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Nitish starts new term Judge recuses himself from Jagan case
with 14member team Attack on judges: 16 booked I have as a lawyer
represented some
of the parties: Lalit The CBI has booked 16 interviews to the media,
individuals and other posted abusive comments
Two Dy. CMs likely for Bihar; RJD, Cong. boycott ceremony Legal Correspondent unknown persons on the and issued threats on social
Daily tally stays below New dELHI allegation that they media platforms. Several
2,000 for fourth day Amarnath Tewary Justice U.U. Lalit of the Su intentionally targeted some provisions of the Indian
CHENNAI Patna preme Court on Monday re judges of the Supreme Court Penal Code and the
The daily count of COVID19
Janata Dal (United) president cused himself from hearing and the Andhra Pradesh Information Technology Act
cases in Tamil Nadu stayed
Nitish Kumar was on Mon separate writ petitions that High Court through have been invoked. A page 8
below the 2,000 mark for the
fourth consecutive day on
day sworn in as Bihar Chief sought action against the Justice U.U. Lalit DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
Monday, dipping further to Minister by Governor Phagu Andhra Pradesh government
1,725. The total number of Chauhan at the Raj Bhavan and Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan case. Justice Lalit, one of the S.A. Bobde to list the case be from giving his statutory
cases reported so far stood here on Monday. Along with Mohan Reddy for levelling few senior advocates directly fore an appropriate Bench. consent to pleas seeking
at 7,59,916. Chennai him, 14 Ministers from all the “false, vague and political al elevated as Supreme Court contempt of court action
reported 497 cases. four NDA constituent parties legations” against Supreme judge in the history of the Letter by CM against Mr. Reddy and his
TAMIL NADU A PAGE 4 took oath. Court judge N.V. Ramana court, said, “I have diffi culty The petitions relate to a let Principal Adviser Ajeya Kal
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tors, Tarkishore Prasad from The judge, who leads a take up this matter. I have as to the CJI against the judges Mr. Venugopal said it was
Tamil Nadu has
the Katihar constituency threemember Bench, with a lawyer represented some and the subsequent revela up to the CJI, who is “seized
6.10 crore voters
and Renu Devi from Bettiah, drew from hearing the case, of these parties.” tion of its contents at a press of the letter”, to take an ap
CHENNAI
According to the draft rolls
who were sworn in, were explaining that he had, as a The Bench then recorded conference. propriate decision.
published on Monday by the tipped to be Deputy Chief lawyer, represented some of a short order, requesting Recently, AttorneyGener
Election Commission, the Ministers. Five Ministers the parties involved in the Chief Justice of India (CJI) al K.K. Venugopal refrained CONTINUED ON A PAGE 8
total electorate in the State from the BJP who took the
stood at 6.10 crore, including oath were Amarendra Pra
3.09 crore women, 3.01 crore
men and 6,385 persons of the
third gender. The Sholinga
tap Singh, Ram Surat Rai,
Rampreet Paswan, Mangal
Pandey and Jivesh Kumar
Early data show Moderna ‘Vetrivel Yatra’ to continue
nallur Assembly constituency
has the largest electorate.
Mishra. Party sources said
senior State BJP leader Nand vaccine is 94.5% eff ective as scheduled, says BJP
TAMIL NADU A PAGE 4 Kishore Yadav, who was the
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Road Construction Minister Denise Grady ing hope in a surging Staff Reporter ing arrest during the yatra,
Nod for road works in the previous NDA govern Drugmaker Moderna on pandemic that has infected Coimbatore he said the police and the
in urban local bodies ment, was tipped to be the Monday announced that its more than 53 million people The ‘Vetrivel Yatra’ will con State government must take
CHENNAI Assembly Speaker. coronavirus vaccine was worldwide and killed more tinue as scheduled, said action against all those who
The government has accor From the JD(U), Vijay 94.5% eff ective, based on an than 1.2 million. Pfi zer, in State BJP president L. Muru violated the COVID19 pre
ded inprinciple approval for Choudhury, Ashok Choud early look at the results from collaboration with BioN gan in Coimbatore on cautionary measures.
taking up urgently required hury, Mewalal Choudhury, its large, continuing study. Tech, was the fi rst, report Monday. Denying allegations that
road works for about ₹ 1,000 Bijendra Prasad Yadav and Researchers said the re ing a week ago that its vac Speaking to mediaper the Vetrivel Yatra was a pol
crore through pooled Sheela Kumari took oath as sults were better than they cine was more than 90% sons here, he said the yatra itical initiative, he claimed
fi nancing raised as loan Ministers. Ms. Kumari won elected from the Tarapur Santosh Kumar Suman from had dared to imagine. But eff ective. was paused for the Deepava that its purpose was to “con
through banks and fi nancial the poll for the fi rst time constituency in Munger for the Hindustani Awam Mor the vaccine will not be wide Moderna also said its vac li festival. It would resume sole” those who were of
institutions on behalf of the ly available for months, cine has a longer shelf life on Tuesday and cover Dhar fended by the Kanda Shasti
from the Phulparas consti the second time. Mr. Vijay cha (Secular) also took oath.
urban local bodies. “The loan probably not until spring. under refrigeration and at mapuri, Tiruvannamalai Kavacham controversy, ex
tuency in Madhubani dis Choudhury was the Speaker Mr. Suman is the son of par
shall be repaid by the urban
trict and Mr. Mewalal in the previous NDA govern ty chief and former Chief Mi Moderna is the second room temperature than pre and Villupuram. The yatra plain the policies of the
local bodies,” a G.O. issued in
Choudhury, former Vice ment. nister Jitan Ram Manjhi. company to report preli viously reported. NY TIMES would reach Coimbatore on Centre and honour the CO
this regard stated.
Chancellor of Sabour Agri Mukesh Sahni from the minary data on an apparent November 22, he said. VID19 frontline workers in
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T.N. objects to
White blanket any move to
reopen Sterlite
Legal Correspondent
NEW DELHI
fi le documents and sugges
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tions in the case. The
Bench posted the case for
Counselling for medical, dental December 2.
Mr. Vishwanathan said
the plight and health of the
people in the vicinity
admissions to kick off tomorrow should be given priority.
The plant was closed in
May 2018 following an or
The fi rst session will be devoted to special categories der by the Tamil Nadu Pol
lution Control Board. Prot
Special Correspondent ests against the plant saw
CHENNAI 13 people die in police
Counselling for fi lling medi fi ring.
cal and dental seats in Tamil In August, the High
Nadu will begin on Wednes Court had rejected multi
day, with the fi rst session de ple pleas by natural re
voted to special categories sources company Vedanta
and then the seats reserved to reopen the plant.
for government school stu Vedanta had challenged
dents, Health Minister C. Vi the various orders passed
jayabaskar said on Monday. A new chapter: Health Minister C. Vijayabaskar (second from by the State government
As on date, 313 seats in left) and Health Secretary J. Radhakrishnan releasing MBBS/ and the TNPCB refusing
MBBS and 92 in BDS were BDS admission list in Chennai on Monday. B. JOTHI RAMALINGAM *
consent to operate, to stop
available for government production, to disconnect
school students under the MBBS and 80 in BDS are re For the government quota electricity and to seal the
7.5% reservation. The State served for government seats, the Directorate of premises.
has 3,650 MBBS seats and school students. A total of Medical Education had re The High Court had held
194 BDS seats under the MBBS 306 seats are reserved ceived 972 applications, of that the prohibitory orders
State quota. Of these, 227 for NRI candidates. which 951 were eligible. were rightly passed for vio
seats in MBBS and 12 seats in Of the 24,712 applications While three candidates were lation of the laws relating
BDS were reserved for go received, 23,707 were found listed under the Other Cate to pollution control.
vernment school students. eligible. As many as 15,885 gory, four were under the ST Vedanta had argued that
The State will have 2,805 candidates from the State category. The most number the High Court decision on
MBBS seats and 153 BDS board and 7,366 candidates of applicants were under the August 18 to keep the plant
seats after surrendering from the CBSE/SSCE stream Backward Class category — closed was a "retrograde
seats to the AllIndia Quota. have applied; 285 students 332 — and 327 under the step". It had submitted that
In the management cate of the ISCE stream have also Most Backward Class/Denot there was no notice or
gory, 2,100 seats are availa applied. A total of 171 candi ifi ed Communities. complaint of pollution
ble in MBBS and 1,760 in dates from other boards are prior to the closure of the
BDS. Of these, 86 seats in also on the list. CONTINUED ON A PAGE 4 plant.
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2 CITY/REGION MADURAI
Sewage water stagnates on
Vaigai South Bank Road
It used to be discharged into the Vaigai whenever pumping station is overloaded
P.A. Narayani
Madurai
A stench of nauseating sew
age permeates the air as one
takes a ride on Vaigai South
Bank Road at Ismailpuram.
Huge pools of sewage have
been stagnant for the past
six months along the retain
ing wall which has been con
structed by Madurai Corpo
ration as part of the Smart
City project, complain
residents.
P. Kaliappan of Ismailpu
ram says the area has been
plagued with a faulty drain
age system for many de
cades. “The sewage from the
area is usually pumped to
Santhaipettai pumping sta
tion. Earlier, sewage used to
be directly discharged into Overpowering stench: Sewage water overfl ows from a manhole on Vaigai South Bank Road off
the Vaigai whenever the Ismailpuram in Madurai on Monday. R. ASHOK *
Heavy downpour batters Madurai The stagnated sewage has
proved to be a breeding spot
for mosquitoes, causing sev
ere inconvenience to the re
the sluice of the check dam
constructed near Albert Vic
tor bridge.
Mr. Kaliappan says a huge
vindaraj, another resident,
says many people dump
household garbage outside
the dumper bins. “The Cor
says Mr. Govindarajan.
City Engineer S. Arasu
says there is a proposal to
construct a new under
Water stagnation causes hardship and poses danger to road users across the city sidents, says S. Amuthavalli, volume of froth fl oated on poration workers also do not ground drainage system in
a shopkeeper along the the river a couple of days be come regularly to collect the the area. Other issues in the
Staff Reporter caused severe inconve to fi nish the road works on inconvenience riding on the stretch. fore Deepavali. “The resi waste from these spots,” he area will also be addressed
Madurai nience to the devotees, said time, the rains will com waterlogged roads,” said P. Water hyacinth, an inva dents as well as the civic bo complains. immediately, he says.
The city received heavy Ashraf Tayub, secretary of pound the problems of road Subash Chandra Bose, a
downpour for over two Tamil Nadu Textile Mer users,” Mr. Tayub said. trader.
hours on Monday evening
resulting in many areas, par
chants Association.
Following fl ooding on
Similarly, other streets in
the centre of the city, includ
Apart from the incom
plete roadworks, indiscrimi 4 more bodies retrieved at Kasimedu Sri Lankan
ticularly the streets around
Meenakshi Sundareswarar
South Masi Street, all vehi
cles, including cars, had a
ing Town Hall RoadWest Veli
Street junction, opposite the
nate disposal of waste by
traders and the public, espe They were families had gone with their refugee held
Temple, getting inundated.
Water stagnation posed
diffi cult time to ride through
it.
Madurai railway junction
and Periyar bus stand were
cially following the Deepava
li celebration, has also led to dragged away by
children to the beach.
While the parents were for murder of
much hardship and danger
to road users.
“The four Masi streets
have been dug up by Madu
also fl ooded. “The problem
is there is no proper infras
water stagnation, said Nitesh
Kothari, a textile trader. He
strong waves sitting on shore, Durga, 17,
daughter of Soundarajan; TV actor
There was ankledeep wa rai Corporation for the tructure to help the water re urged the Corporation auth Special Correspondent Vishnu, 14, and Margaret, 13
ter on East Chithirai Street Smart City project. If the cede after a heavy rain. Veh orities to address the issue CHENNAI and Martin 13, twins, were Special Correspondent
following the rains, which authorities do not take steps icle users faced severe on a warfooting. A Tamil Nadu Fire and Res playing in the water. CHENNAI
Advocate Commissioner inspects temple land bodies of four children who
drowned in the sea on Sun
day evening when they were
The Fire and Rescue Services
personnel retrieving bodies
of children at Kasimedu.
dragged into the sea by
strong waves.
Arulraj, 19, a relative of
gee for allegedly murder
ing a television serial actor,
also a refugee from a camp
Staff Reporter Court appointed an Advo dispute with regard to the The temple had fi led a suit playing near the Kasimedu *
SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT one of the victims, jumped in Virudhunagar district.
Madurai cate Commissioner. existence of the compound before the Principal District Fishing Harbour. into the water to save them. Selvarathinam, 41, was
In order to ascertain wheth Pursuant to the orders of wall and a water pipeline in Munsif, Tenkasi seeking a di From early morning on search and rescue opera However, all fi ve went mis staying in MGR Nagar and
er a compound wall, that the court, Advocate Com the land, Justice R. Mahade rection to the authorities to Monday, personnel from tions. District Fire Offi cer K. sing and were untraceable. tried his luck in the fi lm in
was demolished, had existed missioner M. Vijaya Rathi van appointed the advocate reconstruct the compound Fire Stations at Royapuram, Rajesh Kannan and Deputy Later, the body of Arulraj dustry. He played a minor
within the land belonging to nam visited the property on commissioner to inspect the wall that they had demol Thiruvotriyur, swimmers Commissioner of Police G. was washed ashore. role in a TV serial Then-
a temple in Kasi Dharmam in Monday and will be fi ling a property along with the local ished and to shift the water from Marina Rescue Team, Subbulakshmi monitored After long search, the res mozhi BA. Being a Sri Lan
Tenkasi district, the Madurai report to the court on the in surveyor and Village Admi pipeline from the property Indian Coast Guard and fi sh the rescue operation. cue teams retrieved the bo kan refugee, he had left his
Bench of the Madras High spection. Since there was a nistrative Offi cer. to the panchayat union road. ermen were conducting On Sunday evening, three dies of four children. wife and children in the
camp in Virudhunagar dis
trict. The police said Selva
‘Seven GRI Cinema hall owner opens Six workers return from Romania
rathinam had an aff air with
the wife of Vijayakumar,
researchers fi re, injures two in Palani
who was also a refugee in
the same camp. Vijayaku
among top 2%
with tales of severe hardships
mar hatched a plan to mur
der Selvarathinam and
scientists’ came all the way from Vi
rudhunagar on Sunday
morning. He waited at a tea
Staff Reporter They were hired for painting work and left high and dry after two months shop where Selvarathinam
Dindigul had his tea every morning
Seven researchers from Special Correspondent his woes, said after they and attacked him with a
Gandhigram Rural Insti CHENNAI were removed from the jobs knife. After killing him, Vi
tute Deemed to be Univer Six construction workers they took refuge in the refu jayakumar washed his wea
sity have fi gured among from Tamil Nadu, who were gee camp of the Indian Em pon in the rain and put it in
the top 2% scientists across recruited for painting work bassy where they were pro his bag. He left for Tamba
the world, according to an CCTV footage of Natarajan opening fi re. in Romania and remained vided food and shelter. He ram and then boarded a
analysis compiled by re stranded for one year, re said after four months the bus to Virudhunagar.
searchers from Stanford Special Correspondent Subramani to fence the pro turned to the city with tales embassy offi cials, citing their A special team investi
University. PALANI perty, Natarajan arrived at of personal hardship. The six inability to help them return gating the case arrested Vi
According to a press re A cinema hall owner here the spot and a verbal alter said they were hired for to Tamil Nadu, asked them jayakumar in Virudhuna
lease from the Institute the was arrested after he alleg cation followed. painting work through a to leave. gar bus stand on Sunday
seven researchers who fi edly opened fi re with his li Suddenly, Natarajan private recruitment agency Somehow the group sur evening when he alighted
gured in the list were: P.Ba censed weapon injuring two opened fi re on the trio, fol and assured a salary of vived by doing some odd at the bus stand.
lasubramaniam, an emi persons on Monday. lowing which Palanisami ₹ 40,000 a month. But they jobs and from a shelter pro
nent scientist working in The police said Natarajan and Subramani suff ered bul were made to do odd clean Saved from the brink: The construction workers who were vided by a good Samaritan in
the fi eld of fuzzy logic and
neural networks; K. Rama
owned a cinema hall in Ap
par Street in the temple
let injuries. Illangovan ran
to safety, the police said.
ing jobs. They were removed
from their jobs within two
rescued from Romania by Pon Kumar, president, Tamil Nadu
Construction Workers Union. SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
*
Romania before Mr. Kumar
took up the case.
