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NEARBY
Panel to probe CBSE question leaks Monsoon likely
HRD Ministry’s seven-member committee has to submit its report by May 31 We cannot to be normal
Vikas Pathak
NEW DELHI
interfere, Private forecaster rules out drought
L-G derailed and delayed The Ministry of Human Re
source Development
says SC special correspondent
proposals: AAP govt.
NEW DELHI
(MHRD) has constituted a Legal Correspondent NEW DELHI
Salman Khan
JODHPUR
A magistrate’s court will
pronounce its judgment here
People losing faith in banks, says Naidu
on Thursday in the blackbuck Nistula Hebbar Financial Resolution and De shortage of cash in his State entity which can control
poaching case against Sobhana K Nair posit Insurance Bill 2017 has leading to problems. fraud, both public and priv
Bollywood actor Salman NEW DELHI resulted in a loss of faith in “After demonetisation ate. People should have fear
Khan and others, against Andhra Pradesh Chief Minis the country’s banking sys and especially the PNB scam of the law. If there is no fear
whom the trial has been ter N. Chandrababu Naidu tem. there is a problem of cash, of law, everyone will commit
going on since 1998. has said the recent scam in One of the early suppor which is aff ecting Andhra this kind of fraud and the
NATION A PAGE 7 volving the Punjab National ters of demonetisation, Mr. Pradesh too. People are los common man can’t be pe
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Bank and the government’s Naidu, in an interview to The ing faith in the banking [sys nalised for that.”
DELHI METRO A 6 PAGES eff orts to push through the Hindu, says that there is a tem]. The government is one FULL INTERVIEW A PAGE 11
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Hyderabad puts
the ambulance on
faster wheels
Serish Nanisetti
Hyderabad
They were from three
continents and they met at a
business school in France.
Their idea: simplifi ed
medical transport as easy as Prabhdeep Singh, Jose
ridehailing for patients and Leon and Antoine Poirson *
2 NORTH NOIDA/DELHI
DELHI Timings
Thursday, April 05
NGT seeks action Court dismisses sedition
RISE 06:07 SET 18:41
case against Azam Khan
RISE 23:18 SET 09:27
Friday, April 06
RISE 06:06 SET 18:42
RISE 00:00 SET 10:10
plan on air pollution For allegedly making controversial comments on Kashmir
Saturday, April 07 Directs four States to submit data within two weeks
RISE 06:05 SET 18:42 Press Trust of India the media and make it a part
Staff Reporter Badaun (U.P.) of the probe.
RISE 00:09 SET 10:57
NEW DELHI A local court here has dis Following the court’s
The National Green Tribunal missed a sedition case judgment, Mr. Gupta said he
(NGT) on Wednesday direct lodged against Samajwadi will approach the High
ed Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Party leader Mohd Azam Court against the decision.
Haryana and Rajasthan to Khan for allegedly making
submit data on the ambient controversial remarks on Slammed by Cong., BJP
air quality within two weeks. Kashmir. Mr. Khan had come under
A Bench headed by NGT Chief Judicial Magistrate attack from the Congress
acting chairperson Jawad Amarjeet Singh dismissed and the BJP for his contro
Rahim directed the Central the case on Tuesday and re versial remarks on the status
Pollution Control Board jected the fi nal report fi led A local court rejected the of Jammu and Kashmir.
(CPCB) and the Delhi Pollu Stubble burning is being blamed for smog and poor air quality by the police in the matter. fi nal report fi led by the While the Congress had
tion Control Committee in the NCR. FILE PHOTO R. V. MOORTHY
* police in the sedition case slammed Mr. Khan for his re
(DPCC) to submit their re Bajrang Dal leader againt SP leader Azam ported comment that senior
commendations after ana Bench. quality and directed the The case was registered Khan. FILE PHOTO RAJEEV BHATT
*
party leader Ghulam Nabi
lysing the data. Earlier, the green panel States to fi le detailed action against Mr. Khan by Bajrang Azad belonged to Kashmir
had rapped the States of plans pertaining to the Dal leader Ujjawal Gupta for nuary 8, 2013. and not India, and for ques
‘Analyse data’ Punjab and Haryana for not same. his alleged controversial On May 24, 2013, the tioning the status of the
“We direct the CPCB and the fi ling proper action plans The directions came comments on Kashmir on court rejected the fi nal re State, the BJP had demand
DPCC to analyse the ambient with regard to tackling the while the Tribunal was hear December 21, 2010. port and said it was false and ed action against him.
air quality data of Delhi NCR air pollution. ing a plea where the peti The investigating offi cer based on baseless facts to get Dubbing his remark as
and submit their conclu The Tribunal had also tioner had alleged that the had fi led a fi nal report in the desired results. “antinational”, the U.P. unit
sions coupled with their re come down heavily on the action plans submitted by case on May 5, 2012, against It directed a reinvestiga of the BJP had demanded
commendations as regard Delhi government and other the States were merely an which Mr. Gupta had moved tion, asking the police to ob that Mr. Khan be booked for
the air quality,” said the States for the degrading air “eyewash”. a protest application on Ja tain original recording from the off ence.
H.P. Bill for two more Ministerial-rank posts ‘Senior Rajasthan cop
Opposition says they are party appointments being presented as govt. posts compulsorily retired’
of other parties. quer, the member added.
<
> These
Staff Correspondent Whips Press Trust of India ly abused and thrashed his
“These Whips would per The Opposition requested Jaipur driver and gunman in 2013.
SHIMLA would perform
The Bharatiya Janata Party duties concerning form some very important the Chief Minister to with Senior Rajasthan cadre IPS The Rajasthan govern
government in Himachal Pra duties concerning the map draw the Bill before anyone offi cer Indu Kumar Bhush ment had forwarded a pro
the mapping,
desh moved a Bill in the State ping, monitoring and man approaches the court as it an, who has been at the posal in November last year
monitoring and
Assembly on Wednesday agement of the government’s can be considered an easy centre of several controver to the Union Ministry of
seeking to appoint two of its management of business in the House,” said way to escape the offi ceof sies including one where he Home Aff airs regarding
MLAs on Ministerialrank the government’s the Bill. profi t controversy. openly questioned the compulsory retirement for
posts as “Chief Whip” and business The Opposition, however, But the Chief Minister re knowledge of a Governor, the Additional Director Gen
“Deputy Chief Whip” in the The Bill moved by H.P. CM contended that when the jected the Opposition’s rea has been compulsorily re eral rank IPS offi cer, which
House. wances equivalent to any Mi House has a Parliamentary soning and said a number of tired by the government, an has been accepted, said Ar
The proposal was op nister with a Cabinet rank Aff airs Minister there is no other States are also having a offi cial said on Wednesday. vind Kumar Poswal, Joint
posed by the Opposition and the Deputy Chief Whip need for two more observers similar arrangement. A 1989batch IPS offi cer, Secretary, Department of
members on the grounds will be remunerated with sal with the same kind of He said that the last Con Mr. Bhushan, 52, is current Personnel of the Rajasthan
that the appointments were ary and perks equivalent to responsibility. gress government had made ly awaiting posting orders government.
basically party posts and that of a Minister of State. “They would be like Minis nine Chief Parliamentary Se (APO). The engineer “The Centre has accepted
should not be made as go Their job would be to ters without a portfolio. The cretaries and the incumbent turnedpolice offi cer has the State government’s pro
vernment posts with monitor the business in the government is considering to government has made none. been placed under the APO posal and Mr. Bhushan will
salaries. House and apprise the leader make more Ministers than al “It (the two posts) is just to category fi ve times. be served the orders on
As per the Bill moved by of the House with the deve lotted, constitutionally,” said create a balance and there is Last year, Mr. Bhushan le Wednesday, he said.
Chief Minister Jai Ram Tha lopments. an Opposition member. nothing so big to worry velled corruption charges When contacted, Mr.
kur, the Chief Whip would be They would also remain in It would be an additional about it," he told the Opposi against the top brass of the Bhushan said he was “not
provided salary and allo touch with the offi cial whips burden on the State exche tion members. State police. He also alleged aware of the development”.
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IN BRIEF
Dream come true
questions HC orders
Sathasivam sees encroachment on his clemency powers
Unfreeze Padukone’s
Special Correspondent vested in him under Article
bank account: HC
Kochi 161 of the Constitution.”
BENGALURU
The Kerala government on “Though the power exer
The High Court of Karnataka Wednesday informed the cised under Article 161 by
on Wednesday directed the High Court that it was un the Governor is amenable to
city police and IDBI Bank’s able to grant remission of judicial review in a limited
Malleshwaram branch to sentence to 739 convicts as sense, the court cannot exer
unfreeze the joint account Governor P. Sathasivam had cise such power. In other
belonging to former returned the fi le saying the words, the constitutional
badminton player Prakash court’s interim orders en power of remission provid
Padukone, his wife, and a croached on his clemency P. Sathasivam ed under Article 161 of the
daughter. The account was powers. In an additional affi Constitution of India will al
seized in connection with the davit, the government said that they would be released ways remain untouched.”
ongoing probe into cheating that when the fi les contain only when the court permits The government had ear
by citybased wealth ing the list reached the Go it encroaches upon the cle lier sought permission to
management firm Vikram vernor, he criticised the di mency powers of the Gover grant special remission of
Investments.
rective of the Full Bench of nor enshrined under Article sentences to 739 prisoners
Kerala Assembly Big salute: Sixyearold Dudekala Ishan ‘takes over duty’ from Mahesh Bhagwat, Rachakonda Police Commissioner, in the High Court. 161 of the Constitution of In by modifying the court’s ear
resolution on CBSE leak Hyderabad on Wednesday. The ‘Commssioner for a Day’ programme was organised by MakeAWish Foundation, which helps to dia which should always re lier interim orders in the
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM
fulfi l "wishes" of children with lifethreatening ailments. G. RAMAKRISHNA *
Article 161 main untouched and which matter. The court had res
The Kerala Assembly on “Placing the order passed by cannot be exercised by the trained release of any con
Wednesday unanimously the Governor before the court,” the Governor said. vict but later allowed the go
adopted two resolutions
moved by the ruling front.
Chief Minister Pinarayi
Vijayan, who piloted the
Excollege principal fi les ‘Norm for
PG medical
court and before releasing
the convicts and the rider
Mr. Sathasivam said he
was “exercising the power
vernment to consider cases
individually.
resolution demanding a probe
into the CBSE question paper
leak, blamed the Centre for
complaint against students seats invalid’ ‘Over 240 fi shermen After Shah,
going ahead with the exam. Rahul too
It also unanimously passed a
resolution asking the Centre
Posters paid condolence to teacher who died in students’ hearts
Legal correspondent
NEW DELHI still missing after Ockhi’ visits Mutt
to introduce legislation to The Supreme Court on
circumvent the recent Staff Reporter
<
> P.V. Pushpaja of proportion by holding the Wednesday declared inva Chances of their return dim: panel Staff Reporter
Supreme Court’s decision on
KANHANGAD
blames 3 SFI SFI responsible for the unsa lid a Karnataka govern Tumakuru
the Scheduled Caste and P.V. Pushpaja, who retired as workers for bursting voury incident, which it said ment condition restricting Press Trust of India ment on Wednesday, took
Scheduled Tribe (Prevention principal of the Nehru Arts & needed to be condemned. postgraduate admissions New Delhi note of the submission of Within days of BJP national
crackers and president Amit Shah’s visit
of Atrocities) Act, 1989. Science College here, for Stating that the principal in medical and dental go Over 240 fi shermen were the Ministry of Home Aff airs
distributing sweets to Siddaganga Mutt, AICC
mally lodged a complaint at had infringed on the “demo vernment quota seats to still missing after cyclone that the government, des
Prime suspect in Kerala
as farewell party president Rahul Gandhi on
the Hosdurg Police Station cratic rights” of students in students with a minimum Ockhi hit India’s southern pite the unprecedented cir
morphing case arrested was going on coast more than fi ve months cumstances, launched Wednesday called on the
on Wednesday. In her com recent years, the DYFI called 10 years’ domicile in the
KOZHIKODE/IDUKKI plaint, Dr. Pushpaja blamed Pinarayi Vijayan’s statement for introspection on the rea State. ago and the chances of their search and rescue opera seer of the Lingayat Mutt,
The key suspect in a video three Students Federation of in the Assembly that action sons behind such instances A Bench of Justices Arun return may be very dim, ac tions in a timely manner. Shivakumara Swami. He
morphing case S. Bibeesh, 31, India (SFI) workers of the would be taken against guil on college campuses. Mishra and U.U. Lalit di cording to a parliamentary “While the Central go gave a bouquet of 111 roses
was arrested from his hideout
college for bursting crackers ty students. It also decried the move rected the State govern panel. vernment has made eff orts to the seer, who turned 111
at Murickassery in Idukki The parliamentary stand to rescue the fi shermen recently. The seer gifted
and distributing sweets of the college management ment to amend and modify
district on Wednesday. He will ing committee on home af stranded at sea, the commit Mr. Gandhi photographs of
among students as a farewell ‘Traumatic experience’ to approach the Kerala High the information bulletin by
be produced before the the former Prime Minister
party was progressing on She said that no teacher Court seeking a ban on cam the State Directorate of fairs, headed by senior Con tee observes that nearly 244
judicial first class magistrate Indira Gandhi and former
the campus on March 28. should have to undergo such pus politics in the light of the Medical Education and gress leader P. fi shermen were still missing
court on Thursday. The case AICC president Sonia
She also referred to foot a traumatic experience at incident. On Wednesday, the Karnataka Examinations Chidambaram, has ex as on January 4, 2018. With
relates to a gang running a Gandhi, taken during their
Vadakarabased studio which age circulated in social me the end of over three de SFI convened a “resistance Authority on March 10. It pressed concern over the the search and rescue oper
dia of posters “conveying cades of service as faculty of meet” on the campus. ordered the State to repu fate of the missing fi sher ation being called off by the visits to the Mutt.
morphed the images of
condolence to a teacher who a reputed institution. The college has suspend blish the calendar of events men and the reports that government, the committee The Congress and BJP
women captured during
had died in the hearts of Meanwhile, the Demo ed three students, including in terms of the judgment there was a delay in the painfully notes that the leaders’ visits to the Mutt
wedding in Kozhikode and
students”. cratic Youth Federation of SFI district committee mem and complete the entire launch of ‘search and res chances of return of the re gain signifi cance following
using them for pornographic
purpose and posting them on Speaking to mediaper India (DYFI) said in a state ber Muhammed Anees, in process within the timeline cue’ operations. maining missing fi shermen Karnataka’s decision to ac
the social media. Bibeesh was sons, Dr. Pushpaja said she ment that eff orts were being connection with the inci stipulated by the regulato The committee, in its re may now be very dim,” the cord ‘religious minority’
the video editor of the studio. welcomed Chief Minister made to blow the issue out dent. ry authorities. port submitted to Parlia panel said. status for Lingayat.
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6 NATION NOIDA/DELHI
IN BRIEF
No fresh case of violence in Opposition
alleges Weather Watch
Rainfall, temperature & air quality in select metros yesterday
attack by
Rajasthan, curfew relaxed TMC cadres
Jharkhand CM discusses
Hindaun had witnessed clashes, houses of two Dalit politicians were torched Staff Reporter
development of Betla Kolkata
LATEHAR
Jharkhand Chief Minister
Special Correspondent
JAIPUR
vices remained suspended
throughout the day to check
ter a Dalit locality, but the
police stopped the protes Curfew A senior Bharatiya Janata
Party leader protesting
Raghubar Das on Wednesday
discussed with Latehar
No fresh incident of violence
was reported from the Hin
the spread of rumours.
Karauli Collector Abhima
ters and dispersed them by
using tear gas, batons and relaxed in 3 against the alleged atroci
ties by Trinamool Congress
district officials matters
relating to development in
daun town of Rajasthan’s Ka
rauli district on Wednesday
nyu Kumar said eight cases
had been registered in con
fi ring in the air. While Ms.
Rajkumari Jatav claimed that M.P. districts cadres during the fi ling of
nomination papers for the
the Betla area, an official after two days of successive nection with the violence the attack on her house was upcoming panchayat polls
release said. To eliminate clashes, during which the and 82 people arrested. The “politically motivated”, pol Press trust of india in West Bengal was at
Naxalism, he asked the mob torched the houses of curfew was relaxed from ice said those who had van Bhopal tacked by the ruling party
officials to generate two Dalit politicians. Curfew 1:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., but dalised the Dalit politicians’ The curfew imposed in members near the District
employment. PTI clamped in the town on all government offi ces and houses had been identifi ed. Gwalior, Bhind and More Magistrate’s offi ce in Birb
Tuesday was relaxed for fi ve schools in Hindaun re na districts of Madhya Pra hum district.
Four injured by hours following an improve mained closed. 3 held at Nathdwara desh after the April 2 Dalit “TMC men stabbed me
lightning in J&K ment in the situation. A 5,000strong mob, al Meanwhile, three persons protests was relaxed on near the DM’s offi ce in the
JAMMU legedly of upper caste peo were arrested at Nathdwara Wednesday as no major in presence of police on Tues
Four persons, including three More forces deployed ple, had set ablaze the hous in Rajsamand district on cident of violence was re day afternoon,” Kaloshona Temperature Data: IMD, Pollution Data: CPCB, Map: Skymet (Taken at 18.00 Hrs)
students, were injured in a Additional forces were de es of BJP MLA Rajkumari charges of desecrating a bust ported, the police said. Mondal, BJP general secre
lightning-related incident in Forecast for Thursday: Thunderstorm accompanied with squall/
ployed to ensure peace in Jatav and Congress leader of Mahatma Gandhi. The ac Eight persons were tary in Birbhum, told The hail/gusty winds is likely at isolated places over Assam,
Jammu and Kashmir’s Doda
the area after three compa and former Minister Bharosi cused were identifi ed on the killed during the large Hindu on Wednesday. Meghalaya, West Bengal, Sikkim, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram,
district, the police said on
nies of Border Security Lal Jatav in an act of retalia basis of footage of a CCTV scale violence during the Sanjib Das from Birb Tripura and north Odisha
Wednesday. The incident took
place at the Joura Kahara
Force (BSF) arrived in Hin tory violence on Tuesday, a camera, after a resident of Bharat bandh called by Da hum’s Nalhati area had a si city rain max min city rain max min
Middle School in the Gandoh daun late on Tuesday night. day after the rampage and the locality lodged a com lit groups against alleged milar experience on Mon Agartala................. —.... 33.4.... 19.6 Kozhikode ...........19.1.... 35.4.... 27.0
Ahmedabad............ —.... 39.5.... 23.9 Kurnool ................... —.... 40.1.... 26.2
area. PTI Police said eight companies arson during the bandh or plaint. The Nathdwara Muni dilution of the Scheduled day when he went to Aizawl ....................7.... 30.5.... 14.4 Lucknow.................. —.... 38.7.... 22.8
had been positioned in the ganised by Dalit groups. cipality had installed the idol Caste and Scheduled Tribe collect the nomination Allahabad .............. —.... 40.6.... 20.9 Madurai................... —.... 38.5.... 26.7
Three of family killed as district and the Internet ser The mob had tried to en in 2008. Act by the Supreme Court. form for his wife, a Pan Bengaluru .............. —.... 32.7.... 21.4 Mangaluru............... —.... 35.9.... 24.1
Bhopal................... —.... 40.0.... 22.4 Mumbai................... —.... 32.8.... 22.5
car rams truck chayat Samity candidate of Bhubaneswar ......... —.... 34.6.... 23.4 Mysuru.................... —.... 34.5.... 21.2
SRINAGAR the Communist Party of In Chandigarh ............ —.... 35.4.... 21.7 New Delhi ............... —.... 39.0.... 23.0
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IN BRIEF
‘India third most vulnerable country to cyber threats’
The U.S. remains most vulnerable to such attacks, followed by China, according to the recently released ‘Internet Security Threat Report’
Yuthika Bhargava attacks, ransomware and Cyber criminals, it said, “This coin mining gold
NEW DELHI cryptominers. are rapidly adding “crypto rush resulted in an 8,500%
Indigo staff halt
work over dues India emerged as the third As per the report, India jacking” to their arsenal as increase in detections of
NEW DELHI most vulnerable country in continues to be second most the ransomware market be coinminers on endpoint
Nearly 56 support staff of terms of risk of cyber impacted by spam and bots, comes overpriced and computers during the fi nal
IndiGo went on a strike on threats, such as malware, third most impacted by net overcrowded. quarter of 2017.”
