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NEARBY
Rajinikanth takes the plunge nally Ultras target CRPF
■ Actor to launch political
party a few months before polls
■ Will put up candidates in all
234 constituencies in Tamil Nadu
■ Says politics in the State
has deteriorated very badly
camp, kill 5 jawans
Two Jaish men also die in Pulwama
Staff Reporter he asserted.
CHENNAI The actor recited a verse
Ending two decades of spec from the Bhagavad Gita, in
Yasin Malik takes up ulation and uncertainty, Ta which he quoted Lord Krish
prisoners’ cause mil lm superstar Rajini na’s advice to Arjuna to do
SRINAGAR
kanth on Sunday his work and not worry
Yasin Malik, chief of the emphatically announced his about the rest, and said the
Jammu Kashmir Liberation
arrival in politics and de “time has come” to enter
Front, on Sunday wrote an
clared that he will launch a politics.
open letter to External Aairs
political party in time to con “There is a need for a pol
Minister Sushma Swaraj to
highlight the conditions of
test in all 234 constituencies itical change. The system
Kashmiri prisoners in Tamil Nadu in the next As needs to change. We need a
sembly elections. politics that is truthful,
NEWS A PAGE 10 His politics, he said, straightforward and clean.
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would be beyond caste and We need a kind of politics
religion but “spiritual.” He that is devoid of inuences of
would keep o the election caste and religion. We need
Kin of Mumbai pub to local bodies as the time is ‘spiritual’ politics. That is my Ready for retaliation: CRPF jawans conducting a search
owners held short and take a decision goal and wish,” he said. operation in Lethpora on Sunday. NISSAR AHMAD
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MUMBAI
about the 2019 Lok Sabha The actor said that while
The police on Sunday polls later. The term of the in the olden days kings Peerzada Ashiq said the ocial. The mili
arrested two persons for
current Assembly in Tamil would loot other empires Srinagar tants managed to enter the
allegedly providing shelter to
Nadu will end in 2021. and palaces, now parties Five CRPF jawans and two Group Training Centre,
the owners of the 1 Above
Making the announce were looting in the name of local JaisheMohammad housing multistorey build
pub, who have been booked
following Friday’s
ment in front of his fans at democracy. “In the name of ( JeM) militants were killed ings for the residential quar
devastating re that killed 14 his Raghavendra Kalyana democracy, political parties in a predawn dayeen (sui ters, commando training
people. They were produced Mandapam here, he said, “I Enigma of arrival: Actor Rajinikanth after announcing his entry into politics at the Raghavendra that come to power are loot cide) attack on the central and induction units.
at a court in Bhoiwada and will denitely come to polit Kalyana Mandapam in Chennai on Sunday. R. RAGU * ing people in dierent ways, force’s trainingcuminduc Scores of CRPF personnel
granted bail on a bond of ics. The time has come. In dierent modes and die tion centre in Pulwama’s were stranded in two near
25,000 each, a senior police the upcoming State Assemb ple what we will do and what State has deteriorated very in all States are laughing at rent methods. Kings would Lethpora area on Sunday. by buildings, thus slowing
ocial said. ly elections, I will contest in we won’t. If we can’t do it, badly. Democracy has un us. If I don’t do anything in a loot other empires, but these The militant squad of at down the operation. Securi
NATION A PAGE 7 234 constituencies. I will we will resign in three dergone severe decay. In the democratic way to change people loot their own peo least three was carrying un ty forces used mortars to
DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD start a political party a few years,” said Mr. Rajinikanth. last year, the political events this situation, the feeling of ple. This needs to change,” derbarrel grenade launch blow up the area where the
months before elections and Explaining the reasons be that unfolded in Tamil Nadu guilt will aect me till my he said. ers and a cache of ammuni militants were holed up.
tell people about our ideolo hind his decision to join pol have made the people hang death.” His foray into politics tion, as it arrived at the gates
gy and policies and tell peo itics, he said, “Politics in the their heads in shame. People was the compulsion of time, CONTINUED ON A PAGE 10 of the 185 Battalion head Intelligence inputs
quarters in Lethpora DirectorGeneral of Police
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‘Maoist Women can
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DELHI Timings
Monday, January 01
RISE 07:14 SET 17:36
Cold wave sweeps across Three killed in separate
encounters in Meerut zone
RISE 17:01 SET 06:02
Tuesday, January 02
RISE 07:14 SET 17:37
RISE 18:05 SET 07:07
Wednesday, January 03
hilly States of north India
RISE 07:15 SET 17:37 Dense fog in plains; movement of air, rail and road trac disrupted Two policemen were also injured during the police action
RISE 19:12 SET 08:08 Staff Reporter termed as a criminal on the police had announced
Press Trust of India groaned under arctic condi Meerut whose head a reward of reward of 100,000, was
New Delhi tions with the mercury stay The Uttar Pradesh police 50,000 was announced by killed in retaliatory ring by
A piercing cold wave swept ing 14 to 20 degree below the have killed three alleged cri the police, was killed in an the Muzaarnagar police on
across the hilly States in freezing point. minals in three separate en encounter on the outskirts Saturday. The UP police had
north India even as a blanket The weather in Uttar Pra counters in dierent dis of Meerut city on Saturday. announced reward of
of fog covered the plains, desh remained mainly dry, tricts of Meerut zone. Two According to SSP Meerut 50,000 on Shamim and
hampering the movement of while dense to very dense fog policemen were injured dur Manzil Saini, the police had another reward of the same
air, rail and road trac on occurred at many places. ing the encounters which intercepted two criminals amount was announced by
Sunday. Day temperatures fell ap took place on Saturday. on a motorcycle in the Sha the Delhi police on him.,
The mercury continued its preciably in Varanasi, Allaha The encounters took tabdi Nagar area of Meerut A constable was injured
downward spiral in Jammu bad, Kanpur, Jhansi and place even as the National late on Saturday night. during the encounter.
and Kashmir. Leh in the La Agra. The minimum temper Human Rights Commission When the police tried to fol Shamim's encounter took
dakh region braved the col People enjoying ice-skating at Lakkar Bazar in Shimla on Sunday. ature dropped by 1 to 2 de took note of the encounters low and corner them, they place near the Charthwal
dest night so far this year at * PTI grees Celsius at most places last month and asked the red at the police team. area of Muzaarnagar on Sa
minus 15.2 degrees Celsius. in Rajasthan due to north State government if it en While Haseen was hit by bul turday night. While two of
Srinagar city, the summer winter when the chances of heavily overcast, raising westerly winds. dorsed the encounters. Ac lets during “retaliatory r his companions managed to
capital of Jammu and Kash snowfall are most frequent hopes of a snowy start to the Fatehpur Shekhawati shi cording to the data provided ing” by the police, his ac escape, Shamim was killed
mir, recorded a minimum of and maximum and the tem New Year. vered at 0.5 degrees Celsius. by State DGP Sulkhan Singh, complice managed to in the gunbattle.
minus 3.6 degrees Celsius. perature drops considerably. Thousands of tourists who Mount Abu had a low of 3 de there were 895 police en escape. Later Haseen was Similarly, the Buland
The mercury in Qazigund in It ends on January 31 next have thronged the “queen of grees Celsius. Cold wave con counters killing 26 and injur sent to the hospital where he shahr police killed Sonu,
Celebratory south Kashmir settled at a
low of minus 4 degrees
year, but the cold wave conti
nues even after that in the
hills” to ring in New Year
were ecstatic with the weath
ditions prevailed at many
places in Punjab and Harya
ing 196 criminals. In Meerut
zone alone, 358 encounters
was declared dead. Ms. Saini
told the media that Haseen
who the police declared as a
hardcore criminal, in a shoo
re claims Celsius.
Kashmir is currently un
Valley.
Strong icy winds swept
erman predicting snow at
isolated places in the higher
na. Adampur (2.3 degrees)
and Hisar (3.4) were the col
took place in which 17 crimi
nals were shot dead.
had many cases of loot and
robbery against him.
tout in the Sikandarabad
area of the district on Friday
life of NRI der the grip of ChillaiKalan,
a 40day harshest period of
Shimla and surrounding
areas and the sky remained
reaches. High altitude tribal
areas and mountain passes
dest places in Punjab and Ha
ryana respectively.
In the rst instance Ha
seen, whom the police
Similarly, another alleged
criminal Shamim, on whom
night. He carried a cash re
ward of 50,000.
groom
Security personnel
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Press Trust of India
Chandigarh Devotees throng Amritsar
An NRI groom died after
being hit by a bullet during in J&K honoured
celebratory ring at his
wedding function in Gulha For their meritorious performance
town in the Kaithal district
of Haryana, the police said Press Trust of India nel, including SSP of Jammu
on Sunday. Jammu Vivek Gupta and SSP of Sub
The celebrations turned Jammu and Kashmir Police sidiary Training Centre
tragic as the groom, said to chief S. P. Vaid on Sunday (STC) in Talwara Anil Kumar
be in his mid 30s, was de awarded the DGP’s com Katoch were awarded the
clared ‘brought dead’ at a mendation medal and certif DGP’s commendation medal
hospital at Patiala. icates to 332 police, Army and certicate. The awar
The incident took place and paramilitary personnel dees also included eight SPs
on Saturday night, IO Sum for their meritorious and ex and Additional SPs, 35 De
er Singh of the Kaithal pol emplary performance in the puty SPs, 37 inspectors, 29
ice said over the phone. State this year. subinspectors and 24 Assis
“Vikram, an NRI based Rajouri Deputy Commis tant subinspectors, he said.
in Switzerland, was hit by a sioner Shahid Iqbal Choud Among the security per
bullet red during the wed hary was among the six oc sonnel, the awardees in
ding celebrations. Preli ers who were also given the clude 26 CRPF personnel,
minary probe showed that award. Three civilians re including two DIGs , four
a close relative of the ceived the award for their commandants, two deputy
groom was ring shots in outstanding service in main commandants and seven as
the air while everyone tenance of law and order, a sistant commandants, ve
around was dancing. So #4 1 3 9 7 5
police spokesperson said. BSF personnel, including a
meone accidentally The DGP also sanctioned DIG, two commandants, one
brushed against his relative 8.10 lakh in favour of 270 secondincommand, and
who was holding the gun police personnel for their ve SSB personnel.
resulting in the misre,” outstanding performance A colonel and a lieutenant
the ocer said. The groom during law and order duties, colonel were among 12 Army
was declared ‘brought a police spokesperson said. personnel who were award
dead’ at the hospital, he According to the spokes ed the DGP’s commendation
said. Seeking blessings: Thousands of devotees wait to pay obeisance at the Golden Temple on the eve of New Year in Amritsar on Sunday. *
PTI person, 271 police person medal and certicate.
J&K Health Minister asks NHM sta to call o strike Punjab to have re safety training centre: Sidhu
Agitators turn down appeal, decide to extend strike by six more days Fire services sector has been largely ignored, says the Minister
Press Trust of India the main demand of job reg State AIDS Control Society contractual service and have Press Trust of India ing centre.
Jammu ularisation,” Jammu division ( JKSACS) and Revised Na crossed the age limit. Chandigarh Mr. Sidhu said he also got
Jammu and Kashmir Health president of All J&K NHM tional Tuberculosis Control To nd a way of ending Punjab will soon have a re a favourable response from
Minister Bali Bhagat has ap employees association Rohit Programme (RNTCP) em the Atatewide strike, the safety training centre and a the Union Minister of State
pealed to the National Seth told PTI. ployees, including doctors State Health Minister met 500crore plan has been for Urban Development Har
Health Mission (NHM) em “We started the strike on and paramedics, are on the representatives of the submitted to the Directorate deep Puri to whom a 262
ployees to call o their strike December 20 and have been strike Since December 20 NHM association on Satur General of Fire Services and crore project was submitted.
and assured that all genuine extending it by 72 hours. and holding protests at the day and appealed them to the Civil Defence for trans The State government
issues being faced by them Now we have decided to ex exhibition ground here. resume their duties forth forming re services, Local would take special care to
would be addressed on a tend the strike by six more Services in various district with as the health services Bodies Minister Navjot Singh ensure that no reman goes
priority basis. days,” he said. and subdistrict healthcare are being hampered due to Sidhu said here on Sunday. into the re extinguishing
However, the agitating Blaming the government facilities and primary health their stir. He said the Centre has as operations without ultra
sta turned down the appeal for “forcing” them to resort centres in remote areas “The meeting was held in sured every possible help to modern re suit, he said.
and decided to extend the to strike, Mr. Seth said: “We across the State have been af a cordial atmosphere and the State in this regard. The Minister said the Fire
strike by six more days to called o the earlier strike in fected by the strike. both parties put forth their Besides, a separate pro Prevention and Fire Safety
press for their demands, in March after the government In addition to the demand viewpoints,” an ocial spo ject worth 262.50 crore has Act would be enforced
cluding regularisation of set up a committee to exa for job regularisation, the ag kesperson said, adding that been submitted to the Union Local Bodies Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu addressing the strictly.
their services. mine our demands. But in itators are seeking equal pay the Minister told the agita Urban Development Minis media in Chandigarh on Sunday. PTI *
In the coming days, Mr.
“We are continuing with the past nine months, they for equal work and other be tors that the government try, Mr. Sidhu said. Sidhu said, his department
the strike till we get a written have been betrayed multiple nets at par with govern was aware about their pro The Minister said till date, re accidents in Punjab, and to address the issue. would compile a list of the
assurance from the govern times through hollow state ment employees, claiming blems and was making all the re services sector has asserted that he has instruct He said the Centre has buildings violating the Act in
ment for fullment of our ge ments and empty promises.” that most of them have com out eorts to address these been largely ignored which ed the department to pre granted approval for the the State and the owners
nuine demands especially Over 11,000 NHM, J&K pleted about a decade of in a phased manner. accounted for the numerous pare detailed project reports opening of a re safety train would be served notices.
Man mauled 3 police
to death by
Air pollution, Ganga and Yamuna rejuvenation kept NGT busy personnel
leopard It also directed strict adherence to guidelines on noise pollution and ordered action in case of any violations arrested
Press Trust of India Press trust of India
Press Trust of India Amarnath. acting chairperson. in an ‘environmental emer
Rishikesh Bikaner
New Delhi Taking note of sound pol Jantar Mantar, which for gency’ led the NGT to direct
A man was mauled to Courting controversies with lution caused by use of loud many years was the hotspot the Delhi, Haryana, Uttar The AntiCorruption Bu
death by a leopard in the orders on regulating Hindu speakers at religious places of all protests and dharnas, Pradesh, Rajasthan and Pun reau of the Rajasthan police
Chilla range of the Rajaji pilgrimage to sparing none including mosques, the NGT got rid o all such activities jab governments to submit on Sunday arrested three
Tiger Reserve, an ocial including Sri Sri Ravi Shan directed strict adherence to as the green body banned action plans to deal with va police personnel on the
said on Sunday. kar’s Art of Living for damag guidelines on noise pollution these saying that the State rying levels of air pollution. charge of accepting a bribe
The halfeaten body of a ing the Yamuna oodplains, and ordered action in case of has totally failed to protect The tribunal expressed its of 10,000 Sriganganagar
32yearold man was reco the National Green Tribunal any violations. It also took a the right of enjoying pollu anguish at the AAP govern district, an ocial said.
vered by the Chilla range in 2017 also castigated the tough stand on animal blood tionfree environment of the ment for not taking preven ASP Rajendra Prasad
sta on Sunday morning, NDA government for failing seeping into the Yamuna and citizens living around the ar tive steps to deal with air pol said a few days back, Mu
RTR Director Sanatan Son to rejuvenate the holy Ganga. directed the authorities con chaeological site, close to lution. kesh Kumar, who was on
kar said. Not only the verdict on cerned to ensure that no Connaught Place in the city. Granting conditional nod his way to Pallu on a two
The deceased was iden Ganga brought embarrass The NGT banned protests at Jantar Mantar in the Capital. *
blood was allowed to ow di Notwithstanding delibera to the AAP government’s de wheeler was stopped by
tied as Sunil Kumar, resi ment for the Union govern FILE PHOTO V. SUDERSHAN rectly into the river due to tions on such issues, one en cision to implement the odd the accused policemen and
dent of Raiwala area, he ment but the green panel’s slaughtering of animals. vironmental aspect which even car rationing scheme, it taken to the Jaitpur police
said. remarks that “noncoopera ments like refusing to lift the maintain silence in front of With the end of the year, kept NGT busy was the dead ordered that no exemption post.
Apparently the man en tion” and “lack of will” of its ban on 10yearold diesel the shivalinga at Amarnath. the NGT witnessed its chair ly air pollution in northern should be allowed to “any There, the accused alleg
tered the forest area of CTR instrumentalities were re vehicle brought kudos from However, in the wake of man Justice Swatanter Ku India, including the national person or ocer and two edly got youth’s photo
from the ammunition sulting in “inordinate delay” environmental experts, a protests, the tribunal came mar retiring from his post af Capital, prompting it to wheelers” and the scheme graphed in an objectiona
dump near Raiwala cantt. in cleaning the stretch of riv proactive NGT drew ire from out with a clarication that ter completion of his come out with the graded ac should be implemented au ble position with a woman
on Saturday and had an en er Yamuna also put it on the Hindu religious groups for there was no ban on chant veyear tenure and Justice tion plan. tomatically whenever the air and then demanded a bribe
counter with the big cat, back foot. capping pilgrims at Vaishno ing of mantras or performing U. D. Salvi taking over the Worsening air quality in pollution levels reaches the of 50,000 for not taking
added. While milestone judg Devi and asking devotees to of aarti inside the cave at reins of the tribunal as the the national Capital resulting emergency levels. action against him, he said.
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Saying that the historic 1818
battle of BhimaKoregaon re
presented a watershed mo
ment for the Dalit communi
ty in their struggle against
caste prejudices, newly
elected Gujarat Assembly le
gislator Jignesh Mevani on
Sunday said the Bharatiya Ja
nata Party (BJP) governmen
trepresented a ‘neoPesh
wai’ mentality.
Mr. Mevani was among
several notable progressive
speakers who addressed a
humongous congregation at
the Elgaar Parishad at the
historic Shaniwarwada to
commemorate the bicenten
ary of the BhimaKoregaon
of January 1, 1818. As many as
500 soldiers of the untouch
Twilight revelries: Tourists ock to Baga Beach in Goa to celebrate New Year’s Eve on Sunday. *
ATISH POMBURFEKAR able Mahar community had
fought alongside the English
to defeat the forces of Pesh Common front: Jignesh Mevani, Radhika Vemula and others at the conference in Pune on
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IN BRIEF
BJP to prepare chargesheets Committed to ensuring
gender equality: Modi
against all Congress MLAs Calls to imbibe Guru’s teachings to get rid of social evils
Medicos call o
They will be taken to every house in respective constituencies from Feb. 15 to 22
Special Correspondent
agitation in Kerala
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM
Special Correspondent with respect to local issues. THIRUVANANTHAPURAM
The Kerala Medicos Joint
Bengaluru Besides this, Mr. Shah has Prime Minister Narendra
Action Council, spearheading Taking the ght against the also directed the party cadre Modi has called upon people
the indefinite strike of junior Congress to the Assembly to hold three conventions — to emulate the teachings of
doctors in medical colleges in constituency level, the Op women’s, Dalits and OBCs — Sree Narayana Guru and fol
the State, called off its position BJP has decided to in each of the Assembly con low his philosophy to get rid
agitation on the basis of prepare individual chargesh stituencies during February. of social evils.
assurances given by Health eets against all Congress Inaugurating the 85th Si
Minister K.K. Shylaja that the MLAs in Karnataka based on Hindutva plank vagiri pilgrimage celebra
government will consider their failure to full promis Meanwhile, Mr. Kumar tions through video confe
their issues favourably. es and deliver services in dropped clear hints that the rencing at Sivagiri on
their constituencies. BJP may use “Hindutva” as Sunday, Mr. Modi said that
Chargesheet in question National president Amit its main plank in the As the initiatives for ensuring A procession taken out in connection with the 85th Sivagiri
paper leak soon pilgrimage on Sunday.
Shah gave instructions re sembly elections by remark equality for women and pro
HYDERABAD
garding this to the party ing that the party’s strategy tecting their lives had alrea
All hurdles to the sensational
question paper leakage of
State unit at a special meet meeting had decided to dy begun. practice it in life to become transform’ to eradicate black
Telangana EAMCETII in 2016 ing of party legislators, MPs brand the Siddaramaiah go one like him. Listening to money, social evils and in
for the medical stream have and ocebearers in Benga Frontal attack: Amit Shah during a meeting with the party’s vernment as “antiHindu”. Triple talaq stories about such great men justice prevailing in society.
been overcome, facilitating luru on Sunday to chalk out legislators and MPs in Bengaluru on Sunday. PTI *
Asked if the demand for A legislation had been pilot alone would not help to one Mr. Modi reminded the
the Crime Investigation the party’s agenda for the separate religion status to ed to do away with practices achieve such goals, he said. pilgrims that they had as
Department of police to next two months as part of to prepare such charge phlets will reach all houses Lingayats would eat into the such as triple talaq that af The social reformation sembled not to argue and
launch prosecution the poll preparations. sheets by January 16. The BJP in the respective constituen party’s vote base, he only re fected the life of Muslim wo movement initiated in the win, but to know and to be
proceedings against the Brieng reporters after Yuva Morcha will take up a cies, he said. marked that the BJP would men. Social reformers and current year needed to be informed. The Guru’s exhor
accused by filing a the meeting, Union Minister campaign from February 15 It is learnt that such a go to people by branding the spiritual leaders had taught expedited in the coming tation to know each other
chargesheet shortly, Ananth Kumar said the party to 22 during which the char measure is being taken up to Siddaramaiah government the people to follow the year too. The thrust should and interact was always rele
according to a senior official. district units had been asked gesheets in the form of pam build on people’s sentiments as “anti Hindu”. teachings of the Guru and be on ‘reform, perform and vant.
