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Hacked: How $171 mn stolen from Union Bank was recovered Details emerge of how the money was retrieved from accounts in four diferent countries after government intervention Suhasini Haidar Manojit Saha New Delhi/Mumbai

Farooq Abdullah wins Srinagar byelection SRINAGAR

National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah was declared the winner of the Srinagar Lok Sabha byelection on Saturday. NEWS 쑺 PAGE 10 DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

Jadhav kin may ile mercy plea NEW DELHI

A day after Pakistan asked India to conduct more “active diplomacy” regarding the case of arrested former Navy oicer Kulbhushan Jadhav, oicials stated that the next step could include the process of appeal and mercy petitions by his family. NEWS

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Even as the government marked Digital India Day, encouraging more Indians to move to banking online, investigators and cyber security agencies are battling more breaches of banking transfer security, admitting that “non-state” actors are increasingly targeting India. Details are only just emerging of the biggest such hack of $171 million in July 2016, which necessitated a sevencountry hunt that had to be spearheaded at the top levels of government to reverse the theft. The hack involved a transfer double the size of the Bangladesh Central Bank that lost $81 million in February 2016, but most details have been kept under wraps so far. Chairman of the Union Bank of India Arun Tiwari as well as India’s cyber security

locations, including accounts in Cambodia’s Canadia Bank and RHB IndoChina Bank, Thailand’s Siam Commercial Bank, Bank Sinopac in Taiwan, and a bank in Australia. These funds were routed by Citibank New York and JP Morgan Chase New York, which hold UBI’s foreign exchange accounts.

chief, Dr. Gulshan Rai, who were involved in the operation, confirmed to The Hindu that while the attack was serious, all of the money had been retrieved within days. “We worked in record time with the Reserve Bank of India, bank authorities and government agencies coordinating efforts. The bank succeeded in blocking the transfer of funds and credited the entire amount in a record period of six days,” Mr. Rai, who is the country’s first Chief Information Security Officer, said.

SUNDAY SPECIAL “Investigations have been carried out by different agencies. And whatever was suggested [to improve security], has been implemented,” Mr. Tiwari said. Events unfolded on the evening of July 20, towards the end of the bank-week, of-

ficials said, piecing together the sequence. On that Thursday, a Union Bank of India official in the treasury department looking at SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) pay-

Golden age of BJP yet to come: Shah

ments was checking statements for the day from their dollar account, when he noticed a startling discrepancy. An amount of $171 million had been debited from the bank without his authorisation. He quickly raised a red

flag to the bank’s top management about the transaction. “I haven’t authorised any such payment last night,” he reportedly told the bank’s management. By then the money had found its way to at least five

MEA steps in According to cybersleuths, who were brought into the investigation, the hacking had occurred by sending malware to a bank official, who mistakenly opened an email that enabled the robbery. By the next day, when the extent of the loss was known, senior officials of the Ministry of External Affairs and other offices in South Block were pressed into action to retrieve the money. One tricky negotiation was with the Taiwanese gov-

ernment with which India doesn’t have diplomatic ties, particularly as a court order was needed to secure the banking reversal instruction. However, with some pushing from U.S. officials, the entire $171 million was traced. As the money trickled back into their accounts, Union Bank officials heaved a sigh of relief. Despite the speed and efficiency of operations to recover the money, not much is known about the follow-up investigations. An FIR was filed only a month later on August 25 (FIR 243/2016) at Mumbai’s Cybercell, but bank officials said they had no information of further follow-ups including details of a charge sheet, or investigations in any of the six other countries involved. (With inputs from Vijaita Singh) CONTINUED ON 쑺 PAGE 10

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‘Party will occupy all levels from panchayats to Parliament’ Nistula Hebbar BHUBANESWAR

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The BJP may be basking in the warm afterglow of its victories in the five States that went to the polls earlier in the year, but party president Amit Shah exhorted national executive members to not be “complacent” and work instead for a golden age for the party “with the BJP occupying all levels of government from panchayats to the Parliament.” Mr. Shah’s appeal came during his inaugural address to the party’s national executive meeting in Bhubhaneswar, the capital of Odisha, a State that seems to be next on the party’s acquisition list. Briefing the media on Mr. Shah’s speech, Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said Mr.

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Shah told national executive members to devote 15 days a month to getting in touch with booth-level workers.

Cross-country tour Mr. Prasad also said Mr. Shah would also embark on a whirlwind tour of 95 days, till September, to every State of the country and interact

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Three new balsams add to Nilgiris biodiversity colours Dentist with passion for plants makes botanical discovery Rohan Premkumar UDHAGAMANDALAM

Three new species of plants belonging to the Balsaminaceae family were identified in the Mukurthi National Park in the Nilgiris recently. The three, named Impatiens kawttyana, Impatiens taihmushkulni and Impatiens nilgirica, found by Tarun Chhabra and Ramneek Singh a few years ago, were formally classified recently. Their discovery was published in the Nordic Journal of Botany in December 2016. Dr. Chhabra, a practising dentist and cultural anthropologist who has worked closely with the Toda tribes, has published a book titled The Toda Landscape. Talking to The Hindu, he said several years have passed since new plant species were discovered in the Nilgiris, and the new species throw light on the continued importance and diversity of the Nilgiris. “There are more than 135 CM YK

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endemic species of plants in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, of which the Nilgiris in Tamil Nadu forms the core, with over 90 endemics,” he said. Impatiens kawttyana, as described by Chhabra and Ramneek, is identifiable by its large, white flowers, glandular hairs followed by white hairs at the throat, and has been named after a Toda deity hill, ‘Kawtty’. Similarly, the Impatiens

taihmushkulni is named after the Toda deity hill, ‘Taihmushkuln’. Like the halls of Valhalla in Norse mythology, the Todas believe that their god ‘Aihhn’ resides and rules the Toda afterworld from the hill. Impatiens nilgirica variant nawttyana, differs slightly from a previously identified species, with the newly found variety having “longer scape (part of a stalk bearing flowers) and petioles (the stalk that joins the leaf to the stem), with white flowers,” among other small variations. This variety was named based on what the Todas call the members of the Balsaminaceae family — ‘Nawtty.’

with party workers himself. “Mr. Shah said that when the BJP won in 2014, analysts said the party had peaked. After the results of the 2017 [Assembly] elections, again, it was claimed that the party has peaked,” Mr. Prasad said. “However, he believes that the golden age of the party, or its peak, will be reached only after a BJP chief minister will be installed in every State and the party occupy positions of power from the panchayat to Parliament level,” Mr. Prasad quoted the party president as saying. Mr. Shah also said Mr. Modi was the most popular leader in the country since Independence. CONTINUED ON 쑺 PAGE 10 MODI FRENZY GRIPS BHUBANESWAR 쑺 PAGE 10

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Jet union to boycott expat pilots Issues ultimatum to management to release all foreign pilots from duty Lalatendu Mishra Mumbai

In its war against expatriate pilots, the National Aviator’s Guild (NAG), the trade union of Jet Airways pilots, has issued an ultimatum to the airline’s management to immediately release all foreign pilots from duty ‘keeping the safety of passengers in mind.’

Directive to trainers The NAG, which has a membership of 991 Jet Airways pilots, has also issued a directive to all pilot trainers not to conduct training or checking of any expat pilot working in the airline from April 16, 2017.

Strong headwinds: The NAG has also asked pilot trainers not to conduct training or checking of any expat pilot. REUTERS *

Besides, co-pilot members have been directed not to fly with expats from May 1, 2017. The NAG, set up in 2009, conducted a hugely success-

ful strike which grounded the airline’s entire fleet for five days, is up in arms against the over 100 expat pilots who draw a higher salary than their Indian

counterparts besides enjoying other privileges. Jet Airways employs over 1,400 pilots. Most of the expatriates are commanders. Those flying Boeing 777 aircraft draw a tax-free, take home salary of ₹8 -9 lakh per month compared to around ₹6 lakh paid to Indian commanders. Unless the issue is resolved immediately, the NAG decision is expected to impact Jet Airways flight operations from next month. Several recent incidents involving expat pilots have given ammunition to NAG to harden its stance.

A civilian was shot dead on Saturday evening in a firing incident in Srinagar ’s Batamaloo area after a minor incident of stone throwing on a Border Security Force (BSF) patrol party. According to eyewit-

nesses, a BSF vehicle was passing through the area when the incident took place. Locals claimed BSF jawans fired at the crowd after stones hit their vehicle. The Hindu could not get the BSF version despite repeated attempts.The police identi-

fied the victim as Sajad Hassan of Baramulla district who was currently living in S.D. Colony, Srinagar . A police official said there was no deployment in the area when the incident took place. “We are looking into the circumstances of the killing,” he said.

Soumya Pillai New Delhi

Scores of protesters took to the streets after the death and there was palpable tension in Srinagar. The Valley has been on edge since April 9 when eight civilians were killed in clashes during polling for the Srinagar byelection. SEE ALSO 쑺 PAGE 10

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Incident took place following stone throwing on BSF patrol team Srinagar

AAP: Timing of charges is suspicious Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Saturday said the timing of the Shunglu Committee report, the advertisement bill incurred by the government and the notice to vacate the party office was a well planned strategy by opposition parties to weaken the Aam Aadmi Party before the municipal elections. Interacting with the editorial staff of The Hindu, Mr Sisodia said because of the kind of politics they practise, they were under no illusion that running the Delhi government would be a smooth affair. Mr. Sisodia said the announcement to abolish house tax had been well thought out and the party had readied a plan to control leakages in revenue collection to compensate for the loss of income. He said the recent cases of alleged tampering of EVMs should spur the state Election Commission to instal voter verified paper audit trail in EVMs before the municipal polls.

Youth killed in iring, tension in Srinagar Peerzada Ashiq

Dedicated guardians The naming of the three species after Toda deities isn’t coincidental. Dr. Chhabra says the names reflect the Todas’ crucial role in maintaining pristine ecosystems, especially in the Mukurthi National Park.

Art of swachh: An installation of brooms has been sponsored by a local business group in Surat to promote Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Swachh Bharat Mission. Mr. Modi will arrive in the city on Sunday as part of a two-day visit to Gujarat. PTI

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INTERVIEW | MANISH SISODIA

Sisodia sees design in food bill leak, Shunglu report, eviction notice Interacting with The Hindu’s editorial staf on Saturday, Deputy CM says bypoll defeat won’t impact AAP’s prospects in civic polls as party’s ight is against corruption Soumya Pillai

Delhi’s Deputy Chief Minister and senior Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Manish Sisodia talks about the party’s preparation for the upcoming municipal corporation elections, its demand for EVM checking and the timing of the allegations levied against the AAP right before the polls on April 23. Here are excerpts from the interaction:

SEC feels that the arrangement for these VVPATs cannot be done in a week, then take 15 or 20 days. However, arranging the VVPATs immediately should not be a problem for them. People ask, why didn’t you ask this question when you came to power winning 67 out of 70 seats. No, we did not and we did not even question the BJP’s Lok Sabha win or their win in many other States. But now there is evidence of tampering. Why is the SEC so oblivious to these allegations? And not just us, other parties are also demanding inspection of EVMs. How tough is the challenge of the municipal elections for the AAP? ■ Every election is tough. Unfortunately, the process of elections in this country is not issue-based. It is not just about political parties and public, there are several other vested interests at play. Earlier when we were fighting the Assembly elections, power companies, private schools, tanker mafia were all stakeholders, and in the municipal elections too the touts and the middlemen play a role in things even as small as building a house. Our fight is against all these elements. Your fight not against the BJP or the Congress? ■ These are just parties. More than them, our fight is against these middlemen who give spark to corruption. Both the BJP and the Congress have joined hands with these corrupt elements, but we don’t adjust. We are blamed for that by a section that used to gain out of these practices, but there is no midway for us. When you adjust to such practices, and ask private schools to ‘adjust’ four of your admissions and in return they can sell four seats — it never stops at just that. They will sell 40 seats in turn for adjusting four of yours. So, if I put my foot down and say that there will be no recommendations from my office and you (the schools) also close your busi-

Do you think the Shunglu Committee report, the selective leaking of food bills (₹1,200 per plate), and the eviction notice to your office right before the elections are coincidental? ■ Nothing is coincidental. All these things, the food bill file which is two years old, the Shunglu Committee report which is eight months old, and the bill of Mr. Ram Jethmalani for the defamation suit have been strategically planned. How do you view the result of the Rajouri Garden bypolls that came out recently? ■ Even before the results were announced in Rajouri Garden I had told my party colleagues that people there are angry with us, because their MLA left halfway to contest the elections in Punjab. As a strategist I felt that both elections should have been conducted together. It is unfair that people will have to vote in a gap of a week. If the boundaries of the Election Commission of India (ECI) and the State Election Commission (SEC) are different, then why should the people of Rajouri Garden suffer for it? But as an afterthought, I now feel that the anger the people had against our party, they have released it by voting against us. So, now when they come to vote for the municipal elections, they will come with a fresh mind. Couldn’t disillusionment with your party and dissatisfaction with the performance be a reason? ■ No, that is not the case. When we had interacted with the people there, they told us that they agree that our gov-

ernment had worked for them in the last two years, but our decision of withdrawing the MLA from there and sending him to Punjab was wrong. They told us they will talk to us for the municipal elections, but not here. In a previous session, Delhi Congress chief Ajay Maken had said that the competition in the municipal polls is between them and the BJP. He had alleged that people had enough of the hollow promises that the AAP has made to them? ■ Delhiites have not yet forgotten the 15 years of Congress governance. In those years, the Congress had reduced the national Capital to a deplorable state. No work was being done by the government departments without bribery. It is not about what Ajay Maken says, it is about what people feel. They have also said that the traditional Congress vote bank which shifted to AAP in the Assembly elections is back with them now, and the Rajouri Garden bypoll is a proof of it. What do you have to say about that? ■ I just want to tell them that the municipal elections will show whether their vote bank is back with them. For the first time the voters are saying that work is happening without an exchange deal. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has asked for the postponement of the municipal polls till the EVMs are checked. How serious are the allegations of EVM tampering? ■ We have asked the election commission to fit VVPAT (voter verified paper audit trail) with the EVMs. If the

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ness of selling seats, then the account is maintained at zero. They, the corrupt people, feel comfortable with BJP and Congress, with us they feel uncomfortable. How is your approach towards municipal polls different from what it was in the Assembly elections? ■ When we had come to power in Delhi, the people had some basic needs such a water, power, education, and health. These are very generic needs and the people want the government to fulfil these first. Similarly, in the municipal elections too, the basic problems that people face are sanitation, sewage, maintenance of parks, permission for the construction of houses etc. In many cases now, if we want undertake a project in their (municipal corporations) jurisdiction they do not even give a no-objection certificate (NOC). For instance, in my constituency I had used the MLA fund to construct a road. The councillor there stopped the

corrupt people, < > The feel comfortable with BJP and Congress, with us they feel uncomfortable work saying that we did not have the permission to do this, because the road belonged to MCD. That is why we are fighting for MCD. If you are voted to power in the MCD, do you think your government’s functioning will be easier? ■ A lot of our work will become easier. The resistance that we are facing now will be eased. Do you feel that loss of office in the middle of the campaign has in a way discouraged volunteers? ■ They do not know, but unintentionally by doing this they have created sympathy for us among the voters. People feel this was the lowest they could have gone, and it is. We are the ruling party. They could have told us to

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complete the formalities, if there was some problem, but instead they just outrightly asked us to vacate. Do you think after your performance in Goa and Punjab, your popularity has increased nationwide or do you consider this a setback? ■ We were fully prepared for these elections, and we were also expecting to win. However, after the results I feel we haven’t performed too badly. It was our first (Assembly) election there (in Punjab) and we managed 20 seats. However, I do not feel that the loss of even win in Punjab polls would have affected our performance here. Our performance in Punjab spoiled our chances in Punjab. These are two separate elections, and separate States. House tax abolishment is your primary promise in these elections and it has attracted criticism from your opponents. Do you have an action plan for it?

■ I don’t understand the criticism. Initially, they said that this cannot be done without Parliament’s approval, but when I countered it saying that we will use the same provisions using which they exempted the house tax for BJP leader Vijay Goel’s bungalow in Chandni Chowk, they had nothing to say. However, something that we had also considered before announcing this as our party agenda was the finances. When we overtook the government, we started with ₹32,000 crore. Today, after three budget sessions, we now have a budget of ₹48,000 crore. We could achieve that because we could fix leakages in the revenue collection system. At present, advertisements and parking are the biggest areas where corruption is rampant, and many of these companies are set up by BJP members and their families and they are majorly benefiting from it. Many of your MLAs and ministers have been slapped with criminal cases. Your government also has an antagonistic relationship with the Lieutenant-Governor. How difficult is it to run a government under such circumstances? ■ It is very difficult, but we never expected it to be a cakewalk. Like I had said earlier, we don’t adjust. If someone is indulging in any corrupt practices, I will not spare him, even if he is from my own party. I get several calls every day asking for favours, but I have never entertained any. People should mend their ways, instead of expecting the government to suit their needs. Is there any difference between the working of former L-G Najeeb Jung and the present L-G, Anil Baijal? ■ Mr. Jung initially was very cooperative, but somehow he became very rigid later. This could be because of the brief of ‘productiveness’

he received from the Centre. With Mr. Baijal, my experience so far has been good. He considers and discusses things with us. Another good thing about him is that he has worked in Delhi, so he understands the city. Your party has been asked to pay ₹97 crore for the advertisements that the Delhi government had issued, a part of which you have already paid to the advertisers. What do you have to say about the whole episode? ■ This is quite hilarious actually. This has two parts to it -- first is that AAP has not issued these advertisements nor does it have any stake in the whole transaction, then why should it pay? Second, who has decided? The committee that has decided that the AAP has to pay has the BJP’s slogan writer as one of its members. This committee doesn’t even have the power to give out such orders. The order is rubbish. There is a general allegation on your party that it lacks internal democracy and that was the reason why Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan quit AAP. Is the party doing anything to improve internal democracy? ■ I challenge that there is no political party in this country which is more democratic than we are. In our party, no two people from the same family are given tickets in elections. Which party has such democracy? In many Delhi government schools admissions are not being given to children who do not have Aadhaar card. This is against the Right to Education (RTE) rules. Any comments? ■ I agree with this, and I have fixed that problem. Many of the students and parents approached me in this regard. But the problem has been fixed now and children do not need Aadhaar card for admission.

AAP took over water tanker scam from Cong, says BJP Gupta alleges both parties are ‘equal partners in scam’

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Dubbing the municipal corporations (MCD) the “most corrupt department”, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Saturday released a booklet listing instances of alleged graft in the BJP-ruled civic bodies. The name of the booklet is "MCD, Most Corrupt Department". The AAP said that it was being "released in public interest". The purpose of the booklet, which is essentially a compilation of newspaper reports on corruption in the civic bodies, is to make people aware of the extent of the BJP's “mismanagement”, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said.

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‘Where’s the money?’ Addressing a press conference, Mr. Sisodia accused the BJP functionaries of the corporations of “diverting” funds meant for various schemes and projects and of “looting” the public exchequer. “Where has the money gone? The BJP talks of Digital India, but the websites of the corporations have been under construction for 13 years and ₹12 crore has been spent,” he said. In its poll campaign, the AAP is laying a major thrust on a series of alleged acts of corruption in the municipal corporations reported over the last one decade, a period during which the BJP has been in control of all the three civic bodies. The AAP is also planning to woo the safai karamcharis (sanitation workers) through its manifesto. Senior leaders of the party said it will include major demands, including the one on regularisation of those working on contract basis. The municipal polls are scheduled for April 23.

With the civic polls around the corner, the Delhi BJP on Saturday alleged that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government, in connivance with the Congress, had continued with the “water tanker scam” instead of terminating the contract of the firms involved in it. At a press conference held at the party office here, Leader of the Opposition in the Delhi Assembly Vijender Gupta raked up the issue of the alleged scam, which was highlighted by the AAP in 2015. The alleged scam involves irregularities in hiring some 385 stainless steel water tankers by the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) in 2012, during former Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit’s rule. “Both, the Congress and

Morning walk: Delhi Congress chief Ajay Maken (left) bumps into BJP leader and Union Minister Vijay Goel (centre) at Lodi Gardens while canvassing for his party's candidate for the upcoming municipal polls, on Saturday. V. SUDERSHAN *

CM’s demand to delay polls ridiculous: Goel Senior BJP leader says Arvind Kejriwal is ‘frustrated’ by repeated poll defeats Staff Reporter New Delhi

Union Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports Vijay Goel on Saturday slammed Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for his demand to postpone the municipal polls by two months. Terming it “illegitimate and ridiculous”, the senior BJP leader said: “On one hand Mr. Kejriwal claims that their Rajouri Garden loss was due to the public’s anger and on the other hand they aren’t ready to accept the people’s mandate.” Mr. Goel said that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) had lost

all confidence post its electoral losses in Punjab and Goa and had witnessed “a trailer” of their performance in the ensuing polls through the Rajouri Garden by-poll loss.

‘Blaming EVMs’ “This is the reason that frustrated Mr. Kejriwal is now pushing for a postponement of the civic elections. It’s surprising that Mr. Kejriwal was completely fine when they won 67 seats, but now when they are losing, they have been blaming Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) day and night,” Mr. Goel added.

The BJP leader pointed out that reports have claimed that Mr. Kejriwal had met the Delhi Election Commissioner and demanded that the municipal polls be postponed for at least two months after already having pushed for VVPAT-equipped EVMs as well as CCTV cameras to check any EVM tampering attempts. Terming the demands “laughable”, Mr. Goel said: “Mr. Kejriwal blames EVMs, deploys his secret agents, telephone tapping and what not; all this proves that Mr. Kejriwal is frustrated.”

He added that Mr. Kejriwal has “engaged in almost every major malpractice to gain publicity and power”, the people of Delhi were not longer willing to “believe his false promises and gimmicks.”

Morning Walk Abhiyaan “I will undertake a Morning Walk Abhiyaan in order to expose Mr. Kejriwal and his false agendas. MoS External Affairs Gen. (Retd.) V. K. Singh will join too,” he said. The Morning Walk Abhiyaan will take place on April 17 at 7.30a.m. in Lodi Gardens.

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were “sharing the money” from the “scam”.

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the AAP are two sides of the same coin. They flock to JNU, Ramjas College and Hyderabad, together, in the wake of any issue. And, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who assumed charge after Ms. Dikshit, continued with the water tanker scam instead of terminating the contract of the companies involved,” Mr. Gupta said, adding that both

BJP iles complaints against Kejriwal Staff Reporter

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The Delhi BJP has lodged two separate complaints against Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in objection to alleged inappropriate statements made by him against the BJP and the Election Commission (EC), the party’s State unit chief Manoj Tiwari said on Saturday. One complaint raises objection to Mr. Kejriwal’s statement terming the Election Commission as Dhritrastra and the BJP as Duryodhan. “In the other complaint, filed in the Sansad Marg police station and with the State Election Commissioner, objection has been raised on the misleading charge levelled by Mr. Kejriwal and the

Property tax on assets occupied by the owners as well as those rented by senior citizens will be waived if the Congress wins the upcoming municipal corporations elections, Delhi Congress president Ajay Maken said on Saturday. Interacting with Delhiites at Lodi Gardens during their morning walk, Mr. Maken said that while the Congress would offer rebates on property tax for certain categories of taxpayers, it would also have a plan to increase the corporation’s revenue by ₹5,200 crore every year.

‘No follow-up’ According to the LoP, it was in mid-2015, “after a factfinding panel was set up by the Kejriwal government and pressure from the BJP”, that the Water Minister Kapil Mishra filed a complaint with the Anti-Corruption Bureau, “but no follow-up action was taken against the contractors or government officers”. “Both Ms. Dikshit’s and Mr. Kejriwal’s governments are equal partner in this ₹400 crore scam. The DJB makes payment of ₹6 crore per month to the tanker mafia out of which ₹3.5 crore is looted through corruption. The people of Delhi want to know if this ₹3.5 crore is not with the government then to whom it is going,” Mr. Gupta said.

Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia against the BJP regarding hike in power and water tariffs,” said Mr. Tiwari. Meanwhile, during a meeting at a chaupal in Munirka village in support of BJP Candidate Bhagat Singh Tokas, New Delhi MP Meenakshi Lekhi said that the BJP was trying to make Delhi a smart city and the first phase would be completed by the end of 2018 by making all the services of the corporations available online. At the meeting, a candidate of the Aam Aadmi Party in the 2016 by-election, Sunita Tokas, joined the BJP. Meanwhile, the BJP's disciplinary committee expelled 21 workers for “indulging in anti-party activities”.

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Porn clip stuns metro users Viral video shows advertisement screen at Rajiv Chowk playing clip on April 9 HEMANI BHANDARI

ture once the software is programmed and centrally controlled. In the interim, during the commissioning process itself, the contractor will be advised to ensure password protection.”

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‘No cognisable ofence made out against CM’ NEW DELHI

The Delhi Police on Saturday told a city court that no cognisable offence was made out against Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, against whom a plea was filed for allegedly misleading people by saying the municipal corporations were not under the State’s control. The complaint, filed by Brijesh Shukla, said public money was wasted on “spreading lies” through a full-page advertisement. PTI

Two killed after falling into oxidation pond NOIDA

Two persons were killed after falling into an oxidation pond at a sewage treatment plant here on Friday night, the police said. The victims, Mukund and Betwa, were working at the STP in Sector 54 when they fell into the pond. V. P. Singh, the SHO of the Sector 24 police station, said they died before they could be pulled out. The contractor has extended ₹10 lakh for their families. PTI

In a video that went viral on social media on Saturday, commuters at central Delhi’s Rajiv Chowk Metro Station in Connaught Place could be seen staring at an LED screen, a part of which was playing a porn clip. The incident allegedly took place on April 9.

Split-screen When the screen, which is used for advertisement purposes, started playing the clip for a few minutes, a few passengers captured the video. The clip shows a large screen split into six portions with the porn video playing on the bottom right, even as some commuters stopped to take a look. Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) confirmed that the incident happened around 5 p.m. on the said date and that three men,

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who are yet to be identified, were responsible. DMRC Spokesperson Anuj Dayal said that the screen was under commissioning and testing by a private contractor and continues to be so. “From preliminary investigation, it was established that the incident happened on April 9 around 5 p.m. The LED TV system was under commissioning and wifi port was accessible. Prima facie,

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A trader has committed suicide by shooting himself in Dadri on Friday night, the police said. Mukesh Gupta, a plywood trader, was facing financial problems over the last few months. This had led to anxiety and depression, the police said. Though no complaint has been filed by the family members of the deceased, the police have sent the body for postmortem. PTI

Password protection Talking about the action to avoid such incidents in the future, he said, “This sort of interference with the system will not be possible in the fu-

Case challenged on grounds of non-approval of charge sheet Staff Reporter New Delhi

The Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) has quashed the entire disciplinary proceedings against a Deputy Commissioner of the Department of Agriculture and Co-operation. The official, Sahdeva Singh, had challenged the proceedings on the grounds of non-approval of the charge sheet by the disciplinary authority.

‘Not as per law’ “Since the initial action of the respondents, i.e., nongrant of approval to the charge memorandum and non-consideration of representation to the charge memorandum before appointing the inquiry officer was not according to law and the charge memorandum itself suffers from

gross illegality and is not sustainable in law, all subsequent proceedings are rendered illegal,’’ the Tribunal said. “The OA [Original Application] is accordingly allowed. Charge memorandum dated 16.01.2009 and all subsequent proceedings are declared illegal and null and void, and are hereby quashed,” the Tribunal said. “Since the charge memorandum was not duly approved by the disciplinary authority, the matter is remitted back to the disciplinary authority to recommence the proceedings by granting approval to the charge memorandum in accordance with law and also take decision regarding appointment of inquiry officer on due consideration of written statement of de-

fence/representation dated 27.01.2009 of the charged official [applicant], if so desired,’’ the Tribunal further said.

Advance copy The Tribunal had in 2012 quashed a penalty order by the Department of Agriculture and Co-operation against the official, stating that he was not supplied in advance a copy of the advice of the Union Public Service Commission on whose basis Dr. Singh was retired from service. It had directed the Department to reinstate the official immediately. Also, it had allowed the Department to go ahead with the disciplinary proceedings against the official from the stage where the legal infirmity had occurred.

Drunk driving sentence reduced Police bust gang of 4 jewel thieves Engineering graduate asked to sit till rising of the court A Delhi court has reduced the sentence of an engineering graduate from five-day simple imprisonment till rising of the court (TRC) in a drunk driving case of December 2016.

the alcohol content in his blood was found to be 240.70 mg per 100 ml of blood. The subordinate court had sentenced him to five days’ imprisonment and suspended his driving licence for six months after he pleaded guilty.