Wednesday morning at spam and ransomware, in work attacks, and fourth While the immediate im
Varanasi’s Lal Bahadur Shastri 2017, moving up one place most impacted by Real threat pact of coin mining is typi
International airport over previous year, accord ransomware. “Cryptojacking is a rising cally performance related —
demanding a hike in wages. ing to a report by security The report also pointed threat to cyber and personal slowing down devices, over
IndiGo said that the solutions provider out that with the threat land security,” Tarun Kaura, Di heating batteries and in
employees belonged to a Symantec. scape becoming more di rector, Enterprise Security some cases, rendering dev
ground handling agency. In 2017, 5.09% of global verse, attackers are working Product Management, Asia ices unusable— there are
threats detected were in In harder to discover new ave Pacifi c and Japan, at Syman broader implications, partic
Bigger pictorial images
dia, slightly less than 5.11% in nues of attack and cover tec said, adding that, “The ularly for organisations.
on cigarette packs soon
2016. The U.S. (26.61%) was their tracks while doing so. massive profi t incentive puts “Corporate networks are at
BENGALURU
Come September 1, all
most vulnerable to such at “From the sudden spread people, devices and organi risk of shutdown from coin
cigarette packs will have a tacks, followed by China of WannaCry and Petya/Not sations at risk of unauthor miners aggressively propa
national tollfree number (10.95%), according to ‘Inter Petya, to the swift growth in ised coinminers siphoning gated across their environ
printed on them to assist net Security Threat Report’. coinminers, 2017 provided resources from their sys ment. There may also be
users quit addiction, besides The global threat ranking us with another reminder tems, further motivating cri fi nancial implications for or
enhanced pictorial images is based on eight metrics — that digital security threats minals to infi ltrate everyth ganisations who get billed
and text messages covering malware, spam, phishing, can come from new and un ing from home PCs to giant for cloud CPU usage by coin
85% of the packet area. The bots, network attacks, web expected sources,” it said. data centers.” miners,” Symantec said.
tollfree number 180011
2356 will be printed on all
tobacco and cigarette packs.
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8 EDITORIAL NOIDA/DELHI
An act of unlearning
The plan to give select universities autonomy and create a multitier academe is a crisis for our democracy
the claim that private institutions Nehru University ( JNU) in Delhi lege. All this is done in the name of
contribute to the public good. It decided to fi ght. JNU as a public acceleration where India hopes to
T
he loss of nine lives in violent protests against the reform. it any real empowerment. Autono evaluate one’s situation. The aca
Supreme Court ruling introducing safeguards All this has been created my here becomes the right to play deme becomes a passive receiver
M
oments of crisis often through a simulated politics of ur a rule game as dictated by the of diktats in the name of freedom.
against misuse of the Scheduled Castes and Sche
create moments for reth gency, a crisis inadvertently trig state. The right to plurality, dis What one loses here is the creative
duled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, is trag inking, when the basic gered by Pranab Mukherjee, then sent, critique will decrease. pluralism of the university as the
S. MAHINSHA
ic. Clearly, both the Centre and State governments were concepts and institutions we em President, bemoaning the fact that There is also an illiteracy of his home of dissenting, as knowledge
caught unawares by the scale and intensity of the prot ploy are subject to critical scruti there was no Indian university list tory here as autonomy is regarded is standardised in the name of
ests. The government has sought an urgent review, in ny. Such a crisis haunts the idea of ed in the top 200 in the world. as some new invention when auto market effi ciency. Also, freedom
an attempt to dispel the impression that its own stand the nation state, the vision of de Suddenly, all India suff ered from in the list for beauty and third for nomy was always a part of the un here is seen in the narrow sense of
was responsible for the Division Bench laying down mocracy and, at another level, our rankings envy and we decided to intelligence.” The wicked queen iversity tradition. The state might entrepreneurship. The creative
model of the university. Such a cri vie for the Olympics of rankings. was struck dumb with dismay and support a university while the tensions of the university get
fresh guidelines on handling complaints under the Act.
sis of change also produces a mim Sadly, speed became a substitute confusion. rules of the craft were always in mowed down in this wave of stan
From the day of the court ruling, what was a matter of icry of original concepts, with me for effi ciency and mobility appro The bureaucratic rituals around the hands of practitioners. The daridisation and managerialisa
concern was the nature of the message the Bench might diocrity retailed as excellence, priated justice. What got projected quality and autonomy have to be word peer group refl ects solidari tion; market friendly freedom des
have conveyed to marginalised and oppressed sections. status confused for quality, and a was a sense of decisiveness which read in this context. Quality in this ty, fraternity and a defi nition of troys many of the lesser domains
Norms to safeguard the innocent against false com few narrow indicators defi ning the one mistook for judgment. The would get reduced to productivity. quality in terms of collectively de of knowledge which are custo
plaints may not have been so unpalatable as the serious existence of the new paradigm. hollowness and superfi ciality of The ordinary process of research bated norms. Certifi cation had an dians of the value systems of the
implications of the fi nding that there is largescale mis Mediocrity in mimicking excel reform was startling. as learning, as a craft game, with a intellectual rather than clerical future.
use of the SC/ST Act. Proceeding on this premise, the lence subverts the very essence of This brings to mind two stories. sense of play and experimentation quality to it. The government`s in There is another issue. The un
the institution. One witnesses The fi rst is from the national is sidelined. A leading scientist sistence on divesting itself of its iversity is a place for dreaming, for
court ruled that the bar under Section 18 of the Act on
such antics masquerading as re movement. Patrick Geddes, the once told me that PhDs get dis responsibility cannot be disguised following not the logic of produc
grant of anticipatory bail was not absolute. It mandated form as one watches the struggle sociologist, biologist and poly counted and risktaking in terms of in creating a few narrow entitle tivity or fame but a vision of new
a preliminary inquiry into complaints before an FIR can of the Indian university over the math, designed one version of the choice of topics comes down. The ments for a few institutions. What possibilities, many of them which
be registered and barred any immediate arrest of the autonomy issue. ‘University of Benares’. Watching machine produces more converg we then face in India is a splitlevel may not be majoritarian or mar
accused, unless approved by a higher authority in the the outline unfold, people asked ers than divergers. Dissent is at a world where the majority of insti ketoriented. Ranking, as one pro
case of public servants or the Senior Superintendent of The grammar of reform him out of curiosity where the ad discount as one must adhere to tutions suff er from neglect and fessor said, allows others to dream
Police in respect of private citizens. Whether these di Merely labelling such a process ministrative department was? He textbook paradigms for guarantee mediocrity, while a few parade for us. Nothing can be more unfair.
will not do. Protest must be ac pointed to a little outhouse on the ing high scores. their affl uence as quality. It is an
rections amount to judicial legislation and go against
companied by scholarship which side and warned that if it got big attempt to enforce a Darwinism in Retaining plurality
the grain of prevailing law and policy are complex ques exposes in detail the logic and me ger, it would swallow the universi State’s abdication education while pretending to off The question is, how does a un
tions that need careful judicial determination. But it is a chanics of the rituals of appropria ty. The prescient Geddes was If excellence is marginally defi ned, er freedom. The rich can create iversity as a plural, almost inverte
moot question whether recent explosion of Dalit anger tion. One witnesses three at the warning against the bureaucratisa autonomy is reduced to a market captive institutions while the mid brate institution react to such a cri
stems entirely from the fi ne print of the judgment. It is outset. The fi rst involves the at tion of the intellect and its great in instrument. The state seems to dle class watches helplessly as sis? There is a sense that the battle
likely that it is a result of the perception that in a social tempt to appropriate the rhetoric stitution, the university. Today, withdraw from education playing quality education in democratic is diff erent today. We must stand
environment where the legal and administrative system of scholarship and to coat it with a sadly it is the bureaucracy that is a reluctant Father Christmas. Insti spaces empties out. The JNU battle by the original vision, the culture
sheen of scientism, through the defi ning the university, even dic tutions have now the right to is a fi ght to defi ne one’s future of the university, reemphasise its
is already loaded against the community, a verdict like
use of rankings and indicators. tating what autonomy means for change admission rules, charge without having it specifi ed to one sense of play, its plurality, its sense
this may worsen the lot of the vulnerable. Quality is now a numbers game us. more fees to attract more people. in the name of an ersatz freedom. of craft which challenges the as
As the Bench has now agreed to hear the petition to evaluated by a separate directo The second story is more apo The idea of university as a public Similarly, ranking is an act of sembly lines of knowledge. In this
review its own March 20 order, what is needed is a spell rate. Second, concepts of free cryphal and is about the epidemic space, as a commons where subsi fetishism where quality gets de moment of crisis, the university
of calm and peace. It is true that the Bench has declined dom, autonomy, the public good of rankings worldwide. The story dies allowed marginals to partici fi ned as a product than a process. must stand strong, telling society
to suspend the order and clarifi ed that its objective was are bowdlerised and managerial goes that Snow White’s wicked pate in education with dignity, is The university loses its ritual right gently that democracy without the
to safeguard the innocent and that it has not diluted the ised, transforming intellectual stepmother went to consult the le lost. The market creates its own fi l to initiate a student in terms of the cultures of knowledge is doomed.
facts into a set of instrumentali gendary mirror. When the queen ters and slowly the poor lose entry rules of the craft. This world of
Act or undermined the rights of SCs and STs in any way.
ties. Third, the public and the priv asked, “Mirror, Mirror, on the to a system. creativity disappears as we instru Shiv Visvanathan is a member of the
In a larger sense, there are two disparate factors at play ate are fused without any philo wall, who is the fairest of them This was the much maligned mentalise education and reduce Compost heap, a group of academics and
— protecting the innocent against harassment and mis sophical or ethical debate. One is all?” The mirror replied, “Accord and misunderstood battle the stu the university to a certifi cation activists working on alternative
use of a law, and faithfully preserving the letter and spi opened up to privatisation under ing to QS rankings, you are fourth dents and faculty of Jawaharlal machine, a glorifi ed tutorial col imaginations
rit of a piece of legislation aimed at upholding the rights
Confi dence in the House
and dignity of the historically oppressed classes. Neith
er should be sacrifi ced for the sake of the other. Given
the mood of anger and discontent, it is both pragmatic
and necessary for the entire question to be reexa The Speaker has enough powers to restore order in the Lok Sabha and act upon a notice for a notrust vote
mined by the court. The fi rst requirement for this is a
her inability to count the members be named and asked to withdraw such as the fi rst one against Jawa
conducive atmosphere for such a hearing. One hopes
supporting the motion as some from the House. If they don’t, they harlal Nehru in 1963, three against
that the initial fury has spent itself out and that there members were shouting slogans can be forcibly removed. There Lal Bahadur Shastri and two
will be no cause for its being unleashed again. and showing placards in the well are a number of occasions when against Indira Gandhi in the next
of the House. MPs have been suspended. In three years. Of these 25 were un
deed, during the term of the cur successful, and one did not get to
Gaza on fi re M.R. Madhavan A primary function
The primary role of the Lower
rent Lok Sabha, 25 members were
suspended in August 2015 for not
the voting stage as Morarji Desai
resigned. On all these occasions,
Apart from an inquiry into the latest violence,
House of Parliament is to deter allowing the House to function. the noconfi dence motion was gi
there must be an aid package for the territory
T
SHANKER CHAKRAVARTY
hink of the day in 1997 when mine who forms the government. This is not the fi rst time that ven priority over all other busi
Prime Minister H.D. Deve The Prime Minister and the Coun such a situation has arisen. During ness. It is this tradition that the
P
rotests last week along Gaza’s border with Israel,
which turned violent with Israeli troops killing 18 Gowda had to face a nocon cil of Ministers can hold offi ce only the winter session of 2013, several Speaker must follow.
fi dence motion in the Lok Sabha. as long as they have the confi members had given notice for a Given the membership of the
Palestinians, were long in the making. Gaza, the
Now imagine the following situa dence of the Lok Sabha. While de noconfi dence motion. This was Lok Sabha, it is evident that this
225 sq km strip of land where over two million people tion. Some MPs from one of the fending the parliamentary system during the agitation for creating government enjoys a comfortable
live, has been under an Israeli blockade for over a de numerous parties disrupt the pro over a presidential system, B.R. Telangana, and several members majority. That said, this position
cade. In recent years, Egypt has also joined the block ceedings by storming the well of Ambedkar had stressed that the tioned. Thus, if there are any not disrupted the House. For several still needs to be tested if ques
ade, practically cutting off the strip from the rest of the the House and showing placards. former provided accountability on ices for the noconfi dence motion, days, the Speaker adjourned the tioned. Parliamentary democracy
world. The fl ow of both goods and people into and out The Speaker expresses that he is a daily basis, which was desirable the Speaker has to verify whether House, and the motion was never works because there is a broadly
of Gaza is heavily restricted. Life has become miserable unable to conduct the House and for India. Of course, his assump there are at least 50 MPs who sup introduced. However, in the midst held belief in the fair and just exer
adjourns for the day. Repeat this tion was that such accountability port its introduction, and then fi x of the ruckus, the Bill to reorgan cise of power by the state. The in
under these conditions, and it is not an exaggeration
for several days. The Prime Minis would be ensured through parlia a time for discussing it. It is this ise Andhra Pradesh into two States ability of Parliament to function
when the territory is called one big openair prison. Re ter continues to hold his offi ce. mentary processes such as ques process that has been stalled. was passed. and to test the support for the go
cent sanctions by the Ramallahbased Palestinian Auth Would this be a legitimate govern tions, adjournment motions and What can the Speaker do if The present Speaker should not vernment undermines the very
ority have not helped matters. Despite international ment? as a fi nal measure, the noconfi some MPs are not allowing the follow her predecessor’s path. Af basis of our democratic structure.
calls and repeated warnings by rights groups, Israel has This is not a mere academic dence motion. Our Parliament has House to function? The Constitu ter all, an incorrect step should The Speaker has the responsibility
not eased its restrictions on the strip. It says they are in question. About three weeks ago, belied this expectation. tion and the Rules of Procedure in not form a legitimate precedent. of ensuring that the House func
place for “security reasons” — the ruling Hamas is desig several members of Lok Sabha Parliamentary processes recog Lok Sabha do not give her the dis Her duty is to put the motion to tions and taking whatever steps
gave written notices to the Speak nise the primacy of the noconfi cretion to decide whether to allow test immediately. Otherwise, the are necessary — including suspen
nated a terrorist group by Israel. It was against this
er for a noconfi dence motion dence motion. After all, most oth the motion. She is duty bound to very existence of the government sion of members, if needed – to en
background, amid mounting frustration and resent against the current council of mi er parliamentary work is either verify whether there are 50 mem (as well as that of Parliament as a sure order and check whether
ment against the status quo, that Hamas and other or nisters. The rules of procedure re designed to have the government bers in the House who support its body representing the will of the there is requisite support to admit
ganisations in Gaza called for a sixweek sitin on the Is quire the Speaker to verify wheth answer on its policies and actions, introduction. In case of disruptive people) is under question. the debate on the noconfi dence
raeli border to protest against the blockade as well as to er 50 Members of Parliament or to debate government bills or behaviour by some MPs, she has motion.
support the Palestinians’ right to return to the lands support the motion by asking sanction its budgetary proposals. the powers — and the responsibili A long tradition
that became Israel in 1948. Most Gaza residents are re them to stand at their seats and These activities cannot be under ty — to bring order to the House. Till now, there have been 26 no M.R. Madhavan is the co-founder and
fugees of the fi rst ArabIsraeli war or their descendants. taking a count. Since March 16, the taken when the very legitimacy of She can ask these MPs to return to confi dence motions. Many of President of PRS Legislative Research,
Speaker has every day expressed the government is being ques their seats, failing which they can these were symbolic in nature, New Delhi
There are confl icting views on what triggered the vio
lence. Palestinians say Israeli soldiers opened fi re on LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Letters emailed to letters@thehindu.co.in must carry the full postal address and the full name or the name with initials.
peaceful protesters. Israel says force had to be used to
stop the tens of thousands of protesters from crossing
the border into its territory. The real picture can be as
Court on Dalit rights that has presented itself to northern India, where it Egypt elections and international withdrew for diff erent
By refusing to stay its order, address three glaring appears that quality The Editorial, “No surprises” organisations that observed reasons. Finally, references
certained only through an impartial international the Supreme Court has defi ciencies of our criminal education is not given (April 2) on Egypt’s elections, the entire electoral process, to the trials of Hosni
probe. But the U.S. has already blocked a move in the made its stand abundantly justice system. One, the legal importance. has tried to depict a including overseeing polling Mubarak and members of
UN Security Council seeking such an inquiry. In the clear vis-à-vis interpretation system does not deter the Many a time, the system constructed version of reality stations and checking vote the Muslim Brotherhood
past, Israel has faced serious allegations of using force of the Scheduled Castes and misuse of laws by imposing appears to be getting that implies irregularities counts, didn’t report any group, which is designated as
against Gazans. A UNappointed commission probing the Scheduled Tribes deterrent costs on fi lers of hijacked for one reason or during the presidential irregularities. a terrorist group according to
the 2009 Gaza war accused both Israel and Palestinian (Prevention of Atrocities) false cases. the other. The example of elections. According to Egypt’s Egyptian law, have been
militants of committing war crimes. While Hamas is de Act (“No aff ront to Dalit Two, even if an innocent the paper leak in the CBSE It overlooks the fact that the National Elections Authority, clarifi ed in rejoinders put out
rights, says SC”, April 4). person is acquitted of examination, a board held in President came to power in 25 million people voted, by the Embassy on earlier
signated a terrorist organisation by most Western coun
The top court’s inference charges later, the law does high esteem, is a case in 2014 after winning a which is about 42% of the occasions and published in
tries, Israel has hardly been held accountable for its ac that those who have hit the not compensate them for the point (“SC to hear petition presidential election with electorate. President Al Sisi this daily. The legal basis to
tions. With the Trump administration’s unconditional streets unleashing violence ordeal they underwent. against CBSE reexam”, April more than 96% of the vote, won a second term with 92% these were also explained on
support for the government of Prime Minister Benja and destroying private and Three, the closure of 4). and that a similar majority of the total votes, while his these occasions.
min Netanyahu, Israel could escape censure for the lat public property might not criminal trials is not subject In the rat race to do well, as reelected him for a second opponent, the leader of the Hatem Tageldin,
est outbreak of violence in Gaza as well. The Palestinian have understood the to a time frame. Delays in the only marks seem to decide term to complete the Al Ghad Party, Moussa AMBASSADOR,
leadership too deserves blame. Gaza and the West Bank import of the judgment law incentivise malicious the future of a student, economic and political Mustafa Moussa, netted 3%; EMBASSY OF THE ARAB REPUBLIC
could be valid as these litigation. We need a dubious ways and means to reforms that he started in 5% of the votes were invalid. OF EGYPT,
are ruled by rival factions, Hamas and Fatah. Despite New Delhi
protests appear to have comprehensive law to tackle get through an examination 2014. A number of opposition
occasional declarations of unity, there have been no been engineered largely by these inadequacies. The rule are rampant. Ethical and The Editorial is based on a candidates who announced more letters online:
joint eff orts to mitigate the suff ering of Gaza’s people. vested interests. of law that fails to secure moral valuebased classes couple of selfdefeating their intent to contest www.hindu.com/opinion/letters/
For its part, the international community remains un C.V. Aravind, natural justice is neither fair along with behavioural arguments that have
Bengaluru nor eff ective. sciences should be described the election as corrections & clarifications:
responsive when it comes to the grave rights violations
in this Mediterranean enclave. Yet, the path ahead is V.N. Mukundarajan, incorporated in the “anything but democratic”, The photograph that was published with the report headlined
■ The judges have reiterated Thiruvananthapuram curriculum. The respective while admitting, ironically, “KochharDhoot link under PMO scanner” (April 4, 2018) was er
clear. There has to be an international probe into the roneously captioned [Videocon group chairman] Venugopal
their reasoning that arbitrary Education Departments that “this doesn’t deny Mr.
latest violence. World powers should urgently provide Dhoot. It was not the picture of Venugopal Dhoot.
arrests would violate Article CBSE re-examination should also try to see how Sisi’s support base”. It didn’t
economic assistance to Gaza to save it from total col 21 of the Constitution. It is shocking to see the way quality and valuebased even provide any evidence of It is the policy of The Hindu to correct signifi cant errors as soon as possible. Please specify
lapse, and put incremental pressure on Israel to end the Instead of insulating specifi c education and the education can be made fraud or irregularities that
the edition (place of publication), date and page. The Readers’ Editor’s office can be
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Heeding the lines on the map Antiforest, antiforest dweller
The Compensatory Aff orestation Fund is a deeply fl awed
Forging a ChinaIndiaPakistanBangladesh axis would be a game changer for all of South Asia
mework. This can boost the liveli
and unjust mechanism
hoods of millions across the region. sued, are pending or have to be fi led. The
India and China are leading global rules provide for mere “consultation” with
ly in terms of Internet and smart communities in the planning of compensato
phone users, but Internet penetra ry aff orestation: a clear step backward from
tion for these four countries is below the consent provisions in the FRA and the
55%, representing immense poten 2014 Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and
Syed Munir Khasru
tial. Bangladesh, Cambodia and Chi Resettlement Act. Consultations are not stip
Chitrangada Choudhury
na have signed a framework to ulated for all aff orestation projects, and need
At the heart of South Asia’s poor inte strengthen digital regional trade. not even involve the aff ected gram sabhas.
gration is IndiaPakistan rivalry, China’s BRI initiative is projected to Last month, Minister of State for Environ This indicates a wilful blindness to confl icts
further complicated by ChinaPakis increase connectivity by developing ment, Forests and Climate Change Mahesh under way across forested landscapes.
