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draw from the Jammu &
Kashmir’s three-year-old coali-
tion Government is under-
standably meant to protect its
political support base in Jammu
and prevent the PDP from
generating a counter-narrative
to address its own cadre in the
Valley. But more than that, it is
aimed at sending a “muscular”
message across the country
that national interests will not
be compromised for the sake of
power.
The BJP’s announcement
to end the uneasy ties came
after the Centre’s gambit of a
unilateral ceasefire through
the month of “Ramzan” failed
miserably and the Valley saw an
increase in the level of violence,
targeted attack on Army
jawans, and killing of a promi-
nent journalist in the heart of
Srinagar last week.
Meanwhile, Governor NN
Vohra recommended imposi-
tion of Governor’s rule in
Jammu & Kashmir after the
stakeholders in the State
refused to explore options to
form an alternative
Government. Vohra sent the
recommendation to President
Ramnath Kovind for his ascent
under Rule 92 of the Jammu &
Kashmir constitution.
The timing of the decision
showed the BJP’s realisation
that it would pay a heavy polit-
ical price in the 2019 general
election by giving the impres-
sion that for the sake of power
it supported several contro-
versial moves of the Mehbooba
Government such as releasing
thousands of stone pelters,
agreeing to its demand to halt
operation against terrorists,
and pursuing a Kashmir poli-
cy that seemed a mixture of
confusion and indecision.
BJP general secretary and
party in-charge of J&K Ram
Madhav said the decision to
move out of the coalition was
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the end of Ramzan ceasefire. The security agencies have short-
listed 250-300 terrorists from Lashkar-e-Tayyeba, Hizbul
Mujahideen and Jaish-e-Mohammed for the operation.
“The prime locations of terrorist activities were mapped dur-
ing the Ramzan ceasefire. Intelligence agencies have carried out
a secret district-wise survey to identify their hideouts. This strate-
gic operation is based on meticulous planning and intelligence-
gathering,” sources added.
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years ago. His famous quote
typified Delhi Chief Minister
Arvind Kejriwal, who ended
his 9-day sit-in at the
Lieutenant Governor’s office on
Tuesday. A day after rap-
prochement attempt, top
bureaucrats started attending
meetings with Ministers, which
the Chief Minister termed as a
“small victory”.
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CM to meet the officers in the
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Home Ministry, agencies, dif-
ferent Ministries and State BJP
leaders and the assessment
that “It has become untenable
for the BJP to continue in the
alliance Government in the
State”.
The BJP leader said the
decision to withdraw was taken
after consulting Prime Minister
Narendra Modi.
The BJP-PDP alliance has
seemed headed for a collapse
after the Kathua rape case
when State BJP leaders backed
the men accused of kidnap-
ping, gangraping and killing
the child from a Muslim trib-
al community. The BJP decid-
ed to pull the plug suspecting
that the PDP could decided to
end the alliance and score a big
political point.
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State Chief Minister Omar
Abdullah on Tuesday called for
early elections even as the
Congress ruled out any alliance
with the PDP and blamed the
BJP for the political mess in the
strategically sensitive State.
Omar favoured Governor’s
rule and called for fresh elec-
tions as soon as possible so that
people can choose their own
Government. The Congress
and the National Conference
said the BJP can’t escape the
blame as both the BJP and the
PDP are responsible for the
deteriorating situation in J&K.
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ment from the Raj Niwas.
AAP supporters cheered
Kejriwal as he came out of the
Raj Niwas and accorded a
rousing welcome to him at his
official residence where he
addressed party workers.
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also served as Chief Minister,
said the alliance has devastat-
ed the State, be it economical-
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the strike by the IAS officers, it
is very unfortunate. It is a
small victory. Ninety-nine per
cent of the IAS officers are very
good. We have done a lot of
work in power and water sec-
tors and we could not have
done this alone,” Kejriwal told
ecstatic party workers.
“But some officers in pri-
vate told us that they were
being pressurised not to work
with the AAP Government. We
were silent for the last four
months over the IAS officers’
strike. But we wanted to resolve
the issue. That is why we felt
that the matter should be
brought before the public. The
battle for Delhi’s Statehood
will continue,” the Chief
Minister said.
Later at a hurriedly-called
Press briefing, Deputy Chief
Minister Sisodia said the sit-in
was “not a dharna” as they were
“waiting to meet the L-G”.
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T rug from under Mehbooba
Mufti’s feet to end the “unpop-
ular alliance” that ruled the
embattled State for three years,
came as a jolt for the PDP lead-
ership.
Obser vers say that
Mehbooba, whose popularity
hit the rock bottom during her
tumultuous tenure, lost the
face and political argument in
the bargain.
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have a muscular policy in
Jammu & Kashmir... We
weren’t a part of an alliance just
for power.”
Mehbooba tried to put up
a brave face while announcing
that she submitted her resig-
nation to Governor NN Vohra.
This was the least she could do
to count that her Government
tried to initiate dialogue with
separatists and Pakistan, gave
amnesty to stone pelters and
ensured a ceasefire during the
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Mohammed (JeM) terror-
ists, including its operational
ly or socially, and left Jammu &
Kashmir in ruins. He ruled out
commander, were killed in an
encounter with security forces
any alliance with anyone to
form another Government.
in Tral in Pulwama district of
Jammu & Kashmir on Tuesday,
After calling on the police said.
Governor, Omar said, “I just The encounter broke out
returned from the Raj Bhavan after security forces launched a
where I met Governor NN cordon-and-search operation
Vohra. I told the Governor that in the area following specific
the NC did not get mandate to intelligence inputs, a police
form the Government in 2014 official said.
elections and so we do not have Earlier, J&K Director
the mandate to form the General of Police (DGP) SP
Government in 2018. We told Vaid tweeted, “Encounter going
him that the NC is not dis- on at Hyena Tral, 3 (three)
cussing Government formation important JEM terrorists
in Jammu & Kashmir with trapped...”
any other political party. The Union Government
Neither has anyone approached had on May 17 halted all cor-
us nor are we going to
approach anyone from here,”
don and search operations
(CASO) and Seek and Destroy
Omar said. Operations (SADO) for a
Hitting out at the BJP, the month as a goodwill gesture
Congress said the party ruined during Ramzan.
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said several meetings, attend-
ed by IAS officers, were held on
Tuesday. Six IAS officers,
including Chief Secretary
Anshu Prakash, attended key
meetings with AAP Ministers,
he added.
Sisodia claimed that some
officers have told him that
they had pressure but now
they (officers) “received the
nod from the top” to attend
meetings with AAP Ministers.
The bureaucrats have been
at loggerheads with the AAP
dispensation following the
alleged assault on the Chief
Secretary in February.
Sisodia and his Cabinet
colleague Satyendra Jain, who
were on a hunger strike and
were hospitalised after their
health deteriorated, were dis-
charged from the LNJP
Hospital on Tuesday morning.
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said the muscular policy would
not work in J&K in future. She
was actually catching the first
straw to salvage the lost polit-
ical arguments.
The BJP had the last laugh
as it left the PDP licking its
wounds. The move would help
the BJP gain losing ground in
Jammu and Ladakh regions
and gain political mileage at the
national level.
They say that the imposi-
tion of Governor’s rule would
mean upping the ante against
terrorists and their sympathis-
ers who have exponentially
grown during these years.
Sources said the PDP lead-
ership never imagined the
alliance would end in a humil-
iating way. Sources said the
BJP leadership did not even
inform Mehbooba of its deci-
sion to pull the plug and she
came to know of it when she
received a phone call from
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judged the game plan of the again highlighted the fragility
alliance partner whose fresh of rulers from Kashmir and
manoeuvring is understand- New Delhi’s repeated attempts
ably linked with the 2019 gen- to disgrace them,” noted jour-
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Tuesday, the Delhi Development
cum - residential, DDA mentioned that
Local Shopping Centres and
Commercial Shopping Centre will
cater to the day-to-day needs of the
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shops, bars, discos, pubs and clubs shall prior to 1962 like Lajpat Nagar, Rajouri 6DAD6A0< issue here and we will imple-
not be allowed in the residential Garden, Tilak Nagar, Kamla Nagar etc. ment a better traffic system
premises as a part of “mixed land use”. having concentration of commercial K Rao, an officer of 1996 after studying the bottle-
It implies that no such business or
construction will be allowed in resi-
activities, may continue subject to
conditions prescribed under the Mixed
K batch of the Indian Police
Ser vice (IPS), has been
necks” Rao, said.
Earlier Rao was also in-
dential areas. Incidentally, many Use Regulations. appointed as the new Com- charge of the Special Task force
Resident Welfare Associations (RWAs) “Shop-cum-residence complexes missioner of Police Gurugram. (STF), which escorted Dera
gave suggestion to the DDA and asked shall be allowed to continue with the Rao was posted as Inspector head Gurmeet Ram Raheem
the agency not to permit constructions activities permissible in the Local General of Police (IGP), Indian Singh in the CBI special court
in residential areas for such business Shopping Centres with the following Reserve Battalion at Bhondsi. complex in Panchkula. At that
practices. conditions — FAR of such plot shall be DDA official said. Adding further on this, the official Rao is expected to take over the time he had exposed how Dera
In its proposed amendments in as prescribed for respective size of the “On Godowns clusters existing in explained, “Payment of use conversion reins of Gurugram Police on chief used code signals to incite
development control norms of shop - residential plotted development,” a Non-Conforming areas for wholesale charges from “Residential” to Wednesday. violence in Panchkula on
trading, DDA put some bars: The clus- “Commercial” shall be applicable as pre- Rao is the 7th police chief August 25.
ter should have direct access from a road scribed with the approval of of Gurugram Police after Range. Meanwhile, a 1995-batch
of minimum 30meter RoW. Formation Government. Other existing shop-cum- Commissionerate System of According to the service IPS officer, Khirwar joined as
of group or society shall be mandatory residence plots shall also be allowed to policing was introduced in the record of the newly appoint- Commissioner of Police
to facilitate preparation of redevelop- continue with original permitted use millennium city by then Chief ed police chief, he had served Gurugram, on August 17,
ment scheme/plan, development of with the FAR of residential plotted Minister BS Hooda in June as Superintendent of police 2016.
services, parking and maintenance, development. The upper floors can be 2007. (SP) in 14 districts in Haryana During his tenure, the
pollution control and environment converted to commercial use after pay- Haryana Government on and is a Post Graduate in Gurugram police faced serious
management. And the amalgamation ing the applicable charges,” Tuesday issued transfers and Psychology from Kurukshetra allegations over the wrong
and reconstitution of plots shall be per- Notably, DDA in its authority meet- posting orders of eight senior University. investigation in the sensation-
missible for redevelopment within the ing, chaired by Lieutenant Governor IPS officers, including the The new police chief of al murder of a seven year old
scheme area,” an official release from the Anil Baijal also approved proposed incumbent Commissioner of Gurugram, said , “My area of student in a premier school
DDA mentioned. norms for redevelopment of Godowns Police Gurugram, an official focus will be to improve the here. The case was later trans-
DDA also clarified that owners of clusters existing in Non - Conforming said. basic policing, work on crime ferred to Central Bureau of
the godowns shall have to obtain the areas for wholesale trading on Tuesday. The State Government mapping, reduction of crime Investigation (CBI).
requisite statutory clearances from the “Based on the above approval of the posted 1996-batch IPS officer rate and ensuring better traf- However, credit goes to
concerned agencies, whenever neces- Authority, the matter was forwarded to KK R ao (48), as fic management”. Khirwar as he got 1,000 new
sary. After approval of the Layout Plan the Ministry of Housing and Urban C ommissioner of police “We will ensure better recruits to bolster the strength
for redevelopment by the society, the Affairs, for approval and issuance of final Gurugram on Tuesday replac- security for the women. Our of the police force and 11 new
identified clusters will be processed for notification under Section 11-A of DD ing Sandeep Khirwar who top priority will be to curb police stations including the
change of land use on receiving the pro- Act-1957,” DDA said in its official has been transferred as the crime against women. state's first cyber crime police
posal from local body. statement. IGP of prestigious Rohtak Gurugram is developing as an station.

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year in the placement.
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Harsh Vardhan on Tuesday
said that construction work will
SMinister
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Piyush Goyal to
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oceanic science andtechnology and Opto- year . ring rail network in the city so
Electronics and Optical Communication have On the occasion of com- that more passengers can avail
seen a buoyant placement this year,” stated press pletion of four years of BJP the facility.
release from IIT-D. Government , Dr Vardhan also The 35-km-long ring rail
As many as 202 M.Tech students were said that two projects in network, constructed in 1975,
placed this year as against 183 last year through Chandni Chowk area did not links with the 231-km Delhi
Training and Placement(T and P) processes. take off because of “non-coop- Metro network at seven loca-
Undergraduate placements including the five eration” from the AAP “We pursued the developed with cooperation tions, and many stations of
years integrated course pegged at 540. A max- Government. Vardhan repre- Shahjahanabad redevelopment from the Delhi Development the ring rail fall in south
imum of 273 placements went to the core (tech- sents Chandni Chowk in Lok plan aggressively. I met with lt Authority, he said. Delhi.
nical) category followed by 187 and 133 place- Sabha. governor of Delhi and he was He said he would try to The mayor, who called on
ments in the IT and analytics sectors respec- “The work on Rani Jhansi also interested. But Delhi gov- provide the facilities separate- the minister, also appraised
tively. flyover was stuck for many ernment backed out. I also met ly from women. He said near- Goyal about green spaces,
IIT-D informed that Energy Studies, an years but I took it up aggres- chief minister but he was reluc- ly 237 projects were under beautification and installation
interdisciplinary stream having courses span- sively and its construction will tant on it,” Vardhan alleged. progress. of public arts on spaces under-
ning electrical engineering, Physics and be completed by August this The project to remove elec- Vardhan also listed out the neath flyovers which once had
mechanical engineering, has registered a near year,” the minister said while tricity wires and other cables central government schemes practically become dumping
cent percent placement while other interacting with media. hanging through the lanes of implemented in his con- ground for waste, a statement
Interdisciplinary areas have also mapped a The flyover project was the crowded Chandni Chowk stituency and praised the prime from the SDMC stated.
“vibrant placement trajectory”. conceived about two decades area too met the similar fate, he minister for his “vision” to “The mayor requested the
Shivam Garg, a student placed from ago and has missed several claimed. take the country forward. He rail minister to make the ring
Industrial Tribology and Maintenance deadlines.Listing out the work “After a few meetings, said the Modi government has rail services better so that the
Engineering stream feels that the trend is fun- he has done as the representa- Delhi government representa- achieved “remarkable” results number of passengers could
damentally because of industrial demand for tive of the constituency in Lok tives stopped attending meet- in most areas. increase,” it said.Some of sta-
knowledge in an interdisciplinary domain. Sabha, Vardhan said two pro- ings,” he said.The minister said “By identifying problems, tions on the circular rail net-
“Industry today expects that a candidate jects - Shahjahanabad redevel- he managed to spend all the diagnosing shortcomings, pro- work are Lajpat Nagar, Lodhi
must have knowledge of more than one opment plan and under- money in his MP Local Area viding solutions and then mon- Colony, Sarojini Nagar,
domain.Companies are therefore preferring grounding of electric cables in Development fund. itoring implementation, the Safadurjung and
those branches where people are capable of han- Chandni Chowk - did not hap- More than 50 open gyms prime minister has established Chanakyapuri. The network
dling and solving problems related to multiple pen as the Delhi government have been set up and 80 more good governance on firm foot- carries around 4,000 people
domains,” he said. “backed out” on them. are planned, besides 35 to be ing,” he said. daily.

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T were found in an unclaimed bag at
a railway station here and are current-
ly under care, animal welfare organisa-
tion Wildlife SOS said on Tuesday.
The stressed and scared animals —
an adult female and a baby — were
found huddled up in the bag at the Sarai
Rohilla Railway Station in north Delhi,
after a passenger inspected a shaking bag
from which a scuffling sound was
heard coming.
Native to India and Pakistan, the
Indian hedgehog (Paraechinus micro-
pus) has fur covered with spines or
strong hairs made of keratin which look
like small nails. The palm size species
curls up like a ball as a defensive mech-
anism.
Wildlife experts call it a rare rescue
since the incidents of poaching or traf-
ficking of this rare nocturnal species are
seldom reported.
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stimulants or aphrodisiacs... it is utter
superstition,” Wildlife SOS co-founder
and CEO Kartick Satyanarayan said.
He added that in some regions, they
are kept as exotic pets.
Found mostly in arid and semi arid
region of northwestern India, the species
is quickly losing its habitat and thus its
population is decreasing, according to
International Union of Conservation of
Nature. They feed primarily on insects
such as beetles, small vertebrates, scor-
pions and eggs of ground-nesting birds.
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wild, once deemed fit by the veterinar-
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Projects Manager, Wildlife SOS.
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elections, Uttar Pradesh
elf-styled godman Daati Maharaj accused of rap- Chief Minister Yogi
Sjoined
ing a disciple in his ashrams here and Rajasthan
the ongoing investigation on Tuesday, the
Adityanath attended a
workshop here to
police said. He was sent a notice asking him to join analyse the reasons
the probe by Wednesday. He reached the Crime behind Bharatiya Janata
Branch office and his questioning is underway, they Party (BJP)’s defeat in
added. recently held by-elec-
On Saturday, tions in Kairana, Phoolpur and Gorakhpur
a Delhi Police parliamentary constituencies.
team had visited The CM reached the venue at
the godman's 11.30 am on Tuesday at Raj Kumar Goel
ashram in Pali,
Rajasthan, to
Institute of Technology (RKGIT).