Rising of court The accused has been asked to sit in the courtroom till the court rises for the day. According to the prosecution, the man was found driving a car in an inebriated condition. On examination,

Appeal for lenient view Challenging the sentence, the counsel for the accused urged Additional Sessions Judge Bupesh Kumar to award him a lesser punishment keeping in view that that he is a young man of 25,

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Plywood trader commits suicide in Dadri

as per CCTV footage, three men ran the porn clip on the screen at Rajiv Chowk station,” he said, adding that CCTV footage is under examination and efforts are on to identify the men.

Report next week The police have also initiated an enquiry into the matter to check who’s responsible for playing the clip and will submit a report on the incident early next week. Deputy Commissioner of Police (Metro) Jitender Mani told The Hindu, “I saw the video today but we have not received any formal complaint so far. However, I have marked an enquiry to examine those involved, including DMRC and the private contractor they have mentioned.” The police said the investigation could not take place on Saturday because the DMRC offices are closed on weekends.

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dependent on his father and preparing for MBA entrance examination after having completed his B.Tech. Opposing the appeal, the prosecution submitted that drunken driving cases had been increasing day-by-day and was the main cause of major accidents. In this matter, the alcohol consumed by the appellant was eight times more than the permissible limit, the prosecutor said. However, the Judge allowed his appeal considering his age and circumstances.

Known as ‘Irani gang’, the accused posed as police oicers to cheat elderly women Staff Reporter NEW DELHI

The Delhi Police have arrested a gang of four robbers — dubbed the ‘Irani gang’ — on Friday for duping and cheating innocent elderly women by posing as CBI and Delhi Police officials. Two of the arrested persons were also wanted by the Mumbai police for cases under Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act.

Inspired by movie The accused were identified as Naasir Hafiz Khan, Asu

Shahjman Saiyad, Barkat Ali and Zafar Abbas Amjad Seikh. Inspired by the film ‘Special 26’, the accused would spot elderly women on a lonely street and tell them fake stories of robbery and theft in the area and would ask them to put their jewellery safely in a cover provided by the accused. Then another member would discreetly replace the jewellery with fake ones and hand the cover back to the victim, who realises that they had been robbed only once they reach home.

The accused were arrested after Ramesh Kumari Verma filed an FIR stating that she was robbed of her jewellery on April 9 near Rajouri Garden in a similar fashion.

Roots in Persia The police swung into action and received specific information about the members coming to Masjid Lane Bhogal, from where they were nabbed. The police said that the gang has its roots in Persia and their ancestors were

brought by Golconda Kings as their bodyguards. “Because of their strong physique and bravery then they were considered to be the finest warriors.Today, they may have lost the warrior touch, but are experts in cheating people by posing as policemen,” said Deputy Commissioner of Police (West) Vijay Kumar explaining why police across states have named them ‘Irani gang’. The police have recovered a stolen scooter, three fake identity cards of the Delhi Police.

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Rare Egyptian Vulture rescued Bird was found injured in a residential area, currently undergoing treatment List. A member of the rescue team said, “The bird was frightened and appeared to be in considerable pain. We had to carefully place it in a transport carrier to prevent it from hurting itself any further.”

Staff Reporter NEW DELHI

A rare Egyptian Vulture was rescued by the Wildlife SOS team from a residential area in Mayur Vihar Phase-1 on Saturday. The bird had injured its right wing and is currently undergoing treatment. The Wildlife SOS Rapid Response Unit responded to a distress call on their 24 hour helpline (9871963535) about an injured vulture that was found outside a residence in Mayur Vihar. The unusual looking bird was lying on the side of the road and on seeing that it was struggling to fly, a concerned resident contacted Wildlife SOS for help.

Struggling to take of: A Wildlife SOS team rescued the bird that had injured its right wing. SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

Caught by manja A two member rescue team was promptly dispatched to the location and upon arrival identified the bird as an Egyptian Vulture. Suspected to have been caught by a manja (glass-

coated string) of a flying kite, the vulture’s right wing was severely injured and had to be rushed to the organisation’s rescue facility for treatment. Egyptian vulture (Neophron percnopterus)

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Endangered species It is a globally endangered species on the IUCN Red

Bone damage Geeta Seshamani, cofounder Wildlife SOS said, “The X-ray reports revealed that the vulture’s right wing bone has been damaged and we are not sure if it will be able to recover enough to fly again. Our team is doing theirbest to provide the bird with necessary medicaltreatment for its injuries.” The vulture is a useful scavenger and plays an important role in the ecosystem as by feeding on carrion, they are disposing off the carcasses of dead animals that would otherwise be a breeding ground for infectious diseases. A ND-ND

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Neighbours beat up lawyer over encroachment petition

Cops rapped for breaching conidentiality HC pulls up Delhi police for revealing identities of minor victims of sexual violence Press Trust of India New Delhi

A court here has rebuked the Delhi Police for violating the law on confidentiality by revealing the identities of minors subjected to sexual violence and their parents in a series of cases. Noting that the names and addresses of the victims and their parents had been mentioned in the charge sheets, Additional Sessions Judge Gurdeep Singh said, “This is gross violation of the provision. Therefore, it is directed

Attack followed demolition of part of their house by civic body; 2 women held

that the name and address of the child victim on the charge sheet be covered with fluid.”

Matter of confidentiality “Similarly, the address of her/his parents should be covered. The name and address of the child victim shall remain in police file, which shall be confidential,” the judge added. The judge also directed senior Delhi Police officers to ensure protection of the victims’ identities.

The court was dealing with 14 cases of sexual offences registered from April 1 to April 7, ranging from rape, molestation, unnatural sex and stalking, in which the police had filed the charge sheets along with names, addresses and other details of the minors. The cases had been lodged in east, north-east and Shahdara districts.

POCSO violated The court also took note of the fact that the police had

violated provisions of the Protection Of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. The latter mandates that the identity of a child victim shall not be disclosed during the course of investigation or trial. The court said this was a blatant violation of the provisions of confidentiality and directed the concerned Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) to ensure that in future no charge sheet shall be filed disclosing name of the child victim.

Over the line: (Clockwise from above) Stills from the video of the incident that went viral on social media; the bruises on the victim’s shoulder following the assault; her residence in Rohini Sector 6. SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT *

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A Delhi High Court lawyer was allegedly brutally beaten up by her neighbours in front of her 16-year-old son in Rohini Sector 6 on Tuesday morning. The neighbours — a mother-daughter duo — were allegedly enraged over the municipal corporation breaking down the staircase outside their house following a petition filed by the victim claiming illegal encroachment. The police have arrested the two accused, who are now under judicial custody.

Death threats, bullying Anu Jain (36), who has been practicing in the HC since 2009, was allegedly threatened with death, punched, beaten with sticks, and knocked down by Anju Devi and daughter Preeti on Tuesday. Ms. Jain had just stepped out of her house to

go to the court when the incident took place. Ms. Jain told The Hindu that she was “bullied by Devi’s son Mithun and a local goon Raju Pandey” on Monday saying that “she shouldn’t dare to leave her house”. “On Monday, she abused me and said horrible things about my character. I had filmed it on my phone to show to the police. She suspected I’ll go on Tuesday so her son and another man came to my house and beat me up. They told me not to leave the house or else they would kill me,” said Ms. Jain. She added the same happened on Tuesday on her way to the court. Devi and her daughter allegedly stopped her and started beating her. “She sat on me and squeezed my neck after which I fell unconscious. While I was passed out, the mother and daughter continued to hit me. I saw that later

in the videos,” she said.

Viral video The matter came to light when the videos and photos of the incident taken by her 16-year-old son Samyak Jain went viral on social media and drew support from thousands of people online. According to Ms. Jain, Devi and her family, along with people from other 19 houses of their complex, were furious with her for not allowing them to extend their houses. She had filed a writ petition in 2012 in the High Court stating that no house should be allowed to extend their area over permissible limits. “The officials of the corporation would come, bring down a little of the encroachment and show the court that they have taken action. I would produces pictures of the same in court after which the civic body was forced to go on a demolition

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drive in 2016. The area became much cleaner after that,” said Ms. Jain.

Previous accusations In the past year, Devi has allegedly accused Ms. Jain of being a “characterless woman”. She has also accused the victim’s husband of attempting to rape her daughter and Ms. Jain’s sons of passing lewd comments at women in her family. “No one was ever arrested because the police knew she was lying,” said Ms. Jain. After the incident, the victim was taken to Baba Saheb Ambedkar hospital by the police and discharged later in the night. DCP (Rohini) Rishi Pal told The Hindu that Devi and Preeti have been arrested. “We have seen the CCTV footage. A case under section 307 and 34 of the IPC has been registered and further investigation is underway,” he said.

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Mahanadi river water dispute back in focus

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Cutouts of Amit Shah found torn, defaced

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Life-size cutouts of BJP president Amit Shah, who is here to attend the party’s national executive meeting, were found torn and defaced at Power House Chhak area. Cutouts of Prime Minister Narendra Modi were, however, left untouched. “It is an unfortunate incident. We condemn it as such an act is against the culture of Odisha,” Senior BJP leader Suresh Pujari said. - PTI

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A woman and her seven-yearold daughter died after being run over by a train while they were crossing the railway tracks at Bally station here, police said. They have not yet been identified, they said, adding their bodies have been sent for post-mortem. - PTI

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The issue of sharing of Mahanadi water between Odisha and Chhattisgarh was back in focus when Chief Minister of the neighbouring State Raman Singh and Union Water Resources Minister Uma Bharti came to the city to attend the BJP’s two-day national executive meeting here on Saturday. After Mr. Singh told presspersons that he was ready for talks on the Mahanadi issue with Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, the latter reacted sharply saying that his Chhattisgarh counterpart was not cooperative in resolving the dispute when Ms. Bharti convened a meeting on the issue in New Delhi. The controversy had started last year when Mr. Patnaik wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi demanding

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that construction of projects on the upstream of the Mahanadi river be stopped as it would affect water flow into Odisha. The Chhattisgarh government, however, did not accept the Odisha government’s claim of a reduced water flow. Apart from writing to the Centre for setting up a tribunal to resolve the issue,

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the Odisha government has also moved the Supreme Court seeking a stay order on Chhattisgarh’s construction activities.

Uma refuses comment Responding to queries from presspersons, Ms. Bharti said that she would not comment on the issue since the Odisha government had taken the matter to court.

Long queue: Devotees wait to ofer puja on the ocassion of Bengali New Year at Dakshineswar temple in Kolkata on Saturday.

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Tripura chit fund director arrested Tanoy Das was on the run after a case was registered against him in 2013 Syed Sajjad Ali Agartala

The Tripura Police has arrested a top functionary of a chit fund company who was on the run after a case was registered against him 2013. In another development, the Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the State CID which is probing the Rose Valley chit fund scam is preparing to bring its owner Gautam Kundu from Kolkata this month for interrogation. The SIT had earlier failed to get Kundu’s custody after his lawyers stalled two sanctions of transit remand citing his ailment. Rose Valley held at least 80 per cent of deposits in non banking financial companies in Tripura, cheat-

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SEBI notices Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) earlier issued notices against two ponzi fund companies Charka Infrastructure Limited and the Suncity Infracon Corporation Limited which raised fund in Tripura. Entities in the notices are named as Bijoy Das and Apu Saha and were summoned to its office in Kolkata, but they failed to turn up.

SDF wins Sikkim seat Press Trust of India Gangtok

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ted by over one hundred chit fund companies. It has taken up probe into complaints registered with police under IPC Sections 420, 406, 34 and Section 3 of Tripura Protection of Interest of Depositors Act 2000.

The Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF) candidate Dilli Ram Thapa on Saturday won the upper Burtuk Assembly seat, garnering 8,406 votes in the bypoll. Out of the total vote count, SDF candidate secured 8,406 votes, Suresh Khanal Sharma of BJP got

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374 votes while Congress candidate Sumitra Rai bagged 98 votes. Five Independent candidates contesting from the seat got 449 votes. Nota votes share stood at 100 of the total votes polled. The BJP had fielded Suresh Khanal Sharma, while Sumitra Rai contested on a Congress ticket.

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Nitish refuses to comment on BJP, RJD spat on land deals

Now Cong MLA ‘threatens’ police in viral video ‘If my friend is unhappy with the SHO, I will take action’

‘No holidays on birth anniversaries’

Speaking more leads to a sore throat, says the Bihar Chief Minister

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A day after a Punjab Minister was seen ‘threatening’ a school principal, another purported video went viral on Saturday in which a Congress MLA is seen allegedly warning police officers to submit to demands of his followers or face consequences.

Rajasthan Governor Kalyan Singh has said that there should be no holidays on birth anniversaries of great personalities instead students should be taught about them on these days. He said that no society can progress unless social harmony is strengthened and discrimination ends. PTI

Body of ASI found on rail track near Ambala AMBALA

The body of an Assistant Sub-Inspector, Balwan Singh of Sonipat, posted with the Government Railway Police here was found on AmbalaDelhi railway track near Ambala Cantt on Saturday morning. PTI

One held for smuggling US-made cigarettes JAIPUR/JODHPUR

A man allegedly involved in smuggling of the US-made cigarettes and protein supplements and absconding for past one year has been arrested by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI). Rajesh Saini was called for an interrogation yesterday by the DRI officials, an official said. PTI

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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday refused to comment on the allegations levelled by BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi about dubious land deals by family members of RJD chief Lalu Prasad. Mr Kumar did not respond to repeated queries of reporters on the issue while leaving the Gandhi Sangrahalay after attending a function. “Jyada bolne par gala kharab ho jata hai (speaking more leads to a sore throat),” was all that Mr Kumar said. Deputy chief minister Tejaswi Yadav also did not comment on the issue. Tejaswi, the younger son of Lalu Prasad, has been targeted by Sushil Modi with a series of allegations of dubious land deals.

‘Political agenda’ While Mr Kumar and Tejaswi refused to comment, State Congress president and Minister Ashok Choudhary came down heavily on Sushil Modi. “He is making allegations as part of some political

Bihar CM Nitish Kumar and Deputy CM Tejaswi Yadav releasing books on the State’s journey of Mahatma Gandhi in Patna on Saturday. PTI *

agenda... he should approach the competent authority with his allegations, instead of making political statements everyday,” Mr Choudhary told reporters. “Why should we work on an agenda set by Sushil Modi? we have our own agenda to work for the people of Bihar,” Mr Choudhary, the State Education minister, said. He dismissed any cracks in the grand alli-

Haryana WCD Minister for ban on liquor sale ‘This will not work if no such ban exists in nearby States’ Press Trust of India Chandigarh

Haryana Women and Child Development Minister Kavita Jain on Saturday said that “as a woman” she feels that prohibition should be imposed in the State. She however added that such a move would not work if there was no such ban existed in the neighbouring States. “As a woman I would say prohibition should be imposed,” Ms Jain told reporters in Sonipat on the sidelines of a function. Haryana shares its boundaries with States where there is no prohibition, she said. Prohibition had been imposed in Haryana in 1996 by

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the Bansi Lal-led Haryana Vikas Party-Bharatiya Janata Party coalition government, but it was lifted by the same regime in 1998. Ms Jain said that she felt that the attempt had failed as liquor was available in the neighbouring States.

“Earlier also probably one of the reasons of prohibition failing in Haryana was that liquor was available in neighbouring States. There were instances when people brought liquor (into the State) in buses and through other means,” she said. Ms Jain said habitual drinkers, when they don’t get liquor, turn violent and are ready to spend any amount to procure it. “Then the situation turns more explosive,” she said while talking of demerits of prohibition if people can procure liquor from neighbouring States. She said the SC order banning liquor sale along the highways was a very good thing.

ance in the State, which, he said, is standing rock solid. Sushil Modi has been making allegations of dubious land deals by Lalu Prasad’s family members and has demanded that Mr Kumar sack Lalu’s two sons from the ministry. Today he threatened to file a defamation suit against RJD national spokesman Manoj Jha for making false allegations of properties

owned by him in Patna and outside the State. “If Jha produces any paper with regard to allegations about me owning property in Rajendra Nagar in Patna, Sohna in Haryana, moving around in BMW cars in Bengaluru and Mumbai, and fake degree of my wife, then I will register the entire property in the name of Lalu Prasad or file a defamation suit against Jha,” Sushil Modi said.

‘Remove pay anomalies in lower grade staf’

Akali Dal response Ramanjit Singh Sikki, the ruling party MLA from Khadoor Sahib, is seen in the video issuing a warning to police officials after which the Opposition Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) attacked him. “I ask the DSP to tell their SHOs that none of my friends should return unhappy after meeting them. If any of my followers is unhappy with the functioning of the SHO, I will myself drive to the concerned police station. And this should not happen that I have to take action

against the concerned police officer,” he is seen saying in the video. Following the appearance of the video, the SAD hit out at Mr Sikki for allegedly threatening SHOs with dire consequences if they did not obey the directives of Congress workers. Former Finance Minister Parminder Singh Dhindsa said that in a direct threat to SHOs, Mr Sikki had announced that if his followers went unheeded, he would himself and teach a befitting lesson to the officer.

Action demanded He demanded immediate action against Mr Sikki under relevant sections of the law for threatening a government official and preventing him from doing his duty in an impartial manner. Targeting the Captain Amarinder Singh-government in the State, Mr

Dhindsa said there was a complete mismatch in statements emanating from Chandigarh and the actions of Congress functionaries in the field. Yesterday, Capt Singh had banned inclusion of names of government functionaries on foundation stones and inaugural plaques, hours after a video of a Minister threatening a government school principal in Nabha went viral on social media.

Earlier video The order was issued after the video showing Cabinet Minister Sadhu Singh Dharamsot threatening with suspension the woman principal of the school, where he had gone to lay a foundation stone, triggered a massive public outcry. The Minister was apparently upset over his name not being at the top on the plaque. Mr Dharamsot however had denied such suggestions.

Cracks in Uttarakhand Congress out in the open Leaders blame former CM Harish Rawat for poll defeat Press Trust of India

PM urged to accept Ministry report Press Trust of India Jammu

The National Mazdoor Conference (NMC) on Saturday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to accept the recommendations of the Finance Ministry to remove pay anomalies in the lower grade staff of Central government services. “We urge the Prime Minister and the Union Finance Minister to accept recommendations of the committee headed by Finance Secretary Ashok Lavasa, constituted for removing pay anomalies in respect of lower grade pay of staff in different categories besides non-finalisation of HRA and other related allowances by the Central government in July 2016,” NMC president Subash Shastri told report-

ers here. The Committee has already submitted its report to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley a month ago, recommended 30% increase in all allowances, beside removal of all pay anomalies in respect of lower grade staff of Central government, he said. He hoped that Central government will accept the recommendations of the committee in toto and a decision in this regard will be taken in the next meeting of Union Cabinet. Mr Shastri pointed out that recommendations of the 7th Pay Commission have not benefited the lower class of Central government. He also demanded release of 7% DA for the State government employees and pensioners.

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Uttarakhand Congress leader Indira Hridayesh has said former Chief Minister Harish Rawat should take the blame for the party’s dismal showing in the Assembly elections as it went to polls with him at the helm.

‘Own responsibility’ Speaking at a programme in Haridwar yesterday, Ms Hridayesh, who was made the Leader of the Opposition in the State Assembly recently, said: “Rawat should take the responsibility for the party’s drubbing as the electoral battle was fought under his leadership.” She said Mr Rawat himself losing both the seats he had contested was a “dark chapter of politics”. Apparently hurt by Ms Hridayesh’s outburst, Mr

Leader of the Opposition Indira Hridayesh and Uttarakhand Congress chief Kishore Upadhyay (centre) at a press conference in Dehradun on Saturday. PTI *

Rawat issued a statement through his former media advisor Surendra Kumar, saying he had already publicly owned up responsibility for the party’s defeat and he is ready to offer himself if party leaders feel he deserves some punishment. “I have already owned up

responsibility for the party’s defeat publicly immediately after the polls. Still, if PCC president Kishore Upadhyay and the Leader of the Opposition Indira Hridayesh want to subject me to some punishment, I readily offer myself,” Mr Rawat said in the statement.

Complaint against Minister Press Trust of India Jaipur

A police complaint was on Saturday registered against the Primary and Secondary Education Minister of Rajasthan, Vasudev Devnani, for allegedly hurting the sentiments of Brahmins.

‘Brahmin sentiment’ “A written complaint was given by one Umakant Ojha, who alleged that the Minister recently raised a question at a programme as to why Brahmins use the title ‘Pandit’ with their names without a proper degree,” Jyoti Nagar police SHO Raghuveer Singh Bhati said. The complainant alleged that the Minister’s statement had hurt the religious sentiments of Brahmins. No FIR The SHO said no FIR was lodged but the police were looking into the allegation. The Minister was not available for comments.

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IN BRIEF

JD(S) brainstorms to increase online presence

Picnic turns into tragedy in Sindhudurg, eight drown

CPI(M)-CPI ties reach a lashpoint in Kerala Sharp exchanges lay bare diferences within the LDF govt.

Principal of Belagavi college says he allowed only industrial tour, not excursion Special Correspondent

BENGALURU

The Janata Dal (Secular), which has largely been absent from the online space, conducted its maiden social media workers’ discussion programme here on Saturday. Though 2,500 people were expected, only 1,300 workers were present for a three-hour interaction with JD(S) leader H.D. Kumaraswamy.

Chinese held for taking pictures of Kerala temple KOCHI

Members of the Thirunettoor Mahadeva Temple management committee on Friday nabbed a 32-year-old Chinese national, Si Ersheng, for allegedly capturing pictures of the centuries-old Kerala temple using a drone camera. According to the police, Si was controlling the drone using a remote from a house near by.

Special Corrrespondent Mumbai

Eight members of a picnic party from a college in Belgavi, Karnataka, drowned in the sea off the Vayri coast in Sindhudurg on Saturday. Three others are in hospital. According to the Sindhudurg police, a group of 45 students and teachers from the Maratha Engineering College had gone to Vayri near Malvan for a picnic on Saturday, and many of them ventured into the sea late in the morning. “The current was quite strong when they entered the water. The locals warned them against going in too deep. Around half-an-hour later, some fishermen on the coast noticed a flurry of activity and rushed to help,” said an officer with the Malvan police.

When disaster struck: Survivors being rushed to a hospital in Sindhudurg, Maharashtra, on Saturday. SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT *

Of the 30 people who entered the sea, 19 managed to swim to safety with the help of the fishermen, while 11 others were caught in the strong waves. The fishermen, after helping 19 students to safety, went back into the water and pulled out the remaining 11 victims.

They were all rushed to the civic hospital in Malvan, where eight of them were declared dead before admission, while three were admitted for treatment.

Families informed The eight deceased include three girls, said officials. The

police have verified the identities of the deceased with the help of the survivors and have, with the help of the college authorities, contacted their families. Following the news of the tragedy, many parents from Belagavi rushed to Sindhudurg on Saturday. The college remained closed. Before proceeding to Sindhudurg, Principal of the College, Prof. Vishwanath Udupi, clarified that he had not given permission for any excursion. He had allowed only an industrial tour. He had not given permission for that also initially, but allowed the students to go after they gave an undertaking that they would make their own arrangements. (With inputs from Hubballi Correspondent)

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM

Sharp exchanges between leaders of the CPI(M) and the CPI over the past few days have taken the ties between the two Communist parties, who share power as leading constituents of the Left Democratic Front, to a flashpoint in Kerala. Kodiyeri Balakrishnan and Kanam Rajendran, State secretaries of the two parties, have taken on each other, laying bare their differences over a few issues, mostly on the way the LDF government is being run.

The beginning The CPI began voicing its dissent with the Pinarayi Vijayan government deciding not to disclose Cabinet decisions under the Right to Information Act. The next point of conflict emerged

when Maoists Koppam Devaraj and Ajitha were shot dead in the Nilambur forests. With some CPI(M) Ministers openly raising questions about the capabil-

ity of CPI Ministers, the stage was set for a confrontation. The opportunity came when the police resorted to strong arm tactics against Mahija, mother of Jishnu Prannoy.

When victims of caste violence came face to face

T.N. suspends three for bid to divert Kerala’s Chinnar river

Resilient Gowsalya Shankar meets Divya, who is yet to emerge from the trauma of her husband’s death

The Hindu exposed the move to link river with Mangayaar

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where. Her neighbours are watching every movement of hers. “If she sports a tilak (vermilion), they ridicule her saying she has forgotten everything. But she is going through agonising moments,” said Ms. Gowsalya.

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The Tamil Nadu Forest Department authorities have swung into action against the move to divert the Chinnar river into the Mangayaar stream. They have suspended a forest range officer in the Anamalai Tiger Reserve, a forester, and a guard in connection with the illegal activity. On Friday, The Hindu exposed the move by a land lobby to divert the Chinnar waters to the Mangayaar with the backing of a section of the forest staff in the ATR. V. Ganesan, Field Director

of ATR, told The Hindu that the department had already taken steps to restore the forest area, where a trench had been illegally dug, to its original condition.

700-metre trench The move was to illegally interconnect the Chinnar and the Mangayaar with a 700metre long trench. The land grabbers have already constructed a 4-metre deep and 3-metre wide trench along 80 metres in the ATR. Kerala Forest Minister K. Raju told The Hindu that Principal Conservator of Forests K.J. Varghese and

Chief Wildlife Warden G. Harikumar had immediately taken up the matter with their Tamil Nadu counterparts, resulting in the action against the forest staff. The Minister said Munnar Wildlife Warden G. Prasad was camping at Chinnar to ascertain the forest restoration process on the Tamil Nadu-Kerala border so that it would not affect the hydrology and biodiversity of the forest tract. Mr. Ganesan said the T.N. Forest Department had registered a case against a man from Kanjirappaly for digging the trench.

Both are victims of casteism. Both paid a heavy price for marrying Dalits. While Divya, whose husband Ilavarasan allegedly committed suicide in July 2013, remains a taciturn victim, Gowsalya, whose husband Shankar was murdered in front of her, has emerged an icon for those who resist casteism. On April 14, she went to Dharmapuri and met Divya, whom she called ‘comrade.’ “Even though she has the courage to fight against the horrid incident, she is not able to speak,” Ms. Gowsalya posted on Facebook. “A few days ago, I went to

Bonding together: Divya and Gowsalya of Tamil Nadu, who lost their husbands to casteist elements.

Dharmapuri in connection with an event against honour killing. I took the opportunity to meet her,” said Ms. Gowsalya, working temporarily for a Central government organisation and participating in events to

campaign against casteism and honour killings. Ms. Gowsalya, who addresses her friends as comrade, said Ms. Divya was attending college. Her mother was with her, she said. “She is not going any-

An example to emulate She has already fulfilled her husband Shankar’s dream — constructing a house in his native Kumaralingam and providing education to his two younger siblings. “Her case became an example for those who fight against injustice. Normally in a case registered under the Scheduled Castes and Tribes

(Prevention of Atrocities) Act, a woman gets ₹5,000 as pension. In Gowsalya’s case, we were able to get ₹ 11,600. All the accused continue to remain in jail. Moreover, the government constituted a team of advocates to run the case,” said Kathir, executive director of Evidence, the organisation that adopted her. Ms. Gowsalya said Ms. Divya was not aware of the happenings outside. “I asked her how she could remain normal. She told me she could not forget the memories of a person whom she loved. Some people had deliberately hidden her from society,” Ms. Gowsalya has recorded.

Telangana Cabinet clears 12% quota for Muslims Karnataka’s forest reserves vie It will be an increase of 7 percentage points for the community, which enjoys 5% reservation as BC N. Rahul HYDERABAD

A meeting of the Telangana Cabinet, chaired by Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao, on Saturday afternoon was said to have cleared 12% reservation for Muslims and 10% for the Scheduled Tribes, in relation to their population. The same would be incorporated in the Telangana State Reservation Bill to be introduced in special sessions of both the Houses of the legislature on Sunday.

Poll promise The decision of the government to extend 12 per cent reservation to Muslims was in tune with the promise of the ruling TRS in its election manifesto. It also conforms to the 12.68 per cent population of the community in the State. The manifesto also promised 12 per cent reservation for the STs but the tribals accounted for only 9.08

Stif opposition: Police clearing ABVP cadre who marched to the Chief Minister’ camp oice to protest the increase in reservation for Muslims. K.V.S. GIRI *

per cent of the total population. It will be a 7 percentage point hike for Muslims as the community already enjoys 5 per cent reservation in listed

Backward Classes of the State under group `E’ though the matter is pending in the Supreme Court. In the case of the STs, however, the increase will be

4 percentage points, up from the present 6 per cent, but the population is only 9.08 per cent. Sources said the quota was rounded off to 10 per cent on the presumption

Groundwater level plummets in Prakasam A.P. government extends ban on sinking borewells to more villages S. Murali ONGOLE

The groundwater level in Prakasam, Andhra Pradesh, fell to 21.97 metres in March, from 14.59 metres in the corresponding period in 2014, thanks to the prolonged dry spell in all 56 mandals of the drought-affected district. The decline is more pronounced in the western parts as the water level went down by 40.7 metres to 73.55 metres in Yerragondapalem in March 2017, as the district faced severe drought for the third consecutive year. This has put paid to the hopes of the State government to ensure availability of groundwater at a depth of below 3 metres after the rainy season and 8 metres before the rains. The ban on sinking borewells has been extended to 126 over-exploited villages CM YK

Trying times: A dry borewell has turned into a swing for children in drought-hit Prakasam district. KOMMURI SRINIVAS *

in 10 mandals in western Prakasam, said Deputy Director M. Nagamalleswara Rao in a conversation with The Hindu.