TTD to crack whip on sta of ‘alien faith’ Finally, hugging row settled amicably
Vigilance wing conducted a thorough probe to identify them Boy allowed to appear for model exams, girl gets to rejoin school
Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter ities on Sunday signed agree ments and other academic The girl has submitted her
TIRUPATI cle provided to her by the Thiruvananthapuram ments following the meeting matters. It was also agreed transfer certicate to the
The Tirumala Tirupati De TTD management went viral New Year has dawned on a convened by Mr. Tharoor to that the school will not op school, which will take steps
vasthanams (TTD) manage on social media. positive note for two stu resolve the issue a couple of pose the boy’s parents’ deci to complete her registration.
ment has found 44 of its em dents of St. Thomas Central days ago. sion to move a review peti The school also gave an assu
ployees as nonHindus Groups seek action School here. As per the agreements, tion in the High Court rance that the girl would not
following “alien faiths” and Several Hindu groups ex The students were ex the boy, a Class 12 student, seeking expunging of certain face any kind of harassment.
is set to crack the whip on pressed displeasure and de pelled after they hugged will be allowed to appear for remarks. The girl’s family, meanwhile,
them. The number is spread manded action on such peo each other following a com his model examinations be will refrain from ling a com
across the ministeriallevel ple, following which the TTD petition in the school. ginning on Thursday, and Good conduct citation plaint against the school.
to the cadre of Assistant Ex was forced to take action by This had kicked up a con the girl, a Class 11 student, The parents will also not The students have not at
Sources said those sta identied might be sent to State
ecutive Ocer. issuing memos and seeking troversy, following which can rejoin school on Wed pursue the matter with the tended school for over ve
government service.
The Vigilance Department explanation. Shashi Tharoor, MP, had in nesday. Kerala State Commission for months, though the boy was
took up a thorough investi ployment in the TTD, but in ago. The State government Though the nature of ac tervened and convened a \The school will also press Protection of Child Rights. allowed to take his Onam
gation and reportedly con stances of proselytisation had then banned evangelical tion is not immediately conciliatory meeting bet the case of the boy for at The school will give the examinations.
ducted even a doortodoor such as drawing ‘cross’ activities near temples. known, sources said those ween the students’ families tending the Class 12 Board boy a good conduct citation Earlier, the regional oce
inquiry to zero in on their marks on the hills and distri Though the issue was dis identied might be sent to and the school authorities so examinations with the Cen and issue the transfer certi of the CBSE here had taken a
faith and praying pattern. In bution of pamphlets con cussed widely, it assumed State government service, that the children did not lose tral Board of Secondary Edu cate in time, and both sides favourable stance on the
the past, a person’s faith did taining prohibitive content prominence after the video without aecting their pro a year. cation (CBSE). will refrain from making de boy’s issue, and said the
not matter when it came to in the vicinity of Tirumala of a woman ocer entering a motional prospects and The parents of the stu It will also assign a teacher famatory remarks against board would protect the stu
selecting him/her for em created an uproar a decade church for prayers in a vehi benets. dents and the school author to guide the boy in assign the other. dent’s interests.
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draws ire Year gift’ to schoolgirls
Special Correspondent
Bengaluru Telangana to stop stipend of 100 for cosmetics purchase
The controversy over Un
metics and personal groom
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> Recently, the govt.
ion Minister of State for K.M. Dayashankar
Skill Development Anant KARIMNAGAR
announced the ing was found to be insu
kumar Hegde’s remarks on In what is being seen as a introduction of cient for the
secularism and the Consti New Year gift for students of underprivileged girls study
mutton curry in the
tution refuses to die down Kasturbha Gandhi Balika Vi ing at KGBVs.
menu of KGBV
even after he apologised in dyalaya (KGBV), the Telanga The DEOs and project of
na government has decided students cers of the SSA have been
Parliament.
BJP’s Dalit leader V. Sri to provide quarterly groom makeup items from the New instructed to launch the dis
nivas Prasad on Saturday ing kits to them starting Ja Year. There are 12 KGBVs in tribution of cosmetics kits
ayed party members, Mr. nuary 1. the district. on a grand scale by inviting
Hegde and former MLC G. A decision to this eect Each kit would include elected representatives in
Madhusudhan, for their re was taken by G. Kishan, di four bath soaps, two deter cluding MPs, MLAs and re
marks on the Constitution. rector of school education gent soaps, 24 shampoo sa presentatives of local
He called them fundamen and exocio State project chets, a 175 ml hair oil bottle, bodies.
talists lacking basic know director of Sarva Siksha Ab a comb, 50gm face powder The district authorities
ledge of the Constitution. hiyaan (SSA), on Saturday. box, 100 gm toothpaste are expected to conduct the
Chief Minister Siddara tube, a set of tooth brush launch in a day or two as the
maiah on Sunday said Circular issued and tongue cleaner, a packet consignment has not
those criticising the Consti In a circular to all DEOs and of stickers (tilak), two nylon reached them so far.
tution were unt to repre project ocers of SSA, bar ribbons of 2.5 metres each, Recently, the government
sent the people. Leader of ring Hyderabad and Med two elastic hair bands, 18 had announced introduc
Opposition M. Mallikarjun chal, Mr. Kishan said the kits branded sanitary napkins, a tion of mutton curry in the
Kharge urged the PM to not would replace the existing 180 ml handwash bottle and menu of KGBV students and
allow Ministers who had no practice of granting 100 a mosquito repellent. introduction of various
control over their tongue to Welcoming a new year: Flowers of various hues arranged at the Sri Satyanarayana Nursery Gardens, popularly known as Palla monthly stipend towards The monthly stipend of breakfast items and evening
continue in his Cabinet. Venkanna Nursery, to welcome 2018 at Kadiyam near Rajamahendravaram on Sunday. S. RAMBABU * purchase of grooming and 100 granted for buying cos snacks.
New night frog species found Tonsuring issue: Dalits to continue ght
Nyctibatrachus mewasinghi was discovered in the Western Ghats Upper caste people allegedly subjected them to harassment 21 years ago in A.P.
K.N. Murali Sankar
Staff Reporter closelyrelated species to known only from Peruvan KAKINADA incident came to the light.
KOCHI make the Mewa Singh’s night namuzhi in the Malabar Wil Yet another year has passed One of the victims, Challa
A new frog from Kerala is the frog a dierent species. They dlife Sanctuary, where the by, and the wait for justice pudi Pattabhiramaiah, 44,
latest contribution to the also found that the frog’s ge scientists found it in a small has only become longer for expresses complete faith in
spurt in amphibian discover netically closest relatives are stream running along the Pe the Dalits of the judiciary, but is appre
ies across India: scientists the Athirappilly night frog ruvannamuzhi dam. Venkatayapalem. hensive about the money
have just discovered the Me (found south of the Palakkad “It is an interesting spe In all, ve youth, includ and muscle power of the ac
wa Singh’s night frog, be Gap in Thrissur and Idukki) cies because of this current ing three Dalits, had been cused. “The prime accused
longing to a genus endemic The new species was found in and the Kempholey night lyknown restricted distribu subjected to harassment al and MLA from Ramachan
to the Western Ghats, from a small stream running along frog (found in the northern tion,” says author Sanjay legedly by upper caste peo drapuram Tota Trimurthulu
Kozhikode’s Malabar Wil the Peruvannamuzhi dam. Western Ghats of Kerala and Molur of ZOO. What is un ple of the village. Two of has been making all eorts
dlife Sanctuary. * KEERTHI KRUTHA Karnataka). usual is that the frog’s genet them had allegedly been ton to single us out from the rest
According to a scientic ically closest relative — the sured on the night of Decem Struggle goes on: Activists of Dalit organisations staging a of the village ever since the
paper published on Decem tutes, including the Indian ‘Interesting species’ Athirappilly night frog — is ber 29, 1996. Despite several protest in Kakinada on Sunday . K.N. MURALISANKAR
*
rst trial commenced in
ber 26 in The Journal of Institute of Science Educa Morphologically, the Mewa found far away and across hurdles, the victims have 1997,” says Mr. Pattabhira
Threatened Taxa (an inter tion and Research (Pune, Singh’s night frog can be dis the Palakkad gap, says Mr. been continuing their ght As a result, the hearing ST (Prevention of Atrocities) maiah, a graduate in law
national journal on conser Maharashtra) and the Zoo tinguished from these simi Molur. “Hence the species is for the last 21 years in the was adjourned yet again, Act, the prosecution sought from Andhra University.
vation and taxonomy), the Outreach Organisation larlooking and genetically also unique from a genetic hope that justice would pre prompting the activists of the caste identity of the vic One accused and 13 of the
new night frog Nyctibatra- (ZOO, Coimbatore, Tamil Na close relatives by several perspective,” he says. vail at the end of the trial. Dalit and human rights or tims. Though the victims 24 witnesses passed away in
chus mewasinghi is light du) used both physical cha physical characteristics, in Frogs in the genus Nycti- ganisations, along with like promptly submitted the doc the last 21 years. The prime
brown in colour with an o racteristics as well as genetic cluding the pattern of its batrachus, commonly Caste identity minded political outts, to uments, the special public accused has once again been
white underside, and sports methods to conrm the frog webbed ngers and toes. known as night frogs, are At a time when the Special stage agitations in dierent prosecutor failed to submit elected MLA of the ruling
faintly wrinkled skin with as a new species. The frog has been named af found only in the Western Court was about to deliver its forms demanding that ac the same in the court,” alleg TDP.
prominent granular projec Using tissue samples of 10 ter wildlife scientist Mewa Ghats mountain range. The verdict during the second tion be taken against the ac es V.S. Krishna, secretary of “Justice should not be de
tions. collected specimens, the Singh, in honour of his con addition of the Mewa Singh’s week of December, the vic cused. the Human Rights Forum, layed further,” says Mr.
Since many frogs in the scientists analysed portions tributions to behavioural night frog to this group tims were forced to ap “As one of the cases the organisation that has Krishna, exuding condence
genus Nyctibatrachus look of two genes and found that ecology and primate studies. brings the total number of proach the High Court to against the accused is under been extending its support that the verdict would be out
similar, scientists from insti it varied enough from other The new frog is currently night frogs to 36. prove their caste identity. the provisions of the SC and to the victims ever since the by the end of January 2018.
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Last sunset of 2017 for abducting, Rainfall, temperature & air quality in select metros yesterday
raping student
Press Trust of India
Sambhal
Resolve to make Punjab A dance teacher was ar
a top State: Amarinder
rested under the POCSO
CHANDIGARH
Act for allegedly abducting
Chief Minister Amarinder
Singh on Sunday urged
and raping one of his mi
people to resolve to build nor students after promis
Punjab as a frontrunner State ing to get her an opportun
through inclusive growth so ity to act in television
that the fruits of serials, the police said on
development percolate to Sunday.
the grassroots level. Capt. According to a com
Singh said this in a message plaint lodged by the mi
on New Year’s eve and also nor’s parents, the dance
extended his greetings to the teacher, Azad, had taken
people in Punjab and their 15yearold daughter
Punjabis across the globe. PTI to Mumbai on December
23 after promising to get
Three of family killed
her an opportunity to act Temperature Data: IMD, Pollution Data: CPCB, Map: Skymet (Taken at 18.00 Hrs)
in road accident
in television serials.
KAUSHAMBI (U.P.)
Forecast for Monday: Dense fog likely at isolated places over
Three members of a family, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi, Mad-
including a minor, were killed Unable to contact girl
The police said when the hya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal and Sikkim.
when their motorcycle was Cold wave conditions likely over Punjab and Haryana. Heavy
hit by a speeding truck here, family members of the girl
rainfall likely over Andaman & Nicobar islands.
the police said on Sunday. The were unable to contact city rain max min city rain max min
intensity of the collision was her, they lodged a com Agartala.................. -.... 29.0.... 13.6 Kozhikode ................ -.... 33.2.... 21.5
so huge that man and his wife plaint against Azad. Ahmedabad............. -.... 28.4.... 12.9 Kurnool .................... -.... 30.9.... 16.8
Aizawl .................... -.... 26.0.... 12.0 Lucknow................... -.... 17.7.... 10.1
died on the spot, while their All set for New Year: An aircraft prepares to land at Bhubaneswar airport on the last day of the year on Sunday. Additional Superinten Allahabad ............... -.... 18.8.... 10.8 Madurai.................... -.... 32.2.... 20.0
son was seriously injured. PTI *
BISWARANJAN ROUT dent of Police Pankaj Pan Bengaluru ............... -.... 26.9.... 16.1 Mangaluru ................ -.... 35.1.... 19.0
dey said: “A case has been Bhopal.................... -.... 25.7.... 11.4 Mumbai.................... -.... 30.2.... 16.3
Bhubaneswar .......... -.... 29.2.... 13.8 Mysuru..................... -.... 26.9.... 12.2
registered against the ac Chandigarh ............. -.... 22.5...... 7.8 New Delhi ................ -.... 22.8...... 8.0
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Kin of Mumbai pub owners held, granted bail
Police record
statements of
Antihookah 30 eateries sealed in
clamour rises
Anupriya Patel injured
after cars collide
27 witnesses
after blaze crackdown by BMC
ALLAHABAD Press Trust of India
Minister of State for Health Mumbai
and Family Welfare Anupriya The police on Sunday arrest Jyoti Shelar
Patel sustained minor injuries ed two persons for allegedly Mumbai
on Sunday after four cars in providing shelter to the own While investigations into
her convoy collided with each ers of the 1 Above pub, who reasons for the devastating
other here. Five others also have been booked following re at the 1 Above pub on
suffered injuries in the Friday’s devastating re that Friday that killed 14 per
incident. ANI
killed 14 people. sons are still underway, an
After the blaze at the up titobacco activists have
Woman’s bid to immolate scale pub in the Kamala Mills seized upon speculation
herself foiled in U.P.
compound, the police had that sparks from a hookah,
MATHURA
booked owners Hitesh that was served at the pub,
A young woman attempted to
set herself on fire outside a
Sanghvi and Jigar Sanghvi, could have set o the
police station here on Sunday and coowner Abhijeet Man blaze.
ka and others under various In mourning: Members of the Jain community organised a condolence meeting to show Head and neck surgeon Knocked down: BMC personnel demolishing the illegal
but the bid was foiled by a
charges. respect to the victims of the Kamala Mills re, at Khetwadi on Sunday. EMMANUAL YOGINI *
at the Tata Memorial Hos extension of an eatery at Kamala Mills on Sunday. PTI *
lady constable. “The woman
had filed an FIR, which was An uncle of the Sanghvi pital Pankaj Chaturvedi, a
found to be false. However, brothers’, Rakesh Sanghvi, fender who has escaped ery unauthorised structure der IPC Sections 304 (culpa vocal antitobacco activist, Staff Reporter which includes Kurla,
Mumbai
she tried to immolate herself and cousin Aditya Sanghvi from custody or whose ap at restaurants, pubs, malls, ble homicide not amounting has urged Mumbaikars to Asalpha and Saki Naka,
to put pressure on the police were arrested while a search prehension has been food joints, other eateries to murder), 337 (causing boycott joints that serve The Brihanmumbai Muni three each in Dahisar and
to act on her complaint but was on for another relative ordered. and hotels. We are asking hurt by act endangering life hookah. cipal Corporation (BMC) Bhandup and one each on
that bid was foiled,” a senior Mahendra Sanghvi, accord managers or owners of such or personal safety of others) “While the government on Sunday resumed its de Grant Road and Chembur.
police officer said. PTI ing to Avinash Shingthe, Se Remove illegal structure properties to remove it on and 338 (causing grievous has failed to curb the molition drive in all 24 It also inspected Otters
nior Police Inspector, Bycul Meanwhile, continuing its their own or else we will hurt by act endangering life mushrooming of the hoo wards. It carried out in Club, Khar Gymkhana,
Pilgrims throng Ayyappa la. drive to raze unauthorised bring it down,” BMC spokes or personal safety of others). kah culture, the users are spection of 615 hotels and and Bandra Gymkhana.
temple on New Year eve They were produced at a structures of restaurants, person Ram Dotonde said. However, the pub had in a to be blamed equally. Hoo restaurants and initiated Otter Club and Khar Gymk
SABARIMALA
court in Bhoiwada and hotels and other food joints Meanwhile, the NM Joshi statement claimed that it kah users are not only kill action against 355 of them. hana were found to have
Hundreds of devotees
thronged the Ayyappa temple
granted bail on a bond of for the third day, the Brihan Marg police, probing the had all the necessary appro ing themselves but also in The drive was is in res committed violations. Af
at Sabarimala on Sunday, the 25,000 each, a senior pol mumbai Municipal Corpora case, recorded the state vals and safety norms in nocent people around ponse to the Kamala Mills ter a lateevening surprise
New Year eve. Tantri ice ocial said. tion (BMC) turned down re ments of 27 witnesses and place. The statement also them through re hazard re, which killed 14 and check, Acres Club in
Kandararu Maheswararu Ocials said the relatives, quests by pubs and hotel said they were looking for blamed Mojo’s Bistro on the and secondhand smoke,” left 54 injured early on Fri Chembur was sealed for
Mohanararu performed the all residents of Mazgaon area owners to suspend the exer more witnesses. oor below for not having an Dr. Chaturvedi said, adding day morning. re norms violations in
Ashtadravya Maha Ganapati in Byculla, were booked un cise in view of New Year On Friday, the police had emergency exit, leading to that hookah bars continue The civic body also their basement banquet
Homom followed by der IPC Section 216 which celebrations. booked the Sanghvi broth overcrowding of the exits of to operate illegally despite sealed 30 eateries, 22 of hall, where a New Year
Ashtabhishekom and pertains to harbouring an of “We want to remove ev ers, Manka and others, un 1 Above. the legislative restrictions. which were in L Ward, bash was to be held.
Neyyabhishekom.
2 new ginger species found in the northeast
Hedychium chingmeianum was located in Nagaland, while Caulokaempferia was found in Manipur
Shiv Sahay Singh stems and creamy white genus Hedychium found in
Kolkata owers, was brought to the India, only ve are reported
Scientists have discovered regional centre of BSI, Shil in south India. The remain
two new species of ginger in long, and cultivated there. ing species are all found in
easternmost districts, Uk the northeast.
hrul in Manipur and Tuen Paper published The species Caulokaemp
sang in Nagaland, both bor A paper on the discovery feria dinabandhuensis was
dering Myanmar. was published earlier this discovered by Biseshwori
Hedychium chingmeia year in Telopea, an interna Thongam and Bipin Konsam
num, the species discovered tional Journal of Plant Syste of the Institute of Bioresourc
in Tuensang district, is an matics. es and Sustainable Develop
epiphytic plant and grows on “Most of the species un ment. The species has beau
tall trees, while Caulo der the genus Hedychium tiful ovalshaped pink
kaempferia dinabandhuen Caulokaempferia dinabandhuensis and Hedychium have medicinal properties. It owers which appear in
sis was found growing in chingmeianum. SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
*
is yet to be ascertained JuneJuly.
rock crevices, boulders and whether the newly disco It was during a trip to Uk
humus rich soil in the Shirui to which the commonly Roy, found the plant Hedy vered species Hedychium hrul hills that Dinabandhu
Hills, where the highest peak found ginger (Zingiber oci chium chingmeianum, grow chingmeianum has medici Sahoo, director of the IBSD,
stands at an elevation of nale) belongs. ing on tree trunks at Ching nal properties or not,” Mr. spotted this species.
2,938 metres. Two Botanical Survey of mei village in Tuensang Odyou told The Hindu. The scientists named the
Both the plants are from India (BSI) scientists, Nripe district. He said that out of 44 taxa, species after Mr. Dinaband
the family of Zingiberaceae, mo Odyou and Dilip Kumar The plant, with reddish 31 species and 13 varieties of hu Sahoo.