Responding to the questions of the
gather evidence. media persons, the CM said that his
The team, which
failed to find the
Government is working day and night for
the welfare of the masses. Law and order sit-
godman at the ashram, was accompanied by the rape uation has improved.
victim. Replying to a question on Kairana, the
The woman had filed a complaint last Sunday CM said, “The vote share of BJP increased
against Daati Maharaj at the Fatehpur Beri police from 40 to 46 per cent in Kairana but we
station here in south Delhi.The case was later trans- lost”.
ferred to the Crime Branch. According to a BJP leader, the meeting
The woman had alleged that she was sexually took stock of the current political situation
abused at Daati Maharaj's ashrams in Delhi and and discussed strategy to increase the vote
Rajasthan and had also named two male disciples percentage up to
of the godman in her complaint. 50 per cent. The focus of the party is to get
Delhi Commission for Women had recently the half of votes polled and let the
demanded the godman's arrest. The Delhi Police had Opposition fight for the rest, he said.
earlier issued a lookout circular against Daati The workshop was attended by the offi-
Maharaj to ensure that he does not leave the coun- cer bearers of Western Uttar Pradesh includ-
try. ing union ministers Mahesh Sharma,
The woman has told the police that she had been General (retd) VK Singh, Noida MLA
a disciple of Daati Maharaj for a decade but after she Pankaj Singh, former union minister Sanjeev
was raped by him, she returned to her home in Balyan and Ghaziabad MLAs including
Rajasthan. Sunil Sharma, Ajit Pal Tyagi and others.

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T Party (AAP) MLAs, who
apparently tried to follow their
party “biggies” by allegedly
refusing to leave the premises
of Raj Niwas not before meet-
ing Lieutenant Governor (L-
G) Anil Baijal, were forceful-
ly removed by police on
Tuesday.
AAP MLAs Somnath
Bharti and SK Bagga, who were
“seeking an appointment” to
meet the L-G, were allegedly
removed by police from the L-
G's Office where they had gone
to attend a Delhi Development
Authority (DDA) meeting.
Both members of DDA,
after the meeting stayed back at
L-G office and sought an
appointment to meet Baijal,
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D Minister Manish Sisodia
and his colleague Satyendar
Jain, who were on a hunger
strike at the Lieutenant
Governor's office and hospi-
talised after their health dete-
riorated, were discharged
from the Lok Nayak Hospital
on Tuesday.
Health Minister Jain was
admitted to the Intensive
Care Unit (ICU) of the hos-
pital on Sunday night after his
condition had deteriorated
following a sharp fall in
Ketone level. Sisodia was
rushed to the hospital around
3 pm on Monday after the
Ketone level in his urine rose
sharply and his sugar level
dropped.
Medical Superintendent
of the Lok Nanayak Hospital
JC Passey said, “Both the
Ministers were discharged
around 10 am. Their health
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MLAs Somnath Bharti and SK
Bagga, who came to attend the
meeting, refused to leave the
residential premises of the Lt
Governor, on the pretext of
joining the 'dharna' of the
Chief Minister,” said a state-
ment from the Raj Niwas.
The two MLAs were
“repeatedly requested” to end
their “unauthorised occupa-
tion” of the residential premis-
es of the Lt Governor, it said.
“However, they refused to
leave and continued with their
unauthorised occupation for
about two hours and left only
after considerable persuasion,”
it added.
Chief Minister Arvind
Kejriwal himself sat on an
indefinite “sit-in” at L-G's office
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level in urine are normal now.”
In the morning, Sisodia
tweeted that he was “recover-
ing fast” and would try and
resume work from Tuesday.
“Good Morning!! With
Doctor's care and your bless-
ings, I am recovering fast.
Yesterday, my ketone level was
7.4 & BP reached 184/100,
which was leading to renal fail-
ure. But now everything is
under control. If doctors allow
I'll try to be back to work today
only,” he said on Twitter.
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since June 11 along with three
of his Cabinet colleagues, all of
them only to be removed on
health grounds one by one.
Kejriwal termed the incident
bizarre and said that it is con-
stitutional duty of the L-G to
meet the elected representatives.
“Two MLAs evicted force-
fully using police by the L-G?
Just becoz they wanted to meet
him? What is this going on?
Why is LG refusing to meet
MLAs, MPs, ministers, CM?
Does LG know that he has a
constitutional duty to meet
them? He has no choice but to
meet them? This is bizarre,” he
tweeted.
Bharti alleged that he was
“ousted” from L-G's office by a
heavy police force. “Ashamed
that Honble LG in place of
hearing us out for 2 min used
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On Saturday, a team of
doctors had examined Sisodia
and Jain. While Jain went on
indefinite fast at the L-G's
office last Tuesday, Sisodia had
been on a hunger strike since
Wednesday.
Kejriwal, along with his
colleagues, have been at
Lieutenant Governor Anil
Baijal's office since June 11,
demanding a direction to IAS
officers to end what the AAP
describes a “strike” and
approval of the doorstep ration
delivery scheme.
heavy police led by ACP Sri
Tyagi to oust us from LG
House. Possibly the most
potent democratic tool name-
ly dialogue has no place in the
Modi era,” he tweeted.
However, a senior police
officer said Bharti and Bagga
did not have an appointment to
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IGovernor
on Tuesday, Lieutenant
Anil Baijal in his
first communication to Chief
Minister Arvind Kejriwal since
the latter began a sit-in at his
office, asked him to meet offi-
cers urgently to address con-
cerns of both sides through
dialogue.
Baijal shot off a letter to
Kejriwal on Tuesday in
response to his deputy
Manish Sisodia's communi-
cation in which the latter
had asked for meeting
between the Government and
bureaucrats to end the
impasse.
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L Party (BJP) on Tuesday
ended their counter hunger
strike at the Delhi Secretariat
after Delhi Chief Minister
Arvind Kejriwal ended his sit-
in-protest at Lieutenant
Governor Anil Baijal's office.
Union Minister Harsh
Vardhan visited the Secretariat
and offered juice to the BJP
leaders sitting on hunger strike
for last five days.
meet Baijal and were asked to
leave.
“We checked with the con-
trol room of the L-G's office
whether the MLAs had any
appointment with the LG but
they said that there was no
meeting fixed. The MLAs were
asked to leave and no police force
Kejriwal, Sisodia, Health
Minister Satyendar Jain and
Labour Minister Gopal Rai
had started a sit-in protest at
the L-G's office on June 11 over
their demands, including a
direction to IAS officers to end
their “strike”.
Sisodia and Jain, who were
on a hunger strike at the L-G's
office and were hospitalised
after their health deteriorated,
were discharged this morning
from the LNJP Hospital.
“The L-G requested the
CM to urgently meet the offi-
cers at the Secretariat so that
apprehensions and concerns of
both sides can be suitably
addressed through dialogue
in the best interest of the peo-
ple of Delhi,” an official from
Earlier on Tuesday, Leader of
Opposition in the Delhi
Assembly Vijender Gupta, who
was on an indefinite hunger
strike, was shifted to GB Pant
Hospital after his condition dete-
riorated.
West Delhi BJP MP Pravesh
Singh Sahib Verma said tweet-
ed, “Vijender Gupta being taken
to the hospital. He was on
indefinite hunger strike with us
for the last five days. May God
bless (Delhi Chief Minister)
Arvind Kejriwal's wisdom?”
used to oust them,” he added.
Meanwhile, the Raj Niwas in
a statement said the L-G chaired
the DDA meeting to consider the
public suggestions and com-
ments which were sought on the
issue of the proposed amend-
ments in the Master Plan of
Delhi (MPD) 2021.
Baijal's office said in a state-
ment.
The official said Baijal had
earlier advised the AAP
Government to make efforts to
restore trust between the elect-
ed government and the offi-
cers.
“The L-G stated that he
was glad that the CM had
tweeted an appeal to the offi-
cers assuring them of safety
and security in their interac-
tions with the elected govern-
ment.
“The L-G observed that he
has been informed that the
officers have also welcomed
the appeal and they are await-
ing the CM's presence at the
Secretariat to hold discus-
sions,” the statement added.
The AAP Government has
done the entire drama to cover
up its failure in Delhi and to sky
rocket its dwindling fortune at
national level, Gupta said in a
statement.
Gupta, along with Pravesh
Verma, MLA Manjinder
Singh Sirsa and suspended
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)
MLA Kapil Mishra, started
their indefinite hunger strike
on June 15 against the alleged
“non-performance” of the
Kejriwal Government.
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sion portal marred the pace of
admission process, around
2,200 admissions have been
approved at various colleges of
Delhi University (DU) on the
very first day after the first cut-
off was announced. Out of
which around 800 candidates
have successfully paid their
fees.
“Despite the initial hic-
cups, the number of admissions
is two times more as compared
to the last year on the first day
of the admission after
announcement of first cut-off,”
said a DU official.
The undergraduate (UG)
admission portal of the DU
crashed allegedly due to over-
load in the first half of the day
leaving many aspirants and
parents 'irked'. However, the
admission portal got soon
revived within hours after
which the aspirants successfully
logged to the UG portal to
select the appropriate course
and college to generate their
“admission application form”.
With DU announcing its
first cut-off on June 19, appli-
cants meeting the benchmark
throng to the colleges in north
and south campuses of DU for
taking admissions. Admissions
against the first cut-off would
be made till June 21 and doc-
ument verification, approval of
admission and payment of fee
has to be done within the stip-
ulated time.
At Hindu College, about
170 admissions were approved
on the very first day maximum
being for BA (Hons) Political
Science at 46. At Ramjas
College, around 140 admis-
sions have been approved. At
Aryabhatta College, 30 admis-
sions took place out of which
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maximum nine were for BA
(Hons) Economics.
“BA (Hons) Economics is
followed by B Com (Hons) and
BA (Hons) Political Science.
Enquiries were also made for
BSc(Hons) Computer Science,”
said Manoj Sinha, Principal of
Aryabhatta College.
At SGTB Khalsa College,
around 70 admissions took
place maximum being for
BCom (Hons). At Miranda
House, about 115 admissions
took place maximum being
for BSc(H) Physics at 20. While
for the BA (H) Political Science
16 admissions and for BA (pro-
gramme) around 15 admis-
sions took place. At Dyal Singh,
about 100 admissions approved
maximum being for BSc(Hons)
Mathematics at 25.
After the declaration of
cut-offs the candidates are
required to login to his/her por-
tal and select the appropriate
course and college to generate
the admission application form.
Thereafter, applicants have to
proceed to the college for
admission with set of original
documents and self-attested
photocopies of the documents.
As principals approve the
application online, the option
of fee payment will appear on
the dashboard of the candidate
subsequently. The candidate
shall login again and pay the
admission fee online using the
link available in the dashboard.
Once the fee is paid successfully
through the link provided on
your dashboard, the admission
process to that particular col-
lege is complete.
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T the north-east continued to
improve on Tuesday, except in
Assam, where six more people
died, taking the death toll due
to flood-related incidents in the
region to 31, officials said.
According to a report of
the Assam State Disaster
Management Authority
(ASDMA), four people lost
their lives in flood-related inci-
dents in worst-hit Karimganj
district while two died in
Cachar district since yesterday,
taking the death toll in the State
to 20.
Over 5.64 lakh people have
been affected by the flood in
Nagaon, Hojai, Cachar,
Karimganj and Hailakandi dis-
tricts.
Till yesterday, 5.49 lakh
people were hit by the flood
across six districts, including
Golaghat.
Karimganj is the worst hit,
affecting nearly 2.36 lakh peo-
ple, followed by Hailakandi
with 2.21 lakh, the report said.
At present, 727 villages in
the affected districts are under
water and 3,890 hectares of
crop areas have been damaged,
the report said.
It said the authorities are
running 457 relief camps and
distribution centres in four
districts, where 1,57,524 peo-
ple have taken shelter.
At least 9,250 people have
been evacuated by the state and
national disaster response
forces personnel from
Karimganj, Hailakandi and
Cachar districts since yesterday.
Landslides occurred at
Kharguli locality in Guwahati,
but no casualty was reported,
the report said.
Barak river at
Badarpurghat in Karimganj,
Dhansiri at Numaligarh in
Golaghat and Kushiyara at
Karimganj town were flowing
above the danger marks, the
report said.
In Tripura, the situation
has improved and 19,953 peo-
ple were staying in 61 relief
camps in Kailashahar subdivi-
sion of Unakoti, the worst
affected district, officials said.
Over 72,000 people of the
district had been in relief
camps till yesterday.
A large number of the
marooned people have left for
their homes after flood water
receded in rivers Manu and
Deo, the officials said.
The flood has so far
claimed three lives in Tripura.
The issue was raised in the
Assembly and Chief Minister
Biplab Kumar Deb said an
elaborate report on the damage
caused by the flood would be
sent to the Centre for necessary
assistance. The state govern-
ment has constituted a com-
mittee to assess the damage and
submit it to the Centre at the
earliest, he said, adding that
compensation will be given to
the flood hit people as per
norms. The chief minister was
addressing the house after
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Kishen on Tuesday announced
to organise a huge demonstra-
tion at Jalebi Chowk,
Sultanpuri Majra on
Wednesday in protest of failure
of AAP Government in Delhi
and Narendra Modi
Government in Centre. The
Congress leader said that they
will also burned effigy of
Arvind Kejriwal and Modi. Jai
Kishen claimed that as many as
10,000 people will join in the
protest.
He accused that Kejriwal
and his Ministers sit on dhar-
na at L-G house in demand of
statehood to Delhi. “Now they
shifted their demand, started
blaming strike by IAS. Kejriwal
is behaving like urban naxalite,”
he said.
“Now BJP and AAP are
Blaming each other .He also
said that now people are aware
about their intentions and peo-
ple will teach them lesson dur-
ing the elections,” the Congress
leader said.
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Chakraborty, who is from the
worst hit Unakoti district,
expressed his concern about
the flood affected people.
"We are working together
with the Central government.
Following our request, the
Centre has sent choppers along
with NDRF personnel to tide
over the situation," Deb said.
In Manipur, normal life is
gradually coming back as flood
water is receding in most of the
affected areas, officials said.
However, several localities
in the five districts of Imphal
valley, mostly at Wabagai area
of Thoubal district, are still
under knee-deep water.
The state Relief and
Disaster Management depart-
ment officials said at least 304
village were affected by the
flood that claimed eight lives in
the state.
Water level of major rivers
continued a declining trend.
Manipur Governor Najma
Heptulla and staff members of
Imphal Raj Bhavan donated
one day salar y to the
Governor’s Relief Fund for the
welfare of the affected people,
Raj Bhavan officials said.
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where issues pertaining to the
Scheduled Tribes in the coun-
try were discussed.
The two-day camptitled
‘Bharat ki janjatiyon ki asmita
aur astitva’ (the pride and
existence of the Scheduled
Tribes of India),was inaugu-
rated in presence of Bhagwat
this morning, said programme
convener Harsh Chauhan.
The camp is organised by
the Akhil Bharatiya Vanvasi
Kalyan Ashram, a Sangh affil-
iate,
“Elaborate discussions
were held on (issues like)
Panchayats (Extension of
Scheduled Areas) Act (PESA)
and its implementation in
scheduled areas, ensuring par-
ticipation of entire scheduled
tribe community in reserva-
tion, and on Forest Rights Act
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Singh’s wife Saroj Kumari on
Tuesday moved a court here,
alleging her sons Abhimanyu
Singh and Ajay Singh are
harassing her and had forced
her out of her house.
A Congress leader, Ajay
Singh is the Leader of
Opposition (LoP) in the
Madhya Pradesh Assembly.
Kumari, 83, filed the com-
plaint under the Protection of
Women From Domestic
Violence Act in the court of
judicial magistrate Gaurav
Pragyan.
To file the complaint, she
personally visited the court
along with her daughter Veena
Singh and NRI industrialist
Sam Varma.
The magistrate ordered
issuance of notices to the
respondents, and listed the
matter for hearing on July 19.
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Singh and LoP Ajay Singh
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“Sitting inside the LG’s
office cannot resolve the issue
of doorstep delivery of ration.
I spoke to the Chief Minister
and Gopal Rai, and they have
agreed that they will come out
of the LG’s office,” Sisodia said.
The move came after
Baijal, in his first communica-
tion to Kejriwal since he began
a sit-in at his office, on Tuesday
wrote to the Chief Minister,
asking him to meet officers
urgently to address concerns of
both sides.
Baijal shot off the letter in
response to Sisodia’s commu-
nication in which he had asked
for a meeting between the
Government and the bureau-
crats to end the impasse.
Sisodia said that today’s
development indicates that offi-
cers are returning to meetings
with Ministers while asserting
that he had also asked some
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against me and forced me out
of my own house. They have
also refused to take care of my
maintenance which compelled
me to approach the court," the
complaint said.
It also named Suniti Singh,
Ajay Singh’s wife.
Kumari’s lawyer Dipesh
Joshi said his client had also
requested the court to grant her
ex-parte relief (relief before
hearing the respondents) so
that she can return to her
house in Bhopal.
In a media statement too,
Saroj Kumari reiterated her
allegations. Having been forced
out of her own house, she has
to live live in an apartment in
Greater Noida, she said.
Her husband served the
Congress his entire life and
ensuring protection of women
and assisting helpless persons
was a matter of principles for
him, she said.
"But my son Ajay Singh has
set aside these principles of the
Congress and forced me out of
my own house. At this age I
have to leave my own home to
attending meetings.
“Asked about officers’
demand to hold meeting with
the Chief Minister over their
safety and dignity, Sisodia said
that “our meetings with the
officers will be conducted on a
daily basis”. He said that “for the
last three months, we have
been saying that our fight was
not with the officers”.
Earlier, as the relations
between the AAP Government
and the bureaucrats showed
signs of a thaw, the IAS officers
said they were waiting for a for-
mal communication from
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind
Kejriwal for a meeting at the
Secretariat here to end the
impasse.
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declare as “unconstitutional”
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live in different places. It is not
only against the principles of
Congress party but also defines
the character of the man, who
is all-powerful and the leader
of opposition," she said.
"I have urged the court to
help me so that I can live in my
own house and also requested
it to issue orders for eviction of
Ajay Singh from that house,"
the statement read.
