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In T.N., Modi hits out
at critics of 10% quota
Elderly couple found
dead in S.Delhi home
Self-centred forces trying to create suspicion, says PM
NEW DELHI
Special Correspondent
A missed birthday call led to CHENNAI
the discovery of the semi
decomposed bodies of a
Strongly defending the re
couple in their 70s inside cent constitutional amend
their ninthfl oor fl at in south ment to create 10% reserva
Delhi on January 26, the tion in jobs and education for
police said on Sunday.The economically weaker sec
deceased have been tions (EWS), Prime Minister
identifi ed as Virender Kumar Narendra Modi on Sunday al
Khaneja, 78, who retired as a leged that certain self
senior manager with a centred forces in Tamil Nadu
multinational company, and were trying to create an at
his wife Sarla Khaneja,72. mosphere of suspicion and
DELHI METRO A PAGE 1 mistrust among people on
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the new quota.
City shivers as mercury The Dravidian parties in Pitching for change: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is
dips to 5 degrees Tamil Nadu have strongly op welcomed by BJP leaders at the meeting . G. MOORTHY *
NEW DELHI
posed the measure, with the
Cold wave conditions are
likely to prevail in the Capital
in the coming week, with the
REPORT ON PAGE 15 DMK and the Dravidar Kaz
hagam challenging it in the
‘Kerala’s culture under threat’
Met Department forecasting
a fall in the minimum CBI transfers offi cer for delay Phone of slain Madras High Court.
People’s vigilance
Prime Minster Narendra
Modi has said Kerala’s
which the CPI(M)
government was
temperature by 23 degrees.
U.P. inspector Against this backdrop, Mr. cultural ethos is under disrespecting all aspects of
in ICICI Bank loan case probe
On Sunday, the minimum
Modi, who was in Madurai to attack. “And unfortunately Kerala’s culture, he said. “I
temperature settled at 5.2
degrees Celsius, three recovered lay the foundation for an All the attack is led by the party
that is governing the State.”
fail to understand why the
Communists undermine our
notches below average. India Institute of Medical
Sciences (AIIMS), urged peo At a public meeting in culture and civilisation. The
DELHI METRO A PAGE 1
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MEERUT ple to be “vigilant” about Thrissur on Sunday, he said UDF too is like the
such forces. He also alleged the Sabarimala issue had Communists. It has double
29 girls go missing from The offi cial mobile phone received the attention of the standards; it speaks one
Odisha residential school
Devesh K. Pandey carried out. There was a CI Bank when Chanda Koch that the Opposition had
of an inspector, killed in entire country. People were thing in Delhi another in
NEW DELHI strong suspicion that he har was its managing director come together setting aside
BERHAMPUR violence last December in watching the manner in Kerala,” he said. A page 5
Twentynine students of a The CBI is conducting an in might leak information about and chief executive offi cer. all other considerations to
Bulandshahr district of Ut
residential high school for ternal inquiry into the sus the ensuing searches. There “After a review of the pro “remove this watchman
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tar Pradesh, has been reco
girls at Antarba in Odisha’s pected role of Superinten fore, he was transferred...,” gress, it was decided to speed (him)” who would not spare Classes who have already and nepotism. “Any person,
vered from the house of
Gajapati district left their dent of Police Sudhanshu an offi cial said. up the preliminary inquiry,” #70929
“anyone who has looted the been getting the benefi ts of who has cheated or looted
the man who allegedly
hostel on Saturday night and Dhar Mishra in the alleged the offi cial said. country.” reservation,” he argued. the country, would be
shot him, offi cials said on
are missing since. delay in probing the ICICI Supervisory offi cer On January 22, the agency Addressing a massive pu However, he said, it was brought to justice, regardless
Sunday.
NATION A PAGE 6 Bank loan fraud case. The offi cial said Superinten converted the preliminary blic meeting organised by the unfortunate that suspicion of whether he is within the
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Mr. Mishra, the superviso dent of Police Mohit Gupta, enquiry into an FIR against BJP, the Prime Minister said and mistrust was being creat country or abroad,” he said.
nearly two months after
ry offi cer, was transferred under whom the searches Ms. Kochhar, her husband the Centre was committed to ed by a few people in Tamil All those who were involved
the incident at Syana
from the Bank Security and were conducted on the pre Deepak Kochhar, Videocon providing employment op Nadu to serve their own self in corruption in government
where, on December 3, a
Fraud Cell (Delhi) to the Eco mises of the accused and the Group head Venugopal Dhoot portunities and education to interest. “I urge all of you to contracts, defence procure
mob fought pitched battles
nomic Off ences Wing in companies on January 24, is and others for sanction of all segments of society. “It remain vigilant against such ment and welfare schemes
with the police, apparently
Jharkhand’s Ranchi just a day now the supervisory offi cer. credit between 2009 and was with this spirit, we negativity. Any political would face the music. “That’s
after rightwing activists
after the FIR in the case was In March last year, the 2012 in alleged violation of brought the 10% reservation thought which opposes the why they all are coming to
were angered by carcasses
fi led on January 22. agency instituted a prelimin rules, causing a loss of ₹ 1,730 in education and employ poor cannot ever penetrate gether, saying that they must
of cows found strewn out
Mr. Mishra is an Indian Re ary enquiry into the allega crore to the bank. ment to the poor in the gen anyone,” he said. unite to remove this ‘watch
side a village.
venue Service offi cial on dep tions of irregularities in the Among the companies ar eral category in such a way Mr. Modi said eff ective man’ [himself ], keeping
EDGE A 4 PAGES utation to the CBI. credit extended to Videocon raigned are Mr. Kochhar’s Nu that it did not impact Dalits, steps were being taken to rid aside all other considera
DELHI METRO A 6 PAGES “A discreet inquiry was Group companies by the ICI power Renewables Limited. CONTINUED ON A PAGE 10 tribals and Other Backward the country of corruption tions,” he said.
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2 NORTH DELHI
DELHI Timings
Monday, Jan. 28
RISE 07:12 SET 17:57
Muzaff arnagar riots: U.P.
govt. to withdraw 18 cases
RISE 00:37 SET 12:16
Tuesday, Jan. 29
RISE 07:11 SET 17:58
RISE 01:36 SET 12:54
Wednesday, Jan. 30 Accused BJP leaders, State Minister not in the list
RISE 07:11 SET 17:59
RISE 02:33 SET 13:36 press trust of india The cases were fi led under ing BJP, including MPs San
Muzaffarnagar relevant sections of the In jeev Balyan and Bharatendra
The Uttar Pradesh govern dian Penal Code including Singh, MLAs Sangeet Som
ment has decided to with 147 (rioting), 148 (rioting, and Umesh Malik, have been
draw 18 cases related to the armed with deadly weapon) named in these 125 cases.
Muzaff arnagar riots and and 397 (attempt to cause
asked the district authorities death), the sources said. Sadhvi Prachi
to approach the court, Minister in the State govern
sources said on Sunday. Details sought ment Suresh Rana and Hin
U.P.’s Special Secretary of The directive came after the dutva leader Sadhvi Prachi
Law J.J. Singh has directed State government sought de are also accused in cases re
Muzaff arnagar District Ma tails of 125 cases fi led in rela lated to the Muzaff arnagar
gistrate Rajeev Sharma to tion to the Muzaff arnagar riots. However, the cases
withdraw the cases, they riots of 2013. asked to be withdrawn do
said. Additional District Magis not include the names of
trate Amit Kumar said that these BJP leaders.
Court permission the State government had Communal clashes in Mu
On the directive from Luck sought the details to review zaff arnagar and adjoining
now, the district authorities the possibility of withdraw areas in August and Septem
have started preparing to ap ing the 125 cases pending in ber 2013 had claimed 60
proach the court for permis courts. lives and displaced over
sion to withdraw the cases. Several leaders of the rul 40,000 people.
Two home guards killed by wood smugglers
Incident took place inside the Valmikinagar Tiger Reserve in Bihar
Amarnath Tewary Gobarhiyadon police station launched in the area to nab been deputed at the Valmiki
Patna to track some wood smug the killers, ” said district pol nagar Tiger Reserve area
Two home guards were glers. ice superintendent Arvind without arms…we carry just
found murdered and anoth The smugglers, said to be Kumar Gupta. a lathi to defend oursel
er seriously injured inside 25 to 30 in number, sudden ves...how can we fi ght
the Valmikinagar Tiger Re ly attacked them and slit the ‘No arms, just lathi’ armed smugglers or even
serve in West Champaran throats of two. “One guard The two slain home guards dangerous animals with just
district of Bihar on Sunday. was seriously injured in the are Arjun Yadav, 35, and Lala a lathi?...we demand com
Police said a group of attack and has been admit Kushwaha, 38. Their injured pensation for those killed
home guards had gone in ted to a hospital…combing colleague was identifi ed as and injured,” said a home
side the reserve under the operation has been Pradeep Mahto. “We have guard there.
Unique variety
of pumpkin
developed
VIKAS VASUDEVA
CHANDIGARH
Boy falls into
borewell,
rescued
Press trust of india
Singrauli (M.P.)
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Former Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on
Sunday described the National Register of Ci
tizens (NRC) a “waste paper” and said it
should have been linked to the voters’ list.
“The whole exercise by spending crores of
rupees to update the NRC for detecting illegal
foreigners have been wasted. The process
was started in 2013 and in fi ve years they (the
BJP government) could not publish a correct
NRC,” the senior Congress leader said.
The NRC is a “waste paper and has be
come valueless now”, Mr. Gogoi told a press
conference here
It should have been linked to the voters’
list till January 2019. Those over 40 lakh peo
ple left out of the complete draft of the NRC
are still in the voters’ list and they will cast
their vote, he said.
4 WEST DELHI
On RDay, ‘cartoon war’ escalates Sambhaji Brigade objects to Padma
Vibhushan awarded to Purandare
Sketch by MNS chief shows Modi, Amit Shah hanging Mother India; provokes one depicting Raj instead
Alok Deshpande
Members say rightwing scholar falsifi ed Shivaji’s history
beled the rope ‘demonetisa him through paid trolls and
Mumbai
tion’. This was shared on Fa paid posts. “How can anyone Shoumojit Banerjee Brahmin guardian and men Saying the Bharat Ratna
A cartoon made by Maharash cebook by many groups show a person hanging just Pune tor Dadaji Konddev and in and the Padma awards had
tra Navnirman Sena (MNS) supporting the BJP and Chief because they do not agree The proMaratha Sambhaji sinuating that Shivaji, his been “utterly devalued”, Mr.
chief Raj Thackeray on Repu Minister Devendra Fadnavis. with his creative opinion?” Brigade has taken objection mother Jijabai and Konddev Shinde said that the outfi t
blic Day, showing Prime Mi “Mr. Thackeray’s (car asked Mr. Shinde. BJP offi ce to the Centre’s announce were of the same lineage. will soon launch a statewide
nister Narendra Modi and toons) are leading the attack bearers claimed that the car ment to honour rightwing The outfi t has consistently agitation if the award con
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) against the BJP and Mr. Modi toon showing Mr. Thackeray history scholar Babasaheb demanded the deletion of ferred on Mr. Purandare was
president Amit Shah hanging creatively. These are liked hanging has nothing to do Purandare with the Padma the allegedly defamatory pa not immediately revoked.
a woman named ‘republic’ not only by his supporters, with their party and is possi Vibhushan. ragraphs from Raja Shivch- “Going by the list of awar
from a fort, is an addition to but even by those who usual bly a creation of the internet. The Brigade, along with hatrapati, Mr. Purandare’s dees, it is evident that those
the ‘cartoon war’ between ly never agree with him such Mr. Thackeray’s cartoon is Nationalist Congress Party popular twopart magnum who have done the RSS’ bid
the parties. as Ambedkarites, socialists, inspired by his uncle Shiv Se (NCP) leader Jitendra Awhad, opus on Shivaji. ding have been rewarded. We
As Mr. Thackeray shared Congress supporters. This is na founder late Bal Thacke has strongly condemned the “The only reason Mr. Pu will be holding Shiv Samnan
the cartoon with the caption a real problem for the BJP ray’s old sketch in which Narendra Modi government, randare has been given the Jaagar Parishads at the taluk
‘Swatantrate na baghavate’ and their online teams are Bharat Mata (Mother India) alleging that the 96yearold Padma Vibhushan is be and districtlevel to expose Mr.
(can’t see her independent) trying to make fun of Mr. is being strangled by hands had falsifi ed the history of the cause he is a Rashtriya Purandare,” Mr. Shinde said.
on his offi cial Facebook page Thackeray to counter him,” captioned ‘preplanned riots’ Maratha King Shivaji with Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Meanwhile, Mr. Awhad
on Saturday, the parties’ so Kirtikumar Shinde, author of and ‘problems in the north mala fi de intent. hack and a champion of the said that the BJP had deliber
cial media war escalated with the book Dagalbaj Raj, who eastern States’. They said the work of Mr. Brahmin supremacist ately rubbed salt on the
certain proBJP groups shar defends the MNS chief’s pol Previously, the MNS Purandare, who is called cause… It is shocking that the wounds of Shivaji’s ardent
ing the same cartoon, but re itics on social media, said. chief’s cartoon over killing of Shiv Sahir (Shivaji’s poet), ruling Bharatiya Janata Party followers “[We] will set Mah
placing the woman with Mr. Mr. Shinde claimed that tigress Avni too had irked the are often given a casteist (BJP) has given this honour to arashtra on fi re…this honour
Thackeray himself. They Mr. Thackeray’s cartoons are BJP, which responded with a and communal spin. He in a person who has repeatedly given to a falsifi er is a shame
changed the caption to visually so appealing to the political taunt, mocking him tentionally distorted facts defamed Shivaji and Jijabai,” ful blot on the history of Shi
‘Acchhe din na baghavate’ masses that the BJP is left over his alleged neglecting of Art attack: Raj Thackeray shared the cartoon on his offi cial about Shivaji’s life by glory said Santosh Shinde of the vaji’s life,” he tweeted on
(can’t see good days) and la with no option but to ridicule politics for love for cartoons. Facebook page on Saturday. SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT *
ing the achievements of his Sambhaji Brigade. Friday.
Govind Gaude calls himself
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Twilight march
Ward boy arrested for
fi lming woman patient
‘tiger’, alliance partners ‘dogs’ Clip showed her undressing for MRI
Replies to MGP’s demand to have him sacked in 4 days Press Trust of India room other than the one de
Pune signated for the purpose,” a
Prakash Kamat should drop him from the A ward boy of a reputed hos Koregaon Park police sta
Panaji Cabinet for verbally abusing pital in Pune was arrested tion offi cial said.
The rift between two minis Mr. Dhavalikar at a Cabinet for allegedly fi lming a wo The woman found a
ters in the Manohar Parri meeting on January 17. The man changing her clothes phone in the room and
karled government grew exchange in the Chief Minis for an magnetic resonance alerted her husband, and on
wider on Sunday. Art and ter’s presence attracted wider imaging (MRI) procedure, checking the device the cou
Culture Minister Govind attention, with eyewitnesses the police said on Sunday. ple found the clip, the offi
Gaude, an Independent, claiming that the ministers al The police said Lakesh La cial said. A complaint was
used veiled invectives while most came to blows. hu Uttekar (25) was caught af fi led at Koregaon Park pol
referring to ruling alliance While the MGP gave a ter the woman found a mo ice station and Mr. Uttekar
party Maharashtrawadi Go Govind Gaude fourday ultimatum to Mr. bile phone in the changing was held after he gave vague
mantak Party (MGP) mem Parrikar to drop Mr.Gaude, room and a clip of her un answers during the probe.
bers, and likened himself to Dhavalikar, would lead the he claimed that the MGP was dressing, on Saturday night. He has been charged un
a “tiger who does not bother people of Goa to “hell”. exaggerating and that he did der Section 354 (watching
about shouting dogs”. “All these dogs are bark not abuse Mr. Dhavalikar. Diff erent room or capturing the image of a
Mr. Gaude, who belongs ing behind my back. But I Mr. Gaude said he is being “The woman was admitted woman engaging in a priv
to the Scheduled Tribe, also challenge them to do it in targeted because he won on Wednesday for abdomi ate act in circumstances
said that the MGP, especially front of me. I am a tiger and from the Assembly consti nal pain and she was ad where she would usually
its top leaders, including his so they bark from a dis tuency of Priol in 2017, vised to undergo an MRI have the expectation of not
Cabinet colleague and Pu tance,” he said on the MGP’s which was formerly repre Fitting end: People enjoy a ride on a horse chariot at Kelwa beach in Palghar, 100 km from scan on Saturday. The ward being observed) of the In
blic Works Minister Sudin demand that Mr. Parrikar sented by the MGP. Mumbai, as the long weekend comes to an end. ARUNANGSU ROY CHOWDHURY
#70929
* boy asked her to change in a dian Penal Code.
THE HINDU
MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 2019
DELHI
SOUTH 5
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IN BRIEF
Prime Minister says cultural 12-year-old A.P. girl
set ablaze by man
ethos of Kerala is under threat Accused was harassing her for a while
NTR’s son-in-law to
Says the Congress and the CPI(M) have no concern for women’s empowerment Staff Reporter din. On Saturday, he poured
Kurnool petrol on her and set her on
join YSRCP soon
HYDERABAD
Staff Reporter agenda of development. “All A 12yearold girl was set fi re.
Former Minister and TDP
Thrissur they have is hatred for Mo ablaze in Badinehall village
founder N.T. Rama Rao’s Prime Minister Narendra di,” he said. of Kowthalam mandal in Third degree burns
soninlaw Daggubati Modi has said that the cultu “I want to tell the Opposi Chandrababu Naidu Kurnool district. The condi Adoni Circle Inspector M.
