools, the students are advisedto take extra subjects in Class XIIto increase their overall percent-ages, which in turn also impactsthe result of the school.

Although in Class XI, it isimportant for students to selectsubjects which match their careeraspirations and future trajectory,in Class XII, they are advised totake simple and high-scoringelectives like physical education,music and sculpture, which havelittle relevance to their core sub-

jects. If a student is interested inpursuing a career in arts orphysical education, then heshould be counseled to take coresubjects which are lighter and insync with his career path.

However, gullible studentsare taken aback when they aretold by colleges and universitiesthat the electives, which are notrelated to the programme theyhave applied for, cannot be con-sidered for calculating theirscore against the given cut-off.For instance, a student whoapplies for B Tech cannotinclude the marks of sculpture,painting or physical education,even if he has distinction-levelmarks in those subjects.

The entire exercise of study-ing extra subjects goes futileand leaves the student disheart-ened that their considered per-centage is much lower than whatthey thought. Throughout, thestudents work hard to fulfill theaspirations of their parents, teach-

ers and the school, quite oftenoverlooking their own interestsand inclinations.

The marks secured insenior secondary examinationsare important for a personthroughout his life. Whereverhe goes for an interview lateron, the interviewer usuallycheck the academic perfor-mance right from the school tocollege. Even Public SectorUnits and Government enter-prises have laid down a criteriaof a minimum 60 per centthroughout academics.

It is the duty of the con-cerned school to mentor, guide,counsel and advise students to bewell-informed about the careerchoice they make in consultationand after discussion with theirparents, taking into considerationtheir caliber which will lead to asuccessful career. The conse-quences of the decision made bythem in school are bound toaffect their career path and lives.

Every year, over 20 millionstudents apply for under-grad-uate programmes across India.Over three lakh students applyto Government colleges for about 54,000 seats. With sky-rocketing cut-offs in DelhiUniversity and also reserved cri-terias, disillusioned studentsrealise that they don’t stand achance to get into the course oftheir choice.

Earlier, there were not manyavenues for students who couldnot make it to a State universitylike Delhi University due to lim-ited in-take and infrastructureconstraints. There are many stu-dents who are no less diligent orhardworking but miss the covet-ed courses by a whisker. AmityUniversity, with a wide choice ofacademic options, gives the stu-dents an opportunity to pursuehigher studies in career-orientedprofessional streams.

These study programmesare industry-aligned and are

aimed at enhancing the learningand overall development of thestudent. Admission is based onmerit and the university gives afair chance to every student withdecent score to apply and study.For over 12,000 seats across allunder graduate programmes,the university receives 80, 000applications every year.

In a private university, it isseen that a science student whohas scored well in chemistry butnot in mathematics and physicscan opt for BTech with special-isation in chemistry and pursuea career in the same. For all thefortunate ones or the crème de lecrème that enters the portals ofa Government university, thereis a need to map and analyse thepercentages they score whileleaving the premises of collegesand the level of success theyachieve in their career. It’s notrhetoric but a timely question toponder over.

(The writer is an educationist)

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The Tiranga Yatra, flaggedoff by Prime MinisterNarendra Modi on August 9from the birthplace of revo-lutionary nationalist

Chandra Shekhar Azad, ended onAugust 23. While launching the Yatra,Modi had again called on the youth ofIndia, as he has often done over theyears, and had said that “all of us, whomay not have got a chance to lay downour lives for the nation, should take theopportunity to live for the nation.” Modiemphasised “that a nation moves for-ward on the strength of its people, theiraspirations, and their hard work.”

The Yatra was timed to commem-orate the 70th year of India’s indepen-dence and its founding ideal was thatof patriotism, nationalism and com-memoration of all those freedom fight-ers — mostly unknown and forgotten— who sacrificed themselves so that asPrime Minister Modi said, “we couldbreathe the air of freedom.”

The effort radiated a deep messageof unity. Seeing Union Ministers, seniorsleaders fan out across the country car-rying the message of the Tricolour, hon-ouring descendents of revolutionaries,visiting places associated with ourstruggle for freedom, visiting historictrees, poles, memorials, bridges, lakes,parks — all associated with stories ofheroic revolutionary nationalists, onewas reminded of Sister Nivedita’s words,in her pithy but profoundly movingessay, ‘The Task of the NationalMovement in India.’ Nivedita calledupon missionaries of patriotism and ofnationalism to “travel with the magiclantern, with the collection of post cards,with a map of India and with head andheart full of ballads, stories, and geo-graphical descriptions. Let (them) gath-er together the women, let (them)gather together the villagers, let (them)entertain them in the garden, in thecourtyard, in the verandahs, beside thewell, and under the village tree with sto-ries, songs and descriptions of which therefrain is always India! India! India!...This and no other is our Motherland!We are Indians every one!”

For generations, in post-indepen-dent India, especially in the last fourdecades, who have been brought up onan intellectual staple brewed in the ide-ological kitchens and farms of Marxand Mao, words of Nivedita haveremained foreign. In fact, if one wereto go by the letters, memos and noteswhich some of the ‘stalwarts’ of theCommunist movement wrote to theircolonial benefactors, at the height of theQuit India movement, one wouldrealise the severe disconnect from thevision of the nation and from patrio-tism that this ideology, its progenitorsand its ideological troubadours haveengendered in those it has taken overin its thrall. Sample this line from PCJoshi’s detailed note to the then HomeMember, Reginald Maxwell writtensometime in 1943, “...After August 9,the vast majority of patriots thought thefinal struggle for national freedom hadbegun; we alone had the courage andthe understanding to expose it asnational suicide and go right down tothe people to fight for our slogans.”

As one followed the many huesand dimensions of the Yatra, words ofnationalist thought-leaders and pio-neers of the ‘Swadeshi-Tapasya’ cameto mind, words, which in a free andproud nation should have found placein the educational mainstream sothat young minds could have learnt tovalue, and to cherish freedom. Onerecalled how KM Munshi — philoso-pher-statesman, nationalist, freedomfighter, polymath — on the eve of free-dom contemplated in his diary that a“weak and divided nation...is a temp-tation to aggressive nations...” and how“a strong national consciousness” and“material strength” was a sine qua nonfor India to remain free. Munshi is onesuch pre-eminent personality whohas faced marginalisation ever sincehis death in 1971 simply because hispolitics, worldview, cultural positionsdid not fit into the Congress-Communist rubric.

The cherishing of freedom canonly emerge or grow when a nurtur-ing in the tradition and spirit of theland takes place, when the sacrednessof the land, its people and its wisdomis not a mere esoteric mental state, isnot derided or negated or deconstruct-ed and discouraged, but is ratherencouraged to develop as a deep con-nect. This means, as Nivedita argued,in the realm of thought “each manmust recognise his birth-land as thesupreme fact in his life, and must con-sciously bow himself to her influence,glorying in it, and striving to rediscov-er and realise it, in its essentials.”

If one were to record, the manyexperiences of those who participat-ed in the Yatra or led from the front,interesting and moving accountsemerge of how ordinary people con-tinue to remain the principal recordersof the saga of freedom. It also showedhow stories of heroism and of sacri-fices of countless revolutionaries havebeen lost in the mist of dynastic pol-itics, engulfed and dissolved in acesspool of prejudiced narratives.While elite intellectuals are pre-occu-pied in formatting the intellectual lifeof this country and in encouragingintellectual secessionism, divisivenessand a mindset that revels in propagat-ing the ideology of national disintegra-tion, it is the ordinary citizens whohave preserved the spark of freedomand who continue to aspire and dreamof a truly free existence in free India— this collective aspiration and its dri-ving force is what Prime MinisterModi has termed as “Jan Shakti.”

One of the high points of the Yatrawas BJP president Amit Shah’s visit toUllal near Mangalore and the commem-oration of the heroic deeds of RaniAbbakka Devi who relentlessly foughtthe Portuguese marauders in the 1500s.Often in a rush to ram down a certainversion of the history of our freedomstruggle, the contributions of the manyregions of India in the battle for free-dom have been lost or omitted. RaniAbbakka Devi’s has been one such lega-cy and it was heartening to see Shah joinin celebrating her life and struggle.

It was Shah’s address at Ullal on

four goals or pillars of freedom, onnationalism and patriotism thatbrought up fundamental points. It is,he reminded his audience, “imperativetoday to unite against those who, in thename of freedom of expression, areworking to divide and dismember thecountry.” Without “nationalism andpatriotism”, he contended no nation orpeople could aspire to greatness, “inspi-ration”, he observed, “could only bederived from the lives of these valiantand sacrificing revolutionaries and notfrom NGOs who sloganeer against thevery existence of India.”

Extrapolating from the thoughts ofMunshi, Shah spoke of how a free coun-try, trying to fulfil the dream of an idealstate, needed to pursue four goals in itsstate of freedom. These goals were theprotection of national sovereigntyalongwith safeguarding its borders,striving to acquire respect and self-respect in the comity of nations, striv-ing to be materially prosperous and cul-turally vibrant and striving to establisha kalyan rajya — welfare state based onthe vision of humanism.

Those busy peddling the agenda ofIndia’s disintegration will naturallyoppose these ideals and aims or deridethem as false goals. The message ofnationalism in our age is to pursuethese four goals unequivocally andrelentlessly — therein lay the ideals offreedom and the deeper symbolism ofthe Tricolour.

(The author is Director, Dr SyamaPrasad Mookerjee ResearchFoundation, New Delhi)

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�� � ������ India Inc onTuesday pressed for keepingGST at a maximum 18 per centwhile e-commerce firms soughtto be kept out of the newregime, as state finance minis-ters began consultations ondeciding the rate for the unifiednation-wide indirect tax.

They also demanded relax-ation in penal provisions whileadmitting that April 1, 2017,deadline will be tough as theyneed sufficient time to put inplace the IT infrastructure.

“A lot will depend on thetiming of rules and notifica-tions. (About April 2017), itlooks difficult,” Ficci said.

In its first meeting afterParliament cleared the land-mark Goods and Services Tax(GST) Bill earlier this month,the empowered committee ofstate finance ministers, headedby West Bengal FinanceMinister Amit Mitra, discussedthe issue with industry bodies,traders and chartered accoun-tants.