When contacted, Ajay
Singh told PTI that he would
reply to any notice pertaining
to the complaint when he
receives it. Speaking to
reporters later, Ajay Singh
termed the complaint as "BJP’s
conspiracy". Whenever he gave
notice for no-confidence
motion against the BJP gov-
ernment, such things hap-
pened, he said. The last time he
had moved the motion, a
Congress MLA defected to the
BJP at the last moment, he said.
Singh recently submitted a
notice to the Assembly secre-
tariat for a no-confidence
motion in the coming mon-
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sought to put the ball in the L-
G’s court, saying he is awaiting
a response from Baijal.
“But Baijal is looking for a
green signal from Prime
Minister Narendra Modi for
convening the meeting”, he
claimed. Stepping up its attack
on the L-G, the AAP accused
him of working “on the behest”
of the Centre and not conven-
ing a meeting between the
Delhi Government and the
IAS officers to end the logjam.
Meanwhile, AAP MLAs
Somnath Bharti and AK Bagga,
who were seeking an appoint-
ment to meet Baijal, were
allegedly removed by the police
from the L-G’s office where
they had gone to attend a
DDA meeting.
Both Bharti and Bagga,
members of the Delhi
Development Authority(DDA),
after the meeting stayed back at
the L-G’s office and sought an
appointment to meet Baijal.
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Iterrorism
agreed to strengthen counter-
cooperation through
measures such as regular
exchange of information and
sharing of best practices on
countering violent extremism,
the MEA said.
Officials of the two coun-
tries held the 10th Meeting of
the Joint Working Group on
Counter-Terrorism in New
Delhi yesterday, during which
they assessed and exchanged
views on prevailing terrorist
threats, including cross-border
terrorism in Af-Pak region,
the Ministry of External Affairs
said in a statement.
The Indian delegation was
led by Mahaveer Singhvi, joint
secretary (counter terrorism) in
the Ministry of External
Affairs, while the Australian
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memorial at Villers Guislain,
town around 200 km from
Paris, to honour the valour and
sacrifice of the thousands of its
soldiers, sailors and airmen
who fought for peace in the
World War I. This was
announced by External Affairs
Minister Sushma Swaraj here.
“India will construct an
Indian Armed Forces
Memorial at Villers Guislain,"
she said.
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He said the coalition
between the PDP and the BJP
did not work from day one and
it was destined to fail.
Obser vers say that
inevitable Governor’s rule
would not be like the previous
two occasions when such
arrangements were made since
the Assembly elections were
held in 2014.
“This time, the ground sit-
uation is explosive in Kashmir.
Annual Amarnath yatra is
round the corner and anti-ter-
ror operations have been
resumed (after calling off cease-
fire). The people are virtually in
a combat mode, especially in
south Kashmir,” said Haroon
Rashid, editor of Urdu daily
Nidai Mashriq. “In absence of
any political outreach, the sit-
uation is going to be more sen-
sitive,” he said.
Interestingly, the common
people chose to remain indif-
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Congress president Rahul
Gandhi said the opportunistic
BJP-PDP alliance has set
Jammu & Kashmir on fire the
damage will continue under
President’s Rule. “It cost India
strategically and destroyed
years of UPA’s hard work,” he
tweeted.
Azad termed end of the
alliance between the BJP and
the PDP as good for the peo-
ple of Kashmir.
“The BJP ruined Kashmir
as much as it could in three
years. In the last three years,
civilian killings and Army
deaths have risen sharply.
There is no question of form-
ing any Government with the
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From page 1
Congress president Rahul
Gandhi said the opportunistic
BJP-PDP alliance has set
Jammu & Kashmir on fire the
damage will continue under
President’s Rule. “It cost India
strategically and destroyed
years of UPA’s hard work,” he
tweeted.
Azad termed end of the
alliance between the BJP and
the PDP as good for the peo-
ple of Kashmir.
“The BJP ruined Kashmir
as much as it could in three
years. In the last three years,
civilian killings and Army
deaths have risen sharply.
There is no question of form-
Foley, ambassador for counter-
terrorism.
"The two sides agreed to
further strengthen counter-
terrorism cooperation through
regular exchange of informa-
tion, capacity building efforts,
mutual legal assistance, sharing
of best practices on countering
violent extremism and coop-
erating in multilateral fora
such as the Untied Nations and
the Financial Action Task Force
on Money Laundering," the
MEA said.
They also discussed con-
temporary counter terrorism
challenges such as radicalisa-
tion and violent extremism, use
of Internet for terror purposes,
foreign terrorist fighters
explored measures to combat
financing of terrorism.
The next meeting of the
Joint Working Group on
Counter-Terrorism shall be
held in Australia in 2019.
such memorial in Europe, she
said. During the World War I,
Villers-Guislain had witnessed
a fierce battle in which the
British Indian cavalry regi-
ments were heavily involved.
The town was liberated on
September 29, 2018.
Swaraj, who arrived here
from Rome yesterday on the
second leg of her four-nation
tour, addressed the Indian dias-
pora at a reception organised in
her honour. She said that
Indians in every part of the
world carry India and its civil-
isational ethos in their heart.
ferent to the political develop-
ment. However, in the long run,
the sacking of the Mehbooba
Government would further
erode New Delhi’s credibility in
Kashmir. “It has revived the
memories as to how Sheikh
Muhammad Abdullah was
sacked and arrested in 1953,
Mir Qasim was asked to quit in
1975, Farooq Abdullah was
dismissed twice in 1984 and
1989 and Mufti Sayeed was
asked to quit in 2005,” Rashid
said.
He said the ground situa-
tion would not allow immedi-
ate holding of elections in
Jammu & Kashmir. “The by-
election for Anantnag Lok
Sabha constituency could not
he held nor were the panchay-
at polls possible. This situation
is not going to change
overnight. Therefore the
Governor’s rule is likely to stay
for more time than expected,”
he said.
PDP. The question does not
arise,” Azad said.
He claimed that he had
cautioned Prime Minister
Narendra Modi, on the floor of
the House, that they had done
a Himalayan blunder by having
a coalition Government with a
regional party in J&K.
In a series of tweets,
Congress blamed the BJP, its
“conniving alliance” and “lust”
for power for pushing the State
into an unending cycle of vio-
lence and terror and said that
radicalisation at its peak and
peace is biggest casualty, adding
that that in four years of the
alliance Government, 373
jawans and 239 civilians lost
their lives.
PDP. The question does not
arise,” Azad said.
He claimed that he had
cautioned Prime Minister
Narendra Modi, on the floor of
the House, that they had done
a Himalayan blunder by having
a coalition Government with a
regional party in J&K.
In a series of tweets,
Congress blamed the BJP, its
“conniving alliance” and “lust”
for power for pushing the State
into an unending cycle of vio-
lence and terror and said that
radicalisation at its peak and
peace is biggest casualty, adding
that that in four years of the
alliance Government, 373
jawans and 239 civilians lost
their lives.
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T Tuesday granted protec-
tion from arrest to the princi-
pal and a teacher of a presti-
gious Uttar Pradesh school in
a case involving abetment to
suicide of a Class XII student
who died 18 months ago.
The Vacation Bench of
Justices S Abdul Nazeer and
Indu Malhotra granted stay of
arrest of Fr Melvin Saldanha
and physical education teacher
James John of the Cathedral
Senior Secondary School,
Hazratganj, Lucknow while
directing them to cooperate
with the investigation.
The court noted that the
chargesheet against both the
accused under IPC Section 305
(abetment to suicide) had
already been filed. Besides, the
petitioners apprehended that
the case against them was moti-
vated since the deceased stu-
dent was the son of a high rank-
ing police officer in the State.
Appearing for the accused,
senior advocate Sanjay Hegde
and advocate Ajay Singh point-
ed out that the role of the
accused is not established nor
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R Goyal on Tuesday said that
India will become a “net zero”
carbon emitter by 2030.
Speaking at an event — ‘The
Rail Contact 2018’, Goyal said
that the national transporter
was going green in a big way.
“With the current action
plans on anvil for 100 per cent
electrification, coupled with
renewable strategies, Indian
Railways will become a net zero
carbon emitter by 2030.
However, it is always a team
which needs to work in part-
nership, with a collective effort
of working towards a common
goal,” he said at an event organ-
ised by the Confederation
of Indian Industry (CII) in
collaboration with the
Railway Board.
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ountries across the globe,
C as also big and small cities
in India are gearing up to |
celebrate this year’s UN
International Day of Yoga on
June 21, the fourth in the series
even as Prime Minister
Narendra Modi exhorted the
common man to make yoga a
lifestyle since “it makes
people better individuals in
thought, action, knowledge
and devotion.”
Ahead of the D-day, Modi,
who will lead a massive mass
yoga event in Dehradun in
Uttarakhand said in a video
message posted on his Twitter
handle recently that yoga is not
just a set of exercises that
keeps the body fit, it is a “pass-
port” to health assurance and
a key to fitness and wellness.
He equated yoga as one of
the most precious gifts given by
the ancient Indian sages to
humankind. “Yoga is not only
what you practise in the morn-
ing. Doing your day-to-day
activities with diligence and
complete awareness is a form of
yoga as well,” he said. Free from
illness, a path to wellness —
is the crime proved. Police case
states that the deceased was rid-
ing a motorbike along with a
friend outside the school on the
morning of the fateful day. The
bike rammed into a cycle rick-
shaw injuring a passenger fol-
lowing which a crowd gathered
and began to scold the boy.
Alerted by the crowd and
the commotion surrounding it,
the accused teacher brought the
two boys into the school and
took them to the principal.
Their diaries were taken away
and parents were asked to
report to school. The boy
feared expulsion.
Meanwhile, as his parents
were late to arrive, the accused
teacher dropped him home
where minutes later, he shot
himself dead with his father’s
service revolver.
founder Steve Jobs, the
Minister added, “Great things
in business are never done by
one person. Industry partici-
pation is as much important in
our mission as to make Indian
Railways the newest, finest and
safest railways in the world.”
Sharing the scale of mod-
ernisation and transformation
Indian Railways has been
able to achieve, the Minister
said, “We have been able to
ramp up track renewal to 476
km every month.”
“In the last 64 years, freight
loading has increased by 1,344
per cent in Indian Railways.
Passenger travel in terms of
kilometres has increased 1,642
per cent. The total investments
in 2013-14 in the capital infra-
structure of the railways was
slated for about C46,000 crore,
which is now made C1,41,000
crore for this year,” he said.
that is the path of yoga, he said.
Just two days left for the D-
day, the country is already in
the grip of the yoga fervor. State
Governments as well as NGOs
engaged in the sector are leav-
ing no stone unturned to make
the day successful by ensuring
maximum participation.
For instance, Brahma
Kumaris Organisation will hold
mass yoga event at Red Fort
Ground, Delhi wherein over
50,000 yoga enthusiasts from
Delhi and NCR including
women personnel from various
Central Armed Police Forces
such as CRPF, CISF, BSF, ITBP
etc will participate. They will be
led by 102-year-old Rajyogini
Dadi Janki, Global Chief of
Brahma Kumaris.
Similarly, if in the extreme
South, volunteers from Isha
Foundation will teach Upa
Yoga to prisoners of the 16 pris-
ons across Tamil Nadu, then
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev will
impart yoga skills to Army per-
sonnel guarding the Siachen
glacier in Ladakh region of
Jammu & Kashmir.
Not keen to leave behind in
the race, an all women’s team
of Indian Army officers, under
The incident occurred on
December 3, 2016, and a day
later FIR was lodged against the
school principal and teacher by
the boy’s father. The prosecution
alleged that the boy was beaten
black and blue and he took the
extreme step unable to bear this
humiliation and harassment.
The medical records also
supported the police case.
However, the boy who accom-
panied the deceased on the bike
gave his statement to police
denying any beating or
harassment by either principal
or the teacher.
In February, 2017, the
Crime Branch took over the
probe in the case and again
recorded the boy’s statement
that remained unchanged.
With the chargesheet already
filed on March 14 this year and
the ACJM (Additional Chief
Judicial Magistrate) court in
Lucknow issuing summons,
the accused moved the
Lucknow Bench of the
Allahabad high court for pro-
tection from arrest and quash-
ing of charge sheet. On May 22,
the high court dismissed the
petition following which the
duo approached the apex court.
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T the Deputy Chairman of
the House was set in motion on
Tuesday with Rajya
Sabha Chairman and Vice-
President M Venkaiah Naidu
holding talks on the issue with
the Parliamentar y
Affairs Minister.
Sources said the Rajya
Sabha Chairman called
Minister of Parliamentary
Affairs Ananth Kumar and
discussed the polling proce-
dures and various precedents
regarding the election of
Deputy Chairman.
Rajya Sabha Secretary
General Desh Dipak Verma
was also present during the
deliberations.
Hectic deliberations are on
among the Opposition parties
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Col Omender K Pawar, scaled
the mighty Mt Bhagirathi II
and set a world record for per-
forming yoga at an altitude of
19,022 ft. The expedition that
was done in May-June 2018
was to celebrate the
International Day of Yoga.
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he country’s top security
T establishments have pre-
pared a blueprint to deliver a
lethal blow to terrorists in the
Valley after end of Ramzan
ceasefire. A list of 250 to 300
terrorists has been prepared
who would be hunted down in
the next few weeks. In the last
three years, the Army has
gunned down 600 hardcore ter-
rorists in the Valley.
Home Minister Rajnath
Singh held a high-level meet-
ing at his residence with Home
Secretary Rajiv Gauba, and
senior officials of the
Intelligence Bureau and his
Ministry to assess the ground
situation in the sensitive State
on Tuesday.
Sources said as many as
250 to 300 terrorists from
Lashkar-e-Tayyeba (LeT),
Hizbul Mujahideen and Jaish-
e-Mohammed have been short-
listed by the Intelligence and
security agencies for Operation
All-Out in parts of the region.
“The prime locations of
terrorist activities were mapped
during the Ramzan ceasefire.
Intelligence agencies have car-
ried out a secret district-wise
survey to identify terrorist
hideouts. This strategic opera-
tion is based on meticulous
to wrest the post. Some
Opposition parties are of the
view that the post should go to
a non-BJP, non-Congress party
leader and some of them are in
touch with with the Congress
for its support
to the proposal.
The Rajya Sabha Deputy
Chairman’s post falls vacant on
July 2 on the expiry of the
tenure of incumbent PJ Kurien
as a member of the Upper
House a day before.
As per Rule 7(1) of the
Rules of Procedure and
Conduct of Business in the
Council of States, the
Chairman of Rajya Sabha
will fix the date of election
which is to be informed to
every member.
As per the election sched-
ule, notices for the election
received are arranged in order
In the national Capital,
yoga demonstration will be
held by NDMC at Rajpath
with CISF being the nodal
force for Central Armed Police
Forces (CAPFs) of said func-
tion. The paramilitary force will
coordinate with concerned
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ering,” sources added.
Sources added as part of its
new strategy, Pakistan-based ISI
has asked the LeT and the
Hizbul Mujahideen to focus
on North Kashmir, while leav-
of point of time of their receipt
and included in the
List of Business for the day, on
which the election has been
scheduled.
As per the procedure pre-
scribed in Sub-Rules 2, 3 and
4 of the Rule 7 of the Rules of
Procedure, any member may
give notice in writing addressed
to the Secretary General, before
noon on the day before the
election date, of a motion that
another member may be cho-
sen as deputy chairman, the
sources said.
This notice shall be accom-
panied by a statement by the
member whose name is pro-
posed in the notice that he is
willing to serve as deputy chair-
man, if elected.
Kurien was elected as
deputy chairman of Rajya
Sabha on August 21, 2012.
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authorities for participation of
1,000 CAPF personnel. Master
trainers trained at the Morarji
Desai National Institute of
Yoga (MDNIY) will be leading
the CAPFs — Border Security
Force (BSF), Central Reserve
Police Force (CRPF) and
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mercenaries. The Jaish terrorists
are considered to be “stronger”
than the local youths who com-
prise the Lashkar and Hizbul.
The security agency offi-
cials said the highly-volatile
Shopian and Pulwama districts
in South Kashmir continued to
contribute more youth to the
terrorists groups which includ-
ed outfits like ISIS-Kashmir
and Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind, a
group which claims support of
the al-Qaeda.
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J tenure was supposed to end,
Defence Minister Nirmala
Sitharaman’s husband
Parakala Prabhakar on Tuesday
resigned from the post of
Adviser (Communications)
to the Government of
Andhra Pradesh.
“My continuation as
Advisor should not cast dark
clouds on your sincerity in the
fight against the Centre for the
States rights. The Government’s
credibility also should not suf-
fer because of me,” Prabhakar
said in his two-page resignation
letter forwarded to the Chief
Minister Chandrababdu Naidu
on Tuesday afternoon.
Prabhakar, as adviser, was
in effect the Chief Public
Relations Officer to the CM.
National Security Guards
(NSG) which have lined up
Yoga competitions and training
camps for the event.
At Ahmedabad’s Sardar
Patel Stadium, more than
10,000 people from various
walks of life are expected to
take part in the State-level
yoga event organised jointly by
the State Government and
Baba Ramdev’s Patanjali
Yogpeeth. World over too, the
enthusiasm for the yoga event
is visible as nations have
already kicked off a host of pro-
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P Modi on Wednesday will
interact with farmers via video
conferencing to flag his
Government’s major schemes
aimed at boosting their
income, and also address farm
sector issues.
The interaction with farm-
ers will be the sixth such inter-
action that began on the eve of
Modi Government completing
four years in office. “The inter-
action will provide an oppor-
tunity to hear directly from the
farmers. Initiatives related to
doubling farmers’ income will
also be discussed,” a statement
issued by Prime Minister’s
Office said.
The interaction will be
broadcast directly by Krishi
Vigyan Kendra’s, Common
Ser vice Centres (CSC),
Doordarshan, DD Kissan and
Aakashvaani from all over the
country, it said.
“People will also be able to
interact with the Prime
Minister through Narendra
Modi App,” the statement said.
In the previous interac-
tions, the Prime Minister had
heard beneficiaries of free
cooking gas (LPG) scheme,
financial inclusion initiative,
start-up entrepreneurs, health
scheme and Digital India.