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‘BJP behaving in a highhanded manner, wanted to defame me’
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister says the national party wanted a weak ally so that it could be assertive and could grow on its own at the State level
Sobhana K. Nair unconditionally supported law. If there is no fear of the The Akali Dal has said that ■ Even during the Vajpayee
Nistula Hebbar the NDA presidential candi law, everyone will commit the government could have period, I fought for this issue.
date which was not required. this kind of fraud and the asked the 15th Finance We [southern States] had
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, on A CBI inquiry is going on into common man can’t be penal Commission to have a re gone for family planning and
a two-day tour of Delhi gathering support for the State’s de- cases dealing with ₹ 43,000 ised for that. look at the question of managed to control the pop
mand for Special Category Status, says the BJP did not keep crore. When that is on, A1 Special Category Status, ulation long ago. If popula
its promises and wanted to defame him personally. Excerpts: and A2 [accused one and two You have met leaders from which was removed by the tion is the criterion, the
in the cases are leaders of the across the political previous Finance southern States will be the
The alliance between you Telangana, without even in YSRCP], you [Ministers] are spectrum in Delhi in the Commission. biggest losers. I was respon
and the BJP started with a forming us. In Andhra Pra meeting them. If you see, ev past two days. What sible for freezing the refe
lot of warmth. When Prime desh too, they wanted their ery Friday that there is a positioning do you see ■ The 14th Finance Commis rence point to the 1971 cen
Minister Narendra Modi party to grow on its own. Of court appearance in their working out for an antiBJP sion never spoke about spe sus. Performing States
called after you broke off the course, there is nothing cases, they [YSRCP leaders] front in 2019? cial status, the chairman and should not be penalised for
partnership, did he ask you wrong with that. They never are also seen in the PMO. If nication sector, highway re members denied having their performance.
to reconsider? addressed what was pro these are the signals you are forms and so on. Now the BJP <
> Ihave
thought I must
an ally in Delhi ■ It is a concern right now. I done anything like that. They
mised in the Andhra Pradesh giving out, then others too has a clear majority. Because to extend a helping have been responsible for so said that their terms and con Do you feel the BJP does not
■ That day, he didn’t ask me Reorganisation Act. On the need to prepare. of majority or otherwise, many fronts in the past. The ditions were only devolution understand southern India?
hand to the State
anything like that. I ex contrary, they wanted to de they are behaving in a very National Front, the United of fi nancial resources bet
plained my reasons for quit fame me personally. How do you compare and highhanded manner. Front; the UNPA too was ween the Centre and the ■ I feel Delhi always has a
ting the alliance very clearly. contrast Atal Bihari which is aff ecting Andhra created by me. Nobody un States. problem in understanding
I joined hands with the BJP Why was that? Vajpayee and Mr. Modi? How do you rate the Pradesh too. People are los derstands these experiments Why are you [Centre] diff erent regions and cul
because the Congress had to Narendra Modi ing faith in banking. The Fi better than I. In India, there blaming them? tures. Why do you think pro
tally betrayed Andhra Pra ■ They want a weak alliance, ■ The Vajpayee government government’s economic nancial Resolution and De are some compulsions also. blems in Jammu and Kash
desh. I thought I must have a weak ally. For example, the was a coalition, but he was policies, including posit Insurance Bill, 2017, For example, in Andhra Pra The southern States have mir, Assam and even Punjab
an ally in Delhi to extend a YSR Congress Party is a taint able to carry everyone with demonetisation? further adds to the problem. desh, there are no national said that the terms of are going on still? Even the
helping hand to the State. ed party, and the BJP feels him. All reforms were initiat The government is one entity parties. In some States, the reference of the 15th Dalit protest is an example!
Within no time, the BJP an that if they have an alliance ed during Vajpayee’s time — ■ After demonetisation and which can control fraud, BJP is there, in some, the Finance Commission are They think they can do
nounced that they would with a tainted, weak party, the open sky policy, total de especially the PNB scam, both public and private. Peo Congress. At the appropriate biased against them, do you anything and get away with
have no alliance with us in they can assert. The YSRCP regulation of the telecommu there is a problem of cash, ple should have fear of the time, fronts will come up. feel the same. it.
IN BRIEF
AAP to back no-trust motion India, Japan, U.S. stress
Naidu meets Kejriwal as part of his eff orts to mobilise support in Parliament
Press Trust of India It also moved a noconfi
keeping sea lanes open
New Delhi dence motion against the
Andhra Pradesh Chief Mi Narendra Modi government Trilateral focusses on counterterrorism and connectivity
nister N. Chandrababu Nai over the issue. The Andhra
du on Wednesday met his Pradesh Chief Minister, who Special Correspondent
Rahul pans PM on Delhi counterpart, Arvind arrived here on Tuesday, NEW DELHI
fuel price hike Kejriwal, as part of his ef has met leaders from diff e Senior diplomats of India, Ja
NEW DELHI forts to mobilise support for rent political parties to pan and the U.S. held the 9th
Congress president Rahul the noconfi dence motion further his cause. trilateral meeting here on
Gandhi on Wednesday took a moved by the Telugu De Mr. Naidu has met Con Wednesday, focussing on con
dig at Prime Minister sam Party against the gress’s Veerappa Moily, NCP nectivity, counterterrorism
Narendra Modi over soaring Centre, party leaders said. president Sharad Pawar and other regional and global
prices of petroleum products The two leaders also dis and Harsimrat Kaur Badal issues of common concern, a
and described him as the cussed the Special Category of the Shiromani Akali Dal. joint press release issued after
“King of Misinformation.”
Status (SCS) promised to the He also met National Confe the meeting, said.
Using a hashtag #PeTrolled,
southern State. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Andhra Pradesh CM rence leader Farooq Abdul “The offi cials reviewed the
Mr. Gandhi tweeted, “The
Chandrababu Naidu in New Delhi on Wednesday. PTI *
lah, Sudip Bandyopadhyay outcomes of the Trilateral In
poor and the middle class
bear the brunt of rising fuel
Promise of support of the Trinamool, D. Raja of frastructure Working Group
prices. In this video, our PM is “The Delhi Chief Minister TDP’s Rajya Sabha member The TDP pulled out of the the CPI, V. Maitreyan of the that met in Washington in Fe
quite obviously talking about said he would off er support C.M. Ramesh told pressper NDA last month after the AIADMK, Anupriya Patel of bruary and agreed to continue
some other country.” The to the TDP through mem sons. The AAP has four MPs Centre expressed its inabili the Apna Dal and Ram Go to collaborate to promote in eration, counterterrorism, sised on importance of keep
tweet refers to an earlier bers of his party in both in the Lok Sabha and three ty to grant SCS to Andhra pal Yadav of the Samajwadi creased connectivity in the In maritime security, maritime ing the sea lanes open.
video where PM Modi is Houses of Parliament,” the in the Rajya Sabha. Pradesh. Party. doPacifi c,” the press release domain awareness and HADR The U.S. was represented in
addressing a crowd about said. (Humanitarian Assistance and Wednesday’s talks by Alice
lowering petrol and diesel It said the talks drew from Disaster Relief ),” the press re Wells, Principal Deputy Assis
Stalemate on in Parliament
prices. the guidelines laid out by the lease said. tant Secretary of State for
Foreign Ministers of the three The meeting is crucial as it South and Central Asian Af
2 jawans die in accident
nations who met in New York comes against the backdrop of fairs, and Susan Thornton,
during stone-throwing
SRINAGAR
on September 18, 2017, on the the ongoing trade war bet Acting Assistant Secretary of
Two CRPF jawans were sidelines of the United Nations ween China and the Trump State for East Asian and Pacif
mowed down by a Government, Opposition clash over technicalities of passage of antigraft Bill General Assembly session. administration that erupted ic Aff airs. “All sides agreed to
paramilitary force vehicle after both sides imposed ta remain engaged and streng
when its driver lost control
during stone-throwing in the
Hiller area of Kokernag in
Special Correspondent
New Delhi
The Rajya Sabha, after wit
NDA MPs to forgo pay dia and were mandated to
raise their issues. Soon after
he spoke, members from
Enhanced cooperation
“... the offi cials explored prac
tical steps to enhance cooper
riff s on each other’s goods.
Echoing India’s concern about
maintaining freedom of navi
then cooperation in support
for a free, open, prosperous,
peaceful and inclusive Indo
south Kashmir, the police said nessing 13 adjournments, Special Correspondent their salaries and other the TDP stormed into the ation in the areas of connec gation in the South China Sea Pacifi c region through part
on Wednesday. The incident was adjourned for the day NEW DELHI allowances for the 23 days Well of the House carrying tivity and infrastructure and the western Pacifi c nership with countries in the
took place when the CRPF on Wednesday evening af On a day that saw the Rajya Parliament was not allowed “Save Andhra Pradesh” pla development, counterprolif Ocean, the trilateral empha region,” the release said.
troops were withdrawing ter the government intro Sabha being adjourned 13 to function by the cards and demanded imple
after day-long law-and-order duced the Prevention of times, Parliamentary Aff airs Congress.” The Congress is mentation of the A.P. Reor
duty in the area. Corruption (Amendment) Minister Ananth Kumar said engaging in antidemocratic ganisation Act.
Bill, 2013 amid din. the NDA MPs would forgo politics by stalling “Narendra Modi is anti
Report on summoning of The government and the their salary this session. important Bills, leading to Dalit,” shouted Congress
editor, publisher sought
Opposition clashed over “It has been decided that criminal wastage of and BSP members.
NEW DELHI
technicalities of the passage NDA MPs will be giving up taxpayers’ money, he said.
The Press Council of India has
sought a report from the
of the Bill. As the voice vote Disruption in Lok Sabha
Arunachal Pradesh could not be completed, the Lok Sabha proceedings
government over reported Bill could not be passed. the Scheduled Tribes and morning and nine in the were disrupted for the 20th
summoning of the editor and Leader of the Opposition Scheduled Castes (Preven afternoon. consecutive day due to prot
publisher of an English daily Ghulam Nabi Azad said tion) Atrocities Act, consti At 2 p.m., when the ests by AIADMK members
by the Itanagar police while the government tution of the Cauvery Man House reconvened, Mr. seeking early constitution
regarding a complaint filed seemed keen on pushing agement Board and the Azad stressed that besides of the Cauvery Water Man
by a BJP leader. The reason the Bill, it did not show the bank scams. being responsible for the agement Board.
for filling the case is not same enthusiasm for dis The House witnessed passage of the Bills, MPs re The Speaker announced
known. PTI cussing other issues such as four adjournments in the presented the people of In adjournment for the day.
12 WORLD NOIDA/DELHI
ELSEWHERE
3 injured in YouTube HQ shooting Russia, U.K. trade
barbs at OPCW meet
Suspect, an Iranborn blogger, kills herself; she had accused the site of limiting views of her videos
Reuters cessful. Her family in South ‘Proposal for joint probe is perverse’
California ern California recently
An Iranianborn woman who reported her missing be Agence France-Presse ensure that this problem is
blogged about veganism had cause she had not been an The Hague solved within the (interna
railed online about dictator swering her phone for two Russia and Britain faced off tional) legal framework,”
Zuckerberg to testify in ship and accused YouTube of days, police said. on Wednesday, trading ac the Russian Embassy to the
Congress next week
limiting views of her videos At one point on Tuesday, cusations at a tense meeting Netherlands said in a tweet.
WASHINGTON
Facebook chief executive
before opening fi re at its Cali Mountain View, California, of the world’s chemical wea It added that it had won
Mark Zuckerberg will testify fornia corporate headquar police found her sleeping in pons watchdog, as Moscow backing from 14 other coun
in Congress next week over ters, wounding three people her car and called her family accused British and U.S. se tries on the OPCW’s govern
the hijacking of users’ and killing herself. to say everything was under cret services of being be ing executive council and its
personal data by political San Bruno police on Wed control, hours before she hind the poisoning of a Rus statement was “supported
consultancy Cambridge nesday were investigating walked onto the company sian former double agent. by solid facts by experts in
Analytica, a House committee why Nasim Najafi Aghdam, grounds and opened fi re. London slammed as “per this fi eld”.
announced on Wednesday. 39, of San Diego, opened fi re A survivor of the February verse” a Russian proposal But the British delegation
The hearing will be before with a handgun on Tuesday shooting at Marjory Stone for a joint probe into the to the OPCW said “Russia’s
the House Energy and at the company owned by Al man Douglas High School in poisoning of exspy Sergei proposal for a joint, U.K./
Commerce Committee. AFP phabet Inc’s Google. A re the Parkland, Florida, Skripal and his daughter Yu Russian investigation into
view of her postings online Gun violence: The YouTube offi ce in San Bruno, California; right, Nasim Najafi Aghdam, the weighed in on the YouTube lia with a nerve agent, dis the Salisbury incident is per
‘Sharif, Imran on Pak. in Persian and English alleged shooter AP, AFP * incident on Wednesday. missing it as a “diversionary verse. It is a diversionary
Taliban’s radar’ showed glimpses of resent “The YouTube HQ shoot tactic”. But Russian offi cials tactic.”
ISLAMABAD ment and anger at the video deleted on Tuesday. bruary. While mass shoot physical and psychological ing is proof that this is NOT hit back that accusations of The British defence labo
The TehreekeTaliban (TTP) sharing company. A man was in critical con ings have become a regular diseases. But I live on a pla just schools,” Jaclyn Corin Moscow engineering the at ratory analysing the nerve
Pakistan is biding its time to “BE AWARE! Dictator dition and two women were occurrence in the U.S., they net that is full of injustice said on Twitter on Wednes tack were a “grotesque pro agent revealed on Tuesday
target Nawaz Sharif, his ships exist in all countries. seriously wounded in the at are rarely carried out by and diseases.” day. “Our country has a GUN vocation... crudely concoct that it could not say whether
brother Shahbaz Sharif, Imran But with diff erent tactics. tack at an outdoor patio at women. Californian media report problem. End of story.” ed by the British and the substance came from
Khan and their families, a They care only for short YouTube’s Silicon Valley ed that Aghdam’s family had Gun rights advocates have American security Russia. Moscow hailed that
senior Interior Ministry term profi ts,” she wrote on a headquarters, which employ ‘Full of injustice’ warned authorities that she argued that more armed services”. as a vindication of its repeat
offi cial was quoted as saying website called NasimeSabz about 2,000 people. Police Writing in Persian on her In could target YouTube prior guards and citizens could ed denials of involvement.
by The News. PTI .com, which translates as said Aghdam seemed to have stagram account, Aghdam to the shooting. The San Jose prevent mass shootings. ‘Ready to cooperate’ Russia’s Ambassador to
”Green Breeze” from chosen victims at random. said she was born in the Ira Mercury News quoted her YouTube has long faced At a closeddoor meeting of the Netherlands and Deputy
Austria plans headscarf
Persian. The shooting came in the nian city of Urmiah and that father, Ismail Aghdam, as complaints about alleged the Organisation for the Pro Minister for Industry and
ban at primary schools
“I am being discriminat midst of a particularly in she was not planning to re saying he had told police that censorship on its site, and hibition of Chemical Wea Trade Georgy Kalamanov at
VIENNA
Austria’s government
ed. I am being fi ltered on tense phase of the U.S.’s long turn to Iran. she might go to YouTube’s says it attempts to balance its pons (OPCW) in The Hague, tended the OPCW meeting,
announced on Wednesday its YouTube. I am not the only running debate on gun “I think I am doing a great headquarters because she mission of fostering free convened at the request of along with British chemical
intention to bring in a ban on one,” Aghdam said in an En rights, following the killing job,” she wrote. “I have nev “hated” the company. speech while still providing Moscow, Russia insisted it weapons expert and acting
the headscarf for girls in glish language video on You of 17 students and educators er fallen in love and have Eff orts to reach her rela an appropriate and lawful was ready to cooperate. “We permanent representative
kindergartens and primary Tube before her channel was at a Florida high school in Fe never got married. I have no tives by phone were unsuc environment for users. consider this is necessary to to OPCW John Foggo.
schools. Education Minister
Heinz Fassmann said that the
draft law would be ready by
the summer. He called it a
“symbolic” act. AFP
China blasts tariff s Ranil wins noconfi dence vote in Parliament
About 80 bn barrels of Atul Aneja but on U.S. companies, Meera Srinivasan ties, including the Tamil Na vernment and the PM, in ment. TNA’s Jaff na MP M.A.
oil discovered: Bahrain
Beijing workers and farmers. The Colombo tional Alliance (TNA), backed particular, in a spot. Howev Sumanthiran raised pending
MANAMA China’s Finance Ministry on outcome of the situation will A majority of Sri Lankan le him and defeated the motion er, with UNP legislators even postwar concerns of Tamils,
Bahrain on Wednesday Wednesday said the U.S. de be decided by an interaction gislators backed Prime Mi with a clear majority. tually deciding to rally such as land rights, the re
announced its newly cision to impose tariff s on of both fronts in this battle,” nister Ranil Wickremesinghe Addressing the media in around their leader, and the lease of political prisoners
discovered shale oil reserve Chinese goods infringes on John Ross, senior fellow at on Wednesday, comfortably Parliament soon after the willingness of minority par and militarisation.
was estimated to contain its trade rights, The U.S. de the Chongyang Institute for defeating a noconfi dence vote, Mr. Wickremsinghe ties to back him, Mr. Wickre A call for the PM to expe
more than 80 billion barrels, cision “severely infringed Financial Studies, told The motion in Parliament against said that defeating the mo mesinghe won the trust vote, dite constitutional reform
making the oncemarginal oil on the legitimate rights and Hindu. him and his government. tion was not to protect an in ending fears among many in came from Finance Minister
producer potentially a major interests that China enjoys Wednesday’s measures Following a marathon 11 dividual but to protect “peo Sri Lanka and outside about and senior UNP fi gure Man
player in the market. Bahrain in accordance with World had a cascading impact on hour debate, 122 MPs in the ple’s victory”. He said he the government’s stability. gala Samaraweera, who
currently produces some Trade Organization rules, global markets, apprehend 225member House voted would soon meet Mr. Sirise urged Mr. Wickremesinghe
50,000 barrels per day of and threatened China’s eco ing a fullblown trade war. against the motion. Seventy na to convey that the man TNA supports PM to “table the draft constitu
crude oil from the Bahrain nomic interests and securi Hong Kong’s benchmark six MPs, including exPresi date they got from voters in Intervening in the debate tion as early as possible”.