“The committee is taking(feedback) in an open andtransparent manner from thebusinesses of India, whetherthey are big, medium or small.Many points were made look-

ing at GST from the other side-- those who would be payingtaxes -- as against theGovernment which would becollecting taxes,” Mitra saidafter the meeting.

According to India Inc, areasonable rate will generateadequate tax buoyancy withoutfuelling inflation.

The constitutional amend-ment mandates that at least halfof the 29 states and two UnionTerritories should ratify the Billfor its rollout. So far, 13 stateshave approved the legislation.

Once implemented, thenational tax will subsume indi-rect ones like excise duty, ser-vice tax and VAT.

At Tuesday’s meeting,online retailers submitted thatthey only provide a ‘platform’to vendors and customers anddo not make money out of thesales. So, companies likeFlipkart, Amazon India andSnapdeal are only ‘serviceproviders’ to the vendors andare liable to pay GST only onservice income.

CII President NaushadForbes said, “We believe amaximum rate of 18 per centas the standard rate will be rev-enue neutral and ensure ade-

quate tax buoyancy. Also, theCentre has agreed to a full 5-year compensation for rev-enue loss to states. So, 18 percent rate will be more thanadequate.”

Ficci on its part suggestedthat the standard rate should be“reasonable” and be such thatit checks inflation and tenden-cy to evasion and ensures com-pliance.

“Goods fully exemptedfrom the levy of excise duty andVAT by all the states should becategorised as exempted goodsin the GST regime as well,” itsuggested.

As for preparedness forthe GST rollout, Forbes saidCII is committed to April 1deadline and will do “every-thing we can to ensure we stickto the deadline”.

“If we work towards thatdeadline and have clarity onsome of the provisions as earlyas possible, we can ensure ourown IT systems are put in placequickly so that we can go liveas early as possible,” Forbessaid. Assocham sought relax-ations from penal and prose-cutionprovisions during thefirst two years of GST launchexcept in the case of tax fraud

or non-deposit of collectedtaxes.

It wanted that the Centreand states should set up amechanism to advise traders onlegal provisions arising out ofthe implementation.

Mitra called upon theindustry to give suggestions onthe quantum of penalty, sayingthe empowered committee andthe GST Council will look atthe provision of arrest andprosecutions.

The industry chambersalso demanded single cen-tralised registration of suppli-ers of services that operate indifferent states in place of mul-tiple state-wise registrationsfor specific service sectors.

“The states recognised verymuch that certain services liketelecom come under the centralscheme. Under the currentdraft, you would need to reg-ister in each state which wouldmake it very very cumber-some,” Forbes said.

“And states were veryreceptive to the idea that oneneeds a simple, single registra-tion. Because that won’t affectrevenue, it will only make asimpler and more transparentregime.” �

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Union Steel MinisterChaudhry Birendra Singh

on Tuesday met ArcelorMittalChairman Lakshmi Mittal anddiscussed the proposed $1 bil-lion automotive steel joint ven-ture (JV) between ArcelorMittaland SAIL in India.

“ArcelorMittal welcomedMinister Chaudhary BirenderSingh, Union Minister of Steelof the Government of India, PKSingh, Chairman, SAIL andthe Indian Government’s JointSecretary Ministry of Steel,Sunil Barthwal, to its Londonoffices for discussions regard-ing the proposed US$1 billionautomotive steel joint venture(‘JV’) between ArcelorMittaland SAIL,” said a joint state-ment from ArcelorMittal andSAIL.

“Lakshmi Mittal, Chairmanand CEO, Aditya Mittal, groupCFO and CEO ArcelorMittalEurope and Brian Aranha,Executive Vice President andhead of global automotive, whois leading the joint venture dis-cussions on behalf ofArcelorMittal, attended themeeting along with other mem-bers of senior management,”added the statement.

ArcelorMittal and SAILsigned a Memorandum ofUnderstanding in May 2015 toexplore the possibility of settingup a state-of-the-art automotivesteel manufacturing facilityunder a JV arrangement inIndia.

The proposed JV will con-struct world-class facilities for

manufacturing automotive steelthat will offer technologicallyadvanced steel products forIndia’s rapidly growing auto-motive sector. The hot rolledinput products for the proposedfacility would be supplied bySAIL’s new state-of-the-art hotstrip mill in Rourkela, Odisha,thus making the entire valuechain indigenous.

The project’s Joint WorkingGroup, which was establishedfollowing the signing of theMoU, has completed the majorpart of the project’s FeasibilityReport.

India is forecast to becomethe world’s third largest auto-mobile manufacturing nationby 2026, with passenger vehicleslikely to grow from approxi-mately 3 million units today toover 7 million units in the

next 10 years. In response to thegrowing level of automotivedemand, and supported by theIndian Government’s ‘Make InIndia’ programme which hasbeen designed to transformIndia into a global manufac-turing hub, automotive manu-facturers have been establishingan increased presence in thecountry.

ArcelorMittal is the world’sleading steel and mining com-pany, with a presence in 60countries and an industrialfootprint in 19 countries.Guided by a philosophy toproduce safe, sustainable steel,we are the leading supplier ofquality steel in the major glob-al steel markets including auto-motive, construction, house-hold appliances and packaging,with world-class research and

development and outstandingdistribution networks.

Steel Authority of India Ltdis India’s largest steel maker andamong the top Governmentowned companies conferredwith the prestigious ‘Maharatna’status. Government of Indiacurrently owns 75 per cent ofSAIL’s shares, the rest being heldby FIs and individuals. With aturnover of about $9 billionemploying around 85,000 peo-ple across India; SAIL ownsand operates 5 integrated steelplants at Bhilai, Durgapur,Bokaro, Rourkela and Burnpur,3 special steel plants and ferro-alloy & refractory manufac-turing units. SAIL is also thesecond largest producer ofiron ore in India and meets 100per cent requirement fromcaptive mines.

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The American off-road andsports utility vehicle (SUV)

manufacturer Jeep, now part ofFiat-Chrysler Automobiles(FCA) was introduced toIndian consumers in Jodhpuron Tuesday. The brand whichhad been showcased during theAuto Expo in February hasbeen in the works for a longtime. Kevin Flynn, ChiefExecutive Officer of FCA Indiaexplained that the carmakerhas just invested a significant$280 million at the manufac-turing facilities in Ranjangaon,Maharashtra and is in theprocess of starting to make a‘Made In India’ SUV from2017.

Speaking to The Pioneer,Flynn explained that the vehi-cles being launched now, theWrangler Unlimited, GrandCherokee and Grand CherokeeSRT are fully imported ‘com-pletely Built Up’ units for “thediscerning customer” and willbe used to establish a Jeep basehere. With plans to have 10 JeepDealers in nine cities acrossIndia by the end of 2016, Flynnbelieves Jeep is building up wellfor their C-SUV crossover carcoming next year. The firstdealership will open inAhmedabad followed by show-rooms in Delhi, Bangalore andChandigarh.

As a result of the carsbeing imported, Jeep has priced

their cars quite high comparedto the the competition. TheWrangler Unlimited will havean ex-showroom price of �71.6lakh; the Grand CherokeeLimited �93.6 lakh; GrandCherokee Summit �1.03 croreand the Grand Cherokee SRT�1.12 crore. The high pricesmean these Jeep vehicles mightfind it difficult competing withestablished brands such asAudi, BMW and Mercedes.

However, Flynn feels thatthe Jeep introduction couldhelp revitalise the companyincluding the Fiat brand. “Wehave also established a modernparts warehouse, road assis-tance and warranty program toensure we are top in class in ser-vice.”

However, while Flynn didnot admit as such, recent deci-

sions by the National GreenTribunal and the SupremeCourt on diesel vehicles impact-ed their plans.

“The SRT features thefamous ‘Hemi’ engine which isobviously petrol, but looking atFiat where we have suddenly seePetrol engine demand hit 70 percent from under 50 percent sixmonths ago, I finally feel con-sumer behaviour is changing. Agood strategy would now be tocover both fuels, so we arelaunching more petrol optionsfor our buyers in a couple ofmonths.”

“Legislation steers and dri-ves Research and Developmentand and while we feel alterna-tive drive sources are neededand must be developed, legis-lation must support this asmust infrastructure buildout.”

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�!����� With banks turningstingy in passing on RBI’s ratecuts to consumers, rate of homeloans has fallen by only 0.26percentage point since 2015, butcorporates have managed tobring down their borrowingcost by 1.44 percentage point bytapping bond markets, as perthe central bank.

Between January 15, 2015and April 5, 2016, ReserveBank reduced the repo rate by150 basis points, but in responseto this, the banks have loweredtheir benchmark lending ratesby only 60 basis points, accord-ing to Reserve Bank’s annual

report for 2015-16.Between December 2014

and June 2016, home loansdropped by just 0.26 per cent to10.76 per cent in June 2016from 10.50 per cent inDecember 2014.

During the same period,corporates’ borrowing becamecheaper by 144 basis points.

Corporates’ borrowingfrom shortest maturity com-mercial papers dipped to 6.54per cent in June 2016 from 7.98per cent during December2014.

Corporates are borrow-ing at a cheaper rate through

issuance of commercialpapers, RBI said, while addingthat there was a surge in pub-lic issuances of corporatebonds in the fiscal year 2015-16.

In the second half of theyear, following the Septemberreduction in the policy reporate and again towards theclose of the year, yields oftop-rated AAA corporatebonds eased, following g-secs(Government securities) yields.

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Despite having a sense oflikely hike in Fed rate,

foreign instruct ionalinvestors (FIIs) on Tuesdaycontinued to pour in to thedomestic bourses, surgingBSE Sensex over 440 points toclose at an over 13-monthhigh of 28,343.01, while thebroader Nifty went past thepsychological 8,700-level tofinish at 16-month high of8,744.35, lifted by positiveglobal cues. Besides, a sus-tained FII buying, a slew ofpositive corporate results aswell as RBI’s bullish annualgrowth report also added topositive cues.

“Market regained itsstrength as FIIs continue topour into the domestic mar-ket despite a likely hike in Fedrate. FII inflow has improvedpost a muted trend seen lastweek awaiting the Fed chair’sspeech last Friday. Globalmarkets continue to be pos-itive as investors have large-ly factored an interest ratehike in 2016,” said VinodNair, Head of Research,Geojit BNP Paribas FinancialServices.