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ing the YSR Congress, had
questioned the Chief Ministers
sincerity in his fight with the
Centre over the special cate-
gory status and other issues
with Prabhakar continuing as
Government advisor.
“I was pained that even the
Leader of Opposition YS
Jaganmohan Reddy sought to
cast aspersions on you because
of me. Attributing political
motives and accusing you of
resorting to behind the screen
deals only expose the mindset
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Hundreds of yoga enthusiasts
participated in the yoga event
at historic monuments of the
US, including the Capitol Hill
while in New York, people
gathered at the Governors
Island in the backdrop of the
iconic Statue of Liberty and the
Manhattan skyline to partici-
pate in the Yoga Day com-
memoration organised by the
Consulate General of India
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Embassy of India organised a
yoga camp in Kathmandu
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of the Opposition leader,”
Prabhakar said.
“When I broached the
issue with you last night, you
rejected my move. But my
conscience strongly made me
decide to quit, against your
wishes. Please accept my res-
ignation forthwith,” Prabhakar
added.
Prabhakar was appointed
Adviser (Communications) in
July 2014 for two-year term.
His tenure was later extended
for two more years and it was
supposed to end on July 4.
wherein hundreds of people
including representatives from
various Yoga associations,
friendship societies,
film personalities, school chil-
dren and officials of the
embassy and their family mem-
bers took part in the camp with
enthusiasm.
A large number of people
led by Indian High
Commissioner Gautam
Bambawale in Indian Embassy
in Pakistan performed various
asanas while in China, thou-
sands of Chinese Yoga enthu-
siasts performed asanas in
Wenzhou which became
the sixth city in the
Communist nation to host the
celebrations.
Ministries have come up
with innovative ideas to pro-
mote the event. While the
mobile app ‘Yoga Locator’, has
been launched by Ayush
Ministry, giving details of
ongoing yoga activities in sur-
rounding areas, the Union
Ministry of Women and Child
Development has launched
“#YogaFor9to5”, a contest to
generate awareness on the ben-
efits of yoga at workplace for
women.
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ammu & Kashmir Chief
JDemocratic
Minister and Peoples
Party president
Mehbooba Mufti submitted
her resignation after BJP
announced to pull out from the
three-year-old alliance.
She said that her
Government worked relent-
lessly to implement the Agenda
of Alliance (AoA) that was
stitched as a preamble for the
coalition Government.
Conceding that the alliance was
unpopular she said her late
father's decision to embrace the
BJP in 2014 was taken to sin-
cerely bring about the sce-
nario in the State wherein gaps
between the two regions in the
State would be bridged in the
overall interests of people.
Addressing a press con-
ference at her official resi-
dence in Srinagar shortly after
submitting her resignation to
Governor NN Vohra,
Mehbooba unambiguously
vouched for reconciliatory
approach to deal with the J&K
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ammu & Kashmir has come
Jseven
under Governor's rule on
occasions before in the
last four decades and an eighth
spell looks imminent with the
collapse of the PDP-BJP
alliance on Tuesday.
Also, if such a scenario
emerges with prospects of a
new Government unlikely it
will be for the fourth time that
the state will be placed under
central rule during N N Vohra's
tenure as Governor. Vohra, a
former civil servant, became
the Governor on June 25, 2008.
The BJP pulled out of its
alliance with the PDP, saying it
has become impossible to con-
tinue in the Government in
view of the growing radicalism
and terrorism in the state.
Ironically, late PDP chief
Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, the
father of incumbent Chief
Minister Mehbooba Mufti and
her predecessor, was an impor-
tant player in the political devel-
opments of the State that led to
the imposition of central rule on
the previous seven occasions.
Mufti Sayeed's death was
the cause for the last promul-
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snag in an ATM of Axis
A Bank here led to some
customers receiving five times
the money they had sought to
withdraw. At least two cus-
tomers of the bank received five
times the amount they had
entered in the interface of the
ATM, situated in Vijay Nagar
in CIDCO area, last night, a
bank official said.
More than Rs 2 lakh were
withdrawn from the ATM
before the malfunctioning
came to light, said assistant
manager Praveen Bhise of Axis
Bank.After fresh cash was
loaded in the ATM yesterday
afternoon, a debit card holder
who sought to withdraw Rs
1,000 received Rs 5,000.
Another customer, Amol
Golait, received Rs 20,000
instead of Rs 4,000.
Golait informed the bank,
after which Bhise rushed to the
ATM and alerted Ambad
police too.
Police reached the spot
and stopped customers from
further withdrawing cash,
Bhise said.
The bank will probe the
malfunctioning, and also
check, from the CCTV footage
and card usage data, who else
received extra cash and recov-
er the excess money from such
card-holders, he added.
In a statement, an Axis
Bank spokesperson said, “The
incident was an isolated one
resulting from an operational
error by the concerned cash
replenishment agency (CRA).
The matter has been rectified
and there is no loss either to the
customer or the bank.”
state. She said PDP under the
then patron Late Mufti
Mohammad Sayeed entered
into unpopular alliance after
much thought. She said the
alliance was stitched with the
notion that the big party at
Centre will help bridging gaps
between the Kashmir & Jammu
regions.
Interestingly, in the chaot-
ic press conference, Mehboba
did not divuge details of the
sudden development and why
she was caught off guards.
She said PDP stood in
alliance for the dialogue, uni-
lateral ceasefire and making
sure the Prime Minister has an
open route to talk to Pakistan.
Mehbooba talked about
PDP's achievements as a lead
partner in the coalition govern-
ment. She said PDP worked hard
to safeguard the J&K's Special
Status under Article 370 & 35 A.
She said PDP ensured with-
drawal of 11,000 cases against
first time young offenders who
were involved in stone pelting in
2016 uprising triggered by the
killing of Hizbul Mujahideen
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gation of the Governor's rule
on January 8, 2016 after allies-
- PDP and BJP-- deferred the
Government formation process
till the end of the four-day
mourning period.
Invoking Section 92 of the
Constitution of Jammu and
Kashmir, Vohra promulgated
Governor's rule after approval
by President
Mukherjee.
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It was the seventh time
Governor's rule was promul-
gated in the State since
Independence, the first being in
March 1977. The central rule
came to an end after Mehbooba
Mufti was sworn in as the
Chief Minister on April 4, 2016.
Governor's rule was
imposed for the first time on
March 26, 1977 during the
tenure of Governor L K Jha
after state Congress -- then
headed by Sayeed -- withdrew
support to the minority
Government of Sheikh
Mohammad Abdullah of
National Conference. Sheikh
had come to the power fol-
lowing an accord with then
prime minister Indira Gandhi
in 1975.
The Governor's rule lasted
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BI Special Director Rakesh
C Asthana on Tuesday held a
meeting with senior CBI offi-
cials investigating the multi-
crore chit fund cases in Kolkata.
The top CBI officer who was in
Kolkata to take stalk of the
Sharada, Narada and Rose
Valley cases was likely to meet
theinvestigating officers on
Wednesday.
While the ruling Trinamool
Congress a number of whose
leaders were currently being
probed in the multiple scams
promptly linked Asthana’s visit
to the approaching election
year CBI sources said the top
officer’s visit was necessitated
ahead of the deadline before
which a detailed report would
have to be submitted in the
Calcutta High Court.
The CBI is currently prob-
ing about 400 chit fund cases
including the C2,500 crore
Sharada chit fund scam. All the
scams took place inBengal,
Odisha, Assam, Tripura and
some other States.
leader Burhan Wani.
Mehbooba said that the lat-
est “decision of suspension of
for 105 days and ended as the
National Conference founder
returned to power in the
Assembly polls.
Governor's rule was
imposed for the second time in
March 1986 after state
Congress -- again headed by
Sayeed -- withdrew support to
the minority Government of
Ghulam Mohammad Shah.
Shah became the Chief
Minister after he led a rebellion
with National Conference
against his brother-in-law and
then incumbent Chief Minister
Farooq Abdullah in 1984.
This 246-day spell ended
after Farooq Abdullah entered
into an accord of his own with
the then prime minister Rajiv
Gandhi
The third time Governor's
rule was imposed in January
1990 when Farooq Abdullah
resigned as the chief minister
over the appointment of
Jagmohan as the Governor fol-
lowing eruption of militancy in
the state.
Sayeed was the Union
Home Minister at that time and
had brushed aside Farooq
Abdullah's opposition to
Jagmohan's appointment. This
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the PDP-BJP coalition was
destined to break as it was an
“unholy” alliance.
“ This was an unholy
alliance and it was expected to
break from day one. They
had betrayed the people of the
state and supporters of the
respective parties. They
sought votes on opposing
agendas,” PCC President G A
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ordered as a shortcut to estab-
lish adultery a woman may
have committed decades ago,
the Kerala High Court has
ruled, rejecting a 77-year-old
man's plea for divorce from his
wife aged 68.
A division bench of the
High Court here held that had
the paternity of children been
under dispute, the DNA test
might have been the “only safe
method”, but it was not so in
the case.
“In the case of three major
children, after the passage of a
long time, the DNA test cannot
be used as a short cut to estab-
lish infidelity that might have
occurred decades ago,” justices
V Chitambaresh and K P
Jothindranath said in a recent
judgement.
The petitioner had alleged
that his wife had told him in
front of the man, with whom
she was in an adulterous rela-
tionship, that the three children
born in the wedlock were not
counter militant operations in
Ramadan” was outcome of
PDP's efforts that brought
was the longest spell of
Governor's Rule -- six years and
264 days -- which ended in
October 1996 after National
Conference returned to power
in Assembly elections held after
a gap of nine-and-a-half years.
Six years later, Governor's
rule had to be imposed in the
state for the fourth time in
October 2002 after caretaker
Chief Minister Farooq
Abdullah refused to continue in
the office in the wake of his
party's defeat in the assembly
elections that year. The 2002
Assembly polls threw up a
hung assembly with no party in
a position to form a
Government on its own.
Sayeed, whose regional
PDP had won 16 seats, nego-
tiated an alliance with the
Congress and dozen-odd inde-
pendents to form the
Government, ending the 15-
day direct Central rule on
March 1, when Sayeed was
sworn in as the Chief Minister.
It was the shortest spell of
Governor's rule -- 15 days -- as
the PDP and Congress with
support of 12 independents
formed a government on
November 2.
Mir said.
He said the BJP was more
responsible for the situation in
the state than the PDP and the
national party carried more
weight in the coalition.
“The BJP had a big man-
date at national level but they
were policy less when it came
to Jammu and Kashmir,” he
added.
with him but with her para-
mour.
The man had then moved
the family court for divorce and
sought its directive for con-
ducting a DNA test of his chil-
dren. He moved the high court
in appeal after the family court
rejected his plea.
“When the children are
major, surely they cannot be
compelled to give blood sam-
ples in a civil proceeding where
they were not parties.
“The case projected by the
petitioner seems to be that if
the DNA test proves that the
petitioner is not the biological
father of the said three children,
the corollary is that the wife
committed infidelity and there
is adultery,” the court noted.
The court said even an order to
undergo the DNA test may
have its own effect on the rep-
utation of the children. It is also
to be considered that they are
major children born during the
existence of a valid marriage
and are not a party to the orig-
inal proceeding, the court
added.
much relief to the common
people though other side (mil-
itants) did not respond posi-
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O of the Mehbooba Mufti
Government in Jammu and
Kashmir, the NCP said the saf-
fron party took the decision in
a bid to “save” itself from the
“governance failures” of the
last three years.
The BJP on Tuesday quit
the Mufti Government, saying
it has become impossible to
continue in power in view of
the growing radicalism and
terrorism in J&K.
“The four-year-old BJP
rule at the Centre and the
three-year-old coalition of the
BJP and PDP in J&K has been
an utter failure. The BJP's deci-
sion to pull out (of the coalition
Government in J&K) is a bid to
save itself from the governance
failures of the last three years,”
alleged NCP national
spokesman Nawab Malik.
Addressing reporters, he
said the BJP cannot absolve
itself from the prevailing situ-
ation in Kashmir. “The party is
he BJP on Tuesday said
that the decision to pull
out from the PDP-led
Government in Jammu and
Kashmir is a well-thought one
as continuation of the alliance
would have been against
national interest.
Chief spokesperson of
J&K BJP Sunil Sethi said the
insistence of the PDP for
extension of the period of
suspension of operations and
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escribing as “very unfor-
tunate” the end of the
alliance between BJP and PDP
in Jammu and Kashmir,
AIMIM president Asaduddin
Owaisi on Tuesday said it
would lead to imposition of
governor's rule and it is a pre-
lude to “more repression”.
“This is a very unfortu-
nate step which will lead to
imposition of Governor's rule.
I am of the opinion that this is
a prelude to more greater
repression,” he told reporters
here.
PDP and BJP had an agen-
da of alliance but no step was
taken to implement it, the
Hyderabad MP charged.
“BJP, as a partner in
Government, made no serious
attempt for a dialogue either
by indicating a bare outline of
their agenda. Though they
had an agenda of alliance
which both the parties agreed
to, not a single step was taken
to fulfil what was promised in
their agenda of alliance,” he
said.
Owaisi said he felt sorry for
the people of Kashmir and
not for PDP which “brought
upon this great political disas-
ter for itself ”.
“The PDP said and the BJP
tively and ensured failure of
unilateral ceasefire. She said
peoples' comfort and relief was
the premise and conviction to
go for “unilateral ceasefire”.
She said PDP will contin-
ue to profess and practice heal-
ing touch policy with practical
measures so that dialogue and
reconciliatory process could
take out the J&K out of politi-
cal and socio economic morass.
Mehbooba called for
refraining from adopting mus-
cular policy in J&K. She said
this will not work in Kashmir
while favouring dialogue with
Pakistan and the separatists to
bring lasting peace and recon-
ciliation in the State. She said
PDP dealt with Kathua rape
and murder case in an appro-
priate and desired manner.
Mehbooba said she sub-
mitted her resignation to the
Governor and conveyed him
that PDP was not looking to
explore any other alliance.
She said PDP suffered on
ground in the State on account
of stitching unpopular alliance
with BJP.
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ditions prevailing in the border
state,” he said.
Maharashtra Congress
president and former Chief
Minister Ashok Chavan tweet-
ed,” BJP is trying to run away
from responsibility by with-
drawing support to PDP in
J&K.
Both parties together have
ruined the chances of resort-
ing peace and tranquility in the
valley and in the state as a
whole”.
soft approach towards mili-
tants, Pakistan and separatists
were hurting the nationalistic
sentiments not only in Jammu
and Kashmir but across the
country .
“It is well thought decision
in the given circumstances as
continuation of the alliance
would have been against
national interest,” he told
reporters here.
Sethi said that the BJP has
proved to one and all that for
it staying in power is not sig-
also agreed that this is an
alliance between north pole
and south pole. The people of
the nation wants to know what
happened to this so-called
meeting of north pole and
south pole,” he said.
Coming down heavily on
the BJP, he said it cannot run
away from 'failure' to provide
governance and stopping cross-
border terrorism and attacks on
army camps.
Owaisi said he felt BJP
took the decision to pull out of
the coalition as the party knew
it was losing ground in Jammu.
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B alliance Government head-
ed by Mehbooba Mufti for
over last three years in Jammu
and Kashmir Bharatiya Janta
Party (BJP) finally taken its first
steps towards 'scripting' its
election strategy for the 2019
Lok Sabha polls.
Despite having divergent
views on many issues ( includ-
ing Abrogation of Art 370,
continuation of Article 35-A)
both the alliance partners ini-
tially dragged on and faced few
litmus tests but things became
worse for the BJP when
Mehbooba Mufti started bat-
ting for giving Amnesty to the
first time stone pelters in
Kashmir valley.
Poor report card of the
alliance Government on work
front also created piquant sit-
uation for the central leader-
ship as BJP failed to implement
its developmental agenda to its
satisfaction.
Some of the big ticket devel-
opmental projects announced
for Jammu region remain non
starter even after the passage of
4 years. These included AIIMS,
SMART CITY, New Medical
colleges, etc.
BJP's dwindling populari-
ty chart across Jammu region
started bothering the central
party leadership around the
same time.
BJP's National General
Secretary Ram Madhav, who
had played key role in prepar-
ing 'Agenda of Alliance' had
started gathering feedback
from ground zero during his
regular review meetings with
party legislators/ ministers
and organisation secretary in
the state. Based on the feed-
back party top brass went
ahead and replaced deputy
chief minister and also intro-
duced young faces in the state
cabinet in the last week of
April 2018.
The party leadership was
faced with the biggest challenge
on how to change the growing
perception among the masses
both at the state and the
nificant when it comes to
national interest. The party
has always maintained the pol-
icy of 'nation first', he added.
He said Mehbooba Mufti's
party had underestimated the
resolve of the BJP thinking that
the PDP will always have its
ways in all matters.
A message has been sent to
it and all forces inimical to
national interest that there is
strong resolve of the nation to
stay together and be ready for
any sacrifice for the unity and
ceasefire, he said BJP would
have to explain to the people
why it was announced in a
hurry and called off.
Asked whether he stood
with the government on the
issue of ceasefire and whether
it should be extended, the MP
said he was with the people of
the country and Kashmir.
He also said BJP cannot
blame the PDP for alleged
non-performance.
“His (BJP general secretary
Ram Madhav) own party min-
isters and deputy CM were
there. BJP cannot hide behind
or cannot put forward this
national level that BJP is play-
ing second fiddle in the alliance
govt and allowing Mehbooba
Mufti to push her party's 'kash-
mir' centric agenda at the cost
of annoying their own core
constituency across Jammu
region.
The Kathua rape-murder
case and the manner in which
it was handled by the state govt
had also triggered war of words
among the alliance partners.
BJP was forced to remove two
of its sitting cabinet ministers
under pressure from the Chief
Minister.
On the other hand instead
of paying attention to the con-
cerns raised by the BJP minis-
ters over poor implementation
of Prime Ministers recon-
struction and development
package Mehbooba further
adopted aggressive approach
towards holding 'sustained'
dialogue process involving all
the stakeholders much to the
chagrin of her alliance part-
ners.
