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T he Supreme Court on Friday provided a major relief to the Modi Government by dismissing the demand for a court-monitored CBI probe into the Government-to- Government deal with France for the purchase of 36 Rafale fighter jets, saying there is no occasion to “really doubt the decision-making process” war- ranting setting aside of the contract. A Bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi went into “three broad areas of concern” raised in the petitions — the decision-making process, pric- ing and the choice of Indian offset partners — and said there was no reason for inter- vention by the apex court on the “sensitive issue” of purchase of 36 fighter jets. The apex court said the Indian Air Force (IAF) needs advanced fighter jets as the country cannot afford to be “unprepared” or “under pre- pared” in a situation where adversaries have acquired fourth and fifth generation fighter aircraft, “of which, we have none”. “In view of our findings on all the three aspects, and hav- ing heard the matter in detail, we find no reason for any intervention by this court on the sensitive issue of purchase of 36 defence aircraft by the Indian Government,” the Bench, also comprising Justices SK Kaul and KM Joseph, said in its 29-page judgment. Attorney General KK Venugopal welcomed the ver- dict terming it as an “excellent” and “very good” judgment, which in his opinion has given “clean chit” to the Government by accepting all its arguments. “I think a clean chit has been given to the Government on Rafale deal,” he told reporters on the sidelines of a function to give farewell to Justice Madan B Lokur, who is set to retire on December 30. The court said perception of individuals cannot be the basis of a “fishing and roving enquiry” by the court in such matters and it cannot “sit in judgment” over the wisdom of Government’s decision to go in for purchase of 36 aircraft in place of 126. “We are satisfied that there is no occasion to really doubt the process, and even if minor deviations have occurred, that would not result in either set- ting aside the contract or requiring a detailed scrutiny by the court,” the Bench said. It noted that process for procurement of 36 Rafale jets was concluded on September 23, 2016 and no questions were raised at that time and the petitions were later filed after reported statement of former French President Francois Hollande with regard to selection of Indian offset partners. The Bench said it was “cer- tainly not the job of this court to carry out a comparison of the pricing details in matters like the present” and the mate- rial has to be kept in a confi- dential domain. T he Congress on Friday named Ashok Gehlot as Rajasthan Chief Minister and Sachin Pilot as his deputy after party president Rahul Gandhi successfully brokered a peace between the veteran leader and his younger colleague after several rounds of discussion lasting more than two days. Congress observer to Rajasthan KC Venugopal made the announcement and said details of the oath-taking cer- emony would be decided after a meeting Governor Kalyan Singh in Jaipur. Addressing a Press confer- ence, Gehlot thanked Rahul Gandhi for giving him the opportunity to serve the peo- ple of the State for a third time and promised that he and Pilot will give “good governance”. Rahul met Gehlot and Pilot thrice since Thursday. Hectic parleys were held between top party leaders, including Sonia Gandhi. Priyanka Gandhi Vadra too is understood to be involved in the decision-mak- ing process. Senior party lead- ers Venugopal, Avinash Pande and Jitendra Singh were present during the meeting on Friday. “The united colours of Rajasthan,” Rahul tweeted on Friday afternoon along with a photograph in which the three leaders were seen in a jovial mood. Gehlot and Pilot wel- comed with pomp and splen- dour at the Jaipur airport after the announcement. Pilot, 41, exuded confi- dence that Congress’ good elec- toral performance will contin- ue, saying the party will get a big mandate in 2019 polls and form a Government at the Centre also. “Mera aur Ashok Gehlot ji ka jaadu puri tarah chal gaya hai (Gehlot and I worked our magic in the State),” Pilot said. The Congress went from 21 seats against the BJP’s 163 in 2013 to get 99 seats (plus one of the Rashtriya Lok Dal) in the Assembly elections. Pilot said the party’s manifesto will be implemented immediately. However, the name of Chhattisgarh CM has been kept under wraps. The official announcement will be made on Saturday in Raipur. All the four contenders — TS Singh Deo, Bhupesh Baghel, Tamradhwaj Sahu and Charan Das Mahant — were called to Delhi. They took turns to meet Rahul during the day after the name of Rajasthan CM was finalised. Rahul authorised AICC Central Observer for Chhattisgarh Mallikarjun Kharge to announce in Raipur the CM candidate after the CLP meeting on Saturday. Gehlot will be the fourth leader to become Chief Minister of Rajasthan for a third time. Mohan Lal Sukhadia was the Chief Minister of the State for four times, while Hari Dev Joshi and Bhairon Singh Shekhawat were three-time Chief Ministers of the State. Both Sukhadia and Joshi were Congress leaders while Bhairon Singh Shekhawat was from the BJP. Bengaluru: At least 11 people, including a girl and a woman, died while 75 others took ill on Friday after consuming “prasad” at a temple at Sulavadi village in Chamarajnagar dis- trict, officials said. The condition of eight people being treated in Mysuru is critical. “A child died at the Government hospital at Ramapura, two each at GH hospitals at Kamageri and Kolegal, three at the KP Hospital and one at KRH Hospital,” said Suresh Shastry, Joint Director, Directorate of Health and Family Welfare Services. According to police, the foundation laying ceremony of Maramma temple was organised on Friday morning and prasad was distributed after the function. T he Nepal Government has banned the use of Indian currency notes of 2,000, 500 and 200 denominations, a move that could affect Indian tourists visiting the Himalayan nation where Indian currency is widely used. Indian currency is exten- sively used by Nepalese people and businesses for their savings and transactions. The Nepal Government has asked the people to refrain from keeping or carrying Indian bank notes higher than 100 denomination as it has not legalised them, Nepal’s Minister for Information and Communications Gokul Prasad Baskota said. “The Government has decided not to use, carry and keep the Indian bills of 200, 500 and 2000 denominations. The government will soon issue a formal notice in this matter,” the Minister said. The decision will adverse- ly affect Nepalese labourers working in India as well as Indian tourists visiting Nepal. Nepal Premier KP Sharma Oli said earlier this year that demonetisation hurt the Nepalese people and added that he would raise the matter with Indian leaders. N oted English writer Amitav Ghosh has been honoured with this year’s Jnanpith Award, a literary award given to an author for “outstanding con- tribution towards literature”, Bharatiya Jnanpith announced on Friday. “Amitav Ghosh is a path- breaking novelist. In his novels, Ghosh treads through histori- cal settings to the modern era and weaves a space where the past connects with the present in relevant ways. “His fiction is endowed with extraordinary depth and substance through his academic training as a his- torian and a social anthropol- ogist,” a statement from Bharatiya Jnanpith reads. The decision was taken in a meeting of Jnanpith Selection Board chaired by eminent nov- elist, scholar and Jnanpith lau- reate Pratibha Ray. N ow, the Delhiites need not to travel all the way to Gurugram and Faridabad to sip the freshly brewed beer as the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) has finally approved to set up the much awaited micro- breweries in the restaurants and bars situated in the national Capital. The new policy or provi- sion for the implementation of microbreweries could not be notified earlier due to various reasons but now as per the offi- cials the DDA has approved the same and notified the new policy in the meeting held on Friday morning. According to sources, “The restaurants, hotel or clubs will be allowed to set up the micro- breweries up to 500 litres per day capacity. But at the same time the restaurants, bars and hotels have to get the no- objection certificate (NOC) clearance/licenses from excise department before setting up the microbreweries.” Microbreweries also known as organic beers are freshly brewed beer with dif- ferent fruit flavours such as strawberries, apple, grapes which is also considered as a healthy drinks as per the experts. Experts said micro- breweries are healthy for both men and woman as it does not contain alcohol, chemical and preservatives especially glyc- erin’s that are used in the pack- aged and beer cans. Also, it will be good drink and safer then the whisky and other hard drinks which will also reduce fatness. Currently, there is only one microbrewery set up at the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGI). “The Delhi Government has approved the proposal to set up the breweries in Delhi three years ago but it could not be implemented as the brew- eries were listed under the ‘prohibited/negative’ list of industries in the Master Plan of Delhi (MPD) 2021.However, on the request of the Government, Lieutenant- Governor Anil Baijal in December 2017 approved the Government’s plea to remove microbreweries from the ‘pro- hibited’ list of the master plan. After which the DDA’s techni- cal committee approved the proposal in January 2018,” an official said. The official further said however after fulfilling all the procedures and modalities, the people of Delhi as well as tourists will enjoy freshly man- ufactured beer. “Moreover, the freshly brewed beer will also be cheap- er than the can and packaged beers as it does not contain the packaging and transporting charges,” said an official. :In Germany, the preg- nant women are advised to have a glass of freshly brewed beer daily as it is so nutritious. But in the bottles chemicals are used which is fatty as well as harmful,” said a beer expert. B uoyed by the Supreme Court verdict on the Rafale fighter jet deal issue, the Government and the ruling BJP on Friday charged the Congress with manufacturing lies and compromising with national security and said truth always holds together while “falsehood always fall apart.” Making this assertion here, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley without directly naming Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi said falsehood was manufactured by “one family”, but they are not above the apex court. Along with the Government, the ruling BJP also accused the Congress of making the Rafale deal look a suspect by telling lies. BJP president Amit Shah said here at a separate Press conference that the SC order was a slap on Congress chief Rahul’s politics of lies and asked him to apol- ogise to the country and its sol- diers for putting national secu- rity at risk. The BJP president said there is no occasion to doubt the decision-making process in the procurement of 36 Rafale jets from France, and the court has upheld that in its order on Friday. It is not the job of the court to deal with the com- parative details of the pricing, he said. He also hit out at the Congress president for taking a jibe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi by saying the “chowkidar” is a thief. “All thieves had gathered to call the ‘chowkidar’ a thief, but the country never believed it,” Shah told reporters. T he Central Government has come under cloud for allegedly misleading the Supreme Court by claiming that it had placed the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report on the Rafale jet deal before the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament. Congress president Rahul Gandhi along with Yashwant Sinha, Arun Shourie and Prashant Bhusan, the three PIL petitioners in the Supreme court against Rafale deal, on Friday pointed out that no such CAG report was ever placed in Parliament or before the PAC. At a Press conference, Rahul said the Supreme Court in its verdict cited a report by the CAG on the Rafale deal was submitted to the PAC but asserted that no such report was given to the House panel headed by Congress’ leader in Lok Sabha Mallikarjuna Kharge. Kharge, who was also present at the briefing, said the PAC has not received any such report. “Where has that report gone? Is it with some other PAC that PM Modi has set up,” Rahul asked in a dig at the Government. Both the Government and Anil Ambani’s Reliance Group have rejected Rahul Gandhi’s allegation of wrongdoings. Rahul again accused the Modi Government of destroy- ing “all institutions” and asserted that corruption to the tune of 30,000 crore has taken place in the Rafale deal. He reiterated the Congress’ demand for a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into the fighter jet deal and claimed that if it was conducted, names of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and busi- nessman Anil Ambani will come to the fore. R eliance Group Chairman Anil Ambani on Friday welcomed the SC order on the Rafale deal, saying it estab- lished the falsity of politically motivated allegations against him. “I welcome the judgment summarily dismissing all PILs filed on the Rafale contracts, and conclusively establishing the complete falsity of the wild, baseless and politically motivated allegations levelled against Reliance Group and me personally,” Ambani said.

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The Supreme Court onFriday provided a major

relief to the Modi Governmentby dismissing the demand fora court-monitored CBI probeinto the Government-to-Government deal with Francefor the purchase of 36 Rafalefighter jets, saying there is nooccasion to “really doubt thedecision-making process” war-ranting setting aside of thecontract.

A Bench headed by ChiefJustice Ranjan Gogoi went into“three broad areas of concern”raised in the petitions — thedecision-making process, pric-ing and the choice of Indianoffset partners — and saidthere was no reason for inter-vention by the apex court onthe “sensitive issue” of purchaseof 36 fighter jets.

The apex court said theIndian Air Force (IAF) needsadvanced fighter jets as thecountry cannot afford to be“unprepared” or “under pre-pared” in a situation whereadversaries have acquiredfourth and fifth generationfighter aircraft, “of which, wehave none”.

“In view of our findings onall the three aspects, and hav-ing heard the matter in detail,we find no reason for anyintervention by this court onthe sensitive issue of purchaseof 36 defence aircraft by theIndian Government,” theBench, also comprising JusticesSK Kaul and KM Joseph, saidin its 29-page judgment.

Attorney General KKVenugopal welcomed the ver-dict terming it as an “excellent”and “very good” judgment,which in his opinion has given“clean chit” to the Governmentby accepting all its arguments.

“I think a clean chit hasbeen given to the Governmenton Rafale deal,” he toldreporters on the sidelines of afunction to give farewell toJustice Madan B Lokur, who isset to retire on December 30.

The court said perceptionof individuals cannot be thebasis of a “fishing and rovingenquiry” by the court in suchmatters and it cannot “sit injudgment” over the wisdom ofGovernment’s decision to go infor purchase of 36 aircraft in

place of 126. “We are satisfied that there

is no occasion to really doubtthe process, and even if minordeviations have occurred, thatwould not result in either set-ting aside the contract orrequiring a detailed scrutiny bythe court,” the Bench said.

It noted that process forprocurement of 36 Rafale jetswas concluded on September23, 2016 and no questionswere raised at that time andthe petitions were later filedafter reported statement offormer French PresidentFrancois Hollande with regardto selection of Indian offsetpartners.

The Bench said it was “cer-tainly not the job of this courtto carry out a comparison ofthe pricing details in matterslike the present” and the mate-rial has to be kept in a confi-dential domain.

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The Congress on Fridaynamed Ashok Gehlot as

Rajasthan Chief Minister andSachin Pilot as his deputy afterparty president Rahul Gandhisuccessfully brokered a peacebetween the veteran leaderand his younger colleague afterseveral rounds of discussionlasting more than two days.

Congress observer toRajasthan KC Venugopal madethe announcement and saiddetails of the oath-taking cer-emony would be decided aftera meeting Governor KalyanSingh in Jaipur.

Addressing a Press confer-ence, Gehlot thanked RahulGandhi for giving him theopportunity to serve the peo-ple of the State for a third timeand promised that he and Pilotwill give “good governance”.

Rahul met Gehlot and Pilotthrice since Thursday. Hecticparleys were held between topparty leaders, including SoniaGandhi. Priyanka GandhiVadra too is understood to beinvolved in the decision-mak-ing process. Senior party lead-ers Venugopal, Avinash Pandeand Jitendra Singh were presentduring the meeting on Friday.

“The united colours ofRajasthan,” Rahul tweeted onFriday afternoon along with aphotograph in which the threeleaders were seen in a jovialmood. Gehlot and Pilot wel-comed with pomp and splen-dour at the Jaipur airport afterthe announcement.

Pilot, 41, exuded confi-dence that Congress’ good elec-toral performance will contin-ue, saying the party will get abig mandate in 2019 polls andform a Government at theCentre also. “Mera aur AshokGehlot ji ka jaadu puri tarahchal gaya hai (Gehlot and Iworked our magic in theState),” Pilot said.

The Congress went from21 seats against the BJP’s 163 in2013 to get 99 seats (plus oneof the Rashtriya Lok Dal) in the

Assembly elections. Pilot saidthe party’s manifesto will beimplemented immediately.

However, the name ofChhattisgarh CM has beenkept under wraps. The officialannouncement will be made onSaturday in Raipur. All thefour contenders — TS SinghDeo, Bhupesh Baghel,Tamradhwaj Sahu and CharanDas Mahant — were called toDelhi.

They took turns to meetRahul during the day after thename of Rajasthan CM wasfinalised. Rahul authorisedAICC Central Observer forChhattisgarh MallikarjunKharge to announce in Raipurthe CM candidate after the CLPmeeting on Saturday.

Gehlot will be the fourthleader to become ChiefMinister of Rajasthan for athird time. Mohan LalSukhadia was the ChiefMinister of the State for fourtimes, while Hari Dev Joshi andBhairon Singh Shekhawat werethree-time Chief Ministers ofthe State. Both Sukhadia andJoshi were Congress leaderswhile Bhairon Singh Shekhawatwas from the BJP.

Bengaluru: At least 11 people,including a girl and a woman,died while 75 others took ill onFriday after consuming“prasad” at a temple at Sulavadivillage in Chamarajnagar dis-trict, officials said.

The condition of eightpeople being treated in Mysuruis critical. “A child died at theGovernment hospital atRamapura, two each at GHhospitals at Kamageri andKolegal, three at the KPHospital and one at KRHHospital,” said Suresh Shastry,Joint Director, Directorate ofHealth and Family WelfareServices.

According to police, thefoundation laying ceremonyof Maramma temple was

organised on Friday morningand prasad was distributedafter the function.

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The Nepal Government hasbanned the use of Indian

currency notes of �2,000, �500and �200 denominations, amove that could affect Indiantourists visiting the Himalayannation where Indian currencyis widely used.

Indian currency is exten-sively used by Nepalese peopleand businesses for their savingsand transactions.

The Nepal Governmenthas asked the people to refrainfrom keeping or carryingIndian bank notes higher than�100 denomination as it hasnot legalised them, Nepal’s

Minister for Information andCommunications GokulPrasad Baskota said.

“The Government hasdecided not to use, carry andkeep the Indian bills of 200, 500and 2000 denominations. Thegovernment will soon issue aformal notice in this matter,”the Minister said.

The decision will adverse-ly affect Nepalese labourersworking in India as well asIndian tourists visiting Nepal.

Nepal Premier KP SharmaOli said earlier this year thatdemonetisation hurt theNepalese people and addedthat he would raise the matterwith Indian leaders.

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Noted English writer AmitavGhosh has been honoured

with this year’s Jnanpith Award,a literary award given to anauthor for “outstanding con-tribution towards literature”,Bharatiya Jnanpith announcedon Friday.

“Amitav Ghosh is a path-breaking novelist. In his novels,Ghosh treads through histori-cal settings to the modern eraand weaves a space where thepast connects with the presentin relevant ways. “His fiction isendowed with extraordinarydepth and substance throughhis academic training as a his-

torian and a social anthropol-ogist,” a statement fromBharatiya Jnanpith reads.

The decision was taken ina meeting of Jnanpith SelectionBoard chaired by eminent nov-elist, scholar and Jnanpith lau-reate Pratibha Ray.

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Now, the Delhiites need notto travel all the way to

Gurugram and Faridabad to sipthe freshly brewed beer as theDelhi Development Authority(DDA) has finally approved toset up the much awaited micro-breweries in the restaurants andbars situated in the nationalCapital.

The new policy or provi-sion for the implementation ofmicrobreweries could not benotified earlier due to variousreasons but now as per the offi-

cials the DDA has approved thesame and notified the newpolicy in the meeting held onFriday morning.

According to sources, “Therestaurants, hotel or clubs willbe allowed to set up the micro-breweries up to 500 litres perday capacity. But at the sametime the restaurants, bars andhotels have to get the no-objection certificate (NOC)clearance/licenses from excisedepartment before setting upthe microbreweries.”

Microbreweries alsoknown as organic beers are

freshly brewed beer with dif-ferent fruit flavours such asstrawberries, apple, grapeswhich is also considered as a

healthy drinks as per theexperts. Experts said micro-breweries are healthy for bothmen and woman as it does notcontain alcohol, chemical andpreservatives especially glyc-

erin’s that are used in the pack-aged and beer cans. Also, it willbe good drink and safer thenthe whisky and other harddrinks which will also reducefatness.

Currently, there is onlyone microbrewery set up at theIndira Gandhi InternationalAirport (IGI).

“The Delhi Governmenthas approved the proposal toset up the breweries in Delhithree years ago but it could notbe implemented as the brew-eries were listed under the‘prohibited/negative’ list ofindustries in the Master Plan ofDelhi (MPD) 2021.However,on the request of theGovernment, Lieutenant-Governor Anil Baijal inDecember 2017 approved theGovernment’s plea to removemicrobreweries from the ‘pro-hibited’ list of the master plan.After which the DDA’s techni-cal committee approved the

proposal in January 2018,” anofficial said.

The official further saidhowever after fulfilling all theprocedures and modalities, thepeople of Delhi as well astourists will enjoy freshly man-ufactured beer.

“Moreover, the freshlybrewed beer will also be cheap-er than the can and packagedbeers as it does not contain thepackaging and transportingcharges,” said an official.

:In Germany, the preg-nant women are advised tohave a glass of freshly brewedbeer daily as it is so nutritious.But in the bottles chemicalsare used which is fatty as wellas harmful,” said a beerexpert.

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Buoyed by the SupremeCourt verdict on the Rafale

fighter jet deal issue, theGovernment and the rulingBJP on Friday charged theCongress with manufacturinglies and compromising withnational security and said truthalways holds together while“falsehood always fall apart.”

Making this assertion here,Finance Minister Arun Jaitleywithout directly naming SoniaGandhi and Rahul Gandhi saidfalsehood was manufactured by“one family”, but they are notabove the apex court.

Along with theGovernment, the ruling BJPalso accused the Congress ofmaking the Rafale deal look asuspect by telling lies. BJPpresident Amit Shah said hereat a separate Press conferencethat the SC order was a slap onCongress chief Rahul’s politicsof lies and asked him to apol-ogise to the country and its sol-diers for putting national secu-rity at risk.

The BJP president saidthere is no occasion to doubtthe decision-making process inthe procurement of 36 Rafalejets from France, and the courthas upheld that in its order onFriday. It is not the job of thecourt to deal with the com-parative details of the pricing,he said.

He also hit out at theCongress president for takinga jibe at Prime MinisterNarendra Modi by saying the“chowkidar” is a thief. “Allthieves had gathered to call the‘chowkidar’ a thief, but thecountry never believed it,” Shahtold reporters.

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The Central Governmenthas come under cloud for

allegedly misleading theSupreme Court by claimingthat it had placed theComptroller and AuditorGeneral (CAG) report on theRafale jet deal before thePublic Accounts Committee(PAC) of Parliament.

Congress president RahulGandhi along with YashwantSinha, Arun Shourie andPrashant Bhusan, the threePIL pet it ioners in theSupreme court against Rafaledeal, on Friday pointed outthat no such CAG report wasever placed in Parliament orbefore the PAC.

At a Press conference,Rahul said the Supreme Courtin its verdict cited a report bythe CAG on the Rafale dealwas submitted to the PAC butasserted that no such reportwas given to the House panelheaded by Congress’ leader in

Lok Sabha Mall ikar junaKharge. Kharge, who was alsopresent at the briefing, saidthe PAC has not received anysuch report.

“Where has that reportgone? Is it with some otherPAC that PM Modi has setup,” Rahul asked in a dig atthe Government. Both theGovernment and AnilAmbani’s Reliance Grouphave rejected Rahul Gandhi’sallegation of wrongdoings.

Rahul again accused theModi Government of destroy-ing “all institutions” andasserted that corruption to thetune of �30,000 crore hastaken place in the Rafale deal.

He reiterated theCongress’ demand for a JointParliamentary Committee(JPC) probe into the fighterjet deal and claimed that if itwas conducted, names ofPrime Minister Narendra Modi and busi-nessman Anil Ambani willcome to the fore.

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Reliance Group ChairmanAnil Ambani on Friday

welcomed the SC order on theRafale deal, saying it estab-lished the falsity of politicallymotivated allegations againsthim.