A firm trading momen-tum witnessed as retai linvestors and funds piled uppositions in key frontlineshares across the sectors ledby auto, IT, capital goods,banks, financials, metals,consumer durables, oil & gas,power, realty, teck infra-structure, healthcare, PSUs,energy, utilities and basicmaterials. The second-linemidcap and small-cap com-

panies also witnessed heavybuying; however, the tele-com sector saw selling.

Reserve Bank reported anear-term growth outlookfor India seems brighter thanlast fiscal and the economy islikely to expand at 7.6 percent this year, primarily dueto better monsoon, as well asbetter money in the hands ofGovernment employeesowing to the 7th PayCommission implementa-tion, while it underlinedbearish global growth.

The 30-share Sensexresumed at 28,012.46 andmoved between a high of28,478.02 and a low of28,010.66 before concludingat 28,343.01, showing a gainof 440.35, or 1.58 per centover its last close. The NSENifty also climbed 136.90points, or 1.59 per cent, to8,744.35 after trading between8,750.60 and 8,642.25.

Meanwhile, foreign port-folio investors (FPIs) boughtshares worth a net �286.52crore on Monday, as per pro-visional data released by thestock exchanges. Among thesectoral indices, auto climbed1.81 per cent, IT 1.77 per cent,banking 1.49 per cent, finance1.45 per cent, FMCG 1.41 percent, healthcare 1.39 per cent,teck 1.29 per cent, utilities

1.26 per cent, capitalgoods 1.05 per cent, oil & gas1.14 per cent, metal 1.05 percent, realty 0.97 per cent andindustrials 0.84 per cent. Outof 30-index stocks, 29 scripsended with gains, while Airtelonly registered loss by 2.82per cent.

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The Income Tax departmenthas seized an all-time high

value of cash and jewellery,while �3,360 crore unpaid taxeshave been surrendered this yearas part of its enhanced crack-down against black money hold-ers in the country.

In a mammoth jump of overthree times in the searches,raids and seizure action in thefirst seven months of this year ascompared to the correspondingperiod of 2015, the departmentseized over �330 crore of allegedtainted cash, jewellery and othermovable and immovable assets.

Last year, this figure stoodat �102.50 crore. An officialreport prepared in this regardstates that I-T raids and search-es this year have beaten allrecords of the last about five

years in terms of number of suchactions conducted, seizuresmade and subsequently theuntaxed income brought to theGovernment coffers.

The figures compiled in thereport, which has been accessedby PTI, state that the I-TDepartment carried out only 55searches between January-July2015, while these numbers roseto 148 in the correspondingperiod this year, cash seized dur-ing these operations jumpedthrice to over �254 crore ascompared to �76.72 crore lastyear, and the value of jewelleryand precious metals seized thisyear stands at � 84.59 crore as

compared to � 21.59 crore in2105.

“The total value of theseizures, after I-T raids wereconducted between January-July this year, stands at �329.93crore as compared to �102.50crore during the same period lastyear. The latest figures are pro-gressive and would go over�330 crore (for Jan-July, 2016).This is a three times increase,”the report said. It said the inves-tigation directorate of theCentral Board of Direct Taxes(CBDT), the policy-makingbody of the I-T Department, hasissued strict directives to step upthese actions to unearthinstances of domestic blackmoney and go into ‘all the usualand unusual sectors’ that gen-erate untaxed wealth.

The department, across allthe 16 regional investigation

wings in the country, also gotadmitted or got surrenderedover �3,360 crore of money aftersearches were conducted, whichwas identified as unaccountedwealth, as compared to �2,146.38crore of such funds last year dur-ing the same period. The reportmentions that sleuths of theinvestigation wing, at some loca-tion in the country, are con-ducting such action every weekbased on “actionable intelligencedeveloped by both human andtechnical means.”

The maximum of the I-Tsearches this year have takenplace in the southern states of thecountry, it said, adding that edu-cation, construction, pharma-ceuticals and medical and infra-structure sectors have emerged asthe most ‘notorious businesses’where the alleged black moneyinstances were unearthed.

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LONDON: India has retained itsposition as the third largestinvestor in Britain, according toofficial UK Government figuresreleased on Tuesday. The USremains the biggest source ofinward investment, accountingfor 570 projects, and China grabsthe second spot with 156 projects,the UK’s Department forInternational Trade data showed.

The latest investment fig-ures come as a boost followingthe Brexit vote in June, as thecountry emerged as the mostpopular destination in theEuropean Union for overseasfirms. The UK recorded a total

of 2,213 inward investment pro-jects, up 11 per cent on the pre-vious year, with 116,000 jobs‘created or safeguarded’ by over-seas investment last year.

“These impressive resultsshow the UK continues to be theplace to do business. We’vebroadened our reach with emerg-ing markets across the world tocement our position as the num-ber one destination in Europe forinvestment,” said UK interna-tional trade secretary Liam Fox,who is in India this week to holdtalks with Finance Minister ArunJaitley and Commerce MinisterNirmala Sitharaman.

“The UK-India partnershiplies at the very heart of thestrategic relationship betweenour two nations, a relationshipthat has never been more impor-tant than it is today” he said.Britain cannot engage in formaltrade talks with other nationswhile it remains a member of theEU but informal talks on the ideaof future deals can be discussed.

Once Article 50 is invokedand the official process forBritain’s exit from the eco-nomic bloc is set in motion, theUK is reportedly keen to strikepacts with emerging marketslike India and China. PTI

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NEW DELHI: Ahead of theimpending launch of RelianceJio’s 4G services, telecom oper-ator Reliance Communicationson Tuesday announced app-to-app 4G calling at �1. The AnilAmbani-led firm will bundle300 minutes of app- to-app talk-ing, valid for 30 days at �1,translating into 10 minutesusage per day under the limit-ed period offer.

Users will get a daily datacredit of 7 MB into theiraccounts that can be used tomake these calls, RelianceCommunications CEOConsumer Business GurdeepSingh told reporters here.

These apps will includethe likes of WhatsApp, FBMessenger, Skype, GoogleHangout, imo and Viber.RCom, which has 110 mil-lion subscribers, however,did not disclose the numberof 4G users. RCom’s 4G LTEnetwork operates in the 850MHz spectrum band. PTI

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NEW DELHI: The 5th trancheof Sovereign Gold Bonds willopen for nine days fromSeptember 1, through whichthe Government aims to attracta large number of investors tocurb the demand for physical

gold. “Applications for the bondswill be accepted from September01, 2016 to September 09, 2016.The Bonds will be issued onSeptember 23, 2016,” the FinanceMinistry said in a statement.The Sovereign Gold Bonds

(SGBs) will be sold throughbanks, Stock HoldingCorporation of India Limited(SHCIL), designated post officesand recognised stock exchanges-- NSE and BSE. As Governmentsecurities denominated in grams

of gold, SGBs offer an alternativeto holding gold in physical form.The scheme was announced bythe Government on October 30,last year. To improve attractive-ness of the scheme, new featureswere introduced in the fourth

installment, where the mini-mum subscription limit wasbrought down to 1 gm, from 2gm. The maximum amount sub-scribed by an entity can not bemore than 500 grams per personper fiscal year (April-March). PTI

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Acentral green panel hasgiven environment clear-

ance to SAIL’s �5,419-croreexpansion and modernisationproject for its Rourkela plant inOdisha. SAIL has proposedmodernisation of its RourkelaSteel Plant (RSP) by setting upa new hot strip mill with a pro-duction capacity of 3 milliontonnes per annum (MTPA),beneficiation plant of 3.3 MTPAand pellet plant of 2 MTPA.

It also seeks to enhanceproduction capacity of specialplates from 0.003 to 0.015MTPA within the premise ofRSP. SAIL's (Steel Authority ofIndia Ltd) proposal was exam-ined in the recent meeting of theExpert Appraisal Committee(EAC) under the EnvironmentMinistry.

“The EAC has recom-mended the ministry to grantenvironment clearance to theSAIL’s proposed modernisationproject in Rourkela subject tostipulation of specific condi-tions,” a senior Governmentofficial said. The cost of the pro-ject is �5,419 crore. The ore forthe new plants would be pro-cured from captive mines atKiriburu, Meghahatuburu,Bolani, Barsua and Gua inOdisha. Among specific condi-tions, the EAC has suggestedthat the company should install24x7 air monitoring devices tocontrol air emissions and vehic-ular pollution due to trans-portation of raw material andfinished product.

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Joining peers such as Xiaomi,Vivo and Gionee, Chinese hand-

set maker LeEco will assemble itssmartphones in India, investing�50 crore in the facility. Set up inpartnership with CompalElectronics, the facility in GreaterNoida will have an initial capaci-ty of 60,000 units a month. Thiswill be ramped up to 2,00,000 bythe end of December.

“We have partnered withCompal for the facility and willstart with the assembly of Le2. Wewill invest �35 crore to start withand have earmarked another �12-15 crore for the ramp-up,” LeEcoCOO Smart Electronics BusinessAtul Jain told PTI. He added thatthe facility, spread over 2,00,000 sqft, will provide jobs to nearly 200people.

“India will be a global exporthub. We are already there inChina, Hong Kong and will soonstart selling in Russia, Indonesiaand the US,” he said. Le2, whichwas launched two months ago, hasalready sold 2,00,000 units inIndia. “The facility will provide usabout 6-8 per cent cost benefit,” hesaid, adding that LeEco has a sim-ilar partnership with Compal forits facility in China. India attract-ed investment from 37 mobilemanufacturing companies in thelast one year that have generated40,000 direct jobs and 1.25 lakhindirect employment. PTI

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In a statement, the ForeignOffice said the media reportspublished regarding a letter ofdispleasure from the WhiteHouse to Pakistan’s ambas-sador to the US Jalil AbbasJilani was “completely incorrectand baseless”.

“No such letter from theWhite House has beenreceived either in our missionin Washington or this min-istry. It is nothing but a fig-ment of the reporter’s ownimagination,” it said. Agencies

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Bangladeshi media tycoonand fundamentalist Jamaat-

e-Islami leader Mir Quasem Alicould be executed soon afterthe Supreme Court on Tuesdayupheld his death sentence forcommitting war crimes duringthe country’s 1971 LiberationWar against Pakistan.

The five-member benchheaded by Chief JusticeSurendra Kumar Sinha, the firstHindu to occupy the post in theMuslim- majority country, pro-nounced a single-word judge-ment in the packed court room.