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here are occasions when not only the accused but output costs and minimum sup To make Muslims selfconscious at
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the criminal justice system itself is on trial. The ne hundred years ago this port prices (MSPs), of which farm Eid, Christians nervous at Christ
day, on January 1, 1918, Mo er suicides are chilling testimony. mas is to be systematically patriot
case relating to the Malegaon blast of 2008 is one
handas K. Gandhi was in The ve reports of the National ic. And notwithstanding the les
such. By overruling the National Investigation Agency’s Ahmedabad. And — no surprise Commission on Farmers that M.S. sons of history, to host Israeli
nding that key members of a Hindu rightwing group here — he addressed a meeting of Swaminathan chaired consolidat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanya
called Abhinav Bharat were not involved in the explo residents in that city. One would ed his warnings and his recom hu is to be more than patriotic. It is
sion that killed at least six persons and wounded over a imagine the meeting was about the mendations. It has been deeply to be mightily patriotic.
hundred in the Maharashtra town, the Special Court in Great War that was coming to an disturbing to hear him urge imple
Mumbai has chosen to let the evidence decide their end or the battle for Swaraj which we were to take, with great dicul For millennia India has lived from mentation of his recommendation The right to question
was just beginning under his lea ty in Delhi and less so elsewhere, a monsoon to monsoon. But now, on the MSP. In a plangent com Gandhi spoke of Swaraj’s three
guilt or innocence. It has framed charges against them
dership. But no, it was about – and deep breath and look ahead on the relentless thirst of 1.3 billion ment powerfully reminiscent of basic khorak. But he also gave, in
for conspiracy, murder and other oences, including again no surprise — something en where we stand on Gandhi’s rst Indians for water — domestic, agri Gandhi, he has said, “The future the same 1918 speech, a fourth
under the provisions of the Unlawful Activities (Preven tirely dierent. khorak point, namely, clean air, or cultural, industrial, ‘construction’ will belong to nations with grains, khorak for Swaraj. And that lay in
tion) Act. The AntiTerrorism Squad of the Maharashtra on atmospheric pollution, we — has turned our land into one not guns.” P. Sainath has been his words, “we have a right to
police and the NIA have come to varying conclusions on Three necessities would we nd, rst, that India to giant groundwater sieve. Techni speaking of the agrarian crisis with question.” This fourth khorak ex
the culpability of Abhinav Bharat members. The ATS It was about securing three basic day is among the world’s largest cally renewable, our groundwater unagging zeal. Aruna Roy’s Maz tended to political rights, social
chargesheet claims it was primarily a conspiracy necessities which he spelt out as: carbon emitters, following China, as a resource is hopelessly over door Kisan Shakti Sangathan and and economic rights. And very
hatched by Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur and Lt. Col. “Air, water and grains.” He spoke the U.S. and the European Union, drawn. Per capita availability of Yogendra Yadav’s Swaraj Abhiyan specically, it led that year, 1918, to
in Gujarati and his key sentence is hurting itself by the global rise in water in India dropped from 6,042 have done likewise. The Kisan Sab the Kheda peasants satyagraha.
Prasad Purohit, among others. In a supplementary
was: Hava pani ane anaj e khorak- extreme climate events and water cubic metres in 1947 to about 1,545 ha has remained an inspiration for Looking ahead in 2018, it seems
chargesheet, the NIA concluded there was either no or na mukhya tattvo chhe (air, water and food crises. Second, that hav cubic metres in 2011. Today the the cause and the energy brought quite clear that after about four
insucient evidence to proceed against some of them. and grains are essential to human ing ratied the nonbinding Paris gure should be much lower, and to the farmers’ agitation in Maha years of cowering, the right to
Special Judge S.D. Tekale has chosen to steer clear of nourishment). If Swaraj, he said, Agreement on climate change, In by 2030, India’s water scarcity will rashtra by Yashwant Sinha’s es question is reviving in India. The
pronouncing his decision on which of the two he would means selfrule, then securing dia has undertaken a huge moral have reached alarming propor pousal of their demands has been democratic opposition is more
go by. Where two conicting reports are on record, he these three khorak means secur responsibility in terms of reducing tions. Are we — the peoplehood of salutary. And yet, looking into just condent than before of overcom
ruled it is better to go through the trial and consider the ing Swaraj. Explaining himself the emissions intensity of its GDP India — who form the stakeholders the twelve months ahead of us, I ing the fume of fear that had all but
with typical concision, Gandhi by 3335% by 2030 from 2005 le in our water resources really cannot see any helpline to India’s choked it. The emphatic improve
evidence it brings. His decision is the right one and it
said: “Air is free to all but if it is pol vels, changing over from coal aware of this? We are not. The lifeline, agriculture. ment in the Congress’s seats share
rises above the competing narratives of the two luted it harms our health… Next based generation to renewable rockhard fact is that the National While these three essential kho- in Gujarat is a sign that the fourth
agencies. comes water… From now on we energy sources and, increasing the Water Mission’s eorts notwith rak essential for India to ‘simply khorak — the right to question —
What made this case politically sensitive was the de must take up the eort to secure annual target of forest cover. standing, we are dangerously wa live’, as Mr. Sainath has put it, can make our democracy breathe
bate over whether ‘Hindu’ or ‘saron’ terror had come water. Councillors are servants of Third, and the most stark, with the ter decient and deplorably water struggling for breath, what are we the hava of Swaraj again. I see 2018
into being given the alleged role of an organisation with the people and we have a right to U.S. pulling out of the treaty, the iniquitous. Waterproigacy by a getting instead, and on a priority? confronting the behemoth of ma
the objective of establishing ‘Hindu Rashtra’ in the question them.” On the subject of nancial aid for the followup ex few contrasts with the waterin Three other khorak: the hava of in joritarianism with increasing suc
grains, he spoke with action, not pected from developing countries adequacy of the many. And water, tolerance, the pani of polarisation cess.
country. Initially, an Islamist group was accused of be
just words. In a parallel initiative is in jeopardy. This makes default or the lack of it, is the cruellest of and the anaj of uniformity. And The PIL (public interest litiga
ing behind the blasts that took place in September 2006 on the same day, he got the Guja and decits in followup a distinct these. Scarce water is also about why? Because these distract, they tion) and RTI (right to informa
at Malegaon, killing 37 people, but a later chargesheet rat Sabha, of which he was presi possibility. We need to ask and unsafe water, and it is estimated divert attention from the real life tion) methods, combining with
said the perpetrators belonged to a group of Hindu acti dent, to write to the Bombay go need to know how equipped we that 21% of communicable diseas anddeath crises. Intolerance, electoral turnarounds, can well
vists. It took nearly ten years for those initially arrested vernment to exempt in some cases are to meet our commitment to es in India are caused by poor and blowing strong since 2014, is likely make 2018 lead to 2019 becoming
to be discharged, for want of evidence. These factors and postpone in some others land the Paris Agreement. The outlook, unoverseen water supply. A sig to blow stronger in 2018. Polarisa the kind of year 1919 was — a year
cast an unfortunate shadow on the trial related to the revenue assessment due to the fai as we enter 2018, for India’s com nicant percentage of our waste tion, tried and tested in the 2014 when India, Hindu and Muslim to
lure of crops in Kheda district. mitment to the Paris treaty is water, it has been estimated, is dis election, then elded formally in gether, gave the British Raj a taste
2008 case. Allegations surfaced that the NIA prosecutor
Air, water and grains were the fraught. charged raw into rivers, lakes. Will Assembly elections in Uttar Pra of India’s Swaraj.
was under pressure to dilute the charges against Pragya triple khorak of a people in Swaraj. this new year, 2018, see someone, desh and Gujarat, is likely to be
and others. Against this backdrop, it is better that the This was the essence of his Running dry anyone, from government or our tried with greater impunity in the
evidence, whether substantive or dodgy, is assessed at a address. The scene on the second khorak, polity scream a warning about our elections due in 2018. And as for Gopalkrishna Gandhi is a former
trial, lest it be said later that there was any miscarriage On this, the rst day of 2018, if water, is even more worrisome. water peril? Most unlikely. uniformity, the India of many administrator, diplomat and Governor
of justice. Based on preliminary material, the judge has
thrown out charges under the Maharashtra Control of
Organised Crime Act. He has discharged three persons
for want of evidence, and sent two to regular courts to
be tried under the Arms Act. The rest will face trial.
The task before Cyril Ramaphosa
The new leader of the African National Congress must face up to the toll taken by the Zuma years
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This decision augurs well for the integrity of the pro
cess, as it is the best way to put at rest suspicion that of Mr. Zuma’s supporters to the moval of the country’s chief pro new leader, could nd it hard to ig
one agency tried to frame the suspects, while another ANC top executive in last month’s secutor, a Zuma appointee, hand nore both its diminishing moral
was deliberately soft. It is important that this trial, alth organisational poll may have put ing responsibility to select his authority as the champion of the
ough agonisingly delayed, is nothing but fair. paid to such hopes, even if their successor to the Deputy President. liberation movement or the politi
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populist programmes will con The verdict of the country’s cal price of defending an embat
strict Mr. Ramaphosa’s pragmatic highest court last week acquires tled Mr. Zuma. Conversely, the
For a wider pool garimella subramaniam approach on the economy before
the 2019 popular vote.
signicance against this engulng
storm of litigation. The majority
prospects of Nelson Mandela’s
protege winning the country’s pre
The burden of volunteering for clinical trials The most spectacular of Mr. Zu ruled that Parliament had failed to sidency depend on regaining the
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must not fall only on the poor and vulnerable ruling by South Africa’s ma’s controversial links involves hold Mr. Zuma to account for the trust of the black majority that has
Constitutional Court on Fri “state capture;” a cryptic descrip use of millions of rands of public grown alienated from the erst
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linical trials involving human subjects have long day, December 29, that Par tion of the strategic connections funds to upgrade his rural home in while antiapartheid movement.
been a ashpoint between bioethicists and clini liament should put in place a me between the President’s family even as it characterised the delay Nkandla, in his native province of Critical to redressing the malaise is
cal research organisations (CROs) in India. Land chanism for Jacob Zuma’s removal and the mining and media empire as tantamount to disregarding the KwaZuluNatal. The court left no a boost to school education and
mark amendments to the Drugs and Cosmetics Act in is a judicial setback for the Presi of the now notorious Gupta broth ombudsman’s constitutional du room for doubt as to what precise black empowerment programmes
2013 led to better protection of vulnerable groups such dent. The potentially premature ers. Tales of how the Guptas cor ties. The court referred the task of ly it meant by the failure of the le that cater to wider sections out
as illiterate people, but more regulation is needed to en end to his scandalplagued tenure nered lucrative state contracts and appointing the judges on that com gislature. It cited Section 89 of side the ANC’s ranks.
will also be a political blow for Cy even inuenced ministerial ap mission to the Chief Justice, citing South Africa’s Constitution, which The promise of free university
sure truly ethical research. While CROs have argued
ril Ramaphosa, the Deputy Presi pointments in their adopted home the obvious conict of interest in provides for the President’s remo education and the expropriation
that more rules will stie the industry, the truth is that dent, who was elected leader of were recently recounted before volved in the President’s bid. val for gross misconduct or viola of land without compensation —
ethical science is often better science. The big problem the African National Congress the U.K. House of Lords by veteran But even as a combative Mr. Zu tion of the Constitution, if two planks of Mr. Ramaphosa’s rivals
plaguing clinical research is an overrepresentation of (ANC) at the party’s conference antiapartheid campaigner Peter ma has brazened out mounting thirds of the National Assembly which the party adopted in De
lowincome groups among trial subjects. Sometimes last month. The business tycoon Hain. Dealings with the Guptas judicial challenges and growing backed such a move. cember — underscore the dicult
CROs recruit them selectively, exploiting nancial need and trade union leader narrowly have tarnished the reputation of a opposition to his rule, his past re tradeos the perceived market
and medical ignorance; at other times people overvo beat Nkosazana DlaminiZuma, a U.K.based public relations agen cord of excesses seems to be fast Challenges ahead friendly new leader would have to
former minister, Mr. Zuma’s ex cy, beside other global consulting, catching up with him. In October, The latest verdict is a sequel to the negotiate. Another contentious re
lunteer for the money. Such overvolunteering occurs
wife and preferred candidate, in software and nancial manage the country’s highest appeals court’s unanimous 2016 ruling, solution on the nationalisation of
more frequently in bioequivalence studies, which test the December 18 vote. As the or ment rms. court upheld a verdict reinstating when it held that Mr. Zuma’s refu South Africa’s central bank has
the metabolism of generics in healthy subjects. Because ganisation’s new leader, Mr. Rama nearly 800 charges of corruption, sal to reimburse the state, as per been received with some caution
these subjects are wellpaid, and get no therapeutic be phosa will also lead the party into Storm of litigation fraud, moneylaundering and the 2014 recommendations of the by the institution. Vibrant civic
net, their only reward from the trial is nancial. This the country’s 2019 general A scathing report in November racketeering in a multimillion dol country’s public protector, was in campaigns, a strong opposition
results in an incentive to lie about one’s medical history elections. 2016 by South Africa’s former pu lar arms deal. These cases have a consistent with the Constitution. and an independent judiciary
or enrol in multiple trials to maximise one’s income. His victory intensied specula blic protector — which the Presi long history of mysteriously being Mr. Zuma survived an opposition have been the hallmarks of demo
tion over the early exit of the be dent initially blocked — argued for reopened and set aside several triggered impeachment motion in cratic South Africa. Their further
Such deception is a risk not only to volunteer health
leaguered Mr. Zuma, who has an inquiry into Mr. Zuma’s ties times since the eve of Mr. Zuma’s Parliament within days of the judi consolidation is an imperative
but also to society, because it can throw o the trial’s been embroiled in allegations of with the Guptas. A year later, in ascent to oce in 2009. Perhaps cial rebuke, as also a string of mo more than ever.
results. In recent years, several Indian CROs were found high prole corruption that pre December, the Pretoria High Court buttressing the prospects for trials tions of nocondence in more re
by European drug regulators and the World Health Or date his presidential tenure since ordered Mr. Zuma to act on that re on this occasion, the Pretoria cent months.
ganisation to be fudging bioequivalence data. While 2009. But the election of a number commendation within a month, court in December ordered the re But the ANC, under a dynamic garimella.subramaniam@thehindu.co.in
such duplicity by a CRO is likely to be found out, volun
teer deception, which can impact data as greatly, can LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Letters emailed to letters@thehindu.co.in must carry the full postal address and the full name or the name with initials.
slip under the radar. Unsafe drugs can make their way
into the market as a result, or safe drugs can get reject Seeking opinion writers and columnists Roger, another actor in the However, I strongly for attention but do not Beyond boundaries
ed. This is why volunteer honesty is paramount. But It is not unusual for the have freedom of scene, was known to the disagree with his near normally denigrate those Cricket is a very popular
how can regulators ensure this? One potential solution judiciary, in the discharge expression, why not for Portuguese authorities and imperious appeal, in his junior to them who steal sport, especially in India.
is a national registry of trial volunteers, which will alert of its duties, to seek those who are in the know employed as an article, to older musicians the limelight. As long as a Since 2005, an
a CRO when someone signs up for two studies simulta external help and opinion of things? intermediary. Monckton to call it a day when they sabha invites an ageing international cricket event
neously. But this will need work, because volunteer pri (“Taking on the V. Lakshmanan, himself was supposed to feel they have lost their musician and there is an for the learning disabled
gatekeepers”, December Tirupur, Tamil Nadu have visited Portugal to lustre and glitter (Friday audience, however small, to known as the Inas Tri
vacy cannot be compromised. So regulators need to
29). In the Aruna Shanbaug work on the idea of Review – ‘Perspective’ – listen to him or her, why Nations Series has grown
create a system that anonymises each participant’s da case, the judiciary The port plan acquisition of the port. All “The temptation to not let should anyone retire? T.M. from strength to strength.
ta. Another option is to pay volunteers less, taking away constituted a medical team The information about these discussions were part go”, December 29, 2017). Krishna may deny that he is The most recent
the nancial incentive to fudge their participation histo to evaluate her condition acquiring Marmagoa port is of a larger plan, the Aligarh Music is not a game of not prescribing an age for tournament was organised
ry. But this measure, in isolation, would reduce trial and much emphasis was known and has been dealt plan, of dividing British cricket where statistics retirement but his tenor in July 2017 in England.
participation dramatically: an unacceptable sideeect placed on the medical with in R.J. Moore’s book, India into the three count and go against a indicates otherwise. Ever since its inception,
because clinical trials are essential to drug research. A report. In fact, the Escape From Empire, sovereign states of player once he loses his He has the right to speak only South Africa, England
examination by the medical Clarendon press (‘Sunday Hindustan, North West form, and therefore his his mind but he has no and Australia have
third, more sustainable solution is to encourage a wider
team was videographed Special’ – “Nizam made India and Bengal. place in a competitive right to hurt others who competed in this event and
crosssection of society to participate in research on hu and screened in court. vain bid to buy Marmagoa Hyderabad was to be contest. Musicians are not came before him. He is a all three countries have
man subjects. Society at large must realise the valuable When that was the case, port from Portugal”, recognised as a sovereign in competition with one brilliant musician and many support from their
service that clinical research subjects perform by mak what is the harm in December 31). In April 1947, state, with the Carnatic another. There is space for like me will travel anywhere mainstream federations.
ing drugs safe for the rest of us. It is imperative that this soliciting opinions from Walter Monckton, Adviser seaboard restored to it. everybody. Do we ever look to listen to him. I am sad With the next event in 2019,
burden not fall completely on the vulnerable groups. people who may have to the then Nizam of H.N. Ramakrishna, upon Sanjay that he has lost track, one hopes that India takes
Instead, the educated and auent, who have greater better knowledge of a Hyderabad, was in touch Bengaluru Subrahmanyan and T.M. something that distorts his part in the event and adds
sensitive subject? Pliability with Lord Templewood Krishna as being locked in a image as a singer par impetus to the cricketing
access to the drugs that emerge from clinical research,
is essential when there is a about the acquisition of Let them sing competition? They coexist excellence. I hate to say this movement. It needs to
must grasp the criticality of this research and pull their lurking doubt. Seen from port facilities at Marmagao, I have the greatest much to the delight of but populism is eating into grow.
weight. Selectiveness in recruiting subjects for clinical this angle, referring the lm in then Portuguese Goa. A admiration for the quality thousands of rasikas like his golden voice. Winston Stubbs,
trials leads not only to human rights violations but also Padmavati to the “royal rail link was to be built by of T.M. Krishna’s music and me who enjoy listening to R.K. Raghavan, Cape Town, South Africa
to bad science. Civil society’s vigilance is vital. family” and historians the Hyderabad state. his powerful articulation both. High Commissioner TO Cyprus, more letters online:
seems eminently correct. If Businessman Alexander whenever he writes. Senior vidwans may crave Nicosia, Cyprus www.hindu.com/opinion/letters/
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Do literary allusions hurt?
With phase one of negotiations over, the most crucial questions of Brexit will have to be addressed in 2018
year when the most crucial ques
In headline writing, there is a ne line to be kept in mind
tions will nally have to be ad (A Burntout Case), George Orwell (Nineteen
dressed, away from rhetoric and bra EightyFour) and William Golding (The In
vado. What does “taking back heritors). It also inspired the Francis Ford
control” mean, particularly when Coppola 1979 lm, Apocalypse Now, a work
one option would leave Britain eec of homage that continues to renew the con
vidya ram
tively following European rules with temporary fascination with the text.” My per
out having a say? Other critics have A.S. Panneerselvan sonal anity to Salman Rushdie’s autobiog
If 2016 was the year of hubris for pointed to the timidity with which raphy, Joseph Anton, also raises a ag of
Brexiteers, and despair and anger for Britain has broached controversial caution. Joseph Anton was a departure from
those who voted to remain, 2017 was governments — from the U.S. under The last missive of 2017 raised a politically regular autobiographies in many ways. It is
a year of reality checks. In the past Donald Trump to Saudi Arabia — ar sensitive question. A reader, who wants to not in rst person singular, but in third per
year, it became clear that many of guing that in its eagerness to esta remain anonymous, was distraught over the son. It tells the story of a man who had to as
the lavish promises of the Leave blish postBrexit trade deals, it is will Weekend Sport’s page lead headline: “Into sume a name coined from the rst names of
camp could never be fullled, such ing to put fundamental values on the Heart of Darkness” (December 30, 2017). two of the greatest writers — Joseph Conrad
as the suggestion that healthcare hold, and forgo the global leadership He felt that the headline carried the baton of and Anton Chekov — during his incognito
funding would rise dramatically (one role it had once touted. colonialism and looked at Africa as a “dark days following the fatwa. He could see them
of the now infamous pledges of the Britain in 2018 will also have to ad continent”. Was the headline pejorative in its as his godfathers and his motto during those
Leave campaign was that £350 mil dress one of the most contentious is content, context and implication? Did it dicult years was given to him by Conrad: “I
lion a week would go towards the Na sues: immigration from within and smack of the arrogance of the “civilising mis must live until I die, mustn’t I?”