MNM seeks
chandran, an expert in the
fi eld of dye sensitised solar
town. He had a vacant plot
on the same street. Adjacent
After informing the pol
ice, Illangovan rushed to the
months of joining a con
struction site and were left Union. Mr. Kumar, who was and the Romanian Embassy.
The six workers, who
reached New Delhi on No
more relief for
cells fabrication and cha
racterisation, who had
to his property, a farmer,
identifi ed as Illangovan, had
spot and took his relatives to
the Government Hospital
homeless and penniless.
The labourers, who sur
previously chairman of the
TN Construction Workers’
The six workers hailed from
diff erent parts of the State in
vember 8 and were in qua
rantine due to the COVID19
families of
served as an Emeritus Pro
fessor in the Department of
12 cents of vacant plot.
There was some dispute
for treatment.
Immediately after the in
vived doing odd jobs, were
fi nally rescued and brought
Welfare Board, said the six
labourers were brought back
cluding Poonamallee, Chi
dambaram, Needamanga
pandemic, thanked Rajeev
Sharma, Regional Policy Of
fi refi ghters
Physics at the Institute; between the two over the cident, Natarajan escaped to the State, thanks to the ef after representations were lam, Thanjavur and fi cer of Building and Wood Staff Reporter
M.G.Sethuraman from the boundary. When Illangovan from the spot. However, a forts of Pon Kumar, presi made to Prime Minister Na Thoothukudi. Workers International, for CHENNAI
Department of Chemistry came to the site with two of team led by DSP Siva, se dent of the Tamil Nadu Con rendra Modi, External Af M. Udayakumar, a native sponsoring them with the Makkal Needhi Maiam on
working in the area of sur his relatives Palanisami and cured him. struction Workers Central fairs Minister S. Jaishankar of Thoothukudi, pouring out train tickets to reach home. Sunday demanded that the
face protection coatings State government enhance
and super hydrophobic the monetary relief to the
materials; S.Meenakshi, an
expert in the fi eld of Defl u
oridation and removal of
State government should set up panel Two die after car falls families of the two fi refi ght
ers who died fi ghting
fl ames at a textile shop in
heavy metal ions using bio
polymeric composite ma
to protect fi reworks industry, says MP into pit near Walajabad Madurai, to ₹ 1 crore each,
and give a government job
terials; S. Abraham John, Special Correspondent cheepuram. They were re to their kin, on compas
who is working on synthe CHENNAI turning in their car on sionate grounds. Party
sising nano materials for Special Correspondent Stating that the centuryold industry. The Congress Whip in Two persons died after the Sunday night. Srinath who workers’ wing secretary
sensor applications; K. Ma Sivakasi fi reworks industry was pro Some “Englishspeaking” Lok Sabha, Mr. Tagore dis car by which they were tra was driving the car, found it K.A. Ponnusamy said the
rimuthu, who is focussing Virudhunagar MP B. Manick viding the livelihood of arid people were trying to thwart missed that Union Home Mi velling from Kancheepuram diffi cult to drive on the road relief for the two injured
on luminescence studies am Tagore has urged the Sivakasi, he said the indus the Indian fi reworks’ at nister Amit Shah’s visit to Ta skidded near Walajabad on which was fl ooded with fi ghters too should be in
on glass materials for pho State government to set up a try had the potential to tempt to compete with Chi mil Nadu will bring about Monday. rainwater and with poor creased to ₹ 25 lakh each.
tonic applications particu highlevel committee to en bring huge foreign exchange nese fi reworks industry in political changes. Srinath, 33, a cashier of a visibility. Meanwhile, PMK foun
larly for the white light ap sure the sustenance and de by way of exporting its the global market. “The Home Minister has private bank, was a resident He lost control over the der S. Ramadoss urged the
plications and radiation velopment of fi reworks in goods. Claiming that the industry visited Tamil Nadu 12 times at Sainagar, West Tamba vehicle which skidded off State to provide a relief of
shielding materials; and G. dustry in Sivakasi. The Congress MP was has suff ered a huge loss due in the past and nothing has ram. He was accompanied the road and hit a tree and ₹ 25 lakh to the families of
Sivarajan, an expert in the Talking to reporters, he highly critical of those who to ban on bursting crackers changed and he has not by his wife Iswarya, 30, fell into a pit. the three persons who died
fi eld of materials for bio said that Tamil Nadu govern were trying to malign the during Deepavali by various even kept his promises. The their twoyearold son They were rushed to Go in an LPG cylinder explo
imaging applications. ment should show the same image of fi reworks industry State Governments, he said people of Tamil Nadu know Anandaraj, his fatherinlaw vernment General Hospital, sion and ₹ 10 lakh to those
GRI Chancellor K. M. An interest it has been showing by spreading false informa those Governments should that Bharatiya Janata Party Rajan, 60, and motherin Kancheepuram,where the injured in the incident in
namalai congratulated the for the development of knit tion that child labourers compensate the traders for was against the interest of law Kanagam, 55, on his vi doctors declared Rajan and Arani, Tiruvannamalai
researchers. ting industry of Tiruppur. were involved in the their loss. Tamils,” he said. sit to the temples in Kan Kanagam as brought dead. district.
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2020
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CITY 3
IN BRIEF
Madurai’s daily count falls below 30 ‘IAS offi cers disobeying court
Three deaths recorded in Madurai, one in Kanniyakumari orders should be imprisoned’
Madurai Bureau new cases. The district, B. Tilak Chandar nathan observed that of late was disposed of within 90
MADURAI/TIRUNELVELI COVID-19 positive cases November 16
which has an overall tally of MADURAI several cases were fi led be days from the date of fi ling of
Water level Madurai on Monday record in southern districts 16,449, witnessed the dis The Madurai Bench of the fore the court seeking direc appeal. Similarly, a revision
MADURAI ed 28 new COVID19 positive charge of fi ve persons. Madras High Court has di tions to the authorities con application fi led against the
cases, which took the total Madurai 19,349 No. of patients The number of fresh in rected the State government cerned to dispose of order of the appellate auth
Water level in Periyar dam
Theni 16,449 discharged
COVID-19 TEST
COVID-19 TEST
stood at 122.30 feet number of cases in the dis fections in Thoothukudi dis to issue a government order/ applications fi led under the ority should be decided
trict to 19,349. A total of 44 Virudhunagar 15,692 trict fell sharply to seven circular to ensure that auth Patta Passbook Act. within 60 days.
(permissible level is 142 ft.), Madurai 18,571
with an inflow of 809 cusecs people were discharged, and Thoothukudi 15,474 from 33 recorded on Sunday. orities follow the guidelines If the applications were The authorities, while de
Theni 16,186
Kanniyakumari 15,438
and a discharge of 1,133 the district has 346 active Virudhunagar 15,379 The district, which has a tal for disposal of applications disposed of within the pre ciding the issue under the
cusecs. In Vaigai dam, the Tirunelveli 14,620
cases. Thoothukudi 15,108 ly of 15,474, with 231 active under the Tamil Nadu Patta scribed time by the authori provisions of the Patta Pass
level was 50.33 ft. (71 ft.), Dindigul 10,066
Three COVID19related Kanniyakumari 14,978 cases, marked the discharge Passbook Act, 1983. ties concerned, the parties book Act, should aff ord an
with an inflow of 885 cusecs Tenkasi 7,939
fatalities were recorded in Tirunelveli 14,151 of 50 people. Sivaganga’s If the authority was an IAS need not approach the opportunity of hearing to
and a discharge of 2,019 Sivaganga 6,156
the district, with which its Dindigul 9,742 daily case count also stood at offi cer and had disobeyed court. It was not known why the parties concerned and
cusecs. Combined storage in Ramanathapuram 6,129
death toll rose to 432. While Tenkasi 7,711 seven, which pushed the to the orders of the court, then an order of the court was re decide the matter in accor
Periyar credit was 4,412 mcft. two deaths were recorded at Ramanathapuram 5,950 tal number of positive cases he or she should be pun quired for the authorities to dance with law. The time li
Rainfall recorded in the Source: State medical bulletin
private hospitals, one death Sivaganga 5,897 in the district to 6,156. Hospi ished with imprisonment. do their job, he observed. mit under the Act must be
region in the 24 hours ending
was recorded at Government tals in the district registered Imprisonment should be If an application was fi led strictly adhered to, the court
at 6 a.m. on Monday was (in
Rajaji Hospital. discharged from hospitals. were 20 discharges from the discharge of 17 people. primary and imposition of under Section 10 of the Ta said. If the authorities con
mm): Kodaikanal 17.6,
Sothuparai dam 10, Periyar
While admitting 26 new Tirunelveli added 16 fresh hospitals in the district. Five persons tested posi fi ne under the Contempt of mil Nadu Patta Passbook cerned failed to follow the
dam 6.8, Thekkadi 5.2, cases on Monday, Kanniya cases to its total case count, Virudhunagar reported 10 tive in Ramanathapuram, Courts Act would be secon Act, 1983, for modifi cation of provisions of the Act, they
Gudalur 2.7 and kumari lost one patient to which now reached 14,620, fresh cases, which raised the which has a tally of 6,129. dary, the court said. entries in the patta, it should must face departmental pro
Shanmuganathi dam 1.4. the viral infection to have an even as 30 people were dis overall tally of cases to There were 17 discharges re Hearing the petition fi led be decided within 120 days ceedings, the court said, and
overall death toll of 250. The charged from hospitals to 15,692. After the discharge of ported in the district. Tenka by Mathavadiyan who from the date of receipt of directed the State govern
Man murdered district, which has regis leave 260 active cases. 16 people, the district has 88 si registered two new cases sought a direction to the Re the application. ment to issue a government
MADURAI tered an overall case tally of With the addition of 11 cas active cases. The death toll and two discharges. The dis venue Divisional Offi cer, If an appeal was fi led un order/circular fi xing time li
A 37-year-old man, M. 15,438, now has 210 active es, Dindigul’s case count remains at 225. trict’s infection tally rose to Tenkasi, to dispose of his ap der Section 12 of the Act, the mits for disposal of applica
Muthukumaran, of Vellaripatti cases after 24 people were went up to 10,066. There Theni too recorded 10 7,939, with 73 active cases. plication, Justice S. Vaidya authority must ensure that it tions.
was hacked to death at his
farm under Melur police
Gang attacked wrong persons
station limits in the small
hours of Monday. Police said
that Muthukumaran, who was
the south Madurai district
secretary of South Indian
Forward Bloc, was sleeping in
his farm. He was accompanied
in bid to avenge 2019 murder
by his brother-in-law
Special Correspondent chairman V.K. Gurusamy. Bavvu alias Palanimurugan
Kodeeswaran. Suddenly, at MADURAI Pandian was murdered in of Gurusamy gang, tried to
around 1 a.m., an armed gang
barged into the farm and
Madurai City police have April 2019 on the polling day attack Manikandan. While
started attacking them. picked up a few suspects in of Lok Sabha election. the others escaped, Muruga
However, Kodeeswaran connection with the murder Police sources said both nandam and Muniyasamy
escaped from the scene. of G. Muruganandam (21) the deceased, Muruganan were caught.
The police suspect that some near St. Mary’s Church on dam, and the injured, P. Mu The police seized a car in
of the friends of Sunday. niyasamy (25) of Kamarajap which the gang escaped af
Muthukumaran could be Initial probe revealed that uram, were not involved in ter committing the crime.
behind the murder as the a gang of fi ve persons want any crimes. But, they were Five weapons were also
deceased had objected to ed to murder one Manikan friendly with Manikandan. seized. Deputy Commission
them using his farm for dan to avenge the murder of When they were talking er of Police (Law and Order)
consuming liquor. Melur an advocate, M.S. Pandian, with Manikandan and one R. Shiva Prasad said the pol
police are on the lookout for who was the soninlaw of Dinesh, the armed gang, ice were on the lookout for
the perpetrators of murder. former Corporation zonal said to have been led by one some more suspects.
21 government school students from
Madurai in rank list under 7.5% quota
Staff Reporter State rank of 78, according to B. Pavithra, a student of list. “It cannot be ascer
Madurai the rank list which was re N.S.S.B Corporation Girls tained yet as to how many
As many as 21 government leased on Monday. Higher Secondary School in students will secure medical
school students from Madu N. Karthickraja, a repeater Palanganatham, has secured or dental seats. A clear pic
rai district have secured a who had studied at Govern the State rank of 209. ture will emerge only after
place in the provisional rank ment Higher Secondary S. Vennila Devi, the dis the completion of the coun
list for MBBS and BDS seats School at M. Subbulapuram, trict coordinator for govern selling,” she said.
available for government has secured the State rank of mentsponsored NEET train Counselling for medical
school students under the 102. S. Seethalakshmi, ing, said most of these and dental seats in Tamil Na
7.5% horizontal reservation. another repeater who had students belonged to Most du begins on Wednesday
Among them, S. Kanish studied at Government Girls Backward Classes. Candi with the fi rst session being
Kumar, a repeater who had Higher Secondary School at dates belonging to denoti devoted to special categories
studied at Government High Mahaboobpalayam in Madu fi ed communities and Sche followed by seats reserved
er Secondary School at M. rai, has secured a State rank duled Caste have also for government school stu
Puliyankulam, had secured a of 151. secured a place in the rank dents.
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Vasan Eye Care
founder Govt. forms panel to study revamp of cooperative agency
A.M. Arun dead Cooperative State Agriculture and Rural Development Bank, meant for facilitating longterm loans, has become a provider of jewel loans
NARAYANAN V. T. RAMAKRISHNAN available resources to 180 with the short term, the offi panel. Among the commit in other States, and explore
CHENNAI CHENNAI Primary Cooperative Agri cials explain. tee’s members are M.S. Sri various sources of funding
A.M. Arun, who took over The plight of the Tamil Nadu culture and Rural Develop The move was also a se ram, Professor, IIMBengalu and lending by the bank. Dis
his family’s single pharma Cooperative State Agricul ment Banks (PCARDB) for quel to the suggestion made ru, and M. Ravikumar, missing the talk of failure of
cy shop in Tiruchi and built ture and Rural Development lending to the farm sector for by S. Selvaraj, NABARD Chief former IAS offi cer. Apart the merger of longterm
it into one of India’s largest Bank (TNCSARDB) having activities such as land pur General Manager (CGM), at from the Finance Depart cooperative structure with
network of eye care hospi become only a provider of je chase and construction of his meeting with Chief Minis ment’s nominee, the com the short term in respect of
tals under Vasan Health wel loans has compelled the and deepening of wells, has ter Edappadi K. Palaniswami mittee comprises the Regis Andhra Pradesh, Mr. Selva
care Group, passed away State government to consid become the lender of jewel in August, citing the constitu trar of Cooperative Societies, raj, who worked in the neigh
on Monday. He was 52. er revamping the agency, loans. During 201920, the je tion of highlevel committees the NABARD CGM, the presi bouring State for a year be
The cause of his death is which was originally meant wel loans to the tune of over by the Andhra Pradesh, Ker dents of the State Apex fore coming to Tamil Nadu,
still unclear. According to for facilitating longterm ₹ 330 crore were given. For ala and Punjab governments Cooperative Bank and Than points out that the Andhra
reports, Dr. Arun was de loans to farmers. over 15 years, the apex bank to reorganise the longterm javur Central Cooperative Pradesh State Cooperative
clared dead on arrival by Offi cials of the cooperative has been supporting the cooperative credit structure. Bank and the Managing Di Bank bagged even an allIn
doctors at Kauvery Hospi sector recall that after the PCARDBs with its funds. An order issued last week rectors of the State Apex dia award for 201819. “There
tal in the morning. The bo National Bank for Agricul As an acknowledgement by the Cooperation, Food Cooperative Bank and the might have been administra
dy was then sent to Tamil ture and Rural Development of the chronic problem, the and Consumer Protection TNCSARDB. tive issues initially, but now,
Nadu Government Multi (NABARD) imposed “strin government decided to form Department named S. Na The panel will go into the if you look at the organisa
Super Speciality Hospital gent conditions” for refi a committee of experts and goor Ali Jinnah, former NA working of the TNCSARDB in tion’s functioning, its busi
at Omandurar Government nancing in 2004, the core stakeholders to go into the BARD CGM and an alumnus the last 10 years and examine ness level has gone up and
Estate for an autopsy. function of the TNCSARDB revamp and other matters, of the Indian Institute of the “sustainable viability” of performance has improved,”
In 1991, Dr. Arun took came to a halt. The institu including the merger of the Management (IIM)Ahmeda the institution, keeping in he says, hoping for a similar
over the reins of the fami tion, which till then made longterm credit structure bad, as the chairman of the mind the experience gained turnaround in Tamil Nadu.
ly’s pharmacy business,
‘Vasan Medical Hall’, in Ti
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ruchi. In 2002, he made a
foray into the eye care busi
ness by opening the fi rst
Merit list for government school
eye care hospital in Tiru
chi. Soon after, Vasan ex
panded its presence with
Counselling for medical, dental students brings cheer among candidates
over 100 hospitals across
the southern States. Ho admissions to kick off tomorrow 4 from Chennai, Kancheepuram and Tiruvallur among top 10 rankholders
wever, the rapid rise of the
group came to an abrupt aspirants should go through arrangements for us to stay
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> While I had
Special Correspondent
halt as it got enmeshed in CHENNAI
attended coaching questions from the previous on the NITT campus so that
charges of money launder With the State government classes for my previous years in particular and prac we could access their library
ing and foreign exchange releasing the merit list and tise them. I found this to be and meet the trainers,” he
NEET attempts, I realised
violations. The allegations kickstarting the process of helpful after my previous at said.
that selfstudy worked
were followed by Income counselling for admission to tempt,” she said. The Of the 21 students from
Tax Department and En medical and dental colleges, better for me this year daughter of a weaver, Indira Madurai, S. Kanish Kumar,
S. Dhivyadarshini
forcement Directorate a special merit list was also devi had studied earlier in ranked 78th, is a repeater
raids at several Vasan released this year — for stu helped with the last leg of the Government Higher Se who studied at the Govern
Healthcare hospitals. dents of government schools preparations,” said the med condary School, Ayyangar ment Higher Secondary
who qualifi ed in the NEET ical aspirant who studied in kulam, Kancheepuram. She School at M. Puliyankulam.