“Rejected,” said Sinha onthe appeal of 64-year-old Ali,the infamous pro-Pakistan Al-Badr milita’s third most impor-tant figure after Jamaat-e-Islamichief Motiur Rahman Nizamiand Secretary General AliAhsan Mohammad Mujahid.

Both Nizami and Mujahidhave already been executedfor 1971 war crimes. Ali is con-sidered as the key-financier ofJamaat, which was opposed to

Bangladesh’s 1971 indepen-dence from Pakistan.

In his brief comments afterthe verdict, attorney generalMahbubey Alam said that Alicould now seek presidentialclemency as his last resort tosave himself from the gallows.

“He now could be (sent) to(the) gallows anytime if hedoes not seek clemency or his mercy petition is rejected,” Alam told reporters.Ali’s lawyers were not availablefor comments.

The apex court’s decisionpaves the way for Ali’s execu-tion unless he seeks presiden-tial pardon.

Ali had filed the reviewpetition after the apex courtpublished its full verdict andthe International CrimesTribunal issued the death war-rant against him on June 6.

Ali, who owns several busi-ness houses and media outletsincluding a now suspendedTV channel, is a central exec-utive council member ofJamaat-e-Islami.

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Mogadishu: At least five people were killed and 28 injured whenjihadists exploded a suicide car bomb outside a popular hotelclose to the presidential palace in Somalia’s capital Mogadishuon Tuesday. “We have confirmed five people killed includingsecurity guards”, police officer Mohamed Abdulkadir said. Hesaid the vehicle rammed through a checkpoint and was firedon by security forces before it exploded outside the SYL hotel.

The hotel is situated close to the main entrance to the VillaSomalia government complex that includes the presidentialpalace, ministry buildings and residences. “The blast was veryhuge but thanks to God the number of casualties is less thanthe devastation suggests,” Abdulkadir said. “We have received28 people who were wounded in the blast,” said MohamedYusuf, director of the city’s main Medina hospital.

A witness described seeing a large blast and a thick plumeof smoke that rose high into the air. AFP

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Dhaka: Prime Minister SheikhHasina has requested the US toextradite the killers of herfather and founder of theNation Bangabandhu SheikhMujibur Rahman.

Hasina made the requestto US Secretary of State JohnKerry when he called on her ather office. Hasina requestedthe US to extradite the killersof ‘Bangabandhu’ and most ofhis family members, who areliving there.

In response to Hasina’srequest, Kerry said that the USwas considering the request. “Iunderstand your sensitivity, theissue is under review,” Kerry saidon Monday. Currently, theBangladesh government is pur-suing diplomatic and legal effortsto bring back six death-rowfugitive killers of Bangabandhu,Dhaka Tribune reported.

On August 15, 1975, agroup of junior army officersinvaded the presidential res-idence with tanks and killedMujib, his family and per-sonal staff. PTI

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Kathmandu: Nepal moun-taineering authorities have saidthat an Indian couple faked aMount Everest ascent earlierthis year by altering photographsto make it appear they were onthe summit, officials said.

A Mountaineering Depar-tment official said the govern-ment has canceled the climbingcertificates issued to Indian cit-izens Dinesh and TarakeshwariRathod and banned them fromclimbing any mountain in theHimalayan nation for 10 years.

They had claimed theyscaled the 8,850-meter (29,035-foot) peak in May and the gov-ernment issued them climbingcertificates based on the pho-tographs. Their declaration wasdisputed by fellow climbers andan investigation was launched.

Another Indian climber,Satyarup Sidhantha said it washis photograph that the couplealtered to make it appear theywere on the summit. The couple,who are both police officersfrom Pune in the Indian state ofMaharastra, also claimed theywere the first Indian couple toscale Everest. AP

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US President Barack Obamawill embark on his last Asia

trip later this week which wouldfocus on key issues of climatechange, global economy andthose concerning Asia Pacificregion, a top offiical has said.

Obama will leave for a week-long trip to Asia — his 10th tothe Asia Pacific region — thatwould take him to China andLaos. He would be the first USpresident to visit Laos.

In China, Obama would beattending the G-20 Summit,scheduled for September 4,which among others would beattended by the Prime MinisterNarendra Modi.

Obama and Modi are likelyto meet on the sidelines of the G-20 Summit, but no announce-ment has been made yet. Obama

would meet his Chinese coun-terpart Xi Jinping on September3. “We’ll be reviewing all of theissues that have been front andcentre in the US-China rela-tionship for the last seven and ahalf years.

“On the positive side, we’ll beable to review the progress we’vemade on the global economy, onclimate change, our sharedefforts to prevent the prolifera-tion of nuclear weapons throughthe Iran deal, ourshared concernabout the situa-tion on theKorean Penin-sula,” saidB e nRhodes,t h eDeputyN a t -i o n a l

Security Advisor. They wouldalso be addressing differences, inthe area of cyber, some of theeconomic practices, tensionsaround maritime issues in theSouth China Sea and, differenceson human rights as well.

“But, again, I think this isgoing to be the last occasion ofthis sort for the President tospend several hours with hisChinese counterpart and toreview the state of US- Chinarelations and to try to see wherewe can make progress, andworking together on areas ofcommon interest or bridgingsome of the differences thathave been characteristic of therelationship,” he said.

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Surrounded by smoke and flames, the sound of gunshots echo-ing around him, the young man crouched in the creek for

hours, listening to the men in his family die.On the other side of the mountain, another survivor peered

through binoculars as the handcuffed men of neighboring villageswere shot and then buried by a waiting bulldozer. For six days hewatched as the extremists filled one grave after another with hisfriends and relatives. Between them, the two scenes of horror onSinjar mountain contain six burial sites and the bodies of morethan 100 people, just a smallfraction of the mass gravesIslamic State extremists havescattered across Iraq and Syria.

In exclusive interviews,photos and research, TheAssociated Press has docu-mented and mapped 72 of themass graves, the most com-prehensive survey so far, withmany more expected to beuncovered as the Islamic Stategroup’s territory shrinks.

In Syria, AP has obtainedlocations for 17 mass graves,including one with the bodies of hundreds of members of a sin-gle tribe all but exterminated when IS extremists took over theirregion. For at least 16 of the Iraqi graves, most in territory too dan-gerous to excavate, officials do not even guess the number of dead.

In others, the estimates are based on memories of trauma-tised survivors, Islamic State propaganda and what can be gleanedfrom a cursory look at the earth. Still, even the known victimsburied are staggering from 5,200 to more than 15,000.

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of Management, in collabo-ration with ColumbiaBusiness School, haslaunched a course on ‘DigitalMarketing: Customerengagement, social media,planning and analytics’. The10-week certificate programme starting from October 6, 2016has been uniquely designed to assist professionals to transforminto digital marketers of the future. The programme focuseson how marketers can reach digitally savvy audiences, builddeep customer relationships, and influence the digital path topurchase.

The course has been divided into 10 modules with 159interactive lectures, 10 real world applications, 24 discussions,a case study, a capstone assignment and a simulation.Candidates with over five years of work experience as onSeptember 1, 2016 can apply for the course. The last date forapplying for this course is September 30, 2016. The course feeis �60, 485 approximately. For more information visit:http://emeritus.org/management-certificate-programs/digital-marketing/.

����������!�����������������Missouri State University (MSU), USA, has announced

admissions for Masters in Business Administration. The pro-gramme thrives on predicting change in a global economy andchallenging students to embrace its opportunity. It isAssociation to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business(AACSB) accredited. The course provides the entire knowl-edge spectrum and skills required of a business leader andstrategic thinker of tomorrow.

The course offers rigorous training in business adminis-tration as the curriculum facilitates a combination of real-worldexperience, work placements, fieldwork and classroom-basedactivities related to Business and Finance management.

The student would also have completed an undergradu-ate degree in the relevant field from a recognised universityare eligible to apply. A GMAT score of at least 500 is requiredto apply in MSU. English language requirement is TOEFL of79 or 6.0 banded IELTS score in each component— reading,writing, listening and speaking. The duration of the programmeis 18 months and the deadline to apply is October 2016. Thecourse will commencement from January 2017. To apply, logon to http://international.missouristate.edu/india.

The Camel Art Foundation(CAF), the philanthropic

wing of Kokuyo CamlinLimited, has announced launchof Camel Art Foundation (CAF)2016 contest for all profession-al artists and students. There isno entry fee and the age crite-ria for applying is 18 years andabove. Launched in 1998, CAFpromotes art and is dedicated toprovide a platform for buddingartists to showcase their talent

and work. In the professionalcategory, there will be fournational cash awards of �1 lakheach, while in the students cat-egory, there would be 12 nation-al cash awards, i.e. three permedium with the first prize permedium being �50,000 andtwo best entry prizes per medi-um being �21,000 each.Applicant has to fill up the formand attach a high resolutionimage of the painting and a copy

of student ID card, if applicable,and submit the entry. A uniquesystem generated code will becreated which will be the refer-ence code. The participantshave to submit their entriesonline by logging on tohttp://www.camelartfounda-tion.com/about-contest.html.The exhibition of prize winningand selected works will be heldat Jehangir Art Gallery fromJanuary 3 to 9, 2017 in Mumbai.

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Internship is now open for applications. This12-week competitive research internship willbring a select group of international under-graduate students to Canada between May andSeptember 2017. Research projects will be car-ried out under the supervision of top researchersat more than 45 Canadian universities. Thedeadline for applications is September 20,2016.

Globalink research interns will have oppor-tunities to network with professors, Governmentrepresentatives, and business leaders, and will

develop their skills in a variety of professionaldevelopment workshops. The experience isenriched by the presence of Globalink studentadvisors who help interns adjust to life on cam-pus and in Canada.

Mitacs is a national, not-for-profit organi-sation that has designed and delivered researchand training programmes in Canada for 16 years.Globalink Research Internship alumni interestedin returning to Canada for graduate studies areeligible for the Globalink Graduate Fellowship.

For more information on eligibility and theapplication process, visit www.mitacs.ca.

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Hiring in IT companies hasseen a major decline in the

past few years and openings fortech jobs are going unfulfilled dueto lack of skilled graduates. Totackle this issue and bridge theexisting skill gap, Udacity, with itsBe In Demand campaign, aimsto upskill one million studentsand professionals across thecountry and make them job-ready.