Field, discovered in 1932. AFP Sri Lankan Prime Minister
ty”, the Ministry said in a Hang Seng Index closed dent Mahinda Rajapaksa, the 2015 presidential elec earlier, Leader of Opposition In a charged address,
statement after announcing down 2.2% on Wednesday. voted in its favour, while 26 tions should continue. Ranil Wickremesinghe. AFP *
R. Sampanthan said the mo Health Minister Rajitha Sena
IS militants reaffi rm retaliatory tariff s. Shares of Boeing, a major of them were absent. Signs of Mr. Wickremes tion was part of the JO’s plan ratne vowed swift legal ac
allegiance to Baghdadi China’s move could hit supplier of aircraft to China, inghe scraping a win other. A new party backed by to topple the government. tion on several highprofi le
BAGHDAD
U.S. President Donald dropped more than 5% dur A clear majority emerged on Tuesday but Mr. Rajapaksa made impres “They want to fi rst defeat the murders and disappearance
Islamic State (IS) militants
Trump’s base, particularly ing premarket trading in Hours before the vote, a parliamentarians were wary sive gains. PM, and the next target will cases — like those of senior
have restated their loyalty to
the farmers in Iowa, Ohio New York. group of nearly 15 govern of lastminute negotiations An emboldened Rajapak be the President. They want journalist Lasantha Wickre
the group’s leader Abu Bakr
alBaghdadi, in what is
and Michigan — the top Earlier, China on Monday ment MPs, including some given that the UNP and the sa camp, comprising some (the) government brought matunge; rugby star Wasim
believed to be their fi rst soyabeanproducing States. imposed levies on 128 U.S. Ministers from President SLFP, allies in the govern 50 MPs calling themselves down. We can’t allow our Thajudeen; and political car
public pledge of allegiance to The U.S. is the secondbig items, worth $3 billion, set Maithripala Sirisena’s faction ment, have been unable to ‘Joint Opposition’ ( JO), soon selves to be used for their toonist Prageeth Eknaligoda
him since his “caliphate” in gest supplier of soya beans ting the tone for a retaliato of the Sri Lanka Freedom reconcile their diff erences mooted the noconfi dence political objectives,” he said, — allegedly involving the
Syria and Iraq collapsed last to China, the world’s largest ry cycle of tariff s. This was Party (SLFP), declared their for months. motion that many in Mr. Siri suggesting that the TNA former fi rst family.
year. The group continues to consumer of the product. in response to the U.S. deci support for the motion. Ho This friction became more sena’s faction readily en would support him, as it sub It remains to be seen if the
carry out bombings, “In attempting to block sion to impose 25% duty on wever, MPs from Mr. Wickre pronounced after their de dorsed. This, coupled with sequently did. government initiates action
ambushes and assassinations China’s rise the Trump ad steel and aluminium pro mesinghe’s United National feat in local government an internal revolt in the UNP The debate also saw par against its Ministers and MPs
in both countries, as well as in ministration has launched ducts sourced from many Party (UNP) and almost all le polls in February, for which by those seeking drastic lea liamentarians point to the in who voted against the go
Libya. Reuters an attack not only on China countries, including China. gislators from minority par the partners blamed each dership reforms, put the go adequacies of the govern vernment on Wednesday.
Missing Bangladesh Hindu 139 Pak. entities, including
lawyer’s body found
Press Trust of India “Their confessional state
LeT, part of UN terror list
Dhaka ments led us to the dead bo Press Trust of India carrying out their opera Karachi, it added.
Bangladesh’s police on Wed dy from an under construc Islamabad tions, Dawn News reported. The LeT is listed with its
nesday recovered the blood tion building near The UN Security Council’s Hafi z Saeed is listed as a various aliases, such as Ja
stained body of prominent Bhowmik’s own house,” updated list of terrorists and person also wanted by Inter maatud Dawa and Falahe
Hindu lawyer Ratish Chan said Benazir Ahmed, Direc militant groups has 139 en pol for his involvement in Insaniat Foundation, the re
dra Bhowmik, who had tor General of police anti tries from Pakistan alone, in terrorist activities. port said.
gone missing last week after crime Rapid Action Batta cluding LashkareTaiba The terrorist entities that
he left home in the Rangpur lion, referring to Mr. Bhow (LeT), according to a media Dawood also included are allegedly based in Pakis
district. mik’s family. He added that report. The list also includes Da tan, have worked from there
The police also arrested the lawyer’s wife, a teacher, The list, headed by Osama wood Ibrahim, who, accord or had links to Pakistani indi
four persons, including his and one of her arrested col bin Laden’s heir apparent ing to the UN, has held sever viduals include JaisheMo
wife, suspecting their link to leagues, were directly in Ayman alZawahiri, identi al Pakistani passports issued hammed, LashkareJhangvi
the murder. volved in the murder. fi es all those individuals who in Rawalpindi and Karachi, and TehreekeTaliban Pakis
Mr. Bhowmik, 58, had Police said mobile phone have lived in Pakistan, oper the report said. tan. Some of them are listed
fought the state’s case in records gave them the clue ated from there or have been The UN claims that he as based in the Afghanistan
highprofi le murder trials to the murder leading to his associated with groups that owns a palatial bungalow in Pakistan border area, ac
against Islamist extremists. wife’s arrest. used Pakistani territory for the hilly area of Noorabad, cording to the report.
Israel arrests 10 Gazans over attack plans Korea meet
not to have
1 charged with involvement in terrorist activities; plan was to fi re on Israeli vessel talk on rights
Agence France-Presse expected new mass protests in a statement called the ar
Jerusalem along the Gaza Strip’s border rests “proof of the real inten Agence France-Presse
Israeli authorities said on with Israel on Friday. tions of terrorist organisa Seoul
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market watch
04-04-2018
Sensex dddddddddddddddddddddd 33,019 ddddddddddddd -1.05
% CHANGE Trade war concerns drag Sensex, Nifty Essar bid: Numetal,
US Dollar dddddddddddddddddddd 65.15 ddddddddddddd -0.22
Gold ddddddddddddddddddddddddddd 31,610 ddddddddddddddd0.00
Brent oil ddddddddddddddddddddd 67.49 ddddddddddddd -0.73
Beijing’s retaliation with 25% tariff on 106 U.S. products sees indices slipping up to 1.14%
ArcelorMittal want
NIFTY 50
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
MUMBAI
lost over 300 points in the
fi rst hour of the trading ses
During the day, it touched a
high of ₹ 462.70, before end
each other out
PRICE CHANGE Fresh concerns over a trade sion on Wednesday. ing the day at ₹ 445.05, 14.41%
Adani Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367.80. . . . . . . . . 1.40
Asian Paints. . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 1136.00. . . . . . -16.10 war between the U.S. and Among the Sensex pack, lower than its issue price. Bids to be opened after NCLT ruling
Axis Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492.25. . . . . . . . -9.30 China pushed world markets 25 declined with Yes Bank, Incidentally, market parti
Bajaj Auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2766.00. . . . . . -26.00 in a tailspin on Wednesday Kotak Mahindra Bank, L&T, cipants were expecting a Special Correspondent
Bajaj Finserv. . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 5228.55. . . -153.05 AHMEDABAD
Bajaj Finance . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 1850.20. . . . . . . 15.95 with the Indian benchmark Axis Bank and Tata Steel all weak listing for the company
Bharti Airtel . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 395.05. . . . . . . . -7.15 indices shedding more than losing more than 2% each. after the public issue was Two bidders for Essar Steel,
BPCL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414.95. . . . . . -11.30
1% each even after opening The overall breadth was was subscribed only 0.78 times. ArcelorMittal and Numetal,
Cipla . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569.80. . . . . . . . -0.50
Coal India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274.55. . . . . . . . -4.40 on a strong note. also weak with almost 1,500 However, most of the broker on Wednesday sought dis
Dr Reddys Lab . . . . . . . .. . . . 2091.40. . . . . . -33.50 Close on the heels of the stocks in the red as against ages had recommended sub qualifi cation of each other
Eicher Motors. . . . . . . . .. 28934.25. . . . . 944.25
U.S. announcing a 25% levy 1,157 gainers. scribing to the off er with a from the process to take
GAIL (India). . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 328.25. . . . . . . . -1.50
Grasim Ind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1059.35. . . . . . -28.55 on a long list of Chinese “longterm” investment control of Essar Steel, which
HCL Tech. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 959.25. . . . . . -10.00 goods, China retaliated in Investors cautious horizon. is under bankruptcy pro
HDFC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1803.30. . . . . . -22.40
quick time by imposing a Hesitant start: ICICI Securities’ shares dipped below the issue Shares of ICICI Securities The day also saw the list ceedings before the National
HDFC Bank. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1883.25. . . . . . -32.65
Hero MotoCorp . . . . . .. . . . 3667.15. . . . . . . 22.20 25% import tariff on 106 pro price on the fi rst day of listing. PAUL NORONHA
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made a weak debut on the ing of governmentowned Company Law Tribunal.
Hindalco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200.80. . . . . . . . -7.15 ducts from the U.S., which bourses on Wednesday, dip Mishra Dhatu Nigam, which The NCLT bench will con
HPCL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344.20. . . . . . . . -9.55
made world markets jittery points or 1.14% lower at Mutual Fund, while adding ping below the issue price on managed to close only mar tinue to hear the case on The aspirants are fi ghting to
Hind Unilever . . . . . . . . .. . . . 1357.45. . . . . . . . . 9.05
Indiabulls HFL . . . . . . . .. . . . 1291.80. . . . . . . . -7.40 with fears of a fullblown 10,128.40. that Indian indices mirrored the fi rst day of listing as in ginally above its issue price. Thursday and directed that wrest control of debtladen
ICICI Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268.65. . . . . . . . -1.40 trade war. “Investors grew wary of the overall global fall. vestors remained cautious On the NSE, it closed at no bid be opened till the tri Essar Steel.
IndusInd Bank . . . . . . . .. . . . 1799.35. . . . . . -30.35
The 30share Sensex, renewed trade war fears bet Elsewhere in Asia, Hang after the public issue of the ₹ 90.10, only a tad higher bunal decided on the mat
Bharti Infratel . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 336.95. . . . . . . . -2.20
Infosys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1124.20. . . . . . -16.25 which touched a high of ween the U.S. and China, Seng was down more than company had failed to get than its issue price of ₹ 90. ter. Both ArcelorMittal and not cleared it even in round
Indian OilCorp . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 171.15. . . . . . . . -3.00 33,505.53 during the day, and adopted a note of cau 650 points while South Ko fully subscribed. On the BSE, the company’s Numetal have challenged two bidding,” Mr. Rohtagi
ITC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258.60. . . . . . . . . 0.10 each other’s legitimacy in said.
Kotak Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1078.30. . . . . . -25.00 ended at 33019.07, down tion,” said Karthikraj Laksh rea’s Kospi and Taiwan’s On the BSE, the shares shares closed at ₹ 90, after
L&T . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1296.15. . . . . . -34.25 351.56 points or 1.05%. The manan, senior fund manag TSEC also ended in the red. opened at ₹ 431.10, much be touching a high of ₹ 90.90 participating in the second In a counter affi davit, the
Lupin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 775.20. . . . . . -13.30 broader Nifty closed 116.60 erEquities, BNP Paribas Incidentally, the Dow Jones low the issue price of ₹ 520. during the day. round of bidding held on ArcelorMittal group lawyer
M&M . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 756.55. . . . . . -13.55 April 2. Abhishek Manu Singhvi con
Maurti Suzuki . . . . . . . . .. . . . 9013.50. . . . . . -12.95
NTPC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166.55. . . . . . . . -2.80 Former Attorney General tended that Numetal was in
ONGC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175.40. . . . . . . . -2.10
PowerGrid Corp . . . . .. . . . . . 196.05. . . . . . . . -2.50
Reliance Ind . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 894.90. . . . . . . . -4.65
State Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247.30. . . . . . . . -3.20
India pips Japan, becomes second ‘Changes to
IBC to be
of India and senior counsel
Mukul Rohtagi, appearing
for Numetal, told the tribu
eligible to participate in the
bid despite making changes
in its shareholding pattern.
nal though the resolution One of the promoters of
largest manufacturer of crude steel
Sun Pharma . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 502.25. . . . . . . . -7.75
Tata Motors . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 355.60. . . . . . . 12.50
professional had disquali Aurora Enterprises (AEL)
Tata Steel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 560.55. . . . . . -19.15
TCS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2910.90. . . . . . . . -0.35
prospective’ fi ed ArcelorMittal from that held 25% in Numetal is
Tech Mahindra . . . . . . .. . . . . . 606.30. . . . . . . . -9.65 round one of bidding, there Rewant Ruia, son of Ravi
Titan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 904.35. . . . . . -27.60
UltraTech Cement . .. . . . 3881.30. . . . . . -69.90 Growth attributed to Centre’s steps to curb imports, ‘Make in India’, among others Press Trust of India
were stronger grounds to Ruia, who is one of the origi
UPL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 732.50. . . . . . -33.15 New Delhi
disqualify the fi rm from nal promoters of Essar
Vedanta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274.30. . . . . . . . -8.90 Press Trust of India and implement GST and in With a highlevel panel sug further participating in the Steel. This had led to dis
Wipro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281.60. . . . . . . . -2.30
YES Bank. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305.45. . . . . . . . -7.65
Mumbai frastructure projects, to en gesting a slew of changes to process. qualifi cation of Numetal in
Zee Entertainment . . . . . . 574.45. . . . . . . . -7.10 In a major achievement, In courage the domestic mar the insolvency law, Corpo He said that according to round one.
dia has overtaken Japan to ket.” rate Aff airs Secretary Injeti the Insolvency and Bank A senior offi cial in JSW
become the world’s second According to the World Srinivas said that the ruptcy Code, ArcelorMittal Steel had earlier confi rmed
EXCHANGE RATES largest producer of crude Steel Association, India pro could only participate in the to The Hindu that in round
amendments, as and when
Indicative direct rates in rupees a unit steel in February, according duced 8.4 MT of crude steel bid for Essar Steel after the two, JSW Steel had bought
except yen at 4 p.m. on April 04 implemented, would be
CURRENCY TT BUY TT SELL to the Steel Users Federation in February 2018, up 3.4% prospective in nature. promoters have paid off out Rewant Ruia’s stake in
US Dollar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 64.95. . . . . . . 65.27 of India (SUFI). At present, over February 2017. However, he indicated debt in fi rms such as Uttam the consortium before the
Euro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 79.78. . . . . . . 80.20 China is the largest producer Mr. Turakhia said the that revised bids which are Galva where insolvency pro second round of bidding.
British Pound . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 91.14. . . . . . . 91.60
Japanese Yen (100) . .. . 61.14. . . . . . . 61.44
of crude steel in the world, Steel Ministry was working submitted under the insol ceedings are under way. Russia’s VTB is the largest
Chinese Yuan . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 10.30. . . . . . . 10.35 accounting for more than proactively to prepare a vency resolution process shareholder in Numetal
Swiss Franc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 67.74. . . . . . . 68.08 50% of the production. road map to achieve 300 MT after the amendments are ‘Debt must be paid off ’ with about 40% stake.
Singapore Dollar . . . . . . .. . 49.40. . . . . . . 49.66
Canadian Dollar . . . . . . . . .. . 50.61. . . . . . . 50.86
India’s crude steel pro Past record: India overtook the U.S. in 2015 to become the by 2030. in force will have to follow Uttam Galva has bank debt Mr. Singhvi also said the
Malaysian Ringitt . . . . . .. . 16.78. . . . . . . 16.88 duction was up 4.4% and third largest producer of crude steel. AP * “In addition, quick resolu the new requirements. of about ₹ 6,000 crore. Arce earnest money deposited by
Source:Indian Bank stood at 93.11 million tonnes tion of various bigticket The 14member panel, lorMittal had earlier been Numetal in the initial bid
(MT) for the period April the world, SUFI said in a cies undertaken by the go steel mills under the Insol headed by Mr. Srinivas, has ‘declassifi ed’ as promoter of ding round was from AEL.
2017 to February 2018, com statement here. vernment, Nikunj Turakhia, vency and Bankruptcy Code recommended various the that company, as per a “The entire earnest money
BULLION RATES CHENNAI
pared with April 2016 to Fe India overtook the U.S. in president, SUFI said, “The and the National Company changes to the Insolvency stock exchange fi ling. deposit of ₹ 500 crore was
April 04 rates in rupees with previous
bruary 2017. This had helped 2015 to become the third lar government has taken a host Law Tribunal is expected to and Bankruptcy Code. He “They [ArcelorMittal pro funded by AEL and not by
rates in parentheses India to overtake Japan and gest producer of crude steel. of steps to curb imports, further hasten the process of was speaking on the side moters] did not pay [back the other shareholders/con
Retail Silver (1g) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41.5. . . . . . . (41.6) become the second largest Attributing the growth in push local demand with in achieving higher capacity lines of a conference or the] debt when they bid for stituents of Numetal,” he
22 ct gold (1 g) . .. . . . . . . . . . . . 2952. . . . . . (2938)
producer of crude steel in steel production to the poli itiatives like ‘Make in India’, utilisation,” he added. ganised by CII. round one and they have told the tribunal.
Call to privatise PSBs grows feeble
CBI lens on ICICI Bank shifts focus to governance issues at private sector banks
MANOJIT SAHA mentum after the then RBI usually reticent RBI Gover
Mumbai governor Raghuram Rajan nor Urjit Patel to say that the
Public sector banks, which constituted a committee un regulator was handicapped
were hammered in the stock der P.J. Nayak, which sub in regulating public sector
market and took a knock to mitted its report in May banks. Industry chambers
their reputation in the eyes 2014. Among other things, such as FICCI have demand
of the public after the $2bil the committee recommend ed the privatisation of these
lion PNB scam, are now ed the government should banks. Now, with the CBI in
heaving a sigh of relief. distance itself from boardle itiating a preliminary inquiry
This, after the focus shift vel appointments, including into a ₹ 3,250crore loan ex
ed to private sector banks on those of chief executives. tended by ICICI Bank to Vi
perceived lack of governance deocon Group, governance
and the CBI initiating a preli Chanda Kochhar NEWS ANALYSIS issues at private sector banks
minary inquiry on ICICI are in the limelight.