A challenge “The ban will be reviewed to include more villages to pre-

vent further fall in the groundwater level,” he said. Dornala, close to the Nallamalla forests, saw a 20.02 metre fall in groundwater level. It touched the 65metre mark in March 2017, while the level was 61.0 metre in Cumbumpadu in

the Peddaraveedu mandal, making matters worse for the administration in the district where more than 1,000 habitations are fluoride-affected. In Giddalur in western Prakasam, the level stood at 61.3 metres, according to the shallow water table aquifer piezometer readings undertaken by the Groundwater Department. The groundwater level in the Daddavada village of Kumarolu mandal, adopted by Ongole MP Y.V. Subba Reddy under the Prime Minister’s Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana (SAGY), stood at 62.9 metres, as against 64.97 metres in March 2016. Water could not be seen even at a depth of 800 feet, making the task of providing people with safe drinking water difficult, particularly in the western parts of the Prakasam district.

that the State government’s efforts to include the Kaithi Lambadas and the Boya Valmikis in the ST category would succeed. The government is going ahead with 12 per cent reservation for Muslims backed by the recommendations of the State Backward Classes Commission and the Sudhir commission that the quota for the community could be in the range of 9 to 12 per cent. A large group of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad activists were rounded up by the police when they went to the Chief Minister’s camp office, where the Cabinet meeting took place, to protest against the hike in reservation. Apart from the Reservation Bill, the Assembly will also take up the State specific Goods and Services Tax Bill and the Telangana State Heritage Bill, incorporating heritage status for all structures in the State.

with one another for resources 10 newly declared sanctuaries compete for ₹20 crore Mohit M. Rao Bengaluru

A prolonged protest has seen the 178 sq.km. Kappatagudda retain its reserve forest status, but the journey to a thriving woodland ecosystem may still be a long way off. To the credit of Karnataka, since 2010, at least 17 reserves of various categories spread over 2,110 sq. km. were declared. In contrast, in the 20 years before that, just five reserves and sanctuaries were declared, spreading across a measly 91 sq. km. Currently, more than ten ‘newly declared’ sanctuaries and protected areas vie for nearly ₹20 crore (2016 revised budget estimate) allotted for the development of ‘new sanctuaries’. The fear is that this amount is getting stretched. Take for instance the six

Long road ahead: The Kappatagudda hill range has retained its reserve status. SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT *

wildlife and bird sanctuaries, community and conservation reserves that come under the Mysuru Circle, which received just ₹2.97 crore last year. The response to a Right to Information (RTI) query reveals much of it went to the popular Ranganathittu Bird Sanctuary that sees thousands of visitors annually. For the lesserknown Melukote Wildlife Sanctuary, barely ₹55 lakh was spent in 2015-16, and then ₹7 lakh till end-Decem-

ber 2016. The situation is the same for other sanctuaries, whether it is the Gudekote Sloth Bear Sanctuary in Ballari or the Jayamangali Blackbuck Community Reserve in Tumakuru, to which only ₹3 lakh had been accorded and where Gram Panchayats are being asked for funds to manage a water crisis. The 35 sq. km. Thimmalapura Sanctuary at Tumakuru received about ₹ 1.5 crore, when it had requested over ₹5 crore.

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Gandhi’s India comes alive, with paper Narasinga Rao’s papier mache artwork is on show at National Archives Museum desired qualities are achieved. The outer surface is smoothed with a knife and coloured paper is stuck. “Paper is eco-friendly, but people are raising concerns about the longevity of the art. I am now concentrating more on wooden sculptures,” he says.

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An imposing sculpture of Mahatma Gandhi spinning the ‘charkha’ greets visitors at the exhibition, ‘Bapu Ko Karyanjali’, that was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the National Archives Museum in New Delhi on April 10. The papier mache work is the creation of Vanapalli Narasinga Rao of Visakhapatnam, whose three other works are also on display. The expo is part of the ‘Satyagrah Se Swachchagrah’ programme marking one hundred years of Mahatma Gandhi launching the Champaran Satyagraha in 1917. Narasinga Rao took a Bachelors degree from the Department of Fine Arts of

Marking a century:The Prime Minister pays tributes at the inauguration of the expo in New Delhi. SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT *

Andhra University, before moving to Hyderabad for an MFA. In his formative years, he worked on the theme ‘Gandhiji and rural development’ at the crafts village in Kapuluppada, Visakhapatnam, in 2007. “One can depict emotions perfectly in papier mache

unlike in other media,” says the artist. His work comes to life using the technique of sticking paper layer by layer, instead of the familiar practice of using paper pulp for modelling. Rao sketches first and then prepares a steel frame. He sticks paper layers till the

Autobiography inspires “I was drawn to the Mahatma’s ideology after reading his autobiography in 2002. The next year, when I joined the BFA course, my teacher T. Sudhakar Reddy suggested that I make models on Gandhi’s ideas on rural development,” he said. His works at the National Archives Museum include a woman weaving a basket, a potter with the London Round Table Conference delegates on the wheel, and a woman cotton picker. A ND-ND

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IN BRIEF

SP open to a tie-up with BSP Train derails near Anti-BJP alliance may take shape in Uttar Pradesh ahead of 2019 Lok Sabha polls Omar Rashid LUCKNOW

Women activists seek Minister’s help KANPUR

Condemning the action of a panchayat in Madhya Pradesh’s Guna that passed a diktat to get a five-year-old girl married to an eight-yearold boy, social activist Brinda Adige on Saturday called on Union Cabinet Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi to take immediate steps to ensure that children’s rights were safeguarded.

2 dead in explosion at scrap dealer’s shop GURDASPUR

Two persons were killed and three others grievously injured in an explosion at a scrap dealer’s shop near the Barnala pully area, on the outskirts of the city, here on Saturday. The police suspect that the explosion occurred after a hammer was used to break some object in the shop. The dead were identified as Harpreet, 35, and Tarsem, 40.

A day after the Bahujan Samajwadi Party (BSP) chief Mayawati expressed her willingness to work with other anti-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) parties, Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday stated that his party was not averse to being part of such a front. The remarks by the two leaders have provided strength to the possibility of their parties joining hands or becoming a part of a larger anti-BJP alliance for the 2019 Lok Sabha election. Mr. Yadav said he had welcomed the idea of an alliance even before the election results. “In the days to come, the Samajwadi Party will play an important role in any political alliance that is formed. The real election is in U.P.…it has 80 seats,” Mr. Yadav told reporters here during a party event. On Friday, Ms. Mayawati, in her Ambedkar Jayanti speech, stressed that she no longer had any reservations in “taking help of or joining

₹2,000-cr. push for women engineers

Expanding footprint: Former U.P. CM and SP chief Akhilesh Yadav and MP Dimple Yadav at the launch of the party’s membership drive in Lucknow on Saturday. RAJEEV BHATT *

hands with” other anti-BJP parties in her “struggle” against the alleged tampering of Electronic Voting Machines, and against the BJP in order to “save the democracy in the country.” Mr. Yadav also raised the issue of alleged EVM tampering and said the Election Commission should explain it. He said he had a “firm belief ” in ballot papers and hoped future elections

Jacob Koshy New Delhi

The Department of Science and Technology will be leading a ₹2,000-crore initiative to encourage more girls and women to take up careers in the domain of science and engineering, where they are under-represented. A pilot programme covering 100,000 girls and women, from school-going children to those interested in research, will be launched later this year. “We hope to be able to raise the percentage of women working in the Indian Institutes of Technology, National Institutes of Technology, Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research, and other national research labs. We aim to take it from the 10% or so at present, to 33% in the next five years,” Ashutosh Sharma, secretary, Department of Science and Technology, told The Hindu. Previous studies have found that when compared to the U.S., European Union, and several Asian countries, India fared reasonably well when it comes to enrolment of women in science and engineering,

which stood at around 35%. But the proportion of women in the science and engineering workforce was an abysmal 12%.

Special scholarships The current initiative, called Vigyan Jyoti, envisages 500 contractual faculty positions for five years in universities and research organisations, and special scholarships for school girls. The proposal is a key part of a report, Vigyan 2030: Science and Technology as the Pivot for Jobs, Opportunities and National Transformation, jointly submitted by the secretaries of all the Central science departments. Presented to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in January, the report — parts of which were reported by The Hindu on Saturday— lays out a sweeping plan to rejuvenate science in India. “You rarely see women forced to give up a career in medicine, but it is frustrating to have women drop out from the IITs and other research organisations,” said Sharma. “We hope to fix this with assured career opportunities, fellowships and guidance.”

SP’s membership drive Mr. Yadav launched a twomonth-long membership drive for his party — till June 15. The campaign would also be conducted through missed call and online systems. Around three lakh primary members had signed in on the first day, said SP spokesperson Rajendra Chaudhary said.

Rampur, 13 injured Police hint at sabotage after they ind a part of track missing

Of the tracks: Coaches of the Meerut-Lucknow Rajya Rani Express that derailed near the Rura railway station in Rampur, Uttar Pradesh, on Saturday. PTI *

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Eight coaches of the Lucknow-bound Meerut-Lucknow Rajya Rani Express derailed near Rampur station in Uttar Pradesh at 8 a.m. on Saturday. It occurred between Rampur and the

Mundapanda railway station, near a bridge over the Koshi river. The accident led to huge traffic disruption as the route connects Delhi to Lucknow via Moradabad. Thirteen people, including eight women, were injured. The U.P. government

announced ₹50,000 for each of the injured. The Railways has ordered a probe. According to K.K. Chaudhary, Superintendent of Police, Rampur, “The sabotage angle cannot be ruled out as a three-foot-long railway track was missing.”

Shops, houses gutted in J&K

An artist returns to his elements

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S. Nandagopal’s universe was animated by imagination and the transmogrifying quality of ire

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would be held through them and not EVMs. Reflecting on his party’s loss in the U.P. Assembly election, Mr. Yadav said that while his politics of development did not bear results, the “glue of Hindutva and nationalism” did a good binding work for the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)-BJP, which won by “deceiving” voters. “We were viewed with the lens of

religion and caste. The RSS spread false propaganda that the SP is a party of only Yadavs, and does appeasement and builds graveyards,” Mr. Yadav said. He dismissed these allegations, pointing out that his wife Dimple Yadav was from a different caste. The SP chief also accused the BJP for raking up religious sentiments to polarise elections. “Perhaps, the BJP does not even consider us Hindus. Now, every morning, when I go to the temple, I will tweet a picture [to prove I am a Hindu]. I can also change kurtas daily and wear different colours on different days of the week,” Mr. Yadav said in a lighter vein.

At least 26 shops, six residential structures and several vendor huts were gutted in a major fire in Jammu and Kashmir’s Doda district early on Saturday. There are no reports of anyone getting hurt in the incident. The fire broke out in Gandoh main market, near the police station, and spread quickly before sunrise to all adjoining shops and houses, which are mostly made of dry cedar and pine wood. Local residents and police personnel swung into action and started dousing the flames. “The fire was noticed by a patrolling team of police and the Sashastra Seema Bal at 1.45 am. They raised an alarm and informed the fire department. The fire tenders could reached the spot at 3.30 am as the nearest fire station is located at Thathri, 45 km from Gandoh,” said Gandoh Sub-Divisional Police Officer Sunny Gupta. Meanwhile, police and paramilitary personnel along with local residents tried to control the blaze, he said. “The fire is under control,” the officer said.

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There was a sense of irony to standing and watching artist/ sculptor Nandagopal’s body being consigned to the furnace at an electric crematorium in Chennai this afternoon. The small group of fellow artists, friends and family, who came to accompany the 71-year-old artist on his final journey, must have experienced different emotions. But I found myself reflecting on the symbiotic relationship between a metal sculptor and his primary medium, fire.

Recurring image I couldn’t shake off the recurring image of having seen Thambi, several times over the past almost four decades I knew him, standing with his goggles and gloves in front of his own studio furnace, softening copper or bronze sheets over the flame, beating and flattening and shaping it, cutting with an oxyacetylene torch and wresting out a phantasmagoria of lively forms – part mythic and part from the anthropomorphic world – a universe animated as much by imagination, as by the transmogrifying quality of fire. No wonder the sthapatis and musharis of

old were so unqualifyingly venerated. And I stood there and mused with rather inappropriate (Hamletian) black humour, ‘Ah, Thambi, you are at last in your elements’. As the son of the artist and inspirational teacher K.C.S. Paniker and, along with him, as one of the founding members of the Cholamandal Artists Village in Madras in 1967, Nandagopal was, perhaps, the youngest of the group. He had just graduated in physics from Loyola College, Madras, the year before. However, the next five years, he studied painting and ceramics at the College of Arts and Crafts, Madras. Nandagopal’s artistic trajectory has followed the same pre-occupation as that of the thirty-plus members of that collective, derived from their mentor Paniker – an incessant quest for identity. It was a deep question at that time, albeit posed in naïve ways. It is a question centrally connected with questions of modernity in Indian art right from the times of Abanindranath Tagore in the late 19th century – can Indian modernity be a carbon copy of Western modernity or can it posit a distinctly different aesthetic and social concern?

S. Nandagopal brought together the skills of a metal worker, ceramist, jeweller and painter.

In an interesting way, the tension of which is still evident in the works of the artists from Cholamandal, they are still trapped between Ajanta and Paul Klee. Reflecting on Nandagopal’s works in beaten metal (copper/ bronze), embellished with lacquered colours, engravings, enamelling and silver plating, give an excellent entry into this artistic tension. While aspiring to abstraction, he doesn’t abandon the need for narrative linearity so much a part of this soil. He wilfully goes against reigning practice, to renounce dimensionality and volume in his sculptures, in favour of perspective and

flatness, which contributes something like a painterly frontality to his work, enabling it to be snucked against a wall. Here, an old concept of ‘asymmetry in symmetry’ introduced to him by Josef James, the resident critic and theoretical guru at Cholamandal, went a long way in formalising what were otherwise attempts at riding on existing mythologies, tantric concepts and the mystic pull of the ‘indigenous’. The need to integrate the formal discoveries of modern art with indigenous ‘tradition’ was at the root of this quest, in order to make his art meaningful and relevant.

Distinct style The way Nandagopal evolved his technique was distinctly unique. Borrowing from craft traditions, he would draw on box-boards, enlarge it to transfer on metal sheets, put it through the flame, use metal wires and rods to braze one segment of his narrative with another, apply nitric acid in an almost painterly way, buff it, and then apply the final ployurythene lacquer – he brought together the skills of a metal worker, ceramist, jeweller and painter to his work.

The fact that he got his Lalit Kala Akademi award at 24 and the Grand Prize at the Fourth International Triennale, Delhi, for his work ‘Ritual Image’ at 32, set him apart for greater things. He used to say that only when an artist is “dejected or dissatisfied” that he can create. There is a feeling that in the past few months he was increasingly in a rage. When I last met him a few weeks ago, during the 50th anniversary celebrations of the Cholamandal Village, he was in a bit of a tizzy against the media and the way it had marginalised this artistic experiment. The tension and his frayed nerves were evident. It was not a healthy sign. Today, Thambi’s wife Kala said quietly, ‘He did all that he wanted to do before he went; his great dream was do a book on his father, which he just did a few months ago’ [‘Paniker’, published by ArtWorld, Chennai, 2016]. Now, it will be interesting to see how the Cholamandal Arts Village he nurtured along with other artists all these years, a tad rigidly perhaps, will fare in the future. As for Nandagopal, he must already have found another other-worldly element to sculpt his indigenism with.

Punjab govt. sets up expert group to study debts, waiver Vikas Vasudeva CHANDIGARH

In an attempt towards realising its poll promise to waive all farm debts in the State, the Punjab government has set up an expert group to assess the quantum of agricultural debt, and suggests ways and means for its waiver. Mr. T. Haque, former chairman of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices, has been appointed chairman of this expert group, which has been tasked with submitting its report within 60 days. The two other members are Pramod Kumar Joshi, DirectorSouth Asia, International Food Policy Research Institute and B.S. Dhillon, Vice-Chancellor of the Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana. An official notification issued in this regard by additional Chief Secretary (Development), said the expert group would be assisted by the officers of the State government, including additional Chief Secretary-cum-Financial Commissioner (Development) and Principal Secretary Finance. “Besides assessing the total amount of credit including institutional and non-institutional credit availed by different categories of farmers, the group will assess the quantum of bad loans or debt and suggest the methodology for remission of debt. It will also suggest ways and means to raise resources for the debt waiver,” said the notification.

₹80,000 crore in all Where Notably, the total farm debt in Punjab stands at more than ₹80,000 crore, including crop loans in the cooperative sector amounting to about ₹ 12,500 crore. The average debt per farm household in Punjab works out to ₹8 lakh (including crop loan). CM YK

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Golden age of BJP “Analysts also said the BJP does well against the Congress but fails in front of regional formations. This too was disproved in the last set of Assembly polls. The party must now prepare to fight polls in not only Himachal Pradesh, Gujarat and Karnataka but also continue political work in Kerala, West Bengal, Odisha, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh,” said Mr. Prasad, quoting Mr Shah. The party, at its last executive meeting in Delhi had asked for volunteers from among party members for full time devotion to the programmes attached to the Deendayal Upadhyaya centenary year. Mr. Shah did not mince words when it came to the opposition and the apprehensions expressed over the use of EVMs in the polls. “So EVMs were alright when the Bahujan Samaj Party won in 2007, and the Samajwadi Party won in 2012 in Uttar Pradesh, but not now. Or when the Congress won in Punjab this time. This kind of campaign is an insult to the Election Commission,” Mr. Prasad quoted Mr. Shah as saying. Mr. Prasad himself launched a broadside at Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s claim that as an engineer he could prove

that EVMs could be hacked by saying, “There is a chief minister who is himself a hacker.” He added that current party spokesman G.V.L. Narasimha Rao’s own doubts about EVMs expressed in a book written by him was “not the official stance of the party.” The governments of West Bengal, Kerala and Tripura came in for criticism from Mr. Shah over what he termed as attacks on his party workers. The Law Minister also took questions on some of the issues dominating the headlines. He said the “government was alive to the situation in Jammu and Kashmir” and that he did not set much score by the comments made by former chief minister of the State and National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah saying that the latter “flip flops from nationalist to quasiseparatist too often.” On the question of whether the issue of building a Ram Temple in Ayodhya had been discussed, Mr. Prasad replied in the negative, saying, “We don’t have to discuss the Ram Mandir in every meet, it is on our manifesto for the 2014 polls and the Sankalp Patra for the U.P. polls. It is our stated aim.”

Stolen & recovered “We tracked, stopped, recovered,” Mr. Tiwari said, indicating that the bank considers the temporary $171 million loss a closed chapter now. Meanwhile, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has asked banks to put stricter systems in place, including appointing a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). The RBI has also created a specialised cell (C-SITE) to conduct detailed IT examination of banks’ cyber security preparedness, to identify the gaps and to monitor the progress of remedial measures by 2017-18. “There is an increasing trend in incidents pertaining to theft of personal information, ” RBI deputy governor S.S. Mundra warned bankers at a seminar on Financial Crimes Management arranged by the Centre for Advanced Financial Research and

Learning (CAFRAL) in February. Of worry are also smaller hacks that defraud poorer, less educated customers unable to detect the fund transfers before it is too late to retrieve them. Last year, several banks were forced to replace or change PINs on 3.2 million cards after security was compromised by a malware that cost the banking industry ₹2 crore. State Bank of India — the country’s largest lender — had to reissue around six lakh debit cards to its customers. On March 8 this year, the Pune-based Bank of Maharashtra filed an FIR with the Shivaji Nagar police station, after it detected at least ₹25 crore missing from various accounts. Cyber investigators tracked the problem to a UPI (Unified Payments Interface) solution from a local vendor, but couldn’t retrieve most of the money.

Jet union threat In a letter to its members, NAG said, “We had a case of an expat threatening a senior examiner. An expat was inexcusably rude to a physically challenged passenger on board one of our flights and yet another expat was openly racist and had no qualms in expressing his racism; there has been little action [on these incidents] from the company.”

“The safety of our passengers and pilots is of prime importance and these kinds of issues cannot be tolerated at all,” the letter said. Jet Airways spokesperson in a statement said, "Jet Airways is an equal opportunities employer. It employs human capital which is diverse in race, gender, caste, creed or religion."

Jadhav’s family likely to ile mercy plea Kallol Bhattacherjee NEW DELHI

A day after Pakistan asked India to conduct more “active diplomacy” regarding the case of arrested former Navy officer Kulbhushan Jadhav, officials stated that the next step could include the process of appeal and mercy petitions by his family. High level officials dealing with the case indicated that the logical next step would be for the Jadhav family to reach out to the Pakistani authorities and lodge a petition against the death sentence delivered by a military court of Pakistan. Officials said that under the circumstances, the Pakistan High Commission in Delhi could play a facilitating role. The mercy petition is “one option, among several,” said a diplomatic source. The discussion on the appeal and mercy petitions was held in the backdrop of Pakistan’s silence over India’s 14th request for consular access to Mr. Jadhav made by High Commissioner Gautam Bambawale on Friday. The Indian envoy also sought the charge sheet CM YK

and a copy of the judgement at his meeting with Pakistan Foreign Secretary Tehmina Janjua. Despite various reports about Pakistan’s official position on the latest request from India, sources confirmed that Islamabad has not responded formally to India’s latest request for consular access till Saturday evening. Sources hinted that India would follow up with the options of appeal and mercy petitions only after Pakistan gives an official response to Mr Bambawale’s requests. On Friday, Pakistan Prime Minister’s adviser on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz had said Mr Jadhav was free to appeal within 40 days to an Appellate Court. He had also pointed out that Mr Jadhav would also have the option of appealing to the Chief of Army Staff of Pakistan within 60 days. “He may lodge a mercy petition to the president of Pakistan within 90 days after the decision of COAS on the mercy petition,” said Mr Aziz explaining the ultimate option available to him.

Modi frenzy grips Bhubaneswar PM breaks security protocol to walk with crowds in road show ahead of national executive meet Satyasundar Barik BHUBANESWAR

Security agencies were thrown into a tizzy when Prime Minister Narendra Modi, setting aside security protocol, stepped out of his bulletproof SUV and almost walked into the crowd during his nine-km roadshow here on Saturday. Mr. Modi, who arrived to attend the BJP’s national executive committee meeting, was accorded a rousing reception by party workers right from the Biju Patnaik International Airport to Janata Maidan, the venue of the meeting.

Varanasi redux Repeating his roadshows in Varanasi ahead of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls, Mr. Modi stood up in his SUV and waved at the thousands of people who lined up on either side of the road as he drove past. Defying the security cordon, he got off his vehicle a couple of times, walked up to people, greeted them and even shook hands with some of them. The break in protocol came at the Jayadev Vihar Square, where the party’s Scheduled Tribe and Scheduled Caste wing leaders were waiting to welcome him. Special Protection Group personnel following Mr. Modi were expecting him to

Grand entry: Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives for the national executive meeting in Bhubaneswar on Saturday. BISWARANJAN ROUT *

The SPG guards, caught off guard, had a tough time throwing a security cordon as thousands of people, who had broken through the barricades, began walking with him, keeping step and chant-

stop to acknowledge the party leaders’ welcome and return to the vehicle. However, after meeting party leaders, the Prime Minister continued walking along Jayadev Vihar Road.

ing ‘Modi, Modi’ in excitement. Earlier, as the special IAF helicopter carrying Mr. Modi touched down at the airport, thousands of BJP workers, who had been waiting for

Students injured in college clash Police deny raiding educational institution in Kashmir’s Pulwama district treated.” Senior superintendent of police (SSP), Pulwama, Rayees Muhammad Bhat, however, confirmed injuries to 30 students. “Only three of them were injured due to pellets and teargas shells,” said Mr. Bhat.

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At least 30 students were injured in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Saturday when a police checkpoint came under heavy stone pelting, sparking clashes and use of force by security forces.

Barricade set up A police spokesman said a naka (barricade), established around 200 metres away from the Degree College, Pulwama, was set up in the day. “As the classwork ended in the college, some miscreants started pelting stones at the naka. Reinforcement was rushed to the spot. The mob swelled as more students joined and pelted stones on the forces,” said the spokesman. The police denied that it raided the college.

Smoke shells lobbed Officials at Pulwama’s district hospital said the security forces lobbed smoke shells in the hospital. He said the matter was being investigated.

Up in arms: Students clash with police in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Saturday. THE HINDU *

Locals alleged clashes were sparked when two police vehicles stopped at the entrance of the college. They alleged students were chased with pellet

guns, injuring one student in the eye. Medical superintendent of the Pulwama Hospital, Dr. Abdul Rashid Parra said, “Over 50 students were

‘Pre-planned’ “Maybe it was pre-planned to create a situation in view of the parliamentary elections,” said Mr. Bhat. Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba condemned the “brutal assault” on the students and described it as an “act of terrorism”.

hours in the blazing sun, erupted in jubilation. Conches, drums and the traditional hulhuli (a celebratory ululation, usually performed by women on auspicious occasions) exploded as Prime Minister was received by Union Ministers Jual Oram and Dharmendra Pradhan and other senior party leaders. Mr. Modi first halted at the Airport square and waved to crowds after stepping out from his vehicle. The BJP had planned the impressive road show to compensate for the absence of a public meeting which was ruled out given the scorching heat. The entire 9.5 km stretch from Biju Patnaik International Airport to Janata Maidan was completely sanitised ahead of the Mr Modi’s arrival. Beyond the actual route of the convoy, almost the entire city was a sea of saffron with party flags and cut-outs of the Prime Minister. BJP office bearers from districts with traditional dance troupes had taken position along the road show route and were in full swing as Mr Modi drove past. The party’s women’s wing accorded a traditional welcome to Mr. Modi near the Raj Bhawan where he had a brief halt.

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National Conference (NC) president Farooq Abdullah was declared the winner of the Srinagar Lok Sabha byelection on Saturday. He defeated the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate Nazir Khan by 10,766 votes. “I want to thank people who voted for me. They have clearly rejected PDP,” said Dr. Abdullah at the party headquarters Nawa-eSubh in Srinagar. The NC president had lost the 2014 parliament polls for the first time by over 40,000 votes to then PDP leader Tariq Hameed Karra. Mr Karra subsequently quit the PDP to join the Congress. Pledging to safeguard Article 370, Dr. Abdullah promised to “seek a dialogue

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Rights body Amnesty International, several Valleybased political parties, and separatists, on Saturday expressed concern and condemnation over two videos: one that showed security forces tying a local to an Army vehicle and another video showing security personnel killing a youth at point-blank range. The rights body said it met Farooq Ahmad Dar, a resident of Budgam. He told Amnesty that he had been detained by Army personnel .

In a serious turn of events, Bar Council of India (BCI) and representatives of all the High Court Bar Associations across the country, in a joint meeting on Saturday, demanded the immediate resignation of Law Commission of India chairman and former Supreme Court judge Justice B.S. Chauhan for attempting to take away the autonomy and independence of the Indian Bar.

Ensure justice in J&K: CPI(M) Special Correspondent

BCI unhappy over ‘attempt to take away autonomy of Indian Bar’

Controversial clauses The controversy stems from the recent Advocates (Amendment) Bill 2017 of the Law Commission which has

B.S. Chauhan recommended that persons from other professional communities should be made members of Bar Councils and a former High Court or Supreme Court judge

legium system for appointment of judges of the High Court and the Supreme Court in order to ensure transparency in the process of appointment. The lawyers’ bodies said the Bar should also be involved with the process of appointment. The joint meeting has further demanded enacting legislation to ensure accountability of judges. The lawyers’ bodies have resolved to assemble outside court premises across the country and burn the copies of the Law Commission recommendations and embark on a signature campaign against the Bill.

Dalit procession attacked in Meerut Activists allege increase in attacks on Dalits and Dalit icons over the past month

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The CPI(M) has demanded that securitymen responsible for allegedly tying a Kashmiri youth to a jeep be made accountable and punished. “The CPI(M) politburo expresses outrage over reports of a Kashmiri youth being tied to a jeep belonging to the Central security forces to be used as a shield against stone pelters. Farooq Ahmad Dar is reported to have said that he has never been a stone pelter and works as embroiderer,” said a party release.

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A ‘shobha yatra’, a celebratory procession taken out by the Dalit community to mark B.R. Ambedkar's birth anniversary, was fired upon and attacked by Jats in the Gesupur Shumali village of Meerut on Saturday. During the procession, over a dozen rounds of bullets were fired and the Dalit community was attacked with stones. The ‘shobha yatra’ had to be stopped midway due to stone pelting and firing on the procession. Heavy police was deployed

to restore calm in the area, which has a history of JatDalit clashes. Superintendent of Police Ajay Sahdev visited the area along with other police personnel. This comes a day after a statue of B.R. Ambedkar was vandalised and blackened by unknown people, which angered Dalits and led to tension in the area. Members of the Dalit community approached the police and filed a complaint against the dominant Jat community. After this incident, which occurred on Friday, an angry Dalit youth wrote an al-

legedly abusive post towards the Jat community, which heightened tension in the village further.