“I welcome the judgmentsummarily dismissing all PILsfiled on the Rafale contracts,and conclusively establishingthe complete falsity of thewild, baseless and politicallymotivated allegations levelledagainst Reliance Group andme personally,” Ambani said.

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Keeping in view the sancti-ty of Shaheedi Jor Mela,

Punjab Chief Minister CaptAmarinder Singh on Fridayappealed to all political partiesnot to hold any political con-ferences during the event.

“Neither the Congressparty nor the StateGovernment would organiseany public function duringthis solemn occasion at

Fatehgarh Sahib,” he said.The appeal by Capt

Amarinder came in view of themartyrdom day of BabaZorawar Singh, and Baba FatehSingh — the youngerSahibzadas of Sikhs’ tenth mas-ter Guru Gobind Singh, and hismother Mata Gujari, whichshould be observed withutmost reverence, said aspokesperson of the ChiefMinister Office.

Chief Minister felt that

since it was a solemn occasion,it should not be used by vest-ed interests as a platform togain political mileage, said thespokesperson.

The Shaheedi Jor Mel inFatehgarh Sahib has been heldsince time immemorial as amark of respect to eulogize thesupreme sacrifice of the sonsand mother of the tenth SikhGuru. However, the people ofPunjab felt that it was increas-ingly becoming a forum for

political parties to score brown-ie points, said the ChiefMinister.

Capt Amarinder alsoappealed to the people, espe-cially political leaders, to offertheir tributes to the great mar-tyrs as humble devotees andpay obeisance at the sanctumsanctorum of Gurdwara SriFatehgarh Sahib instead ofholding political conferences orrallies.

Notably, the decision was

in line with various path-break-ing initiatives taken by CaptAmarinder during his earliertenure as Chief Minister torestore the sanctity of ShaheediJor Mela at Fatehgarh Sahib.

These had included sim-plification of langar, banning ofsweets, prohibition of enter-tainment or amusement games,gambling etc. PunjabGovernment, led by CaptAmarinder, did not hold statelevel public function last year.

Meanwhile, the ChiefMinister also directed theDGP to take all necessarysteps to ensure that law andorder is maintained during thethree-day Shaheedi Sabha tobe held from December 26 to28 to enable the millions ofdevotees, who are expected toconverge at Fatehgarh Sahibnot only from the country butfrom across the globe, to offertheir prayers in a hassle-freemanner.

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Mauritius will adopt Indo-Israel horticulture pro-

ject to increase its vegetableproduction and to provide itscitizens’ off-season vegeta-bles all the time.

For the purpose,Agriculture and HorticultureOfficers of Mauritius will visitthe Centre of Excellence forVegetables at Gharaunda inKarnal, said Acting President of Maurit ius,Paramasivum Pillay Vyapooryduring his visit to the Centreon Friday.

Vyapoory took informa-tion about all horticulturetechniques being used forvegetable production andwent around the Centre to seethe vegetables grown inPolyhouse and in fields.

He said that the tech-nique of Indo-Israel projectwould also be adopted in

Mauritius to provide its people of f-season vegetables all the time andfarmers could earn higherincome at a low cost and alsosave on water.

Vyapoory was informedthat about one lakh farmerscome to visit this Centreevery year and Kisan Melasand seminars are organizedfrom time to time for theawareness of farmers. Apartfrom this, farmers are alsoimparted training in theCentre.

To promote horticulture,

the State Government is also giving grant and so faran amount of over Rs 53.25crore has been made available to farmers, it wasinformed.

Vyapoor y was a lsoapprized that after gettinginformation from the Centre,the progressive farmers haveset up about 10,000 polyhouses in the state and some have even takensapling from here and hasincreased their earnings withincreased vegetable production.

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The Indian National LokDal and its alliance part-

ner Bahujan Samaj Party willbegin the third phase of “Jan-Adhikaar Yatra” fromDecember 17 to demand theconstruction of Sutlej YamunaLink (SYL) canal.

The “Jan-Adhikaar Yatra”began on December 1 fromKurukshetra. Besides SYLcanal, the INLD-BSP is also

highlighting the issues ofDadupur Nalvi irrigation pro-ject, Swaminathan report dur-ing the yatra.

Leader of opposition andINLD’s senior leader AbhayChautala on Friday said thatthe third phase of “Jan-Adhikaar Yatra” will begin onDecember 17 and reachEllenabad and Sirsa.

The yatra wil l reachTosham on December 18,Safidon on Dec 20, Hodal-Punhana on Dec 21 andNarnaul on Dec 22, Chautalasaid.

He said that the yatrawil l cover Kharkhoda-Bahadurgarh on December26, Mahendragarh-Dadri onDec 27, Meham-Narnaud onDec 28, Bawani Khera-Nalwaon Dec 29 and Kalayat-Asandh on December 30, hesaid.

The INLD leader said thatthrough this yatra, the INLD-BSP is demanding construc-tion of SYL canal, DadupurNalvi irrigation project andMewat canal.

We are also demandingimplementat ion ofSwaminathan report and debtwaiver for the farmers of

Haryana, he added.Chautala further said that

the yatra will continue till theState Government accepts ourdemands.

Notably, eyeing politicalrevival in Haryana, the INLDhas been aggressively raisingthe demand of constructionof the SYL canal for morethan a year now.

Earlier, the party had helda series of protests including‘Haryana Bandh’, ‘Jail BharoAndolan’ across Haryana,held protest by blocking thenational highway nearAmbala and four other high-ways in the state to demandconstruction of SYL canal.

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In view of the directions of theHaryana Government, all

the universities of the state havedecided to conduct research onany ancient philosophy, texts,saint- Mahatma or sage-munisso as to achieve better rankingat international level.

On the request of HaryanaState Higher EducationCouncil, as many as 11 StateUniversities and 17 PrivateUniversities have selected theirsubjects of research.

Chairperson, HaryanaState Higher EducationCouncil, Prof. Brij KishoreKuthiala on Friday said that themain function of the universi-ties is teaching and creatingknowledge as well.

He said that the task of theCouncil would be centered onefforts to find solutions tohuman and social problems instate universities.

The universities whichhave not selected the researchtopic yet, have also beenrequested by the council tomake a decision by consultingthe professors in this mattersoon. Subject-centric researchis a necessary solution for cre-ating a global level educationsystem in the coming times, headded.

A meeting of all the Vice-Chancellors of the universitiesof the state was organisedunder the chairmanship of theGovernor recently. Accordinglyit was decided that everyUniversity would publishresearch on any ancient phi-losophy, text, saint-mahatmaand sage-muni, Prof Kuthialasaid.

In this context, GuruJambheshwar University wouldpublish a research book onMaharshi Valmiki, Universityof Starex, Gururgram onAryabhatta, Maharshi

Markandeshwar Universitywould publish a research bookon Vedic Mathematics, Al-Falah University Faridabadwould publish a research bookon Sufi theories and, SRMUniversity, Sonipat would con-duct research work on medic-inal plants mentioned inAyurveda.

Similarly, Amity UniversityGurugram has decided to con-duct research about humanbody cell lipids, HaryanaVishwakarma Skill Universityon developing technology ofmaking traditional Indian food,JC Bose University, Faridabadon the natural languages usedin computers. Similarly,Northcap University wouldconduct research on the subjectof animation and gaming andChaudhary Bansi LalUniversity, Bhiwani would con-duct research on traditionalmedicine used in India andChina, he added.

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Punjab Vidhan Sabha’sWinter Session was indeed

short but not sweet as theOpposition parties tookenough aims at the rulingCongress for running awayfrom the debate on its mis-gov-ernance. Main OppositionAam Aadmi Party (AAP), SADand BJP targeted the StateGovernment on a slew of issuesincluding farmers, potatogrowers, pollution in rivers,post-matric scholarship, andabove all on holding the “short-est session ever”.

The elevation of seniorCongress leader Kamal Nath asMadhya Pradesh ChiefMinister also led to fiery war ofwords between the SAD andCongress MLAs forcing theChief Minister Capt AmarinderSingh to intervene. CaptAmarinder lashed out at theSAD MLAs for politicising theissue while asking them to letthe law take its own course.

The second and the last dayof the winter session witnessedseries of protests not only bythe opposition legislators, butalso by the Congress MLABarindermeet Singh Pahra whoalso raised the issue of “dis-crimination against him” overthe issue of panchayat polls.

The opposition partieslashed out at the rulingCongress for limiting the ses-sion to just one day citing “nobusiness”, and claimed thatthey have plentiful issues to dis-cuss ranging from potato-sug-arcane farmers and to the SCstudents.

Initially proposed for threedays and four sittings, fromDecember 13 to 15, the wintersession was cut short to just twodays and two sittings includingone to pay obituaries. Thetreasury benches, during theBusiness Advisory Committeemeeting, argued that there wasno business that needed to bediscussed, and thus the lengthof the session be curtailed by aday and the sittings reduced totwo.

Wearing black arm-bands,AAP MLA protested againstthe short session and demand-ed to extend it. Taking up theissue in zero hour, AAP MLAAman Arora cited the bookclaiming that the House shouldhave 40 sittings in a year.

As the Speaker Rana KPSingh refused to pay any heedto their demand, Arora tore thepapers and threw it on the floorin protest. AAP MLAs, sans therebel group, stormed into theWell raising slogans against theCongress Government.

Arora also flashed a locksaying that the Assembly belocked in case the session wasnot held as per the laid downprocedure; and staged a walk-out on the issue with AAPMLAs.

Also objecting the dura-tion, SAD MLA and formerfinance minister ParminderSingh Dhindsa questioned theSpeaker for rejecting hisadjournment motion to discussfarmers’ issue. “TheGovernment is claiming thatthey do not have any business,and when we are giving busi-ness, it is being rejected onflimsy grounds,” he said.

SAD president SukhbirBadal said that the three-daysession was in itself a brief ses-sion, which had been furthercurtailed to two days. “Thistwo-day session will enter the

Guinness Book of Worldrecords as the shortest sessionever in history,” he mocked.

“It is murder of democra-cy. Will crores of rupees beblown up for convening thesession and then winding it upin a day on the plea that thereis not enough business...Thisproves that this is the mostincompetent government everformed in Punjab which doesnot have any work to take upin the House,” he said.

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The protest against the

Congress party’s decision toelevate its senior leader KamalNath as Madhya Pradesh ChiefMinister was heard in over1000 kilometres away in PunjabVidhan Sabha. SAD dubbedthe move as rubbing salt intothe wounds of 1984 riot vic-tims.

The issue was raised bySAD MLA Bikram Majithia, towhich the state ParliamentaryAffairs Minister BrahmMohindra retorted that MPCM designate was not namedin a single FIR.

Mohindra pointed thatNath was elected eight-times asMP after 1984 riots, and thrice

served as Union Minister, butnever ever this issue was raisedby SAD.

Showing pictures in hismobile phone purportedly offormer Chief Minister andSAD patriarch Parkash SinghBadal felicitating Kamal Nathand Parminder Dhindsa, ChiefMinister Capt AmarinderSingh alleged that the opposi-tion was politicising the 1984anti-Sikh riots.

The Chief Minister saidthat a mere reference in theNanavati Commission reportcould not be construed asNath's involvement in the case.

“Let us leave it to the law.

If somebody is guilty, he'sguilty. If he is not guilty, he isnot guilty," he said.

Congress and SAD MLAsengaged in a verbal duel on theissue, with SAD legislators rais-ing slogans against theCongress Government andlater staging a walkout.

On SAD president SukhbirBadal's allegation that casespertaining to the 1984 riots

were "suppressed" over theyears, Mohindra said: “Thecountry has seen five non-Congress Prime Ministers, theywere your (SAD) allies...If youfelt so, why did you not raise itthen."

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Showing deep concernover the falling prices of pota-to crop, the Chief Minister CaptAmarinder assured the Houseto address the issue on priori-ty while expressing hisGovernment’s complete soli-darity with the distressed pota-to growers.

The issue was raised bySAD MLA Gurpartap SinghWadala by moving a callingattention motion. Intervening,Capt Amarinder said that theGovernment had already raisedwith the Centre a demand toallow export of potatoes andsugar to Russia, UAE, Iran andSri Lanka for fetching betterprices of these crops.

“The Government hassought the Prime MinisterNarendra Modi’s personalintervention to direct theMinistry of Commerce andIndustries to allow Punjab toexport these crops to ensureprice stabilisation, as both pota-to and sugarcane crops wereafflicted by wide price fluctu-ations,” he said.

“Once the Centre givesclearance to the StateGovernment for export of thesecrops, the farmers would beimmensely benefitted in terms

of lucrative returns and assuredmarketability of their produce,”he added.

To bail out the potatogrowers from the current cri-sis of low price, the ChiefMinister also assured that allpossible steps would be initi-ated to enhance the consump-tion of potatoes especially inthe mid-day meal, jails andother government depart-ments, so as to stabilise theprices of the crop.

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Lok Insaaf Party leaderBalwinder Singh Bains onFriday staged a protest outsideVidhan Sabha over the pro-posed hike in the salary ofPunjab legislators.

The proposal was put upbefore a committee meetingbefore the commencement ofthe Vidhan Sabha session.Participating in the meeting,Bains staged a walkout in theprotest.

“How is it that the govern-ment is increasing the salariesof the MLAs when they don’thave the money to pay theiremployees,” asked Bains.

Also criticising the gov-ernment over the salary hikeand dubbing it as “stupid move”,SAD president Sukhbir Badalsaid that they were against it.

SAD MLA and formerminister Bikram Majithia saidthat the Government shouldlook into farmers’ distress andemployment to youth issues,rather than deciding to hike theMLAs pay.

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In all fairness to the ‘fair sex’,Punjab Vidhan Sabha on

Friday “unanimously” passeda resolution to urge the Centreto enact the Women'sReservation Bill to provide 33percent reservation for womenin both the Parliament and allthe states’ LegislativeAssemblies.

The resolution came daysafter Congress national presi-dent Rahul Gandhi had writ-ten to all the states ruled byCongress or its ally to pass aresolution for one-third reser-vation of women in the LokSabha and legislative assem-blies.

The move is seen asRahul’s efforts to give cre-dence to the Congress party’sdemand to pass the Women'sReservation Bill by first pass-ing a resolution for the samein the states represented by theparty or its allies.

Notably, BJP-led NDAGovernment at the Centre hasgiven enough representation tothe female MPs in the UnionCabinet and also at other occa-sions, and Congress’ move isconsider as an attempt tohijack the same.

Prime Minister NarendraModi has included womenMPs on key posts in the cabi-net — Sushma Swaraj(External Affairs), NirmalaSitharaman (Defence), UmaBharati (Drinking Water and

Sanitation), Maneka SanjayGandhi (Women and ChildDevelopment), HarsimratKaur Badal (Food ProcessingIndustries), and Smriti ZubinIrani (Textiles and Informationand Broadcasting).

Capt Amarinder, movingthe resolution during the sec-ond and the last day of thewinter session, pointed to theCongress Government's deci-sion to reserve 50 percentseats for women in urbanlocal bodies and panchayati rajinstitutions to urge the Centreto hasten the enactment of theBill.

This would fulfil a legiti-mate and long pendingdemand of women to ensuretheir empowerment, he said.

The Bill would ensuregreater equity and balancedrepresentation for both menand women in the nationalelectoral process and decisionmaking, the Chief Ministeradded.

Underlining the fact thatthen Congress president SoniaGandhi had initiated theprocess towards ensuring sub-stantial women representa-tion in the Parliament and theVidhan Sabhas, CaptAmarinder said that theCongress Government hadensured passage of the earlierBill in the Upper House but ithad lapsed in the Lok Sabhadue to the indifferent attitudeof the opposition.

Once passed, the Bill

would ensure reservation of181 seats out of the total 543Lok Sabha seats, besides ear-marking 1370 assembly seatsout of the total 4109 assemblyseats across the nation.

Speaking on the issue, BJPMLA Som Parkash urged thegovernment to also considerhow much seats would bereserved for the SC/BC can-didates out of the 33 percentreservation for the women, towhich Capt Amarinder clari-fied that it was upto the Centreto decide as the Vidhan Sabhacan only request them.

Speaker Rana KP Singhasked Parkash to give advice totheir party leaders at theCentre regarding the same.

Appreciating the resolu-tion, AAP MLAs RupinderKaur Ruby, Sarabjit KaurManuke, and Aman Arorastressed on respecting allwomen, irrespective of theirparty or position.

“MLAs should be asked torespect all. It is not the way tosay someone that ‘SHO bangayi, rabb taan ni ban gayi’,”said Ruby without naminganyone, but in a veiled attackon Congress MLAs DevinderSingh Ghubaya.

Arora also listed out sev-eral incidents to point howwomen officers were disre-spected by the ruling partymembers, while calling forsetting a conduct or procedureso that things were not repeat-ed.

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After tasting defeat in fiveStates in the Assembly

polls recently, the ruling BJP inHaryana is leaving no stoneunturned to emerge victoriousin the municipal polls onDecember 16 in the State.

The polls to five municipalcorporations and two munici-pal committees is seen as a lit-mus test for the political par-

ties to gauge the voters’ moodahead of Lok Sabha and assem-bly polls scheduled to be heldnext year in Haryana.

With the ruling BJP con-testing on its party symbol inthe municipal polls, the ChiefMinister Manohar Lal and hiscabinet colleagues have held anextensive campaigning high-lighting their four yearsachievements in the state.

The election is for the seatsof mayor and members of allwards of five MunicipalCorporations including Hisar,Rohtak, Yamunanagar, Panipatand Karnal and of twoMunicipal committees includ-ing Jakhal Mandi (Fatehabad)and Pundri (Kaithal).

The voters would directlyelect the mayor for the firsttime in the state.

The BJP is contesting on itssymbol for the posts of bothmayor and councilors while theINLD-BSP has fielded its can-didates for the post of mayor.The Congress is backing a fewcandidates in the polls.

With just one day left to thepolling day, the Chief MinisterManohar Lal held campaigningin Hisar on Friday while hiscabinet colleagues campaignedfor the party candidates in

Karnal, Panipat, Yamunangarand Rohtak.

Delhi BJP chief ManojTiwari also held campaigningfor the party candidates inYamunangar and Panipat.

Karnal being ChiefMinister’s constituency sawimmense campaigning in thepast one week. The saffronparty is witnessing a tough con-test in Karnal against a unitedopposition. While the BJP hasfielded Renu Bala Gupta as amayoral candidate, both INLDand Congress have announcedsupport for independent can-didate Asha Wadhwa fromKarnal.

Former Chief MinisterBhupinder Singh Hooda hadannounced to support AshaWadhwa to ensure BJP’s defeatin the elections.

With his prestige at stake in

his constituency, the ChiefMinister has held a series ofpublic meetings in Karnalbesides holding meetings withthe party workers to issuedirections regarding electioncampaign.

The municipal election inRohtak, the home-turf of two-time former CM Hooda alsoholds political significance withBJP and Congress vying to winthe mayoral seat from here.

Hooda and his sonDeepender Hooda, who is MPfrom Rohtak are backing inde-pendent Sitaram Sachdevawhile the BJP has fieldedManmohan Goyal. INLD hasfielded Sanchit Nandal, son ofINLD district unit presidentSatish Nandal while the CPMhas fielded women’s rightsactivist Jagmati Sangwan, whois known to take on Khaps onsocial issues.

After his confidant BBBatra had lost to BJP’s ManishGrover from the Rohtak assem-bly constituency in the year2014, the MC polls is seen as aprestige issue for BhupinderSingh Hooda.

In Hisar, BJP’s candidateGautam Sarndana is facing atough fight from Congress

backed candidate Rekha Aren.The INLD-BSP alliance’s may-oral candidate is Amit Saini.

Chief Minister ManoharLal while talking to the medi-apersons on Friday claimedthat the party will win in all fiveMCs.

The BJP has provided goodgovernance and a corruptionfree system to the citizens ofHaryana. We are confident ofour victory, he said.

Overall, a total of 59 can-didates including 40 male can-didates and 19 female candi-dates are in fray for Mayor andtotal 592 candidates including320 males candidates and 272females candidates are in frayfor members of all the wards ofmunicipal corporations.

As many as 1401157 voterswould exercise their franchisein these elections.

For the first time in thecountry, NOTA (none of theabove) will be treated as a ‘fic-tional electoral candidate’ whiledeclaring the results of munic-ipal polls. In case, all the con-testing candidates individual-ly receive lesser vote thanNOTA, then none of the con-testing candidate will bedeclared as elected and freshelection shall be held.

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As Pakistan Governmenthas virtually granted per-

mission to visit Kartarpur SahibGurudwara, Punjab lawmakersnow wanted to bring it here inthe Indian Territory. For, theVidhan Sabha on Friday unan-imously passed a resolutionurging the Centre to swap landwith Pakistan to bring the his-toric Gurudwara in India.

Proposed by SAD presi-dent Sukhbir Badal, thedemand was supported by notonly his party colleague butalso the Congress MLAs andMinister Sukhjinder SinghRandhawa who pointed thatsimilar demand was made byhis father when he was DeraBaba Nanak MLA.

With the passing of theresolution, the State wouldnow raise the issue with theCentral Government, puttingon offer nearly 11,000 acres ofland from the state in lieu of theKartarpur Sahib Gurudwara inPakistan.

During the discussion onthe resolution moved by the

Chief Minister Capt Amarinderto thank the Pak and IndianGovernments for opening thecorridor, besides urging theCentral Government for com-pleting the corridor byDecember 2020 before 550thbirth anniversary of GuruNanak Dev, Sukhbir urged tomove the resolution for swap-ping the land.

AAP MLA Kanwar Sandhuand SAD MLA BikramMajithia too supported him,with Congress MinisterSukhjinder Singh Randhawapointing that this could bedone as his father had alsoraised the issue with the thenPrime Minister Indira Gandhiwhich was also consideredseriously, but could not fructi-fy in the wake of 1970 war.

Dera Baba Nanak standsopposite the Kartarpur Sahibgurudwara on the Indian side,and is the place from where theKartarpur Corridor is to beconstructed to Pakistan’sNarowal district.

Earlier, appreciating theopening of the corridor, CaptAmarinder reiterated his warn-

ing to the Pakistan Army tostop terror activities in Punjaband Jammu and Kashmirdeclaring that he would be thefirst one to visit the KartarpurSahib gurdwara through thecorridor, provided Pakistanensured that peace was notcompromised on this side ofthe border.

To support his apprehen-sion, Capt Amarinder cited anarticle written by defenceexpert saying, “It is a project ofthe Pakistan Army, not that ofImran Khan (Pak PrimeMinister). Imran Khan waswell-intentioned, but thePakistan Army is not, and weshould not fall prey to their sin-ister designs,” he reiterated.

However, CaptAmarinder’s apprehensions onPak using corridor to reviveterrorism in India, especiallyPunjab, was not supported bymost of the MLAs, including ofhis own party. Instead, theyurged the Chief Minister tosend across the message of loveand peace, and shun “negativ-ity” over the same.

Congress MLA Raj Kumar

Verka pointed that wheneverIndia trusted Pakistan andextended friendly hand, theyattacked us, but we shouldgive peace a chance.

Another Congress MLAHarminder Singh Gill said thatthe Chief Minister’s apprehen-sions were ill-founded.