Bank over ‘confl ict of inter the recent reports specula This is yet to be imple ICICI Bank’s board has re
est’ charges. tive. These developments, mented as the Centre conti posed confi dence in its MD &
though not confi rmed, put nues to make appointments, CEO Chanda Kochhar and
Axis Bank’s travails the spotlight on the gover though the shortlisting and said there had been ‘mali
The focus is also on another nance issues in private sec selection process is conduct cious and unfounded ru
lender Axis Bank, the third tor banks, away from their ed by the Banks Board Bu mours casting insinuations
largest among private sector public sector counterparts. reau. The $2billion letters of on the bank’. Private sector
lenders, as there have been Governance reforms in undertaking fraud in Punjab banks have also revealed di
reports of the Reserve Bank staterun banks have been National Bank brought the is vergence in reporting bad
of India (RBI) asking the len discussed at length, the ur sue of governance reforms in loans in the last fi scal, which
der’s board to review its de gent need for which has not public sector banks under shot up after the RBI’s an
cision to extend Shikha Shar been denied by anyone, but focus. Investors lost a whop nual inspection, pointing to
ma’s tenure for the fourth not much has moved on the ping ₹ 16,000 crore since the the need for raising gover
time, from June 1, 2018. Ho ground. The need for re scam broke on February 14. nance standards in these en
wever, Axis Bank has termed forms in PSBs gained mo The fi asco prompted the tities as well.
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Jet to add 75 more Boeing 737s RINL eyes net profi t; U.P.
Deal estimated at $8.8 billion; Vistara gets another plane, can now fl y abroad plant to be ready in 2019
JAGRITI CHANDRA fl eet before being allowed to Steel major estimates 201718 revenue at ₹ 16,500 crore
NEW DELHI fl y international.
Jet Airways said on Wednes Special Correspondent player making long products
day that it had fi nalised a Increased frequency KOLKATA used in construction, manu
IndusInd Bank gets RBI deal for 75 narrowbody Boe “Vistara completes its initial Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd. facturing and infrastructure.
nod to buy IL&FS arm ing 737 MAX aircraft. The aircraft order as planned at (RINL), the corporate entity
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deal is estimated to be worth the early stages of setting up of Vishakhapatnam Steel Pact with Railways
Private lender IndusInd Bank about $8.8 billion. the airline. Vistara will use Plant aims to be back in the The fi rm had signed an
said it had received RBI’s The airline had earlier fi the new aircraft to increase black this fi scal, according to agreement with the Indian
approval to buy the nalised an order for 75 Boe frequencies on existing chairman and managing di Railways for setting up this
securities services arm of ing 737 MAX planes and routes to scale up operations rector P. Madhusudan. factory in 2013. The unit will
IL&FS. The deal size was, Wednesday’s announcement in the domestic market, After two consecutive make one lakh pieces of
however, not known. “The takes the total order to 150. while gearing up to start in years of losses, totalling wheels, 80% of which would
RBI has granted approval for The current listing price Big deal: The current listing price of a Boeing 737 MAX 8 ternational operations ₹ 2,600 crore since 201516, be sold to the Railways, Mr.
the proposed acquisition,” of a Boeing 737 MAX 8 air aircraft is $117.1 million. REUTERS*
soon,” said an offi cial state RINL earned cash profi ts in Madhusudhan said.
the bank said in a regulatory craft is $117.1 million, accord ment. It added that two the year ended March 2018. P. Madhusudan In its fi rst phase, the unit
fi ling. In March 2017, the ing to the Boeing website. “Our new order for the ad Boeing 737s and ATR 72s. more A320neo would be in The company had stabilised will produce wheels for loco
bank had entered into an Based on this rate, the ditional 75 Boeing 737 MAX Meanwhile, TataSinga ducted by June 2018 ena after completing a ₹ 16,300 tion since inception almost motives and highspeed
pact with Infrastructure cost of 75 such planes would aircraft will allow us to deliv pore Airline joint venture bling the airline to fl y over crore modernisation and a 35 years ago. trains. RINL has also signed
Leasing and Financial be about $8.8 billion. Boeing er a diff erentiated and world carrier Vistara on Wednes seas. Vistara CEO Leslie capacity augmentation plan. The unit entailed an of in one agreement each with
Services, the promoter of
had earlier said that it was class customer experience to day inducted its twentieth Thng had said earlier this The steel major will also vestment ₹ 1,600 crore, and Cement Corporation of In
IL&FS Securities Services, to
likely to commence delivery our guests,” Jet Airways said, aircraft, an Airbus A320neo, year that the airline planned commission its forged wheel is likely to add ₹ 560 crore to dia for setting up a 2 million
buy 100% stake in ISSL. PTI
of its 737 MAX aircraft to its quoting its CEO Vinay Dube. making it eligible to fl y on in to start international opera factory at Lalganj near Rae RINL’s annual revenue, tonne per annum (MTPA) fl y
Indian customers, Jet Air The airline has a fl eet of ternational routes. The 0/20 tions with fl ights to the Gulf Barelli in U.P. by early 2019, which is estimated at ash plant and with Kudre
Qatar-based Doha Bank ways and SpiceJet, in the 120 aircraft, comprising Boe rule mandates an airline to and SouthEast Asian regions marking its fi rst geographi ₹ 16,500 crore for 201718. mukh Iron Ore Corporation
opens branch in Chennai third quarter of this fi scal. ing 777300, Airbus A330s, have at least 20 aircraft in its in the second half of 2018. cal and product diversifi ca RINL is an integrated steel for a 1.2 MTPA pellet plant.
CHENNAI
Qatarbased Doha Bank
opened its fi rst branch in
Chennai, taking the total
number of branches in India Coal India registers 2.4% output Leyland to boost exports Nokia rolls
to three. It has branches in out 3 phones
Mumbai and Kochi. The
growth, 32.6 MT short of target in India
Chennai branch will assist the
bank’s growing customer
base in India with services,
Clocks up sales of 580.3 MT at growth rate of 6.8%
with left-hand drive LCVs Special Correspondent
including corporate banking,
NEW DELHI
retail banking, treasury,
trade fi nance and foreign Special Correspondent Nagpurbased Western To invest ₹ 400 cr. on premium product in new platform HMD Global, which de
exchange services along with KOLKATA Coalfi elds Ltd. achieved a signs and sells Nokia
corporate and SME products, Coal India Ltd. (CIL) closed low growth of 1.3% in 2017 N. Anand the forthcoming Dealers months. Till then, we will be phones, on Wednesday
CHENNAI
according to a statement. 201718 with an output of 18. CIL said that coal inven Global Conference.” rolling out new variants of rolled out three devices —
567.4 million tonnes, which tory stood at 55.5 million Commercial vehicle maker In the export market, existing Light Commercial Nokia 6, Nokia 7 Plus and
Vedanta can transport was 32.6 million tonnes tonnes against last year’s Ashok Leyland, the fl agship Ashok Leyland would com Vehicle (LCV) products such Nokia 8 Sirocco — priced
royalty-paid iron ore: SC short of the year’s target. 68.4 million tonnes. company of the Hinduja pete with auto majors such as DOST, MiTR and PARTN between ₹ 16,999 and
NEW DELHI The growth rate at 2.4 % was CIL’s capital expenditure group, will be entering the as Toyota’s Hino, Isuzu and ER. This year too, we will be ₹ 49,999.
The Supreme Court on lower than the 2.9 % clocked stood at ₹ 8,697 crore in 2017 Gulf Cooperation Council Mitsubishi’s Canter. All rolling out three new var “2017 was about bring
Wednesday allowed Vedanta in 201617. At least two coal 18 against ₹ 8,500 crore a (GCC), Russia and Ukraine these players control about iants on the existing plat ing the Nokia brand back
and some other fi rms to subsidiaries closed the year year ago. Five new projects with lefthand driven vehi 90% of market share. Be form,” he said. home. Nokia is a brand that
transport royaltypaid iron with a negative growth rate. ing to a regulatory fi ling with an annual capacity of cles soon to pep up exports sides, Ashok Leyland would has been loved by people
ore extracted and lying on Coal off take (i.e. coal made by the PSU. 23.36 million tonnes and a revenue, said a top offi cial. be investing about ₹ 400 2,00,000th LCV here and we want to conti
jetties in Goa on or before “Currently, we are doing crore for developing a pre Mr. Seth said that Ashok
sales) at 580.3 million The company said that its sanctioned capital of nue building on that,” HMD
March 15. In its February 7 exports of 5% and we plan mium and highly contem Leyland had achieved a ma
tonnes was higher than the power sector supplies rose ₹ 4,427.2 crore were ap Global VP India, Ajey Meh
judgment, the court had held
output, refl ecting a 6.8% by 7% to touch 454.3 million proved in 201718. to increase it to 15%,” said porary product on a new jor milestone by rolling out ta, said. The fi rm aims to
as illegal the renewal given
growth rate against 1.6% a tonnes. Three CIL subsidiaries — Nitin Seth, president, LCV platform, which would also the 2,00,000th LCV ‘DOST’ expand retail presence by
to the companies. The apex
year ago. However, this too Eastern Coalfi elds Ltd., Ashok Leyland. “Very soon, come out in electric from its Hosur Plant, which 1020% this year. “We have
court, in February, quashed
the second renewal of 88 was lower than the 600 mil Negative growth BCCL and WCL — were allot we will be entering Russia, version. was achieved in three years sold 70 million devices glo
iron ore mining leases and lion target for the year. This The coal companies with ne ted 11 new coal blocks, GCC and Ukraine with left “We have started to time. The rollout of the bally... and are reaching 80
asked the fi rms to stop all availability, achieved gative growth rates were which would enable each of hand driven trucks. These spend now. The delivery next 1,00,000 units would countries directly,” global
mining operations from through liquidation of inven Bharat Coking Coal Ltd. and them to produce 100 million trucks will be displayed at will happen in 1820 be much faster, he said. chief marketing offi cer Pek
March 16. PTI tories, was a record, accord Central Coalfi elds Ltd. tonnes annually. ka Rantala said.
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Kings XI Punjab looks capable of improving decadeold record
Should it fi nd the right ’keeper to do the job, the team has the potential to reach the playoff s
Rakesh Rao the bat made the owners re can help bring the desired
IPL COUNTDOWN tain him, is the other main balance to the playing XI.
Rich in experience
With skipper Ashwin al
ready talking about toying
with the possibility of mak
tion, could get everything Overall, the squad dis The squad is rich in expe ing the toporder batsmen
right except bidding success plays a good mix of toporder rience with Chris Gayle, bat in the middleorder and
fully for a batsmen and experienced Finch, Yuvraj Singh and Ma vice versa, there is already a
wicketkeeperbatsman! middleorder campaigners. noj Tiwary, along with Ash sense of curiosity around the
Kings XI Punjab could well The bowling department win, Tye and legspinner Par composition of the playing
pay the price for making eith looks adequate with pacers deep Sahu forming the “30+ XI, at least in the early part of
er K. L. Rahul or Aaron Finch and spinners off ering handy Club.” the league.
keep wickets. Helpless, the options to the management. If Gayle, at 38 years, is the Unlike all his predeces
team will now have to rely on This year, the team looks oldest member of the team, sors, Ashwin will be watched
capable of improving its de Afghanistan’s Mujeeb ur Rah with added interest to see
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ages clearly favours the big has often fallen short of liv the presence of Ashwin. mentor Virender Sehwag
man to come good. Searching ing up the expectations of its The exuberance of youth there to provide the neces
for form in recent weeks, Gayle fans. is provided Karnataka’s bat sary inputs, Ashwin will have
can come out fi ring in the elec With R. Ashwin making ting trio of Rahul, Mayank plenty to options to mull ov
tric ambience of the IPL. his debut as a captain, it will Agarwal and Karun Nair. Pac er before taking the fi nal call.
After going unsold twice, the be interesting to see how he ers like Mohit Sharma, Ankit Overall, the team’s
West Indian’s pride took a hit.
deals with the challenges in Rajpoot besides leftarmers strengths outweigh the
Given his character, Gayle will
try harder than ever to make
the shortest format of the Ben Dwarshuis and Barinder weaknesses. Should Kings
this opportunity count. If he game. Sran can complement Tye. fi nd the right ’keeper to do
Chris Gayle. fi res, Kings will rule. Axar Patel, whose leftarm Inclusion of batting all the job, it clearly has the po
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Opening Ceremony of the place with near perfection friendship.” the arrival of the Queen’s ba
XXI Commonwealth Games on a platform which never CGF president Louise Mar ton after its odyssey of 338
on Wednesday night was resembled a playfi eld. tin also refl ected on the im days.
painted with co As usual, the portance of the Common Sally Pearson was given
lour and gaiety whole show was di wealth and the inclusive the honour of handing it over
and well received vided into three nature of these Games as the to the CGF president, who in
by a packed parts — the opening participating teams trooped turn handed it over to Prince
house of 35,000 sequence marking in, behind their respective Charles who read out the
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billion television which was mostly ing them into the arena. Queen, “At the start of the
Adam Peaty pulls out viewers musical, the offi cial India was led by badmin Games, I have in my heart
of CWG 200m worldwide. sports protocol and ton star P.V. Sindhu with all the courage and determina
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Olympic breaststroke lasting well over again turned to be a in the new outfi t designed for part in this friendly Games,”
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chosen not to race in
showcased the and technology. pic Association. ment of the Games being de
Thursday’s 200 metres at the
Australian tradition and cul In between, there was also clared open.
Commonwealth Games to
ture in all its glory. Credit an attempt to bring in the New look: P.V. Sindhu leads the Indian contingent dressed in the special outfi t designed for the Loud cheers The night was to remain
focus on his specialist 100
should be given to its direc Australian society and its Games. PTI *
The loudest cheers, natural young for several minutes
and 50m events. The 23
yearold Englishman, who tor David Zolkwer, who had usual daytoday activities, as ly, was reserved for the Aus thereafter until the curtain
broke his own world record been at the helm of the Glas in the case of surfi ng, which on established lines and be address said, “These are rare vide one such chance to re tralians with everyone in the was brought down in front of
en route to winning 100m gow opener too. is popular in this part of the gan with the arrival of Prince opportunities to be so sym fl ect on the ideals and ambi stadium rising as one to wel an appreciable audience.
Olympic gold in Rio two years Zolkwer, known to use world. Charles, accompanied by bolically connected in this tions which bring us together come for the host
ago, defends his nontraditional ways to The sports protocol went wife Camilla, who in a brief way and these Games pro as one Commonwealth fami The CGF fl ag was solemnly
Commonwealth title in the
100m on Friday at the Gold
Coast meet. AFP
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‘Bowlers have to have a big heart’ Mahesh cautious
ahead of draw
Jayant Yadav says that T20 cricket gives
them equal opportunities India captain not for the tie
against China played outdoors
Uthra Ganesan you analyse the scenario.”
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Jayant has adapted to the Kamesh Srinivasan
NEW DELHI
DAVIS CUP
Jayant Yadav is an articulate team well. “I know it’s a new
Djokovic splits from young man who makes his season. New team. Fresh Taming the lion in its den ITF should be allowing this
Agassi, Stepanek point forcefully and with lot may be a tough proposition,
preparation. New coach. IPL tie to be played outdoors. It
BELGRADE but the Indian team has
of thought behind his rea is a tournament where coach is not healthy for anyone,”
Former World No. 1 Novak started battling the condi
soning. The off spinner is and captain matter a lot. said Mahesh.
Djokovic, struggling back tions while preparing for
known to absorb pressure Have to take on diff erent Hard courts must be quite
from a long injury layoff,
quickly and get down to the teams, diff erent composi the Asia Oceania Davis Cup familiar to everyone, but
confirmed on Wednesday
business of foxing batsmen tions. Going into every tie against China to be Mahesh pointed out that the
that he had split with his
swiftly. match is a diff erent chal played on April 6 and 7. courts in Tianjin were a bit
coaches Andre Agassi and
Radek Stepanek. As a spinner, he is expect lenge. Whatever chances I From the time the fi rst diff erent.
The 12time Grand Slam ed to contain batsmen. A get, I would like to give per batch of the team assembled “The court is slow and
winner lost his opening game wicket or two can be a bonus formances that have an in Tianjin on Saturday, to low bouncing, in general.
at the ATP Miami Masters last on placid pitches. Does he impact.” the arrival of Ramkumar Ra But, the balls are moving
month, the latest setback for feel the pressure when pitch Enjoying his stint with manathan and Sumit Nagal through the air. The boys
the Serbian star. forked into a challenging sit Australian coach Ricky Pont on the fi rst two days of this are used to playing on hard
AFP week, the major challenge
uation? ing, who does not mind ex courts,” said Mahesh.
“Not necessarily. It de plaining the same issue fi ve has been the cold weather, The focus may be on the
pends on the individual per times, Jayant said, “I just apart from accommodation four singles rubbers, but
se. Bowlers have to have a ve want to play quality cricket. and food. with Bopanna and Leander
ry big heart in IPL or T20 If the comeback (to the In On the eve of the draw, Paes, jumping into the fi ght
cricket. It all depends on dian team) happens it would the Indian team captain and together, doubles could be a
how you handle your spot in be a byproduct of those multiple Grand Slam cham real cracker. “We have no is
the team,” said the Delhi Da good performances. pion Mahesh Bhupathi sues. Practice has been
redevils allrounder here on threw some light on the sit good every day. Doubles is
“Playing a good holistic
Wednesday. uation and the challenge the one point that I think we
game is what I am looking
ahead. can bank on, at this stage,”
Himanta Biswa Sarma “It is a batsman’s game forward to.”
elected BAI president but it also gives equal oppor On the Daredevils team, said Mahesh.
Brutal conditions The draw will be made on
NEW DELHI tunity to the bowler to take a he added, “We are a good “The conditions are pretty Thursday. The fi rst day will
Assam minister Himanta wicket and have an impact. It team. On paper we have co
Biswa Sarma was on Tuesday
brutal. The evening session feature two singles, and Sa
is rare in T20 cricket to see a vered all over bases but you
unanimously elected the had to be moved indoors turday will have the doubles
fi vewicket haul. don’t play cricket on paper.
Badminton Association of since it was snowing on the and two reverse singles. All
“Even the one important We will strive and take one court. It is extremely cold.
India (BAI) president during
wicket can make the diff e game at a time and play good the matches will be in the
Aiming high: Jayant Yadav feels that while Delhi Daredevils is strong on paper, it will need to Honestly, I don’t think the
its annual general body bestofthree sets format.
rence. It depends on how cricket.” perform well on the fi eld to make a fi ght of it in the IPL. SPORTZPICS / IPL *
meeting in Goa. Ajay Kumar
Singhania was elected the
secretarygeneral while
former Tamil Nadu
Badminton Association BFC looks to regain Sethu enters Sampdoria capitalises on Atalanta’s errors
president Anbumani last four
Ramadoss was elected
treasurer. All the executive
momentum vs Aizawl Shillong: Sabina Khatun’s SERIE-A
noa ahead with a header
early in the second half and
committee members were brace helped Sethu (Madu Agencies Nicola Barella equalised with
also elected unanimously. IANS decorated team from the rai) defeat India Rush Socc a penalty.