She further created more
trouble for the BJP when she
demanded fresh review of sur-
render cum Rehabilitation pol-
icy for surrendered militants and
also proposed a substantial hike.
Recently when she bar-
gained hard in support of
announcing ' unilateral cease-
fire' during the month of
Ramzan she really tested the
nerves of the party's central
leadership.
As the decision backfired
and the central govt decided
against extending the ceasefire
PDP expressed its 'unhappi-
ness' over the move. At this
juncture the decision was taken
to severe ties with the PDP as
party was not ready to give her
a long rope.
The BJP had won 25
Assembly seats across Jammu
region in 2014 polls and in less
than three years time the party
was finding itself on a loose
wicket.
By walking out, the BJP
hopes to resurrect its image in
the eyes of the electorate and
can go to the masses to reclaim
its 'lost ground' atleast in
Jammu.
integrity of the country, Sethi
said.According to him, now is
the time for an all-out war
against militants and their sup-
porters and give them no place
to hide and run.
Sethi noted that the BJP
joined the Government with a
firm belief that the coalition
will work for the people and
provide honest and responsive
Government.
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tunate that our partner was
always against taking strong
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ner was not listening to us...,”
he said.
On Madhav's reported
comments that his party was
forced to pull out of the coali-
tion because internal security
was being compromised,
Owaisi claimed the “BJP is run-
ning away” as all operations
were conducted with the con-
sent of the Centre.Describing
the recent killing of journalist
Shujaat Bukhari as a “monu-
mental tragedy”, he said it was
being “exploited to fulfil a pol-
icy which was started two years
ago”.
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P ment to the ruling BJP for its
decision to withdraw its support
to the PDP-led Government in
Jammu & Kashmir, Shiv Sena
president Uddhav Thackeray on
Tuesday wondered as to why
did it take its senior ruling
alliance partner three-long years
to realise that the Mehbooba
Mufti Government was “inca-
pable” of handling the situation
in the Valley.
Addressing his party work-
ers at the Sena’s 52nd formation
day function at the Mumbai
Exhibition Centre at Goregaon
in North Mumbai, Uddhav said:
“How come that the BJP did not
realise for three-long years that
the Mehbooba Mufti
Government was incapable of
handling the situation in Jammu
and Kashmir? I congratulate the
BJP for its decision to withdraw
its support to the J & K
Government. I dare the BJP to
take its initiative ahead and
crush Pakistan in the same
manner”.
Slamming the Modi
Government’s decision to
impose “unilateral ceasefire”
during the month of Ramzan in
Jammu and Kashmir, Uddhav
said: “The ceasefire did not
serve any purpose. In fact, cease-
fire contributed to the spurt in
terror acts. During the ceasefire
period, many innocent people
were killed. Similarly, many sol-
diers sacrificed their lives.
Terrorism has no religion. That
being the case, why did the rul-
ing BJP announce ceasefire dur-
ing Ramzan?”.
With his party still firm on
going it alone in the forth-
coming Lok Sabha and
Assembly elections, Uddhav
expressed confidence that his
party would overcome all chal-
lenges posed by its rivals and
capture power in the state “for
the sake of people”.
Addressing his party work-
ers at the Sena’s 52nd formation
day function at the Mumbai
Exhibition centre here, Uddhav
said: “We shall overcome all
challenges coming our way
and install our Chief Minister
in the state. I am not for
unfurling the saffron flag mere-
ly for the lust for power. I don’t
want install any Chief Minister
who has lust for power. I need
for the sake of power”.
Maintaining that the Sena
was prepared to take any kind
of opposition in the polls,
Uddhav said: “Electoral victories
never made us arrogant. Nor did
defeats unsettle us. On the con-
trary, we have faced many chal-
lenges in the past. We have
learnt to face all kinds of chal-
lenges. This time around, we
shall blunt all kinds of chal-
lenges and capture in the state.
For the purpose, I need the full
cooperation of all the Shiv
Sainiks”. “Before unfurling saf-
fron flag in the Lok Sabha and
Assembly polls, I appeal to you
to register saffron colour in the
hearts and minds of the people,”
Uddhav told his party workers
who had come to the function
from various parts of the state.
Announcing the Sena’s
plan to launch a campaign to
counter the BJP’s “Sampark Se
Samarthan”, the Sena presi-
dent said: “I look forward to go
in for direct enrolment of
members for the party. I do not
want membership enrollment
on the basis of missed calls, as
it happens in the case of the
BJP. I also do not approve of the
“Sampark Se Samarthan” pro-
gramme launched by the BJP.
Let’s launch a `search for truth”
campaign to counter the
“Sampark Se Samarthan” pro-
gramme and expose truth
behind claims of achievements
made by the BJP”.
Alluding to news reports
about the sighting of a round
“Unidentified Flying Object”
hovering over the Prime
Minister Narendra Modi’s res-
idence on New Delhi’s Lok
Kalyan Marg on June 7 briefly,
Uddhav said: “When does the
Prime Minister live in his New
Delhi residence?. He has com-
pleted touring all the counties
across the globe. He will go on
a tour of other planets. He has
completed four years in office
uttering lies to the people.
Even if he were to other plan-
ets, he would lie there as well.
It is nothing surprising because
that Modi ensured the BJP’s
victory in the 2014 Lok Sabha
polls through lies”.
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A drums in Bengal, the
Congress seems to befighting
two pairs of horns of dilemma
in the State, insiders say.
While on one hand a great
number of PCC leaders have
voted against any kind of elec-
toral alliance with an “over-
bearing” Trinamool Congress
on the other as separate lobby
has demanded changes in PCC
leadership.
This includes the demand
for removing State party
President Adhir Chowdhury.
Incidentally Chowdhury a
veteran MP from Murshidabad
leads the pack of leaders who
are against joining hands with
Mamata Banerjee as “the Chief
Minister has nearly dismantled
the Bengal Congress and gob-
bled it up ever since she came
to power in 2011.”
The same group is more
interested to tow a pro-Left
Front line in the 2019 general
elections. “After all the
Congress benefited a great deal
from an alliance with the Left
in 2016 State elections as we
became the principal opposi-
tion party.”
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he incessant monsoon rain
T in the Cauvery basin has
made Karnataka Chief
Minister HD Kumaraswamy,
who is running a fragile coali-
tion with the Congress in the
State, to be more vocal on the
contentious issue. After meet-
ing the Prime Minister in
New Delhi Kumaraswamy said
in a meet the press programme
organised by Bengaluru Press
Club and Bengaluru Reporters
Guild here on Tuesday the
State will not defy the direc-
tions given by the Supreme
Court regarding formation of
Cauvery Management Board
by the Centre.
He said "We have no inten-
tion to violate the Apex Court
direction, but our demand is
that the Board should be
formed in a Scientific manner
and it should be first discussed
in both the Houses of the
Parliament before taking final
decision on responsibilities of
the Board".
Kumaraswamy said that
there are several shortcom-
ings in the powers given to the
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already notified in the Gazette
by the Union Government.
"The Board has been given
power to measure the water
level in the reservoirs of
Cauvery basin every 10 days
once and to submit report. It
has been authorised to direct
crops to be grown according to
availability of water. These are
not acceptable for the State as
it is our right to utilise the water
according to our needs and
farmers are very well aware
about what crops they should
be grow with the water avail-
able," he said.
"Moreover, water sharing is
an Inter-State issue and before
the Centre takes any decision
on such issues should be dis-
cussed in the Parliament as per
the Constitution. Hence I
have appealed to the Prime
Minister Narendra Modi in
the NITI Ayog meeting as well
as during my interaction with
him to bring the subject in the
Parliament for discussion, he
added.
He also assured the farm-
ers that his collation govern-
ment was committed to ease
the loan burden of the farmers.
However the farmer’s suicides
in the state have continued
unabated affecting the image of
the government. To instill con-
fidence in the farming com-
munity he assured the farmers
that his government was work-
ing on a scientific formula to
ensure that the waiver did not
impact the state's financial
resources. He said the state had
a robust resource mobilisation
system that had been appreci-
ated all over. Any measure
taken should ensure that the
state fiscal responsibility act is
not violated. He said he would
in a couple of days convene a
meeting of bankers to discuss
the waiver issue.

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in Mathura, a former gram
pradhan along with two others
were found dead in Raya local-
ity of the district early on
Tuesday . Some unknown per-
sons sprayed them bullet some-
time in the night and escaped.
Local police reached the spot
and sent both the bodies for
post-mortem examination. They
suspected some enmity behind
the mysterious killing. A case has
tigations are on. Reports said
that villagers of Nagla Bharau
hamlet of Raya in Mathura were
shocked when they found
Sunder Singh Jat (45), and
Bhawar Singh Jat (60) and for-
mer pradhan of the village Satya
Prakash Jat (65), lying in pool of
blood on Tuesday morning.
While Satya Prakash body was
found lying in the fields, the
other two were found dead out-
side their home.
F woman and a one-and-a-
half-year-old girl, were killed
while above a dozen suffered
burns in a fierce fire that
engulfed two hotels (close
together) in Naka police sta-
tion area early in the morning
on Tuesday.
Four bikes and two cars
were also gutted in the fire.
The incident exposed fire and
police department prompt-
ness in reaching to the scene
and carrying out the rescue
operation. Senior officials
including ADG Lucknow
Zone Rajeev Krishna, IG
Lucknow Sujeet Pandey, DG
Fire Praveen Kumar and SSP
Lucknow Deepak Kumar
reached the scene to oversee
the ongoing rescue work.
Chief Minister UP Yogi
Adityanath announced ex gra-
tia compensation of C2 lakh
each to the family of the
deceased and C50,000 each to
the families of those suffered
burns in the mishap.
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S Thankachan, presently con-
vener of the party-led
Opposition UDF, is facing no
serious security threat but two
officers from the State police
force have reportedly been
providing round-the-clock
security for him for the past
four years. However,
Thankachan is not the only
leader in Kerala to get round-
mitting this is that all these
personnel are being paid with
the tax-payers’ money,” a for-
mer Superintendent of Police
from central Kerala. “It is
necessary to provide person-
al security to a Minister. But
why should former ministers
get it when they are facing no
security threat?” he asked.
The former official said
that these leaders, including
former Union minister, had
been availing this special ser-
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undergoing a sex reas-
signment surgery (SRS) at the
State-run St George’s Hospital
here, the erstwhile 29-year-old
female police constable Lalita
Kumari Salve on Tuesday
reported to duty as Lalit
Kumar Salve in Maharashtra's
Beed district.
Dressed smartly in khakhi
Mumbai. She was discharged
from the hospital on June 12.
Lalit, now a male consta-
ble, will undergo the second
part of the sex change surgery
after six months.
During the first stage of
surgery, the doctors carried
out some internal corrections
that would facilitate Lalita to
urinate like a man. The sec-
ond stage of surgery will
involve constructing male gen-

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he case filed by the Income
T Tax Department against
Nalini Chidambaram (the
lawyer wife of former Union
Finance Minister
Chidambaram), son Karti
Chidambaram and daughter-
in-law Srinidhi Karti
Chidambaram under the
Black Money (Undisclosed
Foreign Income and Assets)
Imposition of Tax Act of 2015
(known as Black Money Act
2015) took an interesting turn
on Monday with the former
approaching the Madras High
Court with a plea to quash the
June 12 order asking the
department to provide the
Chidambaram family with the
copies of the orders sanction-
ing prosecution against them.
In a review petition filed by
the Centre and the Department
of Income Tax, it was stated
P Department of Income Tax to
that a case has been lodged
before the Chief Metropolitan
Magistrate Court in Egmore
against Nalini, Karti and
Srinidhi under the Black
Money Act 2015 and they
could get the documents from
the same court once they are
summoned by the court as per
the Criminal Procedure Code.
The IT Department had
sanctioned prosecution of
Nalini Chidambaram, Karti
and Srinidhi under the Black
Money Act 2015 for not dis-
closing details of a property
purchased jointly by them at
a cost of 5.35 lakh Pound
Sterling at Cambridge in
Britain. But Nalini and others
had questioned the compe-
tence of the sanctioning
authority and demanded the
furnish the copies of the
administrative orders through
which the prosecution was
launched against them.
The first Division Bench of
Chief Justice Indira Banerjee
and Justice P T Asha in their
order dated June 12 had asked
the Income Tax Department to
furnish the copies of the orders
passed by the department offi-
cials sanctioning prosecution
against Nalini, Karti and
Srinidhi.
Though the additional
solicitor general G Rajagopalan
had told the court that this may
become a precedent for others,
the Court pointed out that the
case was not being stayed.
But on Monday, the
Department of Income Tax
through its counsel filed a
petition asking the court to
review the June 12 order. The
petition filed by the Centre and
the Principal Director of
Income Tax (Investigation)
said that the sanction orders
have been filed before the
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate
Court at Egmore where a com-
plaint too has been lodged
under the Black Money Act
2015. “The family members of
the former finance minister
could obtain the documents
from the court after summons
were issued to them in accor-
dance with the code of
Criminal Procedure ,” said the
petition filed by the Centre.
The petition also stated
that the Income Tax
Department would be preju-
diced if the family members are
given copies of sanction order
in advance.
the-clock security service of
police officers in this way.
As per reports based on
an official assessment, hun-
dreds of personnel of the
Kerala Police have been
deployed for the personal
security of political leaders,
former ministers and reli-
gious and community leaders.
The system of providing per-
sonal security by the police to
such leaders has already trig-
gered a controversy in the
context of the raging row over
the use of police personnel
and Camp Followers in the
force as house servants by top
police officials,.
Though these police per-
sonnel have been deployed at
the houses of such leaders in
the name of security duty, in
most cases they are allegedly
being used by them in viola-
tion of all the relevant rules.
In many cases, the police offi-
cers deployed so are said to be
happy to remain in that
assignment because of the
personal advantages it brings.
“What the Government
does not consider while per-
vice for the past several years
in violation of the rules
regarding appointment of per-
sonal staff. “They are appoint-
ed for personal security, but
even the Government is well
aware about what most of
them are actually doing at the
leaders’ houses,” he said.
Thankachan was provided
with the round-the-clock ser-
vices of two police officers by
the former Congress-led UDF
government in which Ramesh
Chennithala, presently the
Opposition leader, was Home
minister on the ground that he
was facing threat from Maoists
in connection with a stone
quarry owned by his son.
However, the matter has
now under criticism as
Thankachan presently is not
attending any official assign-
ments outside because of
health problems. He has not
been participating in UDF
meetings these days. The pre-
sent CPI(M)-led LDF
Government has not so far
thought of withdrawing the
security cover given to
Thankachan.
uniform and a blue beret, a
confident Lalit Salve reported
to Senior Inspector of Police
Raju Talekar, head of the
Majalgaon police station in
Beed district in Marathwada
region of Maharashtra.
Erstwhile Lalita’s is the
first case of a sex-change
surgery in the police history of
the country.
Talking to media persons
after reporting to duty, Lalit
said: "It’s like a new birth for
me. My life has changed after
my sex change surgery. It’s a big
day for me and my family…..I
cannot describe the feelings…
I am confident now...I will now
be getting a new cap meant for
male constables".
On May 25, Lalita Kumari
underwent the first stage of
her much-discussed sex reas-
signment surgery (SRS) at the
St. George’s Hospital in
italia.
Lalita’s was the first such
“complex and ultra-sensitive”
sex change surgery conducted
on an adult person, at the St
George’s Hospital.
Lalita’s dream of turning
into a man four years after
she was recruited as a police
constable in Beed district of
Maharashtra in May 2010. In
a local private laboratory
test done on her on August
9, 2014, she was diagnosed
with the presence of male
genes in the karyotyping G-
Banding Peripheral blood.
The tests revealed that she
genetically mate with XY
chromosomes.
On June 23, 2016, Lalita
once again underwent a test in
the medical department of
the Sir Grant Medical Hospital
in Mumbai which suggested
“her” to be a male person.

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today in this era of globalisation
due to the destructive side of cap-
italist production such as degra-
dation of forests, global warm-
ing, disrupting of nitrogen cycle
and extinction of species. This
was stated by Prof Kohei Saito of
the Osaka State University, Japan
on Tuesday at the international
conference of Karl Marx being
organised by the Asian
Development Research Institute
(ADRI). Tuesday was the fourth
day of the five-day conference on
Marx’s bicentenary.
Delivering his lecture on
‘Marx and Engels: the intellec-
tual relationship revisited from
an ecological perspective’, Saito
said Western Marxism never
developed a Marxist critique of
ecology because of less than a
clear perception of intellectu-
al relationship between Marx
and Angeles.
According to Saito, Marx
was very much conscious of the
danger of serious global disrup-
tion in the inter-dependent
processes between ‘social metab-
olism’, that is production, circu-
natural world. Since capitalist
production couldn’t fully take
into account complex dimen-
sions of the social and natural
metabolism, it destroyed nature,
annihilated the possibilities of co-
evolution of humans and nature
and even threatened human civ-
ilization, he added.
Comparing Marx with
Che Guevara, Roberto Massari,
president of International Che
Guevara Foundation, Italy, said
Che was never intoxicated with
power. Massari traced the jour-
ney of Che from medicine to
communism as he realised that
the problems of Latin American
people could be solved only
through a revolution. When
Che was the Minister of indus-
tries in the Cuban Government,
he visited factories and lived
with workers to understand
their problems.
Massari said Che was a
harsh critic of the New
Economic Policy of the Soviet
Union and his book on the sub-
ject was kept secret till 2006.
Che maintained that “we can-
not advocate violence against
those who speak against us”,
Massari added.
A leading charitable hospital
in the city saved the life of a 12-
month-old child by removing
a 2-inch long earring stuck in
her windpipe, through a bron-
choscopy.
As she turned one year on
Thursday last, Khushi Soni
had caused panic within her
family, by swallowing a 2 inch
long earring with a pointed
end. The earring, struck in her
windpipe, resulted in breathing
problems for the child.