AAP MLA Kultar SinghSandhwan said the “our ChiefMinister” should give the mes-sage of love and peace, whileleaving it to the Army to takecare of the border.

SAD MLAs Sukhbir Badaland HS Chandumajra alsoasked the Chief Minister not touse “words” which may createhurdle in the years-long pend-ing demand of the Sikh com-munity.

“Only people from Punjabwould go there, no one fromthere would come to Indianside. And I am sure that extracare would be taken to ensurethe security,” said Sukhbir.

Majithia said that the moveto exchange land would undothe historic blunder that hap-pened while British were divid-ing India. “Also, land-swapping

will take care of the misgivingsput forth by CaptainAmarinder Singh,” he said.

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Fine innings by cricketer-turned-politician Navjot SinghSidhu in the not-so-friendlymatch between India andPakistan over the opening ofKartarpur corridor was playeddown by his own “captain”.

Virtually keeping him out

of the appreciation game,majority of the MLAs, bothfrom opposition and ruling, didnot fail to thank Sidhu, whileChief Minister Capt AmarinderSingh relegated his party andcabinet colleague virtually tothe position of an “extra”.

Sidhu, who undoubtedlyhad played a significant role inopening of the corridor, lis-tened to the entire discussionsilently, but with a smile. Andexpressing his gratitude by

nodding and bowing everytime a MLA mentioned hisname.

Congress MLA Verkaappreciated Sidhu for bringingthe message of opening of thecorridor from across the bor-der during his first visit. AAPMLA Kultar Singh Sandhwandemanded that names of every-one, including Sidhu, beincluded in the resolution forthanking him to realisingSikhs’s long pending demand.

Another AAP MLAKanwar Sandhu too demand-ed that Sidhu’s name shouldalso be mentioned in the res-olution, for making a begin-ning.

Congress MLA HarminderSingh Gill said that it wasSidhu’s visit that revived theissue, with the Pakistan takingthe first step by offering to openthe corridor.

SAD MLA GurpratapSingh Wadala also that“everyone, who was respon-sible for making the corridora reality should be thanked,and that includes NavjotSingh Sidhu”.

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Haryana Police has madeelaborate security

arrangements to ensuresmooth conduct of generalelections in 5 municipal cor-porations and 2 municipalcommittees on December 16.

Director General of Police(DGP), BS Sandhu on Fridaysaid that entire police admin-istration is fully geared up toconduct free, fair and peace-ful elections. All the con-cerned range ADGPs/IGs anddistrict Superintendents ofPolice have been directed toensure adequate Policearrangements for ensuringpeaceful conduct of polls withthe help of district adminis-tration, he said.

Police arrangements havebeen made with a view toensure that people can exercisetheir right to cast vote withoutany fear. Besides this, elaboratesecurity arrangements havealso been put in place in andaround the polling centres, hesaid.

Divulging the detailsabout arrangements,Additional Director General ofPolice (Law and Order), MohdAkil said, “Instructions havebeen given to ensure smoothplying of traffic on nationaland state highways passingthrough cities. Prompt andeffective action will be takenagainst anybody who tries totake law in his hands and triesto disrupt the polling process.”

Akil said that flag march-es are being conductedthrough the roads and streetsof the poll bound areas. Nakabandi, patrolling and checkinghas been intensified. The citieshave been divided into sectorsand duty magistrate have beenappointed alongwith thepolice parties, he added.

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Punjab Vidhan Sabha onFriday passed four impor-

tant bills paving way for pro-viding 50 percent reservation towomen in panchayati raj insti-tutions, enhancing parole peri-od for prisoners with goodconduct, improving cattle feedquality, among others.

After an hour long discus-sion, the House passed PunjabPanchayati Raj (AmendmentBill), 2018, to provide 50 per-cent reservation of seats inpanchayat elections to women.

With the aim to regulatequality of feed to the dairyfarmers engaged in animalhusbandry sector to protest andimprove health, productionand reproduction potential ofthe livestock, the House alsogave its nod to the PunjabRegulation of Cattle Feed,Concentrates and MineralMixtures Act, 2018.

The Vidhan Sabha alsogive its nod to increase the reg-ular parole given to prisonerswith good conduct from 12 to16 weeks during a calendaryear, as the Jails Minister

Sukhjinder Singh Randhawamoved the Punjab GoodConduct Prisoners (TemporaryRelease) Amendment Bill,2018.

An amendment was madein Section 3 Sub-Section 2 ofthe Punjab Good ConductPrisoners (Temporary Release)Act, 1962, to increase the reg-ular parole given to the pris-oners with good conduct fromexisting three to four weeks,and total parole from 12 to 16weeks during a calendar year.

The House also approvedPunjab Goods and ServicesTax (Amendment) Bill, 2018,replacing ordinance to imple-ment the new return filingsystem by making it quarterlyin place of monthly, and min-imising the paperwork.

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To ease traffic congestionbetween Delhi and Noida,

Unified Traffic andTransportation Infrastructure(Planning and Engineering)Centre (UTTIPEC) and Noidahave approved the stretches oftwo major proposals, first ele-vated corridor and its linkageswith existing Delhi-Noida LinkRoad falling within the bound-ary of National CapitalTerritory of Delhi and secondYamuna River Kalindi Kunj ofNoida authority falling withinthe boundary of NationalCapital Territory (NCT). Adecision to this regard wastaken in the 58th governingbody meeting on Friday.

In the first project, which ispart of elevated corridor fromChilla Regulator (Delhi ) to MP-3 road (Noida) along ShahdaraDrain, six — Lane ElevatedCorridor over Shahdara Darinbetween Mayur Vihar flyover(near Chilla Regulator ) and

Mahamaya flyover in Noidawill decongest existing MayurVihar-Noida link road whichleads to Noida-Greater Noidaexpressway and Kalindi Kunj.

According to UTTIPECofficials, this road will providealternative route along rightbank of Shadara drain running

parallel to existing Mayur Vihar-Noida Road up to Mahamayaflyover in Noida. “Traffic com-ing from Delhi and goingtowards Noida may deviatefrom Mayur Vihar Extensionflyover to go to Noida-GreaterNoida Expressway andKalindiKunj uninterrupted,”quoted UTTIPEC statement.

With this, traffic comingfrom Noida Expressway andKalindi Kunj area may take aloop from Expressway to usethis corridor to reach right upto the end of existing MayurVihar flyover uninterrupted.Importantly, the Noida roads in

this stretch of about 5.50 Kmshall also be given connectivi-ty through loops.

In the second proposal-construction of second bridgeon Yamuna river near KalindiKunj/ Traffic Circulation Planon Sarita Vihar side up to pro-posed Kalindi By-pass in whichthe stretch Yamuna riverKalindi Kunj of Noida author-ity falling within the boundaryof National Capital Territory(NCT) only approved by theUTTIPEC officials under thechairmanship of LieutenantGovernor Anil Baijal.

As per the minutes of

meeting, Noida authority hasproposed six lane road passingthrough Shahadra Drain andYamuna river connected withapproaching roads under passfrom Mahamaya flyover toKalindi Kunj intersection.

“A loop has been also pro-posed to pass the traffic com-ing from Noida to Jaitpur vil-lage via underpass towardsSarita Vihar. After Completionof this project, traffic comingfrom Noida to Delhi will usethis new 6-lane road and traf-fic moving from Delhi to Noidawill use existing 4-lane road,”

quoted UTTIPEC. This may be noted, in

future to integrate this proposalwith the proposed kalindi kunjbye-pass project of PublicWorks Department (PWD),provision for 6 lane signal freeelevated road have been keptfor vehicular traffic movementfrom Noida to Faridabad andfrom Faridabad to Noida.

A rotary has also beenproposed near Jaitpur villagefor traffic movement fromJaitpur village to Metro station(Kalindi Kunj) and Noida/Sarita Vihar.

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In their bid to appeal Membersof Parliament (MPs) to extend

their support for the passage ofAnti Trafficking Bill, 2018, in theongoing Winter Session of RajyaSabha, 13 survivors of human-trafficking from different Statescame forward at a national con-sultation on Human Trafficking,organised by Prayas Juvenile AidCentre (JAC) Society.

Noted Parliamentariansacross different parties D Raja(CPI), Akhilesh Prasad Singh(INC), Pradeep Tamta (INC), NGokulakrishnan (AIADMK),Satyanarayan Jatiya (BJP) andBhubaneshwar Kalita (INC)attended the consultation toextend their support.

Survivors from various sur-vivor collectives — Utthan,Vimukthi, Aazaad ShaktiAbhiyaan, Bandhan Mukti andWorker Survivor Support groupattended the consultation toshare their experiences andpoint out the gaps in legislations.

“It’s time that Indian lawshave necessary provisions totackle the complex organizedcrime of Human Trafficking. Weare thankful to the governmentfor drafting a comprehensiveand robust law which providesfor necessary tools to address the

crime and safeguards the inter-est of the victims,” Amod Kanthretired Indian Police Service(IPC) officer and founderGeneral Secretary, Prayas, said.

The survivors shared theirexperiences of human traffick-ing, ranging from sexualexploitation, bonded labour,forced marriage, organ traffick-ing, child labour, forced domes-tic labour and other forms oftrafficking. They urged forstrong mechanisms for volun-tary rehabilitation and victim-protection.

“It’s important for the Indiansociety to talk about such graveissues and therefore we reachedout to the citizens in variousparts of India and sought theirsupport in our fight againstHuman Trafficking. Collectivelywe have collected more than1.15 lakh post-cards addressedto the Prime Minister, in supportof the Trafficking of Persons, Bill2018,” said Ranjan (namechanged) a survivor of organtrafficking at the consultation.

Chandrima (name cha-nged), was trafficked at the ageof 18. She was lured into com-mercial sex trade by a neighbour.She was rescued after 7 years.“After I was rescued, we filed anFIR against my neighbour, butshe was bailed only after 20 daysin jail,” she said.

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Experts from various metrorail corporations gathered

on Friday at the second metroseminar organised by theAssociation of Public Transport(UITP) in collaboration withDelhi Metro Rail Corporations(DMRC) on building sustain-able cities, with the UnionUrban Affairs secretary urgingthe public transport sector topromote use of indigenoustechnology.

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the ‘nurseryadmissions’ forap p r ox i m at e l y1,600 privateschools in thenational Capitalwill begin from Saturday withprivate schools making theircriteria public on Friday.

Distance of student’s resi-dence from school, siblingquota, parents being alumni ofthe school, single child, firstchild are some of the criterialisted by schools for admissionsto the entry level classes.

According to the schedulereleased by the Directorate ofEducation (DoE), the applica-tion window will be open fromSaturday and the last date ofsubmitting application formsfor nursery class admission for2019-20 session is January 7.

The first list of selectedchildren, along with markssecured by them, will be out onFebruary 4. The second list willbe out on February 21 and thenursery admission process willconclude on March 31.

Twenty-five per cent seatsin pre-school, pre-primary andClass 1 will be reserved for eco-nomically weaker sections/dis-

advantaged groups (EWS/DG).The directorate had instructedall private schools to uploadtheir criteria (with points foreach criterion) for admission inopen seats, on its official web-site by December 14. There ishowever, no clarity yet on theschedule of EWS admissions.

The government has alsoset an upper age limit of less than four years to be eligi-ble for nursery, less than fiveyears for kindergarten, andless than six years for admissionto Class 1.

The proposal for an upperage limit was challenged incourt last year. Though a DelhiHigh Court order last yearhad allowed the imposition ofthe upper age limit, the DoEhad decided that the orderwill be applicable only from2019 academic session.

Apart from the abolishedcriteria, the schools have beengiven autonomy to come upwith their own points system.

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The Election Commission(EC) on Friday explained

the reasons that led to a delaywhich include objection relat-ed to voting machines, manda-tory tallying of electronic vot-ing machine (EVM) count withvoter-verifiable paper audittrail (VVPAT) slips, issuance ofcertificate after every round ofcounting and denying publicannounce system.

The increase in the postalballot votes, slim margins inMadhya Pradesh on many seatsand a cautious approach adopt-ed to avoid the embarrass-ment further, also the reasonsfor delay in announcement ofpolls results this year.

MP Assembly electionresults were declared 24 hoursafter counting began whileRajasthan results declared 19hours after counting began.

Unlike the quick countingof votes for the Assembly pollsin Chhattisgarh, Telangana,and Mizoram, counting inMadhya Pradesh and Rajasthanwent on at a snail’s pace, keep-ing people in general and thepolitical parties in particular ontenterhooks throughout theday on December 11.

Madhya Pradesh ChiefElectoral Officer (CEO) VLKantharao said “The delay isbecause every candidate has tobe provided a certificate afterevery round of counting.”“Right from the first round ofEVM counting at 8.30am, thecandidates were very particu-lar about checking and exam-ining every seal, tag and serialnumber of the EVMs and theircases being brought to thecounting tables. In severalcases, they raised trivial objec-tions on the seals, serial num-ber/tag number, signatures ofpolling staff on the tags, whichrequired the intervention,explaining and convincing bythe Returning Officer, District

Election Officer and Observerbefore these EVMs were takenup for counting. Even thoughno EVM was kept aside orfound tampered amongst the66,000 EVMs taken up forcounting, the process of objec-tions slowed down the rounds,”the CEO said.

The MP CEO furtherexplained that that when aresult is noted from an EVMmachine at a counting table, itis written down on part two ofForm 17C and the countingagents verify and sign on thissheets which is then photo-copied and given to them.

“Similarly, when the tabu-lation of 14 such results fromthe 14 tables in the countinghall is made into a broad sheet,it is again verified and photo-copies are distributed to thecandidates. Strict adherenceto this procedure has sloweddown the counting process,”the ECO said.

“The insistence of the can-didates to not bring the nextround of EVMs on to thecounting tables before tabulat-ed, round-wise figures are writ-ten on the blackboard/whiteboard in the counting hall andannounced in the public

announce system has deniedfive-minute time saving thathave could done in betweenrounds. With an average 22rounds of counting perAssembly constituency, thishas led to two hours of delay”.

According to Kantharao, inabout 250 cases out of 66000EVMs taken up to counting,the presiding officers had notfollowed the Close-Result-Clear (CRC) after the mockpoll done in the morning of thepoll day.

This meant that the resultof these particular EVMs hadto be obtained through thecounting of the VVPAT Slips.

The MP CEO further stat-ed that in the run of up to theLegislative Assembly elections2018, Madhya Pradesh addedabout 13,000 (21 per cent)additional polling stations ascompared to the previous elec-tions. Rajasthan’s ChiefElectoral Officer Anand Kumarsaid the reason of delay isbecause of votes in the elec-tronic voting machine (EVM)have to be matched by ran-domly selecting a VVPAT froma polling centre in eachAssembly constituency.

New Delhi: The SupremeCourt has dismissed a curativepetition seeking to re-examineits verdict upholding theappointment of Gujarat cadreIPS officer Rakesh Asthana asspecial director of CBI.

The apex court rejected thecurative petition filed by NGO,Common Cause, whose reviewpetition was also earlier held tobe devoid of merits.

After an in-chamber hear-ing, a bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi,said, “We have gone throughthe curative petition and con-nected papers. In our opinion no case is made outwithin the parameters indicat-ed in the decision of this court(in the case laying down guide-lines to deal with the curativepetition).”

The Bench, also compris-ing Justices MB Lokur, AK Sikriand AM Sapre, passed theorder on December 11 and wasmade public on the apex court’swebsite on Friday.

Curative petition is heardin the chamber of judges in theabsence of lawyers.

The decision of the apexcourt came amidst a bitterfeud between Asthana and CBIDirector Alok Verma. Bothhave been divested of powersand sent on leave by the cen-tral government on October 23.

The apex court, onNovember 28, 2017, had dis-

missed the PIL filed by theNGO against the appointmentof Asthana to the post of CBIspecial director, saying it can-not question a “unanimous”decision taken by the selectioncommittee and the decision isnot illegal.

Later, the court also dis-missed the plea seeking reviewof the verdict.

The top court had saidthere cannot be any doubt thatif the statute provides for con-sultation with any personbefore making a recommen-dation for appointment to anypost, the consultation with thatperson has to be made.

The NGO in its petitionhad challenged Asthana’sappointment, saying it was ille-gal as his name had surfaced ina diary recovered during araid conducted by the IncomeTax Department at the officesand other premises of compa-ny Sterling Biotech Ltd. PTI

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The Agriculture Ministrydata shows that planting of

wheat has increased marginal-ly to 233.71 lakh hectare so farin the ongoing rabi seasonfrom the same period a yearago, but coverage of othercrops especially pulses and ricewas still lagging behind.Sowing of rabi (winter) cropsbegins from October and har-vesting from March onwards.Wheat is the main rabi crop.

Wheat was sown in 233.59lakh hectare in the same peri-od of rabi season in the 2017-18 crop year (July-June). As perthe ministry’s latest data, wheatacreage in Punjab has increasedmarginally to 34.34 lakhhectare so far this season from33.92 lakh hectare a year ago.

Similarly, the area sown towheat in Haryana hasimproved slightly to 24.11 lakh

hectare from 23.32 lakh hectarein the said period. The sowingoperation in these two States isalmost completed, while it isunderway in States especiallyRajasthan, Madhya Pradeshand Uttar Pradesh.

Farmers in MadhyaPradesh have planted wheat inmore area at 44.57 lakh hectare

so far this season when com-pared with 37.91 lakh hectarein a year ago.

However in Uttar Pradesh,wheat sowing was still laggingbehind at 76.70 lakh hectare sofar this season as against 81.90lakh hectare in the same peri-od last season.

In Rajasthan too, the

acreage was slightly down at23.49 lakh hectare as against25.42 lakh hectare in the saidperiod. As per the Ministry’sdata, total pulses area wasdown at 125.40 lakh hectare sofar this rabi season as against138.29 lakh hectare in the year-ago period.

Oilseeds acreage was alsoslightly down at 70.22 lakhhectare as against 70.58 lakhhectare in the said period.Coarse cereals area remainedlagging behind at 37.55 lakhhectare so far this rabi seasonas against 47.16 lakh hectare inthe year-ago.

Rice acreage was also downat 9.24 lakh hectare as against 12.86 lakh hectare inthe said period.

Total area sown to all rabicrops remained down at 476.12lakh hectare so far this rabi sea-son from 502.48 lakh hectare inthe year ago period.

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Ahead of the general elec-tions next year and the

defeat of the ruling BJP in theHindi heartland States’Assembly polls , the Centre hasgranted extension of service ofsix months to IntelligenceBureau (IB) chief Rajiv Jain andexternal Intelligence agencyResearch and Analysis Wing(RAW) boss Anil Dhasmana.Both were due to retire laterthis month end.

While Jain’s tenure was toend on December 30,Dhasmana was slated to retirefrom service on December 29.

The decision to extend thetenure of the two Intelligencechiefs was taken due to theforthcoming general electionand the Centre wants the newGovernment to take a decisionon the appoints for the top

posts of the covert agencies,officials said. Jain, a 1980-batch IPS officer of Jharkhandcadre, was appointed IBDirector on December 30,2016, for a fixed tenure of twoyears.

A recipient of thePresident’s Police Medal, Jainhas served in various depart-ments of IB, including the sen-sitive Kashmir Desk.

He was advisor to the pre-vious NDA Government’sinterlocutor on Kashmir KCPant when talks were heldwith separatist leaders likeShabbir Shah.

Dhasmana, a 1981-batchofficer from the MadhyaPradesh cadre, has been withRAW for 23 years, duringwhich he served in importantareas, including the PakistanDesk and is considered anexpert on Balochistan.

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The EnforcementDirectorate (ED) has

launched a probe against theManaging Director of UshaMartin, the country’s largeststeel wire rope maker, in con-nection with alleged violationsof the Foreign ExchangeManagement Act (FEMA),

agency sources said on Friday.The said agency sleuths

questioned Rajeev Jhawar, the MD of the Kolkata-head-quartered firm, at their office in the capital of WestBengal on Friday.

The officials recordedJhawar’s statement under FEMA in connectionwith the purchase and regis-tration of an immovable assetin Singapore in 2013 and a fewother overseas transactions.

Jhawar is under theEnforcement Directorate’sscanner for alleged irregulari-ties in mobilising funds to cre-ate assets abroad.

The agency wants to ascer-tain the source of funds andcompliance of requiredapprovals, the sources said.Jhawar’s uncle BK Jhawar andthe latter’s son Prashant Jhawar are other promoters ofthe company.

The Competition

Commission had recentlycleared Tata Sponge Iron’sacquisition of steel business ofUsha Martin Ltd. (UML) for Rs4,300-4,700 crore. UML hadearlier said the sale of steel busi-ness to Tata Steel will help thecompany in “significant reduc-tion” of its debt.

Usha Martin is amongstthe largest wire rope manufac-turers in the world and a lead-ing producer of speciality steelin India.

New Delhi: The Government is open tothe idea of roping in “outside” agenciesfor accreditation of educational institu-tions, and IITs and IIMs have also been approached in this regard,Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekarsaid on Friday.

“To improve the quality of educa-tion, we are making the accreditationprocess more scientific and tough. TheGovernment wants to increase thestrength of the National Board ofAccreditation and the NationalAssessment and Accreditation Council so that more number of insti-tutions can be accredited,” Javadekar saidduring the national conference on“Positioning India on the GlobalEducation Map”.

“The Government is open to otheragencies taking the responsibility ofaccreditation, and IITs and IIMs havebeen asked about it ... So that more andmore institutions can be accredited,” headded.

The Union Minister said rankingand rating of education institutionsincrease competitiveness among themfor better performance.

“Today, because of the NationalInstitutional Ranking Framework, everyinstitute has constituted an internalcommittee to improve their ranking.Students also take into account the insti-tution’s ranking before taking admission,”he said.

“Graded autonomy is another majorstep by the Government to boost qual-ity education in the country. Universitieswill remain within the ambit of the UGCbut will have the freedom to start newcourses, off campus centres, skill devel-opment courses, research parks and anyother new academic programmes.

“They will also have the freedom tohire foreign faculty, enrol foreign stu-dents, give incentive-based emolumentsto the faculty, enter academic collabo-rations and run open distance learningprogrammes,” he added. PTI

New Delhi: The SupremeCourt on Friday said despitehaving “examined closely” thepricing details of the basicRafale fighter jet under theoriginal Request for Proposal(RFP) of 2007 and the oneunder the Inter-GovernmentAgreement (IGA) in 2016 to“satisfy its conscience”, it can-not go into cost comparison asit’s not the job of court.

The top court said despiteits initial disinclination to evengo into the issue of pricing, theCentre was directed to placethe cost details of the aircraft insealed cover, just to satisfy theconscience of the court.

It said the Governmenthas not disclosed the pricingdetails except for the basiccost of the aircraft even toParliament on the ground ofsensitivity of pricing details andnational security, apart fromthe issues of breach of theagreement between the twocountries — India and France.

In relief to the ModiGovernment, the SupremeCourt Friday dismissed thepleas challenging the dealbetween India and France forprocurement of 36 Rafale jetssaying there was no occasion to“really doubt the decision mak-ing process” warranting settingaside of the contract. The dealis estimated to be Rs 58,000crore, or about USD 8 billion.