AFC CUP NorthEast which remained er Club (Mumbai) 32 and
Rome
In a match featuring two It was the sixth goal this
Haryana Cricket Academy mediocre this season. clubs within striking dis
posts win Amitabha Das Sharma book a semifi nal spot in the season for the 21yearold Ba
GUWAHATI Hero Indian women’s tance of the Europa League rella, making him the youn
NEW DELHI
Hectic schedule league here on Wednesday. places, Sampdoria won 21 at gest midfi elder to score
A matchwinning seventh Bengaluru FC looks to cast
wicket partnership of 118 runs The schedule had been It was the third consecu Atalanta by taking advantage more than fi ve goals in Eu
aside the disappointment of quite hectic for Bengaluru tive win for Sethu in four of two defensive errors.
between Harshit Kaushik (75) losing the ISL crown and rope’s fi ve major leagues this
and Shamsher Yadav (67) and FC as the scene shifted to games. Gianluca Caprari scored season.
resume its journey in the the Super Cup after the ISL. Sabina scored the equal after defender Rafael Toloi
a fine spell by seamer The results: Serie A: Genoa 2
continental scene, looking The Blues have been able iser after India Rush Soccer slipped on the rainslickened
Mandeep Boora (four for 29) (Lapadula 53, Medeiros 90) bt
for its second win in the AFC get over the disappointment Club took the lead through pitch. Then after Toloi’s Winner: Duvan Zapata, left, scores in the 84th minute to seal
helped Haryana CA beat Rann Cagliari 1 (Barella 62pen).
Star CA by 50 runs and enter
Cup, when it takes on Ai of the ISL fi asco by winning Samiksha. equaliser, Duvan Zapata ran the issue for Sampdoria. AP *
Atalanta 1 (Toloi 67) lost to
the prequarterfinals of the zawl FC here at the Indira the Super Cup fi xture Sethu skipper Indu onto an errant back pass by Sampdoria 2 (Caprari 43, Zapa
28th allIndia Volga Om Nath Gandhi Stadium on Thurs against ILeague laggard mathi, who was adjudged Nicolas Haas and scored his points. Genoa beat relega loan from Sporting Lisbon, ta 84).
Sood Memorial cricket day. The twotime ILeague Gokulam FC. the player of the match, 10th of the season. tionthreatened Cagliari 21 scored with an expert con Udinese 0 lost to Fiorentina
tournament on Wednesday. champion and the 2016 AFC Spanish coach Albert Ro put the Madurai outfi t Atalanta, Fiorentina and with a lastminute goal from trol and curving shot. Gian 2 (Veretout 29pen, Simeone
The scores: HCA 262 for nine Cup fi nalist missed out on ca, who is spending his se ahead before India Rush Sampdoria are level on Iuri Medeiros. Medeiros on luca Lapadula had put Ge 71).
in 40 overs (Harhsit Kaushik the ISL title in the playoff fi cond season with Bengaluru Soccer Club levelled
75, Shamsher Yadav 67, nal despite remaining the FC, felt the hardearned win through Nisha.
Hitesh Gemini 34) bt Rann most successful team in the
Star CC 212 in 39.1 overs would help the team get ov Both teams were locked
league stage. er the ISL setback and re 22 at half time.
(Pratham Singh 47, Yash
Sehrawat 35, Rahul Chopra It will be looking to renew new its ambitions for the Sabina’s winner late in
33, Mandeep Boora four for its quest for the continental next objectives — Super Cup the second half sealed the
29). crown taking on the most and AFC Cup. deal for Sethu.
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Melting hearts
took in more oxygen’
stolen idols to Nepal Nasal passages were bigger: study
Agence France-Presse
Private collectors said to have smuggled the statues Paris
ti — were stolen in the 1980s international research team
when rampant looting saw found very diff erent breath their stocky bodies and
many important artefacts ing adaptations. hunting lifestyle. Neander
Lifelike act: Fans and museum staff pose with the wax fi gure of Bollywood star Shah Rukh whisked out of Nepal and in Home again: A 11th century carving of Shiva and, right, a Computerised “fl uid dy thals were thought to have
Khan unveiled at Madame Tussauds Delhi on Wednesday. PTI * to the hands of private 700yearold statue of Buddha. AFP* namics” revealed that the required as much as 4,480
collectors. shape of Neanderthal and calories per day to keep
“The government was un Buddha — estimated to be of theft from the 1960s to human faces “condition air them alive in the European
BAFTA nomination for Anupam Kher aware of the whereabouts of
the statues until historian
around 700 years old — was
donated by a private collec
1980s.
Natural disasters and un
more effi ciently” than H.
heidelbergensis, suggesting
winter. For a modern hu
man male, 2,500 daily calo
Press Trust of India Also starring Sacha Dha Lain Singh Bangdel men tor in 2015. checked development also that “both evolved to better ries are recommended.
London
wan and Deepti Naval, it fol tioned [in a book] that the The two statues were re encroached on ancient sites. withstand cold and/or dry A highcalorie intake re
Veteran actor Anupam Kher lows a boy growing up in statues were on display at moved from display after the A devastating earthquake climates,” scientists wrote in quires more oxygen to burn
has secured a nomination in Wolverhampton in a tradi the Metropolitan Museum of Met learned they were sto in April 2015 caused exten the journal Proceedings of the sugars, fats and proteins
the Best Supporting Actor tional Punjabi family. Kher Art in New York,” Shyam len, local media reported. sive damage in the Kathman the Royal Society B. in our cells to produce ener
category at the British Aca and Naval plays the parents Sundar Rajbanshi of Nepal’s The statues will now be du Valley, home to hundreds Neanderthals could also gy. The researchers said,
demy Television Awards of the protagonist. Department of Archaeology showcased at the National of sacred Buddhist and Hin move “considerably more” “Where the Neanderthal
2018 for his role in the dra “Thank you @BAFTA for said. Museum of Nepal in the cap du sites. The U.N.’s cultural air through their nasal cavi really excelled is in its ability
ma The Boy with the Top- the nomination. I feel ho The 11th century Shiva sta ital Kathmandu, Mr. Rajban agency UNESCO has warned ty than could H. heidelber- to move large volumes of air
knot. The show, which aired claimed memoir of the same noured and humbled. ‘The tue, known as the Uma Ma shi confi rmed. that if not conserved, those gensis or modern humans — through its nasal passage,
on BBC Two last year, is name by U.K. journalist Boy With The Topknot’,” Mr. heshwar idol, was given to Nepal’s rich cultural herit sites could lose their world possibly in response to high indicating a very highener
based on a critically ac Sathnam Sanghera. Kher tweeted. the Met in 1983 while the age was ravaged by decades heritage status. er energy requirements for gy lifestyle.”
Even monkeys
use a ‘spa’ to relax
Agence France-Presse
Oslo
A relaxing soak in a hot tub is
a timehonoured stress reliev
er but the advantages are not
confi ned to humans — with
monkeys also benefi ting from
spa time, researchers said.
Japan’s “snow monkeys”
are known for their love of hot
springs in the country’s north Japanese macaques taking a
ern Nagano region, with tou hot spring bath. AFP *
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IN BRIEF
L-G derailed and delayed Will move court for more
funds from Centre: Kejriwal
proposals, says AAP govt Additional funds will be split with corporations, says CM
‘Outcome report’ on LG offi ce says ‘fi les on transferred subjects were returned’
Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter New Delhi
Deliberate attempt
Surgery helps reshape New Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejri
skull of 22-year-old
to mislead: Raj Niwas
In a fi rst, the Aam Aadmi wal on Wednesday said that
NEW DELHI
NEW DELHI Party (AAP) government on the Delhi government will
Doctors at Sir Ganga Ram When asked for a reaction on
Wednesday presented an the ‘outcome report’ of the
move court seeking greater
Hospital have used the “outcome report” on the of share of funding from the
groundbreaking ‘balloon LG, which was tabled in the
fi ce of LieutenantGovernor Delhi Assembly on Wednesday, Centre and added that it
tissue expander’ technique to
cover up a cavity in the skull
Anil Baijal in the Delhi As Raj Niwas said it was aware of would split the additional
of 22yearold Ramesh, who sembly, which concluded the report and would take a funds halfway with the cash
suff ered serious head injuries that Raj Niwas had “de day’s time to respond to it. strapped municipal corpora
in an accident two years ago. layed” and “derailed” many A senior official said, “This tions.
of its proposals. office has learnt through the Speaking in the Delhi As
CITY A PAGE 4
DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD The report, presented by media about circulation of an sembly, Mr. Kejriwal said: Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal addresses the Delhi Assembly
Finance Minister Manish Si LG’s outcome report. The “Delhi’s people pay ₹ 1.5 lakh on Wednesday. SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
*
Fallen mobile phone sodia, during the ongoing report prima facie appears to crore in income tax. But,
helps crack case in hours Budget session of the As contain incorrect facts in a when it comes to the the Delhi government got have been demanding ar
NEW DELHI
sembly said that the offi ce of deliberate attempt to mislead. Centre’s new Finance Com more funds, it would split it rears for those who have
A mobile phone that fell from the LG had not been sub A detailed factual response on mission, Delhi’s name is not with the municipal corpora been regularised. Mr. Kejri
a robber’s pocket during the this report shall be given on
ject to any kind of scrutiny, in the list of States.” tions. wal said that the Delhi Deve
theft of ₹ 18 lakh in Chandni Thursday.” STAFF REPORTER
like elected representatives AAP MLAs hold a demonstration seeking the LG’s resignation, “We will go to the Su Referring to the hunger lopment Authority had
Chowk on Tuesday evening
and offi cers were. outside the Delhi Assembly on Wednesday. SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT *
preme Court,” he added. strike by some municipal ₹ 21,000 crore in deposits
helped the Delhi Police crack
the case in a matter of hours,
“The questions asked of Mr. Kejriwal said that for corporation sanitation work and could give the municipal
the police said on Wednesday. the elected government a matter to the President if ment almost four months to of positions” in the govern releasing funds, Delhi was ers, which completed 16 corporations the interest it
must extend to the Hon’ble there was a “substantive dif table the proposal before ment that were vacant and not being treated as a State days on Wednesday, Mr. Kej earns on the amount in or
CITY A PAGE 3
DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
LG as well (sic),” the report ference of opinion” with the the Cabinet again, the re since services were under or a Union Territory (UT). riwal said he has requested der to meet payments.
said. Council of Ministers. port said. the control of the LG, it was “If it was a UT, then the them to end it. Earlier, Leader of Opposi
Inspect Haksar Haveli, Reading the report, Mr. By not sending the matter his responsibility to fi ll Centre should give the entire tion Vijender Gupta said the
HC directs authorities Sisodia said the LG had to the President and instead Vacant posts these. For instance, there Budget (₹ 52,000 crore in ‘Regularise workers’ workers’ “demands were
NEW DELHI been returning fi les pertain sending it back to the State “There appears to be a nice are 66,128 posts for teach 201819), otherwise, Delhi He gave directions to Urban justifi ed” and that a total of
The Delhi High Court on ing to transferred subjects, government or the Centre, symphony between the ers, but only 34,211 posts are should be included in the list Development Minister Sa ₹ 765 crore was needed by
Wednesday ordered an which the State government the LG had been delaying Hon’ble LG and the bu fi lled. of States under the 15th Fi tyendar Jain to convey to the the corporations.
inspection of Haksar Haveli,
and not the LG controls, to proposals, the report said. reaucracy, over whom he “If the departments are nance Commission, Mr. Kej municipal corporations, He asked the government
the centuriesold heritage
diff erent Delhi government For example, after the enjoys complete control to so severely understaff ed in riwal said. through the Director of Lo to release the fi rst quarter
building in Old Delhi where
India’s fi rst Prime Minister departments or forwarding LG asked for a clarifi cation the exclusion of the elected the Hon’ble LG’s watch, With reference to the cal Bodies, to regularise all payment of the corporations
Jawaharlal Nehru got married them to Central ministries. in the matter of giving the government [sic],” the re how can one expect the municipal corporations, contract sanitation workers, early and asked the Chief Mi
to Kamala Nehru Referring to Article 239 AA midday meal contract to the port said. work directed by the go which have been unable to which is one of the demands nister to hold a meeting with
CITY A PAGE 4
of the Constitution, the re Akshay Patra Foundation, it In addition, the report vernment to be complet pay salaries and arrears on of the agitating employees. municipal offi cers and staff
DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD port said the LG could refer took the Education Depart said there were “thousands ed?,” the report said. time, Mr. Kejriwal said that if In addition, the workers to resolve the issue.
A doctor at Bara Hindu Rao
Petition by an NGO has accused companies like Adani and Essar of irregularities Inquiry fi nds he tampered with documents to cover up fault Hospital has been arrested
for allegedly raping a 23
Staff Reporter rious authorities, the DRI such as Adani and Essar had Staff Reporter source at AIIMS said. yearold intern doctor in
New Delhi had stated: “While Indone setup their own related New Delhi “The patient and the at side the hospital premises
The Delhi High Court on sian Coal was directly companies to indulge in In a shocking case of medi tendants were counselled re on Tuesday night, the pol
Wednesday issued a notice shipped from Indonesian huge overinvoicing in the cal negligence, a senior doc garding the adverse event ice said on Wednesday.
to the CBI on a petition seek ports to importers in India, purchase of powerequip tor at All India Institute of and a corrective procedure The police said the vic
ing a probe into the alleged the import invoices were ment in order to siphon out Medical Sciences allegedly was done the next day,” the tim alleged that Dr. Gur
overinvoicing of equipment routed through one of more money from the companies performed a procedure re preliminary inquiry report deep Singh, who works in
and fuel imported for power intermediaries based in Sin to their own entities regis quired for dialysis treatment read, adding: “A wrong sur the medicines department,
plants by electricity generat gapore, Dubai, Hong Kong, tered in tax havens,” the pe on a 30yearold woman gery was performed, which had called her to the duty
ing companies. British Virgin Islands (U.K.) tition alleged. who had complained of ab AIIMS has formed a panel to has not been documented in room on the pretext of hav
The petition by NGO etc for the purpose of artifi dominal pain. He then alleg probe the incident. FILE *
the patient records but was ing dinner on Tuesday.
Centre for Public Interest Li cially infl ating its value.” Higher tariff edly tampered with docu mentioned in the nursing re Initially, she ignored the
tigation (CPIL) has accused The DRI told the court “Most of these instances of ments to cover up his fault. dominal exam under local port book”. request but when the doc
several fi rms, including that pursuant to investiga overinvoicing have been re The institute said that pri anaesthesia on February 7. The incident was report tor insisted, she joined
those belonging to the Adani tion against the companies ported from the power sec ma facie it seems to be a case ed to the unit head, Dr. Sunil him. She claimed that the
Group and Essar Group, of mentioned in the petition, tor, the impact of which is of “lack of clear coordina Nursing report Chumber, who ordered an doctor was in an inebriated
overinvoicing of power (MMTC) in connection with show cause notices were is felt by millions of electricity tion and negligence”. The nursing report recorded inquiry, which found that state and he locked the
equipment. It also alleged alleged overinvoicing of coal sued and thereafter, the ad consumers in the form of A committee has been that the doctor, who was the doctor had performed a room and raped her.
that several other private imports. judication of the cases are at higher tariff ,” the petition formed under the chairman told that the patient had ‘wrong surgery and had “The woman stays in a
companies overinvoiced diff erent stages. said. ship of Dean Dr. Y. K. Gupta complained of abdominal tried to cover up the inci PG accommodation near
coal imports. Alert by the DRI Advocate Prashant Bhush The petition also claimed to probe the incident. pain, made an arteriovenous dent by changing the docu the hospital while the doc
A Bench of Justice S. Ra The Bench also asked the an, appearing for the NGO, that the CBI had registered a Rekha Devi, a resident of (AV) fi stula, a standard vas ments’, the source said. tor stays on the hospital
vindra Bhat and Justice A. K. agency about the steps it has claimed that the scam un Preliminary Enquiry (PE) Saharsa in Bihar, had come cular procedure used to ac Another inquiry ordered premises,” said a police of
Chawla also asked the CBI to taken on the alert issued by earthed by the DRI discloses based on the DRI show cause to AIIMS for treatment of a cess blood for hemodialysis by medical superintendent fi cial. Medical examination
fi le the status of the FIR re the Directorate of Revenue several private companies notice to Adani in May 2014. complication caused by an treatment in patients with Dr. D. K. Sharma also indict of the victim has confi rmed
gistered by it against State Intelligence (DRI) naming 40 have siphoned off several However, the CBI closed the abdominal surgery she had chronic kidney disease. ed the doctor and suggested assault, said the police.
run entities: National Ther companies, which allegedly thousand crores of rupees PE without registering an undergone at a hospital in After the procedure, a withdrawing the assistant An FIR has been fi led
mal Power Corporation was indulging in overvalua abroad. FIR during the tenure of her home town. At AIIMS, talk with the patient re professor ‘from all clinical and a probe has been in
(NTPC) and Metals and Min tion of coal imports. “The DRI had found that then CBI Director Ranjit Sin she was taken to the minor vealed that she did not suff er work’, added the source. itiated, said a senior police
erals Trading Corporation In its alert issued to va various power companies ha, the PIL alleged. operation theatre for an ab from any kidney ailment, a (With PTI inputs) offi cial.
2 CITY NOIDA/DELHI
IN BRIEF
HC seeks ICMR help to control Gurugram
civic body
‘Ration scam’ under
AAP govt, alleges BJP
monkey menace in Capital seals illegal
meat shops Dares govt to go for independent probe
Delhi Congress protests
Asks for report from govt on formation of panel to examine contraceptive vaccine Staff Reporter Staff Reporter planning to send to the Cen
GURUGRAM New Delhi tral Bureau of Investigation
‘dilution’ of SC/ST Act
NEW DELHI
Staff Reporter they have contracted out to Twentyfour illegal meat The BJP on Wednesday al matters of corruption
New Delhi NGOs for sterilisation of shops were sealed by the leged a “ration scam” simi fl agged by the CAG report
The Delhi Congress, led by its
president Ajay Maken, on The Delhi High Court on canines. Municipal Corporation of lar to the “fodder scam” in and the BJP, too, wanted
Wednesday staged a protest Wednesday sought the assis Gurugram (MCG) on Wed Bihar had been perpetrated that the matter be probed
on Parliament Street here tance of the Indian Council Sterilisation process nesday across the city. in the Capital under the by an independent agency,
against the “failure” of the of Medical Research (ICMR) Animal rights activist Gauri The shops sealed by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) go he stated.
Modi government in for controlling the popula Maulekhi contended that the MCG included eight in Fi vernment and dared it to go BJP leaders including Del
preventing the alleged tion of monkeys in the sterilisation process was not roz Gandhi Colony, four for an independent probe hi MPs Meenakshi Lekhi,
dilution of the SC/ST Capital. being conducted properly. shops in Laxman Vihar and into it. Pravesh Verma and Ramesh
(Prevention of Atrocities) Act A Bench of Acting Chief Observing that there has fi ve in Sector 39. Citing the fi ndings of the Bidhuri too attacked the
through a SC order. PTI Justice Gita Mittal and Justice been no eff ective result on Comptroller and Auditor AAP government saying that
C. Hari Shankar asked for a dog’s population, the court On Khattar’s orders General (CAG) report which it was trying to save itself by
HC imposes fine on
report from ICMR, the apex called for videographing the The action against the ille was tabled in the Delhi As attacking the LG over door
JNU assistant professor
NEW DELHI
body in India for formula sterilisation process. gal meat shops was initiat sembly on Tuesday, Delhi step delivery system.