tional Health Service instead of the outside the EU. Ending free move sion” of the European colonialists and impe Ever since the publication of Edward
European Union). Initial hopes that ment is one of the issues on which rialists? Said’s inuential work, Orientalism in 1978,
Brexit could be thwarted, or funda the government has been most stub scholars identifying dominant prejudices in
mentally altered, after the govern born, arguing that it was one of the Literary treatment major Western literary works have been
ment was required to gain approval main takeaways of the referendum. I would endorsed the reader’s view had the growing. However, it was Said himself who
Stumbling blocks: “A level of caution has begun to imbue the negotiations at
from Parliament following a legal a formal level.” ProEU supporters raising ags in London. GETTY IMAGES *
But its stance has sparked fear in ma sports desk used “dark continent’. However, provided a certain amount of elasticity to
challenge in the Supreme Court have ny industries — from the creative to my dilemma arose from the fact that the hea criticism in his later work, Culture and Impe
dwindled somewhat. The govern toms union, and not having any ma Justice and European regulations. agriculture, from banking to con dline was inspired by Joseph Conrad’s clas rialism, when he wrote: “No one today is
ment was able to plough ahead with jor legislative dierences across the These regulations include laws struction. There are also concerns sic, Heart of Darkness. The desk took care to purely one thing. Labels like Indian, or wo
pursuing its vision of a postBrexit U.K. The contentions of Brexiteers brought in after Britain left the un for the National Health Service — Bri capitalise ‘H’ and ‘D’ in the headline, moving man, or Muslim, or American are not more
Britain — out of the single market and that the warning of the scale of this ion. In addition, Europe’s chief nego tain has seen an exodus of European away from the general rule of avoiding capi than startingpoints, which if followed into
out of the customs union — despite problem was mere scaremongering tiator Michel Barnier ruled out ear nurses and midwives since the Brexit tal letters in running text. I am acutely aware actual experience for only a moment are
strong and spirited opposition in Par also proved inaccurate. In their state lier this month something that many vote. Finding a solution that satises of the stringent criticism of quickly left behind… No one
liament and beyond. To date, both ment setting out the agreement in had been holding out for: special both industries as well as the “hard” Chinua Achebe against the can deny the persisting con
the Conservatives and Labour re the rst phase, European leaders terms for Britain’s nancial services wing of the Leave camp will prove a novel and the novelist. tinuities of long traditions,
main committed to delivering Brexit, warned that though progress had sector, including socalled passport major challenge for the government. In his essay, “An Image of sustained habitations, na
in one form or another. been made on this issue, much re ing rights that would have given Bri Africa: Racism in Conrad’s tional languages, and cultu
mained unresolved. The extent of tain the ability to continue business Context of CHOGM Heart of Darkness”, Achebe ral geographies, but there
The end of a crucial phase the power wielded by the Democrat unhindered within the union. The Commonwealth Heads of Go wrote: “Joseph Conrad was seems no reason except fear
It would be hard to say who came out ic Unionist Party of Northern Ire All in all, the negotiations are a far vernment Meeting (CHOGM), which a thoroughgoing racist. That and prejudice to keep insist
on top of the debate by the end of the land, which is propping up the The cry from what one Cabinet Minister is scheduled to take place in London this simple truth is glossed ing on their separation and
year: the Brexiteers or their critics. resa May government, became clear described this summer as the “ea in April, and which will bring togeth over in criticisms of his work distinctiveness, as if that
The government made much of the after it initially torpedoed an agree siest in history”. While Brexiteers er leaders from across the world, in is due to the fact that white was all human life was
fact that it technically made it ment on the Irish issue, over plans continue to maintain their optimistic cluding Prime Minister Narendra Mo racism against Africa is such about.” The search for iden
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through the rst phase of Brexit ne for dierent rules for Northern Ire stance, a certain level of caution has di, will also force Britain to further a normal way of thinking tities in literature without
gotiations, on Britain’s exit terms, be land and the British mainland. It has begun to imbue the negotiations at a confront reality and spell out what it that its manifestations go harming its creative wellspr
fore the year ended. Europe had all insisted on constitutional, legislative formal level. According to the agree really wants from Brexit. It has posit completely unremarked. ings is a dicult task.
along said that talks on the future and regulatory uniformity across the ment with the European Commis ed the Commonwealth as one of the Students of Heart of Dark This raises a very perti
trade relationship could not begin U.K. sion, if a nal deal with the EU is not routes for its future trading ambi ness will often tell you that nent journalistic question:
until this crucial phase was over. Ho Until recently, leading members of reached, Britain will maintain “full tions. But without concessions on Conrad is concerned not so much with Afri in headlines, where do the literary allusions
wever, it is far from a comfortable the Leave movement within the go alignment” with the rules of the Eu immigration — in particular, the ca as with the deterioration of one European end and where does the humiliating refe
victory for Britain. Promises were vernment had been insisting that ropean internal market and customs movement of professionals, especial mind caused by solitude and sickness. They rence to identity begin? There are no easy
made with ease, only to be unful Brexit in its key aspects — including union. This would prevent a hard ly in the IT sector — it’s hard to see will point out to you that Conrad is, if anyth answers. Any cutanddry prescription may
lled. Foreign Secretary Boris John the end of the freedom of move border in Northern Ireland, poten how such a plan can counterbalance ing, less charitable to the Europeans in the end up like a memo from a cultural commis
son’s contention that Europe could ment, despised by many in that tially leaving the door open for eec the inevitable losses to trade that will story than he is to the natives, that the point sar. But, a laissezfaire attitude to a headline
“go whistle” when it came to the “di camp — would end in March 2019, tively remaining in the customs un follow Brexit. Prime Minister May’s of the story is to ridicule Europe’s civilizing may damage reputation, credibility and
vorce bill” proved to be the bravado two years after Britain triggered Arti ion and single market. The visit to India in 2016 highlighted the mission in Africa.” trust. It is for the desk to realise the ne line
that most had suspected it was: Bri cle 50. However, British industry commitment has raised the hackles diculties of its approach, but it was However, many including The Guardian, that separates sensitive words from hurting
tain will pay €4060 billion to leave cannot manage without a transition of many in the Leave camp, who possible for Britain to brush aside the rate Heart of Darkness as one among the 100 words, and literary allusions from a literal
the EU. period, and Europe is insistent that a have warned that such a move could issue to a certain extent. With Brexit
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best novels written in English. Robert undermining of individual or collective iden
Then there was the “Irish pro transition phase can only exist if Bri eectively make Britain a ruletaker. looming less than a year after the McCrum, who introduced the list of 100 tity. The problem with a novel such as Heart
blem” — how to resolve having no tain continues to meet its EU mem CHOGM meeting, this will be much greatest novels written in English, wrote: of Darkness is that it lies at the cusp of both,
hard border between the European bership obligations, including A crucial year ahead harder this time round. “The English and American writers who fell where polemical debates refuse to die down.
nation of Ireland and Britain’s North around freedom of movement and While Britain has progressed along under its [Heart of Darkness] spell include
ern Ireland while still leaving the cus the remit of the European Court of the path to Brexit, 2018 will be the vidya.ram@thehindu.co.in T.S. Eliot (The Waste Land), Graham Greene readerseditor@thehindu.co.in
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a dilemma in 1961: whether or not to use Lohianagar (Gaya)] discussed at the delegates session of the
force to liberate Goa. It was an agonising party’s National Conference.
decision for a person who adopted the
Gandhian approach in international af A HUNDRED YEARS AGO DECEMBER 31, 1917
fairs. Address at Industrial Conference.
After Britain and France left India, it was expected that
In his Presidential Address before the Indian Industrial Confe
Portugal would leave too. But Portugal refused. Emphasis
rence today [in Calcutta on December 30], Mr. V.P. Madhava
ing that it had been in Goa for centuries, Portugal said that
Rao, C.I.E. urged the pressing necessity for Government ac
the Goan Catholics would not be safe if it left. Portugal con
tion to exploit the economic resources and organise the indus
veniently overlooked the fact over 60% of Goans were Hin
trial forces of India in view of the situation arising out of the
dus, and many Goan Christians, like the editor Frank Mo
war and summarised the relative duties of the Government
raes, had a place of honour in Indian public life. Compared
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duties of the Government were to make a thorough industrial
Catholics living peacefully in secular India. Geography, lan CONCEPTUAL SHELF HELP and geological survey of the whole country, to aord nancial
guage and nationality bound the people of India with the pe
and technical aid to check foreign competition, to encourage
ople of Goa. It was natural that Goa, which had seen a long Sarick eect Ruskin Bond projects the opening of banks, to start model pioneer factories, to pur
indigenous freedom movement, should be a part of India. Psychology chase all Government requirements in India and to establish
In the rest of India, people began demanding that Goa be
This refers to a form of per Mussoorie’s most famous resident keeps the presses busy museum and travelling libraries and hold exhibitions.
liberated forcibly. In 1955, a satyagraha was launched by the
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When the satyagrahis entered Goa, the Portuguese opened who wishes to convince a Mini Kapoor li’. These stories, he says the Himalayas last year,
hostile audience about an in the introduction, were along with Namita Gok DATA POINT
re, killing 20 Indians. Nehru imposed an economic block
ade, but was not prepared to go further. He hoped that the issue can do so eectively It is a project somebody written when he was in his hale, called Himalaya: Ad
popular movement in Goa and the pressure of world public by rst arguing against his has to take up: to map twenties, calling the 1950s ventures, Meditations,
opinion would force the hands of the Goan authorities. own idea. This nds men how Ruskin Bond nalises his “romantic” period “as Life. It has wideranging
It was in 1957, in a letter to Vinoba Bhave, that Nehru rst tion in the book “Origi the anthologies of his pre far as stories went”. The contributions, but it is his
hinted at the possibility of military action. The Goan ques nals” authored by Ameri viously published writ Deoli he wrote about, he own, ‘A Night in a Garhwal
tion came alive when Portugal paid no heed to a UN resolu can psychologist Adam ings, how his stories nd says, was just a place in his Village’, that is the most ri
tion of December 1960 asking it to indicate when it would Grant, and is attributed to themselves in volume af mind, but he later went on veting. It is a nudge, if any
grant independence to its colonies in Asia and Africa. In De social scientist Leslie Sar ter volume in dierent to discover that “there is needed, to go back to
cember 1961, Portuguese soldiers in Goa red at villagers. ick. Arguing rst against combinations, often along were at least ve Deolis in my favourite Bond book,
Finding that his policy of patience and adherence to inter one’s own idea, Grant with newly published India — one in Rajasthan, Rain in the Mountains.
national ethics had not yielded results, Nehru decided to says, disarms the audience work or forewords. A one in Maharashtra, one
free Goa by force. Though advised by American President and makes the speaker more dicult task per in Orissa, and two in Mad Landmark year
John F. Kennedy, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan look more credible in their haps would be guring out hya Pradesh!” It perhaps But 2017 was a landmark
and UN SecretaryGeneral U Thant to postpone action, Neh eyes. It also prevents the how it is that in each die needs an enterprising soul year for the writer.
ru made up his mind. On December 18, after a longdrawn audience from seeing the rent combination, the to draw up the Deoli liter Though he has written
ght against Indian troops, the Portuguese gave up resis speaker as a motivated sa reader has the sense of ary tour. He explains here, about his personal life sto
tance. The Governor General of Goa, Vassalo e Silva, signed lesman with biased views, coming to his work afresh, as he has done previously ry in many places, there is
a document of unconditional surrender. and discourages them even with the suspicion too on many occasions, scatteredness (in the best
The Western media assailed the action as a display of “In from trying to think of ad that in the new combina that he has found his best sense of the term) to it. In
dian hypocrisy”, which represented a breach of internation ditional negatives about tion the story has some material in small towns: the year just past he nally
al law by a nation that professed nonviolence. Though the the speaker’s idea. how changed. “Although I spent three gave a more cohesive ac
liberation of Goa by force raised the prestige of the govern Mussoorie’s most fa years in London, and ve count, Lone Fox Dancing:
ment in India, it adversely aected Nehru’s international im mous resident certainly in New Delhi, those great My Autobiography. It cov
age, but only briey. Kennedy told B.K. Nehru, India’s am kept the presses buzzing cities never gave me much ers his early life and the
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fore. But Kennedy came to India’s rescue in India’s 1962 con
ict with China.
THE WEB 3 lected Fiction, for in
stance, he included two of
his most popular stories,
small places. Sometimes
you can’t help knowing
them.”
hills. If there’s one book
from 2017 that you must
catch up on in the early
2017: The year in review
Praveen Davar is a former Army ocer, former member of the National ‘The Night Train at Deoli’ Bond also coedited a days of 2018, let this be the
Commission for Minorities, and a political analyst http://bit.ly/2DEAFny and ‘Time Stops at Sham collection of writings on one.
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Women can perform ing the Baloch rebels on both
sides of the PakistanIran
border. Mr. Kutty’s arrest
immediately after the recov
ery of weapons. What might
have prompted Pakistani in
Zulkar Ali Bhutto.
On February 17, a week af
ter the weapons were disco
him in the case, but suspi
cion of his involvement in
the case continued. What
here?”
The question revealed
that the President had been
arrest of Bizenjo. The bitter
ness of that phase did not de
ter Mr. Kutty as he continues
Haj alone, says PM was the rst step as Pakistan
tried to connect the dots of
telligence agencies was his
pronounced links with the
vered, Mr. Kutty was arrest
ed from the Islamabad
probably saved him was that
unlike in the case of Mr. Jad
briefed on the unusual set of
factors in Mr. Kutty’s life that
to visit Kerala and stay in
touch with his family there.
this complex international international Communist airport even as Bizenjo hav, his arrest in 1973 drew connected him to India and In 2016, he visited Kerala to
“Today, Muslim women can Mr. Modi said that on Ja case. network which had a strong looked on helplessly. By no reaction from India at all. the Soviet Union and recover from a debilitating
perform Haj without Meh- nuary 26, leaders of all 10 He had an unusual identi base in Kerala. Mr. Kutty, as a then, the Bizenjo govern He was released on April 25, brought him to one of the stroke with the help of ayur
ram or male guardian, and I ASEAN countries would vi ty for a Pakistani which at cardcarrying Communist in ment had been dismissed by 1973. most important Baloch lead vedic treatment.
am happy to note that this sit India as chief guests for
time about 1,300 women Republic Day.
Terrorists don’t fear India: Cong. Yasin Malik takes
have applied for Haj without “Twentysixth January,
Mehram and women from 2018, will especially be re
dierent parts of the coun membered through the ag
try, from Kerala to North In
dia, have expressed their
wish to go on Haj
es. The Republic Day will be
celebrated with leaders of
all 10 ASEAN countries com Says Pulwama incident is not a standalone case, as incursions have been rising
up prisoners’ cause
pilgrimage. ing to India as chief guests,”
“I have suggested to the he said. Special Correspondent Writes an open letter to Sushma
Ministry of Minority Aairs The Prime Minister said New Delhi
that it should ensure all wo the largest Cleanliness Sur India is no longer feared by Special Correspondent authorities “to pay heed to
men who have applied to vey in the world would be the antinational elements Srinagar the Koran and the prophet’s
travel alone should be al conducted from January 4 and terrorists, the Congress Yasin Malik, chief of the Jam sayings on prisoners’ rights,
lowed to perform Haj. There to March 10 so as to evaluate said on Sunday, launching a mu Kashmir Liberation welfare of their families and
is a lottery system for selec the achievements of Swachh scathing attack on the Na Front, on Sunday wrote an a fair trial”.
tion of Haj pilgrims, but I Bharat Mission in urban rendra Modi government fol open letter to External Af He asked Ms. Swaraj to
would like that single wo areas. lowing a terror attack on a fairs Minister Sushma Swa “uphold same principles for
men pilgrims be excluded This survey will cover a CRPF camp in Pulwama in raj to highlight the condi prisoners here”. “The kids
from the system and given a population of more than 40 Kashmir. tions of Kashmiri prisoners. and the wives of jailed Kash
chance as a special catego crore in over 4,000 cities, “Such recurring attacks Referring to an “emotion miris are being humiliated,”
ry,” he added. Mr. Modi added. send a message that the anti al” speech Ms. Swaraj made said Mr. Malik referring to
national forces do not fear in Parliament on December the recent attempts to meet
India,” Sushmita Dev, Con 25, Mr. Malik said, “In the Shabir Shah, Ayaz Akbar, Al
Finance Ministry
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Maoist incidents fewer in Did NSAs
meet in LeftBJP slugfest in Tripura buildup
2017, govt. data show Bangkok? CPI(M) and Assam Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma ght it out on Twitter
Special Correspondent Special Correspondent In a prompt reply, the been at the helm for 20
Decline due to attrition of cadres or strategy to lie low NEW DELHI New Delhi Communist Party of India years. More such statements
India maintained silence The war of words between (Marxist) ocial handle are in the ong.
Vijaita Singh on Sunday on reports sug the Bharatiya Janata Party @cpimspeak tweeted a re The Left government has
New Delhi gesting that National Secur (BJP) and the Left parties has buke comparing the crime 50 of the 60 seats in the As
For the rst time in more ity Adviser Ajit Doval met intensied ahead of the Trip gures for Tripura and sembly. It is facing a chal
than a decade, in 2017 the in his Pakistani counterpart, ura Assembly polls sche Assam. lenge in the tribal belt which
cidents in leftwing extre Lt. Gen. Nasir Khan Janjua, duled for February. BJP lead the BJP has been desperately
mism (LWE) aected States in Bangkok on December er and Assam Minister On crime records trying to enter.
remained below the 1,000 26, a day after the high dra Himanta Biswa Sarma and “Have some shame Himanta
mark. ma over the “illtreatment” the Left had a verbal duel on Biswa Sarma! According to Targeting the tribals
A senior ocial of the Un of the mother and the wife Twitter after he threatened NCRB [National Crime Re Mr. Sarkar and the Left ac
ion Home Ministry attribut of the death row prisoner to send Chief Minister Manik cord Bureau] Assam has cused the saron party of re
ed the decline to “attrition of Kulbhushan Jadhav in Isla Sarkar to Bangladesh. Himanta Biswa Sarma amongst the highest crime peatedly instigating extreme
various level cadres of mabad. Criticising the law and or rate against women in the elements among the tribal
Maoists” and the other to Diplomatic sources have der in the State at a rally in ment condemning Mr. Sar country. Tripura is nowhere population to side with
the possibility of Maoists vels. They are not getting tisgarh. BSF established a indicated to The Hindu Mr. Sarkar’s constituency, ma for what it called “auth near Assam’s shameful re them.
“deliberately lying low.” even 50% of the recruits camp at Kartanpalli in Mal that the meeting took place Dhanpur, on Saturday, the oritarian and cord of crimes against wo “The problem is that the
According to Home Minis they got earlier. The other kangiri in Odisha and at in Bangkok, similar to pre Assam Minister said Mr. Sar undemocractic” speech. men like rapes and rapes on youth among the tribals do
try data, 851 incidents were reason could be strategic: to CharreMarre, Kanhargaon vious such interactions. kar should be shipped o to Reacting to it, Mr. Sarma minors. People of Tripura not share the same anity
reported till December 15 in lie low.” and Jaal Top in Kanker dis A Pakistani newspaper, Bangladesh after the As said, “Condemn me later, will remember this insult to with the Left as their parents
2017, compared to 1016 inci Mr. Kumar added that sev trict of Chattisgarh. The Tribune, reported that sembly elections were over. rst punish the culprits who the State and its CM!” would. We are aware of the
dents during the corres eral instances of top Maoist A senior Home Ministry following his return, Lt. The remarks triggered an raped and murdered four in The BJP, according to its disconnect and are working
ponding period last year. leadership siphoning away ocial said the top Maoist Gen. Janjua briefed former argument. nocent girls aged between 14 senior functionaries, has de for better communication
The total number of inci with money and running ex leadership was ageing and Pakistan Prime Minister The Tripura Left Front and 16 in the last two months cided to direct its attack on with them,” said a highrank
dents in 2016 was 1048. tortion rackets has also attri many suered from ail Nawaz Sharif in a vehour committee issued a state in Tripura.” the Chief Minister who has ing Left leader.
The violent incidents in buted to their decline. ments. meeting. The report sug
the 10 LWEaected States “Nothing happened in a The recruitments were al gested that both sides dis
have always been above the
1,000 mark, with 2,258 the
maximum number of inci
year’s time. In 2004 when
all Maoist organisations
merged, for two years they
so at an alltime low as secur
ity forces had penetrated
many territories in the past
cussed several issues in
cluding neighbourhood
aairs and ring along the
O. P. Singh is new DGP
dents reported in 2009. The
most incidents were report
planned many attacks. By
2010, maximum attrition
decade.
The earlier reports of
Line of Control.
An Indian daily reported of Uttar Pradesh
ed from Chhattisgarh (353) took place and from there Muppala Lakshman Rao that Mr. Doval raised the is
and Jharkhand (240). on there has been a steady alias Ganapathi, the elusive sues of crossborder inl Press Trust of India Pradesh is an alumnus of St.
decline,” said Mr. Kumar. head of the banned CPI tration and ceasere Lucknow Xavier’s College, National
‘Not attracting recruits’ The Border Security (Maoist) making way for his violations. Om Prakash Singh will be Defence College and Delhi
K. Vijay Kumar, Senior Se Force (BSF) deployed for an secondincommand and The Hindu has learnt the new Director General of University and holds a mas
curity Adviser, MHA said, tiMaoist operations apart chief of the Central Military that the two NSAs have Police of Uttar Pradesh. He ter’s degree in political
“First of all, youths are no from the Central Reserve Commission (CMC) Nambala been maintaining regular will succeed incumbent science, an MBA in disaster
more enamoured to join the Police Force (CRPF) esta Keshav Rao alias Basavraj contact since they rst met Sulkhan Singh, whose te management and an M.Phil
Maoists which has led to the blished base at four new lo were not found to be to defuse tension in De nure ended on Sunday. degree from Madras
attrition in cadres at all le cations in Odisha and Chat correct. cember 2015. The new DGP of Uttar University.