Venkateswara Rao on Sunday ral ethos of Kerala is under tion ... abuse me as much as addressing a meeting in tion of the girl is critical. Murali said that the accused
announced his decision to attack and “unfortunately it you want, but don’t mislead Rajamahendravaram on She was fi rst admitted to was a married man with
join the YSR Congress Party is led by the party that is go the farmers or stand in the Sunday. S. RAMBABU
* Adoni general hospital and four children. An FIR has
soon. Mr. Rao and his son verning the State.” way of creating job oppor then was moved to Kurnool been registered in the Kow
Hitesh called on YSRCP
president and Leader of the
Addressing a public meet
ing in connection with the
tunities for the youth. Don’t
harm the poor or put bar
Naidu showers government general hospi
tal. The accused,Mohiuddin
thalam police station under
Section 307 (attempted
Opposition in the Andhra
Pradesh Assembly Y.S. Jagan
State conference of the Bha
ratiya Janata Yuva Morcha
riers on India’s develop
ment,” he said.
sops on BCs Saheb, is on the run.
Mohiuddin has been ha
murder), the Nirbhaya Act
and the SC/ST Act.
Mohan Reddy here. Mr. Rao is here on Sunday, the Prime The Prime Minister said rassing the victim for a few Kurnool government gen
the husband of former Union Minister said the Sabarimala Scoring points: Prime Minister Narendra Modi being garlanded that the Opposition had no K.N. Murali Sankar months now. When the girl eral hospital offi cials told
Minister D. Purandeswari, issue had received the atten at a BJYM meet in Thrissur on Sunday. K.K. NAJEEB *
regard for any constitutional RAJAMAHENDRAVARAM
complained to her parents, The Hindu that the girl had
who is at present in the BJP’s tion of the entire country. institution. they had warned Mohiud suff ered third degree burns.
Showering benefi ts worth
manifesto committee.
People were watching the (M). They show double stan government. ‘‘India has had “A hard working ISRO ₹ 3,000 crore on the Back
Support for demand manner in which the Left dards. They speak one thing many women Chief Minis scientist Nambi Narayanan ward Classes, including up
against transfer of nuns
KOCHI
Leading lights of cultural and
Democratic Front govern
ment was showing disres
pect to all aspects of Kerala’s
in Delhi and another in Kera
la,” he said.
The Congress and the CPI
ters. But is there any com
munist leader among
them?’’ Mr. Modi asked.
was implicated in a false spy
case. The NDA government
got the opportunity to ho
gradation of federations to
corporations and setting
up new corporations for
Expired ingredients used
media world, including poet
Satchidanandan and novelist
culture, he said.
“I fail to understand why
(M) had no concern for wo
men’s empowerment. If they ‘Opposition bankrupt’
nour him with the Padma
Award. We value each per
castes that come under the
BC category, Andhra Pra in ‘prasadam’: police
Anand, have come out in the CPI(M) is undermining were concerned, they would He alleged that the Opposi son who works for the coun desh Chief Minister Chan
support of an appeal by the
Save Our Sisters Action Forum
our culture and civilisation. not have opposed the triple tion was bankrupt in any try’s development,” Mr. Mo drababu Naidu on Sunday Case booked against two women
The UDF too is like the CPI talaq Bill brought by the NDA positive and constructive di said. urged the BCs to continue
to the Kerala government and their support by casting Staff Reporter ken up a case of death due
Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan their vote to the TDP in the Bengaluru to negligence against Laksh
that the five nuns, who
participated in a public
protest in Kochi demanding
Fulfi lled a childhood dream via LPG scheme: Modi ensuing election.
“Don’t fall prey to the
Investigations into the tem
ple ‘prasadam’ case in Chin
tamani town in Karnataka’s
mi and her associate Amar
vathy, who had prepared
and distributed the ‘kesari
YSR Congress Party and
the arrest of Bishop Franco
the BJP that are trying to Chickballapur district, in bath’ at the temple, conti
Mulakkal of Jalandhar, should PM inaugurates BPCL’s Integrated Refi nery Expansion Complex in Kochi deceive the BCs for their which two women died, nued to question them on
not be transferred out of
Kerala. Bishop Mulakkal was political benefi ts. As an el have revealed that “stale Sunday. The police said that
Special Correspondent campus of the Skill Develop
arrested on a complaint of KOCHI der member of your family, and expired ingredients” are investigating further to
ment Institute at Ettuma I am going to support and were used to make it. rule out any foul play.
rape by a Catholic nun and
The Ujjwala scheme of pro noor. He also opened the uplift you. In return hoist The police are now wait Meanwhile, all the vic
was released on bail later.
viding LPG connections to LPG storage facility of the In the TDP fl ag on your hous ing for the Forensic Science tims are responding well to
Yeddyurappa’s remark the poor was the realisation dian Oil Corporation at its es,” he said addressing the Laboratory, postmortem treatment, said Chickballa
draws criticism of the childhood dream of Kochi bottling plant. ‘Jaiho BC’ public meeting and culture reports to ascer pur District Health Offi cer
BENGALURU providing healthy kitchens In his address, Chief Mi organised by the TDP here. tain the exact reason for the (DHO) Ravishankar.
BJP Karnataka president B.S. to mothers and sisters of In nister Pinarayi Vijayan said Mr. Naidu said the TDP deaths.
Yeddyurappa’s outburst at the dia, who were struggling the State government had was the only party working Sixteen people were hos CM visits victims
alleged official apathy in with fi rewood stoves in been supporting the projects for the welfare of the BCs. pitalised after they allegedly Chief Minister H.D. Kuma
handling drought in kitchens, said Prime Minis of all Central Public Sector “The late N.T. Rama Rao consumed ‘kesari bath’ dis raswamy visited the victims
Chitradurga on Sunday ter Narendra Modi. companies as part of its poli
attracted criticism from drew inspiration from Ma tributed as ‘prasadam’ at on Sunday.
Dedicating the Bharat Pe cy to strengthen the public hatma Phule and gave pol the Ganga Bhavani temple He was briefed about the
senior Congress leader M. troleum Corporation Ltd.’s PM Narendra Modi with Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan at a sector units. The State go
Mallikarjun Kharge, who itical life to several youth on Friday. Two of them died investigations by Deputy
Integrated Refi nery Expan function at the BPCL Kochi Refi nery on Sunday. THULASI KAKKAT *
vernment had provided tax on Saturday. Commissioner of Chickbal
asked the former Chief from the BCs and I am con
sion Complex to the nation relaxations to Integrated Re tinuing the legacy,” he said. This is the second such lapur Anirudh Sravan P.
Minister to advise officials
here on Sunday, Mr. Modi contribution towards Ujjwa helped identify ghost, multi fi nery Expansion Project The corporations would incident after the Chamara He also instructed Mr.
instead of scolding them. Mr.
Yeddyurappa, who is on a
said nearly 6 crore such con la scheme by doubling the ple, and inactive accounts. and made land available to help inculcate leadership janagar episode, where con Sravan to ensure the neces
drought study tour in the nections were provided to LPG production, he said. The Prime Minister also other projects. The State qualities among the BCs sumption of temple off er sary treatment was given to
district, allegedly asked the the poor since May 2016 un More than 23 crore LPG laid the foundation stones of would invest ₹ 1,427 crore for and help the government ings led to 17 deaths in the victims and the needs of
officials whether they had der the scheme. The Kochi consumers had joined the the petrochemical complex the petrochemical park pro identify and address their December last year. the family of the deceased
been “grazing donkeys”. Refi nery was making great Pahal scheme that had in Kochi and the second ject, he said. problems, he said. The police, who have ta were met.
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Odisha residential school
Leave a note mentioning the reasons
Staff Reporter fairs in the hostel.
BERHAMPUR Gajapati District Welfare
90% people getting rice
Twentynine students of a Offi cer Santosh Kumar Rath
at ₹ 2 per kg: Mamata
KOLKATA
residential high school for is monitoring the search op
West Bengal Chief Minister girls at Antarba in Odisha’s eration. According to Mr.
Mamata Banerjee on Sunday Gajapati district left their Rath, the girls have left be
said that at least 90% of hostel on Saturday night hind a handwritten letter
people in the State were and are missing since. mentioning some reasons
getting rice at ₹ 2 per kg. She Despite eff orts of the for leaving the hostel.
said her government has school authorities as well as Speaking to newsmen,
been providing special the administration, the girls school headmaster Manoj
assistance to those in had not been traced till Sun Rath accepted that the girls
Jangalmahal and the Ailahit day evening. They have not had earlier expressed their
areas, farmers, tea garden even returned to their resentment over some issue
workers and Toto tribals. PTI homes. Most of the girls are with their teachers. As per
from Class IX. the headmaster, the issue
Three killed in Assam It is suspected that they had been resolved. He felt Temperature Data: IMD, Pollution Data: CPCB, Map: INSAT/IMD (Taken at 18.00 Hrs)
road accident Muslim brides during a mass marriage programme under the Mukhyamantri Kanyadan Yojna in escaped from the hostel to the same reason may have
complain to the District Col prompted them to leave the Forecast for Monday: No weather warning
RANGIA Bhopal on Sunday. A.M. FARUQUI *
Three persons were killed lector about the state of af hostel. city rain max min city rain max min
Agartala................. —.... 29.6.... 15.9 Kozhikode ............... —.... 34.5.... 22.9
when a motorcycle collided Ahmedabad............ —.... 24.1...... 9.1 Kurnool ....................1.... 27.5.... 22.7
Jumbos to patrol Odisha’s
with a fourwheeler in Aizawl ................... —.... 28.6.........— Lucknow.................. —.... 21.3.... 12.6
Kamrup district of Lower
Assam, a police officer said on
Sunday. The deceased have
Moga exSSP arrested in Allahabad ............0.2.... 22.2.... 12.1
Bengaluru .............. —.... 30.0.... 19.0
Bhopal................... —.... 19.2...... 7.5
Madurai................... —.... 34.7.... 24.1
Mangaluru............... —.... 32.6.... 20.0
Mumbai................... —.... 30.6.... 18.6
Bhubaneswar ......... —.... 25.6.... 17.1 Mysuru.................... —.... 30.7.... 17.8
Behbal Kalan fi ring case
Satkosia Tiger Reserve
been identified as Chinmoy Chandigarh ............ —.... 18.0...... 5.6 New Delhi ............... —.... 18.8...... 5.2
Rabha, Bikash Rabha and Chennai ................. —.... 30.1.... 23.2 Patna ...................... —.... 24.0.... 13.8
Coimbatore............ —.... 32.0.... 23.5 Port Blair ................ —.... 29.6.... 25.6
Themna Marak, officer in Dehradun............... —.... 18.2...... 5.5 Puducherry.............. —.... 30.7.... 22.9
charge Jogendra Barman said.
PTI Two youths were killed in 2015 Gangtok................. —.... 14.6...... 7.8
Goa ....................... —.... 31.0.... 18.0
Pune ....................... —.... 26.6...... 8.3
Raipur ...................2.3.... 24.0.... 15.3
7yearold boy dies as
Two pachyderms being brought from Similipal reserve Press Trust of India SIT on January 29, “but
Guwahati ............... —.... 29.8.... 16.4
Hubballi................. —.... 28.0.... 16.0
Ranchi...................2.4.... 21.5.... 11.5
Shillong................... —.... 17.8...... 9.6
fire engulf houses
Chandigarh when we got the input that Hyderabad .........10.1.... 21.2.... 18.4 Shimla..................... —...... 6.8.....-0.2
Staff Reporter into rough weather follow Imphal................... —.... 25.9...... 7.2 Srinagar .................. —...... 7.2.....-1.4
BALLIA
Former Moga SSP Charanjit he was trying to fl ee, we car Jaipur .................... —.... 18.6...... 5.8 Trivandrum ............. —.... 33.0.... 23.6
A sevenyearold boy died
BHUBANESWAR ing the death of India’s fi rst Singh Sharma was on Sun ried out his arrest. Had we Kochi..................... —.... 31.0.... 23.6 Tiruchi .................... —.... 33.8.... 23.4
after fire engulfed a few Patrolling in the Satkosia Tig interState translocated tiger day arrested in a case relat not arrested him in the Kohima.................. —.... 20.5...... 7.4 Vijayawada .............. —.... 29.0.... 18.5
er Reserve is set to be streng last year. Kolkata.................. —.... 27.9.... 18.6 Visakhapatnam ......... —.... 28.0.... 22.6
houses in Khadipur ed to the killing of two morning, he would have fl ed
thened as two trained ele The Odisha government youths in alleged police fi r by evening”. (Rainfall data in mm; temperature in Celsius)
Malahichak village here on
phants would be deployed had planned to bring six tig Pollutants in the air you are breathing Yesterday
Saturday, the police said on ing on antisacrilege protes “We are conducting inves
CITIES SO2 NO2 CO PM2.5 PM10 CODE
Sunday. The deceased has there shortly. ers (three male and three fe ters in 2015 at Behbal Kalan tigations and taking action Ahmedabad..... 44 .69 24 ....95 .....— ....*
been identified as Ankush Trained elephants will male) from Madhya Pradesh in Punjab’s Faridkot district, as per law. During this pe Bengaluru ....... ..5 .52 46 ....78 .112 ....* In observation made at 4.00
p.m., Fatehabad, Haryana
Sahni. Nearly six houses were help groundlevel forest to increase the feline popu the police said. riod, Charanjit Singh Shar Chennai .......... ..8 .12 48 ....19 .....— ....* recorded an overall air
Delhi .............. 27 .76 82 ..319 .231 ....* quality index (AQI) score of
gutted in the fire. PTI guards patrol deep in the lation in Satkosia. Last year, Confi rming Sharma’s ar ma and some others had Hyderabad ...... ..2 .82 42 ..108 ...81 ....* 254 indicating an unhealthy
forest where jeeps cannot one pair of big cats was rest from his residence in fi led a writ before the Pun Kolkata ........... 19 .85 14 ..309 .175 ....* level of pollution. In
contrast, Amaravati, Andhra
go. Trained elephants of the brought to Satkosia. Hoshiarpur, Inspector Gen jab and Haryana High Court, Lucknow ......... 10 .20 55 ..192 .....— ....* Pradesh recorded a healthy
Cold wave continues in Mumbai .......... 14 .85 89 ....61 .109 ....*
The two elephants are be Similipal Tiger Reserve in However, the programme eral of Police Kunwar Vijay on which the court gave its AQI score of 45
Pune............... 18 ...3 11 ..122 .100 ....*
Himachal Pradesh ing brought from the Simili Odisha. FILE PHOTO
*
did not go as per plan. While Pratap Singh said they had verdict recently,” he said. Visakhapatnam ..— ..— .— ..... — .....— ....—
SHIMLA pal Tiger Reserve. the tiger T1 reportedly died specifi c inputs that the ac Sharma was leading a pol Air Quality Code: * Poor * Moderate * Good (Readings indicate average AQI)
Cold wave conditions “We are mobilising a few pathi, Principal Chief Con after falling into a poaching cused was trying to fl ee to ice party that allegedly SO2: Sulphur Dioxide. Short-term exposure can harm the respiratory system,
continued in Himachal trained elephants as per the servator Forest (Wildlife). trap, there was huge discon making breathing difficult. It can affect visibility by reacting with other air
some undisclosed location. opened fi re at the antisacri
Pradesh on Sunday with particles to form haze and stain culturally important objects such as statues
guidelines of the National Sources in the Forest and tentment among villagers re “Former Senior Superin lege protesters at Behbal Ka and monuments.
prominent tourist
Tiger Conservation Authori Environment Department siding in the buff er areas ov tendent of Police Charanjit lan on October 14, 2015. His NO2: Nitrogen Dioxide. Aggravates respiratory illness, causes haze to form by
destinations shivering below reacting with other air particles, causes acid rain, pollutes coastal waters.
ty. The elephant deploy said the authorities did not er the frequent straying of Singh Sharma was arrested arrest, fi rst in the case after
freezing temperatures, the CO: Carbon monoxide. High concentration in air reduces oxygen supply to
met department said. The
ment in STR at present has want to leave any stone un the tigress into human habi from his residence in Hosh the SIT was formed last year, critical organs like the heart and brain. At very high levels, it can cause
minimum temperature in no connection with the pos turned before approaching tation. As the situation went iarpur by a Special Investiga comes two days after the HC dizziness, confusion, unconsciousness and even death.
sible release of tigress Sun the NTCA for resuming the out of control following a hu PM2.5 & PM10: Particulate matter pollution can cause irritation of the eyes,
Manali was minus 5 degrees tion Team of the Punjab Pol dismissed the petitions seek nose and throat, coughing, chest tightness and shortness of breath, reduced
Celsius, followed by minus dari, imported from Madhya ambitious tiger reintroduc man kill, the tigress was cap ice,” Mr. Singh, who is also a ing a CBI probe into the inci lung function, irregular heartbeat, asthma attacks, heart attacks and
4.2 in Kufri, minus 1.5 in Pradesh, from the special tion programme in Satkosia. tured. Subsequently, the SIT member, said. dents and challenging the premature death in people with heart or lung disease
Dalhousie and minus 0.2 deg enclosure set up inside Sat The tiger reintroduction programme was put on He said Sharma had been fi ndings of the Ranjit Singh
C in Shimla. PTI kosia,” said Sandeep Tri programme in STR had run hold. asked to appear before the Commission.
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THE HINDU
MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 2019
DELHI
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IN BRIEF
Seven northeastern States lag ‘Islam in India infl uenced by
Sufi sm, Bhakti movement’
behind in toilets for schoolgirls Diverse traditions prevented inroads of Wahabism: experts
Train 18 named
Only onethird of schools had usable washrooms in 2018, says ASER report
Special Correspondent
Vande Bharat Express
NEW DELHI
RAHUL KARMAKAR states. The average for the JAIPUR
The Indian Railways has
GUWAHATI Northeast last year was poor The puritanical Islamic doc
named the indigenously An average of 34.96% er than the 44.99% in 2016. trine of Wahhabism was in
manufactured superfast Train schools in the eight north Sikkim, Assam and Mizoram capable of taking roots in In
18 as ‘Vande Bharat Express’, eastern States had usable toi had an average 68.53% dia because of diverse
which will ply from the lets for girls in 2018 com schools that had drinking traditions in the Muslim
national capital to Varanasi, pared to 36.66% in 2016, water facilities in schools. community infl uenced by
Railway Minister Piyush Goyal data analysed from the An The national average was the country's composite cul
said on Sunday. nual Status of Education Re 74.8%. ture, experts on Muslim cul
port (ASER) 2018 report According to the report, ture said on Sunday.