A Bench of Chief JusticeRanjan Gogoi, Justices SanjayKishan Kaul and KM Josephsaid the Central Governmentdespite its reluctance, placedthe material regarding costs ofthe aircrafts before the court tosatisfy its conscience.

“We have examined close-

ly the price details andcomparison of theprices of the basicaircraft along with escalationcosts as under the originalRFP (of 2007) as well as underthe IGA. We have also gonethrough the explanatory noteon the costing, item wise,” theBench said.

It noted that the pricingdetails of 36 Rafale fighter jetsare stated to be covered byArticle 10 of the IGA betweenIndia and France, which pro-vides for protection of classifiedinformation and materialexchanged under the IGA andit would be governed by theprovisions of the SecurityAgreement signed betweenboth the Governments onJanuary 25, 2008.

“It is certainly not the jobof this court to carry out a com-parison of the pricing details inmatters like the present. We sayno more as the material has tobe kept in a confidentialdomain,” the Bench said.

It added even Chief of the

Air Staff is stated to have com-municated his reservationregarding the disclosure of thepricing details, includingregarding the weaponry whichcould adversely affect nation-al security.

The Centre has claimedthat there is a commercialadvantage in the purchase of 36Rafale aircraft and that thereare certain better terms in IGAqua the maintenance andweapon package, it noted.

The pricing details werehowever shared with theComptroller and AuditorGeneral (CAG) and the reportof CAG was examined by thePublic Accounts Committeeof the Parliament and only aredacted portion of the CAGreport was placed before theParliament which is in publicdomain, the court said. PTI

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The India MeteorologicalDepartment (IMD) predicted

that cyclone is brewing over the Bayof Bengal and it is expected to hitAndhra Pradesh’s coast on Mondayafternoon. The cyclone is named‘Phethai’ (contributed by Thailand)in line with the naming protocol forcyclones in the North Indian Ocean.

This would be the seventhcyclone this year, starting with‘Sagar’, ‘Mekunu’ and ‘Luban’ - allin the Arabian Sea - and ‘Daye,’‘Titli,’ and ‘Gaja’ in the Bay ofBengal and third to hit south Indiain less than two months.

Gaja, Daye, Luban and Titlicaused devastation to standingcrops and taking a number of livesin southern parts of the country.The IMD predicted heavy to veryheavy rainfall has been forecast forcoastal Andhra Pradesh onDecember 16 and 17. South

Chhattisgarh and Odisha mayalso see rainfall on December 17.

“The Bay of Bengal sees approx-imately five times as many cyclonesas the Arabian Sea. In addition,cyclones in the Bay are stronger anddeadlier. But this year could be anexception in terms of the numbers.It has also been seen that nearly 58per cent of cyclones formed in theBay reach the coast, as compared toonly 25 per cent of those in theArabian Sea,” the IMD officials said.

The IMD said as expected, thelow pressure area in Bay of Bengalhas now intensified into a well-marked low pressure area and isnow seen over Central Bay ofBengal. “Conditions continue to befavourable for the system to inducea depression in the next 24 hours.In fact, we expect it to strengtheninto deep depression and furtherinto a cyclonic circulation in thesubsequent 48 to 72 hours,’ it said.

The IMD predicted that

severe cyclone would achieve amaximum intensity of windspeeds reaching up to 105 km/hrand gusting to 115 km/hr alongand off Andhra Pradesh, northTamil Nadu and Puducherrycoasts from Saturday evening.“The system would continue tomove in north northwest directionand would be heading towardsAndhra Pradesh Coast,” it said. Asthe system nears, rains wouldalso start picking up pace and wecan expect heavy to very heavyrains over South Coastal AndhraPradesh. North Coastal TamilNadu would see moderate rainswith some heavy showers.

“Sea conditions would be roughto very rough, along with highvelocity winds. We can expectwinds of 80 kmph-90 kmph gust-ing up to 110-120 kmph at the timeof landfall. Locals and fishermen areadvised not to venture out in the seafor the next three days,” officials said.

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Nearly 24 of the 90 MLAselected to the Chhattisgarh

Assembly this week have crim-inal cases against them. Theyaccount for 27 per cent of thestrength of the House, up from17 per cent in the last assembly.As per the Association forDemocratic Reforms (ADR)report, 13 of the 90 (just over 14per cent) have declared seriouscriminal cases against them-selves - bribery, attempt tomurder and death by negli-gence, among others. The com-parative number for the 2013Assembly was nine per cent.

The Congress has 68 MLAsin the new House, including 19with criminal records (28 percent). Of these, 12 MLAs havedeclared serious criminal casesagainst themselves. Ajit Jogi’sJanta Congress Chhattisgarh(J), meanwhile, has strength offive MLAs, two of whom haverecords. One of these two is

accused of serious crimes.The BJP, which lost power

after 15 years, has three MLAsout of 15 (20 per cent) with arecord, but none of them areaccused of serious crimes.ADR’s analysis revealed that 68(76 per cent) of the incomingMLAs are crorepatis, which isalmost the same as the outgo-ing Assembly’s figure of 67.

Forty-eight CongressMLAs (71 per cent), 14 fromthe BJP (93 per cent), all fiveMLAs of Jogi’s party and one ofthe BSP’s two MLAs fall in thisbracket.

“The average of assets perMLA in the Chhattisgarh 2018Assembly elections is Rs 11.63crore. In 2013, the averageassets of 90 MLAs analysed wasRs 8.88 crore,” said the ADRreport. The average assets areRs 11.83 crore for the Congress,Rs 6.32 crore for the BJP, 28.68crore for the Janta CongressChhattisgarh (J) and Rs 2.04crore for the BSP.

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Top court, while junkingthe PILs challenging the Rs58,000 crore Rafale deal, exam-ined the three “broad areas ofconcern” — decision-makingprocess, difference in pricingand the choice of Indian OffsetPartner by Dassault Aviation.

Scrutinising the decision-making process, a bench head-ed by Chief Justice RanjanGogoi said though it had nooccasion to really doubt theprocess, even if there wereminor deviations then theywould not lead to annulmentof the deal. On the DPP, the

court cannot seek “clause-by-clause compliances” of theDefence ProcurementProcedures. “Broadly, theprocesses have been followed”.

The Bench, also compris-ing Justices SK Kaul and KMJoseph, said, “We have studiedthe material carefully. We havealso had the benefit of inter-acting with senior Air ForceOfficers who answered courtqueries in respect of differentaspects, including that of theacquisition process and pricing.

“We are satisfied that thereis no occasion to really doubtthe process, and even if minordeviations have occurred, thatwould not result in either set-ting aside the contract orrequiring a detailed scrutiny bythe court.” It added, “We havebeen informed that joint exer-cises have taken place, andthat there is a financial advan-tage to our nation. It cannot belost sight of, that these are con-tracts of defence procurementwhich should be subject to adifferent degree and depth ofjudicial review.” PTI

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Bengal unit of the CongressParty is planning to contest

single handedly in the nextyear’s Lok Sabha elections,party insiders say.

The Pradesh Congressleadership has been given aclear mandate by the Centralleadership to take a decision onits system of alliances, sourcessaid. The decision is the falloutof Chief Minister MamataBanerjee’s prior announcementto go it alone in the generalelections.

“Our workers are beingattacked and killed and theirhouses and properties lootedevery day by the TrinamoolCongress people. They arebeing framed in false cases. Sothe Congress plans to take onthe TMC alone on its ownstrength,” PCC presidentSomen Mitra said.

Insiders however said itspublic posturing apart, the PCCstill might wait for a “respectableoffer” from the Trinamool with-out which the party will go italone in the elections.

The PCC is divided inthree groups. The first groupled by former PCC presidentAdhir Chowdhury and StateOpposition Leader AbdulMannan who want an alliancewith the Left Front. The second

group led by the likes ofSubhankar Chakrabarty, AHKhan Chowdhury feel theCongress has no chances ofwinning without support fromthe Trinamool. The thirdgroups led by the likes of MPPradip Bhattacharya want to goit alone.

Mitra a veteran partyleader of 1960s and 70s hasasked the lower rung leaders toreach out to the people andstrengthen the organisation“where we have a bigger pres-ence.” The Congress currentlyhas four MPs in Bengal. Whiletwo seats are fromMurshidabad the two othersare from Malda district.

However the party alleges

that its organisational base hasbeen “gobbled up by theTrinamool Congress which haseither by muscle power or bylure of money forced a largenumber of our local workers tojoin their side.”

Mitra said “we will have torebuild our organisation inmany places. The victories inRajasthan, MP and Chhattisgarhshows that we still can do it evenin Bengal. If we start workingfrom now then we can definite-ly challenge the TMC.”

On whether the party willstill go with the Trinamool ifthey offer a respectable alliance,he said “they have notapproached us, neither we willgo to them begging for seats.”

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AMadras High Court orderdelivered on Thursday ask-

ing the Tamil NaduGovernment to shift 150 MBBSstudents from a private medicalcollege in Kancheepuram toGovernment run medical col-leges exposed the rot that hasset in the medical educationsystem, at least in the State.

Justice T Raja, while dis-posing a series of petitionsfiled by the students ofPonnaiyah RamajayamInstitute of Medical Sciences(PRIMS) complaining aboutthe lack of infrastructure in thecollege asked the Tamil NaduGovernment to shift the 150students from the college to the22 Government-run medicalcolleges in the State.

This is not the first time theMadras High Court is issuingan order like this. The year2017 saw the court ordering theshifting of 144 students fromAnnai Medical College andHospital to government-runmedical colleges. Dr C VKrishnaswamy, highly respect-ed medical doctor in TamilNadu told The Pioneer that theregulatory mechanism in the

State need to be beefed up tosave the students from fly-by-night operators. “Most of theprivate colleges have found tobe wanting when it comes toinfrastructure facilities andqualified teachers,” said DrKrishnaswamy.

Though the PRIMS didnot meet the mandatoryrequirements, the collegeauthorities managed to get theessentiality certificate from theState government in August2014 which authorised theinstitution to admit 150 stu-dents every year to the MBBScourse. But the Medical Councilof India opposed the move bythe Tamil Nadu government toissue essentiality certificate andLetter of Permission pointingout that PRIMS had manyshort comings. This includedshortage of outpatients, lowbed occupancy and non-avail-ability of blood bank.

But the College authoritiesmanaged to get the permissionbased on a Supreme Courtverdict based on the reportsubmitted by the OversightCommittee. The CentralGovernment issued the Letterof Permission in August 2016which allowed the intake of stu-dents from the academic year

2016-17. But the students facednumber of problems in the col-lege from day one onwardsbecause of shortcomings ininfrastructure.

Dr GR Raveendranath,general secretary, DoctorsAssociation for Social Equality(DASE), said the court orderswere reflective of the ineffi-ciency and corruption prevail-ing in the sector. “It is allbecause of the essentiality cer-tificate issued by the StateGovernment that the PRIMScould commence MBBS course.The fact that an essentiality cer-tificate was issued to an insti-tution which does not meet themandatory requirements itselfhas to be probed comprehen-sively,” said Dr Raveendranath.

He also pointed out thatadmitting students from privatemedical colleges to govern-ment run colleges was counterproductive in all respects. “Thegovernment-run colleges havealready filled the classes withstudents. There is a student-teacher ratio as well as otherlimitations in the governmentcolleges. Admitting studentsmidway in the course cause lotof hardship to other studentsand teachers,” saidRaveendranath.

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In a sad commentary on thefunctioning of the Central

Bureau of Investigation (CBI),a Pune court on Friday grant-ed bail to the three accused inthe Narendra Dabholkar mur-der case, after the CBI failed tofile a supplementary charge-sheet in the case within thestipulated 90 days.

Pune’s First Class JudicialMagistrate SMA Sayyed grant-ed bail to accused Amol Kale,Rajesh Bangera and AmitDegvekar, after the CBI failedto file the chargesheet againstthem within the stipulated 90days after their arrest.

The relief to three accusedcame a day after they movedthe court for bail on the groundthat the CBI had not soughtadditional time from the courtto file the supplementarycharge-sheet under section 43of the Unlawful ActivitiesPrevention Act (UAPA).

Kale, Bangera andDegvekar are also accused in thejournalist Gauri Lankesh mur-der case. The CBI had arrestedBangera and Degvekar onSeptember 1, while Kale wasarrested on September 3. The

CBI had in the first week ofSeptember obtained the custodyof Kale, Bangera and Degvekarfrom the Katnataka’s SpecialInvestigation Team (SIT) inves-tigate their links with theDabholkar murder case.

The contention of the threeaccused was that neither thechargesheet was filed underIPC nor did the CBI seek addi-tional time from the court tofile the supplementary charge-sheet under UAPA.

At Friday’s hearing, a requestwas made on behalf the CBI thatthe probe agency be given timetill December 20 to file thechargesheet on the ground thatits officials were pre-occupiedwith some other work in Delhi,the CBI. However, MagistrateSayyed rejected the CBI’s requeston the ground that it should havefiled the chargesheet onWednesday when the 90-daydeadline expired.

However, there have been

many occasions in the pastwhen the Bombay High Courthad pulled up the CBI for theinordinate delay in completinginvestigations in the NarendraDabholkar murder case.

The Supreme Court hadsaid on Tuesday that if there wasa “common thread” among themurders of social activistsNarendra Dabholkar, GovindPansare, journalist GauriLankesh and rationalist M MKalburgi, then one agency couldinvestigate all the four cases.

Sixty nine-year-old anti-superstition campaignerDabholkar was shot dead himfrom a point blank range by twomotor-bicycle riding gunmen —aged between 25 and 30 years,while he was taking a morningwalk on the Omkareshwarbridge located in the heart ofPune, on August 20, 2013.

Gauri Lankesh (55) wasshot gunned down outside herBengaluru residence on

September 5, 2017. She was theeditor in Lankesh Patrike, aKannada weekly started by herlate father P. Lankesh. AfterLankesh’s death, Gauri used toher own weekly called GauriLankesh Patrike.

With the State police hav-ing failed to make any headwayin the investigations into theDabholkar murder case, theBombay High Court had trans-ferred the case to the CBI onMay 9, 2014, after overrulingthe objections raised by theMaharashtra Government. TheCBI had registered a case onJune 2, 2014, on the highcourt’s orders.

It was the Karnataka SITthat arrested Kale, Bangeraand Degvekar first in connec-tion with the Dabholkar mur-der case. The CBI, which ishelped by the MaharashtraAnti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) inthe investigations, has a strongreason to believe that the samepistol was used by the miscre-ants in killing both Dabholkarand Gauri Lankesh.

While Kale is former Puneunit convenor of HinduJanajagruti Samiti, an affiliateoutfit of Sanathan Sanstha,Digvekar was a promter ofSanatan Sanstha’s publicationthe Sanatan Prabhat. Bangeraallegedly trained two sharpshooters Sachin Andhure andSharad Kalaskar in handlingthe pistol.

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Prime Minister NarendraModi’s visit to Rae Bareli,

the parliamentary constituen-cy of United ProgressiveAlliance (UPA) chairpersonSonia Gandhi, on December 16could throw some surprises asthere is a possibility that rebelAam Admi Party (AAP) leaderand poet Kumar Vishwas mayjoin the Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) in his presence.

Though sources close to thepoet denied such a move, andthere is a tradition that no pol-itics is involved during thePrime Minister’s function,sources in the BJP confirmed inLucknow on Friday that thereis a strong possibility of KumarVishwas joining the party.

“There isa surprise foryou. Wait tillSunday,” asenior BJPleader said. In2014, KumarVishwas con-tested the LokSabha electionfrom Amethi constituency onAAP ticket and in 2019 hecould be the BJP candidate inplace of Union TextilesMinister Smriti Irani.

But sources in the BJPclaimed that Vishwas could beshifted to Rae Bareli to contestagainst Sonia Gandhi, whileIrani could contest against RahulGandhi from Amethi again.

Lucknow: Sleuths of theSpecial Task Force have soughtthe help of Nepal police toarrest prime accused inBulandshahr violence and Bajrang Dal’s city chiefYogesh Raj.

The violence which erupt-ed in Bulandshahr onDecember 3 claimed the livesof the Inspector of Syana policestation and a local youth.

“We have inputs that toavert his arrest, Raj has fled toNepal. We are in contact withour Nepalese counterparts andare trying to drop the net onthe mastermind ofBulandshahr violence,” said asenior STF officer posted inwest UP.

On Thursday night, the STFteam arrested another accused,identified as Saurabh Payal, fromBulandshahr. He was producedin a local court on Friday morn-ing and the court sent him to jail.Earlier, the probe agencies hadarrested armyman Jitendra Malikaka Jeetu Fauji in connectionwith the Bulandshahr violence.Later, a hunt was launched forarresting some aides of thearmyman who were at the sceneon the fateful day.

Interestingly, all accusednamed in the FIR and with saf-fron links have been freelyuploading videos on social sitesand giving interviews, pleadingtheir innocence, but the lawenforcers have preferred to lookthe other way. PTI

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With former MinisterSenthil Balaji joining the

DMK on Friday, the process ofdisintegration of the AIADMKhas reached the full steam.Hundreds of his followers tooaccompanied Balaji in his jour-ney from Karur to Chennai andthen to the DMK headquartersat Mount Road in the metro.

Balaji and his followerswere welcomed into the DMKby party chief MK Stalin. It wasa home coming for SenthilBalaji who had left the DMK in2000 to join the AIADMK andwas elected thrice to theLegislative Assembly in theparty ticket.

“The AIADMK is a sinkingship and Thalapathi (Tamil forcommander, as Stalin isaddressed by his followers) is theonly leader who is capable ofresuscitating Tamil Nadu fromthe clutches of the BJP,” Balajitold reporters after enrollinghimself as a DMK volunteer.

Hereafter he will addressStalin as Thalapathi andJayalalithaa as Jayalalithaa.Before reaching Chennai onFriday morning, Balaji and hisfollowers had removed the pic-tures of Jayalalithaa andSasikala from their shirt pock-ets, cars and SUVs. By the timethey left the DMK head quar-ters, all vehicles in the motor-cade accompanying Balaji spot-ted pictures of Stalin andKarunanidhi.

TTV Dhinakaran, generalsecretary of Amma MakkalMunnetra Kazhagam (AMMK),the breakaway faction of the

AIADMK launched by VKSasikala (aide to late JJayalalithaa) wished SenthilBalaji as the best in his newinnings in the DMK. “I don’tknow why he decided to leaveus. If he had any genuine prob-lems and had told us about it,we could have sorted it out,” saidDhinakaran in Friday. Balaji wasa camp follower of Dhinakaranand the AMMK before he casthis lots with the DMK.

G Satyamurthy, politicalcommentator and columnistsaid the exit of Balaji was notgoing to make any impact onthe fortunes of the AIADMK orthe AMMK. “Both are fast dis-integrating and I do not knowwhether the AIADMK wouldsurvive the 2021 Assemblyelection. The ground report isthat the AIADMK would bewiped out in the Lok Sabhaelection,” said Satyamurthywho is also sceptical about thestrength of Dhinakaran.

“AIADMK does not have a

charismatic leader who couldmatch the calibre of Jayalalithaato pull it through the troubledtimes. I am not sure about thecapabilities of Dhinakaran,”said Satyamurthy. He also saidSenthil Balaji joining the DMKis also media hype. “You waitfor a couple of weeks and seewhat happens to him andDhinakaran. Tamil Nadu pol-itics is getting churned,” he said.

Dr V Mythreyan, MP andsenior leader of the AIADMKsaid there is no possibility of hisparty’s merger with theDhinakaran faction. “OPanneerselvam, our convener,has made it clear that there isno question of aligning with theSasikala family dominatedparty and the subject endsthere,” Mythreyan said.

This puts to rest at least forthe time being, reports aboutthe possibilities of mergerbetween the rival factionswhich were being highlightedby the local media.

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In a freak mishap, a 22-year-old college student collapsed

and died during a tug of wargame at Somaiya College atVidya Vihar in north-eastMumbai late on Thursdayevening.

A resident of Thane city,Jibbin Sunny was leading oneof the two teams in the tug ofwar game when the incidenttook place.

The tournament had beenorganised as part of the college’sannual sports day

The video footage of the mishap, which wentviral on Friday, showed that Sunny collapsed after he putthe rope around his neck and pulled it with more power.

Sunny was rushed to thenearby Rajawadi Hospitalwhere he died during treat-ment.

While the cause of deathwas not immediately known,Sunny’s body has been sent forpost-mortem.

This is perhaps the first death that taken placein the metropolis during a tugof war game.

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Hitting out at the Congresspresident, Uttar Pradesh

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanathsaid Rahul Gandhi told liesabout the Rafale fighter aircraftdeal and he should apologise tothe people and defence per-sonnel for spreading canards toget political mileage.

“The oldest political partyof the country has failed to per-form its duty. It has threatenedthe nation’s security andintegrity by questioning theRafale deal which was initiat-ed by their government but waslater shelved as they could not

find any middleman like(Ottavio) Quattrocchi or(Christian) Michel,” the Chief Minister said whilespeaking to news persons inLucknow on Friday.

Yogi was reacting to aSupreme Court judgement inwhich a three-member benchgave a clean chit to the Rafaledeal. The judgement came as ashot in the arm for the saggingmorale of the Bharatiya JanataParty, which promptly used theverdict as a hammer to beat theCongress.

The Chief Minister alsoasked the Congress why its gov-ernment delayed the Rafale

deal during its tenure from2007 to 2014.

“Was the party in powersearching for brokers like theydid during the previous defencedeals?” Yogi asked in an obliquereference to the Bofors deal.

Yogi said that RahulGandhi should also disclose thesource of his information onRafale deal as it seemed that hisstatement against the govern-ment was an attempt to weak-en the country’s security.

“The statements made bythe Congress chief were morealarming as neighbouringcountries are equipped with thelatest aircraft and other defence

technology,” he said.The Chief Minister also

suggested to the judiciary notto entertain frivolous publicinterest petitions (PILs) whichcould affect the security andintegrity of the country.

“This is a fact that thesePILs were filed just to reappolitical mileage and defamethe government. The courtshould take strict action againstsuch PILs,” he said.

Yogi welcomed the deci-sion of the SC in rejecting allpetitions filed against the Rafaleaircraft deal and claimed thatthe judiciary’s verdict was aclear indication that nothing

was wrong in the deal.“The SC judgement has

exposed the false propagandaof the Congress. The grand oldparty defamed the Central gov-ernment and the BJP merely forpolitical reasons,” Yogi said.

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The decision of ChiefMinister HD

Kumaraswamy and coalitionpartner Congress to appointPratap Chandra Shetty, aCongress leader from coastalKarnataka as Chairman of theLegislative Council (upperHouse) has made both theJD(S) and the Congress leadersfuming against the decision ofthe Chief Minister.

The decision has upset theformer pro tem chairman ofthe council (of the JD(S))Basavaraja Horatti and theCongress leader SR Patil( whowas Siddaramaiah’s candidate)both Lingayat leaders haveopenly criticised the Congressand the JD(S). Along with itanother powerful Lingayatleader from north Karnatakaand former water resourceMinister MB Patil also direct-ly hit at Kumaraswamy andmany say this might help BJP

to consolidate in favour of theparty which is playing Lingayatcard successfully in many elec-tions. The Lingayat dramaunfolded in the ongoingWinter Session of the Assemblywhere Kumaraswamy is facingthe heat both inside and theoutside. Sugarcane farmers areprotesting and pressuring forthe MSP and also to get thedues cleared.