Insolvency proceedings and would be eligible for the Government Higher Se hopes to specialise in N. Karthickraja, also a repea
Amid tax evasion contro seats under the new 7.5% re condary School, ophthalmology. ter, studied at the Govern
versies and deteriorating fi servation policy. Arumbakkam. In Tiruchi, eight of the 24 ment Higher Secondary
nances, the National Com Four students from Chen C. Sivaranjani of Thiruval students of government School at M. Subbulapuram.
pany Law Tribunal, nai, Kancheepuram and Thi lur secured the sixth rank. schools who cleared the He has secured a State rank
Chennai, in 2017, ordered ruvallur districts have found She said preparations keep NEET in the district fi gure on of 102. S. Seethalakshmi, a
commencement of insol Among the applicants, 9,596 special reservation, Jeevith Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium a place among the top 10 ing in mind a time and sche the list. Of them, four had repeater who studied at the
vency proceedings against are from the current year kumar R of Theni district is from November 18, with 500 ranks under the 7.5% quota dule helped her crack the cleared the NEET in the se Government Girls Higher Se
the eye care network, and 14,111 are those who ranked fi rst, with a score of candidates being called for for MBBS admissions in NEET on her second at cond attempt. Among the condary School at Mahaboo
based on a petition fi led by passed Class 12 prior to the 664. each session. As usual, coun 202021. S. Dhivyadarshini, tempt. She had studied in toppers were four girls and palayam, has secured a State
one of its suppliers — Alcon academic year 201920. The Anbarasan S. of Kallakuri selling will be held fi rst for who scored 620 marks in the Jaigopal Garodia Govern four boys. Three of them rank of 151.
Laboratories. However, the Directorate of Medical Edu chi with a score of 646 and special categories such as NEET and secured the third ment Girls Higher Secondary were from the Government G. Ramya from Salem,
Madras High Court stayed cation has set aside 80 seats Dhivyadharshini S. of Chen persons with disabilities and rank, said she hopes to study School at Thiruvallur. Higher Secondary School, ranked 10th, was elated. Ra
the proceedings. In Octob for persons with disabilities nai with a score of 620 are wards of exservicemen and in Madras Medical College. Ranked seventh on the merit Manachanallur, and one mya, who completed Class 12
er 2019, a Division Bench under the 5% reservation. A ranked second and third. Gu sportspersons and then for “While I had attended coach list, S.M. Suryalakshmi said each from the government a year ago and repeated the
vacated the stay, and the total of 412 seats have been nasekaran R of Vellore, who government school students ing classes for my previous she was hoping to get into schools at Lalgudi, Sevalpat NEET after undergoing
case was back at the NCLT. reserved for sportspersons has scored 562, is ranked and the general category, the NEET attempts, I realised the Madras Medical College. ti, Tiruppanjili, Thandalai coaching at a private centre
However, the proceed and 448 seats for wards of fourth. He is an Adi Dravida Minister said. that selfstudy worked better “I am defi nitely going to pur puthur and T. Murugapatti. at Namakkal, scored 513. She
ings were further delayed exservicemen. student who studied at the Dr. Vijayabaskar said the for me this year. The last one sue PG after completing Hari Krishnan S., who studied at the Government
by disputes related to the Srijan R, of Tiruppur, has Government Adi Dravidar counselling would be inper year, I studied by myself...,” MBBS...,” said the aspirant, scored 423 marks and Higher Secondary School at
claims and the right to vot topped the State’s merit list Higher Secondary School at son as the government want she said. who studied at the Govern bagged the 38th rank, said K. Morur in Kadayampatti.
ing share of the members with a score of 710 in NEET. T.T. Mottur. ed to scrutinise claims of na During the lockdown, ment Girls Higher Secondary his father, who works at a K. Boopathi from Erode,
of the committee of credi Mohanaprabha Ravichan In the management cate tivity and ensure that only there were medical students School at Porur. grocery store in the city, was ranked fi fth, has scored 559.
tors, among others. dran of Namakkal is ranked gory, the fi rst two ranks have genuine candidates were gi and doctors who reached U. Indiradevi, who scored his biggest supporter. “My He is the son of daily wage
Once a prized unicorn second with a score of 705, been bagged by students ven admission. Several out to aspirants and helped 523 marks and secured the entire preparation was guid earners.
valued at over $1 billion, while G. Swetha of Chennai is from Kerala. Jai Murhekar, of teams had been formed to them. eighth rank, said being clear ed by the students of NITT. R. Srijan from Erode, who
Vasan Eye Care is now ranked third with 701. Chennai, is ranked third with scrutinise every certifi cate “We had WhatsApp about the concepts and con They helped me focus on scored 710 marks, topped
looking for potential bid Among the government a score of 691. produced by the candidates, groups where we could get sistent preparation helped subjects I had diffi culty with the State list for the regular
ders for its assets. school students under the Counselling will be held at he said. our doubts clarifi ed, and this her crack the NEET. “NEET and at weekends, they made quota.
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Weather Watch
Rainfall, temperature & air quality in select metros yesterday
Roads in urban local bodies to be CM wants Chennai back
as Haj embarkation point
restored at a cost of ₹ 1,000 crore ‘It will be diffi cult for T.N. pilgrims to
travel to Kochi to board the fl ight’
Over 11,000 km roads need to be repaired; shortage of funds was aff ecting works
Special Correspondent
CHENNAI the hardship and diffi cul
Special Correspondent and not for relaying the en ties they are likely to face
CHENNAI tire stretch. As the Haj Committee of In while embarking on the Haj
The Tamil Nadu government “Due to that, the roads are dia dropped Chennai as pilgrimage from Kochi.”
has accorded inprinciple ap not restored fully under one of the embarkation He assured the Prime Mi
proval for taking up urgently scheme funds,” it points for Haj 2021, Chief nister that the State govern
required road works for underlined. Minister Edappadi K. Pala ment would follow the pre
about ₹ 1,000 crore through niswami on Monday wrote scribed COVID19 protocol
pooled fi nancing raised as a Plight of local bodies to Prime Minister Narendra to ensure the safety of the
loan through banks and fi In spite of repairing of these Modi, requesting him to de pilgrims while sending
nancial institutions on behalf roads under various signate the city again as an them from Chennai.
of the urban local bodies. schemes, roads of about embarkation point. “Keeping in mind the
“The loan shall be repaid 11,000 km needed to be The Haj Committee of In hardship and inconve
by the urban local bodies. It mended in urban local bo dia had said that owing to nience caused to the pil
Temperature Data: IMD, Pollution Data: CPCB, Map: INSAT/IMD (Taken at 18.00 Hrs)
is also ordered that indivi dies,” stated the CMA who al the COVID19 pandemic, grims from Tamil Nadu, I
Forecast for Tuesday: Heavy rainfall likely at isolated places over
dual Detailed Project Re so contended that the urban the number of embarka request that Chennai be de
Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Karaikal, Kerala and Lakshadweep.
Thunderstorm with lightning likely at isolated places over Tamil ports submitted by the ur local bodies were facing sev tion points had been re signated as an embarkation
Nadu, Puducherry, Karaikal, Kerala, Mahe and Lakshadweep ban local bodies will be ere fi nancial crunch due to duced from 21 to 10 for Haj point for Haj 2021, as in ear
city rain max min city rain max min considered and approved by cut in grants, withholding of 2021, and Chennai was not lier years,” he said.
Agartala................ —....31.8....19.4 Kozhikode.................... —....34.8....26.4 the Project Sanctioning general property tax revi on the list. The Haj pilgrims Every year, more than
Ahmedabad ........... —....34.3....19.0 Kurnool ....................... —....32.0....23.3 Committee for Tamil Nadu sion, exemption of lease rent from Tamil Nadu have been 4,500 Haj pilgrims from Ta
Aizawl................... —....25.9....16.2 Lucknow.................... 26....25.0....15.7
Allahabad.............. —...28,.3....18.9 Madurai .................... 0.5....26.8....24.8 Urban Road Infrastructure for two months during the assigned Kochi. mil Nadu and neighbouring
Bengaluru .......... 9.8....25.0....20.6 Mangaluru ................... —....34.0....24.4 Fund (TURIF),” a G.O. issued COVID19 lockdown. States proceed to Saudi
Bhopal .................. —....32.4....17.7 Mumbai ....................... —....35.1....23.5 in this regard stated. The CMA had requested Logistical challenge Arabia from the embarka
Bhubaneswar......... —....32.1....20.3 Mysuru ........................ 3....27.5....21.0
Chandigarh ...... 23.4....24.7....15.2 New Delhi ................... —....25.8....16.0 the government to accord In his letter, Mr. Palaniswa tion point in Chennai.
Chennai ........... 21.8....29.0....24.8 Patna .......................... —....26.8....16.4 Limited provision approval for special roads mi said, “It will be logisti “Direct fl ights were oper
Coimbatore ........ 3.3....29.0....23.3 Port Blair..................... —....31.1....25.8
Dehradun ......... 11.9....24.1....12.4 Puducherry ............. 54.9....29.0....22.7
The Commissioner of Muni programme for these urban cally challenging for Haj ated from Chennai to Jed
Gangtok ................ —....20.1....11.5 Pune............................ —....32.6....18.2 cipal Administration (CMA) local bodies through grants pilgrims, who are mostly dah and back since 1987,
Goa....................... —....35.2....24.0 Raipur ......................... —....33.8....21.1 had earlier pointed out that or loans from fi nancial insti senior citizens, to travel benefi ting the pilgrims of
Guwahati .............. —....31.4....16.8 Ranchi ......................... —....30.1....16.5
Hubballi ................ —....28.0....22.0 Shillong....................... —....24.4........ —
the provision made in the tutions to the tune of ₹ 1,000 from various locations in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Pudu
Hyderabad ............ —....30.0....21.6 Shimla.................... 20.6....17.4......6.5 Water Supply and Under crore (in the fi rst phase) the State of Tamil Nadu to cherry, Lakshadweep, An
Imphal .................. —....28.3......9.7 Srinagar.................... 3.6......7.1......2.7 Ground Sewerage System which were damaged by Cor Kochi for boarding the daman and Nicobar Is
Jaipur ................... —....24.0....17.6 Thiruvananthapuram...... 5.1....26.6....25.5
Kochi .................... —....30.4....25.4 Tiruchi...................... 1.8....28.9....24.3
Scheme was only to restore porations, Municipalities, Safety hazard: The condition of a road at Palavakkam in fl ight. These pilgrims have lands,” Mr. Palaniswami
Kohima ................. —....24.2......9.6 Vijayawada ............... 6.4....29.2....24.0 the cut portion of the roads town panchayats. Chennai after the recent rains. M. KARUNAKARAN
*
represented to me about recalled.
Kolkata ................. —....31.7....20.3 Visakhapatnam ............. —....31.5....25.6
(Rainfall data in mm; temperature in Celsius)
Cong. identifying seats for T.N. EPFO offi cials booked
Pollutants in the air you are breathing Yesterday
CITIES SO2 NO2 CO PM2.5 PM10 CODE Sipcot gets
Ahmedabad..... 22 .68 37 ..182 .173 ....*
Bengaluru ....... 15 .25 52 ....52 ...44 ....* In observation made at 4.00
clearance for
Chennai ..........
Delhi ..............
Hyderabad ......
49
19
..5
.15
.62
.83
28
91
11
....35
..207
..106
.....—
.130
.117
....*
....*
....*
p.m., Muzaffarpur, Bihar
recorded an overall air
quality index (AQI) score of
287 indicating an unhealthy
polls, says Dinesh Gundu Rao for irregularities in evehicle park
level of pollution. In
funds disbursement
Kolkata ........... 20 .20 17 ..256 .177 ....*
contrast, Shillong, Meghalaya
Lucknow .........
Mumbai ..........
12
..5
.48
.12
85
44
..192
..253
.182
.....—
....*
....*
recorded a healthy AQI score
of 16 at Manallur
Pune...............
Visakhapatnam
..—
11
.48
.19
26
34
..125
....87
...96
...86
....*
....* ‘Will be realistic about seats it will contest in DMKled alliance’
Air Quality Code: * Poor * Moderate * Good (Readings indicate average AQI)
Released fund was misused: CBI Sangeetha Kandavel
T.K. Rohit CHENNAI
SO2: Sulphur Dioxide. Short-term exposure can harm the respiratory system,
S. Vijay Kumar
making breathing difficult. It can affect visibility by reacting with other air CHENNAI
CHENNAI
and repayment of loan. State Industries Promotion
particles to form haze and stain culturally important objects such as statues
and monuments.
The Congress party will be A society should be Corporation of Tamil Nadu
NO2: Nitrogen Dioxide. Aggravates respiratory illness, causes haze to form by realistic about the seats it The CBI has registered a formed to make such claims Limited (Sipcot) has ob
reacting with other air particles, causes acid rain, pollutes coastal waters. will contest in Tamil Nadu as case against unknown offi and funds unutilised should tained environmental clea
CO: Carbon monoxide. High concentration in air reduces oxygen supply to
critical organs like the heart and brain. At very high levels, it can cause part of the DMKled alliance, cials of Employees Provi be returned to the em rance for the development
dizziness, confusion, unconsciousness and even death. but doesn’t foresee any pro dent Fund Organisation (EP ployee’s account with a 2% of an industrial park at Ma
PM2.5 & PM10: Particulate matter pollution can cause irritation of the eyes, blems in the discussions, Di FO) on a charge of abusing penal interest from the date nallur and Soorapoondi vil
nose and throat, coughing, chest tightness and shortness of breath, reduced
lung function, irregular heartbeat, asthma attacks, heart attacks and premature nesh Gundu Rao, AICC in their position in the disbur of disbursement. According lages in Gummidipoondi,
death in people with heart or lung disease charge of Tamil Nadu, said. sement of funds to St. John’s ly, St. John’s Freight System Tiruvallur district.
The party has started the Employees Welfare Society, Ltd. formed St. John’s Em According to sources,
process of identifying seats Thoothukudi, for a housing ployees’ Welfare Society the Ministry of Environ
quarry. the Assembly polls.
INICET: CM seeks more exam centres within T.N. Gold seized at airport
Staff Reporter from Dubai, were detained.