Her parents initially took
Khushi to a paediatrician who
prescribed her some medi-
cines, but these failed to give
relief. She was later admitted to
a government where the doc-
tors failed to remove the ear-
ring embedded in her throat.
After condition turned
critical, Khushi was admitted
to a private hospital and was
later moved to Bai Jerbai
Wadia Hospital for Children,
where the doctors on Saturday
last performed a
Bronchoscopy and
successfully removed the ear-
ring from her throat within
minutes within minutes of
her admission.
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Nepal which is reflected by the deluge of
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=Tf3T[WXf^d[SQTfT[[PSeXbTSc^a^[[fXcW dating five star hotel and casinos. Here is
XcfWX[TPRR^aSX]VXcb^f]X]cTaTbcb_aX\PRh my Nepal June diary.
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Forum (Nepal) joining the Government —
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_Pac]Ta5aP]RT0SSXcX^]P[[hcWT9P_P]DB0dbcaP[XP8]SXP`dPSaX[PcTaP[RP]]^cR^] majority with 190 of 275 seats. There is a
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Minister KP Oli, co-chairman of
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guage, inclusiveness and boundaries, but of bullet and ballot ie people’s war and the Kathmandu and Modi’s energetic working it has repeatedly advised Nepal to have
VXeT]<^bR^fbRWP]VTSbcaPcTVXRX]cTaTbcbfXcWcWTaXbT^U2WX]PP]ScWTT\TaVX]V without any timeline. The Rashtriya Janata peace process brokered by India. The the phone lines. Modi’s return visit, his third good relations with India (the Wuhan
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Government is not serious about and Oli are co-chairmen of the party were prevented but social media was very ensure implementation of the Ten Point
\PcaXg^UfWXRWR[^bTcXTbfXcWcWTDBWPeTc^aTP[XbcXRP[[hQTcWTQTSa^RZ5^aTeT] Constitutional amendments. That leaves though Prachanda is urging Oli to focus on active: #blockade was crime: Welcome to Agreement he signed with China in 2016
VXeT]cWTRWP]VX]VV[^QP[_^fTaSh]P\XRbcWTDBXbbcX[[cWT^][hbd_Ta_^fTaX]c^f] the leadership-deficient and the fractured running the Government while he takes Nepal but we have not forgotten the after the blockade.
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>daR[TPaP]S_aTbT]cR^]RTa]bQ^cWX]cTa\b^UbTRdaXchP]STR^]^\XRXbbdTbXb2WX]P Power-sharing and merger of NCP: NCP’s general convention is to be held in have creatively expressed regret and won route — old Kodari-Kathmandu road —
P]SXcbR[XT]cbcPcT^U?PZXbcP]1TXYX]Vbd]SXbVdXbTSP\QXcX^]c^QTaTR^V]XbTSPb There are souls in former United Marxist two years after which this issue will be over millions of Nepalese but he has not after the earthquake. It is being pushed by
Leninist and Maoist parties unhappy with resolved. Asked what could go wrong with learnt to say sorry even at home. People said Nepal to concretised Belt-and-Road
cWTaTVX^]P[WTVT\^]P]ScWT]bRP[Td_c^QTR^\X]VPf^a[S_^fTafWXRWaXeP[bcWT their merge. The Left Alliance is now the the new party, a top Maoist leader quipped: the perception is that India is not as seri- Initiative (BRI) and connectivity. The
DBX]aTPRWP]SWTUc\TP]bcWPc8]SXPfX[[P[fPhbQTT]bTT]QhXcP[TbbTa^ad]T`dP[ NCP minus Karl Marx, Lenin and Mao on “We just got married and you are already ous as China about its development agen- Chinese appear to be interested in a South
_Pac]TaX]cWPcTUU^acCWTbdVVTbcTScaXP]Vd[PcX^]^UcWT8]SXP2WX]P?PZXbcP]aT[P the common letterhead. Karl Marx’s 100th talking of divorce. We will complete our da in Nepal. Delivery is erratic and quali- Asia corridor like China–Pakistan
cX^]bWX_bW^d[SQTbTT]U^afWPcXcXb¯\^aTPbcaP]Vd[PcX^]^U8]SXPFT\dbcPbbXS birthday was jointly celebrated with creative term of five years and many more.” tatively deficient. The new monitoring Economic Corridor (CPEC) in Pakistan
d^db[hXV]^aTcWTe^XRTbfWXRWdaVTdbX]c^P2WX]TbTT\QaPRT wordology like scientific socialism etc. The Budget: The C1,315 billion budget has mechanism (first report by September 19) through Nepal to India where the markets
NCP (Revolutionary) led by Mohan Baidya set an ambitious target of eight per cent eco- will allay these fears. lie. They are also keen to promote
has said the present NCP are pseudo nomic growth with focus on the develop- Military relations: The Nepal Army Buddhism, making Lumbini its Mecca.

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Communists. The underground Netra
Bikram Chand faction which indulged in
violence during elections and the recent
Modi visit has forced its former Maoist
comrade Home Minister Ram Bahadur
,QGLDQVWXGHQWVKDYHEHHQWUHDWHGUDWKHU Thapa to launch police action against their
armed wing. Another breakaway Maoist,
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VQHZYLVDUXOHV former Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai,
famous for broadening roads in
Kathmandu is the only lawmaker of his
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ment of physical infrastructure, energy,
tourism and agriculture and resources pro-
vided for newly created provincial
Governments which are facing enormous
teething troubles. It plans to raise the power
generation from the present 830 MW to
15,000 MW by 2035. Despite the political
stability targets of growth, prosperity and
happiness will not be easy to achieve in a
country where imports are 85 per cent and
Chief General Rajendra Chhetri, who is an
honorary General of the Indian Army was
in India to review the Passing Out Parade
in Indian Military Academy (IMA)
Dehradun on June 9. Nepal owes India
more than two billion rupees for arms and
equipment purchased. It wants India to
write off the amount, change the arms sup-
ply mechanism from 60:40 grant and pay-
ment to annual military aid. The bonding
This will generate strategic and cultural
gains for Beijing.
Post script: India’s recalibration of the
Nepal policy is designed to make amends
and ensure its red lines are not breached.
Politics is unpredictable. It seems China
and India may cohabit in Nepal with the
advantage slowly returning to New Delhi
provided it performs to delete excesses
from the blockade including the anti-

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T has been observed that

family businesses are the
mainstay of an economy,
generating long-term
employment and contributing to
nation-building by adding to its gross
development product (GDP).
Although many family businesses are
still small and medium enterprises,
some have grown exponentially and
transformed themselves from small
shops round the corner to large pub-
licly listed organisations.
In fact around 30 per cent of S&P
500 companies, two-fifth of the 250
largest firms in Germany and France
and more than two-thirds of large
organisations in East Asia and Latin
America are family businesses, where
the important decisions are con-
trolled by family members. In US
alone, there are 5.5 million family
businesses, creating jobs for 63 per
cent of the workforce and in turn
contributing 57 per cent to the GDP
of the country. According to the EY
report, the top 10 family businesses
generated approximately $1,298.3
billion of North America’s GDP of
$19.6 trillion in 2015 and employed
more than 3.6 million people. UK is
not far behind with more than three
million family businesses providing
9.4 million jobs and generating 25
per cent of GDP.
Family businesses are also deep-
rooted in Asian cultures with Japan
having the oldest family business in
the world, presently run by the 40th
generation. This region also boasts
of a high concentration of family
businesses at about 85 per cent.
These family businesses contribute
34 per cent to the Asian GDP by
employing 57 per cent of the work-
force. Two-thirds of India’s GDP and
90 per cent of the gross industry out-
put are contributed by family busi-
ness in India.
Although family businesses are
important contributors to the growth
story of any nation, in the Indian con-
text, family businesses faced a major
challenge in competing with global
giants after the economic liberalisation
of 1991, as they showed resistance to
change and innovation. However, in due
course, Indian family businesses were
able to change, modernise and compete
with the multinational corporations.
Family businesses are generally tra-
ditional, risk-averse, close-knit business-
es with generations taking the mantle
forward which are not very open to new
ideas. Additionally, lack of resources,
both capital and human; smaller size,
higher costs; lack of internal communi-
cation channels and dual role in family
and business; and fear of upsetting the
power balance of family can also render
innovation less important.
However, the continuity of business
across generations, longevity of the
business and succession issues are the top
priorities of family businesses and,
hence, innovation becomes very impor-
tant to survive, grow and remain com-
petitive. In addition, integration of local
markets with global markets and the
continuous quest for sustainable growth
are making family businesses innovate.
In this era of globalisation, it is all the
more difficult for organisations to main-
tain their competitive advantage and any
firm has a competitive advantage if it is
able to create economic value.
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The digital revolution has erased the
traditional borders, and organisations
and customers are omnipresent.
Customer needs and preferences have
changed from being local or regional to
a global platform. Therefore, it is very
challenging for organisations to be
unique in their products or services, effi-
cient in operations.
Through innovation, firms are
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able to create entirely new products or
services that catapult them to a catego-
ry of high-growth companies with an
opportunity to be market leaders giv-
ing them competitive advantage if the
competitors are unable to keep pace
with them. Age of the firm plays a sig-
nificant role towards the tendency to be
innovative. Since innovation is an
important strategy to grow and to gain
competitive advantage, all firms choose
this strategy, albeit, at varying degrees
of intensity. Although there is a gener-
al belief that younger firms do not have
the capacity to innovate when com-
pared to older firms, it is seen in sev-
eral studies that younger firms under-
take greater risks to be more innova-
tive compared to older firms.
It is interesting to note that, world-
wide, the size of the firms that innovate
vary according to industry. In US, the
degree of innovation is higher for small-
0;C7>D6750<8;H er firms in manufacturing and comput-
er modem industry whereas in Spain,
1DB8=4BB4B0A4 larger firms innovate more in the engi-
8<?>AC0=C neering industry. With a number of
firms leaving their domestic markets and
2>=CA81DC>ABC> offering their products and services to
C746A>FC7BC>AH international markets and, in some
cases, setting up their manufacturing
bases there, internationalisation is also
an equally important strategic decision.
8=380=2>=C4GC It offers firms with new markets,
50<8;H1DB8=4BB4B new sourcing and production bases, in
addition to cheap labour, saving up to
502430<09>A 70 per cent of production costs. By
reducing dependency on the local mar-
270;;4=648= kets, internationalisation improves com-
2><?4C8=6F8C7 petitiveness of organisations but the
choice of international market strategy
is very pertinent as it involves huge costs
and resources.
C7442>=><82 If the strategies of innovation and
;814A0;8B0C8>=>5 internationalisation give competitive
advantage to organisations, the same
(( 7>F4E4A8= concept should be applicable to fam-
ily businesses and they should not be
3D42>DAB48=380= far behind to adapt these strategies.
50<8;H1DB8=4BB4B This leads to the question: Do fami-
ly businesses adapt the strategies of
F4A401;4C> innovation and internationalisation to
keep pace with the global competitive
270=64<>34A=8B4 environment? Further questions arise
0=32><?4C4F8C7 about the type of family businesses
that adopt these strategies.
<D;C8=0C8>=0; In a study of BSE 500 index com-
2>A?>A0C8>=B panies spread across a period of 11 years,
the writer analysed innovativeness and
internationalisation of family business-
es in India using R&D expenses as a
proxy for innovativeness and the propor-
tion of foreign income as a proxy for
internationalisation and found that
family businesses are more innovative
and internationalised when compared
to non-family businesses. Resource-
dependency framework explains this
phenomenon and suggests that family
businesses are entrepreneurial in nature
which makes them more innovative.
Further, to probe into the question
as to what type of family businesses inno-
vate and internationalise more, the
impact of age and the size of family busi-
nesses on these variables was studied and
it was also found that within the fami-
ly businesses, younger firms were more
innovative and internationalised than
older firms in the Indian context. This
can be explained by the theory of
“learning advantages of newness”,
according to which younger firms are
more flexible, eager to learn, have less
internal resistance and are able to adapt
to the changing environment much
faster. At the same time, “liabilities of
aging” theory suggests that older firms
become rigid, inflexible and lose their
edge in fast decision-making.
This type of study has significant
implications and can be extended to a
large number of unlisted family business-
es around the world. Governments
need to create policies and platforms for
family businesses to grow, innovate and
internationalise. A positive business
environment where family businesses
can raise funds at lower interest rates,
professional assistance for scaling up of
their business and providing skilled labor
and manpower can help family business-
es in a big way.
(The writer is Assistant Professor,
Amity University)
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more to it than meets the eye in this
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from working.
He did that with the earlier Lt
Governor Najeeb Jung and is now
It is not surprising that four non-
National Democratic Alliance (NDA)
Chief Ministers — Mamata Banerjee
support of other regional opposition
parties like the Rashtriya Janata Dal
(RJD), Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD),
Secondly, he must keep the IAS offi-
cers on his side to deliver governance
as they play a critical role in his suc-
Delhi Chief Minister Ar vind this point of time? It has many angles. doing the same with his successor (West Bengal) Chandrababu Naidu Samajwadi Party (SP), Dravida cess or failure. Thirdly, politics
Ua^\\h\^cWTa Kejriwal, Lt Governor Anil Baijal and It is shadow-boxing between the Anil Baijal now. When his party’s (Andhra Pradesh), Pinarayi Vijayan Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), should be kept aside and he must
P]SUPcWTafW^ Prime Minister Narendra Modi for Chief Minister and his bête noire, expansion plans in Punjab and Goa (Kerala) and HD Kumaraswamy Communist Party of India (CPI) and concentrate more on governance.
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fight as the Chief Minister alleged Chief Minister and the Lt Governor sweep in Uttar Pradesh and other Who would have thought that the Kejriwal has had a battle with Lt Governor as well as the bureau-
Q^cW_Tab^]P[[h that the IAS officers were not coop- of Delhi. Politically, the Opposition States, Kejriwal consciously decided two political opponents — Mamata the bureaucracy ever since he took cracy is imperative. Nobody appre-
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caught in limbo with no work done unity. As for the four Opposition cially when its winning spree contin- meet but also become part of a uni- ing with the Lt Governor on postings have worked once or twice but he
°CP\a^]7P[[ since June 14. Thankfully Kejriwal Chief Ministers who have support- ued in the North-East as well. He fied Opposition against Prime and transfers of IAS officers. cannot expect to get support of the
has ended the nine-day protest. ed Kejriwal until now, it is a game of believes in the dictum: Don’t attack Minister Narendra Modi. The open Many in the National Capital are masses by playing it repeatedly. Get
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along with his Cabinet Ministers officers are miffed with the Chief Now he has changed his strate- from these four heavy weights is polit- tion. It does not matter who is right or is the only mantra you should chant.
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Gopal Rai started a sit-in protest at This is not the first time that against higher diesel and petrol Mamata and Vijayan are appre- suffering. The Kejriwal Government mentator and syndicated columnist)
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A strategic stake sale of Air
India, the Government has
decided to put a full stop now
with the plan, at least for this
election year and it further said
it would provide required funds
for its operations, according to
a senior official.
The decision comes less
than 3 weeks after the proposed
76 per cent strategic stake sale
in the much-talked about
national carrier who com-
pletely failed to attract any
bidder in the country.
On the other hand, the
Government is also looking at
turning around the company to
ensure that it makes profits on
overall basis before going in for
listing.
Source close to the
development said, “Certain
conditions have to be
met before listing a company.
Once Air India fulfils those, we
will go in for an initial public
offering and subsequent list-
ing.”
“Air India will very soon
get funds from the
Government for its day-to-day
operations and will even place
orders for a couple of aircraft,”
he said. The decision was taken
at the high level meeting con-
vened by Union Minister Arun
Jaitley on Monday. The meet-
ing was attended by Piyush
Goyal, who has been tem-
porarily given the charge of
Finance Ministr y, Civil
Aviation Minister Suresh
Prabhu, Transport Minister
Nitin Gadkari and other senior
officials of finance and civil avi-
ation ministries.
“The airline is posting
operational profits. None of the
flights go empty. With all the
cost efficient mechanism in
place, we will continue improv-
ing its operational efficiency.
There is no need to rush in
for disinvestment as of now,”
the official added.
As per Sebi norms, a com-
pany has to post profit in pre-
vious three financial years
before it can list itself in the
stock exchanges.
“The focus is on improv-
ing operational efficiency. We
will continue to boost
employee morale, starting from
the top level, to better the
functioning of the airline.
Funds would be provided as
and when required,” the source
said.
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originally proposed to offload
76 per cent equity share
capital of the national carrier
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ublic money in State-owned
P banks is 100 per cent safe
and secure, Finance Minister
Piyush Goyal said on Tuesday
against the backdrop of sever-
al cases of fraud, including the
$2 billion scam at PNB
unearthed recently.
Speaking to the media after
meeting heads of public sector
banks (PSBs), he also said the
government is open to the
question of giving more pow-
ers to the Reserve Bank for
effectively regulating PSBs.
“Let me reassure every-
body that public money is
extremely safe in the public sec-
tor banks. Government stands
behind public sector banks...
Government owned banks’
deposits are 100 per cent safe
and secure,” he said.
Goyal added however that
he does not know “how safe it
is in private sector and some of
the companies which have
income tax dues, which they
don’t pay”.
Several cases of frauds have
surfaced in the recent past at
PSBs.
The most talked about
fraud allegedly involves Nirav
Modi, who along with associ-
ates, used fake Letters of
Undertaking (LoUs) defraud-
ing State-owned Punjab
National Bank to the tune over
$2 billion.
Various investigating agen-
cies are probing the over $2 bil-
lion fraud allegedly committed
by diamond jeweller Nirav
Modi and his associates.
Goyal said the frauds were
perpetrated by private compa-
nies and not PSBs.
In reference to recent sug-
gestion by RBI Governor Urjit
Patel that the central bank
lacked powers to effectively
deal with PSBs, Goyal said
RBI has powers, but if addi-
tional powers are needed the
government was open to the
idea.
“We believe that powers are
available with the Reserve Bank
and that is the conversation
that the government and
Reser ve Bank will have
amongst themselves,” Goyal
told the media after meeting
heads of 13 PSBs here.