The Lingayats are a pow-erful community which con-stitute over 19 per cent of thestate population. The BJP hasbeen polarising Lingayat voteskeeping its strongman from thesame community BSYeddyurappa and this mighthelp them to work out a strat-egy in the ensuing 2019 generalelections.

Even though the Congressvictory in the Hindi heartlandhas given ammunition to thecoalition partners, the centuryold party has failed to douse thefire. In another political devel-

opment Siddaramaiah who isthe chairman of the coordina-tion committee of the coalitionGovernment has cut short hisforeign visit and back inBengaluru to handle the chang-ing political developments.

Many Congress MLAs arewaiting for the December 22for the Cabinet expansion.According to sources after the

victory in MP, Rajasthan andChhattisgarh the party may notexpand the Cabinet whichmight lead to more dissent inthe party.

The State Governmentsacceptance on the floor of thehouse that only 800 farmers havebenefited from the �49,000 crorefarm loan waiver till now hasgiven ammunition to the BJPand also dissidents within thecoalition partners.

A senior Congress leadersaid “the party which extend-ed support to JDs to form thegovernment has ignored theLingayat leaders in the partywho were involved in themovement for a separate andminority religion tag to thecommunity. The Centre alsorejected their demand and theleaders who led the movementare left in a lurch in process”.

Soon after stepping downas the pro-tem chairman of thelegislative council, BasavarajaHoratti, blamed his leader

Kumaraswamy and asked himnot become a rubber stamp.

He said , “I want to tell myleader and Chief MinisterKumaraswamy not to end up asa mere rubber stamp of theCongress. My party asked me tofile the nomination but after werealised that the Congress wasfielding its candidate, we backedout to save the coalition fromembarrassment,” he added.

He said, “The Congressdrove a hard bargain for theportfolios during the cabinetformation. They had thendemanded the speaker’s postwhile agreeing to give thechairman’s post to the JD(S).But now, they have unilateral-ly decided to stake claim to thecouncil top post. Can you runa coalition without rules?”

Former water resourcesminister MB Patil of theCongress has questioned theGovernment on North-Southdisparity when it comes toallocation of prime positions by

the Congress is miffed with theparty over not being given aCabinet berth. He said “morenumber of Congress legislators(41) had been elected fromnorth Karnataka, but only fiveof them had been made min-isters. In contrast, 36 legislatorshave been elected from SouthKarnataka, but nine of themhave been made ministers”.

“All the prime portfolios likeHome, Water Resources, RuralDevelopment and PanchayatRaj have gone to legislatorsfrom South Karnataka.Important positions like DeputyChief Minister, Speaker of theAssembly, Chairman of theCouncil too have gone to legis-lators from the South” he added.

He said he will be writinga letter to Congress presidentRahul Gandhi regarding this.“This disparity should go andthe imbalance should be setright. The post of chairmanshould have gone to SR Patil,”he added.

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The 11th edition of annualrejuvenation camp for tem-

ple elephants in Tamil Nadubegan at Thekkampatti on thebanks of Bhavani River onFriday.

State Hindu Religious andCharitable EndowmentsMinister Sevoor SRamachandran inauguratedthe camp along with forestminister Dindigul Serinivasanand Municipal AdministrationMinister S P Velumani.

Ramachandran said 27 ele-phants from various templesand mutts had been brought forparticipation in the 48-daycamp, a pet project of lateChief Minister Jayalalithaa.

Adequate medical care willbe provided to the elephants atthe camp, with special veteri-narian teams, he said addingnutritious food with special dietwould be given.

Meanwhile, about 40 farm-ers of surrounding 23 villagesattempted to stage a picketingof the road near the venue,opposing the camp at the loca-tion, claiming threat to the peo-ple and crops by wild ele-phants which stray into theirarea in view of the presence oftemple jumbos.

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Adawn-to-dusk shutdowncalled by the BJP to protest

against the death of a man saidto be a Sabarimala devoteederailed Kerala on Friday,sparking widespread anger overthe disruption to normal life.

The 50-year-oldVenugopalan Nair set himselfon fire at a BJP protest venueon Thursday and succumbed tohis injuries in a hospital here.

But in his dying declaration, hemade no mention of theSabarimala temple.

Before being taken to thepublic crematorium, his bodywas brought to the BharatiyaJanata Party (BJP) protestvenue where party leaders paidtheir last respect.

But the rationale for calling the shutdown cameunder fire from the rulingCPI-M, Congress, businessgroups as well as the man onthe street.

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Jammu & Kashmir hasbecome the first State in the

country to have a law banning sexual exploitation ofwomen by those in positions of authority, having afiduciary relationship or a pub-lic servant.

The State AdministrativeCouncil (SAC) under the chairmanship of Governor Satya Pal Malik onFriday approved the‘Prevention of Corruption(Amendment) Bill, 2018’ andthe ‘Jammu & KashmirCriminal Laws (Amendment)Bill, 2018’, an officialspokesman said.

The Jammu & KashmirCriminal Laws (Amendment)Bill, 2018 seeks to amend the Ranbir Penal Code,whereby specific offence undersection 354 E is being inserted to provide for the offence of ‘sextortion’, hesaid.

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Key NDA constituent JD(U)on Friday made it clear that

it was not in favor of promul-gation of an ordinance to facil-itate the construction of Ramtemple in Ayodhya, demand forwhich has been made by thesangh parivar and a section ofthe BJP.

JD(U) national general sec-retary Ram Chandra PrasadSingh said the party will stickto its earlier stand it had takenon the issue in its earlier avataras the Samata Party which was— the issue either be solved bymutual consent between theaffected communities or decid-ed by a court of law.

There should be no confu-sion in the minds of the peo-ple with regard to our stand onRam temple issue at Ayodhya.If an ordinance is promulgat-ed to facilitate construction ofthe temple, our party will notsupport it, he said.

“Since the Samata Partydays, we have been in favour ofa resolution of the dispute bymutual consent or through acourt order. We brook no thirdalternative,” Singh, who is alsothe party’s leader in the RajyaSabha and a confidant of Chief

Minister Nitish Kumar toldreporters here.

Even before walking out ofthe NDA in 2013, the JD(U)had always insisted that abro-gating Article 370, Ram templein Ayodhya and Uniform CivilCode should be kept out of thecoalition agenda. JD(U), head-ed by Bihar Chief MinisterNitish Kumar, is running acoalition government with theBJP in Bihar.

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Mumbai: On a day theSupreme Court dismissed pleaschallenging the Rafale deal,PDP chief Mehbooba Muftisaid the BJP should also waitfor the apex court’s verdict onthe Babri Masjid issue.

In a relief to the ModiGovernment, the SupremeCourt on Friday dismissed thepleas challenging the dealbetween India and France forprocurement of 36 Rafale jetssaying there was no occasion to“really doubt the decision mak-

ing process” warranting settingaside of the contract.

“Like the Rafale decisionwas welcomed, I hope they (theBJP) will wait for the decision (ofSupreme Court) on Babri Masjidas well and won’t start pointingfingers at the SC. We have aninstitution which is highlyrespected,” Mehbooba said.

She was replying to ques-tions at an event held by the Observer ResearchFoundation (ORF).

The Rashtriya

Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) hasbeen demanding an ordinanceor a law to build a Ram templein Ayodhya at the earliest. Ithad also criticised the SupremeCourt’s decision to defer thehearing in the land disputecase, saying it “hurt” Hindusentiments.

Several Bharatiya JanataParty (BJP) leaders have alsosupported RSS chief MohanBhagwat’s push for the law toenable the construction of Ramtemple. PTI

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Young Ahalya from Kollam, whogrew up in a pineapple farm,loved the fruit’s colours so muchthat she decided to express her-self through them and turned

painter. As she filled up her canvas with intri-cate scenes of plantation life, replicating herhard-working parents’ faces on the figuresthat peopled it, she surrounded them withhills and forests, nature in a flaming surgeas it were, pushing the pylons of civilisationin a distant greyness. Her fellow artists havepicked up a morbid rubble tossed up by theKerala floods and strung them to a twistedspinal cord, which is straightening itself ina desperate lunge at survival. There’sPangrok Sulap from Malaysian Borneo,another artist born of the soil, dancing ona canvas spread taut on wood-cut blocksdepicting farm life and issues, his happy feetimprinting his memories of them. All ofthem have stitched together their peasantorigins and come together at the KochiMuziris Biennale, which is unshackling artfrom the confines of rarefied thought andelitism to listen to the sub-terranean voic-es and helping them stake a claim in con-temporary discourse.

If art biennales are meant to rearticu-late the times, then the Kochi edition hasclearly pushed key frontiers in global dia-logue, snapping the exclusionary stiffness ofart fairs and museums, where the plight ofthe dispossessed is merely the motif and notthe felt anguish of those who go through it.As its curator, artist Anita Dube hasattempted to explore “possibilities of a non-alienated world” and managed to address theelephant in the room, to create a safe pub-lic sphere where we can think freely,exchange ideas, ask questions of ourselves,have conversations and dialogue rather thanideological loud-mouthing and best of allprovide a safe pedagogic haven where peo-ple do not feel threatened, judged or notqualified enough. In this respect, the Kochibiennale has fully given credence to sociol-ogist Pierre Bourdieu’s argument for theneed to create a social and cultural capitaljuxtaposed to the economic one. He haddefined “cultural capital” as that which deter-mined the “tastes” of society, which, if notwholesome and representative enough, canperpetuate a cycle of privilege instead ofbreaking it down. Museums and galleriesmay lend us access to all sorts of artworkthat have emerged as an interpretation ofhistory, context and archives but what of sen-sitive story-telling? Will it be a projectionof an idea rather than a humane experience?The Kochi biennale hasn’t talked down, ithas allowed everyone to come in. Or asDube described it, enfolded them in the “dis-cursive frame of culture.” Be it an attemptat post-colonial redemption by the West, theresolution of anxieties, the fluidity of iden-tities, the retrieval of protest poetry fromconflict zones, the reinstatement of women’s

dues, like that of the selflessMalayali nurses, the cry for eco-logical justice, the siege ofmicro-cultures or the much-revered cow head turning intoa fist of agrarian assertion,every voice has been respectedand interpreted in concrete,tactile and visually explosiveterms. For public engagement ofart cannot happen unless itappeals to our sensorium. Andtill that is done, till art alsobecomes a source of pleasure,populism will continue to cedespace to majoritarian mono-logues. Should that be easilyhanded over? Shouldn’t pop-ulism be a happy prospect thanbe demonised as a takeover toolof everybody’s trade?

In that sense, the Kochibiennale has already startedthe process of culture reclama-tion as a democratic nurturingof ideas, not a handed downrewriting of scripts. Muziriswas an ancient port on theMalabar coast, our first point ofglobalisation over centuries asmerchant ships plied the spiceroutes and broke down barriersfor a confluence and assimila-tion of cultures. Perhaps thisbiennale rescued that ancientspirit and applied it to the cur-rent context.

For Kerala, a State that wasravaged brutally by the floodsbarely a hundred days ago —1.5million people displaced and200,000 lives lost —the biennalehas been a huge palliative.Many had questioned if theGovernment should go throughwith this edition and not divert

the usual funds to the recon-struction process. But ChiefMinister Pinarayi Vijayan want-ed to send out the message thatKerala is resilient and meansbusiness. The spinoff effects onthe economy by way of tourism,services and infrastructure arefor all to see. The laid-back FortKochi area is now a bustle, thewaterways have emerged astransport corridors ferryingpeople from one island toanother, the local youth havesigned up as volunteers andmost residents have opened uphomestays and cafes.Warehouse owners, who dobooming business in a porttown, have let out spaces forthree months to make way forinstallation artists. And aban-doned houses are getting a newlease of life. More so, the peo-ple of Kochi, who have virtual-ly owned this art event as theirbadge of pride through thepast years, don’t want to let goof it. Students and young peo-ple are toggling assignmentsand work to play hosts andcoordinators. Thousands of car-penters are at work, helpingerect structures and artworks,the caterers have never beenbusier, feeding visitors on theroadside and the auto wallahshave replaced the need forGoogle maps.

The Chief Minister himselfinaugurated the biennale, lend-ing a heft to proceedings andinsisting in his speech that thetraumatised State indeed need-ed to heal itself through art. Thebiennale has done up drab

walls in hospitals and dressedup worn out facades withcolourful murals to mask thedarkness of pain. Over theyears, organisers have reachedout to schools and made entryfree on certain days for the com-mon people to access andembrace a different form ofexpression. This is the processby which an auto rickshaw dri-ver like Bapi Das was inspiredenough to embroider histhoughts on fabric, now onprominent display. Or a run-away like Vicky Roy, who grewup in a shelter home near theNew Delhi Railway station andwho was trained in a photogra-phy workshop, to reframe theurbanscape through his lensand awaken us to the trickle-down effects of societal statutesand policy-making. LikeAhalya, they were not empow-ered by birth, be it in terms ofaccess to language or chance.They evolved on their own,organically and untutored.Kerala clearly isn’t shedding atear for itself.

Of course, what’s art with-out the political subtext? Andthere were plenty at the biennaleposited against the visual epi-demic of clichés on other media.At a time when the womenartistes’ collective have articu-lated their brand of #MeToo inthe Malayali film industry andfaith debates on Sabarimalacontinue to hover over awoman’s right to enter theshrine, the biennale has had itsfirst woman curator and devot-ed more than 50 per cent of the

works to women artists. TheGuerrilla Girls, who have beentalking about sexism in the artsfield through provocative slo-gans and street performances,have plastered the town withplacards, asking questions aboutwhether women are only goodas models for artists and ifgallery staff get respectable pay.Kashmiri artist Veer Munshihas recreated a Sufi shrine withlacquer coffins of the young,arguing for the middle path indialogues and a return to civil-isational contiguity that hasbeen torn asunder by extrem-ism. A young performanceartist frisks entrants to peaceful-ly demonstrate his angst ofgrowing up behind the wiredquarters. That speaks louderthan the gun.

In the end, art anywhereshould be about the relationaldynamic between the creatorand the audience. Only then canit be a vibrant cultural asset andoffset hierarchies set by eco-nomic and political structures.Or to borrow words from theGuerrilla Girls, “Don’t let muse-ums reduce art to a small num-ber of artists who have won apopularity contest among big-time dealers, curators and col-lectors. If museums don’t showart as diverse as the cultures theyclaim to represent, tell themthey’re not showing the histo-ry of art, they are just preserv-ing the history of wealth andpower.” The sea winds havebrought a whiff of life to Kochi.

(The writer is AssociateEditor, The Pioneer)

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Sir — Retired Lieutenant GeneralDS Hooda, who was the formerGeneral Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Army’s NorthernCommand in September 2016when the surgical strikes tookplace, rightly spoke against thepoliticising of military opera-tions. Surgical strikes were part ofa necessary counter-offensive ofthe Army in retaliation to the Uriterror attack in which 19 Indiansoldiers were killed by Pakistaniterrorists.

Hooda said that it was natur-al to have initial euphoria aboutthe success, but the constantmaintenance of hype over militaryoperations was unwarranted.Indeed, a constant political show-casing of a military strike can doa two-fold damage. First, a con-stant political chest-thumping foran Army operation can haveadverse effects on our relationswith neighbouring countries.Second, if it turns into politicalasset for one political party, it willsend a wrong impression that theentire country is divided in termsof defence policy.

Sujit DeKolkata

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Sir — This refers to the editori-al, “Rahul’s day dawns”(December 12). The Assemblyelections must prod the BJP toacknowledge the relevance ofthe much maligned dynasty of theCongress and that it is but a formof orchestrating individualstrengths to optimise collective

results. The Indira Gandhi regimeof imperious central diktats sawthe party gradually losing cohe-sion at grass roots. Tall regionalsatraps could yet hold the party,but with the loss of RajasekharReddy of Andhra Pradesh, theparty plunged into decline.Clearly, the dynasty was effectiveso long as its president producedresults. See what the lack ofdynasty has done to the

AIADMK, whose faction fight isa textbook case for the SamajwadiParty.

Congress chief Rahul Gandhiseems to have learnt the lessonswell. His persuasive style had thefrontline leaders, be it Rajasthanor Madhya Pradesh, to put partyneeds above personal ambitions.His task now is to keep that espritde corps going and showcase thesame for the 2019 LS elections.

Meanwhile, the BJP too mustponder now that its centrally dri-ven one-man party apparatushas proved fallible. Nor can thePrime Minister carry the soleonus of campaigning. The partyneeds many more shoulders andgiven its poor bench strengthtoday, it is left with little time topromote fresh talent.

R NarayananNavi Mumbai

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Sir — This refers to the editori-al, “Rahul’s day dawns”(December 12). The BJP was, per-haps, too over-confident of win-ning the Hindi-speaking belt.But they lost because of emptypromises. The results should be aneye-opener for the party. Risingproblems, like farm and rural dis-tress as also urban angst played acrucial role in the erosion of theBJP’s support base. Understandingthe problems faced by people willremain crucial to fight the nextGeneral election.

Jubel D’CruzMumbai

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The Preamble to theConstitution of India clearlystates that India is a sover-

eign, socialist, secular, democraticrepublic. But as the ongoing pub-lic discourse of our political mas-ters clearly shows, we are more ademocracy and less a republic. Wemay not truly be aware of the sub-tle difference between the two oreven be bothered to give this aspectmuch thought. But make no mis-take, if we are to progress and devel-op as a nation, we cannot do with-out either. History tells us that theterm ‘democracy’ originated fromthe Greek words ‘demos’, the com-mon people, and ‘kratos’ orstrength. The first democracy wasthe city of Athens in 508-507 BC

where Cleisthenes, known as thefather of Athenian democracy,introduced the concept of rule bythe common people. However, rep-resentational democracy, as weknow it today, is very different fromwhat was practised then and istoday defined by its one major char-acteristic “rule of the majority”,which can easily devolve into mobrule or tyranny of the majority, oreven worse, anarchy.

Benjamin Franklin once said:“Democracy is two wolves and alamb voting on what to have forlunch.” The only thing that keepsthe lamb off the lunch menu is thefact that we are a republic — not aperfect one but still one nonethe-less. What that basically implies isthat the country is not a privateconcern of the rulers but is consid-ered a “public matter” and belongsto each one of us regardless of caste,creed, gender or ethnicity. Whilethis obviously demands that ourrulers are elected and not inherit-ed, as quite a few tends to be, moreimportantly, it requires them to rule

for the common good, an aspect ofgovernance on which philosophers,such as Plato and Aristotle, wrotevolumes. This is, of course, onlypossible when there are a set of lawsand those elected as leaders followthem both in letter and spirit.

Unfortunately over the past fewdecades, common good seems to beignored in the face of parochial andself-serving interests of our leaders,as the rule of law is often ignored orrendered irrelevant. It is no wonderthen that our legislatives at theCentre and States have a surfeit ofmembers facing criminal charges —1,765 MPs and MLAs at last count,or 36 per cent facing over 3,500cases as per the Government;though some contend the numbersare vastly understated.

While the Supreme Court maywell view the entry of criminals intolegislative bodies as akin to “termiteto the citadel of democracy,” it can-not make laws to keep them out.That, the court said, is the domainof Parliament, an institution that isyet to show a firmness of resolve to

stem the rot. Ironically, it is theactions of the apex court itselfwhich gave a fillip to criminals join-ing politics with its farcical rulingin the infamous JMM bribery case,involving the bribing of MPs todefeat a no-confidence motionbrought against the then PrimeMinister PV Narasimha Rao’sGovernment way back in 1993.These allegedly corrupt MPs wereunashamed and blatant enough toopenly deposit the bribe money ina public sector bank. They weresubsequently prosecuted under thePrevention of Corruption Act butwere absolved by the SupremeCourt’s interpretation of Article 105of the Constitution. This Articlestates that (1) MPs shall enjoyfreedom of speech in Parliamentand (2) shall not be held liable toany proceedings in any court inrespect of anything said or any votegiven in Parliament.

The court held that the allegedbribe-takers, who had voted in theHouse, were “entitled to the immu-nity conferred by Article 105(2)”. It

also went on to direct that thebribe-givers must be prosecuted, asalso the bribe-takers who did notvote. Certainly, a unique legal jus-tification for the concept of honouramong thieves.

The apex court has nowattempted to correct the existingstate of affairs by directing theGovernment to set up 12 fast-trackspecial courts to try cases against thelegislators.

In addition, it has also directedall political parties, which give tick-ets to persons with criminal casespending against them, to publicisethe information on the party web-sites, apart from issuing a declara-tion in “widely circulated” newspa-pers and on electronic media afterthe nomination is filed.

However, there is little doubtleft that the “centre of gravity”seems to have shifted in favour ofthe criminal legislators and theyseem to have become indispensableto parties for grabbing power. Thesad truth is that actions taken by theSupreme Court now are of little

consequence, nothing more thanclosing the barn door after thehorse has bolted.

While regular and reasonablyfair elections have ensured that wecontinue to enjoy the fruits of avibrant democracy, the same can-not be said for the state of ourRepublic. The gradual decline ofvalues and the rule of law haveensured that the common good isof little concern to our political classwho are quite happy with the sta-tus quo. Neither the judiciary northe bureaucrats can bring aboutchange for the better that isrequired. It is, therefore, left to thecommon citizen to act. If we do notstand up and reclaim the space, wehave conceded to criminals andother low-life who now sit in judg-ment over us. It will be our childrenwho will pay the price in the com-ing years.

(The writer is a military veter-an, a Consultant with the ObserverResearch Foundation and VisitingSenior Fellow with The PeninsulaFoundation, Chennai)

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The results of the Assembly electionsheld in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh,Rajasthan, Telangana and Mizorammust have sent jitters down the spineof the BJP leadership. The seniors had

never expected this kind of a drubbing, thinkingtheir schemes were indeed people-friendly whentheir implementation was skewed. In contrast, theoutcome has also done a lot to rejuvenate theCongress and Opposition leaders, who are all nowrallying behind the leadership of Congress pres-ident Rahul Gandhi. The BJP, however, has notbeen totally routed. It retains a fair share of thevote pie in spite of anti-incumbency in the threeheartland States — Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthanand Chhattisgarh. But for sure, the oft-repeatedslogan of ‘a Congress-mukt Bharat’ was blownaway like a hot balloon. With these results, theOpposition is going for the jugular now andsmelling power for the 2019 parliamentary elec-tions, notwithstanding the fact that PrimeMinister Narendra Modi’s popularity remainsintact.

The results have further proved that theIndian electorate does not bother about perfor-mance or rhetorical slogans and knows how tohalt the juggernaut. They have also thrown a fewlessons for both the ruling and Opposition par-ties. Let us examine the matter from the point ofview of both the BJP and the Opposition. As aninformed citizen, this writer has been observingthe functioning of the Government in differentfields in different States, has been writing on issuesgermane to the people, hailing good decisions andproviding suggestions for improvements on sev-eral others.