Teen held for raping,
revealed. 2018 completed eight years The panel of experts ana
killing minor girl
KORBA
With 75.7% schools – a of compulsory schooling for lysed multiple interpretative
A sevenyearold girl was marginal increase from 75% the fi rst cohort of students to traditions among Muslims in
in 2016 – having usable toi Nationally, about 66.4% schools provide girls with toilets. benefi t from Right to Educa India and elsewhere as well (From left) Salman Khurshid, Rana Safvi, Zulfi kar Hirji and
allegedly raped and killed by
lets for girls, Sikkim per tion Act 2010. as modern challenges before Max Rodenbeck at the JLF on Sunday. ROHIT JAIN PARAS *
a teenage boy in
Chhattisgarh’s Balrampur formed better than the na The other fi ve states per ticularly marked in Jammu them at a discussion on “Is
district, police said. The
accused was taken into police
custody on Sunday. The
tional average of 66.4% last
year. But the State’s show
was overshadowed by the
formed poorly, the steepest
drop for Assam being 38.3%
from 54.2% in 2016. Manipur
and Kashmir apart from
most of the northeastern
states, the ASER report, pre
National picture
“Nationally, substantial im
provements are visible over
lam: Multiple Histories” at
the Jaipur Literary Festival
here.
India’s problem is Pak.,
accused has confessed to
have committed the crime. A
case has been registered. PTI
lessthansatisfactory perfor
mance by seven other States
had 9.1% schools having few
er usable toilets for girls, fol
pared by NGO Pratham, said.
In Jammu and Kashmir,
this eightyear period in the
availability of many school
Sufi sm and the Bhakti
movement have had an im not Afghanistan: Menon
in the region. lowed by Meghalaya (8.6%), 48.2% schools had toilets for facilities mandated by RTE. pact on the beliefs and
Nagaland was the next Arunachal Pradesh (7.6%) girls last year, up from 46.7% The fraction of schools with thoughts of Muslims since Press Trust of India direct link between
Most wanted ultra best State with 47%, an in and Tripura (7.3%). in 2014 (data for J&K for 2016 usable girls' toilets doubled, the medieval period, the ex Jaipur economics and peaceful
surrenders in Odisha crease from 40.9% in 2016, was not available). The State reaching 66.4% in 2018. The perts said, adding that Islam India’s problem is Pakistan bilateral ties. “Pakistan was
BERHAMPUR
followed by Mizoram with J&K suff ers too provided drinking water in percentage of schools with practised in India was “vast which not only promotes doing well economically in
Andhara Kanhar, 24, a much
the highest percentile in The national averages hide 54.6% schools in 2018, better books, other than textbooks, ly diff erent” from that in terrorism from its own soil the 60s and 70s. It has been
sought after Maoist having ₹ 1
lakh reward on him
crease from 25.3% to 34.9% major variations across the than the average 44.4% available rose from 62.6% to West Asian countries. but also trains terrorists in doing miserably for the last
surrendered in Odisha’s in these two years. states, with defi ciencies par schools in the northeastern 74.2% between 201618. Afghanistan, former 15 years, we still don’t have
Kandhamal district on Current dilemmas National Security Adviser good relations with it,” Mr.
Sunday. He hailed from The speakers also focused Shivshankar Menon has Menon said.
Phiringia block of Kandhamal on the issues faced by Mus said. “All we want is Pakistan
district and was working for lims living in secular socie The top diplomat, who to be at peace with itself.
the CPI (Maoist) since ties, dilemmas created by also served as Foreign Thank you. We want to get
November 2014. He was technological advancements Secretary, rejected the on with our lives. We have
involved in several cases of and the challenge of fi nding claim that there was a better things to do,” he said.
violence and arson. a unitary voice for the entire
community.
Boy found dead after
Congress leader and lam, cannot fi nd a place in guide the community,” he
sexual harassment
SHAHJAHANPUR
former External Aff airs Mi our country,” he said, and said.
A fiveyearold boy died after nister Salman Khurshid, his added that Indian Muslims Ms. Safvi said Sufi sm had
he was allegedly sexually torian Rana Safvi and Cana had already repudiated the a special place in India’s his
assaulted by his neighbour in dabased anthropologist twonation theory of Mo tory, as Sufi mystics such as
U.P.’s Shahjahanpur district, Zulfi kar Hirji, who teaches at hammed Ali Jinnah. Nizamuddin Auliya and
police said on Sunday. The York University, Toronto, The Congress leader said Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti
boy was playing outside his were in conversation with the doors of Ijtihad (inde would sit and discuss Islam
house when his neighbour American journalist and pendent interpretation) and understood it as a ser
lured him and took him to his author Max Rodenbeck, were not closed forever in Is vice to the people. In the
house, police said. PTI who is at present the South lam and there was a “great secular domain, no one
Asia Bureau Chief with The need” for its application in could stop nonMuslims
6 arrested for claiming Economist. contemporary society to in from speaking up for Mus
insurance with fake papers Mr. Khurshid said though terpret the religion in the lims’ rights, she said.
THANE the basic belief of Muslims light of modern challenges. Prof. Hirji made referenc
Six persons, including two was the same everywhere, es to the book, “Islam: An Il
doctors and a civicrun its understanding, interpre Democratic dialogue lustrated Journey”, coauth
crematorium employee, were tations and conceptions “We should work on it in a ored by him and Farhad
arrested in Thane in
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Birdwatchers fl ock to Chilika lake
A record one million migratory birds arrive for annual visit in Odisha
Staff Reporter said Susanta Nanda, chief ex
BHUBANESWAR ecutive of the Chilika Deve
Ornithologists, bird lovers lopment Authority (CDA).
and photographers from all The bird count this year in
over the country assembled Chilika was 10,47,968 with
at the scenic Mangalajodi, on 181 species (10,21,563 water
the banks of Chilika Lake in fowl of 105 species and
Odisha, on Sunday to cele 26,405 water dependent
brate the annual congrega birds of 76 species).
tion of migratory birds. Last year, it was 8,93,390
Bird lovers went by boats of 147 species (8,67,834 wa
in the sprawling waters of terfowl of 95 species and
Chilika and watched birds 25,556 water dependent of
that had migrated to the fa Birdwatchers in boats at the second National Chilika Bird 52 species).
mous wintering ground after Festival at Mangalajodi in Odisha on Sunday. K.R. DEEPAK *
The CDA also released its
fl ying thousands of miles. book Fish and Shellfi sh Di
over the country. This year State Forest and Environ versity and its Sustainable
Twoday fete we have around one million ment Secretary Suresh Mo Management in Chilika
Photo exhibitions and semi migratory birds present in hapatra said. Lake. Around 145 bird
nars on birds are the main Chilika. The National Chilika Bird watchers from all over India
feature of the twoday Na “We are recognising the Festival Award was awarded are in attendance for the
tional Chilika Bird Festival eff orts by the locals in pre to Mangalajodi Ecotourism event.
inaugurated by the State serving the Chilika Lake and Group for their active invol Chilika, which lies in the
Tourism Minister Ashok Pan want to empower them by vement in bird protection. Central Asian Flyway for
da on Sunday. Participants helping them with livelihood “This year Chilika has re birds, is a major stopover for
are scheduled to visit the in the form of sustainable ceived record number of migratory birds from the the
Nalbana Bird Sanctuary on tourism. Every participant of birds as a result of removal of Arctic and the SubArctic re
Monday. bird festival is an ambassa illegal gheries [prawnrear gions in the course of their
“We are extremely happy dor of this place and we ing enclosures] from the lake onward and return migra
to have participants from all hope the message spreads,” by the forest department,” tion along the east coast.
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8 EDITORIAL DELHI
Removing the roots of farmers’ distress
Steps like limited procurement, boosting productivity and consolidating land holdings can help reduce agrarian distress
mum support prices (MSP). All and develop a value chain com and marginal farmers from all
these trends show that the terms prising farming, wholesaling, wa sources is only around ₹ 4,000 and
RAJEEV BHATT
market prices decline. And in the tivity of Indian agriculture. Basics Many small farmers cannot
I
t is in the nature of our polity to use any opportunity S. Mahendra Dev
absence of an eff ective price sup such as seeds, fertilizers, credit, leave agriculture because of a lack
possible for political signalling, and the Bharat Rat port policy, farmers are faced with land and water management and of opportunities in the nonfarm
na, the nation’s highest civilian honour, has not been
R
ecently, there has been ac a loss in income, depending on technology are important and sector. They can get only partial
spared from this propensity. Over the years, ideological tive discussion on the strate how much the price decline is. price will never rise. There are should not be forgotten. Similarly, income from the nonfarm sector.
considerations have infl uenced the choices. While the gies addressing farm dis The ‘farm distress’ in recent years costs involved which will go up as investment in infrastructure and In this context, a consolidation of
Narendra Modi government’s decision to confer the tress. There are media reports that has been partly on account of this production increases above the av research and development are land holdings becomes important
Bharat Ratna on the late Assamese singer Bhupen Haza the ‘interim Budget’ may focus on situation, as the loss of income is erage level. The government can needed. Water is the leading input to raise farmer incomes. There
the farm sector among other beyond the ability, particularly of sell the procured grain in later in agriculture. More than 60% of was a lot of discussion on this topic
rika (who contested on the BJP ticket in the 2004 Lok
things. Agrarian distress, in the small farmers, to absorb. In a years or use them in welfare pro irrigation water is consumed by in the 1960s and 1970s. In the con
Sabha election) and the late Nanaji Deshmukh (a Bhara present context, is mainly in terms strange way, it is the success in in grammes. two crops: rice and sugar cane. text of rural poverty, B.S. Minhas
tiya Jan Sangh leader and social activist) evoked little of low agricultural prices and, con creasing production that has re Some States have introduced Basically, it is not investment had argued even in the 1970s that
surprise, the choice of former President Pranab Muk sequently, poor farm incomes. sulted in this adverse farm support schemes, examples alone but effi ciency in water man compulsory consolidation of land
herjee seemed to have caught everyone off guard and Low productivity in agriculture consequence. being the Rythu Bandhu Scheme agement in both canal and holdings alongside land develop
triggered fevered speculation. Prime Minister Narendra and related supply side factors are A few schemes have been sug (Telangana) and the Krushak As groundwater that is important. In ment activities could enhance the
Modi described him as “an outstanding statesman of equally important. An issue that is gested to address the problem of sistance for Livelihood and In dia uses upto three times the wa incomes/livelihoods of the poor in
connected is the declining average managing declining output prices come Augmentation (KALIA) ter used to produce one tonne of rural areas. Unfortunately, there is
our times”. While Mr. Mukherjee’s seniority and contri
size of farm holdings and the via when output increases signifi cant scheme (Odisha). One problem grain in countries such as Brazil, little discussion now on land frag
bution to the polity are not in doubt, the fact that he bility of this size for raising farm ly. The scheme of ‘price defi ciency with the Telangana model is that it China and the U.S. This implies mentation and consolidation of
agreed to speak at an RSS event last year to the be incomes. Here are possible compensation’ is one such me does not cover tenants, who are that wateruse effi ciency can be farm holdings. We need to have
mused disapproval of the Congress party was held out solutions. chanism which amounts to paying the actual cultivators. Basically, improved signifi cantly with better policies for land consolidation
as a reason. And more unsympathetically, could the the diff erence between market these schemes are income support use of technologies that include along with land development ac
award have been a part of the BJP’s strategy of embrac Prices and incomes price and the MSP. At the other ex schemes which will be in opera drip irrigation. Yields of several tivities in order to tackle the chal
ing old Congress leaders such as Vallabhbhai Patel to Prices play a key role in aff ecting treme is the ‘open procurement tion year after year. crops are lower in India when lenge of the low average size of
highlight that its real opposition is to the NehruGandhi the incomes of farmers. Even dur system’ that has been in vogue Thus, raising the MSP, price def compared to several other coun holdings. Farmers can voluntarily
ing the Green Revolution, along quite eff ectively in the case of rice iciency payments or income sup tries. Technology can help to re come together and pool land to
family? It is no secret that Mr. Mukherjee’s political am
with technology and associated and wheat, where procurement is port schemes can only be a partial duce ‘yield gaps’ and thus improve gain the benefi ts of size. Through
bitions were thwarted at one point by his inability to packages, price factor was consi open ended at the MSP. Is there a solution to the problem of provid productivity. Government policies consolidation, farmers can reap
break the hold of dynastic politics in the Congress. dered important. In the last two middle way that may be eff ective ing remunerative returns to farm have been biased towards cereals the economies of scale both in in
Whether or not someone deserves a particular ho years, infl ation in agriculture was in some crops? One of us had sug ers. A sustainable solution is mar particularly rice and wheat. There put procurement and output
nour is not an easy question to resolve. Idolised leaders much lower than overall infl ation. gested the option of limited pro ket reforms to enable better price is a need to make a shift from rice marketing.
are integral to the imagination of a community, and ar The implicit price defl ator for curement for price stabilisation. A discovery combined with long and wheatcentric policies to mil To conclude, farmers’ distress
guably, for nationbuilding. Such secular rites of vener Gross Value Added (GVA) in agri ‘price defi ciency’ scheme may term trade policies favourable to lets, pulses, fruits, vegetables, liv is due to low prices and low pro
culture was 1.1% while it was 3.2% compensate farmers when prices exports. The creation of a compet estock and fi sh. ductivity. The suggestions we have
ation set an ideal that the community celebrates and
for total GVA in 201718. The ad decrease below a certain specifi ed itive, stable and unifi ed national made, such as limited procure
strives for. This is of course diff erent from the pursuit of vance estimates for 201819 show level. However, market prices may market is needed for farmers to Land size ment, measures to improve low
partisan political interests. Unfortunately, competitive that the implicit defl ator for GVA continue to fall as supply exceeds get better prices. Agricultural mar Another major issue relates to the productivity, and consolidation of
politics has overshadowed the majesty of the Bharat in agriculture is 0%, and 4.8% for ‘normal demand’. An alternative is kets have witnessed only limited shrinking size of farms which is al land holdings to gain the benefi ts
Ratna. The honour to M.G. Ramachandran in 1988 was total GVA. In fact, agriculture GVA the limited procurement scheme. reforms. They are characterised so responsible for low incomes of size, can help in reducing agrar
widely seen as a cynical political move ahead of an elec growth was at 3.8% for both nomi Under this scheme, the govern by ineffi cient physical operations, and farmers’ distress. The average ian distress. We need a longterm
tion in Tamil Nadu. A promise to confer the Bharat Rat nal prices and constant prices in ment will procure the ‘excess’, excessive crowding of intermedi size of farm holdings declined policy to tackle the situation.
201819, giving the price defl ator of leaving the normal production le aries, and fragmented market from 2.3 hectares in 197071 to 1.08
na to Madan Mohan Malaviya was made by Mr. Modi
0%. The consumer price index vel to clear the market at a remun chains. Due to this, farmers are de hectares in 201516. The share of C. Rangarajan is former Chairman of the
during the 2014 campaign, and he fulfi lled it soon after (CPI) also shows that the rise in erative price. Thus, procurement prived of a fair share of the price small and marginal farmers in Economic Advisory Council to the Prime
coming to power. Claims and counterclaims for the ho prices for agriculture was much will continue until the market paid by fi nal consumers. States creased from 70% in 198081 to Minister and former Governor, Reserve
nour have become part of assertions of power by va lower than general infl ation in re price rises to touch the MSP. The have also not shown any urgency 86% in 201516. The average size of Bank of India. S. Mahendra Dev is
rious groups. The emergence of new political elites is cent years. Market prices for sever suggested ‘limited procurement in reforming agricultural markets. marginal holdings is only 0.38 hec Director and Vice Chancellor, Indira
often accompanied by a clamour for greater acceptance al agricultural commodities have system’ will not work if the MSP is For better price for farmers, agri tares (less than one acre) in 2015 Gandhi Institute of Development
for their leaders in the national roll of honour. A demo been lower than those of mini fi xed at a level to which the market culture has to go beyond farming 16. The monthly income of small Research, Mumbai
cratic, plural community must resolve these demands
with respect and sensitivity. But this must not lead to a
devaluation of the honour. Transparency is not easy to
achieve, and fairness is diffi cult to establish, given the
The essence of the next mandate #70929
contradictory demands of representation and majesty. It must deepen the foundations of a deliberative democracy and ensure that a suppressed nation’s soul fi nds utterance
But a good place to start is to discontinue posthumous
awards. It is a slippery slope of arbitrariness. Idols and unemployment, acute agrarian mocracy that holds hope for all vindicate national conscience so
distress, corruption in high places, our people. that freedom prevails over fear, in
ideals unite diversities in a community, and Bharat Rat
rising social disparities, continu Those who suggest that the clusion over exclusion and secula
nas must be selected with this in mind. On this count at ing marginalisation of Dalits and campaign against the BJP should rism over communalism. We know
least, the Modi government’s list will be contested. Adivasis, insensitivity to the plight focus essentially on issues related that the triumph of democracy is
of vulnerable sections and glaring to “roti, kapda aur makaan” un anchored in the equality of citi
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he partial shutdown of the U.S. government was temporary history, are expected to ment’s claim of ‘Sushashan’ and not mutually incompatible. No the suff rage of a subservient peo
the fi rst major showdown between President Do redraw the nation’s political land ‘Sabka Vikas’. tice and dignity of citizens. reason, tactical or otherwise, can ple” and that “no citizen is so ob
nald Trump and the Democrats after the latter scape with implications for the fu But this election is not only Indeed, this election is about justify less than a frontal, sus scure that it is not dangerous to al
ture of Indian democracy. about failed promises and gover the ends of power, the legitimacy tained and vigorous censure of the low him to be oppressed, no
took control of the House of Representatives in the mid
The coming together of political nance defi cit. It is about founda of its exercise and means of its pur ruling party’s divisive, sectarian, private rights are so unimportant
term Congressional elections in November 2018. Mr. leaders at Trinamool Congress tional principles of the republic suit. It is about a proclaimed prefe exclusionary, antilibertarian and that they can be surrendered with
Trump had threatened to keep the government shut leader and West Bengal Chief Mi centered around the idea of India rence of politics “grounded in hu antidignity agenda of governance. impunity to the caprices of a
down indefi nitely unless Congress authorised $5.7 bil nister Mamata Banerjee’s rally in crystallised in United Progressive manism than in force”. It should It is imperative, however, to en government”.