Special Correspondent of them have been allotted avoidable stress during the The INICET for admission CHENNAI On questioning, the offi cials
CHENNAI exam centres in Chittoor and examination time to the as to PG courses such as MD, In various gold smuggling learnt that they had con
Nellore districts in Andhra piring medical students,” Mr. MS, DM (6 yrs), MCh (6 yrs) cases at Chennai airport, cealed 12 bundles of gold
Chief Minister Edappadi K. Pradesh. Palaniswami said in his letter in the institutes like the All Chennai Air Customs seized paste weighing 1.93 kg in
Palaniswami on Monday “I would like to point out to Mr. Modi. India Institutes of Medical 1.85 kg of gold estimated at their rectums; later when
wrote to Prime Minister Na that examination centres like The Chief Minister has re Science (AIIMS), Jawaharlal ₹ 97.7 lakh. the paste was extracted, offi
rendra Modi seeking his in Madanapalle in Chittoor dis quested the Prime Minister Institute of Post Graduate On Sunday, four passen cials recovered 1.61 kg of
tervention for realloting ex trict and Nellore in Nellore to intervene in the matter Medical Education and Re gers, Mohamathu Tharig, gold estimated at ₹ 84.4 lakh.
am centres within Tamil district are not well connect and direct the Union Health search ( Jipmer), Post Grad 36, Syed Mohamed Paris, Dhasthageer, 34, hailing
Nadu for students, who are ed from various locations in Ministry to allot to students uate Institute of Medical 26, both of Ramanathapu from Ramanathapuram,
to appear in the Institute of Tamil Nadu. They are 175 to the examination centres of Education and Research at ram, and Sikkandar Mas who arrived from Dubai,
National Importance Com 250 km away from students’ their choice by creating addi Chandigarh and NIMHANS than, 36, and Rahuman was arrested.
bined Entrance Test (INI home towns. This has tional centres within Tamil at Bengaluru, is scheduled to Khan, 31, both of Chennai, Offi cials seized 243 g gold
CET) on November 20. Some caused tremendous and Nadu. be held on November 20. who had arrived by a fl ight from him.
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The right lessons from Pulwama and Balakot
The events of February 2019 need to be extricated from the electoral straitjacket and boastful political utterances
minary at Balakot in KhyberPak professionally respected force but of Control (LoC) at launchpads.
htunkhwa province of Pakistan, a partisan act in support of one Neither the surgical strike of 2016
Threat or treat avenging the suicide car bomb in
Pulwama 12 days earlier that led to
political party. In a healthy de
mocracy, apolitical armed forces
nor the Balakot air strike have in
fused deterrence or altered Pakis
The fi nal agreement of RCEP covers the death of 40 Central Reserve are supposed to follow the elected tan’s policies, whether in the Kash
various issues that India had fl agged Police Force personnel. On the government’s lawful orders but do miri hinterland or on the LoC,
Sushant Singh morning of February 27, the Pakis not work to further the partisan where Indian security forces per
T
he Regional Comprehensive Economic Partner tan Air Force attempted its riposte aims of the ruling party — that sonnel continue to lose their lives.
ship (RCEP) was signed into existence on Sunday in Jammu and Kashmir, and in the would be more in tune with China, However, the Balakot air strike
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by 15 countries led by China, Japan, South Korea, he ghost of Pulwama and Ba ensuing aerial combat, Wg. Cdr. where the armed forces are loyal was defi nitely a punitive move, a
Australia, New Zealand and the 10state ASEAN group lakot (picture) has been exor Abhinandan was captured by the to the Communist Party and not tactical act, which demonstrated
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ing, creating one of the world’s largest trading blocs. cised nearly 20 months after Pakistan military. the Chinese state. India’s willingness to cross the
the twin events happened (2019). On February 28, Pakistan Prime Military veterans and national threshold of using air power
Noticeable by its absence was India, which after seven
In Pakistan, former Speaker and Minister Imran Khan announced rorist attack on the Parliament. ist commentators, quick to take of against Pakistan, that too on its
years of protracted negotiations decided last November Opposition MP, Sardar Ayaz Sadiq, in Parliament that he was releas fence to any perceived slights on mainland. The target audience, as
to exit the grouping. India had justifi ed its decision as alleged in the Pakistan National ing the Indian fi ghter pilot and The conduct of the forces behalf of the uniformed, have con evident in hindsight, was largely
protecting its economy from burgeoning trade defi cits Assembly last month that the PTI sending him back home “as a If there are some unanswered veniently ignored this grave mis domestic — the voters at the poll
with a majority of the 15 RCEP members and had cited government, fearing an imminent peace gesture”. questions about Pulwama suicide demeanour of the IAF during an ing booth, who responded
the grouping’s refusal to accede to its requests on safe missile strike from India, had cap bombing, the questions about the election campaign. Unless correct approvingly.
guards as a deal breaker. Those reasons were on the itulated and released the captured Aspects about Pulwama Balakot air strike have, more or ed, this would set a wrong prece
face of it justifi able at the time and were welcomed by Indian fi ghter pilot, Wing Com The full details of backroom hap less, been answered by foreign go dent for the armed forces and its Gravity of the crisis
mander Abhinandan Varthaman. penings between the suicide car vernments and international me senior leadership. Two decades The real focus from February 27
industry, trade and farmers’ groups. However, 12
The allegation was denied by the bombing of February 14 and Wg. dia. Those answers are unfl atter ago, the then Army Chief, General last year should be on the Indian
months down the road, India’s opting out appears far Pakistan government and the all Cdr. Abhinandan’s return on ing to the professional image of V.P. Malik, had lodged a strong threat and Pakistani counter
more debatable in terms of its economic rationale. With powerful military, and even Mr. March 1 are not publicly available the IAF: from actually hitting the complaint with Prime Minister threat of fi ring missiles at each
global trade and the economy foundering on the shoals Sadiq partially backtracked within but 20 months later, there is defi designated targets to providing Atal Bihari Vajpayee during the other, an escalatory move that
of the COVID19 pandemic, especially as new infections a day, but it brought the spotlight nitely greater clarity. Even though proof of the destruction, the IAF is Kargil war about the use of the im could have taken the confl ict into
in Europe and the U.S. prompt fresh restrictions there, back on an incident where the two a video of the suicide bomber was seen to have lost the battle of the ages of three service chiefs on the uncharted territory. That the sit
the preeminence of the east Asian and Pacifi c coun nucleararmed neighbours were released by the JaisheMuham narrative to its Pakistani counter Bharatiya Janata Party’s election uation was serious is recognised
threatening a military escalation. mad, there have been constant part — not that a fumbling and posters. While the crumbling of in from the urgent interventions by
tries including China, South Korea, Vietnam, Australia
whispers about certain aspects of bumbling Pakistan military was stitutions like Parliament, the judi the United States, the United King
and New Zealand serving as a bulwark in containing the Overtaken by politics the Pulwama terror attack. Those anywhere near perfect, making ciary and the media in recent dom and others that night who
pandemic and reenergising economic activity can The revival of the focus on Pulwa questions have not been answered ridiculous claims. The perfor years has earned a lot of attention, pressed on both the governments
hardly be understated. Add to this the heightened tariff ma and Balakot provides us with satisfactorily, even after the mance of the IAF in aerial combat scholars have been shy of making to step back. Narendra Modi’s
uncertainty generated by the deadlocked Brexit nego an opportunity for an honest ap 13,800page National Investigation the next day, where it claims to robust enquiries about the con election campaign speech about
tiations between Britain and the E.U., and it becomes praisal of the incident. Unfortu Agency charge sheet was fi led in have shot down a Pakistan Air duct of the armed forces, an insti the incident, claiming that nuclear
evident that India may have missed a vital opportunity. nately, this happened in the midst August and a Pakistani Minister, Force F16 fi ghter jet, has been re tution even more critical to the weapons were not kept for Diwali,
of the Bihar election campaign, Fawad Chaudhry, last month ceived with scepticism in most health of Indian democracy. points to the gravity of the crisis.
Given that the RCEP members now account for about
and in a throwback to the parlia claimed, and immediately back western capitals. Wg. Cdr. Abhi That the two countries could dees
30% of the global GDP and a third of the world’s popula mentary polls last year, an event of tracked from his country’s involve nandan’s defi ant behaviour in Pa Claims, facts and the audience calate so quickly is a positive sign
tion, the signatory states were emphatic that the timing strategic importance was only ment in the suicide bombing. The kistani custody deserved the Chief of Defence Staff General Bi but the fact that any miscreant
of the accord presents a unique opportunity to support seen through the narrow political responsibility for the intelligence praise that came his way, but the pin Rawat claimed on November 6 with a few kilos of explosive and
their economic recovery, inclusive development and prism of its electoral utility for the failure, violation of standard oper fact remains that the IAF came se that the Balakot strike had sent a an old car can bring these two nu
job creation even as it helps strengthen regional supply ruling party. The events of Febru ating procedures by security forc cond best that morning, as it lost a strong message that Pakistan no clear weapon states to the brink of
chains. Interestingly, among the ASEAN signatories are ary 2019 need to be extricated es and the possible involvement of fi ghter aircraft and the pilot ended longer enjoys impunity of pushing war should leave us worried. The
from the electoral straitjacket to disgraced Jammu and Kashmir in Pakistani custody. terrorists into India under the nu current shenanigans in Pakistan’s
several relatively far smaller economies including Viet
draw the right lessons. police offi cer, Davinder Singh, re That day, the IAF also shot clear bogey, and a new Indian tem Parliament should warn us of
nam and the Philippines, which not only continue to Mr. Sadiq was referring to a main unexamined. Davinder down its own helicopter in friend plate to deal with terror has inject those dangers and force us to
have their share of disputes with Beijing but also suff er meeting held by Pakistan Foreign Singh was posted in Pulwama ly fi re, close to Srinagar. It cast a ed uncertainty in Pakistan. It is a think of ways to minimise them,
signifi cant trade imbalances with Asia’s largest econo Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi from May 2017 to August 2018, and shadow on the IAF’s report card of claim which does not hold against instead of the usual dose of more
my. That these and other larger nations in the grouping with parliamentary leaders of oth was caught transporting two ab those days, but what made it the facts on the ground this year, bravado and boastful utterances
have chosen to bury their geopolitical diff erences with er political parties on February 27 sconding militants to Delhi in his worse were the IAF’s eff orts to pre as senior Indian Army offi cers reg from our political leadership.
China in order to prioritise what they collectively see as last year, where he discussed the private car earlier this January. He vent any media reportage of the ularly claim that Pakistan is push
a mutually benefi cial trading compact that would bene threat of an Indian missile attack had earlier been named by Afzal fratricide incident before the Lok ing militants into the Kashmir Val Sushant Singh is a Senior Fellow with the
that night. A day earlier, the Indian Guru, who was hanged in 2013, as Sabha elections were over. It was ley and has hundreds of militants Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi.
fi t their economies over the longer term is the clearest
Air Force (IAF) had targeted a se a key gobetween in the 2001 ter not just dishonest on the part of a ready to be pushed across the Line The views expressed are personal
testament to economic realism trumping nationalist
politics. Also, the summary of the fi nal agreement
shows that the pact does cover and attempt to address
issues that India had fl agged including rules of origin,
trade in services, movement of persons and, crucially,
Needed, a policy framework in step with technology
remedies and safeguards. Acknowledging India’s eco With the rapid pace of technology blurring boundaries, a holistic view of schemes is a must
nomic heft and value as a market, the RCEP members cle has close to 100 million lines of automobile are not covered by in ture and softer areas such as edu
have not only left the door open should New Delhi re code, which is more than that dustrial policies that govern the cation, skilling, technical
consider its stance but have also waived a key 18month used by a Boeing 787 or the Electronics and Information Tech institutions, laboratories, testing
cooling period for interested applicants. It would be in Chrome browser. This is a para nology Ministry. centres, etc., has to be cultivated.
India’s interest to dispassionately review its position digm shift as the amount of “value Another example involves The creation of clusters of compa
and embrace openness rather than protectionism. add” from intangible technology drones that could serve diff erent nies in adjacent but complemen
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For Bihar is being transformed by informa mental clearances outside of the and crossdisciplinary learning
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s technology has evolved in tion. Department of Agriculture. There and spur innovation and econom
the latter part of the 20th Even if you look at a conven signed policies that govern those is increasingly a need for interde ic development. Moreover, this
Nitish Kumar must use the mandate to bring century and the early part tional “metalbased” industrial areas. However, over time, as each partmental cooperation and syn type of ecosphere could also at
the State back on the development path of the 21st century, the traditional product, information and elec of these departments grew, they ergy not only in policy framework tract investment and capital
boundaries between goods and tronics are becoming allperva have tended to operate in silos. but also in deployment. formation.
N
itish Kumar began another term as Chief Minis
ter of Bihar on shaky footing but retaining con services have blurred. By virtue of sive, ensuring that we set boundar This has for most of the 20th cen There is also the larger issue of a
Moore’s law, computing capabili ies to control quality or the uptime tury been reasonably successful in Taking an aggregate view shift of value between manufac
siderable infl uence among his core support
ties have surged faster than capa of the equipment. There is in driving economic development in This departmentalisation of poli turing and services as technology
base. His party, the JD(U), has 31 seats fewer than the bilities in traditional industries. creasing digitisation and electroni countries. cies is facing a challenge from changes. The policy, by and large,
BJP in the National Democratic Alliance (NDA). Even These informationbased technol fi cation of industrial activities, The recent developments in technology that very often blurs promotes and gives incentives for
with 74 MLAs among the total NDA tally of 125 in the ogies have been widely adopted products and services, infl uencing technology have, however, the boundaries served by diff erent manufacturing, whereas the share
243member Assembly, the BJP had to concede the post across a broad range of industries the evolving skill sets in industry. blurred standard boundaries that policies. There is a need to have a of intangibles, even in traditional
of the CM to Mr. Kumar — proof of his indispensability. and products that traditionally This revolution is taking place dictate policy framework in most holistic view of policies for eco manufacturing companies, wheth
His command over social groups critical to the alliance have not been perceived as elec across products, as information governments. If you take India, in nomic development as technology er it be software, research and de
tronic or software based. availability drives effi ciency and dustrial promotion policies look at is becoming a signifi cant enabler velopment or even servicing of
remains unimpaired for now, but the inversion of the
Information is the new curren creates value for customers by encouraging capital formation in most industries. A change in products, are not adequately co
BJPJD(U) hierarchy has triggered a new churn that is cy powering economies. The ex providing greater control over the from a manufacturing perspec policy framework regarding eco vered in industrial policies. It is
set to reframe politics in Bihar. The neardeath expe pansion of computing power has product and its surrounding envi tive. As technology is driving an in nomic development that enables important to include these to en
rience of the NDA in the recent election might temper driven the pace of information ronment. And, this is what impels creasing share of the value add various ministries to work togeth courage innovation and techno
the BJP’s ambitions momentarily, but its plan to claim gathering and analysis. The new customers to value products that coming from digitisation and data er is essential. A suffi ciently empo logical development.
the pole position in Bihar will inevitably lead to ten currency drives processes and de have utilised these evolving analytics in products and services wered policy clearing cell could In this evolving policy frame
sions with its partner. By appointing two Deputy Chief cisionmaking across a wide array technologies. across industry segments, there ensure a holistic view on policy work, it is important that there is
of products and services, making needs to be a way of encouraging across departments of govern close cooperation and alignment
Ministers, and displacing former DCM Sushil Modi who
them more effi cient and value ac Working in silos capital formation by way of intan ment, at the State and the Centre. between the Centre and State to
was seen as close to Mr. Kumar, the party has set the cretive for consumers. As governments have focused on gibles in traditionally tangible In terms of attracting invest ensure eff ective implementation
ball rolling for a more expansive role. The BJP has also improving the lives of people, they industries. ments, policies have always been on the ground. Some of these
kept a lion’s share of ministerial berths and signifi cant Data is a new currency have looked at economic develop If you look at the automobile in driven by subsidies and incentives thoughts could help us navigate
portfolios. Two other allies, the Vikassheel Insaan Party Let us look at a traditional good, ment and industry as catalysts to dustry, policies are governed by but increasingly, in a competitive through an ecosystem that is
(VIP) and Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular), have the automobile. A modern auto progress. To address the needs of the Heavy Industries and the Sur scenario, these are becoming hy changing with technology.
four members each, and either party could threaten mobile has 40% of its component various stakeholders, govern face Transport Ministries, respec giene factors. More signifi cantly, a
the survival of the government. Both got a berth each. value from electronicbased pro ments have tended to build spe tively. However, increasing elec nourishing ecosystem for indus Srivats Ram is Managing Director, Wheels
ducts and a modern electric vehi cialised departments and de tronifi cation and digitisation of the try, including the hard infrastruc India Ltd.
Mr. Kumar’s measured response to his party’s show
ing is meaningful. While the changed reality of num
bers is visible, the realignment that the BJP will seek re LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Letters emailed to letters@thehindu.co.in must carry the full postal address and the full name or the name with initials.
mains unmapped. One discernible element of the BJP’s
To read more letters
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8 NEWS MADURAI
mar Singh, who has urged granted to the judiciary is to individuals and other un ed with objectionable posts. should stop holding the sanitisers and disinfecting Karnataka Transport
the apex court to issue an allow them to function known persons on the alle Even the persons occupying brief for private corporates the premises using chlori Department officials carried
order to bar Mr. Reddy from fearlessly. gation that they intentional high position went to the intent on scuttling ambi nated water, a new set of ar out drives to book private bus
ly targeted some judges of media and gave interviews tious State projects such as rangements have been operators for illegally
the Supreme Court and the against the High Court and the Kerala Fibre Optic Net rolled out at Sabarimala for allowing transportation of
firecrackers and other goods
Early data show vaccine Andhra Pradesh High Court
through interviews to the
media, posted abusive com
its judges, that too, from the
party offi ce belonging to a
political party, which is in
work (KFON).