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Fund managed Bharat-22 ETF’s The state-owned compa-
he second tranche of fund offer, through which the nies that are part of the new ?C8Q <D<108 market to consolidate further.
?C8Q =4F34;78 “But if oil goes up, this bal-
ance gets disturbed and the
T Bharat-22 ETF follow-on
offer was lapped up by institu-
government aims to mop up
C6,000 crore with a green shoe
Bharat ETF-22 include ONGC,
IOC, SBI, BPCL, Coal India tocks spiralled lower for the
Consolidation in oil price in
expectation of gradual increase

C urrent account deficit

(CAD) at 2.5 per cent of
GDP won’t be a worry as the
Government has the required
instruments to deal with any
imbalance created due to for-
eign fund outflow, Economic
Affairs Secretary Subhash
Chandra Garg said on Tuesday.
“2-2.5 per cent CAD is not
a problem for us.... If there is sta-
bility, in the current year capi-
tal account (inflows) should be
good enough to take care and we
may not worry even if it (CAD)
reaches 2.5 per cent,” Garg said.
CAD, which is the differ-
ence between the inflow and
outflow of foreign exchange,
jumped to $48.7 billion, or 1.9
per cent of GDP, in 2017-18 fis-
cal. This was higher than $14.4
billion, or 0.6 per cent, CAD in
2016-17 fiscal.
With rising oil prices,
depreciating rupee and outflow
of portfolio investments, there
are concerns that CAD might
rise in the current fiscal.
“Last year, we had $160 bil-
lion of trade deficit, $82 billion
services surplus and $70 billion
remittances. In a way, we are
pretty much in balance.
capital account funds it,” Garg
said at a CII event here.
The price of Indian basket
of crude surged from $66 a bar-
rel in April to around $74 a bar-
rel at present. Asked about
monetary policy tightening by
the United States, he said India
can afford to be “less edgy and
concerned” than it was during
Taper Tantrum in 2013.
“In the last couple of years
of monetary easing, you did not
see flood of capital flows com-
ing into emerging markets,
including India. Unlike what
happened in 2007. There is a
confidence that the emerging
market economies will do well,”
he said. He added the govern-
ment needs to be “very careful
and watch out” for the situation,
but today “we are at a place
where we can manage without
having the consequences of
what we saw in Taper Tantrum.”
“We have a number of
other instruments to use in that
case. We have not called upon
them to use so far. Last time we
came out with NRE (non-res-
ident external) deposit. We are
sitting on reserves which are
highest ever at $415 billion.”
tional investors on Tuesday,
with the portion reserved for
anchor bidders getting sub-
scribed 3.44 times to the tune
of C5,163 crore.
The Government on
Tuesday launched the follow-
on fund offer (FFO) of Bharat-
22 Exchange Traded Fund
(ETF), comprising shares of 22
companies, to raise up to
C8,400 crore from the market.
The issue opened for
anchor investors on Tuesday,
and received subscriptions
from investors including mutu-
al funds houses, foreign port-
folio investors (FPI), insur-
ance and retirement funds.
The FFO will open for
subscription for retail and other
institutional investors tomor-
row and will remain open till
June 22.
Secretar y in the
Department of Investment and
Public Asset Management
Atanu Chakraborty said, “The
Bharat-22 FFO is another
opportunity for the investors to
participate in the India growth
story as represented by the
industry leading stocks of the
ETF.”
option of raising another
C2,400 crore.
As much as 25 per cent of
total issue size, or C1,500 crore,
was reser ved for anchor
investors who put in bids worth
about C5,163 crore, ICICI
Prudential AMC said.
“We are happy to see the
continued support received
from anchor investors towards
the FFO... Now, we look
forward to active participa-
tion from non-anchor investor
category, over the next three
days, whereby one has
the opportunity to own some
of the jewels of
Corporate India at a discount-
ed price,” ICICI Prudential
AMC MD and CEO Nimesh
Shah said.
The Government had in
November last year launched
Bharat-22 ETF comprising
shares of 22 companies, includ-
ing public sector undertak-
ings (PSUs), public sector
banks, ITC, Axis Bank and
L&T.
The fund had garnered
bids to the tune of C32,000
crore, although the
Government retained only
and Nalco.
The other central public
sector enterprises on the list are
Bharat Electronics, Engineers
India, NBCC, NTPC, NHPC,
SJVNL, GAIL, PGCIL and
NLC India. Only three public
sector banks — SBI, Indian
Bank and Bank of Baroda —
feature in the Bharat-22 index.
The Government plans to
raise C80,000 crore in the cur-
rent fiscal from disinvestment,
lower than over C1 lakh crore
raised last year.
Besides, the government
will launch the initial public
offering of railway consultan-
cy firm RITES tomorrow
through which it will divest 12
per cent stake. The IPO is
expected to fetch over C460
crore to the exchequer.
Prior to the launch of
Bharat-22 ETF, which has a
diversified portfolio, the
Government had floated the
CPSE ETF comprising stocks of
10 bluechip PSUs — ONGC,
Coal India, IOC, GAIL (India),
Oil India, PFC, Bharat
Electronics, REC, Engineers
India and Container
Corporation of India.
STuesday,
second straight day on
tracking a sell-off
across global markets after the
US and China reignited their
trade dispute.
The BSE Sensex plunged
around 262 points to end at a
two-week low of 35,286.74,
while the broader Nifty
dropped 89 points to 10,710.45.
Asian markets nosedived
after US President Donald
Trump threatened to impose
additional tariffs on Chinese
goods and Beijing vowed to
retaliate, fanning fears of a
full-blown trade war between
the world’s two largest
economies.
Unabated selling by foreign
funds and a weak rupee added
to the gloom, brokers said.
The 30-share Sensex
barometer opened positive, but
soon fell on across-the-board
selling. It finally settled at
35,286.74, down 261.52 points,
or 0.74 per cent. This is its low-
est closing since June 6, when
it had ended at 35,178.88.
The NSE Nifty ended 89.40
points, or 0.83 per cent, lower
at 10,710.45.
Foreign portfolio investors
(FPIs) sold shares worth a net
Rs 754.43 crore, while domes-
in output ahead of OPEC meet
may provide some support to
INR,” said Vinod Nair, Head of
Research, Geojit Financial
Services.
Vedanta was the biggest
loser in the Sensex pack, sink-
ing 3.55 per cent, followed by
Adani Ports that fell 2 per cent.
Other laggards included
M&M, RIL, IndusInd Bank,
Sun Pharma, Bajaj Auto,
Infosys, SBI, Maruti Suzuki,
Tata Motors, Wipro, Axis Bank,
Tata Steel, L&T, Asian Paints,
Coal India, Kotak Bank and
Hero MotoCorp, falling up to
1.94 per cent.
Only ITC, HDFC Bank,
HDFC Ltd and ONGC man-
aged to close in the green.
All sectoral indices fin-
ished with losses. Metal fell 1.69
per cent, followed by realty
(1.33 per cent), oil and gas (1.22
per cent), IT (1.21 per cent),
teck (1.08 per cent), PSU (1.07
per cent), auto (1.06 per cent),
power (1.02 per cent), con-
sumer durables (0.93 per cent),
capital goods (0.91 per cent),
infrastructure (0.71 per cent)
and banking (0.64 per cent).
Selling pressure also gath-
ered momentum in broader
markets, with the BSE small-

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picked up equities worth Rs
824.10 crore yesterday, as per
provisional data.
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and the mid-cap index losing
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s the recent abrupt resig-
A nation by several global
audit firms have led to unnec-
essary aspersions on the com-
panies, it is time for the mar-
ket regulator Securities and
Exchange Board of India
(SEBI) to make such exits as a
part of its disclosure.
Several industry insiders
observe that the time has come
whereby auditors’ observations
and their movement may be
classified as price sensitive
because of the material impact
they have on stock price. “This
will further strengthen SEBI
cooperation with other gov-
ernment agencies for exchange
of information in cases related
to listed entities and protect
investors’ interest,” they said.
With several changes
brought in the new Companies
Act and continuous focus of
SEBI chief Ajay Tyagi, the need
of the hour is to strengthen
Indian corporate governance
scene as it has turned into a
season of resignations. First, it
was independent directors
where several industry experts
voiced concern that they are
not acting so, it is turn of audi-
tors to abruptly end client rela-
tions citing non-cooperation of
Indian management in sharing
information.
While role of independent
directors are considered as
vital to enhance corporate gov-
ernance and are included as
material impact events in case
of resignations to be notified to
stock exchanges, auditors seem
to be having a free run from all
regulatory obligations.
With sudden quitting of
audit firms, companies are fac-
ing the flak from investors
whereby stock prices had free
fall eroding as much as 30-50
per cent of their investor
wealth.
For instance, Manpasand
Beverages, Inox Wind,
Vakrangee, etc are the recent
companies which are likely to
suffer from these unforeseen
developments. Earlier the
shares of Vakrangee and
Atlanta plunged as its statuto-
ry auditor for financial year
2017-18, Price Waterhouse
Chartered Accountants LLP,
resigned on April 28 and May
29 respectively citing delay in
sharing information and dis-
agreement on accounting
methods.
Deliotte Haskins & Sells
resigned abruptly as auditor of
Manpasand Beverages, on 26
May 2018, one week before the
declaration of results after
being associated for longer
period eight years. Auditor
had cited Nil reasons under
section 140 (2) of Companies
Act while filing to ROC.
According to Prime
Database, a primary market
tracker, 32 auditors have so far
resigned in 2018 compared to
36 in 2017-18 and just 18 in
2016-17. Harsh stock market
reaction is understandable on
back of corporate environment
of several companies approach-
ing NCLT, one time settle-
ment with banks on default
loans, financial irregularities,
etc.
But companies like
Manpasand with Nil debt from
banks and growing at a scorch-
ing pace in non-alcoholic bev-
erages market, sudden resig-
nation by auditors have come
as a shocker the company and
shareholders.
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ing out for their parents at a US
immigration facility took center
stage in the growing uproar over
the Trump administration’s pol-
icy of separating immigrant
children from their parents.
“Papa! Papa!” one child is
heard weeping in the audio file
that was first reported Monday
by the nonprofit ProPublica
and later provided to The
Associated Press.
Human rights attorney
Jennifer Harbury said she
received the tape from a
whistleblower and told
ProPublica it was recorded in
the last week. She did not pro-
vide details about where exact-
ly it was recorded.
Homeland Security
Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said
she had not heard the audio but
said children taken into custody
by the Government are being
treated humanely. She said the
Government has high standards
for detention centres and the
children are well cared for and
stressed that Congress needs to
plug loopholes in the law so fam-
ilies can stay together.
The audio surfaced as politi-
cians and advocates flocked to
the US-Mexico border to visit
US immigration detention cen-
tres and turn up the pressure on
the Trump administration. The
president was to visit Capitol Hill
on Tuesday afternoon to discuss
the crisis with House
Republicans.
And the backlash over the
policy widened. The Mormon
church said it is “deeply troubled”
by the separation of families at
the border and urged national
leaders to find compassionate
solutions. Massachusetts Gov
Charlie Baker, a Republican,
reversed a decision to send a
National Guard helicopter from
his state to the Mexican border
to assist in a deployment, citing
the administration’s “cruel and
inhumane” policy.
At the border, an estimat-
ed 80 people pleaded guilty
Monday to immigration
charges, including some who
asked the judge questions such
as “What’s going to happen to
my daughter?” and “What will
happen to my son?”
Attorneys at the hearings
said the immigrants had
brought two dozen boys and
girls with them to the US, and
the judge replied that he did
not know what would happen
ers toured a nearby facility in
Brownsville, Texas, that hous-
es hundreds of immigrant chil-
location was a former hospital
converted into living quarters
for children, with rooms divid-
complete with two high chairs,
where two baby boys wore
matching rugby style shirts
makers on Sunday visited an
old warehouse in McAllen,
Texas, where hundreds of chil-
dren are being held in cages
created by metal fencing. One
cage held 20 youngsters.
More than 1,100 people
were inside the large, dark
facility, which is divided into
separate wings for unaccom-
panied children, adults on their
own, and mothers and fathers
with children.
In Texas’ Rio Grande Valley,
the busiest corridor for people
trying to enter the US, Border
Patrol officials say they must
crack down on migrants and
separate adults from children as
a deterrent to others trying to get
into the US illegally.
“When you exempt a
group of people from the law...
that creates a draw,” said
Manuel Padilla, the Border
Patrol’s chief agent there.
reporters during a tour of San
Diego immigration detention
facilities with Rep. Juan Vargas
and other House Democrats,
said family separation is a “heart-
breaking, barbarian issue that
could be changed in a moment
by the president of the United
States rescinding his action.”
“It so challenges the con-
science of our country that it
must be changed and must be
changed immediately,” she said
during a news conference at a
San Diego terminal that is
connected to the airport in
Tijuana, Mexico, by a bridge.
Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas
announced late Monday that he
was introducing emergency
legislation intended to keep
immigrant families together.
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horrified by the images we are
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Led by New Mexico
Attorney General Hector
Balderas, 21 top state prosecu-
tors from California to
Massachusetts sent a letter to US
Attorney General Jeff Sessions
and Homeland Security
Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen on
Tuesday, calling the policy inhu-
mane and draconian.
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about the violation of children’s
rights and constitutional prin-
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protection.
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the sake of a political agenda
at the expense of children and
the efforts of state law enforce-
ment officials combating
crimes like human trafficking,
drug trafficking and gang vio-
lence which operate across
international borders,”
Balderas said in a statement.
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rus of church leaders and law-
makers from both parties who
also have called the separations
inhumane.
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Tuesday for ways to end the
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border crossings, ahead of a
visit from President Donald
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immigration legislation.
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key Trump allies, announced
they were introducing bills to
stop the practice amid a public
outcry over the administration’s
“zero tolerance” approach to
illegal crossings.
Sen Ted Cruz of Texas
introduced legislation that the
White House said it was
reviewing, and Rep. Mark
Meadows of North Carolina, a
leader of the conservative
Freedom Caucus, also intro-
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Tuesday rejected the nomination papers
of former PM and PML-N leader Shahid
Khaqan Abbasi and Pakistan Tehreek-e-
Insaf chief Imran Khan for the NA-53
constituency of Islamabad.
The nomination papers of Abbasi
and his covering candidate Sardar Mehtab
Khan for NA-53 were rejected by the
returning officer after the candidates
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requirements, Dawn reported.
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reports showing images of chil- Tuesday at US President
dren being held at border facil-
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Donald Trump’s decision to
withdraw from the Paris
recording of a young child accord, calling the move “very
pleading for his “Papa.” regrettable” at a time when the
The issue boiled over overwhelming majority of
Tuesday at a House hearing on countries worldwide are trying
an unrelated subject when pro- to limit global warming.
testers with babies briefly shut “We know climate change
down proceedings. isn’t a matter of faith,” she told
Mar yland Rep. Elijah an international climate meet-
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for a vote this week fails, as is like-
ly. “This becomes a backup pro-
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practices related to the acqui-
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at the White House. ing directly to my Republican Chinese imports as the two Trump said in a statement warming but acknowledged
Trump’s meeting late colleagues— we need you to nations move closer to a poten- Monday announcing the new that the country still needs to
Tuesday with House stand up to President Donald tial trade war. action. “Rather than altering do more to curb emissions,
Republicans comes as law- Trump,” he said. The tariffs, which Trump those practices, it is now threat- particularly in the transport
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in 2013. Musharraf, 74, had filed his nomination papers president’s ire. ing it was an “act of extreme reaching any understanding
from the northern district of Chitral (NA-1) in US stock markets fell pressure and blackmail that with Washington, as suggested
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mission it conditionally granted to the ex-dictator after with significant overseas busi- will have no choice but to adopt said General Mohammad Ali
he failed to appear before it in person, and postponed ness were hit especially hard. strong countermeasures of the Jafari, commander of the elite
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career options. A career in this field
gives you the freedom to:
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required specific job-skills, no obsta-
cle along the way can ever stop you
from rising in your career.
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OParamarth Niketan, Rishikesh
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fter the national level medical
A entrance exam— NEET 2018
declared the results on June 4, the first
round of counselling has already begun
and continue till June 24. As the aspirants
prepare themselves for the counselling
round, there are typical queries that stu-
dents have like things to keep in mind
while sitting for counseling, how to deal
with the dilemma on course versus col-
lege and many others.
Here are a few facts about how the
counselling process works:
QReceiving your rank: You will receive
a State rank and an all India rank. Every
college in most States will have an 85 per
cent quota for State rank (SQ) and a 15
per cent quota for all India rank (AIQ).
A few of the states that don’t follow this
pattern are Andhra Pradesh, Telangana,
and J&K. Remember, there are only about
3,500 seats for MBBS which fall under the
AIQ.
Q Understanding what your rank
means: Having two ranks can under-
standably be confusing. However, you
must figure out which rank gives you a
higher probability of an admission in a
good college. If your AIR is too low, and
your SQ is much better, you must apply
to colleges within your state under the
SQ. Similarly, if you don’t have a good SQ
and a better All India rank, you should
apply to other colleges in the AIQ.
QRound one, choosing your institutes:
You will have to register on the NEET
2018 website and submit your choice of
institute. Remember these choices can
have a large scale effect on your career.
Here is what you should keep in mind
before submitting your choices:
Previous year cut-off: You should
find out about which colleges in 2017 had
cut-off just a little above, and a little
below your rank. These will be different
for AIQ and SQ. You should consider
applying to these colleges in the first
round since these will give you a higher
chance of acquiring a seat.
Course of your interest: Are you
interested in MBBS or another course?
Find out which colleges cater to the
course of your choice, and consider
applying to those.
Seats available: If your state has only
200 seats under SQ, and your SQ is in the
600s, there is no point in applying under
this. Find out how many seats does your
state have under your reservation cate-
gory and apply accordingly.
Funds required: Is the college of your
choice aided or unaided? How much
money will you require to complete your
course there and can your family afford
it or will they need to take a loan?