IT companies globally todayare focusing on strengtheningtheir existing workforce in termsof incentivising employees toupskill themselves. When itcomes to hiring a new workforce,students with latest technical

skills and aptitude have a muchbetter chance of getting hired,especially for the high payingjobs, than the ones without. TheBe In Demand campaign byUdacity with Venturesity is a steptowards solving this rampantunemployability problemamongst engineers in the coun-try.

Vardhan Koshal, countryhead, India at Udacity, said:“According to a World EconomicForum report, traditional ITjobs are expected to see a decline

of 0.38 per cent annually through2015 to 2020. Another recentreport by assessment firmAspiring Minds has revealedthat more than 80 per cent engi-neering graduates are unem-ployable in the country. This is ahuge challenge for the IT indus-try where jobs in big data, datascience, mobile and cloud com-puting will drive the IT industryin the next decade. With our newcampaign, we are aiming toupskill one lakh engineeringgraduates across the country

and make them easily employ-able for the best in the industry.”

With this campaign, Udacityplans to reach out to all 3,300engineering colleges and partnerwith selected Institutes to helpthem with resources to make thenext 100,00 engineers job-readyin terms of being well versed inthe latest technology. Careertraining for tech jobs, knowledgeevents, career fairs and nanode-gree scholarships are some of thecomponents that Udacity plans tointegrate in its campaign. Thecompany’s courses and paid cer-tification programmes calledNanodegrees are built by leadingtechnology companies.

Colleges are considered to be the mecca of inno-vation and knowledge where newer ideasspring every day and when nurtured can result

into successful brands. The number of resources thatare instantly accessible puts you in a better positionto start a business. There are numerous examplesof successful companies that were started in collegeincluding the likes of Facebook, Google and Apple.Though it is no easy task to shuffle between collegeeducation and business, it is not an impossible taskeither. The best thing to do for being a college entre-preneur is to leverage education to meet your busi-ness cause.

Here’s how you can make the most of your edu-cation while starting a business.

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should be to acquire skills that are needed to startyour own business. Take as many internships as youcan and get to know the market for your idea. Theopportunity of working with various organizationswill give you an insight into how different compa-nies operate and work. This understanding will helpyou in getting started and staying on course in theright direction.

������������Mentors are vital in streamlining your thoughts

and aligning them with your goals. A mentor canbe anyone who has an understanding of what youwant to pursue in your entrepreneurial stint.Usually professors turn out to be extremely goodmentors since they are in constant touch with stu-dents throughout the college years. Take out timeand discuss your idea with your professor. Chancesare that your professor can turn into a wonderfulguide or in some cases connect you with othernotable alumni who shares the same vision as you.This in itself ensures that half your job is done.

��� �� � �����!��The old students of your college are a won-

derful resource that usually remains untapped.Reach out to themthrough alumni net-works and make aconnection. Better still,you can send them anemail with your pro-posal for combiningtalent and workingtogether. There isnothing more touch-ing for an alumnusthan receiving aneducation mail fromhis/her collegejunior. You can def-initely expect revertsfor your mail withgood probability offuture collaboration.

��������������������!�Joining Entrepreneurship-cell and other busi-

ness groups are extremely helpful if you would loveto pursue your passion while in college. Being a partof entrepreneurship cell will cultivate the habit of

creative thinking in you. You will have the chanceto pitch your ideas and get real-time feedback fromsimilar aspiring entrepreneurs. Being a part of busi-ness groups will give you the opportunity to attendvarious business meets and get interesting ideas thatcan be added to your own existing list of ideas.

���������!������������Test your ideas and get public opinions for the

same by taking part in various entrepreneurshipcompetitions. You can validate the potential of yourbusiness plan and get an insight into the availabil-

ity of a market for your idea. Though onlya handful of the business plans that are

presented in entrepreneurship com-petitions get pursued beyond the

planning stage, this is animportant exercise to

refine your ideas andcome up with afinal plan to takef o r w a r d .

Incubators and accel-erators are often called

as jury to such competi-tions which again can help

you get that financial thrust. Pursuing entrepreneurship

in college can seem a little tricky butis entirely doable. A strong belief in

your ideas and courage to turn theminto reality will be the key differentiating factor thatensures success. Be sure to make use of all collegeresources and the cushion to experiment with thingsto your full advantage. Be prepared to fail, tweak yourplans and persist for the longest time to be a suc-cessful entrepreneur.

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The Mahatma Gandhi KashiVidyapith (MGKVP),

Varanasi, invites appli-cation for CombinedPre Ayush Test 2016(CPAT) for admissionin Bachelor of Ayurveda,Medicine and Surgery(BAMS), Bachelor ofUnani Medicine &Surgery (BUMS) andBachelor of HomoeopathicMedicine and Surgery (BHMS)programmes. Up until last year,the AYUSH exam in UttarPradesh was held under CPMT.However, this year with the can-cellation of CPMT, the Ministryselected Kashi Vidyapith toorganise the AYUSH exam in2016.

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pass Class XII with Physics,Chemistry, Biology/Bio (UrduSubject in Class X is compul-sory for BUMS course) in anyrecognised university or Board.The age limit is minimum 17years.

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examination will be the same as

CPMT andcandidates will get to know thesyllabus details in the informa-tion brochure. The MGKVPadministration will also releasethe answer keys for the exam-ination on 27 September .

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be held on September 25 in 10cities — Agra, Allahabad,Bareilly, Ghaziabad, Gorakhpur,Jhansi, Kanpur, Lucknow,Meerut and Varanasi. The lastdate of online submission ofapplication form is September3, 2016 and the online fee sub-mission ends on September 4,2016. The results will beannounced on October 4, 2016.To apply online, log on tohttp://cpatup2016.org/cpat2016jdfvs.

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The Chopras has joining hands withArts University Bournemouth (AUB)

to organise a film competition — Enterthe Big Green Film Challenge. The five-minute short film contest based on thetopic of sustainability is aimed at mak-ing students think and act responsibly.The competition is open to all Indian stu-dents aged between 15 and 19 years. Thestudent whose film is adjudged as thebest will be awarded with a Go Pro videocamera at The Chopras Global EducationInteract in New Delhi on October 1,2016. All the other contestants will

receive a certificate of participation.Participants can choose to frame

their film (documentary or fictional)within the subtopics of people, places orinnovation. Working in a team isapproved, but only one person per teamcan enter the film. The last date to sendthe filled application form along with a300-word note and video is September5, 2016 before 4:30 pm.

Every student is allowed to send onlyone entry. To enter the challenge, it isimperative to fill in all the requireddetai ls in the form ataub.ac.uk/BigGreenFilmChallenge.

For full terms and conditions, tipsand judging parameters from renownedUK Filmmaker-cum-professor SuriKrishnamma, interested participants canvisit aub.ac.uk/BigGreenFilmChallenge.

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Despite the Government spending morethan �30,000 crores towards skill train-

ing, vocational skilling and education,India is still plagued by low esteem anddemand supply mismatch states TeamLeaseSignalling Value of Skill Education andHands on-job report.

According to the report, only 2 per centof the workforce has opted for formal skilltraining making it one of the least preferredstreams of education. The report attribut-es the low penetration of vocational learn-ing to the lack of appreciation for hands ontraining, limited upward mobility, weaklabour market linkages and strong percep-

tion of labour as inferior which commandsmere subsistent wages.

Moreover, apart from social standing,the current vocational education system hasnot been able to impress the employerseither. Employers viewed vocational edu-cated candidates to be marginally better thanthe untrained. In fact, most corporates wereskeptical about the quality of training andhence provided the recruits with in-housetraining. They were also wary of trained can-

didates attiring within a short period.Career decisions are still guided by non-

professionals with 76 per cent of respondentsdepended on parents to help them choosetheir careers, whereas only 53 per cent of thecandidates relied on teachers and careeradvisors. While corporates are struggling tofill their blue collar/skilled profiles, talentregardless of gender aspires to secure anadministrative job. Desk jobs are rankedright at the top by talent.

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and BDS programmes of the GuruGobind Singh Indraprastha Universityand wish to get some correction donein the details like name, date of birth,category etc, must submit an applicationalong with correction fee of �500.

They can submit the Indian bankchallan, which can be deposited duringbanking hours in the Indian Bank of theuniversity campus in cash only, to theacademics branch of the universityfrom 10 am to 4 pm before September2, 2016 by 1 pm. After that, no requestof correction will be entertained.

The aspirants, who want to apply for

MBBS and BDS programmes, arerequired to fill up separate registrationforms and pay separate registration feeof both the programmes. Admission inMBBS and BDS programmes will be car-ried out on the basis of NEET rank. Theuniversity has already started online reg-istration process for both the pro-grammes. Now, all the NEET qualifiedcandidates are required to registeronline on the university websitewww.ipu.ac.in and fill up the details suchas All India NEET rank, NEET rollnumber, category etc.

The candidates, who have not filledup IP CET form for MBBS or BDS

course earlier, are required to pay �1000as registration charges.

Online registration will be open tillSeptember 1, 2016 till 4 pm.

Tentative merit list will be drawn onthe basis of NEET rank as filled up bythe candidates and will be displayed onthe website. Final merit list will be pre-pared only after verification of relevantdocuments and then rank wise coun-selling will be organised for admission.

MBBS programme is available inVardhman Mahaveer Medical College,Hindu Rao Medical College, Baba SahebAmbedkar Medical College and ArmyMedical College. The BDS programmeis available in ESI Dental College.

For more information, log on towww.ipu.ac.in.

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TERI University haslaunched a course on

Sustainable Consumption andProduction (SCP). In partner-ship with the United NationsEnvironment Programme(UNEP) and with the supportof European Union, the uni-versity aims to enhance learn-ing on SCP, which is part of thesustainable development goals.

The course, which is partof MA Public Policy andSustainable Development pro-gramme offered by the uni-versity, is meant forGovernment policy makersand graduate students of theuniversity to learn aboutstrengthening public gover-nance for SCP and resourceefficiency.

The course will be offeredas a core requirement for stu-dents in the MA Public Policy

and Sustainable Developmentand as an elective course forother postgraduate pro-grammes at the university.