KFON, which promised
high bandwidth Internet
the MandalamMakaravilak
ku season that began on
Monday.
on passenger buses and on
charges of fleecing
passengers by collecting
is 94.5% eff ective ments and issued threats on
social media platforms.
power,” it read. The FIR
states that the cases were in
connectivity to homes and
businesses at a reasonable
According to Devaswom
Minister Kadakampally Su
Ayyappa pilgrims at the
Sabarimala Sannidhanam
on Monday morning.
exorbitant fares. Around 250
cases were registered against
The agency has taken ov itially registered by the CID rate, has caused private In rendran, preparations have operators in drives taken up
Researchers test vaccines by side experts to evaluate er the probe into 12 cases on the complaints lodged by ternet service providers to been made in compliance at Majestic and other areas in
inoculating some study par their claims. Therefore, the earlier registered by the the Registrar General of the see red. The political inter with the COVID19 protocol Malikappuram, prasadam the city.
ticipants and giving others results cannot be consi Cyber Crime unit of the Am Andhra Pradesh High Court. ests of the Opposition have and in accordance with the counters and Annadana
placebos, and then watch dered conclusive. aravati CID, following the They alleged that person dovetailed with the busi directions of the Kerala High Mandapam, to ensure physi Maoists to observe PLGA
ing the two groups to see The companies’ products Andhra Pradesh High nel occupying posts of pro ness concerns of the ser Court. cal distancing. anniversary for a year
how many people get sick. open the door to an entirely Court’s directive on October minence in the State inten vice providers. Both pow A counter has been The Annadana Manda HYDERABAD
In Moderna’s study, 95 peo new way of creating vac 12. Several provisions of the tionally targeted the judges, ers have conspired to opened near the Ganapati pam, Devaswom mess, pol The outlawed Communist
Party of India-Maoist’s
ple contracted the coronavi cines — and creating them Indian Penal Code (IPC) and gave interviews, uploaded scuttle KFON using the Kovil at Pampa for supply ice mess and bhandaram
Central Military Commission
rus: fi ve who were vaccinat fast. Both use a synthetic the Information Technology posts, and attributed mo Central agencies as a front, ing medicinal water. The will be disinfected with the
(CMC) appealed to all its
ed, and 90 who received version of coronavirus ge (IT) Act have been invoked. tives to some judges of the Mr. Vijayan said. water will be supplied in thermal vaporisation fog
cadre to celebrate 20th
placebo shots of saltwater. netic material, called mes Supreme Court and the The CPI(M) State secre onelitre stainless steel con ging machine. Sanitiser dis anniversary of the People’s
Statistically, the diff erence senger RNA or mRNA, to Objectionable posts High Court in delivering or tariat has accused the Cen tainers, which could be re pensers operated by foot Liberation Guerrilla Army
between the two groups was programme a person’s cells The High Court order men ders/judgments. They alleg tral agencies of attempting fi lled at Charalmedu, Jyothi have been installed at 23 (PLGA) for one year from this
highly signifi cant. And of to churn out many copies of tioned that on May 22, diff e edly uploaded abusive posts to hobble the State’s deve nagar and Malikappuram. spots. December. The CMC exhorted
the 95 cases, 11 were severe a fragment of the virus. That rent Benches of the court against the judges on Face lopment agenda under the Spots have been marked Five emergency medical all its party cadre to
— all in the placebo group. fragment sets off alarms in had passed orders with res book and Twitter over re cover of investigating the at the Sannidhanam, includ centres have been set up undertake a campaign to
The results were analysed the immune system and pect to some petitions, cent judgments/orders deli UAE consulatelinked gold ing Valiyanadapanthal, low along the route from Pampa consolidate it for the next
by an independent data sa stimulates it to attack, against the orders and ac vered by the judges. smuggling case. er and upper Thirumuttam, to the Sannidhanam. one year.
fety monitoring board, ap should the real virus try to
pointed by the National In invade.
Congress sees bid to Nitish will have to live with a diff erent BJP
break Grand Alliance Party seems to be making a break from some of the old patterns of its relationship with JD(U)
Nistula Hebbar
New Delhi
eff ected, with leaders like
Union Minister Nityanand
large number of women vo
ters who outnumbered male
Party slams RJD leader for statement against Rahul It has been a good month for Rai likely to take centre voters in every phase of the
the BJP so far, with the Na stage. threephase poll and the
Special Correspondent BJP leader and Union Mi tional Democratic Alliance NDA’s success in Seeman
Patna nister Giriraj Singh tweeted (NDA) moving past the ma The silent voter chal, considered the strong
The Congress on Monday to take a jibe at Mr. Tiwari’s jority line in the Bihar As Many who covered the Bihar hold of the Rashtriya Janata
slammed senior Rashtriya statement. “Regarding Ra sembly; the party far ahead polls saw fi rst hand that BJP Dal (RJD), proved that these
Janata Dal (RJD) leader Shi hul Gandhi, senior leader of of its ally, the Janata Dal(U); and the Prime Minister’s category of voters did fl ock
vanand Tiwari for his state the RJD, an ally of the grand and grabbing the House popularity remained intact to the NDA.
ment that Rahul Gandhi was alliance in Bihar, Shivanand Speaker’s position as well. through months of the CO But what was also clear
picnicking at his sister’s Tiwari says that he (Rahul But what has really made VID19 pandemic, lockdown through the election was
Shimla house during the Bi Gandhi) is a nonserious tou this an important month for and after. Much of it was at that Mr. Kumar was not the
har Assembly election. rist politician. Shivanand ji the BJP in the State is that it tributed to the welfare work only draw for this vote bank
Mr. Tiwari is acting on the has come to know Rahul ji has been given, through the Warm welcome: Union Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP done under the Pradhan and Mr. Narendra Modi with
directions of the BJP and the <
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Shivanand Tiwari more than Obama (former diff erence in its relative president J.P. Nadda in Patna on Monday. PTI *
Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana his welfare policies and non
Janatal Dal(U) to divide the wants to divide the U.S. President). Why is the strength visavis the JD(U), and improvement in last upper caste moorings was a
RJD and the Congress, and Congress silent yet?” he the opportunity to make made Deputy Chief Minister. Minister Narendra Modi to mile delivery of welfare big draw as well. The Prime
RJD and the
he wants to save the fragile said. changes in the party organi Mr. Modi had, for years, campaign on behalf of the goods of various Central pro Minister alluded to this “si
Congress on the
National Democratic Al sation and even take bold managed the BJP’s relation NDA in the State, matters grammes. Several commen lent voter” in every thanks
liance government and dam directions of the BJP Poor performance steps in broadening its social ship with Nitish Kumar and were smoothed over but the tators and even some party giving message after the
age the possibilities of the and the JD(U) Mr. Tiwari had raised ques coalition, over and above his exclusion this time BJP cadre was restive at such leaders were of the view that polls.
formation of a Grand Al Shaktisinh Gohil tions over the dismal perfor that of being a party identi around meant that the terms an open insult. the BJP would have im The appointment of Ms.
Congress leader
liance government, the Con mance of the Congress in the fi ed with upper castes. of engagement between the proved its tally had it fought Devi, not just an expe
gress’s Bihar incharge Shak ty and its scope is limited to polls. BJP and the JD(U) had NEWS ANALYSIS alone, and maybe even won rienced and assertive politi
tisinh Gohil said. Bihar. Rahul Gandhi had “Rahul Gandhi visited Bi Change in leader changed and would be far on its own. cian but also belonging to
The RJD leadership, he said that he will keep coming har on three days and ad The BJP’s national leader tougher for Mr. Kumar with The BJP, therefore, seems The national leadership of the backward Nonia com
said, should take note of this here whenever Bihar needs dressed two rallies every ship’s ambitions with regard out the benign friendship of to be making a decisive the BJP, however, had learnt munity, as deputy leader,
betrayer. Otherwise, the two him and he did this as well. day. PM Modi is very senior to its Bihar unit came to the Mr. Modi. break from some of the old from the 2015 debacle and gives enough notice of the
parties that united out of an He [Mr. Gandhi] cannot act to him in age but he has fore on Sunday afternoon, For years, Mr. Modi had patterns of its relationship knew that a BJPJD(U) al BJP seeking to widen its so
ideological commitment like RJD leaders,” he said. been addressing three or when Tarkishore Prasad was been resented by his own with Mr. Kumar and the JD liance had the critical mass cial base, with or without Mr.
and the people of Bihar Senior State Congress four rallies every day. After elected the leader of the le party men for giving in too (U). of social coalitions needed to Kumar’s help.
would suff er, he said. leader and MLC Prem Chan campaigning for three days, gislature party in the As much to Mr. Kumar and not The chief ministership win. That the JD(U)’s vote The 2020 verdict, there
dra Mishra said, “Shivanand Rahul Gandhi went to Shim sembly and Renu Devi depu asserting enough on behalf may not be in the BJP’s among Extremely Backward fore, is being seen as a take
‘Rahul’s promise’ Tiwari is not an offi cial spo la for picnic at his sister’s ty leader. This clearly meant of the party within the coali hands but the party intends Castes (EBCs), Mahadalits (a off point for a new Bihar unit
Congress leader Tariq An kesman of the RJD. He is house,” he said on Sunday. that former Deputy Chief Mi tion. Even in 2010, when just greater control over the go subcategory among Dalits of the BJP. A project that had
war too slammed the RJD hand in glove with the BJP Mr. Tiwari’s son, Rahul Ti nister Sushil Modi, who also before the Bihar polls, Mr. vernment and the Assembly. created by Mr. Kumar) and to be abandoned in 2015, but
leader’s statement. and the JD(U) and is speak wari, won the Shahpur seat doubled as the legislature Kumar said that there was no A generational shift within women was important to which is likely to gain trac
“The RJD is a regional par ing their language.” in Bhojpur on the RJD ticket. party leader, will not be need for then Gujarat Chief the State leadership is being reach the fi nish line. The tion in the next fi ve years.
Pakistan continues to raise terror charges
India silent after Ceasefi re violated
repulsing earlier in Kupwara
allegations
Special Correspondent
Kallol Bhattacherjee Srinagar
NEW DELHI The Army on Monday said Pa
A day after the Ministry of Ex kistan had initiated a ceasefi re
ternal Aff airs (MEA) described violation along the Line of Con
Pakistan’s Foreign Minister trol in north Kashmir’s Kupwa
Shah Mahmood Qureshi’s alle ra in the Tangdhar Sector.
gations against India as ‘diver ”A befi tting response is be
sion’, Islamabad cited a recent ing given,” a Srinagarbased Ar
U.N. report and claimed pre Tight vigil: The frontier district of Kupwara in north Kashmir has my spokesman said.
sence of the Islamic State and seen ceasefi re violations in the past as well. PTI *
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The Ministry did not res recent U.N. report indicates The 26th report of the Analyti reshi had claimed that his
pond to the allegation but offi that India is emerging as a cal Support and Sanctions country is preparing evidence
cials told The Hindu earlier hotbed of U.N.designated in Monitoring Team concerning of India’s support to terrorism
that the Pakistani statements ternational terrorist organisa the IS, the alQaeda and asso inside Pakistan.
are aimed at targeting India tions and posing a great risk to ciated individuals and entities “The socalled claims of
ahead of January 2021 when In the region”. said, “One memberstate re ‘proof ’ against India enjoy no
dia will begin its stint as a non The claim indicates a ported that the ISIL Indian affi credibility, are fabricated and
permanent member of the Se change in Pakistani campaign liate (Hind Wilayah), which represent fi gments of imagina
curity Council. for global platforms where it is was announced on May 10, tion. This desperate attempt
The offi ce of the spokesper often accused of harbouring 2019, has between 180 and 200 will fi nd few takers as the inter
son of Pakistan’s Ministry of top international terrorists members.” national community is aware
Foreign Aff airs on Monday from a wide variety of groups Soon thereafter, Union Mi of Pakistan’s tactics and proof
claimed that India has ‘mis like the alQaeda. nister of State for Home G. of its terror sponsorship has
chievously’ presented itself as A U.N. report in June had Kishan Reddy told the Lok Sab been admitted by none other
a ‘victim’ of terrorism and pointed out “signifi cant num ha that the information was than its own leadership,” MEA
said, “The presence of ISIL and bers” of IS and alQaeda mem “not factually correct”. spokesperson Anurag Srivasta
AQIS in India as highlighted in bers in Kerala and Karnataka. Over the weekend, Mr. Qu va said in response on Sunday.
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High praise for Manmohan Singh in Barack Obama’s new memoir
Former U.S. President says that in many respects India counted as a success story, but he also talks about the striking inequality and ‘violence’
Sriram Lakshman ly honest,” he writes. lence, both public and priv anywhere else.’” shrewd and forceful
In the fi rst of his twopart “While he [ Mr. Singh] ate” continued to be “an all Mr. Obama describes the intelligence”.
Kashmir highways
memoir, A Promised Land, could be cautious in foreign too pervasive part of Indian rise of “illiberalism” in Mr. Gandhi’s, however,
shut after snowfall
SRINAGAR
former U.S. President Ba policy, unwilling to get out life.” wealthy nations. does not fare quite as well in
Widespread snowfall in the rack Obama speaks at length too far ahead of an Indian “What I couldn’t tell was “…If I was seeing it even Mr. Obama’s writings.
past 24 hours in the upper about his interest in India, bureaucracy that was histor whether [Manmohan] in the United States with the “As for Rahul, he seemed
reaches of Kashmir resulted Mahatma Gandhi’s life and ically suspicious of U.S. in Singh’s rise to power repre Tea Party — how could India smart and earnest, his good
in the closure of three main his relationship with former tentions, our time together sented the future of India’s be immune?” looks resembling his moth
highways on Monday, and Prime Minister Manmohan confi rmed my initial impres democracy or merely an The former President’s er’s. He off ered up his
disconnected the Valley’s Singh whom he calls a man sion of him as a man of un aberration,” Mr. Obama descriptions of individuals thoughts on the future of
surface routes with the rest of “uncommon wisdom and common wisdom and de says. throughout the book, often progressive politics, occa
of the country. An avalanche decency”. cency; and during my visit to include a physical descrip sionally pausing to probe me
warning has been issued for Mr. Obama says he had the capital city of New Delhi, Mumbai attacks tion — this applies to both on the details of my 2008
Kupwara and Bandipora. developed a “warm and pro we reached agreements to Mr. Singh’s “restraint” men and women (for in campaign,” Mr. Obama says.
ductive” relationship with strengthen U.S. cooperation against Pakistan after the stance, on former French “But there was a nervous,
15th Finance Commission Mr. Singh, describing their on counterterrorism, global November 2011 attacks in President Nicolas Sarkozy: unformed quality about
submits report to PM interactions in New Delhi on health, nuclear security, and Wise counsel: Manmohan Singh with Barack Obama at the Mumbai had cost him politi “he looked like a fi gure out him, as if he were a student
NEW DELHI
Mr. Obama’s fi rst visit there trade,” Mr. Obama says. Oval Offi ce of the White House on September 27, 2013. AFP * cally, Mr. Obama writes. of a ToulouseLautrec paint who’d done the coursework
The 15th Finance Commission
in November 2010. “He [Mr. Singh] feared ing.”). Mr. Obama describes and was eager to impress the
on Monday submitted to
“A gentle, softspoken ‘A special place’ Mahabharata and Ramayana drew from Gandhiji’s philo that rising antiMuslim senti his meetings with Congress teacher but deep down
Prime Minister Narendra Modi
economist in his seventies, The former U.S. President during his childhood in In sophy. He describes a visit ment had strengthened the leaders Sonia Gandhi and lacked either the aptitude or
its report on the ratio in
which tax is to be divided
with a white beard and a tur writes that his fi rst trip to In donesia, or his interest in with former First Lady Mi infl uence of India’s main op Rahul Gandhi during his trip the passion to master the
between the Centre and the ban that were the marks of dia was in 2010 but that the Eastern religions or because chelle Obama to Mani Bha position party, the Hindu na to India. “Both Sonia and Ra subject.”