lion to build a wall along the U.S.Mexico border, one of Kolkata on January 19, represent Alliance Chairperson Sonia Gand be about the end objectives of the sure an appropriate idiom to com The dismal track record of the
his key campaign promises. He fi nally agreed to reopen ing a wide political spectrum op hi’s message for the Kolkata rally. state as much as about addressing municate a powerful appeal built BJP’s rule, irretrievably dimin
the federal departments, on the 35th day, without get posed to the politics of the Bharati In her message, she lamented that challenges of an impoverished pol around the assertion of the repu ished by suppression of free
ting anything in return. The Democrats, on their part, ya Janata Party (BJP) under Prime the nation’s “pluralist fabric itics and debilitated institutions of blic’s core values. The politics of a thought, persecution and intimi
Minister Narendra Modi is to be stands vitiated” and declared that democracy. The election must also free people wedded to the idea of dation of political opponents, citi
had insisted from the beginning that they fi rst wanted
noted. It signalled a common re “this will be an election to restore be about restoring ideology and accountable and restrained power zens and students, will hopefully
the shutdown to end before discussing border security. solve to oust his government des the nation’s faith in democracy, reason at the centre of politics and must, forever lean on the side of carry the burden of argument
The President had stormed out of a meeting with the pite challenges inherent in such a defend our secular ethos and our a reclaiming of the constitutional freedom because “the battle of against the party’s continuation in
Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that was called coalescence. This coalition would heritage, and defeat forces that are centre founded on our liberal, sec freedom is never done, and the offi ce. Finally, we cannot forget
to discuss the shutdown. But now he has agreed to hold not have been possible without trying to sabotage the Constitution ular, progressive and dignity fi eld never quiet”. that the pledge in defence of liber
talks, after reopening the government. There were a massive disenchantment with the of India”. Mrs. Gandhi’s exhorta based heritage. ty and dignity of our people that
host of factors that infl uenced the turnaround. If the Prime Minister’s leadership, con tion together with statements to si This election is about a contest In a nutshell we took as a nation on the mid
fi rmed by an unravelling of the Na milar eff ect by Congress President of ideas, about the meaning of de Hopefully, the electoral mandate night of freedom is a continuing
Trump team had hoped a prolonged government shut
tional Democratic Alliance, setting Rahul Gandhi, Ms. Banerjee and mocracy and for galvanising maxi of 2019 will serve to strengthen the one since we are once again called
down would break the Democratic Party’s rank and fi le, the stage for a transformative pol others should leave none in doubt mum support for the dignitarian foundations of deliberative de upon to ensure “that the soul of a
it didn’t happen. Instead, the longest government shut itical change in the months ahead. that as far as the Opposition is con values that gave birth to the na mocracy and repel onslaughts on suppressed nation fi nds utte
down in America’s history created fi ssures within Con cerned, this election is about the tion. It is about the rejection of our liberties in the name of invent rance”. Therein lies the extraor
gressional Republicans. The FBI Director, a Trump ap A sense of betrayal defence of democracy from the “convenient moralities” in favour ed insecurities. The mandate must dinary signifi cance of the electoral
pointee, was among the senior functionaries who The dominant mood of the nation “tyrannies of power”. Viewed of allegiance to an ideal of a just, also serve to restore the credibility outcome this year.
decried the governmental dysfunction. The President’s barely 100 days before the general thus, the ‘mahagathbandhan’ is inclusive and compassionate so of political parties as protagonists
election, refl ects a sense of be not a ‘summit of contradictions’ ciety. It is about a campaign that of constitutional goals, and inte Ashwani Kumar is Senior Advocate,
approval ratings fell and polls suggested that most
trayal by its political chief execu but a loud affi rmation of collective must yield politics elevated gral to the democratic process. We Supreme Court and a former Union
Americans held him responsible for the crisis. tive who has failed to deliver on political will to rise in defence of beyond the assertion of subidenti are entitled to expect that the out Minister for Law and Justice. The views
For Speaker Pelosi, who stuck to her demand despite the promises made in 2014. Rising freedom, inclusion, equality, jus ties towards a deepening of de come of the general election will expressed are personal
the administration’s posturing, it was a victory of sorts
in the game of chicken played between Mr. Trump and
her. But the key issue remains unaddressed. For now,
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.
the spending bills will allow the government to run till
February 15. President Trump has said he would not Losing its lustre? achieve its ends, it is august conferences, the last on a child’s shoulders be Open last year was no fl ash her be relatively injuryfree.
That the Bharatiya Janata unfortunate that the BJP writer (‘It’s Complicated’) given a tidy sum of money in the pan and that she is A new star has arrived and,
back off from his demand for funding for the wall,
Party will go to any extent government is now using appeared to give the to delve into ancient texts, no longer a pushover hopefully, be in the
which he believes is necessary to stop illegal immigra to appease voters to be in the highest civilian award to impression that he had and using the information (‘Sport’ page, “Osaka limelight for a long time.
tion and cut crime — a claim that is contested widely as power is evident from the try and infl uence some misunderstood the therein, to produce overcomes nerves and a V. Lakshmanan,
bordercrossing apprehensions hit a 46year low in government’s decision to sections of voters, meaning of ‘temper’ in the working laboratory models gritty Kvitova”, January 27). Tirupur, Tamil Nadu
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Making the signifi cant
The dance bar case yields insights on the institutional interaction between governments and the courts
the House. The amendments of 2014,
for example, were approved by the
Maharashtra Cabinet on a Thursday,
interesting
and sailed through the Vidhan Sabha The reason behind explaining one political story a month
and Vidhan Parishad within minutes
on the following day. speak about how they do their job, their
Chintan Chandrachud The practical implication of the commitment to accuracy, their motivations
government being more nimble than to dig deep and present a fairly comprehen
On January 17, the Supreme Court the courts is that even when govern sive picture. It helps journalists and news or
struck down several statutory provi ment responses are imperfect, the ganisations anticipate and address criticism
sions and rules governing Maharash court produces signifi cant delays. in a proactive manner. It wants those in the
tra’s dance bars. This decision forms This case outlines the vulnerability A.S. Panneerselvan media to engage with the people when they
part of an iterative game that has of what is otherwise seen as an all have questions. Trusting News points out
evolved over 14 years between the powerful Supreme Court, especially As the Readers’ Editor (RE), I recognise the that this eff ort does not involve a huge techn
Maharashtra government and the when it depends on the government crucial distinction between reasonable scep ological intervention; it shows a willingness
courts. to comply with its decisions in some ticism and total cynicism. My off er to explain to engage and be transparent. It shows that
positive way, such as by issuing once a month at least one political story pu earning trust is the job of journalists.
Prolonged interactions dance bar licenses. Even when the blished in this newspaper generated not only Nothing gives a newspaper more pleasure
In 2005, the Maharashtra govern The SC’s decision is part of a long iterative game between the Maharashtra courts exercise the putatively “nega interest but also a fair amount of than the fact that its readers re
ment imposed a ban on dance per government and the courts. A dance bar in Mumbai. ARUANANGSU ROY CHOWDHURY *
tive” function of striking down legis reasonable scepticism. Readers tain confi dence in its editorial
formances in bars, with the excep lation or rules, the level of com wanted to know on what basis decisions, its journalistic values,
tion of hotels rated three stars and Rather than seeking to impose a ban querading as an attempt to regulate pliance with their decisions often lies the monthly political story and its ethical practices in the
above. The public rationale off ered on dance performances altogether, it them. The court would have none of in the hands of the executive. would be selected. Why is polit newsroom. Every news ombud
was that these performances were only did so to the extent that these it: “[The government is] aiming to These developments should also ics getting prioritised over the sman has his or her personal ap
obscene, morally corrupt, and pro performances were obscene or achieve something indirectly which lead courts to introspect about the economy, they asked. And if proach to eff ectively build trust.
moted prostitution. Dance perfor overtly sexual. However, it imposed a it could not do directly... [this] can existing remedial landscape in cases readers seek clarifi cation for In its May 2000 issue, Granta
mance licenses were cancelled with number of other conditions on esta not be countenanced”. where legislation is challenged. The more than one story, on what magazine carried an extract of
PTI
immediate eff ect, prompting aff ect blishments seeking a license for such These developments yield insights Supreme Court often deploys the basis will the RE choose the sto Diana Athill’s excellent memoir
ed parties to fi le petitions in the Bom performances. Applicants were re on the institutional interaction bet writ of continuing mandamus (issu ry for critical evaluation? The fundamental Stet, titled Editing Vidia, which, in a way,
bay High Court. The High Court held quired to “possess a good character” ween governments and the courts. ing a series of interim orders over a drive for this initiative is to strengthen the helped me learn not only about the craft of
against the government, resulting in with no criminal antecedents. The Through each iteration of this case, period of time to monitor com bond between the newspaper and its read editing but also about life. Athill said about
an appeal to the Supreme Court. establishment could not be within the Maharashtra government has res pliance with its decisions) in public ers and not permit the external climate to good editing: “It was like removing layers of
The Supreme Court affi rmed the one kilometre of an educational or ponded more swiftly to judicial deci interest litigation cases that test the corrode the trust factor. crumpled brown paper from an awkwardly
High Court’s decision in July 2013, religious institution. A CCTV camera sions than the Supreme Court has to limits of its jurisdiction. It has chosen shaped parcel, and revealing the attractive
pursuing two lines of reasoning. would need to be fi tted at the en the government’s attempts to sides not to adopt that enforcement strate Earning trust present which it contained.” She has written
One, the government could not dis trance. Customers could not be per tep them. The fi nal judicial decision gy in this case, which falls squarely Trust is not a mathematically quantifi able at extensively about things which life teaches
criminate between luxury hotels and mitted to throw coins or currency in the fi rst round took just short of within the four corners of its jurisdic tribute. It is a qualitative attribute that has us. Her two valuable lessons — “avoid roman
other establishments seeking licens notes on the dancers, but could add eight years, while the government’s tion. While the court cannot direct psychological and emotional components. ticism and abhor possessiveness” — are also
es for dance performances. Two, the tips to the bill. The permit room response took about 11 months. In the enactment of legislation, it can When U.S. President Donald Trump started lessons for me as an ombudsman.
ban had proven to be counterpro (where alcohol was served) and the the second round, the court took a monitor compliance with an order to his vicious attack on the press, more than
ductive, resulting in the unemploy dance room would need to be sepa year and three months to make its issue licenses to qualifi ed applicants. 300 publications in the U.S. came together Why political stories?
ment of over 75,000 women, many rated by a partition. The stage could decision; the government responded A further response from the Maha to run editorials on the freedom of the press. I do not romanticise journalists, though my
of whom were forced by circum not be smaller than a prescribed size. in six months. In the third round, the rashtra government now seems al While welcoming this decision, media scho romance for journalism is deep. I maintain a
stances to engage in prostitution. Some of these conditions were chal court has taken just short of three most inevitable. The court struck lars also asked journalists to defend their certain critical distance from the way words
Rather than implementing the Su lenged in the Supreme Court on the years. The government’s response down the one kilometre distance re work through action. Journalists were told in are produced in this newspaper. The exer
preme Court’s decision, the govern basis that they were far too onerous. time is to be seen. quirement, but did not say that any no uncertain terms that trust in a news or cise to talk about one political story a month
ment swiftly devised a strategy to sid On January 17, the court upheld a distance requirement would be inva ganisation develops when people know that is not a oneway communication to extol the
estep it, imposing an outright ban on few of these conditions, but struck Reasons for disparity lid. While unconstitutional in its pre they can always turn to a news organisation virtues of journalism. It is a conscious eff ort
all dance performances, whether in down others. For example, it noted A number of structural reasons may sent form, it noted that the “good for reliable information. to listen and share. I invite readers to suggest
street bars or upmarket hotels. Alth that the CCTV requirement violated account for this disparity. Despite character” requirement could be de There is a tricky aspect in the relationship the story about which they want to know
ough the government’s response ad the right to privacy of the dancers heavy caseloads, courts must pro fi ned more precisely. These are only between the people and journalists. How do more. The idea of examining political stories
dressed the court’s fi rst concern, it and the patrons, the “good charac vide an opportunity for a fair hear two among the many options that people know that they are being heard? The in the runup to the election is simple: It is
failed to address the second. This led ter” requirement was vague, the par ing, deliberate, and set out reasons are now available to the government journalistic community always feels that its these stories that are subjected to misinter
to fresh proceedings in the Supreme tition between the permit room and for their decisions. Courts will also in responding to the court’s decision. coverage refl ects the priorities and aspira pretation the most on social media. Tweak
Court. While the court saw through the dance room was unjustifi ed, and typically not consider cases unilater The court concluded its judgment tions of the people; hence, journalism itself ing stories through algorithms, using key
the government’s attempt to circum the one kilometre distance require ally, but are dependent on parties to with the “hope” that applications for is proof that the profession is sensitive to the words in those stories to misunderstand
vent its decision, it left room for the ment was impractical. bring proceedings in search of a re licenses would “now be considered society at large. However, with information them, and converting the public space into
government to prohibit obscene However, what the court found es medy. Separately, the ban on dance more objectively and with [an] open on social media being manipulated by those ideological silos are some of the reasons be
dances with a view to protecting the pecially revealing was that amongst bars has also received a disconcert mind”. Similar hopes have been ex with partisan interests, journalists are forced hind this initiative. It is often said that jour
dignity of the dancers. the dozens of applications fi led since ing level of crossparty political sup pressed earlier. It is hard to believe
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to walk the extra mile. Trusting News, a joint nalism strives to make the signifi cant inter
Once again, the government res the new rules were put in place, not a port in Maharashtra, despite the re that this time will be any diff erent. venture between the American Press Insti esting in an ethical and accountable manner.
ponded in a matter of months. This single one had been approved by the gime changes since 2005. This has tute and the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Talking about the process of reporting is part
time, the government’s response was government. The court therefore meant that legislation has often been Chintan Chandrachud is an Associate at Institute, focuses on one key area of discon of this imagination.
more sophisticated and took cues saw the government’s most recent enacted unopposed, without any Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, nect between the public and journalists. The
from the Supreme Court’s decision. response as a ban on dance bars mas meaningful discussion on the fl oor of London. Views are personal initiative puts the onus on journalists to readerseditor@thehindu.co.in
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Portuguese release Goan freedom fi ghter
Through its DAMaN initiative, Odisha
Mr. Mohan Ranade, a Goan freedom fi ghter who had been un
has emerged as an inspiration in the der Portuguese imprisonment for the last 14 years, was re
global fi ght against malaria leased on Wednesday [ January 22] and will arrive in India in
the second week of February. A letter to this eff ect was re
Pramod Kumar Meherda ceived today [ January 27] by Mr. Sudhir Phadke, noted Music
Director and Secretary of the Ranade Vimochan Samiti, from
The World Health Organisation’s
Mr. Shankar Kamat, Mr. Ranade’s advocate in Lisbon. Mr.
World Malaria Report of 2018 turned
Phadke said Mr. Ranade left Lisbon for Rome on Saturday. The
the spotlight on India’s recent strides
SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA
letter was written on January 22, the day of his release. The
against malaria. India is the only
fi rst news of Mr. Ranade’s release reached India when Mr.
country among the 11 highestburden
Phadke received a cable from Mr. Kamat yesterday. The letter
countries that saw substantial pro
said that Mr. Ranade’s appeal, which was fi led after he had
gress in reducing disease burden: it
completed half the period of his 26year term of imprison
saw a 24% decrease in 2017 compared
ment was heard by a court in Lisbon on January 22 and the
to 2016. This shows that India has as
same day he was released from jail in Lisbon.
sumed a leadership role in advancing global eff orts to end
malaria. The country’s success provides hope to the other
highestburden countries to tackle malaria headon. A HUNDRED YEARS AGO JANUARY 28, 1919
India’s progress in fi ghting malaria is an outcome of con
certed eff orts to ensure that its malaria programme is coun The Late Mr. Guptan Namboodiripad.
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globally accepted strategies. The turning point in India’s DATA POINT An esteemed and eminent Malayalee Brahmana gentleman
fi ght against malaria came at the East Asia Summit in 2015, has passed away by death, at Desamangalam, Shoranur, at the
when it pledged to eliminate the disease by 2030. Following age of 67, of Mr. A.K.T.K.M. Guptan Namboodiripad, the Kar
this public declaration, India launched the fi veyear Nation navan of his large illom since 1908, when he succeeded his il
al Strategic Plan for Malaria Elimination. This marked a shift lustrious predecessor, the late Mr. Narayanan Namboodiripad.
in focus from malaria “control” to “elimination”. The plan The deceased was profoundly learned in Mathematics and
provides a roadmap to achieve the target of ending malaria Sanskrit and is known to have produced an excellent transla
in 571 districts out of India’s 678 districts by 2022. tion of the larger portion of the Bhagavat Gita. Early in life, he
The plan requires more than ₹ 10,000 crore. Adequate in adopted Banking as a serious business and his Bank at Trichur
vestment combined with coordinated action between go was a wellknown business institution in the Namboodiri
vernments, civil society and philanthropic donors is imper world. He always took a deep and practised interest in the
ative to achieve this goal. Since health is a State subject, spread of English education among his own community and as
State governments across the country shoulder a special res one result, all the members of his own family have acquired a
ponsibility in tackling the disease. useful knowledge of English.