Governance is not a cakewalk for any ruler,nor is feeling the pulse of the Indian mind in elec-tions an easy task, as voters have time and againbeen pooh-poohing expert psychologists with dis-dain. Any hasty policy decision on well-inten-tioned goals and programmes has always back-fired on the ruling regimes. People have a poormemory both for good deeds as well as bad. Theytend to forget the good deeds fast enough and for-give quickly on bad experiences. Because of this,for quite some time, the Indian polity hasbecome a sort of circus. Short-term perceptionsrule the people’s minds and those who exploitthem are victorious.

Taking a particular group or section of peo-ple for granted is wishful thinking. The rulingNDA had a lot of positives to offer to the coun-try after it came to power, both internally (in sev-eral fields) as well as on external affairs. India’sprestige and position grew to a new height andesteem, globally. The Prime Minister’s demoneti-sation drive had yielded a few positives in duecourse, like busting black marketers in realestate, ghost business houses et al. This writervividly remembers the poor people happilystanding in long queues before the banks duringdemonetisation as they believed it was going toend black money and cause difficulty to the cor-rupt and the rich.

There has been a sustained increase in thenumber of Income Tax Returns (ITRs) filed in thelast four financial years. As compared to 3.79 croreITRs filed in 2013-14, the number of ITRs filedduring 2017-18 was 6.84 crore, which is an

increase of 80.5 per cent. The numberof e-filings increased to 6.75 crore dur-ing the last fiscal. During 2017-18, thegross collections before refunds rose by13 per cent to �11.44 lakh crore. Thequantum jump in tax base to a largeextent was the result of demonetisation.The Government machinery, however,could not counter the allegationsagainst it.

But the biggest voter loss (loss ofvote base) for the BJP was the businesscommunity (the traditional BJP sup-porters for long) due to initial hiccupsin the implementation of the Goods andService Tax (GST). The introduction ofGST was a revolutionary attempt butthose who implemented it will neveragree that they failed to read the peo-ple’s mind on this. The problem is thatpromises made before the reform gotunder way were never implemented.And later, when the Government triedto correct the mistakes, it was too late.

The mishandling of the agitation ofthe upper castes against reservation forpromotions in Madhya Pradesh andRajasthan had really made a differenceto the BJP as the community voted forNOTA. In Madhya Pradesh, NOTAvotes were exercised by 542,295(6,43,144 voters) constituting about 1.4per cent of the total votes. In Rajasthan,NOTA votes were to the tune of467,781, constituting about 1.3 per centof the total votes polled. Most people,who exercised NOTA, were anti-reser-vation supporters and former BJP sup-porters. The BJP got 41 per cent votesin Madhya Pradesh while the Congressgot 40.9 per cent. The 1.4 per cent

NOTA may have taken the BJP’s tallyto well past 120 seats. Similarly, asagainst the Congress getting 39.3 percent of votes compared to the BJP’s 38.8per cent in Rajasthan, the NOTA votewould have crossed to 40 per cent forthe BJP and the party could havescraped through. In Chhattisgarhthough, the Congress really trouncedthe BJP by a margin of 10 per cent.

Yet another cause of the Congress’win was the way the party got the sup-port of farmers, who were facing sev-eral constraints notwithstanding thefact that Shivraj Singh Chouhan, dur-ing his chief ministerial tenure,increased the irrigated land from 7.5lakh to 36 lakh hectares over the last 10years. It was the disconnect in the pro-gramme with regard to production,marketing and incomes of farmers(including lopsided implementationof the Bhavantar scheme) that stokedthe farmers’ anger.

Though the Union Governmenthad taken a lot of steps for the farm-ers’ welfare, it had either not been mar-keted or executed well. Besides, thefarmers’ income was still not commen-surate with production costs. InRajasthan, the State had done very goodwork in water harvesting but the pro-grammes did not catch the imaginationof the farmers. The outreach by thebureaucracy was also not visible on theground.

Another cause of the BJP’s defeat isthe mobilisation of opposition partiesand the saffron party’s lack of contain-ment of negative vibes in politics. The“Sampark for Samadhan” was a damp

squib as those who were contacted weremainly urbanites. Genuine opinionmakers’ attempts for course correctionwere ignored. For example, thoughTelugu Desam Party supremoChandrababu Naidu’s own politicalsituation is not so good in AndhraPradesh, his alienation did fuel a move-ment against the BJP. Similarly, theparty alienated several of its opinions-makers who during the last 15 yearswere in its favour. This writer knowsone senior journalist and many moresupporters who relentlessly attemptedto take the BJP to a high pedestal as anacceptable national party with pan-Indian appeal among the intelligentsiabut they were either ignored or side-lined.

Now, the Congress and theOpposition front must adopt a charterwhich is nationalistic and filled with apositive vision for a future India andaway from confrontationist polity as theBJP is still a favourite for 2019. TheCongress has to modernise its function-ing and embrace a collective leadership,keep the Delhi crowd of bureaucrats ata distance and engage with experts toserve the nation. The people are fed upwith poor governance and unnecessarylogjams in Parliament. To make democ-racy work, we must be a nation of par-ticipants, not simply observers andsquabbling political leaders. The man-date of people is supreme. It should beseen as a lesson for all politicians, par-ticularly in view of the coming LokSabha election in 2019.

(The writer is a Retired CivilServant)

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The rupee declined by 22paise to close at 71.90

against the US dollar on Fridayamid strengthening of thegreenback and cautious tradingin the domestic equity market.

Forex traders said therupee came under pressurefollowing strengthening of thedollar against major currenciesoverseas, while caution pre-vailed amid the RBI’s centralboard meeting under newGovernor Shaktikanta Das.

At the Interbank ForeignExchange (forex) market, thelocal unit opened lower at

71.80 and fell further to touchthe day’s low of 72.04.

However, it pared somelosses and finally ended at71.90 per dollar, down by 22paise against its previous close.

On Thursday, the Indianrupee had plunged 33 paise to71.68 per US dollar.

Benchmark indices finishedwith modest gains after a see-saw session Friday. The BSESensex ticked higher by 33.29points, or 0.09 per cent, to endat 35,962.93, while the broaderNSE Nifty rose 13.90 points, or0.13 per cent, to 10,805.45.

Brent crude, the interna-tional benchmark, was trading

at $61.02 per barrel Friday,lower by 0.70 per cent.

On a net basis, foreignportfolio investors (FPIs)bought shares worth �675.14crore Thursday, while domes-tic institutional investors (DIIs)were sellers to the tune of�51.86 crore, provisional dataavailable with BSE showed.

The Financial BenchmarkIndia Private Ltd (FBIL) set thereference rate for therupee/dollar at 71.7359 and forrupee/euro at 81.4628. Thereference rate for rupee/Britishpound was fixed at 90.5809 andfor rupee/100 Japanese yen at63.20.

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Public Sector Banks (PSBs)do not have any plans to

shut down their ATMs,Minister of State for FinanceShiv Pratap Shukla informedParliament.

The statement assumessignificance amidst a report bythe Confederation of ATMindustry (CATMi) warningthat nearly half of the 2.38 lakhmachines run the risk of clos-ing down by March next yeardue to regulatory compliancechanges making the businessunviable due to rising costsand dipping or stagnant rev-enues.

As reported by the sched-uled commercial banks, smallfinance banks, payment banksand white label ATM operators,2.21 lakh ATMs are deployed inthe country as on September30, Shukla said in a writtenreply to the Lok Sabha.

Apart from ATMs, bankingservices across the country areprovided through bank branch-

es, inter-operable business cor-respondents (BCs) with micro-ATMs etc, he said.

Further, he said, mobilebanking services and variousdigital modes of banking facil-ities are also available in India.

Replying to another ques-tion, Shukla said theGovernment announced recap-italisation of PSBs to the tuneof �2.11 lakh crore in October2017, through infusion of cap-ital by the Government andraising of capital by banksfrom the markets.

PSBs meet their capitalrequirement through varioussources including, inter alia,mobilisation of capital from themarket through issuance ofcapital instruments and mon-etisation of non-core assets,internal capital generationincluding through recovery inwritten-off accounts, and cap-ital infusion by the govern-ment.

“�88,139 crore was infusedby the Government in PSBsduring financial year 2017-18after the recapitalisationannouncement and provisionof �65,000 crore has been madein the budget for the currentfinancial year for infusion,” hesaid.

Since the recapitalisationannouncement till November2018, PSBs have been recapi-talised to the tune of �1,28,861crore through infusion andmobilisation of capital from themarket, he said.

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With anaim to

provide cus-tomer servicesthrough onlineshopping por-tals, a Delhibased DVComgroup has launched India’s firstTech supported e -storeDVComm.in. The site offers awide range in IT ,Communication andElectronics among other relat-ed products.

The company is said tohave deployed a team to help,guide buyers with their pre-sales assistance & Free TechConsultation.

DVComm’s big advantageis that they are providing pre-sale guidance, post sales servicewith direct liaisoning withOEM during the warranty peri-od of the product, this begetscustomer comfort & huge con-fidence, a service that is pro-

vided by non other DVComm also provides a

chargeable installation asrequired & guarantees deliveryanywhere in India. Presently itsproduct line includes a widerange in IT, Networking,Telecom, CCTV SecurityElectronics, UPS products fromleading Global brands such as— Cisco, Alcatel, Polycom,CPPlus, Samsung, Nikon,Huawai, LG, Dell, HP,Emerson, APC and others.

Surya Murugaian fromEricson Global Services India,Bengaluru said — “The Hubmotors from DVComm.in aregood, their components arereally trust worthy”.

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Indian School of Hospitality,a newly inaugurated

Gurugram based hospitalityand culinary arts college, host-ed its first international coun-sellor summit — theCounsellors’ Retreat 2018.

Inaugurated by Chancellorof the Gurugram UniversityMarkanday Ahuja, the summitsaw a gathering of school coun-sellors representing schoolsfrom across the entire countryand neighboring regions,including people who areworking in hospitality educa-tion École hôtelière deLausanne.

The Counsellors’ Retreatwas called with the missionand aim to introduce school

counsellors to the diverserange of professional oppor-tunities and career paths in theworld of travel, tourism, hos-pitality, culinary arts and othernew age industries for theirstudents.

The event saw counsellorsparticipate in talks held byindustry and education leadersthat highlighted the trends ofthe hospitality industry, careeroptions for students and thebenefits of hospitality and culi-nary education for today’s tal-ent.

During the interactivesession, industry and academ-ic experts discussed andexchanged views about ISHand its curriculum for the hos-pitality and culinary educationspace.

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India Post on Wednesdayannounced full-f ledged

entry into e-commerce busi-ness, where it will leverage itsparcel business for end-to-end delivery of products.

“We have simplified deci-sion-making process atDepartment of Posts (DoP) bysetting up a separate parceldirectorate. It can make quickdecision on parcel rates andrelated provisions. India Postwill leverage its vast networkfor e-commerce services fordoorstep delivery of prod-ucts,” CommunicationsMinister Manoj Sinha told

reporters.The minister also

launched India Post’s e-com-merce portal.

Earlier, any decision relat-ed to change in parcel deliveryrates or matching services ofprivate players requiredapproval from top officials,which was time-consuming.

The DoP has set up parceldirectorate which is free totake decision to match thecompetition.

“India Post is open for reg-istration of all vendors for e-commerce business. It willpick up products from vendorand deliver to doorstep ofcustomers,” Sinha said.

India Post has deliverynetwork up to remotest vil-lages through its 1.55 lakh postoffices which no one canmatch, the minister said.

“We will also facilitatereturn of products service likeit is available for customers onother e-commerce platforms,”India Post Secretary A NNanda said.

Sinha said the departmentwill strictly monitor delivery ofproducts.

“The credibility that DoPhas built over the years isimmense. We will suitablyresolve complaints wheneverwe receive them,” the ministersaid.

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India’s wholesale inflation fellto a three-month low of 4.64

per cent in November, drivendown by decline in prices offood articles, especially veg-etables, and some easing inrates of petro products.

The Wholesale Price Index(WPI)-based inflation was 5.28per cent in October and 4.02per cent in November last year.

Food articles witnessedsoftening of prices with defla-tion at 3.31 per cent inNovember, against 1.49 percent in October, governmentdata released Friday showed.

Vegetables, too, becamecheaper with deflation at 26.98per cent in November, com-pared to 18.65 per cent in theprevious month.

Inflation in the ‘fuel andpower’ basket in Novembercontinued to rule high at 16.28per cent, but was lower than18.44 per cent in October. Thiswas on account of lowering ofprices of petrol and diesel, fol-lowing a decline in globalcrude oil prices.

Separately in petrol anddiesel, inflation was 12.06 percent and 20.16 per cent, respec-tively, and for liquified petro-leum gas (LPG), it was 23.22

per cent during October.ICRA Principal Economist

Aditi Nayar said the easing ofthe WPI inflation was led by adeeper disinflation in prices ofprimary food articles, easing ofinflation related to crude petro-leum and mineral oils follow-ing the correction in retail fuelprices, and some impact of theappreciation in the rupee onthe landed prices of imports.

“The recent trend of ayear-on-year correction in foodprices does not augur well forthe strength of rural demand inthe immediate term. However,factors such as weak post-monsoon rainfall and a delay inrabi sowing pose some uncer-tainty regarding how long foodprices would remain in the dis-inflation zone,” Nayar said.

Nayar said with the recentstability in the crude oil pricesand the rupee, ICRA expectsthe WPI inflation to rangebetween 3.7-4.4 per cent in theremainder of second half forcurrent fiscal.

Among food articles, pota-to prices continued to rulehigh with 86.45 per cent infla-tion in November. While onionwitnessed deflation of 47.60 percent, the same for pulses stoodat 5.42 per cent.

The October inflation at

4.64 per cent is the lowest inthree months, and a lowerinflation than this was lastseen in August at 4.62 per cent.

CARE Ratings, in its analy-sis, said it expects WPI inflationto remain in the range of 4.5-5 per cent for the rest of theyear, and will be above the CPIrates.

The WPI inflation forSeptember, however, has beenrevised upwards to 5.22 percent, from the provisional esti-mate of 5.13 per cent.

Data released earlier thisweek showed that the retail orconsumer price index-basedinflation for November also fellto a 17-month low at 2.33 percent.

The Reserve Bank of India(RBI) mainly takes into accountretail inflation data while for-mulating monetary policy.

In its fifth monetary poli-cy review for the fiscal, releasedlast week, the Reserve Bankkept interest rates unchanged,but held out a promise to cutthem if the upside risks to infla-tion do not materialise.

The central bank loweredretail inflation projection to2.7-3.2 per cent for the secondhalf of the current fiscal, citingnormal monsoon and moder-ate food prices.

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The Jammu and KashmirGovernment for the first

time will set up a Real EstateRegulatory Authority (RERA)in the state to promote regu-lated and planned growth ofthe real estate sector, officialspokesman said on Friday.

On Friday, the StateAdministrative Council (SAC)under the chairmanship ofGovernor Satya Pal Malikapproved the establishment ofReal Estate RegulatoryAuthority (RERA) in the State.

The Jammu and KashmirReal Estate (Regulation andDevelopment) Bill, 2018approved by the SAC provides

a provision to establish theReal Estate RegulatoryAuthority, the State AdvisoryCouncil and the Real EstateAppellate Tribunal in the Stateto effectively and efficientlyregulate this sector, spokesmansaid.

The move is aimed at pro-moting planned developmentof real estate and to ensure saleof plots, apartments, buildingsand other real estate projects,in an efficient and transparentmanner and to protect theinterests of the consumers, headded. RERA would ensure afair and just treatment to thebuyers and protect them fromany unscrupulous builders, hesaid.

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State-owned Oil and NaturalGas Corp (ONGC) Friday

said its board will considerbuyback of company shares ata meeting on December 20.

This follows Governmentpushing cash-rich PSUs to usetheir funds to buy back sharesor pay a higher dividend. TheGovernment is looking tobridge budgetary deficitthrough higher receipts of div-idend as well as selling itsshares in PSUs in the buybackprogrammes.

Stock buybacks refer tothe repurchasing of shares bythe company that issuedthem. A buyback occurswhen the issuing companypays shareholders the marketvalue per share and re-absorbs that portion of itsownership that was previ-ously distributed among pub-lic and private investors.

In a regulatory filing,ONGC said, “The meeting ofBoard of Directors of the com-pany will be held on Thursday,

December 20, 2018, inter-alia,to consider the proposal forbuy-back of the fully paid-upequity shares of the company.”

The Government holds67.48 per cent stake in India’slargest oil and gas producerONGC.

Just on Thursday, state-owned Indian Oil Corp (IOC)said it will buy back 29.76 croreshares for about �4,435 croreand spend another �6,556 croreon paying an interim divi-dend to shareholders.

The board of the country’slargest oil firm Thursdayapproved buyback of up to29.76 crore equity shares, or3.06 per cent, at �149 pershare.

The Government, whichholds a 54.06 per cent stake inthe company, is expected toparticipate in the share buy-back.

The Government is tar-geting a minimum �5,000crore through share buybackoffers of state-owned firmslike Coal India, BHEL and OilIndia Ltd.

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Expressing concerns over slowpace of sugar export, the

Government on Friday directedmills to undertake shipment oftheir fixed quota and eventhreatened to take action againstdefaulting sugar mills.

To liquidate surplus stockand improve the liquidity of thesugar mills to facilitate them forclearance of cane price arrearsof farmers, the Governmenthas asked domestic sugar millsto mandatory export 5 milliontonnes in the 2018-19 market-ing year (October-September).

The Government is evencompensating expensestowards internal transport,freight, handling and othercharges to undertake shipment.

“However, it has beenobserved that the sugar millsare not undertaking export ofsugar at a desired pace. Onlyabout 2.46 lakh tonne of sugarhas been exported and con-tracts of only about 6 lakhtonne (including 2.46 lakhtonne of actual export) in thefirst quarter of the season,” thefood ministry said in a state-ment.

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Everstone-backed IndoSpaceon Friday said it had raised

USD 1.2 billion from investorsthrough its new fund to devel-op and acquire industrial andlogistics parks.

IndoSpace is one of thelargest provider of modernindustrial and logistics real estatein India and has taken total com-mitment to India to above USD3.2 billion. It is promoted byEverstone Group, GLP andRealterm.

IndoSpace said in a state-ment that it held the final closeon IndoSpace Logistic Parks III(ILP III) and the offering wassignificantly oversubscribed onthe back of strong investordemand.

“USD 580 million of totalequity has been committed toILP III which, post leverage willcreate a corpus of more thanUSD 1.2 billion to develop andacquire industrial and logistics-related real estate investments inIndia,” it added.

IndoSpace would utilise thefund to further strengthen itsmarket leadership position.Leading global institutionalinvestors have invested in ILP III.Currently, IndoSpace has a port-folio of around 30 million squarefeet across developed and under-construction projects.

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Infosys on Friday said it hadformed a joint venture (JV)

with Hitachi, PanasonicCorporation and Pasona tostrengthen its presence in theJapanese market.

As part of the agreement,Infosys will acquire 81 per centof the shareholding in HitachiProcurement Service Co,Hitachi’s fully owned subsidiary,Infosys said in a statement.

Hitachi, Panasonic andPasona will be minority share-holders of the entity, it added.The consideration for the 81 percent stake, subject to closingadjustments, is JPY 2,762 million(approx �174.58 crore).

“As part of the transaction,Infosys Consulting Pte. Ltd. willacquire an 81 per cent stake inHIPUS from Hitachi by way ofan acquisition of existing shares,”Infosys said in a regulatory fil-ing. Hitachi will transfer 2 percent each to Panasonic andPasona, and will hold theremaining 15 per cent, it added.The transaction is expected toclose by April 1, 2019, subject tocustomary closing conditions,Infosys said.

“The transaction is in align-ment with Infosys’ strategy tostrengthen its presence in Japanand invest in local capabilities toserve the local and global needs

of Japanese corporations,” itsaid.

Hitachi Procurement, cur-rently, handles indirect materi-als purchasing functions for theHitachi Group. “...iconic com-panies coming together, willaccelerate business processtransformation leveraging dig-ital procurement platforms forthe local and global needs ofJapanese corporations,” the state-ment said.

Infosys will bring its exper-tise in procurement processes,consulting, analytics and digitaltechnologies such as artificialintelligence (AI) and RoboticProcess Automation (RPA) tothe venture.

Combined with Hitachi andPanasonic’s knowledge of theirprocurement functions and localteams, and Pasona’s human cap-ital and BPM networks in Japan,the entity will provide differen-tiated, end-to-end, efficient andhigh value procurement capa-bilities to corporations, the state-ment said.

“This JV will help Japanesecorporations transform theirprocurement processes usingnext-generation digital plat-forms, as we bring together thecombined power of deep pro-curement expertise, technology,global expertise and local skills,”Infosys president Ravi Kumarsaid.

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Italian superbike makerDucati on Friday announced

its foray into pre-owned mar-ket in India through its DucatiApproved programme.

Under the programme,only bikes less than 5 years oldwith certified mileage lowerthan 50,000 km are allowed tobe sold after undergoing 35technical checks, the companysaid in a statement.

“Our entry in the pre-owned segment in India willmake Ducati more accessible topassionate bikers who aspire forthe luxurious and premiumexperience offered by Ducatimotorcycles,” Ducati Indiamanaging director SergiCanovas said.

Ducati Approved is a cer-tified pre-owned motorcycleprogramme wherein company’squalified service techniciansselect and inspect every bike,certifying its history, the com-pany said.

The programme alsoincludes extended warrantyand roadside assistance, itadded.

“With this program, ouraim is to sell bikes with thesame level of sophistication andauthenticity as offered with anew Ducati,” the Ducati Indiamanaging director said.

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The Government on Fridaysaid it will set up National

Medical Devices PromotionCouncil (NMDPC) to boostmanufacturing, attract invest-ments and promote exports ofthe fast-growing sector.

"As Indian manufacturingcompanies and startups movetowards creating innovativeproducts, the setting-up of thecouncil will spur domesticmanufacturing in this sector,"the Commerce and IndustryMinistry said in a statement.

It said the medical devicesindustry plays a critical role inthe healthcare ecosystem and isindispensable to achieve thegoal of health for all citizens.

The manufacturing andtrade in the sector is growingsteadily which includes a wide

range of products. Although the industry has

been growing in double digits,it is predominantly import-dri-ven, with imports accountingfor over 65 per cent of thedomestic market.

The council, it said, willundertake several activitiesincluding facilitation, promo-tion and development of thesector besides holding seminarsand workshops to garner viewsof industry and understandbest global practices.

It would also identifyredundant processes and ren-der technical assistance to theagencies and departments con-cerned to simplify the approvalprocesses involved in the sec-tor.

It will "enable entry ofemerging interventions andsupport certifications for man-ufacturers to reach levels ofglobal trade norms and leadIndia to an export driven mar-ket in the sector," it said.

The NMDPC would sup-port dissemination and docu-mentation of internationalnorms and standards for med-ical devices, by capturing thebest practices in the globalmarket and facilitate domesticmanufacturers to rise to inter-national level.

It will also "drive a prefer-ential market access policy, by

identifying the strengths ofthe Indian manufacturers anddiscouraging unfair trade prac-tices in imports".

Besides, it would makerecommendations toGovernment based on industryfeedback and global practiceson policy and process inter-ventions to strengthen themedical technology sector.