States over the next five his Sikh faith but to the place had always “held a a group of Indian and Pakis van, where Gandhiji used to tionalist Bharatiya Janata hul Gandhi sat at our dinner The book takes us to 2011,
years. The report ‘Finance Western eye lent him the air special place in my [his] tani friends in college taught stay when in Mumbai [then Party (BJP),” Mr. Obama table that night. She was a towards the end of Mr. Oba
Commission in COVID Times’ of a holy man, he had been imagination.” him how to cook ‘dal’ and Bombay]. writes, going on to quote Mr. striking woman in her six ma’s fi rst term. Presumably,
will be submitted to India’s fi nance minister in He says this is possibly ‘kheema’, and introduced While Mr. Obama says in Singh: “‘In uncertain times, ties, dressed in a traditional it is for this reason, the auth
Finance Minister Nirmala the 1990s, managing to lift due to its “sheer size” with a him to Bollywood movies. many respects India count Mr. President,’ the Prime Mi sari, with dark, probing eyes or does not discuss Prime
Sitharaman on Tuesday. millions of people from po sixth of humanity and 2,000 Mr. Obama writes at ed as a success story, he is nister said, ‘the call of reli and a quiet, regal presence,” Minister Narendra Modi,
verty. For the duration of his distinct ethnic groups and length about Gandhiji’s life not all praise for the coun gious and ethnic solidarity he writes. who became Prime Minister
Shaheen Bagh protesters tenure as Prime Minister, I over 700 languages. Or, he and his legacy, including the try. He talks about the strik can be intoxicating. And it’s Ms. Gandhi listened more in 2014 and hosted Mr. Oba
seek review of judgment
would fi nd Singh to be wise, speculates, it could be be inspiration U.S. Civil Rights ing inequality between the not so hard for politicians to than she spoke he says, attri ma in New Delhi at the Repu
NEW DELHI
thoughtful, and scrupulous cause he had listened to the leader Martin Luther King Jr. rich and poor and says “vio exploit that, in India or buting her power to “a blic Day celebrations.
Twelve individuals, who took
part in the antiCitizenship
(Amendment) Act protest at
Shaheen Bagh, on Monday
sought a review of the
Supreme Court judgment that
declared the demonstration
of dissent “unacceptable” for
Gupkar allies break poll pact J&K parties’ stand on fl ag,
blocking a public road. On
October 7, a Bench said the
protesters should express
their dissent only in areas
Congress fi elds candidates against PDP in many seats in district council polls
Peerzada Ashiq
Art. 370 antinational: BJP
was committed to the al
chosen by the administration. Srinagar
liance. “These are mislead ‘Congress should clarify if it supports these parties or not’
Fissures within the People’s ing reports. The BJP is trying
Approach HC for bail, SC Alliance for Gupkar Declara to create fi ssures. If any Con Special Correspondent tion, and People’s Demo
tells man held for tweets tion (PAGD), an amalgam of gress candidate has fi led NEW DELHI cratic Party (PDP)’s
NEW DELHI
seven political parties, came nomination in seats where a In the runup to the fi rstev Mehbooba Mufti’s statement
The Supreme Court on
starkly to the fore on Mon joint candidate is contesting, er District Development that she would not raise the
Monday declined the bail
day as the Congress fi elded he will be asked to withdraw Council (DDC) polls in Jam national fl ag if the separate
plea of a man arrested for
candidates against the al his nomination or publicly mu and Kashmir, the BJP on fl ag of Jammu and Kashmir
tweeting objectionable
remarks against Maharashtra
liance partner Peoples De support the alliance candi Monday termed the stance is not restored, and sought
Chief Minister Uddhav mocratic Party (PDP) on ma date,” Mr. Monga said. of the parties of the Gupkar to know the Congress’s
Thackeray and his son, Aditya. ny seats for the upcoming He said the alliance partn alliance on Article 370 and stand over them.
A Bench led by Chief Justice District Development Coun ers need to sit down and the tricolour “antinational” Mr. Prasad said women
of India Sharad A. Bobde cil (DDC) polls. thrash out the issue to avoid and demanded that the Con were earlier deprived of pro
asked the petitioner, Sameet Sources said the Con any confusion. gress clarify if it supported Ravi Shankar Prasad at perty rights in the UT if they
Thakkar, instead to approach gress, which fi led nomina The Congress, which these parties or not. a press conference in married outside and anti
the High Court. Mr. Thakkar tions for the second phase avoided attending the meet At a press conference, Un New Delhi on Monday. * PTI corruption laws, reservation
was arrested on October 24. on Monday, decided to fi eld ings of the alliance in Jammu ion Law Minister Ravi Shan for the disadvantaged sec
candidates in Tral, Larnoo, Unity under peril: At its November 7 Jammu meeting, the fearing a backlash from the kar Prasad cited a number of the Congress support annul tions of society and various
Army relaxes norms Keller, Tangdar and other Hindu belt due to the utte propeople Central laws that ment of propeople laws,” other “humanist” Central
Gupkar allies had decided to fi ght the DDC polls jointly. PTI *
for purchase of cars seats in Kashmir that was de rances of NC president Fa have been brought into force Mr. Prasad asked. He at laws were not implemented
NEW DELHI
cided by the alliance to have letter by the alliance to fi le the PDP, especially in south rooq Abdullah and PDP’s in the Union Territory (UT) tacked the People’s Alliance in the region. He accused
Reversing an earlier decision,
joint candidates from the nomination papers. Howev Kashmir. “The Congress is Mehbooba Mufti, has fi nally following the 2019 repeal of for Gupkar Declaration the Gupkar alliance of work
the Army issued an order
increasing the price cap for
PDP. er, at the eleventh hour, I playing a perfect spoiler. It decided to enter into an Jammu and Kashmir's spe (PAGD), an amalgamation of ing to push Jammu and
purchase of fourwheelers was replaced with an NC seems as if the Congress is in “electoral alliance” with the cial status, and asked if the various Jammu and Kashmir Kashmir towards “narrow
through the Canteen Stores To fi ght as Independent candidate. I don’t think I a seatsharing arrangement amalgam. Congress supports their an parties, whose demands conservatism”.
Department (CSD) for military At Budgam in central Kash have done any mistake by fi l with only the NC,” the PDP “The Congress has an nulment by bringing back have drawn some support “If a Muslim or Hindu girl
personnel and veterans. mir, PDP district president ing nomination papers as an leader said. electoral alliance as on date Article 370. from the Congress. from Jammu and Kashmir
Junior Commissioned Officers Nazir Ahmad Khan also fi led independent,” Mr. Khan with the Gupkar alliance. “I want to ask Sonia Gand Mr. Prasad pointed to the married a boy from outside,
and other ranks entitled to his nomination despite the said. ‘Misleading reports’ The apex body of the Con hi [Congress president] and “antinational” views of Na then she would have no right
purchase a car of ₹ 5 lakh can alliance deciding on a candi A second rung PDP leader, However, senior Congress gress will sit in the near fu Rahul Gandhi, do they want tional Conference (NC) lead in the property of her father.
now buy a car of value date from the National Con on condition of anonymity, leader and former legislator ture and take a fi nal decision restoration of Article 370? er Dr. Farooq Abdullah, who We have changed it and res
up to ₹ 7 lakh and ₹ 6 lakh ference (NC). said the Congress was put Ghulam Nabi Monga told on the ideological alliance,” Please tell the nation cate had favoured China's sup tored her right to property,”
respectively, excluding taxes. “I was given an authority ting up candidates against The Hindu that the Congress Mr. Monga said. gorically and clearly does port for Article 370 restora he observed.
Indian students in U.S. More options
to fi le EPF life
Comply with FDI ceiling, Delhi records
highest daily
dropped 4.4% last year certifi cates govt. tells digital news fi rms death toll
Special Correspondent Special Correspondent
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China has bigger share
Key fi ndings of Open Doors
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demic. A survey of fall enrol
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Biden seeks window on vaccine plans Imran’s party in the lead in
His scientifi c advisers will meet vaccine makers even as they are out of the loop on govt.’s vaccination plans GilgitBaltistan Assembly poll
Associated Press ers comes as the coronavirus companies. But in some
WASHINGTON pandemic in the U.S. has en ways the more critical issue Initial reports suggest that PTI has won at least eight seats
Presidentelect Joe Biden’s tered perhaps its most is getting a detailed under
scientifi c advisers plan to dangerous phase. The seven standing of distribution Press Trust of India outlets showed that PTI won Both the Opposition par
Islamabad
meet with vaccine makers in day rolling average for new plans being fi nalised by the at least 8 seats and was ties PPP and PMLN have al
coming days even as a stalled daily cases stood at 1,48,725 Department of Health and Prime Minister Imran Khan’s ahead in one, but it was still leged poll rigging by the rul
presidential transition keeps on Sunday, according to data Human Services and the Pakistan TehreekiInsaf well short of majority to ing PTI.
them out of the loop on go from Johns Hopkins Univer Pentagon. (PTI) on Monday won eight form the government. Ho Commenting on the unof
vernment plans to inoculate sity. That means the U.S. is “We need to be talking to of 23 constituencies and was wever, it was in a position to fi cial results, PPP chief Bila
all Americans against CO adding about 1 million new them as quickly as possible,” leading in one seat in the le form the government as 67 wal Bhutto Zardari alleged
VID19. cases a week. Deaths aver Mr. Klain said. “It’s great to gislative assembly polls in independent candidates al that the “election was
President Donald Trump’s aged 1,103 a day as of Sunday, have a vaccine, but vaccines GilgitBaltistan, prompting so won. stolen“.
refusal to accept that he lost a 33% increase over two don’t save lives vaccinations Opposition parties to dub Geo TV reported that PTI “Our candidates were
the election means that the weeks. save lives. And that means the election as “stolen.” won 8 seats, independent asked to leave PPP and join
Biden team lacks a clear pic Pfi zer’s announcement you’ve got to get that vaccine India has slammed Pakis candidates 7, Pakistan Peo PTI,” Mr. Bilawal said while
ture of the groundwork with Crucial phase: Coordination between the outgoing and that preliminary data indi into people’s arms all over tan for its decision to hold ple’s Party (PPP) 3, Pakistan addressing a protest rally at
in the government for a mass incoming governments is key to dealing with the crisis. *
AP cate its vaccine is 90% eff ec this country. It’s a giant logis elections in GilgitBaltistan Muslim LeagueNawaz Gilgit’s DC Chowk against
vaccination campaign that tive lifted fi nancial markets tical project.” and said any action to alter (PMLN) 2, Jamiat Ulemae the alleged rigging in the
will last the better part of ing drops in this change of ert, Dr. Anthony Fauci. last week and gave people Dr. Fauci stressed the ar the status of the militarily Islam Fazl ( JIUF) and Majlis elections.
next year, says Mr. Biden’s power we’re going to have “Of course it would be bet worldwide hope that an end rival of vaccines won’t be like occupied region has no legal Wahdatul Muslimeen “The people of this region
chief of staff , Ron Klain. on January 20th.” ter if we could start working to the pandemic will be com fl ipping a switch to return to basis. (MWM) 1 seat each. will not allow you to steal
“We now have the possi with them,” said Dr. Fauci, ing. On Monday, another normal life. The fi rst doses However, Dunya TV re their votes,” he said.
bility... of a vaccine starting Fauci’s outreach head of the National Institute company, Moderna, said its will become available for pe Media projections ported that PTI won 9 seats, PMLN also rejected the
perhaps in December or Ja A lack of coordination bet of Allergy and Infectious Dis vaccine appears to be 94.5% ople in highrisk groups later Elections were held on 23 independents 7, PPP 4, election results, saying the
nuary,” Mr. Klain said. ween outgoing and incoming eases, who has been through eff ective, according to preli this year. He said Americans seats of the third legislative PMLN 2 and MWM 1 seat. party would protest against
“There are people at HHS administrations would be es multiple presidential transi minary data. will have to keep up preven Assembly on Sunday amidst The offi cial results were them.
making plans to implement pecially problematic in a tions during 36 years of go “We’re going to start those tive measures, such as wear tight security due to the still not known as election Polling was due on 24
that vaccine. Our experts worsening public health cri vernment service. consultations this week,” ing masks, observing social threat of militancy. authorities may take some seats but it was postponed
need to talk to those people sis, said the government’s The Presidentelect’s out said Mr. Klain, including Pfi z distancing well into next Unoffi cial results com time to announce the fi nal on one seat after the death
as soon as possible so noth top infectious disease exp reach to vaccine manufactur er and other pharmaceutical year. piled by the various media outcome. of one of the contestants.
ELSEWHERE
It is time for Trump to Trump campaign retreats from U.K. PM in selfisolation
concede, says Obama key claim in Pennsylvania suit after contact tests positive
‘No scenario to reverse poll outcome’ Associated Press Mr. Johnson met with a
LONDON small group of Conservative
Press Trust of India Absolutely, Mr. Obama It maintains that Democratic voters were treated more favourably British Prime Minister Boris lawmakers for about 35 mi
Syria’s longtime Foreign
Washington told 60 Minutes of the CBNS Johnson said Monday he is nutes on Thursday. One,
Minister dies at age 79 It’s time for U.S. President News in an interview aired Associated Press dreds of thousands of ballots “fi t as a butcher’s dog” and Lee Anderson, later deve
BEIRUT Donald Trump to concede on Sunday when asked if in Pennsylvania weren’t properly processed. fi rmly in control of the go loped coronavirus symp
Syria’s longtime Foreign to Presidentelect Joe Biden, his view, it is time for Mr. Ahead of a Tuesday hearing The Trump campaign vernment, despite having to toms and tested positive.
Minister Walid al-Moallem, a as there is no scenario to re Trump to concede. in the case, President Do isn’t making that claim on selfisolate because a con Mr. Johnson said he was
career diplomat who became verse the outcome of the “Well, I mean, I think it nald Trump’s campaign the hundreds of thousands tact has tested positive for contacted by the national
one of the country’s most election, his predecessor was time for him to concede dropped the allegation that of mailin and absentee bal the coronavirus. testandtrace system on
prominent faces to the Barack Obama has said. probably — the day after the hundreds of thousands of lots, however. Instead, it tar Mr. Johnson, who is try Sunday and was following
outside world during the Mr. Trump, who is refus election — or at the latest, mailin and absentee ballots gets the practice of giving vo ing to suppress a new surge its order to selfisolate for 14
uprising against President ing to concede, has 232 elec two days after the election. — 6,82,479, to be precise — ters an opportunity to fi x in coronavirus infections, days even though he is
Bashar Assad, died on toral college votes. He has When you look at the num were illegally processed Donald Trump driving a golf mailin ballots that were go quell turmoil within his “bursting with antibodies”
Monday. He was 79. Al- challenged the election re bers objectively, Joe Biden without its representatives cart in Virginia. REUTERS
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ing to be disqualifi ed for a Conservative Party and se after recovering from the vi
Moallem, who served as
sults in various States, in will have won handily. watching. technicality. It contends cure a trade deal with the rus earlier in the year. “It
Ambassador to Washington
cluding Pennsylvania, Neva There is no scenario in The campaign’s revised and it maintains its claim some Democraticrun coun European Union, said on doesn’t matter that we were
for nine years, starting in
da, Michigan, Georgia and which any of those States lawsuit, fi led in federal court that Democratic voters were ties allowed voters to do Twitter that he had no CO all doing social distancing, it
1990 during Syria’s on-and-
off peace talks with Israel,
Arizona. He had demanded would turn the other way, on Sunday, maintains the treated more favourably that, while Republican coun VID19 symptoms. He said doesn’t matter that I’m fi t as
was a close confidant of Mr. a recount in Wisconsin. and certainly not enough to aim of blocking Pennsylva than Republican voters. ties did not, arguing Demo he would continue to gov a butcher’s dog, feel great
Assad. He was known for his Mr. Biden has 306 of the reverse the outcome of the nia from certifying a victory The campaign still con cratic voters were treated ern using “Zoom and other so many people do in my
loyalty. AP 538 electoral college votes. election, Mr. Obama said. for Mr. Biden in the State, tends in the lawsuit that hun more favourably. electronic communication.” circumstances,” he said.