Among the States, Odisha has emerged as an inspiration
in the fi ght against malaria. In recent years it has dramatical
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through its Durgama Anchalare Malaria Nirakaran (DAMaN)
initiative, which has produced impressive results in a short CONCEPTUAL
span of time. In 2017, accredited social health activists (ASH Hypsometric curve
As) helped distribute approximately 11 million bed nets,
Geology
which was enough to protect all the residents in areas that
were at highest risk. This included residential hostels in This refers to a graphical representation used to show the
schools. As a result of its sustained eff orts, Odisha recorded share of the earth’s land area that is at various heights above
a 80% decline in malaria cases and deaths in 2017. DAMaN or below sea level. The curve suggests that most of the earth’s
aims to deliver services to the most inaccessible and hardest land area is located at predominantly two levels. In contrast to
hit people of the State. The initiative has inbuilt innovative the normal distribution curve, the vast majority of the earth’s
strategies to combat asymptomatic malaria. DAMaN has land area is a little over sea level, while a little less, but still
been accorded priority in the State’s health agenda. There is considerable, proportion of the remaining land is located at
fi nancial commitment for a fi veyear period to sustain and about 5,000 m below sea level. The hypsometric curve has
build on the impact created by the initiative. been attributed to the signifi cant diff erence in the densities of
The new countrydriven ‘high burden to high impact’ the materials that make up the continents and the sea bed.
plan to reduce disease burden in the 11 countries refl ects the
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tion when it comes to fi ghting the disease. By prioritising
malaria elimination, India, and especially Odisha, is show MORE ON THE WEB
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(Hazarika) and a “man who future hearings on January the overnment to keep its
Natt, 26, a resident of cember 3, and six accused propagated their RSS ideol New journey: Patidar leader Hardik Patel married Kinjal Parikh, his childhood friend, at a 29. 2014 poll promise of a Ram
Chingrawathi, was working have been arrested. ogy” (Nanaji Deshmukh). simple ceremony at Digsar village in Surendranagar district of Gujarat on Sunday. PTI *
The Bench was to peruse temple on the dispute site.
Cabinet nod likely for NDA plans huge rally to launch campaign
relief package for farmers Modi likely to share stage with allies on March 3; Rahul plans meet with alliance team on February 3
Amarnath Tewary BJP president Amit Shah,” JD show of hundreds of youth
Patna (U) State president Basistha on motorcycles in Patna to
An attempt to sooth farming discontent ahead of polls The State presidents of all Narayan Singh said at a press garner support for the rally.
three NDA constituents in Bi meeting in Patna. Independent MLA and cri
Press Trust of India will be taken at the Cabinet har— the BJP, the Janata Dal BJP State president Nitya minalturnedpolitician
New Delhi meeting as a huge cost is in (U) and the Lok Janshakti nand Rai and LJP chief Pash Anant Singh, popularly
The Union Cabinet is expect volved, they said. Party — on Sunday an upati Kumar Paras were pre known as Chhote Sarkar, too
ed to soon approve a relief One option proposed is nounced that the grouping sent at the interaction. joined the roadshow and de
package for farmers grap waiving interest on crop would hold a rally in Patna “It will be a rally of a pro clared that he would contest
pling with falling prices and loans for farmers who pay on March 3 to kickstart the portion not seen in the past the election from Munger on
to tackle distress in the farm on time, which will cost an campaign for the Lok Sabha 30 to 40 years,” said Mr. Pa Congress ticket.
sector, according to sources. additional ₹ 15,000 crore to election to held soon after. ras. Mr. Rai said, “In the ral Asked about Mr. Anant
The relief package is seen the exchequer. Prime Minister Narendra ly, we’ll ask the Congress Nitish Kumar and Ram Vilas Paswan have confi rmed Singh’s presence in the road
as an attempt to assuage the There is also a proposal to Modi is likely to join Chief what they have done in 50 participation. show, Congress leader Akhi
farming community’s dis completely waive premium Minister Nitish Kumar and years of their regime in the gress is scheduled to hold a ha (RLSP), Sharad Yadav and lesh Singh said, “He is a
content ahead of the general One proposal under for insurance on food crops. LJP president Ram Vilas Pas country, and also present Jan Aakansha Rally on Fe Mukesh Sahni. It is not clear strong and popular leader
elections. consideration is waiver of The Centre is also evaluat wan on the stage. our government’s achieve bruary 3 in Patna at which yet if Left leaders will join …his presence will help the
interest on crop loans. ing the scheme followed by “While JD(U) and LJP pre ments of fi ve years.” party president Rahul Gand the rally. party to garner support for
Cabinet meet put off the Telangana and Odisha sidents — Nitish Kumar and However, political obser hi will share the stage with the rally.”
Meanwhile, the Cabinet has recommended several governments wherein a Ram Vilas Paswan — have vers said the NDA was trying other leaders of the maha- Roadshow Both Mr. Akhilesh Singh
meeting scheduled for Mon options to provide both fi xed amount is transferred confi rmed their presence at to counter the Congress by gathbandhan (grand al Meanwhile, on Sunday, Con and Mr. Anant Singh belong
day, has been deferred, as short and longterm solu directly into the bank ac the rally, we are expecting organising a rally exactly af liance), including Tejashwi gress Rajya Sabha member to the upper caste Bhumihar
per sources. tions to address agrarian dis count of farmers, the sourc confi rmation from Prime Mi ter a month on the same Yadav (RJD), Jitan Ram Manj and senior State leader Akhi community, widely seen as a
The Agriculture Ministry tress. However, a fi nal call es said. nister Narendra Modi and ground in Patna. The Con hi (HAM), Upendra Kushwa lesh Singh led a huge road BJP vote bank.
‘Declare unemployment Jind to vote in a high-stakes election T.N. CM reiterates plea for
a national disaster’ Bharat Ratna for Anna, Jaya
Police personnel deployed at all the 174 booths ahead of the Assembly bypoll Staff Reporter The demand for Bharat
Youth collective warns government MADURAI
Ratna topped the list of 17
Ashok Kumar For the BJP, the result of
Priscilla Jebaraj ta,” said Anupam, founder GURUGRAM the election — the fi rst by The AIADMK government demands contained in a 95
NEW DELHI of Yuva Halla Bol (YHB) and Nearly 1.7 lakh people in Ha election since the party on Sunday reiterated its de page memorandum submit
With the lack of jobs becom a vicepresident of Yogendra ryana’s Jind Assembly consti came to power in 2014 — mand for the conferment of ted by Chief Minister Edap
ing a major issue in the run Yadav’s Swaraj India party. tuency are set to vote on could be construed as a refe the Bharat Ratna, the na padi K. Palaniswami to
up to the Lok Sabha elec He was instrumental in Monday amid tight security rendum on its more than tion’s highest civilian ho Prime Minister Narendra
tion, over 60 youth groups creating the YHB coalition arrangements. fouryear tenure. It could nour, on former Chief Minis Modi during the latter’s visit
representing the educated in the wake of widespread Twentyone candidates make or mar the prospects ters C.N. Annadurai and to Madurai. Other key de
unemployed and govern protests against the Staff Se are in the fray in the high of the JJP, recently formed af Jayalalithaa. It also urged mand included the withdra
ment job aspirants have de lection Commission exami stakes byelection being held ter a split in the INLD. More the Centre to rename the wal of the Central Water
manded that the Centre de nation paper leak in March just months before the Lok so because Jind, a Jat hear Chennai Central Railway Commission’s permission to
clare unemployment a 2018. “If the parties in pow Sabha and Vidhan Sabha tland, has been the tradition Station after late Chief Mi Karnataka in regards to the
national disaster. er at the Centre and in the polls due later this year. Lending support: Congress leaders Randeep Surjewala, Ashok al stronghold of the Chauta nister M.G. Ramachandran. Mekedatu reservoir project.
Joining together under States do not act on our de The votes will be counted Tanwar and Kiran Choudhary at a rally in Jind, Haryana. PTI *
las.
the banner of Yuva Halla mands…the youth will cam on January 31. The result would also de
Bol, the groups passed a re paign against such parties.” Nearly 3,000 police per and people from outside parties in the Vidhan Sabha, cide who, between the JJP
solution on Sunday giving At a youth summit in the sonnel and 500 Home would not be allowed on the the byelection turned into and the INLD, is the true in
the Central and State go capital, several hundred Guards have been deployed voting day and 51 checkposts one of the most keenly heritor of the legacy of late
vernments one month to young men, along with a in the district, besides a were set up across the fought elections in the State Deputy Prime Minister
meet their demands for job handful of women, repeated company each of the Central district. in the recent years after the Chaudhary Devi Lal.
opportunities, fair selec the movement’s slogan, Job Reserve Police Force and the Congress decided to fi eld its While the BJP seems to be
tion, an exam code and re chahiye, jumla nahin. Rapid Action Force. Triangular fi ght Kaithal MLA and party’s banking on the nonJat ur
cruitment bodies. “There are 24 lakh sanc Jind police spokesperson The Jind seat fell vacant fol communications chief Ran ban voters by fi elding a
“The government must tioned but vacant posts in Pawan Kapoor said adequate lowing the death of Indian deep Singh Surjewala, mak “Punjabi”, the JJP hopes to
fi rst acknowledge that this is State and Central govern forces were deployed at all National Lok Dal (INLD) le ing it a triangular fi ght in corner most of the votes of
a serious issue; only then ments. Instead of fi lling the 174 polling booths, and gislator Hari Chand Middha. volving BJP’s Krishan the Jat community, who
they can take action. In them, the government is additional forces were sent Though not holding much Middha and newlyformed make up around 30 % of the
stead, they are trying to destroying jobs,” said Aksh to sensitive and hypersensi signifi cance for the electoral Jannayak Janata Party’s ( JJP) electorate. The Aam Aadmi
hide the unemployment da ay Hunka of Berozgaar Sena. tive booths. He said vehicles strength of various political Digvijay Singh Chautala. Party is also backing the JJP.
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IN BRIEF
Akhilesh too takes a dip in Kumbh’s political currents
SP chief makes
surprise visit,
U.P. Cabinet meeting to be the youth did not get jobs.
Mr. Yadav also met the
president of the Akhil Bhara
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SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT New Delhi
GUWAHATI of the NGO had ‘Watch out for Pak. proxies directing the militant outfi t’ People can watch the high
Two IAS offi cers of the Aru been standing lights of this year’s Repu
nachal Pradesh, Goa, Mizo guard along with Kallol Bhattacherjee blic Day parade at the Raj
ram and Union Territories NEW DELHI path on a mobile
the police at the
(AGMUT) cadre have sought Despite the coming general application launched by
entrance of the
action against protesters election, India should take the Defence Ministry.
who prevented government venue and stopped serious note of the implica The ‘RDP INDIA 2019’
servants from attending the us from entering tions of the latest round of app was launched on Sa
Republic Day celebrations Krishna Mohan Uppu the TalibanU.S. talks that turday on the 70th Repu
IAS offi cer
in Mizoram’s capital Aizawl ended on Sunday, experts blic Day.
on Saturday. prise, the representatives of said here. “It was extremely infor
The offi cers are Krishna the NGO had been standing The talks are expected to mative to the spectators
Mohan Uppu, Director of guard along with the police resume in February, but witnessing the parade and
Transport and Additional personnel on duty at the en former diplomats said India was widely appreciated,”
Chief Electoral Offi cer, and trance of the venue and pre should watch out of the the Ministry said in a state
Bhupesh Chaudhary, Regis vented us from entering the proxy masters of the Taliban ment on Sunday.
trar of Cooperative venue,” said the offi cer. in the Pakistani military Afghan National Army soldiers standing guard at a The app also had the
Societies. Sensing that there could establishment. checkpoint in Kabul, Afghanistan, in this fi le photo. * AP provision for live stream
The Joint NGO Coordina be a “law and order situa ing of the parade and con
tion Committee, an umbrel tion” if they kept arguing Future of fi ghters portedly led to broad agree ghan government,” Mr. Sa tains information about it,
la organisation of fi ve civil with the protesters and A major issue in the talks is ment on the principles of re ran said. including the order of the
society and students’ “since the police personnel the future of the Taliban solution of the confl ict and He pointed out that a pol march, details of the ta
groups, boycotted the RDay on duty were not discharg fi ghters at present held in withdrawal of the U.S. forc itical solution was necessary bleaux presented by diff e
functions throughout the ing their duty”, Mr. Uppu the government prisons in es. to solve the crisis. rent States and Ministries,
State as a protest against the said they had to leave with a Afghanistan. Pointing at the 18month cultural performances by
Citizenship (Amendment) heavy heart. He sought a “The Government of Af timeline during which the Entry into govt. children, fl y past and
Bill, 2016. The boycott saw thorough investigation into ghanistan should be consult U.S. is expected to move to However, the current dia names of recipients of
Mizoram Governor Kumma the whole episode and “ac ed before critical decisions ward withdrawing, former logue would allow the Tali Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya
nam Rajasekharan address a tion against all concerned”. are taken that could alter the foreign secretary Shyam Sa ban to join the Afghan go Bal Puraskar, 2019, the
nearempty ground. Mr. Chaudhary, in his let power equation inside Af ran said the “endgame” has vernment. This, Mr. Saran statement said.
In his letter to six offi cers ter to the Chief Secretary ghanistan. Taliban captives begun in Afghanistan. said was a gain for the outfi t. According to the state
in the Union Home Ministry and other offi cers, said what are in custody of the Afghan “Frankly, if the U.S. The discussion between the ment, this new initiative is
and the Mizoram govern had happened in Mizoram government so it is fair to troops withdraw from Af Taliban and the U.S. howev in sync with the Digital In
ment, including the Chief was “unthinkable in a free hear what the government ghanistan, then the promise er, fell short of a ceasefi re dia campaign of the
Secretary, Mr. Uppu said he country”. has to say regarding this of good behaviour from the promise from the Taliban, government.
had reached the venue, Ai The protesters, he said, fi rst,” said Satinder K. Lam Taliban is really of no conse which has maintained that it The Ministry said the
zawl’s Assam Rifl es ground, also ordered them to return bah, former Special Envoy of quence. India is against plac will agree to a ceasefi re only app would help people
an hour before the start of to their offi cial quarters “be the Prime Minister. ing military boots on the after being assured of a full who desire to know the
the function with his fellow fore any untoward incident India is yet to respond to ground, so we have to see withdrawal of U.S. forces in a theme and ideas depicted
offi cers. “To our utter sur happens”. the latest dialogue that re how we can support the Af timebound manner. in the tableaux.
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In an unprecedented move, cused Mr. McCallum of unac time a Canadian Ambassa Brumadinho Taliban offi cials said U.S. ne and other issues but said
Canadian Prime Minister ceptable political interfe dor had ever been offi cially An alarm warning of an im gotiators on Saturday agreed more negotiations and inter
Justin Trudeau on Saturday rence in an aff air which has fi red. Mr. Trudeau said as re minent mining dam rup on a draft peace pact setting nal consultations were re
said he had fi red his Ambas badly damaged relations cently as Thursday that he ture went up early on Sun out the withdrawal of foreign quired.
sador to China, who prompt between Canada and China. had no plans to replace Mr. day in Brumadinho, the troops from Afghanistan
ed a political furore with Ms. Meng, the daughter of McCallum, who apologised same Brazilian community within 18 months, potential More talks in February
comments about Huawei’s Huawei’s founder, was ar the same day for his remarks where a dam collapsed kill ly ending the U.S.’s longest It was not clear whether the
extradition case. rested last month over al earlier in the week. ing 34 with hundreds more war. The details of the draft draft described by the Tali
John McCallum had em leged violations of U.S. sanc But the Toronto Star new feared dead, the mining were given to Reuters by Ta Taking charge: An Afghan National Army taking part in a ban sources was acceptable
barrassed Mr. Trudeau’s Lib tions on Iran. spaper on Friday quoted the company said. liban sources at the end of training exercise in Kabul on Sunday. REUTERS * to both sides or when it
eral government by saying “Last night I asked for and envoy as saying that if Wash An alarm warning of six days of talks with U.S. could be completed and
that Huawei Technologies accepted John McCallum’s ington dropped the extradi dangerously high water le special peace envoy Zalmay ing signed. While no joint resume shortly, adding that signed.
Co Ltd Chief Financial Offi c resignation as Canada’s Am tion request “that would be vels at a dam that is part of Khalilzad in Qatar. statement was issued, Mr. he planned to travel to Af More talks on the draft are
er Meng Wanzhou could bassador to China,” Mr. Tru great for Canada”. Mr. the Corrego do Feijao min It stipulates that troops Khalilzad tweeted later that ghanistan to meet govern expected in February, again
make a strong argument deau said in a statement that McCallum, 68, is a former ing complex in southeas would leave within 18 the talks had made “signifi ment offi cials. in the Qatari capital Doha,
against being sent to the U.S. did not explain his reasons. Liberal Cabinet Minister. tern Brazil went off at 5:30 months of the agreement be cant progress” and would A Taliban statement is the Taliban sources said.
a.m. (0730 GMT), a state
ment by the mining com
ELSEWHERE Pak. closes consulate in pany Vale said. A dam at
the same mining site burst Sikh separatists protest in 18 killed in two bomb attacks
on Friday, spewing mil
Balkh after attack attempt lions of tons of treacherous
sludge and engulfi ng build
front of Indian Embassy on Philippine church
Press Trust of India ings, vehicles and roads. Press Trust of India “fl op show” by Indian go Agence France-Presse dies strewn inside the cathe
Islamabad said the woman was arrest Among the more than Washington vernment sources. Jolo dral in the nation’s restive
Pakistan on Sunday closed ed by the police and investi 170 survivors rescued from A small group of Sikh sepa The demonstration by At least 18 people were south. Just moments later, a
its Consulate in Afghanis gations are on to fi nd the the disaster, 23 were hospi ratists held a protest in front Sikhs For Justice (SFJ) out killed on Sunday when a second explosion outside
Salvini threatens to sue tan’s MazareSharif city af perpetrators. talised with injuries. The of the Indian Embassy in side the Indian Embassy in double bomb attack hit a killed troops who were
rescue ship crew ter a woman tried to enter The Embassy of Pakistan ruptured dam, 42 years old Washington during which Washington was attended Catholic church on a south rushing to help the wound
ROME
the building with a hand in Kabul urged the Afghanis and 86 m high, had been in they reportedly tried to by around 1520 people. ern Philippine island that is ed in the damaged church
Italy’s Interior Minister
grenade hidden in her bag, tan Foreign Offi ce to provide the process of being de burn the tricolour on the Indian government a stronghold of Islamist mil on Jolo. This came less than
Matteo Salvini said on Sunday
the Foreign Offi ce said. Ma foolproof security and to commissioned. Vale said it Republic Day, a move sources said the SFJ’s claim itants, the military said. a week after voters’ appro
that he was gathering legal
evidence against the crew of
zareSharif is the capital of share the fi ndings of its in had recently passed struc slammed by the local Sikh that it burnt an Indian fl ag is A powerful fi rst blast val of a plan to give Muslims
a Dutchfl agged rescue ship Balkh province. Pakistan vestigation at the earliest. tural safety tests. community and termed as a “completely false”. shattered pews and left bo in the south more control.