Part of a trend Dalit activists allege that the attack is a part of a trend with an increased number of attacks on Dalits since the Yogi Adityanath-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government had come to power. Dalit activist and academician in Meerut College Satish Prakash alleged that in Meerut district alone, over two dozen minor and major attacks on Dalits had taken

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The Shia community on Saturday appealed the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) to keep in mind the Quran, Shariyat and humanity before arriving at any decision on the contentious issue of triple talaq. The Ayodhya dispute and triple talaq are expected to dominate the agenda of the two-day meeting of the Board, which will begin shortly at Nadwatul Ulama here. “My appeal to the AIMPLB is that it should keep in mind the Quran, Shariat and humanity before arriving at any decision on triple talaq,” AIMPLB spokesperson Maulana Yasoob Abbas said. He said in the days of Prophet, there was no tradition of triple talaq. “If triple talaq is a part of Shariat law, it should have been implemented then itself. The need of the hour is to implement the system which was in place during the days of the Prophet,” he said. “The information pertaining to triple talaq is harming the image of Islam. When the Sunnis are of the view that triple talaq is being misused, the practice must cease to exist,” he said.

Defeats PDP candidate by 10,766 votes

Lawyers want law panel chief to quit

New legislation As a backlash to what they think is a serious attempt to encroach into their independence by a former Supreme Court judge-led Law Commission, the lawyers’ bodies said they would unequivocally support if the Centre should come with a new legislation replacing col-

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Farooq Abdullah wins Srinagar byelection

Kashmir videos evoke concern

should preside over disciplinary proceedings against lawyers facing misconduct charges. The Bill has recommended that lawyers to pay their clients up to ₹5 lakh in compensation in case they skip work due to strikes or fail to appear in hearings.

Shias’ plea to board on triple talaq

place over the last one month. "In Meerut district alone, over two dozens major and minor attacks happened on either the Dalits or Dalit icons, like the statue of Ambedkar. The party that is trying to appropriate Dalit icons like Ambedkar is supervising and I can safely say, encouraging this trend. The government has failed to prevent or stop the attacks," Dr. Prakash told The Hindu. "Dalits are being attacked when they try to celebrate and hail their icons like Ambedkar.”

Farooq Abdullah between New Delhi and Islamabad and also ask New Delhi to talk to all stakeholders in Kashmir, including the Hurriyat leadership”. He said the youth of Kashmir were “stereotyped and pushed to the wall by the politics of arrogance and polarisation”. The Congress, which supported Dr. Abdullah, described his victory as “rejection of communal forces”.

Severed head of calf found in U.P. Press Trust of India Allahabad

An FIR was filed against unknown persons following a complaint that the severed head of a calf was found close to a temple here. The incident took place in Teliarganj locality, falling under Shivkuti police station, where a devotee spotted the severed head near the premises of a temple, police said. “An FIR has been lodged against unknown persons. We hope to arrest the culprits soon with the help of CCTV footage from a private school located in the vicinity of the temple,” Shalabh Mathur, senior superintendent of police, Allahabad, said.

Triggers protests The news of the incident triggered protests from Sangh Parivar and Shiv Sena activists who reached the spot and squatted on the adjacent road demanding action against the culprits, leading to disruption of traffic for a few hours. Police officials assured that the culprits would not be spared. Situation under control After pacifying the agitators, Mr. Mathur told reporters that the situation in the locality was under control. A large number of police personnel had been deployed in the area as a precautionary measure, he said. A ND-ND

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Old guns let down H.P. police Report by CAG underscores the lapse in the strategically important State Indo-Asian News Service

He has won many hearts and minds in the village

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Satyarthi asks Trump to revise refugee policy HARIDWAR

Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi on Saturday asked U.S. President Donald Trump to reconsider his decision banning entry of refugees from some countries, saying all hearts, doors and borders should be open for children everywhere in the world. “Children are helpless victims of socio-political circumstances and deserve compassionate treatment,” Mr. Satyarthi said in an interview. PTI

Punjab issues notice on use of red beacons CHANDIGARH

The Amarinder Singh government on Saturday issued a formal notification, prohibiting the use of red beacon on all vehicles barring those belonging to a few high dignitaries, a step aimed to end the VIP culture in Punjab. As per the notification, red light with flasher can now be used only by a few high dignitaries, including the Punjab Governor, the Chief Justice and judges of the Punjab and Haryana High Court. The other category of exempt vehicles is of those on emergency duty. PTI

Himachal Pradesh, which shares a boundary with Jammu and Kashmir and a porous International Border with China, depends on outdated arms to tackle crime, the Comptroller and Auditor-General of India said on Saturday. Most of the police stations continue to depend on outdated and obsolete weapons such as .303 rifles and .455 revolvers instead of the prescribed 7.62 mm self-loading rifles (SLRs), the CAG said in its follow-up of performance audit on modernisation of police forces’ report. Against the requirement of 9,074 SLRs of 7.62/5.56 mm range and 323 light machine guns (LMGs), there were 5,889 and 191 weapons, respectively, in the police department as on March 2016. This indicated a shortfall

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Questionable irepower: Most police stations continue to depend on obsolete weapons like .303 riles and .455 revolvers instead of the prescribed 7.62 mm riles, the CAG said. of 35% in SLRs and 41% in light machine guns.

On fund utilisation Besides, it said the department had not disposed of, or replaced, the old weapons with modern weaponry. The CAG said that in 2009, there was 71% short-

age of SLRs and and 88% of light machine guns in Himachal Pradesh. At that time, 9 mm pistols were 221% in excess. It also picked holes in utilising funds allocated by the Central government for police modernisation. Between 2011 and 2016,

Central funds ranging between 21% and 87% remained unutilised at the end of each financial year, the CAG added. Smuggling of rare species of fauna and Chinese goods is reported frequently from Kinnaur and Lahaul-Spiti districts of Himachal Pradesh.

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“He was not a frequent visitor, but whenever he came, he met local youth and always encouraged them to join the defence forces. He was a man who could easily win people’s hearts with his ability to mingle with them easily.” That is how Sadashiva Tekar of Anewadi village describes the former naval commander Kulbhushan Jadhav, who owns land and a farmhouse there, though he had moved to Mumbai several years ago. Mr. Jadhav, who is from Jawali taluk of Satara district in Maharashtra, on the boundary with Karnataka, is at present in custody in Pakistan, facing the death sentence for “espionage and sabotage”. Speaking to The Hindu, Mr. Tekar said the local people who had known Mr. Jadhav were convinced that he was not guilty of the charges framed by the Pakistani military authorities. Mr. Tekar, a former taluk panchayat vice-president who helped Mr.

Bring him back: Residents of Jawali, the native place of Kulbhushan Jadhav, stage a protest demanding his release from Pakistani authorities. SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT *

Jadhav purchase the agriculture land, said it was over two years since the former naval officer had last visited the village and spent time in his farmhouse.

Praying for release Mr. Tekar recalled that during his visits, Mr. Jadhav would bring books and stationery for students of the local school. Anil Gujjar, a local journ-

alist with a Marathi newspaper, said ever since a Pakistani military court had pronounced the death sentence, people of the district had held protests against Pakistan and praying for Mr. Jadhav’s release. “The local residents recently held a protest at Jawali taluk headquarters demanding that the Indian government ensure the safe release of Mr. Jadhav,” he said.

Warrant against Sanjay Dutt

Efforts resume to douse Mount Abu forest fire JAIPUR

Efforts to douse flames in the forest area near Mount Abu in Sirohi district were resumed on Saturday by Indian Air Force helicopters, which took off early in the morning from Jodhpur’s Phalodi and Gujarat’s Jamnagar. The sole hill station in the desert State, frequented by a number of tourists, witnessed a massive fire, which broke out on Friday morning, prompting the district administration to rope in suitably modified IAF helicopters. PTI

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A local magisterial court issued an arrest warrant against Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt on Saturday for not appearing before it to answer a complaint of criminal intimidation filed by producer Shakeel Noorani. “We had sought arrest warrant against Dutt for non-appearance. The court has allowed our application,” said advocate Neeraj Gupta, Mr. Noorani’s lawyer.

With Delhi talks, Manipur crisis may have blown over

Heat claims second life in Odisha

Decision on Minister’s resignation only after CM returns

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The first crack in the monthold Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led coalition government in Manipur appeared when Health Minister Langpoklakpam Jayentakumar handed in his resignation to Chief Minister N. Biren Singh on Thursday night, shortly after Health Director Okram Ibomcha was suspended from the post by the Chief Minister, who heads the Department of Personnel. Mr. Singh has not as yet accepted the resignation. Highly placed sources said on Saturday that hectic efforts were on to sort out the

Anewadi rises up as one against Jadhav’s sentence

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“passing phase”. Meanwhile, Mr. Singh has left for Delhi to consult with senior BJP leaders. Though an understanding has been “reached”, indications are

that the matter shall be settled after Mr. Singh’s return from Delhi. Sources said Mr. Jayentakumar had resented “too much of interference” by the Chief Minister. The CM appointed a new Advocate-General from outside the State without consulting Mr. Jayentakumar, who holds the Law portfolio. Mr. Singh also overlooked the Health Minister’s recommendation for interim Health Director. The coalition Ministry was formed on March 15 and all four MLAs of the National People’s Party, including Mr. Jayentakumar, are in the Cabinet.

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The next hearing will be on August 29. Mr. Noorani has filed a private complaint with the court demanding registration of a case against

Dutt for criminal intimidation. Dutt had abandoned midway in 2002 a film, Jan ki Bazzi, which he was producing, said Mr. Noorani in his complaint, adding the actor did not even return the money already paid to him. Mr. Noorani approached Indian Motion Pictures Producers Association which directed Dutt to pay back the money. Mr. Noorani later moved the Bombay High Court, seeking execution of the IMPPA’s order.

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The heat in Odisha claimed another life on Saturday with several places sweltering in above-40 degree Celsius temperatures while Rajasthan also sizzled in furnace-like conditions.The death was reported from Angul district, the office of the Special Relief Commissioner (SRC) said in a statement. Delhi sweated through a hot day with the maximum temperature settling at 40.5 deg C. Heat wave also swept several parts of Rajasthan where Barmer was the hottest registering a maximum temperature of 45.5 degrees C.

Bengal doctors jittery over attacks Come up with suggestions to curb violence against them in hospitals Soumya Das KOLKATA

Concerned over attacks on doctors at State-run hospitals by family members of patients, the Alternative People’s Health Initiative (APHI), a forum of doctors and other health workers, came out with several suggestions to curb such attacks on them. Representatives of eight State-run hospitals are part of the APHI. The development assumes significance with the Trinamool Congress government trying to streamline practices of private hospitals in the State. On March 3, the Assembly passed the West Bengal Clinical Establishments (Registration, Regulation and Transparency) Bill, 2017, bringing the functioning of private hospitals under greater government scrutiny. “In the month of March alone, two cases have come in the public domain where two doctors working in the State-run SSKM (Seth Sukhlal Karnani Memorial Hospital) and R.G. Kar Medical College CM YK

Seeking cure: Representatives of eight State-run hospitals are part of the Alternative People’s Health Initiative. and Hospital were assaulted,” APHI’s convener Baishali Biswas told The Hindu. According to the APHI, such assaults are mostly carried out by relatives of patients who accuse the doctors of negligence. The organisation has recently come out with an eight-point

proposal to curb such attacks on doctors.

Referral system One of the key suggestions in the proposal is the setting up of a centralised referral system, which will have updated information regarding the availability of beds and other facilities at govern-

ment-run hospitals in the State. Pointing out that there is a tendency to refer patients to super-speciality hospitals from primary rural health centres, representatives of the APHI said that the related information should be accessible to both doctors and patients. “The referral system should be overhauled. Initiative has to taken to ensure that patients get proper treatment even if they are referred to district or block hospitals instead of superspeciality hospitals,” the proposal stated. The APHI argued that the “absence of standard operating procedure”, especially with regard to emergency cases, leads to confusion and chaos among both doctors and family members of patients. They also said that the in order to boost the government healthcare system, the vacant posts in hospitals have to be filled urgently. APHI will discuss the impact of legislation on Staterun doctors at a convention to be held on April 19. A ND-ND

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Commander Kulbhushan Jadhav, now condemned to death by a Pakistani military court martial, had an uneventful childhood, as a police officer’s son growing up in the N.M. Joshi Marg police colony in Mumbai. He was more inclined towards sports than studies, say his friends, and eventually got into the National Defence Academy at Khadakwasla in Pune, and became a naval officer. Those who have known him from his Navy days say there wasn’t anything remarkable about him.

What is he accused of? The ordinariness of Jadhav’s life ended in March last year when the Pakistan authorities arrested him, on charges of being an Indian spy carrying out terrorist attacks in Balochistan, targeting Pakistan-China interests. Jadhav burst onto the national and international limelight a few weeks later, when Pakistan announced the arrest of an alleged Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) spy in the restive Balochistan province, at a press conference in Islamabad.

Officials released a spliced and edited CD in which Jadhav is seen “confessing” to having been a spy for more than a decade. “I commenced intelligence operation in 2003 and established a small business in Chabahar in Iran as I was able to achieve undetected existence and visits to Karachi in 2003 and 2004,” he says in the video. Jadhav said he was recruited by RAW in 2013 and he had since been directing various activities in Balochistan and Karachi at the behest of the Indian intelligence agency, with a view to engaging Baloch separatists to target infrastructure work on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor. “These activities have been of criminal nature, leading to killing of or maiming of Pakistani citizens,” he said.

Pakistani CD, Jadhav said he was trying to cross over into Pakistan from the Saravan border in Iran on March 3, 2016, when he was captured by Pakistani authorities. The Pakistani Army claims he used an Indian passport under an assumed name, Hussein Mubarak Patel, which stated that he belonged to Sangli.

What is India’s reaction? While the Indian authorities accepted that Jadhav was a former Navy officer, the government has denied allegations that he is a spy. Jadhav, who retired

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from the Navy in 2001, established a small business in the Chabahar Free Trade Zone in Iran, where he reportedly operated a mechanised dhow named Kaminda, and the government believes he was kidnapped in Iran and brought forcibly into Pakistan to try and implicate India with allegations of espionage and terrorism. It is particularly significant that Jadhav’s arrest was announced even as Pakistani investigating officials were being shown evidence of the attack on the Pathankot airbase in India.

How will it affect ties? This is the latest flashpoint in the long and embittered saga of India-Pakistan ties. On April 10, the Pakistan Army announced that a Field General Court Martial had sentenced Jadhav to death, after three-and-a-half months of trial. The sentence was confirmed by Army chief Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa. Many in Pakistan were taken by surprise, and according to a widely believed theory, the intelligence agencies in Pakistan wanted to pre-empt the an-

nouncement by Indian agencies of the capture of a high-level ISI spy last seen in Lumbini, Nepal, earlier this month.

What next for Jadhav? The government says it won’t spare any effort to secure the life of Jadhav, who is innocent, but admits that it has no knowledge of where he is being held, nor has it received any information from Iran on how he may have been spirited there. On Friday, India again sought consular access to Jadhav in Pakistan, which has rejected 13 earlier requests. India has also rejected Pakistan’s demand that it accept Jadhav was a spy and cooperate in the investigation in return for consular access to him, and has warned that Pakistan’s refusal to accord access is in contravention of international law. “Under these circumstances, we have no choice but to regard the sentence, if carried out, as an act of pre-meditated murder,” External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj warned in Parliament. JOSY JOSEPH

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The lowdown on the Goods and Services Tax

What is it? It’s the new system proposed to be rolled out from July 1 this year for taxing all goods and services that you consume. The Goods and Services Tax or GST will replace the myriad local, State-level and Central taxes that are built into the price you pay for products, and the service tax as well as cesses that are dovetailed to your outgoes when you dine at a restaurant or pay your mobile phone bills. India may be a $2-trillion-plus economy

with a large, booming domestic market, but is a nightmare for compliant businesses, thanks to multiple Central and State-level indirect taxes, such as sales tax, excise duty, Central value-added tax (VAT) and State VAT. The alphabet soup of taxes, differing regulations across 29 States, and difficulties in interState trade which often involve hours of highway snarls at border checkpoints to collect octroi and check documents, are a recipe for inefficiency and a proven incentive for tax evasion by sticking to the informal sector. As a single tax that would replace all such duties and cesses, the GST will make India a unified market with a common tax structure, instead of 29 fractured markets. One last thing worth noting: petroleum products and alcohol are being kept out of the GST net for now.

How did it Nine years after the come about? Indian economy was opened up in 1991, the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government first floated the idea of a simple, transparent and efficient

GST regime to substitute the multiple Central and State taxes and cesses. But, like several critical (and often inevitable) reforms in India, the GST took a tortuously long route to reach the cusp of reality — a route marred by resistance, flip-flops and political expediency. April 1, 2010 was the first official target date for kicking off the GST announced by the then Finance Minister P. Chidambaram in the Union Budget for 2006-07. That date was pushed back by a year and later abandoned as certain Opposition-ruled States, including Gujarat, stymied the tax reform. However, when Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi became the Prime Minister in 2014, the GST got a fresh lease of life and constitutional amendments necessary to implement it were cleared by the Lok Sabha within Mr. Modi’s first seven months in office. The Rajya Sabha’s approval for these changes, however, could only be clinched last August. Since then, a co-operative governance body called the GST Council, with representatives from the States and the

Centre, has thrashed out the nitty-gritty of the new regime, including five rate slabs (zero, 5%, 12%, 18% and 28%) and an additional cess on top of the highest GST rate on sin goods, such as luxury cars and tobacco. Unlike income tax, which just a small segment of India’s mammoth 1.3 billionplus population end up paying, virtually everyone, including the poorest of the poor, pay indirect taxes on products and services, be it a shampoo sachet or a mobile phone recharge. Besides improving tax compliance from traders, the GST regime is expected to boost economic growth by a percentage point or two, despite the risk of an initial blip, the government and industry bodies reckon. Investors, often put off by India’s complex taxation structure, should find it easier and more attractive to do business in the country and create an important byproduct for India’s fast-growing, young workforce — jobs.

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What next? With President Pranab Mukherjee signing off this week on four enabling GST laws cleared by Parliament, the legislative action will shift to the Assemblies to pass the State GST laws. Over the next month, officials hope to complete another cumbersome task — fitting the different GST rates onto thousands of products and services. Congress leader Veerappa Moily summed up the essence of this challenge eloquently — “Is Kitkat a chocolate or a biscuit? Is coconut oil considered hair oil or cooking oil?” We will know soon as the GST Council will take up these minutiae at its next meeting in Srinagar in the third week of May. That will leave industry with little over a month to prepare for the transition by tweaking pricing, accounting and supply chain management strategies in the middle of a financial year. Look out for a pre-GST spurt in sales as savvy consumers will try to stock up on goods that may attract a higher tax after July 1. VIKAS DHOOT

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What's wrong with it? The Indian e-commerce and start-up sector, which until recently was talked about as one of the most exciting places to be in, has hit a rough patch. Serious questions have cropped up about the ecosystem after the arrest of Stayzilla co-founder Yogendra Vasupal on a vendor’s complaint and staff layoffs in e-commerce majors Snapdeal, Yepme and Craftsvilla. In the last three-four years, a large number of e-commerce entrepreneurs entered the fray. Most of them offered to make our lives easier by catering to everyday needs: shopping, clothes, finding a doctor, hailing a taxi, mobile recharge and ordering food, among others. With customers lining up behind the new trend, investors from across the world poured large amounts of money into them. In the last five years, an estimated $15 billion, or ₹97,000 crore, has been invested in this sector. With venture capital flowing in, companies burnt a lot of cash to get more

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market share. The cash burn continued at a high rate, even as most of the companies were making huge losses. Soon, the venture capital and private equity (PE) players realised that they were unable to reap the real fruits of their investments. Even the large e-commerce companies had not set up a strong profit-making business model or provided returns to investors. While big players face a funds crunch, smaller entities are being forced to shut shop. Doesn't funding help? Leading domestic players in the e-biz sector raised incredibly large sums of money from all around. These investments were used by the companies to try out new business models, dabble in non-core areas and venture into acquisitions, among others. But since they failed to figure out the right economic model, the plans backfired. Soon, many of the trials went awry, resulting in big losses. Snapdeal co-founder Kunal Bahl admitted this in a letter to employees: *

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and Snapdeal were finding it difficult to get the next round of funding. Last week, Flipkart announced $1.4 billion in fresh funding and also the acquisition of the Indian arm of eBay. The fresh infusion of funds is likely to give a breather to the struggling company. The company, which now has marquee investors like Tencent, eBay, Microsoft and Tiger Global, is competing with the global e-commerce giant Amazon in India. The Indian arm of the U.S.-based Amazon is also investing huge sums to acquire market share. At a time when Flipkart raised fresh funds, its Indian rival Snapdeal is struggling to find enough money to run its operations. According to reports, Snapdeal’s major investor Softbank is looking at merging operations of Snapdeal and Flipkart. Another player, Paytm, is also gearing up to grow its business as investor Alibaba eyes the Indian e-commerce market. All this will result in major consolidation among the players.

Analyst firm Gartner said: “India’s e-commerce market is still at an early stage; the market is seeing signs of consolidation as scale is a key success factor in the business.” Why is failure not so bad? In countries like the U.S. and Europe, where the start-up activity is on a higher and stronger scale, it is common to see ideas or businesses fail. It is almost a given that about 70% of the new ideas fail, and a few startups succeed, and investors accept it as reality. It is accepted that in a strong startup environment an idea which sounded excellent and received huge funds can fail. In a territory such as India which is taking baby steps, investors and policymakers should be aware of the pitfalls. Industry experts point out that failures should not cause scepticism towards innovation and entrepreneurship.

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Valley of disquiet: The byelection in the Srinagar Lok Sabha constituency on April 9 was marked by violence and apathy. Protesters clashed with security forces at a number of places, and eight civilians died in the violence. The Srinagar seat, comprising 15 Assembly segments, spread over the districts of Srinagar, Budgam and Ganderbal, saw around 80,000 votes polled of 12.5 lakh voters, the lowest ever in the past three decades. In 2014, the polling percentage was 26%, compared with 7.14% this time. While the Anantnag byelection scheduled for April 12 was called of, repolling was held in 38 booths of the Srinagar constituency on Thursday, with the turnout even lower, pegged at 2%. The Chadoora area of Budgam district witnessed prolonged violence, and an abysmal turnout, with most booths remaining empty. “The government failed to provide a conducive atmosphere for the polls,” said National Conference president Farooq Abdullah, joint candidate of the National ConferenceCongress alliance from Srinagar, who won the election. NISSAR AHMAD, AFP

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Until late last week in Tamil Nadu, it seemed all roads led to R.K. Nagar. That’s because the Dr. Radhakrishnan Nagar, or R.K. Nagar, constituency in north Chennai was expected to go to the polls. But the Election Commission (EC) rescinded the byelection just two days before polling, after raids by the Income Tax department revealed largescale distribution of cash for votes. The byelection was necessitated by the death of Jayalalithaa, who was elected from the constituency in 2016. She had won from the seat in a 2015 byelection, after her acquittal by the Karnataka High Court in the disproportionate assets case. What happened? In February, after he stepped down as Chief Minister, O. Panneerselvam rebelled against Jayalalithaa’s confidante V.K. Sasikala, claiming that he was forced to resign. The AIADMK split into two factions, leading to an unending political drama with leaders of both factions vying to re-

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tain control over the MLAs. The Panneerselvam faction approached the Election Commission, claiming that Sasikala’s appointment as interim general secretary of the AIADMK was illegal. It also laid claim to the party’s two leaves symbol. The other group, headed by Sasikala’s nephew T.T.V. Dhinakaran who was appointed deputy general secretary after she was jailed, also wanted the symbol. After a hearing, the EC froze the symbol and allotted alternate symbols to the factions and imposed restrictions on the use of the name AIADMK. Mr. Panneerselvam’s faction chose to identify itself as AIADMK (Puratchi Thalaivi Amma), while Mr. Dhinakaran, who announced his candidature for the byelection, chose to call his group AIADMK (Amma). What’s the problem? Looking for a mandate to lay claim to Jayalalithaa’s legacy and to establish themselves as her true political heir,

both camps brought in party cadre from across Tamil Nadu to R.K. Nagar. Within a few days, the constituency was no longer a run-down place with potholed roads, and inadequate drinking water. The atmosphere turned festive overnight. For two weeks, every entertainment tactic was employed with dance troops, road shows of political leaders, songs blaring from speakers at almost every street corner. Simultaneously, the run-up to the election was marked by allegations of

largescale voter bribing, with the AIADMK factions accusing each other of paying out money. Members of the two camps also fought pitched battles, leaving many injured. Mr. Panneerselvam’s camp accused the Sasikala faction of paying ₹4,000 to each voter. The DMK also faced the same charge. A video reportedly shot by a resident showing a party worker paying money to voters asking them to vote for Mr. Dhinakaran made its way to the social media. On April 8, the Income Tax Department conducted raids at the house of Health Minister Vijaya Baskar and a few others. Later, the Election Commission said the tax authorities had informed it that he was the key person involved in bribing the voters. Documents found during the raids revealed that ₹89 crore was reportedly distributed to voters. The Election Commission said despite many surveillance teams in the area, parties had resorted to large-scale

bribing. It rescinded the byelection. What next? This is the third such instance — after Thanjavur and Aravakuruchi — that the Election Commission has cancelled an election in Tamil Nadu. The polls were conducted in these two constituencies within the mandatory six-month period and the same candidates were allowed to contest. Indications are that the elections to R.K. Nagar could be put off for a year. According to the Representation of the People Act, 1950, the mandatory sixmonth period will not apply if the “Election Commission, in consultation with the Central government, certifies that it is difficult to hold the byelection within the said period.” The other important question experts ask is, under such circumstances, will the Election Commission allow the same candidates to contest or will it set an example by barring those found guilty of voter-bribing. T.K. ROHIT A ND-ND

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The roots of Indian racism

TABISH KHAIR is an Indian novelist and academic who teaches in Denmark

There are Indian politicians who believe that there is no racism in India. Nothing that happens — most recently, the attacks on Nigerian students in what is basically a suburb of Delhi — can convince them otherwise. Of course, many of us who have African, black British, or African-American friends and acquaintances cannot understand this blindness on the part of such politicians. Speaking personally, I know that I absolutely dread it when my black European friends or acquaintances announce that they plan to travel in India, particularly north and central India. I cringe at the thought of the experiences they might return with and what impression of my country, which also has so many things and people to admire,

Remnants of the past Some of this has to do with colonial discourses which have seeped into India: for instance, the 19th century racist European association of Africa with cannibalism. After all, the mobs that attacked Nigerian students in Noida recently were ‘convinced’ that the Africans had ‘cannibalised’ an Indian student, who reportedly died of drug overdose.

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will remain with them. Because I know from having travelled with black Europeans and spoken to Africans in India, and from overhearing some of my fellow Indians, that we Indians can have more prejudices about Africans than most white Europeans today. But there is another group of friends and acquaintances from Europe whose excursions to India, particularly north and central India, I dread almost as much. These are white, especially lighthaired or blonde, women. Once again, I have travelled with them in India, and have experienced how some Indians behave and what they say (snide or public comments), which luckily my female companions, not knowing Hindi, stayed blissfully ignorant of.

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Politicians who are unwilling to concede that Indians can be racist usually also refuse to accept that there is caste prejudice in India

Similarly, the groping and verbal sexism that many blonde women tourists encounter is partly the result of bad Hollywood films and similar trash, through which ordinary urban Indians encounter the ‘West’. Knowing porn and not Plato, triteness and not Twain, their reactions to Western women are essentially sexist and racist. This is exacerbated by the tendency in many conservative circles, so surprising given our proclaimed spirituality, to consider the material covering a woman’s body to be

an indication of her soul and morality! However, it does not do to put all the blame on our colonial inheritance or its neocolonial cultural ramifications. The main reason why such prejudices predominate in Indian caste circles has to do with internal reasons. As a nation, we are yet to face up to the racism and sexism that runs through many caste narratives. Before the British brought us stories of ‘African’ cannibalism, we had our own stories of cannibalism — associated, from classical texts down to some

current Chitra comics, with darkskinned, non-‘Aryan’-looking creatures. Similarly, the way we have often treated aboriginal women in India — partly because their dress codes and social mores differ from mainstream Hindustani (Hindu, as well as Muslim) ones — is simply shocking. With some lower middle and middle castes riding the government’s ‘backward castes’ bandwagon for economic and other reasons, we tend to forget that the worst of internal prejudice in India has been traditionally aimed at ‘dark’ Dalits and dark-skinned aborigines (‘tribals’, not as much at castes like the largely ‘fair-skinned’ Yadavs or Ansaris). This has not changed substantially even today.