Islamabad blocked off Sri Lanka to unveil crucial budget today amid virus
over antiFrance protest
Hit by COVID19, the island nation’s most of Sri Lanka’s garment important that the govern salingam, convenor of the
Mobile phone services were suspended economy has come under strain
factories — some 20,000 ment substantially widens Movement for Plantation Pe
workers of the 300,000 em social security. It is essential ople’s Land Rights. Further,
Agence France-Presse delays on alternative routes ployed companies affi liated to allocate money to provide with many hill country youth
Islamabad into the city. Meera Srinivasan for this year — while its ex to Sri Lanka’s Board of In these workers with a cash as employed in capital Colom
Pakistan authorities sealed Pakistan has seen small COLOMBO port and tourism sectors, vestment have already lost sistance and essential goods bo losing their jobs and re
off a major road into Islama and scattered protests in re Sri Lanka’s ruling Rajapaksa and worker remittances their jobs. “There is a fear of in these bleak times.” turning to the estates, the
bad for a second day on cent weeks after French Pre administration will present from abroad, have been se even higher rates of jobless It is not just the garment number of people to feed in
Monday as a farright reli sident Emmanuel Macron its maiden Budget on Tues verely impacted. The budget ness in the coming months. sector workers who are wor each family has increased.
gious party held fresh anti condemned the beheading day, amid a relentless second comes a year after President So about 10 major unions ried. The over 100,000 work “Some families tell us that
France protests. of a teacher by an extremist wave of COVID19 that hit the Gotabaya Rajapaksa rose to have got together and sub ers in tea estates, another vi they have two instead of
Around a thousand prot at a school near Paris. island nation last month. power, promising his voters mitted a proposal for an un tal, foreign exchange three meals a day.”
esters gathered at the road The teacher had shown Prime Minister Mahinda Ra development and prosperity, employment benefi t insu earning sector, are faced “The pandemic has
block preventing them from cartoons of Muhammed — japaksa, also the Minister of and at a time when analysts Mahinda Rajapaksa rance scheme. The budget with heightened poverty and spared no one. But we have
entering the capital, a day forbidden under Islam’s ban Finance, will unveil the Bud have warned of a GDP con will tell us if the government uncertainty since the pan to see how it aff ects a com
after 5,000 people rallied in on depictions of the pro get for the year 2021 in Parlia traction of possibly up to sand workers at risk, but also has taken it into considera demic hit. “In January, just munity that has been ne
neighbouring Rawalpindi. phet — during a class on free ment, and the fi nal vote — af 10%, a low that the country because the threat of jobless tion,” he told The Hindu. ahead of Pongal festival, Pre glected and marginalised for
Authorities have sus speech. ter its third reading — is did not experience even dur ness looms larger than be sident Rajapaksa promised several decades. Only a com
pended mobile phone ser Mr. Macron’s response scheduled on December 10. ing its civil war years. fore. Worker organisations Concerns on job security to raise their wages to LKR prehensive policy can help
vices in Islamabad and sur triggered anger across the The Budget assumes sig Meanwhile, the plight of are desperately looking for Chamila Thushari, of Da Bin 1,000 a day (roughly ₹ 400). them in the long run. It must
rounding areas since early Islamic world, with tens of nifi cance, coming amid a de Sri Lanka’s working people some respite in the budget, du Collective, an organisa The demand for 1,000 ru factor in job creation, say by
Sunday to prevent rally or thousands in Pakistan, vastating global pandemic. has come to the fore. to help them cope. tion working with women pees is now fi ve years old ensuring access to agricul
ganisers from coordinating, neighbouring Iran and oth Sri Lanka’s foreign reserves Not only because of the According to Anton Mar employed in the Free Trade and it is yet to be met. The ture sector, setting up small
apart from some brief inter er Muslim countries in are under enormous strain in cluster that broke out at a cus, joint secretary, Free Zones, too emphasised the pandemic has meant fewer industries, housing needs,
vals when coverage ap South Asia fl ooding the the wake of mounting exter garment factory near Colom Trade Zones and General need for the budget to ad days of work and even lesser education infrastructure,
peared to resume. streets and organising anti nal debt — the government bo last month, putting the Services Employees Union — dress widespread concerns wages [than the 700 they better health and safety for
Commuters faced lengthy French boycotts. recently repaid $4.2 billion lives and jobs of several thou representing workers from about job security. “It is very currently get],” said C. Gane workers,” he added.
We will not give
up cartoons,
What’s behind the confl ict between Ethiopian govt. and Tigray rebels?
asserts Macron PM Abiy’s target is TPLF but the confl ict He purged TPLF functionar
ies from key government
Mr. Abiy to consolidate more
power in hands. The party’s
trea from Tigray, threatening
a wider regional war in the
risks sliding into a wider civil war posts, released political pri leadership shifted from Ad Horn of Africa. Tigray rebels
Agence France-Presse soners ( jailed by the TPLF dis Ababa to Mekele, the Ti also fi red rockets into the
Washington Stanly Johny armed rebels in 1991. The led government) and pro gray regional capital. neighbouring Amhara re
French President Emma TPLF played a crucial role in mised freer media. He In August, when Mr. Abi gion.
nuel Macron has called The thiopia’s Nobel Prize win ousting the junta and they reached out to Eritrea, a y’s government decided to Even if Mr. Abiy is serious
New York Times media cor
respondent to criticise En
E ning Prime Minister Abiy
Ahmed started a military op
were welcomed as national
heroes in 1991. TPLF leader
sworn enemy of the TPLF,
which shares a long border
postpone parliamentary
elections, citing COVID19,
about keeping the operation
short, it could spill out of
glishlanguage coverage of eration in the rebellious Ti Meles Zenawi took over as with the Tigray region. the TPLF openly challenged control, given the underlying
France’s stance on Islamic gray region earlier this the interim President in 1991 Mr. Abiy, the country’s the decision. They accused complexities of the confl ict.
extremism after recent at month. Mr. Abiy has said it and became the fi rst elected fi rst Oromo leader, claimed the Prime Minister of power The TPLF’s old guard cut
tacks, arguing it amounts would be a limited campaign Prime Minister in 1995. He is that his actions are not dri grab and went ahead holding their teeth in the resistance
to “legitimising” violence. focusing on the Tigray Peo largely seen as the architect ven by ethnic calculations elections in the region in de against the Derg and they
“So when I see, in that ple’s Liberation Front of the country’s ethnofeder but rather aimed at address fi ance of the federal govern have thousands of fi ghters
context, several newspap (TPLF), the militiacumpolit al system and remained in ing the historic power imba ment. Then on November 3, under their command. Also,
ers which I believe are ical party that runs the power till 2012. lance in the country and TPLF militants attacked a the Tigray region shares a
from countries that share northern region. However, But over the years, the go making peace with the federal military command in border with Sudan. The
our values... when I see almost two weeks into the vernment led by the Ethio neighbours. But the TPLF the Tigray region and cap TPLF enjoyed good relations
them legitimising this vio confl ict, Ethiopia risks falling pian People’s Revolutionary saw his moves as hostile. tured military hardware and with Sudan’s ousted dictator
lence, and saying that the into an ethnic civil war with Democratic Front (EPRDF), a equipment, prompting Mr. Omar Bashir.
heart of the problem is that regional implications. coalition put together by Mr. nant political force. In 2018, federal arrangement. The Ti Abiy to declare the military Sudan has a border dis
France is racist and Islamo Zenawi, was accused of be the EPRDF chose Mr. Abiy, a gray people make up roughly
EXPLAINER operation. pute with Ethiopia. If Su
phobic, then I say the Who is TPLF? ing increasingly authoritar former military intelligence 6% of the population, while dan’s new rulers (the transi
founding principles have The TPLF was founded in ian and there were frequent offi cer, to lead the govern the Oromos have a 34% share War begins Geopolitical angle tion government includes
been lost.” 1975 as a resistance army of mass protests in the regions. ment amid growing protests and the Amharas 27%. While The tensions were building Mr. Abiy’s outreach to Eri civilian and military leaders)
In his column, Ben the Tigrayan people against Though the EPRDF contains and a political deadlock. the TPLF controlled the lev up for a while. When Mr. trea had outraged the TPLF, keep the old links with the
Smith said the French Pre the military dictatorship, regional political parties ers of power through the Abiy formed a new political which had fought a pro TPLF active and the border
sident had argued “foreign which was called the Derg. such as the Amhara Demo Rise of Abiy EPRDF, the Oromos alleged coalition, the Prosperity Par longed war with the Eritrean open for the rebels, the con
media failed to understand The leftist Derg, which was cratic Party, the Oromo De Though the EPRDF provided marginalisation. ty, all constituents of the government along the Tigray fl ict could go on. If it does, it
‘laicite,’” or secularism, a established in 1974, would mocratic Party and the a stable rule with high eco As Prime Minister, Mr. EPRDF, except the TPLF, border. The TPLF now accus could derail Mr. Abiy’s re
pillar of French policy and change its title in 1987 but Southern Ethiopian People’s nomic growth for 17 years, Abiy took a host of steps to joined the new platform. The es Eritrea of backing Mr. Abi form agenda at home as well
society. “We will not give practically remained in pow Democratic Movement, the there was mounting criticism cut the outsized infl uence of TPLF saw the formation of a y’s off ensive. On Sunday, the as the diplomatic agenda
up cartoons,” he vowed. er till it was ousted by the TPLF remained the domi against the country’s ethno the TPLF in the government. new party as an attempt by rebels fi red rockets into Eri abroad.
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12 BUSINESS MADURAI
‘Stimulus 3.0
supportive for A day after RCEP, Jaishankar WPI quickens to 8month high
growth, fi scal Food infl ation slows to 5.78%, vegetables cool to 25.2%
impact unclear’ slams trade pacts, globalisation Special Correspondent
NEW DELHI
India’s wholesale price infl a
gest that this trend has
strengthened with manufac
tured group infl ation hitting
Press Trust of India
New Delhi
‘The eff ect of past trade agreements has been to deindustrialise some sectors’ tion quickened to the high a 19month high of 2.1%, and
est level in eight months, core infl ation accelerated to
India’s third tranche of sti Suhasini Haidar policy where India could de reaching 1.48% in October the highest level in 18
mulus measures should NEW DELHI cide the rules and consoli 2020 as per provisional da months at 1.7%, according to
support economic re India has allowed other date “comprehensive nation ta, compared with 0% in Oc a note by India Ratings and
bound over the coming countries ‘unfair’ trade and al power”. tober 2019 and 1.32% in Sep Research.
quarters but the actual fi s manufacturing advantages “The eff ect of past trade tember this year.
cal impact is diffi cult to as “in the name of openness”, agreements has been to The WPI Food Index infl a ‘Not yet a recovery’
certain, Fitch Solutions External Aff airs Minister S. deindustrialise some sec tion slowed from 6.92% in “Increase in core infl ation
said on Monday. Jaishankar asserted in a tors. The consequences of September 2020 to 5.78% in suggests improvement in de
The government on No speech criticising globalisa future ones would lock us in October, 2020, with vegeta mand conditions, which
vember 12 announced tion on Monday. Speaking to global commitments, ma bles infl ation cooling down have improved after [the]
another stimulus package, just a day after the 15nation ny of them not to our advan to 25.23% from 36.5% in Sep COVIDrelated lockdown
called Aatmanirbhar Bha Regional Comprehensive tage. Those who argue tember. Infl ation in potato dustry and Internal Trade. was lifted. However, it will
rat Abhiyaan 3.0, totalling Economic Partnership Raw deal: In the name of openness, we have allowed unfair stressing openness and effi prices touched 107.7%, while This revision assumes sig be too early to term this as a
₹ 2.65 lakh crore. (RCEP) was signed, Mr. Jaish production advantages from abroad, Mr. Jaishankar said. AP * ciency do not present the onions registered 8.5% infl a nifi cance as August marked general recovery; a large
The package included a ankar was particularly scath full picture,” Mr. Jaishankar tion in October. the fi rst month since March part of this is due to festival
boost to formal employ ing of trade agreements. tra of an open and globalised that India decided to walk said. India was not “turning The WPI for August has that the WPI clocked posi related demand,” said De
ment, the Production “In the name of openness, economy,” Mr. Jaishankar out of a year ago, Mr. Jaishan its back on the world” but been revised upwards from tive growth, which was con vendra Kumar Pant, chief
Linked (PLI) Scheme, an we have allowed subsidised said at the Deccan Dialogue kar said that the government strengthening itself. 0.16% as reported earlier to sidered a sign of an indus economist at the rating fi rm.
increase in the fertiliser products and unfair produc conference supported by the had decided to move away The minister’s comments 0.41%, as per fi nal data com trial recovery with He termed rising retail food
subsidy and the rural em tion advantages from abroad Ministry of External Aff airs. from trading arrangements, indicate that India is not con piled by the Offi ce of the producers’ pricing power re infl ation and declining who
ployment programme to prevail. And all the while, Without directly referring towards an “Aatmanirbhar sidering an off er from RCEP Economic Adviser, Depart turning. lesale food infl ation ‘a night
MGNREGA. In a report, this was justifi ed by the man to the RCEP, the trading bloc Bharat” (selfreliant India) nations to rejoin the group. ment for Promotion of In October’s numbers sug mare for policymakers’.
Fitch Solutions said India’s
fi scal defi cit is likely to be
7.8% of the GDP in the
FY21. “While many of (Sti
mulus 3.0) scheme should
‘Airlines may return to BPCL gets 34 bids; Reliance Power demand grew
be supportive to India’s
economic rebound over preCOVID levels by Jan.’ skips, no big players in race 7.8% in fi rst half of Nov.
the coming quarters, the
actual impact on public fi Have opened up 70% capacity: Puri Diesel sales fell, after rising in October
nances is diffi cult to ascer ‘Multiple’ expressions of interest received, tweets FM
tain,” Fitch said. Special Correspondent Press Trust of India
The PLI scheme, for in HYDERABAD Press Trust of India Sitharaman tweeted. New Delhi
stance, spans across a fi ve Airlines in India are likely to New Delhi Neither of them, however, India’s power consumption
year period, and its fi scal be permitted to operate at The government on Monday gave the number of bids re grew 7.8% to 50.15 billion
impact will likely only be the preCOVID19 capacity received ‘multiple’ bids for ceived or the names of the units (BU) in the fi rst half of
seen from FY202122 on levels by yearend or midJa buying out its stake in India’s bidders. November this year, signall
wards, it said. nuary, from the existing secondbiggest fuel retailer Separately, four industry ing a rise in economic activ
70%. BPCL. offi cials said three to four ity, as per government data.
Additional expenditure “By December 31 or soon However, billionaire Mu bids have been put in. Power consumption was
“Estimating using the out thereafter [which] means a kesh Ambani’s Reliance In Reliance Industries, recorded at 46.52 BU during
right fi scal outlays from week or two weeks thereaf dustries as well as superma which was considered a po November 115 last year, ac
this announcement, ‘Sti ter we will back to preCovid jors Saudi Aramco, BP and tential bidder as BPCL would cording to power Ministry
mulus 3.0’ appears to sug levels,” Civil Aviation Minis Hardeep Singh Puri Total did not make a bid. have added 22% fuel market data. For all of November lier, industry data showed
gest additional expendi ter Hardeep Singh Puri said Tuhin Kanta Pandey, Se share to its fl edgling retail last year, power consump on Monday, after rising for
ture of ₹ 1 lakh crore [0.44% on Monday. May 25, a good two months cretary, Department of In “The transaction will business and made it the na tion was 93.94 BU. the fi rst time in eight
of FY2019/20 GDP],” it Virtually addressing the and two days after we had vestment and Public Asset move to the second stage af tion’s number one oil Thus, the extrapolation months in October. Howev
said. Indian School of Business’s completely locked down Management (DIPAM), ter scrutiny by TA,” he said. refi ner. of halfmonth data clearly er, diesel sales was 7% high
Moreover, the announ Deccan Dialogue, the Minis [for COVID19] with 30,000 which is handling the stra TA stands for transaction ad However, it did not put in indicates that power con er monthonmonth.
cement did not outline any ter said he had already passengers in a day. Two or tegic sale, tweeted that the visor. an expression of interest sumption may witness year Between November 1 and
additional borrowing to fi urged offi cials to consider three days ago, just before transaction advisers for the “Strategic disinvestment (EoI) at the close of the dea onyear growth for the third 15, diesel consumption was
nance these additional allowing airlines to operate Diwali, we carried 225,000 sale of government’s 52.98% of BPCL progresses: Now dline on Monday. month in a row, according 2.86 million tonnes, down
spending, which suggests a at 80% from the 70% the [passengers],” he said, in Bharat Petroleum Corp. moves to the second stage af A clutch of private equity to experts. from 3.01 million tonnes a
reallocation of FY2020/21 carriers are permitted now. stressing the need to adhere Ltd. (BPCL) have reported ter multiple expressions of funds and/or pension funds Diesel sales in the coun year earlier but higher than
budget expenditure plans “Civil aviation in the to the safety protocols and receiving “multiple expres interest have been received,” are said to have put in an try fell 5% in the fi rst half of the 2.65 million tonnes in
instead, Fitch added. country was resumed on maintain discipline. sions of interest.” Finance Minister Nirmala EoI. November from a year ear the fi rst half of October.