as calls grew for 47 migrants
to be allowed to land. “The
Interior Minister is gathering
elements to evaluate
whether to press charges
against the entire Sea Watch
‘Deprivation played a key role in the Brexit referendum’
crew for favouring illegal or glossed over, he argues. drop in those who see immi
immigration,” the Ministry Academic Anand Menon says the vote against the EU was a “There are people who don’t gration as a salient issue to
said. AFP like the EU — the added ele around 20%.
vote against the establishment — in London and Brussels ment of the vote being a col Mr. Menon says this re
68 killed in Indonesia lective two fi ngers at the es mains an open question but
fl oods, landslips Vidya Ram tablishment whether its what the research has furth
JAKARTA London
ple that hadn’t voted ever or search says... in that sense Brussels or London.” er shown is that people
At least 68 people have been
Last week, Anand Menon, a for a very long time did so we are not looking to sup across the country now have
killed and nearly 7,000
professor of politics at King’s and they would, with some port leave or remain or a soft Sense of alienation strong Brexit identities that
forced to take refuge in
College London, won plau reason, feel hacked off .” Brexit or a hard Brexit,” he The sense of alienation has trump their political ones,
emergency shelters after
fl oods, landslips and a
dits on social media for his told The Hindu in a recent in been made worse by an elec mirroring what has hap
tornado battered Sulawesi in nononsense performance Giving factual grounding terview. “Sometimes, you of toral system that means that pened across the world,
the past week, authorities on Question Time, a popular Questions and facts around course end up taking a posi unless you vote for one of the from India to the U.S.
said. More than 5,000 homes BBC political show, and his Brexit are something Mr. Me tion — and our analysis is two big political parties it He sees strong parallels
had been submerged, bridges blunt explanation of what a non deals with on a daily ba pretty unequivocal that leav doesn’t count for much. between the forces that
and schools damaged and nodeal Brexit entails. sis as the director of ‘U.K. in a ing with no deal will be da “Protesting against the two drove Brexit and the endu
thousands of acres of rice ”It means that all the laws Changing Europe’ — teams of maging. We are not afraid to big parties has been very dif rance of the BJP. “It may well
paddies destroyed, said a governing our interaction researchers carrying out stand up and say that, and fi cult for people and the refe be the case that many of the
spokesman for the disaster with the EU — whether you Brexitrelated research up we do end up with fi ghts A divided nation: An EU fl ag and a U.K. fl ag in London during rendum provided an oppor issues that led people to vote
mitigation agency. Reuters can fl y, whether you can and down the country, in an with people who say we are an antiBrexit demonstration in March 2017. AFP *
tunity to do that.” leave had nothing to do with
shop, whether you can attempt to give factual biased, but my response is The real success of the the EU but it doesn’t mean
BuzzFeed, Huff Post trade, whether you can tra grounding to an emotional that ‘if we are wrong, tell us 1960s, he grew up in Wake he shares. During the miners leave campaign was in draw they were not legitimate —
lay off employees vel — cease to exist,” he said. debate. why we are wrong’?” fi eld, a West Yorkshire form strikes of the 1970s, he re ing the link between immi and you may not like the fact
NEW YORK
swiftly dismissing a sugges Funded by Britain’s Social Their approach has gar er mining town that has calls seeing the wives of min gration and the EU, says Mr. that people are voting BJP
The U.S.’s free online news
heavyweights, BuzzFeed and
tion by one panellist, who Research Council, it is based nered considerable public in known its fair share of de ers on the streets begging for Menon, noting that until the but you can understand the
Huff Post, last week were equated it with walking away on a similar project that had terest — some one million pe privation, and which voted loose change. referendum, the EU had not fact why people [were] fed
rocked by a new wave of from a deal to buy a car that been set up ahead of the ople visited their website heavily to leave the EU in the “You’ve just realised what been regarded as a salient up with Congress. There was
layoff s. In an internal you weren’t convinced by. Scottish referendum. It has over the past few weeks. referendum. An image of a a nasty divided country political issue though immi corruption; there was this
announcement, Buzzfeed He was equally candid in grown from a parttime one Mr. Menon admits that harmonious Britain cruelly we’ve always been,” he re gration had been. sense of entitlement. Why
said that 200 jobs were to be his assessment of the second person role for Mr. Menon to he’s confl icted over the is thrown out of balance by the calls telling someone sur But on this count, re wouldn’t people react to that
shed. Over at Huff Post, about referendum. “Whatever you 25 teams across the country sues and the aftermath of the referendum — put forward prised after the referendum search published by ‘U.K. in and say a plague on all your
10% of journalists left think of [the referendum] it researching to provide the referendum. Born to a Ma by some Remain supporters result. The role that depriva a Changing Europe’ this houses and let’s vote for so
editorial staff , or about 20 was a remarkable moment in public with factual analysis. layali family who moved to who were caught off guard tion played in the referen week has a remarkable fi nd mething diff erent? “
people in total. AFP democratic history that peo “We report what the re northern England in the by the result — is not one that dum cannot be discounted ing: a sharp and sustained
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IN BRIEF
‘SFIO probed Essel Group for demo links’
Promoters, lenders arrive at an understanding on not declaring a default if share prices fall sharply
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT tain Essel Group entities and said it had ‘no connection,
Mumbai requisite information/docu whatsoever, with any alleged
Essel Group has admitted ments were provided,” Zee transaction(s), contained in
that the Serious Fraud Inves Entertainment Enterprises the article published by a
tigation Offi ce (SFIO) has Ltd (ZEEL) — the group’s fl ag media platform.’
asked the group for informa ship fi rm — said in response
Will recover attached
Mindtree shares: CDE tion regarding certain tran to a clarifi cation sought by Legal action
NEW DELHI
sactions and that documents the stock exchanges after a “Essel Group has also fi led a
Coff ee Day Enterprises (CDE) were provided. news website reported that legal case against the media
would take required action to At the same time, the some companies probed by platform which has mali Steady rise: Tata has climbed from the 104th position to 86
get IT fi rm Mindtree shares — group’s promoters met len the agency for suspect de ciously attempted to esta this year and is the only Indian brand in the top 100. AFP *
owned by the fi rm and ders — with whom shares monetisation deposits had blish a linkage between the
promoter V.G. Siddhartha —
released by the Income Tax
Department. The department
were pledged — and ‘arrived
at an understanding that a
default won’t be declared
links with the Essel Group.
“Since all information
sought by SFIO has been pro
SFIO’s investigation and ZEE
Entertainment Enterprises
Ltd.’s promoters,” the state
Tata among 100 most
had attached a portion of the
shares held by Mr.
Siddhartha and CDE in the IT
due to sharp fall in share
prices.’ “I am pleased to
share that we have achieved
Testing times: Subhash Chandra admitted to the group facing
fi nancial problems. AKHILESH KUMAR
*
vided by Essel Group entities
and no further information
has been subsequently
ment said. On Friday, Essel
Group fi rms’ shares fell, wip
ing off ₹ 14,000 crore worth
valuable global brands
fi rm over a potential tax an understanding with the example of the same. I am event of default declared due sought, the matter stands investors’ wealth prompting
demand. CDE said it had lenders,” said Subhash Chan very positive that we will to the steep fall in price,” Es closed for Essel Group enti Mr. Chandra to issue a state TCS, other arms spur value to $19.5 bn
already discharged its tax dra, chairman, Essel Group. continue to take such posi sel Group said in a separate ties,” ZEEL informed the ex ment admitting to fi nancial
liability along with fi ling the “We have always valued tive steps in rising up from statement on Sunday. changes. The group said the issues being faced by the Special Correspondent tributes are even more
revised returns. PTI their immense trust and the current challenging “Information/documents fi rms named in the website group, but seeking lenders’ MUMBAI important to all our stake
faith shown in us and the times, with support of all sta relating to certain transac as being probed by the SFIO patience till the sale of pro ‘Tata’ has entered the list of holders today. This recogni
RBI okays Federal Bank positive and progressive out keholders,” he added. tions were sought by SFIO in ‘do not belong to the Essel moter stake in ZEEL was top 100 most valuable tion of the strength of our
chairman appointment come of the meeting is a true “There will not be any July/August 2018 from cer Group.’ In a statement, ZEEL completed. brands, according to the brand will encourage us to
MUMBAI Brand Finance Global 500 drive our businesses in a so
The Reserve Bank of India 2019 report released at the cially responsible manner
(RBI) has approved the
appointment of Dilip
Sadarangani as parttime
High use of input credit FM Goyal to Kelkar moots setting World Economic Forum in
Davos.
globally while continuing to
strive for excellence
meet heads of “Climbing [up] from the through innovation and
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PRESS TRUST OF INDIA much as 80% of New Delhi Press Trust of India erstwhile Planning total value of brand ‘Tata’ Brand Value and increase in
diff erent countries. He has
New Delhi
played key roles in setting up
NEW DELHI
the total GST Finance Minister Piyush Commission. increased 37% to $19.5 bil the Tata group’s overall
of IT infrastructure in Concerned over a decline in liability is being Goyal will meet the CEOs of Former Finance Commis Mr. Kelkar argued that re lion in 2019 from $14.2 bil brand strength had aided
diff erent banks in India, GST revenues, tax offi cials settled by ITC public sector banks (PSBs) sion Chairman Vijay Kelkar placing the Planning Com lion a year ago. the improved rankings.
Australia and Kuwait,” the are likely to examine the on Monday to take stock of has pitched for setting up of mission, which was promot David Haigh, CEO, Brand
bank said in a statement. high usage of input tax cre generating fake invoices just the banking sector, and dis a ‘new NITI Aayog’ and giv ing regionallybalanced Improved performance Finance, said: “Tata Group
dit (ITC) to set off tax liabili to claim tax credit. cuss ways to improve their ing it the responsibility for growth in India, with the NI According to Brand Fi has seen an impressive in
FPI outfl ows at almost ty by businesses, sources During the meeting of the fi nancial health, sources allocating capital and reve TI Aayog, a think tank, has nance, a leading brand val crease in Brand Value in
₹ 6,000 crore in January said. GoM, it was pointed out that said. nue grants to the States. reduced the government’s uation and strategy consul 2019. This solid increase in
NEW DELHI The issue of high ITC was as much as 80% of the total The meeting comes Mr. Kelkar, in a paper tit policy reach. tancy, the increase in the group’s brand value has lar
Foreign investors have pulled fl agged at the meeting of the GST liability is being settled three days ahead of the led ‘Towards India’s new fi s Allowing it to handle valuation of the Tata brand gely been driven by an out
out close to ₹ 6,000 crore so Group of Ministers (GoM) by ITC and only 20% depo Budget 201920, the last cal federalism,’ said it was structural issues “...would is the result of improved standing year for Tata Con
far from the Indian stock which was set up by the GST sited as cash. from this government be desirable that a functional mean that the new NITI performance of key Tata sultancy Services (TCS)
markets in January and Council to look into the rea GST revenue has aver fore the general elections lydistinct entity such as the Aayog or NITI Aayog 2.0 will companies that include Tata which improved on its
experts believe this trend
sons for revenue shortfall aged around ₹ 96,000 crore expected to be held in new NITI Aayog be put to be responsible for allocating Consultancy Services, Tata brand strength and for the
will continue in the coming
being faced by a large num per month so far this fi scal AprilMay. However, ac use to do the job at hand re development or transforma Motors and Tata Steel. fi rst time, rated a AAA
months as well. This comes
ber of States. and this refl ects the cash cording to the Ministry it lated to the structural is tional capital or revenue Tata’s brand value of brand.”
following a collective net
infl ow of ₹ 8,584 crore in the
component being deposited would be a routine meeting sues, including removal of grants to States,” he said. $19.5 billion represents Founded by Jamsetji Tata
equity markets by foreign ‘Misuse’ of provision by businesses. where the fi nancial health regional imbalances in the He also suggested that to 17.6% of Tata Group’s total in 1868, the Tata Group is a
portfolio investors (FPIs) According to sources, avail Under the present dis of the banks and the NPA economy. make the Aayog more eff ec revenues of $110.7 billion. global enterprise compris
during November and ing ITC ideally should not pensation, there is no provi situation would be re The eminent economist, tive, “the vicechairman of N. Chandrasekaran, ing 30 fi rms across 10 verti
December 2017. Prior to that, result in loss of revenue but sion for realtime matching viewed, apart from explor however, added that he was the new NITI Aayog will chairman, Tata Sons, said: cals in more than 100 coun
they had pulled out a there could be possibility of of ITC claims with the taxes ing ways to boost credit to not suggesting for a moment need to be a permanent in “Tata has always been syn tries across six continents,
massive ₹ 28,900 crore in misuse of the provision by already paid by suppliers of the MSME sector. #70929
that the new NITI Aayog vitee of the Cabinet Commit onymous with trust and lea collectively employing more
October. PTI unscrupulous businesses by inputs. (With PTI inputs) should take the form of the tee on Economic Aff airs. dership and these brand at than seven lakh people.
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contain any major changes some kind.” commodate given the budge weeks ago. It was around
to the Finance Act or the In “In the speech, something tary arithmetic. So, I think a ₹ 495₹ 500 a kg in the corres from Sri Lanka by Nepal and ing Vietnam pepper with
come Tax Act, there is no Future pain: If a farm package impacts fi scal defi cit, the next on agriculture is certainly ex fraction of this, about 0.3% ponding period last year. Bhutan through the Kolkata certifi cate of origin from Sri
rule that prevents this, ac government will face the problem, says Pronab Sen. G.N. RAO * pected,” former Chief Statis of GDP will be provided for ‘Cheaper pepper from sea port also fl ows into the Lanka, thus snatching away
cording to legal experts, and tician of India Pronab Sen in the Budget and the rest Vietnam continues to fl ood Indian market by road, Mr. the benefi t of Indian pepper
so the government is well duction limit.” nounced that contributions said. “They have already will be either from the State the market through Sri Lan Shamji added. More than farmers,” Mr. Shamji said.
within its rights to change Another option, he said, to the tierII of NPS would be tried hiking the MSP, which governments or off budge ka, and, aided by a lowduty 20,000 tons of smuggled
tax rates and tax exemption could be for the government exempt from tax under Sec had no eff ect. Loan waivers tary resources.” structure under the ASEAN pepper reached the country Ministry action urged
limits. “Our guess is that to announce an increase in tion 80C. All of these chang have already been taken Mr. Sen also added that (Association of SouthEast from January 2018 to Octob The IPSTPC had urged the
since tax collections have the tax exemption limit un es, according to tax experts, away by the Congress, which the Budget will almost cer Nations) trade agreement, er 2018, he added. Commerce Ministry several
been good, with the increase der Section 80C of the In will have to be made in the has done it in the States. tainly contain some sort of SAFTA (South Asian Free “Smuggled pepper from times to remove black pep
in the range of 1618%, this come Tax Act. The limit is Budget documents because Now, they will have to look at support for the MSME sector, Trade Area) and ISFTA (In Vietnam and Sri Lanka is per from the SAFTA and ISF
defi nitely leaves room for currently ₹ 1.5 lakh a year. they involve amending the some form of income which is currently in a bad doSri Lanka Free Trade available in consuming TA import lists in order to
them to do something that The government also has the Finance Act. support.” state. While an income sup Agreement) it was the major centres across the country at aid domestic growers, but it
will benefi t the salaried tax option of reducing personal The Hindu reported last port scheme for the farmers reason for the declining ₹ 325 a kg,” he said. was yet to be considered, he
payers,” Archit Gupta, foun income tax rates. They alrea week that the Rural Develop Fiscal consolidation could help the MSME sector price of the produce,” M.C. said.
der and CEO of ClearTax told dy did so last year, in the ment Ministry has requested “At the moment, the fi scal in turn, more needs to be Abdu of Ideal Spices, a pep GREEN SHOOTS Torrential rain a few
The Hindu. Budget, when they reduced the Finance Ministry to allo space to do it will become a #70929
done, he said. per dealer in Wayanad, said. months ago in peppergrow
the tax on the 10% slab to 5%. cate it more funds in the Vote problem that will confront “They have made a lot of ‘Though the Commerce “Rising imports and ille ing areas of Kerala and Kar
Standard deduction “They have also an on Account so it can imple them only if they win the announcements for the sec Ministry had imposed a mi gal entry of the produce had nataka caused a sharp de
“These could be in several nounced some benefi t to ment its plan to hike the general elections,” Mr. Sen tor, but none have amounted nimum import price (MIP) of taken their toll on the aver cline in crop production.
forms,” he added. “One is by NPS, where they said that monthly pensions of the el added. “It is something the to much,” Mr. Sen said. “The ₹ 500 per kg on pepper last age pepper price, which “High moisture content
increasing the standard de 60% of the withdrawal will derly poor, disabled and wi next government has to deal fact is the MSME sector is year to protect domestic dropped from a high of ₹ 720 owing to the rains has trig
duction limit. They an be exempt from tax,” he ex dows to ₹ 800 from the cur with.” hurting badly. The bulk of pepper farmers, it is yet to a kg kg to ₹ 325 a kg over the gered fungal diseases like
nounced it at ₹ 40,000 last plained. “But nobody knows rent ₹ 200. For those above Experts said the income the problem lies in lack of li make any positive impact,” last 19 months,” he said. quick wilt and soft wilt. The
year but it took away medical how that is going to work. Is the age of 80, the proposal is support scheme could be quidity and lack of credit Kishore Shamji, coordinator, Domestic production is diseases massively des
reimbursement and travel al it only for central govern to increase the pension from either in the form of a Cen available. You have to get the Cochin chapter of the Indian likely to drop below 50,000 troyed the vines in our area,”
lowance, so there has been a ment employees? There is no ₹ 500 to ₹ 1,200 a month. trally Sponsored Scheme or liquidity moving, and in Pepper and Spice Traders, tonnes against a consump Muthanna, a farmer at Kutta
lot of talk that the net impact reason for it to be only for “One thing the govern be administered through a come support to the farmers Farmers, Producers and tion of 65,000 tonnes. in Coorg district of Karnata
has been only ₹ 5,800 or so. them. So, they will clarify on ment will have to do is to in Special Purpose Vehicle. In will get liquidity moving for Planters Consortium “This mismatch has been ka said. Hence the produc
So, there could be some in this in the Budget.” dicate whether the fi scal the former case, the govern MSMEs. But the sector needs (IPSTPC), told The Hindu. taken advantage of by Sri tion may fall 4550% this sea
crease in the standard de The government also an consolidation process ac ment needs to only budget more.” The pepper imported Lankan exporters by import son, he added.