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‘We can count on India for support to twostate solution’
Jordanian Foreign Minister says the UN General Assembly vote was rearmation that India stands by the principles it has held through all these years of conict
Suhasini Haidar the conict on the basis of a the UN General Assembly its ghters from these very public discourse of hate In terms of IndiaPakistan
The Jordanian Minister of Foreign Aairs, Ayman Safadi, twostate solution that would [on Jerusalem] was a rear groups. Do you think, with speech. We cannot have dou relations, Jordan has good re
was in Delhi for bilateral talks ahead of a planned visit by Jor allow an independent sove mation that India stands by hindsight, it was a mistake ble standards. We all must lations with both countries,
danian King Abdullah II, his rst since 2006. Mr. Safadi says reign Palestinian state with the principles it has held to arm and train them? ght a narrative that seeks to and what we would like to
India can play an important role in the West Asian (Israel Occupied [East] Jerusalem as through all these years of create divide on race, reli see is the two countries be
Palestine) peace process. its capital, on the lines of the conict. We value India’s ■ None of the Daesh ghters gion and gender. ing able to resolve their die
1967 situation, and that role. was trained in Jordan. Yes, rences and build a peace that
There is a sense that the looking forward to his visit in would allow a peaceful Israel It is not for us to judge its Jordanian ghters did join Does that extend to where Indian people and Pakistani
IndiaJordanian ties have early 2018, as soon as possi as well. We want every coun foreign policy, and India is a Daesh, but that is a pheno India sees its threat, i.e. on people deserve.
not kept their promise from ble, and we hope to create try to support this. India has great and sovereign country, menon across the world, and terror groups based in
a decade ago. Would you momentum to put us on a always had a very clear posi which will make decisions in especially the Arab and Mus Pakistan? In striking a Two years ago, India
agree? fast track of ties. tion in favour of a just, last the interests of its people. lim world. balance in the region, would objected to the U.S. decision
ing peace, and we encourage But we know we can count Ultimately, Daesh was you in Jordan have to sell F16s to Pakistan,
■ The potential is enormous, You spoke of opportunities, India to be more engaged on India’s support for peace able to exploit the suering diculties bettering ties citing its support to terror
and we have not lived up to but equally Jordan is in a and would like to see more of and the twostate solution, of the Syrian people and ex with India given close ties groups that target India.
it. Yes, trade is more than $2 region in turmoil. Jordan an Indian role [in the peace <
> sovereign
India is a great and
country, which is the only path to ploit their pain to further its with Pakistan? Subsequently, Pakistan
billion, but most of that itself houses millions of process]. which will make peace. own agenda of hate. It has sought secondhand F16s
comes from trade in a few refugees from Palestine and been seven years now, and ■ When it comes to terror, from Jordan. Has India
decisions in the
items like potash and phos Syria. How will this change During Prime Minister At the beginning of the all of the need to pause and we are unequivocal, and we raised this with you?
interests of its
phate and we would like to in 2018? Narendra Modi’s Israel visit, Syrian crisis, Jordan was ask whether we dealt with have rejected terror in all its
diversify. Jordan could be a the government said it was people among the countries that the crisis in the right man forms. Jordan has also been ■ I am not aware of this, and
market and would welcome ■ For us, the core issue re dehyphenating its relations provided shelter, and even ner. consistent in calling for all I have no comment on the is
investment from Indian com mains the PalestinianIsraeli with Palestine and Israel. Do ■ India has always stood on training and funding to the Ignorance is Daesh’s best states to resolve their die sue. We have good ties with
panies, including in ICT, in conict and there cannot be you think it can still play the the side of justice, and that ‘moderate opposition’ to the ally, and that is why we need rences and stand up to terro both countries [India and Pa
frastructure and energy. His peace and stability in the re role you mentioned, in the has always helped us in the Assad regime. Over time, the to provide better education, rism, which is the enemy of kistan] and we would like to
Majesty [King Abdullah II] is gion without a resolution to peace process? peace process. The vote at Islamic State [Daesh] drew to cleanse our textbooks and us all. build on those ties.
IN BRIEF
Vacancies, MoP uncertainty stare at SC Police have
no clue on
Seven judges due to retire in 2018, adding to the six vacancies; little progress in nalising the procedure on appointments tracking
Krishnadas Rajagopal
NEW DELHI
Bill unanimously to form it.
Shortly after striking
<
> The Government
of India has
vacancies are imminent. Of
the seven retiring judges,
Court and for appointment
of Chief Justices in the nine
Special Correspondent
Chandigarh
With six vacant posts alrea down the panel, which gave conveyed the need four are part of the Collegi High Courts which are func Even as the Central Bureau
Rajnath leaves for China dy, the Supreme Court the political class an equal to make um, meaning the body will tioning with acting Chief of Investigation has regis
border in Uttarakhand seems to be staring at a crisis say in judicial appointments, see a drastic, if not complete, Justices”. tered an FIR against three
NEW DELHI
improvements on
as seven more judges will re the Constitution Bench the draft MoP overhaul in 2018. travel agents for the alleged
Union Home Minister Rajnath
tire in 2018. asked the government to Chief Justice of India Di Appointments made tracking of 25 minors
Singh on Sunday left for a
The vacancies remain un take the initiative to draft the Collegium should revisit its pak Misra and Justices J. Che During 2016, four judges from Punjab to France us
twoday visit to Dehradun to
celebrate the New Year with
lled, but there seems to be MoP. selection of persons for judi lameswar, Madan B. Lokur were appointed in the Su ing forged documents, the
ITBP personnel on the India no end to the prolonged sta This separate judgment cial appointments in light of and Kurian Joseph — all part preme Court and 14 Chief State police have no clue
China border in the Nelong lemate between the Su came in December 2015 after its judgment holding Justice of the vemember Collegi Justices in the High Courts, about the case.
Valley in Uttarakhand. The preme Court Collegium and the court had taken public C.S. Karnan, a Calcutta High um — are due to retire in Mr. Chaudhary replied to a The police said on Sun
Home Minister will visit the the government over nalis opinion and agreed that the P.P. Chaudhary Court judge, guilty of con 2018. Justice Ranjan Gogoi, question in Parliament. day that they had come to
border outpost, an official ing a Memorandum of Proce Collegium system needed tempt of court. the current Judge Three, is in Besides, 126 fresh ap know about the case
said. The Minister will be with dure (MoP) to appoint judges improvement. The government high “The Government of India line to be Chief Justice in Oc pointments of judges were through the media and a
the Himveers on January 1 to the apex court and the lighted the need for transpa has conveyed the need to tober 2018. made in the High Courts, preliminary inquiry by
and it is the first visit of a High Courts. Points of dierence rency, a separate secretariat, make improvements on the Justices Amitava Roy, R.K. which is the highest in a ca them indicated that no
Union Home Minister to No thaw is in sight on the Union Minister of State for eligibility criteria and me draft MoP to the Supreme Agrawal and A.K. Goel are lendar year. During 2017, as such incident had been re
forward locations in Nelong, MoP ever since the National Law and Justice P.P. Chaud chanism to deal with com Court,” Mr. Chaudhary re the others retiring in 2018. on December 19, ve judges ported in their region.
with temperatures as low as Judicial Appointments Com hary recently apprised Par plaints on August 3. The Col plied to a question in in the Supreme Court, eight “We don’t have any in
15° Celsius. IANS mission was declared uncon liament of the trajectory of legium sent its nalised Parliament. HCs in need Chief Justices of the High formation regarding stu
stitutional by a Constitution the toandfro between the proposal on the draft on As the dierences over the Besides, nine High Courts Courts and 115 fresh judges dents going missing. We
No free PIO card Bench of the Supreme Court Law Ministry and the Collegi March 13, 2017, rejecting the MoP continues, there seems are functioning with Acting in the High Courts have been even inquired about it, but
conversion from today
in October 2015. um over the MoP. The rst idea of a government veto on to be no move to ll the six Chief Justices. The govern appointed, he said. as of now, nothing has
NEW DELHI #4 1 3 9 7 5
The panel was a brain draft of the MoP was sent to names recommended by the vacancies in the Supreme ment informed Parliament There are 395 vacancies come to the fore. We have
People of Indian Origin (PIOs)
will have to pay a fee in 2018
child of the National Demo the court on March 22, 2016. Collegium on grounds of na Court, which has 25 judges that it had “not received any across 24 High Courts and neither received complaint
if they wish to convert their cratic Alliance government, It replied on May 25 and July tional security. against the full strength of 31. proposal for lling six vacan 5,984 judicial vacancies in from any school nor from
identity cards to Overseas and Parliament had passed a 1 that year. Mr. Chaudhary said the However, seven more crucial cies of judges in the Supreme the subordinate judiciary. parents regarding this,”
Citizen of India (OCI) cards as Jagjit Singh, Superinten
the government has stopped dent of Police (Investiga
More channels to train teachers Key Bardhaman blast
the scheme of free conversion tion), Kapurthala, told The
effective from Monday, a Hindu.
Home Ministry official said. A Mr. Singh said the police
decision has been taken to
not to give any more case suspect held were waiting for intimation
from the CBI. “Till now, the
extension. PTI 13.6 lakh of them set 2019 deadline to get qualied under the RTE amendment CBI has not contacted us. If
Haroon Habib blasts in 2005. The 35year they do get in touch, we
Pak. violates ceasefire, Vikas Pathak mil and Telugu, one in Ben DHAKA old militant leader is a Shura will oer all support,” he
jawan killed NEW DELHI gali and Assamese, and one The Bangladesh police on (supreme council) member said.
JAMMU
With 13.6lakh untrained in Odiya and other regional Sunday claimed to have ar of the militant outt and the Mr. Singh did not rule
Pakistani troops again
teachers registering with the languages,” said an ocial rested the top militant lead Southern Region chief of out the apprehension that
violated the ceasefire along
National Institute of Open who did not wish to be er Abu Syeed, alias Talha, “Neo JMB”, said Bogra supe the school addresses that
the Line of Control in Rajouri
and Poonch district of Jammu
Schooling to get trained by named. “This apart, an en who is one of the main ac rintendent of police Md. had appeared during the
and Kashmir on Sunday, 2019 to retain their jobs, the coder will be used to allow cused in the 2014 Bardha Asaduzzaman CBI investigation could be
killing a jawan. A senior police Union government has TV audience to interact di man blast of West Bengal. Talha was held in Amar fake.
official said Jagsir Singh, chalked out a programme to rectly with subject experts Talha, who was arrested purhat on the BograNatore He, however, said “it’s a
posted in a forward area in roll out televised lectures in sitting in the studio and ask in Nandigram of northern highway while he was on his matter of investigation and
the Noushera sector of regional languages and ena questions.” Bogra on Friday, is also a way from Bogra to Rajshahi a further probe by CBI
Rajouri, was killed when he ble them to interact with ex The encoder, the ocial death row convict for the on a motorbike, said the dis would only unravel the oc
was hit by a bullet. PTI perts in the studios during said, is a device that permits countrywide serial bomb trict police chief. currence of case.”
the lecture. Quality emphasis: A degree or diploma in elementary live video interaction with a
Northeast to get The decision was taken at education is mandatory for teachers now. FILE PHOTO *
large section of the audience
air dispensaries a review of the programme at the same time, and has
NEW DELHI
held by Union Human Re to Free and Compulsory glish and Hindi — of the 32 been given to the NIOS by
The Union government’s plan source Development Minis Education (Amendment) channels for telecasting edu ISRO.
to launch air dispensary
ter Prakash Javadekar. Act, 2017, mandates teachers cational programmes — dedi The IITBombay, which is
services — helicopters with
Since many schools had to acquire B.El. Ed (Bachelor cated to teacher training, as oering lectures to students
equipment and doctors — for
come up after the launch of of Elementary Education) or part of its Swayam Prabha of 345 engineering colleges
medical emergencies in
remote and hilly areas of the
the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan D. El. Ed. (Diploma in Ele initiative. across India, has oered to
Northeast region may be a and the RTE Act, many mentary Education) quali provide time slots to the
reality soon. teachers without training cations by May 31, 2019, to More languages NIOS to broadcast its lec
Sources said the government had been hired. Some had retain their jobs. The NIOS, “From the one DTH channel tures live, the source said.
has agreed to allocate 80 studied just till school. They an autonomous organisation available for viewing lec “We are also planning to
100 crore for the proposed were given ve years to get under the Ministry, is tasked tures in Hindi and English, have a tollfree number oper
launch of two air dispensaries trained, but many have not with training these teachers. there will soon be three ational for 16 hours a day to
operating from Shillong and acquired the training till Till now, the government more channels dedicated to answer the questions,” said
Imphal. IANS now. The Right of Children had one DTH channel in En teacher training: one in Ta an ocial.
Utkal Express accident
report blames ocials
Press Trust of India
Muzaffarnagar
The nal inquiry report into
a major train accident in
Khatauli in August blames
several ocials, including a
junior engineer, for the tra
gedy that killed 23 people, a
senior Indian Railways o
cial has said.
Divisional Railway Manag
er (Delhi) R.N. Singh inspect
ed Muzaarnagar, Meerut Deadly accident: Coaches of the PuriHaridwar Utkal Express
and Khatauli railway stations after it derailed at Khatauli near Muzaarnagar. PTI *
on Saturday.
He said the nal report of war Utkal Express jumped employees at the Khatauli
the inquiry conducted by the rails in Khatauli, nearly station for lapses during du
the Safety Commissioner in 40 km from Muzaarnagar, ty hours.
to the tragedy had been sub killing 23 people and injur Mr. Singh said the Railway
mitted to the Railway Board. ing more than 150. Board was not considering
On August 19, fourteen On August 30, the Railway withdrawing the action ta
coaches of the PuriHarid administration suspended 13 ken against the employees.
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Iran restricts access to social media Pak. defends Saeed’s
participation in rally
200 more protesters march through central Tehran; Interior Minister sends warning to demonstrators
No restriction on his freedom of speech
Agence France-Presse
Tehran
We should provide space for Press Trust of India estine has participated in
Some 200 protesters Islamabad many of these meetings.
Palestine recalls its U.S. marched through central criticism, says Rouhani Pakistan on Saturday de The public meeting held
envoy for consultations Tehran on Sunday as author fended Haz Saeed’s partici yesterday was yet another
RAMALLAH ities braced for a possible Agence France-Presse a Cabinet meeting. pation in a proPalestine ral demonstration of the Pakis
The Palestinians said on fourth night of unrest and Tehran “Government bodies ly, saying that the tani strong sentiments in
Sunday that they were cut access to social media af Iran’s President Hassan should provide space for JamaatudDawah chief ’s support of the Palestinian
recalling their envoy to the ter days of unrest that saw Rouhani said on Sunday legal criticism and protest,” UN proscription does not cause,” it said.
U.S. for consultations in a two people killed. that government bodies he said. place any restrictions on his
move that follows President A security deputy for Teh must provide “space for He also said U.S. freedom of expression. Solidarity with Palestine
Donald Trump’s designation ran’s Governor told the ILNA criticism” but warned President Donald Trump Saeed and Palestinian It said Pakistan has always
of Jerusalem as Israel’s news agency that 200 people protesters that violence was had “no right” to Ambassador to Pakistan Wa supported the twostate so
capital. Foreign Minister Riad had been arrested after prot unacceptable. sympathise with Iranian lid Abu Ali participated in lution. “The people and Go
alMalki decided to recall ests on Saturday night — in “Criticism is dierent to protesters who he has the rally in Rawalpindi on vernment of Pakistan res
Husam Zomlot, the ocial cluding 40 “leaders”. Angry about economy: A protest against Iranian President violence and destroying previously been referring to Friday. India took strong ex pect the Palestinian
Palestinian news agency Hassan Rouhani outside the embassy in west London. REUTERS
The Interior Minister *
public property,” he said in as terrorists. ception to it following which Ambassador’s active partici
WAFA said. AFP
warned protesters will “pay Palestine recalled the pation in events organised
St. Petersburg attack the price” as footage on so with slogans such as “Death forces were responsible. “Those who damage pu getting wise as to how their Ambassador. to express solidarity with
suspect arrested cial media showed thou to the dictator”. In an apparent attempt to blic property, disrupt order money and wealth is being Pakistan Foreign Oce the people of Palestine,” it
MOSCOW sands marching across the stave o more unrest, the and break the law must be stolen and squandered on said in a statement that the said.
Russian investigators on country overnight. 2 killed in clashes authorities began blocking responsible for their beha terrorism”. Iranian authori country’s steadfast support Saeed, who was among
Saturday arrested a suspect The spate of demonstra Lorestan Province Deputy access to photosharing and viour and pay the price,” In ties have blamed external to the Palestinian cause was the speakers, accused Zion
linked to the St. Petersburg tions began in second city Governor Habibollah Khojas online messaging services on terior Minister Abdolrahman forces for fomenting the well known and several ral ists and Hindu leaders of
bomb which tore through a Mashhad on Thursday over tehpour told state television mobile phones, including Te Rahmani Fazli said on state protests, saying the majori lies had been held since the destroying the world peace.
supermarket, wounding 18 high living costs, but quickly that two people were killed legram, which the govern television. ty of reports were emanat U.S. announced its decision He urged the Muslim
people. The Interfax news spread throughout the coun in clashes in the small west ment accused of being used U.S. President Donald ing from regional rival Sau to recognise Jerusalem as countries to send their ar
agency quoted a source as
try and turned against the Is ern town of Dorud late on Sa to foment violence, local me Trump said the “big prot di Arabia or exile groups capital of Israel. mies if the U.S. moved its
saying the suspect was
lamic system as a whole, turday, but denied security dia and Telegram’s CEO said. ests” showed people “were based in Europe. “The Ambassador of Pal embassy to Jerusalem.
35yearold Dmitry
Lukyanenko, a resident of St.
Petersburg and member of
the nationalist “New Age”
movement. AFP ‘Australian envoy’s tipo 18 killed in attack on Afghan funeral
‘Injured Indian man in
Chicago recovering well’
WASHINGTON
triggered FBI Russia probe’ Bomb went o during ceremony for a former Governor of Haska Mina
Bakar Saieed, who was injured Agence France-Presse motorcycle lay in the dirt at
during an attempted armed He passed on information given by Trump’s campaign aide Jalalabad the cemetery.
robbery in Chicago in which A suicide attacker blew him The incident in Nangar
Arshad Vhora, another Indian, Reuters meeting, Australian ocials with people who claimed to self up at a funeral in eastern har, a restive province bor
was shot dead, is stable and Washington passed the information that have ties to top Russian o Afghanistan on Sunday, kill dering Pakistan and a strong
recovering well. In a tweet, Trump campaign adviser came from Papadopoulos to cials. It was the rst criminal ing at least 18 mourners and hold for the Islamic State
the consulate general in George Papadopoulos told their American counterparts charge alleging links bet wounding another 13, o (IS), comes days after the
Chicago said Mr. Saieed is an Australian diplomat in when leaked Democratic ween the Trump campaign cials said, capping a deadly group claimed an assault on
“conscious” and “recovering May 2016 that Russia had emails began appearing on and Russia. year for civilians. a Shia cultural centre in Ka
well by God’s grace”. Envoy
political dirt on Democratic line, according to the new The White House has There was no immediate bul that left 41 people dead
Neeta Bhushan had visited
presidential candidate Hil spaper, which cited four cur played down the former claim of responsibility for and more than 80 wounded.
him in hospital earlier. PTI
lary Clinton, The New York rent and former U.S. and aide’s role, saying it was “ex the blast which authorities That followed a Christmas
Times reported on Saturday. foreign ocials. tremely limited” and that initially said was caused by a Day attack, also claimed by
36 killed, 11 injured in
Kenya accident The conversation bet Besides the information any actions he took would suicide attacker but now be IS, near an Afghan intelli
NAIROBI
ween Papadopoulos and the from the Australians, the have been on his own. lieve was triggered by explo gence agency compound in
diplomat, Alexander Down probe by the Federal Bureau The New York Times, ho sives attached to a motorcy Killed while mourning: Afghan security personnel inspecting the Afghan capital that left
Thirtysix people were killed
er, in London was a driving of Investigation was also wever, reported that Papa cle. The Taliban said on the scene of Sunday’s suicide attack in Jalalabad. AFP *
six civilians dead.
and 11 injured early on Sunday
in a headon collision factor behind the FBI’s deci propelled by intelligence dopoulos helped set up a Twitter that they had noth More than 8,000 civilians
between a bus and a lorry on sion to open a counterintel from other friendly govern meeting between Mr. Trump ing to do with the incident. lah Khogyani told AFP. The for a former Governor of were killed or wounded in
a road in central Kenya, police ligence investigation of Mos ments, including the British and Egyptian President Ab “The explosion was Governor’s oce put the Haska Mina district who died conictrelated violence in
said. The accident occurred at cow’s contacts with the and Dutch, The Times said. del Fattah alSisi and edited caused by a motorcycle death toll at 18, with 13 recently of natural causes, a the rst nine months of this
3 a.m. (0000 GMT) close to a Donald Trump campaign, Papadopoulos pleaded the outline of Mr. Trump’s bomb our investigation has wounded. statement from the Gover year, according to data com
notorious stretch on the The Times reported. guilty on October 30 to lying rst major foreign policy #4 1 3 9 7 5
concluded,” Nangarhar Go The explosion happened nor’s oce said. piled by the UN Assistance
NakuruEldoret highway. AFP Two months after the to FBI agents about contacts speech in April 2016. vernor’s spokesman Attaul during the funeral ceremony The twisted wreckage of a Mission in Afghanistan.
Leading Black Lives Matter Sheri ’s
deputy killed
activist Erica Garner dead in shooting
Agence France-Presse
Had become a voice for accountability after her father’s death Washington
Pakistan’s girl cadets dream of taking charge
A school in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa aims to help them realise their aspirations
Agence France-Presse physical training and martial
Mardan arts kits.