Different shades of racism However, racism, unlike what some politicians believe, is not always a matter of colour; it is any kind of discrimination based on the false association of superficial physical differences — skin colour, shape of lips, hair, etc — with moral and intellectual qualities. However, it is also true that skin colour became its dominant index from the 18th century onwards, mostly because many

Europeans wished to ‘justify’ the brutal enslavement of Africans. Despite this link between skin colour and racism, one can argue that other kinds of racism have also existed. A major Irish novelist recently referred to the Irish as “the niggers of Britain”. What he meant was that in the 17th century, tens of thousands of Irish prisoners were sold to English settlers in the new world as slaves. As late as the early 20th century, with skin colour taking over, some English scholars were arguing that the Irish were related to “negroes” and not to the English — despite both the English and the Irish seeming indubitably ‘white’ to us. There is an argument that the English worked out their initial theories of racism on the Irish before, in tandem with other Europeans, applying them on dark-skinned people, like many Africans. If so, one can argue that we Indians have worked out — and continue to work out — our racism and racismtinged sexism on our aborigines and Dalits. It is not surprising that politicians who are unwilling to concede that Indians can be racist usually also refuse to accept that there is caste prejudice in India.

For a cow reservation bill

The house that Dara Shukoh built

A herd will have a calming efect on parliamentary proceedings

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is a historian, author and blogger documenting India’s syncretic culture

India’s recent success in securing the human rights of cows is a historic achievement that deserves all our kudos. We may still have a patchy record in protecting the human rights of humans. But who says progress has to be linear? Sometimes, like the traffic in Bengaluru, a country may have to traverse several diversions on the road to greatness. In India’s case, it so happens that the diversions are strewn with cow dung. Narrow-minded liberals may like to keep quoting the Constitution till the cows come home. But now that the home has been notified as a cattle shed, they must shut up. What these annoying spawn of Macaulay, who hold forth on secularism one day and Sauvignon Blanc the next, don’t realise is that India is not just a country. It is an ancient civilisation that predates the Constitution by several millennia. This civilisation was a Vedic democracy founded by the cows, of the cows, and for the cows. Humans occupied their dharmic place in this society — as servants of the cow. Then bad things happened, and humans began eating the cows. Now, after centuries of struggle, that practice has been stopped, more or less. India is on the verge of reclaiming its rightful global status as the mother of human civilisation and the gau mata of any advanced alien civilisation that inter-galactic probes may discover in times to come. But it needs to do one more thing to keep its tryst with cosmic greatness: introduce 33% reservation for cows in Parliament. Thanks to tireless campaigning by cow-protection activists, today everyone in India agrees that cows and ordinary Indians enjoy the same constitutional rights — the only exception being black people from south India, who are entitled to nothing more than a masala dosa and a vat of sambar. So it is only fair that cows, like their

The wise see not a second in essence We and you are mere calling cards See One contained evident in many See One hath formed in shapes many Prince Dara Shukoh (translated from Persian by Gyani Brahma Singh Brahma) An important translation was taking place in Banaras and Manzil-e-Nigambodh. Many Brahmin priests and Sanskrit scholars were involved in it. It was the Persian translation of the Upanishads, published in 1656 AD as Sirre-Akbar (the greatest mystery). It was a labour of love by Emperor Shah Jahan’s beloved son, Dara Shukoh. This was taken by François Bernier to France. It reached Anquetil Duperron, who translated it into French and Latin. The Latin version reached the German philosopher, Schopenhauer, who was greatly influenced by it and called the Persian Upanishads “the solace of his life”. It awakened an interest in post-Vedic Sanskrit literature amongst European Orientalists.

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fair human counterparts, get guaranteed political representation in our democracy. Besides upholding the spirit of the Constitution, such a move will have many positive side effects. First of all, given that all corrupt politicians are humans and cows are incorruptible, it would, in one stroke, reduce corruption by 33%. Second, since cows are typically female, it is a big step towards gender equality. Third, it would lower the human capital costs of keeping the democratic machinery running. The cost to the country (CTC) of one bovine Member of Parliament is estimated to be onethousandth the CTC of a human MP. Multiply that by 180 (33% of 545) and you get an idea of the astronomical savings that would accrue to the exchequer from the Lok Sabha alone. Do this calculation for the Rajya Sabha and all the State Assemblies, and you’re looking at thousands of crores in savings. The amount thus saved could be used to provide free medical care, affordable housing in a state-of-the-art gaushala, and a universal basic income to all Indian cows so that they no longer suffer the indignity of foraging in garbage dumps alongside human ragpickers. Furthermore, all cows are vegetarian by birth. Plus they don’t consume alcohol, not even mocktails. This would raise the aggregate sattvik

profile of our elected representatives, while reducing the per capita cost of keeping them well-fed. Given that cows are peace-loving, sweettempered, soft-spoken, and decent by nature, a herd of bovine MPs is bound to have a calming effect on parliamentary proceedings, which have tended to be stormy in recent times. I’d bet my Aadhaar card that no cow would ever try to make a point by rushing to the Well of the House — not unless you fill it with water and add hay. Unlike human MPs, many of whom have criminal charges against them, cows are law-abiding by nature. Most human MPs are crorepatis, and have little in common with the average Indian, making them less empathetic to their problems. Cows, by contrast, are known for simple living and high thinking. As some of you may have learnt in biology class at school, they are experts in rumination — a vital skill set for any parliamentarian but one that is sadly missing in our current crop of human MPs. And lastly, if you are an airline staff, your chances of being beaten with chappals would diminish by 33%. In view of all these benefits, the government should pass the cow reservation bill without further delay. As a proud Indian, I can’t wait for the day when a cow will address the nation from the ramparts of the Red Fort.

The loss of Manzil-e-Nigambodh Though Sirr-e-Akbar has survived, Manzil-e-Nigambodh, mentioned in the book’s preface according to Professor K.R. Qanungo, has been lost and all we have is a building known as Dara Shikoh’s library on Delhi’s Lothian Road inside Ambedkar University. Even the prince’s name is not spelt correctly, either here or on the road in Delhi named recently after him. Along with the Qila-e-Mubarak, the city was also being built with mansions, gardens, boulevards and magnificent gateways from 1638 to 1648. One of these mansions was Manzile-Nigambodh. As the heir and favourite of his father, Dara must have been given the land of his choice. He chose the piece of land near Nigambodh ghat. He built his magnificent mansion at the cost of ₹4,00,000 between 1639 and 1643. Today all that is left is a colo-

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nial building with ionic pillars. Stephen P. Blake, in his book Shahjahanabad: The Sovereign City in Mughal India 1639-1739, reconstructs a typical mansion of an important personage based on contemporary accounts: “A thick wall of stone and in some cases even a moat surrounded the haveli or nasheman (mansion or seat). A lofty gateway (also called the naqqar khana) housed the soldiers of the daily guard and the drummers, trumpeters, and other household musicians. A large forecourt surrounded by a row of rooms under an arcade lay immediately aside.” He goes on to say there would be stables, apartments for the household staff, storerooms, workshops, etc needed to make life comfortable for the great man. The living quarters would be divided into public and private spaces. The private spaces would be off limits to all but the prince, or Amir, and the women, children and servants. These apartments would be elaborately furnished with silk and brocade curtains, cushions, fine carpets and chandeliers, and designed with gardens, fountains, pools and canals. A mosque and a hammam were an essential Mughal feature in all great houses. Since this was along the river, it would have had its own boathouse and boats, giving the prince easy access to the Qila. There would be underground rooms (Tehkhana) for escaping the heat of the summers. The public space would have an audience hall and a library. It was here that the Amir would draft state papers or compose poetry. In the case of Dara Shukoh, he probably held religious discourses and wrote his philosophical treatises in this area. Shah Jahan visited Dara in this palace twice: in 1654

and 1655. One can only imagine the grandeur of this mansion, which must have been second only to the Qila. Unfortunately only some parts of the original structure are present at the back. The cusped arches and columns stand a mute witness to the ups and downs of fate. But why did it fall into such bad times?

Damage and repair Since Dara Shukoh himself was disgraced and killed by his brother Aurangzeb, his possessions too would have been downgraded. After Dara’s death, Prince Muazzam, Aurangzeb’s son, lived in this mansion. Blake says that since it was damaged in 1739 during Nadir Shah’s raid on Delhi, it was probably divided into two. In 1743, Safdarjung, son of Sadat Khan, got the palace from Mohammed Shah Rangeela in exchange for an offering made by him. Between 1803 and 1842, the British residents used it as a Residency. From 1842 till 1858, it housed the classrooms of the Delhi College and the residence of the principal. In 1857, the building suffered great damage, and the principal, J. Taylor, was killed. After 1858, a district school was established here whose principal was Ram Chander. The confusion leading to it being called a library rises from a marble plaque put up in the school in or after 1904, which said this building was Dara Shukoh’s library made in 1637. Its present falling ceiling and peeling paint are sad reminders of the tragic life of the intellectual prince to whom India owes a big debt for encouraging debates on religion and getting many of the Hindu sacred texts translated into Persian. The welcome news is that INTACH has taken up the task of restoring it.

We irst need a uniform criminal code Recent incidents indicate that the rule of law has collapsed in India. We need to desperately restore it

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Four recent incidents highlight a major crisis in Indian society. First, the stunning defiance of a parliamentarian soon after thrashing an airline employee. Second, the hounding of young men and women by ‘anti-Romeo police squads’. Third, the merciless killing of Pehlu Khan, by an unruly mob. And finally, the brutal assault on a Nigerian student by a murderous crowd. To be sure, such incidents have happened before but they have now come together in such quick succession that one wonders if we are witnessing an attack on the entire legal system. This is not just random lawlessness or occasional appropriation of law in one’s own hands but signals a breakCM YK

Equality before the law Nor indeed are legislators or government executives! It is this legitimate expectation that our criminal law is the same for everyone, for state officials and citizens alike, that was belied in

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based on attributes such as racial, religious or linguistic identity is simply unacceptable. People cannot get away with murder because they belong to a majority religion, or are linguistically dominant, or worse, still have a certain racial profile. The crowd that assaulted Nigerians must be dealt with exemplarily. Likewise, the killers of Pehlu Khan. It was bad enough that cow vigilantes killed an innocent man, but if they are treated lightly because of their tacit claim that, as cow protectors, they act in Hindu interests, and therefore must be treated differently, then this marks the collapse of the rule of law.

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down of the rule of law. What is this rule of law? To begin with, the mere existence of laws is not the rule of law. A society governed by laws enacted arbitrarily, merely on the caprice of a single individual or group, changing frequently on the whim of political authority, is not based on the rule of law. A key feature of the rule of law then is that it excludes arbitrariness in the exercise of power. For example, a policeman must not question or detain me without identifying who he is or specifying the grounds for suspicion. If he fails to do so, I should resist him as I would any ordinary person who grabs me unlawfully. The so-called anti-Romeo police squads have frequently acted in clear violation of the rule of law when arbitrarily questioning ordinary citizens. The rule of law implies that the police, the most visible agents of state, are not above the law.

the capitulation of the government before the Shiv Sena MP. The rule of law exists only if the law applies equally to all. Politicians and ministers must follow the same law, along with all other citizens. Nor can there be one law for one group and a different one for others. If heavy penalties are imposed on ‘lower castes’ for the same crime over

which the upper castes get off lightly or, as in some countries, the evidence of two or more women is required where the evidence of one man is deemed sufficient, then a fundamental egalitarian principle — the equal worth of all individuals — is violated. Nothing can be more repulsive for followers of the rule of law; legal discrimination

Rights and the rule of law It can hardly be overemphasised that a breakdown of the rule of law affects everyone. Today, a Muslim dairy farmer is targeted; tomorrow, it can be Hindu peasants or pastoralists who routinely transport cows and other animals from one place to another. Angry crowds or ill-motivated killers often fail to distinguish persons of one religion from another, as we gathered painfully from the ghastly murder of Sikhs mistaken in America for Muslims.

More importantly, in our country, a rule of law that meets formal criteria of non-arbitrariness and impartiality is not enough. Lots of carefully designed laws that apply equally to all permit the state to invade our privacy, or society to discriminate against women, but can be constitutionally challenged because substantive justice is part of the meaning of the rule of law. In India, as Justices Bhagwati and Chandrachud, among others, have pointed out, the rule of law means the rule of a rightssensitive constitutional law. Laws must respect the rights of individuals and groups both against each other and against the state. This has the further implication that both individuals and groups can make demands on the courts to enforce their rights. It follows that a judiciary indifferent to the violation of rights by vigilante groups or government is failing the Constitution and the rule of law. We desperately need to restore the rule of law. And while a common and just civil code would be a nice achievement indeed, can the Indian state please implement a common criminal code first! A ND-ND

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Indians use origami to get IISc makes two potent molecules to ight TB a closer look at beauty In Japan’s Belle-II experiment Indians have built one layer of the detector

Effect of trans fat bans People living in areas that restrict trans fats in foods in restaurants had fewer hospitalisations for heart attack and stroke compared to residents in areas without restrictions, a new study says. Eating even minimal amounts is linked to a greater risk of cardiovascular disease.

3D-printed patch to fix heart A revolutionary 3D-bioprinted patch has been created that can help heal scarred heart tissue after a heart attack. The researchers used laser-based 3D-bioprinting techniques to incorporate stem cells derived from adult human heart cells on a matrix that began to grow and beat synchronously.

Tricked into elimination New research from Rockfeller university that studied fossils of viruses showed that primates, a million years ago, may have eliminated a virus from the HIV family, by evolving a defence mechanism that used the gene of the virus against itself, leading to the eventual elimination of the virus.

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The High Energy Accelerator Research Organisation (KEK) in Japan is getting ready to launch the Belle-II experiment, a massive collaboration of 700 scientists from across the globe. At Belle-II, highly intense electron-positron beams will be made to collide and a huge number of B-mesons (a boson containing the B, or beauty, quark) produced. Building a detector to observe the resultant decay products is a challenging task and that is one area where Indians have contributed significantly. Indians have been involved in the preceding experiment, Belle, for decades now, however, with Belle-II, their engagement is deeper. “Initially we did not have the chance to build the detector, and this is the second step – to work with the inner part of the detector, where the resolution has to be high. We are happy we did it and are now among four important groups in the world that can build such detectors,” says Tariq Aziz of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, who led the effort along with Gagan Mohanty.

Crucial folding Indians built the fourth layer of the six-layer silicon vertex detector and developing the analysis and theory. The highly miniaturised sensor engineering and the “origami chip-on sensor” design of the readout chip, which improves the signal to noise ratio, are novel and highly complex aspects. The strips from one side of the silicon microstrip sensors are first connected to a flexible electrical circuit, which is turn is connected to readout chips. “We fold over the flexible circuit such that the strips of the other side of the sensor can be connected to the readout chip. This ‘folding over’ enables us to place the readout chips as close as possible to the strips reducing the noise,” ex-

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plains Prof. Mohanty in an email to this correspondent. Belle-II is some fifty times more sensitive than its predecessor Belle. The SVD detector is meant to measure the charged particles passing through it to an accuracy of 15-20 microns. Compare this with the average thickness of human hair, which is 100 microns. Such a precise position measurement significantly enhances the physics potential of the Belle-II experiment.

Physicists’ goal This experiment has the same aim as the LHCb experiment at CERN — to study the decay of the short-lived B-mesons, and unearth clues to “new physics”. If these experiments are successful in their endeavour, they will cause a massive rethink of particle physics as we know it today. The two setups are complementary. “But the idea in both cases is to search for new physics and discover

it,” says Rahul Sinha of The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, who is leading the theoretical studies. Both will seek evidence that can significantly enlarge the picture of particle physics painted by the Standard Model. For nearly fifty years, the world of elementary particles has been best described by the Standard Model. This also provides a unified description of all the forces in the universe except gravitation. It accounts for various particles and how they get their masses with the help of the Higgs boson. However, now many questions remain which could be helped by Belle-II. The group at IMSc focuses on decays in which the beauty quark within a meson changes to a different flavour of quark known as the strange quark. These processes are very rare according to the Standard model, but can possibly be detected at Belle-II and LHCb.

Not just a love hormone A study inds that oxytocin may inluence a range of social interactions Asian News International

Nanoparticle nasal spray Researchers have found a way to deliver drugs to the brain effectively by using a combination of nanoparticles and aerosol technology. This method could deliver the drug to the brain in about half an hour. The group tested the proof of concept on locusts and said that the drug reached its destination in minutes.

Oxytocin, often referred to as “the love hormone,” is involved in a broader range of social interactions than previously understood, according to a study on mice that appears in the journal Nature. The Stanford University School of Medicine discovery may have implications for neurological disorders such as autism, as well as for scientific conceptions of our evolutionary heritage. Scientists estimate that the advent of social living preceded the emergence of pair living by 35 million years. The new study sug-

gests that oxytocin’s role in one-on-one bonding probably evolved from an existing, broader affinity for group living. The new study pinpoints a unique way in which oxytocin alters activity in a part of the brain called the nucleus accumbens, which is crucial to experiencing the pleasant sensation neuroscientists call “reward.” The findings not only provide validity for ongoing trials of oxytocin in autistic patients, but also suggest possible new treatments for neuropsychiatric conditions in which social activity is impaired. “People with autism-

spectrum disorders may not experience the normal reward the rest of us all get from being with our friends,” said senior author Robert Malenka. “So we asked, what in the brain makes you enjoy hanging out with your buddies?” Some genetic evidence suggests the awkward social interaction that is a hallmark of autism-spectrum disorders may be at least in part oxytocin-related. Certain variations in the gene that encodes the oxytocin receptor — a cell-surface protein that senses the substance’s presence — are associated with increased autism risk. For this study, Malenka

and lead author Glen teamed up to untangle the complicated neurophysiological underpinnings of oxytocin’s role in social interactions. They focused on the nucleus accumbens. The group thinks their findings in mice are likely to generalise to humans because the brain’s reward circuitry has been so carefully conserved over the course of hundreds of millions of years of evolution. This extensive crossspecies similarity probably stems from pleasure’s absolutely essential role in reinforcing behaviour likely to boost an individual’s chance of survival and procreation.

Possible new dwarf planet found A probable dwarf planet in the outer Solar System has been discovered. It is the secondmost-distant known object with an orbit that is well characterized. It is big enough to be spherical, which is said to be a key criterion for its classification as a dwarf planet.

ODD & END Tunable electric eyeglasses Engineers funded by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering have developed glasses with liquid-based lenses that “flex” to refocus on whatever the wearer is viewing. These are designed to mimic the behaviour of the human eye’s natural lens. The central technology of the glasses created by the research team are lenses made of glycerine sandwiched between flexible membranes. The lenses are mounted into frames that have an electromechanical system that causes the membranes to bend, adjusting their focus. The ability to flex and bend allows the single lens to act like multiple lenses. If the user looks elsewhere, the change in lens shape needed to focus at the new distance is made in just 14 milliseconds.

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The molecules inhibit stress response pathway of mycobacteria Scientists at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bengaluru have developed two new, potent molecules that can severely impact the survival of mycobacteria, including Mycobacterium tuberculosis that causes TB. The results were published in the journal Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. Unlike most antibiotics that target the bacterial metabolism by aiming at the cellular components, the novel molecules inhibit the stress response pathway of mycobacteria. The stress response pathway is crucial for bacteria to survive during hostile conditions such as lack of nutrients and the presence of antibiotics, to name a few. So any inhibition of this pathway will lead to its death. The master regulator of stress pathway in the case of mycobacteria is (p)ppGpp (Guanosine pentaphospahte or Guanosine tetraphosphate). Though a molecule that inhibits the (p)ppGpp formation has already been synthesised, the efficacy is not much. “Very high concentration of Relacin molecule is needed to inhibit the pathway and, therefore, the efficacy is low. So we synthesised two new molecules — acetylated compound (AC compound) and acetylated benzoylated compound (AB compound) — by bringing about a modification in the base of the Relacin molecule,” says Prof. Dipankar Chatterji from the Division of Biological Sciences, IISc and the corresponding author of the paper. “We found both the molecules to be very good inhibitors of stress response. The two compounds affected the rate of synthesis of (p)ppGpp and also reduced the cell survival,” he says. Laboratory studies showed that the two molecules were not toxic to human cells and were able to penetrate the human lung epithelial cells. “We found our compounds were targeting the Rel gene. The Rel gene makes Rel pro-

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tein, which in turn synthesises (p)ppGpp. When the Rel gene is knocked out, the long-term survival of Mycobacterium smegmatis decreases,” says Prof. Chatterji. “The Alarmone molecule “(p)ppgpp”, a modified nucleotide, is ubiquitous in bacteria and absent in humans. Inhibiting (p)ppgpp synthesis would specifically target the survival of bacteria without having any effects on humans,” says Dr. Kirtimaan Syal from the Division of Biological Sciences, IISc and the first author of the paper. Earlier studies have shown that when the rel gene is deleted, the long-term survival ability under stress was lost; the M. tuberculosis bacteria was unable to persist in mice and unable to form tubercle lesions in guinea pigs. “The major reason for prolonged treatment of TB is the bacterium’s ability to persist in dormant form, which is tolerant to most antibiotics used in the treatment regimen. So inhibition of (p)ppGpp-mediated persistence could help in shortening the treatment regime, dealing with the emergence of multiple drug resistance and treatment of chronic infections, Dr. Syal says.

Inhibiting biofilm Under hostile conditions, bac-

teria tend to form biofilms, which protect the bacteria from stress and induce tolerance to antibiotics. Recent studies have shown that tuberculosis bacteria that cannot form a biofilm cannot survive inside the host. Evidences have shown that at the time of infection, the M. tuberculosis display a biofilm-like phenotype and this helps the bacteria to survive inside the host. Both M. tuberculosis and M. smegmatis that do have the Rel gene cannot form a biofilm. Studies carried out by the researchers showed that both the molecules were able to inhibit biofilm formation by M. tuberculosis and M. smegmatis and also disrupt the already formed biofilm. “The biofilm formed by TB bacteria is very dangerous. The ability of the molecules to destroy the biofilm and even prevent its formation is a very important achievement,” says Prof. Chatterji. Since there are very few antibiotics that target the stress response pathway of the bacteria, the two molecules offer great promise. “The next step is to test the molecules on animals. We have not thought about it. It will also be interesting to see if the bacteria develop resistance against these molecules,” Prof. Chatterji says.

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Charging cell phones Why do newly bought cell phones have to be charged for seven to eight hours at a stretch? ■ E. Duvarahesh, Tiruchendur, Tamil Nadu

Nowadays, smartphones come with lithium ion (Li-ion) batteries with partial charge that can get fully charged within about 2 h. However, manufacturers still insist on charging them for 8 hours before the first use. This is probably because the charge levels indicated when a new gadget is first switched on, may not indicate the true level

of charge in the battery. If the discharge of the previous actual charge is very low, when cycling. This effect leads to the you switch on the new phone progressive loss of practical and start installing apps it may cell capacity at a fixed cutoff get switched off in between. voltage and hence leads to The manufacturer does not large wrong estimation of the want the customer to have a state of charge of the cell. bad first impression! ■ Dr K.R. Krishnadas, IIT Madras, This instruction has its origin Chennai. when nickel-cadmium (Ni-Cd) batteries, containing nickel This week’s question oxyhydroxide (NiOOH) as positive electrode and Why do we sweat more on our cadmium as negative back than the chest? electrode, were used. These ■ Sapna prasad, Chennai batteries are known to have a memory effect. In other words, the battery seems to Readers can send their memorise the discharge questions/ answers to voltage and the depth of [email protected]

Talwar’s talwar against leprosy, TB and cancer Vaccination is a time tested method, but what if, as in the case of leprosy, the pathogen cannot easily be cultured in the lab?

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There are two ways for the body to tackle infectious diseases - curing and prevention. Curing involves the use of drugs and other associated treatment modes. Prevention aims at stopping the entry and action of the infecting germ. Vaccination is a time-tested method of preventing germborne diseases. It involves allowing the body to recognise the presence of the cells and molecules of the invader (also called pathogen) and generate countermolecules that capture and ‘karate chop’ it into submission and removal. Indeed, this strategy is stored and maintained in our body such that when the same pathogen strikes again (say in an epidemic), our defence is ready to strike and overcome it. The body has learnt to be immune to the invader. Our immune system is quite versatile and geared to defend itself, using proteins called immunoglobulins (also called antibodies) against a large variety of pathogens. Vaccination involves injecting into the body a small amount of ‘sham’ (dead, i.e., usually heat-killed or highly disabled) pathogen, and allowing the body to generate the antibodies specific against the injected pathogen. This of course requires

that we isolate and grow (‘culture’) the pathogen in the lab in order to inject it into the body. Happily enough, with many of the common infective diseases (e. g., measles, smallpox, polio, cholera, diarrhoea, hepatitis), this has been done, and we have successful vaccines against them. What if the disease pathogen is not easily cultured in the lab? One such disease, which has been with us since antiquity, is leprosy. (The Mahabharata tells us that how Pratipa’s son Devapi could not ascend the throne of Hastinapur, since he had leprosy and instead retired to the forest for penance). Fortunately, most of us humans (about 99%) are able to resist infection by the leprosy-causing germ mycobacterium leprae, or M leprae. But the rest who succumb (majority of them in Asia and Africa), are shunned by society, have deformed limbs and prone to other infections, notably tuberculosis or TB. While drugs against leprosy exist, they are expensive, need repeated doses and not 100% effective. Vaccination would be the ideal solution. It was this problem of generating a leprosy vaccine that Professor Gursaran Pran Talwar at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Delhi (a city 90 km southwest of Hastinapur) decided to address, way back in the early 1970s. But, the odds were very high indeed. M Leprae is not culturable; it simply does not grow in any medium. Hence to make a dead or attenuated pathogen for injection to generate antibodies was a challenge. In order to address this issue, Dr Talwar and his students combed through 16 different cul-

three years. We noted above that MIP shares some of its antigenic molecules with MTb. So, why not try it out as an anti-TB agent?

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tivable, atypical members of the mycobacterium family — distant relatives of M Leprae. Over the years, five of them appeared hopeful, and after almost two decades of work, one of them, termed mycobacterium w (simply called M w) appeared to fit the bill.

Doppelganger Note that M w is not M leprae, but what the Germans call a Doppelganger (or a double, an imitator). It was cultivable, it induced the molecule lepromin just as M leprae does, and thus was fit to be tried as a vaccine candidate. When tried on leprosy patients in Kolkata and Delhi, Mw generated lepromin responses and was also found to be quite effective. Next, a detailed molecular and genetic analysis was carried out by Talwar and his students at the National Institute of Immunology (or NII, which Dr Talwar had founded, moving from AIIMS, in the early 1980s). Total characterisation of

this microbe, and its genetic similarities to M leprae, and also to the TB pathogen M tuberculosis, were revealed by Syed Rahman, Seyed Hasnain and colleagues. It was further found that heat-killed M w can still boost immune responses against several pathogens. In honour of Dr. Talwar, who spearheaded the entire work, M w was renamed as mycobacterium indicus pranii, or simply as MIP. (The word indicus denotes India, while pranii comes from the middle name of Talwar and NII for the Institute). Encouraged by the above trials, and clearances from the Drug Controller General of India and the US Food and Drug Administration, Dr. Soumya Swaminathan of Indian Council of Medical Research has announced that this vaccine will now be tried on people who are in close contact with leprosy patients in Bihar, Gujarat and Tamilnadu, and has said that MIP has the potential to bring down new cases of leprosy by 60% in

Doppelganger has more up its sleeve They first infected one set of guineapigs with MTb and found that the animals had contacted the disease, as seen in their lungs and spleen. Next they first immunised another set of animals with MIP and then infected them with MTb. This reduced the pathology of the animals significantly. Encouraged by this, they next conducted an exploratory trial on hard-totreat TB patients in Ahmedabad to find that those injected with MIP along with drugs had better results than control ones. There thus appear some similarities between MIP injection and the classical BCG vaccination we all have gone through against TB. And most recently, Professor Dipankar Nandi of IISc Bengaluru has tried using MIP as an anti-cancer agent, since MIP appears to stimulate cells and molecules, such as IFN-gamma and IL-12, which play crucial riles in anti-tumour immunity. Now they have tried the combination of MIP along with the anti-cancer drug cyclophosphamide as a combination therapy with promising results (Podder et al, Clinical Cancer Drugs, 2016). The Talwar saga bears testimony to what Louis Pasteur, a vaccine pioneer, once remarked: ‘where observation is concerned, chance favours the prepared mind’. [email protected] A ND-ND

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The heart of the matter The absence of robust organ transplant programmes across States and prohibitive costs are afecting heart transplants in India. There is an acute demand-supply gap United States. Here, we need much more awareness because people still believe that if a heart is taken out of a body, he or she won’t attain moksh,” says Dr. Z. Hamdulay, cardiac surgeon at the Global Hospitals in Mumbai that has recently acquired heart transplant licence and has three patients on the waiting list.