The council will be head-ed by the secretary,Department of IndustrialPolicy and Promotion.

Apart from the concerneddepartments, it will also haverepresentatives from health-care industry and quality con-trol institutions.

Commerce and IndustryMinister Suresh Prabhuannounced this move at WHOGlobal Forum on MedicalDevices at Visakhapatnam.

New Delhi (PTI): Drugfirm Alembic Pharmaceuticalson Friday said it had raised�350 crore through allotmentof non-convertible debentures(NCDs) on private placementbasis. “The NCD committee ofAlembic Pharmaceuticals Ltd...has allotted 1,500, 9 per centrated unsecured listed

redeemable non-convertibledebentures (NCDs)... aggre-gating to �150 crore undertranche I,” AlembicPharmaceuticals said in a reg-ulatory filing. The companysaid it had also allotted 2,000,9 per cent rated unsecured list-ed redeemable NCDs... aggre-gating to �200 crore.

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Signalling an end to the near-ly two-month power tussle

in Sri Lanka, disputed PrimeMinister Mahinda Rajapaksawill resign on Saturday, his sonsaid on Friday, soon after theSupreme Court refused to staya court order that restrained theembattled former strongmanfrom acting as the premieruntil it fully heard the case nextmonth.

Rajapaksa, 73, was appoint-ed as the prime minister onOctober 26 by PresidentMaithripala Sirisena in a con-troversial move after sackingRanil Wickremesinghe, whichplunged the island nation intoa constitutional crisis.

“To ensure stability of thenation, Former President@PresRajapaksa has decided toresign from the Premiershiptomorrow after an address tothe nation,” Rajapaksa’s sonNamal tweeted.

The Sri Lanka PodujanaPeramuna (SLPP) with for-mer president, Sri LankaFreedom Party (SLFP) andothers will “now work to forma broader political coalitionwith President Sirisena”, NamalRajapaksa, a lawmaker, added.

Wickremesinghe’s camp

was hopeful that Sirisena wouldnow reinstate him over theweekend after Rajapaksaresigns, effectively ending thepolitical stalemate that plaguedthe nation for the past sevenweeks.

There was no immediatereaction from PresidentSirisena, the architect of thecurrent crisis.ParliamentarianLakshman Yapa Abeywardenasaid Rajapaksa, who ruled SriLanka for nearly a decade,decided to step down in thebest interest of the country.

He claimed Rajapaksa canhold office without resigningbut that will only further dragthe political turmoil in thecountry. So the former presi-dent decided to step downafter the court ruling given on

Friday and on Thursday. His Cabinet will also stand

dissolved, Abeywardena wasquoted as saying by theColombo Gazette.

The apex court’s latest rul-ing came a day after it unani-mously declared that the dis-solution of Parliament byPresident Maithripala Sirisenawas “illegal”, in a body blow tothe embattled leader, whosecontroversial

decisions plunged theisland nation into an unprece-dented political turmoil.

The Supreme Court decid-ed that a Court of Appealorder issued against theappointment of Rajapaksa asPrime Minister and againsthis Cabinet from holding officewill stand.

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European Union leadersexpressed deep doubts on

Friday that British PrimeMinister Theresa May can liveup to her side of their Brexitagreement and they vowed tostep up preparations for apotentially-catastrophic “no-deal” scenario.

May cancelled a Brexit votein the UK Parliament this weekafter it became clear the assem-bly would reject the deal sheconcluded with the EU lastmonth.

She travelled to Brussels inhope of wringing some con-cessions from her Europeanpartners that would helpassuage doubts about the draftdivorce agreement back inLondon.

But EU leaders rejected anyattempt to re-negotiate theiragreement, a 585-page legaltext settling things like thedivorce bill and the rights nextyear of Europeans living inBritain or Britons living in theEU, plus a document laying outtheir hopes for future rela-tions, which isn’t legally bind-ing.

They did publish a shorttext with “assurances” abouthow the deal would work.

“Very objectively, the sig-nals that we heard yesterday arenot especially reassuring aboutthe capacity in Britain to be

able to honour the engagementthat was undertaken,” BelgianPrime Minister Charles Micheltold reporters.

Expressing a “giganticdoubt” that May can get thedeal through Parliament,Michel said: “we are going to besure to prepare for all hypothe-ses, including the hypothesis ofa no-deal.”

No country has ever leftthe 28-nation EU — the world’sbiggest trading bloc — and therules laying out that process aresketchy. Essentially, Brexit isbeing made up as the processadvances. Court challengeshave clarified some of the rules.

This week, Europe’s topcourt ruled that Britain canchange its mind about leavingshould it want to.

One thing is clear: Brexitwill happen on March 29,

although a transition periodwill help ease Britain out overalmost two, and possibly up tofour, years. The prospect of ano-deal has shaken marketsand the British pound, and cre-ated uncertainty for investorsand businesses. Brexit involvesBritain leaving around 750international treaties drawnup over 40 years of member-ship. One of them is the EU’saviation market.

Without a deal, Britishplanes won’t be able to land inEurope on March 30. Nor willEuropean planes be able to landin the UK.

May didn’t talk to reportersas she entered EU headquartersearly Friday for talks withFrench President EmmanuelMacron, after shuttling aroundEurope earlier this week seek-ing support.

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British Prime MinisterTheresa May insisted on

Friday that her Brexit deal wasstill alive and kicking, despitea stinging rebuff from theEuropean Union after sheasked for changes to make theagreement more palatable toUK lawmakers.

May came to an EU sum-mit in Brussels seeking legallybinding changes to the agree-ment, but the bloc told herbluntly that a renegotiationwas not possible. They offeredonly assurances they wouldseek to move swiftly on forginga new trade deal after Britainleaves the bloc on March 29.

Nonetheless, May toldreporters in Brussels that shewelcomed the EU’s words —and that, as formal conclusionsof an EU summit, they “havelegal status.”

“There is work still to do,and we will be holding talks incoming days about how toobtain the further assurancesthat the U.K. Parliament needsin order to be able to approvethe deal,” May said.

May’s optimism contrastedwith a pessimistic tone frommany on the EU side. EU lead-ers expressed deep doubts thatMay could live up to her side

of their Brexit agreement andvowed to step up preparationsfor a potentially-catastrophic“no-deal” scenario for Britain’sdeparture.

“Very objectively, the sig-nals that we heard yesterday arenot especially reassuring aboutthe capacity in Britain to beable to honor the engagementthat was undertaken,” BelgianPrime Minister Charles Micheltold reporters.

Expressing a “giganticdoubt” that May can get herBrexit deal through the BritishParliament, Michel said: “weare going to be sure to preparefor all hypotheses, including thehypothesis of a ‘no deal.’”

May canceled a Brexit votein the U.K. Parliament thisweek after it became clear itwould strongly vote down theBrexit deal she concluded withthe EU last month. She hopesto secure changes from the blocin order to get Parliament’sapproval in a vote next month.

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China has lodged a “stern”diplomatic protest with the

US over the Senate passing abipartisan legislation that seeksto impose a visa ban onChinese officials who denyAmerican citizens, officials andjournalists access to Tibet, evenas Bejing asked Washingtonnot to make it a law.

Reacting to the US move,Chinese foreign ministryspokesman Lu Kang said herethat the American action dis-regarded facts and amounted tointerfering in China’s internalaffairs and was a violation ofinternational rules.

“China is firmly opposed toit and lodged stern representa-tions to the US. I have to pointout that Tibet affairs comeunder China’s internal affairs

and it allows no foreign inter-ference,” he said.

‘The Reciprocal Access toTibet Act’, seeking unhinderedaccess to Tibetan areas forAmericans, something which isroutinely denied by theChinese government, waspassed by the US House ofRepresentatives in September.

The US Senate on Tuesdaypassed the crucial bipartisanlegislation that also calls for avisa ban on Chinese officialswho deny American citizens,government officials and jour-nalists access to Tibet, theremote Himalayan homelandof exiled Tibetan spiritualleader the Dalai Lama.

The legislation, passedunanimously, comes amid theTrump administration impos-ing massive trade import dutieson China that has started

impacting the Chinese econo-my.

The bill now heads to theWhite House for PresidentDonald Trump to sign into law.

Lu said foreigners enteringTibet can apply through nor-mal channels and every year alot of foreigners and localtourists visit Tibet.

He said since 2015, about40,000 Americans visited Tibetand this included US Senators,Congressmen and business-men.

“This shows the US accu-sations do not hold water at alland Chinese government andpeople cannot accept that. Weurge the US to immediatelytake effective measures to stopsigning the act into law andthus avoid harming US-Chinarelations and our cooperationin key areas,” he said.

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Israeli forces kept up a man-hunt on Friday for a

Palestinian who shot dead twosoldiers in the occupied WestBank, as Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu facedrightwing pressure for a strongresponse.

Thursday’s shooting wasthe latest incident shatteringmonths of relative calm in theWest Bank, where 4,00,000Israelis live in settlementsalongside more than 2.5 mil-lion Palestinians.

It was the third deadlyattack by Palestinian gunmenin the West Bank in twomonths and set off demon-strations by settler groupsagainst Netanyahu, whoserightwing government depends

on their support. Israeli mediaspeculated Friday about thepossibility of a new Palestinian“intifada,” or uprising, againstIsrael’s occupation of the WestBank. In Thursday’s attack, agunman got out of his car andopened fire on soldiers andothers outside a settlement inthe central West Bank, killingtwo and seriously injuringanother two Israelis beforefleeing. In response the armylocked down the city ofRamallah, home to secularPalestinian president MahmudAbbas, while calling in rein-forcements.

Clashes betweenPalestinians and Israeli forceserupted in different parts of theWest Bank, including insideRamallah during army raids.

Settlers shouting forrevenge threw stones at

Palestinian vehicles, while anArab bus driver was beaten byultra-Orthodox Jews in ModiinIllit settlement, according toIsraeli media reports.

In overnight raids, thearmy said it arrested 40Palestinians, most of themaffiliated to the Islamist move-ment Hamas which hasclaimed responsibility for tworecent shooting attacks.

It has not yet claimedThursday’s attack, thoughIsraeli officials point the fingerof blame in its direction.

The Army did not say ithad made arrests linked direct-ly to the latest attack.

At a checkpoint near theBeit El settlement on Fridaymorning, a soldier was mod-erately wounded after a man hithim with a rock before fleeing,the Army said.

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As e v e n - y e a r - o l dGuatemalan girl died in

American custody after beingdetained by US border police inNew Mexico, The WashingtonPost reported on Thursday.

The girl who illegallycrossed the border fromMexico along with her fatherand dozens of others died lastweek of “dehydration andshock,” the newspaper report-ed, citing US Customs andBorder Protection.

She had “reportedly hadnot eaten or consumed waterfor several days,” the CBP toldthe Post, who said she beganhaving seizures more than eighthours after being detained.

Emergency responders hadmeasured her body tempera-ture at 105.7 degrees (41 centi-grade), the Post said.

She died after being flownto hospital.

The name of the girl andher father have not beenreleased.

The father is in El Paso,Texas awaiting a meeting withGuatemalan consular officials,the Post said, quoting CBP,which said it is investigating theincident.

President Donald Trumphas made hard-line immigra-tion policies a central plank ofhis presidency, drawing firefrom critics who accuse him ofdemonising migrants for polit-ical gain.

Much attention has beenfocused on caravans of thou-sands of Central Americanswho have made their way toTijuana, Mexico, just southfrom San Diego, California ina challenge to Trump, who crit-icised them as posing an “inva-sion”.

But migrants fleeing pover-ty and gang violence also con-tinue to cross over in NewMexico, Texas and Arizonaafter enduring dangerous treksthrough Mexico.

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Ireland’s parliament haspassed a landmark legislation

to make abortion legal for thefirst time in the Catholic-majority country, a “historicmoment” which came after anIndian dentist died from bloodpoisoning in 2012 when thedoctors refused her repeatedrequests to abort the foetus.

Ireland voted decisively tochange the Constitution torepeal the Eighth Amendmentin May, with 66.4 per cent vot-ing in favour of new legislationto allow for the termination ofpregnancies.

“The bill that allows for theintroduction of abortion ser-vices in Ireland has passed all

stages of the Oireachtas(IrishParliament) and will now go toPresident Michael D Higgins tobe signed into law,” IrishBroadcaster RTE reported onThursday.

“Historic moment for Irishwomen. Thanks to all whosupported and well done to(Health Minister) Simon Harrisfor steering this through bothHouses,” Ireland’s Indian-originPresident Leo Varadkar said.

The new development hascome following a rising num-ber of distressing stories aboutwomen unable to get an abor-tion in Ireland.

One of the high-profilecases was that of 31-year-oldIndian dentist SavitaHalappanavar, who died in

agony from blood poisoningafter doctors refused herrepeated requests for an abor-tion while she was having amiscarriage at a Galway hos-pital in 2012. Her death helped“personalise” the debate aroundabortion, said a legal scholar atTrinity College Dublin.

“This is a genuinely historicmoment. It paves the way forthe implementation of the ser-vice for termination of preg-nancy in January 2019,” saidMinister Harris. The Regulationof Termination of PregnancyBill allows for abortion servicesto be provided “on demand” upto the 12th week of a pregnan-cy, in the case of a fatal foetalabnormality or where the phys-ical or mental health of the

mother is in danger.Since the bill’s introduction

at first stage in October, therehave been some minorchanges, including a decision to review the legisla-tion after three years, ratherthan five years as was originallyplanned. Two different doctorswill be allowed to assess awoman in early pregnancy andthe offences section has beenmoved from the front of thebill, the BBC reported.

“I want to thank the cam-paigners who fought for 35years to change a nation, tochange hearts and minds. Iwant to thank the minoritywho fought the battle in herewhen it was convenient for themajority to ignore.

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President Donald Trumpknew it was wrong to order

election-eve hush money paidto two women who claimed tohave had affairs with him, hisformer lawyer Michael Cohensaid in an interview to bebroadcast Friday.

Trump acted because he“was very concerned abouthow this would affect the elec-tion,” Cohen told ABC News ofthe women’s allegations in hisfirst comments since beingsentenced to three years inprison on Thursday.

Trump has said he neverdirected Cohen to break thelaw. But Cohen, asked if Trumpknew the payments to StormyDaniels and Karen McDougalwere wrong, said “of course.”

Cohen challenged Trump’sassertion in a tweet Thursdayafter the lawyer’s sentencingthat he never told him to breakthe law.

“I don’t think there is any-body that believes that,” Cohentold George Stephanopoulos onthe program “Good MorningAmerica.” ABC releasedexcerpts of the interview aheadof its full airing.

“First of all, nothing at theTrump Organisation was everdone unless it was run throughMr. Trump. He directed me tomake the payments, he direct-ed me to become involved inthese matters,” Cohen said.

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Atop EU court on Fridaythrew out an appeal by the

Palestinian Islamist movementHamas against its listing by thebloc as a terrorist organisation.

The General Court of theEU rejected a bid by Hamas, themilitant group which has ruledthe Gaza Strip since 2007, toend a freeze on assets held inthe bloc that was imposed in thewake of the 9/11 attacks in theUnited States.

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The city reopened the market on Friday, with officials prais-ing the massive public help and quick police reaction that ledto the death of suspected shooter Cherif Chekatt late on Thursday.

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Can you tell us James, what wasthe most important part for you to

get right in creating this worldand telling this story visually?

James Wan: Probably one ofthe biggest visuals I wanted toget right was the costume ofAquaman. That was definite-

ly something we worked hardand long on. I really want-ed to capture the vibrancyof Atlantis and all theunderwater kingdomsand do justice to thecomic book while obvi-ously, filtering itthrough my own sensi-bility.

Mera is fierce. Shegoes toe-to-toe with the

bad guy. What are youmost proud of in terms

of this character — theway she was written and the

way you portrayed her?Amber Heard: Well, I feel

really lucky to have worked withpeople who wanted to maintain

the integrity and strength of theoriginal character. Mera never was

anything other than a bad-ass superhero. She is no damsel in distress. Mera

is a kick-ass woman and doesn’t need anyhelp from anyone. It was amazing to getto play a character like her.

Orm is the villain of the film but

he also has a point about humankinddestroying the oceans. What was it likeplaying the many sides of this complexcharacter?

Patrick Wilson: Well, his fight is per-fectly understandable. There’s a long his-tory of Aquaman protecting oceans,fighting whaling, saving fishermen, allthroughout comic history. I like that theyleft the pollution up to Orm because itenables you to have a really violentresponse. And I think there’s somethingcathartic for an audience watching that.I think you’d be hard-pressed to findsomeone who didn’t think we weredestroying the oceans; of course we are.And, of course, it’s something we all needto take heed of — not that, that’s the maintheme of the story, but certainly that’sOrm’s track when he sets out to combinehis armies and take on the surface.Everybody says, ‘Yeah, I get it. So, it’s a funway in, because then you’ve got conflict.You sort of wonder, so he’s the little broth-er of an older brother he never had?’ Heknows deep down he is the firstborn, sothere are all those very Shakespeareancomplex emotions that he’s dealing with.But you start him from a very organicplace, then you can go as big as you want,which we do.

James, what was your biggest chal-lenge, and why Jason?

James Wan: Ultimately, it is justbringing his personality to this character— not bringing him to Aquaman, butbringing Aquaman to him. And what I

love most about it is I get to be the oneto showcase the other side of JasonMomoa that not many people have seen,which is the funny side of him. And afterthis movie comes out, people are going tosee what a great potential romantic leadhe is as well.

Jason Momoa: I just want to speakEnglish. I don’t want to fight anymore.

James Wan: But that’s what I loveabout Jason — he comes in and just makesa statement with this character, and that’swhat this first movie really needs.

When you first learned that you weregoing to play Aquaman, how did it makeyou feel to know you’d be taking on oneof the most iconic heroes known incomic books?

Jason Momoa: When Zack (Snyder,the director) first told me I’d be the cast…I wish I had a picture of my face because,I am the last person he should be hiring.I thought I’d be playing a villain. It was anhonour. Zack’s perspective is so radical,and what it offered to the team in JusticeLeague was something we hadn’t seen.And it’s not until the end of this movie thatwe get to him being a king.

With so many water effects in thismovie, what were some of the challengesyou ran into?

James Wan: You hear it all the timefrom filmmakers that making movies withwater is not the most pleasant thing. It’suncomfortable and slows down the speedof the film. The irony is all the sequences

that are actually fully submerged in thisunderwater world — that was actually shotdry for wet. And that’s literally what itsounds like, in these rigs that simulateswimming, floating, and how your bodymoves underwater. But we did play witha lot of water as well. I don’t think you canmake an Aquaman movie and actually nothave anyone get wet. And, again, the ironyis that when we’re actually above the water— when we’re dry — that’s when I haveto drench the actors nonstop. Whenthey’re actually out of water, that’s whenthey’re dripping wet. But when you’reunderwater, people actually look dry, sothat’s why we shot it without water.

The biggest water set that we had inthis film was the submarine sequence atthe beginning. We built the submarineover a water tank and would just submergeit again and again. As we’d play out thescene, we would submerge it, and thenbring it back out of the water tank, blowdry it down, and then do take two, andthen take three. It was quite a laboriousprocess. And, a bit of a pain.

Jason, this movie is going to meansomething to Aquamanfans, but doyou think it has something specific to sayfor people who are half-Asian or hald-native Hawaiian?

Jason Momoa: Coming from thePolynesian islands, there are so manywater gods that we have and so much folk-lore and mythology about how the islandscame about — from Kanaloa to Tomaloaand Maui. It’s the Poseidon story and I getto play that. To be the first mixed-racedSuper Hero in 2018 is a huge honour. Andalso just to play it so close to who I am,with all of Arthur’s imperfections. I don’thave to be Superman — I’m not. But I gotto play it as someone who really is splitbetween those two worlds, and I’m excit-ed for the world to see it.

What is the one thing you reallyhope people will take away from thisfilm?

James Wan: For the fans out therewho have stood by Aquaman all theseyears while people made fun of him, hiscomic book and all the characters in hisworld — I want them to see that this isfinally the opportunity to get revenge. Thismovie is made with a lot of passion. I wantpeople to know that I respected thesource material in making this film. Andthen, on the other side, I want to intro-duce all these characters to a whole newgeneration of kids that didn’t grow up withAquaman, and so I want the two separateworlds to come together.

What were called the melas,popularly known as amuse-ment fairs, have now got a

suave new avatar as theme-based festi-vals and extravaganzas, especially onesthat are centred food. In fact, the turnof the season seems to signal the startof a host of events centred aroundgourmet eating. This trend has not onlyacquired a must-do status among thedenizens of the capital but also shapesthe face for various cuisines and foodcultures in the year to come.

Ruchi Sibal, co-founder and direc-tor of the Palate Fest, says that the fes-tival was the first-of-its-kind when itwas launched five years ago. “We con-ceptualised the show keeping in minda space where there is something foreveryone including kids and adults. Ifit provides a section to particularcuisines to showcase, there is also a spe-cial section for kids as well as one forpresenting food products for adults,” shesays.

There will be gaming zones for kidsand sections that promote healthy eat-ing habits. It also gives a platform forvarious chefs and cooks to share andlearn new recipes.

With about 80 stalls, the festivaloffers piquant food options like fresh-ly-skewed fish, barbecued chicken,noodles, and various cuisines includingMexican and pan-Asian.

“Food is something that can bringeverybody together. People used to gofor picnics in the parks earlier. Now thatconcept is vanishing. However, such fes-tivals, in a way, are trying to replicatethe experience minus the preparationand time that these entailed. These aimto bring in delicacies at big venues,”

believes Ruchi.So what is the biggest element that

the festival offers? Founder AditiKapoor says that by bringing in chefsfrom many segments, they are trying topromote healthier food eating habits.She says, “We have chef Sabyasachi whopromotes ‘healthy bingeing’ of fruits anddry fruits including dehydrated man-goes without any added sugar. He alsobrings fresh eating habits by avoidingtrans-fat and including a tomato andcucumber salad.”

Ruchi lists some of the elements thathave been added for the first time in thefest. “So we have a country pavilion forMexico in a corner. It will present theirlocal cuisine and culture. We have alsoexpanded our entertainment factorwhere we’ll have the kids’ zone. Earliereverything was in one area, now thereare separate sections for everyone. Wealso have little food alleys where therewill be young and significant foodbrands. There is also more participationfrom even the general public.”

She mentions the B2B programmewhere new businesses for food can bethought about and set up. She says,“Anyone, people from the government,commercial heads from embassies,wedding planners or gifting business-es, who want to team up with like mind-ed individuals and create somethingrelated to food. The fest offers the spaceto incubate new ideas.”

Aditi believes that street food inIndia was always more popular buttoday the Indian audience is open tomore cuisines and food cultures. Shesays, “It’s not just about havingchowmein, butter chicken or chole bha-ture anymore, or going out to have one

food item. Such a festival gives a roofto all kinds of cuisines together.”

She says that this scenario hasevolved among the current populationas they are travelling a lot more. “Whenthey like something in a foreign land,they also wish for it to be present andaccessible in their own country. Nowwith growing awareness, the availabil-ity has also increased. Today there’s aplethora of things to explore,” she says.