At a school in Pakistan, Women have largely been
Durkhanay Banuri, 13, shut out of the country’s po
dreams of becoming military werful military. Previously
chief, once a mission impos they were only allowed to
sible for girls in a patriarchal serve in administrative
country where the powerful posts. But Gen. Pervez Mush
Army has a severe problem arraf opened up the combat
with gender equity. branches to women begin
Ms. Durkhanay studies, ning in 2003.
along with her 70 class The Girls’ Cadet College
mates, at the country’s rst principal, retired brigadier
ever Girls’ Cadet College, es Javid Sarwar, vowed his stu
tablished earlier this year in dents would be prepared for
Yes we can: A parade at the Girls’ Cadet College in Mardan,
Mardan, Khyber whatever they wanted to do,
Pakistan. AFP *
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IN BRIEF
FinMin asks PSBs to consider ‘Participation of wilful
selling, swapping loan assets defaulters may weaken IBC’
Right of a defaulting rm’s promoter to bid is a moot point
‘Exhortation aimed at strengthening balance sheets weakened by NPAs’
Oommen A Ninan
Thiruvananthapuram
Press Trust of India MSMEs, which are a huge
Kingsher: SFIO carrying New Delhi employment generator in The Lok Sabha passed the
out additional probe The nance ministry has the country, contribute 40% Insolvency and Bankruptcy
NEW DELHI asked public sector banks of India’s manufacturing. Be Code (Amendment) Bill,
The Serious Fraud (PSBs) to explore options for sides, banks were also ad 2017 last Friday. However,
Investigation Oce (SFIO) is selling and swapping of loan vised to strengthen cluster we are likely to witness a
carrying out additional assets with other lenders based lending, people aware wave of demands seeking to
inquiries into the case with a view to strengthen of the development said, ad allow failed promoters to
against defunct Kingsher their balance sheets. ding that branches would participate in the bidding
Airlines, which was owned by Depending on their com help in channelising loans to and resolution process of
defaulter businessman Vijay
petencies, banks can look at the sector which is an engine their respective rms.
Mallya. In a report, the white
opportunities to buy or swap of growth. The Corporate Aairs Mi
collar crime probe agency,
loan assets, sources said, ad nistry has asked stakehol
which comes under the
purview of the Corporate
ding this was one of the is Cluster focus ders to share their views on
Aairs Ministry, has agged sues discussed during PSB As many as 50 clusters have these issues by January 10.
various violations by Manthan last month. been identied for enhanced The IBC was enacted in 2016 Balancing act: Some feel restrictions on promoters as part of
Setting priorities: Swapping and selling assets will help banks
individuals, including Mr. Swapping and selling as access to nancing, sources to nd a timebound resolu the bidding process may hit valuations. GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCK
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Startups are helping landlords shed the distrust, while oering renters a slew of services
Consumers must ask whom packaged food sales benet
Lalatendu Mishra tration clause in the agree
MUMBAI ment which would lead to Harsh Singh Lohit
Won’t let out your house for faster resolution of disputes
fear of dishonourable te and the provision of a 1 The ‘World Food India’ con
nants? Or, are you searching crore house insurance to ference in Delhi in Novem
for a house on rent but can’t handle issues concerning ber informed us as much
nd one on your terms? An damage to property. A rental about the urban bias in de
emerging trend is helping default guarantee is also pro velopment in India as about
the twain meet. vided. Another issue being the disregard for public
A small group of startups, addressed is that of distrust health and natural agricul
namely NestAway, Grab towards singles and the dis ture.
house, Homigo, Square crimination they face. ‘PepsiCo Leads 68,000
Plums and FellaHomes is For tenants, the risk of Crore plans for Food Sector’
ushering in change in this getting stuck in a house read one media headline
business, ensuring steady bound by a bad agreement is during the conference. Hun
supply of quality rented nullied as some rms oer dreds of corporations vend
houses at aordable prices a free threeday lookup pe food, indiscriminate con
to singles and families who riod wherein the tenant can sumption of which creates
ock to urban centres for walk away from the deal free digestive disorders, hyper
study or work. of cost. If they decide to stay tension, heart disease, dia ‘Private Sector Must In and potato farmers in Ha
They are also attempting on, the headaches of chasing betes and even cancer. vest More in Contract Farm ryana. What is smothered by
to turn housing into a liquid the owner for repair work Processed and packaged ing: PM’, announced yet the development discourse
asset class to provide better does not arise as it becomes food can be especially chal another header. Companies is the critical issue of health
returns for investors. They the responsibility of the lenging to our health as are evaluating India as a sovereignty; we are ceding
call themselves asset man home rental company. these also contain, in addi market to sell their products our rights to eat healthy,
agement rms or home ren Fully vacant: Currently, many owners avoid renting out for fear of rent default, damage to Some rms also oer ser tion to chemicals like fertiliz and as an outsourcing hub. fresh, chemicalfree, unpro
tal rms and take over the property and hassles related to renovation and background checks. GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCK *
vices such as utility bill pay ers, pesticides and herbi This is farcical in a nation cessed foods to corpora
maintenance of the house, ments and renting out of fur cides, excessive amounts of where a vast proportion of tions.
guarantee rentals, and pro 16% of the monthly rent. A agreements, police verica for them to manage routine niture to tenants. sugar, salt and oil. Our go the population is malnour The urban, educated con
vide easier terms and condi decade back, online housing tion, rent collection till mov home service and structural Samir Jasuja, MD, PropE vernment would outsource ished and nutritionally chal sumer demands organic re
tions for tenants. classieds emerged, ena ing out. For tenants, they issues. quity said, “This segment food to these corporations lenged. Prime Minister Mo tailers undergo stringent
An estimated four million bling easier search for hous provide realtime availability Often, landlords lack the has a future. But I doubt it fully if left to themselves, in di’s speech was targeted at checks and penalties for
houses under lock and key es. Traditional classied por of homes, aftersales home expertise to determine fair would be as disruptive as Ola stead of establishing ecosys corporations and their ‘ease misrepresentation, and
for various reasons are being tals provide a listing facility services such as plumbing values for rentals and de or Uber considering the chal tems for family farmers to of doing business’ with the rightly so. These same peo
gradually brought into the to owners and discovery of and electrical services, often pend on brokers. Low rental lenges this segment faces.” grow food without chemi consuming classes, and ple, however, are eerily si
rental market. This has also homes to tenants. returns is another deterrent. “As disruption is under cals and undertaking the holds little hope for the lent about the absence of la
ensured steady supply of ac
commodation to tenants
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his unique approach to de
beling on 99.9% of all food
today that is grown with
closer to their workplaces. vide a much higher degree of eciently manage In India, rental yield of herent challenges. It is a re versify their production velopment where agency overdoses of chemical fertil
fullment and convenience housing, the 2%3% per annum is the tailoriented business and from wheat and rice to a lies with massproducing, izers and pesticides, pre
Investors see potential to both tenants and lan largest asset class norm while the xed deposit hence an oine service is range of rapidly disappear machinedriven companies served with chemicals, su
This segment has attracted dlords. As fullstack rental Amarendra Sahu
rate hovers over 6%. In the needed. Automation is limit ing traditional foods (like and entrepreneurs, not pea gars, salts and fats. These
the attention of international providers, these rms have a CEO, NestAway Tech U.S., though , rental yield is ed to searches. Physical ser millets) and more lentils, sants and consumers. hold no warning that con
private equity investors such relationship with the owner 5% a year while deposit rate vice must support clients.” fruits and vegetables. The purpose of develop suming them over a lifetime
as Tiger Global, Google Capi and tenant beyond the rental demanding only two is 1%. So, most Indians buy Technology has proven to ‘Food processing to be ment is forgotten. All politi will destroy our health.
tal, SoftBank, NewsCorp as transaction. months’ security deposit as homes for capital apprecia be the most disruptive in major growth area: consum cal parties are complicit in The larger picture is quite
well as domestic investors “We can be truly called an against the traditional six or tion rather than rental yield. uence in Indian real estate, er choices to fuel change, equating development with bleak with little hope of re
such as Ratan Tata’s RNT As asset management compa ten months’ and even forego According to the 2011 cen said Anuj Puri, chairman, says FM’, read another me ‘GDP growth’ and ‘FDI’. demption; therefore, all the
sociates and SAIF Partners, ny,” said Amarendra Sahu, brokerage fees. They also sus data, 3.2 million homes Anarock Property Consul dia headline. Arun Jaitley Not much of this will more reason that individuals
who have invested several co founder & CEO, NestAway provide furnished homes. were vacant in India’s top 20 tants. Commending home has said “the farm to kitchen reach the farmer in the form must act for themselves.
million dollars. Technologies. He said Today, many people stay cities, which translates to 11% rental apps for preventing chain is going to change in of higher procurement pric We and our children must
For example, NestAway though housing was the lar away from leasing out their of the total available invento discrimination by landlords India, with increased agri es; much will instead ow to beware of food or drink that
has raised $90 million in two gest asset class, there was no house in fear of rent default, ry. Extrapolating to 2018, and housing societies on the cultural production … and corporations as prots. Few comes in a package, and we
rounds of funding from in structured mechanism to damage to property and there would be 4 million va basis of tenant’s religion, changing consumer prefe new jobs will be created in must be mindful of who be
vestors including Mr. Tata manage this asset eciently. hassles related to prerenting cant homes in these cities. caste, dietary preferences, rence”. The consumer he heavily automated foodpro nets from our purchases.
and has grown to a rental renovation, showing the Amit Wadhwani, director, gender and relationship sta refers to isn’t the marginal cessing factories. By their We must ask dicult
billing of 350 crore in three ‘Liquidity for owners’ house to prospects, back Sai Estate Consultants said, tus, he said Internetbased and small peasant, the land very nature, global corpora questions of a system that
years. It now manages “It should operate like the ground checks, police veri “Migration within the coun services were serving an ur less dalit, the adivasi in the tions will import sophisticat produces the chemically
15,000 houses with 30,000 stock market and provide ea cation, agreement execu try has nearly doubled and gent social need. forest or the urban poor. ed machines and labour poisoned food we consume,
tenants in nine cities. sy liquidity to investors. We tion, key duplication and this has resulted in exponen #4 1 3 9 7 5
However, Pankaj Kapur, These corporations, with eliminating attitudes from and of a government that
In the residential renting want more players like us to home repair. tial growth of rental accom MD, Liases Foras, while ack little interest in the health of their home economies to outsources public health to
space, the penetration level enter into this market and The paucity of profession modation in metros. Cur nowledging the sector has consumers, are going to run these factories. corporations who package
of these rms is not yet 0.5%, grow it. The opportunities al brokers has also added to rently startups with the mix growth potential, said, “Im change ‘preferences’ to and process unhealthy food.
leaving scope for vast are immense,” he said. For the concern. These pro of technology are disrupting posing nondiscriminatory more sugared ‘beverages’, Inequitable distribution Finally, we must com
growth. These companies owners, these rms provide blems compound for NRIs the whole industry but cus clauses in agreements will more potato chips, more No small farmer will benet; mence our very personal
operate on a 12.5% monthly an endtoend property who are unable to visit often. tomers are still not satised.” face opposition and discom chocolates, more fried instead, already wealthy, journey of discovery by en
commission on rent and the management solution start At times, they give keys to New initiatives have fort. This may create much a snacks. If outsourcing the large farmers in wellirrigat gaging with a neighbour
tenant or the owner need ing from helping to renovate brokers only to later realise helped put landlords at ease bigger problem because so change of consumer prefe ed parts of prosperous re hood organic farm.
not pay any brokerage the property, promoting it, that they have been short and bring out more vacant ciety by nature is homogene rences to corporations isn’t gions of India will make mo (The writer, once a corpo
which, traditionally, would showing it to prospective te changed. Living in another homes into the rental mar ous and interfering in any set a recipe for a public health ney from these factories: the rate warrior, is now an or
have worked out to about nants, managing the keys & continent makes it dicult ket, These include an arbi order may backre.” disaster, what is? kinnow farmers in Punjab ganic farmer)
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Why is the scal decit widening?
TCA Sharad Raghavan More tax returns led, among other statistics, show that we are not a country of evaders
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IN BRIEF
Wadkar and Sarvate deate Delhi ‘Somehow, I play well
under pressure’
The former’s successive century partnerships take Vidarbha to 528 for seven, a lead of 233
RAKESH RAO keplay. The counterattack Wicketkeeper-batsman Wadkar says
INDORE
A combination of pluck and
took Delhi by surprise and he shares a special bond with Sarvate
runs came thick and fast.
luck has put Vidarbha in a With Wadkar joining the SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
position from where it can act, Vidarbha wasted no Indore
almost nalise its celebration time in seizing the lead in the Akshay Wadkar is living a
to mark its maiden Ranji Tro prelunch session by scoring schoolboy dream.
phy triumph here. at 4.17 runs per over. His maiden century in Vi
Backed by a vociferous The duo went on to add darbha’s rst Ranji Trophy
bunch of Nagpurbased sup 169 runs for the seventh
Phil Simmons is nal has not only turned the
Afghan coach porters who cheered every wicket o 288 deliveries and match on its head but also
Former West Indies all run and encouraged the bat more importantly, broke virtually condemned Delhi
rounder Phil Simmons has smen all of Sunday, Vidarbha Delhi’s will to ght. to the secondbest nish
been appointed coach of raced past Delhi’s 295 to Though Sarvate missed a here.
Afghanistan as the country reach 528 for seven for a deserving century by falling
massive 233run rst innings The wicketkeeperbat
prepares for its first Test to parttimer Nitish Rana, Aditya Sarvate. *
R.V. MOORTHY
match, it was announced on lead on the third day. sman, who stitched century
Neral ensured that Vidarbha partnerships with Aditya signs of complacency, the
Sunday. The wartorn nation From 246 had more reasons to cheer
was awarded Test status in for six at the Sarvate and Siddesh Neral other guy is quick to point it
during the 113run ongoing on Sunday, pointed to these out.”
June, along with Ireland. fall of vete eighthwicket stand.
Simmons will now join the ran Wasim stands as the ones to make Not included for the rst
After warming up with a the dierence to Vidarbha’s
Afghanistan squad in Dubai Jaer’s wick three matches of Vidarbha
six o Rana, Neral hit three fortunes on this day.
as it prepares for a limited et, Vidarbha this season, Wadkar made
over series against Zimbabwe more o Khejroliya and
hit Delhi “When I came to bat, Wa his way to the team on the
in Sharjah in February. AFP made the leftarm paceman
hard and sim [ Jaer] bhai asked to me strength of a century and
feel worse by escaping a re
never watch out for the swing of three halfcenturies in local
turn catch after the bowler
looked back. the ball, at the start of my in matches.
was found to have
Nagpur’s nings. After he got out, there “I could not do much on
overstepped.
Akshay Wadkar (133 batting, What a feeling! Vidarbha’s Akshay Wadkar could not have timed his maiden Ranji century The scores:
was pressure on me. It was debut [against Goa] and
16x4, 1x6) and his successive better, and his celebration says it all. R.V. MOORTHY *
Delhi — 1st innings: 295. important to stay in the mid against Himachal Pradesh,
centurypartnerships with Vidarbha — 1st innings: Faiz Fa dle to chase the runs re but in the quarternals
Barring an extraordinary catching beneted Jaer in for a spell of 8.5 overs this
his Navniketan Club team zal c Pant b Sudan 67, R. Sanjay quired for the rst innings [against Kerala], when team
sequence of events in the re the rst over and later Aditya morning during which the
mate Aditya Sarvate (79, b Sudan 31, Wasim Jaer lbw b lead. came under pressure, I did
maining two days, an exas Sarvate, who were dropped second new ball was also ta
11x4) and Siddesh Neral (56 Saini 78, Ganesh Satish lbw b “A partnership was need well [with scores of 53 and
perated Delhi is not expect by Kunal Chandela and Gau ken.
batting, 4x6, 4x4) tilted the Saini 12, Apoorv Wankhede c ed. Another wicket at that 67 not out]. Somehow, I do
ed to threaten Vidarbha’s tam Gambhir, in the slips, The decision obviously Pant b Khejroliya 28, Akshay
scales rmly in Vidarbha’s fa fairytale nish to its dream respectively. Neral was luck did not let Saini, having stage would have made it well when my team is under
vour. Wakhare c Pant b Saini 17, Aksh pressure. I have that
campaign. ier twice against Kulwant struck twice this morning, dicult for us. In the ab
ay Wadkar (batting) 133, Aditya
In fact, Delhi already Khejroliya and again when have a ‘go’ at the new sence of a sizeable lead, for condence.”
Sarvate c Pant b Rana 79, Sidd
Stokes loses place Consolidating the gains wears a resignedlook after when Vikas Mishra dropped batsmen. hesh Neral (batting) 56; Extras either team, the match Talking about Siddesh
in ODI squad Vidarbha took the lead in being well and truly out him at midon o Navdeep (b14, lb3, nb5, w5): 27; Total would have hung in a ba Neral’s amboyant batting,
ABU DHABI the rst session that pro played by an inspired Saini. Aggressive knock (for seven wkts. in 156 overs): lance.” Wadkar said, “He told me
Former England vicecaptain duced 130 runs in 31 overs. Vidarbha. Delhi was also hurt by the With Saini out of the attack, 528. that he wanted to play his
Ben Stokes has been ruled Another 108 runs came o To make a match of it, Del captaincy of 20yearold Wadkar and an aggressive Fall of wickets: 196, 2107, 3 Camaraderie shots. He also said he felt
out of the oneday squad for 36 overs that left Delhi deat hi needs to score at least 450 Rishabh Pant that remained Sarvate made merry. Akash 133, 4206, 5237, 6246, Wadkar, who enjoyed bat lucky because of all the
the Australia series with ed in the extended post 7415. chances he got, including a
runs in the second innings, consistent with his lack of ex Sudan was taken for four ting with good friend Aditya
Dawid Malan likely to be his lunch period. Delhi bowling: Akash Sudan 27 dropped catch.”
that too, in good time to give perience. boundaries in three overs 31022, Navdeep Saini 32.54
Sarvate, continued, “Our
replacement. Stokes remains Vidarbha consolidated the bonding is good. We both About the fourth day,
its bowlers an opportunity to With an injured leftarm and before long, the bat 1263, Nitish Rana 13.10321,
in limbo due to the delay on a gains by adding 84 runs in 22 Wadkar said, “The pitch is
come hard at Vidarbha on a spinner Manan Sharma un smen had taken command. Kulwant Khejroliya 3551221, know each other’s
decision on whether or not overs during the wicketless fthday pitch. available to bowl, Pant Sarvate was more impres Vikas Mishra 3861020, strengths. We communicate not dicult to bat on. Let’s
he’ll be charged in the Bristol nal session. On this day, Delhi’s poor pressed his pacespearhead sive as he unleashed his stro Dhruv Shorey 101270. well. When one of us shows see how long we get to bat.”
incident in September. ANI
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a remarkable turnaround in four months for the next tri Paulo Dybala should avoid
umph which came in April worrying about compari
IN BRIEF the closing stages to win the
2017. sons with Lionel Messi and
Royal Cup and end the year
on a high by claiming his Now he has won three Cristiano Ronaldo if he
third Asian Tour title of 2017 times in eight months. This wants to become the best
here on Sunday. latest win marks Kapur’s player in the world, said Ju
The 35yearold, who had fourth Asian Tour win and ventus coach Massimiliano
just one win in almost 11 sixth international title — he Allegri on Saturday.
years till April this year, has won twice on the European The 24yearold Argentine
now won three times in the Challenge Tour, too. — linked with a possible
last eight months. move to Manchester United
Making the victory swee Another feat — has not hit the heights of
ter for Kapur was that his Kapur, the only multiple last season.
wife Maya and vemonth winner on Asian Tour this Dybala had been on the
old daughter Veda were pre year, is also the only Indian bench in the previous three
Amarjit extends contract sent on the 18th green. to have won three times on games but started on Satur
with Arrows Kapur came through a the Asian Tour. day and ensured the sixtime Path to glory: Paulo Dybala has to improve physically,
NEW DELHI
seesaw battle as he shot Kapur, who had 19 birdies defending Serie A champion technically and mentally if he wants to become
Indian Arrows captain Amarjit against ve bogeys this won for the rst time in Ve
fourunder 67 to nish at 14 a great player. AFP *
Singh on Sunday extended rona since 2001.
under while Thailand’s week, had won the Yeangder
his contract till the end of “It’s important that Paulo
Prom Meesawat (70) ended Heritage and the Panasonic in football and condence is “In the next three years
201920 season, giving the
at 13under. Open India this season. found the net again,” said Al key. You have to be focused he will be, together with
AIFF’s developmental side a
Making it a great week for “It was a seesaw battle. I legri. and determined. I think the Neymar, the most important
boost after the loss of
goalkeeper Dheeraj Singh. Indian golf was Gaganjeet had to come out ghting “After the goal, he started only advice for Paulo is to player in the world. Today
Amarjit, who captained the Bhullar (66) who was sole straight out of the blocks. I to play better, as he was in a think just about his football there are Messi and Ronaldo
India’s U17 World Cup team, third at 11under 273 while made two birdies in my rst delicate moment where and his journey, not worry and it is dicult, but his path
decided to extend his Khalin Joshi (67) was sole three holes and that re things weren’t quite going ing about comparisons with is that he has to improve
contract for the rest of the sixth at 8under 276. Jyoti versed Prom’s advantage,” Sweet success: Shiv Kapur came through a seesaw battle as his way. players like Leo Messi or physically, technically and
current ILeague season, and Randhawa (72) nished tied an elated Kapur said. he shot fourunder 67 to nish at 14under for the title. AFP *
“Psychology is everything Cristiano Ronaldo. mentally.”
another two years. PTI
RACING
Square Moon claims Homi Mody Trophy Kilani and
Dream Catcher MUMBAI: Square Moon, ridden by
S. Amit, claimed the Homi Mody
Trophy, the main event of the
3/4, 11/2, 21/4. 2m 32.74s. 15 (w), 13
and 52 (p). SHP: 89, FP: 199, Q: 135,
Tanala: 612 and 190. Favourite:
Roosevelt (Neeraj) 2, Fabio (S.J.