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AROUND THE WORLD Biased bots In debates over the future of artiicial intelligence, many experts think of the new systems as being coldly logical and objectively rational. But in a new study, researchers have demonstrated Getty Images/iStockphoto how machines can be relections of us — their creators — in potentially problematic ways. Common machine learning programmes, when trained with ordinary human language available online, can acquire cultural biases embedded in the patterns of wording, the researchers found. These biases range from the morally neutral, like a preference for lowers over insects, to the objectionable views of race and gender. The paper, “Semantics derived automatically from language corpora contain human-like biases”, has been published in Science.

A shared history A Florida Museum of Natural History study provides new insights into the complex, shared history between blood-sucking lice and the vitaminproducing bacterial sidekicks that enable them to parasitise mammals, Getty Images/iStockphoto including primates and humans. Lice depend on bacteria to supply essential vitamins missing from blood, their only food source. These bacterial partners live in specialised cells inside their insect hosts and pass from a female louse to her ofspring. When their partnership began, however, and how it has evolved over time has been unclear. But a study by Florida Museum researchers has found that lice that parasitise primates and humans have hosted their endosymbionts continuously for at least 20 to 25 million years, aligning with the time period during which great apes and old world monkeys shared a common ancestor.

hirty-seven-year-old Abhishek Dalvi could not walk ten steps within his house without getting breathless. Even talking for a minute at length would exhaust this digital marketing professional whose heart’s function had dropped drastically, leaving him only with one option for survival — a heart transplant. Mr. Dalvi’s long-drawn battle finally met with success in December 2015 when he was transplanted with the heart of a 45-year-old man in Chennai’s Fortis Malar Hospital. “I have never felt so much better. It is as good as having your own heart, but in a healthy condition,” says the resident of Panvel, Mumbai’s satellite town. His ailment was first diagnosed in 2009 when the heart’s function dropped to merely 25%. Since then Mr. Dalvi remained in and out of hospital and on medication till the doctors finally told him that a transplant was his only hope. Four months after signing up on the waiting list, there was still no sign of a donor. Mr. Dalvi had to be admitted in Fortis Hospital, Mumbai after the heart’s pumping rate dropped drastically to 20%. To up his chances of getting the organ, his family shifted him to Chennai hoping that the well-developed organ transplant programme in Tamil Nadu will help him. Fortunately, Mr. Dalvi got a heart within two weeks at the

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Demand-supply mismatch “In India, we carry out 200-odd heart transplants in a year. But the need is of more than 4,000. That is the kind of huge supply gap which exists currently,” says Dr. Suresh Rao, cardiac anesthesiologist and critical care specialist at Fortis Malar. He says that there are only a

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handful of centres in India that offer heart transplants. Besides Fortis in Chennai, Delhi and Mumbai, there are other hospitals in Chennai such as Apollo, Global,

Frontier Lifeline, Sri Ramachandra Medical Centre, AIIMS in Delhi and Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital in Mumbai that add to the heart transplant kitty. Dr. Rao says that if each State boasts of a robust heart transplant programme, patients like Mr. Dalvi would not have to travel so far. Given that even the U.S., which carries out 4,000 heart transplants annually, still falls short of organs, one can imagine the enormous gap in India. “There is a vast sociocultural difference between India and the

A healthy nudge

Another casualty of Syria’s war

’m a physician at the end of more than a decade of training. I’ve dissected cadavers in the anatomy lab. I’ve pored over dhruv khullar tomes on the physiology of disease. I’ve treated thousands of patients with ailments as varied as haemorrhoids and cancer. And yet the way I care for patients often has less to do with the medical science I’ve spent my career absorbing than with habits, environmental cues and other subtle nudges that I think little about. I’ll sometimes prescribe a particular brand of medication not because it has proved to be better, but because it happens to be the default option in my hospital’s electronic ordering system. I’m more likely to wash my hands — an activity so essential for safe medical care that it’s arguably malpractice not to do so — if a poster outside your room prompts me to think of your health instead of mine. I’ll more readily change my practice if I’m shown data that my colleagues do something differently than if I’m shown data that a treatment does or doesn’t work.

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Research has repeatedly conirmed that the irst 1,000 days after conception strongly inluence a person’s life expectancy and susceptibility to chronic diseases. New Getty Images research from University of Washington investigators suggests that an asymmetric lower face is a novel marker that also captures early life stresses that occur after birth. “Asymmetries in the skull and teeth have been used for decades by anthropologists to mark environmental stress, but they have only rarely been used in living populations,” says Philippe Hujoel, the corresponding author. A crooked or asymmetric bite is deined as the teeth biting backward or forward on one side of the face and normally on the other side. Backward-biting asymmetries were found to luctuate randomly between the left and right sides of the face. Such randomness is evidence for early life stress.

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Dr. Mark Wainberg, a microbiologist who identiied a drug that later became critical to treating people infected with HIV, and who later became a leading advocate for giving ILLUSTRATION: Keshav millions of people with HIV and AIDS in Africa greater access to antiretroviral drugs, died on Tuesday after a drowning incident in Florida, U.S. He was 71. The AIDS pandemic was spreading quickly in the 1980s when Dr. Wainberg — who spent much of his career at McGill University in Montreal — began to study HIV. He spent time working with Dr. Robert Gallo, the co-discoverer of HIV, who provided Dr. Wainberg with the cells and antibodies to grow the virus in his laboratory at McGill. Then, in 1989, after studying the properties of a new antiviral drug called 3TC, or Lamivudine, Dr. Wainberg found that it was efective against HIV. It soon became an important part of the so-called AIDS cocktail of drugs that is still used to treat infected patients. NYT

DEMYSTIFYING SCIENCE What is Terpene? If you’ve ever enjoyed the scent of a pine forest or snifed a freshly cut basil leaf, then you’re familiar with terpenes. The compounds are responsible for the essential oils of plants and the resins of trees. Since the discovery of terpenes more than 150 years ago, scientists have isolated some 50,000 diferent terpene compounds derived from plants and fungi. Bacteria and other microorganisms are known to make terpenes too, but they’ve received much less study. Now a team of researchers led by the Netherlands Institute of Ecology has demonstrated for the irst time that two diferent types of microorganisms — bacteria and fungi — use terpenes to hold conversations. They have shown that bacteria and fungi do respond to each other. The team leader used the example of Serratia, a soil bacterium that can ‘smell’ the fragrant terpenes produced by Fusarium, a plant pathogenic fungus. It responds by becoming motile and producing a terpene of its own. The researchers established this by studying which genes were switched ‘on’ by the bacterium, which proteins it began to produce, and which fragrance it was. “Such fragrances — or volatile organic compounds — are not just some waste product, they are instruments targeted speciically at long-distance communication between these minute fungi and bacteria.”So it’s likely that the language of terpenes forms a vast chemical communications network. — Science Daily

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Downward spiral: Six years of conlict have brought the Syrian health service, once one of the best in West Asia, close to collapse. Local and World Health Organisation oicials also blame Western sanctions for severely restricting pharmaceutical imports, even though medical supplies are largely exempt from measures imposed by the United States and the European Union. Cuts in health spending by the Syrian government that is ighting an expensive war, a drastic fall in the Syrian currency and indirect efects of the sanctions are all deepening the misery of patients who need foreign-made drugs. Among those worst afected are cancer patients. Besides cancer medication, there are critical shortages of insulin, anaesthetics, speciic antibiotics, serums, intravenous luids and other blood products and vaccines. Picture shows nurses tending to a child with cancer at the Damascus Children’s Hospital in Syria. REUTERS *

Coping with bereavement Improving a bereaved person’s inancial literacy is a crucial intervention in his or her grief support care The researchers offer a solution after studying India’s crude death rate and the insurance market.

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oping with the death of a loved one is never easy. And Indians, according to a new study, are “completely unprepared” to cope with death because of cultural resistance where most people consider it inauspicious to talk about it openly, much less prepare for impending loss. The findings are a part of a paper on contextualised psychosocial care released by the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) this week. The authors of the white paper found that patriarchy and gender played a huge role in how people cope with death. For example, the death of a patriarch could lead to the wife undergoing changes in terms lowered social status, legal problems in claiming her inheritance and pressure from family to take over care giving responsibilities. Conversely, the loss of a wife might lead to the husband having to take over roles of care giving. Death of a child, for parents and grandparents, can cause reactions similar to post-traumatic stress.

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Drivers commonly perform secondary tasks while behind the steering wheel to navigate or communicate with others, which has led to a signiicant increase in the number of injuries and Getty Images/iStockphoto fatalities attributed to distracted driving. Advances in wearable technology, particularly devices such as Google Glass raise questions about how these devices might impact driver attention when used in vehicles. New human factors/ergonomics research examines how these interface characteristics can have a deleterious efect on safety. In their Human Factors article, “Driving While Interacting With Google Glass: Investigating the Combined Efect of Head-Up Display and Hands-Free Input on Driving Safety and Multitask Performance”, the authors observed the performance of 24 participants in a driving simulator. The authors found that driving performance degraded while texting.

Cost and commitment The cost factor is also a huge problem. A heart transplant costs anywhere between ₹20 lakh to ₹25 lakh. There are lifelong post-surgery expenses of immunosuppressants and hospitalisation for regular check-ups and in case the patient develops infections. Life post-transplant is not a cakewalk either. “We have to guard ourselves from infections as we are more prone to them. And then there has to be a lifetime commitment to have the immunosuppressants on time,” says 50-yearold Chennai resident P.S. Ranganathan, who was transplanted with a 26- year-old man’s heart in March 2016. Mr. Ranganathan pops as many as 17 pills in a day. The expenses of his monthly medication go up to as much as ₹20,000. “But before the heart transplant, he used to slouch like a 90-year-old. Now, he works with all the energy one can imagine,” says his wife Nithya. “He has got a new life.”

grieving style, with sorrow, guilt and depression. Men are taught grieve through managing tasks related to the funeral, finances and property matters. “This indicates that men in patriarchal set-ups may not know how to deal with the emotional impact of grief as the coping mechanisms available to them are mostly focussed on addressing practical needs following the loss of a loved one,” says Aparna Joshi, assistant professor at the School of Human Ecology at TISS and one of the Project Directors behind iCALL (Psychosocial

Helpline). “In India, the mourning rituals take place in an elaborate fashion but the impact of loss remains for years. The feeling of grief continues to impact the bereaved person long after the socially observed period of mourning has ended. There is a dire need for psychosocial services that are sensitised and equipped with the capabilities to provide required support and intervention to help people cope with grief. Women and children are a more vulnerable group when it comes to dealing with a loss.”

Issue of insurance The white paper states that “the crude death rate, which is the average annual number of deaths per 1,000 people in India, was 7.3 in 2016 (United Nations, 2015). Estimates from the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) indicate that while India has over 57 crore insurable individuals, only 4.20 crore are actually insured. Large sections of the Indian population continue to remain uninsured. This leaves many families vulnerable to severe financial setbacks, over and above the intense trauma brought on by the death of a loved one.” The authors of the paper recommend that offering help to improve financial literacy is one of the crucial interventions in grief support care. While the West relies on support groups and community-based programmes for grief support, no such support groups for bereaved individuals are available in India as of now.

Impact of behavioural economics These confessions can be explained by the field of behavioural economics, which holds that human decision-making departs frequently, significantly and predictably from what would be expected if we acted in purely “rational” ways. People don’t always make decisions — even hugely important ones about physical or financial well-being — based on careful calculations of risks and benefits. Rather, our behaviour is powerfully influenced by our emotions, identity and environment, as well as by how options are presented to us. We in the medical community have only recently started to explore how behavioural economics can improve health. As with any hot field, there’s always the possibility of hype. But these insights might be particularly valuable in health care because medical decisionmaking is permeated with uncertainty, complexity and emotion — all of which make it hard to weigh our options. A leader of this movement is Dr. Kevin Volpp, a physician at the University of Pennsylvania and founding director of the Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics. He designs randomised trials around some of health care’s most important challenges: nudging doctors to provide evidence-based care; ensuring patients take their medications; and helping consumers choose better health plans. Catching on Health insurers are also betting that behavioural economics can improve quality and lower costs. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts is using a variety of behavioural economics concepts to pay its doctors — including peer comparisons and bonus payments for continuous improvement instead of absolute thresholds. In Hawaii, Blue Cross is experimenting with joint incentives for doctors and patients to meet diabetes care goals. Start-ups are jumping into the nudge game, too. The Brooklyn, New York-based-startup Wellth, for example, has developed an app to reward patients for taking their medications. Nearly a third of prescriptions in the United States are never filled, and about half of all patients don’t take their medications as prescribed — even after life-threatening illnesses like heart attacks. Every year, medication non-adherence causes 125,000 deaths and costs the health system up to $289 billion. Wellth thinks it can help patients manage themselves. “We want to give them immediate, tangible rewards for healthy behaviour,” says Matthew Loper, the company’s CEO and co-founder. “But ultimately, we’re in the business of habit formation. We want behaviours to stick.” A more complete view of human behaviour seems necessary for more effective medicine. Health is fundamentally the product of myriad daily decisions made by doctors and patients, and by uncovering what truly motivates us, we may be able to nudge one another toward wiser decisions and healthier lives. NYT Dr. Dhruv Khullar, M.D., M.P.P., is a resident physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School

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A political scientist argues that the state is not always the best entity to manage common pool resources such as forests and water process has not reversed after the FRA was implemented, with over two lakh hectares of forest land diverted for non-forestry purposes between 2007 and 2011. Compare this with the 1992 reform process in Mexico, when the state sought to privatise the ejidos—communal land for agriculture—leading to empowerment of the ejitdatarios (member of ejidos) to acquire stronger property rights; despite the government’s intention to privatise, the reforms did not mandate privatisation.

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ights to the forest have been among the most contested subjects since colonial times. In Democracy in the Woods: Environmental Conservation and Social Justice in India, Tanzania and Mexico, Prakash Kashwan uses a comparative political analysis approach to show how India, Tanzania and Mexico, with their varied forestland regimes, have negotiated the conflicts arising out of claims to forests for subsistence, industry and cultivation. In the process, the political scientist based at University of Connecticut in the U.S. shows that the state cannot always be the best arbiter of forest rights. Kashwan’s thesis was supervised by political economist Elinor Ostrom at Indiana University, Bloomington. Her scholarly work investigating how communities succeeded or failed at managing common pool (finite) resources such as grazing land, forests and irrigation waters won her the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2009. Ostrom’s work marked a departure from the fundamental Lockean economic principle that private ownership of property incentivised economic actors to ultimately act in the general interest of society. She demonstrated rather how community ownership of common pool resources resulted in better management of these resources. Kashwan deploys this idea in the context of forestland management. Using the case of Mexico, he shows how the country’s community-oriented approach to forest governance, fares better when it comes to addressing questions of environmental conservation and social justice (of forest dwellers), compared to India or

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Tanzania, where the state reigns supreme. The author takes off from the massive forest eviction drives in both India and Tanzania. Whereas in 2002-2003 forestry agencies in India cleared 1,52,400 hectares of farmland and displaced 1,50,000 peasants citing state-led developmental imperatives, in Tanzania, similarly, a large number of Maasai settlements were burned by armed rangers from the Serengeti National Park, for environmental conservation. Kashwan interrogates the institutional history of forestland regimes in these countries to demonstrate how colonial-era appropriation of forests to further commercial interests led to the gradual stripping away of customary rights to forest dwelling communities. But in Mexico, the Spanish conquistadors did not establish territorial jurisdiction over forests. Rather Spanish colonialism protected indigenous property rights and recognised ejidos as village grazing lands to be used for a so-

Together as one: Adivasis protest against the inefective implementation of the Forest Rights Act.

cially productive purpose. These institutional legacies reflected in post-colonial developments in the three countries.

Failure of Forest Rights Act In Chapter 5, Kashwan looks at the contested politics of the Forest Rights Act (FRA) that was passed in 2006 to demonstrate how moving away from centralised decision-making for forest governance could be the way forward to resolve conflict, though, the results may not be evident at once. The FRA was hailed as a landmark effort at recognising the forest rights of adivasis in India. But through original research, the au-

thor demonstrates how the FRA’s implementation failed due to noncooperation from entrenched forest administration. The author analyses village and district-level data to show that the total area of land claimed under individual ownership in 15 major FRA states stands at a mere 4%. Typical land claims under the new law were only in the range of 1.5 to 2 hectares. The UPA government led by the Congress that enacted the law put its implementation on the backburner during its second term. Even the earlier legislation aimed to empower adivasi communities— the Panchayat (Extension to the

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Scheduled Areas) Act, 1996 (PESA)—failed to transform local governance and resource management. This is due to the state playing a central role in land-related transactions, despite liberalisation. The statistics are startling. In India, of 9,21,760 hectares of state forestland officially diverted for non-forestry activities between 1980 and 2003, more than 94% were allocated to large-scale development projects, including dams, mines, industrial enterprises and roads, the author notes, which is often the result of large-scale collusion between corporations, forest bureaucrats, and politicians. The author shows that the

Curious omissions The absence of any discussion on prominent forest-based social movements such as the Chipko movement in the hilly regions of erstwhile Uttar Pradesh, India, or the Mexican revolutionary Zapatista movement, that sought to oppose the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to safeguard peasant land rights, are curious omissions from the book. Both movements were part of the struggles of forest and peasant communities in these countries to retain their rights over forests and merited discussion. Also, the frequent references to the works of others and quotations from academic sources obstructs the author’s own voice from coming through in the book’s narrative. It is perhaps a challenge of editing that OUP ought to have addressed. Despite these limitations, Kashwan’s work makes an important contribution to the study of environmental policy. By providing a big picture analysis of forestry institutions in these three countries, he illustrates the value of decentralisation and community-based approaches to resolving conflicts over forests.

Spectator art

Evolution of justice

An exploration of contemporary dance in India goes into details of performance, as also its political implications

An essential work on the history of public interest litigation and its efect on our legal culture Ninni Susan Thomas

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ooks on aesthetics these days seldom carry that word in their title. Not certainly because the aesthetic has slipped down from its place of prominence but probably because critical inquiry into the aesthetic space has largely evolved into more of an ontological and epistemological inquest seeking living connections with social and economic spheres of life and living. This book is an endeavour to explore the area of contemporary dance in India. What is dance? What is its contemporary status in India? How or why do we distinguish the contemporary from its traditional form? How does dance define itself in space and time? What are its political and post-colonial implications? These are among the major queries that this unique book is concerned with. Multiple critical and analytical perspectives on the nature and aesthetics of dance as performance, its innumerable performative aspects, drawing attention to dance as performance in process, liberally sprinkled with curated-photospreads make this book a collector’s item. The living connections with space and time which hold mutually generative biotic ties with the multicultural identities of the spectator as well as the spectatorial space in which these evolve are what its contributors seek as dance ecologies, underscoring the idea that this art form involving the body and its socio-political identity has definitive ties with the problematic of culture. At one point we read this neologism: spectholder, a combination of spectator and stakeholder. There are nine essays and 12 choreographic portraits that explore the iconography and geometry of the performing body. In the opening essay, Anita E. Cherian, while writing on the rewiring of cultural policy in India, observes that “cultural policy is neither simplistically topdown or bottoms up; the sites from which it emanates are various and we participate in its production and its methods of subjectification.” Nationalised cultural institutions like the established Akademies are conditioning forces and avatars of bureaucracy operationalised as arts/cultural management. Spectatorship is the key to understanding the politics and aesthetics of any theatrical artistic practice. In a provocative essay titled The Contingent of the Contemporary: The ‘Failure’ of Contemporary Dance to become ‘Political’, Brahma Prakash interrogates the spectator and contemporary art practices that engage CM YK

romantic notion of guaranteeing access to justice not just to ‘men with long purses’ but to the common man led to the assertion of judicial activism by the Supreme Court in the 1970s, by way of ‘Public Interest Litigation’. It is still a staple feature of the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence. Anuj Bhuwania’s Courting the People is an essential work on the history of PILs, its dramatic transformation over the years, its effect on our legal culture, and the challenges posed by it. Bhuwania indicates that PILs were born out of the utmost rectitude of the Supreme Court, which arose out of the desire to make up for its abnegation of constitutional values during the Emergency. It sought to put in place a system through which the rights of citizens could be saved by providing more direct access to the ears of the Court. The capacity to bring a legal action was relaxed to allow more than just the directly affected party to approach the Court; the scope of violations and its own power un-

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with the body, identity and subjectivity, and concludes that contemporary dance is not suitably political in the sense that it is not perceived as a threat to neo-liberal politics. The best perhaps what the theatre can do is to abandon the figure of the spectator and assimilate spectators into actors. Of course, it is not unusual that performers are called upon to embody and represent the selves and aesthetic tastes of the dominant spectators—actors as the Indian aesthetic term delineates them become ‘patra’ or vessel that need to be filled by the expectations of the spectator. Dance in India can be categorised as the classical, the contemporary, the everyday and the popular. Thus, to become political any idea of contemporary dance has to confront both the bourgeois liberal notion of autonomy and the valourised mode of everydayness.

Playing the entertainer In the process of her explication of Bharatnatyam in her unique manner, Chandralekha blended research, insight and performance to highlight the grammar of classical dance as space, time and body lines. Padmini Chettur, one of her leading

students from a very early stage, writes: “Throughout my engagement with Bharatnatyam for ten years, it was always the ‘narrative’ that I found difficult to connect with. It was not just the content, religiosity or innate patriarchy that was communicated clearly in the difficult relationship with the ‘master’. It was more the idea of playing the role of an entertainer on stage— the meaningless smiling, the ‘performativeness’ that had started to creep into the practice of the form itself. I could never become a Bharatnatyam diva, and so at 17, I chose academics over dance—for which I am eternally grateful.” Her own concern was to liberate the structured space and stillness in order to reconnect with the audience in a more liberated manner. Alternating between narratives from within the spectrum of the performative space and theoreticallysophisticated and insightful critical dialogues from without, the book enquires what it means to witness contemporary dance in India. However, the title, Tilt, Pause and Shift, is perhaps a deliberate choice to disengage with the commonly held fluidity of the art of dancing. The words are mechanical, perfunctory—removed from rhythm, movement and the balancing of space that dance normally means. The genuine reader would perhaps come to recognise that the element of the aesthetic is deliberately extended into the sphere of technique. In the final analysis, one is left wondering why contemporary dance critiques have resorted so less to easily accessible Indian critical concepts. However, this does not take anything away from the theoretical readings that delve into the politics and iconography of the shared body and space of Tilt, Pause, Shift.

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der Article 21 was enhanced. The court chose ‘participation over procedure’ with a goal to make justice available to the underprivileged. The author, through cherrypicked cases, catalogues the complex history of PILs. He brings out the core issues which have surrounded it since its inception: its ‘selective wrath’, its effect of deeming judicial procedure nugatory, affected parties not being heard, and the Court dealing with poly-centric disputes, the effects of which it cannot grapple with.

The book brings out a pertinent issue that exists with regard to PILs—hard cases make bad law. In cases where the moral outcome cannot be doubted, or when it resonates with the ‘conscience’ of the court, it goes out of its way to ensure that the ostensibly ‘just’ outcome is achieved. It is forgotten that precedents are being set, that this can avalanche into situations that go beyond just the specific case, and affect vast areas of law. While giving way to ideology and individual predilections, it is forgotten that such precedent with ‘loose law’ is a double-edged sword. This book leaves us with a concern which looms over the idea of PIL. A manoeuvre that had access to justice at its heart has now steamrolled into a damaged system with dispensable petitioners and holding of ‘durbars’. Is it capable of amelioration or does its past tell us otherwise? It merits a read for opening our eyes to the possibility that PILs in its current form may not have been what was intended by its makers.

Museum of experience Retelling the life of a poet who survived the horrors of the 20th century to write about it Sudipta Datta

What is poetry which does not save/ Nations or people? Czeslaw Milosz warding the Nobel Prize for Literature to Czeslaw Milosz in 1980, the Swedish academy said it was honouring the Polish poet for voicing ‘man’s exposed condition in a world of severe conflicts’ with ‘uncompromising clear-sightedness.’ Milosz had a ringside view of some of the horrors of early 20th century, and it left a deep impression on him and his work. His biographer, literary critic Andrzej Franaszek, reveals in his detailed account, that from early childhood onwards, the years from 1911 to 1945, Milosz ‘was repeatedly exposed to war and acts of appalling cruelty.’ As Michael Parker, one of the translators of this biography, writes in the introduction, “What equipped [Milosz] for his truth-telling role was the incomparable quality of his intellect and poetic skills, which

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enabled him to endure and, much later, process imaginatively experiences and sufferings which might well have destroyed a less driven individual.” In the first 11 years of his life, his family had been caught up with the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the Russian-Polish war. As Milosz wrote, “When I reached adolescence, I carried inside me a museum of mobile and grimacing images.” In his late 20s and 30s, he witnessed

the Second World War and ‘lived through the hell of Nazi occupation.’ The book follows Milosz through his ‘mobile’ life— from his birth in Lithuania to his growing-up years in Poland, his diplomatic postings, which brought him much difficulty, and his eventual exile in Paris and the U.S. where he taught Slavic languages at Berkeley, and his ultimate return to Poland. In his writings, he often returned to these themes—experiences of war and dictatorships, alienation, exile. In A Poor Christian Looks at the Ghetto, a response to the Warsaw ghetto uprising, he offers an ‘outsider's view’ of the ghetto after it was ‘liquidated’ in mid-May 1943. The poem’s narrator reverses the order of nature as he observes: “Bees build around red liver/Ants build around black bone.” In a time of great distress worldwide over race, religion, migration, war—and fake news—a truth-teller’s voice should be re-heard.

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Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life Peter Godfrey Smith HarperCollins ₹799

A distinguished philosopher of science, who is also a skilled scuba diver, tells a story about how nature became aware of itself—a story that largely occurs in the ocean, where animals irst appeared. He tries to ind out, for instance, how the octopus with little social skills become such a smart animal.

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A writer, broadcaster and Booker Prize winner reveals his journalistic side in this collection, which is an observation of life with all its absurdities and emotions. So, it’s sometimes hilarious, other times heartbreaking, and an apt companion to his previous book of essays, Whatever it is I don’t like it.

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Until the beginning of the 20th century, Turkish rulers controlled vast stretches of Islamic lands. This book highlights the political and cultural history of the Turks, also taking into consideration the subcontinent connection, for the Turks laid the foundation of one of the world’s biggest empires in the form of the Mughal empire.

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Guru Nanak spent a large part of his life in Pakistan, inspiring this writer to undertake a journey to learn more about the founder of Sikhism. Khalid visits the many places in Pakistan associated with the saint, and gives us a glimpse of Nanak, the poet, the wanderer, the father, the friend, and how he became a guru.

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Spinners help KKR defend 172

Daredevils delight the locals Anderson does the star turn against Kings XI Punjab

Sunrisers Hyderabad fails to capitalise on Bhuvneshwar’s three for 20

Uthra Ganesan AMITABHA DAS SHARMA

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Corey Anderson got the nod for the Delhi Daredevils’ opening home game on Saturday due to his ability to bat hard and the New Zealander proved he could be quite a handful, propelling the host to 188 for six wickets with some lusty hitting towards the end after KXIP bowlers had managed to fight their way back into the game at the Ferozeshah Kotla. And with a bowling unit capable enough to defend the above-par score, DD cruised to a 51-run victory for its second straight win. Chasing what would have been the highest second innings IPL total on this ground if it succeeded, KXIP could only manage 137 despite an entertaining 44-run cameo from Axar Patel. The 3Ms that form the core of the KXIP batting — David Miller, Glenn Maxwell and Eoin Morgan — could do little as Amit Mishra kept a leash on the scoring at one end and the pace trio of Chris Morris, Anderson and Pat Cummins put pressure at the other. Earlier, Anderson (37 not out) and Pat Cummins added 31 runs in DD’s last 17 balls, tonking the KXIP bowlers to all corners. Axar was the worst hit, conceding 16 runs in the 19th over. This was DD’s second-best return of 68 runs in the last five overs and came after Sam Billings set up the innings early on with a skillful 55 that had some delightful strokes and little risk. Electing to bat, it was a surprise to see last match’s centurion Sanju Samson walk out to open the innings with Billings. The two added 50 runs in just six overs before Sanju fell. Karun Nair’s poor form continuedand Shreyas Iyer, playing his first game, looked in good touch before getting caught on the edge of inside circle, one of Morgan’s three catches.