Reports from ex students: What
does the alumnus have to say about the
teaching staff, facilities, and availability
of resources? They can usually give a fair
idea about your institute. They can also
tell you more on hostel and campus
placement facilities.
QSeat allotment: If you have been allot-
ted a seat in the first round itself, you
have to report to the allotted institute. If
you don’t do so, you will not be consid-
ered for any further processes. Here you
will complete admission formalities by
submitting a few details like your NEET
admit card, your rank letter, your Class
X and XII mark-sheets. If you wish to
appear for the second round, you can
express your wishes on the online por-
tal and your details will be taken forward.
QRound two: Choosing your institutes
again: If you wish to appear for the sec-
ond round, you will choose your insti-
tutes and lock your preferences for the
second time. This time, all of your pref-
erences in the first round are null and
void, and you must set your preferences
again.
Final seat allotment: The next round
of seat allotment will be declared. You
must report to the institute and complete
your admission formalities. If you have
been allotted a seat in the second round
of 15 per cent AIQ counselling, you will
not be permitted to vacate your seat as
per the orders of the Supreme court of
India.
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T Schooling (NIOS) recently
organised 27th meeting of the
Regional Directors and one-day
workshop about ongoing
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Education (DElEd) programme
in Noida, UP.
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coordinators, regional directors of ing highest echelons of the
NIOS and many others. It workshop was a follow up of the recent- ?=BQ =4F34;78 society.
ly conducted examinations where approximately 12 lakh The chief guest, Christine
untrained teachers got themselves registered on SWAYAM (Study he vice-president of Chief Raetzsch, enthralled the audi-
Webs of Active–Learning for Young Aspiring Minds) portal and
gave the exam conducted by all States governments and NIOS
T Technology Officer (CTO)
of IBM Asia-Pacific Christine
ence through his distinguished
talk on the abundantly-used
in a fair, impartial and smooth manner across the country. Raetzsch recently inaugurated artificial intelligence and its
Last year, the Ministry of Human Resource Development the IBM Software Lab and techno-savvy activities to the
(MHRD) had assigned the massive task of training of approxi- launched a new course — society. He explicated the
mately13 lakh untrained in-service elementary school teachers BTech-Computer Science importance of association and
to NIOS. Engineering with specialisation collaboration and expressed
The training has to be completed before March 31, 2019. The in Data Science and Artificial that the embodiment of knowl-
task assigned by the MHRD to NIOS was huge but it could not Intelligence at SRM University edge through such programs
have been possible without pro-active support of the all the State Haryana, Sonepat. will make some landmarks in
Governments. Dr P Prakash, vice-chan- the future.
Prof CB Sharma, chairman, NIOS thanked all stakeholders cellor, in his address enlight- The guest of honour,
for conducting the DElEd examination across the country in very ened the participants about the Prabhat Manocha, client IT
free and fair manner. He termed this massive training programme technology-driven society and Architect, IBM India Pvt Ltd,
of untrained teachers a unique and historic and call upon all stake- articulated that the event a expounded an informative and
holders to continue with the same spirit and dedication for all remarkable one in the annals inquisitive special message to
future DElEd examinations in order to maintain the quality of of the university for knowledge the students, inspiring them on
the training being imparted. production and dissemina- the technical and research-
While addressing the gathering, SK Prasad, director (SSS) tion. Moreover, he pointed driven global world today. The
talked about the objectives and structure of the workshop, where- out, with a vision of producing programme was attended by
as Sanjay Kumar Sinha, director (Academic) gave a brief about employable and market-ready Prof Samuel Raj, dean-acade-
the DElEd programme in NIOS. C Dharuman, Director (Eval.) graduates, the university con- mic affairs, directors, deans,
and Secretary, NIOS emphasised on the conduct and Evaluation tinuously strives to collaborate controller of examinations,
of the DElEd examinations across the country in an effective and with growing industries for faculty, officials, research schol-
time-bound manner. They also discussed future strategy for next equipping students for reach- ars, parents and students.
examinations.

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self-confidence in the long run. To
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school tend to face a lot of pressure
to perform well in Math over any
other subject.
The survey found that 89 per
cent of the parents believe Math is
the toughest subject for their chil-
dren yet 81 per cent of them
expressed that their child’s perfor-
mance in Math is of the most
important to them. To add to this,
77 per cent of the parents surveyed
believe that Math is not taught well
in schools and 75 per cent of them
also look at after-school classes as
a must today.
“The problem today is that
Math is looked at as just a subject,
not a life skill. Blackboard teaching
and rote learning have created
unnecessary hurdles for great Math
learning. Around 79 per cent of the
child shows high interest in solving
math-based activities like puzzles
and Rubik’s cube, a clear indication
that an engaging and intuitive way
of learning will generate much
more interest and curiosity from the
child,” Manan Khurma, CEO &
founder, Cuemath, said.
73 per cent of the parents sur-
veyed also believe their child’s
aversion to mathematics has
increased over time, a possible
sign of the development of Math
Anxiety in children. “Math anxiety
stems from a lack of development
of strong fundamentals in the sub-
skills development is crucial,” he All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, recently declared the result of AIIMS 2018. The
Khurma said.
“The recent move by HRD
T entrance exam which was held in May 2018 serves a gateway for admission to the MBBS/ BDS programmes offered
by AIIMS, New Delhi and eight other AIIMS campuses across the country. The top three all India toppers are:-
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and I hope it brings in the neces- (AIR) 1 in AIIMS MBBS. She Convent School. She secured AIR student of Sri Guru Gobind Singh
sary change to help children over- scored perfect 100 in Biology, 10 in NEET 2018 and AIR 7 in School and has secured 92.6 per
come this less-spoken of yet pow- Chemistry and Physics and 97.87 in JIPMER MBBS. She bagged first cent in Class XII
erful issue,” he added. While 68 per GK. A student of position in Class exam. She also
cent of the parents surveyed were Dr Devraj DAV XII with 97.6 per bagged AIR 14 in
not aware of the concept of ‘Math Public School at cent marks. She JIPMER and AIR
Anxiety’, 67 per cent of them said Khai Village in was the classroom 31 in NEET. Her
they are willing to take corrective Punjab, she programme mother is a
measures in case their child is suf- aspires to become student of Aakash Chartered
fering from this condition. a cardiologist. Institute. Accountant.
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T ground during the match,
England captain Harry
Kane finally evaded the Tunisian
defense just as time was running
out.
Kane found an open area of
space at the far post and used his
head to meet Harry Maguire's
flick-on, scoring the winning
goal Monday in a 2-1 victory at
the World Cup.
It was relief for Kane and
Gareth Southgate, who leapt
into the air in delight as his
World Cup debut as a coach got
off to a winning start.
"The best teams in the world
keep that belief in what they're
doing," Southgate said, "and in
the end they break the opposi-
tion down."
England shouldn't have
found it so tough in its Group
G opener against such opposi-
tion. Not after Kane got England
off to a perfect start with an
11th-minute tap in. But after
Kyle Walker softly conceded a
penalty that Ferjani Sassi con-
verted in the 35th, many of the
fouls went against England.
"Maybe there was a bit of
justice at the end," Kane said.
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predatory instinct in front of
goal that has served Tottenham For all the placidness and England couldn't even
so well. Only two years ago, the togetherness within the group, win a game. Low expec-
striker failed to find the net at Southgate has added persis- tations for this year's over-
the 2016 European tence and doggedness.
Championship, which ended
in humiliation with a loss to put in these last few weeks," reacted quickly to score after
Iceland in the last 16. Walker said. "Togetherness and John Stones' header was saved.
The team has been trans- believing in ourselves."
formed by Southgate since then.
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elgium coach Roberto
B Martinez said he is con-
cerned by aggressive targeting of
Eden Hazard by opposition
defenders could lead to his side
losing their captain and star
player at the World Cup.
Belgium ran out 3-0 win-
ners over tournament new boys
Panama in the Russian Black Sea
resort of Sochi on Monday,
with Dries Mertens opening
the scoring before Romelu
Lukaku netted twice.
Chelsea star Hazard set up
Lukaku's second goal, as the Red
Devils overcame a difficult first
half in the Group G encounter.
But the game was also
marked by some tough chal-
lenges, with five Panama players
booked by the Zambian referee
Janny Sikazwe.
"It is a worry that in any of
those tackles he could really get
hurt," said Martinez.
"It doesn't worry me if that
is a way of trying to stop him.
Everyone is allowed to prepare
games in the way that you can.
It is very much allowed and that
is part of the rules, and you
could run a risk of getting a play-
er sent off.
"My worry is that maybe in
one of those tackles, we are going
to lose the opportunity to enjoy
the quality of a player like Eden
Hazard.
"That is not just for him, that
goes for any player who has got
the natural ability of wanting to
take players on. I hope we get
lucky in that respect." Hazard
himself said that he had taken a
"little kick" in the first half but
said it was nothing serious.
He added "we will see the
best of Eden Hazard maybe
later", in an ominous warning to
Belgium's future group-stage
opponents, Tunisia and England.
However he felt very happy
with the team's performance in
their 3-0 win in the opener.
"I'm so delighted. There are
no easy games, but the players
managed to win. In the first half
we started well for 10 to 15 min-
utes but they defended well
with their defensive structure
and we became a little frustrat-
ed in some situations where we
would normally take a chance."
"It shows the work we have early in Russia when Kane
At the last World Cup, it off.
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After a 3-0 defeat to
Belgium in their World Cup
debut, Panama coach Hernan
Gomez said his team played
with dignity and the result was
normal.
Asked whether he felt dis-
appointed with the result on
Monday, Gomez said: "People
say we will lose by six or seven
goals, but it didn't happen.
Panama played with dignity
and for some periods we played
pretty well."
Panama, ranked 55th in the
world, staged a very encourag-
ing performance in their World
Cup debut as they held
Belgium's talented team to a 0-
0 draw till halftime.
"The difference between
Belgium and Panama in soccer
is greater than three goals,"
Gomez admitted.
"Nobody likes losing. We are
making the first appearance on
the World Cup stage, so some
people may say that three goals
is a lot, but I think this is a nor-
mal result, or even abnormal if
you consider that it should have
been even worse while facing a
team like Belgium."
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halftime break. Both times, the
referee decided against punish-
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Despite it all, Kane
remained patient and delivered
in the first minute of stoppage
time.
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ond," Kane said, "and I'm
absolutely buzzing."
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chance of competing with
Colombia at the World Cup.
Osako's gritty determination to set
up one goal and his 73rd-minute head-
er from Keisuke Honda's corner kick lift-
ed Japan to a surprising 2-1 victory over
the Colombians on Tuesday.
Osako won a bouncing ball to
begin an early sequence that led to a
penalty, put Colombia a man down and
gave Japan a 1-0 lead when Shinji
Kagawa converted from the spot.
Colombia had to play all but the
opening minutes with 10 men after
Carlos Sanchez received a red card for
blocking Kagawa's shot on goal with his
extended right arm.
Colombia equalized late in the first
half on Juan Quintero's rolling but
accurate free kick.
Japan became the latest side to pull
off an upset at the World Cup, joining
Mexico, Switzerland and Iceland in
earning surprising results. The score line
was particularly unexpected in light of
the fact that Japan had changed coach-
es shortly before the tournament, and
because no Asian team had ever previ-
ously defeated a South American side in
17 World Cup meetings.
Not only was Osako instrumental in
both goals, he sprawled to block a close-
range shot by Colombia midfielder
James Rodriguez in the waning minutes.
Not a bad way to provide joy to a
country recovering from a deadly earth-
quake in Osaka a day earlier. The result
also brought a smile to Japanese princess
Takamdo, who attended the match.
Colombia soundly defeated Japan 4-
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game heroics for Portugal against a
Morocco side licking their wounds
after a crushing last-gasp defeat.
A hat-trick from the five-time
world player of the year snatched a
thrilling 3-3 draw for the European
champions against Spain in a heavy-
weight Group B showdown in Sochi.
It was Ronaldo's 51st career hat-
trick, and the 51st in the tournament's
history, as the Real Madrid star
became just the fourth player to score
in four World Cups.
"I am very happy, it's a nice per-
sonal record to have, one more in my
career," said Ronaldo.
"For me the most important thing
is to emphasise what the team did
against one of the favourites to win this
World Cup."
Despite lifting the trophy at Euro
2016, Portugal are not widely viewed
as among the favourites in Russia but
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many headlines at the World
Cup, it is appropriate that Luiz
Suarez will make his 100th
appearance for Uruguay at
football's biggest tournament.
Barring any last minute
disasters the Barcelona striker mundane.
will reach his century of games
for the Celeste on Wednesday have seen Suarez exit in
when they play Saudi Arabia in ignominy.
Rostov-on-Don in Group A's
second round of matches. sent off after making a last
The match should be rou- minute "save" against Ghana,
tine and could secure Uruguay's which helped avoid defeat and
passage to the knockout stage, saw the South Americans
but with Suarez football fans progress to the last four.
know that very few things are
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Brazil four years ago, and the Japanese
also began the game without Okazaki,
a Leicester forward who has been try-
ing to overcome a sore calf and was
replaced in the starting lineup by Osako.
Okazaki did get in the game, but not
until the 85th minute. But it was appar-
ent within minutes that the rematch
would not go so smoothly for Colombia.
In the third minute, Osako won a
bouncing ball from defender Davinson
Sanchez and broke in alone toward goal.
Goalkeeper David Ospina blocked
Osako's shot, but Kagawa pounced on
the rebound and quickly got off a shot
on goal that drew Sanchez's red card and
the penalty. Kagawa converted by direct-
ing his shot inside the right post.
Colombia began the game without
Rodriguez, a Bayern Munich midfield-
er who was the leading scorer at the 2014
World Cup in Brazil. But Rodriguez had
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easy for us," striker Andre Silva told
reporters at Portugal's training base.
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described it as the best save of
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been labouring with a sore left calf
recently, casting doubt over his readiness
to play.
He came on to join captain Radamel
Falcao in the 59th minute, but his best
chances were thwarted by Japan's des-
perate defending near the goal.
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start, Falcao walked across to Japan's side
of the field and spoke to referee Damir
Skomina in a discussion that lasted
beyond the official countdown to kick-
off.
When fans let out the customary
cheer to mark the beginning of the
match, the teams were still standing still.
Moments later, Skomina ordered both
teams to change sides and the match
commenced shortly after.
Only minutes later came the wild
sequence which set up the opening goal.
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Wednesday's match against Iran
determine their World Cup des-
tiny as they seek to register their first
win in Russia following a gripping 3-
3 draw against Portugal.
Champions in 2010 and among
the favourites this year, Spain's World
almost single-handedly, by a stun-
ning Cristiano Ronaldo hat-trick.
The draw came just two days
after Spain's campaign was thrown
into disarray by the shock sacking of
coach Julen Lopetegui following an
untimely announcement by Real
Madrid that he would join the 13-
times European champions after
the tournament.
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helm but barely a week into
the tournament La Roja —
expected to join Brazil,
Germany and France in the
latter stages — have endured 8A0=
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would have wanted or
expected.
"It's a crucial match that will by Aziz Bouhaddouz, piling the
determine our World Cup destiny," pressure on Spain at Kazan Arena on
said Isco.
"We want to score from the
opening minute, even though that Group B team with a win so far, an
won't be easy.
"We will stick to the style that celebrations in the streets of Tehran
defines us as a team, but we have to and elsewhere throughout the
pass the ball around a lot more and Islamic republic.
maintain possession. If we play
nothing to what happened four
years later.
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half own-goal and a controversial sec-
ond-half strike by Mbaye Niang.
Senegal, back in the tournament for
the first time since 2002, went ahead in
the 37th minute when Thiago Cionek's
attempted block of Idrissa Gueye's
shot wrong-footed goalkeeper Wojciech
Szczesny, who was picked to start over
fellow Arsenal castoff Lukasz Fabianski.
Niang, who had returned to the
field from treatment, later beat Szczesny
to a backpass and had an open net
when he doubled the lead in the 60th.
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a 1-0 win against
Morocco, thanks to a late own goal
Wednesday.
Iran sit top of the pile as the only
achievement that sparked incredible
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Italy's Giorgio Chiellini, the
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career.
Uruguay players have hit
out at the way Suarez was sub-
sequently treated by the foot-
balling authorities, but their
headed in a free kick in the 86th minute
to end Poland's streak of five straight
scoreless World Cup openers.
Both teams' stars, Senegal's Sadio
Mane and Poland's Robert
Lewandowski, rarely threatened in
quiet World Cup debuts.
Senegal are tied for the group lead
with Japan.
Senegal will play Japan on Sunday,
when Poland meet Colombia.
Iran now face one of the biggest chal-
lenges in their World Cup history,
but maintains they can "make the
impossible possible".
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was the World Cup final for us, the
game against Spain will be the
Universe Cup final," said the former
Real Madrid coach.
"It was not a miracle that we
won. What can happen once in a
while is a group of people, when they
are united, can create super stories
and super things.
"Our attitude is to try and make
the impossible possible." Yet keeping
the Spanish armada at bay to claim
the point that would boost hopes of
qualifying for the last 16 looks a tall
order.
Iran have never beaten a
European side at a World Cup —
their only previous victory was a 2-
1 win over the United States in
France in 1998.
Despite the frustration of con-
ceding an 88th-minute equaliser to
Ronaldo following two goals from
Diego Costa and a stunning strike
from Nacho, Isco believes Spain's
resolve remains intact.
"We had a setback but we stuck
together and got on with the job," he
said.
"We saw that in the first match.
We never gave up, even after con-
ceding a goal in the fourth minute.
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about. We'll never stop fighting."
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empathy outside the country.
loathed in equal measure; his
on-field behaviour has been
questionable but not so his tal-
ent.
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scoring 51 times in 99 match-
es.
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the World Cup and despite a
sluggish start in Uruguay's 1-0
opening game win against
Egypt, the match against a
weak Saudi Arabia side may
offer him the chance to cele-
brate his centenary in style.
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