The entrepreneur would have turned 100 on January 30
‘Protectionism has never worked in the long run’
K.T. Jagannathan out of trouble was well these days. But Narayanan India today is a fast innovator, it takes the risks, says the chairman emeritus of Cisco
It is diffi cult to give up pow known. Little known, ho and his ilk, too, served. And,
er. It requires enormous wever, was his rescue act for they did it quietly without Lalatendu Mishra run, never ever worked and do and I will give pretty high cult to work with.
courage to give it up, espe The Music Academy, which much ado. “I was no fl ower Born a dyslexic child in West Virginia, John Chambers, [is] not good for the econo marks. India today is a fast inno
cially when the going is is considered the Mecca of cultivated in the hot house of chairman emeritus, Cisco, transformed himself into one of my. The leaderships must vator, it takes the risks.
good. It comes ever so natu Carnatic music. When the management school,” he the world’s best business leaders. A Silicon Valley visionary, rise on their approach and When did you start JC2 So, [for] the fi rst 10 years,
rally only to a few. Late K.S. academy ran into fi nancial narrated in his book. For he is credited with turning around Cisco, from a simple rou- interdependency between Ventures? continue to do what you are
Narayanan was an excep trouble in the late ’60s, there him, it was learning by expe ter company into a global technology giant with revenue of countries is very important. doing. The angel tax, which
tion. Upon touhing 60, he was this suggestion to turn rience. And, he laid much $49.3 billion in 2018. This past week, he was named for the The most strategic relation ■ One thing I do pretty well makes no sense, must go.
quit as managing director. the Academy into a cinema emphasis on family values. Padma Bhushan award by the Government of India. Excerpts with India and the U.S. is the is that I never undo moves Here it is not easy for a start
“In a company where ev hall at least for a part of the That, perhaps, goaded him from an interview: IndiaU.S. strategic partner on chess boards, I play all up to do an IPO. There are
ery employee is expected to year! At the prodding of Late to embark upon on an ad ship. the way up to the end. And multiple areas you need to
retire at 60, it does not seem T.T. Krishnamachari, Naraya hoc style of helping students What is the state of the dot.com bust. I used to term We should be the most that is the way I tend to ap improve.
fair for an MD to hang on any nan successfully negotiated by serving vaara saapaddu global economy? this as the 100 years fl ood. At strategic partners in the proach business.
longer than that,” he said in with the Indian Bank an easy (weekly food). Cisco, we realised that the world, both economically So, when I left Cisco, the You have 18 start-ups. What
his book “Friendships and repayment scheme for the Subsequently, this was ex ■ If you look at the global whole economy is going and in job creation, innova board asked me what I else do you do?
fl ashbacks — my life and institution. That saw him tended to fee sponsorship. economy, let me start with down. I got surprised when tion and I, as the chairman, would do next and I said let
times.” nominated as a patron of the Since then, the Narayanan the best country that is In our 70% growth came down want that kind of me experiment with start ■ Businesswise, being the
To step back and cede ac academy. clan and the Sanmar Group dia. It has the strongest eco to 30% in 45 days. It was im partnership. ups and make investments chairman of U.S.India Stra
tive control to the new order In the postIPL (Indian have gone on to consistently nomic growth and is actually possible mathematically. Ho and inspire them. Formally, tegic Partnership Forum, I
— even if it meant passing on Premier League) era, cricket contribute to social causes, accelerating. India’s GDP is wever, in 2007, I saw the data We are headed for general JC2 was started two years play a small role in helping to
the baton to one’s off spring has become a religion for ev including for of education growing four quarter more in the U.S. from the fi nancial elections... ago. It has been exciting so change the country and do
— revealed the aligned mind ery countryman and corpo and health. faster than China and it will institutions and from my far and out of my 18 start ing things in an inclusive ba
set of a confi dent entrepre rates vie with one another to As he elucidated in his grow in the next decade. The customers that slowed the ■ If you look at the economy ups, 60% are going to do sis. I am also giving back.
neur in Narayanan. His get a piece of the cricketing book, his managerial skills U.S. is not doing that great so ordering. over the last four and half well. They have problems ev My wife is the chairperson
thought process, perhaps, action. In former times, ho were acquired in the ‘school you see the stock market When I saw the fi nancial years, if you look at the ery week and that is what of Hewlett Packard Charita
became the guiding fulcrum wever, only a few like Na of experience.’ To put it in slightly skittish. markets, I was concerned tough decisions that the Mo startups are all about. ble Foundation and I am giv
subsequently for his sons to rayanan suo motu nurtured the words of a Sanmar insid Federal Reserve has to be that something was not right di government had made ing back through her.
build the Sanmar business cricketers and cricket. There er, “He (Narayanan) was a more creative. It is good not and that a problem was com and if you look at the busi What should India do to be In personal life I
around. was no quid pro quo. The management guru with do great. Europe is struggling ing. Everybody said John will ness results that they got, the next Silicon Valley? have a son and
Chemplastsponsored Jolly zens of management text with the Brexit going on and go wrong but you know in they are really good. This is daughter. My
Negotiating skills Rovers even today re book rolled into one.” The France is strongest in the nine months there was a better than any other coun ■ Many things that In son John
His negotiating mains an iconic HR (human relationship) group. Now, the global eco great recession. try. The tough decisions that dia is doing is abso handles JC2
skills with bank name in the cricket skills assiduously built and nomy is doing okay, not At the present time, I do were made on the GST, de lutely okay. When Ventures.
ers were legen ing map of the city practised by him, perhaps, great and that’s refl ected in not see the same warning sig monetisation, the IBC are you get a problem to My
dary. The man of Chennai. were primarily the reason the fi nancial markets overall. nals. There are challenges all really good. this government, daughter
ner in which he It requires a law for the Sanmar Group to suc But if one country is doing around because of govern The population in India they try their best to who builds
navigated The to enforce CSR cessfully carry forward ma best, you have to give credit ment inaction, noncon must understand that more change. houses has
India Cements (corporate social ny a joint venture in a mar to India. structive action. Inspite of jobs will be created in the fu They should conti her own
and Chemplast responsibility) riage of happy coexistence. what is going on around you, ture. Overall, the govern nue to do what they are start ups.
Even as the Sanmar fraterni In 2000, you had predicted India is solid. There is slow ment has done a very good doing well. Five to six
ty celebrates the birth cen a global recession. Today, ing growth scenario refl ect job and I will be very sur years ago, India was
tenary of Narayanan on Janu the Japanese yen is ing in the markets but I do prised if NDA changes. viewed as not so
ary 30, the way the group appreciating fast and when not see the same types of You have got the best eco innovative,
suo motu undertook to it does, global recession warning signals. At least, this nomy in the world, you are very bureau
pay up every depositor follows. Are you seeing time, we perhaps are solid creating jobs in general, you cratic, very
of Overseas Sanmar anything like that now? than earlier. are making changes that ma rigid and
many summers ago ny counties are not willing to very diffi
when the industry ■ Great question. In 2000 I How is protectionism
was going through try
ing times, showed the eth
was the fi rst one to see that
recession was going to be
impacting global trade?
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made on the GST, demonetisation,
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THE HINDU
MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 2019
DELHI
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Djokovic makes it seven with a magnifi cent display
The World No. 1 outclasses Rafael Nadal in straight sets with an exhibition of fastpaced and fl awless tennis
cond seed to win his 15th breath to compose himself play until the fi rst round leagues and many young ten grabbing the set in 36 mi The statistics were as tell Slam fi nal count 44.
Grand Slam title in just 2 and not become tearful. here. Even if tonight was not nis players around the world nutes. The second set fol ing as the scoreline: Djokovic Djokovic has now com
hours, four minutes at the The pair’s only previous fi my night it’s so important for what is defi nition of the fi ght lowed a similar pattern, with had served eight aces to Na pleted a hattrick of Slams
Rod Laver Arena. nal in Australia, in 2012, de me to be where I am coming ing spirit and resilience.” Djokovic racing on his own dal’s one and made just four following his wins at Wimble
It put Djokovic, 31, out on veloped into a recordbreak back from injury,” said The Spaniard had not had serve, while Nadal struggled unforced errors while the don and the US Open. He will
his own ahead of Roger Fe ing 5hr, 53min slugfest — the Nadal. his service broken since the to hold. Spaniard had coughed up 20. go to Paris in May for the
derer and Roy Emerson, who longest in Grand Slam Djokovic noted that the third set of his fi rst round The pressure told in the When Djokovic broke French Open seeking to be
Agence France-Presse both won six Australian history. duo had both endured inju match but that streak ended fi fth game and Djokovic again in the third game of the come the only man in the
MELBOURNE
Open men’s singles titles. A repeat of that epic never ryravaged 2018 campaigns. in a fl ash as the Serb came broke again when Nadal hit a third set it was just a matter Open Era to win all four Ma
An imperious Novak Djokov Djokovic dropped to his materialised with Nadal un “Obviously a tough match sprinting out of the blocks. lob volley long after an ex of how quickly he would fi n jors twice.
ic won a record magnifi cent knees and kissed the ground characteristically nervous at tonight, but ... you came Djokovic was in total con change at the net. ish off Nadal. The end was Fifth seeds PierreHugues
seventh Australian Open title after vanquishing his great the start and Djokovic taking back from an injury that took trol on his own delivery and The onsong Serb was so swift, as Djokovic withstood Herbert and Nicolas Mahut
by routing Rafael Nadal 63, est rival. an immediate advantage that you out from the tour since won his fi rst four service fi red up he broke Nadal again one break point at 32 before of France overcame the 12th
62, 63 on Sunday with a dis “I’m just trying to contem he would never relinquish. September last year,” Djo games without conceding a to go to 52 before serving out administering the last rites. seeded combine of Finland’s
play of fl awless tennis. plate on the journey in the “I have been going kovic said of Nadal. single point, even inducing for a twoset lead with three Victory extended his win Henri Kontinen and Austra
The Serbian World No.1 last 12 months,” said an emo through tough moments in “You’re showing to me Nadal to miss a forehand aces in a row with just 1hr, loss record against Nadal to lian John Peers 64, 76(1) to
dominated the Spanish se tional Djokovic, pausing for the last year. I was not able to and to all your other col completely on the way to 16min on the clock. 2825 and squared the Grand take the doubles crown.
Men in Blue will look to ride the success wave #70929
IndiaA wraps it up in style
Focus on Hardik Pandya’s inclusion as he comes back from provisional suspension Lions fail to put up a fi ght as bowlers dominate
duo of Kuldeep Yadav and with both hands. A. Vinod and attacking self.
INDIA IN NZ Yuzvendra Chahal who ac THIRUVANANTHAPURAM
He repaired the damage
For Black Caps, captain
Press Trust of India counted for 12 of the 20 wick Kane Williamson, who had IndiaA ruled the roost to some extent, stitching to
Mount Maunganui ets in the last two ODIs. topscored in the fi rst ODI, again, winning for the third gether a 41run partnership
India captain Virat Kohli will Seamers Bhuvneshwar looked good during his short successive time and taking with Krunal Pandya for the
be aiming to seal the fi ve Kumar and Mohammed Sha stay in the second ODI, while an unbeatable 30 lead fi fth wicket.
match series when his team mi also have done their job allrounder Doug Bracewell against England Lions at the
squares off against a con well, getting crucial tried to take the game to the Sports Hub, Kariyavattom, Other contributors
fused New Zealand in the breakthroughs. wires with a 46ball 57 but on Sunday. The others to chip in were
third ODI here Monday. India’s batting too has none of the other batters Unlike the previous two Axar Patel and Deepak Cha
Kohli has been given a complemented the bowlers, could convert their starts. encounters, the third match har, their eff orts taking the
break as part of BCCI’s wor looking rock solid in both the “There’s two games in a of the fi vegame series was side to 172 in 47.1 overs.
kload management pro games with Shikhar Dha row now where we’ve not dominated by the bowlers. Lions, who would have
gramme and he would like to wan’s return to form lending had control at any stage, but Yet, the Indians hardly faced fancied their chances, were
fi nish his assignment down the team the muchneeded we need to take small steps,” any trouble and stamped never able to get their act to
under on a high after the fi llip at the top. Williamson said. their class with a 60run win gether after losing Alex Da
maiden Test and ODI victo Vicecaptain Rohit Shar The teams (from):
after setting the Lions a tar vies, Will Jacks and skipper
ries in Australia. ma, who had fl opped in the get of 173. Sam Billings with only 23 on
India: Virat Kohli (Capt.), Rohit
An unassailable 30 lead fi rst ODI, too entertained the Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, M.S. board.
would be a fi tting revenge to spectators here with a Dhoni (wk), Kedar Jadhav, Di Ben Duckett and Ollie
India’s abject 04 humilia strokeful 87 en route to his nesh Karthik, Vijay Shankar, Pope refused to give up and
tion during the 2014 limited 14th century stand with Shubman Gill, Yuzvendra Cha put up some resistance be
over series. opening partner Dhawan. hal, Kuldeep Yadav, Mo fore being separated with
One of the primary focus hammed Shami, Bhuvneshwar
the score on 70.
of Monday’s encounter In good nick Kumar, Mohammed Siraj, Kha
leel Ahmed, Ravindra Jadeja IndiaA fi rmly took con
could be inclusion of Hardik Skipper Kohli also looked in trol as Krunal Pandya spun a
Pandya who is coming back good nick in both the match and Hardik Pandya.
New Zealand: Kane Williamson web, fi nishing with four
from provisional suspension es, while Ambati Rayudu wickets. Lions were dismis
for his loose talk on a TV chat seemed to have found his (Capt.), Ross Taylor, Tom Lath The wicket being slow,
am, Martin Guptill, Colin de sed in the 31st over.
show. mojo back with a 49ball 47 the Indian innings never got
Grandhomme, Trent Boult, The sides will meet next
Hardik’s presence would on Saturday. Henry Nicholls, Doug Brace going after choosing to bat. Krunal Pandya. on January 29 (Tuesday).
lend solidity and balance to M.S. Dhoni too continued well, Lockie Ferguson, Matt Skipper Ajinkya Rahane was *
SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
The scores: IndiaA 172 in 47.1
the side and he could replace his rampaging run with an Henry, Colin Munro, Ish Sodhi, out fi rst ball, legbefore to overs (Deepak Chahar 39, Ishan
Vijay shankar. unbeaten 33ball 48 to take Micthell Santner and Tim pacer Lewis Gregory. Ishan Kishan was uncha Kishan 30, Jamie Overton three
New Zealand, on the other India across the 300mark, Southee. The hosts suff ered a ma racteristic in his approach, for 34) bt England Lions 112 in
hand, has looked clueless while Kedar Jadhav has also Match starts at 7.30 a.m. Back in the swing: Hardik Pandya’s presence will lend solidity jor slide and were reduced turning defensive rather 30.5 overs (Ben Duckett 39,
against India’s wristspin grabbed the role of a fi nisher (IST). and balance to the Indian side. GARETH COPLEY/GETTY IMAGES
* to 53 for four in 13.1 overs. than being his aggressive Krunal Pandya four for 21).
Saina ends twoyear ‘To play my bit in Saina’s success is a huge plus’
BWF title drought A tribute to her courage, conviction and ability: husbandcumcoach Kashyap
Marin concedes fi nal after leg injury V.V. Subrahmanyam pier. For, we are glad [about] pass a judgement on Saina’s
Hyderabad the way she played in the game in the fi nal.
Press Trust of India the 2016 Rio Olympics. Saina Nehwal was not sure Malaysian Open (semis) and “It could have still gone
JAKARTA “Carolina had the upper whether she would be back here in Indonesia. It is a tri either way but it was obvious
Ace shuttler Saina Nehwal hand and I wanted to fi ght in the competitive league bute to her courage, convic Marin was off to great start,”
claimed her fi rst BWF title in and see how the match goes during the threeweek shin tion and ability to execute he explained.
two years after threetime but it was unfortunate what injury break before and dur any suggestion regarding
World champion Carolina happened,” added the 28 ing the PBL, according to her change of strategy on a given Sincere prayer
Marin of Spain limped out of yearold from Hyderabad, husbandcumcoach P. day very quickly,” said “Well, frankly, we both were
the Indonesia Masters fi nal who last won a BWF title in Kashyap. Kashyap. disappointed that Marin had
due to a leg injury, here on 2017 in Malaysia. Kashyap, who was seen to walk off the court with an
Sunday. “I just came out of injury. I along with the other coach Biggest challenge injury. We don’t wish it to
The London Olympics played this events to see how Md. Siyadatullah when Saina “The biggest challenge for happen to any player. Saina
bronze medallist was trailing good is this. and I’m happy I was facing reigning Olympic me doubling up as a player P. Kashyap. *
FILE PHOTO is known to win the games
410 in the opening game could play the semifi nals at champion Carolina Marin in and a coach to Saina is to get the hard way.
when Marin decided to with Malaysia and fi nal here. the Indonesian Open fi nal on the message across to her af when Marin was racing away “We sincerely pray that
draw from the contest. Looking forward to get back Sunday, informed The Hindu ter a critical analysis. You to a 104 lead in the fi rst Marin recovers quickly and
“It is important year for to shape and play next from Indonesia that given have to say it a bit louder and game, Kashyap revealed that is back in the circuit,” Kash
all of us. It was not good to tournament,” the backdrop of the break a couple of times too,” he the strategy we sorted out yap said.
see at all. It is painful. I have Next would be All England and the kind of tough phase says with a big smile. was not really getting right as “We just hope to have a
been getting injured a lot in Championship, a title Saina Saina has gone through in “But, again having known Marin was making Saina to great year as our next big
the last few years and to see has not been able to win yet. the recent past, it has been a Saina and her game for so play to her (the former’s) event will be the Senior Na
something like this on court “It is still one more month, very impressive start to 2019. long, it is a huge plus as a strength. tionals in Guwahati and then
is really painful,” said Saina, so let’s see how it goes. It will “Even if Saina were to end coach for me to play my bit “No doubt, Saina got the All England champion
Painful: Saina Nehwal consoles Carolina Marin after the latter who had suff ered a career be diff erent slow condi up as the runnerup, we in her success,” he added. stuck early in the fi nal. But, ship though I am planning to
had to quit in the fi nal following a leg injury. AFP * threatening knee injury at tions.” would have been still hap On what was the mood honestly, it was too early to play in Spain,” said Kashyap.