Sunil) 3 and Scion (Nikhil) 4. Not
run: Queen Ria. 21/4, 3, 3/4. 1m
bourg (Ayyar) 3 and Magic Dust
(Dashrath) 4. Not run: Saffron
Flower. 13/4, 11/4, 11/2. 1m 12.38s.
Thassaporn
top seeded
races held here on Sunday (Dec. Smasher. Owners: Mr. Vijay B. 11.96s. 16 (w), 11, 10 and 53 (p). 21 (w), 13, 24 and 76 (p). SHP: 96,
HYDERABAD: Dream Catcher Anoop Kumar Reddy. Trainer: L Trainer: P.Shroff. Farm Pvt. Ltd. Trainer: C.D. & Homi D. Bhagwagar. Trainer: Yassir Kilani of Morocco
(Suraj Narredu astride) bagged D’Silva. 1 HOMI MODY TROPHY (2,000m),
Cl. I, rated 80 and upward:
3 P.D. BOLTON TROPHY (1,200m),
Katrak. Hosidar Daji. and Thassaporn Naklo of
Anderson wins
in Abu Dhabi
the Majestic Plate, the main
event of the races held here on
Sunday (Dec. 31). 5 MALAKPET PLATE (1,100m),
Cat. II, 5yo & over, rated 42
SQUARE MOON (S. Amit) 1, Eternal
Sunshine (C.S. Jodha) 2, Mekong
Cl. II, rated 60 to 86: EXCEL-
LENT GOLD (Dashrath) 1, Summer 5 CLINTON PLATE (2,000m), Cl.
V, rated 1 to 26: SILVER EDGE (S. 7 MASEEHA PLATE (1,400m), Cl.
V, rated 1 to 26:
TOMAHAWK (T.S. Jodha) 1, Galtero
Thailand have been seeded
No. 1 in the boys’ and girls’
Delta (Trevor) 3 and Phenomenal Rays (Trevor) 2, Queen Credible Amit) 1, Star Ace (Neeraj) 2, Silver
ABU DHABI Trained by M. Satyanarayana, to 62: CITY OF WONDERS (Suraj Memory (Zervan) 4. Snk, 2, 33/4. (S. Amit) 2, Glorious Thunder sections respectively in the
(C.S. Jodha) 3 and Makino (Neeraj) Moon (S. Sunil) 3 and Care Free
Narredu) 1, Western Express (Raghuveer) 3 and Voulez Vous (Ay
Kevin Anderson won the 10th the winner is owned by Mr. Tee
(Gopal Singh) 2, Commanding
2m 05.56s. 54 (w), 16 and 10 (p). 4. Hd, 11/4, 1. 1m 11.12s. 24 (w), 16 (Raghuveer) 4. Not run: Dazzling ITF grade3 junior tennis
gala Balreddy. SHP: 18, FP: 293, Q: 179, Tanala: 187 and 14 (p). SHP: 36, FP: 44, Q: 20, Eyes. 11/4, 1/2, Lnk. 2m 06.82s. 60 yar) 4. Hd, 31/2, 13/4. 1m 26.62s.
edition of the Mubadala Boy (Kunal Bunde) 3 and Perfec 51 (w), 21, 23 and 38 (p). SHP: 71, tournament to be played at
and 50. Favourite: Mekong Delta. Tanala: 177 and 111. Favourite: Sum (w) , 18, 37 and 26 (p). SHP: 99, FP:
World Tennis Championship
on Saturday, joining a roll of 1 DYNAMIC DANCER PLATE (Div.
II) (1,400m), Cat. II, 3yo &
over, rated 42 to 62: SURPRISE
tion (Praveen Gaddam) 4. 23/4,
1, 11/4. 1m 06.17s. 17 (w), 9, 46,
36 (p), SHP: 186, FP: 790, Q: 498,
Owners: M/s. Kishore P. Rungta &
Adhirajsingh Jodha. Trainer: Ad
mer Rays. Owners: M/s. Haris
haran Devgan, Jiyaji Bhosale,
1,055, Q: 349, Tanala: 6,804 and
2,333. Favourite: Fortitude. Own
FP: 674, Q: 295, Tanala: 5,575 and
2,867. Favourite: Hunayn. Owner:
the CLTA Complex here
from Monday.
hirajsingh Jodha. Rishikesh Bhosale & Tinder S. ers: M/s. C. Rajendra & Vijay L. Mr. Diwakar Shetty. Trainer: Nirad
honour that includes Rafael PARTY (Nakhat Singh) 1, City Of Tanala: 38925. Favourite: City Of Karanjawalla. Closely following on
Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Sails (Suraj Narredu) 2, Phenom Ahluwalia. Trainer: Narendra Mansukhani. Trainer: C. Rajendra.
Wonders. Owners: M/s. K. Thrib Jackpot: 70 per cent: 4,120 (124 them will be Sacchitt Shar
Andy Murray as its only enal Cruise (Fergus Sweeney) 3
and Exclusive Striker (Akshay
huvan Reddy & Chitturi Krishna
Kannaiah. Trainer: M.
2 SET ALIGHT PLATE (2,400m),
Cl. IV, rated 20 to 46: SMASHER
(Neeraj) 1, Komandant (S. Amit) 2,
Lagad.
6 PRADEEP VIJAYKAR TROPHY tkts); 30 per cent: 195 (1,120 tkts).
Treble: 1,095 (36 tkts).
ma and Akanksha Bhan,
previous winners. The South
African World No. 14 was in
Kumar) 4. 3/4, nk, 11/4. 1m
26.58s. 40 (w), 8, 5, 7 (p), SHP:
Satyanarayana. Jager Bomb (C.S. Jodha) 3 and
Daughterofthesun (Ajinkya) 4. 4
4 PRADEEP VIJAYAKAR TROPHY
(Div. I) (1,200m), Cl. IV, rated
20 to 46: IN THE STARS (Trevor) 1,
(Div. II) (1,200m), Cl. IV, rated
20 to 46: WALK ON BY (Zervan) 1,
Mighty Warrior (Bhawani) 2, Fri
Super Jackpot: 70 per cent: 4,932
(21 tkts); 30 per cent: 232 (191 tkts).
the two best juniors among
the Indians, seeded No. 2
imperious form once again,
beating Spain’s world No. 20
13, FP: 129, Q: 48, Tanala: 279.
Favourite: City Of Sails. Owner: 6 MEGHALAYA PLATE
(1,600m), Cat. III, 3yo &
over, rated 26 to 46: CHINA MIL-
in the boys’ and girls’ cate
Mr. M.A.M. Ramaswamy Chet gories respectively.
<
> We
(N.S. Parmar) 3 and Rapid Fire know in this The results (third and nal
‘wake up’ (Aneel) 4. 1/4, 2, hd. 1m 07.77s. 9
(w), 6, 7, 9 (p), SHP. 23, FP: 44,
nium. Owners: M/s. K. Rama
Krishna, Arshad Ali Khan Mohd,
Mirza Ayub Baig & Shashank
Wellington
New Zealand was wary of format the West qualifying round):
Boys: Udit Kamboj bt Kushan
Q: 32, Tanala: 96. Favourite: Sha Kamineni. Trainer: S.S.F. Chris Gayle coming into Indies T20 side are Shah 64, 46, 62; Uddayvir
Agence France Presse quille. Owners: Mr. Sardar Hassan.
Jivtesh Singh, Dr. Prabhakar form in the second T20I as it one of the best in the Singh bt Shashikant Rajput
London
Chowdary Tripuraneni & Mo eyes a series sweep against world and we know 62, 64; Rithvik Choudary
Paul Pogba has called on hammed Rashed Ali Khan.
Trainer: Arjun Anne.
7 MAJESTIC PLATE (1,200m),
Cat. II, rated 58 to 78: DREAM
CATCHER (Suraj Narredu) 1, O Ms the West Indies. that at any time they Bollipalli bt Fardeen Qamar
Manchester United to Akilah (C.P. Bopanna) 2, The home side has alrea can turn it on. 75, 61; Madhwin Kamath bt
“wake up” after a third
straight draw over the
3 GAJASIMHA RAO MEMORIAL
PLATE (Div. II) (1,100m), Cat.
II, md. 2yo only (terms): SEM-
Baashagar (G. Naresh) 3 and
Vallee Sceptre (Akshay Kumar)
dy tucked away victories in
the two Tests, three one
Kane Williamson
Rhythm Malhotra 64, 63.
Girls: Renne Singla bt Sarah
PER FIDELIS (Suraj Narredu) 1, 4. 23/4, 11/2, 1/4. 1m 12.31s. 7 Dev 75, 64; Nikita Vishwase
Christmas period saw it (w), 6, 21, 36 (p), SHP: 78, FP: dayers and the rst of three 10 overs or so he can change
Big Brave (Kuldeep Singh) 2, Ex (US) bt Ishita Singh 63, 62;
slip behind Chelsea in the clusive Shanghai (Akshay Ku 151, Q: 130, Tanala: 1797. Favour T20I matches. a game and that’s what it’s
ite: Dream Catcher. Owner: Mr. Kritika Chhabra bt Sanya
Premier League table. mar) 3 and Aflatun (Arshad New Zealand captain about. Singh 62, 62; Richa Chou
Alam) 4.4, 21/2, 3/4. 1m 07.08s. Chitturi Krishna Kannaiah.
Draws against Leicester 8 (w), 5, 7, 11 (p), SHP: 20, FP: 28, Trainer: M. Satyanarayana. Kane Williamson said “it “We know in this format gule bt Pooja Ingale 76(4),
and Burnley either side of Q: 15, Tanala: 117. Favourite: would be great” to pull o a the West Indies T20 side are 46, 62.
Christmas severely under Semper Fidelis. Owners: Lt. Col.
A.R. Raju, M/s. G. Narsing Rao,
8 PALAMPET PLATE (1,200m),
Cat. III, 5yo & over, rated 26 series sweep in the T20 in one of the best sides in the
mined United’s status as a
challenger to Manchester
Sreeramulu Bommishetty & G.
to 46: ASHWINI (Koushik) 1,
Bouncer (Gopal Singh) 2, Sir Le
Mount Maunganui on Mon
day, but the Gayle factor was
world and we know that at
any time they can turn it on.”
Zidane Jr. to
Raghunandan Chary. Trainer: gend (Akshay Kumar) 3 and
City and Saturday’s 00 sta
lemate at home to South
Arjun Anne. Time To Climb (Praveen Gad
dam) 4. 23/4, 3/4, 1/4. 1m 13.85s.
lurking in the background. Time to deliver: West Indies will once again rely on
Chris Gayle to salvage the series. AFP
Williamson said New Zea
land could only focus on
join Lausanne
ampton means it is 14 4 DYNAMIC DANCER PLATE
(Div. I) (1.400m), Cat. II, 3yo
& over, rated 42 to 62: SUPREMO
22 (w), 7, 19, 10 (p), SHP: 59, FP:
259, Q: 121, Tanala: 726. Favour Devastating form
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Bengaluru FC silences Blasters
ball brushed Sandesh Jhin
ISL gan’s hand and the referee,
Stan Rayan who had spotted it, awarded
KOCHI Bengaluru a penalty. Chhetri
As the match moved into in placed his shot neatly near
jurytime with host Kerala the right corner.
Blasters down by a goal, Iain Blasters, strangely, did not
Hume turned to the crowd eld its star C.K. Vineeth — a
and signalled it to get noisier. former Bengaluru player in
The 38,000strong crowd at its ILeague side — for this
the Nehru Stadium here, all game. In one of the best mo
in yellow, obliged him with a ments for the home side, a
roar. nice combination play bet
But it was Bengaluru FC ween Jackichand and Lal
Making no mistake: Sunil Chhetri slots home a penalty to give ruattara on the anks and
which looked inspired dur
Bengaluru FC the lead. H. VIBHU *
Pekuson in the middle pro
ing the nal ve minutes,
pumping in two more goals mised a lot.
as the visitor won the Indian The match was played at a nutes earlier, replacing Sub The crosses from the right
Super League battle of the lively pace and gained mo hasish Chowdhury. and left clearly foxed the
Southern sides 31 here on mentum toward the half A couple of minutes later, Bengaluru defence but in the
Sunday evening. hour mark but none expect Miku was at it again, making end nothing came o them.
Bengaluru’s win, which ed the shocking nish when the most of a Subhasish Bose At the other end, Bengalu
helped it climb two spots to Miku caught the defence cross from the left. ru captain Chhetri was in the
third, came after two bitter napping with his stunning
thick of things, his sprints
losses at home. strikes, the rst of which Pulling ahead down the middle keeping
Captain Sunil Chhetri came after a sudden sprint Bengaluru’s opening goal the Blasters defenders on
gave Bengaluru the lead with on the left. came after a dramatic piece their toes.
a penalty in the 60th minute Defender Lalruatthara, of action. One such run saw him un
while Venezuelan Miku who had impressed in pre The India captain, whose leash a powerful shot, but
scored two more in the vious games, tried to pull Mi header was pushed away by Subhasish, who had an im
space of three minutes in in ku in desperation, but the a diving Subhasish Roy a few pressive day, pushed it away.
jurytime. Courage Pekuson 32yearold kept his cool and minutes earlier, made a ne The result: Kerala Blasters 1
netted Blasters’ consolation slotted the ball past goal run on the left and sent a (Courage Pekuson 90+4) lost
goal just before the nal keeper Paul Rachubka, who cross to Eduardo Garcia. to Bengaluru FC 3 (Sunil Chhe-
whistle. had come in some 20 mi However, on the way, the tri 60-pen, Miku 90+1, 90+3).
Aizawl proves too good for Gokulam
I-LEAGUE Daniel Addo, but the goal
was rightly awarded to the
P.K. Ajith Kumar Japanese striker.
KOZHIKODE After the break, Gokulam
Two goals conceded in seven pressed hard for the equalis
minutes, on either side of er but had to pay the price
the interval, ensured Goku for its sloppy defence.
lam Kerala would have to In the 52nd minute, o a
wait for its maiden home win counterattack, Aizawl’s craf
in the ILeague. ty midelder H. Lalmuanki
The debutant was beaten ma, after winning the ball
02 by reigning champion Ai from his own half, made a
zawl FC at the Corporation ne solo run and gave an ex
Stadium on Sunday. It was a cellent through ball to Roma
match clearly dominated by nian midelder Andrei Io
the Mizoram team which nescu who moved past a
didn’t look that perturbed by couple of defenders before
the hot, humid conditions. coming up with a neatly
In the 45th minute, Lal placed rightfooter.
ram Hmunmwia, after beat The hosts slumped to
ing Arif Shaikh on the left their fourth defeat in six
ank, crossed smartly to Yo games. For the visitors, it
go Kobayashi whose deft was their third win in ve
ick moved the net from matches.
close in. There was a deec The result: Aizawl 2 (Kobayashi
Rising to the occasion: Andrei Ionescu, centre, was in the thick
tion by Gokulam defender 45, Ionescu 52) bt Gokulam 0.
of things for Aizawl. S. RAMESH KURUP
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IN BRIEF
Jan. 1 marks mass birthday in Afghanistan Mission to ‘touch’ sun
on NASA’s 2018 list
In the absence of ocial records, thousands of Afghans have chosen the date for convenience
Parker Solar Probe to be launched
Agence France-Presse Facebook account in 2014 it Authorities are trying to
Kabul was just easier to choose Ja change that. In recent years Indo-Asian News Service energy and heat move
January 1 is Samad Alawi’s nuary 1 as my birthday from Afghan hospitals in major ci Washington through the solar corona
Bieber selling painting to birthday. It’s also the birth the drop down list,” Mr. Ala ties have started issuing new NASA is turning 60 in 2018 and to explore what acceler
raise funds for charity day of his wife, his two sons, wi said. “The Internet was al borns with birth certicates and the agency is looking ates the solar wind as well as
LOS ANGELES 32 of his friends and thou so slow and it was dicult to — something previous gener forward to launching a slew solar energetic particles.
Singer Justin Bieber is sands of other Afghans — a convert the date to a Western ations lack. The government of important missions in the
auctioning a painting he date chosen for convenience calendar.” also plans to issue eTazkiras, coming year, including one Mars eet
made to raise funds for by a generation who do not Even the ocial identity or computerised national ID to “touch” the sun. In 2018, NASA will also add
people affected by the recent
know when they were born. card, or Tazkira, held by cards, to Afghans which NASA’s Parker Solar to its existing robotic eet
wildfires in California. The
In the absence of birth most Afghans, oers little of would include their date of Probe is scheduled for on Mars with the InSight
23yearold singer shared a
certicates or ocial re cial clarity, with a person’s birth, if it is known. But the launch in 2018 to explore lander designed to study the
photo on Instagram of his art,
which shows a cross rising on
cords, many Afghans have age “determined based on process has been stalled for the sun’s outer atmosphere. interior and subsurface of
the background of an long used the seasons or his Slow change: Afghan hospitals in major cities are starting to physical appearance”. “My years by political and techni The probe will use Venus’ the red planet.
overcast sky. The painting is torical events to help deter issue newborns with birth certicates. AFP *
Tazkira says I was three cal problems. gravity during seven ybys The U.S. space agency’s
titled Calvary. PTI mine their age. years old in 1365 in the Hijri Some parents also resort over nearly seven years to rst asteroid sample return
But the explosion of social common choice, although they do not want the hassle calendar (1986). That is the to recording their children’s gradually bring its orbit mission, OSIRISREx, is
media networks such as Fa the date is more about prac of converting their birthday year my Tazkira was issued,” birthdays on slips of paper closer to the sun. scheduled to arrive at the
cebook, which require users ticality than parties. from the Solar Hijri, an Is Abdul Hadi, who is now 34, which are often kept in a co The Parker Solar Probe nearEarth asteroid Bennu
to register their birthday, “It seemed all Afghans lamic calendar used only in said. “There is no blank py of the Koran. “I hope one will perform its scientic in in August 2018, and will re
and the growing demand for had birthdays on January 1,” Afghanistan and Iran. space for a date of birth in an day all Afghans have their vestigations in a hazardous turn a sample for study in
passports and visas have Samad Alawi, who is 43, said. The rst day of the year in Afghan Tazkira. How can proper date of births so that region of intense heat and 2023. A survey satellite to
forced Afghans to pick a day Even those who know Hijri usually corresponds to you remember your date of social media doesn’t have to solar radiation. search for planets outside
— any day. their real birth date often March 21. birth if you don’t have one tell them how old they are,” The primary goals for the the solar system is also to be
January 1 has become a choose January 1 because “When I rst created my on the record?” Mr. Alawi said. mission are to trace how launched.
Talk therapy can help
improve sleep quality
Cognitive behavioural therapy
game on Saturday. “I have
plenty of comebacks, from you!”, while newcomers
injuries, from surgeries, but quickly learn when to join Pantomimes are now planned state visit to the
I’ve never had a comeback the collective hissing or staged at theatres across Bri U.K.
after actually giving birth to a #4 1 3 9 7 5
cheering. tain, often starring a local While pantomimes ll big
human being. So, in my eyes, I “Lots of Americans who celebrity and actors of all theatres, new spaces are al
feel it was a wonderful, Musical trail: A majorette dances during the Johannesburg carnival on Sunday. Troupes dressed up in creative, eyecatching come in are just wideeyed ages. so tackling the genre with
wonderful match for me.” AP outts perform during the annual parade that passes through the city. AFP * and can’t believe it! And by one London show this sea
the end they’ve got it, What’s in the news son being performed in a
they’re joining in too,” said In Hackney, Ms. McKenna converted caravan.