This partnership also madepossible the launch of a seriesof Mini-BLISS Schools. Theseschools, which are essentiallyshort duration interactiveworkshops held at TERIUniversity, will introduce sus-tainable development conceptsin 30 low-income publicschools of Delhi andHyderabad, aiming to provideexposure to around 900 stu-dents and teachers. The ses-sions will be led by the post-graduate and PhD scholars ofthe university. A kit includingsolar lanterns by TERI will begiven to each student for accessto renewable energy and light-ing sources at their homes andfor schoolwork.

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University of Chicago Booth School of Business ExecutiveEducation to launch a programme — Chicago Booth AcceleratedDevelopment Program-India (Chicago Booth ADP - India). Thisprogramme caters to senior executives in the Indian sub-continentand offers exposure to key business concepts and strategies in anintensive format over 10 months. It will have three academic in-class modules at the University of Chicago and Booth campusesin New Delhi, Hong Kong, and Chicago; as well as three workshopsessions, three online foundation programmes, and several peerassisted learning exercises offered by their partner, NorthwestExecutive Education. The programme will develop a wider gen-eral management perspective outside their traditional area of exper-tise, to take their careers to the next level. The programme will beginin December, 2016. For more information, log on to http://north-west.in/chicago-booth-accelerated-development-program-adp/

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The University of BritishColumbia is inviting appli-cations for doctoral scholar-ship for Canadian and inter-national applicants. Thestipend for the 2016-2017awards is $30,000 per annumfor two years and a $2,000allowance for research-relatedtravel during the 24 months ofthe scholarship.

Eligibility: Applicantsmust have completed no morethan 24 months of doctoralstudy as of the start date of thescholarship. Therefore, appli-cants to the fall 2016 compe-tition must have completed nomore than 24 months of doc-toral study as of September 1,2017. Applicants from outsidethe home country will oftenneed to meet specific Englishlanguage/other languagerequirements in order to beable to study there. Applicantsmust have previous degree.

How to apply: Applicantssubmit their application mate-rials to the College ofGraduate Studies. Students,who submit an NSERC doc-toral or an SSHRC doctoralaward application to theCollege of Graduate Studiesand are successfully forward-ed to the Faculty of Graduateand Postdoctoral Studies(G+PS), are automaticallyconsidered for KillamDoctoral Scholarship funding.

These stu-dents do not need to

submit a separate AffiliatedFellowship application.Applicants may submit com-plete application forms direct-ly to graduate awards.ok-at-ubc.ca or submit a hard(paper) copy to the College ofGraduate Studies.

Application deadline:The application deadline isSeptember 15, 2016.

Up to 60 summerresearch scholarships areavailable at the University ofAdelaide each year.

Eligibility: These schol-arships are available to under-graduate students, particu-larly those in the later years oftheir Bachelor’s degree whowish to undertake a six-weekproject at the University ofAdelaide over the 2016-2017summer vacation. Shouldhave completed some studytowards a degree, which is ata standard acceptable foradmission to an Honours pro-gramme. Australian citizens,permanent residents, or citi-zens of other countries andinternational students whohold current visas permittingstudy in Australia are eligibleto apply.

How to apply :Applicants must consult thestaff of the relevant disci-pline in which they intendto undertake a project.Completed applicationforms should be sent by post.

Application deadline: IsOctober 7, 2016.

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The CFA Institute and theIndian Association ofInvestment Professionals (IAIP),launched the Career Guide Indiaat the Career Day andNetworking event recently.Senior CFA charterholders andopinion leaders from the Indianinvestment management indus-try shared their insights onwhat employers in India want.

The guide features inter-

views with 26 CFA charter-holders who have used theknowledge and training of theCFA programmes over thecourse of their careers, andtracks their individual accountsof professional success.

The central focus of thisguide is to encourage CFAcharterholders and charterpendings who aspire for a careerin the investment management.

Autodesk University (AU)India and SAARC 2016 will beheld on September 1, 2016 at theCIDCO Exhibition Centre, NaviMumbai. This will be the fourthconsecutive year for AU Indiaand SAARC and the event isexpected to attract an atten-dance of 4,000-plus partici-pants, including design profes-sionals, engineers, students,industry experts and technolo-gy enthusiasts.

The event will showcase thelatest product and technologyinnovations from the industryand would also comprise ofinteractive workshops, demon-strations, knowledge sessions,and a display of exhibits.

A key highlight this year isa daylong Maker festival co-hosted by India MakerMovement and NASSCOM10,000 Start-ups in partner-ship with Maker Fest.

Thomas Cook Tours(TCT)’s Centre of Learning,also the education and train-ing vertical of Thomas Cook(India) Ltd, has signed amemorandum of under-standing (MOU) with SharadNautiyal, general managerTraining, representing theMadhya Pradesh StateTourism DevelopmentCorporation Limited andSmeeta Gulvady, vice-presi-dent and head, Centre of

Learning, Thomas Cook(India) Ltd in the presence ofHari Ranjan Rao MD,Madhya Pradesh StateTourism DevelopmentCorporation Ltd.

Under the MOU trainingwill be imparted — ExploreMadhya Pradesh — viaengaging learning modules toover 660 travel agents, cover-ing 20 cities. A qualifyingevaluation will be followedpost the training session.

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In an endeavour to improvethe quality of life of the under-privileged youth by providingskill training, the Amara RajaGroup launched the AmaraRaja Skill Development Centrein 2014, with an investment ofaround �30 crore, at Pettamitta,Tirupati in Andhra Pradesh.

This centre has been estab-lished by the Rajanna Trustwhich is run under the aegis ofthe group.

The first batch, on suc-cessful completion of the

course, was awarded multi-skill technician certificates.

The batch of 101 studentsreceived certificates at the cer-emony from the chief guestProfessor Avula Damodaram,VC, Sri VenkateswaraUniversity, Tirupati. The pro-gramme is designed not only toimpart technical skills but is alsofocussed is on making thembetter team players, good anddisciplined citizens. The coursewas designed taking into con-sideration the background and

qualifications of the rural youthand the requirements of theindustry.

Speaking at the occasionProf Damodaram said: “A voca-tion opens up tremendousopportunities for a person. Thegroup has made is a com-mendable effort towards mak-ing the rural youth of ourcountry employable andencouraging them to see newavenues and options for acareer. It is a step in the rightdirection to skill India.”

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BAFEL, the academy for IELTS and Englishtraining has always been at the forefront to organ-ise skill development and time and stress man-agement programmes across India. In continu-ation to this practice British Academy forEnglish Language (BAFEL), organised — Sahaja-Yoga — to mark its new institute in Najafgarh.

Through this session participants were ableto meditate, based on an experience called self-realisation. Conducted by Kripa Narayana, thesession triggered an auspicious start to spreaddivine knowledge amongst people of all ages.

Speaking at the occasion Alka Gupta MDBAFEL said: “We are immensely proud to beginwork at our new center with a thoughtful. Thissession finely encouraged and motivated peoplealongside instilled positivity, empowering themto lead a better life both, personally and profes-sionally. Today, good communication is an essen-tial skill that can elevate your visibility and posi-tion you at the ‘helm of affairs’. We understandthis crucial need and accordingly have craftedcreative and valuable courses with expert train-ers that can assist you to sharpen your skills.”

Dr KJS Anand, Executive Director IMSNoida participated at the 3rd HR StrategyForum in Mumbai discussing on the aspectsof Human Resource in the era of experimen-tal economics.

Dr Anand graced the CEO panel and dis-cussed about the expectations of CEOs fromHR heads, among companies like MahindraFinance, Jet Airways, Essar, Yes Bank, etc. Hespoke expressively and emphasized on the pro-ductivity of the employees across Trans-nationstudies.

He said that the balanced scorecardapproach by itself has been limiting the par-ticipation of HR in strategic decision makingat Board levels. “Going forward one shouldexpect productivity decline if HR is not the onerecommending the key changes to the Businessheads rather than vice- versa,” Anand said

Charu Verma, Dean Corporate Relations,IMS Noida also accompanied Dr Anand andwas part of the inaugural session at the paneldiscussions and spoke on what CEOs wantfrom HR today.

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�What are the reasons for the risein the number of executive MBAprogrammes in India?

More and more professionals arerealising the need for managementeducation that would help them fast-track their career path. This trend isaided by the exposure to the westernworld, where routinely mid-careerexecutives look for executive educa-tion.�Why Indian B-Schools are lookingat GMAT over CAT for entrance?

Apart from limiting students totaking it just once a year, the CAT isnot designed to accurately capture themanagement potential of a candidate.It was designed to be largely a test todifferentiate the grain from the chafffor the IIMs. The GMAT is a more sci-entifically designed test that accuratelycaptures the potential success of a can-didate in a management programmeand beyond.�Do students have a preference toforeign B-schools over Indian ones?

Some students prefer the safetyand comfort of doing a world classeducation from India. Over the lastfew years, many top institutes inIndia like the top four IIMs atAhmedabad, Bangalore, Kolkata, andLucknow offer an MBA. Anotherschool that has risen in the rankingsin the last decade has been ISB. So astudent is really spoilt for choice inIndia. Having said that, the most pop-ular destination abroad for manage-ment education has been the US,which was the country where theMBA programme was invented.Students preferring the US schoolstend to slightly younger, and morewilling to take risks, for greaterrewards.�What are changes that have takenplace in GMAT in the last 10 years?

Ten years back, the best GMATteacher might have been sitting in adifferent city, and the only way toreach him might have been to travelthere. Today with technology, therehas been a level playing field so we seesome of our students from smallertowns like Jalandhar, Vadodara, andBhilai opting for our online courses.In terms of the impact of the test-scores, a better-evolved GMAT teach-ing pedagogy has resulted in betteroutcomes. The average GMAT scoreis on the rise. For example scoring 750out of a possible 800 would have got-ten you a 99 th percentile 10-yearsback,but today it is reduced to a 98 thpercentile.

�There is a lot of stress on technol-ogy to prepare for tests. Why andhow does it help?

Technology helps in two aspects.First, it helps the students learn in thecomfort of their homes. With increas-ing travel times, students prefer not totravel long distances on weekends.Online GMAT coaching such as theone offered by us, provides them theflexibility. Second, it also helps in per-sonalisation so a student can pick andchoose the components that he needsthe most help on. In some cases, per-sonal tutoring along with an onlinecourse can help boost his preparation.� Should a student opt for onlinecourses or traditional classroomprogrammes to prepare for suchtests?