Kolkata Knight Riders showed the right application in attacking with spin to beat defending champion Sunrisers Hyderabad by 17 runs in the Vivo-IPL here at the Eden Gardens on Saturday. In wrapping up its third win in four matches, the two-time champion showed it possessed a better bowling attack as the holder failed to overhaul the target of 173 set by the former. With the win, KKR kept its record of beating SRH in all the five outings at this venue intact. Sunrisers Hyderabad surrendered to the guile of offspinner Sunil Narine, and the left-arm wrist spinner Kuldeep Yadav, who gave KKR the crucial breaks while throttling the visitor’s run chase. Yusuf Pathan also bowled his off-spinners effectively in the only over he got and picked up the wicket of the SRH opener Shikhar Dhawan, who was looking dangerous in the company of his captain David Warner. Dhawan and Warner appeared to be constructing an apt reply against a moderate target set by the host with a 46-run partnership for the opening stand but lost its way thereafter as KKR captain introduced his spinners in the fifth over. Pathan struck in the seventh over getting Dhawan (23) back before Warner (26) departed in the 10th over mistiming a lofted drive off Kuldeep Yadav.

Huge arrears At 59 for two in the 10th over, SRH seemed to have drawn huge arrears in the required run-rate from which it could never recover as the KKR bowling improved its grip on the visitor. Yuvraj Singh, who scored a 16-ball 26 (2x4, 2x6) tried to salvage the situation but could not do much as he was picked up by Chris Woakes

Saviour: Robin Uthappa made a 39-ball 68 to help the home side overcome an early stutter.

IPL-10 in the 15th over (with the visitor SRH score slumping to 112 for five). Earlier, Sunrisers’ decision to field on winning the toss came good as Bhuvneshwar Kumar’s in-swinging yorkers cuffed the Knight Riders’ efforts to score a big total. Sunil Narine, retained at the top of the order in Chris Lynn’s absemce to do some pinch-hitting during the PowerPlay, was the first victim of Bhuvneshwar’s classy bowling. The West Indian, who had scored an 18-ball 37 in the previous match against Kings XI Punjab, had no answer to Bhuvneswar’s in-swinging yorker which shattered the stumps to send the former back with just six runs in his kitty. Robin Uthappa could well have been back in the

dugout with a duck in the next delivery off Bhuvneshwar in the third over but umpire Anil Dandekar did not appear interested in the confident caught-behind appeal. Gambhir, the owner of the orange cap being the top aggregator of runs currently, failed to find his touch this time surrendering to the accurate bowling of the Rashid Khan. The KKR captain was cleaned up by the Afghan leg-spinner as KKR slumped to 40 for two. Uthappa and Manish Pandey salvaged the situation for the host with a 77run partnership (in 52 balls) for the third wicket. Uthappa played a few nice shots on his way to a 39-ball 68 (5x4, 4x6) and was assisted ably by Manish, who scored 46 (35b, 3x4, 2x6) to ensure that the host reached 172 in the allotted 20 overs. Bhuvaneshwar picked up three for 20 to retain the purple cap.

‘Did well to retain momentum’ SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Kolkata

Kolkata Knight Riders reined in Sunrisers Hyderabad, riding on the momentum gained from the all-round balance in the side, felt wicketkeeper-batsman Robin Uthappa. “At no point were we out of the game and they (SRH) never had the upper hand. Even after not getting wickets in the first six overs, I

thought we did really well to keep up the momentum,” Uthappa said. “The team requires me to bat at No 3. I have taken that challenge as it is a very important position where you need experience,” he said. Speaking on Sunil Narine’s elevation as opener, Uthappa said, “I would not say the experiment is not working. He (Narine) is hitting the ball really well. I

think it is important for us to back him. If we don't back players in this tournament, they tend to get insecure,” Uthappa added. SRH pacer Ashish Nehra rued the dismissal of Yuvraj Singh. “If Yuvi had played 10 more balls, he would have finished the game. “On this wicket, 173 was not a big target. It is very early in the tournament so there is no need to panic.”

Upbeat MI on a Lion hunt Rohit’s dismal run the host’s only cause for worry G. Viswanath MUMBAI

Rohit Sharma’s batting woes continue to torment him and two-time winner Mumbai Indians. The captain of the team has looked all at sea against the spinners, especially the wrist-spinners. He has been bowled neck and crop twice and trapped twice, although he got a rough deal from the umpire against Kolkata Knight Riders at the Wankhede Stadium.

Done in by leggies On this particular odd occasion, it was Sunil Narine who won the appeal from umpire C.K. Nandan. Rohit expressed disgust and was reprimanded by the match referee. In the other three instances he was hoodwinked by leg spinners Imran Tahir, Rashid Khan and Samuel Badree. Rohit’s scores have been 3, 2, 4 and 0 and he has dropped to the ninth position in the MI batting averages In spite of Rohit struggling to put bat to ball, Mumbai, after facing a seven-wicket defeat against Rising Pune Supergiant ten days ago, has strung three straight wins to top the league points table. The hectic nature of the league — with two matches scheduled in three days sometimes — has hardly given Rohit time to mull and find ways to put an end to the nightmarish experience of CM YK

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getting beaten in the air and of the pitch. Rohit has scored heavily as an opener and at No. 3, but it is at No. 4 that he has batted on 54 occasions and delivered 1542 runs. With such good statistics to support him, it’s highly unlikely that Rohit would swap positions with Jos Buttler in the third home match on Sunday, to be played against Gujarat Lions. MI returned home on Saturday after the Pollard-piloted victory against Royal Challengers Bangalore and in search of its first win against the Lions, to which Rohit’s team lost by three and six

wickets last year. The Lions notched their first win at Rajkot on Friday with openers Dwayne Smith and Brendon McCullum going after the Rising Pune Supergiant bowlers. Skipper Suresh Raina, with a 22-ball unbeaten 35, took his team to victory with 12 balls to spare. The Lions batsmen ran into form after seamer Andrew Tye made his IPL debut memorable with a five for 17 effort including a hat-trick. The Lions would be confident for two reasons — they have not lost to MI and chased down the RPS target of 172 with much ease. The teams did not practise at the Wankhede and preferred to strategise in the hotel rooms. Though Rohit may not be overtly anxious given his dismal run, he would perhaps have a brainstorming session with head coach Mahela Jayawardene.

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Kolkata Knight Riders: Sunil Narine b Bhuvneshwar 6 (9b, 1x4), Gautam Gambhir b Rashid 15 (16b, 2x4), Robin Uthappa c Rashid b Cutting 68 (39, 5x4, 4x6), Manish Pandey c Warner b Bhuvneshwar 46 (35b, 3x4, 2x6), Yusuf Pathan (not out) 21 (15b, 1x4, 1x6), Suryakumar Yadav c Ojha b Nehra 4 (3b, 1x4), Colin de Grandhomme b Bhuvneshwar 0 (2b), Chris Woakes (not out) 1 (1b); Extras (lb-1, w-10): 11; Total (for six wickets in 20 overs): 172. Fall of wickets: 1-10 (Narine, 2.2), 2-40 (Gambhir, 5.4), 3-117 (Uthappa, 14.2), 4-153 (Pandey, 17.4), 5-163 (Suryakumar, 18.5), 6-170 (de Grandhomme, 19.4). Sunrisers Hyderabad bowling: Bhuvneshwar Kumar 4-0-20-3, Ashish Nehra 4-0-35-1, Ben Cutting 4-0-41-1, Rashid Khan 4-0-29-1, Moises Henriques 20-26-0, Bipul Sharma 2-0-20-0. Sunrisers Hyderabad: David Warner c Woakes b Kuldeep 26

(30b, 4x4), Shikhar Dhawan c de Grandhomme b Yusuf 23 (22b, 4x4), Moises Henriques c & b Woakes 13 (10b, 2x4), Yuvraj Singh c sub (Rishi Dhawan) b Woakes 26 (16b, 2x4, 2x6), Deepak Hooda st Uthappa b Narine 13 (7b, 1x4, 1x6), Ben Cutting c de Grandhomme b Boult 15 (10b, 1x4, 1x6), Naman Ojha (not out) 11 (11b), Bipul Sharma (not out) 21 (14b, 2x4, 1x6); Extras (b-2, lb-1, w-4): 7; Total (for six wickets in 20 overs): 155. Fall of wickets: 1-46 (Dhawan, 6.4), 2-59 (Warner, 9.5), 3-65 (Henriques, 10.4), 4-96 (Hooda, 13.2), 5-112 (Yuvraj, 14.5), 6-129 (Cutting, 17.1). Kolkata Knight Riders bowling: Umesh Yadav 3-0-27-0, Trent Boult 4-0-33-1, Sunil Narine 4-0-18-1, Kuldeep Yadav 40-23-1, Yusuf Pathan 1-0-2-1, Chris Woakes 4-0-49-2. Toss: Sunrisers. Man-of-the-Match: Uthappa. SRH won by 17 runs.

Hitting out: Corey Anderson smashed the Kings XI bowlers to help Daredevils register a competitive total . AFP *

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Delhi Daredevils: Sanju Samson c Morgan b Cariappa 19 (18b, 2x4, 1x6), Sam Billings c Miller b Axar 55 (40b, 9x4), Karun Nair c Saha b Aaron 0 (3b), Shreyas Iyer c Morgan b Mohit 22 (17b, 3x4), Rishabh Pant c Morgan b Aaron 15 (9b, 3x4), Corey Anderson (not out) 39 (22b, 3x4, 3x6), Chris Morris c Mohit b Sandeep 16 (8b, 1x4, 1x6), Pat Cummins (not out) 12 (6b, 2x4); Extras (lb-2, w-4, nb-4): 10; Total (for six wkts. in 20 overs): 188. Fall of wickets: 1-53 (Sanju, 6.5 ov), 2-55 (Karun, 7.3), 3-96 (Shreyas, 11.5), 4-103 (Billings, 12.5), 5-120 (Rishabh, 15.1), 6151 (Morris, 17.5) Kings XI Punjab bowling: Sandeep Sharma 4-0-41-1, Mohit Sharma 4-0-37-1, Axar Patel 4-0-33-1, Varun Aaron 4-045-2, K.C. Cariappa 3-0-23-1, Glenn Maxwell 1-0-7-0. Kings XI Punjab: Manan Vohra lbw b Nadeem 3 (6b), Hashim Amla c Billings b Morris 19 (12b,

4x4), Wriddhiman Saha c Zaheer b Nadeem 7 (5b, 1x4), Eoin Morgan c Karun b Cummins 22 (20b, 3x4), David Miller lbw b Anderson 24 (28b, 1x4), Glenn Maxwell c Billings b Mishra 0 (2b), Axar Patel b Morris 44 (29b, 1x4, 3x6), Mohit Sharma b Cummins 13 (14b, 1x4), K.C. Cariappa b Morris 1 (2b), Sandeep Sharma (not out ) 2 (2b); Extras (lb-1, w-1) 2; Total (for nine wkts. in 20 overs): 137. Fall of wickets: 1-5 (Vohra, 1.4), 2-21 (Saha, 3.2), 3-31 (Amla, 4.4), 4-64 (Morgan, 9.6), 5-65 (Maxwell, 10.3), 6-88 (Miller, 13.4), 7-133 (Mohit, 18.5), 8-134 (Cariappa, 19.1), 9-137 (Axar, 19.6). Delhi Daredevils bowling: Zaheer Khan 4-0-38-0, Shahbaz Nadeem 2-0-13-2, Chris Morris 4-0-23-3, Pat Cummins 4-023-2, Amit Mishra 3-0-16-1, Corey Anderson 3-0-23-1. Toss: Daredevils. Delhi Daredevils won by 51 runs.

All set for another Kohli-Smith match-up Yet to hit full tilt, both RCB and RPS will look to kick-start their campaigns Ashwin Achal BENGALURU

In seasons past, the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium was hailed as a batsman’s paradise. Small boundaries, flat pitches and a quick outfield produced massive totals and big knocks. In the two matches played at the venue this year, however, the runs have not come at a rapid rate. Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) successfully defended a 158-run target in the first encounter, while a total of 142 for five was not enough to keep Mumbai Indians in check. The away numbers — RCB has made 172 and 148 for four in its allotted 20 overs — are not pleasing either. When RCB takes the field against Rising Pune Supergiant (RPS) here on Sunday, the home team will look to reverse this trend.

Manjrekar clariies Pollard comment Press Trust of India New Delhi

Sanjay Manjrekar on Saturday clarified his on-air comments on Kieron Pollard saying he never called the West Indian “brainless”. While it was clear from the footage that Manjrekar never uttered the word “brainless”, Pollard’s Twitter dig at the veteran cricketer saw lot of strong reaction on social media. “Said ‘Does he have the range (to bat higher up the order)?’ Using terms like ‘no brains’ or ‘brainless’ not my style. I can be critical but never insulting,” Manjrekar tweeted. “I would also encourage all those reacting to the Pollard issue to hear the footage & not just take my word for it,” he added.

Light moment: RCB’s Travis Head and Shane Watson share a laugh on the eve of the match against RPS. K. MURALI KUMAR *

Skipper Virat Kohli, who returned from injury with a fluent 62 against Mumbai, holds the key. The misfiring batting line-up will hope that South African A.B. de Villiers — he made an electrifying

unbeaten 89 off 46 balls against Kings XI Punjab a few days ago — produces another gem. Trent Woodhill, RCB’s batting and fielding coach, laid the onus on his team’s star

batsmen. “There weren’t massive totals in these two home matches, so it was down to some poor batting from both sides. “With regard to the 200run totals that we normally associate with the Chinnaswamy track, I think we’ve had solid batting pitches without the exceptional ones that we’re used to. Having Virat Kohli and AB back is great, and we need to quickly build on their presence,” he said on Saturday. Woodhill added that it is vital for the batters to stick around and get the job done. “If somebody gets in, that guy has to go on. Kieron Pollard did that for Mumbai yesterday, and somebody will hopefully play the same role for RCB tomorrow,” he said. Much like RCB, Pune is yet to hit full tilt. The unit has recorded just the one win in

four matches thus far, and enters this outing on the back of a seven-wicket loss to Gujarat Lions. Skipper Steven Smith has led from the front, with scores of 84 n.o., 26 and 43. The form of his predecessor, M.S. Dhoni, however, is a cause for worry. The normally reliable Dhoni has managed only 33 runs in four innings, and Pune fans will hope that this is but a minor blip. The encounter will also see Kohli and Smith share the field for the first time since the tense India-Australia Test series. At the end of that hard-fought tour, less than a month ago, Kohli had famously remarked that he no longer considered Smith and his Australian teammates as his friends. The stage is set for a weekend spectacle.

Tryst with history Tye ensures he won’t be forgotten Nandakumar Marar RAJKOT

Andrew Tye has made batsmen and coaches in the IPL sit up and take notice. Five wickets on debut, including a hat-trick, has turned the Australian Twenty20 international into an object of curiosity. Having spent all his time on the bench, the lanky fastbowler was ready when bowling coach Heath Streak and head coach Brad Hodge gave him a look-in. “I have been around here in the IPL for 34 matches. I was used to the atmosphere. To get a game is awesome,” he said. Coming over to be part of the IPL and not getting a look-in beyond training was part of the experience. “It was frustrating at times (sitting out), but we have access to some of the best coaches in the world. It’s a great place to develop your game, even if you are not playing.”

Tye’s ’trick was the second such feat on a freaky Friday, Samuel Badree responsible for the first. “I was actually shocked. T20 is very much a batsman’s game, but if you can slightly bait the batsman, all it takes is a mishit. (Samuel) Badree and me were able to show that IPL is not entirely a batsman’s game.” The 30-year-old’s change of pace, so effective in the Big Bash, seemed to surprise many here too. “My knuckle ball seems to work very well. I probably got four out of five wickets with my slower ball. It is my best ball and I bowl that when I need to.” The scores: Rising Pune Supergiant 171 for eight in 20 overs (Rahul Tripathi 33, Steve Smith 43, Manoj Tiwary 31, Andrew Tye five for 17, including a hattrick) lost to Gujarat Lions 172 for three in 18 overs (Dwayne Smith 47, Brendon McCullum 49, Suresh Raina 35 n.o., Aaron Finch 33 n.o.).

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Demand for an IPL-style league for women

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Former cricketers say it will help tap the potential in India and ofer a viable career option Vijay Lokapally NEW DELHI

Ennis-Hill’s belated moment in the sun LONDON

Retired British athlete Jessica Ennis-Hill will have another moment in the sun when she receives a belated gold medal at August’s World championships in London, British media reports suggested on Saturday. Ennis-Hill — who experienced the greatest moment of her stellar career when winning heptathlon Olympic gold at the 2012 Olympics in London — and compatriot Jo Pavey will be awarded World championship medals after athletes were stripped of them for failing dope tests. Ennis-Hill would step up to gold after 2011 champion Tatyana Chernova tested positive for steroids. AFP

India withdraws from Sultan of Johor Cup

For Shantha Rangaswamy, Shubhangi Kulkarni and Sudha Shah, part of the nine women cricketers to have been honoured with MCC membership, it is recognition of all the hard work they put in as players. Hard work without fruits really, as most women cricketers of their era would reflect. “I played for nothing,” said Shantha. For Shubhangi, it was “zero match fee” and Sudha too brought home little in terms of a financial boost for pursuing cricket as a career. With the MCC membership which comes with the privilege of watching a game at Lord’s with that wonderful aura surrounding cricket — the grand ladies are looking forward to watching an IPLlike competition for women in India. Shantha, 63, said, “We

Legends: Women cricketers from an earlier era line up to cheer for the teams during an IPL match in Bengaluru on Friday. G.P. SAMPATH KUMAR *

can have an IPL for women provided we widen the base for the girls. We have enough players to launch such a league. “I think India should have

taken the initiative when the IPL was started 10 years ago. “It has turned out to be a grand concept with entertainment, glamour, name and fame, not to forget the

money, making it an attractive tournament.” India, stressed Shantha, has the “administrative acumen and revenue generating power. There might be initial

reservations but I am sure it would bring in sponsors. The MCC membership is a big boost for the game in India. Those aspiring can look up to cricket as a career since there is recognition for it now.” An elated Shubhangi noted, “It is an honour you would do anything to get. The current players would be motivated.” The idea of an IPL for women had its merit too. “Why not? We should have launched one before the Big Bash (in Australia). There is good potential for women’s cricket in India. “In fact, an IPL for women was one of the suggestions in the vision plan we gave to the BCCI last year. “I will be happy if the current lot does well in terms of money. In my time, we had to raise funds to meet the costs of tours and playing the game when people initially

came more out of curiosity until they were convinced the girls could indeed play cricket,” said the 57-year-old Shubhangi. Sudha, 58, said it was a “great privilege. I now want to see an IPL for women. It will give splendid opportunities to players in India to take cricket seriously. “I have seen good players give up cricket and go on to become bureaucrats, doctors, chartered accountants. “I was termed foolish but I thought I was brave to stick to cricket. I am happy I could convince my parents to allow me to play cricket.” Shantha, Shubhangi and Sudha, not to forget Diana Edulji, have been among the prominent icons of the game in India. They now pray the current generation makes the most of it — a T20 league could take the initiative for them.

NEW DELHI

Hockey India has decided not to send the Indian junior men’s team for the Sultan of Johor Cup in Malaysia, to be played between October 22 and 29, citing Pakistan’s presence in the competition. This will be the second successive year where India will not be taking part in the tournament. The junior men’s team had won the tournament in 2015. Earlier in January, Hockey India announced its decision to not play any tournaments against Pakistan. ANI

Dortmund boss considered CL pull-out BERLIN

Borussia Dortmund CEO Hans-Joachim Watzke says he flirted with pulling the club out of the Champions League after Tuesday’s team bus attack before resolving not to give in to the bombers. “I briefly asked myself if we shouldn't withdraw completely from the competition, but that would have been a victory for those responsible for the attack,” he told Der Spiegel magazine. AFP

Had problems bowling to Amla, Ponting: Anderson JOHANNESBURG

England pacer James Anderson has revealed that he found South African batsman Hashim Amla and former Australian skipper Ricky Ponting the most difficult batsmen he bowled to. “I’d put (Ricky) Ponting right up there, especially in Australian conditions.” The 34-year-old said that Ponting used to make it very difficult for him to settle as a bowler because of his ability to hit from any length. “Now, Hashim Amla is right up there (too) — he’s very difficult to bowl at, especially in Test cricket.” ANI

Amanpreet in the lead

Rawat, Khushbir qualify for Worlds

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The top-seeded racer in classified cars, K.M. Bopaiah from Coorg, had to settle for the second place in his 1600cc Polo. Delhi’s Sandeep Sharma finished third.

With the breathtakingly beautiful Dirang valley for inspiration, National autocross champion Amanpreet Ahluwalia proved he’s a master of short turns and deft handling as he finished first in the autocross or the Super Special Stages as it called here, to go into the lead on the first day in the fourth edition of the JK Tyre Arunachal Festival of Speed on Saturday. Driving a Maruti Gypsy, Amanpreet tackled the slippery grass track at the L’Opon Stadium to delight the locals, who had gathered in moderate numbers to watch the action-packed event. He needed just 2 minutes and 9 seconds to complete the zig-zag course. “It was fun racing on this tricky course,” said the veteran rallyist from Delhi. “We are happy that we have taken the early lead. There is still a long way to

In the autocross and sprint cars for local talent, Babit Lyngdoh shot into the lead, winning both his rounds. However, the championship suffered a setback with big names — Desert Storm winner Sunny Sidhu (engine issues), ten-time Raid de Himalaya champion Suresh Rana (front axle damage) and India Baja champion Gaurav Chiripal (personal reason) — pulling out. Provisional results: 1. Amanpreet Ahluwalia (navigator Ajay Kumar) 02:09s, 2. K.M. Bopaiah (Gagan Karumbaiah) 02:12. 3. Sandeep Sharma (Prathap Thakur) 02:13, 4. Ewellson Cyngdoh (Rijop M. Sangma) 02:14.

Two more to go for Mukesh Special Correspondent Kochi

He has got 123 pro titles in his bag, no other golfer in the country has won more. And Mukesh Kumar is a very happy man. “I’ve told my friends that I would stop at 125 titles,” said the 51-year-old from Mhow after winning his second PGTI Cochin Masters golf title on Saturday. “I don’t know when and where the other two will come from but I’ll keep my

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word. No more after that.” The Panasonic Open India title, which he won in New Delhi in December, ended Mukesh’s 32-year wait for his maiden Asian Tour title. And the 19th trophy he won at the Cochin Masters is the highest by anyone on the PGTI circuit. So, what will he do after quitting the tour? “I will probably play the senior tour in Japan and I will think of coaching youngsters.”

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Race walkers Manish Singh Rawat and Khushbir Kaur qualified for the World championship by reaching the qualification standards in the IAAF Race Walking Challenge here on Saturday. Interestingly, both the athletes were not selected for the Asian championship earlier as they had not competed in the National championship. Rawat was placed sixth in the men’s 20km race walk with a timing of 1 hour 23 minutes and 58 seconds. He beat the qualification mark of 1:24:00 by two

seconds. In the women’s event, Khushbir was fifth with a time of 1:34:01 as she comfortably came under the qualification mark of 1:36:00.

Head coach happy The head coach of the Indian walking team, Alexander Artsybashev, was happy that the athletes were able to achieve qualification despite the hot conditions and that Rawat was the best among the Asians. K.T. Irfan (1:20:59), Devender Singh (1:21:38) had come under the qualification criteria in

the Asian race walking championship earlier

The results: 20km race walk: Men: 1. Caio Oliveira de Sena Bonfi (Bra) 1:22:16; 2. Julio Cesar Salazar (Mex) 1:22:58; 3. Lebogang Abdullah Shange (RSA) 1:23:45; 6. Manish Singh Rawat (1:23:58).

V.M. Sandeep and Sandeepti Singh Rao emerged the champions in the boys and girls sections of the Road to Wimbledon Masters under-14 tennis tournament on the grass courts of the Delhi Gymkhana Club here on Saturday. Sandeep, a trainee of coach Uday Kumar Reddy at the Triangle Tennis Trust in Chennai, served and stroked with a rare touch of assurance to outwitted Denim Yadav 7-6(3), 6-2 in the boys final. After having finished third in the last edition, it was a welcome progress for Sandeep to make it to Wimbledon in style as the champion. It was a quality contest and a commendable effort as both the players held on to their serve to force the tiebreak in the first set.

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Sandeep was easily the better of the two and capitalised on his opponent’s errors to gain a stranglehold over the proceedings. Denim could not fight at his best in the second set as Sandeep ran up a 4-0 lead, but made a recovery by breaking serve in the fifth and holding serve thereafter.

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However, Sandeep cruised to the finish without any further trouble. The girls’ final was fought better as Sarah Dev, quite subdued for the most part with her strokes, forced the super tie-break. However at 6-6, the enthusiasm and intensity of strokeplay of the bespectacled Sandeepti,

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Turning point “The seventh hole, where I landed in the water hazard but still managed to save par from 20 feet, was the turning point. “After that, I knew that this could be my day,” said Mukesh who won his first Asian Tour title, the Panasonic Open India in CM YK

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It did not matter as to who won this day as both the finalists in the boys and girls section had already confirmed their berths in the UK under-14 championship to be played on the grass courts of Wimbledon in August.

Anura Rohana wilts under the pressure, inishes runner-up

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who trains with coach Ankit Patel at the Team Tennis Centre in Siri Fort, provided a magical finish for her.

Conident Mukesh regains title A year after winning the title, Mukesh Kumar missed the cut here last year. But on Saturday, the seasoned golf pro felt so good at the PGTI Cochin Masters that he told the officials here before the final round that he would return with the title. The 51-year-old from Mhow in Madhya Pradesh kept his cool under pressure, produced a bogey-free five-under-67 on the final day for a total of 12-under-276 to regain his title by one shot at the CIAL Golf Club, Nedumbassery. The victory brought him a cheque of ₹6 lakh.

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Sandeep, Sandeepti triumph NEW DELHI

Old is gold: The seasoned Mukesh Kumar produced a bogeyfree inal round to reign at the Cochin Masters on Saturday.

New Delhi, in December. “And after getting a birdie on the 13th, I was tied with Anura Rohana for the lead. That spurred me on and I attacked the pins and went on to make another birdie on the 16th. “Missing the cut last year was very painful, I was very upset, but these things happen in golf. And now, my victory will help me at next week’s Panasonic Open in Japan.” While Mukesh, who was joint third overnight, ap-

peared to go from strength to strength, overnight joint leader Rohana appeared to wilt under pressure.

Crucial miss “I missed a crucial eagle when my bunker shot just stopped on the lip of the 16th hole. It was the similar story on the 16th yesterday too. “Had I got it, I would have been tied for the lead and it could have been a very different story,” said a disappointed Rohana, who finished runner-up.

The Sri Lankan, who got birdies in each of the last four holes on Friday, appeared to be in fine nick early on the final day at three-under after the first eight holes but then dropped bogeys on the ninth and 14th to hand over the lead to Mukesh. Chandigarh’s Harendra Gupta, the other overnight joint leader, finished third after a final round of 72 while defending champion Feroz Ali Mollah (73) of Kolkata finished tied 23rd. V.J. Kurian, Managing Director, CIAL, gave away the prizes. Final placings: 276: Mukesh Kumar (70-68-71-67). 277: Anura Rohana (70-70-67-70). 279: Harendra Gupta (70-65-72-72). 281: Om Prakash Chouhan (6971-73-68). 284: Akshay Sharma (73-70-72-69), Honey Baisoya (74-67-68-75). 285: Ajeetesh Sandhu (67-72-76-70), Naman Dawar (72-70-72-71), Raju Ali Mollah (72-72-69-72).

The result: $600,345 ATP, Houston: Doubles (quarterfinals): Bob Bryan & Mike Bryan (USA) bt Purav Raja & Divij Sharan 6-3, 6-4.

Sharath bows out Press Trust of India New Delhi

India’s campaign ended at the Asian table tennis championship as A. Sharath Kamal bowed out in the pre-quarterfinals after losing 11-6, 9-11, 11-9, 12-14, 12-10 to Lam Siu Hang of Hong Kong at Wuxi (China) on Saturday.

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Purav Raja and Divij Sharan were stopped by the top-seeded Bryan brothers, Bob and Mike, 6-3, 6-4 in the doubles quarterfinals of the $600,345 ATP Tour event here. The Bryans had earlier beaten Leander Paes and Andre Sa in the first round.

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at Nomi City, Japan while Ganapathi Krishnan had clocked 1:24:18.

Women: 1. Lu Xiuzhi (Chn) 1:31:01; 2. Yang Jiayu (Chn) 1:31:04; 3. Wang Na (Chn) 1:31:09; 5. Khushbir Kaur 1:34:01.

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Purav, Divij lose to Bryan brothers

In the presence of Tournament Director Paul Hutchins and the British coach Dan Bloxham, the president of the Delhi Gymkhana Club, Lt. Gen. I.J. Singh presented the prizes. The results: Boys (final): V.M. Sandeep bt Denim Yadav 7-6(3), 6-2; Third place: Nishant Dabas bt Krishan Hooda 6-4, 6-7(2), [10-8]. Girls (final): Sandeepti Singh Rao bt Sarah Dev 6-4, 3-6, [10-6]. Third place: Aditi Narayan w/o Akanksha Nitture.