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commentary team was sure Vinay and Ronit More, tive, Karnataka struggled to off ered them a gracious for nought. 6-0-29-0, Samarth 3-0-9-0.
Pakistan beat South Africa
ISL EURO LEAGUES complete an impressively celona 2 (Semedo 9, Messi 68). Fivetime winner Viswa
by eight wickets in the Sports Bureau Agence France-Presse smooth victory over a Getafe Bundesliga: Bayern Munich 4 nathan Anand and Vidit
fourth OneDay Interna MUMBAI Girona side that had lost only once, (Thiago 5, Gentner 55-og, Go- Gujarati signed peace in 30
tional at the Wanderers Paulo Machado’s 29thmi Lionel Messi scored a sub to Barcelona, in 12 outings. retzka 71, Lewandowski 84) bt moves in the 13th and fi nal
Stadium here on Sunday nute strike enabled Mumbai lime goal to make up for the Renowned for its tenacity, Stuttgart 1 (Donis 26). round to fi nish fi fth and
Leftarm fast bowler Us City FC to hand Bengaluru #70929
missed trip to Miami as Bar Getafe strayed in the fi nal Saturday: La Liga: Atletico Ma- sixth in the Tata Steel Mas
man Shinwari took four FC its fi rst defeat in 12 match celona beat Girona 20 on minutes, when Djene Dako drid 2 (Griezmann 27, Niguez ters chess tournament here
wickets in six balls to dis es in this edition of the In Sunday to go fi ve points nam and Leandro Cabrera 37) bt Getafe 0; Leganes 2 (En- on Sunday. Magnus Carlsen
miss South Africa for 164 dian Super League here on clear again at the top of La were both sent off . Nesyri 46, 67) drew with Eibar (9) won the title for a re
before the visitors coasted Sunday. The result lifted the Liga. 2 (Kike 29, Jordan Moreno 35); cord seventh time with a
The results: Serie A: Chievo 3
Valencia 3 (Diakhaby 4, Che-
past the meagre target in home side to the top spot This was the fi xture in (Stepinski 38, Pellissier 60- 30move draw with run
ryshev 51, Rodrigo 86) bt Vil-
31.3 overs. from second place. tended to be played in the pen, Djordjevic 89) lost to Fio-
larreal 0.
nerup Anish Giri (8.5).
ImamulHaq, Fakhar The visitors fi elded al United States but any advan rentina 4 (Muriel 4, Benassi 26, In the Challengers sec
Chiesa 79, 86); Parma 2 (In- Serie A: Sassuolo 3 (Locatelli 9,
Zaman and Babar Azam most a fullstrength side, Catching the attention: Paulo Machado, who was in the thick tage Girona maintained by tion, R. Praggnanandhaa
glese 11-pen, 53) lost to SPAL 3 Babacar 45+4-pen, Matri 87) bt
came good with the bat for missing only striker Miku of things for Mumbai, slotted home the winner. AP *
keeping it at its own Montili drew his fi nal round with
(Valoti 70, Petagna 75, Fares Cagliari 0; Sampdoria 4 (Qua-
Pakistan. due to injury, but ended up vi ground was cancelled out gliarella 33-pen, 56-pen, Linet- Dinara Saduakassova to
87); Bologna 0 lost to Frosi-
The fi vematch series is on the losing side against a Mumbai goal, tipped over a frontline, taking out Xisco by Messi, and another ruth none 4 (Ghiglione 18, Ciano 21, ty 68, Gabbiadini 78) bt Udi- fi nish 11th with fi ve points
now tied twoall. determined home team, led mistimed attempt by Xisco and Udanta Singh. The less Barca display. 75, Pinamonti 52); Atalanta 3 nese 0; AC Milan 0 drew with from 13 rounds.
by Machado from the front. Hernandez from close, the change in personnel in Messi’s brilliant fi nish in (Castagne 45, Toloi 59, Zapata Napoli 0. The results (13th round): Vis-
Four-match suspension Both sides are level with 27 ball bouncing on the turf creased the pace in off ence, the second half, his ninth 71) drew with Roma 3 (Dzeko 3, Bundesliga: Werder Bremen 2 wanathan Anand (7.5) drew
The ICC, meanwhile, hand points, but Mumbai has and taking off . The goalkeep the new faces presenting a goal in as many games, came 33, El Shaarawy 40). (Eggestein 27, Harnik 52) drew with Vidit Gujarati (7); Anish
ed Sarfraz Ahmed a four scored more goals — 21 — er escaped once later when fresh challenge to the Mum after Nelson Semedo had gi La Liga: Real Valladolid 2 (Pla- with Eintracht Frankfurt 2 Giri (8.5) drew with Magnus
compared to BFC’s 18. Juanan’s header, after leap bai defenders. The back four ven the visitors an early no 55, Keko 69) bt Celta Vigo 1 (Rebic 35, Haller 68-pen). Carlsen (Nor, 9); Ian Nepom-
match suspension on Sun
niachtchi (Rus, 7.5) drew with
day after a racist remark The matchwinner came ing and twisting his body to were tireless in their work, lead, before Bernardo Espi
Teimour Radjabov (Aze, 6.5);
made by the Pakistan cap after a lightning counterat connect, fl ew wide. marshalled by Lucian Golan nosa’s red card consigned Jan-Krzysztof Duda (Pol, 5.5)
tain was picked up by a tack by the Blues. Arnold Is with support from Subash Girona to 39 minutes with 10 drew with Ding Liren (Chn,
stump microphone in soko halted a move with a Clever burst ish Bose, Anwar Ali, and men. 7.5); Richard Rapport (Hun,
South Africa last week. header, the switch to off ence Modou Sougou got an op Sauvik Chakravarti. Barcelona restores its hef 6.5) bt Jordeen van Foreest
Brief scores: South Africa 164 happening even before the portunity to increase the As expected, BFC went in ty advantage over Atletico (Ned, 4.5); Vladimir Kramnik
in 41 overs (H. Amla 59, F. du BFC defenders could re lead when he beat the off with three players from the Madrid, which had cut the (Rus, 4.5) lost to Samuel
Plessis 57, Usman Shinwari group. Rafael Bastos thread side trap with a clever burst Indian team who fi gured in gap to two by beating Getafe Shankland (USA, 6.5); Shak-
four for 35) lost to Pakistan ed a pass to the Mumbai cap down the left and faced a on Saturday, with Antoine hriyar Mamedyarov (Aze, 5)
the AFC Asian Cup — goal
168 for two in 31.3 overs tain who read it perfectly onetoone situation with Griezmann striking again. drew with Vladimir Fedoseev
(Imam-ul-Haq 71, Fakhar Za-
keeper Gurrpeet, winger
(Rus, 5).
and fi nished with a fl ourish. Gurpreet. However, the goal Udanta and spearhead Sunil Griezmann now has eight
man 44, Babar Azam 41 not Standings (Masters): 1. Carl-
out).
Gurpreet, charging forward keeper read the Senegal Chhetri. goals in as many games, his
sen, 2. Giri, 3-5. Nepom-
Toss: Pakistan. to cut down the angle with striker’s mind and blocked The results: Sunday: Mumbai latest helping Atletico regis niachtchi, Ding, Anand, 6. Vi-
Man-of-the-Match: Shinwari. his huge frame, was beaten the shot at full stretch. City FC 1 (Paulo Machado 29) bt ter its sixth win in seven dit, 7-9. Radjabov, Shankland,
Pakistan won by eight wick- by Machado’s body feint and BFC brought in substi Bengaluru FC 0. league matches. Rapport, 10. Duda, 11-12. Fe-
ets, with 111 balls to spare. placement. tutes Chencho Gyeltshen Saturday: NEUFC 1 (Ogbeche) Saul Niguez tapped in a Sublime: Lionel Messi celebrates after scoring his ninth goal doseev, Mamedyarov, 13-14.
Five-match series is tied 2-2. Amrinder Singh, in the and Boithang Haokip in the bt Chennaiyin FC 0. second before halftime at in as many games. REUTERS *
Foreest and Kramnik.
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IN BRIEF
New hope for sicklecell patients ‘Reboot’ programmes for
In clinical trials, a handful of enrolled patients no longer show signs of the disease
Gina Kolata
children addicted to internet
year, a fi gure projected to
Scientists have long known grow to more than 400,000
what causes sicklecell dis by 2050. The disorder is
They undergo diagnostic tests and learn to moderate use
Prince Philip apologises ease and its devastating ef most common in subSaha
to injured woman fects: a single mutation in ran Africa, where an estimat Reuters
LONDON one errant gene. But for de ed 70% of children with it die CINCINNATI
Britain’s Prince Philip has said cades, there has been only before adulthood. When Danny Reagan was 13,
he is “deeply sorry” about the modest progress against an In sicklecell disease, he began exhibiting signs of
injury suffered by a woman in inherited condition that blood cells stuff ed with hae what doctors usually asso
a car crash he was involved in
mainly affl icts people of Afri moglobin are distorted into ciate with drug addiction.
over a week ago, according to
can descent. sickle shapes. The missha He became agitated, secre
a report in the Sunday Mirror.
With advances in gene pen cells get stuck in blood tive and withdrew from
The newspaper published a
copy of a letter written by
therapy, that is quickly Gene corrections: About 300,000 infants are born annually vessels, causing strokes, or friends. He had quit baseball
changing — so much so that with sicklecell disease worldwide. GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO *
gan damage and episodes of and Boy Scouts, and he
the 97yearold royal to
Emma Fairweather, who scientists have begun to talk agonizing pain — called cris stopped doing homework
broke her wrist when the Kia of a cure. more fear. medicine at Harvard Medical es — as muscles are starved and showering.
she was in collided with the In a halfdozen clinical “He said, ‘Mom, I think I School. of oxygen. Children usually But he was not using
prince’s Land Rover. AFP trials planned or under way, want to get me a job,'” said return to normal between drugs. He was hooked on
researchers are testing stra his mother, Leuteresa Turning point crises, but teenagers and YouTube and video games, Healing touch: Danny Reagan sitting in a common room at the
tegies for correcting the pro Roberts. It also would mark a turning adults may suff er chronic to the point where he could “reboot” centre in Mason, Ohio. REUTERS
*
‘Night shifts may cause DNA damage’
pledging to limit his internet media, pornography and Some online games and
use. Nothing worked, he sexting, often to escape from console manufacturers have
joined the “Reboot Pro symptoms of mental illness advised gamers against play
‘Germany should phase
out coal use by 2038’ gramme’ a pioneering resi es such as depression and ing to excess. YouTube has
BERLIN
Press Trust of India samples of 49 healthy full said SiuWai Choi, of the Un and DNA breaks increased dential therapy centre in anxiety. created a time monitoring
Germany should stop using
Beijing time doctors taken at diff e iversity of Hong Kong. after sleep deprivation. Ohio. Danny was diagnosed tool to nudge viewers to take
coal for electricity production Working night shifts can rent times. Researchers found that Damaged DNA increased af “Reboot” patients spend with Attention Defi cit Hype breaks from their screens as
by 2038, a government damage a person’s DNA, in oncall doctors who were re ter only one night of sleep 28 days at a suburban facility ractivity Disorder at age 5 part of its parent company
appointed commission has creasing the risk of cancer as Chronic illness quired to work overnight on deprivation. equipped with 16 bedrooms, and Anxiety Disorder at 6, Google’s “digital wellbeing”
said, earmarking €80 billion well as cardiovascular, meta “Although this work is very site had lower DNA repair This DNA damage may classrooms, a gym and a din and doctors said he deve initiative.
for the purpose. Half of the bolic, and neurodegenera preliminary, it is clear from gene expression and more help explain the increased ing hall. They undergo diag loped an internet addiction WHO spokesman Tarik Ja
amount will go to the regions tive diseases, a study has the results that even a single DNA breaks than those who risk for cancer and cardio nostic tests, psychotherapy, to cope with those sarevic said internet addic
shuttering plants, while the found. night of sleep deprivation did not work overnight. vascular, metabolic, and and learn to moderate their disorders. tion is the subject of “inten
other half will be spent on For the study published in can trigger events that may In these overnight onsite neurodegenerative diseases internet use. The internet, while not of sive research” and
preventing electricity prices the journal Anaesthesia, re contribute to the develop call doctors, DNA repair associated with sleep depriv “We’re all mildly addict fi cially recognised as an ad consideration for future clas
#70929
from rising. AFP searchers analysed blood ment of chronic disease,” gene expression decreased ation, researchers said. ed. I think that’s obvious to dictive substance, similarly sifi cation.
YouTube says misleading
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Microplastic fi bres found in On track
groundwater system: study clips won’t be promoted
Samples show presence of medicines The videos will remain on the platform
Press Trust of India end up in the guts and gills Associated Press
SAN BRUNO
Washington of marine life, exposing the
In a fi rst, scientists have de animals to chemicals in the If you believe the world is
tected the presence of mi plastic,” said John Scott, a fl at, don’t count on You
croplastics in groundwater researcher at the Illinois Tube recommending videos
in the U.S. Sustainable Technology supporting your theory.
Microplastics are already Center. That’s because YouTube
known to contaminate the “As the plastics break is promising to stop promot
world’s surface waters, yet down, they act like sponges ing so many sensationalistic
scientists have only just be that soak up contaminants clips that revolve around
gun to explore their pre and microbes and can ulti scientifi cally proven false
sence in groundwater sys mately work their way into hoods and other suspect in
tems. our food supply,” said Mr. formation, such as conspira
Fractured limestone Scott. cy theories revolving The misleading videos will
aquifers are a groundwater Groundwater fl ows around the U.S. govern be phased out from its
source that accounts for through the cracks and ment’s involvement in the 9/ recommendation list. AP *
25% of the global drinking voids in limestone, some 11 attacks that destroyed the
water supply. times carrying sewage and World Trade Center in New technology companies play
The study, published in runoff from roads, landfi lls York. in distributing potentially
the journal Groundwater, and agricultural areas into YouTube, part of Google, toxic propaganda.
identifi ed microplastic the aquifers below, he said. announced its deemphasis Both Facebook and Twit
fi bres, along with a variety The researchers collected on misleading videos on Fri ter are trying to take similar
of medicines and household 17 groundwater samples day. steps.
contaminants, in two aquif from wells and springs near It’s the latest example of a The misleading videos
er systems in the U.S. the St Louis metropolitan widely used digital service will remain on YouTube,
“Plastic in the environ area. All but one of the 17 trying to stop the spread of even after they are phased
ment breaks down into mi samples contained micro Team spirit: A musher competing at the 36th Aviemore Sled Dog Rally 2019 in Aviemore, Scotland. The annual twoday event misinformation as lawmak out from its recommenda
croscopic particles that can plastic particles, they said. attracts mushers and their teams from across the U.K. to race on forest trails around Loch Morlich. AFP * ers scrutinise the role that tion list.
They battled with snow gather around to cheer the The threeday music festiv
drifts and waded through anglers on, alongside the re al Sur Jahan, previously
kneedeep slush to get to ferees and spectators eager known as Sufi Sutra, will be
their competition ground on to see the pros in action. held in Goa from February
a frozen lake in Bulgaria’s “The idea is to have more 6 to 8.
southern Rhodope fi sh than anyone else as a Based on the theme
mountains. team and be a world cham “Music for all, music for
The world’s ice angling pion. To fi nd out if you are peace”, the festival is likely
pros converged this wee wiser than the fi sh,” Fin to draw musical talents
kend on the Shiroka Polyana land’s team captain Elisa Unique attraction: Tourists swimming at the ‘jellyfi sh lake’ on from around the world and
lake, 1,500 metres above sea Saarela said. the Rock Islands in Palau. AFP * India.
level, to face off at the 16th an The competitors may have The World Peace Music
nual Ice Fishing World been mostly catching fi sh Agence France-Presse swimmers in 2016 because Festival was developed by
Championship. that could fi t in their palms, Palau of dwindling numbers of the banglanatak.com, a Kolka
Fifteen countries are re but Ms. Saarela says the Swimming with the famous unique creature — blamed tabased social enterprise.
presented this year — reign smaller the fi sh, the bigger golden jellyfi sh in Palau can on warming waters alth Each year, fi ve to six in
ing champions Ukraine, Big catch: Anglers take part in the 16th World Ice Fishing Championship in Bulgaria. *
AFP the achievement. be put back on the bucket ough with some suspicion ternational bands partici
along with challengers Bela “When the fi sh is smaller, list following a twoyear sunscreen on bathers may pate in the festival, which
rus, Bulgaria, the Czech Re After a week of training championship. The aim is to catch as ma it’s much harder to get it. A ban, but bathers may be also have contributed. include cultural exchange
public, Estonia, Finland, Lat sessions at nearby dams and Seventyfi ve anglers dug ny fi sh as possible — mainly bigger fi sh is much more ea stung with a hefty price in Authorities in Koror workshops and evening
via, Lithuania, Mongolia, lakes, the 150 competitors holes in the ice with hand tiny perches and roaches. sy to catch. If you catch a big crease for the pleasure. State, which owns the re concerts.
Norway, Poland, Romania, have been stepping out onto augers, remaining bent over amount of small fi sh, you are The government ordered source, say stocks are now The festival will be held
Russia, Sweden and the Unit the ice in their rubber boots them for hours fi shing with ‘Wiser than fi sh’ very professional,” Ms. Saa the famed Ongeim’l Tketau recovering and tourists are fi rst in Kolkata from Febru
ed States. for the twoday their small palm rods. In the fi ve areas on the lake rela explained. Jellyfi sh Lake closed to again welcome at the lake. ary 1 to 3.
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