This is pretty much a question ofpersonal preference. The studenttoday has the best of both worlds —he can choose to attend a traditionalclassroom programme if he feels hewants the discipline and rigour of aclassroom setting. Or he can chooseto attend an online programme if heprefers the flexibility and personali-sation of an online course.�What is making mobiles a smartway to learning?

We are spending more time on themobile than in front of our comput-ers. So the biggest advantage it offersis it is always with us. For a busy pro-fessional, preparation might meanstealing sometime from a busy workschedule, or doing a long commute towork. There is no need to do anything— just put on the headphones andconsume content. With better inter-net bandwidth and greater mobilepenetration, mobile learning is chang-ing the face of test prep.

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Augmented reality is not a new phenomenon for somebut certainly a new experience for the masses as theyare now witnessing the technologies moving from tac-

tical to practical. The very application of augmented real-ity tech is an enriching experience and soon we will wit-ness people walking around in malls, on roads, in factorieswearing virtual reality (VR) headsets.

The landscape has been radically altered with PokemonGo and its acceptability across the young populations hasexpedited the oncoming wave or e-transformation at muchdifferentiated levels. The integration of virtual reality —theonline world with brick and mortar business is now near-ing fulfillment. Digital business or rather marketing wouldnow have a new meaning and we will certainly see manynew phraseologies being deployed by marketers. Virtual real-ity was never complete, though we did know this but cer-tainly did not know what next was coming and how toexpress ourselves.

Augmented reality, at present being deployed in gam-ing, will bring in new marketing formats for the retail indus-try to start with and then move into other sectors in theB2C domain. The core reason for this is generic formatsthat can be tweaked a little to suit each and every player.B2B domains will take some time as deployments of tai-lored solutions are developed.

E-commerce and M-commerce will witness a radicalchange in thought and actionables and in one year’s timewe will see the online retailers deploying e-toolsenabled with augmented reality features. Gamificationof the elements for product and process, will take offand live demos will certainly be a holistic immersingexperience. The oncoming concepts are mesmerising.

There are a few startups in India which are into thedevelopment, sale and manufacture of VR headsets —this market is likely to boom in the next three years andhence these companies now need to develop goodproducts and move up the value chain from thebeta versions that they now have in the market.They need to have VR headsets that no longercause eye fatigue and can be worn for longerperiods of time.

Students in engineering colleges andtechnical courses can certainly chip in withstartups, looking to cash in on the huge

opportunity that is coming in. Technology business incu-bators will by next year have a few startup companies withbusiness models offering services, hardware and softwarefor the VR world. Gaming technologies and software willnow be actively used to build interactive/augmented real-ity solutions for businesses and tons of money will flow intothis sector.

Computer science students will have a new high pay-ing segment to fall back upon and many regular apps andgames will be transformed into augmented reality graph-ical user interfaces. Mobile phones will now have much big-ger batteries and 6 to 8 GB of ram as standard.

A simple example is an e-shop where you can walkaround with mobiles pointed to display racks or VR head-sets and the business offering targeted discounting/offersto each customer and the pricing model tailored to suit eachbuyer rather than have bold universally applicable 50 percent off sale tags.

On a visit to the Taj Mahal you could actually walk withShah Jahan as he takes a stroll on the lawns of the Taj oreven decide to fight in the Battle of Plassey or walk withour Father of the Nation on his Dandi March from Sabarmati

Ashram to right up to Dandi and live the experience.History will no longer be a theoretical subject.

The 3D imaging will now get a new lease oflife as content will have to develop for the com-plete immersive experience. You could walk up

Mount Everest with a climbing expedition whose real climbhas been documented using 3D cameras. Learning engi-neering you could participate in building a car at the Marutiplant or grow trees in the many farming related games realtime rather than just clicks — which the current gamingplatforms deploy.

Students with attention deficit hyperactivity dis-order or even slow learners would now be better

able to relate to the practical aspects of learningand their retention will certainly be much high-er, thereby giving us a much better and com-petitive workforce.

We will also see Facebook radicallychanging the home page and bringing in aug-mented reality elements within the next oneyear.

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Wrestler YogeshwarDutt said on Tuesdaythat he has been

informed that the bronzemedal he won at the 2012London Olympic Games wasupgraded to silver.

The World Anti-DopingAgency (WADA) had recent-ly decided to retest samplesfrom the 2008 BeijingOlympics and the 2012 Gameswhich returned with severalpositive results.

According to a report byflowrestling.org, men’s 60 kgfreestyle category runner-upin 2012 Games, late RussianBesik Kudukhov’s sample alsotested positive for a bannedsubstance.

As a result, Yogeshwar’sbronze has been upgraded tosilver. And the Haryana grap-pler wrote about it on Twitter.

“This morning I got toknow that my Olympic medalhas been upgraded to Silver. Idedicate this medal to my

countrymen,” is the Englishrendering of what Yogeshawarwrote in Hindi.

Yogeshwar had defeatedRi Jong-myong of North Koreain the bronze medal play-offwho should now move upfrom the fifth position.

Following a rather poorperformance by wrestlers anddismal overall show in Rio,Yogeshwar’s up gradation to sil-ver is heartening news

The 33-year-old will nowjoin fellow Haryana wrestlerSushil Kumar as the secondIndian silver medallist fromthe 2012 Olympics.

The results however, areyet to be officially confirmedby the United WorldWrestling (UWW), theInternational OlympicCommittee (IOC) and theWrestling Federation of India(WFI).

On whether and whenYogeshwar, who had bowedout in the first round of men’s65kg freestyle at the recentlyconcluded Rio Olympic

Games, would be handed a sil-ver medal will be confirmedonly when the WrestlingFederation of India (WFI)gets it in writing from theWorld body (UWW).

Kudukhov, who defeatedYogeshwar in the pre-quarterfi-nals at the 2012 Olympics, is con-sidered to be one of the greatesticons of modern wrestling.

He was a four-time worldchampion across two weightdivisions and had won gold inevery World Championship hecompeted in from 2007 to 2011.

He burst onto the interna-tional stage in sensationalstyle at the age of 20 when hereached the final of the 2006World Championships inGuangzhou, China.

He also became EuropeanChampion in 2007. He alsowon a bronze medal in 2008Beijing Olympics.

Kudukhov died onDecember 29, 2013 in a car crashon a federal highway in south-ern Russia between KrasnodarKrai and Vladikavkaz.

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�!��� India’s star batsman Virat Kohlihas maintained his number one positionin the T20 batsmen rankings, while off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin returnedto the top five in the bowlers’ list, climb-ing up to fourth spot from seventh.

KL Rahul has moved up as many as67 places to be at 31st spot, riding onhis unbeaten century during the two-match series against the West Indies.

With the second match of theseries being called off due to wet con-ditions, the West Indies won the two-T20 series 1-0 on the basis of theirthrilling one-run win in the openinggame and that helped the Caribbeanside narrow the gap with India in theteam rankings.

Two-time World T20 championWest Indies, which was six points behind

second-placed India’s 128 points beforethe series, is now just one point adrift at125 with India on 126. New Zealand leadthe table with 132 points.

Meanwhile, India’s Rohit Sharmahas moved up five places to reach 17thfollowing knocks of 62 and 10 not out.

In the bowlers’ ranking, Ashwin,who enjoyed a career-high rank of sec-ond in February and March this year,grabbed two for 11 in the secondmatch to earn three places and be backin top five.

Bhuvneshwar Kumar (67th) andMohammad Shami (82nd) were theothers to move up the bowlers’ rankings.

Leg-spinner Amit Mishra, playinghis first match since the ICC WT20 in2014, has re-entered the rankings at104th position. PTI

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Off-spinner Dane Piedt ended adefiant partnership between

Henry Nicholls and BJ Watling tonudge South Africa towards a series-clinching win in the second Testagainst New Zealand on Tuesday.

New Zealand were 95 for five attea on the fourth day after being seta near-impossible 400 to win.

Nicholls and Watling put on 68 forthe fifth wicket after coming togeth-er in the fourth over with NewZealand’s innings in tatters at 7/4.

They resisted South Africa’spotent pace attack for two hours ona tricky pitch before Watling was legbefore wicket to Piedt for 32 short-ly before tea.

Dale Steyn bowled Tom Lathamwith the first ball of the final innings,then had Latham’s fellow opener,Martin Guptill, caught at first slip,also for a first ball duck, off the finalball of the over.

The magnitude of New Zealand’s

task was shown in the second overwhen captain and first innings top-scorer Kane Williamson was strucka painful blow on the left hand by aball from Vernon Philander whichreared up off a good length. He

required lengthy treatment beforeresuming his innings.

The team physiotherapist wentonto the field twice more to treat theplayer before Williamson was caughtbehind off Philander for five.

In between, Ross Taylor wastrapped leg before wicket by anunplayable ball from Steyn, whichskidded through barely above ankleheight off a pitch with increasinglyunpredictable bounce.

Guptill, a heavy scorer in limit-ed overs international cricket, againraised doubts about his technique inTest cricket when he edged a ball thatseamed away from him.

In three innings in the truncatedseries, Latham and Guptill scored acombined 23 runs and the highest totalat the fall of the second wicket was 13,putting pressure on Williamson andthe remaining batsmen. South Africaadded 27 runs in 13 overs, for the lossof Philander’s wicket, before declar-ing their second innings on 132 forseven. Temba Bavuma made 40*.

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Novak Djokovic double-faulted, thenshook his right arm and grimaced.Seconds later on Monday night, a

weak serve produced a wince from the USOpen's defending champion, then was fol-lowed by a missed forehand that gave awaya set — the first set dropped by Djokovicin the first round of any Grand Slam tour-nament since 2010.

While he managed to emerge with a6-3, 5-7, 6-2, 6-1 victory over JerzyJanowicz of Poland, there were plenty ofsigns of trouble, starting with a visit froma trainer who massagedDjokovic's bothersome armafter only five games.

Asked about his healthduring an on-court inter-view, Djokovic deflected thequestion, saying, "I don't think it's neces-sary to talk about this now. I'm through.I'm taking it day by day."

When the subject arose at his newsconference, Djokovic again avoidedaddressing the topic, saying the trainer'svisit "was just prevention; it's all good."