Runner-up Odisha opened its campaign in the National sub-junior football championship with a 3-2 win over host Kerala here on Saturday. The star of Odisha’s win was Sanjay Bate, who struck twice, in the 18th and 63rd minutes. Odisha’s second goal was scored by Purshottam Kerketta in the 28th minute. For the host, Abhay Shanmukhan and K.P. Shifaz, in the injury time, were the scorers. Earlier, the opening match between Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh ended in a goalless draw. The results (preliminary league): Group A: Odisha 3 (Sanjay Bate 18 & 63, Purushottam Kerketta 28) beat Kerala 2 (Abhay Shanmukhan 42, K.P. Shifaz 90+3). Uttar Pradesh 0 drew with Madhya Pradesh 0.

Not ready for ‘guillotine’, says Evra Agence France-Presse Marseille

Patrice Evra may be 35 and struggling through a frustrating stop-start season, but the Marseille full-back insisted on Friday that his career was not yet ready for the “guillotine”. “You know, they’ve already prepared the guillotine for me, notably before the Euros,” said Evra wryly. “I come from a big family where it wasn’t easy to eat every day. So now, I’m not going to put pressure on myself.”

East Bengal — time to restore some pride Bagan loss will spur it vs Shivajians Y.B. Sarangi KOLKATA

Following its loss to archrival Mohun Bagan and the protest of fans at the club tent, East Bengal will try to restore some pride by going for a win when it meets DSK Shivajians at the Barasat Stadium on Sunday. East Bengal is placed third, with 27 points from 15 matches, behind Aizwal FC and Mohun Bagan. With the title race looking set to be decided between the top two sides, East Bengal will be keen to present a good account of itself in the remaining matches.

Biggest headache The biggest headache for East Bengal coach Trevor Morgan will be to find a replacement for marquee Trinidad & Tobago forward Willis Plaza, who was redcarded in the second half for a challenge on Mohun

Bagan centre-back Anas Edathodika. The team will also miss the services of Rehenesh, who has been reportedly sent back home for his ‘improper behaviour’ towards fans. It may also be a tactic to foil the fans’ fury against the goalie during the match. “The grievance of the fans will motivate us to play better. We have to move on,” said Haitian forward Wedson Anselme, who would have to shoulder a lot of responsibility against Shivajians. The eighth-placed Shivajians, which has just managed 14 points from three victories and five draws in 15 outings, has nothing to lose from this tie. The Pune-based team had lost its home engagement against East Bengal 2-1 and would look forward to avenge the defeat against the Kolkata side. A ND-ND

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Sony Norde is Bagan’s saviour Former champion retains top spot ahead of Aizawl on goal diference Agencies Ludhiana

Sony Norde struck in the 84th minute against Minerva Punjab to give Mohun Bagan three crucial points on Saturday and stay on top of the I-League table, with 33 points from 16 games, on goal difference ahead of Aizawl FC which beat Churchill Brothers 3-1 at Vasco. Bayi Kamo scored a brace and Laldanmawia one for Aizawl while Anthony De Souza found the net for Churchill. Meanwhile at Shillong, Sunil Chhetri and Harmanjot Khabra scored a goal each as defending champion Bengaluru FC beat host Shillong Lajong. The win helped BFC replace Lajong at fourth in the table. Both teams have 24 points each from 16 matches.

Zapata scores a dramatic equaliser

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No change in salary policy for Sanchez: Wenger LONDON

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has said that the football club is unlikely to change its wage policy to retain the services of Chilean star Alexis Sanchez. Wenger said any decision would be made based on objectivity and the understanding that the club always comes first. “Even for important players, you can only pay as much as you can afford,” Wenger was quoted as saying. ANI

Sampaoli unhappy with Sevilla’s Argentina rebuke MADRID

Jorge Sampaoli reacted angrily on Friday to Sevilla’s decision to threaten the Argentine Football Association (AFA) with legal action over its interest in hiring him to rescue its floundering World Cup qualifying campaign. Sevilla issued a statement describing new AFA president Claudio Tapia’s intentions to meet Sampaoli over the vacant coach’s role as “unacceptable” and “a lack of respect”. “The statement has more to do with speculation than facts,” said Sampaoli. “If you ask me if I have said yes (to AFA) then I would be saying that I am the Argentina coach and that isn’t the truth.” AFP

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Timely strike: Cristian Zapata’s efort hit the crossbar and bounced over the line. Agencies Milan

Cristian Zapata hit a dramatic late equaliser as AC Milan snatched a 2-2 draw with Inter Milan at the San Siro on Saturday in the Serie A derby. But until Zapata’s bundled effort hit the crossbar and bounced over the line following a corner in the seventh minute of added-on time, the Rossoneri were on their way to another moralesapping defeat. Despite a brilliant start from Vincello Montella’s nominal visitors in the ground the two clubs share — Carlos Bacca firing just over and on-loan Everton man Gerard Deulofeu hitting the upright in the opening minutes — Inter was more clinical when it mattered. Meanwhile, Harry Kane scored his 20th goal of the Premier League campaign as Tottenham Hotspur crushed Bournemouth 4-0 to cut Chelsea’s advantage at the summit to four points. Mousa Dembele, Son Heung-Min and Vincent

EURO LEAGUES Janssen were also on target. Kane, 23, is the first Spurs player to have scored at least 20 league goals in three successive seasons since the great Jimmy Greaves in the late 1960s. The results: Serie A: On Saturday: Inter Milan 2 (Candreva 36, Icardi 44) drew with AC Milan 2 (Romagnoli 83, Zapata 90+7); Cagliari 4 (Borriello 11, Sau 15, Pedro 40, 90) bt Chievo 0; Fiorentina 1 (Tello 64) lost to Empoli 2 (El Kaddouri 37, Pasqual 90+3-pen); Genoa 2 (Simone 10, Pandev 78) drew with Lazio 2 (Biglia 45+2, Alberto 90+1); Palermo 0 drew with Bologna 0; Pescara 0 lost to Juventus 2 (Higuain 23, 43); Roma 1 (Dzeko 50) drew with Atalanta 1 (Kurtic 22); Torino 1 (Belotti 66-pen) drew with Crotone 1 (Simy 81). EPL: On Saturday: Tottenham 4 (Dembele 16, Son 19, Kane 48, Janssen 90+2) bt Bournemouth 0; Crystal Palace 2 (Cabaye 54, Benteke 70) drew with Leicester 2 (Huth 6, Vardy 52); Everton 3 (Jagielka 49, Mee 71-

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Disciplined: Bengaluru FC midielder Alwyn George was instrumental in his team keeping a clean sheet.

Chhetri broke into the Lajong defence and found the net in the 26th minute while Khabra headed home the second in the 49th minute. BFC coach Alberto Roca made four changes while Lajong’s Thangboi Singto retained the same squad that faced Mohun Bagan. The home side started

I-LEAGUE briskly with Aser Dipanda making a fine run into the box, but John Johnson was alert enough to clear the danger. Young Samuela also had a chance to put the home team ahead, but he fumbled

inside the box. But BFC did not let go the chance it got when Chhetri, who was left unmarked, outwitted the opposition and found the net. Roca’s men were disciplined and controlled the game well till the break. Soon after resumption, the home side showed purpose and almost got the equaliser when Chinglensana Singh’s header flew over the post. A few minutes later, Khabra enhanced the lead by heading home a cross from Nishu Kumar in the 49th minute. The results: At Ludhiana: Minerva Punjab 0 lost to Mohun Bagan 1 (Norde 84) At Shillong: Shillong Lajong 0 lost to Bengaluru FC 2 (Chhetri 26, Khabra 49). At Vasco: Aizawl FC 3 (Kamo 7 & 46, Ralte 84) bt Churchill Brothers 1 (Anthony De Souza 69).

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og, Lukaku 74) bt Burnley 1 (Vokes 52-pen); Stoke 3 (Arnautovic 6, Crouch 66, Shaqiri 80) bt Hull 1 (Maguire 51); Sunderland 2 (Khazri 26, Borini 90) drew with West Ham 2 (Ayew 5, Collins 47); Watford 1 (Capoue 42) bt Swansea 0. La Liga: On Saturday: Deportivo la Coruna 2 (Joselu 47, Mosquera 67) bt Malaga 0; Sporting Gijon 2 (Cop 14, Vesga 50) lost to Real Madrid 3 (Isco 17, 90, Morata 59). On Friday: Athletic Bilbao 5 (Dominguez 7, Muniain 9, 58, Aduriz 18, 59) bt Las Palmas 1 (Bigas Rigo 12). Bundesliga: On Saturday: Borussia Dortmund 3 (Reus 3, Sokratis 35, Aubameyang 86) bt Eintracht Frankfurt 1 (Fabian 29); Mainz 1 (Latza 45+1) bt Hertha Berlin 0; Wolfsburg 3 (Suttner 45+1-og, Malli 68, Gomez 80) bt Ingolstadt 0; Augsburg 2 (Hinteregger 6, Verhaegh 23) bt Cologne 1 (Sorensen 65); Hoffenheim 5 (Szalai 9, 24, Demirbay 58, 89, Uth 75) bt Borussia Monchengladbach 3 (Vestergaard 31, Stindl 35, Dahoud 78); RB Leipzig 4 (Poulsen 36, Werner 42, Keita 51, Burke 90) bt Freiburg 0.

Bottas secures maiden pole position Hamilton joins him on front row as Mercedes takes sixth straight pole at Sakhir Agencies

Vettel was third fastest for Ferrari, unable to make an impact on the two Mercedes men. It was the sixth consecutive year in Bahrain that Mercedes won pole.

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Valtteri Bottas claimed his first career pole position on Saturday when he beat Mercedes teammate Lewis Hamilton with a well-controlled lap in Saturday’s qualifying for the Bahrain Grand Prix. The 26-year-old Finn, who joined the team as replacement for retired 2016 world champion Nico Rosberg, made the most of a poor final lap by the Briton to claim the prime starting position for Sunday’s race. Hamilton, who was seeking his seventh successive pole position and third in a row this season, gave his teammate a generous hug after the session. “We will only be celebrating for a short time tonight. The most important thing is to be ready for tomorrow’s race,” said Bottas.

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BAHRAIN GP Rosberg was amongst the first to congratulate. “Congrats Valtteri Bottas 1st pole! Great lap. Happy for all you guys at merc that Valtteri is going well,” tweeted Rosberg. Three-time champion Hamilton, who shares the

championship lead with Sebastian Vettel and who had been quickest until the final runs, was unable to find the extra speed he needed on his second run in Q3 to retain pole position. “Big congratulations to Valtteri,” said Hamilton. “Today he was just quicker — hats off to him.” Four-time champion

1. Valtteri Bottas (Mercedes), 2. Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes), 3. Sebastian Vettel (Ferrari), 4. Daniel Ricciardo (Red Bull), 5. Kimi Raikkonen (Ferrari), 6. Max Verstappen (Red Bull), 7. Nico Hulkenberg (Renault), 8. Felipe Massa (Williams), 9. Romain Grosjean (Haas), 10. Jolyon Palmer (Renault), 11. Daniil Kvyat (Toro Rosso), 12. Lance Stroll (Williams), 13. Pascal Wehrlein (Sauber), 14. Esteban Ocon (Force India), 15. Fernando Alonso (McLaren), 16. Carlos Sainz Jr (Toro Rosso), 17. Stoffel Vandoorne (McLaren), 18. Sergio Perez (Force India), 19. Marcus Ericsson (Sauber), 20. Kevin Magnussen (Haas).

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Bring back glory days of Hyderabad cricket The city has produced talented stars with style and substance over the years

Srikanth takes on Sai Praneeth for Singapore Open glory

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Rakesh Rao NEW DELHI

With K. Srikanth and B. Sai Praneeth reaching the singles final of the $350,000 Singapore Open badminton championship on Saturday, history was made with India becoming only the fourth nation to send two men into the title-clash of a BWF Super Series event. Battling fitness issues and form, Srikanth, made his first final in two years after getting the better of Indonesia’s Anthony Sinisuka Ginting 21-13, 21-14 in 42 minutes after Sai had raced past Korea’s Lee Dong Keun 21-6, 21-8 in just 38 minutes. These victories saw India join China, Indonesia and Denmark as the nations to have both finalists in singles of a Super Series. But what makes the feat all the more special is, both Indians are unseeded. On Sunday, 29th-ranked Srikanth will be looking for his third Super Series title against the 30th-ranked Sai, playing his first final at this level. Interestingly, Sai holds a 4-1 head-to-head advantage, having tamed Srikanth in their last encounter at the Syed Modi GP event in Lucknow in January. The semifinals saw Sai dominate the unseeded Korean, who was upbeat after beating seventh seed from Hong Kong Ng Ka Long Angus. Sai took a 10-0 lead in the opening game and won the last five points to close the contest in style. Srikanth sent out the fourth-strongest Indonesian who advanced after beating Hong Kong’s Wong Wing Ki Vincent, the conqueror of third seed Viktor Axelsen in the opening round. In the other match, down 4-9, Srikanth won 12 of the next 13 points to lead 16-10 and never trailed again in the match. He controlled the net better in the first game but once the Indonesian saw

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The High Court, accepting the results of the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) elections, has appointed two administrators to the association. While this news seems dry on the surface, it comes during a critical phase in the State’s cricket administration. The HCA can potentially use the court ruling as a springboard to prioritise efficient administration and again make Hyderabad a pool of unique talent that brings its own flair to Indian cricket. Will it happen? The reason for this apprehension is the recent decision of the new committee. When it met in early April, the committee terminated the services of all the coaching and support staff.

Roll-call of stars Having watched and covered cricket matches for several decades, I can firmly say that no cricket association has produced as many players with talent and flair as Hyderabad has. From M.L. Jaisimha, Pataudi , Abbas Ali Baig, Abid Ali to Mohammad Azharuddin and V.V.S. Laxman, all were top performers. From Pataudi, who brought his own swagger to the role of Indian

Unlucky ones Many top talents from Hyderabad cricket have been unfortunate to miss out on representing India. Medium-pacer Govindraj was part of the 1971 tours to West Indies and England but didn’t get a chance to play a Test. Another lanky pacer Habib Khanwas also unfortunate not to play for India. In the spin department, Ghulam Ahmed was one of the best. Bowling with Vinoo Mankad and Subhash Gupte, he excelled in international matches. Left-armers Mumtaz Hussain and Venkatapathy Raju were outstanding examples. Mumtaz Hussain, with subtle variations of chinaman and googly (in 69 FC matches he took 213 wickets at an average of 19.59), mesmerised top quality batsmen but couldn’t break into a South Zone team that had Chandrashekhar, Prasanna and Venkataraghavan. The most impressive of the lot was Shivlal Yadav. As a teenager in the 1976 BCCI Hemu Adhikari camp, at the Brabourne Stadium, he looked very impressive though another off-

spinner Kanwaljit Singh was equally good. Arshad Ayub, preferred by India captain Dilip Vengsarkar for his fast off-breaks, did a decent job too. There were two other off-spinners — Noshir Mehta and V. Ramnarayan — who too did well for Hyderabad. Also, a 17-year-old opening batsman Saad Bin Jung comes to mind. He scored a century for South Zone against a West Indian attack comprising the raw pace of Malcolm Marshall and Vanburn Holder. Another opener Kenia Jayantilal, a prolific scorer in domestic cricket, played a solitary Test. Who can forget the sensational entry of Azharuddin against England in 1984? The breathtaking stroke-play he exhibited when scoring three consecutive centuries was never seen before. His unpredictable ball placement made it difficult for the opposing captain to set a field. When an 18-year-old Laxman arrived on the scene in 1994, he reminded everyone of Azharuddin. The then India U-19 coach Sandeep Patil predicted India had a matchwinner in Laxman. Laxman wasn’t a slave to technique. He played with fluency and fortitude, a style of play that allowed him to hit Shane Warne through midwicket against the turn during his epic 281 at Kolkata in 2001. There were two brilliant wicketkeepers in P. Krishnamurthy, who played for India, and A.A. Asif whose swift gathering standing upto pacers

was outstanding. He was a good batsman too. This trip down memory lane is a reminder of not only the contributions of Hyderabad cricketers but also of the fact that without cricketers of stature like Jaisimha, this would not have been possible. When Sharad Pawar was elected the president of the Mumbai Cricket Association for the first time, he formed a Cricket Improvement Committee (CIC) comprising renowned ex-Mumbai cricketers. All the cricketing decisions were left to the committee and the managing committee was asked to only implement the decisions of the CIC.

Involve ex-players In Hyderabad, on the one hand there are no tournaments named after excricketers like Jaisimha or Pataudi, this while the tournament structure is collapsing. On the other, not involving reputed ex-players of integrity in the administration has contributed to this collapse and derailed the lives of many talented teenagers. It remains to be seen if the new HCA committee will use the election results to return to its glory days? If it has worked for Mumbai, surely it can work for Hyderabad. Meanwhile, each apathetic day spent is another injustice done to the next young Jaisimha or Laxman. There is little redemption for playing with the lives of young cricketers in the name of politics.

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through his deceptive play, resorted to aggressive smashes, on both flanks, in the second game to emerge a comfortable winner. At the start of the week, the last-minute withdrawal of the top seed Jan O Jorgensen (Denmark) and second seeded Olympic champion Chen Long (China) helped the two Indians. Sai was drawn to play

Jorgensen in the first round while Srikanth faced the prospects of meeting Chen in the second round. As the event progressed, the two Indians faced only one seeded rival each — in the quarterfinals — on their way to the title-clash. Srikanth defeated Chinese fifth seed Shi Yuqi while Sai took out eighth seeded Thai Tanongsak Saensomboonsuk.

Texas Gold wins feature event MUMBAI: Mrs. Vandana Sharma’s Texas Gold, ridden by Neeraj Rawal, won the J.D. & Peggy Banatwalla Trophy, the main event of Saturday’s (April 15) evening races. The winner is trained by Hosidar Daji. T.M. GOCULDAS PLATE (1,400m), Cl. II, rated 60 to 86: TRAHERNE (C.S. Jodha) 1, Streetjammer ( J. Chinoy) 2, Alishas Pet (S. Amit) 3 and Papakura (Dashrath) 4. 2, 13/4, 9. 1m 24.58s. ₹36 (w), 18 and 12 (p). SHP: 26, FP: 57, Q: 37, Tanala: 44 and 20. Favourite: Streetjammer. Owners: Mr. & Mrs. Shapoor P.Mistry rep. Manjri Horse Breeders’ Farm Pvt. Ltd. & Mr. Rajesh Monga. Trainer: S.K. Sunderji. J.D. & PEGGY BANATWALLA TROPHY (1,600m), 3-y-o only: TEXAS GOLD (Neeraj) 1, Gloriosus (Trevor) 2, Collegium (C.S. Jodha) 3 and Artus (N. Rawal) 4. 5, Hd, 4. 1m 38.50s. 25 (w), 13, 10 and 12 (p). SHP: 31, FP: 24, Q: 12, Tanala: 81 and 54. Favourite: Gloriosus. Owner: Mrs. Vandana Sharma. Trainer: Hosidar Daji. RONALDO PLATE (1,600m) Cl. IV, rated 20 to 46: FIRENZE (Dashrath) 1, King Of Killen (Sandesh) 2, Care Free (C.S. Jodha) 3 and Imperial Heritage (Tograllu) 4. 2, 3, 3/4. 1m38.63s. 119 (w), 19, 14 and 17 (p). SHP: 34, FP: 346, Q: 171, Tanala: 1,227 and 526. Favourite: Arabian Storm. Owners: Mr. Geoffrey B. Nagpal, Dr. S.P. Sardeshmukh & Mr. Pradeep N. Lala. Trainer: Sanjay Kolse. JOCKEYS TROPHY (1,000m), Maiden, 3-y-o only: NEXTSTAR (C.S. Jodha) 1, Optimum (Trevor) 2, Arc Shine (Merchant) 3 and Montecasino (Mosin) 4. 2-1/4, Hd, 3-1/4. 59.91s. 19 (w), 10, 14 and 15 (p). SHP: 30, FP: 33, Q: 17, Tanala: 54 and 35. Favourite: Nextstar. Owners: Mr. Jaydev M. Mody rep. J.M. Livestock Pvt Ltd. Trainer: Imtiaz Sait. JEHAN NUMA PLATE (1,200m), Cl. V, rated 1 to 26: Q’E’D (Neeraj) 1, Ame (Trevor) 2, Winds Of Change (V. Jodha) 3 and Eagle Spirit (C.S. Jodha) 4. 1/2, 3/4, 3/4. 1m 13.13s. 50 (w), 18, 19 and 15 (p). SHP: 47, FP: 81, Q: 104, Tanala: 230 and 149. Favourite: Winds Of Change. Owners: M/s. S.M. Ruia, Amay S. Ruia, Ms. Anisha R. Bhimjyani & Mr. Dinesh Maharaj Singh Mehta. Trainer: Altamash A. Ahmed. DISPLAY HOUSE SPRINT (1,200m), Cl. III, rated 40 to 66: JIMBO (Nazil) 1, Franz Ferdinand (Sandesh) 2, Sparkling Eyes (C.S. Jodha) 3 and Free Speech (Nadeem) 4. Nk, Hd, 2-3/4. 1m 11.41s. 371 (w), 37, 13 and 13 (p). SHP: 33, FP: 693, Q: 198, Tanala: 1,399 and 824. Favourite: Franz Ferdinand. Owner & Trainer: Mr. Asad Siddiqui. TRAINERS TROPHY (1,000m), Cl. IV, rated 20 to 46: SPEED OF SOUND (Dashrath) 1, Locarno (Neeraj) 2, Rare Silver (C.S. Jodha) 3 and Smart Choice (Agarwal) 4. Sh, 1-1/2, Hd. 59.37s. 45 (w), 20, 13 and 23 (p). SHP: 42, FP: 101, Q: 61,

captaincy, to Laxman, whose lazy elegance brought India some memorable Test wins, Hyderabad has been a big contributor to Indian cricket. A big part of this in Hyderabad cricket was Jaisimha. Through his experience and mentoring, he laid the foundation for the careers of many talented Hyderabadi cricketers.

Tanala: 378 and 240. Favourite: Locarno. Owners: Capt. Jamshed J. Appoo, M/s. Pankaj K. Udhas & Fateh Singh Chadha. Trainer: Arif Patel. A. HOYT PLATE (1,400m), Cl. V, rated 1 to 26: FROSTED (Raghuveer) 1, Star Scholar (Trevor) 2, Happy Birthday (Merchant) 3 and Wildhorn (K. Kadam) 4. Not run: Coat Of Arms. 3-1/2, 2, 4. 1m 24.65s. Rs. 47 (w),

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Rs. 23, 19 and 21 (p). SHP: Rs. 37, FP: Rs. 139, Q: Rs. 99, Tanala: Rs. 2,829 and Rs. 1,212. Favourite: Trevelyan. Owner: Mr. K.H. Vachha. Trainer: Imtiaz Sait. Jackpot: 70 per cent: Rs. 5,52,782 (1 tkt.) and 30 per cent: Rs. 15,794 (15 tkts.). Treble (i): 7,506 (carried forward); (ii): Rs. 44,880 (carried forward). Super Jackpot: Rs. 2,07,190 (carried forward).

MUMBAI: Trainer M.K. Jadhav’s ward Paramour, who is in good shape, should score over her rivals in the Bangalore Turf Club Trophy, the main event of the concluding day’s races of the Mumbai racing season on Sunday (Apr. 16) evening. There will be no false rails.

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BANGALORE TURF CLUB TROPHY (1,200m), Cl. I, rated 80 and upward, 5.30 p.m: 1. Rule Downunder (5) Trevor 59, 2. Nascar (1) Raghuveer 55, 3. Deep Diver (2) S. Amit 54, 4. Paramour (3) Sandesh 53.5 and 5. Valentino (4) Dashrath 50.5. 1. PARAMOUR, 2. RULE DOWNUNDER

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RACING JOURNALISTS TROPHY (1,800m), Cl. III, rated 40 to 66, 6.00: 1. Eternal Sunshine (6) S. Amit 59, 2. Daishonin (4) K. Kadam 58, 3. Flying Dragon (2) C.S. Jodha 57, 4. Glorious Opinion (7) Merchant 53.5, 5. Celestial Light (3) Trevor 53, 6. Eiger’s Tiger (5) Dashrath 50 and 7. Furious N’ Fast (1) Neeraj 49. 1. ETERNAL SUNSHINE, 2. FLYING DRAGON

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DADY ADENWALLA TROPHY DIV. I (1,200m), Maiden, 3-y-o only, 7.00: 1. Cloudburst (4) K. Kadam 55, 2. Doubledown (6) N. Rawal 55, 3. Harrier (—) (—) 55, 4. Magic Dust (10) Dashrath 55, 5. Sir Percy Blakeney (8) Neeraj 55, 6. Star Phoenix (3) Bhawani 55, 7. Tar Heel (11) C.S. Jodha 55, 8. Angel Coin (7) Merchant 53.5, 9. Montana (5) G. Amit 53.5, 10. Orion’s Belt (1) Agarwal 53.5, 11. Porvi (9) Sandesh 53.5 and 12. Spinning Gold (2) S. Amit 53.5. 1. PORVI, 2. SIR PERCY BLAKENEY, 3. DOUBLEDOWN

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RACING OFFICIALS TROPHY DIV. II (1,200m), Cl. IV, rated 20 to 46, 7.30: 1. Top Wizard (10) Agarwal 59, 2. Odessa (6) Jaykumar 58, 3. Kookaburra (9) C.S. Jodha 55.5, 4. Tomahawk (5) Merchant 55.5, 5. Adams Beginning (4) Parbat 55, 6. Creative Vision

(3) S.G. Prasad 55, 7. Dusky Siren (2) Bhawani 55, 8. Fencing (8) S. Amit 55, 9. Royal Blood (1) Nazil 55, 10. Panatela (11) Akshay Kumar 54.5 and 11. Divine Angel (7) Shubham 53. 1. KOOKABURRA, 2. ODESSA, 3. TOMAHAWK

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WORTHWHILE TROPHY (1,400m), Cl. IV, rated 20 to 46, 8.00: 1. Lord Arazan (3) Jaykumar 62, 2. Master Of Trinity (2) Neeraj 59, 3. Aeolus Maximus (8) Dashrath 58.5, 4. Relentless Pursuit (5) C.S. Jodha 58.5, 5. Silk Baby (9) Bhawani 58.5, 6. Ventura (withdrawn), 7. Logano (10) Trevor 57, 8. Royal Classic (6) Daman 56, 9. Simona (4) S. Amit 55.5, 10. Rapid Girl (7) Sandesh 53, 11. Sail Past (12) Akshay Kumar 52.5 and 12. Generous Lady (11) N. Rawal 49. 1. RAPID GIRL, 2. RELENTLESS

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RACING OFFICIALS TROPHY DIV. I (1,200m), Cl. IV, rated 20 to 46, 8.30: 1. Rock In Rio (10) Dashrath 60, 2. Ridgewood Star (5) Trevor 57.5, 3. Zabisco (3) Merchant 57.5, 4. Bullion Express (9) K. Kadam 56.5, 5. Democrat (1) Akshay Kumar 55.5, 6. Shogun (11) Baandal 55, 7. Be Bold (6) G. Amit 54.5, 8. Fashionable Gait (4) Agarwal 54, 9. My Blessings (7) S. Amit 54, 10. Oslo Court (2) Neeraj 53.5, 11. Grappa (8) Ajinkya 53 and 12. Petronius (12) Ayyar 52.5. 1. BE BOLD, 2. MY BLESSINGS, 3. DEMOCRAT

GOODBYE PLATE (1,000m), Cl. V, rated 1 to 26, 9.00: 1. Forever Free (8) S. Amit 61, 2. Eternal Love (12) Joseph 60, 3. Blazing Steps (16) Baandal 59.5, 4. Asahi (3) Sandesh 59, 5. Crystal Ball (14) Daman 59, 6. Silver River

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(9) Trevor 59, 7. Beyond Forces (1) Merchant 58.5, 8. Blaze The Track (4) K.Kadam 58.5, 9. Ettihaad (13) Shahrukh 58.5, 10. Knight At Arms (2) Agarwal 56.5, 11. Rich N Rare (7) Kuldeep 56.5, 12. Reality (18) Bhawani 55, 13. Rising Concert (15) Raghuveer 54.5, 14. Horse Power (17) Sandeep Jadhav 54, 15. Black Jaguar (6) A. Gaikwad 52, 16. Maqsad (11) Jaykumar 52, 17. Olivia Kaspen (5) N. Rawal 51, 18. Tareef (19) Akshay Kumar 49.5 and 19. Chivalrous Knight (10) Raj Pawar 49. 1. SILVER RIVER, 2. RICH N RARE, 3. ASAHI Day’s Best: CAMBRIDGE Double: KOOKABURRA — RAPID GIRL Jackpot: 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8. Treble: (i) 5, 6 & 7; (ii) 6, 7 & 8. Tanala: All races. Super Jackpot: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8.

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