Not sure Kohli’s absence will be ‘When Virat goes home, Rohit might step up’
a deciding factor: Cummins McGrath also says Bumrah has ‘every attribute’ as a fastbowler ‘to be one of the greats’
Ayan Acharya
CHENNAI
Pacer says Australia keen to ‘make amends’ for 201819 loss Former Australia fast-bowler Glenn McGrath said in a select
media interaction on Monday that Virat Kohli’s absence dur-
“Both teams, I think, are at ing the Border-Gavaskar series will be an opportunity for Ro-
INDIA IN AUS the top of the Test cham hit Sharma to realise his full potential as a Test batsman.
Amol Karhadkar pionship table at the mo Excerpts:
MUMBAI ment. It’s going to be a high
Ever since it was announced quality series,” he added. Virat Kohli will return home Having said that, you can't
last week that Virat Kohli The 27yearold also said after the fi rst Test for the just focus on one player. You
would return to India after Australia was in a better posi birth of his child. Will that have [Ajinkya] Rahane,
the fi rst Test against Austra tion now compared with the impact India's chances in [Cheteshwar] Pujara, [K.L.]
lia, it has stolen the hea 201819 series, which David the fourmatch series? Rahul, so there's a quality
dlines across the cricketing Warner and Steve Smith mis batting lineup.
globe. sed because they were serv ■ The birth of your child is a Once Virat leaves, it will
Asked to weigh in on the ing suspensions after the very important time and he be an opportunity for some
eff ect of Kohli’s absence on balltampering incident in wants to be there for it and one else to put their hand up
the series, Australia pace wi South Africa. support his wife. So, I can and make a mark. Maybe
zard Pat Cummins said it understand. that could be Rohit Sharma.
“might make a bit of a diff e Best in the world There is no doubt that it Taking charge: McGrath expects Rohit to play a bigger role in Kohli’s absence. * FILE PHOTOS
rence” but it won’t be a de Pat Cummins. *
GETTY IMAGES “If I look back at that series, will impact the series for In How important is the
dia to lose a player of his Adelaide Test?
ciding factor.
going to be a deciding factor
obviously Smith and Warner
[are back], but obviously quality and class. It's up to
the fi rst game in Adelaide
and went on to win the
ery attribute to be one of the
greats. Fresh outbreak
Will be missed
“As a captain, obviously he’ll
in the series, but to be hon
est us players haven’t spoken
you’ve got Marnus [Labus
chagne] who now is one of
the other players to do the
heavy lifting.
■ India haven't played a Day/
Night Test in Australia.
series. He will be fi ne — it is about
confi dence and getting a few
in Adelaide
be missed, but the Indian too much about it.” the best batters in the world. It is unique, especially What does Jasprit Bumrah overs under your belt ... Press Trust of India
cricket side always has some The tour, which starts Trav[is] Head’s had another In Kohli's absence, who with the sun setting and at need to do to hit the ground fi nding the right length on Adelaide
incredible batsmen outside with the fi rst of three ODIs 20 or 30 games and obvious might the Australian night, where it starts favour running in Australia? the slightly quicker wickets. A fresh coronavirus
the team just waiting for an on November 27 and will be ly the bowlers, two years bowlers target? ing the bowlers, primarily That said, he did pretty outbreak in Adelaide on
opportunity, so maybe that telecast on Sony Six, is being further down the track. the quicks. ■ Bumrah is a class bowler. well in the IPL, bowled a lot Monday forced Australian
new opportunity will be the touted as an opportunity for Hopefully we’re better ■ Rohit Sharma is a quality It is about timing — when He has a lot of mental of overs, so he will be confi players, including captain
beginning of someone else’s revenge for Australia since equipped than we were a batsman who hasn't you are bowling or batting in strength to go along with his dent in his body. Tim Paine, into self
career,” Cummins said in a India won its fi rst Test series couple of years ago. But In achieved at Test level what those conditions. skill. (India's tour of Australia isolation, but the cricket
select media interaction on Down Under in 201819. dia are much the same. They he should be achieving in my Virat, to have an impact, He bowls good pace and will be telecast live from 8 board asserted that the fi rst
Monday. Cummins stressed that have got the same lineup, opinion... Maybe when Virat needs to come good... the good areas... his second and a.m. on November 27, on So- Test against India from
“It might make a bit of a Australia is eager to “make same highquality players, so goes home, he might step fi rst Test will set the tone — third spells are just as quick ny Ten 1, Sony Ten 3 and So- December 17 would go
diff erence. I am not sure it’s amends” this time around. it’s going to be a great series.” up. two years ago, [India] won as his fi rst, so he has got ev ny Six channels) ahead as scheduled.
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14 Look about sweetheart in brief and lure (6) In Bhagavata Purana, Lord Krishna elaborates on the pro
17 Doctor joins in Afghan war (6) blems that result from wealth, said P.T. Seshadri, in a dis
19 Best camera shot needs initial adjustment (5) course. A man in love with money, steals to increase his
wealth. He does cruel things. He is dishonest and vain. He
22 Picked up source from sounds of corvine birds (4)
becomes greedy. When he is unable to make more and more
24 Following change of hands in management (10) money, he is upset and becomes ill tempered. He becomes
25 About to occupy second place immediately at start of play (3,3) arrogant and egoistic, thinking that none can equal him in
26 It is unfairness to horse’s nature to move in to the front (8) terms of wealth. He then begins to disrespect others. Be
27 Extremely shady politician chases darling ignoring wife at last in cause he treats others disrespectfully, people begin to dis
arrangement (8) tance themselves from him. Because people move away
28 Most efficient cycling boards (6) from him, enmity results between him and his acquaintanc
es. Because people become inimical towards him, he never
■ DOWN trusts anyone. Because of this mistrust, he wants to be po
2 Garden to go for a beehouse (6) werful always. He begins to desire liquor. He takes to gam
3 Company’s attempt to associate with old Central Mumbai is very bling. He is drawn to women and the pleasures they give
expensive (4,1,4) him. Wealth ruins all his relationships. Father and son quar
4 No place for maiden in comedies played in bishop’s district (7) rel. Brothers fi ght amongst themselves. Husband and wife
are no longer on good terms. His friends argue with him.
5 Liked Subaru snap exposed on Japanese craft (7)
Everyone becomes his enemy. He neither enjoys his wealth,
6 Pets leave California with geese (7) Solution to puzzle 13094 Solution to yesterday’s Sudoku nor does he share it with others. Finally, on his deathbed,
7 He was once in Big House — age, about 90 (23) what is he left with, but papa?
8 Fight in a game of chance by fl oating masses (5,3) Only by control of mind the desire for money can be over
■ ACROSS 15 Disappointment caused by moist fi rework? (4,5) come, Lord Krishna tells Uddhava. One should not be at
1 Bad money rotated around clubs (6) 16 Kingdom’s chief in capital without empress primarily (8) tached to body. To whom does the body belong, asks the
5 Khan dancing nude outside by implication (8) Lord. Does it belong to one’s mother, or wife, or employer,
18 Explosive gets dropped regularly in commotion (7)
9 Hazy smog obstructs twowheeler in any large city (3,5) or the fi re that burns it? When one dies, dogs hope to eat the
19 Voluntary organisation? Be cautious about it (7)
10 Soldiers receive short rebuke for bloomer (6) fl esh, as do vultures. Does the body belong to them? When
11 Floating bergs engulfed each and everything from foreigner (10) 20 Most difficult beginning to miss the peak (7) one does not even know to whom the body belongs, why
12 They go with bolts in components (4) 21 It’s not big to get ton in championship (6) should one love it so much, asks Krishna. The attachment to
13 Within no time, goteam draws the conclusion (5) 23 Rising lakes? Get a sailing vessel (5) body is because one has not controlled the indriyas, and to
achieve control of the indriyas one must control the mind.
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14 SPORT MADURAI
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IN BRIEF
NATIONS LEAGUE
Group 2: Denmark 2 (Eriksen
12-pen, 90+2-pen) bt Iceland 1
(Kjartansson 85); Belgium 2
M.P. Singh’s treatment
Associated Press (Tielemans 10, Mertens 24) bt
Rome England 0.
League B: Group 1: Austria 2
Olympian currently on dialysis
Three years after an embar
rassing failure to qualify for (Schaub 81, Grbic 87) bt North- Press Trust of India
the World Cup, Italy is back ern Ireland 1 (Magennis 75); Ro- New Delhi
mania v Norway - postponed.
in contention with the best
Group 2: Slovakia 1 (Gregus 32) The Sports Ministry on
in Europe.
bt Scotland 0; Czech Republic 1 Monday disbursed ₹ 10
England, meanwhile, is al (Darida 7) bt Israel 0.
ready out of contention for lakh for the treatment of
Group 3: Turkey 3 (Karaman 26, hockey Olympian
Javier Mascherano the Nations League fi nals Under 32, Tosun 52-pen) bt
announces retirement with one round of matches Mohinder Pal Singh, who
Russia 2 (Cheryshev 11, Kuzyaev
BUENOS AIRES
still to play. 57); Hungary 1 (Kalmar 39)
is suff ering from a chronic
Former Barcelona and
drew with Serbia 1 (Radonjic kidney ailment and is
An Italy squad badly hit by
Argentina great Javier 17). currently on dialysis.
Mascherano announced his
the coronavirus still man
aged to beat Poland 20 on Group 4: Bulgaria 1 (Iliev 68) The money, sanctioned
retirement from football on lost to Finland 2 (Pukki 7, Lod
Sunday, putting the Azzurri under the Pandit
Sunday, drawing curtains on 45+1); Wales 1 (Brooks 67) bt M.P. Singh.
in control of its group, while Deendayal Upadhaya * FILE PHOTO
his illustrious career spanning Republic of Ireland 0.
England was beaten 20 by National Welfare Fund for
17 years. The 36-year-old Curling it in: Dries Mertens’ superbly taken free-kick sounded the death knell for England. *
AFP League C: Group 2: North Ma- expensive treatment and
topranked Belgium. Sportspersons, was given
centre back, who started his cedonia 2 (Trickovski 29, Stoja- we wanted to extend as
professional career with In all, more than 20 Italy League A with nine points. kaku set up Youri Tielemans ry over BosniaHerzegovina. to his wife Shivjeet Singh.
novski 68) bt Estonia 1 (Sappi- much fi nancial support as
domestic giant River Plate in players were unavailable due The Netherlands is next with for a defl ected shot. Wijnaldum, captain in the nen 52); Georgia 1 (Qazaishvili Speaking about the we could.
2003, also played Brazil’s to the virus and injury. eight points after beating Mertens made it 20 in the absence of his injured Liver 65-pen) lost to Armenia 2 (Gha- decision to extend “I have also spoken to
Corinthians, England’s Jorginho converted a pe Bosnia 31. Poland is still in 24th by expertly curling his pool teammate Virgil van zaryan 33, Adamyan 86). fi nancial support to Singh, Mahesh Sharma ji, who is
Liverpool, and Spain’s FC nalty for Italy midway contention with seven kick over the English wall — Dijk, tapped in from close Group 3: Moldova 0 lost to Sports Minister Kiren the Member of Parliament
Barcelona among other through the fi rst half after points, while Bosnia trails which mostly failed to jump range in the sixth and 14th Greece 2 (Fortounis 32, Bakase- Rijiju said, “M.P. Singh ji of Noida where MP Singh
teams. AP Andrea Belotti was brought with two. — after Kevin De Bruyne was minutes to set up the win. tas 41); Slovenia 2 (Kurtic 63, Il- has contributed richly to
icic 90+4-pen) bt Kosovo 1
ji lives and a letter has
down inside the area. Do Dries Mertens scored a fouled. The results: hockey both as a player
Pedersen is champion; (Muriqi 58). also been sent from his
superb free kick as Belgium League A: Group 1: the Nether- and a coach. His physical
menico Berardi added Frank de Boer fi nally has offi ce to PM Relief Fund
Aditi fi nishes tied 11th lands 3 (Wijnaldum 6, 14, Depay Group 4: Albania 3 (Cikalleshi
condition is a matter of
another goal late in the se ended England’s hopes of his fi rst win as Netherlands 16, Ismajli 23, Manaj 63) bt Ka- so that the hospital bills
KAEC (SAUDI ARABIA) 55) bt Bosnia and Herzegovina 1
cond half after collecting a reaching the fi nals. coach after Georginio Wij zakhstan 1 (Kuat 25); Belarus 2
great concern for all of us. can be paid through the
Aditi Ashok finished tied 11th (Prevljak 63); Italy 2 (Jorginho
in the inaugural Aramco Saudi pass from Lorenzo Insigne. Belgium took the lead 10 naldum scored a swift brace 27-pen, Berardi 84) bt Poland (Yablonski 5, Ebong 20) bt Lith- “Kidney treatment is an fund.”
Ladies International golf with Italy leads Group 1 in minutes in when Romelu Lu to lead his team to a 31 victo 0. uania 0.
a one-over 73 and three-
under 285. Tvesa Malik (75)
and Diksha Dagar (76) were
T-64 and T-65 respectively.
Denmark’s Emily Kristine
Pedersen powered to the title
Habas worried about injuries to players Five ISL clubs fail to secure
edging Georgia Hall on the
first play-off hole for her
second title of the season. PTI
Says restrictions and lack of practice could exacerbate situation
Amitabha Das Sharma The situation is almost the Habas was mindful of the
licence from AIFF
KOLKATA same for all the teams. fact that ATK MB could not
The various restrictions in “I am afraid of injuries to beat Kerala Blasters in the
Odisha, NorthEast United, Blasters, HFC and Sporting Club
place in the biosecurity the players. two meetings last season but East Bengal will need to appeal or seek exemption
bubble that Indian Super “After such a short period chose not to be infl uenced
League teams are complying of practice, there is a possi by those results. Press Trust of India able to take part in AFC and within a stipulated time or
with, has increased the risk New Delhi national competitions this can apply for an exemption
bility of the footballers get “In football, the result of
of injury to players, feels An ting injured easily,” Habas previous matches remain Five Indian Super League season. to the Club Licensing
tonio Lopez Habas the was quoted in an ATK MB re only as statistics. clubs have failed to meet Committee.
ExEngland goalkeeper
coach of defending cham lease. “I don’t think the impact the AFC and national licens Successful clubs “These fi ve clubs will
Clemence is no more
LONDON
pion ATK Mohun Bagan. ATK Mohun Bagan was of last year’s Kerala match ing criteria and will now FC Goa, ATK Mohun Bagan, have to appeal against the
Ray Clemence, former As the teams enter their among the fi rst teams to will be felt in Friday’s have to either appeal Bengaluru FC, Jamshedpur decision or will have to seek
Antonio Lopez Habas. *
AFP
England, Liverpool and fi nal round of practice sche start its preseason in Goa af match,” he said. against the decision or seek FC, Chennaiyin FC and exemption from sanctions
Tottenham goalkeeper, has dules prior to the start of the tion. The footballers did not ter arriving at the ISL venue exemption from the AIFF in Mumbai City FC have suc if they want to take part in
died aged 72. Clemence, one tournament, Habas sounded get onfi eld training for the in the second week of Octob First encounter order to take part in the cessfully secured the AFC the ISL,” Sunando Dhar, the
of the greatest English unsatisfi ed with his team’s days they needed. There er. cashrich event starting on and National licences for AIFF CEO of Leagues, Su
Interestingly, Habas’ fi rst en
goalkeepers of his practice, which he felt was was no opportunity to play “Playing on a fi eld with Friday. the 202021 season. nando Dhar told PTI.
counter will be against com
generation, won three hindered by the “several practice matches,” Habas out spectators aff ects the patriot Kibu Vicuna — the Odisha FC, NorthEast These fi ve clubs which Any club which failed to
European Cups and five rules” put in place owing to said ahead of ATK’s inaugu footballers’ enthusiasm. present Kerala Blasters United FC, Kerala Blasters, failed to secure licenses can secure AFC License will not
top-tier league titles with the pandemic. ral match against Kerala “But there is nothing to coach and the same man Hyderabad FC and new en either appeal to the Club Li be able to take part in conti
Liverpool. He made 61 Blasters on Friday.
England appearances. AP
“Honestly, I didn’t get the be done,” said Habas as he who guided Mohun Bagan to trants Sporting Club East censing Appeals Body of nental tournaments likes
kind of preparation I needed gave another reason that its fi nal ILeague glory be Bengal are the fi ve clubs AIFF against the decision of AFC Champions League
due to the several rules put ‘Not an excuse’ could bring down the com fore it amalgamated with which were not handed li the Club Licensing Commit and AFC Cup even if they
in place for the corona situa “But this is not an excuse. petition’s intensity. ATK. censes by the AIFF to be tee (First Instance Body) qualify from the ISL.