Smartphone sensors give hackers a way in
Susie McKenna, director and has been writing the annual “Caravantomime” takes
actor who plays the Wicked festive show for nearly 20 on the fairytale Sleeping
Stepmother in Cinderella at years and has become accus Beauty, whose star joins
London’s Hackney Empire tomed to another tradition — forces with a lost Cinderella
theatre. weaving in references to re to change both their
Apps do not require user permissions to collect data from accelerometers or gyroscopes “It is denitely unique, it cent events. destinies.
is denitely quintessentially “This year because we “With a bit of sense of hu
Indo-Asian News Service smartphones and analysing permissions to be given by thumb or ngers. Research thumb will block more light British.” were talking about the trav mour, we question what’s
Singapore them with machine learning the phone user and are avail ers took Android phones and than if you pressed 9,” Mr. Pantomime traces its ori esty that is Brexit, we have a going on in certain fairy
Instruments in smartphones and deep learning algo able for all apps to access. installed a custom applica Bhasin said. gins to the 16 thcentury character who’s Italian tales, and we absolutely
such as the accelerometer, rithms, the researchers suc tion which collected data The classication algo “Commedia dell’Arte”, a who’s going to be deported,” bring in what’s been hap
gyroscope and proximity ceeded in unlocking Android Position and light from six sensors: accelerom rithm was trained with data form of Italian street theatre she lamented, reecting the pening,” said Robin Steeg
sensors represent a potential smartphones with 99.5% ac Led by Shivam Bhasin of Na eter, gyroscope, magnetom collected from a group of pe which travelled to Britain, views of the largely proEU man, creator of the
security vulnerability as re curacy within only three nyang Technological Univer eter, proximity sensor, ba ople. Although each indivi according to London’s Victo neighbourhood. 20minute.
searchers have found that tries, said the study. sity, Singapore, the research rometer and ambient light dual enters the security PIN ria and Albert Museum. Tax havens and fake news Ms. Steegman gives her
data from these sensors The researchers believe ers used sensors in a sensor. “When you hold on their phone dierently, It was transformed also get a mention, while the heroines the agency they
could be used by hackers to their work, published in smartphone to model which your phone and key in the the scientists showed that as through London theatres, brief appearance of Trump lack in their original stories,
guess the security password. Cryptology ePrint Archive, number had been pressed by PIN, the way the phone data from more people is fed initially with music but no at the royal ball — which Cin while also making direct re
Using a combination of in highlights a signicant aw its users, based on how the moves when you press 1, 5 or to the machine learning algo dialogue, morphing into the derella ees at midnight — ference to disgraced Holly
formation gathered from six in smartphone security, as phone was tilted and how 9, is very dierent. Likewise, rithm, success rates im familiar Christmas panto speaks to the ongoing saga wood mogul Harvey
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which, too, makes liberal use of The best way for college ciplines revolve: the individual
Research agenda Here is a key advice I would oer quantitative models, unlike, education to nourish and and the collective, the private
The Association of Universities in the smart and ambitious young peo say, cultural anthropolo enrich our native and the social, the abstract and
Netherlands has presented its ple in 21st century India: gy, which, as it’s prac intelligences is through a the concrete. Then there is the
national research agenda on “leading If you are attracted to die tised today, is softer, more fragmented model of human and the natural, which is
the way through cooperation in a rent disciplines, don’t choose far less quantita disciplinary specialisation. supposed to distinguish the hu
digital society.” Minister for between them. Go for them tive, a qualitative manities and the social sciences
Education, Culture and Science, both, as much as your educa or imaginative their own sake; in physics, from the natural sciences. Final
Ingrid van Engelshoven, said, “the tional system allows it. social science such patterns are used to ly, there is the quantitative and
agenda is to transform the country’s Feeling torn between dispa rather. And the make sense of material real the qualitative — probably the
position in the field of people- rate disciplines is the best possi least courageous ity and to identify laws that most important of these binar
oriented information technology...” ble thing. It is a mark of genuine would be to govern the universe. ies: numbers or language —
liveliness and curiosity. To those combine a Mathematics and the which of the two key symbolic
of you who don’t feel torn bet core humani arts come together to em systems to use, or both, and in
ween incompatible things — ties subject, body this model of art what combination. Dual special
those who know what you love such as litera science education with isations that combine a qualita
and are monogamous about it, it ture, with his greater richness. A mar tive discipline with a quantita
is worth trying to cultivate a dis tory, a subject vellous play of the ab tive one oer the
ciplinary eld that is quite die that straddles stract and the concrete nextgeneration model of art
rent from, even incompatible the humani denes the sensibility of science education. They can be
with from your primary interest. ties and the the student with a dual tailored in whatever combina
Contradisciplinarity is the best social focus on mathematics tion works best for the student
model of liberal artscience edu sciences. and art, be it visual, and the institution. In whatever
cation. It is also its exciting fu Placed next performative, or form allowed by the curriculum,
Research centres ture. Dual majors such as Com to each other, literary. The vi and the student’s will and capac
Ten research centres to study and puter Science and English, or literature and sual arts might ity. The most ambitious student
interpret President Xi Jinping’s Music and Computer Science — the social combine spatial will go for the double major in
ideology, and thoughts on socialism, as those piloted by Stanford in sciences shed with logical disparate disciplines. Others
have been approved by the ruling 2014 —embody high models of light on each mathematical intel may choose to major in their
Communist Party of China. These contradisciplinary education. other’s epistemic forms ligence, just as the eld of passion and minor in so
centres have been established at the Philosophy and Physics might in ways that do not come literary arts might mething far apart; or at the very
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, form a similar pair, as old as it is to surface when studied combine the latter least, a major and a cluster of
Tsinghua University, Peking
new, a timeless classic. Their on their own. Literature, with linguistic intel courses in the other, enough to
University, and Renmin University of
shared interest in explaining the particularly in its modern life, ligence, to use the form a subspecialisation.
China, among others.
universe is split between the is imagined as the articulation educationist Howard The fetishisation of a single,
natural, the human, and the of a special individual — the ar Gardner’s term for the monolithic intelligence in exist
spiritual. Between concrete tist who creates life and reality diverse range of hu ing models of IQ test nds its
reality through the senses and out of her own mind. More man potential. Mathe academic counterpart in the
larger patterns that appear as importantly, literature seeks matics aspires to preoccupation with a single dis
abstract. Experience and data to portray the private lives of ward the pure and cipline that denes the honours
on one hand and theory on the individuals; the commitment the abstract; the arts, system currently in vogue in ma
other. Both moving toward the of literature, as of all art, is to however, are dened by ny universities. Intelligence is
latter through the means of the particular, not to the an eternal tension bet now established to be pluralis
mathematics — the ultimate general. Social sciences ween the experiential and tic. Most of us possess more
symbolic system of abstract on the other hand, are #4 1 3 9 7 5 the theoretical, the concrete than just one kind of intelli
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Academic barriers These are tall orders. No mat general than the particular; concrete there is no experience, education to nourish and enrich
ter how exciting. For those to in larger patterns more than the and without the abstract there is our native intelligences is
Twenty seven Iranian graduate whom these feel too tall, there individual stories. If they are in sciences throws into greater gling ways that the various no understanding. The arts through a more fragmented mo
students have been barred from are plenty of other options. If terested in the particular or the relief the private instinct of liter elements can never be separat must have both. A student spe del of disciplinary
pursuing higher education in the you truly hate and fear mathe private, it is usually as a means ature. For the student of litera ed or sifted out. cialising in mathematics and art specialisation.
current academic year, due to their matics and have your heart set to understanding general or ture, it is the invaluable remin Still, these are predictable will delve into the contradictory Contradisciplinary specialisa
involvement in political activities.
on the arts and the humanities, larger patterns in society. The der that even the most private of combinations between disci relation with the abstract and tion in multiple subjects will de
Tehran’s representative in the Iranian
perhaps you could pair your collective instinct of the social lives exist on a canvas of larger plines that are close to each oth the concrete that denes the ne the spirit of artscience edu
Parliament Mahmoud Sadeghi said
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higher education only on signing a tive social science. Of such social imagine as pure personal idio bination of physics and rience the play of patterns, nu century.
sciences, economics would be Placed next to each other, syncrasy are in fact a strange mathematics, still an intriguing merical or spatial, that hold the
written commitment ensuring that
the bravest choice, as in its cur literature and the social chemical compound of the per mix of abstract patterns and ma musical and the visual arts in Excerpts from College: Pathways of
they would abstain from political
rent form it’s not that dierent sciences shed light on each sonal, the familial, the cultural terial reality. Mathematics de friendship with mathematics. Possibility; Saikat Majumdar,
activities.
from mathematics. If that’s too other’s epistemic forms... and the material, in mindbog lights in abstract patterns for These are indeed, some of the Bloomsbury, 2018
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Will the ad ban help?
Sex education has always been a controversial subject kept hidden behind whispers and
(BALLB, BSC LLB, B Com LLB, BBA LLB) and post silence from the reach of adolescents. In this scenario, how does issuing an advisory to pull
graduate degree (LLM) programmes in law oered out condom advertisements on television help? Students voice their views.
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of 55% marks (50% for SC/ST students) and those
appearing for the qualifying exam in April/ May Chaitanya Sharma Harshit Sharma Raina Singh Kunal Chaturvedi
2018 are eligible to apply. No upper age limits. Production and In- Political Science (H), MA English, I, Doon MA in Urban Policy
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the 5year Integrated MSc programme in basic from the Information dom advertisements nant. Many children now was terribly
sciences at National Institute of Science Education and Broadcasting Mi from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. who get involved in problematic. I recog
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augural article, “You’re not alone”. cannot rest on past laurels, your and believe in their dreams. His inspiring journey demonstrates
Out of all, a particular exchange past does not decide your future. the incredible power that believing in yourself has, and the
has stayed with me and I thought Excuse yourself of your past. results it can bring. When it comes to solving problems, Ma has a
famous quote, that would resonate with many: “Today is hard.
I’ll pick up today’s column from Listen to your intuition: Re
Tomorrow will be worse. But the day after that will be beautiful.
there — “Do you think it is neces ect. You will nd clues to set o
Most of your talent won’t make it past tomorrow.”
sary to pretend or is it okay not to? Stand out: Stop trying to t in. changes. This is the one instance Watch the video at https://youtu.be/MSzv9qygxPs
In your column you’ve written that where intelligence from your past
quite often than not people pre
tend to hide their helplessness,
fear and doubt. I’m having a tough
time comprehending this”!
Embrace your oddities can provide valuable clues. Your
past holds seeds of promise for
your future. In essence, anything
that has touched a chord in you is
Creative Thinking
Creativity allows you to explore
and seek solutions that are original
and fresh. Vivek Agnihotri,
The question, simple yet ear an underlying desire worthy of ex producer, believes that no human
nest, told me that I ought to elabo At the very heart of adolescence lies the angst of ttingin ploring. Time is always right to is born without creativity. In this
rate further and I ag it o by con nd a new interest and build a new video, he explains how creative
rming that I have no judgment on ference, I call this situational miliarity, the need to belong, to t where reason and logic reside. habit. thinking helps us attain a ‘Buddha
pretence. I have pretended far too pretence. in, and to be accepted builds up This is a common crossroad. And in engaging so, the energy state of mind’. According to him,
the only thing that stops us from being creative is selfimposed
often — to feel good or just to get I make a distinction with a more noise and frenzy. As you enter the Even a high achiever or the most that was being pilfered to be ac
limitations. He unboxes the eight secrets that can help you break
out of an uncomfortable spot. We paralysing kind of pretence, where big, unknown world of higher stu popular peer could feel like they cepted will nd an outlet in your
through your limitations, bringing you one step closer to creative
pretend because there may seem it subsumes a person. This is the dies or a new job, you feel the don’t belong. The question to ask unique selfexpression. thinking.
no better recourse on occasions or kind when frequent recourse to world’s eyes on you — more point is if one can nd a way out of this. Transition is tough but do ap Watch the video at https://youtu.be/HRAKalCln4E
simply to avoid potential discom projecting an image and the voyeu edly on what you thought are the Yet again, knowing you’re not preciate that every transition is al
fort and disagreement. We also ristic pleasure of small wins the odd, undesirable parts of you that alone is Step #1. so the opportunity of a clean slate.
pretend not to draw attention to rein becomes addictive. don’t t the template of popular As Seth Godin says, “Fitting in is Your past is behind and you can ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
ourselves; when the invisibility of This is a grey zone where life is acceptance; the cool quotient of only a shortterm strategy.” If you condently build a new you;
a collective belonging feels far saf enacted around a false self. And your generation. It’s terrifying to decide to ease yourself out of it, maybe not one that everyone likes STRENGTH-O-METER
er than standing out in our unpro hence preludes hurt, delusion and stand out and you start adjusting you can nd a longterm, selfserv but certainly someone who you Would you describe yourself as a ‘builder’ who likes making
ven uniqueness. Because some disillusionment. to be accepted, to tin. You begin ing way ahead. can truly love and be proud of. things work better; a ‘communicator’, easily able to connect
time not pretending hurts a lot Let’s explore how pretence ma to talk and look the part ignoring with others; an ‘innovator’, quick to come up with new
more. In short, we pretend to feel nifests as the scourge of ‘tting in’. your discomfort. Such uncon The way out The author is a freelance writer, concepts and ideas; oran ‘enabler’, good at organising and
safe in it rather than in the vulner In the adolescent years, as life scious, at times, obsessive adjust ‘Zoom out’ of yourself: Con blogger, and life coach. managing things? CogitoHub has identified these four primary
ability of revealing. For ease of re transitions out of the comfort of fa ments soon numb your intuition, trary to what you think, no one is nivedita@lifealigncoaching.com profiles that best represent students’ behaviours and
aspirations.
Rank the options given against each question in order of
priority from 1 to 4. (One being your most preferred choice
No doubt, we live in a noisy conceived notions if we tastasis. This is when the situation.
world, both literally and vir want to become genuine lis cancer, until then localised 3. You are sitting at a fine dining restaurant with a
tually. Expressing our opi teners. Don’t be in a hurry to one spot, starts to group of friends. How would you order?
nions on all matters, trite or to get a word in. Also, you spread. The reason many a. You look at the menu and order for everyone.
signicant, has never been don’t really need to have the cancer patients don’t make
#4 1 3 9 7 5
b. Discuss the options on the menu with everyone and then
easier. Digital media oers last word. it is because they get diag This involves them navigat mented with mice and collectively decide.
Listen:Learn the art c. Go through the menu in detail; each friend decides one
multiple platforms for peo We can extend these “lis nosed only after metastasis ing through several nasty found that if a specic mo
at a time.
ple to vent their thoughts. Listen. But many of us in tening skills” to digital ex has begun. This is especial environments throughout lecule was blocked in mice
d. Order something new from the menu for yourself.
But alas, as everyone is busy stinctively feel we need to changes as well. Very often, ly striking in breast cancer the body; naturally, the with cancer, they could sig 4. Your friend is in town and you decide to host a
‘speaking’, is anyone truly add something like, “I un people in a WhatsApp group patients, who if diagnosed odds are against them. In nicantly improve their party. How you would plan it?
listening? Don’t we all feel derstand how that feels” or may react instinctively to a early enough, have a good the end, only one in every condition. a. See what you have at home and make a list of things you
slightly compromised when “My uncle went through so message and start tapping chance of recovering with thousand cancer cells are need from the market
a friend or colleague inter mething similar...” away even before process the right kind of therapy. successful in this transition. Academic journey a. Call your friends and ask them what they’ll eat and plan
rupts a conversation to According to Sarner, ing what other people have Breast cancer has today Radhika wants to gure out Radhika did her BSc in Mi accordingly
answer a call? when we interrupt the con said. And, this can result in emerged as the most com what determines if a partic crobiology. During her MSc c. Create a detailed menu based on your awareness about
Whether in a faceto face versation, we are turning it miscommunication and mon type of cancer that af ular cancer cell will be able in Biochemistry at Institute your friend’s choices
conversation or a larger away from the speaker and misunderstandings. In or fects women worldwide. A to full metastasis is it ran of Science, Mumbai, she did d. Think about everyone’s favourite dishes and plan to
meeting, knowing how to putting the spotlight on our der to curb your reactive in 2017 paper showed that dom or are there predeter a project at Tata Institute of order them
listen can go a long way in selves. Further, we may feel stincts, pause and reread ev among the cities studied, mined factors. She does Fundamental Research. 5. You are overseeing the construction of a flyover in
smoothing out lines of com compelled to give advice if a ery message and your Thiruvananthapuram in this by studying individual The experience at TIFR your neighbourhood. How would you go about
munication. Even in digital person is distressed. But a responses too, before press Kerala topped the inci cells that have metastasised made her realise that re convincing people who are against the construction?
a. Start the construction anyway, as you have maximum
exchanges, we have to mas person who is expressing ing ‘Post’ or ‘Send’. Consid dence charts with 43.9 cas rather than the traditional search is what she wanted
buyin.
ter the art of listening to their pain doesn’t need your erate listeners also mirror es per 1,00,000 women. way of studying bulks of to pursue.
b. Reach out to each of the residents opposing the
what other people are say suggestions right away. what the speaker says in This is where cancer biolo cells. She went on to do a PhD construction individually, and try convincing them.
ing before replying impul They just need to be heard. their own words to ensure gist Radhika Nair works. She believes that once at National Institute of Im c. Go through the right channels at the city municipal
sively. Our role as a good listener is they have understood the we know this, we can inves munology in New Delhi, council to get people on board.
to be a “calm presence” and intent of the speaker. If not, Research tigate if it is possible to tar whose programme she says d. Create awareness by marketing the flyover through
Dos and dont’s for that we have to grow ac the speaker has a chance to To devise treatment op get such cells and stop them is comparable to any good posters and social media.
In an article published in customed to pauses in the clarify their position. tions for cancers, it is cru before all hell breaks loose. American university. She Scoring
The Guardian in November conversation, writes Sarner. Finally, Caleb Storkey al cial to understand how can This knowledge will also then did research at the Un Give a score of 4 to your most preferred choice, 3 to the
2017, Moya Sarner writes Author and consultant so mentions that good lis cer works. What genes play help dispel the mystery of iversity of Cambridge as second, 2 to the third and 1 to the least preferred choice. After
about the training she un Caleb Storkey writes in his teners are trustworthy. a role in the disease and why drugs that work on well as Garvan Institute of you have scored each question, add up your total scores for
derwent to be a volunteer at blog that apart from listen When an exchange is con how do cancer mutations primary tumours do not Medical Research in Sydney options 1, 2, 3 and 4. In the questionnaire, all the ‘a’ options
an organisation that pro ing attentively and not an dential, the listener respects arise? Which biochemical work on cells that have before being awarded the represent builder, ‘b’s represent communicator, ‘c’s represent
vides support for those who swering our phones, a the fact that sensitive infor pathways are involved in moved to other places. Rad Ramanujan Faculty fellow enabler and ‘d’s represent innovator. The option which has
have suicidal thoughts. skilled listener employs mation is not to be divulged. making a tumour cancer hika is especially interested ship that enabled her to re the highest score represents your dominant cluster.
Prior to the training, Sarner “positive body language.” The immense impact of ous? These are some of the in these questions from the turn to India. Today, she Your dominant cluster
Builder: You are the handson member of the team and
felt that she was a fairly Leaning forward with a re being heard is captured by broad questions tackled in perspective of breast can runs her lab at Rajiv Gandhi
like executing and getting things done. A few job roles that
good listener as people rou laxed expression communi the late American psychia cancer biology. cer. Center for Biotechnology in
you can explore are engineer, software developer or real
tinely conded in her. But cates openness. Making eye trist Karl Menniger’s words: Radhika looks into the Using her techniques, Thiruvananthapuram. estate developer.
only after the training did “When we are listened to, it mechanics of metastasis. her team discovered in 2014 Communicator: You are the voice of the team and like
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she realise that many of the creates us, makes us unfold, Metastasis involves the can that the interaction bet Nandita is a science writer and persuading and inspiring people. A few job roles that you can
things she did were actually ...when we interrupt the and expand.” cer cell getting out of the ween two genes was res part of The Life of Science explore are business analyst, media planner, or social worker.
antithetical to being a good conversation, we are original tumour, jumping ponsible for making a par project. To know more about Innovator: You are the mind of the team and like working
listener. turning it away from the The author is Director, aboard the bloodstream, ticular type of breast cancer women scientists in India and on new concepts and ideas. A few job roles that you can
The rst thing to do when speaker and putting the PRAYATNA. Email: lodging at a new site and much more deadly than it their research, visit explore are designer, animator, or scientist.
we listen is to do just that. spotlight on ourselves. arunasankara@gmail.com. then entering a new organ. already was. They experi www.thelifeofscience.com Enabler: You are the backbone of the team and like
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A true makeup artist ● Volunteering for social work. keep getting closer to our goals. The key to
use of SFX products and uses cosmetic skills to ● Appreciating our loved ones, without an ex success is consistency.
could be termed as Special beautify the human
Eects Makeup. SFX pro pectation for anything in exchange. Examples:
body. Makeup can make ● Letting go of the tendency to keep “scores” ● Making one longterm goal and a few short
ducts are very much unlike you look beautiful as
beauty products and their in relationships. term goals that are timebound.
well as appear like a ● Valuing your time and using it wisely.
application requires specic ghost.
skills, and understanding of I will be mindful ● Ask this question to yourself at the end of
racter events like bald cap and blood tubing. ponsibilities would include nication skills are the core tasks at the same time. ● Be ruthless when you are getting rid of
Halloween. studying the script tho Anybody who possesses a capabilities that SFX Ma Examples: things that are not useful to you.
● Planning a schedule so that we are more ● Stop spending your energy on the Negative
Challenges roughly to understand the basic understanding of keup artists are expected to
Skills required An SFX Makeup artist is the requirements of the look, sketching or contouring, de master. aware about how we use our time. Nellies.
● Meditating upon our thoughts, for
Special Eects Makeup ar individual behind a charac and sketching dierent op nitely has an upper hand.
tists should be able to think ter you see on screen. Ex tions for a look to gure out A candidate must have a Di The author is the CoFounder selfreection. The author is a clinical hypnotherapist and Neuro
● Paying full attention to each task that we Linguistic Programmer who is also pursuing a
outofthebox. Have a keen haustive prepreparation the best one. Additionally, ploma or Certicate in Pro and Director, Euro Chroma
perform. master’s degree in clinical psychology.
reallife observation, im time to create moulds and removing the makeup after fessional Makeup and/or Institute of Cosmetology
mense patience, ingenuity sculpts, long working hours, the performance/event con Cosmetology. Completing a (ECIC).
in brief)
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