The Delhi HC has imposed a tion, coordination and pro The court also formed a ed following directions by BJP president Manoj Tiwari Sharing an extract from
cost of ₹ 25,000 on JNU motion of biomedical re committee to check on the Haryana Chief Minister Ma alleged that ration for the the CAG report highlighting
Assistant Professor Gous search, on a study on the eff ectiveness of birth control nohar Lal Khattar during poor was diverted to the ra various loopholes, CM Ar
Mashkoor Khan for issue of controlling the birth measures. public grievances meeting tion mafi a. He also an vind Kejriwal had tweeted,
repeatedly seeking time to rate of monkeys. The court had earlier di on March 31. nounced that the party “This is what LG trying to
file his response to a plea The court also sought a re rected the Wildlife Institute would stage a demonstra protect when he rejects
challenging his appointment port from the Centre on con of India to expedite the con Notices issued tion on the issue at the As doorstep delivery of rations.
for alleged plagiarism. The stitution of a highlevel com clusion of the National Insti In the wake of the direc sembly on Thursday. The entire ration system is
court gave him a last chance mittee to examine the issue tute of Immunology’s (NII) tions from Mr. Khattar, the in the grip of mafi a protect
to file his response. PTI of safety, security and effi ca Population explosion: The HC has asked for a report from the project to research and deve Municipal Corporation of Diverted to ration mafi a ed by political masters.
cy of immunecontraception Indian Council of Medical Research. SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA
*
lop an immunecontracep Gurugram sent notices to “Like chara ghotala in Bi Doorstep delivery would
Why no civic amenities in
vaccine to control the popu tion vaccine to control the illegal shops to down their har, Delhi is witnessing a ra have destroyed this mafi a.”
Sainik Farms, asks HC
lation of monkeys in Delhi. in Tamil Nadu monkeys were menace of monkeys and population of monkeys in shutters within two days or tion scam as the CAG report The Opposition alleged
NEW DELHI
The Delhi HC on Wednesday
Additional Solicitor Gen spreading an infection in hu dogs here, said it has been 17 the Capital. face action. points. Motorcycles and that doorstep delivery, if im
asked the AAP government eral Maninder Kaur Acharya mans which was dangerous. years she has been fi ghting The court had remarked The MCG enforcement scooters were used for tran plemented, would promote
and the south civic body why told the court that a proposal for this cause and the go that many of the 20,000 si teams led by medical offi c sporting ration which was more irregularities in distri
no amenities were provided has been moved for forming A 17yearold fi ght vernment has not done mians relocated to Asola er Ashish Singla sealed the diverted to ration mafi a in bution of ration.
at properties of retired Army a committee to examine the Advocate Meera Bhatia, who anything. Bhatti Wildlife Sanctuary shops during the daylong stead of poor people,” Mr. The CAG audit report for
personnel living in Sainik issue of the contraceptive had fi led the petition in pu On the issue of menace of near Tughlaqabad in Delhi action. Tiwari said at a press confe 201617, pointed out many
Farms whereas such facilities vaccine. The Bench, which blic interest in 2001 seeking dogs in south Delhi, the have escaped to surrounding Several shopkeepers, rence. “lapses” by the Food and Ci
were being given to observed it was concerned directions to the authorities court was informed by the area leading to complaint however, shut down the It has been reported that vil Supplies Department of
unauthorised colonies. PTI for human safety, noted that to take steps to deal with the municipal corporation that from the residents. shops on their own. the Kejriwal government is Delhi government.
DoE for holistic development JNUSU petitions Lok Sabha over reservation policy
of government school students vation policy in JNU”. constituted by the varsity in tions (Reservation in Admis for the admission to the PhD,
Staff Reporter
NEW DELHI In the petition, the JNUSU 2016 to study discrimination sions) Act 2006 and SC/ST and MPhil/PhD programmes
The Jawaharlal Nehru Un said, “Clauses in the Admis in the admission process re Atrocities Act 1989 and of JNU and to protect the
iversity Students Union sion Policy and Procedure commended reduction of vi urged the committee to in rights of candidates belong
Private academies, NGOs to provide free training to students ( JNUSU) on Wednesday sub 201819 [Annexure 1] has va marks from 30 to 15 to mi tervene and restore the ing to the SC/ST/OBC/PWD
mitted a letter to the Chair made written examination a tigate the discrimination policy. categories in compliance to
Staff Reporter training. “Under this while announcing the man, Committee on Peti qualifying paper and viva is pattern. The JNUSU alleged “We urge the Petition the Central Education Insti
NEW DELHI scheme, only minimum bas scheme. tions of Lok Sabha through the sole criteria for selec that the university has violat Committee to prevail upon tutions (Reservation in Ad
To provide “holistic” deve ic infrastructure available in CPI(M) MP Jitendra Choud tion.” ed fundamental rights, the the ViceChancellor to res missions) Act 2006,” the stu
lopment of children study schools will be provided to Explore abilities hury on “violation of reser It added that a committee Central Education Institu tore the reservation policy dents wrote in the letter.
ing in government schools, the selected private players It added that the objective of
the Directorate of Education and on the condition that the scheme to provide all
(DoE) has decided to involve there will not be any deface round growth that can be
private academies, indivi ment, damage or alteration achieved only if the child is
duals and NGOs through a in the property of the given plenty of exposure so
scheme in which they will school. Otherwise they will that he/she can explore and
teach dance, music, theatre, have to pay recoveries for realise his/her innate incli
fi ne arts and crafts to the losses,” said the DoE. nation and abilities.
students. “Each child has the poten “Imparting of proper
Under the scheme, priv tial to excel in one or the oth training in art and culture
ate academies, individuals er fi eld. Some of the chil programme would give a
or NGOs will have to provide dren, apart from academics, child the right perspective to
free of cost training to stu may do very well in other see the world around and al
dents and can also impart spheres of life. As educators, low them to participate in
training to private students it is our duty to locate that la various national and inter
on chargeable basis but the tent capacity and provide it national art and cultural ex
ratio should be maintained with congenial atmosphere change programmes and al
at 50:50. They will in turn be and abundance of opportun so endow them with
allowed to use the premises ities to grow to its fullest emotional equilibrium,” said
of the school to impart the strength,” said the DoE the DoE.
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IN BRIEF Jail term for terminated
principal in graft case
Gets bail for fi ling appeal in High Court
Nirnimesh Kumar ₹ 3,000 after negotiations.
New Delhi
Aggrieved by the conduct of
Man held for entering A Delhi court has sentenced the principal, the travel
airport with fake ticket a 58yearold terminated agent lodged a complaint.
NEW DELHI principal of Government Though the travel agent
A Belarus man was Boys Senior Secondary turned hostile during the
apprehended at the airport School in Badarpur here to trial, the panch or trap wit
here on April 2 for allegedly twoandahalf years in jail ness at whose pointing the
using a fake ticket to see off for demanding and accept raiding team had recovered
his mother, who was
ing a bribe of ₹ 3,000 for the money and arrested the
travelling to Moscow,
clearing the LTC advance of principal supported the
officials said on Wednesday.
six teachers in 2012. prosecution’s version of the
D. Leanid was held when the
personnel spotted him
However, the court later case.
roaming suspiciously inside suspended the sentence and “Even if it is believed that
Terminal 3 of the airport, granted him bail for fi ling an the complainant has not
they said. Mr. Leanid used an appeal against the judgment stated about giving the bribe
“edited” ticket to enter the in the Delhi High Court. money to the accused or if,
airport. PTI An AntiCorruption the testimony of the panch
Branch team had raided the witness becomes unreliable
Persons with disabilities rally for jobs
offi ce of Principal Moman then also payment of bribe
Man held in connection
Ram Goswami, arrested him and acceptance thereof can
with double murder
NEW DELHI
and recovered the bribe be proved by way of circum
A 22yearold resident of amount on a complaint by a stantial evidence. Here in
Uttar Pradesh’s Amethi has travel agent whom the this case, the panch witness
been arrested for allegedly March in Gurugram sought jobs for the diff erentlyabled on merit and not on compassionate grounds teachers had contacted for has supported the demand
helping Najafgarh resident arranging a tour of Srinagar as well as acceptance, there
Naveen kill school principal Ashok Kumar employers are reluctant to sage we gave to the industry on LTC tickets. The teachers fore, no doubt remains. The
Anita Yadav and her brother
GURUGRAM hire the visuallychallenged,” through the march today [on had informed the travel accused could not be able to
Jaikishan on March 6 over Surender Kumar Mishra lost said Mr. Khurana. Wednesday],” said Mr. agent that they had submit explain the recovery of
land dispute. The police said his right hand in a road acci He added that the march Khurana. ted their LTC forms to Mr. treated [with chemical] cur
accused Sandeep helped dent a decade ago. An arts was organised to attract the He said the march passed Goswami for obtaining 90% rency notes from him in the
Naveen procure arms and graduate, the 37yearold re attention of the industry to through Cyber City as it LTC advance and that he trap proceedings and did
ammunition for the murders. sident of Rewa district in wards the plight of PwDs, es houses the offi ces of some of wanted to meet him in this not give any satisfactory
Main accused Naveen is still Madhya Pradesh has been pecially the visuallychal the most prominent compa regard. reply in his statement under
at large, the police said. running from pillar to post lenged, and seek jobs for nies in the world. When the travel agent Section 313 CrPC,” Addition
STAFF REPORTER
for several years now looking them based on their skill set. Navjyoti manager opera met the principal, Mr. Gos al Sessions Judge Sanjay
for a job but has been turned tions Kanwal Verma said wami demanded a bribe of Khanagwal said in his judg
Woman accuses manager away each time because of Visually-challenged more than 700 students are ₹ 6,000 but settled for ment.
of physical assault his hand. “Our visuallychallenged stu enrolled at the centre for
GURUGRAM “I was an accountant with dents can type at a speed of training and around 500 of
A Manipuri woman working
at a Korean restaurant in
Sector 29 here has accused
an outlet of a prominent In
dian retail brand for almost
fi ve years. Despite being
30 words per minute and
deal with customers over the
phone. We urge the industry
them were visuallychal
lenged.
“The fi rst batch of 150 stu
4 held for killing man
the manager of physical physically disabled, I worked to provide them jobs on me dents has completed its over Staff Reporter death with baseball bats.
assault and misbehaviour, the faster than others but they rit and not on compassionate twomonth course. The NEW DELHI Two others, Jaswant alias
police said, adding that a asked me to leave when I Persons with disabilities participated in a march in Gurugram grounds. We want every batch has 120 visuallychal Four persons have been ar Pappu, and Manjeet Dabas,
case has been registered in sought a hike in salary. I have on Wednesday. SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
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company to adopt at least lenged students but only 25 rested for allegedly beating were arrested earlier. San
this connection. In her been looking for a job since one visuallychallenged per of them have got placements a senior citizen to death on deep and Satish were re
complaint to the police, she then but in vain,” said Mr. ised by the Centre to impart though students with hear son and give them place so far,” said Mr. Verma. December 27 last year, the leased on bail on December
alleged that the manager Mishra, who has a family of training to PwDs under the ing and speech impairment ment based on their skills,” police said on Wednesday. 27 in a case registered under
called her inside a room
four, including three chil Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vi and those who were wheel said Mr. Khurana. On the spot jobs the Arms Act. The accused
following a complaint by a
dren. kas Yojana (PMKVY), to learn chairbound did not face He added that if corpo The march saw eight stu Baseball bats were celebrating at their of
customer on Monday evening
computers and spoken En much diffi culty in getting rates give jobs to PwDs un dents get hired by private Deputy Commissioner of fi ce in Harphool Vihar in Ba
and allegedly physically
assaulted and misbehaved
Paid less glish, was part of a march by jobs, it was particularly diffi der the Corporate Social Res fi rm Brij Krishna on the spot. Police (Crime Branch) prola. “They got drunk and
with her. The matter was He claimed that Persons PwDs in Cyber City on Wed cult for the visuallychal ponsibility programme, all “A few more companies Bhisham Singh said San started misbehaving with
reported to the police and a With Disabilities (PwDs) are nesday to attract the atten lenged to get placed. the students will become in have assured that they will deep Sehrawat alias Kotilya the locals. When the resi
case was registered under usually discriminated tion of corporates to seek “While those with hearing dependent and be able to come for interviews to hire (34), Satish alias Deepak dents resisted, they started
Section 323 (voluntary against and paid less by em jobs. The march started at and speech impairment are feed their families. our students. We will also Pandit (34), Sanjeev alias beating them with sticks
causing hurt) and 509 (insult ployers compared to others. IFFCO Chowk and passed hired by restaurants, per “By donating we can feed drop mails to all major priv Neeru (34) and Sonu alias and baseball bats. Mr. Ram
the modesty of a woman) of Mr. Mishra, who is now through Cyber City. sons who are wheelchair one person. However, by ate fi rms to come for campus Chiranji Lal alias Mannu (22) succumbed to injuries while
the Indian Penal Code. enrolled at Navjyoti, a skill Navjyoti managing direc bound or unable to walk providing jobs we feed the interviews and hire our stu were arrested for allegedly others suff ered injuries,” he
STAFF REPORTER development centre author tor Gurusharan Khurana said handle reception. However, entire family. This is the mes dents,” said Mr. Khurana. beating Chandresh Ram to said.
Trio nabbed for choking man to death Driver held for staging robbery of ₹ 14 lakh
He was allegedly killed following an argument over an 18yearold woman ‘He infl icted injuries to make story more believable as he was with family for 8 years’
Staff Reporter as he was not wearing a hel the underpass instead of the
SAURABH TRIVEDI
New Delhi
<
> The trio’s
interrogation
front of the teenager but she
was not involved in the
from a pipeline near Wazira
bad fl yover.
New Delhi
Working as driver for an east
met. He alleged that two per
sons on a motorcycle started
usual fi ve minutes.
“The scene was recreated
Three men were arrested on revealed that the crime. She is the prime wit “The pipeline was Delhibased businessman arguing with him for driving by some offi cers but the time
Tuesday in connection with woman was having ness. Minku called her and checked and a male body since the past eight years, on the wrong side and that diff erence was too much,”
the murder of a 24yearold an aff air with Minku Lala for a meeting at an iso wrapped in a blanket was 29yearold Ramu Poddar two more men joined the said Ms. Prasad.
in north Delhi on March 25, but had become lated place to settle the dis found. The victim was identi thought no one would sus duo and attacked him before When the police confront
the police said on close to the victim pute on March 25. Two of fi ed as Lala. We registered a pect him for stealing ₹ 14 lakh fl eeing with the bag,” said ed the driver with facts dur
Wednesday. over the past few Minku’s friends joined them murder case and started in from his employer. Ms. Prasad, adding that a ing interrogation, he alleged
Lala, a caretaker at a nur months. An angry later. They allegedly choked vestigating,” said Mr. Narwal. He allegedly staged a rob robbery case was registered ly confessed to having staged
sery, was allegedly choked Lala to death with an iron Probe revealed that the bery on April 1, complete based on his complaint. the robbery.
Minku decided to
to death by Minku Yadav rod and threatened to kill victim was last seen with the with selfinfl icted injuries to Ramu Poddar. “He claimed he needed
alias Bunty and his accom
kill Lala when he the woman if she told woman. make his story more believa Medical examination the money and thought no
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SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
plices in front of an 18year discovered his anyone about the incident,” ble, but was caught on Tues The police fi rst become sus one would suspect him as he
old woman in Majnu Ka Tila friendship with her said Mr. Narwal. Woman contacted day, the police said on driver at the spot. picious after the driver’s had been with the family for
after the duo got into an ar Jatin Narwal He added that Lala was a The police contacted the wo Wednesday. He claimed that four per medical examination raised very long,” Ms. Prasad
Deputy Commissioner of Police (North)
gument over the woman, registered habitual off ender man and she told the police sons on a bike had attacked the possibility of the injuries added.
the police said. at Civil Lines police station. that Lala had been mur PCR call with him knives on the being selfinfl icted. When
found inside the pipeline. dered. The three suspects Deputy Commissioner of throat and left arm, and fl ed Ms. Prasad raised the issue Loot recovered
Body in pipeline Missing complaint were also taken into custody. Police (Shahdara) Nupur with the bag containing ₹ 14 with the Bhutani family, they The accused allegedly kept
The trio allegedly wrapped ‘Prime witness’ On March 29, Lala’s mother “Their interrogation re Prasad said Mr. Poddar, a re lakh. He said his employer told her, “We trust him a lot. the stolen booty inside
Lala’s body in a blanket and Deputy Commissioner of approached the Civil Lines vealed that the woman was sident of Bihar’s Bhagalpur, Satya Narayan Bhutani had He has been with us for eight another house owned by his
stuff ed it inside an unused Police (North) Jatin Narwal police and fi led a missing having an aff air with Minku was arrested for allegedly asked him to collect the cash years, and has been collect employer as he had the keys
Delhi Jal Board’s pipeline said Minku, Vijay Mally, and complaint saying he had not but had become close to Lala staging the robbery in Vivek from New Friends Colony ing and delivering money for for that house.
near Wazirabad fl yover, they Kapil alias Pappu allegedly returned home since March over the past few months. An Vihar. and deliver it to his resi a long time”. He was going to move the
added. killed Lala as Minku was an 25. A team was formed to angry Minku decided to kill The police received a call dence in Vishwas Nagar. However, examination of money after the dust settled,
The trio were arrested gry over his friendship with trace Lala. Lala when he discovered his on April 1 regarding a quar “The driver claimed that the CCTV camera footage re the police said, adding that
two days after Lala’s semi the woman. On April 1, the police was friendship with the woman,” rel at Kasturba Nagar under he took the service lane be vealed that it took Mr. Pod they have recovered the en
decomposed body was “Lala was murdered in alerted about a foul smell said the offi cer. pass and found the ‘injured’ fore crossing the underpass dar about 45 minutes to exit tire amount.
DELHI TODAY
Music: Spring Festival of Dance &
Karti’s chartered accountant
gets anticipatory bail
Fallen mobile phone helps crack case in hours
Music: Sitar recital by Subrata De
from Delhi, 6 p.m. followed by
Hindustani vocal recital by Sarada
Prasanna Acharya from Delhi, 7 p.m., ‘Relief granted with stringent conditions’ ‘It had a WhatsApp group with the robbers as its members’
at C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium, India
International Centre (IIC). Special Correspondent one surety of the like Staff Reporter place. formation from the phone
Exhibition: “Inorganic” a solo show
of artworks by Aashish Moga at Gal
New Delhi amount.” New Delhi “The employees were and the shop’s CCTV camera
lery A, at All India Fine Arts & Craft A Delhi court on Wednesday “It is worthwhile to men A mobile phone that fell from waiting for directions from footage shop gave the police
Society (AIFACS), 1 Rafi Marg, 11 a robber’s pocket during the the owner when a youth en vital clues.
a.m. – 5 p.m. granted anticipatory bail to tion here that the main ac
Exhibition: “Sagarika” a solo show Karti Chidambaram’s char cused [Mr. Chidambaram] theft of ₹ 18 lakh in Chandni tered with a bag in his hand. “We formed teams and
of paintings by Shashi Thakur at All tered accountant (CA) S. has already been granted Chowk on Tuesday evening Just as the employees started conducted raids in Uttar Pra
India Fine Arts & Craft Society Bhaskararaman in the bail by the Delhi High helped the police crack the enquiring why he was in the desh and Delhi. One Mohsin
(AIFACS), 1 Rafi Marg, 11 a.m. – 7
p.m. cheatingcumcorruption Court... in the matter. Appli case in a matter of hours, the shop, two others entered Alam from Maujpur was de
Exhibition: International group art case connected to INX Me cant S. Bhaskararaman was police said on Wednesday. with bags in their hand and tained for questioning. He
show, curated by Aasif Khan at All dia in which Mr. Chidamba earlier granted bail in the “The phone had a What closed the door. They took confessed to involvement in
India Fine Arts & Craft Society
(AIFACS), 1 Rafi Marg, 11 a.m. – 7 ram is also an accused. case of Enforcement Direc sApp group, with the robbers out pistols from the bags and the robbery,” said Mr. Nar
p.m. The court had earlier or torate... and in compliance as its members. That helped asked the two employees to wal.