During the match, Djokovic hit firstserves around 100 mph, sometimes slow-er — 25 mph or so below what's normalfor him. He hit second serves in the low80s mph. He flexed that right arm, the onehe has used to wield a racket on the wayto 12 Grand Slam titles, and appeared gen-erally unhappy, covering his head with awhite towel at changeovers.

Djokovic's coach, Boris Becker,gnawed on his fingernails, looking nervousas can be. All in all, Djokovic's issues fig-

ure to loom large as the tournament pro-gresses, and therefore amounted to the mostnoteworthy development at FlushingMeadows, even if there were results of inter-est elsewhere.

Those included No 8-seeded MadisonKeys' 4-6, 7-6 (5), 6-2 comeback victoryover 60th-ranked Alison Riske in the lastmatch of the night. It finished at 1:48 am,well after Keys took a medical timeoutwhile a trainer worked on her right shoul-der in the second set, and extended Riske'sGrand Slam losing streak to 10 matches.

That was one of three intriguing all-American contests Monday. The others

were 20th-seeded John Isner'scomeback from two sets downto edge 18-year-old FrancesTiafoe before a rowdy, stand-ing-room-only crowd at thenew Grandstand, and 26th-

seeded Jack Sock's five-set victory overanother 18-year-old, Taylor Fritz.

There was more drama, too. A first-round loss by Rio Olympics gold medal-ist Monica Puig, and French Open cham-pion Garbine Muguruza's complaintsabout having trouble breathing after drop-ping the first set of a match she would goon to win in three.

This was the No 1-ranked Djokovic'sfirst match at a major since losing to SamQuerrey in the third round of Wimbledon,which ended the Serb's bid for a calendar-year Grand Slam after titles at theAustralian Open and French Open. Heexited the Rio Olympics in the first roundthis month, then sat out the CincinnatiMasters because of a sore left wrist.

"After all I've been through in last cou-

ple of weeks, it's pleasing, of course, to fin-ish the match and win it," said Djokovic,who lost to his next opponent, Jiri Vesely,at Monte Carlo in April. "Look, each daypresents us some kind of challenges that weneed to overcome, accept and overcome."

The wrist appeared to be just fineagainst Janowicz, a former top-20 playerwho reached the semifinals at Wimbledonin 2013 and is now ranked 247th after hisown series of injuries.

Earlier in Arthur Ashe Stadium, RafaelNadal stood near the net after winning hisfirst Grand Slam match in three months— 6-1, 6-4, 6-2 against Denis Istomin —and unraveled the thick wrap of white tapeprotecting his all-important left wrist. Hesaid he's still not back to hitting his fore-hand the way he does when he's at his best.

Nadal's afternoon match was playedwith the new $150 million retractable roofopen under a blue sky, while offering someextra shade on a day when the tempera-

ture reached 90 degrees.The good news for Nadal, he said after-

ward, is that the pain is gone from his wrist,which whips those violent, topspin-heavyforehands that are the key to his success —14 of his 21 winners came off that wing.

The bad news for Nadal?He still is working on feeling comfort-

able hitting down-the-line forehands, inparticular, after sitting out — not just zeroreal matches, but barely any practice, either— from his withdrawal at the French Openin late May to the Olympics.

"Not easy to go 2½ months out of com-petition, in the middle of the season, with-out hitting a forehand," Nadal said. "I needto have the confidence again with my wrist."

Both Nadal and his coach, Uncle Toni,described the way Rafael changed the wayhe hits a forehand during the Rio Gamesto try to avoid pain.

Both said things are improving. But asToni noted: "We need a little time."

Istomin, ranked 107th, was not likelyto give Nadal much of a test. So what didhe think of Nadal's play Monday?

"For the first set, I was feeling that hewas not hitting hard," Istomin said. "A lotof short balls."

Nadal's summation of his day: "Notvery good; not very bad."

Australian Open champ AngeliqueKerber advanced to the second round atthe US Open when her opponent retiredearly in the second set without winning agame.

The second-seeded Kerber led 6-0, 1-0 after 33 minutes when Polona Hercogstopped. The 120th-ranked Slovenianwon just nine points in seven games.

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The AITA selection committee onTuesday retained the doubles pair-

ing of Leander Paes and RohanBopanna for the Davis Cup WorldGroup Play-off tie against Spain, sched-uled for September 16-18.

The Committee, headed by SPMisra, retained all four playing mem-bers of the squad that beat Korea Korea4-1 last month with Saketh Myneni andRamkumar Ramanathan to do the sin-gles duty. The only change is in thereserve members of the squad withsouthpaw Prajnesh Gunneswaranreplacing Vishnu Vardhan. YoungsterSumit Nagal continues to be reserve.

Asked if they considered a differ-ent doubles pairing, Misra replied in anegative. "We are playing Spain and it'snot good time for experimenting.Leander and Rohan are the best pair wehave. Ideally, we should have three sin-gles players in the squad but since YukiBhambri and Somdev Devvarman are

both injured, this option is closed fornow," Misra said.

Bopanna and Paes had won againsta weak Korean combination in the pre-vious tie and then lost in the openinground of the Rio Olympic Games.

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Barcelona says that Lionel Messi has hurthis left hamstring and may not play in

Argentina's upcoming World Cup quali-fiers.

Messi will travel to join the Argentinasquad, but his "presence in his country'sWorld Cup qualifying matches will dependon how the injury develops," Barcelonasays.

The club statement says the medicalreport confirming the injury was jointlyapproved by its medical staff and theArgentine football federation.

Argentina hosts Uruguay on Sept. 1and plays at Venezuela on Sept. 6.

Barcelona reported the injury a dayafter Messi played throughout its 1-0 winat Athletic Bilbao in the Spanish league.

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Paco Alcacer for five seasons after secur-

ing his transfer from rival Spanish clubValencia. Alcacer turns 23 on Tuesday.

Barcelona says it is paying 30 millioneuros ($33.5 million), plus a possible twomillion euros ($2.2 million) more in vari-ables, to Valencia.

The Liga champions also say they areloaning forward Munir El Haddadi toValencia, which will have the option to buyhis rights next summer for 12 millioneuros. Alcacer scored 43 goals in the lastthree seasons at Valencia.

������!������������������Bastian Schweinsteiger says a move to

a Major League Soccer club in the UnitedStates is an option if he cannot regain aplace in the first team of ManchesterUnited.

"I don't have a problem withMourinho," Schweinsteiger said, addinghe's had a "good exchange" with thecoach. "Let's wait and see what happens inSeptember, October," he added.

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Wayne Rooney announcedon Tuesday that the cam-

paign for the 2018 World Cupin Russia will be his last as anEngland player.

"Realistically I know myselfthat Russia will be my lastopportunity to do anythingwith England," Rooney told apress conference at St George'sPark in Burton, centralEngland.

"So I'm going to try andenjoy these two years andhopefully I can end my careerwith England on a high."

New England managerSam Allardyce confirmed onMonday that Rooney, 30, willbe kept on as captain for theWorld Cup qualifying cam-paign, which begins in Slovakiaon Sunday.

The Manchester Unitedstriker will make his 116thEngland appearance in Trnava,taking him past DavidBeckham as the country'smost-capped outfield player.

Captain since August 2014,Rooney is also England's recordgoal-scorer with 53 goals.

But in six major tourna-ment appearances withEngland, he has never gone fur-ther than the quarter-finals.

England crashed out inthe group phase at the lastWorld Cup in Brazil two yearsago and, with Rooney as cap-tain, were humiliated by min-nows Iceland in the last at Euro2016.

"I have had a fantasticinternational career so far,played a lot of games andenjoyed every minute, but atsome point it is going to cometo an end," Rooney said. "I'mnot old, I'm 30 years of age, andcome Russia I feel that will bethe time for me to say goodbyeto international football.

"My mind is made up. It isup to Sam Allardyce againover the next two years, but ifselected, I will have enjoyed it.Some highs, some lows, but I'llbe an immensely proud man."

Rooney's most impressive

performance for England at amajor tournament remainsEuro 2004 in Portugal, when,aged only 18, he scored fourgoals as Sven Goran Eriksson'sside reached the last eight.

England failed to qualifyfor Euro 2008 and he did notmanage to find the net as theymet with disappointment at theWorld Cups of 2006 and 2010.

Rooney ended an eight-year wait for a major tourna-ment goal at Euro 2012, butEngland fell in the quarter-finals.

Although Rooney was

deployed in midfield by formermanager Roy Hodgson duringEuro 2016, Allardyce has indi-cated he intends to use him ina number 10 role.

Rooney has been playing inthat position under new Unitedmanager Jose Mourinho sincethe start of the season, but theformer Everton player said hewas happy to play anywhere.

"It's the manager's deci-sion," Rooney said. "We haven'tspoken about that. In the nextfew days we'll speak about itmore, whether it's as a mid-fielder or attacker.”

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Indian qualifier Saketh Myneni gave a mighty scare to the world number 49Jiri Veseley before limping out of the US Open due to cramps that scuttled

his victory march, here.Myneni, ranked 143 in singles, had a match point in the eighth game of

the fifth set but stiffness in the right thigh restricted his movement badly andhe was forced out 6-7 (5), 6-4, 6-2, 2-6, 5-7 after battling hard for three hoursand 47 minutes in a marathon first round match.

His first ever appearance in the singles draw of a Grand Slam thus endedin disappointment. Myneni wasclearly a better player on thecourt but for fitness issues helost the opportunity to playwith Novak Djokovic, one of thegreatest of the game, in the sec-ond round.

It brought back the memo-ries of the Davis Cup tie againstKorea last month inChandigarh, where similarscenes were witnessed as boththe Indian and the Koreansstruggled to stand on court dueto humid conditions.

"I competed hard till the endand happy with my progress atthe Open. I loved every bit ofsupport I got from my family,friends and the Greenwich fam-ily," Saketh said.

After splitting four sets,Myneni broke the Czech in thefourth game to take a crucial 3-1 lead and led 4-2 in the fifth set.The match changed at that stageas Myneni took a medical timeout due to issue in his right thighbut managed to hold for a 5-2cushion.

From a commanding posi-tion, Myneni lost grip over theopponent. He surrendered serve twice after that as he hardly had the strengthto stand. An error-prone Vesely kept the hopes of the Indian alive but Myneniwas now limping, barely managing to stay.

Vesely just needed to keep the ball in play to close the contest.

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