While talking about the challenges,she agrees that there are always hurdleswhile creating something so massive.“But,” she says, “the biggest one is to notbecome stagnant and do the samething year after year. There shouldalways be certain additions that give anew vibe. This time there are food ses-sions and talks on healthy food, sectionsfor food art and organic products, enter-tainment and more.” She recalls thatwhen they implemented their idea forthe first time, half a decade ago, “therewas one challenge — understanding.We wanted people to comprehend thatit is not just a frivolous food festival thathas some drinks and music but alsoamusement related to food as well as an

opportunity to gain some knowledgearound various cuisines.”

So what have been the patterns thatshe has observed during the course offive years? “The demographic of thecountry is so wide that there are no par-ticular lines that hit the highest graph.If some follow more international dish-es, some still stick to Indian food. Thosewho have tried things before and haveliked them want to stick to them.There are variations so there can’t by justone statistic. But, the Indian audienceis indeed increasingly heading towardsglobal food movements,” says Aditi.

The three-day extravaganza willalso see Bollywood actress TaapseePannu greeting audience. There will beperformances by singers like DalerMehendi on December 16, whileJasmine Sandlas and Tulsi Kumar willbe performing today. A few names fromthe culinary space are Big Wong, JomJom Malay, Bombay Brasserie, TheGreat Kabab Factory, Orient Heritage,Wok to Walk, Olives of Spain, Kiara’sSoul Kitchen, among others.

(The festival at Nehru Park ends onSunday.)

Norwegian-Pakistani actress filmmakerIram Haq, whose film What Will PeopleSay has been selected as Norwegian entry

for the best foreign language film at the 91stAcademy Awards, says telling a compelling storyis more important for her than winning anaward because she does not believe in compe-tition when it comes to art.

How did she first react on her film beingchosen to represent Norway at the Oscars.

Haq, whose film stars Indian actors AdilHussain, Ekavali Khanna and Rohit Sarafisaid, “When I started making the film, the mostimportant thing for me was to tell a story in anutmost honest manner. And as an individual, Istrongly believe that art is never a competition.”

“Of course, it is a big honour for me that myfilm has been chosen but I want to say that it isnot possible to compete in art. Reaching out topeople with a story is important,” added Haq,whose earlier film ‘I am Yours’ was also select-ed as the official Norwegian Oscar entry for BestForeign Language Film.

This year, Rima Das’s Village Rockstar hasbeen selected as India’s official entry to Oscar.

The story of Haq’s film deals with the jour-ney of a young girl who is dealing with socio-cultural difference and a disturbed relationshipwith her parents.

According to her, understanding the gen-erational gap and expressing a critical view onthe matter through the film was very important.

Talking about projecting a balanced viewwith the story, Haq said, “It was important forme to put out both sides of the story. You see,the film is basically a love story between a fatherand his daughter and that does not really workbecause they are coming from two different gen-eration, gender and mindset.

“While the daughter understands the cul-tural values of her father and how he is strug-gling to accept the cultural difference of a worldthat is very different from a regular south Asiansociety, the girl is a Pakistani born and broughtup in Norway. It is almost impossible for her tolive her entire life to please her family.”

The film not just features Indian actors, butis also shot in various parts of India, mostly inRajasthan. In fact, Adil won the Best Actor awardat the Amanda Award or the NorwegianNational Awards.

On casting Indian talent, especially Adil,Haq said, “He is a wonderful actor and he wasthe perfect choice for playing the father. Howwonderfully he transformed the character fromscript to screen through his performance.”

Being a Pakistani girl who is born andbrought up in Norway herself, just like the pro-

tagonist Nisha — played by Maria Mozhdah —the film is quite autobiographical for the direc-tor. Reflecting upon that, she said, “When ourparents went abroad and were not well-integrat-ed, they feared to embrace the new culture. Thatis how they ended up taking wrong decisionsfor their children.”

“I had to live life like a well-mannered SouthAsian girl in my home because according to myparents, ‘log kya kahenge (what will people say)’otherwise, we will lose out on our tradition andculture. They think the new generation will losethemselves in the western culture.

“I wanted the young generation to break freeof that constant thought of log kya kahenge andassert that we are not here to live up to the expec-tation of ‘log (people)’... we are here to live ourzindagi (life). This is how I always stand by mychild as a mother,” added Haq.

She was kidnapped and taken to Pakistanand lived there for a year. She had lost connec-tion with her parents.

“I want to say that the story of the film istold with a lot of love but at the same time, it isa critical voice on how you shut down a youngvoice, or the voice of a girl, because she is a girlor because the individual is young. I am a strongbeliever of respecting young voice.”

Before making her directorial debut in 2010with the short film Little Miss Eyeflap, Haqworked as an actress, writer and theatre artistefor many years.

Is she interested in collaborating more withIndian actors? She said, “I have already workedwith Indian artistes and producers over here inIndia and of course I love India. I speak the lan-guage and it feels like they are my people. So, Iam open to the idea of collaborating with Indianartistes in the near future.”

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From fiery oranges and yellows, myriad shades ofblue, to black, green, rich hues of red and even cop-per, silver and gold, artist Vinita Karim’s canvases

are a glorious riot of colour.“I love colours. I just can’t work in black and white.

There is no fun in that,” tells Vinita.Born in Myanmar, educated in Sweden and the

Philippines, originally from India — Vinita Karim’snomadic lifestyle takes her all over the world. She chan-nels her constantly changing surroundings into her pas-sion for art and no matter where she goes, through herpaintings, sculptures and installations, Vinita carries withher the rest of the world.

Her new collection of abstract cityscapes titledMagical Musings, were created in the last five years, repli-cate fantastical cities in the artist’s mind on to the can-vas. The exhibition also showcases eight sculptures, whichshe did not sculpt but painted.

The imaginary spaces featuring clusters of housesagainst robust skies, and sometimes beautifully colouredstreams or rivers, are products of Vinita’s entire life, whichshe has, quite literally, lived out of a suitcase.

The artist is a fan of all things layered, and her paint-ings are no exception. Sometimes they are layered withdifferent painting techniques, at other times she uses dif-ferent mediums like acrylic, oil and embroidery to tierher works.

Vinita explains further that her works are literallylayered with geographies, histories and the cultures ofdifferent places while physically they are the paints, linesand embroidery.

As she travelled from one city to another, each placeleft a mark. She imbibed their spirits that got intertwinedin her head, giving birth to cities of her own.

“My father was part of the Indian Foreign Serviceand I have lived in over 10 countries. I am like a spongewho has absorbed everything around me. It was not justtravelling for me. I was living in these cities. And whenyou live in a city, you become very intimate with its cul-ture and people. The best thing is that all these differ-ent cultures also get embedded in your own psyche,” saysshe, who is inspired by Austrian landscape artistHundertwasser, “yet I consistently link back to my rootsin India.” Richly coloured canvases combine the sanddunes of Egypt with the islands of the Philippines, theghats of Varanasi with the rivers of Bangladesh. Theseare not just pretty pictures, they are “living landscapes”,she explains.

Her rendition of the holy city of Varanasi, forinstance, is overwhelmingly rich, particularly the waters.

She uses impasto, a technique where one paints witha palette knife, to render almost a three dimensional tex-ture to the Ganges river in the painting. The canvas madeusing acrylic, gold and copper on linen, is colourfullychaotic in its juxtaposition of the multi-layered blues ofthe river, with multi-coloured boats.

“Like I have a lot of different roles other than beingan artist, a mother, a wife, similarly in my painting I wantto use different mediums. I don’t want a single flat paint-ing. Instead, it needs to have depth in it. I need my worksto be layered because they represent many histories com-bined with a lot of my imagination,” says she.

Oil is her favourite medium even if it takes longerto dry out. She says that it is rich, soft and offers a dis-tinctive depth to the works.

Vinita recreates similar imaginary cities with herwork on sculptures too, at the risk of making a viewerfeel her work was repetitive, but not in a boring way,largely because of the judicious use of colours.

Vinita has painted landscapes as she stronglybelieves that it will always be an important part of anyart discourse, despite the rising trend in conceptual anddigital art.

(The exhibition is on display till January 5 atGallerie Ganesha.)

The tapping was gentle yet insis-tent and then a sudden shatter-ing sound echoed around the

studio. Two flowers broke off from agreen decorative glass piece and madea clatter triggering collective ohs andsighs from the 10 odd people that werehovering around the glass artists craft-ing the piece at Studio Glass Sutra inChattarpur.

“One has to go very slowly toremove the glasswork from the rod asthe bottom part is cold and the upperpart is soft. The upper part couldn’ttake the shock and that is the reasonit broke,” says Reshmi De, founderStudio Glass Sutra.

The piece, an exquisite green,opaque figurine, was work underprogress for quite sometime andentailed frequent trips between the fur-nace and the heating chamber wherethe flowers are kept. If the glass washeated a little less, the flowers don’tstick, if it was melted a little bit more,then there was always the danger of theflowers falling off. This meant that itwas not a simple process and neededconstant switches between the twoplaces. Brent Sheehan, a glass artistfrom California who had been hold-ing the piece at the end of a blowingrod, shrugs at the loss. Reshmi says,“This doesn’t break our heart but yes,we do feel bad.”

Reshmi, an Economics graduatefrom Assam, ventured into glassaround 1999. She made the long jour-ney from her state to Delhi in searchof doing something different where, “Icould tell a story of life, experiencesand my journey.” And that was despite

her parents opposition who wanted herto do masters in the subject or appearfor the UPSC exams. But she was yetto decide upon how she was going topursue her calling. Initially she sat forMBA exams, qualified for some insti-tutes, then attended workshops onMass Communications and butrealised that her heart was not in anyof it.

“Then I saw some coloured glasspieces with light passing through,” andit was as if her life too was illuminat-ed. She asked the person who hadbrought them questions similar to theones that she now fields often— abouthow it was made, the technique andmore. Initially she started with mar-keting them but did not want to sellsomething without understanding it.“I started studying online. I wanted togo to Firozabad but everyone object-ed. There were only two trains to theplace and that too without any reser-vation. But I stood by my decision andheaded there. I remember distinctlythat it was May 1999 and after so manyyears, I am still at it,” she says. But therewere some recurrent problems. Shestudied online but when she wantedsomething similar created, there wasa skill, understanding and aesthetic gapamong the craftspersons. So there wasalways a discrepancy between hervisualisation and the final output. “SoI decided that I should do things which

they understand.”It was as if seeing her persistence,

doors seemed to open automatically.In two months, an institute calledCentre for Development of GlassIndustry came up which was commis-sioned by Government of Indian andUnited Nations IndustrialDevelopment Organisation (UNIDO).“They invited Czech glass master PetrNovotn who is ranked as one of thethree world celebrities in the field ofglass art craft by experts. He wasaccompanied Martin Janecký, his assis-tant and after all these years we are stillin touch.

It was from them that Reshmilearnt that glass has an art side also.“Here I learnt that it was important tounderstand the material and the designafter which you think through thewhole process and create it yourself,”she recalls.

She crafted her pieces and soldthem to stores, as well as at places likethe Blind School Diwali Mela. “Theones at the latter were more like handcrafted organic tableware pieces,” shesays.

In 2007, she branched out intoinstallation art. “I started doing com-missioned pieces. My most expensivepiece was a wall installation for a cor-porate on sustainability which waspriced at �27 lakh and a chandelierwhich cost �25 lakh.”

Reshmi works with different meth-ods of glass making. Hand blown glassis where glass is melted in a furnace ata temperature of 1050-1100 degreescentigrade temp. The molten glasswhich has the viscosity of honey isblown through the end of a pipe andgiven shape. This is the most difficultof the techniques. “While most peo-ple claim that they are doing this, itlathe blowing where borosil test tubesare attached at the end of a machineand given shape as well as design iswhat they are actually doing.”

Then there is flame work which isused to create more intricate andoften smaller pieces like jewellery. “Ihave even created a 3x90 feet chande-lier with this technique. Then there isfusing or slumping which is used tomake platters and large installations.

However, while working with glassthere are somethings that need to bekept in mind. If the glass is notcooked properly, it breaks. At her stu-dio, she maintains the highest ofinternational standards. The glassesthat they wear to protect the eyes aremade of didanium and there is prop-er hand gear.

Reshmi wants to create an under-standing and an awareness about artwhere people can see the beauty ofglass and craftsmanship. “There isdesign touching the boundary of art,with an infusion of craft. I am trying

functional art as well. So there is a tran-sition from design to art to craft,” shesays.

Reshmi also points out that thereare different types of glass that areinvolved. While for the colouredpieces, she works with recycled glassfor the clear ones, it is the fresh glassthat is used. To infuse colour sheprefers the glass bars from Krugler orReichenbach which are German basedbrands to camouflage the quality of theglass. Her devotion can be measuredfrom the fact that often when the glassis being melted she shifts bag, baggageand dog to the studio where shesleeps on the first floor to keep a checkon the furnace. “Glass needs to bemelted at 1300 degrees celsius for 12-14 hours to be perfect,” she says.

She prefers to not make more thanfour to five pieces of each of her workas, “I get bored,” she says.

The pieces can start at �1,000 forthe tiniest one. The bespoke luxuryones begin at �7,000 and can go up toa few lakh while the installations startat �3 lakh upward. For the IndiaDesign Week, she is working on arange of lighting which incorporatedtextile with glass.

As for her future plans she wantsto work with women and give them thehope and skill set to improve their livesas well as try and get the study of glassincorporated in some institute.

�How does the Tasting India Symposium ini-tiate a dialogue on India’s gastronomic heritageand culinary tourism?

It’s a fantastic concept to have something likethis as it gets plenty of people from across thecountry to come and discuss various issues andthat’s what the industry needs — to reach notonly the chefs but also the suppliers. It also giveschefs exposure and enlightens them with what’son the market and to come and interact with.In the end it’s a journey in process. The sym-posium has done an amazing job in gettingeverybody under one roof to initiate the advo-cacy initiative.

�What are the ways that can promote culinarytourism potential in India?

Tourism in India is on a rise and we needa lot of support from the government. It is a landof plenty with its history and heritage and cul-ture. Food is a very important part in tourismbecause wherever we go we want to eat and enjoythe diverse cuisine of India, right from Rajasthanto Kanyakumari to Nagaland and Sikkim. If youcombine the scenic beauty with some amazingfood, there is nothing more than one needs.

�What are the challenges to a sustainable foodculture in India?

Education and awareness are very important.We talk about sustainability but we also need tohave fair trade for farmers. They have to belooked after and given exposure. Train the peo-ple at grassroot level from farmers to peopleworking at lower positions in hotels and paythem decent salary. The farmers must be edu-

cated about new methods and techniques.

�What is your idea of the Indian cuisine? Howdo you think it is being appreciated by inter-national chefs and present in the globalpalate?

India is a sleeping giant. It is just awaken-ing. There is a change for sure, we have been try-ing to push this for many many years inLondon and as chefs we do seminars and work-shops. When you are there even if you are not

an am ambassador you are still representingIndia, and we try to show it in a very humbleand approachable manner. It’s a misconceptionthat Indian food is spicy and oily as that’s notthe case at all. Nobody eats that on a daily basis.We have to learn to respect our culture first. Theexposure and awareness has been phenomenalnow with Google and the internet in place. Alsothe media has started appreciating what we have,which was not the case initially when I start-ed. Journalism is very structured and construc-tive now.

�What are some of the global food movementsand revolutions today?

It’s all going back to basics in many ways —going back to flavours, good tastes and respect-ing which part of the world you are from.Everyone wants to eat healthy and as local aspossible. We have 14 restaurants globally and wetry to incorporate ingredients from that region.You have to respect sensibilities around you. Youhave to also support the local communities andhelp them earn their bread and butter.

�What do you have to say about the currentfood culture in India?

India for the past few years has been all

about molecular which had already been passedover by Europe 20 years back. It’s a phase pass-ing by. At my restaurant a lot of dishes areinspired from home cooking and mothers’ cook-ing. They are about childhood memories, theybring nostalgia. If somebody eats something andthat touches them, they always want to go backto that place. So for us if we can send our guestswith one happy memory, our job is done. I ambiased about food. I love the food that is cookedfrom the heart.

�How has your cooking evolved over the years?

It keeps evolving, It never stops. Also fromthe business point of view, you have to have thatUSP in order to be ahead from everybody else.Why would someone want to come to my restau-rant when there are 10,000 other restaurants thatare doing the same job. A lot of chefs becomevery complacent after a while, but what we dois we step in and change the existing.

There is no new technique, but it’s theapproach towards food. Right from doing foodwhich is very singular to deconstructing it. Nowthe trend is to enjoy a variety of food. I am a bigfan of street food and we try bring that authen-tic flavours in our restaurant so that those whocan’t stand on the roadside can enjoy it too.

�What are some of the most successful foodexperiments that you have mastered ?

We always keep trying — the smoking tech-nique from Rajasthan to samosas or makingbiryanis in dum. Fortunately I have travelled alot in India because of the travel shows and Ipicked up a lot on the way. It’s a constant process,we never stand still.

�How do you think cooking food is an art?It is a big art form and it is also a science.

You have to have the basic understanding andlearn the things, and then you can learn to mod-ify it. Everybody can cook but if you can trans-form basic food into something very special, itsan art. There is a whole technique and under-standing of variety of ingredients you use. Aschefs we try to learn the food in the best way.Its not only cinematic art but it is also an art foryour palate.

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Arare history awaits two-time defending champi-ons Australia as they

chase a record hat-trick of titles,taking on Netherlands in thesemi-finals at the KalingaStadium on Saturday.

World No 1 Australia is sec-ond only to four-time champi-ons Pakistan, having won theworld title thrice before, whichincludes back-to-back Goldmedals in the last two editionsof the tournament in 2010 and2014.

Come on Saturday, theKookaburras will be chasingtheir third consecutive worldcrown. But it would be easiersaid than done as in world No4 Netherlands a tough contestawaits Australia.

The Dutch, who have wonthe title thrice before — the lasttime being in 1998 — too wouldbe desperate to break their 20-year-old jinx.

Netherlands would be highon confidence especially aftertheir hard-fought 2-1 win overhome favourites India in thequarterfinals on Thursday.

Going by form and worldranking, it is expected to be an

edge of the seat thriller betweenthe two teams, who prefer toplay totally contrasting style ofhockey.

While attacking hockey isthe back bone of Australia, theDutch mostly prefer to playwaiting game with a compactdefence and relying more oncounters to surprise their oppo-nents.

There is hardly anything todifferentiate between the twosides going by recent head-to-head record.

Since 2013, Australia andNetherlands have played eachother 11 times with theKookaburras winning five andlosing four while two ended indraws.

The Australians made aslow start but grew in confidenceas the tournament progressed.

After a hard-fought 2-1 winover Ireland in their opener,Australia stepped on the gas andregistered convincing wins overEngland (3-0), China (11-0)and France (3-0).

The Dutch, on the otherhand, started with a bang andmauled Malaysia 7-0 before los-ing 1-4 to Germany.

They defeated Pakistan 5-1in their last pool match before

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Olympic Silver medallist PV Sindhu continued her

unbeaten run while debutantSameer Verma also qualifiedfor the knockout stage with astraight-game win in his lastgroup B match at the BWFWorld Tour Finals, here onFriday.

Playing her third succes-sive year-ending finale, Sindhudished out some deceptivestrokes and showed precisionduring the 35-minute contestto prevail over world No 12Beiwen Zhang 21-9, 21-15 in aone-sided women's singlescontest to top Group A.

"I was down 2-6 initiallybut I picked up the lead, soafter that I was fine," Sindhu,the last edition's runner-up,said after the match.

"I have played a few match-es against her after the IndianOpen final, so I took it as afresh match," said the 23-year-old referring to her IndianOpen final loss to Zhang atNew Delhi early this year.

"I am happy with the threewins, it is a positive thing. Ihope to move forward with thesame positivity and do well inthe semifinals," added Sindhu,who won all the three match-es of her group and will nowtake on world No 8 and 2013world champion RatchanokInthanon of Thailand in thesemifinals.

On the adjacent court, 24-year-old Sameer showed greatathleticism and produced amasterful performance todemolish Thailand'sKantaphon Wangcharoen 21-9, 21-18 in a match thatclocked 44 minutes.

After losing the openingmatch to world No 1 andworld champion KentoMomota, Sameer, who quali-

fied for the tournament afterdefending his title at SyedModi International last month,recovered well to come uptrumps against his other twoopponents in Group B.

He will now face AllEngland champion and Worldchampionship Silver medallistShi Yuqi of China in the semi-finals.

"I have played him beforeat Swiss Open so I knew howto go about it. In the secondgame I was losing so after someadvice from my coach, I keptmy patience and now I amready to play the semifinals,"said Sameer.

"It has been a great expe-rience playing my first worldtour finals."

In the women's singles,Sindhu, who had stunnedworld No 1 Tai Tzu Ying in herprevious match, didn't make agood start against Zhang, con-ceding a 0-4 lead early on.

But she clawed back at 6-6 after producing some angledreturns, which included adelightful over-the head-crosscourt return.

The Indian then sealedthe opening game comfortablyin 15 minutes when Zhangfailed to reach a shot at the forecourt.

After the change of sides,Sindhu continued to dominatethe proceedings to accumulatethe first five points before hit-ting long.

Zhang seemed to sufferfrom indecision and ended upcommitting too many unforcederrors.

The Indian managed a 11-9 advantage at the intervalafter Zhang went long again.

The Indian committedthree unforced errors beforesealing the contest, followingher opponent's miscued shotwhich went long.

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beating Canada 5-0 in the cross-overs and eking out a close 2-1win over India in the quarterfi-nals.

The Australia-Netherlandsmatch has all the makings of aclassic. In 2014 at The Hague,Australia came out on topagainst Netherlands 6-1 in frontof home crowd to lift their sec-ond consecutive World Cup.

And Saturday's encounterwill provide the Dutch an

opportunity to avenge their lossfour years ago.

But in the last four yearssince they met in the final of2014, much has changed.

The likes of Jamie Dwyer,Mark Knowles and GlennTurner have retired but theKookaburras have rebuilt bril-liantly under coach Colin Batchsince the disappointment of RioOlympics and have returned tothe top of the world rankings.

The Dutch, on the otherhand, are unquestionably muchtougher under Max Caldasnow than they were four yearsago.

Australia's Daniel Bealetoo agreed that it would be atough, exciting battle onSaturday for a place in Sunday'ssummit clash.

"We are into the crucialstage of the tournament. We gotto watch last night's matchbetween Holland and India. Sowe have learnt a lot from that.We are expecting a very toughmatch tomorrow," he said.

"We have very proud his-tory. There is no special for-mula. We work hard, we trainhard. We are fiercely competi-tive. Every tournament we gowe go to win."

Beale said what happenedfour years ago will hardly haveany impact in Saturday's must-win game.

"In 2014 Australia hadgreat success in the final butthat was a long time ago andthis group has changedimmensely. So we are lookingto create a bit of history," Bealesaid.

"Holland are a very toughteam. They have quality play-ers. Billy, Kemperman, Verga.We wil do our homework andtry to nullify them."

Meanwhile, Olympic Silvermedallist Belgium too would belooking to create history bymaking their maiden WorldCup final appearance whenthey take on England in the firstsemi-final earlier in the day.

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