Exhibition: Voice of Art group dered his release on bail in with the conditions he has us nab the accused,” said a stay quiet. They tied them Mohsin also disclosed the
painting & sculpture exhibition at the money laundering case already surrendered his police offi cer. with a rope and put tape on names of his accomplices,
Open Palm Court Gallery, India Hab
itat Centre (IHC), 11 a.m. – 7 p.m. connected with the case. passport to the Enforce Armed robbers had their mouths before fl eeing who were arrested from va
Exhibition: ‘On the LIRR’ solo Granting bail, Special ment Directorate,” the judge barged into a stationery shop with ₹ 18 lakh and some docu rious hideouts in Delhi and
show of drawings by Devraj Dakoji at Judge Sunil Rana said: “In said in his order. located on the fi rst fl oor in ments,” said Deputy Com Ghaziabad. “The others were
Art Heritage Gallery (Basement),
Triveni Kala Sangam, 205, Tansen my opinion the relief of anti Opposing his bail plea, Chandni Chowk’s Old Lajpat missioner of Police (North) identifi ed as Sarfraz Alam,
Marg, Mandi House, 11 a.m. – 7 p.m. cipatory bail can be granted counsel for the CBI submit Rai market around 5.30 p.m. Jatin Narwal. Amaan, Kasim and Sachin.
Screening: “La Famiglia (The Fam to the applicant with strin ted that the applicant had to on Tuesday. Two employees The matter was reported We have seized ₹ 13,86,500,
ily)” Italian fi lm screening with Eng
lish subtitles at Italian Cultural gent conditions. In the event make out a special case for were in the shop at the time at Kotwali police station. A three countrymade pistols
Institute, 50E, Chandragupta Marg of arrest, applicant S. Bhas grant of anticipatory bail. As of the incident and had search led the police to the with 19 live cartridges and a
(entry from Nyaya Marg), Chana kararaman be admitted to he had failed to make out brought payments totalling mobile phone. When asked, motorcycle. Eff orts are on to
kyapuri, 7 p.m.
(Mail your listings for this column at bail on furnishing a perso one, his application was lia ₹ 18 lakh in the shop minutes the employees told the police trace the remaining The police seized ₹ 13,86,500, three countrymade pistols and
cityeditordelhi@thehindu.co.in) nal bond for ₹ 2 lakh with ble to be dismissed. before the incident took it did not belong to them. In amount,” said Mr. Narwal. 19 live cartridges from the accused. SAURABH TRIVEDI*
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IN BRIEF
Surgery helps reshape injured skull NGT defers hearing
Balloon tissue expander helps reconstruct scalp defect in 22yearold patient in water sharing row
Staff Reporter
NEW DELHI
which usually varies bet Matter is pending with Supreme Court
ween two to three months, a
Ramesh, a 22yearold col second surgery is conducted Staff Reporter be informed to this tribu
Court refuses to order lege student, met with an ac to remove the expander and NEW DELHI nal.”
FIR against Kejriwal cident while on the way reconstruct the new tissue. The National Green Tribu The row between the two
NEW DELHI home from college nearly The entire procedure is not nal (NGT) on Wednesday ad States over the amount of
A Delhi court has refused to two years ago. He sustained very painful but it defi nitely journed the hearing over water being released by Ha
direct the lodging of an FIR severe head injury, for which causes discomfort and in the water row between Del ryana had begun after the
against CM Arvind Kejriwal he had to be operated imme convenience,” he said. hi and Haryana as the mat Delhi Jal Board moved an
for allegedly misusing public diately. His reports revealed Throughout the proce ter is now pending with the application stating that the
money in advertisement for
that trauma to the head had dure, the patient has to be Supreme Court. water being released by the
his own political gains, saying
lead to formation of a blood very careful and cautious, es The green panel has de former was high in ammo
spending money on ads was
clot on the right side of his (From left) A slightly deformed skull; a balloon tissue expander inserted beneath the skin of pecially after the balloon is ferred the hearing by two nia content. The DJB had,
the prerogative of the
brain. the patient; the skull regains normal shape after reconstruction surgery. SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT *
fi lled with liquid. The pa weeks. further, contended that the
government. The
complainant had alleged that The neurosurgeon who tient’s movement and physi level of pollution in the wa
on October 30, 2015, the CM operated on Ramesh decid groove or a shallow depres plained the family about pander is inserted in a pock cal activities are restricted Ammonia content ter was high to the extent
had given an advertisement ed to remove a portion of his sion on his head which made ‘balloon tissue expander’ et created beneath the skin, too so as to avoid any kind of A Bench headed by NGT act that it was unfi t for drinking
in a newspaper and injured skull bone and tem him vulnerable to injury and technique which is a well es which is later fi lled periodi accident or mishap. ing chairperson Jawad Ra purposes.
dishonestly misappropriated porarily place it inside his uncomfortable about his ap tablished and groundbreak cally with saline until the de him said, “It is stated on be The green panel had then
the public money for his own abdominal wall. pearance. Ramesh often ing technique in plastic sur sired result is achieved. Temporary deformity half of the State of Haryana directed the Central Pollu
political benefits. PTI “This is usually done to kept his head covered with a gery,” said the doctor. “As the expander will en “There is a temporary incon and the Delhi Jal Board has tion Control Board (CPCB)
ease the blood fl ow to the helmet or cap. The patient’s large, the skin will automati venience and cosmetic de already approached the Su to collect samples and ana
Mercury soars to 39 brain,” said plastic/ cosmetic family who was were in dis Apt solution cally stretch. We can say it is formity for which the patient preme Court and the matter lyse the same. The Bench
degrees Celsius in city surgeon at Sir Ganga Ram tress to see him in such a The patient underwent bal very similar to the way a needs to be well informed in would come up for consid had, further, directed the
NEW DELHI
Hospital Dr. Anubhav Gupta. traumatic state, approached loon tissue expander surgery pregnant woman’s skin advance. But the technique eration on April 16. Let the two States to convene a
The mercury maintained an
However, three months later, me with a hope to put an end about nine months ago as stretches while a baby grows allows successful reconstruc outcome of the proceedings meeting and “resolve the
upward trend with the
when the bone fl ap was to be to his woes,” says Dr. Gupta. this was found to be the most inside her,” explained Dr. tion of scalp defects. Now, before the Supreme Court matter”.
maximum temperature being
recorded at 39 degrees
placed back inside the skull, The patient’s condition eff ective and apt solution for Gupta. it’s been over six months and
Celsius, five notches above it was found to be infected was evaluated. “I realised such aesthetic reconstruc This technique is widely Ramesh is back to leading a
the season’s average, in the
Capital on Wednesday. The
and therefore, the surgeon
was forced to discard it.
“A few months later, Ra
achieving the desired shape
of his skull was a bit challeng
ing as he had not only bony
tion cases.
After an operation lasting
for three hours and costing
used for treating burn inju
ries, congenital defects, neck
and head injuries and breast
normal life. He does not feel
the need to cover his head
any more. It’s great to see
Inspect Haksar Haveli,
minimum temperature
settled at 23 degrees Celsius,
four notches above normal, a
mesh’s head injury was
healed, but the missing bone
defect but a large skin defect
also. So, the treatment plan
₹ 2.5 lakh, the patient is now
doing well. During the proce
reconstruction. “When the
skin has stretched enough to
him regain his shattered self
confi dence and selfesteem,”
HC directs authorities
MeT official said. PTI inside his skull had left a was discussed and I ex dure, a silicone balloon ex cover the aff ected area, said Dr. Gupta.
First PM Nehru had got married here
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A slice of Tibetan culture
From sand mandalas to butter sculptures, a tastefullymounted festival opened
a window to the Buddhist arts and crafts
S. Ravi The Gyuto Monastery monks colouring it in fi ve colours — taking was the butter sculp
were in rapt concentration green, red, yellow, white and ture installation. It is a tradi
As a gesture of gratitude to creating a sand mandala in blue. “These represent the tion that began in 1409 as
India and its people, the Cen stallation, a Tibetan Budd deities, Amoghasiddhi, Ba apart of a celebration of
tral Tibetan Administration hist tradition that involves rotsana, Ratnasambhava, Buddha Sakyamuni’s victory
(CTA) organised a threeday creation and destruction of Amitabhabhava and Aksob over six gurus in a contest of
“Cultural Festival of Tibet” at mandalas made of coloured hya,” explained Thupten. miracles. Made from butter,
India International Centre. sand. Explaining its signifi What is really noteworthy is it is a sacred off ering mould <
> We are observing
2018 as the ‘Thank
What made the event worth cance, monk Jigmes Thup to watch monks colour the ed by hand and decorated in
visiting was its comprehen ten, said, “It symbolises the patterns by gently vibrating the most colourful ways with You India Year’ and
sive aspect as it brought to Buddhist doctrinal belief in the pipe containing the sand varied motifs and fl owers. this event is to
fore Tibetan culture, food, the transitory nature of ma with another pipe. The installation consists of a remember the ancient
arts, nomadic culture, medi terial life.” The sand is creat Another exhibit of this variety of sizes, ranging from ties of India and Tibet
cine, handicraft, apparel and ed by crushing marbles and monastery that was breath a few centimetres to several and strengthen the
literature. It indeed provided metres. “Creating these An expression of gratitude: The butter sculptures at the exhibition; a calligraphy work depicting current bonds
an overall picture of Tibetans sculptures is a form of medi the Dalai Lama SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
* Dhardon Sharling
who have been living in the tation for the monks, who
country since 1959. display them on the 15th day prajna (insight) in Mahayana picture in calligraphy is dec The festival’s second sec looms used to manufacture
“We are observing 2018 as of the Tibetan New Year. Buddhism. “Written around orated with prayers for his tion was held in open lawns carpets, rugs and sturdy fa
the ‘Thank You India Year’ There it is made of butter but the fi gure are Sanskrit man long life. provided glimpse of Tibetan brics. “Such endeavours
and this event is to remem in Delhi we have used Dalda tras in Tibetan script,” Ja Preserving traditions way of life, art and handi help in conserving and pre
ber the ancient ties of India as the butter here is soft and myang showed with a magni The photo exhibition by crafts. The Norbulingkha In serving our ancient tradi
and Tibet and strengthen the melts quickly,” said Thupten. fying glass. Indeed the fi ne the Tibet Museum, put on stitute located at Dharamsala tions,” remarked Dhardon.
current bonds. It also cele Displaying his calligraphy work is breathtaking. Other display a large number of displayed aprons, wall hang The section on Tibetan
brates the Tibetan struggle skills was artist Jamyang Dor works include that of Guru pictures to showcase the In ings, thangka paintings, medicines, with charts,
for preservation of culture, jee. A retired bureaucrat Padmasambhava, regarded doTibetan ancient ties, Ti carved wooden boxes, beau pharmaceutical products,
identity and pursuit of digni from Sikkim, he now dedi as the founder of the Nying bet’s journey in exile and Da tifully designed and decorat raw materials used for pre
ty,” observed Dhardon Shar cates his time to this art ma tradition, one of the ol lai Lama’s escape and entry ed bags, etc made by its paring them and instru
ling, Secretary of CTA’s Infor form, most of his works were dest of four major schools of into India. “Through these members. While seeing ments used by doctors too
mation Department. dedicated to Tibetan gods Tibetan Buddhism and God we want youngsters to con these fi nished products, the drew people in droves. There
The art section of the fes and goddesses and Dalai La dess Tara, a female Bodhi nect with origin of Tibet is viewers also got to witness was a doctor stationed to
tival had some amazing ma. One shows God Man sattva in Mahayana Budd sue and its history,” observed members of Dekyiling Tibe help people cope with their
works impressing viewers. jushri, who is associated with hism. The Dalai Lama’s Dhardon. tan settlement using manual health related problems.
5 EVENTS WORTHYOURWHILE
6 TRAVEL NOIDA/DELHI
The lotus
eaters
It’s the season for nadur in Srinagar. Glide down the
Dal in a shikara and join the jolly lotus stem diggers,
perched on boats and foraging for dinner
Brinda Suri clove and fennel. The pot re on stilts pops up, a fl owerseller (lattice work). Floating vegeta set of jolly old men who make
mains on the fi re till the nadur and a vegetable vendor row ble gardens, an ecological sys their craft appear eff ortless, as
The shikara gently makes its gets tender, but retains a bite, past. I spot a few rundown tra tem typical to the Dal, which they plunge a hooked staff into
way through a narrow channel and the curd surrenders its tart ditional brickandwood houses produce an abundance of or swampy waters, dig around
fl anked by blooming mustard ness to transform it into a refl ecting lost glory. They have ganic greens, often come up, with it for a bit, give it a tug and
fi elds. The cobalt skies of Srina smooth curry. A fl avoursome dab (cantilevered wooden bal and Nabi points out to beds of pull it up with a lotus stem se
gar and a sprinkling of snow on dish that’s subtle and fullbo cony) windows with pinjarkari kohlrabi, turnip, carrot and curely held by the hook. To me,
majestic Pir Panjal mountains died, it’s become a favourite ev haak saag, a delicious local spi it seems as thrilling as angling. I
off er a striking backdrop to the er since I savoured it at a Kash nach. attempt it, but realise there are
play of yellow and lush green. miri friend’s place. Served These gardens are painstak more chances of me toppling
Spring is in the air and colour simply with smallgrain ingly built from lake weeds into the water than a nadur
is returning to the Valley. Soon, steamed rice, it spells celebra which are woven into mats to popping out.
blossoms of almond, cherry, tion on the plate. The nadur is form the base. Over a year or After a gap of three years,
peach and pear will play peeka also tossed into spinach (palak so, layers of weeds are constant there is an abundance of nadur
boo. But this season is all about nadur), deepfried as fritters ly added to make a fertile patch. again, which was wiped out
the lotus stem, known as nadur (nadur monji) and cooked with Some gardens, called demb, are from the Dal Lake following the
or nadroo in local parlance. It fi sh (gaad nadur). attached to the shore, while fl oods of 2014. “I’m back at col
has an enviable place in the oth Ghulam Nabi rows the shika- GET ON BOARD raad are those that can be lecting around 200 stems a
erwise meatrich Kashmiri cui ra and he’s confi dent of locat India’s longest railway tunnel is moved around. If slow living day,” smiles Ali Mohammad,
sine. I’m out on these waters fo ing some lotusstem diggers. constructed through the Pir Panjal needs a poster illustration, this one of the diggers, adding,
raging for nadur that will be put There’s a whole way of life that mountain range. It is 11.2 is it. “The texture, size and fl avour of
to good use for dinner. lives on and off the Dal Lake, kilometres long. The tour is to end at Nigeen the Dal nadur is unmatchable.
Of all the dishes prepared behind the row of showpiece It is said to be Lake. When we cross the half There are wazas (cooks) who
with the lotus stem (it is not the houseboats, that most visitors the fourth way mark, Nabi speeds up to will only use this nadur and
root) nadur yakhni is the star. miss seeing. Hazeleyed chil longest railway wards a group of men perched nothing else.”
Slices of it are cooked in curd dren rowing to school wave out tunnel in Asia. on the edge of their boats. “The I pick up a whole lot. Some
with a hint of aromatic spices to me, a daily provisions market Local fl avours: (Top, middle and bottom) Nigeen Lake, boats lotusstem diggers,” he ex will go into a yakhni tonight and
such as cardamom, cinnamon, and a walnut woodcraft centre selling nadur and a spread of vegetarian dishes BRINDA SURI *
claims triumphantly. This is a the rest I’ll take home.
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Women on top:
An upbeat atmosphere at
CHECKLIST
Annapurna Base Camp
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SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
Easter Island at risk?
mily and friends.
So, fi nally, here we were, huff
ing and puffi ng up the steep
slopes from Nayapul, a village 85
kms away from Pokhara. Our
teenaged porters addressed us as
Nani and Dadi, but we ignored
that and set our rheumy eyes
fi rmly on our goal.
We began our trek from Siwai, a
quiet village on the mountainside.
The ascent here was gentle, if nar
row, along lush alpine forests. By
the time we reached New Bridge,
another alpine village, it was al Easter Island, named after Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen who landed there
ready dusk and we had to halt on Easter Sunday in 1722, is bearing the brunt of climate change. The island
there instead of going further to which also has the Polynesian name Rapa Nui, is 2200 miles off Chile, in the Pa-
cific Ocean. It’s among the most remote places on earth to be inhabited. At its
Chumrung. Missing your destina
widest, it measures 15 miles. Easter Island is fringed by more than 800 stone
tion on the very fi rst day leads to statues called ‘moai’ and platforms called ‘ahu’, many considered to be tombs of
pileups. But we didn’t mind at all an ancient civilisation. Among these, those that form the imposing Ahu
— we had no offi ces to get back to. Tongariki are popular among travellers. This island with 6000 inhabitants at-
Chumrung, our second camp, tracted 100,000 travellers last year. A recent report by The New York Times re-
was in a picturesque valley on the veals that waves are beginning to reach these statues and platforms. Climate
Peaking at 60
It did not deter us even though banks of Modi Khola, one of the change can lead to a rise in sea level by five to six feet by 2100, thus threaten-
none of us had climbed moun tributaries of the magnifi cent Kali ing this UNESCO World Heritage Site.
tains before. We had not even met Gandaki. In the next four days, we
each other in years, as we lived in
diff erent cities. The reason why
crossed Dovan, Himalaya, Bam
boo and Deorali to reach Maccha
Appalachian adventures
we wanted to undertake this puchhare Base Camp (MBC). Of
If you feel life is just passing you by, go climb a mountain daunting endeavour was a feeling
that life is passing us by and we
course, our knees rioted especial
ly in the squat toilets, and backs
must do something unusual to re grumbled and refused to host
Sudha Mahalingam deem our selfesteem. even the lightest backpack, our
The ABC trek started off as a digestive systems struck work,
It was on a whim that three of us, vague idea exchange on our our noses dripped in high alti
all women over 60, decided to emails and soon the threads be tudes, but our determination did
trek to Annapurna Base Camp gan to pile up. Distances between not waver.
(ABC). At 26,545 feet, Annapurna San Diego, Bengaluru and Delhi On day six, we left MBC around
1 is the 10th tallest peak on our were digitally bridged in an in 4 am and trekked in the dark, a
planet. stant. A fl urry of emails, frequent bandtorch strapped to our fore
She towers over a dozen or so Skypes and confabulations later, heads to reach ABC before sun
lesser eminences and collectively we were set — almost. Of course, rise. While it took every ounce of
they are called the Annapurna sweating it out in the gym for an resolve we could muster, it re
In the vicinity of the Appalachian Mountain, USA’s West Virginia has no dearth of
Range — Annapurna 1, Annapur hour every day for three months mains the most memorable mo
outdoor activity since more than 75% of this State is covered in forest area. The
na South, Gangapurna, Maccha was much less daunting than ment of our entire journey — the nearly-1000-km Hatfield-McCoy Trail System is a favourite with those who ride
puchhare, Himchuli, etc, most of dealing with the detractors — fa sight of hundreds of fl ickering all-terrain vehicles, with a handful of outfitters offering guided tours. The New
which are over 8000 metres high. lamps wending their way up the River Gorge is a popular climbing site, but there are also other sites such as
Even seasoned mountaineers ........................................................
........................................................ steep mountainside in an other Seneca Rocks in the Monongahela National Forest, a craggy fin of rock only
hesitate to scale the peak — it has wise dark night, inky enough to accessible by traditional climbing. Beginners can choose an easier hiking trail
been attempted less than a
Our knees rioted, hide even Macchapuchhare. Of with an observation platform. While at The New River Gorge, take in stunning
hundred times. Reaching Anna backs grumbled and course, the crowning glory was views from the Bridge Walk, a 924m long and 267m high single-span arch
bridge. Guides in the upper New River Canyon take newcomers on a guided river
purna Base Camp is considered our digestive systems the sight of the golden rays of the
rafting trip, while seasoned rafters explore the lower New River with its
even more diffi cult than the more struck work rising sun caressing Annapurna
combination of pools and rapids.
popular Everest Base Camp trek. and her entourage!